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<urn:uuid:0a555a59-0913-4458-a7dc-b3b41f2a56b2> | Why Routines are Better than Goals for Achieving Success
If you struggle with achieving your goals, you’re not alone. Many people find it difficult to stay on track and see their goals through to completion. But why is this? There are several reasons why goal setting can be tough, including deadlines that are too rigid, unrealistic expectations, and the all-or-nothing mentality that often accompanies goal setting.
So, is it possible to achieve success without setting goals? Absolutely. In fact, adopting a routine can be a more effective way to achieve your goals than setting specific targets. Here are a few reasons why routines are better than goals for achieving success.
1. Deadlines Rarely Work
One of the biggest problems with setting goals is that the deadlines involved can actually make things more difficult. If you’re not used to working with deadlines, they can be intimidating and discouraging. And if you set a deadline that’s too close, you may end up feeling overwhelmed and giving up altogether.
2. We’re Not Good at Forecasting
Another issue with goal setting is that we’re not always good at forecasting how long it will take to achieve a particular goal. Unexpected setbacks, such as illness or injury, can throw us off course. The key is to be realistic about how much time it will take to achieve your goals and to anticipate roadblocks along the way.
3. Goals are All or Nothing
The all-or-nothing mentality of goal setting can be both motivating and discouraging. On the one hand, setting a goal can give you the drive to push yourself to your limits. On the other hand, it can also lead to burnout and a sense of failure if you don’t achieve your goal within your desired timeline. The key is to adopt a routine that is sustainable over the long-term, rather than pushing yourself to the brink in order to achieve a specific target.
4. Deadlines are Almost Always Inflexible
Deadlines are great motivators when they work, but they can also be inflexible. This can make it difficult to achieve your goals, especially if unexpected obstacles arise. By contrast, a routine is more flexible and can accommodate changes as needed. This means that you can stay on track even when things don’t go as planned.
5. Goals Leave You Feeling “Less Than”
Finally, setting goals can be demotivating in that it can leave you feeling like you’re not good enough until you achieve your goal. This can create a sense of constant striving and dissatisfaction, which is not conducive to long-term success. By adopting a routine, you can focus on the day-to-day process of achieving your goals and enjoy the progress you make along the way.
Setting goals can be helpful, but it’s not the only way to achieve success. By adopting a routine, you can create sustainable habits that will help you achieve your goals over time. So, rather than focusing solely on the end result, try embracing the process and enjoying the journey. | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://yellowbanana.cc/5-reasons-why-you-should-focus-on-your-routine-rather-than-just-the-outcome/ | 2023-09-21T22:31:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00022.warc.gz | en | 634 | 0.949069 | 7 | 58,759,891 | 0 |
<urn:uuid:102c0346-2936-47a3-88e5-eacf047438a3> | Cancer treatment harnesses the body's immune system
The body has an amazing secret weapon: the immune system. Because of its power to protect and restore the body, it has inspired a whole field of treatment — immunotherapy — that harnesses the body’s own immune system to fend off, and recover from, disease.
The system at work
The immune system goes to work when the body detects an invader, such as unfriendly bacteria or foreign matter, known as an antigen. The presence of the antigen triggers cell and chemical activity that produces antibodies, varieties of white blood cells that destroy the invaders. This process usually takes place seamlessly. However, when the intruders are complex cancer cells, the immune system often needs a little extra push.
The field of immunotherapy, or the use of stem cell therapies and vaccines, gives the body that push. Robert Aiken, MD, a neuro-oncologist, is researching ways to inspire the immune system to go after glioblastoma, a kind of malignant brain tumor.
In particular, Aiken is studying a vaccine for glioblastoma multiforme that, while it won’t prevent cancer, is intended to kick-start the body’s immune system to help it slow the growth of the cancer cells that form a glioblastoma.
How does the vaccine inspire the body to heal itself? Cells that help antibodies recognize antigens, which are known as dendritic cells, and cancer tumor cells are extracted from a patient. The two are combined so that dendritic cells are able to identify the cancer cells.
Then the cancer cells are removed from the mix and the dendritic cells, now trained to set the immune system in motion against the tumor, are injected into the patient. Simply put, the vaccine, known as the DCVax vaccine, is designed to help the body mount a response that kills cancer cells, slowing the growth of the tumor.
The vaccine must be given repeatedly in order to continue to boost the patient’s natural immune responsiveness, which may work to keep the cancer in check and prolong life. The vaccine is still in clinical trials, but the hope is that it will be added to the list of treatment options for patients with brain tumors, alongside current standards of care.
Encouraging new alternatives
Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and biologic therapies are among the treatments currently available at The Coleman Foundation Comprehensive Brain Tumor Clinic at Rush. The clinic also offers patients the opportunity to enroll in clinical trials — such as the ones Aiken continues to run — to test the DCVax vaccine.
He’s also embarking on another study to look at an antibody that might aid patients with recurrent brain tumors. Will it inspire a next step in the attack on these life-altering intruders? Follow the progress of research at Rush to find out.
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<urn:uuid:e0b70626-af48-4ede-a32e-bb07e54e6fee> | After the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, the country's new Marriage Law also explicitly provided for lawful divorces. Women were permitted to divorce their husbands and many did, sparking resistance from rural males especially. Kay Ann Johnson reported that tens of thousands of women in north central China were killed for seeking divorces or committed suicide when blocked from doing so.
During the Mao era (1949–1976) divorce was rare, but in the reform era, it has become easier and more commonplace. A USC U.S.-China Institute article reports that the divorce rate in 2006 was about 1.4/1000 people, about twice what it was in 1990 and more than three times what it was in 1982. Still, the divorce rate in China is less than half what it is in the United States.
One of the most important breakthroughs in the marriage institution were amendments added to the Marriage Law in 2003, which shortened the divorce-application procedure and added legit reasons for divorce, such as emphasizing the importance of faithfulness within a married couple. With the rising divorce rates nowadays, public discussions and governmental organs often criticize the lack of effort in marriage maintenance which many couples express. This is evident, for example in the new 'divorce buffer zones' established in the marriage registration offices in certain provinces, which is a room where the couples wait, as a stage within the divorce application procedure, and are encouraged to talk things over and consider giving their marriage another chance. However, such phenomena don't contradict the increasing permissiveness of the systems and of married couples which lead to the constant growth in divorce rates in China. | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.chinalegal.org/2012/08/divorce-in-contemporary-china.html | 2021-05-11T16:19:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991648.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210511153555-20210511183555-00342.warc.gz | en | 327 | 0.977114 | 6 | 58,759,894 | 3 |
<urn:uuid:b13a2b01-aebd-4c07-a143-b11f65ea826e> | Noun(1) a language unit by which a person or thing is known(2) a person's reputation(3) family based on male descent(4) a well-known or notable person(5) by the sanction or authority of(6) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
Verb(1) assign a specified (usually proper(2) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property(3) charge with a function; charge to be(4) create and charge with a task or function(5) mention and identify by name(6) make reference to(7) identify as in botany or biology, for example(8) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of(9) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
(1) name me a song and I'll know the words(2) Every family had their own name for the plastic wedges you get as rewards.(3) don't name any individual(4) His big decision is whether to go for the kind of player he has brought in so far or chase some bigger name players.(5) Ossie says the process allows employees to name what's most important to them.(6) did you mention him by name?(7) She's got a family and she works and she's made a good name for herself.(8) in the name of the law(9) Having praised the performance at Anfield, Allardyce will be tempted to name an unchanged side.(10) name your file(11) Well, it's just a fancy name for one of the most ancient toys known to mankind: the spinning top.(12) I don't know the Latin name of that plant(13) it's a man by the name of PÔö£Ôöél(14) At age ten I refused to take a saint's name as part of my name for the holy confirmation ceremony.(15) She was actually a bit surprised when a familiar screen name popped up in a private window.(16) what's your name?
(1) first name :: पहिले नाव
(2) last name :: आडनाव
(3) what is your name :: तुझं नाव काय आहे
(4) my name is :: माझं नावं आहे
(5) full name :: पूर्ण नाव
(6) middle name :: मधले नाव
(7) your name :: आपले नाव
(8) family name :: कुटुंब नाव
(9) user name :: वापरकर्ता नाव
(10) given name :: नाव
1. designation ::
2. celebrity ::
3. reputation ::
4. public figure ::
5. gens ::
6. epithet ::
7. call ::
8. identify ::
9. choose ::
10. make ::
11. list ::
12. cite ::
13. key ::
14. diagnose ::
15. appoint ::
1. nobody ::
name, nameable, named, names, naming
Word Example from TV Shows
The best way to learn proper English is to read news report, and watch news on TV. Watching TV shows is a great way to learn casual English, slang words, understand culture reference and humor. If you have already watched these shows then you may recall the words used in the following dialogs.
In an hour, I will be smoking a cigar
in your NAME in the governor's office.
Money Heist Season 3, Episode 4
What is your NAME?
Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 2
Unless his NAME is Jay-Z.
The Big Bang Theory Season 6, Episode 21
I know the Mad King earned his NAME.
Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 8
What is your NAME?
Game of Thrones Season 3, Episode 10
English to Marathi Dictionary: name
Meaning and definitions of name, translation in Marathi
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<urn:uuid:8cfd0216-54eb-449a-ae15-8e82fb64b40a> | Because I am interested in ways to end suffering and to establish flourishing, I have studied both Western psychology and Eastern meditation for many years. My meditation training has been primarily within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, including the completion of a three-year retreat under the close supervision of a qualified traditional teacher.
Western psychotherapy and traditional meditation both offer powerful maps and methods for change. Because they share a focus on human nature and potential, there are similarities between them. There are also important differences. In general, psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation do not have the same worldview or ultimate aims. Western psychology has focused primarily on making our ordinary lives more fulfilling by healing past hurts, changing maladaptive behavior, and developing effective communication skills. Traditional Buddhist meditation focuses on our potential for a kind of awareness that transcends ordinary life and the ordinary mind. The ultimate goal of Buddhist meditation is to bring all suffering to an end, for oneself and all others. It is important not to take a superficial "mix and match" approach to these systems. To do so can dilute the power of either to produce real and lasting change.
Although I am a Buddhist practitioner and teacher, this website is focused on my work as a Western psychologist. In my role as a psychologist, I teach some meditation skills which originated in Buddhism, because they are effective tools in psychotherapy. Within Western psychology, there is growing recognition that even a modest amount of meditation can be a highly effective therapeutic tool. Mindfulness meditation was the first Buddhist meditation technique to gain wide use in psychotherapy, originally for stress reduction. There is growing clinical evidence that mindfulness meditation can help with other problems, including:
- Frequent, intense mood shifts
- Marital strife
- Parenting issues
While mindfulness meditation is currently best known, other originally Buddhist change methods are also useful in psychotherapy. These include practices of refuge, radical acceptance, insight, and many loving-kindness practices. It is not necessary to be Buddhist to benefit from these techniques in therapy.
For a person who already has an established meditation practice, there are times when psychotherapy can be an important adjunct, helping to address culturally Western impediments to practice.
For more on this, see Psychotherapy for Buddhist Practitioners. | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.carolfitzpatrickphd.com/meditation-in-therapy-mindfulness-and-more | 2023-06-08T05:30:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654097.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608035801-20230608065801-00050.warc.gz | en | 453 | 0.94136 | 6 | 58,759,900 | 9 |
<urn:uuid:6291c3b9-699d-4704-99a0-d439755290be> | Community learning courses
For the 2020-21 academic year we will be offering a mixture of online remote learning and slowly re-introducing face-to-face community based learning due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. We are implementing this approach to keep you and our staff safe and will keep our learning offer and your safety constantly under review and in line with government guidelines.
Areas of learning
Leisure, Health & Wellbeing
Programmes for adult learners who want to develop a new area of interest or hobby and want to take part in learning to support their health and wellbeing. There are a broad range of subjects, for example, arts and crafts, languages, family history and much more.
Programmes for adults who have learning and/or disabilities and adults who have had long-term mental ill health who require more bespoke and support in their learning. Programmes provide opportunities to develop wellbeing and self-esteem, skills for independent living and employment. There are a broad range of subjects, for example, art, music, hamanities, horticulture and cultural subjects.
Programmes for parents/carers who want to support their families' wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, mental health, fitness, family finances, accessing community activities and services, managing children's behaviour and development and transition from primary to secondary education.
Programmes for adults who want to up-skill or re-skills in a vocational context, including sector specific skills, personal development, English and Maths. Programmes prepare and give you skills for work in various jobs and trades, for example, construction, business, health services, art and design and agriculture.
Programmes for adults to support the use of digital technology more effectively, including the use of computers, tablets, phones, online services and staying safe online. Programmes aim to give you confidence to use the digital tools that are important to you, for everyday life and work.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths)
Programmes for aduts who want to up-skill and re-skill to gain and improve employment opportunities. You acquire skills in a specific vocational area and will feel more confident to apply for jobs and/or progress onto accredited programmes.
Programmes for adults who want to study an accredited programme in ICT or English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
Some course will incur a fee and others will be free depending on your individual circumstances. Please view our course directory
Staying safe online
Being able to access learning online is a fantastic way to continue and enjoy learning that cannot be delivered face to face, or to begin learning something new for the first time. It is important to make sure you also remain safe online.
Online scams take place when criminals use the internet to try to con people into giving them money or personal information. Fraudsters are known to make calls claiming to be from well known and official organisations when its actually a scam. They may ask you for personal information, want access to your computer and in some cases, ask for your bank details. Don't be fooled, this could be fraud.
You should be wary of any unsolicited emails or calls that ask you to provide personal information or ask for access to your computer on devices. Anyone receiving an email that seems suspicious in any way, should never click on links or attachments and never respond to unsolicited messages that ask for their personal or financial details. People should also be wary of unsolicited phone calls asking for personal information or offering help with your online services and devices.
Please note: Staffordshire Community Learning and our learning providers would only call back a learner or potential new learner following on from a voicemail or email enquiry you have made.
If you receive a communication out of the blue from anyone claiming to be associated with Staffordshire Community Learning or an associated Learning provider and which raises your suspicions. Then hang up, and call back only on our service phone number which is 01785 278770.
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Complete our online delivery enrolment form.
Complete our online accredited enrolment form.
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<urn:uuid:0616a6e1-0b4f-4f24-9b94-77ea3dbbb572> | The idea for a national institute dedicated to emergency medical services was conceived immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Initially our organization consisted of emergency medical personnel who supported and participated in the rescue efforts.
Afterwards our staff assisted the public in understanding and coping with the now infamous tragedy. In hindsight it’s clear that everyone on that day - even the emergency responders themselves - felt overwhelmed and unprepared by the scope of the disaster.
To assist our nation with its need for additional first responder training and safety, the National Institute of Emergency Medical Services (NIEMS) was formally established in Washington, DC. Today we are dedicated to improving the emergency medical service system and the important care it delivers. NIEMS is a non-profit, non-government organization (NGO) located in Washington, DC. NIEMS is not affiliated with the federal government other than as a grant recipient and service provider.
