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“Love is the most important thing in the world. But baseball is pretty good too” ~ Greg, age 8
So tonight your humble correspondent went to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Toronto “Eh?” Blue Jays.
For those of you who have been under a rock or, God forbid, do not care about baseball (hello J.B. in Chicago), Alex Rodriguez is stuck on 599 home runs and has yet to hit number 600. Because baseball is a game of records it’s all about the milestones. Joe Dimaggio’s 56 game hitting streak, Cy Young’s never to be broken record of 511 victories, my never unbroken record of being rejected by 45 women in a row. (I blame the one eye in the middle of my forehead. It just says “troglodyte.” And what woman wants to date a troglodytist? That and my furry back.) Yep. I’m pretty sure that’s it.
Anyway, on to the game!
Actually it was a painful experience and I’ve blocked most of the four hours of agony out. But here are a few tattered remnants of what I remember.
Temporarily banished from my usual seat in the front row of the bleacher I took my assigned seat in the back row of the upper deck. Tension was in the air. Which A.J. Burnett would show up. Good A.J. or bad A.J? Unfortunately, “staggering in an alley covered in blood and holding a carving knife while muttering ‘I killed her, my god I killed her’ “ A.J. showed up.
The Yankees scored first, thanks to a two-run Nick Swisher home run in the bottom of the first. Little did I know this was the last lead the Yankees would hold. The wheels came off the Yankee caravan in the 5th as Toronto batted around, scoring seven runs to take an 8 -2 lead (Vernon Wells had hit a solo shot in the top of the second.)
The final score was 8 -6. Mark Teixeira hit a two-run home run making it 8 -4. Lance “Fat Elvis” Berkman had his first Yankee RBI in the sixth making it 8 – 5 and Nick Swisher hit his second home run of the game in the ninth making it 8 -6. Yankees lose.
Notes on the game:
The Yankees have experienced a few losses this year and are running out of spaces on the uniform to put a black patch. Steinbrenner, Bob Sheppard and now former manager Ralph Houk, who managed the ’61 and ’62 World Champions have died. To make space the Yankees now have a black armband wrapped around their jockstraps. Joba Chamberlain demonstrated it before the game and collapsed in pain while screaming, “It’s bunching up….it’s bunching up. Good god my testicles!”
Nick Johnson injury watch:
With the acquisition of Lance Berkman Nick Johnson’s days as the once and future DH appear in jeopardy. Reacting to the threat, and with his feelings hurt, Johnson bought a chainsaw to confront his new rival. Unfortunately, while testing said chainsaw, Johnson accidentally separated his torso from the rest of his body. As he lay on the ground, bleeding and severed with guts, intestines and pizza oozing out of his torso Johnson grabbed some duct tape and reattached himself. Unfortunately he then tripped and sprained his ankle. The Yankee front office is confident. absolutely confident that this will not delay his return to the lineup.
D.B. of Philadelphia writes, “I don’t know what goes on in New York but here in Philadelphia chicks dig a furry back. My wife said she would not have married me if I was a ‘smooth backer.’ It’s a status symbol. My friends are proud that I’m a gray back.”
Umm. I’m sorry readers. I apologize for D.B. Obviously he works for an accounting firm.
A.G. of Tennessee, but I’ll call him former Vice President Al Gore writes, “I thought a blow job came with the back rub? I need my chakras released. Hooy yeah!”
Well the man did work with Bill Clinton for eight years.
T.B. of Astoria Queens writes, “I have to second D.B. Women love a furry back. My wife loves my back hair. She loves to run her fingers through it. No wait, you said back hair, not the hair on the back of your head. That’s different. FREAK!”
Wow. That hurts T.B. You must be from Philadelphia.
D.B. of Philadelphia writes again, “Blow jobs are given out in Philadelphia as part of a massage…..what…..honey……ouch…. stop hitting me.”
Thomas Aquinas writes, “When we eat and drink well gas is formed.”
Obviously Tom’s had the pizza at Yankee Stadium.
And that was tonight’s game. Oh, and AROD went 0 – 4.
So far this year my record stands at a disturbing 7 – 5. My next game is Tuesday August 3rd against the selfsame Toronto Blue Jays.
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On the night of May 11th, at the legendary "Bitter End" rock club in New York City, jazz vocalist Sarah Partridge debuted songs from her new album, "Bright Lights & Promises: Redefining Janis Ian" to rave reviews. A month of her performance, and the album is still receiving acclaim for listeners and and fellow artists across the country.
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Traditional History of Reiki
Dr. Mikao Usui rediscovered Reiki in the late 1800's. Dr. Usui travelled to the
United States and entered the Chicago School of Divinity, where he earned his
Doctorate in Theology. However, he did not find the answer to his question, How
may you heal the body? He returned to Japan and entered a Zen monastery. There
he studied ancient Buddhist, Sanskrit, and Tibetan texts for many years.
Dr. Usui felt like he had failed and expressed his feeling to one of the monks.
The Zen never say this is the end "everything is a beginning." Do not give up
your quest, because everything known to man can be known again. Finally in the
original Sanskrit he found the formula for healing the body in the ancient
texts, but he did not have the ability or understanding to use it. So he decided
to Fast and Meditate.
He travelled to the holy mountain of Kuriyama. He climbed the mountain chose the
spot for his meditation then gathered 21 stones and piled them before him. Each
day he threw one stone down the mountain. On the final morning just before dawn.
Dr. Usui saw a beam of white light coming toward him. His first reaction was to
run. However he decided to stay still. The light entered his third eye and he
lost consciousness. He reported that he saw millions of rainbow bubbles and
little known Sanskrit symbols glowing in gold. As he saw each of the symbols he
was given the names and uses for each as well as information on how to activate
the healing energy. Dr. Usui came down the mountain and experienced what is know
as the miracles.
1. Coming down from the mountain he stubbed his toe on a rock and fell to the
ground. His toe was bleeding. He instinctively grabbed his toe after a few
minutes, the bleeding stopped and the pain disappeared.
2. Dr. Usui had fasted for 21 days and then ate a very large breakfast without
any adverse effects.
3. The innkeeper's granddaughter had a bad toothache for several days. Dr. Usui
laid his hands on her face and she immediately felt better.
Dr. Usui began to practice Reiki in the slums of Kyoto, where he healed the
beggars at no cost asking only that they start a new life. He worked for seven
years in an asylum treating many illnesses. However he found the same people
returning who although healed of their physical ailments still chose to live by
begging. Dr Usui was deeply shaken. He realized that he had forgotten something
very important in his healing work: To teach gratitude. Following this he
thought out the Reiki principles:
Ethical Principles of Reiki
Just for today do not worry
Just for today do not anger
Honour your parents, teachers, and elders
Earn your living honestly
Show gratitude to everything
Before his death, Dr Usui passed the teaching of Reiki to his closest associate
Dr. Chijiro Hayashi. Dr. Hayashi opened a clinic in Tokyo where he practiced
Reiki. (that is the story as it was passed on to me). Here Ms.Takata came for
healing Hawayo Takata was Hawaiian of Japanese decent. She was in Japan facing
surgery for gallbladder disease appendicitis and a tumour. On the operating
table she heard a voice telling her " The surgery is not necessary"", She got up
off the table and asked the surgeon if there was another way for her to heal. He
directed her to Dr. Hayashi's clinic. She was completely healed in four months.
She decided she would like to be trained in Reiki so she stayed in Japan and
became a student of Dr. Hayashi. Dr Hayashi knew a great war was coming and
decided to pass the complete teaching to two women. His wife and Hawayo Takata.
Reiki is universal healing energy:
Ki = Life force, Chi, breath
Reiki = Universal life energy
When you are attuned to Reiki you are opened to the universal life energy. Reiki
attunements are much like tuning in a TV station. The TV waves are there you
just need to tune them in. The same is true with Reiki. Reiki does not only
treat where your hands are placed but will travel to where it is needed in the
body. Intuition is important when using Reiki. Move your hands to where you are
guided even if that is not where the pain is. |
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Dr. Ross acquired her 4 year undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech, and later went on to graduate from Virginia Maryland College Of Veterinary Medicine in 2019. She is a great addition to our team, she is very passionate about providing the best medicine as well as helping decide what is in the best interest for each patient. While getting her DVM degree she was worked as a lab technician for the clinical pathology lab at the vet school, so she really enjoys helping examine and identify cytology and tissue samples. She had the tremendous opportunity to participate in an exchange program to India where she received first hand experience with foreign diseases. Dr. Ross has a very strong passion for quality medicine and really enjoys soft tissue and orthopedic surgery. She aspires to build strong client relationships and to always continue to develop her skills.
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Voice to Voice is a series of questions and answers on wellness, creativity and arts between Mariama, a poet and women’s rights advocate and Djénéba, founder of Sɛbɛnni Ni Taama. It is a conversation between two creatives willing to flourish and learn from each other journeys. If you have missed the first part, here it is.
Mariama writes poetry in French and English, she describes herself as a “an extraordinary nobody who writes ordinary wonders” you can discover her words throughout this post and in her brand-new instagram La Chenille Râleuse.
Djénéba’s answer – Mariama’s question
As everybody is reflecting on the ending decade, what are the things and events from the past ten years that make you proud of yourself and the road you travelled?
This past decade has been eventful, I have done more than what I have ever done in my entire life, for 10 years ago I was 18 years old and decided to fly on my own. Since then, I moved places, learnt languages, met genuine and loving friends that turned into family, earned degrees and a few certificates, worked in rewarding environments, launched a website, travelled but also struggled finding the right opportunities in order to thrive, many things did not come easily, I surely had difficulties navigating my path.
The things that make me proud of myself are not events, even less achievements but the spiritual growth, the mental awareness, the development, how I overcome those challenges, turning a stifling place into a breathing space. Of course, I am also proud that I did not give up, even though it was tempting on numerous occasions. I am just starting to understand where those struggles come from, starting the new decade with more compassionate, being more in touch with my feelings.
I must also add some skills and habits I acquired such as waking up early by myself, daily jogging, being more active, writing, blogging, podcasting, public speaking, foreign language skills, copying skills. It is really not what is seen that makes me proud of the road I travelled but what is unseen.
Mariama’s answer – Djénéba’s question
Which poems have you written recently that helps you move forward every time?
I wouldn’t qualify the following poems recent, except for the last one which I wrote this month. Nonetheless, they are all very dear to my heart and give me comfort and strength to keep having faith in myself and move on.
Mais pourquoi la représentation
Leaving in order to be
Le Futur sera pavé de bonnes intentions
Discover them in her brand-new instagram La Chenille Râleuse.
What is your favourite piece of work that you have written and why?
In Sɛbɛnni Ni Taama’s blog, no doubt 25 things I have no doubt, which is maybe the 3rd post I have written on the blog and one of the most personal. Every time I read it, it makes something clearer in my path even 3 years later, it still applies.
I fell off and failed to live by them a lot of time, for it is not always that simple to listen to ourselves that is why it is essential to have it written down, to challenge our level of awareness.
It is like a personal mission statement an affirmation of self in this world. It never fails to provide and elevate my character. I encourage to try and write such a list when reaching a milestone for it is essential to be mindful and receptive to the lessons on your way, to apply them and to master them.
Picture © Djénéba Diallo
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Moga, Punjab: Claiming that the two brothers — Rupinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh — arrested by the police on the charge of sacrilege of the ‘bir’ of Guru Granth Sahib at Bargarhi village (Faridkot district) were innocent, the residents of Panjgrain Khurd — the native village of these youths — in Moga district have demanded a CBI inquiry into the allegations levelled against them.
Local SAD leader and block samiti member Gurmeet Singh, Nambardar Atma Singh, panch Dilbagh Singh, many former sarpanches and panches and residents of Panjgrain Khurd village gathered on the premises of the local gurdwara and discussed the arrest of the brothers, who have been baptised Sikhs for the past many years.
Gurmeet Singh said that the arrested youths and their family members, belonging to the Arora Sikh community, were adherents of Sikhism. It was hard to believe that the sacrilege, as claimed by the police, was committed by them.
Baldev Singh, sarpanch of the village, was not present at the gathering. He had reportedly gone to Faridkot to meet the youths in police custody. The gathering claimed that the sarpanch was also in favour of a CBI inquiry.
Atma Singh said that the police seemed to have ‘concocted’ the story of the involvement of Rupinder and Jaswinder.
The people vowed to stand by the youths and pursue their case.
Meanwhile, SGPC member Jagtar Singh Rode, who is leading the protests in Baghapurana sub-division, has demanded the release of the baptised Sikh youths arrested by the police, terming them as innocent. President of AISSF Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad, while demanding the handing over of the investigation to the CBI, said that innocent people should not be made scapegoats. The real culprits must be arrested and action taken as per law.
Sent to police custody
Faridkot: A day after two brothers from Panjgrain Khurd village were arrested, the court of Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class (JMIC), Faridkot, sent them to police custody till October 26.
The Bajakhana police produced Jaswinder and Rupinder Singh in the court of JMIC Shewta Dass at 6.30 am today.
The move to produce the accused in court so early in the day was intended to prevent any protest against their arrest.
The residents of Panjgrain Khurd and adjoining villages are not buying the police theory that Jaswinder Singh (24) and his younger brother Rupinder Singh (22), who are baptised Sikhs, had committed the sacrilege.
A large number of residents of Panjgrain village today assembled in the village gurdwara and were unanimous in their opinion that the youths were being made scapegoats to defuse the tension in the state. Villagers claimed the brothers had been in the forefront of the protests since a ‘bir’ was stolen from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala village on June 1.
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Upon establishing the Constitution of the United States, Benjamin Franklin said that, though he had hopes for the document’s longevity, the only things that would be certain moving forward were death and taxes. He was correct for a couple of centuries, at least until Donald Trump and “The Real Housewives” came along. Now, there are four irrefutable guarantees in this modern life: death, taxes, Trumpian chaos and at least one “Real Housewives” franchise airing on television at all times.
“Housewives” detractors might be reluctant to admit it, the show has become a salient point of contemporary American culture that can help viewers better understand the dynamics of the world around them.
But updating that dusty, old document shouldn’t be too much of a stretch, given that rewriting the Constitution is already a favored tactic among the Trump administration. Although, what foundational systems of America don’t feel like they’re being besieged lately? Longstanding policies, laws and modes of operation have been replaced by an onslaught of executive orders, mass government layoffs and allowing Elon Musk an unprecedented amount of influence. In simpler terms: The American government is under attack, and nobody knows what it’s like to be attacked more than a Real Housewife, whose first-season handbook includes an entire chapter on weaponizing that word.
This isn’t to say that two Housewives fighting about who stole a McMansion is directly comparable to Trump having a death grip on the White House, only that, despite all the cynics who claim it’s a meritless void, “Housewives” remains a valuable lens for analyzing our culture. Keeping up with the current news cycle is a uniquely challenging task. These days, we need more gumption and electrolytes to check CNN than we do to climb Everest. Trust me, it’s only a matter of time until a single push notification sends my phone flying against a wall and me to the Apple store with my tail between my legs.
But it often seems like that is precisely how exhausted and defeated the Trump administration wants people to feel whenever they enact a frightening new policy or make an inane change to a longstanding system that nobody wanted. (Getting rid of the Social Security phone service for seniors, who are famously not the most tech-savvy demographic? No notes.) The mission feels like its intent is to confuse, surprise and gaslight, and the only people who can give Trump a run for his money on those tactics are Housewives, who get a crash course in all three things before cameras go up. Both politics and “Housewives” are inescapable, no matter how hard we try to avoid them. And though “Housewives” outsiders might be reluctant to admit it, the show has become a salient point of contemporary American culture that can help viewers better understand the dynamics of the world around them.
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Suppose you are one of those outsiders, either to the world of “Real Housewives” or to the inner-workings of Trump’s second administration. In that case, you might be surprised to learn that there’s quite a bit of crossover between the two — and not just because several cast members of Bravo’s most famous franchise have voted for the man. Each “Housewives” series is a rickety house of cards, just waiting for a dramatic gust of wind to implode its structure so it can be rebuilt with the queens and jokers in a different place. Trump’s orbit shuffles just as frequently. It’s uncertain who will be the president’s favorite from week to week, only that he is the most powerful in this cast.
In Bravo terms, Trump is at the center of the commercial bumper used to bookend ad breaks and each episode’s opening taglines. In these bumpers, the cast of a “Housewives” show line up next to one another and hold up an object that tangentially relates to whatever city the cast lives in. The object varies between individual series; snowflakes for “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” apples for “New York,” you get the picture. Whoever stands in the middle of the group is designated the “center,” and therefore, the season’s top dog. Directly flanking Trump at either side would be JD Vance and Musk. From there, the line would fan out with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem and Linda McMahon —at least this week. What would this cast hold in their bumpers? Miniature Teslas or red MAGA hats. Or, ooo, nothing says “presidential” like some of those ridiculous Trump trading cards he was hawking before the election.
(Funnily enough, the short-lived “Real Housewives of D.C.” did not hold anything for their one beautiful trainwreck of a season.)
Like most “Housewives” series, the Trump administration has plenty of “friends-of” dropping into its cast of cartoon villains, and if they make a good enough impression during their time on-camera, they might just get bumped up to a season regular. Of course, the decks are shuffled much more frequently in the Trump Cabinet, but only because his reality show is not beholden to network episode orders and a litany of contractual agreements to be fulfilled. That constant instability is because American politics are seemingly no longer about actual policy, they’re about who can cozy up to Trump by doing his bidding most dotingly. And if someone in the administration can’t predict the president’s every thought, they risk being slapped with the moniker every Housewife dreads: “one-season-wonder.”
The pecking order might change from season to season. But it exists, and the success of any individual Housewife depends on their ability to identify it and play the game long enough to find out how the hierarchy operates. The same goes for Trump’s administration.
Former “RHONY” Housewife Cindy Barshop, a one-and-done from Season 4, once received a dressing down that tells us everything we need to know about how Donald Trump operates. After Barshop invited fellow Housewife Ramona Singer to a party and didn’t have a glass of pinot grigio ready and waiting for the most notorious white wine enthusiast on the East Coast, another cast member, Sonja Morgan, gave her an astute look at how “Housewives” operates. “There is a pecking order,” Morgan said. “You better know where your alliances are.”
In the normal world, where you and I exist, that’s an outrageous statement to say to anybody. But in the world of “Housewives,” it’s the truth. The pecking order might change from season to season — even episode to episode — but it exists, and the success of any individual Housewife depends on their ability to identify it and play the game long enough to find out how the hierarchy operates. The same goes for Trump’s administration. Play by his rules long enough and you’ll be rewarded with enough independence to assert some control over your fate, as Musk has been able to do by implementing his vague DOGE program into the American consciousness, something that will have lasting traumatic effects. But cross Trump at the wrong time and the hammer will swing down, just like it did to Barshop.
U.S. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)This is all to say that Trump plays by the reality show regulations. After a long stretch as the host and star of “The Apprentice,” it seems as though Trump realized that manipulating the real world like a softly produced reality show could work to his advantage, and to viewers’ eyes, he’s been doing it ever since. The only rule is that there are no rules. What would’ve constituted a headline-making scandal is brushed under the rug after a few days, with the notorious government actors treated with impunity. Things operate similarly over on Bravo, where the only things that can get you kicked off a “Housewives” show are acknowledging the farce of having cameras follow you around all day and abject racism. Sadly, we know the latter isn’t true for Trump’s administration. If anything, a racist scandal in Trump’s cabinet of fools constitutes a promotion to Top Jester of the Week. But I can’t imagine that a drunk driving incident would be enough for anyone to lose their spot in Trumpworld. And if a Housewife gets a DUI? They usually end up at the center of the cast bumper next season.
Because the interpersonal relationships within the administration directly affect the public, it’s only wise that we try to stay one step ahead, and if that results in people flocking to “Housewives” to study the politics of friendship at play, so be it. Anyone who’s seen “Real Housewives of Potomac” Grand Dame Karen Huger haze a cast newbie would know that incoming cabinet members face the same fate. “Housewives of Beverly Hills” royalty Kyle Richards functions more like RFK Jr.; both are part of a family dynasty and can pull new things to be mad about out of thin air just to get airtime. Had Volodymyr Zelenskyy been versed in “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” surely he would’ve known that his Oval Office meeting with Trump was going to end with a Meredith Marks-esque ousting.
(l-r) Jacqueline Blake, Stacey Rusch, Andy Cohen and Wendy Osefo during “The Real Housewives of Potomac” reunion episode (Clifton Prescod/Bravo)That said, there is a line between using “Housewives” as a map for where our country is headed and being totally flippant. Bravo producer Andy Cohen’s recent post about the spat between Trump and Zelenskyy, where he said that Zelenskyy “ate them up” (and misspelled the Ukrainian president’s name), was a bit too facetious for my taste. I don’t want to dumb this administration down or make light of their reprehensible actions, only give those who may be fearful or feel lost a little bit of accessible guidance to dip their toe into the muck. As difficult as that can be, we mustn’t give up just because being a progressive person in America often seems more challenging than it’s ever been. If that means watching or rewatching Bethenny Frankel withhold damning information about Luann de Lesseps’ one-time fiancé to analyze her machinations, then so be it!
But perhaps the most important thing to remember — and I say this at the risk of upending everything you’ve just read — is that, like “Housewives,” no amount of pattern tracking and anthropological research will help you predict exactly what will come next. There will inevitably be an event that comes out of left field that makes our jaws drop. If we have any luck, it’ll be as fleeting and inconsequential as the next shocking moment, always just around the corner on next week’s episode.
about how the dynamics of “Housewives” work
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The publisher of TrackNews Online Mr. Ogidi Ben Bara has cried out over alleged plot death threats and assassination attempts on his life.
In a statement personally signed by him on Monday, Ogidi Bara said his team has intel about potential assassination attempts on his life.
Ogidi Ben Bara also confirmed that some members of his team and his CSO were assaulted by gunmen suspected to be political thugs in Azikoro Town in Yenagoa local Government Area of the Bayelsa state on Sunday 30th July 2023.
He said, “There have been lots of threats. We have gotten a lot of intel about potential assassination attempts on my life and my team.
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Trish writes narrative nonfiction and short stories, some of which have won international competitions and are analysed in her latest book Inside Stories for Writers and Readers. She is also a social anthropologist and author of travelogues. Trish lives in New Zealand. You can follow her on Twitter @TrishaNicholson and visit her tree house on her website at http://trishnicholsonswordsinthetreehouse.com
Take it away Trish…
Trish: Thank you Stavros. I’d like to start with the idea that although film and the short story may each employ different strengths to tell a particular tale, what they share is greater than their differences.
