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Is this a fable or a parable? Doesn’t matter, really. What matters is that the book takes you deep sea diving into life rejuvenating snippets that are actually giant-sized chunks of philosophy simplified for any reader. The inside blurb of the book does mention that the book is ‘about friendship, learning to trust, letting go, and discovering the power of surrender’ but it goes much beyond this. Well, for me it did go much beyond mere words on paper that seem impressive enough to memorise and spout when wise spouting is required… and it was because I actually met the author.
Rohini Singh is a charming grey-haired person who comes across as a person who can simplify any complexity that you present to her. So obviously, talking to a problem solver is always rather exhilarating and I’ll be talking about her concepts and her ideas in a separate article later. Let me just say that Rohini is a ‘spiritual mentor, life coach and corporate facilitator and leads retreats designed to empower, transform and connect with the true self.’ No wonder then that she has given us all a book where Shona, a parakeet, discovers the little nuggets of truth that life is all about… and shares them slowly as understands each of them. After all, understanding ‘Me-ness versus We-ness’ or ‘choosing connectedness over separation’ to get ‘get your happiness back’ cannot happen in a single moment!
Life happens slowly… and understanding the finer nuances also happens slowly. Life reveals its truths to all of us in layers and it is up to us to see them for what they are. The book takes us through incidents that Shona faces and looks for explanations… she is probably fortunate that she has Zorro as her friend who helps her decipher these seemingly complex issues of life and death.
‘The animal is dead,’ he explained when she had finished recounting what had unnerved her, ‘That is why he was lying so still.’
‘Dead?’ Shona echoed. ‘Dead?’
‘Yes,’ Zorro looked at her kindly. ‘Death is a part of life. It’s something that will happen to all of us at some time or other.’
‘Will it happen to me too?’ Shona looked stunned, ‘Will I too be like that animal, still and unmoving and pecked at by other birds?’
She couldn’t imagine not being part of this garden; she didn’t want to think that the perfect life she had right now could end. And then an even more frightening thought struck her.
‘Will it happen to you too?’ she looked horrified as she stared at Zorro.
‘Free fall – the journey home’ is a story that emphasises that ‘whatever happens, happens for you, not to you or against you even if it may seem that way sometimes’ and the author employs a conversational mode of writing to communicate her answers to seemingly obfuscating issues. The book has chapters that begin with a few lines from the pages that follow… lines that are the essence of the sort of question that the chapter would go on to explain. The illustrations by Parnita Purohit are all done with intuitive gentleness and never let you stray far from what the author is actually attempting to clarify.
‘Intuition is in-tuition. Wisdom is from within. It doesn’t depend on logic or thinking, but arises from a deep space of knowingness.’
‘Hmm, like a radar?’ here it was again, Shona thought to herself.
‘Yes, it’s like that. It’s a feeling of rightness about things that are or are going to be. It’s often direction about what to do. It’s a true gift, and we have it.’
Yes, the book is all about directions for the reader. Directions that we are all aware of but always want someone to come and tell us about. These directions aren’t something that Rohini has thought of for the first time in the history of mankind… they have existed earlier too. So many writers and speakers and mentors and gurus are saying somewhat similar things day in and day out… but only some communicate in a language that can be understood by the common man. Rohini tell it all in a language that even a school-going kid will understand and probably retain. This is quite important, really. We can all listen to or read complex philosophies and wake up the next morning without retaining any of it. This never happens with what Rohini’s book strive to tell us about. Look at the way she talks about ‘connectedness’ and how this is often confused with loneliness… all through a fallen leaf that hops in as a brilliant metaphor!
‘That’s a sad end, that’s for sure,’ Shona said kindly, ‘You must be lonely lying here all by yourself?’
‘Lonely?’ leaf said in her raspy voice. Shona thought she even heard her chuckle. ‘That’s not something I’ve ever felt. I am a part of everything and everything is a part of me…’
The leaf then goes on to say…
‘We are all connected. I am made of all the things that nurtured me; the sun, the earth, the rain, the moon, all the elements and you too, Bird. You too are a part of me. Did you ask if I was lonely?’
I’m sure the ‘perch-pectives’ of a parakeet did not come to me as a mere coincidence. I agree with Rohini what she strives to tell us through Shona and Zorro:
‘What a coincidence!’ she repeated, ‘I can’t believe it.’
‘There are no random occurrences, Shona,’ Zorro said, a trace of seriousness in his voice now, ‘no coincidences. It is all meant to be.’
This is one book that isn’t just another book that you buy, read, and add to your collection at home. The book is on my table and I just open any page on any day and read to find a solution when I need one. And, by the way, before I write the final words in this review, the cover is one of the best I have ever come across. The pages and the printing makes reading a pleasure and so much easier… the binding is fine too… and the book that I have is specially signed by Rohini which makes me treasure it all the more!
This isn’t just a parable. The book is all about what you already know but have forgotten that you know it all. The book helps you go within and retrieve the wonderful thoughts that lie dormant in some remote corner of your being.
Title: free Fall – The journey home
Author: Rohini Singh
Publisher: Hay House India
Price: Rs 299/- (in 2013)
22 July 2013
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The exhibition design is a conference space in which we (humans) are birds discussing a new ordering between nature and man and between science and democracy, while redefining the idea of progress.
The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries
This research project is product of critical investigations around climate science, creative practices and eco-politics developed at the museum over more than two years and therefore continues the journey started in 2021 with the data-driven installation Earth Bits – Sensing the Planetary and the public programme Climate Emergency > Emergence, curated by the first maat Climate Collective.
Visual Natures surveys political, social and cultural forms of collective agency that, over the course of the last one hundred years or so, demonstrate how the transforming human understanding of “nature” – philosophical, biological, economic – informs the ways in which we organise, sustain and govern our communities as an expanding planetary construct, both in concept and practice.
Loosely following a chronological order from the 1950s until today, the resulting mapping cross-references four subjects of analysis: artistic production and cultural events, technological innovations and scientific findings, social movements, and deliberations of global governance.
The presentation defies the challenge of its encyclopaedic character by way of a thematic organisation along three main concatenated clusters – DEEP ECOLOGY 1950 – 1990, PLANETARY COMPLEX 1990 – 2010, MULTINATURALISM 2010 – present day – each converging around expanding meanings of “ecology” and environmentalism that from the 1960s onwards have grown central in international public and cultural debates as phenomena of global growth, natural resource scarcity and pollution became provenly intertwined.
Deliberately appropriating an expression by architect and artist Paulo Tavares (member of the maat Climate Collective 2021), “visual natures” points towards a post-anthropocentric, non-hegemonic politics and aesthetics of environmentalism to emerge as a democratic and egalitarian paradigm of coexistence within nature that transcends human-centred worldviews and refuses the ecological and social violence of extractivism.
Commissioned to the Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba, the spatial design in which the research is presented takes inspiration from The Conference of the Birds, a Sufi parable written in the 12th century by the Persian poet Farid al-Din ‘Attar – a moral allegory of sovereignty and truth-seeking through shared sacrifice. Environmental discourse seizes the fate of economies and entire populations, and while we remain far from shared consensus on coordinated climate action, it increasingly motivates collaborative commitment from various scientific and technological fields, inspires educational curricula and youth demonstrations, and animates artistic debate and intellectual activism across a generational expanse and disciplinary fluidity of engrossing development.
Visual Natures aims to shed light on the facts and phenomena that lead us here. To disentangle the precursory designs of our present, to learn where we come from and where we can be headed.
Today, in artistic practice, we should create a kind of field called Visual Natures … instead of visual cultures, in the sense that we need to challenge the imposition of this hegemonic vision of what is a landscape, what is nature, and really open up to different possibilities of understanding and engaging with the world.
Visual Natures (maat, 30/03 – 05/09/2022) is the product of more than two years of critical investigations around climate science, creative practices and eco-politics. A continuation of the data-driven installation Earth Bits – Sensing the Planetary and the public programme Climate Emergency > Emergence, both conceived and ignited by Beatrice Leanza during her directorship of the museum, the project surveys political, social and cultural forms of collective agency from the 1950s onwards that demonstrate how our understanding of “nature” informs the ways in which we organise, sustain and govern our communities as an expanding planetary construct, in concept and in practice.
On maat ext., the series #groundworks introduce the critical explorations that feed into the complex interconnectivity between the environmental and energetic quests and its reverberation through decades of artistic creation and cultural dynamics, traced from the 1950s until today, and continues these investigations through collaborations with artists, curators, archivists, researchers and activists on their work and the meanings of ecology, environmentalism and societal responsibilities in the face of climate change.
Explorations is a programme framework (maat, 2020–2022) featuring a series of exhibitions, public and educational projects delving into the multi-faceted subject of environmental transformation from various scholarly and experimental vantage points – it brings philosophical and political perspectives forward, as well as sociocultural and technological investigations interwoven in speculative and critical practices in the arts and design at large. Central to this discursive and critical effort was the establishment of the maat Climate Collective in 2021, chaired by T. J. Demos, and geared toward assembling diverse cultural practitioners working at the intersection of experimental arts and political ecology.
[outside] Illustration by Lisa H. Moura, inspired by “Time Landscape” (1965–1978–present) by Alan Sonfist.
[inside] Illustration by Lisa H. Moura, based on the installation design concept fo "Visual Natures" by Carla Juaçaba.

