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Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.
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I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.
Terry Zwigoff
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The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
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We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.
George M. Church
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
Gail Collins
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I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
Sherri Shepherd
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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
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So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
Ruggiero Ricci
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It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.
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Q: How to display Spring model using Jsp JSTL? Actually in my spring application have User.jsp and using this Jsp i'm display details.
In my UserProfileForm bean i'm writing
private List<ProfessionalForm> professionalDetails = new ArrayList<ProfessionalForm>();

And ProfessionalForm has another form for details.
In my controller class i'm writing..
 @RequestMapping(value = "user", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String user(Model model) throws Exception {
        UserProfileForm form = (UserProfileForm)FormType.USER_PROFILE.getNewInstance();

        model.addAttribute("USER_PROFILE", form);
        return "profile/user";
    }

And my user.jsp page code..
<form:form action="" modelAttribute="USER_PROFILE">

    <c:forEach items="${USER_PROFILE.professionalDetails}" var="professionalForm">
        <jsp:include page="user/professional.jsp">
           <jsp:param value="${professionalForm}" name="PROFESSIONAL" />
        </jsp:include>
    </c:forEach>

</form:form>

And this my professional.jsp..
<form:form action="profile/proffessional" modelAttribute="PROFESSIONAL">

  Postion:

        <form:input class="text_midem" path="positionName" />

</form>

But i got follwoing Exception for my Server console..
    SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [spring] in context with path [/EClass] threw exception [An exception occurred processing JSP page /WEB-INF/pages/profile/user.jsp at line 40

37:

38:                             <c:forEach items="${USER_PROFILE.professionalDetails}"
39:                                 var="professionalForm">
40:                                 <jsp:include page="user/professional.jsp">
41:                                     <jsp:param value="${professionalForm}" name="PROFESSIONAL" />
42:                                 </jsp:include>
43:                             </c:forEach>

Stacktrace:] with root cause
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'PROFESSIONAL' available as request attribute
    at org.springframework.web.servlet.support.BindStatus.<init>(BindStatus.java:141)

Why this message coming is their any Loop Required for in User.jsp page or Professional.jsp..
Please help me..
EDIT:
Instead of <jsp:include> we are using ...
<%@include file="user/professional.jsp"%>

Hear also error coming...
    SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [spring] in context with path [/EClass] threw exception [An exception occurred processing JSP page /WEB-INF/pages/profile/user/professional.jsp at line 16

13:

14:                                     Postion:
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16:                                   <form:input class="text_midem" path="positionName" />
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Stacktrace:] with root cause
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'PROFESSIONAL' available as request attribute

A: Using <%@include%> instead of  jsp:include
<%@include file="user/professional.jsp"%>

A: ......
<jsp:include page="user/professional.jsp">
           <jsp:param value="${professionalForm}" name="PROFESSIONAL" />
        </jsp:include>
.......

The above code sends request parameter named PROFESSIONAL to the professional.jsp page and not request attribute. While the below code looks for request attribute
....
<form:form action="profile/proffessional" modelAttribute="PROFESSIONAL">
....

So you need to set the value as request attribute perhaps.
Try the below code
.......

<form:form action="" modelAttribute="USER_PROFILE">

    <c:forEach items="${USER_PROFILE.professionalDetails}" var="professionalForm">
        <c:set var="PROFESSIONAL" scope="request" value="${professionalForm}">
        <jsp:include page="user/professional.jsp">
        </jsp:include>
    </c:forEach>

</form:form>
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PRESENTED BY INVEST STOCKHOLM
Stockholm marches at the front of the health tech revolution
Sweden's health service is world-renowned for the level of care it provides from the cradle to the grave. Now the nation is pioneering the development of health tech with many of the life-changing services being created and implemented in the Nordic start-up capital of Stockholm.
Published: 2 October 2018 15:21 CEST
Photo: Coala Life. /Creative Commons
Swedes are among the healthiest people in the world and are living longer as a result. While the nation's health service is envied around the globe, longer lifespans are increasing the strain on medical professionals.
Health tech provides people with the ability to take better care of themselves using technology and is a complement – not a threat – to existing healthcare, say the developers of Swedish success story, Coala Life.
The Coala health monitor is a device that syncs up to your smartphone to record your heart sounds and ECG in under 60 seconds. It has won rave reviews and awards as well as $12m in funding. Despite this, the founders have encountered resistance from physicians who are still too attached to the old-fashioned stethoscope.
Embracing the new opportunities provided by health tech is vital. For example, the Coala device was used by one of Sweden's largest healthcare providers to assess patients with palpitations and arrhythmia. And the result? Specialist referrals decreased by 40 percent.
Find out more about investment opportunities in Stockholm
Photo: The Coala health monitor/Creative Commons
Health Tech is here for the long-term and is state sponsored in Sweden where the government has pledged to become global leaders in e-health by 2025. With national backing, health tech is now big business that is attractive to investors both in Sweden and further afield.
"Stockholm is really the center point of the fast moving digital health hurricane that is working to transform healthcare. We've had great success in attracting local funding as well as a world-class team including hardware-developers, designers, clinicians and go-to-market champions. Many countries and companies follow the trends, innovations and best-practices that arise out of Stockholm, and I'm proud that Coala Life is one of the key contributors of this unique ecosystem," says Philip Siberg, CEO of Coala Life (pictured right).
Stockholm, which was christened 'the unicorn factory' by the Financial Times back in 2015, earned that moniker for being home to multiple companies that are valued at more than $1bn. And with the health tech industry growing at a rapid speed in the city, it is attracting interest as well as investment from overseas.
Take Swedish-based company Bonzun for example. Since being founded in 2012, the virtual midwife app, which provides free expert advice for expectant parents, has gained a significant foothold in China where 82 percent of wealthy Chinese people do not have a GP.
Photo: My Pregnancy App by Bonzun
Bonzun has proven to be a hit among Chinese women; its My Pregnancy app has been downloaded millions of times in China since it was rolled out in 2012. China's e-health market was valued at $2bn in 2017, and Bonzun's CEO and Founder, Bonnie Roupé, is keen to increase her company's presence there. Thinking big is the way to go says the Swede.
"In Sweden there are 120,000 pregnant women a year. In China it is 22 million. We see that there is a gap in the market everywhere for the service we offer. Although maternal care is different in other countries, the questions that pregnant women have are the same," says Roupé.
Roupé has big ambitions for her app, which is already available in English, Swedish and Chinese, with other languages in the pipeline. Stockholm is the ideal starting point for pioneering advances in health tech, she says.
"In Sweden we have reached a level of comfort in terms of free access to healthcare that we are able to create ideas for how to improve it. Stockholm has people from all different backgrounds working together to create new technology."
Prosilico is a medtech firm with its origins in Stockholm. The firm has developed a unique AI-based in-silico prediction methodology platform that is used in the pharmacokinetics sector. The service has been successful in Scandinavia and the founders, two ex-AstraZeneca researchers, are keen to expand abroad and get a piece of the global market, which grows 10 percent annually and attracts backing from pharmaceutical giants.
"We are the first company to objectively demonstrate that it is possible to predict human clinical pharmacokinetics of drug molecules directly from chemical structure just as accurately as is done in the laboratory," says Urban Fagerholm, CEO of Prosilico
He adds, "What we are doing is a paradigm shift away from the traditional methods such as animal testing and narrow-range test tube-studies for this kind of research. Our validated technology has great potential since it is faster and more cost-efficient than going to a lab, and gives our customers ethical advantages and an opportunity to get reliable data and to optimize at the drug design stage."
The firm collaborates with a drug discovery company in Spain and will soon launch a unique, validated web-based prediction platform.
Stockholm is of course home to the world famous Karolinska Institutet, which has a long history of producing doctors and researchers. Neighbouring city Uppsala also enjoys a similar reputation. Such deep resources of knowledge and expertise in the region make Stockholm an obvious hub for the burgeoning health tech sectors, says Fagerholm.
"The Stockholm region, with many former AstraZeneca scientists and top-ranked universities, is a natural place for research within this field."
Even in a country with a world-class health service such as Sweden, it can still sometimes take a while to get an appointment with your GP and even longer to meet a specialist. Many Swedes live in rural locations that are many miles away from their local healthcare centre, which can make it problematic to see your doctor at short notice.
Photo: MediCheck
Fortunately, Sweden has broad internet penetration across the country; 94% of the population are online. The developers of MediCheck have been quick to spot that Swedes are both health and web savvy. MediCheck users can consult with specialist doctors via video calls or instant messaging simply by using their smartphone, tablet or computer.
With multi-lingual specialists from all fields of medicine, MediCheck is shaking up the traditional doctor/patient relationship by making it virtual and more accessible.
"By providing access to the right specialist and virtual specialist teams we empower the patient's ability to control their personal wellbeing where ever they live. If you, for instance, suffer from arrhythmia, we can help you manage your disease by monitoring your heart with a Coala and at the same time give specialist advice based on your history and Coala data," says Christian Tärnholm, CMO of MediCheck.
He adds, "Stockholm is a great place to be as a young company. The start-up community in Stockholm is really supportive and there are several good incubators and acceleration programs from players like Sting, Connect, SUP46 and more."
This article was produced by The Local Client Studio in partnership with Invest Stockholm.
TT/The Local [email protected] @thelocalsweden
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HEALTHSPONSOREDMOVETOSTOCKHOLM
Public Health Agency recommends two Covid doses next year for elderly
Sweden's Public Health Agency is recommending that those above the age of 80 should receive two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn, as it shifts towards a longer-term strategy for the virus.
Published: 23 December 2022 10:53 CET
In a new recommendation, the agency said that those living in elderly care centres, and those above the age of 80 should from March 1st receive two vaccinations a year, with a six month gap between doses.
"Elderly people develop a somewhat worse immune defence after vaccination and immunity wanes faster than among young and healthy people," the agency said. "That means that elderly people have a greater need of booster doses than younger ones. The Swedish Public Health Agency considers, based on the current knowledge, that it will be important even going into the future to have booster doses for the elderly and people in risk groups."
Sweden's new Covid wave could rival last year's: Public Health Agency
Sweden has no plans to introduce Covid-19 restrictions this winter
When should I get my next dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Sweden?
People between the ages of 65 and 79 years old and young people with risk factors, such as obesity, diabetes, poor kidney function or high blood pressure, are recommended to take one additional dose per year.
The new vaccination recommendation, which will start to apply from March 1st next year, is only for 2023, Johanna Rubin, the investigator in the agency's vaccination programme unit, explained.
She said too much was still unclear about how long protection from vaccination lasted to institute a permanent programme.
"This recommendation applies to 2023. There is not really an abundance of data on how long protection lasts after a booster dose, of course, but this is what we can say for now," she told the TT newswire.
It was likely, however, that elderly people would end up being given an annual dose to protect them from any new variants, as has long been the case with influenza.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A safety inspection on the Harbor Bridge will force some lane closures this week.
The two right lanes of southbound Highway 181 were closed from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday and will be closed again on Wednesday.
The two right lanes of northbound Highway 181 will be closed at the same times Tuesday and Thursday.


