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Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye inspects a water tank delivered by the Environmental Protection Agency. Photo from Facebook
Members and leaders of the Navajo Nation remain cautious about water quality levels on the reservation, more than two weeks after an environmental catastrophe sent three states and two tribes into disaster mode. An accidental spill at the abandoned Gold King Mine released about three million gallons of contaminated waste into the Animas River. Tests showed extremely high levels of arsenic, lead, mercury in the water after the August 5 incident but results have since returned to normal in Colorado. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, similar results are being seen along the San Juan River on the New Mexico portion of the Navajo Nation. Tribal leaders, however, are still warning their citizens not to use the water for their crops or their livestock. They also were extremely upset with the EPA for sending what they said were contaminated water tanks to farmers and ranchers in the Shiprock Chapter House area. President Russell Begaye inspected the tanks himself and found what appeared to be remnants of prior uses -- one tank was even labeled "Filterd Oil."
Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye finds residue in a water tank delivered by the Environmental Protection Agency. Photo from Facebook
The incident has prompted renewed attention to environmental conditions on the reservation. Tribal leaders are seizing on the connection and are referring to the spill and the response as Operation Yellow Water, invoking a term used in connection with the toxic legacy of uranium mining. “It might seem like a simple term but it’s a strategic title to raise awareness in addressing broader issues of contamination on the Navajo Nation, including of our over 500 abandoned uranium mines,” Begaye said on Thursday. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy met with Begaye last week and inspected conditions on the San Juan River. She has accepted responsibility for the spill and has promised to work closely with the tribe to address health, safety and other impacts. The tribe has seen support from several members of Congress amid the crisis. Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) have asked the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to hold a hearing on the mine spill.
One of the water tanks delivered by the Environmental Protection Agency was labeled "Filterd Oil." Photo from Facebook
"Through our ongoing conversations with leaders of the Navajo Nation, we understand their dissatisfaction with the EPA's response to the spill, and share their concerns that toxic substances might flow onto their lands and waters," McCain and Udall wrote in a letter on Tuesday. A larger group of Senators joined the call and asked the Office of Inspector General at the EPA to focus on tribal and state coordination issues as part of an investigation of the spill. "Although the EPA has taken responsibility for this disaster, the OIG investigation and report will assist in determining the details of the accident, provide a better opportunity to improve future remediation projects, and prevent spills of this nature at other legacy mines across the West," the group of lawmakers, which included Sens. Udall and Martin Heinrich (D) from New Mexico and Sens. Michael Bennet (D) and Cory Gardner (R) from Colorado, said in their letter to the OIG. The Navajo Nation, the Southern Ute Tribe, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah all issued disaster declarations after the spill. The Southern Ute Tribe was the first government to take action and was the first to notify the state of New Mexico, the state's top environmental official told Navajo Nation Council on August 10.
Another video from the contaminated "water tanks" that the #EPA delivered to the #Navajo Nation.Posted by Navajo Nation OPVP Russell Begaye And Jonathan Nez on Wednesday, August 19, 2015
The spill did not impact the public drinking water supply in New Mexico or on the Navajo Nation. The city of Farmington was able to act quickly and prevent its system, which serves communities on the reservation, from any contamination. The EPA has continued tests of private wells in Colorado. According to La Plata County, only seven samples from 105 wells showed higher than acceptable levels of contaminants. Related Stories:
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Are you ready to witness the latest revolution in wireless technology? Bluetooth Angle of Arrival (AoA) is here, and it’s changing the game for location-based services. With this breakthrough technology, we can pinpoint the exact location of a device with unparalleled accuracy. In this blog post, we’ll explore everything you need to know about Bluetooth AoA, from its concept to how it works and its potential applications.
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The Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival technology is a new way to track the location of devices. By using the angle of arrival of the Bluetooth signal, this technology can triangulate the position of a device with accuracy. This is different from traditional methods that use RSSI or time-of-flight to track devices, which can be less accurate.
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There are a number of potential applications for Bluetooth Angle-of-Arrival technology. One potential application is in the area of asset tracking. By placing Bluetooth AoA receivers around a facility and binding locating tags to assets, it would be possible to track the location of assets in real time. This could be useful for inventory management or security purposes.
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21 Savage, or Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph is as restless and angry as a nest of hornets under a trap house, this 25 year old ATL native is a spitter with more accreditations under his belt than most of the new wave of rappers of the same age, and the circles he runs in shows it. With a style and hip hop jewelry as dope as the bars he spits, the man’s a force of nature to be reckoned with, both on and off tour.
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Arizona’s checkered record of protecting children could take a turn for the worse if a bill in the Legislature becomes law.
SB1430 would make it more difficult for Child Protective Services to come to the aid of abused or neglected children.
The bill, introduced by state Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, purports to give parents needed rights if CPS is investigating them. But parental rights already are well protected by the law and by the courts at every step of the process.
The most troublesome aspect of the bill would require CPS workers to make “reasonable” efforts to contact parents and tell them of “allegations and specified rights” before removing from a home a child who may have been abused or neglected.
Suppose that children are left alone at home or found wandering. How much time must a CPS employees make a “reasonable” effort to find parents before the children are taken to a safe place?
What if police raid a meth lab where children live? If the parents aren’t there or flee when police arrive, how long would a “reasonable” effort to locate them take before the children are removed to safety?
Suppose that a teacher notices bruises on a child and, as is required, notifies CPS. Before any investigation is conducted, the parents must be found and told of the allegations – giving them adequate time to coach the children before they are questioned by authorities.
None of these are far-fetched scenarios. All are situations that CPS employees routinely encounter.
Other parts of the bill are also troubling:
• Courts would be required to use the higher legal standard of “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” instead of the current “clear and convincing evidence” standard before children are removed from a home. This would unnecessarily hamper investigators in what may not be a criminal case.
• Parents could keep CPS workers from entering homes – a move that could make it impossible to investigate allegations.
Arizona’s record of looking out for children is inconsistent even under current law. The state Auditor General’s Office found last year that CPS was failing to investigate every report of child abuse, as required by law, and that investigations sometimes took too long, putting children in jeopardy.
CPS employees are not to blame. The agency has been plagued by a high caseload and low pay for employees with extremely stressful jobs. SB1430 would only add to the stress and make their jobs more difficult.
SB1430 has passed the Senate and been sent to the House. It should die there. But should the bill make it to Gov. Janet Napolitano’s desk, we are confident she will veto it.
Liz Barker, a spokesman for CPS, said it clearly: “This is just going to make the job of protecting children harder.”
That must not happen.
Congratulations to the space scientists at the University of Arizona, who built a camera that was sent into orbit around Mars – 145 million miles away.
Last week, they tested the camera, and it worked perfectly. At a time when many of us have problems operating a digital camera that we can hold in our hands, this is an astounding accomplishment.
