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Whose Culture?
Karakter admits that he rarely breaks even on these shows, which are mostly attended by backpackers, college kids, and curiosity seekers. On a good night, his shows draw a crowd of 200-300 people, which would be disastrous for a South Beach superclub such as Opium Garden. "On the Masta Killa show [which took place last November 5], we got 350 people there, and three of us that were involved in promoting the show lost about $70 each," he says.
"Every show I've thrown, it's not like I'm walking away with big bucks and shit," he continues. "I probably have enough money to eat sushi and smoke a joint." Why does he promote shows that lose money? "Just for the love of good hip-hop," he says. The artists he brings out are "inspiring and motivating, at least to me."
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Los Angeles vs. Las Vegas: Which is the Most Unreal City in America?
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4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, 90027
Reality has hit both cities: water grows scarce, space is tighter, cars clog roads and pollute the air, and money is disappearing. Zócalo hosts a panel of experts—including architect and University of Washington assistant professor Nicole Huber; writer, curator and former director of the Las Vegas Art Museum Libby Lumpkin; and educator, author and architect Ralph Stern—to discuss how the cities can continue to expand and to mirror each other even as they are forced to spar over dwindling resources.
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REMEMBER THE
ELEPHANTS -SAVE
THEM! Capturing &
Translocating wild elephants! The following
pages are dedicated to the late Abd Rahim B Jaleh who was killed
by a wild male elephant in 1981 in the course
of dutyat an Ayer Hitam
sugar cane plantation May Allah SWT
bless his soul
and the dedicated men & their families
of the Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary
cleared forests
damaged young oil palm tree
even electrified fences
can't keep them out!
even deeply dug moats too!
the ECTU is contacted...
..and the calls are
promptly recorded for action!
The Elephant Capture &
Translocation
Unit or
ECTU was created in
1974 to address the problems of wild elephant
intrusions
into crash crop planted areas owned
by
individuals, private plantation groups such as IOI Berhad, Guthrie
Berhad & semi-government
agencies such as FELDA, FELCRA &
RISDA.
What used to be their natural habitat had
been cleared
and replaced with oil palm, rubber, cocoa,
watermelons, banana
and other crash crops which resulted
in a hard-to-resist
temptation for the wild elephants to raid
these areas during the
late evenings and early mornings unchallenged.
To further protect the
elephants, the ECTU
has been moving
elephants from areas of conflict to permanently
protected areas.
'They never do any harm unless
provoked,
even though they go about in herds, being of all animals
the least solitary in habit.' Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis,
AD 77
In the early days of the
unit before
1974, the method of eradicating the
problem was simply
shooting & killing the elephants on sight
- until the numbers decreased alarmingly
and the unit decided to
manage the problem by using a combination
of scientific and
manual method of translocating
the elephants.
Armed with
dart guns filled with the Immobilondrug,
the rangers would
painstakingly track down raiding elephants on foot and
4WDs,
knock out the intended elephants,
secure
them to trees
using shackles & stainless steel chains
and then use the strength
of tamed working elephants to drag out
their captured wild
cousins onto trucks before
releasing the
problematic
elephants to bigger and safer jungle reserves.
The team also operated on
an activity-based
approach long before
the setting up of Kuala
Gandah Elephant Conservation Centre.
The men had to camp in areas where there
were problems for as
quick as 1 month and as long as 2 years
in one place where they took turns
in taking leave to be with their loved
ones.
Instead of using chains, they used jute ropes and used the direct
approach
in
capturing wild elephants - riding on tamed
elephants, wading into
the wild herds and
throwing lassos
onto the smallest elephants they could get.
This method was stopped as
it was unsuccessful due to the complications
arising from the local terrain
and replaced with the
method of darting wild elephants with
powerful drugs and
using tamed elephants to lead and drag
lightly
sedated
wild elephants onto waiting trucks.
So far, between 300 to 500
wild elephants have
been removed from
their steadily shrinking habitats to their
new homes in
Taman Negara
in Pahang & Terengganu,
Upper Royal Belum
ForestsReserve
in Perak & Endau-Rompin State Park
at the
Johore/Pahang borders.
In the course of
these translocation, the unit has suffered
one death of
its rangers, several seriously
injured
personnelwhile about 40 wild elephants due to stress since 1978
The financial costs,
resources &
manpower required makes the
translocation a difficult, dangerous
and
expensive process. Any takers out
there?
Wild elephant translocation must be painstakingly
prepared
& executed with expert skills and knowledge.
One must also have a cool head when
a 4 ton giant charges
at almost 40kph
through the dense jungles!
In the hot, humid and shady environment,
detecting a
wild elephant is
very difficult and dangerous.
Elephants can be unpredictable ;
in particularly a young
male elephant may be aggressive
and charge
in an attempt
to exert its authority!
Immobilon
is used to bring down an elephant at a distance of
not less than 10 metres
; this means the
dart man has to
skillfully and quietly make his way close
to the
intended elephant
while being protected by two .458 rifle
totting colleagues,
in case the elephant charges.
Applying Immobilon is itself a highly
dangerous work where a drop of this powerful drug can
cause a man to gointo coma almost
immediately if
exposed to an open wound!
The standard amount used is usually 4cc
of Immobilon which should
be enough to bring down an adult elephant. It
usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes for
the drug to
be effective onto the elephant.
Once the elephant has been darted, it it
usual for the elephant
to try and pull out
the dart while sending cries of help to its herd.
This is a most
dangerous time when the
elephant may charge at full speed.
All
the while, the
rifle team is in contact with the 2nd team
of chainmen - about 150 metres away - using
walkie talkies.
It is also noted that darting an elephant
also depends much
on the terrain
- swampy areas are a NO
GO as the elephant
might drown even under a foot of
water and the riflemen might
also be bogged down in case the elephant
makes an about
turn and attack the team!
The area of the hunt should also contain
enough big trees
to secure
the sedated elephant and for
the team's
protection against attacking elephants.
All the men are always
in jungle camouflaged
uniform and wearing
laced up jungle boots.
" You will die
a thousand times over and over again "
when you hear the growling of an enraged
wild elephant,
not knowing where
it is lurking and coming
in from the dense and humid green
hell!
Total silence is of upmost priority!
elephant droppings
elephant foot print
applying the dangerousImmobilon
he's on to it
......and
down it goes!
eyes wide shut!
it's booked and cuffed
the team
works together
to ensure that the chains hold the
elephant
...while making sure that
it's protected
from the heat of the sun
Once the targetted elephant is darted, it
will slowly move away
while sounding the alarm bell to the rest
of the herd.
The leader of the herd, which is the matriarch,
will always
lead the rest of the herd away ensuring
that all the
smaller elephants are protected all the
time.
The rifle team will
slowly followed
the trails left by the darted elephant and once found,
the 2nd team - the
chainmen - will quickly do their job of ;
1. Ensuring that the darted elephant lies
down in a correct position
where there should not be
any
protruding rocks or wood against the
elephant's side as this will
most likely cause both the elephant's
lungs to crush the
heart. Rangers must accurately take note of breathing sounds of the
slumped
elephant which will determine
whether or not the airway is restricted. If it is, they will have to
apply
heart stimulant drug to ensure
that the animal will continue
breathing normally.
2. In the meantime, the
riflemen will stand
guard in case the rest of
the herd, particularly the
young
aggressive males, will come charging
to protect their darted colleague.
3.
The chainmen will quickly secured the
front legs of the dartedelephant
to a big tree while
preparations
to revive it will be doneusing
a dose of the Revivon
drug which will be injected behind theelephant's
ears.
To increase the spread of
the reviving drug, flapping of the ears aredone
thus speeding up blood
circulation.
rangers stand guard against possible attackes from the
herd
down but not out!
Revivon - the reviving drug
the hunter becomes the savior
wha? wh?
where am i?
The whole process
is very military-like
with precision timing and demands absolute courage, committment,
discipline, sacrifices and unflappable understanding!
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Mora ♥
Training your pitbull by Positive Methods Z4FVKZAPZJXAI would be not be working but relaxing in the sun if I was given a nickel for every opinion I have heard about the pitbull being a dominant breed and needing to know 'who's boss' or to be shown a 'forceful hand'. If you start right, a pitbull [...]
Training your pitbull by Positive Methods
For quite some time now Pitbulls have been excelling in the filed of agility. As with many dog sports, the field of 'Agility' has its commonly accepted regular achievers. These are generally the dogs belonging to herding breeds such as Shelties and Border Collies who are considered to be agile and fast. The Pitbull is [...]
The Activities of pitbulls: The Agility of a pitbull
The sad deficiency in patience and knowledge is in short, the reason for bad pitbull Training. These two qualities are the sum of what is required for training. Acquiring knowledge and developing patience is a simple answer, but not so easy to implement. Knowing and Applying knowledge correctly are Two Different Things By using leash [...]
Reasons Most People are Bad at pitbull Training
Though referring to puppies in the title, this information can be implemented with pitbulls of all ages that have had no training. Positive reinforcement is a much neglected area of pitbull training. It can take several forms and we are discussing a couple here. What are negative and positive reinforcement? In positive reinforcement we reinforce [...]
Training of pitbull Puppies
This is the last lesson will explain how to teach a pitbull to track motivated by drive, how to focus upon building drive, and also how to move on to a further level of difficulty. A good friend that helps train your pitbull – Drive. For all the different facets of a dog's training, drive [...]
Tracking with a pitbull Terrier – Part Four
Here we will review the common mistakes that crop up at this is the point of the pitbull training and deal with them so we could progress. By this time you should have invested in a tracking harness and a strong long line for all weather. Either a cotton lead of fifty feet or a [...]
Tracking with a pitbull Terrier – Part Three
Part 1 of this title discussed the prerequisites of your dog to be an excellent tracking dog, equipment needed, and also a basic overview. Building Drive When you have a helper at your tracking course end, you develop the pitbulls's drive. We talked also of allowing the dog to see the helper running away. The [...]
Tracking with a pitbull Terrier – Part Two
Question 1 At what age should my pitbull start training? Answer If you use positive training you could start even at seven weeks, but formal obedience lessons should be at 4 to 6 months. Note: A dog should understand behaviour to learn it. Teaching a seven week pup to keep to heel is not realistic [...]
Frequently Asked Questions on Training a pitbulll Terrier
Have you wondered when you see for instance a country dog obeying without question its master who is not using a special collar or leash, why such owners seem to own a 'magic touch'? Or is it that those dogs are just smarter? The secret lies in how you raise your puppies…. What About you're [...]
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Detailed information
(We also offer an installment plan for students to manage their course fees whilst studying.)
Type:
Courses
Method:
Online
Accreditation:
Quality assured by the OLQA Synopsis
This Quality Assured Level 3 Diploma in Business Management can prepare the student for taking up a new management role. It is also ideal for those who would like to develop and hone their skills within an existing management role. It provides detailed learning on a range of relevant management topics, combining theoretical background with the practical tools, interpersonal techniques and communication formats needed for everyday managers.
The course examines changes in management practice against the context of the changes in the UK and global economy, and will be of particular interest to those needing to practice management skills on a day-to-day basis. Throughout, the student is encouraged to use the ideas both in the context of their own experience and through a case study.
Course Content
Module One - What is management?
This module will introduce the student to modern concepts of leadership and management skills, and how these can change within context. It will examine the way groups develop, and the management role in this process. The module concludes with the first of a range of guidelines in practical management skills, looking at effective delegation.
Module Two - The individual as manager
Focuses on some essential core skills for a manager, with tips and techniques for successful time-management, goal-setting, problem-solving, effective meetings, interviewing and giving or receiving feedback. A range of tools are explored, including mind-maps, SWOT analysis and force field analysis.
Module Three - Structure and environment
An examination of different features and types of organisational structure and the various environments within which organisations operate. This module assesses recent trends such as outsourcing, and the move towards the use of peripheral workers in the UK workforce, and also looks at how to analyse the effects of environment to anticipate organisational change.
Module Four - Managing processes
Considers the internal features of an organisation, including planning and strategy, costs and budgets and the benefits of understanding the processes of a business. Practical advice is provided on facilitation of workshops, in the context of process improvement.
Module Five - Managing projects
The module asks 'What is a project', providing a step-by-step breakdown of the key phases for managing projects successfully. It provides advice on financing projects, and on risk assessment. The 'softer' side of project management is dealt with, providing guidance on understanding team roles and effective brainstorming for group problem-solving.
Module Six - Managing people
Assessing key skills and knowledge required at each stage of the working life-cycle, along with an overview of employer responsibility and key legislation.
Module Seven - Managing diversity
Exploring the increasingly diverse UK workforce and the business case for managing by diversity principles. Key legislation will be examined, including discrimination, human rights and harassment and bullying. Issues around work/life balance are discussed, and the theme of managing a diverse group expanded with an introduction to individual learning styles.
Module Eight - Managing change
Reviewing types of organisational change, managing the change process, dealing with individual resistance and cultural issues. Practical guidance will be given around the use of coaching and mentoring, as a method to facilitate change through development.
Module Nine - Quality and measurement
The use of targets, performance indicators, service level agreements and benchmarking is considered, along with a review of popular quality management systems. Practical advice is provided on negotiation skills.
Module Ten - Ethics and corporate social responsibility
Examining recent trends in corporate governance, environmental issues, business ethics and social responsibility. Practical advice is provided with tips and guidance on making presentations. Finally, the student is taken through a review of the course to reflect on their learning, and to help them set career goals for their next steps.
Do you need clarification regarding the course program? Contact the person in charge , free and at no obligation, for information on how to enroll, enrollment limit/availability and more
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@Sheriff:It's sad when they are afraid of the success of another South African only because he is black. It's frightening to think that Simon would be more comfortable if Pdv was a drunk, not a success. How farked up is that.
And since rugby is not politics(tongue in cheek) he will probably be a COACH FOR LIFE! Having served many "terms in office" as long as he delivers the goods! and in the process he will generate quite good income for Keo so that you can get paid! He is your cash cow…respect my man, respect!
simon would have felt better if pdv was a drug dealer and not a bok coach earning those millions.how the hell can a coloured make millions being a bok coach!elke nag skrik simon wakker,natgesweet en skreeu'fw de klerk,fok jou,jy was n groot doos
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Ultima IV remade as free-to-play Ultima Forever
Quest for the Avatar due this year with online multiplayer, action RPG combat; playable free "start to finish."
Many modern games ask players whether and how to do the right thing, but none quite like Ultima IV, according to BioWare Mythic's Paul Barnett. But the 1985 role-playing game, which is renowned for its system of interacting virtues, has a few rusty hinges and rough edges.
"It's like reading Chaucer," Barnett said in an interview with GameSpot. "The controls are deeply inadequate, the graphics are horrible, the input system is byzantine at best." That's why his team is remaking it with modern trappings--updated graphics, multiplayer, and action RPG combat--and they're making it free-to-play.
Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar is set to launch on iPad and PC later this year. The game, which Barnett said will be playable "start to finish" for free, is the second major free-to-play project from BioWare, the first being Facebook tie-in Dragon Age Legends. He said the team took several lessons from the EA2D project, which was recently discontinued online.
"It had a lot of good ideas in it, it struggled to find a long-term audience, and perhaps was too aggressive with its monetization policy," Barnett said. So instead of "glass walls" preventing advancement through the game, Ultima Forever players will be able to buy additional means of transport or the ability to fast travel through the world.
Ultima Forever will feature the same set of virtues from its 1985 counterpart, but players will find new choices and consequences reflected in the game's fully integrated multiplayer. "Virtue is how you treat other people, in lots of games that's how you treat NPCs," said lead designer Kate Flack. "We want to take that same idea of how you treat other people and then apply it to the players."
She explained the game's mentorship system, through which high-level characters temporarily reduce their level to help with less-experienced friends' campaigns. Mentors grow in the virtue of sacrifice, for helping out on tasks beneath their heroic stature, and mentees grow in humility, for admitting they need help.
