Manassas, VA – Veteran Southern Baptist communicator James A. Smith Sr. has been named Vice President of Communications of the National Religious Broadcasters, NRB President & CEO Dr. Jerry A. Johnson announced today.
"Since NRB is a media association, building a first-class communications team must be our highest priority," Johnson said. "Jim Smith's proven track record as a media leader makes him the right man, at the right time, for all the right reasons."
Smith, who will begin duties with NRB on March 1, has been Executive Editor and Chief Spokesman of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY, since June 2013, having previously served at the seminary, 1997-2001. Before returning to Southern Seminary, he was Executive Editor of Florida Baptist Witness, 2001-2013.
In his role with NRB, which is a new position for the organization, Smith will lead all communications functions of the historic evangelical organization that is based in the Washington, DC-area. NRB's mission is to advance biblical truth, promote media excellence, and defend free speech. Founded in 1944 by 150 radio broadcasters, the network today has more than 1,200 members with a weekly, cumulative listenership/readership of more than 60 million, covering the full range of communications platforms.
Southern Seminary President Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. commended NRB on the appointment.
Smith expressed appreciation for his time at Southern Seminary.
During both terms of service at Southern, Smith oversaw the editorial content of the seminary's publications, supervised the seminary's news operation, and led public and media relations.
In Smith's 12 years at Florida Baptist Witness, the official newspaper of the Florida Baptist State Convention, he emphasized coverage on missions, theology, and moral concerns. His editorials took a strong, conservative position on issues within the denomination and in the broader culture.
In 2011-2012, he served as President of the Association of State Baptist Publications, the fellowship of Southern Baptist newspaper editors.
Previously, Smith worked in public relations at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, MO. Also, he was the first Washington, DC, staff member of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, serving 1989-1995. After graduating college, Smith was Director of Communications for the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1987-1989.
An ordained Southern Baptist minister who has served also in pastoral ministry, Smith, 51, earned a master of divinity degree from Southern Seminary in 1999 and holds a bachelors degree from Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, TX. He and his wife, Linda, are parents to two adult children, James Andrew Smith, Jr., and Lauren Garner, and the proud grandparents of Benjamin and Stella Garner.
Thousands of Christian media and ministry professionals will gather February 23-26 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville for Proclaim 16: NRB International Christian Media Convention, the organization's annual gathering, to make strategic connections, to acquire new resources, and to discover the latest tips, trends, and insights in their respective fields of work.


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Nest Mini, Pixelbook Go, and more: Everything Google announced at the Pixel 4 event
By Mark Jansen	 October 15, 2019 9:35AM PST
If you're tuning in to try and watch Google's Pixel 4 Made by Google event in full, well, you're too late. The event has come and gone in a momentary blink of an eye, with Google introducing us to the Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, Pixel Buds 2, new Nest Home Mini, Google Stadia's release date, and more, all within a single hour. It was an impressive feat, and one we're not likely to forget for some time — though we didn't see the Pixel Watch we were looking for.
Don't worry if you missed all of the news unfolding live, because we've covered it all in detail. Here's where you'll find all of the big new devices Google announced at the Pixel 4 Made by Google event, as well as links to articles where you can learn more about all of Google's latest and greatest.
The Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL
Google's teased us with sneaky renders and leaks abound, and when time came to finally reveal the new Pixel 4 range, it didn't disappoint.
It's fair to say the new design is likely to garner a lot of attention. Dominated by a square camera module on the back, the new look is unlike any other Pixel we've ever seen. Gone is the two-tone design that has defined the Pixel range since its inception, replaced with the "Pixel square" — the square camera module on the back.
There's no fingerprint sensor around the back, and it's not in the display either — that's because Google has followed Apple's example and added advanced facial recognition to the Pixel 4. Google boasts its facial recognition is the fastest method around right now, and that's because it's powered by Google's Project Soli chip. It's essentially radar, and it can also be used to control your Pixel 4 with hand gestures — so you'll be able to wave a hand to skip songs or decline a call.
The Pixel 4's display is pretty special. It's been awarded a top A+ rating by DisplayMate, while also packing a 90Hz refresh rate. Display size and resolution are some of the few things that separate the two phones, with the Pixel 4 XL's 6.2-inch feeling substantially larger than the Pixel 4's 5.7-inch screen. It's the same display tech though, so you'll benefit from the stunningly smooth 90Hz refresh rate and sumptuous vibrancy of an OLED panel on both.
The camera has been given a huge upgrade, too. Google has added another lens to the Pixel 4, bringing a 2-times telephoto lens to accompany its standard 12-megapixel lens. That telephoto lens works with Google's Super Res Zoom to create a zoom function that's particularly impressive. Google's HDR+ is getting an upgrade, and the Pixel 4 will use machine learning to ensure what you see in the viewfinder is what you'll get from HDR+ — something that's never been possible before. Portrait mode will also now be able to be used on larger objects, and subjects that are farther away.
There's also a new astrophotography mode that uses multiple exposures to take long exposures of the sky for some truly stunning shots. Machine learning will be used to ensure each shot looks amazing — and Google has promised further updates to the mode to tackle extreme lighting differences. However, the phone will not come equipped with free full-resolution Google Photo storage.
The Google Pixel 4 is available for pre-order today, and will release on October 24. The 64GB version of the Pixel 4 will start from $799, with a 128GB option available for $899. The 64GB Pixel 4 XL will start from $899, with the option for 128GB for $999.
Pixel 4 hands-on review
New Google Assistant and Recorder app
Complementing the new Pixel 4 is the new Google Assistant. Everyone's favorite A.I. isn't just about telling you the temperature any more — it can control your phone too. We watched as the Google Assistant was used to open a specific Twitter page, look up concert dates, and share that information with a friend. Interestingly, it didn't even need a wake word for continued conversation, and it's clear Google has been improving the way the Assistant recognizes when its being spoken to.
There's also a new Recorder app, which wouldn't normally be newsworthy information. But it's not just any recording app — it automatically transcribes speech while recording, and adds all of that data to a searchable database, allowing you to dive into a recording from a specific point. Best of all, all of that happens without sending data to the cloud.
Read more about Google Assistant 2.0
The Nest Home range
Say hello to the new Nest Mini. It looks — er — just like the old Google Home Mini.
But it would be cheeky to pretend nothing has changed. There's now a wall mount so you can attach it to vertical surfaces. The speaker system has been tweaked, adding a third microphone and bass that is two times stronger. There's also a dedicated processor, so the Nest Mini will no longer need to send data to the cloud for processing — speeding up response time significantly. But the biggest change has to be what it's made of. It's still made of plastic, but that plastic now comes exclusively from recycled bottles.
That wasn't all though, and Google also unveiled a new Nest Wi-Fi system. The new system is a departure from the older one, and now comprises a Nest Wi-Fi home station and a series of signal-bouncing "points" — which also function as smart speakers. With a sleek design, it's intended to be kept out in the open, not cooped up inside a cupboard.
Google also updated Nest Aware with a subscription service for $6 per month. This new service allows you to keep a close eye on your home, and will alert you if a speaker hears something out of the ordinary — like a smoke alarm — or if a camera spots something odd.
The new Nest Mini is available for pre-order from today in 23 countries, will launch on October 22, and will cost just $49. Nest Wi-Fi goes on sale on November 4. A two-pack sells for $269, while the three-pack sells for $349.
Read more about the Nest Mini and Nest WiFi
Pixelbook Go
Google's premium Chromebook, the Pixelbook, was the elite way to access Chrome OS. Now, it's finally got a successor in the $649 Pixelbook Go.
There are differences between the Pixelbook Go and its predecessor. The Go has a more traditional clamshell form factor, whereas the original Pixelbook was a 2-in-1 — but it's clear the same spirit rules here. The Go is just 13mm thick and weighs barely 2 pounds — and to make sure it doesn't float away, the super-light magnesium shell has a rugged, rippled rubber on the bottom. The keys are Google's new "hush keys," and the device sports a USB-C charging port and — mercy be — a headphone jack.
The basic version of the Pixelbook Go starts with a dual-core Intel Core m3 processor, but can be upgraded to a Core i5 or Core i7. It also has 8GB of RAM as standard (upgradable to 16GB), and 64GB of storage (upgradable to 256GB). Battery life is a particular focus for Google, and it claims the Go will last for up to 12 hours on a single charge, and two hours of battery life after just 20 minutes of charging.
The Pixelbook Go will be available from just $649, and is currently available for pre-order. It's available in Just Black and Not Pink.
Pixelbook Go hands-on review
Pixel Buds 2
It's about time — Google is taking Apple AirPods on with a pair of truly wireless earphones, the Pixel Buds 2.
The new design takes away the old wire connecting the two buds, and shrinks the entire package down to the point where the Pixel Buds 2 sit flush with your ear. Directional microphones make sure you can be heard both on the phone and while using the Google Assistant — which no longer needs to be tapped to be used.
The new Pixel Buds boast boosted signal strength, with a Bluetooth connection that can be used from across a football field — though we're not sure you should be listening to your "Best of Disney" playlist while on the pitch. The battery life has been improved, too. The Pixel Buds have a 5-hour battery life, with up to 24 hours available when paired with the charging case.
The Pixel Buds will be available in early 2020 for $179. See how they compare to the older model.
Read more about the Pixel Buds 2
Google Stadia Cloud Gaming
Google kicked off the event by talking about ambient computing — but the big news was the reveal of a release date for Google Stadia. Starting November 19, you'll be able to try out Google's vision of cloud gaming from a number of Google devices. These include the Google Pixel, which was confirmed to be the first phone to support Google Stadia. It was unclear whether this reference was to just the Google Pixel 4, or included previous Pixels as well.
The Google Stadia controller also got some screen time. Google went back to basics when designing the controller, searching far and wide to find inspiration for it. Finally, it found what it was looking for — the humble round handle you'll find on a professional kitchen knife. We'll have to see how it feels when we try it out.
Read more about Google Stadia
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The best iPhone XS Max cases and covers
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La Sierra de Gomas es una montaña en los municipios de Bustamante, Villaldama, Salinas Victoria, Mina; estado de Nuevo León, México. La cumbre alcanza los 2,212 metros sobre el nivel del mar, con 1,510 metros de prominencia. El pico Cabeza de León esta representado en el escudo municipal de Bustamante. La montaña forma parte de la Sierra Madre Oriental. La cresta tiene aproximadamente 45 km de largo con orientación de nornoroeste a sursureste. La montaña está rodeada por la Sierra Morena, el Cañón de San Lorenzo, el Valle de Boca de Leones (Villaldama), la Sierra de Milpillas, la Sierra de Minas Viejas, la Sierra de Enmedio y las llanuras del municipio de Mina.

