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San Miguel is a city in eastern El Salvador. It is the country's third most populous city after San Salvador and Santa Ana. It is located 138 km east of the capital, San Salvador. It is also the capital of the department of San Miguel and a municipality. The population of the city in (2007) was 218,410.
After the foundation of the Villa de, the Spaniards sent Captain Luis de Moscoso east of the Lempa River with the entrust of the establishment of a new Spanish village. Such event took place on May 8, 1530, being the name given to the new village San Miguel de la Frontera (Saint Michael of the Frontier). By 1586 the village had obtained the title of city. The native language is Spanish.
The city has been an important center of the agriculture, textile and chemical industries of El Salvador. However, in the last decade the services sector, specially health care and commerce, have increased considerably, resulting in significant private investments in hospitals and shopping malls within the city. This has been usually attributed partly for the high inflow of remittances (at least 35% of the total, that represent around 18% of the national GDP ) that salvadorans living abroad send to the eastern zone of the country.
The wealth of the eastern half of the country is expected to increase when the Puerto La Unión starts operations in 2012.
There are many educational institutions within the city, private and public, including some of the oldests schools in the country. The main universities are the public University of El Salvador ( with its Facultad Multidiciplinaria de Oriente) and the private Universidad de Oriente (UNIVO).The University Gerardo Barrios, the University Modular Abierta.
The sports infrastructure of San Miguel has had a remarkable development and modernization since the beginning of the past decade. The mappin sports centers are the national football stadium of "Juan Francisco Barraza", the "Polideportivo Don Bosco" and the Charlaix Stadium.
In November, San Miguel celebrates its municipal festivities in honor of "Nuestra Señora De La Paz" (Our Lady of Peace), the San Miguel Carnival being the final and main event that takes place on the last Saturday of the month. With an estimate of 1,000,000 people attending it for its 50th anniversary (as reported by the local media), it is considered the biggest entertainment, music and food festival in El Salvador and one of the largest in Central America. The beginnings of the Carnival itself date from 1959. Currently, this tradition continues to reflect the growth of the city and one of the motors for its economy.
San Miguel is famous for its night life along Roosevelt Avenue, the main thoroughfare that slices the city in half. One of those halves includes places of historical interest such as the Cathedral of "Nuestra Señora de la Paz" (1862), Parque Guzman, Francisco Gavidia Theater (1909) and the Palacio Municipal (1935). The other half, modern San Miguel, includes new neighborhoods called "colonias."
Many Salvadoran historical figures were born in San Miguel: Captain General Gerado Barrios, writer Francisco Gavidia, and poet Juan J. Cañas. The city is flanked by the Volcan Chaparrastique (2,129 meters), perhaps the most iconic image of San Miguel.
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Thu, May 21, 5:15 PM
- The Association of American Railroads says crude oil carried by big U.S. railroads fell nearly 14% Q/Q to ~113K carloads as oil companies cut back domestic shipments.
- Industry execs have cautioned that lower oil prices could end up slowing volume growth this year because the low prices will not support Bakken Shale crude, which is more expensive to extract and ship than other oil.
- Although total rail cargo volumes have continued to come in below expectations, Morgan Stanley analysts say a rally in energy prices could help boost railroad stock prices.
- Relevant tickers: CSX, NSC, UNP, KSU, BRK.A, BRK.B
Wed, May 20, 6:41 PM
- Union Pacific's (NYSE:UNP) coal shipments are down 25% so far in Q2 and the company does not foresee much improvement for the rest of the period, CFO Robert Knight Jr. warned today, in a much steeper decline than the single digits UNP execs had expected last month.
- At a transportation industry conference, Knight attributed the weak coal shipments to low natural gas prices and mild weather.
- The CFO also said UNP's Q2 performance still will reflect the effects of operating efficiencies despite furloughing additional employees and placing more locomotives back in storage.
Thu, May 14, 10:34 AM
Thu, May 14, 10:04 AM
- Railroad stocks are tilting lower after Kansas City Southern pulls its 2015 guidance at an investor conference.
- Investors are taking a cautious approach to Union Pacific (UNP -0.3%), Genesee & Wyoming (GWR -2.2%), Norfolk Southern (NSC -0.6%), CSX Corporation (CSX -0.1%), Canadian National Railway (CNI -0.5%), and Canadian Pacific (CP -0.3%) off the warning from Kansas Southern.
- Safety concerns also continue to linger in the sector which is seen as a development that could put some pressure on spending and investments.
- Previously: Kansas City Southern -3% after pulling guidance
Wed, May 13, 11:24 AM
- The U.S. oil industry is challenging new rules aimed at improving the safety of moving crude oil by rail, as the American Petroleum Institute petitions the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to block key provisions of rules unveiled earlier this month.
- The petition seeks to block a requirement that older tank cars be retrofitted with new safety features designed to prevent them from spilling oil or rupturing in a derailment, and challenges a requirement that tank cars be equipped with new electronic braking systems or face operational restrictions.
- Environmental groups say the new rules do not go far enough, and are considering their own legal challenge.
- Relevant tickers: CSX, NSC, UNP, CNI, CP, KSU, BRK.A, BRK.B, GBX, WAB, TRN, ARII, RAIL
Tue, May 5, 5:43 PM
- Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) CEO Wick Moorman says the rail industry will challenge the U.S. government’s new crude-by-rail regulations, worried that the new rules could make shipping crude oil by train prohibitively expensive.
- The Department of Transportation last Friday called for the installation of new braking systems on trains hauling more than 70 cars of crude oil by 2021, a requirement Moorman says took the rail industry by surprise.
- The CEO tells WSJ that the new rules place railroads in a difficult spot because railroads do not own the vast majority of tank cars and thus have no control over whether the costly new brakes are installed; also, the brake requirement is not a mandate for tank car owners, only railroads, he says.
- Moorman says he is sure the industry will challenge the new rules either in court or petition the DoT for reconsideration.
- Relevant tickers: CSX, UNP, CNI, CP, KSU, BRK.A, BRK.B, GBX, WAB, TRN, ARII, RAIL
Fri, May 1, 2:36 PM
- U.S. regulators issue tough new rules for safer transportation of crude oil by trains, introducing a new tank car standard and mandating the use of new braking technology.
- The rules require that the oldest, least safe tank cars be replaced within three years with new cars that have thicker shells, higher safety shields and better fire protection; a later generation of tank cars, built since 2011 with more safety features, will have to be retrofitted or replaced by 2020.
- Regulators are not asking railroads to notify communities of any oil train traffic but will require a “point of contact” for information related to the routing of hazardous materials.
- Shares of tank car makers are higher: GBX +7.2%, WAB +7.4%, TRN +7.4%, ARII +7.2%, RAIL +5.7%.
- Other relevant tickers: CSX, NSC, UNP, CNI, CP, KSU, BRK.A, BRK.B
Mon, Apr. 27, 12:59 PM
- Declining output from shale oil fields has in turn cut demand for key types of railroad cars, according to new industry figures, in the latest sign of the fallout from lower crude oil prices.
- Buyers ordered 4,470 new railway tank cars during Q1, down 6% Y/Y and ~70% below the nearly 15K tank cars ordered during Q4, according to the Railway Supply Institute trade group.
- Q1 orders for covered “hopper” cars, used mostly to deliver fracking sand to drill sites, also fell to 131 cars from 11.5K a year ago and 8,627 cars during Q4.
- Tank car orders had surged with shale oil output, generally transported to refineries by rail, but output from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale field dropped in both January and February, and the U.S. Energy Department predicts continued declines in output there for April and May.
- Relevant tickers: TRN, ARII, GBX, WAB, CSX, NSC, UNP, CNI, CP, KSU, BRK.A, BRK.B
Mon, Apr. 27, 7:44 AM
- In his "We Are Full of Bull" note this morning, Morgan Stanley's Adam Parker says the economy will accelerate in Q2 and Q3, bringing stocks along for the ride. If investors are gun-shy thanks to record levels for the averages, Parker suggests looking for names with decent long-term earnings forecasts trading at a discount to the market.
- The ten largest U.S. stocks trading at a discount, but with above-average expected growth rates: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Citigroup (NYSE:C), Gilead (NASDAQ:GILD), Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP), Actavis (NYSE:ACT), Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ:FOXA), Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), Ford (NYSE:F), BlackRock (NYSE:BLK).
- Conversely, one might want to avoid those stocks selling for substantial premiums. The ten largest stocks trading at a premium to the market while growing at a below-average rate: Exxon (NYSE:XOM), Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), Pepsico (NYSE:PEP), Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB), MMM, McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), UPS, Nike (NYSE:NKE).
- Source: Bloomberg
Thu, Apr. 23, 8:04 AM
Fri, Apr. 17, 4:47 PM
- Trains carrying crude oil will be restricted to a 40 MPH speed limit in populated areas such as New York, one of the steps required by an order from the U.S. Department of Transportation in response to a series of derailments.
- The emergency order makes the agreement mandatory for all railroads hauling 20 or more tank cars linked together or 35 cars in total that are filled with oil or other flammable liquids, and applies to both older model DOT-111 tank cars and CPC-1232s the industry has been voluntarily building since 2011.
- The DoT also issued an advisory to railroads to use the latest technology to check for flaws in train wheels that can cause a crash; a broken train wheel is suspected of causing the March 5 derailment near Galena, Ill., of a BNSF Railway (BRK.A, BRK.B) train hauling 103 cars of Bakken crude.
- Other relevant tickers: CSX, UNP, NSC, KSU, GWR, CNI, CP
Tue, Apr. 14, 7:38 AM
- A detailed study from Cowen & Company on the railroad industry concludes this year will be one of the most difficult in years.
- Pricing pressure is at the heart of the firm's concerns.
- "Intermodal renewals have been occurring at considerably high rates, and the slight 10-bps decline in overall rail pricing in our survey suggests that non-intermodal pricing may be tempered enough to more than offset the intermodal rate strength," reads the report.
- Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC) warned on profit last night, while CSX (NYSE:CSX) reports Q1 earnings tomorrow.
- Railroad stocks: UNP, CNI, ARII, GBX, CP, KSU, WAB, TRN.
Fri, Apr. 10, 5:36 PM
- Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) is upgraded to Buy from Hold with a $120 stock price target at Stifel, which sees attractive risk-adjusted upside potential in the shares for the first time in a while.
- The firm believes UNP's strong management team has a track record of performance and operational excellence, and that the railroad's network provides sustainable growth given that it touches all six U.S.-Mexico gateways, west coast ports, and growing economic regions in America.
- Stifel says UNP's stock price drop since Kansas City Southern's (NYSE:KSU) profit warning in late March are overdone, as corrections in KSU's guidance are "not uncommon."
Mon, Apr. 6, 6:51 PM
- The exploding growth in oil train shipments fueled by the U.S. energy boom has sputtered in recent months, hurt by safety problems and low crude oil prices, WSJ reports.
- Railroads have been a major beneficiary of the U.S. energy boom, as some oil companies turned to trains to move crude to refineries from North Dakota and other areas underserved by pipelines, but WSJ says ~1.38M bbl/day of oil and fuels such as gasoline rode the rails in March vs. an average of 1.5M bbl/day in the same period a year ago.
- BNSF Railway (BRK.A, BRK.B), which is responsible for ~70% of U.S. oil train traffic, operated as many as 10 trains a day last year but now is averaging nine a day.
- Shipping oil across the U.S. by train can cost $6-$12/bbl, which makes sense only when the price of U.S. crude is significantly cheaper than oil pumped overseas; in recent weeks, the price gap between U.S. and Brent has narrowed to ~$7/bb, making some oil train shipments too costly at this time, but Barclays thinks U.S. crude may sell for $13/bbl less than Brent, which would boost oil train shipments later this year.
- Other relevant tickers: CSX, UNP, NSC, KSU, GWR, CNI, CP
Tue, Mar. 31, 2:16 PM
- MKM Partners thinks the smart move is to sell railroad stocks and buy airlines.
- Chief Market Technician Jonathan Krinsky leans on technical analysis (video) in making the transportation call.
- Avondale Partners is also out with a bearish take on railroads.
- The investment firm lowers Canadian Pacific (NYSE:CP), Norfolk Southern (NYSE:NSC), CSX (NYSE:CSX), Canadian National Railway (NYSE:CNI), and Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) to Market Underperform on earnings growth concerns.
Thu, Mar. 26, 12:41 PM
- U.S. rail stocks are under pressure, led by Genesee & Wyoming (GWR -1.9%) after cutting Q1 revenue guidance to $375M, $25M less than guidance provided Feb. 10 and below analyst consensus of $418M.
- GWR says Q1 traffic has been weaker than its expectations due to severe winter weather in four of its North American regions, as well as weakness in certain commodity groups, including steam coal and metals.
- GWR's stock price target is cut to $108 from $113 at Credit Suisse, citing February carload data that points to a decline in both thermal coal and metals.
- Also, Union Pacific (UNP -2.1%) was downgraded earlier by Cowen as the firm adjusts UNP's growth expectations, and Norfolk Southern (NSC -0.2%) was downgraded by Raymond James.
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Had some help getting the canvas laid out to cut.
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The symbolism of everyday objects
Here are a few examples of what I mean.
I don't think anyone who has read BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE will look at doorknobs the same way again.
Meanwhile, the doorknob--made of white china and slick as an egg--as though to compensate for the loss of the key, was inclined either to spin loosely round on its stem, or to jam fast, both conditions preventing the door from being opened from the outside.
(From LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25 ("Betrayal"). Copyright© 2007 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)2) Strawberries
I can't think of strawberries now without remembering the wonderful scene in DRUMS OF AUTUMN where Jamie and Claire discover the site of Fraser's Ridge:
"It's a rare plant," he said, touching the sprig in my open hand. "Flowers, fruit and leaves all together at the one time. The white flowers are for honor, and red fruit for courage--and the green leaves are for constancy."3) Oranges, and orange marmalade
My throat felt tight as I looked at him.
"They got that one right," I said.
He caught my hand in his own, squeezing my fingers around the tiny stem.
"And the fruit is the shape of a heart," he said softly, and bent to kiss me.
(From DRUMS OF AUTUMN by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 16 ("The First Law of Thermodynamics"). Copyright© 1997 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
The encounter between Lord John and Stephan von Namtzen in THE SCOTTISH PRISONER has been dubbed a "marmaliaison" by some people on Compuserve. <g> If you read carefully, you'll see references to oranges scattered throughout that whole chapter.
As he followed Stephan from the coach, he caught the scent of von Namtzen’s cologne, something faint and spicy--cloves, he thought, and was absurdly reminded of Christmas, and oranges studded thick with cloves, the smell festive in the house.4) A wooden mallet, its handle wrapped with twine
His hand closed on the orange, cool and round in his pocket, and he thought of other rounded things that might fit in his hand, these warm.
“Fool,” he said to himself, under his breath. “Don’t even think about it.”
It was, of course, impossible not to think about it.
(From THE SCOTTISH PRISONER by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 9 ("Eros Rising"). Copyright© 2011 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Even Jamie is bothered by the memories evoked by this particular object, and no wonder!
"Surely ye can make hare pie without looking in the wee book?" he said, obligingly taking the big bone-crushing wooden mallet from the top of the hutch where it was kept. He grimaced as he took it into his hand, feeling the weight of it. It was very like the one that had broken his right hand several years before, in an English prison, and he had a sudden vivid memory of the shattered bones in a hare pie, splintered and cracked, leaking salty blood and marrow-sweetness into the meat.
(From VOYAGER by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 7 ("To Us a Child is Given"). Copyright© 1994 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)5) Sausages
The sausage pictured above is a whopping 15 1/2 inches long, roughly comparable in size to the one described in DRAGONFLY:
"I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the middle of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage."6) Pebbles
My imagination proved fully equal to this task, and I burst out laughing.
"God, I wish I could have seen you!" I said.
"Thank God ye didn't!" he said fervently. A furious blush glowed on his cheekbones.
(From DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 12 ("L'Hopital des Anges"). Copyright© 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
I thought Jamie's collection of stones, one for each of his family members, was a lovely bit in THE SCOTTISH PRISONER:
A scatter of stones, picked up because of their feel in the hand or a pretty color. He counted them; there were eleven: one each for his sister, for Ian, for Young Jamie, Maggie, Kitty, Janet, Michael, and Young Ian; one for his daughter, Faith, who had died at birth; another for the child Claire had carried when she went; the last--a piece of rough amethyst--for Claire herself. He must look out for another now: the right stone for William. He wondered briefly why he had not done that before. Because he hadn’t felt the right to claim William even in the privacy of his own heart, he supposed.7) Compass with needle pointing north
(From THE SCOTTISH PRISONER by Diana Gabaldon, chapter 38 ("Redux"). Copyright© 2011 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
I love the compass-needle imagery in "Lord John and the Haunted Soldier", as a metaphor for John's feelings for Jamie:
He dipped the pen again, and saw the slender splinter of metal that lay on his desk, straight as a compass needle, dully a-gleam in the candlelight.I love that metaphor. John simply can't stop loving Jamie, any more than a compass needle can avoid pointing north.
My regiment is due to be reposted in the spring; I shall join them, wherever duty takes me. I shall, however, come to Helwater again before I leave.
He stopped, and touched the metal splinter with his left hand. Then wrote, You are true north.
(From "Lord John and the Haunted Soldier", in LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS by Diana Gabaldon (Part III, "The Hero's Return"). Copyright© 2007 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.)
Hope you enjoyed these! Let me know if you find any more examples like these in the books.

