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59. The "Short Hair" Radical: 彡
When I last went for a haircut, I witnessed an epic rant. The customer had arrived on time for her 11:00 appointment, only to learn that her stylist would be 30 minutes late—and would be making a stop before arriving.
"That's the rudest thing I've ever heard," the customer yelled at the receptionist. "She's already late and she's making a stop? Is her time more valuable than mine? An appointment is a contract, and she breached that contract. I'm having 20 guests for dinner at 6:00, and I have to put something in the oven by 12:30. I'm never coming back here. She's already late and she's making a stop first? That's the rudest thing I've ever heard. An appointment is a contract...."
Round and round she went for what turned out to be 40 minutes, because the stylist arrived even later than predicted. The receptionist repeatedly apologized, then tried to soothe the customer with this: "I'm sure you'll be out of here in no time because you have short hair, and it shouldn't take long."
The woman flew off in a new direction: "Are you saying that because I have short hair, my time is less valuable than everyone else's?"
Yes, yes, that's exactly what he was saying. In fact, short hair makes a person practically worthless.
In the Joyo kanji world, the "short hair" radical is actually more valuable than its cousin, the "long hair" radical 髟 (radical 190). I say that because 髟 appears in just one Joyo kanji, 髪 (1706: hair), whereas the "short hair" radical 彡 is on duty in five of them, including these:
形 (104: shape)
彩 (1290: color; to paint)
彫 (1590: to carve, sculpt, chisel)
As it happens, 形 (104) and 彫 (1590) both pop up in signs at a Nagoya Castle exhibit on regional toys:
Our radical appears in 人形 (にんぎょう: doll).
Radical 59 is the last bit of 一刀彫 (いっとうぼり: one-knife carving).
By the way, with the yomi of しゃち, the non-Joyo 鯱 represents a killer whale. If you instead read the character as しゃちほこ, then you have a a mythical animal with the body of a fish, the head of a tiger (or lion or dragon), and a menacing tail held high.
The Names of Radical 59
The Japanese have a few names for our radical:
さんづくり (彡旁), when the radical is on the right side of a kanji
けかざり (毛飾り: hair ornament)
かみかざり (髪飾り: hair ornament)
Because radical 59 is always on the right in Joyo kanji (as opposed to its location in the non-Joyo characters 彡 and 彦), we'll go with さんづくり.
Incidentally, Nelson (who prefers to call this radical かみかざり) says that さんづくり means "right-hand 'three.'" However, the さん actually corresponds to 彡, not 三 (three), though of course the latter would have been quite fitting for this three-stroke radical. And what does 彡 mean as an autonomous kanji? Ironically, Nelson defines it as "long-haired"!
In English, one can refer to the radical as "short hair," "hair ornament," or simply "hair." Obviously, we're using the first option.
Look what happens to our radical in 彫 here. The typically distinct strokes have become connected, as if the brush never left the board.
In the name of this crafts store, 彫刻 (ちょうこく) means "carving; engraving; sculpture," whereas -堂 (-どう) is a suffix attached to the shop name.
Role of the Radical
Why are there short hairs in any kanji? Actually, perhaps there aren't.
Henshall defines our radical a bit differently, saying in his analysis of 顔 (93: face) that 彡 means "hair," consisting of "three delicate hairs." This radical sometimes means "delicate" and by extension "attractive," he adds. (Note that the on-duty radical in 顔 is 頁, which is radical 181, "big shell.")
Similarly, Kanjigen defines the autonomous kanji 彡 as "ornament made of threads or hair; pattern" and notes that the radical 彡 represents an "ornament" or "pattern" in various characters.
The following etymologies from Henshall generally reflect 彡 as "pattern":
The left side means "pattern" or "frame," and our radical means "hairs" here, also suggesting "pattern" and reinforcing the meaning of the left-hand shape. Alternatively, some scholars feel that this 彡 represents "brush," enabling the whole character to mean "writing down a pattern" or "copying a pattern."
彰 (1410: clear)
This 彡 means "attractive decoration," whereas 章 (typically "badge") means "attractive pattern" in this context. Thus, 彰 originally referred to "an attractive decorative pattern" (and in Chinese still has minor meanings of "beautiful" and "ornamental"). By association, 彰 came to mean "display something attractive." And the idea of a display led to the further association of "manifest" and "make something clear to the world at large."
With the next etymology we again find our radical as "pattern," but something else is also at work:
影 (1017: shadow, silhouette, reflection; image; traces of; light)
The left side (typically "scene" or "bright") means "open to the sunlight," while our radical means "delicate hairs" here in an extended sense of "delicate pattern." However, some scholars see this 彡 as "rays of sunlight," which makes the whole character represent "delicate pattern formed by sunlight"—namely, "dappling" or "shading." That has led to definitions of both "shadow" and "light." And the pattern of shadows has given rise to the meanings "form" and "image."
The "rays of sunlight" idea might seem random, but that's what the 彡 means in 場 (144: place) and 易 (618: easy), according to Henshall. He calls it "highly likely that there was some confusion between hairs and sunrays, or even a deliberate merging of the two."
Photo Credit: Christopher Acheson
You might think the strokes of our radical would remain parallel to each other, but look how they curve around an invisible core in this image.
The word 形式 (けいしき) means "form" or "type" in this context, which happens to be the side of a freight train carrying coal. The very short term ホキ breaks down, believe it or not! The ホ means "hopper car," and the キ means "capable of carrying 25 tons or more." The 10000 indicates which type of car it is.
1290 (彩: color; to paint)
1410 (彰: clear)


A wife who has her own means of living, need not to be maintained by her husband, says Session's court.
MUMBAI: An unmarried daughter is entitled to claim maintenance from her father even after attaining the age of 18 if her parents are divorced or estranged, the Bombay High Court has ruled.
The Supreme Court made the observation while hearing a case in which the husband was booked for dowry harassment.
The Supreme Court has said that courts cannot force a husband to "keep his wife" as it asked a man to deposit Rs 10 lakh as interim maintenance for his estranged wife and upkeep of their son.


Why The Capitals are Falling!
Oh the Washington Capitals. If your a fan then these just arent troubling times, its that we know these times all so well. If you hate the Capitals, then you're pretty much enjoying the 6 game loosing streak. The Capitals not only have a great coach but they have a great team. I will go through a few points as why I think the Capitals are going along theyre loosing ways. For once i wish that the capitals can get on top and stay on top. Now remember this is just my point of view. I'm not a professional writer, BUT i have the Washington Capitals inked all over my body. So if anything, I might know a little about them.
First, no one can blame the captain or the coaching staff. they have been doing everything to get this team on the right path. when Oates came into the picture he had a team who didn't know which direction to go. Adam was able to get through to this team at least he did to Ovechkin. now if this was a couple seasons ago i would be blaming this on Ovie. Going for a second straight year in a row he has great hopes of being #1 goal scorer at the end of the season. when we have needed him to step up, he has! I am more than proud to say our captain is the great 8! Ovie combined with Oates and the coaching staff have been able to solidify a great power play and great one timers from the great 8!
Second, our defense needs to provide more. Carlson and Green have been stepping it up and our rookie D's are doing good, but we need better depth. They also need better communication. How many times have we lost leads cause our depth and defense wasn't ready. We need to rely on defense and aggressive defense not offensive D. I think if we were to put some D on the trading block, it might light a fire under their butts! and to stop putting all the pressure under the rookies. Carrick and schmitt shouldn't be taking all the heat. look at our vets who haven't been doing anything. More blocked shots, aggressive playing, thats what we need from our Defense.
Third, We HAVE to do something about our goalie situation. i mean keeping 3 goalies on the roster is pointless. I personally think Holtby or Nievirth needs to go. I think Holtby has been way overrated, his GAA is crazy and he doesn't even try, or at least in my eyes. I have never thought Nievy has ever been starting material. I just dont think he has it in him. If we dont fix our goalie situation, expect us to be watching the playoffs not in it. I think if we had a great vet starting goalie to help the rookies and newbies we would be alot better. i really also want to stop hearing HOLTBEAST, if he was a beast why are we doing so bad, think about it. I want another Kolzig goalie , one that shows pride in that caps jersey and trys his best every night. we have to get this problem fixed.
Last, WE NEED A NEW GM!!!!!!, Mcfee is nothing but a joke, he is the main reason the Capitals are doing so bad. I hope he sees how bad that trade for Erat went. I mean in the past 2 years hes cleared up soo much cap space, what the hell is he doing! you let Hendricks go, what right now we could use him with all these games going to a shootout. You see all these free agents and all these players on the trade block and yet you do nothing. yea lets just sit back and watch our team go down the drain. Thats his attitude. I really hope we can get a new GM soon, if not i really dont see much progress being made. He stands there and does nothing, absolutely nothing. Its a shame to us fans to have to go through it.
Again, these are my opinions, nothing more. No matter what I WILL always be a fan. but im not getting younger and I want us to get that cup. So whatever it is that we need to do, lets do it!!


