In this section, we'll take a look at the shops, high streets and where to buy different products.
Galeries Lafayette (Boulevard Haussmann 40): Declared historic monument thanks to its spectacular Neo-Byzantine dome, Galeries Lafayette is one of the most visited department stores in the world. It is worthwhile visiting the building, even if you don't plan on buying anything.
Printemps (Boulevard Haussmann 64): Very close to Lafayette, the department store Printemps includes the most expensive luxury fashion brands worldwide. Visitors will find it difficult to find items for less than €300.
Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, BHV (Rue du Temple 14): This well-known department store could be compared to the Spanish "Corte Inglés", a large store that sells different clothing brands, not as luxurious as the previous two.
Champs-Elysées: The city's most popular avenue is also renowned for its exclusive stores, luxury brands and designer fashion. This is where Louis Vuitton's insignia shop is, attracting hundreds of clients and thousands of curious tourists to its window display each day. The majority of its clients are wealthy Asians.
Avenue Montaigne: This small street is where the city's most exclusive and high-end shops are found. It is worth visiting, at least to see the extravagantly decorated window displays.
Rue Royale: This street connects Place de la Concorde with la Madeleine. Halfway down the street, Rue Saint-Honoré cuts it perpendicularly. This artery is where stores like Hermès, Prada or Yves Saint Laurent are found. If you continue walking east, you'll get to Place Vendôme.
The Latin Quarter is a great option if you're looking for high streets with affordable shops. The streets: Saint-Germain Boulevard, Saint-Michelle Boulevard and the neighbourhood's cobbled streets are all worth discovering.
Île de la Cité Market: Located in the Place Louis Lépine and open during the whole year, this market is one of most famous in Paris. On weekdays there are flower stands and on Sunday they sell birds as well.
Marchés aux puces de Saint Ouen: In this huge open-air market travellers will be able to find from antiques to clothes. The most important days are Saturday and Sunday. The best way to get to the market is taking the metro to the Porte de Clignancourt station.
The cheapest souvenir gift shops are found in Montmartre, both at the top of the hill near Place du Tertre and at its foot in Rue de Steinkerque. This road connects the Metro station Anvers to the funicular.
Montmartre is not only a good neighbourhood to buy souvenirs, it is also the best place to buy local art. In the square Place du Tertre travellers will find artists painting and selling their artwork. Visitors will also find art galleries and shops in this area.
To buy posters or old prints we recommend walking down the bank of the River Seine where you'll find stands specialized in this type of products.
During your stay in Paris you'll get the chance to try the delicious pastries and bread the city is so famous for. However, if you're looking for something to bring home, we suggest purchasing wine, cheese and foie gras. These products are easily found in any type of supermarket or gourmet food store. An option is to get them in the Galeries Lafayette.


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Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Кишко́вский () — протопресвитер Православной церкви в Америке, многолетний директор по внешним связям и межцерковным связям Православной церкви в Америке, настоятель храма Казанской иконы Божией Матери в городе Си-Клифф штата Нью-Йорк. Участник экуменического движения.

Биография
Родился 24 марта 1943 года в Варшаве, в русской семье Александра Ивановича и Софии Григорьевны Кишковских. В 1944 году семья, уходя от наступавшей Красной армии, переехала на Запад Германии. В марте 1951 году они эмигрировали в США где, с помощью Церкви, поселились в Лос-Анджелесе. Леонид стал приёмным сыном профессора Владимира Улитина. Леонид вырос, помогая священнослужителям в алтаре, особенно давнему настоятелю отцу Дмитрию Гизетти, который вдохновил его поступить в семинарию и стать священником.

В течение следующих двух лет Леонид занимал несколько должностей в молодежном служении как на местном (в его родном приходе), так и на межведомственном уровнях. Именно на студенческом ретрите семинарии Святого Владимира он познакомился с Александрой Куломзиной из Монреаля, Канада. 31 августа 1969 года их обвенчали священники Иоанн Мейендорф и Александр Шмеман в часовне Святого Сергия в Лак-Лабелле, Квебек, Канада.

С 1961 по 1964 год изучал политологию и историю в Университете Южной Калифорнии, намереваясь поступить во Внешнюю службу США.

В 1964 году он поступил в Свято-Владимирскую духовную семинарию, где завершил своё формальное образование в 1967 году.

В течение следующих двух лет занимал несколько должностей в молодёжном служении как на местном (в его родном приходе), так и на межведомственном уровнях. Именно на студенческом ретрите (retreat) Свято-Владимирской духовной семинарии он познакомился с Александрой Куломзиной из Монреаля, Канада. 31 августа 1969 года священники Иоанн Мейендорф и Александр Шмеман обвенчали их в часовне Святого Сергия в Лак-Лабелле, Квебек, Канада.

20 сентября 1969 года епископом Димитрием (Ройстером) был рукоположен в сан диакона в Свято-Владимирской духовной семинарии, а 2 ноября — в сан священника в церкви Пресвятой Богородицы в Лос-Анджелесе. Был назначен в часовню Святого Иннокентия при соборе Святой Троицы в Сан-Франциско, где службы проводились на английском языке, что позволило ему продолжать работу с молодёжью. После почти пяти лет служения в Сан-Франциско согласился на перевод в Нью-Йорк. Вместе со своей семьёй он переехал в дом священника церкви Казанской Богоматери в Си-Клифф, штат Нью-Йорк, где ему предстояло прожить всю оставшуюся жизнь. Он был назначен приходским настоятелем с 1 июля 1974 года. В то же время он был назначен помощником канцлера в канцелярии ПЦА в Ойстер-Бей-Коув, недалеко от Си-Клифф.

В начале своего приходского служения в Си-Клиффе столкнулся с непростой задачей укрепления мира в общине, которая пострадала в течение нескольких лет беспорядков, когда группа прихожан покинула приход, перейдя в РПЦЗ в знак протеста против предоставления автокефалии ПЦА со стороны Московского Патриархата. Отец Леонид смог восстановить мир в приходе и продвинуться вперёд в его литургической жизни, постепенно добавляя английский язык к богослужениям и принимая «новый» календарь для продвижения своей миссионерской деятельности.

Наряду со своим приходским служением трудился на благо всей ПЦА, обеспечивая свидетельство о православии в глобальном масштабе. Когда он прибыл в канцелярию ПЦА в 1974 году, его работа заключалась в оказании помощи канцлеру и оказании поддержки во многих задачах. По мере того, как новая автокефальная ПЦА взрослела и становилась более заметной, её призвали к более активному взаимодействию с другими православными Церквями, религиозными организациями других конфессий, а также экуменическими, политическими и гуманитарными организациями. Делегированное митрополитом, Священным Синодом и канцлером представлять ПЦА в этих взаимодействиях, служение отца Леонида за пределами прихода стало почти исключительно сосредоточено на внешнем свидетельстве, эта работа требовала всё больше и больше его времени и постоянных поездок в течение многих лет для участия в собраниях и консультациях по всему миру.

В 1985 году сменил Иоанна Мейендорфа на посту редактора «The Orthodox Church», главного официального периодического издания ПЦА. Он занимал пост редактора до 2012 года. Его деятельность на благо Церкви по всему миру повлекла за собой многочисленные отлучки из его семьи и прихода. Тем не менее, отцу Леониду удавалось поддерживать духовное питание своей приходской паствы и гармонию приходской и семейной жизни.

Одновременно занимал ряд важных должностей в межюрисдикционных православных, межхристианских и межрелигиозных организациях США. С 1990 по 1991 год служил председателем Национального совета христианских церквей США (NCCCUSA) и стал первым православным клириком во главе этой организации.

В течение нескольких десятилетий был вовлечён в экуменическое движение. Он был президентом Национального совета Церквей Христа в США, модератором «Религии за мир» и «Религии за мир США», модератором «Христианские церкви вместе» в США, а также входил в совет директоров международных православных христианских благотворительных организаций и был членом правления «Церковная Всемирная служба».

Православная интеллигенция обратили внимание на Леонида Кишковского в 1994 году, когда во время конференции «Единство Церкви» в Москве, где критике со стороны православных фундаменталистов подверглись священники Георгий Кочетков и Александр Борисов. Протоиерей Леонид сказал тогда, что жестко осуждать священников за то, что стараются разъяснить пастве евангельское слово и сделать литургию понятной, — это «духовный большевизм».

