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Sharon Dorram
Sharon Dorram, colorist to the stars, is known for creating beautifully natural color reminiscent of children's hair. She is a legend in the industry. Her signature coloring style is low maintenance and down to earth. She creates just the right shade for everyone who sits in her chair. Whether it is a perfect baby blonde, a deep mahogany brown, or a fantastic cedar red, you can spot Sharon's signature look from a mile away.
Known for her trendsetting vision and extraordinary skill, Sally Hershberger is one of the most influential and sought-after hairstylists across the globe. As the first female hairstylist whose talent and business acumen enabled her to reach celebrity status, Sally is a personal favorite of fashion and beauty insiders, celebrities and supermodels alike. She is known for cutting the tresses of top celebrities.
Burton Machen
With mentions in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, InStyle and Marie Claire, as well as winning a Self magazine award for "Best Curly Hair Stylist" and being voted "One of the Best Hair Cutters in New York" by New York Magazine, Burton Machen has established a name for himself in the beauty industry. For the past 20 years, Burton has been styling and cutting some of the best-known tresses in the entertainment business.
Aki Naito
Aki really enjoys finding the beauty in every person and bringing that beauty into people's hair. His haircutting style is to do a thorough consultation first, and then focus on the work intently and quietly to give his clients a meditative experience. His haircuts are designed to be wearable for every day, so that you love how you look, with or without a blow-dry.
Jennifer Nast
Jennifer joined Sharon Dorram Color at Sally Hershberger Salon in 2011 where she quickly became the go-to stylist for a perfect blow-dry and sleek, easy to manage cuts. Able to quickly adapt to any environment, be it in a photo studio or at a destination event, it is in the salon Jennifer really finds her passion. "From collaborating with each client to the finished cut, watching the client walk out of the salon feeling confident and beautiful inspires me. Makes me smile every time."
Melissa "Mia" Myers
Melissa "Mia" Myers is a New York-based hairstylist. The Ohio native studied at the Casal Aveda Institute in Youngstown, Ohio before relocating to New York City. There, Santiago began working at the iconic Sharon Dorram at Sally Hershberger salon, where she still cuts and styles hair. Mia's celebrity clientele includes Mariska Hargitay, Martha Stewart, Dove Cameron, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Christina Hendricks, and Dr. Oz, among others.
Tim Lehman
A native of Minneapolis and a 35 year resident of New York, Tim Lehman is one of the Upper East Side's elite stylists and best kept secrets. As a top professional in the hair industry and New York style and fashion scene for more than 35 years, Tim is known not only for his incredible work but also for his professionalism, discretion and respect. His clientele base includes many prominent women including Candace Bergen, Jessica Lange and Christine Baranski.
Chris Lospalluto
Native New Yorker, Chris, comes (back) to us with over 20 years' experience, having studied with industry giants, including editorial stylist Kevin Mancuso, John Frieda's Serge Normant and Sally Hershberger herself. Known for his fresh, modern aesthetic, Chris has earned the devotion of fashion editors, young designers, celebrities and high-profile clients. Experience his mad skills at capturing your sense of style and enhancing it.
Machiko Yamamoto
Stylist Machiko Yamamoto was born and raised in Fukuoka Japan where she trained at top hair salons in Tokyo. In particular, she studied under Akio Tsuchiya, the maestro of Kimono hair. Machiko has created a name and following with celebrities and A list clients in New York since 2003. When she started her professional journey with Peter Coppola, she went on to work with Kevin Mancuso and Serge Normant at John Frida.
Meaghan Phelps
Meaghan was born and raised in Vermont but quickly made her way to New York City to study hair with a goal to learn from the best in the industry. After studying at the Aveda Institute, Meaghan perfected her craft at the prestigious salons of Sally Hershberger and Serge Normant where she worked alongside some of the most talented colorists in New York City. Learning from their expert techniques, and developing her own style along the way.
Yetty Bames
Yetty Bames has always had the passion to work in the hair, beauty, and fashion industry since her early childhood. After pursuing her higher education in psychology, Yetty returned to her true first love, BEAUTY after relocating to New York City. In 2011, Yetty took residence at MIZU Salon as their in-house beauty and brow specialist, and soon after was offered the same opportunity at GARREN NYC, John Barrett, and the Salon @ Bergdorf Goodman.
Sophie Georgiou
At a young age, a well-connected aunt introduced colorist Sophie Georgiou to the bewitching world of Parisian hair stylists. This early encounter ultimately led to a more disciplined study of hair color and the formation of a coloring technique highly influenced by her training and studies as a painter.
Brandi Voorhees
Brandi began her career at Sally Hershberger salon downtown, training under senior accomplished stylists, including assisting Sally Hershberger for over 2 years. Brandi's work has been featured in magazines such as many issues of VANITY FAIR, VOGUE, and ALLURE. Brandi frequents New York Fashion Week shows, doing models' hair for top designers.
Danielle Pfeifer
Danielle Pfeifer took youthful inspiration from a family steeped in creativity. Her raw exuberance for hair was purified by the disciplined Vidal Sassoon training she received early on. It was this highly structured understanding of hair that gave her a solid base on which to experiment when she joined John Sahag.
Jeremy Carter
Jeremy Carta is a Miami native who has been in the hair industry for 17 years. Jeremy has worked with various celebrities; including Katy Perry, Simon Cowell, Maura Tierney, Stacy Dash, San Esmail, and Giancarlo Giametti. He has also worked with several Latin celebrities; including Ana Barbara, Dulce Maria, Gabriela Sabtini, Lupita Jones, Natalia Denegri, Candela Ferro, and many more.
Moe Khalil
Hair has been a fascination of mine for as long as I can remember. As a thick, frizzy-haired, kid, I would sit and watch my mother blow out her hair. With every flip of the brush, I watched her spirit became more energized and confident. I thought to myself this is what I'm meant to do; I want to help people feel confident and powerful. I went on to own my own studio in Florida, and now I'm so happy to be bringing that powerful feeling to life in NYC.
Clifford Stafford
Clifford Stafford is originally from the United Kingdom but currently resides in New York City with his dog Dottie, who frequently accompanies him to his haircuts. Clifford has decades of experience cutting and styling hair in major cities around the world. His vibrant personality and consistently excellent work have given him a loyal client base that trusts him to give them their best, perfectly styled hair every time.
Sarah Barbour
Sarah Barbour is the manager here at SDSH. She grew up in Michigan and attended college at Western Michigan University. After graduating, she moved to New York City to go to beauty school and get her cosmetology license. Here, she worked at different salons, including Louis Licari and Frederic Fekkai, before coming to work as one of Sharon Dorram's color assistants.


How do you disable notification of band sync with cloud?
Is there a way to disable it? Every thirty mins this damn thing vibrates to tell me it's syncing with the cloud. I went into the app on my phone (health/menu/manage tiles/notification center) and it doesn't give me the option to turn it off. It would be nice to be able to disable the vibration of that specific notification.
Hmm, that's odd. I don't think mine has ever alerted me that it's syncing to the cloud. Even looking through the options on the band, I don't see anything about a cloud sync. Any idea what kind of data is being synced?
What phone do you have it paired to? What OS and version?
I'm suspecting a setting on your phone needs to be tweaked for the toast.
In the MS Health app, under 'Manage tiles', is 'Notification center' enabled? If so, your phone will push every notification to the Band. What I do is disable Notification center, then enable Messaging, Mail, Calls........whatever I want notifications for.
RumoredNow and ludesleep like this.
Sorry the title was misleading. The band isn't syncing with the cloud, its the health app. Also, I'm using an android phone. I like having the option to have other app notifications pushed to the band but it doesn't give me the option to disable the health app. Maybe I have to disable it within the os settings?
You could try that. I'm on Android too (Note 4) and I don't believe I have that option....though maybe if the notification center tile is enabled, it also enables some further options? The only notifications I want are sms, email, and calls, so I just disabled the notification center tile.
I can't see MS Health on the list. Maybe it was removed in the last update that came out last week.
How do I get files uploaded to OneDrive from a desktop to show up on a laptop?
How can I get my mail account to sync?