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While everyone I know seems to be on an almond butter kick, one of my favorite peanut butter alternatives is tahini. Spread on toast, dipped in apples, and used in my favorite vegan alfredo sauce, tahini has many versatile applications beyond homemade hummus.
Making it couldn't be easier. The trick is toasting the seeds prior to processing, which bolsters their natural nuttiness, lending a complex, toasted flavor that's reminiscent of browned butter. Just be sure to diligently set your kitchen timer and check the seeds often, because they burn fast! Now that I have all this leftover tahini, I'm thinking it calls for a batch of tahini cookies . . .
8 ounces (about 1 cup) sesame seeds
1/4 cup olive oil, more if needed
Salt, to taste
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread sesame seeds on a parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet, and bake for 6 minutes. Mix and respread sesame seeds, and return to oven for 6 to 8 minutes more, or until sesame seeds are fragrant and golden brown. Immediately transfer toasted seeds to a separate bowl to prevent carryover cooking.
- Add sesame seeds to the bowl of a food processor and grind for 1 minute, or until seeds have broken down. While processor is on, drizzle in olive oil, and continue to grind for 1 or 2 minutes more, or until a smooth paste forms. If mixture is too dry, then add more olive oil, 1 teaspoon at a time. Season to taste. Transfer tahini to a mason jar, and store in the fridge for up to one month.
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- Makes one 10-ounce jar
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The next time a craving for sushi, soba, tonkatsu, or other Japanese dishes strikes, try your hand at whipping up one of these delights at home instead of dining out. But before you begin, it's time to take to your local Asian supermarket (or shop online) to stock up on the basics; keep reading for a rundown of pantry staples.
Never experimented with fleur de sel, herbes de Provence, or French lentils? That's OK, because we're going to share our favorite products to bring that much-needed je nais se quoi to your table. For those not too familiar with French cuisine, it relies heavily on ingredients like butter, fresh fines herbes (translation: fine herbs), and citrus like lemon, but despite the use of predominantly perishable items, there are a number of pantry staples each Francophile should keep in the kitchen. Store the best of France in your cupboard with these 10 essentials.
Asian supermarkets can be equal parts intoxicating and intimidating to those unfamiliar with their wares. Thankfully, Andrew Zimmern has come to the rescue: After demoing how to make classic Chinese dishes like dumplings and hand-pulled noodles at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, Zimmern answered a few crowd questions; one regarded his five must-buy ingredients from the Asian supermarket. Rather than stop at five, Zimmern enthusiastically rattled off seven; keep reading to see what he suggests seeking out.


