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California Democratic Party Sues Conservative College Students In Unprecedented Move
By Peter Van Voorhis
Jul 7, 2017 DailyWire.com
Three members of the Cal State Fullerton College Republicans have been named in a lawsuit backed by the California Democratic Party in retaliation for their work to recall State Senator Josh Newman, who was the pivotal vote in support of April's $52 billion gas tax increase.
The Democrats' lawsuit, which was filed in Sacramento Superior Court last Thursday, alleges that the College Republicans and other conservative activists "misled" voters in their successful signature gathering effort to recall Senator Newman. The suit names Amanda McGuire, Brooke Paz, and Ryan Hoskins (pictured below) as defendants in the suit, for volunteering their weekends to talk to constituents about the cost of Newman's vote to the district's taxpayers.
The recall effort gathered nearly 85,000 signatures in a matter of several weeks, due to constituents' frustration and anger at Newman's vote on the gas tax. The Democrat Party has alleged that recall organizers, which also included dozens of local conservatives of all ages, lied to voters about the true nature of the recall campaign by claiming that the recall would repeal the gas tax.
Brooke Paz, who serves as Public Relations Director for the College Republicans told Daily Wire, "This lawsuit is a baseless attack on the character of hardworking and passionate activists, as well as a shameful intrusion on the democratic processes that are my right as an American citizen."
"As we just celebrated the 241st anniversary of our independence, my God-given rights are being threatened by the California Democrats simply because they disagree with me and my colleagues," Paz continued. "Our elected representatives are supposed to govern by the people and for the people. The people do not want higher taxes, and as proven by the incredible amount of signatures we've gathered for this recall petition, the people do not want Newman."
Once Democrats in the state legislature realized that the recall petition was moving forward at a record pace, they scrambled to develop a number of subversive methods that would stop the lawful recall by the voters. Democrats, who hold a two-thirds supermajority in both the Assembly and Senate, and hold all eight statewide elected offices, worked to change the rules on signature verification, tried to alter contribution limits, and fought for legislation that would push the election further back.
Organizers of the recall told Daily Wire that the Democrat Party is desperate for any way to stop the election by any means necessary, which has a high likelihood of forcing Newman out of office only months into his first term.
Amanda McGuire, who is Vice-President of the College Republicans, asserted that "the lawsuit is a shameful and frantic attempt to silence voters of the district. The intimidation tactics espoused by the California Democrats should no longer be tolerated. It's gone too far when college students are being dragged into court for becoming involved with the issues faced by their local cities. I'm proud to be a part of the party that fights to fix our government on every level."
"This lawsuit is the definition of frivolous, and more than that, an obstruction of the very processes that every Californian should hold dear," Ryan Hoskins, Secretary of the College Republicans said in a written statement. "By naming myself and my fellow club members as defendants on this lawsuit, the California Democrats are attempting to scare us into backing down from this signature gathering effort. They will not succeed in breaking our spirit, and with the support of the California Republican Party, we will fight it in the court of law."
Fred Whitaker, Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, where much of Newman's district is located, echoed the College Republicans' sentiment in a statement to Daily Wire.
"Democrats are desperate to hold on to absolute power – whether it is changing the rules ex post facto on signature verification, or contribution limits, or a lawsuit challenging the validity of signatures – they will stop at nothing to keep absolute power," said Whitaker. "There is no principle left for them, it's only power, and it doesn't matter if we change the rules or ruin the finances of ordinary college students now having to defend their own signatures."
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The Almond Board of California is a diverse group of almond professionals that is advancing almonds throughout the world, maximising the impact of California almonds, and embracing innovation and research. Meet the key staff members who work at the Almond Board.
Vice President, Global Technical & Regulatory Affairs
Julie Adams is Vice President, Global Technical and Regulatory Affairs of the Almond Board of California. Julie joined the Board in 2000. Her responsibilities include monitoring and developing strategies to address international trade policy and technical issues such as food safety, market access, Codex standards, phytosanitary requirements, regulatory changes and other areas which impact worldwide production and shipment of California almonds. She oversees the Almond Board's industry services activities, which is responsible for compliance and food safety programs. Julie has been responsible for coordinating government affairs efforts with State and Federal authorities, including consultations with USDA and global authorities related to import controls and certification programs.
Julie chairs the Nut Processors Working Group of the European Snacks Association, as well as serving as vice chair of the International Tree Nut Council's (INC) Scientific Committee. She has served for several years on the U.S. Agricultural Trade Advisory Committee for Fruits & Vegetables.
Prior to joining the Board, Julie spent over 15 years with the American Peanut Council, based in Washington, DC and London.
Tim Birmingham
Director, Quality Assurance and Industry Services
Tim Birmingham joined the Almond Board of California in 2007 as the Associate Director of Industry Relations/Food Quality and Safety. His efforts are focused on actions that will continue to help address emerging and existing food safety issues, as well as ensure the ability to effectively address and identify issues that impact almond quality. Tim serves as the staff liaison for the Almond Quality and Food Safety Committee and is integral in execution of the food quality and safety program. He manages research efforts in these areas helping to ensure confidence in almonds as a safe, healthy, quality food product. He was integral in the implementation of the 2007 program for mandatory pasteurization of almonds and continues to be at the forefront of evaluation of technologies which may be of use for almond pasteurization. His professional career includes over fifteen years of experience in food processing, product and process quality, process validation, food safety and microbiology. Tim is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, having served in Operation Desert Storm.
Geoffrey Bogart
Principle Specialist, Global Technical and Regulatory Affairs
The grandson of a Modesto farmer, Geoffrey joined the Almond Board in early 2019 after a 15-year career overseas as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. Geoffrey served at U.S. embassies and consulates in Latin America and the Middle East helping U.S. companies access foreign markets. He speaks fluent Spanish, masters Brazilian Portuguese and has just enough Arabic to hail a cab or order from the menu.
Geoffrey is responsible for tackling global regulatory issues that affect almond exports, assisting handlers and traders in navigating the complexities of exporting and compliance with international regulations and health standards. In his duties he regularly interfaces with foreign public officials and private companies.
Geoffrey earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, highlighted by one year of study at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has a master's degree in Public Administration from American University in Washington, D.C.
Geoffrey has two sons and two grandchildren. He and his wife have a farm in Colombia where they grow fruits and coffee. Geoffrey spends his free time playing the drums at local establishments in Modesto.
Emily Fleischmann
Vice President, Global Market Development
Emily is the Senior Director Global Marketing at the Almond Board of California, where she leads the strategy and implementation of the Board's global marketing investment including both consumer and trade activities. She joined the Almond Board of California in 2016, after 12 years in Brand Management at food companies. First, at Kraft Foods working on the Oscar Mayer and Lunchables brands followed by California-based Foster Farms managing the company's Prepared Foods business.
Prior to her career in marketing, she worked in accounting and finance. She honed her analytic and general business skills in roles at one of the Big 5 accounting firms and global finance with Nike and InFocus Systems.
Emily graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a BA in Accounting and the University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler School of Business with an MBA in Brand Management. She relocated to California's Central Valley in 2016 and resides in Turlock, CA along with her husband, son, daughter and their aging Beagle (also known as their first child). Emily enjoys spending time with her family and embracing all the beautiful outdoor activities California has to offer.
Guangwei Huang
Associate Director, Food Research and Technology
Guangwei has worked at the Almond Board of California since 2001 in various roles, most recently as Associate Director, Food Research and Technology. He directs and manages research in almond quality, safety and processing technology, co-product utilization, harvesting technologies, etc., and he conducts trade education events and food professional outreach activities. Guangwei had played an instrumental role in development of the almond mandatory pasteurization rule. The thermal lethality and surrogate microbial challenge validation guidelines that he developed for existing almond processes and new pasteurization processes based on the findings from extensive research are now widely followed by other nut and low moisture food industries. Presently, he is spending more time in finding more value-added options for almond coproducts including almond hulls, shells, and woody biomass, and better solutions to reduce dust during almond harvest.