HTFU founder Mark Gingrich found himself in a difficult spot this past Tuesday.
Gingrich, who launched his lifestyle apparel brand in 2009, recently told Sherdog.com that he received a multitude of verbal and physical threats after news broke on Tuesday that he had put a stop payment on a sponsorship check issued to Rick Hawn for his appearance at Bellator 85.
Hawn, who challenged Michael Chandler for Bellator's lightweight strap in the Jan. 17 main event on Spike TV, announced the development via Twitter on Monday night, though he did not specifically name HTFU in his post. Nevertheless, Gingrich says that his office and website were bombarded the following day by phone calls and emails.
According to Gingrich, Hawn representative Mike Russell called him five days prior to Bellator 85 and expressed that Hawn was having difficulty picking up interest in a sponsorship for his headlining bout at the UCI Bren Center in Irvine, Calif. Gingrich, a 38-year-old former triathlete, said he considered sponsoring the 36-year-old Hawn in part because of their similar ages and Hawn's desire to win a world title as an older competitor.
After negotiating, the parties came to terms. According to Gingrich, he offered Hawn a $1,500 payday and $2,000 worth of product to become a sponsored HTFU athlete, ideally beyond just the single appearance at Bellator 85. In exchange, Gingrich said Hawn and his cornermen agreed to wear HTFU hats and shirts during the event, and the brand would receive its first television exposure via the Spike TV broadcast. No written contract was drawn up, Gingrich said, because of the short-notice nature of the agreement and his willingness to take Hawn and his camp at their word.
The next day, Gingrich and his girlfriend attended the event. Twice during the Spike broadcast, the crew cut to Hawn warming up backstage. The fighter was wearing a Bellator hoodie and no HTFU gear, a fact that Gingrich said caught him by surprise.
When Hawn did make his walk to the cage for the main event, he was wearing both the HTFU shirt and hat. However, the same could not be said for his cornermen.
"Mike, can you tell me why one of his corners wasn't wearing a shirt and why none of his corners were wearing the hat?
"This was part of the agreement which Rick and his camp did not fulfill. With regards to everything I have done: I sent Rick a couple thousand dollars worth of clothes (FedEx overnight cost $200). I bought [a] ticket out to support his fight [and paid for] hotels, rental cars. I made a shirt which cost me almost $1000 to make. I had to shut down a printer to do it and take away resources to fulfill the order.
"I arrived in Irvine on Wednesday to his camp. [I] shook Rick's hand, and that was about it for a relationship. Rick and his camp advised me to meet up with him later after the weigh-in. I waited for a couple hours with my girlfriend, rearranged plans and never saw Rick come down to say hello. I had to find him eating in another room with his friends. In fact, his girlfriend was more accommodating and sincere than Rick.
"I will not comment on Rick and his fight. That is not my place. But what I will tell you is this: I took a huge chance with him. TV exposure was great…but it only holds weight if he wins or puts on a good show. Neither happened. At the end of the day…not one sole (sic) will run to the HTFU store and buy product because they saw Rick walk out in my shirt and loose (sic) the fight. I've made it my career and business to know what nets a return on investment for the brand…and this is the No. 1 reason why I DO NOT hand out money or product to fighters.
When asked why he chose the words that Hawn ultimately reposted on Twitter, Gingrich admitted that he "probably did a poor job of communicating" his point, which was that he believed Hawn did not live up to his end of the bargain in regard to what product would be worn, who would wear it and when it would be worn. Gingrich also said that had Hawn won, he would have still sent an email to Russell expressing his dissatisfaction with what he felt was an unfulfilled obligation on the part of the fighter.
In response to his email, Gingrich said he received a notice of potential legal action from another of Hawn's representatives, Robert Stein. Gingrich said he then texted Russell, but Russell did not want to talk, instead insisting that Gingrich render his payment to Hawn immediately.
"I didn't have a say, and there was no [explanation]. There was no [mention] that his head coach (Firas Zahabi) has a Headrush sponsorship that [they] didn't tell [me] about, and [Zahabi's] obligations are to that company," said Gingrich. "Those were things that weren't talked about in the beginning, but Rick and Mike made me feel like the corners were fine with all this.
Gingrich said that had Russell offered an explanation for why all the corners were not wearing all of the gear, he would have reversed the stop payment and parted ways with the Hawn camp.
Gingrich said that in addition to receiving the stream of threats, he also spoke to several members of the media on Tuesday. Most expressed their condolences about the threats, Gingrich said, but stated they were unsure about running a story detailing the matter.
One journalist, Gingrich said, even advised him to pay the money in the interest of putting the situation behind him.
"I never did anything publicly to Rick," said Gingrich, who refused to apologize. "I never exploited him or his character, nor did I make any public comments about Rick and his fight. I sent Mike a personal email asking what the guys were doing not wearing all the clothes and [telling him] that Rick's fight was not going to net a big return on investment for me.
Though Gingrich took the aforementioned journalist's advice in mailing the check, the HTFU founder said that it has done little to ease his mind.
Editor's Note: Sherdog.com contacted Rick Hawn representative Mike Russell prior to this story's publication with an offer for a follow-up piece that would provide Russell's and/or Hawn's account of the events, an offer which Russell accepted.


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Westmont Magazine Visible Images for Invisible Children
After photographing the highly visible world of rock concerts, Jessica Fairchild Conrad '10 has shifted her focus to helping invisible children in Uganda. It's the second time her life has taken an unexpected direction. She turned to photography initially when an injury ended her competitive swimming career. Not only did she discover a latent talent, but she got caught up in the excitement of covering concerts.
Then she saw "Night Commuters" at Westmont, a presentation that depicted the plight of Ugandan youth forced to flee service as child soldiers in a brutal civil war. Appalled by what she learned, Jessica agreed to volunteer for Invisible Children, an organization that seeks to protect and assist these traumatized youngsters.
Her first task was photographing a nationwide project, Displace Me. In a number of cities, people chose to sleep on cardboard boxes to make a statement to their communities and local politicians. She attended the event at the Los Angeles Fairgrounds and created a photo essay chronicling the night and the people who took part.
Since then, Jessica, a sophomore with a double major in art and communication studies, has formed a strong bond with the San Diego-based organization. She spends many weekends volunteering, keeping a photo record of IC activities. This summer, she hopes to serve as a photographer in Uganda, spending three months working with IC staff and teaching photography to some local children. After she graduates from college, Jessica plans to join Invisible Children full time and work to end a war being waged by children. "I want to use the vision the Lord has given me and take pictures that inspire people to action," she says.
While at Westmont, Jessica finds opportunities to hone her photography skills. As the photo editor for The Horizon, the student newspaper, she manages seven student photographers and selects the images used each week. She also works for Brad Elliott, Westmont's staff photographer. "Jessica has a talent I rarely see in students," he says. "On top of that she has the drive and passion to perfect her skills."
Jessica was born and raised in Santa Barbara, and her father, Doug Conrad, works in Westmont's information technology department. Some of her photos of Homecoming appear on page 11 of this issue.

