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Professor Jacques Lafaye, (born 21 March 1930) is a French historian who, from the early 1960s has written  influentially on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history. His most popular work is Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe written in 1974 regarding the formation of the Mexican National Consciousness and includes a prologue by  Octavio Paz and is regarded as a keystone for the understanding of the contemporary Mexican culture and is regarded as one of the most comprehensive analyses of the colonial period in Mexico.

Life
Jacques Lafaye has a long trajectory in Spanish and Latin American history. His book Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe. The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness became an important reference for Mexican colonial history. First printed in París by Gallimard Publishers (1974), then in the United States by the Chicago University Press (1976) and in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica (1977), has contributed to the understanding of the merging of the Spanish and Mexican Prehispanic cultures. Lafaye has also written on the history of culture in general, including the Greek humanist tradition, the predecessors of the print.

Career

 Licence and Master of Spanish language and literature. (1951–53).
 Professor agrégé des Lycées. (1954)
 Midship of the French Navy, ORIC (1955–1957)
 Student (Élève titulaire) of École Pratique des Hautes Études (IV y VI Section) (1954-55 y 1957-60)
 Licence of ethnology, Institut d'ethnologie (Musée de l´homme, Paris, 1956–57)
 Maître-Assistant, Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine des Universités de Paris. (1959–1968)
 Maître-Assistant, Sorbonne (Assistant of Prof. Robert Ricard, Director  of the Institut hispanique) Paris (1960–1962)
 Research Attache, CNRS, (1962–1964)
 Maître de Conférences, University of Strasbourg, and  Director Institut d´espagnol et de portugais (1964–1968)
General Secretary of Société des Américanistes de Paris (Musée de l'Homme), and editor of Journal des Américanistes (1964-1977) and Acts of the XLII International Congress of Americanists- 12 Vols. (Centenary, Paris, 1976)
 Docteur de  III cycle, University of Paris X-Nanterre (1967)
 Member of the Scientific Section of the Casa de Velázquez (Ecole franCaise des Hautes Etudes hispaniques) Madrid (1968–1971)
 Docteur d´État, University of Sorbonne-nouvelle (Paris III) (1971)
 Professor, University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) (1972–1990)
 Maître de Conférences associé, Collège Erasme  (Université Catholique de Louvain), Belgium  (1971–1985)
 Chargé de cours, École Normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm) (1971–72)
 Charge de cours, Centre National de Téléenseignement agrégation (1972–1974)
 Director of the Institut d'Études ibériques et latinoaméricaines, Sorbonne (1985 a 1988)
 Director of the Centre Universitaire d'études catalanes, Sorbonne (1979–1989)
 Professor and researcher at El Colegio de Jalisco, Guadalajara-Zapopan, México.
 Member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, México (SNI)(2000, to now)

Visiting Professor
 Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander) (1958)
 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (1960)
 Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) (1964)
 Member of  The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library
 University of California, Berkeley (1973)
 University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) (1974)
 The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Smithsonian Institution), fellow, Washington DC,  (1977 and 1989).
 The Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). Guest Member.(1980–1981)
 Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.), Visiting Professor (1991)
 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Visiting Professor (1992)
 Universidad de Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares), Visiting Professor (1992–1993)
 Universitat de València (research, 1994)
 Guest speaker to the Cátedra Julio Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara, by Carlos Fuentes and  Gabriel García Márquez (1995)
 Universidad de Guadalajara, México, Visiting Professor (1996)
 Universidad de Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), Visiting Professor (2000)

Distinctions

 Prix Lugné Poë, Paris, 1949.
 Prix du duc de Loubat, Paris, 1974.
 Prix  Becucci, Louvain, 1976.
 Prix de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 1984.
 Associate Member of Real Academia de la  Historia, Madrid,  1980.
 Associate Member of  Real Academia Española, Madrid, 1981.
 Member of the Publisher Committee of the Boletín de la Real Academia Española, Madrid, 2010.
 Member of The Hispanic Society of America, New York, 1991.
 Commander of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, Spain, 1985.
 Commander of the  Order  of  Palmes académiques, France, 1994.
 Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, France 1998.
 Insignia of Aguila Azteca Mexico, 2006.

Bibliography

 By Jacques Lafaye
 The Wonders of Spain, Londres: Thames and Hudson, (1962).(Paris: Arthaud, 1961;Milan:Mursia ed.,  1962; Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1962)
 Les conquistadores, Paris : Éditions Seuil, Collection Le temps qui court, (1964).
 Konkwistadorzy, Warsaw: Omega, 1966.
 Los conquistadores, Translated by Elsa Cecilia Frost, México: Siglo XXI editores, 1970.
 Los conquistadores. Figuras y escrituras, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, sección de historia, 1999.
 Manuscrit Tovar. Origines et croyances des indiens du Mexique, Bilingual edition in French and Spanish. Paleography, introduction and interpretation by J. L., Graz, Austria: Collection UNESCO d´Oeuvres représentatives - Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, (1972).
 Quetzalcóatl et Guadalupe, La formation de la conscience nationale au Mexique (1531–1813), Prologue by Octavio Paz, Éditions Gallimard, Paris (1974).
 Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe. The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, Translated by Benjamin Keen, Chicago University Press(1976).
 Quetzalcóatl  y  Guadalupe. La formación de la conciencia nacional de México, 1531–1813, Translated by Ida Vitale and Fulgencio López Vidarte, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1977.
 Mesías, cruzadas, utopías. El judeo-cristianismo en las sociedades ibéricas, Translated (partial) by Juan José Utrilla, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, sección de Obras de historia, (1984).
 Sangrientas fiestas del Renacimiento. La era de Carlos V, Francisco I y Solimán el Magnífico, 1500–1557, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, sección Breviarios, núm. 534, 1999.
 Brasil y Francia, una intimidad secular, trad. Laura López Morales, México: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras-UNAM, (2001).
 Albores de la imprenta. El libro en España y Portugal y sus posesiones de ultramar (siglos XV-XVI), México:  Fondo de Cultura Económica, sección Obras de historia, (2002).
 Por amor al Griego. La nación europea, señorío humanista. (Siglos XIV-XVII), Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico,  (2005).
 En el traspatio de la historia. Tomo I,  Historia mexicana. Prólogo de Ernesto de la Torre Villar. Tomo II, Historia hispanoamericana. Tomo III, Historia española, Zapopan Jal. México: El Colegio de Jalisco, (2004, 2006, 2008).
 Simbiosis. Arte y sociedad en México.'' Preface by Teresa del Conde, CONACULTA, Mexico, 2009.
* De la historia bíblica a la historia crítica. El tránsito de la conciencia occidental, FCE, México, 2013.

* ''Octavio Paz. En la deriva de la modernidad. Siete ensayos. México, FCE, 2013.

* Un humanista del siglo XX. Marcel Bataillon, FCE, México, 2014. (prefacio de Claude Bataillon)

References

External links
 List of Members The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, A Community of Scholars, Princeton.
 FCE: Autores Author's page on the site of the editorial: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
 El Colegio de Jalisco
 Discutamos México Program by the government of Mexico to create a critical dialogue on the history and culture of Mexico.
 Feria Internacional de Libro de Guadalajara

1930 births
Writers from Paris
French historians of religion
Cultural historians
University of Paris alumni
Cultural anthropologists
Latin American studies
History of Mesoamerica
Living people
Historians of Spain
Historians of South America
Historians of Mexico
French male writers

