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"Lego Brick" style watch is nice. Band was a little tricky. No clasp, but once you snap it open and closed a few times, it's good. Easy to read, easy to set. Has alarm functions and a green back light. Band is a little small. I have thin wrists, so it's okay. Won't fit a large wrist, though.
Świetny zegarek. Miękki pasek, mocno podświetlana tarcza. Dla pięciolatka musiałem ściągnąć 4 elementy.
Beautiful design, bright and easy to read. Admired by all.


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STOCKS AND BONDING
China's Bid for Global Tech Supremacy Takes a Little Leap Forward
Xi Jinping's "Made in China 2025" is meant to end China's reliance on foreign tech advances—whether stolen or licensed. The new tech board in Shanghai is central to that plan.
Brendon Hong
Published 02.19.19 5:17AM ET
HONG KONG—There are examples of Chinese companies developing rare, amazing technologies that we might call stellar, and with reason. Take the Long March 6 rocket as an example. It was developed by a state-owned enterprise for China's space program, and has been used in two missions since 2015. But it will see much more action in the coming months, as a Buenos Aires-based company will launch 90 satellites into orbit using the Chinese rocket.
Tech firms in China—whether state-owned or privately operated—are good at wooing foreign investors and clients, and the Chinese Communist Party now wants a bigger cut.
Earlier this month, officials announced rules for some changes in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Following a plan put forward by President Xi Jinping two months ago, Shanghai will have a tech board that allows early-stage startups to file for initial public offerings before they are profitable, reducing some of the power of regulators that oversee the listing process.
According to Reuters, the startups that will benefit from this change develop new equipment and methods in high-tech manufacturing, new energy, biotech, big data, and cloud computing—in other words, key industries that are instrumental to the CCP's "Made in China 2025" plan. Under the new rules, companies operating in certain sectors, like network information security, will not be allowed to raise funds from entities outside of China.
Beijing sees a problem in the globalized outlook held by the country's tech firms, despite Xi's massaged message branding himself as a paragon of globalization and defender of open markets.
Alibaba, one of the 10 most valuable companies in the world, chose to go public in New York. Tencent, which operates the social media super-app WeChat, is listed in Hong Kong.
There are two immediate consequences of this phenomenon that have long bothered the CCP: the first is that as these Chinese companies grow, a portion of their profits go to investors who have little to do with China; then, if Chinese investors want to buy these stocks, they need to move their money overseas, contributing to capital flight. By giving domestic tech firms an incentive to build up at home, Beijing is hoping to reverse both of those conditions.
The move is similar to Trump's call for, say, Apple to build iPhones and MacBooks within American borders, but it is written into law to target companies that will reshape China's tech scene and general standard of living in coming years.
Already, some of those changes are visible on the streets of major Chinese cities. Every five weeks, 9,500 new electric buses—about the same number as London's entire fleet of public buses—are put on the road in China, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report published in 2018, and 99 out of every 100 electric buses currently in use worldwide are servicing Chinese passengers. Cashless payments facilitated by smartphones in retail outlets and restaurants are the norm, with some vendors refusing to take actual currency during transactions. Lights-out manufacturing, where human workers aren't needed on the production line, is increasingly common.
Bigger, more aspirational projects are lifting off too. In early January, China landed a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon, and then sprouted plants there (however briefly)—marking two firsts in the history of space exploration.
Conforming to the occasional saber-rattling coming out of Beijing, the head of China's lunar program has likened space exploration to China's occupation of the South China Sea.
The chief goal of "Made in China 2025" is to remove China's reliance on foreign technological advances—whether stolen or licensed—and exponentially upgrade the nation's manufacturing and research capabilities. The tech board that will go online in Shanghai's stock exchange will, in theory, sever Chinese tech companies' dependence on foreign capital, too. At least, that is Beijing's objective.
Much ink and many pixels have been spent to narrate the Trump administration's whiplash treatment of ZTE, and then the criminal charges filed against Huawei. As these cases unfold, the CCP is making a play to surpass America in technological dominance—in artificial intelligence, 6G communications, algorithms to sort through gargantuan data sets, and quantum-encrypted communications.
The government has adopted some of these technologies already. With 200 million surveillance cameras blanketing the state, many feeding a steady stream of data to facial recognition software, it's becoming easier for the state to track wanted individuals, or automatically deduct penalty fees from the WeChat wallets of jaywalkers or of drivers breaking traffic laws.
This edges into the realm of high-tech dystopia, where the state can know where you are, who you're with, and what you're buying at all times. It's so efficient that the New York City Police Department is also using it to monitor citizens in some Big Apple housing projects.
Being able to utilize and to some extent monopolize these technologies is much more important to Xi and the CCP than the existing companies' sales to American clients, even with potential benefits reaped via electronic espionage. The objective, after all, is global supremacy, and China's leaders are betting that new ways to reach investors in China will keep the country's brightest scientific minds within their grasp.

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Today I have a guest post up over at the Parking Lot Confessional, wherein I discuss how having the courage to experiment can help you with your singing or your writing … or really any artistic discipline you might be pursuing. Go ahead and check it out, and feel free to leave a comment over there as well.
I also have follow-up news on a previous post, regarding "Bob" who was preparing to have risky heart surgery. My friend informs me that post-surgery Bob is doing well, which is truly fabulous news.


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Bisons use ground and pound to dominate Tyrone
September 18, 2021 Kerry Naylor Football Leave a comment
There's a great story about NBA legend Larry Bird and the ways he kept himself engaged when the game became just too easy.