Before joining ABC in 2001, Guangwei worked for companies in business of dried fruits and nuts, Mexico frozen foods, organic baby foods and almond processing in California. He had also spent about seven years with the China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment to develop national methods and standards for pesticide residues and contaminants in foods before coming to California in 1990.
Guangwei obtained a B.S. degree in sanitary inspection and technology in 1983 from Sichuan University, and M.S. degree in Food Science from University of California, Davis in 1993.
Guangwei is a member of IFT, IAFP and AACC, an Executive Board of Director for Subcommittee of China Snack Foods. He had also served as a secretary and president for CAFS, and Board of Director for CIFST.
Swati Kalgaonkar
Associate Director, Nutrition Research
Dr. Swati Kalgaonkar is Associate Director, Nutrition Research Program and has extensive nutrition clinical research experience. Swati's primary focus is on oversight of ABC contracted nutrition research, public policy analysis and synthesis, and information dissemination in support of the almond industry's global strategies. Additional priorities include identifying current and future strategic needs for almond nutrition research, liaising with researchers, analysing and interpreting results, writing for scientific and review articles, position papers and substantiation documents for USDA and/or FDA, coordinating the Nutrition Research Committee and administering its budget. Swati also travels extensively to represent the Almond Board at US and international nutrition conferences and meetings by networking and giving presentations to health influencers, and other stakeholder audiences.
Josette Lewis
Dr. Josette Lewis has worked in agriculture for more than twenty-five years, spanning government, industry, university and non-governmental organizations. Most recently, she led the Environmental Defence Fund's collaborations with grower organizations, food companies, and policy makers to promote sustainable agriculture practices. Josette led the launch of the World Food Centre at UC Davis, and worked in international business development with Arcadia Biosciences. Prior to that, Josette spent 16 years at the US Agency for International Development. As Director of the Office of Agriculture at USAID, she worked with senior levels of the U.S. government to develop a $1 billion per year global food security initiative. She has served on the US Secretary of Agriculture's advisory committee on Agricultural Biotechnology in the 21 Century, the Foundation for Agricultural Research's Food Systems Innovation Advisory Committee, the James Beard Foundation Impact Program Advisory Committee, and is a member of the board of directors for the International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation.
Gabriele Ludwig
Director, Sustainability & Environmental Affairs
Dr. Gabriele Ludwig has been working for the Almond Board of California for more than 10 years. Gabriele combines her passion for agriculture and the environment with research and policy. As Director for Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, she was instrumental in the development of the California Almond Sustainability Program and continues to encourage a diverse range of research on almonds and environmental issues.
She is currently a participant of the California Roundtable for Ag and the Environment, Board chair for the non-profit Coalition for Urban/Rural Environmental Stewardship and serves on several government agencies' advisory committees. Prior to joining the Almond Board, she worked for the consulting firm Schramm, Williams & Associates in Washington, DC. She received her Ph.D. in plant physiology from the University of California, Davis and her B.A. in Biology from Wellesley College.
Harbinder Maan
Associate Director Trade Marketing and Stewardship
Harbinder joined ABC in July 2005 as Manager, Food Service and Industrial Marketing. In her position, she is responsible for developing and implementing the Almond Board's foodservice and industrial marketing programs, including agency management and tradeshow supervision. Her last position allowed her to spend three years working in the non-profit sector for MedicAlert Foundation in Turlock, California, where, in her role as Marketing Manager, she was responsible for developing and executing targeted disease group marketing campaigns. Prior to arriving in the United States from the United Kingdom, she held management positions in brand marketing and business development for United Business Media, Boo.Com Group, Ltd., and Alfred Dunhill. In addition to an engineering degree from the University of Huddersfield, Harbinder holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Harbinder is fluent in Punjabi.
Sudarshan Mazumdar
Consultant, India
Sudarshan is responsible for driving the strategy, execution and the growth of the almond industry in India. In this capacity, he is entrusted with the jobof drawing out the marketing strategy for India; and leading the advertising, communication and trade stewardship programs.
With over 30 years of experience in strategy, management and brand building, Sudarshan has been working towards establishing the importance of including almonds as an integral part of a healthy diet in India by consistently demonstrating their multiple health benefits through international nutrition research and a network of credible nutritionists, experts and media.
His experience spans across the spectrum of marketing industry, having worked with leading consumer marketing and advertising agencies in the country. He has a deep understanding of consumer research, advertising, Public Relations, trade management. Since 1984, Sudarshan has played key roles in various industries ranging from consumer products, automotive industry and consumer healthcare.
Prior to his association with the Almond Board of California, Sudarshan was the Director for Marketing and Corporate Communications at Fortis Healthcare Ltd. His previous employers also include GlaxoSmithKline, Rasna, J. Walter Thomson (JWT), FCB Ulka and Lowe Lintas. Sudarshan has completed his Master in Business Administration from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS Delhi), one of the top business schools in India; and also holds a Master degree in Physics from St. Stephens' College, University of Delhi.
Richard Waycott
The Almond Board of California's President and CEO, Richard Waycott, joined the organization in 2002. Prior to heading up the ABC, Mr. Waycott worked for over 20 years, mostly in Latin America, in the food manufacturing and agribusiness industries, with extensive experience in the consumer products and B-to-B grains and oilseeds market segments.
Richard's experience complements the other professionals at the Almond Board by bringing strategic leadership to the global development of the California almond industry. Almond production and worldwide almond shipments, as well as the activities of the ABC, have grown tremendously over the past two decades, with Almond Board programs now touching every aspect of the industry's interests.
Daren Williams
Senior Director, Global Communications
Daren joined the Almond Board of California in February 2018 as Senior Director of Global Communications, directing the Board's Reputation Management, Industry Relations and Communications, and Field Outreach and Education programs. In this role, he oversees communications to almond growers to drive adoption of best practices throughout the industry and, in turn, share the positive story with customers and consumers.
Prior to joining ABC, Daren was senior executive director of communications at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, where he led issues and crisis response, media relations and grassroots advocacy efforts for more than a decade.
A native Kansan, Daren began his career on the 1988 presidential campaign of Senator Bob Dole (R-KS). When that effort fell short of the White House, he joined Agri/Washington, a Washington, D.C.-based agricultural public affairs firm, representing clients in the halls of USDA, FDA, EPA, and Capitol Hill.
After 10 years in the Nation's Capital, Daren returned to his Midwestern roots to join the Kansas City office of Fleishman Hillard International Communications, where he provided communications counsel for a wide variety of clients in food and agriculture, health care, and consumer products.
Daren holds a bachelor's degree in English from Ottawa University in Kansas, where he met his wife, Leslie. Daren and Leslie have two grown daughters, Shelby and Haley.
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Rough Week For Satellites
This hasn't been a good week for some satellite makers. Satelites Mexicanos SA's Solaridad I satellite went quiet Sunday, disrupting service to automatic bank tellers, radios, televisions, beepers, and telephones throughout North and Central America. The $250 million Solaridad I, launched in 1993 and expected to last through 2006, now joins the rest of the space junk orbiting Earth, while Satmex works to redirect services for the satellite's 107 clients and commission the creation of a replacement satellite to be launched within the next two years.
Satellite manufacturer and service provider Loral Space & Communications Ltd., which owns 49% of Satmex, is the most likely candidate to build a replacement for the Solaridad I space ghost, which was built by Hughes Electronics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corp. Loral, however, is facing a more earthly conundrum: The company's engineers damaged a Sirius-4 satellite they're building for Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.
Although Loral is responsible for any costs associated with repairs to the Sirius-4, further details on the cause and extent of the damage will not be released until an investigation is completed in September, according to a Sirius spokeswoman. Sirius is building a system to broadcast up to 100 channels of music and talk radio across the United States.
Unplanned satellite outages are rare and usually occur immediately after launch, when few customers are affected, says Ron England, president of media distribution for Media DVX Inc., a privately held distributor of media content. Outages are more likely to affect smaller content receivers and distributors that rely on a single satellite for sending and receiving information. Says England, "Larger broadcasters generally buy transponders on different satellites, so if one goes down there isn't a major interruption to service."