В ноябре 1996 года был приглашен Государственным департаментом США в состав Комитета советников по вопросам религиозной свободы за границей. В разное время — председатель Исследовательского центра по вопросам религии и прав человека в закрытых обществах, член совета директоров Международного фонда православных благотворительных организаций (International Orthodox Christian Charities), попечитель Фонда совести (Appeal of Conscience), член постоянного комитета Постоянной конференции канонических православных епископов в Америке (SCOBA). Участник международных переговоров, увенчавшихся освобождением в конце апреля 1999 трёх американских военнопленных в Югославии.

1 февраля 2009 года в составе делегации Православной церкви в Америке присутствовал на интронизации патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла.

На заседании Архиерейского Синода Православной Церкви Америки 7-10 мая 2012 года на место председателя Отдела внешних отношений Церкви был назначен епископ Толедский Александр (Голицын), при котором отец Леонид сохранил должность директора внешних дел.

Он получил множество наград от организаций и церквей по всему миру. Священный Синод ПЦА присвоил ему сан протопресвитера в 2014 году и право носить митру в 2017 году.

Несмотря на серьёзные проблемы со здоровьем на протяжении многих лет, он оставался на активном служении Церкви до самой своей кончины. Почти до последних своих дней, уже сидя в инвалидном кресле или используя средства электронной связи, служил и проповедовал в своем небольшом храме Казанской иконы Божией Матери в городке Си-Клифф. Скончался 3 августа 2021 года в городе Глен-Ков, штат Нью-Йорк, после сердечного приступа.

Публикации
 книги
 Orthodox Christians in North America 1794—1994. — Syosset, NY: Orthodox Christian Publications Center, 1995. (соавтор: Mark Stokoe)
 Growing consensus : Church dialogues in the United States, 1962—1991. — New York : Paulist Press, cop. 1995. (соавторы: Joseph A Burgess; Jeffrey Gros)

 статьи
 IV Всеамериканский Церковный Собор // Ежегодник Православной церкви в Америке, 1976. — C. 8-15.
 Response to Miroslav Volf by Leonid Kishkovsky // International Bulletin of Mission Research, v20 n1 (1/1996): 31-32
 На путях к церковному единству в Северной Америке // Русская мысль, 1997. — № 4195 (30 октября — 5 ноября).
 Канонизация Царской семьи: за и против // Церковь и время, 1998. — № 4 (7). — C. 197—199.
 Речь на выпускном акте Свято-Владимирской академии // Вестник русского христианского движения. — 2001. — № 1 (182) — С. 308—314.
 Православие в Америке: диаспора или Церковь? // Православное учение о церкви : Богословская конференция Русской Православной Церкви (Москва, 17-20 ноября 2003 г.): Материалы : материалы временных коллективов. — М. : Синодальная Богословская комиссия, 2004. — 359 с. — С. 115—128
 Православие в Америке: диаспора или Церковь? // Церковь и время. 2005. — № 1 (30). — С. 86-99
 Following Christ with Great Joy: Christians Called to Reconciliation by Leonid Kishkovsky // Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, v27 n1 (01/2010): 55-62

 интервью
 «Мы — члены одной Церкви» [интервью — ответы: Кишковский Леонид, протоиерей; вопросы: Макаров А.] // Журнал Московской Патриархии, 1989. — № 6. — C. 48-49.
 Продолжая традиции Православия [интервью — ответы: Кишковский Леонид, протоиерей; вопросы: Комаров Е., Изотова Т.] // Журнал Московской Патриархии, 1990. — № 6. — C. 27-28.
 Путин — это не главный фактор. Президент лишь помог сдвинуть процесс с мертвой точки, — считает священник Американской Автокефальной Православной Церкви Леонид Кишковский // «НГ Религии». — 2003. — № 20 (128). — С. 3
 «Мы — христиане Востока и Запада — несем ответственность за случившееся в ХХ веке» : Интервью с протоиереем Леонидом Кишковским / прот. Л. Кишковский; беседовала А. В. Колымагина // Кифа. 2014. — № 14 (184). — С. 1, 3

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Abstract The nucleus autotransplanting technology as one cell engineering technology, unlike prior nucleus transplanting between two kinds of cells, features that only one cell or one kind of cells is used. The key point of the technology is that by means of the effect of environment on cytoplasm, the state of gene inside nucleus is controlled through changing cytoplasm so as to obtain cell strain, biological line or even new life body. The present invention provides one technological platform for exploring and utilizing acquired heredity or the base tool for researching the interaction among environment, cytoplasm and nucleus, so to it has wide application in agriculture, medicine, public health, environment protection and other fields.
Category: Uncategorized Tags: autotransplanting, nucleus, TECHNOLOGY!


At Timberpride we love oak, which is why we're fully committed to protecting our oak trees as part of the Action Oak Partnership – an initiative to protect our oak trees for future generations.
We're committed to bio-secure practices, ensuring that we do everything we can to protect oak woodland from disease.
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We always ensure that we choose the right grade of oak for all our work to ensure we don't put unreasonable pressure on our precious woodland eco-systems.
Our decades of experience in the oak industry, and quality workmanship using traditional techniques means we are a centre of excellence for all things oak.


Missing the mark: Why use CMMSs for Electrical Systems?
When you think about maintenance from a reliability perspective rather than an engineering perspective, it becomes clear that transformers are somewhat of a red-headed stepchild, even though they are the heart of the electrical system. Why? Let's take a closer look. The reliability industry has grown out of the maintenance industry. At the very core of the maintenance industry is the Computerized Maintenance Management Systems … Continue reading Missing the mark: Why use CMMSs for Electrical Systems?


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Coeur de Cuba
PADE Paraguay
France & Latin America
Overall Approach
Julien Ayme
Alumni from the Political Studies Institute of Paris and from Lyon III University in International Law, Julien was Project Manager Africa at Medef International, Parliamentary assistant then public markets manager in a French defense firm.
He manages the executive direction of Gefyra, which he is the founder and manager of.
Julien is also a teacher at the Political Studies Institute of Paris on International Crisis Management and is a regular speaker in conferences
Stéphane Witkowski
Stéphane WITKOWSKI dedicated most of his activities to the Europe and Latin America relationship in various positions. He was manager of the "Americas" business unit at MEDEF International, public affairs director of an industrial firm, european and international relations director at the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry Assembly, in Paris then in Bruxelles.
Co-founder of RETIA LATINA, he wishes to reinforce the relations between Latin America, Europe and Africa.
He is also the President of the strategic orientation Board at the Institute for Latin American High Studies (IHEAL / Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle).
Martin Ruiz
Business Developpper Paraguay / Latin America
Alumni from the French highschool of Asuncion, laureate of the AEFE (Agency for Foreign French Education) Excellency Scholarship, Martin studied his whole curriculum in France. After preparatory classes, he was accepted in SKEMA Business School (Sophia Antipolis), where he graduated in 2015. The following year, he obtained a Master degree in International Trade and Export Marketing at Paris 8 University.
Quadrilingual (Spanish, French, English and Portuguese), Martin joined the firm in 2015 to contribute to the creation of our Latin-American structure Retia Latina. Since January 2018 he is based in Asuncion to develop our activities in the zone Paraguay/ Southern Countries.
Pierre Samaille
Alumni from the IESEG School of Management in International Economy and from Lille's Catholic University in Business Law, Pierre is continuing his studies in International Relations Governance at the Institute for Political Studies of Toulouse.
He joined Gefyra in 2017 as a part of his studies for the redaction of a master thesis on investment potential in Cuba. He is now a consultant in the firm. He also have experiences in international trade in an import-export firm, as well as in Regional, National and European lobbying in a public affairs firm.

