Varanasi is one of most popular pilgrimage destinations of India which attracts the pilgrims from all over India as well as from all over the world. It is also home to Sarnath Museum Varanasi, which is the oldest on site museum in India founded in 1905.
Located near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, Sarnath Museum has the distinction of being the oldest site museum of Archaeological Survey of India. The Sarnath Museum has the collection of sculptures and artifacts of Buddhist period. In 1905, the Director General of Archaeology in India, John Marshall initiated the construction of Sarnath Museum Varanasi to preserve the artifacts found during various excavation projects. This initiative was taken to keep them in the safe condition and display them for the visitors. Presently, it houses more than 6832 artifacts and sculptures.
Sir John Marshall, the Director General of Archaeology in India initiated the plan of constructing Sarnath Museum. His intention was to preserve and display the antique sculptures and artifacts which were found during the excavation projects at Sarnath. The architectural plans were prepared by Mr. James Ransome, who was Consulting Architect to the Government of India. The building of Sarnath Museum was completed in 1910.
The Museum has two verandahs and five galleries which displays the antique sculptures and other artifacts. The timing of these artifacts ranges from third century BC to 12th century AD which was found at Sarnath.
The fantastic collection of Sarnath Museum extends to five galleries and two verandahs. It houses rich collections of artifacts, edifices and sculptures which has numerous Bodhisattva and Budda images and the other ancient relics. The visitors can see and experience the finest specimens of the Buddhist art and other relics which are displayed in Sarnath Museum.
Although, there are many beautiful exhibits in the museum, the highlight of Sarnath museum is the Lion Capital of Ashoka. The National Emblem of India has been inspired from this museum exhibit. Other notable exhibits include the beautiful sculpture of Buddha from 5th century. In this sculpture, Gautam Buddha is sitting cross-legged, eyes downcast in deep meditation and halo around the head. Also, there are many beautiful figures of Boddisatvas which are displayed in the museum.
The other notable figures include life-size standing Bodhisattva and a bronze sculpture which shows Bodhisattva with several arms.
Sarnath museum also houses the best collection of the sculptures and figures from various periods such as Kushana, Mauryan and Gupta. The visitors can also see various images of Hindu Gods which date from 9th century to 12th centuries. The Sarnath Museum attracts archaeologists, tourists, history enthusiasts and the artists from around the world.
Sarnath Museum is located just 10 km away from Varanasi City. One can easily visit Sarnath Museum when you are visiting Varanasi. With its status as the city of temples and pilgrims, Varanasi or Benaras is very well connected to other cities in Uttar Pradesh as well as the other parts of the country. You can take any mode of transport which includes the road, rail or air to reach the Varanasi. From there, it is easy to reach Sarnath Museum.
Sarnath Museum is just 26 kms away from the Varanasi Railway Junction, which is also known as Varanasi Cantt Railway Station. It is the city's largest railway station. It handles 240 trains and 3.6 passengers each day. The trains include passengers and mail or express trains. From the station one can use various services such as auto, bus and taxi services to reach Sarnath Museum. Sarnath has a small railway station but very few trains stop there.
Sarnath Museum is just 26 kms away in Babatpur from Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Varanasi an international airport. As it is an important pilgrimage destination, Varanasi is well connected by air. Today, many companies such as Jet Airways, Budda Air, Jet Konnect and Air India operate flights to Gaya, Delhi, Kathmandu, Mumbai, Kolkata and Lucknow. From Airport, you can take taxis and buses to reach Sarnath Museum.
Timing - 9 am to 5 pm every day except Friday and other public holidays.
Entry Fee - Free entry for children less than 15 years of age and Rs. 5/- for others.
The facility for the Guide is also available in the museum premises.
The museum also organizes the visits of school students' trip to the museum. The concerned schools just have to inform the museum about the visit before 2 days of the trip.
Best Time to Visit: The visitors can visit the Sarnath Museum throughout the year but the best time to visit is from October to March as the weather is very pleasant during this time.


Curry Community Health is looking to hire a Tobacco Prevention Education Program Coordinator to work in Curry County Oregon, located in a beautiful community on the Southern Oregon Coast. This is a full time position offering health benefits (medical, dental, vision), holiday pay, paid time off as well as life insurance and 403b.
Curry Community Health is looking to hire a Supported Employment Specialist to work in Curry County, Oregon, located in a beautiful community on the Southern Oregon Coast. This is a full time position offering health benefits (medical, dental, vision), holiday pay, paid time off as well as life insurance and 403b.
The Supported Employment Specialist provides employment-related support to clients who have mental illness which negatively impacts their ability to work. The goal is to help the individuals find and maintain competitive employment in the community. Services may include job analysis, job matching, résumé preparation, and developing interview skills.
Curry Community Health is looking to hire a Medical Billing Assistant staff member to work in Curry County Oregon, located in a beautiful community on the Southern Oregon Coast. This is a full time position offering health benefits (medical, dental, vision), holiday pay, paid time off as well as life insurance and 403b.
The Medical Billing Assistant supports the Business Office and assists as initial point of contact for CCH clients who have questions related to their accounts.
Curry Community Health is looking to hire a Mental Health Therapist to work in Gold Beach, OR and Port Orford,OR. This is a full time position offering health benefits (medical, dental, vision), holiday pay, paid time off as well as life insurance and 403b.
The Mental Health Therapist assesses, diagnoses, and treats, mental illness. He or she assists in the recovery process of individuals dealing with psychological, emotional and behavioral problems and provides timely counseling to them. The therapist provides individual, family and group psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and children using evidence-based practices (EBP's) focused on strengths, recovery and wellness.
Curry Community Health is looking to hire an Addictions Counselor to work in Curry County, located in a beautiful community on the Southern Oregon Coast. This is a full time position offering health benefits (medical, dental, vision), holiday pay, paid time off as well as life insurance and 403b.
Sign on bonus: $5,000 sign on bonus available after completing and passing pre-service. Six months of continuous employment required. An advance of $1,500 may be requested prior to start date.
This position provides Level I and Level II outpatient therapy to clients who have addiction issues. Provides assessments, intakes, and case management services in conjunction with addiction treatment. Also makes community education presentations and provides input relative to program development needs.
The LCSW assists in the recovery process of individuals dealing with psychological, emotional and behavioral problems and provides timely counseling to them. This position offers the largest area of growth for Curry Community Health.


Formed 1937 by P. H. Spencer (formerly of Amphibions Inc) and V. A. Larsen (previously with Fokker, Standard and Sikorsky) to develop two-seat amphibian with remotely-driven pusher propeller.
Spencer and Vincent A. Larsen design the single engine SL-12C amphibian.
The Spencer S-12 Amphibian Air Car, NX29098, takes to the air for the first time on 8 August 1941, from sea on Belmore, Great South Bay, Long Island.
Spence accepts a job offer from The Mills Novelty Company, Chicago, IL, in 1943. In April the Air Car is flown from Long Island to Chicago, Illinois.