On one West Coast road trip Brid, almost bored by the lack of resistance he was facing, vowed to play the final game of the trip against Portland left-handed, "at least through three quarters."
Bird went on to score 47 points against the Blazers and record his second straight triple-double, with most of his baskets coming from his off hand.
One has to wonder if that's where the Clearfield Bisons were coming from over the last two weeks. Clearly the gold standard of the Mountain League, with a blowout win over No. 2 Bald Eagle Area already in hand, the Bisons let two opponents hang around just long enough to make it interesting for a short while before unloading with a running attack comparable to few others in the region.
It's unlikely the Bisons kept the games close out of boredom, but like Bird they may have been in need of something to provide a little spark, so easily have they dominated the field in 2021.
Last night, it was Tyrone that hung around just long enough to make the game interesting before Clearfield's emphasis on pounding the football turned the second half into a runaway. Up just 14-6 at halftime, the Bisons unleashed a brutal ground attack that produced 237 of their 372 running yards over the third and fourth quarters in a 42-12 victory at Gray-Veterans Memorial Field.
A week earlier, they trailed Penns Valley 7-6 after the first quarter before scoring 47 unanswered points.
Both Mark McGonigal (11-115) and Jose Alban (10-100) reached the 100-yard mark, while quarterback Oliver Billotte went for 86 on 10 carries. He may have reached the century mark as well had Clearfield needed him to run more than once in the second half.
"We got pretty physical there in the second half," said Bisons coach Tim Janocko, whose team remained undefeated at 4-0 and moved to 3-0 in the league.
It was a strategy that made sense. The young Golden Eagles have had fits with hefty, physical offensive lines this season, and against the Bisons they weren't even at full strength. Two starters were out on contact tracing for COVID-19, making the mile-high task of slowing Clearfield's rushing attack all the more challenging.
Clearfield scored on four rushing touchdowns in the second half and never once attempted a pass in a throwback-style football game that was more than Tyrone could handle.
Clearfield coach Tim Janocko
But as much as the game grew into a blowout, it was a step in the right direction for the Eagles, who were hoping to build some momentum from their first win of the season last week at Bellefonte. Tyrone's passing attack was sharp, with Keegan Gwinn and freshman Ashton Walk combining for 205 yards through the air. Their deep corps of receivers played like the group Coach John Franco imagined when he said in August he would put them up with any receiving unit in Blair County.
The problem emerged from the mismatch Tyrone was facing on both the offensive and defensive line. When they were on defense, the Eagles couldn't stop the run, surrendering 7.9 yards per carry. When they were on offense, they couldn't run the ball, averaging a mere 1.2 yards each time they handed the ball off.
Never was that more of an issue than when the Eagles started to get their offense in gear midway through the second quarter. Clearfield had gone ahead 14-0 in the second quarter after a pair of 5-yard touchdown runs by Billotte, capitalizing on a Gwinn interception and a fumble by Brady Ronan.
But after Billotte's second score Tyrone began moving the football, using mostly short drop-back passes by Gwinn in order to offset the pass rush of the Bisons, which was led by Billotte himself, who when not calling the signals doubles as a down lineman on defense (At 6-foot-4 and 255 pounds, it's easy to understand why).
The Eagles patched together a 70-yard drive, using just enough of the run to keep Clearfield honest. Their longest gainer on the ground came on an 11-yard run by Ronan, and it would be Tyrone's best running play of the game.
Most of the yards on the drive came from the arm of Gwinn, who went 17 for 32 for 169 yards on the night and found a special connected with 6-foot-4 receiver Ross Gampe. Gampe had two 20-plus-yard receptions on the advance to get Tyrone as far as the 1.
Gampe's 29-yard catch over the middle set up a 1-yard sneak by Gwinn that had Tyrone behind 14-6 with 4:41 left in the half.
That blast gave the Eagles the energy they needed, and on the ensuing kickoff Kolten Miller recovered a fumble to set up Tyrone at Clearfield's 22 with a shot at tying the game before halftime. The Eagles would get as far as the 2 when they were faced with fourth down and less-than-one.
Here was where Tyrone needed to be able to run the football, but Gwninn was stuffed for no gain on fourth down, giving the ball back to Clearfield and sapping the momentum the Eagles had gained from their score and quick takeaway.
While Franco admitted the fourth down stop halted his team's budding energy, he also conceded that his team's inability to run with consistency in general was the killer.
With a renewed vigor, the Bisons scored on all four of their second-half possessions, with four backs carrying the load and three getting into the end zone. Carter Chamberlain capped a 60-yard march with a 15-yard run to make it 21-6 midway through the third quarter and then scored from the 2 to end a 68-yard advance. McGonigal and Alban set the table on the second touchdown with long runs, including a 27-yard scamper through traffic by Alban that got the ball to the 12.
McGonigal then broke loose on a 52-yard score in the fourth to make it 35-6.
With Gwinn nursing a sprained ankle he sustained last week against Bellefonte, freshman Ashton Walk came into the game for Tyrone's next possession and led the Eagles on a 57-yard scoring drive. He went 5-for-7, including a fourth-down conversion pass to Andrew Weaver, and then capped the march with a 5-yard toss to Miller to make it 35-12.
Brady Collins closed the scoring with a 4-yard run late after Tyrone tried unsuccessfully at an onsides kick.
Tyrone had been fighting an uphill battle most of the week, as contact tracing had the team depleted so far that by Wednesday they were practicing with 27 players. That was why Franco admired his team's approach, down two starters, against the top team on its schedule.
"With a banged up offensive line, without several starters, against one of the best defensive fronts we're going to see, they hung in there," said Tyrone coach John Franco, whose team dipped to 1-3 (1-1 Mountain League). "We knew we couldn't run on them, but you can't be one-dimensional. But we were."
