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Michał I Fiodorowicz, ros. Михаи́л Фёдорович Рома́нов (ur. , zm. ) – car Rosji w latach 1613–1645, ojciec cara Aleksego I Romanowa, dziad Piotra Wielkiego. Wyniósł dynastię Romanowów na tron carski.

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Michał był synem Fiodora Romanowa (po wymuszonym wstąpieniu do monasteru – Filareta) i Kseni Iwanowny Szestowej (po wymuszonym wstąpieniu do klasztoru – Marty). Do roku 1602 był na zesłaniu na Biełozierze według rozkazu cara Borysa Godunowa. Od roku 1602 przebywał u ciotki Marii z domu Romanow księżniczki Czerkaskiej na Jurjewie-Polskim. W 1606/1607 od cara Wasyla Szujskiego otrzymał nominacje na dworski urząd stolnika. Od zimy 1612/13 przebywał we własnych dobrach (w wiosce Domnino w Kostromie). To było inspiracją dla opery z muzyką Michaiła Glinki Życie za cara.

Na cara został wybrany przez sobór ziemski 3 marca 1613 (wg kalendarza juliańskiego 21 lutego), w czasie gdy wraz z matką ukrywał się w Monasterze Ipatiewskim w Kostromie, po ośmioletnim okresie wielkiej smuty. Gdy następnego dnia po soborze przybyło do niego poselstwo bojarów z wiadomością o wyborze na cara, początkowo odmawiał objęcia tronu i dopiero po sześciu godzinach przekonywania przyjął carskie berło. 2 maja 1613 przybył do Moskwy, a 11 lipca został intronizowany. Na początku panowania przede wszystkim musiał rozprawić się z szajkami i bandami, grasującymi po całej Rosji. Należały do nich również oddziały polskich lisowczyków Aleksandra Lisowskiego, służących wpierw drugiemu Dymitrowi Samozwańcowi, a potem trudniących się rozbojem.

Na rozkaz cara Michała Romanowa w 1614 roku w Moskwie powieszono trzyletniego carewicza Iwana Dymitra (1611-1614), syna Maryny Mniszchówny i Samozwańca II. Następnie kozaka atamana Iwana Zaruckiego, trzeciego męża Maryny, wbito na pal. Maryna zginęła w niejasnych okolicznościach, uwięziona na kremlu w Kołomnie.

W 1617 roku Michał Romanow zakończył wojnę ze Szwecją, a następnie, po nieudanej wyprawie wojsk polskich na Moskwę, także wojnę z Rzecząpospolitą, zawierając rozejm w Dywilinie 11 grudnia 1618 na 14 lat, pozostawiający w rękach litewskich Smoleńsk, a polskich ziemię czernihowską oraz siewierską.

Pokój zewnętrzny był Michałowi niezbędny dla odbudowy gospodarczej kraju, spustoszonego w okresie smuty, i dla umocnienia centralnej władzy carskiej. Rozwój gospodarczy Rosji faktycznie powoli następował, zaś szczególnie intensywnie rozwijała się kolonizacja północnej Azji przez Rosjan. Za panowania Michała doszli oni do rzeki Amur i Morza Ochockiego na wschodnim krańcu kontynentu azjatyckiego, zakładając po drodze warowne osady i miasta: Jakuck, Jenisejsk, Irkuck, Krasnojarsk, Ochock, Wierchojańsk i inne.

W latach 1632–1634, przed upływem okresu rozejmu z Polską, wykorzystując okres bezkrólewia po śmierci Zygmunta III Wazy, Rosjanie oblegli Smoleńsk, pragnąc odebrać ziemie smoleńskie, lecz uniemożliwiła im to odsiecz nowego króla polskiego Władysława IV. Ta kolejna wojna polsko-rosyjska zakończona została "pokojem wieczystym" w Polanowie, zgodnie z którym Polska zatrzymała terytoria uzyskane w rozejmie dywilińskim, ale równocześnie król Polski zrzekł się wszelkich roszczeń do tronu moskiewskiego.

Michał wyróżniał się pobożnością, z zaangażowaniem biorąc udział w uroczystościach religijnych i obchodach świąt cerkiewnych obejmujących prawie wszystkie dni w roku. Jednocześnie oddawał się zachodnim rozrywkom, utrzymując na swoim dworze trupę akrobatów, karłów i błaznów, a na jego dworze odbywały się tańce i popisy linoskoczków. Lubił nowinki techniczne i kolekcjonował zegary, poza tym uwielbiał pracę w ogrodzie i polowanie.

Po śmierci Michała Romanowa carem został jego syn Aleksy (1645–1676).

Rodzina
Pierwszą żoną Michała miała zostać w 1616 roku Maria Chłopowa, która przyjęła imię Anastazja. W wyniku intryg uknutych przez rodzinę Sałtyków została oddalona z dworu. Dopiero  w Moskwie Michał poślubił Marię Dołgoruką, córkę księcia Włodzimierza. Małżeństwo trwało bardzo krótko, gdyż już w czasie uroczystości związanych ze ślubem księżna zasłabła i  zmarła. Drugą żoną Michała została Eudoksja Strieszniewa, którą car poślubił . Z tego związku narodziło się trzech synów i siedem córek:
 Dzieci cara Michała i Eudoksji:
 Irena Michajłowna (ur. 22 kwietnia 1627, zm. 8 lutego 1679) – nie wyszła za mąż
 Pelagia Michajłowna (ur. 17 kwietnia 1628, zm. 25 stycznia 1629)
 Aleksy Michajłowicz (ur. 19 marca 1629, zm. 29 stycznia 1676) – późniejszy car Aleksy I Romanow
 Anna Michajłowna (ur. 14 lipca 1626, zm. 27 października 1669) – nie wyszła za mąż, po wstąpieniu do klasztoru przyjęła imię Anfisa
 Marfa Michajłowna (ur. 19 sierpnia 1631, zm. 21 września 1632)
 Iwan Michajłowicz (ur. 1 czerwca 1633, zm. 10 stycznia 1639)
 Zofia Michajłowna (ur. 30 września 1634, zm. 23 czerwca 1636)
 Tatiana Michajłowna (ur. 5 stycznia 1636, zm. 24 sierpnia 1706) – nie wyszła za mąż
 Eudoksja Michajłowna (ur. 10 lutego 1637, zm. 10 lutego 1637)
 Wasyl Michajłowicz (ur. 14 marca 1639, zm. 25 marca 1639).

Car Michał I Romanow został pochowany w Soborze św. Michała Archanioła w Moskwie.

