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Richard Wagner: A Life in Music, by Martin Geck
Barbara Eichner on a different kind of biography
Martin Geck, who earned his musicological spurs with the Wagner work catalogue and the critical edition of Parsifal, returns to the composer on the occasion of Richard Wagner's bicentenary with a book that distances itself decisively from a source-based approach (despite amply using Wagner's autobiography Mein Leben and his wife Cosima's diaries throughout). Instead he has turned to, as the introduction asks: "Figuring out Wagner?" Or rather, even more than explaining the composer's creative personality, Geck wants to figure out "myself and my age. What is it that continues to fascinate us…? Which values are subliminally brought home to us through his world of music theater?"
Thus, the emphasis is squarely on the music rather than the life (Geck seems, like Wagner, in two minds to what extent the two are or need to be related) and the book is not a straightforward biography despite its broadly chronological design. The reader has to know Wagner's eventful life fairly well, since biographical details are brought in only when they shed light on individual works. There is much to commend in this strategy, as it allows Geck to range freely across the composer's life, ideas and reception. Thus Wagner's theories about singer-actors are discussed first in the chapter dealing with Rienzi, rather than in the context of the Zurich writings or the Bayreuth Festival, and the issue of National Socialist appropriation is raised with Lohengrin, segueing neatly into a chapter on Wagner's revolutionary politics. Like the chapter about the early operas that identifies core themes (love equals tragedy, and redemption comes through destruction), many observations about the more canonical works gain from this unorthodox approach, often referencing modern productions.
Most of the chapters are followed by a section titled "A word about": biographical vignettes of contemporaries and latter-day Wagnerians, some only tangentially related to the preceding chapter. All 13 men share a Jewish background, which affords Geck repeated opportunities to tackle Wagner's anti-Semitism, a theme also sprinkled throughout the book. Thus he does not exactly dodge this awkward question, but neither does he face it in a particularly thorough way.
A free-ranging chorus of European intellectuals contributes prominently to the discussion of the works. Geck bounces the operas against quotations from old acquaintances (Nietzsche, Mann) as well as more personal and bewildering choices (Proust, Peter Härtling, Heidegger, Luther), including an extravagant claim that a dream-tale recounted by Schubert "reveals astonishing similarities" to the subject of Parsifal. More systematic exegeses by philosophers or literary scholars are summarised but then dismissed because of their one-dimensional approach. At this point, Geck usually places the burden on the music to convey the messages of the dramas, cheerfully admitting their inconsistency or ambiguity, but confident in music's power to create coherence and sense. Enter the Romantic commonplace about music as the language of the ineffable, when Geck should instead get down to the business of explaining how exactly the orchestral fabric of, for example, Wotan's monologue bridges the chronological gap between Das Rheingold and Die Walküre.
For the benefit of the "general reader" addressed in several places, music examples are largely restricted to cursory readings of loci classici. There are some rewarding exceptions when Geck turns at greater length to less obvious passages, without defecting to a handy quote by Walter Benjamin or Julia Kristeva. Geck is of course faced with the topical problem of how music should be written about without getting forbiddingly technical. But is the solution really to make soothing noises towards the intuitive understanding of the "general reader"? In the conclusion, he criticises those Wagnerian audiences who "refuse to engage with the ethical conflicts…but enjoy the aesthetic solution that is suggested by the music". "What if", he asks, we "were to examine the music from an intellectual standpoint?" What if, indeed! Once more a seasoned specialist has thrown down that particular gauntlet, ignoring that the joust has been going on for the past 150 years.
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music
By Martin Geck
Translated by Stewart Spencer
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Gold Coast sets sail in Sydney to Hobart
Maggie Gray | November 2020
* UPDATE: The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race has been cancelled for 2020 *
Every Boxing Day, a kaleidoscope of colour erupts across Sydney Harbour in what is considered one of the most iconic scenes in Australian sport – the start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
This year, the harbour will shine even brighter with the addition of 54-foot yacht 'Maritimo', the only locally registered entrant, owned by renowned boating entrepreneur, Bill Barry-Cotter.
With a history steeped in the Gold Coast, Barry-Cotter is no stranger to achieving industry firsts and casting the city's name far and wide.
Throughout his illustrious 60 year career, Barry-Cotter has established three internationally recognised brands, two of which were born on the Gold Coast.
"When I was 22, I started Mariner Cruisers, building a large range of motor craft and some sail craft," reflects Barry-Cotter.
"I sold Mariner in 1978, and two years later moved to the Gold Coast where I established luxury motor yacht business, Riviera."
"My reasons for relocating to the Gold Coast were threefold.
"Firstly there were much lower housing costs, secondly a lot of the people I had trained in the industry in Sydney had moved up here so in effect I was following them up and finally it was and still is a great place to live and raise a family.
"After 22 years, I sold Riviera and went on to start Maritimo – now recognised internationally as Australia's leading manufacturer of long-range luxury motor yachts."
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Bill Barry-Cotter
Sanctuary Cove Marina
An expert in boatbuilding, design and offshore powerboat racing, Barry-Cotter's latest challenge has involved transforming the 54-foot yacht from his Gold Coast headquarters to be race ready for December.
"It's very exciting to be the only entrant representing the Gold Coast in this year's Sydney to Hobart," says Barry-Cotter.
"Over the last six months, our in-house team of experts have worked tirelessly to prepare the yacht to be race ready.
"We've re-engineered much of the boat, including a new carbon fibre mast and boom, new sails and rigging."
Maritimo's team of craftspeople are located between the Hope Island Boatmasters service centre and its manufacturing headquarters at the Gold Coast Marine Precinct in Coomera.
Behind the Gold Coast's sundrenched beaches and Heritage-Listed rainforest, exists a thriving city with the largest concentration of marine trades in Australia.
Spanning 250 hectares, the Gold Coast Marine Precinct is dedicated to the manufacture, service, and re-fit of recreational boats.
The precinct houses over 80 on-site traders and employs over 700 marine-related contractors.
Over the last 20 years, the precinct has maintained, repaired, and built in excess of 50,000 vessels.
"The Gold Coast Marine Precinct is one of the only places in the world that is a dedicated centre designed specifically for boat manufacture and repairs and maintenance," says Barry-Cotter.
"It is the hub of a significant business sector that sees millions of dollars in export earnings flow back to Australia and supports thousands of employees."
The Maritimo yacht departs the Gold Coast from Sanctuary Cove Friday 27 November. It will then compete in pre-Sydney to Hobart qualifying series races, before setting sail with the Tattersall Cup firmly in its sights in the IRC division on 26 December 2020.
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Open your heart to all animals! Give every being on Earth a chance to live their life to the fullest potential. This means honoring each individual on their unique journey.
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We are all apart of a greater purpose, beyond our own selfish desires to use other beings for our own gain. In today's world, there is simply no need for apathy of another, so let's gather as one & experience true empathy for ALL animals!
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You just finished your final run. It's mid-afternoon as you come from the slopes; peeling off your sweaty helmet, tight goggles and skis at the base area, the primary thing on your mind is a drink. Where do you go? Here are a few local options to wet your whistle, but remember — they're just the tip of the iceberg!
The après ski scene at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area is classic. Walk off the slopes at the base area, and 6th Alley Bar and Grill is literally right there. Just a few paces to go in those awkward ski boots before you can order a cold one, or a hot toddy of sorts —whatever your fancy. Conversations of skiers and snowboarders recapping their days on the slopes hang in the air. Glasses clink together as people toast and cheer as they warm up with a drink. 6th Alley Bar and Grill often — if not daily —has live music performances in the bar area.
It's a joyous and cozy environment to sink into after a tiring day on the slopes. Not to mention, 6th Alley Bar and Grill has some of the best Bloody Mary's in the county.
The taproom carries out the slope-side feel, with skis mounted on the wall and old lift chairs being used as seats in the brewery.
Going to Broken Compass post-ski is a no brainer. The brewery is always a lively place — dogs are allowed in the taproom, there are dozens of games to play, takeout food is welcomed, pot lucks and beer specials occur weekly and live bands perform often.
Mamula who first started the business in 1989.
Sports lovers and families alike love Downstairs at Eric's, a restaurant that brings customers back year after year. "We have a lot of people that come from all over the country and the world. People from Kansas that came because their friends recommended it, people from England heard from their friends," said Mamula.
It's a family friendly place, while still maintaining the lively atmosphere a traditional sports bar would have. It also features a number of classic arcade games for patrons of all ages to play.
This story was originally published in November 2017.


