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Q: Como instalar o serve no eclipse Luna? Eu descobri que o eclipse Mars está cheio de problemas, então me indicaram usar o luna, mas o luna não veio com server, como vocês podem ver;
para encontrar essa opção vai em Windows >> Show View >> Other >> Serve
Mas essa opção não existe

Verifique o tutorial que encontrei na internet
http://www.devmedia.com.br/instalacao-e-configuracao-do-apache-tomcat-no-eclipse/27360
Como faço para instalar o serve no meu eclipse Luna?
era para está assim!

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versão do meu Luna;
Version: Luna Service Release 2 (4.4.2)
Build id: 20150219-0600
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A: Baixe o pacote Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers em que esta incluso o Eclipse Java EE Developer Tools que contém os componentes específicos para servidores, bem como as Views necessárias para criar servidores, alterar servidores, deletar servidores, configurar os servidores, dar deploy em uma aplicação, entre outras funções que tratam dos servidores, como, por exemplo, os servidores de aplicação JBoss Wildfly, Tomcat, GlassFish.
Para o JBoss Wildfly o mesmo utiliza outro pacote para tratar de seu servidor e os recursos que oferece, chamado JBoss Tools. Instalando apenas o Eclipse Java EE Developer Tools as opções para configurar o servidor do JBoss não estarão inclusas.
Você pode instalar o JBoss Tools a partir do Eclipse.

*

*Help > Eclipse Marketplace > Procurar por JBoss Tools e Instalar.

Referências:
https://eclipse.org/webtools/
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/mars1
http://tools.jboss.org/


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<?php
/**
 * @package Simple Magazine
 * @version 1.0
 */
/*
Plugin Name: Simple Magazine
Plugin URI: http://christofferok.com/
Description: A simple magazine style plugin
Author: Christoffer Korvald
Version: 1.0
Author URI: http://christofferok.com/
License: MIT
*/

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

define('SIMPLEMAG_NAME', 		    'Simple Magazine' );
define('SIMPLEMAG_VERSION', 		'1.0' );
define('SIMPLEMAG_URL', 			plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) );
define('SIMPLEMAG_PATH', 			plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) );
define('SIMPLEMAG_BASENAME', 		plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) );
define('SIMPLEMAG_REL_DIR', 		dirname( SIMPLEMAG_BASENAME ) );

class SimpleMagazine{

    public function __construct(){
        $this->addActions();
    }

    public function addActions(){

        add_action('init', array($this,'registerPostType') );
        add_filter('template_include',array($this, 'simplemag_template'), 1, 1);

        if(is_admin()){
            add_action('save_post', array($this,'add_simplemag_fields'), 10, 2 );

            add_action('admin_init', array($this,'admin_init') );
            add_action('admin_menu', array($this,'addAdminMenu') );

            add_filter('manage_simplemag-article_posts_columns', array($this,'article_columns'), 10);
            add_action('manage_simplemag-article_posts_custom_column', array($this,'article_custom_column'), 10, 2);
            add_filter('name_save_pre', array($this,'save_name'));
            add_filter( 'post_updated_messages', array($this,'post_updated_messages') );

            $magSettings = new SimpleMagazineSettings();

        }
    }

    public function post_updated_messages($messages){
        global $post,$post_ID;
        if($post->post_type == 'simplemag-article')
        {
            $issuePermalink = get_permalink(get_post_meta($post_ID,'simplemag_issue',true));
            $postPermalink = $issuePermalink.$post->post_name;

            $messages['simplemag-article'] = array(
            0 => '', // Unused. Messages start at index 1.
            1 => sprintf( __('Article updated. View article'), esc_url( $postPermalink ) ),
            2 => __('Custom field updated.'),
            3 => __('Custom field deleted.'),
            4 => __('Article updated.'),
            /* translators: %s: date and time of the revision */
            5 => isset($_GET['revision']) ? sprintf( __('Article restored to revision from %s'), wp_post_revision_title( (int) $_GET['revision'], false ) ) : false,
            6 => sprintf( __('Article published. View article'), esc_url( $postPermalink ) ),
            7 => __('Article saved.'),
            8 => sprintf( __('Article submitted. Preview article'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', $postPermalink ) ) ),
            9 => sprintf( __('Article scheduled for: %1$s. Preview article'),
              // translators: Publish box date format, see http://php.net/date
              date_i18n( __( 'M j, Y @ G:i' ), strtotime( $post->post_date ) ), esc_url( $postPermalink ) ),
            10 => sprintf( __('Article draft updated. Preview article'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', $postPermalink ) ) ),
          );
        }
        elseif($post->post_type == 'simplemag-issue')
        {
            $messages['simplemag-issue'] = array(
            0 => '', // Unused. Messages start at index 1.
            1 => sprintf( __('Issue updated. View issue'), esc_url( get_permalink() ) ),
            2 => __('Custom field updated.'),
            3 => __('Custom field deleted.'),
            4 => __('Issue updated.'),
            /* translators: %s: date and time of the revision */
            5 => isset($_GET['revision']) ? sprintf( __('Issue restored to revision from %s'), wp_post_revision_title( (int) $_GET['revision'], false ) ) : false,
            6 => sprintf( __('Issue published. View issue'), esc_url( get_permalink() ) ),
            7 => __('Issue saved.'),
            8 => sprintf( __('Issue submitted. Preview issue'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink() ) ) ),
            9 => sprintf( __('Issue scheduled for: %1$s. Preview issue'),
              // translators: Publish box date format, see http://php.net/date
              date_i18n( __( 'M j, Y @ G:i' ), strtotime( $post->post_date ) ), esc_url( get_permalink() ) ),
            10 => sprintf( __('Issue draft updated. Preview issue'), esc_url( add_query_arg( 'preview', 'true', get_permalink() ) ) ),
          );
        }
        return $messages;
    }

    public function add_simplemag_fields( $simplemag_id, $simplemag) {
        if ( $simplemag->post_type == 'simplemag-article' ) {
            // Store data in post meta table if present in post data
            if ( isset( $_POST['simplemag_issue'] ) && $_POST['simplemag_issue'] != '' ) {
                update_post_meta( $simplemag_id, 'simplemag_issue', $_POST['simplemag_issue'] );
            }
        }
    }

    public function article_meta_box() {
        add_meta_box( 'article_meta_box',
            'Article Details',
            array($this,'display_article_meta_box'),
            'simplemag-article', 'normal', 'high'
        );
    }

    public function display_article_meta_box( $simplemag_article ) {
        // Retrieve current name of the Director and Movie Rating based on review ID
        $issue = intval( get_post_meta( $simplemag_article->ID, 'simplemag_issue', true ));
        ?>

                Issue

                <select name="simplemag_issue">
                <option value="">- Select issue -</option>
                <?php
                // Get all issues
                $issues = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'simplemag-issue'));

                while ( $issues->have_posts() ) :
                	$issues->the_post();
                	echo '<option value="' . get_the_ID() . '"';
                	if($issue == get_the_ID()) echo ' selected="selected"';
                	echo '>' . get_the_title() . '</option>';
                endwhile;
                ?>
                </select>

