In honor of the presidential conventions happening in Cleveland and in Philadelphia, we thought it would be interesting to take a look back in history at some of the presidents and the watches they owned. From pocket watches to the popular timepieces of recent presidents, what has made each president tick?
Washington also acquired a Jean-Antoine Lépine, in which Gouveneur Morris bought for him while on a trip to Paris. Lépine was a watchmaker for Louis XVI, Louis XV and Napoleon Bonaparte. This pocketwatch is currently in the collection of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and can be found at the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia.
At the time of Washington's presidency, the government was located in Philadelphia. Washington's third watch was a pocketwatch from Ephraim Clark in Philadelphia. Washington was known to regularly visit the watchmaker on Second Street to compare his watch with the regulator.
Jefferson, the 3rd President, is also a connoisseur of pocket watches. He owned a gold pocket watch made by Daniel Vaucher, a Paris-based watchmaker. Jefferson is thought to have acquired the watch while on a trip to the French city. He later gave this watch to James Monroe, the 5th President. The watch can now be found at the James Monroe Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
In addition to the Vaucher, Monroe owned a gold Gabriel pocketwatch. This watch features a richly-decorated case with hour and minute hands that match the ornately engraved case. The minute track around the outer dial is quite fluid, with it rising up between each minute numeral.
The 16th President owned quite a few pocketwatches, one of which has an incredible story that can be read about at the Smithsonian.com.
Lincoln also owned a Waltham Ellery pocketwatch, model 1857. This model is especially important in watchmaking history as it was the first successful industrialized watch. These mass produced watches were less expensive than the typical pocketwatch, making them a favorite among Union soldiers. He also owned an unsigned pocketwatch along with a watch sold by Tiffany & Co. and is signed "J. Jacqueson, Copenhagen" and a pocketwatch from George Chatterton.
Fast forwarding from 1865 to 1913, Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President. Wilson is known to have owned an unusual Žižlavský pocket watch. The watch is engraved with a message reading "To President Woodrow Wilson in the memory of the 1918 defeat of Germany" and was made in Prague.
The watch face displays 60 cities and countries worldwide, and is thought to be a world timer before world time watches were fully adopted. The watch expands from the engraved gold center outwards including a seconds and hour ring before the cities. The numerals and cities are all hand painted, featuring different thicknesses and not completely straight lines.
Tiffany & Co. debuted its CT60 Calendar watch, a timepiece based on the watch worn by Roosevelt throughout the last few months of his life.
The 33rd President of the United States was also an avid watch connoisseur. He was gifted a Gallet Flying Officer, engraved with "Col. Truman from Vic, Paul." The Flying Officer is distinguished as the first watch used to tell world time, setting the bezel to the home city before using for other cities. Hodinkee explained the importance of the Flying Officer on their blog.
Truman also wore an 18k yellow gold Universal Geneve Tri-Compax in 1945. The caseback was engraved stating it was "Worn at Potsdam, July 1945 by Harry Truman." He was also gifted a Baylor President while in San Antonio in 1948, campaigning for his reelection. The watch is engraved to commemorate his visit.
Vacheron Constantin has a record of Truman owning a Chronomètre Royal reference 6108 but little is known about the watch and it's role in his collection. The National Watch and Clock Collectors wrote an article that Truman wore a gold Heuer Chronograph and Tag Heuer confirms this on their website but there is no photographic evidence readily available. He also had quite a few other watches in his collection.
Just like other former Presidents, Eisenhower had quite a few watches in his collection, with some receiving a lot of attention. Before he was elected President, General Eisenhower was featured in a 1946 Casa Masson Heuer chronograph advertisement.
While in office, Eisenhower wore a Vulcain Cricket. According to reports, he was wearing the Cricket during a press conference announcing new tariffs on Swiss watches where the alarm went off! Eisenhower is also the first President known to have a Rolex in his collection.
The gold Datejust was offered by Rolex as a gift marking the 150,000th officially certified chronometer. He asked Rolex to engrave 5 stars, signifying his General rank along with his initials and the date "12-19-1950." Rolex also engraved his initials "DDE" on the outer side of the jubilee bracelet on the buckle. The watch appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in July of 1952.
Eisenhower also had a custom Hamilton in his collection. The watch had a custom dial featuring his family's faces, but no records have been found with further details.
While at the 1955 Geneva Summit, a group of Swiss civilians gave personalized Vacheron watches to the world leader attendees. There was a note included reading "These watches must have good influence on yourself, your country and the peace in the world." There are very few details about the watch and if Eisenhower ever wore it.
President Kennedy owned one of the most controversial watches, never worn on his wrist. The watch was a gold Rolex Day-Date given to him by Marilyn Monroe. The watch was engraved "Jack, with love as always from Marilyn. May 29th, 1962." It is reported that the watch was given to Kenneth O'Donnell, a U.S. top aid to President Kennedy, to get rid of the watch.
JFK wore a small Bulova with a salmon dial and engraved "JFK 1941" on the bracelet. Hodinkee did a feature in 2013 on Kennedy's watch for more information on the model.
Grant Stockdale gave Kennedy a small Omega in 1960 before the election but predicted victory by having the caseback engraved "President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, From His Friend, Grant." The watch was worn at the inauguration ceremony in 1961 and can now be found in the collection of Omega. The company purchased the watch in 2005 at auction for $350,000. Omega released a special limited edition JFK commemorative re-issue of the model.
Kennedy also owned a Nastrix which he liked to wear while swimming. Jackie Kennedy gave President Kennedy a thin, round, Cartier in 1957 to celebrate their 4th anniversary. During this time, Cartier generally re-branded non-Tank watches from other Swiss watchmakers. This is the watch believed to have been worn when Kennedy was assassinated that was removed at the hospital. Both the LA Times and Baltimore Sun reported on the Cartier.
Kennedy didn't just collect watches himself, in 1963, he gifted his wife a Cartier Tank. The watch was engraved "To Jackie. Love, Jack." Read more about the Kennedy watch collection in an article from the New York Times.
Following the footsteps of Kennedy, President Johnson owned quite a few watches. In 1958, LBJ was presented with an electric Hamilton Pacer while on a trip in West Virginia. The black dial watch is a unique design, similar to the watch worn by Elvis Presley in Blue Crush. This gift was given to him before his presidency while still a senator and by the time of his inauguration he stopped wearing it.
One of his most famous watches is a Patek Philippe reference 2526. The beautiful cream enamel dial, in addition to having indices and a sub seconds, reads "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This special Patek was ordered through Tiffany & Co. and features a yellow gold Tiffany bracelet. The reference 2526 is extremely collectible and is the first automatic Patek produced, powered by the calibre 12-600.
Similar to his Patek Philippe, LBJ had a similar dial put on Hamilton Electric watches which he commissioned in 1964 to give as gifts. These dials featured his initials just under 12 o'clock.
Just like Truman and Eisenhower, Johnson wore a Vulcain Cricket. His was a calendar reference 3105004, which he gifted to his presidential museum and has his initials on the dial. He also owned a no-date Cricket Alarm.
Rounding out Johnson's robust collection is a LeCoultre Memovox World time with presidential seal on the caseback. The watch is signed LeCoultre rather than Jaeger-LeCoultre as it was made for the American Market. It is believed that Johnson commissioned two alarm watches in the 1960s, keeping one and gifting the other to a Mexican immigrant he was sponsoring for citizenship.
Both President G.H.W Bush and his son G.W.Bush were presented with a Clare Watch but it is unknown if they were ever worn.
President G.H.W. Bush famously checked his watch multiple times during the 1992 presidential debates and again in 2008 at the Republican national Convention. His consistent glances struck viewers as out of touch, prompting future presidential candidates to be trained in avoiding looking at their watches.
George W. Bush is known to have worn a Timex I-Control during his 2000 campaign before switching to a Timex Indiglo.
In between the Bush father and son presidency, Clinton wore a Timex Ironman digital watch. He not only wore it during his presidency, he wore it to his inaugural ball in 1993. Details of this were outlined in the Washington Post style section as an "unslightly blemish." Clinton was also given a Vulcain Cricket by Keijo Paajanen in 1997 but it is unknown if he wore it.
After leaving office, President Clinton expanded upon his watch collection buying Panerai, Kobold, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet and Cartier pieces among others.
Rounding out the list of presidents is the current (for a few more months at least) 44th President, Barack Obama. He owns a Jorg Gray chronograph and a TAG Heuer Series 1500 Diver, in addition to the sporty New Balance N7 which he wears as his casual watch.
His two-tone Tag Heuer Diver was worn almost exclusively from 1997-2007 and has been spotted a few times since becoming President. For his birthday, the Secret Service gifted him a Jorg Gray with the Secret Service logo on the dial.
Staying true to a tradition of having a Vulcain watch owned by the President, Vulcain gifted an Anniversary Heart Automatic, marking his inauguration and engraved with his date of election.
The next President of the United States will be elected in November of 2016. Check out what watches they currently wear, and what we suggest they wear. What watch would you like to see in the collection or on the wrist of the future President of the United States?
The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors put together a "Time in Office" exhibit in 2008 and have videos with the watches available on their website in the archives.
Emily loves the history of watches and loves learning how they work. Her watches of choice right now are her vintage Omega Ladymatic that is a mere 19mm and her 1973 Rolex Oyster with a navy dial. While she enjoys the look of vintage watches, she is excited to learn about new models and to build her collection.
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I was much entertained by this little symposium.I only wish you had left off with G.H.W. Bush.You needn't have proceeded any further.