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Kai Ryssdal: This final note today. President Obama spent most of the past 100 days trying to save the global economy. You?
FOLKS IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES: I quit my job in January. I was an engineer. But I’ve been managing my own tax practice, so it was my first big leap to being an entrepreneur….
I have climbed Yosemite Falls….
I stopped partying a lot….
I bought a bike, and I’ve been riding around….
Nothing spectacular. Nothing worth mentioning. Except, I had a baby. I had a baby!
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Man United play Wigan, Liverpool host Wolves in FA Cup fourth round
London, Jan 10 (IANS) Defending champions Manchester United will take on Wigan Athletic in a fourth-round English Football Association (FA) Cup tie in a home match.
Arsenal will face either Norwich or Southampton, depending on the outcome of a replay match, according to the draw held on Monday.
Manchester City, who beat West Ham 5-0 at the London Stadium in the third round, will play the winners of the replay between Crystal Palace and Bolton.
Liverpool will host Wolverhampton Wanderers FC at their home ground if they can overcome Plymouth in their replay, while Chelsea will also enjoy home advantage against Brentford.
English Premier League champions Leicester City, whose Italian manager Claudio Ranieri won the Best Coach award on Monday, also face an away trip to Derby County.
Tottenham, who beat Aston Villa 2-0 on Sunday, were drawn at home again against Wycombe Wanderers.

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Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies are a fun twist on the classic chocolate chip cookies. They are chewy with just a hint of chocolate and loaded with creamy white chocolate chips.
I’m sitting here trying to write a post but nothing comes to mind, mostly because I’m super hungry, waiting for Ryan to come home for dinner, thinking should I order some buche tacos or a buche burrito, or should I go bug my neighbor for some left over tamales again… cuz the chicken didn’t defrost in time today and it’s too cold to leave the house to go to the grocery store. If I live in the snow, I swear to you that nobody will see me for the entire winter season. If it’s below 50F, I will be below my mountain of blankets. I will board up my windows and doors. The oven will be on and cookies will be baked.
So let’s talk cookies, when I realize The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap was coming up, I started thinking about what cookies to make. One of my (and Ryan’s) all time favorite cookie is this chocolate chip cookie. And I’ve baked a couple variations as chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips and white chocolate chips. I’ve always been partial to red velvet cupcakes, which surprisingly I do not have on the blog, so a red velvet cookie was obviously a no brainer, with white chocolate chips, done!
I sent the first test batch with Ryan to work. They were so popular, his office manager asked me to make cookies for their work party, twice, once as blue velvet, it totally worked. After this, I’m definitely ready to open my own shop (kidding!) Don’t worry ma, I’m not quitting my day job. But I will be baking a whole lot of these cookies up for Christmas!
Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 8 oz unsalted butter ((2 sticks, 226 g))
- 2 cup + 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour ((275 g))
- 3 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder ((21 g))
- 1 teaspoon salt ((4 g))
- 1 teaspoon baking soda ((6 g))
- ½ teaspoon baking powder ((2 g))
- 1 ¼ cup light brown sugar ((lightly packed, 235 g))
- ¼ cup granulated sugar ((45 g))
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tablespoon red food color
- 1 ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract ((7 g))
- 1 bag of white chocolate chip ((11 oz bag, 312 g))
- Melt the butter over medium low heat in a small sauce pan. Let cool to room temperature.
- Meanwhile, sift or mix together flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and baking powder in a medium bowl.
- In a small measuring cup, add the eggs, red food color and vanilla extract, whisk together. Set aside.
- Add the cool butter and sugar in another mixing bowl and beat with a paddle attachment on medium speed until fluffy and lighten in color, about 2 minutes.
- Add the egg mixture to the butter/sugar mixture and beat another 2 minutes.
- Lower the mixer speed and gradually add the flour mixture, scraping the side and bottom of the bowl as necessary.
- Once all the flour is incorporated, turn the mixer speed to stir and add the white chocolate chips, mix until the chips are evenly distributed.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Use a small ice cream scoop to portion 1 oz of cookie dough or a large ice cream scoop to portion 2 oz of cookie dough onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, spacing 1” apart. Bake small cookies for 13 minutes and large cookies for 15-16 minutes. Bake in multiple batches.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer with a spatula to cool on a wire rack.
- One batch of cookie dough makes 40 - 1 oz portion cookies or 20 - 2 oz portion cookies.
- Calories estimated for large cookies.
Nutrition facts are for one large cookie, cut in half for the small one.
A big thank you to Maryanne at The Little Epicurean, Jennifer at Girl on the Range, and Nina at Crazy for Cookies and more for all of your awesome cookies! It felt like Christmas came early every time a package was dropped off at my door. The best part was I didn’t have to wait until Christmas to open them ;). And I sent these red velvet white chocolate chip cookies over to Corinne at Reverberations, Samantha at Haute Pepper Bites and Cortney at Little Red Hen. I hope everyone enjoyed them as much as I do baking them!

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Installation and Use
These guidelines should be carefully read and followed in the installation and use of your Spring TieTM trailer tie:
Equestrian Safety Products recommends Professional Installation of the Spring TieTM.
To avoid tangling of horses, multiple Spring Ties must be mounted a minimum of 14 feet apart.
The Spring TieTM may be mounted at a rear corner for extension to the side or the rear of the trailer.
Buy additional receivers from the manufacturer so you can transfer your Spring TieTM to another location.
Normal height of installation is 7 feet but may vary depending on the height of the animal to be tethered. The unit should be mounted high enough to avoid contact with the animal's head during normal movement.
Your tether rope should hang to between 2 and 3 inches from the ground. It should hang low enough so the animal can reach food or water left for it but not low enough for the animal to step over.
Your tether rope should attach at the horse end with a quick release latch designed for horse halters.
The Spring Tie receiver must be mounted on the outside of the trailer using two Grade 8, ½ inch bolts (included) as shown below. You may need to supply bolts of different length than those included in this package, depending on the construction of your trailer. If necessary, trim the bolt where it protrudes inside the trailer so as not to pose a hazard to your animal.
Mount the receiver so that the spring tie drops in vertically. It is not intended to be mounted horizontally.
Caution: Bolts must be installed from outside and nutted and washered on inside of your trailer to avoid injury to your animal.
The backing plate may be used on either the inside or outside of the trailer for added rigidity depending upon the construction of your trailer. Use it as a template when drilling the mounting holes.