My work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Age, The Sun-Herald (Sydney), The Australian, The CEO Magazine, Australian Book Review, The Australian Financial Review, Time Out Sydney, The Big Issue, Real Time, Eureka Street, Good Reading, Mess + Noise and Indigenous Law Bulletin.
My first novel, titled You're the Kind of Girl I Write Songs About, was published by Harper Collins.
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A shape-shifting statement of vulnerability and resilience.
An album made to be played on repeat as you're driving at night, the only car on the road and no destination in mind.
The platonic ideal of the pop record as public diary entry.
Songs which instantly feel familiar in the best way, classic, timeless, warm.
One of the most zeitgeisty pop culture artefacts of the year, but even more satisfying as a record than thinkpiece fodder. Human, angry, tuneful, beautiful, vital. Both timely and timeless.
Prematurely world weary, like a twentysomething Neil Young likening to his life to an old man's or Patsy Cline sighing into a golden microphone.
The album about growing up bored and and disillusioned that feels so homespun and relatable that we'd all like to think we could have written it .
The second part of an immaculately produced song suite where all the sharp edges have been sanded down to a smooth, shapely whole. A balm for strange times and a collection of songs to luxuriate in.
The year's most enigmatic record. Pure gibberish or visionary genius? I'm willing to spend a lot of time figuring it out.
Underrated concept record with that brand of stylish, lush darkness only Natasha Khan can do.
A record which explodes with sunshine and life and then reveals hidden depths. Bittersweet like all the best pop music.
At first glance, the title sounds blandly descriptive. A few listens later, it sounds like a mission statement of admirable clarity, something to strive towards.
Dark, deeply funny, empathetic: a classic Handsome Family record.
The best collection yet from a prolific talent. Fragile earworms and intimate song sketches.
Unfashionably melodic and improbably consistent, Nada Surf have had maybe the best career of any band ever written off as a one (novelty) hit wonder.
Sturdy songs which feel lived in, formed of experience and wisdom.
A sleeper record built to both soothe and thrill. Melodies buried under a heat haze and guitar noise.
Almost single-handedly made recorders cool. Pop songs written by people who had never heard pop songs before.


Please check training document below for up coming courses available for Hackney Council Housing Residents.
Hackney Council's Resident Participation Team and World Foods Market London are teaming up to provide training and opportunities for residents interested in starting a catering business.
A platform to showcase your business.
Encouragement and advice to develop your business idea.
If you are a Hackney resident, have a passion for food and think you could greatly benefit from learning the first steps to running a business. Please email your interest to Siovhan Crombie at siovhan.crombie@hackney.gov.uk who will then contact you with further information.


