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Explore. Rescue. Protect! "Octonauts" announced a brand new, action-packed and interactive theatre show for the very first time in the U.S. The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure features brand new and fan favorite songs led by the entire Octonauts eight-member crew including Captain Barnacles, Lieutenant Kwazii and Medic Peso, as they invite audiences aboard an underwater quest through a world full of adventure, interactivity, and tons of sea life surprises. The tour will head coast-to-coast visiting more than 60 cities including Atlanta on November 29, 2016 at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure is a high-tech production featuring costume characters and animated projections to a massive screen on stage. "We are thrilled for kids and families to see Octonauts come to life on stage," said Amy Koudelka, SVP of Product Development and Brands, Silvergate Media. "The Octonauts and the Deep Sea Volcano Adventure is an opportunity for Octo-Cadets to be a real part of the action."
The tour comes on the heels of new Octonauts episodes premiering throughout the year on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. Seasons one, two and three are also available on Netflix, and the first ever Octonauts 4D movie adventure is coming later this year.
"We are calling on all cadets and their families across the country to assist our very dynamic team of adventure heroes on their fast-paced, exciting underwater adventure," says Jonathan Shank, executive producer at Red Light Management. "This stage show is packed with sing-a-longs. Audiences can expect a high level of interactivity with their favorite characters on stage."
The Octonauts will be the official mascots for World Oceans Day, June 8 at participating zoos, aquariums and museums. In addition, many new Octonauts products continue to roll out as part of key licensing deals with Fisher Price, Penguin, Ncircle and Leapfrog.
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By News Staff | December 5th 2007 09:00 PM | Print | E-mail
Images from NASA-funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.
Data from the Hinode satellite shows that magnetic waves play a critical role in driving the solar wind into space. The solar wind is a stream of electrically charged gas that is propelled away from the sun in all directions at speeds of almost 1 million miles per hour. Better understanding of the solar wind may lead to more accurate prediction of damaging radiation waves before they reach satellites. Findings by American-led international teams of researchers appeared in the Dec. 7 issue of the journal SCIENCE.
This image clearly shows an x-ray jet launching plasma out into the solar system from the sun's north polar coronal hole. This image was taken January 10, 2007 by Hinode's X-ray telescope. Image credit: SAO/NASA/JAXA/NAOJ
How the solar wind is formed and powered has been the subject of debate for decades. Powerful magnetic Alfvén waves in the electrically charged gas near the sun have always been a leading candidate as a force in the formation of solar wind since Alfvén waves in principle can transfer energy from the sun's surface up through its atmosphere, or corona, into the solar wind.
In the solar atmosphere, Alfvén waves are created when convective motions and sound waves push magnetic fields around, or when dynamic processes create electrical currents that allow the magnetic fields to change shape or reconnect.
"Until now, Alfvén waves have been impossible to observe because of limited resolution of available instruments," said Alexei Pevtsov, Hinode program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington. "With the help of Hinode, we are now able to see direct evidence of Alfvén waves, which will help us unravel the mystery of how the solar wind is powered."
Using Hinode's high resolution X-ray telescope, a team led by Jonathan Cirtain, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., was able to peer low into the corona at the sun's poles and observe record numbers of X-ray jets. The jets are fountains of rapidly moving hot plasma. Previous research detected only a few jets daily.
With Hinode's higher sensitivity, Cirtain's team observed an average of 240 jets per day. They conclude that magnetic reconnection, a process where two oppositely charged magnetic fields collide and release energy, is frequently occurring in the low solar corona. This interaction forms both Alfvén waves and the burst of energized plasma in X-ray jets.
"These observations show a clear relationship between magnetic reconnection and Alfvén wave formation in the X-ray jets." said Cirtain. "The large number of jets, coupled with the high speeds of the outflowing plasma, lends further credence to the idea that X-ray jets are a driving force in the creation of the fast solar wind."
Another research team led by Bart De Pontieu, a solar physicist at Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., focused on the sun's chromosphere, the region sandwiched between the solar surface and its corona. Using extremely high-resolution images from Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope, De Pontieu's team found that the chromosphere is riddled with Alfvén waves. When the waves leak into the corona, they are strong enough to power the solar wind.
"We find that most of these Alfvén waves have periods of several minutes, much longer than many theoretical models have assumed in the past," says De Pontieu. Comparisons with advanced computer simulations from the University of Oslo, Norway, indicate that reconnection is not the only source of the Alfvén waves. "The simulations imply that many of the waves occur when the sun's magnetic field is jostled around by convective motions and sound waves in the low atmosphere," continued De Pontieu.
Hinode was launched in September 2006 to study the sun's magnetic field and how its explosive energy propagates through the different layers of the solar atmosphere. It is a collaborative mission with NASA and the space agencies of Japan, the United Kingdom, Norway and Europe and Japan's National Astronomical Observatory. Marshall manages science operations and managed the development of the scientific instrumentation provided for the mission by NASA, industry and other federal agencies. The Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, Calif., is the lead U.S. investigator for the Solar Optical Telescope. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. is the lead U.S. investigator for the X-Ray Telescope.
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South Florida Police Task Force under Money Laundering Federal Investigation
January 20, 2016 | Michael B. Cohen, P.A.
Some would say that the exclusive island village of Bal Harbour, Florida doesn't even need a police department. With a population of just more than 2,500 residents; as of the latest census, the town's crime rate is minimal in comparison to other parts of Miami-Dade County. In addition to its permanent residents, Bal Harbour boasts close to fifteen percent of Miami's overall tourism (as of 2014), with luxury hotels such as The Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis as well as the world class luxury Bal Harbour Shops, Bal Harbour Beach and Haulover Beach Park.
The latest statistics show a total of two violent crimes included in the one assault and robbery that occurred, with the rate of murders and rape exhibiting at zero. There were only two vehicle thefts last year which amounts to a miniscule percentage when compared to the overall incidents of motor vehicle theft in the entire county of Miami-Dade. Complete crime statistics can be found by clicking here.
So it may seem odd that a small police agency in a town facing little crime would concoct a plan to take on the world's most treacherous drug cartels. But in a partnership with the Glades County Sheriff's Office that's exactly what they did. Or did they?
After developing their own 12-member task force, the combined entity cultivated arrangements with criminal enterprises throughout the United States in what blossomed into the largest undercover money-laundering investigation by a state law enforcement outfit in years. The wrinkle in their plan was that the supposed sting operations were commenced without letting federal authorities in on what they were doing.
During a three-year period as the second decade of the twenty-first century began, the task force cut deals with drug cartels and organizations across the country, sending drug dealer's money to Venezuela for laundering, involving at least twenty people there, including men associated with the Hugo Chávez administration as well as the current Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's regime.
In early 2012, the Department came under scrutiny when the feds took notice of their "sting" operations. Soon afterward an investigation was commenced.
After the Justice Department Office of Inspector General released its initial report that slammed the department for wrongdoing, the first casualty became Bal Harbour police Chief Thomas Hunker who was suspended for professional misconduct in December, 2012. At the time, Hunker who had been police chief since 2003, supposedly asked to be placed on administrative leave to ensure the integrity of an outside law enforcement agency's investigation which was launched after the report was disseminated. Bal Harbour's Mayor did not return repeated calls from the press to comment on the suspension.
However, the report also cited many allegations against Hunker including receiving gifts from various individuals who may have benefitted from his influence and other instances of quid pro quo.
It was at that time that the Justice Department began looking into the Bal Harbour Police Department's management of millions of dollars netted from laundering money from drug dealers as part of their ongoing investigations of various criminal networks, most if not all of them performed outside of Florida.
Further probing by the outside law enforcement investigation found that the department allegedly misspent funds that were seized from "supposed" drug arrests that added up to millions of dollars. The charges included allegations of police and detectives spending close to $24,000 on luxury car rentals, purchasing first class plane tickets and other questionable expenses during "their" undercover investigations including paying for officers' salaries. The group was also accused of making large payments to informants throughout the country that at the time amounted to nearly $625,000. The paid informants supposedly tipped off the cops about promising lucrative busts that could be made across the country.