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perspiring when nervous
How Self-consciousness Misleads Us: The "Rock" Guitar Story
Everyone will know. Everyone will know how you embarrassed yourself. Friends and strangers, both. They will see the perspiration and hear the stammering. Your face shall transform into a tomato-like ball of redness. It might as well get sold at a fruit market.
Yes, someone will make a video, too, making you an international laughing-stock. Forever.
We fear the worst and fear takes us over. We become hostage to worry. We crawl inside the fear and are devoured. Fear surrounds us, breathes into us, and binds us. We are trapped.
Only it's not true. We've all lived moments like the one in the story I'm about relay. Not identical to this event, but just as excruciating and permanent, we thought. Not so bad after all, I hasten to say.
"Rock" was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. A remarkable scholar, a shining academic star. Black wavy hair already flecked with gray — he made an impression. He was gifted with words on paper and with words he spoke. "Rock," a nickname belying a less than chiseled physique, would come to win two awards for teaching at another prestigious university. Rich Adelstein, his real name, remains one of the few people who is eloquent without a script.
Playing the guitar, however, is something else. Always was. And music is what his friends asked him to make at their wedding. "Just for a few minutes; anything you want. You'll be a star!"
How could Rock say no? He chose a Bach transcription, not more than three minutes long.
The day came. A torrid day in a sweltering summer. Rock knew the piece by heart, had played it many times in the privacy of his apartment. There, Bach was effortless, fluent. But at a wedding, in front of lots of people?
You sweat the anticipation. You count the time. The sands of the hourglass push down and the hands of the hooded hangman place the noose. Tightening, tightening. There is no escape. Your expected participation is public knowledge. You can't claim illness without betraying cowardice, conscience, and comrades.
The moment arrived. Rock sat in the chair in front of perhaps 200 wedding-well-wishers. His fingers, unlike his voice, were not the part of himself he trusted.
The perspiration began even before the first note. More notes, more perspiration. Our boy's arm pits oozed. His winter-weight, flannel suit – the only one he owned – was soaking through. The sweat came in waves, like the kind that sweep you off your feet and carry you out to sea. The guitarist's mind was overwrought with the terror of public humiliation. His brain buzzed. The shining brilliance of Rock's head, always full of ideas, was now brilliant and shining for an uncustomary reason. My friend was barely above water, caught in a whirlpool, capsizing in a feverish river of illuminated perspiration and panic.
Rock's fingers moved on their own, to the good. They were, however, getting harder to motivate. "A little while longer. If I can go on for a little while longer," he said to himself. His digits seemed to get larger, like plump sausages; unbendable, heavy. Stiffening. And then, the unimaginable: his fingers went on strike. The unreliable labor force stopped laboring.
True, a single moment of silence was not inappropriate. But a moment is not 15-seconds, or 30-seconds, or a minute. Time transformed, became timeless. Rock stared at the stationary digits.
No vibration. Eternity. Strain. Second upon second upon second. How many?
Finally, the music began to sound. By sheer force of will the piece was finished.
The audience applauded. No shouts or cheers. Surely everyone knew. How could they miss a suit doubling as swim wear? Surely they were talking about him, giggling about Rock, feeling sorry. Surely people would remember.
A reception followed. The man of words had no words to describe his mortification. Yet, no one looked at him more than anyone else. No comment on his dampness. A few even told him they enjoyed the performance. Not a soul asked "What happened?" or "Are you OK? We worried about you."
A woman appeared. Middle-aged. A stranger, well-dressed, with a cultured, intellectual aura.
"Oh, God," Rock thought.
"I really enjoyed your performance," she said with enthusiasm. "The dramatic pause, in particular!"
She wasn't kidding. The disqualifying paralysis – the moment of ruin – was to her the creative highlight.
Life went on: a life of accomplishment, good works, and recognition. An admirable life, untouched by momentary catastrophe. Indeed, a catastrophe in one place alone: the mind.
Most of us have had some version of this experience. And survived. People usually notice less than we think. Most disasters are temporary. Even when the audience does recognize a difficult situation, they tend to forget. The event is replaced by another, newer story. We are much more concerned with our own lives than the lives of others. Thus, our daily tasks, relationships, victories, failures, deadlines, and distractions allow little room for concentration on another's momentary discomfort.
A few rules for the next time you have a "Rock" Guitar experience:
Remember, "This too shall pass."
Your internal emotions and what others detect are not the same. You probably don't look or sound as bad as you think.
Don't proclaim your inexperience, nervousness, or troubled state. Do not cue the audience to search for problems they would otherwise likely miss. Do not apologize afterward.
However bad the day, you will soon be yesterday's news, replaced by some other event. More probable still, the crowd's preoccupation returns to what we all spend most of our time thinking about: ourselves.
Remind yourself that you are not unique. Even professional athletes drop baseballs in front of 50,000 people in the stands and millions watching on TV.
Not convinced you will live to fight another day? That your bad moment will go unnoticed or be forgotten? Then I am forced to tell you about the most inappropriate, politically incorrect, embarrassing experience of my life. This is a story you can't top. No one ever has: Generosity and Kindness: A Story of Political Incorrectness.
The top image is called Guitarist Little Girl (Dorothy Takacz) — Budapest, Hungary by Takkk. The second photo is entitled Drops of Sweat by Bibikoff. Next comes Finish Line by Thomas Sørenes. The final image is a photo of Musician Third Class Gabriel Brown, at the Jerudong International School, 2011. All are sourced from Wikimedia Commons. This post is a revision of an earlier essay publish on this site.
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How Self-Consciousness Misleads Us: The "Rock" Guitar Performance Anxiety Story
Everyone will know. You believe everyone will witness your screw-up, how you embarrassed yourself. Friends and strangers, both. They will see the perspiration and hear the stammering. Your face shall transform into a tomato-like ball of redness. It might as well get sold at a fruit market.
We fear the worst and fear takes us over. We become hostage to worry. We crawl inside the fear are devoured. Fear surrounds us, breathes into us, and binds us. We are trapped.
Only it's not true. We've all lived moments like the one in the story I'm about relay. Not identical to this event, but just as excruciating and sure to be permanent, we thought. Not so bad after all, I hasten to tell you.
"Rock" was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Extraordinary — a remarkable scholar in fact; a shining academic star. Black wavy hair already flecked with gray — he made an impression. He was gifted with words on paper and with the words he spoke. "Rock," a nickname belying a less than chiseled physique, would come to win two awards for teaching at another prestigious university. Rich Adelstein, his real name, remains one of the few people who is eloquent without a script.
You sweat the anticipation. You count the time. The sands of the hourglass push down and the hands of the hooded hangman slip the noose under your head. Tightening, tightening. There is no escape. You're expected participation is public knowledge. You can't claim sudden illness without betraying your cowardice, your conscience, and your comrades.
The perspiration began even before the first note. More notes, more perspiration. Our boy's arm pits oozed. His winter-weight, flannel suite – the only one he owned – was soaking through. The sweat came in waves, like the kind that sweep you off your feet and carry you out to sea. The guitarist's mind was overwrought with the terror of public humiliation. His brain buzzed. The shining brilliance of Rock's head, always full of ideas, was now brilliant and shining for an uncustomary reason. My friend was barely above the water, caught in a whirlpool, capsizing in a feverish river of illuminated perspiration and panic.
No vibration. Eternity. Strain. Second upon second upon second. How many? Finally, the music began to sound. By sheer force of will the piece was finished.
The audience applauded. No shouts or cheers. Surely everyone knew. How could they miss a suit jacket doubling as swim wear? Surely they were talking about him, giggling about Rock, feeling sorry. Surely people would remember.
Most of us have had some version of this experience. And survived. People usually notice less than we think. Most disasters are temporary. Even when the audience does recognize a difficult situation, they tend to forget. The event is replaced by some other, newer story about someone else. We are much more concerned with our own lives than the lives of others. Thus, our daily tasks, relationships, victories, failures, deadlines, and distractions allow little room for concentration on another's momentary discomfort.
Remember, however bad the day, you will soon be yesterday's news, replaced by some other event. More probable still, the crowd's preoccupation returns to what we all spend most of our time thinking about: ourselves.
The top image is called Guitarist Little Girl (Dorothy Takacz) — Budapest, Hungary by Takkk. The second photo is entitled Drops of Sweat by Bibikoff. Both are sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
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A new report warns that auto sales could drop as much as 2 million vehicles per year due to President Donald Trump's escalating tariff battles.
British automaker Aston Martin will soon be going public, making it the first British automaker to go public in years.
According to a study, drivers considering plug-in hybrid vehicles are most interested in economic benefits, while those interested in EVs mainly have environmental concerns.
In a survey of more than 3,000 auto insurance customers, USAA recently earned the No. 1 ranking.
According to findings from Cox Automotive, consumer awareness of driverless vehicles has skyrocketed and the desire for autonomous features is high. However, those who believe roadways would be safer if all vehicles were fully autonomous has decreased 18 percentage points in just two years.
Daimler is reportedly in talks to make electric smart cars with Chinese manufacturing partner BAIC.
Tesla recently finished last in the Pied Piper Prospect Satisfaction Index (PSI), which measures how well dealerships are doing at selling to consumers.
While auto industry trade secrets are thought to be closely guarded, a recent newspaper report showed that's not always the case in the Internet era.
Foresight Research recently interviewed 14,000 vehicle owners to analyze the automotive accessory market and found that the new-car accessory market is relatively strong.
New research indicates that 58 percent of consumers believe that electric vehicles are the future of the automotive industry, and 52 percent feel that society should transition to emission-free transportation soon.
With Fiat Chrysler Automobiles bracing for an upcoming CEO change, Hyundai is reportedly looking into acquiring a majority share of the OEM.
A recent study shows saying no to customers can be surprisingly costly for service departments.
Despite sluggish overall sales, dealers remain optimistic because consumers appear willing to spend more on vehicles these days, according to J.D. Power.
In a leaked email obtained by CNBC, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said that Model 3 production still needs radical improvements to meet targets.
A recent study discovered that the average dealership these days loses $1.1 million per year in profits due to bad online reviews.
China's auto sales rose 7.9 percent in May, year-over-year, as purchases of electric and gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles more than doubled.
Volkswagen Group recently announced that production of up to 250,000 cars from its brands are likely to be delayed, due to effects from mandatory lab tests for fuel economy and emissions.


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The ex ante executive agreements of Congress are similar to many administrative provisions, as they are often based on vague or broad legal authorizations and are concluded by a large number of executive agencies. Some of the same concerns expressed in the framework of administrative regulation – legality, the registration of interest groups, reckless or corrupt bureaucratic measures, etc. – are also related to ex ante agreements between Congress and the executive branch. But there is at least one key difference: administrative provisions are subject to a complex administrative framework, but ex ante agreements between Congress and the executive branch are not subject to administrative law or any other accountability framework that goes beyond an incomplete and unreased reporting obligation. Although the Supreme Court did not address the issue directly, many courts and commentators agree that provisions of international agreements that would require the United States to exercise powers that the Constitution assigns exclusively to Congress should not be considered autonomous, and that enforcement laws are necessary to confer such provisions on domestic legal effects.117 Sub-jurisdictions have concluded that Congress controls the power of money. Because Congress controls the power of the wallet. 118 Other leading jurisdictions have proposed that provisions of the contract purporting to create criminal liability119 or increase revenue120 should not be considered self-processing, since these powers are the exclusive prerogative of Congress. Customary international law plays a direct role in the U.S. legal system when Congress includes it in federal law through legislation.
Some statutes explicitly refer to international law and allow courts to interpret their requirements and contours.245 Thus, federal law prohibits "the crime of piracy under international law . . . ." 246 And the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act removes protection against legal actions granted to foreign sovereign nations in certain categories of cases where property rights are "held in violation of international law." 247 In a letter last month, we described the sharp decline in the president`s use of Article II contracts – reaching a new low point in the Trump administration, which has introduced only one such treaty in the Senate. This decline does not mean that the United States has stopped entering into international agreements. Each year, the United States concludes dozens of binding international agreements – often more than 100 – but generally does so in the form of an "executive agreement of Congress" (i.e. legislated agreements) and not Article II. As a result, the United States has effectively converted to an administrative regime for drafting international agreements, but it has not yet put in place an adequate system of control and accountability to comply with that regime.