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Tonic Herbs that Every Qigong Practitioner Should Know (part 2)
[Editors note: Due to the length of this article, it was run in two of our printed issues, this is part 2 which describes the last 25 herbs. The introduction and sidebars are repeated for clarity as well as emphasis. The author uses terminology with which most of our readers are familiar, but briefly, the three treasures of Chinese medicine are "Jing" (essence), "Qi" (energy), and "Shen" (spirit). To achieve health, these treasures are balanced by bringing yin (deficient) or yang (excessive) qualities into equilibrium by using herbs, diet, meditation, exercise, lifestyle changes, etc. See Part 1 for a list of the first 25 herbs.]
Superior Herbalism
Chinese tonic herbalism is the most sophisticated and effective herbal system in the world. It differs from other herbal systems in that it emphasizes the promotion of health rather than the elimination of disease. In this sense, tonic herbalism is extremely similar to qigong. Though qigong offers a wide variety of remedial exercises and techniques, quite clearly the emphasis is on developing superior health and spiritual power by performing exercises that harmonize the body, mind and spirit, that develop the Three Treasures, Jing, Qi and Shen, that integrate the organs, and help us harmonize with the environment and the universe.
Of the several thousand herbs used in the Chinese herbal system, there is an elite group of about fifty herbs known as the Superior Herbs. These very special herbs have also become known as the tonic herbs of Chinese herbalism. These incomparable, legendary herbal substances have stood the test of time. Each has in its own right come to be recognized through many centuries of continuous use to be a remarkable life-enhancing tonic. These are the true supersonics, the greatest list of herbal substances in the world.
The following descriptions are not exhaustive. They present insight into these 50 great tonic herbs and provide the most important functions of each oneknowledge that every qigong practitioner should have. The information provided here is designed to lay the groundwork for a broader understanding of tonic herbalism. If you are a health care practitioner, you may read descriptions in a number of texts, including the authors most recent book, The Ancient Wisdom of the Chinese Tonic Herbs, published by Warner Books, that provides complete information on all of these herbs. In actual practice, most of these herbs are combined into formulations that may be consumed on a daily or otherwise regular basis to promote our long term health and well-being.
The herbs are presented here in alphabetical order for your ease in referencing them.
Ligusticum Rhizome
Ligusticum wallichi is a very widely used blood tonic. It is especially common in womens blood tonic formulations. Ligusticum is a superb blood vitalizing herb used to improve blood circulation and to disperse blood stagnation. It has recently been found to improve blood circulation in the heart. It is sometimes called Cnidium on some product labels, and should not be confused with Cnidium seed, a Yang essence tonic.
Ligustrum Fruit
Ligustrum is a Yin essence (Jing) tonic that is said by the Chinese to prolong life. It has been found to contain significant immune enhancing agents. It is also used as a blood tonic. It has a slightly cool energy.
Longan is a wonderful and delicious tonic fruit used by the Chinese as a blood tonic, to nurture the heart, and to add luster and beauty to the skin. It is believed among the Chinese people that Longan is not only a great tonic for the skin, but is also a fantastic sex tonic. For that reason, Longan is considered as a special tonic for women who wish to be both beautiful and sexually active it has a 2000 year reputation as a love tonic. It is said that the most beautiful woman in the history of China, Yang Kuei Fei ate Longan every day. Longan is equally beneficial to men. It is believed to have a calming effect and to add radiance to the eyes. High quality Longan makes a fantastic snack.
Lycium Fruit
This delicious fruit is very widely used as an excellent Yin Jing and blood tonic. Regular consumption of Lycium is traditionally believed to lead to a long and happy life. It is said that prolonged consumption of Lycium will promote cheerfulness and vitality. Lycium is also said to brighten the eyes and improve vision. It is said that Lycium strengthens the legs and enhances sexual function. Lycium fruit contains polysaccharides that have been demonstrated to strongly fortify the immune system. Lycium is also very rich in vitamin C and in B vitamins. Furthermore, it is the richest source of carotenoids, including beta carotene, of all known plants on earth and is thus a powerful antioxidant.
Maitake mushroom has gained a place in tonic herbalism due to its broad spectrum tonic benefits similar to Agaricus and Reishi. Like Agaricus, it is primarily beneficial to the immune system, having double-direction activity on the entire immune system.
Morinda Root
Morinda is an excellent Yang Jing tonic. It is considered to be highly nutritious and is used in superior tonic formulas for strengthening the body. It is widely used in primal Jing formulations, often as the main ingredient. Morinda is widely believed in China to increase mental power. It is also considered to be beneficial to the heart. Morinda is excellent for martial artists because it makes you strong.
Ophiopogon Root
This herb, which is very similar both biologically and in its actions to wild Asparagus root, is primarily used as a Yin tonic, and especially as a Lung tonic. It is excellent for moistening any dryness in the body. It is considered to be a cold herb. It has special benefits for the Heart, and is said by the Daoists to be a major Shen tonic herb. Therefore, Ophiopogon has been very widely used by Daoist adepts through the centuries.
Pearl is a very special herbal substance used since ancient times. Powdered Pearl is used as a Shen tonic to stabilize the emotions, allay fright, ease frustration and anger, brighten the eyes and help regenerate tissue. Pearl is also used as a major beauty tonic, because it is believed that oral consumption of Pearl powder results in lustrous, pure, beautiful skin. Pearl powder is also used topically in skin creams to purify the skin. The best pearls, for herbal purposes, are wild seawater pearls that come from cold northern waters. The smaller the pearls, the more powerful their effect. However, modern technology has made it possible for anyone to consume excellent pearl powder that is highly assimilable and extremely nutritious. This dissolvable Pearl powder is known as hydrolyzed Pearl.
Peony Root
Peony root is an important blood tonic used to relax muscle and cleanse the blood. It is one of the most highly prized womens herbs used traditionally to help regulate the female hormonal cycle and to tonify and purify the blood. It is also used as a pain reducing agent and as an emotional stabilizer by women. It is said to help relieve cramps and spasms anywhere in the body. In particular, it is considered to be highly effective in relieving menstrual cramps. Peony root is also believed to extend life and to promote beauty. An old Chinese saying states that a woman who consumes Peony root regularly becomes as beautiful as the Peony flower itself.
Because of its role in nurturing new life, Placenta is considered to be the most profound substance for replenishing Yin and Yang Jing and blood. It is also considered to be a major Qi tonic. It is the dominant ingredient in many of the greatest restorative formulations, where quick and powerful replenishment is required. Sheep are the most common source of Placenta at this time.
Polygonatum Sibericum Root
This herb is used as a Qi tonic and as a Yin Jing tonic that is said to have a specific benefit on the brain. It is believed to be restorative to mental vitality, especially when the mind has been overworked. It is often used in Shen and Jing tonics to nourish the brain and strengthen the mind. This herb has been very popular among Daoists and all Qigong practitioners because of its nourishing effect on the brain.
Polygonum RootHo Shou Wu
Constant consumption of this famous longevity herb, whose full name is Polygonum multiflorum, is said in the Orient to help return an aging person to youthfulness and to keep a young person young. It is an unsurpassed Yin Jing tonic, as well as a major blood tonic. It is said to increase energy and to clean the blood. As an essence tonic, it is believed to be a powerful sexual tonic when consumed regularly. Polygonum is widely believed in China to increase sperm production in men and to increase fertility in women. It is used in almost all tonics that are believed in the Orient to nurture the hair and teeth. This herb has been consumed by almost every Daoist that has ever lived, and is fundamental to the practice of the Daoist inner arts.
Ant tonics are widely consumed in Asia to promote strength, sexual vigor and as a powerful anti aging agent. Research has proven that ants are highly nutritious and have powerful tonic and medicinal effects. Ant is considered a premium adaptogenic substance in the same ranks as Ginseng, Reishi and Cordyceps, the superstars of Chinese tonic herbalism. In fact, there is a saying in China that ginseng is the King of Herbs, but Ant is the Herb of Kings. Ant is widely used to boost the immune system, or to maintain already strong immune functions.
Polyrachis Ant, which is the unique variety of ant used as a tonic herb, has been established to have double-direction benefits on the immune system, so it can be used by anyone with any immune disorder to regulate immune functions. It is widely believed to prevent common symptoms associated with aging, such as lumbago (low back pain), memory loss, joint problems, fatigue, menopausal symptoms, cardiovascular disease, etc. It also strengthens the nervous system, digestive functions, detoxification functions and muscular system. Because of its long and short term energy boosting effects, Ant tonics are ideal for athletes, especially when combined with Ginseng, Cordyceps and other similar tonics. Ant strengthens the entire Kidney system, including the sexual functions, skeletal structures and renal system. Ant has a serious reputation in Asia for increasing libido and virility. Both men and women claim that after using Ant for even a short time that their interest in sex increases significantly and that their sexual performance improves in numerous ways.
Poria Mushroom
Poria is very widely used in Chinese herbalism. It is traditionally used as a Qi tonic to benefit the internal organs. It is a solid fungus that grows on the roots of old pine trees. It is mildly diuretic and sedative, and is considered to be highly nourishing. This is an herb that has been widely used by Daoists through the centuries and was often consumed as a primary food source by Daoist hermits.
Pseudo-ginseng Root
The miracle root for the preservation of life, as this herb has traditionally been called by the Chinese, stands as one of the great health preserving herbs known to mankind. Panax Pseudoginseng is a relative of Panax Ginseng. It is a superb blood tonic and blood cleanser when cooked. It is a powerful blood vitalizing agent when consumed raw, which means that it improves circulation throughout the body. It is believed by the Chinese to protect the heart and vascular system. It can be used externally to stop bleeding. It is widely used internally in Chinese herbalism as a tonic after traumatic injury. It is one of Chinas premier longevity herbs.
Rehmannia Root
Rehmannia is said to be the Kidneys own food. It is thus believed to be a Kidney tonic and longevity herb and is found in many common anti-aging formulations for longevity, and rejuvenation. It is also considered a premium blood tonic and is said to benefit sexual functions in men and women. The steamed variety is said to be warm in nature, and it is the steamed variety that is considered tonic. Steamed Rehmannia should be combined with Qi tonics to improve its assimilation.
Also known Lingzhi (Chinese), Reishi is considered by many people to be the ultimate tonic herb. It is widely renowned in the Orient as the mushroom of immortality and the herb of good fortune. The best Reishi is the red variety known as Ganoderma lucidum. Reishi is now cultivated in China, and the very best Reishi is grown on Duanwood logs by organic means, and thus it is known as Duanwood Reishi. Hothouse Reishi and Reishi mycelium are of inferior quality. Wild Reishi is also available, and high quality wild red Reishi is said to be a premier Shen tonic. Reishi has been demonstrated in research done in China and Japan to be a significant immune system enhancing agent that also protects the various organs and tissues of the body. It is the supreme Shen tonic of Chinese tonic herbalism, and is also considered to be a major Qi tonic. Reishi has an immediate calming influence, and over time is believed to help enhance wisdom, which may lead to true spiritual insight. Reishi protects the liver from poisons and has a very powerful regulating effect on people who experience allergies. Again, every Daoist that has ever lived in China consumed Reishi as often as possible. Everybody should consume Duanwood or wild Reishi every day, and practitioners of Qigong or other forms of Daoist yoga should never miss a day.