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Standardised IO-Link technology makes communication with sensors and actuators simple and economical. The result of an evolutionary development, this low-cost connection technology with three or five conductors achieves point-to-point connection without complex wiring and with minimal material requirements. With controllers, valve terminals, proportional valves and sensors, Festo offers a complete range of IO-Link-capable automation technology.
IO-Link is not a new bus system but has been further developed as a new kind of communications interface for fieldbus and Ethernet systems. It allows you not only to download parameter data from the control system to the sensor or actuator, but also to send diagnostic data in the other direction to the control system. Whereas integrating a fieldbus interface all the way down to the lowest field level used to be very costly, digital or analogue values and all parameters and diagnostic data can now be transmitted with only a simple 3-wire or 5-wire cable – with no special features in terms of screening, twisting, impedance or terminating resistance.
The gateway between the fieldbus and one or more IO-Link slaves is normally provided by a fieldbus device with multiple IO-Link master channels. In smaller machines or systems, which may not require a fieldbus due to their size, the PLC acts as the IO-Link master.
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Last year, FLOOD premiered Leif Vollebekk‘s “Transatlantic Flight” video in advance of his new LP New Ways. Vollebekk told the site about his inspiration. “The video is just one long take with the exception of one cut,” Vollebekk says. “I asked to have it like that because I always liked how in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise the takes are so long that your eyes have a chance to wander around and start seeing subtle things. Time itself is a character in his films.” Read more, and see the video, here.
New Ways is at radio now and available for download on our site.


Conway C, Desany GJ, Bailey LR, Keating JH, Baker BL, Edelman ER. Fracture in drug-eluting stents increases focal intimal hyperplasia in the atherosclerosed rabbit iliac artery.
Summary: Controlled release of therapeutic agents, such as sirolimus and its analogs, or paclitaxel, has reduced tissue-based drug-eluting stent failure modes compared to bare metal stents. In the stent, restenosis is dramatically reduced and the implications of mechanical device failure are magnified. This controlled animal study, using intact and pre-eluted drug-eluting stents, provides data in support of the hypothesis that concomitance of drug and stent fracture leads to greater neointimal response.