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Paneer is a fresh cheese and very famous across the globe to prepare a lot of great delicacies. Paneer is rich in carbohydrates, vitamin and protein and helps to create some great mouth-watering dishes.
On the other hand, Mango is a tropical fruit, popularly known as ‘King of Fruits’, mainly available during summer season, and favourite among people from all the age groups. Mangoes are widely used in different cuisines and desserts. Mango has also various types of vitamins and minerals, and makes it a very healthy fruit as well.
In this preparation, we are going to use ripe mangoes and paneer together to create a mildly sweet side dish that can be taken with Butter Naan, Paratha or Peas Pulao or Jeera Rice.
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Makes 2 serving
- Cut the paneer in 10 to 12 large pieces.
- Take the mango, press from evenly from all the sides till it turns soft uniformly. Remove the eye of the mango and squeeze it very well so as to collect the pulp in a deep bowl.
- Combine the mango pulp and curd in a blender and blend till smooth.
- Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a pan, add the paneer pieces and sprinkle a pinch of salt over it.
- Sauté the paneer for 2 minutes on a medium flame tillthe outer crust will starts to change colour. Remove from the pan and keep aside.
- In the same pan heat the remaining oil, add bay leaf, cinnamon and whole red chillies, stir for 30 seconds.
- Add the mustard seeds. When the seds crackle add grated ginger and stir for another 1 minute on a medium flame.
- Add the grated coconut, mix well and stir for another 2 minutes, or till the grated coconut started to change the color in brown.
- Add the Paneer and mix well.
- Add 1 / 2 cup of water and cover with a lid and let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
- Remove the lid and add the mango pulp and curd, mix well.
- Add cumin seeds powder and cook for another minute on a low flame.
- Finally, add Sugar and salt and cook for another 3 minutes. If required, add some water. The gravy should be thick and the color should be golden yellow.
- Serve garnished with green chillies.
- You can use less amount of oil, because a lot of oil will ooze out from Paneer itself.
- Use fully ripe mango only, to get the desired effect.
- The dish should be mildly sweeter. It should not be spicy and hot. Use more sugar if required, especially if the curd is sour, then you may need to use a bit of salt and sugar to make it perfect.
This recipe was contributed by sanchari_jayanta on 30 May 2016
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It was just last March that President Obama revealed he sneaks in episodes of Homeland while Michelle and the kids are out playing tennis, but it looks like he's not the only high profile politician who's a fan of the series. At the Golden Globes this past Sunday, former president Bill Clinton expressed his love of the series to star Claire Danes, even requesting a meet and greet.
"President Bill Clinton asked if I would come and meet him in some special room, so I just hung out with Bill Clinton," Danes told Access Hollywood after winning a statue for Best Actress in a TV Drama series at the show. "He was talking to Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson, and I thought, ‘Wow,’ he’s amazing. He’s, you know, an icon."
According to Danes, Clinton told her he's a fan of the series. "[It was in] a room somewhere in this hotel, surrounded by lots of very scary looking men...he very sweetly said that he appreciated how the character is kind of shedding light on mental illness, which is still a taboo subject. So, that was very flattering and I was very touched."
So, Bill Clinton hung out with Claire Danes, Rosario Dawson, and Jessica Alba at the Golden Globes this weekend. What did you do?
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Saturday, April 3, 2010
Transradial approach to angioplasty and stenting to be featured at SCAI 2010 Annual Meeting
"There's been a surge of interest in the transradial approach over the past year," according to Dr. Samir B. Pancholy, Associate Professor of Medicine, Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Commenting to Angioplasty.Org, Dr. Pancholy said he expected an overflow audience at the transradial sessions being held at this year's SCAI 33rd Annual Scientific Sessions in San Diego. Similar sessions at last fall's TCT and this year's ACC meetings resulted in a hundred or more cardiologists standing in the corridors, listening to the audio feed. What is driving this interest in the transradial approach to coronary interventions - a procedure where the radial artery in the wrist is used for catheter access instead of the femoral artery in the groin? Dr. Pancholy opined, "Perhaps it's because of our group [of radialists] and our presence, handing out brochures and having meetings. But perhaps more, it's because of the volume of data that's been accumulating about patient comfort and safety, the lower bleeding complications and the increasing concern about hemorrhagic complications of the transfemoral approach, which often cause worse outcomes than, for example, a micro-heart attack that may occur during the procedure."

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Teresa is a family law attorney who takes a client-centered approach to every case – she works with each client to establish individual goals and discuss long-term consequences. A passionate advocate for her clients in and out of the courtroom, Teresa is sensitive to the complicated emotional and legal aspects of a family’s dissolution and treats each client with care and compassion. She takes pride in serving her clients efficiently, providing practical advice suitable for each client’s individual needs.
Teresa has dedicated her entire legal career to advocating for families and children. Her practice includes all aspects of divorce, equitable distribution, child and spousal support, alimony, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, child custody, grandparents’ rights and stepparent adoptions. Teresa is a skillful writer and enjoys handling appeals for the family law practice group. She has significant experience handling high-conflict and high-net-worth matters and she is familiar with the unique challenges that come with cases involving business ownership, stock options and other complex assets.
Since 2017, Teresa has practiced collaborative law – she supports a client’s choice in the process, as well as representation, when resolving disputes. She is active in the Collaborative Professionals of Central Pennsylvania and has served as Co-President of the organization since 2021. Teresa has been certified as a mediator in family law matters since 2022, providing yet another option for families to resolve their disputes without litigation.
Prior to joining McNees, Teresa practiced family law at a Hershey-based firm. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable David R. Workman, Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, where she worked on family law and juvenile delinquency matters. In her free time, you can find Teresa by any body of water, whether it is the ocean, a lake or her local pool. When it is not warm enough for swimming, Teresa enjoys live theater, a good slice of pizza, traveling and reading.
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As the Sept. 30 deadline approaches for municipalities in Illinois to decide on whether to allow and tax the sale of recreational cannabis, locally elected officials are under the microscope.
The state lawmakers responsible for getting the legislation that legalized recreational cannabis to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk warned last month that municipalities shouldn’t tax sales of cannabis products at the maximum three percent. They said the high taxes would keep people from getting high using legal supply, opting to continue buying cannabis on the black market.
In spite of the warning, many of the state’s cities are opting to tax sales at the highest rate. On top of state taxes that can be as high as 40 percent, local city and county sales taxes, the three percent tax can put the total tax on recreational cannabis at more than 50 percent.
Urbana approved the sale and opted for the maximum three percent tax, as did Rolling Meadows, and the city of Chicago appears to be poised to do the same, according to Crain’s Chicago Business. Carbondale, another college town, is expected to decide on Sept. 24.
A number of cities, including Naperville, Morton and Murphysboro voted to ban the sale in their city limits.
Peoria is expected to decide on allowing recreational sales in the municipality on Sept. 24 after a hearing Tuesday that included debate not only on whether to allow it, but whether to go against the warning that taxing it at the maximum three percent could dissuade marijuana users from buying at legal dispensaries.
“If we say we’re not selling it, they’re going to go to East Peoria, Bartonville, West Peoria, Dunlap, everybody that surrounds us and buy it there and then bring it back to Peoria so it’s the perfect ‘cut off your nose to spite your face’ scenario,” Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis said. “We are all cash-starved.”
Ardis said the state already decided the city can't ban the use of cannabis products after Jan. 1. Now, elected city officials are trying to figure out whether the cash-strapped city should allow the sale and collect tax revenue on it.
“They took the ball out of our hands,” he said.
People spoke out against Springfield allowing recreational cannabis sales at the city council meeting Tuesday night, but the council didn't make a final decision.
“Let’s not dishonor our 16th president by making Springfield the pot capital of the state,” Springfield resident Beth Rodgers said.
There seemed to be some confusion about what the city could regulate. Illinois only allows municipalities to ban or approve and tax the sale of recreational cannabis, not the possession and consumption of the drug, which will be legal across Illinois in January.
“Even if we don’t allow for the sale, people can still do so within our city limits,” Springfield 9th Ward Ald. Jim Donelan said.
Third Ward Ald. Doris Turner said the city should tax the sales of the drug to pay for their pensions.
“This is a perfect opportunity for us to provide funding, not only for our police and fire pension systems but also for those other things that our community needs,” she said.