Barnett said the game will use Origin's matchmaking services across iPad and PC to facilitate multiplay between small groups of friends. These updates create a delicate balance between adhering to the vision of Ultima creator Richard Garriott, who is not involved in the project, and alterations for BioWare's approach to narrative and usability by a touch-centric generation. Ultimately, he said, the idea is to get back to what has kept Ultima IV a topic of conversation more than 25 years after its release.
"The idea that it's finding out who you are, that there's a difference between who you claim you are and who you actually are in the game," Barnett said. "Hopefully, if we've done it right, what it's actually hearkening back to is that good storytelling that we used to do in the past, when the technology was a lot simpler."
I don't know about this. The reason why I like the original game was because of how personal the quest was. If you put a multiplayer element into it, how will it work? If a party member robs a store, does the whole party lose an eighth?
quote; "Look, it's Paul Barnett. That? crazy British dude that appears in random videos at EA to promote his latest bullshittery. We know him as the crazy British dude who we have no idea of how he still has a job."
@Henrique2324 They already did defile Wing Commander about two years ago. It was called something like "Wing Commander: Armada" on XBLA. It was an arena based combat game that handled like the SNES Mario Kart VS mode... so painful, and had nothing to do with Wing Commander...
To all those "hooray it's free". Ever thought about, why? Well definitely not, because they love you. It's because of money in the long term. In fact they try to lure you to their "me-too-Steam-product" or "all-seeing-eye" called Origin. I guess somebody had the idea: Heck, how do we attract the older players.. well let's heat up an undead brand and hope they'll buy from our Origin or later on some ingame stuff.
Bwahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...and Garriott said the series was pointless. Screw you Garriott!!!! Bwahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhh...we, the fans, were right all along! You threw away the money! Now, all these developers have to do is see that virtuous gameplay still sells. Any rules system can be made into a game, even a virtuous one. That's what made Ultima popular in the first place.Sadly, it looks like an online game (MMO), so I won't be playing it. I still have the original, though. I don't need the new one. When you decide to make a single-player Ultima game in the original Ultima (Lord British) universe, with software on the disc and not an internet download, and not requiring a constant internet connection to play, though, let me know. Then I'll have a look. IN SANCT MANI Ultima !!!
"The controls are deeply inadequate, the graphics are horrible, the input system is byzantine at best." This game is from the 80's and it's MUCH better than anything this Barnett ever made.Turning this into a social MMO blasphemy pot does not undo that.
@gSp0t0210 Aye, as I said, I think the "Lady" moniker is a slap to Garriott from EA. Pretty funny, actually.
And I understand your point about garriott and his british trademark. My point was that, regardless of trademark, if I or you or even Grriott tried to use the "Lord British" moniker/character in any product, EA would have all our asses in slings because of their ownership of the UO franchise.
@mrboone01 If you want to get "real techincal" no one owns the name "lord british" anymore as the copyright expired in 2007, but as everyone knows Lord British as Richard Garriott, they wouldn't want to associate themselves with him.
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1- External URLs are required for sites that are accessible from outside, if one site is accessible by internal URL proxying and not directly from outside don't put External URL for it "leave it blank"
2- Keep external URLs always https, no http.
3- If you are using load balancer with SSL offloading always make internal urls https
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Rent to Own (also called lease option, land contract, contract for deed, lease purchase to buy, seller financing) is usually a written (not oral) arrangement between a prospective tenant/buyer and an owner or agent of the owner of property. In a rent to own deal a tenant/buyer essentially is given the 'right or option' to buy OR with seller financing (the best way) whereby the owner creates the loan for the buyer-in other words the seller is acting as the bank!
A GUARANTEED right or option to buy the property gives the tenant/buyer specific rights as described in a document called 'Lease with Option to Purchase'
The scope of the Home Owner/Seller can:
Finance the tenant/buyer (seller financing)
Establish an agreed upon price to sell to the tenant in the future.
Apply all or a portion of the lease purchase money (lease purchase credits) towards the purchase or
as a down payment.
Create a land contract (contract for deed)
Give an option to buy the property
Benefits (pros) of lease purchase Housing
There are several benefits of a lease purchase home program:
Rent to Own allows you to move into your own house with a relatively small down payment
Once you are in the house the landlord may work with while you make steps to improve your credit, to eliminate bad debts, and to save for a sufficient down payment.
You can treat a rent to own purchase like your own home and decorate or remodel.
A rent to own home allows you the opportunity to 'give it a try' before you make a long term decision.
Disadvantages (cons) of Rent to Own Home Programs
Tenant/Buyer may not have actual title to the real estate. Title determines ownership.
Most rent to own home purchase agreements are for a short period of less than 5 years, at which point tenant/buyer/optioner must obtain a mortgage loan.
If a mortgage cannot be obtained by the due date there is great risk of losing the home, any rent to own credits, plus any down payment or option money.
The seller can sell the house even while you are living in it.
Since the house is not in your name the owner can borrow against it.
The owner may have legal problems that can encumber the house with liens
How Do You 'Rent to Own' a House?
The tenant/buyer and owner agree on terms (price, payment amount, rto credits, responsibilities of repairs) and sign an agreement. That agreement can be a Lease Agreement with an addendum 'Option To Purchase'. If seller financing is involved the parties may sign a 'Land Contract', also called a contract for deed. The best way to buy is to get the deed. It is the most difficult but gives the buyer the best protection. Most real estate investors would not buy any other way.
It is strongly recommended that tenants entering into a lease purchase or lease purchase to own agreement follow sound advice, such as consult legal counsel, perform a background check on the owner as it is quite common for strangers to fraudulently sell houses they don't own (yes it does happen). At the minimum a buyer should order a title report and a tax and legal report. All real estate agreements carry significant legal ramifications and appropriate legal representation is strongly recommended before signing anything.
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Handcent is pretty good. The only thing I don't like is that when I receive popup notifications from group messages, it just shows a play button arrow instead of the message. Very strange. It also has the same issue with sending videos because I use it as my main text messaging app (by the same issue, I mean the issue this topic is about, not the issue I just mentioned with group messaging).
I really wanted to give go SMS a try, but it was going very slowly, basically freezing, during group messages when there were a lot of texts. So when people would send me tons of messages at once it would be impossible to reply until they were finished talking. That doesn't really work for me so I'm sticking with handcent for now.
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According to Us Weekly, the star began the evening wearing a floor-length beaded gown (which, by the way, she had borrowed, not purchased, and which was valued at $1,750), but by the time she returned the dress, it was half its original length," a source told the magazine. "But what bouncer has scissors? She turned it into a mullet! Only a fashiony person would do that! " said the source. "She's out of control and behaving really badly." reputation is well-known.
She has repeatedly proved that she know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
I hope she gets sues for the cost of the dress and that people stop enabling
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The small country of Comoros is situated in the East part of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Over the years this country territories have been repeatedly invaded by numerous other people and groups like those from the coast of Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar and Persian Golf. Even the Portuguese explorers have visited this country in the early 16th century. All these people left their mark over the Comoros cuisine by bringing with them all kind of ingredients and flavors. Some of the influences brought by these people are still being used nowadays in the Comoros cuisine. French people left as well their mark over the Comoros traditional cuisine during the colonization period. Also the Arab people came on this lands and introduced to the Comoros cuisine many different types of spices and exotic ingredients as well as a new way of preparing rice steamed with spices, the usage of cloves, saffron, cinnamon and pomegranate juice.
Anyone who decides of visiting the beautiful country of Comoros must know that here they can find a culinary paradise. This thing is possible only because of all the people like French, Arabs or other African people, that came on this lands and left their mark over the Comoros cuisine. A typical Comoros meal should always contain rice and meat, seasoned with one of the many locally produced ingredients like vanilla, coriander, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Also very famous in this country are fish dishes like the one called "Langouste a la vanille" a very rich dish made with lobster boiled in vanilla sauce. Anyone who wants to try a very stodgy dish can always have a stew made with all kind of Indian ingredients and vegetables like curries, chapattis, Lentil soups and a large variety of pickles. On this island there can be easily found and used in cooking any dish all kind of exotic ingredients and fruits like peppers, maize, chiles, tomatoes, bananas, pineapples, limes and oranges.
Preparation methods for Comoros cooking imply using methods like baking, boiling, roasting, spicing or mashing. Comoros cuisine uses elements from various cooking traditions borrowed from their neighbors and developed from their own traditional dishes. While there are no specific or unique preparation methods for Comoros cooking, we should point out that attention to detail is important in the Comoros cuisine. Using the right amount of spices for example is essential – either for spicing up the taste or for coloring the dish. The diversity of vegetables and cereals found in Comoros Comoros's regions. Meat is one of the main elements of most Comoros dishes and cured and smoked hams are often parts of delicious dishes.
Most of the Comoros equipment for cooking is traditional ones. Manly this equipment is hand crafted and woods is the prime material used. Still, besides this tools many more are used ranging from cake pans, can openers, colanders, egg rings, poachers and holders, food dishers & portioners, food pans & food containers. Other kitchen utensils, such as food scales, food scoops and fryer baskets & accessories, are being used in the Comoros cuisine in order to produce the most sophisticated Comoros dishes. You should consider insulated food carriers if you are transporting the food and a full set of kitchen linens and uniforms if you wish to look like a pro. Here are a few other items that will come handy while cooking Comoros food: juicers, kitchen knives, kitchen slicers, kitchen thermometers, measuring cups & measuring spoons, miscellaneous utensils, mixing bowls and skimmers & strainers. Essential utensils like serving spoons; spatulas, forks, turners, scrapers and tongs should also be part of your cooking "arsenal".
The Comoros island is an Islamic country with many traditional festivals and yeacelebrations endlong the year. Some of the most important public holidays are: Eid al- Adha or so called the feast of sacrifice held on 21st of January, Muharram or the Islamic New Year on the 10th of February and the Christmas Day on 25th of December. Other important celebrations are Ashoura, Anniversary of the Death of President Said Mohamed Cheikh, Independence Day and Eid al-Fitr that celebrates the end of Ramadan. These Muslim celebrations are held with a lot of pomp and good food. Comoros cuisine is complex and with deeply rooted traditions. Manly during any celebration light dishes with fish or poultry are served. Soups are very famous here during festivals as well as salads served with spicy and salty sauces.
Skilled chefs of Comoros are creatively using and mixing the basic traditional ingredients and cooking method in order to produce the most delicious and original food variations. Comoros chefs are passionate about their traditional dishes and they enjoy presenting them to foreigners who has never tasted them before. Whether they are cooking dishes that go back in time for centuries or brand new, modern dishes, Comoros chefs take pride in what they do, and this is readily noticeable in the unforgettable taste of their cooking.
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Studying the Pleasure Center of the Brain
by Suzanna Engman
photos José V. Camacho
When drug addicts receive pharmacological and psychiatric therapy in a rehabilitation facility, they often respond quickly to detoxification and begin a drug-free period. However, the home environment is fraught with cues that spur a craving for drugs, and memories of drug use threaten recovery. Now new research at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras has detected two naturally occurring neuropeptide-hormones that can be manipulated to perhaps help prevent drug abuse relapse.
The neuropeptide-hormone vasopressin is needed to form drug/environment associative memories. If it can be blocked, the memories might be avoided. The other neuropeptide-hormone, oxytocin, can reduce the anxiety a recovering addict feels upon return to an environment that provokes drug-use memories. Without the anxiety, a recovering addict would be more likely to resist drug use. These findings are part of the continuing research of Carmen S. Maldonado-Vlaar, Ph.D., a biologist specializing in behavioral neuroscience and the neurobiology of drug addiction.
Intracranial surgery in Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar's lab to implant two cannulae, tubes that serve to deliver drugs directly to a specific area of the brain. The professor and student researchers are studying the effects of two nuropeptide-hormones on rats' ability to remember environmental cues associated with drug use. Rats' brains are analogues to human brains, and rats respond similarly to drugs, drug addiction, and drug addiction relapse.
"To understand addiction, you have to approach it with a bio-psycho-social model. In our laboratory, we focus more on the bio-social approach because we use animal models that mimic drug use scenarios found in our society," she says. Maldonado-Vlaar's laboratory researchers experiment with the rat because its brain is a tiny analogue to the human brain. Weighing in at barely two grams, this rodent's brain has many of the same basic parts with the same functions as the much larger human counterpart, which weighs about 1,500 grams.
The biology of addiction involves several neurotransmitters. Among them the most studied is dopamine. "Every time you experience pleasure, there is a release of dopamine in the brain. It doesn't matter if it is drug related. Food, sex—anything that makes you feel good, that gives you pleasure—has the potential to become addictive. For example, jogging can be addictive. People become anxious when they can't do it. And uncontrollable gambling can also be described as an addiction. Shopping is also an addiction. Our whole society is vulnerable to addictive behaviors."
Pleasure can result from pleasant experiences such as food, friendships, fantasies, or even altruistic behavior. Memories themselves bring pleasure. Scientists have recently observed that the molecule associated with pleasure, dopamine, is released before the pleasurable event rather than afterwards as was previously believed. Instead of being a reward, dopamine is part of a mechanism that focuses our attention on an event we imagine to be pleasurable, and this is based on learning.
Professor Maldonado-Vlaar focuses her research on an area of the brain that is part of the dopamine mesolimbic system. In particular, she examines the nucleus accumbens, a collection of neurons located within both hemispheres of the forebrain. Her studies also take into account the social context, particularly the environmental component, and its relation to drug relapse. She and her student researchers measure neurochemical and neuroanatomical changes that occur when a subject learns to associate an environmental cue with cocaine. They also examine the neurochemistry and neuroanatomy of the rat's brain during relapse—after a prolonged period of abstinence—to examine what modulates the release of dopamine and other neurotransmitters associated with cocaine addiction.
"Within this mesolimbic system, several neurotransmitters interact with dopamine and regulate its release. In our lab we try to address these other neurochemical candidates, in particular those involved in learning to associate an environment with the drug. Thus far we have found different neuropeptides in the brain that seem to modulate dopamine release in the accumbens when learning affiliated with drugs occurs, in particular cocaine addiction. Specifically, the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin, which also act as hormones in the brain, are crucial for the appropriate functioning of our nervous system," says Maldonado-Vlaar.
An antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin regulates water balance and is a vasoconstrictor and blood pressure regulating agent. Other researchers have found that vasopressin also has the capacity to help with learning and memory. "However, we are the first to show that vasopressin is needed for learning to associate an environment with cocaine use. This is the first time that a hormone related to peripheral endocrine functions has been observed to be involved in memory processes that trigger cocaine addiction. This finding was part of the doctoral thesis of one of my students, Enrique Rodríguez."
Maldonado-Vlaar and her students will soon submit a paper on their findings to the Journal of Neuroscience, the premiere journal in the field, and are continuing their investigations with experiments that prevent vasopressin reception. "Our focus will be on using drugs that can perhaps block vasopressin receptors, in this case to avoid the learning affiliated with cocaine and the environment."
Another line of Maldonado-Vlaar's research, co-investigated with undergraduate student Janitza Montalvo, looks at the role that oxytocin could play in prevention of addiction relapse. Oxytocin stimulates milk release during lactation, uterine contractions during labor, and genital contractions in both women and men during orgasm. The neuropeptide-hormone also has an anxiolytic effect. In other words, it reduces anxiety. "Two years ago I went to the Society of Neuroscience Annual Convention to look at the role of neuropeptides in drug addiction and other behaviors. Dr. Eric Hollander in psychiatry at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine was giving oxytocin intranasally to autistic patients to help them with social anxiety. It worked, actually, without any severe side effects. We thought, this is interesting. People get anxious when they are exposed to drug cues, what if oxytocin could reduce anxiety affiliated with cocaine use?"
Maldonado-Vlaar and her students designed an animal conditioning model that simulates a recovering cocaine addict's experience when returning home from a rehabilitation facility. They trained the lab rats to associate an environment with cocaine treatment for several days. Following these training sessions, the rats had a session free of training and then were tested in the cocaine-related environment without the drug present. Animals exposed to cocaine cues were more anxious than the control animals. However, when oxytocin was infused directly into the rats' brains, they relaxed and showed decreased anxiety.