The more we invest in computer systems, the less we seem to be able to find the information when we need it, especially if it is distributed across organizations. This book presents the recent developments and applications in information systems integration and collaboration which are necessary to understand the new multidisciplinary approaches for their modelling. The main contribution of these models is the design and evaluation of how to integrate and how to collaborate in order to benefit from the information.


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But you also hear Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Farsi and other languages. 하지만 또한 스페인어, 한국어, 베트남어, 페르시아어, 등등도 들린다.
I heard that the air conditioner in the office just broke down in the morning, so I called the maintenance department about an hour ago. 사무실의 에어컨이 오늘 아침에 고장 났다고 들었어요. 그래서 내가 한 시간 전에 관리부에 전화했어요.
First, we will hear from David about the mayor's tax and business loans incentives for those willing to open a business here. 우선, 시장님께서 이 지역에서 새로 사업을 시작하려는 사람들에게 주는 세금 및 사업 대출 혜택과 관련해 데이비드 씨의 말씀을 들어보겠습니다.
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There's been a lot of talk in this election about what we don't want, but what about the kind of country we want for our future. I promised a post about this election, but it's been challenging to wade through the bitterness, anger, and shameful outbursts of hate to find something worth writing about.
For the past decade this country has suffered the consequences of a paternalistic, patronizing leader who has been telling his citizens that they are mere taxpayers, and that he knows best. He's wrong.
That said, there is a ray of hope.
There are pockets of people taking up space and raising their voices this election, Barrier Free Canada's call for a Canadians with Disabilities Act is just one example. There are also Canadians like Mohamed Fahmy, who spent years wrongly imprisoned in Eygpt due to government inaction, to return and remind us that we deserve better from those we elect, and we have the power to make change.
Such things are important, not just for the call to action itself, but for bringing back the demand for more than the status quo.
When Canada was first branded into being, many were denied the right to vote. Women, Aboriginal people (who paid a price in treaty rights), people of colour, disabled people all fought for that right. They fought for the right to vote, not so they could line their pocket books with less taxes, but so they too could be represented in a society they envisioned more equitable and just.
Regardless of who wins today, let's take a lesson from those movements who dared to take up space, who called for a better world. Let's not just vote, let's honour them, today and all the days after that.
Disabled People making more waves than Election Candidates?
For those of you who might not know, we're having a federal election here in Canada. I'm not a huge fan of electoral politics. I think there's much more that we can do to influence social policy than cast our votes, and let's be honest, the choice between three white one-percenters in 2015 says a lot about the level of change that needs to happen in this country.
Aside from that, it is a great time to push for change, while the public eye is on politics, and surprisingly disabled people are making space in election time.
There are some really exciting things happening in the disability movement in this election, and you need to know about them.
We have some great speakers lined up including David Lepofsky of Barrier-Free Canada and the AODA Alliance, Diem LaFortune, myself, and Kevin Jackson. This is not just a time to raise disability issues, but also a time for disabled people who are not often involved to have their voices heard, and take to the streets as part of the community of disabled people. You can find the march on Facebook, and on Twitter @DisabilityPM hashtag #tdpm2015.
In Toronto, there was a election debate on disability issues earlier this week, you can still see the video.
There have also been some exciting developments with Barrier-Free Canada's efforts to encourage all federal parties to commit to enacting a Canadians with Disabilities Act.
They've introduced a letter writing tool that makes it easier than ever to join the campaign. All you need to do is fill out a short form, and a prewritten letter will automatically be addressed to all the candidates in your riding.
There are still a few hiccups with this tool, but I encourage you to check it out.
Please take two minutes to let candidates in your area know that you support the call for a Canadians with Disabilities Act. Then invite your friends and family to join the campaign. So far the NDP and Greens have promised to enact it, but we need more than a press release, we need action. Visit www.barrierfreecanada.org/campaign/. They are asking people to promote the campaign on social media with the hashtag #canadiansdisabilitiesact.
Elections are a great time to raise our voices as a diverse disability community. I will be raising more issues to not in the coming days, but until then I hope to see you at the march tomorrow!
"Here in Canada, we won't see your disability"…unless we can profit from it.
The Parapan Am Games, August 2015. I was at the Torch Relay a few weeks ago, and one of the speakers, a well-known member of the disability community, and founder of a disability organization said, "Here in Canada, we won't see your disability".
My jaw dropped. I wanted to believe that he hadn't just said that like it was a good thing, but he did. In fact he went on about it for another few minutes with great enthusiasm.
"Wait, what?"… "Are you kidding me?"… "Ok, any minute now he's going to turn around and tell all the politicians behind him that they need to step up"… "Somebody must've put him up to this."… "Nope, no, please just stop".
He meant this as a positive statement I'm sure, I mean who wouldn't want to live in a country where ableism doesn't exist. I think the PR department forgot to tell the white guy with the microphone that Canada isn't that country. If that country exists right now it probably has unicorns, wizards flying on brooms…and much better Games.
I want to believe this speaker meant well; he's a Canadian icon. Maybe he's just speaking from his lived experience.
Maybe he doesn't realize that there's disabled people still fighting for accessible transportation, like RAPLIQ in Montreal. Maybe he doesn't realize people are fighting to keep their existing accessible transportation, like Save Handydart in Vancouver.
It's not like Canada's a country that still euthanizes disabled people, but it does do research to screen genes for disabilities, and let's not forget the ableism in assisted suicide.
It's a country were disabled people can move freely…unless you've have been forced to live in an institution (another example), or have a suicide attempt on record that prevented you from crossing the border.
It is a country where disabled people have free will, unless compliance with medication is forced on you, someone decides you're too disabled to parent, or you're a refugee seeking healthcare.
Perhaps it's easy to be misdirected by the billions of dollars that was spent on the Games and forget we're in a province that underfunds social assistance and social housing, still has high unemployment for disabled people despite the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, and the Guy Mitchell inquest.
If I may, let's take a lesson from our Prime Minister on what not to do, and stop trying to make problems go away by pretending they don't exist. Disabled people exist in Canada, and not seeing that is part of the problem. Shielding our eyes from oppression is not something to be proud of and it won't make ableism disappear.
How about we focus on making Canada a country that sees disabled people, and sees them as an asset. That sounds like something to shout into a microphone.
For more on ableism see The Invisible Backpack of Able-Bodied Privilege Checklist.
This election, it's time for an Canadian Disabilities Act*. From coast-to-coast across Canada, disabled people and organization have been breaking down barriers without the support of or federal government, the individualized "solutions" miss the mark; access to society and quality of life is not created through tax breaks and savings plans.
Now is a time to call for change. It's time for bold policy that benefits all disabled people living in Canada. It's time to call on our MPs and perspective MPs for a Barrier-Free Canada.
