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We want to know how to best serve you. Please use one of the forms below to provide feedback or file a report. Report any accident or illness that requires emergency treatment. All accidents, injuries or incidents, no matter how light, must be reported immediately. For life-threatening emergencies, please contact 911 FIRST before filling out this report. Report discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct to our Title IX coordinator, Keri Self. You can also contact Keri at (509) 527-2141 or by email at [email protected]

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Architectural Control Committee Policies and Forms The Architectural Committee has put in place the following policies, procedures & forms to facilitate a smooth and consistent process for any changes that affect the appearance of homes and property within our community. The neighbors within our community are always improving the appearance of their properties and everyone has done an excellent job maintaining their properties. The appearance of our properties has a direct bearing on property values. These policies and procedures are a guide to the the process and paperwork that is required as authorized pursuant to the community Deed Restrictions in our Covenants, Conditions & Restrictions documents and Amendments. Architecture Control Committee Guidelines (Adobe pdf) ACC Change Request Form Instructions (Adobe pdf) ACC Change Request Form (Adobe pdf) ACC Change Request Form (WORD) ACC Change Request Form (WORD 97-2003) Fence Supplement (Adobe pdf) Mailbox Guidelines - select from the main page navigation bar Shed Guidelines - select from the main page navigation bar Color Book Info & Samples A Color Book of approved color combinations for the repainting of homes must be used when selecting colors. The Management Company has the Color Books - contact them to check out (borrow) a copy Owners are reminded that repainting of homes requires ACC approval. Color combinations used must conform to those in the approved Color Book unless the Board approves a variance. Inland Homes originally used Duron brand paint - this brand was taken over by Sherwin-Williams and the Color Book has been updated to use current Sherwin-Williams paints. The Board has received excellent service from our local Sherwin-Williams Paint store at 7221 US Highway 301, Riverview Florida Refer to the "Paint Color Book Info" section of the website Navigation Menu for more information.

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Welcome to AnnieMation’s webpage. We are an inclusive mixed North West Clog Morris Dancing side that is actually based in the South East: Colchester, Essex. This style of dancing originated in the cotton mill industry in Lancashire and surrounding counties in the 19th Century. We have been in existence since 1979 and were known as Annies Fantasies until 2018 when we changed our name. What to Expect Key elements of the dancing tradition and our specific side are: - Actions mimicking mill work. - The rhythms of the factory looms to dance to. - Synchronised stamping & stepping. - General group co-ordination (hopefully). - Fun (even when doing long corners). - Red, bell-festooned, clogs. - Our hobby horses Dobina, Anniesaurus (the trainee) and AnnieLamma (understudy). We usually look for a young assistants to help control them during Cotton Reels. - Lots of red and black clothing, preferably stripey. - Music, mostly traditional tunes, led by melodeon and drum but could also have violin, penny whistle, guitar, ukulele, banjolele, tamborine, and more. AnnieMation at Greyfriars 2018 Dance Outs & Practice We dance out throughout the year but mostly over the spring and summer. We attend a range of events local to East Anglia and the South East. As might be expected we dance at traditional folk and dance festivals like Halesworth Day of Dance , Leigh-on-Sea Folk Festival, Broadstairs Folk Week and Sheringham Potty Festival. We also support community and charity events, plus the occasional corporate event . We have a dance or two for audience participation. Firstsite’s Nice ‘n’ Spicy festival, Colchester High Street Panto Horse Race, Bures Flower Festival, Colchester Art Centre’s Warm And Toasty Club concert and Acorn Villages Christmas Fair were some of our favourites. We practice 11:00am Sunday morning at Colchester Roman Circus or outside First site when wther is better. We tend not to practice if we’ve dances out that same weekend. Interested? Join, Book or Watch Us If interested in joining us as a dancer or musician? You could normally just turn up to Sunday practice but might be worth contacting us to make sure will be there. Well be happy to chat. If you’d like us to come to your event, please contact Ian on 01206 577222 Want to see us Dance? Follow the Dance out page and Facebook… Enjoy your visit to our site and through our pages get to know a bit more about us and our dancing – it’s great fun.

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Dark Side Of The Lens. I’m sure this film has floated by my dashboard before, if you were the clever submitter – sorry for the fail at reblogging and all. This thing is beautiful, glad I got around to watching it. Never have I seen captured the momentum of a wave in film like that before, the feeling as you’re lifted and set down is definitely something I thought was restricted to actually getting wet. The narration is like a lullaby, but there is some touching wisdom in there if you still have the capacity to listen while being stunned by the visual experience.

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Realme 12 Pro Plus: In the coming new year, all the mobile companies are going to launch their respective phones. Let us tell you that Redmi will also launch its new series on January 4. And the special thing is that Realme has also joined it. For this, the company has given a hint of its upcoming smartphone launch. Friends, the company has shared an X post in which it is written ‘No Periscope No Flagship’. Which will soon launch Realme, Realme 12 Pro series. Talking about the arrival of Realme 12 Pro Plus, it can be launched in the last week of January or February. This phone is also expected to support Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 SOC. Both models of Realme 12 Pro Series are expected to have circular cameras. Let us tell you that Sony IMX709 32MP telephoto lens can be seen in its best model. Which will support 2X optical zoom. For your information, let us tell you that all these details are based on leaks. You will have to wait for official information now.

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Yesterday was a day with no apparent progress. Some days are diamonds (living spiraling force) some days are stones (elliptic) – I wrote. And indeed, it was elliptic stone. But “apparently no progress” is not the same as “no progress whatsoever”. Yesterday was one of these days that Thomas Edison would classify as finding yet another way that will not work “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” Attributed to Thomas Edison And today, for change, is a diamond. Well, perhaps not a real diamond, but zirconia at least. is an American mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California. His physicist uncle, Albert Baez (inventor of the X-ray microscope and father of singer and progressive activist Joan Baez), interested him in physics as a child I do not know that exactly is “progressive activist”, but that is not the problem. The problem was that John Baez gave some hints how to prove that Jacobi elliptic sn function is periodic not only with real, but also with imaginary period. The suggested trick involved using gravity that attracts to the sky instead of attracting to the Earth, as we know it. But I could not find how to use the trick even after finding the exercise solved in the textbook on elliptic functions by Armitage and Eberlein – my previous post Some days are diamonds (living spiraling force) some days are stones (elliptic) for details. And indeed my problem was with the details. While I had a general idea about what to do, when it came to justifying rigorously every step – here I have found an insurmountable hole. This morning however I woke up with an idea. And lo and behold – it worked. So we have a progress. Let me explain. Suppose we want to prove that the function defined, say, by power series is periodic. How to do it? One possible way is by first proving the formula known from the school: Suppose we know that the above addition formula is true. Suppose additionally we know that and The setting in the addition formula we get So, we have the period. But first we need the addition formula. Why not to apply the same method to ? We need addition formula. This can be found online, Eq. (48) in Jacobi Elliptic Functions. It reads: But how to prove it? First I thought: I will simply follow Euler’s method that takes just a page in a little old book that I have: F. Bowman, “Introduction to Elliptic Functions with Applications”. BUt after a while I realized that this method, invented by Euler, needs a certain amount of intelligence, it is using some tricks. There must be a simpler method, a “no-brain method”. Once we know what we want to prove, we can ask the computer to do it for us! Then it will take no space and no time at all. You press “Enter”, and the all the work is done. And this is how I did it. Below are the details, so that, if you would like to learn how to do such things, follow me! Let us denote the right hand side of Eq. (??), thought of as a function of with and fixed, by We want to prove that But how is the function defined? In Derivatives of Jacobi elliptic am, sn, cn, dn, we have derived the formula Taking square of both sides and using This last differential equation, together with the initial value determines the function uniquely (up to a sign, but sign is not a problem for us). So, we need to prove that our function satisfies the differential equation: That is obvious form the definition and the fact that Since we do have the formulas for derivatives of elliptic functions, we can let the computer to verify Eq. (??). And it is easy. You need REDDUCE program. It is a free computer algebra program and it can run almost on any platform. And it is only 50 MB! Then we need to tell reduce what to do. Here is my code: You can replace “C:\resadd.txt” with whatever you want as the output file. You save the code above as a text file somewhere on your hard drive. The I have saved it as “add1.red” on my drive H in a subdirectory. Then you start REDUCE. It opens a window. Here is what I have typed in this window: You change the path, so that it is to your file. You type what you see above, and press ENTER. It takes less than a second and the output is written. You can look at it and it should tell you the same as my says, namely “0”. And that is the end of the proof. QED. Quod erat demonstrandum. The diamond day. A cigar, but no mirrors. But we can now return to the imaginary time period of the pendulum. And so it is. We know today that Galileo was wrong. His assertion was false. Which did not prevent him from becoming famous. He has discovered “an approximate truth”, that is, strictly speaking, “a lie”. Life is complicated. As it is said: According to Homer, the philosophy of the ancient world was that there was a third element that linked the opposing elements. Between the body and the soul, there is the spirit. Between life and death there is the transformation that is possible to the individual, between father and mother there is the child who takes the characteristics of both father and mother, and between good and evil there is the SPECIFIC SITUATION that determines which is which and what ought to be done.

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Bengaluru, 6th May 2023: Indian Men’s Hockey Team’s newly-appointed Analytical Coach Rhett Halkett arrived in India on Thursday and received a warm welcome in New Delhi from Hockey India Secretary General Shri Bhola Nath Singh. After reaching Delhi, the former South African international flew to Bengaluru to join the ongoing Indian Men’s Hockey Team Camp at the SAI Centre under newly-appointed Indian Men’s Hockey Team Chief Coach Craig Fulton. Meanwhile, Alan Tan, who was recently appointed as the Scientific Advisor for the Indian Men’s Hockey Team, also arrived in New Delhi on Saturday and was welcomed by Hockey India CEO Elena Norman. He will also be flying to Bengaluru to join the Indian camp. Both Rhett and Alan will be working closely with Chief Coach Fulton as India begin their preparations for the upcoming European leg of the FIH Men’s Hockey Pro League 2022/23 which is set to begin from 26th May onwards. India will face off in double-headers against Belgium and Great Britain in London, England, and then will travel to Eindhoven, Netherlands to face off in double-headers against the Netherlands and Argentina. India also have a packed calendar this year with the Hero Asian Champions Trophy Chennai 2023 set to take place in Chennai in August, which will be followed by 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Hockey India President Padma Shri Dr. Dilip Tirkey said, “We are delighted to have experienced individuals such as Rhett Halkett and Alan Tan join the Indian camp. With major competitions set to take place in the coming months, the duo, along with Coach Fulton will be integral in ensuring the players are ready to face off against the top teams in the world. We welcome them to India and we are confident they will help in leading the team to new heights this year.” Hockey India Secretary General Shri Bhola Nath Singh added, “Rhett Halkett and Alan Tan have several years of experience under their belt and we are delighted to have them join the Indian team. We truly believe the duo, along with Chief Coach Craig Fulton, will push our Indian players and help them not only grow as individuals but also as a team. We give them our best wishes on their journey and hope to see them earn many laurels for the country during their stint.”

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14-10-16 // VANCOUVER ART GALLERY Free and open to the public, Vancouver Art/Book Fair is the longest running international art book fair in Canada and one of only two on the West Coast. The event attracted over 5,000 visitors from across the Greater Vancouver Area and beyond. Presented by Project Space, Vancouver Art/Book Fair is a multi-day festival of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and installations.

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Coveo is a provider of intelligent and predictive search technologies with integrated plug-ins for Salesforce, Sitecore, Google Apps for Work, Atlassian, JIRA, Office 365, YouTube, Lithium, Jive, Dropbox, and more APIs also allow for custom integration with other applications. Coveo was founded in 2005 with 30 employees in Quebec City and in Palo Alto, California. Coveo's intelligent search technology adds the value of rich content and insights to CRM, customer service applications, intranets and websites. Coveo securely connects with your legacy and cloud systems, and provides unified search, dynamic 360-degree views of information, and contextual, proactive recommendations of relevant content and experts using powerful analytics. Improve Sitecore Search Experience Search is kind of core for any site now a days. People are smart rather drilling through the site they want someone to lookup for the information that they are looking for. It really shines when you have a huge amount of data. Typical search would create index per data source. Coveo makes your life easy that can combine multiple data source into single search index. Coveo has the following advantages. I will be focusing on the cloud option for Sitecore but most of it is supported in on-premise too. Plug and play support for most of the platforms. Cloud versions in hosted in industry best cloud provider AWS. Major benefit since each platform has its own search. Sitecore depends on Lucene or SOLR. SharePoint works on internal search(FAST). A Single index based on Coveo helps to search across different data sources. Coveo owned UI framework is light and fast. Supports clean html rendering using data attributes. Templating frameworks are supported like handlebar or Underscore tmeplates. Search pages can be designed on the fly in a browser with drag and drop support. No coding needed design your own UI right from the browser.(Cloud UI) Coveo shines when it comes to security. It has a security cache that has all the security information from all sources. When a user queries it can chain the security and return the results according to the user permission. The trimming is done before the search results are returned. This can be disabled too for public facing sites considering the peformance. Coveo machine-learning capability, analytics-based machine learning service analyzes your users’ search activity as well as your diverse content to always surface the best, most relevant answers and information for everyone. We can fine tune the learning model in a scheduled frequency. Understands the user intent and provide relevant query suggestions. The Query pipeline can be used to fine tune the results with boosting the most relevant ones. Type ahead support, Related results and context based recommendations. Essentially, events performed by end-users in Coveo search interfaces (and optionally in other web page types) are recorded by the usage analytics service in the Coveo Organization. We can then use the administration console Analytics pages to learn what end-users do by reviewing usage events, metrics, and dimensions in explorers and dashboards. This helps in analyzing the user search and improve the existing content or missing content. The best part it can be talk to the XDB the core of Sitecore analytics to drive the search results. Sitecore Experience Database (xDB) Integration Leveraging the comprehensive profile and activity data managed within Sitecore’s xDB, Coveo for Sitecore makes it possible for marketers to easily tailor personalized search experiences and content pages for each unique website visitor. By utilizing the insights the Sitecore xDB captures about each site visitor - including select demographic information, prior activity on the site, and past exposures to email and other marketing initiatives - marketers can use Coveo for Sitecore to offer each site visitor the products and content most relevant to them at that precise moment in their customer journey. And because it is fully integrated into the Sitecore platform, marketers can build and manage these experiences with the Sitecore tools they use to manage their entire website. Coveo provides a local install for free with limited queries and capabilities. Cloud comes in multiple versions. It also offers one month cloud trial version with no credit card requirements. Ref: Coveo current pricing information The support is very responsive and Developer friendly, they are active on slack channel that gives you opportunity to talk to the evangelist and Coveo inhouse developers. They have One of the best documentation I have used in recent times. The community forum is great information source. Subscribe to Bala Blog (bala.one) | Sitecore MVP | Sitecore | OrderCloud | Coveo | Azure Get the latest posts delivered right to your inbox

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Nowadays you can go to pretty much any of the significant news channels and get data about late breaking stories, however there is likewise a firmly diversion viewpoint to these news channels that is upsetting. Some of them, similar to “Title News” don’t endeavor to be a strong news supplier any longer. They are unadulterated newspaper and generally they just give tattle about the most recent missing kid or killed spouse or anything the most recent delicious goody is. All others like “Fox News” are simply fronts for political positions, for this situation the conservative faction which appears to control Fox’s news programming in an exceptionally explicit and upsetting manner. They even make a special effort to articulate themselves “Fair and Adjusted” however the inverse is valid and it is straightforward to everything except the most sectarian of watchers. Michael Moore guaranteed that Fox News assisted with pushing the 2000 political decision for the conservative competitor George W. Shrubbery, however it appears to be outlandish that any of the news channels could influence something as significant as a public political race. It is Arab Social News reality, but that they called the political race right off the bat for Shrub with next to no genuine confirmation that he had as a matter of fact won. Anything the genuine story was we might in all likelihood won’t ever be aware. We as a whole realize that the newspaper news shows like “Diversion This evening” and “Extra” are all puff and more worried about chasing after famous people town like paparazzi than covering any genuine news, yet when Fox News and CNN, evidently genuine news channels begin detailing a similar insignificant material, it turns into a matter for concern. Many individuals have quit watching these news channels by and large and on second thought favor the hard hitting and sharp PBS News Hour. This is one of only a handful of exceptional leftover news channels that require some investment detailing a story and they go top to bottom to cover every one of the various points. They are keen on figuring out current realities and this isn’t possible with twenty second audio clips. This sort of news-casting requires insightful revealing done by genuine experts. As a matter of fact, CNN has some similarity to revealing left with Anderson Cooper, one of only a handful of exceptional journalists left that really clings to a story. It was in proof as of late with the gigantic quake that hit Port Au Ruler, Haiti. Long after the standard media had vanished he was still there covering the story and the consequence of the incredible tremor, which left thousands dead and a lot more harmed and destitute. The battle to reconstruct go on in Haiti and you can in any case change the channel to CNN and see Anderson Cooper there with Sean Penn, who is a lot to be respected for his helpful endeavors, notwithstanding what you may by and by consider his liberal governmental issues. Fox News couldn’t have ever given that kind of inclusion to Haiti and particularly not Sean Penn whom the ordinary talking heads on Fox like Sean Hanitty and others hate. This is one more instance of permitting political perspectives to cloud insightful reporting and one reason that these news channels are dodging the genuine information.

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Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog presents some of the most creative jazz in the Twin Cities area, every Saturday night. And there’s always two bands, with (typically) up-and-coming artists or cross-generational bands in new configurations for the opening set at 7 pm, followed by one of the area’s accomplished ensembles or a new band of veterans at 8:30 pm. On Saturday May 14, the opening set features series curator Steve Kenny and his “young” quartet, followed by a duo of two internationally acclaimed artists based in the Twin Cities, Bad Plus/Happy Apple drummer Dave King and renowned saxophonist/composer George Cartwright. Steve Kenny Quartet (7 pm) In addition to serving as curator for three jazz series in the Twin Cities, Steve Kenny has led ensembles that often put the veteran trumpeter into a collaboration with young up-and-coming artists. This quartet with Levi Schwartzberg, Ted Olsen and Rodney Ruckus had its debut in January 2016. Steve Kenny studied at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Among many projects, he performs with the Illicit Sextet, What Would Monk Do, the Cedar Avenue Big Band, and his own Group 47 and Quartets. In addition to heading the Wednesday night early show at the Artists Quarter for five years with The Bastids (and later, Group 47), Steve also had a run of 500 weekly gigs at Emma’s Bar in River Falls. Steve has received a Minnesota Music Award, West Bank School of Music Jazz Composer award, and multiple honors as Best Jazz Trumpet at the Eau Claire Jazz Festival. With support from a state arts board grant, he curated the ten-week “All Originals” jazz series at Studio Z in summers of 2014 and 2015, and which will return in summer 2016. In fall 2014 he launched the weekly Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series, and in spring 2015, brought a similar series (Friday Night Jazz) to The Nicollet, now moving to Thursday Nights at the renamed Reverie. And that instrument he plays? It’s a Flumpet™– a hybrid trumpet/flugelhorn. Levi Schwartzberg, just finishing his second year at the University of Minnesota where he studies jazz and physics, is already a veteran of four-mallet vibes performance; he is also an accomplished pianist, performing on both instruments in the U of M Jazz Combo. A graduate of Southwest High School who participated for two years with the Dakota Combo, Levi has led his own ensembles at Jazz Central, Black Dog and Khyber Pass Cafe as well as performing with Adam Linz’s Le Percheron, Steve Kenny, Will Kjeer, the Charlie Lincoln Group and more. Ted Olsen studied bass with Travis Schilling and Adam Linz. He graduated from St. Paul’s Como Park High School in 2010 and went on to study composition at Luther College in Decorah, IA, finishing college studies at the University of Northern Colorado in spring 2015. In the Twin Cities, Ted has taught at the Twin Cities Jazz Workshop and has performed as leader and sideman at various venues including the Artists Quarter, Jazz Central, Black Dog, Icehouse, Vieux Carré and Twin Cities Jazz Festival. Drummer Rodney Ruckus is truly a multi-instrumentalist who also plays piano and bass. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music where he attended on full scholarship, he was also selected as drummer for The Grammys in the School Foundation and received an Art Blakey Jazz Messengers Presidential Scholarship to the McNally Smith College of Music. He has traveled all over the world playing with Tia Fuller, Ralph Peterson, Herbie Hancock, Billy Childs, John Patitucci, Joe Lovano, Roy Hargrove, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Lloyd, and more. Dave King and George Cartwright Duo (8:30 pm) This is a new pairing, and promises to keep listeners on full alert! If Dave King’s long-standing work with The Bad Plus and Happy Apple has brought him the most attention, his talents and affiliations hardly end there. In fact, at any given moment, King is likely involved in at least ten projects ranging from the jazz-oriented Dave King Trucking Company, Bad Plus, Happy Apple and Buffalo Collision to rock bands like Halloween Alaska and impossible-to-define electronic outfits like Gang Font. King grew up in the Twin Cities, starting off on piano at age four before switching to drums in fifth grade. As a teen he forged his early music connections with fellow Golden Valley residents Reid Anderson and Craig Taborn, whose paths would intersect again and again. At 19, King headed west, working as a session musician in LA in the early 90s before returning to the Twin Cities to find his own voice. Soon he helped design and define the sound of Happy Apple, the trio that came together in 1996, ultimately complete with saxophonist Michael Lewis and electric bassist Erik Fratzke and straddling avant garde jazz and alternative rock. In addition to his discography with The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, and his recent tours and recording with the Dave King Trucking Company, King appears on a long list of other recordings and has recently performed in duo with JT Bates (Real Bulls) and with the ensemble Vector Families with Anthony Cox and more. In 2010, he released a solo album combining his skills as drummer, pianist and composer, Indelicate (2010). A couple years later he formed a trio with pianist Bill Carrothers and bassist Billy Peterson, leading to the acclaimed release, I’ve Been Ringing You. A master of saxophone and improvised music for nearly 40 years, George Cartwright was born in the Mississippi Delta and worked his way nearly to the headwaters, first playing rock, studying at Mississippi State and other schools in the Deep South, moving to New York to study with avant garde reedsman Anthony Braxton, and finally arriving in Minnesota in 1999 after a long stint in New York and another in Memphis. His most notable bands have included the Ornette-inspired Curlew (a fixture at the Knitting Factory in New York in the 80s and 90s), Gloryland Pony Cat which he founded in the Twin Cities with Adam Linz and Alden Ikeda, and the trio Merciless Ghost with Josh Granowski and Davu Seru. In addition to work with such renowned artists as Ornette Coleman, Sonny Sharrock, Myra Melford, Butch Morris and others, he’s also worked with a long list of improvising artists in the Twin Cities, including Carei Thomas, JT Bates, Michelle Kinney, Jacquelin Ultan, Anthony Cox, Michael Lewis, Dean Granros, Andrew Broder, Pat Moriarty, Ellen Lease, and more. George received a McKnight Composer’s Fellowship in 2003 and that same year was named City Pages “Jazz Artist of the Year”. In 2008 he received a Jerome Foundation Composer’s Grant to write and perform Davey Williams’ radio play, Bonanaza: The Musical. Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog is held weekly at the Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar at 308 Prince Street (E. 4th Street at Broadway) in St. Paul’s Lowertown arts district; www.blackdogstpaul.com. No cover but donations ($10 suggested) help support the musicians and the series. Series schedule at www.saturdaynightjazzattheblackdog.info

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Movie theaters turned into concert venues this weekend as Swifties brought their dance moves and friendship bracelets to multiplexes across the country. The unparalleled enthusiasm helped propel “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” to a massive, first place debut between $95 million and $97 million in North America, AMC Theatres said Sunday. It’s easily the biggest opening for a concert film of all time, and, not accounting for inflation, has made more than the $73 million “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” earned in 2011. In today’s dollars, that would be around $102 million. And if it comes in on the higher end of projections when totals are released Monday, it could be the biggest October opening ever. The one to beat is “Joker,” which launched to $96.2 million in 2019. A unique experiment in distribution, premium pricing, star power and loose movie theater etiquette—more dancing and shouting than Star Wars premiere—have made it an undeniable hit. Compiled from Swift’s summer shows at Southern California’s SoFi Stadium, the film opened in 3,855 North American locations starting with “surprise” Thursday evening previews. Those showtimes helped boost its opening day sum to $39 million – the second biggest ever for October, behind “Joker’s” $39.3 million. Swift, who produced the film, went around the Hollywood studio system to distribute the film, making a deal directly with AMC, the largest exhibition company in the United States. With her 274 million Instagram followers, Swift hardly needed a traditional marketing campaign to get the word out. Beyoncé made a similar deal with the exhibitor for “ Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé, ” which will open on Dec. 1. The two superstars posed together at the premiere of “The Eras Tour” earlier this week in Los Angeles. “The Eras Tour,” directed by Sam Wrench, is not just playing on AMC screens either. The company, based in Leawood, Kansas, worked with sub-distribution partners Variance Films, Trafalgar Releasing, Cinepolis and Cineplex to show the film in more than 8,500 movie theatres globally in 100 countries. Elizabeth Frank, the executive vice president of worldwide programming and chief content officer for AMC Theatres, said in a statement that they are grateful to Taylor Swift. “Her spectacular performance delighted fans, who dressed up and danced through the film,” Frank said. “With tremendous recommendations and fans buying tickets to see this concert film several times, we anticipate ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ concert film playing to big audiences for weeks to come.” The stadium tour, which continues internationally, famously crashed Ticketmaster’s site and re-sale prices became astronomical. Pollstar projects that it will earn some $1.4 billion. The concert film offered fans both better seats and a much more affordable way to see the show for the first or fifth time. Prices are higher than the national average, at $19.89, which references her birth year and 2014 album, and ran closer to $29 a pop for premium large format screens like IMAX. Even so, they are significantly less than seat at one of the stadium shows. Showtimes are also more limited than a standard Hollywood blockbuster, but AMC is guaranteeing at least four a day on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at all AMC locations in the U.S. Many locations also specified that there are no refunds or exchanges. And fans will have to wait a while for “The Eras Tour” to be available on streaming — part of the AMC deal was a 13-week exclusive theatrical run.