The equity markets are on roll and every punter in every shop is making some money.The madness is still not contagious and hence allows me to a little fearful(even though i am not paid to be so!).
A repeat of 2004 Homeland Investment Act 2004 in the US,when tax rates were temporarily reduced from 35% to 5.25% would lead to a trillions of $ of unrepatriated profits back to the US.Asset prices there are already at record lows and so far no cherry picking has been visible.
Imagine the gush of money that could vamosh from all the emerging markets and quickly and where would it leave all those investors who are rushing to catch the gravy train?India is lucky to have a huge consumption driven economy and the billion strong population would be a handy fallback.
What guts me is the as yet small number of startups and the lack of entrepreneurial streak in my fellow Indians,the bureacrasy,the redtape all the old misnomers still await the unwary.Before I started this blog I had taken a bet with a treasury head of a Bank I shall not name that the Rupee wouldn't fall below 50 versus $ and we turned the corner from 49.30 when Europe threatened a collapse.I still remain a Rupee Bull!


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The dog days of the baseball season are almost over.
August can be a bigger drag than the last 3 1/2 hours of Peter Jackson's latest movie, and can be equally as entertaining.
So as we look forward to cooler weather, pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween and, oh, October baseball, here are some things I'm looking forward to during baseball's stretch run.
No, there's no Justin Verlander to be had this year, but there are plenty of difference-makers on the waiver market.
Bryce Harper being claimed by the Dodgers could have entirely changed the landscape of the postseason. We saw the Cubs make a move for Daniel Murphy while the Cardinals brought back Matt Adams, both for division races.
Could Joe Mauer supply a bat for a team in desperate need of one? Could Adam Jones decide to play for a contender? Who knows? Regardless, the waiver deadline is one of the more important and underrated parts of the MLB season - just ask the Astros.
Listen, it's no secret that I'm not a fan of (your favorite team here). Really, the same can be said about all national baseball writers and editors. We all hate the (your favorite team here).
Make no mistake, epic collapses lead to some of the best content - and stories - in baseball. We revere the great teams; we remember the bad ones.
The '07 Mets. The the '69 Cubs. The 2011 Red Sox. While debates surrounding the great teams rage on, nothing produces better stories and drama than a team in late-season peril after leading a division by 8 1/2 games in August.
Yes, it's selfish and a little hurtful to wallow in others' misery, but at the same time, what brings fans together better than a good, ol' fashioned collapse?
Maybe chicken wings, but that's about it.
Whether you love them or hate them, there's no denying that the Yankees are good for baseball.
Fans can't keep their eyes off the pinstripes, and 2018 has been no exception: Even in a year when the Yankees have consistently been 30-plus games over .500, baseball fans are still talking about them. Are they overrated? Underrated? Are they even actually - gasp - bad?
Well, no, but believe it or not, they have yet to hit their full offensive stride in 2018.
The lineup is without some of its stars: Catcher Gary Sanchez has been out a large part of the season with a groin injury; Aaron Judge remains sidelined with a wrist fracture; Didi Gregorius is on the disabled list with a bruised heel.
Injuries to Gleyber Torres and Greg Bird have also hampered the team, so seeing the Yankees finally get healthy at a key juncture in the season will be fun to watch, for the AL East and for all of baseball.
Sometimes in baseball, making a decision has an adverse effect on a team. Other times, it doesn't. Getting rid of players isn't always a sign of surrender, and firing a manager can occasionally propel a team.
The perpetually frustrating Nationals sit just a game over .500 (64-63) entering Thursday's games and seem to be waving the white flag on their playoff hopes this year after shipping Murphy to the Cubs and Adams to the Cardinals. Washington sits 7 1/2 games back of the first-place, upstart Braves.
But the Nationals still aren't that bad (They're 2-0 since those trades, with both wins of the comeback variety). They have enough talent in the rotation and the lineup to stay in a race, even though those trades make them seem much worse on the surface.
They're not totally out of it, and it's going to take a total team effort - sorry for the cliche - to get there. There's a chance - if Harper can carry the offense on his back as he's prone to do - that we could see a very interesting September stretch from them.
The business of baseball can be as funny as a screen door on a battleship. The transparency of an organization's business decisions has skewed the way fans view teams, with fans often taking the side of franchises and not players. Example: How in the world is Vladimir Guerrero Jr. not a Blue Jay at this point? The answer: Business decision.
In any case, players like Vlad Jr. will get a chance to showcase their abilities and give fans of teams and the sport as a whole a glimpse at the future in September. For bad teams, call-ups can be provide opportunities ar e can use call-ups to inspire hope and reward players for their seasons in the minors. Good teams can For good teams, it's an opportunity to give their everyday players a breather.
What's Michael Lewis up to these days?
The author of "Moneyball" might have his hands full if he's lacking ideas for a new project, because the sequel to his iconic baseball book seems to be writing itself.
The A's, 21-9 since the All-Star break, have proved they're no fluke. They've gone 12-4 vs. AL West opponents over that span and have added pieces to their bullpen to build for a run potentially through October. Entering the day's games on Aug. 21, they were in a tie with the defending champion Astros in the West. They have 19 games remaining vs. division opponents through the end of the season.
Is this not the most typical A's season? Let's not undersell them, though: Third baseman Matt Chapman is a top-10 player, their rebuilt bullpen is among the best in the game, and left-hander Sean Manaea has been a star in the rotation.
Everyone would be thrown for a loop if the A's win the AL West. If nothing else, they can keep it interesting through the end of September.
"Time to spread the word, and the word is … panic." - Ra's al Ghul, "Batman Begins"
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair." - The Joker, "The Dark Knight"
"I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope." - Bane, "The Dark Knight Rises"
If you haven't noticed the theme here, then I don't know what to tell you.
Really, we're in it for bedlam. Chaos. Anarchy. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.
Baseball is at its best when things break down and cannot be contained, both in a game and during the season. Look at Game 162 in 2011, one of the greatest days in baseball history - it's always fun when division races come to a close in the final week or final day. For fans, it makes the long season totally worth watching.
For how rigid baseball is, it's great when the structure is broken. Here's hoping we get more chaos in 2018.