None of these laundering activities were ever revealed to the federal government.
Felix Jimenez, former chief inspector of the DEA was quoted as saying "They had no authority to do what they were doing… They were just lucky that when they were picking up all this money, nobody got killed.
As of the beginning of the New Year (2016), the federal investigation continues, handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago. The total amount of money involved in the laundering investigation is $55.6 Million. The latest figure alleged to have been pocketed by the joint task force, taken from criminal enterprises stands at $2.4 million and resulted with no arrests whatsoever.
According to former DEA agent, Dennis Fitzgerald "They were like bank robbers with badges… It had no law enforcement objective. The objective was to make money."
Further questions arose regarding a pool of funds that was never examined by federal investigators until an audit of an account held at SunTrust Bank was identified. The account was used to deposit and send cash by the undercover task force.
According to federal documents connected to the investigation, the task force wired funds on numerous occasions and continually funneled cash out of the country to be laundered before it was brought back in.
"…the police violated strict federal bans on sending illegal money overseas," according to a law enforcement consultant close to the investigation.
The federal investigation continues. Check back here for further updates.
To read a full analysis of the ongoing story, see The Miami Herald's six-part investigative series named "License to launder" by clicking here.
Money laundering is a federal crime which is punishable with stiff fines and penalties as well as lengthy prison sentences upon a conviction. With close to forty years in the legal field working as an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting cases for the government and for the past fifteen years practicing as a criminal defense attorney in South Florida, my law office is dedicated to the defense of all federal criminal charges and is the proper choice to fight allegations when accused by the federal government.
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Safe Phone Zones are one proposal that could perhaps help reduce the number of distracted driving accidents throughout Charlotte. Safe Phone Zones are strategically located on highways and make it easy for drivers to pull over and access their phones. These safe areas are at rest areas and other safe places along the highway.
The goal of Safe Phone Zones is to encourage drivers to pull off the road before trying to use their phone. Motorists who use rest areas reportedly have reduced the number of nationwide motor vehicle accidents by 37.3 percent, providing a $148 million net benefit to society because there are no lost wages, medical expenses, or other costs. A personal injury lawyer knows that approaches like Safe Phone Zones recognize that people are always going to want to talk or text while driving and try to make it safer and easier to do that rather than fighting against people's nature.
Public education and law enforcement crackdowns are two other approaches to take to try to prevent distracted driving accidents in Charlotte and throughout the country. Both of these approaches are part of National Distracted Driving Month, which takes place in April.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that this year's campaign is called U Drive. U. Text. U Pay. As part of the campaign, motorists will be provided with public service announcements and public information about risks associated with texting and other distracted driving behaviors. Police will also be aggressively patrolling and issuing citations to motorists who violate laws prohibiting texting or limiting other electronic device use.
When there are national campaigns like this one, it falls to local law enforcement to actually do the enforcing part of the campaign. Unfortunately, Politico writes that this may be an issue since there is not enough money being made available in most situations to pay for enough police to do the necessary additional enforcement.
The Governors' Highway Safety Association (GHSA) has lamented that without the funding to step up enforcement, the campaign ends up being "all bark and no bite," and thus does not reinforce to motorists the message that texting behind the wheel is likely to lead to a ticket, citation, and fine.
There are also ongoing concerns about whether states have enough direction, and enough federal money, to effectively enforce distracted driving rules under the new Grow America plan that has been put forth by the Obama Administration. There are strict and narrow rules that are used to determine if states get money for distracted driving enforcement and the GHSA believes that Grow America should do more to address these regulations.
Enforcing distracted driving laws and preventing distracted driving can be complicated because of driver resistance and because there are different approaches to take. Drivers ultimately have the responsibility to take the simplest step to prevent distracted driving: don't use your phone or pay attention to anything other than the road.


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Jimmie Reed (left) and Jimmy Duran stand in front of 26 Maplewood Mall, before it was transformed into a coffee shop, during happier times. (Neema Roshania/WHYY)
Jimmie and Jimmy have parted ways.
The business partners who worked together to build Little Jimmie's Bakery Café in Mt. Airy and Little Jimmie's Coffee Roasters on Maplewood Mall in Germantown have severed their professional relationship.
Jimmie Reed will continue to run his location at 6669 Germantown Ave. with a new coffee vendor and will move forward with his new site, Little Jimmie's Bake House at 6620 Germantown Ave.
Jimmy Duran will be sole owner of the location at 26 Maplewood Mall.
Reed said the two "decided we wanted to do different things." Duran said it was matter of differing expectations.
Reed, who had previously been the manager of a Chipotle's franchise, opened Little Jimmie's in 2011. It quickly became a social and economic anchor of that section of Germantown Avenue, drawing raves from patrons and community leaders.
The Jimmy and Jimmie relationship began in Nov. 2013 when Duran became Reed's primary coffee supplier at the Mt. Airy café, providing a high-quality product from Duran's homeland, the Dominican Republic.
Duran also was intrigued by the new vision for Maplewood Mall, which will undergo a $2.2 million redesign. He asked Reed to become a partner and bring his business model to the Germantown location.
Little Jimmie's Coffee Roasters opened on the Mall last March, but customers and neighbors realized something was amiss when the location closed temporarily in August.
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According to Duran, Reed expected him to have more involvement in the daily operations of the new café.
"But I'm not a day-to-day operations person," Duran said. "I was focused on growth, not on other aspects."
Duran also claimed he invested $38,000 in the new business, and expected Reed to carry a share of that investment.
Reed, however, did not meet "his commitment for the money," Duran claimed.
"It turned into a tug of war," Duran said. "When I asked him sign a promissory note, he asked to sever the partnership."
A $5,000 loan Duran received with support from the city Department of Commerce and the local community development corporation was returned.
"We decided for the sake of the brand and our own benefit, it was best to return it," Duran said.
Duran is currently looking for a new operator for the Maplewood Mall café, which may be renamed after his coffee supply company, Verde Imports.
"By the end of this month, I want to have something going in there," he said.
Of his partnership with Reed, he added, "Nothing is ever perfect in business. We tried to make it work, but it didn't."
Reed had no comment on the investment agreement at Maplewood Mall when contacted by NewsWorks this week.
"We grew apart," Reed said. "The bottom line is [that] we both agreed it was best for us to go our separate ways. It's a very nice space, and I wish the best for him."
Reed may be back with a location in Germantown in the future.
"I've been in the Germantown area for 17 years, and I care about it not just for an investment, but for what's best for the community," he said.
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In 1963, Timothy Leary, the high priest of LSD, anointed a German author, Hermann Hesse, the 'poet of the interior journey'. Hesse had died a year earlier, at the age of 85. But the novels he left behind, Leary declared in The Psychedelic Review, were a 'priceless manual' for navigating the acid trip.
Literature is full of weird afterlives. Franz Kafka died in 1924 believing that his manuscripts would be burnt. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) was originally a flop. But the 1960s embrace of Hesse ranks with the weirdest of them all. He never visited the United States. He didn't speak Englisch. His only drug was red wine. But by 1968, as Der Spiegel observed, the hippies had pulled this fading writer 'out of the doldrums'. Hesse went on to become the bestselling German author of the 20th century, and sits below only the Brothers Grimm and Karl Marx as the most translated German writer of recent decades.
Hesse's work was attuned to a youth culture animated by an amorphous desire for a breakthrough in consciousness precisely because such a desire gripped him throughout his entire life. Many of us are familiar with this desire; it animates almost every young person, in one way or another. But managing it wisely can be a challenge, and Hesse, in his life and work, constitutes a study in the double-edged sword of dwelling on one's inner worlds.
Hermann Karl Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, a pretty town on the edge of Germany's Black Forest. His family were devout Pietists, devoted to the study of the Bible and the Christian life. His father published books with titles such as The Heathens and Us.
Hesse had a grim adolescence. His mother deemed his early poems 'poison' because, she felt, they displayed an interest in the sinful world of man, rather than God. His teachers, judging him to be 'full of febrile thoughts and excessive emotions', were severe. He kept running away from school and began threatening to find a revolver and shoot himself. At 14, he was committed to an asylum. A loathing of institutions, as well as a profound emotional turbulence, would stay with Hesse throughout his life.