        <?php
    }

    public function registerPostType() {
        register_post_type( 'simplemag-article',
            array(
                'labels' => array(
                    'name' => 'Articles',
                    'singular_name' => 'Article',
                    'add_new' => 'Add New',
                    'add_new_item' => 'Add New Article',
                    'edit' => 'Edit',
                    'edit_item' => 'Edit Article',
                    'new_item' => 'New Article',
                    'view' => 'View',
                    'view_item' => 'View Article',
                    'search_items' => 'Search Articles',
                    'not_found' => 'No articles found',
                    'not_found_in_trash' => 'No articles found in Trash',
                    'parent' => 'Parent Article'
                ),
                'hierarchical' => false,
                'public' => false,
                'publicly_queryable' => false,
                'show_ui' => true,
                'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor','author',  'thumbnail','page-attributes' ),
                'taxonomies' => array( '' ),
                'menu_icon' => plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ).'images/icon-16.png',
                'has_archive' => true,
                'show_in_menu' => 'simplemag',
                'register_meta_box_cb' => array($this,'article_meta_box')
            )
        );

        register_post_type( 'simplemag-issue',
            array(
                'labels' => array(
                    'name' => 'Issues',
                    'singular_name' => 'Issue',
                    'add_new' => 'Add New',
                    'add_new_item' => 'Add New Issue',
                    'edit' => 'Edit',
                    'edit_item' => 'Edit Issue',
                    'new_item' => 'New Issue',
                    'view' => 'View',
                    'view_item' => 'View Issue',
                    'search_items' => 'Search Issues',
                    'not_found' => 'No issues found',
                    'not_found_in_trash' => 'No issues found in Trash',
                    'parent' => 'Parent Issue'
                ),
                'hierarchical' => false,
                'public' => true,
                'publicly_queryable' => false,
                'supports' => array( 'title', 'excerpt',  'thumbnail'),
                'taxonomies' => array( '' ),
                'menu_icon' => plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ).'images/icon-16.png',
                'has_archive' => true,
                'show_in_menu' => 'simplemag',
                'rewrite'=>array(
                    'slug'=>'issue',
                    'with_front' => false,
                    'pages' => false
                    )

            )
        );

    }

    public function cleanPermalink($str, $replace=array(), $delimiter='-') {
    	if( !empty($replace) ) {
    		$str = str_replace((array)$replace, ' ', $str);
    	}

    	$clean = str_replace("æ","ae",$clean);
    	$clean = str_replace("ø","oe",$clean);
    	$clean = str_replace("å","a",$clean);

    	$clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
    	$clean = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\/_|+ -]/", '', $clean);
    	$clean = strtolower(trim($clean, '-'));
    	$clean = preg_replace("/[\/_|+ -]+/", $delimiter, $clean);

    	return $clean;
    }

    public function save_name($name) {
    	global $post;
    	if($post->post_type == 'simplemag-article'){
            $post->post_name = $this->cleanPermalink($post->post_title);
              return $post->post_name;
    	}
    	return $name;
    }

    public function simplemag_admin_style_post(){
        $screen = get_current_screen();
        if ($screen && ('simplemag-issue' == $screen->id || 'simplemag-article' == $screen->id )){
    		remove_editor_styles(); //Prevent the current theme from messing up the editor style
    	}
    }

    public function admin_init(){
        add_action( 'pre_get_posts', array($this,'simplemag_admin_style_post') );
        wp_enqueue_style( 'simplemag_admin_style', SIMPLEMAG_URL . '/css/simplemag-admin.css');
    }

    public function addAdminMenu() {
    	add_menu_page(SIMPLEMAG_NAME,SIMPLEMAG_NAME, 'edit_pages', 'simplemag', null,SIMPLEMAG_URL.'/images/icon-16.png',9);
    }

    // Custom column for issue on article

    public function article_columns($defaults) {
        $defaults['issue'] = 'Issue';
        return $defaults;
    }
    public function article_custom_column($column_name, $post_ID) {
        if ($column_name == 'issue') {
            $issueID = get_post_meta($post_ID, 'simplemag_issue', true);
            $issue = get_post($issueID, ARRAY_A);
            //var_dump($issue);
            echo $issue['post_title'];
        }
    }

    public function simplemag_template($template)
    {
        $t = explode("/",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

        if (isset($t[1]) && $t[1] == 'issue') {
            return dirname(__FILE__) . '/issue.php';
        }
        return $template;
    }

}

class SimpleMagazineSettings{
    public function __construct(){
        if(is_admin()){
	        add_action('admin_menu', array($this, 'add_plugin_page'));
            add_action('admin_init', array($this, 'page_init'));
        }
    }

    public function add_plugin_page(){
        // This page will be under "Settings"
        add_options_page('Settings Admin', SIMPLEMAG_NAME, 'manage_options', 'test-setting-admin', array($this, 'create_admin_page'));
    }

    public function create_admin_page(){
        ?>

    	    <?php screen_icon(); ?>

<?php echo SIMPLEMAG_NAME; ?> Settings

    	    <form method="post" action="options.php">
    	        <?php
                        // This prints out all hidden setting fields
    		    settings_fields('test_option_group');
    		    do_settings_sections('test-setting-admin');
    		?>
    	        <?php submit_button(); ?>
    	    </form>

    	<?php
    }

    public function page_init(){
	    register_setting('test_option_group', 'array_key', array($this, 'saveValues'));

        add_settings_section(
    	    'setting_section_id',
    	    'Setting',
    	    array($this, 'print_section_info'),
    	    'test-setting-admin'
    	);

    	add_settings_field(
    	    'simplemag-magazine-name',
    	    'Magazine name',
    	    array($this, 'createSettingsField'),
    	    'test-setting-admin',
    	    'setting_section_id',
    	    array('id'=>'simplemag-magazine-name')
    	);

    	add_settings_field(
    	    'simplemag-google-analytics',
    	    'Google Analytics ID',
    	    array($this, 'createSettingsField'),
    	    'test-setting-admin',
    	    'setting_section_id',
    	    array('id'=>'simplemag-google-analytics')
    	);

    	add_settings_field(
    	    'simplemag-apple-app-id',
    	    'Apple App ID',
    	    array($this, 'createSettingsField'),
    	    'test-setting-admin',
    	    'setting_section_id',
    	    array('id'=>'simplemag-apple-app-id')
    	);
    }

    public function saveValues($input){

        foreach($input as $key => $value){
            if(get_option($key) === FALSE){
    		    add_option($key, $value);
    	    }else{
    		    update_option($key, $value);
    	    }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public function print_section_info(){
	    print 'Enter your setting below:';
    }

    public function createSettingsField($data){
        ?><input type="text" name="array_key[<?=$data['id']?>]" value="<?=get_option($data['id']);?>" /><?php
    }
}

$simpleMag = new SimpleMagazine();

?>

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I know Kirk Bertolet, and he would make an excellent mayor of Morgan Hill.
He is a veteran of the US Air Force. There are many fine qualities that are instilled in service members that they carry with them all their lives. He is passionate about Morgan Hill and its future. He is for growth as long as it is controlled and serves the community well.
His pro-business stand is well documented. As an employee in the public transportation sector, he is aware of the challenges facing Morgan Hill, and his knowledge of rail systems will be invaluable as we face the future routing of the High Speed Rail through Morgan Hill.
He is fiscally responsible and realizes Morgan Hill cannot continue to sustain its funding primarily from impact fees imposed on new home permits, and must look to alternative funding sources that the community will accept as necessary to keep Morgan Hill vibrant and a great place to live.
Kirk is pro law enforcement and will work with Morgan Hill Police Department and the City Council to see that Morgan Hill remains a safe place for people to live, work and raise their families.
I encourage voters to look beyond name familiarity and look at the character of the candidates and what they can bring to the Mayor's office.
There comes a time for new faces with new ideas and approaches to governing Morgan Hill. This is the time.
I encourage voters to vote for Kirk Bertolet for mayor Of Morgan Hill.