Now 1-3 overall and 1-1 in the Mountain League, Tyrone travels to winless Huntingdon next week. The Bearcats lost to BEA Friday 42-0.
Clearfield takes its 4-0 record to Bellefonte.
CLEARFIELD 42, TYRONE 12
SCORE BY QUARTERS
CLEARFIELD 7 7 14 14 – 42
TYRONE 0 6 0 6 – 12
C – Billotte 5 run (Sidorick kick) 4:31
T – Gwinn 1 run (PAT failed) 4:41
C – Chamberlain 15 run (Sidorick kick) 6:44
C – Chamberlain 2 run (Sidorick kick) :16.4
C – McGonigal 52 run (Sidorick kick) 9:57
T – Miller 5 pass from Walk (PAT pass failed) 7:10
C – Collins 4 run (Sidorick kick) 1:32
T CF
Yards Rushing 22-27 47-372
Pass Att.-Comp.-Int. 22-39-1 3-8-0
Yards Passing 205 36
TOTAL OFFENSE 232 408
Fumbles/Lost 1-1 2-2
Punts/Avg. 2-39 1-41
Penalties/Yards 2-10 5-46
TYRONE – Ronan 8-7; Beck 3-2(-2); Miller 1-1; Klein 3-7; Gwinn 3-8; Walk 4-7.
CLEARFIELD – Billotte 10-86; Alban 10-100; McGonigal 11-115; Chamberlain 6-31; Collins 7-32; Domico 1-1; Lazauskas 1-8; Team 1-(-1).
TYRONE – Gwinn 17-32-169, 0 TD, 1 Int.; Walk 5-7-36, 1 TD, 0 Int.
CLEARFIELD – Billotte 3-6-36, 0 TD, 0 Int.
TYRONE – Baldauf 3-28; Gampe 4-78; Ronan 6-27; Weaver 2-14; Miller 1-5; Rhoades 2-29; Beck 3-20; LeGars 1-4.
CLEARFIELD – Kline 3-36.
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When the gold mining was past its peak, a new form of industry developed in the 19th century, namely the manufacturing of safety matches. In the local museum, Muzeum Šumavy, you can find a permanent exhibition about the manufacturing of matches. There is a unique and magnificant collection of matchboxes. The museum is situated in the impressive house call Voprchovsky at the main square.
Sušice is a perfect starting point for several hikes. Popular is the walk to the top of the mountain Svatobor. The red marked route of 3,5 km. is steep and pretty enervating.
Another hill in the vicinity that gives a beautiful view over the valley is the Anděla Strážce. On the top (557 m.) the Early-Baroque Chapel of the Guardian Angel was build in 1683. The chapel can be reached by a charming stairway which can be reached from Alšova, a side street of Palackého Ulice.
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Q: L298 distorts signal I connected STM32 F334R8 microcontroller to L298 H-bridge. I made some measurements. The problem is output signal on L298 has quite slow slopes and is not as sharp as input signal. I do not understand why the distortion occurs. As you can see the frequency is very low - only 10 Hz.

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*Pink color = L298 output signal,

*Yellow color = L298's Enable pin (STM32's PWM output),

*Green color = L298's Input 1 (STM32's output),

*Blue color = L298's Input 2 (STM32's output),
Input 1 and Input 2 determine direction of output current.

Also when we increase the frequency of PWM to 25 kHz and change duty cycle dynamically to achieve stepped sinusoidal signal, then output not always follows the input:

Not sure are the distortions showed on 1 and 2 related.
Note 1: Oscilloscope waveform acquire is in Hi-Res to average signals.
Note 2: On PWM output (yellow) I am generating abs(stepped_sin(x)). Then to make stepped_sin() on the L298 output I am changing Input 1 and Input 2 (just inverting current direction).
I'm just curious what's the reason of such strange behavior.
L298 logic supply voltage is 5 V, power supply voltage is 8 V. Output load is 4Ω power resistor.
I have already checked L298 datasheet and typical PWM switching frequency is 25 kHz. Also input's logical high starts with 2.3 V. My microcontroller uses 3.3 V logic so it should be sufficient, isn't it?

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Black Americans needed a place to bury their loved ones. The property was to be put in trust to be used exclusively as a Masonic burial ground to be known as Prince Hall Cemetery. Records indicate it was in use until about 1897 when for unknown reasons, it fell into disuse and as time passed it was forgotten.
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specimen trees. The recommended routes have been designed so that you tailor your visit as you wish: a leisurely wander
through the Akebia Walk, a stroll down through the Folly Garden to the Bird Hide, or a longer walk Around the
Lake and Through the Woods. We then make our way back home where you can find some dinner. Overnight Mid
Wales. (B,L)
Day 6 - We will take in more breathtaking countryside and spectacular coastline as our drive takes us further north toward
the west coast through Barmouth and up the coast to Harlech and Harlech Castle. As if its spectacular situation,
foreboding might, and great power were not sufficient to ensure the fame of this magnificent castle when first seen from the
bluff of rock to the south of the town, the view of castle, sea and mountain panorama is truly breathtaking and remains to
this day an unrivaled piece of castle genius. We will Lunch at Cemlyn Tearoom here in Harlech before continuing our
Snowdonia Park drive to Caernarfon Castle. Caernarfon is architecturally one of the most impressive of all of the
castles in Wales. Mighty Caernarfon is possibly the most famous of Wale's castles. Its sheer scale and commanding presence
easily set it apart from the rest, and to this day, still trumpet in no uncertain terms the intention of its builder Edward I.