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Marly Marie Hillman, infant daughter of Darin and Nicole Hillman, Horace, ND, died on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at Sanford Children's Hospital, Fargo, ND.
Marly Marie was the most beautiful, perfect little baby girl. We were so excited to meet her and have her be a part of our family. We got so close, but in the end, God had another plan for our sweet girl. We never heard her cry nor saw her eyes open, although we know they would have been the most beautiful in the world. We got to spend some time with her in the hospital, even gave her a bath, dressed her, took family pictures; and know that there will forever be a part of our family and hearts missing.
Marly will forever be loved and missed by her parents Darin, Nikki and big brother Thomas of Horace; Grandparents Dave and Danell Dougherty of Fargo; Grandpa Don Hillman of Battle Lake, Great Grandma Elaine Warner of West Fargo; Great Grandma Margie Hillman of Battle Lake; Uncles Chris (Christine) Dougherty; Aaron (Kimberly) Dougherty; Seth (Alicia) Dougherty; Dan (Christie) Hillman; Dustin (Michele) Hillman; and Aunt Darcy (Jarid) Hillman. Marly had ten cousins looking forward to meeting and playing with her: Carter, Parker, Grady and Turner Dougherty; Elizabeth and Leah Hillman; Tyler, Alyssa and Brandt Thorson; and Wyatt Quam.
Welcoming Marly to Heaven was her Angel Sibling, her Grandma Cynthia Hillman and numerous Great Grandparents, including her Great Grandpa Marlyn, who inspired her beautiful name.
If you are wanting to make a memorial donation in Marly's name, we encourage the following two options: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org and Sanford Family Birth Center. We were so blessed to have beautiful family photos taken at no charge to us through NILMDTS and a super thoughtful, irreplaceable care package from a compassionate staff at the Sanford Family Birth Center, of which we will be forever grateful.
We will be forever changed by this experience and are thankful for all who are praying and supporting us now and into the future. Unfortunately, we know this heartbreak will never go away so we will need continued prayers and support to help us get to each new day.
Visitation: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 from 4 until 5 PM at St. Benedict Catholic Church, rural Horace, ND.
Funeral service: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 5 PM at St. Benedict Catholic Church, rural Horace, ND.
Burial: In the church cemetery following the service.


