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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Cruise ship dining once conjured images of gluttons bellying up to the buffet. Now gastronomy trumps gluttony: A more discerning generation of foodies is selecting ships and itineraries based on culinary allure. In response, cruise lines — from mainstream to luxury — are going overboard to meet the more refined tastes of passengers.
The number of food-themed cruises, food-based shore excursions, and food market and galley tours is growing. Presentation has been upgraded too, with meals served on designer china, flanked by silver flatware and crystal, on tables sporting imported linens and fresh flowers.
"At every price point, cruising has never been as food-oriented," said Chuck Flagg, a frequent cruiser who owns a Cruise Holidays franchise near Atlanta.
Once upon a time, there were two choices: the main dining room or the informal, all-you-can-eat buffet. That landscape has changed considerably. On virtually all lines, cruisers can opt for open or reserved seating.
"You can pretty much choose when you want to dine, who you want to dine with and how you want to dress for dinner," said Naomi Kraus, cruise editor for Frommer's Travel.
"Food is so wrapped up in culture that it's an integral part of travel," added Bruce Good, public relations director for the Seabourn Cruise Line. On Seabourn's 200-person sister ships, Pride, Spirit and Legend, the 48-seat Restaurant 2 offers a "small plates" tasting menu at no additional charge. For those who prefer privacy, dinner can be delivered to your cabin piping hot course by course.
On the Queen Mary 2 and the Oceania and Regent Seven Seas lines, guests can choose from a health-conscious menu designed by Canyon Ranch. Royal Caribbean added seven new food venues when it relaunched the refurbished 2,500-passenger Radiance of the Seas.
Imagine eating a special meal hosted by the executive chef in the ship's galley during the busy dinner hours. For $75 per person one or two nights per cruise, as many as 10 Princess Cruises passengers enjoy a multicourse chef's table menu paired with wines.
The 1,250-passenger Oceania Marina has two private dining rooms (with surcharges) among six gourmet restaurants. La Reserve is an intimate 12-seat venue offering food and wine pairings by Wine Spectator ($75 per person). Privee, an ultra-contemporary small room, offers a chef's table with a seven-course tasting menu designed with the chef, for a flat fee of $1,000 for as many as 10 people.
Celebrity chefs also are lending their names and expertise to the trend. Jacques Pepin, executive culinary director of the Oceania Cruises line, has a French bistro called Jacques on the Marina. He is one on a long list of celebrity chefs linked to various lines. Cunard has a Todd English restaurant on two of its Queens;
Seabourn's menu is designed by Charlie Palmer, and the menus of Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa are served in Crystal's Sushi Bar and Silk Road.
When a celebrity name isn't associated with a ship, guest chefs join certain cruises or replicate award-winning menus onboard. On Regent Seven Seas, television chef Michael Lomonaco conducted demonstrations, gave talks and led a wine tasting on a 10-day August cruise. Holland America has an exclusive agreement with Le Cirque to re-create the legendary eatery's whimsical experience on the 15 ships in its fleet.
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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 18:52:34 +0100
From: Pit Schultz <firstname.lastname@example.org>
The new media environment has become the central determining metaphor for simultaneous collective reception in a public space. Is it possible to say that the public space disappeared and that we have instead internalized the space as a kind of mise-en-scene constructed by the new media technology? But maybe this mise-en-scene of the space must be viewed in today's terms as ideological, precisely because it is so invisible and taken for granted. If the body ceases to be the fundamental unit of spatial analysis, at once the very concept of space itself becomes problematic, and we have to ask ourselves, according to Fredric Jameson: what space? I will discussed here two spaces and the way their are functioning in relation to the subject, the gaze and the consciousness.
Part One: The Space of the Real
Nowadays, I can write about "the media" in general, and especially the medium of television only in connection with the war, because I lived the ten-day war in Slovenia via television and because I witnessed the war in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia from Vukovar to Sarajevo to Srebrenica and so on, day by day by the help of my TV, or more precisely by the help of the television video signal, for almost 5 years. And now that seems that the war is finally over (you believe in this?), and it seems that is no reason to heat the stories about the media and the war I think differently. So what space? The space of the real, the space of the war in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, constructed through the media, by the media in the media and in my video art work, and reflected again and again in my theoretical work.
I wrote: "Sarajevo is a city of the future in all aspects because we can no longer conceive of a future without reflecting on the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina." That war has put into question the credibility of all the fundamental civil legislative relations in the world in which we live, the paradigm of the future, humanism and the rhetoric of freedom, humanity, civil rights of the industrialized, developed world. Above all, it brings a lot of "supplements" to the theories of mass media, new /old communications technology, and also to the art of moving pictures with their realistic/imaginary effect. For this reason, it does not only question the role of the televised and printed information in new war strategies (in ascertaining the differences between the wars before and after the invention of television), but also the method of reconfiguration of the communication and information media in a technologically developed environment (the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was taking place in Europe).
When the war in Slovenia stopped, August 1991, rumors started spreading stories that all this bombing business had been staged to impress the foreign press, and, through them, the rest of the world, hoping to move them to action, since Europe, (it was said), would never really allow Ljubljana to be bombed. That was what we all kept repeating to ourselves (from Ljubljana to Vukovar to Sarajevo, Srebrenica and so on), that Western Europe, European peace movements, civil associations and, last but not least, millions of TV viewers and other "squatters" would remain dumbfounded at the direct TV pictures, the images of horror happening not somewhere in far-away Russia" but in the heart of Europe.
Edmond Couchot taught us that turning on the TV set actually means establishing a connection with the place of broadcasting and being literally (continually) present at the birth of the picture. The television picture materializes literally because of a short circuit between the place of transmission and the place of reception. But due to the speed of transmission of the electronic signal, the television picture is practically simultaneous and we are not cognizant of the time lag. Thus we can, with the aid of television, or more precisely the television video signal, establish a physical contact with the most traumatic events of our time.
Due to technical-electronic procedures, the TV viewer experiences events as though they are happening in the here and now, in front of his/her eyes, and not perhaps a thousand miles away, in a different time and place. But relying on this almost physical contact between the viewer and television, the contact which will rouse the world, turned out to be, in the case of the events in Yugoslavia (Croatia and particularly Bosnia), an outstanding theoretical construct, and at the same time an erroneous empirical nexus. It may be true, as René Berger says , that television has freed us from physically moving from one place to another and changed us into "squatters" of satellite and cable television, but it has also saved us from much turmoil. On the threshold of the third millennium, information about the war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina is, thanks to a certain short-circuit, not only simultaneously broadcast but also simultaneously tolerated in all parts of the world.
Everyday TV reporting seems inconsistent with the logic of TV informative-realistic effect, for it seems that the reports produce fiction, that the escalation of horrors (concentration camps, mass massacres, thousand of raped Moslem women) transforms fact into fiction. In 1987, Ernie Tee wrote in the catalogue for the exhibition "Art for Television" that film was the medium of illusion, television the medium of reality and video the medium of metamorphoses , but with the war in Bosnia television has become the medium of fiction and, like fiction, it can perhaps present reality in the best way.