And so long as you haven't experienced
This: to die and so to grow,
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On the dark earth.
So wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Germany's William Shakespeare, and Hesse's first literary idol. As a young author, Hesse was drawn to Goethe's focus on the interior life and Romanticism's focus on 'the secret wellsprings of the soul'. He was also 'enthralled by Nietzsche' and his concept of the Übermensch – the being who could embrace the death of God and thrive in pure self-directedness. Foreshadowing the hippies, Hesse wondered if spiritual renewal might emerge out of the ancient mists of the East. He pored over the Buddha's dissections of human consciousness, and the gnomic wisdom of Lao Tzu. By 1900, at the age of 23, Hesse had firmly arrived at what he regarded as the path to psychic flourishing: 'greater profundity through internalisation'.
Life's problems aren't there to be cleanly solved, Jung had explained
In 1916 – after avoiding the First World War's trenches thanks to his poor eyesight – Hesse met Josef Bernhard Lang, a psychoanalyst and devotee of Carl Jung. Lang was something of an oddball, with his own significant psychological issues and a penchant for astrology and the occult. But the two men became friends; over the following decades, they wrote countless letters to one another. Through Lang, Hesse took to Jung's theories immediately. He liked Jung's focus on a web of inner symbols forged in childhood, and his notion of a submerged realm of the personality called 'the shadow'. Shortly after discovering Jung, in a letter, Hesse reiterated his outlook on life: 'my sole interest is in the internal'.
Hesse's influences shared a belief in the power of individual subjectivity. This gave Hesse a singular, unwavering focus that remained unchanged over decades of novels: the self. More accurately, Hermann Hesse's self. The author liked to refer to his novels as 'soul biographies'. Writing, he declared, was 'a long, varied, and tortuous route, whose aim is to express the personality of the artist's Self', until that Self is 'ultimately unwrapped and laid bare, ransacked and all spent'.
Hesse's abiding core theme means that his novels have a repetitive pattern. All of them feature a male protagonist whose overflowing self is at odds with the dull, workaday expectations of mainstream society. All have encounters with one or more wise sages. They become isolated and are impelled to embark on journeys of self-discovery – journeys that require them to confront the conflicts embedded deep in their psyches. The forces fighting these conflicts always have the thick air of Jungian archetypes. In Steppenwolf (1927), one of Hesse's most-read novels, the protagonist's inner life 'oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands'.
In 1921, Hesse underwent two spells of therapy with Jung himself. In his diary, he recorded some advice that the renowned analyst gave him. Life's problems aren't there to be cleanly solved, Jung had explained; each of them is 'a pair of opposites, that between them produce a tension that is called life'. This tempting, elusive bit of wisdom is what all of Hesse's protagonists discover, and then attempt to integrate. By dwelling on the totality of their inner worlds intensely enough and for long enough, they move toward the promised land of what is called 'self-realisation' in Hesse's earlier novel Demian (1919). They can finally see themselves – all of themselves. As a result, they understand how to live.
Even if you've never read a word of his novels, the appeal of Hesse to 1960s readers should be obvious. He loathed teachers and the rat race, he liked nudism and trees. But it's more than that: to Hesse, as the scholar Ingo Cornils writes, 'the individual self' was 'the repository of the divine and the only institution we are accountable to'. Hesse's novels hold out the very 1960s promise that, by shunning social injunctions and dedicating ourselves to vivid inner explorations, we can break through to a psychic rebirth. The plots of his novels often climax with the protagonist experiencing a searing and hallucinogenic metamorphosis – much like the one that Leary wanted to extend to all Americans, via the acid tab.
Demian tells the story of a young man, Emil Sinclair, who drops out of mainstream society. Inspired by the enigmatic musings of the sagelike Max Demian, he attempts to throw off bourgeois values and uncover a path to self-realisation. His search takes him through various forms of psychological mysticism. A recent Penguin edition of Demian features a foreword by the actor James Franco, who recalls dropping out of university aged 19 to pursue his dream of acting. Amid doubts, Demian assured Franco that he had taken 'another step away from a conformist life' and towards 'a life that resonated with my ideals'.
Over the decades, Demian has had a similar animating effect on countless other readers. Sinclair is inspired by Demian to reject 'the herd instinct' and be 'utterly faithful to the active seed of nature within him'. Keeping this faith requires that Sinclair reject all that has come before, and pull a dazzling, Nietzschean new thing out of the fire. Every great artistic mind is touched by this urge. It is easy to see why many heroes of the counterculture (including the guitarist Carlos Santana) read Demian as a manifesto.
In Siddhartha (1922) – one of the most popular novels ever written about Buddhism – the eponymous protagonist seeks an enlightened way of life. Wandering through ancient India, he experiments with both spartan asceticism and luxurious hedonism. Eventually, he finds spiritual wisdom by contemplating the flow of a great river. Siddhartha is gentler than Demian, but it carries the same spirit. Pursuing enlightenment, Siddhartha cannot even submit to the teachings of the Buddha himself. 'Wisdom,' he says, 'is not communicable'; it is only discoverable. 'A true seeker,' he declares, 'could not accept any teachings.' Siddhartha's restless seeking ends when the flow of the river reveals to him that – behind the veil of Maya, behind the illusory nature of all dualities – there exists a 'unity of all things'.
Siddhartha has sent who knows how many backpackers to India. I have a sharp memory of reading the novel's final chapters while sunset waned over a beach in Kerala. The mosquitoes were eating me alive but I needed to know how Siddhartha had done it. (I liked the idea that the hedonism could be enlightening, and was less keen on the asceticism thing.) Barely out of my teens, mine was the same urge as the counterculture's: to uncover some transcendent and technicolour truth that everyone else was too lifeless to care about, and have it set my soul ablaze.
Down in the weird waters of consciousness, it is only ourselves who can go wading through our selves
Hesse is not a great stylist. His prose is plain. His novels are ponderous, thinly plotted, often didactic, occasionally corny, and entirely without humour. But none of this really matters, because what has drawn decades of readers to Hesse is not his writing, but his advocacy of the self-realisation project. The idea that Hesse's books are a manual for inner discovery has long been their core appeal – an appeal that means his novels persist as half literature, and half self-help. Yes, you will still find Hesse on the shelves of many a refined bookstore, a row or two below his hero, Goethe. But you will also find him mixed in with Paulo Coelho and Kahlil Gibran in those small and incense-dim bookshops where you headbutt a dreamcatcher while trying to find some cash in your pocket.
In their best moments, Hesse's novels contain glimpses of real wisdom. For example: he perceived, accurately, that most of us stumble from adolescence into adulthood in possession of selves that are half-formed, unexamined and buffeted by the winds of the world. Though nowadays Jungian analysis carries a pungent whiff of pseudoscience, the inner chambers of the self remain a place where the searchlight of science begins to dim and flicker. Down in the weird waters of consciousness, it is only ourselves who can go wading through our selves. Hesse communicated clearly the value of sharpening our powers of self-perception. And his unwavering commitment to the individual mind, all forms of collectivism be damned, inoculated him against both the 'phony-patriotic psychosis' of the First World War, and 'that stupid ass Hitler'.
Perhaps, above all, Hesse's preoccupation with the shadow remains valuable. In Steppenwolf, the protagonist Harry Haller is drawn to the comforts of a bourgeois existence. But he also loathes 'this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity'. Alienated from society and suicidally dejected, Haller begins to accept those parts of himself that, previously, he couldn't bring himself to examine. His bitterness starts to fade. This journey mirrors that of all Hesse protagonists. Whenever they manage a psychic breakthrough, it results from confronting, unflinchingly, their shadow – those corners of their being that are dark, shameful and cruel.
Much modern self-improvement comes down to various forms of pampering, but Hesse's novels remind us that the real work involves squaring up to the bits of ourselves that we want to ignore. 'When we hate someone we are hating something that is within ourselves, in his image,' reads a line in Demian. Every Hesse protagonist learns the truth that knowing thyself can sting.
