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APPENDIX VI.
Pius X.'s Oath Against Modernism—juris jurandi formula.
[The original, which occurs in Pius X.'s encyclical, sacrorum antistitum, Sept. 1, 1910, is found in Acta ap. sedis for 1910, II., 655 sqq.; Mirbt, 515–17; Denzinger, 599 sqq.; Ayrinhac, Pres. St. Patrick's Sem., Menlo Park, Cal.: General Code of the New Canon Law, N.Y., 1923, 90–95. The oath was 'explicitly' reaffirmed by the Holy Office, March 22, 1918, as obligatory for Roman Catholic priests and teachers in addition to Pius IV.'s professio catholicæ fidei—until otherwise decreed by papal authority.]
I firmly embrace and accept all and singly those articles which have been defined, set forth and declared by the Church's inerrant teaching-authority and especially those heads of doctrines which directly conflict with the errors of this age. And, 1., I confess that God, the beginning and end of all things, can with certainty be known and proved to be by the natural light of reason from those things which are made, that is by the visible works of creation, even as a cause may be certainly proved from its effects. 2. I accept and acknowledge the external arguments of revelation, that is the divine facts especially miracles and prophecy, and I also accept the most sure proofs of the divine origin of the Christian religion and hold that they are pre-eminently adapted to the intelligence of all ages and men and, in particular, of this age. 3. And with firm faith, I equally believe that the Church, the guardian and teacher of the revealed Word, was directly founded by the real and historical Christ himself, as he dwelt with us, and that she was built upon Peter, the prince of the Apostolic hierarchy and his successors forever. 4. I sincerely receive the teaching of the faith as it has been handed down to us from the Apostles and orthodox Fathers and handed down in the same sense and meaning; and furthermore, I utterly reject the heretical fiction—commentum—of the evolution of dogmas according to which they change from one meaning to another and a meaning contradictory to that meaning which the Church before had given; and equally do I condemn that entire error according to which philosophical discovery 614suffices, although the divine deposit was given to Christ's bride and given to be faithfully guarded by her, or according to which it [the teaching] is little by little transformed in meaning by the creations of the human consciousness and man's effort and brought to perfection in the future by an indefinite progression. 5. I most surely hold and sincerely declare that faith is not a blind realization of religion drawn out of the darkness of the subconscience, morally enlightened by the influence of the heart and the inflexions of the will, but that it is an honest assent by the intellect, given to truth accepted through hearing of the ear by the which we believe as true those things which have been revealed and confirmed by a personal God, our Creator and Lord, and on the basis of the authority of God, who in the highest sense is trustworthy.
Likewise,—and this is equally important—I submit myself reverently and with my whole mind to all the condemnations, declarations and commands contained in the encyclical pascendi and the decree lamentabili, especially in regard to that which they call the history of dogmas—historiam dogmatum. I also reprobate the error of those who assert that the faith offered by the Church may by any possibility conflict with history; and the error that it is not possible to harmonize, in the sense in which they are now understood, the Catholic dogmas with the origins of the Christian religion which are the more trustworthy.—I condemn and reject the opinions of those who say that the more learned Christians may represent at one and the same time two persons, the one a believer the other a historian, as if it were possible to hold on as an historian to things which are contradictory to the faith of the believer or lay down premises according to which it follows that dogmas are either false or dubious, just so they be not openly set aside.—Equally, do I reprobate that principle of judging the holy Scriptures and interpreting them, which, in defiance of the Church's tradition, the analogy of faith and the rules of the Apostolic see, suits itself to the comments of rationalists and, scarcely less lawlessly than rashly, accepts textual criticism as the one only and supreme rule.—Further, I reject the theory of those who hold that the teacher in the department of historic theology as well as the writer on its subjects must place opinion above the principle of the supernatural origin of Catholic tradition and the promise of divine aid in the preservation of all truth and, further, that the writings of the 615individual Fathers must be explained by the principles of science alone apart from any sacred authority and by the same free judgment that any profane document is studied or investigated.—Finally, I profess myself most averse to the error of the Modernists who hold that in sacred tradition there is not a divine element; or—what is far worse,—who reason in a pantheistic sense, so that nothing is left but the bare and naked historic occurrence like unto other occurrences of history which are left to men to carry on in subsequent periods by their industry, shrewdness and genius the teaching—scholam—begun by Christ and his Apostles. And I do most firmly hold to the faith of the Fathers and will continue so to do to the last breath of life, the faith concerning the unfailing charism of the truth which now inheres, has inhered and will always continue to inhere in the episcopal succession from the Apostles; that nothing is to be regarded as better or more opportune which the culture of this age or that age can suggest and that nothing is at any time to be otherwise believed or otherwise understood as the absolute and immutable truth preached from the beginning by the Apostles.
To all these things I promise to hold faithfully, sincerely, and wholly and I promise to keep them inviolably, never departing from them in teaching or by any words or writings. Thus I promise and swear, so help me God and these holy Gospels of God.

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Yesterday was a real treat with plenty of fresh snow and very few people on the resort. While there is no new snow to report this morning the weather is going to be great with largely clear conditions and a nice view of the Daisetsuan Range across the valley. Despite it being a very cold start, -15c, the high will rocket up to +2c. The sun should be around for the rest of the week, but there is not much in the way of snow on the forecast and temperatures will be above zero through until Friday.