What a wonderful day at Casemates today for all three clubs. The Gibraltar Classic Vehicles Association, The Gibraltar Amateur Racing Club and The Moroc-Atlas 4×4 Club joined forces for the first time to show their vehicles at Casemates Square, and what a great show we put on. Hundreds of tourists from visiting ship and tours and many local gathered to view the great display of different vehicles. Also a great day to advertise the joint event the week after at Europa Point.
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Dorianne Laux and what is meant when nothing is said
Dorianne Laux is one of our best free verse poets who can write about everyday things and easily comprehended emotions clearly and with some genius of expression. She serves the situation with a fine, delicate balancing of the prosaic, the simple phrasing, and the higher allure of lyric speech, and allows neither to overwhelm the other. Her poems, often time presented to us in the guise of prose, have an intimacy rare among a generation of poets who maintain distance from their most volatile emotion; her poems have the power of revelation, of someone sorting through old photographs or a rediscovered journal who, while recounting their day, gets a high pitch in their voice as they realize something even they hadn't realized. Laux never forgets herself as a writer with a goal, fret not, there is a point she comes to, the pay-off one expects to make the listing of a poet's personal world resonate in ways it otherwise wouldn't.
She is suspicious of rhetorical resolutions to real problems and relationships that inhabit her poems, and offers instead an intimate tone, the voice of someone who begins to tell you a story after some arduous activity who then lays her bare. Not a confession, not a dumping of toxic emotion, but a revelation, possibly at the very instance when the clarity comes to her; all the bits and pieces of past events with family, husbands, friends who have passed on, are now a whole. Her poetry quite is often something wonderful, intimate, moving. I found this poem fitting for the month, since both my parents died, at different times, in August. The month has been a bit touchy for the family since that time, but we collectively give a shrug and move on with nary a pause to linger over the lives of the couple that born the four of us. One grieves, commemorates, and then moves on, right? Not so fast; sometimes in the middle of watching a television program or waiting for the bus, something falls inside of me. It's the sensation you'd imagine having inside an elevator whose cable had been suddenly cut. The bad news hits you again, and yet again, if you let it. Laux's poem on the matter, to coin phrase, speaks to me, and punches me in the gut.
How It Will Happen, When
Dorrianne Laux
There you are, exhausted from a night of crying, curled up on the couch,
the floor, at the foot of the bed, anywhere you fall you fall down crying,
half amazed at what the body is capable of, not believing you can cry
anymore. And there they are, his socks, his shirt, your underwear
and your winter gloves, all in a loose pile next to the bathroom door,
and you fall down again. Someday, years from now, things will be
different, the house clean for once, everything in its place, windows
shining, sun coming in easily now, sliding across the high shine of wax
on the wood floor. You'll be peeling an orange or watching a bird
spring from the edge of the rooftop next door, noticing how,
for an instant, its body is stopped on the air, only a moment before
gathering the will to fly into the ruff at its wings and then doing it:
flying. You'll be reading, and for a moment there will be a word
you don't understand, a simple word like now or what or is
and you'll ponder over it like a child discovering language.
Is you'll say over and over until it begins to make sense, and that's
when you'll say it, for the first time, out loud: He's dead. He's not
coming back. And it will be the first time you believe it.
This speaker is talking about spending a period of her life trying to talk herself into accepting the loss of her dearly departed, and goes on from there to mention a life that seems detached, dream like; there is an unreal calm in this world as she struggles to push on. She is emotionally numb, so far as I can tell, until it hits hurt, triggered by what some small matter, acutely detailed to her, when the artifice comes apart and the fact of her friend's absence hits hard, almost like being struck. Laux isn't contradicting herself, but instead talking about the transition from merely mouthing the conventional platitudes of acceptance of a loss and the eventual, inevitable realization that her friend's absence is permanent.
Artifice includes ritual, which would be the sort of compulsive house cleaning one occupies their time with while trying to pretend that they are moving on with their life after the death of a loved one; the activity and the manic obsession with the details of these tasks are, for me, a conspicuous clue that there is something the person would rather not deal with. There's an intuitive leap here, and I think the power of the poem is the quick but not illogical insertion of the final remark, that instance when you realize a loved one isn't returning; what Laux does here is shown that a feeling like this is like a sudden attack, coming from seeming nowhere, leaving you in a what I could only describe as a state of shock. This is not a formal argument she is making; this has that eliding quality few poets capture well, the revelation expressed as if we're witnessing the thought coming to the narrator as she speaks. The "clean house" Laux mentions, with everything neatly arranged and placed in their place, every trace of the person gone or tucked in some burnished-over corner:
the house clean for once, everything in its place, windows
shining, sun coming in easily now, skimming across
the thin glaze of wax on the wood floor. (...)
This is an apt metaphor for the attempt to deal with a loss by discarding personal reminders of the departed; the house is "clean", as in emotionally neutral, the goal being that his would be a reclaimed and re-imagined space where comes not to grow but to not feel, not a feel a thing. The absence of pain is mistaken as solace, and the narrator tries to sustain a numbness in her household. But comes undone, inevitably; the years the person had resided in those rooms, the small, shared rituals and pet phrases on familiar furniture have absorbed something of his spirit, it seems, and a memory is triggered, a flash comes upon the narrator. Those who are gone remain in the details, regardless of who hard we scrub the floors or repair the roof:
You'll be reading, and for a moment, you'll see a word
you don't recognize, a simple words like cup or gate or wisp
and you'll ponder like a child discovering language.
Cup, you'll say over and over until it begins to make sense,
and that's when you'll say it, for the first time, out loud: He's dead.He's not coming back, and it will be the first time you believe it.
This is beautifully done, a set-up for someone telling you that they've accepted life on life's terms, with the strong suggestion that they have exhausted their allotment of emotion, only to be struck once again that they've lost something valuable that cannot be replaced. The narrator is at the precipice, the classic existential situation: aware, finally, of the facts of her life as felt experience, it remains her choice to remain in stasis and so become bitter and reclusive, or to finally, truthfully let go of what she's held on to and take new risks.
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Q: nsstring and nsinteger conversion I have two arrays, the first one contents numbers and the second one use this numbers as indexes.
NSArray *dayOfWeek = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"D",@"L",@"M", @"X",@"J",@"V",@"S", nil];

