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Turtles sit. Turtles wait. Turtles never think they're late.
Turtles crawl. Turtles snap. Turtles take a long, long nap.
Turtles listen. Turtles hide. Turtles like to stay inside.
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Григорій Антонович Станісла́вський (Гжегож Станіславський; псевдонім — Равич; ;   —  , Варшава) — київський лікар-хірург і польський театральний діяч, художник-аматор.

Син письменника, юриста і таємного радника Антонія-Роберта Станіславського, брат художника Яна Станіславського, чоловік видатної польської акторки і режисерки Станіслави Висоцької.

Життєпис
Гжегож Станіславський народився 1876 року в родині письменника, юриста і таємного радника Антонія-Роберта Станіславського і Кароліни Станіславської-Ольшевської.

Здобувши медичну освіту, присвятив себе лікувальній справі у Києві, був серед лікарів, що створювали і розвивали знамениту київську школу швидкої медичної допомоги. Проживав у Києві на вул. Малій Володимирській, 43, але часто гостював у свого брата, видатного польського художника Яна Станіславського в Кракові, з яким був у близьких стосунках. Ян багато разів згадував про Гжегожа у своєму «Щоденнику» (особливо в 1907—1912 роках).

1863-1905 років постановка польських вистав у Києві була заборонена царською владою. Гжегож Станіславський був одним з організаторів нелегальних польських вистав.

Гжегож зіграв важливу роль в житті художника Миколи Бурачека. 1905 року під час лікування Миколи він познайомив його з братом Яном. Переглянувши твори Миколи Бурачека, Ян запропонував йому вступити до Краківської академії красних мистецтв, в якій він очолював пейзажну майстерню. Добросердечні брати допомогли Миколі Бурачеку фінансово, влаштували його побут у Кракові і надалі всебічно підтримували талановитого художника.

Григорій Станіславський був серед лікарів, які чергували на рятувальній станції, організованій Товариством швидкої медичної допомоги, яке діяло на основі статуту, затвердженого Міністерством внутрішніх справ. Ще на початку XX століття їздив у кареті швикої допомоги для надання негайної допомоги київським пацієнтам. При цьому він працював навіть в небезпечних умовах, зокрема під час єврейських погромів, про що згадувала як свідок такої події оперна співачка Яніна Королевич-Вайдова.

1911 року Гжегож одружився з відомою на той час актрисою Краківського театру Станіславою Висоцькою, після чого Станіслава переїхала до нього в Київ, де здійснила чудову театральну кар'єру, створивши, зокрема експерименральний театр «Студія», в якому розроблялись принципи К. С. Станіславського.

Гжегож Станіславський, крім своєї роботи лікаря, розробляв під псевдонімом Равич костюми та декорації для театру «Студія».

Крім того, він захоплювався колекціонуванням табакерок, у нього також було багато картин свого брата. За словами Ярослава Івашкевича, який був літературним керівником театру «Студія», Гжегож «був привабливою людиною, але справляв враження делікатного та слабкого» в порівнянні з дружиною.

Своїх рідних дітей він не мав, проте виховував свою пасербицю Яніну Висоцьку (1903—1975), піаністку і клавесиністку, згодом дружину Тадеуша Охлевського (1894—1975), скрипаля, вчителя та музичного видавця. 1911—1919 років Яніна здобувала музичну освіту в консерваторії, яка до 1913 року мала статус музичного училища (училище Київського відділення Імператорського російського музичного товариства).

До 1919 року разом з дружиною Станіславою і донькою проживав у Києві за адресою: вул. Столипінська, буд. 43 (нині — вул. Олеся Гончара). Стіни їх квартири, яка виглядала як маленький музей, а не приватне житло, були увішані картинами Яна Станіславського на тему українських пейзажів і видів Києва.

1920 року з родиною емігрував до Польщі. Працював у військовому шпиталі Варшави.

28 вересня 1921 року він помер від туберкульозу і був похований на Повонзківському цвинтарі.

Примітки

Література
 Ивашкевич Я. Театр «Студия» Станиславы Высоцкой в Киеве // Вопросы театра. Москва, 1965
 Stanisława Wysocka i jej kijowski teatr «Studya». Wspomnienie / Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. — Wydawn. Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1963.

Посилання
  Grzegorz Stanisławski, pseud. Rawicz (1876—1921) // Jan Stanisławskisda.pl
 Stanisławski Grzegorz (1876—1921), lekarz chirurg // Dziennik: Ku Wilnu, 1894—1919 / Ferdynand Ruszczyc. — Secesja, 1994. — P. 186{ref-pl}}
 Lekarz G. A. (Grzegorz Antonowicz) Stanisławski

Хірурги Російської імперії
Польські театральні діячі
Польська шляхта
Персоналії:Київ
Померли у Варшаві
Персоналії:Польський театр у Києві

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This article is about the performing art. For other uses, see Mentalism (disambiguation).
"Mentalist" redirects here. For the TV series, see The Mentalist. For other uses, see Mentalist (disambiguation).
Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances may appear to include hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precognition, psychokinesis, mediumship, mind control, memory feats, deduction, and rapid mathematics. Mentalists are sometimes categorized as psychic entertainers, although that category also contains non-mentalist performers such as psychic readers and bizzarists.
Much of what modern mentalists perform in their acts can be traced back directly to "tests" of supernatural power that were carried out by mediums, spiritualists, and psychics in the 19th century. However, the history of mentalism goes back even further. Accounts of seers and oracles can be found in works by the ancient Greeks[attribution needed] and in the Old Testament of the Bible. Among magicians, the mentalism performance generally cited as one of the earliest on record was by diplomat and pioneering sleight-of-hand magician Girolamo Scotto in 1572. The performance of mentalism may utilize these principles along with sleights, feints, misdirection, and other skills of street or stage magic.
Styles of presentation can vary greatly. Traditional performers such as Dunninger and Annemann attributed their results to supernatural or psychic skills[contradictory].
Some contemporary performers, such as Derren Brown, attribute their results to natural skills, such as the ability to read body language or to manipulate the subject subliminally through psychological suggestion.
Others, including Chan Canasta and David Berglas would make no specific claims but leave it up to the audience to decide.
Contemporary mentalists often take their shows onto the streets and perform tricks to a live, unsuspecting audience. They do this by approaching random members of the public and ask to demonstrate their supernatural powers. Performers such as Derren Brown who often adopt this method of performance tell their audience before the trick starts that everything they see is an illusion and that they are not really "having their mind read." This has been the cause of a lot of controversy in the sphere of magic as some mentalists want their audience to believe that this type of magic is "real" while others think that it is morally wrong to lie to a spectator.
Mentalists generally do not mix "standard" magic tricks with their mental feats. Doing so associates mentalism too closely with the theatrical trickery employed by stage magicians. Many mentalists claim not to be magicians at all, arguing that it is a different art form altogether. The argument is that mentalism invokes belief and when presented properly, is offered as being "real"—be it a claim of psychic ability, or proof that supports other claims such as a photographic memory, being a "human calculator", the power of suggestion, NLP, or other skills. Mentalism plays on the senses and a spectator's perception of tricks.
Magicians ask the audience to suspend their disbelief and allow their imagination to play with the various tricks they present. They admit that they are tricksters and entertainers, and know the audience understands it's an illusion and the magician cannot really achieve the impossible feats shown, such as sawing a person in half and putting them back together without injury.
However, many magicians mix mentally-themed performance with magic illusions. For example, a mind-reading stunt might also involve the magical transposition of two different objects. Such hybrid feats of magic are often called mental magic by performers. Magicians who routinely mix magic with mental magic include David Copperfield, David Blaine, The Amazing Kreskin, and Dynamo.. Notable mentalists who mix magic with mentalism include The Amazing Kreskin, Richard Osterlind, David Berglas, Derren Brown, and Joseph Dunninger.
The Amazing Kreskin has audience members hide his cheques before the show; if Kreskin cannot find the cheque at the end of his performance, he does not get paid.
Eric Dittelman, a mind reader, performed on Season 7 of the NBC talent competition America's Got Talent. He made it to the semifinals, and was the first mentalist to be featured on the show.
Cristian Gog, a mentalist, won the big prize on Romania's Got Talent.
The Mentalist: an American crime procedural television series in which the main character, Patrick Jane, worked as an independent consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation and later the Federal Bureau of Investigation, solving serious crimes by using his skills of observation and his frequent use of his abilities as a former professional mentalist.
Psych: an American criminal comedy television series in which the main character, Shawn Spencer, works as a consultant to the Santa Barbara Police Department as a "psychic detective". Though he purports to be a psychic, the truth is that his exceptional observational skills, amazing vision, and near-photographic memory allow him to portray himself as such.
Now You See Me: Merritt McKinney, played by Woody Harrelson, performs as a mentalist.
Pretham: John Don Bosco, played by Jayasurya, performs as a mentalist in the Malayalam movie released in August 2016.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mentalists.
^ Cassidy, Bob: "Fundamentals of Professional Mentalism". Lybrary, 2007. pp. 7-9.
^ Randi, James (1995). "An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural". St. Martin's Press. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
^ Hamilton-Parker, Craig (December 1, 1996). "Medium with a message". Scotland on Sunday. p. 5.
^ "Jayasurya to play a mentalist in Ranjith Sankar's 'Pretham'". 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
William V. Rauscher. (2002). Mind Readers: Masters of Deception. Mystic Light Press.