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The lasting memories of Sundays 37-34 overtime victory over Atlanta ultimately might be the heat, Michael Vicks emergence and a debut performance by the Green Bay Packers receivers that underscored coach Mike Shermans overhaul of that position.
But dont underestimate the role that old-fashioned good fortune can play in the National Football League.
The Packers won a shootout with the Falcons on a day when the 83-degree heat at kickoff tied the highest opening-day temperature in Lambeau Fields history.
Undoubtedly, the Packers persevered through the heat, which reached a high of 87 in the second half, and racked up 484 yards with an admirably balanced offense.
But they needed more than that to win this opener.
They watched as Atlanta dropped two wide-open, sure touchdown passes in the second half that cost the Falcons 11 critical points.
But then the Packers:
Recovered a fumble by quarterback Brett Favre, with receiver Donald Driver diving for the ball and picking up 4 extra yards to convert a third down on a late-game touchdown drive.
Sweated through a long replay challenge that didnt show the necessary evidence to overturn fullback William Hendersons fourth-down touchdown plunge, which helped send the game into overtime with 1 minute, 10 seconds left in regulation.
Them dropping touchdown passes and things of that nature, there is some god shining down on you, hopefully, at some point, Packers safety Darren Sharper said.
That Lambeau mystique might have kicked in a little bit. People talk about it, but it might be real. A lot of things happen that wouldnt happen if we were someplace else. We need to stop relying on that so much.
The Falcons disputed the outcome because of Hendersons touchdown, which gave the Packers a brief 34-31 lead.
On fourth-and-goal from perhaps 6 inches out, Henderson ran into a wall of Falcons but kept fighting and eventually got a push from halfback Ahman Green that put him over the goal line, according to the officials.
Atlanta coach Dan Reeves was upset at the unusually long delay between the hit on Henderson and the eventual touchdown signal. The officials told him they didnt blow the whistle because Hendersons legs kept churning.
That was the longest whistle Ive seen on a goal-line play, to call a touchdown that late, Reeves said. We should have hit the guy on the ground to keep him out of the end zone.
After looking at the replay, referee Ron Winter didnt say the ball clearly crossed the goal line but said there was no indisputable evidence it didnt. So the call stood.
I put that ball across the line, Henderson said.
As it turned out, that didnt win the game.
The Packers never got much of a handle on Vick, the stunningly talented second-year quarterback who finished with a 108.8-point passer rating and a team-high 72 yards rushing on only nine carries.
Vicks control of the game continued to the last series of regulation, when he completed two big passes for 35 yards that set up Jay Feelys 52-yard, game-tying field goal with 5 seconds to play.
The Falcons punted only twice in regulation, but the Packers finally got a crucial stop on Vick in overtime on a three-and-out series.
Until then, Vick had carved up the Packers with his almost Barry Sanders-like ability to change directions on the scramble and surprising throwing accuracy 15-of-23 passing to go with his cannon arm.
If not for tight end Reggie Kellys drop of a short touchdown pass and receiver Brian Finnerans drop of a potential 60-yard touchdown pass after he broke wide open behind Sharper and cornerback Tyrone Williams, Vick might have come away with the win.
Perhaps a full season will expose more of Vicks shortcomings this was only his third start and his throwing accuracy. But he was more than the Packers could handle for most of this day while leading the Falcons to four touchdowns.
Combined with scatback Warrick Dunn, who had 88 total yards on 19 touches, the Falcons have an exceptionally quick-footed playmaking duo that can divide and conquer.
If they split and (Dunn) goes over here for a pass or screen, youre dealing with both of them, two guys that can take it the distance, said Ed Donatell, the Packers defensive coordinator. (Vick) had his way today.
So did the well-balanced Packers offense, which had 423 total yards in regulation. That was only 1 yard short of the teams season high for last season, which came against a hapless Detroit Lions team in the season opener.
Green had a big day 155 yards on 27 carries despite leaving the game temporarily in the third quarter because of severe muscle cramps. He picked up 18 yards on three carries in the overtime drive that set up Ryan Longwells game-winning 34-yard field goal.
It was hot out there and guys were getting fatigued and tired and cramped and hurt, Sherman said. To be able to hang in there and battle, Im proud of the football team.
Theres things weve got to work on, no question about that. Our defense gave up way too many rushing yards, and it wasnt just Michael Vicks feet. It was Dunn making guys miss, (rookie running back T.J.) Duckett and their offense.
Green was an effective complement to Favre, who made a 111.3-point passer rating look deceptively easy.
The Falcons played some of the same bump-and-run coverage that was critical to their upset win over the Packers last year, but didnt do it as much as last year because of the big-play speed of Terry Glenn and Javon Walker.
Glenn only had two receptions and missed some time because of a mild concussion, but one of those catches was a 42-yarder against cornerback Ray Buchanan on the first play of the second half. It set up a touchdown.
Walker had four receptions for 56 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown and a key 18-yard catch on the game-winning drive in overtime.
People will respect them a little more (than last year). Theyve got a little more speed, Buchanan said. Theres not just one guy thats fast, but four or five that can run.


High silence with vacuum tube and battery drive
Equipped with ultra-high reliability tube C3g
|Equipped with ultra-reliable pentode C3g developed by Deutsche Telekom and used for telephone repeaters. Since the grid lines are thin and the distance between the electrodes is large, voltage amplification with high linearity can be performed. In C3EQM2, C3g is soldered directly to the board without using a socket, thereby suppressing noise generation at the contact point.|
Completely separated from AC line by battery drive
Various noises are mixed in the AC line, and it enters from the inside and outside of the audio system via cables such as current distortion and electromagnetic noise. C3EQM2 is driven by a large nickel metal hydride battery and completely separated from the AC line. Amplifies the current generated in the cartridge to the level required by the preamplifier without adding any extra current.
● Battery operating time 5 hours (9 hours with optional expansion)
● Charging time 4 hours (8 hours with optional expansion)
Built-in MC transformer
Because the MC transformer is built in, MC cartridges can be amplified simply by connecting a phono cable. In addition, the output is separated from other devices by a transformer system, and it is not easily affected by noise. Since the high permeability super permalloy core is used for a transformer, a very small signal is passed as it is, and the characteristic with high linearity has been acquired.
Switching power supply and analog power supply
In the case of the transformer method, mechanical vibration and magnetic flux generated by the transformer are issues, but C3EQM2 uses a switching power supply that does not have that risk. The voltage stabilized by the switching power supply is further swiftly responsive, and a high-accuracy analog power supply is arranged independently on the left and right sides to make it clear.
Further evolution with various inputs and outputs
Added MM2 input
C3EQ was exclusively for MC cartridges, but C3EQM2 also supports MM cartridges. Equipped with a total of 3 inputs with 1 MC and 2 MM. Built-in MC transformer allows direct connection to the MC terminal. Also, by adding and connecting an external MC transformer to the MM terminal, you can use the MM 2system for MC cartridges.
Added XLR balanced output
C3EQM2 is equipped with RCA input / output and XLR input / output. Coupled with MC / MM cartridge compatibility, expandability with arms and connected devices has increased.
Key technology is no NFB
A negative feedback circuit was invented in 1927, and the performance of the amplifier improved markedly. However, looking at the micro level, the negative feedback circuit (servo control) returns underexposed signals back to the "+" and returns underexposed signals back to the original, and this vibration And Odd's different words will cause cross-modulation and become different from the original sound.
In order not to cause this oscillation, it is necessary to perform ideal servo control, or use non-feedback as a linearity (linearity) for components such as amplifier elements and capacitors.
Realization of low distortion rate by two stage configuration
You can not escape distortion as long as you use an amplifying element. It is a measure to use elements with good linearity or reduce the number of elements.
In C3EQ, it is configured with only two amplification tubes C3g of high linearity, suppressing harmonic distortion and intermodulation distortion to a minimum while returning non-return.
Outstanding noise processing technology
Rectifiers and contacts used for general power supply are sources of noise. Since these noises are sharp noise of rising, they occur over a band of 50Hz to several hundred MHz, causing intermodulation and entering the audio band to make the sound muddy. A large amount of noise is generated even at the switching power supply, and the same phenomenon occurs. Based on years of switching power supply design, CS Port suppresses / cuts unnecessary noise by its noise processing technology and achieves clear sound.
Intermodulation distortion scarier than harmonic distortion
Harmonic distortion means that, when a signal passes through the element, it generates an integer multiple signal, which can be heard comfortably to humans in a sense.
Among the distortion, it is intermodulation distortion that is scary, generating uncorrelated signals that are not in the original signal, resulting in an unpleasant sound.
For example, when a signal of 1kHz and a signal of 1.1kHz pass through a rectifier or an amplifying element, a sum signal and a difference signal of the respective signals are generated. 100Hz and 2.1kHz were not found in the original signal. Since the audio signal is a collection of many frequency components, the frequency component of noise also causes intermodulation, invades the audio signal, and loses the three-dimensional effect of the sound. Again, components with good linearity are less likely to cause cross-modulation.
Phono equalizer amplifier C3EQM2
MC / MM Corresponding MC transformer built-in CR type vacuum tube type phono equalizer
MC input - MC trans / MM input - C3g - CR filter- C3g - FET buffer - Output trans
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XLR balanced ×1 ・ RCA unbalanced ×1
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Biovest International sees a sunnier financial picture for its cancer vaccine hunt, but first that means filing for Chapter 11 and rejiggering its balance sheet. In a second trip to the bankruptcy court, the Tampa-based outfit seeks approval of a plan to nix debt and bring in $5.6 million in new funding.
The $5.6 million sounds like short money in the megabucks biotech game, but that amount is almost as much as the Pink Sheets-listed company's market value of $5.9 million as of late Friday morning, according to Google Finance.
Cancer vaccines have lost their luster among some investors in the ugly aftermath of Dendreon's ($DNDN) woes in marketing its pioneering prostate cancer product Provenge. Nevertheless, Biovest has plodded along with a penny-stock share price for a while and even during this latest journey into bankruptcy aims to advance efforts to gain approval of its BiovaxID candidate in the European Union and Canada for combating follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Yet those applications haven't been filed yet.
Biovest is pitching a restructuring plan that involves eliminating $44 million in secured debt from Laurus/Valens Funds and Corp Real, while tapping secured lenders for the $5.6 million. The idea is to convert the $44 million, including the new funding, into common stock. The outfit wants to emerge from Chapter 11 in mid-2013 as it did back in 2010 from a previous exit from bankruptcy.
We'll see whether the bankruptcy court in Florida goes for the proposal.
- here's the release
- see the article from the Tampa Bay Business Journal