NSArray *arrayDays = [days componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];

 //arrayDays  2 3 4 5 6

     NSString *daysPrint;

     for (NSString *theDay in arrayDays) {
         NSLog(@"string %@",theDay);
         NSInteger dayIndex = (NSInteger)theDay;
         NSLog(@"integer %d", dayIndex);
         daysPrint = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", daysPrint, [dayOfWeek objectAtIndex:dayIndex]];

     }

in the log:
2012-07-02 12:49:27.322 usualBike[1698:f803] string 2
2012-07-02 12:49:27.323 usualBike[1698:f803] integer 109471840

And obviously when I try to get dayOfWeek[109461840] it crashes.
How can I solve this?
Thank you in advance

A: Use this
 for (NSString *theDay in arrayDays) {
    NSLog(@"string %@",theDay);
    NSInteger dayIndex = [theDay intValue];     // change this code
    NSLog(@"integer %d", dayIndex);
    daysPrint = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", daysPrint, [dayOfWeek objectAtIndex:dayIndex]];

}

A: for (NSString *theDay in arrayDays) {
     NSLog(@"string %@",theDay);
     int dayIndex = [theDay intValue];
     NSLog(@"integer %d", dayIndex);
     daysPrint = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", daysPrint, [dayOfWeek objectAtIndex:dayIndex]];

 }

may this will help you...

A: You can use NSString instance method like [theDay intValue] for integer conversion. No need to cast yourself.
Hope this helps.

A: USE
NSInteger dayIndex = [theDay intValue];

instead

A: daysPrint is comming null. u need to assing it blank value, this is the cause of crash
NSArray *dayOfWeek = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"D",@"L",@"M", @"X",@"J",@"V",@"S", nil];

NSArray *arrayDays = [days componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];

//arrayDays  2 3 4 5 6

NSString *daysPrint=@"";

for (NSString *theDay in arrayDays) {
    NSLog(@"string %@",theDay);
    NSInteger dayIndex = [theDay intValue];
    NSLog(@"integer %d", dayIndex);
    daysPrint = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", daysPrint, [dayOfWeek objectAtIndex:dayIndex]];