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Comedy legend Sir Billy Connolly says he doesn't fear death
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Comedy legend Sir Billy Connolly has said that his life is slipping away but he does not fear death and that laughter helps him to cope with Parkinson's disease.
The Scottish star said that, at 76, he sees old age as an adventure that will prepare him for his 'next episode in the spirit world'.
He told the BBC in a new documentary – 'Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland' – that he was at 'the wrong end of the telescope of life'.
However, he added there was 'still time to go yet, places to go, new friends to make, new songs to write and sing and jokes to tell'.
The documentary saw Connolly look back on his life, from his early childhood to his hugely successful career.
He said: "My life is slipping away and I can feel it and I should. I'm 75 and I'm a damn sight nearer the end than I am the beginning.
"But it doesn't frighten me – it's an adventure and it's quite interesting to see myself slipping away, as bits slip off and leave me, talents leave and attributes leave.
"It's as if I'm being prepared for something, some other adventure, which is over the hill. I've got all this stuff to lose first, and then I'll be at the shadowy side of the hill doing the next episode in the spirit world."
He added that he sometimes might have a 'shoddy day' but had learned that with a certain calm, he was able to deal with the knowledge that his condition will never go away.
He said: "Sometimes I don't have it. Sometimes I get angry with it, but that doesn't last long. I just collapse in laughter.
"I'm very lucky in as much as I made a bit of a mark, and you think well I must have done something right.
"And that keeps you company when you're older, the fact that when when you were creative, you created well. It accompanies you. It's a great companion.
"You can volunteer to take life seriously, but it is going to get you. You know they're going to win over you. It's harsh. You can either break down and complain about how miserable your life is, or have a go at it and survive. I think that's the basis of it all."
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Finding Your True Calling (and Your Kids')
by Colleen Higgs | 0 comments
Start by Paying Attention to Playtime
We want to work and live out of our truest self. But calling can feel elusive. Like a hunt for buried treasure. I'm unsure it's really a thing. Do I have a calling or is that just for special people? Why is it so hard to unearth?
Deep Gladness
"The place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need".
Frederich Buechner's definition of calling nails it. It's the place I want to work and serve from. But I'm not sure where to find it.
It's uncomplicated in a child. They know what they love. One performs. One creates. Another solves puzzles. Yet another sees the world as an endless science experiment, asking "What happens if I do this?"
"We arrive into the world with birthright gifts…" but we spend our early lives fitting into "expectations,… slots, … images of acceptability". Often, the roles we learn to play move us away from our truest self, says J. Parker Palmer. Vocation is about living within our calling, out of our true self. Distinct from career, which we train for and fit into, vocation is "not a goal to be achieved… but a gift to be received."
I've lost my capacity to immerse myself in "my deep gladness". I'm preoccupied with too many shoulds. Gladness is for holidays and maybe weekends. I've bought into subtle "expectations,… images of acceptability", like:
• I need to be "useful".
• I need to cook from scratch or I'm a bad mom.
• Clutter = domestic failure.
• Skipping a week of writing = creative failure.
• My interests only qualify for leftover time and mental energy. And that is in scarce supply.
The Way We Play
"We worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship." — Gordon Dahl
Like so many responsible adults (39% of Americans), I've bought the lie that leisure exists only as a reprieve from "real" work or to recharge so I can do more work. Our rest exists only to serve our work. (Jan Johnson)
Johnson argues that, "[l]eisure is good and holy in itself…". Play is so crucial that pediatricians are now prescribing play for children!
Photo credit: Xavier Mouton on Unsplash
"Our leisure, even our play, is a matter of serious concern. We can play, even as we can eat, to the glory of God." — C.S. Lewis
What would it look like to believe that? To believe that playing with my kids is as important as writing that piece or making that phone call? To not rush through it because the dishes are calling? To stare out a window?
Reinstating White Space
Creativity and connection happen in the space between action items. In the whitespace.
Juliet Funt says our drive to fill every moment with active work is backfiring. We're stressed, exhausted, and depleted. Our relationships and health suffer. As does our work.
Those moments where we replay a conversation, ponder a problem, stare of into space are whitespace. Those moments are not wasted. Instead, they are where creative problem solving begins.
Even brief moments of reflection help us be more present and less harried. Photo credit: Hamish Duncan on Unsplash
Funt says even brief moments of reflection matter. She's found thirty seconds of intentional reflection before a meeting can change the tone and improve connection. She reflects on who she will meet with and their concerns and goals. She then enters the meeting less harried and more present.
This, I could do. Breathe and pause for a few seconds before the kids return home or the in-laws show up? That could pay dividends. I might ask better questions. Engage more fully.
Recalling Forgotten Joys
Calling is rarely (maybe never) a completely new passion. It's almost always something that brought you joy but has been forgotten. I loved to draw as a kid. You wrote stories. One friend directed plays. Perhaps you sewed, tinkered, whiddled, painted, hiked.
What are you kids drawn to in their free time? Photo credit: Aaron Burden on Unsplash.
Whatever it was, your deep joy isn't new. Only forgotten.
J. Parker Palmer recounts how he recorded his observations about his granddaughter from her earliest days. Her likes and dislikes, her proclivities,… these are all saved in a letter that "will find its way to her in her late teens or early twenties". He explains this is not the answer to who she is, but insight to help her "recall who she has been, with the hope that she will unearth her true self sooner than her grandfather did."
What if our memory books contained fewer details about lost teeth and more insight into our child's true self?
What a gift to our kids! And to us — because, let's be honest, some of those slots kids are forced into are heavily encouraged by us as parents.
What free play is your child drawn to? Is one an artist? sculptor of Playdough? builder? baker? dancer? puzzle solver? What do they love to do when their day is not filled with scheduled events?
How do they interact? Is one the negotiator? the mediator? the creative? the leader?
The Power and Privilege of Parents
Our kids can enjoy their organized activities, but the motives get muddled. They may be following their friends' interests or complying with our apparent priorities.
The activities they are most passionate about will find their way into their unstructured time.
Sidney Crosby practiced shooting on a hockey net faithfully even at age 4. It would appear he really loved the game.
Contrast André Agassi who, after decades as a successful tennis star confessed he always hated tennis. He played to earn the love of a father who could not separate his love of the game from his love for his son.
Clearly, André Agassi was gifted and disciplined, but tennis did not bring him joy. It was a burden. And that is tragic! Let's not burden our kids so.
Training and Reminding
Our children come to us with passions and gifting and it is our privilege to watch them uncover and develop those.
They also arrive with characters unformed, impulses uncontrolled, and skills yet-to-be-developed. We have the privilege of glimpsing their particular personalities and callings. We also have the challenge of guiding and training and parenting.
Photo credit: Michal Parzuchowski on Unsplash
Just because their gifts are in them does not mean they are equipped to sort it all out on their own. It is our challenge to call out those gifts and remind them when they forget.
When the promise of accolades has shifted their focus to other pursuits, when peer groups pull them in other directions — we can help them remember. There's nothing wrong with trying a variety of activities and developing a wide range of skills.
And yet, the world needs people who are fully alive. And fully alive people aren't the ones who slipped into a slot because of the benefits package.
Fully alive people are using their unique gifts to pursue their passions and serve others. They are walking in their vocation and it shows.
If hearing that leaves you discouraged. Fear not. Your expertise is not wasted, even if it's not aligned with your passion. Joshua Becker suggests keeping your day job to pay the bills while engaging in your calling to "pay"/ fulfill your soul — to invest in significance, to influence others for good, to build a legacy, not just a bank account. It could be on the side. It could be in a volunteer capacity.
His definition of minimalism fits here.
"Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts from it." This is not just about stuff. This is about how we spend our time.
Neither you nor your kids have to do all the activities.
When your commitments are burdens, when your kids play three sports and love only one, maybe it's time to cut back. If time to reassess. Put a little whitespace back in your calendar. Maybe you'll unearth some hidden treasure.
Colleen Higgs
Colleen's four kids learned to walk on three different continents. She knows transitions can be overwhelming and writes to help others enjoy the journey and engage in community. Wherever they call home. Visit Colleen at ColleenHiggs.com.
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In contrast, here in the U.S. any mainstream journalist that dares to suggest there are problems with the Gardasil vaccine puts their career on the line. Just ask Katie Couric, who dared to interview the mother of a young woman who died from the Gardasil vaccine. She was forced to issue an apology and have the assistant Surgeon General appear on her show to assure everyone the vaccine was safe. What is not revealed in the mainstream media, however, is that the U.S. government holds patents on Gardasil and also earns royalties from the sale of the vaccine.
In the meantime, countries around the world are taking action to stop the carnage resulting from the HPV vaccine. Perhaps the most high-profile case you will never read about in the U.S. mainstream media is an upcoming Supreme Court hearing in India with a ruling due next month (August 2014). Merck has been charged with fraud and causing the death of young girls in India with vaccine trials due to the development of the HPV vaccine, sponsored by the U.S. organization PATH, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Now, the India Supreme Court will decide on the case. But will the U.S. mainstream media even cover this story? So far, they have not.


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by Gene and June Cordell
(Gene Cordell lives in Indianapolis. His e-mail address is jcorde@attglobal.net. His wife June died in Indianapolis on August 26, 2010 at age 82.)
To the best of our recollection, it was on Easter of 1953 that I first met Marceline and Jim Jones at a Methodist church on Keystone Street here in Indianapolis, Indiana. On the Saturday before Easter, my mother-in-law, Edith Cordell, had answered an ad in the Indianapolis Star for two monkeys which Jim Jones had. When Edith went over to his home to buy the monkeys, Jim and Marceline invited her to come to their church on Easter. Edith asked me, my sister-in-law Carol Ann, and my three children to go with her; my husband didn't go, since he was working seven days a week back in those days.
There were about 25 people at the service. One thing I remember about it was that Jimmy said there were people in the neighborhood who did not want him there, and that some of them had thrown rocks through the church windows.
Edith sewed and made clothes for the monkeys, dressing them up as a little girl and boy. They were really cute. Jimmy liked them too. One thing that is true about Jimmy was that he genuinely liked animals.
This was the beginning of the Jones and Cordell families getting together. Edith invited them over to the Cordell homestead that her father had built. We all had a friendly time.
Jim started up a church at 15th and New Jersey in Indianapolis about that time. My husband and kids, Edith, Carol Ann, and Grandma Cordell – who was still alive at the time – attended regularly. Then our cousins started coming. By then, the congregation was around 300.
In 1957, Jim's church was at 10th and Delaware, but by Easter of that year, my husband and I were noticing things we didn't like, and we started attending another church.
By that time, Jim owned a nursing home that Marceline was running. He also had a job with the county. But he continued to provide services for the needy, such as providing meals for them. My folks lived on a farm, and I brought in eggs to help out.
The last church where he held services before he went to South America was on 17th Street between Park and Broadway. During his two years in Brazil, Carol and Edith went to the church that Gene and I attended, but Jim was writing Edith all the time, telling her he needed money. She was always helping him out.
When Jim returned, he was upset that Edith was attending our church, so she went back to Peoples Temple. She moved with the church when it went to Ukiah that night in 1965. Other people we knew who went with Jim ended up in Jonestown, and dying there. But we know just as many who did not go, and who are still alive.
Carol's kids went too, but Carol Ann did not go at first. When she went out to Ukiah for a visit, Jim wouldn't let her bring any of the children back. Finally, Carol and Bill closed up their home near Whitestown, Indiana, and went out to California. Bill was a guard for the church until he himself became disenchanted with it, and left.
Carol Ann McCoy and her four children – Leandra Renae, Lowell Francis (Bill), Marcenda Dyan, and Patty Ann – all died in Jonestown. It has been so hard for Bill to lose his wife and children. He has since remarried and tried to go on with life, but now has lung cancer. He has just completed a treatment of chemo and radiation. He has had more than his share of misfortune.
Jim Jones stole the lives of some of our family, and the property of everyone else. Everything that my husband's grandfather worked for all of his life, was turned over to Jim Jones. It is all gone.
If we have learned one thing from this, it is to follow no man, but to follow the Lord.
There is a lot we could write about all of this, but we are getting old now, and our lives are getting short. We spend our time with our precious great-grandchildren, and thank God that we did not go with this group. We just hope nothing like this ever happens in our family again.
Beware of cults. This is what my grandmother, Florence Hinshaw Venable, told me when I was ten years old, and I wish my family had listened to those words.
Originally posted on March 9th, 2013.
Last modified on December 31st, 2015.
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25th Anniversary Reflections and Observations