Características

Climatología
Los climas en la región son semiárido cálido (BSh) y semiárido frío (BSk).

Flora
El ecosistema en la mayor parte del área es matorral xerófilo con los tipos de vegetación Matorral desértico rosetófilo, Matorral submontano y Bosque de encino. Están presentes especies como:

 Gobernadora Larrea tridentata
 Cenizos Leucophyllum sp.
 Magueyes Agave sp.
 Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens
 Biznaga Ariocarpus trigonus
 Chautle Ariocarpus retusus
 Falsos Peyotes Astrophytum sp.
 Biznaga Blanca Chilona Epithelantha micromeris
 Biznaguitas Neolloydia sp.
 Tasajillos Peniocereus sp.
 Cactus Wilcoxia sp.

Fauna
 Puma Puma concolor
 Pecarí de Collar Pecarit ajacu
 Zorra Gris Urocyon cinereoargenteus
 Coyote Canis latrans
 Rata cambalachera Neotoma albigula
 Ratón Tobillo Blanco Peromyscus pectoralis
 Murciélago Cola Suelta Brasileño Tadarida brasiliensis
 Murciélago Trompudo Choeronycteris mexicana (Amenazada)
 Murciélago Magueyero Mayor Leptonycter isnivalis (Amenazada)
 Ardilla Zorro Sciuru sniger
 Venado de Cola Blanca Odocoileus virginianus
 Musaraña de Sierra del Carmen Sorex milleri (Sujeta a protección especial)
 Pipistrelo del Oeste Americano Pipistrellus hesperus
 Calandria Dorso Negro Menor Icterus cucullatus
 Zacatonero Garganta Negra Amphispiza bilineata
 Centzontle Norteño Mimus polyglottos
 Cardenal Desértico Cardinalis sinuatus
 Carbonero Cresta Negra Baeolophus atricristatus
 Cardenal Rojo Cardinalis cardinalis
 Colorín Morado Passerina versicolor
 Papamoscas Cenizo Myiarchus cinerascens
 Papamoscas Fibí Sayorni sphoebe
 Aguililla de Swainson Buteos wainsoni (Sujeta a protección)
 Lagartija de Collar del Altiplano Crotaphytus collaris (Amenazada)
 Lagartija Espinosa del Noreste Sceloporus olivaceus
 Lagartija Espinosa de Couch Sceloporus couchii
 Lagartija Espinosa Azul Sceloporus cyanogenys
 Lagartija Espinosa del Mezquite Sceloporus grammicus (Sujeta a protección especial)
 Lagartija Espinosa de Las Cercas Sceloporus cowlesi
 Lagartija Espinosa de Cañón Sceloporus merriami
 Huico Marmoleado Aspidoscelis marmorata
 Huico Pinto del Noreste Aspidoscelis gularis
 Alicantes Pituophis catenifer
 Tortuga del Desierto de Tamaulipas Gopherus berlandieri (Amenazada)
 Tortuga Pecho Quebrado Amarilla Kinosternon flavescens
 Cascabel de Diamantes Crotalus atrox (Sujeta a protección especial)
 Culebra de Nariz Larga Rhinocheilus lecontei

Edafología
Predomina el Leptosol lítico y también se encuentra Calcisol pétrico.

Historia
En 1906 Juan Gómez Cázares, un campesino de Bustamante; mientras buscaba palmito, encontró la entrada a una cueva, y al explorar se encontró con que había varias galerías, que se llegaron a conocer como Grutas del Palmito y actualmente son mejor conocidas como Grutas de Bustamante.

El 21 de enero de 2017 falleció el empresario y filántropo Fernando Maiz Garza al desplomarse el helicóptero en el que se trasladaba en la Sierra de Gomas. También murió el piloto Macario Beltrán. Ese día se registraron fuertes vientos en la región.

El 4 de octubre de 2016 una avioneta Cessna 206H piloteada por Gustavo Montes de Oca y que llevaba al pasajero Héctor Ramírez, despegó del Aeropuerto Internacional del Norte y se esperaba que regresara al mismo aeropuerto, después de algunas horas se perdió contacto con la aeronave. Después de una intensa búsqueda los restos de la aeronave fueron localizados en la Sierra de Gomas a 2,070 msnm, en límites de Salinas Victoria con Villaldama. Por las características del terreno se descartó realizar rescate de los cuerpos.

En julio de 2018, La Asociación Civil Mundo Sustentable presentó el documento «Estudio Técnico Justificativo para la declaratoria de la Sierra de Bustamante, como Monumento Natural Estatal en el municipio de Bustamante Nuevo León». con la intención de promover la declaratoria de la Sierra de Bustamante como área natural protegida del tipo «Monumento Natural Estatal». Este documento usa la delimitación de la Región Terrestre Prioritaria Sierra de Bustamante «RTP-77», que incluye la Sierra de Gomas, la Sierra Morena, el Cerro La Ventana, el Cerro Boludo y el valle que queda entre estas montañas; en los municipios de Bustamante, Lampazos, Mina, Salinas Victoria, Villaldama y Candela; este último en el estado de Coahuila.