}

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BTW that's my understanding of what Christianity was designed to promote and why I am never very harsh about the 'truth' of Christianity - even I am not and have never been a Christian. I think the message of early Christianity - gleaned from various sources - was developed from Adam being split from Eve in the beginning. It's a kind of play on a riff from Aristophanes in the Symposium which marks the uniqueness of Christianity (again not in the alt-right sense of the 'superiority' of an idealized Western 'race' but rather a Judeo-Christian culture which was deeply mixed with Greco-Roman tradition) which we see manifest itself even in late sources like Cervantes, Goethe etc. Find yourself a life partner, see your brother, see your god. This is the best way to make the world a better place. It is not good for man to be alone, the premise behind our entire religious tradition.
Post by iskander » Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:42 am
iskander wrote: ↑
sharia law must be banned globally as it is very primitive
This kind of response is typical of ' rational sceptic' forums .
You think Sharia is not primitive?
I think sharia is primitive
I dislike Sharia and also Halacha and also Manu-smrit and also the Law of Karma, and ...
May I suggest that , on occasions, you come across as one too intense?
Post by outhouse » Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:10 am
As a strong atheist, I publically denounce primitive ideology that chooses to murder atheist.
Do you think orthodox jews, and YEC, and islam should be pointed out for their severe idiocy??
The problem here is not religion.
It Is the lack of moderation used in each religion, and the ideology that promotes lack of moderation.
Fact is islam has the most primitive ideology and requires a complete lack of moderation and requires a 100% commitment to live a myth.
Orthodox Jews , Islam and YEK, those names mean little to me.
I do not want religious laws of any kind to govern the society in which I live, but I do not mind taking into consideration the wishes of religious groups whenever their expectation is reasonable. I do not have to share in their beliefs to collaborate with them.
I support a freely elected Parliament and anyone is free to join it. I do not want to know the religion of our MPs.
Post by neilgodfrey » Wed Oct 04, 2017 4:05 pm
outhouse, there is enough ignorance and hatred in the world without you adding to it.
What can you do, do you think, to lower the level of your hate and ignorance of Muslims?
Post by spin » Wed Oct 04, 2017 10:43 pm
This simpletonification of islam is like pointing out that the old testament advocates stoning wayward children and straying women, and saying—just as meaningfully—that the judeo-christian religion has the most primitive ideology... etc.
In the 1950s muslim Iran was progressing just fine thank you very much—that was until the Brits and the US decided they topple the elected govt, giving money to conservative groups including the ayatollahs and eventually installing Reza Pahlevi. This was the start of the process that radicalized significant numbers of Iranians, so the West was responsible for this new radicalization. In Afghanistan, the decades of Soviet-US tensions played out there followed by the Soviet debacle helped spawn the Taliban, a group of extremists who were able to survive in decades-long war against the western onslaught. Al-Qaeda?—another modern development stimulated by western intervention. IS, the same.
The trend before recent western intervention was a slow liberalization in muslim countries. Tiny radical groups do not represent the vast majority of muslims, but they want people to think that they do. They want you to be angry with all muslims, so that muslims become alienated and seek solace with extremism. The American military for example has been happy to help. Nevertheless, the perpetrator of horrific acts is the extremist and not the average muslim. This is not a matter of primitive religious ideology but of modern politics dressed in religious robes.
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Post by iskander » Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:42 am
The problem is religion, imho.
Christianity has shown to be very capable of changing from bad to better, once the papal political power was ended.
Other religions seem to be less flexible.
Post by iskander » Fri Oct 06, 2017 5:29 pm
Saudi Arabia carries out 100th execution so far this year
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 80916.html
Tuesday 3 October 2017 14:45 BST|
Prime Minister Theresa May meets King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia in December 2016 PA Archive/PA Images
Post by outhouse » Sun Oct 15, 2017 7:15 pm
More primitive Islamic violence. It is cancer to humanity.
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Myself and Julian took the shuttle bus to Xian airport then hopped on a flight to Harbin. When we left Xi'an it was around 4-5'c, we stepped off the plane 2 and a half hours later into temperatures of minus 20'c, and the sun was going down at 3:30pm. Harbin is very north, and very east. China, despite it's hugeness, has only one time zone. This was a new kind of mini-jet lag.
We grabbed a taxi from Harbin airport to our hotel. The system for getting a taxi at the airport was quite good. There's an orderly line of taxis and a policeman at the front of the line. You tell the taxi driver where you want to go, the taxi driver gives you a price and the policeman decides if it's a good price or not. Our policeman got us 20RMB off the price that the taxi driver said (after lots of shouting.) There's lots of horror stories all around China (and the rest of the world) about airport Taxis, and this is quite a good system. For the 90min taxi journey (rush hour) I got to talk to the taxi driver and practice my Chinese. The whole holiday was a great opportunity to practice my Chinese, as of me and Julian, I'm the more proficient. Anyway, after arriving at our hotel (which was cheap and cheerful) we suited up in our survival gear (lots and lots of layers) and stepped out into what was now around -24'c. These were the first ice sculptures we saw in a small park, so I snapped some shots. It was good practice of trying to operate my camera while wearing my double-layered gloves.
Walking around was tiring. Walking through snow was tough, and when there wasn't snow there was black ice. Walking on the black ice was fun. There were several times me and Julian lost our footing, but we never actually fell over. We saw lots of locals loosing their footing too, so we didn't feel so bad.
It didn't actually snow while we were there. I think it was just too cold to snow. Either way, there was plenty of the white stuff lying around.
Here's a river-boat that (due to the frozen river) is now…well..I guess it's still a riverboat. But it looked odd seeing a boat just surrounded in snow-covered ice.
The architecture is European/Russian influenced due to the fact Harbin was apparently once a part of Siberia.
The next morning we woke up, suited up for the cold and headed outside. That's where I spotted this. One of my favourite things about Harbin. People selling ice cream. Outside. No freezer required. It was great. You could eat the ice cream as slowly as you like; zero melting! Just look at the selection too!
It doesn't look that cold in pictures. But, you can see the black ice covering the path and parts of the road. Also, you can see just how many clothes everybody is wearing.
Everyone loves Tigger. So; ICE TIGGER! Hell yeah!
This is central street. It's cobbled and old and stuff. But when I look at this picture; all I see is a guy without a hat. That guy is crazy.
Went inside this EURO plaza food market and found lots of JAPANESE and KOREAN goods. Don't know how that works; but – they were tasty!
Pocari Sweat. A Korean energy / ION drink that I only know of from Cyberathletes being sponsored by. Meh; it's was alright.
People, drains, cars. At -20'c, EVERYTHING gives off steam / smoke.
My cheapo thermometer was lying! It was much colder than this!
This thermometer was more believable.
My new, especially-for-the-trip purchased snow boots were rubbing my little toe into a blister, so we returned to the hotel room. I ended up changing to my DC Skate Shoes (which are now 18months old, and have a few holes in) and wore them for the rest of the trip. Not a drop of water or snow inside, and my feet didn't ever feel *too* cold. Seriously good shoes. Anyway, upon returning to the hotel I tried to take a photo of my purchases. Mr condensation attacked. So; taking photos in freezing weather is a pain in the arse. Usually I put my camera under my jacket or coat when I'm walking around. But, doing that in Harbin means the constant hot/cold/hot/cold and condense the camera, then the condensation freezes, then melts, runs into an important part of your camera, freezes, melts, etc, etc. While my camera and lens are weather sealed and I've used them in rain before; there's no stopping Mr Condensation. So; for all the time I was outside, the camera would be on the outside of my coat, braving the cold. This makes the battery run down pretty quick, but not as much as people say. One thing I did notice though, was the LCD screen starts to freeze. It updates really slowly, and blurrily-fades from one picture to the next. I felt sorry for my camera. Upon going indoors, the usual procedure is to put the camera back in my camera bag (which is always left open when outdoors to allow cold air inside) then close the camera into the bag (with cold air in there too) and sit the bag in the coldest corner of the room for a few hours to slowly come up to room temperature. However, I broke the rule to take the above photo, and you can see from the picture just how steamy it started to get. Lesson learned.
Half car-spotting, half weather-spotting. This is a Roewe 750. Built by the SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) it's what the Chinese built after they acquired the rights and tooling to make Rovers. It's a modified Rover 75, and while it looks similar; it's actually quite different. For example; the wheelbase is 10cm+ longer, and SAIC claims they've improved 85% of the car. Not hard to improve though I guess!
Check out the ice. All the roads were like this. They seemingly don't bother gritting. They all just have ice rally skills. Kept seeing taxis locking up the front wheels though.
Then we headed to the North-east China Siberian Tiger Reserve. At first you get taken around in a mini-bus, and I thought this was gonna be as close as it got to the tigers. Most the tourists in Harbin with Russian, thus it was very hard to see out of a minibus full or Russians. I thought shots like this were gonna be as good as it got.
Also, with an outside temperature in the minus 20'c range, and a minibus full of hot sweaty Russians, condensation was rife. Condensation which instantly froze into ice. I was constantly rubbing the windows. The built-in ice-scraper of my knock-off North Face gloves worked a treat though.
The tigers certainly weren't shy. Also saw a land rover drive out to feed them. They threw a chicken out of the land rover which half-jump half-flew onto the roof of the landrover; not a problem. 3 tigers jumped up onto the roof of the Land Rover like it was nothing. Very agile creatures!
These were all shots from within the minibus.
Then, outside the minibus! Turns out there's a cool catwalk around the whole place which you can shoot down at the tigers from. When I say shoot, I mean with the camera, of course.
A strange environment to see tigers in.
And boys will be boys.
This was just a fraction of the reserve. Sunset and snow make for great photos.
Make no mistake; it was COLD! The tigers were huddling together to share heat.
It's interesting to see this tiger *outside* the cage.
I liked this tiger's shadow.
The white tiger was pretty pimpin. I also like this tiger looking out to the city, maybe longing for freedom. Or food.
Stunning creatures. As usual, you can click these pics to see larger versions. Print 'em out or whatever.
Really, the eye of the tiger.
I love the detail in the tiger's breath.
More varieties of big cat.
One final image. This sign is a price list for live animals that you can buy to feed to the tigers. That's right, for 2000RMB, (£200) you can buy a cow to feed to the tigers. Make your own decisions about this. I was personally all right with it. No different to us eating cows. However, since this photo was taken, Chinese zoos have now outlawed this practice. I tried to pull up the article (I remember reading it in February, I couldn't find it, but I did find this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8563673.stm An article about some tigers dying at a similar zoo. Not this zoo though. Although, this zoo is mentioned later: "The BBC recently found that the Siberia Tiger Park, based in Heilongjiang Province in the northeast of China, is selling a "tiger bone wine" that contains three small tiger bones." Meh, I guess in some ways China isn't perfect, but nobody is.
As always, more photos on Flickr.
awesome pictures!! I love them all..


Michael, Teresa holding Caleb, Kristi, Travis, Jay, Amy, Jenna and baby Paige. All 14 of us!
Memories -- they roll through my mind.
All the years of Thanksgiving celebrations.
What would the day be without them?
The family draws tight as if by an unseen magnet.
Now, our home is where we gather.
It is because it is so right here.
Napkins are folded like sculptures.
Goblets await cider, candles are alight.
The family arrives, Dad brings ice cream.
Mom brings the pies fresh from her oven.
From the oven, and the room quiets.
Welcoming Sister Roberta and her clan.
We all walk into the warm, steamy fragrant room.
Drinking in the smell of roasting turkey and sage. A family, full of love and cheer.
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"I have such a great memories I will never forget the people who are my host family, my teachers, friends and Football mates at Underdale High School. My experience has helped developed not only my language skills but me as a person.
I think the best way to improve my language was to communicate with everyone. I will have these fantastic memories in the future. If you choose to be an International student at Underdale High school, I'm sure that everyone around you will help you anytime you need support and you will also make wonderful memories that you will never forget. I would like to give you some advice to make the effort to interact with everyone, practice your English and have a good time."
I arrived at the school at the beginning of term three and never found myself in a situation without anyone to talk to or have fun with in breaks like recess or lunch. I can actually say this is true. Here, at Underdale, nearly every student from the school who saw me, came up to me and asked me to hang out with them or just said hello and introduced themselves. I didn't expect that and I was really surprised.
From day one I made good and loyal friends, which I had a lot of fun with. The school level is high for Australia I have to say and the teachers are way better then in Germany! School is normally for me, something where I don't like to go but I have to go. Here it was completely the opposite, I was always happy to go to school and meet all of the very polite and nice Underdale High school students. The school uniform was of course in the beginning weird, BUT I got used to it really quickly as I saw other schools with way worse ones.
My goal in coming here to Adelaide and then especially Underdale was to have new experiences, learn English, play soccer, enjoy the time and make new friends. I think I have done this already in such a good way and I just want to thank you for such a great support!
Hi. My name is Celine, I am 16 years old and I am from Germany. I live in a small town called Rheda-Wiedenbrück.
I am at Underdale for six weeks. That is the time of my summer holidays. And it may sound crazy, but I really like going to school.
The teachers are very friendly and they help you every time you have some questions. Generally, the teachers are much more relaxed than in Germany. They do not take everything too serious and they like doing their job.
The students are very well, too. They come to you and speak with you. They are all friendly and help you all the time. They made it very easy to settle in so that I felt well after just one week.
School in Australia is really different to school in Germany. School starts later and is finished earlier in Australia. And the breaks are longer.
Furthermore, the subjects are much better. In Germany, I have ten (!) subjects in year 11, among them two foreign languages, physics, mathematics, geography, history and much more. Everything is more difficult and we have much homework to do after school.
The only thing I have to regret is that I cannot play soccer anymore. Actually, that is the reason why I am at Underdale but I injured my knee during the first lesson. But there are so many other things that I like so that is okay.
I really enjoy my time at Underdale and I am sad that I am just here for six weeks. However it is a great time I will never forget.