California's presidential primaries are blatantly unconstitutional—and neither party is going to do anything about it.
However, if you visit the California secretary of state's website, here's what it says: How are presidential primary elections conducted in California?
• Closed presidential primary— only voters indicating a preference for a party may vote for that party's presidential nominee.
• Modified-closed presidential primary—the party also allows voters who did not state a party preference to vote for that party's presidential nominee.
You don't have to be an attorney to conclude that neither a closed nor a modified-closed primary is an open primary. An open primary means everyone gets to participate. Period. Any form of a closed primary means you only get to participate if the parties let you.
Voters probably think California's flop isn't a big deal. After all, other states have closed primaries. But if you believe in small "d" democracy, the idea that a citizen's right to vote is conditioned on joining a private party should frighten you.
It's important to emphasize that the purpose of the presidential primary, in California and nationwide, is to assist the two major political parties in selecting their nominees for the general election. This is a private purpose.
For all the Republican rhetoric about small government, you don't hear much opposition from the party to a taxpayer-funded nomination process that is administered by the state for its private benefit.
And for all the Democratic rhetoric about having too much corporate control of our government, you don't hear much opposition from that party to its taxpayer-funded and state-administered corporate nomination process.
State Party rules or state laws...shall be observed unless in conflict with this Charter and other provisions adopted pursuant to authority of the Charter…In the event of such conflict with state laws, state Parties shall be required to take provable positive steps to bring such [state] laws into conformity [with party rules]. - Cal. Dem. Party Rules, Art. II, Sec. 2.
Yes, when the private corporate rules of the Democratic Party are out of conformance with state law, under the Democratic Party's charter, it's not the job of the party to conform its rules to the state law. According to the Democratic Party, state law should conform to its rules!
"[T]hese bylaws shall govern and take precedence over the California Elections Code or other law to the contrary." - Cal. Rep. Party Bylaws, Sec. 1.04(A) So, according to the California Republican Party's charter, the party's rules take precedence over the California Elections Code.
Do you believe the infringement on the right to vote stops there? Do you think a party has to follow the taxpayer-funded and state-administered primary election results if one party decides it doesn't like the results?
That's what the party conventions are for. And the nonpartisan public is not invited.