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India Calls Dolphins 'Non-Human Persons', Bans In-Captivity Shows
India's Ministry of Environment and Forests, has banned public entertainment shows by captive dolphins calling it morally unacceptable.
In a statement by the Central Zoo Authority, the Government of India has advised all state governments in the country to reject any proposal to establish a dolphinarium "by any person / persons, organizations, government agencies, private or public enterprises that involves the import [and] capture of cetacean species to [use] for commercial entertainment, private or public exhibition and [other] interaction purposes whatsoever."
Avinash Basker, Legal Consultant at the Wildlife Protection Society of India said: "As far as Dolphins in captivity are concerned, it's a great step. Dolphins hunting is illegal in India and those in captivity in the country would have been captured elsewhere in the world. Thus, it's good for Dolphins globally."
Basker, however, mentions that there are other challenges about Dolphin Conservation in the country. "There are sporadic reports on Dolphin meat consumption in southern Indian states. The Extent of this problem is … not known as the fishing industry is not well regulated here."
In India, Dolphins are protected under the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972. The Indian Government has declared Dolphins from the Ganges river as its national aquatic animal with a view to protect the endangered species.
The statement released by the Central Zoo Authority mentions that cetaceans (marine mammals) cannot survive in captivity. "Cetaceans in general are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence compared to other animals means that dolphins should be seen as 'non-human persons' and as such should have their own specific rights and it is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purposes."
Basker mentions that more countries need to come up with such policies to prevent more Dolphins from being captured. "Mentioning Dolphins as 'non-human persons' gives huge impetus to the Animal Rights discourse in the world. It's a great statement," he says.
Basker believes that the essence of this statement is that keeping Dolphins under captivity is cruel. "Under the aegis of the Wildlife Protection Act of India, Dolphins are protected as are any other species. By mentioning them as non-human persons, the government has probably tried to heighten their status under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960."
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If you check Tesla's patents in regards to his multiplying transfromer and some related stuff you might notice something weird.
We usually use one primary and one secondary coil.
Look really close and you see the secondary is actually one topload and two coils.
But where the heck is our capacitor in the primary circuit?
Tesla said it would be a MAGNIFYING transformer.
And that is in both the electrical and resonant term.
Without a capacitor in the primary circuit the coil would have been with enough self capacitance to make it work or opertate on its self resonant frequency.
Bit hard to do with the tech at the time and no computers to calculate relations.
But what if a similar or identically tuned tesla transormer was the power source??
The toload would act as the missing capacitor.
In a double tuned system the coils would also act as an antenna so we amplify electrictiy and resonant or harmonic connections.
All up to a factor of 4.
Three coils form the energy triangle.
Two identical but different and "opposing" transformers.
Linked through two toploads and harmonic/resonant connections.
But I guess it is just coincidence that both knew each other end had their breakthroughs after exchanging enough of their equal but opposing theories.
Einstein missed why C is also C² and opposite and equal to M or mass.
He was happy to know "what" energy is in math in the most simple form.
Tesla created electricity as we know it as a substitute and link for and to replace or create energy through harmony and resonance.
He tried but never made the final link between energy and resonanc/harmony a reality.
They both tried to use math to explain the circlebut both missed parity to make it complete.
You will certainly agree that the systems need a relation for harmony?
If so than you would have figured out that both system need these relation for itself, for their interaction and as whole to work as expected?
This includes physical, electrical and frequency relations.
But also distances, lenghts a positions to each other and as a whole.
You see the pattern already?
Re: Dual resonant, but why not go triple?
You do know about Tesla magnifier coils? Many people have build these 3 coil setups.
I some quesions about tripple resonant systems that I wanted to find out is voltage amplification. what I found is that a well tuned drsstc is about 100 with a signal generator and scope and I have not found any advantages so far. one of the problems with it is that the tuning gets more complicated with more individual resonant peaks. what I have a hard time undestanding is spark length is a function of power not bridge voltage or current persay but a combination. how your tesla is constructed has a role to play, I feal but who can prove that a horizontal or virtical primary close to secondary is better. moast of the big coils use flat horizontal primaries I think to reduce arcing but there lots of styles used. this also goes with other pars of your coil like the type of caps use or the shape of your secondary. I am more of the idea that big sparks require big power. how well your abilities and resorcess you have detrmin the results.
Not finnished with my book yet but I will try to explain why we "modern" people fail to find the connection.
Humas are notoriously lazy and happy for a long time once they created something great.
We observed nature and the universe for our first big inventions like the wheel.
Later we found more and more things in nature that are important but wee needed a way to express, understand and to put into into a language.
Math was "discovered" - it tanslates what can see, feel and hear in nature into something we can handle.
Add decimal parity and most basic math already forks fine.
Later we needed stuff like volumes, areas, angles to "invent" more complext structures and technology.
As a result all we know from nature was put into relating formulas, sequences, "fixed" numbers.
The laws of physics, the golden ratio, binary systems and parity, Fibonacci sequence, sine waves!
But the lazy human stopped evolving math the same way he discovered the connections in nature through observation.
The "simple" math was just expanded by more and more complex formulas.
We tried and still try to understand the energy triangle in nature but at least Einsten found the formula E=MC² to put it into a mathematically useful form.
No matter what, math will always be our translator for nature.
So a lot of possible pathways that nature provides us allow us to theorise about how things should be and develop technology to make it real.
Or to fail and find out where our math was wrong.
Technology however is based on the same flawed math that we simplyfied and now no longer care about but we invented calculators and computers to do it for us.
Ruler like calculators to use sliders to show the relations in trigonometry.
tables to show us relations between certain sequences and fixed numbers like Pi and other "constants".
We ignore nature and also lost the visual aids that previously helped because using modern technolgy is faster.
We learn more and more to unlearn math by making it easier to use it.
And our modern understanding of technology does the same to us.
And because we are lazy we also reduced the basic function to ZERO and ONE instead of including our well know laws of physics, seqeunces and harmonic spirals.
It works, so why bother, we just write enough code to compensate and again base it on the already lazy and flawed math that has lost harmony and resonance.
If Einstein and Tesla worked together as close as history make us think then they obviously exchanged ideas and theories.
If you put our understand of the most basic math into a circle then we end up with the energy triangle 369, the parity numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5 and two circles that also form a perfect sine wave.
Both genius minds had the same common language: math.
One was driven to explain energy, the other tried to understand harmony and resonance and invented electricity to prove his version.
If math is the common language (like we learned a second language like french in school) than the the other tow, energy and harmony/resonance can be translated.
Of course there will always things that get a bit out of context or just won't ranslate properly.
E=MC² ,C is the speed of light, a "fixed" number.
It is harmonic and resonant.
Einstein might have failed to explain why C² is the same as mass, but 369 shows mass is nothing but a form of energy.
He explained the triangle without putting E M and C onto the corresponding 3, 6 and 9.
But if C and M are both the same, the opposite and their sum then harmony and resonance can replace both for the use in math.
And for electricity in harmony and resonance it means there is no loss, there is no chaos.
And in a resonant system all energies would amplify.
Since at this stage it would still lack the parity harmony and resonace translate the missing link.
This explains why Tesla was also obsessed with the ratios 1/4 and 3/4 - which becomes obvious once you bring the sine wave, or Yin and Yang in relation to 369.
And for those simple above reasons I came to the conclusion that a transformer as in Tesla's late patent is only half of the patent.
It can only work with a tuned Tesla transformer as the power source.
And it has to be in a 1/4 3/4 ratio to work as described in the patent.
There is no way around it with math and E=MC².
Both system must share two links.
The topload of the power source and the individual RF fields from both individual transformer.
Otherwise 369 would not be complete as in E=MC².
Or why else would Tesla have made the step from mechanical resonance (mass) to electrical?
Mass is energy, so invent AC electricity as a form of energy to replace it.