Several pharmaceutical companies, intrigued by these results, have come to the poster presentation sessions of Maldonado-Vlaar's work. "It is possible to provide a natural alternative at the clinical level for both men and women who want to deal with the anxiety related to drug abuse," she says. The researcher believes that vasopressin and oxytocin therapy can be used to treat addictions to a variety of drugs. In the future, her studies will be aimed at further examining the effects of pharmacotherapeutical agents that target these neuropeptide-hormones as possible venues for cocaine abuse treatment.
Scientists view drug addiction as a chronic disease that needs to be continuously monitored and treated. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug addiction is a mental illness. The NIDA Web site states:"[A]ddiction changes the brain in fundamental ways, disturbing a person's normal hierarchy of needs and desires and substituting new priorities connected with procuring and using the drug. The resulting compulsive behaviors that override the ability to control impulses despite the consequences are similar to hallmarks of other mental illnesses."
"The director of NIDA, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, is a true believer that drug abuse is a chronic disease," Maldonado-Vlaar says. "The brain of a person changes dramatically with drug abuse. For example, alcohol disinhibits a person emotionally and increases aggression because it increases levels of serotonin in the brain.
"Alcoholics and drug addicts need to be treated for their entire lives. The question is, how do you avoid being exposed to these things when your body is wired to feel pleasure? Feeling reward and pleasure is related to survival."
Students Jimena Marino and Nelson E. Caraballo examine thin slices of a rat brain to see if the cannulae were properly aligned when implanted in the nucleus accumbens during intracranial surgery (see photo above).
Professor Carmen S. Maldonado-Vlaar first combined her interests in psychology and biology when she earned her B.S. at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras in the Department of Psychology/Biology. Her research in these two fields became more intertwined as she earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology specializing in behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern University and then continued as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neuropharmacology at The Scripps Research Institute. She returned to UPR-RP as an assistant professor in 1999 and is now a full professor.
You don't have to be around Maldonado-Vlaar long to realize that she has a lasting fascination with both the life and works of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Maldonado-Vlaar says that she has identified with Frida ever since she was 15 years old, when her father, a UPR professor of political science, took her to the Mexican Museum of Anthropology and to Casa Azul, a museum featuring Frida's work. Like Frida, Maldonado-Vlaar often dresses in outfits that resemble Mexican Tehuan attire and wears indigenous Mexican–style silver jewelry. Her office is filled with copies of Frida's paintings, many of which are gifts from her students. Even her computer monitor screen saver features rotating images of Frida's works.
Maldonado-Vlaar has 8-year-old fraternal twins, one of whom is autistic. In her continuing personal study of neurobiological bases of autism, she encounters the same merging of psychology and biology because the etiology of autism is both psychiatric and neurological. The two boys present challenges to the balance of motherhood and research, but Maldonado's husband and family are supportive. She has succeeded thus far and has been able to continually make contributions to the knowledge bank of the neurobiology of addiction.
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He means in MoP. In an old build OoC affected nourish but they are changing it to the cata way probably because it isn't worth nourish being free. It is a really cheap spell and saving it to spend on a more expensive one would be better.
It affected Nourish in Wrath and it was a bug in the start of (one of the earlier patches, only lasted a few weeks) Cata where it affected it as well twhich was well annoying. Perhaps they had it affect it again, but decided to go against it.
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Tommy Chong Is (Shockingly) Pro-Medical Pot Now That He Has Prostate Cancer
Tommy Chong, one half of the legendary comic stoner duo Cheech and Chong, recently revealed that he's fighting slow-growing prostate cancer...with a little help from an old friend.
"I've got prostate cancer, and I'm treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," Chong told CNN. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Chong revealed that he has slow stage one prostate cancer to CNN. He told the station that he started having symptoms of the cancer around 2003 when he was sent to prison for selling drug paraphernalia. However, he was only diagnosed with cancer about a month ago.
He went out of his way to point out that he had not been smoking for three years before he started having prostate problems: "So I know it had nothing to do with cannabis."
Chong isn't actually toking up anymore at the ripe old age of 74, but he is still taking hemp oil at night. "I'm taking it as a medicine," he told CNN.
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Parent Resources
The most important thing to remember is reading shouldn't be a chore! Young adults do a surprising amount of passive reading everyday so don't worry too much when your teen comes home, rolls his or her eyes and says, "I don't read books." Teens might not find themselves trapped into reading books everyday but you can bet they flip through magazines, spend hours reading about their friends' lives on Facebook or other social media networks and even read page after page of instructions and character bio pages while playing their video games!
It's a new world out there and technological skills and literacies are just as important as the old standard.
If you are trying to get your son or daughter to pick up a book, sometimes finding the right book is a bit of a process. Your teen definitely needs to be an active participant in this process! The classics are great for teens that have an interest in them however Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities might not appeal to a youth who enjoys fast-paced movies, cars and video games like Need for Speed.
You can check out Novelist to try to find read alikes if you know your teen has read and enjoyed a certain series or author. Or take a look at some of the cool booklists we've developed for teens.
We have a self-help section in the Teen Zone that has a selection of books that could help you learn about sexual health and pregnancy issues. Check out the YA Self-Help collection next time you're in the library. (Pay attention to the books by Jeanne Warren Lindsay in particular!)
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Walking is one of Britain's favourite leisure activities, and with "50 Walks in London" you can find a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities - from the casual walker to the experienced hiker. The book features all the practical detail you need, accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history and wildlife of the area, as well as other local points of interest. All walks are annotated with places to visit along the way: 'While You're There', featuring churches, country houses, museums, villages and towns. Each walk also has refreshment information: 'Where to Eat and Drink', including tea rooms and pubs, with extra details on their character and the food on offer. A 'What to Look For' panel features more specific details of urban and industrial heritage, flora and fauna. Every walk is given a summary of distance, time, gradient, level of difficulty, type of surface and access, landscape, dog friendliness, parking and public toilets
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On Tuesday, the leader of the world's largest democracy will be decided for the next four years — a decision not to be taken lightly. Already, nearly 40 percent of registered voters in Lowndes County have cast their ballots, and Election Day will most likely see at least another 20 percent or more at the polls.
But why vote? Why do Americans spend so much time and energy on elections? Generally speaking, it's because we can.
The mere fact that citizens can vote, regardless of race, gender, or religious preference, sets America apart from many nations. Some countries have mandatory voting, with penalties for not casting a ballot. Others color code the ballots and hold the elections in public, ensuring that the electorate is intimidated into voting a certain way. There are countries where women cannot vote, or where those with a religious preference different from the ruling powers are denied that right. The citizens of countries denied the right to elect their leadership envy America, and envy the freedoms Americans enjoy.
Unfortunately, one of those freedoms is also the freedom to not vote, even by those who are registered to do so. Many local elections have been decided by a very slim margin of just a few votes, so those thinking their vote doesn't matter are wrong in that assumption.
We live in a country where every vote counts; where the basic right to vote has been protected by those who fight to protect our freedoms and liberty.
Don't waste that precious right. Vote on Tuesday if you haven't already and exercise a precious freedom that is unknown to much of the world
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Whitley Castle near Alston
Through Natural England''s Higher Level Stewardship Scheme permissive footpaths have been created to link the South Tyne Trail and Railway with the Pennine Way. The permissive footpath also passes a Grade II listed 17th century Bastle. Bastle''s were fortified farmhouses built at the time of the Borders Reivers. The Bastle has been consolidated with a grant from Natural England to preserve it for future generations. Open access has also been provided on Whitley Castle Roman Fort, one of the best preserved Forts in the North East. It is thought that this Fort was situated on the route of the Maiden Way, a Roman road between the Brough/Penrith road at Kirkby Thore, near Appleby, and Carvoran Roman Fort on Hadrian''s Wall.
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This Book support resilience and recovery. Accessible and practical, this useful guide is filled with all the activities needed for individual sessions--packaged in an easily reproducible format.
What People Are Saying
From the Publisher
"This much-needed book effectively argues for the use of structured activities as the basis for exploring trauma-specific questions in clinical work with traumatized children and adolescents. Numerous examples of children's artwork enhance the book and illustrate the effectiveness of the treatment. The authors' methods have been used successfully for many years and represent a major contribution to the study of trauma that will be welcomed by both students and seasoned practitioners"
—Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, LICSW, RPT-S, Professor of Social Work Emerita, Fordham University Author: Play therapy with Children in Crisis, 3rd ed.
"In the sea of rhetoric about trauma-informed care, What Matters Most delivers answers that will make a difference to young people right now. This book equips professionals working at all levels with young people impacted by trauma to do their work differently, incorporating one fundamental principle that stands above all else: this work is not about doing to children, but being with children, and empowering them in their own healing journey. From neuroscience to relational practice, this book is the most compelling and practical story about trauma treatment told to date."
—Kiaras Gharabaghi, Ph.D, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
"The authors provide a clear theoretical framework AND demonstrate practical sensory-based activities so kids can discover and reconnect with their bodies' agency and vitality. Refreshingly, this vehicle creates an emotionally safe journey for the child into the mystery of the experiential, embedded in implicit memory. It's chock full of invitations to explore self-impressions and worldview in a way that children feel seen; not assessed."
—Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. originator and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and author of Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice & Maggie Kline, MS, LMFT, School Psychologist, SE Faculty, co-author of Trauma through a Child's Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids
"This book is a page-turner, a comment usually reserved for action novels. Rich with recent neuroscience findings, the impact of trauma on the brain, case studies, and specific interventions, Working with Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents is a must-have resource for anyone who works with and cares about young people of any age. As a foster care survivor and now a college professor, I am grateful for Dr. Steele's contribution."
—John Seita, Ed.D., School of Social Work, Michigan State University
"Building on years of developing and researching structured sensory interventions, the authors share poignant stories of resilience, integrate findings from neuroscience and empirical studies, and offer simple and effective interventions that build safe and secure relationships for grieving and traumatized children and teens."
—Anne L. Stewart, Ph.D., Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University, President, Virginia Association for Play Therapy
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Federal Conservation Service Corps being established
Federal Conservation Service Corps being established
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Leaders of eight federal departments and agencies announced that they have signed an agreement setting up a national council to guide implementation of the Obama administration's 21st Century Conservation Service Corps (21CSC) – a national collaborative effort to put America's youth and returning veterans to work protecting, restoring and enhancing America's great outdoors.
By signing the Memorandum of Understanding finalized Jan. 10, the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, as well as the EPA Administrator, Chair of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service and Assistant Secretary for the Army (Civil Works) established the National Council for the 21CSC—fully implementing the first recommendation of the America's Great Outdoors Initiative introduced by President Obama in 2010.
"The President's America's Great Outdoors Initiative is helping to connect Americans from all backgrounds with the recreational, economic and health benefits of our nation's extraordinary natural resources," said Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. "The 21st Century Conservation Service Corps will help prepare the leaders of the future by providing youth with valuable opportunities for recreation, career development and service to their community and their Nation."
The 21CSC focuses on helping young people – including diverse low-income, underserved and at-risk youth, as well as returning veterans – gain valuable training and work experience while accomplishing needed conservation and restoration work on public lands, waterways and cultural heritage sites. It builds on existing partnerships with youth conservation corps across the country to engage thousands of young Americans in hands-on service and job training experiences on public lands and community green spaces, the Obama administration suggested.
"Our federal lands and waters are vital to the health and well-being of Americans," said Jo Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army (Civil Works), who oversees the Corps of Engineers. "The 21CSC will expand the Corps' capacities to conserve and maintain these areas, and provide youth and veterans with meaningful work, education and exposure to the outdoors."
Make sure those youngsters don't use any power tools, ladders over 6 feet, get near wild animals, or walk anywhere they may slip and fall. Wouldn't want the Dept. of Labor getting mad at their own people.
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A series of encryption algorithms published by RSA Security; all developed by cryptography pioneer Ron Rivest. (Rivest Cipher 2, or Ron's Code 2 = RC2) All of them are important commercial implementations of symmetric key cryptography where the entity that encrypts and the entity that decrypts both must know the same key.
RC2 was developed as a replacement for DES (Data Encryption Standard) and has been in widespread use in a number of commercial software packages, for SSL and S/MIME implementations, and others. It has had an historical advantage over its competitor, DES, in that, until the laws were liberalized in 2000, along with RC4, it had special export status. In order to be exported a relatively short key length, a weak implementation of 40 bits had to be used. E-mail and web browser interoperability across country borders was a driving factor.
RC5 is a fast and flexible block cipher. The block size, key length and the number of interations are all variable.
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Visit The Clock Tower for free during the summer
A proud part of our heritage, the Clock Tower is a monument that commemorates the men of the merchant navy that were lost at sea during the Great World Wars of the past century. It was erected between 1919 and 1922 and is characterized by an elegant, « fine arts » style of architecture, as well as by the immense clock face that looks out in four directions. It is worth noting that its clock mechanism, manufactured by the company Gillett and Johnston of England, is almost an exact replica of 'Big Ben' in London. This flagship building acts as the entry to the Old Port, and was frequented quite often by the trans-oceanic commercial ships during first half of the 20th century. At that time, the Clock Tower was also used as a hangar to warehouse the merchandise that made its way to the Quays.
Today, the Clock Tower looks out proudly towards the St. Lawrence River, and invites you to discover, from the observatory atop its 192-step staircase, a spectacular and unparalleled view of the river, the city of Montreal, and the Quays
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Letter to the Hebrews, New Testament letter traditionally attributed to Paul but now widely believed to be the work of a Jewish Christian, perhaps one of Paul's associates. The letter was composed sometime during the latter half of the 1st century. To judge from its contents, the letter was addressed to a Christian community whose faith was faltering because of strong Jewish influences. To fortify Christian beliefs, the author describes the perfect priesthood of Christ, who, unlike the Jewish high priest, offered but one sacrifice as God's own Son, thereby redeeming all of mankind once and for all. The office of the Jewish high priest, by contrast, was filled by a temporary appointee whose imperfect sacrifice had to be repeated over and over. The author concludes that Christianity is consequently superior to Judaism. The Christians are then warned against apostasy and the "fearful prospect of judgment" (10:27) that awaits "the man who has spurned the Son of God" (10:29). They are urged to persevere in their faith following the heroic example of others well known to them. The emphasis on Christ's priestly mediation and statements on faith and the Mosaic Law are not typical of other Pauline writings; other parts of the letter, however, clearly reflect Pauline
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1) Preheat oven to 350°F. Place half of the macaroni in a 9-by-13 inch baking dish lightly coated with cooking spray or oil. Sprinkle with flour, salt and pepper. Dot with 1 Tbs of the butter, cut into bits. In layers add half of the cheese, the remaining macaroni, and them the remaining cheese.
2) In a cup, mix milk and Worcestershire sauce and pour over casserole. Melt remaining butter and mix with bread crumbs. Sprinkle over top.
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This structured course gives an overview of the earliest teachings of the Buddhist tradition. It has been designed by Bhante Sujato and Bhante Brahmali. It is based on the findings of historical scholarship, and explores the contemporary relevance of these ancient teachings. The course consists of six day-long workshops over six months. Each month, readings and meditations will be assigned for the following workshop.
"The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends."
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Tim Mayotte was a very good player back in the 80's, made SF of Wimbledon, Australia, beat Connors in the Queens Club final, remember he had an epic fie setter with Lendl on grandstand at US Open. Mayotte won 12 singles titles was #7 in the world. He worked at USTA National Center but mysteriously was dropped from that job even though he is an excellent coaching mind.
"If you were to look at the lack of length and the lack of rotation in his backhand, it's not creating nearly the amount of racquet head speed that he's capable of."
There's more but Mayotte I think is right. It's a wonder why his team of coaches in Bradenton have not been able to bolster Harry's backhand. If this kid gets a Safin like backhand, he can be a terror in the ATP.