Canada is one of the few developed countries that does not have a comprehensive nationally legislated Disabilities Act. It is imperative to have the rights of disabled people legitimized, recognized, and protected and we believe that an initiative such as ours can make this a reality.
Disabled people who are not currently covered, or who are insufficiently covered by their province or territory; people who care for their disabled family members; people who are forced into poverty because their disability has prevented them from being employed; aging Canadians, Veterans, and the extended family and loved ones of all of the above can be benefited by a national act.
Even the individual who is not affected by disability directly or indirectly can enjoy knowing that as a caring country, we are advocating for all our people.
Enacting national legislation will ensure that disabled Canadians will not be prevented from pursuing goals, achieving dreams and otherwise living independent lives.
A streamlined law that defines civil and human rights for all disabled Canadians and that encompasses all provincial and territorial legislation.
We need all the support that we can gather and your participation is crucial in this regard. Our initiative has already obtained the endorsements of such organizations as the CNIB, March of Dimes, the MS Society of Canada, the Canadian Hearing Society, and Accessible Media Inc.
Please take a moment to visit us at http://barrierfreecanada.org/contact-us/ to add your name to the list of citizens and organizations that have already endorsed our cause. As well, we are urging you to contact your local Member of Parliament (MP) to let the Federal Government know that Canadians wish to have this law adopted now.
Follow us on Twitter @barrierfreeca and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/barrierfreeca.
Also make sure you're registered to vote!
*Note: I deliberately used Canadian Disabilities Act rather than Canadians with Disabilities Act used by Barrier-Free Canada. This choice reflects the inclusion of non-status disabled people living in Canada who would be impacted by this Act as they are currently impacted by Harper's cuts to healthcare for refugees and immigration policy.
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Academic journal article Bulletin of the Comediantes
Civic Responsibility or Directorial Prerogative: Ignacio García's Political Staging of Calderón's la Cisma De Inglaterra
By Fischer, Susan L.
"THE LEADiNG CHARACTERS STAND centre-stage and spout interminably, while the minor figures are only too ready to volunteer a quick précis of what we have already heard" (Spencer). And "the play is drenched in great torrents of spoken imagery, of Gods, suns, fires, fogs and tears of ash that outstrip their dramatic purpose. There is room for some editing here" (Whitebrook). Thus spake two theater critics1 of a 1989 Royal National Theatre Studio production of Calderón's Schism in England, which played at St. Bride's Centre (Edinburgh) in a translation by John (Jo) Clifford. More than a quarter of a century later, these critical reactions were seemingly taken into account, however fortuitously, in Ignacio Garcia's 2015 staging of José Gabriel López Antuñano's performance version of Calderón's play on the boards of Madrid's Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC), under the tweaked title of Enrique VIII y La cisma de Inglaterra.2 Some hard questions emerge with respect to these two alternatives. To what extent would it serve Comedia's birthright as theater if a director's choices were to raise questions among scholar-readers as to whether a production were worthy, artistically and ideologically, of the kind of scholarly reading of performance to be undertaken here; and as to whether such critical effort would explicitly shed "new light" on the "original" play? And, conversely, to what degree are "armchair readers and critics" consciously mindful that Comedia, like plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, was penned to be performed, not simply to be perused and analyzed as dramatic literature, potential directorial appropriations and "colonization of the past by modernity" (Ryan 39) notwithstanding?
As director and dramaturge of Enrique VIII y La cisma de Inglaterra made clear,3 details were pruned primarily to foreground the touchstone concept of a leader's use and abuse of power in allowing personal interests and desires to predominate over reason of state and civic responsibility. The means used to adapt or update the play-text, it could be argued, paralleled the process Calderón deployed in adapting source material for his play, performed in 1627, from Pedro de Ribadeneyra's Historia eclesiástica del scisma del reino de Inglaterra of 1588, as filtered through Nicholas Sander's De origine ac progressu schismatis anglicani of 1585.4 The predominant idea was for the action to move at the vertiginous speed of a thriller, and for the characters to be flesh and blood, physical living beings with human emotions, unencumbered by the all too distant past. That process manifested itself in various ways: historical and theological references deemed potentially distracting were excluded; the spoken word was omitted if it could be inferred through visual enactment, given that today's public is more accustomed to seeing than to listening; static scenes were altered or transposed to make them more dynamic; lines were redistributed to round out characters; monologues and soliloquies were turned into dialogues; some one thousand verses were suppressed to create a running time of approximately one hour and forty minutes without an interval.
The director discerned three possible readings of Calderón's text: (1) a "religious" approach centering on the "great matter," a momentous schism between the Anglican and Catholic Churches perpetrated by Enrique VIII; (2) a "melodramatic" emphasis on a tragic love triangle between a king and two queens; and (3) a "civic-political" focus on what happens when a leader privileges private passions and abandons governmental responsibilities (García et al., Interviews 52, 54). García presented himself as a "barometer of society" (Berry 16) in opting, not so much to retell Calderón's counterhistorical account of Enrique VIII and Ana Bolena, nor to recount "el comienzo de la tragedia histórica de un pueblo dividido por el cisma" (Ruiz Ramón 55),5 as to meditate on issues of civic responsibility vis-a-vis political and administrative corruption. …
Publication: Bulletin of the Comediantes
Fischer, Susan L.
Theater directors & producers
Garcia, Ignacio
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro (1600-81)
Spanish Golden Age
Social criticism
Dramaturgos
Religión y literatura
Teatro político
Spanish theatre
Siglos de Oro
Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers, and Writers on Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Film By Daniel Bernardi University of Texas Press, 2009
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Showtime renews 'Homeland'
By	Jana Banin	 October 23, 2013 5:35 pm
A scene from "Homeland" showing Claire Danes as a CIA agent walking around in "Beirut," which was shot in Tel Aviv, as some Hebrew artifacts can be seen on the right side of the photo. (Showtime)
Fans of the Showtime series "Homeland" can look forward to a fourth season of the Emmy-winning CIA thriller.
While "Homeland" is currently the network's top-ranked series, there has been grumbling about this season not measuring up. Which makes us wonder, will there be enough juice for a whole new batch of episodes? After all, "Hatufim" (aka "Prisoners of War"), the Israeli show on which "Homeland" is based, only lasted two seasons.
Hopefully they'll turn things around and avoid disappointing the 6.5 million viewers who have tuned in for the first three episodes of season three. No pressure there or anything.
Complete Nuremberg Trials recordings online for the first time
By	Cnaan Liphshiz	 January 15, 2021 11:48 am


Valencia (Spain), 6 November 2015 - The first day of practice was one of ups and downs for the Aprilia riders at Valencia. In the first session both Bradl and Bautista took a good approach to the Spanish track, finishing FP1 respectively in 11th with 1'32,514 and 14th with 1'32,725. But neither one of them were able to improve in the second session, closing out the combined standings in 16th (Bradl) and 20th (Bautista).
However, both of the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini riders say they are confident that they'll be able to resume fine tuning the RS-GP machines in the first session tomorrow since for both of them the afternoon session today was characterised by tests conducted on different solutions which did not provide any real advantages and, for Bradl, a technical problem.