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Michael Spencer, veteran blogger from that vanguard of online Christian punditry, internetmonk.com, has linked to a great comparison of the Gospel with false religion from the site, The Journey. It was developed from Tim Keller's material and usefully exhibits the radical disparity between the mentality of a legalistic-orientated religion and the wonderful freedom and hope we have available to us in the Gospel. I've reworded it slightly where I thought the theology was perhaps not perspicuous enough and the language slightly pedestrian.
I obey – therefore I'm accepted.
I'm accepted – therefore I obey.
The locus of my motivation is uncertainty and fear.
My motivation issues from a grateful joy.
I obey God to know and enjoy God – to delight and resemble Him.
When the storms of misfortune and adversity press upon me, I am angry at God or myself, since I believe, like Job's friends, that anyone who is good deserves a comfortable life.
When circumstances in my life go bad, I struggle but know that I am held by God and that my comfort is not ultimate, but my character and relationship with Him is. All the punishment I justly deserved fell on Jesus but through God's loving discipline I am called to a greater reliance on Him and to the precious reminder that I am his child (Heb 12:8).
When I face criticism I can be furious or devastated because my practice and actions are the principal barometer of my perceived spiritual health. It is fundamental for me to think of myself as a 'good person'. My positive self-image must be maintained at all costs.
When I face criticism I struggle because I want to live as Christ lived – however criticism does not undo me. I know I am not a good person, and that my identity is not built on my record or my performance but on God's love for me in Christ. I can take criticism. That's how I became a Christian.
My prayer life consists largely of petition and it only intensifies when I am in a time of need. The main purpose in prayer is to control my life and my environment.
My prayer life is both the fountain and convergence of my praise and adoration for God. The central purpose in prayer is for fellowship and to grow closer to my Shepherd.
My self-view swings between two poles. If and when I am living up to my standards, I feel confident, but then it is easier to be proud and unsympathetic to failing people. If and when I am not living up to standards, I feel humble, but my confidence decamps – I feel like a failure.
My self-view is not based on a view of my self as a moral achiever. In Christ I am simul iustus et peccator — simultaneously sinful and lost yet accepted in Christ. I am so bad he had to die for me and I am so loved he was glad to die for me (Heb 12:2). This leads me to deeper and deeper humility and confidence at the same time. There's no room for swaggering nor sniveling.
My identity and self-worth are centered on the one who died for His enemies, who was excluded from the camp for me (Heb 13:12). I am saved by unmerited, unalloyed grace. So I can't look down on those who believe or practice something different from me. Only by grace I am what I am.
Since I look to my own pedigree or performance for my spiritual acceptability, it is easy for my heart to rest in idols of accomplishment. It may be my skills, my moral record, my personal discipline, my social status, etc. I absolutely have to have them because they serve as my ground of hope, meaning, happiness, security, and significance – whatever I may say I believe about God.
I have many good things in my life—family, work, spiritual disciplines, etc. But none of these good things are ultimate to me. None of them are things I absolutely have to have. And so there is a limit to how much anxiety, bitterness, and despondency they can inflict on me when they are threatened and lost. I clutch onto God alone, He is my rock and sole source of hope.
The original can be downloaded (in pdf form) here.
Okay, so Joss Whedon's internet sci-fi opera may not have managed to distingrate the interwebs into fizzling silicon ether and monkey dust as claimed – but hyperbole aside, Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has been a phenomenal success. The musical has been fiendishly popular on iTunes and its three acts all remain currently in the top 5 downloads for US users, even after a week (and yet still not available through that store in this country; kiwi knaves with a penchant for diabolical schemes in song-form must turn their evil scowls elsewhere for now).
Whedon's original concept for the webisodes were hatched during the writer's strike and as a thumb-nosing exercise at the hegemony of the corporate moguls in the television world (though paradoxically, his new Dollhouse series will be with the same company that unforgivably spurned Firefly). With the Dr Horrible musical, Whedon hoped to alter the perceptions commonly held towards web content and work towards shaking up the dominant models of disseminated entertainment ("Dr. Horrible is about putting power in different hands—the wrong hands"). I'd say he's done that. Not only has Dr Horrible had fans donning oversized rubber gauntlets and scrawling freeze ray designs on the walls of their padded cells, it's been fruitful enough to take to the bank. TV Squad took out their calculator and deduced that if it (not unrealistically) reaches one million downloads: after paying the principal actors each 100k, Whedon will saunter away with 2.6 million in green gravy. And this is not including the sales of the DVD.
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In fact, the discussion of a sequel seems to be gaining momentum. At the Dr Horrible panel at Comic-Con, Whedon was more optimistic about a further installment of the villainous video-blogger. Whedon mentioned that "the idea is that there will be another part" but was reticent on specific details. Neil Patrick Harris has already spoken of his interest in doing a follow-up but with Whedon now more certain, the prospects sound good. Which has this fan excited. Dr Horrible didn't break the Internet but it came close to breaking hearts with its forlorn, more-tragedy-than-comedy final act. Whedon is brilliant at coalescing the randomness and seemingly arbitrary nature of life and death within his plot lines, but this particular turn seemed too melancholic. With some greater narrative space, I'm hoping he can restore a greater balance of the other genre elements and perhaps, leave my heart a little less rent.
Details about the DVD were also revealed at the panel. Whedon said that Dr Horrible, in that format, will be out before Christmas with a commentary sung by the cast ("Commentary: The Musical") that includes uniquely composed songs. In the coming weeks, Whedon will be releasing the soundtrack for the webisodes and also organising a competition for fans. The ten best winning video submissions for mock entry into the Evil League of Evil will be attached with the extras on the DVD.
Also, lastly, for the really obsessive types, Dr Horrible's remote control from Act one can played with here. The prop for the webisode was designed by Nathan Fillion's friend PJ Haarsma (and actually pressing some of the buttons will take you to material involved with their project Kids Need to Read, a charity organisation for furnishing libraries with books).
In our age of new and "improved" theological beliefs that blow like chaff through the church, it is both illuminating and inspiring to draw from the deep well of saints who have faithfully gone before us, and, as Paul said, ran their race well until they saw Jesus face to face. Perhaps my favorite dead mentor is the great English reformed Baptist Bible preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892).
A set of posters for the still-distant Star Trek film have been released on its official site. We get our first polychromatic view of Kirk, Spock, Uhura and Nero; the skulking, misunderstood Romulan. With 288 days till its opening, and the inscrutable decision not to front at the years epicenter of geekism – the San Diego Comic Con, Paramount will be hoping this might appease its fulminating fans.
Of course, my allegiance falls to star-flung quadrants other than those purveyed by the Star Trek franchise. But say what you want of my blinkered fealty to midichlorians over dilithium crystals, the aging Star Trek license has long been eclipsed by more agile newcomers and successful reinventions of sci-fi mythologies. It is difficult to get past the fact that the last Star Trek film was a bland, insipid failure. The crude aim to replicate the satisfying denouement of the Shatter-generation crew in The Undiscovered Country felt uninspiring and formulaic. And for me, the slaying of Data in the third Act merely represented an exhausted act of self-parody, only further underlying that a zero-G vacuum had supplanted the heart of Gene Roddenberry's original vision.
However, if someone is gonna revive the franchise and chart it into temerarious new places, its current director, J J Abrams, just might be the one. He is smart and inventive, and the current golden boy of Hollywood with two hugely popular shows on ABC. Although his last film was deemed unsuccessful by a media mostly blinded by Cruise hate, Mission Impossible III plundered a sizeable box office haul and wasn't terrible by any measure (it remains as my favourite installment of the trilogy, easily). Whether the Star Trek opera can accommodate the kinetic, realistic direction Abrams is taking it, however, remains to be seen.
Here's the poster, resized and recropped into the Federation Delta badge from the larger images you can get on the site.
If Hegel is right and the philosophy of a generation is its thought contained, then its art is its conscience conveyed. Where life obscures, art has the potential to peel away the unnecessary, permitting us to feel what routine and repetition have numbed us to. In tactile artifacts of colour and cadence, art can reveal what reality has hidden and open us up to the affective. Chesterton warned of the potential for madness in the philosopher who hopes to cross the infinite and squeeze the heavens into his own head. The artist however, he said, recognises well his own limits, yearning merely to raise his own head into the heavens. It is the artist who seeks the transcendent without the impossible intention of taming it. In good art, we may witness traces of this pursuit. In great art, we are impelled to feel this momentum ourselves. French director Julian Schnabel, in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, has crafted a film that enables us to feel the heartache and hope of the human spirit.
Based on the similarly-titled memoir, the film depicts the story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French fashion magazine editor. Played persuasively by Mathieu Amalric, Bauby falls hard from the coruscating heights of a disencumbered, wanton existence when he experiences a stroke and becomes paralysed by what is known as 'locked in syndrome'. This bizarre condition renders Bauby unable to move or speak and only able to communicate through blinking his left eye. With such a delicate subject matter, it is easy to imagine its mishandling by other directors. Schnabel, however, is deft and apollonian, offering an experience that is memorable and not manipulative.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the third film from Schnabel, and also his third film with a strong biographical bent. Before filmmaking, Schnabel was a painter and sculptor, and it seems hard to deny that his work shows an obvious impetus to examine the relationship between the artist and his craft. Arguably, the tragic story of Bauby has granted him an even greater canvas to work with and Schnabel here probes deeper, more fundamental issues that are universal to us all. This is perhaps well demonstrated in how the film is shot. In the opening frames of the movie, we are committed to Bauby's first person perspective. We are not a floating eye; we are not distant, cool observers. Bauby's predicament is ours. We must endure the limited viewpoint and watch and listen to the slow process of rehabilitation. It is not until almost forty minutes into the movie that Schnabel permits us to glimpse Bauby, such are the director's scruples about permitting any recoil at the inhumanity of his condition.
Schnabel further presses the impermanence and fragility of life with parallels to Bauby's aging father (including a tender scene where Bauby remembers helping to shave him) and a friend who was held hostage in Beirut. It is in fact the friend, in a visit with Bauby, who encourages: "Hold fast to the human inside of you, and you'll survive." And this, I think, is close to the thematic agenda underlying Schnabel's efforts. In witnessing the cruel imprisonment of Bauby in his own body, we're forced to ask what it is that defines our humanity and therefore ultimately gives us hope. Is it our ability to move and interact that determines who we are? Is it in expression and in communicating that we gain meaning? Or is it something else?
The butterfly of the title offers something of a clue. For although the film is constrained by Bauby's perspective, it is also liberated by it. In focusing on the inner life of Bauby, Schnabel is freed to roam among Bauby's thoughts of the past and the unreal. Scenes from the hospital and of therapy are effectively spliced with memories and fantasies: glacier's spearing into turquoise seas, a daydream of a lavish banquet, the recollection of romantic holidays and more are all worked into the narrative without occluding it. As a portrait of an artist, it is as much a study of Schnabel's artistic imagination as it is Bauby's.
Though completely still, Amalric is able to present Bauby with a dynamic, undimmed energy. His performance is honest and humourous at times: all the more convincing, as we follow Bauby's slow embrace of the freedom of his imagination. Within his unresponsive body, Bauby is yet able to rediscover hope and purpose in communicating his thoughts and relaying his story. Upon the errant wings of this imagination, his soul finds a weightlessness, and in that he finds the quiddity of what it is to be human.
Art cannot close the gap between the ideal and reality. Indeed, for a moment it lifts us above reality and induces us to live in the realm of ideals. But this happens only in the imagination. Reality itself does not change on account of it. Though art gives us distant glimpses of the realm of glory, it does not induct us into that realm and make us citizens of it.
Banvinck is right – art alone cannot atone for our guilt or assuage our deepest pains. I was disappointed that director Schnabel dismissed religion too easily. In the film, Christianity assumes the shape of well-worn stereotypes: it preys on the desperate, it is excessively moralistic (a Jesus glow statue ruins Bauby's night with a girlfriend) and is no better than the metaphorical suit of iron that pulls Bauby to the ocean floor. But even art requires a framework that only religion can provide. The kindling of our imagination can be invaluable, but it must be within the context of a transcendent moral law and the shaping of our conscience by the Spirit of God (Phil 4:8).
After opening at Cannes exactly a year to its release here in this country, the film arrives with multiple awards and high acclaim from the festival circuit (though it comes with its trophy-flush armfuls cruelly light of an Oscar – denied by the Academy's 'one-country-one-film' policy). And for the most part, Schnabel deserves every accolade. His film is a haunting and abrasive journey into an interior world of both human lostness and courage. While it works more effectively at raising questions than it is at answering any of them, Schnabel has yet delivered a cinematic tale that is of unique, quiet beauty.