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Home » Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Not the "Narrow Neck of Land"
Isthmus of Tehuantepec: Not the "Narrow Neck of Land"
Since the day the Book of Mormon was first published, the primary assumption has been that the ubiquitous and enigmatic "narrow neck of land" was an isthmus, either the Isthmus of Panama or, later, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
In 1988, Dr. F. Richard Hauck broke with this traditional assumption and proposed that the narrow neck of land was not an isthmus:
One of the traditional assumptions of Book of Mormon scholars and casual readers alike has been to equate the "narrow neck of land" with an isthmus. Because this assumption has been widely accepted without careful examination, it has complicated and confused the numerous attempts made to identify the setting of the book.
He then proposed, instead, that the narrow neck of land was an area within the narrow Pacific coastal shelf of southeastern Mexico and, therefore, could not have been the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He reasoned as follows:
Since two bodies of water flanking a narrow strip of land create an isthmus,1 the "narrow neck of land" as described in the Book of Mormon does not qualify as an isthmus. . . . Careful analyses of all the references in the text to this topographic feature fail to identify the presence of two seas flanking the transportation corridor. The description of a transportation corridor narrowly constricted on the west flank by the sea and on the east flank by a possible mountain barrier does, however, qualify as a land bridge.2
The purpose of this article is to show, from the Book of Mormon, that Hauck's hypothesis is correct. For emphasis, convenience, and accessibility, all Book of Mormon scriptures will be in italics. All emphasis by bolding is the author's.
The Book of Mormon clearly describes a "line," not a neck of land, running from the west sea easterly about fifteen miles or so to some non-sea landmark. This line divided the land Desolation, a part of the Jaredite land northward, from the land Bountiful, a part of the Nephite land southward (Alma 22:32). (See also 3 Nephi 3:23, which states "yea, to the line which was between the land Bountiful and the land Desolation."
Mormon describes a "narrow pass" and/or a "narrow neck" that led from that "line" running by the west sea into the land northward:
The Narrow Pass ca. 67 BC: [Talking about Teancum stopping Morianton before Morianton could get into the Jaredite land northward]: And it came to pass that they did not head them until they had come to [but not in and therefore close to the "line"] the borders of the land Desolation; and there they did head them, by [not in] the narrow pass which led by the [west] sea into the land northward, yea, by the sea, on the west. (Alma 50:34) [They were stopped near the west sea just before crossing the "line"—borders—and going into Desolation.]
The Narrow Neck ca. 55 BC: Hagoth . . . built him an exceedingly large ship, on [within] the borders of the land Bountiful by [near but not in (and therefore close to the "line")] the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea, by [near but not in] the narrow neck which led into the land northward. (Alma 63:5)
Both scriptures describe a transportation corridor leading into the Jaredite land northward. Both scriptures state that this pass/neck that led into the land northward was located adjacent to the same west sea. There is only one area in the Book of Mormon called "Desolation" by the Nephites. Never in the Book of Mormon is the land Desolation mentioned or associated with any sea other than the west sea. The purpose of the "pass" and the "narrow neck" in the above referenced scriptures was merely to get to the Jaredite land northward, not to pass through it to the other side. Never in the Book of Mormon does it state that this pass/narrow neck led to Cumorah, or to the north sea, or to the place of the first landing of the Mulekites.
Alma 22:30 says only that Desolation came into—not through to the other side—"the land that had been peopled and destroyed." It was the sea north of this Jaredite land northward where the Mulekites made their first landing, not at the land Desolation, which only bordered the west sea.
The "narrow neck" in this scripture did not divide anything. The land Desolation and the west-sea land Bountiful did not divide anything, nor did the narrow pass leading by the west sea into the land northward. As will be shown hereafter, it was the "line" located within and crossing the "small neck of land" from the west sea to the east that divided the lands northward/southward.
Mormon also describes a "narrow pass" and a " narrow passage" that led from the same "line" into the land southward. (Readers should notice that this "pass" and/or "passage" also did not divide anything.)
The other narrow pass ca. AD 350: And it came to pass that I did cause my people that they should gather themselves together at [within] the land Desolation [therefore near the west sea], to a city which was in the borders [of land Desolation], by [but not in and therefore close to the "line"] the narrow pass which led into the land southward (Mormon 3:5). [This narrow pass had to have begun at the same line—the treaty line—and therefore it was the same location where the narrow passage described in Mormon 2:29 began. City Desolation was located close enough to cast the dead Lamanites into the west sea. This confirms that the narrow passage was also located close to the west sea.]
The narrow passage ca. AD 350: And the Lamanites did give unto us the land northward, yea, even to [not in and therefore close to the "line"] the narrow passage which led into the land southward. And we did give unto the Lamanites all the land southward (Mormon 2:29). [This was the AD 350 treaty line. If "all the land southward" was given to the Lamanites, then that narrow passage that led into the land southward must have begun at the treaty "line" and was included as part of the land southward.]
Because (1) there was a narrow pass/narrow neck that led by the west sea into the land northward and a different narrow pass/narrow passage that led into the land southward, (2) there was a "small neck of land between" the lands northward/southward (Alma 22:32), (3) Desolation was a part of the land northward and Bountiful was a part of the land southward, and (4) there was a "line"— a day and a half in length from the east to the west sea—between Desolation/Bountiful, then that "line" must have been located within the "small neck of land."
It then stands to reason that the "line" must also have been where the "narrow passes" or "passage" or "narrow neck which led into the land northward" met (Alma 63:5)—one going northward through Desolation into the land northward and the other going southward through Bountiful into the land southward.
This being the case, then the conclusion seems inescapable that "the narrow neck of land," referred to in Ether 10:20, must have been either (1) the same thing as the "small neck of land" referred to in Alma 22:32 or (2) the same thing as the narrow neck or pass or passage that led by the west sea into the lands northward/southward.
In either case, the narrow neck of land and/or the small neck of land could not have been the Isthmus of Tehuantepec because (1) the width of the small or narrow neck of land was only about fifteen miles or so from "east to the west sea" (2) the "line" dividing the lands northward from the lands southward must have begun on the west sea and run in an east-to-west direction, not north to south, and (3) if the "small neck of land between" them was the isthmus, then the land northward would be the Gulf of Mexico and the land southward would be the Gulf of Tehuantepec!
The definitions of "between" and "small" are helpful in understanding this scripture:3
Between: In the intermediate space, without regard to distance; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia; the Delaware river runs between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Small: Slender; thin; fine; of little diameter; hence in general, little in size or quantity; not great; as a small house; a small horse; a small farm; a small body; small particles.
An analogy that seems to help us understand how Mormon probably used these terms—and to understand the nature of the "small neck of land,"—is the human neck. It does not divide the head from the body but connects it. It is not the head or the body, but the neck is different. And it is small and is located "between" them—the head to the "northward" and the body to the "southward." Thus, as stated in No. 3 above, "land northward" would have been the Gulf of Mexico and the land southward the Gulf of Tehuantepec? An impossibility!
If we skewed the isthmus around and made the "small neck of land" between the land on the west—the land northward? and the land on the east—the land southward? then not only would the directions be wrong but the isthmus would not be part of either and therefore the heartland of the Olmec territory would not be part of the land northward or southward. This is another reason why the isthmus cannot be the "small neck of land."
This conclusion is confirmed by Ether 10:19–21, which states the following (remember that the start of the land southward was always at the "line" that began on the west sea):
And it came to pass that Lib also did that which was good in the sight of the Lord. And in the days of Lib the poisonous serpents were destroyed [at the "line" where the serpents had hedged up the way (Ether 9:33), so no Jaredite could get into the land southward]. Wherefore they did [cross the "line" and] go into the land southward, to hunt food for the people of the land, for the land [Bountiful; see Alma 22:31] was covered with animals of the forest. And Lib also himself became a great hunter. And they built a great city by [near but not in that part of] the narrow neck of land [that led by the west sea into the land southward], by [near but not in] the place where the sea [singular] divides the land. And they did preserve the land southward [always defined as being from the "line" separating or dividing Desolation from Bountiful] for a wilderness, to get game. And the whole face of the land northward [from the same "line" including Desolation] was covered with inhabitants. [Therefore, the entire isthmus from that "line" and northward to the waters of Ripliancum (possibly the Papaloapan Basin) was covered with inhabitants, but that part of the "narrow neck of land/small neck of land" from the "line" and southward was covered only with game at that time, ca. 900 BC.] (Ether 10:19–21)
What follows from this conclusion is that the city Desolation and the "place where the sea [only one sea] divides the land" must also have been located within the land Desolation by the west sea just northward from the "line" because there is only one area called Desolation in the Book of Mormon and it borders only the west sea.
Only one transportation passage into the lands northward/southward is described in the Book of Mormon—the west sea corridor.4 These conclusions are reinforced by the fact that the west sea is the only place where the Nephites could have cast the bodies of the dead Lamanites ca. AD 362 (Mormon 3:2).
Understanding the nature of the "line" between Desolation and Bountiful is central and controlling for Book of Mormon readers who are trying to comprehend the geography of the Book of Mormon—especially as they attempt to locate the "small neck of land." Following are all the Book of Mormon references and associated events that geographically relate to that "line" and hence within or very near the small neck of land.
It began on the west sea and ran eastward a distance of "only the distance of a day and a half's journey" —about fifteen miles or so (Alma 22:31–33, Helaman 4:6–7).
It never bordered any other sea.
It was located northward from Joshua, which was also located near the west sea (Mormon 2:6).
It divided Desolation from Bountiful, both of which also began on the west sea (Alma 22:31–33).
The "line" was not the same thing as the "narrow neck of land" or "small neck of land." or the pass, passage, or narrow neck as discussed above because the "line" led only eastward from the west sea 15 miles or so to an undisclosed identifiable geographical feature.
It was not the same as the two passes, the passage, or the narrow neck, all of which did not divide anything but each of which led only into the lands northward/southward:
o "the narrow pass which led by the [west] sea into the land northward" (Alma 50:34).
o "the narrow pass which led into the land southward" (Mormon 3:5).
o "the narrow passage which led into the land southward" (Mormon 2:29.
o "the narrow neck which led into [did not divide] the land northward" (Alma 63:5).
It did not lead into Desolation or Bountiful because the "line" went from the west sea eastward "only the distance of a day and a half's journey" to some identifiable landmark —not a sea but probably the Sierra Madre Mountains (Helaman:4:6–7). Desolation was located, not north or east, but northward from that line. Bountiful was located, not south or west, but southward from that line. Desolation was part of the Jaredite land northward beginning at the "line" (Alma 22:32).
Bountiful was a part of the Nephite land southward, and it began at the same "line" (Alma 22:32).
It was the Jaredite entrance or gate into the land southward. "And they did preserve the land southward for a wilderness, to get game. And the whole face of the land northward [from the line] was covered with inhabitants." Lib built his city by the entrance ['line'] into the land southward to preserve the land Bountiful (Alma 22:31) "to hunt food for the people of the land" (see Ether 10:19–22). The dividing "line"—as opposed to a pass or passage leading into something— between the land northward/southward was always the same "line" that separated Desolation from Bountiful because the line was located within the "small neck of land" that was located between the lands northward/southward.
It was the area where Morianton was "headed" and killed by Teancum ca. 67 BC "by the borders of the land Desolation...by the sea on the west..." (Alma 50:33–36).
It was the area where Moronihah, son of Captain Moroni, took refuge with his armies for two years, ca. 35 BC, while the Lamanites controlled all the land southward, including Zarahemla and all the east-sea locations. "The armies of Moronihah were driven even into the land of Bountiful;" to the "line" (Helaman 4:5–10).
It was the defensive line or a strategic feature that Moronihah "did fortify against the Lamanites from the west sea even unto the east: it being a day's journey for a Nephite, on the line which they had fortified and stationed their armies to defend their north countries (Helaman 4:7; emphasis added). [This 'line' clearly ran almost perpendicular to the west sea and surely not parallel to the west sea because Moronihah used the 'line' to block the transportation corridor]
It was near where Lachoneus and his people (together with the Lamanite and Nephite armies (3 Nephi 3:14) took refuge for eight years (3 Nephi 6:1) while the Gadianton robbers controlled all of the land southward, ca. AD 17–26 "yea, to the line which was between the land Bountiful and the land Desolation" (3 Nephi 3:22–26, 4:1–5).
It was near where Hagoth built and sailed his ships in the years ca. 55–54 "on [within] the borders of the land Bountiful by [but not in] the land Desolation, and launched it forth into the west sea..." BC (Alma 63:4–10).
It was the treaty "line" of AD 350, which treaty gave the Lamanites/robbers all the land southward, including the passage that led into the land southward (Mormon 2:29).
It was the same "line" in which the treaty gave the Nephites all the land northward, from the "line" where "the narrow passage which led into the land southward" began (Mormon 2:28–29).
It was near and to the south of the place where the "sea divides the land" (Ether 10:19–21), because it was located near the entryway into the land southward which entryway was always located at the 'line'.
The length of the line—"from the east to the west sea" in Alma 22:32—was "only" about fifteen miles or so. This was also the approximate width of the small or perhaps the narrow neck of land. This was also the approximate distance as the width of the west-sea land Bountiful, which was "inhabited," according to Alma 22:33, "even from the east to the west sea." Notice that it does not say that the land Bountiful was inhabited from the east sea to the west sea—a distance of about 250 air miles. And notice also that this inhabitation was exclusively by the Nephites because after 72 BC, to which this event is referencing, "all" of the Lamanites had been chased to the south of the narrow strip of wilderness (Alma 22:34).
It was the defensive area near, and to the south of, where the city Desolation was located, where the Lamanites, between AD 360 to AD 375, took fifteen years and five major assaults to permanently force Mormon and the Nephites out of Desolation northward to Jashon/Jordan (the Chivela Pass area) in the year AD 375 (Mormon chapters 3 and 4).
It was also near the place where the Nephites beat the Lamanites in AD 362 and dumped their dead bodies into the west sea (Mormon 3:8)
It seems obvious, and by definition in the Book of Mormon, that that "line" could not have been located anywhere near the Gulf of Mexico. Nor could all of the events and locations mentioned above have occurred anywhere near the Gulf of Mexico or for that matter, anywhere in the United States.
The following map attempts to show how the above geographic conclusions generally fit onto a Google map of the Mesoamerica area. Yellow represents the Nephite areas prior to the AD 350 treaty—exclusive of those Nephites then living in the Jaredite land northward—and the red represents the former Jaredite areas. The Nephite-named land Desolation, which was a small part of the land northward, is represented by the dotted red line.
To emphasize, if the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (which runs north to south) was that small neck of land that was "between" the land northward and the land southward, then the land northward would have to have been located in the Gulf of Mexico and land southward would have to have been located in the Gulf of Tehuantepec!
If the isthmus was the "line," then where is the identifiable "line"—from the west sea easterly—separating the land Desolation from the land Bountiful? And where is the "line" that began on the west sea and ran eastward, not northward, only about fifteen miles inland?5
What the Isthmus of Tehuantepec does separate is the Pacific to the south and the Atlantic to the north. This Isthmus does not divide or separate the lands northward/southward because the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, all of it, is the very heartland of the Jaredite land northward.
All of the above corroborates Hauck's premise that "The Book of Mormon topography described as the 'narrow neck of land' that connected the Nephites' land southward with the Jaredites' land northward was this narrow coastal shelf paralleling the Pacific Ocean."6
I believe (1) that the Book of Mormon requires that the "line" between Desolation and Bountiful defined the width of the narrow or small neck of land, (2) that the small neck of land ran in a northward/southward direction—as opposed to north/south—on both sides of the "line," (3) that the narrow pass/passage led by the west sea from that "line" into the land southward, and (4) that the narrow pass/narrow neck led from that same line, beginning at the same place, running by the same west sea into the land northward. These conclusions are described in more detail in the following proposed map:
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec was not that narrow neck of land. It was not the small neck of land. And the "line" was not located within the isthmus. It is comforting to note that Kirk Magleby is now of the same basic opinion.7 Because the land Desolation, and therefore the Jaredite land northward, began at that "line," then all the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was, in fact, the very heartland of the Jaredites, which encompassed and included all of the heartland of the Olmec.
The above analysis is in compliance with the wording, intent, and directions contained in the Book of Mormon and does not violate the archaeological and anthropological evidence of the area; rather the evidence is corroborated by it.8
1. Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (New York: S. Converse, 1828), s.v. "isthmus."
ISTHMUS, noun: A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland. Such is the Neck, so called, which connects Boston with the mainland at Roxbury. But the word is applied to land of considerable extent, between seas; as the isthmus of Darien, which connects North and South America, and the isthmus between the Euxine and Caspian seas (emphasis added).
2. See F. Richard Hauck, Deciphering the Geography of the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988), 12.
3. Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. "bountiful" and "small."
4. My colleague Ted Stoddard explained this so very well in an email he sent to me August 2, 2010: "For centuries, the only reasonable way to get from Chiapas or Guatemala to Veracruz, Oaxaca, or the Mexico valley was to end up on the Pacific coast and go north through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. About fifty miles into the isthmus, the topography opens up, permitting travelers to continue to Veracruz or to follow trails into the mountains and thence to the Oaxaca or Mexico areas. In a similar vein, travelers from the east wilderness (lowland jungle area of the Peten and Belize) or from the east sea (Caribbean off the coast of Belize) could not travel due west to go through the top of the isthmus because of (1) the mountainous terrain, especially in the Hermounts region at the top of and east of the isthmus, or (2) the marshy lagoons and rivers of Tabasco that made east-west travel almost impossible until the arrival of modern highways."
5. If the "line" was an extension of the continental divide where the Sierra Madre crosses the Chivela Pass, then that "line" did not commence or end on the west sea, and there is no definition of the "line." If the narrow pass was the Chivela Pass, then it did not run by the west sea. If the narrow pass was the Chivela Pass, then everything south of that pass would be the west-sea Bountiful and, therefore, only the northern half of the isthmus would be the small neck of land dividing the land northward from the land southward. Such logic, locations, and directions just do not conform to the Book of Mormon.
6. Hauck, Deciphering the Geography of the Book of Mormon, 12.
7. Kirk Magleby, "Book of Mormon Recourses," http://bookoformonresoures, (accessed May 8, 2015). Finally, someone of the stature of Kirk Magleby has also broken from the traditional narrow neck/small neck of land/isthmus theory and now also agrees with Hauck and Andersen that the "sea that divides the land" is actually on the Pacific coast and that the "line" that separates Desolation from Bountiful is located near the areas of Tonala and Horcones, Mexico. The following map shows Magleby's 2015 position on this issue, which theory he also presented at the October 2014 BMAF conference. The difference between his map and the above is so minute as to be insignificant. I propose that Magleby's fortified line is the same as the line between Bountiful and Desolation. The distance between these two lines is only about four miles, and therefore his proposal is certainly within the parameters required by the Book of Mormon with the result that I can accept what he is proposing on his map.
8. See my article, "Nephites Among the Epi-Olmec," http://www.bmaf.org/Nephites_Epi-Olmec__andersen.
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Youngest Cabinet minister post-Independence, and the credit goes to Vajpayeeji, says Shahnawaz Hussain.
Former Union minister and BJP's national spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain shares some of his personal experiences with former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna awardee Atal Behari Vajpayee in an interview with Yojna Gusai. Mr Hussain earned the title of youngest Cabinet minister of the country post-Independence when he was given the coal portfolio by then Prime Minister Vajpayee.
You are among the few BJP leaders who were considered close to Vajpayee. How will you describe him?
Atalji was a legend who never had any enemies. People like him are born once in a century. He lived for the nation. He always used to say that organisation is bigger than an individual and the nation is bigger than the organisation. Vajpayeeji was my guardian and also a guardian of thousands of BJP workers for whom he was a source of inspiration. Though he is physically not among us, he will always remain with us. The love and respect for him grew manifold in the last few days when the younger generation got to know about him through the media — about the work the party did and is doing and the various initiatives taken by the NDA government during his regime.
What do you think were his greatest qualities?
There were many but one quality that was exemplary was that no one had anything bad to say about him, even in the political circles. Despite having divergent views, different political parties, different ideologies, he had no enemies in politics. He had the ability to easily win over political rivals. Whether a Communist or a Socialist or a leader from any political party, he could convince political opponents that there would be no differences on issues. He was someone who would convey a message in few words, no matter how big the issue was.
Wo badi badi baat aur kadi-kadi baat bhi kuch shabdon main bayaan karte the (In just few words he would convey his message on big and tough issues). He was a great orator, a prolific writer, a statesman and a legend in politics. But above all, he was a gentleman and a very good human being. He touched the hearts of people even if many had never met him personally. That was the reason why thousands and thousands of people gathered to say their final goodbye to him.
You have the title of youngest Cabinet minister in India.
Youngest Cabinet minister post-Independence, and the credit goes to Vajpayeeji. I joined the BJP in 1986 and in '87 I met him for the first time. I was in the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha when Umaji (Uma Bharti) was heading it and I had invited him to a Yuva Muslim Sammelan. He came there but that was the same day the Lok Sabha got dissolved in 1997. But because he had promised that he would attend it, he came and was overwhelmed to see the gathering as we were expecting 10,000 people, but many more came just because Vajpayeeji was the chief guest. Such was his personality and his aura.
After that he asked me whether I would contest the coming election (1998 general polls) from Kishanganj, which I lost but then won the 1999 election. I became the youngest Cabinet minister at the age of 32 in Vajpayee's Cabinet in 2001.
Any personal memory of him you would like to share?
I remember that I used to carry a rosebud in my pocket for him as the SPG would not allow bouquets. One day I could not get the rosebud and to my surprise he enquired about it. He was so attentive about things which we would find small.
He used to come every year to my house for iftar. One time he said something on Ayodhya, which became a major controversy and led to the disruption of Parliament for 13 days. I remember Vajpayee called me after he read media reports that I had some altercation with some Congress leader on his purported remarks on Ayodhya. He then asked me whether I would speak in Parliament on Ayodhya. I said yes, and that was my maiden speech (in 2000) in Parliament.
Which of his government's decision do you think were exemplary?
Many. His concern for the common man was evident in all his decisions, like the Gram Sadak Yojana. It was the Vajpayee government that built roads in far off places in the country. It was him who though of education for all and started the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the "School Chale Hum" campaign.
Definitely. He showed the world India's capability and how he was ready to take a risk for country's security.
He always wanted good relations with neighbouring countries. Our government under him made sincere efforts so that India and Pakistan relationship become cordial, but such efforts need reciprocation from the other side as well.
As a PM and as a BJP leader, what do you think was his biggest quality?
Something extraordinary happened when PM Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah walked behind the carriage in his funeral procession all the way to his final resting place?
It was the greatest and the biggest homage that Vajpayeeji received from the people and the party he nurtured. I don't think anyone had received such a tribute. It showed the immense respect and admiration he received from people whose lives he had touched.