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Problems marked with a ♦ involve multiple concepts.
♦ Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is a very stable gas that is used in a wide range of applications because it is nontoxic, nonflammable, and noncorrosive. Unfortunately, it is also a very powerful “greenhouse gas” that is about 22,000 times more effective at causing global warming than the same mass of CO2.
- Draw the Lewis electron structure of SF6 and determine the number of electron groups around the central atom, the molecular geometry, and the hybridization of the central atom.
- Suggest a reason for the extremely high stability of SF6.
- Despite its rather high molecular mass (146.06 g/mol) and highly polar S–F bonds, SF6 is a gas at room temperature (boiling point = −63°C). Why?
♦ The elevated concentrations of chlorine monoxide (ClO) that accompany ozone depletions in Earth’s atmosphere can be explained by a sequence of reactions. In the first step, chlorine gas is split into chlorine atoms by sunlight. Each chlorine atom then catalyzes the decomposition of ozone through a chlorine monoxide intermediate.
- Write balanced chemical equations showing this sequence of reactions.
- Sketch the molecular orbital energy-level diagram of ClO.
- Does ClO contain any unpaired electrons?
- Based on your molecular orbital diagram, is ClO likely to be a stable species? Explain your answer.
♦ Saccharin is an artificial sweetener that was discovered in 1879. For several decades, it was used by people who had to limit their intake of sugar for medical reasons. Because it was implicated as a carcinogen in 1977, however, warning labels are now required on foods and beverages containing saccharin. The structure of this sweetener is as follows:
- Give the hybridization of all five atoms shown in bold in the structure. Note: all five atoms in the five-membered ring are coplanar.
- The carbon–oxygen bond is drawn as a double bond. If the nitrogen and the carbon attached to the C=O group each contribute one electron to the bonding, use both a Lewis electron structure and a hybrid orbital approach to explain the presence of the double bond.
- If sulfur and carbon each contribute one electron to nitrogen, how many lone pairs are present on the nitrogen?
- What is the geometry of the sulfur atom?
- The Lewis electron structure supports a single bond between the carbon and the nitrogen and a double bond between the carbon and the oxygen. In actuality, the C–O bond is longer than expected for a double bond, and the C–N bond is shorter. The nitrogen is also planar. Based on this information, what is the likely hybridization of the nitrogen? Using the concepts of molecular orbital theory, propose an explanation for this observation.
♦ Pheromones are chemical signals used for communication between members of the same species. For example, the bark beetle uses an aggregation pheromone to signal other bark beetles to congregate at a particular site in a tree. Bark beetle infestations can cause severe damage because the beetles carry a fungal infection that spreads rapidly and can kill the tree. One of the components of this aggregation pheromone has the following structure:
- Give the hybridization of all atoms except hydrogen in this pheromone.
- How many σ bonds are present in this molecule? How many π bonds are there?
- Describe the bonding in this molecule using a combination of the localized and delocalized approaches.
Carbon monoxide is highly poisonous because it binds more strongly than O2 to the iron in red blood cells, which transport oxygen in the blood. Consequently, a victim of CO poisoning suffocates from a lack of oxygen. Draw a molecular orbital energy-level diagram for CO. What is the highest occupied molecular orbital? Are any of the molecular orbitals degenerate? If so, which ones?
There are six electron groups, the molecular geometry is octahedral, and the hybridization of S is sp3d2.
- With six fluorine atoms packed around the central sulfur atom, there is no room for another species to approach the sulfur to initiate a reaction. The polar S–F bonds are also expected to be quite strong, so breaking an S–F bond to initiate a reaction is unlikely under most conditions.
- SF6 is a gas at room temperature because it has no net dipole moment; the individual S–F bond dipoles cancel one another in this highly symmetrical structure. The absence of a dipole moment results in very weak interactions between SF6 molecules, and as a result SF6 is a gas rather than a liquid or a solid at room temperature.
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ASU experts say publication of folio cemented Shakespeare's legacy as the Bard
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. Seven years later he was immortalized.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the First Folio, the published collection of 36 of Shakespeare’s plays. The folio, titled, “Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies,” comprises 18 plays that had never been published before, including "Antony and Cleopatra," "As You Like It," "All’s Well That Ends Well," "Macbeth," "Twelfth Night" and "The Taming of the Shrew."
Those who treasure Shakespeare’s words say the folio cemented him as the world’s greatest playwright.
“I don’t think Shakespeare would be, you know, 'the Bard' if his friends had not gotten this done after his death as a tribute to him,” said Ayanna Thompson, director of Arizona State University’s Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and a member of the board of trustees of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
That Shakespeare’s works remain relevant and treasured today is not only a testament to his talent but the foresight of two friends who decided his plays needed a permanent home.
Before the folio was published, Shakespeare’s plays were published in quartos — small, one-play books made by folding sheets of paper twice. Think of them as easily disposable paperbacks. In the 1600s, quartos were easily lost or misplaced.
But after Shakespeare’s death, colleagues John Heminges and Henry Condell asked a London printing shop to publish Shakespeare’s works in the folio.
“Most people would say that this would be the first push to kind of canonize him in a particular way,” said Brandi Adams, an assistant professor in ASU’s Department of English who has had articles and reviews published in the journal Shakespeare. "He was one of the first authors to have a collection of this kind."
Thompson said the folio helped Shakespeare gain prominence after the English Civil War, from 1642 to 1651.
"Theaters closed during the Civil War and when they finally re-opened in the 1660s, they didn't have a lot of new playwrights working," Thompson said. "So they could turn to the folio and start putting on plays right away. That helped propel his legacy."
One of the interesting tidibts about the folio is that no two copies are the same because they were all produced on hand presses with multiple compositors who had different spelling habits and levels of competence. Only 235 copies remain, but that's not unusual for publications from that time, Adams said.
"When people tell you there are only 235 copies, that's not rare," Adams added. "There are a lot of books of which we only have one copy."
They may not be rare, but they are valuable: In October 2020, a copy sold by Mills College at Christie’s Auction House sold for $9.98 million.
Beyond the folio’s historical backdrop and value lies a question: Why are Shakespeare’s works still relevant today?
Thompson said Shakespeare touched on universal themes that transcend time and space. Young love ("Romeo and Juliet"), tragedy ("King Lear" and "Macbeth"), romantic comedy and class conflict ("Twelfth Night"), politics ("Julius Caesar"), life and, of course, death.
Shakespeare, however, wasn’t the only author who wrote about such things. What separated him from other writers, according to Jonathan Bate, a Foundation Professor of environmental humanities at ASU and a renowned Shakespeare critic, is that his works were respected enough to perform in the king’s court but also randy enough to appeal to commoners on the streets of London.
“Why has he endured in the way that others haven’t?” said Bate, who is helping PBS put together a 90-minute documentary on the folio that will air later this year. “I think it’s partly because of the sheer variety of his plays. There were other writers who were very good at tragedy, but not good at comedy. Some were very good at comedy and not so good at tragedy.
“He sort of covers all the different types of theater work and a huge variety of human characters and human behavior. And he does this thing of mixing heroes, leaders, politicians, aristocrats and royalty with ordinary people, giving you the ordinary person’s perspective. He’s so good on the conflict that anybody in life has.”
Bate noted that the night before King Charles I was executed, he was reading Shakespeare, and that ordinary citizens were also drawn to Shakespeare’s dirty jokes or double entendre.
“Whenever there were Christmas festivities at the court or a visiting diplomat or entourage were being entertained and the queen wanted to showcase the best drama of the age, it was Shakespeare,” Bate said. “But at the same time, actors are performing Shakespeare on the streets of the South Bank in London, adjacent to the brothels and the bear-baiting pits. They would get everything in those plays. Sex and violence, there’s a hell of a lot of that. (The play) "Titus Andronicus" was fantastically popular at the time and it involves beheadings. It’s kind of like the 'Game of Thrones.' There’s even a scene in which a mother is made to eat her own two children who have been baked in a pie. You can see how the audiences on the streets would love that.”
It's notable that Thompson, a learned scholar, said "Titus Andronicus" is her favorite play because it’s “whackadoodle.”
“A lot of his plays have these big kind of uniting themes that we can all agree on,” Thompson said. “So I would say he’s pretty firmly on the pedestal.”
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|Production Capacity:||1000mt Per Month|
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- Model NO.: Poly Aluminium Chloride (PAC)
- Certification: SGS
- Color: Yellow
- Type: Oil / Water Separation Agent
- Einecs No.: 215-477-2
- Trademark: DALIAN CHEM
- Origin: China
- Acid-Base Property: Neutral Surface Disposal Agent
- Environmental Protection: Yes
- Appearance: Liquid
- CAS: 1327-41-9
- Formula: [Al2(Oh)Ncl6-N]M, N=1-5 M=1-10
- Transport Package: 25kgs Bag
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|Formula:||[AL2(OH)nCL6-n]m, n=1-5 m=1-10|
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The reshuffling continues at the top of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC.
Chialin Chang, who doubles as HTC’s chief financial officer and global head of sales, says the company is actively seeking a new CFO so he can focus on the company’s sales strategy.
“We need to find the right person, so we are looking both internally and externally,” Chang said on Tuesday to reporters. “I need to focus on sales.”
Sales strategy is critical for HTC, which has been losing market share and mired in operating loss for the past three quarters. HTC forecast Tuesday that it would return to a profit for the second quarter, but that revenue would still fall a bit from the year-earlier quarter.
Chang, a former investment banker and partner at Goldman Sachs, joined HTC two years ago as CFO, and was promoted to oversee sales concurrently, as the company’s sales continued to slide. However, he admits it’s unconventional for an executive to straddle both roles and says it’s not a long-term plan.
Chang declined to give a timeline for his transition, saying it depended on when they found the right person for the CFO position.
Hiring has been a constant topic for HTC, which has seen a number of executives depart over the past year. The company’s design chief Scott Croyle departed this spring, and last fall HTC’s public relations head Lorain Wong quit after four months in the post. HTC cut the total compensation of its executives by 51% in 2012, after the company’s sales began sliding, according to its annual report.
In a retention effort, HTC also announced Tuesday it plans to issue up to 5 million restricted shares to employees.