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Jackson Estate Steers to Next Challenge: Loan Refinancing
By Ethan Smith
Updated June 21, 2010 12:01 am ET
Nearly a year after Michael Jackson's death, the managers overseeing his estate have stabilized its precarious financial situation, but at least one major liability still looms: a $300 million loan due at the end of this year.
The Jackson family's Encino, Calif., home, where foreclosure was averted.
Thanks to the surge of fan interest sparked by Mr. Jackson's death, the singer generated an estimated $200 million posthumously, allowing the estate to pay off tens of millions of dollars in debt and avert foreclosure on the suburban Los Angeles complex where the singer's mother lives.
Since Mr. Jackson's death last June 25, his businesses have been run by the singer's longtime lawyer, John Branca, and a music-industry veteran and personal friend of Mr. Jackson's named John McClain. Unlike traditional executors, Messrs. Branca and McClain are aggressively managing Mr. Jackson's affairs as a going concern. The estate's primary beneficiaries are Mr. Jackson's three young children and his 80-year-old mother, Katherine, who is now the children's guardian.
Meanwhile, Mr. Jackson's absence from the equation has eliminated the chaos and out-of-control spending that reigned during his life.
Using income from past music sales and advances against future ones, music-publishing royalties, a film-rights sale and various other licensing deals, the estate has paid off nearly $200 million of the $500 million debt the singer had used to fund his extravagant spending in his final years.
Fans buying music and flocking to the movie "This Is It" generated millions of dollars.
The estate has collected as much as $125 million in royalties and advances from Sony Corp.'s Sony Music, which has sold 31.5 million Jackson albums since his death and plans to distribute an album of previously unreleased music around November. Corporate sibling Sony Pictures paid another $60 million for the rights to "This Is It," the documentary about rehearsals for Mr. Jackson's planned comeback concert series.
Mijac, the publishing company that controls the copyrights to songs written by Mr. Jackson, is on track to generate $35 million in royalties. The estate is set to collect $11 million in dividends from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the joint venture with Sony Corp. that controls 251 songs by the Beatles. Television and merchandise deals could generate another $10 million, while deals to create a videogame and two Cirque du Soleil shows based on Mr. Jackson's music are set to provide additional revenue later this year. The Sony Music deal guarantees Mr. Jackson's estate significant additional cash advances in coming years, too.
However, Mr. Jackson's biggest financial obligation remains unresolved. A $300 million loan from Barclays PLC, backed by his 50% stake in SONY/ATV, matures at the end of the year. To secure the loan in 2006, Mr. Jackson appealed for help from Sony, which dispatched two executives to meet him in Dubai and negotiate terms under which it would guarantee the loan.
At the time, Mr. Jackson was in danger of defaulting on a $270 million loan held by hedge fund Fortress Investment Group LLC. As part of the agreement under which Barclays ultimately refinanced that debt, Mr. Jackson granted Sony an option to buy half of his stake in the company at any time for a fixed price of $250 million. At the time that was a generous valuation, but Sony/ATV's value has since soared to around $2 billion.
The Jackson estate and Sony have held talks about whether the company will again guarantee a refinancing of the debt backed by Mr. Jackson's Sony/ATV stake. If it won't, the estate could be forced to sell its stake in Sony/ATV at a steep discount, though that would still generate enough cash to wipe out the Barclays loan with hundreds of millions to spare. But Sony may have an incentive to reach a deal on refinancing, because buying out Mr. Jackson's estate would require it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for an asset it already effectively controls.
All of this stands in stark contrast to the state of affairs when Mr. Jackson died. Despite being poised for what was heralded as a major comeback concert series, his finances were in shambles and he was unable to meet some of his most basic financial obligations.
Among the unpaid bills at the time of his death, Mr. Jackson had not paid $341,000 to Thomas Mesereau, the lawyer who successfully defended him against charges of child molestation in 2005. That bill and many other creditors' claims, including invoices from several other law firms, have now been paid.
The singer was also months behind on utility bills for his longtime family home in Encino, Calif., where his mother, Katherine, now lives with his three children, along with the children of two of his brothers. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, owed nearly $9,000, was threatening to disconnect service. AT&T Inc. was owed $1,300.
More troubling, Mr. Jackson had fallen behind on the payments for a $5 million IndyMac loan secured by the house. The property was scheduled to enter foreclosure the day after Mr. Jackson died. A nearby condominium, four months behind on loan payments and homeowners' dues, was also threatened with foreclosure, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Jackson's representatives have now paid off those loans.
Mr. Jackson was living in a rented mansion in Holmby Hills, a ritzy neighborhood near Bel Air, covering his sizable personal overhead with a $35 million cash advance from AEG Live, the concert promoter that was planning to stage his London concerts. That loan, too, has been repaid.
Mr. Jackson's debts were spiraling out of control in other ways, too. A loan backed by Mijac carried a crushing 16.5% interest rate, to be paid out of royalties generated by the company. When the royalty payments fell short of the towering cost of servicing the debt, any unpaid interest was piled on to the principal. As a result, by the time of his death, the Mijac loan had reached $75 million, with $11 million due in annual interest, which was several million dollars more than the catalog was generating annually. The loan has now been refinanced with an interest rate of less than 4%. And thanks to increased album sales since Mr. Jackson's death and a new deal for public-performance royalties, the catalog is generating enough cash to pay off the refinanced loan a little more than a year from now.
Looking to raise cash Mr. Jackson had planned, then scrapped, an auction of most of his personal effects from Neverland, his 2,600-acre ranch near Santa Barbara. In 2008, after he had defaulted on a $24.5 million loan backed by the ranch itself, the property was spared from foreclosure when Colony Capital LLC, a Los Angeles real-estate investment firm, bought the note and put the property into a joint venture with Mr. Jackson. That venture is structured in such a way that Colony is responsible for the ranch's overhead, maintenance and tax costs.
If the property is sold, Colony is entitled to recover its costs, including the $24.5 million is paid to take over the busted loan, with the majority of the additional proceeds going to Mr. Jackson's estate. People with knowledge of the situation say that because of logistical issues, Neverland is unlikely to be converted into a public attraction like Elvis Presley's Graceland, making a sale the most likely outcome, though it doesn't appear imminent.
Write to Ethan Smith at ethan.smith@wsj.com


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So, Riley became a participant and mentor for the American Heart Association's Check. Change. Control, a multi-disciplinary program launched in communities around the country to increase awareness and improve blood pressure results in its participants. It involves local volunteer health mentors, recruited and trained to encourage participants to monitor and stay with their health plans. It also uses Heart360, a powerful web-based tool to help track health factors like blood pressure, give suggestions about action plans, and connect to healthcare providers and mentors to share progress.
About 78 million people in the United States have high blood pressure. Also called hypertension, it is known as the silent killer because it typically has no symptoms but can lead to deadly consequences such as heart attack, stroke and kidney failure. And while hypertension runs rampant in the African-American community, it knows no boundaries. No matter the race, the station in life, work status or education level, anyone can be affected.
Her brother Ronald Glen Durant left behind a wife, a son, a daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. He had been married more than three decades before slumping over behind the wheel while stopped at a red light in September 2012. He had insurance, and he already had been diagnosed with a history of heart problems. But he stopped taking his high blood pressure medication, Riley said.
So when a friend mentioned the AHA program, she decided to ask her church pastor, who also happened to be her nephew, to partner with Check. Change. Control. Last year, during the first year of the program, she spread the word to her seven siblings, extended family and friends. Every Sunday, for three months, she would send reminders for participants to check and record their pressure. This year, she is easing off the reminders to let them take charge on their own, but she is making sure everyone has a blood pressure monitor and a pedometer.
In 2012, the AHA initially provided grants of $20,000 to the top 18 markets create a pilot. Now, it has spread to 90 programs in 60 markets, including Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia. The goal is to enroll 30,000 African-Americans by the end of 2014. By this past fall, more than 13,000 African-Americans and participants of other ethnicities had enrolled.
Because the program involves technology and access to computers, Moise said it is important to form alliances and partnerships with community groups, senior centers and others who have access to computers and can help with the technology.
In the Houston and Gulf Coast area, where Riley lives, the AHA has partnered with churches, school districts, social groups and community organizations, said Aabha Brown, the AHA's senior director of health equity in the region. This year, the project is working with the staff and teachers at one of the largest high school in Texas.
The goal for the first year of the program was to beef up enrollment. This year, Brown said, it isn't just about getting people into the system, but also to get them to actively participate and create new monitoring and recording habits. She figures it will take about six years for the program to develop fully and crystalize.
Video with Rev. Edward Durant Jr.
May 14th, 2014|Health|Comments Off on Spreading the word about hypertension through Check. Change. Control.


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Q: Wordpress sidebar custom icon I'm in the process of setting up a sidebar on my wordpress site, the sidebar lists all pages within the current section using the code below:
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The + icon in the link_before field adds the icon before the page name is output. Ideally what I'm wanting to do is output the pages icon attribute in here, although I can't seem to work out a way to do this.
The page has an icon saved as a custom field, which can be easily output on the page itself using the code below.
echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Icon', true);

if anyone's aware of a method which would make this achievable, please let me know.
Thanks