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Hawke's Bay hapū concerned over granting of water consents
4:48pm, Wednesday 11 March 2015
With two water bottling plants in the Hawke's Bay area recently being granted water consent to draw millions of litres of water a year that is destined for the overseas market, it has local iwi and hapū concerned over the numberof water consents being granted to draw from the areas main aquifer.
This site is owned by One Pure International, and is being turned into a 24 hour a day water bottling plant, that will fill around 30,000 bottles of water an hour, with consent granted to draw just over 400,000 cubic metres of water from the Heretaunga aquifer.
Iain Maxwell of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council says "There's no indication at the moment that the takes that in the area where these water bottling plants that suggests there are concerns."
However there are concerns about the amount of water that is being drawn from Hawke's Bay's main aquifer, as another water bottling company Elwood Road Holdings can draw around 900,000 cubic metres a year that is also destined for overseas.
Currently, the Hawkes Bay Regional Council has granted around 1700 consents to draw from the Heretaunga aquifer, in total thats 150 million cubic metres a year. However the council has never had any policy in place that sets a limit on water allocations, a policy the council says it is working on.
The council says the takes are small in comparison to the estimated 1 billion cubic metres stored in the aquifer, but locals iwi and hapū are not convinced.
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Flynn's father worked as treasurer for the Philadelphia Bulletin and then for a textile manufacturer, and Flynn himself studied business administration with a concentration in finance and economics, graduating from Fordham University in 1982.
The next year Flynn worked in Washington, D.C., as a volunteer at Gonzaga College High School. He tutored children from Northwest Washington during the year and also worked in the school's summer program. "Jobs where you don't get paid are terrific," he says, noting that if he had been paid, he might have followed a different career path. Instead he went on to Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, graduating in 1986.
Starting in 1987 Flynn served as a New Jersey deputy attorney general, eventually named as counsel for the commissioner of insurance. In 1993 he joined New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance as a staff attorney and was named senior vice president and general counsel in 2004. He has been in his current position since 2008.
"Leadership and bipartisanship with regard to our business climate are critical, and we've seen success," says Flynn, noting the Economic Opportunity Act of 2013, which is helpful in terms of both retaining businesses in New Jersey and attracting businesses to the state.
Perception studies done by Choose New Jersey reveal that across the country the perception of New Jersey as a place to do business "has improved greatly over the past five years," Flynn says. These studies have also helped Choose New Jersey to precisely target the sectors the state wants to bring in — pharma, technology, and financial services.