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The Rebbetzin's Husband: Why Do Rabbis Crash?
Isn't a close relationship with HaShem and His Torah supposed to fortify a Rav against these aggravations, to the point that we can expect proper behavior?
Or are they just another kind of manager under pressure?
There are a few responses I can think of.
1) There is a tremendous misallocation of funds in the Orthodox world. How many multi-gajillionaires give donations so the social hall in the shul can be named after them? How many of them instead fund a position for a Rav at a decent salary for several years? How much do they spend on their kid's bar mitzvah? How much on ensuring the shul balances its budget?
2) As a profession Rabbonim are a very disorganized lot. You cannot compare yourselves to doctors and lawyers. You have no national governing authority, no uniform set of standards, no practice guidelines and, most important, no disciplinary body. Barbers are more regulated.
3) You have no union or similar protective body. Look at the Conservatives and Reform. Their so-called Rabbis have a union. What do you have to protect you from malicious shul board members? The halacha? Ha!
Until those are addressed the situation will not change.
Why should that work, either religiously or medically?
1. It's not about salary; it's about visibly limiting the job expectations.
It won't work if he made a poor decision (or was misled) to take something on that is manifestly beyond his abilities. But is that the typical case?
I am suggesting this scenario: Rabbi X is in a position to indulge his desires in any number of ways each day, just like all of us are. The first five, six, seven times, he restrains himself properly. But because he has depleted his resources of self-control, eventually he gives in. He has no opportunity, during a day of constant situations like this [counseling women, meeting socially with women, having mikvah access, etc.], to get out of the situation and recharge. I am NOT saying he is innocent - but I am saying that our communities create situations in which crashes will happen.
I thought about the idea of a Rabbis' union or professional group. However, as long as there are many more rabbis than positions, the shul boards will be in the driver's seat. Just like Jewish school administrators vs. teachers. They will always be able to find someone willing to work outside union work rules or guidelines. Can you see a way a rabbi can create a "study time" daily when he is 100% incommunicado?
Thanks - the description of a typical rabbi's week is very enlightening for those of us not in the rabbinate. Delegate! That's what my management constantly tells us. There is a yeshiva educated baal habos in the shul who would love to give the daf yomi, ditto for giving classes; there are high school kids who can visit the cholim, working professionals who can run the meetings, etc. There's even someone with semicha in the shul who can answer sheilos. The rabbi's job is to lead, which means making his people the best they can be. If he does everything himself where does that leave them room to grow? And if he does not involve people in the shul but does everything himself, why would the people feel connected to the shul? Then the shul becomes not the home we build together (cue Rabbi Sacks's book) but the home the rabbi built. And who's interested in that except for the rabbi?
1. Would your shul's leadership be happy if the rabbi delegated out the classes, the visits, the meetings and the shailos?
2. Would your rabbi be a respected leader if people did not have the relationships that they form with him through these interactions?
To my mind, the problem is not that the communities need these events to take place, it's that they have a need (real and imagined) for the rabbi to be the one to do them.
Very interesting. I actually thought the problem was the opposite - that the rabbis think they need to be the ones to do it, and therefore don't make good use of the members of their shul who would love to get involved more.
Let me answer #2 first.
Yes, I think so. In your model the rabbi is the direct manager of the whole shul. In my model the rabbi is the CEO who delegates the work to all of the managers under him. Who gets more respect, the direct managers or the CEO?
#1 - why would they not be happy if everything gets done well and the rabbi is the one making it all happen (as a good CEO would do)?
Re: #2 - The CEO may receive respect, but is delegating what makes him a "respected leader"? My sense is that rabbis are followed when they demonstrate chesed, scholarship, and dedication - not when they show themselves to be good managers and delegators.
#1 - My sense is that they would not be happy because they want a relationship with the Rabbi. What you are describing is the state of things in many Israeli communities, and and from what I understand, many people there are unhappy, and seeking the chu"l model in which there is a hands-on Rabbi.
Yisro - As I see it, Yisro doesn't adopt a model of lay leadership, he just hires lower-ranking rabbis.
Impressed that you had time to write this.
In your calculation of the hours spent on the job, you have neglected any travel time. Driving to a funeral or wedding can take you an hour there and back, necessitating more time of the week.
That's correct; I omitted it because it can be used as recharging time. If it becomes extended office time, though, then there is no recharging.


I promise this is the last you'll hear of Will and Kate's wedding. But I just had to show you the cake I made to celebrate.
I made a real, professional buttercream frosting for this vanilla butter cake, as well as a strawberry crème mousseline filling. Now don't get me wrong, I loved this buttercream, but I'm still partial to sweeter, less silky frosting. To tell you the truth, my simple buttercream frosting was superior to this professional buttercream, in my opinion.
Now as far as the crème mousseline goes, I really wish I had had something other than frozen strawberries to work with. I would rather have a nice, thick lemon curd, myself, but Piggie said the strawberry filling was her favorite part, so to each his own I suppose.
1 1/2 cups cold butter, cut into chunks.
Bring the sugar and water to a simmer in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat.
While the syrup is cooking, beat the yolks on high speed in a stand mixer with a whisk attachment for about 8 minutes or until they have quadrupled in volume and are very pale.
While the egg yolks are beating, check the syrup. It needs to be at the "soft ball stage". If you're using a candy thermometer, it needs to be at 238ºF. Otherwise, take some of the syrup on a little on a spoon and dip it in cold water. It's done when you can pull the sugar off of the spoon and form a little ball the consistency of chewed bubble gum. If it gets too hard, you'll have to add a few tablespoons of water and start testing again.
When the syrup and yolks are ready, turn the mixer onto high speed and slowly pour the syrup into the eggs. Try not to get any on the whisk or on the sides because it will harden and break off into your frosting. Continue beating it until it's just a little warmer than room temperature (hold your hand under the bowl. It shouldn't feel hot or cold).
Turn down the mixer to medium and add the butter cubes, a little handful at a time. Wait until each batch is absorbed before adding more. Beat for about 10 minutes, or until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla.
Bring the fruit puree to a gentle simmer.
Whisk together the sugar, egg, and yolks for about 1 minute, or until smooth and pale.
Slowly pour about half of the fruit puree into the egg mixture.
Pour this mixture back into the saucepan over medium heat.
Whisk until bubbly and thick.
Once cool (it's faster if you beat it with the paddle attachment of your mixer) add the butter chunks, one third at a time, waiting until each addition is absorbed before adding the next.
Beat on high speed for about 5 minutes more until light and fluffy.
I made some cake balls with spare cake and frosting. Just crumble your extra cake, combine a little frosting, mold into balls, freeze so their easier to frost, and then frost with more frosting or dip in chocolate.