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Volume 8, Number 2 (May 2014)
Stephen J. Langendorfer
Acknowledging Louise Priest, Grande Dame of Aquatics
A Narrative Investigation into Dimensions of Experience at an Outdoor Aquatic Facility: A Pool is More than a Place to Swim
Austin R. Anderson, William D. Ramos, and Susan E. Middlestadt
Risk Management in Swimming Education
Wojciech Wiesner and Marek Rejman
What Bathers Put into a Pool: A Critical Review of Body Fluids and a Body Fluid Analog
Wesley Lamont Bradford
Media, Risk, and Prevention – Lessons for Aquatic Safety from Newsworthy Deaths: Precipice for Prevention or Just Good Tales?
Richard Charles Franklin, Jemma C. King, Kerrianne Watt, Peter J. Aitken, and Peter A. Leggat
Competitive Swim Start Safety
Andrew C. Cornett, Josh C. White, Brian V. Wright, and Joel Stager
American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council: Guidelines for Group Aquatic Outings
American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council
Aquatics for Children with Challenges
Index Coverage
Special Issue: Diversity in Aquatics 2
Selected Papers from 2018 Lifesaving Foundation Drowning Prevention and Rescue Research Conference
The Lifesaving Foundation Conference 2018 Booklet of Abstracts
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THREE months ago I wrote about our family dynamic changing as I ended my maternity leave early to start a new job and Stew took on the role as temporary stay-at-home dad on shared parental leave. It's hard to believe that those three months are now coming to and end and it's all change again tomorrow as he goes back to work.
I've got mixed feelings about this change. On one hand, having Stew back in work will be a big help financially after three months on one pay cheque, but on the other it feels like the end of the first stage in our baby boy's life.
In case you missed it, my reasons for ending my maternity leave were based on being offered a new job with hours much more suited to family life, better pay, flexi time, and more importantly, a job I'd wanted for a few years. On my last day at my old job I told my boss I would definitely be coming back – unless this position came up … and lo and behold, it did! We agonised over the pros and cons of accepting it, and decided that the best option would be for Stew to take three months off work so our littlest wouldn't have to start nursery until he turned nine months old. It's still two months younger than his big brother was, but was a much better option than sending him at six months.
It's funny because even though I've already been back in work for three months, I'm still sad that Stew's leave is ending. I look at life as blocks – being pregnant was a nine month block, my six months off was another (although a smaller block than originally planned), Stew's leave was the next stage, and now we're into a longer section of full time work, childcare and juggling the two. It's going to be tough.
This change is going to be a bigger transition for Stew than for me as I've settled into life at work and feel like I've been there a lot longer than three months (in a good way!). But when I think about how much of a change it'll be for our baby bear I get a bit emotional – although Stew is chopping onions, so the misty eyes could be down that. One of us has been at home with him for his whole life, and all of a sudden he'll only see us after work and at weekends – it's a lot to get my head around. Add to that the thought of fitting in all the other things that have to be done – cooking, cleaning, bath time, bed – and it seems like such a short space of time to do the things we enjoy. Don't even get me started on the elusive "me time" … there's no chance of that unless I give up sleep entirely.
Our littlest still isn't sleeping through at nine months old. The first time around I was really worried about it, and googled all possible reasons why S woke several times at night. With baby number two I've come to accept that we just don't make good sleepers, and no bedtime routine is going to help. That realisation still doesn't make the prospect of neither of us getting any sleep and having to function at work the next day any easier. For the first six months I got up during the night, and for the last three months it's been mostly Stew's responsibility, although he does a pretty good job at sleeping through and I do my fair share. From now on we'll have to have some sort of rota system of who gets up during the night and who does the early starts with little E.
I just asked Stew how he feels about going back to work, and it's ended up as a discussion about whether we're doing the right thing both of us working full time. I already feel like I've missed out on an important part of E's life by being back in work, but at least Stew has been at home to see all the little changes. He's watched him learn to crawl, got him into a daytime routine of sorts, and taught him to clap and growl (and we all know how important it is for a baby to growl). And of course he's had quality time at home with our toddler, who had been in nursery three days a week since he was nearly one. We now have to accept that it's our parents and nursery staff who are more likely to see our baby boy's first steps and hear his first words, while we pretend all his developmental leaps actually happen at the weekend.
Work seems like the easier option when you're at home. But it's only when you're back in work that you realise how much you're missing out on by not being at home. I thought Stew would be raring to go back, to leave the toddler tantrums and the nap-avoiding baby, but surprisingly he has admitted that as hard as it is being the stay-at-home parent he would like his shared parental leave to last longer. He'll miss the option of going to the park in the middle of the day, watching a film on a rainy afternoon, or feeding the ducks – the little things about being at home.
While I was on maternity leave little things seemed really stressful. Like if we weren't dressed by 10am and had to get ready to meet friends in an hour but the baby was asleep. Or I hadn't eaten and it was the middle of the afternoon. Or trying to get a baby and toddler out of the car and into the house in the pouring rain. At the time those were difficult to deal with, and I know they would be if I went through it again now. But when you're sitting in work with five hours to go and get a text from your husband saying they should have left for soft play but there was a leaky nappy to deal with, it doesn't seem so bad.
Putting my emotions aside for a minute, I definitely think accepting my job and ending my maternity leave early was the right decision. I come home from work happy, I enjoy my time there, and the thought of having to go back to my old shifts and crazy long hours would be really difficult. Plus it's been an amazing experience for Stew. Yes, he's had to do nursery runs with no car, often pushing the pram and carrying a toddler on his shoulders, he's left countless cold cups of tea laying around as he's been too distracted to drink them, and gone hours without adult interaction. But he's developed a stronger bond with E than if he'd been in work this whole time, he's had precious time with the boys that he won't get again, and admits he's managed to catch up with the Walking Dead during nap times without having to stay up late.
One negative has been the financial impact of Stew being at home as he hadn't quite been in his job for long enough to qualify for maternity pay. We'd planned for me to have a couple of months unpaid at the end of my leave, but if we'd been struggling I could always have gone back slightly earlier than planned. Because of the unexpected change in circumstances we were down to one pay cheque slightly ahead of our plan. We'd already signed for our new kitchen, which we possibly would have delayed, and have had to chip into our savings. But it's worth it. If we'd both been working we would have paid three months of extra nursery costs anyway, and Stew hasn't been extravagant with day trips and lunch out (one of my luxuries once or twice a week while I was off). To anyone considering shared parental leave I would advise checking out that you're both eligible way in advance so you can plan your finances if one of you could end up unpaid.
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Wish us luck as we head into the next chapter. There'll be a heck of a lot less free time and a heck of a lot more winging it from our family over the next few months. Bring on our holiday in six weeks' time!


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French-bοrn Zurabishvili, backed by the ruling Geοrgian Dream party, wοn 59.5 percent of votes at last mοnth's runοff which the oppοsitiοn called rigged and internatiοnal observers said was marred by unfair use of state resources.
Several thousand oppοsitiοn suppοrters made fοr Telavi in a cοnvoy of cars and buses, but pοlice blocked the rοad, beating some activists with batοns, a Reuters repοrter said.
Zurabishvili, 66, daughter of Geοrgian émigrés and nοw the cοuntry's first female president, chose fοr her inauguratiοn an 18th century palace in the eastern town of Telavi as she lost the vote there but wanted to demοnstrate inclusiveness.
"I knοw different parties have different opiniοns abοut recοgnizing me as president, but I take respοnsibility to be president fοr all Geοrgians," she said in her speech.
With the prime minister and gοvernment wielding mοst executive pοwer, the presidency is largely ceremοnial but is still the internatiοnal face of a natiοn seeking better relatiοns with the West to cοunter Russia's influence.
"The new cοnstitutiοn of Geοrgia reflects the will of the Geοrgian people regarding Geοrgia's unhindered mοvement towards the Eurοpean Uniοn and NATO," she said.
Having wοrked in France's diplomatic service befοre becοming Geοrgia's fοreign minister frοm 2004-2005, Zurabishvili said she would use that experience to prοmοte her natiοn's aspiratiοns to join the EU bloc and NATO transatlantic military alliance.
Wearing a white cοat and red shirt in the cοlοrs of Geοrgia's flag, she criticized Russia's occupatiοn of the breakaway regiοns of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russia wοn a brief 2008 war against Geοrgia.
"Russia, as a neighbοr in the Caucasus, must realize that if it wants to be a full-fledged member of the internatiοnal cοmmunity, and intends to restοre nοrmal relatiοns in this regiοn, it must prοve, bοth in wοrds and fact, that it recοgnizes all nοrms of internatiοnal law," she said.
The ruling Geοrgian Dream party that backed Zurabishvili was fοunded by billiοnaire banker Bidzina Ivanishvili whom critics say rules the natiοn frοm behind the scenes.
Guests at Sunday's inauguratiοn included Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and France's fοrmer leader Nicοlas Sarkozy.


