Rangiroa is the biggest Tuamotu atoll in French Polynesia and the biggest atoll in the Pacific. It is located 355 km from Papeete. Mataiva, Tikeau and Makatea are associated districts and their respective distances from the main district of Rangiroa are 79 km, 15 km and 82 km.
Nearly 300 years ago, an exceptional phenomenon shifted giant blocks of limestone from the depths of Rangiroa's lagoon onto the coral reef. The biggest of those blocks was 1,000 cubic meters in size and weighed 1,500-2000 tons. They are found today on the northwest point of the atoll.
Rangiroa was probably first settled around the 10th century. It originally had several villages. Today the remains of several marae, or ancient worshipping grounds, and dozens of gravesites are found near the sites of those ancient villages. According to oral traditions, each marae corresponded to land or motu originally owned by ancient social groups known as aiti. Such traditions were sometimes contained in puta tupuna (ancestors' books), where we find mentioned a major catastrophe, probably a tidal wave, that occurred around 1560, destroying the dwellings on the western side of the atoll.
During the 17th century Rangiroa established important ties with other atolls in the northern part of the Tuamotu Archipelago and with the Society Islands. The prosperity of that period was brutally ended around 1770. Fran�ois Doumenge's L'Homme dans le Pacifique Sud tells how the people of Rangiroa suffered battle defeats at the hands of the warriors from the atoll of Anaa. This led to the abandonment of Rangiroa after it had been ravaged, its villages and their communal buildings destroyed, the majority of its population slaughtered and the atoll�s crops abandoned. The few survivors there took refuge on Tikehau, Makatea and Tahiti, enjoying the protection of Pomare rulers. Those survivors did not return to Rangiroa until 1821.
The atoll's first European visitors were Schouten and Le Maire in 1616, followed by Roggeveen in 1722. But the first Europeans did not begin living on Rangiroa until 1851. And they were Catholic missionaries, who urged the population to plant coconut palm trees in 1865, the beginning of the atoll's colonial period.
Rangiroa benefited from Tahiti's economic growth of the 1950s. The atoll supplied large quantities of copra. However, like all of the Tuamotu atolls, Rangiroa experienced a steady drop in copra production right up until today. Fishermen took advantage of the atoll's huge lagoon, becoming organized very quickly in order to supply the workers for the Compagnie Française des Phosphates de l'Océanie. This company worked the phosphate deposit on the island of Makatea. The Rangiroa fishermen sent 40 tons of fresh fish to Maketea in 1960. The opening of a 2,100-meter (6,889-ft.) airstrip in August 1965 opened Rangiroa to tourism development.
The flag of Rangiroa (photo, Tahitian Football Federation) is horizontally divided red-white-red with a blue stripe placed vertically along the hoist, that is, similar to the flag of Tuamotu, but with the name of the island written in blue capital letters in the white stripe, instead of the Tuamotu stars.
The same flag, with more compact letters, was used in April 2014 during the futsal competition of the 6th Islands' Festival (photos).


Just for fun - here are some things you might not know about Sammamish!
Some stats are approximate. Average values are weighted averages of average or median value by zip codes in Sammamish.
Check out some of the Pros outside Sammamish that have joined ZipBooks to manage and grow their businesses. You can join, too — it's free!


Receive an alert when Certified Expert Cyber Trainer (CECT)® becomes available.
Successful completion of this exam will demonstrate a candidate's ability to develops cyberspace workforce plans, strategies and guidance to support cyberspace workforce manpower, personnel, training and education requirements and to address changes to cyberspace policy, doctrine, materiel, force structure, and education and training requirements. They will demonstrate understanding of the policy framework and the core policy elements.
Candidates must possess at least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity operations as well as teaching or instruction, in any mix of offensive and defensive operations, in order to obtain the Expert-level Certificate. Those that pass the test, but do not possess the requisite experience, will be awarded the Certified Expert Associate Certificate; this can be upgraded upon obtaining the necessary experience. Send qualifying details to certifications@lunarline.com upon eligibility.


いろは is the name of a japanese poem. いろは are the first three characters of the poem. It is a pangram of the Japanese kana. This means that it uses every character of the alphabet. The poem is known by all Japanese people. Some people may not remember it completely but they are aware of it and have most likely read it when they were students.
Why should I know it?
Well, it is a part of Japanese culture and history. That is usually enough to have at least a bit of knowledge of something. I think this is no exception.
More importantly, you may see it in real life in Japan. While it will probably not be seen everywhere nowadays, in older building it can be used to label seats. For example, in a movie theater the rows of seats could be labeled with イ ロ ハ… instead of A B C etc.
There are numerous translation but I think the most beautiful one is from a Japanese Harvard Professor.
of this world remain unchanged?
intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams.
Print out a few copies. Trace over the characters. This starts at the top right and goes down. I usually go over the sheet several times before I use a new one. This is more interesting if you are still studying hiragana.


text:
Tag Archives: USS Essex (LHD 2)
Fab Flattop Five! 365K tons of Good Times
Posted on January 24, 2022 by laststandonzombieisland	Leave a comment
What do you get when you take two 105,000-ton supercarriers, add two chunky 42,000-ton Goula-built LHD/LHAs, and a 20,000-ton Japanese "helicopter destroyer" along with their five principal surface warfare escorts in one big photo-ex?
PHILIPPINE SEA (Jan. 22, 2022) Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2 and CVW 9 fly over the Philippine Sea, Jan. 22, 2022. Operating as part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, units assigned to the Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groups, Essex and America Amphibious Ready Groups, and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force are conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Haydn N. Smith)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Jan. 22, 2022) Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, CVW 9, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) fly over the Philippine Sea as Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) and USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), JMSDF Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181), America-class amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), Wasp-class landing helicopter dock USS Essex (LHD 2), Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Spruance (DDG 111), USS Chafe (DDG 90), and USS Gridley (DDG 101) and the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) and USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) transit the Philippine Sea Jan. 22, 2022.
"Operating as part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, units assigned to Carl Vinson and Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Groups, America and Essex Amphibious Ready Groups alongside Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, are conducting training to preserve and protect a free and open Indo-Pacific region."
(U.S. Navy video)
SINKEX Harpoon edition
The U.S. Navy's press office released that, on 29 August off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2020, a live-fire SINKEX was conducted against a target hulk, the ex-USS Durham (LKA-114).
An 18,000-ton Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship commissioned on May 24, 1969, Durham was decommissioned on February 25, 1994, notably seeing service during Vietnam (four campaign stars, including the Frequent Wind evacuation in 1975) and the First Gulf War. The only Navy ship to carry the name of the North Carolina city, Durham was laid up in Pearl Harbor's Middle Loch since 2000 and found ineligible for historic preservation in 2017.
The released video shows at least three missile hits as well as what could be some other surface weapons, with the Navy non-commital on just what ordinance was expended.
Meanwhile, the Royal Canadian Navy is reporting that the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina had the opportunity to shoot two of their RGM-84 Harpoons in RIMPAC, a rare event indeed.
Master Seaman Dan Bard, RCN
At the same time, the Royal Australian Navy reports that the modified ANZAC (MEKO200) class frigate HMAS Stuart (FFH-153) expended one of her Harpoons on Durham.
RAN photo
"Simulation is a critical part of our training but there is nothing better than to conduct live-fire training," said Royal Australian Navy Capt. Phillipa Hay, commander, RIMPAC 2020 Task Force One. "Sinking exercises are an important way to test our weapons and weapons systems in the most realistic way possible. It demonstrates as a joint force we are capable of high-end warfare."
RIMPAC on parade
Posted on August 27, 2020 by laststandonzombieisland	2 comments
A parade of modern naval architecture underway in the bright blue of the Pacific, showing off some 23 ships and submarines!
The great formation PHOTOEX captured on the below 5~ minute video shows off the multinational navy ships and a submarine navigate in formation during a group sail off the coast of Hawaii during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2020, August 21.
The video includes lots of close-ups of the individual ships:
0:09, 2:51 Republic Of Korea Navy guided-missile destroyer ROKS Seoae Ryu Seong-ryong (DDG 993)
0:14 Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Regina (FFH 334) in beautiful WWII camo
0:26 U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2)
0:32 Philippine Navy's first guided-missile frigate BRP Jose Rizal (FF 150)
0:37 RAN HMAS Stuart (FFH 153)
0:54 Singapore Navy Formidable-class frigate RSS Supreme (FFG 73)
1:01 Royal New Zealand Navy salvage ship HMNZS Manawanui (A09)
1:07 Destroyer ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin (DDH-975)
1:12, 2:57 HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338)
1:16 Royal Brunei Navy Darussalam-class offshore patrol vessel KDB Darulehsan (OPV 07)
1:22 Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Munro (WMSL 755)
1:25 RAN replenishment ship HMAS Sirius (O 266)
1:43 USS Jefferson City (SSN-759) (always nice to see an LA-class attack boat on the surface)
2:00, 2:14 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force "helicopter destroyer" JS Ise (DDH 182)
2:29 RAN frigate HMAS Stuart (FFH 153)
Also seen, although not in the same detail, are the RAN frigate HMAS Arunta (FFH 151) and the guided-missile destroyer HMAS Hobart (DDG 39), the Japanese guided-missile destroyer JS Ashigara (DDG 178), French Navy Marine Nationale patrol ship FS Bougainville (A622), MSC fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO 187), Essex's escorts the guided-missile destroyers USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and USS Dewey (DDG 105) as well as the aging Tico-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70).
There is a great gallery of these vessels at the Pacific Fleet's social media page.
From COMPACFLT:
"Like-minded nations come together in RIMPAC in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific where all nations enjoy unfettered access to the seas and airways in accordance with international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) upon which all nations' economies depend," said Adm. John C. Aquilino, Commander U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Ten nations, 22 ships, 1 submarine, and more than 5,300 personnel are participating in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) from August 17 to 31 at sea in the waters surrounding Hawaii. RIMPAC is a biennial exercise designed to foster and sustain cooperative relationships, critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. The exercise is a unique training platform designed to enhance interoperability and strategic maritime partnerships. RIMPAC 2020 is the 27th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
B-25 and PBY on the USS Essex…in 2020
Posted on August 13, 2020 by laststandonzombieisland	Leave a comment
A series of three upcoming Legacy of Peace Aerial Parade around Oahu, part of the 75th Commemoration of the End of WWII that will culminate with the official ceremony aboard the museum ship USS Missouri (BB 63) on 2 September, will have more than a dozen vintage warbirds take part including a B-25 bomber, some T-6 Texans and a former Navy PBY Catalina flying boat. The rare aviation classics came from the mainland and arrived at Pearl Harbor via the "aircraft carrier" USS Essex on Monday.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kenneth Rodriguez Santiago)
Of course, the Essex involved is LHD-2, the 5th U.S. Navy ship to carry the name, and calls back to the famous 4th, the WWII fleet carrier CV-9 which remained in service until 1969.
That beautiful B-25 being lifted from Essex's deck. Too bad they didn't try to fly it off– it's been done before! (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kenneth Rodriguez Santiago)
Of note, today's Essex actually has a longer flight deck than 1942's USS Hornet, which carried Doolittle's B-25s on their famous "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" raid.
PEARL HARBOR (Aug. 10, 2020) North American T-6 Texans, part of a group known as the "Warbirds," sit on the pier at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after being offloaded from the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) for the 75th Commemoration of the End of WWII. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jessica O. Blackwell)
Flyovers of the Warbirds will include: Around Oahu (Aug. 29), Connecting the Military Bases (Aug. 30), and over the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Pearl Harbor to Waikiki (Sept. 2).
Dat bayonet, doe
Posted on September 25, 2015 by laststandonzombieisland	Leave a comment
You have to admit the PEQ-15, bayonet and mono-pod forward grip combo on an old-school M16 with a steel mag warms your heart
SOUTHWEST ASIA (Sept. 17, 2015) U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan Ripoyla moves to his next firing position during a bi-lateral training exercise. Ripoyla is a rifleman with India Company, Battalion Landing Team 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 15th MEU, embarked aboard the ships of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group, is a forward-deployed, flexible sea-based Marine air-ground task force capable of engaging with regional partners and maintaining regional security. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Jamean Berry/Released)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


