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The Shiva Trilogy, written by Amish Tripathi, has become a nation-wide bestseller in a short time. This is due to the refreshing new plot that it explores and the unique writing style of the Authors. The Secret of The Nagas is the second novel in the saga. Amish has penned down the contents of this book in such a way that it manages to shine as a stand-alone book in itself.
The Plot and The?Characterizations
In this book, Amish describes how Shiva sets forth on a quest to destroy the Naga clan in order to avenge the death of his brother; since the common belief he has been presented with is that the Nagas are the root of all evil. The Authors takes us through a virtual tour of India as Shiva travels different lands and gathers a vast number of generic and non-generic experiences, all in the quest of saving a plagued kingdom. As he travels, he garners more friends and family and leaves a mark. Slowly, events start unfolding in such a manner that whatever beliefs the readers and Shiva too held in the previous book are tarnished. Revelations occur as the evil-doers have been showcased in a new light and the grey shades of the positive protagonists in the earlier book are exposed. The book is filled with nuanced wisdom and Shiva leaves the readers with the message that good and evil are two sides of the same coin; which is why we shouldn't judge people. As suspense builds, the climax ends with Shiva finally entering the Naga territory making for a nail-biting finish.
Amish Tripathi, born on 18th November, 1974, is an Indian Authors known for writing the Shiva trilogy – The Immortals of Meluha, The Secret of The Nagas and The Oath of The Vayuputras. The Shiva trilogy has become the national best selling saga ever since it came out years ago. Amish Tripathi grew up in Orissa and worked for 14 years in the financial services industry, before he became a full time Authors. The fantasy novels which re-imagine the mythological deity Shiva as a human, has been touted as refreshing and grappling. Tripathi launched his latest book on 22 January, 2015 – The Scion of Ikshvaku, which is the first book of the Ramchandra series based on the epic story of Ramayana.
Paperback:?394 pages
Publisher:?Westland Books Pvt. Ltd. (1 April 2012)
Language:?English
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ISBN-13:?978-9381626344
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NEVER LOOK AWAY
There are several nightmares shared by parents, principally involving the disappearance of their children. It is, of course, the job of novelists who deal in suspense to utilise these fears, and that is precisely what Linwood Barclay does in Never Look Away, which is typically mesmerising fare from a writer who knows how to play readers like a musician plays an instrument. There are several nightmares shared by parents, principally involving the disappearance of their children. It is, of course, the job of novelists who deal in suspense to utilise these fears, and that is precisely what Linwood Barclay does in Never Look Away, which is typically mesmerising fare from a writer who knows how to play readers like a musician plays an instrument. In the new book, journalist David Harwood takes his wife and baby son out for the day to a New York amusement park, but while he is buying ice cream, his wife runs to him in a panic and tells him that their child, Ethan, has disappeared. The distressed couple separates to look for their son. When Harwood gives chase to a man with a pushchair, he finds his son unharmed. But to his horror, he discovers that his wife has now disappeared. Harwood is deeply worried, for a variety of reasons — his wife has been suffering from depression, and his fear is that she has taken some ill-advised — and irrevocable — action. But on investigation, it is discovered that surveillance cameras give no indication that she was ever in the rollercoaster park with her husband. To some degree, the best crime novelists (and Linwood Barclay is certainly among their number) are well aware that most of the classic plots have been utilised again and again. Certainly, the sudden disappearance of a loved one, and a search for them in the face of suspicion and distrust (usually based on the fact that proof cannot be produced that the missing person was ever in a given place) is a particularly familiar plot; anyone who has seen the film (directed by Terence Fisher) So Long at the Fair will be familiar with it. But the real question is whether or not something fresh and dynamic can be done with such material, and Barclay admirers will not be surprised to learn that is precisely what hes done here. There are other elements involved (including a businessman working in private prisons who has been bribing local officials, as well as the fact that one of Harwoods wife?s colleagues at work has also vanished), and it is this juggling of a variety of elements that makes Never Look Away such a compelling experience. –Barry Forshaw
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Genshin Impact Gacha System: wish gacha draws, rates, banners, pity and more explained
by RPG Site Staff on 07 October, 2020
Genshin Impact is a huge, high-quality RPG, and it's free to play. The catch? Well, it's a Gacha Game, which means it comes with a Gacha System. That manifests itself as Wishes here - in Genshin Impact, a wish is a random chance... and one that might get you to spend money.
Wishes are vital in Genshin Impact - they give up not only new weapons, but also new characters for you, which can have an impact on lots of things in-game right down to cooking (as certain characters have specialty recipes). On this page we'll explain the gacha-based wish system in Genshin Impact, detail what it all means, and try to give you a bit of guidance so you spend wisely.
If you need more help with Genshin Impact, we've got plenty more guides on the more obtuse aspects of the game including how to grind Adventure Rank EXP to level up fast, Amenoculus locations and Geoculus locations, a map to every Shrine of Depths and a primer on Elemental Combos and reactions, to name a few.
This page covers a few different topics - hit a link to go straight to that section:
What is a Gacha Game system?
Wishes explained: best banners & other bonuses
Rates, Drop Probability & Pity explained
If you don't know what a gacha game is, here's a quick primer for you. In Japan, you've probably seen that 'capsule toys' are popular: little toys that are spat out of vending machines. They also appear in the west, but their popularity in Japan is enormous. Some malls and stores have huge banks of these capsule toy vending machines, selling a huge variety of randomly-dispensed licensed collectibles. Gamers might also know these toys well from Shenmue, where Ryo can buy capsule toys as a distraction.
The most common machines that dispense these toys at random are known as Gashapon or Gachapon - and it's from this that the 'Gacha' mechanic in video games gets its name.
Just like the gachapon machines in real life, a gacha mechanic involves buying a random chance to get something - which may or may not be what you hoped for. Another similar video game term would be a loot box, as in games such as Overwatch.
In Genshin Impact, wishes let you get new characters and weapons, thus helping you to progress - but the random element means to get the best things added to the game, you may have to do a lot of different draws - either with free in-game currency, or real cash. A handful of characters are also available for nothing - check out our list of free characters for more on that.
Genshin Impact Wishes: which banner to roll, and what you get for each wish
At any given time in Genshin Impact, there'll be multiple different categories of 'Wishes' running. These categories, commonly known as Banners, will feature different potential rewards. They'll sometimes be themed towards a specific thing, or built around some shiny newly-added character.
The banners you see will basically split into two different categories:
The Standard Wish should always be present. This wish can be purchased with Acquaint Fate - which can be acquired as a reward in-game - or with 160 Primogems, which are obtained for the most part using real-world cash.
The second tier are Limited or Event Wishes, and these are, as the name suggests, limited time only. These wishes constantly rotate, so if you want something off a limited or event banner, you'll want to do a bunch of draws to get it before the chance disappears. These are purchased using Intertwined Fate items, which are far rarer, or through 160 Primogems, which you get through real-world money.
The difference between these two banners is simple. Both still share the same pools for 3* and 4* characters/weapons, though the likeliness of summoning a 4* character or a 4* weapon from them depends on which banner you choose (Goblets for character, Invocation for weapon). Their main difference is what drops in them should you happen to summon a 5*. In the Ballad in Goblets banner, a character is guaranteed to be summoned if you happen to roll a 5-star with the odds in-favor of Venti (a character) because that's the current banner. Venti only appears in this banner and not the standard banner as for now. Meanwhile, the Epitome Invocation banner will have 5-star weapons only appear if you do manage to summon a 5-star item from them. In this banner, Amos' Bow and Aquila Favonia have the odds in their favor since they're the ones on rate-up.
Limited & Event Wishes in particular will often feature 5-star ranked Weapons and Characters as their ultimate prize. Usually on an event banner, the advertised top prize that is the 'poster child' prize for that draw have an increased probability to 'drop', meaning it's always more lucrative to put your energy into Limited & Event wishes than it is a standard wish.
What we mean to say is: aside from freebie pulls, you should basically ignore the standard wish. If you're looking for which banner to roll, you should generally always go for promotional & event wishes - these have the more specific top-tier prizes and better drop rates.
We maintain a list of current & upcoming banners, which you can consult to see exactly what each contains. Beyond that, which banners you go for within that is up to you, however - it depends how badly you want the item types in each.
Or, looking at it from the perspective of the in-game currencies:
Acquaint Fates are the currency used for the standard banner that will always be up as long as the game is in service. In the beginning, there's a separate discounted banner. Normally, it takes 10 Acquaint Fates to summon a 10-roll on the standard banner but the separate discounted banner only takes 8 for the 10-roll. The catch is you can only use this separate discounted banner twice before you can no longer use it and disappears.
Intertwined Fates are the currency used for the limited rate-up banners. At the moment with the game's launch, there are two separate banners from the standard banner that consume Intertwined Fates - the Ballad in Goblets banner and Epitome Invocation banner.
You also may wish to target a specific banner in order to get a specific character, like a particularly powerful one. Consulting our Tier List ranking of the best characters in the game can help with that.
If you're looking to get your hands on as many Primogems as possible, keep in mind they can come from quests, the adventurer handbook, as a drop from chests and for discovering or leveling up the Statue of the Seven with Anemoculus.
Masterless Stardust & Glitter: items from wishes and what to do with them
When you perform wishes in Genshin Impact, you'll get access to characters and weapons - but you'll also frequently be given Masterless Items such as Masterless Stardust and Masterless Glitter. These items are basically a bonus, and you'll be given them as a deal-sweetener when you perform a wish and the banner drops things you already have access to.
A duplicate 5-star character is worth the most, for instance, but only getting a 3-star weapon from a draw will also give you some bonus Masterless Stardust. These items can be collected over time and then traded in to the Paimon's Bargains for materials, characters and other rarities.
Banner Rates, Drop Probability & Pity in the Genshin Impact Gacha System
It's important to understand the drop rates from the gacha system, which is something that many countries mandate the developers of games like Genshin Impact must publish, so players know what they're getting into.
For Promotional Character Wishes - which have a top prize of a 5-star character and a secondary prize of 4-star characters, it works like this:
A 5-star character or weapon has a 0.6% chance of dropping
A 3-star weapon has a 94.3% chance of dropping.
However, if you do 9 pulls or more in a row without getting a 4-star or better result, the game will take 'pity' on you. The pity is locked to your current banner/wish of choice, but it raises the probability of seeing something good to 1.6% for 5-star and 13% for 4-star. As such, you should always be willing to do more than 10 pulls on a given banner in order to take advantage of the pity bonus.
Similarly, if you do 89 pulls in a row without getting a 5-star item, the game takes pity. That's a lot of pulls, but it means you will then have a 50% chance of your next draw a 5-star item. If that 5-star item isn't the promoted top prize, your next 5-star draw is guaranteed to be that prize.
Meanwhile, Promotional Weapon Wishes have a top advertised prize of special 5-star weapons and 4-star weapons as runner-up prizes, the rate is slightly different:
A 4-star character or weapon has a 6% chance of dropping
If you draw a 4-star or 5-star item here, there's a 75% chance it'll be one of the 'featured' weapons. If it isn't, the next item drawn of the same rarity will 100% be one of the featured weapons.
However, if you do 9 pulls or more in a row without getting a 4-star or better result, the game will take 'pity' on you. The pity is locked to your current banner/wish of choice, but it raises the probability of seeing something good to 1.6% for 5-star and 13% for 4-star. As such, you should always be willing to do more than 10 pulls on a given banner in order to take advantage of the pity bonus. This is the same as above.
If you do 89 pulls in a row without getting a 5-star item, the game takes pity. That's a lot of pulls, but it means you will then have a 50% chance of your next draw a 5-star item. If that 5-star item isn't the promoted top prize, your next 5-star draw is guaranteed to be that prize.
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    2017-05-28: javadoc 1.8
    2008-06-24: warning if some sum mismatch
    2007-09-05: compute E record from C12, C4, C5
    2006-10-11: Georg Fischer
*/
/*
 * Copyright 2006 Dr. Georg Fischer <punctum at punctum dot kom>
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.teherba.xtrans.finance;
import  org.teherba.xtrans.finance.DTARecordBase;
import  org.teherba.xtrans.ByteTransformer;
import  org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import  org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import  org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import  org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;