For more than a decade the Institute's administrative offices have been located inside the rotunda on the seventh floor of the Ronald Reagan Federal Building at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Ronald Reagan Building complex (photo above) is located in the heart of our nation's capital and is named after the president who signed the law making its construction possible. The complex has a large conference center, 600 seat auditorium, and a two story exhibit hall available for use by NIEMS. Since parking is limited we encourage visitors to use the metro rail system. We are located 3 blocks from Metro Center station along 13th street. Please do not visit our administrative offices without an appointment. | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.niems.org/about-us/ | 2018-11-18T18:38:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039744561.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20181118180446-20181118202446-00416.warc.gz | en | 323 | 0.965749 | 6 | 58,759,902 | 11 |
<urn:uuid:90512d66-41e3-4f2d-bf93-f051e0c697f9> | Palazzo della Pilotta
The Palazzo della Pilotta is a complex of edifices located between Piazzale della Pace and the Lungoparma in the historical centre of Parma, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. Its name derives from the game of pelota played at one time by Spanish soldiers stationed in Parma, the façade on the Piazza della Ghiaia is missing and the annexed Dominican church of St. Peter was demolished only in recent times. The existing complex includes three courts, the Cortile di San Pietro Martire, Cortile del Guazzatoio and the Cortile della Racchetta. The Pilotta was to house a large hall, turned into the Teatro Farnese, the stables and the grooms residences, the Academy Hall and other rooms. After the end of the Farnese family rule of Parma, much of the assets of the palace were removed by Duke Charles I, King of Spain. The Biblioteca Palatina was established here by 1769, elizabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, was born here in 1692
Major Thomas Henry Gem, known as Harry Gem, was an English lawyer, soldier and sportsman. Alongside his friend Augurio Perera, he is credited as the earliest inventor of the game of lawn tennis, Gem was born in Birmingham and educated at Kings College London. From 1841 he practiced as a solicitor in Birmingham, becoming a clerk in 1856. He is recorded as having won a bet by running the 21 miles from Birmingham to Warwick in under three and a half hours and this game is known to have been being played by 1865, though research has suggested that experimentation may have started as early as 1859. It thus clearly pre-dates the game of sphairistikè, whose rules were published, originally referred to as Lawn rackets or Lawn pelota and Pereras game was being referred to as Lawn tennis by 1872. The Harry Gem Project Augurio Perera Walter Clopton Wingfield History of tennis
Edgbaston is a suburban area of Central Birmingham, England. It is curved around the southwest of the city centre and it is bordered by Moseley to the south east and by Smethwick and Winson Green to the north west. Edgbaston is home to the University of Birmingham, established as Birmingham Medical School in 1825, Edgbaston traditionally has a reputation for being one of the most upmarket and affluent parts of Birmingham or where the trees begin. The parliamentary constituency of Edgbaston includes the smaller Edgbaston ward and the wards of Bartley Green, Edgbaston is a local government district, managed by its own district committee. Edgbaston means village of a man called Ecgbald, from the Old English personal name + tun farm, the personal name Ecgbald means bold sword. In 1801, Edgbaston had a population of around 1,000 people, by 1841, this had increased to 16,500 as a result of wealthy manufacturers moving to the area. By 1850,29 roads had been out and uninterrupted growth continued. The United Kingdom Census 2001 found that 20,749 people were living in the Birmingham City Council ward of Edgbaston and this produced an average of 2.4 people per household, slightly below the city-wide average of 2.5.
The ward, which has an area of 871. 6ha, had a density of 23.8 people per hectare. Like the city of Birmingham, Edgbaston had a higher proportion of females, at 50. 1%. 27. 1% of the population was in the 25-44 age bracket and 15. 1% were aged between 45-59, at 14. 8%, Edgbaston had a lower proportion of people of a pensionable age than the rest of Birmingham. It had a proportion of people of working age at 73. 8%. Edgbaston has a slightly above average percentage for ethnic minorities with ethnic minorities representing 31. 8% of the population as opposed to 29. 6% for Birmingham, the largest ethnic minority group was the British Asian group at 16. 1%. 25. 6% of people were born outside of the United Kingdom, christianity was the most predominant religion, with 52. 5% of the population stating that they were Christians, compared with 59. 1% for Birmingham. 8. 0% stated that they were Muslims, below the Birmingham figure of 14. 3%, Edgbaston was home to a significant Orthodox Jewish community. 19.
1% of the Edgbaston population stated that they had no religion,46. 4% of households were owner-occupied, below the Birmingham figure of 60. 4%. 19. 3% were rented privately,15. 2% were rented from an association and 11. 6% were rented from Birmingham City Council. There was a number of 9,191 houses in Edgbaston,525 of which were vacant
History of tennis
The game that most people call tennis is the direct descendant of what is now known as real tennis or royal tennis. Most of the rules of the commonly known as tennis derive from real or royal tennis. It is reasonable to see both sports as variations of the same game, most historians believe that tennis originated in the monastic cloisters in northern France in the 12th century, but the ball was struck with the palm of the hand, hence the name jeu de paume. It was not until the 16th century that rackets came into use, and it was popular in England and France and Henry VIII of England was a big fan of the game, now referred to as real tennis. Many original tennis courts remain, including courts at Oxford, Falkland Palace in Fife where Mary Queen of Scots regularly played, many of the French courts were decommissioned with the terror that accompanied the French Revolution. The Tennis Court Oath was an event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789.
Any history of tennis that ignores its origins in the game that was known as tennis until lawn tennis became popular in the nineteenth century is inaccurate. The Davis Cup, a competition between mens national teams, dates to 1900. Pyle created the first professional tour with a group of American. The most notable of these professionals were the American Vinnie Richards. Once a player turned pro he or she could not compete in the major tournaments, the word Tennis came into use in English in the mid-13th century from Old French, via the Anglo-Norman term Tenez, which can be translated as hold. A call from the server to his opponent indicating that he is about to serve, Tennis is mentioned in literature as far back as the Middle Ages. In The Second Shepherds Play shepherds gave three gifts, including a ball, to the newborn Christ. Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthurs round table, plays tennis against a group of 17 giants in The Turke, by the 16th century, the glove had become a racquet, the game had moved to an enclosed playing area, and the rules had stabilized.
Real tennis spread in popularity throughout royalty in Europe, reaching its peak in the 16th century, francis I of France was an enthusiastic player and promoter of real tennis, building courts and encouraging play among the courtiers and commoners. His successor Henry II was an excellent player and continued the royal French tradition, in 1555 an Italian priest, Antonio Scaino da Salothe, wrote the first known book about tennis, Trattato del Giuoco della Palla. Two French kings died from tennis related episodes—Louis X of a chill after playing
Birmingham is a major city and metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England lying on the River Rea, a small river that runs through Birmingham. It is the largest and most populous British city outside London, the city is in the West Midlands Built-up Area, the third most populous urban area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2,440,986 at the 2011 census. Birminghams metropolitan area is the second most populous in the UK with a population of 3.8 million and this makes Birmingham the 8th most populous metropolitan area in Europe. By 1791 it was being hailed as the first manufacturing town in the world, perhaps the most important invention in British history, the industrial steam engine, was invented in Birmingham. From the summer of 1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the infrastructure, in addition to a deliberate policy of demolition and new building by planners, led to extensive demolition.
Today Birminghams economy is dominated by the service sector and its metropolitan economy is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a GDP of $121. 1bn, and its six universities make it the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birmingham is the fourth-most visited city in the UK by foreign visitors, Birminghams sporting heritage can be felt worldwide, with the concept of the Football League and lawn tennis both originating from the city. Its most successful football club Aston Villa has won seven league titles, people from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the citys nickname of Brum. This originates from the citys name, which may in turn have been derived from one of the citys earlier names. There is a distinctive Brummie accent and dialect, Birminghams early history is that of a remote and marginal area. The main centres of population and wealth in the pre-industrial English Midlands lay in the fertile and accessible river valleys of the Trent, the Severn and the Avon.
The area of modern Birmingham lay in between, on the upland Birmingham Plateau and within the wooded and sparsely populated Forest of Arden. Birmingham as a settlement dates from the Anglo-Saxon era, within a century of the charter Birmingham had grown into a prosperous urban centre of merchants and craftsmen. By 1327 it was the third-largest town in Warwickshire, a position it would retain for the next 200 years, by 1700 Birminghams population had increased fifteenfold and the town was the fifth-largest in England and Wales. The importance of the manufacture of goods to Birminghams economy was recognised as early as 1538. Equally significant was the emerging role as a centre for the iron merchants who organised finance, supplied raw materials. The 18th century saw this tradition of free-thinking and collaboration blossom into the phenomenon now known as the Midlands Enlightenment
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa, Leamington, or simply Leam to locals /ˈlɛmɪŋtən/ is a spa town in Warwickshire, England. Following the popularisation of the qualities of its water in the eighteenth century. It is named after the River Leam which flows through the town, the town contains especially fine ensembles of Regency architecture, particularly in parts of the Parade, Clarendon Square and Lansdowne Circus. The town comprises six electoral wards, Milverton, Crown, the total population for those wards in 2011 was 49,491. Formerly known as Leamington Priors, Leamington began to develop as a town at the start of the 19th century and it was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Lamintone. For 400 years, the settlement was under the control of Kenilworth Priory and its name came from Anglo-Saxon Leman-tūn or Lemen-tūn = farm on the River Leam. The spa waters had been known in Roman times and the rediscovery in 1784 by William Abbotts and Benjamin Satchwell, six of the seven wells were drilled for, only the original spring at the site of the Aylesford Well, adjacent to the Parish Church occurred naturally.
Early development of the old centre was on the southern bank of the River Leam. Later builders began concentrating the towns expansion on the north of the river. In 1767 Parliament passed an Act, proposed by Edward Willes, following a survey of the area by John Tomlinson in 1768, the land was estimated to be 990 acres and was subsequently divided, and new public roads were laid out. After the division on the south of the river most of the land east of the village was owned by the Willes family, to the north of the river most of the land was owned by the Willes family, the Earl of Warwick, and Bertie Greatheed. The main landholders of the village and adjacent land were the Earl of Aylesford, in the following decades some of the land was sold. By 1901, the population of Leamington had grown from a few hundred to nearly 27,000, in 1814, the Royal Pump Rooms and Baths were opened close to the River Leam. This grand structure attracted many visitors, expecting cures by bathing in pools of salty spa water and it included the worlds first gravity fed piped hot water system in modern times, which was designed and installed by the engineer William Murdoch.
Leamington became a spa resort attracting the wealthy and famous, and construction began of numerous Georgian townhouses to accommodate visitors. With the spread of the popularity, and the granting of a Royal prefix in 1838 by Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria had visited the town as a Princess in 1830, a statue of Queen Victoria was almost destroyed by a German bomb during the Second World War, and was moved one inch on its plinth by the blast. The statue was not returned to its position, and the incident is recorded on a plaque on its plinth
Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is called hard rackets, possibly to distinguish it from the related sport of squash. Historians generally assert that rackets began as an 18th-century pastime in Londons Kings Bench, the prisoners modified the game of fives by using tennis rackets to speed up the action. They played against the wall, sometimes at a corner to add a sidewall to the game. Rackets became popular outside the prison, played in alleys behind pubs and it spread to schools, first using school walls, and with proper four-wall courts being specially constructed for the game. The lithograph at right from the late 1700s shows school boys hitting up outside the Harrow School Old School buildings. Eglinton Castle has a Racket Hall which is first shown on the 1860 OS map, but estate records show that it was shortly after 1839. The floor is of granite slabs, now hidden by the wooden floor. It is the very first covered racket court and is now the oldest surviving court in the world and it has been restored as a racket hall, but used as an exhibition area.
Some private clubs built courts, along with real tennis and badminton, rackets was used as an inspiration for the game of lawn tennis, invented in 1873 by Walter Clopton Wingfield. A vacant rackets court built into the University of Chicagos Stagg Field served as the location of the first artificial nuclear chain reaction on December 2,1942, the Stagg Field court is often mistakenly identified as having been a squash rackets court. Rackets was part of the 1908 Summer Olympics program and was played at the Princes Club in London, after the second world war rackets saw a drop in popularity resulting in the closure of some courts and others suffering from a lack of maintenance. Dick Bridgeman, an advocate for the sport established what was the Dick Bridgeman Tennis, the foundation sought donations to support young professionals thereby ensuring the future of the game. Now known as simply The Tennis and Racquets Foundation, it continues to raise money for young professionals raising the profile of rackets worldwide, the Book of Racquets was published by J. R.
Atkins in 1872. It was reprinted to commemorate the 1981 World Rackets Challenge Match between W. J. C, surtees and J. A. N. Prenn as a limited edition of 250 copies. Rackets is played in a 30 by 60 feet enclosed court and doubles are played on the same court. The walls and floor of the court are made of stone or concrete and are generally dark in colour to contrast with the white ball. A player uses 30. 5-inch wooden racket, known as a bat, a good stroke must touch the front wall above a 26.5 inches high wooden board before touching the floor
The roots of this class of games can be traced to the Greek and other ancient cultures. The term pelota probably comes from the Vulgar Latin term pilotta and it is a diminutive form of the word pila which may relate to a hard linen or leather ball filled with pilus or to the Latin words for strike or spade and is related to the English word pellet. Today, Basque pelota is played in several countries, in Europe, this sport is concentrated in Spain and France, especially in the Basque Country. The sport is played in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Uruguay. Operated as an enterprise called Jai Alai, it is seen in parts of the U. S. such as Florida, Nevada. In Valencia, Valencian pilota is considered the sport, it is played in Belgium, North of Italy, Mexico. The four modalities admit fourteen disciplines, depending the use of hand, leather ball, rubber ball, racket. Two of the fourteen disciplines are played by men and women, the other twelve are played only by men. This allows championship play at the level, and allows the participation of players.
There is, criticism about this, since purists might argue that some of the traits of each particular modality could be lost. Even with protection, accidents do happen, with the ball easily travelling at 200 km/h pelota can kill if safety equipment is not used properly or at all and, though rare, deaths occasionally occur. The origin of this sport is tied to the decline of the ancient jeu de paume, while the game evolved to the modern jeu de paume and eventually to tennis, rural alpine and pyreneean communities kept the tradition. According to the basque pilota historian Chipitey Etcheto, the first recorded matches took place in Napoleonic times, the mid-19th century saw the explosion of the pelota craze. The player Gantxiki is considered the father of the chistera. The top champions of the end of the 19th century, such as Chiquito de Cambo, were immensely popular, the first official competitions were organized in the 1920s, and led to the world championship in the 1950s. In 1924 the United States built their first fronton, in Miami, men often came in suits and women came in elaborate dresses for the special event.
Nowadays Jai-Alai has dropped in popularity instead of thousands of people who came to watch now there are barely a couple hundred, the sport is truly dying out in America. Pelota is usually played in the Basque regions of south-western France and north-eastern Spain, due to the origin of the game, there are many good players who are Basques, either natives or from the Basque diaspora
Valencian pilota is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Country. Rules variations within the generic Pilota Valenciana category are frequent from area to area but the trait is that the ball is struck with a bare, or almost bare. The general rule involves two teams made from two up to five players each, individual matches are played between the most renowned players. The second characteristic is that it is not played against a wall, similar to modern tennis, two individuals or teams are placed face to face separated either by a line on the ground or a net in all of modern modalities except for the frontó. A distinctive trait of Valencian pilota is that the spectators are often seated or standing very close to the court means that they may be hit by the ball. The break between indoor and outdoor forms caused many variants to diverge from the original Llargues version, thus Perxa evolved into Galotxa, and which in turn gave rise to Escala i corda, while Raspall was still played in both courtfields.
It should be noted that llargues is the variant that uses the original ratlles rule. Nowadays, Valencian pilota is played in the whole Valencian Community, professional players of Escala i corda and Raspall are hired to play at the trinquets or in streets during the towns festivals. There are two versions of the sport depending whether it is played outdoors in a designated street or indoors. Variations of the played in the street are Galotxa, Llargues. The streets must be long and wide, if the streets have some irregularities, such as balconies, sidewalks, traffic signals, etc. they may be used in order to score. Some municipalities have built fake streets which look like real ones but are meant only for pilota games, as for the ones played indoors there are, Frare, Is a short Valencian frontó with bevels on the corners that cause the ball to bounce unexpectedly. Mostly played in the North of the Castelló province, the frontis has a 1-metre high line which marks the lowest point where a bouncing ball may hit.
Galotxetes, Played in a 20-by-3. 5-metre space with a 1-metre high net in the middle, on the four corners there are open holes resembling doors where points are scored. Now it is played in the Vinalopó Mitjà comarca. Trinquet, There is a 60-by-10-metre four walled court with stairs on one side for the spectators to sit, There are two galleries over each of the frontons for people to sit. There is a balcony where reputed people or professional betters may sit. Next to the llotgeta a square is drawn on the ground, the dau, in order to play Escala i corda rules a 2-metre high net must be placed in the middle of the court
Augurius of Tarragona
Augurius of Tarragona or Saint Augurius was a Christian clergyman Hispano-Roman. It is cited as Augurinus, exerting the office of deacon was martyred along with bishop Fructuosus and deacon Eulogius. He died burned alive in the amphitheater of Tarraco during the persecution decreed by the Roman emperors Valerian, possibly were the first martyrs of which there is some sort of documentation in the history of Christianity in Spain. The years 2008-2009, on the occasion of the 1750th anniversary of his death, the text documents the following details. St. Agurius, along with bishop Fructuosus and deacon Eulogiuss, were just going to bed when they were arrested and they were examined, at which point they affirmed their belief in the Christian God. They were sentenced to be burnt, officers were posted to prevent any sort of disturbance breaking out. They were not completely successful and near the gate of the some of the Christians were able to get close to Fructuosus. St. Fructuosus replied, in a loud enough for everyone to hear.