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Q: Unable to fetch test company details in linkedin I tried to use the below api with the test company ID, but getting "

Unknown authentication scheme

".
https://api.linkedin.com/v1/companies/2414183/relation-to-viewer/is-company-share-enabled?format=json
#2414183 is the test company ID provided by linkedIn
LinkedIn docs says there is no authentication needed for working on test company.
Any one please help me where im wrong

A: Every LinkedIn API call requires authentication.  It's not always the case that a developer is listed as an administrator of a company, which is required to make certain API calls.  The test company simply acts as a testing entity that every developer is considered an administrator of, to facilitate testing, but that does not mean that you do not have to be authenticated to try make the call.

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Located at Doctor's Cave Beach in Montego Bay, the 1,200-square-foot cafe's unique design offers a mix of brand elements and local heritage, including a pickled-wood vaulted ceiling and louvered windows.
Fiona Godfrey, an Irish artist who has called Jamaica home for more than 25 years, created a custom mural for the new Starbucks store featuring a lion and a hummingbird.
The juxtaposition of the small bird and the majestic lion echoes a popular Jamaican expression —"We likkle but we tallawah" — to express that while Jamaica is a small nation, it has had a global impact across the arts, culture, sports, coffee and more. Godfrey also incorporated Jamaica's famous misty blue mountains in the background of her mural — a nod to Jamaican coffee. A familiar local greeting of "hail up," hand-painted by Carlton & Sons Signs and Graphix, a local company, and Sheridan Burgess, a local artist, greets customers as they enter the store, and a well-wishing "walk good" meets customers at the end of the coffee bar.
The color palette of the mural draws from the iconic colors of Jamaica — black, green, yellow and red — with touches of gold and ocher for the lion's face. Similar gold touches can be found throughout the new store. The coffee bar is covered in walnut panels that feature subtle gold-painted reveals, the back wall's granite is embedded with delicate gold flecks, and an excerpt from Jamaican poet Reginald M. Murray's "The Song of the Blue Mountain Stream" is hand-painted in gold, serving as a backdrop for the baristas at the espresso bar.
Franchisee Caribbean Coffee Baristas Ltd., a joint venture between Ian Dear, CEO of Margaritaville Caribbean Group, and Adam Stewart, deputy chairman and CEO of Sandals Resorts International, plans to open up to 15 Starbucks locations in Jamaica over the next 5 years. Following Montego Bay, the company expects to open in Kingston in 2018.


If ambition of a football club can be defined by transfer spend, then Brighton's owners declared their intentions to improve on 15th place last season by spending significantly this summer.
Surviving in the Premier League was a considerable achievement for the Seagulls but choosing to exist in the top-flight is not only a risky strategy, it's also not particularly fun, and chairman Tony Bloom clearly has designs on his club becoming a regular presence in the top 10.
As a result, £62million was invested on six first-team ready players in giving manager Chris Hughton fresh options across a host of positions. Except, 10 games into the season few of the new men have rarely been seen in a blue and white shirt.
Maybe we spread the funds too thin and should have bought two 30,000,000 pound players? I think we will spend the same amount every season in PL but on 2 or 3 players in the future.
It's brilliant that the old guard are making it so hard for new players to break in to the team as when they do they will have earned the right to play.
Our problem won't be finding the money for a top striker to replace Muzza; it will be finding a top striker prepared to join us. We are gradually getting a bit more attractive with the set up we have, so hopefully we can get someone in the Giroud mould to take us forwards.
I think the club have gone about it the right way, by maintaining the core of the team that got us promoted, gradually adding to our depth and integrating the new additions into the squad, and eventually the team, without just throwing them all in. The likes of Middlesbrough threw their team up in the air when they got promoted, made wholesale changes, and crashed straight back down as a result. Its looking like Fulham might have gone and done something similar, there's rumours there of disharmony and resentment within the squad from the established players towards the new ones who have taken their places.
You've GOT to strengthen when you go up obviously, but there's a balance to be struck, and so far its looking like we're getting it about right.
You have been reading the Fulham forum lol. So have i. Plenty going on at Craven Cottage and the harmony doesn't look rosy within the squad.
BHAFC are just being BHAFC, not in a race with anyone else.
Button / Steele - not seen either live, so won't pass any judgment. I'd rather have Walton here tbh.
Montoya - excellent player for the price we paid. The guy keeping him out is also an excellent right back!
Bernardo - versatile, which is useful. Unlikely to make any position his own, from what (little) we've seen so far.
Balogun - looks an excellent signing, especially for free. Kept out through incredible form of the incumbents.
Bissouma - huge potential, if very raw. think he'll be a fine player in time.
Alireza - He's a decent solid wide-man, rather than the superstar his Persian fanbase led us to believe, but a useful addition nonetheless.
Andone - baffling / concerning that he hasn't forced his way into contention, despite Locadia's poor showing. Jury hasn't even convened yet.


Starting its journey in 2009 as part of the Pearson Language Test, Pearson Test for English (PTE) Academic is now recognised as a trustworthy standardised test of English by institutions and professional organisations worldwide. PTE Academic arrived in Bangladesh in 2012 and soon gained popularity among students and professional applicants alike who saw it as a better alternative compared to other standardised tests.
We sat with M Jahir Uddin, Regional Development Manager of Pearson, along with the team of TÜV SÜD Bangladesh (Pvt.) Ltd, test delivery partner of PTE Academic in Bangladesh, at their Dhanmondi branch to understand the prospects of PTE Academic.
Why do you think there was a need for another standardised English test in the presence of existing ones?
M Jahir Uddin: Our tagline is "Always Learning" which to us means that anyone, anywhere in the world should have the access to learning. One of the biggest strengths that Pearson has is technology and we are constantly trying to push boundaries in the digital area by providing various online courses and learning materials. Pearson recognises that people are more digitally engaged globally, so our objective has been to create a more accurate and convenient system of assessment.
Can you explain in what ways PTE Academic is different from the other assessment tests?
Jahir: PTE Academic is fully computer-based — starting from the registration, the actual examination, to the publication of results and certificates. The test goes through a fully computerised marking system to ensure consistency and impartiality in the results. We also administer PTE Academic exams in two different sessions every day throughout the year, except during national holidays. PTE Academic is scored against the Global Scale of English, which is a scale from 10 to 90. The questions are designed with real-life language so that students get a fair chance at gaining marks for each of the four components: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. Since we have candidates from different parts of the world, they can have different accents. Our automated scoring programme is designed using 130 different language backgrounds, so it can recognise accents from around the globe. As a result, PTE Academic's scoring technology marks everyone's speech with equal accuracy, regardless of where they are from.
Does the PTE Academic maintain the same criteria and standards as the other tests?
Jahir: We maintain the same standards as per international assessments. But unlike the other tests, our marking scale is different, and so is the style of the question. It is accepted all over the world by universities and professional institutions, and for immigration visas in Australia and New Zealand.
Can you walk us through the examination procedure?
Jahir: You start by registering for the exam online. You fill up the form, and make a payment of BDT 15,500 if you choose to pay through voucher or USD 185 if you pay using international cards. The vouchers can be collected from the test centres or from the PTE registration partners. You can register 48 hours prior to the day you want to sit for the exam. There are two PTE Academic Test centres in Dhaka, in Dhanmondi and Uttara. The convenience of the process allows our candidates to be physically present in the test centre only during the exam.
What are the requirements for sitting for this exam?
Jahir: There are no specific requirements other than that if you're under 18, your legal guardian needs to register for you and sign a consent paper. Basic understanding of how to use a computer is essential since the test will be taken on a computer. Students are always encouraged to work on their accuracy to make sure they can finish the exam on time. If a student chooses to retake the exam, he or she can register as soon as the result of test is published.
What type of applicants do you usually come across?
Jahir: Our candidates vary in age. Some take the test to apply for a job or permanent residency (PR), while others for undergraduate and postgraduate admission. The popular destination countries include Australia, Canada, UK, USA, and New Zealand, along with a few European countries. The candidates can send their scores to unlimited number of institutions free of charge.
Since the exam is conducted digitally, how do you ensure accurate student verification?
Jahir: Student verification is done through a number of ways. Firstly, students have to provide a digital signature that has to match with that in their passport. We have biometric scanners at the entrance of examination halls. The hall is under CCTV surveillance, monitored from the Pearson headquarters in UK. We also have administrators who make sure everything is going smoothly in the test centres.
How can the students prepare for the exams?
Jahir: We have various educational service providers here, who give students PTE Academic training, as well as certified PTE Academic trainers. The course lengths depend on each of the training centres or the individual instructors. While we have Pearson-certified trainers, we are flexible in terms of how a student chooses to prepare for the exam. We also provide reading materials and online practice papers that students can use to prepare for the exam.