Rhodiola Root (Tibetan)
According to the Tibetans, Rhodiola, which grows at the snow line of the Himalayas in Tibet, may be used as a tonic to increase vitality. It is superb for strengthening the body and mind, resisting fatigue, resisting a lack of oxygen, for exposure to excessive radiation, and for prolonging life. The immune potentiating effects of Tibetan Rhodiola are stronger than those of ginseng. It has a notable restorative effect if one consumes a preparation while the tired body is recovering or is failing to recover from strong or excessive exertion. It has double-direction-adjusting effects on the nervous and endocrine systems. It is especially well known in Asia for increasing the intelligence of those who consume it regularly. It can improve a persons memory, power of concentration and work-efficiency. Consumption of a small amount of Tibetan Rhodiola extract significantly improves a persons capacity to absorb and utilize oxygen. This is a major key to the incredible benefits associated with this herb. When you consume Tibetan Rhodiola, it is the same as inhaling pure oxygen. Tibetan Rhodiola was considered sacred by the monks of Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal. Its Latin name is Rhodiola sacra.
A natural food substance produced by worker bees for their queen. This incredibly nutritious whole food is rich in a very broad spectrum of important vitamins, minerals and other substances essential to radiant health. Royal Jelly is believed to be an important beauty aid and is said to beautify the skin, eyes and hair. It is widely available in many commercially prepared products, or it can be obtained fresh, straight from the hive. Fresh Royal Jelly can have profound health benefits.
Schizandra is a wonderful tonic historically consumed by Chinese royalty. It is one of the few herbs that contains all three treasures. Therefore, Schizandra was consumed by all Daoists throughout Chinese history. Schizandra is renowned as a beauty tonic and is considered to be a youth preserving herb. It has been used for centuries to make the skin soft, moist and radiant. It is also said to be a powerful tonic to the brain and mind, and is believed in China to improve memory. It is also said to be an excellent and reliable sexual tonic when consumed regularly. It is said to help produce abundant sexual fluids, increase sexual endurance and to strengthen the whole body. It is used in many tonic formulations as an astringent.. Schizandra has a wonderful multi-layered flavor when processed properly. Schizandra is a must herb for Qigong practitioners.
Shitake mushroom is a potent immune modulating herb. It contains the beta-glucan type of polysaccharides that have been found to bolster the immune response of humans. Shitake also helps reduce blood lipids and bad cholesterol. Shitake is widely used as a food, though it is also available as a food supplement.
Siberian Ginseng is an incredibly important and popular tonic herb. It is another relative of true ginseng, though it shows no physical resemblance to Panax Ginseng. Wild Eleutherococcus senticosis grows widely in Siberia, Mongolia and Northeastern China. It is famous as an adaptogenic herb, thus aiding in handling of stress. It has been used for centuries to increase physical and mental endurance, to build blood and to improve memory. It is now widely used to regulate blood sugar levels, and is especially popular among athletes and those who work hard. It is perhaps the most popular herb in the world among martial arts practitioners.
Snow Lotus Flower
This herb is extremely rare and precious. It comes from one of the most remote areas of Asia. Snow Lotus has a general health promoting effect. It regulates the functions of different organs. In particular, it improves the immune system, prevents internal and external diseases, improves adaptability, and eliminates body toxins. Snow Lotus is anti-aging, strengthens the body, preserves youthfulness, and helps with all kinds of diseases. Snow Lotus calms and eliminates wind, smoothes Liver function, sedates rising Liver yang. It replenishes the Yin, strengthens the Yang, tonifies the blood, strengthens the sinews, relieves swelling and pain, improves blood circulation, removes blood stagnation, is said to remove sludge from the blood vessels, and promotes longevity. It clears away heat, toxic material and dampness. It is extremely rare and precious. Though it is equally beneficial to men and women, Snow Lotus has been the favorite herb of female Daoists and Qigong practitioners for many centuries.
Spirit Poria Mushroom
This special variety of Poria is considered a premium Shen tonic herb. It is the part of the Poria mushroom that contains the root of the old pine tree, upon which it has grown. Spirit Poria is said to benefit the heart, to nourish the Spirit and to lead to a long and happy life. It is often used by those wishing to overcome anxiety, worry, fear, etc. This is a very special herb traditionally used by Daoist adepts to help attain enlightenment.
The shell of the tortoise is a very special and potent Yin Essence tonic that also builds blood. It is said to increase fluids, build hormones and to replenish substances lost to stress and excessive behavior. The species used is cultivated for food and is not endangered if from a reputable vendor.
Ron Teeguarden has been practicing daoism and a variety of specific Daoist healing arts for over 30 years. Ron has spent many years studying in China and Japan. He studied with the legendary Daoist master Sung Jin Park in the 1970s, and as Master Parks primary student, took a vow to spread daoism in America. He was the co-founder of the Acupressure Workshops in Venice and Berkeley, Calif. Ron co-developed the acupressure technique known as Jin Shin Do. Ron has taught the Daoist healing arts to thousands of people. He wrote the classic book Chinese Tonic Herbs published by Japan Publications in 1985. His most recent book, The Ancient Wisdom of the Chinese Tonic Herbs, published by Warner Books is available from our Qi Catalog. Ron is the developer of the Dragon Herbs line of superior tonic herbal products, which are also available through Qi Catalog.
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While watching all of the swimming competitions during this summer's Olympic Games, it's hard not to notice the various Olympic swimwear that the athletes wear. While colors and style obviously vary slightly from swimmer to swimmer, the general look is quite similar. If we were to compare the swimmers of today to those of past Olympic Games, we'd notice a big difference in Olympic swimwear. On this Throwback Thursday, let's have some fun and study the various fashion trends that Olympic swimmers wore while they were competing for gold.
Keep Your Clothes On!
Most of us don't follow competitive swimming year-round. The only time the majority of us cheer on swimmers as they race down the pool is during the Olympic Games. This is the case now and during the past, too. We, of course, notice what each swimmer is wearing to compete. Back in 1912, when women first gained the right to compete in Olympic swimming events, the main concern with Olympic swimwear design was public nudity. In fact, it was this effort to prevent public nudity that swayed any American women from competing in the 1912 Games.
In 1912, the Great Britain women's Olympic swimming team wore Olympic swimwear made of silk, consisting of a bikini-style bottom and bras. One of the main issues with these suits was that spectators could see through them once they got wet. Male swimmers were discouraged from promoting public nudity, too. Up until the 1940s, men wore swimsuits that covered them from hips to shoulders.
Less Material, More Competition
As time went by, the Olympic committee began to loosen their restrictions on Olympic swimwear. By 1936, the expected swimsuit to be worn by female athletes was a racerback silk suit made by Speedo. This suit was designed to better fit a female figure, but it also exposed the shoulder blades. Also in 1936, men were allowed to swim bare chested, and were further liberated in 1948 when they swam in briefs only. Competition really took off during the 1970s when Speedo began using elastane in their swimsuits. During the 1972 Olympic Games, 21 out of 22 records were broken due to this addition.
Goggles And Caps
Goggles and caps are also part of an athlete's Olympic swimwear and they too have undergone improvement throughout the Olympic Games. Believe it or not, motorcycle goggles were actually the first eye protection worn during a competitive swimming event by Thomas William Burgess when he crossed the English Channel in 1911. As you can imagine, these goggles obviously took on water, but they protected his eyes from the splashing of other competitors. Goggles were first used in the Olympic Games during 1976.
Swimming caps have been a normal part of Olympic swimwear since the early 1900s, but they have undergone some improvements over the years. Early on, they were made out of silk, cotton, or rubberized fabrics, and also had a chin strap to keep it in place. Latex caps were first available in the 1920s, and the design has been improved upon since then to account for better maneuverability in the water.
Would you wear some of the older styles of Olympic swimwear?
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A mean and racist hoax story trending on Facebook and other social media claims that Rep. Dianne Black, a Republican congresswoman from Tennessee, accused the Obama administration of a conspiracy to make money off of selling "embryo parts" harvested in abortions by encouraging "more accidents during love making" and with the importation of "Mexican rapists" who are expected to "impregnate white women."
The hoax story is titled: Rep. Black: "The Government Imports Mexican Rapists To Impregnate White Women To Sell Embryo Parts"
Lead Stories can confirm that this story is false. It was published by a website that post sensational hoax reports on Facebook and other social media to draw web visitors who then find it hard to escape the page because of pop-ups that lead you to download possibly malicious cookies.
The fake story purports that Rep. Black made the outrageous statements while addressing the Family Research Council about her work on the House's "Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives." Rep. Black did actually speech to the group on June 9, 2016. You can see the full speech about the unethical and illegal sale of fetal tissue below. But she NEVER made the comments about "Mexican rapists" or the federal government encouraging love-making mishaps.
The hoax story claims the federal government's scheme to profit from selling "embryo parts" came "after the global economic crisis in 2008,."
The United States government realized that "an untapped market lies within smuggling embryo parts," and that that is the true reason why a number of birth control manufacturers in the country, "including several condom makers," all received significant subsidies from the federal budget.
"Basically, the government wants more and more accidents during love making throughout the country, which has resulted in a significant increase of accidental pregnancies," Black claimed.
"And as if that wasn't enough," she claimed, "now they've even started importing Mexican rapists to further bump up unwanted pregnancy rates. Don't be fooled - all those cases of rapes you've seen on the news in the past months and years, that were committed by Mexican nationals, were orchestrated, planned, and funded by the United States government. I mean, get real - after 9/11, not even a mosquito could have crossed the border anywhere, let alone felons with the rap sheet the length of the Rio Grande. How do you suppose all those rapists found there way into the country? They didn't - they couldn't - because they were imported with the sole purpose of impregnating white women."
Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke co-founded Lead Stories after ending a 26-year career with CNN, where he mainly covered entertainment, current affairs and politics. Duke closely covered domestic terrorism cases for CNN, including the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, the UNABOMBER and search for Southeast bomber Eric Robert Rudolph. CNN moved Duke to Los Angeles in 2009 to cover the entertainment beat. Duke also co-hosted a daily podcast with former HLN host Nancy Grace, "Crime Stories with Nancy Grace" and hosted the podcast series "Stan Lee's World: His Real Life Battle with Heroes & Villains." You'll also see Duke in many news documentaries, including on the Reelz channel, CNN and HLN.
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The Bon Accord is a friendly and traditional real ale bar located on North Street, just past the M8 at Charing Cross. It features a constantly changing list of ten real ales and a daily specials menu. There is outdoor seating at the front and back of the venue. Open every day from noon 'til midnight, food is served every day until 8pm.