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AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc. issues CEO letter to Shareholders
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avra Medical Robotics, Inc. (OTCQB: AVMR) issues the following letter to Shareholders from the CEO:
Dear Shareholder,
Over 95% of you have been with the AVRA TEAM and me for more than six years. You have been patient, supportive and well-wishing during these past years. Our most recent investors have been with AVRA for two years now and have supplied important help carrying our Mission to fruition. We have seen AVRA Medical achieve several milestones - creating teams of medical, engineering, software, management personnel; producing a prototype and entering the financial markets as a public company, which we believe will open the company's ownership to many new investors.
Part of our strategic plan at AVRA was to provide a vehicle for individual investors to come into the firm at a low price usually available only to Private Equity, Institutional and High Stakes investors in this high-profile business, complete with a complex mix of Science, Math, Physics, Medicine, Surgery, Engineering all bound together by Hardware and Software talents. Therefore, I am especially proud of our TEAM of Executives, Medical Advisory Board (MAB) Members and our Scientific Advisory Board Members. If you take a close look at the profiles of these people who help guide your company you will find the most accomplished achievers in their specialties in robotic surgery, including the surgeons who did the FIRST and the MOST prostate surgeries and the surgeon who works on the TINIEST Patients (infants under three weeks) with a medical robot. Add to that impressive list our noted Robotic Oncologist, Cardiologist, Plastic Surgeon, Urologist and Imaging experts to round out our expert MAB.
Members of our Scientific Advisory Board similarly have excellent credentials, which match those of their colleagues on the MAB, demonstrating high achievements in scientific fields, including Dermatology, and Software Design. Our team includes a Dermatologist that led the Dermatology Department at Sloan Kettering, a Biochemist known for his developments in Science, Medicine and Insurance, and a Systems Engineer with a Technical and Software background that includes positions at Lockheed Martin, GE Engineering and Boeing. All are important members of the AVRA TEAM. I'd encourage you to learn more about our amazing team by accessing our website at: https://www.avramedicalrobotics.com/who-we-are/.
The company also enjoys the Special Advisory consultation of Mr. Tony Nicholson of the Nicholson Surgical Robotic Training Center in Celebration, Florida, Mr. Thomas Grace, a career Financial Markets executive, and Mr. Jack Pechter, a career Land Developer and Philanthropist with leanings to Medical Care.
We are also pleased to have entered into a four-year agreement with regulatory and compliance consultant Timothy K. Duggins. Tim is an award-winning regulatory expert with 30+ years of international experience in obtaining market access approvals for medical products. Through his assistance, AVRA is now an FDA registered company.
AVRA has expanded its research and development engagement with the University of Central Florida. Andrea Adkins, Assistant Director in UCF's Office of Technology Transfer, began a 9-month sabbatical at AVRA, assisting with intellectual property, licensing and product development.
It is no wonder it took 17 years for Intuitive Surgical Corp. to finally see another Medical Robotic soft tissue competitor enter the Robotics field and take aim at breaking its Monopoly. It is also a special message for our shareholders to know that the Founder of Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) is also of member of the AVRA Shareholder Family through his new privately-held Medical Robotics firm.
We at AVRA are pleased to advise our Shareholder Family that our shares of common stock are listed for trading under the symbol AVMR on the OTCQB tier of the over-the counter market operated by OTC Markets Group, Inc. As we are a development stage company which has just entered the Financial Markets, you may find that when depositing shares into your brokerage account, you may be subject to additional review by your brokerage firm. AVRA will be pleased to assist you in answering any questions you may encounter in this regard and can also direct you to brokerage firms who are more familiar with AVRA and accordingly may facilitate your ability to deposit your shares.
We further remind you that AVRA files quarterly, annual and other periodic reports with the SEC. You may access all such filings through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Our Laboratory, Software Design Studio and Machine Tool facilities, as well as our executive offices are located at our Corporate headquarters in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Shareholders are welcome to visit by appointment.
Medical Robotics is still in its infancy and we believe that AVRA is well positioned to lead in Automation, Advanced Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Design to bring robotic surgery to various procedures now being done only by hand or by the mechanically manipulated devices, which currently are often referred to as Robots. But know this...you are the owner of shares in a company that uses a REAL ROBOT (automation) and our mission is to bring computerized excellence and economy to surgery to benefit the ultimate subject…THE PATIENT.
We are proceeding with our first mission to implement our Robotic System in Dermatological Surgery, after which we plan to ROBOTIZE other FDA APPROVED Hand-Held instruments to improve patient outcomes in other areas of surgery and treatment. The AVRA System, which aims to provide practicing surgeons in various surgical fields with specialized software programs with which to simulate the procedure, observe its outcome prior to doing it, make any adjustments, and only then program the AVRA SYSTEM with its Intelligent Guidance System (IGS) to commence the procedure.
This Mission of bringing AVRA to this point has been the most interesting and fulfilling activity of my long business career. It has been a privilege for me to have had your support in this endeavor.
As we embark on our journey opening the doorway of AVRA to new shareholders I just wanted to share this message to our small family and thank all of you, for always just being there for the A TEAM.
/s/ Barry F. Cohen
AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc.
info@avramedical.com
About AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc.
AVRA Medical Robotics, Inc., ("AVRA") is a surgical digital technology company whose primary goal is to provide surgeons with the ability to achieve consistently excellent results for the patient. AVRA is developing an intelligent medical robotic system for skin resurfacing procedures in partnership with the University of Central Florida ("UCF"). AVRA was organized by a senior leadership team with broad and deep experience in medical research, artificial intelligence, innovation and development in the medical robotics field. AVRA is concentrating on the growing demand for practical medical robotic devices by developing a platform-independent precision guidance system, applicable to a variety of minimally invasive and non-invasive procedures, with an initial focus on skin resurfacing. Employing advanced technology, AVRA is combining attributes of imaging with target acquisition and guidance. The skill and experience of its leadership team is enhanced by the active participation in development of UCF, which is recognized particularly for its work in the area of medical robotics research and design. Moreover, AVRA's leadership team is also experienced in marketing, chain management, and the implementation of all other aspects of business operations. These advanced, semi/autonomous systems will have boundless diagnostic and therapeutic applications - Target, Diagnose, Treat.
For more information, please visit www.avramedical.com.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019 - 09:48
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First Patient in the World to Receive Breakthrough Robotic Spine Surgery by Virginia Spine Institute
Florida Hospital Nicholson Center Earns American College of Surgeons Accreditation
Global Medical Robots Market is Expected to Reach $17.58 Billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 22.0% Between 2017-2023 - Valuates Reports
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Happy Valentines' Day! I don't do alot of decorating for Valentines' Day but I do like to put a few things out. As if you couldn't guess, my favorite thing to decorate with is quilts!!! For Valentines' Day I display a Lovers' Knot quilt (made with heart fabrics) on my heart quilt stand.
This version of Lovers' Knot is made with four different "heart" fabrics. The "knots" are made from a bright red fabric with red hearts on it..... I do like tone on tone fabrics. They are considered a solid but give depth to your work. They also look a bit different depending how close you are to the piece..... and a black fabric with small, medium and large red hearts outlined in gold. I like the way the gold jazzes up this fun quilt. The third fabric is white with thin green vines that hold pink and red hearts in place of flowers. Lastly, there is a white fabric with medium red hearts, tiny red hearts, tiny x's, a little gold glitz and the words "hugs and kisses". The red tone on tone was used for the backing of this quilt. A friend made this quilt as a display quilt and I quilted it. The quilting is done in an all over, Heart to Heart pattern with red thread. After display event was over the quilt was given to me and I am lucky enough to have sole custody . Thanks, Lloyd.
The quilt stand has a heart base at the bottom and an open heart at the top to hold a quilt. My husband and I found this quilt stand at an Amish shop while taking the "scenic route" home through Indiana one day.
I hope you'll consider using a quilt or two while you are decorating!!!


This proposal is for a small community sharing resources and environment. The basic unit is a double space, two sheltering elements that share water and waste management, energy production, and a social space - a tiny community. From this kernel the larger house grows and from these houses larger communities might also develop, finding their form according to the living arrangements desired by their inhabitants. The house proposed here offers space for a new kind of elective extended family, for people living singly, in couples, with children, and in groups. In various alterations and recombinations, the house can continuously transform itself to different needs and choices. Constructed of soybean-derived plastic panels cast to form an infinite variety of shapes, glazed with aero gel windows that can be made transparent or opaque at the turn of a dial, generating its own power from photovoltaic and hydro, and treating its own wastes through green "living machine" technology, the house is at peace with the world. Imagine being able to step into a mobile "bubble" docked to the house, enter a destination code, and find yourself transported anywhere on the planet.


Instead of asking for Lego or Paw Patrol for his birthday on December 6, Daniel is asking for donations to support Children's Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre.
Support Daniel and make a donation in honour of his birthday. Visit his Miracle Mission page here.


"Charlie" is the heir apparent to the British Throne. Unlike other princes and princelings, Charles ventured to speak publicly on a variety of matters that were either contentious or odd, thereby putting the contents of his highly individual mind out onto the nature strip for vultures, scavengers and predators to feast on. And they have. Charles might not have been the first royal to be odd or suggestible or randy (wooing Camilla with, "I want to be your tampon") but he had the misfortune to belong to the first generation of his family that faced unbridled mass media.
So Charles was dismissed as a Charlie, a right Charlie.
"Johnny" is soon–to–retire Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.
Jonathan Sacks has been a phenomenon, heard, read, quoted and admired far beyond Jewry. He is Rabbi Everywhere – in the secular press, in the House of Lords, all around the Jewish World, in his weekly Torah commentaries and through his score or more highly successful books.
Jonathan Sacks is eloquent, articulate, smooth, Everygoy's Philosopher. His way with words impresses almost everyone, including – I sometimes suspect – himself. Of this, more (or less) later.
After 22 years as Chief, Rabbi Sacks is retiring. He claims credit for starting the wave of holy retirers: I was first, then Pope Benedict, then Archbish Rowan Williams. We're waiting now for the Dalai Lama.
And that's another thing – he's witty: and it's not the leaden wit of the ponderous pulpiteer or politician, but the nimble footed work of a knightsmove mind. He is a philosopher by training, a practitioner of Goon Show paradox.
At a gathering of over 800 "attendees" (excruciating word; did none attend voluntarily, people we might designate as "attendors"?), Prince Charles delivered a speech in praise of the retiring Chief Rabbi, calling him "a light unto this nation", before collapsing into cliché.
Now the prince is not Jewish. He doesn't attend synagogue. What does he know about rabbis? What does he care?
Is it the Goon Show tendency alone that they have in common?
The answer is Israel's assassinated Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, whose funeral the two attended in 1995, together with Tony Blair.
In the aircraft Blair and Charles were intrigued by the reading material that engrossed the rabbi for hours – a large book set out with central columns of Hebrew script surrounded by columns of finer lettering that extended to the margins.
The Bible, with commentaries by Rashi and others.
What part are you reading?
Rabbi Sacks explains the story of the perfectly red cow that is slaughtered and burned to create ashes to render ritually unclean persons pure. The PM and the Prince are fascinated. The rabbi gives them the comments of Rashi – the great medieval explicator.
On the return trip, Charles and Tony ask for another scripture lesson. The Chief obliges, this time with quotes from Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch and others. And so it is through the year following that Tony Blair receives a lesson in each weekly Torah portion of the annual cycle of reading.
The prince goes back to princing and to opining and to his life as lampooned Charlie.
The rabbi goes back to writing and teaching and preaching with his extraordinary acuity and virtuosity. Such is his facility, his pirouette upon the point of a thorny question, that one might misgive: is this all surface and no substance? The ultraorthodox world has been deafeningly silent about Sacks' disturbing moderation; their silence convinces me that even they can't fault his learning, his authenticity, his substance.
Does the chief enjoy the adulation? Just a little bit? He wouldn't be human if he did not. It must be evidence of my own human envy to entertain these misgivings.
The rabbi's ministry is serious, pregnant with revelatory insights. How to live in our particularity as co-citizens among a broader humanity? How to remain authentic, Torah-true Jews, proudly, neither superior nor inferior to others?
These are not idle questions; they are dilemmas, and not only for the Jews of today. Those German Jewish patriots of WWI who lived to see their Fatherland go to war against them, lived and died in that risky experiment of embracing citizenship. A similar parlous choice faces Australian Aborigines: how much must we leave or lose, how much do we gain, as we walk the narrow bridge to modernity?
Jonathan Sacks has spoken from the beating heart of an ancient tradition to this Jew who was born astride that tradition and a plural world. That world changes too fast just as Judaism resists change. Not so resisting is Jonathan Sacks: read his "To Heal a Fractured World", read him on "The Dignity of Difference" to encounter his audacious openness. Praying as I do every day in a liturgy that is older than Jesus, observing minute regulations (as various as which days I may cut my hair, which hand to grip with when piddling), while walking as I do in worlds so different and mutating, I seek a guide. I need, I ache to hold my fragments together.
Can you be a 'fan' of a Rabbi? If so, then I am one.