“Short story and film are expressions of the same art, the art of telling a story by a series of subtly implied gestures, swift shots, moments of suggestion…”(H .E. Bates).
Dialogue is especially significant in this respect. By eavesdropping on what they say, readers and viewers hear characters’ desires and intentions directly from the source. Crafted with care, verbal exchanges demonstrate character traits, emotional states, relationships with twists of deceit, manipulation and asymmetry, and they reveal facts and motivations that push the plot.
‘Talk’ that achieves none of these is idle chatter that clutters the story and slows the pace.
In Inside Stories for Writers and Readers, I unpick dialogue in a couple of stories, explaining the role of each spoken phrase. The following excerpt shows how much can be conveyed through a few lines of dialogue within a 100-word micro-fiction. In this story, a couple sit at a table in a train-station café. A tramp occupies the same table and lifts his T-shirt to scratch flea bites.
“Let’s move,” you hiss.
We learn the character being quoted is probably intolerant of tramps. A tag had to be used because no one has spoken up to that point and there are three people at the table, but the ‘hiss’ not only tells us how the words were delivered, but that the narrator seems to have a negative attitude towards the comment, or the speaker – to use ‘whisper’ instead, would have given a whole different meaning and character hint.
“There’s still an hour,” I say.
It is unlikely that the tramp would have spoken this, so the tag is not necessary in that sense, but it provides the symmetry of ‘you said/I said’ to point up the rejoinder that deliberately ignores the subtext of the other speaker as to the reason for moving: there is underlying tension here.
We’re starting over: going on a second honeymoon – to Torquay.
This suggests problems in the past but the inner voice of the narrator is optimistic, and gives vital plot information – where they are going and why.
“You’re always so obtuse.” I feel your spittle spatter my face.
The choice of ‘obtuse’, while apt anyway, was made especially for its spittle-delivering qualities. The use of ‘always’, like ‘never’, is argumentative and again indicates a history of conflict. The spittle comment is not needed as a speech tag, but it up-grades the speaker’s anger and paints a visual picture of the scene.
You get the Brighton train.
The narrator’s inner dialogue describes an important action in the plot, and the one word “Brighton” tells us there will be no second honeymoon (the significance of “Torquay” earlier). [The Last Train].
Dialogue helps us to create vivid scenes; to emulate the immediacy of film by revealing crucial aspects of our stories directly through the words and actions of characters.
Stavros: Once again, I want to extend a special thank you to Trish Nicholson for agreeing to share with us her considerable knowledge of the craft of writing.
Trish: It’s been my pleasure Stavros.
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For business people, small company managers, and corporate experts as well, service media takes on a crucial function in opening possibilities, creating partnerships, and making sure long-term growth. Social network, when done effectively, is just one of one of the most effective resources in any service expert’s arsenal. However, in an increasingly digital globe where distant work as well as online activities have become the rule, media can easily in some cases feel intimidating or uncomfortable. However, learning the art of media can make beneficial partnerships that raise your company to new heights.
Media isn’t nearly showing up at celebrations, exchanging calling card, or making small talk; it has to do with purposefully creating a circle of depended on contacts that can help you address troubles, provide advise, promotion cooperations, and help develop your job or business. Media does not only help you– it gains everyone included when performed the right way.
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Media has developed into a vital element of expert progression and company excellence. It’s not merely an approach of finding brand-new clients or customers yet additionally a method of gaining insights and also responses, learning from peers, and remaining upgraded on sector styles. Whether you are actually a freelancer, a startup owner, or portion of a huge organization, networking opens doors for development, partnership, and also knowledge-sharing.
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Rebates have become increasingly popular in the last few years on a lot of items and certainly on electronic items and computers. Rebates of $20, $50 or $100 are not uncommon.
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The way a rebate works is that you pay the listed price for an item then mail in a form and the bar code to the manufacturer and they send you a refund thus reducing the price of what you paid for the item except with a time delay of several weeks.
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Traffic Court - Appear by Phone
Did you know that counsel can appear for disputants by telephone to defend their ticket? Section 15.2 of the Offence Act has long had a specific section allowing Judicial Justices to adopt procedures that are "conducive to justly and expeditiously determining the matter". This original section arguably gave Judicial Justices the right to approve phone appearances by defendants for some time, and was utilized to allow officer's to testify by phone (as well as prosecute). Recently, the legislature passed a new piece of legislation (section 15.2(3) OA), allowing a defendant to defend themselves by telephone. And, via section 57(2) counsel may appear for the driver. This section, in our opinion is permissive. It is an option of the disputant (.. "the disputant... may appear). This section allows disputants to appear to defend their cases where previously it may have been impractical or practically impossible to do so. This makes sense in a mobile world, and in a world where the legislature and the courts have an obligation to facilitate reasonable access to the justice system. As a result it is our opinion all but the most complex matters should be permitted to appear by phone, (or where a phone appearance is simply not possible).
As a result, it is our opinion that the law supports that in all circumstances where counsel is appearing for a disputant, an initial phone appearance should be allowed, to potentially resolve the matter or if a trial is proceeding for the hearing judicial justice, after hearing from both sides (crown and defence) can decide if it is appropriate for a trial in this format. In most cases we respectfully submit, it should be (where counsel is appearing). This is because any defence (most tickets are resolved without hearing), would be by cross-examinations and submissions only (via counsel), relatively easily done by telephone. In this case, there would be no defendant testimony, no exhibits to submit, no translation issues, from the defence side. Accordingly a telephone appearance by counsel is viable, practical, meets the aims of the legislature set out in 15.2(1) and 15.2(3), and meets a fundamental purpose of the court: to provide access to justice.
The pandemic transformed the way people think about accessing services, and the court system has transformed as a result, for the better in all levels allowing remote access. This has given people a practical way to dispute their ticket and access justice. It also, from a broader, and hopefully the court's perspective, is another tool to mitigate the potential for (wrongful) convictions that result automatically when a disputant does not attend (even if the Crown were not present to provide evidence).
In summary, phone appearances are available and most JJ's approve at least a first appearance (not all, but I remain hopeful that is evolving). Given the fundamentals of the court and purpose of the legislation, I am hopeful telephone appearances will continue to be approved generally for counsel to give disputant's a practical opportunity in court. The Judicial Justices have some discretion to deny phone appearances, but in my opinion this should not be done lightly, and should be done only rarely. I look forward to reviewing developments in the Supreme Court on this matter, which I expect will give more certainty to the lower courts and provide more consistency in how and when discretion should be used by the Judicial Justices in requiring disputants to appear in person (per s.15.2(1) OA).
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WHY PICK AJARYA?
Selection of Teachers:
Ajarya stipulates regularly, continued hours to its teachers for their personal sadhana (practice). Ajarya has removed such teachers who deviate from this cardinal principle.
B. Continued practice / Application of yoga in daily living:
Ajarya ensures all its lead yoga teachers have atleast a Post Graduation Degree or Diploma in Yoga.
All Ajarya teachers are encouraged to attend Continuing Yoga programs and refresher courses.
Ajarya encourages its teachers to regularly communicate with their Gurus and Acharyas by asking them to participate in seminars and conferences.
All Ajarya teachers must be present in all their sessions. If for any reason a teacher is absent, substitutes with more experience and knowledge take-over. Ajarya teachers build a standby team along with a main team for their courses.
Ajarya has a progression plan for their teacher as detailed below in the Progression Plan!
E. Intuition or Higher Wisdom:
Ajarya encourages its Teachers to teach in other Teachers' Traning program where their experience can help many more. Ajarya also encourages its team of teachers to enrol for higher learning programs in Yoga!
Our Evaluation methods not only include internal assessments, group discussions and theory examinations but also assess the Guna (Tamas, Rajas and Sattva) Scores of each of our trainees. We measure the Guna Scores at the beginning and at the end of each course to assess the students' holistic growth.
Board of Advisors:
Ajarya has yoga experts as Advisors on its Board of Advisors. Ajarya has a structured Board of Studies and an Academic Council. All programs have a Lead Trainer and a separate team of teachers to conduct the courses.
Ajarya regularly recycles any content which is redundant on its website including any older Faculty. Ajarya Adjunct Faculty is readily available on-call to teach specialisation subjects for all its courses.
Selection of Venue(s):
Ideally, all our venues have in-house food and stay facilities. We have single and double bedded rooms to individuals and couplese too . The classes are held inside the same campus as stay and the food. Healthy, non-vegan, sattvic food is served for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Fresh Yoghurt is served for Breakfast and as part of the weekly Menu for Lunch. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables are freshly cut only 30 minutes before consumption. Housekeeping is done compulsorily every three days or any time on demand. Kitchen vessels are chlorinated every two weeks. There are two yoga studios that look out in to the nature on both sides. The venue also has a green lawn and a sit out where campfires could be burned during winter.
Ajarya has an active alumni program. In its two years of training, most graduates are practising and teaching yoga in different parts of the world. The progression of our teachers is given below in the Progression Plan.
Ajarya has showcased many distinct activities and projects through its websites. Ajarya allows its Alumni and the worldwide yoga community to participate freely in the development of its website.
Ajarya offers you… A Sure shot progression in your Yogic Path + the Ajarya Advantage
We at Ajarya are focused in helping you grow in the path you have chosen, rather than this being just a one-off experience.
Helping Sincere Students gather Experience and Opportunities
- Get precious E-RYT - Accumulate hours through certified teaching assistance at AYA beyond your course
- CE - Continuing Education Opportunities through Diversified Yoga Programs that AYA will be launching. This will give you a life-time experience of sharpening your skills and further your learning with diversity.
- Scholarship Program - Open to a maximum of 1 student per batch of the 200 hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Program and awarded to a passionate / experienced Yoga practitioner
You can even evolve into becoming a full Ajarya Yoga Teacher as you accumulate credits
Supporting & Helping Your Teaching Practice to Grow
- Help support your own Teaching Practice back home and (perhaps) your own Yoga Studio
- Help you get teaching assignments from recruiters seeking out teachers
- Help you conduct your own Training Programs
Ajarya has exclusive tie ups with leading Yoga networks. As a special advantage to Ajarya Students, the Ajarya Outreach program will help you get students from your area - a crucial marketing aspect to help your yoga practice take off.
Also, we will help reach your profile to other Yoga Studios + Yoga Teachers in your Area and beyond – a possibility for you to get teaching assignments
Skilled students having already completed the Ajarya Teacher Training Program and having accumulated independent teaching hours are eligible for the Ajarya Partner Program
- Help you set up an Ajarya RYS at your location - Ajarya is registered with YA and is authorized to setup schools around the world
- Help you make a mark through the Ajarya credibility
Advantage at Ajarya:
The Location Advantage: Rishikesh has been revered for centuries as a seat of Yoga learningfor the wonderful vibrations that it is blessed with. The combination of rich spiritual energy with the purity of the Ganges river and the Himalayas in the vicinity make most students fall in love with the place.
The Course Advantage: Ajarya’s Teacher Training Course does away the usual learning-by-rote pattern and focuses more on the practical correlation of yoga philosophy and practices to make learning understandable and useful to the participants.
The Facilities Advantage: An Exclusive advantage at Ajarya is the care we take at ensuring a healthy and hygienic living. Recognizing the need for high safety standards in nutrition AND requirements of a comfortable stay for a 4-week TTC program, Ajarya has taken steps to provide a memorable stay experience in itself.
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Andy Murray would ‘love’ Olympic gold medal
August 18, 2013Andy Murray has admitted that he would ‘love’ to win an Olympic gold medal at this summer’s London Games.
Despite hopes of putting an end to his search for a first Grand Slam, the world number four wants to put on a show for his British fans.
“It’s a fantastic year for tennis in the capital,” Murray told The Metro. “I want to win my first Grand Slam, but I would also love to gain an Olympic gold medal.
“I’ve played in it before and have some special memories of being there with athletes from other sports.”
“I have to alter my schedule a bit but that isn’t a problem. The Olympics are much higher in profile than they used to be and [Roger] Federer, [Novak] Djokovic and [Rafael] Nadal will be there. And being in London makes it very special for me as I will be playing in front of my fans.”
World number two Nadal won the men’s singles tournament at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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Montenegro put faith in ‘Ferrari’ strike duo
August 18, 2013When England captain Steven Gerrard opined that Montenegro “have got certain individuals in the world-class category”, he did not have to name names.
Marko Basa, of French club Lille, is a rugged presence at centre-back and his fellow defender Stefan Savic won the Premier League title at Manchester City last season, but the team’s lethal weapons are their forwards, Mirko Vucinic and Stefan Jovetic.
With 14 international goals, captain Vucinic is the all-time leading scorer for the national side, which only came into existence six years ago following the country’s split from Serbia in 2006.
An elegant forward with a powerful shot, he helped Juventus to a Serie A and Coppa Italia double last year in his first season at the club following a 15-million-euro ($19.5 million) transfer from Roma in 2011.
At 23, Jovetic is six years Vucinic’s junior, but he has also been an integral part of the national team from the very first days of its existence.
The mop-haired support striker missed the whole of the 2010-11 season with a serious cruciate knee ligament injury but came back even stronger for club side Fiorentina.
Having scored 14 league goals in his comeback season, he has already found the net 12 times in Serie A this term and has reportedly been identified as a close-season transfer target by English giants Arsenal.
As strike partners, they make for an untypical duo.
Neither player is a true striker, with Vucinic habitually drawing to the left-hand side of the pitch and Jovetic more comfortable in the hole, but their positional interchanging makes them fiendlishly hard to mark.
Both are also fully aware of their responsibilities to the national team, who could extend their advantage at the top of World Cup qualifying Group H to five points with victory over England in Podgorica on Tuesday.
“We are an old country with a young football association, and our country’s past is something we are very proud of,” said Vucinic, scorer of the only goal in Friday’s 1-0 win in Moldova.
“The fact we have never qualified for the World Cup finals or European Championship is extra motivation for us to keep getting results and to keep improving.
“For Montenegro, a match with England is spectacular. No one wants to miss it.”
Montenegro managed two draws against England when the sides met in qualifying for Euro 2012 and finished second in the group, only to lose out to the Czech Republic in the play-offs.
They have made the early running once again in the current campaign and invite England to the Podgorica City Stadium with a commanding position in the group to defend.
Montenegro coach Branko Brnovic expects England to make most of the running on Tuesday evening, but he knows that Roy Hodgson’s side will be more than aware of the hosts’ attacking threat.
“We will maybe park a bus in defence,” he said, “but we also have two Ferraris in attack.”
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Seventeen iSchool students are among the recipients of UW Libraries 2025 Student Employee Scholarships.
Thanks to sponsors from UW Libraries donors, 50 student employees received a $1,000 scholarship award for their work and contributions to the libraries’ operations.
Of the iSchool recipients, 14 are from the Master of Library and Information Science program: Phoebe Brand, Sarah Collins, Linnea Davis, Ian Diedrich, April Rayne Duncan, Petra Ellerby, Seth Connor Gandt, Taylor Hazan, Sara Hruska, Sasha Olivia Powers, Heidi Shepard, Hannah Shulski, West Dean Skrobiak-Bales and Jet To. Two recipients are from the Master of Science in Information Management program: Cian-Ying (Ivy) Chen and Shreya Lokray. And one recipient is an undergraduate student in the Informatics program: Elroe Yayiso.
UW Libraries recognized the winners’ achievements with a reception on March 5. Simon Neame, Dean of University Libraries, welcomed all to the event, followed by a speech from guest speaker Julie Tanaka, the Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections at UW Libraries. Two honorees then shared their winning scholarship application essays.
More about the event and scholarship program can be found in the .
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“What do you want me to do for you? ” [Mark 10:51(RAV)]
January 22, 2024
“What do you want me to do for you? “. This is the question Jesus asked a blind beggar. It is a valid question for you and me today. What do we want the Lord to do for us?
The Christian is called to be the “salt of the earth” and much prayer he makes will be of a general nature – for the sick and lonely, for safety in travel, for peace and stability in the nation, and so on. But this man was asked a personal question.
What Jesus wants to do for you will not only give you peace and joy, it will enable you to fill the place God has for you. There will be no mistaking what the Lord does. Jesus healed the blind beggar but the story didn’t stop there. Bartimaeus followed Jesus – that was fulfilling the purpose of his healing. He will do the same for you.
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Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival
Event Date: October 22 – 25, 2021
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY
Lehman College, Bronx, NY
And the winners are:
First Place in the Student Category for the film Every Color at Once – Caleb Phillip James and Anya Potter Certificate and $500 cash award.
First Place in the Documentary Short Category – The Vanishing Trial – Wynette Yao
Certificate and $500 cash award.
First Place in the Narrative Short Category – Two Sands – Poppy Van Oorde Grainger and David Kochar Certificate and $500 cash award. (from Australia)
First Place in the Feature Length Documentary Category – Indebted to All Women – Maria Lobo and Roi Guitian Certificate and $1000 cash award. (from Spain).
We are proud to announce, next year we will be hosting the 2nd Annual Bronx Social Justice Matters International Film Festival.
Advocating for Social Justice; Film, Fervor and Focus
Attika J. Torrence
Attika’s Emmy Nomination and TV Academy Honors Award came from a six-part docu-se- ries he produced, called Rest In Power – The Trayvon Martin Story.
Rest In Power – The Trayvon Martin Story was executive produced by Jay Z and the parents of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Attika was also the winner of the BET reality competition show about filmmaking entitled BET’s Lens On Talent – Scene Stealers.
Constantly evolving and reinventing himself, Attika jumped into the novelist world out of a need to continuously create and grow as an artist. “As a screenplay writer, if the screenplay is not turned into a movie, it dies in its form as a screenplay. If that same energy is put into a novel or a non-fiction book, it can stand alone and always be turned into a screenplay later.”
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018.
Taylor is a scholar of racial inequality in public policy making and the various ways that Black communities have challenged or resisted these constraints. She writes extensively on race and politics, Black social movements and organizing, and radical activism and politics. Taylor is currently working on a project examining the retreat in the 1980s from the promise of civil rights, alongside the emergence of widening chasms in Black America along social, economic and political fault lines.
Taylor is among the inaugural cohort of Freedom Scholars funded by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation. Taylor has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians. She is a 2021 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Taylor is also a contributing writer for The New Yorker
Elizabeth Payamps is the Director of Future Now at Bronx Community College (BCC), a campus-based HSE and college enrollment program offering a wide range of classes for students age 17-24. In 2012, Ms. Payamps was recognized by the NY Public Library’s prestigious Brooke Russell Astor Award for her significant impact in the field of education. In June 2014, she received the LAC’s Outstanding Literacy Practitioner Award, for her outstanding contribution to the field of literacy in New York City. In October 2017, she received the Percy Douglas Award for her contribution to “Collaborations that Matter” in the field of education and social justice.
As Director of Future Now, Elizabeth has built a nationally recognized model of a high performing HSE and college transition program serving low income and justice involved youth and effective peer mentoring and leadership development programs. In 2011, Future Now’s college focused peer mentoring program, IMPACT, was chosen for replication as part of the NYC Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative and Ms. Payamps is overseeing the technical assistance to implement the Future Now/IMPACT model at other CUNY campus-based HSE programs.
Elizabeth holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Queens College of the City University of New York and a Masters Degree in Administration of Social Work from Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Eileen Markey is a journalist whose work has long focused on social movements, urban public policy and the intersection of faith and political life. She has reported extensively on housing, homelessness and displacement. Her work is grounded in the Bronx where she has been based since the 1990s, though she has also reported from Nicaragua and El Salvador, Cambodia, London and the U.S.-Mexico border.
Markey is the author of New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors’ Pick A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sr. Maura, the investigative biography of a woman killed by U.S. trained forces in El Salvador because of her participation in a transnational liberation movement. She is the editor of Without Compromise: The Brave Journalism that First Exposed Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the American Epidemic of Corruption, an anthology of the work of Village Voice muckraking reporter Wayne Barrett, which traces the neoliberal transformation of New York City post fiscal crisis. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, The Village Voice, WNYC New York Public Radio, Citylimits, and The New Republic among other publications. An assistant professor of Journalism at Lehman College of the City University of New York, her work increasingly focuses on the role of public memory in forming allegiances and shaping perceptions of the present. She lives in the Bronx with her family.
Ask the Filmmakers
Ask the Filmmakers Discussion
The Ask the Filmmakers is a panel devoted to everything and anything about filmmaking in general, and filmmaking for social justice goals in particular. Moderated by BCC’s own 6- time Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Dr. Debra Gonsher, four filmmakers whose films were selected for the Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival, will answer questions about their films, share tricks of the trade, as well as advice on how to get past what may seem like insurmountable obstacles in production, post- production or even distribution.
Sunday, October 24, 2021 from 12-1:00 P.M.
Films to be Featured at the Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival
The official selections for this fall’s Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival have been chosen. The Festival runs online from October 22 through October 24 on the FilmFestival + platform.
The three CUNY colleges in the Bronx, Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College and Lehman College, along with the United Nations Association of El Salvador and GLACO (Grupo Latinamericano de Consules en New Jersey) created this unique event, which will feature films from around the world devoted to a global culture of equality. Information on how to register will posted Tickets are $25.00 for Early Bird access ($15.00 for students) and $40.00 for regular access ($25.00 for students).
Four films will be selected for awards. A thousand dollars will go to the first-place winner in the category of Documentary Feature Length, while a $500 prize will go to the first-place winners in the Narrative Short and Documentary Short categories, as well as the outstanding work by a student.