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Џон Понд (1767 - 7. септембар 1836) је био енглески астроном који је постао шести Краљевски астроном, и на овом положају је остао од 1811. до 1835. године.

Биографија
Понд је рођен у Лондону, и иако је позната година његовог рођења, подаци о дану и месецу његовог рођења су неповратно изгубљени. Пондов отац се брзо обогатио радећи као трговац у Лондону, што је младом Џону пружило шансу са започне своје студије на колеџу Тринити при Кембриџу 1784. године, када је имао шеснаест година. Међутим, није стекао диплому, пошто је морао да напусти студије због тешке хроничне болести, због које је такође морао и да иде на лечење ван земље. Примљен је на Унутрашњи храм 1794. године, али је због свог лошег здравља морао да се испише.

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Године 1800. Понд се населио у Вестбурију, у близини Бристола, те је почео да одређује позиције звезда са тачном висином и азимутним кругом од 2 1/2 стопа у пречнику од стране Едварда Тротона. Његов приказ промене облика гриничког квадранта из 1806. године је одвео до увођења астрономских кругова на краљевску Гриничку опсерваторију, као и до његовог постављања за директора ове установе. Изабран је за члана Краљевског друштва 26. фебруара 1807. године, а те исте године се и населио у Лондоу и оженио се.

Године 1811. је Понд наследио Невила Маскелина на као Краљевски астроном. Током његовог службовања на овом положају од скоро двадесет пет година, утицао је на реформу практичне астрономије у Енглеској на сличан начин као што је то урадио Фридрих Бесел у Немачкој. Године 1821. је започео да се користи методама опсервације путем рефлексија, а 1825. године је осмислио средства за сједињење два мурална круга ради утврђивања позиције самог објекта, који се користи за директну а други за рефлексивну визију. Под његовим покровитељством је целокупна апаратура, заједно са инструментима, промењена у Гриничкој опсерваторији, а такође је број асистената повећан са једног на шест. Супериорна тачност његових утврђивања је 1894. године тестирана путем дискусије коју је написао Сет Карло Чендлер. Између 1810. и 1824. године је упорно оспоравао могућност постојања имагинарних звезданих паралакса ирског Краљевског астронома, Џона Бринклија. У периоду од 1829. до 1831. године, кратко је служио као надзорник Наутичког Алманака. Деликатност његовог здравља га је навела на то да се пензионише у јесен 1835. године.

Међу почастима које је током година стекао су Лаланд награда, коју ми је 1817. године доделила Француска академија наука, чији је био и кореспондирајући члан, и Копли медаља, која му је додељена 1823. године. Изабран је за страног почасног члана Америчке академије уметности и наука 1822. године. Издао је осам издања опсервација из Гринича које је Пјер-Симон Лаплас превео као Système du monde, те је додао још 31 рад овој научној колекцији. Његов каталог 1112 звезда из 1833. године је имао врло важан значај, те је био врло тачан до мере која никада пре није достигнута.

Као Краљевски астроном, Понд је био заслужан за потпуну модернизацију Гриничке опсерваторије, почевши од побољшања опреме до нових радних пракси. Можда је његов најважнији додатак овој опсерваторији било инсталирање временске лопте на крову опсерваторије 1833. године.

Џон Понд је умро у Блаксхиту у Лондону, а на шести рођендан након његове смрти је сахрањен поред свог колеге, Краљевских астронома Едмунда Халеја и Натанијела Блиса, у дворишту цркве Свете Маргарете у оближњем Лију, у Лондону.

Референце

Рођени 1767.
Умрли 1836.
Британски астрономи
Краљевски астрономи

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During this time of the year, all of us are usually filled with a lot of mixed emotions, reviewing the year gone by and what all the new year has to offer. So, I thought to write and share all my highlights from 2015 and goals for 2016, it'll be so fun to look back and see this post a year from now.
*I launched my very own website in April, before that I used to post simply on weebly or insta.
*I reached 100K followers on Instagram. Although you should not measure your success through numbers, but it feels really good when you achieve a milestone. I literally can't digest the fact that there are so many people who support my journey and love me for who I am.
*I was selected as a mentor from Delhi amongst other prestigious bloggers and went ahead to win the Swarovski style your way to Paris contest. Like seriously? All because of you guys!!
* I walked the ramp at Goa, India beach fashion week. :O To be honest, this was way beyond my expectations and I was way too nervous before walking the ramp, but as soon as I got there I was in full swing. The energy, the vibes, the crowd cheering me up and the applause, everything was so magical and out of the world. Best experience of 2015 hands down!
*I was fortunate enough to work with some great brands- French connection, Tanishq, Clarks, Being Human, Quirk box, StylebyAnd, Global desi, Ritu kumar, India Circus, Swarovski, Amazon, Chumbak etc.
*I travelled to 4 different cities this year including Udaipur, Manali, Mumbai and Goa! <3 I love to travel and I think, this year was even better as I was travelling alone for the very first time.It teaches you so much about yourself in general and discovering new places and cuisines is always a great idea!
*I was honored to be featured in prestigious newspapers and magazine including Times of India, Hindustan times, Cosmopolitan and Graziamagazine, Foxlife website.
*Meetups! It's so good to meet you guys in person, listen to your stories, our selfie sessions and everything!
* I want to make more and more content for you guys this year.
* Post more videos. Be more active on YouTube.
* I want to work on my body and be more fit.
* Read more and more books this year as i love reading books but I haven't had spent much time on them last year.
* Join a hobby class or just something for fun.