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|Publication number||US4149774 A|
|Application number||US 05/851,403|
|Publication date||Apr 17, 1979|
|Filing date||Nov 14, 1977|
|Priority date||Nov 14, 1977|
|Publication number||05851403, 851403, US 4149774 A, US 4149774A, US-A-4149774, US4149774 A, US4149774A|
|Inventors||Nagayoshi Hirano, Yasuo Honda, Yoshikazu Doi|
|Original Assignee||Fuji Photo Optical Co., Ltd.|
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|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (14), Classifications (7)|
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__________________________________________________________________________R1 = 190.495 -d 1 = 6.00 N1 =1.78472 ν1 =25.7R2 = 113.337 -d 2 =20.00 N2 =1.62041 ν2 =60.3R3 =-1254.7 -d 3 = 1.00R4 = 154.416 -d 4 =10.00 N3 =1.62041 ν3 =60.3R5 = 506.725 -d 5 = variableR6 = 1013.4 -d 6 = 3.94 N4 =1.71700 ν4 =47.9R7 = 127.044 -d 7 =11.80R8 =- 304.601 -d 8 = 3.94 N5 =1.51633 ν5 =64.0R9 = 146.785 -d 9 = 9.85 N6 =1.68893 ν6 =31.1R10 = 2845.8 -d 10 = variablestop -d 10 *= variableR11 =-2845.8 -d 11 = 9.85 N7 =1.68893 ν7 =31.1R12 =-146.785 -d 12 = 3.94 N8 =1.51633 ν8 =64.0R13 = 304.601 -d 13 =11.80R14 =- 127.044 -d 14 = 3.94 N9 =1.71700 ν9 =47.9R15 =-1013.4 -d 15 = variableR16 =- 506.725 -d 16 =10.00 N10 =1.62041 ν10 =60.3R17 =- 154.416 -d 17 = 1.00R18 = 1254.7 -d 18 =20.00 N11 =1.62041 ν11 =60.3R19 =-113.337 -d 19 = 6.00 N12 =1.78472 ν12 =25.7R20 =- 190.495__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________R1 = 194.211 -d 1 = 5.03 N1 =1.68893 ν1 =31.1R2 = 95.877 -d 2 =16.06 N2 =1.62041 ν2 =60.3R3 =12588.9 -d 3 = 0.60R4 = 103.135 -d 4 = 9.10 N3 =1.71300 ν3 =53.9R5 = 1150.4 -d 5 = variableR6 = 4085.8 -d 6 = 3.88 N4 =1.70154 ν4 =41.1R7 = 87.991 -d 7 = 9.84R8 =- 580.450 -d 8 = 3.88 N5 =1.51633 ν5 =64.0R9 = 111.224 -d 9 = 8.05 N6 =1.68893 ν6 =31.1R10 = 572.600 -d 10 = variablestop -d 10 *= variableR11 =- 572.600 -d 11 = 8.05 N7 =1.68893 ν7 =31.1R12 =- 111.224 -d 12 = 3.88 N8 =1.51633 ν8 =64.0R13 = 580.450 -d 13 = 9.84R14 =- 87.991 -d 14 = 3.88 N9 =1.70154 ν9 =41.1R15 =-4085.8 -d 15 = variableR16 =-1150.4 -d 16 = 9.10 N10 =1.71300 ν10 =53.9R17 =- 103.135 -d 17 = 0.60R18 =-12588.9 -d 18 =16.06 N11 =1.62041 ν11 =60.3R19 =- 95.877 -d 19 = 5.03 N12 =1.68893 ν12 =31.1R20 =- 194.211__________________________________________________________________________
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a zoom lens system, and more particularly to a zoom lens system which varies its magnification around unity and is particularly adapted for use in a copying machine or a process camera as an imaging lens, or in various optical systems as a relay lens.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the copying machine and the process camera, the area of the object and the area of the focused image are generally very large in comparison with ordinary photography. Therefore, the diameter and the length of the lens system used therein are comparatively large in order to obtain a necessary angle of view and a necessary focal length. From the viewpoint of manufacturing and the structure of the machine, the lens system used therein is desired to be made as compact as possible. Further, in the copying machine and the process camera, the lens is required to be completely free from aberrations. Particularly, the distortion of the image should strictly be eliminated in this kind of lens.
Therefore, the lens system used in the copying machine or in the process camera is generally a symmetric type lens which is theoretically free from distortion at a magnification of unity. In this case, in order to change the magnification of the optical system without changing the focal length of the lens, at least two out of the three elements that are the object plane, the image plane and the lens must be moved as is well known in the art. In practical use, however, it is very troublesome and undesirable to move two of these elements. Even if the two elements which are to be moved together are interlocked with each other by means of a motion transmitting mechanism, the structure of the copying machine or the like would be very much complicated. Further, it is theoretically inevitable that the distance between the object and the image be elongated when the magnification is changed from unity. Besides, even when a symmetric type lens which is free from distortion when magnification is unity is used, there appears distortion when the magnification is varied from unity. Of course, when the magnification is greatly changed, other aberrations also appear and deteriorate the quality of the image obtained.
On the other hand, it has been known in the art to use attachment lenses in order to change the magnification of a focusing lens in a copying machine or the like without changing the positions of the object and the image. This method, however, is disadvantageous in that the magnification cannot be varied continuously and a complicated mechanism is required to substitute the attachment lenses every time when the magnification is to be changed. Further, in this method, if a wide magnification range is desired, a high power attachment lens is necessary, and thereby various aberrations increase in addition to the distortion significantly increasing.
The primary object of the present invention is to provide a zoom lens system which can be used as a imaging lens in a copying machine or the like capable of continuously varying the magnification of the image obtained thereby.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a zoom lens system which is free from distortion and the focus shift caused by fluctuation of the field curvature over the whole range of its variation in magnification.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a zoom lens system which is compact in size.
The zoom lens system in accordance with this invention is composed of a first fixed lens group, a first movable lens group, a second movable lens group and a second fixed lens group arranged in this order from front (object side) to rear (image side), wherein a stop is located at the center of the whole lens system and the first fixed lens group and the second fixed lens group consist of the same lens elements and are located symmetrically opposite to each other on both sides of the stop, and similarly the first movable lens group and the second movable lens group consist of the same lens elements and are located symmetrically opposite to each other on both sides of the stop, and the first movable lens and the second movable lens are asymmetrically moved with respect to the stop when the magnification of the system is varied, whereby the distortion and the focus shift caused by the field curvature fluctuation are eliminated throughout its zooming operation to vary the magnification while an overall conjugate distance is fixed. Further, the zoom lens system in accordance with this invention is characterized in that the power of the lens groups and the lens elements is designed to make the whole lens system compact in size.