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Q: JQbootstrapvailadtion (or any other validation package) not working with Meteor I am currently looking for a validation method for Meteor and have tried both Parsley.js and jqbootstrapvalidation with the same result. I have added both of the packages but my forms do not seem to use either for validation, instead they show (what I believe to be) the standard meteor "this field is required" pop up.
I have tried
        <input type="email" class="form-control validated" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Email Address" required />

with
 Template.createQuiz.rendered = function () {
$(function(){$(".validated").jqBootstrapValidation();});

}

And pure html
     <form class="form-horizontal">

        Email address

            <input type="email" aria-invalid="true">

Not a valid email address

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Test Validation </button>
</form>

Does anyone have a working example or a tip to get validation with either jqbootstrap or parsley.js working? Much appreciated
Edit:
For parsley I have tried
<form id="demo-form parsley" data-parsley-validate>

  Full Name * :
  <input type="text" name="fullname" required />

  Email * :
  <input type="email" name="email" data-parsley-trigger="change" required />

  Gender *:

    M: <input type="radio" name="gender" id="genderM" value="M" required />
    F: <input type="radio" name="gender" id="genderF" value="F" />

   Hobbies (2 minimum):

Skiing <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="ski" data-parsley-mincheck="2" />
Running <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="run" />
Eating <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="eat" />
Sleeping <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="sleep" />
Reading <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="read" />
Coding <input type="checkbox" name="hobbies" value="code" />

Heard us by *:
   <select id="heard" required>
<option value="">Choose..</option>
<option value="press">Press</option>
<option value="net">Internet</option>
<option value="mouth">Word of mouth</option>
<option value="other">Other..</option>

  Message (20 chars min, 100 max) :
  <textarea name="message" data-parsley-trigger="keyup" data-parsley-length="[20, 100]" data-parsley-validation-threshold="10" data-parsley-minlength-message = "Come on! You need to enter at least a 20 caracters long comment.."></textarea>

  <input type="submit" />
 </form>

And then:
Template.createQuiz.rendered = function () {
    $("#parsley").parsley();
};

A: Create a bootstrap control group and initialize the validation inside your rendered function.
Template
<template name="createQuiz">
  <form class="form-horizontal">

      Email address

        <input type="email" class="form-control validated" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Email Address" required />

  </form>
</template>

Code
Template.createQuiz.rendered = function () {
  $(".validated").jqBootstrapValidation();
};

A: It is almost same response for parsley.js, you just need to add it to the rendered function
Template.createQuiz.rendered = function () {
    $('#yourFormId').parsley();
}

Of course you need to add necessary attributes to your form elements.

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Q: Problem with Boehm gc and mutli-thread program I have a problem when using the Boehmgarbage collector in a multi-thread program.
My main function sleeps, while a thread is performing some allocations and deallocations using the garbage collector.
When a collect() is called by the garbage collector, the sleep of the main thread is interrupted, and the program continues as if nothing happened.
The following source code terminates in 1 second while it must sleep at least 100 seconds :
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define GC_THREADS
#include <gc/gc.h>

void foo () {
    sleep (1);
    GC_gcollect (); // or multiple allocation, that will trigger a collect at some point
}

void * thread_func (void* data) {
    foo ();
}

int main () {
    // GC_init (); ordinarily useless, and does not change anything
    pthread_t id;
    GC_pthread_create (&id, NULL, &thread_func, NULL);
    sleep (100);
    printf ("End \n");
}

The same problem happens, when that is the thread, which is sleeping and the main function that performs the allocations.
I am using the last stable version of bohem gc (namely the 8.0.4), on ubuntu-18.04.
Does someone have any idea of what's going on?

A: The garbage collector uses a number of signals (According to the debugging documentation, SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, and also SIGPWR and SIGXCPU on multithreaded linux setups like you're using) internally, and sets signal handler functions for them.
sleep() will be interrupted when a signal handler is called, and returns the number of seconds remaining before it would have timed out if not interrupted. This will happen if a collection is triggered in mid-sleep.
So, if you want to mix sleep() with the garbage collector, you'd have to use a loop like:
int timeout = 100;
int time_remaining;
while ((time_remaining = sleep(timeout)) > 0) {
  timeout = time_remaining;
}

A more robust implementation uses nanosleep() directly (It's how sleep() is implemented on Linux+Glibc) for better error handling:
struct timespec req = { .tv_sec = 100, .tv_nsec = 0 };
struct timespec rem;
while (nanosleep(&req, &rem) < 0) {
  if (errno == EINTR) {
    // Interrupted by a signal handler
    req = rem;
  } else {
    // Some other error happened; handle appropriately for your application
    perror("nanosleep");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
}

An even more robust version, that won't sleep for longer than 100 seconds because of time used by the garbage collector (Unless time spent sleeping so far + gc time goes over that) uses clock_nanosleep() to sleep until after a given timestamp:
struct timespec req;
if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &req) < 0) {
  perror("clock_gettime");
  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
req.tv_sec += 100;
int rc;
while ((rc = clock_nanosleep(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, TIMER_ABSTIME, &req, NULL)) != 0) {
  if (rc != EINTR) {
     fprintf(stderr, "clock_nanosleep: %s\n", strerror(rc));
     exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
}


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Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off

Module VerifyModule
    Function verify(ByVal verifysolution() As Integer, ByVal verifyguess() As Integer) As Integer()
        Dim bw(1) As Integer
        bw = {0, 0}

        Dim s(verifysolution.Length - 1) As Integer
        verifysolution.CopyTo(s, 0)
        Dim g(verifyguess.Length - 1) As Integer
        verifyguess.CopyTo(g, 0)

        For i As Integer = 0 To holes - 1
            If g(i) = s(i) Then
                bw(0) += 1
                g(i) = -1
                s(i) = -1
            End If
        Next
        For i As Integer = 0 To holes - 1
            For j As Integer = 0 To holes - 1
                If g(j) = s(i) AndAlso g(i) <> s(i) AndAlso s(i) <> -1 Then
                    bw(1) += 1
                    g(j) = -1
                    s(i) = -1
                End If
            Next
        Next
        Return bw
    End Function

    ''Only used for testing purposes.
    'Public Function GetBW(ByVal ail() As Integer, ByVal g() As Integer) As Integer()
    '    Dim whitepegs, blackpegs As Integer
    '    Dim counted(holes - 1), correct(holes - 1) As Integer

    '    Dim checkcorrectindex As Integer = 0
    '    Do
    '        If ail(checkcorrectindex) = g(checkcorrectindex) Then
    '            blackpegs += 1
    '            counted(checkcorrectindex) = 1
    '            correct(checkcorrectindex) = 1
    '        End If
    '        checkcorrectindex += 1
    '    Loop Until checkcorrectindex = holes

    '    Dim currentstep As Integer = 0
    '    Do
    '        If correct(currentstep) = 0 AndAlso ail.Contains(g(currentstep)) Then
    '            Dim countedindex As Integer = 0
    '            Dim foundmatch As Boolean = False
    '            Do
    '                If countedindex = currentstep Then
    '                    countedindex += 1
    '                    Continue Do
    '                ElseIf ail(countedindex) = g(currentstep) AndAlso counted(countedindex) = 0 Then
    '                    counted(countedindex) = 1
    '                    whitepegs += 1
    '                    foundmatch = True
    '                End If
    '                countedindex += 1
    '            Loop Until countedindex = holes Or foundmatch = True
    '        End If
    '        currentstep += 1
    '    Loop Until currentstep = holes

    '    Dim AntallBW(1) As Integer
    '    AntallBW = {blackpegs, whitepegs}
    '    Return AntallBW
    'End Function

End Module

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Songs from "Between Head and Heart" are now available on iTunes.
"Between Head and Heart" is my debut CD. Your iPod will love it! There are ballads (which are my favorite) and some funkier uptempo stuff. I've included songs of mine with themes that I think we can all relate to. I hope you agree.