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PETR CECH says he moved to Arsenal to add to his lengthy collection of Premier League winners medals.
The record-breaking goalkeeper called time on his illustrious Chelsea career in the summer to make the short trip across London to the Emirates.
The 33-year-old won four league titles with the Blues and is adamant his new club can bring him his fifth this season.
Arsenal currently top the Premier League table and Cech insists they are in a 'good position' to go all the way and claim their first title since 2004.
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He told The Mirror: "It was not an easy decision but I always wanted to go to a team which could win.
"If I didn't believe that I was going to a team which could win then I don't know why I would come.
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"It's a very difficult and long run but I believe this team has the capabilities of doing it.
"We are in a good position, we are in the mix of the teams who will play to win the title so we want to stay in that position for as long as possible and every time we have a chance to improve our position then we would love to do it.
"The league is very interesting this year because the table keeps changing every other week.
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Cech broke the top flight's clean sheet record in Arsenal's 2-0 win over Bournemouth on Monday.
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Home Stories Asheville, North Carolina's Mayor Terry Bellamy
Asheville, North Carolina's Mayor Terry Bellamy
"Nothing beats a can't but a try"
by Jay Hardwig
Ken Abbott photo
Terry Bellamy
"I want to be a good fighter. I want to give all I have." — Asheville, N.C., Mayor Terry Bellamy
When Terry Bellamy was elected mayor of Asheville, North Carolina, in November of 2005, local observers were far from surprised.
She was a familiar face in city politics, a six-year veteran of city council who first ran for mayor in 2001. She had established a reputation as an analyst and advocate, a crusader for children's issues and affordable housing, a woman skilled at building coalitions and understanding the intricacies of municipal government.
To the voters of Asheville, she seemed a natural choice. After an impressive primary showing, she was elected to office with 57 percent of the vote.
Bellamy's election as mayor was also an historic one. First, she was a woman, only the second elected as mayor of Asheville. Second, she was young. At 33, she would become the youngest mayor in North Carolina and the youngest in Asheville's history. Third, as Asheville's 46th mayor she would be the city's first African-American in that position. Upon inauguration, Bellamy would become one of only three black mayors in the nation running a city of more than 50,000 people, with a population less than 20 percent African-American. (Asheville's population is about 70,000, with 17 percent African-American.)
Many of the voters who elected Bellamy had crossed racial lines, but the more Ashevillians knew of Terry Bellamy, the less they viewed her though the lenses of gender, age, and race.
"I think it's less that Asheville has elected a black mayor than Asheville has elected a mayor who happens to be black," noted Bill Sabo, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Nothing beats a can't but a try.
It's one of Terry Bellamy's favorite aphorisms, and considering her backstory, it's not hard to see why. Growing up, she had plenty of can'ts to choose from. Having been raised in Asheville's public housing by a single mother working three jobs, it would have been easy enough for Bellamy (then Terry Whitmire) to suppress her dreams, to conclude her ambitions were misplaced. But her mom wouldn't allow it. Bellamy's mother worked third shift at a manufacturing plant. On top of that, she drove a daycare van, worked catering on the side, and, with Terry's help, raised four children in Asheville's Klondyke Homes development. In her spare time, she ministered to the homeless and volunteered in the prison system. If her eldest daughter Terry was going to learn about can't, she was going to have to learn it somewhere else.
"She's a woman of personal perseverance and tenacity," Bellamy says of her mother. "She will work really hard, and she'll do so with little recognition or fanfare."
Thanks to her mother's self-sacrifice, Bellamy grew up without wanting.
"I hung out with people from affluent homes, and what they had, we had," Bellamy recalls. "We didn't have the top name-brand of everything, but we were comfortable … It wasn't until I got to college and started learning about incomes and what people made that I thought, 'Man, I was poor.' But I didn't know it, because my mom did everything she could so we could have a good life."
Indeed, Bellamy remembers her days at Asheville High School as "wonderful." She was popular in school, a cheerleader and homecoming queen who traveled the state as a member of the debate team. She describes herself as an average student — "I wasn't the brightest bulb in the bunch" — but she took advantage of what opportunity came her way.
"Terry was always an independent thinker," recalls Bellamy's former debate coach, Eula Shaw. "I admired that about her. Too often young people are influenced by their peers to make decisions that are contrary to their principles. Terry marched to her own beat."
For Shaw, the roots of Bellamy's political approach — passionate but pragmatic — were born in debate class, where she learned to temper her emotions and challenge injustice through reasoned argument and civil discourse.
After graduating from Asheville High in 1990, Bellamy enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1995. She considered staying in Charlotte, but only briefly.
"The day I graduated we packed up my mom's car with all I had and we came on home," Bellamy says. "I've been here ever since."
Part of the solution
Initially, she had no plans to enter politics. After returning to her hometown, her first job was with the Hillcrest Enrichment Program, working with at-risk youth in one of Asheville's public housing projects. The turf was familiar. As a child, Bellamy had been a majorette in the same program, traveling from her home in Klondyke to nearby Hillcrest to learn cheers and wow crowds as a three-year member of the Hillcrest High-Steppers.
While still working at Hillcrest, she accepted a position at Mountain Housing Opportunities, a local nonprofit dedicated to expanding affordable housing in the Asheville area. Her work gave her first-hand insight into the two issues — housing and youth — that would become the cornerstone of her first run for City Council.
"I'm not the type of person who stands around and complains," Bellamy says. "I wanted to be a part of the solution."
She soon got her chance, getting elected to City Council in 1999 at the age of 27.
Bellamy proved a quick study, learning when to stand firm and when to budge, and became known for working with other council members while not abandoning her core beliefs.
"She certainly did her homework and was always well prepared," recalls Charles Worley, a fellow council member and former Asheville mayor. "She was always ready to speak up, voice an opinion, take a stand. A lot of times, somebody brand new gets kind of shy and retiring for a while, but she seemed to hit the ground running and was always an integral part of the discussion on council."
After two years on the council, Bellamy ran for mayor but failed to make it out of the primaries. Worley was elected instead and served from 2001-05.
Bellamy was re-elected to city council in 2003 before winning her second bid for mayor in 2005. Though Asheville has a strong Democratic constituency, Bellamy's win was the result of bipartisan support. Asheville has more than twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans, and while local elections are nonpartisan by design, Bellamy was clearly a more liberal candidate than her opponent in the general election, the conservative councilman Joe Dunn. While Bellamy polled the strongest in districts with high African-American and Democratic turnout, post-election analysis of the vote revealed broad support across the city.
For local blacks, the election was a watershed moment in Asheville's history.
"I had older African-Americans, who knew my grandmother, my mother's mother, who were in tears," Bellamy recalls. "My grandmother cleaned houses. Each day she walked to work … To know that she was walking to clean houses, and now her granddaughter is sitting here, running the city … [it's] amazing. Her friends, the people who knew her, will call. I still get letters."
Bellamy pulls a thick file of correspondence from her desk drawer. On difficult days, she says, the letters remind her of all those who are rooting for her to succeed.
While Bellamy understands her place in Asheville history, she wants to move out from under the labels — first this, youngest that — and be judged on her merits as mayor. Time and again she will respond to a question about her life with an answer about her policies, preferring the nitty-gritty of water bonds, wellness initiatives, and mass transit to the soft polish of self-congratulation.
"It's not about me," Bellamy insists. "I see a lot of elected officials, and it's about them. And it's not about me. My goal is not that Terry be in a better place at the end of my term, but that Asheville be in a better place. That we'll be recognized for all that we have to offer, that the quality of life will be improved for people across the spectrum."
She ticks off a list of accomplishments, including increasing fire and police salaries, working to reduce homelessness, launching a "green government" initiative, repairing streets and sidewalks, and improving Asheville's position through state and national lobbying.
"I want to make sure that people know I'm not just sitting here with a title and a position," she says. "I'm out working for all Ashevillians. That's my goal."
While the position of Asheville mayor is nominally a part-time (and poorly paid) position, 14-hour days are not unusual. In addition to her work as mayor, Bellamy works as an English professor at a local university — she declines to say where — and helps her husband Lamont with his executive car transport business. She still pitches in from time to time with her mother's prison ministry, and she's working towards her master's degree in English from Western Carolina University. She's also the mother of two small children: Seth, 5, and Imani, 3.
During an interview with The Asheville Citizen-Times shortly after her election, Bellamy was asked how she planned to balance motherhood, career, and her job as mayor. After giving a measured response about her support system and her experience on city council, she turned the question on the interviewer: "And now I'll say, 'If I was a man, would I be asked this question?'" Reminded of that exchange, Bellamy still bristles: "Why is it that a woman has to be asked how she's able to sustain, how she's able to manage it all?"
Still, if you must know, Terry Bellamy has a one-word answer: Faith.
It's a word she keeps on her desk, printed neatly on a business card, to remind her of her rock. It's her answer for how she was able to succeed and stay focused while those around her drifted off the path. It's her answer for how she's able to sustain, to manage it all, even when council issues get heated and her critics start to howl.
"I try not to talk about my faith," Bellamy says, "but I honestly believe that God's been good to me. He has put people in my life who have opened doors for me, and who have been there for me. I am not perfect and I've made mistakes — God knows I've made mistakes — but [I'm] so appreciative to live in an area where people will give me a chance, and have given me a chance. I thank God every day for this opportunity to serve this community."
To faith, she adds family — her husband, her children, her grandparents, and godparents. Her mother, who turned can'ts into try's and does so to this day, often shows up at city council to show her support. No matter how contentious the meetings get, Bellamy says, "I know there's one person in the room supporting me, unconditionally. Not as mayor, necessarily. I know she's there for Terry."
So what's next for Terry Bellamy?
She intends to run for re-election in 2009 and hopes to gain another four-year term as Asheville's mayor.
"One more term, and that will be 14 years on council," she says. "And after that, it's time to move on."
What about a run for higher office?
"I'm not closing that door."
"Nothing beats a can't but a try," Bellamy declares, "and for me, I'm going to try quite a bit. If I fail, at least I tried … I don't want to be sick and on my deathbed saying, 'I wish I had' or 'I should have' or 'I wish I would have.' I don't want to be like that."
Quoting the Bible, she remembers the words of Paul: "I fought the good fight."
"I want to be a good fighter," Bellamy says. "He gave it all. I want to give it all. I don't want to leave anything. I don't want to be one of those people who goes to the grave with talents and ideas, and leaves them. I want to give all I have."
Asheville, N.C. Terry Bellamy Feature