2. Make a fine paste of grated coconut, green chillies and pepper corn by adding one fourth cup of water.
3. Heat one tablespoon of coconut oil, add mustard seeds and asafetida and when seeds splutter, add hog plums to it and toss it in the tempering.
Tip: Since salt is applied to hog plums taste the coconut sauce before adding salt.


text:
Tag: Print Calendar Sacramento 94298
You can't display posters on convention day - PDP warns Atiku, Lamido and Shekarau
Microsoft Word 2016 Essential Training | Booklet
Ruthless drug dealers are targeting vulnerable young students at some of Britain's top universities by brazenly handing out professional business cards on campuses – while police appear to turn a blind eye Students, many of whom are living away from home for the first time, are given instant access to Class A drugs – including cocaine, MDMA and ketamine – simply by calling mobile phone numbers printed on slick flyers A disturbing Mail on Sunday investigation at four of Britain's leading universities found: Shameless dealers offering free samples of drugs stapled to the back of business cards;'Buy One Get One Free' deals on Class A drugs that have killed scores of students;Claims that police take no action Our troubling probe comes after a recent survey found 62 per cent of students thought that their university should take 'a stronger line' on 'students who repeatedly use drugs' Another survey found 56 per cent of students have admitted to taking drugs, but the National Union of Students last year called on universities not to inform police about students caught using illegal substances to avoid them getting a criminal record Share this article Share The Mail on Sunday was alerted to the sinister presence of brazen drug dealers handing out their business cards to students at the University of Leeds, the University of Manchester, the University of Nottingham, and Queen Mary University of London Last night, police said they were investigating the use of business cards by dealers, while an MP called for a government task force to tackle the problem It comes after students told this newspaper they had been handed flyers by drug dealers at events during Freshers' Week at the start of the academic year The cards obtained by this newspaper are often disguised as offering legitimate services, such as catering and fitness training But when they are handed out to students by the dealers they are told that if they call the phone number printed they can buy drugs that can be delivered within minutes One card with an image of a balloon simply advertised 'party essentials'.
Another offered a 'buy 1 get 1 free' deal on Tuesdays When our reporter, posing as a student, rang the numbers on the cards he was able to buy cocaine, party drug MDMA and powerful tranquilliser ketamine – all of which have caused the deaths of young students in recent years Our investigation began at the University of Leeds, which has more than 27,000 undergraduates, and was recently ranked in the top ten universities in the UK Famous alumni include former Home Secretary Jack Straw.
A recent survey by student newspaper The Tab found 90 per cent of students in the city admitted to taking drugs In 2014, Leeds law and French student Natasha Brunton, 21, was found dead after taking cocaine One current student passed our reporter a business card he said a dealer had handed to him in the popular student area of Hyde Park at the start of term The card for dealer 'Jaye' promised 'special offers' delivered from noon until 2am Within 30 minutes of phoning the number on the card, a young bearded man arrived in a black Mercedes 4x4 to meet our reporter A DVLA check of the car's number plate later revealed it had not been taxed.
The man sold our reporter eight grams of MDMA for £100 He even decided to throw an extra gram in for free.
The pusher said: 'It's banging bro, absolutely banging I've got coke, MD and pills… If you got any mates give them my number and I will sort them out with the best deals 'A drugs laboratory test later confirmed it was MDMA.
The Class A drug – which can land someone up to seven years in prison for possession – is the active ingredient in ecstasy pills, and has been implicated in the deaths of hundreds of people in the UK In 2017, Sheffield student Joana Burns, 22, died after taking MDMA to celebrate finishing her maths degree Last night, a source close to her family told The Mail on Sunday: 'Handing out business cards almost legitimises drug taking for students It just shows how out of control it has become.
' In Leeds, we arranged to meet another dealer – 'Jayce' On the back of the card it read: 'Professional chef.
For the best deals… thank me later!' Within an hour of calling the mobile number on the card, a man, who appeared in his late teens, arrived and offered us two types of cocaine – different strengths for different prices We bought the more expensive option, paying £150 for two grams which tests confirmed was of high purity One Leeds undergraduate said: 'Dealers will carpet-bomb students with cards during Freshers' Week They are using cards because there is so much competition now they need to stand out 'On one occasion I even had an Uber driver hand me a card.
They act with impunity 'Students said the authorities do nothing to crack down on drug use.
One said: 'There are wild parties in people's basements that the police will break up after neighbours complain and there will be rooms full of students taking drugs, but the police will not do anything about it 'Our undercover reporter next travelled to Queen Mary University in East London, which has 19,000 students and counts former Labour Cabinet Minister Peter Hain among its alumni Current students said a drug dealer calling himself Rico has been brazenly distributing his cards right outside the campus His card features gold writing that says: 'Anytime, anywhere in the UK.
Live a little and enjoy life 'Our reporter called the mobile number on the card, and within an hour a man arrived in a £50,000 Mercedes E-Class The man, in his late 20s, charged our reporter £40 for a gram of MDMA, which tests confirmed was of high purity Next our undercover probe took our reporter to the University of Nottingham, which has 35,000 students, and is ranked within in the top 100 universities in the world Students there revealed a dealer had given them business cards featuring an image of balloons and the words 'party essentials' When our reporter called the number, a taxi driver turned up to sell our investigators two grams of ketamine for £50 He told our reporter: 'It's good stuff.
Try it and you'll find out.
'Lab tests later confirmed it was ketamine – a powerful drug commonly used as a tranquilliser for horses The highly dangerous drug is growing in popularity among young people, who are taking it in record levels according to Home Office figures released last month Last year, an inquest heard Oxford University classics student Max Mian, 19, plunged to his death while high on ketamine after he climbed on to a building site in the city Meanwhile, at the University of Manchester – attended by more than 40,000 students – the dealers now attach free samples of cannabis to business cards and hand them to students in the popular student area of Fallowfield Students say dealers feel emboldened after Manchester student Toby Walkland last year avoided jail despite being caught with more than 100 Ecstasy and psychedelic 2-CB tablets worth £3,000 in his accommodation One student said: 'I think it is just a matter of time before they start handing them out before lectures It shows how little police presence there is in Manchester, and the confidence this has given criminals I was in a class where the lecturer asked the students what they did to relax and one put their hand up and answered that they smoked weed The lecturer didn't bat an eyelid.
'Last night, Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Committee in the House of Commons, said: 'This is the first time students are living away from home, and they are being exploited by drug gangsters This is not what student loan money should be spent on.
', who announced plans for it to become the first drug-free university by asking students to sign a contract pledging that they will not take drugs It also routinely brings in sniffer dogs to deter drug use.
Sir Anthony said: 'I asked myself what kind of moral leadership university leaders were providing in colluding in the mass consumption of illegal drugs on our premises 'Responding to our findings last night, police forces and the universities said they were clamping down on drug dealers Sergeant Craig Hodson, of Greater Manchester Police, said: 'Our neighbourhood teams are already patrolling areas where we have received reports that business cards have been given out ' A spokesman for Nottinghamshire Police said: 'We continue to undertake complex investigations into drugs lines that operate and target students 'Chief Superintendent Steve Cotter, Leeds District Commander, said: 'Over recent days a number of [anti-drug] operations have been carried out in the Hyde Park area resulting in arrests and seizures 'A Met Police spokesman said: 'A meeting took place in early February with the university to discuss a wide range of policing issues, including drug dealing 'A University of Leeds spokesman said: 'The university makes clear to its students that it does not tolerate illegal drug activities 'A University of Manchester spokesman said: 'All illicit drugs are banned across campus and we work in collaboration with the Students' Union to inform our students about the risks and dangers associated with drug use 'A Queen Mary University of London spokesman said: 'We do not tolerate the sale or use of illegal drugs on our campuses We work actively with police to tackle this matter.
'A spokesman for the University of Nottingham said: 'Our policy on drugs misuse is made clear to students and penalties include disciplinary action, exclusion and prosecution as necessary '.
Downtown Sacramento Printers
Mostly what I love about being a printer isjust the people.
The people that come to work, you know, actually put it out there,get the job done, getting out meeting the customers, understanding where they'recoming from, what are their needs, what can we do to help them do their businessbetter.
What we're really in the business of doing is to try to help our customersbe successful and to try and help their customers engage the brand effectively.
They're looking for higher quality.
The runs are shorter, demands are higher, butwe keep finding our ways to improve and to stay ahead of the curve.
We're in achanging industry.
We cannot be with the status quo.
We have to look forward towhat we need to be tomorrow.
We're constantly looking for new ways to servethose customers so as a business we can be self-sustaining and keep viable andkeep important as time moves forward.
I think that the only way for us tosucceed going forward is that Kodak themselves keep pushing forward, keeppushing the envelope, and working with customers like ourselves to help achievethose goals.
They claim when they talk to people they believe that print is dead,and there's no future and it's old and it's mature, but you know when they comein here, and they see the people and the way the teams work together and thetypes of things they do and they're amazed by the facilities and they'reamazed by the technology that we deploy.
Innovation is going to keep printing inthe forefront for the years to come.
I think for me print is only getting stronger.
I'm a firm believer in that.
I think print is more alive than ever.
I justthink it's even getting better.
Print powerful.
Print is effective.
Print isevolving.
Print is wonderful.
Print is us.
Press on to me means go forward.
Fightthe good fight.
Keep building our brand.
Keep building this industry and make itstrong for those who want to come into it in the future.
This is the bestbusiness you can be involved in.
what is the BEST printer to buy for printing 2019 review of the BEST Printers
So for the month of April, we've once againused what we call a smooth strike through effect.
What that is , is we apply a mattevarnish and then inline over the top of the matte varnish we put a flood UV gloss coating.
What's really neat about this effect is that the image we used as you can see has spraycoming out of the nozzle and it doesn't matter how large or small the image area is we canbuild contrast in there by using this effect.
So , all of these little spray effects, thewater actually coming out, we can make them all glossy and they jump and pop off of thesheet.
While making all the area in the background with the varnish we make that really flatand dull.
So that gives us a really 3D effect.
, a nice effect on this by using what we callthe smooth strike through effect.


text:
Estación Zárate es el nombre de dos estaciones ferroviarias ubicadas en la ciudad argentina de Zárate, provincia de Buenos Aires:

La Estación Zárate del Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre. Terminal del servicio de la Línea Mitre que parte de Villa Ballester, y estación intermedia, aunque sin parada, del ramal Retiro-Rosario.