El 2 de agosto de 2018, Protección Civil de Nuevo León reportó un incendio forestal en el Ejido «El Potrero» en la Sierra de Gomas, en el municipio de Villaldama. Un helicóptero participó en las labores para sofocar el incendio que duró varios días y consumió al menos 20 hectáreas de matorral bajo y hojarasca.

Deportes de Montaña
Las características de la sierra la permiten la práctica del senderismo, montañismo, ciclismo de montaña, espeleísmo y carrera de montaña; aunque, se cree que esta sierra aún no ha sido explorada completamente. El Pico Cabeza de León y el Pico Herlinda son las rutas de montañismo más conocidas en esta montaña.

Véase también
 Sierra los Toros
 Sierra del Fraile
 Cerro de Santa Catarina
 Anexo:Montañas de Nuevo León
 Cerro La Mota Grande

Enlaces externos
Observaciones Naturalista RTP 077 Sierra de Bustamante

Referencias

Sierras de la Sierra Madre Oriental
Montañas del estado de Nuevo León

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Five years is a long time. Ukrainian PresidentViktor Yanukovych can surprise his harshest domestic political critics, along with concerned diaspora communities, by decisively leading Ukraine along the path of meaningful political, economic and social reforms. At the very least this path would place him as a good leader who understands his task is to serve the public rather than be served.
Conversely, Yanukovych can simply demonstrate governing incompetence with a continuation of rent-seeking in a corrupt social and political system and further demoralize a frustrated nation. Already, some of his actions have raised alarms such as the political maneuvers with the judiciary and dubious cabinet appointments of individuals whose main traits seem to be a phobia against anything Ukrainian.
Outside of recent remarks by the White House welcoming Ukraine's relinquishing of enriched uranium, the world press has been generally non-judgmental or perhaps uninterested in his first months in office. One suspects the global community holds the Ukrainian president to a low performance standard – simply ensure the uninterrupted transit of Russian energy. This interlude is likely to be of short duration; Yanukovych by design or accident will test the fibers of Ukraine's Orange Revolution legacy and its national maturity.
Hopefully, Ukraine has sufficiently evolved both politically and socially that backsliding to authoritarian government or worse yet quasi-sovereign existence is remote. For all its warts, modern Ukrainian society is surprisingly open without the xenophobic restrictions characterizing Russia. The acceptance of Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists and a dizzying array of other religious confessions together with a spectrum of political outlooks speaks to the strength of plurality in Ukrainian society.
The genie has come out and will not readily return to the lamp no matter what the formal posture of the head of state. Ukraine has nearly 20 years of independence, an unmatched experience in its modern history. Many officers in the military and government officials have no experience with Soviet rule. A typical military career lasts some 20 years. Hence, all current junior and many senior military personnel, including the overwhelming majority of enlisted cadre, have never served in the Soviet armed forces.
Their government counterparts look to Kyiv for advancement and not Moscow. An efficiently functioning Ukrainian state for the purposes of retirement benefits, continued opportunities or the ability to travel easily throughout the world is clearly in their interest regardless of political leaning. Whether they know this or not, their interests are very different from octogenarian and veterans of World War II who periodically emerge to wax nostalgic for the past. All government bureaucrats who have helped establish the Ukrainian state over the past two decades understand where their interests lie. They need only recall Germany's reunification, where all Eastern Germany officers above the rank of captain were released and most communist officials were unceremoniously jettisoned. The protection of self-interest would suggest that there are very defined limits in the thaw with Russia as they might affect sovereignty.
The philosophic contest in Ukraine is over its character. Intelligent people understand the blue and yellow flag, the Truzub or Ukrainian language do not by themselves alleviate poverty, deliver the mail, make the trains run on time or promote ethical behavior, but at the same time they encompass the centuries old spiritual and cultural reservoirs of the country. These are assets that have sustained the nation despite being split over the centuries by different occupying powers, enduring wars and revolutions and suffering the calamity of The Holodomor. It is remarkable how quickly people who had reviled the Tryzub or the blue-yellow flag during the Soviet era had little problem wearing "nationalist" symbols in the new order.
Former Soviet border guards and customs personnel who zealously searched luggage for banned literature or symbols of any Ukrainian identity sported the same emblems worn by Ukrainian Insurgent Army (known by the UPA acronym) soldiers without a wince or murmur! Their opposition to things Ukrainian may have been vocal or symbolic for public consumption but apparently never had the deep roots of conviction. Every Ukrainian president to date, including the incumbent, realized or comes to realize that the country cannot be governed as some feudal arrangement of pseudo-Ukrainian Russian speaking provinces.
Yanukovych has made his first trips abroad and he must be comparing the receptions he received in European capitals or his recent meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama against the reception in Moscow. Do Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin treat this man, who physically towers over them, as a head of state or as some regional governor? If Yanukovych garners no respect, it will be only because he comes from a circle that has no viable or remotely plausible alternative historical or cultural tradition beyond mere existence – neither truly Russian nor quite Ukrainian. Since 1991, in stark contrast to the Russian experience, four different presidents have been elected in Ukraine, each time from a different political party or faction. This process has helped to meld the legacy of a Ukrainian identity that will not wither in the face of hostile and acerbic comments from some segments of Yanukovysh's base, like the recently shameful comments and histrionics of Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnik.
Several years after Ukraine's declaration of independence, a representative of a big global concern was investigating business prospects in the agricultural sector. He made a telling remark, suggesting that outsiders at times see the picture more clearly and get to the core of an issue. He asked rhetorically, "Why do Ukrainian politicians hate their own people"? President Yanukovych, your administration will go a long way to achieving the unexpected if you simply do not hate your people. Share with them their joys, mitigate their anguish, but remember that the Ukrainian independent state has no tradition of czars – you are a servant of the people.
Larissa Kyj is a Columbia University Ph.D. who is a full professor of accounting and finance at Rowan University. Myroslaw Kyj is a Temple University Ph.D. who is a full professor of marketing at Widner University.