FIG. 1 is a diagram which shows the movement of the lens groups of the zoom lens system in accordance with the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a graphical representation which shows the relationship between the movement of the movable lens groups and the distortion,
FIG. 3 is a graphical representation which shows the relationship between the movement of the movable lens groups to eliminate the distortion and the magnifications of the lens system,
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of an embodiment of the lens system in accordance with this invention, and
FIGS. 5 to 9 are graphs which show the corrected aberrations of the lens systems in accordance with this invention wherein A shows the spherical aberration, B shows the astigmatism and C shows the distortion.
A zoom lens system which has a constant conjugate distance can be realized by making at least two lens groups movable. Since the magnification is to be varied around unity, a symmetrical construction of lens elements which has no distortion theoretically at unity magnification is desirable. In order to restrain the distortion throughout the variable range of magnification, therefore, it is desired that the two movable lens groups should be always moved to approximately symmetric positions with respect to the stop to the extent that the fundamental symmetry of the whole lens system is not deformed.
The size of the zoom lens is determined by how the power is shared among the lens groups constituting the zoom lens system. If the power of the movable lens groups is made low, the distance of movement of the lens groups becomes long though the structure of the lens elements can be made simple. Therefore, the total size of the zoom lens system becomes large in this case. If the power of the movable lens groups is made high, on the other hand, the distance of movement of the lens groups is made small and a compact zoom lens system can be obtained. However, in this case, the power should not be made too high so that the lens system will not be subject to too large a fluctuation of aberrations when the magnification is varied. Thus, in order to obtain a zoom lens system which has a practically sufficient aperture and field angle, the share of the power to the movable lens groups must be appropriately controlled.
The zoom lens system in accordance with the present invention is intended to have proper sharing of the power between the movable and the fixed lens groups considering a compromised size of the whole lens system. Thus, sufficient compactness is able to be obtained by the condition as formulated below, ##EQU1## where f1.0 is the focal length of the whole lens system when the magnification is unity and fV is the focal length of the movable lens group. If the above value falls below the lower limit, i.e. the power of the movable lens is too low, the fluctuation of aberrations is made small but the size of the lens system becomes large. If the above value exceeds the upper limit, i.e. the power of the movable lens is too high, the size of the lens system is made small but the fluctuation of aberrations is made too large.
Further, the zoom lens system in accordance with this invention is characterized in that fixed lens groups are located outside the movable lens groups so that the structure of the lens barrel is simplified and the maintenance of the lens system is facilitated. Besides this, the structures of the two fixed lens groups are made completely equivalent to each other, and so are the structures of the two movable lens groups, whereby the manufacturing cost of the lens system is markedly reduced.
Referring to FIG. 1, A and D denote fixed lens groups having the same structure and the same focal length fm, and B and C denote movable lens groups having the same structure and the same focal length fv. Fixed lens groups A and D are located symmetrically with respect to a stop E at the center of the whole lens system. Movable lens groups B and C are also located symmetrically with respect to the stop E when the magnification of the lens system is unity. The axial distance between the first fixed lens group A and the first movable lens group B is designated by t1, and similarly, the axial distance between B and C by t2 and that between C and D by t3. The amount of movement of the whole lens system for effecting the variation of the magnification is designated by DL. These distances t1, t2, t3 and DL are designated by t1a, t2a, t3a and DLa when the magnification of the whole lens system is changed from 1 to ma. The amount of movement DLa for effecting the change in magnification determines t1a and t3a, and t2a is determined by t1a and t3a, which means that changed values of the parameter DLa result in an infinity of t1a and t3a values as the solution. Therefore, by selecting a proper DLa, it is possible to make t1a=t3a so that the two movable lens groups B and C are moved to the position where the movable lens groups are located symmetrically with respect to the stop E at the center of the lens system. However, in this case, since the distortion cannot be made 0% except when the magnification is unity, it is desired that the two movable lens groups are located at the symmetric position only when the magnification is unity and it is better that for other t1a and t3a be slightly asymmetric.
The zoom lens system in accordance with this invention is thus characterized in that the distortion is always kept at zero for any magnifications by continuously selecting the proper combinations of t1a and t3a values.
FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the distortion and the ratio of t1a to t3a when the magnification is 0.5X for example. From FIG. 2 it is known that the 0.3% of distortion is eliminated by changing the ratio t1a/t3a from 1.0 to 0.84. This means that the distortion which appears when the movable lens groups B and C are located at symmetric position with respect to the stop E is eliminated by moving the movable lens groups to an asymmetric position.
FIG. 3 shows the relationship between the magnification of the lens system and the ratio t1a/t3a to keep the distortion at 0%. The magnification is represented by logβ (β is magnification). From FIG. 3 it is known that the distortion can be maintained at 0% by properly selecting the ratio t1a/t3a for any magnifications.
Another important factor which must be considered in the zoom lens system is the fluctuation in the field curvature which appears when the magnification is varied. Particularly in a copying machine and a process camera in which the object plane is a flat surface, the image plane should be flat and accordingly it is desired that the center of focal depth composite for overall field angle be fixed on a flat image plane. However, the center of focal depth is generally displaced from the so-called Gaussian image plane and the amount of displacement varies as the magnification varies. Therefore, it is very difficult to always obtain a sharp image on a fixed plane throughout the variation in magnification without introducing any correction method of arranging composite focal depth centers in a same axial position even if the field curvature is varied.
The best way to effect the above correction is to use means which is effective at the same time to correct the distortion as well as the displacement of the focal plane in view of the structural simplicity, the manufacturing advantage and the cost saving of the lens system.
In accordance with the present invention, therefore, the movement of the second movable lens group whose primary function is to fix the Gaussian image plane is also used to cancel the composite image plane displacement so that said values combine multiple purpose. Thus, as the result, the simple movement of the second movable lens group not only functions to correct the distortion but also functions to maintain the image plane at the fixed position besides its major role or performing the zooming motion.
Now two examples of the present invention will be described in tables, in which the radii of curvature of the refracting surfaces, the axial air separations or thicknesses of lenses, the refractive indices for the d-line and the Abbe dispersion numbers are respectively designated at R, d, N and ν numbered respectively by subscripts in order from front to rear.