/** Transforms DTA (German payments exchange) files to/from XML.
 *  The records are defined by an XML record specification.
 *

XML output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc:records xmlns:doc="http://org.punctum.xtrans/2006/Record">
<doc:DTA rlen="150" l0="0" rtyp="A" ><doc:A A3="GK" A4="050070010" A5="00000000 ...
<doc:DTA rlen="324" l0="0" rtyp="C" ><doc:C C3="050070010" C4="050070010" C5="0 ...
<doc:DTA rlen="324" l0="0" rtyp="C" ><doc:C C3="050070010" C4="050070010" C5="0 ...
...
 *

 *  @author Dr. Georg Fischer
 */
public class DTATransformer extends ByteTransformer {
    public final static String CVSID = "@(#) $Id: DTATransformer.java 566 2010-10-19 16:32:04Z gfis $";

    /** log4j logger (category) */
    private Logger log;

    /** record for the specific format */
    private DTARecordBase genRecord;

    /** No-args Constructor
     */
    public DTATransformer() {
        super();
        setFormatCodes("dta");
        setDescription("DTA MCV German payments exchange file");
        setFileExtensions("dta");
    } // Constructor

    /** Initializes the (quasi-constant) global structures and variables.
     *  This method is called by the {@link org.teherba.xtrans.XtransFactory} once for the
     *  selected generator and serializer.
     */
    public void initialize() {
        super.initialize();
        log = LogManager.getLogger(DTATransformer.class.getName());
        genRecord = new DTARecordBase();
    } // initialize

    /** DTA element tag */
    private static final String  DTA_TAG = "DTA";

    /** Transforms from the specified format to XML
     *  @return whether the transformation was successful
     */
    public boolean generate() {
        boolean result = true;
        try {
            fireStartDocument();
            setNamespace("", genRecord.getNamespaceURI());
            fireStartRoot(genRecord.ROOT_TAG);
            fireLineBreak();
            while (genRecord.readVariable(byteReader)) {
                genRecord.fireElements(this);
                fireLineBreak();
            } // while reading
            fireEndElement(genRecord.ROOT_TAG);
            fireLineBreak();
            fireEndDocument();
        } catch (Exception exc) {
            log.error(exc.getMessage(), exc);
        }
        return  result;
    } // generate