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some one please explain what a barebones repo is? And how I can setup one in my dropbox to store to? There are other questions mentioning to do this, but I can't seem to get a clear explanation of a what a barebones repo is, where to set it up (except for the recommendation of in your dropbox to allow for backup - which is a good idea and why I'm asking) and how to integrate it into my workflow.
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Clippers have been in control for 2 quarters now. Unless they suddenly let up and SA comes out guns blazing from 3 they should have this VERY high quality road win. If Clippers didn't choke last year at the very end with a weird backcourt violation in the first game between these teams they could be winning their 4th in a row against this team... but will settle for 3 considering SA is like 120-30 vs the Clippers all time.
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Where is Surat?
City, southeastern Gujarat state, west-central India. It lies near the mouth of the Tapti River at the Gulf of Khambhat (Cambay). The city is believed to have been founded by a Brahman named Gopi, who...
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Create Your Own Marching Shows
Terms of Service
Overview
This is a privately run website, developed and run by Joe Lesko in his spare time, and moderated by a
small group of volunteer adults (the Captains), many of whom are educators.
Understand that we run a tighter ship than most websites, and have been running it this way since 2007.
If you are a member of other communities, please don't assume that what is okay elsewhere is okay here.
While we can't track everything that is posted here, we do our best to keep MML a positive, high-quality site, where everyone can be creative and generally share their passion
for the marching arts.
Warnings / Bans
There are an infinite number of ways for a person to be disruptive (even unintentionally), so there is no definitive list of rules.
Every situation is a bit different, so we do what we think is right. That might not seem fair, but it's an appropriate level of involvement for a marching band website.
In general, we try to give everyone a fair warning (via profile Wall), but realize that we are decisive about banning accounts if it's clear that someone
is no longer a good fit for the community.
Bans are permanent. So if you get a warning, take it seriously if you want to keep using the site.
Take a deep breath and relax. Most banned members had a fair shot at turning things around, but instead made things worse by getting angry about it.
For Teen Members
We expect you to act mature and put your best foot forward.
We don't waste time with punishments or ultimatums. If you are a teenager, realize that, unlike your parents and teachers in real life,
we don't have to put up with anything we don't want to. There's no safety net here, so play it safe.
Keep the drama on the field, and out of the community. The best way to do that is to stay out of cliques that gossip about other members.
Also, there might be a time when the novelty of MML wears off for you. It just means you're ready to move on or take a break from it.
It's okay to move on. MML is not obligated to keep you entertained for your entire life.
Just don't be that guy that hangs around talking about how everything sucks now, and it was way better when you first joined.
For Adult Members
While there are many other adults here, most of our members are in high school or college. Please set a good example.
Also, it's important to keep your boundaries. For everyone's protection, it's best to avoid
socializing with minors outside of MML, at sites like Facebook. Rule of thumb: You can be friendly, but not Friends.
An incomplete list of things you should NOT do
Swearing.
Lying or being dishonest.
Constant complaining, sarcasm, or being that guy with an "everything sucks" attitude
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well that is gonna work since the knob actually adjusts a preamp resistance in a circuit. the knob is in the middle of a circuit, it recieves signal as well as sending it. The knob may 'confuse' the amps.
Think of it this way; You have a tank of red water and a tank of blue water. these lead to a common tap like garden hose bib that has a hose splitter on the other end with 2 hoses going to 2 empty tanks. If you turn the tap on you can vary the amount of water through it, but can you ensure that you will get red water back out of one hose and blue out of the other, or will you get purple out of both? I'm guessing purple...
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During the last year IFC has ramped up its corporate governance training for smaller businesses in the Middle East and North Africa, part of an effort to spur economic development in the post-Arab Spring.
Boards will confront disputes involving corporate governance issues that they are not equipped to resolve, but few directors see the need to learn about alternative dispute resolution approaches - until they end up with an ineffective board.
Recent research indicates that companies with increased number of women on boards experienced higher business performance. Promoting the presence of women on boards is one strategy step to nurture corporate performance.
About Corporate Governance
Corporate governance refers to the structures and processes for the direction and control of companies. Corporate governance concerns the relationships among the management, Board of Directors, controlling shareholders, minority shareholders and other stakeholders. Good corporate governance contributes to sustainable economic development by enhancing the performance of companies and increasing their access to outside capital.
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My impression (correct me if I am wrong) is that OACS 4 has much of the configuration information is in the database - all set using forms on the admin interface. How do folks track / version control / roll out to production configuration changes such as permissions and other parameter changes? Did the "also dump config information to a file" idea that was tossed around when ACS 4.0 first came out ever get implemented?
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Dad:
[comes in the office as Giselle is doing Blankley's devil child] Can I print my football picks?
Giselle:
Sure, go ahead.
Dad:
[prints his picks then takes the paper and pauses as he looks at Giselle.] You know, you're such a good daughter. You study a lot, you get straight A's, you're pretty, you dress well, you listen, you have no boyfriend, and you're always responsible. [shakes his head] You're such a good daughter.
Giselle:
[looks at him weirdly]
Dad:
So, want to pay for the sushi? I didn't withdraw any cash today. [smiles]
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
You may also want to set your alarm...
The Southern California wildfire season got off to an ominous start Thursday with a massive brush fire in Ventura County that officials fear is just a preview of dangerous months ahead.
The fire showed in dramatic fashion how the region's record dry...
Winds that weather experts said normally arrive in force in the late fall fueled flames in the Springs fire that quickly chewed through 6,500 of acres of dry brush.
William Patzert, a climatologist for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada, said...
Palm Crest Elementary School sits four miles away from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where a team built and developed the Mars rover Curiosity, the largest machine sent to another planet.
But engineers at the La Cañada Flintridge lab may haveAlan Wood never claimed to be a hero, but he did play a supporting role in one of World War II's most stirring moments.
It was at Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. Straining into the wind, five Marines and a Navy corpsman planted the Stars and Stripes on theñada Flintridge bar and restaurant...
As firefighters worked to contain a blaze that charred more than 100 acres in Monrovia, the city's fire chief, Chris Donovan, reminded residents that experts are predicting a "very dry -- and very bad" fire season.
In a prepared statement...
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you are against copyright and the RIAA then how are books different or exempt from this? It's a curiosity for me since the scope of copyright seems to elude many who support free distribution of music and movies but get upset at other forms of piracy...like books.
Indeed. Copyright is a deep dark hole that I don't much care to inhabit and books are in a sort of grey area. Few seem to mention books in the music hububb yet books have even more restrictive copyrights than music does. Until we live in a utopian society I'm happy to buy books and music and tell my friends to do the same.
I have made pdf's of the camel and cookbook that I keep on my laptop which technically violates the copyright agreement but I think I can live with that:)
You can't agglomerate everyone's positions together without finding some contradictions.:) For every 25 drooling, raving anti-copyright person on slashdot, there's always someone there calling them a bunch of drooling, raving lunatics and defending the system.
My belief is that even when I disagree with a law, I should follow it and work for change legally within the system. This means I don't copy music, software, etc. For me, this actually comes up most often with church sheet music. My father is a
-- J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Martin Luther King had great success in intentionally violating certain unjust laws.
How can you possibly relate slavery and civil rights to DCMA and Copyright?
Copyright has always been a grey issue: the limited times provision in the Constitution [cafeshops.com] is open to interpretation so that it can evolve to promote the public interest 200+ years after it was originally crafted.
The issue with Copyright isn't about bad laws per se; it's about a balance between corporate interests and the public interest, and (a
How can you possibly relate slavery and civil rights to DCMA and Copyright?
I wasn't trying to do that. I was simply responding to jdavidb's statement that he thought it best to always obey the law. I think this is a pretty bad blanket position to take if you're at all concerned with achieving social/legal change. That's all.
Whether or not obeying a particular law that you disagree with should be a case-by-base decision. Sometimes there are good ethical reasons to disobey. Sometimes there are good st
No, it's not absolute. I believe, as the Bible teaches, that we ought to obey God, rather than men [goreadthebible.com]. So, yes, I would disobey a law that required me to disobey God or mistreat my fellow man.
-- J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
I would say that, generally, people are not against copyright but the increasingly draconian measures that the RIAA and the like are trying, and suceeding, to make law despite the fact that the existing laws more than cover the problem of copying of copyright material.
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Exploring the Link Between Environmental Noise and Psychiatric Disorder
By Stephen Stansfeld, MBBS, MRCP, MRCPsych, PhD |
June 1, 2006
"Noise" is generally defined as
unwanted sound and is perceived
as a pollutant and an
environmental stressor. As opposed to
sound, noise involves a significant
psychological component in addition
to the physical component of sound
perceived by the ear and transmitted
by the auditory nerve to the temporal
lobe in the brain.
Noise characteristics and levels
Typically, sound is described in terms
of its intensity or sound pressure level,
its frequency, periodicity, and duration.
Sound pressure level is measured in
decibels (dB). Since the human ear
responds differently to different frequency
ranges, filter meters that work
more like the human ear are often used
to measure sound pressure levels; in
such cases, the unit is described as
dBA, which means that a weighted
filter was used.
Sound is also described in terms of
equivalent sound levels (Leq), measurements
that address average noise
levels of fluctuating noises. Other characteristics,
such as the predictability of
the noise, its meaning, and the degree of
personal control over noise, may influinfluence
people's responses. The Table lists
common noises and their sound levels.
Exposure to environmental noise,
including transport, construction, and
industry noise, is increasing. While the
intensity of noise from aircraft and cars
may have diminished, the frequency of
noise events seems to have increased
in recent years, and the amount of the
day without noise has lessened.1
General effects of noise
There are several ways in which people's
everyday functioning is disturbed by
exposure to noise. The most widespread
response to noise is annoyance; this
includes elements of fear, mild anger,
and a belief of being avoidably harmed.2
Reactions of annoyance are often associated
with the degree of interference
that noise causes in everyday activities.
Dose-response relationships between
the intensity of noise and annoyance
from air, road, and rail transport have
been found in a number of studies.3
Severe annoyance typically begins
above 50 dBA to 55 dBA Leq.4
Exposure to noise during sleep has
been related to difficulties in getting to
sleep, changes in sleep stages, and
awakenings.5 While effects of noise
exposure on sleep are evident in laboratory
studies, these effects are more
difficult to demonstrate in community
studies, where residents may habituate
to prolonged noise exposure.6 There is
no evidence that noise exposure, through
insomnia, triggers depressive illness, although
this pathway seems plausible.
There is also limited evidence of
noise affecting pathophysiology, apart
from the issue of noise-induced hearing
loss. In occupational settings, for
instance, there is evidence of raised
levels of catecholamines and cortisol in
persons exposed to very high levels of
noise, typically above 80 dBA.7
Although the evidence is less convincing,
there are some data that show
hormonal responses in relation to environmental
noise. There is also some
evidence that aircraft and road traffic
noise, typically at levels greater than
65 dBA to 70 dBA Leq, is related to a
small increased risk of hypertension and
coronary heart disease.8
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Anyone else find it just a little weird that we're drinking something that was specifically 'designed' for baby animals?
I mean, we stopped drinking our mothers breastmilk when we were like, what, six months... but it's cool to drink a cow's milk?
Yes, guess what. Most of the world's population is lactose intolerant. They get diarrhea when consuming any milk product as adults. It is that unnatural.
Us westerners are just an exception because we, unlike indians or asians, actually have cows, and our bodies adjusted to it over hundreds of generations.
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National Hunt racing is the official name given to the sport of horse racing in the United Kingdom, France and Ireland in which the horses are required to jump over obstacles called hurdles or fences...
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British IslesKempton Park Racecourse is a horse racing track in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England, which is a western suburb of London 16 miles from the city centre. The site is set in of land....
over a distance of about 3 miles (4,828 metres), and during its running there are eighteen fences to be jumped. The race is scheduled to take place each year, usually on December 26, and features as part of the William Hill
William Hill (bookmaker)
William Hill plc is one of the largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters is in the north London suburb of Wood Green and in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.-History:...
Winter Festival.
The event was first run in February 1937, and it was named in honour of the new British monarch, King George VI
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. The two pre-war runnings were each contested by four horses. The winner of the first, Southern Hero, remains the race's oldest ever winner. After the war the racecourse re-opened, and the event returned in 1947 on a new date –.
The King George VI Chase is now the second most prestigious chase in England, surpassed only by the Cheltenham Gold Cup
Cheltenham Gold CupRecordsCottage Rake was a successful National Hunt racehorse. Breeder was Richard Vaughan from Hunting Hall, Castletown Roche, Co. Cork, Ireland. Before he embarked on his spectacular jumping career he was failed by a vet on three different examinations...
Dr. Michael Vincent O'Brien was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history, according to a worldwide vote hosted by the Racing Post newspaper...
George Beeby was a British racehorse trainer. He was born in Leicestershire on 6 May 1904, the son of a noted horse dealer, and after a short riding career as an amateur began to train there in 1924. In 1936 he bought Hamilton House at Compton in Berkshire and trained there until his retirement inArkle was a famous Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. A bay gelding by Archive out of Bright Cherry, his grandsire was the unbeaten flat racehorse and prepotent sire Nearco. Arkle was bred at Ballymacoll Stud, County Meath by Mrs. Mary Alison Baker of Malahow House, near Naul, County DublinCaptain Christy was an Irish-bred and IrishCaptain Christy was an Irish-bred and IrishBurrough Hill Lad was a top class national hunt chaser of the 1980s winning the Welsh National in 1983 and also winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1984.Trained by Jenny Pitman he is one of the highest rated chasers in history....Jenny Pitman is a former British racehorse trainer and author. She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner, when Corbiere won the race in 1983. She went on to win a second Grand National with Royal Athlete in 1995See More Business was a top-class National Hunt chaser in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won the 1999 Cheltenham Gold Cup as well as the 1997 and 1999 King George VI Chase. He was trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Mick Fitzgerald in two of those races...
Andrew Thornton is a National Hunt jockey. He was born on October 28, 1972 in Cleveland and schooled at Barnard Castle School in County Durham. He rides mainly for Caroline Bailey,Seamus Mullins,Henrietta Knight,Ben Pollock and Richard Rowe.as well as for many other trainers. He is not related toSee More Business was a top-class National Hunt chaser in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He won the 1999 Cheltenham Gold Cup as well as the 1997 and 1999 King George VI Chase. He was trained by Paul Nicholls and ridden by Mick Fitzgerald in two of those races...
Mick Fitzgerald is an Irish National Hunt jockey who rode mainly in Great Britain. He has ridden the winners of the Grand National, on Rough Quest in 1996, and the Cheltenham Gold Cup on See More Business in 1999. He was the stable jockey for Nicky Henderson and was leading jockey at theFirst Gold was a National Hunt racehorse that was trained by François Doumen.The horse won the 2000 King George VI Chase race by a distance of 10 lengths when ridden by Thierry Doumen, beating Florida Pearl into second place. At the time of the win the horse was owned by the Marquesa deEdredon Bleu was a popular National Hunt racehorse trained by Henrietta Knight in Great Britain. In 2000, he won the Queen Mother Champion Chase while ridden by 15-time champion jockey Tony McCoy. He also won the 2003 King George VI Chase and four renewals of the Peterborough Chase from 1998 to 2001Long Run is a National Hunt racehorse owned by Robert Waley-Cohen and trained by Nicky Henderson in Great Britain.-Racing Career:In January 2011, ridden by amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen, the son of owner Robert Waley-Cohen, Long Run won the weather delayed 2010 King George VI Chase at Kempton...
Sam Waley-Cohen is an English National Hunt amateur jockey and businessman.-Early life:Waley-Cohen is the son of businessman, racehorse breeder and trainer Robert Waley-Cohen, nephew of the theatre owner and producer Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen Bt...