La Estación Zárate del Ferrocarril General Urquiza.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


It's official! We're finalists in the Lincolnshire Digital Awards!
We're very excited to tell you that we've been shortlisted among this year's finalists in the Best Digital Startup category in the Lincolnshire Digital Awards! More than 90 nominations were received across the eight award categories, so we're absolutely thrilled to bits to be a contender.
This is the second year of the Lincolnshire Digital Awards, organised by the Lincolnshire Business magazine to recognise innovative technology in the Greater Lincolnshire Area, and it's shaping up to be bigger and better than the first in 2015. This year's judging event will be held at The Engine Shed, on campus at the University of Lincoln, on Thursday, April 28 – in just one week's time!
Described as the platform that rewards Lincolnshire's best creative and innovative businesses for their hard work and contribution to Lincoln's reputation for digital creativity, the award ceremony will feature an evening of digital entertainment – and we're promised a never-before-seen stage show put together by local talents. There's stiff competition in our category of course, so we're crossing our fingers. Whatever happens on the night, we're just so proud to be recognised and we want to thank you, our customers for all your support.
https://funky3dfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/funky-3d-faces_border.jpg 0 0 Janet Marshall https://funky3dfaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/funky-3d-faces_border.jpg Janet Marshall2016-04-21 12:15:382016-04-15 16:32:45It's official! We're finalists in the Lincolnshire Digital Awards!


text:
Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon
Jake Dunlevy, Kathleen Soole, Michael Perkins, Emily Nicholson, Suzanne Maffei, Paul Boss
Methoxypyrazines are sensorially potent volatile compounds responsible for herbaceous/vegetal attributes in wines made from certain grape varieties. The biosynthesis of these compounds in grape berries is known to occur via a pathway that involves the methylation of hydroxypyrazine intermediates. Certain viticultural management regimes can be used to alter methoxypyrazine concentrations in fruit of those varieties that have the genetic capability of producing them. This study explored the effect of light exposure and crop level on 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) concentrations in Cabernet Sauvignon fruit to better understand the effect of these variables on the concentration of the precursor 3-isobutyl-2-hydroxypyrazine (IBHP) and the expression of a methyltransferase gene (VvOMT3) responsible for the final step in methoxypyrazine biosynthesis. Light was found to reduce the expression of VvOMT3 and the concentration of IBHP, suggesting that a combination of these factors reduces IBMP concentration when fruit has greater light exposure. In contrast, reducing the crop level of vines to less than half of that of controls did not have a significant effect on IBHP concentration or VvOMT3 expression, despite the treatment causing a significant increase in IBMP concentration. IBMP appears to be synthesized in the flesh of the berry which suggests differences in berry size may explain the crop level effect on IBMP concentrations.
American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
https://doi.org/10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
Hydroxypyrazine
Methoxypyrazine
Methyltransferase
10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
Dive into the research topics of 'Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Fruit Medicine & Life Sciences 51%
biosynthesis Agriculture & Biology 35%
small fruits Agriculture & Biology 34%
grapes Agriculture & Biology 32%
fruits Agriculture & Biology 32%
crops Agriculture & Biology 28%
Dunlevy, J., Soole, K., Perkins, M., Nicholson, E., Maffei, S., & Boss, P. (2013). Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 64(4), 450-458. https://doi.org/10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
Dunlevy, Jake ; Soole, Kathleen ; Perkins, Michael ; Nicholson, Emily ; Maffei, Suzanne ; Boss, Paul. / Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon. In: American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. 2013 ; Vol. 64, No. 4. pp. 450-458.
@article{71f3763442924911992f8a7234456f63,
title = "Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon",
abstract = "Methoxypyrazines are sensorially potent volatile compounds responsible for herbaceous/vegetal attributes in wines made from certain grape varieties. The biosynthesis of these compounds in grape berries is known to occur via a pathway that involves the methylation of hydroxypyrazine intermediates. Certain viticultural management regimes can be used to alter methoxypyrazine concentrations in fruit of those varieties that have the genetic capability of producing them. This study explored the effect of light exposure and crop level on 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) concentrations in Cabernet Sauvignon fruit to better understand the effect of these variables on the concentration of the precursor 3-isobutyl-2-hydroxypyrazine (IBHP) and the expression of a methyltransferase gene (VvOMT3) responsible for the final step in methoxypyrazine biosynthesis. Light was found to reduce the expression of VvOMT3 and the concentration of IBHP, suggesting that a combination of these factors reduces IBMP concentration when fruit has greater light exposure. In contrast, reducing the crop level of vines to less than half of that of controls did not have a significant effect on IBHP concentration or VvOMT3 expression, despite the treatment causing a significant increase in IBMP concentration. IBMP appears to be synthesized in the flesh of the berry which suggests differences in berry size may explain the crop level effect on IBMP concentrations.",
keywords = "Aroma, Grape, Hydroxypyrazine, Methoxypyrazine, Methyltransferase, Vitis vinifera, Wine",
author = "Jake Dunlevy and Kathleen Soole and Michael Perkins and Emily Nicholson and Suzanne Maffei and Paul Boss",
doi = "10.5344/ajev.2013.13070",
journal = "American Journal of Enology and Viticulture",
Dunlevy, J, Soole, K, Perkins, M, Nicholson, E, Maffei, S & Boss, P 2013, 'Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon', American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 450-458. https://doi.org/10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon. / Dunlevy, Jake; Soole, Kathleen; Perkins, Michael; Nicholson, Emily; Maffei, Suzanne; Boss, Paul.
In: American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, Vol. 64, No. 4, 12.2013, p. 450-458.
T1 - Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon
AU - Dunlevy, Jake
AU - Soole, Kathleen
AU - Perkins, Michael
AU - Nicholson, Emily
AU - Maffei, Suzanne
AU - Boss, Paul
N2 - Methoxypyrazines are sensorially potent volatile compounds responsible for herbaceous/vegetal attributes in wines made from certain grape varieties. The biosynthesis of these compounds in grape berries is known to occur via a pathway that involves the methylation of hydroxypyrazine intermediates. Certain viticultural management regimes can be used to alter methoxypyrazine concentrations in fruit of those varieties that have the genetic capability of producing them. This study explored the effect of light exposure and crop level on 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) concentrations in Cabernet Sauvignon fruit to better understand the effect of these variables on the concentration of the precursor 3-isobutyl-2-hydroxypyrazine (IBHP) and the expression of a methyltransferase gene (VvOMT3) responsible for the final step in methoxypyrazine biosynthesis. Light was found to reduce the expression of VvOMT3 and the concentration of IBHP, suggesting that a combination of these factors reduces IBMP concentration when fruit has greater light exposure. In contrast, reducing the crop level of vines to less than half of that of controls did not have a significant effect on IBHP concentration or VvOMT3 expression, despite the treatment causing a significant increase in IBMP concentration. IBMP appears to be synthesized in the flesh of the berry which suggests differences in berry size may explain the crop level effect on IBMP concentrations.
AB - Methoxypyrazines are sensorially potent volatile compounds responsible for herbaceous/vegetal attributes in wines made from certain grape varieties. The biosynthesis of these compounds in grape berries is known to occur via a pathway that involves the methylation of hydroxypyrazine intermediates. Certain viticultural management regimes can be used to alter methoxypyrazine concentrations in fruit of those varieties that have the genetic capability of producing them. This study explored the effect of light exposure and crop level on 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP) concentrations in Cabernet Sauvignon fruit to better understand the effect of these variables on the concentration of the precursor 3-isobutyl-2-hydroxypyrazine (IBHP) and the expression of a methyltransferase gene (VvOMT3) responsible for the final step in methoxypyrazine biosynthesis. Light was found to reduce the expression of VvOMT3 and the concentration of IBHP, suggesting that a combination of these factors reduces IBMP concentration when fruit has greater light exposure. In contrast, reducing the crop level of vines to less than half of that of controls did not have a significant effect on IBHP concentration or VvOMT3 expression, despite the treatment causing a significant increase in IBMP concentration. IBMP appears to be synthesized in the flesh of the berry which suggests differences in berry size may explain the crop level effect on IBMP concentrations.
KW - Aroma
KW - Grape
KW - Hydroxypyrazine
KW - Methoxypyrazine
KW - Methyltransferase
KW - Vitis vinifera
KW - Wine
U2 - 10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
DO - 10.5344/ajev.2013.13070
JO - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
JF - American Journal of Enology and Viticulture
Dunlevy J, Soole K, Perkins M, Nicholson E, Maffei S, Boss P. Determining the Methoxypyrazine Biosynthesis Variables Affected by Light Exposure and Crop Level in Cabernet Sauvignon. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture. 2013 Dec;64(4):450-458. https://doi.org/10.5344/ajev.2013.13070