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It has been a while since our last grading, so we’ve had a few interim promotions, but the big one was today. There are a number of people at the club who came in with a lot of existing training, who have therefore been overdue for their belts ever since they joined. Thanks to the continuing support of Kev Capel, that’s now been resolved, meaning we have four new purple belts.
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Yay, four new purples @ArtemisBJJ yesterday, plus two blues! I try hard to not emphasise belts at my club (one of several reasons I don't give out stripes), as it's important people focus on just getting better, with belts serving as a nice side effect. Also, makes for a handy photo. 😉 Big congrats to everyone who got promoted. Those who follow the Artemis BJJ Instagram should recognise @mj.dalton, who is my uke in many of the vids. 😃 It was also brilliant to see Lisa, who hasn't been in for a while due to an injury. Although I'm the head instructor, the majority of Lucy's training has been with Lisa, so it was great to have her there to see Lucy promoted to blue. Looking forward to Lisa's knee getting better: thanks for the great photos (Sara took good ones too 😃)! _________________________________________ Of course, none of this could happen without Kev: I can't thank @rgabucks enough for how he supports the club. 😎👍 ________________________________________ #bjj #BrazilianJiuJitsu #SlideyClub #SupportWomensBJJ #ArtemisBJJ @BJJglobetrotters #bjjglobetrotters
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By Kristen Oliver
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At Eagle Ranch, parents help their children with homework, care for them when they are sick and comfort them when they have nightmares.
It’s a bittersweet task, both challenging and rewarding, to raise children while their families go through tough times.
The ranch, a Christian-based children’s home, has 10 couples working as house parents for boys and girls ages 8 to 18.
“It’s really foundational,” said Eddie Staub, Eagle Ranch founder and executive director. “Everything starts with the house parents. You’ve got to have stability, structure and nurture in that home. The counseling plays off it, the school plays off it and the family seeing what a healthy home looks like — everything plays off of that. That’s the reason it’s important for us to get that right.”
John and Jordan Cunnings have been houseparents at Eagle Ranch for seven years. They are parents in the Blessing Home for high school girls.
Jim and Amanda Phelps, houseparents to 8- to 12-year-old boys in the Hope Home, have also been house parents at the ranch for seven years. Both couples were involved with the ranch before becoming house parents.
“We were here about five years total,” said Amanda Phelps, who previously worked in the ranch’s sixth- through ninth-grade school. “He was here three years and then I was here two when I left the school and felt we were done working with the Ranch.”
Jim Phelps said they soon learned God had other plans.
“The work is demanding, and we felt called to work with kids in a church setting, but not so much here,” he said. “But those years here were the best three years I had spent in my life. This is a very unique place.”
Being a house parent is challenging, Jim Phelps said, but Eagle Ranch provides the support a couple needs to be successful in the role.
“The mission of the ranch is to work with children and to work with families,” Jim Phelps said. “But I think the hardest part is God calls us as house parents here to work on ourselves first and foremost.”
Houseparents are charged with helping families, but Jim Phelps said it’s important to remember houseparents and their own families aren’t perfect either.
“You’re very open and raw, and that’s just very hard for any human,” he said. “But at the same time, that’s so exciting, because you get growth and support here like no other place on earth.”
Stefanie Long, Director of Communications, said houseparents at the Ranch receive marriage counseling, time off for regular date nights, retreats and more.
Both the Phelps family and the Cunnings family have children of their own. The Cunnings have two daughters, Cana, 2, and Eden, 4, and the Phelps have a daughter Olivia, 7, and a son Benjamin, 5.
Jordan Cunnings said the struggles of a house child’s family can reflect on her own family. She said it’s hard, but often it helps them work through their own difficulties.
“I think that’s neat because it shows what God can do here,” Amanda Phelps said. “You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be the best parent. And nobody expects you to be.”
Jordan Cunnings said house parents from different houses often turn to each other with questions or advice.
This extensive support system means Eagle Ranch houseparents have a remarkably long average tenure. The longest house parents at the Ranch stayed 13 years, and the average at the ranch is four years.
The national average, Staub said, is about 18 months.
“If you’ve got a revolving door with your houseparent couples, it really works against the healing process for these children and their families,” Staub said. “You can’t get any continuity. A lot of their life experiences have been people not being there for them. So if you have couples that only stay 18 months, that whole scenario is replayed in their minds.”
Because the houseparents are such a vital role on the ranch, the hiring process is meticulous.
“It’s really extensive because this is such a demanding job,” Staub said. “Folks need to be a good fit to work here, for them and for us. It’s like a two-day interview process, in addition to calling references and all those other things.”
Staub said they have a set of criteria to predict how effective a couple will be as house parents. It’s about more than their resumes or personalities, he said.
“We really try to sense a calling,” Staub said. “This is a spiritual work. You can’t do this on your own strength. You’d just burn out. So that’s a level for us— that they feel they’ve been called by God to do this work.”
Long said the Ranch is always accepting applications from interested couples, because the process can take some time – including the transition out of current careers, selling or renting homes, etc.
Being a houseparent is a sacrifice, in many ways, and Staub said it’s important to have a “culture of commitment” amongst the house parents.
He needs to know that when the job gets difficult, parents won’t bail on the children.
“We really feel like this is one of our most important hires here, to make sure we get folks that feel called to be here,” he said. “Also, that sort of have the emotional makeup to do this kind of work. I couldn’t do it, to be honest with you.
“It’s just a special kind of person that can come in and step into these children’s pain and walk that journey with them.”