    /*=======================*/
    /* DTA MCV   SAX Handler */
    /*=======================*/

    /** Sum of C records */
    private long sumCount;
    /** Sum of account numbers */
    private long sumAccount;
    /** Sum of BLZ */
    private long sumBLZ;
    /** Sum of amounts */
    private long sumAmount;
    /** record for the specific format */
    private DTARecordBase serRecord;

    /** Receive notification of the beginning of the document.
     */
    public void startDocument() {
        serRecord = new DTARecordBase();
        sumCount   = 0L;
        sumAccount = 0L;
        sumBLZ     = 0L;
        sumAmount  = 0L;
    } // startDocument

    /** Receive notification of the start of an element.
     *  Pass processing to generated code in DTARecordBase.
     *  @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if the element has no Namespace URI
     *  or if Namespace processing is not being performed.
     *  @param localName the local name (without prefix),
     *  or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed.
     *  @param qName the qualified name (with prefix),
     *  or the empty string if qualified names are not available.
     *  @param attrs the attributes attached to the element.
     *  If there are no attributes, it shall be an empty Attributes object.
     *  @throws SAXException for SAX errors
     */
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attrs)
            throws SAXException {
        // System.out.println("start " + localName + ":" + qName + ", namespace=" + namespace);
        if (namespace.length() > 0 && qName.startsWith(namespace)) {
            qName = qName.substring(namespace.length());
        }
        try {
            if (false) {
            } else if (qName.equals(namespace + "C")) {
                sumCount   ++;
                sumAccount += Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("C5" ));
                sumBLZ     += Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("C4" ));
                sumAmount  += Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("C12"));
            } else if (qName.equals(namespace + "E")) {
                long e4     = Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("E4" ));
                long e6     = Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("E6" ));
                long e7     = Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("E7" ));
                long e8     = Long.parseLong(attrs.getValue("E8" ));
                if (        sumCount    != e4
                        ||  sumAccount  != e6
                        ||  sumBLZ      != e7
                        ||  sumAmount   != e8) { // some mismatch
                    log.warn("sum mismatch: computed are"
                            +  " E4=" + sumCount
                            + ", E6=" + sumAccount
                            + ", E7=" + sumBLZ
                            + ", E8=" + sumAmount
                            );
                } // some mismatch
            }
            serRecord.startElement(uri, localName, qName, attrs);
        } catch (Exception exc) {
            log.error("error in startElement ", exc);
        }
    } // startElement

    /** Receive notification of the end of an element.
     *  @param uri the Namespace URI, or the empty string if the element has no Namespace URI
     *  or if Namespace processing is not being performed.
     *  @param localName the local name (without prefix),
     *  or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed.
     *  @param qName the qualified name (with prefix),
     *  or the empty string if qualified names are not available.
     */
    public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) {
        try {
            if (false) {
            } else if (qName.equals(namespace + "E")) {
                serRecord.setE6(Long.toString(sumAccount ));
                serRecord.setE7(Long.toString(sumBLZ     ));
                serRecord.setE8(Long.toString(sumAmount  ));
            } else if (qName.equals(namespace + DTA_TAG)) {
                serRecord.writeVariable(byteWriter);
            } else {
            }
        } catch (Exception exc) {
            log.error("error in startElement ", exc);
        }
    } // endElement

    /** Receive notification of character data inside an element.
     *  These are ignored - all content is transported with attributes.
     *  @param ch the characters.
     *  @param start the start position in the character array.
     *  @param len the number of characters to use from the character array.
     *  @throws SAXException - any SAX exception,
     *  possibly wrapping another exception
     */
    public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int len)
            throws SAXException {
    } // characters

} // DTATransformer


Welcome to "Lookin Up" a cozy 2 bedroom log cabin close to Pigeon Forge in Blackberry Ridge Resort. This rental boasts a great location close to the Pigeon Forge Parkway and Smoky Mountain attractions like Dollywood. Guests at this cabin rental close to both Pigeon Forge and Wears Valley will also enjoy quick access to the national park. Enjoy a premium log cabin with excellent amenities close to all the sights and attractions that you want to see!
This 2 bedroom Blackberry Ridge Resort cabin sleeps 6 guests and offers 2 king-size bedrooms. Both rooms have a television, but the master bedroom boasts a bath, electric fireplace and an in-room jacuzzi tub for romance and relaxation. In the main living room, guests will love relaxing on comfortable furnishing while they warm their hands by the seasonal, gas log fireplace or watch their favorite movies together. A sleeper sofa in this room offers additional sleeping space. WiFi Internet is available in this cabin for guests who want to share their Smoky Mountain exploits on social media.
"Lookin Up" is especially popular with families who have children. For more in-cabin entertainment, there is a pool table where your family can hold a tournament to determine who has the best pool shot.
This well-located, family cabin sits between Pigeon Forge and Wears Valley. Pigeon Forge offers plenty of action-packed entertainment, but your family may want to spend some time in the quieter side of the Smokies. Wears Valley is a peaceful mountain community that has several unique local shops and restaurants. Better yet, Wears Valley enjoys quick access to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park via a lesser known park entrance in the Metcalf Bottoms area of the Smokies. This way your family can easily access destinations like Cades Cove or enjoy a beautiful hike.
Book your 2 bedroom cabin rental close to Pigeon Forge and Wears Valley for a Smoky Mountain vacation experience you won't soon forget. With our special 15% cabin discount, you can save your hard-earned vacation dollars for experiencing the best that the mountains of Tennessee have to offer.


Founder and Chairman of Sunway Group, Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Jeffrey Cheah accepting the ASEAN@50 Lifetime Achievement Award from Prime Minister of Malaysia, Y.A.B Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, while Chairman of ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC), Tan Sri Dr Mohd Munir Abdul Majid and Minister of International Trade and Industry, Dato' Sri Mustapa bin Mohamed looks on.
Sunway City, 4 August 2017 – Sunway Group founder and chairman Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr Jeffrey Cheah AO has been conferred the ASEAN@50 Lifetime Achievement Award by the ASEAN-Business Advisory Council Malaysia (ASEAN-BAC), which was presented by Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak, at the ASEAN@50 Commemorative Dinner.
Tan Sri Cheah was recognised for his vision, exemplary leadership, commitment and outstanding achievements in the field of business through the Sunway Group. Over the past 40 years, Sunway has grown quickly from a small company to one of Malaysia's leading conglomerates with 15,000 employees across 12 diversified business units in 50 locations worldwide. In addition, Tan Sri Cheah's contributions to the local social and economic landscape through the rehabilitation of Sunway City from a tin-mining wasteland to a thriving integrated sustainable township was a key achievement highlighted in the selection process.
"I am honoured to receive the ASEAN@50 Lifetime Achievement Award by the ASEAN-BAC. This is particularly meaningful to me as the award comes at a milestone 50th anniversary for ASEAN. As the Sunway Group has grown from strength to strength over the last four decades, sustainability and social responsibility has been an integral part of our business framework as we expand our presence worldwide and work towards a sustainable future. I hope to continue creating positive impact on our communities within Malaysia and beyond," said Tan Sri Cheah. The award also recognises Tan Sri Cheah's immense contributions to the fields of education and sustainability. The Sunway Education Group celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, under the helm of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation (JCF). As a passionate advocate for the vital role that education plays in the progress of the country, Tan Sri Cheah has transferred all his equity in the Sunway Education Group's learning institutions worth RM1 billion today into the JCF, making it Malaysia's largest education focused social enterprise. Through the unique structure of the JCF, all operating surpluses are ploughed back into the JCF to be disbursed as scholarships and expansion of faculty and facilities, in perpetuity. Guided by its founding principles of giving to society through education, the JCF has disbursed RM270 million in scholarships, and will be awarding RM57 million by end of this year. It is Tan Sri Cheah's personal ambition to award RM1 billion in scholarships in his lifetime.
Tan Sri Cheah's outstanding successes in the field of sustainability is exemplified by the transformation of a land made barren from tin-mining activities into what is now Sunway City, Malaysia's first fully-integrated green township as recognised by Green Building Index in 2012, and a Low Carbon City by the Malaysian Institute of Planners in 2016. Sunway City is now home to a thriving community of over 200,000, and has seen the sustainable integrated township model successfully adapted across the country, in the lush Sunway City Ipoh, and the upcoming 1,800-acre Sunway Iskandar development. Sunway City is intensifying its efforts through various initiatives which will set the blueprint for future smart cities in Malaysia and the ASEAN region.
Through a strategic partnership initiated by Tan Sri Cheah through the JCF, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), the Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development has been launched in Sunway University in December 2016, chaired by renowned economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs. With this commitment towards the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region, Tan Sri Cheah has now become a champion of the sustainable development agenda in the region — dedicating his life in service to future generations in an effort to build an even better Malaysia and ASEAN.