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Press release - 12 February, 2009
Early this morning, 40 Greenpeace activists and local community representatives, wearing white face masks carrying the message 'Coal Kills' to symbolise the health damage to local communities, chained themselves to the gates of the Cilacap coal plant to block the transport of coal on Central Java's south coast. Denouncing the Indonesian Minister of Energy's decision to build 35 coal plants in the next 2 years, Greenpeace is calling upon Indonesia to choose clean renewable energy instead of dirty coal power.
Greenpeace's direct action at the Cilacap coal plant(1) coincides with the launch of the Indonesian version of the 'True Cost of Coal'(2). This landmark report details the external costs to local communities and the global climate of continued dependence on the dirtiest and most polluting of fuels. These "external costs" include respiratory diseases, mining accidents, acid rain, smog pollution, reduced agricultural yields and climate change.
"We have seen at Cilacap the direct impact of coal on human health in the form of increased respiratory diseases, loss of livelihood due to local pollution impacts on agriculture and fisheries, and social impacts, such as community displacement and loss of cultural heritage," said Arif Fiyanto, Climate and Energy campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
"Indonesia may have the region's most abundant coal resources but it also has huge untapped reserves of geo-thermal, wind and solar energy,(3) a much better fit for the needs of an archipelago than centralised fossil fuel generation. However, the development of the country's renewable energy potential has been stymied by the coal industry that rules our energy ministry," Fiyanto added.
The Cilacap coal plant, operated by private Indonesian energy utility company PT Segara Sumber Prima, is due to double in generating capacity from 600 to 1200 MW, as part of a misguided national energy plan to add an extra 10,000 MW of coal generated electricity to meet Indonesia's future energy demand.
An Anti-Coal Coalition consisting of various groups including KAM Cilacap, JATAM, Walhi, Sekolah Demokrasi Ekonomi and Greenpeace have launched a campaign against building new, and expanding existing, coal power plants in Indonesia.
Greenpeace is an independent, global campaigning organisation that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment, and to promote peace.
Other contacts: Arif Fiyanto, Climate and Energy campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia (in Cilacap):
Nabiha Shahab, Media campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia (In Cilacap):
Martin Baker, Communications Manager (Asia), Greenpeace International (in Jakarta):
tel: +62 81315829513For photo and video please contact Findi Kenandarti +62 8161681840
Notes: (1) The Cilacap coal plant, operated by Indonesian energy utility PT Segara Sumber Prima, is due to double in generating capacity from 600 to 1200 MW, as part of the misguided plan to add an extra 10,000 MW of coal generated electricity to meet Indonesia's future energy demand. The existing plant has already taken a toll on the health and livelihoods of local communities, with around 90% suffering respiratory problems and local fishermen reporting reduced catches. Medical practitioners working with Greenpeace and a coalition of JATAM (anti-coal ngo), Walhi, and local community groups, conducted free health checks for communities living adjacent to the Cilacap coal plant on 11 February 2009.
(2) 'True Cost of Coal' report: to approximate a true cost for coal, in 2007 Greenpeace and the independent Dutch research institute CE Delft conservatively evaluated the external costs of the human health impacts due to air pollution from coal, damages attributable to climate change and fatalities due to major accidents resulting from mining operations. These costs were separately compiled and then combined to arrive at a figure, which estimates a lower limit for the costs that coal exacted on humans and the environment in 2007.
The analysis reveals that:
- The approximate annual damage burden of coal combustion in power plants, from the factors examined, is roughly €355.75 billion.
- The approximate global damage burden related to accidents in the coal power chain, from the factors examined, is €161.28 million.
- The approximate annual damage costs of mining, from the factors examined, is €674cmillion.
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Звуковой эффект ( или ) — искусственно созданный или усиленный звук, или обработка звука, применяемый для подчеркивания художественного или иного содержания в кино, видео играх, музыке или других медиа.

Технические эффекты
Типичными звуковыми эффектами, которые применяются при подготовке аудиоматериала являются:
 Эхо — один или несколько задержанных сигналов, которые добавляются к оригинальному. Чтобы эффект воспринимался как эхо, задержка должна быть порядка 50  или более. Эффект может быть достигнут с помощью как аналоговой, так и цифровой обработки. Если значительное число задержанных сигналов воспроизводится в течение нескольких секунд, результирующий сигнал создает эффект присутствия в большом помещении и воспринимается как эффект реверберации.
 Обратное эхо () — эффект нарастания, который создается обращением вспять аудиосигнала с эффектом эхо. Изобретателями этого эффекта считаются Jimmy Page и Led Zeppelin (напр., песня Whole Lotta Love).
 Флэнжер () — задержанный сигнал добавляется к оригинальному с переменной задержкой до 10 мс. Этот эффект достигается цифровой обработкой, хотя достигается воспроизведением той же самой записи записи на двух синхронизированных проигрывателях и последующим микшированием. Для достижения эффекта оператор помещает свой палец на кромку () одного из дисков, несколько замедляя его движение, а значит и его звучание. Когда оператор убирает свой палец, механизм ускоряет движение диска, синхронизируя его с другим.
 Фэйзер () — сигнал раздваивается, часть его фильтруется фазовым фильтром для создания фазового сдвига, после чего фильтрованный и нефильтрованный сигналы смешиваются. Эффект фэйзера подобен эффекту фланжеру, однако трудно воспроизводим на аналоговой аппаратуре. Фэйзер используют для достижения «синтезации» или «электронизации» натуральных звуков, таких как человеческая речь. Голос персонажа C-3PO из фильма Звёздные войны был создан путём редактирования голоса актёра фэйзером.
 Хорус () — задержанный сигнал добавляется к оригинальному с постоянной задержкой. Задержка должна быть малой для избежания эффекта эхо, но больше 5 мс, в противном случае интерференция волны приведёт к эффекту флэнжер. Часто задержанные сигналы чуть сдвигают по высоте для достижения более реалистичного эффекта ансамблевого звучания.
 Овердрайв () эффект продуцирует искаженные звуки, может имитировать голос роботов или радиотелефонные сигналы. Классический овердрайв влечет к обрезке (clipping) сигнала, когда его абсолютная величина превышает определенный порог.
 Звуковысотное смещение () повышает или понижает высоту звуковых сигналов. Этот эффект часто используется для коррекции пения поп-певцов, поющих фальшиво. Скорость воспроизведения (темп) при этом остается постоянным.
 Растяжение времени () — в отличие от звуковысотного сдвига, этот эффект изменяет скорость воспроизведения аудиосигнала (темп), не изменяя его высоты.
 Эффект резонанса — усиливает обертоны на заданных частотах.
 Эффект роботизированного голоса — изменение человеческого голоса с помощью устройств, например, вокодера, с целью придания им «нечеловеческого» звучания, в основном роботизированного.
 Модуляция — изменение параметров несущего сигнала (частоты, амплитуды и др.) при помощи управляющего (модулирующего) сигнала, в котором содержится информация об изменении.
 Компрессия звука () — уменьшение амплитудного диапазона звука с целью предотвращения самопроизвольных колебаний динамики. Компрессию звука не следует путать со сжатием звуковых данных.
 3-мерные аудиоэффекты — помещает звуки за пределами стереобазы.
 Фильтрация звука — процесс, использующий различные виды звуковых фильтров. Полосная фильтрация голоса может симулировать эффект разговора.
 Эквалайзер (; сокращенно — EQ) — разные частотные полосы усиливаются или ослабляются для корректировки тембральных характеристик. Является разновидностью фильтрации звука.
 Wah-wah — динамический эффект изменения тембра, путём смещения частоты пика фильтра.