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Der müde Tod [Destiny]	(Dual format)
Director: Fritz Lang
Der müde Tod [Destiny] (Dual format) quantity
Colour: Tinted
Certificate: PG
Subtitles: English (optional)
Genre: Silent Movie
SKU: EKA70262
2 Discs
Before directing numerous genre defining masterpieces such as Metropolis, M, and Spione, Fritz Lang was already defying cinematic conventions with Der müde Tod (literally, The Weary Death).
A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiancé (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the episodes. Thus begin three exotic scenarios of ill-fated love, in which the woman must somehow reverse the course of destiny: Persia, Quattrocento Venice, and a fancifully rendered ancient China.
Rich in expressionist imagery and featuring innovative special effects work, Der müde Tod has often been overlooked amongst Lang's early work, but has been hugely influential, with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Luis Buñuel citing it as a direct influence on their work. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the film on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time in the UK in a new Dual Format edition.
High definition presentation from the superb 2K restoration
Original German intertitles with optional English subtitles
Score by Cornelius Schwehr, performed by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Frank Strobel
Feature length audio commentary by film critic Tim Lucas
A new video essay by David Cairns
A 44 page booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp; and an original review of the film from 1921


So you have taken the time to write up a blog post and you published it. You may think, "great I am done now" BUT actually you are just getting started.
You can get a lot more mileage out of a single blog post if you republish it on multiple platforms.
Before you start creating your repurposed content do take a few minutes to consider your process and what you want you want to actually create.
There are now three different ways to make videos on Instagram.
3. You can do a video that is 3-60 seconds long in your Instagram timeline.
Since Instagram has the shortest video length availability other than the live version, you will want to make this video a quick summary. Leave enough room at the end of the video to direct people back to your blog.
Note: Instagram videos only allow portrait shape videos. In other words you can't record your videos in landscape on your phone.
YouTube videos provide for a ton of flexibility. You can either record a talking head video (you just look at the camera) or you can create a screencast tutorial (where you make a recording of your screen and you talking).
Both types of videos resonate with people on YouTube but the talking head video is far easier to produce. You can just whip out your iPhone and start recording like I did in the video below.
Note: It is best to make landscape videos for YouTube.
With Twitter you have 2 video options. You can either do a Periscope (live video) or you can record or upload a video. Periscope and recording a video are both functions of Twitter directly from your phone.
Note: The maximum length for a Twitter video is currently 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
You can either do a Facebook live directly from your phone or you can sign up for Be Live and do it from the webcam on your computer.
Even if you don't get many people watching your video live, remember that people can and will watch it in replay mode.
After you release a new blog post send your newsletter lists a quick note alerting them to your latest post. However, add something additional in the newsletter that they won't see on the blog post. It is important to nurture this list and give them a reason to stick around.
If you don't have a podcast of your own this is a great time to try and become a guest on someone else's podcast. Reach out to people and pitch your blog post as a topic. The worst that can happen is that they say no.
Note: Be prepared for podcasters to say yes by having a decent microphone. This microphone is on $67 on Amazon and it is used by some top podcasters in the industry.
You can create a quick power point slideshow or you can even use the free version of Canva to create a nice looking slideshow. If you want to step it up a notch you can hire someone from Fiverr to create you a slideshow.
What republishing ideas would you add to this list?


Here is a link to one of my recordings of PDS to HM webinars. This is very similar to what I would do in a big picture class. I would take a look at this while following along with the Big Picture document to make any notes. Just disregard any of the PDS sales references.


Trade show Magician - John Penman - Making Magic Real!
As an exhibitor at a Trade Show you want your stand to be popular and generate lots of interest and leads. To do this you need an edge that will get you noticed, stop traffic in the aisles and capture visitors imaginations.
The key to any Trade show is getting, and keeping, customers at your stand and gaining new prospects, and few things attract visitors more readily than a Trade Show Magician.
Stop and engage attendees walking down the aisle with some amazing magic.
Deliver a customised, professional, entertaining and informative presentation about the company and its products and/or services.
Filter and pass over the attendees to be registered so that your sales team can capture their data and can have more detailed conversations with them.


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NGC 7817 é uma galáxia espiral (Sbc) localizada na direcção da constelação de Pegasus. Possui uma declinação de +20° 45' 02" e uma ascensão recta de 0 horas, 03 minutos e 58,5 segundos.

A galáxia NGC 7817 foi descoberta em 15 de Setembro de 1784 por William Herschel.

Ver também
Astronomia extragaláctica
Lista de galáxias
Lista de objectos NGC
New General Catalogue

Ligações externas

NGC 7817
Galáxias espirais
Constelação de Pegasus

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Relaciones Panamá-Uruguay se refiere a las relaciones históricas entre Panamá y Uruguay. Ambos países son miembros de la Organización de Estados Americanos.

Historia
Apenas una semana después de su separación de Colombia, el 10 de noviembre de 1903, la recién establecida República de Panamá envió una carta (a través de su Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Francisco Vicente de la Espriella) al gobierno de la República República Oriental del Uruguay, solicitando el reconocimiento diplomático. Los dos estados establecieron vínculos diplomáticos el 28 de octubre de 1904.

El 15 de octubre de 1912 el Uruguay designó a Guillermo Irarrazaval Smith como cónsul en Panamá. Panamá respondió nombrando a Rodolfo Castella como su cónsul en Uruguay. Sin embargo, ninguno de los dos hombres cambió su residencia como su país misionero. Castella fue acreditado como el cónsul de Uruguay en Panamá el 10 de noviembre de 1914, pero como él no ocupó su posición como cónsul el gobierno panameño canceló su acreditación en julio de 1915.

A finales de 1918, Baltasar Brum, Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores y Presidente electo de Uruguay, visitó Panamá. El propósito de la visita es desconocido, pero se organizó un banquete oficial en su honor en Panamá.

Establecimiento de misiones diplomáticas
El 13 de marzo de 1924 el gobierno panameño decidió establecer una legación en Uruguay. El enviado panameño en Buenos Aires, Juan Ehrman Lefevre, fue designado como representante de Panamá hacia Uruguay. En enero de 1925 Panamá nombró a Magín Pons como cónsul honorario en Montevideo.

En enero de 1927 el gobierno uruguayo decidió establecer un consulado general con sede en la ciudad de México, cuya jurisdicción incluía a Panamá.