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Gardasil, a Good Idea?
Gardasil is a HPV vaccine produced by Merck. HPV, Human Papilloma Virus, has clearly been demonstrated to increase the risk of a woman developing cervical cancer so it would seem to be a good idea to provide young woman, even as teenagers, with a vaccine that would guard against the virus and prevent the development of invasive cervical cancers which would otherwise be produced by the virus.
In 2006 Merck Pharmaceuticals received the go ahead. The FDA approved the distribution of Gardasil, a Human Papilloma Virus vaccine manufactured by Merck Pharmaceuticals and Merck promptly began the distribution of the vaccine.
Later in the same month the distribution began, the advisory committee on immunization practices recommended routine vaccination of girls 11 to 12 years old. Remarkably, these recommendations were issued before completion of the so-called phase III trials demonstrating whether advanced pre-cancerous lesions of the cervix are prevented by the use of the vaccine.
In fact, only two of the fifteen types of HPV known to have a cancer-producing potential have been shown to be affected by the vaccine.
Merck has seen to it that the public has been provided with a favorable view of the vaccine. In a report by Rothman and Rothman published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this year, Marketing HPV vaccine: implications for adolescent health and medical professionalism, JAMA 2009 Aug 19; 302(7):781-786 the author shows how Merck employed the assistance of various important medical associations by providing the associations with ready-made presentation slide sets, emails and letters to promote the product. All this publicity in favor of the use of the vaccine began before important trials had even been concluded.
Now, in the same issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association in which the report of Rothman and Rothman appears, there is an article from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reporting adverse events occurring in the two and a half years following administration of Gardasil, Postlicensure Safety Surveillance for Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Recombinant Vaccine, Slade, B.A., Leidel, L.,Vellozzi, C.; et al. JAMA 2009 Aug 19; 302(7): 750-757. There were 752 adverse reports. 6.2% of the adverse reports involved serious adverse effects, including 32 reports of death but the system of depending on voluntary reports of adverse events risks underreporting and there is no real evidence that the adverse events reported resulted from the vaccine. Such adverse events reports are based solely on an event occurring after the administration of the vaccine and not because of any other evidence proving the vaccine caused the event.
So, we don't really know the extent of any benefit a young woman will receive as a consequence of being vaccinated and we also don't know the risk.
What a nightmare for a parent with a decision to make about a teenager receiving Gardasil. Cervical cancer continues to kill thousands of women every year. If the leading cause of the cancer is a virus that can be prevented by vaccination, how does one decide to not offer the vaccination? If, as some have suggested, the chances are less than six adverse events per thousand doses distributed and only 6.2% of those represent serious adverse effects, that means that one serious adverse event would be associated with every three thousand doses distributed. But even with a risk this small, has there been a sufficient benefit demonstrated to justify that risk?
In a completely different context, many years ago Jonas Salk pointed out to me the importance of focusing on the numerator. If the chance is 1 in 10,000,000 and you are the one, it is little comfort that 9,999,999 other doses were administered safely.
Perhaps it was easier long ago when we knew little and simply did what we were told. If not better, perhaps it was just a lot simpler. What do you think?


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5 Times Musicians Nerded Out to Zelda
January 21, 2016 September 29, 2018 Posted in music, Nintendo, ZeldaTagged music, video game music, zelda, Zelda Wii U
Musicians and gamers have a lot more in common than you might think. Besides a mutual disdain for the rugged jock-types growing up, the two are all about living and breathing their respective art form. And on very special occasions, musicians will indulge their inner gamer and produce wonderful nods to their favourite games that both parties are sure to love.
Here are five times musicians nerded out to one of the biggest and most musically focused video game franchises of all time, The Legend of Zelda.
BadBadNotGood: Title Theme / Saria's Song / Song of Storms
BadBadNotGood is a jazz / hip-hop / improvisational trio from Toronto, Canada made up of Matt Tavares on keys, Alex Sowinski on drums, and Chester Stone Hansen on bass. On the group's 2011 E.P., they dropped a 9-minute jazz medley comprised of the best jams from Ocarina of Time. Packed with wonderful bass lines and drum fills to compliment the iconic melodies, BadBadNotGood's medley breathes so much new life into these already vibrant tunes.
Lindsey Stirling: Zelda Medley (Violin)
YouTube superstar Lindsey Stirling is the closest thing to a household name the video game music genre has, and it's no small wonder why. Her violin-centric medley of music from across the Zelda series is sweeping, creative, and insanely fun. Plus, it's hard not to love her as she dances adorably across the screen while soloing in Link's blue tunic.
"It's dangerous to go alone, take this violin!"
Joe Pleiman (Not System Of A Down): Zelda
This song was kind of a big deal for gamers perusing the internet in the early and mid-2000s, and for the better part of its existence, it was wrongly associated with the metal band, System Of A Down. Turns out a musician named Joe Pleiman wrote and sung the track in 1998 on his band's album Rabbit Joint.
System Of A Down only became affiliated with the song because when it circulated on the early 2000s music downloading site, Napster, the MP3 file was for some reason titled "SOAD – ZELDA," which many assumed to be an abbreviation of System Of A Down.
Zedd: The Legend of Zelda (Original Mix)
When DJ / producer Zedd performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during 2013's video game week, the musician behind the chart-topper "Clarity" proved that all genres of music could get in on the fun of Zelda. The mix starts in familiar, club music territory before gradually becoming an outright blast of Zelda nostalgia. Pull out your 3DS' and wave them in the air!
Symphony of the Goddesses: Triforce Heroes (Live on Stephen Colbert)
The acclaimed Symphony of the Goddesses has been on the road for a few years now, but their performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last October was a major milestone. Much like Zedd's performance on Fallon, the beautiful medley's debut on Stephen Colbert pushed the music of Zelda in front of a mainstream audience – if only for one night – putting a smile on every gamer's face and, hopefully, enticing newcomers to be inspired by the worlds of music and games.
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A three-part discussion covering the leading trends in revenue cycle management for radiologists.
In today's new healthcare landscape, patient satisfaction and revenue cycle management are not mutually exclusive goals. Over the next three posts, we will discuss how radiologists can successfully address both issues.
The primary driver of these changing dynamics is the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which to date has provided healthcare access for roughly 20 million Americans – many for the very first time.
As a result, providers are competing to treat all of these new patients, who also have unparalleled access to healthcare customer service data via social media and other online search tools like Healthgrades.com.
We believe that imaging centers in particular are uniquely positioned to take advantage of the fast-changing dynamics in healthcare. At first glance, patient choice could be seen as a roadblock to success for radiology practices in this new environment. However, we believe the true barrier to success lies within patient access errors. When imaging centers do not employ best practices from the beginning of each patient interaction, the entire process fails to deliver satisfaction and obtain maximum profit.
Be proactive. Patient information should be resolved before check in. Imaging centers can utilize tools that combine appointment reminders with a link to the online version of their medical history and personal information forms via a secure connection.
Employ tools that reduce overhead burden and improve patient communications. Look for web-based portals that offer features such as credit card storage, soft payment reminders, secure messages and mobile access. Automated payment channels such as pay-by-phone can decrease human error, reduce hiring costs and offer a level of convenience that is sure to increase patient satisfaction.
Make paying easy. Point-of-sale payment systems, web-based payment estimation tools and payment plans all limit sticker shock and manage expectations, which undoubtedly boosts patient satisfaction. We believe that the percentage of bills paid the first time will invariably increase as the difficulty of bill pay decreases.
Get feedback. Process standardization can take time, but it is much more effective with input from patients. Lines of communication should always remain open so that consumers can readily voice concerns or compliments. Additionally, imaging centers should solicit ratings regarding their delivery of care via surveys.
More than 50% of claims that payers deny occur due to mistakes made during the patient engagement process, according to MGMA. As long as imaging centers remain vigilant from the beginning, profits and patient happiness will remain at the highest levels.