text:
Building for Sale:	152 Commonwealth Ave, Concord, MA 01742
152 Commonwealth Ave, Concord, MA 01742
Type: Commercial
Taxes Paid: $34,415
City: Concord
County: Middlesex
Subdivision: West Concord
Factory 152 is a vibrant community comprised of over 55,000 square feet of office and studio spaces in the heart of West Concord village. BUILDING AMENITIES: 24 hour access, On site property management, Elevator, Parking, Snow & trash removal, Loading dock, Mailboxes, On site Bakery, Proximity to MBTA Commuter Rail, restaurants shops and the new Rail Trail. UNITS AVAILABLE NOW: Multiple units currently available between 300 square feet and 3200 square feet. Lease rates range from $14.50/square foot to $17/square foot. Call for more information. UNITS AVAILABLE NOW: Unit #17 587 sq ft
Tax ID: 453773
Price History of 152 Commonwealth Ave, Concord, MA
03/31/2019 Listing Price $17 N/A
Map of 152 Commonwealth Ave, Concord, MA
I would like to make an appointment to see 152 Commonwealth Ave, Concord (MLS#72474796)
Browse Massachusetts
Browse County, Middlesex County
Browse City, Concord (MA)
Browse Zip Code, 01742 (MA)
Browse Subdivision, West Concord (MA)
152 Commonwealth Ave (MLS #72474796) is a commercial listing located in Concord, MA. This commercial listing is 45,950 sqft and on a lot of 130,244 sqft (or 2.99 acres) and is 69 years old. This property was listed on 04/02/2019 and has been priced for sale at $17.
Nearby zip codes are 00172, 01720, 01776, 02739 and 02760. This property neighbors other cities such as Acton, Mattapoisett, Maynard, North Attleboro and Sudbury.
Listing information courtesy of: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Concord


text:
package org.bdgenomics.adam.converters

import htsjdk.samtools.{ SamReaderFactory, SAMRecord }
import java.io.File
import org.bdgenomics.adam.models.{
  RecordGroupDictionary,
  RecordGroup,
  SAMFileHeaderWritable,
  SequenceDictionary,
  SequenceRecord
}
import org.bdgenomics.formats.avro.{
  AlignmentRecord,
  Contig,
  Fragment
}
import org.scalatest.FunSuite
import scala.collection.JavaConversions._

class AlignmentRecordConverterSuite extends FunSuite {

  // allocate converters
  val adamRecordConverter = new AlignmentRecordConverter

  def makeRead(start: Long, cigar: String, mdtag: String, length: Int, id: Int = 0, nullQuality: Boolean = false): AlignmentRecord = {
    val sequence: String = "A" * length
    val builder = AlignmentRecord.newBuilder()
      .setReadName("read" + id.toString)
      .setStart(start)
      .setReadMapped(true)
      .setCigar(cigar)
      .setSequence(sequence)
      .setReadNegativeStrand(false)
      .setMapq(60)
      .setMismatchingPositions(mdtag)
      .setOldPosition(12)
      .setOldCigar("2^AAA3")

    if (!nullQuality) {
      builder.setQual(sequence) // no typo, we just don't care
    }

    builder.build()
  }

  test("testing the fields in a converted ADAM Read") {
    val adamRead = makeRead(3L, "2M3D2M", "2^AAA2", 4)

    // add reference details
    adamRead.setRecordGroupName("record_group")
    adamRead.setRecordGroupSample("sample")
    adamRead.setContig(Contig.newBuilder()
      .setContigName("referencetest")
      .build())
    adamRead.setMateContig(Contig.newBuilder()
      .setContigName("matereferencetest")
      .setContigLength(6L)
      .setReferenceURL("test://chrom1")
      .build())
    adamRead.setMateAlignmentStart(6L)

    // make sequence dictionary
    val seqRecForDict = SequenceRecord("referencetest", 5, "test://chrom1")
    val dict = SequenceDictionary(seqRecForDict)

    //make read group dictionary
    val readGroup = new RecordGroup(adamRead.getRecordGroupSample(), adamRead.getRecordGroupName())
    val readGroups = new RecordGroupDictionary(Seq(readGroup))

    // convert read
    val toSAM = adamRecordConverter.convert(adamRead,
      SAMFileHeaderWritable(adamRecordConverter.createSAMHeader(dict,
        readGroups)),
      readGroups)

    // validate conversion
    val sequence = "A" * 4
    assert(toSAM.getReadName === ("read" + 0.toString))
    assert(toSAM.getAlignmentStart === 4)
    assert(toSAM.getReadUnmappedFlag === false)
    assert(toSAM.getCigarString === "2M3D2M")
    assert(toSAM.getReadString === sequence)
    assert(toSAM.getReadNegativeStrandFlag === false)
    assert(toSAM.getMappingQuality === 60)
    assert(toSAM.getBaseQualityString === sequence)
    assert(toSAM.getAttribute("MD") === "2^AAA2")
    assert(toSAM.getIntegerAttribute("OP") === 13)
    assert(toSAM.getStringAttribute("OC") === "2^AAA3")
    //make sure that we didn't set the SM attribute.
    //issue #452 https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/issues/452
    assert(toSAM.getAttribute("SM") === null)
    assert(toSAM.getHeader().getReadGroup("record_group").getSample() === "sample")
  }

  test("converting a read with null quality is OK") {
    val adamRead = makeRead(3L, "2M3D2M", "2^AAA2", 4, nullQuality = true)

    // add reference details
    adamRead.setRecordGroupName("record_group")
    adamRead.setRecordGroupSample("sample")
    adamRead.setContig(Contig.newBuilder()
      .setContigName("referencetest")
      .build())
    adamRead.setMateContig(Contig.newBuilder()
      .setContigName("matereferencetest")
      .setContigLength(6L)
      .setReferenceURL("test://chrom1")
      .build())
    adamRead.setMateAlignmentStart(6L)

    // make sequence dictionary
    val seqRecForDict = SequenceRecord("referencetest", 5, "test://chrom1")
    val dict = SequenceDictionary(seqRecForDict)

    //make read group dictionary
    val readGroup = new RecordGroup(adamRead.getRecordGroupSample(), adamRead.getRecordGroupName())
    val readGroups = new RecordGroupDictionary(Seq(readGroup))

    // convert read
    val toSAM = adamRecordConverter.convert(adamRead,
      SAMFileHeaderWritable(adamRecordConverter.createSAMHeader(dict,
        readGroups)),
      readGroups)

    // validate conversion
    val sequence = "A" * 4
    assert(toSAM.getReadName === ("read" + 0.toString))
    assert(toSAM.getAlignmentStart === 4)
    assert(toSAM.getReadUnmappedFlag === false)
    assert(toSAM.getCigarString === "2M3D2M")
    assert(toSAM.getReadString === sequence)
    assert(toSAM.getReadNegativeStrandFlag === false)
    assert(toSAM.getMappingQuality === 60)
    assert(toSAM.getBaseQualityString === "*")
    assert(toSAM.getAttribute("MD") === "2^AAA2")
    assert(toSAM.getIntegerAttribute("OP") === 13)
    assert(toSAM.getStringAttribute("OC") === "2^AAA3")
    //make sure that we didn't set the SM attribute.
    //issue #452 https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam/issues/452
    assert(toSAM.getAttribute("SM") === null)
    assert(toSAM.getHeader().getReadGroup("record_group").getSample() === "sample")
  }

  test("convert a read to fastq") {
    val adamRead = AlignmentRecord.newBuilder()
      .setSequence("ACACCAACATG")
      .setQual(".+**.+;:**.")
      .setReadName("thebestread")
      .build()

    val fastq = adamRecordConverter.convertToFastq(adamRead)
      .toString
      .split('\n')

    assert(fastq(0) === "@thebestread")
    assert(fastq(1) === "ACACCAACATG")
    assert(fastq(2) === "+")
    assert(fastq(3) === ".+**.+;:**.")
  }

  def getSAMRecordFromReadName(readName: String): (AlignmentRecord, AlignmentRecord) = {
    val samToADAMConverter = new SAMRecordConverter
    val SAMTestFile = new File(getClass.getClassLoader.getResource("bqsr1.sam").getFile)
    val newSAMReader = SamReaderFactory.makeDefault().open(SAMTestFile)

    // Obtain SAMRecord
    val newSAMRecord = newSAMReader.iterator().dropWhile(r => r.getReadName != readName)
    val newSequenceRecord = SequenceRecord("22", 51304566)
    val newSequenceDictionary = SequenceDictionary(newSequenceRecord)
    val firstRecord = samToADAMConverter.convert(newSAMRecord.next(), newSequenceDictionary, new RecordGroupDictionary(Seq()))
    val secondRecord = samToADAMConverter.convert(newSAMRecord.next(), newSequenceDictionary, new RecordGroupDictionary(Seq()))
    (firstRecord, secondRecord)
  }

  test("reverse complement reads when converting to fastq") {

    // SRR062634.10022079      83      22      16082719        0       5S95M   =       16082635        -179
    // AAGTAGCTGGGACTACACGCACGCACCACCATGCCTGGCTAATTTTTGTATTTTTAGTAGAGATGAGGTTTCACCATATTGGCCAGGCTGGTTTTGAATT
    // #####EB5BB<840&:2?>A?-AC8=,5@AABCB?CEDBDC@6BB,CA0CB,B-DEDEDEDEA:D?DE5EBEC?E?5?D:AEEEDEDDEEE=BEEBDD-?
    // RG:Z:SRR062634  XC:i:95 XT:A:R  NM:i:2  SM:i:0  AM:i:0  X0:i:3  X1:i:0  XM:i:2  XO:i:0  XG:i:0  MD:Z:15G0T78
    // XA:Z:GL000244.1,+31092,100M,2;14,+19760216,100M,2;

    val (firstRecord, secondRecord) = getSAMRecordFromReadName("SRR062634.10022079")

    assert(firstRecord.getReadInFragment === 1)
    assert(secondRecord.getReadInFragment === 0)

    val firstRecordFastq = adamRecordConverter.convertToFastq(firstRecord, maybeAddSuffix = true)
      .toString
      .split('\n')

    assert(firstRecordFastq(0) === "@SRR062634.10022079/2")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(1) === "CTGGAGTGCAGTGGCATGATTTCAGCTCACTGTCGTCTCTGCCTCCCTGACTCAAGTGATTCTCCTGCCTCAGCCTCCCACGTCGCTCGGACTCCACGCC")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(2) === "+")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(3) === "A:=D5D5E?D?DDD:.@@@@=?EE=DADDB@D=DD??ED=:CCCC?D:E=EEB=-C>C=@=EEEEB5EC-?A>=C-C?DC+34+4A>-?5:=/-A=@>>:")

    val secondRecordFastq = adamRecordConverter.convertToFastq(secondRecord, maybeAddSuffix = true)
      .toString
      .split('\n')

    assert(secondRecordFastq(0) === "@SRR062634.10022079/1")
    assert(secondRecordFastq(1) === "AATTCAAAACCAGCCTGGCCAATATGGTGAAACCTCATCTCTACTAAAAATACAAAAATTAGCCAGGCATGGTGGTGCGTGCGTGTAGTCCCAGCTACTT")
    assert(secondRecordFastq(2) === "+")
    assert(secondRecordFastq(3) === "?-DDBEEB=EEEDDEDEEEA:D?5?E?CEBE5ED?D:AEDEDEDED-B,BC0AC,BB6@CDBDEC?BCBAA@5,=8CA-?A>?2:&048<BB5BE#####")