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Hi gang. I'm sure we've all had nights (or weeks) like this. I'm trying to get my body clock to adjust to a new time zone. I'm tired early and then I wake up in the middle of the night, unable to get back to sleep again. Oh curse this modern age that allows us to move about the earth with such ease. I think I'm getting used to it. How are things with you folks? BTW, the title of this post is also the name of a song from a well-known movie. Bonus points if you can name it. This week's comic references that classic animated series, Spiderman and his Amazing Friends. You may not have realized it, but back in the 80's Peter Parker had it a lot easier than he does now. Nope, he didn't have to juggle school, career and a secret identity as a superhero and still have to make ends meet. Nope, this was the 80's - all Spiderman had to do was lay about in a huge apartment (in New York City, no less) and wait until his services were needed. This clip should give you an idea: As far as I know, his friends only fought evil. Never once did they help him move across town. Humph. Some friends. For the past four years, I've had the pleasure of working with John Zakour to create the daily comic feature Working Daze for United Media. But as many of you may have noticed, a new artist has taken over. What happened? I decided that doing the drawing duties for Working Daze was just not the best use of my time. It was a lot of work for very little money - a situation that I did not see changing any time soon. Additionally, working more than 100 hours a month didn't give me a lot of personal time. And now that I've started a new job, I want a little more time for things beside drawing lots of cartoons for low pay. Don't get me wrong - I truly enjoyed working with John these past few years. I also enjoyed hearing from folks who enjoyed Working Daze. I guess what they say is true - you don't know what you've got til it's gone. Don't worry - I'll continue to draw Gamecreature cartoons on a weekly basis. Sometimes you don't miss something until it's gone. Needless to say, I couldn't make the weekly Gamecreature comic without the use of scanners and computers. However, it may surprise you to learn that each comic starts out with pencil on paper, in much the same way that I created comics decades ago. Here's an example from a recent comic: I've darkened it a bit so you can see what's going on - I prefer keeping it light so I can tell the difference between the pencils and inks. The pencils are scanned into the computer and then I apply the "inks" in Adobe Illustrator. (Back in the old days, we used real pens and bottles of ink to add dark lines to the pencils. I suspect there'll be a time in the future when all comics are done digitally - and we'll still call it inking. You heard it here, first!) Here's how the comic looks after I'm done with the inks: As you can see, it's awfully white! Time to add some color. I use Photoshop to color the comics. The inks are kept on one layer while the color is added to a lower layer. This is so the color can overlap the ink lines and avoid any little white gaps in the coloring. Here's the finished result. And that's the short version of how I make my comics. What do you think?

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Starting today, tourists on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast can book an umbrella and sunbed on the beach through a special online platform. So far, about 30 beaches have joined, including those in Burgas, Sozopol, Sunny Beach and Nessebar. Booking and payment online can be done from home for a selected day and beach or on site, when visiting the strip and available free beach gear, explained the company that developed the platform: “One option is for the tourist to book in advance, and this is done in three steps. The corresponding beach is selected, and for each there is a map with all the umbrellas and tents, and accordingly one can click on the desired umbrella. Those that are free are marked in green. The application asks the person to pay and goes to payment, which is done using the standard methods or through a credit or debit card.” If the tourist decides to book a place on the beach itself, there will be a sign on each umbrella, on which they can directly check whether this umbrella is free or already reserved. Then, with the same three steps, the tourist can choose the free umbrella, which has a unique number, and pay for it with a card, the company explained. The employees of the concessionaires and tenants of the beach will have special screens on which they can promptly reflect the umbrellas and sunbeds engaged directly on the strip. The application is called MySpot.bg and can be downloaded regardless of the operating system of any mobile device or used in a web version on a computer. It is expected that in the next week, the number of beaches where umbrellas and sunbeds can be booked online will increase to over 50.

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The Cantata Singers of Ottawa (CSO) is well known regionally and across Canada. Founded in 1964, this choir of approximately 40 voices has distinguished itself in performance of music of many styles and musical periods, from early music to minimalism, both a capella and with orchestras and small ensembles. CSO strives to be an equitable, inclusive, and diverse choral community. We welcome all individuals regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. CSO values its members, staff, volunteers, and supporters, and we recognize their right to a safe and supportive environment. The choir aspires to perform choral music to the highest standards, promotes choral music in Ottawa, and supports Canadian musical talent by commissioning Canadian composers, engaging Canadian musicians and offering scholarships to young Canadian singers. Under Artistic Director, Andrew McAnerney, CSO presents an annual concert series, with programmes spanning a wide-ranging repertoire both in time and style. In every season, the choir includes works composed by women and Canadians. CSO has been an invited guest artist almost since its formation. With the exception of the COVID period, it has performed annually with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) and under the baton of every NACO artistic director since the opening of the NAC in 1969. In addition, the choir has sung NACO concerts led by other internationally renowned guest conductors. CSO performed on the NACO’s 2019 Juno-nominated recording, New Worlds, singing the Ana Sokolovic composition “Golden Slumbers”. CSO has sung in major Canadian music festivals such as Festival de Lanaudiere and Festival of the Sound and has partnered with well-known Canadian choirs, such as Pro Coro Canada of Edmonton, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and St. Lawrence Choir to present joint concerts. Thanks to numerous CBC and Radio-Canada broadcasts, the choir is well known across Canada.

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New Radiata Stories Details Released 01.16.05 - 2:20 AM Square Enix has released a new round of details regarding its newest PlayStation 2 title Radiata Stories. In addition to humans, the tri-Ace-developed action RPG will feature many different races, among them dwarves, dark and light elves. While they usually have little contact with humans, some of them have established friendly relations with humans. The alcohol-loving dwarves produce weapons made of minerals, which they also sell to humans in order to earn their living. Light elves are not only the eldest elven race, but they also possess wings allowing them to fly like birds. Due to their love for nature, they despise humans, who are destroying nature. The elves' guardian is the dragon. Apparently the game's story will evolve at least partially around the antagonism between humans and elves. Radiata Stories will be available in Japan on January 27th for 7,800 yen ($76.46 US).

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Last week I told of our freezing hike to Wigwam Falls where I chickened out and returned to the car. Workers with the Blue Ridge Parkway have done much work here to help restore this section of the railroad track. Here are the steps you have to climb to get up to the old railroad tracks. Here I am in all of the gear which did NO good! This is where you start walking across the bridge. This is the section over the water coming down from the falls. Here you have a view of the water coming down from the falls up above. Close-up of bridge section. This is my final shot taken looking down at the bridge just before I started back across it and to the warmth of the car. This post is linked with Louis LaVache’s Sunday Bridges.

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Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Search for a digital library with this title Title found at these libraries: From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles. San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.

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1/2 cup Butter 2/3 cup Sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla 1/4 cup Flour 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder 1/4 teaspoon Salt 8 ounces chopped Dark Chocolate Dark Chocolate Syrup for topping Raspberry Syrup for topping 1 cup pitted Dark Red Cherries 1/2 cup Sugar Cream Cheese Icing (Alternatively, you can use store-bought, if preferred.) 8 ounces Cream Cheese 1 stick Unsalted Butter 1 cup Confectioners’ Sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla Preheat oven to 350°F. Microwave chopped chocolate until melted. In a separate bowl, mix butter and 2/3 cup sugar until blended. Gradually add eggs and vanilla until thoroughly blended. Stir in melted chocolate. In another bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder and salt. Add this mixture into the chocolate batter. Spoon mixture into four small ramekins until they are each half full. Place cherries and 1/2 cup of sugar in medium saucepan. and simmer until reduced and combined. If mixture is not thick enough, mix a teaspoon of cornstarch and a tablespoon of water together and add to mixture once it has cooked for 10 minutes. Cook for 5 more minutes at a simmer. Cook slightly. Create a well in the center of the batter in each ramekin. Spoon cherry mixture into the wells. Add the rest of the batter on top of the cherry mixture to level out the batter in each ramekin. Place in preheated oven and bake for approximately 20 minutes. Use a toothpick in the side of the cake, if it comes out clean, the cakes are done. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Cream Cheese Icing: While cakes are baking, cream together cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, butter and vanilla in a separate bowl. Once cakes have cooled, spread the icing on top of each. Place ramekins on serving plates. Drizzle chocolate and raspberry syrups over cream cheese frosting and the serving plate. Place a dollop of any remaining cherry filling onto the serving plates, if desired.

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5 Questions with Chris Derrick A year after missing out on making Team USA with a fourth-place finish in the 10,000m at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Chris Derrick fought for third on a hot night in Des Moines to make the plane to Moscow. That performance was just one of many accomplishments in Derrick’s first full year as a pro. He also finished first in the USA Cross Country Championships and then placed 10th in the subsequent World Cross Country Championships. After an injury limited his pre-Worlds training — he would finish 18th — Derrick completed the heart of his 2013 season by setting a personal best of 13:08 in the Brussels Diamond League meet in early September. We sat down with the Stanford alum when he was in New York for the Dash to the Finish Line 5K in early November (he’d finish ninth in 14-flat). Derrick discussed making the World Championships team, that bizarre 5,000m race at USAs, the Stanford-Oregon rivalry and more. Follow Chris on Twitter @CDerrickRun 5 Questions with Chris Derrick What was the 10,000m like at USAs? How did you feel going into it? A lot of people thought there was really only one spot up for grabs and you got it. Derrick: That’s one of the most high anxiety situations I’ve ever been in — so much building up to just making the team for weeks in advance. It went out really slow, and I had put myself in second, which I think was good, ’cause I didn’t have to look at anyone or think about anybody else — just run really easy for a while. I was there to cover the moves. And Dathan [Ritzenheim] made the big move. It was definitely tough running, and I looked around — looked at the big screen with a “K” to go — and I saw we had like 40 meters all of a sudden, and that’s the first I knew that it wasn’t five guys in a group. It was just a huge relief at that point. I probably didn’t finish as well as I could have — Jerry [Schumacher] got on me for that: “You can’t just be happy just to make the team.” I was like, “Just this once, can I just be happy to make the team?” It was a big relief to make the team — a lot of tension building up, especially with how slow it went for so long. It’s always an abrupt transition when you go from real slow like that to picking it up. You don’t feel very good at all. You expect you would feel really fresh. [Did you work on that transition in training?] Derrick: We didn’t do that much. We’d work on the constituent parts of that. We did strength work, we did faster stuff and all that kind of stuff. Maybe earlier in the year we did some tempos, some repeat miles. But that’s something that it’s more just a mental thing. You just have to remind yourself that your body is clearly capable of running this pace, and you need to get into a rhythm and establish that and you’ll be fine. So, that’s what I was able to do. Thankfully, it was the three of us away and clear. Were you able to watch the 5,000m final a few days later? What did you think of that race and the slow pace in particular? Derrick: I was on the backstretch, obviously supporting teammates. To be honest, it was a little ridiculous, as a spectator and someone who wants to see the sport be entertaining. When they’re running that slow, it’s just like, oh, c’mon, it looks so bad. The last mile was always gonna be really exciting. From my perspective, I mean I knew a couple guys that maybe thought could have benefited from actually trying to start faster. From being in that situation previously, it’s hard to fault someone for not wanting to take on people. Sometimes people don’t understand quite as much that, at this level, the margins between people are so small. The difference between, maybe not first and eighth, but third and eighth is not very big, and so when you’re younger and you’re in high school or even college, the gaps are bigger and you can get away with the small disadvantage of being the leader and pushing the pace a little more. But as the gaps get smaller, the punishment is greater, especially in a 5K where true hard 5K pace is a very fine line. It’s really hard to push other people to that line and not go over it yourself, so in the end what you end up with is a lot of long runs for home — Ben True from a mile out. Ideally, for the optics of it all, you’d like to see it not go out in 70 seconds. But it’s just kind of what happens. No one’s going to go out and do 63s, so you hope they do 66s. [Even at Worlds, you don’t see that.] Derrick: It’s really hard to take on a really elite field. I mean, have you ever seen anybody on the international level do that in the last 20 years? The best you can say is [Zersenay] Tadese. Tadese — he’s fearless, he goes for it. He went for it in ’09 and it worked, and cracked everyone except for [Kenenisa] Bekele and got silver. But he also went for it multiple times when he wasn’t that fit, and he ended up last, and that’s just how it’s going to go. One of the other ways you see it work is Ismael Kirui in ’93 — is that you make the big, bold move early and get a gap and then you try to defend the gap, as opposed to putting it out and breaking everyone down. It’s really hard to beat a bunch of guys who are just as good if not better than you. Two major elite training groups are in Portland: the Oregon Track Club led by Coach Schumacher, which you’re a part of, and the Nike Oregon Project led by Alberto Salazar. Is there a real rivalry there? What’s it like having so many elites in close proximity training with separate groups? Derrick: I definitely think there’s a bit of a rivalry. I definitely feel like there’s a desire to represent your training group well. I definitely think there’s something about representing your group and your friends and your coach well against anybody. And being in the same city maybe exacerbates that. They’ve got like three guys who went to the University of Oregon. I hate the University of Oregon. That was our main rival [at Stanford]. There’s a bit of a rivalry there. It’s good for sports and is probably entertaining to watch. [What about the Stanford-Oregon football rivalry? Is that a problem for you being in Portland?] Derrick: No one I train with went to U of O, so as a consequence they’re all on my side. I’m actually going to go down — I’m going straight from here to Palo Alto so I can see the game on Thursday night. After last year, I wore my Stanford stuff for weeks. And it’s definitely in enemy territory. Hopefully if we make it two in a row, I’m going to be feeling really good for the next year. [Note: Stanford defeated Oregon, 26-20, on Nov. 7 to give the Ducks their first loss of the season. Expect to see Derrick in Cardinal red for a while. His take on the game via Twitter direct message: “It was exhilarating then terrifying then delirious.”] [What about on the track?] Derrick: Definitely, I think so. Until Colorado came along, we were kind of the top in the Pac-10 for a while there. Oregon has things that make it great. It has tons of money in sports and fans and tradition, but that’s also the kind of stuff that, as an opposing athlete, makes you really want to beat them. Rivalry has never been bad for a sport or competition. Ryan Hall, a fellow Stanford alum, has come under a lot of criticism recently for his inability to get healthy and perform. Have you spoken to him at all? What are your thoughts on his position as both very well-known and much-maligned? Derrick: I don’t know Ryan that well. When I’ve talked to him, though, he’s been a really nice and gracious guy. I hope that even people that who are disappointed in his running can recognize that he’s a really great guy. The body’s a fickle thing, especially over 26.2. Where you can get through stuff on the track, you can’t get through it in a marathon. I think that he’s just going through a rough stretch. And especially in U.S. distance running, where there haven’t been that many people who have really shown the potential to contend for medals and finish at the top of races, people latch on to the people who do show that and kind of take ownership. That’s great, but it’s also dangerous. People always want to see some sort of injury or failure as a moral failure on someone’s part. It’s really hard to know sometimes, with soft-tissue stuff especially, what the right thing to do is — It’s a really difficult position to be in, especially dealing with soft-tissue injuries. People sometimes need to not allow the disappointment to become disappointment in the person themselves. It’s not like he’s intentionally sabotaging himself. He’s trying to do what he thinks is best. Heading into a year without a major championship, what keeps you motivated? Do you have near-term goals or are you looking further ahead to 2015? Derrick: Both my coaches before Jerry and Jerry as well instilled in me certain principles that really talked about consistency and moderation. Jason [Dunn], my college coach [at Stanford — he’s now at Oklahoma], talked about focus on the process, and so that’s what I”m used to hearing. Just focus on improving my training and staying healthy. Every year that I’ve been completely healthy, I’ve been able to make big improvements, and so I just want to continue on that road of doing my training and just the process every day, doing the right thing and trusting that’s going to put me in the position to reach some of the goals I haven’t gotten to.

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My kids turned me on to “Charlie The Unicorn” shortly after it made its debut on youtube several years ago. Like most user generated content, Charlie, a flash animated 2D short, was made on a shoestring and the production values reflect that. Still, the work is smart, funny and quotable in the vein of Caddyshack and The Simpsons. Charlie has been viewed over 35 million times worldwide and spawned a sequel. Still, I wasn’t really intrigued until I visited Hot Topic, a teen-oriented store in my local mall, and spotted Charlie merchandise. Plenty of talented (and not so talented) folks make shorts and distribute them on youtube. Far fewer generate millions of views or eyeballs; and only a handful of those successfully make the jump to ancillary exploitation. Whether Charlie’s creator is making meaningful revenues isn’t really the point (nor is the aesthetic value of such a work). Charlie’s transition from youtube short to retail merchandise represents nothing less than a sea change in the ability of a single content creator to leverage the internet and its potential access to millions to build a following and potentially profit from ancillary and derivative exploitation of content without the need or prohibitive expense of traditional distribution channels. It means that self-distribution is now a meaningful and sustainable distribution alternative and will become even more so as internet based distribution (e.g., faster downloads) matures. It means that traditional distributors better figure out how to stay relevant (hint: content marketing not content distribution) or get out of the way. Just ask the people who (used to) work in the music business.

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In case, you are interested in extraordinary experience of St Petersburg, and would like to get thrilling and fascinating impression - we are glad to offer you our VIP tours! According to your wish - flight on a helicopter, ride in a carriage, trip on a yacht - on the historical background of 18th century city. And much more! The program will be exclusive and designed especially for you! On your wish you will get: *personal guide, *personal car, carriage, helicopter, yacht, *private atmosphere, *photobook about your VIP tour, *film about your unique tour Please find attached an example of the one of the VIP tour we organised VIP programm Experience the luxury of a magnificent dinner, repeating an amazing banquet held in honor of the coronation of Nicholas II. Enjoy the splendor of the interiors of one of the most famous and exclusive restaurants in St. Petersburg. Have you ever dreamed of incredible and exciting experiences? For those who are tired of standard tourist routes we suggest to undertake a breathtaking walk to the rooftops of Saint Petersburg. Admire the sunset or sunrise, take in the unique atmosphere of the imperial city and experience the charming magic of St.Petersburg, hidden from everyone else. Our tour includes a visit of one rooftop with magnificent panoramic views of the city center with professionally prepared experts – roofers. Unique opportunity to see St Petersburg from birds-eye view. Take a flight on a helicopter from the heart of the city - Peter-and-Paul fortress grounds. Romantic way to experience St.Petersburg during a ride in a carriage. Nice opportunity to travel in the past and see the most prominent city areas from 18th century perspective. Very special proposal for the travelers looking for some special shopping in the city. Exclusive items and special offers in the city and its suburbs. Experience the finest Russian cuisine in a stunning Art Nouveau setting. Choose from a superb selection of caviar served atop delicate blinis, crisp, cold vodkas, light snacks and delicious full courses, served exclusively for you.

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Monday, November 14, 2011 Savory Beef Stew It's getting cold outside, and we've already had a few snow showers. Really, the only thing I love about this time of year is the food. Apples, pumpkin, cider, hot chocolate, and mostly, soups and stews. I crave warmth. Stew provides it! This beef stew started from a need to use leftover beef. The flavors on the roasted beef were perfect in the stew. In the recipe below, I've added the seasonings to regular stew beef instead of making an entire roast like I did. Stew Beef can be found in grocery stores in the meat department. It's pre-cut chunks, ready to go! The stew can be slow cooked in a heavy stock pot in the oven, or in your crockpot. Savory Beef Stew The Double Dipped Life For the meat: 1 1/2 lb beef stew meat 2 teas sea salt 1 Tb olive oil 1 teas ground pepper 1 1/2 teas oregano 2 teas dried basil 1/2 teas crushed red pepper 3 cloves of garlic, minced 1 Tb Olive Oil Season the stew meat with sea salt, cover, and place in refrigerator for a few hours, or overnight. Remove meat from the refrigerator, and use paper towels to dry the excess moisture from the meat. In a large bowl, mix the meat and all the above seasonings. In a large stockpot, heat 1 Tb olive oil. Add the meat, and sear on all sides, until nicely browned, but not cooked through. Add in the soup ingredients: 2 cups beef broth 1 medium onion, chopped finely 1 can (14.5 oz) chopped tomatoes, undrained 8 oz baby carrots, chopped into bite-sized pieces 12 small red potatoes, cut into bite-sized pieces 1 bay leaf 2 Tb Worcestershire sauce 4 Tb hot sauce water pr stock as needed if stew is too thick Mix all the ingredients together. Place in a 300 degree oven for 5 hours, keep on the stove top for 2 hours, or throw everything into a crockpot and cook low for 6 hours, or high for 4 hours. Serve with warm, crusty bread and Enjoy!

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If you’re an avid cyclist looking to give your bike a powerful boost, the Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit might be just what you need. This kit allows you to transform your regular bike into an electric one, giving you the ability to ride longer distances and tackle challenging terrains without breaking a sweat. With its powerful motor, dual mode controller, and convenient features, this conversion kit offers a seamless ride experience. Let’s take a closer look at what makes this product so special. Dual Mode Controller One of the standout features of the Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit is its dual mode controller. This controller ensures the longevity of your electric bike’s motor by seamlessly transitioning between the Hall effect and non-Hall effect modes. If any of the components break down, the controller automatically switches into non-Hall effect mode, allowing the motor to continue working. This not only ensures smooth operation but also enhances safety and ease of use. Pedal Assist System Riding an electric bike should be a comfortable and convenient experience, and the Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit ensures just that with its pedal assist system. Equipped with an auxiliary sensor (PAS), the pedal of this conversion kit can transmit your stepping frequency and force to the controller. This means you can effortlessly ride your electric bike without having to constantly press the throttle on the handlebars. Not only does this prevent uncomfortable wrist positions, but it also reduces fatigue, making it ideal for long-distance journeys. The Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit is equipped with multiple functions that enhance your overall riding experience. With a rotating speed of 440PRM and a torque of 45N.M, this kit provides a powerful and smooth ride. The thumb throttle includes three LED lights, ensuring visibility and safety during night rides. The adjustable speed feature allows you to easily control your cycling speed, providing convenience and flexibility on your rides. Durable and Convenient When it comes to durability, the Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit doesn’t disappoint. The motor wheel and rim are crafted from high-quality aluminum, iron, copper, and magnetic steel materials. This ensures a sturdy and durable build that can withstand heavy weights of up to 120 kg (264.55 lbs). Additionally, the kit comes with a detailed manual that guides you through the installation process, making it easy to convert your bike into an electric one. Harbin-Star is a brand dedicated to providing quality products and excellent customer service. If you have any concerns or issues with using their products, their customer service team is readily available to assist you. They strive to solve any problems you may encounter and ensure a positive shopping experience. The Harbin-Star Electric Bike Conversion Kit is a reliable and powerful option for transforming your regular bike into an electric one. With its dual mode controller, pedal assist system, multiple functions, durability, and convenient installation process, this kit provides a seamless and enjoyable ride experience. Whether you’re a commuter looking to tackle hilly terrains effortlessly or an adventure enthusiast seeking longer distances, this conversion kit is an excellent choice to enhance your cycling adventures.

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The industry of foundation repair and installation is one that is growing, and a number of repair professionals are mastering new and different techniques for completing this work correctly. If you happen to specialize in foundation work, you will need to get to know certain techniques and tools — such as the use of the screw pile. With this in mind, the points below will be helpful to you so that you are able to invest in screw pile systems while using the materials that will give you long-term success with any sort of foundation construction work. Use these tips and shop for the best supplies and services for the best home projects. Install the best foundation from the ground up by looking into screw pile systems You may be best able to create masterful foundation work when you look into screw piles. This refers to helical anchors that are custom made and able to help you uphold the load capacity that you are dealing with. Using these systems requires some incredible engineering work to make certain that you are getting the best possible design. In addition to shopping for quality metal and other materials for your screw pile, you will need to get price quotes for the delivery and get each portion in writing. Creating these systems may also involve excavation work that will require some diligence and attention to detail. Be sure to consider this work to the fullest and acquire every material and service that you need. Shop around for the highest quality materials and service to ensure that your foundation is at its best You need to take an all-encompassing approach to the foundation that you are creating to make sure that it is handled correctly. Build the foundation with durability in mind, since even a simple repair could cost you as much as $7,000 or so. It's important that you touch base with some pros that you can exchange notes with as well, to get a second set of eyes on your project and to ensure that it is created evenly and in a way that will not lead to cracks and other sorts of long-term foundation damage. The foundation is the most critical part of any building — whether you are dealing with residences, commercial buildings, or industrial factories. Using screw pile systems will be helpful in making the foundation a success. Use these tips to build the strongest foundations possible.