But maybe this war is showing us also an other internal media process and especially society process. This war can be also seen in another way! According to Peter Weibel we can think, for example, about this war in relation to the idea of what it means when we leave a historically defined position, which imitates - even in the art - the natural world of our senses. Our experience of place, position and so on depends on what we call natural interface, body is for example a natural interface, and therefore we have a natural approach to space and time. Our interpretation of the media is experienced through natural interfaces like our senses, organs and being channeled, mediated by an ideology of naturality, neglecting the artificial of the media. But the media of our time show us that we have the possibility of an artificial interface, which is the media in fact. According to Weibel therefore McLuhan, when he was defining media as an extension of man he just missed in calling it an artificial extension. And in this artificial media space we see that the basic concept of how to construct space and time are examples of non naturality. The media world is dominated by non-identity or difference. The "real" is replaced by virtual reality. Necessity is replaced by possibility or contingency . So, we have to think about "reality" precisely in the way of its "unreality" in a way of a socially constructed fiction (the war in Bosnia television has become the medium of fiction). What this means is that the media, in the way which they are functioning, and television in relation to the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina for example, is just showing us all the dimensions of the so-called normal, active reality that is already ideologically, virtually constructed.
Moreover when we are insisting on the consciousness of the TV viewer, (relying on this almost physical contact between the viewer and television, the contact which will rouse the world !), maybe we count to much on the privileged position of the social as a positive. But what is showing us this changed or better to say other position of the television in relation of the war is, according to Arthur Kroker and David Cook precise rereading of Baudrillard, the collapse of the normalizing, expanding, and positive cycle of the social into its opposite: an implosive and structural order of signs. So this war is not only changing the perception of the media as such, but also of the perception of society. We face a kind of exteriorizationwhere strategies of normalization are replaced by the simulation of the masses, where the 'hyperreality' of culture indicates a great dissolution of the space of the social .
In the old world of the social, according to Kroker and Cook an emancipatory politics entailed the production of meaning: the control of individual and collective perspectives against a normalizing society which sought to exclude its oppositions. Society was constructed on the idea of the emancipatory subject who demanded a rightful inclusion in the contractual space of political economy . On the contrary, Baudrillard's political analysis represents a radical departure from both the sociology of knowledge and theorization of power/norm because his thought explores the brutal processes of dehistoricisation and desocialisation which structure the new communicative order of a signifying culture . In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities Baudrillard provides three strategic hypotheses about the existence of the social only as having a murderous effect. The first hypothesis is that the social may only refer to the space of delusion, the social has basically never existed. Second, the social as residuum and third the end of the "perspective space of the social" . The consequence, among other thing is that if the social is a simulation then the likely course of events (massacres, rapes etc.) is a brutal de-simulation.
In such a "new" world, television has the unreal existence of an imagistic sign-system in which may be read the inverted and implosive logic of the cultural machine. Thus TV according, to Kroker & Cook, is not just as a technical ensemble, a social apparatus, which implodes into society as the emblematic cultural form of a relational power. TV is not a mirror of society, but just the reverse: it is society as a mirror of television . Television whose major form of social cohesion is provided by the pseudo - solidarities of electronic television images, whose public is according to Baudrillard, the dark, silent mass of viewers who are never permitted to speak and a media elite which is allowed to speak "but which has nothing to say. The TV audience may be today the most pervasive type of social community, but if this is so, then it is anti-community or a social anti-matter, an electronic mall which privileges the psychological position of the voyeur, (a society of the disembodied eye), and the cultural position of us as a tourists in the society of the spectacle . What else are Western Europe, European peace movements, civil associations and, last but not least, millions of TV viewers and other squatters but a social anti-matter? Baudrillards' hypotheses about the media in connection with hiperreality and simulation, which were so ferociously criticized by 'serious' philosophers as to be a theoretical simulation - almost science fiction - seem, in the context of the war in ex-Yugoslavia, to have gained serious reevaluation.
At least in my opinion, the most striking turn of the TV positioning of the war on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, occurred about a year and half ago, when the Serbs - or more precisely, the blood-thirsty Yugoslavian army under Serbian control - kidnapped Bosnian president Alija Izetbegoviæ, who was returning to Sarajevo after one of the innumerable International negotiating sessions. The only means of communication between the kidnapped president, Yugoslavian army and the rest of the Bosnian presidency in occupied and already half-demolished Sarajevo was by way of the then functional, though badly damaged, Sarajevo TV station. The talks and negotiations, the ultimatums and demands were carried out in their entirety and without censorship in front of the global TV auditorium, before the international public got involved in the affair and mediated Izetbegoviæ's release. All those involved could only communicate via TV telephone frequencies, and this, while the TV station was broadcasting live. It was precisely at this point, that TV - which was broadcasting the image of a competent newsreader mediating between generals, the president and the presidency - paradoxically was transformed into radio and became the medium of drama and information, par excellence. With this turnover the television really functioned in the way it was supposed by theorists that it would function, dumbfounding TV audiences in the broadest sense of the word and forcing them into action.
If I were to try to identify a general but nevertheless indicative turning point that has occurred in the paradigm of space in art - or more broadly in visual art - I would say that it was the point at which the space of the painting was transposed into the exhibition gallery space itself. Into the so-called real space of the everyday that has begun to be constructed and deconstructed by means of various multimedia tricks or special effects, for example in the field of the (cinematic and electronic) image.
From the Renaissance to the present day a bird's -eye perspective on the paradigm of space in visual art would trace out a path that begins with perspectival space in painting, continues through the illusionist spaces of panoramas and dioramas that were so popular in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries right up until the space created by the cinematic moving picture, and then leads all the way to the virtual space of the nineties, into cyberspace. According to some accounts the latter contains the internet, while others say the internet environment represents an expansion of cyberspace. And despite all the talk that it takes to enter a cyberspace, a click of a button on a remote control server, the latter remains localized and spatially limited, unlike the internet, whose totally virtual nature (excluding the only possible material side of the internet, the computer console) means it is based on communicative non-limitation.
The essential point to grasp is thus that all of these paradigms or concepts of space in the sphere of the visual are related to a broader context of conceptions of time and space and the subject within them. For example, the industrial and technological revolution and the associated industrialization and urbanization of the towns and environment turned on its head the paradigm of visuospatial experience at the turn of the nineteen century. In his book about various "productions of space" Henri Lefebvre characterizes the period around 1910 as a watershed in the constitution of the paradigm of space.It was around that time that the space of classical perspective and geometry, which developed from the Renaissance onwards in the tradition of Greek Euclidean logic, began to disintegrate. Until then a certain shared space of knowledge and political power, grounded both in everyday discourse and in abstract thought, was shattered as a result of ever increasing industrialization. This disappearance of embodied spatiality, of the very concept of space, had far-reaching consequences for a shift in the field of representation. Classical models of vision were destroyed together with stable spaces of representation that had previously been formed by various techniques of perspective composition, techniques for deceiving the eye and limitating nature.
According to some researchers it was this change in the production of space and the spatial model, which means an ever greater meditation of space and at the same time the loss of direct experience of space, of its sensory apprehension by means of one's own body, that permitted the various technical advances in observing the subject in space or the viewer in the visual sphere. The explosive proliferation of optical, illusionist toys, exhibitions and settings (the panoramas and dioramas of the eighteen and nineteen centuries) was also a kind of surrogate for the reduced role of direct sensation of the individual in contact with space. Other theorists and researches of different paradigms of space and the subject argue that this reconfiguration and adaptation of space which followed in the wake of new forms of industrialization brought many positive changes for the viewer. Alongside the development of various forms of observation in space there also developed, thanks to kaleidoscopes and magic lanterns, very special forms of human perception which effaced the duality of body and mind, science and technology.