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Continued Heavy Rainfall and Flooding in Southeast Australia
South-eastern Australia has continued to witness heavy rain and flooding during November, following heavy rains during the month of October, which were the heaviest on record in the Murray Darling Basin. Heavy rainfall and flooding had already taken place in Queensland and Coastal New South Wales from February to April. On November 17th, for the first time, emergency services in New South Wales has requested international assistance to cope with flooding, while Queensland has also been affected.
The Wyangala Dam exceeded its capacity on November the 15th, reaching a release of 230 Gigalitres per day. Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke requested flood rescue support from New Zealand, and 70 local authorities declared a natural disaster. Although conditions had eased by the 18th of November, residents in Southeast Australia were urged to remain on alert.
The Australian flood insured losses over 2022 have reached AU $ 6 billion, and damage incurred over October has been estimated at AU $ 791 million.
Despite the damage to property from the floods, the rainfall has restored water flows in the lower reaches of the Murray River and the Coorong lagoon system, which had been deprived of sufficient wate for decades following the millennium drought which lasted from 1996 to 2010. The current floods are helping to wash out salt built up during the drought and bring in nutrients as well as plants and invertebrate species, which will boost the growth of both fish and bird populations.


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Week That Was: Rebuilding our rundown hospitals
Posted by LabourVoices on October 18, 2019
We're rebuilding our hospitals, protecting our oceans, and taking mental health seriously.
Rebuilding our hospitals
We're redeveloping Taranaki Base Hospital so Taranaki residents can get the care they deserve.
The project will create new critical and acute care facilities including a new Emergency Department (twice as large as the current one), purpose-built maternity facilities and delivery suite, a new postnatal ward and neonatal unit, a rooftop helipad for faster, safer patient transfers, and more.
This rebuild is the most recent in a long line of hospitals we're upgrading and rebuilding after nine years of neglect under the previous Government.
Taking mental health seriously
We're taking mental health seriously, investing in a new acute mental health facility in Waikato. We're swapping outdated facilities for new, modern spaces centered around patients and their whānau - because we know that being in the right environment is essential for recovery and mental wellbeing.
We also know that people shouldn't have to wait to hit crisis-point before they get the mental health and support they need. That's why our investment in mental health also includes new frontline services, with mental health advisers in GPs and more online and over-the-phone support.
Eliminating terrorist and violent extremist content online
Countering violent extremism online is an important part of our response to the March 15 terrorist attacks, following on from gun reform, the Royal Commission of Inquiry and the Christchurch Call.
This week, we announced we're stepping up work to keep New Zealanders safe from harmful content online.
We're investing in doubling the the investigative, forensic, intelligence and prevention work of the Department of Internal Affairs, bolstering the Chief Censor's current work to assess and make fast decisions and strengthening our laws to ensure we can swiftly respond to violent extremist material. In the longer term, we will look at how online providers should be regulated as part of the media.
The changes mean we can target this material in a similar way to how we target child sexual exploitation material, by working quickly with online content hosts to remove it as quickly as possible.
Our online world must be a force for good where we can exchange ideas, share technology, and maintain civil liberties, while keeping New Zealanders safe.
Protecting our coasts and oceans
This week we welcomed the release of Our Marine Environment: a marine environment report highlighting the four key issues affecting our oceans, estuaries and coastlines.
As it stands, sediment from the land is polluting our coastal areas - harming shellfish and kelp beds, hurting our inshore fisheries. Our proposed water reform programme will better protect wetlands and estuaries, which help trap sediment and stop it flowing into the sea. It will improve the current management of freshwater but it will also help protect marine areas.
We're working hard to protect our oceans - we've already phased out single-use plastic supermarket bags, banned microbeads, and work is underway on a container return scheme which will reduce plastic bottles polluting the environment. Kerbside and commercial recycling are to be improved and more product stewardship schemes are being put in place.
Our goal is to extend marine protected area coverage even further and have a nationwide network in place representing New Zealand's marine ecosystems.
(The Our Marine Environment 2019 report is available at: https://www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/marine/our-marine-environment-2019)


Last time I imported a bit mapped graphic cartoon into a drawing element using the "import and vectorize" command "with texture" as the vectorization type. Next I copied the first cell and using the copy of that cell, I cut out the character of Friz Freleng. You can review the process by reading Part 1 of Introduction to Photo Cut-Out Animation.
I'm going to cut the Panther into multiple body parts and put each part into a separate drawing element then I'll rig the character in camera view on the timeline.
As I cut out the parts of the Panther, I also am using the contour editor, the eraser tool, the paint tool and the brush tool to fix up the parts so that the cut-out character can seamlessly be assembled and animated.
This is the torso with a modified scarf.
Here are the final composited characters in drawing view so now I'm ready to switch to camera view and start rigging them.
I'll start out by adding a peg element for each character to act as the top level parent in their hierarchy. Then I'll attach the body parts of each character to their top level parent peg. Next I'll organize the body parts of the Panther character into two logical groups, one of the upper torso and one for the legs and tail.
I'm almost ready to begin keyframe animating but first I need to use the scene operations rotation tool to set the rotational pivot point for each body part and for the parent peg elements.
With all the rotational pivot points set, I collapse my two top level parent pegs and using "extend children exposure" a new command that was added in TBS V 4.0, I extend my timeline out to 160 frames for each character parent peg and all its children.
The animating is just straight forward keyframing of the character's body parts using the scene operations transform tool. I added a bit mapped background in an image element and added a fade to black transition at the end of the animation. If you are not familiar with keyframe animation, I suggest you review my previous series on Key Framed Animation.
Click here to view the final animation.
Thank you very much for the time and detail you put into this. It's been a huge help to this fledgling Toon Boomer.
I'm always pleased to hear that something that I worked on has been helpful or inspirational. I'll do my best to continue writing for this blog and trying to publish useful articles and tutorials.
Thanks for ur aportation man!
I've looked over your tutorial 4 times now, and have come over a problem when putting it in to action. I have copied and pasted the same frame about one hundred times, however, when I try to change a single frame all of the frames I have already pasted change aswell. I've tried to correct this problem myself but nothing seems to have worked. Am I doing something wrong or have I missed a step? Could you please post a reply to explain, in great detail, what I am doing wrong and how to solve this problem?!
I'm not sure where in the process you are copying and pasting a frame. I used extend exposure in this article to set up the timeline for keyframing.
You should stop and take the time to read through the two articles I have called Toon Boom Fundamentals The Basics Parts 1 and 2. Your current question seems to suggest that you are unclear on the concepts of exposures and frames.
Basically you are taking a single exposure and extending it across multiple frames but extending an exposure doesn't create new drawings that are unique and independent it merely causes a single picture to be held on screen for some period of time based on the number of frames used in the exposure set.
As I clearly explain in Toon Boom Fundamentals The Basics Parts 1 and 2. Key Framing is how you control your animation camera stand. In this example the character is a single exposed picture and we animate it by changing how the various parts of that cut out character picture are displayed by our camera stand over time.The actual drawings themselves are never changed.


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Person of interest detained in Rapid City shooting
November 19, 2020 GMT
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A person of interest has been detained in a shooting at a Rapid City apartment building, according to police.
Someone called 911 about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and said a man had been shot in the leg, according to police spokesman Brendyn Medina. The man was taken to the hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
At least one person witnessed the shooting, but the circumstances, motive and exact location of the shooting are still under investigation, Medina said.
He said the person of interest was detained in an alley one block south of the apartment building after a witness provided a name and description of the clothing the shooter was wearing, the Rapid City Journal reported.
Officers also found a gun between the route one would take to walk from the apartment to the alley, police said.
Detectives said they need to conduct more interviews to determine if the man detained is the suspect.