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By Ex-Sgt Mandetira N. Subramani Sitting across on the other side of the table facing a General is good enough to give one the jitters. And, when this gentleman peers at you over his gold-rimmed tinted spectacles with a ‘Judgement-day’ look on his somber face, it doesn’t make things any better. But the worst part is when he proclaims judgment over you. “Take care of your health kid”, is all what he said. That’s a very common enough statement we make every day in our lives. Like saying “Bhai, take care” or “Take care of yourself, okay?” etc. But this simple sentence coming from this gentleman made my stomach churn. The General carried on with his work. We were discussing issues connected with the problems of Ex-Servicemen and things like that. Though I was physically and mentally present and taking active part in the conversation, a small part of my brain was trying to figure out what this mustachioed General was up to. Small gear-like wheels began rotating in that mass of grey matter I call my brain. More like a clock going ‘tick-tock tick-tock’, looking for an answer. The episode narrated above happened a few years ago when I was summoned to the General’s house at Mysore for a meeting at sharp quarter-past-four in the evening. I had some work in the office and so had to skip lunch to make it to the General’s house on time. You know these Defence guys and what a stickler they are for punctuality. But, how, could he know that I’d not had lunch? If that was the reason for his ‘take care’ thing. Was it written on my face? No. That couldn’t be it! My stomach wasn’t grumbling all that loud enough for anybody to hear, either. Skipping lunch wasn’t something new to me. Ever since I started this social work thing, I’ve had to skip lunch on a number of occasions. Then what could it be? The General must have felt I was slightly pre-occupied with something, for he gave me a glance that seemed to say, “What’s bothering you kid”? I tried to explain by saying that I had not had any lunch. “Lunch?” “What lunch?” he queried. “Nobody’s ever kicked the bucket by skipping a meal or two, I’m sure. In fact skipping a meal once in a way is good for the constitution. It gives the over-worked tummy a break” and words to that effect. “I was talking about your smoking habit, chum. How about giving it up, eh? Better give it up, pal, if you know what’s good for you”, he added. Now, how on earth did he know that I was a puffing chimney? I had fooled others into believing that I was a non-smoker. How come he found out? Maybe he too was a smoker once upon a time. It all began quite long ago, somewhere in the golden seventies. Golden for me ‘cos I was in my youth then. And smoking was considered the in thing to do those days. There were hoardings, ads in the newspapers, magazines, theatres and almost everywhere portraying the macho male with a cigarette in his hand. It gave the message that one wasn’t man enough if one didn’t smoke. A drag on a fag and letting out thin streams of smoke through the nostrils gave such a great pleasure, which I can never forget. Heroes in the movies always had one sticking out of their mouths all the time. Shotgun Shatru, as Shatrughan Sinha was called, was one of my childhood heroes. He could blow smoke rings, which touched the ceiling and became garlands. Wah! What an art by an artiste! There were times when I ran short of that vital drag, once in a while, when I was in the Armed Forces. But then what are friends for! A Friend in need is a friend indeed, goes the adage. One such friend of mine did not share my viewpoint, though. He used to hide his fags whenever I went to him for anything. What a miser he was! One day I was dying for a puff and was short of the stuff. The ever reliable ashtray gave me “hath” too. In dire times of need my old buddy the ashtray had always came to my rescue producing a good-sized butt or two, but not on that day. There were only filter tips glaring at me as though challenging me to dare. It was a bit late in the night and all the shops were closed. During the year 1978 Ambala, in Haryana, did not have any nightlife. The only alternative was to bum my friend. That wise guy, who was senior to me, and a Corporal to boot, must have sensed my intentions for with a heart-breaking sigh he said, “Sorry Pal!” and threw a presumably empty pack out of the window. I smelt something fishy, for this guy was never out of cigarettes, and his body language said something else altogether. I told him that it was perfectly all right if he didn’t have any. With my radar on, I went outside to hunt for the supposedly empty pack he had thrown. And I was right! My sixth sense had not failed me. There were two fags left in the pack that he had thrown. Now it was his turn to come chasing after me for at least one of those fags. Well, all said and done, those were the real golden days. Reminiscing with nostalgic hiccups is what I do these days. Nowadays, things have changed. Smoking is taboo. We discourage our children from even starting this habit so that they don’t have to kick it later. There are no ads portraying macho heroes with a fag in one hand and a dame on the other. There may be surrogate ads with the same brand name advertising trekking gear, etc. But an outright ad illustrating the good points of smoking is just not to be seen anywhere these days. On the contrary one finds “NO SMOKING” signboards all over the place, especially in government and private offices, which is a very good thing, if you ask me. I’d been secretly trying to get rid of this habit myself for quite sometime now. And like Winston Churchill once said, “Its very easy to give up smoking. I’ve given it up a number of times”. Today, I went to see one of my cousins in his office to seek a favour for one of my ex-servicemen brethren. Though, he has acceded to all my requests till date, I am still scared of going anywhere near him because of his elderly advices on my vices. However, I never hesitate to go in front of him when it comes to asking for favours, either for me or for my ex-servicemen brethren. Strangely, today, the moment I entered his office, he gave me a cold stare, as though I had committed a great crime and had barged into his chamber for protection, even though I had obtained a prior appointment from his secretary for this meeting. What he smelt I could never visualize. This cool and humorous cousin of mine, today mercilessly ordered one of his tough looking security guards to frisk me and the guard obediently robbed me of all my cigarettes and the lighter, too, which ultimately found a convenient resting place in my cousin’s wastepaper basket. He gave me one more stare and said seriously ‘Kick your smoking habit right now, and come back after a month!’ I was literally taken aback because this order of his was tougher than the General’s, which I had received a few years ago. I had no escape route this time except for saying ‘yes’ most respectfully and got out of his office in a big hurry as if I had stepped on a deadly poisonous snake. I had forgotten the very purpose of going to his office, which I’d been planning for months together. The moment I came out of his office realizing my mistake of saying ‘yes’, I sprinted to the nearest cigarette shop and bought one cigarette, which I smoked till its filter got burnt. A strange feeling was bothering me. There would be no another day or another cigarette for me. I have willingly decided to kick the habit from tomorrow i.e. 10th October 2009. Is it a resolution or an excuse to smoke for one more day? I just cannot figure out! But that’s it. I either kick the butt or get kicked in the butt by all and sundry. Enough is enough; I’m going to call it a day as far as smoking is concerned. So guys October 10, 2009 is going to be the red-letter day for me. No more huffing and puffing like a steam engine of yore. I’ve decided to join a gym and workout to bring my ageing body back in shape. I have a lot of life still left in me and intend to live a healthy life hereafter. I’ve begun wondering what people really got out of smoking. Just plain nothing, I should say! Take in smoke and let it out, that’s all there is to it. So, now that I have given it up I sure hope all you smoking chimneys out there would also give it up. This advice comes with no strings attached from a guy who knows and cares for his brethren.

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Jul 14, 2013 I have a special double gift for you. Get deep Peace and Confidence in my new gift. On my travels I thought it would be awesome to give you and MP3 for achieving a deep inner peace and to generate the self worth, esteem and confidence you deserve. The video version below was made because when away I decided to record sea to combine in this hypnotic meditation. So you have both video and audio versions. Are you ready to get the peace and confidence you desire?

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Catherine Brownstein _No Photo AvailableResearch Associate/ InstructorBOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL/HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL Chris Blum _No Photo AvailableUX/Product Designer and Quantified Self EnthusiastOtherWork San Diego California United States of America I’m a product designer and user experience researcher who believes in the power of great design. I graduated from UCSD with a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Human Computer Interaction, and focus my efforts on understanding human needs, communicating their stories, and envisioning meaningful design solutions. I’m interested in the intersection of health and technology, and the role design thinking may play in developing solutions to a wide range of human problems. 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I have studied these factors in many different contexts, including social media, education, games, and cultural content, Soft sustainability is especially important when trying to understand and improve technology that requires continued use for long-term benefits, which may include healthy living and psychological well-beinge. Technology, HCI/Ubicomp, Social Media, Apps, Internet of Things Dan Gillette _No Photo AvailableSenior Research ScientistCITRIS, UC BerkeleyAcademia/University, Medicine/Health Care, Corporate/Private Sector, Non-profitWork Berkeley California United States of America I am a product designer and design researcher with a main focus in healthcare, civic design, disability and education. While I work on all kinds of design projects and technologies, one of my specialties is behavior change, which is the main driver behind my interest in the Health Data Exploration Researcy. 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Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century I had a thread for Francisco Varela on the old version of this forum, and after coming across a couple websites this weekend with some good resources on his work, I decided to recreate a thread for him here. His work developing the enactive model of cognition, of course, has had a significant impact on the articulation of integral postmetaphysical theory. Laying Down a Path in Walking (Click "Open the Francisco Varela player and site") From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (Audio and Video links) "Francisco Varela was born September 7, 1946 in Chile. As a child and teenager, he received a strong classical education from the German Lyceum in Santiago, which instilled in him a deep and lifelong appreciation of literature, art, philosophy, and science. He received his M.Sc. (Licenciatura) in Biology in 1967 from the University of Chile in Santiago, where he studied with the neurobiologist Humberto R. Maturana (well known for his classic work with Jerome Lettvin on the neurophysiology of vision in frogs and for his subsequent work with Varela on autopoiesis). According to the story Francisco was fond of telling, as a young undergraduate he one day burst into Maturana's office and enthusiastically declared that he wanted "to study the role of mind in the universe." Maturana responded, "My boy, you've come to the right place." From 1968 to 1970 Francisco followed in the footsteps of his mentor Maturana by pursuing graduate studies in Biology at Harvard University. His doctoral thesis, "Insect retinas: information processing in the compound eye," was written under the direction of Torsten Wiesel (who shared a Nobel Prize with Davd Hubel in 1981). With his Ph.D. in hand at the young age of twenty-three, Francisco declined a position as researcher at Harvard and another as Assistant Professor at another American university, choosing instead to return to Chile to help build a scientific research community. It was during these years of 1970 to 1973 that Varela and Maturana, now colleagues at the University of Chile, formulated their famous theory of autopoiesis (Maturana & Varela 1973, 1980; see Varela 1996a for a personal recounting of this time and work). According to this theory, living systems are autonomous systems (endogenously controlled and self-organizing), and the minimal form of autonomy necessary and sufficient for characterizing biological life is autopoiesis, i.e., self-production having the form of an operationally closed, membrane-bounded, reaction network. Maturana and Varela also held that autopoiesis defines cognition in its minimal biological form as the "sense-making" capacity of life; and that the nervous system, as a result of the autopoiesis of its component neurons, is not an input-output information processing system, but rather an autonomous, operationally closed network, whose basic functional elements are invariant patterns of activity in neuronal ensembles (see Varela 1979). These ideas, dating back to the early seventies, not only anticipated but laid the groundwork for ideas that were to become prominent much later in the nineties, in scientific fields as diverse as the origins of life (Fleischaker 1994), the chemical synthesis of minimal living systems (Bachman et al. 1992), artificial life (Varela & Bourgine 1991), theoretical immunology (Varela & Coutinho 1991), dynamical neuroscience (Varela et al. 2001), and embodied cognition (Varela et al. 1991). When Francisco returned to Chile, he arrived on September 2, 1970, two days before the election of Salvador Allende (the first Marxist politician ever elected in a free election). Three years later Chile was in turmoil, and Francisco, a strong supporter of the Allende government, was forced to flee with his family after the military coup of General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Allende goverment on September 11, 1973. They fled first to Costa Rica, and then eventually to the United States, where Francisco took up a position as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Medical School in Denver. There he taught and pursued his research until 1978. In 1978-79, he spent a year in New York at the Brain Research Laboratories of the NYU Medical School, and as scholar in residence at the Lindisfarne Association, and then returned to Chile in 1980, staying there until 1985 (with a year spent in 1984 as a Visiting Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt). In 1986 he moved to Paris, where he was based at the Institut des Neurosciences and at CREA (Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Applique). In 1988, he was appointed to be a Director of Research at CNRS (Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique), a position he held until his death. Francisco's years in Paris, up until the very month of his passing, were remarkably full and productive by any standard; that he suffered from Hepatitis C from the early 1990s onward, including receiving a liver transplant in 1998, makes his life and work during this time truly wonderful and inspiring. During these years Francisco pursued two main complementary lines of work: experimental studies using multiple electrode recordings and mathematical analysis of large-scale neuronal integration during cognitive processes; and philosophical and empirical studies of the "neurophenomenology" of human consciousness (see Varela 1996b). In a 1998 study published in Nature, Francisco and his colleagues in Paris showed for the first time that the human perception of meaningful complex forms (high contrast faces or "Mooney figures") is accompanied by phase-locked, synchronous oscillations in distinct brain regions (Rodriguez et al. 1998). In an important review article published one month before his death, in the April 2001 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Francisco and his colleagues presented a new viewpoint on what they call the "brainweb": the emergence of a unified cognitive moment depends on large-scale brain integration, whose most plausible mechanism is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands (Varela et al. 2001). In addition to these studies, Francisco published numerous technical, experimental and mathematical papers on the nonlinear dynamical analysis of brain activity, including groundbreaking studies on the prediction of seizures in epileptic patients prior to the onset of symptoms (Martinerie et al. 1998; see also Schiff 1998). Francisco also firmly believed, however, that such scientific research needs to be complemented by detailed phenomenological investigations of human experience as it is lived and verbally articulated in the first person. To this end, he published a number of original and innovative phenomenological studies of aspects of human consciousness (e.g., Varela 1999; Varela and Depraz 2000), including a profound and moving meditation on his own illness and the phenomenology of organ transplantation experience (Varela 2001). He also co-edited two important collections, one on phenomenology and cognitive science (Petitot et al. 1999), and the other on first-person methods in the science of consciousness (Varela and Shear 1999). Since the mid-seventies, Francisco was a serious practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and a student of Buddhist psychology and philosophy. His conviction that this tradition and Western cognitive science have much to gain from each other provided another, ultimately spiritual and existential dimension, to his work. This dimension was the subject of his 1991 book (co-written with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch), The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. He was one of the key members of the Advisory Board of the Mind and Life Institute, which organizes private meetings between Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, and Western scientists (see Varela 1997). The ninth and most recent of these meetings was held May 21-22, 2001, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on the theme of "Transformations of Mind, Brain, and Emotion: Neurobiological and Bio-Behavioral Research on Meditation," directed by Professor Richard Davidson. This meeting was a dream-come-true for Francisco: the best of Western brain science and Buddhist meditative practice and psychology brought together in the context of cognitive neuroscientific research on the cognitive and emotional effects of meditation evident in long-term practitioners. Francisco was to present his studies and findings using EEG and MEG methods at the morning session of May 22, but sadly was unable to be there because of his illness. His Ph.D. student, Antoine Lutz, presented the material in his stead, and a live web-cam was set up so that Francisco could watch the proceedings from his apartment in Paris. Although the passing of Francisco, especially at a time when his rich and diverse research program was coming to such fruition, is an immeasurable loss, the spirit of his unique and exemplary style of research has never been stronger, and will continue to inspire many of us for years to come. Francisco was an active and enthusiastic supporter of many interdisciplinary groups devoted to the study of consciousness. In the seventies and eighties, he served on the faculty of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was a Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association in New York City. He was a founding member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) and was actively considering hosting the 2002 ASSC meeting until shortly before his death. He was a strong supporter of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona at Tucson, and served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. He was also instrumental in the creation of a new journal, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, and was to serve as its Consulting Editor." ~ Evan Thompson Enaction in a nutshell from Varela's "Whence perceptual meaning": "The kingpin of cognition is its capacity for bringing forth meaning: information is not pre-established as a given order, but regularities emerge from a co-determination of the cognitive activities themselves." What I also find interesting about the above referenced paper is how the general P2P (and evolutionary) zeitgeist of distributed networks organizing via interconnection (like we're seeing expressed in the progressive economics and Rifkin threads for example)* manifests in Varela's cogsci. For example, these passages from section 4 of the paper: "At the Macy conferences, for example, it was argued in actual brains there are no rules or central logical processor nor is information stored in precise addresses. Rather, brains seems to operate on the basis of massive interconnections, in a distributed form, so that their actual connectivity changes as a result of experience. In brief, they present a self-organizing capacity that is nowhere to be found in logic" (242). "In this approach each component operates only in its local environment, but because of the network quality of the entire system there is global cooperation which emerges spontaneously, when the states of all participating components reach a mutually satisfactory state, without the need for a central processing unit to guide the entire operation" (243-4). * And unlike we're seeing in kennilingus with its formal logical base and attachment to individualism, authoritarianism and capitalism. Brief tangent into the evolving P2P meme of which Varela is one example, from Michel Bauwens' "P2P and Human Evolution": "Russ Volckman...wondered why it was that the Integral Theories that he was familiar with, such as those by Ken Wilber and the Spiral Dynamics system, did not seem to talk at P2P at all, while for me, P2P is nothing less that the most likely next civilisational stage. "So in my view, it is a mix, there is a kind of center of gravity, which draws together green/yellow/turquoise types, while making it uninteresting for orange 'capitalist' types, and difficult to adhere to for blue 'fundamentalist' types. But that does not preclude IBM from supporting Open Sources and fundamentalists from enthusiastically using blogs. Life is clearly more complex than any totalizing system's efforts to bring it into neat categories. And as John Heron, one of the pioneers of participative spirituality notes below, the problem might be with the nature of Spiral Dynamics [and kennilingus] theorizing itself, which is based on a individualist notion of spiritual [and economic, etc.] development." This article by Glenn Smith places Varela in the progressive zeitgeist that is creating a positive vision for that worldview. Smith notes that it took a conservative worldview going too far to galvanize progressive resistance, but it also led them to understand they needed a positive vision to promote, heretofore absent. An expression of this is Arianna Huffington choosing The Empathic Civilization as the Post's book of the month. This vision captures the balance between individualism and cooperation, or as it might be suggested, includes and transcends the best of conservative and liberal. Among those championing such a vision Smith names the following: George Lakoff, William Connolly, Franz de Waal, Marco Iacoboni, Francisco Varela, Drew Weston. He discussed the biological roots of empathy as prerequisite for democracy. And how this is resisted by both capitalism and Marxism via the rational, scientific worldview: “It’s also no accident that the rise of the scientific worldview and rationalism rejected empathy as dangerously emotional. Rational management and historical determinism, in both Marxism and capitalism, became hallmarks of the modern democratic era.” It is with honor and distinction that Varela is part of this progressive, evolutionary movement taking us forward into our integral future. In this interview Varela is accused of a variety of the performative contradiction. It begins as a discussion of subject-object duality, which he doesn't accept. In so doing he makes a truth claim about "truth" and it is here the supposed contradiction occurs, since he just defended the notion of variable truths depending on different embodiments. Poerksen: But if we, as you suggest, begin with our perceptions and experiences, we immediately see: there is a subject and an object. Both appear separated. That is the fundamental insightwe gain. It should actually lead us back to realism again. Varela: You are now speaking of common, everyday experience, which is formed and shaped by a whole set of theories and metaphysical presumptions. I do not propose to trust that kind of experience. On the contrary, it is the very duty of philosophy and natural science to question and challenge ordinary perception and everything that seems self-evident, and to confront it with new approaches. These may contradict common sense but that is no problem for me at all and quite irrelevant; the crucial question is whether they fit, whether they are true. The reference to common sense does not prove anything. Poerksen: What do you mean by “fitting,” “true” approaches? If truth is the goal of your researches, then you definitely assume a realist position, after all. Of course, there are people who believe that we could keep truth as a kind of ideal and a distant goal because we can never do more than approximate it step by step, anyway. But that thesis seems contradictory to me, too. If we want to establish whether we have achieved some partial understanding of the absolute or come closer to the truth, we must be able to compare our partial understanding with absolute truth itself. However, this comparison of realities presupposes the possibility of apprehending absolute truth—otherwise the claim of its approximation remains undecidable. My thesis is that we can only maintain the idea of truth as a goal of human knowing, however distant, if we assume an extreme realist position at the same time. Varela: The attempt to characterize my position as clandestine realism and a masked belief in truth is due to the definitional decision you have taken, which I certainly do not accept. You are working with a concept of truth that is based on correspondence: truth is the correspondence between theory and reality. Such a position will inevitably make you a realist. Let me just point out that there are many ways of speaking about truth. My own concept of truth, which is inspired by phenomenology and the philosophy of pragmatism, is best understood as a theory of coherence: what counts is the consistency of theories, the coherence of viewpoints. Truth is, the motto of pragmatism proclaims, what works. Thanks for the great links (hyper and conceptual), Ed. Here's a brief passage from an interview conducted with him by Otto Scharmer: “I wish that insight about the distributiveness of what we call a subject would be taken more seriously. Because there are lots of people who know that, but it stays at the level of the know-what. Developing a know-how, that you really incorporate into your blood and bones in day-to-day behavior, that is the process of transformation that needs the discipline and the methodologies that we’re talking about. There are lots of people who understand that, but that doesn’t make them change, because their habitual patterns are still there. You cannot be a virtual self unless you have this constant creation of letting go. That is the nature of virtuality. What this is saying to me is if you really want to get closer to understanding what it means to be a subject, you’d better understand that this is the constant generator of what that subject is all about … since it is not a stable, solid entity, since it is not within the head, since it is not just in language. It’s in none of those dimensions, it’s somehow in a figure of multiple levels of emergence, but it is always fragile. Virtual is a more "engineering" way of speaking about fragility, which is more philosophical or ethical. But it has exactly the same connotation for me. An excellent example of Varela's exploration of 1st person meditative methodology and what it will (not) find. For comparison I offer Wilber's critique of Varela on exactly this point, from footnote 3 to Excerpt C: "This is not to say that autopoietic and systems approaches cannot be applied to interiors, as we will see, but only that when they are, they still capture only the third-person aspects of those interiors. "The autopoiesis paradigm of Maturana and Varela is often mentioned as a "postmodern epistemology" because it strongly denies the existence of a pregiven world (i.e., it denies the "myth of the given"--the myth of the Mirror of Nature--the myth that the world is a given territory that we are supposed to map and mirror accurately [see The Marriage of Sense and Soul for a discussion of the myth of the given]). According to Maturana and Varela, the representational or mirror-of-nature epistemologies naively assume that there is a single biosphere or natural world--the great Web of Life--and that we are to live in accord with that Web, which itself is the myth of the given. The autopoietic approaches point out that "nature" and "the world" actually consist of various enacted worlds brought forth in part by the autopoietic regimes of the organisms perceiving them. There is no "biosphere" or "nature" or "the natural world" except in the rationalized cognition of some human beings, a cognition not shared by 99.9999% of biological organisms. "The enactive point that Maturana and Varela make is true enough, and to that extent, the notion of autopoiesis is indeed postmodern. I share an agreement with most of its important features; but my point is that the autopoietic version of this interpretive component of world-making is still addressing only the insides of the exteriors, not the insides of the interiors (see fig. 3). It is, if you will, a postmodernism of the UR, not the UL. Obviously this is an important perspective that we would want to include in any integral methodological pluralism, but again, only if shorn of absolutisms. "(Demonstrating this inadequacy--which means, not wrongness but partialness--of the autopoietic paradigm is the burden of several critical endnotes in SES which specifically address the strengths and weaknesses of the typical enactive paradigm, which--as with Whitehead--could be called "the partial enactive paradigm" as opposed a more "complete" or "tetra-enactive paradigm." For a critical appraisal of Francisco Varela's work, see numerous endnotes in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, second edition [CW6], particularly note 1 for chap. 14, beginning with subheading "Francisco Varela's Enactive Paradigm," pp. 734-741; this note also gives references to several other notes in the book discussing these themes.) "On a very positive note, Maturana and Varela speak of biological and even physical phenomenology--that is, they fully acknowledge the existence of the UL (or interior experience or proto-experience) going all the way down to, and including, physical holons. They also acknowledge that these interiors: (a) can be known from within, (b) can be described (or reconstructed), or (c) can be known from without (by observing behavior). I definitely agree. The problem is that when they attempt to reconstruct (which is item "b") the inside experiences (which is item "a"), they actually slip into (c) realities. "For example, they correctly maintain that organisms have an inside to the extent that they have structural memories and co-evolve (or structurally couple) with their environments. Structural memories represent the enacted history of an organism's cognitive choices via structural coupling with the exteriors. But those cognitions are pictured/described in third-person terms, not first-person terms: they are the "insides" of exteriors, not the insides of interiors (see figs 2 and 3). Actual prehensions represent the felt-meanings of interiors as they touch their preceding feelings, which do not represent cognitive choices with nomic intent (i.e., "biological identity and survival"--which is Maturana and Varela's definition of cognition), but rather the felt presence of the holon in its bit of exuberant élan vital and joie de vie (to put it more poetically, which is the better language for the UL anyway). The habits of intimate touching of prehensive unification tend to be reduced to the mechanics of structural coupling and exterior-cognitive enactment. I agree with what they say about structural coupling, but, as explained in SES endnotes, it does not cover the actual UL very well at all; rather, autopoiesis looks at the organism in third-person terms (which is fine; this is science), and then attempts to explain what goes on inside that (exteriorly-viewed) organism as it enacts and brings forth its world: hence, the insides and outsides of the exterior, neither of which actually includes first-person realities as such. "Varela has attempted to integrate first- and third-person perspectives in his "neurophenomenology." Again, this is an important move toward a more integral stance, but one that is flawed, in my opinion, by a lack of inherent second-person perspective and a lack of waves and streams (i.e., it fails to include quadrants, levels, and lines). See Integral Psychology for a critical appraisal of neurophenomenology. Varela's reliance on, e.g., Merleau-Ponty's version of felt phenomenology makes it more difficult for his theory to easily cover intrinsic intersubjectivity as well as waves and streams." A key to kennilingus distaste for, and misapprehension of, the P2P matrix in which Varela is embedded is revealed in footnote 2 to Excerpt A. He is talking about the difference between individual and social holons, how the former has a boundary and dominant monad whereas the social holon does not. He says: "Confusing these two is a calamitous fallacy that, among other things, is the very definition of fascism, whether political fascism or ecofascism or values fascism, because the collective is treated as an individual with a single will, value, and intentionality, which enslaves all real individuals to that system and its dominant monad; and this occurs in everything from mere theories, such as Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis, to actual politics, such as Louis XIV's famous L'etat c'est moi, "I am the State," and therefore all people in the State must do as I, its dominant monad, command." Here autopoiesis is compared to a dictatorship! We see this played out in today's US politics where liberalism is equated with the Marxist dictatorships. And all of which arises from a formal operational and correspondence theory that just cannot get outside its dualism long enough to see the kind of distributed, nonlocal and nondualistic ways in which our (3rd person) brains and (1st person) consciousness operate through (2nd person) P2P. Mark Edwards' critique of this very thing in his 3-part essay "The depths of the exteriors" is most instructive. Yes, I was re-reading that critique of Varela the other day. But, regarding Varela's so-called non-inclusion of intersubjectivity or the second person, check out the following (from the same interview with Scharmer, "Gestures on Becoming Aware," on the interactive Varela site I linked in my first post): III. Second Person "Now, with respect to the second person, to make this work, you really need the mediation of the other, right? And the other comes in here in different flavors. I like to call that the second person. Because it is not a simple first person, right? The third person is what you find typically in classical science. The first person acts and plays a new role. The second person is somebody who is not in the first person having direct access to the experience, but is interested in that first-person access. So, for example, you are the expert. You know things that I don't know. We want you to be able to teach others, so we are going to [develop] a process of trying to make explicit what is implicit. This is an old goal of many people in many fields. Now the point there is that I put myself in the position of the second person because I don't just observe you purely externally, but I don't have the first access. So what I do is to become your partner in the process. This partner can have two modes. One is a mode which is slightly closer to the third-person position. That is verbal reports. It is what many cognitive scientists do. They place themselves in the position of admitting that you have the mind, that you can have access from the first person to what I just showed you. So they admit the position of first person, but at the same time they remain a little bit removed. They are content with taking notes and noticing whatever it is that you say. In contrast, a more interesting second person is really empathetic. He admits that you have in your mind an access to your experience, but this person himself knows the kind of experience you're talking about and therefore acts as a coach. The good sports coach cannot be somebody who hasn't done the sport. The coach must have first-person access to his own experience that perfectly resonates with yours. For example, in Buddhism, you have to advance and progress in this cycle with a qualified teacher. A qualified teacher is who? A second person. Because he can then make the process work through mutual resonance and correct it. In our book The View from Within4, there is an interesting study on intuition by Claire Petitmengin-Peugeot. She tries to understand the intuitive experience by working as a coach on an explicit technique of coaching people who say they just choose what they think is an intuitive experience. And then they try to work through it in this coaching mode she induces by taking the second-person position. Is this very confusing, or is it -- COS: It's not at all confusing. But I'm not 100 percent sure whether I'm really in the -- Francisco Varela: The second person? COS: Yeah, your second point, which is that this process only works if there is a second-person relationship. Francisco Varela: Well, only very, very gifted, extraordinary individuals can carry this out in a productive manner. The access to experience seems difficult to most people because it is. To go beyond just this purely impressionistic account of what one is experiencing is not easy. If you don't mobilize these tools in detail -- and that requires that kind of mediation -- then it just doesn't work. Do you see what I mean? The whole first person is just too demanding for most people. Human beings are not spontaneously very gifted for this process. So the social mediation is absolutely fundamental. You might say it's not surprising; it's also essential for language, and so forth. It's also essential for certain essential values -- COS: -- and for social learning. Francisco Varela: -- social learning. But it's not obvious that basic learning, such as admitting that the other is equal to you, is something that is spontaneous; it really needs to be mediated by the social context. Is that more clear? COS; Yes, that makes absolute sense. Probably it's also true that without the other, the experience of the other, you could never perceive your self. Francisco Varela: Absolutely. So this is a very important antidote to the myth or the belief or the dogma that anything that has to do with introspection or meditation or phenomenological work is something that people do in their little corners. That really is a mistaken angle on the whole thing. Although there are some reasons that it is a very common mistake. This is perhaps the greatest difficulty within science. The first reaction people have is that [the first person is] just a personal thing. That it's private. But the notion that the first person is private is a disaster. The first-person access is as public as the third person, okay? When you have a third-person point of view, clearly you need a first person who does the measurement and does the writing, etc., but [provides] a social network to which it is going to be addressed. So a key point is that it's really not very meaningful to speak about consciousness or experiences being private. 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This episode is simple. John and Coleman look back on some of the moments that makes this show fun! Everything from the various guests, to the bonus shows and personal stories. They celebrate in the form of shots with every clip that was played! Safe to say we were a little more buzzed than usual. It was hard to choose some of the best clips because of all the good times we have, but we picked as many as we could (we will do this again in the future). We truly can’t thank everyone enough for listening to two fools talk into microphones! And a huge thanks to everyone who has come onto the show up to this point. We are going to continue to joke and laugh while trying to inform you every so often. We were hammered, and we love you all. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy chatting, laugh with us or at us, and tip your pizza maker! Cheers to the next one hundred!!