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		   case PRO_TK_LINE_TOO_LONG: tempstring = "PRO_TK_LINE_TOO_LONG"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CONTINUE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CONTINUE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BAD_CONTEXT: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BAD_CONTEXT"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_OUT_OF_MEMORY: tempstring = "PRO_TK_OUT_OF_MEMORY"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_COMM_ERROR: tempstring = "PRO_TK_COMM_ERROR"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NO_CHANGE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NO_CHANGE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_SUPP_PARENTS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_SUPP_PARENTS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_PICK_ABOVE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_PICK_ABOVE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_DIR: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_DIR"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_FILE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_FILE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CANT_WRITE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CANT_WRITE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_TYPE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_TYPE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_PTR: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_PTR"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_UNAV_SEC: tempstring = "PRO_TK_UNAV_SEC"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_MATRIX: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_MATRIX"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_NAME: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_NAME"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NOT_EXIST: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NOT_EXIST"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CANT_OPEN: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CANT_OPEN"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_ABORT: tempstring = "PRO_TK_ABORT"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NOT_VALID: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NOT_VALID"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INVALID_ITEM: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INVALID_ITEM"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MSG_NOT_FOUND: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MSG_NOT_FOUND"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MSG_NO_TRANS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MSG_NO_TRANS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MSG_FMT_ERROR: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MSG_FMT_ERROR"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MSG_USER_QUIT: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MSG_USER_QUIT"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MSG_TOO_LONG: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MSG_TOO_LONG"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CANT_ACCESS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CANT_ACCESS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_OBSOLETE_FUNC: tempstring = "PRO_TK_OBSOLETE_FUNC"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NO_COORD_SYSTEM: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NO_COORD_SYSTEM"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_E_AMBIGUOUS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_E_AMBIGUOUS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_E_DEADLOCK: tempstring = "PRO_TK_E_DEADLOCK"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_E_BUSY: tempstring = "PRO_TK_E_BUSY"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_E_IN_USE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_E_IN_USE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NO_LICENSE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NO_LICENSE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BSPL_UNSUITABLE_DEGREE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BSPL_UNSUITABLE_DEGREE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BSPL_NON_STD_END_KNOTS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BSPL_NON_STD_END_KNOTS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BSPL_MULTI_INNER_KNOTS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BSPL_MULTI_INNER_KNOTS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BAD_SRF_CRV: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BAD_SRF_CRV"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_EMPTY: tempstring = "PRO_TK_EMPTY"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_BAD_DIM_ATTACH: tempstring = "PRO_TK_BAD_DIM_ATTACH"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NOT_DISPLAYED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NOT_DISPLAYED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CANT_MODIFY: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CANT_MODIFY"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CHECKOUT_CONFLICT: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CHECKOUT_CONFLICT"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_SHEET: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_SHEET"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_MODEL: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_MODEL"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_PARENT: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_PARENT"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_TYPE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_TYPE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_EXPLODE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CRE_VIEW_BAD_EXPLODE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_UNATTACHED_FEATS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_UNATTACHED_FEATS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_REGEN_AGAIN: tempstring = "PRO_TK_REGEN_AGAIN"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_DWGCREATE_ERRORS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_DWGCREATE_ERRORS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_UNSUPPORTED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_UNSUPPORTED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_NO_PERMISSION: tempstring = "PRO_TK_NO_PERMISSION"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_AUTHENTICATION_FAILURE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_OUTDATED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_OUTDATED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_INCOMPLETE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_INCOMPLETE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_CHECK_OMITTED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_CHECK_OMITTED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_MAX_LIMIT_REACHED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_MAX_LIMIT_REACHED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_OUT_OF_RANGE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_OUT_OF_RANGE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_CREO_BARRED: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_CREO_BARRED"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_TOO_OLD: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_TOO_OLD"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_BAD_DATAPATH: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_BAD_DATAPATH"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_BAD_ENCODING: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_BAD_ENCODING"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_NO_LICENSE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_NO_LICENSE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_XS_CALLBACKS: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_XS_CALLBACKS"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_STARTUP_FAIL: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_STARTUP_FAIL"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_INIT_FAIL: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_INIT_FAIL"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_VERSION_MISMATCH: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_VERSION_MISMATCH"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_COMM_FAILURE: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_COMM_FAILURE"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_NEW_VERSION: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_NEW_VERSION"; break;
		   case PRO_TK_APP_UNLOCK: tempstring = "PRO_TK_APP_UNLOCK"; break;
		   default:
			   tempstring = "UNKNOWN";
		}

		return tempstring;
	}

} // END namespace isis

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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London 2012: Olympic excitement is now literally growing
Organisers mark 100 days to go by unveiling a giant set of Olympic rings, made up from over 20,000 plants at Kew Gardens
Thursday 19 April 2012, 10:26 UK
The Olympic rings at Kew Gardens will be in full bloom come the Games Photo: Locog/Getty Images
London 2012 like to boast they are Green Games – perhaps they should make that the green-fingered Games.
Perhaps to reflect the British obsession with gardening, organisers marked 100 days to go by unveiling a giant set of Olympic rings, made up from over 20,000 plants, at London's famous Kew Gardens.
The flowers were planted over a period of five days by a team of volunteers and Kew staff and consist of Pansy 'Light Blue', Viola 'Clear Yellow', Viola 'Black Delight', apple mint and Viola 'Red Blotch' plants. They will be in full flower for the summer and will be visible from the Heathrow flight path.
In addition, to celebrate the UK's role in the birth of the modern Olympic movement, a total of 40 'Coubertin Oaks' oak trees are being planted at venues around the UK.
Trees grown from acorns taken from an oak planted in 1890 during the visit of the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin, to the Wenlock Olympian Games will be planted at Kew Gardens, William Brookes School in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, the Forestry Commission's National Arboretum and 26 schools that are part of London 2012's education program.
Meanwhile, IOC president Jacques Rogge has used the 100 days to go milestone to express his confidence in organisers ahead of their final preparations.
"Organising the Olympics is a team effort and over the next hundred days, people from all walks of life and from all around the world will play their part in helping to make London 2012 a Games that will inspire a generation," he said.
"From the athletes refining their technique, to the volunteers learning about their roles, to the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame and the people supporting them as they go, each and every one of them is playing their part in making these a Games to remember.
"Around the world, the excitement is growing and expectations are high but I am confident that Britain and London will deliver a great sporting event and a warm welcome too."
Stuart Lancaster backs extension to England's tour of South Africa
Jonathan Davies could miss Wales' summer tour to Australia


Yes, there are major changes on promoted images post for Facebook. Although they won't come into force until 15th January, we wanted to give you prior warning. Facebook wants to reduce the amount of text in your promoted posts and Page Posts Ad Images. They want to prevent news feeds from being littered with posts that are more like ad banners. The whole point of this change is that FB wants you to have engaging and useful information, which is what they originally intended.
Although promoted posts are great tools, there are concerns about the user's experience. When timeline was introduced earlier this year, it came with guidelines that allow no more than 20% of text; the text can't contain your website, price or discount information.
And now with promoted posts, they are applying the same philosophy.
So how do you know how to apply 20%? You need to make sure that your text is minimal, otherwise Facebook will not approve them or pause them.
Instead of the example above, try using something like the one below. Capturing faces and feelings to get your message across. Create an experience.
Now, I guess you will be asking 'But what if need to sell something'. Okay that's possible. Come up with an image like the example below and include a link that will answer the question. For example: Discover some tips for your digital strategy at www.alexnovicov.com or daily tips on my twitter.
These changes are difficult, but by being one step ahead, you can start complying now. After 15th of January, you will not have to worry!
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Aaaahhh creative block, my old friend.
Sometimes you just don't feel that .... artsy thing that allows you to create beauty day after day. But if you sell handcrafted jewelry on line or have a big art show or or craft show coming up sooner than you care to imagine, you simply have no choice.
So you make promises. You will get up at 5 AM on Monday morning. You will make fivc pairs of earrings, two bracelets and one necklace each day for five days straight. And you might actually rise at the designated time, but after you shower, brush your teeth and comb your hair, you may just decide your'e too lovely (or too handsome) to stay in and make things.
Or perhaps it's your home that gets to you, all that artistic messiness every where you look; so you clean the living room, the bathroom, the kitchen. No one can fault you for wanting a shiny kitchen. Then you wash the windows to a streakless shine and your entire house to ultimate spotlessess. Of course, in this Stepford housewife mode you never create a single piece of jewelry; but your house is in perfect order. Besides, there's always tomorrow.
Perhaps the ghost of Art Shows past, a wispy creature with beads, pearls and semiprecious stones it her hair, paid you a call in your dreams last night. She, or he if you insist on political correctness, reminded you of the last Art or Craft Show you did.
It was, indeed, a bright, sunny day, a perfect day to make lots of money; but your booth was nearly empty from the very beginning. The customers love your work so they showed up; and one by one, you kept explaining yourself. "I've been busy with my children" or "I work days and didn't have time to create." Or worst yet, "I'm working through a bout of creative block."
These things may be true, but art show customers get up early in the morning and drive great distances to buy your pretty things. They wade through tons of online jewelry sites to find you and your goodies. If you have nothing to offer, they just walk right by or click the next link.
Every jewelery artist has a bad day every once in a while, perhaps a bad week. Accept that; but if it goes on too long, you must motivate yourself to create anyway. Here are a few tips.
1-If during your neat-neat stage you packed your tools and beads away (hid them from yourself really) go get them. Lay them out somewhere so you can't avoid looking at them.(Not in a corner in the basement) Line up your tools, beads, whatever you need. If your creative tools are laid out where you can see them each time you pass, they will nag you until you pick them up and get to work.
3- If you crave company, a group dynamic to inspire you to creative heights. fellow artists to toss ideas off one another until something sticks, find creative partners to work with.
4-Work while you sleep. No not sleepwalking.. or sleep crafting. As your head hits the pillow, think about the things you want to make the next day, the ideas you want to bring to life, the colors you want to use; and in the morning, you might just wake up inspired and ready to go. And no more creative block.