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"Baby Britain" by Elliott Smith
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66. Song No. 672: "Baby Britain," Elliott Smith
XO, 1998
Ooohhhh, this song. This is one I both love immensely and feel deeply in my soul. It's probably my favorite Elliott Smith song, even though it makes me feel a little too called out.
I absolutely love how the fairly critical lyrics are set against one of the most deceptively upbeat tunes Elliott Smith ever wrote, its sound absolutely being what sucked me in from the first time I heard it. Relating a little too much as I do to the unenviable subject of this song, though, that contrast is an uncomfortably accurate echo of how casually I'm sure the titular individual brushes away major issues.
There are entirely too many lyrics here that make some perpetually annoyed and disappointed part of my brain clear its throat like the only responsible adult in the room who's completely out of non-passive-aggressive ways to make their long-ignored bids for better decision-making skills and life choices befitting someone who's got 40 on the horizon. From the opening lines of "Baby Britain feels the best / Floating over a sea of vodka" to the last chorus' closing pleas of "I can't help until you start" and all the lines like "Counts the waves that somehow didn't hit her" and "You're out swimming in the flood" and "You kept back, you kept unspoken" and "For someone half as smart / You'd be a work of art" in between, this is a song I can't help but personalize on a terrifically unhealthy level.
But most of all, I deeply envy all the people who can hear "Fights problems with bigger problems" and not feel like their personal mantra is staring right back at them and begging for the confrontation you've been putting off for years. Like, honestly: What's it like not being ruled by the urge to self-sabotage at every turn?
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Грисен (значения) - топоним и фамилия:

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How Resveratrol can be effective for Metabolic Syndrome?
Resveratrol is a simple and naturally effective way for Metabolic Syndrome to repair. Most people with heart disease and diabetes are insulin-resistant, which is a root cause of metabolic syndrome with symptoms like raised blood sugar, increased triglycerides, reduced HDL, heightened inflammation, and an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.
Diabetes and heart disease are intimately connected. Diabetics without heart disease have the same risk for heart attack as non-diabetics with established heart disease.
The first step in guarding against metabolic syndrome is to gauge the risk of insulin resistance through simple blood tests such as triglycerides, insulin, HDL, CRP, and DHEA.
Insulin resistance and inflammation can usually be reduced effectively without the need for prescription drugs by using the right nutritional supplement and lifestyle strategies.
Nutritional supplements that are effective for reducing insulin resistance include fish oil, chromium, white bean extract, DHEA, vitamin D, lipoic acid, magnesium, cinnamon, beta glucans, resveratrol, and polyphenols found in red wine, skin of grapes, dark berries, cocoa, green tea, and apples.
Resveratrol, a flavonoid found in grape skins and concentrated in red wine, has also attracted a good deal of research attention. Red wine, 355 mL or 12oz per day, has been found to improve insulin responses in people with diabetes. Resveratrol suppresses inflammatory mediators and powerfully inhibits enzymes that break down. In data extrapolated from animal studies, resveratrol doses of at least 20 mg/day are necessary to protect against heart disease. A glass of red wine (about 180 mL or 6 oz) averages just 500 mcg of resveratrol.
In addition, resveratrol content in red wines varies enormously depending on type of grape, soil characteristics, methods of barreling, etc., but averages around only 2.5 mg/L. The Wine Doctor resveratrol enhanced wine has 100 mL + per 750 mL. Non-drinkers and those seeking protection for a health can obtain resveratrol in our concentrated formula 50mL per day. flavonoids.
Although resveratrol has widely been studied for its potential health benefits, little is known about its metabolic effects in humans. Our aims were to determine whether the polyphenol resveratrol improves insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetic patients and to gain some insight into the mechanism of its action. After an initial general examination (including blood chemistry), nineteen patients enrolled in the 4-week-long double-blind study were randomly assigned into two groups: a resveratrol group receiving oral 2 × 5 mg resveratrol and a control group receiving placebo.
Before and after the second and fourth weeks of the trial, insulin resistance/sensitivity, creatinine-normalised ortho-tyrosine level in urine samples (as a measure of oxidative stress), incretin levels and phosphorylated protein kinase B (pAkt):protein kinase B (Akt) ratio in platelets were assessed and statistically analysed. After the fourth week, resveratrol significantly decreased insulin resistance (homeostasis model of assessment for insulin resistance) and urinary ortho-tyrosine excretion, while it increased the pAkt:Akt ratio in platelets.
On the other hand, it had no effect on parameters that relate to β-cell function (i.e. homeostasis model of assessment of β-cell function). The present study shows for the first time that resveratrol improves insulin sensitivity in humans, which might be due to a resveratrol-induced decrease in oxidative stress that leads to a more efficient insulin signalling via the Akt pathway.
Resveratrol a powerful antioxidant supplement,and is also a useful strategy to curtail inflammatory responses and improve insulin responses.
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Xinhau: China Launches Satellite to Explore Dark Side of Moon
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China launched a relay satellite early on Monday designed to establish a communication link between earth and a planned lunar probe that will explore the dark side of the moon, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Citing the China National Space Administration, Xinhua said the satellite was launched at 5:28 a.m. (2128 GMT Sunday) on a Long March-4C rocket from the Xichang launch center in the southwest of the country.
"The launch is a key step for China to realize its goal of being the first country to send a probe to soft-land on and rove the far side of the moon," Xinhua quoted Zhang Lihua, manager of the relay satellite project, as saying.
It said the satellite, known as Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge, will settle in an orbit about 455,000 km (282,555 miles) from Earth and will be the world's first communication satellite operating there.
China aims to catch up with Russia and the United States to become a major space power by 2030. It is planning to launch construction of its own manned space station next year.
However, while China has insisted its ambitions are purely peaceful, the U.S. Defense Department has accused it of pursuing activities aimed at preventing other nations from using space-based assets during a crisis.
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Preface:Is it possible for the gospel to be preached to the entire world in this generation? Will there be some unusual breakthrough that will dramatically speed up the proclamation of the three angels' messages? There is always one thing to keep in mind when we discuss this topic: the mission is God's, and He will accomplish it. At the same time, however, we must remember that we have been called to a crucial role in that final work.
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I was sitting in a Bible study and we were talking about peace. It was a serene discussion as we all agreed Christ wanted us to experience His peace. Until one woman blurted out, "I'm tired of peace! I want chaos! I want the final events! Let's shake things up! I want Jesus to come and end all this misery!" We were jarred from our sweet conversation. We had been focused on peace in our spirits, but she was thinking about what needed to happen to usher in Christ's eternal reign of peace. I admired her passion. I wondered if Jesus felt the same way and was waiting for us to share in His sense of urgency. I wondered if Jesus was waiting for us to "establish [our] hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand" (James 5:8, NKJV).
Reading through the book of Joel and highlighting everything you think applies specifically to your journey toward revival.
Compiling a list from John 14 and 16 of everything the Holy Spirit was sent to do. Pray through the list for the Holy Spirit's work in your life.
Writing a song or poem about "The Day of the Lord." Look up the phrase in a Bible concordance or online at www.biblegateway.com to get some ideas.
Creating a chart from First and Second Kings of the reign-spans of all the kings of Israel and Judah until captivity. Compare the lengths of the reigns of godly and ungodly kings. What conclusions can you draw about the freedom God's Spirit has to work on a massive scale when His people respond to revival?
Singing some of your favorite songs about the Second Coming. "Lift Up the Trumpet" (the Seventh-day Adventist hymnal), "I Will Rise" (Chris Tomlin), "We Shall Behold Him" (Sandi Patty), "No More Pain" (Point of Grace), etc.
Malachi 3:1–5; Malachi 4; 2 Peter 3:3–13; Revelation 14:1–5; Revelation 21.
Ellen G. White, "The Controversy Ended," The Great Controversy, chapter 42 White, Promises for the Last Days.
Mark Finley, 10 Days in the Upper Room.
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it is a randomised, double blind, parallel group, placebo controlled study. A total of 213 male ambulant subjects will be randomised 2:1 (givinostat:placebo).
Other steroids intermittent regimen. The study duration is planned for 19 months.
Givinostat or placebo oral suspension (10 mg/mL) will be administered orally as 2 oral doses daily while the subject is in fed state, according to the child's weight.
platelets count ≤50 x 109/L.
In case the study drug was temporarily stopped, the study drug can be resumed at a level 1/3 smaller than the one at which the Adverse Event leading to temporary stop occurred, once platelets are normalized or diarrhoea is mild (if treatment was stopped for moderate or severe diarrhoea).
Two interim analyses are planned and will be conducted by the IDMC in order to ensure study integrity.
Have used systemic corticosteroids for a minimum of 6 months immediately prior to the start of study treatment, with no significant change in corticosteroids type or dosage or dosing regimen (excluding changes related to body weight change) for a minimum of 6 months immediately prior to start of study treatment and a reasonable expectation that dosage and dosing regimen will not change significantly for the duration of the study.
Have any known allergic reaction to givinostat or any of its excipients.
At the discretion of the Investigator, subjects not meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria may be re-screened twice with an interval of at least 3 months between assessments.