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Anglais - Souvereign of the Seas The Sovereign of the Seas, built from 1635 to 1637 for King Charles I of England, is one of the most unusual sailing ships of the 17th century. This ship became famous for her magnificent artistic design, which made this royal ship a symbol of sovereign power. Her numerous sculptures and ornamented details were not simply decoration, but fulfilled a complex iconographical programme, which served both the goal of elementary representation and resulted in a wonderful complete work of art. The ship fought in many naval battles and was completely destroyed in 1703 following a fire that broke out after a candle was tipped over. contact | © 2009 Pride of the Island

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Seven Deadly Shadows His gaze fills my whole soul with dread Don’t pull the manga villain card with me. I can’t tell her monsters are attacking our family’s shrine -for one-Mother would never forgive me. About the Authors Valynne E. Maetani Valynne E. Maetani (pronounced Vuh-lin Mah-eh-tah-nee) grew up in Utah and obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In a former life, she was a project manager and developed educational software for children with learning disabilities. Currently, she is a full-time writer. She is a member of the We Need Diverse Books team and is dedicated to promoting diversity in children’s literature because every child should grow up believing his or her story deserves to be told. Her debut novel, Ink and Ashes, is the winner of the New Visions Award 2013, a Junior Library Guild 2015 selection, and Best Fiction Book in Salt Lake City Weekly’s Best of Utah Arts Award for 2015. She lives in Salt Lake City. Review of Seven Deadly Shadows Review (5 Stars): I loved this story!! Seven Deadly Shadows was rich with folklore, adventure and kept me at the edge of my seat. I love Kira because she was the only that could see the yokai demons and was the only that could bring everyone together to stop the destruction of mankind. This book was so fascinating to me because it was magical and I loved the writer’s storytelling ability. This is one that I’m definitely going to be recommending to everyone.

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|Email: [email protected] - keine email ? Attorney Marlene Kamish speaking on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal (After audio version of Confession of Arnold Beverly played) You have just heard the confession of Arnold Beverly. Mumia's former attorneys, Leonard Weinglass and Daniel Williams, had the confession of Arnold Beverly since June of 1999. They suppressed it and never turned it over to the court. On the day we filed our appearances, we filed the confession, the results of a polygraph corroborating the confession, a request for a deposition of Arnold Beverly, and we made the confession public at a news conference. You might wonder why a person would freely confess to a killing. But I tell you, he is courageous and he is taking responsibility for his own act. You might also wonder why the prosecution and the court fight so desperately to keep the confession out of the court and to ignore the evidence that has been filed. There is nothing unique in this situation. Another such case is within my own experience. In the case of Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez, the killer Brian Dugan had freely confessed to the rape, kidnapping and murder of Jeanine Nicarico when he was arrested for the murder of Melissa Ackerman, but the prosecution refused to hear his evidence. I think, primarily because Rolando Cruz and Alex Hernandez were framed. The police had falsified a confession. The fact that the confession was fabricated was only revealed when one of the policemen cracked during cross-examination. An investigator named Randy Garrett had discovered that the policeman who claimed to have overheard a confession to the killing was really in Florida on vacation on that day. Brian Dugan has confessed and Rolando and Alex are free, yet the state of Illinois refuses to charge the confessed killer. Maybe it is also because they had Dugan in custody for another crime after he killed Jeanine Nicarico, after that they let him go and he killed again, the details of the frame up of the two men would have been fully exposed if they accepted Dugan's confession. Here in the case of Mumia, it is obvious that Mumia was framed, that he is innocent, and allowing Arnold Beverly into the courtroom would expose all these facts and the corruption of the police and prosecution as well. Today I will first explain the current legal status of Mumia's case. Second, I will tell you a story that involves Mumia, a member of my family and me. And finally, I will offer some suggestions to you as to how you can help Mumia to win his freedom. FIRST: THE LEGAL STATUS IN THE FEDERAL COURT. As many of you perhaps already know, on December 18, 2001 the United States District Court Judge William H. Yohn overturned the death sentence, sustained the conviction, and certified only one issue for appeal. At this moment the Commonwealth (which is what the prosecution calls itself in Pennsylvania) is appealing the overturning of the death sentence in the United States Court of Appeals For the Third Circuit. On behalf of Mumia we are also appealing Judge Yohn's decision to sustain the conviction to the Third Circuit. We have filed a Motion asking that the court certify additional issues for appeal. In his ruling overturning the death sentence Judge Yohn gave the Commonwealth 180 days to hold a re-sentencing hearing. Several results are possible. If the Commonwealth decides not to hold a re-sentencing hearing in 180 days, Mumia's death sentence automatically becomes a life sentence unless the Third Circuit grants either our appeal or the Commonwealth's. If the Commonwealth does hold a re-sentencing hearing, the death sentence could be re-instated. It could also be re-instated if the Third Circuit reverses Judge Yohn's opinion on overturning the death sentence. But, the 180 days has not yet begun to run because it is tolled by the appeals to the Third Circuit. In his Memorandum & Order of December 18, 2001, Judge Yohn inter alia denied our Redrafted and Amended Petition for Habeas Corpus Relief. He also rejected Arnold Beverly's confession to the killing of Daniel Faulkner. This, in spite of the fact that the video tape, of which you just heard the sound track, is filed with the court as is the written confession. Also filed is the Declaration of Dr. Honts, the noted polygraph examiner, corroborating the fact that Arnold Beverly is telling the truth and the fact that the evidence supports the veracity of the confession of Arnold Beverly. Arnold Beverly is ready and willing to testify as you just heard him say. Judge Yohn will not even let us take his deposition, which is why the video was made and filed in the court. The single issue that Judge Yohn certified for appeal is called the Batson issue and is based on the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986) where the court held that the potential jurors cannot be struck from serving on the jury based on race. In Mumia's case, eleven out of fifteen peremptory strikes were made by prosecutor McGill against black potential jurors. Statistically, it is virtually impossible that this striking of Blacks from the jury was anything but race based. If we win on Batson, that ruling would mean that the court decided that Mumia never had a fair trial. The conviction would be thrown out automatically and he would either be given a re-trial or he would be freed. The appeals court is empowered not only to overturn Judge Yohn's ruling on the death sentence, but it can also expand the issues it will review beyond the Batson issue. We have asked the court to review an additional eleven issues. Mumia is an innocent man. We have asked that the Writ of Habeas Corpus be granted and that he be set free. NOW TURNING FOR JUST A MOMENT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SUPREME COURT. In addition to being on appeal to the Third Circuit, we are on appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Judge Dembe of the Court of Common Pleas has denied our Petition for Post Conviction Relief and/or Writ of Habeas Corpus. She has said she will not hear Arnold Beverly although she also has his written and video confession as well as the corroborating and supporting documentation. She says it comes too late, and she claims that she does not have the jurisdiction to hear about innocence. Nor, for that matter, does she have the jurisdiction to hear about guilt since Arnold Beverly is ready and willing to walk into any court and openly declare both his guilt and Mumia's innocence. It is not Mumia's fault that his former attorney's suppressed Arnold Beverly's confession. But Judge Dembe says that neither Mumia nor Beverly have a place in her courtroom. It is baffling to try to find logic in such a decision. We have filed a Notice of Appeal, but as of yet there is no briefing schedule. NOW, MY STORY. First, let me reiterate: Mumia is innocent. Let the cynics sneer, if there are among you, those who choose to think, Oh, you never know. If you know Mumia, you know he is innocent. I know him very well and there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever. What happened to him on December 9th 1981 is that he was shot and beaten and brutalized. I knew Mumia was innocent by merely reading the transcript. It was long before I came to know that the killer of Daniel Faulkner had confessed. It was long before I knew that the most highly esteemed polygraph expert in the country corroborated the confession. I knew he was innocent before Terri Maurer Carter, a court reporter, came forward and reported to us, confirming what we already knew, that Judge Sabo was a bigot. She signed a sworn declaration that she had heard Judge Sabo say "I'm going to help them fry the n****r." It was before I knew that Chobert had recanted his testimony and admitted to an investigator that he was not in the position he said he was at the trial, and he could not have seen the shooting of Daniel Faulkner. I knew he was innocent before I knew that Chobert's evidence was suppressed by the former attorneys in the 1995 post-conviction hearing. I knew he was innocent before Yvette Williams, who had been in jail with Cynthia White (the most damning primary perjurous witness for the prosecution) came forward. I knew he was innocent before Yvette Williams swore in her declaration that Cynthia White told her that she had lied on the stand, that she saw nothing, wasn't there, and that she had lied because the police had forced her by intimidation and threats. I knew he was innocent and must be freed before I knew that Mumia's brother Billy Cook expected to testify in the 1995 post-conviction hearing and was discouraged from doing so by Mumia's attorney Leonard Weinglass. He was intending to testify to his brother's innocence. He had written a sworn declaration, which was also suppressed, like the killer Arnold Beverly's confession was suppressed. Billy was going to testify because he was there, and because he knew his brother to be innocent. I knew he was innocent and had to be freed before I knew that in the 1995 post-conviction hearing - as the whole world watched, Philadelphia thronged with media, and the city belonged to those who love Mumia - had Mumia testified, he would have been a presence so powerful that the force of the truth of his innocence could not have been denied. He would have walked from the courthouse a free man leaving in his wake the wicked Judge alone in the court, an evil alchemist stirring his pot of lies. But Mumia, brother to us all, was not to take the witness stand on his own behalf at his own post-conviction hearing. He was to sit silent as the world watched wondering. He rose only momentarily to tell the court that his attorneys, i.e. Weinglass and Williams, had advised him not to testify. He was to wait for that legendary trial that oh these long years is yet to come. And the world watched wondering. I knew he was innocent because you have but to open the trial transcript, not to the part where the trial actually begins on June 18th 1982, but to the earlier hearings, the preliminary ones, where Mumia is begging for a line-up as to all and every witness against him. Who begs for a line-up? Only two kinds of people, the crazy or the innocent, and Mumia is not crazy. Was it bravado? No, this is no bravado. The insistence on his right to a line-up dominates the hearings on January 5, 1982, January 11, 1982 on February 22, 1982 and again on March 18th 1982. Listen to Jackson speaking on January 5, 1982, page 2. (This was before Mumia asked for his right of self-representation) Jackson spoke: "May it please the Court I am appointed to represent Mr. Jamal in this matter. After several conversations and discussions with my client with regard to identification of him in this matter, Sir I would like to request a line-up, if the court please prior to the preliminary hearing." Look at page 7, same date: McGill vigorously opposes a line-up. Why would that be only that he couldn't trust his witnesses to lie and he knew they couldn't independent of coercion make an identification? And this is the Mumia - remember - who was himself investigating the police. He knew how they handled witnesses. He knew the vulnerability of these witnesses to police intimidation. As I read the repeated demands for a line-up, I began to experience his innocence and his desperation in his innocence. I could see him and feel his emotion. I experienced it not only intellectually, not only in the heart, but also viscerally in the gut. No guilty man begs to be thrown up against a white wall with blinding lights in his face to risk being identified by an unknown and unseen person. Mumia is innocent. I went to Mumia. I told him what I had read and what I learned from the reading. He smiled. "It seems so long since anyone talked about it," he said. "But it gives me so much," I said. "What is that?" he asked. "Well," I said, "It is the best evidence of your innocence since you're not crazy, you must be innocent. But, it also tells me so much more. It tells me that you could not have been anywhere near either the policeman or your brother. You could not have intruded on any incident in progress because you would never have dared to ask for a line-up because some witness could have placed you in close proximity. But, beyond all that, I learned of your indomitable faith in human nature. You believed that when faced with the reality of the situation no one would be so evil as to pick you out of the line-up because they would be picking the wrong man." There was silence for a moment. And then Mumia said, "Thank You." AND NOW TO COMPLETE MY STORY. I want to tell you what happened with a member of my family shortly after my conversation with Mumia. I was on the phone talking with a close relative. I was trying to explain to her how important the case was because the man was a wonderful person and he was innocent and the witnesses lied and the trial was unfair. I was trying to justify to her why I was devoting myself so entirely to the case. For everything I said, I heard a "A-huh, A-huh," dry with skepticism. Then I said, "He asked for a line-up, but they wouldn't give it to him.² Her voice broke in on my words, "I was once in a line-up," she said. "Why when was that?" I asked. "Well," she said, "my work was across the street from the police station and one day the police came over and asked the supervisor if people could participate in a line up. My supervisor picked me." "But why would you do that? Weren't you scared?" I asked. "No," she blurted out, "because I was innocent." There was silence. She never criticized me again. THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS THAT YOU MAY DO SUPPORT MUMIA. Firstly, a campaign has been launched to write to Governor Mark Schweiker asking him to order the Attorney General to take over the case from the obviously corrupt District Attorney's office, immediately go into court and stipulate to the fact that Mumia did not have a fair trial < to do the right thing, confess error, and free Mumia. Mumia is a union member. He refused to be interviewed by the scabs during the ABC strike. He said, "He'd rather die then cross the picket line." He deserves your support. He has achieved significant union support. As many of you perhaps know from your own participation, the Oakland teachers union voted to conduct a one day teach-in throughout the entire system, and succeeded in doing so in spite of severe opposition from the police and the school board. From this action they broke the media black-out and achieved two weeks of media coverage. Another remarkable show of support for Mumia was when the ILWU conducted a twenty-four hour shut-down of all the ports from Vancouver to San Diego as a protest strike in behalf of Mumia. This was the first political strike since the 1930's. Similarly, you can organize in your workplace. Declare one day for education about Mumia's case. If you have a union in your work place set up a support committee for Mumia. If you don't have a union organize one. Take a three-hour paid lunch to educate your fellow workers on the case. Get the word out. We must work legally and politically together to assert enough pressure to win Mumia's freedom. Life imprisonment is an intolerable result. He must be freed. Very importantly the defense team is desperately in need of funds. If you wish to support the defense, please do as Mumia has requested. None of the lawyers have gotten paid at all. Period. This cannot continue. It is virtually insupportable. Furthermore, we cannot do the work we need to do, and pay the people to do what is necessary to be done, without even money for supplies, or to pay experts and investigators. The situation is quite desperate. If I do say so, we've done a phenomenal amount of work and paid for it ourselves because we are totally dedicated to the freedom of Mumia regardless of the personal sacrifice. This should not go on. Mumia has asked that money to support his legal defense be sent to, or made out today to: Humanitarian Law Project 8124 W. 3rd St. Suite 105 Los Angeles, California 90048. It will be greatly appreciated by Mumia and his defense team. Thank you very much. It is an honor to represent Mumia and to be here with you today. |zum Anfang der Seite |Email: [email protected] - keine email ?

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PA Law, Act 101, Mandates Trash & Recycling Program On August 7, 1991, pursuant to Act 101, Elizabethtown Borough started its trash and recycling program. Please see below for details of the program. Trash and Recycling Program Services: Curbside Weekly Trash Collection - one 32 gallon container (bag or can) per week limit. * Additional bags or cans require Extra Service Tags at a cost of $2.00 each. * Extra Service Tags for refuse containers can be purchased at the Borough Office or at local distributors such as convenience and grocery stores. * Cardboard boxes filled with trash will not be accepted. Residents must use a bag or trash can for trash disposal. * Trash containers must be 32 gallons or less and weigh less than 30 pounds. * Trash collection days will be a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule. Curbside Recycling For your convenience, the Borough Office will now supply, free of charge, 8" Circle Recycling Symbol Stickers to be used on containers being used for recycling that do not have the symbol already printed on them. The green recycling bins will no longer be available at the Borough Office. You may continue to use them or you may use any plastic container - 32 gallon or less - that has a Recycling Symbol Sticker adhered. This means you may even use a full size trash can with a lid if you choose to! 8" Circle Recycling Symbol Stickers are available to residents at the Borough Office between the hours of 7:30 am and 4:00 pm. If you are using a tub or container that does not have the symbol on it, we encourage you to stop in for your stickers. Brandt's Farm Supply, located at 601 E High Street, Elizabethtown will now be carrying recycling containers and several different 32 gallon trash containers! If you purchase one of the larger containers for your recycling that do not already have the recycling symbol on it, Brandt's will give you two Recycling Symbol Stickers for that container! Recyclable materials (glass, plastics, aluminum, steel cans, newspapers, paper, paperboard, and magazines, etc.) will be collected curbside. Simply place in your recycling container and put out beside your trash. We also accept cardboard at the curb and will be picked up on your regular trash day, residents may put any size of cardboard out with their recycling, but it MUST be flat. It also must be easy for loaders to handle. If it will not fit in your recycling container, a stack can be placed at the curb beside your recycling container, but please bundle it so pieces don't blow away or slip when the loader picks it up. Pizza boxes, office paper and other things may be placed in your recycle bin. Curbside Oversized Refuse Collection - one oversized item collected per week. * Simply place your oversized item curbside with your trash. * Oversized items are items that are too big for the trash container. Acceptable oversized items include: Carpet (48 inches maximum length rolled and tied) Furniture (limited to 6 feet in length and no sleeper sofas) Plumbing fixtures, such as toilets and sinks Discarded lawnmowers (gasoline and oil must be removed) Scrap metal (48 inches maximum length) * No items too heavy to be lifted into a truck by two people will be accepted. * Please keep in mind that additional trash bags are not considered oversized items. Bags or cardboard boxes filled with trash are not oversized items. * Anything that can fit in a 32-gallon trash container (bag or can), no matter how much space it utilizes in the container, is not considered an oversized item. * Refuse exceeding the one 32-gallon container (bag or can) that is not an oversized item and not marked with an extra service tag will not be collected. This service is being provided to assist Borough residents with disposing of refuse items of irregular size that do not fit in the regular trash container. Thank you for your cooperation. Curbside Christmas Tree Collection - collected once a year on a specific date. Please remove all bags, tinsel, and decorations from the tree prior to placing the tree curbside. Curbside Leaf Collections - four curbside leaf collections each Fall. The upcoming dates are listed in the calendar in the Public Information section.