Not long ago I was at the San Diego airport, again, waiting for a flight. This is not a new experience for me, though this time was actually somewhat different. Normally, in order to accumulate miles and elite status, I fly United Airlines or one of its partners. But on this particular trip, flying to Reno, Nevada, United was much more expensive, with much less preferable flight schedules. So, I wound up, for the first time in a long time, on Southwest Airlines.
Being the somewhat privileged traveler that I am, I took advantage of paying an extra $12 to get bumped up closer to the front of the line – not the front, but at least not the back. Since I was only to be gone a few days, all I had was a carry on rolling suitcase – of the small, able to fit in the overhead style – and a purse. Actually, that's what I fly with almost always. When I fly United I know that I will have room for my roller bag as my status gives me privilege in boarding the plane. But this time I was on Southwest and I could feel myself getting a bit nervous as the boarding time neared.
That was when I began to notice something – in myself, but also in the other passengers. Or, rather, notice the lack of something. There was none of that sense of frenzy that accompanies boarding a United flight. None of that sense of heightened anxiety that I normally feel as the time to board approaches. Even though I know I have a spot toward the front of the line, somehow I feel the need to jockey for position. As do, it seems, the rest of the passengers, who often don't let the families with children or those needing assistance to pass through, so closely are they guarding their spot.
Being me, I posted something about this to facebook, so fascinated was I with the vastly different vibe that was present as we began to board that Southwest flight.
Is it the fact that I have a number, a place in line, that makes it different? I wondered out loud. Is it that we all know our place and can't really do anything to change it that makes this boarding process so much calmer than they normally are? It seemed counter-intuitive that boarding without a seat might be more peaceful than boarding with one. So, knowing you have a place in line is more important than knowing you have a place on the plane? That somehow didn't seem to make sense.
And that was when it hit me – the difference. It wasn't about having a place in line, or about having a place on the plane – those both are virtually guaranteed.
It was about stuff. Namely, luggage.
You see, the other difference with Southwest is that they do not charge for checking a suitcase. Most other airlines do. Not only do they not charge for bringing a suitcase, but you can check two bags on Southwest, completely free. What was different about that Southwest flight was that those who were waiting to board were not, in their positioning, trying to get on board before everyone else so as to have a spot in the limited overhead space.
It felt like a sort of epiphany to me. There was no fear. No sense of scarcity. What there was, instead, was a sense of 'enough' – a sense that I did not have to jockey for position to ensure my space, but that there was abundant room for all.
It made me wonder how much of our lives we spend like those United passengers, struggling to get our place to ensure that we have space for our stuff, that our stuff is secure, taken care of, vs. Those Southwest passengers who seemed content, trusting that there would be room for all.
Our theme this month is 'cornucopia' – I have to admit, I did not pick it. When I first heard it I thought, huh? So I asked for some more clarification from the person who suggested it.
You know, abundance, plenty, enough – as opposed to greed or hoarding or scarcity.
Wow, I thought. Now there's a theme.
Of course we are near Thanksgiving and cornucopia's are a well known symbol of that holiday – as is the feeling of needing to loosen ones trousers and lay down on the couch after eating too much turkey.
It got me wondering – do we live our lives out of abundance? Or do we live our lives out of a scarcity mentality? Do we trust the 'enoughness of life? Or do we let fear lead us to hoard, to control, to worry that I won't get my fair share? If you get more, does that mean I get less? If you win, does that mean I lose? And, is it easy to trust abundance when life is good? What about when life is challenging? What about when we are brought to the very edge? What then? Is abundance possible?
I'm an only child – let's just say, sharing can be challenging for me. I actually act more like a child in a family of ten, worried when food to be shared is placed on the table that I won't get my fair share. I've never gone hungry – this is not a fear based on any actual reality.
And, moreover, is it easy to talk of things such as abundance when we feel that all is going in our favor? Can we find abundance, a mentality of enough, of trust, even in the midst of the challenging times in life?
For most of human history, it's as if we have had long spring-times and only the briefest of summers, a lot of time to put down roots and sprout but almost none to mature. But now, around the world and especially in the developed countries, more people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. Our normal life span, which stayed at an almost steady twenty years for most of human history , has leapt in an evolutionary eyeblink to seventy-eightyears in the West. Why is this so important? Think about how helpless we are as infants and children compared to other species. It takes us so long to be able to live without our parents' support, so very long to develop our intelligence and adaptability and skills, to grow in our capacity for compassion and wisdom, good judgment, and discernment. To put it bluntly, it takes all of us a frightfully long time to grow up and many of us never do.
The question I bring before us this morning is a simple one – as we journey through the chronology of our lives, are we ripening, or are we merely rotting? The rotting, of course, is inevitable – the ripening is not.
The next question is, what will we do about it?
What does ripening look like? How does it happen?
Most of us are familiar with the situation of fruit in our grocery stores – bananas that come from Ecuador, picked green – I've seen them there at the port in Guayaquil – and shipped around the world. This is done since a green banana travels much better than a ripe one. So, they are kept intentionally immature so that they travel better. Once they reach their destination, the ripening process can be induced – artificially. The primary chemical that is at play in ripening is ethylene – it is that which is fostered when you put your fruit in a brown paper bag to help it ripen. It's enhanced if you put an apple core or a banana peel in the bag – increasing the ethylene and thus the ripening.
What's the big deal? It seems to work, doesn't it? The fruit can travel better, then it ripens on demand – sounds ideal.
When fruit is allowed to ripen on the tree, or the vine, or the plant, it's ripening happens from the inside. When fruit is picked too early – for commercial and cosmetic reasons – that process ceases, and the ripening that happens is from the outside in. This second process resembles the first, more or less. But if you've ever tasted a peach, picked right from the tree and bit into on a summer day you will know that though the process might seem similar, there is something categorically different.
It is sweeter. Juicier. Tastier.
So, you may be asking yourselves about now – have I come to a horticultural presentation, or to Not Church? What does this have to do with anything?
We are, of course, all aging. We are all getting older. Our culture is full of ways to convince us that that doesn't have to be the case. That aging doesn't have to be inevitable, that getting old is just another problem to be fixed with the right cream, the right powder, the right pills. You can stay young forever! That is the claim. That is the promise.
But is it the truth? Is it reality?
Now, don't get me wrong – I'm all for being young at heart, for enjoying life to its fullest – and I am the first one to hope that people, when they guess my age, get it about ten years wrong in the direction of 29.
But do we really want a bunch of perfectly hard peaches lining the shelves of our world? Durable, sure. Not showing any age spots or blemishes. Not showing any of the inevitable bruises of life. But tasteless. Bland. Lacking sweetness. Lacking depth of flavor, of color.
I can't help but think of Kenny Rogers – whose music I love, but whose face has lost all expression, to quote a line from the Gambler – his eyes forced in a perpetual perkiness.
Is this what aging is all about? Or is there something more?
Many of you know Glenn, who can't be here today as he begins teaching for the new school year tomorrow up in Palm Desert. Those of you who know Glenn know that he is quite the horticulturalist.
I began to wonder – is it the same for us? Sure, of course, technically on a biologically level it is true – if someone is not reproducing we are not going to continue. But on a more mystical level, or a spiritual level, or a metaphorical level – is this true?
The entire purpose of a plant is to produce seed. The purpose for producing seed is the dispersal of that seed. Everything the plant is geared for, created for, is to promote the next generation.
Many years ago I was working with a youth group – I was just out of college, the students were young teenagers. We were on a work project in a poor rural area in the east. On our day off we headed to a local river to go white water canoeing. I've got to admit – I'm something of a chicken. I know I might not present as that, but it's the truth. So, as I sat there looking at the canoes, and at the rushing river, I began to consider who I wanted in my canoe. The youth group leader, of course. He was more than a decade my senior, big, strong. But as the assignments were made I was shocked to realize – the younger students wanted to go with me for just the same reasons I wanted to go with the leader. Wait a second, I remember thinking, how did I turn into an adult?? It was a rather shocking realization, this sense that instead of the one receiving it was time for me to be the one giving, to step into that role.
Sherry Ruth Anderson in her book, Ripening Time: Inside stories of aging with grace suggests that we are at a time in our collective lives in which we are hungry for 'elders' – and into which we are being called to become those elders for others who will follow.
If it is true, what does it mean? What does it ask of us or invite us into?
How do we let ourselves be shaped and transformed – how do we let life ripen us if it will?
In my pondering and research on ripening I came upon a rather geeky chemistry related conversation. Is ripening a physical or a chemical change? I thought, "Who cares?" But being the inquiring mind that I am, I figured I'd read a bit further and see what it was all about.
The consensus is that ripening is a chemical, not a physical change. Again, you might ask, as I did, why do I care? A chemical change involves the alteration of the physical and chemical properties of the substance. You can't get the original back through physical means. Once you ripen, you can't go back.
It is not merely by listening, reading, or discussing ripening that we get there – if we stay at that level we are in danger of being like parrots repeating what we hear from gurus or teachings, without converting the intellectual knowledge into our own experience. The way for us to ripen is to convert these teachings, like the starches converting to sugar. Instead of being something we say, they become who we are. But this 'becoming' is not an end in and of itself – no, the ripening of the fruit is for the dispersal of the seed. This becoming is meant to be shared.
Two points I'd like to leave with you – the first is that often ripening is enhanced through wounding. A fruit that is gashed or otherwise 'damaged' in some ways is actually able to ripen better than one left untouched. Lest we think that 'ripening' is all butterflies, rainbows and puppies – hardly. It is a transformation of our very being. It is not without a cost.
The second is this – you know the phrase, one bad apple spoils the bunch? Well, it is actually true. But true in a positive way as well. Once one fruit begins to ripen, others in its vicinity also increase their capacity for ripening. Exponentially. It is, in a sense, contagious.
As we journey through the chronology of our lives, are we ripening, or are we merely rotting? The rotting, of course, is inevitable – the ripening is not.
Can someone please tell me who wrote PLEASE DON'T CRY? It was posted on Oct 14 2014.
This is very beautiful and I would like to know the author.
Very Special Group!! I am excited to attend Not Church again!!
"Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook"
*Check out Tom Dykhuizen's Not Church Video on our About page.