The compelling films are:
Sundown Town. Bryce and Mitchell’s trip home is disrupted after making a pit stop in a mysteriously unwelcoming town. This film contains graphic images that may be triggering for some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. A student entry. Directed by Mylo Butler
The Night it Rained. After losing his scholarship, a queer college student makes a life-altering decision that impacts his hopes to stay enrolled. This film contains sexual content that may be triggering for some audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. A student entry. Directed by Lamont Lamar
The Nightmare. Josue, a Latinx teenager, uses art to fight back against a nightmare in which a man threatens to kill him if he doesn’t “go home.” Then, the line between dreaming and being awake begins to blur. Directed by Julio C. Muñoz
Two Sands. As Garang struggles on his first day at high school in Australia, memories of being lost in South Sudan are triggered. When past and present collide, Garang must find a way to bridge the gap between where he is and where he’s come from. Directed by Poppy van Oorde-Grainger
Cops Are(n’t) Colorblind: Changing the NYPD from the Inside and Out tells the stories of Demitrius and Niaja, who experienced racial profiling by the police as young teenagers. It includes interviews with politicians and others working inside and outside the police system. Directed by Temis Anthony Cantos, Demitrius Doward, Nyla Cepeda, Laye (Dany) Diakite, Geordy (Geo) Eduardo Mejia, Niaja L. Nazario, Diana Pagan, Jhonatan St. Phard, Taliya Hughes, Mikey Rosa, Moesha Martinez, Shaniya Fletcher
Daca Card. One Daca student’s experiences in college. A student entry. Directed by Tenzin Yougyal
Every Color at Once. Mural artist and Grand Rapids local Anya Potter reflects on her relationship with self-portraiture as a Black woman growing up in an overwhelmingly white education system. A student entry. Directed by Caleb Phillip James
Love in the Time of Fear. Four diverse Americans marginalized by a change of governments in the United States share their reflections on life and love in a time of fear. Directed by Sebastian Rogers
Our Feet Are Rooted exposes the injustice of government-sponsored land-grabbing in Northern Uganda and the non-violent techniques community members are using to fight for their ancestral land. Directed by Krista Imbesi
Reparations explores the four-century struggle to seek repair and atonement for slavery in the United States. Black and Asian Americans reflect on the legacy of slavery, the inequities that persist and the critical role that solidarity between communities plays in acknowledging and addressing systemic racism in America. Directed by Jon Osaki
Strength Among Us. The story of four refugee women who stand on their own feet despite all their painful and difficult life experiences and struggle for their families. Directed by Taha Ovacı
The Vanishing Trial. Four people in the criminal justice system were forced to make an excruciating choice. Each was threatened with a “trial penalty,” the term used to describe the substantially longer prison sentence people receive if they exercise their constitutional right to trial instead of pleading guilty. We see how the trial penalty has led to the shocking disappearance of one of the most fundamental individual rights and the explosion in America’s prison population. Directed by Wynette Yao
Vaveyla. The story of a teacher, his students and their parents and how a collection of colorful boxes becomes a metaphor for the care and nurturing of young minds. Directed by Kenan KARAYAĞIZ
End Game: Breaking the Silence. This unprecedented investigation, conducted in six countries (USA, UK, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany) and covering a variety of sports over a period of two years, shows that sexual violence in sports is not the result of isolated incidents but rather the abuses of an entire system. Directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Luneau-Daurignac
Indebted to All Women. Abortion in El Salvador is punished with 20 to 40-year prison sentences. Indebted to All Women wants to give voice to those women suffering and struggling to change one of the most restrictive laws in the world against sexual and reproductive rights. Directed by María Lobo and Roi Guitián
La Lucha Sigue. (The Struggle Continues) In Honduras, the most dangerous place in the world to be a land defender, the Lenca and Garífuna people are not backing down. They are fighting to uphold their rights and Indigenous and Black cultures in the face of state-backed megaprojects and narco-traffickers who seek to assassinate them, destroy their lands and erase their existence.
Rigged. The recent U.S. college admissions scandal is not merely an aberration in an otherwise virtuous system. It lays bare a higher education culture in which wealth and influence remain the predominant values. Rigged examines how this obsolete value system grows the disparity between rich and poor and thereby undermines the future of American Democracy. Directed by Tracy MacDonald
Film Festival Judges
- Famor Botero, film director, producer, Sofia, Los Ochos, La Ignominia, America del Mundo
- Gregory Corwin, video editor, for series on Discovery, History and Travel Channels, and Animal Planet.
- Ron Frierson, Director, Economic Policy, Mayor’s Office, Los Angeles
- Debra Gonsher, producer, Brightness of Noon, Beauty of Their Dreams, A Peace of Bread, Unseen (in post-production); Professor, Bronx Community College; Coordinator, Liberal Arts & Sciences AA (General).
- Mona Hennein, CEO LifeFocus Communications, Producer of Unchained: Racial Trauma and Healing
- Ava Odom Martin, WTTW/Chicago PBS
- Nancy Tong, producer, Trailblazers in Habits, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Jeffrey Wisotsky, Director of Media & Digital Film Program, Professor, Bronx Community College.
About the Festival
Borough of the Bronx in New York City = birthplace of Jennifer Lopez, Billy Joel, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and hip hop music. But it’s also known as the home of one of the poorest districts in the country, one of the highest mortality rates from COVID 19 and one of the worst highways in the nation.
That dichotomy is at the center of the Bronx Social Justice Matters Film Festival, which highlights films (national and international) and filmmakers, (professionals and those in the making), with change as their agenda. Social justice speaks to a global culture of equality. The festival will showcase films that challenge social constructs throughout the world by looking at both the “Bigger Picture “as well as the more personal and intimate perspective.
With this in mind, three CUNY colleges in the Bronx, Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College and Lehman College, along with the United Nations Association of El Salvador and GLACO (Grupo Latinamericano de Consules en New Jersey) created this unique Film Festival.
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Happy 2016 lovelies! Hope you had a wonderful holiday season. Mine went by too fast. The weather has been so off and on (pretty sure it was like 75 on Christmas Eve here in Raleigh) but I think we're finally headed back into cooler temps. Which makes this sweater outfit the perfect Winter Date night inspiration. Psssst there's also a coupon code for 50% off this bag!
The Hex Collection "Convertible Belt Bag" in Holograph c/o (use code 50off2016 site wide for 50% off! Valid through 1/4/16)
American Eagle Outfitters jeggings
Zara metallic pumps (sold out try these)
Zero UV mirror aviators
O Necklace personalized twitter necklace c/o
Michael Kors "Bradshaw" watch in Rose Gold
When I posted this look on instagram, I called it 50 shades of a Snowflake, so I'm sticking with that. i loved the different shades of blue/silver together. Kind of monochromatic.
When dressing up for date night during the week, it can be hard depending on how dressy or nice you want to look. I say, throw on a sweater, dark pair of jeans, a fun pair of shoes and one bold accessory. In this case, it's my metallic belt bag - which is also 50% off TODAY ONLY. By adding that extra pop of fun, you feel comfortable, yet put together with a touch of pizzazz.
P.S. does anyone even use the word "pizzazz" anymore? I think it's kind of underrated. Is this going to be like the time Gretchen tried to make "fetch" happen?
Anyways, I digress. Go scoop up this belt bag for a steal and use the code 50off2016 for 50% off The Hex Collection site wide.
Happy Monday loves! Can't wait to see what 2016 brings for us!
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If any of you know me, you know I don’t read as much science fiction as I do fantasy, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love a good space or cyberpunk jaunt. I’m also interested in writing more science fiction of my own, and what better way to do that than with a contest motivator?
Enter The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade. It is a collection of winning short stories from the Jim Baen Memorial Award contest that William Ledbetter and Baen Books host every year, in honor of positive science fiction and the late and great Jim Baen.
I’ll be enjoying, then studying, these stories over the next few weeks, so expect at least a few posts about it, including a review of the book overall. I’m impressed with what little I’ve skimmed so far. I regret to say I don’t recognize many of the names off the bat (Again, not really the genre I’ve spent much time reading in recent years), but I do recognize Brad Torgerson. I loved The Chaplain’s War, so I’ve high hopes for his short story “Gemini XVII.”
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-Texas) is gaining steam in his race for the GOP nomination, up to his highest level yet — 15 percent — in the new Washington Post-ABC News national poll. He trails President Obama by a mere five points among registered voters in a possible general election matchup. But should Paul fall short of winning his party’s nod and opt to run as a third-party candidate, the survey finds he could seriously shake up the 2012 political calculus, largely to Obama’s benefit.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ties Obama at 47 percent among registered voters in the poll, but fully 21 percent of all voters say they’d pick Paul as an independent candidate over either Romney or the president. Obama would win such a three-way match-up by 10 percentage points. The potential damage is less obvious for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who trails Obama by eight points in a two-way contest and 11 points with Paul in the mix.
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A Ukrainian court has ordered a Russian journalist jailed for two months pending investigation on treason charges.
Kirill Vyshinskiy, the head of the Ukrainian office of Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, has been in custody since his detention Tuesday by Ukraine's security agency SBU. The move followed SBU raids of the Kiev offices of RIA Novosti and RT television.
The agency says the Russian state-funded media outlets are being "used as tools in a hybrid war against Ukraine."
The court in Kherson in southern Ukraine ruled Thursday to keep Vyshinskiy in jail for 60 days.
Russia has strongly protested Vyshinskiy's arrest as an attack on media freedom. The Council of Europe said it is "concerned about the implications that repeated detentions of journalists may have for the situation with media freedom in Ukraine."
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Another batch of medical aid was sent to the Rakhiv District Hospital as part of the project "Improving the Protection of Children in Emergencies in Ukraine by Providing Safe Shelters, Food and Non-Food Items, and Psychosocial Support". The humanitarian aid includes vital medicines for obstetric practice, as well as tonometers, pulse oximeters and bactericidal lamps. Rakhiv district is a mountainous region of the Zakarpattia Oblast, where a large part of the population lives in remote villages. The district has also hosted many IDP families from the temporarily occupied and frontline territories. Helping local doctors is always relevant, so we took the opportunity to support them in their work.
As a reminder, the Medical Aid Committee in Zakarpattya is implementing this project with the support of "terre des hommes Deutschland e.V." and funding from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.
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South Africa’s canoe sprint sweetheart Bridgitte Hartley narrowly missed out on a hopeful top five position at the opening round of the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Milan over the weekend however the London Olympics bronze medallist was still pleased with her opening performance in the women’s K1 500m A final on Saturday 3 May.
Having had a disastrous start to the 2013 season when she contracted chicken pox, the Natal Canoe Club star also had a tricky start to the 2014 season although thankfully it didn’t involve sickness, just a patch of typically unpredictable European weather in the build up to the opening event in Milan.
“My aim was a top five but my first two weeks in Europe did not go quite as planned with the weather being terrible!” Hartley said. “Not having many training partners also made it quite difficult as I then wasn’t able to sharpen my speed in training as I’d hoped. The race was however very close, with less than two seconds separating second from sixth, so I guess I’m pretty happy!”
With next year’s ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships set to take place at the same venue, the focus for Hartley ahead of the season opener wasn’t necessarily on this year’s World Cup series but rather on using the opening leg as preparation for the World Champs next year.
“I was nervous at the start but I knew that the weekend was for practice (for next year) and was important in helping me gain experience on the 2015 world champs course so I was just trying to keep focused on that,” she stressed.
Having finished just 1.720 seconds behind the winner, Lisa Carrington of New Zealand, it is evident that Hartley is right up with the best in the world in terms of her fitness and pre-season preparations which is encouraging for the Pietermaritzburg local at such an early stage of the season.
“The international K1 woman’s field is extremely strong at the moment and I like to think I have a good, strong base to work off. I wasn’t far off the medallists in this first race of the season so that is something that I am really happy about,” said a satisfied Hartley.
Being one of the only South African paddlers that is consistently on the Sprint World Cup circuit, it is often difficult for Hartley being away from home for such a long period of time and not having the same support that many of her international rivals enjoy meant that having her boyfriend, four-time Dusi Canoe Marathon winner Andy Birkett, over there with her gave her a sense of comfort.
“It was great having Andy over to help as it’s so lonely and very stressful trying to get results after races, to see semi-final start times, lane draws and the like.
“And it’s always good to have someone go to the jetty with you to calm the nerves before a race, so it was really helpful!” she said.
Despite this year’s World Cup circuit offering good rehearsal opportunities and there still being some time before next year’s World Champs, Hartley’s first major peak in the build up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the typically short World Cup season and her eagerness to perform well at 2015’s international calendar’s pinnacle sees the London Olympic bronze medallist still highly motivated to be in the hunt for higher honours during the current World Cup season.
“This World Cup is all race practice against the best in the world and, until I have actually qualified for the Rio Olympics, I can only really say this is preparation for World Champs next year which will be an important Olympic qualifier for me.
“I still have lots of training and racing to do before this year’s World Champs though so I’m really pleased with this past weekend’s solid start to the season. I would also really like to win a medal this season so there is still lots of work left to do,” Hartley concluded hopefully.
Summary of results – ICF CANOE SPRINT WORLD CUP MILAN
Womens K1 500m A Final
1. Lisa Carrington (NZL) 1:51.849
2. Franziska Weber (Ger) 1:52.841
3. Yvonne Schurling (AUT) 1:52.861
4. Beata Mikolazczyk (POL) 1:53.089
5. Karolina Naja (POL) 1:53.141
6. Bridgitte Hartley (RSA) 1:53.569
7. Dalma Ruzicic-Benedek (SRB) 1:54.973
8. Naomi Flood (AUS) 1:55.189
9. Henriette Engel Hansen (DEN) 1:55.745
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By: Fearless Comedy Productions
Written by: Duck Washington
Location: Theatre in the Round
Summary: A series of comedy sketches about what it means to be biracial in America today.
Highlights: This is a very funny and insightful piece about race in America, especially for those that fall into the "other race" category. Duck and his fellow cast-members (Suzanne Victoria Cross, Ted Femrite, and Kirsten Wade, playing characters of all races, genders, and species, plus Matthew Kessen as the droll narrator) take us through several of Duck's personal experiences, many of which are funny in retrospect, some of which are disturbing. We learn about the first time someone called him the n-word (he was 12), and the crazy questions and assumptions people have and make (you're from the Middle East, right? you could be Hispanic!). You'll have a good time, you'll laugh (the narrator makes the audience pledge to laugh if something's funny, and not judge someone else who's laughing at what they think is funny, kind of in the spirit of "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"), and you might learn a little about what it's like to be in someone else's different-colored skin, or see your own experiences reflected back at you.
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London Northern Eastern Railway (LNER)
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is one of the UK's leading long-distance train operators with services linking London to the North East England and Scotland. We launched our new Azuma trains in 2019 revolutionising travel on the East Coast Mainline and designed to connect our destinations in a more comfortable, faster, and eco-friendly way. Our top destinations include Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, and Inverness. We have also introduced new direct destinations such as Lincoln, Harrogate, and Middlesbrough. We operate up to 3 services an hour between London and Edinburgh , up to 2 services an hour between London and Newcastle and up to 3 services an hour from London to York. Our dedicated range of business and group travel offerings means we are your ideal sustainable travel partner offering more than just a seat to your final destination. So whether travelling for business, meetings, conference, events and even team travel, we have a solution to suit you.
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Here's a nifty little commercial that GE put together. You'd never think that they were selling locomotives. Suddenly, I have a craving for freshly juiced diesels.
Hello, Caterpillar? Nice paint job, but that's not enough. GE's PR puts EMD's image on ice.
Anyone else notice the nod the ad gives to railfans?
If you're a fan of the 80s show Knight Rider, you're in for a big treat as well. The 80's dreamed of a talking car. 30 years later, GE touts a talking train.
Again, EMD, where are you? Where's your ACe in the whole?◊
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Last week my eldest niece graduated from high school. An honor student, she plans to attend the University of Wisconsin in the fall. I am crushed that she will be so far from home; yet I know she will flourish there. As I was taking part in all the festivities over the weekend, I thought about some of what I learned from her.
- Set goals and work to achieve them. She is a very goal-focused young woman and persevered to accomplish those goals, whether that was achieving high marks or working to improve her times on the cross country team or completing a quilt to hang in my guild’s show.
- Keep balance in your life. She wasn’t an all-school and no-fun kind of girl. I saw plenty of videos she created with her friends and cousins to know that she found something outside school that challenged her and brought joy into her life. And, as required for graduation in our county, she took part in community service activities.
- Celebrate your achievements. She had a list of ways to celebrate the diploma – an afternoon in DC after graduation, a graduation night dinner, another celebration dinner on Saturday, and joining her mom on an overseas business trip later in June.
- Be grateful. First thing Sunday morning, she sent us all a text thanking her family for being there to help her celebrate this achievement and for supporting her along the way.
- Keep a sense of humor. In the text she thanked us for being in the first 17.667 years of her life and wishing we will be there for the next 17.667, which would bring her to 35.334.
I know lots of you have family graduations around this time. What did you learn from your graduate? Leave a reply below, or log onto to Facebook and leave a comment.
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I'm coming up on a year with the Malibu and I must say I have enjoyed having this car. I tolerate so much which, in reality, I shouldn't. One of those things was the deterioration, all around me, of the Jeep. I adored my Jeep; I really did. There is something deeply fun about driving a Jeep Wrangler; going pretty much anywhere and knowing you're reasonably safe to progress through bad weather. They also wear like cast iron, although, as they age, you need money to keep them afloat.
There was one thing I never did with the Jeep.
I never took it through a car wash. This was because it had a soft top and, when I first got it, car washes had not adopted "touchless" technology. Those bristle things which descended from the ceiling and popped out from the sides, were designed to remove the grime in minimal passes. But with a soft top, they would shred the canvas fabric.
Even when washes went to those heavy canvas octopus-like brushes which seemed to slap the dirt off, I wasn't persuaded they wouldn't harm the top. So, I never went, even when washes went touchless, with high-powered soap and water dispensers, and heat blowers which would remove the feathers from a turkey. I always washed the Jeep by hand.
Now, the benefits of having someone else clean the grime off the Malibu are abundant. I can do a good job hand washing my car, but, invariably, I miss a spot and it mocks me until I can wash it. Touchless washes don't miss anything. Plus, getting the areas down by the door involve a level of bending which is uncomfortable now, with my RA. Let someone else clean the wheel wells.
Another thing I'm enjoying about the Malibu is the temperature display.
On Tuesday, I left the office, got into the car and viola, I know the air temperature around the Malibu. I also noticed I had rolled over a magic number when I pulled into the office. I didn't notice this until I was to go home. This is fortuitous. I can see exactly how many miles it is from the office to home.
When I got home, the temperature had dropped and it's 12 miles from my house to the office. It takes me from 20-30 minutes, depending upon traffic, to traverse those miles. Right now, there is road destruction in a number of locations so, even if I plan to get to the office early, I can be on-time or late, if the destruction is in my lanes. I know it will be very nice when they get it done. It's just enduring that time until it is done.
I've spent a lot of time in my car in the past 3.5 months. We've been slammed with work which has meant a great many day trips. I was coming back from Dubuque, Iowa, after one project and thought just how nice it was to put on cruise control and just drive, knowing my car is in excellent repair, even if it is 5 years old, and I have nothing to worry about. It makes driving 300 miles a joy, rather than a chore.
Beverage: Earl Grey Tea
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Today I would like to introduce the Kyoto Insider Sake Experience; a wonderful brewery tour and sake tasting that Mewby and I recently enjoyed with our friendly guide, Kotaro Hashimoto, in the historic Fushimi district of Kyoto.
These days Kyoto’s Fushimi district is best known among international travelers as the location of Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine and the meandering passages of vermilion torii gates that snake their way up Mount Inari. Over the last few years however, this atmospheric mountain shrine has become so popular that unless you visit in the very early morning, or late evening, you will find it far too crowded to enjoy.
Go a little further south though, and you will enter the much quieter and historic sake brewing area of Fushimi. This is one of the most important sake producing areas in Japan and a great area to explore. The streets are still lined with traditional wooden breweries many of which are actively producing sake (normally called nihonshu in Japanese), and there are other former brewery buildings which have been converted into restaurants where you can enjoy sake along with the very best local cuisine. Unfortunately, not many of the working breweries are open to the public, and although there are some museum facilities with English language information, such facilities are quite limited. Regrettably, this fascinating area remains much under-utilized by the local tourist industry.
A new company called Add Stories is trying to put that right however, by opening up the world of sake brewing to a wider, international audience. Just recently they got in touch and offered Mewby and I the opportunity to take part in a “sake experience” tour in Fushimi – followed by a sake tasting. Naturally, we jumped at the chance!
Our tour began at the Fushimikan tourist information center, where we met our guide for the day, Kotaro Hashimoto. Kotaro is the founder of the company, and an extremely interesting chap who formerly ran his own restaurant business in Brisbane, Australia. A couple of years ago he returned to his home-town of Toba, in Fushimi and now he has set himself a special mission: to educate people about Fushimi’s sake and sake culture. Kotaro is very sincere in his desire to help people understand sake better, and his enthusiasm for this topic is infectious!
After a short chat to get to know each other, Kotaro led us off on the first part of the tour, to the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum and Brewery. On the way, Kotaro pointed out a popular local well, where people were lining up to get water.
The name “Fushimi” originally meant “underground water” because of the abundant fresh spring water in the area. It is this spring water which helped Fushimi flourish as a sake making town, and each of the breweries has their own fresh water source. The water is soft and of especially good quality, so it tastes much better than water from a faucet – and that’s why so many people were waiting to fill their bottles.
Pretty soon we arrived at the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum which is run by the Gekkeikan Sake Company, and housed in an old brewery building dating back to 1909. The company itself was established in 1637, making it one of the world’s oldest companies, and today it is a major producer of sake. However, as Kotaro led us into the museum’s adjoining brewery, he told us that it is not the company that matters, so much as the particular brewery. And this particular brewery, though small, has won many awards.
Here, in the brewery, Kotaro talked us through the entire sake brewing process, starting with the special varieties of rice that are used and explaining how they are polished down to differing levels of refinement.
The whole process was explained, step-by-step, in an easy-to-follow way. Although there is some English language information in the brewery, alongside the displays, it really helps to have an expert there to explain it to you properly.
I didn’t know much about the sake making process previously, but it is really quite ingenious. A special cultivated fungi is used to make a molded rice called koji. This koji is then mixed with steamed rice, water, and yeast, and as the koji converts the rice starch into sugar, the yeast simultaneously begins the fermentation process that converts this basic mash (called moto) into sake.
Kotaro explained that although the essential ingredients of rice and water are important to the final product, the most important part is technique. Through his explanation I acquired a new-found respect for the sake-making process. There are of course, many more steps than the basic stages that I outlined above. Understanding this process however, is important to understanding sake – and more importantly to understanding your own sake preferences.
Outside there is a courtyard between the brewery and the museum, and in the courtyard there is a spring. The water from this spring is the same water used to make Gekkeikan sake, and I must admit I had several cupfuls. It tasted that good!
We then went into the museum which has many items on display showing how sake was made historically. There is some English language information by the displays, but that does make for an awful lot of reading. Having Kotaro there to point out the more significant artifacts, and to answer our questions about some of the historic vessels and bottles on display was a real boon.
If you visit the Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum, a free sake tasting is included in the ticket. However, this proved to be merely a warm-up for the tasting that Kotaro had prepared for us later on!