Standing at the top of the waterfall, Jeffrey began singing at the top of his voice and we all got the giggles. And then he disappeared. Peering over the edge we saw nothing but a red rope disappearing into the torrent that tumbled down into what seemed like a bottomless funnel between the vertiginous cliffs on either side.
"Next!" shouted Richard from a narrow ledge opposite. No-one in the group moved. The giggles abated.
Richard and his assistant Jeffrey are the heart and soul of Extreme Dominica and have been exploring Dominica's myriad rivers, hidden canyons and gorges for years. Thankfully, they share their skills and discoveries with adventure-loving travelers, film-makers, photographers and rather nervous, acrophobic writers.
Headquarters is in the heart of the Roseau Valley where classroom, training wall and all the equipment you need are available so that complete novices can become full-blooded canyoneers by the time the day is out. Our adventure today is a stretch of canyon just below TiTou Gorge, location of a Pirates of the Caribbean sequence. Getting down into the canyon requires a waterfall rappel, one of several we would encounter on our journey, and the one above which I now found myself wobbling with a degree of light-headed giddiness.
Somehow I found myself being urged forward, first to go. How does that happen?
Richard clipped his safety line to my harness and fed a rope through my belay device. I was standing on the edge facing him, behind me was the watery void. He grinned, no doubt recognizing all the signs of nervous excitement he must witness on a regular basis.
This is tricky for the beginner, but the more you lean back, the more perpendicular you are to the wall, and the easier it is to 'walk' down the rock through the waterfall. The temptation is to fight this and try to remain upright which results in less grip and more slippage. I found leaning backwards from the top of a waterfall and walking down it is more mental than physical challenge.
Feeding rope through the belay device as instructed, I made my way down the wall. I could see Richard still grinning at me and the outlines of the helmet and wet-suit clad group now standing beside him. Then it was all water. To reach the bottom I had to pass through the waterfall itself. It was a fearsome few moments as the deluge crashed down upon me until I was clear and could see the rock face once again. And then, to my utter delight, I heard singing.
Jeffrey unclipped my lines and pointed behind me. The scene was breathtaking. Like something from the beginning of time, smooth, twisting rock formations towered on each side of the canyon with the outline of rainforest trees and blue sky high above our heads. Meandering down the middle, a cascading river and series of gin-clear pools that sparkled as if new born. I was no longer on Dominica. I was in it.
What followed was no less spectacular. For over four hours we rappelled down five or six more waterfalls, jumped into and swam through deep pools, hiked along the river and finally emerged at the Cathedral, a stunning cylindrical formation of polished rock, waterfall and pool, with vines and tree roots spiraling down from the forest above. Floating on my back I watched the others rappel down the waterfall, whooping and hollering, brash and bold, now seasoned canyoneers who would definitely be back for more.