Restoration of human functional activity has been a drive for many centuries dating back to early Egyptian and Greek civilizations. These interventions would often take the form of a prosthesis or an assistive device made from various materials depending upon the body part. Emerging technologies in the last two decades have enabled a new paradigm of manufacturing in this area, using biomimetic and light-weight materials; structural-optimization techniques; additive manufacturing and active robotic controls.
Building upon the existing success of the group on prosthetic mechanics of lower-extremity, the proposed project invites a suitable candidate to join the multi-disciplinary, dynamic research team to work on the "smart prosthetic" project. The candidate will focus on loading and performance aspects in the development of "smart prosthetic lower limb". These aspects will be addressed by implementing experimental studies and developing numerical simulation tools to get an in-depth knowledge of mechanical behaviour of biological and artificial components of a smart prosthesis and to investigate deformation and fracture mechanisms under various usability regimes. Another important aspect will be analysis of stress and strain distributions in critical elements of the system. This project is part of a larger multi-disciplinary project being pursued by academics from several Schools under the University's strategic theme "Health & Wellbeing". The project aims to create a step change in prosthetic rehabilitation and will appeal to students interested in studying structural integrity of challenging multi-material mechanical structures with emphasis on design of medical devices and their integration with biological systems.
For further project details email Dr Simin Li or register your interest and ask us a question.


Every child is required to visit the dentist twice a year, from the moment their first tooth erupts and around their first birthday. A regular dental check-up is one way of protecting their teeth up until they grow old. It is also essential to ensure that their oral health stays in good shape. When it comes to child-friendly dental care, we at Saad Smiles Dentistry are your best partner. We are committed to providing only the best Pediatric Dentistry services for our young patients.
Sometimes the development of dental caries may cause the teeth to appear chalky. Call the dentist's attention right away if you see broken fragments on your child's tooth or if their pearly whites started to become brownish. Note that tooth decay is very progressive, so it needs urgent treatment.
A toothache should not be left unattended. You can end your child's dental issues by allowing the dentist to perform necessary dental procedures.
Reddish, swollen, irritated, and bleeding gums especially when brushing are warning signs of gingivitis. The dentist can examine the condition and perform appropriate treatments for the problem to avoid further complications.
Parents must be vigilant enough regarding their child's oral health. It is better to check the young one's teeth on a regular basis. Signs like teeth sensitivity and loose teeth must also be tracked as these call for professional help as well. Good proper hygiene must be observed to keep the mouth, teeth, and gums in excellent condition, but these oral care routine can always be upgraded by taking your kids with us at Saad Smiles Dentistry!
Saad Smiles Dentistry is always ready to take action involving you and your child's oral health. If you want to experience a secure and more child-friendly Pediatric Dentistry services in Livonia, MI, book your appointment at 8810 Middlebelt Road, Livonia, MI 48150.


Yesterday, we watched two videos on the layers of soil. Then, we read and discussed pages 242-244. We completed workbook pages 108-110. This morning, we played a review game to prepare for exam 7, which is on Tuesday, April 23rd. Please see previous posts to access the review if you have not already done so.
This morning, we learned about soil and how it is formed. We read pages 240-241 and completed workbook page 108 numbers 1-6.
This morning, we worked on the math in science activity on page 237. We practiced looking at data and working with fractions.
This morning, we read Marble Memorials on page 236. Then, we compared two different rocks in the United States. We used these to completed workbook pages 106-107 and the "write about it activity".
This morning, the students observed and classified rocks. They had fun being geologists!
This morning, we reviewed metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Then, we read page 234 about how rocks and minerals are used on a daily basis. We answered the quick check questions and then completed workbook pages 103-105. The Exam 7 review answers were posted on my page last night. Students should check their work with that document.
This morning, we reviewed igneous rocks and then watched a video on sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. We read pages 323 and 233 and completed workbook page 103 11-13. On Friday, the students will need their magnifying glasses. They will become geologist and classify rocks!
This morning, we reviewed our post it note sentences and our video about rocks. Then, we read pages 230-231 about igneous rocks. We completed workbook page 102.
Yesterday, we read pages 228 and 229 and talked about the properties of minerals and completed workbook page 102 1-6.
This morning, we completed our mineral activity and we discussed that minerals have different hardnesses. We watched videos about diamonds and then wrote sentences in our notebook about our learning.
This morning, we began the class with a video to review erosion and also to introduce or new unit on rocks and minerals. Then, we began the inquiry activity on page 227. We will continue with this tomorrow. The students really enjoyed it!
This morning, we checked workbook pages 96, 99, and 100. We also reviewed what students wrote on their post it notes. We read about weathering on statues in Greece on page 220. Then, we worked on workbook page 97 and 98 to draft a paragraph.


This might be the longest amount of time Marlowe and I have been home in over a year. Well, to be honest, we're not even home. We're currently a few miles south of home, staying in my moms condo while our house is upside down in repairs. But regardless, this is the longest amount of time we've been "home" in a while. And for the record, it's been only been about three weeks, haha.
I swore up and down that I wouldn't travel anywhere for a while. My goal was to make it until February here in South Florida. I mean, the weather is finally nice here. (Cold enough for jeans and long sleeves today!) But then here I am– on a Monday evening doing everything in my power to not book an escape for Marlowe and I this coming month.
There's a lot of obvious reasons to why I find travel to be so amazing and fulfilling. Especially with a kid– it's totally different to travel alone vs with a kid, but I truly love getting out with her. I really like the simplicity of each day when we travel— that getting up and going for a walk in a new town or city feels like something. It feels new each day. And I think that's what I liked about our time in Mexico so much (besides the food). I liked that we could walk around town each day and each day find a new piece of magic on a simple walk.
These are obviously old photos. But these are the simple moments that I collected on everyday adventures while away. I'm not sure if I'll end up holding out to February, but we'll see. February would be an entirely new trip anyway– to the west coast of Mexico — where we've never been before. But if I booked a trip before then, it would be back here, to the Yucatán, easily our favorite place– where all these photos exist. Until then I've lived in my happy memories– here are my pictures of enjoyed things in our everyday Mexico.
Sea-weedy walks. Mexico as well as South Florida had a huge seaweed issue this year. The seaweed bordered almost all the beaches everywhere. Not exactly an enjoyed thing, but it was an adventure finding a sea-weed free beach each day.
Bougainvillea in front of empty apartments for rent // random stairs to a random roof top in a random restaurant after getting lost in a random neighborhood development… that we weren't even supposed to be in. That was an adventure.
Would you live in this building? It's freaking amazing, but I worry about extra little friends who might also want to live in it? Hmm.
The prettiest buildings. Also, random, but a bit over a year ago I had this crazy dream that my friends Claudia and Will were showing me the home they purchased in Mexico– it looked a lot like this. It's too bad they didn't actually move to Mexico.
We decided to go for a really long beach walk one day. After the beach, we decided to head back to the road instead of walking back along the water. We left the beach and stumbled on a mayan ruin! How freaking cool.
Her favorite trees (we have these at home too). // And a home I got in trouble for taking a photo of. Womp.
Lots of pretty floors in Mexico. I want them all.
This mural is basically my life.
We (hubby, me and 6 kiddos) are currently living in San Miguel de Allende and we are loving it. Very walkable city and since we don't have a car that's all we do. I can't wait to visit the other cities too and the beach. We'll be in Mexico until April.