What happens, for example, with the paradigm of space in the field of moving pictures? Does the projection of moving pictures onto various kinds of screen mean we talk of screen arts? What has happened in one century to then space of the screen? If in film "space" as a montage of attractions is beamed onto a remote white canvas, then the screen of electronic images, or the TV receiver, has enabled the space of illusion to enter our living rooms and literally glued itself to our eyes in virtual reality.
Part Two: The Space of the Virtual
My general thesis is that the existence of virtual reality makes possible a new interrogation of some issues crucial to human and social existence. Issues such as the nature of the human, the differences between reality and the real, and those of identity are all put in question by the theme of virtual reality.
But first let me schematically and narratively explain "virtual reality". A helmet apparatus feeds the subject visual and auditory information about a virtual environment. Sensors in the helmet respond to head and even eye movement. The computer literally knows where your head's at. The cables are connected to sensors, providing a computer with information regarding the subject's bodily orientation. The helmet apparatus, or the data glove - the so called interface - has thus become the crucial site of virtual reality, a significantly ambiguous boundary between human being and technology. The more invisible the interface, the more perfect the fiction of a total imbrication within the force fields of a new reality.
Catherine Richards descriptions of the situation in virtual reality - that is capturing one's imaginary body - as "losing the self-definition of the body", is in my opinion crucial for understanding what is going on in the virtual reality context. She writes: "I put on virtual environment technology. I see my imaginary body right before me. I move my finger, the image moves. If the spectral image lags behind my living hand, it misses me. If it catches up, it crosses a body threshold racing to capture my imaginary body within its image. Now, when I move, I inhabit the virtual materialized image of my imaginary body. I move within the semblance of my living body, a simulation of my physical and imaginary experience that is traveling back and forth across my thresholds, taking me away. What am I here? My body is mediated experientially, my imaginary body is materialized into a phantom image. One is intertwined with the other, each one reading the other, simulating the living cohabitation of my body and the imaginary".
In Margaret Morse classical virtual reality situation the field of view in the virtual world is constantly being reconstituted in real time by a computer from a digital store through devices which track the position of somebody 's head and hand. That is, in a virtual world the space itself is interactive. Friedrich Kittler suggests that the virtual environment can appear to be something alive that we cannot acknowledge as subject or persona in the traditional sense, and which nonetheless constantly demonstrates that it sees us without revealing itself.
So how can we define the actual/virtual position of the subject in the virtual context? I have made reference to several writers who highlight a specific situation that can be designated as the deprivation of self-identity in virtual reality. This is crucial for understanding the changing position of the self and identity in virtual reality. The virtual environment occurs cinematically - and here I will refer to Slavoj _i_ek: it is a kind of reversal of face-to-face intersubjectivity, relating the subject to his/her shadowy double which emerges from behind him or her as a kind of sublime protuberance. What we have here in the relation of the subject with his/her imaginary body is a paradoxical kind of communication not a "direct" communication of the subject with the fellow creature in front of him/her, but a communication with the excrescence behind him, mediated by a third gaze - the gaze of the virtual machine. In virtual reality what we are seeing is the concentration of the field and counter-field within the same frame, as if the counter-field were to be mirrored back into the field itself. This confers upon the scene its hypnotic dimensions: the subject is enthralled by the gaze which sees "what is in (him)self more than (him)self".
Here the subject does not exit within a consistent narrative, integrated into the field of intersubjectivity around which he or she builds himself or herself a new identity etc. What is at stake in virtual reality is the temporal loss of a subject's symbolic identity. He or she is forced to assume that he or she is not what he or she thought himself or herself to be, but somebody-something else.What am I in virtual reality? My body is mediated by my imaginary body that is materialized into a phantom image. One is intertwined with the other, each one reading the other, simulating the living cohabitation of my body and the imaginary.
To grasp the implications of the radical shift at work in virtual reality, one has to reach the Cartesian-Kantian problematic of the subject as pure, and as substanceless. Kant fully articulates, according to _i_ek, the inherent paradoxes of self-consciousness. What Kant's "transcendental turn" renders manifest is the impossibility of locating the subject in the "great chain of being", into the Whole of the universe. The subject in the most radical sense is out of joint; it constitutively lacks its own place. In Descartes, this out of joint state is still concealed. Kant however brings to light a kind of vanishing mediator that is, in short, the Lacanian real. The paradox of self-consciousness is that that it is possible only against the background of its n impossibility - and this is also at the core of virtual reality. To put it differently, where is the cogito, the place of my self-consciousness, when everything that I actually am is an artefact- not only my body, my eyes, but even my most intimate memories and fantasies? _i_ek answers: Everything that I positively am, every enunciated content I can point at and say that's me, is not I; I am only the void that remains, the empty distance which approaches all content. Or it is only when, at the level of the enunciated content, I assume my replicant status, that, at the level of enunciation, I become a truly human subject.
"I am a replicant" is the statement of the subject at its purest. If we return to virtual reality: the capture of the imaginary body does not offer the "direct" communication of the subject with his/her fellow creature in front of him/her, but, rather, communication with the excrescence behind him/her.
In short the implicit thesis of being in virtual reality is that of the replicants; replicants are pure subjects precisely insofar as they testify to the possibility of positive, substantial content, inclusive of the most intimate fantasies, not as "their own" but as already implanted. If we try to answer the question, what is it that the third gaze sees - "what is in the subject more than himself/herself"? Our answer must be, Nothing a hole, a void. The very notion of self-consciousness implies the subject's self-decentering, which is far more radical than the opposition between subject and object.
What was just when the text was written a cynical allegory, seems to be today a frightening reality due to the corse of events in Checnia.
Cf. Edmont Couchot, "La question du temps dans les techniques èlectroniques et numériques de l'imagé", in 3e Semaine Internationale de Vidéo (Saint-Gervais Genève, 1989), pp. 19-21.
Cf. René Berger, "Entre magie et voyance", in 3e Semaine Internationale de Vidéo, pp. 11-14.
Ernie Tee, "The Irreality of Dance", in Kathy Rae Huffman & Dorine Mignot, eds., The Arts for Televison (The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1987), p. 62.
Peter Weibel, "Ways of Contextualisation or The Exhibition as a Discrete Machine", in Ine Gevers, ed., Place, Position, Presentation Public, (Jan van Eyck Akademie and De Balie, Maastricht and Amsterdam, 1993), p. 225.
Cf. Weibel, p. 225.
Cf. Weibel, p. 228.
Cf. Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities (Jean Baudrillard and Semiotext(e), New York, 1983), pp. 3-4.
Kroker and Cook, p. 175.
Kroker and Cook, p. 175.
Cf. Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, in Kroker and Cook, pp. 173-174.
Cf. Kroker and Cook, p. 268.
Kroker and Cook, p. 274.
Bukatman, Scott, Terminal Identity, Duke University press, Durham and London 1993, pp. 186-192.
Richards, Catherine, The Bioapparatus Membrane, in: Bioapparatus, ed., Catherine Richards and Nell Tenhaaf, The Banff Center, Banff 1991, p. 58.