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Shinglehouse Slough & Libby Dr., CCSO release – On 6/23/19 at approximately 10:11 AM, Deputies were dispatched to a shirtless Disorderly male subject, doing jumping jacks in the roadway on Libby Lane near Shinglehouse Rd. Coos Bay, OR. Deputies arrived and contacted a male subject matching the description given. The male subject was identified as 49 year old Danny J. Thomas. Thomas consented to a search of his person and drug paraphernalia was found. This along with Thomas's erratic behavior prompted Deputies to contact his Probation Officer, who placed a detainer on Thomas. Thomas was transported to Coos County Jail where he was lodged.
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Kentuck Way, CCSO release – On Saturday, June, 22, 2019 approximately 2:02 Am, Coos County Deputy Sheriff's responded to Kentuck Way Ln, for a report of a possible drunk driver who crashed into a barn and fence. Upon arrival Deputies discovered the driver of a Toyota Tacoma to be 25 year old Whitney Smith. Whitney consented to a series of field sobriety tests and was placed under arrest for driving under the influence of intoxicates. During the investigation Whitney could not articulate how she got the vehicle as it was not hers. After several failed attempts to contact the registered owner of the vehicle, the vehicle was secured at the residence. Whitney was transported to the Coos County Jail where she provided a breath sample of .15% blood alcohol. The legal limit to operate a motor vehicle is .08%. Whitney was booked and lodged. The owner of the Toyota called the following morning to report it as stolen. Whitney will be referred to the District Attorney's Office for Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle.
Sitkum Rd., CCSO release – On June 21, 2019, at approximately 10:01 AM, A Coos County Sheriff's Deputy was notified of a man wishing to report an assault that occurred the night before on Sitkum Lane in Myrtle Point. It was reported that the man's nose may have been broken due to the assault, and was being reported from the Coquille Valley Hospital. When the Deputy arrived at Coquille Valley Hospital, he discovered the victim lying in a hospital bed with swollen shut, purple eyes. The victim also had an abrasion on his nose and dried blood on his lips. When questioned, the victim did not know his assailant. The victim was able to provide the Deputy with information leading to the identity of his attacker. The victim signed a medical release allowing his emergency room medical records to be released to the Deputy for investigation purposes. After an investigation, it was determined 36 year old Dominic R. Dutton had attacked the victim without justification. After striking the victim and knocking him to the ground, Dominic straddled the victim and continued to strike him in the face multiple times. Dominic's attack caused the victim to suffer a facial fracture. Subsequently, Dominic R. Dutton, was arrested for assault in the second degree and transported to the Coos County Jail without further incident.
Warrant Service
Cape Arago Hwy., CCSO release – On Saturday, June, 22, 2019 approximately 10:30 pm, A Coos County Sheriff Deputy was actively patrolling Cape Arago Hwy. The Deputy observed 41 year old Robert Peters of Coos Bay walking near Roosevelt Rd. The Deputy discovered Robert had an outstanding warrant for his arrest issued by Marion County. Robert was placed under arrest for the outstanding warrant and transported to the Coos County Jail where he was booked and lodged.
Death Investigation, June 27
NBPD report, June 27
Warrant Arrest, July 15
CCSO 4th of July Coverage, July 12


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In light of the recent attacks in California and Paris, the House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to constrict controls on travel to the United States and require visas for anyone who has been in Syria or Iraq in the last five years.
The legislation aims at the "visa waiver" program that allows citizens of 38 countries to travel to the U.S. for stays of 90 days and less without getting a visa from a consulate or embassy first, according to The New York Times. France and Belgium, who house most of the criminals of the Paris attacks, are among those 38 countries.
The bill passed 407-19–all votes against it came from Democrats–and it will cause several changes, including a new visa requirement for citizens of Syria, Iraq or any country thought to be a terrorist hotspot along with any person who has been to a terrorist hotspot in the last five years, NY Times reports. Military service and government visits are exempt.
"We simply cannot give people from other countries special access to our country if we don't have all the information we need to ensure they are not a threat to our national security," said bill sponsor and Michigan Republican Candice Miller. "Obviously the world would be a very different place" than when the visa waiver program was developed, she said.
Countries in the program would also have to share counterterror information with the U.S. or be expelled from the program. Visa waiver countries would also have to issue "e-passports" with biometric information to prevent the falsification of passports, and all travelers would be verified against Interpol databases.
The second-ranking House Democrat, Steny Hoyer of Maryland, said that "House Democrats and House Republicans have no greater priority than keeping Americans safe," while encouraging support for the measure. "That is not a partisan issue, nor is it a partisan difference," he said.


John Robinson [1935 - 2007], artist and co-founder of the Bradshaw Foundation, first met Dr. Jean Clottes in 1994 in Flagstaff, Arizona at the International Rock Art Congress hosted by the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA), where the Foundation was promoting its recently published book 'Bradshaws - Ancient Rock Paintings of North-West Australia'. What began as a formative collaboration between the eminent French prehistorian and John Robinson, Director of the Bradshaw Foundation, soon became a strong friendship.
In 1996, only 4 years after Chauvet's discovery, Jean Clottes and his scientific team were chosen by the French Ministry of Culture to investigate the cave and its extraordinary cave paintings and pristine archaeological artefacts. In 1999, merely three years later as the preliminary results of Jean Clottes' scientific analysis of the Palaeolithic cave paintings were sending shock waves through several academic fields around the world, John Robinson was honoured to be invited into Chauvet Cave. Clearly, Dr. Jean Clottes was keen to observe the insight of a modern day artist; for the artist, he was about to embark on one of the greatest experiences of his life.
When Jean Clottes invited me to join his Team for the Investigation of the Chauvet Cave paintings, that was discovered on the 18th December 1994, he warned me that I would not be able to visit until the entrance had been widened, and he thought that this would take at least 18 months. That didn't worry me in the least as after seeing the photographs of the Chauvet Cave paintings, I would have been happy to have waited three years, or five. Ten might have been asking too much!
Also I had heard Jean's own story of his first visit to the cave with Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Deschamps, and Christian Hillaire. I don't have any trouble with tight spots in caves, in fact rather enjoy the challenge, but I am not sure that squeezing through a foot high down hill letterbox for 25 feet was quite my cup of tea. I was happy to wait until the tunnel had been widened.
How do you prepare yourself for a visit to see the oldest known cave paintings in the world especially when you have seen the photographs and know that you are going to see works of astounding beauty? I had over a year to prepare myself for what was going to be one of the great artistic experiences of my life, as was my visit to the Sistine Chapel.
I decided that where possible I would avoid looking at any photographs of cave paintings from Chauvet for the coming year. Unfortunately I would occasionally see pictures in magazines, but I purposely didn't study them, only read the articles. I wanted the paintings to be as fresh to my eyes as it was possible. At last the appointed day arrived, the 18th of October 1999 was a glorious sunny day.
My wife and I drove south through France from Lyon along the Rhone River, and turned west at St Just into the Gorges de L'Ardeche. I wanted to get the feeling of the environment in which the cave is situated. The Gorges is one of the most spectacular Canyons in Europe, and can be well viewed from several vantage points along the road that follows the top of the sheer cliffs, from where you can look down on the crystal clear river.
At the head of the canyon, just before reaching Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, the road descends to the river. Rounding a bend we were suddenly confronted with a glorious freak of nature, the Pont-d'Arc. The river has cut straight through a rock barrier; thus creating an enormous and majestic Arch that spans the flow. A canoe was being paddled under the arch the moment we arrived, giving the scene a remarkable perspective. The Arch of Pont d'Arc is a wonder to behold. What would it have meant to the Chauvet People 30,000 years ago? Would it have represented an animal as Jean suspects?
Possibly, as in the caves the artists had often used the natural form of the rock surface to depict the animals in the Chauvet Cave paintings. I looked at the Arch and immediately saw a Lion. We found a quiet little hotel in old Vallon, and I rang Jean. He had established his HQ in a Municipal Holiday Camp, his team had set up their laboratories for the study of the cave. Jean asked me to meet him at 0830 in a car park near the Arch.
The paintings of the Chauvet Cave are an archaeologist's dream come true as the whole cave is in a pristine condition, untouched by man for possibly 27,000 years, as the only visitors since the cave paintings were done have been the Bears, who used the cave for their winter hibernation. Every possible precaution is being taken to disturb nothing. As soon as the entrance had been widened, aluminium catwalks were brought in and erected on six inch high legs to protect the floor of the cave. A network of scientific apparatus constantly monitors the temperature, and humidity of the cave.