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From Print To Social Media – The History Of Marketing [INFOGRAPHIC]
By Shea Bennett
The history of marketing goes back a long way – probably further than you thought.
In 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and his metal movable type would ultimately lead to the mass-production of flyers and brochures. Magazines emerged in the 1730s, and the first paid advertisement appeared in France in 1836.
Marketing posters on private property were banned in London in 1839, and it wasn't until 1867 that the earliest recorded billboard rentals appeared. In 1922, radio advertising commenced, with TV making its debut in 1941. Telemarketing in the 1950s led to desktop publishing in the 1980s. Modern search engines started appearing in the mid-1990s, with Google making its debut in 1998.
MySpace and LinkedIn emerged in 2003, Facebook in 2004 and Twitter in 2006. And with the enormous success of the iPhone and iPad, mobile marketing began to make serious waves just a few years ago.
So, here's the big question: what's next?
We'll have to be a little patient for the answer to that, but in the meantime here's a fascinating infographic from Avalaunch Media that takes a closer look at the history of marketing channels.
(Source: Avalaunch Media. Marketing image via Shutterstock.)
Shea Bennett


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Hellig Usvart – jedyny album nieistniejącego już australijskiego jednoosobowego projektu Horde.

Oryginalnie wydany w roku 1994, przez wytwórnię Nuclear Blast, wznowiony w 1999 przez Rowe Productions i w 2004 przez Soundmass z dodatkowym utworem z okazji dziesięciolecia wydania albumu.

Lista utworów
 "A Church Bell Tolls Amidst the Frozen Nordic Winds" - 1:02
 "Blasphemous Abomination of the Satanic Pentagram" - 0:47
 "Behold, the Rising of the Scarlet Moon" - 3:22
 "Thine Hour Hast Come" - 4:05
 "Release and Clothe the Virgin Sacrifice" - 5:37
 "Drink From the Chalice of Blood" - 3:59
 "Silence the Blasphemous Chanting" - 5:37
 "Invert the Inverted Cross" - 3:10
 "An Abandoned Grave Bathes Softly in the Falling Moonlight" - 5:09
 "Crush the Bloodied Horns of the Goat" - 2:24
 "Weak, Feeble, and Dying Anti-Christ" - 3:32
 "The Day of Total Armageddon Holocaust" - 1:43
 "My Heart Doth Beseech Thee (O Master)" (tylko na reedycji z 2004) - 2:56

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 Jayson Sherlock - śpiew, gitara, gitara basowa, perkusja, keyboard

