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Earlier this month tdaxp celebrated one year. Now tdaxp celebrates its first calendar year — one very kind to this blog's readership
But much more important to me our your comments. Just going through the right-hand-side comment roll now, tdaxp readers have made me think more about
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A Blizzard of Charts and Diagrams
It's busy here in South Dakota. A lot of friends, including myself, have converged on our home state. Today I'm doing a lot of driving in windy snow, which won't be fun, but it will be worth it. So instead of a normal post, I present links to three presentations
First, Michael Crichton criticizes hubris and panic (hat-tip to Larwyn).
A great presentation with ample notes covers the Club of Rome simulations, environmentalist-lead destruction of the ecosystem in Yellowstone, the neuromechanics of crustaceans, and climate change.
Second, A Mentsh Trakht (who I found via John Derbyshire links to Why you should continue to date me: a series of charts and graphs by Joel A. Friesen.
Sadly, Joel's powerpoints did not the cold heart melt.
Last, a blast from the past:
tdaxp-reader PKA's parody of my love of charts and diagrams.
Update: The Omaha Airport has wireless, so time for a quick note: Chrichton's analysis reminded me a lot of my post on The Magic Cloud
The Majestic International Community
Dr. Demarche of the American Future has asked "What is the international community?"
"My questions for the project are: is there such a thing as "the" international community? If so who are its members? In what arenas does this community act? What is America's role in this community, and that of the U.N.? Finally, what is the future of such a community when Iraq is terrorized by those who oppose democracy and no "community" reacts, genocide in Rwanda goes unchecked and N. Korea is still run by a madman?"
The Glittering Eye, Mark from ZenPundit and Callimachus at Done with Mirrors have given their take, so here's mine:
The international community is that society of actors that can influence the relations between states.
Almost by definition the international community includes states themselves. The United States is clearly able to influence relations between the United States and Mexico, just as Palau is able to influence relations between Palau and Iraq. A Realist would say that States are the only members of the international community.
Additionally, many Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) are also part of the international community. The most powerful of the are the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. These economically-oriented institutions provide cash and new markets for States, so it is profitable for most States to join them.
Likewise, powerful Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are members of the international community. These include such household names as processes.
A "Liberal Institutionalist" would say that States, NGOs, and IGOs are teh only members of the international community.
However, as a Constructivist would say, the international community is broader than this. Some individuals have the ability to change the friction of states directly. Even if all believed he was speaking only for himself, Bill Clinton's words would still carry weight because of his personal friendships and acquaintances. So would 's. Properly speaking, we are all part of the international community, each and every one of us, and all of our networks and groupings, without exception.
However, the power law applies to the international community, just as it applies to the blog community. Perhaps only the uper .001% of humans and networks effect interstate relations substantially on their own It is this top tier — the USAs, WTOs, the al Qaedas — that we think of when we say "the international community"
As to what the future of the international community is…
What will be will be. The community will continue to exist as long as states interact with each other. Bad things go on in good states, worse things go on in worse states, and the international community abides. There are seriously plans to make the international community more effective, but no part of the international community's definition requires the international community to be a force for good in any way.
Blissful ignorance and naivety do not a Rapture make…
December 29, 2005 tdaxp	5 Comments
a tdaxp Special Report by "Aaron"
Aaron is a Noted Beacon of Non-Partisan Sanity
While no one is being thrown to the lions, much to my dismay, it seems a number of Christians in the United States are feeling rather persecuted. Their beliefs are mocked in schools by men of pagan science and the great unwashed masses prefer to pursue greed and romance during this Holi-Day season, rather than celebrate the birth of a man dedicated scholars of equally mistranslated ancient systems of control cannot agree existed or mattered.
Let's get a couple things straight.
– Christmas is under no more attack than Bass Fishing or Monday Night Football. No one cares about the Lord until after the presents are unwrapped. For all the faithful lined up to pray for the dismissal of activist judges and the safe return of Natalee Halloway, Christmas sales were as robust this year as any. Christmas is about giving gifts, getting gifts, getting laid, getting drunk, fighting with family, and then getting blitzed and resolving to lose weight, quit smoking, go to church more and have fewer unwanted pregnancies next year. If Christmas is under attack by anyone, it's commercialism, and I doubt there will be a Justice Sunday protesting holiday opportunism by Wal-Mart and anyone else who makes a buck off the rape of Christianity's founder.
There are some wackos out there who want Nativity Scenes taken down. But there are wackos out there blowing up abortion clinics, too. You won't hear Al Franken or Rhandi Rhodes talking about them, though, as if they're some sort of organized campaign (though they clearly are). But to hear O'Reilly or Limbaugh talk, Democrats and ACLU members are kicking down crosses and burning Baby Jesus, marching to Stalin's drum. There's no organized campaign to destroy Christianity. There is a campaign for equal representation. Your religion is exclusive to every other. Just like every other religion is exclusive to yours. Would the Jezalots complain if someone wanted the Star of David taken down, or the Moslem Crescent? Perhaps we should put on a Holiday program in public schools about the Road to Enlightenment the Buddhist follows? "Not in my country!" you howl, Budweiser held aloft. "This country was founded by Christians!" Wrong. I could quote Jefferson and Franklin and a number of others, but you've seen that debate before. You know you're in the wrong, and no amount of clinging to a biography written 3 lifetimes after someone's death will change that.
The point to it all is "get your mystic bullshit off my public property." Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, secular humanists, communists, homosexuals, legal immigrants and corporations own every building financed by taxes in this formerly great country. Therefore they deserve equal representation, or at the least, no exclusively single-tracked representation. No one gives a rip they are Christian symbols. They care that it's religious symbols at all. Your imaginary Guy in the Sky is just as important to you as it is to them. So why can't we all get along and agree to just leave him at home when it comes to libraries and federal buildings? I guess it would take someone of Jesus' wisdom to come to that simple conclusion. I wonder how many of the Christians would howl if the government started teaching the Native American creation story in science class? Hypocrites.
– Your misguided morality isn't under fire from sexual deviants either. I watched with great interest as the sex education fiasco rolled through the Sioux Falls public school system. A bunch of naive parents think their children don't know what a blowjob is or that sex without a condom might lead to pregnancy. They've learned enough about all that in your regular Prime-Time programming. An episode of CSI:Miami recently featured a fraternity hazing incident that involved anal sodomy. I bet Ma and Pa Fundie loved explaining that one to the kids. "That's what them Democrat Faggots do, Billy. Now go read yer Bible before the Knoxville race comes on." If you people are so concerned about the inappropriateness on TV, campaign against police dramas and the talentless whores on American Idol. Turn your children onto PBS or the History Channel and open their eyes to the damage caused by ignorance and intolerance over the bloody and terrible reign of Christianity. Or turn the TV off and interact with the product of your blessed union. Educating and caring for your child used to be what parents do. Now they just work to pay themselves to death for the junk they don't need and divorce when they can't take the pressure.
– Local ignoramus with a keyboard, "Sibby", wants everyone to know what Planned Parenthood's agenda really is. His claim seems to be that they want your children engaging in oral sex and anal sex and having orgies. Newsflash, Sibby. The same reason you got off on your Dad's stolen Playboys is the reason kids figure out that Tab A goes into Slot B. It's called hormones, and no one needs to teach Dick and Jane how to make babies. The kids don't need Planned Parenthood to teach them that. But what Planned Parenthood or a realistic sex education program can teach the kids is that abstinence, while unlikely to happen or endure, is the only safe sex, but when the hormone lid blows, there's some things you can do to avoid the risk of pregnancy or the spread of disease. Teaching them otherwise would be inappropriate and sad, but it's exactly what these misguided mystics want. Their Utopia is sexless but full of violent police drama and a lot of turning left whilst accelerating. I highly doubt Sibby waited until he was married to make love to a woman for the first time, but if he did, fair play to you, sir. If not, I hope the dirty damn hippies of yesteryear taught you about proper precautions and maybe some alternatives to seeding the baby beanfield. I really have a hard time believing that Planned Parenthood or the Sioux Falls School Board's ultimate goal is to have kids having kids. I think anything but. But to hear some blinder-sporting folk tell it, their perversion knows no bounds.
I have a lot more to say about the misguided attempts by Christians to make my life better, but let me close with saying this: Our country was founded by people hoping to escape religious persecution. It went on to become the greatest country in the world. Why don't you all leave, form a new one where you're free to practice your caveman beliefs, and in 200 years, kick our Heathen asses? While you're gone, I'll be reveling in the reality of violence, pre-marital sex, taxes and everything else nature intended. I just thank your God that my parents had the smarts to tell me to watch my mouth when the other guy is a lot bigger, keep my kidmaker from needlessly ruining my life early, and doing what makes everyone a better person: not forcing my beliefs on anyone else. You're free to live in a delusion. Don't legislate it onto my kids, my public spaces and my Constitution.
Blogosphere, South Dakota
One Good Turn Deserves Another
Sibby Online, one of the founding members of the South Dakota Blog Alliance, was kind enough to add Jim River Report (another tdaxp blog) to his "Sibby Featured Blogs." It is now the third most prominent hyperlink on his entire site, after the top banner and Sibby's email. Long-time tdaxp readers will remember that Sibby was also a partner in the blog swarm against NationMaster.
To thank Sibby, who does tireless work for the South Dakota Blogosphere, here's a list of some of the news he is breaking right now
The Supreme Court's piecemeal attack on faith
A blogger takes on the Times
The truth about Planned Parenthood
The Washington Post's bias against South Dakota
Liberal Thuggery on Campus
The IRS as a Political Tool
New York's Rogue Attorney General
Clinton's Eavesdropping
A troika of stories on Tom Daschle
and more. Check Sibby Out.
Iraq, Thomas Barnett
Good News from Kurdistan
"Kurds in Iraqi army proclaim loyalty to militia," by Tom Lasseter, Knight Ridder Newspapers, 27 December 2005, http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/world/13495329.htm (from America Blog and Democratic Underground).
Very happy news from Kurdistan, an embryo of democracy in the Middle East:
Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
This is fantastic news.
Iraq is an artificial state that should break apart. Baghdad Spring, that destabilization of the Middle East caused by Bush's gift of elections to Iraq, was a wonderful reward for the Iraq War. The trifurcation of Iraq is another.
Dr. Barnett has written a lot about a "SysAdmin," the reconstruction force that should take conquered land and turn them (eventually) into peaceful capitalist democracies. It can barely work as envisioned in the best of cases, and spending vital energy trying to keep imaginary states created by the British and French together is just wasteful. Next time we invade a country like Iraq, rationalization of borders should be assumed from the beginning.
Besides waisting time and effort, trying to keep fake countries together hurts in another way: it can make progress go backwards. Before the Iraq War the Kurds already had a functional democracy. If we are going to pretend that they should be ruled by Ba'ath Revivalists, the Iraq War would have sacrificed a democracy (Iraqi Kurdistan) on the altar of Affirmative Action for Murderers (trying to buy off Arab Sunnis by pretending Arab Sunni political parties are different from Arab Sunni terrorists). Fortunately, the Kurds have had enough.
More on the Kurdish soldiers, preparing to create their New Kurdish Republic
The soldiers said that while they wore Iraqi army uniforms they still considered themselves members of the Peshmerga – the Kurdish militia – and were awaiting orders from Kurdish leaders to break ranks. Many said they wouldn't hesitate to kill their Iraqi army comrades, especially Arabs, if a fight for an independent Kurdistan erupted.
"It doesn't matter if we have to fight the Arabs in our own battalion," said Gabriel Mohammed, a Kurdish soldier in the Iraqi army who was escorting a Knight Ridder reporter through Kirkuk. "Kirkuk will be ours."
The Kurds have readied their troops not only because they've long yearned to establish an independent state but also because their leaders expect Iraq to disintegrate, senior leaders in the Peshmerga – literally, "those who face death" – told Knight Ridder. The Kurds are mostly secular Sunni Muslims, and are ethnically distinct from Arabs.
Happily, the majority Shia are also planning for the dismemberment of Iraq:
Their strategy mirrors that of Shiite Muslim parties in southern Iraq, which have stocked Iraqi army and police units with members of their own militias and have maintained a separate militia presence throughout Iraq's central and southern provinces. The militias now are illegal under Iraqi law but operate openly in many areas. Peshmerga leaders said in interviews that they expected the Shiites to create a semi-autonomous and then independent state in the south as they would do in the north.
As I wrote a year ago
A trifurcated Iraqi state would be a success. It would represent a victory for local democracy. It would improve connectivity. And it would prove a valuable warning for future regimes.
Iraq was not democratically created. There were no founding fathers or great constitutional convention after the end of the Great War. It was merely one of four new states (along with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Iraq) carved out by two victors. Of the original four, one has already disintegrated (Transjordan into Jordan and Israel, which will soon splinter into Israel and Palestine) and another (Lebanon) has lost territorial integrity. Allowing local sovereigns that represent the will of actual peoples would be a step up, if they wish it so.
Iraq has not been connected. Before Saddam Iraq was poor, illiterate, and backwards, and after a brief rebirth it sank almost all the way back again. Even though they were the original Westernizers, it appears that a significant fraction of Iraq's Sunnis are hostile to globalization and connectivity. No people can be pulled ahead unwillingly. Even if modern-term strategy requires us to abandon the Sunni Triangle, hooking Kurdistan and Shia Iraq to the rest of the world, that is a tremendous victory. A free, democratic, and peaceful Kurdistan shows a future worth creating to both Turks and Turkish Kurds. And a non-authoritarian Shia Iraq is a bright light for Shia Iran. The Sunnis represent only 20% of Iraq. 80% victory is not 100% victory, but it is still victory.
Free Sumer! Free Kurdistan! Free East Arabia, for that matter!
Don't spill Coalition blood for the Iraqi Sunni Arabs.
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Faith, Humor
A Very Cthulhu Parody of Anti-Catholic Bigot Jack Chick
Jack Chick isn't just a cartoonist occasionally lampooned by Penny Arcade:
He's also an anti-Catholic Bigot
In 2000, he started the Bible series of his tracts, which starred one of his more famous creations, a Fundamentalist Christian man named Bob Williams. Bob, a rather smug character, would always appear to lead people down the correct path, though he was not always successful (see Gladys), and the Bible Series has served as a collection of many of Chick's core beliefs on topics such as evolution, witchcraft, and the Catholic Church.
Jack Chick has been heavily criticised for his views. His anti-Catholicism was not immediately evident in his earliest cartoons, and seems to have evolved during the mid to late 1960s. Several earlier comics were re-edited in the 1970s to reflect Chick's changing views on the Vatican. Example: a portrayal of the Antichrist, originally drawn as a man wearing a business suit, was changed to show the Pope in later editions of the same tract. The early 20th century pamphlet The Two Babylons was influential in popularizing a view — held by Chick — that the Roman Catholic Church is really a continuation of Babylonian religious practices.
(That is, a bigot who is anti-Catholic):
A recurring theme in Chick's tracts is the role of the Roman Catholic Church, which he presents as one of the most powerful and insidious branches of this conspiracy. According to Chick the Catholic Church is the 'Great Whore' referred to in the Book of Revelation, and will bring about a Satanic New World Order before it is destroyed by Jesus Christ.
Drawing on the dubious claims of Alberto Rivera, Chick claims that the Catholic Church helped to mold Islam as a tool to lure people away from Christianity, that it infiltrates and attempts to destroy or corrupt all other religions and churches , and that it uses various means including seduction, framing, and murder to silence its critics. He accuses Catholicism of supporting ideologies such as Nazism and Communism, and using the Holocaust to persecute opponents of the Catholic Church.
He also sued a cartoonist for this hilarious parody: "WHO WILL BE EATEN FIRST?"
Who Will Be Eaten First?
One day, while sitting in a cafe
George, it's vital that you make the right decision before you die.
You're gonna say I have to choose between God and the devil, right?
The stars are right! The Elder Gods are going to rise and eat us all!
"In his house at R'ley dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
-HP Lovecraft
Soon the evil spawn, who had slept for eons… will awaken to clear the earth of man!
"That is not dead which can eternal lie… And with strange aeons, even death may die." – H.P.L.
NO ONE will be saved! EVERYONE will die and mankind itself will come to a horrible end!
"… I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars that dream beneath the sea… " HPL
Soon the seas will turn red with the blood of the human race, as the unspeakable terrors come from beyond the gate, which is Yog Sothoth, to devour all in their path! Ia! Shub Niggurath! Ia! Ia!
So if we're all gonna die, what difference does it make? Who cares? Nothing I can do about it…
or is there?!
You're right George… It's hopeless. But there is one thing we can hope for…
TO BE EATEN FIRST!
BE EATEN FIRST?!
What the fuck kind of advantage is that?!
Give me one good reason why I would WANT to be eaten first!
ONE GOOD REASON!!!
Do you really want to stick around and watch the entire world be destroyed by evil creatures from beyond Hell?
Oh God… you're right… I don't want to see it all end!
I want to be eaten quickly!
What do I have to do to make my death a swift one?
"The thing cannot be described – there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy…" HPL
You must worship and sacrifice at the altar to appease the appetites of the Elder Gods! Then you may hope for a fast death!
Ph'lngu! mghw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagi fhtagn!
WAAAHH!
Gasp… This can't be!
Chant invocations from the NECRONOMICON, the book of dead names written by the Mad Monk, Abdul Alhazred!
Only then… on the dreaded day when they rise… Will you be eaten first!
The Elder Gods are coming and everyone is doomed!
You might as well party and do all the ship you were always afraid to do!
NOBODY CAN SAVE YOU.
WE WILL ALL BE EATEN.
If yhou start to have dreams about cities where the geometry is all wrong and get inspired to make weird sculptures, do it!
1. Don't worry about going mad.
There's no avoiding it.
2. Be prepared for horrible visions and creatures that will chill you to the bone!
3. Remember… Yog Sothoth is the gate!
What to say!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
If you have done all this, and you go completely mad… the Elder Gods will eat you first! Or maybe not… maybe they'll torture you in their dank and rotting lairs… but you won't care by then because you'll be insane! A shell of a human being! BWA HA HA HA HA!
And with strange aeons even death may die!
Help another person go mad with the knowledge of the horrible evil! Give them this book:
Do I have anything good to say about Jack Chick — a man who says Catholocism is a Babylonian Plot, Islam is a Catholic Plot, and Communism is a Islamic Catholic Plot? Yes. Even though he threatens NationMaster-style strategic lawsuits against public participation, he has a write to make his claims. As the First Amendment says
Jack Chick has a write to spread his beliefs. So-called "hate speech" regulations, whether on campuses or for entire countries, would take away Chick's right to proselytize as he believes The Lamb wishes him to do so.
Chick has a right to speech. So do the men he has sued.
Bookosphere
December 26, 2005 tdaxp	1 Comment
Title: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
Best Part: dancing girls (pg 238)
See Also: Review of The Chonicles of Narnia movie
Title: Skytrain to Murder
Author: Dean Barrett
Best Part: A smooth, well-dressed character named John Morrell
See Also: "The Chaplain's Last Sermon" Poem
Title: Why Geography Matters
Author: H.J. de Blij
Best Part: Our Ice Age
See Also: Dr. de Blij's Presentation in Washington, DC
Christmas Readings
I posted a few Christmas- and winter- themed items, and sure enough one's a hit. Which one?
Is it The Twilight Demolition of the Leaning Tower of Zip, sentimental photos of the end of a Sioux Falls landmark? Nope.
Is it Merry Christmas, a photoshop greeting in the style of Embracing Defeat? Nope.
Is it my bitter condemnation of Sioux Falls Superintendent of Schools and holiday grinch Pam Homan? Nope.
It's the google result for "christmas hentai. I'd be fine with choclate covered Chinese girls, because, hey, Christianity is delightful. I'd be fine with Korean cellphone girls, because I'd like one for Christmas. But a link to a politically charged George W. Bush hentai as a top google result on Christmas Day? This is the state of our zeitgeist? It makes my faith waiver…
Fortunately, British Foreign Minister Jack Straw reminds me today is Christmas day.
To move our thoughts to Heaven, if not to the Chingay Martyrs District, Edgwise gives his two favorite passages of Scripture
John 1:14; 3:16-17
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace." '
Mine is Galatians 5:14
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself
What's yours?
In the spirit of Embracing Defeat parts I, II, III, and IV, and of course the birth of our Lord
Christmas scene courtesy of Inatizzy
Christmas season courtesy of Christ
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Twin Cities park restaurants are reopening — with some new rules
Exterior view of Sea Salt restaurant that operates in the park building at Minnehaha Falls.
— Tom Sweeney
By Sharyn Jackson and Rick Nelson , Star Tribune
It's a sure sign of summer.
Sea Salt Eatery, the Cajun-inspired seafood spot adjacent to Minnehaha Falls, will reopen for the season beginning Friday, May 22 (4801 Minnehaha Av. S., Mpls., 612-721-8990, seasalteatery.wordpress.com).
The restaurant made the announcement over Facebook.
The stand's menu hasn't been posted yet (will it be the usual oysters, po'boys and fish tacos?). Food will be available for takeout only. Orders can be placed online as of Friday morning, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pickup will be on the patio. No walk-ins or in-person money transactions will be allowed.
That means the epic lines snaking out of the pavilion is a thing of the past, at least this year.
Outdoor dining on Lake Superior? Duluth restaurants say new rules a tough sell
Sea Salt's good news comes on the heels of the state's announcement that Minnesota restaurants and bars can open June 1 for outdoor dining,
For now, though, Sea Salt's tables and chairs have been packed away. "If you wish to eat in the park, we recommend you plan for a takeout picnic," the announcement says.
At Lake Harriet, Bread & Pickle (4135 W. Lake Harriet Pkwy., Mpls., breadandpickle.com) is now open for takeout, starting at 7 a.m. daily with a breakfast menu. Delivery via Door Dash is available on rainy days. The lakeside restaurant is operated by Minneapolis restaurateur Kim Bartmann, owner of Barbette, Pat's Tap, Tiny Diner and other properties.
On the northeast shore of Bde Maka Ska, Lola on the Lake (3000 E. Bde Maka Ska Pkwy., Mpls., lolascafemn.com) will operate an abbreviated takeout schedule, a result of the 2019 fire that destroyed the seasonal restaurant's historic lakeside pavilion. Look for barbecue-centric food trucks (including Run Tell That and Bark and the Bite) to rotate with Lola, appearing most days at 11 a.m. and starting on May 23.
Meanwhile, at Lake Nokomis, Sandcastle (4955 W. Nokomis Pkwy., Mpls., sandcastlempls.com) is opening for the season on June 3, with a takeout-only setup. The beachside restaurant is the work of Bull's Horn Food & Drink co-owners Amy Greeley and Doug Flicker, in partnership with Chele Payer.
Sharyn Jackson is a features reporter covering the Twin Cities' vibrant food and drink scene.
sharyn.jackson@startribune.com 612-673-4853 sharynjackson
Rick Nelson joined the staff of the Star Tribune in 1998 and is the newspaper's restaurant critic. He is a Twin Cities native, a University of Minnesota graduate and a James Beard Award winner.
rick.nelson@startribune.com 612-673-4757 RickNelsonStrib
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You love, We love, Vrailove!
Certified UK has gone into new territory to bring you our favourite jewelry brand. Being the trendy individuals that we are, it's only right we look at the best of this year's most popular jewelry- Chokers! Originally a trend in the 2000s, chokers have made a strong return this year and have evolved from the black intertwined plastic originals, to a range of styles. Unlike high street stores, jewelry makers, Birmingham based Vrailove, is owned by a badass sister trio, and their brand offers a variety of chokers from diamante to fabric based, and gold embellished chokers, and the collection keeps growing ! Vrailove has been a hit with fashion bloggers such as Est Are. Each choker is named after brand associates (we're hoping we get to name one soon!), our favourites being the Milan and Laila choker. We would like to see more choker body chains on Vrailove and also glittery body transfers, and anklets (Just for extra sparkle!). These chokers are the perfect accompaniment and statement piece to any outfit, from a T-shirt dress to body cons or jumpsuits. We love Vrailove so much, we can't imagine buying a choker from any where else!