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10-Sep-2012 12:19 PM
Philippine carriers see huge opportunities in China once restrictions are lifted
Philippine carriers expect to significantly expand their China operations over the next several years and remain confident in the opportunities in the Chinese market despite a current government warning on holidaying in the Philippines. Philippine low-cost carriers – including AirAsia Philippines, Cebu Pacific, PAL Express/AirPhil Express and Zest Air – are poised to be the largest beneficiaries from increasing demand in the Philippines-China market.
In recent years an influx in charters has catered to a large portion of the growth in the Philippines-China market. But charters between the two countries have stopped operating in recent months due to a Chinese government warning against travel to the Philippines, an unfortunate politically-motivated byproduct of the dispute over the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. The return of charter operations and a significant increase in scheduled flights are expected once the warning is lifted.
There are currently about 11,000 one-way scheduled seats per week in the Philippines-China market, down about 15% from May-2012 when China first issued its warning against travelling to the Philippines following a naval standoff with the Philippines around the Scarborough Shoal. Philippine carriers account for nearly three-quarters of capacity in the market. Philippine Airlines (PAL) is the largest carrier, accounting for 37% of current capacity between the Philippines and China.
Cebu Pacific is the second largest carrier in the Philippines-China market, accounting for 27% of total capacity. A second Philippine LCC, Zest Air, also serves mainland China but only accounts for about 9% of total capacity in the market. China Southern currently accounts for about 21% of capacity in the Philippines-China market while Air China accounts for the remaining 6%, according to Innovata data.
PAL currently serves Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen from Manila while Cebu Pacific serves Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen (launched in Mar-2012). Zest serves Shanghai and Quanzhou (launched in May-2012, giving Qanzhou Jinjiang Airport its first scheduled international service). From the Chinese side, China Southern serves Manila from Guangzhou and Xiamen while Air China only links Manila from Beijing.
Philippines to China capacity (one-way seats per week) by carrier: 10-Sep-2012 to 16-Sep-2012
Routes and weekly seats
Total weekly seats and capacity share
Manila-Beijing (750)
Manila-Shanghai (2114)
Manila-Xiamen (1201)
Manila-Guangzhou (537)
Manila-Xiamen (450)
Manila-Guangzhou (1022)
Zest Air
Manila-Quanzhou (504)
Manila-Shanghai (504)
1008 (9%)
Air China Manila-Beijing (656)
Philippines-China was a large charter market before Scarborough Shoal conflict
PAL, Zest and Cebu Pacific also operated frequent charters into China prior to May-2012, when Chinese tour companies cancelled their charter programmes as a result of the travel warning. Most of the charters operated to airports near beach resorts (such as Kalibo) rather than Manila. The warning has also significantly impacted demand and profitability on scheduled routes, according to executives at Philippine carriers.
The PAL Group's LCC subsidiary, AirPhil Express (which later this year will readopt the previous brand PAL Express), also operated flights to China prior to the onset of the current crisis in May-2012. PAL Express will likely resume flights to the country once tensions ease and would be the logical brand for adding destinations in China that are not served by PAL mainline given AirPhil/PAL Express' leisure focus and all-economy configuration.
While Philippine carriers would be interested in increasing capacity to major Chinese cities, slot and traffic right restrictions will likely limit any growth in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to up-gauging existing flights. Cebu Pacific, for example will be able to more than double capacity on its Beijing and Shanghai services by switching from Airbus A320s to Airbus A330s, which it will start taking delivery of in mid-2013. But the real opportunities are in secondary Chinese cities.
Cebu Pacific CEO advisor Garry Kingshott told CAPA's LCCs & New Age Airlines in North Asia conference on 06-Sep-2012 that "the opportunities in China and Chinese secondary cities are enormous. They will sustain many more operations for years to come as disposable income comes up and they are allowed to travel."
Also speaking at the conference, Zest CEO advisor Brian Hogan cited Xian and Chengdu among the many secondary Chinese destinations which can potentially support LCC service from the Philippines. "When China opens up oh my goodness you could put a 1,000 airplanes in and out of there ... there's people everywhere. They want to travel," Mr Hogan said.
AirAsia Philippines seeks China traffic rights
New LCC AirAsia Philippines is also keen on the mainland China market and has already applied for traffic rights to China. AirAsia Philippines launched services in Mar-2012 and now operates domestic as well as international flights to Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Macau.
AirAsia Philippines could launch flights to mainland China as early as 2013, at which point it is hoped that the current travel warning will no longer be in place. AirAsia Philippines will seek to serve points in mainland China which are already served by other AirAsia affiliates. The AirAsia Group now has seven destinations in mainland China – Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guilin, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shenzhen. Guangzhou and Shenzhen are served from both Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok while Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin and Hangzhou are served from Kuala Lumpur and Chongqing is served from Bangkok. Four more mainland China destinations are to be added in the coming months – Nanning, Kunming, Xian and Wuhan.
See related article: AirAsia considers serving Kunming, Wuhan or Xian, a new group of Chinese cities for Asian LCCs
AirAsia's large presence in China through its affiliates in Malaysia and Thailand could give AirAsia Philippines an advantage as Philippines-China becomes a hot market. AirAsia Philippines will not have to spend as much to launch and support new services to secondary cities in China as its competitors because it can leverage the existing services of AirAsia X, AirAsia Malaysia and Thai AirAsia. Being affiliated with a well known pan-Asian brand will also help AirAsia Philippines market any new service to Chinese residents, which would account for the overwhelming majority of passengers on any new Philippines-China route.
Limited domestic opportunities prompt Philippine LCCs to look towards North Asia
Most Philippine LCCs now see more opportunities in the international market than domestically given the intense competition and overcapacity that is plaguing the domestic market. There are currently five LCCs operating domestically in the Philippines – market leader Cebu Pacific, AirPhil Express (soon to be rebranded PAL Express), Zest, SEAir and AirAsia Philippines. SEAir launched a new LCC operation covering domestic trunk routes in late Jul-2012 with support from new part-owner Tiger Airways.
See related article: Consolidation inevitable in the Philippines but Cebu Pacific's market leading position is assured
AirPhil, AirAsia Philippines, Cebu Pacific, SEAir and Zest will all likely focus medium-term expansion on the international market, particularly China and other north Asian destinations. "North Asia to me is mecca," Zest's Mr Hogan tells CAPA. "I'm not excited by the domestic market."
Of all the international markets from the Philippines, China offers the biggest potential opportunities as most other short-haul international markets such as South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia are already well served by LCCs. (There are opportunities in Japan – which is only served by one Philippine LCC, Cebu Pacific, with only one destination – but all Philippine carriers have been barred by Japanese authorities from adding capacity until the Philippines can pass an ICAO audit.)
Top five international markets from the Philippines based on capacity (seats per week): 10-Sep-2012 to 16-Sep-2012
One-way seats per week
South Korea is already now the largest source of visitors to the Philippines. There are currently just over 30,000 weekly one-way scheduled seats between South Korea and the Philippines and during peak periods there are up to 40,000 weekly seats. (Hong Kong is the largest international market from the Philippines based on capacity but South Korea is a larger source of visitors.)
There is also a huge charter market between the Philippines and Korea. Most of the charter flights operate to and from Kalibo, which is the closest international airport to the popular resort island of Boracay (about 90 minutes by bus). Mr Hogan says Zest currently operates 32 charter flights per week to Korea and Korea accounts for 25% to 30% of the carrier's total business (Zest also currently operates 18 weekly scheduled flights between Korea and the Philippines).
Charters to Korea help Philippine LCCs as well as PAL improve their aircraft utilisation as the flights are almost always operated in the middle of the night using A320s which are used primarily in the domestic market. (LCCs also operate some international scheduled flights late at night and early in the morning but these only utilise a small portion of their fleets.)
PAL and the LCCs are keen to offer more scheduled flights to Korea and China as scheduled flights are potentially more lucrative than charters. While charters are low risk because the tour companies cover the cost of the flights, the margins are typically low and the tour companies are charging a lot more than LCCs would charge for the same seat. For example while Zest will continue to look to grow its Korea charter business, adjusting its model to accommodate the request of Korean tour companies such as in-flight meals, it is also keen to expand its scheduled operation into Korea and will launch a daily flight from Clark Airport outside Manila to Seoul Incheon in Oct-2012. The addition of Clark-Seoul will give Zest five scheduled routes to Korea along with Cebu, Manila and Kalibo to Seoul and Kalibo-Busan.
China could become the Philippines largest market
Philippine carriers believe the China market could eventually overtake South Korea although it is now only one third the size. While there are only two cities in Korea with scheduled service to the Philippines, Busan and Seoul, there are dozens of Chinese airports that can potentially support service to the Philippines. Chinese regional airports are also seen as more aggressive in recruiting foreign LCCs than airports in Korea or Japan.
Nearly all of China is within the range of narrowbody aircraft from the Philippines, opening up opportunities in every region of the fast-growing country. Mr Kingshott points out that the Philippines is uniquely positioned to benefit from the expected boom in China outbound tourism as the Philippines is the closest tropical destination to China.
For now however Philippine carriers have to be patient and wait for the Philippine-China relations to improve before exploiting the huge opportunities in the Chinese market. So far there have not been many encouraging signs since the Scarborough Shoal conflict began in Apr-2012. But Philippine carriers remain optimistic that the China travel warning will be lifted sooner rather than later. Once it does, rapid growth will almost certainly ensue and China could eventually become the largest source of tourists for the Philippines.