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Fr. Rey Ondap, CP: Taking on the difficult issues in the Philippines
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"If there is anybody poor and oppressed, I cannot sleep if I cannot help…. This is my call."
"A Passionist without a heart for JPIC is like a fish outside the water."
In January 2016, Fr. Rey Carvyn Ondap, C.P. was named Coordinator of the newly formed JPIC Commission of the Passionist Asia Pacific Configuration. This young priest takes on a daunting role, but his energy, dedication, and his track record of activism all point to Fr. Rey's ability to further the mission of the Passionist JPIC: "to "defend the rights of the most vulnerable and exploited sector of the society." In this new position, Fr. Rey will take on many challenges in Philippine society, such as environmental destruction, banishment of indigenous peoples, and the violation of workers' rights, especially farmers.
Grown in the tradition of JPIC values and commitment
Fr. Rey was born in 1981 in Agape, Loay, Bohol, Philippines. He was raised in a middle class family as one of seven siblings. He describes himself as "an ordinary student," studying first in public school and graduating from a private high school run by Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit. In 1997, he joined the Passionists immediately after his graduation from high school. He studied philosophy from 1997-2001 at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines, then went back to the seminary in 2002 to continue his formation at the Loyola School of Theology in Manila. He graduated and was ordained in 2009.
Hitting the ground running
After his ordination, Fr. Rey was assigned as assistant mission director of the Catholic mission to indigenous people, eventually becoming the Executive Director of JPIC in 2013 when it moved from the umbrella of Catholic Mission to the Indigenous People of the Philippines and was declared as an independent ministry.
In his second year of priesthood, Fr. Rey became involved with others in a campaign against the Xstrata Tampakan gold and copper project to force international mining companies "to do the right thing" for the workers and the environment. He faced great hostility for his position from many who would benefit from the mine. "The first five years of your priesthood are supposed to be the honeymoon," he reflect, "but they have put me in hell. But I am not opposed to mining per se. If they followed the so-called responsible mining program, then there would be no problem. We are not just fighting against the Tampakan mine; we are looking for a solution."
Justice in the face of a massacre
In 2013, Fr Rey showed his strong solidarity with people suffering injustice when he officiated at a commemoration mass on the anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009. 58 persons were killed there on November 23, 2009 – 32 of them from the media, when a political convoy was attacked by armed men, believed to have been hired by another local politician.
At the mass, Fr. Rey reminded the families and colleagues of the victims that four years' delay in pursuing justice is 1,460 days of "delaying justice, controlling justice, maneuvering justice, paying justice, playing justice." He offered specific prayers, both that politics will not hinder the pursuit of justice and that those in the Church continuously support the families of the victims. "We should not worship the god of money, the god of gold. We should worship the God of Justice," the priest said. Read more about this story at http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2013/11/22/no-political-or-judicial-yolanda-please-for-ampatuan-massacre-case/.
Fighting for seafood workers
Another issue close to Fr. Rey has been the struggle of commercial seafood workers, specifically those from the Citra Mina seafood corporation. His home base of General Santos is a highly urbanized city of more than half a million and home to some 200,000 workers in the tuna industry.
In 2014, Fr. Rey and the JPIC one of the many networks supporting Citra Mina workers struggle for better working conditions and an end to oppressive practices. He inspired the union members before the start of "die-in" action to show their cause during World Food Day 2014.
Fr. Rey addressing Citra Mina workers before World Food Day "die in."
Citra Mina "die in", Earth Day 2014
In April of 2015, Fr. Rey sent a letter to Pope Francis to ask his support for the tuna workers. The letter appealed to the pontiff to write to Citra Mina and ask that it grant the demands of its workers. These demands include reinstating 104 factory workers allegedly sacked for forming a union and recognizing the union.
Caption: Father Rey Ondap (in white shirt) joins calls for giant fishing firm Citra Mina to compensate 43 of its workers it had allegedly abandoned in a detention facility in Indonesia. The workers returned to the country on February 23, 2015. Photo by Jose Del/Rappler
Advocating for Climate Action
Father Rey has also become active with direct organizing to effect climate change by reducing the number of coal-fired power plants in the Philippines. He, along with Sr. Susan O. Bolanio, Oblates of Notre Dame, filed a petition against the 200 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sarangani Province operated by the Sarangani Energy Corporation. Their petition was ultimately dismissed by the Supreme Court in September 2015.
Preaching and following the Crucified
Fr. Rey's education prepared him theologically for his role with JPIC, but it is direct engagement with injustice, inequity and people on the margins that truly animates his work. He may face setbacks, but he shows no sign of stopping.
In reflecting on his ministry, Fr. Rey says "The living out of the gospel has always been a challenge. As a Passionist, I simply try to live the charism: not just preaching the Crucified, but also living with the crucified. I try to be with the crucified and fight the crucifiers. For me, JPIC is the best expression of our Passionist charism."
Fr. Rey knows that he takes risks in the work he does, but he sees that too as part of his vocation as a Passionist: "I am doing is my piece of sharing with the dangerous death of Christ on the cross. Everything risky for me is fulfilling."
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Uri Shoham (; August 3, 1948) is a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. He previously served as a district court judge in Tel-Aviv and a Judge Advocate General. His appointment to the court was viewed as a victory for Mizrahi Jews, as the court had consisted largely of judges of Ashkenazi descent.

Shoham was born in Iraq on 3 August 1948 and moved to Israel with his family in 1951. He grew up in Tel Aviv and attended the Ironi Dalet High School. In 1966, he began his military service in the Israel Defense Forces as part of the Atuda program, serving in the Combat Engineering Corps. In 1971, he received a BA in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and received a law license in 1975. In 1977, he received a master's degree in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served in the Military Advocate General's office of the IDF in a number of positions, including as a judge and prosecutor in the IDF legal system.  He served as President of the Military Court of Appeals for the Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Areas, was Chief Military Prosecutor from 1995 to 2000, and then served as Deputy President of the Military Court of Appeals. He completed his military service with the rank of Brigadier General.

In September 2001, he was appointed a judge on the Tel Aviv District Court. While serving in this position in 2009, he imposed several long sentences on members of organized crime groups. Shoham was threatened by the crime groups, and he was given increased security by the police. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2012.

Shoham is married with two daughters.

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Education system in Afghanistan has been designed in a way that doesn't suit the Kuchi life style. This is one of the reasons, as found by the study too that Kuchi children to a large extent are deprived of education. Another words, as mentioned, education in this country has mainly been confined to geographically fixed schools and schooling period. The latter makes education for Kuchi children more challenging than the former, because if a child wants to pass from one grade to another must spend a fixed period in a fixed location and school, however, Kuchi families are moving and cannot stay in one place for the required longer period while in addition, they are living normally in remote areas which make access to facilities including education harder for the Kuchi children.
The overall aim of this study is to explore challenges and opportunities as well alternative models and ways at national and international level that maybe applicable to provide education for Kuchi children in Afghanistan. To achieve the aim and objectives, number of focus group discussions and interviews were made with different groups at different levels.
This study found, contrary to people prejudice, that Kuchi are very much excited to see their children including their daughters in schools and educated. But the issue of how education can be reached to their children has not been widely consulted and discussed with the Kuchi people. Though efforts have been made and education to a limited extent have been provided but the approaches seem to have been 'top down' and Kuchi as the real beneficiary passively been targeted to receive the services rather than actively 'involved' in the process. The governmental structures e.g. the concerned departments established at the central and provincial level were found to be less efficient and effective so that to fulfill the requirements of the Kuchi children for education.
All in all, more efforts and wider consultations through a bottom up approach need to be made in Afghanistan in order to provide education for Kuchi children in an adequate way. According to the findings of this study, Kuchi are very much keen to be consulted and their voice to be heard, because majority of them, if the educational situation suits them, want education while keeping their pastoral life. They have come up with some suggestions too for solving their children education issues. Though Kuchi people were insisting more on mobile schools and school with dormitories but there are other models that are used in other countries e.g. in Nigeria which are distance learning through mobile phone, radio-based learning etc. which are applicable in Afghanistan too. Finally, in order to find out further causes and factors that why Kuchi children are deprived of education, more studies and researches need to be made all over the country.