Most impressive of all is the Eagle Tower crowned by its triple cluster of turrets. We then make our way to our
accommodation. Dinner and Overnight North Wales. (B,L,D)
Day 7 - Following breakfast our first visit of the day is Conwy Castle. Words cannot do justice to Conwy Castle it is by any
standards one of the great fortresses of medieval Europe. Conwy's well-preserved castle wall helps the town maintain a
medieval character lost by other Welsh castle-towns over the years. Conwy is also home to Britain's smallest house,
measuring 10 feet by 6 feet. The structure was used as a residence from the 16th century until 1900 when the owner was a
6ft 3 inch (1.9 meters) fisherman named Robert Jones. We then head further north to experience A Traditional
Afternoon Tea in Llandudno, a seaside resort which has kept its Victorian and Edwardian elegance and splendour.
After tea we will take some time to explore this wonderful seaside town with a walk up and down the embankment and
through the shops, cafes and restaurants all throughout town and then find some dinner on your own. Overnight North
Day 8 - Today we make our way east to Chester, first settled by the Romans in AD 79. The main street is lined with
timber buildings called the Chester Rows first built in the 13th & 14th centuries. We will spend a short time in Chester
and in particular, the Chester Rows. The Rows are continuous half-timbered galleries, reached by steps, which form a
second row of shops above those at street level along Watergate Street, Northgate Street, Eastgate Street and
Bridge Street. The Rows are unique in the world and some are the original 13th century buildings, including the Three
Old Arches in Bridge Street which have survived the ravages of time and are still magnificent and greatly contribute to
the beauty and character of Chester. We next stop at Davenport Tearoom and Farm Shop for Afternoon Tea. We
then drive further north and into the Lake District through more spectacular countryside! Dinner and Overnight
Lake District (B,L,D)
Day 9 - On our way north to Scotland today we drive through more spectacular Lakes countryside where just outside of
Keswick, we find at the Castlerigg Stone Circle, one of the most visually impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain,
and is the most visited stone circle in the north of England. This afternoon will find us in Dumfries where we will find some
lunch before we visit Burns House Museum, an ordinary sandstone building that Burns spent the last years of his
brilliant life. Now a place of pilgrimage for Burns enthusiasts from around the world, the house retains much of it's
eighteenth century character and contains many relics of the poet. There is the chair in which he wrote his last poems,
many original letters and manuscripts, and the famous Kilmarnock and Edinburgh Editions of his work. We then
make our way to Stirling where we find dinner waiting for us after we have checked into our accommodation. Dinner
and Overnight Stirling. (B,D)
Day 10 - After a good Scots breakfast this morning we are off to Stirling Castle. Stirling is a Fairy Tale Castle with
the star features being The Palace and the Chapel Royal. We are very excited as you will be able to step back into the
sumptuous world of Stirling Castle's Royal Court. An ongoing project has returned the six ground floor apartments in
the castle's Renaissance palace to how they may have looked in the mid 16th century. This afternoon we Stop for
Afternoon Tea in Stirling before a visit to Doune Castle, a 14th century stronghold which offers a unique view into the
life of the medieval royal household. Doune Castle is known as the filming location of Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Ivanhoe and more recently the Outlander Series and as Winterfell from Game of Thrones. Dinner on your own
tonight in Stirling. Overnight Stirling. (B,L)
Day 11 - We make our way to Pitlochry this morning with a stop in Perth to visit Scone Palace, home of the Earls of
Mansfield. Once the crowning place of Scottish Kings, Scone Palace occupies a unique position in Scotland's history.
A breathtakingly beautiful place of power and mystery and the rightful home of the celebrated Stone of Scone, Scone
Palace is regarded as a national treasure and is revered as the historic jewel in Scotland's crown. You will want to visit the
Grounds and Gardens as well before we depart. We next stop for lunch before we visit Dunkeld Cathedral in Dunkeld.
Spectacularly sited beside the River Tay the history of Dunkeld can be traced to the ninth century when it emerged as an
important religious centre for the early Celtic Church. No building of this period survives and the present Cathedral dates
from 1318 and it is always a lovely visit. We next make our way to Pitlochry to check into out accommodation in Pitlochry
before dinner and then an outing to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Overnight Pitlochry. (B,D)
Day 12 - After breakfast we will enjoy a Highland Wildlife Safari. We will head high into the hills of Highland
Perthshire to witness one of the most dramatic outdoor experiences in Scotland at this time of year. We may even
be lucky enough to witness some of the other Highland Wildlife such as the Famous Grouse, the elusive Mountain Hare
and the soaring Golden Eagle. We will Lunch at the Highland Centre before taking in the Red Deer Centre, where
we meet and encounter their Barn Owl in a hands-on demonstration learning the secrets of this captivating phantom bird
of the night time. We will also have a Red Deer Encounter where you can stroke, feed and photograph these magnificent
and iconic animals in the company of their knowledgeable Safari Ranger who will tell us about their fascinating life cycle,
likes, dislikes, habits and personalities. This afternoon we visit Blair Atholl and Blair Castle. Bonnie Prince Charlie
spent 2 days here in this 700 year old rambling, turreted castle with over 32 rooms open to the public. This fully furnished
castle is a delight to wander through as is Hercules Garden and Diana's Grove! Overnight Pitlochry. (B,L)
Day 13 - This morning we leave the Highlands behind and make our way to St. Andrews to visit St. Andrew
Cathedral, which dates from around 1158, and was consecrated in the presence of Robert the Bruce in July 1318.
