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Opinion: Worried about coronavirus? Football shows it doesn't care
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Mrunal Nakashe
Millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths not withstanding the beautiful game has returned in hard-hit Europe.
From one of the worst Australian wildfires seasons on record to US President Donald Trump's impeachment and now the deadliest health crisis since the influenza outbreak of 1918, 2020 has been a roller-coaster of a year for humankind. Yet, we aren't even halfway through it. You see, at the start of the year, there was the joke going around that since this was the year 2020, it would be a short one (leaning on the metaphor of cricket's shortest format T20). Wait, can we turn the clock back and actually make that come true? 2021 be here already! The coronavirus has infected millions and killed hundreds of thousands all over the world.
As of 18 May, there have been over 4.7m confirmed cases with over 317,000 deaths worldwide. The virus has penetrated more than 184 countries and continues to peak in many places. On a more positive note, there have been over 1.8m recoveries worldwide. The mortality rate from the virus is around 2-3% and in that respect at least, it has not proven as deadly as the SARS and MERS outbreaks that affected large parts of Asia following the turn of the millennium.
Nonetheless, this is the deadliest pandemic we have witnessed in over a century and one of the regions to be worst affected has been Europe. The continent has recorded over 1.9m confirmed coronavirus cases and there have been over 168,000 deaths.
These are truly mind-boggling numbers and the scale of death and devastation is unprecedented in peace time. Looking at them might make you think that doomsday is close by or that life as we know it is over. Science has proven that a lockdown is the way to go for countries with a high population density and the measures, however painful, have helped to flatten the curve.
But, there is indeed, a whole different battle being waged by those on the other side of the divide, who can't wait for the lockdowns to be over, so that they can rush out of their homes. Europe, like most parts of the world, has seen increasing discontent against the lockdown measures, which has led to some quirky relaxation requests in different countries. Like the clamour to let children out to play in Spain or the UK's once-daily walk in the park. Wait, did the coronavirus suck the oxygen out of our houses?
At the point of despair? Wondering whether to stick or twist? Don't worry, there is a hero rising to lift the gloom, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, to restore normalcy. Drum roll please…. its yours, mine and everyone else's favourite sport – football.
Coronavirus: Top five European countries with most number of infections and deaths
Yes, if you haven't noticed, one of the top five leagues has returned to action while the other three are working towards comeback. Rejoice. Clubs in England, Spain and Italy have also returned to training, showcasing an indomitable will to finish the season. Did we mention that these four countries have also recorded the highest number of infections and deaths behind Russia in the whole continent? Ah, never mind, just a passing reference.
The one country not on that list? France. Silly of the French, with just 140,497 cases and over 28,000 deaths the government has said no football till September. You see there is no better tonic for a nation ravaged by death and job losses, than watching a bunch of their favourite players go head-to-head, literally, to get the ball into the net. Social distancing? What a pass!
Those wise people at the Bundesliga really get the significance of football in social heeling at a time like this. Here's an excerpt of their recent press note about the resumption of the league: "The idea is to ensure a medically justifiable risk based on the significance of football (in societal, sociopolitical and economic terms)." In other words, players, officials and staff could get re-infected, but the show must go on because money.
What about the sociopolitical part? Well, they will be taking all possible precautions including targeted testing, along with there being no handshakes or child escorts, albeit with 300 people in the stadium. Off to England we go, where the government has sanctioned the resumption of the league from 1st June. With training resuming, it has been announced that there will be no tackling. What does that mean? N'Golo Kante can report straight to the games. It is worth pointing out that authorities in the UK have been blocking calls to allow safe-standing at games due to concerns regarding 'health and safety.'
Now, with all the clamour to restart leagues you might think that like in most other crises like the financial meltdown of 2008, football has been immune from coronavirus too. You would be wrong. Within the football community, Italy has seen 23 coronavirus cases, England has 16, Germany has reported 10, along with Spain's six. Granted that these numbers are negligible compared to those of the wider community. There is one player and two staff workers at Watford besides Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan who are among the six people found positive for coronavirus in tests conducted by the English Premier League on Sunday and Monday.
So, is it safe to restart? The counter is that football is by nature a contact sport, in which the concept of social distancing cannot co-exist. Cancel the ongoing season you say? The WHO has warned that countries and industries that re-open to quickly risk a second wave of infections. But wait, there are some other important considerations.
Like this statement from UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin, who last month said, "There is no way Liverpool could end without the title. If the matches are played, then they will almost certainly win it. In case the matches cannot be played, we will need to find a way." Now, there's a man with his priorities on point. The sarcasm aside, football like most other walks of life, is an industry, where the bottom-line matters. So, jobs are undoubtedly at stake.
Unfortunately, an already bad situation is not helped by a lack of coordination between leagues and the absence of leadership from UEFA. Take for instance that on 11 March, while PSG beat Borussia Dortmund behind closed doors in Paris, just a few hundred miles away Atletico Madrid stunned UEFA Champions League holders Liverpool in front of a near-capacity crowd at Anfield.
It was a misjudgement of epic proportions that makes this statement by Reds' boss Jurgen Klopp just a tad ironic. Merely two days after that game he said, "I've said before that football always seems the most important of the least important things and today football and football matches really aren't important at all."
Of the 20 Premier League clubs taking part in the ongoing campaign, four have applied for the UK government's furlough scheme. This includes Tottenham Hotspur, Bournemouth, Newcastle United and Norwich City. Interestingly, this list also had league-leaders Liverpool, before the Reds went back on the move after an uproar.
To their credit, the players have also taken significant wage cuts in order to ensure that non-playing staff continue to receive their salaries. This is of course led by Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, where a massive 70% reduction has been agreed. Good on them.
Admittedly, for clubs lower down the pecking order the picture isn't so rosy. Early last month, Burnley Chairman Mike Garlick joined the chorus for a restart saying, "That's why we are very, very determined that when it's safe to do so, we really do want to finish this season. Finishing the season is the only real outcome for all the Premier League clubs."
He further added, "It's a completely unprecedented situation that we and other Premier League clubs face and which we could not have foreseen in anyway only just a few weeks ago. "It's now not just about Burnley or any other individual club anymore, it's about the whole football ecosystem from the Premier League downwards and all the other businesses and communities that feed from that ecosystem."
So, is a restart really the only option for four of Europe's top five leagues? It must be pointed out that the Premier League and English football have a very important role to play here. The financial troubles of many top flight clubs in Spain and Italy are well-documented. In contrast, the Premier League is by far the most financially robust and able to deal with this crisis. Therefore, what it does will serve as a mode, to other leagues in the region and around the world.
There are 92 professional clubs within the English football league pyramid. Most in the lower divisions do live from season-to-season, but that can hardly be said of both the Premier League and its clubs. Get this, in three of the last five summer transfer windows, Premier League spending alone crossed a £1b mark. When you add up the burgeoning commercial side of the game and the revenue generated from it, it is hard to imagine that these clubs cannot sustain themselves following the cutting short of a season, which anyway had only 10 weeks or so to run.
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Of course in the short term this will mean the leagues and some of their richer clubs pulling together to help other outfits that are less well of, but this is the least that should be expected. At any rate, this is perhaps, a better way of dealing with the crisis than putting lives at risk with a hasty restart.
Moreover, just a short flight from the UK is the example of the Netherlands, a country that has reported over 44,000 confirmed cases and nearly 5,700 deaths. No prizes for guessing, the Eredivisie season has been cancelled. Now, Dutch clubs don't have deep pockets. They rely on shrewd business in the market and developing their own talented players. So, how will these clubs sustain themselves after a null & void campaign? Or will they go out of business? Food for thought for the Burnley chairman. It is these facts that make some leagues' obsession with a restart look like its bordering on the callous.
Ultimately, football, at least at the upper echelons, will likely be one of the industries to recover quickest from the crisis, given how market-driven it is. But, the sport must reflect on its role in society. It cannot behave like a law unto itself like it has done on many occasions previously. Does it care more about the 'economic terms' or the physical well-being of its stakeholders? For history will write it's own commentary in judgement of how different sections of society responded to this generational crisis and football will find mention too.
For our part, we as fans must reflect on the place that football and indeed sport occupies in our lives and just how important it truly is. Nothing puts life into context like death itself. We must ask whether the clubs and teams we so passionate support really do care about us, or whether for them we are just another number, another revenue stream that flows into the all-important bottom-line?
*COVID-19 (coronavirus) figures are from World Health Organization as of 10:21 AM CEST on 20 May, 2020
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At first sight, something in Shift's appearance feels unusual. It almost seems as if the forces of nature are overpowering the elegant but instable structure while strong belts keep it from falling apart. The lines are clear and the contrasts are bold emphasizing the geometric appearance of ArteNemus' creation.