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In Fury We Trust In Fury We TrustSarah Schulman’s resounding rebuttal to exclusionary AIDS histories The ACT UP activist Katrina Haslip. | Courtesy of Women Make Movies Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 by Sarah Schulman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 736 pages. The popular origin story of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has a mythic quality to it. In March 1987, the writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron cancelled her planned talk at the Lesbian and Gay Center in New York. To fill in, organizers tapped Larry Kramer, author of the controversial novel Faggots and embattled cofounder of the AIDS service organization Gay Men’s Health Crisis. The speech Kramer ended up giving proved a far cry from anything the screenwriter of the forthcoming When Harry Met Sallycould possibly have offered. Almost six years into the AIDS crisis—with nearly twenty-five thousand dead in the United States, and more than six thousand of those deaths in New York City alone—Kramer was appalled by what he saw as the lackluster activist response from the gay community. And he made sure the room knew it. As one attendee recalled, “I remember he asked half the audience to stand up and he said, ‘You’re all going to be dead in six months, now what are we going to do about it?’” Within two days, ACT UP was born. Stories like this populate what AIDS activist and cultural critic Ted Kerr has called the “AIDS Crisis Revisitation,” or the renewed attention, in the last decade, to narratives of the “plague” years—the period between the first reported cases, in 1981, of what would later become AIDS, and the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in 1995. These narratives, which include Ryan Murphy’s rendition of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, the Broadway revival of Angels in America, and Rebecca Makkai’s novel The Great Believers, often elevate the experiences of white gay men to the universal narrative of the AIDS crisis. David France’s 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plagueand his 2016 book of the same title are the worst offenders, collapsing the complex and diverse histories of AIDS activism, and particularly the work of ACT UP, into the neat story of an elite cadre of white gay men who triumphed against pharmaceutical greed and government inaction to end the AIDS crisis. France has even admitted to the revisionist nature of his work, conceding that he “did not talk about housing issues, I did not talk about IV drug use, I didn’t talk about women’s issues, I did not talk about the complicated and knotty issues around race when that was something that ACT UP was addressing.” In other words, France’s history of AIDS activism failed to address some of the most urgent issues and affected communities of the epidemic, leaving the impression that ACT UP, and AIDS activism more broadly, was the privileged domain of white male heroism. Within this framing, Kramer’s founding of ACT UP serves as a pivotal plot point, as if without his singular vision, collective action against AIDS simply wouldn’t have happened—a notion that belies the historical record. ACT UP would not have succeeded without the membership and political influence of feminist, antiracist, and anti-war activists. Writing contemporaneously with France, scholars of AIDS history such as Jennifer Brier, Darius Bost, Dan Royles, Emily Hobson, Alexandra Juhasz, Kevin Mumford, and Jih-Fei Cheng have demonstrated the centrality of women and people of color in histories of AIDS activism, while also underscoring the ongoing nature of the AIDS epidemic, especially for Black gay and bisexual men, Black women, trans people, and people living in the Global South. Adding to this important work is writer, scholar, and former ACT UP member Sarah Schulman’s Let the Record Show, which documents the group from its formation in March 1987 to its public decline in 1993. Clocking in at over seven hundred pages, Schulman’s sprawling history offers a resounding rebuttal to exclusionary versions of AIDS history by foregrounding the role women, lesbians, people of color, IV drug users, and incarcerated people played in the history of ACT UP. Let the Record Show’s massive size is the result of Schulman’s decision to structure the book around oral histories collected over the course of nearly twenty years for the ACT UP Oral History Project, which she cofounded with the experimental filmmaker Jim Hubbard. In her reflection on the methodology used in the project, Schulman explains that she and Hubbard were inspired by the Fortunoff collection of Holocaust testimonies, which asked interviewees to describe who they were before and after the Holocaust. The result, Schulman argues, is a more holistic view of the interviewee, and in the case of ACT UP, offers a better picture of the activist traditions and communities that ACT UP grew out of. Although collective anger against the AIDS crisis existed before ACT UP—as work like Deborah Gould’s book Moving Politicsreveals—many of the white gay men in the group were new to political activism and looked to women, lesbians, and people of color with previous activist experience for inspiration. Women like Marion Banzhaf, who worked at the reproductive justice organization Tallahassee Feminist Women’s Health Center prior to joining ACT UP, provided a crucial framework for ACT UP’s “patient-centered politics.” Anti-war activists like Jamie Bauer, who participated in the 1979 Women’s Pentagon Action, brought with them a deep knowledge of civil disobedience tactics, which became a hallmark of ACT UP’s direct actions. By generating space for interviewees to share these previous activist experiences, Schulman demonstrates how ACT UP would not have succeeded without the membership and political influence of feminist, antiracist, and anti-war activists. You Are Witness to a CrimeBy Debra Levine Grounding the book in the tradition of oral history also allows for voices previously sidelined from major ACT UP historiographies to be heard. Work like How to Survive a Plague has promulgated the impression of ACT UP membership andleadership as made up of exclusively white gay men, but Let the Record Showrecalibrates—and broadens—how we should think about ACT UP’s demographics. Although Schulman does not deny that a large portion of ACT UP members were white gay men, she also emphasizes the integral place women, lesbians, people of color, and IV drug users held not only as rank-and-file members, but as movement leaders. For example, Maxine Wolfe, a prominent activist in feminist reproductive health circles, appears only as a minor character in How to Survive a Plague, but in Let the Record Showshe is positioned, rightfully, alongside Mark Harrington and Larry Kramer as one of the major leaders of ACT UP. Activists of color, too, are front and center, as evidenced by Schulman’s editorial—and political—decision to open the book with the stories of Robert Vázquez-Pacheco and Moisés Agosto-Rosario, two Puerto Rican members of ACT UP who played significant roles in the Majority Action Committees and Gran Fury, and the Latino Caucus and ACT UP Puerto Rico, respectively. But Let the Record Showis still missing a crucial set of voices: HIV positive women, specifically HIV positive women of color. On this limitation, Schulman is very open: “By 2001, almost every HIV-positive woman in ACT UP New York, except one confirmed survivor, had died. . . . Because they died of systemic racism, and governmental and corporate indifference and neglect, their full impact on the movement cannot be accurately assessed.” While Schulman does succeed in including key experiences of women of color by way of other members’ oral histories, their early deaths are a reminder of the stark inequalities that the AIDS epidemic exacerbated, as well as the challenges that face historians of minoritarian communities. Central to Schulman’s recalibration is her birds-eye view of ACT UP’s structure, which helps recontextualize the historical role of one of ACT UP’s most well-known groups: the Treatment and Data Committee (T&D). Comprised of “citizen scientists” who studied everything from the pathogenesis of HIV to the intricacies of clinical trials, T&D helped spearhead some of ACT UP’s largest wins—like the creation of a parallel track system within clinical trials, which allowed people living with AIDS who were not eligible for controlled studies to still receive access to experimental drugs. While the membership of T&D changed over ACT UP’s duration (the group, in fact, was started by Dr. Iris Long, a straight chemist who did not know any gay people before joining ACT UP) Schulman notes that it was the T&D of those most present in Revisitation narratives—Peter Staley, Mark Harrington, Gregg Gonsalves, and Garance Franke-Ruta—that shifted from “influencing the way drugs were studied and made available” in clinical trials to influencing “which drugs were studied and what approaches embraced.” Schulman’s ACT UP becomes less of a homogenous group and more an environment in which many different collectives came together to engage in direct-action to end the AIDS crisis. Schulman argues that ACT UP’s strength derived not from the victories of one single group, but from a multi-pronged activist approach of many groups working in “simultaneity of action” rather than consensus. In this structure, T&D was just onegroup, albeit an influential one, among many others that included the Actions, Fundraising, Outreach, Coordinating, Media, and Majority Action Committees, the last of which was a group for people of color in ACT UP, and so named because people of color represented the majority of those affected by the epidemic. In addition to official committees and caucuses, ACT UP also had affinity groups like Gran Fury—the art agitprop collective responsible for the iconic slogan “Silence = Death” and Read My Lips posters—which organized around specific issues, worked autonomously, and provided members with networks of care. By introducing the reader to groups who are often absent from Revisitation narratives, Schulman’s ACT UP becomes less of a homogenous group and more an environment in which many different collectives came together to engage in direct-action to end the AIDS crisis. Not merely a matter of representation, Schulman’s recontextualization serves as an intervention in the political analysis of ACT UP. While histories focused on T&D can make it seem like they alone won victories for the activist group, Schulman argues that most ACT UP wins must be viewed as the result of what she calls the group’s “inside”/“outside” tactical approach. In this dynamic, those with racial and gender privilege—namely, white gay men—would serve as “insiders” who met with government and pharmaceutical officials to negotiate on behalf of ACT UP. And while those meetings occurred, the “outsiders”—primarily women, radicals, and people of color—would literally rally outside, putting additional pressure on those meeting with the “insiders.” Schulman points to the FDA’s adoption of the parallel track following the “Seize Control of the FDA” action in October 1988, and Burroughs Wellcome’s 1989 decision to lower the price of AZT, as success stories of the “inside”/“outside” strategy. To focus only on the insider, Schulman concludes, is to fundamentally miss how ACT UP’s strategy delivered victories that would eventually alter the course of the epidemic. Despite the importance of the inside/outside tactic to ACT UP’s overall success, Schulman argues that the group’s greatest achievement was accomplished without it: the four-year long campaign initiated by the Women’s Committee to change the CDC’s definition of AIDS to include symptoms present in women. In the 1980s, the criteria to receive an AIDS diagnosis derived from how AIDS manifested in gay men, and particularly white gay men who had the race and class privilege to access health care. There was little to no attempt to investigate how AIDS appeared in other groups, which is why women with AIDS, whose symptoms included invasive cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, bacterial pneumonia, endocarditis, and persistent yeast and urinary tract infections, did not meet the CDC’s definition of AIDS. The issue, of course, was that they didhave AIDS, but could not get Social Security and other government benefits without an official diagnosis. (Hence ACT UP’s slogan “Women don’t get AIDS, they just die from it.”) Compounding the problem, most cisgender women were barred from early clinical trials because they were “people of child-bearing potential,” and pharmaceutical companies feared the liability involved if the experimental drugs harmed fetuses. The fight to change the CDC definition was actually several intertwined projects, and differed from other ACT UP efforts in that those directly affected lacked the same access as men. Members of the Women’s Committee ran a Women and AIDS teach-in, which led to the publication of the hugely popular book Women, AIDS & Activism. They also helped organize protests at the offices of the Department of Health and Human Services and the CDC in 1990. At the same time, Terry McGovern, an attorney and founder of the HIV Law Project, began representing many poor clients in New York City who faced discrimination in housing due to their HIV status. What McGovern found was that the CDC’s AIDS definition was also being used locally to deny AIDS-related benefits, which led her to file a class-action lawsuit against Social Security for discrimination. If the record shows anything, it’s that one must talk about ACT UP histories, in the plural. Some of McGovern’s clients included women previously incarcerated at the New York women’s prison Bedford Hills, and it was through them that McGovern met Katrina Haslip, a Black Muslim woman who co-founded ACE to help incarcerated women with HIV/AIDS, and later ACE-OUT to support women once they were released. Other women involved in efforts to change the CDC definition include Iris De La Cruz, a member of Prostitutes of New York (PONY) and author of the column “Iris with the Virus,” as well as Phyllis Sharpe, a Black activist who spoke openly of her history with homelessness and drug use, and how that intersected with her positive status. Through the efforts of these women, the CDC relented and in 1993 changed the definition of AIDS to include invasive cervical cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis, recurrent pneumonia, and anyone who had two hundred T-cells or less. Unfortunately, by the time the definition was changed, Haslip had already died from AIDS, and did so without the official diagnosis that could have provided her with some support. In addition to the immediate benefit to women with AIDS, the movement to change the CDC definition had two other vital effects. First, it demonstrated the massive power of the “outside” group, in that most of the activists involved in the effort were those who didn’t have access to pharmaceutical executives and government leaders. Not only were the men of T&D largely absent from aiding the campaign—and therefore providing a more direct path to “insider” access—but when the women didgain access, they were not treated with the respect and influence afforded to ACT UP men. Second, the campaign offered a vision of ACT UP as a broader movement for racial justice, universal health care, social welfare, and gender equity, which these activists saw as essential to truly ending the HIV/AIDS crisis. This vision ultimately came into conflict with T&D’s singular focus on pharmaceutical reform and getting “drugs into bodies,” leading the men of T&D to split from ACT UP in early 1992 to start the Treatment Action Group, or TAG. But Schulman’s detailed analysis of the campaign to change the CDC definition demonstrates the power of coalitional politics and provides a blueprint for contemporary activist efforts that seek to address multiple social issues through a single campaign. Let the Record Show takes its title from an ACT UP public art exhibition, in a window of the New Museum, which set tombstones with the names of politicians ACT UP had designated as enemies against a backdrop photograph of the Nuremberg trials[*]. Above the installation, in neon lights, hung ACT UP’s famous slogan “Silence = Death.” The implication was clear: the harm these politicians were committing was on par with what the Nazis did in the Holocaust, and—someday—there would be a reckoning. The irony of Schulman’s choice is that ACT UP’s Let the Record Showassumes that the record of harm will reveal itself without explication, which is surely not an interpretive task Schulman believes regarding the oral histories. Not only are the oral histories meticulously edited and organized for the purpose of the book, but there’s an inherent instability to them: the contradictions, conflicting ideologies, and mismatched testimonies unsettle any possibility for ACT UP to be one thing. If the record shows anything, it’s that one must talk about ACT UP histories, in the plural. This, of course, is hard work; AIDS history is emotional history. In a recent post, T&D member Peter Staley wrote that we need to “stop with the scolding (purist) view that ACT UP didn’t shoot high enough with ‘drugs into bodies’ (only winning a pharma-based solution) and supposedly didn’t fight hard enough for universal health care.” He concludes: “Our history needs no equivocation from today’s politically naive purists on the left.” I empathize with Staley’s words. It’s hard to be faced with renegotiations of your personal history, especially when, as Staley writes, if we “failed on drugs into bodies, I’d be dead. . . . Most of my friends would be dead.” For younger generations who did not experience the worst years of the epidemic, Staley’s post is an instructive reminder of how easy it is to fall into unfair lines of criticism, like the suggestion that all white gay men sold out women and people of color for a chance to live. These criticisms not only overlook well-documented instances of activism across differences, but often ignore the very real conditions under which people with AIDS made life-and-death decisions: the total eradication of communities, friends, and family. But Staley’s post is also a cautionary warning, reminding us that despite the emotional politics of ACT UP and AIDS history, we can and must differentiate between unfounded criticisms of ACT UP and the necessity for multiple, and at times conflicting, histories of the group, and to not allow the fear of the former to prevent the latter. Otherwise, we run the risk of losing sight of those activists now receiving the overdue recognition they deserve. [*] Correction: An earlier version of this piece credited Let the Record Showto Gran Fury. 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Atlanta – Plenty To Do Atlanta is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. Atlanta’s real estate offers a mix of beautiful, tree-covered rolling hills and towering modern buildings, all wrapped up in a genial climate of warm summers and mild winters. Its personality has been molded by a strong Southern heritage and 150 years of rich history. Today, this city is known for its diverse population, surging economy, top-notch education, and world-class entertainment. Just how diverse is Atlanta’s real estate offerings? The metro area is filled with unique and colorful neighborhoods, each with its own charm and distinct character. Interested in seeing what Atlanta has to offer you and your family? Give me a call @ 678-647-7700 and I will be glad to share my knowledge of our great city.

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Oregon is not known for standing up for parents against its own educational Leviathan, either now or in the past. Some Oregonians in the past stood up against the state taking away their parental rights when it came to education of their children, and some Oregonians today are trying to do the same by introducing a measure in the legislature to mandate transparency in public schools’ curriculum. Senate Bill 1575 reads, in part: (c)(A) For each course of study offered by a school district, the district school board shall ensure that the following information is made available to the public on the school district’s website: (i) The title of, or other descriptive information for, any textbooks and instructional materials used for the course and, when available, a link for the textbook or instructional materials; (ii) A syllabus for, or written summary of, the course; and (iii) When applicable, identification of the state academic content standards that are be-ing satisfied by the course. (B) The district school board shall ensure that any changes to the information described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph are reflected on the school district’s website within 30 days of the change. The Oregon legislature is dominated by Democrats, so the chance this passes is slim to none, but it is an important first step in fighting back against Leviathan. The bill can be read here, or read below as introduced.

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by Michael R. Allen The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the questions of the values we want to live by – rather than merely of how we want things to look. – Alan de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness In 1956, two small one-story buildings were completed around the downtown area. One was designed by a renowned modernist designer for a growing financial institution, while the other was a modest building built by a family-owned business. Yet both buildings were modern in style, and, more importantly, built amid rapid and often conflict-laden demographic changes around the city’s commercial core. These commercial outposts would become most significant for association with the city’s struggles for racial and social equality. Today these two buildings speak of the contradictions inherent in mid-century modernism: the remaining beauty of design and the unacknowledged backdrops of overt racism and economic strife. Yet neither building sports a plaque, and one most likely will be demolished. Both are keys to showing the story of the city’s social justice struggles in the recent past. While businessmen perched at desks in modern office towers downtown, and families enjoyed sunlight from large banks of windows in their latest Eichleresque ranch in St. Louis County, thousands of St. Louisans fought for the same opportunities. Modernist architecture sometimes was the backdrop there as well, as two very different buildings show. The Jefferson Bank and Trust Company Building: W.A. Sarmiento Meets CORE Earlier this year, the Cultural Resources Office kicked off the citywide St. Louis Modern architectural survey (conducted with assistance from Portland-based Peter Meijer Architect PC and modernista Christine Madrid French) by publishing an image of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company building at the southwest corner of Jefferson and Market streets. The architectural symbolism was double: the building is both the work of one of St. Louis’ most important modernist commercial designers and the site of one of the city’s most significant (and complicated) civil rights demonstrations. That the project would be visually marked by a building connected to both aesthetics and social unrest bodes well for future local scholarship in modern architecture. The striking modernist bank building is the work of celebrated architect W.A. Sarmiento, in his capacity as chief designer for Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America, and was completed in 1956. The building was the second home of a bank that started on a site three blocks north and moved to its present home on Market Street in 1977. When the new bank opened on April 2, 1956, the press reported that it was the first new bank building in the city completed since 1928. The unknown veracity of that claim does not diminish the fact that Sarmiento’s hand places the building among the region’s finest modernist works. Wenceslao A. Sarmiento, born in Peru, started designing for the prolific Bank Building and Equipment Corporation of America in 1949. By 1952, Sarmiento was chief of design and had reoriented the company’s design practice toward a brand of iconic, playful modernism that drew inspiration from work by Frank Lloyd Wright, Oscar Niemeyer, Harris Armstrong and other less-than-doctrinaire designers. Sarmiento eschewed the functionalist conventions of the International Style, and even introduced ornament to his designs through lettering, grilles and other elements. Sarmiento is a peer to Edward Durrell Stone and others nationwide breaking from academic modernism. In St. Louis, Sarmiento’s work includes the IBEW Local #1 Headquarters (1960), the Chancery of the Archdiocese (1963) and the AAA Building (1976, designed through his subsequent solo firm). Ahead of the contract for the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company building, the Bank Building and Equipment Corporation felt the pains of the postwar building economy. Remodeling projects outnumbered new buildings ten to one in 1952. However by 1956 the firm had 35 new projects, including substantial new construction projects. These trends reflect trends across St. Louis in which postwar modernism’s first major commercial wave consisted largely of remodeling and recladding projects. For the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company building (incidentally built after demolition of the St. Louis Coliseum of 1908 designed by Frederick C. Bonsack), Sarmiento conjured a planar sonata of sorts. The main entrance, now bricked in, was located at the corner under a prominent sloped wall plane that joined a dramatic back-sloped roof plane over the office areas. This was offset with a roof plan of diverging slopes on the west side of the building, where the lobby was located. As prominent as the pronounced roof forms were the eight drive-up banking windows underneath projecting flat roofs. The building’s materials bridged the gap between resolute modernism and local building culture: local red brick, metal and stucco. The price of construction was reported at $650,000. Implanted in a space age building, Jefferson Bank and Trust Company’s assets grew future-forward, from $22 million in 1955 to $52 million in 1963. The context for the building changed greatly as well. The city cleared the 97 block Mill Creek Valley district to the south starting in 1959, changing the entire context of the area from a historic African-American neighborhood to a monumental corporate and institutional park. The massive Pruitt-Igoe housing project had opened to the north in 1956, fostering changes in surrounding blocks. All of a sudden, Jefferson Bank and Trust Company was central to the storms of struggle and radical urban surgery. The corner of Washington and Jefferson was no longer a placid spot for business, but ripe with potent unrest as palpable as the lines with which Sarmiento endowed the building. In 1963, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) led demonstrations against Jefferson Bank and Trust Company over the bank’s dismal record in hiring and promoting African-Americans to professional positions. While other banks were equally complicit in these patterns, Jefferson Bank and Trust Company stood in a historically black neighborhood and held state and city funds (including public employee pension funds). CORE’s leaders thought that pressure on the bank could lead to withdrawal of public funds. CORE demonstrations in summer 1963 quickly led to an injunction from the St. Louis Circuit Court. On August 30, 1963, 250 demonstrators gathered and marched into the bank singing “We Shall Not Be Moved” and “We Shall Overcome” in defiance of the court order. Nine demonstrators, including future Congressman William L. Clay, Marion Oldham, Norman Seay and others, were arrested and late sentenced to jail time. Other demonstrators were arrested on October 4 and 7 following more demonstrations. The demonstrations raised public awareness of racist bank practices, but failed to achieve the result of getting the city to remove funds or immediate bank changes. Many people served jail terms, and activists became divided over the tactics and strategy used. The outcome of CORE’s efforts galvanized more radical young activists who widely viewed the failed demonstrations as the result of timid traditional activism. New paths were forged in the wake of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company demonstrations. Percy Green II denounced the “battle fatigue” of older CORE leaders and founded the Action Committee to Increase Opportunities for Negroes (ACTION) in 1965. Green soon after would shake up the city by attempting to scale another modernist landmark, Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch. That iconic work of architecture bears the scars of inequality in construction job hiring, the target of Green’s protest. The lack of an identifying marker or official City Landmark status for the Jefferson Bank building is unfortunate. Then again, in the entire Mill Creek Valley neighborhood to the south not a single marker stands to commemorate the African-American experiences there. Only on Locust Street is there a sidewalk plaque, marking the childhood home of poet T.S. Eliot. The refusal to acknowledge these African-American history sites brings to mind the words of Norman Seay when interviewed in 2010 about the Jefferson Bank protest. When in 2010 St. Louis Beacon writer Linda Lockhart asked if racism was still alive in St. Louis, Seay said yes — with a sobering qualification: “It’s sneaky. It’s subtle.” Interest in preserving modernist architecture in St. Louis and elsewhere has largely deflected the messy strands of design and race. Urban renewal and its landscapes are largely panned by preservationists, and the social injustice decried. Yet modern architecture’s complexities extend far beyond obviously contested sites. Struggle is as worthy of commemoration as is exemplary design — because both are integral components of the architectural battleground of postwar St. Louis. The Pruitt Igoe Neighborhood Station: A Modest Monument Across Cass Avenue from the forest marking the Pruitt-Igoe housing project, at 2411 Cass Avenue stands a little building with a sun-catching tapestry of modern brick on its front wall, and plain concrete blocks on its sides and back. The Richardson family built the building in 1956 and opened a delicatessen that no doubt benefited from the arrival of some 12,000 residents at the brand new public housing complex. Yet the little building would play a more significant role in the life of Pruitt-Igoe, albeit briefly. The Urban League of St. Louis assumed operation of St. Louis’ anti-poverty program in September 1965. With funding coming through the Human Development Corporation, the Urban League opened four “neighborhood stations” to serve districts in north St. Louis identified as having high concentrations of poverty. These districts were Wells-Goodfellow, Easton-Taylor, Yeatman and Pruitt-Igoe. Today, with the exception of the mostly-cleared Pruitt-Igoe district, the areas are still among the city’s poorest and most in need of social services. The Urban League leased the Richardson delicatessen from 1966 through 1969. During those years, the building was the Pruitt-Igoe Neighborhood Station. There, the Urban League offered an array of services including job training and placement, sex education, tutorial programs, Head Start and health classes. By 1965, Pruitt-Igoe’s woes were dire. The 33 towers already had a vacancy rate of more than 25%, and the remaining residents were nearly all African-American and among the city’s poorest. Still, residents had moxie. The people who used the Pruitt-Igoe Neighborhood Station established an advisory committee and helped the Urban League reach more residents and find private resources not included in the anti-poverty program’s annual public grant. Panacea for Pruitt-Igoe’s ills was not even remotely possible, but stopgaps were. In the little brick-faced building on Cass Avenue, the Urban League tried to help residents do the best that they could – with limited funding and limited resources. In the end, the Neighborhood Station was not enough, and when it closed drastic measures were in the works for Pruitt-Igoe. The Model Cities program went into effect nationwide, and the city of St. Louis chose a big part of north city including Pruitt-Igoe for federal funds that — had they been sufficient and steady enough – might have cleared and reshaped the area. Model Cities briefly assumed the Cass Avenue building as an office. Where planners next dreamed of utopian solutions to address the dystopian realities of north city, today one will find no traces. Today, the little building is owned by Northside Regeneration LLC, which purchased it after it had long gone vacant. The four walls are strong, but the roof structure forms a wooden mess inside. Paired with the adjacent Grace Baptist church, founded by Pruitt-Igoe residents and utilizing a former neighborhood grocery store, the Neighborhood Station building is a key fragment of St. Louis’ housing crisis. I am not the first to state that the small building would make a fine Pruitt-Igoe museum. At the least, it stands silently testifying to the social realities of modernism. To understand mid-century St. Louis, we must peel off our filters that privilege high-style modernism and the lives of the middle and upper classes. Our Sarmiento-designed landmarks lose a lot of context without the backdrop of Pruitt-Igoe and homegrown modern buildings like the Richardson deli. The vagaries of time, use and memory dispel any notion that we can save all. Yet as we evaluate what parts of architectural epochs are worth keeping, let us not forget sites of struggle and sites built through poverty. Until the city has vanquished racial and economic barriers, these landmarks tell us as much about ourselves as do the valuable, colorful and sophisticated modernism seen in designs that include Jefferson Bank.

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Winning employees for your company: This is our goal, and we fulfil it with skills and professionality. All in all, the quality of experience is the solid basis of our consulting services We are working for medium-sized, family owned companies as well as for stock-listed enterprises in wholesale and retail trade. We are aiming at direct communication with our customers and for trouble-free workflow in the management of Human Resources. The trust that has been built in the course of many years allows for a successful collaborative recruiting of the employees you need for developing your business. Our customers know that it is people who are responsible for the success of the company. Of course, promoting the own staff is the best way to build up future-orientated executive solution. But as fluctuation in the leading position increases and the challenges of globalized markets are more and more demanding, it is often necessary to consult independent experts when highly qualified employees are needed. This is our field of expertise. The ZANTER recruitment specialists are insiders in the field of Executive Search and Human Resources Management. Moreover, they are characterised by a good knowledge of the human nature – which is equally important when winning experienced employees who offer skills, experience and motivation. In every single project, we have two things in mind: the future of your company and the satisfaction of motivated employees.

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Rocko has been adopted. Even though he is 1 year old, we have heard that Rocko has recently asked for a do-over on his puppy-hood since he didn’t really have much of one to begin with. And boy, is he looking to do it right; does this boy have spunk or what! After being crated in a shelter for 5 weeks, we can’t blame him! Rocko’s foster mom believes that he is just the most stunning boy to recently join Save Me Rescue and though of course his foster family may be biased, it sure is hard to contend with his photos! Rocko has earned the nickname Scooby Doo as he walks every so slightly with his front toes pointed outwards. Though not so much as to be an impedance – but just enough to be completely adorable. Rocko is a totally sweet Labrador cross, approximately 1 year of age and already looking for love. He loves to lean in (at 55lbs, his new foster family will need some reinforcement) and will rest against his loved-one’s legs, or tuck in for a long hug and cuddle. At times, he will slowly reach for a hand to put into his mouth, which we think is his weird way of holding hands, but his future family will need to consider little fingers! That being said, he means no harm: he is just being affectionate in his own, albeit silly, way. Our handsome guy knows sit, and will pretty much do anything for a treat. He may be a bit underweight, so a bit more food won’t harm him in small doses. He is quite cat friendly but on occasion, the kitten just begs to be chased and he has a tough time resisting. When he does catch up to her, his kitten sibling may hiss and paw, but our dude slowly and sweetly walks away. What a gentleman, respecting all those mixed signals from his kitten! He loves toys, so durable toys will be best for him. Not all toys stand up to a game of tug of war with your fur-sibling! He is a strong boy but never uses his strength to intimidate. He would rather win everyone over! On his walks Rocko does tend to pull a little bit, but he seems just so happy to be out. Of course, this will get better as he realizes what his future holds compared to those super long days spent cooped up in the shelter. Rocko is house-broken and he sleeps soundly throughout the night in his very own crate. Though he won’t need a crate long term, we want him to have a safe place of his own while he gets used to his surroundings and all of the changes he has been through lately! Ultimately, if Rocko’s foster family has to summarize him in one word, that word would be “amazing”. He has stolen their hearts utterly and in no time at all. For more info, please contact his foster mom Christine at: [email protected] Please note that while we continue to get to know each of our dogs, their biographies will be updated with additional information, so make sure to check back once in a while!