"Right to Dream taught me that if you want something bad enough, you will find a way. You can always make a difference however small that difference may be. I try to live by that."
James C Nortey is a 2nd Generation Right to Dream graduate who grew up in Accra. Graduating from the Academy in 2007, he won a student-athlete scholarship to attend The Hotchkiss School and later, Marquette University in the USA.
At Marquette, James majored in Social Welfare and Justice alongside a highly successful college soccer career. James was named on the All-Big East First Team for three years, where he scored 26 goals in over 50 games.
James signed a professional contract with Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (AB) making his debut for the Danish side on June 4, 2016. He now works at our partner club FC Nordsjælland, delivering the club's integrated Character Development curriculum to the team's academy players, passing on his knowledge and experience to the next generation.


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How geopolitics impacts the maritime industry
By Ben Abraham | November 16, 2021
Will protectionist policies, the rise of AI, cybercrime and climate change bring major disruption to world trade?
The potential for global geopolitics to disrupt maritime trade is on the rise as national ambitions create marine flashpoints and the spread of trade protectionism heightens the risks for the world's shipping community.
Those were some of the key messages from experts at Willis Towers Watson's Global Marine Geopolitical Forum held in
co-ordination with the biennial series of virtual conferences that this year comprised London International Shipping Week.
Geopolitics is back with a vengeance in the insurance world and all aspects of business."
Sir Richard Dearlove
KCMG OBE, Non-Executive Chairman of Ascot Underwriting Limited
"Geopolitics is back with a vengeance in the insurance world and all aspects of business," the keynote speaker and former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Richard Dearlove, told delegates. "We are seeing a significant rise in the influence of government decision-making and interventionism and we are all living with the consequences of those decisions."
Sir Richard and his fellow panellists spoke extensively about how geopolitical events such as trade protectionism, the rise of artificial intelligence, cybercrime - state-sponsored and otherwise - and the global response to climate change may impact on maritime trade and the fortunes of the shipowners who rely on it. Clearly, understanding the geopolitical landscape and managing the resultant risks is a non-discretionary activity for resilient organizations - whatever the sector.
The panel touched on most of the world's strategic 'choke points' for maritime trade, which Sir Richard described as "incredibly vulnerable to the vagaries of geopolitics", with the Strait of Hormuz; by consensus the most dangerous, given that hostilities between Iran and Saudi Arabia are expected to "continue to escalate".
"If we do not maintain freedom of navigation through these narrow chokepoints, our opponents will seek to close them off, or dominate them," Sir Richard said.
According to Jens Martin Jensen, CEO of the Athenian Group Inc., the biggest geopolitical impact on shipping in his lifetime was the closure of the Suez Canal from 1967-75. "That changed ship types, [prompted] the rise and fall of the tanker market and the development of new oil fields," Jensen said. "The whole development of the North Sea came as a result of that crisis."
He said the impact of the recent high-profile Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal was "mainly on the container shipping market". Had the blockage continued, he said, "the routings for tankers would have changed, increasing tonne-miles" and costs.
From chokepoints to potential flashpoints, the panel singled out China's ongoing activities in the South China Sea
From chokepoints to potential flashpoints, the panel singled out China's ongoing activities in the South China Sea - and the emerging Western response - as a worrying trend that could impact one of the world's busiest trade corridors.
China, which Sir Richard said had plans to "build more vessels annually than the tonnage of the British Navy", has long claimed the territorial waters of the expansive South China Sea as its own, dismissing similar claims from neighboring countries such as The Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia.
In a pre-emptive move on September 1, China introduced 'rules' requiring all foreign vessels transiting the South China Sea to identify themselves. Critics, Asian and Western nations among them, say adherence to those rules would tacitly recognize China's authority over the Sea, and potentially allow it to manage access to the area.
Japan has actively warned its allies about China's intentions in the region, and in September the U.S., the U.K. and Australia announced the formation of a 'security and defence' partnership as well as a new fleet of nuclear submarines for Canberra in response to Beijing's expansionism.
Given that up to a third of the world's maritime trade transits the South China Sea, many shipowners are nervously watching developments.
The South China Sea remains a pretty challenging area."
Johanna Holliday
Managing Director, Special Contingency Risks, Willis Towers Watson
"The South China Sea remains a pretty challenging area," Johanna Holliday, Willis Towers Watson's Managing Director for Special Contingency Risks told delegates. "While an intentional escalation is not expected, it is a highly contested and increasingly militarised area. Intimidation with regards to freedom of navigation and the new 'rules' coming up could lead to a miscalculated or accidental use of force."
Delegates to this year's forum also expressed concern about the potential for the global trend towards market protectionism to derail global trade growth. While Sir Richard noted that the Chinese were "building maritime systems that exclude competitors", he said the U.S. and the E.U. also had poor track records for trade protectionism.
They are not alone. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the end of second quarter 2020, its members and observers implemented 56 new trade restrictive measures unrelated to the pandemic mainly tariff increases, import bans, export duties and stricter customs procedures for exports.
The WTO's most recent report estimated the value of trade impacted by the array of restrictive measures during the period to have been US$423.1 billion, or the third highest total since October 2012. It noted that import restrictions alone implemented since 2009 (and still in force), suggested that 8.7% of world imports are affected by these restrictions.
"Free trade is no longer the passport it was 15-20 years ago. It is not a problem that is going to get any easier and that is going to affect international transportation," Sir Richard said. "I don't see a dramatic change or escalation. But, currently, the international system isn't preoccupied with WTO-type negotiation. It is a problem that is affecting more of us."
Even well-intentioned global regulations, such as those recently placed on shipping to combat the causes of climate change and stem the spread of COVID-19, have the potential to impact the world fleet and increase costs for owners and operators.
According to Jensen, the biggest shipping-related impact from the pandemic had been on seafarers, some of whom remain locked onboard their ships for a year or more due to the tighter restrictions on cross-border travel.
It is remarkable that we don't have a better system to ensure all seafarers can be vaccinated immediately."
Jens Martin Jensen
Chief Executive Officer, Athenian Group Inc.
"It has been an intolerable situation," Jensen told delegates. "Given that 90% of all trade moves by sea, it is remarkable that we don't have a better system to ensure all seafarers can be vaccinated immediately. In London, bus and train drivers are vaccinated immediately. You have to ask why this hasn't happened for seafarers."
Jensen blamed the shipping industry's lack of a 'strong enough uniform voice' to address issues of this magnitude, despite the presence of its own regulatory authority and well-financed bodies that represent most major shipping sectors.
"We simply have to have a better voice, and a better way to deal with these crises" he said.
On the climate side, to support its bid to lower carbon-based emissions from global shipping, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has implemented an array of new regulatory initiatives aimed at gradually increasing the fuel efficiency of ships. Not least of these is the mandatory Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI), which will force owners to either modernise existing ships, or buy new ones.
Enforcement of the EEXI's requirements will begin on January 1, 2023. An example of the impact these regulations could have was highlighted in a recent report from the American classification society, ABS, which estimated that about 85% of the current global tanker fleet would "face challenges with compliance". It predicted that similar proportions of other shipping sectors would face similar compliance challenges.
While the panel agreed that the biggest climate-related threat from events such as changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and storm surges was to the global port operations, there were already signs that ships in transit were vulnerable.
"Rerouting is becoming more common [to avoid storms], with all the associated costs and impacts from a decline in productivity," said Neal Croft, Willis Towers Watson's Head of Geopolitical Risk.
The panel also addressed the prospect of the growing number of cyber threats being used to disrupt maritime commerce, pointing out shipping's strategic attractiveness to the ill-intentioned actor.
From a cross-industry perspective, there is growing evidence that commercial cybercrime is becoming increasingly lucrative for its perpetrators.
From a cross-industry perspective, there is growing evidence that commercial cybercrime is becoming increasingly lucrative for its perpetrators. A recent report by cyber insurance specialist Coalition found that the cost of failure to adequately defend a company's digital systems from ransomware attacks almost tripled during 2020.
The average ransom demand rose to $1.3 million in the second half (from just over US$440,000 in 1H 2020), before falling marginally to just under $1.2m in the first half of this year, Coalition said.
While private actors are largely motivated by profit, known state actors - including North Korea, Iran and Russia - may have different motivations, according to Sir Richard.
"There is a lot of technical expertise available in government, and there are some very troublesome players out there. The nature of cyberattacks is that they raise the prospect of deniability to almost unattributability," he said. "So, if you want a hands-off excuse for major interference, you have the methodology for doing it."
The scale of the threat posed by cyberattacks will widen as maritime companies continue their industry's technological journey towards automation and autonomous shipping, the panel agreed.
"As shipping becomes more cyber-dependent, the security of those systems becomes of greater importance. So [the challenge] becomes how we strengthen not just the physical protection of shipping, but also the [defences against] technological interventions. Whether those maligned players are non-governmental, governmental or criminal."
Author and panel moderator at London International Shipping Week 2021.
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E3 2011: Neverwinter preview – play the game, then build your own D&D epic
By Jonathan_Deesing 15 June 2011
One part looks good and the other parts…well we don't know
Cryptic Studios' upcoming Dungeons and Dragons title, Neverwinter promises a meaty campaign with more story-based gameplay than classic MMO elements. The game is set place in 100 years into the future of the Neverwinter universe, in the aftermath of a catastrophic volcanic eruption. Due to this disaster and the death of the Lord of Neverwinter, the world is in turmoil as different factions struggle for power.
Unfortunately, this is about all we can tell you regarding the story and campaign mode. The main focus of our time with Neverwinter was the dungeon creator tool dubbed "The Foundry." This tool is available immediately and doesn't require any leveling to acquire. On a clear grid, player is given the option to drop in pre-made rooms or create their own. Either way, all of the objects in the rooms are fully customizable. For example, removing a crypt from a pre-made room takes only one click of the mouse. Different rooms snap together at pre-marked points.
The Foundry best resembles tabletop D&D in the customizable NPC conversations. Players can easily adjust and direct dialogue, including different answer trees that arrive at different conclusions. Even the angle at which conversations are viewed can be adjusted for dramatic effect. If it gets too complicated, you can always run through the conversation yourself in an easy test mode.
Using this tool, the designers showed us how simple it was to quickly design a dungeon. In fact, Cryptic told us that instead of using their own tools; their team is actually using the Foundry to design the campaign. Once fans build a map, they can submit it for review and if it's approved it will be published for anyone to play for free.
So the Foundry looks like a pretty accessible tool, but being this is the only aspect of the game we saw, it's hard to say whether this even matters on a larger scale. The combat is supposed to be real-time, but again, we didn't get a look at how this works. The game is slated for release at the end of this year and hopefully we'll have a better idea of how the game plays by then.