Of course 'the media' is not a single entity, but a bewildering mishmash of local print, digital editions, blogs, social media, and even email lists at the state, national and international levels. But despite the vast increase in the way news is being shaped today, many still believe that eventually the Truth will percolate up through this democratization of news. But for the public to navigate rapidity in a changing world the news must quickly tend towards an accurate model of reality or, like one of your senses, you're in trouble. It's why people get eye glasses.
How the media has handled the three-decade-old issue of human-caused Climate Change is like (using the eye-glasses analogy) wearing an old set of glasses even though your eyes are aging. You're going to bump into things. We are bumping into extreme weather, longer growing seasons, and the migration of flora and fauna right under our feet, but are unable to see them as Climate Change through the lens of a media ill-adapted to seeing the long-term (in human time) and controversial (in political terms) physics of Climate Change.
A new report "Emerging Consensus Shows Climate Change Already Having Major Effects on Ecosystems and Species " put out by the US Geological Society in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation and Arizona State University highlights how the media (and I think I can throw most 'media' into this gross generalization here) is ill-adapted to handle Climate Change. This report was released on December 18, 2012, which is long enough back to note that it has received little media attention. And even those media that do mention the report tend not to explain its importance.
It's instructive, before mentioning the details of what's in the report, to understand why it was written. This report is part of the federal obligation to report to the President and Congress on what has been learned thus far about Climate Change under the Global Change Research Act of 1990.
Federal law requires that the U.S. Global Change Research Program submit an assessment of climate change and its impacts to the President and the Congress once every four years. Technical reports, articles and books – such as this report — underpin the corresponding chapters of the Third U.S. National Climate Assessment, due out in 2013. This technical report is available at the USGCRP website, as are other completed technical reports. Additional lead authors of this report include Shawn Carter, USGS: F. Stuart Chapin III, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy; and Mary Ruckelshaus, Natural Capital Project.
This report is an advanced release which will be part of this year's Our Changing Planet (OCP), a series of official reports from 1991-2012 that include how these branches of government understand and will respond to Climate Change: Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Department of Human Services, NASA, National Science Foundation, The Smithsonian Institution, US Agency for International Development, United States Department of Agriculture, and The Environmental Protection Agency.
The report says, among other things, that our "Biodiversity and ecosystems are already more stressed than at any comparable period of human history. " If you cannot read the whole report, you should at least read these two pages (S-1 & S-2) Key Findings. When read and thought about objectively they provide a great insight into the nature of Climate Change and the level of human response needed. Clearly and officially, anything short of a massive effort to adapt to and mitigate Climate Change is irresponsible.
This report and the series of reports by our government and to our government on what is actually happening to our environment and what our government plans to do (despite all the hue and cry in the media) about Climate Change is not the usual stuff. These reports are not opinion polls, blog posts, local investigative reports, environmental action group reports, nor the studies of an international body not responsible to our government. They are official reports demanded by our own government so it can see Climate Change clearly. Astonishingly, the gulf between these official reports and what the media is reporting on our environment is wide indeed.
The media tends to report on polls of what the US population thinks of Climate Change at any one time, forever putting their finger to the wind to assess their journalistic objectivity. If they mention these reports at all, they tend to not connect the dots between what is stated and predicted in these official reports.
Why on an issue of physics, where we are all equal and subject to the same rules, is there such a deep chasm between what our government is telling itself about Climate Change and what our media is telling our citizens? Climate Change is like no other issue humanity has ever faced. Our media must change their role in our lives to reflect a world that is warming, no matter how unpleasant and inconvenient that may be to their subscribers.
That media which continues to spew doubt and inaction on a matter our government already understands as a clear and present danger should be held accountable. Accountable in the sense that you discard those old eyeglasses that no longer serve you well.


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du & National Archives celebrate UAE's 48th National Day
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du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), is uniting with the National Archive to unveil a treasure trove of rare historic footage and images in time for 48th National Day celebrations. By unlocking and sharing nostalgic memories of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), du and the National Archive are calling on citizens and residents to join in recollecting and sharing their invaluable UAE stories and remembrances as the country celebrates the significant occasion.
The exclusive glimpse into the past aims to unite the UAE's people as they exchange memories and admiration for their homeland on the 48th National Day. The release of exclusive footage and images will build on this notion by offering a nostalgic journey under themes including memories of the nation's founding father Sheikh Zayed, education, women empowerment, and traditional celebrations and crafts.
'Reflecting on the UAE's rich and proud history'
Speaking about the initiative, Abdulwahed Juma, Executive Vice President – Brand & Communications, du, said: "As part of the UAE's 48th National Day celebrations, we must take time to pause and recall the rich cultural and historical heritage, customs, arts, and crafts that characterise the UAE. This is a special opportunity for us all to reflect on the wise visions of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and the leaders of the UAE in the past and present. The main purpose of this initiative, which we proudly launched in collaboration with the UAE National Archives, is to inspire UAE nationals and residents to reflect on our past through a journey of nostalgic memories. The aim of this is to encourage them to share their stories and memories of the UAE, to take stock of the nation's achievements, and to enable the future aspirations sought by our leaders with a will that knows no bounds."
The National Archives are aligned to du's efforts to make this inspiring initiative a success in conjunction with the nationwide celebrations taking place throughout the UAE on the occasion of the 48th National Day. Through this initiative, the UAE's proud cultural heritage will be shared in full harmony with the objectives of the National Archives, which aims to preserve and document the special memories of the UAE, communicate the UAE's important values to future generations, and introduce the entire world to the richness and heritage of Emirati and Gulf culture.
As another key commemorative feature of du's National Day festivities, the company celebrated 48 years since the country's inception on Thursday, 28th November, with a stirring ceremony at the du headquarters in Al Salam Tower, Dubai and DIAC. The celebration at Al Salam Tower included a special gallery set-up in collaboration with the National Archives, an Ayala performance, along with traditional UAE music and cuisine.
Additionally, du's network name will be changed to 'UAE48Memories' across the National Day holiday period to provide customers the chance to recall memories and the significant feats of the country.
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What makes this hummus so super? From taste to nutrition, it's top-notch!
When we first tried Nasoya's new Super Hummus at Natural Products Expo West, we thought that perhaps the excitement of the show, the flurry of new products, or the sugar high we'd been on for three days straight is what made us so enthusiastic about this hummus. Let's face it, we've collectivly eaten a lot of hummus in our time. But upon returning to the VNHQ, we discovered that this savory spread really lives up to its name. Made with soybeans, Super Hummus is lower in fat than most offerings, but doesn't skimp on taste. Whether or not it can fly or save the lives of kitties stuck in trees remains to be seen.