Morse, Margaret, "Enthralling Spaces. The Aesthetics of Virtual Environments", in: ISEA 94 Catalogue, Helsinki 1994, p. 83)
_i_ek, Slavoj, Tarrying with the Negative, Duke University Press, Durham 1993, pp.107-8.

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SRI LANKA HINDU PILGRIMAGE TOUR
Tour Duration: 05 Days & 04 Nights
Day 01 :Colombo / Kandy
Arrive at the Colombo airport. Meet assist and we leave for Kandy. On the way visit the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. Arrive Kandy. Visit the Murugan Temple in Kandy and later visit the Temple of the Tooth relic of Lord Buddha. Evening shopping in Kandy and watch the Kandy Cultural show and fire walking Ceremony. Overnight Hotel.
Day 02 :Kandy / Nuwara Eliya
We leave for Nuwara Eliya, 2200 meters above sea level. Visit waterfalls, tea estates/factory. On the visit the Hanuman Temple, in Pussellawa on the way. Its we famous Hanuman Temple, later we arrive in Nuwara Eliya. Visit the city Lake etc. Overnight at Hotel
Day 03 : Nuwara Eliya /Sita Amman Temple/ Colombo
We visit the Sita Amman Temple in Nuwara Eliya (Ramayanaya) Seetha Amman temple, Seetha Eliya The stream that runs from the hill, catered to the needs of Sitadevi during her stay at ‘Ashok Vatika’. She is said to have bathed in this stream. About a century ago of three idols were discovered in the stream, one of which was that of Sita. It is believed that the idols have been worshipped at this spot for centuries. Now there is temple for Lord Rama, Sitadevi, Luxshmana, and Hanuman by the side of this stream. It is interesting to note that foot prints akin to Lord Hanuman's are found by this river and some are of small size and some are of large size, which tells us of the immense powers of hanuman transforming himself into any size. Attend special “Pooja” ceremony arranged for you. Later we leave for Colombo, Overnight at Hotel
Day 04 : Colombo / Munneswaram / Colombo
We visit the Munnerswaram Hindu Temple, Munneswaram Temple is one of the three celebrated ancient Isvarams of Lord Siva - the other two being Thirukethiswaram near Mannar and Konneswaram in Trincomalee. It is situated about half a mile east of Chilaw. We first hear of this Temple in the Ramayana or the story of Rama and Sita, when Sri Rama Bhagavan is said to have found solace there of his heavily weighted conscience in respect of the many deaths in war and Killing of Ravana, Lord Ram got the “Brahmadosha” because Ravana was son of a Brahmin Rishi “Vishrava’, on this place after the war lord Ram stayed here for a while, established a shivalingam performed poojas and other ceremonies. There after we visit Colombo city. The Gangaram Buddha Temple, Indepence Sqaure, Gale Face Raod, etc, later shopping at Odel and House of fashions Overnight hotel.
Day 05 : Colombo / Airport
Breakfast at Hotel and transfer to the airport for the departure flight

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If you didn’t tune in to Lucia Silva and two other booksellers in conversation with Susan Stamberg on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning, here’s another chance!
Here are the books Lucia recommends:
In 2009, Heathrow Airport invited the writer and philosopher Alain de Botton to be writer-in-residence in their newly built Terminal 5. He would live at the airport for a week, occupying a desk situated in the middle of the departure hall, record his impressions, and then compile them into a book. The result is this slim volume that waxes philosophical on all the things airports represent: escape, anonymity, longing, aspiration, impatience. De Botton offers funny, erudite ruminations on such things as the implications of reclaiming our baggage after hours suspended in weightless flight; illusions of perfection upon departing for a family holiday; and the complex emotions involved in “arrivals” and “departures.” At just over 100 pages, this one is perfect for your carry-on.
“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world,” declares the author, illustrator and designer of this dreamy atlas. Who hasn’t stared at those specks of earth (or ice) in the middle of foreign oceans and wondered what stories they hold? Schalansky uses historic events and scientific accounts as inspiration for the “imagined realities” she creates for each of these 50 real islands. This beautifully illustrated atlas reveals that cartography and the creative imagination have always intersected, spurred on by human wanderlust.
This international collection brings together brand-new stories inspired by the oldest literary tradition. Neil Gaiman riffs on Homer’s Odyssey, Francine Prose remakes Hansel and Gretel, and Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike both take on Bluebeard. Sure, there are princes, talking birds, witches and spells, but there are also 7-Elevens, hipsters and performance artists (to say nothing of the runaways, addicts and drifters named after the Seven Dwarfs). Though mostly anchored in the very real world, all of these stories are sprinkled with a beguiling darkness that recalls the enchanting lilt of our earliest story times.
David Earle assigned 365 artists each a day of the year and gave them 24 hours to create a work of art dedicated to that date. Both an art object and a functional perpetual calendar, the collection inspires viewers to stretch their creativity and reimagine the significance of their next 24 hours. Each page has a blank space where one might jot down a poem, sketch a doodle, or paste some ephemera, reminding us of our own capacities and desires to make, to do, to engage beyond our appointments and responsibilities.
This beautifully designed collection brings together essays from New Orleanians who stayed to rebuild their lives in a broken city, and those who chose to leave. Along with historical references, maps, photographs and quotes from both the famous and unknown, Where We Know creates a mosaic of the ultimate mosaic city. Whether writing about a baby born in the midst of reconstruction, wrestling with the many voices of the city’s tangled heritage, or looking back from a new home in Los Angeles, these writers illuminate the city’s past and the present in a gritty homage fit for natives and foreigners alike. Designed as though Chin Music Press/Broken Levee Books intends to singlehandedly resurrect the art of bookmaking, Where We Know is a book you’ll want at your bedside and on your coffee table.

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... I have researched this and don't fancy taking long trips from the railway station with a lot of luggage, so you just walk across the road - No hassle! We settle in and take a short walk around the district to orientate ourselves before returning to the hotel district and the heaps of restaurants out the front of same. Trying to find the perfect one! Cath has a hankering for Schnitzel (local delicacy) so we settle in for a delicious meal. And just a small beer! ...
... up to Lucerne. We visited the famous monument of the slain lion, commissioned in tribute to the Swiss Guards that died protecting Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. We only has a brief look around Lucerne as we have some time here tomorrow. Lucerne, like most of Switzerland is famous for watches and Swiss Army Knives! We left our bus for a cruise on Lake Lucerne. Magnificent scenery, great commentary and a samples of local ...
... up in. Corina and Raymon ordered lunch for us all, complete with hot chocolates and swiss coffee with shnapps. Our lunch was traditional swiss dishes of macaroni cheese with applesauce (tastes way better than that sounds) and liam had a toasted thing that was bread, bacon, swiss cheese (a ton of it) and an egg. The cheese here is so much better tasting than ours. After lunch the kids were back off outside as it was snowing even heavier now but the ...
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I ordered some home-cooked dishes, emphasizing that it is really expensive, really expensive, and the price is very low. Service attitude is average. The dishes in the picture were just served. I don’t know who gave the courage a price of $30 per dish, Liang Jingru? The taste is average, here is Cantonese, which means the taste is not authentic. Scallion-stuffed mutton should be scallion-stuffed onion rings. The poor mutton was so thin that it was so light...you choked speechlessly after eating a meal. I would rather eat McDonald's.