And yet, the legacy of Hesse's unwavering self-regard reveals the very thing that his characters dedicate their lives to demolishing: a duality. There exists a long and circular debate over whether a person's ideas can be divorced from how they lived. For most non-academic readers, they can't, or at least not fully. It matters that Jean-Jacques Rousseau tried to teach readers about compassion, having abandoned his five children to an orphanage. It matters that George Orwell wrote about the dangers of totalitarianism, and then went to Spain to fight fascism with his own two hands. And in the case of an author who dedicated his career to penning a string of 'soul biographies', it seems reasonable to ask: did those thousands of hours of intense self-scrutiny yield some sort of significant change in that author's real life?
Unfortunately, what Hesse's biographer Gunnar Decker described as the author's 'boundless egotism' never waned. A large proportion of Hesse's letters are occupied by entitled ruminations and a pervasive short-temperedness. According to Decker in Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow (2018), Hesse was often 'unable to stand anyone being near him'. Any time a practical thing was required of him, it registered with Hesse as an imposition from a mediocre world that was forever trying to thwart the pressing task of his self-realisation. Hesse headed off for a weeks-long 'rest cure' every year, regardless of whether the people in his life could have used his help. He railed against material trappings, but constantly tapped up his Swiss patrons to help pay the bills.
Hesse's treatment of the people who cared about him was consistently callous. A few weeks after the birth of his third son, he was on a passenger liner bound for the Orient, off to pursue self-realisation while his stressed, depressed wife took care of the newborn. Hesse was so perpetually irritated by his third wife that they communicated via 'house-letters' so that the silence of the author's study was never disturbed. Hesse's constant gaslighting, angry outbursts and moody silences helped tip her toward suicidal depression. In the mid-1940s, Hesse bombarded his publisher, Peter Suhrkamp, with complaints about delays. Suhrkamp had a decent excuse for the delays: following 10 months in concentration camps, he was suffering from repeated paralysis of both his legs and from recurrent bouts of pneumonia. But speaking of the artistic doubts that had been plaguing him in his rural corner of war-less Switzerland, Hesse told Suhrkamp that 'you can have no idea of the hell that I have been living in'.
Hesse's growth was a sort of mirror. It never cared to engage the wider world
I know it can register as a bit unseemly, this picking over a man's private conduct, long after he has died. This isn't meant as some cheap call-out. Hesse is hardly the first artist to be guilty of narcissism or immaturity. He is certainly not the first man to mistreat the women in his life. And he likely possessed what we would today classify as some form of bipolar disorder.
But the record of Hesse's conduct in the world begs the question: what was it all for? Generations of readers have been fired up by his conviction that we need to examine our inner selves, and evolve, and transform. However, Hesse seems to have remained remarkably unchanged throughout his entire adult life. A self-obsessed curmudgeon in 1900; a self-obsessed curmudgeon in 1960. A person can be however he wants, but this is an author who had essentially one theme: personal growth.
For Hesse, this growth doesn't appear to have conferred on him any responsibilities to the wider world. Indeed, though his individualism shielded his mind from the pull of Nazi groupthink, it also didn't inspire him to any acts of resistance. Through the years of butchering, Hesse cultivated a 'politics of detachment'. He made some careful gestures, such as reviewing Jewish authors. But his actions were timid enough that his novels evaded the Reich censors until 1943. Fellow German authors condemned Hesse for refusing to openly criticise the Nazis, and for seeing out the war in the 'aristocratic seclusion' of rural Switzerland. Georg Bernhard, editor of a leading Nazi opposition newspaper in France, called Hesse a 'fig-leaf for the Third Reich'.
Would I have been braver? I'd like to think so, though I can't know for sure. The point is that all of Hesse's growth was a sort of mirror. It never cared to engage the wider world. Above all, Hesse just wanted to be left alone. In 1943, he was working on The Glass Bead Game, a serene, utopian sci-fi novel that venerates the art of devoted self-development. That year, with Europe a fiery slaughterhouse, he told his son that the novel-in-progress offered him 'a totally pristine world which I could inhabit, completely free of all immediate concerns'.
'Only one kōan matters,' wrote Ikkyū, a 15th-century Zen poet: 'You.' Hesse would have agreed, and his life and work offer us a study of devoted self-regard.
To a degree, Ikkyū is right. If you remain too much of a mystery to yourself, you will rebound and ricochet through life with no sense of how the thing you call you is producing your life. Hesse was a passionate advocate of brutal self-examination, and for that his work remains valuable.
We would all do well to coax out our shadow, to try to spark whatever inner alchemy we're capable of. The hippies believed that there was something in them, glittering, waiting to be unleashed. They found a kindred spirit in Hesse. Hesse grabbed me too, when I was 19 and late to the hippie party – when I thought that the right combination of guitar solos, magic mushrooms and earnest journalling would any moment coalesce into the big abracadabra, and there would be no more secrets, no more ticking clocks.
But ultimately, Hesse's life and work are also a warning. They demonstrate how ruminating on the possibility of self-actualisation can become a mental quicksand. It is dangerous to cease calibrating yourself to the effect that you're having on the world beyond your skull. It's all too easy to confuse the rumination with the growth itself. Many hippies, even with enormous hearts in more or less the right places, made – make – a version of this mistake. At some point, the self-development has to be a means, not an end.
His novels sag with the clammy feeling of a man trading the hell of other people for the melodrama of his own mind
Psychologised narcissism is still narcissism. Spiritual narcissism is still narcissism. We see this with Hesse, who in both his life and his fiction is captivated by his own feelings. This, I think, is why he persists today as one of those authors whose biggest fans are almost exclusively young. In his 'soul biographies', Hesse never seems to escape that impression, so redolent of adolescence, that one's own feelings are powerfully unique in both form and scale. Unrelentingly beatific about one's capacity for compassion; unrelentingly despondent at one's capacity for despair. In 1955, Hesse expressed annoyance 'at schoolboys reading and enthusing over Steppenwolf; after all, the fact is that I wrote this book shortly before my 50th birthday.' But like all his novels, the emotional tenor of Steppenwolf is more befitting a schoolboy than a middle-aged man. The sense that one is amorphously rejected by the world; that one's own perception of things is sharper than everyone else's but oh-so-lonely – this is the self-absorbed mood of youthful angst. There is something beautiful and right about this phase of being; but it does possess a special sort of solipsism that mature people eventually learn to ration. All of Hesse's protagonists are, in their creator's image, spectacularly self-absorbed. The years during which I most enjoyed Hesse were the years during which I was at my most spectacularly self-absorbed.
Mark Harman, a translator of Hesse's letters, told me that 'although Hesse rebelled against his Pietist parents, he retained some of their core values.' Above all, Hesse never got out from under the Pietist axiom that things of the here-and-now – as opposed to things of a transcendent, coming place – are fallen, rotten from the get-go. This is the main way in which the hippies – who had zero hangups about the pleasures of the senses – misread Hesse. In Hesse's approach to writing and to life, he recapitulated that old religious idea: that the mental is nobler than the material. Describing his discovery of writing in childhood, Hesse recalled a joy at how it let him feel 'detached from the world, and untouched'. To him, writing was a cocoon of the blessedly immaterial. The subterranean caves of the self were somewhere he could clamber through and shelter from the daylight up above. Whenever Hesse did engage with the upper realm, it was always at a distance. He spent his later years in his quiet cottage writing 150 pages of letters to strangers every single day – while a sign hung on his front gate saying: 'No Visitors, please.'
Ultimately, Hesse's search for wisdom forces us to confront a crucial question: do you prefer your soul, or the world? 'Let us turn our gaze inward,' says a character in The Glass Bead Game, 'then we will have discovered the universe incarnate.' Hesse's novels sag with a heavy hermeticism, the clammy feeling of a man trading the hell of other people for the melodrama of his own mind. Perhaps, like Hesse, you believe that self-knowledge is most valuable when it works in secret, wearing the silken sheen of pure thought. Give me my silence, my cave, my texts. But against this there is the opposite view: life is lived in concert with other souls, or else it is a desolation. You get better at loving, or else you are losing.