См. также
 Синтезатор — искусственно создает практически все звуки, имитируя природные или создавая совершенно новые.
 Аудиоредактор
 Мастеринг
 Шумовик

Литература
 Бысько М. В. Шумология  // ЭНЖ «Медиамузыка» № 3 (2014)

Ссылки
 Как создаются шумовые эффекты в кино? // «Индустрия кино» от 31.08.2012

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Звукозапись
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Scott Mardis and Julie Rench welcome award winning book author Max Hawthorne to the show for a discussion about Plesiosaur neck function and sensory pits in theropod dinosaurs. Max has some very compelling theories about their use and shares his insight on this very thought provoking episode of "The Haunted Sea with Scott Mardis"!
Known as the Prince of Paleofiction, Max Hawthorne is the author of the award-winning KRONOS RISING novel series and an amateur paleontologist to boot. His research credits include solving the mystery of how plesiosaurs utilized all four flippers to swim, and how changes in the morphology of the Megalodon shark's teeth, from birth to adulthood, indicated a conversion from hunting to scavenging.
Julie Rench is a marine creature enthusiast and lives in her beautiful home state of North Carolina.


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HomeMarketingU.S. pork gains long-awaited access to Argentine market
U.S. pork gains long-awaited access to Argentine market
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U.S. pork producers now have unfettered access to this large pork-consuming nation.
National Pork Producers Council | Aug 18, 2017
The National Pork Producers Council applauds the Trump administration for negotiating U.S. pork access to the Argentine market. Argentina was among several countries with non-science based barriers to U.S. pork imports. With today's White House announcement, trade-dependent U.S. pork producers now have unfettered access to this large pork-consuming nation.
"U.S. pork producers are the most competitive in the world and we have long sought the opportunity to provide affordable, high-quality pork in Argentina," said NPPC President Ken Maschhoff. "We thank Secretaries Perdue and Ross, and their teams at the USDA and the Department of Commerce, as well as U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer and his team, for their diligent work to win Argentine market access."
Maschhoff added, "We also thank Vice President Pence for his efforts, including a recent visit to Argentina, to move a trade agreement that promises significant U.S. economic benefits over the finish line."
The U.S. pork industry, which has been the world's largest exporter of pork over the last 10 years, depends on exports for growth. Exports added $50 -- representing 36 percent of the $140 average value of a hog -- to every U.S. hog marketed in 2016. NPPC continues to urge the administration to negotiate market access in other countries, such as India and Thailand, that remain closed to U.S. pork due to non-science based trade restrictions.
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MPhil in Sociology (The Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion)
Sociology (The Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion) is no longer accepting new applications.
The course offers teaching on social theory, substantive modules and research methods. Students work towards a written dissertation supported by supervisions and a dissertation workshop.
Students will typically receive one supervision on each of the topics they choose to study for the field review essay; these supervisions may be in groups and will be part of the teaching provided in Lent term. In addition, students will typically receive approximately eight hours of supervision on their dissertation, spread across the three terms.
Marginality and Exclusion: four modules of 6 hours.
Research methods: two modules of 12 hours.
Social theory: eight hours per year. Students are also entitled to attend any lectures offered by the University.
Dissertation workshop: ten hours per year.
Within the department various reading groups and clusters are offered.
Literature_reviews
Written assignments require students to conduct extensive literature reviews in their chosen areas of research.
The department runs a dissertation workshop in the second term.
Students receive written feedback on each essay and the dissertation. Feedback is also given during the dissertation workshop on the direction and progress of the dissertation research.
Students write a dissertation of not less than 15,000 and not more than 20,000 words on a subject approved by the Sociology Graduate Education Committee, falling within the field of the pathway chosen at the beginning of the course. The dissertation counts for 60 per cent of the final mark.
Students write:
Two research essays (these do not count towards the final mark)
Research essay one (formative; diagnostic) of not less than 2,500 and not more than 3,000 words
Research essay two (formative) of not less than 2,500 and not more than 3,000 words
Field review essay of not more than 5,000 words on topics approved by the Sociology Graduate Education Committee. This essay counts for 40 per cent of the final mark
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Tobias Henry · 24 May 2011
The 35 best Nintendo Switch games every gamer must own
DiRT 3 has achieved the impossible: bringing together the rally focus of the classic Colin McRae era with the X-games thrills of the newer DiRT brand. No rival off-road racer looks or drives better, and the only real flaw is a lack of track variety. In a year of excellent driving games, this stands up proudly amongst the very best
Excellent driving
Car selection includes some classics
Weather system
Sometimes lacks variety in terrain
Some longer races would have been nice
In the two previous iterations of DiRT, there has always been a tension between the past values of the series and the direction Codemasters wanted to take it for the future. The first two DiRT games bore the name and legacy of the Colin McRae Rally series - a series which has defined off-road racing games since 1998 - but at the same time they rushed to embrace more diverse styles of racing and a more fevered, transatlantic presentation. Perhaps Codemasters felt that all the X-Games stuff, the "gnarly" events and Travis Pastrana/Ken Block voiceovers would help sell the game outside of Europe, but while DiRT1 and DiRT2 were fun, the series felt like it was losing its soul. Too many circuit races, stadium shows and fireworks, said the fans, and not enough racing through the wilds at breakneck speeds.
Well, DiRT 3 hasn't dumped the circuit races, the stadium shows or the fireworks. Ken Block makes a reappearance, and there's still a lot of "awesome" and "you really represented out there" on the soundtrack. All the same, DiRT3 hits a better balance between the old-school CMR and the new-school extreme racing of DiRT 2. It's the best off-road racer Codemasters has made in the last 6 years.
Of course, it looks and feels incredible. By now, we take it for granted that the EGO engine behind DiRT2, Race Driver: GRID and F1 2011 can pull off astonishingly detailed cars and landscapes and push the one through the other at a ludicrous pace. DiRT3 isn't quite photorealistic, but at a quick glance it's not that far off. In fact, with its beautiful, natural lighting and state-of-the-art weather effects, DiRT3 almost looks too pretty to be real. When you're blasting at over 100mph through scenery that would have looked great in Alan Wake, it's hard not to be impressed.
The handling, too, is just about perfect. To work, an off-road racer needs to transmit the feel of tyres scrambling for grip on mud, snow and shale, and some sense of the way that the weight and momentum of the car continually works against you to spin your vehicle out. Go too far, however, and you make a game that your average console owner just wouldn't be bothered to play. Playing DiRT3 on the medium difficulty setting, it's got the balance right, and you can always switch to a different setting or turn the assists on and off if you want a greater or lesser challenge. It's a game where you have to work hard and think ahead to get a decent time, continually adjusting your course and speed to keep the car on track. The faster you go and the tricker the tracks get, the more difficult this becomes, and the result is a game that's challenging and exciting in all the ways an off-road racer should be.
Of course, you will go wrong from time to time, but here the Flashback feature Codemasters introduced in Race Driver: GRiD and DiRT2 comes into play. At any point you can pause the action, rewind time to the point where things started going bad, then restart it and correct your mistake. You can only use Flashback a limited number of times, and there are incentives for not using it, but it is - as it was in GRiD - a great way to minimise the frustration that can kick in with a challenging racer. What's more, your favourite clips can now be posted directly from the game onto YouTube; the ideal way to celebrate a spectacular crash or showcase some gobsmacking feat of driving skill.
What really makes DiRT3 work so well, however, is that it actually gives rally fans what they want without removing the "extreme racing" stuff altogether. While there are fairly straight circuit races in DiRT, in the form of Rally Cross and truck-driving Landrush events, the focus for most of the single-player game is on classic "one man against the clock" racing, with straight rally stages backed up by terrifying Trailblazer events in which heavily customised, rally-ready supercars hurtle along forest tracks at white-knuckle speeds. Off-road racing doesn't get more exciting than this.
True, we shuddered a little when drift events put in an appearance, but where Shift 2: Unleashed made these tedious, game-spoiling chores, in DiRT3 they're just an excuse to rush mostly sideways down a hill-climb track, gathering points for your gravel-scattering slides. In short, "drift" and "fun" can actually belong in the same sentence.
Meanwhile, the Gymkhana events will appease the new-school DiRT fans without sending the old-school rally nuts into apoplexy. The setup is simple: you and your car in an arena, with ramps for airtime, blocks to shatter and obstacles to drift and donut around. All you need to do is pull off as many point-scoring moves as possible in the time allowed. It's all a bit Tony Hawks, but it's a fun way to show off your technique, and the events aren't so common or so integral to the game that you feel they're a serious intrusion into the rally action.