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Get in the car. We are leaving this place.
A literal journey of modern experimental theatre, CAR, is currently on this week in Auckland.
The Virginia Frankovich play is housed by the popular Basement Theatre, or rather, outside the Basement Theatre. CAR is a moving play, a show presented entirely outside the confines of a traditional stage. The show's press release reveals the polarising motorised nature of the event, a promise that audience members will "view their city in a new light", and not much else. Armed with only curiosity and a voice recorder, I met with four of the cast to delve a little deeper.
Caleb Wells (Westside), Mirabai Lily Pease, Nastaha Verney, and Doug Grant represent a large chunk of CAR's ensemble. I arrived early to chat with this crew, and as each member appeared their closeness became further apparent. The young actors told me they all met the previous year through Auckland Theatre Company's July production of Bed. Frankovich was also the director of this show, and seems to have contacted some of her favourites to participate in her latest production. The similarities to Bed don't end there however, with Wells explaining to me that it has a similar style, "just kind of the next stage" – or as Pease simply puts it, "it goes, Bed, CAR".
Which brings me to my next, and undeniably biggest, question. What is CAR? Well, this proved a harder one to answer. Wells was quick to call it a journey, something that takes you "somewhere else that's not here". It instantly appeared that the plot of CAR was pretty under wraps, with its surprises essential to the viewing experience. Pease and Grant were able to offer slightly more insight though, presenting themselves as "basically the guide for each car". Grant called his character a case worker, with his role primarily about keeping the audience "entertained the whole time" and acting as "something to hold on to". Pease added that they were primarily there to "maintain the plot".
It seems that this secrecy might not just have been down to confidentiality but also about an actual lack of concrete plans – not to say the cast and crew of CAR are unprepared (they've been in vehicles for weeks now) but rather that the play still being under construction is one of its attractive quirks. CAR is a devised play, developed through provocations from Frankovich and assistant director Freya Mairead Boyle. CAR's unpredictability links to its devised nature. Wells earlier journey comment makes sense from this standpoint; he explained to me that, "we kind of made all this stuff first and kind of bashed it into a structure – and we still are, we're still going". Verney and Pease added to this, stating they are still "making new things" and "changing locations".
All actors emphasise that this uncertainty is part of the magic of the show, the "mystery", says Wells. Safety is not compromised though, Verney was quick to clarify that the drivers of the two cars are not acting, stressing how important they know it will be "for the audience to feel safe and in control".
Somehow, without any information on concrete plot, these four members of CAR completely enticed me during out short chat. In the hours that followed I found myself booking tickets with only the slightest touch of apprehension, a feeling that was easily outweighed by curiosity and excitement. I think what is most appealing about this new endeavour was expertly summed up by the casts last comments when I asked them who the show was for. Verney was thoughtful for a moment then carefully stated that, "it's for all the people who want to go on an adventure, and do something different". Wells response was much shorter - he smoothly told me, "it's for you". He meant this (for the most part) without humour though, explaining that the outweighing number of cast to audience members means that the show is truly a personal experience. Wells comment immediately received approval from the other young actors, and our conversation came to an end over a chorus of nodding heads and chants of "you you you, CAR CAR CAR".
CAR is running from now until next Saturday. Limited ticket quantities are available here.


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Krishnakumar Kunnath 2014 Horoscope
Name: Krishnakumar Kunnath
Date of Birth: Friday, August 23, 1968
Place of Birth: New Delhi
Longitude: 77 E 12
Latitude: 28 N 36
Time Zone: 5.5
Information Source: Unknown
AstroSage Rating: Dirty Data
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Krishnakumar Kunnath's Career horoscope
Because Krishnakumar Kunnath is sensitive to any happenings in Krishnakumar Kunnath's career life, Krishnakumar Kunnath prefer to have jobs which require little hassle and pressure. Aiming Krishnakumar Kunnath's vocational directions with this in mind will result in a career of performance.
Krishnakumar Kunnath's Occupation horoscope
Krishnakumar Kunnath is not particularly well suited to a business or commercial life, since these demand a practical nature which Krishnakumar Kunnath do not possess. Moreover, many of them entail monotony and routine which would grate very harshly on Krishnakumar Kunnath's artistic temperament. Let it be said that, while Krishnakumar Kunnath would fail in these directions, there are plenty of occupations in which Krishnakumar Kunnath ought to do remarkably well. There are many branches in the world of music where Krishnakumar Kunnath would find congenial work. Literature and the drama may be cited as other suitable outlets for Krishnakumar Kunnath's talents. Generally speaking, Krishnakumar Kunnath have an aptitude for several of the highest professions. The law and medicine may be instanced. But, while mentioning the latter, it must be admitted that some of the pathetic sights which the doctor sees might shake Krishnakumar Kunnath's finely-balanced temperament.
Krishnakumar Kunnath's Finance horoscope
Krishnakumar Kunnath will be lucky in money matters, but inclined to indulge in luxury and an extravagant style of living. Krishnakumar Kunnath will be prone to take great risks in speculation or in attempting to do business on too large a scale, but speaking generally, Krishnakumar Kunnath is expected to be very successful. Possibly, Krishnakumar Kunnath will become an industrialist. In all questions of money, Krishnakumar Kunnath will be more likely to lucky than otherwise, to have many presents given to Krishnakumar Kunnath and properties or legacies left to Krishnakumar Kunnath Krishnakumar Kunnath will be lucky with Krishnakumar Kunnath's opposite sex. Krishnakumar Kunnath will be likely to gain money by marriage or create it by power of Krishnakumar Kunnath's own mentality. But, one thing is sure, that Krishnakumar Kunnath will become a rich person.


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Victorians need 35 runs in 29 balls.
Innings break • 23rd Match • ILT20 • Sharjah
Vipers chose to bat.
Steffan Jones
England|Bowler
Joe Clarke
Grace Scrivens
Olly Stone
Odean Smith
Philip Steffan Jones
February 09, 1974, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
48y 356d
Right arm Fast medium
6ft 1in
Loughborough University, Cambridge University
British UniversitiesCambridge University Derbyshire Dorset Glamorgan 2nd XI Kent Northamptonshire Northamptonshire 2nd XI Somerset Somerset 2nd XI Wales Minor Counties
A county player who has struggled to find a place called home, Jones has tried his hand at Somerset, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire and - briefly - Kent. He's a skiddy medium-fast bowler who has suffered a fair share of injuries, which have hampered his attempts to secure a regular first-team slot. However, given extra responsibility at Derbyshire he found a team where he could have a key role. His 59 wickets in 2006 was a strong haul, but still he couldn't set down any permanent roots and he decided to head back to Somerset.
In 2009 Jones was loaned to Derbyshire - earlier that season he had joined Kent on a month-long loan deal - and was subsequently signed full time by them. He took 30 wickets at 32.33 in nine matches during the second half of the 2009 season with Derbyshire, and in addition to his on-field role helped in coaching the Derbyshire bowlers.
Andrew McGlashan June 2010
FC 148 24419 14270 387 6/25 36.87 3.50 63.0 10 1
List A 191 8553 7489 256 6/56 6/56 29.25 5.25 33.4 7 3 0
T20 56 53 1063 1509 48 3/20 3/20 31.43 8.51 22.1 0 0 0
FC 148 179 44 2709 114 20.06 2 8 34 0
List A 191 104 47 725 42 12.71 0 0 31 0
T20 56 24 12 204 40 17.00 187 109.09 0 0 19 5 7 0
FC Matches
Derbyshire vs Surrey at Derby - May 29 - June 01, 2011
List A Matches
Derbyshire vs Middlesex at Lord's - July 28, 2011
T20 Matches
Warwickshire vs Somerset at Taunton - June 13, 2003
Derbyshire vs Yorkshire at Derby - July 15, 2011
Recent Matches - Player
Dorset vs Wales MC 2 0/31 20-May-2012 Mumbles OTHEROD
Dorset vs Berkshire 12 3/44 13-May-2012 Bournemouth OTHEROD
Dorset vs Bucks -- -- 22-Apr-2012 Sherborne OTHEROD
Derbyshire vs Middlesex 4 1/43 28-Jul-2011 Lord's List A
Derbyshire vs Kent 2* 2/35 24-Jul-2011 Derby List A
Steffan Jones returns to Rajasthan Royals as high-performance fast-bowling coach
The former English county cricketer had worked with the franchise as a fast-bowling coach during IPL 2019
04-Mar-2022•ESPNcricinfo staff
Varun Aaron: The only reason I play the game is to play for the country
Not "stuck" with what happened in the past, he is eyeing the IPL to return to the national team
17-Sep-2020•Sruthi Ravindranath
The tough, uncertain life of an assistant coach in T20
Never-ending travel, no job security, late payments, and lots of competition - it's no picnic working as support staff in leagues across the world
05-Apr-2020•Jarrod Kimber


Some of you swear by live trees & others like artificial. As for me, I've had the same artificial tree since college which was already a hand-me-down. If you know my decorating style, you know I'm kind of a stickler for things being symmetrical, so I prefer fake for the control lol! I also prefer warm white lights over colored. I absolutely love my little tree & will probably have it forever.
Well this year the built-in lights decided it was their time to retire. My husband suggested it was a sign to throw it out. But to me, the tree wasn't broken, just the lights were! So two tedious hours & a sore hand later, the intertwined strands were cut off & I was ready to buy new ones to hand-string.
Well…it did not turn out how I thought. When I got home & plugged them in & they were the brightest, BLUE lights I have ever seen. Not sure why I assumed these Christmas LEDs would be different from every other LED bulb I've seen & didn't like. Turns out I ignored the word "cool" on the package.
My stubbornness did not want to trek back to Walmart so I thought "I can work with this, I'll tone it down w/decorations." I strung the whole tree (which took a couple tries to get it even) then put on two boxes of ornaments. But unfortunately it was not helping "tone it down." In fact, I was pretty certain the tree was about to take off into outer-space.
Please excuse the blurry pic, I only took a Snapchat to show friends that I needed sunglasses.
Long story short: these got returned. Even though I was stubborn at first, I knew I couldn't enjoy the season w/the Starship Enterprise in my living room. And I learned a very valuable lesson in decorating! Luckily Target had inexpensive REGULAR tree lights still in stock. Next week I will show you the final product that I am much happier with now!
LEDs have a color temperature rating shown here.
Now I know what "cool" white means: my least favorite!
I hope this will help you save a couple trips to Walmart.