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A few hundred milliseconds latency is achievable for a complex fraud prevention system, but with very little wiggle room. In the past two years, we have selected a few design patterns that have helped us achieve our latency goals, using standard technologies used by most SaaS companies (load balancers, queues, JVM, rest APIs, etc…). Here, we share 9 and a half tips that have helped us to build a system we're proud of.
Low Latency and Availability is essential to our product – and our SaaS product is the center of our business. Forter provides Fraud Prevention Decision as a Service for eCommerce merchants (retailers with either web or mobile presence). That's fraud decisions for every transaction, in real-time. Our clients call Forter's API during the checkout phase of their workflow. This is a very sensitive place to be, since a failure at that point could result in loss of business to our customers.
If our API does not respond on time, our clients cannot continue their workflow. So, internally, we log the latency of each API request, and calculate percentiles based on that raw data. For example, the API endpoint may return a decision within 300ms 90% of the time, and within 500ms 99.9% of the time.
This measurement gets tricky when using a stress test tool (there is a great presentation about exactly that, if you'd like to know more: How NOT to Measure Latency). It basically states that a typical benchmarking tool such as Apache Bench, when stuck waiting for that 1 response that never comes back (a hiccup), does not take into account the number of requests it didn't even send during that time.
Another problem with a stress test tool is that it uses synthetic requests, which simulates a best case scenario where the caches are already hot, something that is not generally true for real-world transactions.
Measuring latency is essential, but do it the right way. Use percentiles, and distinguish real traffic from synthetic requests.
The rest API client should place a timeout on the API call, and act when there is an error or timeout. It could retry the request or perform a predefined default action. In both cases, the service needs to be designed to support it.
Having the client retry means that the service needs to be idempotent. For example, let's say that due to a network hiccup, a request with id 1234 has timed out. A second (retry) request with the same id 1234 is then sent to the service. The first request may have reached the service and so it means the service received two requests with the same ID. The service should handle that gracefully, and in both cases it should return the same decision.
Having the client choose a default action means that the transaction entry in our customer's database may have a different value from our databases. For example, transaction id 1234 timed out, and the client has decided to approve the transaction. In the case where the request reached the service, it may have been registered as an approved transaction or a declined transaction, and in the case where it never reached the service, it would not have been registered at all. For these cases, a reconciliation process might be needed at the end of the billing period, in which these small discrepancies are sorted out.
The customers care about end-to-end service availability. Network hiccups happen, but they are simple to resolve by making the rest API client part of a coherent decision flow.
Continuous Deployment is great, since it allows us to change code rapidly. However, the reality is that code that changes could introduce new unexpected latency or stability issues, and is thus less trustworthy (stable) than code that worked flawlessly in the past weeks or months.
Our Storm code written in Java changes the most. If that component fails to decide on time (approve or decline a transaction), the API servers written with Node.js take a decision, and if it fails, then the nginx lua code takes a decision. If we hadn't designed our system that way, the client would need to make the decision for us, which is something we would like to minimize.
It's ok for the system to perform graceful degradation once in awhile, but over some threshold we need to rollback into a previous version (calculating that threshold is for another blog post). Our reality is that we always have two production systems online (we call them "prod" and "old prod"). In case of a graceful degradation alert, we have the option to switch back (via Amazon ELB API) to the "old prod", giving us enough time to fix the problem.
There is a famous quote from an Israeli cult movie, where Krembo is asked how to win a swimming race: "You start with your fastest sprint, and gradually pick up the pace." As a startup we must keep moving faster as we grow (not slower). That means more developers introducing more code changes every day. A multi-layered decision architecture, plus a hot standby, serves as our safety net.
Don't Pushback to the Client Some of our customers might send us transactions in batches. For example, in the case of a problem with their backend systems, they might want to rerun some of the transactions. If we perform simple throttling, the API would have to return an error back, which is unacceptable in a Decision as a Service system. If we do not perform throttling, we run the risk of overloading our real-time system, which would trigger the graceful degradation described above, which is something we would like to minimize.
So we do perform throttling, but instead of pushing back an error to the client, we divert the excess customer traffic to a different set of machines. We use a simple master/worker pattern, in which different queues have different set of workers, and we effectively push the transaction into a lower priority queue.
As with any multi-tenant system, isolation between tenants is a key component. More traffic is good for business, and shouldn't be a cause for panic. By dynamically isolating traffic with different SLA requirements, we can keep all of our customers happy.
Each I/O operation (such as an SQL query or an internal Rest API call) must have a timeout. That timeout is a function of the minimum/maximum time for the operation to complete, and the time-to-live (remaining time) of this specific request.
The timeout as defined by the SLA to the customer (median is good).
The time for the I/O operation to succeed 80% of the time. For example, most Redis read operations should return after 5ms.
The time for the I/O operation to succeed 99.9% of the time. For example reading by primary key from an in-memory data store (such as Redis) should not take more than 10ms, and reading by primary key from a disk-based data store (such as MySQL) should not take more than 100ms. If it takes more, then there is either a network hiccup (that was not detected as a failure), or a data-store hiccup, or some type of congestion, and we consider the operation to be failed.
Absolute timing uses the current clock time and the time the request was received, in order to determine if we should use the maximum timeout, the minimum timeout, or somewhere in between.
The three most important things in real-time systems are timing, timing and timing. In most cases, we would use the maximum timeout. However, in cases where a garbage collection or a network hiccup occurred, we would speed up the rest of the processing and lean towards the minimum timeout.
This one is obvious, but it must be mentioned too. The reason that it doesn't go without saying is that we humans are not fast enough to react to failures, and there are such good auto-healing tools out there, that it's just a shame not to use them.
When an exception occurs in the code, it should bubble up the stack and crash the process (fail-fast unless the code handles retries or batch operations in which exceptions could be handled). The reason for fail-fast is that we do not trust our process state when an exception occurs. Once the process fails, an external operation system daemon (such as upstart, systemd or similar) should start it immediately.
When an ec2 instance terminates unexpectedly, we use an ec2 scaling group that detects it, terminates the instance and starts a new equivalent ec2 instance in its place. In rare cases, it takes quite a time to detect a problem with the instance as its hardware degrades slowly. In those cases a scaling group can take hours to respond.
When a web server becomes unhealthy (for whatever reason, such as a single point of failure, or a availability zone problem), the Elastic Load Balancer diverts all traffic to the other healthy instances.
HTTP Fencing When the entire service stops responding, you can use Route 53 failover (or Incapsula Advanced load balancer) to divert all traffic to a stand-by service, and trigger an alert.
Auto-healing is awesome, and doesn't take much time to set up properly. Everyone does it, and so should you.
And of course a time-based view for multiple transactions, including latency percentiles on the right, exception plots, per deployment, per host , per transaction type filters and much more. One of the first things we learned from the time-based plots is that our system needs some time to warm up until it performs best, which has implications for the deployment life-cycle.
One of the first things you understand about low latency monitoring, is that the CPU graph doesn't say much. First, the CPU probing doesn't have high enough resolution to capture milliseconds CPU spikes, and some of the latency is due to I/O operations which are not registered by the CPU. So unless the system is overloaded the CPU will always show some low average. As for profiling tools – tracing profilers skews the latency results too much, and unless the system is overloaded, sampling profilers shows most of the time is spent in scheduler threads.
The most reliable way we found to detect latency problems is a timestamp before and after every sub-component of the system. Once the problematic sub-component is detected, you first look for incriminating recent code changes. If you can't find the problem, reproduce with a unit test together with a profiler to pinpoint the root cause.
In many cases, however, latency monitoring reveals degradation that affects multiple components at once. Some of the components may not even perform I/O operations or had no recent code changes. In those cases, we start looking for the usual suspects. AWS EC2 Flakiness We only use c3.large instances or higher, for the sake of our sanity. Any ec2 instance (that is not on dedicated hardware) could be a victim of being hosted in a tough neighborhood. It happens less with larger instances. However, once you have tens of ec2 instances you should start expecting at least one machine per month to act strangely (as indicated by a weird CPU flakiness in the ec2 graph, even though nothing changed on the instance itself). Sometimes the gods of luck provide us with good machines and we get a drop of 100ms latency improvement without changing any bit of code.
Many logging frameworks are synchronous and contribute to high latency. Even async event clients (such as Riemann clients) may contain pushback which in some extreme cases (unless configured otherwise) block the sending thread when all network queues are full.
Some regexes are a real piece of work. What you need to know is that given the right regular expression, and the right input, you could get a CPU core stuck on 100% CPU for a very long time (see Catastrophic Backtracking). We use a custom automated tool that tries to find these little gremlins during build time, but it's not perfect yet (worth an open source project and a blog post, I know). In Node.js, a runaway regex could block the entire process, not just a single core. In Python, it could block the global interpreter lock, which is just as bad.
An ack from the TCP receiver (for data previously sent).
Alas, most tcp receiver implementations also implement delayed acks in order to reduce the number of acks (up to 500ms for the ack), so the tcp sender could be delayed for up to 500ms if the nagle algorithm is turned on. In practice it introduces latency of around 30ms with spikes of 200ms. To overcome this set the tcp socket settings SO_NODELAY to true (preferably in both the client and the server).
Most modern languages require some tweaking to the GC settings. JVM settings provide a lot of tweaking options. As a rule a stateless system should not require much JVM memory. Most transactions evaporate after less than a second, which means it could happily stay in the young generation, which is faster to clean up. Any LRU caching (Least Recently Used eviction, such as Guava Cache) must not be hosted in the same JVM process. Use Memcached/Redis, but for the love of GC, do not host Java objects that survive the young generation and are moved to the old generation. It's ok to load lookup tables into the old generation since they never require cleaning, but LRU (least recently used) is bad. Beware of memory leaks. This is what a memory leak looks like – notice how the GC tries to clean up memory but can't due to the memory leak, and it tries more and more often as time progresses.
It's ok to print GC details in production. It should have no effect on performance. If you are on ec2 log to the ephemeral local drive, don't use a network drive for Java logging. It's synchronous.
There is a tradeoff between the amount of work done during young GC and old GC. We run a small young generation and a small old generation heap and force very aggressive GC settings. We increase the heap sizes only when the GC logs indicate that we have to.
Good old parallel GC shows great performance tradeoff for small heaps. CMS has painful full GCs, but it might be worth checking on your use case.
Do not move from survivor space to old generation unless you have no other choice.
If Full-GC is already started, then make the most of it (easier to debug memory leaks that way too). This one is controversial at best.
Use local object allocation (less multi-threading contention).
No matter what your runtime environment or programming language is, optimizing for low latency has low-hanging fruits. The details change, but the principles are the same. Do not perform premature optimizations, but do take a moment and disable all loggers, or tail the garbage collection logs, or make a side-by-side latency comparison of the same code running on different ec2 instance from different days.
Most data store configurations are geared towards higher throughput, and also the benchmarks usually measure throughput (ops per second). When comparing various SQLs/NoSQLs make sure to think about low latency and compare apples-to-apples.
Indexes in Memory or Disk?
Are the indexes loaded from memory or disk? For example, with Couchbase there is a default configuration in which all indexes are loaded into memory. With other NoSQLs, they depend on the file system cache which after warm-up could load all indexes into memory.
Data in Memory or Disk?
Is the data loaded from memory or disk? For example, with Redis, all data is in-memory by default, and so fetches have lower latency. However memory is about 3 times more costly than SSDs. So if you are considering reading the data from disk, then benchmark the NoSQL based on your use case. Also, in the low latency use case more shards would probably be more performant than adding more read replicas due to better file system cache utilization (less disk copies, less cache needed).
Do you have enough available CPUs to handle the incoming requests? For example, with elasticsearch even if all data is cached, some complex queries require a dedicated CPU core available, and sending more queries than the available CPU cores would mean delaying some of them. Most systems never care about that latency spike since it has negligible effect on throughput, however if you are trying to improve the 99% percentile of latency, number of CPU cores could matter.
Many data stores have different write/read trade-offs. For example, SELECT * on a table with tens of rows could be slower than SELECTing a single field. So during write you could lump all the required data in advance to a single field (like a K/V store would do). Similarly with a document database, when requesting the complete document it could take some time to push it through the network. Alas, when requesting specific fields, it would require parsing the document on the server side and creating a new document before sending it to the client (which is worse). In that case creating a scaled-down document during write time would reduce latency during read time.
Many data store clients are optimized for high throughput, and are less optimized for low latency. For example, if you don't have enough TCP connections open, some requests could be queued on the client side. In one case, we got lower latency (better) by proxying the request through a localhost proxy, only because we could set the proxy process priority to be higher. When the client was hosted in a Java process that had too many CPU hungry threads it was competing with the I/O threads of the NoSQL client.
Choosing the right data stores for each use case and then tweaking it takes time. Many startups call for external consultants to speed up the learning process, other startups learn it the hard way. We did both.
As Forter's fraud prevention system grew, we realized tweaking the low latency system would get us only so far, and that we needed to split our workload into three different subsystems.
Subsystem What does it do? Limiting Design Constraint Is Data Loss Acceptable? Hard Business Requirements?
Some of the TX processing could be done before the transaction even started. The transaction might eventually never happen, so we might be doing extra work for nothing (higher throughput), but the tradeoff is there. Having the flexibility to trade low latency transaction processing requirements for high throughput event stream processing requirements can sometime shorten development time considerably.
Similarly, if we have a batch processing system that works after the transaction is complete, we could relax the transaction processing requirements to be a best effort system, and perform billing reconciliation and other hard business requirements post-transaction.
Getting below 30ms latencies requires a different set of technologies (peer-to-peer clusters or even share-nothing architectures). However, running a complex business logic in a few hundred milliseconds latency is still achievable with commonly used technologies (http load balancers, SQL databases, NoSQLs, JVM). My hope is that you could apply some of the ideas presented here to your use case.