  }

  test("converting to fastq with unmapped reads") {
    //SRR062634.10448889      117     22      16079761        0       *       =       16079761        0
    // TTTCTTTCTTTTATATATATATACACACACACACACACACACACACATATATGTATATATACACGTATATGTATGTATATATGTATATATACACGTATAT
    // @DF>C;FDC=EGEGGEFDGEFDD?DFDEEGFGFGGGDGGGGGGGEGGGGFGGGFGGGGGGFGGFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
    // RG:Z:SRR062634

    val (secondRecord, firstRecord) = getSAMRecordFromReadName("SRR062634.10448889")

    assert(firstRecord.getReadInFragment === 1)
    assert(secondRecord.getReadInFragment === 0)

    val firstRecordFastq = adamRecordConverter.convertToFastq(firstRecord, maybeAddSuffix = true)
      .toString
      .split('\n')

    assert(firstRecord.getReadMapped)
    assert(firstRecord.getReadNegativeStrand)
    assert(firstRecordFastq(0) === "@SRR062634.10448889/2")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(1) === "ACCTGTCTCAGCCTCCCAAAGTGCTGCGATTACAGTCATGAGCCACCGCACTTGGCTGGGTTTTCGTTTTCTTTCTTTTATATATATATACACACACACA")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(2) === "+")
    assert(firstRecordFastq(3) === "GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGFGEGEEDGGFDF?AEEEBDADEEDEEE;DFC@'B:B=B=B=BADCBCBCA=DA")

    val secondRecordFastq = adamRecordConverter.convertToFastq(secondRecord, maybeAddSuffix = true)
      .toString
      .split('\n')

    assert(!secondRecord.getReadMapped)
    assert(!secondRecord.getReadNegativeStrand)
    assert(secondRecordFastq(0) === "@SRR062634.10448889/1")
    assert(secondRecordFastq(1) === secondRecord.getSequence)
    assert(secondRecordFastq(2) === "+")
    assert(secondRecordFastq(3) === secondRecord.getQual)
  }

  test("converting a fragment with no alignments should yield unaligned reads") {
    val alignments = List(
      AlignmentRecord.newBuilder()
        .setSequence("ACCCACAGTA")
        .setQual("**********")
        .setReadInFragment(0)
        .setReadName("testRead")
        .setReadPaired(true)
        .build(),
      AlignmentRecord.newBuilder()
        .setSequence("GGGAAACCCTTT")
        .setQual(";;;;;;......")
        .setReadName("testRead")
        .setReadInFragment(1)
        .setReadPaired(true)
        .build())

    val fragment = Fragment.newBuilder()
      .setReadName("testRead")
      .setAlignments(seqAsJavaList(alignments))
      .build()

    val reads = adamRecordConverter.convertFragment(fragment)
    assert(reads.size === 2)

    val read1 = reads.find(_.getReadInFragment == 0)
    assert(read1.isDefined)
    assert(read1.get.getSequence === "ACCCACAGTA")
    assert(read1.get.getQual() === "**********")
    assert(read1.get.getReadName === "testRead")
    assert(!read1.get.getReadMapped)
    assert(read1.get.getReadPaired)

    val read2 = reads.find(_.getReadInFragment == 1)
    assert(read2.isDefined)
    assert(read2.get.getSequence === "GGGAAACCCTTT")
    assert(read2.get.getQual() === ";;;;;;......")
    assert(read2.get.getReadName === "testRead")
    assert(!read2.get.getReadMapped)
    assert(read2.get.getReadPaired)
  }

  test("converting a fragment with alignments should restore the alignments") {
    val alignments = List(AlignmentRecord.newBuilder()
      .setReadMapped(true)
      .setContig(Contig.newBuilder()
        .setContigName("1")
        .build())
      .setStart(10L)
      .setEnd(20L)
      .setReadName("testRead")
      .setCigar("10M")
      .setReadNegativeStrand(true)
      .setSequence("TACTGTGGGT")
      .setQual("?????*****")
      .build())
    val fragment = Fragment.newBuilder()
      .setReadName("testRead")
      .setAlignments(seqAsJavaList(alignments))
      .build()

    val reads = adamRecordConverter.convertFragment(fragment)
    assert(reads.size === 1)
    val read = reads.head

    assert(read.getReadName === "testRead")
    assert(read.getReadInFragment === 0)
    assert(read.getReadMapped)
    assert(read.getReadNegativeStrand)
    assert(read.getStart === 10L)
    assert(read.getEnd === 20L)
    assert(read.getCigar === "10M")
    assert(read.getSequence === "TACTGTGGGT")
    assert(read.getQual === "?????*****")
    assert(read.getContig.getContigName === "1")
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Is it possible to obtain press/free copies of the products from FriedlNet?
We're afraid that we are unable to offer complimentary copies of any product for sale on our site.
Does FriedlNet offer Academic discounts?
We're afraid that we are unable to offer academic discounts on products, or provide complimentary copies of same. However, we can suggest that you approach one of the companies in the relevant industry sector and they may purchase the product for you as part of a sponsorship package.
Discounts may be granted on a case by case basis, depending on the specific products you wish to order. Please contact our Customer Service Team with full details regarding the products you wish to order by contacting us via our "Contact Us" page.
We're afraid that we sell products in their entirety only. We found that information in products could be taken out of context if we sold select sections from products.
As we are based in Austria, all transactions are carried out in EURO. Any non-EUR price displayed on our site is guideline only. However, if you wish to view the price of your product in an alternative currency (US$, GBP, RMB, HK$) you can change the currency at the top ouf our page.
Is tax added to the product price?
Orders originating outside of Austria are not subject to tax.
Orders originating in Austria are subject to VAT (Value Added Tax) of 20%.
Our VAT number is ATU64162729.