Apr 22: Cutaway archtops – how many?
The name "Epiphone" has been part of American music history since the 1920s when Epaminondas "Epi" Stathopoulo (1893–1943), the young president of a family-owned instrument manufacturing company based in New York, introduced a successful line of banjos with this brand, soon followed by guitars. Over the following decades the quality of Epiphone's archtop guitars and other stringed instruments gained a high reputation, leading numerous top players to choose Epiphone instruments for performing and recording their music. Today these fine vintage Epiphone instruments continue to be of interest to musicians, collectors and historians. Many rate the quality of these instruments on a par with competitors of their time such as Gibson, D'Angelico, or Stromberg, to name just a few.
The era of the original NY-based Epiphone company ended when, after a long decline, it was sold by the Stathopoulo family in 1957 to Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI) – the parent company of their main competitor Gibson. The new owners continued to produce Epiphone-branded instruments, first in Gibson's Kalamazoo MI factory and later in East Asia – to this day (read more about Epiphone history).
Compared with other leading manufacturers like Gibson or Martin, there seem to be more gaps and puzzles in the history of Epiphone instruments of the NY era – especially regarding production figures. Why is that? Fact is: No Epiphone factory ledgers or other official production documents from the pre-1957 years are known to have survived. Therefore no "official" production figures are available for any of the original Epiphone models. Epiphone's serial number systems and the rationale behind them still bear some mysteries; and the production year of an Epiphone instrument can be only approximately derived from its serial number.
The only way to get more knowledge in this field is to gather and analyze information on as many surviving Epiphone instruments as possible. Jim Fisch and L. B. Fred, authors of the outstanding reference book Epiphone: The House of Stathopoulo (Amsco Publications, New York, 1996) had started a list of documented instruments (serial number/model) – a few hundred in total.
The Unofficial New York Epiphone Registry (NY Epi Reg) project aims to continue and deepen the research started by Fisch/Fred: by collecting additional data on surviving instruments, with the help of the worldwide "Epiphone community", i.e. players, collectors, dealers, luthiers and historians who own and appreciate Epiphone instruments.
Registry database: We have documented up to now about 4300 instruments and amps of the 1930–50s period – about 9% of the estimated instrument production – listed with model name, serial number, and approximate production year. Most entries include a photo (currently 1 pic per item, although our research library includes >50'000 photos in total).
Model history: Read our detailed descriptions of each model's features and changes over the years – with links to photos showing the described detail. Our Timeline offers a chronological overview of developments from 1931 to 1956, again with photos illustrating described features.
Serial number research: Our research provides an in-depth analysis of Epiphone's various serial number systems used between 1931 and 1956. See our revised charts for dating serial numbers of Epiphone instruments and amplifiers.
Production figures: Based on our registry data and serial number research we provide examples of model production estimates, using our own approximation (interpolation + extrapolation) algorithms.
Historic catalogs and price lists: PDFs of Epiphone sales literature from 1930–50s are available for free download.
We hope that this data collection will continue to grow as Epiphone instrument owners all over the world keep contributing info.
This research project was inspired by similar projects covering other brands and types of vintage musical instruments – such as the Mandolin Archive, Banner Gibsons Registry, Gibson J-35 Registry, Larson Brothers Guitar Registry, Unofficial Martin Guitar Registry, Vintage Les Paul Guitar Registry, and last but not least, Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of Extraordinary Women & Gibson's 'Banner' Guitars of WWII.
NY Epi Reg is a private, non-commercial research project driven by my personal interest in vintage Epiphone instruments – as a player and collector of fine guitars and mandolins. The project's sole purpose is to learn more and share info about the great musical instruments of Epiphone's New York era.
A big "thank you" to all you contributors out there who made and make this project fly!


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Pakistan Steel Football Club is a Pakistani football club affiliated with Pakistan Steel Mills and is based outside the city of Karachi in the Pakistan Steel Township.

Career
It played in the 2008–09 Pakistan Premier League after winning promotion by coming in second in the 2007–08 Football Federation League. It is playing in the 2020-21 Football Federation League.

Team
Muhammad Akram (Captain), Abdul Hafeez (Vice-Captain), Haroon Rasheed, Mamoon Rasheed, Fazal Hussain, Muhammad Tariq, Abrar Ahmed, Muhammad Maqbool, Nadir Ali, Muhammad Bux, Muhammad Arshad, Kareem Bakhsh, Sarfraz, Muhammad Illyas, Muhammad Tariq, Nasir Ahmed, Muhammad Akmal, Najeeb Hassan, Naveed Raza, Aamir Wali Khan, Adnan Iqbal, Baseer Ahmed and Abdul Wahab.

Football clubs in Pakistan
Works association football clubs in Pakistan
Football in Karachi


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Tournament code
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Tournament date
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March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Zhu, Yi (6153) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Shaevel, Jeff (17) Taff, Jason D. (4204) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Anderson, David (3565) Sustare, Dennis (6371) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Smith, Clay Chip (3) Greene, Kevin J. (3972) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Yun, Che-Cho (5975) Raper, Larry K. (2334) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Carter, Jimmy (3524) Jacob, Bart (3979) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Ruiz, Michael Daniel (5663) Gentry, Jay (2344) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Chappell, David (6154) Snyder, Jim (6370) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Shaevel, Jeff (17) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Zhu, Yi (6153) Taff, Jason D. (4204) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Anderson, David (3565) Greene, Kevin J. (3972) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Smith, Clay Chip (3) Yun, Che-Cho (5975) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Sustare, Dennis (6371) Raper, Larry K. (2334) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Jacob, Bart (3979) Ruiz, Michael Daniel (5663) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Carter, Jimmy (3524) Gentry, Jay (2344) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Chappell, David (6154) Moeller, Joe (5316) 3 0
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Taff, Jason D. (4204) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Zhu, Yi (6153) Shaevel, Jeff (17) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Anderson, David (3565) Yun, Che-Cho (5975) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Greene, Kevin J. (3972) Raper, Larry K. (2334) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Sustare, Dennis (6371) Smith, Clay Chip (3) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Jacob, Bart (3979) Gentry, Jay (2344) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Carter, Jimmy (3524) Ruiz, Michael Daniel (5663) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Snyder, Jim (6370) Moeller, Joe (5316) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Anderson, David (3565) 3 0
March 20, 1993 Shaevel, Jeff (17) Greene, Kevin J. (3972) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Zhu, Yi (6153) Yun, Che-Cho (5975) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Taff, Jason D. (4204) Smith, Clay Chip (3) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Raper, Larry K. (2334) Jacob, Bart (3979) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Sustare, Dennis (6371) Chappell, David (6154) 3 0
March 20, 1993 Carter, Jimmy (3524) Snyder, Jim (6370) 5 0
March 20, 1993 Gentry, Jay (2344) Moeller, Joe (5316) 4 0
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Greene, Kevin J. (3972) 4 0
March 20, 1993 Shaevel, Jeff (17) Anderson, David (3565) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Zhu, Yi (6153) Smith, Clay Chip (3) 3 0
March 20, 1993 Taff, Jason D. (4204) Yun, Che-Cho (5975) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Raper, Larry K. (2334) Carter, Jimmy (3524) 0 0
March 20, 1993 Sustare, Dennis (6371) Snyder, Jim (6370) 6 0
March 20, 1993 Jacob, Bart (3979) Chappell, David (6154) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Ruiz, Michael Daniel (5663) Moeller, Joe (5316) 4 0
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Yun, Che-Cho (5975) 5 0
March 20, 1993 Zhu, Yi (6153) Anderson, David (3565) 0 -5
March 20, 1993 Shaevel, Jeff (17) Smith, Clay Chip (3) 3 0
March 20, 1993 Taff, Jason D. (4204) Greene, Kevin J. (3972) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Raper, Larry K. (2334) Gentry, Jay (2344) 2 0
March 20, 1993 Sustare, Dennis (6371) Moeller, Joe (5316) 6 0
March 20, 1993 Jacob, Bart (3979) Snyder, Jim (6370) 6 0
March 20, 1993 Ruiz, Michael Daniel (5663) Chappell, David (6154) 0 5
March 20, 1993 Ouyang, Shaoze (4916) Smith, Clay Chip (3) 6 0
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You are here: Home / J. Michael DeTreville
Charleston divorce attorney since 2005
I feel like I am one of the lucky ones. I get out of bed every day knowing that I have a chance to really help somebody. Not everybody gets that kind of opportunity."
Michael DeTreville is a Charleston divorce lawyer and native with long family roots in the local area. He graduated from Bishop England High School in 1992 and attended The George Washington University for 2 years. Homesickness led him back to South Carolina and the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in 2001 (after spending a number of years in the work force). He made both Dean's List and President's List while at USC.
He was immediately drawn to the legal profession, and served as staff for his mother's legal practice, an experience that made him appreciate the coordination, cooperation, and skill needed to run a successful law firm. He enrolled in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina in 2002, and graduated in 2005. While in law school, Michael served as Articles Editor for the Southeastern Environmental Journal, received the CALI Award for Products Liability, and the Luther M. Lee Scholarship, for which he is deeply grateful.
He was honored to clerk for the firms of Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson, and Helms and Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook, and Brickman while in law school, and has been in private practice with Patricia O. DeTreville since being admitted to the Bar. Michael is a member of the Charleston County Bar, the American Bar Association, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
When he's not in his office, he's likely to be in one of four places: 1) home with his two children; 2) on the water, trying to convince fish to jump in his boat; 3) a barbecue restaurant, or; 4) Williams-Brice stadium, rooting on the Gamecocks.