Referencias


"Old Time square dancing is a great way to have fun with friends, meet new people, and entertain a party. No experience is required; all dances are taught, and dances are chosen to suit the age, experience and tastes of the dancers. Unlike Modern Western Square Dancing, traditional square dancing (and circle dancing, reels and partner dancing) doesn't have clubs, costumes or rules. If you're having fun, you're doing it right." — Zach Hudson. I couldn't say it as well myself.
I don't know how many dances I've called. Hundreds. The first was a disaster, but not one I started. I was fiddling at the County Fair in New Castle Virginia one summer day. There was to be a dance at 2 pm, but the band and caller didn't show up. People were there and wanted dance. I was recruited to fiddle, there was a banjo and a caller, so off we started — only one major problem: the caller was drunk. He called Swing Yr Partner three times in a row and disappeared (head first off the end of the stage). So I stepped to the mike, "Promenade! Swing Yr Partner!" I wasn't much better, but I didn't disappear.
After that I took a cassette player to every dance we attended along the VA-WVa border, and later studied the rhythm & wrote out the dances. Just in case. I called a few in and around Duluth when we stopped there for a couple of years on the way here, and they went well. The first summer here (1981?) I was recruited for a folk festival at Mission Mill in Salem. Halfway through my set I said, "Anybody for a square dance?", set up two or three squares, got two or three musicians to run up with their guitars, and off we went. I started calling a monthly series in Dallas OR, and occasional ones for the Salem Folklore Society.
I zipped right over. The caller had a third of the kids standing in the corner for misbehaving. "I can do better than that!" I was soon signed up for "Artist in Schools" programs — eventually to 40 different elementary schools, for a week or two weeks depending on the size of the school. First an all-school assembly, where I'd explain old time music and play a tune each on fiddle, guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and mandolin. Then off to meet each class one at a time, three meets before the final assembly. Each student learned five different dances, types. For the assembly the six grades would show off different dances they'd learned. I learned too. Several schools called me back on their own in following years, after the Artist in Schools programs fizzled out. I was impressed with a school in Oregon City that had me teach three years in a row; four years later their girls' basketball team were state champs three years in a row! Today teachers are too loaded with test stuff.
Somewhere along the line I took a dance-calling workshop with Sandy Bradley. It was good – the two things I remember: 1) Have Courage! 2) Get there early enough check out the room: you may have to sweep the whole thing with a dust mop before everyone else arrives. I've done it.
Many adult or mixed dances since: monthly series, folklore societies, weddings, parties, NW Folklife, barn dances at Champoeg Park and other working barns, etc. . Sometimes impromptu and unexpected. Have called with various kinds of bands; old time, bluegrass, polka. Most in Oregon, a few in Washington, one in California, those early few in Minn and Wisc. Biggest was 24 squares, at a teacher's convention in Seaside; just three dances, me and Wes for music, but it was fun. Lots of small dances with groups that didn't normally dance, several times with just myself and Wes for the band, or myself and Tim Crosby, many times with larger groups. Sometimes a mixed evening: concert + dance + singalong. Either of those guys can carry the music just fine solo — but the trio would be first choice. I did one whole evening solo, 2+ hours, at the Newell House at Champoeg, when they were celebrating a 150th anniversary and wanted it authentic. It was, and it was fun! Al LePage tried to get me to go to Boston and do the same thing solo, for a Charles Dickens promotion, but he couldn't twist my arm that much. We got Dudley Lauffman to take it on, he lives closer. I can do a long evening without cheat cards, and when doing a series, like the current series at Guthrie Park, try to introduce a new dance each month. I like a big loose dance, with a lot of variety, and may throw in extra little dances, from Little Johnny Brown to the Heel and Toe Polka, etc. My favorite music for dances is the old-time Appalachian sound of fiddle, banjo, and guitar.
Feb 15 – Guthrie Park, Dallas, with Cash & Co.
May 24 – annual concert dance for Deaf School in Monmouth, Wes and I only!


The 2008 elections are not yet completely over and they may not be for a while. But it's not too early to thank each and every NRA member for your dedication and hard work.
I'd also like to let you know where we now stand. Unfortunately, of course, Barack Obama won the presidential race, spending millions to hide his anti-gun record. But there were many more races at play in November.
Further down the ballot, the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) endorsed 23 candidates for the U.S. Senate, of whom at least 14 were victorious—with the outcome of three races still undetermined at press time. NRA-PVF endorsed 248 candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and at least 216 of these candidates won their races.
Your NRA-PVF does not just pick the easy battles. There are groups that endorse only "safe" candidates, but avoid the tough races completely, purely to pump up their winning average. But we get involved in every race where we can make a difference and this year was no exception.
But the evidence to support this claim simply isn't there. In fact, while Republicans suffered significant losses, fewer seats shifted to the anti-gun side. Why? Because many pro-gun Republicans lost to pro-gun Democrats. Unfortunately, anti-gun Senators and House members still control nearly all of the key leadership positions and committee chairmanships in both houses.
In the short run, though, Obama's control of the executive branch will be our greatest danger. Control of the White House comes with a long list of enumerated powers—the veto pen, judicial nominations and control of the entire federal bureaucracy, just to name a few. The enemies of freedom are putting their stock in Barack Obama to carry their agenda—and they have good cause to believe he will, for Obama's transition team wasted no time laying out the very same agenda.
But this was the same Barack Obama who repeatedly stated his "support" for the Second Amendment on the campaign trail. That's because Second Amendment supporters brought change to American politics years before Barack Obama adopted the word as his own.
Over the past eight years, our members and our Association have truly changed politics in America.
This year, in races at all levels, we counted thousands of ads that celebrated a candidate's support for the Second Amendment. And we looked high and low for ads—one ad, any ad, anywhere—that proclaimed a candidate a supporter of gun control. They simply weren't there.
Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, told the media, "We know of no political candidate at any level, in any race, who lost because they supported sensible gun laws." That's because no political candidate at any level, in any race, would admit to supporting what the Brady Campaign considers "sensible gun laws"—including Barack Obama!
Not only did Obama try to hide his own record, he also deployed phony surrogates like the American Hunters and Shooters Association, some of whom made bogus phone calls claiming the NRA had endorsed their candidate.
We countered these frauds with the most comprehensive, integrated effort in NRA's history: to identify, register, inform and turn out our voters. Our post-election polling confirmed that our message reached gun owners, who were not fooled by the Obama campaign's deceptions. But in the end, voter concerns over the economy allowed Obama to win.
We face clear threats to our freedom. The Obama team has wasted no time in discarding his campaign promises and laying out a plan of attack against our rights. Anti-gun veterans of the Clinton administration are taking key positions in the new administration.
The landscape is new, but your NRA has been here before. In the coming months, we'll work with our allies in the Congress—in both parties—to ensure they stand firm on their pledge to defend our Second Amendment freedom and hunting heritage.
And when we walk the halls of Congress to defend our rights, we need to know—and your lawmakers need to know—that you're standing behind us all the way. United, we—and the Second Amendment—will prevail.


Jon was yelling at his dog, Orson, one day. He was telling him to "Lie down" getting louder and louder each time. Carolyn, a dog trainer gave Jon Katz some advice that day. She said, "That wasn't good dog training in there. You're getting angry, talking too much, being too reactive. Face it: if you want to have a better dog, you will just have to be a better goddamned human." Jon took this advice to heart. He realized that Carolyn wasn't really yelling at him, she was just giving voice to a powerful idea - Dogs are blameless. If dogs have problems, it is because we fail to correct them. We are responsible for them. Dogs are often what we make of them.
In this book, Jon tells the story of how he spends an unforgettable winter on his forty-acre farm in upstate New York. When Jon bought the farm he knew he really couldn't afford it but on the other hand, he couldn't really afford to wait either.
Jon tells of his experiences of caring for a very ill donkey, caring for his sheep during blizzards and training a new puppy to herd sheep. He also tells us how his dogs helped him make new friendships. He sums it up by stating "this book is about how several dogs led me to confront my own sense of humanity and challenged me to try to be a better human being. It's about the startling degree to which dogs can enter and alter a human life."
Jon Katz has written a heartwarming book. His story will help people understand the bond between a dog and their owner. If you have read and enjoyed any of Jon's earlier books, you will also like this story. It is filled with his humor, honesty and insight on animals. This book is highly recommended.


This hands on noun practice pack will have your students sorting singular, plural, common, proper, and collective nouns in a version of BANG! called Nouns Down!
Students will identify and sort nouns into the proper category while playing a hands on game. This activity may be differentiated by including all 5 types of nouns in each game or by limiting it to 2 types of nouns per game, depending on your students' needs! There is also a sheet of blank cards for you as the teacher to add your own nouns to your version of the game in your classroom!
This pack also includes noun flip flap books (that can easily be used as interactive notebook pages as well, and practice pages.
Some of these resources are also BUNDLED- . . .