text:
Tuesday Talks > Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's Return to India (HH 222)
Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's Return to India (HH 222)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/v5w87c8szplsu0m/HH_222_125th_Anniversary_of_Sri_Aurobindos_return_to_India.mp3
⇩ Audio in MP3 ⇩ Larger MP3
Year 2018 marks the confluence of three important anniversaries with regard to Sri Aurobindo and His work. The first of these is the 125th Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's return to India (6th Feb 1893). It marks the beginning of a new era for India and the preparatory phase of Sri Aurobindo's tapasya which He will engage with in Pondicherry. This tapasya is going to have wide and far reaching consequences for earth and humanity. The other anniversary is the 75th anniversary of the Ashram School (also known now as the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education) which is an experiment in Education that would eventually lay the foundations for building the New Humanity. The third is the 50th anniversary of Auroville, a grand experiment in human collective living centered around the Divine which is meant to hasten the reign of unity and Harmony upon Earth.
Today we share some glimpses of Sri Aurobindo's life in Baroda where He lived from Feb 1983 (soon after landing at Apollo Bunder, Mumbai) until 1906 whence He left for Bengal to sow the seeds of Poorna Swaraj (complete Independence) in the mind and heart of India. We also share some passages from Sri Aurobindo written as epistles that compare India with Europe of those times. These passages will prove prophetic of the tremendous tsunami of destruction that was going to soon engulf Europe and the world in the beginning of the previous century. They are also prophetic of the New Creation that will eventually mark India once again as the center of a New Life. These and similar thoughts have been expressed by Sri Aurobindo (as also by Swami Vivekananda who travelled to the West the same year in 1893) in other works as well. More importantly however, as soon as Sri Aurobindo set His foot upon the Indian soil, a new yoga had begun for Earth and man as a promise of the Future.
The selections below are taken primarily from Shri Rishabhchand's deeply engaging biography 'Sri Aurobindo, His Life Unique' . Sri Aurobindo's words shown in italics in dark blue.
Sri Aurobindo in Baroda
"These are they who are conscious of the much falsehood in the world; they grow in the house of Truth, they are strong and invincible sons of Infinity."
Rigveda, VII.605
1893 – a memorable year! It was in 1893 that Sri Aurobindo came back from England to fight for the freedom of India and release her imprisoned godhead, and Vivekananda sailed for America carrying with him the light of the Vedanta to the benighted humanity of the West. What was Sri Aurobindo thinking, what were his feelings as he came in sight of his beloved motherland? When he had left India, he was a mere child of seven, perhaps unaware of the heavenly fire smouldering beneath his sweet, angelic exterior. And when he returned, he was a young man of twenty-one, burning to realise his dreams and visions. These fourteen years, the most impressionable and formative part of his life, were spent in the West in the heyday of its scientific civilisation. We have already seen that Sri Aurobindo's mind was nourished and developed by the classical spirit in Western culture, and his poetic sensibilities were set aglow by the superb creations of the Western Muse. But his soul remained untouched, his heart's love flowed towards India, and his will flamed to fight and suffer for her freedom.¹ He did not then know much about India, but he felt a mysterious pull towards her, an irresistible attraction which his mind could hardly explain. "It was a natural attraction", he said later, "to Indian culture and ways of life, and a temperamental feeling and preference for all that was Indian." So, his thoughts and feelings converging on India, approached the destination of his return voyage.
And how did India receive her beloved child? What gifts, what presents had she kept ready for him? She bestowed upon him, as an unsolicited grace, one of the brightest gems of her immemorial heritage – a high spiritual experience! In the midst of the confused hum and bustle of the strangers swarming up and down the gangways, "a vast calm descended upon him… this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards". In this connection, he once wrote to a disciple:
'One thing I feel I must say in connection with your remark about the soul of India and X's observation about "this stress on this-worldliness to the exclusion of other-worldliness". I do not quite understand in what connection his remark was made or what he meant by this-worldliness, but I feel it necessary to state my own position in the matter. My own life and my Yoga have always been, since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly without any exclusiveness on either side. All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material space and the Immanent inhabiting material objects and bodies. At the same time I found myself entering supraphysical worlds and planes with influences and an effect from them upon the material plane, so I could make no sharp divorce or irreconcilable opposition between what I have called the two ends of existence and all that lies between them. For me all is the Brahman and I find the Divine everywhere. Everyone has the right to throw away this-worldliness and choose other-worldliness only and if he finds peace by that choice he is greatly blessed. I, personally, have not found it necessary to do this in order to have peace. In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my purview, the spiritual and the material, and to try to establish the divine Consciousness and the divine Power in men's hearts and in earthly life, not for personal salvation only but for a life divine here. This seems to me as spiritual an aim as any and the fact of this life taking up earthly pursuits and earthly things into its scope cannot, I believe, tarnish its spirituality or alter its Indian character. This at least has always been my view and experience of the reality and nature of the world and things and the Divine: it seemed to me as nearly as possible the integral truth about them and I have therefore spoken of the pursuit of it as the integral Yoga. Everyone is, of course, free to reject and disbelieve in this kind of integrality or to believe in the spiritual necessity of an entire other-worldliness excluding any kind of this-worldliness altogether, but that would make the exercise of my Yoga impossible. My Yoga can include indeed a full experience of the other worlds, the plane of the supreme Spirit and the other planes in between and their possible effects upon our life and material world; but it will be quite possible to insist only on the realisation of the supreme Being or Ishwara even in one aspect, Shiva, Krishna as Lord of the world and Master of ourselves and our works or else the universal Sachchidananda, and attain to the essential results of this Yoga and afterwards to proceed from them to the integral results if one accepted the ideal of the divine life and this material world conquered by the Spirit.
It is this view and experience of things and of the truth of existence that enabled me to write The Life Divine and Savitri. The realisation of the Supreme, the Ishwara, is certainly the essential thing; but to approach him with love and devotion and bhakti, to serve him with one's works and to know him, not necessarily by the intellectual cognition, but in a spiritual experience, is also essential in the path of the integral Yoga.'
That was the characteristic way in which India greeted her son when he returned to her bosom after a long sojourn in a foreign land. This greeting was at once a symbol and a prophecy. It was an index to the glory of his life's mission…..
In Sri Aurobindo's case, as has been said above, the experience was even more unexpected, for he had no knowledge of the Hindu Shastras. He had neither any desire for yogic experiences nor any knowledge of them. "I had many doubts before. I was brought up in England amongst foreign ideas and an atmosphere entirely foreign… .The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me, and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all…." Once, in a letter to a disciple, he referred to a pre-yogic experience in London, but he did not describe its nature. The experience he had at the Apollo Bunder can, therefore, be taken as the first authentic yogic experience that came his way – unbidden but decisive – as a gift of Grace, a bounty of Mother India…..
At Baroda Sri Aurobindo "was put first in the Settlement Department, not as an officer, but to learn the work, then in the Stamps and Revenue Departments; he was for some time put to work in the Secretariat for drawing up dispatches etc. Afterwards without joining the College and while doing other work, he was lecturer in French at the College, and finally at his request was appointed there as Professor of English. All through, the Maharaja used to call him when- ever something had to be written which needed careful wording; he also employed him to prepare some of his public speeches and in other work of a literary or educational character." Afterwards Sri Aurobindo became Vice-Principal of the College and was for some time its acting Principal. "Most of the personal work for the Maharaja was done in an unofficial capacity…. There was no appointment as Private Secretary. He was usually invited to breakfast with the Maharaja at the Palace and stayed on to do this work."
Sri Aurobindo was loved and highly revered by his students at Baroda College, not only for his profound knowledge of English literature and his brilliant and often original interpretations of English poetry, but for his saintly character and gentle and gracious manners. There was a magnetism in his personality, and an impalpable aura of a lofty ideal and a mighty purpose about him, which left a deep impression upon all who came in contact with him, particularly upon young hearts and unsophisticated minds. Calm and reserved, benign and benevolent, he easily became the centre of respectful attention wherever he happened to be. To be close to him was to be quieted and quickened; to listen to him was to be fired and inspired. Indeed, his presence radiated something which was at once enlivening and exalting. His power sprang from his unshakable peace, and the secret of his hold on men lay in his utter self-effacement. His greatness was like the gentle breath of spring – invisible but irresistible, it touched all that was bare and bleak around him to a splendour of renewed life and creative energy.
In regard to his work at the Baroda College, he once remarked to some of his disciples: "He (Manmohan) was very painstaking. Most of the professors don't work so hard. I was not so conscientious as a professor. I never used to look at the notes, and sometimes my explanations did not agree with them at all…. What was surprising to me was that the students used to take down everything verbatim and mug it up. Such a thing would never have happened in England…. Once I was giving a lecture on Southey's Life of Nelson. My lecture was not in agreement with the notes. So the students remarked that it was not at all like what was found in the notes. I replied: 'I have not read the notes in any case they are all rubbish!' I could never go to the minute details. I read and left my mind to do what it could. That is why I could never become a scholar."
The testimony of one of his students, named R.N. Patkar, will be found very interesting inasmuch as it throws some authentic light upon the way he lived at Baroda and did his teaching at the College:
"Sri Aurobindo was very simple in his mode of living. He was not at all fastidious in his tastes. He did not care much for food or dress, because he never attached any importance to them. He never visited the market for his clothes. At home, he dressed in plain white chaddar and dhoti, and outside invariably in white drill suits. He never slept on a soft cotton bed, as most of us do, but on a bed of coir- coconut fibres – on which was spread a Malabar grass mat which served as a bed sheet.
"Once I asked him why he used such a coarse and hard bed, to which he replied with his characteristic smile: 'Don't you know, my boy, that I am a Brahmachari? Our shastras enjoin that a Brahmachari should not use a soft bed.'
"Another thing I observed about him was the total absence of love of money. He used to get the lump sum of three months' pay in a bag which he emptied in a tray lying on his table. He never bothered to keep money in a safe box under lock and key. He did not keep an account of what he spent. One day I casually asked him why he was keeping his money like that. He laughed and then replied: 'Well, it is a proof that we are living in the midst of honest and good people.' 'But you never keep an account which may testify to the honesty of the people around you?', I asked him. Then with a serene face he said: 'It is God who keeps account for me. He gives me as much as I want and keeps the rest to Himself. At any rate, He does not keep me in want, then why should I worry?'
"He used to be absorbed in reading to the extent that he was at times oblivious of the things around him. One evening the servant brought his meal and put the dishes on the table and informed him, 'Sab, khana rakha hai' – 'Master, the meal is served'. He simply said, 'Achchha' – 'All right', without even moving his head. After half an hour the servant returned to remove the dishes and found to his surprise the dishes untouched on the table! He dared not disturb his master, and so quietly came to me and told me about it. I had to go to his room and remind him of the waiting meal. He gave me a smile, went to the table and finished his meal in a short time and resumed his reading.
"I had the good fortune to be his student in the Intermediate class. His method of teaching was a novel one. In the beginning, he used to give a series of introductory lectures in order to initiate the students into the subject matter of the text. After that he used to read the text, stopping where necessary to explain the meaning of difficult words and sentences. He ended by giving general lectures bearing on the various aspects of the subject matter of the text.
"But more than his college lectures, it was a treat to hear him on the platform. He used to preside occasionally over the meetings of the College Debating Society. The large central hall of the College used to be full when he was to speak. He was not an orator but was a speaker of a very high order, and was listened to with rapt attention. Without any gesture or movements of the limbs he stood, and language flowed like a stream from his lips with natural ease and melody that kept the audience spell-bound…. Though it is more than fifty years since I heard him, I still remember his figure and the metallic ring of his melodious voice."
At Baroda, Sri Aurobindo stayed at first in a camp near the Bazar, and from there he moved to Khasirao Jadav's house. Khasirao, who was working as a magistrate under the Baroda State, was at that time living elsewhere with his family. His house was a beautiful, two-storeyed building, situated on a main road of the town. When Khasirao was transferred back to Baroda, Sri Aurobindo had to move to a house in another locality. After some time, when plague broke out there, he had to move again to another house, which was an old bungalow with a tiled roof. It was so old and in such bad repair that it used to be unbearably hot in summer, and, during the months of the monsoon, rain water leaked through its broken tiles. But, as Dinendra Kumar Roy records in his Bengali book, Aurobindo Prasanga, it made no difference to Sri Aurobindo whether he lived in a palace or a hovel. Where he really dwelt, no tiles ever burned, nor did rain water leak. He was, to use an expression of the Gita, aniketah, one who had no separate dwelling of his own in the whole world. But it was different with Dinendra Kumar. What with swarms of fleas by day and pitiless mosquitoes at night, burning tiles in summer and leaking roofs during the rains, the poor man was so disgusted that he damned the poky, ramshackle domicile as being worse than a rich man's stable.
Sri Aurobindo learnt both Marathi and Gujarati at Baroda. He also learnt a dialect of Marathi called Mori from a pundit. He had an aptitude for picking up languages with an amazing ease and rapidity. He learnt Bengali himself, and learnt it so well as to be able to read the poetry of Michael Madhusudan Dutt and the novels of Bankim Chandra Chatter ji; and both of these authors are anything but easy. "Bengali was not a subject for the competitive examination for the I.C.S. It was after he had passed the competitive examination that Sri Aurobindo as a probationer who had chosen Bengal as his province began to learn Bengali. The course of study provided was a very poor one; his teacher, a retired English Judge from Bengal, was not very competent…." It is rather amusing to note that one day when Sri Aurobindo asked his teacher to explain to him a passage from Bankim Chandra Chatterji, he looked at the passage and remarked with the comic cocksureness of shallow knowledge: "But this is not Bengali!" Sri Aurobindo learnt Sanskrit himself without any help from anybody. He did not learn Sanskrit through Bengali, but direct in Sanskrit or through English. But the marvel is that he mastered it as thoroughly and entered as deeply into its spirit and genius as he had done in the case of Greek and Latin. He "never studied Hindi, but his acquaintance with Sanskrit and other Indian languages made it easy for him to pick up Hindi without any regular study and to understand it when he read Hindi books or news-papers."
An exceptional mastery of Sanskrit at once opened to him the immense treasure-house of the Indian heritage. He read the Upanishads, the Gita, the Puranas, the two great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the poems of Bhartrihari, the dramas of Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti etc.,
Sri Aurobindo translated some portions of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, some dramas of Kalidasa, the Nitishataka of Bhartrihari, some poems of Vidyapati and Chandidas etc. into English. Once, when R. C. Dutt, the well-known civilian, came to Baroda at the invitation of the Maharaja, he somehow came to know about Sri Aurobindo's translations and expressed his desire to see them. Sri Aurobindo showed them to him (though not without reluctance, for he was by nature shy and reticent about himself), and Dutt was so much struck by their high quality that he said to Sri Aurobindo: "If I had seen your translations of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata before, I would not have published mine. I can now very well see that, by the side of your magnificent translations, mine appear as mere child's play."
Sri Aurobindo wrote many English poems during his stay at Baroda, and also began some which he finished later. The earliest draft of his great epic, Savitri, was begun there. His first book of poems, Songs to Myrtilla and Other Poems, was published there for private circulation.
When I was practising Pranayama at Baroda, I used to do it for about five hours in the day, – three hours in the morning and two in the evening. I found that the mind began to work with great illumination and power. I used to write poetry in those days. Before the Pranayama practice, usually I wrote five to eight lines per day; and about two hundred lines in a month. After the practice I could write 200 lines within half an hour. That was not the only result. Formerly my memory was dull. But after this practice I found that when the inspiration came I could remember all the lines in their order and write them down correctly at any time. Along with these enhanced functionings I could see an electrical activity all round the brain, and I could feel that it was made up of a subtle substance. I could feel everything as the working of that substance.
It is not with impunity that men decide to believe that they are animals and God does not exist. For what we believe, that we become. The animal lives by a routine arranged for him by Nature; his life is devoted to the satisfaction of his instincts bodily, vital and emotional, and he satisfies himself mechanically by a regular response to the working of those instincts. Nature has regularised everything for him and provided the machinery. Man in Europe arranges his own routine, invents his own machinery, and adds to the needs of which he is a slave, the intellectual. But there will soon be no other difference. System, organisation, machinery have attained their perfection. Bondage has been carried to its highest expression, and from a passion for organising external liberty Europe is slaying her spiritual freedom. When the inner freedom is gone, the external liberty will follow it, and a social tyranny more terrible, inquisitorial and relentless than any that caste ever organised in India, will take its place. The process has already begun. The shell of external liberty remains, the core is already being eaten away. Because he is still free to gratify his senses and enjoy himself, the European thinks himself free. He does not know what teeth are gnawing into the heart of his liberty.
Friend and brother,
I am as yet among the unregenerate. Instead of my eccentric notions of life changing under the pressure of victorious European enlightenment, they seem to harden and fix their hold. Here I am in Paris, the centre of civilisation, and I am still the same dark skinned barbarian you knew. Neither the complexion of my face nor the complexion of my thoughts has improved. I still believe in God and Vedanta, in India and impossibilities. Man is still to my eyes divine and not an animal. I believe in the soul and am afflicted with the imagination that it has a past and a future, that it neither came ready made into the world out of the mother's womb nor will disintegrate at the end whether on the pyre or in the coffin. That our first stage is an embryo and our last worms or ashes, is a creed I hold to be still unproved and unprovable. I believe that nothing in this world is made, but everything grows; that body cannot create soul and that a mass of cells is not Buddha or Napoleon. And if you ask for my ground of belief, I shall still refuse to base it on the logical reason, which can only argue and cannot see, and I shall give the answer of the visionary, the victim of hallucinations, that I have seen my soul and talked face to face with my Creator.
I have brought India with me, that which is eternal in India. Danton, when pressed to escape from the coming doom to Switzerland, answered, "One does not carry one's country away with one on the sole of one's shoes." That is the materialist's answer, to whom the body is all. No, one cannot carry it on the shoe-soles, but one can carry it in one's heart and one can carry it in one's soul. When I listen to the nightingale singing on English riverbank or garden-reaches or see the Seine flowing through the modern gaiety of Paris, I can hear again the manifold noise of the birds on an Indian morning and see rather Ganges flowing grandiose and leonine to her Eastern seas. The body is bound to its surroundings, but the heart exceeds them, and I carry the love of India with me even to the coldest climes. The soul is yet more free. It will be well when every Indian, instead of taking a waxlike stamp from his foreign surroundings, is able to carry India with him wherever he goes. For that will mean that India is destined to conquer and place her stamp upon the whole world.
There are two Hinduisms; one which takes its stand on the kitchen and seeks its Paradise by cleaning the body; another which seeks God, not through the cooking pot and the social convention, but in the soul. The latter is also Hinduism and it is a good deal older and more enduring than the other; it is the Hinduism of Bhishma and Srikrishna, of Shankara and Chaitanya, the Hinduism which exceeds Hindusthan, was from of old and will be for ever, because it grows eternally through the aeons. Its watchword is not kriya, but karma; not shastra, but jnanam; not achar, but bhakti. Yet it accepts kriya, shastra and achar, not as ends to be followed for their own sake, but as means to perfect karma, jnanam and bhakti. Kriya in the dictionary means every practice which helps the gaining of higher knowledge such as the mastering of the breath, the repetition of the mantra, the habitual use of the Name, the daily meditation on the idea. By shastra it means the knowledge which regulates karma, which fixes the kartavyam and the akartavyam, that which should be done and that which should not, and it recognises two sources of that knowledge,—the eternal wisdom, as distinct from the temporary injunctions, in our ancient books and the book that is written by God in the human heart, the eternal and apaurusheya Veda. By achar it understands all moral discipline by which the heart is purified and made a fit vessel for divine love. There are certain kriyas, certain rules of shastra, certain details of achar, which are for all time and of perpetual application; there are others which are temporary, changing with the variation of desh, kal and patra, time, place and the needs of humanity. Among the temporary laws the cooking pot and the lustration had their place, but they are not for all, nor for ever. It was in a time of calamity, of contraction under external pressure that Hinduism fled from the inner temple and hid itself in the kitchen…..
The destruction of bondage, the realisation of freedom, the trampling upon our fetters, that is the first need of the future. It was to give mukti that Ramakrishna came, not to impose a new bondage. Therefore was Vivekananda His Apostle to the Gentiles, a man who in all things asserted freedom. The soul of Hinduism languishes in an unfit body. Break the mould that the soul may live. Is it not the first teaching of Yoga to destroy the dehatmak buddhi, the blindness that identifies the soul with its temporary body? If the body were young, adaptable, fit, the liberated soul might use it, but it is decrepit, full of ill health and impurity. It must be changed, not by the spirit of Western iconoclasm which destroys the soul with the body, but by national Yoga.
Dear Biren,
The idea that the Europeans have organised enjoyment just as the Hindus have organised asceticism, is a very common superstition which I am not bound to endorse merely because it is common. Say rather that the Europeans have systematized feverishness and the Hindus universalised inertia and mendicancy. The appearances of things are not the things themselves, nor is a shadow always the proof of a substance… I admit that the Europeans have tried hard to organise enjoyment. Power, pleasure, riches, amusement are their gods and the whirl of a splendid & active life their heaven. But have they succeeded? I think that nowhere is life less truly enjoyable than in brilliant and arrogant Europe. The naked African seems to me to be happier and more genuinely luxurious than the cultured son of Japhet.1 It is this very trying hard that spoils the endeavour. What a grotesque conception indeed is this of trying hard to be joyous! Delight, joyousness, ananda either are by nature or they do not exist; to be natural, to be in harmony with the truth of things is the very secret of bliss. The garden of Eden is man's natural abode and it is only because he wilfully chose to know evil that he was driven out of his paradise.
These hollow worm eaten outsides of Hinduism crumbling so sluggishly, so fatally to some sudden and astonishing dissolution, do not frighten me. Within them I find the soul of a civilisation alive, though sleeping. I see upon it the consoling sentence of God, "Because thou hast believed in me, therefore thou shalt live and not perish." Also, I look through the garnished outsides, gaudy, not beautiful, pretentious, not great, boastful, not secure, of this vaunting, aggressive, dominant Europe and I have seen written on the heart of its civilisation a sentence of death and mounting already from the heart to the brain an image of annihilation.
PrevChampaklal – The Mother's Lion (HH 221)
On Accidents (HH 223)Next
Back to Tuesday Talks
The Confusion is There to Teach Us (HH 099)
We are in the midst of a great confusion and disorder. A number of problems besiege the Indian nation and the world in general. What can we do while humanity goes through this dark passage?
Yoga of the Cells (HH 098)
Yoga means union with the Divine. Yoga of the body, of the very cells to realize union with the Divine Perfection. We shall trace this most fascinating journey of the incarnate Divine upon earth.
The Supramental Action and the Laws of Matter (HH 097)
Audio in English
Are the laws that we experience in our everyday life are something fixed or are they merely habitual associations ?