Nashville-based country singer/songwriter Emily Hackett debuts her album session music video for "Once In A While", which premiered on Friday via The Boot. The track, which will be featured on Emily's upcoming album, was filmed live in Emily's Nashville church, Scarritt-Bennett Center, backed with a stringed quartet.
Emily was recently announced as one of The Boot's Artists to Watch in 2018 alongside Dalton Domino, Sammy Brue, Abby Anderson and more – see the full lineup here.
Emily's latest single "Nostalgia" was recently added to rotation on Radio Disney Country via the Radio Disney app. The single's official video has also seen success on CMT – the video earned Emily a spot on CMT's Artist Discovery Program, where it received 6+ weeks of airplay on CMT Music – the video even made it on the fan-voted CMT's 12 Pack Countdown, peaking at #7.
Watch the "Nostalgia" Official Music Video here.
About Emily Hackett: Emily Hackett speaks the truth. The singer/songwriter raised in Atlanta, GA pulls these emotions into her music, stirring in an authentic blend of self-deprecation that is both unique and refreshing. What poises her against the rest of the soul of fiery artist ready to light up the stage, all the while still as honest as her southern roots.
The result of Emily's insatiable passion is undeniable. In the last few years, Emily has made a splash in the music scene releasing two EPs – As It Comes and Fury, Fear and Heartbreak. In 2013, Emily released an acoustic cover with Megan Davies of Lorde's hit "Royals." The response has brought in over half-a-million views on Youtube, was featured on Buzzfeed, won "Best Coffeehouse Cover of 2013" on Sirius XM and reached the final round of "Best Royals Covers" on Ryan Seacrest. In 2014 Emily won the national Belk's Modern Southern Music Showcase where she played tour dates with artists like Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Rascal Flatts. In the same line, her duet with Parachute frontman Will Anderson, "Take My Hand (The Wedding Song)" reached over 50k streams on Soundcloud in less than two months and peaked at the No. 4 spot on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. The music video for the single currently sits at over 16 million views.