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De La Soul's Catalog Is Coming To A Music Streamer Near You
January 3, 2023 - Zayna Allen
Celebrity de la soul
Hip-hop trio, De La Soul is making their way to your headphones very soon! The group has confirmed that after a long battle, their music will be available on streaming services very soon.
The group's music was not cleared to be on streaming services for decades. The cause? Complicated clearances for hundreds of samples and other legal issues. The catalog was acquired by Reservoir Media and will be distributed by its Chrysalis Records.
An announcement on Tuesday detailed the partnership. "The Reservoir and Chrysalis teams have worked with De La Soul, and their record label, AOI, to bring their music to digital streaming services. Reservoir is pleased to share that De La Soul's first six albums, '3 Feet High and Rising' (1989), 'De La Soul Is Dead' (1991), 'Buhloone Mindstate' (1993), 'Stakes Is High' (1996), 'Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump' (2000), and 'AOI: Bionix' (2001), will be available to fans everywhere March 3, 2023, on the 34th anniversary of the release of their debut album, '3 Feet High and Rising."
"We can't believe this day is finally here," the group said in a statement. "We are excited to be able to share our music with fans, old and new."
The Troubles Of Clearing Older Music
The band didn't realize how much trouble it would've been to release their music in the future, during their 1989-2001 run. Back in 2016, De La Soul's Kelvin Mercer, aka Posdnuos, explained the issue to BBC. The samples had been cleared for release in 1989, but their contracts didn't cover digital music, and at the time, who thought streaming services would even exist? Additionally, they sampled several songs; more than 70 on 3 Feet High and Rising alone.
"Our contracts on those early albums said specifically 'vinyl and cassette,'" he said. "The wording wasn't vague enough to lend itself to [new] music technology.
"So once the whole age of digital music came into play, new deals needed to be cut for those entire albums." He noted that Warner Brothers, their record label at the time, didn't want to deal with that.
The group's catalog will be released on March 3rd, 2023. This also falls on the 34th anniversary of 3 Feet High and Rising. Additionally, the group will be digitally releasing their hit single, The Magic Number on January 13th.