Im trying to get 2 wii nunchucks to communicate with the arduino on the I2C bus. I know that the nunchucks have the same slave address, but I wasn't sure if there was a way to create a switch between the two DATA lines of the nunchucks.
Both nunchucks are connected to the same system clock (SCL) pin on the arduino...but there is a binary switch to choose which nunchuck's data line is connected to SDL on the arduino (and will be controlled by another pin on the arduino).
I'm just getting familiar with I2C, does this seem workable?
Is there a way to change the address of one of the slaves?
Is there a way to implement a 2nd i2c bus with programming and different analog pins?
Please watch the multiple postings!
p.s. I have removed the other two as this is the correct place for this question.
I have 2 ideas I am going to try out.
1) Using BJT transistors and diodes I will try to use the arduino microcontroller to switch the SDA line between the nunchucks.
2) Using Relays, I will control the SDA lines.
Here's how to do it. All you need is 2 transistors (basic npn switch transistors), and 2 resistors and the use of 2 more arduino pins.
For the 2 nunchucks, I tied the 2 ground (white) wires, tied the 2 clock (yellow) wires, and tied the 2 power (red) wires. You have to make 2 switches (thus 2 transistors) each of which will disconnect the nunchuck's data (green) wire from the arduino.
when you start up the 'system' , you'll need to have both nunchuck's data (green) wire connected to the arduino in order to initiate both at the same time. Then you can swap between each nunchuck.
Note: There is an error in the above statement. You must initiate each nunchuck individually in order for the arudino to store the correct values per nunchuck.
Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't you use 3 transistors and 1 pin? Two npn and 1 pnp Tie one npn and the pnp transistor to the control pin. the npn would control one data line directly while the pnp would control the second npn which had the data line through it?


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Nacionalni Park Tores del Pajn je nacionalni park izuzetnih geomorfoloških odlika u Patagoniji u južnom Čileu. Glavni deo nacionalnog parka predstavlja grupa planina koje su deo planinskog venca Andi. Nalazi se na prelasku Mageljanskih subpolarnih šuma u Patagonijske stepe. Nacionalni park se nalazi 116 km severno od grada Puerto Natales. Spada među najposećenije nacionalne parkove u Čileu i svake godine ga poseti preko 250 000 ljudi, od kojih 54% čine stranci.

Tores del Pajn predstavljaju 3 granitna vrha planina Pajna, visine od preko 2.500 m. Tu se nalaze i brojne doline, reke, jezera (Grey, Pehoé, Nordenskiöld i Sarmiento) i glečeri (Grey, Pingo i Tyndall).

Istorija
Najraniji znaci ljudskog života sa ovih teritorija potiču od pre 6 500 hiljada godina. Prvi opisi ovog mesta su zabeleženi u knjizi Lady Florence Dixie iz 1880. godine, i ona i njena ekipa su prvi zabeleženi turisti na ovom području. U narednim decenijama su ovo područje obišli mnogi evropski istraživači i naučnici, a Gunther Plüschow je prvi leteo avionom iznad ove teritorije.
Nacionalni park je proglašen 1959. godine pod nazivom Nacionalni park jezera Grey, a tek 1970. godine je dobio naziv kakav nosi danas. Konačne granice nacionalnog parka su utvrđene 1977. godine kada je čileanskoj vladi poklonjeno još 12 000ha teritorije koje su priključene parku, a od 1978. se park nalazi na UNESCO-voj listi Svetske baštine kao rezervat prirode.

Klima
Park se nalazi u "umerenom klimatu hladnih kiša bez suvih perioda". Leta su hladna, ispod 16 °C tokom najhladnijeg meseca-januara, a zime blage sa najnižom temperaturom od −3 °C u julu. Temperatura vode je 4-5 °C. Najkišovitiji meseci su mart i april sa prosečnim padavinama oko 80mm, a suvlji period je od jula do oktobra.
Za ovo područje su karakteristični požari. Još 1985. godine je turista podmetnuo požar u kom je izgorelo oko 150 km² površine oko jezera Pehoé. Drugi požar je usledio 2005. godine, takođe usled nemarnosti turista i u njemu je izgorelo 155 km². Požari su plamsali i 2011. i 2012. godine je izgorelo 176 km². Istraživanjima je utvrđeno da je ovo područje sklono požarima, makar u poslednjih 12 800 godina.