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ホーム > Sendai City Official Website > About Sendai City > Sendai City Newsletter (Digested Version) > July 2017
Beware of Black Bears
As we move into the summer season black bears enter their breeding season and males become aggressive. If you plan on going to a forest or near a river use a radio or bell to make noise, make your presence known to the bears. If you do encounter a bear back away from the sight slowly while paying attention to your surroundings.
Inquiries: "Environmentally-friendly" Promotion Section Tel: 022-214-0013
Now Accepting Renewal Applications for Subsidies for Transport Costs for the Disabled
If eligible, you may choose one of the following: Free Ride Disability Pass, welfare taxi tickets, fuel subsidy tickets for private vehicles, or a Senior Citizen Pass (for those aged 70 or over with a disability). There are restrictions on both the type and classification of disabilities and income.
On June 30, application forms were sent out to those who are already receiving subsidies and to those who hold a valid disability certificate as of July 1st. For those who are currently not eligible, please consult us if there is any change in your disability level or income because there are cases where you may become eligible for subsidies.
Inquiries: Disabled and Senior Citizens Welfare Section of any ward office
Public Health and Welfare Section, General Branch Office
Please Don't Forget to Apply for a Reduction of National Pension Payments
If you have difficulty making National Pension payments for financial reasons, you can apply for exemption or reduction of payments (your income will be audited and you will be assigned to one of four tiers based on your income in the previous year).
Inquiries: National Health Insurance and Pension Section of any ward office
National Health Insurance and Pension Section, Miyagi General Branch Office
Public Health and Welfare Section, Akiu General Branch Office
Fixed Asset Tax/City Planning Tax Payments (Extract from Tax Announcement)
Please make the second FY 2017 fixed asset tax and city planning tax payments at your closest financial institution by July 31st (Mon.). If paying by bank transfer, the transaction will be processed on July 31st (Mon.).
Inquiries: Tax Payment and Administration Section Tel: 022-214-1010
Warning and Advisory issuing for Tsunami's has changed
Up until now when a tsunami warning or a tsunami advisory was issued by Japan Meteorological Agency, evacuation advisory was issued in tsunami evacuation areas along the coast. From now immediate evacuation orders (Urgent) will be issued. To those in the applicable areas, please evacuate to a safe place.
Inquiries: Disaster Risk Reduction Promotion Section Tel: 022-214-3048
Now Accepting Applications for Municipal Housing for Single Parents
- Application Deadline: July 16th -
The application packet will be distributed from July 6th at the following places:
Application Section of Sendai City Construction Corporation, Sendai City Hall Kokubuncho Office 2F
Shimin-no-heya, Sendai City Hall 1F
General Information Desk of all ward offices
General Branch Offices
Sendai Station Service Center of the Family Registration Section, Aoba Ward Office (AER 5F)
Certificate Issuance Center
Chuo-shimin Center of any ward
Lifelong Learning Promotion Center
Miyagi Housing Construction Center
Municipal Housing Management Office
How to apply: Choose the unit you wish to apply for, fill out the application form attached to the application packet and, using the provided envelope, send in the form by mail by July 16th. In the event that there are more applications than available housing, applications will be chosen by lottery.
Earliest move-in date: September 21st (tentative)
Please refer to the application packet for details on rent, qualifications for application, etc. or inquire at the following office:
Inquiries: Application Section, Sendai City Construction Public Corporation Tel:022-214-3604
BCG Vaccinations
Eligibility: BCG vaccinations are given to children under one year of age.
(The standard age for BCG vaccinations is five to seven months old.)
Things to bring: Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook, BCG vaccination coupon from the MCH Handbook voucher packet (please fill out and detach)
Please wait at least 28 days after your child receives a live vaccine (such as polio) or seven days after your child receives an inactive vaccine (such as DPT-IPV) for BCG vaccinations.
Aoba Ward Office 2F: July 24th (Mon.) 2:00p.m. - 3:00p.m.
Health Examination Room, East Bldg. of Izumi Ward Office 2F: July 19th (Wed.) 2:00p.m. - 3:00p.m., August 2nd (Wed.) 2:00p.m.-3:00p.m.
Takasago Hoken Center: July 24th (Mon.) 9:30a.m. - 10:00a.m.
Taihaku Ward Office 3F: July 21st (Fri.) 2:00p.m. - 3:00p.m.
Please go directly to the vaccination site. (Reservations not required.)
BCG vaccinations may be received outside your ward of residence.
For details, please contact:
Home Health Section of any ward office
Public Health and Welfare Section of any general branch office