He added words of consolation and encouragement to the assembled. As the flames rose and enveloped the martyrs, they stretched out their arms, st Augurius feast day is January 21st. 2a edició J. Torné i Cubells, et al, oratori en quatre quadres del mil·lenari de Santa Maria dIgualada, per a veus solistes, cor i orquestra El quadre I està dedicat a Sant Fructuós
Croquet is a sport that involves hitting plastic or wooden balls with a mallet through hoops embedded in a grass playing court. The oldest document to bear the word croquet with a description of the game is the set of rules registered by Isaac Spratt in November 1856 with the Stationers Company in London. This record is now in the Public Record Office, in 1868, the first croquet all-comers meet was held at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire and in the same year the All England Croquet Club was formed at Wimbledon, London. In the book Queen of Games, The History of Croquet, Nicky Smith presents two theories of the origin of the game of croquet, which took England by storm in the 1860s. This was the explanation given in the edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. It is to be observed, that there are two of these arches, that is one at end of the alley. The images caption describes the game as a curious ancient pastime, in Samuel Johnsons 1755 dictionary, his definition of pall-mall clearly describes a game with similarities to modern croquet, A play in which the ball is struck with a mallet through an iron ring.
However, there is no evidence that pall-mall involved the croquet stroke which is the characteristic of the modern game. Regular contact between Ireland and France had continued since the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169. By no than the early 15th century, the game jeu de mail was popular in France, including in the courts of Henry II in the 16th century, at least one version of it, rouët was a multi-ball lawn game. There is, however, no pre-1858 Irish document that describes the way game was played, whatever the truth of the matter, Jaques certainly played an important role in popularising the game, producing editions of the rules in 1857,1860, and 1864. Croquet became highly popular as a pastime in England during the 1860s. By 1867, Jaques had printed 65,000 copies of his Laws and it quickly spread to other Anglophone countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. No doubt one of the attractions was that the game could be played by both sexes, this ensured a certain amount of adverse comment.
There was a revival in the 1890s, but from onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club still has a croquet lawn, but has not hosted any significant tournaments. The English headquarters for the game is now in Cheltenham, on the page facing the title page is a picture of Eglinton Castle with a game of croquet in full swing. The croquet lawn existed on the terrace, between Eglinton Castle and the Lugton Water. In 1865 the Rules of the Eglinton Castle and Cassiobury Croquet was published by Edmund Routledge, several incomplete sets of this form of croquet are known to exist, and one complete set is still used for demonstration games in the West of Scotland
Lawn Tennis Association
The Lawn Tennis Association is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The organisation was founded in 1888 and seven-time Wimbledon champion William Renshaw was elected as its first president, as the governing body, the LTA’s overall purpose is to grow and sustain the sport. The success of British tennis is tracked by five headline measures of success,1, number of members of registered places to play 2. Number of British tennis members 3, number of regularly competing juniors 4. Number of International A Matrix juniors 5, number of players in the top 100. These measures of success gives a snapshot of the impact of work the LTA does. The LTA’s focus is to develop participation growth to more people play tennis. The approach to growing participation is based on investment in four areas,1. Places – Investing in places to play at parks, schools, people – Supporting the people who make tennis happen, including coaches and club officials 3. Programmes – Developing programmes including LTA Mini Tennis, Cardio Tennis and Tennis Xpress 4 and it opened in 2007 and is a focal point for Britains top players.
It has 22 courts, player accommodation and a science centre. The NTC has 12 acrylic hard courts,6 clay courts, hard Courts, The NTCs 12 acrylic courts are a GreenSet Grand Prix Acrylic surface. The indoor courts have a sprung timber sub-frame, while the courts are laid directly on asphalt. This GreenSet surface is used at international tournaments including Davis Cup, Fed Cup, WTA. 4 Northern European Clay Courts and 2 FRENCH-COURT synthetic clay courts, grass Courts, The LTA consulted All England Lawn Tennis Club head groundsman Eddie Seaward to advise on the installation of its four outdoor grass courts. The quality and playing characteristics replicate those found at the Wimbledon Championships, along with its 22 tennis courts, the NTC is equipped with a state-of-the-art gymnasium, outdoor sprint track, plunge pools and relaxation egg. The NTC has overnight accommodation for up to 54 people, along with a player lounge, the NTC provides services in Performance analysis, psychology and rehab, strength and conditioning, medical support and nutrition.
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Why Simmons Is Wrong: A Tour de Force
le Tour de France
Written by Samuel Frost
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
1. Bad Greek
My first argument is the easiest to reveal the incompetence of Simmons. I had a good laugh over this one. Simmons wants his readers to think that the Greek article is of no real importance. Yet, anyone can read any grammar (I have about seven of them) to see that this is false. He notes that the Greek article appears before names, like, "the Jesus said..." Why the article? Simple. It is specific. Names are very limited and specific, and thus the article often accompanies them. It's just the Greek way.
His second clumsy mistake was to note that "not one" (italics his) translation agrees with my translation. All I have to do here is produce one translation to prove Simmons false. Young's Literal Translation: "because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin." Notice the articles. Romans 5.14 shows that Young translates, "the death." I could go on, but if you happen to have a Young's, read Romans 5.12-21. Score one for Frost, 0 for Simmons.
His next very bad comparison is to make me sound like I am inventing a translation akin the New World Translation (NWT) of the Jehovah's Witnesses. False. Since Simmons has not been schooled in Greek, and since he does not teach Greek, his "knowledge" here is deficient. The NWT makes a case that "a" god in John 1.1 is a legitimate grammatical point. Fact of the matter is Greek has no indefinite article (no "a"). The second fact of the matter is that my translation is a literal rendering of the Greek. Why, then, does English not bring out "the"? Simple. When we learned translation under the rigors of seminary training (which Kurt has none), we heard the concept of "smoothing out" the Greek to make it readable in English. To the Greek, "the death" was perfectly readable because it's Greek to the Greek! To the English reader, "the Jesus said" is not "smooth English." But, amazingly, Simmons is trying to make the point that since "the" is not in most of our English translations, then it is not really there, and of not much importance to exegetical considerations! If Simmons tried to sell this line of garbage to any Greek professor, they would laugh him out of the class and tell him to continue pursuing law. Score: Frost, 2; Simmons, 0.
Finally, I'll leave the reader with a quote from someone who actually knows Greek, wrote a well-received textbook on the subject, and should put this baby to rest. "There is no more important aspect of Greek grammar than the article to help shape our understanding of the thought and theology of the NT writers." And, "...[T]he article is able to turn just about any part of speech into a noun and, therefore, a concept. For example, "poor" expresses a quality, but the addition of an article turns it into an entity, "the poor." It is this ability to conceptualize that seems to be the basic force of the article" (Greek Grammar Beyond The Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, Daniel B. Wallace, Zondervan, 1996, pp. 208,209). Now, Paul consistently used "the death" and "the sin." "Sin" is just a quality. "The Sin" is an entity, a concept. Paul is not, then, talking about individual sins, but the very concept and definition of the Sin. If Simmons would actually read technical commentaries that deal with the Greek text, he would see that they talk about the article and the concept of "death." Frost, 3; Simmons 0.
2. Bad Logic
Simmons uses what he calls "syllogisms" to dismantle my argument. He states that I must prove that his reasoning here is false. It can easily be done. In Logic 101, there are valid syllogisms and invalid ones. Logic operates much like Math. 2+2=4. All A is B cannot imply No A is B (symbolically written A(ab) ~ O(ab) following the affirmo and nego as contradictions). There are many syllogisms that go under mnemonic devices like Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Freioque prioris. Notice that each word (in Latin) has three vowels. The first is Barbara (AAA): All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. That is, A(ba). A(cb) -> A(ca). That's logic, and there are only 24 valid syllogisms (in Logic AEIO stands for the four declarative statements).
Another rule of logic is that although a syllogism is true structurally speaking, it may be false factually speaking. In other words, "All dogs are cats. Fifi is a dog. Therefore, Fifi is a cat." Perfect logic! But, is the major premise factually true? Logic cannot give us definitions. Now, aside from this all too brief lesson in Logic, Simmons fails on both accounts. He fails on a third account, too, which I will show.
First off, his syllogisms follow no known logical syllogism of the 24 valid ones. Let's look at Simmons first syllogism:
Major Premise: The reign of sin and death over man (A) was determined by the Mosaic law (B)
Minor Premise: The Mosaic law (B) was annulled at the eschaton, losing all men of its power (A); therefore,
Conclusion: Men are universally reconciled (C) to God.
Now, from this, we can see that Simmons adds a subject in the conclusion that is not contained in the premises. Very bad logic. In fact, this is a violation of one of the first rules of syllogistic reasoning. The Conclusion must contain a subject in the Premises. There is no need, then, to refute a bad, logical argument! But, even if we grant that somehow Simmons may salvage some rationale for this mess, he still is factually false in the first premise: Max King and Samuel Frost do not teach that the Mosaic Law determined the reign of the Sin and the Death! This will be shown under section 5 conclusively from multiple quotes from King.
Simmons wants to parade around his knowledge and supposed defeat of covenant eschatology by stating that he is giving "hard evidence" from King and me. He quotes merely a few sentences from myself then spins his interpretation of what I meant! He allows for no context. It is like one observer remarked: Simmons is the master of the cut and paste. Rather, what Simmons (and Dennis, Dubois, B. Simmons and others) has done is create an argument; create a supposed link between covenant eschatology and Universalism. Once they have created this illusion through very bad arguments (I have proven some very easily above), they get others who are impressionable with the use of their sophistry to go along with it. Then we have to have a "debate." Well, I am debating, and what I have found so far, as written so far in this paper, is demonstrably dumb.
Simmons' second syllogism goes like this:
Major Premise: The resurrection consisted in the removal of legal condemnation.
Minor Premise: Legal condemnation exists today despite annulment of the Mosaic law. Therefore,
Conclusion: There was no spiritual resurrection based upon the annulment of the Mosaic law.
Anyone spot the error here? If you had a few courses in Logic and actually paid attention in class instead of waiting for the next game of beer pong, you would see it. Rule, "Two affirmative premises do not imply a negative conclusion" (G. H. Clark, Logic, Trinity Foundation, p.78; vid. Basic Logic, Raymond J. McCall, Barnes and Knoble Pub., pp. 132-196) Yet, that's what we have here. The Major Premise is affirmative. The Minor Premise is affirmative. The Conclusion is negative (notice the word, "no"). Simmons' syllogism here is invalid and to be shunned. It is not an argument. It is nonsense and unintelligible. There does not need to be any response to a badly constructed syllogism. Frost 4; Simmons 0 (but, hey, who's keeping score?).
3. Bad Exegesis (or No Exegesis at All)
Unfortunately, there is none at all. Simmons offers no exegesis. He offers, instead, Arminianism under the banner of Church of Christ. Why he wants to pull Calvinism into this is a smokescreen. Even one of my most ardent opponents noted this. I can't find any exegesis in Simmons' two papers. Exegesis that deals with the Greek text. I will not make this into a Calvinism versus Arminianism. I deny freewill. I believe in total sovereignty, down to the number of hairs currently on my head. I believe that there is no question that could ever be formed that God could not exhaustively answer. God "knows all things" (I John 3.20). I guess Simmons wants to "link" that to Universalism, too. I could argue that the Bible leads to Universalism since, from Origen on, all Universalists use the Bible as their source!
On the contrary, my first paper was nothing but exegesis. Simmons does very little to counter this. He does not deal with the 5 Points that are derived solely from the scriptural material:
Point #1: In I Co 15.54 Paul quotes Is 25.8. In the Hebrew it is "ha muth" or "the death." The Septuagint also reflects this, and so does Paul. Paul mentions "the death" in I Co 15.26. There, the "last enemy that is being destroyed" in Paul's day was "the death." No doubt that "the death" he has in mind here is the same "the death" he has in mind in 15.54-56.
Point #2: Paul also quoted from Hosea 13.14 where "death" is addressed in the vocative. Paul links these two contexts together, meaning that "the death" in Is 25.8 is the same "O' Death" that is being addressed in Hos 13.14. Both of these contexts are Restoration of Israel contexts, with which no one would disagree.
Point #3: In I Co 15.56 Paul links "the death" with "the sin" and "the law." Very recently, many scholars, none of which are Full Preterists, have noted the clear connection between 15.56 and Rom 5. In other words, 15.56 is a condensed argument of Rom 5, which the Corinthians would have been familiar with since Paul stayed so long with them. In the letter to the Romans, however, Paul has to expound upon this doctrine since he has never visited Rome. The same can be said for the language of II Co 3.5, which appeals and quotes Gen 1.3 and clearly connects "the death" with the "law written in Stone." The Law of Moses was "the administration of the Death" (3.7). Unless Paul has more than one definition of "the death" that consistently occurs in contexts talking about Israel and the Law of Moses, then we are perfectly logical in insisting that all of these usages of "the death" means one thing: the death that passed on to all men as the result of the one man.
Point #4: John's vision of "the death and the hades" (which, in the Hebrew Scriptures, these words are often coupled together) ends with the destruction of "the Death." That John has Isaiah in mind (or, rather, that the Spirit inspiring John is alluding to His past revelations given to Isaiah) is plain. The Death is destroyed and John writes, "He will wipe away the tears from their eyes. There will be no more the Death" (Rev 21.4). Now, let's read Is 25.8: "He will swallow up the Death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces." That there is a connection here is plain for all to see.
Point #5: Conclusion, John and Paul did not make up a new doctrine concerning "the death." They explicitly got it from Isaiah. John pictures the fulfillment, therefore, of Is 25.8 in Rev 21. Paul is looking forward to the same fulfillment in I Co 15, using the same language. It is quite clear and plain that Paul has connected "the death" with "the law of Moses" and more explicitly with the law given to Adam, which he transgressed. It is quite plain for anyone to see that with the "dissolution of the law" of Moses, the "administration of the Death" would be equally swallowed up. The Law of Moses was "added to" the Law that Adam broke, and thus became the main "administer" of the Death which came because of Adam. The fulfillment and subsequent dissolution of the "written code on stones" would mean that "the Death" would cease to "reign" over "all peoples." The Death does not reign in the New Heavens and New Earth.
It is my conclusion that he cannot deal with these points. Secondly, Simmons does not ever exegete Isaiah 25.8, in which every commentary I have on Isaiah concludes that this envisions a once and for all swallowing up of "the death." However, the commentators point out the next verse, as I did, that "Moab" is destroyed. Universalism cannot be the case. Simmons ignores this point. Let me repeat it:
"You have to see this picture. If the sheet of the Death that covers "all peoples" includes Moab, then it follows that the sheet of the Death is removed for Moab. Moab is no longer under the sheet, for the sheet has been removed. However, Moab is destroyed, not saved! Isaiah 26 continues to remark that "in that day" (26.1) "grace will be shown to the wicked, though they learn not righteousness." What is interesting here is that Paul speaks of "grace reigning in the righteousness to eternal life"! As we have shown, "eternal life" is the result of the swallowing of the Death. However, just because the Death is swallowed up for all, does not mean that all enter into the Kingdom of God wherein is Eternal Life."
Simmons ignores the very framework that Isaiah has laid out here. Get this, readers. Every commentary I have on Isaiah sees this passage as referring to the absolute destruction of the Death. Now, they define it, traditionally, as the end of any and all forms of death. That is, when this passage is fulfilled, "there will be no more the death." Simmons is a full Preterist. He must do something with this verse. He must redefine the traditional reading of this verse like I am in order to stay a full Preterist.