Our chakras help to keep us in balance. These spinning wheels of energy effect our physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental energies. They have correlating organs and meridians that they effect. When they are out of balance we can have a host of problems. Sometimes these issues arise as aches and pains other times they are illnesses. By keeping our chakras clean and clear they are able to function at an optimal level. This allows us to live healthy and happy lives.
In this package we will work through 7 of your most important chakras. We will work from the ground up so that we can help you to stay grounded and connected during this journey. We will check for trapped emotions, inherited emotions, past life emotions and more. We will reset and balance each chakra before moving on to the next to make sure you have optimal function and connection.
You will experience a greater sense of self. You will feel more at ease and connected to yourself, your energy, and Mother Earth. You can also expect to ease pain, fear, and anxiousness as these are flags that you have imbalances.
This package is for people who are looking to live a more balanced life. Being connected to self and source energy. In this package we will be working through all of your chakras on multiple levels. Exciting I know!
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LENA (Mom): "We're celebrating the Chinese New Year. It's traditional. Every year the families come together with hope that the new year will get better and better."
ANGELA: "I just think it's really fun."
The Greater Memphis United Chinese Association sponsors a Chinese New Year Festival every year at the Rose Theater on the campus of the University of Memphis. This year's celebration took place on Saturday, January 28, 2017.


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Het Moto Guzzi 125 cc prototype was een prototype voor een lichte motorfiets dat tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd ontwikkeld, maar nooit in productie kwam.

Tijdens de oorlog werd in Italië een wet aangenomen die het mogelijk maakte motorfietsen tot 125 cc zonder kenteken te gebruiken. Bovendien was er behoefte aan zuinige vervoermiddelen, want alle voertuigen, zelfs vrachtauto's en tanks, reden indertijd op benzine en die was dan ook schaars. Daarom begon men bij Moto Guzzi te werken aan twee prototypen: een clip-on motor, de Colibrì, die achter op een fiets gemonteerd kon worden, en een licht motorfietsje.

125 cc prototype
Het 125cc-model was een vlot ogend motorfietsje dat eigenlijk de bekende lijnen van de zwaardere Guzzi-eencilinders volgde, maar wel eenvoudiger en vooral goedkoper was geconstrueerd. Het rijwielgedeelte bestond uit een dubbel wiegframe, dat voornamelijk uit plaatstaal was opgetrokken en zelfs de parallellogramvork was van plaatstaal, evenals de swingarm achter. Het machientje kreeg wél achtervering, maar niet meer het bekende Moto Guzzi-systeem met schroefveren in een koker onder het motorblok. Bij het prototype was een cantilever systeem gebruikt, waarbij twee schroefveren boven de swingarmas zaten. Vóór en achter waren simplexremmen toegepast. De motor was (voor Guzzi-begrippen althans) zijn tijd vooruit: de tuimelaars en klepveren waren ingesloten, en dat gebeurde bij de andere modellen pas in 1948. Omdat de kleppen onder een vrij grote hoek stonden, splitste de cilinderkop zich in een V-vorm. Ook de beide stoterstangen vormden een "V". Verder was de motor gebouwd zoals men dat bij Moto Guzzi gewend was: een liggende eencilinder met een dry-sump smeersysteem. Hij had drie versnellingen en een kettingaandrijving naar het achterwiel. Hoewel het prototype helemaal klaar was, kwam de machine nooit in productie. Dat lag waarschijnlijk aan de prijs en de vraag van de klanten. Na de oorlog moest het nóg goedkoper, en bovendien schoten de bedrijven die hulpmotoren en "moto leggere" (lichte motorfietsen) maakten als paddenstoelen uit de grond. Moto Guzzi bracht in 1946 een nog lichter motorfietsje uit: de Motoleggera 65.

125 cc prototype

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This would include a plenty of crazy magic effects, hence the increase in budget provided. Taiwanese actor Jay Chou is included in this as the green hornet called Li. That is the reason why they need bestessay and I know it will work out pretty well.


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Only for children from 3 to 6 years old, The young explorer of sciences is an exhibiton full of activities to discover a new environment. Guided by the island keeper, the children explore each area, find and recognize elements in hiding places. The setting throws the explorers into an insular and mysterious landscape, departure of a scientific exploration.
They can discover 5 activity poles which each offer a particular approach of exploration and discovery. The base camp will be the starting point of the adventure which brings the children through the island, its forest, its clearing, its cave, its beaches and observation posts.
Orientation in space, research, observation of the environment, touching, listening, seeing from a distance, looking closely, seeing in the dark: the young explorers will challenge their senses and discover how to use exploration tools and how to have a scientific approach of an unfamiliar environment.
- Use your senses to discover a not very familiar environment.
- Recognize and associate the characteristic elements of a natural environment.
- Make suitable use of the exploration tools.
- Restore observations or discoveries in the small laboratory using the language.
No written text in the exhibition = every language possible. The training for the visit is proposed by Cap Sciences' facilitator after set up time.


How did I get this elephant to pose? It was easy, it was feeding time and one of the keepers, off to the side, motioned for the Elephant to pose for the food. Good timing.
This is at the St. Louis Zoo, one of Americas, top zoos in an area called Rivers Edge.
You do not need to go on an expensive safari to get great animal photos. These facilities work very hard to provide a natural environment for their animals making for a nice setting.


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Beyond the Horizon by Eoin Lane
Writing.ie | Book Reviews | Literary Fiction
By Jo Nestor
There's so much I enjoyed about this debut novel, I feel spoiled for choice. And despite the old adage to 'never judge a book by its cover', there is everything to love about this one. The book cover is not only a visual delight, but an actual part of a painting by the writer/artist author. It makes sense then, in terms of writing about what you know, that the main protagonist of the book, Colin Larkin, is also a landscape painter.
The story spans Colin's life from a childhood tragedy when he was six years old, to a health crisis as an elderly man, and everything in between. It's written in four main parts, with sub-sections interspersed with quotes from Irish painter, Paul Henry. And at the risk of sounding clichéd, the writing itself resembles a landscape painting: visual, layered, pensive, almost poetic in tone.
The west of Ireland features significantly in Beyond the Horizon. My father was a landscape painter, and very much inspired by the Mayo coast, Achill Island, and Kerry. I have first-hand knowledge, then, of living with him as a creative, where his painting often superseded family life, as with the fictitious life of Colin Larkin in Beyond the Horizon. All Colin's observations within the story, of life around him, his relationships, his general worldview, his compulsion to observe scenes in colour and texture first and foremost, all of that rang true according to my lived experience.
The characters in the story are well-defined, distinctive and authentic. Emotions, relationships and interactions are handled deftly throughout. The pace of the story, too, was evenly balanced in my opinion, considering it covers most of Colin Larkin's lifetime, as well as including various geographical locations around the world – Ireland, the UK, the US, India, Italy.
I could legitimately speculate about how autobiographical the story is, but that's not my business. What I care about is the effectiveness of the storytelling, and whether or not it engages me as a reader. It's no exaggeration to say that this book ticked those boxes for me. Out now in all good bookshops and libraries, I hope you get an opportunity to enjoy this book as much as I did.
(c) Jo Nestor
Jo Nestor is a retired Adult Educator. Her writing features in the 2021 edition of the broadsheet, Autumn Leaves; also, the 2021 edition Leitrim Guardian. She was long-listed in June 2020 for the FISH memoir competition, and won the 2020 Leitrim Guardian Literary Award. She chooses to live in hope.
Order your copy of Beyond the Horizon here.