- Hiking around the Ozarks at a high adventure camp, talking about toughness, leadership, and helping others.
- Zen Master Joko Beck and why to keep trying until it's easier.
- Western States 100 review and why you shouldn't brag about your abilities before you've done something.
- How to avoid the rough seas of life by being more like a submarine.
- Garmin 935 and Fenix 5 review, likes and dislikes.
- Swim coaching session on deck, teaching Kai with drills and strokes.
- Caught in a rainstorm in the mountains.


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What is Gyotaku?
Hanashi gyotaku
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Index of Fish Prints
Humboldt jumbo squid (Disodicus gigas) rise from the depths under the cover of nightfall to pursue their prey. The two longer arms can swiftly stretch out to seize a small fish. Once the fish is captured, the two arms retract, and the squid further grasps its prey with the eight other shorter arms.
This squid is one of countless thousands that washed ashore in the San Diego area during several nights in July 2002. Over 12 tons of dead and dying squid were removed from the beach at La Jolla Cove in a single day. It may have been the largest mass stranding of this squid species in the area in nearly a century. Unusually warm water temperatures associated with an El Niño year could have contributed to a migration of these large squid into the area from more southerly waters. One scientist suggested that the squid may have met their end as they chased schools of grunion. Once the squid came too close to the shore, they were helpless in the rolling surf.
"Ika" is the Japanese word for squid. Gyotaku literally means "fish impression", so the inked impression of this squid would more correctly be called "ikataku." This ikataku was made using silver and white ink on black unryu paper. Two additional impressions of the squid were made with golden ink on black and purple unryu papers.
Size: 30 x 20 inches (2002)
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Ball Stadium 06/18/05 - keno youtube Thessaloniki, Greece - Moni Lazariston 06/20/05 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Arena Musica Festival 06/21/05 - Istanbul, Turkey - RockIstanbul Festival 06/22/05 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Metalist Festival 06/24/05 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Festival 06/25/05 - Le Mans, France.
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Since 1976 I have required my student preachers, one by one, to read my only copy of "The Life of Mordecai Ham." I wanted them to see what God did with this common man who was totally yield to his Lord Jesus Christ."
I wanted the next generation of Christi's servants to learn how God could arrest the hearts of the most vile sinners, how conviction could grip entire rural counties, how conversion could come to thousands in the cties, and that God's Word still "works".
Every Christian needs to read this nook to learn of the "old time religion", a time when Christianity changed the world instead of the changing Christianity. Preachers need to read it and plead, "Do it again, Lord!" Ham;s God is our God!


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Alexandre Lopes (* 29. říjen 1974) je bývalý brazilský fotbalista.

Reprezentace
Alexandre Lopes odehrál 3 reprezentační utkání. S brazilskou reprezentací se zúčastnil Zlatý pohár CONCACAF 1996.

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Narození v roce 1974
Žijící lidé
Brazilští fotbalisté
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Narození 29. října
Narození v Riu de Janeiru