__________________________________________________________________________F / 8 focal length=490˜550 magnification=-2.0x˜ -0.5xR1 = 190.495 -d 1 = 6.00 N1 =1.78472 ν1 =25.7R2 = 113.337 -d 2 =20.00 N2 =1.62041 ν2 =60.3R3 = -1254.7 -d 3 = 1.00R4 = 154.416 -d 4 =10.00 N3 =1.62041 ν3 =60.3R5 = 506.725 -d 5 =variableR6 = 1013.4 -d 6 = 3.94 N4 =1.71700 ν4 =47.9R7 = 127.044 -d 7 =11.80R8 = -304.601 -d 8 = 3.94 N5 =1.51633 ν.sub. 5 =64.0R9 = 146.785 -d 9 = 9.85 N6 =1.68893 ν6 =31.1R10 = 2845.8 -d 10 =variablestop -d 10 *=variableR11 =-2845.8 .sup. -d11 = 9.85 N7 =1.68893 ν7 =31.1R12 =- 146.785 -d 12 = 3.94 N8 =1.51633 ν8 =64.0R13 = 304.601 -d 13 =11.80R14 =- 127.044 -d 14 = 3.94 N9 =1.71700 ν9 =47.9R15 =-1013.4 -d 15 =variableR16 =- 506.725 -d 16 =10.00 N10 =1.62041 ν10 =60.3R17 =- 154.416 -d 17 = 1.00R18 = 1254.7 -d 18 =20.00 N11 =1.62041 ν11 =60.3R19 =- 113.337 -d 19 = 6.00 N12 =1.78472 ν12 =25.7R20 =- 190.495__________________________________________________________________________magnification - 2.0 - 1.4 - 1.0 - 0.7 - 0.5focal length 491.4 535.6 551.0 535.8 492.2object distance -654.0 -829.3 -1012.6 -1195.8 -1371.1image distance 1379.4 1200.3 1014.8 831.6 656.8 -d 5 17.21 11.92 10.0 10.73 14.25 -d 10 3.68 8.97 10.89 10.16 6.64 -d 10 * 6.80 10.28 10.98 9.11 4.01 -d 15 14.09 10.61 9.91 11.78 16.88conjugate distance atthe composite image 2200.0 2200.0 2200.0 2200.0 2200.0plane__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________F / 5.6 focal length=330˜345 magnification=-1.0x˜ -0.65xR1 = 194.211 -d 1 = 5.03 N1 =1.68893 ν1 =31.1R2 = 95.877 -d 2 =16.06 N2 =1.62041 ν2 =60.3R3 =12588.9 -d 3 = 0.60R4 = 103.135 -d 4 = 9.10 N3 =1.71300 ν3 =53.9R5 = 1150.4 -d 5 =variableR6 = 4085.8 -d 6 = 3.88 N4 =1.70154 ν4 =41.1R7 = 87.991 -d 7 = 9.84R8 =- 580.450 -d 8 = 3.88 N5 =1.51633 ν 5 =64.0R9 = 111.224 -d 9 = 8.05 N6 =1.68893 ν6 =31.1R10 = 572.600 -d 10 =variablestop -d 10 *=variableR11 =- 572.600 -d 11 = 8.05 N7 =1.68893 ν7 =31.1R12 =- 111.224 -d 12 = 3.88 N8 =1.51633 ν8 =64.0R13 = 580.450 -d 13 = 9.84R14 =- 87.991 -d 14 = 3.88 N9 =1.70154 ν9 =41.1R15 =-4085.8 -d 15 =variableR16 =-1150.4 -d 16 = 9.10 N10 =1.71300 ν10 =53.9R17 = - 103.135 -d 17 = 0.60R18 =-12588.9 -d 18 =16.06 N11 =1.62041 ν11 =60.3R19 =- 95.877 -d 19 = 5.03 N12 =1.68893 ν12 =31.1R20 =- 194.211__________________________________________________________________________magnification -1.0 -0.74 -0.65focal length 345.4 338.1 330.6object distance -621.3 -722.2 -765.5image distance 622.4 521.5 478.3 -d 5 4.70 5.15 5.85 -d 10 9.61 9.16 8.47 -d 10 * 9.66 8.69 7.82 -d 15 4.66 5.63 6.50conjugate distance atthe composite image 1384.2 1384.2 1384.2plane__________________________________________________________________________
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What Constitutes a Congregation of Believers?
I was slightly bemused by an article in a recent issue of Time Magazine that dealt with a new non-belief system that is taking hold in the USA, even in the Bible Belt. Meetings take place in function centres and halls to listen to sermons about losing faith. Leaders in these movements are former Christian ministers, who have become non-believers and conduct secular Sunday services. There are atheist and agnostic congregations, some of which adhere to traditional forms of religious worship. They appeal to people who have lost faith in Christian doctrine, but prefer the rituals of traditional religion. Recent statistics reveal that 6% of Americans now explicitly identify with atheism (a lack of belief in God) or agnosticism (the view that knowledge about God is unknowable).
What does this tell us? People, regardless of their professed lack of doctrinal religious belief still have a need for identity and intellectual support through communal activities. Having forsaken the divine knowledge of the Old Testament and Christ’s teachings in favour of contemporarily held opinions and orientation has not detached them from the traditional value of sharing and caring that is implicit and binds us in our faith based activities. It identifies a deep felt human need for fellowship and interaction in a friendly supportive environment that extends beyond a weekly gathering. What is sad is that atheists and agnostics have failed to explore the full potential of God in all its manifestations that forms the basis of our very existence. It cannot be replicated in a secular society, which lacks the elements of spiritual fortitude that enable human beings to deal with life’s crises where our belief in God’s all-embracing presence enables us to face and accept adversity.
What it comes down to is that God doubters and deniers are depriving themselves of the existing knowledge handed down in Holy Scripture to find answers and solutions to 21st century problems in a futile attempt to exclude the Creator Who is ever present.


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The death toll is in Gaza is mounting, as Israel bombs another home, killing 11 civilians.
As of Sunday 18 November, 65 Palestinians have been killed, 19 today alone, including 9 children.
Among the victims lie the babies, murdered not with indiscriminate disregard, but with conscious intent to inflict the greatest terror and the most painful possible suffering.
Little Omar died when a shell hit the family home. Omar's father, Jihad Misharawi (shown here holding his son) is an Arabic picture editor for the BBC. His sister-in-law was also killed in the attack and his brother badly injured.
Another of the victims, so far, includes Marwan al-Qumsan, a teacher at a UN school in Jabalia.
Key evidence now reveals that Israel deliberately lured Hamas figure Ahmed al-Jabari into the open in order to kill him, his murder and violation of the truce intended to escalate the crisis:
"Gershon Baskin, founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, told Channel 4 News that negotiations were in progress and Ahmed al-Jaabari might have been persuaded to suspend rocket attacks on the Jewish state had he not been targeted for assassination."Baskin also insists that Hamas have consistently asked for intemediary help in getting ceasefires put in place:
"He told Channel 4 News: "I know that Jaabari was interested in a ceasefire. He has enforced ceasefires in the past months and he was prepared, we hoped, to engage in activities that would prevent attacks against Israel, thereby preventing a pre-emptive Israeli strike that kills people and causes people on the Gaza side of the border to throw rockets at Israel. "Every time there was a round of rocket fire I would get phone calls from Hamas: 'Please tell the Israelis we don't want to escalate. We want a ceasefire.' As it would escalate, I would get more and more phone calls with greater intensity.""Today, as Netanyahu again promises to "widen" the offensive, Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News reports from Gaza on Israel's attack on a building housing journalists:
"Israel admits it knew journalists were in the two buildings they hit. A cameraman Khader al Zahhar lost his leg."Thomson describes more of the fear and pain on the ground:
""Drones overhead. Kids playing street football outside TV building that got hit," Channel 4's Alex Thomson tweeted. He was visiting the main hospital in Gaza City on Sunday where he said relatives were trying to collect the bodies of family members including a 13-year-old girl."As in 2008/9, it appears that Israel's defining motive is to terrorise and kill any civilian.