domain: economics


Did all the Republican candidates take a Stupid Pill this morning? If not, what the hell is going on? Now Rick My-Jesus-is-Better-Than-Yours Santorum is comparing Barack Obama to Hitler:
Rick Santorum has been crazy for years. Romney can't fake that. (Steve Nesius/Reuters)
“Remember, the greatest generation for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness, while our closest ally, Britain, was being bombed and leveled, while Japan was spreading its cancer all throughout Southeast Asia,” Santorum ominously told a packed, enthusiastic crowd at the First Redeemer Church in Cummings, Ga., Sunday, before traveling back to Ohio to campaign here today. [...]So we're already to the point in the campaign where the non-Republican guy is Hitler, now. Hell, I thought they'd be able to hold out at least until April or so, but no—that Hitler analogy was burning a hole in his pocket, it just had to come out.“We’re a hopeful people,” he continued. “We think, well, you know it’ll get better. After a while you find out some things about this guy over in Europe who’s not so good of a guy after all. … Sometimes, sometimes it’s not OK."
While Santorum conceded that Obama’s policies were not quite as horrific as Hitler’s war in Europe, the rising GOP front-runner cautioned that the president is “fundamentally restructuring America.”Other things that Republicans consider to be like Hitler: Birth control. Tax rates under Ronald Reagan. Newfangled light bulbs. It's a very, very big list.
Apparently this isn't a slip of the tongue on Santorum's part, it's an actual new campaign talking point. The geniuses of the Santorum campaign actually planned it out, and he's used it in other recent speeches. Go vote for me, he says, because it's just like fighting Hitler.
I guess the usual dog whistles just don't cut it anymore. We've got Newt Gingrich saying to vote for him or everybody dies, and now we've got Rick Santorum saying if you don't buy on to his pseudo-Christian plan for consolidation of broad moral powers by the state it'll be like voting for Hitler. (Also figuring into Santorum's stump speeches is comparisons to the French Revolution and guillotines, but the campaign may have decided that was a bit too highbrow for his crowds.) I can't wait to see how Mitt Romney responds, given that they've really given him no room left on the top of the ol' crazy scale.
Before the South Carolina primaries the Republicans appeared to do their level best to appeal to racists in the state, apparently figuring that was their core voting block. It seems they've decided the core voting block in the next few states is crazy backwoods militia types who see the seeds of World War III in everything from nickels to traffic lights.


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08 January 2018
Taken in Camera+ and edited in Snapseed, FX PhotoStudio and Pixlr.
Click onto image to enlarge. Let me know your response to this photomontage. Prints are available upon request.
Usually, I amble through the day with an eye to the present. I’m not one to dwell on the past or long for tomorrow. But last year still lingers, and needs to be given perspective. It also needs to be a benchmark for this year’s actions and deeds.
And so I was prompted to pull one of my favorite images from last year. In the Lens section is a Photomontage from August, which seems eons ago. The scene is less than a mile from my home, and part of the Wild and Scenic Parks. Its ambience provides a sense of calm and serenity in the midst of outside forces that have shaken my world: battering rams to our civil, moral, political and social way of life.
For the last week or more the Atlantic region (as with other parts of the USA) has been belted by a deep freeze that has been accompanied by high winds. It is not weather for outdoor activities. So searching through last year’s images has been a treat and a chance to assess the months of experimentation with post processing and photomontage, a technique that challenges and intrigues me. It adds stardust to my creative efforts.
The scene represents the theme of my inner eye. I am devoted to the stilling of nature’s irrepressible lightning majesty: from a single raindrop to a seed pod to a single flower to a river flowing to the reflection of light to the feather of a bird.
Mother Nature cast a spell decades ago, and has been my passion since that discovery. Even in her wrath and tonight’s temps in single digits, she keeps me afloat and always hopeful.
This week I discovered that Netflix’s has the second season of Planet Earth, which is a nature series from BBC One. Narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough it details, “…the frozen tundra in the north to the dry forests of the equator… Planet Earth was the first natural history documentary to be filmed in high-definition, and now a decade later improved technology has made it possible to capture further details, from elusive animal behaviors to previously inaccessible remote landscapes. In addition to exploring the wilderness, the series examines urban dwellings, focusing on animals that have adapted to city life.” Excerpt is from Planet Earth II. View their website where you can read more about the remarkable series and watch a preview.