I love watching things fall together. I love when a customer walks in on a mission to find a perfect piece for a specific spot in their home and how their face lights up when they find it. I love seeing a young girl fall in love with her first piece of art, and when an older woman finds a piece of jewelry that speaks to her and reminds her of yesteryear. I love a man who smiles because he just found something that reminds him of his dad. I love watching someone get lost in their thoughts when they see an old piece of something and they know it can become something else. I love watching strangers become friends, and I love watching people of so many different walks of life find out how many things they have in common.
Seaglass Salvage Market is not just a place but a state of mind. You don't just shop, you wander, examine, imagine, absorb, reflect and reminiscence…it truly is an experience. You meet and greet and learn about the art, the furniture and the items you're purchasing.
The coffee is free, lunch is always delicious, and there is always something fun going on.


framework as it impacts on cross-border co-operation. This report will be used to inform the other Work Packages within E-ARK as it is essential to ensure the project aligns with EU Directives as implemented by Member States.
This is version 2 of our report, updated in 2017.
While this document can only provide guidance, it does contain checklists of things which we recommend that archives should Ensure, Monitor and Consider.
This report details the technical and other requirements for each of the pilot sites which will participate in the E-ARK Pilot Programme.
This is Part 1 of Deliverable 2.4 (Pilot Documentation). It is a .ZIP file which contains documents relating to the 5 main pilots undertaken within E-ARK. In addition to an overall description, you will find a number of .PDF's detailing each individual pilot, and also matching Read-Only Excel Spreadsheets which contain technical details of the pilots. This is version 3 of the deliverable and was uploaded on 26 January 2017.
This is Part 2 of Deliverable 2.4 (Pilot Documentation). It is a .ZIP file which contains documents relating to the 5 main pilots undertaken within E-ARK. In addition to an overall description, you will find a number of .PDF's detailing each individual pilot, and also matching Read-Only Excel Spreadsheets which contain technical details of the pilots. This is version 3 of the deliverable and was uploaded on 26 January 2017.
This report will be used as an input to the E-ARK SIP specification, records export requirements, transfer and ingest recommendations. This report provides an overview of the current situation of the digital archiving best practices. Special attention is paid to archival ingest workflows, submission information package formats used for transfer and ingest of digital objects and their metadata.
A Submission Information Package (SIP) is defined in the OAIS standard as an Information Package that is delivered by the Producer to the OAIS for use in the construction or update of one or more AIPs and/or the associated Descriptive Information. Many different SIP formats are used all over the world and unfortunately there is currently no central format for a SIP which would cover all individual national and business needs identified in the E-ARK Report on Available Best Practices.
This deliverable describes a draft SIP specification for the E-ARK project and gives an overview of the structure and main metadata elements for E-ARK SIP and provide initial input for the technical implementations of E-ARK ingest tools.
An update of deliverable D3.2 - this provides a general structure for Submission Information Packages.
Please read this in conjunction with the D3.3 SMURF deliverable which describes the Semantically Marked Up Record Format.
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• Universal Archiving Module (a tool for SIP creation).
In addition, an overview of Pre-Ingest and Ingest processes is provided by this document which will help the reader to understand the tools and their use.
Within the overall strategy of E-ARK the AIPs have a small but highly significant role. The structure of the E-ARK AIP must be derived not from individual implementations of existing technology providers, but from the major abstract concepts currently existing to ensure that conversions between SIP, AIP & DIP are developed only once.
This report examines and describes these concepts and derives recommendations from them, which will be used as a guide line in the next step, the design of the pan-European AIP format and the conversion tools supporting it.
This document builds on the overview of existing solutions for AIPs given in D4.1. It describes a blueprint for the structure of an AIP format following from the state of the art described there.
This deliverable D4.3 "E-ARK AIP pilot specification" presents the E-ARK AIP format specification as it will be used by the pilots (implementations in pilot organizations). The deliverable is a follow-up version of E-ARK deliverable D4.2 "E-ARK AIP draft specification".
Part B is SIP-AIP Conversion Component.
The primary aim of this deliverable is to present the first version of the E-ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) format. In order to do so the deliverable describes the workflows and use cases of archival access services and ultimately uses these to present a set of requirements which should be followed when designing a DIP format.
will be rendered for use. This document is a revision of the deliverable D5.3 E-ARK DIP Pilot Specification, which was published in May 2016.
The aim of this deliverable is to describe the "Search, Access and Display Interfaces" that have been developed in the Access component of the E-ARK project.
The deliverable is mainly a software deliverable and therefore this document provides underpinning descriptions of and links to the software itself.