Meanwhile, as the slaughter continues, so too does the relentless BBC bias, as collated here by Amena Saleem.
For another fine piece denoting stark BBC distortion and the "sequence of recent events, so lacking in 'mainstream' reports, that led to Israel's massive attacks on Gaza", see the latest Media Lens alert, Gaza Blitz - Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC.

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Skip to comments.JUST 333,000 VOTES IN 4 SWING STATES WOULD HAVE GIVEN ROMNEY THE PRESIDENCY
Posted on 11/19/2012 7:42:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Nice try, but he was talking about the republican primary not the general election.
And 600 votes in FL in 2000 would have given Al Gore the Presidency.
This means nothing. I see we are letting the pundits keep us in the mud. Time to crawl out and be Conservatives.
And, spread that out over a whole lot of inner city precincts, and suddenly you can see just how easy voter fraud stole the presidency.
Yes, it is obvious that the country has more takers than producers. The problem is the huge cities have negated the effect of the EC by swinging their States via the winner take all provisions of most States. The ‘burbs and rural areas have been effectively muzzled. Just look at the map by county. I feel for the conservative people who live in States with huge cities, they are voiceless. JMHO
On an unprecedented scale.
The Virginia Board of Elections website shows the vote totals as:
Not sure if the other state totals from this article are also inaccurate.
149,311 is still within the margin of cheating, but let’s not embarrass ourselves by using false information.
I had a sales job in college where the intially paid me for “contacts”...so many $$ per contact. I cleaned up during that phase.
Then it got to calling those contacts and getting them to actually buy the product. (It was church education materials).
It dried up. Very few wanted to go in depth.
It's more complicated than that since the final vote not only depended on which candidate people selected, but on how many from each side came out to the polls.
If Romney was not able to turn around Obama voters he would indeed have had to come up with 333K extra votes.
Assuming that political advertising works to some extent, let's say that accurate tracking polls show that candidate A is ahead in a certain state. Then candidate A's campaign can save on advertising costs, since they only have to be sure of winning. They don't need to pay for an unnecessary extra margin. Similarly, if they can accurately track voting on election day with exit polls, the winning side doesn't need to do any more get-out-the-vote work than necessary.
So it is possible that if candidate B does a better job, candidate A will also increase their efforts, but only by just enough to win.
If candidate B did such a good job campaigning that the polls flipped in a particular state, then the same factors would still tend to make it a close election.
Romney threatened to be a major force for transforming ALL Republicans into the same asses that Democrats are. Folks like my mom, who has probably voted for more Republicans than you and I put together, are the ones who understand that you don't get to vote "against." You only get to vote FOR, and like me, she doesn't vote for liberal Democrats, even when they're registered as Republicans.
I was wondering how to find out if I voted in places where I have lived over the past 20 years. As in, am I still a registered voter in Virginia. And a few other places.
” I thought Romney ran because he felt ENTITLED to the job”
Jesus H. Christ, let's say I accept your null set -- even if Romney was promising a Planet Kolob in every driveway and magic underwear in every drawer, he was LIGHT-YEARS better than Bobo...
That is up to you. I really don't think you have anything to say to me that is worth listening to.
I wasn’t arguing that. I did hold my nose and vote for him. I was just saying that I find it hard to believe that he deliberately lost to Obama, which might be one way to explain why he fought so viciously in the primary against his Republican rivals and then barely fought at all in the general election against Obama, because I think he really did want the job, since he felt entitled to it.
Romney contested the primaries harder than he contested the election.
He certainly has little to no need of the Constitutional Freedoms most of us depend upon for our careers and to support our families. He’s got “his”
If “ifs” and “buts” were candy & nuts, we’d all have a happy Christmas!
“Several months ago, many here proclaimed that they would rather see Hussein re-elected than vote for Romney. Theyre the ones to thank.”
Amen to that.
i hope they are happy as the America i once knew slides inexorably toward socialism. they will comfort themselves’ however, believing that America was saved from a mormon president who might have instituted one of their religious beliefs here in the United States of “obeying, honoring and sustaining the law.”
What went wrong??
How can we fix it in 2016??
Who do you support in 2016??
There wont be anything left of America by 2016.
The time to fix it is NOW.
Start with the election. If we let the Rats get away with this massive voter fraud, were no better than a bananna republic.
We must keep digging and pounding him every day, in every way we can- phony birth certificate, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, his hidden life, records....
There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans- CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.
Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
The evidence is overwhelming!
Also share http://www.facebookcensorship.com and see the documentation of their censorship and harassment.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Visit the site:
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Obama Voter Fraud Volunteers
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Sign their petition- over 99,000 and counting -cards, email
Another petition, The We The People petition has 60,000 signatures and counting-


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Siglec-7 (also known as p75/AIRM1 or CD328) is a human CD33-related Siglec, described as an inhibitory receptor primarily expressed on natural killer (NK) cells and present on monocytes, dendritic cells, granulocytes and some CD8+ T cells.(Gieseke et al., 2012 ; Maggi & Moretta, 2020 ; Shao et al., 2016) It shares high sequence homology with Siglec-9. (Fraschilla & Pillai, 2017) Siglec-7 has three Ig-like extracellular domains (one N-terminal V-set and two C2-set Ig domains) and a cytoplasmic tail containing one ITIM and one ITIM-like domains, involved in the inhibitory signal inside the cell. (Maggi & Moretta, 2020 ; Yamakawa et al., 2020)
Tumor cells exploit the negative signalling initiated by Siglec-7 : overexpressing Siglec-7 ligands, these cells evade the immune system, blocking the NK cell-mediated lysis.(Maggi & Moretta, 2020) For this reason, Siglec-7 has gained attention as a potential target for the treatment of cancer.