Nicky Henderson is a British racehorse trainer. He has been British jump racing Champion Trainer twice.Henderson, educated at Eton College, has been a trainer since 1978, based at Seven Barrows near Lambourn, Berkshireempton Park was closed for racing and used as a reception centre for prisoners-of-war
Prisoner-of-war campThe 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom. The only centre of the disease, in contrast to the three concentrated areas in the 2001 crisis, was on the Wales border with Shropshire...
restrictions, and in 1968 because of frost.
The 1970 running was abandoned because of snow.
The race was abandoned in 1981 because of snow and frost.
The "1995" race took place on January 6, 1996 at Sandown, having been postponed at Kempton due to snow and frost.
It was switched to Sandown in 2005 as Kempton was closed for redevelopment.
The "2010" race took place on January 15, 2011 after Kempton Park's 2010 Boxing Day meeting was cancelled due to snow and frost.
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I have 2 old artillery shells that I'd like to know more about. My father found them in 1954 in our attic. They are 11" high and 3" across at the base. They weigh 5 lbs in their present state. Model ...
How far can a person hear an artillery shot? For example what is the greatest distance a person can hear a shot fired from a M110 howitzer canon? M110 howitzer can fire a shot up to 30Km(18.75 miles ...
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Ben Ashpole – About Entrepreneurship
Advice for getting your startup off the ground
Nontraditional funding, also termed, alternative funding is an intuitive means to gain financial assistance. Funding sources gained by means other than resources such as banks, VCs, angels, or friends and family can typically be lumped into an example of nontraditional funding. Benjamin Ashpole is happy to discuss any or all of these funding opportunities with you, feel free to contact him.
Nontraditional funding examples commonly include federal grants, state grants, crowd-funding, and non-profit funding. Federal grants may come from the Small Business Innovative Research program offered by, for example, the Department of Defense through DARPA. Some states offer matching funds for resident companies, such as with the Indiana Economic Development Council. Non-profit funding consists of funding to provide financial support for a cause, but sometimes it may be used to acquire goods and services from for-profit start-ups. Crowd-funding is a lesser known means of funding derives from people pooling their money together offering financial support, such as through Kickstarter.com. Semi-nontraditional funding often includes collecting contracts from customers prior to the product creation as well as bootstrapping. Any of these methods can be applied boosting the chances of success for a business.
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the purpose of this group is to advance the cause of liberty through education about radical libertarianism and spontaneous activism. this group has no specific format. it's a come-as-you-are social gathering.
this group is no longer associated with the Libertarian Party.
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introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.
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books.google.co.in - Now... Story of the World, History for the Classical Child
Now of The Story of the World: History for theClassical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages weaves world history intoa story book format. Who discovered chocolate? What happened to thegiant Fovor of the Mighty Blows? Why did the Ottoman Turks drag theirwar ships across dry land?
The Story of the World coversthe sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa,China, Europe, the Americas—find out what happened all around the worldin long-ago times. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents andchildren to share together, The Story of the World includes eachcontinent and major people group. Volume 2: The Middle Ages, isthe second of a four-volume series and covers the major historicalevents in the years 400 to 1600 CE, as well as including maps,illustrations, and tales from each culture.
Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests—each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Text Book. Volume 2 Grade Recommendation: Grades 1-6.
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User Review - outdoorsgalAbout the author (2007)
Susan Wise Bauer is a novelist and educator. With her mother, Jessie Wise, she co-authored The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, a book which has rapidly become an educational standard. Susan teaches at The College of William and Mary. She lives in Charles City, Virginia and is currently working on a four-volume history of the world.
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Analysis
Analysis
Analysis is criticaland typically underrated. It's a process where we raise all of the important questions about your situation and answer them together. The goal is to come to a mutual understanding not only about your wants, needs, and goals, but also those of your learners.
We'll ask you questions like:
What business problem are you trying to solve? What business outcomes are you trying to achieve?
How do you envision success? What would you like people to do or believe as a result of training?
What are your most important success factors?
What does your audience already know, do, or believe?
What factors aside from training influence their performance?(Shocking, we know.) But a lot of times a performance problem isn't caused by lack of training!)
What tools and resources do they have on the job to help them perform?
What constraints influence performanceand influence any solution we create? (For example, there's no point in going mobile if no one has a tablet!)
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Starting January 30, 1933 what percentage of timelines have a Nazi Germany of some size continuous with Hitler's?
Knight Of Armenia
January 12th, 2004, 06:13 PM
The problem is that hatred and wrath only can last as long as you're down; it's really hard to preach pure hatred when you've won. In the few timelines where Hitler wins WW2 (honestly, once he fought the USSR AND USA it was a done deal, and some would argue only the USSR), I just can't see a nation whose ideological cornerstone is "Jews and Slavs are bad," when a good percentage of its new borders are filled with Slavs. You can't kill/deport all of them, especially with the fog of war being lifted.
Straha
January 12th, 2004, 07:10 PM
the nazi reich would survive but liberalize but still be fascist
Tyr
January 12th, 2004, 08:22 PM
Well Hitler winning WW2 is a very common ATL so <50%.
However if we are on with alternate dimensions and all that <1%. As said more stuff can go wrong then right.
Tom_B
January 12th, 2004, 08:39 PM
These polls are not particularly meaningful. These questions can be interpreted in two ways.
1] Given a multiverse of possible universes what proportion of those uiniverses have X?
2] Given a very large What If Bulletin Board what % of ATL's posted have X?
The difference between the two is unfortunately huge. Axis Wins comes up over and over but in point of fact I don't think it has 1% probability of happening (and when it does it involves a 1941 or earlier PODs). CSA surviving in the 20th Century is a little better but not a lot and don't get me started on how unlikely CSA as a power (much less a superpower) would be.
But certain fascinations overrule people's sense of proportion.
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January 12th, 2004, 08:57 PM
It is strange that the two most used timelines, (CS and Germany winning) are based on the two wars that generally have one saying, "WHAT were they thinking??"
Dan Guy
January 13th, 2004, 08:20 PM
Well I think despite the number of enemies Nazi Germany almost could have won the war.
The Red
June 29th, 2009, 01:20 PM
Nazi Germanys defeat was inevitable.
Magniac
June 29th, 2009, 04:27 PM
Authoritarian crypto-fascist Germanies? A very slight chance of lasting until now.
Nazi Germany lead by Schicklegruber fighting & winning the war he wanted? ASBish.
BlackWave
June 29th, 2009, 04:28 PM
Nazi Germanys defeat was inevitable.
Meh. Change around a few major circumstances and personalities and they might just have a chance. That's what AH is all about, after all. Unlikely in the circumstances of OTL, but change some things around...
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Carnivorous Bonobos
Tue Oct 14 01:01:09 BST 2008 by Dianagainer
The articles on the bonobos' meat-eating have not been especially enlightening and have been long on hyperbole instead. Chimps hunt cooperatively. Do bonobos hunt that way or not? Chimps sometimes kill a monkey with a bite to the face and then rip it to pieces, sometimes rip it to pieces without the initial bite. How do bonobos compare? Can't tell. Chimps compete among themselves for position in a hierarchy by hitting, biting, and kicking one another. Bonobos engage in sexual behavior -- well that's different. Males dominate females among chimps, while females often gang up to dominate a male among bonobos. That's different, too. So how is it that bonobos are now suddenly NOT cooperative because they eat a little meat?
Carnivorous Bonobos
As I note in the story, the bonobo monkey hunts are cooperative, and they sounded pretty vicious.
In contrast to chimpanzees, which seem to band together for the express purpose of hunting, the bonobos seemed less purposeful about hunting, Hohmann told me.
Another interesting difference between chimp and bonobs is that females seemed to lead a lot of the bonobo hunts. This fits in with their social structure, and it would be more surprising if only male bonobos hunted, Hohmann said.
Carnivorous Bonobos
Fri Mar 05 22:37:21 GMT 2010 by pamgreen
Well maybe chimp hunts look more organized and purposeful because chimps do this fairly often, thus have become "better" at the job. Maybe bonobo don't do it often enough to have become skilled. Maybe not all bonobo troupes do it at all. we know that different troupes of apes and macques will discover or invent some new method of food getting and that method becomes learned by others in the troupe and becomes a "cultural" tradition that spreads and perpetuates. so some troupes have techniques that others in the same species don't have. eg use of anvil rock and hammer rock to crack nuts. washing potatoes in sea water.
So it's possible that those chimps now hunting monkeys have been doing so for several generations and have learned better and better ways of doing it. and possibly the bonobo troupe observed hunting monkeys has only recently discovered this as a food getting method.
The commentator who pointed out that without appropriate tools neither chimps nor bonobo nor humans have the ability to kill a prey their own size or even half their size in a quick and "humane" way. Now I recall that either chimp or bonobo have been observed to use a sharp stick to poke into a nest within a tree of some prey animal, thus spearing and killing that prey and pulling it out on a stick. with some luck in making a stab that is immediately lethal, this might qualify as "humane". more of the time, a blind stab would not be immediately or "humanely" lethal. probably you have to have advanced to fire hardened or stone tipped spears before you could aim and get a quick kill of any prey. a bat of some kind to give blow to head would also do the trick. or a knife to sever a major artery --- that's getting pretty sophisticated in terms of tools and knowledge of your prey's anatomy and biology.
We humans, who do have high tech tools, often raise our future food animals in ways that are far from humane. And our slaughter techniques are not always humane either. remember those videos of downer cows being bulldozed and otherwise mistreated that were shown before the 2008 elections. and remember the horrible crowding of chickens ?
Now in our "advanced" countries, the job of killing prey animals so others can eat them is delegated to a few poorly paid , often poorly educated , workers. It's possible that if the average person had to do their own livestock rearing and slaughering and butchering many such persons would eat meat rarely or not at all. keeping a goat or sheep as family pet and source of milk and cheese and keeping a small chicken flock for eggs might still be acceptable to many people's sensibilities. In the "undeveloped" countries, of course rearing and killing livestock for meat is much more common and I'd guess the skill of the average person at causing death swiftly and "humanely" might vary a lot from one person to another.
Back to orgainzed hunts. Wolves, who get almost all their sustenance by hunting, are extremely well organized and cooperative about doing it. evolution as well as culture (the pack's adults teach the young how to participate). Human beings can be extremely well organized and cooperative in hunting (though some are not so skilled and wind up shooting another hunter rather than the intended prey) and even more organized in warfare (again with occasional mistakes resulting in death from "friendly fire"). Humans can also be well organized in opposing hunting by other humans and in opposing war, though so far these oppositions have seldom won their fights. There have of course been female humans who have been very capable hunt and war leaders, though fewer than males who have done so. maybe female hunt leadership is a handicap for bonobo hunts or the rarity of such leaders means less frequent hunting ? no easy answers to that one.
Social Aggression Verses Hunting
Chimps can be both socially aggressive (within their own group and against other groups) as well as being able to violently take down prey (not that you can 'gently' prey on something living).
If bonobos are never violent towards their own kind, then this would indicate that social aggression and predation can be mutually exclusive. If however they behave violently towards rival bonobo groups, then perhaps they do exhibit a form of social aggression - just not within their own tight-knit social groups. That's assuming that any violence towards other bonobo groups can be considered as a form of 'social' behaviour.
Social Aggression Verses Hunting
Fri Mar 05 22:08:31 GMT 2010 by pamgreen
From what I've read, mostly de Waal and his summaries of field studies by others, when one bonobo troupe meets another in the jungle, they do a bit of posturing and shouting and then they have a real good party = sex and food sharing. So far it has not been observed that any bonobo troupe sends out groups to hunt down and kill members of another troupe. now of course maybe that reflects fewer field megahours of observation of bonobo as compared with chimps. chimps do send out male parties to eliminate male individuals from neighboring troupes. and meetings between troupes are not a jolly good party.
Bonobos
Tue Oct 14 15:38:19 BST 2008 by Rick
For those of you that doubt anyone has suggested we find our "inner bonobo" within ourselves, or who thinks that bonobo behavior is "a natural moral model for man" should read article of the past several years. These types of comments come from reporters/editors, researchers and hippies that see the lifestyle they believe would be good for themselves and society.
From my perspective, the term 'hippies of the forest', 'inner bonobo' as well as other statements have been misleading and put in place because of that person's ideological belief which warped their view of reality.
Bonobos
Wed Oct 29 01:16:53 GMT 2008 by Geoff
I think with the amount of evidence gained over time, Bonobos are GENERALLY more peaceful. BUT...being intellegent, and as seen in other actions, advantagous in nature, the posibility of killing the way they have as in this document was, I think, always there.
Afterall, you could have a commune of a hundred human peace-love'n hippies, with the majority actually wanting peace, but therell always be exceptions within the mix. Plus on the topic of human or ape 'nature'...if humans can make decitions seemingly against their nature, then why not bonobo and other intellegent animals? Might happen to differing degrees with different creature, but i think its a posibility worth considering.
Also, culture has been argued to be something that can develop and change in chimp and bonobo worlds. Our studies of these animals, espescially bonobos in the big scheme of things has been relatively short lived. Bit silly jumping to absolute conclusions yet I think
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eafpres, thanks for the feedback. My April feature on self-assembly and self-reconfiguring robots will touch on several of these subjects. If you're interested in nanoscale self-assembly, I suggest you check out DNA origami and the Wyss Institute work on DNA 2D tiles and 3D bricks.
Thanks for sharing this. I watched the underwater cube, then I watched Skylar's TED talk as well. When you think about a system like this, it makes sense that 3D printing (or some form of 3D manufacturing) and self-assembly go together--things we want in the world are mainly 3D, so they are assembled out of 3D parts (the printer that prints out of stacked sheets notwithstanding--they are still 3D--they have thickness!).
It is interesting to think about gravity as the main source of energy (potential energy) and building structures. In a sense, this is already done on a large scale or certain types of retaining walls. You have 3D blocks that fit together, and gravity provides the force to keep them together. I have seen some blocks for walls that are very large--think a concrete lego brick the size of a bale of hay. Some I have seen have bumps on one side and dents on the other, so they stack and won't move horizontally, and gravity does the rest.
On a smaller scale, I wonder what could be done with structures that respond to other sources, such as thermal, and pH, or even blood chemistry, and how those could be used in the body
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Most Georgia businesses have (or should have) some sort of an insurance policy to provide protection in the event the business is sued for some act of negligence. This policy may be a Commercial General Liability ("CGL") policy, a professional negligence or malpractice policy, or an automobile insurance policy.
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The insurance carrier has the duty to defend its insured business in the event the business is sued, and
Sometimes the insurance carrier has the duty to pay any claim or judgment awarded against the insured business.
A duty to provide a defense is not the same as a duty to pay a claim. The duty to provide a defense generally means that the insurance company will select and pay for a lawyer to represent the insured business.
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Generally, a defense is only provided for claims arising out of an "accident" or "occurrence" as defined by each particular insurance policy. Often, if a lawsuit against a business contains a combination of claims that trigger the duty to defend and claims that do not, the insurance company will provide a defense to the lawsuit.
If an insurance carrier refuses to provide a defense when it is required to do so under the insurance policy, the insured can sue its insurance carrier for damages.
The insurance carrier's obligation to actually pay for the damage caused by the accident is a completely separate obligation and is triggered under a separate set of circumstances.
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Parents love to tell us that their child is "just lazy". In some instances this may be the case but more often than not, the lack of motivation is masking deeper problems.
Many students who did fine with basic reading, writing and math may experience problems as subjects become more complex. And some students struggle in the early elementary years acquiring basic phonics, comprehension and math skills. How can you recognize the warning signs that your student is truly struggling and not just "being lazy", before your student becomes totally discouraged?
Following are several red flags to watch for:
· Your student typically receives good grades, and you're seeing a sudden dip in one subject in particular-or more than one.
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"I see a land bright and clear, and the time's comin' near"
Someone on the interwebs asked me a few days ago, what my goals are?
I mean, I spend lots of time doing weird stuff - like not shampooing my hair, and not eating meat, and not having cable. But why? Why would I? I mean, I'm not anti-establishment. I like clean things. I am (mostly) fine with eating stuff with a face. I still watch TV. Why am I bothering?