Novels such as Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game contain real insights. The world's wise have all, like Hesse, attempted to take a sharp shovel to the cracked earth of their character. But taken as a whole, Hesse's work and life demonstrate that self-examination is a tightrope. We can take Hesse's writings, and see what can be seen, down at those depths of self-exploration. Perhaps we can gather some directions, for our own searches. But if the messy, fleshy world of other souls matters to you, then pluck the pearls and surface once again. In this life, the inward gaze will take you only halfway.
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does this phone supports whatsapp...???
I want to need this mobile.
Keep in mind, it has a price tag of 65 $ so dont expect too much from it.
Htc cha cha is a smartphone. Asha 205 is a feature phone.
Nokia 205 is released on flipkart.com price 3350 INR !
I want to know if this phone supports QVGA or 320x240 video Playback in 3gp or Mp4?
Full copy of HTC chacha.. Therefore i rate HTC higher in terms of innovative valuable design..as in spaced out keypads for example.
There is no 'Coming Soon' tag for Nokia 205 in nokia's official website. Does that mean it's available in the Indian market?
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pleas gsmarena there is no usb port in nokia 205 and nokia 206, please update your specs. there is a lot of confusion among we nokia fans.
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Dsungaripterus was a pterosaur with 10 feet (3 m) wide leathery wings. It had an unusual bony crest running along its snout and had long, narrow, curved jaws with a pointed tip. The crest may have acted as a rudder when flying or may have been a sexual characteristic. It had flat teeth at the back of the jaws, probably for crushing the shells of its prey. It was not a dinosaur, but a type of extinct, flying reptile.
They were lightly built with hollow bones, long, curved necks, long skulls, and small bodies. They had large brains and good eyesight.
Dsungaripterus wings were covered by a leathery membrane. This thin but tough membrane stretched between its body, the top of its legs and its elongated fourth fingers, forming the structure of the wing. Claws protruded from the other fingers.
Dsungaripterus was a pterodactyloid; it was a reptile, but not a dinosaur. By definition, all dinosaurs were diapsid reptiles with an upright stance. Pterosaurs probably had a semi-upright stance. There is a small minority of paleontologists who think that the pterosaurs' stance could have been upright and that pterosaurs should therefore be included in the clade of dinosaurs (being derived theropods). Either way, dinosaurs and pterosaurs are certainly closely related.
Rhamphorhynchoids ("prow beaks") - early pterosaurs that appeared during the Triassic period and went extinct at the end of the Jurassic period, that had long tails, short necks, and long, narrow wings. These were the first flying vertebrates. Examples include Dimorphodon, Rhamphorhynchus, and Sordes.
Pterodactyloids ("wing finger") - their descendants that appeared late in the Jurassic and died in the K-T extinction, 65 million years ago, that had shorter tails. Examples include Pterodactylus, Dsungaripterus, Pteranodon, and Quetzalcoatlus.
Dsungaripterus lived during the early Cretaceous period.
The birds evolved during the Jurassic period and were probably competition for the pterodactyloids, including Dsungaripterus.
Dsungaripterus was a carnivore It probably ate fish (which it caught at the surface of the oceans), mollusks, crabs, perhaps plankton (for some species), insects, and scavenged dead animals on land.
Dsungaripterus probably flew long distances using large, light-weight wings.
Dsungaripterus fossils have been found in China. It was named by Young in 1964.
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By Ross Tweddell
4 January, 2018 4:58 PM
If Daniel Bryan hasn't wrestled in a WWE ring by the time WrestleMania 34 rolls around, he assumes that he won't wrestle another match for the company. Of course, it's important to note this is just an assumption so there's still hope yet, fans.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion also acknowledged that a potential return to the ring is a complicated process that will continue to be up in the air for a little while to come.
"It's not a black and white answer," said Bryan. "There are a lot of issues with me getting cleared by WWE. They have a very strict protocol, which is a good thing, but the timeline of all that happening was not the best for me. It's an interesting situation that will develop."
Bryan was forced to hang up his boots all the way back in February 2016 due to injuries sustained over a near 17-year career. Despite being cleared by two external doctors, WWE's medical staff wouldn't allow the current SmackDown Live General Manager to step between the ropes once more.
Talk of one more match for Bryan within the WWE Universe has intensified in recent times as the friction between he and Commissioner Shane McMahon has increased. WrestleVotes via NoDQ.com - the Twitter account that broke the story of Neville's current uncertain situation with WWE - recently reported that Shane is in line for yet another huge 'Mania match after taking on The Undertaker and AJ Styles at 32 and 33 respectively. A match with Bryan would certainly fit that billing so could be a possibility.
Whatever happens, at least we now have a time frame on Bryan's future. If he hasn't been booked in a match by the time 'Mania season is in full swing, it would appear his future will back on the indies - with a spot in the upcoming Bullet Club show potentially on the horizon.
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When people think of China, they often think of the Great Wall, rice terraces and pandas. The Silk Road, stretching from Xian all the way to China's western border, is mostly overlooked. Too inaccessible, too remote, and why would you travel there if there's so much to see in the East? But think again. Remote means less tourists and a chance to get off the beaten track. Plus, trains make it easy to travel in between cities.
The Silk Road has a lot to offer, from desert towns to Tibetan monasteries and natural wonders. Not convinced yet? Read on and I will show you the highlights along the Chinese Silk Road, from the Kyrgyz border all the way to Xian.
Kashgar was our first stop in China. Once an important outpost of the Silk Road, the Old Town and the Sunday bazaar are the only reminders of its past. Take your time exploring the alleys of the Old Town or walking around the great bazaar and appreciate the mix of cultures you can experience here. With the majority of the population being Uighur, one of China's ethnic minorities, Kashgar is a funny mixture of China and Central Asia. If you're curious about what else there is to do in this city, read up on it here.
Wensu Canyon is located on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, close to the city of Kuqa. Driving through the desert, I did not expect to find such spectacular landscapes here. First, the mountains turned into ribbons of colour unlike anything I had seen before. Then, as we drove on, the stone formations got more and more bizarre and spectacular at the same time. We stopped in the middle of the canyon to go for a walk. If you bring enough time, you can find excellent hiking opportunities here.
Turpan has a lot to offer. From the ancient ruins of Jiaohe to the wineyards and the second lowest point on earth, you won't run out of things to do. The city of Yar is supposed to be one of the best preserved ruined cities in the world and you will be surprised by the clever irrigation system that has been used for hundreds of years to survive in the desert. If you're looking for something different to do, go to the Turpan Museum and admire the dinosaur bones that have been found in the area.
The Mogao Grottoes are one of the most stunning examples of Buddhist art in the world. Created between one and two thousand years ago, they show a wide range of styles and techniques. You will get a guide as you walk around the caves. They will choose which ones to see and they will also explain the murals and statues to you.
With more than 400 temples in this complex system of caves, it is impossible to see all of them. Just make sure not to miss the spectacular lying and giant standing Buddhas at the end of your visit.
I loved Crescent Lake near Dunhuang. A small oasis in the middle of sand dunes, it is a centre of activities. You can walk to the lake and admire the pagoda built next to it, climb up the sand dunes and then run and jump down again or ride a camel. While you are up there, swaying in the saddle, think of the merchants who used to cross whole deserts by camel.
If those activities haven't worn you out yet, there is also the possibility to see the Crescent Lake from above by flying with one of the motorised gliders that you see soaring above your head all day long.
The fort of Jiayuguan is the westernmost end of the Great Wall of China and definitely worth a visit. Here, you can walk through ancient courtyards, climb on top of the wall and participate in a number of activities. When we went there, we were lucky enough to see a Chinese opera performance, try our hands at archery and watch a kung fu and Chinese acrobatics demonstration. The kung fu show was my highlight of our visit, but even without it, the fort is worth going to.
Besides the fort, Jiayuguan also has a few more interesting sites, one of them the Overhanging Great Wall. We camped next to it and were almost alone when we climbed it in the afternoon. Plus, the sunset over the wall was spectacular.