2014 July « Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll keep the commentary to a minimum.
I went to Seattle this past weekend for my uncle's funeral after he unexpectedly passed away on July 12. A truly remarkable Renaissance Man–doctor, fisherman, boat and car builder, beekeeper, gardener, skier, golfer, and world traveler–he will be truly missed. However, he'll remain a constant source of inspiration that you can do anything you put your mind to (although I'm sure genetics played a part). While in Seattle, I visited with my cousins, watched their kids in plays, played mini golf with them, and watched my cousin's daughter play in a soccer tournament. While I took mostly photos of family (which I am not posting), here are some photos from walking around the University of Washington and University Village in his honor.
I just drove from Los Angeles back to San Francisco on I-5. Possibly one of the most boring drives ever, replete with dried brush, trucks, and static-filled radio stations. However, you're guaranteed to find Subway, In-N-Out, and gas stations every 30 miles or so (or so it seems), and I actually find the drive to be somehow beautiful. I've always wanted to get out of my car and take photographs, but never thought pulling over was a good idea until today.
I had lunch the other day at one of my all-time favorite lunch spots in LA: Clementine. You can drool over their menu here. I love their Basic Tuna and usually get their Greek Salad and add tuna, or get the Clementine Combo (mainly because it comes with a chocolate chip cookie).