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transformation; they viewed it as an advanced learning system.
After five years of research spent looking at LEED's six levels of performance, the PEER team established their own comprehensive set of principles, which drove how they would select criteria for measuring performance. "Just about everyone we talked to in the industry—from mayors to public service commission leadership and staff to owners of industrial facilities and commercial buildings to microgrid owners—they all thought about four areas of concern unanimously," notes Kelly.
The result of all that legwork is a system that measures: reliability and resiliency, energy efficiency and environment, operational effectiveness, and customer engagement. This last category was put in place to address the fact that, currently, there isn't a supply-demand correlation—even when demand goes up, the price doesn't change; there's no curve, which means it is very inefficient. In other words, customers do not receive a price signal so "they just use what they want whenever they want." Kelly speculates this lack of correlation costs "probably double" what it should.
To address the issue, PEER developers came up with the idea for customer contribution, which looks at how the consumer can contribute services back to the grid; when demand is high, a price signal is sent out. Subsequently, customers reduce their load. (The idea came out of the way LEED buildings lower their demand when the grid is stressed). This type of incentive system has started to emerge in PEER.
With the mission of measurability in mind, each of the four categories includes criteria for which customers receive points. Points are also given for actual performance and capability. For example, with respect to environmental responsibility, PEER assesses the impact of electricity generation and transmission and encourages the adoption of clean energy. The criteria in this category address energy efficiency, air emissions, resource use, renewable energy credits, and power delivery impacts. "Right now most states use metric percent renewable system as a metric for how green their system is," explains Kelly. "But percent renewable is a technology—it doesn't tell you anything about the carbon footprint or the energy efficiency performance." With PEER, points are given for actual efficiency in terms of carbon pollution, water consumption, and solid waste. "The percent renewable may affect those performance outcomes, but points are given for actual outcome, not the technology used," notes Kelly.
As LEED did for the building industry, PEER offers new ways of thinking about energy systems. Now, for the first time, LEED and PEER give professionals a comprehensive understanding, "almost like a whole language," of what sustainability is. "People are seeing how taking one action can result in addressing a handful of environmental concerns," says Kelly. PEER adherents are beginning to design and operate much more efficiently and effectively, using a set of tools and strategies that achieve unprecedented levels of performance.
Kelly's vision for PEER includes thermal distribution in addition to electrical, and that it follows a trajectory similar to LEED's. As Version II and Version III come out, he anticipates it will continue to improve. In 10 years, he foresees 50,000 PEER professionals using it for a range of projects, even if those projects are not PEER certified. "That's how the transformation starts to happen," says the forward-thinking Kelly.
"The University of Texas in Austin is an outstanding performer in terms of all of the PEER criteria," notes Kelly. "Their leadership was dedicated to sustainable energy delivery, and had been working on it for 15 years." Interested parties hadn't seen anything in the marketplace that they wanted to model until they saw PEER. "They immediately understood how important it was to have a system like this," notes Kelly. "They wanted to be one of the first PEER-certified projects so that they could be a shining example of [an institution] that applied all the criteria, and how they could drive such good performance." Today, their operating budget has been cut in half—from $40 million to $20 million—and their reliability is the best in the country.
Finally, there is the policy initiative enacted by the City of Chicago, which applied PEER to energy procurement. (The city can buy power for all residential customers.) They used the energy efficiency and environmental category in their specification when they went out to bid and evaluate suppliers—they negotiated by demonstrating improved performance at the same cost. "They were not willing to pay more for their power, but they offered the contract to the supplier with the best PEER score," says Kelly. Ultimately, they even eliminated coal from their system.


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Lance Macklin
A polished and extremely stylish driver. He spent the bulk of his career driving for John Heath's underfinanced HWM team. He was involved in the accident which killed Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators at Le Mans in 1955.
Son of the late Sir Noel Macklin, principal of the Cobham-based Invicta sports car company, Lance Macklin was a polished and extremely stylish driver. He spent the bulk of his career driving for John Heath's underfinanced HWM team, and his Grand Prix career suffered through the cars' lack of reliability. His best result was an eighth in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort in 1952, staying with the team the following year only to post retirements in all six rounds of the World Championship.
He finished third in an Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1954 and then hit the headlines in 1955 he was caught up in the accident which killed Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators when he made a defensive move to avoid hitting Mike Hawthorn, and Levegh's car clipped his. Although Macklin's car crashed, he was uninjured but was deeply affected by the crash and was one of the drivers who gave evidence to the French government inquiry headed by the magistrate Zadock Kahn.
Macklin continued to race but, after a narrow escape in the Tourist Trophy at Dundrod, when he crashed to avoid a multiple accident in which two drivers were killed and another seriously injured, he decided to call it a day.
He emigrated to New Zealand with a NZ wife late 50;s or early 60's an ran a fish and chip shop in a North Island village of Otaki. The marrige failed given the wandering eye and in the late 70's or early 80's he returned to Europe.
Though it is reported that most of his time was spent in Spain, in reality a lot of that so called Spainish time was spent in New Zealand.
The following drivers were born on the same day as Lance Macklin (19th - July)
Lance Macklin 1919-2002
Olivier Grouillard 1958
Robbie Buhl 1963
Olivier Panis 1966
Michel Jourdain Jr. 1976