The Bingling Si Caves are not only worth visiting for their giant sitting Buddha but also because the boat ride on the Yellow River takes you past spectacular scenery. Once you start going into the valley to see the caves, you will come past many smaller, elaborately decorated ones before seeing the giant Buddha in the end. On your way back, climb up to Waterfall Cave to see the beautiful temple constructed there. The waterfall only consistes of a wet wall at the back of the cave, but the temple stretches out over several levels and small chambers.
The Tibetan Plateau stretches farther north than I would ever have imagined, coming up all the way to the Silk Road. While Tibet requires extensive planning and travel permits, the Tibetan Plateau is easy to visit. Busses connect the town of Xiahe to the rest of China. Come here to see the Labrang Monastery, a place that can easily keep you occupied for a day or two. More than a thousand monks live in the complex.
It is worth circumnavigating the buildings by following the prayer wheel path. If you spin every single one of them, you will have spun around 1700 prayer wheels, some tiny, others huge, golden and heavy to turn.
Another monastery worth visiting, although a bit away from the Silk Road, is Langmusi Monastery. It is less touristy than Labrang Monastery and you will enjoy visiting it without the crowds of the Labrang Monastery.
Huanglong means 'yellow dragon' in Chinese, describing the shape of this natural wonder when seen from above. The travertine terraces form a yellow dragon sneaking its way down the mountain valley. From close up, natural pools glister in various shades of blue, from turquoise to light blue, green and the yellow that stands out from above.
Some of the ponds have funny names (beauty-competing pond or body-washing cave), but they are all stunning to look at as you walk down.
Xian, often considered the end of the Silk Road, has a lot to offer. From the Terracotta Warriors to the Muslim Quarter and the tandem bikes on the city wall, you won't get bored. While the Terracotta Warriors get most of the attention, it is the Muslim Quarter that I fell in love with. We went out for dinner at the night market, trying as many different things as possible, visited the Great Mosque and bought our souvenirs here. If you're visiting in summer, I highly recommend the fans. Mine was only about 1,50$ and has already lasted me more than a month (and it has made the stiffling summer heat a lot more endurable).
Don't forget to climb up the city wall and ride a bike here, as a great way to circumnavigate the city centre.


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MEDIA RELEASE: "Islands of nature in a sea of decline – indigenous and local knowledge, action and contributions key to saving the world's nature"
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Living on another planet? Governments block new UN commitments to address agro-industrial deforestation at UNEA-4
Report back from the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4)
Human Rights abuses can no longer be tolerated in conserving the world's forests
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FPP and partners call for human rights-based approach and binding regulation in EU's efforts to tackle deforestation
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Putting human rights into the French strategy against imported deforestation
Together with partners from Indonesia, Malaysia, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Netherlands, FPP filed a joint submission to the French Government on its draft National Strategy to Combat Imported Deforestation (Strategie Nationale de Lutte Contre la Deforestation Importee – "SNDI").
Indigenous leaders and human rights defenders demand urgent EU action on deforestation
After taking part in meetings with the Amsterdam Declarations Partnership and DG Trade to present rights-based solutions for achieving deforestation-free trade, the 'Closing the Gap' delegation are travelling to Brussels to deliver a petition signed by 160,000 people urging EC President Jean-Claude Juncker to uphold the European Union's international commitment to halt deforestation by 2020 by supporting an EU Action Plan to protect forests and respect forest peoples' rights.
Forest Peoples Programme appoints a new Director
We are delighted to announce that the Forest Peoples Programme has appointed James Whitehead as its new Director.
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New environmental and social standards at the World Bank and the AIIB
A recent Position paper by the German Institute for Human Rights argues that the newly developed standards of the multilateral Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and of the World Bank fall short in many respects of the human rights commitments that the Federal Government has imposed on itself. If Germany wishes to achieve the objectives it has set for itself, it will have to conduct its own human rights assessment of projects, and close monitoring of project implementation will be equally necessary.
UK government to refine proposals for bilateral deforestation and climate fund
The launch of a long-awaited new British fund for tackling deforestation drivers in forest nations is still on hold as UK government agencies continue to finalise the business case for the initiative. Meanwhile, UK NGOs have continued to press the government to ensure transparency in the governance structure for the fund, which is to be geared towards supporting tropical countries to combat deforestation and curb land use emissions.
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The principle that the enjoyment of human rights is both the means and the goal of development, highlights the importance of human rights monitoring as a means for empowering rights-holders to exercise their rights, whilst holding States and other actors accountable for their human rights obligations.
UN OHCHR: UN rights chief Navi Pillay urges States to do more to respect treaties with indigenous peoples
"GENEVA (07 August 2013) –States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has said in a statement to mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
"Even when signed or otherwise agreed more than a century ago, many treaties remain the cornerstone for the protection of the identity, land and customs of indigenous peoples, determining the relationship they have with the State. They are thus of major significance to human rights today," she said.
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Whenever someone remarks that a solution is being frustrated by 'lack of political will', I automatically ask myself: whose is the political will and what are the interests pushing for the opposite?
United Nations University OurWorld 2.0: Seeing the people for the trees
Sophie Chao, FPP, has written the following article for OurWorld 2.0, the United Nations University's web magazine.
To read the article on the OurWorld 2.0 website please click here.
Seeing the people for the trees
Draft concept note for pilot Whakatane Assessments now open for feedback
Update 3rd August 2011
The concept note for pilot Whakatane Assessment has been finalized. You can download it here
As mentioned in Forest Peoples Programme's February E-Newsletter, a meeting was held at the IUCN CEESP Sharing Power conference in Whakatane, New Zealand, January 2011, between indigenous representatives, the chairs of three IUCN commissions (CEESP, WCPA and SSC) and sub-commissions (TILCEPA and TGER), key staff of the IUCN secretariat (the Director of the Environment and Development Programme and the Senior Adviser on Social Policy), and other staff from IUCN, Conservation International and Forest Peoples Programme.
The main outcome of the meeting and subsequent follow-up discussions was an agreement to implement a series of measures to review the implementation of resolutions related to indigenous peoples adopted at the 4th World Conservation Congress (WCC4) in 2008 and to advance their implementation should there be a gap.
Indigenous peoples and United Nations human rights bodies Volume IV 2009-2010 - A compilation of UN treaty body jurisprudence and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council
This document contains Volume IV of the series of compilations of United Nations human rights bodies' jurisprudence pertaining to indigenous peoples and covers the years 2009 and 2010. It includes all of the UN treaty bodies and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council's Universal Peer Review mechanism.
Also see Volume I: 1993-2004, Volume II: 2005-2006, Volume III: 2007-2008 and Volume V: 2011-2012 under related reports.
Forest Peoples Programme Publications Booklet - Spring 2011
World Bank Group Projects and the Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East of Russia
Discussion on Operational Policy (OP 4.10) of the World Bank concerning Indigenous Peoples held in Khabarovsk, Moscow and Nar'yan Mar
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Switch access is an input method that uses any movement a user can do, to activate a contact switch which then, via a switch box, activates a particular action on the tablet.
There are a few things that you need to be aware of with switch access. The first, and most important is that the action you are trying to use to activate the switch, for example, a push with a hand or foot, a nudge with a head or a blow on a pneumatic switch, needs to be both intentional and consistent.
Some practitioners can make the mistake of putting a switch near to someones hand, where with a lot of concentration and effort, they can press it 50% of the time. Whilst this is a big gain over no access to their tablet, it may be that they can move their foot much more easily, or a knee movement is more consistent, if that is the case, then you should look at utilising that movement as the switch function, rather than just going with the obvious movement. They key is to look at the body of the person you are trying to support as a whole, and identify what movement can be repeated consistently and with minimal effort, after all we are trying to make access to the tablet as easy as possible!
Once you have identified the movement you need to decide the best way to capture that movement and use it to activate a switch.
Most switch access movements are going to be limb (arm and leg) or head movements. With limb movements, which can include fingers and toes, and head movements, the easiest way to capture these is with Jelly Bean switches.