The museum also has a gift shop with a bewildering variety of sake and sake-related products on offer. If you wish to buy some souvenirs, having a guide to offer advice and information about the different products is really helpful.
Following our museum and brewery visit we headed back to the Fushimikan tourist information center to put our freshly-acquired knowledge to the test with a proper sake tasting. Kotaro had already explained the different sake varieties that we were to taste, and given us each a miniature version of the card below, which we could keep for future reference.
The object of the sake tasting is to find out for yourself which sake varieties you prefer, and to be able to recognize them again, even if you cannot read Japanese.
We tasted seven varieties of sake, each of which Kotaro explained according to their qualities, whether light or rich, sweet or dry. We then graded each sake according to our own preference. The really interesting part of the tasting though, was in the second part when we tasted them again as an accompaniment to different foods.
These food pairings were a revelation! We learned which varieties of sake best match which foods, and we also learned how a well-judged food and sake pairing can dramatically bring out the flavor of both. I actually wasn’t too keen on the aged sake (dating from 1999) when I first tasted it – but as a topping for vanilla ice cream, it was phenomenal!
The full experience including the brewery tour and sake tasting took 3 hours, but there is also an option to do a 90 minute sake tasting without the tour. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour and tasting, and I am very happy to recommend them both. Most importantly, if you take this tour and tasting experience, you will acquire knowledge about sake that will help you to enjoy it in the future, both on its own, and as an essential accompaniment to Japanese cuisine. For this reason, if your time in Japan is brief, Kotaro recommends taking the tour at the start of your trip, so that you can use this knowledge right away and continue to enjoy sake throughout your visit.
Kyoto Insider Sake Experiences take place every day except Tuesdays. For full details check the website: https://kyotosakeexperience.com
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(English) September 10, 2012
More floods have hit Northern and Central Taraba, ravaging communities on the banks of River Benue.
The Chairman of Ardo-Kola Local Government,Dr Jalo Buba, told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) in Sunkani on Monday.
He said more than 3,000 hectares of crops, mainly rice, had been destroyed by the floods in 13 villages in the area.
Buba, who spoke to our correspondent shortly after visiting the areas affected by the floods, also said over 8,000 people had been displaced and were now taking refuge in Churches, Mosques and Primary School buildings in Mayo-Ranewo and Tau villages.
He listed the 13 villages located on the bank of River Benue, which were completely destroyed by the flood to include Shomo-Gale, Shomo-Ndajule, Karim lazei, Gadaguru and Shomotawa.
Others, he said, were Garinseini, Jiru-Dauda, Jiru-s-Sabon-Gari, Jiru-Tsohon Gari, Jiru-kasa, Doi and Munci as well as part of Mayo-Renewo.
The chairman said farm produce mainly rice and maize, covering over 3,000 hectares had been affected, a development he explained, could cause food shortage in the state.
Buba said the area contributed over 70 per cent of the total rice produce in the state annually, and that almost 80 per cent of such rice farms had been consumed by the floods.
He also said that residential buildings, fishing materials and boats were swept away by the disaster.
Buba said that f materials had been provided by the council and the Sate Government, but that more was needed to assist the victims,whom he said, cost all their belongings to the floods.
He called on the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), other relevant agencies and well-meaning individuals and organizations to come to the aid of the victims.
Source: All Africa
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This guest post was written by friend of EIGN jg3.
With a tip of the 'ol fedora to SIA, we should note that the head of the FCC (and why the FCC is beyond me) is blaming the addictive nature of the video game World of Warcraft for the huge rate of college dropouts. (PDF, Page 10 ... and note that although she cites her source for a lot of the statistics she uses she gives no hint as to which orifice she pulled that "fact" out of)
While this is, on its surface plausible, sad, and humorous, the possibility that she might be wrong is even more terrifying. I mean, it might be possible that our country's compulsory education system is such a horriffic failure that kids who get to college today are too stupid to handle the requirements. Is it possible that our public school system has taken all of the innate joy out of learning for our children and once they get to college, with a room of their own and a high speed internet connection and a meal plan, that none of their classes are anywhere near as cool as shootin' dudes online?
I can only hope that these young dropouts have figured out that America's now-depleted military forces need an influx of new people who know how to use computers and guns. Despite being the stupidest, we can still be the safest superpower on earth.
jg3 is the creative force behind the hilarious, if rarely updated, slack-hacker blog. Do yourself a favor and read it now. It is way funnier than this site.
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This photo is of a quail egg we found on the engine of Andrew Henry's old work truck, alone and unattended. It was early in the season, long before hatching time. We periodically checked it but no momma ever came back, it was a dud I suppose, but it made me sad. An unhatched egg holds so much promise and I hated to see it wither and fade.
I've been a thinkin' about things inside me that I've ignored and left unattended. Interests, passions and dreams that got lost in the shuffle of life. I'm away from home right now with time to think. My shops are closed for a few days and the housework and errands can beckon me but I'm too far away to hear them. I'm getting ideas, lots of ideas.
I think we should try to remember these things, write them down. Nothing is too small or too big to make the "stuff I always loved to do or want to do" list.
Is there anything you loved to do but haven't thought about in years?
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Lip fillers can make your lips look fuller, more shapely, and more plump. Whether you are born with thin lips or you have lost volume as part of the natural aging process, dermal lip fillers can restore the appearance of your pout and enhance your smile.
The best way to choose the right lip filler for you is to have a conversation with your doctor to discuss your aesthetic goals and learn more about what options are available for your specific needs. He or she will also perform a thorough consultation and analyze your skin to help you select the best treatment for you.
There are many lip fillers to choose from, but the most popular choices are Juvederm and Restylane. Both hyaluronic acid-based fillers offer smooth, natural-looking results that can improve your appearance and boost your confidence.
One of the most common reasons for lip filler treatments is to achieve a more youthful appearance. In addition to adding volume to the lips, injectables can also be used for lip augmentation by creating a symmetrical shape and improving vertical lip lines.
Aside from giving your lips a fuller appearance, injectables can reduce fine lines and wrinkles around the mouth, which will create a more unified facial structure. This can also help to balance your facial profile, making you appear less tired and older.
Another benefit of lip fillers is that they can be customized to fit your exact needs and desired outcome. A trained injector can determine the amount of filler to use and where it should be placed for optimal results.
Most of the Lip fillers fillers used for lips are soft gels containing hyaluronic acid, which is a naturally occurring substance that acts as a moisture-binding molecule in your body. These hyaluronic acid fillers are FDA-approved and provide long-lasting results.
Some of the most popular hyaluronic acid-based lip fillers are Juvederm, Restylane, and Volbella. They are all injected using a small needle, and can add the fullness you want to your lips in one easy appointment.
While they are all safe and effective, some can cause complications when used improperly or if they are not injected by a qualified and experienced provider. Some of the most common complications include swelling, bruising, and scarring.
You may also experience allergic reactions and infections. These are very rare but can occur, especially if the injections are performed by an inexperienced doctor or if you have an existing medical condition that affects your immune system.
A numbing agent is used before the procedure begins, so there should be no pain during the injections. Your doctor will also ice your lips after the treatment to reduce any inflammation or swelling.
Choosing the best lip filler for you depends on your cosmetic and personal objectives, budgetary concerns, and your lifestyle. You should consult with a board-certified dermatologist to find the best solution for your needs and desires.
Most lip fillers can last up to 18 months, with some lasting longer than that. They are typically made from a thicker hyaluronic acid, which means they have more structure and can be injected deeper into your lips to achieve greater plumpness.
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Van Kane has a couple of posts from yesterday's special Planetary Science Subcommittee (PSS) meeting on the effects of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) launch slip. Van listened in on the telecon, and posted about it on his Future Planetary Exploration blog. This new cost overrun could adversely affect the next Discovery Announcement of Opportunity and increase risk for Juno, a New Frontiers-class mission bound for Jupiter.
In December, the launch for the next-generation Mars rover slipped from September-October 2009 to late 2011. This launch slip increased the cost of MSL by $400 million, which must be absorbed, some how, by NASA's planetary science budget. At the PSS meeting yesterday, several recommendations were presented for where this $400 million would come from. Before deciding on where the funds would come from, NASA set a few (very good) ground-rules: currently planned missions would be launched as scheduled, though the Juno and MSL launch windows over lap, which will need to be worked around; the New Frontiers AO will proceed as planned; R&A funding won't be touched (considering that this is where my salary comes from, I for one love this rule); and the Outer Planets Flagship mission will proceed as planned.
According to Van, the vast majority of the over run would be accommodated by using funds currently allocated for technology development for future Mars missions, such as mid-size rovers and the sample return mission. The rest, approximately $47 million, could come from delaying in the next Discovery mission AO (affecting the Io Volcano Observer proposal) by a year, reducing the reserve funds for the Jupiter-bound Juno mission, or delaying the International Lunar Network mission.
Presentations from this special meeting have not yet been posted online.
Link: Future Planetary Exploration [futureplanets.blogspot.com]
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How do I find a Chinese expression?
Click "Search" in the dictionary menu (titled "Menu" on the left of the screen) and enter the term you are looking for. You can use either simplified or traditional Chinese characters or Pinyin. The asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard that matches any string, including the empty string. If you are looking for the German translation of 绿茶/綠茶 (lǜchá), you can find it using any of the following expressions: - 绿茶, 綠茶, lücha, lǜchá, lv4cha2, lu: cha, 绿*, *茶, lü c*, l*4cha
Please make sure that the search direction is set to Chinese -> German. If you use Pinyin to look for an entry, the server may not be able to determine the boundaries of the term's syllables correctly. In that case, if you are looking for 西安, for example, you should not use Xian, but rather Xi'an, xi an, xi1an1 or similar as your search term. Back to top |
How do I find a German expression?
The search for German expressions is basically analogous to the search for Chinese expressions (see above). Please do keep in mind, however, that this is a Chinese-German dictionary, and the search for a German expression may not yield the desired result, even if the equivalent Chinese expression exists in the dictionary. Making the server "also look for similar words" can sometimes help in this situation. Back to top |
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What does "Look up whole text" do?
To translate a text, one should know all the vocabulary used in that text. "Look up whole text" helps you find unknown words by adding the German translation as an annotation to all the words in the relevant text that also exist in the dictionary. You can see the annotation when you place the mouse pointer over a Chinese word. A left click pops up a window with further information about the word. Of course, this function is not only useful when you want to translate a Chinese text, but also when you want to quickly read a text with only a few unknown words. Back to top |
How do I use "Look up whole text"?
Click "Look up whole text" in the dictionary menu (titled "Menu" on the left of the screen). In the large white text area, you can enter the text you want annotated. You can use either simplified or traditional Chinese characters. Pinyin cannot be used, because Chinese has too many words with the same pronounciation. You also should not mix traditional and simplified Chinese characters, because the server chooses one or the other during the first stage of the analysis of your text and will not recognize words written in the other script during the later stages of the analysis. If you already have an electronic copy of your text, you can save a lot of work by simply copying it into the "Look up whole text" dialog. Just select the part you want annotated, copy it into clipboard (Ctrl+C on most systems), switch to your web browser and paste the selected text into the "Look up whole text" dialog (Ctrl+V on most systems). This function uses a lot of computing power and is thus rather slow. Please be patient. For this reason, the maximum length of a text to be annotated is limited. If you want to process longer texts, split them into smaller parts and have them processed one after the other. Back to top |
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How do I add an entry to the dictionary?
To add an entry, it is best to look for the Chinese word first to check whether it already exists in the dictionary. A dialog to add the word as a new entry will automatically appear if it is not in the dictionary yet. Enter the Chinese word (in traditional or simplified characters) and the German translation of one meaning. After clicking "Preview", you will see the entry as it would appear in the dictionary. Now, you can edit the entry and add further details. Once you are satisfied with the entry, click "Submit" to add it to the dictionary. Back to top |
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This is the first of 7 posts I have about our holiday in Seoul over Christmas.Stay tuned daily for the next posts.
Our family has been to Seoul before, (also over Christmas but it didn't snow at all then) 4 years ago when MJ was just a few months old. This time round we were able to do more and experience more since the kids are a little older. And this time round, Seoul was freakishly coldddddd (it went as low as minus 14 degrees celcius in the day time). So much snowwwww!
Gyeongbokgung Palace was built in 1395 and was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty. It's our second time here. But this time we decided to rent Hanboks and dress up.There are a couple of streets just across from the Palace (and palace museum) which rent out Hanboks. It's barely 5 mins walk away. Very convenient. You can get them for the whole day or for as short as 2 hours. We pre booked ours from Klook. But when we went down there, we saw that there are many shops renting Hanboks, you can just walk in and rent one.
We actually did it for the kids. Let them experience something cultural and have fun dressing up. But OMG, I super enjoyed it myself. I loved wearing the Hanbok, so princessy (and the inner skirt is those can can types, so you float around. Love it!).
They even style your hair for you.
It's damn cold ... so even though it's just a 5 min walk away, we had to bundle up in our jackets. Only took them off to take pics.
And beautiful family.
Snowball fight....Luckily MJ was a good sport that day (normally he hates playing dress up lol).
The place is beautiful and picturesque especially when snowy white.
Take lots of pictures when you're there.
I normally don't like to do a repeat of anything (unless it's food)... I'm the done and dusted kind of person... but for this activity, I would definitely love to re do it again when we're back in Seoul!
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Home Show is Coming!!! Jan 25th - Feb 3rd
There is snow on the ground and frigid temps - must be time for the Home Show in Indiana! Last year, the seasons biggest snow happened during the show which dropped attendance...hopefully we've gotten that out of the way and it will be another record setting year.
Taking place again at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in the West and South Pavillions in addition to the Exposition Hall, it will feature the largest Centerpiece home ever constructed inside. Fischer Homes Team will be constructing a 5191sf masterpiece for the show.
Did you know the Home Show in Indiana has been taking place since 1922? There are many places for discount tickets. You can get $2 discounts online, $3 off at Marsh Supermarkets and the Home Show twitter account (@homeshowIND) has a code where you can buy 2 for 1 tickets.
Plenty of Celebrity appearances this year including:
Ahmed Hassan from Yard Crashers on DIY will be there 2/2-3
Frank Fritz from American Pickers on History Channel will be there 1/26
Nicole Curtis from Rehab Addict on DIY will be there on 2/1-2
You can get all the scoop and additional details at their website:
Prudential Indiana Realty will have a booth right in front of the Showcase Home - lots of great info, giveaways, game and prizes. Stop by and see us!
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What To Pack
When most people think about Hawai'i they tend to think only of lazy tropical days on beautiful beaches - about all you'd need is your bathing suit. However, to really experience Hawai'i you will need to bring much more.
First, a really important point: we have Wal-mart, Target, etc. So, anything you forget, you can get at our local stores.
To figure out what to bring, you need to figure out what you want to do. Assuming you're not a sit-around-all-day person, you will probably want to visit as much of the island as possible.
The Big Island is rather different from the other Hawaiian islands. We have one of the tallest mountains in the world (Mauna Kea, as measured from it's base) that rises over 13,800 ft above sea level and has snow in the winter. Even Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, at 4000 ft, can get chilly at night. Since the park goes from 4000 ft all the way to sea level, visiting the park can mean you might change clothes a couple times a day.
For the beach:
- Swimsuit(s) and a beach towel.
- Reef slippers or other shoes you can get wet.
- Snorkel or scuba? You can either rent locally or bring your own.
- Sun Screen - Sun Screen - Sun Screen
- Long pants - lava is unforgiving and very sharp.
- Hiking shoes or boots.
- Walking stick (or you can make your own out of a guava branch when you get here).
- Canteen (or buy bottled water here).
- Compass or GPS (for extreme hiking - yes, you can get lost on an island).
- Short sleeve shirts with collars (collar helps keep the sun off your neck).
- Hat with brim (for sun protection).
- Dark Glasses.
- Bug Spray (for the wet areas).
- Backpack (for extreme hiking).
- Small first aid kit.
- Sun Screen - Sun Screen - Sun Screen
Playing In Hot Lava:
Going To The Observatories:
The astronomy observatories are at the top of Mauna Kea, at 13,800 ft. There is snow on the mountain during the winter and temperatures can get below freezing. Even the visitors center at 9000 ft can get very cold at night during the free public stargazing.
- Long pants
- Sweater or heavy jacket
- Thick socks, bring two pairs...wear one on your feet, the other pair can double for mittens
Of course you will want to also bring some nice dinner clothes, lots of short sleeve shirts and shorts. Don't forget your camera and film (or you can pick up disposable cameras here on the Island - a nice alternative).
Most people, visitors and locals alike, tend to wear rubbah slippahs around the island (flipflops). You can buy them just about anyplace here, or bring your own.
If you end up having too much to bring to the islands, one trick is to pre-ship much of your luggage to your first hotel room. Identify yourself in the shipping information as to your name and date of stay and the hotel will hold your package for your arrival. This is also a great trick for bringing things home. Instead of lugging them on a plane, simply ship them.
One problem with booking a trip to Hawai'i is simple name confusion. The Big Island's official name is Hawai'i, which is the same name as the entire chain. Most people refer to this island as The Big Island, but it is also known as The Orchid Isle as well as Hawai'i. When you are booking a trip here many times people think you are going to Oahu (where Honolulu and Waikiki are).
There are a few airlines with direct flights to the Big Island, mostly into the Kailua-Kona airport. However, most visitors book a ticket to Oahu (Honolulu) and then take an inter-island flight to either Hilo or Kailua-Kona airports.
There are several airlines that offer regular inter-island service between the Islands (some of these airlines also offer mainland service to certain cities):
You can book your ticket straight through from the mainland to Hilo or Kailua-Kona. In this situation your travel agent (or airlines) will automatically put you on one of the Aloha or Hawaiian airline inter-island flights. Alternatively you can book only to Oahu and purchase your own inter-island flight.
One word of caution about booking the flight: depending on what time the plane arrives in Oahu you may not be able to catch a same-day flight to the Big Island. You will want to double check that your Oahu flight arrives in plenty of time to get a flight to Hilo or Kailua-Kona. If your flight is delayed, you may have to spend an evening in Honolulu. The airport itself has sleeping rooms and there are a number of hotels across from the airport.
Where To Stay
The Big Island has many hotels and resorts to select from. Since there are so many diverse areas on the Big Island, first time visitors may wish to circumnavigate the island, staying a day or two at each spot. However, most repeat visitors tend to stay only one or two places to avoid having to move around frequently.
This website offers lists of hotels along with our opinions and the features the hotels have. However, we do have a soft spot for one hotel in the Hilo area... the Dolphin Bay Hotel. The Dolphin Bay Hotel is owned by the Alexander family, and is currently managed by John Alexander. John has lived on the Big Island for much of his life and his knowledge of things to do and places to go is wonderful. The hotel itself is small and quaint, with a wonderful tropical garden. All the rooms have full kitchens and are very reasonably priced.
Unless you plan on sitting on the beach all day, you will need a vehicle in order to see the island. Remember, there is a reason it is named the Big Island - it is very, very big. It takes about an entire day to drive around the island - and that is with minimal stops.
The Big Island is fairly easy to navigate. The entire island is encircled with a highway. The island is also split down the middle by another road (saddle road). From the main highway side roads lead to local villages, beaches, parks and sites. By simply driving towards the ocean you are bound to hit the highway - so getting lost in a car is rare.
Most of the island is accessible by regular rental cars. You can pick up a rental car at either the Hilo or Kailua-Kona airports:
For the more rugged individual who would like to visit some of the more remote spots on the island, 4-wheel drive vehicles are available from Harper (808-969-1478) as well as a few of the other rental companies listed above.
Note: Any tours, drives and hikes on this website that require 4-wheel access will be marked with the spinning truck icon.
Hawai'i is the Aloha State - and that means the people are friendly - very very friendly. You will often be greated by a smile and a warm hello or aloha.
Locals are almost always happy to give you directions, or their advice on places to go or things to see. Just about anyone is approachable, anywhere. The island is, if nothing else, highly diverse - but aloha is everywhere.
Hawai'i is the only American state that has two official languages - Hawaiian and English. One problem for visitors in navigating the island is the use of Hawaiian words just about everywhere. Place Names are very important to the Hawaiians and the entire island is Hawaiian from one end to the other.
Hawaiian names often sound similar to themselves - and there can be more than one location with the same name - so getting directions might be confusing if you mispronounce the name or are not clear as to where in general you expect it to be.
You don't need to learn Hawaiian to get around Hawai'i, but learning a bit about the language can help you greatly in reading and pronouncing Hawaiian words correctly. We have prepared a small and simple language tutorial that you can find here that will help you with basic pronunciation.
Safety In Hawai'i
Safety in Hawai'i involves both safety in the environment (e.g., falling into lava), safety on the road (a lot of nutty drivers out there) and personal safety (your belongings and yourself).
The following section outlines most of the safety issues in Hawai'i.
The Big Island is a landmass that is still forming. Thousands of acres of new land are created each year, only to drop off into the ocean. The island has just about all the natural disasters: hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tsunami, lava flows, and even tornados all can happen here.
The Island is also completely lava. Especially in the still-forming areas, the lava is very sharp and very hard. I often joke with new visitors that if they don't have scrapes and scratches they aren't seeing enough of Hawai'i.
Let's not forget the ocean - the ocean in Hawai'i can be unpredictable. Turning your back on the ocean (or the lava) can be very dangerous.
The basic rules of thumb are this:
- If you want to look at something, stop walking. Looking and walking at the same time means you'll probably stumble.
- Never take a step backwards without first looking behind you - there might be a crack in the ground that you forgot about.
- When at the shore, don't turn your back on the ocean.
- When at an active flow, don't turn your back on the lava.
There are additional safety issues surrounding the hot lava. We cover those in the various hikes and trails section as well as the sections on the volcano.
Until recently (a few years ago) Hawai'i did not require drivers training for new drivers. Sure, you had to take the test, but there was no official training that was required. Couple that with the fact that the island is made up of people as well as visitors from a huge diverse world-wide area - each with their own driving habits, and you have an interesting driving experience.
Island driving habits may be a little surprising to some. In places where it is marked slow traffic keep to right you will see just about everyone going slow in the left lane. Often road signs are ignored - people will go slow on fast roads and fast on slow roads. Also, in the towns and cities, local drivers often give pedestrians the right-of-way, so be careful not to rear end the car in front of you.
There is very little road rage in Hawai'i - you just go with the flow. However, on some highways it is customary for slow traffic to move into the shoulder (if space allows) to let people behind them go around. Generally a wave to the slower vehicle shows them your appreciation, as you pass them.