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Submissions for Science Fiction
Finishing the first draft
· April 3, 2018
Finishing your first draft is the most important part of writing a book. This author hasn't actually completed her book, but would like some pointers on how she's getting on. That's okay. I'm going to include the submission on the site because I'd like to explain why I think it's a bad idea to get any critique before you've finished at least a first draft.
Title: The Gift Of Immunity
Wordcount: 60000
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Zara hasn't seen another living soul in six months. She thought she was the only one left.
Fighting to survive, Zara sets a plan in motion to disappear. She isn't prepared for the web of lies, conspiracy, and deceit which begin to unravel along the way.
'The Gift Of Immunity, Our Gift To You. – Hayden Pharmaceuticals'
Zara shook her head bitterly as she walked past the familiar sign at a bus stop. Taking the crumpled map and marker pen from her pocket, she marked her position. Looking to her left she spotted her target, a corner supermarket she had picked out the day before as a new location to gather supplies. It looked fairly small, but it would be worth checking out.
She hadn't wandered further than a half mile radius from the small flat she had taken refuge in for the past six months. Food was plentiful in the beginning but now getting a balanced diet was becoming more difficult. When news of the virus was released by the government everyone had panicked, rushing to stock up on food and water, so the supermarkets had been bare then, let alone six months later. The fresh meat and fish had been the first to spoil, it's putrid smell making it difficult for Zara to even walk into a shop. The fresh fruit, vegetables and bread had been next leaving only tinned and packet foods. Zara had since taken quite a liking to carrot soup, hopefully, this shop stocked it, although chances were she would be stuck with mushy peas.
Zara trudged on to the shop entrance, keeping her eyes sharp to her surroundings. The streets had a familiar eerie silence and emptiness. Cars lay empty, although neatly tucked into parking spaces, they had a layer of grime covering them from being untouched for so long. If you looked closely, weeds had started to weave their way up through the cracks in the pavement and birds were circling the bin outside the shop, in search of decaying scraps.
'London will be like a jungle in ten years' Zara muttered to herself.
Inside, she wandered up and down the aisles, carefully tucking items into her rucksack. She packed in batteries, two small bottles of water and a chocolate bar. Zara tried not to be greedy, she knew she potentially had years and years ahead of her, so it made sense to ration now. Her shoulders sagged with relief as she spotted a few cans of tinned vegetables, something she would have protested at eating a year ago but now it was a matter of survival. Within the last few weeks, she had really noticed the change in her body. She had always been very slender with almost a boyish figure for a seventeen-year-old but her bones had become more pronounced than before. Her face had become gaunt and hollow, with a greyish tinge and her blonde curly hair hung lank and lifeless around her shoulders. Lack of food and constant paranoia was starting to take its toll.
Throwing the last few essentials into her bag, she slung it over one shoulder, testing the weight. As she walked back towards the exit, she felt the familiar pang of guilt. Not for taking the food without paying, she had made peace with that a long time ago, but guilt knowing the owners of the shop were upstairs, probably in bed, dead and gone. Zara shuddered, this was the reason she was starving. Plenty of food was available in the cupboards of virtually every house in the area but she just couldn't bring herself to walk into people's homes. It felt wrong and of course, the smell was getting worse every day although her nose seemed to be adjusting to it. Zara knew eventually, probably soon she would have to leave her half mile comfort zone and wander further into London for supplies. This is what scared her the most.
Taking a series of back streets and alleyways, Zara headed back to her flat. Although there was no one around she still felt uncomfortable being out in the open, constantly suspicious she was being watched. She now knew all the paths well, having studied her maps every day looking for new locations to gather food.
Adjusting the, now, heavy bag on her shoulder, she rounded a bend in the path before skidding to a stop, panic rushing through her. A large black and tan dog, a German Shepard stood in front of her. Zara used to love dogs, she'd had three at home, but she knew now that since these animals hadn't had any human interaction for such a long time and due to the shortage in food, she should steer clear. She stood frozen on the spot, unsure of her next move as the dog let out a deep growl, lowering its head and baring its teeth. Zara quickly looked around her, for an escape. A wooden fence to her left seemed her best option, she lunged towards it pulling herself up, struggling with the wet, slippery wood and the weight of her bag. Thinking of the much-needed food, she couldn't afford to leave it behind. She swung one leg over the top of the fence, just as the dog lunged forward. It sank its teeth into her other dangling ankle, almost pulling her trainer off in the process. She cried out, tugging her leg away as she balanced on the top of the fence. She dog gave in and dropped back onto all fours, leaving behind deep gashes to the side of her ankle. Satisfied the dog could not climb over the fence, she pulled her injured leg over and lowered herself down onto the grass the other side.
Gingerly, she put weight on her foot with gritted teeth. It stung a little and the wound was not bleeding too badly, but she was more worried about infection. She bit her lip, unsure of what to do. She looked around the garden she had intruded. Although now a mass of weeds, she could tell it was once cared for and loved. Garden gnomes littered the overgrown grass and a bird table stood abandoned filled with green, slimy looking water. She turned her head to the small bungalow at the end of the garden, she noted the upstairs curtains were pulled shut, no way could she venture inside.
Editorial comment: Okay, so let me elaborate on what I said at the beginning. The most important thing about writing the first draft of your book is to finish it, to write a complete book. For every draft MS that does come stumbling out of the darkness, there are probably a hundred, a thousand times that number half written, abandoned, lying forgotten in a drawer somewhere. Ideas for stories are easy. It's actually getting down and writing it out that's the hard part. You've seen the quotes, read the memes – "Writing is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration", "The hardest part about writing is sitting your bum on the seat". Anything that can interfere with the gradual progression of your novel from "just begun", to "halfway through", to "almost done", to "finished", is to be avoided at all costs. Get the first draft down on paper (or screen), then think about revising it, or getting other people's opinions on it.
Why? Because people will have an opinion. They'll say things like "Well, that's pretty unbelievable" or "I don't like this character", or "This is pretty slow". They might be right, but they also may be wrong. The danger is that if you pause your creative processes and go back and assess what they've said and start tinkering around trying to fix problems that might not even be there, your creativity is going to grind to a crashing halt, and you'll not be able to pick up the thread of your story again when you come to continue it. Writers are bad enough at second-guessing themselves. Finish your story, then stick it in a drawer and forget about it. Then, six months later, drag it out again and start revising it. At some point in the future you might want to ask someone else's opinion on it, but that point isn't now, when you've only got a third written.
Having said all that, you wanted a critique, so I'll give you one. I would caution that you should pay absolutely no attention to it at all, and if you read on further, don't come crying to me in six months time that you haven't written anything else since. 🙂
The writing is okay. You need to brush up on your sentence structure and punctuation, but it's fine, really. You'd catch a lot when you come to revise (which is not your concern now). You are probably aware that the dystopian/zombie apocalypse/virus-killing-99%-of-humanity stories are numerous, and that therefore competition to attract an agent's eye in the genre is intense. It really has to stand out, with brilliant writing, or a unique angle/perspective. What if the only person to survive the plague was in a wheelchair? What kind of unique challenges would they face?
I'd be more concerned with this aspect of your story – what's going to make this stand out amongst many, many other similar manuscripts.
There's a lack of real and imminent threat, to Zara, that makes me think the story is rather slow to get started. You say in your synopsis (that needs work – too confusing. What is Zara's problem and what is she going to do about it?) that she hasn't seen another human in six months, and she thinks she's the only one still alive. So … why the paranoia? Why has she kept herself to one tiny mile-wide circle? What has she been doing with her time? Just snooping off to the shops and pilfering cans of carrot soup? This is not an interesting heroine. The lack of any real drama is evidenced in the language. She's holed up in a small flat. Where's her ambition? She wanders about in the shop, up and down the aisles. She tucks things carefully into her rucksack. She worries about getting a balanced diet (and her hair has lost its shine, too – bummer). This isn't a girl who appears very traumatised by the collapse of civilization around her. There were 14,999,999 other people in London before the virus hit. They're all now dead. She's just quite resentful that they are starting to smell so bad. But hey-ho, she's getting used to it. If this girl were a librarian, you sense that she'd still be turning up for work, sending out more and more irate "Books overdue" notices.
There's a small frisson of danger with a dog. Okay, but it is only a lone alsatian, and they're not exactly shy of biting people in real life. What would an unpopulated London be like after a year? It would be overrun with feral cats, dogs, foxes, deer. Rats the size of taxis, would be my guess. All those rotting people up in their bedrooms with the curtains closed – yum! But she confronts a lone alsatian, fails to escape, gets bitten, and frets about infection. Well okay, that could be a life-threatening incident in this situation, especially if the dog had been munching on the feet of Mrs Jones (six months gone, upstairs front bedroom at number 21 down the street, paisley curtains), but you do feel that Zara would be more concerned about her torn sock.
Not riveting enough for me, I'm afraid, but …
Pay no attention to this. Finish your first draft. Write your story. Tell us what happens to Zara that makes her survival just the most important thing in the world. Then drop it in a drawer for six months, then drag it out and start revising. On your third or fourth revision, come back to read this critique. Chances are you'll have dealt with most of these issues yourself in revising. But if you don't carry on and finish (which you've clearly the talent to do), you'll never have a book to critique.
Can you write a book? Yes, you certainly can. Are you "any good"? Well, it's a little early to tell, but there's nothing here that says you shouldn't try. For all my perceived problems with Zara, she is at least consistent, so you can tell a story and make the protagonist real. It's just that Zara, in this incarnation, is a bit of a drip. Instead of Lara Croft, all skin-tight leather cat-suit, official tombraider and death-dealing adventurer/assassin, we've got Zara from the suburbs, who "had nice hair once" and now worries about her skin tone.
One option that's open to people who really are unsure of their own abilities is mentoring, by an editor. This is a bespoke arrangement whereby the writer sends material they've written to the editor on a periodic basis, for review. The editor will hopefully be able to give them guidance on certain aspects of writing craft that they may be slipping up on. It doesn't suit everyone, or every editor, and it can get expensive, but it's something to consider. Honestly, I don't think you need that level of help.
Categories : Rejected, Science Fiction, Where does the story start?
Tags : draft, finishing, first


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by Hunter Hayes
Album: Hunter Hayes (2011)
You know I'd fall apart without you
I don't know how you do what you do
'Cause everything that don't make sense about me
Makes sense when I'm with you
Like everything that's green girl I need you
But it's more than one and one makes two
Put aside the math and the logic of it
You gotta know you're wanted too
'Cause I wanna wrap you up
Wanna kiss your lips
I wanna make you feel wanted
And I wanna call you mine
Wanna hold your hand forever
Never let you forget it
Yeah I wanna make you feel wanted
Anyone can tell you you're pretty
And you get that all the time, I know you do
But your beauty's deeper than the make up
And I wanna show you what I see tonight
When I wrap you up
When I kiss your lips
'Cause baby I wanna make you feel wanted
As good as you make me feel I
I wanna make you feel better
Better than your fairy tales
Better than your best dreams
You're more than everything I need
You're all I ever wanted
And I just wanna wrap you up
And never let you forget it
Baby I wanna make you feel wanted
You'll always be wanted Writer/s: Vanessa Carlton
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Jessica from Erie, PaI love this song... Hunter, be my boyfriend... lol
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Kent E. Calder (born April 18, 1948) is the Interim Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He serves as the Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and is also the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of East Asian Studies at SAIS. He previously served as the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.

Calder is the author of 15 major books and numerous scholarly and popular articles. Crisis and Compensation (1988) received the Ohira Memorial Prize and the Arisawa Memorial Prize of the American Association of University Publishers. Pacific Defense (1996) was the first publication by an American to receive the Mainichi Grand Prix in Asia-Pacific Studies (1997) for its analysis of how economic change is transforming the U.S.-East Asia security equation.Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration was published in 2019. His works have been translated into five foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Portuguese, and Mongolian. His book "Super Continent" received two awards: "Financial Times Book of the Year in Politics" for 2019; and the "Okakura Tenshin International Prize in Eurasian Studies" for 2020.

History
Calder served from 1997 to 2001 as special advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, working under Walter Mondale, Thomas Foley, and briefly Howard Baker. He has also held staff positions with the U.S. Congress and the Federal Trade Commission, serving as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1990. Calder joined Johns Hopkins SAIS in 2003, serving as director of the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies (2003–present); Asia Programs (2016-2018); and as Vice Dean (2018-2020).