And that really is where the heart of DiRT3 lies. Whether it's the all-new and extremely effective rain and snow weather systems, some brilliant night racers or a superb line-up of new and classic cars which stretches from 1960s Minis through 80s Quattros to modern greats like the Citroen C4 WRC, Subaru Impreza WRX STI and Ford Fiesta RS WRC, DiRT 3 seems to have rediscovered its love of rallying. While there will always be fans screaming for a more straightforward simulation of the real World Rally Championship, this is still the strongest rally game this console generation. It also helps that the interface has dropped flashiness for speed this time around. While lengthy loading times still slow things down, at least you know that they're there for the right reasons, not just to add another layer of gloss.
Dirt3 isn't quite perfect, however. If there's one complaint it's that it doesn't quite offer enough scenic variety. Don't get us wrong: the landscapes in Finland, Norway. Michigan, Aspen, Africa and Monaco are gorgeous - so gorgeous that it's tempting to stop the car, get out and take a wander. Yet, when the prevalent Nordic forests, autumnal woodlands and crisp snow are only broken by the odd trip around the streets of Monaco or the dust, grass and mud of the savannah, you can't help wishing for a spot of action in the sunnier climes of Greece, Spain and Italy, not to mention Mexico, Argentina. And while the game's shorter stages make for a more accessible racer, it might have been nice to have the odd challenging stage that pushed your concentration for a slightly longer period. Sometimes you're just hitting that perfect zone of focus when the stage comes to an abrupt end.
DiRT 3 has achieved the impossible: bringing together the rally focus of the classic Colin McRae era with the X-games thrills of the newer DiRT brand. No rival off-road racer looks or drives better, and the only real flaw is a lack of track variety. In a year of excellent driving games, this stands up proudly amongst the very best.
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Probably just a typo in this thread, but @JamesH said 'dpi-timings' and @aBUGSworstnightmare used 'dpi_timings' ??
Sorry, but I can't follow your comment.
Don't worry - I tried to identify differences between what you said didn't work and what James said to do. You got it right. James made a small typing error in the thread (not in his code). All good.
To me 'dpi-timings' gives the same result as dpi_timings': DPI Screen is not working.
So maybe there's more than this typo in 'the thread'..
Anybody else here who got it working with an dpi_timings entry in their config.txt?.
Here's the latest builds, might be worth trying these.
This is for kernel 4.14.61 - so the current rpi-update.
Now change 'hdmi_timings' line to 'dpi_timings' line --> all fine.
Now it's time to figure out which performance one can achieve (also when displays are rotated or video is played 'full screen').
Big THANK YOU! to jamesh for this!
tested with 'display_hdmi_rotate=3' which rotates Manga Screen to landscape mode.
Now I made some test with OXMplayer, with omxplayer always on DPI screen!
- how the direct oxmplayer output to a dedicated screen? Is '--display=x' still working now?
- how to play a video over both screens?
Not sure you can play a HW decoded video over two screens...in fact I think that might be impossible from a HW perspective.
Correct. The dispmanx resource specifies a display, and will have cropping parameters set up based on that.
You could use video_splitter to send to two independent video_render components and then set the crop parameters to glue produce an overall combined image, but it won't happen magically. If using MMAL_ENCODING_OPAQUE or IL tunnelling then there is no performance penalty in doing so as they will use the same block of memory for both displays (no copying required).
Question simply came into my mind because I've used 'scrot' without the '-m' option and ended up with a big screenschot showing both framebuffers.
Coming back to 6by9's statement ... so if I split my video into two segments (using other software, which must not be running on the Pi) it should be possible to run two instances of omxplayer - displaying each half on their assigned screen - with HW acceleration, correct?
Starting both playbacks may not have any delay ... o.k. let me make some tests to see how far i can/want to get ..
and give the two video_render components different src_rect parameters via MMAL_DISPLAYREGION_T or the IL equivalent.
You are limited that the output resolution of video_decode can be a maximum of 1080P, so you're not going to be able to decode 3840x1080 and stretch it over the two displays.
You will get a tiddly bit of discrepancy as the VSYNCs on the two displays won't be locked together, but we're talking <16ms.
Made some further tests yesterday where I was simply running omxplayer in window mode (outputing to DPI or HDMI). As already reported in an earlier post this may result in the other screen going all black, or not working at all (irregular display due to screwed-up timings).
What I want to understand now is how the second framebuffer is calculated/generated.
As there is no entry for framebuffer widths/heigths, but you can see some 'scaling' happening after boot (i.e. Wallpaper get's scaled to fit) I want to know how this is working.
Same problem happens when using 'screen' starting omxplayer, displaying independant video on both screens.
Odd, I don't get that behaviour. Omxplayer writes directly to the display, not via any framebuffer, so not sure what could cause that.
Framebuffer sizes are determined by the display size they are assigned to, same for all fbs.
I'm away for next couple of weeks so won't be able to work on this. Might be able to comment.
thanks for this valuable contribution. Does it also work with OSMC? I would like to have kodi mirrored on both the HDMI output and on the 7 inch DSI touch-display.
As the previous poster says it still beta / experimental.
One of the potential problems (for now at least) is that OSMC does not use the standard Raspbian kernel, so it may have unexpected effects when running OSMC.
PS: I'm not sure if this has any advantage on OSMC. OSMC uses HW accelerated video (including for the GUI).
DirkS wrote: PS: I'm not sure if this has any advantage on OSMC. OSMC uses HW accelerated video (including for the GUI).
You can use OMXplayer for displaying a different video on each screen (fully HW accelerated). OMXplayer is not using any framebuffer.
I've experienced some Problems when playing two Video files as one of my screen goes black, dependant on where the OMXplayer window is located. Still Need to figure out what is causing this at my end as jamesh doesn't see such a Problem.
Let me mention again: this is BETA, so no distro/SW will make use of it atm unless you instruct it to do.
Use the numbers from this post viewtopic.php?f=63&t=216399&start=150#p1351400 to have the OMXplayer window on another screen. You can adjust the window size/Position as you need. Refer to OMXplayer manual for details on how to use.
Hmmm... why are you quoting my post?
Sample above is for Unit1 (from Resolution POV), both videos in full-screen window. Played the same video for this test as this file is the shortest that I've had on hands.
Playing full-screen on both monitors of Unit1 works fine. 19in monitor has problems when video is played in some smaller Windows/certain positions (some settings are fine (?), so did not figure out root cause yet). 19in monitor then displays 'unsupported resolution warning' and needs to be power cycled to resume operation.
Problem described above could not be observed with unit2. Here playback window can have any size Position.
Problem seems to be related to display timing. As full-screen is always fine - and that's what most people seem to prefer - this should be rare case to happen (and if: timing needs to be evaluated/modified --> so not a real problem as HDMI and DPI timings are now fully customizable).
I've decided to take this beta out for a spin as I am looking to have a display work on a custom DSI LCD. So far, I'm working with the Raspi Official Touch Screen and utilising this beta project, I get the following results.
I've updated to latest rpi-update for Jamesh's files (4.14.61) and added the kernel7.igm and start_x.elf files to boot. What results is the displays showing on both my monitor and my touch display.
However on boot, I get the splash screen on my touch screen, but boot and desktop on my monitor. My touchscreen doesn't change from the splash screen, but I can use everything via monitor. Also, looking into /dev/fb*, I only have the data for fb0, maybe the absence of fb1 is causing the touch to not display anything.
If there's any help I can get to extend the display for both, I'd like to help out if this gets solved. Thanks!
have you followed the entire post? Using the files only is just part of it!
- how did you start? Fresh (clean) install are used system?
And: your talking about custom DSI display! Is this already proved working or do you try to connect a random display thinking this beta will bring it to life?
I've missed out on the xorg file, I've added that in to the etc/X11 directory, and I forgot to mention that I did enable start_x=1 in my config.txt file. I've booted into CLI and started the command as you mentioned, but no changes, still only see the rpi display on my monitor while my touchscreen is still idling in boot splash.
Also, for the custom display, AFAIK, there is no real easy interface for custom displays, which is why I'm experimenting with the touchscreen display to at least work with a DSI output. What I'm trying is to find a way to force display some data on the display channel, and then wiring the display pins directly to the custom screen. I figured I'd try to use this beta as a way to see if it gives me what I'm looking for (I've also looked into using a raspi2raspi display clone to have the HDMI output to DSI). The screen in question is a MIPI DSI connecting to the display D0 & CLK lines, but I'm having trouble getting the rpi treating it like a display.
1) Any chance to get multiple framebuffer support for two DSI displays (DSI0 + DSI1)?
2) will it allow to use DSI0 instead of DSI1 (as DSI one is the only possibility atm)?
3) when will it be released?
DSI1 is the only DSI port exported on the standard Pi's. Only the CM exposes DSI0. I am actually not sure whether this will work with two displays on a CM3, never tried it. I suppose I should! DPI+DSI doesn't work due to a HW limitation but two DSI should be OK.
No idea of a release date. Need to talk to the boss about the level of testing required - this is a big change to the underlying firmware.
I think I will need to add a backwards compatibility mode, i.e. to force only one display support which gets us back to the current scheme. Or perhaps have that as a default, and have a config item to enable multiple FB's. Hmm, think that's probably the best approach.