Although in ruins, it was the largest cathedral in Scotland and one of the most impressive! After some exploration we will
visit the Links Clubhouse before continuing on to Scotland's Capitol City of Edinburgh where we will have
Afternoon Tea on a Vintage Red Bus. Combining two quintessentially British Classics with an afternoon tea aboard
a Vintage Routemaster Bus, touring around the Scottish Capital. So whilst you are admiring the beautiful sites of
Edinburgh city you can indulge in a gorgeous afternoon tea! After tea in Edinburgh we will get settled into our
accommodation and then the afternoon and evening are free for you to explore and find some dinner on your own.
Overnight Edinburgh. (B,L)
Day 14 - After breakfast you will take in the sights of Scotland's Capitol City aboard an Open Top Tour where on
your way about the city you will see places like Holyrood Palace, Grey Friar's Bobby, Deacon Brodie's, Edinburgh
Castle which houses the Scottish Crown Jewels and the Stone of Destin,The Royal Mile, The Old Town and
the New Town Districts of Edinburgh which were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 in recognition
of the unique character of the Medieval Old Town and the planned Georgian New Town. It covers both the Old and
New Towns together with the Dean Village and the Calton Hill areas. There are over 4,500 listed buildings within the
city. Get on and off at your own pace taking in the sites at your leisure. After an afternoon of taking in Princes Street and
the Royal Mile we will gather for a Farewell Dinner and Overnight Edinburgh, Scotland. (B,D)
Day 15 - July 2nd - Off to Edinburgh International Airport for your journey home. (B)


Learning involves acquiring new knowledge. To truly retain what you're learning, the information must be securely stored in long-term memory. Mounting scientific evidence suggests that what we do physically also plays an important role in this process. Sleep, for instance, reinforces memory. And recent experiments show that when mice and rats jog on running wheels after acquiring a new skill, they learn much better than sedentary rodents do.
Exercise seems to increase the production of biochemicals in the body and brain related to mental function.
The New York Times, July 2016.
Exercise is a great stress reliever. It processes and releases stress and releases endorphins. Taking a walk, going for a run or working out when stressed can bring you the benefits of exercise; both short-term and long-term, and it provides the bonus of getting you out of the stressful situation.
Short breaks and brisk exercise help learning and understanding embed in your long-term memory.
It provides you with some perspective so you can return in a new frame of mind.
Exercising with friends or alone can provide you with some time to think, reframe, and return with a more optimistic frame of mind.


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How about some hard labour for offenders?
Although the London Borough of Hounslow does not, fortunately, suffer the extremes of the gang warfare which plagues other parts of London, the Thursday morning columns of the Chronicle remind us that none are immune from the attentions of youthful muggers or those who disturb the peace almost as a way of life and at the drop of a hat.
How can we deal with this? No easy solutions, but your front page recently tells us that a good start is being made by mothers in certain parts of Hounslow particularly affected by bad behaviour and minor crime.
A person well versed in the ways of gangland activity in the east of London told us in a TV interview last week that young criminals are not deterred by the prospects of spending a year or two in jail in this country. A couple of years or so out of their young lives with a roof over their heads, nourishing food and some amenities not available on the outside is no punishment or an experience that is likely to deflect them from criminal acts in the future.
Nothing will be solved until young adults suffer punishment for their misdemeanors and we are not talking about bringing back the birch and other medieval deterrents that would have the Human Rights do-gooders in our midst shouting the odds with much bleating and tear-jerking rhetoric.
One way towards making our lives safer is to sentence young adult offenders to a mandatory sentence of say six to 12 months' hard labour in one of our African Commonwealth countries. The prospect of a 'Chad-like' prison term with nothing of the amenities of a young offenders 'Hilton' is likely to set people on the straight and narrow especially as a few of their pals come back after release and tell how it went.
Juveniles would be dealt with in the usual way and earmarked for attention if they continue to misbehave as they left the years of childhood behind. They would soon learn that hard labour alongside indigenous offenders in a place like Malawi, Mozambique or Zambia was not something to be shrugged off or pooh-poohed.
Taking this big step, or perhaps enormous leap, forward, Hounslow might have its own sheriff and deputies working alongside the Metropolitan Force and Scotland Yard to deal mostly with minor criminal activity.
The justice system would be local too with the suggested mandatory overseas hard labour sentence. Soon Hounslow would be free from such criminal acts as the lesson would have been learnt or the 'bad eggs' departed to other parts of the city where lax rules still existed.
Eventually voters would wake up and follow suit leaving only a few places where criminal activity and bad behaviour thrived because authority there was too soft to do anything serious about it. Worth a thought although the gnashing of teeth from the legal profession and others will be heard above the noise of the aircraft engines over my head as I type this latest contribution to Letters to the Editor.
JIM PASQUAL Hounslow.
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It's almost your last chance to see the exhibition Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit. Closing April 28, the exhibition features contemporary photos taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Paul Kitagaki Jr. displayed next to images shot 75 years ago by War Relocation Authority (WRA) photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Clem Albers during World War II. Each pairing in the exhibition features the same individuals or their direct descendants as the subject matter. Paul spent years tracking down the formerly unknown subjects in WRA-era photos. After countless hours at the National Archives in Washington, DC, and through tips from family, friends, and the public, he found more than 60 individuals or their descendants to photograph. One such pair of photos in the exhibition features Yukiko Okinaga Hayakawa.