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Tunisha Sharma death: Shraddha murder case motivated Sheezan Khan to break up with the Indian TV actress
Tunisha and Sheezan broke up a fortnight before she was found dead inside a toilet
Published: December 26, 2022 12:36 ANI
The police have sent the mobile phones of both Tunisha and Sheezan to the forensic lab, so that the calls and chats between the two can be retrieved to understand what happened between the duo Image Credit: insta/_tunisha.sharma_
In a major reveal by the main accused in TV actor Tunisha Sharma's death case, her former boyfriend Sheezan Khan reportedly told police that he was "so disturbed by the atmosphere in the country that emerged after the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar" allegedly by her live-in partner, that Khan decided to end their relationship, sources said on Monday.
During his first day in police custody, Sheezan told Waliv police that he ended the relationship with Tunisha after seeing repercussions emerging from the Shraddha Walkar case and told his former paramour that belonging to a different community stands in their way as did their age gap.
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During interrogation, Sheezan further revealed that Tunisha had earlier also attempted suicide after they broke up. "Tunisha had recently tried to commit suicide a few days before her death, but at that time I saved her and told Tunisha's mother to take special care of her," police sources quoted Sheezan as saying.
Tunisha Sharma's mother on Monday accused Khan, in her daughter's death case of cheating on her and breaking his promise to marry her as she urged the police not to spare him. Vanita Sharma accused her daughter's former boyfriend of cheating on Tunisha and said Sheezan broke up with the 21-year-old despite promising to marry her.
Releasing a statement, Tunisha's mother said, "Sheezan cheated on Tunisha. Started a relationship with her first, promised her of marriage and then broke up with her." "He (Sheezan) had involvement with another girl, while he was in a relationship with Tunisha," she added. "He used her for three-four months," Tunisha Sharma's mother said, adding that Sheezan should not be spared.
Tunisha and Sheezan broke up a fortnight before she was found dead inside a toilet in a TV shoot set on December 24.
On Sunday, a court in Vasai, Maharashtra, sent actor Sheezan Khan to police custody for four days in connection with Tunisha Sharma's alleged suicide case. Waliv police produced Khan in the court after his arrest in the case for abetment to suicide. The case was registered against him under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code.
Tunisha was found dead on the sets of a TV serial on December 24, according to Waliv Police. They received information that after a tea break, the actress went to the toilet and when she did not come back, the police broke the door open and found her hanging. No suicide note was recovered at the spot by police.
The police have said the reason behind Tunisha's alleged extreme step that ended her life could be her breakup with Sheezan over a fortnight back.
The First Information Report, or FIR, of the case, revealed that the two actors were in a relationship, and had broken up 15 days ago. Tunisha Sharma was reportedly under stress, and it is suspected that's what drove her to the edge, said the Mumbai police.
The police have sent the mobile phones of both Tunisha and Sheezan to the forensic lab, so that the calls and chats between the two can be retrieved to understand what happened between the duo and what drove Tunisha to death after 15 days of breakup," police sources said. The police are now probing the reason behind her alleged suicide.
Notably, police have recorded statements from Tunisha's mother Vanita Sharma, and her maternal uncle.
"Family members are in shock after this incident. Tunisha used to live with her mother in the Indraprastha building on Meera Road. She used to bear all the expenses of the family, but now she is no more. Whoever is the accused should be punished," Tunisha's uncle said.
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Miloje Petković (; born 31 January 1967) is a retired Serbian footballer, who played as a midfielder.

Club career
Petković played football with FK Vojvodina in the Yugoslav First League.

Petković moved to Greece in July 1993, initially joining Greek second division side Veria F.C. He would spend three seasons with the club in the second division before they were promoted to the Greek first division after the 1995–96 season. He would spend two more years with the club playing the top division. In total, Petković made 61 appearances in the Greek top flight.

The 1998-99 season, he signed with Cypriot First division club APOEL, where he helped his team to win the Cypriot Cup. He joined Apollon Athens on a 1.5 year contract at age 33 in December 1999.

Following his retirement, he was shortly hired as a co-coach by Veria in 2007. and by Diagoras F.C. from Rhodes in 2011. where he cooperate with famous Serbian coach Ratko Dostanic

References

External links
Profile at Strukljeva.net

1967 births
Living people
Yugoslav footballers
FK Vojvodina players
Veria F.C. players
Apollon Smyrnis F.C. players
APOEL FC players
Association football midfielders
Serbian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Cypriot First Division players


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Evaluation of the appropriate use of albumin in adult and pediatric patients.
Tanzi M, Gardner M, Megellas M, Lucio S, Restino M.
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The appropriateness of albumin use and baseline albumin usage patterns were studied. Institutional practice patterns regarding the use of albumin were compared to criteria established by an independent expert panel. Fifty-three institutions, all of which were members of VHA or the University Health-System Consortium, participated in the evaluation. Investigators collected data over an eight-week period from the medical records, pharmacy records, and hospital billing data of adult (18 years of age or older) and pediatric (age 1-17 years) patients for whom albumin was prescribed. Data collected included patient-specific information, the prescribing physician's specialty area, patient location (level of care) when albumin was prescribed, primary reasons for prescribing albumin, and details of albumin use. Data were collected for 1649 adult and 23 pediatric patients. Albumin was prescribed inappropriately in 57.8% and appropriately in 28.2% of adults; appropriateness of use was unknown in 14% of the patients reviewed. The most common indication for albumin use was hypotension/hypovolemia (23.9%), followed by bypass-pump priming (16.3%), intradialytic blood pressure support (9.6%), and serum albumin values less than 2 g/dL (8.6%). Albumin was prescribed inappropriately 100% of the time when used for intradialytic blood pressure support, low serum albumin values, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. The most appropriate use of albumin occurred in patients with postsurgical hypotension and hypovolemia (67.8%), nephrotic syndrome (79.3%), non-hemorrhagic shock (44.3%), hemorrhagic shock (51.9%), and cirrhosis and paracentesis (31.3%). Albumin was inappropriately prescribed for 57.8% of adult patients and 52.2% of pediatric patients. The mean number of total grams used by patients receiving albumin appropriately was similar to those patients inappropriately receiving albumin.