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Aarti is stumbling across the fields, tears streaming down her face. Every now and again, she turns to look back over her shoulder, terrified that she is being followed. The man had shown her a gun, threatened her. She knew if they caught her that her life would be in great danger.
She started to cry again. It was the third time her mother had sold her to a stranger. All to keep her away from Sanjay, the boy she loved, the boy she had first seen on the rooftop of the neighbouring house in the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, that most famous monument to love. The boy who was from the wrong caste, the boy her mother would never let her marry.
Aarti reaches the road, hails a rickshaw, finds a phone and calls Sanjay. He calls the Love Commandos.
And now they are sitting in the back room of a small house somewhere among a warren of backstreets in the heart of old Delhi, in the headquarters of an unlikely group of freedom fighters.
“Welcome to the Love Commando helpline, Channel 12. Good afternoon. Sir, kindly speak in English or Hindi. Yes, yes, we can help you.” Sanjoy Sachdev, the group’s founder, is talking into the mobile phone which rings every few minutes.
It is a reflection of just how tightly caste still holds India in its grip that a group such as the Love Commandos should exist at all. But exist it does, a volunteer force of incurable romantics dedicated to rescuing young lovers from the murderous grasp of families who would rather kill them than suffer the social stigma of an unsuitable match, and from the kap panchayats, the notorious village caste councils that rule on who can and cannot marry and regularly pass sentences of death on those who cross them.
Their phones ring night and day. What started as a group of like-minded friends intent on protecting courting couples trying to celebrate Valentine’s Day is rapidly being transformed into a national movement, with 2,000 volunteers across the country and more coming forward every day.
A slew of so-called honour killings in northern India this year spurred the Love Commandos into action, convincing Sachdev and his friends to transform their ad hoc operation into a 24-hour national hotline. It also prompted the country’s Supreme Court to issue notices to the national government and six states to protect couples from the edicts of the panchayats.
Officially, the police recorded 19 murders in northern India as honour killings between April 19 and June 30 this year. But with many such killings dismissed as “suicides”, the true figure is probably about 10 times higher. One recent study estimated that there are more than 1,000 honour killings in India every year, the vast majority in the northern states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
The obsession with caste is nowhere better demonstrated than in the “Matrimonials” section of any of India’s national papers, where advertisers routinely stipulate the required social status of the bride or groom they are seeking for an arranged marriage to their offspring. Brahmins are much sought after. Rajputs too. (And even those claiming to be more cosmopolitan are no less demanding. “Caste no bar,” one advert declared last month, while stipulating that the successful groom must be a “Nasa space scientist, age 29-30.”)
Those who fail to make the grade are in mortal danger if they insist on pursuing their affairs: so too is the son or daughter of the family opposed to the match.
Falling for someone of the wrong caste, someone from the wrong gotra – another subdivision based on lineage – or refusing to marry the family’s choice of partner can all be deemed to have created enough dishonour to be punishable with death. Panchayats regularly pass death sentences, but often they do not need to: many families take matters into their own hands to avoid the opprobrium of the community.
Aarti found that out the hard way. The Love Commandos saved her in the end, but not before her mother sold her three times to get her away from Sanjay. She gazes at him now as she talks, her fingers playing with the fabric of her pink and orange dupatta (shawl). The 19-year-old has a slash of vermillion running along her central parting, the sign of a married Hindu woman. Sometimes she laughs, sometimes she cries, the tears spilling down her face as the story tumbles out.
“The first time I saw him I fell for him. It was my heart’s feeling. Even if I attempt to forget him I never can,” she says.
Sanjay is a daily labourer, 21 years old, making cardboard boxes for a handful of rupees. He sits beside her in his faded jeans and a cheap printed T-shirt, on a bed covered with a reddish brown blanket, in the back of a safehouse tucked away in the backstreets of Delhi.
“I had a clear view into her house,” Sanjay says. “We used to talk to each other across the rooftops. It was love at first sight. But it was when we fell in love that the problems started.”
Never mind that both their mothers worked as domestics, both their fathers were dead and they lived next door to each other: Aarti’s caste, Thakur, the dominant one in the street, easily outranked Sanjay’s Kashyap caste, listed by the Indian government under the category “other backwards castes”.
Three years ago, Aarti’s mother, Laxmi Devi, overheard her talking to Sanjay. “It was just sweet nothings,” she says, “I love you, that sort of thing.”
Laxmi Devi could not contain her fury. She told anyone who would listen that her daughter was consorting with a lower-caste boy and bringing shame on them all.
“My cousin was beating me and my mother was beating me and the whole neighbourhood was beating me because my mother made such a hue and cry about it,” says Aarti.
“They just didn’t want me to marry him. They said they would kill me, they would never let us get married.”
She dabs at her tears and goes on, speaking softly, eyes down. The first time her mother tried to sell her, she says, in 2007, she was tricked into thinking she was going to be allowed to marry Sanjay.
“She took me to a temple. A woman and a man came there. My mother was haggling with them,” she says. “She wanted to sell me as a slave for extramarital relations.”
She was taken to a village and locked in a room. “A lady came and told me that my mother had taken 10,000 rupees and that now I lived with them.”
But when she would not stop weeping, her mother was summoned back and had to take her home, where the beatings resumed. “Sometimes I was beaten with a stick, sometimes with a bat, sometimes my head was banged into walls or I was slapped and punched. They used to lock me up in my room.”
Last year a man came to the house. Laxmi Devi told Aarti to go with him to find Sanjay. She had decided to give up her opposition to the match, her mother said. This time they really would be married.
“He took me to a forest area by the Yamuna River and claimed to be looking for Sanjay. Then that man tried to have physical relations with me. He said he had paid my mother money. I pushed him and ran to the village nearby. Some ladies heard my cries and took me to their houses. They told me the man was engaged in the sale of girls and was a known bad character. They said I was very lucky because no one else had escaped from his hands.”
She was taken home and beaten again. But her mother appeared to be tiring of the fight.
On May 8 this year, she took Aarti and Sanjay to Ghaziabad, near Delhi, presented them at a temple and told them they were now man and wife. For four days, the couple were together. Then Laxmi Devi changed her mind. Aarti was summoned home again, ostensibly to be presented to her relatives. Instead, she was sold for the third and final time.
This time she found herself in Sobi Pura village near Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh. Some people had come to the house and given money to her mother. She says the people there threatened her with a gun if she tried to escape, but she seized her moment and ran across the fields. In her pocket she had only 35 rupees.
“I kept walking through the fields and after some houses reached a road. I saw an auto rickshaw. He asked five rupees to Tundla and from there I got a bus to Agra.
“I called Sanjay and told him where I was and he came to find me. After that, we were together.”
Sanjay had heard about the Love Commandos a few days earlier on a late-night television bulletin. Now he dialled the number. The voice on the other end told him to get to Delhi immediately.
When they arrived, they were taken under the protection of the Love Commandos, who moved them to a safe house. The group’s lawyers advised that, having already accepted each other as husband and wife in a Hindu temple, they were legally married according to Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act.
“They will stay with us until we have a guarantee that they will not be attacked or assaulted,” says Sachdev.
Sachdev leans back against the blue-painted wall of the back room of the house. His legs are stretched out in front of him on the bed that fills half the room. He listens to the voice on the other end of the phone. It is a young boy from Andhra Pradesh, worried that his girlfriend’s parents will take her away.
“If your girlfriend accepts that she is rich and you are poor let the people in the village be angry,” Sachdev tells him. “We are here to support you, continue your love affair and call us when there is a problem. You can always call us. My son, my blessings are with you.”
It is not always so simple: sometimes they have to act fast. “When we get a call to say someone’s life is in danger our teams rush to help,” says Sachdev.
The volunteers – doctors, lawyers, engineers, shopkeepers, students – are unarmed, save for pepper spray. They don’t use it often, but sometimes it is necessary to overpower those who are determined to stop them.
“We wanted to shun violence with non-violent means,” says Sachdev. “But we use the pepper spray when someone has to be rescued and life is in danger.”
On the cabinet next to him are a heap of papers, each of them relating to a rescue. The Love Commandos claim to have already helped hundreds of couples marry since they set up the hotline in July.
“You have to understand that in every nook and corner of the country there are couples under threat,” Sachdev says, lighting a cigarette, while from the room next door comes the sound of his lieutenants answering phones. “Our society does not accept love. There is a social stigma involved in a boy and girl in love.”
He is dressed in a neatly pressed gold kurta, slightly less pristine trousers. Money is tight. Sachdev, 51, is a journalist by trade (Harsh Malhotra, the Love Commandos’ co-founder, runs a transport business).
“We need places where the kap panchayats can’t come and kill us,” he says. “We are appealing to everyone who appreciates love to help us.
“We are branded people. We have had death threats and our effigies burnt. We want to continue our mission but if we do, we lose our jobs and if we don’t, the mission fails.”
They rely on individual donations of 100 rupees a year from their volunteers to keep going. At the moment, that gets them the small safehouse in the backstreets. They are cautious about revealing its location: Sonu Rangi, the operational commander, screens visitors, wary of reprisals.
Rangi is standing on a corner a little way down the street, wearing a purple shirt, just as he said he would be on the phone. He nods and sets off at speed down a warren of side streets. The alleys are strewn with rubbish; in places the mud is ankle-deep. Men push carts, heads down, swerving round the various animals wandering unchecked. Other men carry bags on their heads or across their shoulders. Overhead there is a tangle of electricity cables, loose wires hanging down into the street.
Rangi disappears around a corner into another narrow lane. There is no sign of him, but a door stands ajar. Inside, there is a small kitchen. A metal ladder stretches up to the first floor. Behind the ladder is the entrance to a room in which three men are sitting. They point through to the back room.
The walls are a dirty turquoise blue, the floor bare concrete. Sachdev apologises for the caution, explaining that it is necessary.
Initially, the police sided with their opponents, he says, but a couple of years ago they noticed that the tide was beginning to turn. In July this year, amid the publicity over the wave of honour killings sweeping the country, they decided to broaden their reach.
He flicks through the files. Here are Kripa and Prashant, under sentence of death because they refused to accept that they could not be together simply because he was from the lowly Meena caste while she was a more exalted Jat.
The Love Commandos smuggled pepper spray into the house where Kripa was being held against her will. Seizing the moment, she sprayed it into the face of her captor and fled, running to the car parked on the edge of the village where the Love Commandos were waiting.
Here is a marriage certificate for Sandeep and Kavita from Haryana. The panchayat had threatened them and the volunteers had gone to the village to rescue her. They had smuggled pepper spray in to her, but in the end she did not need to use it. Quickly they got her into a car and then drove the couple to a temple where the marriage ceremony was carried out immediately. The families were informed about the marriage through official telegrams.
And here is a picture of Sunil and Geeta from Rajasthan, at their wedding ceremony in Delhi’s Arya Samaj Mandir, a temple specialising in love marriages. Sonu Rangi is in the centre of the picture, helping with the ceremony.
Sachdev’s own marriage was arranged – “I had no opportunity as a student to find love” – but it produced four children. His brother had a love marriage and both his father and grandfather married outside their caste. Sachdev thinks everyone should have that chance.
“It is disgusting that the government is allowing these panchayats to take place,” he says. “The state should have arrested the criminals of the kap panchayats and put them behind bars for sedition because it is disloyalty to the constitution. But the sorry state is that the political leaders, for the sake of votes, have never dared, and the officers of the police have never respected the law.”
The Indian government is, however, starting to make noises about tackling the problem, with the home minister, P Chidambaram, announcing that he was actively considering a new law targeted at honour killing. The announcement came amid mounting pressure over the number of cases this year.
A young couple, Asha and Yogesh, tied up and tortured to death in Delhi in June because he was from a lower caste. A newlywed man, Rajesh Negi, set alight for marrying against the wishes of his family, again in Delhi. A couple, Inderpal and Maya, killed and left in a field in Tamil Nadu two weeks ago. The list goes on and on.
Even Bollywood has started to pay attention. A new movie, Aakrosh, focuses on the case of Nitish Katara, who was 24 when he was murdered.
His crime had been to fall in love with Bharti Yadav, the daughter of the thuggish Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav. The family did not approve. In his confession to the murder, Yadav’s son admitted hitting the young man over the head with a hammer before dousing him in petrol and setting him on fire. “The affair was damaging my family’s reputation,” he told police.
It is a mark of just how conservative many Indians still are in their attitudes towards caste that the film’s director, Priyadarshan, felt the need to stress that the film was not intended as a criticism of honour killings. “We have left a question mark at the end for the audience to decide whether the practice is right or wrong,” he says.
Kripa and Prashant would doubtless think the latter. They are in hiding in a safe house, 800km from Delhi. The death sentence passed on them by their kap panchayat remains in place.
Aarti and Sanjoy may be married, but they are still not free. They too are under sentence of death. Yet, even cooped up in their safe house, it is very clear that they are entirely at ease in each other’s company, laughing and giggling, a couple obviously in love. Those who defend the arranged marriage often argue that other cultures fall in love before marriage and out of love afterwards, while in India they marry first and fall in love later.
All Aarti and Sanjay want is a chance to work it out for themselves.
“We love each other and we want to be together. What is so wrong with that? Why should anyone have the right to keep us apart?,” says Aarti, anger flashing in her eyes. “None should have such a mother,” she says.