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THEATER REVIEW: 'Mr. Burns' takes audience thru…
THEATER REVIEW: 'Mr. Burns' takes audience thru post-electric world at Villanova Theatre
Photo by Kimberly Reilly
Mina Kawahara as Quincy/Bart. Artwork by Ann Marley.
By Anders Back |
PUBLISHED: February 14, 2018 at 11:50 a.m. | UPDATED: August 26, 2021 at 2:43 a.m.
It's nearly impossible to say anything new about "The Simpsons" after the quarter-century Matt Groening's ubiquitous animated satire has resided at the heart of our popular culture.
This stops no one from trying, and this may be one moral of Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns," a post-electric play, her ambitious and quirky dark comedy (with music) currently on stage at Villanova Theatre.
In 2008 Washburn was commissioned by the New York theatre group The Civilians to write a play that would demonstrate the potential mythic qualities of pop culture. Having lived in New York during the 9/11 attacks, she was inspired to write a post-apocalyptic tale of people much like ourselves trying to rebuild some sort of society after unspecified nuclear power plant accidents bring down the power grid (and civilization as we know it) for good.
If Washburn had been writing in the 1960's she might have chosen Al Capp's Lil' Abner or Philadelphia's own Walt Kelly and his comic Pogo to represent the pervasive nature of satire and the resilience of certain fictional personalities. Today, it's the Simpsons and their adventures as they explore nearly every aspect of U.S. society which made them a logical choice for a play about the persistence and evolution of heroes and heroines through time.
The playwright leaps forward to a near and then not-so-near future in order to reach a time when people once again must create stories by campfires and lamplight using only voice, movement, presence and the simplest of instruments. Each act of the play is summarized by a descriptor that sets the stage for the gradual rebirth as mythic characters of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie as well as the sinister nuclear power plant owner J. Montgomery Burns.
Act I (Survival) finds a small trigger-happy band of survivors suffering from PTSD stuck in rural New Jersey, having fled the collapse of civilization after the power grid fails. Matt (Lee Stover) and Jenny (Tara Demmy) use their recollections of "The Simpsons" and the iconic, much-praised Cape Feare episode from the 5th season to help the other survivors Maria (Sisi Wright), Colleen (Shawneen Rowe) and the solid, unperturbable Sam (Brishen Miller) to occupy time and calm their fears. They are joined by Gibson (Leo Bond) who quickly adds his theatrical talents to the storytelling. The famous episode, in which Bart is pursued by the clown-gone-bad Sideshow Bob combines a parody of the film Cape Fear (specifically the 1991 remake with Robert DiNiro) with an extended Simpsons-style take on prison life, witness protection, TV cartoons, Gilbert & Sullivan and a children's fear of the unknown.
In Act 2 (Creation, Commodity and Community) seven years have passed and the group has become a travelling theater troupe tracing the perilous back roads of the Midwest along with a temperamental young diva named Quincy (Mina Kawahara, who also plays a compelling Bart Simpson) performing the Cape Feare episode (including complete commercials for Diet Coke and other now-iconic products). Individual lines of dialogue and jokes are now commodities, cataloged and numbered for purchase and use.
In Act 3 (The New Parable) it's 75 years after the end of the old world and the legacy of the now-dead Cape Feare travelling performers has been turned into a fantastic opera with a percussive orchestra using metal pipes, guitar, piano and elaborate costumes in which Bart, trapped on the family's runaway houseboat faces not the evil clown Sideshow Bob but the ultimate evil – Mr. Burns himself.
It's helpful but not necessary to have some knowledge of "The Simpsons" as well as modern apocalyptic fiction to enjoy the show. The patient reconstruction and eventual near-canonization of Cape Feare and its characters is reminiscent of other fictional totems created by survivors, including the Punch and Judy shows of Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, the Catholic monks and their illuminated scrolls of technical blueprints and circuit boards that survive the nuclear holocaust in Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz and the Payday candy bars, souped-up cars and prophetic dreams in Steven King's The Stand.
As Homer might say, the second act sometimes made my head hurt and there's no real beer to drink (D'Oh!) but this animated (not cartoonish) energetic cast eventually comes together under Jill Harrison's capable direction to give the story the vibrant and dramatic push it needs to send it into an unknown but still promising future (Woo Hoo!).
The late composer Michael Friedman's score is a doom-laden but mesmerizing combination of pop songs from Britney Spears, Eminem and others set against a kabuki-like lattice of stylized sound.
Scenic Designer Colin McIlvaine has turned our modern trash into some treasures, creating (with the help of Villanova Dining Services) a backdrop made entirely of plastic bottles. Rising over a gritty and leaf-strewn rectangle that comprises the stage, it's the sort of drop cloth you would grab for protection from Ragnarok.
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TALLINN, Estonia – Looking for a free ride? Go live in Tallinn.
Estonia's capital became the world's first to introduce free public transport for all of its residents. All that's required is a transit pass showing you're a registered Tallinner — and the city's buses, streetcars and trams are yours for free.
"I live on a tight budget since I don't have too much work right now," said Mare Tulp, who recently registered as a Tallinn resident. "I need to save money wherever I can, so I'm very happy with the free public transit scheme. This is a good thing for the common person."
Three months after launching the initiative, city officials are hailing the experiment as a success, though skeptics call it an expensive, populist trick ahead of local elections.
The free-ride scheme is the brainchild of Mayor Edgar Savisaar, who wants to reduce congestion and pollution while alleviating expenses for the city's poor.
Savisaar has even dubbed the program the "13th monthly salary" since, he claims, families will be able to save a month's salary now that they can get around Tallinn for free.
Deputy Mayor Taavi Aas says the experiment, which will cost the city some 12 million euros ($16 million) annually in lost ticket sales, has surpassed expectations. Passenger numbers are up 10 percent, while the number of cars on city streets has fallen by as much as 15 percent, according to Tallinn's transport authority.
A recent opinion poll commissioned by the city showed that nine out of 10 Tallinn residents are satisfied with the project.
"People now move around the city more frequently during weekends," Aas said. "This means they also spend more money, which boosts the economy."
City officials say it's too early to tell how much the city's economy has been stimulated in this way.
But the program is expected to boost the city's tax revenue because the registration requirement is essentially winning the city more taxable residents.
According to city calculations, some 40,000 people living and working in Tallinn are registered in other cities and towns. But more than 5,000 new Tallinn residents have been registered since Jan. 1, compared with 3,600 residency registrations during all of last year.
With 1,000 new residents equaling an estimated 1 million euros in city tax revenue, the current registration rate would offset the program's costs this year, Aas said.
The initiative covers buses, streetcars and trolleybuses in Tallinn — a city of 425,000. The only catch is that one must be registered as a city resident and get a transit pass for 2 euros.
Once on board, you must place the pass on an electronic reader. If you don't, expect a fine of up to 40 euros ($52) should a ticket controller emerge.
Installing the system was a breeze in tech-savvy Estonia, birthplace of Skype and pioneer of online voting.
Many European capitals, including London, have similar electronic fare systems, but the difference is Tallinners never have to top up the card with money (out-of-towners do).
The fact that the Tallinn card is personal, essentially allowing the transit authority to monitor every resident's travel pattern, has raised some "big-brother-is-watching-you" concerns. City officials have responded that tracking travel patterns will help them improve transit service.
To be sure, Tallinn is not a trailblazer with free transportation. Many small European towns, such as Hasselt in Belgium and Colomiers in France have tried it, as well as some Chinese cities. In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has mulled over the idea.
But Tallinn is the first capital and the largest city after Changning City in central China to introduce free public transport, Aas said.
He said the project's two risks — insufficient capacity and the risk of derelicts spending entire days in buses — have not materialized so far.
Critics contend the experiment is doomed and will bankrupt Tallinn. Lawmaker Valdo Randpere from the conservative Reform Party, the ruling party in Estonia's center-right government, said the center-left Savisaar is wasting taxpayer money for his "own purposes and propaganda."
"There are lots of other areas where the city should invest but doesn't have the money," said Randpere, a former member of the Tallinn City Council. "It all sounds nice, but it's a lot of populism."
Some Tallinn residents groused about the affect the scheme is having on their business.
Andrea Green, manager of a Tallinn-based taxi company Saksa Takso, said Tallinn's free transportation is undermining entrepreneurship and risks taking jobs from cab drivers. He said orders declined 25 percent in the first two months of the year compared with the same period in 2012.
"The city should invest in improving the condition of Tallinn's streets instead," he said.
But for Tallinners on a moderate income, the free rides are a gift.
"It gives you freedom," said Tulp, as she boarded a bus on her way home to a suburb of Tallinn. "It's not just money."