The previous "Star Trek" was enjoyable and exciting, even if it wasn't perfect. As a reboot of the franchise, I give the filmmakers credit for having made the reboot part of the plot rather than just saying, "This is what we're doing now because we say so. Deal with it!" For those who don't know, the previous movie involved a time travel plot that altered the past and created a new timeline, so everything is now new and has an in-movie explanation for being different from the original series. Which was the reason that "Star Trek Into Darkness" was so disappointing.
In this film, the Federation is dealing with a terrorist who seems to know all their military and security secrets and is bent on their destruction. How this ultimately plays out will cause the audience to ask what the point of the reboot was. All this movie did was recycle old plots and characters from the original timeline, so much so that it amounts to little more than lazy writing and a lack of imagination. With a whole new world opened up through the reboot, why did they feel the need to go back to old plotlines?
It gets worse. Not only are old plots recycled, but old scenes are recycled. But they're not just recycled. They are altered just enough that it's not just retreading old stories, but parodying them. In what was supposed to be a particularly serious scene, people in the audience were laughing because the way the scene was recreated was ridiculous. And the deus ex machina ending will leave the audience shaking their head. Handwavium seems to have survived to this timeline.
Admittedly, the movie does have some good action and decent special effects, but not much we haven't seen in the previous movie (aside from the neat effect of a Starship crashing into San Francisco; that was nicely done). If you haven't seen any of the old Star Trek series or movies, this might be a bit more enjoyable, but if you know anything at all about the old series, this movie becomes a bit of a groaner.
"Star Trek Into Darkness" earns 2 out of 5 stars.
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Resting in Emptiness more and more in the last few days.
Thanskgiving is my favorite holiday. I love how it has never been commercialized in the way Christmas has.
I detest the notion of gift giving on Christmas. The entire point of giving a gift is that it is freely done, a spur of the moment thing, for the sheer joy. The fact that we are socialized into giving gifts defeats the whole purpose. How can there can be institutionalized, merchanized spontaneity?
By attempting to generate thankfulness out of gift giving, Christmas only ends up admitting how lacking, how needy we all truly are.
The needniness element of Christmas is inherent to the holiday, it is just wrongly aimed when it comes to the consumerist secular dominant social model we have for the holiday. Christmas is a Christianized version of the indigenous ritual of the Mithraic cult. Mithras, God of the Sun, who go into his lowest point on Christmas. Christmas (Winter Solistice) marks the utter descent of the Light, of the Good, into darkness. But for that reason it is the most hopeful moment, for the dawn begins to shine only after the darkness has reached its apogee. From that moment on, the momentum has turned towards enlightenment.
We are needy at Christmas. We are needy for the Light, for the truth, to be ultimately embraced by the Divine.
Thanksgiving represents the ultimate spiritual value of gratitude much better. We give out of our emptiness and abudance. We share a meal together, we those we love. No gits, no recognition that we are needy. We simply share out of the bounty given us, and expres gratitude for what we already have--what is always already the case. Love, relationships, belonging, food, care, joy, history, connections. The stuff of life. Empty and overflowing. The true wisdom of Christiantiy, manifested in a secular holiday, while our religiuos holiday has become secularized and no longer teaches us anything.


The story of Miss Moses "Mo" LoBeau, who was plucked as an infant from a raft on a raging river near Tupelo Landing, N.C., during a hurricane, will lift your heart and make you smile. You'll be swept away by its Southern charm.
Young mystery fans will like Mo, a sixth-grader. She's bright and resolute and considers herself a natural detective. She jumps in to solve a murder and kidnapping. She also knows when good manners are called for.
Mo was saved by the Colonel, whose car crashed in the storm. He's left with no memory. He and Miss Lana open a cafe and raise Mo as their own in the town of 148 people where everybody usually knows everybody else's business.
The cafe is a favorite eating spot. Mo handles orders and produces peanut butter specials.
A detective arrives from Winston-Salem looking into the shooting of a man there. Then, a cafe regular winds up dead. Mo is concerned her best friend and classmate, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, is the main suspect. She decides they better find the killer.
The story carries notes of poignancy. Dale has an abusive father.
Mo keeps journals of letters she writes to her unknown mother. "Dear Upstream Mother," she starts, asking why she didn't come back to get her, hoping she will someday. Mo also puts bottles with messages in the river seeking Mom.
Mo feels sad she doesn't have a "normal" family, especially when her "Sworn Enemy" since kindergarten, Anna Celeste, calls her "a throw-away baby." Mo learns that families come in different varieties, and that love and caring count.
"Three Times Lucky" is a 2013 Newbery Honor Book, a nominee for the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery and an E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book.
June Weltman is author of "Mystery of the Missing Candlestick" and a Jacksonville mystery writing instructor.


A WELL-CRAFTED knock of 78 from Mubasher Hassan helped Hampstead pick up a much-needed win in the Premier Division of the Middlesex County Cricket League on Saturday.
Having won the toss, skipper Liam Hughes sent his troops into bat first at their home ground in Lymington Road, West Hampstead, as they went in search of a vital victory against Brondesbury, having lost their previous four league outings.
It looked like it was going to be a long afternoon for the hosts when opener George Adair was caught by Mohammed Rizvi off the bowling of Sam Smith, departing with just two runs to his name.
Fellow opener Garth Davson was soon following his team-mate back to the dressing room after he was dismissed LBW by Smith having scored just 12.
And the visitors didn't have to wait long before claiming another scalp as Steve Clark managed just three runs before being bowled by Adam Wilson, leaving Hampstead struggling on 38-3.
The boys from NW3 desperately needed some stability, and it arrived courtesy of a partnership between Sam Evison and Hassan – the pair adding over 40 runs to the total before being separated.
Evison scored 46 off 60 balls, including nine fours, before being caught by Smith off Wilson's bowling. But it was Hassan's innings of 78 off 92 balls, a knock which, like Evison's, saw the batsman find the boundary nine times, that started to ignite belief that a home win was looming.
Hassan was eventually bowled out by Smith, but not before helping his team recover from a bad start to reach almost 200 runs.
With wicketkeeper Ollie Steele showing his skills with the bat late on to score 46 off 74 balls, Hampstead managed to find their way to 282 before being dismissed in the 66th over.
The impressive Smith, who ended with figures of 3-87 with the ball in his hand, did his best to drive Brondesbury to victory as he came in middle order to score 71 off 73 balls, a rapid knock that included 11 fours and a six.
But when he was bowled by Will Roberts, the away side's chances of claiming the win went with him.
Instead it was the Hampstead bowlers who came out on top, with Roberts taking four wickets at the expense of just 51 runs, while Clark (2-23) and Chris Beaumont-Dark (2-20) took two wickets each as Brondesbury were bowled out for 174.
Meanwhile, North Middlesex now find themselves 17 points behind league leaders Ealing after suffering a three-wicket defeat in their home match against Stanmore.
Having been put into bat first, North Midd's innings lasted less than 35 overs as they were bowled out for 154. A score of 57 from the in-form Evan Flowers gave the hosts a glimmer of hope of taking something from the game in a low-scoring encounter at their Park Road ground.
Those hopes were dashed, however, when Jason Shield and Kush Patel hit knocks of 46 and 40 respectively to help Stanmore to a winning score of 155-7.


As you probably already know, it is really not good push present etiquette to come out and ask your wife if she wants to receive something. First, most are going to say that they don't "need" anything while in their mind they are beating you over the head with a frying pan, hoping you can read between the lines. Also, if they have to tell you that they want something, it pretty much ruins the element of surprise for them. Even if they assume that you are shopping for one, they really don't know the mission is complete until they see the pretty bow.
So, what do you do if you are really not sure? Maybe you feel as though she will be mad that you spent money on her when things are needed for the baby, but if you don't, then she will be disappointed. It is hard being in this situation, but you are not the first person to have to learn to read the subtle hints.
When you come home from work, golfing or the gym, does there always seem to be a magazine open to a picture of jewelry or something similar? You probably think nothing of it and just move it out of your way, but it is there for a reason. If you start seeing magazines open on the kitchen table, coffee table and even on the nightstand by your alarm clock, she is trying really hard to make it easy on you.
Does she consistently leave the browser on the computer open to a shopping website? Perhaps if you actually take notice of the site without clicking out of it, you will see that it may even be a page full of push presents! Alternatively, it could be left on a site that specializes in engraving like Things Remembered. This will tell you that she really wants something personalized.
Why does she come and sit right next to you while she is on the phone when you are trying desperately to catch the end of the game on TV? Well, before you completely block out what she is talking about, maybe you should keep one ear on her. She may be talking about a push gift that one of her friends received, and there is a good chance that this is an imaginary friend she is referring to.
When you are walking through the mall, is she pointing and saying how much she would love to have something? Do you need her to hold our hand and drag you to the register? Women don't strategically walk you past a specific store that is not in the direction you are supposed to be going, just so they can point something out for no reason. Make a mental note and go back for it without her.
It is not bad push present etiquette to ask her mom, sister or best friend if she has mentioned that she wants something. If anyone would know, it would be them. They may even take mercy on you and go with you to pick something out to make sure you get the right thing!