Jelly Beans are the workhorse of switch access. They are standard push-to-make contact switches and they have been used for many years in the SEN and AAC market. They come in a range of sizes if you need a bigger target area, but more importantly they do come with mounting options. In the black flange around the base of the switch, there are three screw holes, so the switches can be screwed to mounts and permanently fixed to wheelchair trays and surfaces. However most switch users are going to need to use their switches in different locations and in different settings, so permanently fixing them isn't always the best idea. This is where velcro becomes invaluable, a small square of loops on the switch and another square of hooks on the surface you want to mount the switch to, and you're away! Velcro can be particularly useful if you are assessing a user too, as you can quickly and semi permanently attach switches in positions to see if they work for the user you are assessing.
As well as Jelly Bean switches there are a range of switches from Pretorian called Smoothie switches. These are sold by most of the SEN and AAC suppliers in the UK as they are very versatile and often less expensive than Jelly Bean switches. They look very similar to the Jelly Bean switch and also come with mounting holes, and can also be attached to surfaces with velcro.
There are may types of physical movement switches on the market, and they all rely on the user making a particular movement to activate them, the table below outlines some of the most common switches and the movement that is required to activate them.
As well as the switches that work on physical movements there are also a range of switches that work on less obvious functions. Most common is the pneumatic switch. The pneumatic switch, often called a sip/puff switch, is activated by the user sucking (sip) or blowing (puff) into the switch. These can be particularly useful if you are working with users who have no movement but can control their breath.
If you find that you are working with a user who cannot control their movements or their breath, often users with very high spinal injuries who are ventilated, you may find that you need to use a blink switch.
Blink switches are activated by the user blinking their eyes. A small invisible beam is sent out from the sensor, and reflects off of the surface of the eye, back to a receiver. Once a user blinks, the beam reflection is broken and the switch registers this as an activation. It is with noting at this point though if a user is at a level where their impairment requires a blink switch, they may be more suited to using an eye gaze system.
After you have chosen the switch that is most appropriate to the movement that you are going to be harnessing, you need to think about the switch interface, often called 'the switch box'.
Switch interfaces for tablets generally connect via bluetooth, and will pair in a fairly similar way. First you will go to the settings of your tablet, and then turn on it's bluetooth. You will then put your switch interface into pairing mode, which is always detailed in the instructions, but does vary from interface to interface.
Once it is paired you can plug your switch into it and start to use it. Sounds simple, right? However in practice it is slightly more complicated and there are some things that you need to be aware of!
The technical part of what is happening when you pair a switch interface is interesting. Each switch interface is emulating (pretending to be) a bluetooth keyboard, and what it is actually doing when you press the switch is sending our a keystroke, the same as if you were pushing a letter, number or punctuation mark on a bluetooth keyboard! In fact you can actually access most switch access functionality with a bluetooth keyboard!
With this in mind it is important to know what your bluetooth switch interface is sending out. For example the Therapy Box Switch Box sends out two codes, it uses tilde combined with a 1 or 3, so when you press the switch the interface sends either '~1' or '~3' to the iPad.
This works with all of Therapy Box's own apps, but may not necessarily work with other switch access apps that you want to use. The reason for this is that each of the apps can decide what keystroke they are looking for, to make them perform the action. Unfortunately there is no standardisation of this code system, so you may end up with numerous boxes!
For this reason, we recommend the Pretorian APPlicator.
The 'Applicator' switch box is unique in that is is deigned to be programmable. With the 'Applicator' you can choose what keystrokes it is sending out with each switch press. With the 'Applicator' you have 24 different keystrokes and codes that can be sent to the iPad, and you can plug in up to four switches, allowing you to access four functions at once.
So now that you have your hardware sorted, you have chosen your switch interface and the switch that you are going to use to capture the user's movement, you can start to look at how the hardware is going to connect together and work with the iPad.
The first thing that you need to do is to pair the switch interface with the iPad.
To pair the interface, in this instance the Pretorian Applicator, you first need to go to the settings on your iPad, and then to Bluetooth, and ensure that it is switched on.
Once you can see this name on the screen of your iPad, tap it, and then the pairing process will start. It typically takes around 20 seconds for pairing to take place, and once it has happened the iPad will show the 'Applicator' as connected, your applicator is now paired, and after you have plugged in your switch, it is ready to use.
Although these are configurable and we will go into that later, but for now, those four emulated strokes should get you up and running pretty quickly and effectively!
The first thing you need to do once you have paired your switch interface with your iPad is to decide whether you are aiming to control the whole iPad and apps with the switches or whether you are going to just control apps.
In this tutorial we are going to assume that the user you are working with wants to use both the iPad itself and the apps that are switch accessible.
To start using the switch interface and switches with the iPad we need to first tell the iPad that this is how we are going to access it. To do that, we first need to turn on switch control, and this is done by tapping on the settings button, then general, then accessibility. Within accessibility you need to scroll down and and go to switch control and then turn it on.
There are lots of settings within the switch control options, we will get on to those a little later, as they are for adjusting the behaviour of the switch control, and aren't necessarily needed right away to get you up and running. They are more for fine tuning the system to make it optimal for the person using it.
You will see in the next video that as soon as you turn switch access on, the default setting is auto scanning. The iOS will use a highlighted bar to start to scan down the icons row by row. Once you get to the row that you require, hit the switch and it will start scanning across the columns, once you get to the icon you want, press the switch again to select it.
This process of scanning rows first, and then columns is called column and row scanning, and is the most common scanning technique used in switch access!
It is as simple as that to start basic scanning access on the iPad with a single switch. You may find that these default settings work for most users, but assuming that they don't, lets look now at the switch settings and see how we can use them to adjust the switch access to be as beneficial to the user as possible.
At this point we suggest that you watch the next video which takes about ten minutes and then refer to the text below as a reference. If you want to use 'Proloquo2go' then see the video at the end of this section.
Within the menu settings, general and then switch access, you are presented with a screen full of settings that can adjust the switch access on the iPad.
The first is switch control, and this is a simple on/off toggle, this tells the iPad whether you want to use switch access or not. If it is on, the switch access starts, if it is off, it doesn't, simple really!
The next option is the Switches option, which has a number at the end of it. This number at the end indicates how many switches are being used to control the iPad.
If you tap on this option it will take you into the switch setup screen. From the setup screen you can choose to add a new switch. When you have tapped on the set up new switch bar, you can choose whether you are going to use an 'External' (switch interface) 'Screen' (the screen as a single touchpad) or 'Camera' (a head tilt tracking switch using the iPads camera, which is not very reliable!).
For now we are going to concentrate on external switches, so tap external and then it will ask you to activate your external switch. Some switch interfaces aren't very good at distinguishing between the switches that are plugged into them and may tell you that the source is in use if you already are using another switch on the same interface. This is another reason why we recommend the 'Applicator', it does not have this issue. Once you have activated your switch, you can then choose the action that you want to assign to it.
The next block of settings affect the timing of the switch access method. The first setting is the Auto Scanning Time, this is the amount of time that it waits before the move to the next row or column, this time should be made larger if you find that the user is missing the icons because the scan is not waiting on it for long enough as you will see in the following video.
The next setting is called Loops and is detailed in the next video. This setting tells the scanning process how many times it should loop around, either all of the rows, or the columns within a row before it stops and returns to the start position, usually the top of the screen. This setting can be particularly useful if you are working with people who will forget that the dotted line means 'go back' or 'come out of this row'.
After that we have Auto Tap. When auto tap is turned on, performing the selected action will automatically 'tap' the screen, unless select is pressed twice to bring up the menu of actions. This is a setting that has little use if you are using simplistic switch access where a switch is the button you are selecting with, however it is worth knowing that the setting is there incase you ever need it for advanced users who want to make use of the other specialist functions that are available.
Move Repeat is the next setting, and initially it is an on/off toggle. If you toggle the setting to on, it allows you to choose the repeat move time. This time is the amount of time the iPad will wait before it starts moving the selection again, if the switch is being held down. This can be useful if you are working with people who have difficulties releasing the switch once it is activated.