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Thibaut Pinot discussion thread
RedheadDane said:
To be fair, he didn't do it all at once.
That we know of.
Tonton said:
Maybe the "Pinot his mentally weak" stuff got to him, he hung on to make a point and silence his critics. That's the only explanation that I can imagine and I don't know how I feel about it. To me, he had nothing to prove. Finishing Le Tour was a HUGE mistake.
Now he can win Tourmalet, Angliru, get the KOM...meh...Majka stuff...
I'm running out of expletives .
He is mentally weak. VERY weak. He is unable to cope with the pressure and always cracks when facing troubles.
All the talk about his strength and resilience... that's just cheap PR.
He didn't face any special adversity. Take Contador or Amstrong for instance and compare them to Pinot. Those were true champions. What adversity has Pinot faced? A non-life and non-career threatening illness? I can't recall any serious fall as well. Pinot has suffered what any average pro cyclist faces throughout his career.
Roku said:
You must not have followed Pinot or cycling very closely, my friend...serious falls, Thibaut had his share beginning with the one when he was 15 that left him with casts on both harms for weeks...many would have quit the sport, he didn't. In '20, down like many in the infamous descent of the Plan Bois, then of course Stage 1 of this year's Tour. A few others come to mind like in the Col d'Allos descent in '15. Finishing that Giro stage with a pneumonia...weak?
Using Armstrong's and Pinot's name in the same sentence..."what are you on?" Not on your bike or watching cycling six hours a day, or you would know better. Cheers!
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RedheadDane
He is unable to cope with the pressure and always cracks when facing troubles.
Yet all his "cracks" in recent years have been brought on by physical factors. The Tour this year; back injury. The Tour last year; leg injury. The Giro two years ago; pneumonia. And neither time he just gave up and climbed off the bike at the first sign of trouble.
Tour this year: Well... he didn't climb off at all.
Tour last year: Rode for around 30 ks despite already being struggling with the injury since - at least - the previous day. Only climbing off when Bonnet convinced him.
Giro two years ago: Finished the entire damn stage despite clearly not being himself. Ended up in hospital.
In fact; when was the last time he lost the GC due to purely mental issues? Of course the most famous incident was the 2013 Tour, and his trouble with descending. However, that was seven years ago, and he worked on that issue. And what was it in 2015? Something about being so shocked at seeing Bonnet crash that he just couldn't focus? Well, I'm sorry if I don't consider being affected by seeing a teammate crash to be a sign of mental weakness.
Thibaut had his share beginning with the one when he was 15 that left him with casts on both harms for weeks...
Was that the one that caused the fear of descending?
BlueRoads
I don't think you need to react to a person who considers Armstrong a "true champion"... Rather be happy he considers him and Thibaut two of a different kind...
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Simurgh said:
What are you on about man? Didn't you know that getting a handlebar in your thigh are irrefutable proof of likely absence of true masculinity, which dictates that one must MAN UP
If Pinot was really a man he would've had a giant penis that the handlebar would hit instead of his thigh.
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Eddy Evenepoel said:
I... don't think that would've caused less issues!
Yes it was. His brother Julien told the story, how it affected Thibaut with regards to high speeds in general, descending, and also how miserable Thibaut was spending the entire summer with casts on both arms.
BlueRoads said:
Of course he was a champion. He overcame an extremely severe cancer and went on to win 7 TDF.
If you don't understand how tough someone has to be to overcome that illness and have such a successful comeback (regardless of any clinic issues) then maybe you're the one who is not worth reacting to.
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Regardless of the clinic issues, there's also the fact that - from what I understand - Armstrong used some rather bullying tactics.
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lenric
That makes him a despicable person. Yet, it doesn't undermine the champion he was.
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I think that everyone here has lost a friend or relative to cancer...please stop patronizing others.
Overcoming injuries or illness doesn't make you a champion as you define it (based on wins: 7 Tours). Look at Froome: will he be less of a champion if he never comes back and never wins another GT? See the flaw in your argument? Cancer survivors are champions, regardless of their achievements after remission.
Riders are champions when they win, but also because they crash, crash, and crash some more over the years, don't throw the towel and keep going at it. That's why I was really happy for Porte and his TdF podium: it was a well-deserved break for a guy who went through the meat grinder so many times.
lenric said:
I have a hard time thinking of someone who massively cheated and bullied his way to the top as a "true champion". But I admit that is a very vague concept and people might have a different understanding of this expression.
Nothing was TRUE about that champion. Maybe Roku meant a TUE champion .
cantpedal
I think his issues are with recovery and, or the willingness to go too deep on stages that cause him problems for days.
I should probably have clarified here; I was talking purely about personality. I'll much rather cheer for someone who maybe doesn't have the biggest of victories - and Pinot's palmares is absolutely brilliant - but is a genuinely nice guy, than for someone who has huge victories, but is a right champion.
Besides; the way some of you people are talking, you'd think Pinot always up and left GTs at the first sign of trouble, which isn't exactly true. Though, I'll admit that in some cases - like the Tour last year - it was probably because leaving was the hardest choice, mentally.
Alexandre B.
Now his GT record is perfectly symmetrical.
Tour -> 4 overall finishes / 4 abandons
Vuelta -> 2 overall finishes / 2 abandons
Giro -> 1 overall finish / 1 abandon
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***... didn't realise he was out.
IndianCyclist
complete season down the drain becos he is mentally "too tough" while his body is not
McEwen2006
In hindsight, what a shame he didn't win the Dauphiné... that could have somewhat saved his tough season.
He needs a breath of fresh air. Either in cycling (in other team), or out of it.
He just - well, earlier this - got a three-year extension. And said that he has no intention of ever changing teams.
Stupid, but whatever.
I suspect he knows what's best for him.
Career-wise, which is the subject, the results are obvious.