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Lubarsky: What We Can Hope For
By Pando Populus | Jun. 15, 2015
"Ecological Civilization" by Tucker Nichols for Pando Populus. Artwork copyright (c) 2015 by the artist.
What Can We Hope For?
By Sandra Lubarsky
Sandra Lubarsky presented this section plenary address for the SEIZING AN ALTERNATIVE conference, Section V: Ecological Civilization (June 5, 2015). (For a copy of the text with PowerPoint slides, please click here.)
Welcome to this plenary session. I'm very glad to be here, honored to give this presentation, and delighted to welcome all of you here. I want to give particular thanks to Charlene Tshirhart and Angela Donelly who have been the organizers for this conference section. I know they've been working very hard for many months to get us to this point. Thank you! I also want to thank Dr. Meijun Fan who has made it possible for this presentation to be translated into Chinese.
The topic of this plenary is "What can we hope for?" and it is another way of framing the theme of this conference which is dedicated to finding—and seizing–strategies that give reason for hope–and also generate hope.
I am, however, compelled to begin this presentation on hope by situating my thoughts within the sober context of our climate crisis.
This slide [slide] says all that needs to be said in this regard, if you keep in mind all the reverberations that follow from an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.
There are now more than 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. Though we've seen this measure appear before, it was for a few hours or days. But for the whole month of March of this year, the average global concentration of CO2 has been 400 ppm for a month. The head scientist of NOAA, is quoted as saying: "Reaching 400 parts per million as a global average is a significant milestone."
That milestone is part of what has been described as a "planetary-scale critical transition," never before witnessed by human civilization. In the face of this kind of terrifying projection, anticipating the crossing of biophysical boundaries not meant to be crossed, what are we to hope for? We are headed into a territory we have never known, with little knowledge and no GPS. The more appropriate question seems to be: "What should we fear?" The question that comes more easily to mind is: "What can we despair about?"
So let us start with some gallows humor, in the form of the advice of a Jew during the Holocaust: "Save your despair for when you really need it."
Gallows humor is by definition grim and ironic, mocking the immediate facts of a dire reality. You think THIS is bad? But it's not merely ironic. It's also a cheeky, insolent reminder of the tendency to despair too soon. The immediate situation is bad, even terrible, but the world might yet be different. To despair too soon is counterproductive. When do you really need despair? The implicit answer is not as long as there is a flicker of hope. "Save your despair for when you really need it."
Still, it's hard to know what we know about the state of the world and be hopeful. I awoke the other day to two messages in my email: one was an article reporting that 93% of seed varieties have been lost in the last 80 years and the other was from The Greater Good Science Center with advice on "How To Learn to Love Your Stress." To know what we know is to live between hope and despair, trying not to be immobilized by either.
The literary critic, Raymond Williams, wrote: "[To] be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."
In her important new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, Naomi Klein makes the case that the climate crisis can become a catalyst for social and economic transformation. If treated as "a "true planetary emergency," she believe that climate change could "become a galvanizing force for humanity, leaving us all not just safer from extreme weather, but with societies that are safer and fairer in all kinds of other ways as well." Klein devotes the last part of her book to examples of hope-in-action, to what she calls "Blockadia"—efforts of people across the world to preserve the integrity of their land communities by blocking the work of extractive industries. While I was writing this presentation, the "sHell No!" Paddle in Seattle protest, a Blockadia action, was underway in the Port of Seattle. The image was iconic: thousands of small boats, kayaks, and tribal canoes filling the waterway, blocking massive drilling rigs from entering the port in order to ultimately block Artic drilling further north.
Klein distinguishes between "optimism" and hope—and it's an important distinction, one that I'm sure you've heard before. She's not at all optimistic that we'll be able to keep the earth's temperature from rising more than 2-degrees Celsius. Nor is she confident that there is wisdom or will enough to prevent technophiles from dangerously toying with natural systems or politicians from supercharged neoliberal policies crafted on behalf of their campaign funders.
And yet, even so, she's been accused of being "madd-en-ing-ly" optimistic by no less a personage than the environmental journalist, Elizabeth Kolbert, author of (among other things) The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Kolbert accuses Klein of "telling a fable she hopes will do some good." And Kolbert's cynicism cannot be dismissed out of hand. There is simply no cause to be confident about the future when the last northern white rhino male has to be guarded 24 hours a day or he and his entire species will be murdered for the price of his horn. There is no cause for confidence in the capacity of humans to respond effectively and compassionately to the 52 island nations now at risk of being swept away by rising sea levels.
John Oliver, the satirist and social critic, says—and I've toned down his comment a bit–"We've proven that we cannot be trusted with the future tense; we've been repeatedly asked, 'Don't you want to leave a better earth to your grandchildren?—and we've all collectively responded, "eh… screw 'em."
But Klein's response is equally deserving of attention. She says:
I have yet to meet anyone professionally focused on the science of our warming planet who does not wrestle with despair, myself included. Yet surely the decision about whether to maintain some hope in the face of an existential crisis that is still technically preventable is not just a matter of cold calculation. It's also a question of ethics. If there is any chance of turning the tide, and if taking action could actually lead to all kinds of ancillary benefits, then it seems to me that those of us with public platforms have a responsibility to share that good news, alongside all the painful truths.
So let us consider hope:
My colleague's aunt lives on the 26th floor of a building in Calcutta. Her aunt has a bad hip and there's only one lift in the building. The earthquake that hit Nepal so hard also made buildings in Calcutta sway and left large cracks in the concrete. "So what will your aunt do?" I asked my friend. "Will she move?" "No, no," she answered. "Definitely not. There is nothing to be done. That is Calcutta." Her aunt is resigned to dying in the building should a strong enough quake hit her neighborhood again. Her hope is that despite the terrestrial geography, despite non-existent zoning codes, despite insufficient building codes, and despite the limitations of her own body, she hopes she will not meet her death on the 26th floor of her apartment building. She is fatalistic about the future. Hers is a wistful hope, a yearning restrained by the graceful acceptance that "this is Calcutta." If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
In reaction to passive forms of hope, Derrick Jensen, a leading environmental activist and writer, urges us to move "beyond hope." He writes, "Many people say they hope the dominant culture stops destroying the world. By saying that, they've assumed that the destruction will continue…and they've stepped away from their own ability to participate in stopping it…. When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work. We make sure salmon survive. We make sure prairie dogs survive. . . We do whatever it takes." For Jensen, hope immobilizes action; to be hopeful is to be helpless.
Jensen's reaction to hope as an excuse for irresponsibility is warranted. There is a kind of hope that leads to passivity. But it's not just hope that can cripple initiative. Pessimism and despair are equally liable to constrain action. And so are extreme forms of optimism.
There is nothing simple about hope. Take, for example, the radical and alarming hope of those who propose geo-engineering as a solution to climate change. Theirs is a brew of total pessimism about human nature and our ability to overcome our carbon addiction, and total optimism in technology and our ability to manage entire earth systems. Hope and its varieties are based on assumptions about what we're capable of doing and about what is important and possible. Those assumptions are the outcome of often-unstated philosophical assumptions.
I think it's telling that when John Cobb formulated this plenary session, he didn't ask the question, "Is hope possible?" Instead, he asked us to consider, "What can we hope for?" That question assumes that hope is possible, is feasible, despite the very grave circumstances that are the reason for this conference. As John wrote in a pre-conference essay, "Our inaugural conference is based on the hope that hope will help."
The reason why hope is feasible for someone like John Cobb is because it is part of a metaphysics that makes it so. That metaphysics is process thought. Process thought offers a way of understanding reality that makes radical hope possible. By "radical hope" I mean hope that is sustained not simply by sheer force of personal conviction or by willful ignorance of reality or because of a privileged immunity from reality's worst contingencies. Radical hope is secured—in its roots—by a metaphysics that affirms: change and possibility, agency and power, novelty and creativity, and value and importance.
These are philosophical concepts that secure hope as something real, not to be dismissed, in spite of what we know about the depletion of topsoil, the death of coral reefs, the oil spill in Santa Barbara, and on and on. Amidst this proliferation of tragedies, it is not still naïve to ask the question, "What can we hope for?" because there is a process-relational metaphysics in which certain things are possible, including hope– even in a time of mass extinctions, even in a time of ecocide.
So let me spend a few minutes sketching the metaphysics of hope provided by process philosophy (and forgive me, all of you who are already familiar with this).
First, the word "process" in process philosophy. "Process" describes the fundamental activity of the world. Everything is always in process, always undergoing some degree of change.
Often this change is hardly perceptible and so we experience a general stability of conditions. But change is the rule, and in this case, there are no exceptions; change is, as Whitehead says, "in the essence of the universe." Reality is a process of dynamic "becoming," not static "being."
But though change is guaranteed, positive change is not. Unlike campaign rhetoric of recent years, change does not presuppose progress. Positive change is a possibility but change can also be detrimental. Still, the fact that the world is in a constant state of change provides a foothold for hope because it means that the status quo is ephemeral.
Whitehead's explanation for the process of change is brilliant and complex. I am going to reduce that brilliance and complexity to a very quick look at three principle reasons why change happens: possibility, agency, and value.
Possibility: The idea of process requires the notion of potentiality. In a world that is in process–that is characterized by change–possibilities must abound; otherwise, there is only repetition. But we know that novel ideas and new sensibilities do come into the world. Whitehead offers the example of the idea of freedom and individual self-determination, tracing the history of slavery as an unchallenged, taken-for-granted practice in Plato's time to a deplorable practice in the 21st century. Change happens—often slowly, often in unplanned cooperation with chance—it took millennia before human servitude was broadly recognized as an atrocity– but novelty builds on novelty, new insights replace old ways, and new patterns of behavior reinforce change. The future is conditioned by the past but it is not determined by it. Though there are strong patterns of repetition, there is not sheer repetition. This is because the facts of the world are supplemented by possibilities that are inherent in the world, waiting to be actualized. As Whitehead writes:
"…a great idea in the background of dim consciousness is like a phantom ocean beating upon the shores of human life in successive waves of specialization. A whole succession of such waves are as dreams slowly doing their work of sapping the base of some cliff of habit: but the seventh wave is a revolution." (AI 19)