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How and why did the story of King Cnut change?
The 11th-century king Cnut/Knut/Canute of Denmark, Norway, and England is today best known for the story of how he sat on the beach commanding the waves to turn back. The original account of this story, written in the 12th century by Henry of Huntingdon, uses it to illustrate Cnut's humility:
[W]hen at the summit of his power, he [Canute] ordered a seat to be placed for him on the sea-shore when the tide was coming in; thus seated, he shouted to the flowing sea, "Thou, too, art subject to my command, as the land on which I am seated is mine; and no one has ever resisted my commands with impunity. I command you, then, not to flow over my land, nor presume to wet ihe feet and the robe of your lord." The tide, however, continuing to rise as usual, dashed over his feet and legs without respect to his royal person. Then the king leaped backwards, saying: "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws."
The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (1154) VI.17. Translated by Thomas Arnold (1879).
But later accounts twisted it around so as to portray Cnut as a foolishly proud ruler, as if he really believed he could stop the waves. The tale has become an almost proverbial example of hubris.
How and why did the moral of the story change? I'd like to know both the nature of the change (if possible, some kind of timeline of accounts of the story?) and also the reason for it (e.g. did it start off as just a misunderstanding by a later storyteller, or could there have been some political motive?)
history-of-literature myths
Gareth Rees
Just read this, which I thought might provide an answer to your question: it doesn't, but you may find it interesting. urbanlab.org/articles/Hay_2009_KingCanute.pdf – Matt Thrower Sep 21 '17 at 14:11
The post says, "The original account … uses it to illustrate Cnut's humility." But note that Henry of Huntingdon only wrote that Cnut was humble afterwards, not that he intended this beforehand. His version did not explain the king's motive at all, leaving a gap that later historians filled.
Cnut's motive seems to have been introduced into the story accidentally and in stages: (i) Henry of Huntingdon's introduction "when at the summit of his power", which fixed the episode chronologically, was reinterpreted as its cause. (ii) The king's pride in his power was reworded to emphasize the moral. (iii) The king's pride was explicitly given as the reason for his attempt to command the tide. (iv) Flattering courtiers were introduced to explain the king's overweening pride. (v) The flattering courtiers remained but the king's motive was changed to rebuking them.
While the evolution of the story is interesting, I doubt that the proverbial use of the story of Cnut trying to stop the tide has spread via this kind of written tradition. Instead, what I suspect has happened many times is that someone has alluded to the story as a vivid instance of the fact that events exceed our power to control them, without assigning any particular motive to the king; and someone else has heard the allusion and found that the easiest way to interpret it was if it was Cnut who believed he could stop the tide. Thus the popular version has undergone a process of continual reinvention, no matter how often historians explain that it has no historical basis.
I found it hard to find written versions of story (as opposed to proverbial uses) in which Cnut really believed that he could command the tide. This must be because this version is not remotely credible as history. No man who had made as many sea-voyages as Cnut could have believed he had any power over the tide, and no historian who cared about the plausibility of their account could have accepted it uncritically.
In nearly all modern versions of the story, Cnut's motive in staging the scene was to rebuke his courtiers for their flattery. But this motive does not appear in any of the early sources, and although it is an improvement on the idea that Cnut believed he could command the tide, it is not particularly credible either, as Charles Dickens pointed out:
We may learn from this, I think, that a little sense will go a long way in a king; and that courtiers are not easily cured of flattery, nor kings of a liking for it. If the courtiers of Canute had not known long before, that the King was fond of flattery, they would have known better than to offer it in such large doses. And if they had not known that he was vain of this speech […], they would not have been at such great pains to repeat it. I fancy I see them all on the sea-shore together; the King's chair sinking in the sand; the King in a mighty good humor with his own wisdom; and the courtiers pretending to be quite stunned by it!
Charles Dickens (1852). A Child's History of England, Chapter V.
Gaimar
Henry of Huntington is not the only source for the story! In the 1130s, Geoffrey Gaimar wrote a chronicle of the English people in Anglo-Norman rhyming couplets:
Donc fu Cnuth de treis regnés sire;
Poi trovot ki l'osout desdire.
E nepurquant si fut desdit,
E son comandement despit.
A Londres ert desur Tamise;
Li floz veneit près de l'eglise
Ki Westmuster ert apelé.
Li reis à pié s'est aresté […]
His version of the story is different in detail from Henry's:
Then Cnut was lord of three kingdoms; he found few who dared to disobey him. And nevertheless he was disobeyed, and his command despised. He was in London on the Thames; the tide was flowing near the church which is called Westminster. The king stood afoot at the strand; on the sand the tide came struggling onward; it advanced much, and came near the king. Cnut held his sceptre in his hand, and he said to the tide, "Return back; flee from me, lest I strike thee." The sea did not retire for him,—more and more the tide rose; the king remained, he waited, and struck the water with his sceptre. The river retired not for that, so it reached the king and wetted him. When the king saw he had waited too long, and that the tide did not regard him, he withdrew himself back from the strand; then standing upon a stone, he stretched out his hands towards the east. Hear what he said while his people were listening:—"Him who made the sea to rise, men ought indeed to believe and adore. He is a good King, I am a poor creature; I am a mortal man, but He lives for ever; His command annihilates everything; I pray Him that He may be my Protector. To Rome I will go to petition Him; of Him I will hold all my lands."
Geoffrey Gaimar (1130s). Estoire des Engleis, lines 4695–4728. English translation from The Gentleman's Magazine (1857).
Gaimar wrote no more about the king's motives than Henry, but by setting the story before Cnut's visit to Rome (rather than afterwards, as later writers did) he made it possible to imagine a different and more plausible motive. Perhaps someone had objected to Cnut's pilgrimage to Rome on the grounds that he would be subjecting himself to the Pope, and Cnut replied that he would only be subjecting himself to God, to whom he was already subject, as demonstrated by his inability to command the tide. The Old Palace of Westminster (which Cnut had ordered constructed) was at that time on an island in the Thames and it would only have been a few steps from the church to the river bank.
Gaimar's version does not seem to have been much read: I could not find any version of the story that derived from it. This is no doubt because there are only four surviving manuscripts and the poem was not printed until the mid-19th century.
Early Latin sources
Later versions derived instead from five sources in Latin. Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, written 1129–1154, is quoted in the question. The other four are:
Matthew Paris (c. 1300), Flores Historiarum. Until the mid-19th century this work was erroneously attributed to 'Matthew of Westminster' and that's how later sources refer to it. See J. A. Giles' translation (1849).
Ranulph Higden (c. 1344), Polychronicon.
John Brompton (c. 1436), Chronicon Johannis Brompton. Printed in Roger Twysden's Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores X (1652).
Thomas Rudburn (c. 1454), Historia Maior Wintoniensis. Printed in Henry Wharton's Anglia Sacra (1691).
Each of these was closely derived from the text in Henry of Huntingdon. Paris, Higden and Brompton made minor changes to the Latin wording, but added nothing to Henry's version. Rudburn, however, had another source, which gave the story's location:
And when he gracefully prospered in the kingdom he had conquered, he ordered a seat to be placed for him on the sea-shore; as some say, at Southampton, according to the author of Concordantiis Historiarum under the letter K, the tide was coming in.
Thomas Rudburn (c. 1454). Historia Maior Wintoniensis. My translation.
('K' stands for 'Kanutus'.) The work referred to, a concordance of English history, written by a monk of Winchester, is now lost. Where did this monk get "Southampton" from? Perhaps he was reporting a local tradition, Southampton being the nearest point on the coast to Winchester.
Unfortunately, nothing is known about De Concordantiis Historiarum Angliae other than the handful of facts preserved by Rudburn. We only know that it was written by someone from Winchester because Rudburn says so: "For this same author wrote a great deal about the Church of Winchester, in which he was formerly brought up" (Ipse enim Auctor multa scribit de Ecclesia Wyntoniensi, in qua quondam nutritus erat).
Evolution of the story
Henry of Huntingdon introduced the story with the phrase "when at the summit of his power" (cum maximo vigore), which fixed the story chronologically. But it would have been easy to read this introduction causatively, understanding 'when' as 'because' (cum has both meanings in Latin); and if you understood it this way then you would have been tempted to modify "at the summit of his power" in order to clarify the moral. The first chronicler to do so was Robert Fabyan:
Then let us return to Canute, of whom it is read, that after his coming from Rome, he began somedeal to presume in pride, and let more of himself than good wisdom would. In time of which exaltation of his mind, he went unto the Thames side, and beheld how the water swelled or flowed: and so standing near the water, the water touched his feet. Then he charged the water that he should flow no higher, and that, in no wise, he should touch his lord's clothes; but the water kept his course, and wet, at length, the king's thighs: wherewith the king abashed, started back and said, "All earthly kings may know that their powers be vain, and that none is worthy to have the name of a king but he that hath all things subject to his hests, as here is shown, by working of his creature by this water.