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What is Arthritis? Arthritis is one of the most pervasive diseases in the United States and is the leading cause of disability. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention one out of every three Americans (an estimated 70 million people) is affected by one of the more than 100 types of arthritis. For most people arthritis pain and inflammation cannot be avoided as the body ages. In fact, most people over the age of 50 show some signs of arthritis. Joints naturally degenerate over time. Fortunately, arthritis can be managed through a combination of medication, exercise, rest, weight-management, nutrition, and, in some cases, surgery. Your doctor can tell if you have arthritis through blood tests and x-rays. He or she will then be able to help you make a decision on the best treatment for your case. Arthritis is a chronic disease that will be with you for a long time and possibly for the rest of your life. Your treatments will probably change over time and medication may be adjusted. Having a positive mental outlook and the support of family and friends will help you live with arthritis and be able to continue to perform your daily activities Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition. It is possible to develop rheumatoid arthritis with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing rheumatoid arthritis. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your health care provider what you can do to reduce You may have an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis if you have received blood transfusions. Although rheumatoid arthritis can develop at any age, you’re most likely to develop the condition between the ages of 25 and 45. Women are 2.5 to 3 times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than men. You are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis if there are other people in your family with this condition or with other autoimmune disorders. You have a greater risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis if you are: Native American (particularly belonging to the Yakima, Chippewa, or Inuit People who are overweight may have an increased risk of developing rheumatoid Coffee and Cigarettes Some studies have suggested that there is a connection between drinking coffee and developing rheumatoid arthritis. More work needs to done to confirm this association. Long-term smoking may be a risk factor for the development of Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis Joint symptoms usually involve three or more joints. The most commonly affected joints are the wrists, fingers, knees, feet, and ankles. Other symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include: Increased pain and stiffness in the morning and after inactivity Morning stiffness and pain that lasts more than 30 minutes Pain and stiffness symmetrically (that is, both feet or both hands are affected, as opposed to only one) Red, swollen, warm joints Deformed, misshapen joints Risk Factors for Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Intense fatigue, decreased energy Fever and sweats Bumps occurring under the skin (rheumatoid nodules) Inflamed blood vessels Bleeding stomach ulcers Inflammation of the heart’s sac (pericarditis) Inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) There are no specific tests to completely confirm or eliminate the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. Your health care provider may begin to suspect rheumatoid arthritis after taking a careful history of your symptoms and performing a thorough physical According to The American Rheumatism Association, if you have four of the seven symptoms listed below you are considered to have rheumatoid arthritis: If there are any questions about the diagnosis, your health care provider may recommend other tests to confirm the diagnosis or to evaluate whether your internal organs are also involved. Such tests may include the following: Morning stiffness that lasts over an hour Arthritis in at least three joints Arthritis of the joints of the hand Arthritis on both sides of the body (for example, involving both hands or both A positive blood test for rheumatoid factor (RF) Presence of lumps under the skin, called rheumatoid nodules X-rays that show signs of rheumatoid arthritis affecting the joints – a number of blood tests can point to the presence of an autoimmune disorder. – to best view the joints and any destruction caused by rheumatoid arthritis, a specialized x-ray test called dual energy x-ray absorptiometry is used. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate Other imaging tests may be used to visualize the internal organs, in order to see whether rheumatoid arthritis has affected them. Specific areas of the body to be examined with imaging tests may be chosen based on your symptoms. Imaging tests may include: – removing some joint fluid for laboratory exam may reveal the presence of an enzyme called MMP-3. MMP-3 is associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Medications for Rheumatoid The information provided here is meant to give you a general idea about each of the medications listed below. Only the most general side effects are included, so ask your health care provider if you need to take any special precautions. Use each of these medications only as recommended by your health care provider, and according to the instructions provided. If you have further questions about usage or side effects, contact your health care provider. There are a variety of medications available to treat the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis. You may have to try different medicines before you find the one that works best for you with the least number of side effects. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) Cyclooxgenase-2 or COX-2 inhibitors Naproxen (Naprosyn, Anaprox, Aleve) Ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, Nuprin) Diclofenac sodium (Voltaren) Diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam) Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) D-penicillamine (Cuprimine, Depen) Hydroxychloroquine sulfate (Plaquenil) Prednisone (Deltasone, Cortan) Biologic response modifiers Interleukin-1 receptor inhibitors Common brand names include: Acetaminophen can be helpful in relieving some of the pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Do not take a larger dose than is recommended by your health care provider. Do not drink alcoholic beverages while you are taking Common brand name: Zostrix Capsaicin cream is rubbed on the skin of an affected joint to relieve the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis. It’s made using the active ingredient of hot chili peppers. Some people prefer to wear rubber gloves while applying the cream. If you don’t, be sure to wash your hands very thoroughly with soap and water after using the cream. Be very careful not to get the cream near your eyes, as it will burn and sting. If you do get some in your eyes, flush them thoroughly with cool water. Possible side effects include burning, stinging, or warm sensation when first applied to the skin. Whenever you are taking a prescription medication, take the following Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis: The following treatments can help to manage pain, inflammation, stiffness, and Take them only as directed, not more, not less, not at a different time. Do not stop taking them without consulting your health care provider. Don’t share them with anyone else. Know what effects and side effects to expect, and report them to your health If you are taking more than one drug, even if it is over-the-counter, be sure to check with a physician or pharmacist about drug interactions. Plan ahead for refills so you don’t run out. Application of Heat Heat improves blood circulation to the treated area. Applying heat via warm soaks, whirlpools, paraffin, or heating pads can be very soothing. Most health care providers recommend that you apply the heat for about 10 minutes at a time, 3-4 times a day. Application of Cold Cold can help decrease inflammation in an affected joint, thereby relieving pain and improving stiffness and movement. Apply an ice pack for 20-30 minutes at a time, several times each day. Intra-articular Corticosteroid Injections In this therapy, the affected joint is injected with a solution containing a The steroids can help decrease inflammation and therefore pain in the joint. Sometimes, your health care provider will remove excess joint fluid from the joint just before injecting the steroid medicine. Steroid injections often have to be repeated every several months. Most practitioners believe that you shouldn’t get more than three or four such injections in a year; more injections may cause damage to the cartilage. Physical therapy can help you decrease pain and stiffness, increase muscle strength, develop flexibility, and improve stamina. Physical therapists can teach you exercises to do on your own, or you can attend regular physical If you are having trouble getting around, a cane or walker may help. In addition, a variety of devices are available to help you with tasks that rheumatoid arthritis can make difficult or impossible, such as buttoning or zipping your clothing, opening jars, opening doors, and other activities of daily living. Talk to your health care provider about the kinds of assistance you need; he or she may recommend a consultation with an occupational Apheresis (Prosorba Column) This is a new treatment that involves filtering your blood through a medical device that removes antibodies. The rest of the blood is then returned to you. The procedure takes about 2 hours, and is usually done weekly for 12 weeks. Most patients don’t notice improvement of their symptoms until around the 12-week mark. Side effects may include: Some people with rheumatoid arthritis become depressed and anxious. Consider finding a support group where you can meet other people who have learned to cope with the challenges of rheumatoid arthritis. Sharing your own experiences, and learning from the struggles and triumphs of others can be very helpful Fever and chills

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Parents complain about the Aurelia Flores kindergarten because of facilities in poor condition A makeshift entrance, lack of a custodian, and bathrooms in poor condition, among other problems, reported the parents. The provisional entrance to the kindergarten is through the Cruz Azul sports field. Sofía Medeles – The construction works at the Auditorium of La Ribera, in Ajijic, unleashed complaints from parents of the students of the Aurelia Flores kindergarten, located next to the auditorium, due to the blockage of the entrance and the deplorable state of its infrastructure. The first of the problems mentioned was the lack of an entrance, since the beginning of the school year in August 2021. When returning to classes, after the pandemic, parents discovered that the main entrance, located next to the Auditorio de la Ribera, was closed due to construction, so the provisional entrance is through the Cruz Azul sports field. «There are many problems with the entrance. To begin with, the people from the field ask us not to cross, and to go around the field, so that the grass is not damaged. This causes, for example, that in times of rain, our path is flooded, and both the children and the parents get wet. For us there is no problem, we go home and change, but the children get wet feet and get sick,» mentioned one of the mothers interviewed. In addition, the mothers denounced another group of shortcomings of the kindergarten, among them walls with damages that present a risk of falling; several bathrooms out of service – they reported that there are only two working; awnings in bad condition; and the lack of a custodian. «Since we started the (school) cycle, there hasn’t been a custodian, because the previous one resigned, so among the parents we agreed to pay someone to do the cleaning. But we couldn’t arrange it. They say that one is going to come in, but this shows that neither the State Government nor the City Hall are looking at the kindergarten’s deficiencies,” added another of the mothers. Remodeling of the auditorium. For her part, the president of the parents’ committee, Lucía Padilla, assured that the school’s director has already been in charge of sending an endless number of letters to ask for resources and personnel, but the authorities limit themselves to answering in a positive manner and the petitions never arrive. «We are going back to school with many deficiencies, and it was two years in which the kindergarten was abandoned. Not only this one, but several schools are in bad condition. The Secretary of Education has neglected the schools. Not only the parents, but also the director is desperate for an answer, and above all, actions,» stated Lucía. Regarding the entrance, Lucía commented that, although the provisional entrance is annoying, they prefer that to the children entering through the main entrance, since due to the work being done – which the workers themselves told them has no end date – an accident could occur that could harm the students. Finally, Lucia commented that there is no way to obtain resources, since the pandemic situation prevents them from holding events. «How can there be a work of considerable investment, next to a kindergarten that is in poor condition, and that school not receive attention, even if it is just a little bit?” she questioned. “The community should know that we are going to try to improve the school, but it cannot be done without everyone’s help.” Translated by Sandy Britton Los comentarios están cerrados.

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How is one to speak of the plunge from the 1920s into the 1930s—the toboggan slide, as it seemed, from affluence to penury? The word used in common talk are “crash” and “slump” or “boom” and “bust” or simply “crisis” and “depression.” How can such words begin to suggest shabby gentlemen and women selling apples on the streets? or the shantytown that sprang up below Riverside Drive? or the millions of idle across a continent? New generations cannot begin to feel the strange nightmare moments as we turned into the 1930 decade, 50 years ago. A thick curtain seemed to fall between the moment of the Wall Street panic in 1929 and the beginning of World War II in 1939. Looking backward, Edmund Wilson wrote that it was difficult for books did not sell; his play failed. But he was in love with Margaret Canby, a friend of some years. She was a lively, laughing, unliterary, down-to-earth drinking companion, a woman of warmth and dignity. They married. Their domesticity would be erratic, tempestuous, passionate. At the beginning of the decade Wilson completed Axel’s Castle, his book on the literary moderns, showing how they descended from the French symbolists. He dealt with Yeats, Joyce, Proust, Valery, Eliot, Gertrude Stein, anticipating the stature these writers now have. The book was praised, but, given the temper of the times, only modestly (it would have a wide success in the later decades). Even as he read the proofs Wilson asked himself whether it wasn’t obsolete. The “high aesthetic” in literature was yielding to the leftist insistence that novelists must concern themselves with the proletariat and poetry proclaim the clenched fist. Wilson understood the mood, even if he had other views. To his friends he jauntily remarked how invigorating it was “to find ourselves still carrying on while the bankers are taking a beating.” He liked this quip sufficiently to put it into a comedy about the Depression written in the early 1930s which mocked the discomfiture of the “prosperity decade.” But it was clear soon enough that the whole nation was “taking a beating” along with the bankers, and this was not a subject for comedy. Aware of the national urgencies, Wilson issued an appeal to “progressives” in the columns of The New Republic. He wrote: Moneymaking and the kind of advantages which a moneymaking society provides for money to buy are not enough to satisfy humanity—neither is a system like ours in which everyone is out for himself and the devil take the hindmost, with no common purpose and little common culture to give life stability and sense. Old conceptions, he wrote, should be “dynamited” and new ones “as shocking as necessary, substituted.” If Edmund sounded ready for revolution, he felt also that Americans needed information. And so he traveled to Detroit, Chicago, the South, wherever there were shutdowns and unrest, to describe and explain and interpret. Of his writings at this time, Matthew Josephson, never an admirer of Wilson, asserted after Edmund’s death that they were “the most objective description of America in 1932 that we have.” Wilson’s assertion that old conceptions should be dynamited was reshaped very early into a manifesto, issued in 1932 by a group of writers that included Lewis Mumford, Waldo Frank, Dos Passos, and others. Its text, and the circumstances surrounding it, can be read in Elena Wilson’s edition of her husband’s literary and political letters. It is a quiet, sober, rather dry statement, and in a low key. The writers were determined not to be inflammatory. There wasn’t a stick of dynamite in it. To read it after half a century is to be made suddenly aware how little the 1930 intellectuals knew what Hitler intended, and what Mussolini was doing: the nature of paternal, dictatorial, capitalistic fascism, or its proletarian form under Stalin, was still to be revealed. The manifesto seems now Utopian and curiously ingenuous. Free enterprise had proved bankrupt. New social forms, a new social order, new human values were needed. A society stripped of the profit motive and of competition would evolve a changed social philosophy. This was not possible so long as there was “the exploitation of the many for the profit of the few.” The manifesto’s solution: a “temporary dictatorship of the class-conscious workers.” Once nationalization was achieved, and the new society established (one presumed), there would be no further need for this dictatorship. And the manifesto called on writers, engineers, intellectuals, teachers to make common cause with the proletariat. Dos Passos promptly pointed out that the white-collar workers were left out and that certain communist formulas had been followed in spite of their efforts to keep clear of them. Dreiser, who declared for communism, issued his own statement. Revolutions are not often created by manifestos, and the ferment among the intellectuals, their disregard of the “petty bourgeois”—as Dos Passos and Wilson recognized—and their use of a language unfamiliar to rank-and-file America did not carry the writers far: nor could there be real agreement among them. Wilson’s work as a reporter brought him much closer to the nation’s realities and he described these with his masterly concreteness. Those who remember him from this time recall the changes that came with middle age. He had ceased to be the slender Ivy League young man of his Greenwich Village days. He had become rotund and ruddy-cheeked. He no longer dressed in a collegiate way, as Scott Fitzgerald described him. He wore business suits, gray or dark blue; he sported a variety of hats, from the floppy to the Stetson. In manner he could be brusque and impatient; in speech he was incisive and he could be rude if foolishly pressed; occasionally he reached for words and a sentence would end in a splutter. His volubility masked shyness and withdrawal and depression, which led to hard drinking. But he could be generous and attentive when approached with directness and clarity. His humane sympathies were wide, and no passage in these journals testifies more to this than the record of his trip to the labor “barricades” in the Kentucky coal fields. Here he saw for himself the ruthlessness and cruelty of company officials, businessmen, and professionals, and their hatred of the locked-out and starving miners. This step in the education of his “social consciousness” was completed by his being ridden out of town by a bunch of pistol-swinging deputies. Edmund Wilson’s politics during the 1930s have confused many of his readers and critics. The Marxist penitents, remembering his meetings with communist leaders, and the Utopian manifesto, have called him a “Red.” Others have used the word “leftist.” Still others have suggested he was either a dupe or politically naive. The breast-beaters and name-callers, involved in a constant dance of apology and rear-vision, overlook the simple fact that Wilson was an old-fashioned American individualist. He felt he could vote for “the party of his choice” in any election without carrying a permanent stigma. A passage in these journals written in Provincetown during the summer of 1932 tells us all we need to know. At the height of the Depression, Wilson felt that the helpless and inert Hoover administration had shown its impotence in calling out the army to drive the bonus marchers from the streets of Washington. Nor was he satisfied with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s platform as the election approached; the time had not yet come for FDR to show his political flexibility and his gift for improvisation. Wilson would always distrust him and accuse him of political duplicities. As for the Norman Thomas socialists, they were like the British Fabians, caught in a dream of some remote welfare state (the term had not yet been invented). Wilson, in later years—or at least up to the time of Adlai Stevenson—voted the Thomas ticket, more in protest than in support. In 1932 he wanted a dynamic platform, “action now,” and for one who had seen firsthand the national misery, the Communists offered a program that made sense to him—they would cast out the Washington double-dealers and put the proletariat in the saddle. Wilson took steps to inform himself. He talked with William Z. Foster, the Communist party leader. He invited him to his home and invited friends to meet him and ask questions. And he decided, as his journal tells us, to vote the communist ticket even though he disliked the rank-and-file party comrades. He followed his social and humane beliefs without making permanent party commitments. He was a freewheeling writer descended from the makers of the American Revolution who was not afraid to be revolutionary. He was never a “joiner,” and as he remarks, the Communists would never have considered him for the party even if he had pleaded to join. He had a distinct distaste for stereotyped party utterances; and in Kentucky was critical of their maneuvers. What Wilson came to feel was that the nation and the press tended to second-guess history—a common American failing. Wilson’s philosophy of history consisted of study and assessment of the past. He was not concerned with prophecy or the planning of national policy on paranoid assumptions of what other nations might do. He was and remained an independent. He would later denounce the tyranny in Russia as he had denounced the muddle in Washington. And he kept an open mind. He settled now to a close study of Marx—almost as if the Marxian text were written by Joyce or Dante. Later he admitted a bias. He had believed the Soviet Union would “put into practice its Leninist ideals” and “this was implied in my whole attitude toward what was going on at home.” We may wonder why Wilson read so intensively in Marx and Engels, Trotsky and Lenin. More than his usual curiosity was involved. He was aware that Marx was too often invoked without much knowledge of what he had written. The Communist party itself had reduced Marx to a series of slogans and platitudes. Congress was unaware of history—few of its members possessed that kind of literacy. What had Marx really advocated? How were the Russians using him? How did social revolutions begin? Wilson began to see that what was happening in the 20th century needed to be traced back to Vico’s ideas in the I7th. But how explain history to a Congress which could only express moral indignation, and a simplifying American press which used only tags and labels? Most persons to whom Wilson talked possessed a derivative Marxism, exception made for philosophers and political scientists. In the fullness of time Wilson himself would sum up his readings. He recognized that Marx clearly understood how workers were exploited and that he had contributed immeasurably to the world’s philosophy of labor. But, observed Wilson, “why should we suppose that man’s brutal and selfish impulses will all evaporate with a socialist dictatorship?” The welfare state could harbor atrophies and ineptitudes as great as those of free enterprise. The consequences of Wilson’s explorations and self-questionings were far-reaching. He embarked on a book that would parallel Axel’s Castle. That volume sought the origins of the “modern” movement in literature. Now he would begin to seek out the roots of modernism in politics and revolution. He would show how revolution, rising out of man’s misery, gave birth to ideas that flowed and grew within a historic stream, a stream that often became a torrent. He would show how persecutions and massacres and common sufferings, the revolutions in America and France, the years of ferment in Russia, the radicalism in Germany, led up to a singular moment in our time: one might call it the turning point in our century—that moment when Lenin arrived in the city that would bear his name: he came with all this history and theory in his head to take command of the floundering Russian Revolution. The title of Wilson’s book suddenly occurred to him as he was walking in the street: To the Finland Station. Only later would he realize that he had been influenced by Virginia Woolf’s title. To the Lighthouse. The Finland Station was the little shabby stucco building, “rubber-gray and tarnished pink” (Wilson would travel to Russia to look at it), in what was then St. Petersburg. Here Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise Lenin, arrived from his long exile following his wartime journey through Germany in a sealed train. Clutching a bouquet of roses handed him by his admirers, he had delivered one of his portentous slogans: “All power to the Soviets.” His book would show, Wilson believed, how history can determine human actions. It would be, as he subtitled it, “a study in the writing and acting of history.” It was a splendid, a poetic conception and he carried out his plan in the hope that it would enlighten American political and social thought. To write this book, Wilson felt he should visit Russia and study the scenes of his drama and thoroughly steep himself in the relevant documents. He knew some German. He now began the study of Russian. A Guggenheim Fellowship provided him with travel funds. His predecessors in this pilgrimage had been fairly numerous—among them his friend Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, Max Eastman, and earlier Lincoln Steffens, who had come back saying the much-quoted words that he had seen the future “and it works.” They had gone largely as reporters curious about the new supposed utopia-in-the-making. Wilson went as a historian and with few preconceptions; he had certain unvoiced hopes that Steffens had been right, that some new form of society was emerging. His ostensible goal was the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute in Moscow. His journals, however, do not tell US of his researches; they testify instead to his many encounters and interrogations. He had done sufficient “homework” by this time to be able to interpret what he heard—and also what could not be heard: the enigmatic reticences, the deep silences. He sought out his Fellow historian. Prince D. S. Mirsky, whose work he admired, and we have some notes of their meetings. Mirsky would be one of Stalin’s early victims, and Wilson later drew a finely sketched portrait of him, as he amplified his notes. He goes to picnics, night clubs, the Physkultur Parade, museums, monasteries; he is at the ballet, the theater, the opera, and has an easy familiarity from his readings in America with the plays, the players, the directors. His journey up the Volga, in its singular details, is like a Chekhov tale; and to climax his experiences he finds himself a captive student of socialized medicine in the USSR—for he comes down with scarlatina and for some weeks is quarantined in an old, dignified, dirty building in Odessa, a building that went back to the time of Pushkin. There are bedbugs everywhere. The orderlies urinate in the solitary sink near his room. Nurses and patients are cheerful; the patients are mostly children. He has many amusing conversations, is treated with the greatest respect, and at night is permitted to use the operating room as his study. All his bills—including telegrams and cables—are paid by the state. This ends his private adventure in Red Russia. He would continue his Russian studies in all the years to come. In the year before his death, Wilson took a backward glance at To the Finland Station. He was writing a preface for a new edition and he recalled that he had gone to Russia with “a too hopeful bias.” “We did not foresee that the new Russia must contain a good deal of the old Russia. . . . I had no premonition that the Soviet Union was to become one of the most hideous tyrannies that the world had ever known, and Stalin the most cruel and unscrupulous of the merciless Russian tsars.” However, he believed that his book remained “a basically reliable account of what the revolutionists thought they were doing in the interests of ‘a better world.’” He also accepted criticism that he had given too amiable a picture of Lenin. Later documents and much more evidence had convinced him that, behind Lenin’s worshipped facade, one could find all the corruptions of power. Edmund Wilson’s wife Margaret Canby died two years after their marriage, in an accident while she was in California. She slipped on some steep Spanish-style steps at Santa Barbara and fractured her skull. Wilson boarded a propeller plane for the long trip to the coast; he was overwhelmed and distraught. He nursed anxious thoughts that she might have committed suicide, for he lacked details. His journal record of his stay in California, his visit to the funeral parlor, his talks with relatives are a kind of emptying of his grief, his memories, his guilt. The passage is perhaps the most “felt” and intimate of all his writings about himself. If there had been some strain in the marriage, there had also been the love he now expressed. The monologue provided catharsis, but it did not bring total relief. For years Wilson continued to dream about Margaret: she is alive again, they are coming together, he experiences a kind of sublime joy— and always something happens to keep them apart and he races through rooms and corridors but cannot find her. The dreams suggest profound and unresolved feelings, continuing grief and self-blame; he had a strange sense that in dying she had abandoned him; and then the opposite, he felt guilty, as if he had abandoned her. The monologue reminds one of passages in Proust, or the soliloquy of Molly Bloom in Ulysses. Some readers may be startled by the publication of this intimate record of a marriage. One gains the impression that Wilson wrote the entire passage at a single sitting for himself, without thought of publication, Thirty years later he had it typed up for inclusion in his journals. The candor may seem at times gratuitous; it is a piece of private history, but it is also a search for the truth of personal history. The monologue testifies to Wilson’s core difficulty—there were things he could not allow himself to feel. In my introduction to The Twenties (Wilson’s journal for that decade) I discussed his dissociation of emotion in certain situations. He defended himself against emotional hurt by a kind of curmudgeonly bluntness which sometimes alienated friends. His modes of verbal aggression were in counterpoint with his verbal amiability. One is prompted to say that this problem, which deprived him of certain empathies, made it difficult for him in criticism to deal with writers of our time, like Kafka, who explored man’s troubled dream-existence. It ran counter to Wilson’s concreteness, derived from his ability to look at reality without having to feel it. In To the Finland Station he tells us that Karl Marx’s “blinded and paralyzed side” was his “negation of personal relations, of the responsibility of man to man,” and there was something of this in Wilson. For he speaks in these journals, in a moment of insight, of “the dead tissue in my soul—it could never grow back.” Perhaps he is thinking of the blocked sensibilities of his childhood. There had been, as we know, a deaf mother and a depressed and often apathetic father. The little boy Edmund had considerable difficulty communicating with those closest to him. In the process there was a short-circuiting of the common articulations and joys of childhood. The distancings were carried into adult life. Certain “social reflexes” were thwarted. We are given a glimpse of his insight into himself during a visit to an old friend: I was awfully glad to see him, and it was very pleasant at first to talk to him again, with his intellectual range and his cultivation: his history, psychology, literature; but my visit got to be more and more eerie. He wanted to be amiable and hospitable; but he had to make a conscious effort—his solitary and self-centered life had practically deprived him of the social reflexes. Wilson adds: “I have been that way myself, possibly always to some extent.” There were these sealed corridors in his personal relations, “and it was strange to see it from the outside,” Wilson said. He added that it “at once depressed me and made me feel superior.” What he could do was to displace emotion from the human scene into his writing. At his desk, the world fell into place. He was free to grasp, explain, sympathize, understand Proust’s sensitive childhood, experience Dickens’s sufferings and Turgenev’s struggles with his mother. Wilson’s journals reflect a compulsive and meticulous man reaching out with words to himself and his fellow humans, but allowing masses of fact and detail, and intellectual musings, to defend him against full-face encounter. Perhaps in this way we can understand the use of the bold inquiring front, the value language had for him: there was nothing arbitrary about dictionaries, or the past. The past was safe and confrontable. Why do some authors keep journals? Journals can be a way of shoring up life and siphoning off a surplus of creative energy. They become, on occasion, a device for dealing with parts of experience not readily useful; in effect, they can be a memory bank. We can see how, for Andre Gide or Thoreau or the copious Anais Nin—to take three disparate writers—journals became full-length mirrors of the self. In the case of Nin, they seem almost to have become a way of writing her life without having to live it. These are the journals of a profound narcissism. But there are other kinds. Kafka’s, as he told us, were a form of prayer. Henry James’s were used to solve artistic problems and allay anxiety about his immediate work. Virginia Woolf’s enabled her to maintain balance and use her mental iridescence to haul herself up, as it were, from chronic despondency. Wilson was not creating on the scale of such writers, and his journals, we may judge, served largely the function of memory and self-discipline. They were the notebooks of a chronicler, a way of tidying the mind for his craft of criticism: no meditations, no prayers, no invocation to the muse, no polished mirrors. He tries rather to be a camera, for this is what he finds most comfortable. A camera, however, doesn’t think: and Wilson is using his intellectual powers. His sensitivity resides in his visuality. He has an ear for what (and how) people say things. In this way he also tries to be a tape recorder. The journals are his mental account books and a way of handling unachieved relationships. Even his record of his own copulations has this kind of objectivity—as if he were a naturalist at the zoo of himself, writing a chapter of natural history. Thomas Mann, in his highly intellectual way, justified such intimate revelations (when his wife complained) by saying “the most intimate is at the same time the most universal.” Erich Heller’s response to this seems to me penetrating. Culture is attained, he reminds us, “by a tactful disregard of much that is ‘natural.’” When we universalize intimacy, it ceases to be intimate. When we impersonalize the personal, we risk stripping it of its humanity. Wilson also wrote down experience often in order to depersonalize it. Once it was written down, he could detach himself from it. Yet he couldn’t part with it. When I said to him one day (we were talking of his journals) that he was after all quite free to revise and change what he had written and even to trim passages, he rebelled. They had acquired total objectivity; they seemed almost not to belong to him. “I don’t want to cut any corners,” was the way he answered me. “But they’re your own corners, Edmund, you can do what you like with them.” My rejoinder did not please him. The text had become impersonal. He wasn’t going to tamper with it. The text belonged, unchangeably, to literary history.

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That, my friends, is a lot of W’s. We are going to trek through the Great Lakes right in the middle of winter. Does this mean Lake effect snow? Maybe! There is only one way o find out, I suppose. Our drive till take one long day, covering 606 miles, bogged down by the Windy City, which will let us move at a nearly glacial pace of 62mph. We’ll get there. Sometime. It’s not Lake effect snow that will be the problem on our Saturday drive, but rather just standard, regular back side of an area of low pressure snow that will be an issue. It’s not going to be heavy, save, perhaps for the stretch of northern Indiana downwind of Lake Michigan. the snow will be wet, too, and well trafficked roads might not even ice over with the snow. But any snow, especially in a metropolitan area like Chicago, is going to really slow down travel. Snow will still be possible across Ohio, but it will be a misty, flaky brand of snow that won’t accumulate and will be tough to wipe off your windshield without the help of washer fluid. Weirton awaits, whether or not you can get the grime off your windshield.