Rolling Hills features a serene little landscape with its extension into the border. Measuring 12" x 14", there are embroidered flowers made of straight stitches and French Knots to help give the impression of a meadow full of flowers. This delightful landscape would also look good in silk ribbon embroidery.


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Pterostylis tenuicauda is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New Caledonia. It was first formally described in 1929 by Friedrich Kraenzlin and the description was published in Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zurich.

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tenuicauda
Orchids of New Caledonia
Plants described in 1998


Since my last article about the rise of Asian America, I wanted to get more personal about what it means to be Asian American today and attempt to characterize this group of people better. I talked to fifteen different varieties of Asian Americans and I wrote this in a way that tries to capture that variety. I used the first-person voice for this. Other than the parts where you might tell is my true voice, the other voices are amalgamations of the voices I heard. I hope you like it.
Some of us have always known ourselves to be Asian since we were little, but many of us got to live into our teens and twenties without ever getting the rude awakening that we are different from everyone else. That's a privilege other minorities don't get because they are more likely to live in constant reminder that they are different.
How we come to realize that we are Asian typically has to do with being made to feel like an "other." Popular stories like bringing smelly lunches to school or being told that your eyes look funny are common triggers, but we can also be "other-ed" by Asians who look like us but don't quite accept us because we are not Asian enough.
Once we realize we're Asian in America, how do we feel?
Should I feel proud to be Asian because my immigrant parents have a healthy relationship with where they came from and still visit regularly? Should I feel ashamed because my parents resented their country for driving them away? What if I feel an overwhelming desire to overcome being the "other" by rejecting everything Asian about myself? What if I want to start hanging out exclusively with other people who look like me because it's more comfortable? What if I want to but I am the only Asian kid?
I might feel like I am "the wrong type of Asian," of the "jungle" variety, but still choose to join the pan-Asian American crew because there's enough that's shared like how our parents really care about our education. But maybe being brown is so different that Asian American things like boba milk tea don't speak to me at all. Maybe my parents are white, partially white or act very "white." Maybe my parents do not value or know how to help me with my education. It feels like I can opt in or out of this Asian American label, but can I really opt out if people keep asking me what I am and my name is difficult to pronounce?
At some point, maybe I go from "oh sh*t, I'm Asian" to "I'll be Asian when it's convenient." Maybe I'm in college and I want to get funding for the Korean Students Association, so I go to the Asian American Community Center even though I don't care that much about other Asians. Maybe if people assume I'm smart and good with numbers at work, I don't have to dispel them of their assumption. I'll opt-in to be Asian American.
But can I not be Asian when it's inconvenient? What if I'm trying to flirt with a girl and I don't want to be an emasculated Asian man? What if I want to be paid what I'm worth at work? What if I don't appreciate the extra work I'm always assigned because people think Asian women will just take it? What if I feel really strongly about being an American, but people refuse to believe me? What if I identify way more as a Third Culture Kid? What if I just don't want any kind of label being applied to me? Can I not participate?
What does being Asian American give me anyway beyond the model minority stereotypes? What if I don't benefit because I'm too dark or moved here too recently that I can't get rid of my FOB accent? I want to be Asian American, but when I do get included as Asian American, I feel like it's pretty mute and says barely anything about me. Why do I even care?
Are Asians considered white? Obviously not, but I think I paused a little too long there…and now I feel a ton of guilt.
Like it or not, our parents play a huge role in our lives. And because they're Asian, they will make sure we really knew that. We love our parents, but we are not like our parents. We are not just glad to be here.
Being Asian American feels like being two separate things with the Asian being represented by our parents and the American as something that only we understand. These two identities constantly fight, and it's a lot of what we fight with our parents about.
Our parents like to encroach on our business. Not always, and sometimes we can communicate boundaries, but it's typical for them to intrude. Our lives are forever intertwined in ways that we don't really know how to handle. We do care about what they think of our significant others, but we don't want them just show up at the house without first calling. We want to take full advantage of free child care so we don't have to sacrifice our careers, but we know we will have to reciprocate and move them in at some point. We feel guilty when we move too far away from our parents, we feel guilty when we pursue careers that don't give them comfort, we feel guilty dating outside of our race, we feel guilty when we don't pick up a call or make up an excuse to no-show a meal. Our individualistic American tendencies are always guilt-tripping our collectivist Asian values.
We feel guilty when we are reminded how much they left behind for us, but we get frustrated when they refuse to change their ways because they live in a time capsule and never fully assimilated. We feel guilty when speaking up because our parents taught us to stay low, and then we feel angry because, unlike them, we are striving for more than just survival. We feel guilty when we realize we don't know the language, history and the traditions of our parents, but we despise them for instilling in us values that we have to unlearn because they don't serve us in our reality.
Contending with the dual identity but not really feeling like either one captures us well enough is unique to being Asian American.
Our understanding of our identity grows whenever we visit Asia because Asia helps us understand what it means to be white in America, yet we feel extremely foreign at the same time. Asia is where no one looks at us funny. As long as we don't speak for too long for them to notice our American accent, they will assume nothing else. Simply walking around Asia gives us a sense of belonging that we've never felt before, and with that comes a sense of confidence that we are not always familiar with living in America. However, any suggestion that we should consider moving to Asia is quickly met with a hard no. Our values, working styles communication patterns, etc. are still too American. America is our home, and while we may not always feel completely at home, we feel more at home in America than we do in Asia.
In Asia, we realize the reason why our parents value education, why they are racist, why they hate themselves. We also learn that the younger generation in Asia feel similarly about their parents. They are eager to re-define what is "authentic" to give their culture a more global appeal. They want to be proud of their country as opposed to living in the shadow of their parents and the postwar narrative. They want to be creative and complex in all the same ways that we do.
But we also notice that in so many ways, the young generation in Asia is already ahead of us. They already have media representation. They already work in creative industries. They are already iterating on more modern versions of their own cultural narrative. Depending on the Asian country, they might have already experienced more wealth and prosperity than we have. As American-born Asians, there was a time when we could've claimed the "American premium" in Asia, but the door is quickly closing. It's more important than ever for us to focus on Asian America. We are way behind.
Making friends is harder when we get older because we get lazier and we are less willing to open ourselves up. We don't have shared experiences like school to bind us together with people who don't look like us, and if we don't put in the effort, it's hard to find commonalities. Instead of trying, we fall back to what's easy, like eating cultural comfort food with people who want the same, hanging out with friends who understand our inside jokes, who will be respectful of our things and know to take off their shoes when they enter the house. It's just easier that way.
Maybe we should go on adult friend dates and the rule has to be that if a person we are meeting is of a different culture, we have to withhold judgment until we've hung out five times. Ideally, we would've done some activity together to create more of a shared experience.
I feel guilty that I have too many Asian friends. Shouldn't I be setting an example of what I want to see in America? I was the only Asian person in my town growing up and now everyone I hang out with is Asian. I didn't even realize this was happening.
On the flipside, some of us can easily point out the rare Asian daywalkers who feel extremely comfortable in both Asian and American activities. We can spot the token Asian, and for those of us who are tokens, we can spot ourselves.
There are ways to look at this level of comfort. Some may call it "learned Westernness" or playing "whiteface," but that feels vaguely judgmental. We don't always have to other ourselves and fixate on the differences. The presumption of equality could lead to a positive feedback loop that make us feel more united as Americans.
I've always hung out with non-Asians. I'm usually the token Asian in my group. I don't even think about it. I definitely don't feel any less than. I guess it depends on your vantage point. I don't think it's that different to be Asian. I feel like as Asians we are already privileged. We don't encounter as much adversity. In fact, maybe we should worry more about not being good allies to the other minorities. Do I ever get jerked into an alternate reality and I am disadvantaged? Maybe in the dating scene. I do feel that sometimes as a token Asian guy, I have to be on good behavior. Subconsciously I feel like the token that is representing my people. In my town, there's this other Asian guy. I think he's cooler. I think I am the number two cool Asian guy.
Dating interracially helps us build empathy towards ourselves and our partners. We realize that we are all works-in-progress when it comes to interacting with different kinds of people.
The biggest difference between my white partner and I is that he doesn't assume the world is malicious. He just walks straight through and draws a source of power from it. I have to pay attention to how I look and know what signals I'm sending. I get annoyed when I notice people treat me in a condescending way. Is it because I'm Asian? Is it because I'm a woman? Is it because I'm Muslim or because I look young? Is it because of my personality or something I said or my accent? Is it because I needed to be more prepared? Or is it that they don't know how to interact with me just like I sometimes don't know how to interact with my white partner's parents?