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La Altagracia è una delle 32 province della Repubblica Dominicana. Il suo capoluogo è Salvaleón de Higüey.

Geografia antropica

Suddivisioni amministrative
La provincia si suddivide in 2 comuni e 5 distretti municipali (distrito municipal - D.M.):
 Salvaleón de Higüey
 San Rafael del Yuma

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
  Oficina Nacional de Estadística (Portale statistico dominicano)

La Altagracia

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We'll be collecting pet supply donations at our office located at 2400 Dorr Rd., Howell, MI 48843 starting March 1st - April 30th to benefit Humane Society of Livingston County!
Your good deed won't go unnoticed! Make a donation or an adoption and receive a 20lb cylinder fill!
Contact us at (888) 269-5928 for more information. We'd love to hear from you!


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Westland Insurance's success built on care for customers and their communities
Since its founding 40 years ago, Westland Insurance has subscribed to a simple business philosophy - service their customers well and help support the communities they live in.
Westland Insurance is celebrating its 40th-anniversary with its 40 Weeks of Giving campaign.supplied
It's been a successful combination as the family-owned and run business, which started in Ladner back in 1980, has expanded to include locations in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and, most recently Ontario.
But while Westland Insurance has progressed to become a national brand, the operations model in local communities continues to focus on the people and causes they serve. It's of great importance to maintain those community connections and Westland Insurance has been looking to acquire businesses that also value that philosophy.
An example of that enduring commitment, and to help celebrate the company's fourth decade in business, Westland Insurance has launched its 40 Weeks of Giving campaign.
It's about giving back to those communities in which Westland Insurance operates.
Each week, the insurance company will announce a community where they do business and the initiatives they carry out there to help raise awareness about the causes.
For example, in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, the company continued as the name sponsor of the town's hockey rink - home of the Junior A Yorkton Terriers - following the previous sponsor, Farrell Agencies, acquisition. Now, the rink is known as Westland Arena.
And this coming holiday season, Westland is sponsoring an "Elf" in the Yorkton Santa Parade.
Westland Insurance has also linked up with the Canadian Mental Health Association of Alberta to help with its Winter Collection Drive & Street Outreach and Stabilization Program, which assist an estimated 70 per cent of homeless individuals who struggle with mental health wellness.
One of the regional initiatives Westland Insurance has undertaken was a $150,000 donation to the local food banks across the three western provinces they serve.
"Supporting our local communities has always been very important to Westland. So, as we were thinking of how to mark the occasion at our 40th anniversary, it just made sense that community giving would be a significant part of it," says Todd Peterson, Westland Insurance's vice president.
Westland Insurance will also be encouraging people during the 40 Weeks of Giving campaign to follow them on social media and take part in contests to learn interesting trivia about the company.
For more about Westland Insurance, its continuing 40th-anniversary celebrations, and its links with communities it serves, visit their website at westlandinsurance.ca, and follow them on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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A central goal in modern neurobiology is to understand the neural mechanism by which sensory stimuli of the external world is converted into meaningful actions. The vast majority of external stimuli do not have inherent valence or behavioral significance. Instead those qualities are imposed on the stimuli through experience. This learning component plays a broader role in animals with imposed social structures. Increasingly sophisticated tools in anatomical, genetic and molecular methods as well as optogenetics and optical recordings are providing unprecedented understanding of circuit structures and function in brains of all kinds. However, how these circuits are interacting with neuromodulators to produce learned behaviors is not well understood. Here, we propose to identify neural circuits that are responsible for the generation of social learning using anatomic, genetic, molecular and behavioral tools. We will use known piriform circuitry to identify the neural substrates on which social meaning is imposed on sensory stimuli. Further, we will delineate the pathway by moving forward in the circuit to identif output regions responsible for producing behavior. Finally, these experiments will allow the mapping of nodes at which the neuromodulator oxytocin interacts with the olfactory circuitry, providing us a more complete picture - neural circuits and neuromodulatory cues - of how the brain translates sensory representations to meaningful behavior through learning. We believe that the circuit identified through this proposal would serve as an ideal platform to address how oxytocin interacts with mechanisms of adaptation and mal-adaptation during social learning. Furthermore, although we ask these questions in the context of olfactory circuits, oxytocin and social behaviors, the results will have a broad impact across neurobiology, from the studying of sensory coding to neuromodulators.
Oxytocin system dysfunction may contribute to mental disorders in which impaired social functioning is a core component. However, how oxytocin-regulated processes go awry to result in these diseases is still largely unknown. We believe that the circuit identified through this proposal would serve as an ideal platform to address how oxytocin interacts with mechanisms of adaptation and mal-adaptation during social learning.


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La calle Ali Demi (en albanés: Rruga e Ali Demit) es una calle principal de Tirana, en el país europeo de Albania. Lleva el nombre de Ali Demi, un héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se trata de una importante calle central de Tirana oriental y diversas ramas del bulevar Bajram Curri. Varias universidades y colegios están situados a lo largo de esta calle. En esta vía además se encuentra el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores albanés.