Now, to be fair, Simmons does offer some sort of explanation concerning Adam. It is confused, however. Simmons wrote, "At its heart it impugns the cross, saying men could not be justified unless the law was removed. But this is wholly false for Christ's cross triumphed over the law." King's point would be that he triumphed over the Law by removing the Law. But, let's continue to read, "Hence it was hardly necessary for the law to be removed for man to be justified." Got that? Christ triumphs "over the law" but it was not necessary for the law to be "removed." In fact, "Indeed, its very assertion that the "law" was removed is found a lie." Got that? To assert that the Law is removed at all is "a lie." Simmons continues, "for the law of Moses was merely the outward and perishable form temporarily imposed upon the moral law of God to show man his sinfulness." Now we have two laws introduced here! Watch closely, folks, for Houdini is getting ready to perform a card trick! "The outward form, consisting in the ceremonial and certain other incidentals, was indeed removed, but the inward part remains until this very day." Wow. Now, let's get this straight, if that's possible. Which "law" did Christ triumph over? Which "law" was removed? If it false to say that "the law" was removed, and then turn around and identify two laws, one of which is removed, then for which "law" is it false to say that it was removed? Confused? Good.
Notice that Simmons' sleight of hand card trick is to introduce the traditional, theological (Lutheran) version of dividing up the law into three parts: the Moral, the Ceremonial, and the Legal. The Ceremonial is removed, but the Moral remains. I guess the Legal is removed, too, since I like shellfish. Notice that what this "theory" fails to take into consideration is that the whole Law stands or falls together. This threefold distinction of the Law is theologically foreign to Paul. It a man-made theology to "get around" applying all of the Law, yet forcing some of the Law on parishioners. Did Jesus mean this when he spoke about "not one jot or tittle?" No. There is no exegesis here. Just forced tradition upon a full Preterist framework. What you get is a freaky theology.
Now, Simmons goes on to say that, "Indeed...the Mosaic law was merely superadded to the moral law." Wow. The Mosaic Law was added to the Moral Law. The Moral Law is apart of the Mosiac Law, but here the Mosaic Law must mean the Ceremonial and Legal Law. But, when Paul uses the phrase, "the Law of Moses" was he talking about the Moral Law in Moses' Law, or just the Ceremonial Law in Moses' Law? Or maybe the Legal and Ceremonial laws, but not the moral laws? Confused? Good.
What Simmons fails to see is that for the Jew in Paul's day, failing to do any part of the law was immoral. That is, if a person failed to tithe to the Jerusalem temple, he was a sinner. If a person failed to offer appropriate sacrifices, he was a sinner. If a Jew did not perform ceremonial aspects of the Law, he was regarded as a sinner. No Jew said, "oh, that's just ceremonial." Simmons is entirely wrong on this point and it is high time he caught up with good Evangelical theology.
Now, further confusion. Simmons actually thinks that King teaches that only the ceremonial law condemned all men. Keep this in mind when we cover section 5. Simmons wrote, "The "old aeon" of the ceremonial law was not removed so sin could be defeated and death annulled as asserted by King; just the opposite: it is because sin and death were defeated that the old aeon of ceremonial law was removed." I will consider this further in section 5, but here note that Simmons asserts a "defeat" of "the sin and the death." When? Notice that he does have a connection between the "defeat" of "sin and death" and the "removal" of the ceremonial law in A.D. 70. He never elaborates, but there it is. But, based upon my points above, the removal of "the sting of the death" is in fulfillment to Isaiah 25.8, which Paul clearly saw as still future. When was "the death" in connection with the "removal of the ceremonial" swallowed up and defeated? If the death is defeated at the cross, according to Simmons, then why is Paul still looking forward to its defeat at the parousia of Christ? The parousia, mind you, that coincides with Simmons' "removal of the ceremonial law". When was death defeated? At the cross? The resurrection? The Ascension? The parousia? When was the old aeon of the ceremonial law "removed"?
Finally, and most devastating, Simmons wrote, "the moral law continues to condemn all men today (for all men sin), it is impossible that the removal of the Old Covenant brought about the "resurrection" covenant eschatology asserts." Let's straighten all this out, okay? The Ceremonial Law was superadded to the Moral Law. Sin and death were defeated at the cross, and it was because of this that the Ceremonial Law was "removed" in A.D. 70. However, the Moral Law continues to condemn all men and sin and death continue to reign. However, sin and death are defeated when one comes to Jesus. However, since no Christian alive today can claim to be raised from the dead, then he must still be under sin and death until, in Simmons' view, he dies and gets a new body. Get that? If that's what Preterism teaches, I declare to all today: I want nothing to do with it.
What Simmons fails to see is that sin and death was not pictured by Paul (and Isaiah) as being swallowed up for some, but not others. The Death is swallowed up "for all peoples" as Isaiah plainly says. Let's read Revelation 20.13: "the Death gave up the dead that was in it." Now, according to point 4 above, "the death" that John has in mind here is the same "the death" in Isaiah 25.8. Notice that first, the Death gives up the dead that were "in it." Notice that, two, these dead ones are judged according to their deeds. It is their deeds that ultimately condemns them. Abraham was just as much "in Adam" as was Sennacherib. Both were under the reign of the Death. Abraham, because of his faith and works that followed, rose to receive eternal life. Sennacherib did not. Some of those that are taken from "the death" go on to eternal life, others do not. Clearly, then, the swallowing up of the Death did not mean that all would gain eternal life. The Bible teaches this plainly, and Simmons flatly contradicts the Bible. Don't be swallowed up by his mess. If we are in the Age to Come, then all are in the Age to Come, but, as the Bible teaches, one must "come and enter" to have eternal life. Preterists must deal with this framework or, like Dennis, abandon it.
4. Bad Understanding of Calvinism
I am not going to spend a lot of time here because it is so unnecessary. First off, I'll let you in on a secret: I am a "five point Calvinist" and since 1989, when I read the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Lorraine Boettner, I always have been. Simmons keeps calling me a "four point Calvinist" simply because he does not understand Calvinist lingo. This point, and this point alone, should reveal that Simmons is incompetent. In fact, I go further. Since 1989 I have been what is called a "supralapsarianist." That is the "dangerous" kind of Calvinists (chuckle...lighten up, folks). Since 1989 I have always affirmed what has been called, "limited atonement." I still affirm it. Simmons does not understand my position at all, and this fact ought to alert the reader that he misunderstands a lot of things.
Now, I must talk, briefly, about being a baby killer as Simmons wants to make us Calvinists out to be. Again, if Simmons actually read Calvinist theology (like Bede, Turretin, Gill, Hodge, Clark, Machen, sigh!), he would see that for Calvinists, the question about God burning up little infants in hell is silly. The Bible does not answer this question. It is a supposed logical inference emphasized by Arminianists that if the Calvinist doctrine of election be true, then God burns babies in hell. Now, in Logic, an "inference" may or may not be true. That is, Sally was killed by a .44 caliber. Her husband owns a .44 caliber. Inference: Sally's husband shot her. That may or may not be true. We don't have all the facts.
This applies directly to this strange addition to the debate that Simmons has brought to the forefront. If I asked Simmons if there are "babies" in heaven, what would he say? That is, if a three week old fetus is aborted and goes to heaven, does it go and remain as a three week old fetus or a person? I would think that Simmons would say, a whole person, mature. Great answer. Now, can we get rid of the picture of God burning babies in hell? Babies are not in hell. People are. Babies are not in heaven. People are. Mature people.
Usually the Calvinist will respond with his own caricature of the free-will lovers. It goes something like this: when I was a fetus to the "age of accountability" I had eternal life. When I was eight I stole a piece of candy, sinned, and lost it. Now I was on my way to hell. But, when I was 13 I heard Billy Graham speak and gave myself to Jesus. Now I was on my way to heaven. However, I had an alcoholic father and could not quit drinking myself. I fell away from Jesus and now I am bound for hell again. Maybe I can get saved again before I die. Simmons would probably reject such a view, and most Arminianists I know do reject it. Just like we reject to being baby burners. It's a moot point. We don't know all the facts. It's another smokescreen from Simmons to further distance people from Sam Frost. After all, Sam Frost is a baby burner and has helped foster the massive spread of Universalism amongst the Preterists. Laughing now? Good. You should be. I am, too. Frost, 34; Simmons 0.
5. Bad, No, Terrible Understanding of Samuel Frost's
and Max King's Position
Quickly, Simmons believes in two things about King's position: "the ceremonial law condemned all men." And, "The power of sin and death over mankind resided in the Mosaic law." He believes this about my position: "Sam's article [is] irrelevant to King's covenant eschatology." That is, my paper "said little or nothing thing about covenant eschatology." All three of these assertions are as false as false can be. I plan on scoring three more points here.
First off, if one has a copy of The Cross and the Parousia (CP) by King, then it would be wise to read pages 612-633. There one will read the massive material under the heading, "The Fall of Adam." King wrote, "It is essential...to understand the nature of Adam's fall" (CP, 612). He then moves on to consider the single sin (what I called, "the sin") which resulted in a universal separation of all that belong to Adam: "Does it not follow, therefore, that if Adam could not achieve life on his own strength and power, neither could any of his descendents?" (617). Further, "Adam's sin was the sin of all men" (617). Man after Adam was plunged into "a world of sin and death" (617).
The meaning of "for all have sinned" in Romans 5 is clearly of "a corporate nature" (616), drawing from the theology of Ridderbos and Shedd, two scholars I admire. From this foundation King, commenting on Romans 5.13,14, wrote, "[W]e believe Paul's argument is structured to establish that the Gentiles are no less under bondage to sin and death than is Israel of the law" (623). It is here that King makes the distinction between the personal sins of those from "Adam to Moses" and the specific Transgression of Adam which caused "the death" to reign over all men before the giving of the Law to Moses. "This means, as we have pointed out above, that death, and its entrance into the world, must be seen as occurring when Adam was driven from Eden, and from the life and presence of God. Therefore, death (i.e., separation from God) became a fixed mode of being in the world of humanity, which no descendent of Adam possessed the power to change except the Promised One" (624). King continues to elaborate and I urge the reader to locate these pages, well over 20, that basically reflect the exact same points I made. The same points that, according to Simmons, has "nothing to do with covenant eschatology." Frost, 67; Simmons 0.
Again, King: "This raises the question about Israel. In being placed under the law, their sins are imputed, but is this why they are under the reign of sin and death? This cannot be the reason...Death reigns where sin is not imputed" (ital. mine, 624). King goes on to show that it was Adam that introduced the reign of sin and death, and it was this reign that Israel was under. The Law of Moses did not put them under "more condemnation" and did not make them "more enslaved" (624). The Law of Moses, the whole law of Moses, was added to show what Adam's offense meant (625). The Law of Moses was added to show that all men are alike condemned, Jews and Gentiles. The Law was added, also, to typologically point to the spiritual highway of Deliverance that would come through the Star of Judah. The theology in these pages by King is masterful as it is brilliant. But I only want to point out that the very foundation of King's "covenant eschatology" is rooted in Adam and what I wrote about in the first paper. Remember, as I have pointed out, Simmons says that my first paper had "nothing to do with King's covenant eschatology." This is proof that Simmons has no true grasp of the theology represented by Max King. He misrepresents it at its very foundation. Nowhere does King see the reign of sin and death as beginning with the Law of Moses, or "determined" by the Law of Moses or "residing" in the Law of Moses. Simmons has mislead his readers.
On pages 628-633 King brilliantly shows that universalism is not the result of a corporate reading of Romans 5. Now, based upon my memory, in my last conversation with King, he was considering redefining the word "all" so as to include everyone. He stated to me that he knew this would change the definition that is in CP. But, as I showed, this has nothing to do with the corporate view, but with the definition of the word, "all." Anyone who is a Calvinist or a Preterist knows that "all" in the Bible is a sometimes tricky little word. The discussion, then, should center in on "all in Christ shall be made alive" and its relation to Universalism. It should not focus on baby burning Calvinists who share with King the Corporate View that leads to Universalism, as Simmons has made it out to be. Simmons has created a false argument (borrowed from Todd Dennis). Neither one can hold a candle to King.
CP goes on to define "death" and "sin" in much the same fashion I did in my first paper. On page 643, under the heading, "The Defeat of Death", the material jumps to Isaiah 25.8. Go figure. I could go on and on for pages and pages of material that refute Simmons' understanding, or rather misunderstanding, of King. But, one last quote from the book will do well: "The old aeon of the Law has been done away...but it remains that apart from Christ creaturely man continues to reside "in the flesh" from a non-covenantal perspective; a mode of existence that is incapable of achieving life due to the weakness of the flesh. Hence deliverance from the flesh through "the circumcision of Christ" always will be the need of humanity..." (715). That is, all men everywhere live in the Age to Come, under the Rule of the Grace in The Righteousness that draws people from all nations to come and join God's People, the Israel of God, the Body of Christ.
The world has changed. As a result of the parousia of Christ, "the kingdoms of the world have become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Messiah, and He will reign forever and ever" (Revelation 11.15). Simmons would have you believe that this is not so. God's kingdom is not a kingdom or more reigning of sin and death. The reign of the Death and the Sin of Adam has been annulled. All the kingdoms (reigns, Greek) have become the Kingdom (reign, Greek) of Christ, the single kingdom. This is exactly how Zechariah 14 pictured it: "The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and His name the only name" (14.9). Yet, "Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples do not come to Jerusalem, they will have no rain...the Lord will bring a plague and inflict the nations that do not come up." (14.16-19). That is, "Outside are the dogs..." (Revelation 22.15). Zechariah is, in effect, saying that the Lord reigns over all the nations and He reigns in Grace and Righteousness. Those who come to the New Jerusalem celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, or simply understood typologically as being "in Christ" the "tabernacle of God." Those who refuse to come "inside" are cursed.
On this passage listen to Milton Terry, "All this glowing picture of the triumph and glorification of Jerusalem is the prophetic ideal of the future of the kingdom of God. It was introduced at the coming of Christ and the overthrow of Judaism and the old Jerusalem. It's one long day is known to the Lord; for nearly two thousand years it has been neither day nor night, but a conflict and mixture of both...With this ideal all the great apocalyptists agree" (Biblical Apocalyptics, p.167,168). Universalism is denied. Simmons is mistaken and has created an entire debate and argument based on his own misunderstanding. It's not looking good for Simmons' at all. Frost, another 3; Simmons, zilch.
I have set out to dismantle several things about Simmons' last paper. I have shown that he knows no Greek and does not understand the Greek article at all. I have shown, no, proven, that his so called "syllogisms" are logically incoherent and in fact at every turn violate the most fundamental laws of the logical syllogism. I have shown that his lack of exegesis is mainly negative and critical of mine, offering no real alternative except more of the "same ole, same ole" traditionalism-rooted-in-futurist-eschatology. His tirade against Calvinism is completely without merit and his understanding of my own Calvinistically derived views are completely wrong. Finally, and most devastating, I have proven that he has no real, true grasp of King's system as presented in Cross/Parousia. He has, rather, based his whole argument on a faulty misunderstanding of King and me. With all of these considerations in mind, it should become plain to everyone that Simmons needs to go back to the drawing board and ink out a new plan. This one has been destroyed. It also places into serious question the scholarship of Simmons.
I do want to add that Universalism has been entirely defeated by the Scriptures. It matters not whether one is a Corporate Body guy or a "get a new body when you die" guy. It matters not whether one is a Calvinist or an Arminianist. It matters not whether one is Church of Christ, Catholic or Presbyterian. It matters not if you believe in physical rapture in A.D. 70. It matters not if you are postmodernist or empiricist. It matters not if you take Eden literally or merely symbolic and non-real. Young earth, old earth, global flood, local flood, whatever. None of these views "leads" to Universalism. Exegetical considerations of universalistic passages in the Bible (like, "every knee shall bow...") are the issue and the only issue. To make it anything else is to have hidden motives and axes to grind; an attempt to bury someone by "proving" that they are the reason for something that most of us view as aberrant. It's a game of pin the tail on the donkey, and the donkey is Universalism. What I am saying is that this donkey already has its own tail. It's already a complete donkey. It is its own system. Full Preterism didn't "invent" it and those who are Full Preterists who have come to believe in Universalism got there from bad exegetical leaps. It's as simple as that. There...now I have spoken my peace. As far as I am concerned, this debate is over. Besides, I've got some babies to burn...
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Valdera takes its name from the River Era, which flows through most of the region. The area offers unspoilt landscapes in the heart of Tuscany, between Pisa and Florence, and is characterized by amazing hills and historic traditions. The territory has largely conserved its farming origins, with cultivated fields, olive and fruit trees, vineyards and wheat and sunflowers everywhere.
Valdera is also home to Piaggio, the company that produces the classic Italian Vespa. So what’s one to do when faced with such stunning scenery and a Vespa at the ready? So grab your helmets and head out!