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One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Death of Magic Realism
by Paul Haeder / April 18th, 2014
It is a sea change, the kind of transformation that the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter said was caused by "gales of creative destruction." In his model, systems change when new ideas, products, and technologies bring about the destruction of the old.
Amazing, sitting at a Presbyterian Church in downtown Portland, as part of the Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures … "bringing to Oregon's cultural community the leading-edge thinkers – the scholarly, intellectual explorers. These are the risk takers willing to challenge the currently accepted norms of how we understand ourselves and our role as participants in the universe. The annual series is organized by the Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, a non-profit organization affiliated with Portland State University."
This 75-year-old waste of human breath, David Pearce Snyder, yammered on and on about BIG Data, the new god, talking about the death of education, that higher learning or all those liberal arts things, well, not necessary today, and not in the future.
The future is about "waves of destruction," as 1920's economist Schumpter called it. You know, destruction is easier than creating.
This audience was not young, and, well, it was all white, Gentile and Jewish, for sure. Laughing at canned jokes, and, well, this Snyder proves that one is both born and mentored to be a great teacher. He is not, using old Power Point slides and, well, at 1 hour and 30 minutes in, when I left, thank god, this person is talking about Revolution as in Information Revolution, the new normal is destruction and all this digital-info-data wealth, he had nothing to show for his talk, but static jokes, a bunch of US Census Bureau predictions, and guffawing. I have High School students who could have done a much better job.
He was listing off all those crimes, but again, he never called them crimes, and he never-ever questioned Capitalism, never brought up genuine progress, never looked at an arts based society, and like most of these futurist futzes, he forgot about climate change, 9 billion people, dwindling resources, total control by corporations, monopolies, and, well, poverty and slash and burn economics of the rich.
wages have been falling rapidly since 2000
median household income has been falling
2007 the housing bubble popped (he blames us, of course, for that)
2008-09 $60 trillion vanished from the world, one-quarter of it in the US of A
Salon.com reports on 2014 predictions by Futurist — you know, mumbo-jumbo about singularity, and love of surveillance and human intellectual slavery:
1. Thanks to big data, the environment around you will anticipate your every move.
2. We will revive recently extinct species.
3. By 2020 populations will shrink, and wealth will shrink with them.
4. Doctors will see brain diseases many years before they arise.
5. Buying and owning things will go out of style.
6. Quantum computing could lead the way to true artificial intelligence.
7. Phytoplankton death will further disrupt aquatic ecosystems.
8. The future of science is in the hands of crowdsourcing amateurs.
9. Fusion-fueled rockets could significantly reduce the potential time and cost of sending humans to Mars.
10. Atomically precise manufacturing will make machinery, infrastructure, and other systems more productive and less expensive.
Pure junk, removed from culture, ethics, social justice, the reality of poverty, reality of consuming too much, reality of dead-sea scrolls ideas.
He was moving toward how higher education is too expensive, doesn't teach what corporations want, and is a thing of the past, with all these delivery systems on-line ready to dumb-down and closet humanity into some chat room and bizarre 'scape of mouse touches and joy stick stupidity.
Snyder is some editor at the magazine, The Futurist, and he thinks that Big Data, will generate 1.9 million jobs in the USA by 2015, and another 5.7 million new ones indirectly. He also says big data honchos are lamenting that only 1/3 of the jobs will be filled since USA kids don't have the math, IT and cognitive skills to write apps and manage all that data.
Move over sociology, history, philosophy, arts, culture, thinking, debate, poli-sci, and the other learning systems – no need to have college since, well, only the rich can afford it, and, well, BIG Data needs workers:
Here's his 2020 predictions,
we will be cashless/paperless
smart phones will be our medical ID and other ID wonders
Web 5.0 will be all about cloud computing, with large server centers dotting the landscape
electronic medical records systems will be complete
personal mobile technology will replace all textbooks
personalogies he calls it, chatting with technology
eEntertainment users and revenues will outstrip all live things, including sports, concerts, movies, plays
right now, 3 billion people are on the web, but better yet, the Internet of Things is here and coming on strong – 30 billion machines currently on the web communicating with each other.
It's that Nazi-Little Eichmann thing – Anything that can be measured, well, all that has to be managed. It's the riff from Jim Gray, from Microsoft, the guy lost at sea. All that unexamined data, exaflood, needs to be sifted through, and that is where the new science is – data intensive scientific discovery.
Snyder went on about how the Greeks first set up the foundation to scientific thinking — direct observation. Then, the age of Enlightenment took it to another level – experimentation. Next, in the 1960s, we get computer simulation. Then, 2007, it's data intensive discovery.
This is how the game is played out – no mention of worth, no mention of worthiness, no mention of ethics, principles, duty to the weakest, protecting culture, developing real communities – water, transportation, parks, schools, homes, food, sanity, no more war, no more intrusions on our agency, independent lives.
These guys calling themselves futurists are, well, rotten.
So, what ya going to do about it? Anyone out there support my world – free education – all types – and slow money and permaculture, and arts communities? Anyone out there ready to throw their paradigms out? Maybe they win on some levels, but how many would even purchase my novels and books if I set up a web site? Some way to get you all chapters and some small compensation via old traditional ways?
How many people reading DV are serious about busting out of their transfinancial "breaking bad" world, one where new TV shit is all about new shows about the trials and tribulations of Silicone Valley? Or museums that put on stupid cat video shows (sic) and draw 10,000 and then say that is it, the way of the future, and not dumb-downing – really, heard it on National Jewish Radio (NPR) on the insipid Canadian hipster, dead from the neck down The Q!
How many are willing to support underground writing, a book or two as flowing and creative ways to show the way to young men, young women, some antidote to the Edu-Tainment of the future? These people like Snyder and his bosses in the Fortune 500 set and the foreigners, too, those running the ghost stories of capitalism from afar, that's what they want – a skills economy, for corporations, no free thinkers, no one questioning the stupidity of cloud serving USA-EU. They want complete control of mind, matter, muscle, mendacity.
Here, the blurb on the talk last night, and I usually stay and go toe-to-toe with these schmucks, though this world is all about being nice and guillotine-ing any pugnacity. These people talk-talk-talk, but they want no boats rocked. But this Snyder was such an imp, going on and on, and the crowd just blurry eyed laughing at non-jokes. Oh, the white class, the whites, the race of stooges (sometimes I think that, yes – so what!).
For decades, corporate leaders, politicians and many educators have asserted that, in our emerging information-based economy, essentially everyone will require a post-secondary degree in order to earn middle-class wages.
However, Labor Department forecasts consistently show that – for the foreseeable future – more than half of all U.S. jobs will continue to require no more than a high school education! At the same time, job content analysis has shown that, from now on, ALL work will require a new set of "higher order cognitive skills," including: systems thinking • problem analysis • team work • numeracy, applied creativity & Internet mastery.
These new skills – the Common Core Standards of learning for reading, math, and science – will eventually be required by all high school graduates – whether they choose to go directly into the workplace or go on to college.
Against this backdrop, Snyder describes how economically-stretched educators in both K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions are quickly adopting Internet-based technologies – including etextbooks, social networking, computer simulations, on-line games, Skype, "MOOCs," modular curricula & certification, and artificial intelligence – to provide their students with both the traditional skills and the new competencies that they will need to meet the challenges of our rapidly evolving future.
Even more quickly, Snyder says, edupreneurs like Khan Academy, Coursera and edX are exploiting cyber technology to meet the exploding demand for career-enhancing, future-fulfilling knowledge. By 2020, our understanding of the content and form of education will have evolved substantially from today, and the successful institutions of learning will be those who have discovered how to meet society's changing needs and expectations.
This is how these pukes work, really – break a system that needs fixing not dumping, and we need systems thinkers, girls and boys who know history, how to hammer a greenhouse together, how to raise catfish, how to put up a solar heater, how to add up the lines in a green edible schoolyard, how to survey, frame, build, jump, draw, mural, pen music, dance, run, mess around with animals and people and go to adult care facilities and help restore wetlands, and to build boxes and study bats and to dig up weeds and design butterfly gardens, and how to cook, how to write letters to congress people, how to monkeywrench, how to live low, how to develop debate skills, how to learn languages, how to commune, how to develop new economies and develop solutions.
Ain't going to happen the Harvard President's way, Snyder's way, Bill Gates' way, and all the other money hoarders' ways. You know how much WORK we have to do, and none of it involves CPUs and microprocessors and data collecting and data crunching and data worshipping.
So, who wants an alternative, more prescient words, Gabriel Garcia Marquez thinking and writing (RIP)? Do we have the guts to start alternative ways of living, communicating, thinking, and, shit, consuming?
Or, do we rail and write and use this shitty internet to point out excesses, crimes, devolutions, and then, keep that same capital Capital M for misanthropy or money?
I wonder how many readers out there would try an alternative way of reading fiction and non-fiction, and that would be yours truly sliding into a new way to expose words and concepts?