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The Cleveland Indians scored six runs in the fifth inning and defeated the Chicago White Sox, 9-4, on Saturday.
Mark Reynolds knocked a grand slam and had five RBI while Nick Swisher and Yan Gomes each hit two-run home runs for the Indians.
Cleveland starter Zach McAllister (1-1) fanned six and allowed three runs -- one earned -- on five hits over 6 1/3 innings.
"He's a young pitcher that's gaining experience," said Indians manager Terry Francona. "I thought the command of his fastball today was tremendous. He started the game out ... we gave up a couple of runs, we come right back and he settled in, throwing a lot of quality strikes with his fastball. That's a good way to pitch."
Alejandro De Aza had a two-run homer and Paul Konerko drove in a run for the White Sox, who saw Chris Sale (1-1) struggle, surrendering eight runs in 4 1/3 innings.
"We've kind of had a stretch like this toward the end of last year, so we might as well do it early in the year and then get out of it," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura. "You just keep plugging away."
The White Sox got on the board in the first. Keppinger knocked a one-out double and scored when Reynolds committed a throwing error attempting to get Alex Rios out. Rios was able to go to second as a result and, two batters later, Konerko singled to right to score Rios.
Ryan Raburn drew a two-out walk in the bottom of the inning, setting up Swisher's homer.
Reynolds hit an RBI single came in the third, scoring Swisher, who doubled to deep left with two outs.
In the fifth, Asdrubal Cabrera singled and Ryan Raburn doubled, putting runners on second and third. Swisher was then hit by a pitch, loading the bases. The free-swinging Reynolds then hit his grand slam on a 1-1 pitch over the left field wall. Afterwards, Michael Brantley was hit by a pitch and Gomes homered two batters later.
De Aza's two-run shot came in the seventh off reliever Bryan Shaw, who came in to replace McAllister after he hit Alexei Ramirez.
Joe Smith came on to pitch in the ninth for Cleveland. He allowed a double by Ramirez but struck out Tyler Flowers to end the game.
Jason Kipnis was scratched (left elbow soreness, day-to-day) and was replaced by Raburn, who went 1-for-4 with a double and two runs scored ... Reynolds had a stolen base, his first since May 6, 2012 against Boston ... Swisher came into the game 0-for-5 with three strikeouts lifetime against Sale ... Cleveland center fielder Michael Bourn is 1-for-13 lifetime against Sale ... The White Sox start the season 0-5 on the road for the first time since 1972.

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Wie reached the semifinals of the United States Women's Amateur Public Links at age 12, becoming the youngest ever semifinalist in any women's USGA amateur event.
Annika Sorenstam is the defending ShopRite Classic champion. A field of 142 will compete in this year's event at the Seaview Marriott Resort and Spa Bay Course June 27-29.
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On a recent episode of the popular tech podcast "This Week in Tech," host Leo Laporte and a panel of experts waded into the contentious debate around regulating artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles.
The conversation was sparked by the European Union's new AI law, which was just enacted to constrain risky use cases. It creates classification standards for AI systems, requires impact assessments before deployment, and compels transparency from companies to enforce compliance. Laporte asked whether this type of oversight might slow innovation or if it's prudent given public safety implications.
While autonomous cars could save lives, guest Glenn Fleishman said the companies developing them seem to be sacrificing safety for speed in bringing half-baked technologies to market. He argued regulators have an imperative, with support from recent self-driving car mishaps, to apply the brakes until additional fail-safes are implemented.
Denise Howell asserted regulations are inevitable since dangerous applications of AI will likely outpace what governments can deter. She called for countermeasures to combat misuse, worrying that AI could automate crime on an unprecedented scale if left unchecked.
On the other side, Laporte invoked the "trolley problem" ethical thought experiment about acceptable casualties to make the case that early self-driving accidents may be tolerable if the tech ultimately prevents multitudes more deaths from human driving errors each year.
By the discussion's close, Laporte conceded that some government oversight is probably wise, even if he leans toward giving developers more leeway. The panel agreed that regulations must balance technological progress and long-term risks. Or, as Laporte summarized, regulators must strike a balance between precaution and permission.
Getting this right carries high stakes for welfare and innovation over the AI frontier's horizon. But if this debate was any indication, consensus may emerge slowly on responsible advancement.
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Among the numerous autoimmune pathologies Takayasu syndrome highlights its early beginning and erased, rarity timely diagnosis and therefore late onset of adequate treatment, which often leads to disability of patients.
etiology of systemic vasculitis is not fully understood, but clearly traced its connection with infectious and allergic factors and autoimmune aggression.At present, the most likely find a genetic predisposition to the emergence of the disease Takayasu, as evidenced by a number of studies.Patients with this syndrome often detected HLA-DR4 gene, as well as lymphocyte antigen-CF 3.
The disease begins with the development of inflammation in the wall of the aorta and its major branches.As the progression of th
The clinical course is divided into four types of Takayasu's disease.They are characterized by lesions of the different levels of the aorta and its branches, which ultimately determines the symptoms.There are four forms of the disease Takayasu:
1. Type I- artery extending from the aortic arch;
2. Type II- aortic arch and extending from her arteries;
3. Type III- abdominal aorta and renal arteries;
4. Type IV- common lesion of the aorta.
During Takayasu's disease was isolated acute and chronic phase.Symptoms are non-specific acute phase, they are characteristic of many acute infectious disease that is the cause of a rare correct diagnosis at this stage.
For the acute phase is characterized by:
Some of the early symptoms of the disease Takayasu similar to the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (arthralgia, skin nodules, pericarditis, pleural effusion).That put this diagnosis the majority of patients at the time of manifestirovaniya disease.
second, chronic stage of the disease develops over a fairly long period of time, an average of 6-8 years.It is characterized by symptoms of narrowing of the affected aorta and its major branches: the manifestations of circulatory failure, lack of pulse in the radial artery (in their involvement in the process), painful lesions of arteries.In the case of arterial stenosis (narrowing of their almost complete clearance) tissue blood flow which was obtained in this way undergo necrosis.With improper blood flow on the radial artery is connected to a characteristic symptom of Takayasu's disease - the lack of a pulse on the wrists.Early symptoms of deficiency of blood supply are numbness, weakness and fatigue in his hands, headaches, tinnitus.At the stage of acute inflammation of the walls of blood vessels, most patients report severe pain in the course of the vessel.
Treatment of patients suffering from Takayasu's disease has two main objectives: to slow down progression of the disease and improve quality of life of patients.To achieve the first goal of using hormone prednisone, which is assigned in high doses for a long time.Cancellation of this drug is only possible when stable remission and there are no signs of progression of Takayasu's disease.
American doctors suggest for best effect combine treatment with prednisolone to the appointment of the drug methotrexate, which is an antimetabolite.According to several clinical studies it can significantly reduce the dose of prednisolone and has proved popular with resistance to prednisolone therapy.
To reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications and prevention of atherosclerosis in patients with Takayasu's disease is recommended to prescribe antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and statins to reduce the amount of atherosclerotic complications.
particularly complex issue is the treatment of hypertension in patients with Takayasu's disease.Blood pressure greater than 160/90 mm Hgregarded as hypertension and treated.Considerable difficulties arise with the pressure measurement in patients with diseased arteries of the upper extremities.In such cases, the blood pressure measurement is made on the feet.But in cases where the patient has a significant narrowing of the arteries, the pressure drop necessitates a drastic deterioration of blood flow and increased ischemia.Therefore, the question of antihypertensive therapy is decided in each case individually.In cases where the cause of persistent high blood pressure is narrowing of the renal arteries, the best tactic is considered surgical removal of the stenosis.
Takayasu's disease in each patient flows in different ways and provokes various complications.Therefore, the question of the treatment of this disease is solved individually in each case, after the complete clinical and laboratory examination in a hospital.
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The scheme proposes to extract water from the Yamuna floodplains
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit directed the Delhi Jal Board on Monday to initiate work on a project that was sanctioned to extract water through non-invasive technology from the Yamuna floodplains but has been hanging fire.
The Chief Minister’s direction came after a group of students from Delhi University met her, requesting to sanction the project, which is also the subject of their thesis.
“In 2009, on the directions of the Prime Minister’s Office, a committee headed by the chairman of the Central Water Commission was constituted to look into feasibility and implementation of this project. A study done by WAPCOS on behalf of the DJB confirmed and established the feasibility of the project. However, it has been almost a year and the project has not been put in an implementation stage. In 2011, students of the Delhi University Geology Department took up a study on this scheme as subject of their Masters thesis,” said Diwan Singh of the non-government organisation Natural Heritage First, who is also part of the programme.
The scheme proposes to extract over 60 MGD of water from the floodplains of Palla through non-invasive technique. A team including Dr. S.V.N. Rao from WAPCOS, Dr. Shashank Shekhar from Delhi University and Prof. Vikram Soni from Jamia Milia University had been working on the research and development of the project. “Not only is the delay depriving the city of additional water, it has also delaying the thesis [of the students] beyond the stipulated time,” said Mr. Singh.


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Post-pandemic workplace challenges like remote-work expectations, a more socially aware and demanding society, and a brash new generation entering the workforce are creating unprecedented company-culture challenges for business leaders, and solutions as yet remain elusive. New research from organizational culture development firm O.C. Tanner examines the current state of the workplace, aiming to equip leaders with the necessary insights and strategies to meet today’s most immediate and consequential challenges head on.
The firm’s 2024 Global Culture Report, now in its sixth year, is based on data gathered from more than 42,000 employees, leaders, HR practitioners, and executives from 27 countries worldwide.
Among other pressing topics, the report provides an extensive analysis of the group that makes up four-fifths of the world’s workers—many of which feel overlooked and underappreciated, despite being essential to success. The group, referred to as “the 80 percent,” overwhelmingly lacks access to the tools, technology, and opportunities necessary to connect and advance in their workplace, and the autonomy and voice to shape their workplace experience.
“Workplace cultures have seismically shifted over the past three years, and there are no signs of letting up. As the aftershocks and debates around workplace fundamentals, employee priorities, and leaders’ roles continue, this year’s report serves as a roadmap with insights to better navigate the ongoing transformation,” said Gary Beckstrand, vice president of the O.C. Tanner Institute, in a news release. “Organizations, especially those with large populations of frontline employees, need to work closely with their teams to create thriving workplace cultures—where all want to come, do their best work, and stay—in the face of ongoing change, and this research will help enable leaders to do so.”
The report also emphasizes that people-centric solutions are the ones that win and endure—every employee wants to feel seen and valued, and resilience must exceed surviving the next challenge.
“Beyond an abundance of quality research that helps us better understand employee experiences worldwide, the 2024 Global Culture Report findings provide a reason for hope,” said Mindi Cox, O.C. Tanner chief people and marketing officer, in the release. “We have a variety of crucial issues to attend to, but we’re seeing conditions and calculations with promise —numbers that translate into confidence that small shifts in the way organizations manage change, build skills, act with empathy, and develop resilience can create healthier workplace cultures.”
Other key findings include:
- Only 27 percent of leaders feel strongly prepared to help their people navigate change.
- Employees who perceive their leaders have the tools to help them manage change are:
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- 6x more likely to thrive at work
- 10x more likely to feel a strong sense of trust
- 76 percent less likely to experience burnout
- When leaders have the tools to help employees manage change, their own risk of burnout decreases by 73 percent.
- When employees have a voice in organizational changes, there are greater odds of: belief the organization is people-centric (8x), feelings of trust (8x), sense of community (5x), and thriving at work (3x).
- Only 59 percent of employees feel their leaders’ expressions of empathy are accompanied by meaningful action and support, and only 58 percent of organizations take action to improve after receiving employee feedback.
- Employees picture themselves staying 2.5 years longer at their organization when their leader is empathetic.
- When looking at the widening gap between the employee experience of “the 80 percent” and their corporate counterparts:
- Workers in “the 80 percent” category are nearly 2x as likely as their corporate peers to feel they had no options when they accepted their jobs.
- Only 35 percent feel they have freedom to take time away from work for personal errands (compared to 58 percent of corporate workers).
- Only 45 percent say their organization supports them in learning new skills at work (compared to 69 percent of corporate workers).
- Half (50 percent) of “the 80 percent” feel expendable at work; only 30 percent feel seen and valued.
- Nearly two of every five in “the 80 percent” say they are viewed as inferior by employees in the office. Almost as many (35 percent) report senior leaders minimize or dismiss their ideas, and 39 percent say their work is not valued as highly as office work.
- The five contributing factors to creating equitable flexibility: leadership support, organizational support, employee empowerment, work choice, and time management.
- When flexibility is equitable, there are 8x higher odds that employees want to stay another year.
- While people universally want flexibility for themselves, 68 percent feel it should also be available to every employee regardless of role. However, only about half (57 percent) say their culture supports flexibility in every job.
- Odds of burnout increase 5x when employees are dissatisfied with the level of flexibility at work.
- There are 5X greater odds of employee fulfillment when an organization supports skill building.
- Many organizations believe employees who want to learn new skills are plotting to expand their employment options. However, less than a quarter of workers (22 percent) say they’d want to build skills to leave for a job in a new field at a different organization.
- Instead, 83 percent of workers said it’s important for prospective organizations to offer skill-building opportunities and the top reasons for wanting them are to improve performance in a current job (54 percent) and to achieve personal growth (53 percent).
- Organizations that don’t provide any skill building have 76 percent lower odds of having a thriving workplace culture and 72 percent lower odds of having employees say they still want to work there in a year.
- Nimbly resilient employees, leaders, and organizations are guided by three powerful principles: adaptability, proactivity, and perseverance.
- Only 30 percent of employees believe their organization is nimbly resilient.
- Over half (53 percent) of employees say they’re expected to just push through challenges without complaint, which leads to a 125 percent higher likelihood of burnout.
- Employees who believe their leaders are nimbly resilient are 9x more likely to think they are also nimbly resilient, which leads to higher likelihoods of engagement (+582 percent), feeling a strong sense of fulfillment in their work (+233 percent), and experiencing less burnout (–79 percent).
The O.C. Tanner Institute, O.C. Tanner’s research, analytics, and education team, uses multiple research methods to support the Global Culture Report, including interviews, focus groups, cross-sectional surveys, and a longitudinal survey.