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Oklahoma is considered the fifth-most charitable state in the U.S., according to WalletHub.com. The personal-finance website calculated 13 key metrics to determine which states are the most charitable. Some of those metrics include volunteer rate, percentage of income donated and percentage of sheltered homeless. The Sooner State is ranked fourth in percent of population collecting/distributing food, fifth in percent of donated income, ninth in number of volunteer hours per capita and 10th in percent of population collecting/distributing clothes. Oklahoma also was ranked 19th in percent of population who claim to have donated time and 30th in volunteer rate. WalletHub.com's full findings and the complete rankings can be read here.
Oklahoma is considered the fifth-most charitable state in the U.S., according to WalletHub.com.
The personal-finance website calculated 13 key metrics to determine which states are the most charitable. Some of those metrics include volunteer rate, percentage of income donated and percentage of sheltered homeless.
The Sooner State is ranked fourth in percent of population collecting/distributing food, fifth in percent of donated income, ninth in number of volunteer hours per capita and 10th in percent of population collecting/distributing clothes. Oklahoma also was ranked 19th in percent of population who claim to have donated time and 30th in volunteer rate.
WalletHub.com's full findings and the complete rankings can be read here.


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Original 1972 Complete edition. With translations and elaborate purports by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
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Bhagavad Gita As It Is is the largest-selling, most widely used edition of the Gita in the world.
Soft-cover, 1000+ pages, 48 color plates. 5" x 7.5"
"No work in all Indian literature is more quoted, because none is better loved, in the West, than the Bhagavad Gita. Translation of such a work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit, but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry. For the poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things....The Swami does a real service for students by investing the beloved Indian epic with fresh meaning. Whatever our outlook may be, we should all be grateful for the labor that has lead to this illuminating work."
"The Gita can be seen as the main literary support for the great religious civilization of India, the oldest surviving culture in the world. The present translation and commentary is another manifestation of the permanent living importance of the Gita."
"I am most impressed with A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's scholarly and authoritative edition of Bhagavad Gita. It is a most valuable work for the scholar as well as the layman and is of great utility as a reference book as well as a textbook. I promptly recommend this edition to my students. It is a beautifully done book."
"...As a successor in direct line from Caitanya, the author of Bhagavad Gita As It Is is entitled, according to Indian custom, to the majestic title of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The great interest that his reading of the Bhagavad Gita holds for us is that it offers us an authorized interpretation according to the principles of the Caitanya tradition."
"I have had the opportunity of examining several volumes published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and have found them to be of excellent quality and of great value for use in college classes on Indian religions. This is particularly true of the BBT edition and translation of the Bhagavad Gita."
"...If truth is what works, as Pierce and the pragmatists insist, there must be a kind of truth in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is, since those who follow its teachings display a joyous serenity usually missing in the bleak and strident lives of contemporary people."
"There is little question that this edition is one of the best books available on the Gita and devotion. Prabhupada's translation is an ideal blend of literal accuracy and religious insight."
"The Bhagavad Gita, one of the great spiritual texts, is not as yet a common part of our cultural milieu. This is probably less because it is alien per se than because we have lacked just the kind of close interpretative commentary upon it that Swami Bhaktivedanta has here provided, a commentary written from not only a scholar's but a practitioner's, a dedicated lifelong devotee's point of view."
"The increasing numbers of Western readers interested in classical Vedic thought have been done a service by Swami Bhaktivedanta. By bringing us a new and living interpretation of a text already known to many, he has increased our understanding manyfold."
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"The scholarly world is again indebted to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Although Bhagavad Gita has been translated many times, Prabhupada adds a translation of singular importance with his commentary...."
"Srila Prabhupada's edition thus fills a sensitive gap in France, where many hope to become familiar with traditional Indian thought, beyond the commercial East-West hodgepodge that has arisen since the time Europeans first penetrated India.
"Whether the reader be an adept of Indian spiritualism or not, a reading of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is will be extremely profitable. For many this will be the first contact with the true India, the ancient India, the eternal India."
"As a native of India now living in the West, it has given me much grief to see so many of my fellow countrymen coming to the West in the role of gurus and spiritual leaders. For this reason, I am very excited to see the publication of Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Sri A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It will help to stop the terrible cheating of false and unauthorized 'gurus' and 'yogis' and will give an opportunity to all people to understand the actual meaning of Oriental culture."
"...It is a deeply felt, powerfully conceived and beautifully explained work. I don't know whether to praise more this translation of the Bhagavad Gita, its daring method of explanation, or the endless fertility of its ideas. I have never seen any other work on the Gita with such an important voice and style....It will occupy a significant place in the intellectual and ethical life of modern man for a long time to come."
"I can say that in the Bhagavad Gita As It Is I have found explanations and answers to questions I had always posed regarding the interpretations of this sacred work, whose spiritual discipline I greatly admire. If the aesceticism and ideal of the apostles which form the message of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is were more widespread and more respected, the world in which we live would be transformed into a better, more fraternal place."


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package org.apache.activemq.artemis.tests.integration.discovery;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.ActiveMQBuffer;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.ActiveMQBuffers;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.BroadcastEndpoint;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.BroadcastEndpointFactory;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.UDPBroadcastEndpointFactory;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.cluster.DiscoveryGroup;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.cluster.impl.BroadcastGroupImpl;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.ActiveMQThreadFactory;
import org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.RandomUtil;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * This is to make sure discovery works fine even when garbled data is sent
 */
public class DiscoveryStayAliveTest extends DiscoveryBaseTest {

   ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecutorService;

   @Override
   @Before
   public void setUp() throws Exception {
      super.setUp();
      scheduledExecutorService = new ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor(1, new ActiveMQThreadFactory("ActiveMQ-scheduled-threads", false, Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()));

   }

   @Override
   public void tearDown() throws Exception {
      scheduledExecutorService.shutdown();
      super.tearDown();
   }

   @Test
   public void testDiscoveryRunning() throws Throwable {
      final InetAddress groupAddress = InetAddress.getByName(address1);
      final int groupPort = getUDPDiscoveryPort();
      final int timeout = 500;

      final DiscoveryGroup dg = newDiscoveryGroup(RandomUtil.randomString(), RandomUtil.randomString(), InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), groupAddress, groupPort, timeout);

      final AtomicInteger errors = new AtomicInteger(0);
      Thread t = new Thread() {
         @Override
         public void run() {
            try {
               dg.internalRunning();
            }
            catch (Throwable e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
               errors.incrementAndGet();
            }

         }
      };
      t.start();

      BroadcastGroupImpl bg = null;

      try {

         bg = new BroadcastGroupImpl(new FakeNodeManager("test-nodeID"), RandomUtil.randomString(), 1, scheduledExecutorService, new UDPBroadcastEndpointFactory().setGroupAddress(address1).
            setGroupPort(groupPort));

         bg.start();

         bg.addConnector(generateTC());

         for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            BroadcastEndpointFactory factoryEndpoint = new UDPBroadcastEndpointFactory().setGroupAddress(address1).
               setGroupPort(groupPort).setLocalBindAddress("localhost");
            sendBadData(factoryEndpoint);

         }
         Thread.sleep(100);
         assertTrue(t.isAlive());
         assertEquals(0, errors.get());
      }
      finally {

         if (bg != null) {
            bg.stop();
         }

         if (dg != null) {
            dg.stop();
         }

         t.join(1000);