Problems yearn for solutions, needs long to be met, and markets are waiting to be addressed. This reality beckons startups and established firms to introduce new products that will scratch that itch and deliver satisfaction. Whether the products they offer (and the price they sell them for) match the demand is (part of) where product-market fit comes in.
Knowing when you don't have product-market fit is simple. If no one wants your product, you don't have a market. If your product isn't loved and valued by customers, you haven't achieved product/market fit. Similarly, knowing when you do have product-market fit is fairly straightforward. If you're delivering a solution people will pay for, that is (or could realistically become) profitable because there's enough of those people, and they're happy enough with it that they'll keep paying for it every month, you've achieved product-market fit.
What isn't so straightforward is understanding where you stand during your journey to the holy grail of product-market fit. How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? (or even moving the needle at all?) Today I'll address a few ways to measure product-market fit and easily quantify your progress toward attaining it.
Work backwards from total addressable market.
No product has an unlimited potential market. So, figuring out not only who could try your product but also who might become a loyal subscriber is an essential element of every SaaS strategy. Knowing not only who your potential market is, but also how big that market is, is a useful step in helping you measure product-market fit.
Enter total addressable market (TAM). Total addressable market is a metric you can use to estimate the size of the market (and its potential revenue) that you are targeting. Once you've identified your TAM, you can determine what percent of your TAM are customers. Over time, that line in the sand—the percent of TAM you serve—will theoretically increase as you get closer to attaining product-market fit.
Furthermore, if you identify a very small TAM, you have an early indicator that you need to target a broader audience in order to make a worthwhile business case.
Due to its somewhat abstract nature, TAM can be difficult to pinpoint for some products, but it is not impossible. One proven tactic for identifying and isolating this population starts by asking early customers how they would feel if your product went away.
Sean Ellis of "growth hacker" fame says this can be boiled down to a simple survey question: "How would you feel if you could no longer use [product]?" The users who respond "Very Disappointed" (vs. Somewhat Disappointed, Not Disappointed, or Don't Use It Anymore) represent your actual target market (despite the fact that lots of other people gave it a try).
Once you have your Very Disappointed cohort, you can then look at who those people are (persona-wise) and what it is they value most about your product. From there, you can then extrapolate based on those personas and figure out approximately how many people like that exist, which gives you your Total Addressable Market (TAM).
The tactic may sound a bit abstract right now, so let's put it in practice. Let's say you have a hotel recommendation app that has been downloaded by 1,000 people. Of those users, 300 said they'd be Very Disappointed if the app stopped working. Those 300 people represent a snapshot of your target market. Therefore, you can then look at those 300 people and figure out what they have in common persona-wise.
Armed with the knowledge that these 300 people tend to be millennials who travel at least twice per month for business or are wealthy individuals in their 40s that vacation at resorts for at least three weeks per year, you can then calculate a TAM for those two personas.
Apply a targeted focus on serving your target market.
While it may be disappointing to realize that your widget isn't going to become a necessity for every human being with an Internet connection, trying to satisfy everyone simultaneously is a recipe for failure. Instead, by doubling down on the people that truly value your product you can invest in features and improvements that they appreciate and thereby attract more people similar to those initial fans.
Becoming a vital resource for millions of people is actually a better outcome than being a take-it-or-leave-it option for billions when you're talking about a SaaS business that needs recurring revenue and happy subscribers to stay afloat and grow.
Superhuman's founder and CEO Rahul Vohra believes the path to success is focusing on that core group of dedicated users to understand what they love and make it even better combined with addressing what's holding back on-the-fence users that also fall into your identified personas. Your product roadmap should then be evenly divided between those two objectives.
Measuring the results of these efforts is then simple: is the percent of the TAM you currently serve increasing? If so, that's a good indicator you're headed in the right direction.
Toe the line between luxury and necessity.
People buy lots of things, and they buy them for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it's because they want it, while other times they need it (or at least feel like they need it). This is what distinguishes a luxury item from a necessity.
A luxury may bring customers joy, happiness, or satisfaction. But without it, life would still be just fine. A necessity, on the other hand, is something a customer either can't live without or really wouldn't want to give up. There are plenty of product categories where seemingly similar offerings may fall into either of these camps.
Look at streaming services, for example. While CBS All Access and Netflix both offer exclusive content, very few customers would feel a major hole in their life without the CBS product. Yet Netflix feels like a necessity for many people in the cord-cutting generation—so much so that they can increase their prices without worrying about mass defections to cheaper services. Both products have a market and paying customers, but only one of them knows they've achieved a sustainable product/market fit.
Once you understand your target market and have calculated its size, you then need to apply reality to the situation. While your TAM is X, you're not going to get 100% of it to buy your product. So, you need to set a realistic goal for what portion of that market you can capture.
TAM is useful, but purely theoretical in terms of what you will actually capture, which is why it's important to narrow it down first to Serviceable Addressable/Addressable Market (SAM)—which is what's within your geographical reach—and then from there to determine the Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM). Your SOM is the portion of the SAM that you can actually achieve, otherwise known as "how much of the pie" you'll actually get.
Unlike TAM and SAM, SOM is much more of a guesstimate than based on hard, indisputable data. The process for determining your SOM should include how much of the SAM will actually want to buy your product, how much of the SAM can you actually reach via your marketing and distribution plan and channels, and the strength of your competition. Your SOM will also grow over time, since you won't get 100% of your customers the first day/month/year you're selling your product.
Perhaps the most important aspect of SOM is that you need to be communicating this internally so expectations aren't too lofty based on the huge TAM numbers everyone is familiar with. Setting attainable goals early will preempt freakouts and disappointments down the line.
Once your product is on the market, there are two key levers that help you determine whether your product has achieved—and is continuing to achieve—product-market fit: growth and profit. In short, these two levers come together to create what many call "The SaaS Rule of 40." The rule of 40 suggests your growth rate plus your profit margin should equal or exceed 40%.
While any combination of those two elements adding up to 40% or more is great, the ratio should match what stage your offering is in. If you've only been on the market for a few months and are seeing a profit of 35% with a 5% growth rate, you should still be pretty concerned about your long-term potential. Because, for an early stage product, these figures can indicate your target market is pretty small, your marketing isn't working very well, or maybe you're just scaring off potential buyers by pricing your product too high. Meanwhile, a mature business might be thrilled with that ratio.
On the other hand, if it's still early days and your growth rate is soaring at 40% or more yet you're not generating a profit or even losing money, it's not necessarily time to panic. As you grow, you can always dial down your spending or increase pricing to begin generating a profit down the line once the land-grab period of growth cools off.
Of course, 40% is a somewhat arbitrary number and the specifics of your product's market dynamics and competitive landscape may not fit with that formula. But as a general benchmark, it's not a bad starting point to see if your company is on the right track.
Early on, your growth rate is going to be largely driven by your spending and tactics to acquire new users. While products occasionally catch viral wildfire and sell themselves, most businesses actually have to spend money to make money, which in this case means paying for advertising, marketing, and sales initiatives.
Spending money to land new deals can be boiled down to Cost Per Acquisition (CPA). This metric conveys how much you're spending on sales and marketing divided by how many new customers you're signing up during the same time period. Growth-oriented companies can quickly become obsessed with CPA, since the common thinking is that the lower the number, the more effective your tactics, plus you can then dial up spending to increase growth.
But few things in life are that simple, and you can't just keep cranking the same knob up over and over again. Market dynamics change and the low-hanging fruit/cheaper acquisitions get snapped up fairly quickly in the overall lifespan of a product. That means that you have to work harder, try more things, and most likely spend more money to get your ten thousandth customer than it took to land your five hundredth.
The other factor driving up your CPA could be the competition you will face for the marketing channels you're leveraging. Even if you're the only company selling travel insurance to mountain climbers, there are other companies bidding for those same eyeballs to pitch them nutritional supplements, shoes, ropes, and helmets. That drives up the cost of the ads you're relying on to bring them to your landing pages and sign up for your email list.
And, as you move past the early adopters and into the folks that required a little more convincing, there's much higher risk for churn and unsatisfied customers that weren't chomping at the bit and proactively seeking your solution. So, the uphill climb just gets steeper… and more expensive. Not to mention that the success of your product in the market may attract even more competition, which can further increase CPA while simultaneously putting you on the defensive to retain the customers you already have.
Product/market fit rarely happens holistically or by accident. Companies constantly tweak their products, their target markets, and their sales and marketing tactics to hone in on the perfect combination of needs, demands, and how to satisfy them. As a product leader, this ultimately is informed—if not driven—by your knowledge, research, and efforts.
Like most things, it's also an ever-evolving journey to uncover new demands, modify the market you're targeting, and adjust the messaging and communication tactics your company uses to reach new buyers. Reassessing your product/market fit and relying on benchmarks such as the Rule of 40 ensure your company doesn't become complacent and is continually adapting to reach your growth targets and defend your position from competitors.


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Kill Total 2 + ?
Kill Date 2007
Victim Xiao Mei Guo - 29
Bonnie Barrett - 24
Serial killer or not? Brown was only convicted of killing twice, but is suspected of at least one other murder, putting him on three killings, so he is on this list.
20th July 1989, at Preston Crown Court he was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to rape and attempted buggery.
Brown, originally from Preston, is linked to an unsolved murder in the north of England. He is a convicted rapist and is believed to have raped six women and sexually assaulted at least a dozen more. A father of seven children, Brown had a real taste for visiting prostitutes on a regular basis.
29th August 2007, The first known murder victim was 29 year old Xiao Mei Guo, a Chinese illegal immigrant DVD seller working on the streets of Whitechapel. She met Brown and DVD footage showed Brown leading her away, never to be seen again.
September 2007, Three weeks later, 24-year-old prostitute Bonnie Barrett vanished from the Commercial Street red-light area, less than half a mile from where Miss Guo went missing
6th October 2007, Brown was arrested for the murder of Xiao Mei Guo and charged soon after with both murders.
A search of Brown's flat in Rotherhithe, found blood, confirmed to be from from the women in his kitchen, corridor and bathroom, this is where police suspect he may have dismembered the women.
Friday 3rd October 2008, at The Old Bailey in London, Brown denied murder, but admitted paying both women for sex before they disappeared.
The Jury took just three hours to find him guilty.
Convicted of two murders. It was alleged he killed out of a wish to be famous, and emulate serial Killers like Jack the Ripper. He had borrowed books on serial killers from his local library, including 'Killers: The Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Time'.
Brown was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years at the Old Bailey in London.
The bodies of the two women have never been found, but DIY equipment found in his flat, including a hacksaw and extra-strength bin-bags suggests he may have dismembered the bodies and disposed of the body parts separately
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Muy cerca de mi ocaso, yo te bendigo, Vida,
porque nunca me diste ni esperanza fallida,
ni trabajos injustos, ni pena inmerecida.

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Porque veo al final de mi rudo camino
que yo fui el arquitecto de mi propio destino;
que si extraje la miel o la hiel de las cosas,
fue porque en ellas puse hiel o mieles sabrosas:
cuando planté rosales coseché siempre rosas.

Cierto, a mis lozanías va a seguir el invierno:
¡mas tú no me dijiste que mayo fuese eterno!

Hallé sin duda largas las noches de mis penas;
mas no me prometiste tan solo noches buenas;
y en cambio tuve algunas santamente serenas.

Amé, fui amado, el sol acarició mi faz.
¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!

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