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Saura Naderi is on a mission to get young girls interested in engineering. She’s not afraid to wear a funny hat to make it happen.
Or, in this case, not afraid to help 20 girls design their own funny hats to wear Wednesday to Opening Day at the Del Mar horse races.
The girls, ages 7 to 16, are from the Mountain View area of San Diego. Naderi, a 2007 graduate in engineering physics from UC San Diego, recruited them from a community center in their neighborhood.
She figured that offering them a class in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science might elicit mostly yawns. Who wants to spend their summer learning about LEDs?
But show them a hat with flashing lights and cute stuffed ponies — sold.
“It’s all about exposing them to engineering, making it accessible,” she said. Females have traditionally been under-represented in high tech majors and jobs. In 2009, women made up just 17.8 percent of the engineering-school graduates, a 15-year low.
The girls spent the past five weeks working on their hats, meeting every Monday and Thursday night for two hours in a laboratory at UCSD.
Each had to draw a picture of what she wanted the hat to look like and what she wanted it to do. Some kind of lighting or motion was required — that’s where the engineering comes in.
They had to price the various components and stay within a $100 budget. They dabbled in writing computer software.
The results seem likely to turn a few heads, even at an event like Del Mar’s Opening Day, where outrageous hats are common. One girl has a hat with small plastic horses that go around in a circle. Another is bringing to life Goldilocks and the Three Bears. One hat pops open to reveal a bouquet of flowers.
Naderi, 29, said the girls will ride to Del Mar in a rented limo. They’ll be wearing matching blue dresses that say “2011 Girls Hat Day” on the front. It could be something they never forget. At least Naderi hopes so.
She was a late bloomer as an engineer, arriving at UCSD as an undergraduate without knowing what a transistor is. (She likens that to a writer not knowing the alphabet.) Introducing girls to the concepts early, she said, may spark a passion that could launch them into college and then a career.
Naderi believes hands-on projects are an effective way to spark that passion. It’s a core principle of the MyLab Program she founded two years ago through a string of partnerships that includes UCSD and the National Science Foundation.
In addition to summer outreach projects for K-12 kids in traditionally underserved communities, MyLab offers workshops and internships for undergraduates during the academic year.
The hat project, funded by local technology firm ViaSat, is the second Naderi has done with kids from the Town and Country Learning Center. Last summer, a handful worked with her on robotics. When she showed them the hat she made for last year’s Opening Day — a frilly green number with a tiny racetrack around the brim — they wanted to make one, too.
At a session last week, the girls were busy decorating their hats. Some draped bright yellow or pink cloth across their wedding-cake shaped creations. Some attached fake trees and butterflies. The air filled with the smell of spray glue and happy chatter.
“Do you know where the scissors are?” one girl elbow-deep in material called out. Another practiced singing into a microphone that will be part of her dancing-chipmunks hat. Several mothers stood nearby, bemused, wading into the chaos as needed.
There was plenty of other adult supervision. Adrienne Milner, a computer scientist at Qualcomm, was among a handful of volunteers from local technology firms. “I think it’s a great project,” she said, applauding the mixture of engineering and the “feminine bent” of the arts and crafts.
She remembered how she got into her field: She needed another college-prep class when she was in high school, and computer science fit her schedule.
“I got into it kind of by accident, and I don’t think it should be by accident,” she said. “I’m glad these girls are getting exposed to some engineering.”
Evonne Yancy said her daughter Jailah Hanna, 7, the youngest in the group, can’t stop talking about the project. “Mom,” she said one day, “I’m learning to build things!”


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From the Evansville Courier and Press, via The Stakeholder:
"...divorce on demand is as dangerous as gay marriage..."
"The picture of marriage is the picture of Christian salvation," said Hostettler, who describes his elected office as a ministry. "Any diminishing of that notion - whether homosexual marriage or any other degradation of marriage - is something we must fight in public policy."
Hostettler is so backward on marriage issues, it's almost hard to know where to begin critiquing him.
First and foremost, the need for divorce on demand was born out of the economic and social inequality between men and women in the civic contract of marriage. At one time, a majority of women spent their lives in the home, raising children and rarely, if ever, working in careers outside the home. This made divorce an incredibly risky proposition for most women; an equality which many unscrupulous men were only too happy to exploit. "Divorce on demand" was an improvement in the structure of marriage and a great step forward for women in general. The concept helped to level the playing field between the sexes in the civic (not the religious) contract that constitutes marriage in the individual states.
Further, the spiritual side of marriage has nothing to do with the right of folks to file for divorce in the United States. Marriage, in the spiritual sense, is as personal and private as any other spiritual belief. Marriage, in the civic sense, is a legally-binding agreement between two individuals and has nothing whatsoever to do with "Christian salvation". Hostettler is blurring the lines between the religious sacrament and the civic institution in yet another blatant attempt by a Christian Fundamentalist to side-step the Establishment Clause.
Hostettler also, in true conservative wingnut fashion, takes yet another poke at the gay marriage issue. I have yet to meet a single conservative Christian that can, in any way, explain how two homosexuals marrying has any impact on any other marriage or the institution of marriage in general. It's just a meaningless talking point that Republican politicians and Evangelical Christian leaders use to keep their supporters distracted from any substantive issues. Look here, conservative Christians: you cannot have it both ways. You cannot claim that homosexuality is wrong because it is a "promiscuous" or "hedonistic" lifestyle and in the next breath condemn two homosexuals who want to live in a monogamous relationship with each other. That's intellectually dishonest.
The last thing of note from the Hostettler article is his purported belief that his elected office is a Christian ministry. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Representative Hostettler is not a religious leader, he's a democratically-elected official of the U.S. government. He was given the privilege of serving the needs of the people within his district, not given a taxpayer-financed platform to advocate for his personal religious views. Whether John Hostettler likes it or not, we are a pluralistic nation made up of many beliefs, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, secular humanist, etc., and while Hostettler may feel free to govern his own behavior according to Christian principals he has no right to use his office to legislate his beliefs onto others.
It's un-Constitutional and un-American. Just ask Mr. Jefferson (below).