Hold Duration, the next setting is nice and simple. It is a setting that allows you to choose the amount of time the switch needs to be activated before it registered the activation. This is extremely useful for people with erratic movements, you can set it to a time that ignores accidental activations, and focuses solely on activations that are longer than a certain time.
Ignore Repeat works in a similar way to hold duration, except that with ignore repeat you are choosing the amount of time between repeats that are allowed. For example, if you are working with someone that has a tremor, they may activate the switch 5 times in a second. This is not good if they have a movement time of 1 second, as they have pressed the switch 5 times before the scanner moves to the next step! If this is the case you can use ignore repeat to act as a buffer, you can tell it to ignore further activations after the first one, for a set amount of time. With adjustment and a bit of testing, you an eliminate a lot of the inconvenience of tremors and multiple presses.
The next option you can adjust is the 'Glide Cursor Speed'. This is the speed which the cursor moves across the screen. Have a play with it and set it so that it suits your user's visual preferences.
The next two settings are for audio. If you are using switch access with a user who has a visual impairment you can use audio to indicate where they are in the scanning, and when each scan movement has happened.
First you have Sound Effects which are sounds that indicate movement of the scan and scan actions, these are simply toggled on and off. The second option is for Speech, this uses the voiceover functionality, mentioned in other modules, to read out the screen as it is scanned. This can be particularly useful to users with visual impairments who need to read a lot of text.
The next item is Included Menu Items. This setting allows you to choose what items are shown in sub menus when an item is clicked. It contains things like the home button, scrolling and gestures, which may be useful for high level users. However for most users turning these options off is the most appropriate course of actions, as for most users the extra features that they open up, aren't offset by the amount of confusion that they can cause!
The next two settings are under the Visual heading. They are large cursor and cursor colour. The larger cursor on/off toggle allows you to choose whether you are using a large cursor, if you turn it on, the selection line around the scanning becomes thicker, and easier to see. Then you can choose the colour of the section with the cursor colour option. You can tailor this to a colour that your user most likes, or one that is easiest for them to see. These settings are most commonly used with people who have slight visual impairments, and people who want to customise their support to be aesthetically pleasing!
The last setting is for saved gestures. These are onscreen gestures that can be used as shortcuts and aren't useful for people using external switches. However if you are working with someone who is using the screen as a switch, you could record gestures to perform specific actions.
Lots of other apps have switch access methods, and there are far too many of them to list individually, however reassuringly they all rely on similar methods and have similar settings to the iOS switch access.
You will find that most of the SEN and AAC apps have their own form of switch access built in, but many of the free apps that we use don't. The iOS scanning has come a long way to address this issue, but it is a case of trial and error to see which apps work with switch access and which don't.
So far we know that the following apps are fully switch accessible, and we will add more as we find them!


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This show was 32nd in the global uplifting trance chart, 63rd in the global edm chart and 67th in the global trance chart.
39 year old Dj/Producer went away from the scene for almost 8 years and is working the last months on his come back.
He started Djing when he was 15 years old together with a good friend playing at wedings.And playing with vinyl in that time.
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The last few months has been a complete turn around for Antoine Le Maison it al started when he joined the team of Twisted Recordings.
Nowadays he is there regular podcaster and from this moment it al went fast played in a few clubs in Germany and Belgium.
On the moment he plays different genres Deephouse,Techhouse,Minimal,Techno and very resent trance is added to his genre.Antoine Le Maison did make his switch to cdj's very resent also.
Hey, this my last ditch effort. I love house music and being in front of a crowd is just a pure rush for me. This had always been a hobby, i doub't im going to win a spot but to all the fellow dj's, i just want some feedback....any advice i can get to become a better dj is all i really want.
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OTHER LOCAL THEMES
culture and customs
environmental knowledge
resettlement
social relationships
introducing the area
quotes about culture and customs
key testimonies featuring culture and customs
There are few commonly held traditions in the area, mainly as a result of the shifts in population. Some of the narrators were German residents who stayed on after the end of World War Two and married Poles. They are particularly informative about the German culture that had previously characterised the area. Many customs, including traditional cuisine, disappeared when German families were deported after the war and their farms and homes were taken over by Poles (who had been forced from their homelands in the "eastern borderlands"). The Poles originated from very different landscapes; and many found the environment difficult, even threatening. Family roots had been torn up and it was no easy process to "replant" them in the Klodzko Valley. Initially, there were few social ties between the different groups of settlers and for nearly 50 years, some held to the belief that they were living there on a "temporary basis". As a result, there is no real Polish Sudeten tradition - no folkdance or costumes, songs or local dishes. This is in strong contrast to other mountainous areas, which usually have distinctive ethnic and cultural identities. However, the settlers brought some new customs which have flourished locally, for example, "Name Day", when people celebrate the day of the saint whose name they bear
Those Germans who did stay in the area adapted or replaced their cultural traditions with Polish customs. However, the creation of the German Minority Association in 1993 has provided a forum for the original inhabitants to share memories of past traditions, and sing traditional songs. The interviews also contain some vivid descriptions of Russian and Siberian culture, from Poles who spent their childhood in the old eastern territories.
An artist in her thirties talks about her own work and the uphill struggle she has to run a academy for local children to develop their artistic sensibilities: "the kids around here don't have anywhere to develop their talents, they don't have the basic things that kids in towns do, in large cities. But what do they have? They have the silence" (Poland 46).
""When I married Franek, we lived in accordance with Polish traditions, I simply cooked the way he told me to. At first, we went to visit his relatives in Niedzwiednik, so I could learn a lot from them, especially Christmas dishes"
." Elzbieta, F/74, pensioner, Poland 20
""And the church fairs were beautiful there, in the [then] Czech [side of the border].... There was a service in the church, and the whole square was full of it - various things, a fair, stalls, everything. Oh! The hot sausages, Jesus! What wasn't there? Beautiful! Merry-go-rounds and swings for young children.... it was always at the end of June. We always went. My mother once wrote me a letter from East Germany: "We will never again see those church fairs, we will die here." They were in Freiberg.
Now I am a Pole. I did what [my husband] said things should look like, for example at Easter. We used to have different customs, at the table and so on. But we did everything the Polish way, the way they did in the east, at his. Every nation has its own customs.""
Maria, F/80, pensioner, Poland 19
""What I sometimes missed was an opportunity to have a conversation in German, you know, in the company of friends.""
Hane, F/85, pensioner, Poland 28
No. Name Sex/Age Occupation Location
Summary Transcript 13 Anna female/69 pensioner Szczytna
Summary Transcript 17 Adolf male/65 carpenter/pensioner Wilkanów
Summary Transcript 19 Maria female/80 pensioner Stara Lomnica
Summary Transcript 20 Elzbieta female/74 pensioner Wójtowice
Summary Transcript 25 Romuald male/67 pensioner Klodzko
Summary Transcript 28 Hane female/85 pensioner Klodzko
Summary Transcript 40 Adolfina female/63 pensioner P
Summary Transcript 41 Irmgard female/66 baker P
Summary Transcript 46 Ewa female/39 artist Katy Bystrzyckie
Summary Transcript 9 Aniela female/77 pensioner Stara Lomnica


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In January of 1989, the South Cariboo Historical Museum Society was formally registered as a Society in the Province of British Columbia.
In 1999, the Society, with the help of many volunteers, moved the 1911 Povinicial Government Stables building from the Public Maintenance Yard to its present location behind the museum.
The Clinton museum has occupied its current home in Clinton's 1892 brick School building sine 1956. Prior to that, the collection was housed for three years in a shed on the Choate property adjacent to the past High Bar First Nation Office. A predecessor private museum was maintained by the Payne family, operators of the Pine Tree Auto Court in the 1930's & 40's.
It all started with the Payne collection. Many of the artifacts so diligently collected by Mr. Payne are still on display. Here's the Payne collection as it looked in 1949.
The large building in our back yard is the Provincial Government Stable, built in 1911 to shelter the heavy horse teams that helped maintain the roads of the day. It was moved onto museum property by volunteers in 2000.
Displays in the Stable (or Barn), include pioneer family exhibits and many artifacts from the ranching and logging eras that followed the Gold Rush.


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