Police cars in Hawai'i may be regular cars - but most of them have a single blue bubble light on the top. Police are friendly and helpful but the speed limit is enforced - as well as having your seat belt on, and making full stops at stop signs.
Be careful as you drive the island. It is very easy, while driving, to be lost in some spectacular scene. The island has many curves and not everyone stays in their lanes. Also, many places of the island lack guard rails and have steep falls or very deep ditches.
In general the state of Hawai'i is a pretty safe, low crime, state. The Big Island is even more so. The most reported tourist crime on the Big Island would be rental cars being broken into. Visitor robbery is very low as are other crimes. Being an island has its advantages since just about everyone knows, or is related to, everyone else.
There are a few things you can do to make your stay safer however. Outlined below are some suggestions:
- Do not leave valuables in plain sight in your rental car. Do not put valuables away in view of other people. If a hike or trail or scenic view spot on this website has a known problem with rental car theft it will be pointed out in that section.
- You can 'local-up' your car a bit to make it not look like a rental by wrapping a lei around your rear view mirror, and making the inside a bit messy. You will notice that just about every local car here has something around their rear view mirror.
If you have a problem, any telephone can summon police by dialing 911.
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Dear Diet Coke Cans,
I am very disgruntled with you,
and this pains me-
you are my trusty, stalwart, required morning beverage.
It is a known fact that there must be Diet Coke, in CANS
(Note: Bottles are only for gas stations and airports.
Fountain drinks don't count,
and are gross and totally not actually Diet Coke.)
in my refrigerator, at all times,
or The World Will End.
You'd think the sheer volume of Diet Coke cans I've consumed,
and the volume of the fits I've thrown if someone drank the last Diet Coke,
would earn me frequent consumer status.
Is that a thing?
It should totally be a thing.
Tell Starbucks too.
I mainline Trenta green teas, for the antioxidant infusion -
to counteract the oxidants I require daily,
from my three Diet Coke cans.
Consumed immediately after I wake up,
I have a LOT of making up to do,
is how I justify all my tea.
Because I used to be way worse.
Like, I think there were a few years (law school, for sure)?
In which 98 percent of the fluids I consumed were cans of Diet Coke.
I left half-full cans on the roof of my car,
which was not a good idea -
but I had a theory that I'd remember where I put it,
if I put it on the roof of my car.
(Note: This is a totally specious and terrible theory,
and it doesn't work for wallets either.
I left them in the freezer, in case I ran out of cold ones,
only to have to clean up frozen, exploded can of Diet Coke after I forgot I did that.
Maybe ten million times.
I'm better now.
I have a more balanced approach to my irrational needs for beverages at all times -
I've just added to the list of required beverages.
Some could posit that I am actually worse than ever.
But I Can't Quit You, Diet Coke Cans!
I am now very grumpy with you.
As a chronic,
(For? Exact number of years redacted due to my vanity.
But it is quite a while,
though I am still very, very young)
I am insulted and affronted by your dumb, lame,
generic gimmick marketing strategy.
Specifically, the generic, bossy suggestions on the side of my Diet Coke Cans.
Telling me to "Share a Diet Coke with a Go-Getter."
Or a "Buddy."
Or a "Friend."
WTF, Diet Coke?
Are you scrimping on your focus group budget?
Who shares a can of Diet Coke?
At all, ever.
It is early, I am trying to wake up.
Stop pressuring me.
I don't want to share in the first place,
but especially NOT with a Go-Getter.
I actively avoid Go-Getters,
although I am not exactly sure what you mean by Go-Getter,
That sounds like someone who makes lists,
and will tell me what the weather is and why I am late for something.
And cans telling me to share with a "Buddy?" "Pal?"
You are driving me insane,
Diet Coke Cans.
First of all, you are not the boss of me.
You are embarrassingly uncreative -
those are the blandest, most boring,
unspecific categories ever.
It is the exact opposite of what I totally think is clever,
targeted marketing on your bottles, Diet Coke.
The bottles with names?
Actual names, of people?
I have seen kids be wildly excited upon receiving a gift of an empty Diet Coke bottle with their name on it.
And as gas station/airport bottle purchaser,
I totally look for a name I like, or that makes me laugh,
or is someone I am married to, and then buy one.
Excellent idea you had.
Gold star for you.
Why did you have to ruin things, Diet Coke?
The reason the names on the bottles idea works so well is that it is a name.
Of a specific person.
Not vague, boring "Buddy" or "BFF."
Not stressful like "Go-Getter."
If you have to do something with the cans, can you get a snarkier ad team?
Find better focus groups?
Because I'd totally buy Diet Coke Cans with snarky or absurd suggestions -
Worst Friend Ever?
The Guy From Twilight? (I would buy a bunch of those, actually.)
Or, better yet?
"Don't Share This Diet Coke With Anyone.
It Is Yours And Yours Alone."
Those would crack me up.
instead of spontaneous combustion of rant rage.
Much better way to start the day.
Please fix this egregious error immediately, Diet Coke Cans.
You are better than this.
Your Frequent Consumer and Advocate (as long as you are cold and in my fridge and MINE),
PS: I am not your Buddy, Pal, OR BFF as long as this continues.
PPS: Also I am not a Go-Getter, and please don't send one to my house.
PPPS: And the only thing I share is my opinion.
But I am totally right, and you are welcome.
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The movies usually have it wrong. In real life, killers are boring. It is the heroes who are interesting and Rezső Kasztner was absolutely fascinating. A respected lawyer, journalist, and political leader, Kasztner saved 1,600 fellow Jews arranging what came to be known as the Kasztner Train. Ironically though, it was Kasztner’s name that became anathema to many Israelis, rather than that of his assassin. This strange apparent paradox is explained in Gaylen Ross’s Killing Kasztner: the Jew Who Dealt with Nazis (trailer here), which opens this Friday in New York.
It has been said that if Kasztner had not been Jewish, he would have been celebrated as a hero much like Oskar Schindler. Like Schindler, Kasztner dealt directly with the National Socialists as a leader of the Vaada, the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee. Every life rescued on Kasztner's train to Switzerland was purchased dearly through bribery. In fact, Kasztner was penniless when he and his family arrived in Israel at the end of the war.
Despite the many lives undeniably saved by Kasztner, the very idea of a Jew negotiating with high level Nazis, including Adolph Eichmann, was difficult for many Israelis to accept. The issue came to a head when the ruling Mapai party strongly encouraged Kasztner to sue for libel when accused of collaboration. Though Kasztner’s victory initially seemed assured, the discovery of an affidavit he wrote on behalf Kurt Becher, his old SS contact, proved to be his undoing. It cost him his case (though he would later be vindicated in a little noted appeal) and ultimately led to his assassination. Strangely though, Gaylen somewhat buries her lede, only briefly mentioning newly discovered evidence that suggests Kasztner acted at the behest of his government in the Becher affair and took the fall on their behalf during his trial.
Kasztner is clearly one of the most complex and intriguing historical figures of the last century. His killer, Ze’ev Eckstein, is not. However, Gaylen gives inordinate screen time to this banally evil figure. Granted, securing Eckstein’s first on-camera interview is a legitimate “get,” but he has little interesting to say. Frankly, his carefully chosen words, expressing guarded regret perhaps, but never actual remorse, quickly become tiresome. As a result, his face-to-face meeting with Kasztner’s daughter is completely unsatisfying for all involved.
In truth, Gaylen’s film is best when advocating on behalf of Kasztner’s legacy. She also got real results, prodding the director of Yad Vashem to recognize Kasztner, after a heated meeting with survivors of his rescue operation. Through this prism, Gaylen offers a revisionist perspective on an Israeli society she argues prefers dead heroes like Hannah Senesh, to living heroes like Kasztner. While such social criticism is not without interest, the film’s best moments illuminate the neglected story of Kasztner and his rescue efforts.
Using straight-forward documentary techniques, Gaylen makes a very convincing case on behalf of Kasztner. One just wishes she had not spent so much time questioning Eckstein, the hostile witness. Still, Gaylen conveys a good sense of Kasztner the man, which is definitely important. As it is, Killing Kasztner offers a challenging look at an unfairly overlooked episode in history. It opens Friday (10/23) at Cinema Village.
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Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)Conjunctivitis, also commonly called pink eye, is not just for little kids. It can also affect your college student. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the membrane that covers the white part of the eye and the eyelid. It may be caused by a viral or bacterial infection., and symptoms, which may include itching, redness, and tearing, may appear in one or both eyes. Discharge from the infected eye or eyes may also develop. To help your child prevent conjunctivitis, you may want to give them a few reminders. According to the Mayo Clinic, to avoid the spread of conjunctivitis, wash hands often and don’t share makeup, towels, or washcloths. It’s also helpful to change pillowcases often and use a clean towel every day. AllergiesAllergy symptoms can sometimes arise or flare when children go away to college. Your child may be in a new dorm environment and possibly a different climate or part of the country. He or she may be exposed to certain allergens that trigger typical allergy symptoms, including itchy, watery eyes. If you know what your child is allergic to, decreasing exposure to the allergen is his or her best bet to reduce symptoms. For example, if your child is allergic to pollen, closing windows when the pollen count is high and wearing sunglasses when outside may help. In some cases, it may be difficult to prevent all exposure to allergens. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, artificial tears may temporarily help wash allergens from the eye and decrease dryness. Decongestants may decrease redness, and oral antihistamines may reduce itchiness. Be sure to remind your child to follow the directions and review possible side effects. For example, certain antihistamines may cause drowsiness, so taking them before a big exam is not a good idea. Sports Injuries to the EyesHeading to college may mean playing sports / intramurals or participating in physical education classes for some students. Although participating in sports and physical activity has many benefits, it’s important for your child to use the proper equipment, and that includes eye protection. Sports-related eye injuries can include blunt trauma, fracture of the eye socket, and corneal abrasions. Some injuries can be serious and even lead to blindness. Fortunately, most eye injuries can be prevented. According to the National Eye Institute, wearing proper protective eyewear can prevent about 90 percent of sports related eye injuries. Keep in mind that certain sports have a higher risk of eye injuries. According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, eye injuries from sports are most commonly caused by basketball, racquetball, and baseball. Ice and field hockey, as well as lacrosse, can also lead to eye injuries. The AAO recommends wearing a helmet with a polycarbonate face mask when playing hockey, lacrosse, and baseball. If your child is playing racquetball, basketball, or field hockey, he or she should wear protective eyewear with polycarbonate lenses. If your child does suffer an eye injury, make sure he or she sees an ophthalmologist or visits the emergency room immediately. Even injuries that seem minor should be assessed. For more information on sports-related eye injuries, please read our related blog posts: Infections from Contact LensesCollege students are often busy juggling their schoolwork and social life. Proper handling and care of their contact lenses may not always be something they think about. But by taking a few steps, your child can decrease the chances of an infection-related to contact lens wear and use.
Tell your child to make sure he or she washes his or her hands before touching his or her contact lenses. Your child should also rub contacts when cleaning them and rinse with a store-bought solution. Also, always make sure to replace lenses as recommended. Although preventing eye problems may not be on your child’s radar, it’s helpful to provide the reminders above to help your child protect his or her eyes. It’s important for young adults to develop good habits for taking care of their eyes to prevent problems from developing later in life. Having regular eye exams can also help prevent problems before they become serious. If you would like to schedule a routine exam or you have any questions or concerns about your child’s eyes, please call our office at 508-746-8600. Our team is always happy to answer your questions. Please be sure to check out our next post, 'Are Your College Students Giving Their Eyes Enough of a Break?', as we continue Children’s Eye Health & Safety Month. |
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Nicholas was a brilliant engineer, who continued struggling to understand complex problems long after he retired.
In 2008, he needed a biography for a presentation.
This is what we came up with:
Throughout his career, Nick has sought physics-based explanation of puzzling observations & unexplained failures, in the tradition of Whittle.
Graduating from the University of British Columbia, he joined a team of young engineers at the Hawker Siddley Group in Canada who had received training at Whittle’s company, Power Jets. Nick’s initial learning consisted of studying Stodola’s textbook and poring over Von Ohain’s jet engine drawings. He advanced to responsibility for the hot end of the Iroquois engine developed to power the Avro Arrow, including pioneering a two-bearing HP, two-shaft turbojet configuration.
Upon the cancellation of the Avro Arrow, Nick progressed through the US aeroengine industry, delivering innovative designs at companies like Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Williams International. Knowing that the challenges of advancing design concepts required new insight into engine vibrations, he continued his education at UMICH, RPI and NYU, earning two master’s degrees in engineering mechanics (RPI and NYU).
Connecting the shattering of a fan rig drum shaft in 1966 with an unexplained problem of the Iroquois experience, he derived the physics of coupling between bladed disk flexing and elliptical engine whirling, which he published at first opportunity, in 1974.
Now in retirement, Nick works to create & disseminate physical interpretation and cohesive (whole-engine) solution of long overlooked, but currently surfacing as critical, vibration mechanisms. In this work, he aims to show that guidance of design by clever use of current analytical & experimental tools would reduce risks in future engines and might help to ensure safe operation of engines fielded with generic design flaws.
“I’m a dreamer. I always have my own mind. No devices, just dreams.”
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They consider it essential that citizens can preserve their identity. Alert to international consumers of antiques that have a special caution with valuable objects that come from this country. Traffic in these pieces of art constitutes a crime of unlawful ownership of cultural property since 1970. The Director-general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, has called this Thursday urgent measures to protect the cultural heritage Libyan in the transitional period because this is essential so that its citizens can preserve their identity and build a better future. Therefore, the maximum responsible of the United Nations Organization for education, science and culture (organization Unesco) has requested the Libyan people, to neighbouring countries and to agents of the international trade in art and antiques that make everything possible to protect the valuable cultural heritage of Libya.Experience shows that there is a serious danger of destruction in the periods of social upheaval. It has also taught us to be on alert for unscrupulous individuals not carried out looting that often damaged the integrity of objects and archaeological sites, said Bokova. Alert to the international market the Director general added that negligent traders buying these works and fragments that do is incite major looting occur.
Therefore, it is crucial that international antiques market keep a special caution with respect to the works from Libya under the current circumstances, he warned. Bokova recalled that looting, theft and smuggling of cultural property contravene the Convention of Unesco on measures that should be taken to prohibit and prevent the import, export and transfer of illicit ownership of cultural property (1970). People such as Rio- Tinto Diamonds would likely agree. That Convention is the only international legal instrument focused exclusively in the fight against illicit traffic of cultural property, he noted. Source of the news: Unesco calls for urgent measures to protect the cultural heritage of Libya
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I am recovering from my first ever full blown sinus infection. Who knew it could be so intense and incredibly persistent? Wowzers! I tried to cure it with all of the regular home remedies like steam, tea, spicy food, garlic, but in the end, a dose of antibiotics seems to be what is helping it to heal and not throb, throb, throb.
While we were nestled in at home and in our vacation mode last week, I made a quick trip to The Trading Post - a little thrift/vintage/refurbished furniture store, which is just around the corner from our house. It is right next door to The Moan and Dove, which is a ridiculously well stocked beer bar. Side note: Tom and I often joke that our baby monitors would certainly function only .15 miles away, and we dream of sipping hoppy specialty ales while our kiddos sleep soundly at home. Joke, joke, joke. Anyway, I've mentioned some of my thrifty finds from this store before. This time, I really lucked out because they had a little old printer's tray, which has been on my "find that for a reasonable price" list for the past year.
I had fun putting lots of my little treasures in it. Those sweet crocheted thimbles were given to me by a long lost graduate school friend. I love them so. The little salt shakers with red tops were $1 each from The Trading Post.
And, they had a nice little vintage set of office shelves that fits perfectly next to our computer. We were desperately in need of a place to store pens, envelopes, books, and other office stuff, and I love that we found something used and absolutely perfect.
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The bomb that fell on Hiroshima 65 years ago today tomorrow was by no means the most destructive event of the Second World War. Nor was the one that fell on Nagasaki three days later. What set the atomic bombs apart was the dreadful cheapness of the devastation they wrought, one plane doing the work of a thousand-plane raid.
I really have no primary substance to add to the remarks on this subject that I made three years ago. I'm posting anyway, because it is always a day to reflect on human destructiveness - even if I read my calendar wrong, posting a day early - and because of a canny observation by commenter Milo on the previous post:
Mutually Assured Destruction does seem like a reasonable projection if current trends persist, but most people want to read about superpowers clashing at full power - or at least about a superpower using its full power to oppress canny rebels - which is incompatible with a MAD scenario.Nuclear weapons thus pose not only a moral challenge - not to mention a survival challenge for post-industrial civilization - they also pose a literary challenge. For purposes of drama we want all-out effort, but in a technological age the drama threatens to end like Hamlet, with the entire cast dead on the stage. (Except for Fortinbras, whose role is to confirm for the audience that everyone is indeed dead.)
Which is sort of a downer ending, and also makes it very hard to come up with a sequel.
The image of the Hiroshima aim point comes from The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.
Related Post: "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds"
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
So it ended as these things so often do with kindness, tenderness, tears and goodbyes. He boarded a plane, I boarded a ship, both bound for entirely different worlds. Someday I will look back at this time and smile. For now my heart just aches but I know there will come a day when I will find someone to share my heart and soul and life with, whatever stills remains when the time finally comes, someone who will love me proudly not shamedly, someone who will love me equally; a true partner. For now, that person shall have to be me. And you dear reader, do not despair for I do have vast worlds to conquer and the new adventure is just beginning. And now, to the ship.
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I am also a podcasting early adopter. In late 2004, as podcasting started to get recognition, I became involved with several podcasts, emerging as a consummate assistant to budding podcasters. In early 2005 I joined Chuck Tomasi and launched Technorama, a podcast with a lighthearted look at all things tech and sci-fi. Working on Technorama, and as a member of Friends In Tech social media group, I have had several years of audio production experience including creative writing, coordination logistics, and editing. Some examples of my favorite projects include the Friends in Tech Holiday Specials, and creative audio productions for Technorama which you can find more here.
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Yesterday I was working in my office when I received a text from my 15-year-old, Alyssa:
“Be prepared to yell at me when I get home because I’m gonna get in huge trouble.”
How do you respond to that?
My first thought was, “Am I that much of a yeller?” (I guess I confessed to that in the article I wrote last week, “Yelling Works”). But then my thoughts immediately wandered to, “What the heck has she done?!!”
Alyssa turns 16 this month and she’s a really sweet kid. The most trouble I have from her is when she forgets to do a chore or when she’s being rude to her brother or sister. I’m really blessed when it comes down to it -— she and her two siblings are very little trouble. But, as a parent, your heart still stops when you get a text like that.
I guess I’m a little over-sensitive to this right now because of my recent interactions with parents at many of my parent workshops. I’m finding that a lot of parents have been surprised by their teenagers lately… and not in a good way.
Two weeks ago a mom pulled me aside after one of my workshops and told me the story of her 15-year-old daughter who attends a local Christian school. Her daughter seemed fine. “She just was busy babysitting and hanging out at her friends’ house a lot.” Turns out that she became addicted to amphetamines (prescription meds stolen from a medicine cabinet where she babysat). Mom didn’t have a clue.
This mom isn’t alone. I can’t tell you how many times parents have come up to me and told me, “I had no idea my daughter was into this!” And then they tell me a sobering story of how their daughter starting hanging out with the wrong crowd, began drinking socially, drinking opened the door to some drug use, and now she has to be admitted to a drug treatment facility.
Parents seem to never see it coming.
Numerous adults are oblivious to what is happening in youth culture today. Drinking is on the rise again with young people, especially young girls. In a recent “Partnership for a Drug Free America” study, the number of middle and high school girls who say they drink has increased by 11 percent in the past year. Fifty-nine percent of young girls say they drink (we just wrote an entire Youth Culture Window article on this subject).
It’s hard being the “outside observer” to all these stories. Half of me thinks, “Never my kids!” But the other half does a reality check: “Don’t assume anything Jonathan!”
And that’s just it — parents shouldn’t ever just assume that their kids are beyond getting into trouble. Parents need to be in their kids’ lives enough to know where they are at, who their kids’ friends are, becoming familiar with the music their kids listen to, and knowing the TV shows they watch—even co-watching with them.
Don’t misunderstand: this doesn’t mean over-react and imprison your kids in the basement -— far from it. You don’t need to be a helicopter parent, but I think that so many parents are afraid of being too clingy or strict so they do the total opposite. They let their kids do whatever they want.
As I was doing research for my parenting book, “Candid Confessions of an Imperfect Parent”, I discovered more and more studies revealing how a large number of parents in America “lower the bar.” Parents are scared of being disliked by their kids, so they make the popular move and lower their expectations. Research shows that the consequences to this kind of parenting are costly. (I go into much greater detail about this in Chapter 5 of my book. Here’s a glimpse of that chapter.)
The best present that a parent can give their teenager is to “be present.” Parents who invest time into their kids — talking with them, hanging out with them, co-viewing media together — these parents are much more in tune with where their kids are, who they’re with and what they’re doing. These parents can make more informed decisions when helping their kids learn to make choices.
Parents that rely on a three-minute, “How was your day?” conversation each day might be surprised one day and receive a text much worse than the one I received yesterday. (Turns out that Alyssa and her sister got into a big argument and exchanged some mean words. Whew! They’re out washing the dog together right now, spraying each other with the hose!)
Jonathan provides parents with sensible real world advice on how they can “be present” and build values with their kids in his hilarious yet practical book, Candid Confessions of an Imperfect Parent.
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Hooray for week 2!
I had a not so happy start to the week, with particularly bad Monday blues (but on Tuesday as I don't work on Monday)! I had to keep checking the mirror to make sure that I didn't have a "MESS WITH ME" sticker on my forehead! I'm very happy to say that things picked up in the days that followed.
We also had our parent information night which always throws me out of my comfort zone, but also allows me to make initial contact with parents. It went really well and opened the door to start sending email as a communication tool. Since then I've done a lot of emailing which has been well received.
For Valentine's Day students wrote poems about someone special to them. We used the structure for a cinquain poem. We introduced the structure, gave some of examples and then walked through writing the poem line by line. We edited the poems and then students wrote and decorated a good copy for their someone special.
We led a brainstorm of animals with students contributing ideas. Students then combined elements from three of these animals to create and draw a new animal - similar to those created by Graeme Base in Uno's Garden. Students are now in the process of writing a cinquain poem about their crazy creature.
For one of our lessons this week, students paired up with a buddy to complete a worksheet from the Mathletics resources. It worked brilliantly as a cooperation challenge, especially once students reached the second page.