Calder taught for two decades at Princeton University (1983 -2003), where he holds emeritus standing, after teaching for four years at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. At Harvard, he was the first Executive Director of the university's Program on US-Japan Relations, working with Edwin O. Reischauer and Hisashi Owada. A specialist on Japanese trade and industrial policy in his early years, Calder focused on how party politics and socio-economic structure affect functioning of the Japanese political economy. From 1990 to 2003, after receiving tenure at Princeton, Calder directed the university's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Education
Calder received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 1979, where he worked under the director of Edwin Reischauer. Apart from the Ohira, Arisawa, and Mainichi Asia-Pacific Prizes for his academic work, Calder also received the Academia Prize of the Japan Society of Scholars (2012); the Eagle on the Sun Award of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2015); and the Urasenke Tea Culture Prize (2018). The last of these was a special award for his efforts in promoting international tea-culture diplomacy. In 2014, Calder was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese government for his contribution to the development of Japan studies in the United States and the enhancement of trans-Pacific understanding.

Selected publications

Books
Global Political Cities: Actors and Arenas of Influence in International Affairs (Brookings Institution, 2021)
Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019)
Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).
Singapore: Smart City, Smart State (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2016).
Asia in Washington: Exploring the Penumbra of Transnational Power (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2014).
 The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First Century Eurasian Geopolitics (New Haven: Yale University Press, May 2012).
 The Making of Northeast Asia co-author with Min Ye (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).
 Pacific Alliance: Reviving U.S.-Japan Relations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
 East Asian Multilateralism: Prospects for Regional Stability, co-editor with Francis Fukuyama (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
 Korea's Energy Insecurities: Comparative and Regional Perspectives (Washington DC: Korea Economic Institute of America, 2005).
 Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).
 Pacific Defense: Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia (New Haven:Yale University Press, 1996).
 Strategic Capitalism: Private Business and Public Purpose in Japanese Industrial Finance (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993).
 Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988).
 The Eastasia Edge, co-author with Roy Hofheinz (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Articles

 The global logic of a Tokyo-Tehran tête-à-tête
Energy is the key to 21st century Eurasian geopolitics
 Japan's Energy Angst and the Caspian Great Game
 Letter From Tokyo: New Regime, New Relationship? A New Era in U.S.-Japanese Relations
 China and Japan's Simmering Rivalry
 The New Face of Northeast Asia
 Asia's Empty Tank
 Review: Japanese Foreign Economic Policy Formation: Explaining the Reactive State
 Coping with North Korea's Energy Future: KEDO and Beyond
 Resource Development and Arctic Governance: An American Perspective
 U.S. Climate Policy and Prospects for US-Japan Cooperation
 Alliance Endangered? Challenges from the Changing Political-Economic Context of U.S.-Japan Relations
 Beneath the Eagle's Wings? The Political Economy of Northeast Asian Burden-Sharing in Comparative Perspective
 Coping with energy insecurity: China's response in global perspective
 Halfway to Hegemony: Japan's Tortured Trajectory

Selected lectures and interviews
Available online in audio/video with external links:

Beyond Fukushima: Japan's Emerging Energy and Environmental Challenges, April 5, 2012, at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia.
 The New Continentalism: Energy and Twenty-First-Century Eurasian Geopolitics, July 5, 2012, at Asan Institute, Seoul, South Korea.
 Dr. Calder: The New Continentalism: Energy and 21st Century Eurasian Geopolitics, September 17, 2012, at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington DC.
 The Making of Northeast Asia, at the East West Center, Washington DC.
 Dr. Kent E. Calder on NHK World Wave, December 19, 2011
 Public Lecture: Kent Calder Book Talk: The Making of Northeast Asia
 Managing Risk and Security in East Asia
 ケント・カルダー ジョンズ・ホプキンス大学高等国際問題研究大学院, June 14, 2013, at Japan National Press Club,
 ケント・カルダー_5_日本経済再生の処方せんは, interviewed by Japanese media NHK on December 17, 2012.
 シリーズ「日米中」①ケント・カルダー氏 October 19, 2009 at Japan National Press Club

References

American political scientists
American Japanologists
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Princeton University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
1948 births
Living people
People from Utah

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The fourth edition of the Modart project - a composer development initiative by AMC and The Song Company - was set in motion in Sydney at the beginning of February. The nine participants will document their experiences on resonate by submitting short project diaries. In part one of The Modart Diaries, Lachlan Skipworth describes how the first workshop with The Song Company made him reconsider some aspects of his composition.
From the moment The Song Company began singing, it became apparent that they are not so much a company as a family. Each member knows their voice and exactly how it blends with the other individual voices within the group. The resultant sound is balanced and pure, even when sight-reading our works for the first time. This only reinforced what we felt on being selected to be a part of the MODART program – we were in for something special.
In preparation, there were two important things we had to do as composers. Firstly, we had to get to know the existing repertoire, which involved an amount of time at the library immersed in scores and recordings. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, we had to choose a text. This was crucial, as it was the starting point for deciding what kind of piece we wanted to write.
I chose a text by the Japanese calligrapher Mitsuo Aida whose work had moved me during a visit to a museum dedicated to his works in Tokyo. Aida's works are almost childlike in their appearance and register, but the simplicity encapsulates a power far beyond the sum of its components. Capturing this in the music was going to be a difficult proposition, so I was a little apprehensive about trying out my collection of unfinished sketches out at the workshop.
Fortunately, we were in the capable hands of Roland Peelman, who possesses the wonderful ability to look at a score and immediately discern the composer's intention. This means that the wealth of useful ideas he airs are very well directed to the musical point we are trying to achieve.
The discussion about my work quickly came to an exploration of the true meaning of the text, causing me to rethink my approach and to search for a way in which my musical ideas could better reflect that meaning. On a technical level, the input of the singers was very helpful in regard to range and also in an instance where one part was too exposed to achieve the balanced sound I desired.
Finally, just hearing the work sung gave me the opportunity to gauge the success of the sounds and effects I used in my sketches and improve them where necessary. I'm sure the other composers and I will all use the coming weeks to forge our initial ideas into strong works, and wait in anticipation of the next round of workshops and the final performances in July.
Lachlan Skipworth is a Sydney-based composer, originally from Perth. He studied composition with Roger Smalley and Anne Boyd, and spent two and a half years in Japan learning Shakuhachi with Kakizakai Kaoru and revered master Yokoyama Katsuya. Skipworth was a featured composer at the 2008 World Shakuhachi Festival in Sydney. His music has been presented by Sydney's 'Chronology Arts' organisation, with whom he has also appeared as a guest conductor. In late 2009, Skipworth will spend three months in Tokyo as part of the Asialink Arts Residency Program.


Once upon a time, Randy Rayburn was among the hottest young restaurateurs in town. Sunset Grill was the place to hang out and see famous musicians & celebs. Of course, inevitably, time moved on, styles changed, and Reese Witherspoon started hanging out in Pinewood Social. But the food remains just as good as it ever was -- the "Classic" menu features the Voodoo Pasta and Coca-Cola ribs that fueled many misspent youths, while the rest of the menu offers an ever-evolving roster of modern American-style local goodness.
Sometimes if a place has kids drawing on the paper tablecloths with crayons, people's critical judgement can be (gasp!) unjustly compromised. This is one of those places. Doodling little ragamuffins aside, if you want a decent Italian meal, Amerigo will give you just that. Expect the delicious likes of Noble Springs Mac & Cheese made w/ regional pimento goat cheese, mozz, crispy country ham, and a panko-Parmesan crust.
It's never helpful when you have to give directions to a restaurant using other dining options as landmarks, but unless you spend much time on Bransford Ave in Berry Hill, odds are you haven't encountered Patrick's Bistreaux (it's across from Monell's). Well, his Cajun/Creole menu is delicious, and he even gets Leidenheimer bread from New Orleans for po' boys with heaps of fried catfish, shrimp, chicken, or oysters (aided by bottles of Crystal hot sauce, available by request from his kitchen stash).
Most people know the Capitol Grille at the Hermitage Hotel as a top-shelf fine diner serving fantastic food, and charging a top-shelf amount for it all. But what most people forget is that this is a hotel restaurant, and as such they serve lunch, too -- the Daily Blue Plate Specials feature the craft and care of the fancy dinners (with dishes like Double H Farms Meatloaf w/ buttermilk mashed pots on Weds, and Cornmeal Fried Catfish w/ Napa cabbage slaw & hush puppies on Fri), but at a mere $14. Plus? They'll valet your car.
It's tough to grab attention when you open a resto in between press-magnets Etch and Husk, so it's no surprise that when Chef Trey Cioccia swung open the barn doors of The Farm House in '13, he had a little of his thunder undeservedly stolen. But his menu is still fantastic. And his favorite farmer? That would be himself, since he grows many of the ingredients for his kitchen in his own garden. Expect dishes like a Tennessee caprese w/ heirloom toms, compressed watermelon, and house-made mozzarella, and a hot chicken homage topped with biscuit puree, kohlrabi, and candied chicken skin.
While its Charlotte Pike-area neighbors Kien Giang and Miss Saigon might get more attention from Nashville fans of Viet fare, VN could actually be the best of the lot. And being partially hidden around the corner of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it strip center, and protected by a suicide left turn across traffic upon exiting, VN almost seems like it's trying to keep diners from finding it. But those who brave the journey discover a world of spicy wok-fried goodness and luscious bowls of pho, as well as deliciously unpronounceable dishes like Mi Xao Mem (Vietnamese stir-fried egg noodles) or Bun bo Hue (a beef & rice noodle soup).
Overshadowed by Prince's to the North, and stripped down to the barest of amenities, Helen's "Hella Hot" chicken is nevertheless delicious, and truly, scorchingly hot. Set up in an old construction trailer parked on the side of Rosa Parks Blvd North of the Nashville Farmers' Market, the menu isn't fancy, with the standard offering of breast or leg quarters, wings, and chicken tenders along with fries, pickles, and rolls as sides. Its only real downfall? It closes at 9pm.
We all know Nashville has a great and booming BBQ scene, and Papa T's is frequently -- and a little unfairly -- left out in the cold (even by the most reputable publications). You really can't miss it however, if you're out in Hermitage, thanks to the huge smoker in the parking lot pumping out their first-rate pork ribs, shoulders, chicken, turkey legs, brisket, and even the occasional special of a smoked ribeye steak -- and if that wasn't enough, an added bonus is Mama T, whose line of chess, chocolate, and pecan pies are sold across the midstate in grocery stores.