But I come home and I complain to my partner about it, and he doesn't understand why it's a big deal. I have all these doubts already and his response just makes me feel completely invalidated. He doesn't even realize it. Even though I'm always patiently explaining everything, he still never understand. This is why media representation matters because even though Fresh Off The Boat is not that good, I can sit him down in front of that show or an Ali Wong Netflix special and use the stories on screen to better communicate how I feel. Words are just not good enough sometimes. We need stories and visuals.
Are we experiencing a rise in Asian America? We all felt the effects of Crazy Rich Asians — that alone should say something — but how much should we support it?
It was another one of those "exotic" stories that fascinate white people. It's closer to kung fu than a breakthrough. Constance Wu was the only Asian American character, but the rest of the movie is about Singapore and the rich people who live there. I will only think it's a big deal when Asian actors can get roles that can be played by anyone.
I enjoyed Crazy Rich Asians because it was a good romantic comedy. I don't think of it as very Asian American. I do care about our representation in media, but I'd prefer for the Asian actors to be good first. There just aren't that many Asians in entertainment because we don't value creative careers. That's the problem.
Even though the only brown people in Crazy Rich Asians are the guards at the mansion, I still felt pride and supported the movie because I understand the struggle. There are lots of bastardized versions of Asian food products in the U.S. that don't taste quite right to me but I still support because that feels more important to me than "getting it right." It's important for me to go out of my way to support Asian Americans. My boyfriend thinks that's weird and kind of a reverse racism.
What does "getting it right" mean anyway? Why are we holding on to the traditional way of cooking a dish when innovation, fusion, and remixing is already happening back in the motherland? Why can't we just mess around and add our own "Asian American" flavor to it? Asian Americans are always too critical anyway. Even if they like what I make, they won't rate it highly, and they definitely won't pay more for it.
What I'm making is authentic to me, and I'm Asian American. Isn't that enough?
It's easier to attach ourselves to an identity when we can find a way to be proud of it, but how do we make people proud to be American? How do we do that while helping minorities feel seen and that there's significance in the differences that they bring? While assimilation continues, how do we incorporate the differences and constantly evolve what it means to be American? Isn't it better to think that America is also a work-in-progress?
It's not easy to be American, so I just say I'm Sri Lankan. I can be more proud of that. Our reputation around the world is not that good right now. When do I feel proud to be American? Maybe only during the Olympics?
Maybe it's easier to be Indian American when there are enough Indians around you and you can do your own things. The tradition is strong and the association is largely positive, so being Indian American then is a positive thing and I don't really think much about being Asian American. That feels more secondary.
I think I am American first. My parents have always told us that we are American. I know some other parents are constantly reminding their children that they are immigrants in someone else's country, but my parents have always said we are American and that they much prefer American values to Chinese values. I can see that this affects whether or not you tend to believe you are more different from the others or more of the same. I can also see the possibility that some parents are very proud to be Chinese, so their kids will probably turn out to think they're better than Americans even though they were born here. It all depends.
The military culture and institution is strong. For all of us that went through the military and have that shared experience, we believe we are all equal. Why is the military so egalitarian? During wartime you just need bodies to fight, right? It's also a proud institution that has been around for a long time. Being ex-military is valued above everything else.
I went into this exercise thinking I was going to be able to better define the character of Asian America, but it resisted any reductive narrative. The fact that I couldn't reduce it is exactly where the privilege lies. You can't reduce white people into a neat narrative because you assume variety by default. It's hard to believe that we ever used reductive narratives in the first place for any group of people.
I was watching the most recent Apple keynote and Kumail Nanjiani's new show feels like a step in the right direction. I'll leave you with a quote from him at the Apple event because what he said about immigrants apply to everyone else as well.
We wanted to focus on immigrants doing everyday life stuff…Here's the thing, it's not about telling immigrant stories. These are human stories that feature immigrants. When you get to know someone and start to know your struggles and their struggles, your passions and theirs, your problems and theirs, they stop being the other.
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This is the third post in the series where I deep-dive into topics that I'm interested in by talking to users. Check out the last essay on how we work on our mental health.
This is also a follow-up to The Future is Asian American.
Originally published at rickyyean.com on March 30, 2019.
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Hopefully this won't get me reported to the authorities for my abusive behavior, but I've been casting about for something new to enliven my study of German. I decided on pop songs. I'm specifically aiming to reduce my inhibitions when speaking this summer in a German language immersion environment. I think my best bet is conducting my learning in the most playful manner I can devise.
There has been a lot of acting out dialogs from German Readers and the Pimsleur CDs*. DS2 is not clear on why I keep involving him in my shenanigans, but melodramatic German dialogues conducted with yourself are just crazy. When done with your child, they're home schooling!
Just when your teen thinks you can't get any more embarrassing, you add singing out loud in German to your repertoire. I even do it in the car in the school parking lot when I'm waiting to pick up DS2.
Yeah, I'm that kind of mom.
I found lyrics for all of these songs online in the original Deutsch and in English translation. Try MetroLyrics.
I chose a version performed by Zillertaler Dirndljäger found on iTunes.
We have to begin with Fliegerlied. More properly titled, "So ein schöner Tag (Fliegerlied)", the name translates to Such a Nice Day (Aviator's Song.) I played the song previews on iTunes to choose the one I liked best of the many covers of this song. Be sure you search for both "So ein schöner Tag" and "Fliegerlied" to see every version of this track.
I first heard this song at Waldsee family week where my son and I went to learn German in 2015. They played this song. They played it a lot. There are coordinating hand motions, too. And I liked it all! Any time a party atmosphere could be conjured in the Waldsee "Village," it was, and the disco music flowed.
Personally, I find Fliegerlied charming and catchy. I couldn't figure out all the words properly by ear, not even with a teaching session by the music leader early in the week. I got the gist of the lesson that we were singing about something that flies and having a good day.
Fliegerlied turns out to mean "aviator" or "airman." Obviously not the easiest word to guess via mime. This bouncy ditty is great for picking up quickly as it repeats… and repeats… and repeats a few lyrics. Just try not to get this one stuck in your head.
I have a very high tolerance for song repetition, so proceed cautiously if you don't. Fliegerlied is an Ohrwurm (ear worm; a song that gets stuck in your head) for sure. Waldsee gets full credit for this song being on my list. It's the first one I'd recommend for a cheerful student of German.
Performed by Nena; more than 99 versions found on iTunes!
You thought this one would be first, right?
99 Luftballons was an international hit in 1984, and it doesn't need any more introduction or description from me. They play this one regularly at Waldsee, too. Unless you're Captain Kirk or ein Kriegsminister, what's not to like? You'll be able to discuss war, balloons, and UFOs with the new vocabulary.
Original version by Grauzone is on iTunes; search both Eisbär and Eisbaer to find every cover.
I believe this will be the first song I memorize completely in German. I've had it two days and I can almost recite it by heart. I just looked at the lyrics I downloaded and did a quick count, and I think there are only 20 unique words in Eisbär, most of which are obvious (Eisbär="ice bear"=polar bear) or easy beginner words (mussen=have to, but sounds conveniently like "must"; kalt=cold.) Learn two verbs: schreien (screaming) and weinen (crying) and you'll understand the whole song.
Admittedly, this song is my least favorite on the playlist from a musical perspective. The music is repetitive, too electronic for my taste, and the song feels longer than it should be.
By Paul van Dyk featuring vocals by Peter Heppner; ordered CD single from Amazon.
I saw the video of this song online as I searched for my German pop songs. This one has slower tempo and more complex lyrics. We Are Who We Are is the title in English. The lyrics poetically describe lingering societal issues from the reunification of east and west Germany and how the people are responding. I'd describe its temper as somber but hopeful. Since I'm an optimist, I like it on principle for noble subject matter. The singer also enunciates very clearly—super helpful for the language learner. It's really easy to follow along with his vocalized lyrics, which isn't true of all these songs.
Available on iTunes; performed by Rammstein.
I'm not even checking to see if anyone has covered this song. I think you must listen to the original or give it a pass. This is heavy metal music, quite different than everything else on the playlist. The video I viewed online was downright creepy and not my cup of tea, but the song translates as cruel but not vulgar. I study around my kids, so really salty language would eliminate a song for my situation.
I might be growling it rudely at people, but I will never forget how to say "I want" auf Deutsch after hearing this song a few times.
Yeah, the kids LOVE it. Ha!
I hope you are enjoying them. Did you find the videos online? Some are strange; some are more artistic.
Right now I'm admiring the first video: Tim Toupet Fliegerlied So ein schöner Tag Comic Video. very catchy.
Yeah some of the others are a bit strange however.