Usually, for most people, first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word "spinach" is Popeye's favorite vegetable. Indeed, it is difficult to talk about spinach without thinking about Popeye. In the series, Popeye have always used it to boost his physical strength multiple times and gain prominent muscles. That is what spinach can do to your physique in cartoon. But, what about its benefit in real life?
Well, spinach is a very popular vegetable in the history of humankind. The Popeye series may contribute to the plant's popularity. But before the series even existed, it has been used by many people. This plant has been long cultivated mainly for its leaves. Many folks used it as a primary ingredient for their cooking. Spinach salad, spinach soup, and spinach are some popular dishes primarily made of spinach, hence their names.
This section will lists nutritional values of every 100 g (3.5 oz) of spinach. Please note that this is raw spinach we are talking about, and the percentages shown below are approximately calculated using US recommendations for adults.
If you think about it, you will realize spinach is rich in profitable nutrients that benefit the health of your body. Undoubtedly, this means your skin and hair will also benefit from those nutrients. Some of the nutrients that good for your skin are the vitamins and the minerals.
To protect your skin from ultra violet light, you can use spinach. By doing this, you will prevent premature aging and skin cancer.
If you ever have problem with the complexion of your skin, you can use spinach to restore your skin color. Spinach will minimize any taint on your skin, so your skin will look brighter. Vitamin K and folates play important here.
Because of numerous amount of vitamin A and vitamin C, spinach will accelerate the regeneration of your damaged skin. In addition, it will also makes your skin looks more radiant.
Good news for balding people. Most case of hair loss is caused by the lack of iron. As stated in the previous point, iron strengthen hair follicle by accelerating the distribution of oxygen in your blood to your hair. The lack of iron in your body is often associated with anemia, which is a factor of hair loss.
You can also find iron in banana, but consuming banana is not as effective as consuming spinach. The iron in spinach assist in carrying oxygen to your hair, while the folates, also found in spinach, assist the production of red blood cells. All of these processes will minimize the amount of hair abandoning your head.
There are two cases of food-borne illness outbreak in United States involving spinach throughout the history. In September 2006, spinach contamined with E.coli was accidentally distributed to public markets. This event causes the death of 5 persons and 95 were poisoned and have to go through emergency treatment in hospital.
On August 30, 2007, 8000 cartons of spinach from Salinas Valley, California were ordered back to the shipper after the presence of Salmonella was detected upon routine investigation. We can base our precautions before using spinach on these two events.
Make sure not to eat uncooked fresh spinach or other products that contain spinach unless you buy it directly from a farm with high level of hygiene. Also, if you decide to cook it, make sure to set the temperature to reasonable degree, thereby killing bacteria and other harmful microscopic organisms that may contained in the spinach.
Benefits of Dove Hair Fall Rescue Shampoo – Healthy Hair Guide for You!