text:
Home » Online Exhibits » Penn History Exhibits » Tickets to the Healing Arts: Medical Lecture Tickets of the 18th and 19th Centuries » Lecture Tickets
Tickets to the Healing Arts: Medical Lecture Tickets of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Lecture Tickets
Ticket Anatomy and Physiology
Historical Narrative
Lecture Tickets:
A – B (1-8)
C (9-16)
D – H (17-26)
I – L (27-34)
M – N (35-41)
R – U (54-65)
University of Pennsylvania:
Page 1 (66-76)
U – W (97-100)
Index A: Penn
Index B: Other Institutions
The 100 medical lecture tickets in this catalogue are organized alphabetically by institution and listed as follows:
Name of institution (subsequent name or discontinuance if applicable)
Date of ticket
Name of issuer
Name of recipient
Catalogue numbers are cross-referenced using parentheses and italics, for example (12).
Index of Medical Lecture Tickets (alphabetically by institution)
Albany Medical College – 2 tickets
Alms House of Philadelphia (Philadelphia Hospital/Philadelphia General Hospital, discontinued) – 1 ticket
American Medical College of Cincinnati (Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, discontinued) – 1 ticket
Baltimore University School of Medicine (discontinued) – 1 ticket
Berkshire Medical Institution (discontinued) – 1 ticket
Boston City Hospital (Boston Medical Center) – 1 ticket
Brown University – 1 ticket
College of Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania) – 5 tickets
College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of the State of New York (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) – 2 tickets
Columbus Medical College (merged with Starling Medical College) – 1 ticket
Dalhousie College and University – 1 ticket
Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania (discontinued) – 1 ticket
Harvard University – 7 tickets
Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (Hahnemann/Drexel University) – 1 ticket
Infirmary for the Relief of the Ruptured Poor (discontinued) – 1 ticket
Iowa University College of Physicians and Surgeons (University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Jefferson Medical College – 4 tickets
Kentucky School of Medicine (University of Louisville School of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Louisville Marine Hospital – 1 ticket
Medical College of Ohio (University of Cincinnati College of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Medical Institute of Philadelphia – 1 ticket
Medical Institution of Yale College (Yale School of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College (discontinued) – 1 ticket
Memphis Hospital Medical College (University of Tennessee College of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Peale's Museum – 1 ticket
Pennsylvania Hospital (University of Pennsylvania Health System) – 3 tickets
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (University of the Sciences) – 1 ticket
Philadelphia Dental College (Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University) – 1 ticket
Philadelphia School of Anatomy (merged into Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine) – 1 ticket
Philadelphia Surgical Study – 1 ticket
Private – 4 tickets
R – U
Rush Medical College (Rush University Medical Center) – 1 ticket
Southern Medical College (Emory University School of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Starling Medical College of Columbus (Ohio State University College of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Transylvania University (discontinued) – 1 ticket
University of Bishop's College (McGill University Faculty of Medicine) – 1 ticket
University of Buffalo (School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo) – 1 ticket
University of the City of New York (New York University) – 1 ticket
University of Louisiana (Tulane University) – 1 ticket
University of Louisville – 1 ticket
University of Maryland – 2 tickets
University of Nashville (Vanderbilt University) – 1 ticket
University of Pennsylvania (1, 2, 3)
University of Pennsylvania – 36 tickets (including 6 tickets bound together and counted as 1)
U – W
University of Vermont – 2 tickets
Western Reserve College (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine) – 1 ticket
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Drexel University College of Medicine) – 1 ticket
« Historical Narrative
A – B »