Our itinerary starts in Pontedera and heads straight to Palaia, a medieval town nestled between the banks of the Arno and Valdera. Once there, we recommend a visit to the Civic Tower, built in the 16th century, and the Parish Church of San Martino. The journey continues to Montefoscoli, where you can visit the Museum of Farming Life, which celebrates local agricultural traditions and the way of life for past generations of famers.
Now we head towards the striking Teatro del Silenzio (Theatre of Silence) in Lajatico, built by the famous singer Andrea Bocelli in honour of his hometown. Imagine having lunch with homemade baked focaccia bread surrounded by nature and silence… this is the perfect place to make that dream come true!
From Lajatico, you can take several different directions: one possibility is passing through Chianni and the spa town of Casciana Terme, or you could explore Terricciola and Capannoli. But if you want to continue with the original route, the last stop is Lari, inhabited since Etruscan times. Here, you’ll find a castle dating to the Middle Ages that dominates the Valdarno. The fortress is protected by a defense wall with three entrances: the Porta Fiorentina, the Pisana and the Volterrana. Have fun exploring this jump back in time before finishing the journey back in Pontedera, where you can enjoy a sunset dinner while thinking back on the day spent traversing the wonderful countryside of the Valdera. | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.visittuscany.com/en/itineraries/discovering-the-valdera-by-vespa/ | 2023-10-02T11:38:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510994.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002100910-20231002130910-00673.warc.gz | en | 482 | 0.925542 | 6 | 58,759,910 | 19 |
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<urn:uuid:0dfc306d-ceff-4822-ae23-a1fb23a71d62> | - Virtual chemical reactions for drug design (2009)
- Two methods for the fast, fragment-based combinatorial molecule assembly were developed. The software COLIBREE® (Combinatorial Library Breeding) generates candidate structures from scratch, based on stochastic optimization . Result structures of a COLIBREE design run are based on a fixed scaffold and variable linkers and side-chains. Linkers representing virtual chemical reactions and side-chain building blocks obtained from pseudo-retrosynthetic dissection of large compound databases are exchanged during optimization. The process of molecule design employs a discrete version of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) . Assembled compounds are scored according to their similarity to known reference ligands. Distance to reference molecules is computed in the space of the topological pharmacophore descriptor CATS . In a case study, the approach was applied to the de novo design of potential peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR gamma) selective agonists. In a second approach, we developed the formal grammar Reaction-MQL for the in silico representation and application of chemical reactions. Chemical transformation schemes are defined by functional groups participating in known organic reactions. The substructures are specified by the linear Molecular Query Language (MQL) . The developed software package contains a parser for Reaction-MQL-expressions and enables users to design, test and virtually apply chemical reactions. The program has already been used to create combinatorial libraries for virtual screening studies. It was also applied in fragmentation studies with different sets of retrosynthetic reactions and various compound libraries.
- DOGS: reaction-driven de novo design of bioactive compounds (2012)
- We present a computational method for the reaction-based de novo design of drug-like molecules. The software DOGS (Design of Genuine Structures) features a ligand-based strategy for automated ‘in silico’ assembly of potentially novel bioactive compounds. The quality of the designed compounds is assessed by a graph kernel method measuring their similarity to known bioactive reference ligands in terms of structural and pharmacophoric features. We implemented a deterministic compound construction procedure that explicitly considers compound synthesizability, based on a compilation of 25'144 readily available synthetic building blocks and 58 established reaction principles. This enables the software to suggest a synthesis route for each designed compound. Two prospective case studies are presented together with details on the algorithm and its implementation. De novo designed ligand candidates for the human histamine H4 receptor and γ-secretase were synthesized as suggested by the software. The computational approach proved to be suitable for scaffold-hopping from known ligands to novel chemotypes, and for generating bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/authorsearch/author/%22Felix+Reisen%22/start/0/rows/10/author_facetfq/Felix+Reisen | 2014-08-31T00:43:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500835844.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021355-00251-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 569 | 0.925714 | 6 | 58,759,912 | 21 |
<urn:uuid:40974cde-1320-4a6a-b0d5-d5dbbab42879> | For at least the last 10 million years every yeast cell of the sort used to make beer or bread has had 16 chromosomes. But now—thanks to CRISPR technology and some DNA tinkerers in China—there are living yeast with just one.
Genome organizer: We humans have our genes arranged on 46 chromosomes, yeast use 16, and there’s even a fern plant with 1260 of them. That’s just the way it is. And no one is quite sure why.
The big one: Do we really need so many chromosomes? That’s what Zhogjun Qin and colleagues at the Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology in Shanghai wanted to know.
With CRISPR, the gene-editing tool, Qin’s team chopped out the button-like centromeres that hold each stringy chromosome together, and then started fusing them into one long chain. The result: organisms with eight, four, two, and even finally just one “single giant chromosome.”
Is this a new species? Good question. Yeast with fewer chromosomes can’t mate very well or at all with regular ones, but they did fine with their own numerical kind. This may indeed be the start of a separate, man-made species.
What it’s for: Scientists want to explore why cells have chromosomes at all, so the weird new yeast could help. But the work is also a demonstration of “large-scale genome engineering,” say the Chinese team in their report, which appeared in the scholarly journal Nature.
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<urn:uuid:20bdf968-4335-4b03-b4d5-389e7a847683> | Originally Posted by Darth_Yuthura
Let me guess... Shakespeare? If so, he doesn't exactly do that very well. Concise means stating your idea and having it received by the reader/listener. Mark my words that you don't do that by using an excessive amount of useless words. Words get in the way and detract from the quality of writing.
Wrong. Let me give you an example.
"The tree had green leaves that moved in the wind."
It's as simple a message as can be written to convey that the tree has leaves, they are green, and they move in the wind. However, a writer could choose to say this instead:
"The tree held upon its branches a thousand emerald butterflies, each fluttering their delicate wings in rhythm with the unpredictable flow of the wind, proving order to chaos."
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<urn:uuid:45314a50-584e-420a-8228-8d034f89bda9> | A re-evaluation of radiological evidence from a study of U.S. strip coal miners.
Amandus-HE; Hanke-W; Kullman-G; Reger-RB
Arch Environ Health 1984 Sep-Oct; 39(5):346-351
Data from a 1972 US Public Health Service study of 1438 workers in eight strip coal mines and data on surface coal mine dust samples collected from 1972 to 1979 were examined. A total of 52 workers among the 1438 in the Public Health Service study had category 1 pneumoconiosis, two had category 2 and five had progressive massive fibrosis. Workers without previous dust exposure were not at risk for category 2 or higher pneumoconiosis because of the strip mining environment. The prevalence of pneumoconiosis in the reanalysis was similar to that reported in the Public Health Service study. Category 2 or higher pneumoconiosis was increased among workers with previous underground experience. The annual average coal mine dust concentration was less than 1 milligram per cubic meter (mg/m3) in the bituminous mines. More than 90 percent of the surface coal mines had an average concentration of less than 1mg/m3. The prevalence of category 2 or higher pneumoconiosis among workers without previous experience was negligible in most of the bituminous surface coal mines. Evaluation of the anthracite strip mine industry was considered difficult since only one such mine was included in the analysis. The authors conclude that surface coal mine workers should be given radiographic examinations periodically for pneumoconiosis if they work in jobs with high concentration of silica (7631869), have had previous underground experience, or have worked in anthracite mines.
Mining-equipment; Coal-miners; Coal-mining; Environmental-physiology; Radiology; Environmental-control; Radiological-equipment; Environmental-exposure; Environmental-contamination; Coal-dust; Mining-industry
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<urn:uuid:18992612-287e-45ae-9acc-69fa692e18cd> | View Full Version : FOR SALE: Playstation2 + DVD remote, controller extender and 1 game
1 controller w/ extension cable
remote control for DVD
8 meg memory card
Star Wars Starfighter game
Did I say it included the cables for composite video, RCA video and the RF modulator connection?
05-15-2001, 06:28 AM
Are you willing to negotiate or go any lower with your price?
actually sold it to a co-worker... sorry.
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<urn:uuid:ce567d73-5fc4-4b16-ab7f-347e4efa2613> | Alpha Delta Phi's roots at the University of Washington date back to June 1910, when a group of motivated young men formed a social organization named "The Kalevala Club." The Kalevala Club quickly distinguished itself as a leader in scholarship, athletics, and extracurricular activities, and the club quickly grew in popularity and membership.
In September 1911, the group renamed itself "Theta Chi" (no relation to the fraternity that now bears that name), and it ratified a constitution to help the group address its growth and accompanying needs. During the ensuing 9 years, Theta Chi became one of the most preeminent student organizations at the University of Washington. Several national fraternities asked Theta Chi to affiliate with their respective organizations. However, the brothers of Theta Chi were most attracted to the ideals, standards, history, and quality of brotherhood offered by Alpha Delta Phi. The brothers therefore petitioned to become a chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, and on October 29, 1921, Theta Chi became the Washington Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi.
GROWTH & PROSPERITY
After 1921, the Washington Chapter continued to grow and prosper. It remained one of the most preeminent and popular fraternities at the University of Washington, and became one of the strongest chapters in Alpha Delta Phi International. To accommodate its growth, in 1928, the Washington Chapter completed construction of a beautiful new chapter house. That chapter house has been the home of Washington Alpha Delts ever since.
Between 1928 and 1996, the Washington Chapter enjoyed virtually continuous growth and prosperity; it was consistently recognized as one of the strongest and most popular fraternities at the University of Washington, and as a leader in scholarship, athletics, social activities, student government, and philanthropy. The Washington Chapter also historically distinguished itself among other chapters of Alpha Delta Phi. For instance, after Alpha Delta Phi International introduced the "E.O. Blackman Outstanding Chapter Award" in 1978, the Washington Chapter won that award in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1991. More importantly, consistent with Alpha Delta Phi's core ideals, the Washington Chapter strived to help its brothers become "entire men." Indeed, the chapter historically provided each brother with ample opportunities to engage in social activities, athletic activities, and charitable activities, while simultaneously fostering an environment conducive to academic excellence.
2005 - CURRENT
The house today
The alumni have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars, have begun making additional improvements to the chapter house, and have created and funded the most generous scholarship program of any fraternity at the University of Washington. They are now actively recruiting well rounded, motivated new members who share Alpha Delta Phi's ideals, and who are willing to dedicate themselves to the brotherhood as the members of the Kalevala Club first did back in 1910. The most recent chapter highlight was winning the E.O Blackman award for best chapter on the national scale in 2016 as well as 2017. | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | http://alphadelt.org/1920s-1990s | 2019-06-19T20:46:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999041.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619204313-20190619230313-00257.warc.gz | en | 603 | 0.953994 | 6 | 58,759,921 | 30 |
<urn:uuid:a3f51a51-3666-4b7e-946e-c8c567aa18a6> | It's no secret that Mariah Carey loathed her single-season stint as a judge on American Idol.
"It was the most abusive experience," the 46-year-old diva said when asked about Idol at a Television Critics Association panel last week. "By the way, you've just driven me to drink."
The likely target of her blistering comments: co-judge Nicki Minaj, with whom Mariah sparred extensively throughout the season.
But now, former producers and contestants of the show are speaking out to defend the show against Mariah's claims.
"Honestly, there was no need for all that," season 12 contestant Lazaro Arbos, 25, told Billboard. "I don't get why she felt that way because as far as I'm concerned she never really had to deal with Miss Minaj. She wasn't even required to talk to her at all, whatsoever!"
Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, and Nicki Minaj on season 12 of American Idol
Added more diplomatic contestant Devin Velez, 22, “I can see why that would be frustrating for Mariah. She wanted to do her job and smile for the cameras, but it’s hard to do that when her fellow judges aren’t doing their jobs.”
One example of many Mariah-Nicki feuds that season: "I'm not f---in' putting up with her f---in' highness over there," Nicki shouted about Mariah in audition-round footage posted by TMZ. To which Mariah responded, "I'm not gonna sit here every f---ing minute to have you come down and harass me every minute of every day."
Idol's ex-executive producer Nigel Lythgoe also couldn't resist chiming in, complete with a dig at Mariah's new reality show, Mariah's World.
"I'm looking forward to Mariah's new series and wondering if Nicki Minaj may guest," Nigel, 67, told Billboard.
While Nicki, 33, has yet to address the latest Mariah drama, we have a feeling she's likely Team Idol.
As Lazaro said, "Her only job was to come in, sit down in a panel and give her comments to the singers and go home and get paid 18 million dollars. If that's abusive, then I really want to be abused by Idol!" | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://thefix.nine.com.au/2016/08/08/14/07/fix-080816-american-idol-contestants-slam-mariah-carey-claims-show-was-abusive-nicki-minaj | 2017-09-23T07:30:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689572.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170923070853-20170923090853-00242.warc.gz | en | 496 | 0.978528 | 6 | 58,759,922 | 31 |
<urn:uuid:d1ffd753-ef36-49e5-afdc-a192f10f14d7> | Study Reveals the Ideal Amount of Time to Wait Between Giving Birth and Getting Pregnant Again
Parents with multiple children often contend with how far apart they want to space out their brood. Should it be three years? Five? One? Or no planning at all?
Doctors will tell you that each pregnancy is different, but ideally a woman will give her body enough time to heal after delivering a tiny human. The current recommendations of World Health Organization and American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists state that women should try to wait at least 18 months before having another baby.
But a new study by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of British Columbia supports the position that twelve months can be the minimum for becoming pregnant again.
Published in JAMA, the study examined 150,000 births and found that women who got pregnant less than a year after giving birth had an increased risk of health problems for themselves and for baby. Risks include death (for mom or baby), low birth weight, delivery complications, or premature birth.
The risks for infant health was greater for women ages 20-34 versus those who were 35 and older. Overall, the study highlights that morbidity increases as does the risk of pre-term labor with shorter pregnancy intervals. But that risk is higher for younger women. The risk was higher when the pregnancy occurred six months after giving birth.
Researchers hope this information helps women who get pregnant later in life feel comfortable with a longer pregnancy gap, but they also encourage women to make their own personal choices when it comes to giving birth.
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<urn:uuid:57b63e31-8287-432c-824e-65f4bb451b88> | Speed is the measure of motion. You can find it by dividing the distance covered by the time it takes to travel that distance.
If a star is 10 light-years away, it is about 60 trillion miles distant.
Light travels through space at 186,000 miles per second.
A light ray travels 5.88 trillion miles a year in space.
The star Sirius is 9 light-years away from the solar system.
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Just because an atom satisfies its octet doesn’t mean that it is stable. We also have to consider valence electrons. Sounds familiar? Let’s look into what those are.
Concept #1: What is a valence electron?
So now let's talk about probably one of the most helpful topics in this entire chapter and that's the topic of bonding preferences. Now, this is something that I remember when I was in undergrad and I was taking orgo, I was really confused about because my professor a lot of times would just assume that I understood how atoms worked and how atoms bonded. I remember my professor would be like, “Oh, nitrogen forms three bonds and oxygen with a positive charge forms three bonds,” and I thought I was supposed to memorize all this stuff. It was really confusing.
It turns out that there's really simple logic that we can use to figure out exactly how many bonds every atom wants to have. Once you have this down, you're never going to forget it. Let's go ahead and move just right along.
Bonding preferences are based on the concept of octet electrons, but also based on another type of electron, so let's talk about it. It turns out that there are actual several ways to combine octet electrons in order to satisfy the octet rule for an atom.
Valence electrons, so this is a new word, valence electrons are the names that we give to the octet electrons that the atom actually owns. Remember that we said that atoms can choose to share electrons in bonds or they can choose to have electrons as lone pairs, both of them are going to count the same in terms of octet electrons because they're surrounding their part of the shell. But, they're actually going to count differently in terms of the valence count, so let's talk about that.
The number of the valence electrons is going to determine which of the octets that you could make. If there's several versions of octets, it's going to determine which of the octets is the most stable. This is the really basic rule. What we're going to say is that an atom is going to own every lone electron that it has and it's going to own only one electron for every bond that it has.
A really nice easy way to say this is that it's going to own every dot, one electron for every dot, and it's also going to own one electron for every stick. So I'm just going to say dot equals one and also stick equals one. Okay, that's just another way to say it. Alright.
Every dot = 1 valence electron, and every stick = 1 valence electron. (Octet is different, see above.)