Robert Fabyan (1516). The New Chronicles of England and France part VI. Spelling modernized.
Note that Fabyan linked the introduction to the story using "in time of which", not "therefore", and so his version remained ambiguous as to the king's motive.
Fabyan gave his source as Henry of Huntingdon, so where did he get "Thames" from? It seems unlikely that he had read Gaimar, otherwise he would surely have mentioned the detail of the church at Westminster. Perhaps instead, since he lived in London, he was reporting a local tradition.
Raphael Holinshed went one step further than Fabyan:
[W]hen he came home (as some write) he did grow greatly into pride, insomuch that being he caused his chair to be set there, as near to the Thames, or rather (as other write) upon the sea strand, near to Southampton, and perceiving the water to rise by reason of the tide, he cast off his gown, and wrapping it round together, threw it on the sands very near the increasing water, and sat him down upon it, speaking these or the like words to the sea: "Thou art (saith he) within the compass of my dominion, and the ground whereon I sit is mine, and thou knowest that no wight dare disobey my commandments; I therefore do now command thee not to rise upon my ground, nor to presume to wet any part of thy sovereign lord and governor." But the sea keeping her course, rose still higher and higher, and overflowed not only the kings feet, but also flashed up unto his legs and knees. Wherewith the king started suddenly up, and withdrew from it, saying withall to his nobles that were about him: "Behold you noble men, you call me king, which can not so much as stay by my commandment this small portion of water. But know ye for certain, that there is no king but the father only of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom he reigneth, and at whose beck all things are governed. Let us therefore honour him, let us confess and profess him to be the ruler of heaven, earth, and sea, and besides him none other."
Raphael Holinshed (1577). Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, volume 2 chapter 13. Spelling modernized.
Holinshed wrote that his sources are Henry of Huntingdon and 'Matthew of Westminster', but this can't have been the whole story, because neither of those sources mentioned the location. Holinshed must surely have consulted Fabyan (who located the event on the Thames) and Rudburn (who located it at Southampton). It seems likely that he followed Fabyan's introduction, but replaced "In time of which" with "insomuch that" in order to better link the introduction and the story, perhaps not even realising that he was making a connection that was not previously there.
John Norden introduced flattering courtiers as an explanation for why Cnut believed he could command the tide:
[A]fter his return from Rome into England, who in regard of his quadruplicity of kingdoms, esteemed himself, more than a man mortal: for his Sycophants had so bewitched him with their enchanted flatteries, that he deemed himself no less then a God. And in this proud conceit on a day he passed by the Thames, which ran by that palace, at the flowing of the tide, & making stay near the water, the waves cast forth some part of the water towards him, this Canute conjured the waves by his regal command to proceed no farther: the Thames unacquainted with this new God, held on it course, flowing as of custom it used to do, and refrained not to assail him near to the knees: whereat this high conceited man as one amazed, began to tremble, starting back protesting that he was but a man, though a mighty king. And that he that governed those waters, was only worthy to be called a king, and all mortal men, most mighty kings, ought to subject them unto him.
John Norden (1593). Speculum Britanniae, part first. Spelling modernized.
Richard Baker retained the courtiers, but removed the idea that the king believed their flatteries:
One strange act is recorded, which he did for convincing his fawning flatterers, who used to tell him that his powers were more than humane; For being one time at Southampton, he commanded that his Chair of State should be set on the shore when the Sea began to flow, and then sitting down there in the presence of his many attendants, he spake thus to that Element: I charge thee that thou presume not to enter my Land, nor wet these Robes of thy Lord that are about me. But the Sea giving no heed to his command, but keeping on his usual course of Tide, first wet his skirts, and after his thighs, whereupon suddenly arising, he thus spake in the hearing of them all: Let all the worlds Inhabitants know, that vain and weak is the power of their Kings; and that none is worthy of the name of King, but be that keeps both Heaven and Earth and Sea in obedience.
Richard Baker (1643). A Chronicle of the Kings of England. Spelling modernized.
Baker included a general bibliography but did not give line or chapter sources, so I don't know which sources he consulted, but 'Southampton' and 'Chair' suggest Holinshed, and 'thighs' suggest Fabyan.
David Hume included the courtiers and made it explicit that the king knew he could not command the tide:
Canute, who was the greatest and most powerful prince of his time, sovereign of Denmark and Norway, as well as of England, could not fail to meet with adulation from his courtiers; a tribute which is liberally paid even to the meanest and weakest princes. Some of his flatterers breaking out, one day, in admiration of his grandeur, exclaimed that every thing was possible for him: Upon which the monarch, it is said, ordered his chair to be set on the sea-shore, while the tide was making; and as the waters approached, he commanded them to retire, and to obey the voice of him who was lord of the ocean. He feigned to sit some time in expectation of their submission; but when the sea still advanced towards him, and began to wash him with its billows, he turned to his courtiers, and remarked to them, that every creature in the universe was feeble and impotent, and that power resided with one Being alone, in whose hands were all the elements of nature, who could say to the ocean, Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther, and who could level with his nod the most towering piles of human pride and ambition.
David Hume (1762). The History of England, volume I chapter III.
Hume gave as his sources Ranulph Higden, John Brompton, 'Matthew of Westminster' and Henry of Huntingdon, but none of these mentioned the courtiers, so it is hard to avoid suspecting that he was also influenced by Baker.
Many versions of the story derived from Hume's, for example that of Charles Dickens:
The old writers of history relate how that Canute was one day disgusted with his courtiers for their flattery, and how he caused his chair to be set on the sea-shore, and feigned to command the tide as it came up not to wet the edge of his robe, for the land was his; how the tide came up, of course, without regarding him; and how he then turned to his flatterers, and rebuked them, saying, what was the might of any earthly king, to the might of the Creator, who could say unto the sea, "Thus far shalt thou go, and no further!"
and the Ladybird book:
Brenda Ralph Lewis (1954). Kings and Queens of England Book 1. Illustrated by John Leigh-Pemberton and Peter Robinson.
I don't want to give the impression that everyone in the early modern period was incapable of basic scholarship. The historians I selected above were those that contributed to the game of whispers, but contrast them with John Milton:
I must not omit one remarkable action done by him, as Huntingdon reports it, with great scene of circumstance and emphatical expression, to show the small power of kings in respect of God; which, unless to court-parasites, needed no such laborious demonstration. He caused his royal seat to be set on the shore, while the tide was coming in; and with all the state that royalty could put into his countenance, said thus to the sea; "Thou, sea, belongest to me, and the land whereon I sit, is mine; nor hath any one, unpunished, resisted my commands; I charge thee come no farther upon my land, neither presume to wet the feet of thy sovereign lord." But the sea, as before, came rolling-on, and, without reverence, both wetted and dashed him. Whereat the king quickly rising "wished all about him to behold and consider the weak and frivolous power of a king, and that none indeed deserved the name of a king, but he whose eternal laws both Heaven, earth, and sea obey." A truth so evident of itself, as I said before, that, unless to shame his court-flatterers, who would not else be convinced, Canute needed not to have gone wet-shod home.
John Milton (1670). The History of Britain.
You'll see that Milton managed to correctly reference his source, accurately quote it, and separate his own commentary from it. Would that all historians had done so!
Gareth ReesGareth Rees
Great answer! On first reading, I interpreted Gaimar's story as ascribing Cnut's motive to pride, and anger at those who disobeyed him (going directly from "few who dared to disobey him [...] his command despised" to the tide story), but it could equally well be leaving the motive unwritten, if "his command despised" refers to the tide incident itself rather than his subjects. – Rand al'Thor Mar 24 '19 at 15:57
One question: is anything more known about Concordantiis Historiarum, such as an approximate date? Is it possible that this now-lost version might have derived from Gaimar's instead of HoH's? – Rand al'Thor Mar 24 '19 at 15:58
@Randal'Thor: The command that Cnut gives to the tide is the only command in the passage, so surely this is one that was disobeyed. But the ambiguity shows how easy it was for later historians to confuse post hoc with propter hoc. – Gareth Rees Mar 24 '19 at 16:17
Nothing is known about Concordantiis Historiarum Angliae other than the handful of facts preserved in Rudburn. We only know that it was written by someone from Winchester because Rudburn says so: Ipse enim Auctor multa scribit de Ecclesia Wyntoniensi, in qua quondam nutritus erat. The concordance said that the story happened at Southampton, whereas Gaimar said it happened at Westminster, so it is unlikely that one derived from the other. – Gareth Rees Mar 24 '19 at 16:23
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Тайсун-хан (Тохта-Буга) (1416—1453) — великий хан Монгольской империи из династии Северная Юань (1433—1453), старший сын Аджая-тайджи (1399-14??), младшего сына монгольского хана Элбэга.