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At Hebbal Lake....

Near it....

Near my home...

And I would bet that this guy rarely loses his cool...

Did a lovely birding trip to Hebbal Lake, which is a "first-timer" for me in birding parlance...

What better way to spend a winter morning than first sip hot tea in the cold misty dawn, and then have experienced birders teach you lots of things by the lake as the sun slowly warms you up?

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New Worlds: Signs of Power
Posted on June 9, 2017 by Marie Brennan
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Riffing off last week's discussion of how we show respect to one another, let's talk about the things that signal HEY, YOU SHOULD SHOW RESPECT TO ME.
There are a number of items that traditionally mark someone out as having particular authority. Two crop up in particular when we're talking about royalty: 1) thrones and 2) crowns. In fact, they're so central to the concept of royalty that they can serve as metonymy for the sovereign or even the entire royal government, as when we talk about having the ear of the Throne (i.e. the king will listen to what you have to say) or the Crown imposing a new tax. When we talk about installing a new sovereign, the most common words for this are "enthronement" and "coronation" (though other terms get used, like "proclamation"). So it's understandable that they loom so large in the imagination.
But thrones and crowns far from the only objects associated with authority. If you go to see the "crown jewels" of the United Kingdom, you'll find yourself staring at everything from swords to robes to orbs to trumpets. Because when you get down to it, pretty much anything can be a symbol of power, if people agree to view it that way.
That doesn't mean regalia is random, though. Quite a lot of it is meant to be worn, because putting splendid adornments on yourself is a good way to impress people: clothing like robes or capes or shoes, or jewelry like crowns, rings, belt buckles, or chains of office. Some are objects that at least theoretically have utilitarian use, whether it's weapons (swords, maces, staves/scepters, daggers; almost certainly derived from the days when you used those things to win power) or seals (for marking documents as official and authoritative) or fans or flywhisks or sacred texts. Of course, many of those are so heavily decorated — not to mention heavy — that you would never actually employ them; ceremonial swords tend to be encrusted with gems to the point where they almost look more painful to the wielder than the target. So there may not be a whole lot of difference between those and the objects that are purely symbolic, like the widespread European globus cruciger, the orb surmounted with a cross, which represents Christ's dominion over the world. (And therefore the holder's dominion over said world on Christ's behalf.)
And then you have the stuff that holds the monarch instead of being held by them. Thrones aren't the only form of important seating, of course. In Yoruba it's a stool; in Mesoamerica, where chairs weren't so common, the mat someone sat on could be the symbol of their authority, and before Japan started flooring entire rooms with tatami, they were portable items used as seating for the highest-ranking people present. Renaissance European monarchs often had a canopy of estate over their non-throne chairs — which may have served a practical purpose by protecting them from bugs falling out of the rafters, but also provided a splendid "heaven" over their heads. In other parts of the world, umbrellas serve the same purpose. I have no idea what royal carriages looked like in the English past, but judging by the bling-tastic Lord Mayor of London's state coach, they must have been pretty spectacular. Modify the vehicles as necessary for local tech level and environment: in ancient Egypt the pharoah would have a royal barge to float up and down the Nile, while in ancient India it might be a chariot.
As these examples suggest, a lot of what makes something a symbol of power and status is the wealth it displays. Gold, silver, precious gems, exotic wood, or fine craftsmanship all communicate the message that the person so adorned must be really important. But what about the Stone of Scone, which is literally just a chunk of rock with a rough cross carved into it and a couple of rings to help you lift the bloody thing? What about the Holy Lance in Vienna, which despite having a piece of gold slapped on is basically just a steel blade with an iron nail accessory? What about Kusanagi, so shrouded in ritual and secrecy that whether it even still exists is open to question?
As the orb-and-cross example above suggests, symbolism plays a role. Giving someone a "key to the city" nods back to the days when cities were surrounded by walls, whose gates might actually be locked with a key; even if there are no longer any walls or gates to put the key in, it's still a way of representing the freedom to come and go whenever you please, or to control other peoples' access. (Many of my examples here have been royal, but I'll note that a woman's ring of keys for doors and chests in her household was often a very practical sign of her power.) But when you get down to it, the primary answer for why a given thing represents status and power is often history.
Sure, the Stone of Scone is a fairly plain rock. But it's a plain rock that supposedly served as a pillow for the Israelite patriarch Jacob and later became the coronation stone of Scottish monarchs before the English stole it in the thirteenth century and built it into the chair they used for their own coronations and didn't give it back until 1996. Like the iron nail in the Holy Lance (supposedly a relic of Christ's crucifixion), the intrinsic value isn't what matters; it's the connection to important people and events. It doesn't matter whether the common people ever get to see Kusanagi; that sword, along with the mirror Yata no Kagami and the necklace of comma-shaped jewels Yasakani no Magatama, has been part of the enthronement ceremony for the Japanese emperor since the ninth century, and the origins of those three items connect the imperial line back to their divine ancestor, the sun goddess Amaterasu.
So from a narrative standpoint, it doesn't matter so much whether a given object has precedent in reality as a symbol of authority. The real question is whether it fits into its own context. Special shoes to prevent special feet from touching the ground, a sacred bell whose ringing begins and ends vital ceremonies, a splendid belt that symbolizes the world and thus positions its wearer as the center of that world — nearly anything can work, so long as it has a rationale the reader can believe in.
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New Worlds: Signs of Power — 12 Comments
Sherwood Smith on June 9, 2017 at 8:16 am said:
Two things come to mind: first, you're surrounded by fierce guards dressed to intimidate, and two, big banners with power symbols on them, placed either up behind you, larger than life, or carried to snap in the wind around you, making it seem you are lord of the wind.
Marie Brennan on June 9, 2017 at 3:02 pm said:
I think I'm going to wind up having an entire essay on how rarely important people are alone in an aristocratic society.
Sherwood Smith on June 9, 2017 at 4:21 pm said:
Heh–I've got a whole book about it! 🙂
Madeleine Robins on June 10, 2017 at 10:24 am said:
This is a fascinating subject–the greater the power, the less possible it was to be alone, even when you craved it. I sometimes wonder if some of the weird behavior of the Powerful of the past stems from the explosive yearning to be alone.
Madeleine Robins on June 9, 2017 at 9:36 am said:
Like the Lord Mayor's coach, the place the Powerful Person lives can signal all sorts of stuff, much of it purely associational. One understands why Versailles signals Power–but 10 Downing Street, as sedate as it looks from the street, also packs a punch of authority. I believe it's in The American President that someone calls the White House "the greatest home court advantage" there is–it was meant to support the authority of its main occupant.
True — I didn't even think to bring up houses!
Koby on June 11, 2017 at 9:15 am said:
I greatly enjoyed this, because it touches on a personal favorite topic of mine: people taking a relatively common symbol and then making it unique with what matters to them, or with their personal history. For example, many rulers might have crowns, but only Pharaohs of the Two Kingdoms would have the unique Pschent, combining Hedjet, the crown of Upper Egypt with Deshret, the Crown of Lower Egypt (to say nothing of the unique meanings of each crown: the red and the white, the vulture and the cobra). Or consider the various names for thrones: Chrysanthemum Throne, Phoenix Throne, Dragon Throne, Lion Throne, Peacock Throne, Sun Throne, Silver Throne… while some of those are merely descriptors of the throne (Silver, Peacock), others speaks to a whole mythology and meaning behind the concept and right of rulership.
What I really love to see is symbols that embody the culture and power that brought one to a throne. A kingdom conquered by a chariot-riding people (as Upper Egypt was by the Hyksos) might expect a new ruler to ride in a new chariot to symbolize his ascension. A kingdom based off some Alexander the Great equivalent might have every king ride a Bucephalus equivalent – I think Tolkien did something similar with only the Kings of Rohan allowed to ride the Mearas. Especially in fantasy stories where a royal family might have magic, I'd expect to see a lot more of it – if the Royal Family is known for mastery of, say, Water Magic, they could have every coronation take place on a body of water, or have fountains and aqueducts running through the palace/city.
Marie Brennan on June 12, 2017 at 2:03 pm said:
Man, every post I make gives me ideas for three more. 🙂 Coronation ceremonies might wind up being a whole thing of their own.
Aonghus Fallon on June 13, 2017 at 6:05 am said:
Yeah, context is the important thing. Take the Irish celts. They had pretty primitive living spaces, very little in the way of furniture, and status was largely established via brightly-dyed clothes, and jewellery. Even then, kings/queens would have worn torcs rather than crowns (albeit fashioned out of gold). No thrones, either. Instead – when a feast was being held – tribal leaders would have sat cross-legged on the ground along with their subjects, but at the centre of the hut, closest to the fire and whatever was being cooked. Your proximity to them was an indication of your status.
Reminds me a lot of how certain pack animals congregate at night (e.g. hyenas) with the alpha dog at the centre of a scrum of bodies, while those further down the pecking order are relegated to the (colder) periphery.
Luxury and ostentation are definitely relative! Even fairly poor people in the U.S. often enjoy comforts that an early Irish king could only dream of.
Damien on June 25, 2017 at 10:10 am said:
"the widespread European globus cruciger, the orb surmounted with a cross, which represents Christ's dominion over the world."
Also represents medieval Europeans knowing the world was a globe. :p
Marie Brennan on June 25, 2017 at 12:25 pm said:
Interestingly, the myth that they didn't know seems to be tied in with the politics of science vs. religion — basically it was a way for later centuries to emphasize how foolish and ignorant religion made people in the past.
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Easter is the celebration of the resurrection on the third day after the crucifixion of Jesus. It is one of the most important ways of gaining our faith and hope by commemorating the victory of Jesus through the resurrection of him.
The resurrection of Jesus, as described in the New Testament of the Bible, is essentially the foundation upon which the Christian religions are built. Therefore, Easter is a very significant date on the Christian calendar.
Christians worldwide are gathering every year for this major holiday for the religion to feast, attend church services and hunt Easter eggs. Easter Sunday signifies the end of Lent, which is a 40-day period of repentance, fasting and preparation for the coming of Easter. It follows Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
While Easter is a very important religious day for Christians, it is also a joyful holiday where families come together, where the children are full of fun with Easter eggs, Easter Bunny, buns and chocolates.
In this article, you will find general information about Easter, Easter 2019 date and Easter dates of the coming years.
Before we treat Easter as a holiday, we need to focus on its original meaning. The true meaning of Easter is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to many Christians, this date is considered to be the most special day of the year. The birth of Christ is undoubtedly very important, but his resurrection engenders faith and hope in eternal life for all. The Lenten season, which continues until Easter Sunday, is a perfect time for fasting, sacrifice and prayer. On this occasion, every Christian commemorates the sacrifice that Christ made for them and tries to offer him gratitude for him by respecting his fast and his death on the cross.
Easter follows Lent, a traditional 40-day period before Easter, which includes penance and fasting. Just after Easter, the Holy Week, which includes the Maundy Thursday, commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples. Wednesday which is the day of Crucifixion. And Holy Saturday that expresses the transition between the crucifixion and the resurrection.
Easter is celebrated by all Christians. Apart from the rituals organized in churches, there are different traditions according to the country where it is celebrated. The most common symbols among them are the Easter bunny and the Easter egg.
Easter includes a fasting five-week period, and the last week (Holy Week). It ends on Easter Day (Resurrection Day). For Easter Day, special buns (Easter buns) are made in houses, candles are burned and everyone prays.
In Eastern Orthodox branches of Christianity, Easter Sunday means the start of the season of Pascha (Greek for "Easter"), which ends 40 days later with the holiday known as the Feast of the Ascension.
Despite its great significance and meaning as a Christian holy day, it is accepted that many of the traditions and symbols that play a key role in Easter have roots in pagan celebrations particularly the pagan goddess Ostara, the ancient Germanic goddess of spring and in the Jewish holiday of Passover.
In addition to religious traditions, Easter is celebrated by Christians with Easter Bunny, colored eggs, jelly beans and plenty of chocolate.
The Easter game called Easter Egg Hunt is expected with great pleasure especially by children. In the early hours of the morning, children go out to find the colorful Easter eggs that the Easter Bunny kept the night before. The Easter Bunny is a result of folkloric tradition. Their association with the holiday comes from their ability to procreate, making them symbols of fertility. German settlers brought the Easter Bunny tradition to America in the 1700s. The Easter Egg Hunt is accepted as a first game ever to be invented.
Also, every year on Easter Monday in the United States, the children play with the president and his family in the garden of the white house, playing the White House Easter Egg Roll. Last year, in 2018 it was the 140th anniversary of this traditional game. The White House Easter Egg Roll is officially based on the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878, but the first-hand sources indicate that informal festivals began under President Abraham Lincoln.
As you can see, Easter is a holiday that Christians are looking forward to, both religiously and enjoyably.
And this year, when Easter 2019 meets on Sunday, April 21 (and on Sunday, April 28 for Orthodox Easter 2019) the children will start the day by hunting the Easter Bunny's Easter basket on this beautiful spring morning. Then the family will wear the newest spring clothes and go to the church to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. From there, everyone (according to his customary tradition) will meet at brunch or barbecue parties. Breakfast will be served with families and friends; cooked ham will be eaten with great pleasure.
First of all, we will answer this question, and then we will look at the history to get an idea of the formation of the Easter date. Because, as it is known, there is no fixed Easter date and it corresponds to a different day each year.
Easter 2019 will be celebrated on 21st of April, Sunday by Western Christians and Orthodox Easter 2019 will be on 28th of April, Sunday.
Now, Let's take a look at the history of Easter date.
Early Christians began to commemorate the resurrection of every Sunday following the day of its occurrence. Then, the Nicaea Council in A.D. 325, adopted a special and official day to celebrate the resurrection. Many Christians thought that the date should continue in the same tradition based on the time of resurrection during Passover. After the Jewish leaders had determined the date of the Passover, the Christian leaders decided three days after the Passover, and determined the date when Easter was to be celebrated. This means that Easter will take place on a different day of the year every year, but naturally it will be on Sunday for some years.
The Council finally decided that Easter should be celebrated on Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Since the date of the Vernal equinox varies from year to year, it may be difficult to calculate the appropriate date. This is still the method used to determine Easter today, so in some years Easter may be earlier than in other years. In the 20th century, studies were conducted to determine a fixed date for Easter. These studies focused on the second Sunday of April, but this proposal was not implemented.
In Western Christianity which is using the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April inclusive, within about seven days after the astronomical full moon.
The following day, called Easter Monday, is a holiday in many countries with Christian traditions.
Eastern Christianity, however, uses Julian Calendar. Because of the 13-day difference between the calendars between the years 1900 and 2099, 21 March corresponds to 3 April in the Gregorian Calendar during the 21st century.
Therefore, the date of Easter changes between 4 April and 8 May in the Gregorian calendar. Also, because the Julian "full moon" is always several days after the astronomical full moon, the Easter in eastern is often celebrated later than Easter in western. As some oriental Orthodox churches have changed their calendars from the Julian to the Gregorian, the Easter date is the same as in the Western churches.
Here you can find the Western and Orthodox Easter dates from 2019 to 2025 in sequence.
What is open and closed on Easter 2019?
We have compiled some information for you to find out which institutions are open and which ones are closed on Easter 2019.
Is There Mail Delivery on Easter 2019?
Many mail delivery services are closed on Sundays. But mail delivery on Easter Monday varies. Like Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Monday are not recognized by UPS, so they'll be operating on their normal schedule on both days. FedEx, on the other hand, is closed for Easter Sunday and some of their services are even affected on the Saturday before. Check their holiday calendar to learn which services will change on Easter 2019.
Are Banks Open or Closed on Easter 2019?
As the banks are generally closed on Sundays, they'll be closed on Easter Sunday as well. But ATMs remain open. Since the day following Easter, Easter Monday is not a bank holiday, banks are open like usual.
Are Schools Open or Closed on Easter 2019?
While many schools will resume normal schedules on Easter 2019, others will not be open. Also, there may be some schools that are only open because they need to make up for snow days. There are also schools who are on their Spring Break. As it depends on each of them, it's important to check with your specific school district. You can access to this information quite easily by internet or phone. Some schools post closure information on their Facebook and Twitter pages as well.
Are Malls Going to Be Open on Easter 2019?