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Neilenuo Nelly Rentta, Department of Public Health
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Neilenuo Nelly Rentta has a clinical background having trained and worked as a general surgeon before doing Public Health studies at the University of Otago, Wellington. Nelly is a Research Fellow in the Health Environment Infection Research Unit (HEIRU) at the Department of Public Health, University of Otago Wellington, and currently working on a Systematic review of Literature.
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Kindly Leave the Stage – Cast and Crew
Tony Bew
Assistant Director Elena Stokes
Stage Manager Graham Evans
Set construction Tony Bew
Graham Evans
Prompt Wendy Baily
Lighting Graham Everitt
Sound Rod Paterson
Properties Elena Stokes
Front of house Brian Couling
Posters Brian Couling
Telephone bookings Olive Smith
Advertising Brian Couling
Maura Ross
Olive Smith
Programme Tony Bew
Transport Alan Samson
Assistant Director and Properties
Elena Stokes
Elena is now a seasoned backstage organiser although she started on stage as Phillipa Haymes in "A Murder is Announced". She has been organising most things to allow the director to concentrate on putting his feet up.
Graham has been with us for two years. As stage manager/set builder, he has been beavering away in the studio building a steamer trunk. This happy snap of him was taken just as he found out we preferred the old one.
Rod Paterson
Rod first turned his hand to sound effects in 1999 for "The Weekend" after his first and last appearance onstage in "On the Razzle". Rod's abilities are not stretched in this production so he'll probably miss his cue.
Brian Couling
Brian has temporarily taken over the mantle of Front of House from Olive Smith, who is having a hopefully brief respite. Brian's natural charm and organisational abilities are always appreciated and makes him an obvious choice for the position. Kerching! There's another fiver!
Graham Everett
Despite his youthful looks, Graham has been with the players for nearly 20 years, on and off. He has been our main lighting man since 2001. He has acted on stage but prefers the anonymity and the view from the lighting box.
Madge
Suze Ward
This is Suze's fourth production with the Players, having played Alice Hobson in "Hobson's Choice", the reptilian Monica Smithers in "Daisy Pulls it Off" and the rumbustious Sarah in "Accrington Pals". Now she plays a somewhat more demur Madge the supposed wife of Charles. Let's hope she remembers that line "At least I don't forget my lines!", the one line just too embarrassing to miss.
This is James' third production with the Players, having first played Peregrine Ward in "Will you still love me in the morning?" and then Ralph Catteral in "Accrington Pals". But it's third time unlucky for James as he doesn't get to kiss any of the girls, which is why he'll be seen mincing around the stage and sighing inordinately. It is very lucky that one of his favourite songs is Living in a box
Sara Vaz
Sara has been in The Players for 10 years on and off but has rekindled her passion for the stage, appearing in the last three productions, schoolgirl Belinda Mathieson in "Daisy pulls it off", the vamp Thelma Jessel in "Will you Still Love me in the Morning", and most lately as Eva Mason in "Accrington Pals". She seems to have shaken off the attentions of James and now sets her sights on Chris, on stage at least.
Chris first appeared with the Players as Will Mossop in "Hobson's Choice" and last Autumn as Jeremy Winthrop in "Will you Still love me in the Morning?" Once more he has taken on a challenging role in Rupert, despite demanding rather forcibly, immediately before the first night of his last production, from the dressing room loo, why he let himself be talked into taking part. He's just a natural luvvie, obviously!
Dorothy Cullen
Janet Hodgkinson
Janet has been with the Players for an undisclosed number of decades and her last role was as Mrs Hepworth in "Hobson's Choice". This is probably one of her more demanding roles in recent years, but the old habits die hard and pulls off the part of Dorothy, Sarah's erstwhile mother, with great aplomb. I expect the fiver in the post any day now!
Laura Goodband
Having taken timeout from the performing side of The Players in the past few years, Laura has appeared in the last two productions, last playing the simple-minded Bertha in "Accrington Pals". Not that she's leapt up to dizzy intellectual heights as Angela, but it's always good to have Laura in the cast. That money just keeps rolling in.
Miss Brown
Pip Stacey
Pip started with the Marlow Players three years ago making her debut in "A Murder is Announced" where she played the scene-stealing maid Mitzi. She last played Celia Winthrop in "Will you Still Love me in the Morning" and had a shot at lighting in "Accrington Pals". Obviously enough is enough, so she's back once more as the scene-stealer, Miss Brown.
Pete Williams
Pete's debut was in 2001 in "Bums on seats". He last played the oleaginous Dr. Boxclever in "Cut and Run" in 2004. Work and marital commitments saw him move away to another planet (Milton Keynes), but he has returned to show off his speech learning abilities as Edward, Sarah's "father" and golf playing "husband" to Dorothy. We welcome him back to our planet.


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Pocket Solar System
"Solar System" © 2005 NASA-JPL
How much space is in space? Students build a simple model and practice fractions to see how much space exists between different objects in our solar system.
describe the relative distances between the orbits of the planets.
recognize that objects in the solar system are very far from each other.
Materials & Teacher Prep
pre-cut strips of register tape (one meter per student)
round stickers (5 large & 5 small per student)
one finished example to show students
Scientific Terms for Students
orbit: The path followed by an object in space as it goes around another object; to travel around another object in a single path.
planet: In the solar system, a planet is a large round object that orbits the Sun and has cleared out most of the other objects in its orbit.
dwarf planet: A large round object that orbits the Sun but is NOT the dominant object in its orbit.
solar system: The Sun and all of the planets, comets, etc. that revolve around it.
For any scale model activity, it is useful to start by exploring the notion of models. Playthings, such as dolls or toy cars, can be a useful reference for talking about scale models.
Pull out a folded, completed sample of the model from your pocket. Point out that the planets never appear in a straight line like this in order out from the Sun, but this is just a reminder of the radius of the orbits. The planets would be found somewhere along a circle this far from the Sun. If you have a board with a thumbtack, you can tack it to the board at the Sun and show or draw out the orbits.
Distribute the register tape and stickers to each student and lead them through the following steps.
Sun & Pluto (on the edges): Make a mark on each end of the tape, one large and one small, right at the edge. Label the large one Sun and the small one Pluto. Even though Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet it serves as a useful reference point here. We can use it as the first example of such a dwarf planet ever found, just as we'll use Ceres to represent the asteroid belt later on.
Uranus (1/2): Fold the tape in half, crease it, unfold and lay flat. Place a large sticker at the halfway point. You can ask for guesses as to which of the planets might be at this halfway point. Label the sticker Uranus.
Saturn (1/4) and Neptune (3/4): Fold the tape back in half, then in half again. If there are mixed ages, give those with some knowledge of fractions the opportunity to show off by asking "What is half of a half?" Unfold and lay flat. Place large stickers at the quarter mark and 3/4 marks and label as Saturn (closer to the Sun) and Neptune (closer to Pluto).
Jupiter (1/8): Fold back into quarters, then in half one more time. This will give you eighths. Unfold and lay flat again. Place a large sticker for Jupiter at the 1/8 mark (between the Sun and Saturn), and label.
Asteroid Belt (1/16): No need to fold the whole thing up again. If you take a look, you've got the 4 gas giants and Pluto all on there in the outer solar system. For the remaining terrestrial planets, you'll only need 1/2 of the first 1/8th! That's the inner 1/16th of your meter. Fold the Sun out to meet Jupiter to mark the 1/16th spot. A planet does not go here, but you should label this Ceres to represent the Asteroid Belt.
Earth (inside 1/32), Mars (outside 1/32) : At this point, things start getting a little crowded and folding is tough to get precise distances, so fold the remaining 1/16th in half and crease at the 1/32nd spot. Place a small sticker for the Earth just inside this fold (between the Sun and Ceres) and a small sticker for Mars just outside the fold (closer to Ceres and the Asteroid Belt) and label them.
Mercury & Venus (between Earth & Sun): Place small stickers for Mercury and then Venus, between the Earth and Sun, pretty much dividing the space into thirds and label them as Mercury closest to the Sun and Venus closest to the Earth.
At the end of the discussion, be sure to have everyone put their names on their tapes and fold them up to put it in their pockets. But before you put them away, here are some questions you might ask to get participants thinking about insights they can get from building this model.
Are there any surprises? Look how empty the outer solar system is: there is a reason they call it space! And how crowded the inner solar system is (relatively speaking).
Do you know anything about the physical properties of the ones that are spread out versus the ones that are crowded in close to the Sun? All the inner ones are small and rocky and the outer ones are gassy giants (except small, icy Pluto).
Given this spacing, why do you think little, rocky Venus can outshine giant Jupiter in the night sky? Both are covered with highly reflective clouds, and although it is much smaller, Venus is also much, much closer.
Does anyone know where the Eris, the largest dwarf planet would go on this model? At 97 AU, it would more than double the size of the model. Pluto is on average 40 AU.
On this scale (1 m = 40 AU) where would the nearest star be? After some guesses you could bring out your pocket calculator to use in getting how far away the star would be. This allows you to talk about how far is a light year and do the calculations to find that the next nearest star is about 7 km (4.2 miles) away. They could then take out a local map to see what is that far away from where the presentation is happening.
[Calculations: A light year, the distance light travels in one year, is about 63,240 AU (about 9,460,000,000,000 km). The nearest star is Proxima Centauri (visible from the Southern Hemisphere), at 4.2 light years. So, 4.2 ly x 63,240 AU/ly x 1 m/ 40 AU = 6640.2 m = about 7 km.]
Background for Educators
Models and illustrations of the Solar System often misrepresent the true scales and distances involved. The difficulty lies in the vast difference between the relative sizes of these objects and the distance between them. For example, an accurate model using a 1" sphere to represent the Sun results in a distance to Pluto of over 350 feet (more than a football field away), and most of the planets would appear no larger than tiny specks.
It is usually beneficial to address these two dimensions separately, using one model to compare planet sizes and another to illustrate relative distances from the Sun. By combining this activity with the activity "Worlds in Comparison", teachers can address the misconceptions prevalent in our depictions of the Solar System.
Distances in the solar system are difficult even for astronomers to picture, as they are far beyond our normal experience on Earth. For example, the distance from Earth to the Sun is about 93 million miles – to travel an equivalent distance on Earth, you would need to circle the globe 3,700 times! For the inner planets, the distances to the Sun are similar, ranging from ½ to 1 ½ times that of Earth, but the outer planets are much, much farther away – a fact that is often glossed over in textbook illustrations. This activity creates a simple model that more accurately illustrates the distances to planetary orbits relative to each other.
One way to think about these concepts is to compare the relative distances of the other planets from the Sun to that of the Earth. Astronomers use the mean distance of the Earth to the Sun as a standard unit, called an astronomical unit, or AU. Using this standard, the approximate average distances for each of the planets (and some dwarf planets) are:
Mercury .5 AU
Venus .7 AU
Earth 1 AU
Mars 1.5 AU
Ceres 2.5 AU
Jupiter 5 AU
Saturn 9.5 AU
Uranus 20 AU
Neptune 30 AU
Pluto 40 AU
This lesson was originally developed by Amie Gallagher, Raritan Valley Community College, and adapted by Suzanne Gurton and Anna Hurst, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008.
Next Generation Science Standards
MS-ESS1-2: Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system
MS-ESS1-3: Analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system
Image: "Solar System" by NASA-JPL, originally sourced from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_sys.jpg
"Full Moon 2010" © Gregory H. Revera
Kinesthetic Astronomy: Moon Phases
Learn about the phases of the moon with this tactile activity!
"Earth's Orbit" © 2015 NASA/JPL-CalTech
Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Meaning of a Year
This interactive lesson will demonstrate the difference between "rotation" and "orbit."
"Play-Doh" © 2006 Dennis Brekke
Worlds in Comparison
Do you know the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system? Put yourself to the test with some Play-doh.
Appropriate for: 3rd Grade - 8th Grade
Standards for: 3rd Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Activity Time: 20 minutes
Subjects: Earth & Space Science