The truth is, I'm not sure I can articulate it. It just seems... I don't know. It feels RIGHT.
When we moved to SoCal, I picked what seemed to be a great area - super safe, great schools, walkable. What more does a parent look for?
Turns out, we're the land of the PTA mom. Where you are "asked" to contribute funds to a myriad of events. Where the room mom asks you to submit your cash donations in an envelope with your kids name on it so she knows who to include in the card.
What I've found, living here for a year, is that I'm not... one of Them. And I don't want my kids to be, either.
I'm not comfortable eating chemicals or modified foods, and if it's not good enough for ME, why would I do it to my kids?
I love to cook. I cook for people I love. Why would I half-ass it, and pour a bunch of weirdness from a box with an ingredient list a mile long and call it dinner, when I can take the extra 10 minutes (which I really love anyway) and chop, and dice, and COOK, with ingredients that I can buy at the farmers market, and more importantly, pronounce?
I want my kids to be self-sufficient. I want them to be able to take care of business should weirdness happen (TEOTWAWKI). So, I take them outdoors. I make them hike with me. We're starting to get into camping. I talk to them about geology, and the local plants, and what is edible, and what's not.
I like that my kids will sit with me and watch NatGeo all.day.long. (which, by the way, will continue streaming for EVER until you actually stop it). I dig that they'll watch a documentary about the Romanov's, and then Challenger, and Chernobyl, and ask questions about it.
So I guess what I'm trying to get at, is I'm trying to lead by example. I'm trying to lead the life that I want my kids to thrive in.
I don't want them to be slaves to advertising, or eating products with ingredient lists that are impossible to pronounce.
I want them to understand where our food comes from. I want them to be cognizant of their surroundings. To know that LIFE is about more than a tea party at school to discuss Becoming a Woman (curse you, IUSD!!), or who made your jeans. I'm proud that they can name almost every fruit, vegetable, or other weird thing that I can pick up at the Farmers Market.
I want them to understand that they have a responsibility to themselves, to the world, to be a contributing partner.
Jen at SimplyComplexJen has in her blog description, "Just trying to do the right thing in life for my daughter and the world around us."
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Oh. My. Goodness. Can I just second absolutely everything in your post??? Except for the part about PTA moms (not because they don't exist but because I have been able to avoid them!) this is how I feel. Why are we always asked to defend or prove simplicity and self-sufficiency - when did natural become synonymous with weird, anyway?
And, thanks to you, I will be singing REM for the rest of the night because I had to go google TEOTWAWKI. Thanks a lot, Giraffy...
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"It's important for project managers and team members to take stock at the end of a project and develop a list of lessons learned so that they don't repeat their mistakes in the next project. Typically such reviews are called post-project reviews or "post mortems." I recommend a two step process for conducting these reviews:
First, prepare and circulate a whole bunch of specific questions about the project and give team members time to think about them and prepare their responses individually.
Next, hold a meeting and discuss the team's responses to the questions. The result of this discussion is often a list of "Lessons Learned."
The benefit of the first step, done individually by team members, is that it allows the quieter, more analytical people to develop their responses to the questions without being interrupted by the more outgoing, vocal types who might otherwise dominate in the face-to-face meeting. Also, it allows everyone the time to create more thoughtful responses.
So what would be on the list of questions? I've provided some of my favorites below."
Another thing to remember in your project post-mortem: Don't forget the little guy! A successful project may involve participation and buy-in from staff members at all levels, from C-level on down to clerical staff. And more frequently than most people realize, it's the people in the rank-and-file that can see first-hand where those great ideas fail in their actual execution.
Winston Churchill said, "All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." Here are four of the top dos and don'ts for a successful project post-mortem:
1. Establish a venue for sharing lessons-learned: It doesn't matter whether you call it a post-mortem, a project review or a project retrospective, most organizations don't do them - but they should.
2. Share what has been learned: Although most organizations don't bother with a project retrospective, those that do don't always create an environment that encourages real learning - and even fewer shares what was learned.
3. Don't make learning the next corporate initiative: It's natural for organizations to formalize the learning process into the next corporate project. Although the natural learning process should be encouraged, "corporate" is all too often the same as "bureaucratic," which employees will be more likely to avoid.
4. Don't make learning a one-time activity: Project learning should be ongoing and interactive- don't let it become an isolated activity that happens rarely
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Just found this article via twitter, circled among mastering "engineers" (in fact Heba Kadry reposted it, the girl who mastered the latest Mars Volta album, which reaches -12.79 dB on my RG scans, and is generally mastered in a horrible fashion).
This further backs my impression that most of them don't have a single clue of what they are doing. The section about the mastering practices of Rubin and Meller are especially eye-opening to me. Masterdisk "engineers" also apparently are now out to rape the Rush back catalogue. Further down they cite phase-reverse tests to prove AAC files are different from the original (wow, REALLY?).
The good thing is, I can use this article to decide which releases to avoid in the future. But I'm really at a loss what we can do beside that. I'm really fed up with mastering "engineers" destroying music releases.
Thats round the wrong way, the article said the waveform shapes were not the relevant factor it was the person skeptical of mastered for itunes that was looking at the sum of two file with one inverted.
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Thanks for sharing the article, Kohlrabi. If you have another read of it sometime, I think you'll find it's pretty even-handed.
I get the sense that you disagree with the claims made by the mastering engineers, and not with the article itself, which tries to take a neutral stance.
Since this was piece of reportage, rather than opinion, I wanted to accurately deliver the news, present both the commentary and the criticism, and to offer some dispassionate analysis of both stances. The article tries to remain skeptical of the magnitude of the claims, but I also stand by the fact that it's unfair to dismiss them entirely without proper tests.
If you do want to read an opinion piece, you'll probably find that my own feelings about blind listening are pretty congruent with the philosophy here at Hydrogen Audio. I'm a big supporter of this site and of ABX tests in general, and I even wrote a supportive opinion piece about blind listening tests in the very same issue you cited! (You can read that here):
I will have to disagree with the extreme stance that mastering engineers are generally snake-oil salesmen (I've never had an experience that would lead me to believe that) or that Mr. Ludwig or Ms. Kadry are incompetent (I know both, and they're definitely not).
However, as a matter of personal opinion, I would agree that Rick Rubin overstates the audible differences normally found between high-res AAC files and their original WAV masters. I'd also agree that at least one of Meller's comments was probably more figurative and expressive than it was literal.
With that said, the engineers I interviewed told me that in "Mastered for iTunes", Apple also fixed an actual issue they had in the past with creating AAC files from high-resolution masters. To be fair, even Bob Ludwig agrees that 256kbps files won't necessarily sound any worse than traditional CD files - Just so long as they're created properly, and the engineer can verify there were no issues with the transfer. (He says that this is something that they're now able to do.)
The other real development appears to be that MEs can now easily and effectively hear the differences between their original master and the file that the iTunes store's proprietary encoder will create. (I'm told that, for better or worse, it's not the same encoder used in the consumer version of iTunes.)
Who knows? Even if the AACs sound identical in 95% of cases, this new ability to actually listen and check can't be a bad thing
Personally, I think the new tools are a good idea, but I'm not about to replace my music library with new "Mastered for iTunes" versions anytime soon.
I definitely appreciate the healthy dose of skepticism here on Hydrogen Audio, and would agree that people who have a service or product to sell sometimes dramatize their claims... But show me a salesman who doesn't, and I'll show you a salesman who's out of a job!
Thanks again for the share and the comments. Keep doing what you guys do!
show me a salesman who doesn't, and I'll show you a salesman who's out of a job
If that's the case, I fully support sales staff unemployment.
Haha - Fair enough.
QUOTE (saratoga @ Mar 28 2012, 22:29)
That Bob Ludwig quote where he seemingly does not understand what audio encoding is or why it might cause clipping is particularly galling from someone doing any sort of audio work. Particularly to people like me who consider the huge amount of clipping accidentally introduced by incompetent engineers to be one of the worst aspects of modern music.
Hi Saratoga,QUOTE (saratoga @ Mar 28 2012, 22:29)
First everything that clown (Shepherd) says is irrelevant since you can't show that one encoding is closer to CD by subtraction. [/b] Its not that his sample size is too small its that his test is meaningless. Its not that he took a song mastered at the wrong time, its that he doesn't know what hes doing. Why are you talking about EQ when nothing he says could possibly make sense? Actually, why are you even addressing this guy aside from to say "no I'm sorry, thats not how audio works"?
What you seem to take issue with here is that I presented the most damning argument last rather than first (because that's how mounting arguments work!) Otherwise, I think we're on the same page.
Shepherd's faulty analysis was ranked high in Google and getting a ton of reads, so I felt it was only appropriate to address it in the article. Please remember that not everyone has the same level of understanding, and that a nuanced breakdown is extremely valuable to many readers.
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I read the paper by Apple back when we first discussed it. I don't believe it said anything about "a healthy dose of additive EQ to restore frequencies that are lost during the AAC conversion process," or did it? ... EDIT: I read the paper again. It says nothing about additive EQ to restore frequencies that are lost during the AAC conversion process. Not a big surprise.
Correct greynol, that fact is not from the Apple paper, but from my interviews with over a half dozen of the busiest M.E.s in New York City.
They say that in practice, they use the new toolset to A/B before-and-after files, and then use additive EQ to compensate for changes in tone if they find it necessary to do so.
In theory, that's not much different than having two slightly different EQ settings so that a cassette and vinyl version sound closer.
Many of you might effectively argue that this process is subjective and open to error (true) or that the sonic differences between a 24-bit WAV and a 256kbps AAC tend to be much slighter than the differences between vinyl and cassette (also true).
QUOTE (Fandango @ Mar 28 2012, 23:14)
PS: The Dynamic Range Meter results for Ms. Kadry's latest work are worse than Frances the Mute (DR7), Amputechture (DR6) and The Bedlam in Goliath (DR6).
To be fair, I believe that's a reflection of taste rather than competence. Making a master that's less hot isn't that difficult, and it doesn't take much advanced training at all.
To argue that Kadry or any other in-demand ME don't know what they're doing misses the point. I believe they know exactly what they're doing: Making very loud masters!
Whether you dig what they're doing is an entirely different question. I just don't think it makes sense to argue about that on a "technical" level.
(Unless you we were citing some scientific double-blind tests that compare specific levels of dynamic range with perceived enjoyment. Now that would be neat! If you know of such a study, I'd be the first to read it.)
I'll admit that I haven't heard the records you've cited here, but in defense of Kadry, it's important to remember that any mastering job can be deemed "good" as long as it's what it was intended to be. We just have to judge it by the creator's criteria.That's a world of difference. That style of mixing and mastering is an aesthetic choice, and not some unintended side-effect of ignorance or accident.
The truth is that mastering engineers who get repeat clients aren't making loud records by mistake. You don't have to like their work, but I still think it's important to make a fair argument. Otherwise, we just end up sounding like dimwits who trash on studio reverbs because they don't sound like actual concert halls.
It's also useful to remember that to people younger than us, taste-based arguments against hot, bombastic masters is going to sound a whole lot like "Hey you damn kids, get off of my lawn!"
In reality, that's part of the reason the kids are into those records in the first place! Don't you remember what it's like to be young? What self-respecting American teenager wants to listen exclusively to music his parents would approve of?
In the end, I think that with the right effort, we can bring healthy dynamic range back into the mainstream. I just don't think we're going to do that by making negative or unprincipled arguments.
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It's what happens when the art-world and science/engineering-world meet head-on. ... It would probably be even worse if we only got to hear songs written by artless science types*. Good songs, badly recorded, vs bad songs perfectly recorded?QUOTE (TrustScience @ Mar 29 2012, 06:24)They're loud because they're compressed (and sometimes given mid-range emphasis) and often this compression can cause clipping regardless of whether the final master reaches full-scale.I think you and I have a different perspective here. I don't mind high dynamic range compression necessarily. What drives me nuts is audible clipping. It just ruins the sound to me. So if someone has a master that sounds good with high compression, I'm ok with that. But I just ask that, having knocked off all the peaks, they don't then push the entire signal up into distortion! Its not that hard to set the level first, then apply DRC. But everyone seems to like to do it the other way and it sounds awful.
People talking about a fraction of a dB of headroom on a DRCed track is just nuts.
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A lot of iPhone and iPad users who updated to iOS 6 have been reporting that the latest and greatest software update from Cupertino has screwed their iPhone and iPad's Wi-Fi connection. As in, they can't connect. Is this happening to you?
Specifically, once users have updated their iOS devices to iOS 6, Wi-Fi can't stay connected on the devices and Safari kicks them to the page above. Yeah, a 'Page Not Found' web page on Apple.com. Weird. My iPad isn't having any problems so this Wi-Fi bug may not be affecting everyone and a few people have reported that the issue automagically resolved itself, but it's definitely been affecting more folks than a minor bug.
As for potential solutions? A MacRumors forum user suggest this, which seems to have fixed a few broken iOS 6 wi-fi issues:
What? Apple released a new ios that made our devices worse? Now there's a surprise. This is why I'm not downgrading my phone to a new IOS again. IOS5 made my 4 much slower and glitchy and I won't be wrecking it any further with this.
Try moving passbook to a folder and watch as your phone reboots. Great update Apple, great. Most of the good new features don't work on the iPhone4 because they want us to buy a newer model and yet the features that do work, reboot the phone. Excellent.
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Think granola, rice cakes, or veggie burgers are healthy? Not so much. Chefs Tom Douglas and Thierry Rautureau explain what makes these supposedly healthy snacks the wrong choice if you're trying to get or stay fit.
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Most of you people already heard off the existence of The Loch Ness Monster. For those of you havenít, this monster is a relative to one of the undersea dinosaurs a million years ago. The Loch Ness Monsterís existence has been classified to be at least 500,00 years. The average length of a male is usually 127 feet long, ad as for the female 103 feet. As you reads these monsters are very long, but why canít explorers find these exquisite monsters? Well, the reason is it lives deep sea in underwater caves. No one knows exactly where it is, but they know it lives in the seas of the Great Glen, which separates the North of Scotland along a line from Fort William to Inverness.
The Loch Ness Monster is said to eat only marine animals (obviously, it lives in the ocean!). The strange thing is that it only eats every five years then it goes into a state of hibernation for another five years. Most of this time it sleeps, but occasionally wakes up and starts eating. It is at this time when people see this, but it is very rare. [Click this for a list of sightings of this fabulous monster.]
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What Would Be the Effects of Nanomaterial Use in Agriculture?
Nov. 2, 2012 — The use of nanomaterials in agriculture could, on the one hand, reduce cost and effort, increase efficiency and lead to more environmentally sound applications. On the other hand, it might also have a negative effect on microorganisms in the soil.
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This is concluded by the authors of a review article written within the scope of the National Research Programme "Opportunities and Risks of Nanomaterials".
Although no plant protection products or fertilisers containing nanomaterials are available on the market as yet, nanomaterials are becoming an increasingly important issue in agriculture, particularly as additives or agents in fertilisers or plant protection products: The number of scientific publications and patents on nanomaterials in this area has increased exponentially since the turn of the millennium, according to a review article recently published by researchers from the Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station and the Federal Office for Agriculture. With around 70 articles published until now, it is still possible for researchers to gain an overview of the topic. The USA and Germany are leading the field with regard to patents, but most of the scientific articles have been written in Asian countries.
Often outside the traditional nano range
Approximately 40 percent of the publications deal with carbon-based nanomaterials, followed by titanium dioxide, silver, silicagel and aluminium. Nanomaterials can be integrated into formulations in different forms and states -- from solid particles through to polymers and emulsions. It is noticeable that the material development is often based on natural and degradable basic substances. The nanomaterials used are often larger than 100 nanometres and therefore by definition lie outside the classical nano range. In new plant protection products, in particular, the nanomaterials often serve as an additive that helps to release the agent in a controlled manner.