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Harebrained Schemes Dev Says Every Sexual Harassment Accusation Is True, Resigns
'There doesn't need to be any inquiry because, frankly, everything is true.'
Charles Singletary Jr
The Harebrained Schemes team will have to wait a bit before popping the champagne on their new deal where the BattleTech developer was acquired for $7.5 million by Paradox Interactive.
Waypoint reports that, after a few days where at least six women detailed sexual abuse and harassment by Harebrained designer Tyler Carpenter, Carpenter has confirmed the allegations and resigned from the company after three years.
"My bullshit is not the kind of thing HBS [Harebrained Schemes] stands for or tolerates, and HBS had no idea any of this happened," Carpenter told Waypoint. "Because of that, for the good of HBS and my victims, I've resigned from HBS effective immediately. There doesn't need to be any inquiry because, frankly, everything is true."
Paradox and Harebrained Schemes also confirmed to Waypoint that Carpenter was no longer with the company and gave this statement:
"There has been communication between Paradox and Harebrained Schemes on this matter and it has already been dealt with internally," said the companies in a joint statement. "Tyler Carpenter has been dismissed from the company with immediate effect. All of this took place prior to the acquisition deal between Paradox and Harebrained Schemes being finalised, so therefore Paradox have no comment to make."
One of the accounts of Carpenter's confirmed harassment came from cosplayer and streamer Lauren Bond, who worked with him on streams. He stated sexual feelings for Bond, even openly flirting with her in front of her girlfriend. In other instances, he's engaged in in-person harassment, sent messages and left unwanted comments on Facebook, and outright grabbed a woman's rear and said "too bad" when she stated her displeasure with the abuse.
"Believe every accusation," Carpenter told Waypoint. "I don't recall each one, and some I have a different recollection of, but obviously the sheer mass of shared experiences means that I'm the one who's got a faulty memory, not them. I hurt, emotionally manipulated, and wrong [sic] every one of those accusers due to my own selfishness, thoughtlessness, and need for validation."
Charles Singletary Jr keeps the updates flowing as the News Editor, breaking stories while investigating the biggest topics in gaming and technology. He's pretty active on Twitter, so feel free to reach out to him @The_CSJR. Got a hot tip? Email him at Charles.Singletary@Shacknews.com.
Charles Singletary posted a new article, Harebrained Schemes Dev Says Every Sexual Harassment Accusation Is True, Resigns
Don't we have a shacker who works there?
MilkDud
frib
I want to laugh but what if it's true?
GBurke59
Must be hard to treat women like people *sarcasm. Jesus, what year is it?
threeup
I was there when one designer left and ended up at Arena net, but I didn't realize all this went on. Horrible situation when someone fears for their career like this. From watching the purple man of Jessica Jones, being persistent can easily become someone's nightmare.
dahanese
Huh. You don't get praise for admitting you are a shit lord but I am surprised.
pixelat3d
Yeah they usually fight this stuff tooth-and-nail... strange.
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MaxPete82
There's a pretty wide gulf between it being praiseworthy and him committing suicide, don't you think? Come on man.
It's the best route for him to take here, but I'm not going to pat him on the back. Something tells me this contrition would be non-existent if his back wasn't up against the wall with people coming forward.
It's clearly worthy of consideration and discussion, as this thread demonstrates. He is on the right path and has taken a different approach from most people who get called out for behavior like this.
But it is a personal road he will have to walk to overcome this in his life. Nobody said anything about eternity but it will be longer than a couple days and involve more than releasing an apologetic statement. It can be done, and I hope he succeeds.
swampangel
It's closer than "damned forever and should go blow his brains out in a public toilet asap"
nwillard
Wow. Awful of him to do that stuff but this is owning up to it to a degree you rarely see.
Not really. If you read the Waypoint article, he hasn't made any private personal apologies to any of the people involved, which is something more likely to give closure to an individual than just a general "I suck. Bye" to the Internet.
That's true. "Owning up" and "confessing" aren't the same thing.
At this point, there have been so many of these exposes, that I've been dividing them into whether the person reaches out directly to the involved individuals in a human, person to person way or if they just make a statement to the general public online, plus a third category for the ones who deny they did anything hurtful and do that "I'm sorry you feel the way you do" bs.
So in all cases guilty until proven innocent?
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Sailor of Fortune
He's trying to have his high horse and ride it too.
Sideways Bob
Wow, this hits kinda close to home. I don't know the guy personally but have interacted with him on some forums. I have some friends that work on the Shadowrun tabletop rpg and they know him via Shadowrun Returns related stuff.