Véase también
Bulevardi Bajram Curri
Calle Durrës

Referencias

Calles de Tirana


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East Midlands recycling business set for growth with HSBC support
UPDATED: 19 October 2018
An East Midlands recycling company which specialises in the recycling of ferrous metals has secured a £6 million finance package from HSBC UK to support its ambitious growth strategy, both in the UK and overseas.
Ward, which has sites in Swadlincote, Ilkeston, Chesterfield and Immingham, is using the funding from HSBC UK to support the operation of its new deep-sea dock facility, enable the purchase of a new, 40-foot metal-processing plant which prepares the metal before it is exported overseas and relocate its 350-strong team to new offices. An additional uplift in the company's trade line will help the business export more recycled metal to its existing markets in India, Pakistan and the Far East.
The office move and resultant growth will facilitate the creation of 40 new jobs across its three sites, including hazardous waste managers, commercial and industrial waste business development managers and telesales staff.
David Ward, Joint Managing Director of Ward, said:
"The continued support from HSBC UK has enabled our business to realise its growth ambitions, open up new revenue streams and better serve our customers. We've had a fantastic 12 months, from the opening of our new dock in Immingham to our successful office move, and the support of Graham Brown, our Relationship Director at HSBC UK, has been key to helping us achieve this."
Roger Pratt, HSBC UK's Area Director for Corporate Banking in the East Midlands, added:
"HSBC UK continues to connect UK businesses to international opportunities and we're thrilled to be able to provide Ward with the funding to grow their business here in UK and overseas. We are committed to helping businesses large and small to realise their ambitions and we look forward to supporting Ward over the coming years."
Ward is the largest independent metal recycler in the Midlands. The business offers a specialist metal recycling service, from providing scrap metal recycling solutions through to buying engineering grade steel for processing and exporting overseas.
The business currently exports 25,000 tonnes of steel to Turkey every two-three months, which is melted down and used to make new steel. This material is 100% recyclable and can be used in a variety of applications, from car manufacturing through to construction products.
Ward also offers a vast array of waste recycling activities on a national basis, including wood recycling, trade and general waste, construction waste, hazardous waste and land remediations services.


That was my first "new" car.
And the fun has been continued.
Not everyone can be quickly access to the stars.
Also we have Model cars now ... Two.
and here is my moped.
Oops. That was my moped. (until 06.03.2010) Have fun... in Holzwickede.


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This huge iron sculpture is coming back to Cardiff after 47 years
Can you remember the black metal artwork from 1972?
Laura ClementsSenior Reporter
Are you in this picture? (Image: Chapter Arts Centre)
A metal sculpture which sat in Cardiff nearly 50 years ago is coming back to the city centre after being hidden from the public in Leicestershire.
The large black sculpture, which was placed on The Hayes for six months in 1972, was created by artist Garth Evans as a symbol of South Wales' mining history.
Chapter Arts Centre has raised enough money through a crowdfunding campaign to restore Mr Evans' 1972 Untitled sculpture and bring it home to its original location.
It will be erected outside the Tabernacle church in the Hayes in Cardiff city centre at midnight on Tuesday, September 24, for six months.
Untitled sculpture is set to return to The Hayes, Cardiff, after 47 years (Image: Chapter Arts Centre)
A short documentary film is also being made about the sculpture and its moment in Cardiff's history (Image: Chapter Arts Centre)
To celebrate the sculpture and its place in Cardiff's history, Chapter is making a short documentary film and is on the look out for anyone who remembers the sculpture.
The sculpture was one of 16 new works put in eight UK cities in 1972. But after six months, it was moved to Leicestershire where it has remained unseen by the public.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign supported by Art Happens with Art Fund, more than £17,000 was donated to the project. In February 2019, Chapter went to collect the original artwork.
Garth Evans, the man behind the sculpture (Image: Garth Evans)
Mr Evans was inspired to create the sculpture in 1972 as he had very strong family connections with Wales. It is said that his Welsh grandfather's tales of his time as a miner were hugely influential in the sculpture's form – evoking both a hammer-like tool and the image of a mine tunnel that was as black as coal.
Mr Evans said: " My mother grew up in the small mining village of Pencoed and my grandfather and my mother's brothers were coal miners in the region.
"As a child, I spent summers in south Wales and I vividly remember listening to my uncles and other men talk of their lives underground, in the dark. I wanted to make something that I felt had a connection to the coal mining and steel making industries of south Wales."
Mr Evans and the team working on the film will be in Cardiff until September 22 and are looking to speak with as many people as possible who can remember the sculpture.
If you can help, contact Chapter by email at Hannah.Firth@chapter.org or message the Chapter Gallery Facebook page at www.facebook.com/chaptergallery.
Chapter Arts Centre


Technology for aquaculture is growing with the high demand of fish. Micro / nano bubble is one of technology that is developed to increase dissolved oxygen in water. This technology is used to increase Koi fish production in high density via RAS. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of micro / nano bubble technology and its effect on biology of koi fish (Cyprinus carpio). Lutor was used to introduce micro / nano bubble in the fish tank by using fish length (e.g. 7.49 ± 0.29 cm). This research used completely randomized design with one factor (fish density) and three replications. This factor was three densities of fish at 15 fish.60 L-1 (A), 30 fish.60 L -1 (B), and 45 fish. 60 L -1 (C). The result showed that there was the absolute length of each treatments was (0.52 ± 0.03a) cm for A, treatment B (0.36 ± 0.07ab) cm and C treatment (0.29 ± 0.08b) cm. The best treatment is A treatment (15 fish. 60 L -1) and different significant in statistic with C treatment (45 fish. 60 L-1) but not significant in statistic with B treatment (30 fish. 60 L -1).