Beauty Generation (NZ) gave his growing reputation another big boost in the Group 1 Stewards' Cup.
Superstar Select Sale graduate Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road to Rock) is building a reputation as one of Hong Kong's all-time great milers, and he gave that growing reputation another big boost in Sunday's HK$10 million Group 1 Stewards' Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin.
Already a multiple Group 1 winner and Hong Kong's Horse of the Year last season, Beauty Generation is unbeaten in five starts in 2018-19 – all at stakes level, all spectacularly dominant performances, and all in blistering time.
Sunday was his first start since he successfully defended his Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m) title with a three-length romp in December. The Stewards' Cup produced a victory by the same margin.
Regular rider Zac Purton sent the six-year-old straight to the lead and the race appeared to be in safe keeping a long way out. Beauty Generation kicked powerfully in the straight to open up by three lengths, stopping the clock at 1:33.51.
Trainer John Moore has overseen the careers of some of Hong Kong's greats, but he has no doubt where Beauty Generation belongs on that list.
"He's the best of the lot," he said.
Purton believes his champion mount could have won a lot more easily if required.
Beauty Generation is now the winner of 14 of his 27 starts, along with another seven placings. He has earned more than HK$66.3 million, which is the equivalent of NZ$12.56 million – more than 208 times his purchase price.
Moore is keen to showcase Beauty Generation's talents on the world stage.
"I'd love to travel him, but it's so important that I fit into the route that the Kwok family wants to take," he said.
"I know their Grand Final is the Champions Mile (in April), so that's our number one focus now – my job is to get him ready for that.
Carlaw Park will offer a Tavistock half-sister to Beauty Generation as Lot 443 in Book 1 of Karaka 2019.


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Gabriel Ansley was born December 25, 1970 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. At 12 years of age, in a certain church for the first time, he was picked out and told by a traveling prophet preaching there (who had never met him!) that his name was Gabriel, and that God had given him that name. The prophet proceeded to tell him he would be like John the Baptist in the last days preparing the people to meet the Lord, for God would place him in a position one day to be able to influence multitudes of people!
Over 25 years later and after many supernatural visitations and revelations from God that DAY has finally arrived; for the prophetic Word of the Lord came unto Gabriel in the years AD 2007 – 2008. Instructed by God to write down the message he had received, Gabriel quit his job and dutifully set out to complete the task. Twenty months later, the book Undeniable Biblical Proof Jesus Christ Will Return To Planet Earth Exactly 2,000 Years After The Year Of His Death was the result. In stunning fulfillment of the traveling prophet's words above, Gabriel's message now calls out in the loving, yet earnest, spirit of the Baptist (like all true prophets of God) to REPENT of your sins before it is too late!
Gabriel started playing guitar and writing songs during his college years at Millersville University. In 1993 he made a trip to Nashville and placed 4th in a singing competition out of over 100 singers from across the country. That was it …the music bug bit! Soon, Gabriel was fronting a country band in southern Pennsylvania playing fairs, carnivals, and honkytonks and singing commercial jingles on radio. He recorded a solo country album entitled "Wish I Was A Cowboy" and then opened up for country acts: The Kinleys, Ty England, and Gary Allen. In December of 1996 he made the move to Nashville, Tennessee; and he's been there ever since!
Gabriel played in several country bands during his years in Nashville and greatly sharpened his songwriting skills. But since the divinely-inspired, miraculous appearance of his deceased father's shadowed profile on May 6, 2005, Gabriel has lost all interest in performing secular country music. He now only desires to sing, write, and record Christian songs. So enjoy his latest creations recorded in AD 2008 "He's Coming Back" & "The Prisoner" and in AD 2012 "Ten Love Commandments Revolution".


Artists and sponsors are needed for the 16th annual Oak Ridge Street Painting Festival.
It will be held Saturday, Oct. 1, at the Oak Ridge branch campus of Roane State Community College, 701 Briarcliff Ave.
The rain day is on Sunday, Oct. 2.
The purpose of the festival, organized by the Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, is to raise funds for scholarships for Roane State students.
The festival is also a competition for the artists.
I wish Curtis Eskridge a speedy recovery.
Curtis is in Parkwest Medical Center in Knoxville. Lets keep him in our prayers.
Get-well wishes to Jimmy Dawn Thomas. She is a patient in Parkwest Medical Center.
Congratulations to Mr. Danny and Mrs. Carolyn Baker, who are celebrating their wedding anniversary today.
They were married Sept. 26, 2003. May you have a blessed day and more years of marriage.
Canadian a cappella group Eh440 will perform Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Princess Theatre in a free concert sponsored by the Roane State Campus Activities Board.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show begins at 7 p.m. The public is welcome. The Princess is located in downtown Harriman.
Eh440 has won numerous awards for their 2014 album "Turn Me Up" and received rave reviews for their latest work.
In celebration of the National Park Service turning 100 years old, the Obed Wild and Scenic River is planning a combined birthday party and an Art in the Park reception.
The reception begins at 5 p.m. Aug. 25 in the Obed Visitor Center at 208 N. Maiden St., downtown Wartburg.
The National Park Service has been celebrating its impending centennial for more than a year, but Aug. 25 marks the actual day when the National Park Service can claim 100 years of protecting our nation's most treasured places.
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In celebration of the National Park Service's centennial anniversary, the Obed Wild and Scenic River will conduct a healthy hike this weekend.
The hike begins at 10 a.m. Aug. 20.
Participants should meet at the Lilly Overlook parking area, which can be found after crossing the Lilly Bridge on Ridge Road in Morgan County.
Rangers Rick Ryan and Veronica Greear will lead a moderate 2-mile loop hike that will include the Lilly Overlook, the Boulder Field and the Bridge trails.
Roane County Executive Ron Woody recently accepted an award on the county's behalf during the East Tennessee Development District's annual awards banquet.
The banquet, attended by more than 130 East Tennessee elected officials and ETDD staff members, was July 14 in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris.
Roane County was cited at the banquet for completion of a sewer line extension project along South Pine Ridge Road.
The recently installed sewer line will serve 35 households in the Pine Ridge Road area.
Roane County Farm Bureau member Whitney Tilley was among 14 farm and ranch women leaders recognized by the American Farm Bureau Federation as graduates of the organization's 10th annual Women's Communications Boot Camp in Washington, D.C., last month.
The Lady Associates of the Tennessee Valley Defenders Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club recently had a "Christmas in July" motorcycle ride to fund area nursing home visits and Christmas baskets.
Club President Randy Childs said the event raised more than $1,000 to help residents who don't typically receive visitors.
Club members will meet with the residents in months prior to the holiday to introduce themselves and get to know them before taking them Christmas baskets.


Rocky Mountain House's aviation fraternity is shaken after having lost one of its best local pilots.
Jul. 16, 2012 6:13 p.m.
Mark Chevallier, 36, a well-known single father, was killed in a crash following an aerobatic training exercise in Rocky Mountain House on Thursday afternoon.
Chevallier was the lone occupant of the Pits S1S prop plane that crashed into a wooded area near Rocky Mountain House Airport, a few kms northeast of the town.
Rocky Mayor Fred Nash, who is an avid pilot himself, said Chevallier did a lot of work behind the scenes for the aviation community.
"To me he was one of the good ones," Nash said Friday.
"He didn't like the limelight but he would do the work and make sure things worked and those people are rare.
The Rocky Mountain House RCMP responded to the crash at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Cpl. Bob Schultz said the Pits S1S prop plane didn't carry a lot of fuel. The plane is equipped for enough fuel to fly for 20 minutes.
Chevallier was in flight for about 15 minutes before the plane impacted the ground nose first.
"Accounts say he was over the tree line but it is not known how far from the ground," Schultz said.
Chevallier, father of a five-year-old boy, worked at Chevallier Geo-Con Ltd., a company that equips GPS systems in heavy equipment used in the oilfield, agriculture and forest industries.
His wife passed away about a year and a half ago.
Chevallier was heavily involved in COPA For Kids — an aviation program that provides a flying experience for kids free of charge. He was also on the executive board for the Rocky Mountain House Airshow.
The loss of Chevallier is heavy for those who work at the small but active airport.
Barney Bert, assistant airport manager, said on Friday that the airport was closed during a Transportation Safety Board investigation.
"He was a very well-known member of the local flying community," Bert said.
"I remember all the good times and the good things that he did," Nash said.
Further information will be released once the investigation into the crash is complete. Schultz said it could take the Transportation Safety Board months before a cause is determined.