Yukiko Okinaga Hayakawa was two years old in 1942 when she was photographed waiting at Los Angeles's Union Station, not far from her home in Little Tokyo, for a train that would take her and her mother to the Manzanar concentration camp. In the photo, she's holding a partially eaten apple in one hand and a tiny purse in the other. Peeking out from her corduroy jacket is is the paper family identification tags worn by those forcibly removed, serving as a reminder of their second class status during this time. Photographer Clem Albers captured the far-off look in her eyes–a look of confusion and uncertainty. This now-famous photo has become representative of innocence lost during that time in history.
In 2005, Paul Kitagaki Jr. traveled with Yukiko on her first visit to Manzanar since her incarceration. He took her photo in a field near the camp's Block 2, where she had once lived. Among the last of the incarcerees released, she and her mother left Manzanar in October 1945 for Cleveland, Ohio, where another Japanese American family sponsored them. Her mother went on to work as a cleaning woman and later as a seamstress. Yukiko went to Lake Forest College in Illinois and then graduate school at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Today Yukiko Okinaga Llewellyn (née Hayakawa) is a retired Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Registered Student Organizations at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where she worked with Asian student groups and helped establish the university's Asian Studies program. She taught about the incarceration experience and was active in the redress movement.In fact, in the fall of 1986, she wrote to her congressman, Representative Terry Bruce, and spoke with his staff about the movement. Through her persistence, the "little girl with the apple" helped win Rep. Bruce's support. To this day, Yukiko continues to educate others about what happened to Japanese Americans in the 1940s in the hope that it doesn't happen again to someone else.
Members of the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium get ready for Congressional visits. (L to R: Prentiss Uchida, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation; Darrell Kunitomi, HMWF; Katharine Hirata, Japanese American Citizens League Fellow; Mia Russell, Executive Director of Friends of Minidoka; Larry Oda, Chair of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation; Brian Liesinger, Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium Coordinator; Ann Burroughs, President and CEO of JANM; and Sam Mihara, HMWF). Photo by David Inoue.
I wanted to share with you my reflections on the recent Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium meeting in Washington, DC, at the end of February, while they are still fresh in my mind.
The Consortium is made up of organizations that have been recipients of funding from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program of the National Park Service. Our purpose is to preserve and protect the history, the sites and artifacts related to the Japanese American confinement experience. We are also committed to elevating the social justice lessons of the incarceration and to highlighting ways that civil and human rights abuses put at risk the rights of all Americans. We are led by an Advisory Council that is made up of JANM, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, JACL, Friends of Minidoka and the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation.
After four years in the making, the Consortium has finally come of age. We have a clear sense of purpose and direction, and, importantly, how to leverage our platform to build coalitions and reach a wider audience. I am immensely proud that JANM, with guidance from our Board Chair Norm Mineta, Trustee Harvey Yamagata, and Governor Doug Nelson, has played a pivotal role in helping to shape the Consortium.
Over two days, representatives of 16 organizations met with 22 legislators and their staff to educate them about the JACS program, to encourage their support for the re-appropriation of funding in this year's budget, and to ensure that they remember the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans when they consider policy or legislation that may cause harm or marginalize any group. We heard bipartisan support for the JACS program and what it has achieved.
A small group of us met with staffers for key legislators who serve on the Appropriations Committee to advocate for current funding but more importantly, to lay the groundwork for a permanently funded program. We met with the staff from the offices of Representatives Mark Takano, Betty McCollum, and Ed Case, and Senators Diane Feinstein, Brian Schatz, and Mazie Hirono.
Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium members representing 20 organizations gather around House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after meeting in her office in the U.S. Capitol. Photo by Brian Liesinger.
The culmination and high point of the visits was a meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who gave her full commitment to ensuring that the program be funded. It was particularly meaningful for all of us to have Chairman Norm Mineta join us for this meeting. Speaker Pelosi was a co-sponsor of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, and she and Norm have fought in many of the same trenches over the years. It was enormously encouraging to know that we have strong support in such high places!
Norm also spoke movingly at a congressional briefing that was sponsored by Representatives Judy Chu and Mark Takano and co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, Japanese American Citizens League, and the Consortium. The briefing drew parallels between the trauma of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and the present detention of immigrant families and children at the border, and the separation of children from their parents.
When I took over as Chair of the Consortium, I and others have started working to ensure that funding is made permanent. These legislative visits were in many respects a 'dry run.' We gleaned useful information on what we need to do to prepare, who the key influencers will be, and most importantly, that there is strong support for this. We have limited time to accomplish this task: there is approximately $7 million left in the original JACS fund, which represents only two – three more years of funding. We know that the overall impact has been substantial and JANM has benefited greatly over the years.
Ann Burroughs; David Inoue, Executive Director of the Japanese American Citizens League; Senator Diane Feinstein of California; and Prentiss Uchida. Photo by Darrell Kunitomi.
Coming closely on the heels of our Capitol Hill visits, we heard not surprisingly, that the President's budget has again zeroed out the JACS program. In the coming weeks, the Consortium will be mounting another advocacy campaign, spearheaded by JACL, to mobilize our networks and the relationships with our elected officials to ensure that the funding is restored. Many of you helped us last year, so please stand by – we will need support from every one of you again.
The meetings occurred at a tumultuous time, which emphasizes how important the legacy and lessons of the Japanese American experience remain today. At the end of our time together in DC, Stan Shikuma, who is a member of the Tule Lake Committee, stated that he had not seen this kind of collaboration or mobilization in the Japanese American community since the redress movement. To me, that highlights how important it is to use the lessons of history to strengthen these bonds for the betterment of our field and the country as a whole.
On February 16, the Japanese American National Museum proudly hosted the 2019 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance, marking the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, which led to the forced exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. With our many partners for the event, we honored and remembered those who were confined in America's concentration camps during the war.