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"Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
At first, Liesel could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting. Years ago, when they'd raced on a muddy field, Rudy was a hastily assembled set of bones, with a jagged, rocky smile. In the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears. He was a triple Hitler Youth athletics champion. He was her best friend. And he was a month from his death.
Yes! I can't wait til the movie. The Book Thief is a must read for sure.
I know and Derek is just so sweet. I loved that he wasn't the perfect handsome football player type of character.
Aw yes, I love Katniss and Peeta as well. And Derek!! Omigosh, what an awesome character. Haha he always makes me laugh.
I loved Katniss and Peeta too. I'd really have to think about this one to come up with some of my favorite characters. I really need to read The Book Thief. I think I'm one of the very few left that hasn't.
The Book Thief was a fantastic book, wasn't it? I had to keep reminding myself that Death was a character too.
I love The Book Thief, so I totally agree about those characters. And Lina from Between Shades of Gray was wonderful, too.
It took me a while to get to it but I'm so glad I did.
I know! I read The Book Thief at the end of the year and I was so upset that it didn't make my other Best of lists.


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Home > Wildlife Whistleblowers > Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center Featured in WIRED Story
Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center Featured in WIRED Story
By Ben Kostyack on June 5, 2018
Posted in News, Wildlife Whistleblowers
Kohn is representing an anonymous whistleblower(s) who has gathered information on wildlife trafficking that takes place on Facebook.
Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn has been featured in a WIRED article about Facebook's wildlife trafficking market. The story details how Kohn and his team at NWC are using a novel methodology, whistleblower law, to hold Facebook accountable for the wildlife black market facilitated on its website.
The digital age has brought on cause for new legal precedents. Tech companies have largely not been held responsible for the content posted and disseminated on their platforms, allowing massive online black market of wildlife products to proliferate. Kohn and his team are pursuing impact litigation— establishing new applications of existing laws—to combat illegal wildlife trafficking.
The fight for accountability began last year, when Kohn filed a complaint with the SEC on behalf of an anonymous whistleblower(s). It alleges, as summarized by the WIRED article, that "by facilitating illegal acts via its platform, profiting from it in the form of ads, and failing to disclose the risk of this type of abuse to its shareholders, Facebook is violating Securities and Exchange Commission regulations governing publicly traded companies."
The complaint also includes evidence collected by the informant, such as screenshots of images and conversations of online traffickers involving items such as ivory and other animal body parts. Kohn states that Facebook should disclose these activities to its investors.
Kohn hopes that growing distrust in social media giants like Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg's recent testimony before Congress, which included questions about the illegal wildlife trade on his platform, will assist in busting wildlife traffickers online and change how tech companies, like Facebook, are held accountable for their content.
Read the WIRED article: The Fight to Upend Facebook's Black Market of Animal Parts
Read more about Facebook's wildlife trafficking problem
Support the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2018 (H.R. 5697)
Tags: Facebook, Whistleblowers, Wildlife Trafficking Whistleblowers
Ben Kostyack
Ben Kostyack is an Assistant News Editor for Front Line Whistleblower News. He writes about breaking whistleblower news, and False Claims Act whistleblowers, SEC whistleblowers, IRS whistleblowers, FCPA whistleblowers, and CFTC whistleblowers. Ben has a degree in Journalism with a minor in …
Ben Kostyack is an Assistant News Editor for Front Line Whistleblower News. He writes about breaking whistleblower news, and False Claims Act whistleblowers, SEC whistleblowers, IRS whistleblowers, FCPA whistleblowers, and CFTC whistleblowers. Ben has a degree in Journalism with a minor in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was a communications intern at the whistleblower law firm Kohn, Kohn and Colapinto during the summer of 2018.
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Independent French label Nø Førmat! celebrates its 15th anniversary. To illustrate 15 years of musical diversity, the label has dreamed up an itinerant festival: 5 nights on 3 continents – showcasing some of the major names from its catalogue.
Since its inception in 2004 by Laurent Bizot, Nø Førmat! has evolved according to the principle of welcoming, without stylistic constraint, a variety of musical forms that reflect the wealth of the increasingly creolised and interrelated world.
In its eclectic catalogue can be found Gonzales, Ballaké Sissoko, Mélissa Laveaux, ALA.NI, Blick Bassy, Oumou Sangaré or ¿ Que Vola ?. It is this miscellany of genres, as well as its characteristic design, made up by Jérome Witz, that forged the identity of the label.
In 2019, Nø Førmat! celebrates 15 years of collaboration with an itinerant festival. The festival will pass by Cully Jazz Festival in Switzerland, London, JazzKif Festival in Kinshasa, Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon and New York.


Publisher: Baltimore, MD: Emerson Drug Co.
Description: First edition, n. d. (ca 1890); 2 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. ; illustrated stiff wraps; minor age-toning to wraps; illustrated; near fine- condition.
An unusual advertising booklet, combining poetry and historical facts, for Emerson Drug Co.'s Bromo-Seltzer (which purportedly cured all headaches, nervous depression, over brain-work, alcoholic excesses, and so on). Several pages left blank with heading "Memorandum." Others contained information on the British, Russian, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and US Armies' numbers of soldiers, guns, horses, etc. Also included were short poems corresponding to the particular army being described, for example: "And Russia is a mighty power, But well disposed to us, We shall indeed deplore the hour It ceases to be thus..." The only copy in the trade.


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La. bucks trend in last round of redistricting
Updated: 5:58 AM CDT Mar 31, 2014
While Republicans in many states gained ground by carving out more GOP congressional districts after the 2010 Census, they lost a seat in Louisiana. Louisiana's U.S. House delegation dropped from seven to six because of slow population growth. When state lawmakers redrew the maps, they merged two Republican congressmen into one district to help preserve Louisiana's majority black district, the state's only district represented by a Democrat. In the next election cycle in 2012, Republican incumbents Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry were forced to run against each other. Landry lost.
BATON ROUGE, La. —
While Republicans in many states gained ground by carving out more GOP congressional districts after the 2010 Census, they lost a seat in Louisiana.
Louisiana's U.S. House delegation dropped from seven to six because of slow population growth.
When state lawmakers redrew the maps, they merged two Republican congressmen into one district to help preserve Louisiana's majority black district, the state's only district represented by a Democrat.
In the next election cycle in 2012, Republican incumbents Charles Boustany and Jeff Landry were forced to run against each other. Landry lost.


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