Van Halen fans might not have to wait too much longer for new music as the band could have something new by the middle of 2015, according to frontman David Lee Roth.
"I was up at Edward [Van Halen]'s house, maybe three days ago - just before I came here to the city - and we're starting to put music together," he told Jim Florentine in a recent interview. "Not to give away exactly what the package will be, it's gonna be about 18 months, I think."
Roth explained that the reasoning for planning so far in advance for the release of the new music is due to mapping out the entire album and subsequent tour.
"Oh, yeah, we're writing," he said. "I write lyrics routinely. It's a perishable skill. And the band plays together routinely, at least three times a week. They're up at Ed's place, routinely."
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Oh no NFL, NO YOU DON’T. Seems that the NBA will be the first major team sport with an openly gay player, as reports have Jason Collins signing with the Brooklyn Nets today or tomorrow, after Glen “Big Baby” Davis spurned their offer. Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.com reports that Collins will be in uniform for the Nets tonight against the Lakers at the Staples Center.
And Yahoo Sports says it’s a done deal.
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) February 21, 2014
Jason Collins will be in Nets uniform tonight vs Lakers, will be the first openly active gay player in the NBA. Congrats Jason.
— NBA Legion (@MySportsLegion) February 23, 2014
Great news about Jason Collins. This is a monumental day for identical twins.
— Rich Levine (@rich_levine) February 23, 2014
— Elsa Collins (@elsacollins) February 23, 2014
Nets owner Prokhorov supports gay rights in Russia http://t.co/vIs6YZLeCn
— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) February 23, 2014
So Missouri linebacker Michael Sam had the spotlight for the past couple of weeks, and is probably happy to relinquish it for a bit. Barriers being broken, progress being achieved, world spinning nicely on all cylinders. Now if we could just get Hollywood to release some decent movies between New Year’s and March, we humans would be doing pretty well.
Trying to explain the significance of Jason Collins' new gig to a bunch of tweens and having them not get it? The New Advancement
— Kelly Dwyer (@KDonhoops) February 23, 2014


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I watched the Northern Lights in Iceland and trekked 10km around the lakes at the foot of Matterhorn on the 150th Anniversary of the first accent to its summit.
I experienced a 5.3 magnitude earthquake whilst visiting New Zealand and bathed in a log fire heated bath under the stars while hiking around the Banks Peninsula.
I’ve fed wild Turtles on the Dalyan Delta, hunted the monster on Loch Ness, rode a camel in the Sahara Desert, overcome my fear of the ocean to go swimming from a boat in the Aegean Sea and lay for hours on a blanket watching a metoer shower above our house with love of my life.
I gave birth, to one of the best people I know, and married the other.
I’ve laughed, I’ve cried, Made friends, lost friends, I’ve impressed people and depressed people and I’m writing all this here to remind myself that while day to day my life seems ordinary and it’s easy to get stuck in a rut, even the most ordinary lives can be full of adventure.

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Reviews for Woman Upstairs
Booklist Reviews 2013 March #2
*Starred Review* In this acid bath of a novel, the superlative Messud (The Emperor's Children, 2006) immolates an iconic figure--the good, quiet, self-sacrificing woman--with exhilarating velocity, fury, and wit while taking on the vicissitudes of family life and the paradoxes of art. Nora, our archly funny, venomous, and raging 42-year-old narrator, recounts her thirty-seventh year, when she was living alone and teaching third grade in Boston after the death of her profoundly frustrated mother. Nora longs to make art but hasn't mustered the necessary conviction. Enter the Paris-based Shahids. Reza, her new student, is a magnet for bullies stirred up by post-9/11 xenophobia. His Palestinian Lebanese father, Skandar, is a prominent academic spending a year at Harvard. His Italian mother, Sirena, is an artist in need of a studio and a studio mate. She promptly recruits Nora. A confident and passionate conduit for mythological powers, Sirena creates "lush gardens and jungles made out of household items and refuse." Unworldly and lonely Nora, a veritable daughter of Ibsen, builds dollhouses--small, painstakingly accurate replicas of the rooms occupied by women artists ranging from Emily Dickinson to Edie Sedgwick. Messud's scorching social anatomy, red-hot psychology, galvanizing story, and incandescent language make for an all-circuits-firing novel about enthrallment, ambition, envy, and betrayal. A tour de force portraying a no longer invisible or silent "woman upstairs." Copyright 2012 Booklist Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews 2013 March #1
A self-described "good girl" lifts her mask in Messud's scarifying new novel (The Emperor's Children, 2006, etc.). "How angry am I?" Nora Eldridge rhetorically asks in her opening sentence. "You don't want to know." But she tells us anyway. Nora is furious with her dead mother, her elderly father and her estranged brother, none of whom seem to have done anything very terrible. Basically, Nora is furious with herself: for failing to commit to being an artist, for settling for life as a third-grade teacher in Cambridge, Mass., for lacking the guts even to be openly enraged. Instead, she is the woman upstairs, "whose trash is always tidy, who smiles brightly in the stairwell." So when the exotic Shahid family enters her life in the fall of 2004, Nora sees them as saviors. Reza is in her class; after another student attacks and calls the half-Lebanese boy "a terrorist," she meets his Italian mother, Sirena, the kind of bold, assertive artist Nora longs to be. They wind up sharing a studio, and Nora eventually neglects her own work to help Sirena with a vast installation called Wonderland. She's also drawn to Skandar, an academic whose one-year fellowship has brought his family to Cambridge from Paris. "So you're in love with Sirena, and you want to fuck her husband and steal her child," comments Nora's friend Didi after she confesses her intense feelings. It's nowhere near that simple, as the story unfolds to reveal Sirena as something of a user--and perhaps Skandar too, though it's unwise to credit Nora's jaundiced perceptions. Her untrustworthy, embittered narration, deliberately set up as a feminine counterpoint to the rantings of Dostoevsky's Underground Man, is an astonishing feat of creative imagination: at once self-lacerating and self-pitying, containing enough truth to induce squirms. Messud persuasively plunges us into the tortured psyche of a conflicted soul whose defiant closing assertion inspires little confidence that Nora can actually change her ways. Brilliant and terrifying. Copyright Kirkus 2013 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
Library Journal Reviews 2012 December #1
The author of multiple best book honoree The Emperor's Children returns with the story of an ordinary schoolteacher whose life is electrified when she becomes involved with the family of a new student, Reza Shahid. With a six-city tour and a reading group guide. [Page 58]. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Reviews 2013 March #3
The gifted Messud, writing her way through the ages, has now arrived at a woman in her 40s-and it's not pretty. Nora Eldridge, a schoolteacher who dreams of being an artist, is angry, cynical, and quietly desperate. Then she meets the Shahid family: Sirena, Skandar, and Reza, a student in Nora's third-grade class at Appleton Elementary in Cambridge, Mass. When Sirena asks Nora to share an artists' studio, Nora falls in love with each exotic Shahid in turn: Sirena, for her artistic vision; Skandar, for his intellectual fervor; and Reza, because he's a perfectly beautiful child, bullied at school but magnanimous. In her previous books, Messud (The Emperor's Children) has set individuals against the weight of kin; here is an individual who believes she's found a vigorous self in the orbit of a dangerously charismatic family. But after freeing Nora from herself, the Shahids betray her, Sirena especially, cruelly exploiting a private moment of Nora's newfound joy with an intimate work of art Sirena shows in Paris without Nora's knowledge. As with other Messud characters, these too are hard to love; few would want to know the unpalatable Nora, so full of self-loathing, nor the self-important Shahids. Agent: Georges and Anne Borchardt, the Borchardt Agency. (May) [Page ]. Copyright 2013 PWxyz LLC

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ERIC Number: ED394841
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1996-Mar
Beliefs of Science Teachers towards the Implementation of Controversial Social/Technological Issues As Part of the Extant Curriculum.
Pedersen, Jon E.; Spivey, Kristi
The study reported in this paper examined a group of science teachers' beliefs about the implementation of controversial social/technical issues in the extant science curriculum. Beliefs were measured by a 44-item Likert type instrument. Teachers were asked to elucidate their ideas relating to the teaching of social issues in areas such as support for teaching controversial social/technological issues, sources of information on controversial social/technological issues, and specific issues they believe are of importance to include in the extant curriculum. Several aspects of teachers' beliefs about curriculum and textbook usage, personal beliefs about controversial issues, specific social issues and their importance, outside influences, and teacher-student relations were investigated. Results indicate that teachers feel that controversial topics are important to study, yet lack the support from communities to implement such controversial topics. Contains 47 references. (Author/JRH)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (St. Louis, MO, March 31-April 3, 1996).