         // it will retry for a limited time only
         for (int i = 0; t.isAlive() && i < 100; i++) {
            t.interrupt();
            Thread.sleep(100);
         }
      }
   }

   private static void sendBadData(BroadcastEndpointFactory factoryEndpoint) throws Exception {
      BroadcastEndpoint endpoint = factoryEndpoint.createBroadcastEndpoint();

      ActiveMQBuffer buffer = ActiveMQBuffers.dynamicBuffer(500);

      buffer.writeString("This is a test1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");
      buffer.writeString("This is a test2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!");

      byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.writerIndex()];

      buffer.readBytes(bytes);

      // messing up with the string!!!
      for (int i = bytes.length - 10; i < bytes.length; i++) {
         bytes[i] = 0;
      }

      endpoint.openBroadcaster();

      endpoint.broadcast(bytes);

      endpoint.close(true);
   }
}

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This is an oral argument David presented in the highest criminal appellate court in Texas. David presented this oral argument in 2016 on behalf of his client who was appealing her criminal conviction. David has presented dozens of oral arguments in criminal appeals, with several of those oral arguments in the Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin, including argument in appeals from death penalty verdicts.


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Stunning crystal chandelier collection with a modern glamour style design, featuring a square shaped frame in a choice of five metal finishes, from which irregular length chains of octagonal shaped elements in either Asfour, Swarovski Spectra or Swarovski Strass crystal are suspended. The crystals act as a curtain concealing the internal light source which runs the full height of the chandelier. Available in eighteen different sizes upto 5 metres in height. The tall and narrow shape of the Cortina makes it ideally suited for use within a stairwell or as a feature light for a corner of a room.
Classic styled majolica lamp engraved and plated with pure gold with accent and base in crystal and plexi glass. Complete with ivory taffeta shade. Two sizes available.
Hand made Majolica table lamp with hand finished gold detail and bronzed metal in gold plated, complete with two layered shade gold and white. Finest example of artisan design and exquisite use of material from high esteemed Italian source.
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Art deco inspired wall uplight, offering stunning ambient indirect wash lighting effects. Realised in hand-engraved and hand glazed white Majolica. Dressed detail in Swarovski Strass crystal and chromed brass metal detail. High design and specification from World renowned Italian Manufacturer.


Over 30 years ago, Paddy Hughes had no idea of what fate had in store for him when his aunt had chosen him to carry on the gift of healing which had been in the family for over 100 years.
Paddy has close to 30 different cures and heals through prayer. Other remedies include oatmeal to cure asthma, angina and headaches and sand to get rid of warts and veruccas.
Paddy can't explain how it works, but is a great believer in the power of prayer. Paddy says that he gets requests from people of all walks of life.
He adds with a touch of humour "when they have tried the rest, they come to me".
Paddy also works on animals and has great success in curing Orf in sheep. A phone call can relieve red water in cattle or pink eye in animals.
Paddy will be in the Longford Arms Hotel on Saturdays, September 30 and October 7 from 12 noon to 6.30pm.


If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything.
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
smile is our greatest social asset.
Let's spread as many of them as we can!
Thanks to the human heart by which we live; thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.
Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.
Be like a Candle,which burns itself to give light to others.
Any human who feels that he or she is not "good enough" to cultivate peace and generosity is overlooking the wondrous gift of life. You live, therefore you are good enough.


Interior design meets vintage gaming, producing this Tetris Light, which is now available at Firebox.
Yes, the '80s video game (and particularly handheld) classic has become a lamp, a pretty clever one too. Just connect one of the bricks to the mains and then as each new brick is placed into position they will light up, as if by magic (but probably through something far more technical than that).
Obviously a mini game of Tetris is the added bonus. Each set contains seven distinctive blocks and the lamp comes with the mains adaptor and cable. If you want one, the kit sells for £29.99.


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Letter from our Head of Schools
Special Programs Staff
Student Success Program
Individualized Learning Plan (ILP)
Family Academic Support Team
Quarterly Block Scheduling
Career and College Planning
The Role of the Parent
About Online Learning
Potential Advantages and Challenges of Online Schooling
Courses and Instruction
Diploma and Graduation
Breauna Wall, Director of Special Education
Breauna Wall graduated from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities with a bachelor's degree in sociology and criminal law. She holds two master's degrees, one in Special Education from Arizona State University and one in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. Breauna is currently a student at Johns Hopkins University, earning a Doctor of Education degree. She has nearly a decade of experience serving students with developing needs as a teacher, program director, principal, consultant and university associate. She is passionate above improving student outcomes. As a director of special education, she works to ensure that all students have the resources they need to reach their full academic potential.
Kristine Gornto, Director of Special Education Compliance
Kristine Gornto graduated from California State University, Hayward with a bachelor's degree in English and Chapman University with a master's degree in special education. She received her teaching credentials from California State University, Stanislaus and Chapman University and spent seven years teaching English and special education at a brick-and-mortar continuation high school. Before joining California Virtual Academy in July 2018, she worked as a district program specialist/administrator for six years. As director of special education compliance, she works to ensure that all special education programs and services are legally compliant.
Brandy Scott, Director of Student Support Services
Brandy Scott holds a bachelor's degree in psychology with a certificate in applied behavior analysis (ABA) from CSU, Fresno and a master's degree in special education from NU with a specialization in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Her background and experience are in management, banking and finance, and most recently as the related services manager for CAVA and four additional virtual schools. She has also worked directly with students with Autism during her graduate and undergraduate years. She believes that all students should be celebrated for who they are and has enjoyed the shift in educational culture that recognizes that students with disabilities are students with ABILITIES. Embracing the skills of students, especially due to neurological differences such as ASD is no longer a dream for the future, it is NOW. Brandy is student-centered and passionate in her desire that all CAVA students with special needs are identified, supported and served quickly and with excellence.
Krista Mount, Director of Categorical Programs
Krista graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor's degree in psychology with an emphasis in mathematics. She received her teaching credential from Saint Mary's College of California and spent eight years teaching at a brick-and-mortar elementary school before joining California Virtual Academy at Sutter as a teacher during the 2005–2006 school year. Since then, she has served as lead teacher of middle school mathematics and as curriculum specialist for the California Virtual Academies. As director of categorical programs, she works to ensure that all students have the resources they need to reach their full academic potential.
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Q: ElasticSearch.Net - Remove index in a bulk query I'm implementing a reindexing operation, which takes all of the elements from a certain set and adds them into the index, replacing the old content of the index (or created index if it's empty). To achieve that I use the Elasticsearch bulk query, which I call with Elasticsearch.net Bulk function.
I've succeeded in adding elements to the index/creating new index with all of the elements, but I can't seem to find out how to delete the whole index in a bulk query, in order to ensure that there are no old content items left in it. I could do it with another call, but this means that if I delete the index and then there's a failure in recreating it, I am left with no index, while I guess, in a bulk query if there was a failure the index wouldn't be deleted.
This is what I have for bulk indexing right now (and it works):
foreach (var element in elements)
{
   sb.AppendLine("{ \"index\" : { \"_id\" : \"" + element.Id + "\" } }");
   sb.AppendLine(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(element.As<ElementDTO>(), new JsonSerializerSettings() { Formatting = Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.None }));
}

var response = client.Bulk("elements", "element", sb.ToString());

I've tried adding:
sb.AppendLine("{ \"delete\" : { \"_index\" : \"elements\" } }");

or:
sb.AppendLine("{ \"delete\" }");

before the foreach but to no avail. Is there a way do delete the index in a bulk before adding elements to it?