On the first page, students filled in missing 2-digit numbers in forward and backward number sequences. They then used clues to determine a mystery number. We had done something similar early in the week when students chose a mystery number and then asked each other yes/no questions to work out the answer. We also did some work around covering up a mystery number on a hundred grid.
On the second page students used a hundred grid (on the interactive white board) to solve complex mystery number problems. Few students were able to find the answers, but it was great to see the way they worked together, and to hear their discussion. At the end of the session we went through the problems together so students could see how the answers could be found.
We had a couple of times through the week when the kids had worked really hard and we were all exhausted but still had about 20 minutes until the next scheduled break. On these occasions we grabbed our hats and ducked outside for a game. We played Jam Drops, Toilet Flush Tips, and Golden Child. These worked well in the allotted time.
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Having been a bit of a fan of Selby the only talking dog in Australia (maybe even the world), I decided to introduce students to his antics. Unfortunately, the corny humour in this particular book seems to be a little beyond my students and I find myself struggling through the embarrassing silence after I deliver each pun! We now discuss the humour at the end of each chapter and I point out the play on words. Is humour something that comes with age? Or that is taught? Any suggestions for another more suitable novel for Year 2 students?
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Ala Alwan, MD, in January was named regional director for the Mediterranean region of the World Health Organization. Alwan previously worked in the organization’s noncommunicable diseases and mental health area.
Bushnell, Wilson, named directors at NIH
The National Institutes of Health recently announced two new appointments. In July, Catherine Bushnell, PhD, was appointed scientific director in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In that role, she will lead a multidisciplinary neuroscience and pain research program. In January, M. Roy Wilson, MD, MS, was named deputy director of strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Lazarus to lead American Medical Association
Jeremy Lazarus, MD, in June was inaugurated as the 167th president of the American Medical Association. Lazarus works as a private-practice psychiatrist in Denver and also serves as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.
Bond takes top job at FASEB
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in July named Judith Bond, PhD, as its new president. Bond, who is professor emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa., will serve one year as the federation’s leader.
Bailey takes reins at National Medical Association
Rahn Kennedy Bailey, MD, FAPA, in July was named president of the National Medical Association. Bailey chairs the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College.
NIH names three new women’s health researchers
The National Institutes of Health in June named Afaf Meleis, PhD; Heidi Nelson, MD, MPH; and Gerson Weiss, MD; to its Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health.
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Great job to the students that took the Ohio Sixth Grade Reading Achievement Test. Sorry to those that didn't get to take it, but your version of the test hasn't arrived yet. In an unbelievable move last week, the Ohio Department of Education told our district that students with an Individualized Education Program (IEP) had to take a certain "version" of the test. And, because we hadn't received these yet, these students could not take the test with their peers. Even though most of these students spent every minute of every class in the regular classroom, they are excluded from testing until "their" version arrives.
Now, supposedly this test is no different that the other versions ( of which there are several), but for some reason, which was not explained to the district, all IEP students must take this specific test. These will then, without a doubt, be graded as a group.
For more information regarding this law read the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also know as No Child Left Behind. Basically this law requires schools and districts to focus their attention on the academic achievement of traditionally under-served groups of children, such as low-income students, and students with disabilities. The whole purpose of this act was to guarantee that all students achieve and are treated equally. It makes a teacher wonder why our Ohio Department of Education claims to be supportive, but then forces IEP students to all take a specific version of the OAT. Oh, and by the way, students will take the test whenever they arrive.
You can read more about this in the Columbus Dispatch's article State Goofs, Prints too Few Tests.
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How Can I Keep More of My Mutual Fund Profits?
Provisions in the tax code allow you to pay lower capital gains taxes on the sale of assets held more than one year. Short-term gains — those resulting from the sale of assets held for one year or less — are taxed as ordinary income at your highest marginal income tax rate.
This means that if you’ve been buying shares in a stock or mutual fund over the years and are considering selling part of your holdings, your tax liability could be significantly affected by the timing of your sale.
The main pitfall for most investors is the IRS “first-in, first-out” policy. Simply stated, this means the IRS assumes that the first shares you sell are the first shares you purchased. Thus, the first shares in become the first shares out. As a result, if the value of your shares has appreciated, more of the money you receive from the sale will be considered to be taxable as a capital gain.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. When you place a sell order, instruct your broker or mutual fund transfer agent to sell those shares that you purchased for the highest amount of money. This will reduce the percentage of the proceeds of the sale that can be considered capital gain and are therefore taxable.
In order for this strategy to work, you must specify exactly which shares you are selling and when they were originally purchased. Ask your broker to send you a transaction confirmation that identifies by purchase date the shares you want to trade. This will enable you to reduce your taxable gain and maximize your deductible losses when you fill out your tax return.
In some cases, you may be better off selling the first shares you purchased, even if this results in a larger gain. If the first shares are subject to the 15% long-term capital gains rate, but the recently purchased shares are subject to the higher short-term rate, the correct choice may not be obvious. Always consult a tax professional.
By carefully reviewing your brokerage statements, you can determine which shares you paid the most for. You can then specify exactly which shares you’d like to sell. A word to the wise: Make this request in writing. If the IRS calls the transaction into question, the burden of proof is on you.
Finally, the IRS also allows you to calculate your tax basis by taking the average cost of all your shares. On an appreciating asset, this should result in a lower tax liability than the first-in, first-out rule would dictate. Be aware, though, that if you elect to average, you must continue to average for any subsequent sales.
Using either system, you may end up with a lower tax liability from the sale of your shares than the IRS would assume using the first-in, first-out rule.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed into law in December 2017, established “breakpoints” for application of these rates as under current law, except the breakpoints will be adjusted for inflation. This law also leaves in place the 3.8% net investment income tax (also referred to as the unearned income Medicare contribution tax). Taxpayers with modified adjusted gross incomes over $200,000 ($250,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly) are subject to an additional 3.8% tax on net investment income as a result of a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The value of stocks and mutual funds fluctuates so that shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost.
Mutual funds are sold by prospectus. Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which contains this and other information about the investment company, can be obtained from your financial professional. Be sure to read the prospectus carefully before deciding whether to invest.
The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek guidance from an independent tax or legal professional. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2024 Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
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TIWN April 8, 2017
AGARTALA, April 8 (TIWN): A group of unemployed youths led by 17 members of Agriculture & Horticulture passed out students in Tripura have sat on hunger strike on Friday 6 PM following 'no response' from state govt in their 48 hrs demonstration since April-6. Talking to the strikers on spot at Astabol (before North Gate) they told TIWN that only Education Director D P Sarkar has visited them but the strike will not be withdrawn till their demands are fulfilled. On the other hand D P Sarkar told them that the recruitment process needs some time, but the unemployed youths claims that already advertisement was given in daily newspaper, but due to some flaws in the advertisement High Court ordered to modify the advertisement for 50 posts. The strikers further told TIWN that after 5 times of seeking appointment from the Agriculture Minister Aghore Debbarma, he didn't feel it necessary to meet them and such behaviour is quite unexpectable, when since 7 yrs no recruitment was done under his Ministry.
However, the hunger strike was not a sudden taken decision, but for years and years the unemployed youths held many press meets, demonstrations and it was on March 3, 2017 again that the students under 'Tripura Unemployed Agricultural and Horticultural Graduates Association' told media that since years and years the Agriculture and Horticulture graduates are appealing state govt to fill up various vacant posts, but there is no initiative of the state govt to fill up those vacancies.
Thus the graduates and Post graduate unemployed youth have demanded to fill up the vacancies as fast as possible; otherwise they will go for mass protest and hunger strike after March 15.
Then on April-6, the youths announced about their demonstration at Astabol for 48 hrs demanding to fill up the vacancies. In a demonstration, staging infront of Astabol Stadium the unemployed youths demanded to fill up the vacancies as fast as possible under Agriculture Dept. Reportedly, since long 7 years no recruitment was done in TAFS Gr-I (Agri-Officer) post, whereas out of 383 posts 237 posts are left vacant. Moreover, in Central projected Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) also not a single post has been filled up. Amidst the fund releasing by Centre : State as 90 : 10, total 250 posts are still vacant. Apart from that under KVK, AICRP (PP) many posts are also vacant.
According to the unemployed youths, since 2012 these issues are raising by them again and again & total 3 times they met Tripura CM Manik Sarkar too and requesting him to sort out the problem. Other Ministers were also informed via letters but although CM gave words look after the issue but after passing 5 years without any solution, the youths have come in massive protests.
Earlier, in 2016 1st Oct, in 2017 9th March deputation was placed before Director of Agriculture. The youths further mentioned in their press release, "Even though 5 times the Agriculture Minister Aghore Debbarma was given letters but the Ministers didn't feel it necessary to meet them for 5 minutes".
The Dept. of Agriculture in 2016 via an advertisement noticed to fill up 50 posts but with the order of the High Court TPSC (Advt. 06/2016) the recruitment process was stopped as High Court found the advertisement was not valid as per recruitment laws.
Apart from that since 1999 and before that also all the Agri-Officers recruitment were invalid and the unemployed youths to file case in High Court soon.
The unemployed youths further demanded that the 50 posts must be filled up by following High Court's order with more posts. They also mentioned that many unemployed youths are becoming over aged including P.hd holders, whereas since 7 years no recruitment was done in this dept.
But with the completion of 48 hrs demonstration, passed out students sat in hunger strike demanding their demands to fulfill first. Till now, no Ministers vehicle stopped to see their condition, even they are going to and fro on that road.
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Final Symphony II: Bonn, August 2015
Last Saturday (August 29, 2015) I had the chance to see the world premiere of the Final Symphony II concert in Bonn, Germany. After the huge success of the first Final Symphony concert in 2013, Thomas Böcker, Jonne Valtonen, and Roger Wanamo from Spielemusikkonzerte (aka Merregnon Studios) took on the challenge of surpising the fans of the soundtracks of Final Fantasy once again.
Even before the concert officially launched in London and Osaka, the producers organized a very first performance in Bonn (probably due to the German background of some of the people involved) at the Beethovenhalle. Conducted by renowned Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Eckehard Stier, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn performed in front of two thausand young-ish music fans of both Final Fantasy / video game music and classical concert music. A couple of weeks before the concert took place, the organizers published a tracklist for the evening on their website. This was the same list as was printed in the official event program booklet:
In a Roundabout Way – Fanfare
FINAL FANTASY XIII – Utopia in the Sky
(Prelude to FINAL FANTASY XIII | Vanille’s Theme | Nautilus | Blinded by Light etc.)
FINAL FANTASY IX – For the People of Gaia
(Festival of the Hunt | Vivi’s Theme | Mourning the Sky | Silver Dragon etc.)
FINAL FANTASY VIII – Mono no aware
(The Oath | Don’t be Afraid | The Landing | Waltz for the Moon etc.)
FINAL FANTASY V – Library of Ancients
(Main Theme of FINAL FANTASY V | Reina’s Theme | Spreading Grand Wings | The Evil Lord X-Death etc.)
The first thing that struck me when I was at the actual concert location was the enormous amount of young people hanging out in front of and inside the concert hall. I was pleased to see many video game related fan shirts, wickedly dyed hairstyles and people spending the idle time before the beginning playing on their 3DS. Keep in mind this is a very conservative location with pictures and statues of the old Ludwig van no-nonsense Beethoven all over the place. Usually people show up in suits and hats and exchange stories about their latest Range Rover aided fox hunt experiences. Stereotypes aside, I was overwhelmed by the cool audience and the professionalism of the organization. This concert was not treated as some weird sub-standard side gig but instead got the full concert treatment with program booklet and champagne bar.
I knew some of the tracks that were announced beforehand, but was not well versed in the music of Final Fantasy and have not played any of the games (I am a VGM fan though and know every episode of The Legacy Music Hour by heart!). I therefore wanted to prepare my concert visit properly, given I usually enjoy concerts more when I know the works that are going to be played in advance. I created a playlist with the original tracks from the games in the order of the concert tracklist and listened to it often in the weeks and days before the concert. The music that was eventually played was arranged in four groups, each containing material of at least four cues from one game. But instead of just playing orchestral versions of each cue (as I was expecting from my preparations) the material was completely rearranged. This was something that took me by surprise since I expected to hear the material that I had used to prepare for the evening just in orchestral versions. What we were presented with instead were four comprehensive movements or suites, one for each game (XIII, IX, VIII, V). Each suite contained various musical elements from the tracks that were posted previously and the quality of the arrangements was astonishing. The movements felt like one piece of music rather than an amalagamation of several cues.
This is something that was mentioned by the conductor Eckehard Stier during a Q&A session after the concert. He said that the people arranging the music, Jonne Valtonen and Roger Wanamo (and Masashi Hamauzu in the case of FFXIII) did outstanding work in creating suites of the highest standard from the source material. For this, they apparently played the games, watched play-through,s and dissected the original music to present the listeners with thoroughly researched and meticulously composed arrangements, which even captured to a degree the thematic progression of the stories presented in the respective games. (This is something that the avid Final Fantasy gamer might have picked up, but which I unfortunately didn’t due to the aforementioned reasons.) The choice of instruments was classically motivated using all the groups of the grand orchestra without any technical or electronical additions. There was also no big screen to distract the audience from what is going on musically, which is something that I highly appreciate.
When everybody had found their seats the moderator of the evening (Nino Kerl) announced that Masashi Hamauzu as well as a representative of Square Enix were present. They came to the stage and were greeted by the fans with a hearty applause. What follows is a short description of the four consecutive parts as well as a final comment on the concert. The eerie quality of “Prelude to Final Fantasy XIII” was brilliantly rendered by the orchestra and the rest of this first suite presented the audience with this soundtrack’s more modern approach to game scoring with an emphasis on the general atmosphere created by the music and less on the thematic material. This being said, both “Vanille’s Theme” and “Nautilus” were clear landmarks of this arrangement.
The second suite with music from Final Fantasy IX was arranged as a complete piano concerto with Mischa Cheung giving a perfect performance both musically as well as concerning the choreography of his movements (if you’re into this sort of expressionistic exercise, that is). He captured the spirit of the music brilliantly and I was surprised several times by the choices the arrangers had made concerning which parts are going to be played by the piano. The fact that the concert featured music by Nobuo Uematsu from this point onwards was clearly audible due to the use of strong melodies and more thematic material.
After the break the concert featured music from Final Fantasy VIII including several occurrences of the famous “Waltz for the Moon” material intertwined into the fabric of the suite which was appreciated by the fans with frenetic applause. This suite also contained some very powerful moments with the whole orchestra going at it with an astounding force (the concert hall acoustics of the Beethovenhalle did their part to transport the music to the audience clearly and vigorously). The final suite with music from Final Fantasy V included the highly recognisable “Main Theme of Final Fantasy V” as well as the very emotional “Reina’s Theme” until it concluded the main part of the concert with a powerful apotheosis of pure Final Fantasy soundtrack goodness in “The Evil Lord X-Death”.
Of course several encores were played but I’m not going to spoil it for those who would like to go to one of the concerts in the UK and Japan. All I can say is that there might be an encounter between a very heavy brass instrument and a very contrasting little yellow creature. The audience loved every bit of the concert, which was apparent from the standing ovations after the finale and the fact that the entire crew of arrangers, the conductor, Mr. Cheung and Mr. Hamauzu returned to the stage and took bows four times and the crowd still wouldn’t stop clapping.
Musically speaking I was quite overwhelmed with what was presented and I even struggled to grasp some parts of it since it all happened so quickly and there was no chance to rewind and listen to certain parts again. But even given this possibility, if records are published of this work, I doubt that I will understand or even realize everything that is going on since the arrangements are so complex and so dense.
As already mentioned, the conductor was available for audience questions after the concert and one of the questions was about the main difference, in Stier’s opinion, between a concert of video game music and a concert of classical music. Stier, who has an astonishing repertoire of past performances, said that the main difference is in the acceptance of the audiences. Classical concert goers unfortunately wouldn’t realize the magnificence of the music that makes the Final Symphony series so successful and, due to stereotypes and preconceptions, would probably never see these two varieties of music as equals. To some degree, this would be true for the fans of the Final Symphony series as well, although he hopes to get at least some of them to attend a classical concert in the future. Further Stier explained that the musical sophistication of the arrangements was quite extraordinary and that the brass section especially was challenged to a more than usual degree by the parts they had to play for Final Symphony II.
In 2013 I did not see a live performance of the first iteration of the Final Symphony series but I listened to the recording many times since it was released. Judging from the limited contact of only one performance that I had had with the second iteration so far, I still dare to say that the second part does not have to hide behind the first one. Instead, it is a marvellous addition to the range of game music concerts that we fans are lucky enough to enjoy despite living outside of Japan. The Final Symphony series is a masterclass concert series, which easily lends itself to musical discussion and interpretation of the highest standards. The same can obviously be said about the arrangers, the conductor, the performers and, of course, the composers of this brilliant work of modern culture.
Posted on September 4, 2015 by Markus Roth. Last modified on September 4, 2015.
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Hey, Space Placers!
Michael Collins died yesterday, leaving humanity a bit less humane and the heavens much more brighter.
Here is his official obituary obtained from Griffin Communication s Group:
1930 - 2021
Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, our beloved father and grandfather, died on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, after a valiant battle with cancer. He was 90. This day also marked the 64th wedding anniversary between Mike and his late wife, Patricia Finnegan Collins.
Please join us in fondly and joyfully remembering his sharp wit, his quiet sense of purpose and his wise perspective, gained both from looking back at Earth from the vantage of space and gazing across calm waters from the deck of his fishing boat.
As the command module pilot on NASA's Apollo 11 mission, Mike circled the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969. When his two crewmates returned from the surface, he was in the unique position to capture a photo of all of humanity — his fellow astronauts on board the lunar module and everyone else on Earth off in the distance.
“Today the nation lost a true pioneer and lifelong advocate for exploration in astronaut Michael Collins,” acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said in a statement. “As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called him ‘the loneliest man in history’ – while his colleagues walked on the moon for the first time, he helped our nation achieve a defining milestone.”
Path to the moon
A member of NASA's third group of astronauts selected in 1963, Mike’s path to joining the first moon landing began with a three-day flight in Earth orbit. Assigned as the pilot aboard Gemini 10, he launched with John Young in July 1966 on a mission that demonstrated rendezvous and docking with two rocket stages.
Mike performed two spacewalks on Gemini 10, becoming only the fourth person to exit a spacecraft to work in the vacuum of space and the first to conduct two on the same mission. On his second extravehicular activity (EVA), he became the first astronaut to transfer to another vehicle, retrieving a cosmic dust collector from the exterior of an earlier launched Agena target stage.
After Gemini 10, Mike was assigned to what was slated to be a test of the complete Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit (that flight, Apollo 8, later was changed to be the first mission to send humans into orbit around the moon). In the course of his training, though, he developed problems with his legs and ultimately required surgery to correct for a cervical disc herniation. Given the time needed for his recovery, he was removed from the crew and reassigned to Apollo 11.
Though he later pondered if Apollo 8 might someday be seen as the more historic mission ("As you look back 100 years from now, which is more important, the idea that people left their home planet or the idea that people arrived at their nearby satellite?"), Mike was very happy to be part of the Apollo 11 crew — even if he was not one of the moonwalkers.
"It's one of the questions I get asked a million times, 'God, you got so close to the moon and you didn't land. Doesn't that really bug you?' It really does not," he said.
"I honestly felt really privileged to be on Apollo 11, to have one of those three seats. I mean, there were guys in the astronaut office who would have cut my throat ear to ear to have one of those three seats. I was very pleased to have one of those three," he said. "Did I have the best
of the three? No. But was I pleased with the one I had? Yes! And I have no feelings of frustration or rancor or whatever. I'm very, very happy about the whole thing."
Having decided before Apollo 11 lifted off that it would be his last mission, Mike splashed down from the moon having accumulated a total of 11 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes in space over the course of his two flights.
Around the world
Mike was born on Oct. 30, 1930, in Rome, Italy, where his father, a career U.S. Army officer, was stationed. After moves from Oklahoma to New York to Maryland to Ohio to Puerto Rico to Texas to Virginia, he attended St. Albans preparatory school in Washington, D.C. He then received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where Mike earned his Bachelor of Science in 1952.
Enlisting in the Air Force, Mike was trained on and flew F-86 fighter jets out of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and George Air Force Base in California, before being assigned overseas to the Chambley-Bussières Air Base in France and to West Germany during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He returned to the U.S. the following year, where he attended an aircraft maintenance officer course and then commanded a mobile training detachment, traveling to air bases around the world.
In 1960, Mike reported to the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School (later Aerospace Research Pilot School) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He applied for NASA's second class of astronauts but was not selected.
Instead, in 1962, he took a postgraduate course on the basics of spaceflight, which included flying F-104 supersonic jets to 90,000 feet (27,000 m) and training in weightlessness on parabolic flights. He graduated and returned to fighter operations at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas when he was accepted with the third group of NASA astronauts.
Prior to flying on Gemini 10, Mike's first assignment was to specialize in the development of the program's spacesuits. He then served as backup pilot for the Gemini 7 mission.
Prior to the 1967 Apollo 1 fire, which claimed three astronauts' lives, he was training for the then-planned second crewed flight of the Apollo program. In the wake of the tragedy, the mission was canceled.
Although he did not fly on Apollo 8 due to needing surgery, Mike still played an important role on the 1968 mission, serving as CapCom, or capsule communicator, from inside Mission Control in Houston. It was Mike who informed the crew that they were good to break the bonds of Earth’s gravity and set course for the moon with the words “Apollo 8, you are go for
TLI!” (TLI stood for trans-lunar injection).
After Apollo 11 and spending 21 days in quarantine to protect against any possible "moon germs," riding in ticker tape parades in New York and Chicago, attending a state dinner, addressing a joint meeting of Congress and touring 22 countries in 38 days, Mike resigned from NASA in January 1970.
After the moon
Recruited by the Nixon Administration, Mike accepted a position as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, but found he did not enjoy the job and left after a year to become the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Mike advocated for its funding and oversaw the museum being built once its budget was approved by Congress. He presided over the museum's opening on July 1, 1976, when his Apollo 11 command module, Columbia, and many of his own personal effects flown on the mission went on public display.
Mike headed the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, when he became undersecretary of the Smithsonian. He completed Harvard Business School's advanced management program in 1974 and took a position as vice president of LTV Aerospace, a NASA contractor, in 1980.
In 1982, Mike retired from the Air Force with the rank of Major General. In 1985, he left LTV to found his own consulting firm.