Some studies showed that anti-Siglec-7 mAb inhibits the proliferation of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) cells in vitro and the growth of mast cells in vitro and mice, confirming its potential for cancer treatment and diseases linked to mast cells, such as mastocytosis. (Landolina et al., 2020) Next to immune cells, Siglec-7 occurs on platelets, where it causes their apoptosis. (Nguyen et al., 2014) Siglec-7 occur on β-cells of the pancreas, too : the overexpression on these cells leads to a reduction of β-cells dysfunction. It is downregulated in type 1 and 2 diabetes. (Läubli & Varki, 2020)
Siglec‐7 preferentially binds to α2-8‐linked di-sialylated carbohydrate structures, but it can also bind to α2-6- and α2-3-linked sialic acid-containing glycans. (Gieseke et al., 2012 ; Legrand et al., 2019 ; Movsisyan & Macauley, 2020) Among the six crystal structures of Siglec-7, one has been co-crystallized with the ganglioside GT1b (Figure 12). (Attrill et al., 2006)
The main interactions involve a salt bridge between the carboxylic acid of the sialic acid and the conserved Arg124, three hydrogen bonds between the hydroxyl groups in positions 5, 8, and 9 and the two amino acids Lys131 and Asn133. Hydrophobic interactions involve glucose and the two amino acids Asn133 and Trp74. (Movsisyan & Macauley, 2020)
Serendipity identified one of the first selective ligands for Siglec-7, but no affinity values are available (Figure 13). Compound 13 presents a xanthene group in position 9 of the sialic acid, which confers selectivity to Siglec-7 by forming π-stacking interactions with the cleft close to position 9. (Rillahan et al., 2013)
One of the most promising ligands has been developed starting from the methyl-α-Neu5Ac. The introduction of a sulfonamide group in position 9 and an aromatic aglycone in position 2 of the sialic acid increased the affinity of 5000-fold compared to the unmodified reference compound (1.6 μM vs 8000 μM ; compound 14, Figure 13). (Prescher et al., 2017)
Further steps towards targeting Siglec-7 have already been made by developing Siglec-7-derived CAR T-cells. They can kill cancer cells by binding to carbohydrates, with a recently found in vitro efficacy. (Lenza et al., 2020)

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Mika Newton (in Ukrainian: Мiка Ньютон ), whose real name is Oksana Stefanivna Hrytsai (Ukrainian: Оксана Стефанівна Грицай ), born March 5, 1986, is a Ukrainian singer from Bourchtyn. Representing Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, she ranked 4>.
Mika sings at the age of 9, passionate about the Canadian singer Avril Lavigne.
In 2004, she participated in the Orange Revolution.
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Nestlé Nespresso SA, the worldwide pioneer and market leader in highest-quality premium portioned coffee, has concluded its Third AAA Sustainable Quality™ Coffee Forum, from 10 to 11 November 2009 in Boston. The Forum brought together experts, partners and key stakeholders to debate the Nespresso concept of Real Farmer Income™ which will deliver a clear roadmap to build and finance a truly sustainable future for the highest quality coffee sector.
Guillaume Le Cunff, International Marketing,
Strategy & Sustainability Director at
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Professor Michael Porter
Launched in collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance in 2003, the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program aims to safeguard the long-term supply of highest quality coffee, while at the same time improve the quality of life of farmers and their communities. The program is a unique approach to sustainability, with a vision to add highest quality to sustainability, which is now further differentiated from other programs by adding the dimension of long term economic value creation. In June 2009, Nespresso committed to a target to source 80% of its coffee through the AAA Program, from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farms, by 2013. Real Farmer Income™ is the set of new insights into the economics of highest quality sustainable coffee cultivation that will allow Nespresso to meet this challenging target – as well as many thousands of smallholder coffee farmers with limited other opportunities to meet the standards required for certification.
“The Rainforest Alliance is delighted to be part of any effort to create long-term economic value for coffee farmers on their journey to certification. As a founding partner in the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program, we have already seen that improved economic outcomes can go hand in hand with increased environmental sustainability. Synthesizing economics and sustainability is the action of a 21st century coffee company. We look forward to making an active contribution at the Forum,” said Tensie Whelan, President of The Rainforest Alliance.
Real Farmer Income™ brings long-term economic value creation as a key financial enabler into the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program. It is an integral part of the program’s virtuous circle that offers enhanced environmental, social and income benefits for partner farmers, while providing consumers with highest quality coffee from farms well along the path to achieve sustainability. Nespresso launched Real Farmer Income™ in 2007, and the groundbreaking work identifies enhancing quality and yield as the two critical drivers of long term economic value creation for coffee farmers.
“We are delighted to bring together our partners and industry experts to discuss a key challenge facing the coffee industry – how to fuse together economic value creation and enhanced environmental and social performance. Balancing long-term economic, environmental and social considerations has always been our vision for the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program. In fact, this balance is vital if we are to create a truly holistic sustainable future coffee industry, ” said Richard Girardot, CEO of Nestlé Nespresso SA. “Real Farmer Income™ has established that sound economics must go hand in hand with enhanced environmental and social outcomes. The discussions of this forum will take us toward an action plan for investment to deliver this future for our partner farmers.”
Third Nestlé Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Coffee Forum
The Third Forum, hosted from 10 to 11 November 2009 in Boston, brings together experts, academics, industry leaders, commercial partners, farmers, NGOs, public and agri-finance specialists to debate about “Financing the Future and Creating Real Farmer Income™”– the Forum’s focus.
The Forum will specifically consider six short-term pragmatic issues with longer-term implications to develop the road map to finance the future.
- Creating Real Farmer Income™ through farm renovation
- Certifying smallholders in Colombia
- Driving optimal yield and quality through new varieties
- Stabilizing the long term sourcing from AAA farmers through innovative pricing mechanisms
- Building long term farmer loyalty with breakthrough support services
- Creating Real Farmer Income ™ through environmental services
Celebrated strategist, author, and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter is among the experts addressing the Forum. Professor Porter, one of the originators of the shared value concept and member of the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Advisory Board, said: "The challenges of economic, environmental, and social development in coffee growing regions are all interrelated, and there is no quick fix. Instead, we must approach them with the concept of shared value. Nespresso's innovative program, which helps farmer's achieve higher prices, better yields, and greater environmental performance and sustainability, is not driven by charity but by creating value. Nespresso will benefit strategically from the quality improvements that farmers achieve and coffee supplies that will be far more sustainable over time. It is this alignment between corporations and social challenges, not a mindset of separation and tradeoffs, which is the key to both economic and social progress."
At the Forum, participants will review a ground-breaking study commissioned by Nespresso and undertaken by leading South American business school, INCAE. Based on this study Nespresso has developed a detailed economic model that identifies the short-term economic barriers preventing farmers and partners from investing in a sustainable future. This data will impact the development of the Real Farmer Income™ concept as a predictive tool for use in different coffee regions as part of the overall Nespresso AAA Sustainability Quality™ Program.
The INCAE study was conducted in Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia and Costa Rica, four of the Nespresso coffee countries of origin. The study analysed data from 510 farms participating in the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program and compared that with data from farms located in the same regions that were not part of the program, developing P&L models for each.
Professor Lawrence Pratt from INCAE said: “Our independent study highlighted that in most cases farmers do not know their production costs or productivity levels. Those farmers are most concerned with the final sale price of their crop, rather than the net farm income. There is a real opportunity for Nespresso to continue to positively contribute to improving farming and management practices, notably quality and yield improvements, to deliver long term economic creation as well as environmental and social benefits as part of its AAA Program”.
Real Farmer Income™ and the AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program are part of the Nespresso contribution to the Creating Shared Value initiative of Nestlé.