In 1976, Dr. Robert Walley published a paper in the British Medical Journal that exposed the discrimination he faced as a Roman Catholic specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. In the decades since, Dr. Walley's account has served as a prescient illustration of the moral and ethical decline of obstetrics and gynecology, as specialists in the field stepped down from their once highly regarded positions of privilege, assisting women bring new life into the world, to positions of secular servanthood, with no reverence for human life, in order to maintain the status quo and keep their jobs with the National Health Service.
Walley wrote, "The State of Health of Motherhood: Trends and Policies affecting Obstetric Practice" The future of obstetrics and gynecology.
The question then became, how does one maintain their integrity in the field while continuing to participate in serving mothers and their children?
Therefore, obstetricians have a special responsibility to provide care based on Catholic teaching on morals that are magisterially guided, as being not only true, but totally beneficial for the patients requiring medical assistance within the scope of their competencies.
However, the introduction of contraception and the passage of abortion legislation in Western countries in the late nineteen sixties led to a profound change in the practice of obstetrics. Very soon, abortion and birth control became the basis on which maternal health care is provided. For those Catholics who decided to remain loyal to magisterial teaching, there were serious ethical and moral consequences, which had a profound effect on their future careers and families. As a consequence many changed their specialties, others left home and country to practice in freedom, others fell to compromise and few Catholics have since chosen to specialise in obstetrics. It soon became clear that there was a need for some alternative professional organization whose ethics were based on the teaching of the Church, to evangelise and support Catholic obstetricians and gynaecologists in training and in practice and to provide mothers and their babies with the best of care.
This idea for a Catholic obstetrical group was first presented at a plenary meeting of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, "Cor Unum" in the Vatican in 1982. In 1986, an international meeting of Catholic health care professionals was convened at a retreat centre in Rome. The 15 member group assembled included; a Ghanaian Bishop, the superior general of a medical religious congregation, the president of the Canadian Catholic Health Association and doctors and midwives from all of the continents. The mission documents were formulated for would lead to the formation of MCI some years later. While the seed was planted the progress of gestation was slow.
In 1995 a meeting of an international group of Catholic OB/GYNs were convened in Liverpool, England which led to the formal establishment of MaterCare International (MCI) Canada. The meeting coincided with the appeal, by the late Holy Father Pope John-Paul II in the Encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (the Gospel of Life), for more to be done for life in particular by health professionals.
A board of directors was appointed, by-laws were drawn up and approved, incorporation and registration as a charity obtained in the province of Newfoundland, Canada. An international office was established in St. John's. National organisations were established in Canada, Ireland, the UK and Poland, (the EU), Australia, the United States, and Nigeria.
"Your profession has become still more important and your responsibility still greater in today's cultural and social context, in which science and the practice of medicine risk losing sight of their inherent ethical dimension, [and] health-care professionals can be strongly tempted at times to become manipulators of life, or even agents of death.
The need for a distinctly Catholic response to maternal healthcare, voiced by Pope John-Paul II, became evident.
MCI is fulfilling the request of Blessed John-Paul for an active international group of Catholic obstetricians to provide a professional voice for the Church and is developing diverse portfolio of accomplishments.
● Developed a model of rural essential obstetrics in Nigeria and refined it in the Diocese of Sunyani, Ghana.
● Project Isiolo provides essential rural obstetrical care in the Apostolic Vicariate of Isiolo, 2005 – present.
● Provided emergency care six days after the earthquake in Haiti with the Missionaries of Charity January 18 2010.
● Provided emergency obstetrical services at St Damian's Hospital, Port au Prince following the earthquake with volunteer obstetricians and midwives from Ireland, Poland, the UK and the USA for 18 months.
● Developed, and funded the building and equipping of an obstetric fistula hospital in the Archdiocese of Cape Coast, Ghana.
● Conducted needs assessments for maternal health services in Albania, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Timor Leste.
● A CALM (Critical Activities in Labour Management course for doctors and midwives in developing countries.
● A training CD in the surgery and nursing management of obstetric fistulae.
● Publications, Information DVD, and a website including an area dedicated to the evangelisation of our colleagues.
● Three randomised clinical studies to evaluate a simple, effect, safe and inexpensive, oral or rectal means of preventing or treating post-partum haemorrhage, 2002 – 2004.
● Seminar Naprotechnology. Nairobi 2012, with specialist faculty from Ireland, the USA, Nigeria and Canada.
● Essential obstetrical course for midwives and nurses, Timor Leste with obstetricians and midwives from Australia, Ireland and Canada.
● Produced three DVDs concerning maternal mortality and morbidity (obstetric fistulae).
● Advised the Government of the Republic of Georgia concerning the effects of abortion on the demography of Georgia and obstetric practice 2005.
● Participated in the Forum for Catholic Inspired NGOs organised by the Secretary of State of the Holy See 2007.
4 WHAT IS MATERCARE INTERNATIONAL (MCI) TODAY?
MCI is an international group of Catholic obstetricians and gynaecologists, which has adopted a preferential option for mothers and babies. MCI's mission is to carry out the work of Evangelium Vitae (the Gospel of Life) by improving the lives and health of mothers and babies both born and unborn, through new initiatives of service, training, research, and advocacy designed to reduce the tragic levels of abortion worldwide and maternal and perinatal mortality, morbidity in developing countries.
MCI operates programmes and projects in nearly a dozen countries. These programs range from education and training to essential obstetric services in some of the world's poorest regions.
MCI is dedicated to upholding the dignity of life and providing advocacy for women and their children.