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Fate of cargo ship uncertain after Hurricane Joaquin batters Bahamas
Wind and rain from Hurricane Joaquin affect Nassau, Bahamas, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015.
Image: Tim Aylen/Associated Press
UPDATED: 9:25 a.m. ET
ELEUTHERA, Bahamas — Hurricane Joaquin destroyed houses, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as it hurled torrents of rain across the Bahamas on Friday, and the U.S. Coast Guard tried to reach a disabled cargo ship with 33 people aboard that lost contact during the storm.
The Coast Guard said the 735-foot (224-meter) ship named El Faro had taken on water and was listing at 15 degrees near Crooked Island, one of the islands most battered by the hurricane. Officials said the crew includes 28 U.S. citizens and five from Poland.
See also: What to do if Hurricane Joaquin is changing your travel plans
"This vessel is disabled basically right near the eye of Hurricane Joaquin," said Capt. Mark Fedor. "We're going to go and try and save lives. We're going to push it to the operational limits as far as we can."
#BreakingNews @USCGSoutheast aircrew searching IVO #hurricane #Joaquin for container ship w/ crew of 33. pic.twitter.com/cpEfzRi5G1
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) October 2, 2015
Officials said they hadn't been able to re-establish communication with the vessel, which was traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Coast Guard said the crew earlier reported it had been able to contain the flooding.
At one point on Friday, an Air Force Reserve "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft descended to a low altitude while inside Hurricane Joaquin's calm eye in order to try to make contact with the ship, an extremely unusual occurrence for such data-gathering missions into powerful storms such as this one.
Fedor said there were 20- to 30-foot (up to 9-meter) waves in the area, and that heavy winds could have destroyed the ship's communications equipment. The ship went missing when Joaquin was a Category 4 storm. The hurricane has since lost strength and become a Category 3 storm.
#BreakingNews: @USCGSoutheast aircrews flying into #Hurricane #Joaquin searching for container ship w/ crew of 33. pic.twitter.com/mcnzxJVqxg
On Friday evening, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios said the planes and helicopters involved in the search had returned to base because of darkness and would resume the search for the ship at first light.
#breakingnews @USCGSoutheast search crews have covered approximately 850 SQNM in the search for the El Faro crew: http://t.co/6WrWmzgAPZ
Florida-based TOTE Services, the ship's owner, said in a brief statement that it was working with the U.S. Coast Guard and trying to establish communication with the ship.
Joaquin, meanwhile, was moving away from the Bahamas on Saturday. Its threat to the U.S. East Coast was fading as new forecasts showed it was likely to curve out into the Atlantic while moving north and weakening in coming days.
Authorities in the Bahamas were expected to need days to assess damage on the hundreds of islands and cays that form the archipelago.
On Friday, Joaquin destroyed houses, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as it hurled torrents of rain across the Bahamas.
There had been no reports of fatalities or injuries so far, said Capt. Stephen Russell, the director of the Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency.
Officials were investigating reports of shelters being damaged and flooded, as well as two boats with a total of five people that remained missing.
Joaquin had maximum sustained winds of 125 mph (205 kph), according to the Miami-based hurricane center. By early Saturday morning, the storm was centered about 165 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of San Salvador, Bahamas and was moving northeast near 13 mph (20 kph).
Rick Knabb, director of the hurricane center, said Joaquin was expected to pass well offshore from the eastern seaboard.
"We no longer have any models forecasting the hurricane to come into the East Coast," he said. "But we are still going to have some bad weather."
The sky is overcast on south Eleuthera island, Bahamas, early Friday, Oct. 2, 2015 as Hurricane Joaquin dumps torrential rains across the eastern and central Bahamas.
Image: Ben Fox/Associated Press
The storm reportedly destroyed about 85% of homes in one settlement of a couple dozen houses on Crooked Island in the Bahamas, said Marvin Hanna, an Acklins representative. He said he has had no communication with Acklins since late Thursday morning.
"At that time, vehicles were floating around and the water level was up to the windows of some homes," he said.
Residents reached by relatives said they were "trapped in their homes, and reported feeling as if their structures were caving in," Russell said. "It's too dangerous to go outside because the flood waters are so high, so we ask that persons stay inside and try to go into the most secure place of their home."
Hurricane #Joaquin advisory 21 issued. #Joaquin moving away from the bahamas http://t.co/VqHn0uj6EM
— NHC Atlantic Ops (@NHC_Atlantic) October 3, 2015
Power also was knocked out to several islands, and Leslie Miller, executive chairman of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation, said the company "is in no position to do much" to restore electricity. "All the airports are flooded," he said.
Schools, businesses and government offices were closed as the slow-moving storm roared through the island chain.
Additional reporting by Mashable.
Topics: Hurricane Joaquin, U.S., World


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Q: Python Decorators Error- decorated_view() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)" I want to decorate the view in Django with my decorator. Basically I want to authenticate a user with an auth-token key to authorize its credentials, before accessing any end-point URL of the API:-
Here is my code:-
class XYZResource(ModelResource):

    class Meta:
        queryset = XYZ.objects.all()
        resource_name = 'xyz'
        allowed_methods = ['get','post','delete','put']

    @roles_accepted('admin','staff')
    def obj_get(self, bundle, **kwargs):
        ..............

    @roles_accepted('admin','staff')
    def get_object_list(self, request):
        ......

    @roles_accepted('admin','staff')
    def obj_create(self, bundle, **kwargs):
         ......

    @roles_accepted('admin','staff')
    def obj_update(self, bundle, **kwargs):
             ......

    @roles_accepted('admin','staff')
    def obj_delete(self, bundle, **kwargs):
             ......

Here is my decorator:-
def roles_accepted(*roles):
    def wrapper(fn):
        def decorated_view(self,request,*args, **kwargs):
            if check_role(request) in roles  or check_role(request.request) in roles: # for POST,PUT,DELETE where bundle is passed,
                return fn(self,request,*args, **kwargs)                               # auth_token is contained in bundle.request
            raise ImmediateHttpResponse(create_json_response({"error": "Unauthorized user"}, HttpUnauthorized))
        return decorated_view
    return wrapper

The error that I'm facing is when I request POST/GET-ALL , it works fine , but when I perform 'GET/DELETE/PUT' request, it says:-
{
  "error_message": "decorated_view() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)",
  "traceback": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py\", line 195, in wrapper\n    response = callback(request, *args, **kwargs)\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py\", line 435, in dispatch_detail\n    return self.dispatch('detail', request, **kwargs)\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py\", line 458, in dispatch\n    response = method(request, **kwargs)\n\n  File \"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tastypie/resources.py\", line 1408, in put_detail\n    updated_bundle = self.obj_update(bundle=bundle, **self.remove_api_resource_names(kwargs))\n\nTypeError: decorated_view() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)\n"
}

Since POST and PUT/DELETE/GET contains same parameter, then what different is happening in case of PUT/DELETE/GET requests?