The day centered on the theme Behind Barbed Wire: Keeping Children Safe and Families Together. By exploring parallels of America during the 1940s and those in our country today, the program drew comparisons between the concentration camps that forcibly held Japanese Americans and the eerily similar modern-day detention centers currently used to hold migrants, mostly from Central America, who are seeking asylum in the United States to escape poverty, violence, and gangs. The evolution of rhetoric surrounding immigration in America was also probed.
The 2019 Los Angeles Day of Remembrance opened with a solemn but vibrant musical performance by Ichiza Taiko, followed by a dramatic reading (in two parts) of the Kondo family letters from camp by Edward Hong and Kelvin Han Yee. The letters told a story of trauma, perseverance, and ultimately survival that put a very personal face on those who lived during this tragic chapter in the nation's history. The Day of Remembrance closed with the audience taking a poignant oath together, promising to be unafraid to use their voice and to care for others who are voiceless.
JANM's partners for the Day of Remembrance were Go For Broke National Education Center, Japanese American Citizens League–Pacific Southwest District, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Kizuna, Manzanar Committee, Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, Nikkei Progressives, Organization of Chinese Americans–Greater Los Angeles, and Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA).
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Photo courtesy of Kimiko Medlock .
The Japanese American National Museum is collaborating with The Nippon Foundation on a large-scale research project trying to learn about how young people of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) experience and express their Japanese heritage. The first of its kind, this project seeks to dig deep into Nikkei communities around the world and to explore their differences and similarities.
Are you a Nikkei age 18 to 35? We want to hear from you! Regardless of when your ancestors emigrated from Japan, their destination country, or where you now reside, we want you to help develop a picture of current Nikkei communities, needs or challenges they face now, and those that may arise soon. There is currently no other research investigating younger generation Nikkei communities on a global level.
The team leading this research includes Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks, who is Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, and Senior Research Associate Psychology Applied Research Center and Program Coordinator, Asian Pacific American Studies at Loyola Marymount University; and Dr. Lindsey Sasaki Kogasaka, Assistant Director of Study Abroad at Pomona College. Rooks' research focuses on ethnic and multiracial identity, ethnic community development, and cultural competency in community health and wellness. Kogasaka specializes in cross-cultural exchange and training, international migration, and the Asian diaspora in Latin America.
The Nippon Foundation, which initiated this project and selected JANM as its partner, was established in 1962 as a nonprofit philanthropic organization, active in Japan and around the world. Its range of activities encompasses education, social welfare, public health, and other fields—carried out in more than 100 countries to date. The Nippon Foundation also reached out to Discover Nikkei, which has a global network, for its help in conducting the research. The results of this study will be published after the spring of 2020.
The survey takes just 10-15 minutes to complete. Although the target audience is Nikkei, including those with mixed ancestry, between the ages of 18–35, others are welcome to participate. Please share this opportunity with friends or family who may be interested. Hurry—the survey closes at midnight (PST) on February 28, 2019!
After Pearl Harbor, anti-Japanese sentiment exploded. Along with general suspicion toward Japanese Americans, those who practiced Buddhism were often specifically targeted. Even before the smoke had cleared at Pearl Harbor, the American government was already rounding up Buddhist leaders for detention. With Buddhist communities under surveillance and anti-Japanese attitudes reaching a boiling point, some Japanese American Buddhists even contemplated converting to Christianity in hopes this would save them from being sent to American concentration camps.
Today, Buddhism is seen favorably by most Americans as a peaceful religion. However, this wasn't the case in the early twentieth century. Americans in the early 1900s were warned by newspapers and individual leaders in the Christian community that Buddhism was cruel to animals, degrading toward women, and led by debaucherous priests. These unsavory sentiments led some Buddhists to consciously present their faith to be more compatible with Christian tastes by saying, like Christianity, they had a god.
Williams, a Soto Zen Buddhist priest and Director of the University of Southern California Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, uses internment camp newsletters, newly translated letters and diaries, and interviews with camp survivors and Japanese American WWII veterans to explain how, even in the face of suspicion and prejudice, their faith strengthened and helped them persevere. Published by Belknap Press, American Sutra also asks the question that's still as pertinent now in the US as it was in 1941: Is a non-Christian person of color as American as a white Christian? Williams seeks answers by examining the history of Buddhist migration to the US and the roots of Buddhism being seen as a security threat to the US. The book concludes with a poignant story of an incarcerated Buddhist priest conducting the ritual practice of copying and burying a Buddhist sutra (scripture) in hopes of bringing forth the salvation of future generations of Japanese American Buddhists.
On Saturday, February 23, see Duncan Ryuken Williams speak about American Sutra while exploring questions of faith, identity, and resilience in the face of dislocation, loss, and uncertainty. His talk will be followed by comments and discussion with Brian Niiya (Content Director, Densho), Naomi Hirahara (award-winning author and historian), and Valerie Matsumoto (UCLA Aratani Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community). Reception and book signing will follow. This program is free, but RSVPs are recommended using this link.
This past weekend JANM welcomed over 4,000 people to our Oshogatsu Family Festival. Oshogatsu means "new year" in Japanese and in the Japanese cycle of zodiac signs, 2019 is the year of the boar. People born in the years 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, and 2007, and now 2019 all fall under the year of the boar.
Among Asian countries, Japan is unique because it is the only one that celebrates the new year on January 1, like Western countries do. Japan started celebrating on January 1 in 1873, when the Meiji government decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar insteadof the lunisolar calendars they had used previously. During this time in thelate nineteenth century, Japan was consciously moving from an isolated feudalsociety to one taking on more Western-style norms.