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Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program
AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program is a program of integrated coffee farm management practices ensuring compliance with quality and sustainability guidelines. The aim of the Program is not only to safeguard the long-term supply of highest quality coffee but also to reward farmers who produce these beans by focusing on quality and by using sustainable methods. The program aims to:
- Stabilise the supply chain and safeguard the long-term supply of highest quality coffee
- Created shared value with strategic partners in the value chain (from the farmers through to the Club Members)
- Improve the quality of life of farmers and their communities
About Nestlé Nespresso SA
Nestlé Nespresso S.A., the worldwide pioneer and market leader in highest-quality premium portioned coffee, introduces consumers to the world’s finest Grand Cru coffee to be enjoyed in the comfort of their own homes and savoured outside the home, in locations such as gourmet restaurants, upscale hotels, luxury outlets and offices. Nespresso’s offer focuses on its unique NespressoTrilogy, the unmatched combination of exceptional coffee, smart and stylish coffee machines and personalized customer service. Together, these three elements deliver moments of pure indulgence - the Nespresso Ultimate Coffee Experience. Headquartered in Paudex, Switzerland with more than 3,900 employees, Nestlé Nespresso S.A. sells products in more than 50 countries directly to its customers and at the end of 2008 operated a global retail network of more than 157 exclusive boutiques in key cities around the world. For a third year, it was named the fastest growing brand within the Nestlé Group and one of its "billionaire brands", achieving in 2008 revenue surpassing CHF 2 billion for the first time and maintaining average annual growth of more than 30 percent since 2000.
INCAE is the leading Latin American business school. Since 2008 it has been in partnership with Nespresso to help move forward the debate around the economics of coffee farming. It conducted an independent study in order to understand if, in fact, the Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality™ Program was really having a positive impact on farmers’ income levels. The study was conducted in four Nespresso coffee origins: Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia and Costa Rica.
About Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance works with people whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest wood and host travellers. From large multinational corporations to small, community-based cooperatives, businesses and consumers worldwide are involved in the Rainforest Alliance’s efforts to bring responsibly produced goods and services to a global marketplace where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily. For more information, visit www.rainforest-alliance.org.

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It's like a waterfall, except it's all made of light. It's great how light can play with our senses. How light can create things that aren't really there. And it's so hard to convince your brain that it's not.
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Here’s a long-exposure photo that Stephen Whittam took at the Guerilla Drive-In Friday night, where we showed Ghostbusters at Fort Mifflin:
Fort Mifflin is right next to the end of the runways at Philadelphia International Airport — you actually drive through a tunnel under the end of the runway to get to the fort. THe long streaks of light are the floodlights from a landing plane; the dots are its strobes.
The combination of proton packs up on the screen, with gusty WHOOSH-es as the planes land right overhead, with the light sweeping in an arc around the crowd as the plane goes by, was actually pretty damn awesome.
There was a very friendly reporter-and-photographer team from the Associated Press at the show. I spent some time getting my photo taken in various poses: “Now look like a cinema REBEL!” We finally got me doing a sort of a “Ha-DOUUUU-ken!” thing with one of the 16MM reels from the movie. Check a regional “entertainment” section near you for a portrait of me looking EXTREMELY BADICAL.
The crowd seemed happy, I was not hit by lightning while riding out, the projector, didn’t explode, and I don’t think the Cub Scout troop who was staying the night there learned any new words from the movie (except for “dickless”, which I bet they knew already.) The next movie is Saturday night, June 27th — if you’d like to know where it’s going to be, get out there and find the MacGuffin!
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How many showed up for the drivr in, not counting scouts ?
You know, ANONYMOUS COMMENTER FROM TOLEDO, OHIO, that’s often the first question people ask. For some reason, I’m reluctant to count heads at the actual drive-in. First, it’s dark, and second… well, I don’t know what the second reason is. My goal isn’t to grow the audience to a particular size.
As long as the audience isn’t so small that we’re sitting around looking at each other going “well, THIS is awkward!” and not so large that the screen is too small, I’m happy!
I would guess sixty or so, but I’m really bad at that sort of thing – it’s the main reason I don’t work for CNN at protest rallies.
Also, is a larger screen possible? By that I mean, is the projector light capable of casting enough lumens for a larger screen, or is it a function of the projector’s focal adjustment thingee (technical term for something that may not even exist on the projector, which would kinda suck if it doesn’t) such that you can make the screen size bigger but still keep the projector close to the screen itself, thus maintaining the lumens level. Ok, I put waaaay too much thought into this.
For the record, it’s the low-fi approach that is one of the more appealing things about the experience. That and, who doesn’t like a 1977 BMW motorcycle with a sidecar? That’s a sweet ride.
Jim, don’t EVER complain about putting too much thought into something 🙂
From the disjoint learning I’ve done about projectors since starting this thing, the fatness of the cone the light makes is called the “throw”. You can get a “short throw” lens which makes a fat cone, and you can get a “long throw” lens which makes a skinny cone. One of the two is brighter, but I’m not sure which it is. Regardless of your throw, you can always focus, so it’s pretty much up to you and how bright you want your screen to be.
The size of the screen on Saturday was totally a factor of where I happened to park the motorcycle. If I were to do it over again, I’d back waaaaay up and make the screen much bigger. Of course, that wall wasn’t all one color…
Anyhow, yeah, bigger screen is totally possible. It’d be nice if there was a great big white wall somewhere that isn’t just in a boring parking lot (hanging out in a parking lot seems an awful lot like… hanging out in a parking lot.) Can you think of anything?
I’m going to need to get back to you on the big white wall thing. My initial thought is (and this is kind of entering nuttyville) something that would be about four times the size of your screen, as you mentioned, yet fully transportable in your BMW, which is admittedly a tall order. I’m thinking a hoistable cross brace with a clothes line connecting the top pieces – the screen can drape from the clothes line and the cross brace design would keep the line taught. Bungee cords can be affixed to each bottom corner of the screen and connected to the ends of each cross brace, and the whole thing can be leaned up against a wall like a gigantic kite.
Of course, you’re kinda screwed if you don’t have a big wall, but maybe the thing can be wedged into a tree or something, which would be drop dead funny to witness. Again, I’ve taken the express train to nuttyville on this, but it just might work. The design is loosely based on my tent’s rain tarp.


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MOVING FORWARD: In Daytona Beach, Godwin Kelly notes following Brian Vickers' win Sunday at the Sprint Cup Carfax 400, Toyota "now boasts wins with its three primary race teams" -- Joe Gibbs Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing and Red Bull Racing (RBR). RBR "may have the deepest pockets" of all three teams since it is owned by Red Bull CEO Dietrich Mateschitz. Kelly notes as "high-profile race teams, such as Hendrick Motorsports and Roush Fenway Racing, are scrambling to find corporate sponsors for the 2010 season, Mateschitz only needs to write a check from his company's account." Toyota Motorsports National Manager Les Unger said of RBR, "It's very gratifying to see that team and how far it's come since 2007." Meanwhile, Unger said that he "continues to talk with teams currently affiliated with other manufacturers about going into the Toyota camp next season." Unger said that Toyota "would like to increase the size of its footprint in the Cup garage, but hinted the company would not want to have more than a dozen full-time cars" (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 8/20).