1000-fold higher flux into soils
The potential improvement of plant protection products and fertilisers through nanomaterials is offset by their significantly higher flux into soils if nanomaterials are used. Experts currently predict that this rate could be as much as 1000 times higher than the load released from the atmosphere. Hence, soil organisms and crops would also be more exposed to these substances. Companies in Switzerland are already required to declare any nanomaterials contained in new plant protection products that they wish to register. However, international principles of nano-specific risk assessment are still at the development stage. As part of the National Research Programme "Opportunities and Risks of Nanomaterials" (NRP 64), the project NANOMICROPS (Effects of NANOparticles on beneficial soil MIcrobes and CROPS) is contributing to these efforts by developing ecotoxicological test systems for soil microorganisms and crops as well as making available analytical methods for quantifying nanomaterials in agriculturally significant environmental compartments such as soil and water.
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Use the trackwheel and keys
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The military is increasingly using and relying on the term "narrative" in its lexicon. United States strategic guidance documents generally implore commanders to "shape the narrative," doctrinal publications recommend commanders to "exploit a...
Future operational concepts contained in Joint Vision 2010 and the accompanying service level concepts emphasizes full spectrum, full dimensional dominance, allowing the application of force in time and space that cannot be equaled by a potential the origins of the concept of conveying the intentions of the commander to subordinates from its initial appearance in Army doctrine in 1905 until the present day. While many believe they understand the genesis of this...
The purpose of this monograph is to answer the research question: does the current process for executing mission analysis give commanders the information they need to develop timely, relevant, and constructive commander's intent and commander's...
The Global War on Terror is an ideological war being fought in the environment indicative of fourth generation warfare. Propaganda bypasses traditional defenses and strikes right at the center of gravity - popular support. In a modern war of...
As originally conceived in World War I, combat reporting from tactical aircraft has the potential to provide critical information concerning friendly operations and enemy activity to enhance situational awareness, supporting force protection andWarfare is an evolving process where innovations in technology and the application of that technology to military operations combined to provide an opportunity to gain military advantage. Today's military performs missions across the spectrum of purpose of this monograph is to examine information flow and problems at battalion and brigade levels and how it effects battle command. The primary research question is: Will the digitization of the battlefield and the resultant information the evolution of concepts for the development and management of United States Air Force imagery reconnaissance systems and the application of these concepts to current Air Force support to Army ground commanders. By examining...
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Environmental Science: Camping Program
Students explore the underwater world of the seagrass community off of Elliott Key.
NPS/Kodak photo by Neil Montanus
An Outdoor Adventure
Camps are available from January through April for new teachers and December through April for returning teachers. The camps run from Monday through Wednesday or Wednesday through Friday.
Facilities on the island include:
Picnic tables with a shelter, barbecue grills, a campfire circle, bathrooms, and a classroom.
Group size:
Maximum of 25 students and minimum of 15 students. There must be one teacher/chaperone per five students.
Park's Responsibility
Biscayne National Park provides program guidance, a ranger to lead or assist with activities, boat transportation to the island, tents and the site with associated facilities.
School's responsibility
Schools provide transportation to the Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center, food and one chaperone per five students.
Workshop Requirement An overnight workshop is required to familiarize new teachers with the camping program activities, opportunities, logistics and safety considerations.
Learn more about this fantastic program in our comprehensive Camping Guide. To sign up, print out our 2006/2007 Camp Registration Form. Fill it out and send it to Biscayne National Park, Education Coordinator at Biscayne National Park, 9700 SW 328th Street, Homestead, Florida, 33033. Note: The form is not available until August of the upcoming school year and must be surface mailed. Faxes, hand delivery or emails will not be accepted.
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I sometimes go out to shows or parties, but a lot of times being
around a bunch of intoxicated people either upsets or saddens me.
I'd rather cook with friends or do something with friends.
Nowadays I am more likely to be doing copwatch and making fliers
and reading at my house.
much exactly how I think
about sex, relationships, intimacy, consent, gender, feminism,
etc. ... who say they've been raped are
lying;- Consent to sex once is blanket consent to all sex;-
Initiating sex with someone who is sleeping without their prior
consent isn't rape, it's just 'bad bedroom etiquette'
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Transition Town instigator Rob Hopkins is interviewed by Adrienne Campbell in Lewes, East Sussex in the day Transition Town Lewes is unleashed. Question 3, How do Climate Change & Peak Oil inter-relate and why do they demand a certain type of response.
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Finance
Whether your goal is to become a leading financial professional on Wall Street or
go into business on your hometown's Main Street, the Widener School of Business Administration's
new finance major is the best degree for you.
Our finance program offer two tracks of study: a traditional finance track for students
bound for positions with financial institutions and investment houses, and a financial
planning track for students with the goal of becoming financial advisors.
The Profession
Finance is a broad discipline that affects all aspects of business, and the impact
of financial market changes are felt worldwide. At Widener, you will learn how to
be analytical, how to budget, how to be a problem solver, and how to be a leader in
the financial arena.
Banking and finance has long been an industry with job growth and security. Financial
analysts and financial planners, in particular, will be in strong demand due to an
aging population relying on individually managed retirement accounts. Widener students
specializing in financial planning will be perfectly positioned to meet the challenges
of this growing sector.
Opportunities
From investment bankers, financial analysts to financial planners, there are many
job opportunities for finance graduates, and growth is forecast in various financial
related positions. In fact, the demand for personal financial advisors is forecast
to grow over 40 percent within the next decade, and the number of financial analyst
positions are expected to grow by 30 percent.
Students with finance degrees consistently rank among those with the highest-paying
college degrees. For example, starting pay for students with a finance degree averages
$47,000 annually, and mid-career pay averages $91,000.
The Program
Widener's School of Business Administration holds accreditation from the prestigious
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier
accrediting body for business education. Our experienced and accomplished faculty
members emphasize real-world learning and not just textbooks, offering many opportunities
for internships and cooperative education programs to help you get a jump-start on
your career. Within several months following graduation, an overwhelming majority
of our graduating seniors are either employed as business professionals on a fulltime
basis.
Coursework in the finance major emphasizes two options:
Traditional
The traditional finance trackwill prepare you for professional positions in companies
like Vanguard, BNY Mellon and J. P. Morgan Chase. Widener partners with many of these
companies, and our faculty often teach on site at these companies as part of our multi-level
relationships with these exceptional regional firms.
Certified Financial Planning
The certified financial planner (CFP) track will be appropriate for students who wish
to start their own financial planning business. Widener is the host university for
the prestigious Journal of Financial Service Professionals. Widener is also one of
only two universities in the region that qualifies you to sit for the certified financial
planner (CFP) exam at the end of the program.
Faculty
The finance and tax faculty members are highly qualified with significant real-world
experience.
The faculty includes:
Professor Kenn Tacchino, a nationally recognized expert in retirement planning who
has published extensively in this area including numerous text books that are used
for Certified Financial Planner certification exams. He also serves as the editor
of the Journal of Financial Service Professionals.
Professor Monty Mansur, recipient of the Widener University Outstanding Researcher
Award, has published work in the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of
International Business Studies. Dr. Mansur also serves as an Independent Director
of FundVantage Trust, a multi-product mutual fund complex, housed under BNY Mellon
Asset Servicing in Wilmington, Del.
Difference makers
Difference makers
At the Health Annex Lynn Freda, a nurse and graduate student in Widener's Family Nurse Practitioner master's program, talks about her experiences working with Dr. Shirlee Drayton-Brooks, associate professor at the School of Nursing.
Difference makers
Dr. Marina Barnett Dr. Marina Barnett, associate professor in the Center for Social Work Education, talks about the leadership qualities she sees in her students. Also, Dr. Barnett gives an amazing Widener rallying cry. Check it out!
Difference makers
Difference makers
Dr. Nadine McHenry Associate Professor Nadine McHenry talks about the importance of exposing teacher candidates to schoolchildren from different contexts.
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The Differences Between Early Decision & Early Action [VIDEO]
So you've decided to apply to college early? Great! But what's the deal with the different options? Every year students get stuck trying to figure out if early decision or early action applications are worth doing. While both application types will let you know about your admissions decision earlier than the regular applicant pool, they both have different implications for students. Did you know that you can only apply to one college as early decision? Or that you can apply to multiple schools early action?
For those of you weighing the pros and cons of early decision vs early action you're in luck! This morning on NECN StudentAdvisor's Editor-in-Chief Dean Tsouvalas gave an excellent rundown on the differences between early action and early decision applications.
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Desktop publishing software (abbreviated DTP) is the creation of printed materials using page layout on a personal computer. When used skilfully, desktop publishing software can produce printed literature with attractive layouts and typographic quality comparable to traditional typography and printing. This technology allows individuals, businesses, and other organizations to self-publish a wide range of printed matter—from menus and local newsletters to books, magazines, and newspapers—without the sometimes-prohibitive expense of commercial printing.
Desktop publishing methods provides more control over design, layout, and typography than word processing does. However, word processing software has evolved to include some, though by no means all, capabilities previously available only with professional printing or desktop publishing.
Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The
Web design is a broad term covering many different skills and disciplines that are used in the production and maintenance of websites.[1] The different areas of web design include; web graphic design, interface design, authoring; including standardised code and proprietary software, user experience design and search engine optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all.[2]A computer network, or simply a network
Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics, such as the medium used to transport the data, communications protocol used, scale, topology, and organizational scope.
Communications protocols define the rules and data formats for exchanging information in a computer network, and provide the basis for network programming. Well-known communications protocols include Ethernet, a hardware and link layer standard that is ubiquitous in local area networks, and the Internet protocol suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i.e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats.
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This is eBay's version of the story, so it's obviously a bit biased towards them, but even now it's apparent that Craigslist has had good reasons for what they've done.
In a nutshell, eBay really wants to buy Craigslist, and it bought a significant stake in the company - 28.4% back in 2004. The two companies have made an agreement which states that, should they start competing with each other, each company has the right to resell shares without a ROFR. This is where it gets interesting, because eBay did launch a competitor; an international classifieds site Kijiji. And although eBay had tried to prove that Kijiji is a completely separate affair from Craigslist, the folks at Craigslist exercised a number of measures to reduce eBay's stake in the company; most importantly, they've diluted their shares with a poison pill and pushed eBay below the 25% (24,85%, to be exact) threshold of ownership, which means that eBay cannot put a new member into Craigslist's board of directors.
Basically, Craigslist is squeezing them out, and eBay doesn't like it one bit. However, has Craigslist acted in accordance with the two companies' previous agreement? I'm sure that their side - which we'll inevitably hear really soon - will shed some additional light to this story
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Sehwag out of Irani Cup due to upset stomach
The Rest of India cricket team suffered a massive blow just before the start of its Irani Cup match against Mumbai as skipper Virender Sehwag was ruled out due to an upset stomach here today. Sehwag was replaced by senior off-spinner Harbhajan Singh as captain.
The match would have been a good opportunity for the struggling Sehwag to prove his worth for the upcoming high-profile home Test series against Australia.
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In 1936, the same year the accident occurred, Mr. Honda became dissatisfied with repair work and began to plan a move into manufacturing. He took steps to turn the Hamamatsu branch into a separate company but his investors opposed his wish to start making piston rings. Since he was making good money through his repair work they could not see the need to embark on an unnecessary new venture. Mr. Honda did not give up but sought the help of an acquaintance by the name of Shichiro Kato, and set up the Tokai Seiki Heavy Industry, or Tokai Seiki for short, with Kato as President. He threw himself into this new project and started the Art Piston Ring Research Center, working by day at the old Art Shokai and developing piston rings at night.
Following a series of technical failures he enrolled as a part-time student at Hamamatsu Industrial Institute (now the Faculty of Engineering at Shizuoka University) so as to improve his knowledge of metallurgy. Nearly two years went by during which he worked and studied so hard that his facial appearance completely altered. At last his manufacturing trials were successful and in 1939 he handed over Art Shokai Hamamatsu branch to his trainees and joined Tokai Seiki as president.
Production of piston rings started as Mr. Honda had intended but he was still beset with difficulties. This time his problems had to do with manufacturing technology. Mr. Honda had a contract with Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., but out of fifty piston rings he submitted for quality control only three met the required standards. After nearly two more years of visiting universities and steelmaking companies all over Japan in order to study manufacturing techniques, he was at last in a position to supply mass- produced parts to companies such as Toyota and Nakajima Aircraft. At the height of the company's success it employed more than 2,000 people.
However, on December 7, 1941, Japan rushed headlong into the Pacific War. Tokai Seiki was placed under the control of the Ministry of Munitions. In 1942, Toyota took over 40% of the company's equity and Honda was "downgraded" from president to senior managing director. The male employees gradually disappeared as they were called up for military service, and both adult women and female students began to work in the factory as members of the "volunteer corps." Mr. Honda would calibrate the machines himself and took pains to ensure that the manufacturing process was made as safe and simple as possible for these inexperienced female workers. It was at this time that he devised ways of automating the production of piston rings.
At the request of Kaichi Kawakami, President of Nippon Gakki (now Yamaha), he also invented an automatic milling machine for wooden aircraft propellers. Kawakami was very impressed with Mr. Honda's ingenuity: previously it had taken a week to make a single propeller by hand, but now it was possible to turn out two every thirty minutes.
Air raids on Japan became increasingly intensified and it was clear that the country was headed for defeat. As the air raids continued, Hamamatsu was smashed to rubble and Tokai Seiki's Yamashita Plant also was destroyed. The company suffered a further disaster on January 13, 1945, when the Nankai earthquake struck the Mikawa district and the Iwata Plant collapsed.
This was followed by Japan's defeat on August 15. The country had undergone tremendous change, and Mr. Honda's life, like that of Japan itself, was about to be totally transformed.
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Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?
November 28, 2012
Story by Pete Shaw
"When is history not history?" asks Walidah Imarisha, at a recent Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon? presentation sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Conversation Project. Imarisha, a Portland State University and Oregon State University instructor, poses the question to our group after we have spent 90 minutes examining, wrestling with and, mostly importantly, discussing with one another the history of black people and black communities in Oregon. The question is imposing – forcing us to look to the past and present for answers, and demand an honest reckoning for the future.
There are small posters on the walls of our conference room in the Midland Branch of the Multnomah County Library, forming a timeline of history ostensibly relating to black Oregonians. On one, there is a picture of Marcus Lopes, the first person of African descent in Oregon. Another item features Alonzo Tucker, a black man who was lynched in Coos Bay. A local newspaper described the lynch mob as "quiet and orderly" and found the lynching was not an "unnecessary disturbance of the peace."
Portland State University and Oregon State University instructor Walidah Imarisha.
Time may move along, but progress can seem frozen in its eddies. A law prohibiting black people from voting remained in the state constitution until 1927. A connection to the Confederacy with a law prohibiting interracial marriages, only repealed in 1951. An item about Legacy Emanuel's 1970 expansion that ripped a hole in the Albina neighborhood, after the project lay stagnant for nearly two decades resulting in vacant lots and boarded up buildings. It is still being completed. A photo of Mulugeta Seraw, the Ethiopian graduate student and father beaten to death by two skinheads in 1988. Laws, events, customs–all the stuff not just of history, but also of resistance, achievement, and ultimately, survival.
In 1844, pre-state Oregon declared slavery illegal. But making slavery against the law and embracing a diverse society are two different items, and from its beginnings Oregon was modeled as a white homeland. That same 1844 law ordered all black people out of the Oregon Territory under threat of lashing. This "Lash Law" mandated black people be publicly flogged every six months; however, before it could be enforced, it was modified and the whippings were replaced with forced labor.
In 1849 another law excluded any more blacks from settling in the territory. The passing of the Oregon Donation Land Act of 1850, granted free land to Whites only. The 1859 constitution included in its Bill of Rights a racial exclusion clause banning black people from emigrating to Oregon, as well as prohibiting them from owning land and entering into contracts. Although the 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution rendered such exclusion illegal, it wasn't until the 1920s that the ban was officially repealed from Oregon's constitution.