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Berserk's Second Season Is Coming out This April
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One of the best anime series of this past spring season was undoubtedly Berserk, the continuation of the original 26-episode series that adapted the original manga by Kentaro Miura. It only ran for thirteen episodes and left us with a bit of a cliffhanger, right before the real action was poised to begin.
You don't have to wait much longer to see what's going to happen to Guts, Casca, Griffith and the rest of the crew, though. You don't even have to crack the cover of a manga volume. You can sit and wait for April to roll around when the show's next season will premiere in Japan on MBS and WOWOW, Japanese television networks. The official website was updated since to show off the story's Berserker Armor, as seen in the image above. There's going to be some real carnage going on, and I can't wait to check it out.
For the uninitiated, Berserk is one of the greatest Western fantasy-inspired anime series out there, and this is the second season of the new series that debuted in July 2016. It picks up right where the end of the original series left off, so if you plan on watching this series, it's highly recommended you at least watch the Berserk movie trilogy or at the very least read the manga and watch the old series first.
It's a show you won't soon forget, and I liked it so much I got the sacred brand protagonist Guts has himself on my upper arm as a tattoo. If you like your anime disturbing, dark, and more than a little crazy, then you'll find plenty to love about Berserk. You've still got plenty of time to get ready for the second season, so I highly suggest you go ahead and get ready now. Trust me.
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Hemşin ( ou Համամաշէն; Hamamashen; literalmente: aldeola do amã), também conhecida como Tambur, é uma vila e distrito do nordeste da Turquia, situada na região (bölge) do Mar Negro (Karadeniz Bölgesi), a 57 km da cidade de Rize. O distrito tem   de superfície e  habitantes. Situa-se numa região de montes verdejantes, a cerca de 20 km da costa do Mar Negro.

Hemşin é a terra ancestral dos hemichis (em turco: hemşinli; naturais de Hemşin), um grupo étnico de origem arménia que se estabeleceu na região há vários séculos.

História

Localidades da Turquia
Distritos da Turquia
Região do Mar Negro

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package org.onlab.junit;

import org.junit.Test;

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
import static org.onlab.junit.UtilityClassChecker.assertThatClassIsUtility;

/**
 * Set of unit tests to check the implementation of the utility class
 * checker.
 */
public class UtilityClassCheckerTest {

    // CHECKSTYLE:OFF test data intentionally not final
    /**
     * Test class for non final class check.
     */
    static class NonFinal {
        private NonFinal() { }
    }
    // CHECKSTYLE:ON

    /**
     * Check that a non final class correctly produces an error.
     * @throws Exception if any of the reflection lookups fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void testNonFinalClass() throws Exception {
        boolean gotException = false;
        try {
            assertThatClassIsUtility(NonFinal.class);
        } catch (AssertionError assertion) {
            assertThat(assertion.getMessage(),
                       containsString("is not final"));
            gotException = true;
        }
        assertThat(gotException, is(true));
    }

    /**
     * Test class for final no constructor class check.
     */
    static final class FinalNoConstructor {
    }

    /**
     * Check that a final class with no declared constructor correctly produces
     * an error.  In this case, the compiler generates a default constructor
     * for you, but the constructor is 'protected' and will fail the check.
     *
     * @throws Exception if any of the reflection lookups fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void testFinalNoConstructorClass() throws Exception {
        boolean gotException = false;
        try {
            assertThatClassIsUtility(FinalNoConstructor.class);
        } catch (AssertionError assertion) {
            assertThat(assertion.getMessage(),
                    containsString("class with a default constructor that " +
                                   "is not private"));
            gotException = true;
        }
        assertThat(gotException, is(true));
    }

    /**
     * Test class for class with more than one constructor check.
     */
    static final class TwoConstructors {
        private TwoConstructors() { }
        private TwoConstructors(int x) { }
    }

    /**
     * Check that a non static class correctly produces an error.
     * @throws Exception if any of the reflection lookups fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void testOnlyOneConstructor() throws Exception {
        boolean gotException = false;
        try {
            assertThatClassIsUtility(TwoConstructors.class);
        } catch (AssertionError assertion) {
            assertThat(assertion.getMessage(),
                       containsString("more than one constructor"));
            gotException = true;
        }
        assertThat(gotException, is(true));
    }

    /**
     * Test class with a non private constructor.
     */
    static final class NonPrivateConstructor {
        protected NonPrivateConstructor() { }
    }

    /**
     * Check that a class with a non private constructor correctly
     * produces an error.
     * @throws Exception if any of the reflection lookups fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void testNonPrivateConstructor() throws Exception {

        boolean gotException = false;
        try {
            assertThatClassIsUtility(NonPrivateConstructor.class);
        } catch (AssertionError assertion) {
            assertThat(assertion.getMessage(),
                       containsString("constructor that is not private"));
            gotException = true;
        }
        assertThat(gotException, is(true));
    }

    /**
     * Test class with a non static method.
     */
    static final class NonStaticMethod {
        private NonStaticMethod() { }
        public void aPublicMethod() { }
    }

    /**
     * Check that a class with a non static method correctly produces an error.
     * @throws Exception if any of the reflection lookups fail.
     */
    @Test
    public void testNonStaticMethod() throws Exception {

        boolean gotException = false;
        try {
            assertThatClassIsUtility(NonStaticMethod.class);
        } catch (AssertionError assertion) {
            assertThat(assertion.getMessage(),
                       containsString("one or more non-static methods"));
            gotException = true;
        }
        assertThat(gotException, is(true));
    }
}

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Turn an array like into an array