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Miocene (Pt 36): Dawn of the Seals
Allodesmus
In this series so far, I have covered the mammalian wildlife of the Miocene continent by continent, showing how the diversity of animals then was just as great as it is now. But there is a group of mammals that a time traveller to the period would have been able to observe along the coasts of those continents - especially during their breeding season - that I have not yet mentioned.
Today, the seals are divided into two subfamilies (I have reviewed all living species of seal here): the phocine or "northern" seals, which live in the Northern Hemisphere, and the monachine or "southern" seals, which are primarily found in the Southern Hemisphere, but do include three living species in the north.
Although both groups existed by the Middle Miocene, their distribution was not so clear-cut then as it is now. The phocine seals were almost entirely restricted to the Northern Hemisphere, with several fossils known from Europe, from Belgium to Ukraine. The one possible exception is Kawas (the name means 'seal' in a local native American language), which lived along the southern coasts of Argentina during the Middle Miocene. While it seems to resemble the "northern" seals more than it does its more modern neighbours, this has been questioned, and, even assuming it really is phocine, it's clear that such seals can't have remained south of the equator for long, since there are no other examples.
Most of the undoubted phocine seals come from Europe, although Leptophoca did live on the Maryland coast during the Middle Miocene; it is also known from slightly older deposits from Belgium and so must have crossed the Atlantic in one direction or the other. It seems to have been a close relative of Prophoca, which is perhaps the most primitive phocine seal known, and still seems to have been able to use its fore-flippers to aid with propulsion, rather than merely for steering as such seals do now. Afrophoca was another non-European example, living on the coast of Libya - although this wasn't exactly far from Europe, even then.
Perhaps the best-known of the many Miocene seals that are known from European deposits is the diminutive Nanophoca, which was probably no more than a metre (3 feet) in length. We know that it lived in the North Sea and that its bones were unusually dense. This would presumably have made the seal heavy in the water, which doesn't seem a good idea on the face of it; perhaps it fed along the bottom of very shallow seas, rather than spending most of its swimming time at the surface. A similar phenomenon is seen in seals from the Paratethys Sea (of which the Caspian Sea is the largest modern remnant) such as Pachyphoca, thought to be a relative of the living hooded seal. This is probably, in their case, because the sea in question was very salty at the time, and they needed to counteract the added buoyancy that would create.
The "southern" seals were more common in the Northern Hemisphere during the Miocene than they are today, with several species known from Europe, with Callophoca being known both from Belgium and North Carolina during the Late Miocene. The fossil record of such seals in the Southern Hemisphere is comparatively sparse, although that's probably for lack of looking rather than because they didn't exist. Indeed, Neomonachus, from Late Miocene New Zealand actually appears to have been a monk seal - the one group of "southern" seals that is currently restricted to the Northern Hemisphere, showing that, contrary to all previous expectations, this group once crossed the equator, too.
Hadrokirus is another Late Miocene example of "southern" seals. It lived in Peru, but it closely related to Piscophoca, which is known to have reached Chile. Hadrokirus is significant for its heavy teeth, suggesting that it fed on either hard-shelled animals (such as lobsters) or on something relatively large with thick bones (such as other seals). Acrophoca, possibly another close relative, was unusual because of its long neck. Although it had previously been suggested that it might have been a filter feeder, more recent analysis seems to show that it fed by gripping and tearing at prey, like a modern leopard seal, in which case the long neck probably made it easier to lunge at its victims.
One of the ways of distinguishing the "northern" and "southern" seals is the number of incisor teeth at the front of their jaws. Devinophoca, which lived on the Slovakian coast 15 million years ago when there still was such a thing, is unusual in that it had three pairs of incisors in the upper jaw, like a "northern" seal, but only one in the lower jaw, like a monk seal. The consensus is that it probably belongs to neither group, representing an early third branch that died out, at the latest, towards the end of the Middle Miocene.
Genetic evidence suggests that the two (or three) branches of the seal family diverged around 18 to 16 million years ago, during or shortly before the very hottest time of the Miocene. The oldest fossil seal known, however, is Noriphoca, which dates to at least 22 million years, the only example currently known from the Early Miocene - indeed, it's probably a holdover from the previous epoch, the Oligocene. It had more teeth than any living (or other fossil) seal, suggesting that it was particularly primitive and, while originally described as an early "southern" seal, it seems more likely that it predates the split.
While, as indicated above, the fossil record of Miocene seals is, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, reasonably good, the same cannot be said of the sea lions. Although they must logically have lived right through the Miocene, we have almost no examples of them. The oldest currently known is Eotaria, from around 15 million years ago, the only known example to predate the Late Miocene. It lived in California, as did the only other Miocene sea lions, Pithanotaria (known from only scant remains) and Thalassoleon. The latter, which lived at the very end of the Miocene, was still primitive enough to have likely predated the main split within the sea lion family - between the sea lions proper, and the "fur seals" - although it likely already fed, and swam, in much the same manner that all living members of the family do, and probably looked quite similar. There is, for instance, evidence that the males of the species were much bigger than the females, as is true of modern sea lions.
It seems probable that we have so few Miocene sea lion fossils because only a very few species existed at any one time, perhaps all of them restricted to California. But, when we come to the walruses, the exact opposite is true: there is only species alive today, but there used to be many more. The walruses originated in the North Pacific, and did not reach the Atlantic until much later, presumably by using the northern route around Canada. They initially seem to have lived in relatively warm waters, unlike their modern descendants (even allowing for the fact that the Miocene was warmer than today), with most Miocene fossils known from California and Japan - although there are also some from Oregon and from Kamchatka in Russia.
The most distinctive feature of modern walruses, the giant tusks, had yet to evolve, with the result that they would probably have looked more like sea lions than their modern kin in life. Nonetheless, their canine teeth were often enlarged and, in many cases, could reasonably be described as "tusks" - if more like a wild boar than the sort we would think of. One group, the dusignathines, such as Gomphotaria, even had four tusks, rather than two, with the canines in the lower jaw being almost as large as those in the upper. But the dividing line between "tusks" and "large teeth" is a vague one, and by some definitions, the 6 million-year-old Osodobenus, living on the south California coast right at the end of the Miocene, was the first truly tusked walrus.
The most primitive known fossil walrus is Prototaria, which lived in Japan around 16 million years ago, not longer after the group are first thought to have split from the sea lions. It was much smaller than modern walruses, although still in the size range of many seals, and its teeth were far less specialised than those of later examples. It probably fed on fish in the same way that seals and sea lions do today, rather than specialising on clams and other invertebrates like the modern walrus.
From these humble beginnings, walruses grew steadily larger as the epoch unfolded. Pelagioarctos, another Californian walrus which lived not much later than Prototaria, had already reached the size of a large sea lion. It has been hypothesised that it might have been a powerful predatory hunter feeding on large prey, although more recent analyses suggest that it probably just ate fish.
Titanotaria is named for a local university sports team, rather than for its size, but it was still impressive, probably comparable in size to a modern walrus at over 3 metres (10 feet) in length. It and its close relative Imagotaria lived along the California coast around 9 million years ago, early on in the Late Miocene and its not much later that the tuskless walruses went extinct, perhaps driven by the cooling climate as the Pliocene approached and an accompanying shift to a more mollusc-based diet among those walruses that did survive. Another notable late survivor is Pontolis from Oregon, thought to have been the largest walrus to have lived; at around 4 metres (13 feet) in length, it would have been about the size of an adult male elephant seal, its only known contender for the title of "largest carnivoran species ever".
The desmatophocids represent a fourth group of pinnipeds, distinct from the seals, sea lions, and walruses, that existed only during the Miocene. Desmatophoca, for which the group is named, is known only from limited remains, and it is difficult to say too much about it. Allodesmus, living around 10 million years ago on both sides of the Pacific, is fortunately better preserved. It may have been the last surviving desmatophocid, and therefore potentially more specialised than its earlier relatives, but it does nonetheless have some unusual features. For instance, it had particularly large eyes, suggesting that it hunted in conditions of poor light - presumably deep water, in its case, rather than at night - and had a skull shape that has led some to suggest that it might have had a proboscis like an elephant seal. The relationship to other pinnipeds is obscure; the limbs suggest that it swam like a sea lion or walrus, rather than a seal, but this might not mean much, given that very early seals did much the same.