Email me. Nod yes, or nod no.
You want Snyder's fucked up world?
app writers
sentimentanalysts (web site and social media lexicologists)
forensic hydrologists (fracking for natural gas experts)
medical note takers in accountable care
blended learning coaches – K12 and college non-educators helping blend classroom with on-line shit
sleep whisperers – on-line people who get paid to talk insomniacs into sleep
biosynthecists – genetic engineering tinkerers
These are the jobs of the future, and goddamnit, we have to get on with the pogrom, err, program. Mash-up with technology and rendezvous with austerity and all the other shit spewed from these guys' mouths. Part-time, at-home, micro-businesses, all of it, that's the world of BIG data.
Destroying is the big C in capitalism. No creativity, just more people hobbled and frog-tied by the conveyor belt of obsolescence, of virtual Gattica, of a world of brave digital worlds, people with bar codes tattooed to their asses.
Screw it. One point five hours with Snyder and his prognostications, and his smirk and bureaucratic and uncreative thinking, ahh, it's all gone after rereading a Paris Review interview, 1981, with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. You know, becoming a great artists with an on-line class, some robot mentor, something embedded in the brain with a 800 gigabyte microchip.
So, this Snyder thinks all education will be delivered through digital tablet, iPhones, robots. Imagine these people. I teach community college floundering folk, high school students, and I just substituted a fourth grade class. These kids need MORE humans around them. MORE-MORE-MORE. We need more nurses, doctors, physician assistants, natural docs, and more sociologists, more folk lifting and wiping and cajoling and talking and reading and acting and building and doing. NOT robots.
Crisis after crisis, solved with DIGTAL stupidity? Absurd, but the reality is these guys like Gates, Bezos, Snyder, they are right if we just turn over and show our collective flabby bellies to corporations, governments, the surveillance state. We have to fight them. They see it all as foregone conclusion.
We are so vapid, that we can't even officiate high school and college sports. Story after story –a crisis in getting adults to come out and be officials at sporting events. Oh, Snyder sees the robots of the future doing all of that. Yes, even a national crisis of not getting enough people to officiate wrestling matches, girls' basketball games, volleyball, soccer, football. This is a vapid society, one hooked to a screen, hooked to entertaining itself to death. Be happy, watch infantile shows, and look dumbfounded when everything starts shutting down, getting clogged, cracking, collapsing, burning, disintegrating.
Duh, it won't happen on TV, in an MP3 player, on a screen, or through the Internet of Things. Is that not just fucking amazing? A trillion machines talking with each other by 2020?
NPR's (National Jewish Radio) "Market Place" just lobs nerf balls to the Techies, all the great destructive things app writers are doing, Big Data has planned, and is it not just remarkable how much junk and how much soul-crushing crap TerraByte Leaders give the world? They are erasing humanity, really. Erasing all the dirty work of moving and eating and building. Everything goes better with 3-D printed Coke?
Amazing how vapid they are. So, again, voices, people — not robots — not digital death, are what count. Make them count. Stop the bleed, stop these money changers, stop them with their own weapons. Community kitchens, community lending, community schools, community pantries; job-share, ride-share tool-share.
These sorts of rarefied talks by creeps such as some "futurist" are really just a bunch of cretins with their litany of census track, data track mumbo jumbo. Soulless and, well, these guys are not solutions based people. Statisticians and demographers with no souls. But they are facilitating the privatization of everything, which means, as you can imagine, the boss is not "we the people" but rather, "they the CEOs and their legions of think tankers, IT and Coder aesthetes." With no regard to people but plenty regard for money-money, gentrifying, and games. Games in their own heads, games at their fingertips and the games of economic war.
People are clamoring for more human contact, no matter what the think tanks and government demographers and IT giants and Harvard Presidents tell us. Kids need more people time, more connectivity, more across disciplines learning. Not all to become Fulbright scholars, but to be community-based thinkers, downsizers, livers of life, and people who care.
Here, tribute to Garcia Marquez — the magic is the realism of his mind, and his own mind now words and memories, well, some of will tap into him and a million others. And, we have to stop these stupid talks, these people who lecture, these folk who are not engaged with real people, fourth grade teachers, home care aides, real inventors, writers, creative types. They need to be taken down many, many notches. Fear not, some of us do that, and not just in screeds like this. But will you kind DV reader support us when we are in public and hammer against what you might think are smart, sort-of-left, progressive-leaning folk who are so full of shit that, well, what can I say?
The left is the left that defends Israel: Listen to Dennis Bernstein, Flashpoints, and his guest from the Electronic Intifada!
Paris Review
Interviewer: I heard about one famous interview with a sailor who had been shipwrecked.
Gabriel García Márquez: It wasn't questions and answers. The sailor would just tell me his adventures and I would rewrite them trying to use his own words and in the first person, as if he were the one who was writing. When the work was published as a serial in a newspaper, one part each day for two weeks, it was signed by the sailor, not by me. It wasn't until twenty years later that it was re-published and people found out I had written it. No editor realized that it was good until after I had written One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Interviewer: Do you think the novel can do certain things that journalism can't?
Gabriel García Márquez: Nothing. I don't think there is any difference. The sources are the same, the material is the same, the resources and the language are the same. The Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a great novel and Hiroshima is a great work of journalism.
Interviewer: In interviews a few years ago, you seemed to look back on being a journalist with awe at how much faster you were then.
Gabriel García Márquez: I do find it harder to write now than before, both novels and journalism. When I worked for newspapers, I wasn't very conscious of every word I wrote, whereas now I am. When I was working for El Espectador in Bogotá, I used to do at least three stories a week, two or three editorial notes every day, and I did movie reviews. Then at night, after everyone had gone home, I would stay behind writing my novels. I liked the noise of the Linotype machines, which sounded like rain. If they stopped, and I was left in silence, I wouldn't be able to work. Now, the output is comparatively small. On a good working day, working from nine o'clock in the morning to two or three in the afternoon, the most I can write is a short paragraph of four or five lines, which I usually tear up the next day.
Interviewer: How did you start writing?
Gabriel García Márquez: By drawing. By drawing cartoons. Before I could read or write I used to draw comics at school and at home. The funny thing is that I now realize that when I was in high school I had the reputation of being a writer, though I never in fact wrote anything. If there was a pamphlet to be written or a letter of petition, I was the one to do it because I was supposedly the writer. When I entered college I happened to have a very good literary background in general, considerably above the average of my friends. At the university in Bogotá, I started making new friends and acquaintances, who introduced me to contemporary writers. One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, "As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect…." When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories. They are totally intellectual short stories because I was writing them on the basis of my literary experience and had not yet found the link between literature and life. The stories were published in the literary supplement of the newspaper El Espectador in Bogotá and they did have a certain success at the time—probably because nobody in Colombia was writing intellectual short stories. What was being written then was mostly about life in the countryside and social life. When I wrote my first short stories I was told they had Joycean influences.
Interviewer: Do you think that it's common for young writers to deny the worth of their own childhoods and experiences and to intellectualize as you did initially?
Gabriel García Márquez: No, the process usually takes place the other way around, but if I had to give a young writer some advice I would say to write about something that has happened to him; it's always easy to tell whether a writer is writing about something that has happened to him or something he has read or been told. Pablo Neruda has a line in a poem that says, "God help me from inventing when I sing." It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Interviewer: Are there some lesser-known Latin American writers you especially admire?
Gabriel García Márquez: I doubt there are any now. One of the best side effects of the boom in Latin American writing is that publishers are always on the lookout to make sure that they're not going to miss the new Cortázar. Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work. There's a French professor at the University of Toulouse who writes about Latin American literature; many young authors wrote to him telling him not to write so much about me because I didn't need it anymore and other people did. But what they forget is that when I was their age the critics weren't writing about me, but rather about Miguel Angel Asturias. The point I'm trying to make is that these young writers are wasting their time writing to critics rather than working on their own writing. It's much more important to write than to be written about. One thing that I think was very important about my literary career was that until I was forty years.1
April 18th's Democracy Now on Marquez. [↩]
Paul Haeder's been a teacher, social worker, newspaperman, environmental activist, and marginalized muckraker, union organizer. Paul's book, Reimagining Sanity: Voices Beyond the Echo Chamber (2016), looks at 10 years (now going on 17 years) of his writing at Dissident Voice. Read his musings at LA Progressive. Read (purchase) his short story collection, Wide Open Eyes: Surfacing from Vietnam now out, published by Cirque Journal. Here's his Amazon page with more published work Amazon. Read other articles by Paul, or visit Paul's website.
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Manfred Maria Porsch (* 14. April 1950 in Wien) ist ein Komponist des österreichischen Neuen Geistlichen Lieds, Lehrer und Schulentwickler.