Hidrologija
Hidrografska mreža ovog nacionalnog parka je veoma razvijena i sastoji se iz velikog broja reka, potoka, jezera i bara, jer se nalazi na području velikog ledenog polja južne Patagonije.
To ledeno polje se prostire celom zapadnom stranom parka i sastoji se iz više glečera (Dickson, Grey, Zapata, i Tyndall) od kojih je najveći Grey. Ovi glečeri su veoma bitni za naučna proučavanja jer daju veoma jasnu sliku o različitim periodima klime na Zemlji. U junu 2014. godine su pronađeni fosilni uzorci stvorenja sličnog delfinu koje je živelo pre između 245 i 90 miliona godina.
U nacionalnom parku se takođe nalazi i veliki broj jezera od kojih su najposećeniji  Dickson, Grey, Pehoé, Nordenskiöld, i Sarmiento, kao i reka Paine.

Biogeografija
Poslednje značajnije istraživanje je izvršio Pisano 1974. godine. Nacionalni park Tores del Pajn je veoma bogat raznobojnom vegetacijom, zastupljeno je 274 vrsta biljaka. Zastupljeno je 7 vrsta retkih orhideja. Park se sastoji iz 4 vegetacione zone: Patagonijske stepe, Andske žbunaste vegetacije, Mageljanskih subpolarnih šuma i Andske pustinje. Što se tiče životinjskog sveta, najzastupljenija vrsta je lama, zatim lisica i puma, kao i veliki broj ptica poput orla, sove, flaminga, labuda...

Turizam
Nacionalni park godišnje zabeleži preko 250 000 posetilaca, od kojih najveći broj dolazi ovde zbog pešačenja. Staze su jasno označene i postoji više staza različite dužine. Tokom jednog dana može se obići vrh, tokom 5 dana se može prepešačiti popularna W tura, a može se obići i ceo krug u trajanju od osam, devet dana. Na prostoru parka postoje kampovi u kojima je zabranjeno kuvanje i paljenje vatre zbog učetalih požara. Biciklisti se smeju kretati samo po određenim stazama koje su obeležene, zbog narušavanja prirode. Najbolje vreme za posete parku su između septembra i aprila, tj. kasnog proleća, leta i rane jeseni jer su tada dani najduži, pored toga što su najtopliji. Ovaj nacionalni park je proglašen petim najlepšim mestom na svetu prema Nacionalnoj Geografiji.