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Q: Find the first derivative of $y=\sqrt[3]{\frac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}}$ Find the first derivative of $$y=\sqrt[3]{\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}}$$
The given answer is $$\dfrac{2x^2}{x^6-1}\sqrt[3]{\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}}$$ It is nice and neat, but I am really struggling to write the result exactly in this form. We have $$y'=\dfrac13\left(\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}\right)^{-\frac23}\left(\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}\right)'$$ The derivative of the "inner" function (the last term in $y'$) is $$\dfrac{-3x^2(1+x^3)-3x^2(1-x^3)}{\left(1+x^3\right)^2}=\dfrac{-6x^2}{(1+x^3)^2},$$ so for $y'$ $$y'=-\dfrac13\dfrac{6x^2}{(1+x^3)^2}\left(\dfrac{1+x^3}{1-x^3}\right)^\frac23=-\dfrac{2x^2}{(1+x^3)^2}\left(\dfrac{1+x^3}{1-x^3}\right)^\frac23$$ Can we actually leave the answer this way?

A: You got $$y'=-\dfrac{2x^2}{(1+x^3)^2}\left(\dfrac{1+x^3}{1-x^3}\right)^\frac23$$
You can leave till here if you want. If you want to match the given answer, multiply and divide by $\left(\dfrac{1+x^3}{1-x^3}\right)^\frac13$, thus,
$$y'=-\dfrac{2x^2}{(1+x^3)^2}\left(\dfrac{1+x^3}{1-x^3}\right)\left(\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}\right)^\frac13\\=\dfrac{2x^2}{x^6-1}\sqrt[3]{\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}}$$
If you want to reach the given answer directly, you can take $\log$ on the given expression, thus,
$$\log y=\frac13\left(\log(1-x^3)+\log(1+x^3)\right)$$
Taking derivative,
$$\frac{y'}{y}=\frac13\left(\frac{-3x^2}{1-x^3}-\frac{3x^2}{1+x^3}\right)\\=x^2\left(\frac{-1-x^3-1+x^3}{1-x^6}\right)$$
Therefore, $$y'=\dfrac{2x^2}{x^6-1}\sqrt[3]{\dfrac{1-x^3}{1+x^3}}$$

A: HINT
I would start with noticing that
\begin{align*}
y^{3} = \frac{1 - x^{3}}{1 + x^{3}} = -1 + \frac{2}{1 + x^{3}} \Rightarrow 3y^{2}y' = -\frac{6x^{2}}{(1 + x^{3})^{2}}
\end{align*}
Can you take it from here?


[I]t is a myth that the US is becoming 'libertarian' – the number of restrictions on personal behaviour is increasing, not decreasing. At the same time as marijuana is being legalised in Colorado, cities are banning e-cigarettes for no rational reason. The newly 'liberal' America says it's cool to smoke marijuana but then demonises those who eat a McDonald's hamburger or drink a Big Gulp soda. Many of the same people who are posing as liberty's champions over marijuana are the same ones who are leading the charge when it comes to bans, limits and nudges on tobacco, soda, school lunches, and so on.
What an odd situation in which we find ourselves, where the most influential figures in politics, media, culture, and the academy, the leaders of institutions from the presidency to the Senate to multinational corporations to globally recognized universities, spend most of their time discussing inequalities of income and opportunity, identifying, blaming, and attacking the mysterious and nefarious figures behind whatever the social problem of the day might be. This is the way the clique that runs America justifies the inequalities endemic to "meritocracy," the way it masks the flaws of a power structure that generates Brown-educated cable hosts and personal chefs who open ballparks with a phone call. This is how a new American aristocracy comes into being, one as entitled and clueless as its predecessors, but without the awareness of itself as a class.
Let's start by downsizing the federal government – a smaller government means less rent-seeking.
The gradual accretion of power by a vast administrative state, combined with an administration intolerant of dissent, has produced a clear and present danger to basic American freedoms.
Enemies of Friends of Abe: How the IRS chills freedom of association.
The "everyone must go to college" crowd is a cult. With a nice topping of pretension and moral preening.
If college is so expensive, why doesn't it provide a truly stellar, unrivaled learning experience? Part of the reason is that very little of the exorbitant costs go towards educating. Only 21 cents out of every tuition dollar goes to instruction, according to Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.
From a purely market-orientated standpoint, why wouldn't colleges keep raising their prices, as long as people keep paying? Ursinus College increased its freshman class by 55% after raising its prices. William Cooper, president of the University of Richmond, said that he and his administrators increased tuition by 27% in 2005 because, by maintaining their lower tuition prices, they were "leaving money on the table," and they did not want to be "the cheap school" anymore. Russell Osgood, president of Grinnell College (the richest liberal arts college in the country, with around $1.5 billion in its endowment), says that he and his administrators raised their tuition price by 5% because the school had "been motoring along for about 20 years at a tuition figure and fees that was about 10 percent below the average for our [competitors], and … being lower [wasn't] doing great things for us." It's as if a school can be seen as better or more prestigious simply because it dares to ask for more.
But don't dramatically higher prices make it more difficult for poorer students to attend a given college? They do, and that may be the idea. Colleges have vastly increased scholarship money for students in families earning $100,000 or more per year, but have relatively neglected scholarship increases for students from families earning just $40,000 or less. And it's not just private colleges that offer this preferential treatment: the top 50 public colleges have recently increased aid to richer families by eight times more than the aid to poorer ones.
These sorts of practices border on the unethical because they follow a process in which students are encouraged to borrow as much as possible and pay expensive interest rates. Many colleges even own stock in student loan companies, allowing them to benefit even more from their students' debt, and over half of all colleges are more likely to accept a student who shows an interest in attending. They know that the more enthusiastic a student is, the more willing they'll be to pay a high price.
The best way to combat this, ironically, is by educating prospective students. Yet most students seem blissfully unaware of how the process works, and colleges have no incentive to encourage them to find out.
If this sounds nothing like the picture of college you have in your mind, you're not alone. The word "college," for many of us, conjures up feelings of integrity and learning, of expanding one's knowledge and promise, and of a collaborative process by which the learned people in society help the next generation achieve what they did. But the reality is not so grand. Colleges are a business, and they have no qualms about doing what is necessary to extract as much from prospective students and their families as possible.
I hear plenty about the corrupt hucksters on Wall Street, why aren't we talking about the wealthy con artists in academia who turn absurd profits by convincing broke kids to bankrupt themselves?
Why do we send guys like Bernie Madoff to prison while the academic elite get away with gouging an entire generation to death?
A trillion dollars in student loans. Record high unemployment. Three million good jobs that no one seems to want. The goal of Profoundly Disconnected is to challenge the absurd belief that a four-year degree is the only path to success. The Skills Gap is here, and if we don't close it, it'll swallow us all. Which is a long way of saying, we could use your help. . .
Union bigwigs representing some of the nation's lowest paid workers are holding their annual board meeting at one of Florida's ritziest resorts just months after increasing membership dues.
Two-hundred-fifty union officials are attending the 11-day conference ending Jan. 25, although not all are staying at the Grand Floridian. Resort rooms start at $488 per night before taxes and can exceed $2,000 if officials opt for a two Bedroom Club Level suite.
"Public service" – hahahaha. Our political class and crony capitalists make up the new feudal class. Forward!
Posted 2013/07/24, 7:17 am · Category: Aristocracy, Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Cults, Forward!, Government, Ozymandias, Philosopher Kings, Statolatry, Thugocracy, Tyranny, You Can't Fix Stupid · Comments Off on Washington, DC, Boomtown!