Lehrer
Manfred Porsch absolvierte 1977 die Lehrerbildungsanstalt in Wien und wirkte danach als Lehrer an integrierten Gesamtschulen und Hauptschulen. Parallel wurde er Lehrbeauftragter am Pädagogischen Institut. Bis 2014 war er im Bundeskoordinationszentrum für schulische Kulturarbeit an der PH-Wien tätig.

Er gehört zu den Pionieren der schulinternen Lehrerfortbildung (Schilf).

Komponist
Manfred Porsch stammt aus der Fokolar-Bewegung. 1971 und 1972 tourte er mit Gen Rosso. 1983 gewann er den 1. Preis beim Weltfestival des religiösen Liedes, den Rassegna Mondiale della Canzone Religosa Populare in Rom. In der Folge gründete Manfred Porsch 1987 den Verein Musica e Vita Österreich und initiierte die Festivalserie Fest der Lieder. Seit 1990 ist er Mitglied der Musikergilde. Er veröffentlichte etwa 200 Lieder auf über 20 Tonträgern.

Nach langer musikalischer Pause ging Porsch 2012 in Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas Raber wieder mit neuen Produktionen an die Öffentlichkeit.

Lieder
 Melchior
 Wer schweigt, stimmt zu
 Messe (Ein Fest der Freude)
 Der Geist des Herrn ruht auf mir
 Du bist das Licht auf dem Weg
 Wärst du das Licht (Kristall)
 Singen wir das Lied vom Frieden
 Eine Schule für Coole (produziert von Thomas Raber, RATOM-Edition 2012)

Weblinks
 Homepage Manfred Posch
 https://www.miteinander.at/2017/heiligeunruhe/musik-mit-tiefgang
 http://musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_P/Porsch_Manfred.xml
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp-8rAs8beeYZO-Gg4a8_cQ/featured

Einzelnachweise

Komponist (Österreich)
Pädagoge (20. Jahrhundert)
Pädagoge (21. Jahrhundert)
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1. I tried this side braid yesterday, following the tutorial from Once Wed. It's an easy one to master and I loved the result, even though it didn't look as full as the model's- isn't her hair insanely beautiful?
2. I sometimes have a tendency to make excuses for things I really don't want to do, or don't feel capable of doing (although I've improved a lot in that field, yay!). I think I need this print in my life to look at everyday.
3. Francesca from Fall For DIY always makes pretty DIY projects- this concrete heart necklace does no exception.
I love all of these. That braid makes me with I had cut 18 inches off my hair last summer.
Thanks for sharing these links, they're awesome!
Those concrete hearts are so cool - love!
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FL House Speaker Richard Corcoran: Suspend Broward Co Sheriff Scott Israel for Incompetence, Dereliction of Duty
Sunday, Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran announced in a post on his Twitter account he was calling on Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) to suspend Broward County, FL Sheriff Scott Israel for "incompetence and dereliction of duty."
"Today I sent the following letter to @FLGovScott Asking that he suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for incompetence and dereliction of duty. I was honored to be joined by 73 Republican colleagues," he wrote in the tweet.
Accompanying that tweet was a copy of the letter.
Today I sent the following letter to @FLGovScott Asking that he suspend Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for incompetence and dereliction of duty. I was honored to be joined by 73 Republican colleagues. You can read the letter attached here. pic.twitter.com/exZVwGQ3DR
— Richard Corcoran (@richardcorcoran) February 25, 2018
Corcoran, a potential 2018 gubernatorial candidate, accused Israel of ignoring warning signs from alleged Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz, and said Israel had failed to "maintain a culture of alertness, vigilance, and throughness amongst his deputies."
Under the Florida state constitution, Scott has the authority to suspend county sheriffs given they are elected officials not subject to impeachment.
Relevant portions are as follows:
Article IV, Section 7 of the Florida Constitution provides:
SECTION 7. Suspensions; filling office during suspensions.—(a) By executive order stating the grounds and filed with the custodian of state records, the governor may suspend from office any state officer not subject to impeachment, any officer of the militia not in the active service of the United States, or any county officer, for malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of duty, drunkenness, incompetence, permanent inability to perform official duties, or commission of a felony, and may fill the office by appointment for the period of suspension. The suspended officer may at any time before removal be reinstated by the governor.
Under Article VIII, Section 1(d), a sheriff is a county officer
(d) COUNTY OFFICERS. There shall be elected by the electors of each county, for terms of four years, a sheriff, a tax collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, and a clerk of the circuit court; except, when provided by county charter or special law approved by vote of the electors of the county, any county officer may be chosen in another manner therein specified, or any county office may be abolished when all the duties of the office prescribed by general law are transferred to another office. When not otherwise provided by county charter or special law approved by vote of the electors, the clerk of the circuit court shall be ex officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, auditor, recorder and custodian of all county funds.
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This case study examines the consequences of cultural barriers in health care delivery, which were revealed in an ethnographic medical interview with a patient who attributes her health and well-being to her return to traditional Blackfeet Native American practices.
A personal study is the foundation of this substantive argument in favor of a psychosocial approach to an adoption history when obtaining a medical history from a patient.
An anecdotal review of an open-access model for psychiatric return visits reveals its challenges and advantages, including higher patient satisfaction, increased access, and decreased workload for clerical staff. A more systematic review is necessary.
A case study of this troublesome and common symptom reveals its impact on quality of life--further sleep disruption, cognitive dysfunction, daytime somnolence, depression, etc--and its more serious association with a 1.8-fold increased risk of hip fracture.
Through the use of technology--telephone appointments, secure messaging, and the Panel Support Tool for population care management--the 21st Century Care Innovation project is improving patient care delivery and developing a more fulfilling and sustainable work environment for physicians.
This final chapter from the new book published by The Permanente Press: Health Care Co-Ops in Uganda: Effectively Launching Micro Health Groups in African Villages, by George Halvorson includes clinically interesting descriptions of locally enacted prevention measures for reducing malaria, diarrhea, and contaminated water.
Two German physicians describe a major difference between the actual operation of primary care in Germany--where psychosomatics has a major role in everyday primary care--and the US.
My Struggle with "Used to Be"


As I have glorious pregnancy insomnia in this pregnancy, just like my last, I find myself perusing through such things as Pinterest in the dark hours of about 2am onwards. Ohh its just so pretty, and addictive. And it has all sorts of wonderfully beautiful advice about how you can make or do the prettiest things, including "25 things you can do before the baby comes".
Don't click on things like that. You'll break out in an anxiety sweat as you realise you haven't organised all your muslins in a beautiful rainbow spectrum in a pretty box, filled your freezer with nutritious home cooked meals to last you an entire month, or got your thank you cards ready for afterwards (what the what?).
So instead I thought of all the things I am actually doing that I am pretty proud of. Because, think about it. If you were about the size of a small grumpy and tired looking whale then my God you should be proud too! So here's my list of things you can actually do in the last weeks of pregnancy.
1.	Pee, constantly, like you've never pee'd before.
I'm not even sure how this is possible to do for one human but wow not only does the baby love to kick about vital organs in there but I'm convinced the human bladder must resemble some kind of trampoline which explains why the baby is constantly bouncing on it. It's why I literally huff and puff up the stairs, visit the bathroom, sit back downstairs on the sofa and immediately have to get up again to make another trip.
2.	Sneak in the naughty treats.
If, like me, you're a complete foodie then squeeze those trips in. Eat all the wonderful food and sneak in lots of naughty treats for your 4 year old. Little Z can't quite believe all the little treats he's getting right now and maybe I'm making a rod for my own back later but it's the last few times it'll be just me and him so I intend to keep doing it right until I have to go into hospital. I'm being good and carrying my hospital notes about. Err. Just in case.
3.	Have the little and big panics. Then have a cry. Then calm down.
I look about my house and am still panicking every so often that such a thing still needs doing or hasn't been deep cleaned. I'm not sure why I'm obsessed with deep cleaning absolutely everything but I think it comes down to wanting a very sterile and ready environment for the baby. Make a list, cry and off load onto your other half, friends, unassuming receptionist lady you don't know at school. You'll feel much better for it and realise the baby is probably not going to go into that far end kitchen cupboard or find your out of date spices from 2013. By the by, all my spices are now in date. Ahem.
I have had a hundred and one cheeky naps. In reality, it's probably much needed as the baby has some growth spurts in the last couple of weeks which must take it. Of course its not like you can trade these hours off once the baby arrives but it does make you feel so much better, especially if you have insomnia.
5.	Buy pretty things, for the baby AND for you.
It's going to be fairly natural to buy a million and one beautiful things for the baby. They are going to look adorable in so much and of course, it's NEEDED! But what about you? Seen a wonderfully lovely dress and not sure if it's going to quite fit yet? Buy it anyway, especially if you're aiming or fairly confident you're going back to that size. I have bought a very nice looking one in the sales and I hope to get into it one day. Don't go crazy obviously but a tiny bit of retail therapy never hurt anybody. Plus, let's face it, once you're feeding the baby constantly, Amazon one click will become your new addiction.
I haven't actually managed this yet. The very nice spa near us is full until after the baby is born but I live in hope. Or rather, in a slightly stalkerish fashion by making constant calls to them to ask if there's been a cancellation. Well, they asked me to!
It's polite really isn't it? Your house is going to look like someone lifted and shifted Toys R Us straight into your living room soon and no doubt your 4 year old is going to be highly excited helping to open it all but you are surrounded by nice family and friends and a nice little thank you card will do the trick. A bunch of flowers for anyone that brings a never ending train of nice hot food wouldn't go amiss either.
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Oh I remember this stage. House never did get that deep clean!!!
Mine too, I ended up not doing some cupboards at all. I need a cleaner.
Such a good idea!! My mum has ended up filling out freezers. I have no idea what's in them!
Oh Tas, bless you. I hope you get your massage!
I did and it was so so good. I am going to book another one in a few times I think!
Great list! I laughed at the bladder thing. It's great that you're managing to sneak those snaps in (and that nice new dress). I think your chances of getting that massage are looking pretty slim now!
I'm glad you're getting in some naps! I loved my pregnant nap time – not long now!
Oh they are glorious aren't they? I need to find some nap time now the baby has arrived too!
Thank you 🙂 it's pretty tiring isn't it? Luckily the naps make it bearable!
Awww, not long! I had so many plans for my last two weeks before M arrived and then the doctor decided that he needed to come two weeks early. Shock!!
Oh wow I think that's the kind of news I was expecting throughout.
Wow you really don't have long to go. I'm so excited for you and look forward to reading about life as a foursome. I have my own reservations about becoming a family of 4 so would love to know your thoughts on that, after you pop.
Thanks so much!! I think I may do a post on it at some point.