The seminal exhibition 'Parallel of Life and Art' (PLLA) which took place at the ICA in London in 1953 continues to capture the attention of art historians and curators through exhibition histories and curatorial studies. The exhibition is a key element in defining "discourse through images (Bilddiskurs)," a longstanding practice that nonetheless experienced significant change when it encountered the image-making properties of cameras and the means for their dissemination in the press (Flusser). This change coincided with a developing awareness of iconography and the work of the Warburg circle within the Independent Group, that equally understood this form of visual analysis in relation to emerging cybernetic theories of communication and information theory.
The collaborative team of Alison & Peter Smithson, Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi and Ronald Jenkins behind 'Parallel of Life and Art' shared an ambition to release the expanded field of everyday day visual culture into vision and experience across the board, displacing the highly invested and ordered culture of art and architecture, one traditionally governed by elitist ideas of public value and taste.
For the PLLA team of 'editors', a body of photographic images taken by Nigel Henderson (who they mutually identified and awarded the role of photographer to act as their translator, mediator and 'image-finder') nonetheless reflects the experiments of the group, documenting their work and recording their visual sensibility. Through our selection and curation of images, the article will demonstrate how photography was exploited as a medium to bring disparate practices, spatial and temporal environments, social and cultural spaces together in the binding matrix of the photographic image.


It would be pretty difficult to find something to dislike about Californian rockers Port O'Brien. Although the band's songs are hardly in danger of innovation, hovering somewhere between folk, alt. country and all out shouty indie choruses, they write incredibly memorable melodies, all packaged with simple, hugely effective arrangements. The band get off to a high-energy beginning with 'I Woke Up Today', a stomping, group-sung piece that's all coarse hollering and beats that hammer on the crotchets. It might be a little too upbeat for its own good in fact, but immediately after its three minutes are up, 'Stuck On A Boat' calls upon an air of melancholy, yet not at the expense of some high quality pop dynamics. There's something reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens records in the song's presentation, although you could probably find yourself making all manner of vague comparisons to a variety of US indie rock favourites as you work your way through this album. As enjoyable as all this is, by the time it's finished you might still be wondering if there's anything this band does that you can't find elsewhere, because as well made as this album is, it's not always clear that there's anything especially unique about what they do - you might even struggle to pin down exactly what sort of sound Port O'Brien are striving for, yet despite the vagueness of their sonic persona, the group's songs are sufficiently strong to keep you returning in order to work out exactly what these guys are all about.