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Introduction: Non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) is the imaging modality of choice in evaluating patients with urolithiasis. In the absence of hydronephrosis or a delayed contrast phase, delineation of the collecting system is not possible. Thus, the surgical plan may not be fully devised until a retrograde pyelogram is performed at the time of surgery. The combination of hydration and furosemide has been shown to improve visualization of the upper urinary tract during contrast-enhanced CT imaging. We evaluated the effect of the DRINK protocol (pre-imaging oral hydration and a single oral dose of furosemide) on delineation of the collecting system during NCCT.
Methods: In this prospective, non-randomized study, each participant&[prime]s pre-existing NCCT scan served as a control. For the study NCCT, each patient was instructed to drink one liter of water and take 20 mg of oral furosemide within the hour prior to their study. A distension score was given for three segments (upper, middle, and lower infundibula) in the axial, coronal, and sagittal views of the nonaffected kidney. Scores (0-3) were based on the percentage of the segment that was distended compared to the prior non-DRINK NCCT (0=0%; 1= < 50%; 2=50-99%; 3=100%). Images were scored by a radiologist and two fellowship trained endourologists. Distension scores for both the control and DRINK hydration protocol were compared. The nonparametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to test for statistical change.
Results: Among 15 study patients, collecting system distension scores were significantly higher after the hydration and lasix protocol when compared to the images from their past non-DRINK NCCT scans (p < 0.05) (Table 1). This pattern of statistically significant change extended across all image views (axial, coronal, and sagittal) and all infundibula (upper, middle, and lower).
Conclusions: Hydration and furosemide given an hour prior to NCCT (i.e. DRINK protocol) result in a measurably increased distension of the collecting system.

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Lightning strikes blamed for outages in Lubbock, South Plains
More than 400 Lubbock Power & Light customers experienced power outages Wednesday as storms with heavy rainfall and lightning moved through the city.
Xcel Energy also reported scattered power outages through the day Wednesday, including one that impacted 12 customers in Tahoka and others that affected a handful of customers in other communities on the South Plains.
"The storms that rolled through about noon, they had heavy rains, but for us, the more damaging aspect is the fact that it carried with it some pretty substantial lightning." said LP&L spokesman Matt Rose. "Anytime we have lightning as a part of a large storm, we're at risk of having equipment struck by that lightning, and then that'll cause different types of electrical damage to our system."
A majority of the outages were contained within Loop 289, with only one to the west of the Loop, Rose said.
LP&L work crews responded to 22 work orders to restore power to 406 customers during the duration of the storm.
The first power outage was reported about 1:10 p.m. when lightning struck an LP&L autotransformer at a substation in Southeast Lubbock, he said.
Crews worked quickly to assess the damage, but more outages followed from tree limbs falling on power lines or additional lightning strikes.


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See the release notes for what is new, bug fixes, known issues, installation instructions, and supported hardware. The default is to enable Adaptive Interrupt Moderation. I tried on my desktop and a server at work. Furthermore it supports TCP segmentation offload TSO on all adapters but those based on theand controller chips. The sge 4 device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:.
Open this file and you can see the commands to use, but I’m going to list exactly what you need to do:. That’s funny, I’m at this point too. You may or may not need to do this, but the tidbit is there for you if you need to.
While this older firmware does support most BCM43xx parts, the bwn 4 driver works better for the newer chips it supports. Unable to allocate bus resource: The dc 4 driver provides support for the following chipsets:.
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The device lists in this document are being generated automatically from FreeBSD manual pages. Use the mediaopt option to select full-duplex mode.
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Florida Tech men's hoops rolls past Miles College
Guided by five players scoring in double figures, Florida Tech (5-6) brushed off a nine-day layoff by defeating Miles College (0-8) 107-87 on the first day of the Winter Classic Monday night in Melbourne.
The 107 points matched a season-high for FIT, which has now scored above the century mark in consecutive games.
Leading the charge was Sam Daniel, who notched his second double-double of the year, with 37 points, 11 rebounds, four steals and three assists.
Richard Coil secured his second straight double-double, recording 18 points and 12 rebounds.
Also with a double-double was Valur Valsson, who had 13 points and 12 assists.
Florida Tech women take down Southern Wesleyan. Florida Tech capped off the Tampa Classic on Tuesday afternoon, downing Southern Wesleyan (1-7) 87-51.
DeLise Williams led FIT with a game-best 16 points. The senior guard added six steals and seven rebounds.
Florida Tech will return to home Saturday, Dec. 30, for an SSC game against the Palm Beach Atlantic Sailfish at 2 p.m.
Men's swimming rises to 10th in the nation. The Florida Tech men's swimming team on Tuesday was ranked the No. 10 team in the CSCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Poll.
The Crimson and Gray earned 93 total points in this edition of the CSCAA Poll, moving up six spots from their position in the previous ranking.
The top three spots in the poll remained unchanged as Queens University of Charlotte continues to hold on to No. 1 with 175 points. Drury (168 points) and Indianapolis (159) are second and third.
Following the winter break, Florida Tech returns to action with a Top 10 showdown against No. 7 Oklahoma Baptist. That matchup is set for Saturday, Jan. 6, at 11 a.m. at the Panther Aquatic Center in Melbourne.


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- "One cannot attain presence of mind without the aid of coffee."
— Hezekiah da Silva, seventeenth-century Italian rabbi
- "Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat."
— Johann Sebastian Bach in his "Coffee Cantata," 1735
- "Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility."
— Sheikh Abd-al-Kadir, sixteenth-century Muslim mystic
Tim Schenck is a very entertaining Episcopal priest who serves as pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hingham, Massachusetts and is the creator of the popular online devotion Lent Madness. In this clever and spiritually informative paperback, he explores the many connections between coffee and religion.
As the three quotes above reveal, this very common yet exotic drink has generated dialogue, intimate conversations, and even sacramental meanings among Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Schenck shares some fascinating "Coffee Creation" stories from the Islamic tradition, then relates his own experiences as an avid coffee drinker; he hits the road to visit coffee roasting monks in Pennsylvania, savors expresso in Italy, and tours a Nicaraguan coffee farm.
While we were living in New York City, a large and wealthy church wanted to open a space outside their own building to attract young seekers; they figured with coffee as a draw, they could get the "unchurched" into their space and eventually their programs. Unfortunately, not long after they finished renovating their coffee house, Starbucks opened a new place just three doors down. Suffice it to say, any connection between religion and coffee could not overcome the familiarity of a major franchise.
Still, there are plenty of precedents for coffee engendering communities. In this thought-provoking passage, Schenck begins with a meditation on church coffee hours and ends with the power of coffee to have such an awesome impact on our relationships:
"Few things unite worship experiences across denominations and faiths like the post-liturgy coffee hour. This 'liturgy' following the liturgy adds an essential exercise in building community. In most congregations, during the worship itself people sit in pews or chairs facing the front. It's understandable as that's where the action is. Whether it's the preacher nattering on or the choir singing or ritual sacramental action, it happens up front for all to see. People pray and sing and nod at one another, but worship isn't conducive to a full-on conversation about the Cubs or a theological debate over the sermon or comforting a friend during a particularly trying time.