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Q: How can I programmatically create a @Test with JUnit? I have the feeling I'm missing something but I didn't find anything around here.
I have a testAllPath method with @Test label that collects a list of file paths and, with a loop, performs my controls, let's say checking that the path is correct.
When I open the JUnit short view I see, obviously, one Test called testAllPath with the result, and in failed case the details of it.
But I can't immediately distinguish which path is wrong among all, so the question is:
How can I make every single control in a loop a single test?
or more generically
How can I programmatically create a @Test?
Thanks

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What's the Best Way to Communicate With an Interstellar Probe When it's Light-Years Away From Earth?
It's no secret that humanity is poised to embark on a renewed era of space exploration. In addition to new frontiers in astronomical and cosmological research, crewed missions are also planned for the coming decades that will send astronauts back to the Moon and to Mars for the first time. Looking even further, there are also ideas for interstellar missions like Breakthrough Starshot and Project Dragonfly and NASA's Starlight.
These mission concepts entail pairing a nanocraft with a lightsail, which would then accelerated by a directed-energy array (lasers) to achieve a fraction of the speed of light (aka. relativistic velocity). Naturally, this raises a number of technical and engineering challenges, not the least of which is communications. In a recent study, a team of scientists sought to address that very issue and considered various methods that might be used.
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Prototype of a Future Interstellar Probe was Just Tested on a Balloon
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, researchers with the UCSB Experimental Cosmology Group (ECG) are currently working on ways to achieve the dream of interstellar flight. Under the leadership of Professor Philip Lubin, the group has dedicated a considerable amount of effort towards the creation of an interstellar mission consisting of directed-energy light sail and a wafer-scale spacecraft (WSS) "wafercraft".
If all goes well, this spacecraft will be able to reach relativistic speeds (a portion of the speed of light) and make it to the nearest star system (Proxima Centauri) within our lifetimes. Recently, the ECG achieved a major milestone by successfully testing a prototype version of their wafercraft (aka. the "StarChip"). This consisted of sending the prototype via balloon into the stratosphere to test its functionality and performance.
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little white house blog: Country Living returns to Stillwater Farm!
Country Living returns to Stillwater Farm!
Has your June issue of Country Living Magazine hit your mailbox yet?!
This PRECIOUS she-shed set up was created right here at Stillwater Farm! It has such a Draper James feel. I imagined Reese swinging on that pretty blue love seat every time I peeked in. As always, the entire CL crew is fabulously talented (and fun)! It was so much fun to watch it all come together! I have lots of behind-the-scenes snapshots to share from their week here..
Look at that beautiful cover shot!!!
A warm welcome for the crew!
I spy a stock tank pool!
We snapped some fun family shots around the fire pit for another issue!
It's so much fun to watch the styling process! It takes SO. MUCH. TWEAKING. and fine-tuning to get the perfect shot. That sweet round basket came right out of our bathroom!
They brought a few plants..
A few more shots of the fire pit set up.. I can't wait to see how these turned out!
Stylist Alexandra Schmitt and Crafts Director Charlyne Mattox knee deep in the most beautiful Pink Gingham fabric!
A few mock cover options..
I loved the imagery of option 1 and the typography at the top of option 2!


The thin blue line that winds irregularly across your topo map suggests a wild Canadian river -- no picnic tables, fire grates or intersecting roads. To get there, you'll have to charter a float plane!
Questions? How do I locate an air service? What planes are available and what do they cost? Must I pay cash or can I use a credit card? How many flights will I need to ferry everyone and everything to the river?
Relax -- it's easy to charter a float plane. All you need is a telephone and money!
WHERE TO BEGIN Everyone is on the Internet now: just type "charter float planes" (or specify the state or province) and you'll be deluged with choices. Or, write or call the tourist bureau in the state province of your interest and request a list of charter companies. Might as well get a road map, list of motels and documented canoe routes. Everything's free.
Phone or fax (charter outfits are often slow in answering mail) the air company(s) that service the area in which you plan to canoe. Explain your needs and ask the dispatcher to compute costs -- including "canoe tie-on fees" (about $100/canoe) and taxes.
Cessna 185: Pay load* = 800 pounds. Accommodates two passengers and lightweight gear and (maybe!) one canoe on the floats. In some provinces, it's illegal to carry external loads on C-185's, though some pilots do it anyway. In Alaska, it's illegal to carry any canoe on the pontoons. If you're going to Alaska, you'd best discover folding canoes. Get a commitment in writing before you charter a 185!
Dehaviland Beaver: Pay load = 1200 pounds. Confidently carries one canoe (on the floats) two passengers and a month's gear. Can access smaller lakes than most other bush planes.
Single otter: Pay load = 2400 pounds. Easily carries four passengers and excess gear, plus two canoes on the floats. Some pilots will carry only one canoe at a time, which doubles flight costs!
Twin otter: Pay load = 2600 pounds. Six canoeists and three canoes (you must remove the carrying yokes) up to 18-feet long will fit inside the cockpit. The "twin" is the safest and least expensive float plane for a party of six.
*Pay loads decrease considerably with a canoe on board.
Book your flight with a letter of commitment that restates the facts. If you're arranging a July flight in January, ask if the company will hold their quoted price against fare increases. They may do so if you agree to pay in cash or certified check and/or provide a non-refundable deposit. Generally, charter air companies love paddlers because, unlike their bread-and-butter clients, (who usually take at least a month to pay), canoeists pay in full before they board the aircraft!
Mileage (costs) is computed "round trip" from the float plane base, so you'll get the best deal if you start and end your trip where the aircraft is located.
Specify the hour you wish to fly. If you don't, you may be backlogged in favor of a more expensive charter. You may be backlogged anyway, but you won't succeed if you don't try.
Ask about "split fares". Another crew may be ending their trip where you are starting. Can you coordinate flights? If so, everyone will save money. Most charter companies are very honest about this.
Help the pilot load your outfit. Be sure that everything for a given canoe team accompanies them on the same airplane. Hand carry your life jacket, maps and camera.
Bring some extra cord: pilots tend to misplace the short ropes which are used for tying the ends of canoes to cleats on the pontoons. Not all pilots tie down the ends. I won't fly with the ones who don't.
You must remove the carrying yokes in order to nest canoes inside one another (twin otter only). Bring tools to remove the yokes.
A present for the flight dispatcher may prompt premier service. Two six-packs of American beer or a fifth of Yankee bourbon is a polite tradition.
Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be. If you're not, you will pay for an extra flight!
If you've never chartered a float plane, you may balk at the high price. Indeed, even a short flight may rival the cost of a round-trip jet to Paris! Nonetheless, when you consider the small pilot /passenger ratio, and the fact that you decide where and when to fly, it's a fair deal.
The average Canadian bush plane is decades old. Better ride one now before they disappear, like the wild rivers we love to canoe.


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