In addition to "Carrying the Fire," he authored "Flying to the Moon and Other Strange
Places" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), "Liftoff! The Story of America's Adventure in
Space" (Grove Press, 1988) and "Mission To Mars: An Astronaut's Vision Of Our Future" (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990).
For his service to the space program, Mike was honored with many awards, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. With his Apollo 11 crewmates, he was bestowed the Collier Trophy, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Harmon Trophy and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Of all the honors he received, Mike was most proud to be named a Fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, the prestigious international society founded in 1955 that represents the men and women who advance aerospace vehicles through flight test programs.
Outside of his professional career, Mike enjoyed physical challenges, including running in marathons and competing in triathlons. On his 50th birthday, he ran 50 miles as a personal celebration. In his retirement, he took up watercolor painting and attended art classes to improve his skill. His chosen subjects were the aircraft that he flew and natural surroundings of the Florida Everglades.
Above all else, he relished the time he spent with his family. It was for that reason that chose to leave NASA when he did, possibly missing a chance to walk on the moon in favor of spending more time with his children and grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife, Patricia Finnegan Collins. He was also predeceased by his brother, James Lawton Collins, Jr., his sister Agnes Spera and his son Michael L. Collins.
He is survived by his sister, Virginia (Nuchi) Collins Weart and by his two beloved daughters, Kate Collins (and husband Charlie Newell) and Ann Collins Starr (and husband Chris Starr). He had seven grandchildren: Matt Starr, Jake Newell, Jane Starr, Julia Starr, Luke Newell, Katie Starr and Tim Starr. He is also survived by many cherished nieces and nephews.
Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced cancer, his final challenge, in the same way. We will miss him terribly. Yet we also know how lucky Mike felt to have lived the life he did. We will honor his wish for us to celebrate, not mourn, that life.
Now when we wink at the Moon we will remember Mike and Neil.
Sky Guy in VA
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United States President Donald Trump has welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, marking the first visit of a foreign leader during his second term.
But Tuesday’s meeting was steeped in controversy as Trump repeatedly weighed in on the future of war-torn Gaza — and whether Palestinians should return to live in the enclave.
list of 3 items“Gaza is a guarantee that they’re going to end up dying. The same thing is going to happen again,” Trump said. “It’s happened over and over again. And it’s going to happen again.”
“So I hope we can do something where they wouldn’t want to go back. Who would want to go back? They’ve experienced nothing but death and destruction.”
Trump also suggested that the US aims to “take over” a depopulated Gaza, shaping its landscape for years to come.
“ I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East,” Trump said.
“This was not a decision made lightly. Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs.”
A fragile ceasefire recently paused hostilities in Gaza where, for the past 15 months, Israel has led a devastating military campaign that has killed an estimated 61,700 Palestinians.
United Nations experts and human rights advocates have compared the military campaign with a genocide. But the US remains a firm ally of Israel – and of Netanyahu’s government.
In remarks after his bilateral meeting with Netanyahu, Trump returned to a vision he had outlined earlier in the day, in which Palestinians would be settled “permanently” in “a beautiful area” outside of Gaza.
Such comments have spurred fears that Trump would support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and nearby countries like Egypt and Jordan have repeatedly rejected the prospect of absorbing Gaza’s population.
“I think Jordan and Egypt – they say they’re not going to accept, but I say they will. But I think other countries will accept also,” Trump said.
A close ally
Tuesday’s bilateral meeting was set against a period of regional turmoil in the Middle East.
Recent ceasefires have slowed hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza. A new government has risen in Syria. And there are growing tensions between Iran and Israel.
Before arriving in the US on Sunday, Netanyahu underscored the symbolism of being the first foreign head of state to visit Trump since the president’s second inauguration on January 20.
“I think it’s a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The two countries indicated that a range of topics would be on the table for discussion, including the ceasefire agreements, the future of Gaza and efforts to normalise relations between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
In the lead-up to Tuesday’s meeting, Trump also signed a series of executive orders and directives, some of which pertained to goals he shares with Netanyahu.
One announced the return of his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. Another saw the US withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and UNRWA, the relief agency for Palestinian refugees.
Netanyahu’s government has accused UNRWA of involvement in the attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, without offering proof to substantiate the claim.
The Israeli leader’s visit was greeted by protesters calling for a “free, free, free Palestine”.
Some activists denounced his invitation to the White House as an honour bestowed on a “war criminal”: In November, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Still, Trump reaffirmed his commitment to Netanyahu at Tuesday’s news conference.
“The bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations, and they are absolutely unbreakable,” Trump said.
Netanyahu responded with praise of his own: “You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.”
Ceasefire in Gaza
The tenuous ceasefire in Gaza was a central part of the two leaders’ latest meeting.
Trump has repeatedly taken credit for the ceasefire deal, which came into effect on January 19, the day before he took office. He blamed the foreign policy of his predecessor Joe Biden for allowing the war in Gaza to begin in the first place.
“Nobody did anything for four years except in the negative,” Trump said at one point, referring to Biden’s term in office. “Unfortunately, the weakness and incompetence of those past four years [caused] the grave damage around the globe.”
Still, Trump has cast doubt on the strength of the ceasefire and whether it would last.
“The strikes could start tomorrow,” Trump said on Tuesday. “There’s not a lot left to strike.”
The initial 42-day truce, which will see the release of 33 Israeli captives and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, expires on March 1.
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Palestinian group Hamas said that negotiations for a second phase of the ceasefire have begun. If agreed to, that phase would see the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and the freeing of all captives.
But Trump lashed out at the group in his remarks, praising Israel’s efforts to cut off resources to Gaza.
“We starved Hamas and Iran’s other terrorist proxies, and we starved them like they had never seen before. Resources and support disappeared for them,” Trump said.
US to ‘take over’ Gaza?
The president also renewed his call for a mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, despite human rights experts warning that it would amount to ethnic cleansing.
“ It’s been an unlucky place for a long time,” Trump said of Gaza. “ And it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there.”
He added that Palestinians would “love to leave” if given an alternative.
“They should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we [can] get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it habitable and enjoyable,” Trump explained.
He stopped short of committing US resources to any such construction effort, saying a new home for Palestinians could be ”paid for by neighbouring countries of great wealth”.
He did, however, propose that the US would assert a presence in Gaza in the future.
“ The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site,” Trump said.
“Level it out and create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.”
Earlier in the day, he had said he would not necessarily support Israel taking Gaza itself: “Not necessarily, no. I just support cleaning it up and doing something with it.”
The US has backed the Israeli offensive in Gaza, providing billions in military aid.
A hardline approach to Iran
Another pillar of Tuesday’s meeting was how to approach Iran, which Netanyahu has portrayed as Israel’s greatest threat.
On Tuesday, Netanyahu chuckled as he recalled how Trump during his first term decided to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), an agreement that would have seen Iran limit its nuclear programme in favour of loosened sanctions.
Iran responded in the years since by escalating its nuclear programme.
“ You withdrew from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. I remember we spoke about it. You said, ‘This is the worst deal I’ve ever seen,'” Netanyahu said. “ I think it speaks loudly for just common sense.”
For his part, Trump played up his decision to return to the “maximum pressure” strategy he pursued during his first term.
“ We will once again enforce the most aggressive possible sanctions, drive Iranian oil exports to zero and diminish the regime’s capacity to fund terror throughout the region and throughout the world,” he said.
US officials have argued that Iran and its allies like Hezbollah and Hamas have been “weakened” by the regional violence that broke out over the last year.
Hezbollah has been dealt heavy blows after the Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon. Hamas has lost its top military and political leaders. And the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has collapsed.
Critics have warned, however, that Netanyahu may exploit this moment to seek US assistance in striking Iran’s nuclear facilities.
At a news conference on Tuesday, Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Trump to stand up against any Israeli attempt to launch an offensive targeting Iran.
“We hope that President Trump will not be dragged and fooled by this war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu, to launch a war on Iran and destabilise the region further,” Awad told reporters.
“President Trump has a golden opportunity to put an end to the suffering of the people in the region and hold the Israeli leaders accountable instead of celebrating them.”
Trump did leave the door open for diplomacy, saying that he is “unhappy” to apply renewed sanctions on Iran. He added that his only red line is that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
“ I hated to do it, just so you understand. And I hope we’re going to be able to do something so that it doesn’t end up in a very catastrophic situation. I don’t want to see that happen,” Trump said.
The US president has not ruled out speaking to Iranian officials.
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UDO is on Back to the Roots – Farewell to Accept tour.
Then band was incredible tonight, Udo sounded fantastic. The set list was unreal to a fan.
Some of these songs we never thought we would here. Bravo to the sound man
Set list was cut short by 2 songs but no problem the show was over 2 hours. Incredible they can sound this good after all these years.
Here is the full set list for the show. Starlight – Living for Tonight – Flash Rockin’ Man – London Leatherboys – Midnight Mover – Breaker – Head Over Heels – Neon Nights – Princess of the Dawn – Winterdreams – Restless and Wild – Son of a Bitch – Up to the Limit – Wrong is Right – Midnight Highway – Screaming For a Love Bite – Monsterman – T.V. War – Losers & Winners
Encore – Metal Heart – Fast As a Shark – Ball to the Wall
Check out more tour dates here. Do not miss this show!
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As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, the European cultural & creative sectors are suffering great economic consequences. The enormous loss of revenue and the restrictions on public gatherings threaten the survival of many cultural organisations worldwide. In order to mitigate these losses and support the cultural & creative sectors in this time of crisis, European governments have developed different initiatives and measures for financial aid. Intercult follows closely the measures taken to strengthen and support the cultural & creative sector in all the different parts of the EU. What follows is an overview of the different measures taken by European governments to ensure the survival of the cultural & creative sectors during a global crisis. In Sweden both the national government, regions and municipalities introduced crisis measures which are now being distributed to actors in the CCS.
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On May 8th 2020 a new aid package (SEK 319 million; app. EUR 30.131865 million) was proposed by the government. The aid package is intended for the support of public cultural institutions such as museums, theatres and art galleries. These public institutions have largely been excluded from earlier grants, since they are already receiving financial support from the government. But the loss of revenue has been great enough to prompt additional aid. How much each institution will receive is not yet decided.
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Kulturrådet (Swedish Arts council) distributes financial grants for a number of different cultural events and projects; mainly concerts, performance arts shows, exhibitions, lectures and other similar events. Applicants must meet certain criteria to be eligible. For example, the applicant must be a legal person or a sole trader based in Sweden. The applicant must be a professional organizer of cultural events or projects. Artists who were supposed to participate in a cancelled/postponed event can also apply for the grant (such as music groups, independent dance groups or theatre ensembles). Individual artists are not eligible for financial aid from Kulturrådet. In order to qualify for financial aid the cultural event in question must have been planned to take place on May 31st 2020 at the latest. The outbreak of covid-19 must be the reason for cancellation. Moreover, the event must be open to the public.
Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute) has adopted a number of measures to protect and support the Swedish film industry during the crisis. They will increase their financial support for Swedish cinemas, give an additional SEK 5 million (app. EUR 471.482) to the development of Swedish film projects (mainly fiction and documentaries) and to the continual launch of Swedish and international films. An increased production grant will also be available to ongoing or planned film productions until the 1st of June 2020. The financial support offered by Filminstitutet is mainly intended for organizations, not individuals.
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Africa is home to a rich diversity of wildlife, and among its most iconic creatures are the animals with horns. Horns serve many functions in the animal kingdom, including defense, mating displays, and social hierarchy. African animals with horns are some of the most recognized species, from the towering horns of the kudu to the sharp, defensive horns of the African buffalo. These animals not only play critical roles in their ecosystems but are also symbols of Africa’s natural heritage. However, many of these species face threats from habitat loss, poaching, and climate change, making conservation efforts more important than ever.
In this article, we will explore 10 of the most famous African animals with horns, each contributing to the continent’s ecological diversity and cultural significance.
1. African Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
You would be thinking how an elephant can make it into a list of African animals with horns. While African elephants are known for their tusks rather than traditional horns, these elongated teeth play a similar role to horns in other species. Tusks are used for digging, stripping bark from trees, and as a weapon for self-defense and dominance during mating season. Both male and female African elephants have tusks, though they are more prominent in males.
Tusks, like horns, have become a target for poachers, and the illegal ivory trade has severely impacted elephant populations. Despite conservation efforts, poaching remains a significant threat, with elephants being killed for their tusks across Africa. The African elephant’s tusks are an integral part of the animal’s behavior and ecology, contributing to the shaping of the environment by knocking down trees and opening up areas for new growth. These activities support the health of ecosystems, making elephants keystone species in African landscapes.
2. African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Distinctive Curved Horns
The African buffalo, also known as the Cape buffalo, is one of the renowned African animals with horns, it has curved horns, which are a defining feature of the species. The horns of males, known as bulls, form a characteristic “boss” where they meet at the center of the head, providing a shield-like structure that helps protect them during fights for dominance and mating rights.
African buffaloes are social animals, often found in herds that can number in the hundreds. These animals are found in savannas, woodlands, and floodplains across sub-Saharan Africa, where they play a vital role in their ecosystems by grazing on vegetation and helping to control plant growth. Their horns are critical for their survival, both in defense against predators such as lions and in establishing their position within the herd.
Despite their seemingly robust numbers, African buffaloes are at risk due to habitat fragmentation and diseases such as bovine tuberculosis. Conservation efforts for these African animals with horns focus on protecting their habitats and managing disease outbreaks to ensure their survival.
3. Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)
The Famous Two Horns
The black rhinoceros is a critically endangered species of African animals with horns that is easily recognizable by its two horns. The front horn is larger, and both are made of keratin, the same substance as human hair and nails. These horns are used for defense, digging for water, and breaking branches to access food.
Sadly, the black rhinoceros is one of the most poached African animals with horns, primarily because of the demand for rhino horns in traditional medicine and as status symbols. The rhino population has been decimated over the past century, with some subspecies already extinct. Conservation efforts have intensified to protect the remaining populations, including anti-poaching measures, habitat protection, and breeding programs.
Black rhinos are browsers, feeding on trees and shrubs, which helps to shape the landscape and promote plant diversity. Their horns are not just tools for survival but symbols of the ongoing battle to save Africa’s wildlife from the pressures of human activity.
4. Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)
Spiral Horns for Defense and Mating
The greater kudu is one of Africa’s most majestic antelopes, known for its striking spiral horns, which can grow up to 1.8 meters (6 feet) in length. These horns are used by males in battles for dominance during the mating season, with the spiral shape allowing them to lock horns and push against one another in displays of strength.
These African animals with horns are found in eastern and southern Africa, typically inhabiting woodlands and savannas. Their horns not only serve as tools for combat but are also a defining feature that helps distinguish them from other antelope species. The horns grow throughout the kudu’s life, with older males often having the most impressive spirals.
Kudus face threats from habitat destruction due to agricultural expansion and hunting for their meat and horns. Despite this, they are not currently endangered, thanks to large protected areas where they can thrive. Conservation efforts focus on maintaining these habitats and ensuring sustainable land-use practices.
5. Eland (Taurotragus oryx)
Long, Twisted Horns
The eland is the largest antelope species in Africa, and its long, spiraling horns make it a distinctive presence on the continent. Both males and females have horns, but those of males are thicker and longer. These horns are used for defense and for competing for mates during the breeding season.
These African animals with horns are found across a wide range of habitats, from savannas to montane grasslands. They are highly adaptable, able to survive in areas with limited water and food resources. Their horns help them in their daily survival, allowing them to break branches to access food and defend themselves against predators like lions and hyenas.
Human activity has led to habitat loss for elands, but they are not currently endangered. However, in some regions, These African animals with horns are hunted for their meat and horns, which are prized for their beauty. Conservation efforts focus on habitat protection and promoting sustainable use of wildlife resources.
6. Gemsbok (Oryx gazella)
Straight, Pointed Horns for Defense
The gemsbok is a striking species of oryx, known for its long, straight horns that can reach up to 1.2 meters (4 feet) in length. Both males and females have horns, and they use them to defend themselves against predators, including lions and cheetahs. The gemsbok’s horns are also used in territorial disputes and during mating season.
Gemsboks are well-adapted to life in arid environments, such as the Kalahari Desert. These species of African animals with horns can survive for long periods without water, obtaining moisture from the plants they eat. Their horns are crucial for both their survival and social interactions, playing a role in defending territories and maintaining herd structure.
In many parts of southern Africa, gemsboks are protected in national parks and conservation areas, but they are still hunted in some regions for their horns and hides. Efforts to preserve their habitats and manage sustainable hunting practices are vital for the survival of this iconic species.
7. Impala (Aepyceros melampus)
Graceful Curved Horns for Fighting and Display
The impala is one of Africa’s most graceful antelopes, known for its slender build and elegantly curved horns. Only males have horns, which they use to establish dominance within herds and during the breeding season. Impalas are known for their agility and speed, often leaping into the air to avoid predators like lions, leopards, and wild dogs.
Impalas are common in savannas and woodlands across eastern and southern Africa. They play an essential role in the ecosystem as both grazers and prey species, helping to maintain the balance between vegetation and predator populations. Their horns, while primarily used in mating battles, also serve as a defense against predators when necessary.
Despite being abundant in many areas, impalas face threats from habitat loss and hunting. Conservation programs focus on protecting their habitats and ensuring that populations remain stable in protected areas.
8. Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger)
Impressive Scimitar-Shaped Horns
The sable antelope is one of Africa’s most visually striking animals, with its dark coat and impressive scimitar-shaped horns that curve backward. Both males and females have horns, though the males’ are longer and more curved. These horns are used in territorial disputes, with males often engaging in intense battles during the breeding season.
These African animals with horns are found in savannas and open woodlands in parts of southern Africa. They are highly territorial, and their horns play a significant role in maintaining social structure within herds. The horns are also used to fend off predators such as lions and hyenas, making them an important tool for survival.
The sable antelope’s population has declined in some areas due to habitat loss and hunting, but they are still found in many protected areas. Conservation efforts focus on habitat protection and breeding programs to ensure the long-term survival of this magnificent species.
9. Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
Ringed, Curved Horns
Waterbucks are large antelopes known for their distinctive ringed, curved horns, which are present only in males. These horns are used in combat during the breeding season, with males fighting for dominance and access to females. Waterbucks are often found near bodies of water, as they rely on these areas for both food and protection from predators.
Waterbucks are well-adapted to living in savannas and floodplains, where their horns help them navigate through dense vegetation and defend themselves against predators. The horns are also an important part of their mating displays, with larger, more robust horns indicating a strong and healthy male.
While waterbucks are not currently endangered, they face threats from habitat loss due to agricultural expansion and water pollution. Conservation efforts focus on protecting their wetland habitats and ensuring that populations remain stable.10. Beisa Oryx (Oryx beisa)
Long, Straight Horns for Desert Survival
The beisa oryx is a close relative of the gemsbok, and like its cousin, it is known for its long, straight horns, which can reach up to 1 meter (3.3 feet) in length. Both males and females have horns, and they use them to defend against predators and in territorial disputes. The beisa oryx is adapted to life in the arid regions of East Africa, where water is scarce, and temperatures can be extreme.
The beisa oryx’s horns are crucial for its survival, as they help the animal fend off predators and compete for mates. The species is also well-adapted to desert life, able to go for long periods without drinking water, obtaining moisture from the plants it eats. This adaptability has allowed the beisa oryx to thrive in some of Africa’s harshest environments.
However, this African animals with horns species faces threats from habitat loss and hunting, particularly for its horns, which are prized as trophies. Conservation efforts are focused on protecting their desert habitats and ensuring that populations remain healthy in the face of environmental challenges.
African animals with horns are some of the most iconic and ecologically important species on the continent. From the massive tusks of the African elephant to the sharp, defensive horns of the African buffalo, these animals play critical roles in their ecosystems, shaping the environment and influencing the behavior of other species. However, many of these animals face significant threats from poaching, habitat loss, and climate change.
Conservation efforts are crucial to preserving these species for future generations. By protecting their habitats, combating illegal hunting, and supporting sustainable land-use practices, we can ensure that these magnificent African animals with horns continue to thrive in Africa’s wild landscapes. The future of Africa’s horned wildlife depends on the actions we take today to preserve their natural habitats and protect them from the pressures of human activity.
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WANTED CROSSVILLE MAN ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY RUNNING FROM OFFICERS
A wanted Crossville man was arrested after allegedly attempting to run from authorities. A tip sent Crossville police to an area off North Main Street just north of Interstate 40 where they found 35-year-old Michael Darrell Willis. Willis was wanted on probation violation. However, when officers approached Willis, he allegedly fled on foot and into a nearby river. Cumberland County deputies assisted Crossville police in the search for Willis who was later caught. Willis was charged with evading arrest and transported to the Cumberland County jail.
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Tekna Plasma Europe SAS is a company specialized in the development and manufacturing of advanced powders (ceramics, metals, alloys…) by Induction plasma technology. The technology developed by Tekna allows to enhance the quality of the micron scale powder by increasing the purity and the pack density of the powders but also to modify the shape of the particles which has a direct impact on the flow ability. Tekna based in 200 boulevard de la résistance 71000 Mâcon, France and is a French legal entity which is a commercial entity under the French law (Articles L227-1 to L227-20 and L244-1 to L244-2 of the French commercial code). Tekna Plasma Europe SAS is a 100% subsidiary of Tekna Plasma Systems Inc. which an incorporated company under the Canadian law. Tekna Plasma Systems Inc. is located in 2935, Boulevard Industriel, Sherbrooke, Québec, J1L 2T9, Canada. Moreover, Tekna Plasma Systems is owned by a Norwegian holding named AFK which has an annual turnover about 700 M€. Tekna is currently involved in the additive manufacturing market as a powder provider and is looking to improve its product or develop new materials for specific applications. In fact, the induction plasma technology can be used to produce dense and spherical particles but moreover it allows controlling the chemical reaction/composition of the materials as well as its purity. For this project, Tekna proposes to use and improve the operating parameters of its inductively coupled plasma technology in order to develop new materials (powders) with specific shape, size and chemical composition in order to introduce new powders into the market dedicated to additive manufacturing applications and in particular for light weight structures.
CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.
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I have a solution to post for future users who may encounter this problem.
I was unable to measure in edrawings. I could start the measurement tool, I could hover over the model and items would change red - but I could not click them and turn them green - which means edrawings won't display any results.
With the help of my VAR, we traced it down to the digitizer I was using. If I plugged in a mouse, it worked great, but edrawings would not recognize the left click button on my digitizer mouse. Strange - this is the only program that has ever had an issue with my hardware in over 5 years of use.