Agency: To be realized, possibilities must be incorporated into the lives of experiencing beings. Whitehead affirms Plato's claim that to be is to have active agency. "The definition of being is simply power." Here "power" means dynamism—the ability to actively participate in the fundamental process that shapes reality. Rather than being an inanimate cog in a machine, each entity shapes its own existence to some degree, determining what weight will be given to the past and introducing its own, unique aim into its final form. Each entity is an original event, a novel coalescence of factors. Human life is our most familiar illustration of what this means, but all entities are, to some degree, self-directed. Each of us has the capacity to reject destructive patterns and construct life-affirming ones. Each of us has some degree of freedom, some degree of creativity–and that's why, in its denial of this truth, slavery is so horrendous. To exercise our creativity is not always easy and success is not guaranteed. The given-ness of the world is formidable. The past has a strong grip on the present and often it seems that meaningful change is not possible. But the capacity is there. And that capacity is immanent in the natural order, as much a part of the metaphysical landscape as transpiration is a part of the water cycle. This agency, this power to participate in life actively and creatively and not simply to replicate fixed behaviors and beliefs is a pivot for hope, the kind of hope that David Orr, a leading environmentalist, describes as "a verb with its sleeves rolled up."
Third, value: When we say that we hope things will be different, we imply that they ought to be different and we reveal hope's ethical dimension. Hope's deepest grounding is in a metaphysics that affirms value as inherent in the structure of reality. Process philosophy provides such a metaphysical system. Indeed, according to process philosophy, value is "inherent in actuality itself." (RM 100) Whitehead writes, "Our enjoyment of actuality is a realization of worth, good or bad. It is a value experience." (MT 116) The whole process of becoming is directed toward the grasping of value in others, the incorporation of it within oneself, and the furtherance of value in creative ways. And the process of each actuality and of life in general is directed toward attaining value, increasing value, and enjoying value. Above all, what is valued is "the simple craving to enjoy freely the vividness of life." (AI 272)
I love that phrase: "to enjoy freely the vividness of life." Surely, this is what we hope for, in the most general sense: to freely and fully engage with life.
There is much more that can be said about how a process metaphysics gives grounds for hope. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, for example, lend their support to the experience of life's vividness. How worth is secured in each actuality occupies most of Whitehead's magnum opus, Process and Reality. But for now, I hope my point is clear: that process philosophy secures the idea of hope metaphysically. Without this kind of mooring, hope floats like driftwood, lightweight and eroding. Instead of being a stimulus for engagement, it becomes nothing more than wishful thinking. With metaphysical support, hope is possible not only as the consequence of individual passion, not solely dependent on whether people have the capacity to beckon and sustain it, but as the outcome of a worldview, illuminated by possibility, agency, novelty, and worth.
And so, at last, some reflections on what we can hope for.
Years ago, Donella Meadows, author of the now-classic book, The Limits to Growth, led a series of workshops focused on how to end hunger. Expert agronomists, economists, ecologists, and development specialists came to the workshops. Meadows began the first workshop by asking the question, "What is your vision of a world without hunger?" She asked people to describe, "not the world they thought they could achieve, or the world they were willing to settle for, but the world they truly wanted."
People refused to answer her question; some called it "stupid and dangerous." Someone said, "We don't need to talk about what the end of hunger will be like, we need to talk about how to get there." Someone else told her to "stop being unrealistic." She pressed them, anyway. Eventually, people began to let their defenses down. She writes, "One person said, with emotion, that he couldn't stand the pain of thinking about the world he really wanted, when he was so aware of the world's present state." And finally one person voiced what Meadows describes as coming "closer to the truth than any of our other rationalizations." "'I have a vision,' this person said, "but it would make me feel childish and vulnerable to say it out loud."
"Why is it," asked Meadows,
that we can share our cynicism, complaints, and frustrations without hesitation with perfect strangers, but we can't share our dreams? How did we arrive at a culture that constantly, almost automatically, ridicules visionaries? . . . When were we taught, and by whom, to suppress our visions?
I think it's fair to say that modern education is partly to blame, having promoted objectivity as its primary value, critical thinking as its primary method, and career placement as its primary aim. But visions and hopes are fueled by values, by what we judge to be important and hold to be of worth. If we don't have a vision, if we aren't honest about our real desires, and if we aren't willing to share them publicly, we end us with half-baked policies and strategies for implementation. As British environmental writer George Monbiot said, we need a vision "that proposes a better world, rather than (if we work really hard for it), just a slightly-less-shitty-one-than-there-would-otherwise-have-been."
In answer to John Cobb's 1971 question, it may be too late to avoid ecological and social catastrophe. After all, the Club of Rome was right—there are ecological limits to economic and population growth. On the other hand, "What can we hope for?" is a question about vision, about what we value and how we will direct our energies. Meadows wrote her essay, "Envisioning a Sustainable World," in 1994, slightly more than 20 years after her report to the Club of Rome. To call for vision is to call for possibility and agency within a framework of values. It is, in other words, a practice of hope.
I have asked the chairs of the tracks in our Section on "Ecological Civilization" to reflect on the question, "What Can We Hope For?" from their perspectives. They're going to speak in a few minutes. I'll close this presentation with a few of my own reflections:
Reading of hard landings that will be the end of civilization and soft landings that are nonetheless sobering, I find myself in a kind of intoxicated dialectic, reeling between hope and despair. The Palestinian peace activist, Ali Abu Awwad, speaks of "painful hope," and I think that's a good term for describing the kind of hope that combines vision with activism—and his is a vision I deeply support.
My vision is informed by Whitehead's insight that all beings aim toward "… the simple craving to enjoy freely the vividness of life…"
Most of us, rich and poor, in fat world countries and lean ones , don't enjoy the vividness of life to the degree that we might, burdened in the one case with too many material goods and too little time, and, in the other case, with too few of life's necessities and too much insecurity.
To speak of the "vividness of life" is to speak in aesthetic terms and I would be remiss if I didn't speak about beauty as vision and hope. To do so—to speak about beauty–in our modern world is to court dismissal—to hear the voice of that participant in Donella Meadows' workshop who said, "Stop being ridiculous." But our continued trivialization of the value of beauty is evidence of the unremitting grip of the modern worldview on us. Philosophical and economic materialism required the marginalizing of beauty. Just so, a reintroduction of beauty as a public value will serve to break the exclusive control of economics as the determiner of worth. If we are to move toward a paradigm that supports life and that is ecologically sound, I believe we must commit to beauty as a central value and organizing principle.
For Whitehead, "the simple craving to enjoy freely the vividness of life" is an aesthetic aim and involves an aesthetic process. The production of art is one expression of this drive but Whitehead is talking about the production of LIFE. To hope for beauty is to hope for a world alive with a great diversity of life—both biologically diverse and culturally diverse–the consequence of endless creativity. And it is to hope for the coordination of life form to life form so that each individual life is able to enjoy the details of its life and to be supported by and contribute to larger and larger structures of relations.
Right now, we have made many parts of the world ugly—dreadful places (the etymological root of the word, "ugly.")
On the one hand, we have out-sized corporations in which the whole does not support the parts—depriving them of their individual intensities. And, in regard to our human relations with the natural world, we have a part—human civilization, especially capitalist civilization–asserting itself as the whole and destroying both the many parts and the processes on which it depends.
In our drive to promote human life, we have denied the worth of other life forms. Beauty–understood as the name for the value associated with aliveness– calls us to a different relation with the natural world and each other. It is this different relation on which we need to build our hope.
Naomi Klein and writer-activist Rebecca Solnit are vocal about the need for a coalescence of activist movements. It's all the same conversation, says Klein. That's why her book on climate change is also a book about capitalism. Climate activism is transition activism and both are justice activism. To create a movement of movements is an aesthetic project: the value and vitality of each individual effort—each mobilization for justice, each boycott or occupation, each legal objection—is affirmed both in its singularity and in its importance for the whole effort to shape the common good. Each effort is one exquisite detail in the emergence of a larger composition whose significance and worth reinforces the value of the individual efforts on which it depends. Whitehead's primary example of beauty is the Cathedral at Chartres with its nine portals, lined with statues.
"There are those statues, each with its individual beauty, and all lending themselves to the beauty of the whole."
So it might be with a movement of movements, achieving a dynamic mutuality between individual efforts and the great restructuring to which they contribute.
The contributions of individuality to the whole—and of the whole to the constitutions of each individual—this is the dynamic at the core of Whitehead's philosophy. How it might best be achieved involves, I think, localism and local scale, the rebuilding of community life where individuals understand themselves as individuals-in-community and regard themselves as members of a place, in relationship with the land community. In short, it involves restructuring our social lives in ways that strengthen our sense of belonging and our obligations to those with whom we live and to the places where we live. These are the possibilities that I believe will renew our individual agency and restore a sense of worth to our relations with each other.
Let me close with this anecdote, recounted by Rebecca Solnit. It is the story of a woman who was involved in the anti-nuclear movement of the 1960's, Women Strike for Peace. This movement actually succeeded in ending above-ground nuclear testing. In her reflections, the woman spoke about "how –foolish– and futile– she felt standing in the rain one morning protesting at the Kennedy White House."
But years later, she learned that Dr. Benjamin Spock–the well-known antiwar activist who became a leader in the nuclear disarmament movement–became active in the anti-nuclear movement because he had seen "a small group of women standing in the rain, protesting at the White House." That, he said, was his turning point.
Solnit writes, "It's always too soon to calculate effect." This story, this lesson, is for us, gathered at this conference. Perhaps, five years–or ten or twenty years–from now, people will remember this gathering in Claremont,
in the middle of that drought in California, just after the oil spill north of Santa Barbara, and they will think about all those people who chose to make their hope active, to seize alternatives to the destructive practices of late modernity—people from all over the U.S., that great delegation from China, and others from far and wide, and they will say: "that was my turning point, our turning point, the reason why we persist in our hope that we can change the world."
I now want to invite up the track organizers in the session on "Ecological Civilization" to give their own reflections on what we can hope for:
Jeanne Nakamura, "The Psychology of Wellbeing and its Ecological Implications"
Marilyn Hempel, "Population and Women"
Brianne Donaldson, "Seizing an Alternative: the Future of Meat without Animals"
Dean Freudenberger, "Agroecology as Foundational for Ecological Civilization"
Barbara Muraca, "Birth-pangs of Ecological Civilization" ( and Fubin Yang?)
China and Ecological Civilization (Xiaoting Liu and Tao Yang, chairs)
Members of the Pando writing team include Rich Binell, Alexi Caracotsios, Amy Goldberg, Rebecca Schmitt, and Eugene Shirley.
Ecological Civilization
Seizing an Alternative
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Q: Unity Circle calculation for my programm im programming a "clock like" behaviour. Meaning i