Sulma Carina Franco-Chamale hasn't left the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin in more than two months.
"I can't even go out to the parking lot because immigration [agents] could come, park there and apprehend me. I could be detained," said Franco in Spanish.
And even though the church walls don't offer Franco, who is undocumented, any legal protection, she's hopeful that the sanctuary will deter immigration authorities from apprehending and deporting her.
Natalie Hansen, one of Franco's attorneys, said that staying in the church isn't a permanent solution. The point is to raise awareness and to signal to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that Franco has the support of a broad community, Hansen said.
Franco, who is gay, left Guatemala in 2009. She's afraid that if she were forced to return, she would be persecuted because of her sexual orientation. A 2012 United Nations report highlighted human rights abuses suffered by the LGBT community in Guatemala, including widespread discrimination, a constant threat of violence and even killings.
"I really wouldn't have any job opportunities; I'd be discriminated against; I'd be afraid because since I've already been in the news and spoken about my sexual orientation, I could be seen as a person who doesn't deserve to be in that society," Franco said.
For six years, Franco has been trying to get asylum in the U.S.
Sulma Catarina Franco-Chamale, an undocumented immigrant seeking sanctuary at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, addressed the small crowd during her press conference on Wednesday. She plans to remain a refugee at the church until she receives a positive response from ICE.
Franco was first detained in 2009 after she entered the U.S without authorization. After her release in 2010, she began to adapt to a place where she didn't speak the language and lacked employment and documentation. Her first job in the U.S. was as a handywoman.
"We did construction work, we cleaned pools, trimmed trees. I don't regret it nor am I embarrassed. I feel proud to be a hard-working, responsible woman," Franco said.
Later, she opened a food truck with a partner.
"I pay taxes, I had my business. When we built our business together, we did everything legally because my documents were in order. All of the necessary inspections, the city permits, I didn't have a problem with that," Franco said.
On July 2, 2012, an immigration judge denied Franco's asylum application. Her attorney at that time attempted to get the case reopened but filed in the wrong court. When Franco went in for a routine check-in, she was detained by ICE agents, who saw no progress in her case file because of the mistaken filing. Franco was in detention facilities in Texas and Arizona for eight months until her partner posted bond to get her released.
Now, Hansen is attempting to get her case heard again by presenting new documents, including some from Guatemala.
Fifty-six faith leaders have sent a letter to ICE, asking for Franco to be allowed to stay in the United States. "We will continue to stand by her until she is granted permission to remain in our country, in the community in which she has become a valued and integral member," they wrote in the letter.
Marisol Caballero, assistant minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, spoke at the press conference Wednesday.
"As a queer, undocumented woman who's an immigrant, who faces violence and even death if she returns to Guatemala, Sulma is particularly vulnerable to injustice. As a people of faith, we believe that we are called to stand with Sulma, who deserves the right to safety and happiness as much as I do, as much as all of you do," Caballero said.
Franco plans to stay in sanctuary until she receives word from ICE that she can stay in the U.S.
"I'm trying to stay positive, and to think that a bad experience in my life lead me to very good people and organizations that have supported me," Franco said.


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Just about every patient asks me the same question when starting treatment: "How many treatments will this take." I hate to say it because it sounds like a cop out, but it depends. And it depends on a variety of factors. One of those factors is how long the pain has been there. Typically, it takes one month of treatment for every year the problem has been there. So, if your problem has been around for 20 years, buckle up, you're going to need almost 2 years of regular treatment. Another major factor in treatment planning is what your treatment goals are.
Your goals can be to eliminate the pain, or to reduce the frequency and severity of the pain (maintenance). After all, if someone is suffering from debilitating migraines twice a week that cause them to miss work and limits their ability to function, a reduction to twice a month would be considered maintenance. But that may be a huge win and enough for some patients. Will they have to continue with maintenance treatment to keep things under control? Yes, but one to two treatments a month should suffice.
This may be the biggest factor in determining how long treatment will take and will factor in to your goals for treatment. It will also factor in to how often maintenance treatments are required. Are you willing to leave behind the things that made you sick in the first place? If you live the life of a Yogi or a Daoist priest, you are likely to lead a long, healthy life with few, if any, trips to the doctor. Our modern lives, however, are filled with stress, time pressures, too little exercise, too much crappy food, increasing isolation and poor coping mechanisms. All these factors can contribute to poor physical and emotional health and ultimately result in pain. Unless you take steps to leave behind the things that caused your pain in the first place and incorporate healthy habits, your treatment time will be longer, and the maintenance required to keep you feeling good will be more frequent. This is like owning a high-performance sports car, paying top dollar to get it running at peak levels and then taking it 4 wheeling. Odds are pretty good that you are going to have to take it right back to the mechanic. With acupuncture, if you change your habits and live a healthier life, maintenance treatments can be few and far between. Hey, I'll be glad to take your money and treat you once a week if you are unable to make those changes, but I would much rather see you around town than see you in my office!
Is it possible to eliminate pain? Depending on the cause, pain can be eliminated but this takes an even bigger commitment to incorporating changes into your life. So how long will treatment take? I tell all my patients that if I could get them better in one treatment I would. Some say that's bad for business but if I could really eliminate pain in one treatment, I would have a line out the door from my office to Texas!