Almost all the creatures I have described so far lived during the Middle or Late Miocene, since this is as far back as we can trace the existing families of pinniped. That Noriphoca is already identifiable as a seal suggests that the ultimate origin of the group is even further back but some of its contemporaries are also contenders for the title of "oldest known pinniped".
Enaliarctos lived around 23 million years ago, right at the dawn of the Miocene, and is known from both California and Oregon. It doesn't fit with any of the living families, partly because the bones of its limbs have points for muscle attachment that suggest it could still walk - although possibly not very well - and it could also still chew its food, rather than gulping it down, suggesting that it may have carried its prey onto land to finish its meal. Interestingly, analysis of some fossils shows that males were already larger than females, so that the extreme harem-based mating system of modern pinnipeds may already have existed, even this early.
Enaliarctos is undoubtedly a pinniped, and if we could see one in the flesh, it would probably still look much like one, even if its flippers were at least partially leg-like. But, as always, there is the question of where exactly we draw the line between pinnipeds and not-yet-pinnipeds, and some other Early Miocene animals could fall on either side of that line, depending on where we place it. While they lived too late to be the actual ancestors of pinnipeds, which presumably first arose towards the end of the Oligocene, they may well be close descendants of the creatures that were, changing rather less than the likes of Enaliarctos had.
The clearest example here is probably Puijila, a 23 million-year-old fossil from northern Canada. While it had a number of features that seem to place it close to pinnipeds, it still had legs and feet, and a long tail. While the shape of the toe bones suggest that its feet may have been webbed, and there is ample evidence that it was suited to the water, it would have looked much more like an otter than a seal. Indeed, it may be related to Potamotherium, now thought to be another early pinniped relative, but for a long time assumed to be a mustelid. It most likely lived in freshwater, and its anatomy strongly implies that it was semi-aquatic, as otters are, spending most of its time on riverbanks and only diving in to catch food.
But, while the pinnipeds of the Early Miocene were probably relative newcomers to the oceans there, was of course, another group of mammals that had already been there for a long time. The final post in this series on the Miocene will take a dip further into the sea, and look at the cetaceans of the day...
[Photo by Jonathan Chen, from Wikimedia Commons.]
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Labels: Evolution, Miocene series, Pinnipeds, Seals, walrus
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From birth, every experience is recorded by the subconscious, but not as a camera would record it.
Every experience is interpreted by the subconscious, and given meaning - and then the meaning of that is recorded for future reference.
This is how we learn who we are and how the world works. It's how a baby can be born in rural Africa, or Hollywood, and learn to fit in and survive in that environment.
Every moment, the subconscious is referring to the information it holds from previous experiences, as "proof" and "evidence" of who we are and how the world works - then prompting the brain to trigger the organs, to produce chemicals.
These chemicals create feelings, sensations, emotions, and impulses.
The conscious mind then interprets those feelings, emotions, sensations, and impulses - and behaves accordingly.
This is how the subconscious controls the conscious mind through the body.
In addition to this, every new experience is filtered through the existing references created from past experiences, and then added to the structure of existing beliefs.
Can Memories Really Be Changed?
Science has discovered that memories are not only inaccurate and incomplete, but change every time we recall them. For more detailed information on this, with references to scientific research, read: Can We Change Adverse Childhood Memories?
If you recall a memory right now, from when you were five-years-old, you are not bringing to mind a complete "movie" or picture. Your brain is, in fact, pulling together a range of resources, and "piecing" that memory together as you recall it. Memories are not stored as complete representations of events; they are put together in the moment you remember them, like a jigsaw puzzle. And the resulting memory is changed as you recall it, according to any new resources gathered since the last time you recalled it.
Just as every new experience is filtered through existing data held in the subconscious from previous experiences, memories are filtered through current data from all previous experiences to date.
- we can change those childhood memories that are providing the structure and support for limiting subconscious beliefs.
A person who has low self-confidence is experiencing lack of self-confidence because the subconscious mind is referring to "proof" and "evidence" from foundation childhood memories that they are not worthy, or not good enough, or whatever other subconscious beliefs have been built on that "evidence".
This means that the subconscious is constantly referring to that information - those memories - as "fact" - and then prompting the brain to trigger the organs to produce chemicals that create feelings of inadequacy, or inferiority etc.
The conscious mind, aware of the feelings, interprets them to mean "I'm not good enough", "They don't like me", "I can't do this", "I'm not clever enough"... and so on.
Now, if that person were to use CMT to change those early childhood memories that are providing the "proof" for those beliefs, the subconscious would automatically be prompting the brain to trigger the organs to produce different chemicals. And these chemicals would create different feelings... which would result in a different self-image, and therefore, more confidence.
For instance, that person may have a memory of being humiliated by a teacher when they were 8 years old. And several memories of their parents being disappointed, angry, dismissive, or impatient with them.
They could change those memories to where their mother and father are loving, affectionate, respectful, and proud of them.
They could change the school memory to where the teacher is praising them, and impressed with what they've done.
The subconscious would then be referring to the new memories as "proof" and "evidence" that they are worthy, loved, valuable, respected, and intelligent. Self-confidence would be a natural and automatic result!
* The subconscious does not use logic or reason - only the conscious mind is able to reason and use logic.
* The subconscious has no ability to judge right from wrong - like a computer, it simply operates according to the programming it currently holds.
* The subconscious cannot tell the difference between reality and imagination. When you watch a scary movie, your brain and body behave as if the threat is real - your heart-rate increases; adrenaline is pumped into your bloodstream; you go into the fight/freeze/flight state. But, at the same time, your conscious mind knows it's just a movie.
Changing memories is the same - your subconscious will believe whatever you give it, while at the same time, you conscious mind will know what originally happened.
Conscious mind - knows the difference between the original event and the new memory.
Subconscious - doesn't know the difference, and will accept the new memory as "fact".
1. ESC (Emotional State Conditioning) - to help develop "emotional stamina and fitness" - which makes changing childhood memories (and coping with daily challenges in the meantime) much, much easier as you develop the skill and move up the levels in the ESC Program.
2. Changing Adverse Childhood Memories to the opposite, positive, and empowering - the most important and ultimate goal. The purpose of the entire process is to end up with the Ideal Childhood - that will support (provide the subconscious "evidence" that proves) the life you want to experience now.
3. Rewriting Generational Childhoods (mostly to satisfy the conscious mind's objections - if they had had different childhoods, they would have been different to you! ;) ).
4. Blueprint Visualization - Decide what you want to do, be, and have now... and then create childhood memories of your parents and grandparents doing, being, and having that while you were growing up. In other words - you come from a long line of __________ (famous authors/ successful investors/ wealthy business owners/ happy, healthy, peaceful, loving people etc. - whatever you want now).
5. Conscious Realignment - creating the ability to focus on the "best-case" scenario, and then ensuring coherence between your past, present, and future.
6. The Due Justice Technique - This is a kind of "drain unblocker". When you find you can't change your childhood memories, or you can't imagine your parent or grandparent being different - using the Due Justice Technique will help to get you unstuck, and able to move forward again.
7. Re-parenting the Little You - Spending time with that little you, giving that child whatever it was that they wanted, needed, and should have had.
8. Zero Tolerance - Becoming more aware, and catching any negative thought or feeling before it takes hold, and immediately choosing to change your focus to whatever will "switch off the tap" of stress chemicals and start to produce endorphins. The earlier you catch it, the easier and quicker it is - and the better you get at it as you develop the skill.