Биография
После смерти своего отца Аджая-тайджи Тохта-Буга вместе с младшими братьями скитался по Монголии, где встретился с Тогон-тайшой, вождем ойратского племенного союза. Тогон-тайша выдал свою дочь замуж за Тохта-Бугу.

В 1433 году Тогон-тайша провозгласил своего зятя Тохту-Буга ханом Монгольской империи под именем Тайсун-хана. В 1438 году Тайсун-хан вместе со своим братом Агбарджином захватил в плен и умертвил своего соперника Адай-хана, правившего в Восточной Монголии. Став единоличным ханом, Тайсун-хан провозгласил своего младшего брата Агбарджина джинонгом, то есть наследником ханского престола. Однако фактической властью обладал ойратский лидер Тогон-тайши, тесть Тайсун-хана.

Тайсун-хан вначале пытался продолжать сопротивление ойратам, но уже в 1439 году вынужден был примириться с ними. По мирному соглашению трон хагана остался за Тайсуном, но реальная власть над всей страной перешла к Тогону; тот собрался было присвоить себе и трон хагана, но неожиданно умер (1439 год). В роли реального правителя страны ему наследовал его старший сын Эсэн (1440 год), номинальным хаганом оставался Тайсун, женатый на сестре Эсэна. Эсэн правил страной твердой рукой. В 1440-х годах он обрушился с опустошительными набегами на токмокских кыргызов, многие их роды в страхе покинули свою страну и откочевали во владения ханов Моголистана, на Тянь-Шань. Тогда же Эсэн вернул княжество Хами, которое освободилось в 1425 году. В 1445 году три урянхайских округа в Маньчжурии, отложившиеся было к Минской империи в 1389 году, признали верховную власть Эсэна. Летом 1449 года. Эсэн-тайши во главе 20-тысячной монголо-ойратской армии двинулся войной на Китай, 1 сентября разгромил 500-тысячную китайскую армию в битве при Туму и даже захватил в плен минского императора Чжу Цичжэня, однако закрепиться в Китае не смог. Монголо-ойратские войска осадили Пекин и сорок дней разоряли столичные окрестности. Однако китайские войска смогли отразить все вражеские атаки и вынудили Эсэна отступить в степи. В 1450 году Эсэн выпустил пленного императора Чжу Цичжэня и начал переговоры о мире. Затем Эсэн-тайши потребовал, чтобы Тайсун признал своим наследником своего сына от сестры Эсэна, но тот отказался.

В 1451 году между Тайсун-ханом и Эсэнем началась открытая междоусобица. Эсэн-тайши сговорился с младшим братом Тайсун-хана, джинонгом Намбарчи Агбарджином, пообещав ему ханский престол. В 1453 году Эсэн и Агбарджин осадили Каракорум, где находилась резиденция Тайсун-хана. Большинство восточно-монгольских князей перешло на сторону Эсэна. Ханские войска потерпели поражение от ойратов. Тайсун-хан с немногочисленными приверженцами бежал на Керулен и там был убит.

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 Сайт «Восточная литература». Монгольские источники о Даян-хане

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This morning we got an HD look at the Tommy Wiseau-starring video for Wicked Poseur's "Hideous Things". The simple production, with the star of cult-hit The Room turning into a werewolf over the course of the two-minute song, was directed by Funwunce director Rick Darge and Mark Armes. Armes previously made that stellar video for LCD Soundsystem's "Home" which wowed the now-defunct group and got the production team some great notices.
The song can be found on WP's self-titled seven-inch (har har) which is available at most fine indie record stores around Houston at the moment. We talked to Armes, who now makes his home in California, about the video, Wiseau, and the makeup job.
Wicked Poseur - Hideous Thing from FUNWUNCE on Vimeo.
Rocks Off: Where and when did you make the video?
RO: How did Funwunce get to know Tommy?
MA: Wiseau and Funwunce vacation to his home planet on weekend getaways every other month. Last time we were in his ship, we threw on some Wicked Poseur and he fell in love with it. He really identified with the song and with a laser gun to our heads, he forced us to make the video.
RO: How did Tommy respond to the wolf makeup?
RO: What's Funwunce up to in the next year?
MA: Lots of stuff is planned for Funwunce headed into 2012. Notably our first feature film and our new web series. As always though, I'm sure we will sprinkle a hearty dose of dumb music videos in with all the serious work we have to do.


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← OHA speakers say transform health before it gets cut
Worth repeating: We can do better — Matthews →
Matthews bows out of leadership race, focus instead on health care "transitions"
Health Minister Deb Matthews says she is not seeking the Ontario Liberal leadership.
Matthews made the formal announcement at the Ontario Hospital Association HealthAchieve this morning, ending weeks of speculation.
Noting how rare it was for a health minister to be addressing her fourth OHA HealthAchieve, Matthews said she wanted to remain on as Health Minister.
Many believed that the entrance of Kathleen Wynne into the leadership contest meant that Deb Matthews would stay out.
She told the half-filled hall that the next step in "Matthews hierarchy of health care needs" is to work on transitions of care so that nobody falls between the cracks.
The health minister drew a metaphor between the present health system and a relay running team. Relay runners practice both speed and handoff of the baton.
In recent years health care providers had improved speed, she said, but we need to do better on the passing of the baton. She specifically noted there should be a brief time when two hands are on the baton.
Matthews acknowledged that there was innovation taking place in the system, including a new patient monitoring system at the Ajax-Pickering site of the Rouge Valley Health System. In that ER, patients are given devices that allow the hospital to track them in real time. Not only does the hospital know how long patients have been waiting, but where they are located within the ER. She said the results have made a significant difference in emergency waits at Rouge.
The Health Minister also highlighted a program in her home town of London where the hospital was working on a project to move ventilator patients out of the ICU and into more humane community-based settings.
She also applauded St. Joseph's Healthcare in Hamilton for developing a single phone line for patients with lung cancer, COPD, or joint replacements. Instead of making patients figure out their pathway, the hospital was doing it for them. The endeavor at St. Joseph's was also reducing paperwork so that home care nurses could spend more time with their patients.
Matthews acknowledged there was much work left to do. While our health system compared favourably to the United States, comparisons were less favourable against other nations.
The health minister says we are still spending our money on the wrong things.
She noted that access to primary care, while more widely available under her watch, was still delayed. Half of Ontarians can get same day or next day appointments with their primary care provider compared to 80 per cent in the UK or Switzerland.
The lack of alternatives means that Canada leads the pack in the number of ER visits and delays to see a specialist.
Half of Ontarians don't get specific instructions upon hospital discharge.
"These are system problems," she said, "not the problems of people who work in the system."
Matthews also set the stage for the province's Seniors Strategy, which has been made the responsibility of Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Geriatrics at Mt. Sinai Hospital and the University Health Network. She says it is not only up to Sinha to develop the strategy, but also to implement it. The Seniors' Strategy report is expected this fall, which Sinha himself reminds us goes to December 20.
The Ministry also plans to put out a "call" for innovative projects.
"Our new motto is if it's better for patients and better value for money, then yes we can," she said.
She also announced that a new associate deputy minister has been appointed to "drive transformation."
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Davis, C.A.; Jones, S.C.; Anwender, D.; Badey, J.; Scheck, L.
Three cases of mesoscale marine cyclogenesis over the subtropics of the Western Pacific Ocean are investigated. Each case occurred during the THORPEX Pacific Asia Regional Campaign and Tropical Cyclone Structure (TCS-08) field phases in 2008. Each cyclone developed from remnants of disturbances that earlier showed potential for tropical cyclogenesis within the tropics. Two of the cyclones produced gale-force surface winds, and one, designated as a tropical cyclone, resulted in a significant coastal storm over eastern Japan. Development was initiated by a burst of organized mesoscale convection that consolidated and intensified the surface cyclonic circulation over a period of 12-24 h. Upper-tropospheric potential vorticity anomalies modulated the vertical wind shear that, in turn, influenced the periods of cyclone intensification and weakening. Weak baroclinicity associated with vertical shear was also deemed important in organizing mesoscale ascent and the convection outbreaks. The remnant tropical disturbances contributed exceptional water vapour content to higher latitudes that led to strong diabatic heating, and the tropical rem ... mehrnants contributed vorticity that was the seed of the development in the subtropics. Predictability of these events more than three days in advance appears to be minimal.