Why do I need to provide the address information in the TOOL?
This is for your reference only – it is a lot easier for you to remember where the house is located if you have the location and some high level info about the property.
How do I know when to select the N/A option?
The N/A option to the left of every question means NOT APPLICABLE. In other words, the question did not pertain to the house you were inspecting. So, for example, if the house didn't have a basement, answer N/A to each of the questions in the basement section and the calculation model will remove those questions from the scoring for the final report.
What does the green checkmark mean to the right of each question?
The green check mark is an affirmative or YES response to the question.
What does the red X mean to the right of each question?
The red X is the negative or NO response to the question.
How does the scoring for the final report work?
The calculation model removes each N/A question from the total number of questions that you responded to and then does a very simple math calculation to give you the percentage of the remaining questions that were responded to with the red X. These negative responses are things that may concern you or may just be issues you'll consider as you make your decision on purchasing the right home for you. This TOOL should NEVER be used as the only method for assessing your decision in submitting a purchase offer on a home. It was developed with the intent of helping homebuyers have a tool to bring knowledge and understanding to those who do not have background in construction or homeownership and provide insight into some things that could affect your happiness in the home.
Please note: While some of the items you view may have received an affirmative or YES answer in your inspection, you should NOT assume that they will stay trouble free forever. Homes wear down, things break, and eventually, something you never expected to have to repair or replace makes its way into the life of the Happy Homeowner.
Your email address is one way that we track the first two free uses. It is also the way we will notify you if there are any updates to the TOOL in the coming months. Most importantly, it is the place where the PDF version of your inspection report will be sent. Please note: we do NOT retain any of the inspection information you have answered as you go through the house; the inspection you have completed is your personal inspection opinion. We do not collect the data for statistical information or research data and we cannot reproduce a report for you in any way. So please, if you lose a report or use an email address that is not really yours because you want privacy, understand that no matter how many requests you make to us to provide a copy of your inspection, we just won't be able to do it.
Sounds like you may have your next best friend for going through Open Houses, right?
Let us know what you think after you've used the Personal Home Inspection Tool…and if you want more info about why we think you should look at the various questions…. please look through out blog posts for the scoop!


So, you've been running a solid business for some time now, and you think it's time to boost that brand and grow. Well, building up your business image is going to take dedication, time and, above all, patience. Rising up a level from a typical successful business, to a known brand is achievable, but it's no walk in the park.
Whatever product or service you might be pitching, you can rest assured that the vast majority of your customers are going to knock n your online door first – there is no time to be wasted in the busy modern world. The thing is: no matter how awesome-looking your physical retail store is, most of your prospective customers are going to skip right past a cringe-worthy, non-user-friendly website. What this means is pure monetary loss.
Just like the impeccability of your physical retail shop plays no real role when it comes to website visitors, the beauty and the perfect user experience that your site offers matter little when you consider the people who are looking for your product type. In essence, employing search engine marketing and SEO will help you generate traffic and make a name for yourself. If you specialize in water filters, and you happen to be among the top search results regarding that particular keyword, you are already working towards a solid reputation.
Being humble is for everyone from a war hero, to a professional artist, but it's not right for a business. This is simply because, as a rule of thumb, war heroes and artists don't intentionally get into their respective situations. For an entrepreneur, well, let's just say that success leads to more success – and bragging about it will generate more leads. Feel free to talk about your success, but, even more importantly, be proud of your employees' success, and don't be afraid to talk about it. Awarding your high-performing employees with corporate awards will give them an incentive to excel further, it will motivate the rest of your workplace, but it will also help you build up your brand image.
Say you are a company that specializes in sound insulation. Following a particular less-than flawless logic, you'd come up with a tagline, along the lines of "we offer awesome soundproofing options for musicians, pros and private properties".
Brief and to the point? Yep! Efficient? Nope! Why? Well, exactly: "why?" This tagline offers nothing but vague, unimpressive promises – it sounds like something a tired old company would offer.
Now, how about this: "We want you to have your peace of mind, whether you're producing or playing music, working from home, at work, or looking for some greatly deserved rest in the middle of a concrete jungle". Sure, this tagline doesn't say what you offer, but there's a hint in there. The message is much more pleasant and it's what sets apart this fictional brand from the sea of others. It also contains useful information – it is aimed at everyone who needs some quiet and peace of mind.
Is your tagline tedious and typical? Work on changing it and giving it a real face. It's really not that hard.
When trying to build up your business image, focus on perfecting your website first – it's arguably the most common initial reaction that your potential customers are going to have with your business. Focus on SEO to boost your search results, don't be shy about bragging and polish your message and tagline.


Fastrack is a high speed disc-flinging game powered by your finger! Use the elastic band to fire all of the discs through the tiny slot to the other side of the track. Test your speed and dexterity! Aim carefully and be quick before your opponent's discs come zooming in. Fastrack is 100% wood and sustainably made.
the direction and speed of the shot.


There's Its All Good In The Motherhood Shirt! Btw, this is the start of National Library Week. If you can't make it to a library this week, try to visit one in the near future! (You might even find a nice P!nk cd to check out!) great absolutely awesome show Thursday at the Beacon, MSG/NYC, I attended with my GF.
Son and grandson and I must say Its All Good In The Motherhood Shirt was so beautiful and so touching for reasons I rather not share but let me son my son cried the entire show holding his son in his arms, this photo just made me so emotional, the love just the love. My four year old is obsessed with you!
You've been her inspiration for dancing, drums, and she amazes us because she knows every word to your Melbourne concert from watching it so much. Thank you for being such a strong. Inspiration for a generation that is finding their truth. I have been haunting ticket sites since your Its All Good In The Motherhood Shirt.


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Case Studies Management / Strategy
DeLeon & Stang Streamline Education with BLI and Navigator
Before adopting the Navigator Advanced Learning System (LMS), leadership at DeLeon & Stang envisioned the move away from their manual, cumbersome learning approach to something streamlined and automated. Like many firms, they had their own system in place, where they maintained curriculums, collected CPE certifications manually from employees, and tracked licensing. As the firm grew, this became a nightmare to organize and manage and increased the risk of overlooking time-sensitive tasks like renewing licenses.
DeLeon & Stang had been working with the Maryland Association of CPAs to develop a sophisticated LMS. Their vision was to have curricula housed in a central location, where ongoing education and licensing information could easily be monitored and tracked. Once CPA2Biz entered the scene, this vision became a reality with Navigator.
Navigator has been a major game changer at DeLeon & Stang. They've been able to implement a world-class LMS that offers staff on-demand courses across learning tracks in a single platform. In the early phases of LMS implementation, their team mapped out the firm's education requirements. With firms in two states, and associates with multiple state licenses, they required a rich repository of content. That meant pulling in curricula from several sources. Their LMS now houses courses from our own internal DS [DeLeon Stang] University, Maryland Association of CPAs, AICPA, and the Business Learning Institute. Pulling from several sources, staff has access to everything from technical content, such as audit and tax, to soft skills training, including courses on leadership, written communications, and public speaking. The system is built to offer the full circle of learning. Employees at DeLeon & Stang are set up for success, and education is a big part of that. Using the advanced Navigator platform has allowed them to develop a highly custom learning management system—complete with materials that span a wide range of disciplines. And with built-in tracking and alerts, the once cumbersome task of monitoring CPE fulfillment and licensing is now automated.
Advanced learning management systems used to only be financially feasible for large firms. Navigator changed that for DeLeon & Stang and others. For only a few hundred dollars per employee, per year, staff gets unlimited access to course content. The fixed annual fee also allows for easy budgeting. "DeLeon & Stang's transition from a manual, complex learning management approach to an advanced automated learning management system has been a real game changer. Operating within Navigator's cloud-based platform and providing staff with a single, secure space for learning has proven successful. Our staff loves the new system. They can conveniently take on-demand courses at their own pace and from the comfort of their office. This has cut down on the need for travel because most courses are available in the LMS." Allen DeLeon, CPA, Partner
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I was working on Saturday, and I approached a family with a 6-year-old boy. I waved, and his grandpa said to him, "What do we say to pretty girls?" I kept quiet, and sat down and started to get shy. I was perfectly fine with that and told him he didn't have to say anything if he didn't want to. But his grandpa kept pushing him, saying, "Now, what do we say to pretty girls?" He yelled out, "Hubba hubba."
I am not sure how I feel about this. I didn't know how to react, so I just smiled and said goodbye, but I couldn't help but wonder if this was an example of how we teach our (mostly) men that street harassment is ok.