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Sikhs Promote Fitness and help Juvenile Diabetes Research
Atlanta, Georgia, USA –Inspired to promote fitness and help the young adults suffering with diabetes, a jattha (team) of Sikhs participated in a 3miles ‘Walk to cure Diabetes’ held in Atlanta, Georgia last month. The ‘Sikhs for Fitness’ team of the UNITED SIKHS lead by Parvinder Singh walked to support a worthy organization- JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International). With that walk the Sikh community became a part of the 500,000 people at 200 Walk sites nationwide this year who are making a difference in the lives of people with type-1 diabetes.
As many as 3 million Americans have type-1 diabetes, a disease most often diagnosed in childhood, that strikes suddenly, lasts a lifetime, and carries the constant threat of deadly complications, including heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, and amputation. JDRF's mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. The ‘Cure for Diabetes’ walk draws people together in a healthy activity for a worthy cause to fundraise for research to help find a cure for the disease.
It was the second ‘Sikhs For Fitness’ event organized by the Atlanta Sikhs this year. When Parvinder Singh saw the JDRF Walk poster in AT&T where he works, he got reminded of his colleague who had shared with him the pain of her teen who had Juvenile Diabetes. “I was a bit surprised hearing that because where I come from, diabetes is a late 40’s phenomenon. I rarely saw anyone suffering from diabetes in their teens,” said Parvinder Singh. He realized the pain which the parents and the child go through while struggling with this disease. “It is quite a phenomenal change in the lifestyle for the child and his parents,” he added. He was pleasantly surprised to know various equipment exist to help control sugar levels and automatically pump the insulin into the body from time to time.
The morning of the walk, the team was astounded to see over 5000 participants gathered in the Centennial Olympic Park in the heart of Atlanta. A big presence of Corporate America was evident. “During the walk we could see lot of faces turning to the team with curiosity and anxiety. While we walked we pondered on Juvenile Diabetes, ways to educate our community about it and future ways of participation and support for the cause” said Parvinder.
At the end of the walk the team coincidently met with Parvinder’s colleague whose child has Juvenile Diabetes. She was very glad and thankful to see Parvinder and other Sikhs supporting the cause.
We accomplished 4 goals by being a part of the event:
Atlantans, please keep your eye out for the next event coming up soon. Sikhs in other areas, please be proactive and organize such events in your community. Encourage your young ones to start participating in such activities, to believe in themselves, and to get a head start in fitness.
Please visit http://walk.jdrf.org/ to organize and participate in the walk with your community, to support JDRF.
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The menu began with a salad of duck and figs, followed by Russian “pelmeni” dumplings made from Kamchatka crab, and then a white Amur fish soup and sea buckthorn sorbet.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were offered a menu including duck and fig salad, crab dumplings, sturgeon and beef with a choice of Russian wines, a Kremlin reporter said. The menu began with a salad of duck and figs, followed by Russian “pelmeni” dumplings made from Kamchatka crab, and then a white Amur fish soup and sea buckthorn sorbet.
As a main course there was a choice of sturgeon with mushrooms and potatoes or entrecote of marbled beef with grilled vegetables. For dessert, they were offered red bilberries from the taiga with pine nuts and condensed milk. White and red wines from Divnomorskoye Manor in southern Russia were also on the table. During an official dinner at Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, in an unprecedented summit, Vladimir Putin spoke of “strengthening future cooperation” with North Korea.
“To the well-being and prosperity of our nations, to the health of the chairman and all those present,” Putin said, raising his gl in footage broadcast by Russian state television. .


It was inevitable that some records got lost in the glut of music releases in the 1960s and 70s. The Internet era is no different; if anyone can produce and distribute music, they will. But thanks to the crate diggers at Numero Group, old sounds sound fresh again. These are the real lost tapes.
In 2005, while making his Saturday morning yard sale rounds around town, collector Blake Oliver stumbled upon a box of curiously marked tapes. At first, Oliver thought he’d found the lost masters from Clem Price and George Beter’s Columbus-based Prix label. But after a cursory listen, he realized that these were not the Prix masters, but rather demos and unreleased tracks from Prix’s Harmonic Sounds studio. Somehow, this was even better. In addition to Eddie Ray’s heart-stopping “Wait A Minute,” here were dozens of examples of what can only be described as “soul blueprints.”
Released in 2012, the reissued ERIMAJ’s Conflict of a Man album sounds as fresh as when it came out. The group’s eponymous lead single brought attention to its futurisitic, soulful vibe. Nextbop even called the group ‘next generation of jazz.’
Buttering Trio is a three piece band from Berlin and Tel Aviv who interweave bits of soul music a la Georgia Anne Muldrow and Little Dragon into playful beats. Their Facebook bio encapsulates their raw sound: “We were never born. Killing it every day.”
The track ‘Unexperienced’ appears on the group’s third album entitled Threesome, which dropped just last week. According to their Bandcamp page, they recorded the album across three different studios in Berlin, London, and Tel Aviv.
The track launches with a soft piano and a mellow flute, before the singer’s soulful vocals make way to a drum beat. The overall experimental vibe of the album seems to match up with the artist’s earthy sensibilities. Her mastery of the electric harp is also fun to watch.
Calling themselves “ambassadors for the obscure,” The Comet Is Coming was recently nominated for a Mercury prize for their funky electro-jazz album Channel The Spirits. In an interview with Bandcamp, the band said they recorded the album in a three-day sprint. Channeling the planet’s impending doom, keyboardist Dan Leavers (Danalogue the Conqueror) said:
“If it was the last day on earth, and a comet was literally coming, how are you going to play? How are you going to party? I feel like the name conjures up that [sense of] apocalypse. Once you understand that you are not going to live forever, does that change what you’re going to do? It’s been an interesting name to get our heads around.”
But The Comet Is Coming is not all doom and gloom. The track “Space Carnival” sounds like it could be the celebratory arrival song for the first manned mission to Mars.
“What are you afraid of?” That’s the sample echoing within ‘Running,’ a beautiful debut ballad from West London singer/songwriter Abi Ocia.
At first listen, the piano buildup and soft vocals may remind you of Little Dragon’s opening salvo, ‘Twice.’ The lyrics are also reflective and internal. Telling the blog Pigeons and Airplanes, Ocia said:
“I wanted to explore an inner dialog with myself, following a journey of seeking out something greater than what you are used to, even if it means purging yourself of things you hold dear.”
According to her Facebook page, this is the first of many new tracks to come.