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has once again failed to follow the federal Renewable Fuel Standard as set by law, and is proposing to reduce the amount of ethanol required by the RFS to be blended into the nation’s gasoline supply. EPA is proposing to reduce the amount to below the Congressionally-mandated 15 billion gallons for 2017. The agency is currently holding a public comment period on its proposal, and that window is set to close on July 11.
“Now is the time to make your voice heard,” says Bill Couser, a central Iowa farmer and former president of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA). Currently serving on the board of directors of Lincolnway Energy, an ethanol production plant at Nevada, Iowa, Couser is encouraging all Iowans to “Take 15 seconds and submit an online comment to EPA at IowaRFA.org/rfs. Urge your friends, family, co-workers and other RFS-backers to do the same.”
Let EPA know now, before public comment period ends July 11
On July 11, 2016 the public comment period will close on EPA’s proposal to reduce the RFS volumes. “We need you to take action today to help guarantee as many public comments as possible urging the Obama Administration to reject EPA’s current proposal and restore a strong and growing RFS,” says Couser. Likewise, the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) is urging all farmers and the motoring public to go online and use the National Corn Growers Association’s website at ncga.com/rfs to your comments to the EPA regarding America’s need for a robust RFS. Either of these two web links are quicker and easier to use than the federal government’s website.
Carl Jardon, a corn and soybean farmer from Fremont County in southwest Iowa authored the following editorial and sent it to Wallaces Farmer magazine on the Fourth of July, with the following thoughts about Independence Day and the importance of achieving energy independence for America. Active in the Iowa Corn Growers Association, Jardon is chairman of ICGA’s Corn Industrial Usage & U.S. Production Committee. Here are his thoughts:
Ethanol is a homegrown fuel that creates 43,000 jobs in Iowa alone
“As we celebrate our nation's independence, I'm calling on my fellow farmers and all Iowans to take the time to celebrate ethanol, Iowa's cleaner burning, homegrown fuel which creates more than 43,000 jobs here in our great state.
“Right now, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the amount of ethanol in their 2017 Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO). The RVO, set by the Renewable Fuel Standard, ensures that American-made ethanol is blended in our fuel supply, and it is the most successful U.S. energy policy in recent history. By setting the RVO conventional target at 14.8 billion gallons for 2017 (instead of 15 billion which is called for in the statute) the EPA wants to effectively cap corn ethanol at that 14.8 billion gallon number, cutting corn usage by 71.4 million bushels.
Strong RFS is needed so ethanol can compete with big oil’s monopoly
“As a farmer, I understand firsthand and appreciate the value of our free market system. I am at the mercy of these markets every day when it comes to marketing my crops. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the U.S. fuel market. For centuries, big oil companies have enjoyed a variety of tax incentives which led to incredible barriers for the entry of ethanol and other renewable fuels into the marketplace. This all changed when Congress passed the Renewable Fuel Standard in an effort to provide cleaner-burning fuel options for consumers at the pump.
“Big oil has a monopoly on the motor fuel market. But thanks to the RFS, ethanol is allowed to have access to that market. The RFS continues to be extremely important to farmers like myself, and our families. It has helped rebuild rural America by providing opportunities for young and educated individuals to turn to farming and the renewable fuels industry as secure careers. The RFS demonstrably keeps rural America working and thriving.
Submit your comments to EPA today by using the online resources
“This issue expands beyond benefiting the corn industry. The RFS is needed by consumers, too. This issue touches not only the cost and quality of fuel available at the pump and the quality of the air we breathe, but also our nation's reliance on foreign oil. So this July 4th, we stand in support of America's homegrown fuel and a strong Renewable Fuel Standard by urging the EPA to follow the law of the RFS so you have choices at the pump for Iowa's homegrown fuel. The agency will be accepting comments through July 11, so be sure to make your voice heard. Go to ncga.com/rfs.”

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Like any tall peak, Mt Winchester takes to extreme moods. In preparation of the July 19 hike a team of four participated in a recee to Mt Winchester on the coldest day of the summer. At the top we were greeted by cloud cover and sleet. Upon reaching the shelter of the outlook we ate our lunch and dried our rain gear. Luckily we didn't have to fight over the use of the insulated lightening stool. We left the outlook with cold hands and a determination to return and enjoy the view.
- Alpine Hike - difficulty level C8 (Sun, Aug 2)
- Pre-camp Rocky Mountain backpacking - TRIP FULL (Sun, Aug 2)
- Birding at Grant Narrows (Sat, Aug 8)
- Blue Gentian Lake loop hike - Difficulty rating C6 (Sun, Aug 9)
- Skyline Divide Hike, Mount Baker (Difficulty Rating C7) (Sat, Aug 15)


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Industrial surveillance monitors supporting quad display with 4 x BNC in/out ports, VGA video input, 1 x VCR in/out, and front OSD membrane buttons for CCTV security systems and security control rooms.
Quad Split Rackmount LCD Display
15" to 24" surveillance monitors designed for the security industry features high-resolution LCDs, BNC connectors (looping composite), and VCR in/out ports that fit into a standard 19" rack cabinet.
REFERENCE Rackmount Quad Display Units for the Security Industry Acnodes' rackmount CCTV monitors are 17 to 22-inch rackmount surveillance LCD panels with a 1U to 11U rack. These surveillance monitors are designed specifically for the security industry and provide high-resolution LCD displays, BNC connectors (looping composite), DVR, and S Video inputs that fit into a standard 19" rack cabinet. The Quad Splitter allows all of the 4 x BNC video input channels to appear simultaneously via full screen or picture in picture mode. These monitors automatically detect and display the correct video format (NTSC or PAL). A 9 pin D Sub alarm sensor input/output control connector is included along with an RS232 port for the remote control. Adjustments of monitor display parameters are made using on-screen menus and the front membrane switch control panel.

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Telling the truth is usually right. But can it also sometimes be wrong? If so, when? And why? Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, a bestselling author and renowned scholar, explains when honesty isn’t the best policy.
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It’s hard to argue that Arsenal need a strong talent who is excellent on the ball at the base of the midfield.
That’s one of the things most lacking in this current Arsenal side. January signing Mohamed Elneny looks very good on the ball but also very energetic, he hasn’t yet been used by Arsène Wenger as the deepest player in the midfield.
So, with Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini set to leave the club this summer, the Gunners will need another midfielder. According to transfermarketweb, that midfielder could be 20-year-old Walace Souza Silva of Gremio.
Though he is just 20, the holding midfielder has made 53 appearances in the Brazilian top flight and is by all accounts a player who can do a bit of everything. Intelligent performances have seen him earn comparisons to Invincible Gilberto Silva.
Also being watched by the likes of Fiorentina and Benfica, Walace could’ve moved to Serie A in January but a move allegedly broke down.
Gremio rejected €5.5m for Walace Souza Silva from Fiorentina in 2015 despite a promise to pay 20% of any future transfer fee.
— AFCPressWatch™ (@AFCPressWatch) March 14, 2016
According to Gazzetta dello Sport (per ESPN), Gremio could be willing to do business for around £8m, which, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t much if Arsenal are interested in the young midfielder.
With three caps for Brazil u23s, Walace could be in action during the Olympics in the summer and would probably miss the start of the European season as a result.


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The heart of every AMG is, of course, the engine. As the engine itself is an extremely complex component, we’ll focus on the cylinders in this episode. Felix gets joined by Jens (Engineer Base Engine Development V6 / V8 / V12 – Mercedes-AMG) to dig deep into the efficiency, development, and future of AMG engines.
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