A subsystem at any level in a system hierarchy.
I.1 The organism in its structural aspect is not an aggregation of elementary parts, and in its functional aspects not a chain of elementary units of behariour. I.2 The organism is to be regarded as a multi-levelled hierarchy of semi-autonomous sub-wholes, branching into sub-wholes of a lower order, and so on. Sub-wholes on any level of the hierarchy are referred to as holons. I.3 Parts and wholes in an absolute sense do not exist in the domain of life. The concept of the holon is intended to reconcile the atomistic and holistic approaches. I.4 Biological holons are self-regulating open systems which display both the autonomous properties of wholes and the dependent properties of parts. I.5 More generally, the term 'holon' may be applied to any stable biological or social sub-whole which displays rule-governed behaviour and/or structural Gestalt-constancy. Thus organelles and homologous organs are evolutionary holons; morphologenetic fields are ontogenetic holons; the ethologist's 'fixed action patterns' and the sub-routines of acquired skills are behavioural holons; phonemes, morphemes, words, phrases are linguistic holons; individuals, families, tribes, nations are social holons.
Koestler, A. (1967). The Ghost in the Machine: 341 (App. I); cf. id. (1969). Beyond atomism and holism – the concept of holon. In: Koestler, A. & Smithies, J.R. (eds.). Beyond Reductionism. New Perspectives in the Life Sciences, 192-216.
Koestler introduced the term holon to refer to subsystems at any level in a system hierarchy. W.S. Overton (pers. comm.) adopts this word to mean objects that are simultaneously part of a greater whole and individualistic in their own right. The holon becomes the building block of hierarchically organized systems and can used nonspecifically to represent the basic elements in any of the system theories that may be interconnected to form a system. […] A holon's environment is that system with which th holon interacts. […] the term genon is here proposed for an output object and creaon for an input object. The genon is concerned with generation of effects produced as holon outputs that become available as potential inputs tot he holon's environment. The creaon functios to select outputs of the holon's environment that serve as inputs to the holon.
Patten, B.C. (1975). Ecosystem as a coevolutionary unit: a theme for teaching systems ecology. In: Innis, G.S. (ed.). New Directions in the Analysis of Ecological Systems, part 1, 1-8: 2; 3.
Creaons receive stimuli and implicitly create input environments. Genons react to received cases and generate potential output environments as effects. A holon represents the combined input-output model of an entity consisting of a creaon and a genon. An environ is a creaon and its corresponding input environment, or a genon and its relatied output environment.
Patten, B.C. (1978). Systems approach to the concept of environment. Ohio J. Sci. 78, 206-222: 206.


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Q: How to enable/disable a rule in AWS EventBridge using Python/Boto3 How can you enable/disable an Event Bridge rule that schedules a Lambda Function.
The longer term goal is to turn off the schedule on certain holidays, so my next task is to see if there are any good holiday/management libraries.  The first task was just to see if I could enable/disable the Event Bridge rule from a python program.
I first took this line from an S3 test I had working:
s3_resource = boto3.resource('s3')

and changed it to
resource = boto3.resource('events')

It returned the following error:
boto3.exceptions.ResourceNotExistsError: The 'events' resource does not exist.
The available resources are:

*

*cloudformation

*cloudwatch

*dynamodb

*ec2

*glacier

*iam

*opsworks

*s3

*sns

*sqs

A: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/events.html#eventbridge
I used pip to upgrade my boto release 1.17.57.
pip install boto3 --upgrade -t .
pip install botocore --upgrade -t .

I installed locally so I can zip this to a Lambda function eventually.
I had to change resource to client as the method.
import uuid
import boto3
import os
import pprint

client = boto3.client('events')
action = "enable"
myRulename = 'PolygonIOAPIDataCollectorMarketHours'

if action == "enable":
    response = client.enable_rule(
        Name=myRulename
    )
else:
    response = client.disable_rule(
        Name=myRulename
    )

pprint.pprint(response)

The first run, I got a security error, and had to add a policy to the IAM user.
It returns:
{'ResponseMetadata': {'HTTPHeaders': {'content-length': '0',
                                      'content-type': 'application/x-amz-json-1.1',
                                      'date': 'Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:01:32 GMT',
                                      'x-amzn-requestid': '6d1de8cc-1c82-4a7f-956a-ad33e6e8c899'},
                      'HTTPStatusCode': 200,
                      'RequestId': '6d1de8cc-1c82-4a7f-956a-ad33e6e8c899',
                      'RetryAttempts': 0}}

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Generally speaking, a custom made garment will cost more than an off-the-rack garment. And generally speaking, it will be considerably better made, will fit you better, and will last longer. There are sometimes exceptions to the rule that custom costs more; some high end designers charge an incredible premium for their name on the label, and I don't, so there's a savings in that. Some things tend to be marked up far more than they need to be when they're sold in stores – like overpriced veils at bridal salons. But generally speaking, off-the-rack clothes are mass produced, and there's an economy of scale there that is lost in the world of one-of-a-kind. When I sew a custom garment, I draft a unique pattern specific to the design my client has requested, sized to her precise measurements rather than a "dress size." I personally help to select the fabrics for her garment, cut them by hand, and sew a garment for her that has never existed before. I devote several hours to the design process, the pattern drafting, the materials shopping, and the muslin fitting, even before beginning work on her actual garment, that off-the-rack clothing manufacturers don't have to do (or perhaps only have to do once in every thousand or hundred thousand or million garments they churn out). The quality of the garment and of the experience a dressmaker provides are incomparable to buying a garment on a hanger. The price reflects this. Still, how much it costs, depends.
It depends on how complex the design for your garment is. I will draft your pattern, sew a mock-up, fit you, and cut and sew your final garment. If your garment is, for example, an unlined shift dress made from 3 pieces of fabric cut from 2 pattern pieces, each and every one of these steps is going to take considerably less time than if your garment is an elaborate bridal gown with a fitted bodice, corset style back, full ballgown skirt with over lays and pickups and the like. The last bridal gown I made had 27 unique pattern pieces when all was said and done and took a little over 100 hours to cut and sew (which is in addition to time spent discussing the design with my client, shopping for materials, and thinking about the best approach to constructing her gown). The level of complexity has a big impact on the total price.
It depends on what fabrics you choose. Some fabrics cost considerably more than others and some fabrics require special care to work with. To the best of my ability, I'll let you know when it's worth the extra expense – when it will make your garment really fabulous, and when it will make your garment more durable and able to last longer. Sometimes there are a variety of fabrics that are suitable. If you fall in love with the most expensive fabric, the price of your garment will reflect that.
It depends on how much fabric you need. A full length dress requires more yardage than a knee length dress. A ballgown silohuette takes more fabric than a narrow A-line. A gown with multiple layers in the skirt takes more fabric than a dress with a single layer. More fabric costs more because there's a greater material cost, and also because it takes more time to cut, sew, and hem the extra length.
It depends on how fast you need it. Rush orders cost more, if I'm able to take them on at all. It's not just because I prefer not to be rushed; they cost me more too, since there are rush fees for any materials I have to order extra quickly, and since my working overtime costs me money in other places (like a babysitter while I hem your dress or pizza for dinner three nights in a week when I'm too busy sewing to cook). Orders placed early on are more cost effective, and usually more fun as well.
So you can see, there are a lot of factors that go into determining the price for a custom garment (it's not nearly as simple as how much "a bridal gown" costs). When you send me a quote request on my website, I'll always respond with follow up questions to try to get a clearer understanding of your goals, both for the design of your garment and the budget you'd like me to respect. Please believe, I'm not trying to gain some sort of negotiating upper hand. I'm trying to be sure that as we discuss the design options, I make recommendations that are appropriate for your goals. I don't want to tempt you with fabrics or design options that are outside your budget any more than I'd want to make suggestions that are contrary to the vision you want to achieve. My passion in this job is to help other women – to help your design become reality, help you create a garment you couldn't find out there already.
So I'm thrilled to work with you to make your vision fit your budget when it's possible; I can do all of the following things to help achieve this: I can recommend design elements that fit your budget. I can help you find good values in fabrics and other materials. I can construct your garment well, so that it lasts longer than off-the-rack clothes and is more affordable in the long run. I can make your garment to fit you properly, so that alterations are not needed as an extra expense. And I can take the time to listen to your needs and ensure that the value you have in your custom garment are worth every penny that it costs.
But, there are also compromises I won't make to reduce the cost of your garment. I won't use fabrics that are poor quality or ill suited to the design you want. I won't promise more than I can deliver for the budget and time frame at our disposal. I won't cut corners on the construction. And, so that I don't have to, I won't undercharge for my labor. You are investing in a one-of-a-kind garment that is supposed to be beautiful and unique to you; I'm committed to the quality of my work and won't compromise where that's involved.
In the end I know this means that not every prospective client will choose to work with me, and that's okay. Realistically, it would not be possible for me to accept every garment I'm approached with. Furthermore, I sincerely respect your needs and your budget. So, I will provide you with good honest information to enable you to make an informed decision on whether or not I'm the right dressmaker for you. If you decide that I am, I can assure you it will be worth the cost.
Quick post today, as I'm pleasantly exhausted from a long day playing with my Girly. The following pics are of a custom skirt and top that I made for another loved one for Christmas. The skirt is a rayon batik fabric, cut into a very full and flouncy 2 1/2 circle skirt! The top is made from a nylon stretch fabric, hand dyed royal blue to match the skirt.
One of my local clients for whom I made a dress previously, using a commercial pattern she loved, returned to have me bring to life a design idea of her own. I *love* these sorts of projects, the opportunity to create something truly unique, and to help a client who would otherwise be unable to realize their vision. Hillary described her idea to me in depth, we talked back and forth about the fabrics to use and the best way to construct it, and then I sketched out what I pictured from her description. I set about pattern drafting, draping, and bringing a muslin mock-up into being so that we could check the fit and fine tune the design. And then, at last, the final product!
The custom ensemble consists of a mermaid shaped skirt made of black matte satin. It's fully lined, with layers of petticoat netting at the bottom to hold the shape of the skirt. On the outside, three tiers of satin ruffles cascade down, with a little hint of black and white paisley charmeuse peeking out of the middle ruffle. The jacket is also made of black matte satin, with black charmeuse and paisley charmeuse ruffles at the sleeve hems and neckline. The jacket body is extremely fitted, and has several pieces of boning to help hold its dramatic shape.
The finishing touch – those buttons! Hillary brought a dozen different buttons over to hold up to the nearly-finished jacket so we could pick the perfect pair. And aren't they FABULOUS? Really just the right finishing touch! And, the whole thing looks amazing on Hillary – a perfect fit both for her figure and her self!
This beautiful gown was custom made for an Etsy client who was married a few months ago. The design was heavily influenced by an inspiration photo she found. It's a strapless white satin gown with a short train, with an open front lace jacket that ties on with a chiffon sash onto which I hand sewed the beautiful broach you see pictured. This one was a lot of fun to make. My best wishes to the bride and groom!