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Famous Museums In Florence Italy
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Florence's best museums are off the beaten track and include buildings built by the famous Medici family.
Regarding the art of this cultural capital of Italy, there are some must-sees: Michelangelo's David and the Uffizi, of course, but what most visitors don't know are some of the best museums in Florence, and the best in the region. art offers more than popular choices.
Florence Art Checklist: 8 Must See Works Of Art In Florence, Italy
Many collections are placed in Florentine corners that most people walk by without noticing. Did you know that there are samurai armor around town? Or where you can find personal artifacts from orphans who shaped the city's future? Or that some of the city's shopping spots double as art?
Get gelato, our list of the best things to do in the city and our collection of the most amazing local museums and get ready to see Florence like never before.
Find out more about how Time Out chooses the best things to do around the world.
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What it is: Museum of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, better known as Il Duomo di Firenze.
Why go: Recently undergoing an impressive renovation, the Duomo museum is not to be missed, with its prized possession of the "Gates of Heaven" originally restored in the Baptistery. This museum also has a three-story facade to show the Duomo as it was before the last facade (in 1587). Also expect to see incredible masterpieces like Donatello, Michelangelo and others, including the latter.
. But don't stop at his feet because there are hundreds of other iconic works to see. We recommend spending at least three hours to browse the extensive gallery and see all the details. In addition, the place itself is architecturally impressive: built in the 16th century and designed by the Italian painter Giorgio Vasari, the wide colonnades, curved columns and traditional pediments with interesting works of art inside embedded in the walls blend perfectly.
Why go: Even if you're not the most artistic of artists and even if museums generally annoy you, go see David, the 26-year-old Michelangelo who was carved from an abandoned block of marble 500 years ago. There is something so magnificent about this piece of history that it is a must see even if you stand in line. The ban on indoor photos was recently lifted, which means selfies with David are fine.
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What it is: The famous building in Piazza Signoria that was the city hall of Florence and even the residence of the Medici family.
Why go: Although many people line up next to the Uffizi, most people don't know about the magnificent building next door. The "old palace"—a name derived from the "new palace," Palazzo Pitti, built across the river—is full of beautiful pieces of art and rooms full of frescoes. In this museum, you can see Dante's death mask and even start a tour that will take you to the secret passages built into the palace that make this place look like something out of a storybook. Be sure to climb the tower during your visit. Along the way, you will see the prison cells where the famous Savonarola lived before he was executed in the square in front of the building.
What it is: Chapels built by famous Florentine families that give you everything the Duomo lacks.
Why go: Although the Duomo gets all the fame, Florence's second largest dome is often overlooked – but it shouldn't be. The interior of the famous Duomo is almost nothing after seeing the exterior, but the treasure that is the Medici Chapel will take your breath away. From floor to ceiling, this beauty is covered in marble and jewels that you think only belong in the movies. If you can tear your eyes away from the beautiful frescoes, head to the small chapel for some of the most beautiful sculptures created by Michelangelo. The best part? You can take this place to yourself because it is not usually in the top ten lists.
Florence Museums:main Museums To Visit In Florence,italy
What it is: One of the most amazing and unique museums and collections in Florence, hidden on the outskirts of the city.
Why go: Few people know about the Stibbert museum because of its location outside the city center, but it's a lesser-known gem in Florence that deserves to be discovered. After many years of private collection, Frederick Stibbert donated his villa, gardens and treasures to the city and now you can tour his home and see his displays of armor from the Middle East and Japan, artwork on the walls. and furniture everywhere. a museum with almost no tourists. Standing in the great hall with a perfectly recreated army with their war horses in armor will take your breath away, and the prized possession of the collection has to be Napoleon's coat of arms (yes,
Napoleon) wore it when he was crowned. It is also a great visit for children, as they have a small space for interactive learning.
Why are they going? Get a combined ticket for all eight museums inside this palace and spend a full day traveling to really explore these masterpieces. Explore the costume museum to see the elaborate fabrics worn by the royal family of Florence, learn how they lived in the royal apartments and as you wander through the gardens at Boboli, feel like royalty.
Essential Florence Museums You Need To Visit
What it is: The Bargello itself is the oldest public building in Florence and was the police headquarters hundreds of years ago. Today, it is home to works of art by famous artists such as Donatello.
Why go: Once the scene of executions in Florence, this beautiful building with an open courtyard filled with works of art is carefully distributed between its ancient rooms and halls. Just behind the famous Piazza Signoria, the Bargelloi is often overlooked, but it houses Donatello's version of David, which is very different in its technique from Michelangelo's.
What it is: A private collection of famous antiques donated to the city for the public to view.
Why go: In the beautiful neighborhood of San Niccolò, known for many artists in Florence, the Bardini Museum was created from a private collection, like Stibbert. One of the most unique and fascinating pieces of the 1900s: a rug laid at Hitler's feet when he visited the city in 1938, his shoelaces damaging the fabric that you can still see today. If you have time, be sure to visit the gardens behind the museum as well.
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What it is: A historic palace in the center of the city, known as the House Museum of Florence since the early 1900s.
To see and feel how the Florentines lived before the tourists took to the streets, head to the lesser-known Museo di Palazzo Davanzati. Renovated by another antique in the early 1900s, Davanzati has been decorated as an authentic historic Florentine mansion for centuries past. Here, you can step into history and discover everyday objects that Italians use to surround themselves. Unlike the artworks or sculptures in other museums in Florence, the detail of the decoration is on full display.
Why go: Like Davanzati, Casa Martelli is a museum intended to display a private collection but in a modern era, focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries. This house was still a private residence until 1986 and was not renovated by anyone, so it is one of the last examples of an authentic Florentine house, complete with a beautiful frescoed garden room. You are only allowed to explore the property when you are guided on a tour, which is provided free of charge.
What it is: Florence's largest fashion museum and a must-see for anyone who loves shoes.
The Bargello Museum: A Famous Museum In Florence Italy
Why go: A visit to the famous shoe museum is a must while in Florence. In a palace on the banks of the Arno, this museum built by the Ferragamo family allows all visitors to look inside the mind of Salvatore Ferragamo and how he created his famous shoes. From paintings to wooden models made of individual feet like those of Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn, you will fully appreciate this man's love for fashion while here.
Why go: Although the Medici family's palace is in almost every corner of Florence, many forget to visit their real home built in 1444 just across the road from the Duomo. The building itself has undergone several renovations, though the most recent has returned it to its Medici splendor. The most beautiful rooms are the small theatre
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Mark of the Kyoto workshop Yoshida, reading 大日本 吉田造 京都 (Dai Nippon - Yoshida zô - Kyôto).
The workshop of Yoshida in Kyoto was already active during the early Meiji period, producing bronze jardinières (suiban), vases, gongs and ornaments for both domestic and export markets.
His work was shown at the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia.


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Prudentia: A medical school's solution to curriculum mapping and curriculum management
Carole Steketee, The University of Notre Dame
The School of Medicine (SoM) at the University of Notre Dame Australia has developed a curriculum mapping system called Prudentia. This web-based application allows users to explore curriculum across all four years of the MBBS to determine what and when students are expected to learn, and if there are any anomalies evident within this data. A five-level hierarchical, outcomes-based curriculum framework underpins Prudentia, ranging from the macro Australian Medical Council's Student Outcomes Statements to the micro daily learning objectives. Data in all five levels of the framework can be mapped and constructive alignment between the outcomes, instructional and assessment methods can also be investigated. While Prudentia is a user-friendly application, it is only as good as the curriculum framework which underpins it. This paper discusses the critical questions that were pivotal in developing the SoM's curriculum framework, upon which a robust curriculum mapping system was eventually built.
Steketee, C. (2015). Prudentia: A medical school's solution to curriculum mapping and curriculum management. Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.14453/jutlp.v12i4.9
http://dx.doi.org/10.14453/jutlp.v12i4.9
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LAS VEGAS — Lenovo updated its top-shelf ThinkPad X1 line at CES here, including a new X1 Carbon clamshell, Yoga 2-in-1 and a tablet. The laptop and convertible will be available in January, with the slate following in March.
All three ThinkPad X1 laptops are the first ThinkPads to support Connected Modern Standby mode in Windows 10. That means that they can continue downloading email and other content while they are asleep.
The X1 Carbon, starting at $1,709, is the star of the show, with an upgrade to 8th Gen Intel Core CPUs, a 14-inch, an optional 2560 x 1440 display with Dolby Vision HDR, built-in LTE, Window Hello over a fingerprint reader and infrared camera as well as a ThinkShutter webcam cover for privacy. It will come with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB of PCIe SSD storage. And of course, at 12.7 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches and 2.5 pounds, it's extremely portable, but Lenovo is promising up to 15 hours of battery life.
I really love the subtle touches they made to the Carbon, including new X1 branding mark that shows you have the best of the best. The ThinkPad logo has gone all black, and I think it looks far better than the traditional color one. These two changes are also on the Tablet and the Yoga.
The X1 Yoga 2-in-1 (starting at $1,889) is also getting the boost to 8th Gen Core as well as the same display (albeit a touch screen, but still with Dolby Vision HDR) and RAM and storage options. It's getting the same upgrades as the X1 Carbon, but is slightly larger at 13.1 x 9 x .1 inches.
Lenovo's third-generation X1 Tablet (starting at $1,599) is getting all of the same CPU and storage boosts, but its 13-inch display has a higher resolution of 3000 x 2000. The battery life is lesser, at just 9.5 hours, but the whole thing is compact at 1.9 pounds and 11.5 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches. In my short-hands on, the detachable keyboard held steadier while typing, but we'll see how that holds up to long-term testing.
All three screens looked stunning, but I was partial to the Dolby Vision HDR displays with crisp, detailed imagery.
We'll test all three of these machines when they show up in our lab soon.