This history, hardly exhaustive, is the substrate of the state of Oregon, and yet it tends to be seldom acknowledged, and, when recognized, usually depicted as an artifact of the past. This is one point where history is not history – when events are isolated, ignored, or otherwise relegated to a sphere where that is rarely discussed and where the societal effects of that history dwell without context. When you digest and discuss all those images and descriptions on the wall – as Imarisha encourages you to do with people whom you do not know – a narrative emerges. These snapshots that unto themselves seem aberrant, the work of vile individuals or groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, start running together, becoming a movie with obvious currents that formed with the state and flow into the present.
Measure 11, establishing mandatory minimum sentencing for several crimes, was passed 150 years after that first exclusion law. It applies to all defendants over 15 years old and require the accused of the listed crimes be tried as adults. Despite making up only 4 percent of Oregon's youth population, black youth account for 19 percent of Measure 11 indictments. It seems William Faulkner was right: the past isn't even past.
But if our state story reveals some of the horrific and disgusting acts committed, laws promulgated, and customs enforced, it also depicts acts of resistance that in themselves form a narrative. Resistance is a slippery concept, for its successes may come incrementally and some seem nothing more than drops upon a toxic pool.
The Hazlewood Building on Weidler near the Memorial Coliseum used to be home to Dude Ranch, a jazz club. It is the only remaining building of the approximately ten jazz clubs that were destroyed to make room for the Memorial Coliseum and the interstate freeway. Photo by Pete Shaw.
For example, in Bend in 1925 there was a sign that read, "We Cater To White Trade Only." The black community in Bend, already aware of the local restaurants in which they were unwelcome, protested the sign. The city council agreed to remove it and similar Jim Crow signs, with the expectation that black people would now police themselves. Though the victory may seem Pyrrhic, it was an important step for those forced to daily encounter the signs and be reminded of the ways in which they were unwanted. It took thousands of these small largely unknown victories, won by tens of thousands of people you and I will never know, that ultimately led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Many of the institutions that shape our lives today are rooted in the Oregon constitution, and the legacy of the exclusion clause can be seen by observing where those institutions grant favor. One of the most glaring examples lies in housing and development. For the black community in Oregon, it has often been a history of taking and denial. Since homeownership is a foundation of generational wealth development, it becomes clear that Oregon's black community is being denied an opportunity to develop wealth.
The places where black people could own property were limited through extra-legal means, such as The Portland Real Estate Code of Ethics (1919), which mandated real estate agents refuse to sell to people whose race would "be determined to lower property values in that neighborhood." During World War II, over 13,000 black people moved to Vanport to build ships for Kaiser – a sixfold increase in the number of black people in Oregon. The Vanport flood of 1948 forced integration on Portland, as black survivors moved a couple of miles north to the Albina neighborhood, the only place the city would allow them to resettle.
The 1960 construction of Memorial Coliseum resulted in the destruction of over 400 homes and many black owned businesses, and created a physical rift in the community, particularly in Jumptown, the cultural center that ran between NE Williams and King. The construction of the interstate highways destroyed over 1100 housing units in South Albina.
A sign on NE Alberta Street tells the story of redlining in Portland's past. Photo by Paul.
Banks refused mortgages to black people who tried to move outside "acceptable" boundaries, and often refused them within the red lines as well, because those loans were considered risky. More recently banks were willing to lend money in the form of subprime loans, often when people actually qualified for prime loans. These subprime loans largely targeted minority communities, and the current foreclosure crisis has hit communities of color hard. Black and Latino homeowners have been almost twice as likely as white people to lose their homes to foreclosure, a result, according to the ACLU in a recent lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, of the seemingly illegal and certainly unethical decision to encourage predatory mortgage loans to low-income African American borrowers.
Despite the trauma, a black community is still extant in Portland. As Imarisha noted when one black woman stated, "I don't feel like I live here. I survive here," sometimes survival is winning. "For a black community to exist here in Portland is incredible," said Imarisha, "because it wasn't supposed to exist at all."
History is not history when some actors are denied acknowledgement of their roles at the expense of other actors who have parts that remain privileged. The importance of Why Aren't There More Black People In Oregon? is difficult to understate. It keeps the unprivileged stories alive. Though Imarisha has made this presentation all over the state, she has only met one person who attended an Oregon public school who was aware of it. None of the ten people in our group who had attended school in Oregon had been taught this information. That is when history is not history.
The Hill Block Building was built by Charles H. Hill, Albina's first mayor. Located at the corner of Russell and Williams it was at the center of the business district for Albina.
But history is history when people refuse to let go, when they fight for their stories to be heard, and when they spread those stories to other people who in turn pledge to keep them alive. That is real power of this presentation. It is not a lecture. It is a series of discussions, some one-on-one, some in groups of four or five, and some with the group as a whole. Real people and their stories spoken, life breathed into the material hanging from the walls.
When a woman notes how in the early 1950s the majority of restaurants in Portland would not serve black people, we see how that step taken in Bend in 1925 formed a link in a chain to today where, at the very least, such obvious segregation is unacceptable. When a man talks about how he has to pay an extra fee for his son to play in the school jazz band, it is easy enough to draw a line between the razing of four or five jazz clubs that stood in the way of the future Memorial Coliseum. Their demise meant not only fewer opportunities to experience a unique American art form, but also fewer popular culture venues where white and black people actually mixed. Though jazz has declined in popularity to the extent that students must pay extra for it, still it survives, vibrantly. That is a victory.
This is where the Hill Block Building stood. 40 years later, the Legacy Emanuel expansion has yet to be completed. Photo by Pete Shaw.
Much of the physical structure of the black community in Portland has been demolished many times over. Nature took a hand in Vanport, but it was the usual systemic oppression of the wealthy and powerful that led to Memorial Coliseum, the construction of the interstate highways, and the expansion of Legacy Emanuel. The black community has rebuilt every time. These are all huge victories.
Dome from the Hill Block Building, located on the Northwest corner of NE Russell and Williams. The building was razed during the Legacy Emanuel expansion. It now lies in Dawson Park, across from Legacy Emanuel. Photo by Pete Shaw.
Perhaps history becomes history when it expands beyond boundaries and reaches a greater audience. The point of Why Aren't There More Black People In Oregon? is meant not to focus solely on the black community and its history, but to explore issues of race, identity, and power in the greater community.
The struggles and victories of black people are not unique. As can be seen with Multnomah County Sheriff Staton's collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Latinos are facing their own trials. The exclusion laws from the early Oregon Territory and Oregon state constitution echo loudly, as the brave people proclaiming themselves Undocumented and Unafraid speak of the terror they experienced from being identified as people who do not belong, and whose existence within the community can be severely punished. The same scenario is going on nationwide.
A history that ignores uncomfortable aspects – whitewashes them, if you will – so that what is presented is a sanitized account with no accountability, is at best insular. It does not require thought, and therefore, does not challenge. It only asks that we accept its narrative as truth. It is mythology, not history.
The posters that form a timeline ostensibly related to black Oregonians actually relate to us all. They are a part of our history, informing our present and likely our future as well. How just a future we craft largely depends on how wide and deep a sense of history we bring along on the journey forward.
"When we see these events as part of a cycle," Imarisha said, "then we can see what is really happening and can create a place we want to live in."
6 Responses to Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?
Henry MamaBear on November 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm
The Other Day I Was Talking To My Grandmother, A 94 Year Old retired Nurse And She Mentioned That When She Was In Nursing School at Good Sam In 1938, The Nurses We're Allowed To Choose Whether Or Not To Care For Black Patients. I'm Proud To Say She's The Kind Of person That DID Choose To Care For TheM, A Few Years Later Going On To Live In Africa And The Philippines. Just Another Piece Of History I Thought I Would Share.
I've been around a long time in brooklyn, ny and now nj. Again, I am so proud of Peter Shaw, and his wife Jessica Ly who supports his endeavors. I enjoyed his article and his obvious devotion "to the cause".
As black woman and immigrant I was assigned to the hospital of low class somewhere in the northeast Portland. I feel very uncomfortable being subject of discrimination because I am black on nowadays. When I was looking for house I was always detected to the the district where black community live. Anyways, I still have the choice to choose who I want to be in society.
Thank you for your comment. First, the article was never written as an attempt to answer that question. As you may have noticed from the first paragraph–the first sentence in fact–the name of the presentation about which I wrote is Why Aren't There More Black People in Oregon?
Second, I never wrote and I never referred to Imarisha saying Oregon was uniquely racist. In fact, in the fourth paragraph from the end I implied as much to the opposite saying the struggles and victories are not unique. What is unique, however, is that Oregon's founding documents specifically made being black either illegal or highly undesirable. I am not aware of any state in United States that had clauses in their constitutions and laws as Oregon did.
If you would like more information on this, Imarisha's next presentations are in February. The one on the 9th is at the Belmont branch of the Multnomah County Library System; the one on the 20th at the St. Johns branch. Please see her calendar at:
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What Your Favorite Color Says About Hue
A person's surroundings can influence emotions and state of mind. Have you ever noticed that certain places calm you, empower you, or irritate you? The concepts of color psychology demonstrate how the colors in our spaces affect each of us—and how we can apply those concepts when designing spaces in our homes and offices.
Physics of Color Energy
The latest scientific findings in physics and energy provide evidence that color affects the human body through color vibration. This vibrational energy is the foundation of color psychology, color and culture, color physiology, and chromotherapy.
It is commonly accepted that everything in the universe vibrates, including color. All of our senses and everything we encounter are in tune to specific frequencies. Color stimulates all the senses, instantly conveying a message like no other communication method. These frequencies can affect us either positively or negatively. Additionally, each color has it's own wavelength: red is the longest, and violet the shortest.
Power of Color
Typically color psychology, color and culture, color physiology, and chromotherapy are lumped under the umbrella of "color psychology," though each discipline uses color energy in different ways. In some situations, color psychology, color and culture, and color physiology can be one in the same, while other times, a particular color can have a completely different symbolic, psychological, or physical effect when used at the same place and time.
For example, red in North America indicates stop and danger, but it also symbolizes love, as with Valentine's Day. Someone not familiar with the cultural coding of red in North America could confuse the symbolism and mistake a red Valentine's Day heart for a warning sign.
Colors throughout history have had deep-seated symbolic associations that feed into our response to art, clothing, nature, and the built environment. Some colors' meanings cross the boundaries of culture, while others are specific to cultures, locations, and time.
Color Psychology is the study of humans' mental and emotional responses to color and how color affects our moods, behavior, and feelings.
Color and Culture refers to the use of color as a symbol throughout culture and how it conveys messages through art and anthropology. Color is particularly important in heritage and religion.
Color Physiology studies a person's physical response to color through color's various degrees of wavelengths. For example, colors can excite, depress, calm, and stimulate or reduce appetite. Color can even lower or raise blood pressure.
Chromotherapy is an alternative medicine method in which therapists use color and light to balance energy wherever a person's body be lacking, be it physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental. The premise behind chromotherapy is to harness color's wavelengths and use them to heal.
Therapists may treat a person's chakra, referring to the body's seven major energy centers positioned along the spinal column. Each chakra has a unique function that responds to a specific color. When a malfunctioning chakra causes illness, chromotherapy rebalances the body to its optimum wellness.
A chromotherapist also treats the human aura, an electromagnetic field that surrounds every body, organism, and object in the universe. When color is introduced within the aura's range, it affects the human body.
Hue Are What You Paint
The colors we surround ourselves with can help stimulate, relax, empower, or even waken us. Once we recognize this, we can use principles of color psychology to decorate in homes in ways that bring us the balance and harmony we desire.
Nothing catches a police officer's attention faster than a shiny red car. For the same reason, stop signs and emergency equipment are typically red. In Asia, red is the color of luck, while internationally red is the mark of honor. The red carpet is rolled out to honor celebrities and dignitaries. Red is the most exhilarating color, bringing up emotions of passion.
Are you procrastinator or in a sluggish time of your life? Paint your room an energizing red and let it motivate you to get moving!
Pink
Pink is associated with sweetness, romance, innocence, hope, and femininity. it slows the heart rate and reduces aggression. Pink can also stimulate sugar cravings.
Internationally, pink symbolizes light moods and femininity. Although traditionally considered to be a color for young girls, pink has gained a broader acceptance in more recent years, even working its way into men's wardrobes. Light pink is associated with innocence, while hot pink signals fun, frivolity, and sensual behavior.
If you'd like a relaxing space, try pink. It slows down the heart and diminishes aggressive behavior.
Orange
Orange is associated with adventure, extroversion, celebration, passion, confidence, and enthusiasm. A cheerful color, orange can promote self-motivation and even stimulate the appetite.
Orange combines the energy of red and happiness of yellow. In North America, orange has positive associations, as in sunsets, citrus, fall foliage, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Most Americans and Canadians prefer brown-based oranges to a pure orange.
Designing a room where people will socialize and play? Paint it orange and let the party begin! Orange and red simulate the appetite and can work well in a kitchen or dining room.
Yellow
Yellow is associated with sunshine, joy, creativity, optimism, confidence, attention to detail, academic achievement, discipline and mental discrimination. It can help improve memory and aid in communication.
Yellow is the most visible color and an attention-grabber, making it a useful choice for caution signs, school buses, and construction equipment. Yellow is generally considered to be a happy, sunny color. Bright yellow is better in small doses; because it reflects more light than any other color, it's fatiguing to the eye and can create a sense of frustration if overdone.
Having difficulty getting people to communicate? Yellow is an excellent color for counseling offices and conference rooms, as it helps open the lines of communication.
Green
Green is associated with nature, balance, healing, spring, growth, love, peace, hope, and compassion for others. A calming color, green can lower blood pressure and relax. It's also a great balance for other colors.
Green generally has positive connotations associated with health and growth. Feeling anxious or angry? Paint your office or bedroom green to reduce stress and evoke the feeling of balance.
Blue
The favorite color in North America, blue represents quality, durability, and authority—a good reason police and military uniforms come in this color. It is commonly used as companies' color branding to convey reliability and trustworthiness, hence the phrase "true blue."
Although many colors hold different, religious symbolic meanings, blue is a non-denominational color. It carries the same meaning of love and mercy in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism.
Blue is conducive to productivity and commonly used in office spaces. It's also one of the most popular colors for bedrooms because it's so calming and can even lower the pulse rate and body temperature.
Purple
Purple is associated with royalty, spirituality, creativity, sensitivity, and insightfulness. With the shortest light wave, purple calms and reduces stress.
While royal purple was once reserved for the wealthy, purple is increasing in popularity in North America. It is sometimes associated with deep feelings, as in "purple passion." Additionally, purple symbolizes bravery; consider the "purple heart" military medal that signifies injury in battle.
Having a creative block? Painting your studio indigo and violet will get your creative juices flowing again. And for a more blissful sleep, use violet in your bedroom to calm you.
Brown
Brown is associated with dependability, earth, grounding, stability, harmony, neutrality, hearth, and home. It is generally seen as an inviting and soothing color, good for the non-risk taker.
Want a calming backdrop to a room so your accessories will pop? Brown is a terrific neutral that works well with vibrant accent colors.
Gray
Like brown, gray is neutral and comes in a variety of tones, making it a good foundation for allowing a room's accent colors to shine. Certain finishes with gray can also pair well with stone and wood.
Black
Black is associated with night, sophistication, power, and sometimes menace. It tends to lead to inward thought.
In most places throughout the world, black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be formal and elegant. The black tuxedo and the classic "little black dress" still remain the standard for evening attire.
Because black absorbs all light, it can deplete energy if used in abundance.
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White
White is associated with calm, purity, equality, and the entire visible light spectrum. It reflects and amplifies all colors. Its fundamental characteristic is equality; all colors are equal in white's presence.
Use all white for a modern, clean feel. It also serves well as a blank canvas to which you can add splashes of color that reflect your personality.
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