Julliana Garten combines her experience in architecture design and the comfort Brazilian shoes in a brand-new collection that debuts at Phoenix Fashion Week. Julliana is a native of Brazil and knows the secrets they use to create comfortable and stylish footwear. The designer talks about the hot shoe styles in our exclusive interview. Watch our report to find the perfect pair of shoes that will make your friends jealous this Fall and Winter.
Hair stylists: Stephanie Salee, Candy Tracey, Brooklyn Insko, Jessica West, Bernice Segura, Vy Cao, Bernadette Rios, Elle Tualla, Mila Gehring, Desire Munoz, Cierra Slade, Kristina Stinde, Eisela Brambila, Jade Phan and Rochelle Goodwill of Dolce Salon Chandler. Kellie Liddicoat, Zac Watson, Brody Valerio, Julianna Sutton, Brittany Wilson, Teagan Scearce, Shamika Jones, Noah Begley and Christie Nieman of Dolce Salon Arrowhead. James Ruiz, Harley Malalea, Chantelle Mertes, Christina Nick, Tommy Ferrin, Aryon De La O, Jeanette Bitterolf, Pam Leach, Katie Carroll, Leah Harbin, Kelli Smith and Stephanie Borgman of Dolce Salon Borgata.
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Well, it is a telugu movie starring Superstar Mahesh Babu.
1-Nenokkadine is the title. The literal meaning of the word is "I alone".
Split up of the word is Nenu+Okkadine= I + Alone.
One has to see the movie how actually title is related to the movie.
It's great to see Telugu meanings on your site, please post more when you have the opportunity.. Thanks!
Its a great fortunate to know clear meaning of telugu words.Thanks for your side.


Rain rain go away, I hate the treadmill and nothing rhymes with away.
My first month of Marathon training did not go as planned. The first week of June I had a severe sinus infection. The second week, I was finding myself week. The third week of June included my birthday and an engagement. Next thing I know, July was knocking down my door. OOPS.
When I got accepted into the New York Marathon, I decided to start the Galloway Dopey Challenge training a month early. This will keep me on track with Dopey while getting the mileage needed to train for NY. I did the best I could with my training plan with everything that happened in June but I did not follow my it 100% and found myself making excuses not to run. Now July is here and seeing every other Saturday with 2 mile increases has me very concerned.
I am not sure if I like the weekends which has three miles. I feel it is a vast difference between the weekends with really high increases. Yet who am I to question an Olympic marathon runner?
I am thinking I should at least do 4 miles on those Saturdays that say 3. That is if it ever stops raining in FL. I really do not want my relationship with my treadmill to progress any further. He's already too clingy.
Note: This is just my running schedule, not my full training plan. On the off days, I will be incorporating strength training and stretching.
Running 1 +/- mile won't make or break your marathon training :) If you are more comfortable with 4, do it. You know you and your running best.


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Alice Martin Bishop
Motherhood & Murder in Plymouth Colony
Original Documents
Please note that 2014 represents the "relaunch" year for AliceMartinBishop.com. That means we're checking out new leads, rewriting articles and fact checking. Therefore, this works cited list is incomplete until, likely, December 2014. The below sources are either cited in this blog and we reviewed. If you see a citation in text not included below, just drop us a line and we'll get that information to you!
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Die LD Didactic GmbH mit Sitz in Hürth ist ein Hersteller von Lehrmitteln für Naturwissenschaften und Technik.

Geschichte
Die LD Didactic GmbH ging aus der Abspaltung der Lehrmittelsparte der Firma Leybold GmbH hervor. Diese wurde 1850 gegründet und fertigte bereits im 19. Jahrhundert Lehrmittel, bevor ab 1906 die Fertigung von Vakuumpumpen aufgebaut wurde.

Ab 1987 war die Degussa AG alleiniger Eigner der Leybold AG. Im Jahr 1994 verkaufte diese die Vakuumpumpen-Produktion an die schweizerische Oerlikon-Bührle-Gruppe, wobei die Lehrmittelsparte zunächst bei der Degussa verblieb. Im Jahr 2000 wurde dann die Lehrmittelsparte als Leybold Didactic GmbH an private Investoren um Joachim Moser verkauft, der dabei auch zum Geschäftsführer wurde.  Der Firmenname wurde später in LD Didactic GmbH geändert.

Im Jahr 2007 kam es dann zur Insolvenz des 180 Mitarbeiter zählenden Unternehmens, die Anfang 2009 mit dem Erwerb durch die Aurelius endete. Im Geschäftsjahr 2008 wurde ein Umsatz von 40 Mio. Euro erzielt. In der Folge wurden zwei weitere Unternehmen aus dem Bereich der technischen Lehrmittel übernommen: Im Jahr 2011 Dr. Luhs und 2012 die britische Feedback Group (Umsatz rund 7 Mio. Euro).

Im Jahr 2013 hat LD-Didactic als Aurelius-Tochter das Technik-Produktportfolio der Firma ELWE sowie die Rechte an der Marke ELWE Technik im Bereich der elektrotechnischen Aus- und Weiterbildung erworben. Die Produktion von ELWE-Lehrsystemen erfolgt seit dem in Hürth.

LD  Didactic  hat  ihren  Hauptsitz  in  Hürth bei Köln,  verfügt  über  zwei  Produktionsstandorte  in  Deutschland (Hürth und Urbach) und  seit 2016 eine  Fertigung  mit  zunehmender  Bedeutung  in  Ungarn (Firma LD Operations Kft. in der Ortschaft Cegléd).  Daneben  betreibt  LD  Didactic  zwei  lokale  Verkaufsbüros für Lateinamerika und Großbritannien.

LD Didactic vertreibt ihre Produkte in mehr als 80 Ländern.

Produkte
Die LD produziert und vertreibt Lehrmittel für den naturwissenschaftlichen und technischen Unterricht. Traditionell lag und liegt dabei der Schwerpunkt auf Physik-Experimenten für Schulunterricht.

Für die computerunterstützte Erfassung und Auswertung von Messdaten wird das System CASSY angeboten, das aus verschiedenen Interfaces und aufsteckbaren Sensoren besteht. Das CASSY-System wurde bereits 1990 eingeführt und alle neuen Geräte sind seither abwärtskompatibel. CASSY ist ein Akronym und steht für Computer Assisted Science SYstem. Das CASSY-System steht in Konkurrenz zu Cobra von Phywe oder einer Messwerterfassung mit Sensoren von Vernier oder Pasco.