Concept #2: What is the difference between valence and octet electrons?
So let's go ahead and do this kind of worked example and you guys can help me figure out the differences in stability for these.
The first thing I want you guys to do, we just talked about the octet rule, so what I want you guys to do is to figure out how many octet electrons each of these carbons would have. So go ahead and start off from the left, right there, and go ahead and pick out how many octet electrons does it have? 8. Okay, so let's write that in.
Now, what I want you guys to do is look at the next one and say, “Okay, how many octet electrons does that one have?” So let's move to the right and you're going to find there is that you also have 8. It's different though. It looks a little different, but I have two from the lone pair and two from each of these bonds, so it's still 8.
Now, we're going to keep going and what you're going to find is that all of these fulfill the octet rule. Okay. They all give carbon 8 electrons. Does that make sense so far? Even though they look radically different, but they still follow the octet rule.
So now here's my next question. Do you think that these are all equally stable? Do you think that they could all exist in the same way? It turns out, no. Definitely not. It turns out one of these is way more stable than all the other ones and the reason has to do with valence electrons. The way that we count valance electrons is remember we count dots and sticks, so what I want you guys to do now is count what are the valence electrons for all of these.
Let's start off with the one on the left. How many sticks does it have? 4. How many dots does it have? 0. So it would have 4 valence electrons.
Alright, the next one. How many dots does it have? 2. How many sticks does it have? 3. 2 + 3 is 5.
And you could keep going. What you're going to find is that this one has 6 valence electrons and this one has 7 valence electrons.
Alright, so what we find is that the octet rule is being satisfied with all of these, but they have very different amounts of valence electrons. Okay.
All of these carbons satisfy their octet, but only one of them is actually stable. The others suck. How can we tell which one will be stable?
Example #1: Understanding the hydrogen isotopes.
We can predict how many valence electrons each atom wants to have by looking up its Group Number on the periodic table.
In our example above, carbon is in Group 4A, meaning that it wants to possess 4 valence electrons, making the first structure the most stable.
Now you don't have to guess what an atom looks like in its neutral state! Simply use the periodic table to look up this information.
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<urn:uuid:3b376696-0483-4a74-9e84-76ef3f4ee70b> | Agendas & Minutes
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The Dangerous Structure Determination Board (DSDB) is constituted as prescribed by the Texas Local Government Code and reviews the decisions made by the Building Official or Fire Marshall. The DSDB shall carry out the hearing duties and procedures prescribed and as may be modified by applicable law.
If you would like more information on the DSDB, please contact the City Secretary's Office. | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.lakejackson-tx.gov/107/Dangerous-Structure-Determination-Board | 2023-06-05T12:32:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652116.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230605121635-20230605151635-00781.warc.gz | en | 145 | 0.852465 | 6 | 58,759,930 | 39 |
<urn:uuid:03a58c36-0c82-4a14-ab66-58100eb7e607> | FALMOUTH CEMETERY, CORNWALL
|Total identified casualties||179 Find these records|
|Casualties from||First & Second World War|
Falmouth became a drifter base in January 1915 and in 1918, a centre for ship repairs. Falmouth Cemetery contains 87 First World War burials, including those of two unidentified firemen from the S.S. "Clan Cumming", attacked by German submarine in the English Channel on 5 November 1917, with the loss of 13 lives. During the Second World War, Falmouth was a significant naval base and Royal Navy Air Station. There was also a military hospital in the town. A war graves plot contains 74 of the 111 Second World War burials within Falmouth Cemetery, the rest are scattered. Lying apart at the southernmost tip of the plot are five graves containing the remains of 27 unidentified sailors who died in the bombing of H.M.S. "Registan" on 27 May 1941. A further 4 are the graves of unidentified seamen of the Merchant Navy. There are 4 burials of mechant seamen whose deaths were not due to war service. There are also 13 war graves of other nationalities within the cemetery. | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/36939/falmouth-cemetery | -cornwall | 2019-02-20T17:18:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247495367.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190220170405-20190220192405-00235.warc.gz | null | 0.952019 | 7 | 58,759,932 | 41 |
<urn:uuid:de09e179-09b8-48de-8a75-b743602d7dde> | Ash (All About)
Saint Patrick is said to have driven the snakes out of Ireland with an ash stick, and the ash tree has had a special place in Ireland ever since. Whether or not this story is true, it is certainly true that hurlies are made from ash and these definitely have a special Irish significance, ever since Setanta drove a ball down the throat of Culann’s hound with one and had to replace him himself, thus acquiring the name Cúchulainn!Read moreRead less
Ash is a canopy tree which can grow very tall, it once formed great woodlands together with elm on good limestone soil in Ireland long ago. These woodlands were cleared for agriculture over the centuries and the ash is now mainly found as a hedgerow tree and as a tall tree in parks in cities and towns. It is the very last tree to get its leaves, usually waiting until the month of May for the characteristic black buds to open.
The leaves are compound leaves with up to thirteen leaflets on each leaf. The flowers are wind-pollinated so these appear from the flower buds in early April before the leaves appear. The pollen can thus be dispersed by the wind without being hindered by leaves. The seeds are known as keys. They occur in bunches on the tree, remain there long after the leaves have fallen and as they each have a ‘wing’ they are dispersed by the wind.
Ash is a native species that supports 41 different insect species. A good way to examine these is to shake a well-leaved bough in mid June or in early September into an upturned umbrella and see what emerges. In ancient Irish tradition, the ash was a very valued tree and was considered to be one of the seven nobles of the woods as its valuable timber could be used for building, and making furniture.
Things to do
1. Find an ash tree near to the school and bring the class out to see it in each of the four seasons. In spring they can make a drawing of the twigs with black buds. In April they can find one with flowers open. In May they can note the date when the large terminal bud opens revealing the leaves.
By the end of May they should be able to add a drawing of the leaf to their account of the ash tree. In September they can observe the seeds. These can be planted immediately and some of them at least will germinate the following spring. In winter they can make a bark rubbing with paper and a soft pencil. Mature ash trees have a very rough bark. | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | http://www.heritageinschools.ie/teachers-resources/p9?q= | 2019-11-17T12:32:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668954.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20191117115233-20191117143233-00276.warc.gz | en | 528 | 0.984482 | 6 | 58,759,933 | 42 |
<urn:uuid:7a440e1f-0449-4587-b8cf-b42ce4dc218c> | Student surveys can be a powerful and cost effective way to gain insight into the student experience. The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey gathers information about student engagement in activities that have been empirically shown to influence student learning and positive educational outcomes, both inside and outside of the classroom. Some benefits of the SERU is that item responses provide actionable information for faculty, staff and administrators. They can also serve as indicators of academic program and institutional effectiveness. SERU results can be compared across institutions as a way for a college or university to make peer comparisons.
The image below represents each section of the SERU survey. Click on a survey section to view a gallery containing images of the 2015 SERU survey as viewed by a University of Minnesota Student.
The survey is administered to all degree-seeking University of Minnesota undergraduate students. The items provide a comprehensive snapshot of the student experience, tapping into diverse domains of interest to a variety of campus stakeholders. There are several items designed to gather information on students' academic and civic engagement, students' learning and development, and students' participation in other areas of campus. Additionally, students respond to items that provide insight into students' perceptions of the campus climate for diversity, students' overall satisfaction, and students' evaluation of their academic major (if applicable). Since the survey asks students about their background, beliefs, motivations, and perspectives, it provides additional insight into students' academic and co-curricular engagement (or disengagement). The diversity in responses provides the unique opportunity to explore students' experiences through a variety of lenses.
There is also customizable module available whereby colleges and universities can create items that reflect topics and issues of particular interest to them. Based on the unique context of research universities, a deliberate effort was made to capture the complexity of these institutions. Survey items are designed to provide data for analysis at not only at the institutional level, but also by department, college, and even academic major. Since research universities are often complex organizations, the ability to identify specific areas within the institution can inform targeted self-improvement efforts, as well as provide evidence of quality at multifaceted levels.
The survey was developed by the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley campus. More details about the SERU survey can be found on the CSHE homepage. | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.seru.umn.edu/about-seru/survey | 2016-07-31T07:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469258951764.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723072911-00138-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 470 | 0.949677 | 7 | 58,759,934 | 43 |
<urn:uuid:d2e384e4-2558-44c0-aa05-c247b7c3bbf8> | Bulow Creek State Park is home to one of the largest live oak trees in the South. For over 400 years, it has stood silent to humankind's activities. There are trails where visitors can walk or run. Most often, wildlife will be near the edge of the wooded areas. Animals that are most commonly seen are white tailed deer, barred owls, and raccoons, among others. The Bulow Woods Trail is nearly seven miles long and leads the way to Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic Site Park. Pavilions stand on the grounds for guests to have picnics and restroom facilities are available for those who need them. | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.floridasmart.com/listings/bulow-creek-state-park | 2019-06-20T13:38:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999218.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20190620125520-20190620151520-00538.warc.gz | en | 131 | 0.962168 | 7 | 58,759,936 | 45 |
<urn:uuid:eb432b01-da0c-456c-81db-cbcf0e518129> | Posted by Bill Ferriter on Saturday, 10/22/2016
I've got a confession to make: I have spent the past four months consumed by the upcoming presidential election.
I find myself checking into both my news feeds and my social streams several times a day, waiting for another embarrassing revelation about the candidates. I chew through articles about illegal contributions to personal foundations, seedy relationships with high dollar donors or foreign leaders, appallingly misogynistic statements, and accusations of political manipulation by party leaders who are more than a little determined to push forward their chosen candidates, regardless of the personal and political cost.
Worse yet, I often end up in the comment sections of the articles that I am reading, which are full of nothing more than rancor and shouting and vitriol and partisan insults. People with usernames like "Crooked Hitlery" and "Donny the Deplorable" call one another delusional in ugly attempts to discredit one another. The ever-present venom frightens me because it barely resembles the kind of open, honest discourse around controversial ideas that characterizes the strongest democracies.
So how can we move forward together when we spend so much time spewing hate at one another?
First, we have to do a better job helping the kids in our classrooms understand the filter bubbles that they are living in.
We may live in a world where ready access to unlimited information is available to everyone, but we also live in a world where social spaces and new technologies make it possible for everyone to build isolated intellectual worlds where core ideas and beliefs are constantly reinforced rather than consistently challenged. And thanks to clever algorithms designed to "make our lives easier," the more we interact with ideas online, the more isolated we become.
As Frank Bruni explains in this May 2016 New York Times piece:
"If we seek out, 'like' and comment on angry missives from Bernie Sanders supporters, we'll be confronted by more angry missives from Sanders supporters. If we banish such outbursts, those dispatches disappear. That's the crucial dynamic. The curse of our lives online. The Internet isn't rigged to give us right or left, conservative or liberal -- at least not until we rig it that way. It's designed to give us more of the same, whatever that same is."
Critical thinking suffers when we are constantly surrounded by "more of the same." It's harder to question your notions about politicians or the policies that they promote when every post, article and person that you encounter is pushing those notions forward.
Properly preparing students to be participants in a democratic society, then, means encouraging the kids in our classrooms to add diverse voices, thoughts and sources to the information streams that they are creating for themselves. The best thinkers don't just understand bias in traditional media sources. They also understand that new tools and technologies make it possible for well-intentioned users -- people just like you and I -- to create biased spaces where what we believe is rarely questioned.
We also need to do a better job teaching students about collaborative dialogue.
I think what troubles me the most about public discourse in our divided world is the belief that every conversation has to have a winner and a loser. We rarely listen to one another. Instead, we revert to shouting over one another. Trained through countless interactions with people who think just like us, we aren't just skeptical of the solutions put forth by people who who we disagree with. We question their intellect and/or their intentions. As Bruni explains, "We construct precisely contoured echo chambers of affirmation that turn conviction into zeal, passion into fury, and disagreements with the other side into demonization of it."
Pushing against the zeal, fury and demonization that dominates public discourse depends on our ability to convince the kids in our classrooms that the best conversations are collaborative instead of competitive. We need to spend class time helping students to develop the skills necessary to use conversations as learning opportunities. Graduates from our schools should leave convinced that other people -- no matter how different their core beliefs may be -- have ideas worth learning from and that the best solutions are the result of diverse groups of citizens committed to building knowledge together.
Are these the kinds of lessons that you are teaching in your classrooms and schools? If not, why not? More importantly, when will you start?
If teaching students about managing information and engaging in collaborative dialogue resonates with you, check out Teaching the iGeneration -- Bill's book on using digital tools to introduce students to essential skills like information management, collaborative dialogue and critical thinking.
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<urn:uuid:56b4a9ca-c66f-4630-a5bf-5e5836060047> | Spinifex Press, 2021
Reading Usha Akella’s I Will Not Bear you Sons is like walking into the middle of a conversation. A conversation that seems to have been going on for a while, and yet is also one that seems to be waiting for you join so it could finally begin. One of the main reasons for this could be the thematic focus of the book, which is to articulate the feminist concerns with space, cultural legacies, patriarchies, religion, political redactions and the very complicated histories that women share amongst themselves.
I Will… is a collection of poems that has a rather urgent, demanding tone. It does not narrate daisies or lilies nor does it have the wistful fragrance of lost loves. The staccato tone that most of the poems engage with are in keeping with the emergent voices of the women who are speaking around the globe. Akella hacks through the undergrowth of patriarchal white noise with a machete, trying to find the roots that connect women all over the globe.
The book is divided into two sections, I and We. The first section brings intensely personal poems that mark the poet’s journey of self-discovery and the battles encountered in the process of un-learning one’s legacy and culture. The poem from which the book gets its title, is in this section and is remarkable in its execution. The resolute tone of the title carries within it the generational memories of hurt, erasure and an awareness of the obliteration of non-male identities.
So, let us speak of hands—women’s hands, generations of hands,
hands that wash pots with tamarind and mud and feed
drunkards of husbands, hands that pen poetry and fire the guns,
hands that write, harvest paddy with the rising sun,
hands that answer phones and stave off
rapists’ hands of soldiers from both sides of the border,
(I Will Not Bear You Sons, 19)
Akella uses personification to great effect and her metaphors ring true and breathe fire. There is a force with which her verse arrives that conveys the immediacy of her intentions. However, there might be the lingering feeling that the poems could have occasionally employed a little more subtlety. This line of thought poses an ethical dilemma on account of the rawness of Akella’s verse. The age-old debate of beauty and its nuanced treatment versus the diamond-edged hardness of narrating reality with warts and all raises its head with this collection. But these doubts are dispelled soon enough when one meets the personae who occupy Akella’s poems. The violence- physical, social, cultural, economic and racial absorbed by these bodies cry out for narratives that are organic, stripped of ornamentation and densely populated. There are lines that force one to stop and revisit them due to the brilliance with which they weave the premise and have the reader fall into the web of the verse Akella has spun. Take for example Harmony which speaks of a man being served dinner by his dutiful wife, as though a God is being given offerings. She is aware of his every need, when the sambar must be served without vegetables, with vegetables, or with just one preferred vegetable. The husband remains quiet, without a word of appreciation lest she become too proud of herself and fail in her subsequent duties. He thus, remains silent for her sake. The orchestra of this mimed performance goes on while the poet remarks,
And I watched exiled from this
soundless solemnity for a decade,
wondering why I could not see the beauty of it. (26)
And in Porcupine where she quotes a line from Kamala Das, she says,
I digest nothing I roam black tunnels at night,
I am a dart board unskinned animal salted,
dervish-vertigo prays often in my head.
The metamorphosis that women’s bodies undergo, the turns and twists of the female or female identifying mind are all laid out in graphic detail.
The second half of the collection titled We draws upon the intersections that connect women across time, the globe, culture and history. The many dimensions of life that Akella dedicates to women ranging from Meera Bai, Anne Boleyn, Draupadi to Sylvia Plath, Meena Kandasamy, to women in paintings, the goddess Katyayini, to Akella’s grandmother, mother, daughter and the women who remain unnamed, or who are named Astur, speak of violence, longing, love, cuisines, struggles to reclaim bodies and identities. The addresses to these women are deliberate acts of creating art through the very process of naming, an imbrication of the image in the mind.
There is a sense of grandeur in the poems of Akella as they travel comet-like across the various realms, illuminating realities and faces of women who have been relentless witnesses of the ravages and power narratives of history.