Business is still extremely quiet in my town. Retailers who previously not taking about how quiet business has become are starting to get worried and many of us are trying to figure out what we can do about it.
I have decided to get a website and have already set my laptop up with a FTP program and the next move is to pick a free WYSIWYG website creation tool and pick a good deal for web hosting.
Any advice, or recommendations would be greatfully recieved.
I would use a wordpress site, some templates come with really good wysiwyg editors. I paid about £50 for my template and was up and running within a few weeks.
Have you thought of a facebook page to engage with those in the local area. Facebook can work really well for some people.
I've just started working on a new site and am using the WIX system. I've used it before and find it easy to use and adapt. Good luck.
Agree with Steve, Weebly is hard to beat. Intuitive to use but with many grown-up features.
About four years ago our simple site was put together in a few days with Weebly.
For hosting I've been using ICUK for years now and they have been very good. 100% reliable and good with support. They have a one click install system for some programs which include Wordpress.
Not your average framer wrote: Business is still extremely quiet in my town. Retailers who previously not taking about how quiet business has become are starting to get worried and many of us are trying to figure out what we can do about it.
Have you considered running a campaign together with other businesses? "Shop at any one of these stores for your chance to win 1 of x amount of prizes".
You combine your contact list to use in an email campaign and can also share in other advertising costs.
If it works, you could continue it and involve other shops as well.
Other then while a website is good, it is only good if someone is looking for a framer, and then they were already half way there. You ned to create business, and that is therefor needing to create a want/demand. You could try Mail drop a local area with a gift voucher (valid for a limited time) even if they don't use it, you will be planting a seed for when they do have something to frame. Visit art galleries, photography and art clubs. Sporting clubs etc.
If you are slow, you need to get out and find the work. Ring previous customers as a courtesy call, to see how they are and if enjoying and happy with the framing you did for them. Nothing more, nothing less - this leaves the customer feeling special that you care about them and their artwork, and they will talk about you.
Hope things pick up for you soon.
Some good ideas Mark @ i-framer.
Over 2 years ago I started our local business association as I felt that as a village we were missing out on business to larger towns nearby.
We now have over 35 members in the association who each pay £40 a year and this allows us to deliver a full glossy brochure once a year to all the houses in the village, put up posters with a full list of our members, and a few other promotional activities.
There has been a definite increase in awareness of the benefits of shopping locally.
You can see what we've done at http://www.keepitstonehouse.co.uk.
Thanks for all the responses so far. I'm still looking at these ideas and recommendations, but no firm conclusions yet.
I've managed to dig out my old original laptop (vintage 1999 and Windows 98 second edition). It has a broken power connector, but if you don't move it about too much it still works. It has a copy of a program called "Web Express" the company who supplied this software no longer exists, but I created lots of web pages for the towns business associations website using this and have a good understanding of how it works.
I'm not sure what would happen if I tried to get this old computer up and running with my existing ISP, or if I could transfer this 32 bit software onto my current Sony laptop which is running Windows 7. At the moment, I have no common means of data transfer between the two machines, but I'm hoping that I can do this some how. Perhaps someone might know if this is worth trying?
My thinking is to run this program for a memory stick as the program does not need any registery entries for it to run. In theory it should be a portable program and I hope is still capable of running on a more modern machine. My ISP's helpline won't support either Windows 98, or Windows XP and this old computer only has the hardware for an old fashioned dial up connection, so any configuration issues and it won't neccessarily be easy to get up and running, if at all.
So this is what I want to try this weekend as a temporary fix! I'll let you all know what happens.
Things may have moved on a little since then Mark, you really need a responsive site in this day and age, if not Google won't give you time of day in the rankings and if you want people to find you via google then you will be scuppered without one.
Do you mean things like XML site maps and things like that for google? If you access the correct google address, you can fill in a form and google will create all that stuff for you and you upload to you website maanually. Modern website creation software does all that automatically, but it's no different if you do it manually. Or are there other specific things which I don't know about?
How about stuff like Java and CGI scripts, I don't have much experience of creating stuff like this, but I'm not sure whether this would affect my SEO ratings. Is there anywhere on the web where I can find out about this? Thanks.
The above about the knackered old computer does not sound much of a recipe for success. You've been given good advice but I think this attitude from Jan 2014 has not helped you whatsoever.
Not your average framer wrote: Personally, I'm not sure if advertising makes a lot difference, but it can cost you plenty in terms of time and money!
I don't advertise, currently not got a website, don't do facebook, or any of the other social media sites and yet people keep turning up with framing to be done!
and neither has your failure to do basic things like take card payment.
You have also spoken about getting a website over the years but it has not come off. I hope you make it happen this time and it's not too late.
The major thing if the last 18 months is whether your site is mobile friendly. I don't know what the figures are but the majority of Internet usage these days is done using a tablet or a phone especially people on the move looking for local services.
You will be best using one of the online wysiwyg Web creation sites as suggested. They will be responsive and seo optimised. As I said WordPress is very good.
Now I understand. I have a plug in for my browser that checks mobile compatabilty. It's a stand alone module that a friend gave me, I don't know where it came from, but you can down load it for free, it lists the changes required and it's fairly idiot proof.
You can make this very difficult, or you can make it very easy indeed.
1. Forget everything you ever knew about web design.
2. Take half an hour and go to wix.com and start making a website. Just for fun. It won't cost you anything. Have a play around.
3. After half an hour you will find you have a perfectly acceptable website.
4. You will then want to buy thedartmoorgallery.co.uk and will pay your £7.76 per month to Wix. And you will have a website.
You could honestly have done this in the time you have spent posting about it on this thread!
EDITED to add, if you can post on here, you don't need a new computer. The entirety of the thing is held "in the cloud".
Totally agree with James (and everyone else), forget about making your own website, just go to wordpress, wix, 123reg, weebly, even blogger and you will have a site up in a few hours.
O.K., O.k., I hear what you are saying. I try wix.
They have some nice templates which are completely customisable and they can do some really clever things. Can also take card payments etc. Their customer support is top notch too. And you get a free domain name!
Not affiliated or anything, just genuinely really impressed with how easy it is and how well it works.
Mark must be well on his way to a decent website after a week.


Providing compassionate, non-jugdmental support is essential to becoming a bereavement volunteer.
Module 8 will cover the following topics. Click the link to head to that page.
Providing compassionate support to those grieving.
Near Death Experiences and afterlife conversations.


How to Rip Blu-rays to jRiver Media Center for Streaming?
JRiver Media Center offers the highest quality video available. And it plays everything such as: streaming video from Netflix or Hulu, Youtube clips and movies, and so on. If you want to put your Blu-ray collections to jRiver Media Center, you have come to the right place. This tutorial will share an easy method to rip your Blu-rays to jRiver Media Center for easier Streaming.
Before we go any further, let's get quickly view of which formats are supported by jRiver Media Center in best performance.
So, in order to put movies from Blu-ray discs to jRiver Media Center, you'll ask help from a third party Blu-ray to jRiver converter to rip/convert Blu-rays to jRiver Media Center supported video formats as above. The process can be done easily and quckily with the help of Brorsoft Blu-ray ripper, which in not only good at ripping any (protected) Blu-rays to jRiver Media Center supported file formats in fast speed while keep its original video quality, but also provides 250+ popular video/audio formats for playing on iPhone, iPad, Android phone and tablet, PS3/PS4, Xbox, etc. For Mac users, please turn to Brorsoft Blu-ray ripper for Mac.
Install and launch the best Blu-ray to jRiver Converter, click "Load disc" button to load your Blu-ray movies to this program.
With above settings, tap the Convert button to rip Blu-rays to WebM, MP4, QuickTime MOV, AVI, WMV formats for jRiver Media Center.
Now, you're able to stream and play the converter Blu-ray movies via jRiver Media Center just fine.
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Q: How do I delete characters after 10th character from xml tags Notepad++? I have a xml file with repeated xml tags where I want to trim the string length to 10 characters
Data:
<Item>
<ItemNumber>1</ItemNumber>
<Description>Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum</Description>
</Item>
<Item>
<ItemNumber>2</ItemNumber>
<Description>Ipsum Lorem</Description>
</Item>

Expected Result after trimming <Description> tag to 10 character:
<Item>
<ItemNumber>1</ItemNumber>
<Description>Lorem Ipsu</Description>
</Item>
<Item>
<ItemNumber>2</ItemNumber>
<Description>Ipsum Lore</Description>
</Item>

A: Press Ctrl+H, and enter the following:

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*Find what: (<Description>.{10})(.+?)(</Description>)

*Replace with: $1$3

*Select Regular expression, then click Replace All.

A: Another way to go, without capture groups that slow down the process:

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*Ctrl+H

*Find what: <Description>.{10}\K.+?(?=</Description>)

*Replace with: LEAVE EMPTY

*CHECK Match case

*CHECK Wrap around

*CHECK Regular expression

*Replace all
Explanation:
<Description>           # literally, opening tag
.{10}                   # 10 any character
\K                      # reset match, forget all we have seen until this position
.+?                     # 1 or more any character, not greedy
(?=</Description>)      # positive lookahead, make sure we have the closing tag after

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