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*order some pictures in a circle (works)

*if i click and drag on any item all items should rotate with the mouse (works)

But i get a weird bug. The first time i click and hold the mouse my images "jump" to different positions. if i hold the mouse down i can rotate my clock ust fine.
When i MouseUp and start dragin from the same image it works well. if i go to another image i get this "Jump" again.
When i only have a few images on my clock i see that it doesnt jump. but the start position seems to bee off.
When i only have one item, i can rotate it in a circle, but the moment i start to rotate it jumps away from my mouse and than i can rotate it as desired.
For me it seems to be a wrong "starting point" when first dragging an item. SInce it works fine when i than drag the same item again and again.
Unfortunately i cant find the damn bug, and im searching the whole day already.

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public void SetLayoutHorizontal ()
{
    Debug.Log ("LAYOUT");

    for (var i =0; i < Rect.childCount; i++)
    {
        var PanelPrefab = Rect.GetChild (i) as RectTransform;

        Transform ImageObject = PanelPrefab.GetComponentInChildren<Transform>().Find("Image");

        if (PanelPrefab == null)
            continue;

        PanelPrefab.sizeDelta = CellSize;
        PanelPrefab.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(radius * Mathf.Sin( CalculateCircleAngle(i) - deltaRadian),radius * Mathf.Cos(CalculateCircleAngle(i) - deltaRadian));

    }

}

private float CalculateCircleAngle(int parts)
{
    //parts == Number of parts the whole circle is to be cut into
    return parts * (360/Rect.childCount) * (Mathf.PI/180);
}

public void OnDrag (PointerEventData eventData)
{
    var diffX = eventData.position.x - _rect.rect.width/2; // MouseX - CenterScreenX
    var diffY = eventData.position.y - _rect.rect.height/2; // MouseY - CenterScreenY
    deltaRadian = Mathf.Atan2(diffY,diffX);

    SetDirty();

}

Edit:
Ok i Edited the code but it still is not working.
I added the following method:
public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    originalX = eventData.position.x;
    originalY = eventData.position.y;

}

and i changed the drag method acordingly
public void OnDrag (PointerEventData eventData)
{

    var diffX = eventData.position.x - originalX;
    var diffY = eventData.position.y - originalY;
    deltaRadian = Mathf.Atan2(diffY,diffX);

    SetDirty();

}

The "Jumping" at the beginning of my drag event is gone, but the speed of the draggin is not on par with my mouse.
The closer i am to my starting point of the drag, the faster it moves, the further away i am the slower it gets.
I dont know if this brought me closer to a solution or further away :(
Edit2:
Ok i think the problem might be that my calculations were all done from the center point of view as 0,0 point.
Unity has the bottom left point as 0,0. So i somehow have to translate all those coordiantes first...

A: All that was needed was a transformation to kartesian coordinates
//Convert to kartesian coordinates with 0,0 in center of screen
    var diffX = (eventData.position.x - _rect.rect.width / 2) % (_rect.rect.width / 2);
    var diffY = (eventData.position.y - _rect.rect.height / 2) % (_rect.rect.height / 2);

and an addition of the delta instead of the subtraction
PanelPrefab.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(radius * Mathf.Sin(CalculateCircleAngle(i) + deltaRadian),radius * Mathf.Cos(CalculateCircleAngle(i) + deltaRadian));

A: Your mouse coordinates are relative to the control you click in. You could re-calculate them using the control's position within its container or you use absolute coordinates.

A: I don't think you are displaying all the relevant code, but your OnDrag function, specifically diffX, and diffY probably provide the answer for you.
I believe you're taking the absolute coordinates of the location you pick, and using them to generate your angle - which means that almost anywhere you click is a big jump from however the current angle is set.  Your initial click handler should save off a starting coordinate, and your OnDrag should compare itself against that initial coordinate, based on how far you've dragged from that saved location.

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Home About Endometriosis Institute Dr. Rana
Nasir Rana, M.D., has devoted more than 30 years of his professional life to academic medicine and the clinical practice Reproductive Health Care for Women. Dr. Rana is one of the Founding Partners of Reproductive Medicine Institute. He is board certified in both Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI) and Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN). He also holds a Master's Degree in Public Health (MPH) with emphasis on Women's Health Care.
Dr. Rana received his medical education from King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, from which he graduated with a Medical Degree in 1969. In 1974, he completed his internship and residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Dr Rana did his post-graduate research fellowship and training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center/Rush Medical University.
Dr. Rana was awarded a Certificate of Special Competence in the field of advanced laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgical procedures by the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. Dr Rana is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American College of Surgeons.
Together, Dr. Rana and his longtime associate Dr. Paul Dmowski established the not for profit Institute for the Study and Treatment of Endometriosis where a multidisciplinary approach is followed for both treatment and research. At the Institute, Drs. Rana and Dmowski combine a medical and surgical approach to optimize treatment for this chronic debilitating disease which affects women during their reproductive years.
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Over the years, Dr. Rana has lectured extensively on issues dealing with women's health within the Unites States and overseas particularly in Europe, China, South America and South East Asia. He and his colleagues have organized and participated in several national and international seminars and workshops on endometriosis, infertility, and advanced laparoscopic fertility preservation and enhancement surgeries. Dr. Rana is the author or co-author of more than 75 scientific articles published in peer-review journals.
Dr. Rana is on staff at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Elmhurst, Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, the Oak Brook Medical & Surgical Center in Oak Brook, and the 900 North Michigan Avenue Surgical Center in Chicago. After a long and honorable military career, Dr. Rana retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Air Force Reserve with a rating of Chief Flight Surgeon with more than 800 military flying hours. He is a veteran of the first Gulf war, recipient of several military awards and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Dr Rana is fully conversant in Urdu and Hindi.
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EOFIA (Élève Officier en formation initiale en Allemagne) est le nom d'un programme d'échange entre l'armée de terre française et le Heer allemand. Chaque année, en principe, l'École spéciale militaire de Saint Cyr envoie trois à cinq élèves officiers en Allemagne (depuis 2012), spécialement recrutés pour l´échange, tandis que l'Allemagne envoie trois Offizieranwärter en France.

La sélection des EOFIA

Toute personne ayant entre 17 et 19 ans au  janvier de l'année de candidature et possédant ou préparant un baccalauréat d'une série générale, peut se présenter au concours EOFIA.

Le candidat doit retirer un dossier d'inscription en décembre ou le télécharger et le renvoyer avant mars à la D.R.H.A.T. (direction des ressources humaines de l'armée de terre). Ce dossier comprend diverses informations à signaler, les bulletins des deux dernières années, et une lettre de motivation. Après pré-sélection des dossiers et le passage en centre de sélection et d'orientation (CSO), il se verra convoqué à l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr pour les épreuves du concours à proprement parler.

Les épreuves sont les suivantes :

 épreuve d'allemand écrite (coef. 2)
 épreuve d'allemand orale (coef. 2)
 épreuve d'anglais écrite (coef 1)
 épreuve de sport (coef. 2)
 grand oral devant le jury (coef. 5)

La formation

Elle débute fin août par quatre mois de formation de base du soldat au sein du  Bataillon de l'école spéciale militaire de Saint Cyr. Le but pour l´élève officier y est d'acquérir les fondamentaux: soin de l´uniforme, connaissances générales sur l´institution, tactique, commandement, etc.
En décembre, les EOFIA qui ne possèdent pas encore le permis de conduire civil sont envoyés en CIEC pour passer le brevet de conduite militaire, les autres sont envoyés en stage ou reçoivent une formation complémentaire aux écoles.

De janvier à mai les EOFIA étaient à Strasbourg au Centre de formation interarmées au renseignement pour y suivre une formation linguistique en allemand et en anglais. Le but de cette formation est d'arriver suffisamment armé sur le plan linguistique (examens rédhibitoires civil permettant l'équivalence CML 2) mais aussi en connaissances militaires générales (la Bundeswehr, l'OTAN, les armées européennes, etc.).

Dans le cadre d'une évolution de la formation, depuis l'année 2017-2018, les EOFIA restent aux écoles de Coëtquidan de janvier à mai, ce qui leur permet d'être davantage intégrés à leur promotion et de poursuivre des activités militaires avec leur camarades. Au programme, 6 heures d'anglais par jour pendant 2 semaines, puis 6 heures d'allemand par jour pendant 3 semaines. Sans oublier 4 à 8 heures de sport par semaine.

Les EOFIA suivent ensuite une formation militaire d'officier d'une durée de quinze mois au sein de la Bundeswehr en Allemagne :

 Six mois de formation au Bataillon des Élèves Officier de Munster (OA-Bataillon Munster), c´est-à-dire repartir de zéro dans une formation initiale, mais version allemande.
 Six mois à l'école des Officiers de Dresde (Offizierschule des Heeres OSH) où la formation s´axe davantage sur la théorie: tactique, histoire militaire, éducation politique et morale ou encore du droit militaire.
 Trois mois qui peuvent prendre différentes formes suivant la filière universitaire choisie: stage en corps de troupe en Allemagne, stage linguistique en anglais à Idar-Oberstein ou stage académique à l'école technique de Aix la Chapelle pour les scientifiques.

La période la plus longue est la formation universitaire de quatre ans sanctionnée par un master européen à l'université de la Bundeswehr à Hambourg.

Après obtention du Master, les EOFIA retournent en France pour suivre la formation en École d´Application, suivant l´arme qu´ils auront choisie un an auparavant.

Voir aussi
 ESM
 Camp de Coëtquidan
 Élève français en formation à l'École navale allemande
 Offizierschule des Heeres

Quelques photos

Liens externes

 Site officiel
 Brochure Officielle
 Recrutement et sélection
 Page officielle sur l'Offizerschule des Heeres
 Université de la Bundeswehr Helmut-Schmidt de Hambourg
 Université de la Bundeswehr de Munich-Neubiberg
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Références

École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
École en Allemagne
Coopération militaire entre l'Allemagne et la France
Formation des officiers de l'armée française