In Buddhism, legend has it that the Buddha summoned all animals to meet with him before his departure from earth, but only twelve animals came to say goodbye. Rewarding the animals who came to him, he named a year after each one of them, and that is how the zodiac came about. Their years were given in the order they arrived. Because in the legend the boar was the last to arrive at Buddha's meeting, it gained the reputation for being lazy.
However, being lazy is a misnomer. According to experts in the Japanese zodiac, people born in the year of the boar are said to be loyal, diligent, generous, optimistic, and honest. Boars love the company of others, and their outgoing nature is charming to other people. They also prioritize family and friends while having a great sense of responsibility. Famous people born in the year of the boar include Hillary Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, David Bowie, Ricky Martin, Alfred Hitchcock, Elvis Presley, Winona Ryder, Lupita Nyong'o, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Dalai Lama. If you're a boar, consider yourself in good company!
Our Oshogatsu Family Festival is over (thank you to everyone who attended!) but you can still celebrate the year of the boar at the JANM Store. For all things boar-ing (not!), check janmstore.com. Products include a t-shirt designed by character designer and storyboard artist RidgeHirano featuring a boar romping in wisteria. Don't wear t-shirts? You can still show your love for the boar with a handy tote bag. For the little ones, we have this plush boar made by Hansa Toys. Hansa Toys are known for their meticulously hand-crafted and realistic stuffed animals, and this boar is no exception. Happy shopping, and we wish you a wonderful year of the boar!


Coming from Lexington, Kentucky, on I-64, take exit 133. Turnright at the top of the exit ramp to proceed south on KY-801.Proceed 8.4 miles on 801. The campground entrance is on theright.
I have camped here in the spring and summer. This was my first trip in fall. The weather was wet and cold, but it couldn't take away from the experience. The campsite that I was on was a double.(A30). It has electric, no water or sewage on the spot. We had 2 campers on the site with plenty of room. One is 37 ft and the other is 24 ft. There was plenty of downed trees to cut up. You should bring a bow saw. We also brought some wood. We were close to the water and trails. All of the teens that were with us had a ball(hiking, biking, basketball, and fishing). Sites are all clean and level and the bathrooms are clean.
This campground is so awesome. Large private campsites, beautiful lake.
We actually camped at Boat Gunnel which is a part of Twin Knobs Campground. We love this campground because it is a private area with 4 RV hookups and approximately 10 tent sites. You rent the entire place for $125 or $130 a night. It is close to the water. We left our boats down on the bank. You have a "private" restroom and shower house. Occasionally you will get a hiker or someone coming through the trails that will use it. The only reason that it didn't score perfect is that the showers need some attention. There was mud along side the blacktop path that led down to the fire pit that was full of mosquito larvae and smelled. Easy fix, but had to keep the kids and dogs away from it constantly. My sister took a nasty fall on the trail down to the waters edge and that would be an easy fix to make that trail a little smoother. I know we are camping, but with the price, it is actually glamping. We like this place because it is easy for my aging parents to come down and visit. Great, large shelter also.
lovely site, totally private, on the lake, but really inconvenient if you want water hookup.
You camp on rock sites so it drains great if it rains. The sites are kinda secluded from one another by tree and bush lines. Restrooms are clean and nice enough but water is heated by solar power. No playground on the twin knobs side of the lake. There is a camp store, beach and boat ramp.
We stayed in the F loop on site F22 primitive camping. It had a short path to the lake, easy access for shore swimming or fishing. Great for kids and adults. Bathhouse was close and had private bathrooms/ showers.
We rented a pontoon boat from Scott's Creek Marina about 5 minutes away and had a great day on the lake. Be sure to stop into the Cave Run Bait Shop and ask them about Jiggin the Bondy.
national forest campground with some full hookups, some water/electric and standard sites-double sites available as well. Easy access off Rt 64. Beach and boat launch are short drive.
Good to stay for a relaxing weekend with you're family. Nice spots by the lake and includes and beach area with a little store for any last minute supplies you may have forgotten.
We have stayed at Twin Knobs for several years. It has wooded lots that give you a feeling of privacy. The only problem that we encountered last May was that someone's dog had pooped everywhere on the grass on the site that we were on. So you couldn't get off the gravel. The site was surrounded by poison ivy so we had to watch very closely. The site was pretty level, we took a few wooden blocks for leveling help. Our current camper is 36 ft with slides and awning and it fit on the sites very well. We have been there with a 45 ft Fifthwheel and still had room. The bath house was well maintained and clean. There are plenty of trails to walk and explore. Some of the trails meander along the lake and make for a great sunrise walk. The hosts stick to the rule that only allow so many at a campsite unlike state parks that get a bit crowded and loud. The campground was full when we were there, but it doesn't seem overcrowded or too busy. There is a company that sets up on weekends at the boat ramp that have kayaks to rent.
Nice place nestled in the trees close to the water. Can't easily access the water though, and wish you didn't have to set up on a gravel pad.


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My weekend is over again! I have to do 6 straight days so that I can get the following 4 off for my trip around Scotland with Georgie Hale. Anyway, I thought I would leave you with a few pics from the weekend. I don't know why, but I like them all. I might have to bug Chris into helping me make a "feature photo" page. Hopefully I will be back mid-week, but if not, I will see you all in 10 days.
Tim, please say hey to Georgie for me & enjoy Scotland! Would love to get there, haven't made it yet.
the color in that last picture is amazing!
I do enjoy the colour removal shot. It does make for some striking pics.
P.S Could you change the link to my page to go to http://www.mal.net.au as it is pointing to my old URL ta Tim.