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2Versions
2.1Black Brant I
2.2Black Brant II
2.3Black Brant III
2.4Black Brant IV
2.5Black Brant V
2.6Black Brant VI
2.7Black Brant VII
2.8Black Brant VIII
2.9Black Brant IX
2.10Black Brant X
2.11Black Brant XI
2.12Black Brant XII
Black Brant (rocket)
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Family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets
A Black Brant XII launching from Wallops Flight Facility.
The Black Brant is a family of Canadian-designed sounding rockets originally built by Bristol Aerospace, since absorbed by Magellan Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Over 800 Black Brants of various versions have been launched since they were first produced in 1961, and the type remains one of the most popular sounding rockets.[1] They have been repeatedly used by the Canadian Space Agency and NASA.
Black Brant was the result of research at Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment (CARDE) during the 1950s into the nature of the upper part of the atmosphere as part of ongoing research into anti-ballistic missile systems and very-long-range communication. In 1957 CARDE contracted Bristol to produce a simple rocket fuselage, called the Propulsion Test Vehicle, for studies into high-power solid fuels. The resulting design, by Albert Fia, was quite heavy, as it was designed to be able to accommodate a wide variety of engine burning times, propellant loadings and launch angles in keeping with its role as a test vehicle for ABM systems development. The first test flight took place only two years later from the Churchill Rocket Research Range in September 1959.[2]
CARDE's attention later turned to long-distance communications and they found the Propulsion Test Vehicle system useful as a sounding rocket. To better suit this role, Bristol modified the design to be lighter and more tailored to the sounding rocket role. This became the Black Brant. CARDE launched a number of Black Brant rockets over the next few years, both the original Black Brant I design which could place a 68 kg (150 lb) payload to 150 km (93 mi) altitude, as well as the larger Black Brant II which first flew in October 1960, and the smaller but higher-altitude Black Brant III.
The rocket's design emphasized reliability over payload and range.[3] In July 1963 the much larger Black Brant V first flew, which was also used as a booster stage for the Black Brant III to make the Black Brant IV. The IV first flew in 1964, but failed, as did the next test launch. Aside from these two launches, which were corrected for, the Black Brant has never had another failure, making it one of the most reliable rockets in history. Since then it has undergone continual evolution, and the current versions are the XI and XII, consisting of Black Brant V used as an upper stage, with Talos and Terrier boosters as lower stages. They have reached altitudes of more than 1,500 km (930 mi), which is above the ionosphere and well above the orbits of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.
The propellant designs developed by CARDE in the Black Brant program were the highest performing solid fuels of their day. Bristol then placed this propellant in a new 70 mm (2.8 in) rocket to form the CRV7, the first rocket capable of penetrating standard Warsaw Pact aircraft hangars. The CRV7 has since gone on to become the de facto standard rocket for most Western-aligned militaries.
In 1976, Australia and Canada through the National Research Council Canada (NRCC) agreed[4] to launch a rocket from Woomera Test Range. The Black Brant VB rocket was launched there on 9 November for experiments in the ionosphere.[5] Later NASA would launch a number of Black Brant IX.
At present, due to its 98% success rate, it remains one of the most popular sounding rockets ever built. The rockets have been used repeatedly by the Canadian Space Agency and NASA. There is a 1:1 scale model of the Black Brant IX rocket in front of the head office of the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert, east of Montréal. A full-scale Black Brant VC is on display in the Science Gallery of The Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
In 1995, a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andøya Rocket Range off the northwestern coast of Norway caused the Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the Black Brant scare. The trajectory resembled that of a U.S. Navy submarine-launched Trident missile. Russian nuclear forces were put on high alert as a result, fearing a high-altitude nuclear attack that could blind Russian radar, and Russia's "nuclear briefcase", the Cheget, was brought to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who then had to decide whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States. It is the first and thus far only known incident where any nuclear-weapons state had its nuclear briefcase activated and prepared for launching an attack.
On September 19, 2009, a Black Brant XII that was launched to study clouds caused numerous calls from the northeastern U.S. reporting "strange lights in the sky". NASA reported that the light came from an artificial noctilucent cloud formed by the exhaust particles of the rocket's fourth stage at an altitude of about 278 km (173 mi).
Versions[edit]
the following is enumerated by roman numerals
Size comparison of various sounding rockets, including several versions of the Black Brant
Black Brant I[edit]
Black Brant I[6]
Payload: 68 kg (150 lb)
Maximum flight height: 225 km (140 mi)
Launch thrust: 111 kN (25,000 lbf)
Launch mass: 730 kg (1,610 lb)
Diameter: 0.26 m (10 in)
Length: 7.41 m (24.3 ft)
Black Brant II[edit]
Black Brant II,[7] Black Brant IIB[8]
Payload: 68 kg (150 lb) (Black Brant II)
Thrust: 89 kN (20,000 lbf)
Mass at launch: 800 kg (1,800 lb)
Diameter: 0.44 m (1 ft 5 in)
The II was the first rocket for scientific use and was ready in 1960.[9]
Black Brant III[edit]
Black Brant III,[10] Black Brant IIIA, Black Brant IIIB[11]
Payload: 18 kg (40 lb) (Black Brant III)
Mass at launch: 286 kg (631 lb)
Black Brant IV[edit]
Black Brant IV, a two-stage rocket consisting of Black Brant VA first stage with either a Black Brant IIIA or IIIB second stage,[12] Black Brant IVA,[13] Black Brant IVB[14]
Payload: 100 kg (220 lb) (Black Brant IV)
Maximum flight height: 1,000 km (620 mi)
Thrust: 111 kN (25,000 lbf)
Mass at launch: 1,356 kg (2,989 lb)
Length: 11.06 m (36.3 ft)
Black Brant V[edit]
Black Brant V,[15] Black Brant VA,[16] Black Brant VB,[17] Black Brant VC[18]
Payload: 68 kg (150 lb) (Black Brant V)
Black Brant VI[edit]
Black Brant VI[19]
Maximum flight height: 72 km (45 mi)
Thrust: 7 kN (1,600 lbf)
Diameter: 0.12 m (4.7 in)
Length: 2.80 m (9 ft 2 in)
Black Brant VII[edit]
Black Brant VII[20]
Black Brant VIII[edit]
Black Brant VIII (a.k.a. Nike Black Brant) a two-stage rocket with a Nike M5-E1 booster first stage and either a Black Brant VB or VC second stage,[21][22] Black Brant VIIIB,[23] Black Brant VIIIC[24]
Maximum flight height: 340 km (210 mi) (Black Brant VIII)
Black Brant IX[edit]
Black Brant IX (a.k.a. Terrier Black Brant), a two-stage rocket with a Terrier Mk 70 booster first stage and a Black Brant VB second stage,[25][26] Black Brant IXB,[27] Black Brant IXBM1,[28] Black Brant IXCM1,[29] Terrier Black Brant XI Mod 2[30]
Gross Mass: 2,200 kg (4,900 lb) (Black Brant IX)
Height: 12.20 m (40.0 ft)
Apogee: 300 km (190 mi)
First Launch: 1982-03-16
Last Launch: 2022-11-20 17:21 UTC (ACES-2)
Total launches: 314
Successful launches: 309
Black Brant X[edit]
Black Brant X (a.k.a. Terrier Black Brant Nihka), a three-stage rocket with a Terrier Mk 70 booster first stage, a Black Brant VB or VC second stage and a Nihka third,[31][32] Black Brant XB,[33] Black Brant XCM1[34]
Payload: 90 kg (200 lb) (Black Brant X)
Black Brant XI[edit]
Black Brant XI (a.k.a. Talos Taurus Black Brant), a three-stage rocket with a Talos booster first stage, Taurus booster second stage, and a Black Brant V third stage,[35][36][37] Black Brant XIA
Payload: 320 kg (710 lb) to 500 km (310 mi) altitude, or 550 kilograms (1,210 lb) to 300 km (190 mi) altitude (Black Brant XI)
Thrust:
Mass at launch: 5,300 kg (11,700 lb)
Length: 17.00 m (55.77 ft)
Black Brant XII[edit]
Black Brant XII (a.k.a. Talos Terrier Black Brant Nihka), a four-stage rocket with a Mk 11 Mod 5 Talos booster first stage, Terrier booster second stage (pre 2013 Taurus booster motors were used), Black Brant V third stage and Nihka fourth stage,[38] Black Brant XIIA
Payload: manufacturer rated from 110–410 kg (240–900 lb) (Black Brant XII)
Maximum flight height: Approximately 1,500 km (930 mi), dependent on payload
Thrust: 116,001 lbf First Stage Talos Booster[39]
Mass at launch: Approximately 5,300 kg (11,700 lb), dependent on payload
Length: 15 m (49 ft)
"South Atlantic Anomaly Probe".
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^ "Black Brant 5A". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
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Corliss, William R., NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office (1971), NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968 A Historical Summary, NASA SP-4401. Washington D.C.
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Kobe Bryant Says Dodgers Need to Move on From Astros Cheating Scandal
By Brad Sullivan
Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant is one fan of baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers who believes that the team shouldn't waste time on the current cheating scandal that may have cost it a World Series title in 2017.
On Monday, the Dodgers rival in that 2017 series, the Houston Astros, were hit with severe penalties, which also resulted in the dismissal of their general manager and manager. The punishment was due to the team going to great lengths to steal pitching signs from other teams.
Rory Carroll of Reuters indicated that Bryant believes that agonizing over the hypotheticals of the situation wouldn't be productive for the Dodgers.
"'As a competitive person, the thing that I do is look forward," Bryant told Reuters at a Major League Soccer event announcing a partnership between MLS and sports drink company BodyArmor, which Bryant has invested $6 million in.
"'You can't change things that were, you can't change the outcome," he said.
"'What you can do is control what you can control, which is your performance, how well you hit the ball, how well you pitch the ball, how well you defend.
"I think it's important to focus on that and try to bring a World Series back to Los Angeles."
During Bryant's time in the NBA, the league was forced to deal with a major scandal involving gambling and former referee Tim Donaghy, who later served time in prison for his crime. Bryant witnessed the league and teams that were affected by the scandal with the aftermath resulting positively.
The Dodgers lost that 2017 World Series in seven games, which means that even a small bit dishonesty on the part of the Astros could conceivably have made a difference. Having seen his share of struggles during his NBA career, Bryant knows that looking forward is the best road to take.
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10 small fish for an immense shared pleasure.
As what the sizes is not so important.
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Due to the different risks that off-piste skiing presents, insurers very often consider it a separate activity to that of skiing on-piste. Hence your policy may not cover you for it, just as it might not cover you for professional rugby playing[i], elephant polo or cliff-diving (all of which are real exclusions from insurers' policies!). Such a distinction may not be apparent without a lengthy read of the technical policy document or a long call-centre discussion.
In addition, the extra dangers mean extra accidents and Insurers naturally associate that with more claims being made at extra cost to them. As a result, the prices to include off-piste skiing are often higher.
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Explorer's Winter Sports policy includes insurance for both on-piste skiing and off-piste skiing as standard. Whilst off-piste, you must ski with a qualified guide at all times but you are able to venture beyond resort boundaries if you wish (a common restriction on other policies).
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[i] Though our Rugby Insurance for Children policy might protect your family whilst playing back at home!
Explorer Winter Sports Travel Insurance provides great cover for skiing or snowboarding holidays. Their policy covers a range of activities but also includes cover for on-piste and off-piste skiing as standard. The off-piste skiing allows you to venture beyond the resort boundaries, however at all times (whether in the resort or not) you need to be with a qualified guide.
As with most policies, it also includes protection for your equipment, compensation if the piste is closed due to lack of snow as well as baggage and cancellation cover.
Remember, if you travel more than twice a year, you may save money with one of their great value Annual Multi Trip policies. Get a quote via the Annual Multi-Trip tab, and include Winter Sports as an option on the following page.
Explorer Travel Insurance is a trading style of Explorer Insurance Services Limited, registered in England and Wales No: 7496730.
What are the risks of off-piste skiing?
Potentially inspired by the notorious Aspen Extreme, a generation of skiers are moving away from the piste, replacing it with off-piste terrain with its bumps, trees and soft snow.
Henry's Avalanche Talk - a long-standing resource on avalanches and avalanche safety.
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I'm sorry but the Evernote Planners are of no additional value to me, there is no hyperlinking, everything has to be manually added, the reminders are not date specific but rather a reminder for the whole chart!
Why is Evernote so reluctant to add a decent calendar to the program? To me this is a great issue,!
Come on Evernote designers....I know you can do it, I see many other people requesting this, at least if no Calendar put some decent dynamics in the Planner!
With so many calendar apps available, is there a reson I need a calendar app in my notes/filing service.


Meteolien usually works in countries where very few wind data sets are available and where it is sometimes very difficult to find historical data sets from the meteorological stations.
In this context, Meteolien will find the best modeling and/or methodology in order to link meteorological models and local wind fluxes. Therefore, Meteolien will recover the necessary data sets to implement them on the site along with digital terrain model. Meteolien will also work with measured data if available.