Today it is my stop on the Girl Hearts Girl by Lucy Sutcliffe Blog Tour and I am delighted to be able to share my review of this brilliant memoir with you. All the other stops on the tour are listed below so do check them out.
Lucy Sutcliff if you didn't already know is part of Youtube sensation Kaelyn and Lucy and Girl Hearts Girl is Lucy's story.
Girl Hearts Girl is Lucy Sutcliff's true story of growing up and accepting who she is and her sexuality and it really touched my emotions. Although I have not had all of the same struggles as Lucy a lot of her growing up story really resonated with me. There was the bullying from other kids at school and boys calling her ugly- I had that said to my face three times at school and even all these years later I can remember who said them and where. I brush it off now, but I keenly felt Lucy's pain with this.
This got to me in more ways than I thought it would. Such an inspiring story whether you are part of the LGBT community or not. I felt completely uplifted whilst reading. I particularly fell in love with Lucy and Kaelyn's love story. Now that is true love if I ever did hear of. I think that in itself would have made a beautiful story.
Although I of course have the utmost respect for those in the LGBT community, I will never fully grasp 100% of the prejudice that this community face, as I do not face it myself, but that's where Lucy's story comes in. She gives us an inside point of view of the daily struggles and judgements faced and I found it pretty heartwrenching. When you are not going through something yourself, you think these things don't happen that often, but when you are in that persons shoes then you truly realise why it is so important to have Gay Pride and for the need for it to be openly talked about. We may be in the 21st century but as Lucy says in this, there are still so many countries where you can be killed and arrested for feeling the way you do and this makes me so sad. That said though what Lucy and Kaelyn have done and are doing for the community is amazing. Lucy's memoir also shows you that despite your worries, it's the people closest to you that will be there for you and help you come through.
If you ever have any doubts or are worried about anything I really recommend you read her memoir. I came away feeling happy and uplifted.
Hi Laura. Great review -this sounds like just the book I need to read. This is part of my entry for the #GirlHeartsGirl blog tour competition and I really hope I win this book!


If you have started exploring submarkets on football betting, then you will have come across a whole host of fascinating bets. These bets provide some good alternative to fixed odds outright one, and one of the most popular of these sub market bets is the Over/Under. What is the Over/Under? Well, normally for football betting, you will see the Over/Under bet being mainly employed on the amount of goals in a match. For example, the standard for this is the Over/Under 2.5 goals in a match. Go to that market and all you have to do is decide whether or not the game in question is going to have more or less than 2.5 goals. The prices are not going to vary too much between the two options, but they are still worth looking at and playing. Whichever way you go in your betting strategy, you will need the game to back you up on the day,. If you go Under 2.5 goals, then you want to see no goals, one or two in the match (it doesn't matter who scores them, it's just the total in the match). This is by no means limited to Over/Under 2.5 goals, as browsing through your online bookmaker, you will probably see alternative values being presented, such as Over/Under 3.5, Over/Under 1.5 and the prices will vary in relation to the teams playing in the match, and the amount of goals set in the market.
So why the half goal values? Bookmakers have to use a half goal as a kind of tiebreaker when they set the Over/Under limit. As a player on the pitch is never going to score half a goal, it is a way of giving a definitive outcome on the betting market. If it was just Over/Under 2 Goals for example, then if the total in the match was two goals, then the market selection would be void. The half goal simply avoids the outcome of that happening on the Over/Under market. So, for an Over 2.5 goals bet to win, you need the teams to hit three goals. The bookmaker sets the target value, and you as the punter have to decide whether to go under or over, it is as simple as that. If you take a good look around the markets, then you will see that the Over/Under bets are just limited to the total match goals either. There are all sorts of other markets in this category, and it will depend on your bookmaker as to which will be presented of course. For example, there may be an Over/Under on the number of corners in a match. There may be an Over/Under on the total of the player's shirt numbers in the match. There may be an Over/Under on the amount of yellow cards shown in the match. When you really start shopping around, there are some very interesting, and fun markets to explore. Over/Unders are not going to bring you extensive odds, primarily because there is a 50/50 chance of the result being right. However, they are a nice way to accentuate your football betting, and it is a market which is worth shopping around in.


Antonio Neto (seen here with his family, VinB trustees and friends from Manchester & Slovakia) is a fish farming pioneer in the region of Cristino Castro.
Antonio took a big risk and invested what he had in a bore well and fish pond.
Since his initial investment over seven years ago Antonio says that he has learned a great deal and if he were to start a again he would go about things very differently. Antonio took the opportunity to go on a fish breeding course delivered at the local Agricultural College: "Now I know how to improve production" say Antonio and he has asked VinB to provide him with a micro loan to make those improvements.
Fish farming provides a vital source of income and nutrition for local people.


it is an elegant venue which provides personal care, beautiful decor with the best ambiance and a modern spacious banquet hall. We have a strong base to satisfy your guest.
Arya Samaj Mandir is a nice place for hosting your wedding functions in Kolkata. Guaranteed to make even simple celebration stand out from the rest, it is the go-to place for marriage ceremonies, It has the best ambiance with modern and spacious Banquet Hall to celebrate important and glorious events.


Earlier this week, the drainages of the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers got a deluged by rain and were hit with historic floods. I got back from a tour of Roscoe and Livingston Manor area just a few minutes ago, and thought I would share some of the images. Please keep a good thought in mind for those affected by this disaster.
This is the road on the way to the Junction Pool. Actually, I'm standing just above the bridge over the upper Beaverkill looking back toward town. The motel would be to my left.
I tiny tributary of the Willowemoc just upstream from the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum had a horrific flood and washed over the road. Here's some of the debris left behind.
A section of the wall at Painter's Bend got washed away.
Every campsite along the river looks like this, with campers pulled up to the roads to avoid more flood damage.
A road sign that got washed into the river at Horton.
Damage like this to the banks of the river is common up and down the Beaverkill. This one is just upstream from the pool at Horton.
Downtown Livingston Manor looks more like a dusty desert village today, with the sand and leftover junk from the flood all over the roads.
This is a typical roadside where the flooding was the worst in Livingston Manor.
What a horrible thing - to see photos of some of our favourite spots damaged almost beyond recognition is very disturbing. My deepest sympathies to those affected by the flooding.


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Duecentoquindici (215) è il numero naturale dopo il 214 e prima del 216.

Proprietà matematiche
 È un numero dispari.
 È un numero composto da 4 divisori: 1, 5, 43, 215. Poiché la somma dei suoi divisori (escluso il numero stesso) è 49 < 215, è un numero difettivo.
 È un numero semiprimo.
 Può essere espresso in due modi diversi come differenza di due quadrati: .
 È un numero 23-gonale.
 È un numero malvagio.
 È il secondo più piccolo numero, dopo il 5, tale che  è il doppio di un quadrato: .
 È un numero palindromo nel sistema di numerazione posizionale a base 4 (3113) e a base 6 (555). In quest'ultima base è altresì un numero a cifra ripetuta.

Ci sono 215 sequenze di quattro interi, contando come distinte i vari riarrangiamenti, tali che la somma dei loro reciproci valga 1. Esse sono:
24 disposizioni di (2,3,7,42), (2,3,8,24), (2,3,9,18), (2,3,10,15), (2,4,5,20) e (2,4,6,12).
12 disposizioni di (3,3,4,12), (3,4,4,6), (2,3,12,12), (2,4,8,8) e (2,5,5,10).
6 disposizioni di (3,3,6,6).
4 disposizioni di (2,6,6,6).
1 disposizione di (4,4,4,4).
 È parte delle terne pitagoriche (129, 172, 215), (215, 516, 559), (215, 912, 937), (215, 4620, 4625), (215, 23112, 23113).
 È un numero congruente.

Astronomia
 215P/NEAT è una cometa periodica del sistema solare.
 215 Oenone è un asteroide della fascia principale del sistema solare.
 NGC 215 è una galassia lenticolare della costellazione della Fenice.

Astronautica
 Cosmos 215 è un satellite artificiale russo.

Altri ambiti
 L'additivo alimentare E215 è il sodio etilparaben.

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