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First: This site is a work in progress. I just started this site mid-January 2019. I do not have much time per week to place all that I have learned in decades of research. If you believe in my cause and would like to assist in creating this site, please email me at [email protected]. Here are some links to get you started Are we being deceived? It is very sad and unsettling that we are being deceived. We are all pawns, sheep, etc. for all to make money from. The truth is and has been hidden. You would believe that people would want to do what is best for others. In most causes it may not be the practitioner’s fault. They are processed through the same educational system that is flawed and not updated. MD’s appear to be more interested in pushing prescriptions drugs as the doctors get a kick back on the drugs they prescribe. Luckily for the masses that there are doctors that go through their education and see the flaws and decide to follow homeopathic medicine. Most of what I have discovered, and placed in this site, has been available for multiple decades. Yet most do not know of these methods. I have spent decades attempting to discover what is within this site. I am still seeking, and I hope that I can find and document the complete truth for all to see and understand. Once this is complete, the law of universe will turn the tables and I hope then this will be a better world for all.

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Runescape is a magical land where everyone is equal. All can have their voice in the RuneScape gold development of the game. In Runescape we have the option of choosing. To be a skilled or foruminate, or kill, or chat or to become an angler or hunt for gold or have a good time. We are in control and have a choice. Or do we? Lord of the Rings has been in existence for over sixty years and has outlived its creator. It seems to be thriving. What about Runescape. Can we run, to escape the zombiefication. You have the option. Hello, I've been looking into Runescape as a user on these forums as well as the RSOF. Two things led me to quit Runescape around one year and a quarter back: Lack of interest in the MMOs (Dragon Nest, etc.) and being distracted by research (still am) or being dissatisfied with RS overall. This last one appears to be what most players are feeling now. But I digress. I returned to Runescape and, after logging on, browsed the site, buying an Guthix and Zam set along with my Sara set, using money I had made through Treasure Trails. There are some changes to this section, including single new quests for F2P and Squeal O Fortune (which generated quite a buzz when it was first released and was a huge hit when it first came out) and Titles. Personally I think the SoF is quite lame, seeing that most of the items is for mems that need to be taken, not like they'd put an old statuette (worth 5m) inside the rewards. It's time to ask the question "What are we doing right now?" When I was a player, I enjoyed the usual clan warfare between the two clans of the Wildy before they created the Gamers' Grotto, but the majority of clans appear to be ones which require commitment to some other thing. It's unlikely that I'll commit to being a clan player in RS. I'm thinking of Guild Wars 2 as my primary game. I would enjoy the ability to sign in and be on the clan on one side however, it's not possible. I began this thread to get ways that one person could do to have fun, even if he is not part of a clan. While it may sound absurd, the MMO-tag suggests that you must have others to have fun. But, I don't think that's the case. I can remember going around as a newbie and marveling at how large the world of RS was, but the magic's definitely gone. Like the majority of gamers who are here, we're past the point of being able to grind for hours in a single skill. If you value these skills, achievements are enjoyable. But, I was exhausted of advancing my level after cheap OSRS gold I reached 106. For a level +1, it was too to much work.

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MOMBASA, KENYA, 18 February 2024 – Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya, is proud to announce the completion of the renovation project at Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa, marking a significant milestone in its ongoing commitment to providing quality healthcare to a population base of nearly 1.2 million people. The newly refurbished facility has transformed the 86-bed facility into a state-of-the-art 115-bed secondary hospital, offering comprehensive, integrated health services to the communities it serves. The renovation project represents a total investment of US$12.2 Million, with a loan of US$8.54 million from Agence Française de Développement and additional funding of US$3.68 million from the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and internal reserves. Princess Zahra Aga Khan, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Aga Khan Health Services, and Mr. Bertrand Willocquet, Country Director of Agence Française de Développement, visited Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa today, to witness the completion of the renovation project. Both dignitaries expressed their satisfaction with the renovation and the enhanced capacity brought about by this renovation. Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa, with its outreach centres, stands as the premier healthcare service provider in the coastal region, consistently expanding its reach and diversifying services to meet the evolving healthcare needs of the community. Since the inauguration of a 4-bed maternity home in the Ganjoni area of Mombasa in 1944, the integrated health network has grown into a central hub serving over 05 counties in the Coastal region through purpose-built facilities, highly qualified and skilled doctors and nurses committed to delivering quality healthcare. In a significant milestone, Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa, has been awarded the prestigious SafeCare Level 5 Certification, the highest-level certification, reinforcing its dedication to safe and quality patient care. This accolade makes it the first AKHS Kenya Hospital to achieve such recognition, with eight of our Outreach Health Centres also attaining SafeCare Level 5 certification. The newly renovated Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa, is poised to provide enhanced healthcare services to the people of the Coastal Region and Kenya at large. The facility now features a dedicated Accidents and Emergency Unit, a larger Intensive Care Unit, the region’s first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in private sector, and the inaugural Sleep Lab utilising cutting-edge technology for diagnosing and treating sleep disorders. Holding Level 5 certification from SafeCare Health Standards, the hospital is well-equipped to offer specialised care in cardiology, oncology, neurology, psychiatry, advanced surgeries, and more. This development underscores our commitment to advancing healthcare accessibility and delivering comprehensive, high-quality services to the community. About the Partners: Aga Khan Development Network & Aga Khan Health Service Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of private, international, non-denominational agencies established by His Highness the Aga Khan, which partners with other like-minded organisations to help improve the quality of life of those in need irrespective of their origins, faith, or gender. Through initiatives in sectors such as healthcare, education, culture, rural development, institution building and the promotion of economic development, AKDN takes a multifaceted approach to help communities and individuals become self-reliant. The Network also espouses values and norms, including pluralism and cultural tolerance, gender and social equity, civil society organisation and good governance. The AKDN, therefore, has a holistic view of progress that goes beyond poverty alleviation to encompass a more rounded view of human experience and aspirations. Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of three agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) that supports healthcare activities, together with the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and the Aga Khan University (AKU). Working to tackle today’s greatest health challenges in low- and middle-income countries, the three agencies of the AKDN provide quality healthcare to over eight million people annually and work closely on planning, training, and resource development. Through our focused presence in Central Asia, East Africa, and South Asia, AKHS operates 14 hospitals, medical centres, and 375+ health centres, offering one of the most comprehensive non-profit healthcare systems in the developing world. AKHS also works with the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES) and the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) on integrating health issues into other sectors. AKHS operates in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Uganda, with central coordination from AKDN offices in Geneva, Switzerland. The offices are linked internationally through network-wide strategies for regional geographies, and topics of importance to the agency, such as quality of care, digital health, virtual learning, climate change measures, population health, communication, human resource development and audit. The Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa The Aga Khan Health Service established a 4-Bed Maternity Home in 1944, which was later upgraded to 16 beds in 1952. The Aga Khan Hospital, Kisumu was established in 1952 as a private, not-for-profit institution that provides primary, and secondary level health care services in Kenya. In 2019, the hospital was awarded SafeCare Level 5 Certification, expanding to the SafeCare certification of 8 of its 14 Outreach Health Centres. The Aga Khan Hospital provides general medical services, specialist clinics and state-of-the-art diagnostic services. It is also part of the Aga Khan Health Services international network, with links to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi and the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi. Agence Française de Développement The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) implements France’s policy on international development and solidarity. Through its financing of NGOs and the public sector, as well as its research and publications, AFD supports and accelerates transitions towards a fairer, more resilient world. It also provides training in sustainable development (at the AFD Campus) and other awareness-raising activities in France. With our partners, we are building shared solutions with and for the people of the Global South. Our teams are at work on more than 4,000 projects in the field, in the French Overseas Departments and Territories, in 115 countries and in regions in crisis. We strive to protect global public goods – promoting a stable climate, biodiversity, and peace, as well as gender equality, education, and healthcare. In this way, we contribute to the commitment of France and the French people to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Towards a world in common.

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This PhD will create a novel methodology for GIS mapping of the extent of Pb pollution through time in Central Britain, resulting in an important addition to the BGS Isotope Biosphere Domain Map. The research will have implications for environmental scientists working in modern and legacy pollutants, veterinary scientists, geographers and archaeologists. The methodology, once established, would be applicable to other regions. Central Britain is dominated by the Pennine Hills and includes areas of outstanding natural beauty, such as the Peak District National Park, known internationally for its ‘pristine’ landscapes and conservation areas. However, in the past, the area was better known for industry as intensive lead (Pb) mining and smelting took place from the Roman Period onwards. As Pb is a naturally occurring toxin, it is likely one of the earliest anthropogenic environmental contaminants and widespread use has resulted in global environmental contamination, human exposure, and significant public health problems. This project will map changing biosphere -animal-Pb interactions in the Peak District from the Neolithic (6000 BP) to the present day. he PhD project will track changing sources and exposure levels of Pb in biota through time, investigating how this manifests from pre-mining background values through developing mining activities, to the present acknowledged health risks. Archaeological animal samples and modern tissues from existing local wildlife surveillance studies will be used to map exposure measurements. Pb concentrations and isotope composition will be analysed and mixing models of ingested sources – geogenic vs anthropogenic pollutants – will be produced. This will map the potential Pb-related health risks to populations in areas of mining activity and legacy mines to the present day. The studentship will be based at BGS, with supervision and training undertaken in partnership with University of Nottingham archaeologists and veterinary scientists. The project would particularly suit candidates with a background in Geography, Earth Science or Archaeology. Please forward any questions to [email protected].

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We are proud to bring to our customers for more than half a century the best service and the most recent releases in audio recordings and musical instruments. Our staff will be happy to welcome you at our branches in Achrafieh, Hamra, Chiyah, Dora and Jounieh and guide you throughout your visit.

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General terms and conditions 1. Field of application The following general terms and conditions solely apply to all present and future business relations between Alassil Bazar (vendor) and end consumers or buyers (customers). Any differing conditions only apply after having been confirmed in written form by Alassil Bazar. 2. Conclusion of contract: The purchase order, made by the customer, acts as a binding offer. A contract only materialises after Alassil Bazar accepts this offer. Acceptance of the offer can be declared by Alassil Bazar either in writing or by means of delivery of the ordered goods. If the customer gives off the purchasing order electronically, Alassil Bazar will confirm the reception of the order immediately. This confirmation does not act as a binding acceptance of the offer, yet. Alassil Bazar commits to handling and using any information provided by the customer, required for the processing of the order, solely for business requirements and in accordance with the German Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). Goods by Alassil Bazar, offered on the internet are not legally binding. They act as non-binding offers. All product prices are in € (euro) and include the lawful value added tax (VAT). Prices are not fixed. Applicable is the price at the time of reception of the purchase order. Errors excepted. In cases of price-bound articles, the mandatory price always applies. Shipping costs are charged separately as can be seen in “Delivery and shipping conditions”. The descriptions of the goods merely provide an informative basis. Alassil Bazar reserves the right to discrepancies, especially with regard to handmade goods. 4. Reservation of property rights When engaging in contracts with consumers or traders, Alassil Bazar reserves the ownership of the goods until the full price is paid or all accounts receivable from prior business relations are covered, respectively. In case of behaviour contrary to contract by the customer, especially in case of delayed payment or when credit-damaging facts, such as distraints or deduction of insurance, emerge, Alassil Bazar is entitled to resign from the contract and reclaim the goods. 5. Right of withdrawal and –return The customer has the right to revoke his purchase order and the thereby submitted binding offer to purchase within a two week period after reception of the goods. This does not apply to audio- and video recordings once they have been unsealed by the customer nor to goods that were produced according to customers’ specification. If the customer wishes to make use of the right of withdrawal, the customer is obliged to return the received goods within two weeks, as long as this can be done by package. At an order value of up to € 40, the customer has to finance the return. To meet the deadline, timely mailing is sufficient. The purchasing price plus shipping charges are payable through the following methods of payment: paypal, advance payment before shipping via bank transfer, debit note or by credit card withdrawal. Any arising costs for denial of withdrawal due to insufficient bank account coverage or faulty bank account details are on the customers’ account. Withdrawal shall usually take place on the day of shipping. In case of damage, discrepancies in size or non satisfaction of received goods, the customer has the right to claim replacement or return the goods within two weeks, on presentation of the invoice and the original packaging. This does not apply to special offers. Instead of the right to price reduction or conversion, the customer is entitled to rectification of defects by Alassil Bazar twice or article replacement. If, for any reason, this should not be fulfilled within the appropriate time-limit of 20 days, the customer has the right to resign from the contract. This defects liability expires if the customer attempts to or does carry out reparations himself or lets unauthorised people do so. The delivered goods may differ slightly from their description. Minor discrepancies from the description of the goods merely authorize to the right of return, not however, to claims for supplementary performance. Traders are obliged to report any defects to Alassil Bazar in written form within two weeks, starting on the day of reception of the goods. After this deadline, a claim for defect guarantees is impossible. In order to meet the deadline, the reception of the goods at Alassil Bazar is necessary. The burden of proof, establishing that his claim is justified, rests entirely with the trader, particularly in regard to the defect itself, the time of identification of the defect and the timeliness of the letter of complaint. Consumers are obliged to report any defects to Alassil Bazar in written form within two months of discovery of the defect. The reception of the letter of complaint at Alassil Bazar is decisive for meeting the deadline. If these requirements are not met, the right to claim defect liability expires. The burden of proof, confirming the time of detection of the defect, rests with the consumer. For traders, the warranty period is one year, starting on the day of delivery. For consumers, the right of complaint expires two years after delivery of the goods. This is irrelevant if the consumer did not point out the defect to Alassil Bazar appropriately and in sufficient time. If the customer is trader, the appearance and workmanship of the goods is generally defined by the article description, provided by the supplier. Public statements, promotion and advertisement by the supplier do not resemble an appearance of the goods according to contract. Warranties in the legal sense are not issued to the customer by Alassil Bazar. Manufacturer warranties are not affected by this. 8. Limitations of liability Alassil Bazar does not take any responsibility for deviations in appearance of the products, regarding colour, size and workmanship, due to the production by hand of certain goods. Furthermore, Alassil Bazar assumes no liability for delayed or omitted deliveries. The use of all products as well as the visiting and use of the websites take place at the customers’ own risk. No liability is assumed by Alassil Bazar for incorrect use of the websites nor for the reliability, accuracy and actuality of the contents, information and service provided on the websites. In the event of slightly negligent breaches of duty, the liability assumed by Alassil Bazar shall be limited to the direct losses, foreseeable and typical for this kind of contract, depending on the type of good. The same applies in cases of slightly negligent breaches of duty by legal representatives or assistants of Alassil Bazar. The preceding limitations of liability do not affect customers’ claims on product liabilities. Moreover, these limitations of liability do not apply to claims on compensation for damages to life, body or health that were caused by deliberate or grossly negligent behaviour and can be imputed to Alassil Bazar. 9. Data privacy All information and data, provided by a purchase order, will be used by Alassil Bazar solely for the purpose of conducting the contract. All customer data will be saved and handled strictly according to the pertinent specifications of the German Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) and the Teleservice Data Protection Act (Teledienstdatenschutzgesetzes ). No personal data will be passed on to a third party. Exceptions to this are Alassil Bazar’s service partners, who require certain information for the accomplishment of the contract, such as the mail-order firm, delivering the goods, and the bank, conducting the payment. 10. Legal venue, partial ineffectiveness The legal venue is Eckernförde, Germany. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies. In case of ineffectiveness of individual regulations in the delivery- and shipping conditions or these general terms and conditions, the remaining regulations continue to be effective.

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England Used to Be a Country of Men Something has changed in the English character. Consider that this latest explosion of looting, robbing, and burning began in Tottenham, a dicey corner of north London, after police shot and killed a 29-year-old Tottenham resident named Mark Duggan. As typically happens, two competing personality profiles of Duggan are being told, depending on the politics of the teller; some say Duggan was a hardened drug dealer, others say he was a beloved family man. What we do know is that police pulled over a taxi in which Duggan was a passenger. Police say they heard a gun fired, which prompted them to shoot and kill Duggan. The facts of this incident may be in dispute, but the unmanly actions of Tottenham’s gangster youth are not. In retaliation for Duggan’s death (or using it as an excuse for mayhem), they’ve burned autos, looted stores, and mugged people along Tottenham’s High Road and around parts of London. This reaction says something horrific about the culture in these neighborhoods, just as much as the 1992 Los Angeles Riots displayed that all wasn’t right with the culture in the poorer neighborhoods of Los Angeles. For context, consider the “Tottenham Outrage” of 1909. Two men in Tottenham, armed with semi-automatic handguns, attempted to rob a payroll truck, but the guards resisted. After one robber fired his gun, police came running. The robbers fled on foot. The chase lasted two hours and covered about six miles as other officers and armed civilians pursued and engaged the robbers. One of the thieves committed suicide and the other later died in surgery. One officer and one civilian also were killed. The bravery of the officers and civilians prompted the creation of the Kings Police Medal and the funeral processions for the slain officer the civilian passed through streets lined with mournful Londoners. Those weren’t the kind of people who demonize police officers or take off their pants for thieves. Well, okay, sure, the English people did for too long accept the unmanly ditherings of Neville Chamberlain before World War II. Nevertheless, something has changed in the English character. These aren’t the proud men who once made the whole world look them in the eyes. I submit that one of the chief causes of their now emasculated spirit is the loss of so much of their individual liberty — like a child used to a parent fighting his or her battles, a people dependent on their government for everything cannot take care of themselves and are prone to childish outbursts. By giving up their natural right to self-defense, for example, England’s law-abiding citizens have become defenseless both physically and psychologically. The loss of their right to self-preservation has created a culture of dependency on government (for protection and so much more) that has helped neuter the English male. This has also prompted some English citizens to blame the police for the crime rates that law enforcement is legally constrained from doing anything practical to fight. Britain’s licensing of gun owners and the registration of their firearms made it easy for the government to take guns from law-abiding citizens after a mass-murderer in Hungerford killed 16 people in 1987. Within the next decade, British politicians criminalized possession of most handguns — the final deadline for turning them in was Feb. 27, 1998. (This is something liberals would like to do in the U.S., too.) Yet, few have subsequently pointed to the victims of this anti-freedom gun confiscation. The English papers haven’t interviewed victims of rape and other crimes and asked what they might have done if they had the ability to defend themselves from criminals. Curbing violence, naturally, was the goal English politicians said they’d attain in return for law-abiding citizens’ handing over this basic human liberty; however, after the U.K. disarmed its population, England attained the highest burglary rate and one of the highest rates for violent crimes of the industrialized nations, according to the International Crime Victims Survey carried out by the Dutch Ministry of Justice in 2000. As the Guardian put it on Feb. 23, 2001, the study “shows England and Wales as the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime.” More recently, on July 3, 2009, England’s newspaper the Daily Mail reported that “Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European Union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the U.K. also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa.” Meanwhile, British politicians have reacted to the irrefutable failure of their gun-control schemes by calling for more of the same. They’ve even recently banned starter pistols. Given that they’ve disarmed the law-abiding public and obviously can’t disarm the criminals, what else can they do in this time of violence? What some in the government would like to do can be chillingly found in a July 2002 English government “white paper” titled “Justice for All.” This paper argued that the government needs to: allow the use of hearsay evidence in trials; remove the double-jeopardy rule for serious cases, including cases that have already been resolved under the current system; and eliminate the right to trial by jury in many cases. As the English hand their government more of their individual liberty — and thereby their self-reliant manliness — their government becomes more authoritarian. Individuals have diminished means for protecting themselves and their property, which should have made London’s looting, vandalism, and other crimes very predictable. I’ve had several recent conversations with Englishmen, who have led me to conclude that the English people will continue to hand over their liberty in the hopes that one day — despite all the lessons from history and human nature — their government will create the peaceful, socialist utopia they’ve long been promised. For example, I recently broached this topic with an English salesman at my favorite shoe company, Johnston & Murphy. He commented that he’s frightened by America’s “gun culture” and added that Americans needs to drop “their Wild West attitude.” I listened patiently before pointing out that England currently looks a little more like the Wild West. He wasn’t swayed. I pointed out that gun rights are women’s rights, as they make the frailest woman the equal of the strongest male. He kept shaking his head. So I used a largely forgotten piece of history that always makes Englishmen blush: After Dunkirk in May of 1940, only the British Navy, an outnumbered British air corps, and about 20 miles of water protected the English people from German invasion. In their retreat back to England, the British forces lost much of their firearms and weaponry; meanwhile, gun-control laws passed after World War I had mostly disarmed British civilians, leaving the English people helpless. Aware of their plight, a group of Americans, headed by C. Suydam Cutting, established the “American Committee for Defense of British Homes,” a group that ran an ad in the National Rifle Association’s official journal American Rifleman that read in part: “Send a Gun to Defend a British Home.” The NRA subsequently sent more than 7,000 private arms to England. The U.S. military, of course, sent many more. Winston Churchill said, “We had become a hornet’s nest. Anyhow, if we had to go down fighting . . . a lot of our men and women had weapons in their hands.” After relating this history, I told the English shoe salesman that “if your people ever need to protect their freedom again, Americans will be there for you.” He wasn’t so sure. Now I wonder, after seeing that Englishmen strip for a looter, would it even matter? Meanwhile, the only way we’d be able to help them — and the world — is if we keep our manly liberties intact here in the U.S., a prospect far from certain.

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The term “dentistry” or “dental” has long been used in veterinary medicine to describe a procedure involving teeth. However, most of us will agree that it is a very general term that leaves much room for interpretation. We at Ani-Care decided that our clients should know exactly what is involved in a “dentistry” at our clinic. First let’s clarify the why: "Why does the vet keep bringing up my pet’s teeth? I know he has bad breath, but I can live with it." The truth is, you might be able to, but he can’t! Dentals are not just important but crucial to your pet’s overall health: The mouth is not the only place in the body that plaque causes problems. Tartar and plaque is made up of bacteria. The buildup of this bacteria causes gum irritation or gingivitis, which results in bleeding gums. This can lead to bacteria in the bloodstream which can eventually affect your pet’s vital organs! A New Term for Dentistry: The acronym “COHAT” has gained popularity in the veterinary community as it better describes the procedure. It stands for Comprehensive Oral Health Assessment and Treatment. Some owners have trouble understanding why their pet needs to be put under general anesthesia for a dental. Some owners even believe that their pets “have their teeth done” at the groomer. The truth is, it is absolutely impossible to assess the true health of an animal’s mouth while he/she is awake. The following will explain why: Depending on the severity of dental disease and the health of the patient, the doctor may prescribe antibiotics to begin a few days before the procedure. Some patients will go home with antibiotics after the procedure. This is to prevent the bacteria that is mobilized during scaling and tooth extraction from causing a problem in the bloodstream. The minor bleeding from scaling or tooth extraction may provide an avenue for entrance into the bloodstream. As with any procedure that requires anesthesia, we run bloodwork. This is to ensure the liver and kidneys are healthy enough to clear the body of anesthesia, as well as to ensure there is no underlying anemia or serious infection present. The patient is given an injection of a combination of pain control and sedatives to prepare for the procedure. As the procedure begins an IV catheter placed and put on IV fluids to ensure the patient stays hydrated as well as to ensure venous access in the unlikely case of resuscitative emergency. (Trying to find a vein on a crashing patient is extremely difficult). This catheter is also used to administer the anesthetic drugs. When the patient falls asleep a tube is placed in their trachea or windpipe to deliver the anesthetic gas and oxygen during the entire procedure. While the patient is anesthetized he/she is laid on their side. This allows access and better viewing of the cheek side (or outside) of the mouth as well as the tongue side (or inside) of the opposite side of the mouth. The entire procedure will be performed on one side and then the patient is flipped over to address the other side. An initial observation is made as to the severity of the tartar and plaque as well as the health of the gums. Dental x-rays are taken to look for any trouble below the gumline that we cannot see. The tartar and plaque is scaled off with an ultrasonic scaler just like human dentists use. Once the debris is removed a probe is used to measure the depth of the pockets around the teeth to check for root exposure. The teeth are also examined for mobility. Teeth with root exposure, significant mobility, fractures, decay or those worn down enough for pulp or root exposure should be removed. We have the same tools and drills for tooth extraction as human dentists do. A common misconception is that veterinarians like to pull a lot of teeth, however, pulling teeth is not an easy task and our goal is to leave as many teeth as possible. Nobody enjoys pulling teeth! The sad truth is that most of the time a patient is only brought to us for a dentistry when the teeth are bad enough that many teeth need to be pulled. The goal in veterinary medicine is for dentistry to become more of a preventative measure as in human dentistry rather than a treatment for disease. Absorbable suture may be used to close the gum after an extraction. However, if there was a lot of infection or an abscess present the gum is often left open to drain. After the teeth have been cleaned and necessary teeth removed, if any, the teeth are polished with the same type of polisher human dentists use and the same toothpaste too! Polishing can be one of the most important parts of a dental. The toothpaste used to polish after using an ultrasonic scaler has special granules in it that with the use of the polisher smoothes out any micro-fractures or lines on the teeth made by the scaler or that were already present. The importance of this is that if those micro-fractures are left it leaves a perfect place for bacteria to set up shop and produce tartar all over again and can sometimes even increase the rate of plaque buildup! Lastly, fluoride foam is applied to the teeth strengthen tooth enamel. After a Dental: As previously stated, your pet may be on antibiotics. If your pet had extractions, you will also be sent home with anti-inflammatories for pain. Never give your pet an over-the-counter medication without consulting a vet. It can be fatal! Regardless of whether or not your pet had extractions, his/her gums may be sore for a few days just like after you get a cleaning. Consider feeding soft food or adding water to dry food for a few days. Routine brushing with an enzymatic toothpaste for pets is recommended. Pet parents may also consider dental chew product like CET chews. The vet will be happy to discuss the available options that are unique to your pet’s situation. A Few Notes: There is no substitution for a professional cleaning. Start brushing - it won’t remove what is there but will prevent additional buildup. This is ideal especially after a dental since you have a clean slate. Be sure to use a toothpaste made for dogs and cats. It is often flavored for them and does not contain fluoride which we humans know to spit out, you can’t tell your pet to spit! The other good thing about their toothpaste: it is an enzymatic toothpaste, which means it does not rely on friction as our toothpaste does to work. If you even just get the toothpaste on the teeth at all you will be benefiting your pet’s teeth more than a vast majority of pet owners are. Puppy/Kitten Tooth Care Start young – even though their baby teeth fall out make it part of the de-sensitizing process. Stick your fingers in their mouth, play with their ears and feet, and get them use to being brushed. This will make tooth brushing, ear cleaning, nail trims and grooming easier on you as they get older! Retained baby teeth (deciduous teeth)– If your pet still has baby teeth by 6 months of age (common in small breed dogs) it is not likely that they will fall out on their own. During their spay/neuter surgery they should be removed. The reason for this is two-fold: 1) It will throw off the alignment of the adult teeth which will cause uneven wear and possibly crooked teeth. 2) Because the baby tooth is so close to the adult tooth it makes a great place for food and bacteria to get stuck and cause premature decay in your pet’s new teeth!