text:
Cross-sensory correspondences:cross-activation of connotative feature dimensions through the felt heaviness of lifted objects
Scallon, Gabrielle (2018) Cross-sensory correspondences:cross-activation of connotative feature dimensions through the felt heaviness of lifted objects. PhD thesis, UNSPECIFIED.
PDF (2018ScallonPhD)
2018ScallonPhD.pdf - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs.
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/304
Cross-sensory correspondences are the systematic associations demonstrated to arise between various feature dimensions such that their relative extremes are aligned. It has been proposed that correspondences arise as a result of cross-talk between abstract, amodal connotations of a core set of feature dimensions (P. Walker, 2016). Although there is some evidence to suggest that a dimension denoting heaviness may be included among a set of aligned feature dimension, the evidence to demonstrate this is limited. The present work explores whether heaviness, as received through the lifting of weighted objects, may enter into this scheme of correspondences. In addition, the separate contributions of the heaviness and size of lifted objects to the cross-activation of other feature dimensions is also considered. The influences of size and heaviness were explored in light of the size-weight illusion; a phenomenon where the size of equally weighted objects alters their felt heaviness such that the smaller object is experienced to be heavier than the larger object. A series of rating scale tasks were conducted, examining whether heaviness can induce predicted correspondences with other feature dimensions. It was demonstrated that heavier objects were consistently aligned with dark and low pitch. Further confirmation for these mappings was sought through a series of speeded classification tasks. The heaviness-brightness mapping was demonstrated to influence response speed in a brightness classification task, where objects varying in heaviness were used as response keys. In both rating scale and speeded classification tasks, the heaviness-brightness correspondence continued to form the basis of cross-sensory interactions despite the potential for a size-brightness correspondence. The present work confirms that cross-activation between dimensions can be accessed through the manipulation of felt objects. What is more, support is provided for a framework of aligned feature dimensions, their conceptual nature and the inclusion of heaviness among this proposed network of dimensions.
Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology


The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra is a new Android phablet coming to the UK, along with the new mid-range Xperia E1.
Come with me if you want to live... The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra is a new Android phablet coming to the UK, along with the new mid-range Xperia E1 also announced today.
The E1 is a mid-range 4-inch Android smart phone with a 233ppi screen, running a 1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor. It boasts 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage for movies, music, apps and snaps. It's not 4G but does connect to the Web via HSPA+.
Meanwhile the T2 Ultra boasts a 6-inch, 720p screen with a quad-core 1.4 GHz Snapdragon processor and 1GB of RAM underneath. It packs a 13-megapixel main snapper and a front-facing 1.1-megapixel camera for video chatting. There's 8GB of storage, and the whole thing is powered by a 3000mAh battery.
Although it's been designed specifically for emerging markets in China, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Sony told CNET today that the T2 Ultra will join the E1 in the UK. Exact prices and release dates are yet to be confirmed.
There's also a dual-SIM version of the T2 Ultra planned, but we won't get that here in Blighty.
Can Sony compete with Samsung and the rest of the Android community? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page. Hasta la vista, baby!


text:
A Thriller
By Andrew Vachss
Part of Aftershock Series
Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries
Category: Noir Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller
Mar 11, 2014 | 368 Pages
Jun 11, 2013 | 368 Pages
About Aftershock
FIRST IN A NEW SERIES
Dell, an ex-Legionnaire was working as a mercenary when he first saw Dolly, a nurse with Médecins Sans Frontières. When they later married, Dell abandoned his work, and Dolly shed her identity. But not her calling—she became a teacher, confidant, and defender of dozens of teenagers in their Coastal Oregon village. When the star softball pitcher guns down a popular boy on the last day of school, Dolly knows this is no "school shooting". She goes all-in to protect "Mighty Mary" McCoy, even to the extent of unleashing her lethal husband.
As Dolly uses her contacts to gain access to medical secrets, Dell returns to his no-boundaries past. Using guile, extortion, shadow networks–and, finally, an act of terrorism—he uncovers the secret MaryLou was willing to sacrifice her own life to protect . . . a soul-killing rite of passage demanded of the town's most vulnerable girls, with her baby sister next on that list.
The idyllic facade of a small coastal tourist magnet hides its secrets well. But when the shining star pitcher of the girls' softball team guns down the most popular boy in school, the shockwaves reverberate far beyond the school's walls. In the wake of the killing, two of the town's newer residents turn over deeply embedded rocks, exposing a subculture of almost unimaginable horror lurking beneath.
Formerly a nurse with Médecins Sans Frontières, Dolly has become a defender and confidante to dozens of local teenage girls, and she refuses to accept that MaryLou ("Mighty Mary") McCoy's gunning down Cameron Taft in a high school hallway is a typical school shooting. Although MaryLou's guilt is not in doubt—it's even captured on the school's security camera—the girl insists on a trial . . . but inexplicably refuses to cooperate with her own defense. Enlisting her troupe of teenagers and the local contacts she has cemented, Dolly calls on all of her resources to get to the truth . . . and to whatever secret MaryLou is guarding.
When Dolly's husband, Dell, sees his beloved wife begin her quest, he immediately signs on. A former mercenary and ex-Legionnaire, Dell treats this "job" as he would any other—with no boundaries. His entire arsenal is put into play: guile, extortion, tracking devices, shadow networks, and, finally, an act of terrorism that blows the cover off the soul-killing rite of passage demanded of the town's most vulnerable girls. Dell's discovery of MaryLou's true motive and the community's shocking failure to protect its children culminates in a decision to put the town itself on trial. The explosive verdict blows away the facade . . . and forces the village to stand in judgment of itself. The aftershocks keep coming until the foundation itself fractures, leaving cracks too deep to patch ever again.
Also in Aftershock Series
Also by Andrew Vachss
See all books by Andrew Vachss
About Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss is a lawyer who represents children and youths exclusively. His many books include the Burke series, the Aftershock trilogy, the Cross series, numerous stand-alone novels, and three collections of short stories. His novels have been translated into 20 languages, and his… More about Andrew Vachss
Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Mar 11, 2014 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307950888
Jun 11, 2013 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9780307907752
People Who Read Aftershock Also Read
"Andrew Vachss impresses again with his new, dark and compelling thriller." —Largehearted Boy
"The baddest noir stylist of them all." —Kirkus Reviews
"Razor-edged and compulsively readable, the pages fly by." —Library Journal
"Disquieting but engrossing. . . . Vachss explores the horrific intersection of victims and victimizers, evil and avengers. The setting has moved from urban to small town, but the eternal conflict is as it ever was." —Booklist


What does the autumn/winter 2018 season have in store? Designers at Copenhagen Fashion Week gave us our earliest clues - from fresh ways to wear pink and heritage check, to elevated padded jackets and a whole new way to approach après-ski.
AS the world's happiest people, it's fair to say Danes know a thing or two about enjoying life. In Copenhagen, a steady pragmatism prevails, whether it's cultivating an atmosphere of cosy warmth in the year's coldest months (hygge) or taking a simpler, more function-focused approach to getting dressed. When it comes to the latter, merely look to their shoes: pliable trainers and solid fussbett sandals outnumber dress shoes - which makes sense, given that more than half the city's residents cycle. Clever layering makes the often inclement weather all the more bearable, too. "We only do what we like," Ditte Reffstrup, Ganni creative director, tells Vogue. "We do what we want to wear ourselves." That's an approach we can all take on board in the new year. Here are the takeaways to note from the autumn/winter 2018 shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week.
While the now-beloved pink and red pairing is still an option (see Ganni), take a cue from Baum und Pferdgarten next season and combine a cotton candy-pink blouse with velvet ochre trousers. Or try top-to-toe pink, as seen at Mathilde Torp Mader's debut collection for By Malene Birger, Stine Goya and Cecilie Bahnsen. Highest on our wishlist? A bubblegum pink denim boiler suit from Ganni.
If you love après-ski clothing but haven't found the right mix for the office, look to J.Lindeberg's latest show, where creative director Jens Werner combined varsity polo and ski jumpers with pinstripe midi skirts and high-waisted trousers.
Heritage check is still going strong, but in Copenhagen the everyday print is made contemporary in playful ways. For a street-inspired take, look to Astrid Anderson's tracksuits, stitched with long strips of check material down trouser-fronts and sleeves. For a more desk-to-party approach, try Ganni's pant and skirt suits, where the serious character of the fabric interplayed beautifully with clean lines of glittering rhinestones on seams and cuffs. It's like giving your grown-up suit a living, breathing Kirakira filter.
The puffer coat is a necessity come winter, but fortunately the Danish are elevating down jackets for optimum comfort. Wear it like a blanket as per Holzweiler's #SaveTheWinter-themed show, where the plaid puffer blanket has a built-in hood for convenience and ease, or play with proportions à la J. Lindeberg, where a supersized scarf could have almost doubled-up as a mattress. If you want a more wearable - though no less puffy - approach to padded styles, look to Heliot Emil's narrower take on the scarf.
The real trick to refreshing winter white? Layering different shades, textures and cuts, as seen at Designers Remix, where wide-legged trousers were paired with heavy knits layered over crisp cotton shirts. You can also take a pale slip dress into winter with cosy jumpers, as Mark Kenly Domino Tan and Holzweiler did. For those who like a bit of tomboyish flair, take inspiration from Cecilie Bahnsen's stand-out fisherman sweater, worn with shorts and overlaid with pockets hanging from a belt. Off the runway, the street style set in Copenhagen proved partial to all-white, too. Copy their look with a pair of ivory wide-legged jeans, a creamy cashmere jumper, Stan Smith sneakers and a heavy shearling coat. Keeping the mud off your trousers is a small price to pay for a look that is so effortlessly composed.