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Gainsaying the Tea Party
by Brett Stevens on March 11, 2010
The Tea Party may end up being the most interesting political movement of our time. I say this because I agree with its critics: it has no idea where it's going or what it wants, but it's slowly coming together to recognize what it is.
Like Sarah Palin, it's popular with a specific group, with a few exceptions on the fringes — white, middle-class, mostly nativist Americans. They like it because it resembles them. Their basic message is that we just want to be us. We don't want to pay for anyone else, true, but that's a sleight of hand. What they're really saying is that they want to be themselves, and not be obligated to admit anyone else to their world.
This is probably a direct response to the 1960s and 1970s, where a mania for including everyone diluted our communities and forced us all into a chaotic environment where few people have anything in common. Especially values. I think that's even more important than religion; in the Tea Party, "Christianity" is another code-word, this time for traditional values.
Naturally, the Left has freaked out about this, because the Tea Party is an authentic groundswell — and this time, it's by the people who despite 150 years of various well-intentioned government programs, are the highest earners and most productive citizens we have. They're calling tea partiers racists, ig'nant and selfish bastards who don't want to pay for anyone else.
While that's true, not paying for anyone but themselves is again, a code-word. What is really meant is white middle class secession from the mess of diversity, bureaucracy, corruption, universalist theory and voodoo economics that America has become.
This is what Plato predicted when he suggested that as a civilization becomes corrupt under democracy, the middle classes adopt a quasi-Libertarian Social Darwinist attitude in order to escape the empire of the drones:
And there is another class in democratic States, of respectable, thriving individuals, who can be squeezed when the drones have need of their possessions; there is moreover a third class, who are the laborers and the artisans, and they make up the mass of the people.
When the people meet, they are omnipotent, but they cannot be brought together unless they are attracted by a little honey; and the rich are made to supply the honey, of which the demagogues keep the greater part themselves, giving a taste only to the mob.
Their victims attempt to resist; they are driven mad by the stings of the drones, and so become downright oligarchs in self-defence. – Plato, The Republic
While the Tea Party movement has made an interesting start, it still must figure out what it wants, because otherwise it will get boiled down to the lowest common denominator. As an identity movement, it is promising because it encourages us to rediscover ourselves.
The Tea Party is unique in that it is not theoried, and not particularly academic, although far from un-educated. Tea Party people did not go to elite colleges and learn postmodern theory; they started businesses and learned real world ideas. If academia had not drifted into spacy new age postmodernism that is wholly unrelated to reality, the tea partiers might have been theoried, but who has time for the irrelevant?
In my view, the ultimate future of the Tea Party movement is going to be literary, or at least, narrative. It will be this way because without theory, disorganization and assimilation by the lowest common denominator occurs. But what works better than airy theory in dense white papers is a simple story. And here's what that story will be.
A long time ago, people left Europe looking for a new way. Europe was divided by people fighting over kings, religion and politics. In America, people wanted to focus on a more elemental vision: quality of life, and the production of competent, honest, kind, morally alert families. As a result, Americans threw out theory, and launched a new type of government that was half-oligarchy, half-democracy.
Over time however people showed up who did not share their values. These people did not want to deal with the constant pain of being morally alert. They wanted an "everything goes" mentality, probably because life wasn't working out so good for them. They started changing the laws to this effect, most notably in the 1820s. In order to justify themselves, they claimed the moral upper hand, but this was moral theory, not the practical production of well-adjusted people who share our values.
After a disastrous Civil War, we saw that trying to police our neighbor is a dead-end. We need to focus on values and raising our families, and let other people face the fate they take upon themselves. Even if they're doing something horrible like enslaving people, or committing genocide, it's not really our business. Because at a biological level, what matters most is that we produce good children and healthy families and a healthy society to raise them.
True, there is evil in the world, and it thrives if good doesn't oppose it. So in our local communities, where everyone shares the same values, we like to throw out the people who don't share our values. The problem is that someone in a distant city will decide that is wrong because values are universal, which translates to us changing our values to "everything goes." We don't agree with that; if we did, we would have stayed in Europe.
Right now, we're trying to break away from the anything goes people. We're trying to get back to biology and get away from spaced-out theory that translates into "everything goes, because we can't figure out what reality is." We just care about our shared values, and raising children in the American middle class method: traditional values, stable two-parent families, education and hard work. We also like being who we are and aim to perpetuate that.
Our society hovers in the balance between European-style political instability, Brazil-style third world disorganization, and the traditional American method of making a nice place for people who want to raise stable healthy families. We know that most people on earth want what we have, but for various reasons, haven't made it in their own countries or communities. So we need to shut them out, or they'll take what we have and destroy it, as has happened before.
That's the kind of story you will hear from an articulate Republican, Tea Party or American New Right individual. While it seems dumbed-down compared to the grand-sounding theories of the left, it's actually more coherent according to science: individuals are opting to raise healthy generations instead of getting side-tracked into symbols on paper. This is why the Tea Party is important: it's a revolution in politics based on biology.
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Sea ice algae grow in the darkest areas ever recorded • Earth.com
Sea ice algae grow in the darkest areas ever recorded
Experts from Aarhus University have discovered that small algae residing under Arctic sea ice have adapted to live in extreme conditions. The microscopic algae need only 0.02 percent of the light at the ice's surface for survival, which sets a new world record.
In the Arctic, the winter season is completely dark. Even when the sun re-emerges in the springtime, very little light can penetrate the compact ice and snow.
Since algae need light to live, researchers wanted to investigate how sea ice algae live in a low light habitat that is below freezing for long periods of time throughout the year. They focused their study at the Villum Research Station in northeastern Greenland.
"We worked on the sea ice in April-May, where there was a meter of sea ice and a meter of snow on top of the ice," explained lead author Lars Chresten Lund-Hansen. "With special ice corers we drilled holes in the ice so that we could measure the ice algae on the underside of the ice and collect samples."
Sea ice algae are critical components of the Arctic food web. They are particularly important in the early spring, when plankton algae are not yet active.
The study revealed that the sea ice cover and the depth of the snow did not change significantly during the month of May. However, as the snow got warmer, optical conditions changed – allowing more light to reach the underside of the ice.
"Our measurements showed that the ice algae began to grow at a light intensity below 0.17 μmol photons m-2 s-1," said study co-author Kasper Hancke. "This corresponds to less than 0.02% of the amount of light that reaches the surface of the snow on a sunny day."
This is the lowest light level ever observed to promote active photosynthesis and ice algae growth. The findings suggest that ice algae assume an important role much earlier in the spring than previously realized.
"Temperatures are rising in the Arctic," said Lund-Hansen. "When the snow on top of the ice gets warmer, the algae residing on the underside of the ice receive more light. This may significantly impact the growth of the algae and the extent of the 'spring bloom.' This new knowledge must be considered in the puzzle of how the Arctic will respond to a warmer world."
The study is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
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Cover to Cover #401A: Nathan Lowell
March 30, 2010 by Summer Brooks
In Second Life every year, during the American Cancer Society's "Relay for Life" season, there are a number of fundraisers supporting this effort. This year, Mike Stackpole will be doing a reading challenge in Second Life in support of the ACS, reading his newest book At The Queen's Command live on select Friday dates, for as long as people are in Second Life and continuing to donate.
More details about this can be found at stormwolf.com.
Interview: Nathan Lowell answered the call for authors who've embraced the non-traditional paths for publishing their work.
He was inspired by Dragon Page several years ago and wrote his story geared towards release on Podiobooks, starting with Quarter Share, and continuing with Half Share, Full Share, Double Share, Captain's Share, and will conclude with Owner's Share.
Nathan talks about the path to gaining an audience while expanding the story of following an average guy looking for work, how it eventually garnered a print run to satisfy his existing fans who wanted a print version of the story they'd loved, and engaging his readers while also promoting the work.
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Some information I found said this was drawn as an illustration for a 1928 edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow but wasn't used. I cannot corroborate that. However, Rackham was a wonderful artist and illustrated many classic books including Alice in Wonderland and Grimm's Fairy Tales. His work always has a mystical look to it.


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