Simulog (von Simulator und Logik) ist der Name für ein Lehrsystem für Unterrichtszwecke der Firma LD Didactic GmbH, mit dem elementare Logikschaltungen durch ein einfaches Stecksystem aufgebaut werden können.

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The word saṃskāra is derived from the root verb kṛ, which means, "to do." The prefix "sam" is generally used to denote something auspicious or good. The word "saṃskāra" therefore refers to ritually prescribed actions that help bring about purification and refinement in the life of a human being. It is said that the human birth is difficult to achieve. Unlike animals, which are programmed, and follow the laws of prakṛti, nature, the human being is totally self-conscious and gifted with free will. Wherever there is free will, there is freedom to desire, to pursue various ends. These common human ends, known as puruṣārtha, have been generally classified by the scriptures as dharma (harmonious living), artha (security), kāma, (aesthetic pleasure), and mokṣa (freedom from being a wanting person).
Regardless, of what a person seeks, the real pursuit of the human being is mokṣa, the freedom from a sense of lack centered on oneself. If one pursues artha or kāma, the pursuit is endless, because the objects of desire are finite and can never provide the security that one seeks. Consequently, one infinitely remains a wanting person, a seeker. The only way to gain freedom from seeking altogether is to understand that one is already secure, and therefore free of being wanting. To assimilate the knowledge that the seeker is the sought is the purpose of human birth. To understand that mokṣa alone is the real human end requires emotional growth and maturity. At the very least, it requires the ability to discern what one really wants, and to drop pursuits that are not in keeping with what one really seeks.
From birth to death, every jīva, without any effort whatsoever, undergoes a life cycle consisting of ṣadvikāra, six stages of modification. These modifications are the laws of nature, prakṛti. Sage Yāska's Nirukta, a classic work on the etymological derivation of words, lists the modifications in the following order: Jāyate, is born, asti, survives birth, vardhate, grows up, vipariṇamate, blossoms, apakṣīyate, declines, and vinaśyati, is destroyed. This life cycle is common to animals and humans. For the human being, the physical growth from being a child to an adult is not enough. Since one has free will, one is not satisfied with physical growth. The process of growing into a mature person is a choice that one has to learn to exercise.
In the vision of the Veda, all aspects of one's life are considered to be sacred. The body itself is seen as a temple, and therefore, all acts connected to the body, such as bathing or eating, are acts of worship. The saṃskāras help one understand the sanctity of one's life, and grow to appreciate the physiological order that governs the body as a manifestation of Īśvara. The saṃskāras promote the process of purification and growth in a person in two ways: (a) Guṇādhāna, by helping to create an inner disposition conducive to cultivating virtues such as cheerfulness, compassion, and accommodation; and (b) and doṣāpanayana, removing inappropriate tendencies, such as laziness or procrastination, that act as barriers to achieving emotional maturity. Additionally, the saṃskāras serve simultaneously as markers of one's physical growth and as rites of passage. They protect the individual from harmful influences at vulnerable times, called sandhi, especially at significant junctures of growth. Such times are fraught with uncertainty, since one does not have control over all the variables; the saṃskāras become avenues of prayer for seeking the blessings of Īśvara for protection from harmful influences. Furthermore, the saṃskāras facilitate the psychological growth of the individual by according public validation of important milestones in one's life by the family and community. Such an acknowledgement serves to promote in the individual a strong sense of belonging and self-esteem. The saṃskāras also help person to understand his or her responsibilities at various stages in life, especially in relation to the family and society. Finally, the saṃskāras facilitate inner growth and emotional maturity, and help one make the correct choices in life, both in the relative and absolute senses. Relatively speaking, the saṃskāras connect one to Īśvara. As a result of this connection, one feels relatively secure and leads a life that is free of conflict. One grows from being prākṛta –unrefined– to saṃskṛta, refined and mature. Ultimately, the saṃskāras prepare one's inner disposition to have the requisite maturity to seek mokṣa, and be liberated from saṃsāra, a wanting life.
The dharmaśāstrās advocate a total of forty saṃskāras to be performed in the individual life cycle. Generally, however, sixteen of the most important saṃskāras are followed. They have been classified according to the stages in which they occur.
Prenatal Saṃskāras
Garbhādhāna: This is a saṃskāra that sanctifies conception. It sets the stage for the jīva to enter the womb of the mother, and for the prospective father and mother to prepare for parenthood. Mantras are chanted to bless the marital union.
Puṃsavana: Puṃsavana is a saṃskāra performed in the third or fourth month of the first pregnancy for the birth of a male child. It involves propitiating the ancestors, and the intake of medicinal herbs for protecting the fetus. The eldest son is desired for performing familial religious duties, and for continuing the lineage, the Vedic society being patriarchal. This saṃskāra is not commonly practiced in contemporary times.
Sīmantonnayana: Literally meaning "the parting of the hair," this saṃskāra is performed in the sixth or eighth month of the first pregnancy for the well being of the mother and the child at a crucial period of gestation. The husband ritually anoints the wife's hair and parts it with darbha grass or a porcupine quill, while chanting the gāyatrī mantra. A homa for prosperity is also done, along with propitiating the ancestors.
Neo-Natal Saṃskāras
Jāteṣṭi: This is a saṃskāra that is performed at birth. Prayers are offered to the devatās for prosperity, well being, and long life of the infant. Holding the child, the father whispers the gāyatrī mantra, and the name of the birth star in the baby's ear. He then presents the child to the mother for its first breastfeeding. A prayer is recited inviting Goddess Sarasvatī to abide in the breasts, and flow through the milk of the mother, nourishing the baby with the milk of knowledge. Homas for the health of the mother and the child are also performed.
Nāmakaraṇa: This saṃskāra, the naming ceremony, is performed on the eleventh day of the birth of the baby. The baby's name is whispered in its ear by the parents, followed by homa and feasting. Bestowing a name on the child is a blessing, and becomes an integral part of its identity, and therefore the name is carefully chosen according to the baby's horoscope, and its disposition. Children are named after a function or form of the Lord or after devatās. Sometimes, names signifying desirable attributes are given to the child in the hope that the child will embody the attribute as it grows. Care must be taken not to give names starting with negative particles. For instance, it is better to give a name such as Aikyā, oneness, rather than Ananyā, not separate. Emphasizing positive qualities blesses the name with a sense of purpose and self-esteem.
Niṣkrāmaṇa: This is a saṃskāra performed in the third or fourth month of the child's birth. It is the baby's first outing. The stepping of the child into the world is a landmark event in his or her development. It also marks the end of the quarantine period for the baby, where it is confined to the home, and guarded from exposure to germs and infections. The child is taken out, and shown the sun and the moon, the devatā of directions. The Lord of devatās, Indra is worshipped.
Annaprāśana: This saṃskāra is performed in the sixth month for a male child and in the seventh month for a female child. It marks the baby's first intake solid food, and also the commencement of the weaning process. The child is fed a mixture of rice, ghee, yogurt, and honey by the parents amidst the chanting of various prayers for the health and strength. Specifically, prayers are offered to the presiding deity of the plant kingdom, which is the source of all food, and Varuṇa, the devatā of water.
Childhood Saṃskāras
Cūḍākaraṇa: This is a saṃskāra performed in the child's third year. It signifies the child's first haircut. All hair is ceremonially shaved off, save for a small tuft. In the Vedic tradition, hair is seen as a symbolic manifestation of binding desires that keep growing without limits. The hair that is shaved off during this ritual is offered to the Lord, as a symbol of surrendering one's desire. Prayers are offered for the child's longevity, health, and success.
Karṇavedha: Karṇavedha is the ritual piercing of the ears, and is performed between the first and third years of birth. The ears of the child are pierced till the sun's rays can be seen through them. This is done for ornamentation, which is an act of worship in the Vedic culture.
Vidyāraṃbha: Also known as akṣarābhyasā, this saṃskāra initiates the child into the study of the alphabet. The child sits in the lap of the parent, teacher or elder, who holds the index finger of the child and guides him or her to trace the sacred "om" in a plate of rice, followed by the alphabet. This is an important saṃskāra as Vedic culture places a high value on knowledge and learning. Prayers are offered to Ganeśa and family deities.
Upanayana: Literally meaning "taking near," this is an important saṃskāra that marks the child's initiation into the gāyatrī mantra. The child is given a sacred thread to wear, which signifies his or her eligibility for studying the Veda. It is performed between the eighth and the twelfth years. During ancient times, both boys and girls were initiated into Vedic study at the gurukula, but as the tradition became patriarchal, and the division of labor between men and women more entrenched, girls were exempted from Vedic study and, therefore, also from this ritual. The ritual marks the beginning of brahmacarya, the life of a student. The ritual also allows the student to take alms, and to look upon his own mother as a giver of alms.
Vedāraṃbha: The teacher and the pupil perform this saṃskāra together after upanayana. It serves as a time of bonding and building of trust between the pupil and the teacher.
Puberty Saṃskāras
Keśānta/Ṛtuśuddhi: This saṃskāra marks the right of passage from childhood to adolescence for both boys and girls. It celebrates the first shaving of facial hair in the case of boys, and menarche in girls. Prayers are invoked for connection to the family, and for self-discipline, especially at a time when it is easy for the young adults to feel estranged or rebellious.
Adult Saṃskāras
Samāvartana: This saṃskāra signifies the "graduation ceremony," or the return of the student from the gurukula. Having finished his studies, the young man returns to the home, after taking a ceremonial bath, and offering prayers to the deities and gifts to the teacher.
Vivāha: Vivāha means to carry well. It is the name for the saṃskāra of marriage. It signifies the entry of the person into the life of a householder, and marks the transition from being a consumer to a contributor. Marriage also makes a person eligible to perform Vedic rituals. It is an elaborate saṃskāra, involving many steps. After propitiating the ancestors, and gaining the blessing of the devatās, the bride and the groom take seven steps together, with the holy fire as the witness, and take seven vows to fulfill their duties, share joys and sorrows together, protect each other from harm, facilitate each other's spiritual growth. They also make a promise to each other to live together harmoniously in a spirit of equality and friendship. Making this commitment to live with another person affords a sense of security, and thereby opens opportunities for self-growth in a safe and loving atmosphere.
Antyeṣṭi: This is the last saṃskāra, performed after the death of the individual, where the body itself is given to the holy fire as the final offering. The fire received from one's parents at the time of marriage, and used for performing rituals throughout one's life receives the ultimate oblation of the body of the kartā, the performer of the rituals. The eldest son traditionally performs this ritual, substituted by a daughter, or a living relative in case the person did not have progeny. Traditionally, antyeṣṭi is not counted as a saṃskāra, because the last stage of life for every person expected to take to a life of sannyāsa, renunciation. A sannyāsin is not cremated, as he or she has renounced all fire rituals.
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Q: How do I upgrade my kernel on the Rackspace Cloud? I'm running servers on the Rackspace Cloud -- the first-generation one, not the next-generation Open Stack one. I believe it's running Xen for the hypervisor.
I use the stock images from Rackspace. I primarily use 10.04 servers, but I've also been rolling out new servers with 12.04.
My problem is that I want to keep the kernel up-to-date. I can apt-get dist-upgrade for new kernels, and the installation works fine. However, when I reboot, the server doesn't come back up.
My guess is that there's some custom hackery around the grub configuration that makes the stock kernels work, but upgraded kernels fail.
Has anyone had a similar problem on the Rackspace Cloud? What's the smallest modification  I need to  make grub boot a new kernel?