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Study: Most Biden Voters Don't Know Scripture
PNW - Politically, Joe Biden's supporters skew liberal. They are more likely to support abortion, favor liberal policies on gender and sexuality, and oppose limiting the size and scope of government. Of course, this is not surprising.
As a candidate, Biden ran on a liberal platform and attracted the support of people who share his political ideology. But while the political leanings of Biden's voters are clear, what do we know about their faith? A new study is revealing.
Earlier this week, the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University (ACU) released a study examining the faith of the 81 million Americans who voted for President Joe Biden.
According to the report, President Biden's base of supporters is 60 percent less likely to hold a biblical worldview, and although nearly two-thirds (65 percent) consider themselves to be Christian, many of their beliefs are contradictory to traditional biblical teaching.
For example, only 30 percent of Biden voters believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God and is without error. Seventy-two percent believe that a person who is generally good or does good for others will merit a place in heaven. Moreover, 79 percent indicate that having some type of religious faith is more important than which faith a person embraces.
These results, as well as other findings in the study, are important because they not only provide insight into the theological beliefs of the average Democrat voter, they reveal widespread deficiencies and misunderstandings of basic Christian doctrine.
George Barna, who serves as FRC's Senior Research Fellow for....READ MORE
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Small ship, casual cruising is the perfect way to explore the picturesque coastal towns and stunning islands of Croatia and on this itinerary you will also have the opportunity to visit Montenegro on an excursion.
Your home from home for seven nights will be the Adriatic Princess, a sleek motorised yacht newly commissioned in 2017, which is ideally suited for the Adriatic seas, taking you to the more off the beaten track ports of calls, some of which cannot be accessed by the larger cruise ships. The Adriatic Princess has capacity for just 40 guests in 19 en suite outside cabins. With no strict dress code, kick off your shoes, relax on the sun deck or in the shaded lounge area, and enjoy the stunning scenery and the company of like-minded travellers as you sail a round trip from Split. You will overnight in Split and Dubrovnik; both old towns being UNESCO World Heritage sites.
You will enjoy two inclusive guided excursions to enhance your experience; a visit to the Mljet Island National Park with a small boat trip to a tiny island on one of the lakes and a wine tasting experience which includes a visit to a local winery where you will have the opportunity to sample some Dalmatian wines. There are additional optional walking tours and excursions available to give you a further insight into the history of the ports visited and to also showcase the natural beauty of the islands.
As the ship is berthed overnight, you will have ample opportunity to take a stroll, dine in your choice of restaurant or Konoba (tavern) and enjoy the evening ambience in cafes and bars. Half board is provided on board; buffet breakfast and light lunches (A Captains Dinner and dinner on selected evenings will replace lunch).
As well as a Cruise Manager and an attentive crew on-board, you will be accompanied by a Prestige Holidays tour leader, who will be on hand to make your holiday completely care free.


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The paper Wing
So I attempted to make the paper wing from the t/shirt issue website.
What they say about the piece:
“The Muybridge installation is a study set out to capture temporal change in 3D.
A three-step sequence of a bird spreading its wings is reconstructed and sculpted into T-Shirts. As the change in the wings’ position is a function of time, each wing’s plumage is reduced to polygonal form, modeled and rigged into successive arrangements to portray the spreading motion.
This study leans on Eadweard Muybdridge’s photography work in the late 1800s, with which he pioneered in the field of capturing animal and human locomotion. Challenged by a bet whether all four horse’s hooves are off the ground at the same time during gallop, he conceived stop-motion photography and later on the Zoöpractiscope, which turned still photographs into dynamic projections.
With the Muybridge installation, shape and fractional motion are interpreted through jersey garments. The T-shirts capture a movement that happens in the bat of an eye and perpetuate it by material augmentation.”
I thought it’d be a good idea to have a look at how to construct a faceted concept. You can see my process in the block of photographs below and then below that you can see how the wing has ben constructed in fabric (not by me). The process is really interesting, however, the maths blows my mind… Anyone good at Geometry!?
here is my version of the wing in paper –
Here are some of the shots from the website
You can see more here http://the-t-shirt-issue.com/home.1.0.html

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Florida-based investment management firm Ark Invest’s CEO and CIO Cathie Wood announced dropping all of the company's PayPal holdings for Cash App. She talked about the news at Bitcoin 2022.
Cash App owned by Block relies on Lightning Network, a layer 2 solution for BTC payments to make operations faster and low cost.
Wood said that such a decision was made as CashApp has a more comprehensive approach toward digital assets. According to her, Venmo owned by PayPal has started to support BTC, but it's more of a Cash App's follower. The latter has generated more than double Venmo’s revenue from almost half the number of users.
According to the latest data from Business of Apps, Venmo has 70 M users and $850 M in revenue, and Cash App has 44 M users along with 2 bln in revenue.
Ark Invest got exposure to BTC in 2015, and Wood thinks the Bitcoin growth has just begun. During an interview with CNBC, she mentioned that institutions are joining slowly, but retail investors and individuals are more actively in Bitcoin.
Wood said institutions are exploring Bitcoin and how crypto would be a part of their strategy. According to her, by 2030, the Bitcoin price would hit $1 M.


Florida lawmaker refiles stalled 2019 bill banning local occupational licensing
Rep. Michael Grant’s 2019 House Bill 3 sought to eliminate all local business regulations as of July 1, 2021, and then require an economic impact analysis and a supermajority approval every two years for any surviving municipal regulations to be reauthorized.
The bill prohibiting local governments from imposing their own occupational and professional licensing requirements was among a raft of 50-plus preemption-related bills introduced during the 2019 legislative session.
Among those adopted were bills prohibiting local governments from banning front-yard gardens, collecting fees from communications providers that use public roads or rights-of-way, and outlawing plastic straws in restaurants and other establishments.
Grant’s HB 3 fell short. After passing three House committees, it was approved by the chamber in an 88-24 vote before dying in the Senate without a committee hearing.
But it’ll soon be a new year and new session and, apparently, both will come with a new HB 3 that largely replicates the “old” HB 3.
Grant, R-Port Charlotte, on Nov. 25 re-filed a 2020 version of last year’s bill – also designated as HB 3. It has not yet been assigned to committees for the session, which begins Jan. 14.
As with last year’s bill, this year’s HB 3 would prohibit local governments from imposing new occupational and professional licensing requirements beginning July 1, 2020.
Under the bill, any existing regulations would expire on July 1, 2022.
Loosening or eliminating occupational license requirements imposed by 23 professional licensing boards on nearly 30 percent of Florida’s workforce – the highest percentage of state-regulated workers in the South and four-highest in the nation – is a priority for Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But Grant, who is House Majority Whip through the 2020 session, told the House Business & Professions Subcommittee last March that mushrooming growth in local ordinances – not just those regulating occupational licenses – is “becoming a statewide problem” by creating a patchwork of intricate and intrusive laws and regulations.
He cited the city of Key West’s bans on suntan lotions that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate because the chemicals could harm the area’s coral reefs as an example of “over-kill.”
“Somebody told me today you’d need a half-a-billion people to jump in the ocean, all slathered in sunscreen lotion to have an impact on the reef,” Grant told the panel.
Supporters, which include the Florida Retail Federation, Associated Industries of Florida and Florida Chamber of Commerce, maintain state oversight standardizes regulation and is more fair because many business owners don’t live in the city or county where their business is, meaning they can’t vote on matters that affect them.
State oversight also transcends jurisdictions, which is a salient factor across many matters, whether it be watershed issues or regulating operations such as Uber.
The Florida Association of Counties, Florida League of Cities and an array of labor unions, environmental organizations and civil-rights groups opposed last year’s HB 3 and are likely to denounce this year’s version as well.
Equality Florida said HB 3 was a threat to local human rights ordinances, noting local laws in Florida prohibit employers in 30 local jurisdictions from discriminating based on sexual orientation. Removing those protections would not only invite lawsuits the state is likely to lose, opponents say, but would make the state less competitive economically.


Associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Born: January 24, 1969
1991: B.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1992: M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
1998: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Differential geometric methods in analytical mechanics Biologically-inspired robotic locomotion in fluids Nonlinear dynamics and control problems in systems biology
Honors & Awards:
2005: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2006: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2007: UIUC Engineering Council Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award
August 2007 – July 2010: Charlotte Research Institute Fellow
American Mathematical Society American Physical Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts Mathematical Association of America Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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Dynamics and Self-Propulsion of a Spherical Body Shedding Coaxial Vortex Rings in an Ideal Fluid
2013, vol. 18, no. 1-2, pp. 21-32
We describe a model for the dynamic interaction of a sphere with uniform density and a system of coaxial circular vortex rings in an ideal fluid of equal density. At regular intervals in time, a constraint is imposed that requires the velocity of the fluid relative to the sphere to have no component transverse to a particular circular contour on the sphere. In order to enforce this constraint, new vortex rings are introduced in a manner that conserves the total momentum in the system. This models the shedding of rings from a sharp physical ridge on the sphere coincident with the circular contour. If the position of the contour is fixed on the sphere, vortex shedding is a source of drag. If the position of the contour varies periodically, propulsive rings may be shed in a manner that mimics the locomotion of certain jellyfish. We present simulations representing both cases.


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Today's been reasonably productive; made sure a major configuration change at work is working correctly (trying to make the mail infrastructure more redundant because the hardware they're using is flaky), then lugged my bike through the subway to a repair shop in northern Prospect Heights (getting the bike through the turnstyles is kinda tricky), while imagining the channels through which the subway runs near my place (in Brooklyn away from downtown, the Q train seems to only go underground when it needs to go under something) being more numerous and having some abandoned channels perpendicular to the train ones being places where people live. This started to balloon outwards into a full story/world, disrupted by the need to hop off at 7th Ave.
The bikestore people (not sure if I reached the bikestore I was looking for but found *a* bike store) showed me how to use a very nice pump they showed me; bought it, filled my bike, and rode back to a nice cafe I passed on the way there, where I am now enjoying milk and granola and some iced tea. The place is called Milk Bar Cafe (620 Vanderbilt). Good atmosphere, comfortable, kind of small, only a few plug seats but I got one. People seem healthy here.
Today's (very small) adventure already had me pass some 5 or 6 other places I'd like to check out sometime. Many of these places are small and probably have a local crowd. It's so nice seeing people walking everywhere. NYC coffeeshop people seem puzzled-but-appreciative that I throw my garbage out and bring my plates back to their bin. Huh.
Last night, I was thinking about dimensions of variability between places I've lived; recently there's been a lot of conversation in my various social networks comparing various cities and neighbourhoods, and I've been seeking out more city comparisons (kind of the same appeal as geeky jokes about operating systems and programming languages, at least partly). One of the things that feels different between NYC and PGH, as part of population density, is the difference in feelings of solitude in public space. If you're not in a building in PGH, it's reasonably likely the nearest person will not be in earshot, which doesn't seem a safe bet in NYC (even very late at night). This is an entirely different submetric of population density from how residences are laid-out. I also long have had ideas of things that make a neighbourhood better (coffeeshops, libraries, parks, bookstores) and things that make a neighbourhood worse (churches, pawn shops, peep shows), walk-friendliness, bike-friendliness, number of trees, etc. Evaluating parts of NYC on all these metrics is challenging because of that very high population-density. NYC does, of course, do pretty well on 24-hourness and quite well on public-transit-quality, but fairly poorly on smelling nice. Another metric: degree of conformity; really splittable into personal, declarations, and dwellingstyle. NYC is not very personally conformist; modern orthodox and spandex-clad runners/bikers are often on the same train, alongside the usual mix of pretty and average folk and people with unfortunate eyebrows or those who are nastyfat. The architecture seems to be varied with little coherent theme, but I don't see a lot of truly tasteless buildings (some small towns I've visited every so often had a few bright pink or yellow houses or other abominations). The general attitudes of New Yorkers seems to be pretty varied but almost entirely devoid of surprise or perturbability; obnoxious person in your train? Move to the next. Stinky hobo sleeping in a train? Bear it or move on. Annoying jesus-freak? Walk around them and keep going. Europe seems, in my experience, to be fairly different; the cities I've seen have a strong social fabric with norms for how people should treat each other, and people who are being jerks are asked to cut it out.
There is a small, dissenting part of me (among all the many other dissenting parts that don't ever get the steering wheel) that's trying to paint NYC as being ridiculous and a waste; that only false valuations of the things cityfolk produce permit cities to exist, and that low-density communities with-farming, intimately tied to what few non-farming-and-other-directly-human-sus
Later tonight, I'll be going to Karaoke with some of the secular humanists in the East Village. Looking forward to it.


Julie Walters Talks Mrs. Weasley, Driving Lessons, More
Aug 17, 2006
The Daily Record has a new interview with actress Julie Walters who gives new insight on her role as Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films. The actress, who will be in Edinburgh next week for the screening of her new film Driving Lessons with Rupert Grint, relates the story about her being worried Mrs. Weasley had been the character to die in the latest book from J.K. Rowling. The actress says:
“A story went around not so long ago that I was an avid reader of the Harry Potter books, and that I rushed to the bookshop every time a new one appeared on the shelves. Well, it’s not quite true.
“What happened was that someone once spotted me rifling through the new book at a store – know what had happened? I’d heard the rumour that one of the characters was going to be killed off by JK Rowling, and I was just checking on my insurance.
“I came to the words ‘Mrs Weasley’, realised that she wasn’t the one who died and felt very relieved as a result. The work goes on.”
“Someone said to me recently that, as Mrs Weasley, I seemed to shout a lot. I said to them ‘Look, if you were the mother of all those boys, and you lived in a house like that, you would shout a lot too. You would have to shout just to make yourself heard’.”
Of working with her co-star Rupert Grint, she says he is:
“… “a very fine actor”, adding: “He has great comic timing, and a terrific screen presence as well as a marvellous sense of humour.
“I love the time that I’m in his company. He is a terrible giggler. He sees or hears something funny, and he’s away. I see his shoulders start to twitch and I’m off too.
Driving Lessons will screen August 26 at the Edinburgh Film Festival and both Julie Walters and Rupert Grint are expected to attend. Rope of Silicon is reporting that the film has been rated PG-13 for “language, sexual content and some thematic material,” but that rating is not yet up on the MPAA website. In the UK, it was rated “15” ahead of it’s September 4 release. The film is also due to be shown on ITV later this fall, and many of you are emailing that commercials for this are already airing on ITV. To see some nice high res pics from the movie and some new posters, check out RupertGrint.net which has them here. Thanks to everyone who emailed, HPFZ, and RupertGrint.net!


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There are some smiles on the faces of punters here in the Football Transfer Tavern after Metro predicted another summer transfer switch.
The publication seem to think that Liverpool are about to launch a £7 million swoop for Manchester City defender Micah Richards.
The former England international is now surplus to requirements at the Etihad Stadium under manager Manuel Pellegrini and has made only 18 appearances in the last two years.
Our punters think that a move could do the defender the world of good in terms of reigniting his career and given how far Liverpool have come under Brendan Rodgers, it is not exactly a massive step down either.
Richards only has a year left on his current deal and Liverpool are confident that they can get the Citizens star for relatively little factoring this in – not to mention the fact that City are keen to allow Richards to leave.
Rodgers has proven to be shrewd in the past when it comes to bringing in players who are unwanted at their current club and reigniting their careers – and we think he might do the same here.
Do you think that Richards will become a Red and rival City for titles going into the future? Let us know your thoughts below.
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Here are some of the highlights: At a basic tech level, the PS4 and PS3 are two very different systems.
The benefits of this are that you won't have to wait for the PS3 titles to install or update.
After all, why pay again for games you already own? There's slightly better news when it comes to whether you can play PS2 games on the PS4.
Sony is slowly adding select PS2 games to the Play Station Store, which you can download and play on your PS4 without having to install any additional software.
One of its most successful predecessors was this series from 2004, which was popular enough...― My Hero Academia opened with Deku's perspective, offering us the beaming optimism of a boy who loves superheroes in a world where superheroes actually exist.
His viewpoint gave us a gentle introduction to this world, and also a fairly myopic one, where Midoriya's own attempts to become a hero were the most impo...
Sony has said this isn't something it is considering at the moment, so Play Station Now is your only solution for now.

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