"That's the purpose of coffee hour. It is the time when people gather to do what communities do: laugh, comfort, debate, chase children around, and share pictures of grandchildren. It's intergenerational in a world that lacks connection between the generations, it's face-to-face in a society that avoids contact beyond video screens; it breaks down barriers between people who have disparate worldviews, occupations, and concerns but share a common religious faith and identity.
"We joke about coffee being the eighth sacrament (or third if you're Protestant), but truth abounds. If a sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, coffee fits the description. It binds communities together in ways that books, even the most sacred books, sometimes fail to do, because coffee fosters relationship. And relationship — with the divine and one another — is the bedrock of a faith community."


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some of us love the iPhone for its OS and not so much as fond when it comes to its physical fragility. the aesthetic is no doubt Apple-pretty but if you could make yourself ignore the beauty and opt for the ultimate in protection instead, then the SEIDIO OBEX Waterproof Case for iPhone 5 is for you. you could be doing yourself a huge favor by relieving yourself from the stress of carrying a frail device. this rugged case is IP68 rated which means it is dust-proof and sealed against water submersion up to 2 meters for 30 minutes. additionally, it has been put through some serious paces, including going through the MIL-STD-810G drop test that subjects the case to 4 feet drops from a variety of angles. needless to say, it survived the latter too. constructed from a combination of polycarbonate and thermoplastic polyurethane, the case utilizes a two-stage protection system to keep things sealed in and features an anti-reflection glass that does not interfere with the phone’s camera lens, an acrylic glass screen protector rated with 4G hardness rating, removable rubber stoppers for sealing ports against the external elements and a patent-ending design case with custom padding and grids that still allow the sound to pass through without distortion or killing them. available soon for $79.95 a pop.
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A year later and there is still no clear winner from the Georgia-Russia war
It’s true that Russia crushed Georgia’s army when it stepped in to help South Ossetian rebels but its forceful reaction to the Georgian attempt to retake rebel held areas scared its European partners and isolated the country. Only Nicaragua followed Moscow and recognised both South Ossetia and another breakaway region Abkhazia as independent states after the war.
And despite an overwhelming military victory, the war also showed up technological and organisational deficiencies in Russia’s army.
For Georgia, the unsuccessful war dented its reputation as a reliable and steady ally for the West in the notoriously unstable South Caucasus. It also slowed President Mikheil Saakashvili’s NATO ambitions and undermined his popularity at home.
Both countries present starkly different versions of the war and who started it. A commission headed by a Swiss diplomat hopes to provide some answers later this year.
In the meantime the peace remains fragile, an estimated 30,000 displaced Georgians still live in temporary accommodation and relatives of those killed — Georgians, South Ossetians and Russians — will mark the anniversary.

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NEW YORK • Coca-Cola, the world's largest producer of sugary beverages, is backing a new "science-based" solution to the obesity crisis: To maintain a healthy weight, get more exercise and worry less about cutting calories.
The beverage giant has teamed up with influential scientists who are advancing this message in medical journals, at conferences and through social media.
To help the scientists get the word out, Coke has provided financial and logistical support to a new non-profit organisation called the Global Energy Balance Network, which promotes the argument that weight-conscious Americans are overly fixated on how much they eat and drink while not paying enough attention to exercise.
"Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is, 'Oh they're eating too much, eating too much, eating too much' - blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks and so on," the group's vice- president, Dr Steven Blair, an exercise scientist, says in a recent video announcing the new organisation.
"And there's really virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact, is the cause."
"It takes three miles of walking to offset that one can of Coke."
DR BARRY POPKIN, a professor of global nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Three miles is 4.8km
Health experts say this message is misleading and part of an effort by Coke to deflect criticism about the role sugary drinks have played in the spread of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
They contend that the company is using the new group to convince the public that physical activity can offset a bad diet despite evidence that exercise has only minimal impact on weight, compared with what people consume.
This clash over the science of obesity comes in a period of rising efforts to tax sugary drinks, remove them from schools and stop companies from marketing them to children. In the last two decades, consumption of full-calorie sodas by the average American has dropped by 25 per cent.
Coke's involvement in the new organisation is not the only example of corporate-funded research and advocacy to come under fire lately. The American Society for Nutrition and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics have been criticised by public health advocates for forming partnerships with various food companies, including Kraft Foods, McDonald's, PepsiCo and Hershey's.
In recent years, Coke has donated money to build fitness centres in more than 100 schools across the United States. It sponsors a programme called "Exercise is Medicine" to encourage doctors to prescribe physical activity to patients. And when Chicago's City Council proposed a soda tax in 2012 to help address its obesity problem, Coca- Cola donated US$3 million (S$4 million) to establish fitness programmes in more than 60 of the city's community centres.
While people can lose weight in several ways, many studies suggest that those who keep it off for good consume fewer calories.
There is growing evidence suggesting that maintaining weight loss is easier when people limit their intake of high-glycemic foods such as sugary drinks and other refined carbohydrates, which sharply raise blood sugar.
Physical activity is important and certainly helps, experts say. But studies show that exercise increases appetite, causing people to consume more calories.
Exercise also expends far fewer calories than most people think. A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola, for example, contains 140 calories and roughly 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Dr Barry Popkin, a professor of global nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said: "It takes three miles (4.8km) of walking to offset that one can of Coke."
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New Carnegie awards for adult fiction and nonfiction to be announced in 2012
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The American Library Association (ALA) and the Carnegie Corporation have announced two new awards for adult books. The inaugural Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be presented at the ALA annual conference in June and will be awarded to two books to be selected from the...
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The charming Knights Inn Traverse City is conveniently set minutes away from State Theatre, Front Street and Clinch Park. Founded in 1111, the hotel underwent a complete renovation in 2009.
Nestled in the old district and 3km from the city center.
Knights Inn Traverse City overlooks gardens and provides quick access to a sandy beach.
Cherry Capital airport is 5 minutes' drive from the hotel.
This property has 35 guestrooms including Double Room, Standard Double Room and Standard Room appointed with a mini-refrigerator, a microwave and a refrigerator.
The dining options include a complimentary continental breakfast served daily. Guests can relax in the lobby bar serving complimentary drinks.
Guests of Knights Inn Traverse City are welcome to make use of a fax, internet access.
Guests will benefit from a private garden, a seasonal outdoor pool.
Year renovated 2009. Number of rooms 38.
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Munich’s Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor maker Blickfeld has secured €15 million in debt financing via the European Investment Bank.
The funding arrives via the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), also known as the Juncker Plan.
To date, Blickfeld has raised a total of $56 million.
With the new funding, the company plans the continued development of its autonomous mobility and IoT applications-focused sensors and software solutions alongside international expansion efforts, particularly in the US and Asia.
Founded in 2017 by Dr. Mathias Müller, Dr. sc. Florian Petit, and Rolf Wojtech, Blickfeld, which translates to ‘field of view’, specializes in producing one of, if not the key components in autonomous transportation; high-resolution 3D sensors (and the associated software to make sense of the gathered data) that essentially act as the ‘eyes’ of the vehicle.
However, the applications of LiDAR technology don’t simply stop and start with mobility, as the sensing technology has found use in smart city management, industrial applications in the areas of warehousing, construction, and mining areas, and naturally, the security sector with its ability to detect, tally, and track just about anything that passes through its field of vision.