A: The problem is that some of the functions you wrap accept an argument called request, and others accept an argument called bundle, but your decorator always calls that argument request.  This causes an error when Tastypie's internals try to pass a bundle keyword argument.  Your decorator does not know about any argument named bundle, so it is collected in **kwargs and your decorator does not receive a request argument.
I don't know enough about Django or Tastypie to know what the difference is supposed to be between request and bundle.  If they are the same thing under different names, you could roll that argument into kwargs and have your decorator manually look in there for an argument named either request or bundle.  If the arguments request and bundle mean different things, you may need to write two different decorators to handle them appropriately.

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Amazon Launches New Banner
The e-tailer officially launches its brick-and-mortar operations, entering into a competitive West Coast market
by Anne Allen
We first heard the news that Amazon planned to launch a new grocery store in July of this year. In the initial announcement, it was touted as an alternative to Whole Foods. After a development this morning, we now know that the e-commerce expert is carrying out its plans to become a big name in retail, as spokespersons confirmed to CNET that Amazon plans to open its new banner in California next year.
The company teased the news when it published several job postings on its website, but an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNET that it would be opening a new grocery store in Woodland Hills—a neighborhood in Los Angeles—in 2020.
Although Amazon said that the store will be unlike Whole Foods, the source did not disclose further details. Its selection, price range, and brand name are still up for speculation. However, the job posting names the Woodland Hills location as "Amazon's first grocery store," which may mean that the banner is affiliated with the company's brand name. It also hints at the possibility of multiple sites.
We were surprised to learn that the new store will not feature Amazon Go technology, opting for a more conventional checkout scheme instead.
Does this new initiative mean that Amazon will be a full-on brick-and-mortar grocer soon? Deli Market News will keep you posted as we observe the company's foray into grocery.
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Christopher Robert Zorich (born March 16, 1969) is a former American football defensive tackle who played in college for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins. Zorich was the athletic director at Chicago State University from May 2018 to July 2019.

Early life
An only child of African American and Croatian descent, Zorich was raised by his mother, Zora (1931 - 1991, buried at Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery, Illinois), on the South Side of Chicago, where he attended Chicago Vocational High School. Chris is nephew to character actor Louis Zorich and nephew-in-law to Olympia Dukakis.

College career
Zorich received a scholarship to play college football at the University of Notre Dame in 1987 and began as a linebacker but was moved to nose tackle early in the season and did not play.  However, Zorich then earned All-American honors the following season. In his first game, he had one and a half sacks and ten tackles against the University of Michigan and finished the year third on the team in tackles as Notre Dame went undefeated and won the national championship.

During his junior year, he followed his initial season with a consensus All-America year in 1989 and was also one of four finalists for the Lombardi Award. Also in 1989 he was voted the UPI Lineman of the Year award as the top lineman in college football. As a senior, Zorich won the Lombardi Award and was recognized as a unanimous All-America.

In the final game of his college career he was the Defensive Most Valuable player of the 1991 Orange Bowl.

While at Notre Dame, Zorich attended a class taught by now Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren. Zorich eventually signed with Warren's new law firm as Warren's first client.

NFL career
Zorich was drafted in the second round of the 1991 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. He played for the Bears from 1991 until 1997, and he was named an alternate for the 1993 Pro Bowl. On December 27, 1992, he returned a fumble for a touchdown during a 27-14 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. He also played one season (1997) for the Washington Redskins. In his NFL career, Zorich tallied 16.5 career quarterback sacks and scored total one touchdown.

After football
Zorich earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at Notre Dame and established the Christopher Zorich Foundation in 1993 to assist disadvantaged families. He is a past recipient of USA WEEKEND's Most Caring Athlete Award and the Jesse Owens Foundation Humanitarian Award. Zorich has also worked as a motivational speaker.

On May 9, 2007, Zorich was announced as one of the specially selected inductees of the 2007 class at the College Football Hall of Fame.  Not only was he one of the youngest players to ever be inducted, he is only the third defensive lineman from tradition-rich Notre Dame to call the College Football Hall of Fame home.

On December 8, 2009, Zorich was also inducted into the FedEx Orange Bowl Hall of Fame for his outstanding performances in back-to-back Orange Bowl appearances (1990 and 1991).

Zorich lives in Chicago and continues to be an active member of the community. From 2015 to 2018, he served as the athletic director at Prairie State College, a community college in Chicago Heights, Ill. In May 2018, he was named the athletic director at Chicago State University. On July 30, 2019, Zorich and the university parted ways after 14 months on the job. It was unclear if Zorich was fired or if he announced his resignation.

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Unbottle Your Greatness!
MERIDIAN, Idaho (Dec. 12, 2019) — Idaho and Utah dairy farmers are reinventing themselves.
Dairy West, a regional dairy promotion organization that works on behalf of Idaho and Utah dairy farm families to inspire trust in dairy farming and grow sales for dairy foods, is launching a new brand called Unbottled.
Serving as a consumer-facing brand for Dairy West, Unbottled is designed to appeal to people who are concerned about health and nutrition and making good food choices for themselves and their families.
According to Kristi Spence, Dairy West's senior vice president of marketing, it can be challenging for the organization to go to market with a singular message for its diverse group of audiences. She said Dairy West's vast constituency ranges from dairy farmers, processors, and supply chain partners to food manufacturers, foodservice operators, distributors, and retail grocers and from school officials and health professionals to athletes and other influencers in addition to a variety of consumers.
"We have the good fortune to work with a lot of people in a lot of different ways, and we want these relationships to be as clear and impactful as possible," Spence said. "Some in-depth brand soul-searching has led us to a two-brand approach — one that will allow us to eliminate confusion about who we are and be more meaningful with our outreach."
She said moving forward, the Dairy West brand will be more focused and will serve as the brand for its industry-facing audiences. Dairy West's vision is to convene the entire dairy community and work together toward a positive future. Meanwhile, Unbottled will serve as a vehicle for messages Dairy West and its partners can share directly with consumers.
"The Unbottled brand captures how dairy foods can help unbottle everyone's inner greatness," Spence said. "No matter what someone wants to become, no matter their goals and ambitions, we want to be there to help them along that journey and demonstrate where dairy can play a role."
Spence and her colleagues at Dairy West are confident the new brand will resonate with people.
"One of the challenges in our contemporary society is that there's so much clutter — especially with respect to nutrition," Spence, who is also a registered dietitian, said. "There is often confusion and guilt associated with certain food choices, and it can become hard for us to know what choices we should make for ourselves and our families to align with our values and meet our budget.
"Through clear and authentic information, we hope to close this gap and give people permission to become their best selves, make choices that feel right, and get people back to what's simple and real. We're hoping Unbottled becomes a trusted, uncomplicated voice in a sometimes confusing nutrition world."
Dairy West began unveiling the Unbottled brand the week before Thanksgiving. It produced a 30-second commercial that airs on TV and digitally within Idaho and Utah designed to introduce people to the brand. It will have an always-on presence where the messages and the type of media the organization uses changes based on the season and what's relevant.
Dairy West has also entered into a sponsorship agreement with Idaho Public Television and Utah Public Television and produced a 30-second, animated video that will soon air on those stations.
The new brand's website at Unbottled.com is currently a landing page, but by the end of the first quarter of 2020 Dairy West will build it into a robust destination. Visitors will be able to find details about everything from the nutritional benefits of dairy to what's going on at farms with respect to animal care, stewardship, and environmental sustainability.
"Right now at DairyWest.com we have ask-a-dietitian and ask-a-farmer segments that we post periodically," Spence said. "We're looking to broaden that on Unbottled.com to be more of a you-asked-we-answered concept about anything related to dairy, the farm, and nutrition and have a variety of people — including third parties — answer those questions. We know that people have questions about nutrition, about where their food comes from, and about what goes on at the farm. Our aim with Unbottled is to be transparent and talk about what really happens and why."
On social media, Dairy West has transitioned its Facebook and Instagram accounts to Unbottled and created a Twitter account for the new brand with #unbottleyourgreatness serving as the official hashtag. Dairy West will continue to maintain accounts on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Spence said the Unbottled brand works well with the "Undeniably Dairy" campaign the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy launched in 2017.
"Unbottled is a complement to the national Undeniably Dairy campaign," she said. "It's a great way to take important, national messages about dairy farming and dairy foods and collaborate with local partners to share those messages with our local community."
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