Google AdWords and Google Analytics offer a wealth of reporting to help you get the most out of your PPC campaigns, but I am always surprised by the number of reports that don't always get used.
In this post, I am going to share with you various reports from AdWords and Analytics that everyone running or managing a PPC account should not only be aware of, but should be using on a regular basis.
There are seven reports in my list below; so if you were to take one report per day for a week and really go to town analysing the data, at the end of it, your AdWords campaign should be in a much healthier state than it was before. Of course, if you have the time and you want to run and analyse more than one report in a day you can do, but sometimes I do find that if you really want to go in-depth, it is good to break your reporting down.
If you are running a campaign across an entire country, there may be certain counties that don't perform as well as others. Using the Location Report, you can see how each of the counties have performed for an individual campaign.
Export the report into Excel and apply a filter to segment the data to show you the counties that have driven the lowest number of conversions, the highest Cost per Conversion or the lowest Conversion Rate.
I would always recommend that you look at this data over a long time frame to ensure there are no anomalies. Looking back over the last three to six months of data should be sufficient, but this does depend on how much traffic your AdWords campaign generates.
Once you have highlighted counties to exclude, you need to go back to the Location Settings tab and search for each county and exclude them from the targeting list.
If you want to drill down further and look at filtering the data by other metrics in many countries you can go down as far as City, Town, Post Code etc.
NOTE: These reports only work in certain countries; when you go to use the report, you will be able to see if the report works in your location.
There are two ways of looking at the data to see how the different days of the week convert for you. You can either use the report in Google AdWords or the report in Google Analytics. My personal preference is to use the Google Analytics report as it gives you more information and appears easier to read, but I use both reports for different sets of data.
You can use these reports to understand which days of the week perform better than others. It may be that on one day of the week the number of conversions drops off and the Cost per Acquisition (CPA) increases. This will ultimately increase the overall CPA of the campaign. By understanding this data, you can use the Bid Adjustments in Google AdWords to lower how much you are bidding for keywords on that particular day or if the results are really poor, you may decide to pause the campaign on that day altogether.
If we look at this in the reverse, there may also be a day that is out performing all the others – take advantage of this by increasing your bid prices for that day to drive more traffic to the site – this should transpire into more conversions. Obviously, if this is something you set up you will want to monitor the performance to ensure conversion numbers increase.
Note: In Google Analytics (not including my custom report), for some reason the days of the week are shown as numbers, with 0 being Sunday and 6 being Saturday.
I have also set up a Custom Report that allows you to see a lot more data within the one report.
As with the day of the week reporting, there are also two different reports for analysing performance by hour of the day. I would recommend that you use the report in Google AdWords for this analysis as it is much easier to understand the data.
Combining this with the day of the week report, you can really get to grips with how your campaigns are performing throughout the course of a day. Rather than simply making decisions to pause campaigns or lower the bids for campaigns on entire days, you can drill down to see which times of the day are actually performing the worst and adjust the bids down for those time periods instead of across the board.
The Search Query Report has been around for a long time in many different formats. If you are not using this on a regular basis, you are missing out on seriously optimising your account.
Depending on how much traffic you get through your AdWords campaign, it is best to use the Search Query Report at least once a week so that you don't have to spend ages trawling through the data to find what you are looking for. The more often you use it, the less time you end up spending on it.
You should run the report and look through all the search queries for the phrases that have driven traffic to your site that are completely irrelevant. These should immediately be added as negatives to either the account or campaign depending on what the phrase is. By continuously doing this exercise, you will gradually reduce the amount of budget you are wasting on terms that are not related to what you offer.
Likewise, if you have keywords on phrase or broad match, the Search Query Report will also show you keywords that you may not have in your account that have been driving traffic that converts. If this is the case, you want to make ad groups for those terms with dedicated ad text and landing pages to boost the overall Conversion Rate and conversions for the campaign.
As I mentioned above, this is a continuous exercise that needs to be done frequently in order to have a benefit. If you are managing an account for someone else and you haven't worked on it before, this report should be one of the first places you look to see how well optimised the account is.
Note: In the report you can see whether or not you have added or excluded a keyword so you don't have to look through all the keywords, just use the ones without a green or red banner next to them.
For your high traffic and most expensive keywords, it is always best to test their performance in different ad positions. You may think that being in position one will drive loads of traffic to the site and in turn, generate loads more conversions but unless you test this, you could be completely wrong.
In fact, I have seen some research in the past that shows being in position one as generating the most traffic out of all positions but this doesn't always translate into conversions. Position two and three can sometimes return a higher Conversion Rate. This is going to be different for every business though so I would always recommend testing this.
You can use the Keyword Positions report in Google Analytics for this analysis. There are various metrics that you can use for your analysis, but what I like to look at first is the number of visits (sessions) against revenue or conversions generated. The report will show you how well the individual keyword you are looking at has done in the different positions it has been shown. If you see that it is performing better in a certain position, you can adjust your bids to achieve that position more frequently.
Note: Google AdWords used to have a tool where you could specify what position you ideally wanted your ads to appear in but this has now been removed.
To make use of this report, you need to ensure that you have linked Google Webmaster Tools to Google AdWords. If you try to navigate to this report and the two have not been linked, you will not see any data.
When you link the account, be sure to link the www. and the non www. versions of the domain so you can get the maximum amount of data pulled across.
Essentially, what this report does is tell you how your paid search keywords are performing compared to your organic keywords. The number of metrics you can analyse is pretty low in comparison to other paid search reports, but the report is relatively new to AdWords so there is definitely room for improvement.
In the example screenshot below, we can see that 'Oak Bathroom Furniture' is appearing in the organic listings and is generating a fair amount of traffic at a low average position. You could add this keyword to your PPC campaign to see how it works in a higher position. Without using this report, you could potentially miss keywords that could drive converting traffic.
In the next example you can see that a PPC ad is appearing at the same time as the organic listing. You could test reducing your PPC bid to lower the average position and track whether this increases the traffic you receive for the keyword organically. This test works best if you have a paid search keyword and organic keyword appearing near the top of the search results.
Note: Organic data is not available historically so you will only see the data from the day that you link the two accounts. The impression data for organic searches will almost always be higher than the paid searches as with PPC, so you have to consider ad rank, impression share, budget etc.
The final report I want to talk about is the Query Match Type report. You can find this report within Google Analytics, but it doesn't report on all the metrics you really want to be looking at when analysing an AdWords campaign so I have created a Custom Report (link below) that does this.
You often hear people say that broad match keywords tend to be cheaper than exact match and I do believe that in most cases, this is correct. However, I also hear that exact match keywords tend to convert better than broad match keywords, but I have seen a lot of campaigns that don't fit with this trend.
Using the Query Match Type report you can see just how each match type is performing for you. I found using the standard report in Google Analytics that the data wasn't worth much to me, but using the Custom Report, you can look at the match types for each individual campaign and see which are working best for you.
In some cases you may find that your broad match keywords are actually outperforming your exact and phrase match keywords. You can drill down further in the custom report by clicking on Exact, Phrase or Broad to see what keywords are responsible and pause those that don't generate much revenue or drive a higher CTA.
There are so many other reports that you should be running and analysing to make your PPC campaign better. I have only covered seven of them within this post but I urge you to spend time really getting to grips with everything that AdWords and Analytics have to offer.
I have recently filmed a video that looks at Paid Search Reporting and also presented at SES London in February this year on the subject too. The video and presentation slides can be found below.
If you'd like more information on PPC or to see how Koozai can help improve your campaigns, get in touch today.


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But that doesn't change the fact that when faced with the decision to do something that made me uncomfortable, I would often opt out and refer to my introverted personality as the culprit…that way I didn't need to take responsibility for my insecurity.
What I couldn't understand, however, was other introverts who didn't seem to have trouble with the same insecurity as I did. They didn't have any trouble talking to complete strangers…what is wrong with you people?
While I understand that there are different spectrums of the introvert/extrovert line, I couldn't help but feel that maybe I was using my introversion as an excuse. What I discovered was that through my aversion to discomfort, I was missing out on a lot.
Years ago when I began to step up as a leader in my church, it was expected that I would go up to new people and make them feel welcome (uhhh… I have to do what now?) So I sucked it up (some of the time) and made my way fretfully over to a complete stranger and introduced myself, often making some comment about the weather (uhhgg).
The problem is, I really do love people, and I love connecting with them. By not stepping out of my comfort zone I was missing out on relationships and opportunity to encourage those around me, something that gives me an incredible amount of joy. And interestingly, I have found that as I get used to talking to strangers, instead of being clouded by fear and finding nothing to say besides 'gee it sure is hot today', I have been able to engage in more fruitful conversation.
It all began to change as I've stopped using my introversion as an excuse. When I'm feeling insecure, I recognise it for what it is…fear – fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of man. My insecurities are not indestructible even though I made room for them for a long time. But I've found that by standing up to my fear, God has opened up a world to me that is infinitely more satisfying than staying safe. As I allow Him to build up my security (in Him) I have had more opportunity, and well…my life is changing for the better.
Do I still find it hard sometimes? Absolutely, and I don't ever expect those challenges to fully go away. The fact that my energy comes from my alone time, and there is nothing I like more than staring at a wall thinking and processing will never change. But by refusing to settle, I have certainly overcome a lot of my fear.
In the Bible there is a parable about three servants given a certain amount of money (Matthew 25:14-30). Two of the servants invested the money and it grew. The third hid it in the dirt out of fear. That's what I've done for a long time. I've hid my gifts and talents out of fear. That servant ended up losing what he had while the other two gained more. I want more.
If you are an introvert making excuses…STOP. Stop missing out, stop allowing fear to conquer you. Don't let your insecurities have the final say, they don't own you. By working to overcome your insecurities you will find out the depths God created within you.
Ok mother, I hear you! You too, God!!!
Great message — I can relate.


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