Usha Akella has produced a remarkable volume of work that shows the path for academically informed creative literature. Experimental in nature, militantly vocal, furiously urgent, I Will Not Bear You Sons is a collection that is intensely personal and deeply political. The footnotes point to the commitment of the poet towards her craft as she assiduously names her sources and makes the readers aware of the sheer diversity of lives she has connected with.
Akella must be commended for her intellectual integrity as she carefully documents the articles and journals she has read, marking a refreshing fusion of the academic and the creative.
I Will Not Bear You Sons is a resolution, a promise that women make. A promise to bring forth into the world, people who are unafraid to be alive, people who are not bound by the chains of ossified thoughts and who seek to heal the injuries perpetrated by ignorance, superstition and power politics.
I burst into petals of the sun,
I throw comet from mine
navel, I am sprouting auburn blossoms
I burn the day. I am hell,
I am your air
Centuries, breathe if you can.
(Recant at St Maxim, 120)
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<urn:uuid:72b01c31-fb4b-47b0-bc9f-2ecffc3dac59> | A disgraced former archbishop of Boston who resigned in 2002 following a scandal involving the sexual abuse of children by priests has retired from his job as head of a major Roman basilica.
The Vatican said in a statement on Monday that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law from his role of archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica.
Law's 2004 appointment as the archpriest of one of Rome's most important basilicas had been met with harsh criticism by victims of sexual abuse from priests who feel that bishops who covered up for paedophile priests should be punished, not rewarded.
Law was named in hundreds of lawsuits which he was accused of failing to protect children from known child molesters and for transferring priests accused of sexual abuse from parish to parish rather than remove them or reporting them to the police.
Law, who turned 80 earlier this month, would no longer be able to vote, as part of the College of Cardinals, for a new pope. The news was announced by the Vatican in a two-line statement which said how Benedict had appointed Spanish Monsignor Santos Abril y Castello as his replacement.
"With all due respect, society has not lost a great protector of children. Bernard Cardinal Law should return to Boston and address the clergy sex abuse victims who he let be sexually molested while he was cardinal," said attorney Mitchell Garabedian, an advocate for clergy sex abuse victims.
"Bernard Cardinal Law turned his back on innocent children, acted immorally, and should be held accountable," Garabedian said.
After 18 years leading the nation's fourth-largest archdiocese, Law resigned in 2002, having asked Pope John Paul II twice before receiving permission to step down.
Ten months after he left office, Law's successor, now-Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, helped broker an $85 million (£55 million) settlement with more than 550 victims of paedophile priests.
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<urn:uuid:d376571d-617a-49e1-b5ac-45490c0bb0a4> | 6 edition of The Sword of Dawn (The History of the Runestaff, Vol 3) found in the catalog.
The Sword of Dawn (The History of the Runestaff, Vol 3)
March 1, 1977
Written in English
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a sword, which supports a White Radiant Celestial Crown; from which depend, on the right, the olive branch of Peace; and on the left, the palm branch of suffering. Six Vaus fall from its point. It symbolizes "Invoked," as contrasted with Natural Force: for it is the Invocation of the Sword. Raised upward, it invokes the DivineFile Size: KB. Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif; Sword of the Dawn: Michael Moorcock: Lancer Books.
Additional Physical Format: Online version: Moorcock, Michael, Sword of the dawn. St. Albans: Mayflower Books Ltd., , © (OCoLC) We manufacture The Game of Thrones® Collection, a series of collectible weapons and armor painstakingly recreated from the actual props used on HBO®’s hit fantasy epic Game of Thrones®. The officially licensed collectibles are made from the highest quality materials and have been crafted with special attention to reproduce the authentic.
Dawn by Octavia E. Butler was the 62nd official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.. Reading period: Jul 1, - How/Why was this book chosen: It won a Poll of Sword &Laser's Goodreads Group members of 5 Octavia E. Butler books. COVID Resources. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel).Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this ’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus.
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The Sword of the Dawn is the third book in the Runestaff series. At the end of the previous book, Karmang as been saved from being overwhelmed by the forces for Granbretan I often wish that some current fantasy writers would look a the works of writers like Michael Moorcock and realize that fantasy novels don't have to be page doorstops/5.
Maturity; Dalgish has moved out of sword and sorcery and into the epic. This book has sex, war, betrayal, loss, heartache, love and heroism. They don't pull any punches; this isn't a YA, D&D fantasy novel and i'm grateful that they don't. It actually gives the book The Sword of Dawn book level of emotion and realism that a /5().
Dawn may be a reference by George R. Martin to the Ebony Blade, a sword carved from a fallen meteor and wielded by Dane Whitman, a comic book superhero known as the Black Knight.
If George could wield a sword, he would choose Dawn. A Game of Thrones, Chap Eddard X. ↑ The World of Ice & Fire, Dorne: Kingdoms of the First Men. The Sword of the Dawn. Dorian Hawkmoon's quest to destroy the Dark Empire leads him onto the path of a man who possesses a rare ring that allows men to travel through time.
Hawkmoon uses this ring to travel to the far future, where he must battle the Pirate Lords and claim the Great Sword of the Dawn, which can end the Dark Empire once and for all.5/5(1). Michael Moorcock, The Sword of the Dawn (DAW, ) First, to get it out of the way: the worst, absolutely unforgivably worst, thing about the DAW edition of The Sword of the Dawn is its unforgivably bad cover.
It's so bad I actually knocked half a point off the book's final rating/5(12). The last The Sword of Dawn book of Dawn of Swords is worth the price of admission (more on that in a moment).
The first 60% was a struggle and since this is a 20 hour book, a long struggle. The book includes a cast of thousands (just joking, hundreds) and each are introduced /5.
Stormbringer is a magic sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael d by the forces of Chaos, it is described as a huge, black sword covered with strange runes carved deep into its blade. It is wielded by the doomed albino emperor Elric of ringer makes its first appearance in the novella The Dreaming d by: Michael Moorcock.
When considering Game of Thrones swords for sale, you should know your favorite character, the size sword you want, and how well the sword is made.
Choosing a sword by character Game of Thrones has dozens of characters, and you probably have one or two favorites. Michael Moorcock, The Sword of the Dawn (DAW, )First, to get it out of the way: the worst, absolutely unforgivably worst, thing about the DAW edition of The Sword of the Dawn is its unforgivably bad cover.
It's so bad I actually knocked half a point off the book's final rating.4/5(3). The Book of Swords Series is a series of science fiction / fantasy novels written by Fred Saberhagen.
The story revolves around the Twelve Swords of Power, which were forged by the gods and given to humanity, and how various characters acquire and use them. The series spans several decades and features dozens of characters. Parents need to know that Elizabeth Lim's Spin the Dawn is a fantasy novel, set in a magical alternate version of Asia.
It chronicles a young woman's quest to win an imperial sewing contest. There are a few scenes of violence -- sword and knife fights, arson -- but nothing too bloody or disturbing.5/5. It is considered an equivalent of Valyrian Steel. Although, we have never seen Dawn in action or have Dayne fight someone with Valyrian Steel, it is indicated Dawn is quite an amazing sword which would make it an equal of Valyrian Steel if not bet.
The Magic Sword of the Z. is to be used in all cases where great force and strength are to be used and are required, but principally for banishing and for defense against evil forces.
Finishing Choose an option Painted Unpainted Hiereus Sword Clear selection. Dawn is the first book in the Xenogenesis series, published inand is a science fiction classic. It achieves what the best in science fiction has to offer: by looking at humanitys interaction As one of the earliest African-American female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler is /5.
Swords at dawn. 51 likes. No time and money wasted on bureaucracy, just straight to the point ers: Michael John Moorcock is an English writer primarily of science fiction and fantasy who has also published a number of literary novels.
Moorcock has mentioned The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw and The Constable of St. Nicholas by Edward Lester Arnold as the first three books which captured his imagination/5.
The Sword of the Dawn. Dorian Hawkmoon's quest to destroy the Dark Empire leads him onto the path of a man who possesses a rare ring that allows men to travel through time.
Hawkmoon uses this ring to travel to the far future, where he must battle the Pirate Lords and claim the Great Sword of the Dawn, which can end the Dark Empire once and for : Tom Doherty Associates. Get this from a library. The sword of the dawn.
[Michael Moorcock; Richard Clifton-Dey; John Collier] -- "In Earth's dim future the Dark Empire had grown more powerful-so powerful that it threatened to destroy even the well-protected province of the Kamarg.
Only the ancient crystal machine of the wraith. The sword most likely to be an Other's sword would have been the original sword Ice for house Stark before it was replaced with the Valerian steel sword Ice years ago.
In my opinion Dawn was probably the original Lightbringer, a sword forged from either a meteorite or dragonglass. By customs of House Dayne, only the most puissant warrior of the family can wield the sword and be referred to as the Sword of the Morning.
Q: What happened to Ser Arthur Dayne's sword Dawn after Ned brought it back to Ashara. A: Dawn remains at Starfall, until another Sword of the Morning shall arise. Mightier than the Sword (THRILLER) By Jeffrey Archer.
St. Martin’s Press, US. ISBN pp.Songs of Blood and Sword is a memoir written by Fatima book recounts author's father, Murtaza Bhutto's murder by the Pakistani police in Karachi inwhen she was a teenager of 14 years old.
The story covers the events, she saw through her eyes in her young : Fatima Bhutto.Only someone worthy of House Dayne can inherit Dawn and therefore the title Sword of the Morning. In the past, knights even married into the Dayne family in hope to get the sword, which is not given to the next generation but only to a family member worthy of it.
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<urn:uuid:be2cda01-a28e-47e7-aaf2-c8257fcfda9c> | Queen Elizabeth II has signed the EU Withdrawal Bill into law, making Brexit irreversible and an Act of Parliament.
In a devastating blow for remainers, Speaker John Bercow confirmed to MPs on Tuesday that the Bill has received royal assent from The Queen, allowing the country to turn its back on the corrupt European Union for good.
Presstv.com reports: The EU Withdrawal Act, as it is now known, enables EU law to be transferred into British law in an attempt to ensure a smooth Brexit, and it enables EU law to be transferred into UK law in an attempt to ensure a smooth withdrawal from the EU, and it also repeals the 1972 European Communities Act, which made Britain a member of the union.
British Prime Minister Theresa May called the bill’s approval a “historic moment for our country, and a significant step towards delivering on the will of the British people.”
Members of parliament who are in favor of Brexit also hailed the development.
“The legal position is now so much stronger for a clean Brexit,” Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said. “Crucially this makes the prime minister’s negotiating hand much stronger.”
The legislation was first introduced in July 2017 and has faced a number of hurdles in both Houses of parliament. In April, Lords inflicted an embarrassing defeat on the May government by voting against it.
The May government had argued that remaining in the customs union would bar Britain from signing third-party trade agreements with other countries.
Prime Minister May has admitted that there are “hard facts” Britain should be ready to face about the economic consequences of leaving the EU.
She has said the UK would leave the EU’s single market and customs union after Brexit in March 2019, noting the country may suffer new trade barriers as a result of her move.
May has also said that any customs union deal with the EU would keep London from striking new trade deals with fast-growing economies like China and India.
In Britain’s 2016 referendum, 52 percent, or 17.4 million people, voted to leave the EU while 48 percent, or 16 million, voted to stay.
May insists Britain will leave the EU as planned and there will be no rerun of the Brexit referendum.
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<urn:uuid:05b1b3e6-dcd7-4d65-bb7a-584966aeb932> | [Snort-users] error message trying to set up Snort for Window s
RussU at ...6702...
Mon Sep 16 08:48:05 EDT 2002
Just a shot in the dark, but did you install the latest stable version of
From: Richard Muniz [mailto:rmuniz at ...6907...]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 10:18 AM
To: 'snort-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Snort-users] error message trying to set up Snort for Windows
I've been trying to set Snort 1.8.7b121 (Win32 Binary) release on a Windows
2000 Server, Svc pak 3. I downloaded all the software as per the
instructions posted at
and followed the instructions closely. The only difference between what I
did vs. the instructions is that I used winZIP rather that WinRAR to
decompress my files.
So far, so good.Now, here's where I run into a problem. When it comes to
testing snort, I run it, and it's seeing traffic. Then at the snort command
prompt, I type in Snort -c C:\snort\snort.con -I C:\inetpub\wwwroot\logs -i1
(1 being my adaptor). I shouldn't be getting this, but I get an error
message that says the following:
C:\snort\snort -c C:\snort\snort.conf -I C:\inetpub\wwwroot\logs -I1
Log Directory = log
Initializing Network Interface \
ERROR: OpenPcap<> FSM Compilation Failed
Illegal char 'C'
PCAP command: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\logs -i1
Fatal Error, Quitting..
I've uninstalled, reinstalled, double and triple checked to ensure I'm
running the correct version, even downloaded the software again after having
uninstalled the old, and tried whole new copies. Here, this is supposed to
generate a file called alert.ids under C:\inetpub\wwwroot\logs, but it
doesn't generate anything.
Anybody ever ran into this, and if so what did you do to solve the problem?
Appreciate any assistance.
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<urn:uuid:bed41ec5-0520-4b21-a95e-274fa3fd8fb6> | About Langtang Valley Trek
Langtang valley trekking alternative trekking of Busy Annapurna and Everest Base camp Trekking .It is another popular trekking destinations of Nepal. It is a unique combination of nature and culture. There are several natural attractions of Langtang valley treks such as magnificent views of glaciers, a stunning glimpse of numerous beautiful peaks of Langtang region, verities rare and nonrare flora and fauna, serene lakes, snakes like rivers, colorful rhododendron forests and attractive landscapes. Langtang Valley trek is also one of the rich cultural journeys because on the way to Langtang valley there are several typical Tamang and Sherpa villages where trekkers can learn and experience the culture, traditions, rituals, systems, festivals, and way of life of Tamang and Sherpa ethnic people.
Langtang valley is located near the Tibetan border so Tamang and Sherpa ethnic people of this village follow the Tibetan way of life and religion. Trekkers can know the different aspects of Tibetan lifestyle during Langtang valley trek. Sherpa and Tamang people follow the Buddhist religion so during Langtang valley trek trekkers can see the several colorful monasteries and sacred Gompas with religious rituals of local people.
Langtang valley trek starts from Syabrubesi after 6/7 bus drive from Kathmandu. From Syabrubesi trek reach to Langtang valley via Lama Hotel. During their journey trekkers go through the route of Langtang National park where trekkers can see the beautiful forests of rhododendron and conifer, different species of birds and butterflies, and different species of wild animals such as red panda, wild dog, musk deer, pika, muntjac, Himalayan black bear, Himalayan Thar, Ghoral, Serow, rhesus monkey and common langur. After the excursion in Langtang valley trek descend Syabrubesi via the same route. In short Langtang valley trek offers panoramic views of beautiful Mounts such as Langtang Lirung, Gang Chhenpo, Naya Kangri, Ponggen Doku, Ganesh Himal, Naya Kanga, and Yala peak, glaciers, important Tamang and Sherpa culture, different kind of flora and fauna, colorful monasteries and sacred Gompas | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.beyondthelimitstreks.com/langtang-valley-trek | 2021-10-25T19:02:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587767.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025185311-20211025215311-00345.warc.gz | en | 498 | 0.876891 | 5 | 58,759,944 | 53 |
<urn:uuid:4dc96708-66a7-41ac-9df8-b67bca62abe4> | Pacquiao, Marquez Face Off For Welterweight Title
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
When we learned this week of the death of former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier, we were, of course, reminded of his trilogy of memorable fights with Muhammad Ali. We were also reminded of how little attention, comparatively speaking, is paid to boxing these days.
So tomorrow, when two big current day competitors stage their third big fight, the names don't quite resound the way they once did. Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez square off for the welterweight title and sportswriter, Stefan Fatsis, joins us now to talk about the modern day business of the old sweet science.
STEFAN FATSIS, BYLINE: Hey, Robert.
SIEGEL: Boxing certainly doesn't enjoy the mass appeal that it did in the 1970s when Ali and Frazier met, but it's still a big business and Pacquiao and Marquez are big names. Tell us about them and tell us about their rivalry.
FATSIS: Well, they're welterweights now, 144 pounds max. Obviously, not heavyweights like Ali and Frazier. Pacquiao is the favorite, 32 years old. He's a congressman in his native Philippines. He's won titles in eight different weight divisions. He's going to take home about $30 million from tomorrow night's fight in Las Vegas.