## Example

``` js
var toArray = require("to-array")
    , elems = document.links

var array = toArray(elems)
```

## Installation

`npm install to-array`

## Contributors

 - Raynos

## MIT Licenced


Everything will be sustained by water.
All the world knows that it cannot live without water, for even the lowest forms of organic life cluster about its wetness. Even the rocks of the earth, condensed ages ago in frigid space, clasped to their bosom the moisture that would eventually cloud their highest contours. The clinging dampness of precipitation lubricates the endless patterns of growth everywhere on this globe; yet the essence of water is one of life's most elusive mysteries. One may try to uncover it by sober reference to its chemical makeup, so well-known that even the simple cowboy poet speaks of water as H2O. Scientists may call it an 'essential substance', which can be solid, liquid or gaseous, providing the main constituent of vegetable and animal cells as well as crystals and many minerals. Perhaps the atomic structure of the water molecule may provide a satisfactory identification. It has been declared that all of the strange and important characteristics of water arise from the configuration of the three atoms in the molecule and the distribution of electrical charge among them. This disposition gives polarity to a water molecule, enabling it to serve as an almost universal solvent, to form acids and alkalis, to resist change in temperature and to require immense heat in order to evaporate. One may, then, focus upon how water behaves in trying to plumb its essence. But the fact that one ounce of it contains a trillion trillion molecular containers of sets of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms may hardly interest or satisfy the confident consumer who, using water every day, feels certain he knows its nature.
Water has many forms. It is rain, snow, ice and steam. It is the blood, sap, milk and juice of all life, and it is constantly moving. Water is not merely a solvent, it is a catalyst, a medium of conveyance, of dispersion and dilution. It is used as a standard of comparison (gravity, volume, etc.), a cooling and cleansing agent, and it is an archetypal symbol for transmutation. Thales taught that "all things are water", an idea that yields a more occult significance if linked to the fact that the one and only pervasive characteristic of the manifest universe is change or transformation. The enquiring mind may seek clues in the vast mythology which floats upon the sea of human consciousness. Water is always feminine, the 'Mother' out of which all life comes. She is Chaos, primordial substance, and Gangetic flood. Her noumenon exists in the most abstract realm, while her phenomenon takes on the shape and coloration of every vessel in the world. Why is there water on this earth? Why did the fluid of life develop upon this globe and come to sustain the rich variety of forms which we call the Mother's progeny?
In interstellar space there is only one oxygen atom linked to one in ten million free hydrogen atoms, a condition which seems to preclude the formation of water. The earth, however, captured hydrogen particles in its condensing crystal substances and, after the violent activities of its magnetic fluid had calmed, the imprisoned hydrogen began to bind with oxygen in many combinations. The earth was exactly the right size for its gravity to hold the light hydrogen atoms that were released and hovered in the atmospheric gases. Slowly the cooling earth disgorged great amounts of water from underground forming large heavy clouds that surrounded the globe and returned to its rocky crust the great rains that filled the barren ocean basins. The gathering waters dissolved organic particles from the atmosphere and the rocks and became the vast fluidic womb of evolving organisms. The temperature of any planet is determined by its proximity to the sun which, in the case of the earth, is a distance that allows a 'water-permitting' temperature. A good portion of this globe experiences prevailing temperatures which fall between the freezing point of water (32°F) and its boiling point of 212°F, so that it is not shrouded in gas, covered with ice or heavy hydrogen, as are some of the other planets. In fact, the 'water' of Mars is actually deuterium. On Mercury it would be a condensable gas, while that of Mars is actually a fusible solid, a striking contrast to the supply of water on earth which causes it to appear like a large ball of water rolling through the heavens.
Three-quarters of the global surface is ocean, and the pattern of evaporation is as constant as the shapes of continents and mountain chains. Of the water evaporated at sea, only one-eighth rides the winds onto the land, and the same twenty-four cubic miles of it daily refreshes the earth and also wears it away through erosion. The regularity of the hydrologic cycle reflects a constancy which broadly ensures life. At the same time it echoes the continuity of the water 'created' a couple of billion years ago which still participates in this vast transformational pilgrimage.
Water never rests, neither by day nor by night. When flowing above, it causes rain and dew. When flowing below, it forms streams and rivers. Water is outstanding in doing good.
THE VIBRATION SWEEPS ALONG, TOUCHING WITH ITS SWIFT WING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THE GERM THAT DWELLETH IN DARKNESS: THE DARKNESS THAT BREATHES OVER THE SLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE. . . .
The slumbering waters awakened in time and the germ came to be fructified within them. All of life's chemical changes take place in watery solutions, and the universe which emerged out of the darkness with its myriad structural complexities experiences time through succeeding events articulated by the flow of the waters of life. Once awakened, the waters act perpetually to promote further evolution. In addition to being a symbol of transmutation, water could be depicted as extremely volatile and restless, possibly owing to its own molecular structure. There is an 'electronic restlessness' within the water molecule which is a result of the angle assumed by the two hydrogen atoms when they affix themselves to the oxygen atom. The electronic alignment of hydrogen on the circumference of oxygen is always at an angle of 104.5° which creates an electrical imbalance within the molecular tetrahedron so that there can never be passivity but a continual 'reaching out'. The disposition of the atoms of the two elements is triangular, and it takes four H2O triangles to make a water molecule tetrahedron. The triangles are isosceles, having angles and sides that do not match, so that the unequal lengths exert different strengths of energy. They are fingers that reach out, dissolving particles and adhering to surfaces, causing them to become wet. They resemble electromagnetic extensions lubricating the wheels within the great wheel of life.
The wheels themselves evolved from whirling clouds of cosmic dust condensed in the enormity of frigid space. The dust is composed of electrified particles, ninety-nine per cent of which are hydrogen. Modern science conceives of this dust as extremely light but dead matter spewed throughout the universe from the mouth of a senseless series of mechanical accidents. But the ancients spoke of the incandescent cosmic dust as 'the Fiery Wind', "which only follows magnetically, as the iron filings follow the magnet, the directing thought of the 'Creative Forces' ". They held that each atom was potentially self-conscious and that the dust itself was part of a vast homogeneous sea of potentiality.
THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY, AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE, AND HEAT, AND MOTION. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE; IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OR FATHER AND MOTHER.
The Secret Doctrine tells us that hydrogen was the earliest existing form of matter and, together with oxygen, it instills the fire of life into the Mother through the process of incubation. The hydrogen and oxygen of geological time are but phenomenal expressions of the noumenal Spirit. Significantly, the sun is mostly hydrogen, although it contains a little oxygen, while the earth's crust is made up of fifty per cent oxygen, but it is the noumenon of the two together that instills life. Hydrogen is light and rises easily. It zips around, and its strong magnetic attraction causes it to unite with many elements. Oxygen is the element of combustion. It brings movement and chemical activity, while at the same time is larger and much heavier than hydrogen. Because hydrogen atoms are the tiniest in the universe, they can get their nucleus with its positive charge closer to the negative electrons of the oxygen atom than any other element, acting as a binder. The law of magnetism gives this combination unassailable strength, and the attraction between the two molecules is so great that their olamic union involves an actual snapping together. Their attraction for each other is like that between the magnet and the iron filings. This echoes the occult teaching about 'the Fiery Wind' whose 'fire' may be traced on a more phenomenal plane in the combustion of hydrogen by oxygen.
The two atoms of hydrogen and the one of oxygen form a trident, held in the hands of Neptune rising out of the cosmic sea. On the other hand, their potent fusion and subsequent power of dissolution are evocative of the trishula of Lord Shiva. The sacred fusion of Shiva-Shakti reflects the unity of the Father-Mother whose substance is the universe spun out as the great web Svabhavat, whose upper regions reside in Spirit and whose lower rungs form the matter of the world. Like this web, the tall slender pyramids of water molecules cling together at their peaks making a lattice pattern of vibrant, gossamer quality. Fiery in their most noumenal regions, they form the mists and oceans of the earth at their base. They expand with the hot breath and contract with the cold, reflecting in every way the ladder of cosmic evolution. This lattice is like a fabric of immense dimensions, made up of numerically arranged patterns. The entire universe is an extensive fabric made up of molecular structures, all of which are prone to disintegrate, pointing to the elusive essence of number as the enduring basis of existence. Archetypal combinations and numbers are repeated on each plane of manifestation, just as the twelve of the dodecahedron of cosmos is reflected in the twelve molecules of the snowflake which take their place to be followed by subsequent groups of twelve. Each group is orientated by electrical charges in the growing snowflake and by their own microscopic electromagnetic fields. These molecular regulations are so uniform that a symmetrical pattern develops in six double-sided branches of perfection, and yet no two flakes are ever identical. The three of the H2O triangle times the four sides making up the molecular tetrahedron make the twelve sides of the frozen ice crystal through the magical power of transmutation of the numerology of water.
LIGHT IS COLD FLAME, AND FLAME IS FIRE, AND FIRE PRODUCES HEAT, WHICH YIELDS WATER; THE WATER OF LIFE IN THE GREAT MOTHER.
Water quenches fire but we are taught that water is liquid fire. Light, flame, heat, cold, fire and water are the 'progeny' or correlations of electricity, the web of the One Life itself. The Mother, before she awakens to the impulse of Fohat, is a 'cool Radiance'. Her first-born are the primal 'centres of Forces' or atoms that develop later in the great Cosmic Elements. These are the primal natures of the first Dhyan Chohans and are described as 'Akashic' 'Ethereal', 'Watery' and 'Fiery'. They are "parahydrogenic, paraoxygenic, oxy-hydrogenic, and ozonic, or perhaps nitr-ozonic". They are electro-positive and negative, their various combinations producing the phenomena associated with the science of alchemy. We see the interplay of fire and water in Sanatsujata, the chief of the Kumaras, who is also known as Ambhamsi or 'the Waters', Ambha being also the name of Aditi, the Celestial Virgin and Mother of the visible universe. The six-pointed star represents a commingling of the philosophical three fires and three waters. The triangle pointing upward is the symbol of fire and Shiva, while that pointing downward represents Vishnu as Nara ('water') yana, "the Spirit which is Invisible Flame, which never burns but sets on fire all that it touches, and gives it life and generation". The progeny of electricity are infinite. Foremost is fire as creator, preserver and destroyer, then light which is the essence of the divine ancestors, and flame, which is the soul. Light incubates water which fuses with earth, as Moses taught, to bring a living soul. Light and flame in and through fire and water receive, conduct and dissolve, at each stage of the manifesting triads. Upon the One Sphere, the Logoic Point became the vertical line of Androgyny. When this line is crossed by that of the horizontal demarcation between heaven and earth, the cube and its four elements, 'the garment of the Deity', manifest. The noumenoi of the four are hidden from the profane eye within the three spiritual primaries symbolized by the Triad over the quaternary made up of kama rupa (hydrogen), linga sarira (nitrogen), prana (oxygen), and the physical body (carbon).
The Unmanifest Logos, latent Ideation and active Intelligence emanate the noumena of cosmic chaotic energy, astral ideation, life-energy and the earth. Thus the primal natures of the Dhyan Chohans, the chief centres of Force, become the stuff of this world. In this cosmic scheme, kama combines with prana to produce water as we know it. The cosmic desire burning intensely in the world combines with the divine breath that generates all vital phenomena to produce H2O. "That which hydrogen is to the elements and gases on the objective plane, its noumenon is in the world of mental or subjective phenomena." Its trinitarian latent nature is mirrored in its active emanations from the three higher principles. Rudimentary man was nursed by air and then kindled by fire, the noumenon of the Three-in-One within the Self - the Atma, Buddhi, Manas. The Atmic fire of the Father and the watery vehicle of the Buddhic Mother emanate the breath of the human soul. Prana as the reflection of the life-force of the sun is a 'Fohatic force' which is male and active, enlivening the chaotic cosmic energy of hydrogen which conveys and communicates the Desire that first arose in It. In the Vedas, Rudra is depicted as the Divine Ego aspiring to return to its pure and deific state but imprisoned in the world. He springs from the forehead of Brahma, divides into male and female and becomes the parent of the Rudras or vital breaths which are prana. One may thus view the combustion-supporting, active nature of oxygen in terms of an intelligent force which strives through the molecular patterns of the web of life toward the flame that burns behind the veil of the Mother.
The microcosm of the macrocosm is man, and he contains, like the globe itself, his own ocean. In his body there are at least thirty quarts of water inside the cells, and these make up seven-tenths of his total weight. So delicate is the balance of necessary fluid that a loss of even ten pounds of water through dehydration can be fatal. Life in the womb before birth is aquatic, the foetus living in a warm sea one-third as rich in salts as the ocean. At birth, man begins to experience a recurrent thirst which is second only to his need for air. He must drink water, breathe water, sustain and eliminate water in a constant cycle that reflects the larger hydrologic cycle. However, as is attested by 'riparian laws' conferring first-come, first-serve rights of control, man has displayed a ferocious passion and ruthless irrationality in his scramble to control water. As the old Chinese proverb says, "To rule the mountains is to rule the river." While the metaphorical implications of this may be lofty, the concrete consequences have been historically clumsy and costly. The use of water in the world today is extremely inequitable. While a peasant farmer in South Asia may be expected to use any water available for irrigation and animals, he has a meagre amount for drinking and bathing. The daily water use of the typical urban dweller in the United States is about one hundred and fifty gallons compared with forty gallons used by the average European. This is misleading because the aggregated data for industrial societies do not take into account the amount each individual 'uses' in connection with the products he consumes daily. The manufacture of one barrel of gasoline requires over four hundred gallons of H2O. Refining one ton of sugar requires one thousand gallons, one ton of paper sixty-five thousand gallons, two-thirds of a ton of steel forty-four thousand gallons, and so on it goes. Taking such indirect consumption into account, the estimated average use of the urban U.S. dweller is closer to one thousand, six hundred and fifty gallons a day, excluding irrigation water for agricultural purposes.
The more one examines the use and distribution of water in the world, the more clearly one sees that great wisdom is needed to create and sustain a balance between man and all other life on the globe. Water lubricates every aspect of the wheel of life, although man does not yet have enough knowledge to understand the interdependent complexity of all this. To direct water from one place to another would be like removing fluids from one part of the human body so as to concentrate them in another. The operation might be successful and the organism might flourish; but, equally, a fundamental balance might be upset, and death ensue. Great benefit seems to have been derived from water projects like that of the Damodar Valley near Calcutta where monsoon flooding and frequent drought were overcome through the construction of a series of dams. The Russians have recently shown that plants and animals thrive on degassed 'bioactive' water, yet the ultimate benefit of such experiments to universal evolution is still unclear.
The water, which is golden, pure and sanctifying, from which the sun and the fire took birth, let that beautiful and transparent water be preventive of disease and pleasant to us.
Perhaps the best strategy, given the conspicuously incomplete knowledge of man concerning nature, is one which emulates the known qualities of water itself. Water dammed up and hoarded will grow stagnant, but that given freely will nourish, gain strength and purity in its onward rush. The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water, but the Sea of Galilee has an outlet, a creative function, while the Dead Sea has none. It nourishes no life for its water is hoarded. Greater is the rustic wisdom of the Rajasthani villagers who give water to attract rain. They mark the absence of rain by reference to the poor frog, as was done in Vedic times when thirsty people noted that "the frogs, due to the want of rains, remain silent throughout the year like Brahmins practising austerity". The Rajasthanis perform a Mindaki, in which people carry frog effigies from house to house and women pour pots of water upon them. This custom is based upon sympathetic magic - the frog effigy receiving 'rain' will attract a shower of rain. It is related that in the 1920's one of the Kahars (male water-carriers) at Bundi determined to end a long drought by such means. He placed the clay effigy on his head and began his rounds. In a few hours, he became so drenched that at last, shivering from the cold, he fell unconscious in the road. The rains promptly began to fall, much to the delight of natural frogs, no doubt.
How beautiful the Gujarati song which proclaims, "A she-cloud has come from the North and tender lightning is seen flashing, so there is joy in my house." Fullness and giving are suggested in the ancient lyrics from Brindavan which exult, "These are the days to fall in love, the days when the tanks are full." But sad indeed is the pathetic lament of the Bengali maid who begs of Lord Indra, "Rain soon, rain soon, O God! The famine has broken out without water, O Ram! The lowland is dried and the paddy crop of my brother is lost, O Ram!" The anguish conveyed in this cry is all the more poignant when one reflects that the elements are only the visible garb of the invisible Spirits or Cosmic Gods. Occultism teaches that "the speech of the men of the earth cannot reach the Lords. Each must be addressed in the language of His respective element." It is taught that such language is composed of sounds rather than words: only one who knows the correct combinations of vibrations can affect Lord Indra or that Force operating upon a causal plane behind any one of the elements. To learn this sacred science, man must perform the austerities of the Brahmins, he must engage in great tapas and incinerate with inward fire the dross of his lower nature. Only then will pure water flow from him in healing streams.
Water symbolizes transmutation, the ocean of the unconscious, the abyss of mystery and intuition. It is a veil of the One Fire of Atman, a mediator between life and death, with its positive and negative flow of creation and destruction. The entrance to the Spirit-world is typically described in terms of crossing a river or immersing oneself into a body of water. It marks a return to the pre-form state, a return to innocence and purity, but one haunted by death and annihilation. The 'water' of the Mother Earth flows around her, issuing from her head and becoming foul at her feet. It is purified only when it returns to her heart under the foot of the sacred Shambala. This is mythically placed near the belt of the earth, the Himavat which stretches around the world and rose up above the waters only during the time of the Third Race of humanity. Through the Races can be traced the flow of the Mother back to the first pure pulsation of Amrita's sweet water. To understand the dual forces of water, one may focus upon this 'belt' which divides them. To its north water drains in a spiral, moving counter-clockwise, while to its south it does the opposite. The counter-clockwise motion signifies the fall of spirit into matter, whereas the opposite represents its ascendance - up from the pit to the place of the 'heart'. Perhaps the ingestion of 'bioactive' water can sympathetically aid this latter process, if only on the physical plane.
BEHOLD, OH LANOO! THE RADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO, THE UNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY: BRIGHT SPACE SON OF DARK SPACE, WHICH EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT DARK WATERS.
What is metaphysical water and how does it become physical water? The Secret Doctrine, so rich in its arcane intimations, teaches that the Sun evolved and aggregated with his smaller seven Brothers from the bosom of his Mother (Aditi). During Pralaya the Mother Deep was stretched in infinity as 'the dry Waters of Space'. This became moist only after the breathing over its face of Narayana, 'the Spirit which is Invisible Flame'. The One became Two and the Third appeared as Purusha, who is Narayana. He is like Fohat who stands between the fire yazatas and the water yazatas (sons of waters). He is the Son of Ether in its highest aspect, Akasa. The rudimentary man was nursed by Air and then lit by Fire, which was the Father-Mother who produced the breath of the human soul. If we seek to know the rarefied nature of that air, we must move beyond the triad towards its noumenon. Thus Brahma evolved out of chaos over which Vishnu moved. It is said that m this primordial state of creation, "the rudimentary universe, submerged in water, reposed in the bosom of Vishnu. Sprung from this chaos and darkness, Brahma, the architect of the world, poised on a lotus-leaf floated upon the waters, unable to discern anything but water and darkness." He soliloquized in consternation: "Who am I? Whence came I?" Whereupon he heard a voice saying, "Direct your thoughts to Bhagavat." Brahma seated himself in an attitude of contemplation, and the Eternal dispersed the darkness and opened his understanding. Then he emerged from the egg of infinite chaos, as light moves upon the waters.
This 'Mover Upon the Waters' is the Third or Creative Logos. The fruit of its union with those ethereal waters will be as Rudra who sprang from Brahma's forehead to divide into male and female and give birth to the vital breath or prana, the prototype of oxygen as we know it. So, the archetypes of hydrogen and oxygen, of Mother, Son and Father, have interacted in succeeding triune patterns along the ladder of the great web, eventually resulting in the hydroelectric phenomena of this world. "The spagyrisation of matter by triads is necessary to develop the generative force, that prolific virtue and tendency to reproduction which is inherent in all bodies." One is reminded of the triangular structure of the united hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and may imagine its extended side as that force which bears the outlines of the next triangle and then the next, ever moving as the vehicle of the life-current. The poles of the water molecule with their positive and negative charge exert a disruptive influence on all other molecules, breaking them up and releasing their elements just as surely as its substance gives life to form. And so, all life's structures are merely momentary expressions of number, formed by water and broken up by it in an endless progression within the vast evolving stream of Samsara.
May the disciple who would seek Nirvana light within himself the golden flame of Akashic Fire. May he, like the silent Brahmin performing austerities, know the bliss of the seeming void even while living in the seeming fullness of the world. May he build high the fire of tapas within him until his pain and longing are converted into sweet and compassionate tears that may flow in abundance for all humanity. May his life become a sweet and purifying fountain of joy and hope for others so that they may come to see for themselves the hidden flame in the water's depths.