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We are a South Wales based IT company with a dedicated recovery team. Living in the Flintshire lost your mobile phone data? Don't panic whatever has happened to your data, there is a very good chance that it is recoverable. After all, A Star Forensics can recover data, images and videos from all types of mobile phones. We also offer a no recovery no fee policy Whatever the device, whatever the data loss, in or outside of Flintshire, there is a very good chance that it is recoverable. If you have lost data, photos, videos or documents after a virus or breakdown Storage devices and computers fail for different reasons.For example, failure can be caused by physical hardware failure, power surge or the hard disk getting overheated. A Star Forensics engineers can overcome these failures and extract all usable data from the storage media A-Star Forensics work with Criminal Defence solicitors daily, examining a number of different digital media including mobile phones, tablets, satellite navigation systems, cameras, call data records and more. A-Star Forensics produce clear and concise reports with every full forensic analysis, to assist in any court proceedings. With the vast level of experience of our analysts, A-Star Forensics can ensure full support in court, as fully qualified expert witnesses providing both evidence of opinion as well as evidence of fact. We follow strict quality assurance guidelines (we are currently working towards ISO:9001 AND ISO;17025). We provide these services to all profession's as well as private individuals. The information we recover will be able to be used as evidence at court cases in Chester. With the use of digital media increasing daily, the use of digital forensics is becoming paramount in an increasing number of both high and low profile cases. A-Star Forensics are trusted experts to legal practices throughout the UK, and can assist with your Digital Forensics requirements, providing thorough analysis of digital media in order to produce legal evidence of a crime/unauthorised action.

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PLYMOUTH, MI – January 3, 2024 – Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. (the Firm), the investment adviser for Ave Maria Mutual Funds, has announced promotions effective January 1, 2024, for Timothy Schwartz, Brandon Scheitler, and Anthony Gennaro. Timothy S. Schwartz, CFA the Firm’s President, has been named Chief Executive Officer, a role previously held by his father, founder and Chairman, George P. Schwartz, CFA. George commented, “With 26 years at the company, Tim brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success. He has served our clients and shareholders well as President and I am confident that he will build upon the strong foundation laid in our Firm’s 43-year history and drive it to new heights.” George P. Schwartz, who served as Chief Executive Officer since the Firm’s inception in 1980, played a vital role in starting the Ave Maria Mutual Funds, along with Tom Monaghan and the late Bowie Kuhn. Ave Maria Mutual Funds is a pioneer in the growing field of Morally Responsible Investing (MRI). The fund family has grown total assets under management to above $3 billion since the inception of its first fund in 2001. Timothy Schwartz expressed enthusiasm for his new role, stating, "I am honored and excited to lead Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. as its CEO. I am grateful for the trust and confidence placed in me by the board of directors. Together with our talented team, we aim to build on the Firm’s legacy of success and continue to deliver value for our clients and shareholders." Brandon S. Scheitler has been named as the Firm’s Chief Investment Officer and has also been promoted to Senior Vice President. Additionally, Mr. Scheitler is now the lead portfolio manager for the Ave Maria Rising Dividend Fund (Ticker: AVEDX), a fund he previously co-managed with George P. Schwartz, who will remain a co-manager. The pair also manage the Ave Maria Bond Fund (Ticker: AVEFX) with Scheitler in the lead manager role. Anthony W. Gennaro, CFA, CPA, the lead manager of the Ave Maria World Equity Fund (Ticker: AVEWX), was promoted to Vice President of Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. About Ave Maria Mutual Funds Ave Maria Mutual Funds is the largest family of Catholic mutual funds in the U.S with over $3.0 billion in assets under management. The six no-load funds invest in companies that do not violate core values and teachings of the Catholic Church. The two largest funds are the $989 million Ave Maria Rising Dividend Fund (Ticker: AVEDX) and the $962 million Ave Maria Growth Fund (Ticker: AVEGX). For more information about Ave Maria Mutual Funds, call 1-866-AVE-MARIA (866-283-6274) or visit www.avemariafunds.com. About Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. is a Registered Investment Adviser. Founded in 1980, the Firm is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan with a branch office in Ave Maria, Florida. In managing the Ave Maria Mutual Funds, investments are made only if companies meet the Funds’ financial and moral criteria. As such, returns may be lower or higher than if decisions were based solely on investment considerations. The Funds’ method of security selection may or may not be successful and the Funds may underperform or outperform the stock market as a whole. All mutual funds are subject to market risk, including possible loss of principal. For more information about Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc., visit www.schwartzinvest.com. Ave Maria Mutual Funds Prospectus Request a prospectus, which includes investment objectives, risks, fees, charges and expenses, and other information that you should read and consider carefully before investing. The prospectus can be obtained by calling 1-866-283-6274 or it can be viewed at www.avemariafunds.com. Schwartz Value Focused Fund Prospectus Prospective investors should read the prospectus carefully and consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which can be obtained by calling 1-800-449-9240 or online at www.schwartzvaluefocusedfund.com, contains this and other important information. Distributed by Ultimus Fund Distributors LLC. Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc. is not affiliated with Ultimus Fund Distributors, LLC. Mike Richter, Director of Marketing Schwartz Investment Counsel, Inc.

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We hold Friday evening services in our main synagogue every week from 6.00pm until about 7.15pm. The services are accompanied by a full four-part choir led by choirmaster Avi Kanar on keyboard. Saturday morning services are more informal, and are often held out in our garden, weather permitting. These services begin at 09.30am and end at about 10.45am. Rabbi Shaked himself often accompanies the choir, sometimes on guitar, sometimes on instruments as exotic as a digiredoo. Community participation, passion and enthusiasm are encouraged. Jtalk and Talmud After a break for a community Kiddush, there is a presentation and discussion session led by either a community member or an outsider with specialist knowledge. This hour-long session, usually on a Jewish topic, but sometimes on an issue of general interest, is called Jtalk, and attracts people from outside the congregation. Topics have included ethical kashrut and vegetarianism; do Jews suffer more neuroses than Gentiles; Jewish folk music; Jewish architecture, Jewish activism under apartheid; the work of various prominent Israeli and Jewish authors; the role of women in Judaism, and many more. Following JTalk each Saturday, is the Talmud study group. Unique among Progressive synagogues in South Africa, the group draws knowledgeable enthusiasts and beginners, members and outsiders.

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Dog Toys Large. FREE POSTAGE. Dog pull toys are great way to help engage your dog to play with you! Also very good for their teeth hygiene! All dog toys can be made up in any colour you wish, please state the colours in the notes at the checkout if they are not stated then colours will be random. Length is appox 64cm

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In the realm of modern entertainment, online games have emerged as a dominant force, captivating millions of players worldwide. From the early days of simplistic pixelated adventures to the immersive, graphically stunning universes of today, online gaming has undergone a remarkable evolution. This article delves into the fascinating world of online games, examining their significance, evolution, and enduring appeal. The Evolution of Online Gaming: The history of online gaming traces back to the 1970s and 1980s, with 7ball primitive text-based adventures and simple multiplayer games. However, it wasn’t until the advent of the internet and the proliferation of personal computers in the 1990s that online gaming truly took off. Games like “MUDs” (Multi-User Dungeons) and early online platforms such as AOL and CompuServe paved the way for the multiplayer experiences we enjoy today. The turn of the millennium witnessed a rapid expansion in online gaming, with the rise of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) like “World of Warcraft” and “EverQuest.” These games introduced vast virtual worlds populated by thousands of players, fostering social interaction, competition, and collaboration on an unprecedented scale. The emergence of broadband internet further accelerated the growth of online gaming, enabling smoother gameplay experiences and more complex virtual environments. With the advent of digital distribution platforms like Steam and the proliferation of mobile devices, online gaming became more accessible than ever before, reaching a broader audience across diverse demographics. Diversification and Innovation: Today, the landscape of online gaming is incredibly diverse, encompassing a multitude of genres and platforms. From action-packed shooters like “Fortnite” and “Call of Duty” to strategic multiplayer battle arenas like “League of Legends” and “Dota 2,” there’s something for every type of gamer. Moreover, the boundaries between traditional gaming and other forms of entertainment have become increasingly blurred, with the rise of live-streaming platforms like Twitch and YouTube Gaming. Now, gamers can not only play but also spectate and interact with their favorite streamers in real-time, creating a vibrant ecosystem of content creation and community engagement. In addition to traditional genres, the advent of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies has opened up new frontiers in online gaming, immersing players in fully immersive digital worlds and experiences. Games like “Beat Saber” and “Half-Life: Alyx” showcase the potential of VR gaming to revolutionize the way we play and interact with virtual environments. The Social Dimension: One of the most compelling aspects of online gaming is its social dimension. Whether teaming up with friends in cooperative missions, competing against rivals in intense battles, or simply hanging out in virtual spaces, online games offer a sense of camaraderie and connection that transcends physical boundaries. For many players, online gaming serves as a platform for forging lasting friendships, fostering teamwork and collaboration, and even developing valuable skills such as communication, leadership, and problem-solving. Virtual communities within games often evolve into vibrant ecosystems, complete with their own social norms, traditions, and hierarchies. However, the social aspect of online gaming is not without its challenges, including issues like toxicity, harassment, and online addiction. Developers and platform operators continue to grapple with these issues, implementing measures such as content moderation, community guidelines, and player reporting systems to promote a safer and more inclusive gaming environment. The Future of Online Gaming: As technology continues to advance and consumer preferences evolve, the future of online gaming looks brighter than ever. With the advent of cloud gaming, cross-platform compatibility, and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain, the possibilities for innovation and growth are virtually limitless. Moreover, as society becomes increasingly interconnected and digitally mediated, online gaming is poised to play an even more significant role in shaping culture, entertainment, and social interaction. Whether it’s exploring uncharted worlds, engaging in epic battles, or simply connecting with friends across the globe, online gaming offers a unique and immersive form of entertainment that continues to captivate audiences worldwide. In conclusion, online gaming has evolved from humble beginnings into a global phenomenon, shaping the way we play, socialize, and interact with technology. With its diverse array of genres, platforms, and experiences, online gaming offers something for everyone, from casual players to hardcore enthusiasts. As we look to the future, the possibilities for innovation and growth in the world of online gaming are truly limitless, promising new adventures, challenges, and opportunities for players around the world.

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If everything in your life right now is synonymous to comfort, excellence, luxury, and beauty, don't you think you need a television set that matches your lifestyle, such as an HDTV for instance? Learn more about the latest trend in television sets as you read on. HDTV: Inspiration from Hollywood The makers of HDTV, which stands for high definition TV, was originally inspired by the comforts that wide screen of movie theaters uniquely offered. Compared to obviously smaller TV sets, the effects of a movie or program are significantly diminished. They have also noted that people sitting on the first few rows in the movie theaters enjoy more vivid experiences than those sitting behind them, never mind that their necks have a tendency to ache afterwards. The Beginning of the HDTV Era It was Sony and NHK that are more or less credited as pioneers for the HDTV generation. The product however, called NHK Hi-vision, was intended for movie use and not yet adapted for the smaller television set. Thanks to this innovation, movies became quicker to produce and more special effects became possible for movie makers to use even with a limited budget. The main objective of HDTV would-be manufacturers is to create a TV set that will allow viewers to enjoy a wider screen rather than increase the definition or vividness per unit area. The chief problem of TV manufacturers when they considered producing HDTV sets was whether or not they should make HDTV standards compatible with those of the color TVS, which makes up majority of the TV sets in use at that time. Other problems related to HDTV production are bandwidth limitation, distribution, interlacing, and compression. Regarding distribution issues, the FCC ruled in 1987 for HDTV standards to be compatible with existing NTSC standards and be limited to VHF and UHF channels as well. Three years after that, however, the FCC ruled for HDTV to use simultaneous broadcasting and also expressed a preference for full HDTV standards over reduced image quality of EDTV. In 1993, as the FCC was still unable to make a choice among the four companies that submitted proposals for HDTV, it finally decided to create what's now known as a Grand Alliance among these companies: AT&T, GI, MIT, Philips, and Sanroff, Thomson, and Zenith. The remainder of the year was spent in establishing features and formulating standards for the proposed system. In 1994, HDTV had been successfully built and scheduled for testing for the next year. Benefits of Using HDTV All or Nothing Image Quality - Although this may not be viewed a benefit by some people, others would unhesitatingly welcome the promise that HDTV makes for their viewers: expect the best picture quality from them or nothing at all because of the digital format it's using. Wider Screen Viewing - Most programs and films that are equipped with HD format can be viewed by a 16:9 screen while old movies can be zoomed to have a similar wide screen resolution. Increased Vividness - Watching movies and programs through an HDTV set is better than watching through a standard TV set because the colors are more vivid and the bandwidth's greater. Better Visual Information - Expect to enjoy the smaller and finer things of TV programs once you start watching it through an HDTV set. That's because HDTV standards can promise overall details of image quality to be 2 to 5 times better! Use of HD DVD and Blu-Ray - People with HDTV sets can make use of either formats although it should be remembered that both formats are not compatible with each other. Quality Isn't Sacrificed for Size - Imagine magnifying a photo; the quality becomes blurrier the larger the photo becomes, doesn't it? Thankfully, however, your HDTV set isn't similarly affected even with its increased screen size. Dolby Digital 5. 1 Sound - Your HDTV set can produce high quality sounds that you could only expect from movie theaters in the past. Conservation of Electricity - Even though HDTV sets are certainly more expensive to purchase than standard TV sets, they do however have lesser electricity costs. HDTV is no longer the TV set of tomorrow. If you want to watch broadcasted sports games and concerts like you're watching them live, we only have four letters for you: HDTV!. Lee Dobbins writes for http://hdtv.unique-articles.com where you can learn more about HDTV.

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Inside my Radio is the Guitar Hero of the platform genre as this rhythm driven game overloads your senses and attacks your coordination as button presses in a set order allowing you to move along to the music as you climb, dash, bash and smash your way through this puzzle laden game to the beat of electro music as coloured lights splash across the screen in a mesmerizing way. My musical talent is low, very low, like not even being in control of the triangle incompetent but I’ve managed to at least struggle through a few Guitar Hero songs on medium so this should be easy right, sort off.. You play as a headphone’d equipped green cube or as I’ve found out a LED after being sucked into a boom-box (for all you non 90’s kids it’s like a iPod, 100 times bigger that you have to put cassettes into to play music). The electro music you play along to is actually really good but needs to be considering the type of game it is, the way you move your character through the level and puzzles is easy enough but can get quite complicated, confusing and frustrating in certain parts that don’t really offer any guidance on how to proceed. Saying that it is a puzzle game and should be a challenge which i guess it is, when you do get the hang of a certain area and proceed it is a good feeling. It’s just a strange and unusual way to control a character in a platform game but being different isn’t a bad thing you just need to get used to it and once you do it’s a very enjoyable experience. The visual experience is a real kaleidoscope of colour as the beat and tempo changes different colours and shapes form, explode and dance their way across the screen in an extremely beautiful harmony until you miss press a button sequence or die then a nasty audible feedback noise shoots through the speakers. Combining the sound and visual experience together with the buttons you must press to keep up with and interact with, is what makes this game a true great, the experience is fantastic and done exquisitely well. Most levels end with a puzzle to collect four yellow cubes to activate the next path and as you progress you have the ability to interact with and experience new characters. This brings new genres of music like seventies disco, rock/punk and more. You also need to be able to complete button prompts to complete intricate audio sequences and epic boss battles. Saying all that the game still has some truly frustrating areas that take a lot of timing and patience, especially as the button presses seem easy most of the time but when you need quick responses I personally find it an unnaturally difficult experience but it doesn’t distract you from this fantastic game. I can easily give this 8/10, it’s got enough of a challenge to push you, gameplay to keep you interested with an audio and visual backdrop to immerse you.. maybe it’s hypnotised me, wait.. what day is it. REVIEW CODE: A Free Nintendo Switch code was provided to Brash Games for this review. Please send all review code enquiries to [email protected]. Subscribe to our mailing list Get the latest game reviews, news, features, and more straight to your inbox

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Hey friends how are you and how are you performing in your passion? I am very passionate about the gambling and love to do betting. I am in habit of going to the casinos if I get the moment to visit the place and if I do not find any circumstance to visit the place I use the boon of the online pokies which makes my time to pass in fruitful way and do not give me any chance to feel bore. The game which attracts me again and again is the Triple Magic and while going through its world I find myself to lose in magical world which is designed by the microgaming. This one is featured to the users with three reels and single line of pay. The good thing about the event of single payline is that the chance of winning is maximum. You will get the chance to make the waging of max two coins through each line and the range of that one is from $0.01 to the max of $50.0. You will get many symbols which you can use to make the win and some of the symbols which are used are seven, cherries, bars and many more. Graphics and the presentation of this one is out of the world and will not give you any chance to peep out of the screen. The best thing which I liked about this one is the music which is used in the background is full of melody. One suggestion which I would like to share with you all is that before going for the play of any event you should go for the review which will help you in enhancing your strategy and you will also learn the tricks too. The wild symbol of this one is the magic star whose hitting will give you the most. Go for the magical touch and prizes which are very attractive. Ben Hur Slot Review Enter the ring to fight for the Ben Hur online slot. This 5×3 slot has 20 pay lines, a 96.34% RTP, and offers 5×3 gameplay. You can keep things exciting with wilds, six bonus spin feature rounds, multipliers up to 100x, and multipliers up to 100x. Are you still skeptical? Try the Ben Hur Slot for Free and find out for yourself. Battle with the Romans The Ben Hur online slot takes you back in time. The Ainsworth catalog now includes five reels with statues matching the theme. The reels will spin to an exciting tune that matches the theme. The scatter is the highest-paying symbol in the Ben Hur slot machine. The Wild is next, followed by Ben Hur himself. The middle tier includes horses, the ship, a shield with daggers, and the helmet. Lower-paying symbols are A to Q, J, and 10. Choose a stake First, you must adjust your stake to between 0.05 and 2.50 to get started with the Ben Hur online slot. This amount will be multiplied by the 20 pay lines within the 5×3 grid, giving you a total stake of between 1.00 to 50.00. Below is a table that shows the payouts for each symbol on the Ben Hur slot machine. These are based upon a maximum wager. Play the Ben Hur slot machine for 96.34% RTP Collect Coins, Wins, and Free Spins The Wild replaces all symbols except the scatters in the Ben Hur online slot. It plays an essential role in creating winning combinations or improving them. The Battle Feature is activated when you have three or more coins in the base game. Six options will be available to you: - Helmet Feature: 14 Free Swirls with stacked helmets across all reels - Protection and Dagger Feature – 13 Free Spins with Stacked Shields and Daggers on All Reels - Ship Feature: 12 Free Swirls with stacked vessels on all reels - Horses Feature: 11 Free Spins with Stacked Horses on All Reels - Ben Hur Feature: Get 10 Free Spins with Stacked Ben Hur symbols on all reels - Mystery Feature: Receive a random character and up to 5 or 19 free spins The mystery bonus prize of the bag of coins scattered between 4x to 100x your stake every time it falls during any Ben Hur slot machine feature. Extra spins will be awarded for landing shields + signs. The number of securities that you land will determine the number of spins. You can play more Roman-themed games. You can also play Roman-themed slots, such as the NextGen Gaming 300 Shields slot and WMS’ Spartacus Megaways Slot. Get ready for battle. The Ben Hur online slot is excellent if you like games with Roman themes. The Ainsworth creation features five reels, a 96.34% RTP, 20 pay lines, and 20 pay lines. You can have six free spin rounds and multipliers up to 100x. Wilds can be added to your gameplay. So what are you waiting for? Play Ben Hur online slot today!

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ProLife Story 41 One major factor in perhaps saving the lives of my unborn may have been my parents' views on bringing life into this world unashamed. I wouldn't dare tell my folks what was going on let alone carry a baby full-term. Now I pay the price for those decisions years ago. I will one day share with my daughtered that it is much more shameful to give up life than to admit you got yourself into a situation. Because that situation is really a Blessing from God. I pray for the souls I previously gave up. May God bless you... Emily, Christian and Jordan! -- submitted anonymously Return to: Prolife Stories | Catholic Planet

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LONA'S NARRATIVE 229 princess, was hard to understand; but then, happily, she had two parents—say rather, three ! She drew my heart by what in me was likest herself, and I loved her as one who, grow to what perfection she might, could only become the more a child. I knew now that I loved her when I left her, and that the hope of seeing her again had been my main comfort. Every word she spoke seemed to go straight to my heart, and, like the truth itself, make it purer. She told me that after I left the orchard valley, the giants began to believe a little more in the actual existence of their neighbours, and became in consequence more hostile to them. Sometimes the Little Ones would see them trampling furiously, perceiving or imagining some indication of their presence, while they indeed stood beside, and laughed at their foolish rage. By and by, however, their animosity assumed a more practical shape : they began to destroy the trees on whose fruit the Little Ones lived. This drove the mother of them all to meditate counteraction. Setting the sharpest of them to listen at night, she learned that the giants thought I was hidden somewhere near, intending, as soon as I recovered my strength, to come in the dark and kill them sleeping. Thereupon she concluded that the only way to stop the destruction was to give them ground for believing that they had abandoned the place. The Little Ones must remove into the forest—beyond the range of the giants, but within reach of their own trees, which they must visit by night! The main objection to the plan was, that the forest had little or no undergrowth to shelter—or conceal them if necessary. But she reflected that where birds, there the Little

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CSiBridge 2016 v18.0.1 - ENHANCEMENTS Graphical User Interface - Assign and select menu forms enhanced to allow them to remain open for repetitive use with a new apply button. - DirectX graphics mode enhanced to use DirectX 11 for enhanced speed and capabilities. - A full 64-bit version of CSiBridge is now available. - New 2-D modified Darwin-Pecknold concrete model added to the nonlinear layered shell. This model represents concrete compression, cracking, and shear behavior under both monotonic and cyclic loading, and accounts for crack rotation. - New cable-stayed bridge template added. - Additional frame and shell (non-bridge) templates added. - Modify undeformed geometry feature enhanced to allow applying the modification to a selection of joints, as well as limiting the direction of modification. - New construction scheduling wizard added for segmental bridges, allowing for quick and easy creation of a construction schedule, including travelers. - User-defined bridge sections can now be created and used in the bridge modeler, including different materials, openings, radii, parametric variations, and editing in Excel or section designer. - Bridge modeler enhanced to more accurately define the geometry in the vicinity of a skewed support, diaphragm, or in-span hinge for curved bridges and/or parametric variations of the bridge section at the skew. - AASHTO legal loads for load rating added to the vehicle library. - A new stability check added for nonlinear static load cases to report when the structure may have failed under material or geometric nonlinearities that are not obvious from the analysis results. - Handling of convergence tolerances for time-dependent behavior during staged-construction analysis improved to better enforce equilibrium after large load increments. - Superstructure design according to CSA S6-14 added. - It is now possible to specify the location of steel I-girder splices, including the net to gross area ratio of the flanges in order to perform the design checks at these locations using the reduced flange area. - Superstructure design and rating of steel I-girder bridges according to AASHTO LRFD enhanced to consider a detailed calculation of the moment-gradient factor Cb. - Contour plots now available for frame deflections and axial stresses. - It is now possible to output the vehicle position for moving load analysis, for a specified max/min force component at a particular location.

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What do you love especially in a companion; friend; partner to enjoy their company for just a moment in time. Others decide to spend even more time than usual opting to move in together, get engaged and possibly look towards getting married. All these changes occur in any relationship a person has to exchange thoughts, feelings, experiences as we communicate and share our daily life events. Life events seem to change our way of being in the world at times, when we can lose sight of each other and not know if we are going to meet our familiar partner we once knew from long ago or another person who has become more of a stranger as time goes on. It does not matter if you are single or in a partnership; loneliness can challenge a lot of people with a busy life style. We can meet and live a person, but what happens when you wake up next to a stranger and yet still love them for who they were from your past. Do you still know them and if you do, could it be you just may not know yourself at this moment in time compared to who you once were ten or twenty years ago? Time changes each of us. What would you like to do? I know looking at our self can be difficult, especially when you do not know what you are going find and whether we can accept; love or reject that part of us inside we find. Even more difficult, is when you see your partner struggling in their own dilemmas, it can be a number of issues related to work or home and yet you have your own problems too. Are you able to communicate with each other or just share a space to feel connected instead in the hope issues will resolve themselves given a period of time change will happen…eventually? Then again they could get worse and where does it begin or even end? These are the changes in any relationship. Is this team not working together? Or separately and maybe slowly drifting apart? It can be the elephant in the room or even similar to a boa constrict silently strangling the relationship, but neither of you knows were to start, just because there is too much to deal with and so little time to deal with the problem. Time takes it toll on any relationship, with the daily pressures or work and family; no time to sit; think or time to talk… The next item on your own agenda always seems to be more important than spending time together, to find out where the problems are and how to tackle each issue without regressing into a teenage argument, as to who is right or wrong. Again…nothing gets resolved as so it begins again, neither of you say anything until the next opportunity comes around again and attempt to do something differently in the hope something will change and the stranger slowly turns into your old familiar partner you still once loved as before the chaos and confusion. Until something else happens again, becomes an issue and it starts all over again like an emotional rollercoaster with enduring pain by working with the high’s and low’s. That is life and yes, we all change in a relationship, but there comes a point when it really is time to stop going around in circles each time there is a problem and start looking at ourselves differently either as an individual or as a couple to create a successful future in life. Let’s see if we can iron out the creases and deal with all the knots, which have led you here and attempt something healthier and different in therapy. I look forward to seeing you, soon…

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