In addition, the action of the play created challenges requiring a long list of special effects that furthered the impression of realism established by the design of the set. The technical crew, a larger group than the cast, entered new territory with the running of this show, which required precision in both communication and execution. Not only did this group help to create the set and learn to operate the most complex series of preset props and special effects, they did it using state of the art equipment, following the protocols of a professionally managed theater production. This was accomplished with the help of North Carolina School of the Arts graduate Adam Woolley, the coordinating stage manager. There were 5 assistant stage managers in the show, each with individual responsibilities, plus two student sound- and- lighting technicians.
Rick Barron, our Technical Director, and set designer Larry Lawlor, essentially built the bare bones of a real apartment, even including some plumbing and electricity. More than one adult on seeing the set for the first time commented that this was an apartment they had once lived in.
Prop master Sandy Klein, and Assistant Stage Manager Rosa Palmeri (responsible, additionally, for overseeing the presetting of the set each night) spent hours appointing the rooms with 60's style furnishings, as well as filling out the kitchen counters, cabinets, and even the refrigerator with the items necessary to create a realistic impression of a small apartment kitchen of the time.
Several students and staff were involved in the painting of the set, from the faux bricks and linoleum, to both simple and complex painting of cabinets, and the raw wood grain of the living room settee with a special technique called "graining". Sam Grubinger was the painter and sculptor of Roat's special knife as well as the settee. Noted book illustrator John Gurney painted the brownstones of a city street (seen, just barely, through the windows of the kitchen) over a Guys and Dolls panel. He used photographs of real brownstones scenic designer Larry Lawlor shot in a visit to 87th and 1st Ave. NYC.
In the opening scene and throughout the play we see, through the windows, that it is raining outside. Each of the characters, therefore, gets misted with water before entering. Using a complex recycling of water, in a closed fountain type system, the windows also appear to drip with rain. The water leaks through a PVC pipe pierced with holes, and runs down into a slanted trough that goes to a barrel from whence the water is pumped back up to the pipe.
In the second scene of the play a fire starts in the ashtray. Set off by a wireless remote control signal, this special effect was one of the most difficult to adjust so that it would be convincing to the audience. The signal sets off the burning by sending an electric charge through a copper wire which ignites a bit of smoke powder. In the beginning there was too much smoke powder and it created a mini explosion of smoke like a genie emerging from a bottle, instead of the slow wafting of smoke from a cigarette catching paper on fire. The first night the audience actually laughed hilariously, which spoiled the serious atmosphere of the scene. After that it was adjusted and worked as intended. An important cue, that motivates the action onstage, it had to be re-set carefully by one of the stage managers after each run of the show.
Since Sam, the husband in the play, is a photographer, a completely convincing darkroom had to be set up in the room: pans, chemicals, an enlarger and actual photographs to be dipped in the "developing fluid" each show. Deb Lazar printed the photos on waterproof canvas so they could be reused.
Even the hall and the bedroom, seen only when the doors are open, had to be furnished and lit.
There was an old fashioned turntable in the room that really played during the show, as well as an old rotary phone that rang on cue—one of the most vital of cues to the plot.
At one point the young character Gloria has to smash all the light bulbs in the hall. To create the sound of breaking bulbs, Max Peyton had to break real bulbs on cue, that is, at the direction of Eliza Rosen. Eliza, connected by five recently purchased headsets to all the tech crew, initiated or "called" all of the cues of the play: Max and Jack backstage, Isaiah in the sound booth and Daphne at the lighting panel. " Cue 23, Go!...Cue 24… Go!, etc.
The most difficult cue to time comes at the end of the play when Roat throws his knife at Susy. Since he can't really, in the dark, throw a knife at her, he fakes the throw and then at the right moment another knife, spring- loaded in the wall, thuds realistically- if the timing is right- out of a photograph. This, and all of the other special effects, were designed, built and rigged by our Managing Director and Resident Lighting Designer, Jerry Stockman.
The wall sconces, overhead lights, the gooseneck lamp in the darkroom and especially the light in the refrigerator were important cues in the plotline. There were 48 circuits wired into the stage area plus three extra portable dimmer packs to cover the extra lights. Each lighting instrument had to be selected then hung, cabled, plugged into dimmers, assigned to channels, fitted with appropriate colored filters, and focused (aimed at its target). Much of the lighting design was motivated by the fixtures on the set: wall sconces, bedroom light, etc. Other lights were positioned to create ambient light so as to cover the action evenly. In addition, there was special effect lighting: the enlarger, the refrigerator, and the street lights outside the windows. In all of this the designer had to consider the emotional values imparted by the different colors and intensities of light.
The complexity of this show meant that four dress rehearsals were needed to work through many of the possible mistakes in cueing the special effects.
Each of the assistant stage managers had a long list of presets to accomplish, check and recheck out of the wreck the stage was in at the end of the show.
Truly, the success of this show was due in large measure to the dedication of its technical crew.


What's Causing Your Well's Low Water Pressure?
It's happened before. You're doing the dishes and someone turns on the shower, causing both sources of water to lose pressure, and even spurt air at times. This can be one of the most frustrating and inconvenient problems that a well owner can have: so how does it even happen in the first place? There are a few main causes that we'd like to educate you about.
The simplest cause for low water pressure can be something as simple as a clogged and eroded faucet aerator, so if you have one "problem faucet" in particular, check this out first. Use a flashlight and see what you can find. Luckily, aerators can be cleaned simply with vinegar.
Also, it's not unlikely that your pressure switch could be set too low. Increase the pressure if you can; don't increase it too much, though, because your well system might not be able to take a sharp spike in pressure. Consult your well's installer for advice on your system and what pressure level it should have.
Another major factor is the age of your well pump. An aging or worn-out well pump could be at the root of your low water flow issue.
Finally, perhaps the biggest culprit for low well water pressure is a clog caused by loose sediment that comes from deep inside your well. Sediment often finds its way into the valves, gauges, pipes, and filters in a well system. This is because your water source has a particular geological makeup that varies in cleanliness, and often comes from hundreds of feet below your home. Very often, well water pressure issues are related to a buildup of sediment one way or another.
With the holiday season upon us, and there being no shortage of family members and house guests who are likely to be using your faucets, toilets, and showers, remember that Goold Wells & Pumps offers expert solutions for low water pressure in your home. Reach us today in Valatie and surrounding areas!


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Hans Lintner (* 13. Januar 1951 in Schwaz) ist ein österreichischer Politiker (ÖVP). Er war von 1997 bis 2022 Bürgermeister der Stadt Schwaz.

Ausbildung und Beruf
Lintner war zwischen 1974 und 1980 Lehrer an der HAK Wörgl und 1977 bis 1998 Lehrerbilder der RPA Schwaz. 1980 wechselte er an die HAK Schwaz, wo er bis 2009 unterrichtete.

Politik und Funktionen
Lintner wurde 1992 Kulturreferent der Stadt Schwaz und 1997 zum Bürgermeister der Stadt Schwaz gewählt. Zusätzlich übernahm er von 2009 bis 2013 die Funktion des amtsführenden Präsidenten des Landesschulrates von Tirol.

2004 bis 2011 war Lintner AAB Bezirksobmann.

Auszeichnungen
 Sportehrenzeichen des Landes Tirol

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Hans Lintner auf den Seiten der Stadt Schwaz

Bürgermeister (Schwaz)
ÖVP-Mitglied
Österreicher
Geboren 1951
Mann
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Apex Legends fans have found more images of the rumored new character Revenant
By Andy Chalk published 24 January 20
Forge was announced yesterday, but he may not be the only new Legend coming in Season 4.
(Image credit: Electronic Arts)
EA and Respawn revealed yesterday that the new character coming in season 4 of Apex Legends is a big, Doomfist-looking brawler named Forge. That may have come as a bit of a surprise to fans of the game: Our October 2019 report on "what we know about the next Apex Legend" was all about a completely different character named Revenant. It's based entirely on leaks and rumors, and sometimes these things just don't pan out, but as unsubstantiated stories go it looked pretty solid.
Still, Forge. Look at that burly boy.
But wait! Revenant may still be lurking. This image posted to Reddit (via USgamer) was found stashed away on the EA Answers website. Interestingly, even though the very official-looking picture has been floating around for several hours now, EA has yet to take it down.
Another redditor, VonHollde, found another maybe-Revenant-hinting image in the background of yesterday's season 4 blog post. This one is a lot more tenuous to my eye, and a redditor named runchild made an animated version that, to be frank, doesn't convince me at all. I suspect that Revenant's presence in that muddled image depends largely on how much you want to see it.
That said, it looks an awful lot like Revenant will be joining the party at some point. Respawn and EA aren't shy about drawn-out teases for new characters—it took months for Crypto to go from rumor to real boy—and it's perfectly possible that they'll drop both characters in season 4, and not just Forge.
I've reached out to EA for more information, which I don't imagine will be forthcoming, but I live in hope. Meanwhile, you can catch up with everything that has been officially announced for Apex Legends Season 4, which begins on February 4, right here.


Made to resemble a classic tartan kilt with some modern upgrades, the Sinclair Tartan Kilt is an excellent way to add contemporary appeal to your kilt ensemble. It features red as its dominant color, both in the cherry red lines and the dark crimson ones as well. At the intersection of each of these thick lines are dark green squares to accent them. At the corners, you will also note tiny light blue squares. A thin white line runs through the pattern to provide a bit of separation and accent. These kilts are completely made to order.


The 2015 NIS Show Season came to an end on 6 September 2015 – it has been a fantastic season with really high turn outs and stiff competition.
We would like to thank all the KC Judges who independently judged our shows (and had a very tough job doing so!), our sponsors and everyone who attended to make it another successfully year. Congratulations to all the winners and to every who attended – you took the best dog home! We look forward to seeing you next year!
Show results and pictures can be found here.
Lexie and Dave run for charity.
Northern Inuits win at other dog shows.
Raising money for the NIS rescue at MDTC fun show.