You don't have to have years of quilting experience to begin creating beautiful bed coverings. In fact, all you need to get started quilting is some fabric and supplies, a sewing machine, a little patience, and a bit of inspiration. Try one of these pretty (and easy) beginner's quilt patterns, perfect for learning this popular hobby.
This quilt is a great project for you first endeavor. If you choose beautiful fabrics, you can create something lovely but very simple. The finished quilt will be perfect for a living room throw, about six feet long by four feet wide.
Wash all the fabric together to make sure the colors don't run and that they shrink evenly, if any shrinkage occurs. Iron as needed.
The most difficult part of this quilt is stacking the pieces properly. You'll want both fabrics to be right side out when you turn the piece, so stack your fabrics right-sides together with the batting at the bottom of the pile. Pin all around the edges to secure the layers together.
Use your sewing machine to stitch a straight line about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the fabric. Sew the complete length of three sides and most of the length of the fourth, just like you would do if you were sewing a pillow.
Turn the project inside out through the fourth open side. The printed sides of the fabric should be the front and back of your quilt, while the batting is all inside. Check to make sure that your stitching has gone through all the layers all the way around, and turn right side in and stitch again if necessary. Trim any excess fabric from the seams, turn right side out again and press, making sure the batting or muslin is uniformly flat throughout the quilt.
Stitch the open part closed by hand, using a thread that matches the fabric and trying to make the stitches as invisible as possible.
To quilt your project, measure even intervals along the top and bottom edge of the quilt. Use the dressmaker's pencil to draw straight lines from one edge to the other. These will be your guides for sewing.
Beginning with the lines in the center of the quilt, use your sewing machine to topstitch along the pencil lines. Be sure to keep all the layers even and smooth as you work. When you finish topstitching the layers together, pat yourself on the back. You've just finished a quilt!
A rag quilt is very simple to create, even if you're new to quilting. You can assemble this quilt a strip at a time and use your regular sewing machine to quilt it. You can get creative with your fabric choices too. This is called a "rag quilt" because you can make it out of scraps like old clothes or cast-off linens. When you're done, you'll have created a treasure.
One and a half yards of simple backing fabric.
Use the cardboard pattern and dressmaker's pencil to draw squares onto the fabric. Cut out 64 squares from the fabric, mixing patterns as much as possible.
Place two squares together, and sew a seam a quarter of an inch from the edge. Add another square and repeat. Stop when you've created a strip that's eight squares long.
Create seven more strips the same way. When you have all your strips done, begin sewing them together.
Iron the front of the quilt. Lay it out on the backing fabric, and cut the backing to the same size. Repeat with the batting.
Stack all three layers together with the right sides in and the batting on the bottom. Sew around three sides of the quilt, leaving a quarter-inch seam allowance.
Turn the quilt right side out, and sew up the fourth side by hand.
Use your sewing machine to sew a straight line over each seam on the front of the quilt, highlighting all the little squares. This is called "stitch in the ditch."
If you love floral fabric, you'll really enjoy creating this easy flower garden quilt. The entire design is based on using longer and longer strips of fabric to make the quilt front. Choose coordinating floral fabrics to create your "garden." You can make this quilt any size, but it's easier to start small if you're a beginner.
Begin by cutting your fabric into long strips, each three inches wide. Cut all the floral fabric into these strips and sort them by pattern.
Choose one strip, and cut a piece off of it that is three inches long. This will be a small square. Cut another piece out of the same fabric that is five and a half inches long. Cut a three-inch square out of another fabric. You'll have two small squares and one small rectangle.
Sew the two squares together, using a quarter-inch seam allowance. Together, they should be the same length (five and a half inches) as the rectangle you cut out.
Next, sew the rectangle to the two small squares, creating a larger square.
Select another strip in a different pattern, and cut a piece five and a half inches long. Cut another piece eight inches long.
Sew the smaller piece to the square you made in step four, creating a rectangle.
Sew the longer piece to the long side of the rectangle, bringing the overall shape back to a square.
Continue cutting and adding pieces in this way until you've created a quilt front of the size you have in mind. When you've finished piecing the front, iron it to make it flat.
Cut the batting and backing to match the size and shape of the front. Stack all three together with the backing on the bottom and the two fabric layers together with their right sides in.
Leaving a quarter-inch seam allowance, sew a seam all the way around three sides of the quilt. Turn the quilt right side out and sew up the fourth side by hand.
Spread the quilt out and begin tying it. To do this, you'll thread your embroidery needle with floss and take a stitch down from the top of the quilt, through all the layers, and then back up to the top again. Tie a secure knot in the floss on the top of the quilt, and cut the ends to one inch. Repeat all over the quilt, placing tied spots at the places where fabric corners meet.
Keep it simple and small. Pillowcases, place mats, and baby quilts are easier to maneuver when you are first learning to quilt.
Forego using templates. They will only complicate what you are trying to learn. Stick to simple patterns that use all of the same or similar size blocks or strips of fabric.
Don't use heavy batting. It will much harder to cut and quilt.
Use 100 percent cotton fabric or fabric that has been pre-washed. Cotton doesn't pucker and is easy to work with. It also comes in a variety of styles, colors, and designs.
Be consistent with seams. Don't change your seam allowance half-way through a project. Find one you are comfortable with and use it consistently. A quarter of an inch is a good choice most of the time.
One of the most important things to keep in mind when you're learning to quilt is that this is a skill that takes practice. Start with a project that's manageable, and be patient with yourself as you learn. Soon you'll be turning out masterpieces to decorate your home and give as gifts to friends.