A: You need to edit /etc/default/grub and alter it to exclude UUIDs from the root device.
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Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and enter:
gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

Find and uncomment the following line. That is remove the # from the beginning of the line # GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true like this:
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

Save and exit from gedit.
You then need to run update-grub to affect these changes by entiering:
sudo update-grub

The root device in use on rackspace in something like /dev/xvda1, which is not a UUID but this is treated as one by grub. Consequently at the next boot grub searches for a device with that UUID and cannot find it, hanging the boot process.


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CAJUN SENSATIONAL AT COCOPAH SPEEDWAY ON THE FIRST OF TWO NIGHTS OF ACTION AS HE WINS IN DOMINANT FASHION TO MAKE THINGS INTERESTING IN THE ASCS NATIONAL TOUR SEASON LONG POINT CHASE
SOMERTON, ARIZONA (November 14, 2014) – With the 2014 season winding down, Jason and the Stenhouse Jr. Racing team were ready for action. The racy, 3/8-mile semi banked oval has been a place where the Eunice, Louisiana native has had some success in the past. In fact, quite a bit of success as he swept all four events at the oval last year. So he and the team put the proverbial "chip back on their shoulder" as they took to the track in southwestern Arizona, just south of Yuma, in the Fischer Body Shop/Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) #41 Maxim. There were 46 cars and drivers in the pits with names like Joey Saldana, Shane Stewart and Brian Brown to go along with the whole host of ASCS stars and regional competitors.
Jason slated the field in his heat race from the fourth starting spot. Bob Ream, Jr. jumped into the early lead as Jason took the Waco Metal/CURB Records mount to the top side challenging for the runner-up position early with the always tough Aaron Reutzel right behind. The two speedsters were up on the wheel trying everything to track down Ream, but they ran out of laps as they crossed the line 1-2-3 to advance onto the 25-lap feature event with Jason holding the runner-up spot.
The Stenhouse Jr. Racing boys were hard at work on the car while the remaining qualifying action was completed. They knew their base setup for this place was a really good one, but they wanted to make the necessary adjustments to their Maxim to maximize their driver's performance on this night at Cocopah Speedway. When the lineup was posted on the pit board and the call came through the public address system to "buckle in and push off", the Ragin' Cajun climbed into his ButlerBuilt Professional Seat System and secured and tightened his Crow Enterprizes safety belts. It was "go" time.
With the bump on the rear nerf bar, his Mike Baughman Ford powered machine fired up and was off to the races. With the engine purring under the hood and the driver growling for a win, the combined audible noise created a peaceful and calming presence for him as he pulled into his sixth starting spot. Front row starters, Brandon Hanks and Bob Ream Jr., brought the field down the front stretch at full speed when the green flag waved. Jason did not wait long to maneuver his orange and black machine into position to take some spots. Unfortunately, a melee with some of the drivers further back in the field brought out the yellow for a complete restart. When the yellow lights went green, the Cajun climbed up to the cushion and made it three wide as he put the Jonestown KOA/Valvoline machine in the second spot. It was early, but Jason was fast as he tracked down Hahn and took the lead on lap four before the yellow came out negating the pass. Pacing under the caution, Jason was focused and peering through the lens of his Shell Shock custom painted Arai Helmet finalized his restart strategy. On the restart the 4-Time ASCS National Tour champion again made his bid for the top spot. This time he would execute the pass and secure the top spot for good as he was making tracks and not looking back. The crew had this Maxim really good and the driver in the cockpit was enjoying his night at the office. He would lead the remaining laps to take the win over Danny "The Flying Fossil" Woods by 6.226 seconds with Aaron Reutzel charging from his 20th starting spot to claim the show position. The talented California racer, Willie Croft, made his way to Arizona and took the fourth and final lock-in position for Saturday night's grand finale. After the victory Jason joked, "I almost forgot my way to victory lane." He continued, "I will tell you what, hats off to this race team. They worked their tails off and have never given up on their driver. I really appreciate them and all of the people who have supported this race team through everything this season." He then stated, "We have a good baseline when we come here, and to win here tonight, I don't know what it did to us point wise but all we could do is win this race and improve ourselves." What the win did for him is put him 13 markers behind current leader Brad Loyet for the season long championship title with Jeff Swindell also right in from of him 11 makers out. With a fifth championship within reaching distance combined with being locked-in to Saturday night's event, I guarantee you the Cajun Sensation will have his elbows up racing for the win. Watch out on Saturday night as the ASCS National Tour concludes their 2014 season!