Marquez, 38, from Mexico. He's going to earn around 5 million. Their two previous fights are considered classics. The first was a controversial draw in 2004, the second a controversial split decision for Pacquiao that ended with blood pouring from above the eyes of both boxers. Marquez is convinced that he won both fights, of course.
SIEGEL: So if this is a huge bout for our times, what does this fight say about the current state of boxing?
FATSIS: That it is in, once again, need of redemption and it always is this way in boxing. The last two fights that drew a lot of attention were abominations. In September, you had this bizarre end to a fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz. Ortiz head-butted Mayweather and then what looked like a lull in the fight while Ortiz was being reprimanded, Mayweather knocked him out.
And then, last month, Chad Dawson essentially body-slammed 46-year-old Bernard Hopkins to end that fight. But boxing goes on. Just check out the HBO schedule for the Pacquiao-Marquez fight. A full night of coverage tonight, then six more hours of programming tomorrow before the actual fight on Pay-per-view, $64.95 for high definition, $54.95 for standard def, Robert.
SIEGEL: Not that cheap. Do they expect a lot of people to order it?
FATSIS: Probably about a million or so and that does show how much boxing, for all the concerns about shady promoters and lousy fights and the sport's inherent violence, that boxing can still thrive with these big events. And I think it is worth comparing to its rival, mixed martial arts, which makes its debut on live network television tomorrow night on Fox, it's very much the king of Pay-per-view. Even compared to boxing, UFC does about 15 events a year, but its last few events have shrunk to under 300,000 in terms of Pay-per-view buys from a peak of 1.6 million.
Even so, though, it still doesn't have the cache of a big fight like Pacquiao-Marquez. That's going to fill Vegas with fans, including apparently 60 or so of Pacquiao's fellow Filipino congressmen.
SIEGEL: And Pacquiao-Marquez - even it is no thriller in Manila.
FATSIS: No. Four decades on, Ali-Frazier remains the standard for boxing rivalries. The fight in Manila in 1975 was the third and final of their bouts and, along with the first one, which was at Madison Square Garden in 1971, is considered among the best ever.
Frazier's death reminds us not only of their epic professional and personal rivalry; Frazier took his hatred of Ali with him to the grave. He was never able or willing to forgive or forget the inexcusable race-baiting and name-calling that Ali deployed to pump up their rivalry, whether he meant it or not nobody really knows at this point, but either way, it did cast a shadow over Frazier, who would be defined in relationship to the more calculating, the more gregarious, the bigger showman, Muhammad Ali.
SIEGEL: OK. Have a good weekend, Stefan.
FATSIS: You, too, Robert. Thanks.
SIEGEL: Stefan Fatsis joins us most Fridays to talk about sports and the business of sports.
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<urn:uuid:fab23d72-eec7-47dd-84e9-665433dd51a6> | Originally Posted by Naveen kumar
Thank you @Sidd7hartha.....
Let me clear my doubt...take your car as an example
1. What will be the engine rpm and how it should be @ 1st and top gear?
2. If rpm reduces at top gear, i want to know whether it is happening automatically?
3. If not automatic, how will you control the engine rpm?
I am no expert. We layman think of fuel efficiency more. I asked on a social site regarding best RPM for my Ritz. The reply was to keep it between 1.7 to 2.2. Generally I did not exceed 2.5 RPM. Now I try to answer your queries as far my modest driving knowledge permits:-
1. If you start your car you will find idle RPM is 1 or 0.98 and it comes down more the engines heats up. Put in 1st gear and move at 10 Km/hr speed, the RPM will be 1 to 1.5
I generally shift to 5th gear from 4th at 50-60 Km/hr when RPM generally >2.2.
2.As soon you move to 5th the RPM automatically comes down to 1.5
3. Engine RPM changes with gearshift and acceleration. If one accelerates in 2nd gear to 40 Km/hr, RPM will sore high. But a up shift will bring it down at same acceleration. | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.theautomotiveindia.com/forums/technical-zone/6448-rpm-speed-gear-position-7.html | 2016-10-27T04:16:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721067.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 299 | 0.932686 | 6 | 58,759,950 | 59 |
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Who should attend: Business leaders and Equal Opportunity Advocates including HR, Diversity & Inclusion Specialists & Practitioners
When: 13th June 2018 – in celebration of Father’s Day in the United Kingdom (17th June).
Where: University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
Time: 9:00am-12.00pm round table presentation and discussion forum.
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About the Swedish Dads Photography Exhibition
'Swedish Dads' is a photo exhibition based on portraits of fathers who choose to stay home with their babies for at least six months. Photographer Johan Bävman examines why these fathers have chosen to stay home with their children, what the experience has given them, and how their relationship with both their partners and their children has changed as a result.
In September 2017, Parents At Work commissioned Johan Bävman to curate a series of photographs to exhibit Australian fathers who have taken parental leave as part of an advocacy initiative to promote the need to support more men to participate in sharing the caring load and take primary parental leave.
The Aussie' Dads photographic collection is a not-for-profit initiative - touring internationally alongside Swedish Dads - is solely designed to start a conversation, in our workplaces and community to improve and widen the opportunities for men to equally participate in parental leave and engage in flexible work by challenging gender stereotypes and stigma around sharing the caring load in Australia.
The exhibition aims to show the effects of gender equality in parenting on both individuals and society.'
Parental Leave in the UK benchmarked
The United Kingdom introduced Shared Parental Leave (SPL) in 2015 designed to encourage both women and men to share parental leave.
SPL allows mothers to transfer part of their maternity leave to the father or partner. However, men's take up of this leave remains stubbornly low.
It is estimated that only between 2- 8% of UK fathers take Shared Parental Leave.
Internationally, paid parental leave—for use by both parents—is available in 23 OECD countries, but mothers take the majority of it.
Fathers are more likely to take leave that is a unique entitlement (sometimes called a ‘daddy quota) and if highly remunerated.
In 2018, the UK Government Equalities Office launched a new campaign #Sharethejoy aiming to encourage fathers to access Shared Parental Leave provisions in an effort to improve gender equalities outcomes for women and men, at home and at work.
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<urn:uuid:605e9fbe-c10b-4a9b-abd7-688d0fd82f4a> | Selecting an appropriate life insurance policy can seem overwhelming at first. However, doing a little research in advance and making sure you understand your long-term financial needs helps reduce the confusion and uncertainty in this purchase. Read this article for some suggestions on ways to determine your life insurance needs.
Every person should consider life insurance. This can be a great help when a loved one dies. It helps to pay for the death related expenses and allows some time for the immediate family to recover from the loss. Choose an insurance company with a good track record and fast payment history.
Lower the cost of life insurance by quitting smoking. Smoking is one of the biggest health risk factors from an insurance standpoint, but some life insurers will reduce your rates with just one year of being smoke-free. After two to three years of non-smoking status, some insurance companies will put individuals into the standard rate class, reducing premiums substantially.
Most life insurance policies are long term contracts. This means that once you sign the contract, you have a responsibility to make payments toward your policy. Therefore, when you are obtaining life insurance, make sure you have a firm understanding of your needs, what you are receiving and that you will be able to afford your payments. If there is anything you do not understand, do not contract yourself to the policy. Ask questions first.
You will want to find a life insurance company that cares. There are some life insurance companies that will offer competitive rates for some medical conditions (diabetes, heart disease and cancer). These companies are much more family friendly and don’t just put everyone in a group. Their charge is based off of what you really need.
A great tip to lower your life insurance premiums is to figure out how much insurance you actually need. You should determine this amount yourself, and do not leave it to insurance companies because they often will overestimate how much insurance you need. This will lead to higher premiums you will have to pay. Therefore, you should only purchase a policy that has the exact amount of insurance you need.
When dealing with life insurance brokers, you should watch out for brokers who pretend to know everything, including what is in your best interest. Most agents are going to earn money based on the policies they sell and the subsequent amount of those policies, so they may be a little overzealous when pitching a plan to you.
Life insurance is nearly a necessity with funeral costs being as high as they are. When you are looking to take out a life insurance policy consider a lot of factors, like how old you are, your state of health, and even if you are a smoker. All of these can affect your rates.
Make sure you get enough coverage. $500,000 can seem like a windfall of cash for your family in the event of your passing. But when you take into consideration a $300,000 mortgage, car loans, student loans, burial and funeral expenses, credit card debt and the like, all those can add up fast.
To make sure you receive the best possible quote, shop around and compare rates when purchasing life insurance. Different carriers use different factors in determining risk and premium requirements, so cost can vary significantly among different companies. While shopping, be sure to consider the reputation and stability of the selected carrier to make sure they will be around for the long term.
If you are buying a life insurance policy for the first time, do not be afraid to ask questions with your adviser. Before you purchase a policy, you should clearly understand all of its ins and outs. An adviser who is unwilling to answer these questions is not an adviser to whom you should listen.
If you own a lot of land or real estate, think about life insurance. When you die, your family may inherit your property, but they may not be able to afford the taxes that go with it. A good life insurance policy will cover estate taxes, for a certain period of time.
As stated earlier, selecting a life insurance policy does not have to be complicated or difficult. Leverage the suggestions in this article to make the process easier and less stressful. When you and your family are adequately protected, you will be glad you took the time to educate yourself and understand your long-term financial needs. | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | http://walkonwatermovie.com/intimidated-by-life-insurance-give-these-tips-a-try/ | 2021-10-20T03:36:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585302.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020024111-20211020054111-00052.warc.gz | en | 863 | 0.965768 | 5 | 58,759,956 | 65 |
<urn:uuid:961af812-794b-465d-9f48-3fcee49761f5> | akb writes: "Most of the RF spectrum in use is licensed for exclusive use. What do we get? Inefficient use through spectrum hoarding, political finagling to abuse the regulatory system to gain competitive advantage and access to the airwaves for only a few players. A good article over at CNET picks up on the example of 802.11b in using spread spectrum technology and unlicensed bands and proposes that model be applied to the rest of the spectrum. For the hardcore check out NYU law professor Yochai Benkler's writings, particularly this article (pdf) and Durga Satapathy's papers for the tech end of things." | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://slashdot.org/story/01/11/30/1747240/open-spectrum-free-the-airwaves | 2018-01-16T08:29:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886237.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116070444-20180116090444-00080.warc.gz | en | 133 | 0.908013 | 7 | 58,759,960 | 69 |
<urn:uuid:ec9e31ae-61c4-4062-a349-2a8a73de5baa> | What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In "Utopia in Performance," Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change.
She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.
|Paperback Book, 233 pages||English|
|University of Michigan Press (Nov. 10th, 2005)||Unknown|
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<urn:uuid:34455836-af58-4a91-82cc-61c8fb3d7098> | Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, left, and President of the Parliament Yiannakis Omirou walk toward the parliament following a meeting in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, March 18, 2013. Cyprus' president is briefing lawmakers ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on a controversial levy on bank deposits that the cash-strapped country's creditors have demanded in exchange for a euro10 billion (US$13 billion) rescue package.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Cypriot lawmakers have rejected a critical draft bill that would have seized part of people's bank deposits in order to qualify for a vital international bailout.
The bill, which had been amended Tuesday morning to shield small deposit holders from the deposit tax, was rejected with 36 votes against, 19 abstentions and zero votes in favor. One deputy was absent.
Hundreds of protesters outside Parliament cheered in jubilation and sang the national anthem when they heard the bill had not passed.
Cyprus will now have to come up with an alternative plan to raise the money.
If it doesn't, it won't qualify for external rescue loans, the country's banks face collapse and the country could go bankrupt. | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/Cypriot-Lawmakers-Reject-Deposit-Seizure-Bill-199060441.html?site=mobile | 2015-04-19T04:39:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246637445.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045717-00168-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 255 | 0.945948 | 7 | 58,759,962 | 71 |
<urn:uuid:4d1d0947-65b2-44f7-92b7-74ff4623d154> | Diana Zubiri shakes off comments about her pregnancy weight gain
The actress and mom-of-two Diana Zubiri is in no rush to lose her post-pregnancy weight. Here's why.
Diana Zubiri gave birth to her second child in August 2016 but he is not pressuring herself to lose weight.
Her daughter Aliyah Rose is now three months old and Diana has returned to television, starring in the reboot of Encantandia, a popular evening TV drama which Diana starred in the early 2000s.
"Baby pa naman kaya puwede pang iwan, tulog lang ng tulog," she told PEP in a recent interview, adding that she has to pump every three hours since she's breastfeeding her daughter.
Even before she gave birth, she had already been offered the role.
Donning costumes for the fantasy drama, Diana wasn't worried at all.
"Noong una, parang putok-putok yung costume, pero hindi naman yung maraming kita," the mom of two told PEP in a recent interview. "May nag-comment nga before, kasi yung teaser, may nagsabi, 'Ang taba!'"
"May nagsabi, 'Si Diana iyan kasi mataba, kapapanganak pa lang.'" she recounted another comment online. "At least, may excuse ako, di ba?"
The actress, who also has a seven-year-old son, also shared that her eldest first felt "selos" but because he sees nothing's changed, he's become a doting "kuya", who Diana proudly describes as very "maalaga".
"Teka muna, katatapos lang, hinga-hinga muna. Ang hirap magbuntis. Hindi ako nahirapan sa panganganak, nahirapan akong magbuntis," she lamented to PEP, adding that her gestational diabetes required her to go on a strict diet.
"Bawal akong kumain ng ganito, feeling ko inapi-api ako. Di ba kapag buntis ka, iba ang hormones mo," she says. She became more sensitive during pregnancy.
As of now, she has no plans as of now to have another kid with husband Andy Smith. "Malay mo naman," she teased. "Magbago pa isip ko." | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://ph.theasianparent.com/diana-zubiri-pregnancy-weight/ | 2018-10-22T04:05:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583514497.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20181022025852-20181022051352-00218.warc.gz | en | 520 | 0.935783 | 7 | 58,759,965 | 74 |
<urn:uuid:5566a31b-4554-49ec-ba62-71226ce11a23> | Greek word - (misthos G3408)
Quiz - Choose the answer that is closest to what you think MERCY is.
A - compassion
B - forgiving kindness
C - alleviation of distress
D - an expression
Problem - Outdated
KJV Example - "And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me." (Luke 18:38)
"Have mercy on me." What does that mean?
The Greek word for mercy, eleos, is a small word and does not give us a hint as to what it means.
There is a saying that may help. It defines mercy, justice, and grace. I do not know who came up with it, but it seems to be correct. "Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you don't deserve."
In other words, when you do something bad, justice pays you back with bad things, but mercy does not pay you back with those bad things. So if I am mean to you, you can show mercy to me by not being mean back to me. That is mercy.
With that in mind, the meaning of mercy in the Bible falls on one of two sides of this: a proactive side and a reactive side. The proactive side is kindness. Being kind to people, especially people who do not deserve it, bad people, sinners, is mercy.
The reactive side is forgiveness. When people are bad to you, mercy reacts by forgiving them.
Mercy involves both of these: kindness and forgiveness. So mercy is forgiving kindness.
The Greek verb of mercy, eleeo, is translated with the word, mercy, every time in the KJV (28 of 28 times). The Greek noun, eleos, is translated as mercy 27 of 31 times in the KJV. It could have been translated as mercy every time.
Matthew 18:33 has eleos in it twice but it is translated differently each time (neither of which is mercy): "Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?" (Matthew 18:33 KJV) Why didn't they just put mercy instead of compassion and instead of pity? "Shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellowservant, even as I had mercy on thee?" That is how the KJV translates eleos the other times. Why not here? I don't know. The Breakthrough Version translates it as "Wasn't it necessary for you to also show forgiving kindness to your fellow slave as I also showed forgiving kindness to you?"
What does "have mercy on me" mean? It means, show forgiving kindness to me. It implies that the person saying it has done something bad but he wants the person he is talking with to forgive his misdeed and be kind to him.
Mercy is forgiving kindness.
Modern Synonym - forgiving kindness
Bible Version Tally (how other versions translate this word) - mercy (44 of 53), pity (5 of 53), help (3 of 53), deal kindly (1 of 53)
Breakthrough Version - "And he shouted, saying, 'Jesus, Son of David, show forgiving kindness to me.'" (Luke 18:38)
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