Location: Tianjin is located in the northeast of the North China Plain, facing the Bohai Sea in the east.
History: The formation of Tianjin has undergone a long period of time in the history. The name of Tianjin, first emerged during the early period of Emperor Yongle of China's Ming Dynasty, means a ferry crossing where the Son of Heaven has passed. In the second year of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1404), Tianjin started building fortifications and defenses as a strategic military place. In 1860 Tianjin was turned into an open port. For years its industrial production and port trade volume were only second to Shanghai, becoming the second largest commercial city in China and the biggest financial and trading center in north China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China Tianjin was turned into a municipality directly under the central authorities.
Climate: In winter, wind often blows from the north because of the cold high pressure from Mongolia. In summer, affected by the subtropical high pressure from the western Pacific, the city sees much south wind. It has a semi-moist warm temperate continental monsoon climate, with an apparent feature of transit from continental climate to marine climate: there are four clearly divided seasons, but the duration of each is different; precipitation is not high, with uneven distribution over the year. The annual average temperature is 12.3 °C. The hottest month is July, during which the average temperature can reach 26 °C. January is the coldest month, its average temperatures being -4 °C.
Transportation: Airline-Zhangguizhuang Airport of Tianjin is open to air traffic with Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shanghai, Sanya, and so on.
Railway-The trains running on Beijing-Shanghai Line and Beijing-Harbin Line all stop at Tianjin Railway Station or Tianjin West Station. In additon, there are several runs of a bullet-shaped intercity express train from Tianjin to Beijing every day. The earliest express train sets off at 3:49 and the last one from Tianjin is at 18:50.
Highway-Tianjin enjoys a developed road network with national highways and part of city trunk orads forming the framework. Typical of ratiating roads, Tianjin links its outside ring road with freeways and national highways. In additoin, it has dozens of passenger bus terminals where a multitude of buses depart for nearby counties.
Waterway-Tianjin Harbor, capable of transportation of river and sea, is the largest artificial one in China. Beitang Port is located at the confluence of Ji Canal in the southeast of Tanggu District and the Xinhe River in Yongding. There are passenger ships available at Tianjinfor citeis such as Dalian and Yantai.