For reference, the offending digitizer is:
Wacom CTE-450 "Bamboo Fun" with the optional mouse
Driver version 5.3.3-3
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For anyone who has been growing plants for a while, the concept of ‘ballasts’ will not be a new one. However, growers who are just entering the markets might get confused as to what ballasts are and why do they need one – especially if they are gen-next growers who grow only via LED lights which don’t even need ballasts! Nonetheless given that HID and other older forms of light still continue to dominate the markets and that there are a large number of growers still using them, we thought it would be a good idea to give our readers a crash course on grow light ballasts and everything that they need to know about them!
Growing your plants indoors is an art as well as science – and given its scientific nature, we insist that you must know everything even though you might not choose to use lights with ballasts. This is of particular importance if you are using a grow light where you need to buy a separate ballast – because then you will need to know exactly what you are going to buy.
Over the course of this article, we shall be taking a closer look at what a ballast is and what is its primary function in a grow light. Post that, we shall discuss all the different kinds of ballasts that are available in the markets and how you can choose the one that suits your needs the best. We will also take a look at how to install a ballast in an easy way before heading into a discussion about whether ballasts are going to be of any use in the future as LED lights are dominating the markets. Post that, we shall answer some Frequently Asked Questions about grow light ballasts before we conclude.
What Are Grow Light Ballasts?
To understand what a ballast is and what it does, you will need to understand a little bit of the science that powers the grow lights at first. When you look at these lights, grow lights (especially the HID lights and fluorescent lights) are low resistance devices when you switch them on – however, they need to be powered by a higher voltage. A ballast is the perfect device to provide both these things to your light – a low resistance as well as a high voltage. The primary job of the ballast is to ensure that the grow light receives only the amount of current that it requires and nothing more that might overburden it.
HID grow lights come in two variants – the first one being High-Pressure Sodium lamps. When you power on your grow light, the ballast provides the right voltage for the sodium inside it to melt and vaporize. Ballasts are critical here because they function as a regulatory part. Had you had no ballast in your arc when you turn the power on, the intensity with which the voltage is being provided to the grow light would continue to increase, and eventually it would be too much for your bulb to handle and it would blow up. A ballast ensures that such a thing does not happen.
Ballasts are also ‘smart’ devices. Not ‘smart’ in the modern sense but smart enough to know how much power your bulb needs at different phases. When you are starting off your grow light, HPS lights need a high flow of voltage to power up but it then has to be regulated. Ballasts ensure that such a flow is controlled in the right way. Furthermore, when High-Pressure Sodium grow lights and Metal Halides begin to grow older, they tend to need more power to provide the same kind of lighting as they did earlier – a ballast can sense that and provide them with the right amount of power that they need.
Grow light ballasts are also a good safety mechanism. The moment it begins to feel that your bulb is consuming way too much power than it should, it would automatically shut it down. This usually happens when you’ve used your HID grow lights for a few years and they have maxed out their lifespan. Ballasts automatically shut the bulb and when you try and turn them on again, the ballast would again turn them off in a while – this is when you know its time to get hold of a new grow light for your indoor plants.
What are the Different Kinds of Grow Light Ballasts?
Broadly speaking, there are three different kinds of grow light ballasts:
- Electronic Ballasts
- Magnetic Ballasts
- Digital Ballasts
Out of these three, the first two are quite critical while the third one is a term that is often thrown around but we rarely get to see them. Nonetheless, let us take a closer look at all three of these grow light ballasts:
1. Magnetic Ballasts
These are the oldest kinds of ballasts and have been around since as long as there have been High-Intensity Discharge (HID) lights. These ballasts are of a very simple nature and are essentially a magnetic coil made out of a large wire coiled around sheets made out of steel. These are somewhat of a ‘heavy-duty’ device that has been known to last for quite a long time but on the other hand, they are also quite bulky and tend to heat up very easily. Another major disadvantage of magnetic ballasts is that you need a 400W magnetic ballast for a 400W light and an 800W ballast for an 800W light (and so on and so forth). You need size-specific ballasts for the kind of grow light that you are using which is not something that modern-day growers are comfortable with.
2. Electronic Ballasts
When it comes to electronic ballasts, you will see that this is quite a different setup in comparison to what we have seen above in magnetic ballasts. While we have seen that magnetic ballasts tend to carry wires around steel sheets these newer ballasts consist of semiconductors and microchips which help them provide and regulate the high amounts of voltage needed by the HID lights. Considering that there’s no wire and steel inside them and it is mostly made out of chips and semiconductors, this is a much smaller kind of a ballast and doesn’t even heat up as much as the older magnetic ballasts do. One of the biggest advantages of getting an electronic ballast over a magnetic ballast is that they are switchable in nature and unlike the former, you don’t really need two different ballasts to switch from HPS light to MH lighting. Most electronic ballasts also support dimming the light which is another cool feature that you do not get in the magnetic variants. Hence, these are the kinds of grow light ballasts that the modern-day growers now prefer to use if they are using HID grow lights.
3. Digital Ballasts
Digital ballasts are just an improvement over electronic ballasts. While many ballasts in the markets today claim to be ‘digital’ they are still rebranded electronic ballasts. Nonetheless, the difference between electronic and digital ballasts is that the latter carry in them a microprocessor. If your ballast does not have a microprocessor it is not a digital ballast. The core advantages of using these kinds of ballasts is that they are considerably smaller in size even when compared to the electronic ballasts. Some of these ballasts can operate up to four lights at once. They also tend to heat up quite less. However, the biggest benefit of using a digital ballast to use grow lights is that it allows you to regulate the voltage between 400W to 1000W and that growers can adjust the intensity of the light any time they wish to. These digital ballasts often tend to be expensive in comparison to the other two forms of grow light ballasts.
What are HID Grow Lights?
Since we are talking so much about HID grow lights here, here’s quick introduction to what these lights are. HID lights stand for High-Intensity Discharge grow lights and they come in two variants – High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) grow lights and Metal Halides (MH). A combination of both of these lights is essential for growers to grow their plants, especially if they are growing something like marijuana.
1. Metal Halides
These lights provide your plants with a cool blue lighting which is important for their growth in the vegetative phase. The kind of lighting that you get here is the one that you would usually find out in nature in the months of spring or autumn. These lights are great for promoting the process of photosynthesis in your plants, as well as help them grow taller, leafier and help increase the vegetative growth. These bulbs function on the passage of an electric arc amid a mixture of gases like argon, mercury, etc. The average lifespan of these bulbs is close to 10,000 hours.
2. HPS Grow Lights
While the Metal Halide lights provide your plants with the cool blue light that they need during the early phase of their growth, the High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) lamps provide the warm red shades which are important during the flowering phase of the plant’s life cycle. These lights help increase the overall yield per square foot and make sure your plant is producing more flowers which are big and healthy. The concept at which this light operates is pretty much the same as that of the metal halides as an electric arc is passed through gas – but the gas here consists of sodium vapor which gives it the distinct colour that your plants need for vegetative growth. These lights last for about 18000 hours on an average, which is more than the metal halides, but also tend to consume more power and generate more heat than the MH lights.
In order for your plants to get the ideal lighting, you will need to use both these lights based on the phase of growth your plant is in to ensure a healthy growth.
Frequently Asked Questions About Grow Light Ballasts:
We get asked many of these questions over mail or in our comments so we have clubbed them together here for your benefit. Do take a look at some of these FAQs as you might be having similar queries:
1. Do LED grow lights also need ballasts?
The answer to this is pretty simple. LED grow lights do not need a ballast because everything that is needed for the light to function and the voltage to flow and to be controlled is already a part of the primary fixture of the light. Hence, there’s no need to add an extra ballast to the mix.
2. How expensive can ballasts be?
Depending on what all you are getting (just a ballast or an entire kit) you could be looking at anything ranging from about $60 to $250 on an average. The cost varies with what all’s included in the package. Getting simply a ballast would be somewhere around the $60-$100 range.
3. Are ballasts safe to use?
Ballasts are totally safe to use. Specifically, magnetic ballasts as they are designed keeping in mind the standards set by the ANSI (American National Standards Institute). This isn’t exactly the case with the electronic and digital ballasts but those are also generally very safe to use. In fact, not using a ballast is always more dangerous (check out the last question).
4. Which is the best type of grow light ballast?
Technically the answer is digital ballasts because they are the latest and hence the safest, don’t heat up, and are small in size. However, the answer to this truly depends upon the light that you are using, your level of comfort and familiarity with the ballasts, etc.
5. What happens if I don’t use a ballast?
If you don’t use a ballast an unregulated flow of current begins entering your bulb and the supply will continue at an increasing pace till your bulb blows up in the end.
6. How To Get The Best Ballast For Your Light?
The best way to ensure that you are getting just the right kind of grow light ballast for your lighting is by purchasing a complete HID lighting kit – which will include the light and the perfect compatible ballast along with it. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for and are a total ‘pro’ grower, we strongly recommend you to buy a grow light kit which will get you the ideal combination.
When it comes to growing your plants, there are a number of things that growers need to keep in mind. While the bigger worries are about getting the right kind of light, providing the right nutrients, and setting up the perfect growth environment, ballasts are a small part of the system which are very important, and messing that up means you’re straight-up sacrificing your grow light! Hence, we have come out with this guide on grow light ballasts and everything that you need to know about them. We hope that reading this has helped you enrich your knowledge about what ballasts are and why they are important. If there are any more questions, do drop us a mail or let us know in the comments section and we shall get back to you as soon as we can! Till then…
….Happy Growing! 🙂
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The Barnstable County Regional Board of Commissioners is applauding Governor Healey for stopping a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod.
On Monday the Governor's Office said she did not approve the signing of a contract for the development of a the gun range because the funding has not been reauthorized, and the project was still undergoing a review.
Opponents of the range have long expressed concerns that the range could contaminate the region's sole-source aquifer.
Commissioner Mark Forest thanks Governor and her staff listening to the concerns of Cape Codders and supporting the effort to protect drinking water supplies.
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Kaytranada Drops Cray “You’re The One” Clip + Final Tour Tickets
Haitian-born producer Louis Kevin Celestin a.k.a. Kaytranada has been busy of late, dropping his ‘.001% ???’ mixtape last week and following up with an intriguing music video for You’re The One ft. SYD!
Glowing synth and snappy dance percussion gets the track off to an energetic start. Through the verses, deep pulsing synth interlocks with thin, poppy fillers, forgotten in the chorus as the vocals take centre stage. Reminiscent of classic 2007 RnB, the female vocals are breathy, intimate, and intriguing – think Rihanna in her ‘Good Girl Gone Bad’ phase. It’s the mark of a solid release that it ends too quickly – just as you’re getting into the groove, that steady beat and those smooth vocals are replaced by eerie, almost alien textures, and seconds later the song meets an abrupt end.
Filled with bright pink hair dryers and fluorescent nail polish, the music video more than matches the vibrancy and colour of the song. It plays with the premise of a girls’ night in, complete with curlers, pizza, and every kind of late night TV show, and quickly turns into a fantasy involving a mystery man, one hell of a dance party, and a shock proposal. That escalated quickly.
Kaytranada is kicking off the almost sold-out Australian leg of the 99.9% tour next month, and lucky Brisbane and Perth fans have one last chance to grab a ticket! Check out the details and Kaytranada’s You’re The One music video below!
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Corporate gifting has evolved into a creative and thoughtful endeavor. In today's competitive marketplace, businesses recognize the importance of standing out, and one way to achieve that is by giving gifts that are unique and personalized to the recipient's preferences.
As we move into 2024, the world of corporate gifting continues to shift, influenced by economic changes, remote work trends, and a growing emphasis on sustainability. Let's explore the latest trends in corporate gifts, from eco-friendly options to high-tech gadgets and personalized experiences. If you're searching for fresh corporate gift ideas, read on to discover what’s hot in company gift ideas for 2024.
The Rise of Customized & Personalized Corporate Gifts
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Sustainability & Eco-Friendly Corporate Gifting
Sustainability is no longer just a trend—it’s a lifestyle. In 2024, eco-friendly corporate gifts will dominate the corporate gifting landscape. These gifts range from reusable water bottles made from recycled materials to bamboo utensils or desk plants that brighten up any workspace. If you are a gifting company, don’t miss out on wholesale incense for your hampers! Click here to buy.
By offering sustainable gift box options, companies can demonstrate their commitment to positive environmental impact while connecting with like-minded clients and employees. This shift toward eco-conscious company gift ideas is here to stay, and embracing it can showcase your company’s dedication to the planet.
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When it comes to corporate gifts, one trend that continues to shine in 2024 is the food gift hamper. Who doesn't love an indulgent selection of gourmet treats?
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Job Title: Keeper I
Department: Animal Care
Reports to: Keeper IV-Lead Keeper and Animal Department Managers
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Job Status: Full-time
All animal keeper levels are responsible for animal husbandry, including training and enrichment. Additionally, animal keepers are responsible for maintenance of habitats, holdings, and public areas as assigned. All keeper levels will expect to be responsible for normal keeper duties as part of the daily responsibilities. The Keeper I will report to the Keeper IV-Lead Keeper and Animal Department Managers.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES, SKILLS, AND RESPONSIBILITES:
Effectively monitor health and behavior of the animal collection and communicate changes to supervisor and veterinary staff. Oversee administration of medications as applicable.
Participate in and support collaborative efforts pertaining to the care of the collection including training, enrichment, research, and education.
Complete behavioral management training and utilize operant conditioning and enrichment techniques.
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Maintain a high-performance level of general keeper duties including excellent animal care and guest interactions including scheduled on-ground talks.
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Work to meet and exceed the Association of Zoos and Aquariums guidelines for animal welfare
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Must be dependable and willing to work flexible hours, weekends and holidays.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; therefore, the employee may be required to perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by management.
WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Must be able to work outdoors in all weather conditions and have the physical ability to perform strenuous work. Must be capable of lifting 50 lbs or more.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Therefore, the employee may be required to perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or other management. The company reserves the right to revise or change job duties as business requirements dictate. It is mutually agreed that this job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
Utica Zoo is an EOE and provides a Smoke-free and Drug-free Work Environment
Education and Pre-requisites
Prior related animal care experience is preferred. Paid experience at an AZA accredited facility is preferred.
Communicates effectively with supervisory staff and co-workers both written and orally.
Experience with operant conditioning and enrichment techniques is preferred.
Demonstrate computer proficiency to complete the functions of this position.
Must be able to use light power tools after suitable training.
Four-year degree in biology, psychology, or related field is preferred; sufficient relevant experience will be considered.
Must obtain and maintain a valid New York driver’s license within six months of employ.
Compensation and benefits
From $13.20 per hour
Benefits: Dental insurance, Employee assistance program, Employee discount, Health insurance, Health savings account, Paid time off, Retirement plan, Vision insurance
Please submit your resume and cover letter to:
Email: [email protected]
Mail: Utica Zoo
1 Utica Zoo Way
Utica, NY 13501
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Nutraceutical Manufacturer in India
Abeers Pharmaceutical meets the escalating demand for health and wellness products with expertise and precision. By translating nutraceutical concepts into tangible products, Abeers empowers businesses to cater to the health-conscious consumer base. Its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest quality standards ensure that the nutraceutical products produced are safe, effective, and aligned with consumer expectations. This vital role strengthens the health and wellness industry in India, fostering a culture of well-being and balanced living.
Offering a diverse range of dosage forms to meet specific nutritional needs, including tablets, capsules, powders, and liquids.
Expertise in developing nutraceutical products for various segments, including sports nutrition, women's health, and children's health.
What Can You Expect When You Work With Us
Access to a wide range of in-licensed ingredients, including vitamins, minerals, and botanical extracts, ensuring the highest quality and efficacy
Novel dietary supplement for maintaining healthy joint and connective tissues.
Solubilized keratin for hair, nail & skin (Sourced from France )
kluyveromyces marxianus b0399, a Unique probiotic, first of its strain approved for human consumption (Sourced from Italy )
A Superior form of Omega that is highly Bio Available, (sourced from the largest manufacturer of KRILL oil worldwide)
Unique probiotic strain with health benefits, particularly in improving heart health and reducing inflammation
Bioactive poly saccharide indicated for upper RTI in both children & adult. [Sourced from Slovakia]
Choose Akums as your Nutraceutical Manufacturer for expertly crafted, quality formulations that prioritize excellence and meet evolving health needs.
Compliance with FSSAI and other regulatory standards
Offers a comprehensive range of dosage forms
Utilizing differentiated technologies to create nutraceutical solutions
Top Quality priority and standards from raw materials to packaging
Pioneers vitamins, minerals, and customized nutritional supplements
Caters to companies of all sizes, offering nutraceutical solutions
Mouth Melt Tablets
| 0.923228 | 437 |
Our tours offer both seasoned and budding historians the opportunity to explore legendary historical relics and locations as well as more obscure places of historical interest.
Our Skippers are OCN Accredited Tour Guides for Northern Ireland and have a deep appreciation of local history and a passion to share it with our passengers. Our tour sites offer a chance to learn about important historical events as well as more personal stories about the people who lived or worked at these sites. Sharing these stories and highlighting how meaningful these places are plays an important role in preserving our heritage and providing a valuable and authentic experience.
Follow the world famous story of Titanic from Belfast Harbour to Blackhead Lighthouse or contemplate the impressive Victorian engineering of the Gobbins Cliff Path walk. The enthralling spectacle of Dunluce Castle and the Mermaids Cave is only rivalled by its turbulent history of battles and tragedies, and not far away lies the wreck of the Girona, the largest ship of the Spanish Armada. These are just a few of the historical experiences we offer.
On the serene waters of Lough Neagh there lies a rich and diverse history. Whilst the eel fishermen and sand barges quietly work, an array of ancient religious sites, medieval ruins and historic houses go undisturbed. Ireland’s finest High Cross at Ardboe has overlooked the lough for one thousand years while a 16th century castle nestles on its North Eastern shore. Lough Neagh’s hidden treasures, Ram’s Island and Coney Island both hide historical ruins and tales of rebellion, romance and betrayal and can be explored on foot.
The River Bann or Bhan Abha, which means “white river” in Irish Gaelic, was the main stay for industrial traffic at the heart of Northern Ireland’s linen, whiskey and coal producing era. It has also been a significant frontier with battles and conflicts throughout the eras of the Gaels, Tudors, Stuarts and Williamites. Europe’s largest wild eel fishery at Toomebridge continues an industry which has sustained Lough Neagh fishermen for centuries and Church Island or Inis Taoide on Lough Beg has been the destination of an annual pilgrimage since 1910 and was the site of an early Christian settlement in the 5th Century. Along the river there are stories and relics of World War Two including the Nissan huts in Portglenone forest where American soldiers rested.
History Trip Bucket List
To book your Historical Tour please contact Lynn on +44(0) 7845 370231 (Call/text/WhatsApp)
| 0.933716 | 530 |
Are you looking for a unique and thoughtful gift for the special woman in your life? Consider a personalized ring designed just for her. Personalized rings are a popular choice for those who want to give a gift that is both beautiful and meaningful. Let's explore why a customized ring could be the perfect choice for her.
What makes a personalized ring special?
A personalized ring is a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry that is customized to reflect the recipient's individual style and personality. Whether you choose to engrave a special message, add her birthstone, or design a unique setting, a personalized ring shows that you put thought and effort into selecting a gift that is truly special.
Why choose a personalized ring over a traditional one?
While traditional rings are beautiful, a personalized ring adds an extra layer of sentiment and thoughtfulness. By customizing a ring for her, you can create a piece of jewelry that is as unique as she is. Whether you opt for a simple and elegant design or a more intricate and detailed one, a personalized ring is sure to stand out and make a lasting impression.
How to choose the perfect personalized ring?
When selecting a personalized ring for her, consider her personal style, preferences, and any special meaning you want the ring to convey. Think about whether she prefers gold or silver, diamonds or gemstones, and whether she likes a more classic or modern design. By taking these factors into account, you can choose a personalized ring that she will cherish for years to come.
Where to find the best personalized rings?
There are many jewelry stores and online retailers that offer personalized ring options. Look for a reputable jeweler who specializes in custom jewelry and has a good reputation for quality and craftsmanship. Be sure to communicate your ideas and preferences clearly to the jeweler so they can create a ring that meets your expectations.
In conclusion, a personalized ring is a thoughtful and meaningful gift that is sure to make her feel special. By customizing a ring to reflect her unique style and personality, you can show her how much you care. Consider a personalized ring for her next birthday, anniversary, or special occasion, and watch her eyes light up with joy.
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Visitation at Funeral Home
Obituary of Jacinta Moura Silva
Jacinta Moura Silva, age 87, of Monroe, beloved wife of the late Antonio da Silva, passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 27, 2024 in the comfort of her home surrounded by her loving family. Born on July 7, 1936 in Cortico, Montalegre, Portugal, she was a daughter of the late Agostinho Santos Moura and Maria Fernandes Araujo Moura.
Known as Bernadette in her home town, she was the youngest of 7 children. Orphaned at the age of 12, she built her own home in Cortico by the age of 18. She married the love of her life Antonio in 1964 and together they emigrated to the United States to begin their new life. They worked hard and purchased their family home in the "Hollow" section of Bridgeport. Jacinta raised her family with patience and strength. She stayed home during the day to care for her children and home and worked evenings to support her family. She retired from the Jewish Home for the Elderly after over 20 years of dedicated service. Along with her husband, they created a home full of love, music and delicious food. She loved to entertain "company" and always had an amazing feast ready for everyone. She enjoyed Sunday dinners with her family and created memories to last a lifetime. Even after the passing of her husband, Jacinta continued to be a source of strength and inspiration for her family. The unconditional love she gave and the values she taught will forever live in the hearts of all who knew and loved her. Jacinta will be truly missed by all.
Survivors include her three loving daughters, Mariana Silva Reis and her husband Antonio of Monroe, Lucia Silva Todice and her husband Gary of Shelton and Lisa Silva Rogers and her husband Peter of Fairfield, six cherished grandchildren, Antonio Silva Reis, Adriana Silva Reis, Peter Rogers Jr., Kristen Rogers, Ashley Rogers and Sophia Todice, as well as several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her six siblings.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. directly at Our Lady of Fatima Church, 429 Huntington Rd., Bridgeport. Interment will follow in the Garden Mausoleum in St. Michael's Cemetery, Stratford. Relatives and friends may greet the family on Tuesday from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Rd., Trumbull. For online condolences, please visit us at www.abriola.com.
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