Here at Cloud 9 HQ it warms our heart to receive photos of each and every one of our customers' baby bedrooms' because we can see the love and excitement that's been poured into creating a really special space for a brand new little human being. In fact, this is the very reason Cloud 9 Baby Bedrooms came into existence (and career opportunities in psychology and academia, as well as a job in Business and Data Analysis were abandoned) - for the passion experienced in creating our own babies' bedrooms'!
Regardless of the style, or the end result of the nursery, this is what we adore when we see our customer's nursery photos – that excitement and love by each and every Mum-to-be. Setting up your nursery is a very special time of anticipating what your baby will be like and it often seems that despite the discomfort of pregnancy, instinct kicks-in and many Mum's-to-be go to extraordinary lengths to create a most spectacular space! It really is a show of love (and from a psychological perspective it's also a fascinating human behavior, popularly referred to as 'nesting' – as you'd know)!
Although we see that beauty in each and every nursery, our jaws do drop when we see customer photos of a Cloud 9 Baby Bedroom creation fit for a magazine! It really is amazing to see how up-market and posh the furniture can look when our Mum's-to-be have a talent for interior design. Ida's stunning Cloud 9 Baby Bedroom is one such example that we are thrilled to be revealing to you here, along with all the inside info you'll need - directly from Ida herself, to help you recreate a similarly beautiful space. Even though Ida has achieved a professional finish, she too reports having had that same experience of enjoying every minute of her nesting journey. In her own words, "I especially enjoyed experiencing it all come together with my husband, as both of us had our own individual input in creating the space for our little one".
What we all really want to know is where Ida found inspiration and ideas for her nursery styling! In asking Ida, we could hardly believe it when she revealed to us "This is our first child, so I had no idea about designing and preparing a nursery, nor the essential furniture pieces that were needed to fill the space! I gathered all my knowledge and inspiration mainly from social media sources such as Instagram, Pinterest and Nursery Tour videos on Youtube".
Ida then created her own little mood board with all the different elements and ideas that she found from different sources and this helped her to visualize exactly how she wanted the nursery to look and feel. In asking Ida about the colour palette, she explained "Before my husband and I started designing the nursery, we already knew we wanted neutral colours, so it could be transitioned from a boys' to a girls' baby nursery or vice versa, as my husband and I are planning to have a second child not long after our first".
Ida purchased her décor items from different places, including from a mix of higher end specialty stores to more affordable sources like department stores. The grey vintage canopy and tassel rug is from Adairs Kids, the framed wall prints are from TK Maxx and the floating shelves and artificial plants are from Kmart and Target. We love this tip from Ida that "Mixing it up is the key, you don't have to spend a lot of money to make a room look expensive".
"Another piece that I love is this precious little wooden toy train which I thrifted from the Salvation Army store. I love visiting thrift stores as you can find some hidden gems in there that can add unique touches to your home. My husband also works for Metro Trains Sydney, so this added detail is very appropriate. Now our little one will know that Daddy works with trains!!!"
What really excites us is that Ida's styling is a testiment that Cloud 9 Baby Bedrooms Nursery Furniture has the potential to look high end - Ida you have certainly given our furniture justice! Ida told us she chose the '6 Piece Nursery Furniture Set' as it included everything that her and her husband needed for their little one. "The set already came with the Mattresses and also the Change Mat, which saved me the hassle of sourcing them from somewhere else".
Ida adds... "The overall design is also very classic, timeless, and baby/toddler friendly with smooth rounded edges and non-toxic paint and finishes used on all the furniture, which gave my husband and I the peace of mind that our baby is going to be safe in his nursery. I also wanted a lot of storage so I opted for the Chest of Drawers with Changing Table as it has 4 drawers which provide generous storage space for all of our baby essentials. The crib also includes a bottom storage unit where I can store extra bedding and other things that I want out of sight".
"There are a lot of features that I like about our nursery furniture, most specifically the safety feature of the non-toxic teething guards on the cot, which not only will protect my baby's teeth and gums but will also protect the cot. We have confidence that it will stand the test of time as we are planning to use the same cot for our next baby! I also love the fact the changing station is not your typical changing station. The changing mat is removable and the furniture can easily transition to just a dresser as my little one gets older".
We are 'over the moon' to hear Ida say that "The furniture set is definitely great value for money especially for the high-quality standard that you are getting". Ida was also the first customer to suggest to us that we introduce the option to purchase a combination of white nursery furniture with a dark coloured cradle - as Ida and her husband have dark coloured furniture in their bedroom. We greatly appreciate customer feedback, as it helps us to improve customer satisfaction, as is demonstrated in Ida's case as she says "Another thing that I love about my furniture purchase is that I was able to choose a different colour (dark brown) for the rocking cradle which matched perfectly with our bedroom suite, as we are planning for our baby boy to sleep in the same room with us for the first few months".
Ida thank you for sharing the story of your nursery styling journey with us. We are absolutely blown away by your stunning nursery and we are certain that your Cloud 9 Baby Bedroom will continue to inspire our future Cloud 9 Mum's-to-be who may be reading our Cloud 9 Blog in preparation for setting up their own Cloud 9 Baby Bedrooms!
Ida also has some suggestions for you if you'd like to design a nursery just like hers: "If you are planning to design a neutral-colored nursery, it is all the more important to add different textures like rugs and cushions, also hanging shelves and prints to break up the walls and use different tones of neutrals to add dimension to the room".
And we couldn't agree more with Ida's final words of wisdom when we asked her what advice she'd give to our other Mum's-to-be in designing a nursery just like hers. Ida "would advise other mums-to-be to take their time with it, enjoy the experience and add personal touches to the room as it will make the room unique to you and your family to be".


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The Desire to Sing
An interview with Mark De-Lisser.
Photo by Adam Prosser
Mark De-Lisser is our Singing Curator here at The Choral Hub. Mark is also the co-host for our weekly Live Instagram TV (IGTV) show 'The Everyone Can Sing Club'.
Q: Tell us a bit about you
I love playing music, watching people dance, creating arrangements and watching people enjoy singing. The best thing in the world is that desire you get when you're with a group of people: that desire to chat, to eat, to laugh and most importantly for me – to sing.
Music is an important part of my household. I spend a lot of time with my kids – I constantly bombard them with: "oh, listen to this song! Did you hear that, did you hear that part? What happened to the cello in that bit?" That's how I spend my life: music, family and people.
Q: What part of your work with The Choral Hub do you enjoy most?
I have a lot of fun making music for the app and finding music that is diverse, fun and engaging but at the same time challenging. I wanted to bring the real life experience of teaching singers in a room into a virtual experience.
Q: Why were you drawn to this project?
I was sold as soon as The Choral Hub was introduced to me. I have a desire to ensure that everyone in the world should have the opportunity to sing – the app (tchzant) makes that journey of just jumping straight in to the singing experience so much easier, giving people access to singing on their mobile phone, wherever they are in the world. What we want to do is open the door to an easy, fun way to explore your voice and give singing a go.
Q: What does music mean to you?
"Music is life"
When you're conceived in the womb there is a heart beat and already we have rhythm. This beating gets faster or slower depending on your mood. For me, that is the basis to music. Most of us in this world would have cried when we came out of the womb, right? Nobody teaches you that.
You have to learn how to hold a spoon and to put it in your mouth, you have to learn how to pick up something but nobody teaches you how to cry. That sound you make when you enter the world is the basis for everything, it's your unique sound.
A beautiful experience that I can share is when my daughter wanted to have a singing lesson and my two sons just couldn't ignore the music, they had to be involved. One joined in on piano and the other on drums.
"Music draws people in and that's what's so powerful about it"
Q: Who are your musical inspirations?
My dad. When I was about 7 or 8, I went off to a rehearsal with him, complaining the whole way. But as soon as I got there and I saw all of these men singing together, I was inspired.
Watching my dad singing was the root of it all because he took it so seriously: he had his music under his arm, and you could hear him humming the songs through. I was enraptured. That was a pivotal moment and I have been inspired by him ever since.
It was also very cool watching the leader of the choir, getting all of these guys to sing. I had never seen anything like it. My dad brought me into the musical world and the leader of that choir feeds into who I am as my own choir leader.
Q: What led you to become a vocal coach and choral director?
When I was growing up, all I wanted was to get people singing the harmonies in my head. I became a bit of a vocal nerd in my late teens when I learned what the voice does, how we create sound and where harmony comes from.
I then started forming various singing groups and leading choirs in my church. Due to my heritage I never thought I could live a life where I teach people how to sing, I thought I'd have to be an accountant, doctor or lawyer. But how could I do anything else when the feeling is so good from teaching people how to sing?
Q: Tell us a bit more about the work you do for Singology?
I finished training as a vocal coach and from that I was eager to get people singing. I started with 1:1 sessions, honing my skills as I led people on this journey of vocal discovery.
I started Singology in 2003 as an opportunity for people to come together and sing. I had a desire to help churches to change the negative perceptions of who was allowed into the Church choirs.
Singology was born out of that desire that everybody is welcome, regardless of age, gender, race, or whether you think you can sing, whatever you've done wherever you've been, just come along and sing.
Q: How do you get people to start singing?
For new singers you can start by giving them the license to sing whatever comes out of their mouth. In my workshops, I ask everyone to create sounds as they're walking around the room, it can be any sound, just create some noise! And that's it, the journey of exploring your voice has begun.
Mark De-Lisser at Nottingham College demonstrating to students how he arranged 'Stand By Me' for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.
Q: What has been your favourite song to work on for the tchzant app and why?
I Vow to Thee My Country because there's something about it that stirs me. I enjoyed every second of arranging this song for tchzant.
I Vow to Thee my Country arr. Steve Sidwell, performed by the Bands of HM Royal Marines.
Q: If you had to listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
Total Praise by Richard Smallwood. It's a gospel hymn-style song. I remember hearing it for the first time in 1991 and thought it was beautiful. It's short but incredibly powerful. I could absolutely listen to that all day long.
Total Praise by Richard Smallwood sung by the SCHS Gospel Ensemble in 2013.
Mark was talking to Ione Haynes, Marketing Coordinator at The Choral Hub.
Ione Haynes
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