Situated in the heart of the village this 2 storey cave house has 6 bedrooms and plenty of space for a large family.
The cave has some exterior work rooms, kitchen, bathroom (with roof terrace) and a double bedroom (upstairs) and a small room used as study with access to the terrace.
On the ground floor is the entrance hall, which continues onto a dining room. On the right is a small room that at one time was a bedroom although it is now used as a pantry.
There's a large master bedroom, a small room below, bedroom 1, then another 2 bedrooms with a large double bed made of solid wood.
Then bedrooms 3 and 4 with double bed and a window overlooking the courtyard to the rear of the cave.
On the other side, from the bedroom 1 you go upstairs to a store room and then another store room. From the latter you leave the courtyard, laundry and garage, which ultimately gives the back street exit opposite the school. It has all the services connected and comes furnished.
Magnificent and Luxurious Villa in Alcochete!


You've successfully completed the first six months at your new job as a marketing specialist and the time has come to reveal how you leveraged your ideas for the benefit of the company. So, you make a Revenue chart and tell yourself: "These high-rise things are my contribution." But you can't tell this to your superiors without seeming boastful.
So what do you do? Simple – just make your charts do the talking by forcing your superiors to read between the plots. Wondering what we are talking about?
See, how the vertical separator line with its neatly appended label comes to your rescue. Your superiors can now read between the plots and appreciate your contribution to the company. And, doing this just requires a little tweaking of the XML.
Marking out the dull seasons (and peak season too): So you run a gift shop; or sell clothes, chocolates, flowers or anything else. And, it is time to present the annual sales records to fellow stake holders, but you are worried how they'll react to the short spell of low turnover. Well, just plot a chart and indicate the periods of dull season with the help of labeled separator lines. Its likely that after seeing the chart your partners will not ask for an explanation.
Indicating transition in a time series chart: Almost everyone has had to deal with this situation at some point of time or the other. What do you do when you are plotting data from October 2008 to June 2009 and you want to ensure that the intended audience doesn't lose track of when 2008 makes way for 2009? Or, you might want to highlight some aspects related to the data that have undergone a change with the onset of the new year, aspects such as increased budget or decreased manpower. Again, vertical separator lines are just the thing you need.
Now that the uses of the separator line have been brought out pretty well (or so we think), let's talk about what can be done to the separator line itself.
If you don't want the vertical line to appear between the data plots, then you can shift it to either extremities.
You can also play around with the label and place it either at the top of the vertical line or at the bottom.
Make the vertical line dashed.
Change the color (obviously), thickness and the transparency of the vertical line.
You can take a look at how to go about with the customizations in our documentation on vertical lines here.
Let us know what you would like us to cover once we get done with the series, and we will be glad to get on with it right away.
I'm using vline with a combination chart (containing both bar and line graphs), but the line is rendering under the other components instead of on top of them. How can I fix this? I know that trendlines have the showOnTop setting; is there a similar setting for vline? Or do I need to use a vertical trendline instead?
I am afraid there is no such setting for a vLine as of now.
What you can do though is play around with the various vLine positions as demonstrated at http://www.fusioncharts.com/docs/Contents/AttDesc/VLines.html and then pick the one that suits your data the best.
Vertical Trendline – We have a vertical trendline only in the bubble and scatter charts.


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Skincare, Sleep And Overnight Flights
Sarah Turner Contributor
At the end of an overnight flight, the mirrors in airline bathrooms are the ultimate truth-tellers. They show every crease and line and prove that nothing - bar an all-night drinking and clubbing session - dehydrates skin as much as a long-haul flight.
The 15ml version of BetterYou's Goodnight Oil.
On flights, I want products that can solve all sorts of issues; I've long been a fan of Christophe Robin's Intense Regenerating Balm but this year there are a couple of new contenders.
Cult British make-up artist and facialist Frances Prescott has produced Tri-Balm, a joyous multi-tasker. At 70g, in my dreams, there will be a smaller travel version (I really do like to travel light) but in the meantime, this triples up as a cleanser, exfoliator and moisturiser, bringing hyaluronic acid to lock in moisture and Vitamin E and blackcurrant plus beeswax as cleanser.
Frances Prescott's Tri Balm multitasks as a cleanser, exfoliant and moisturiser.
The end result feels like silk on the skin and there's a touch of geranium oil to help in the wind-down process. In the confined space of an airline cabin, that you can apply it straight to your face from the twist-up container is a bonus.
From the Pre-Empt series, Perricone MD's Fixer Solid Oil feels like a misnomer; the texture is more gel-like than oil but it tackles everything from cabin-dried skin to flyaway hair. In a 20g jar, it brings green tea, turmeric, olive leafs and cress sprouts into the mix. The scent is light which is a thoughtful thing on a crowded flight. It also has a primer-ish quality when it comes to putting on makeup afterwards.
The texture is light, almost gel-like.
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These two share another inflight bonus. They're solid until they come into contact with skin, thus cutting down on the possibility of a cream-filled inflight bag.
Two liquids have gained a place in my carry-on luggage. At the moment, Nadur's Stop The Clock Super Berry oil delivers the richness I need at 35,000 feet, along with Acai Goji Berry seed oil; it's best as a night oil. Lighter, fresher Skin Design's H2O Intense Luxe serum is more of a morning pick-me-up. I find it calming, non-sticky and refreshing.
Nadur's Stop The Clock face oil.
Nadur
Nothing, but nothing, however, will make our skin look better than a few hours sleep.
Skincare supplements and smart nutrients are the fastest evolving area of skincare. Utmost Me's Neuro Rest brings natural sources of melatonin, including grape skin and Montmorency cherries, L-Tryptophan and 5-HTP plus chamomile and magnesium.
However, the newest potion in my armoury is also the cheapest one; BetterYou's Magnesium Goodnight spray. Some people, me included, feel a slight tingling afterwards (the recommended amount is five to ten squirts, but it soon wears off) and when I use it, I'm rewarded by some solid inflight shut-eye. The 100ml bottle will last months (£12.20), the 15ml travel size should see you through a two-week summer break and the flight back and some to spare.
Olverum's bath oil comes in a 15ml version.
Since every journey ends with an arrival, Olverum bath oil is worth considering. Created in 1931, its highly concentrated formula includes a soothing blend of lime, geranium and lavender and the 15ml travel version is admirably suited to carry-on luggage.
I've specialised in travel journalism for over 20 years and now mostly write for the UK national press. I write for The Times, The Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday an...


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