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Catholics Do This but They Don't Do That #7: Bible Books
Got a Bible handy? Take a look at the cover: it may well have "Catholic" somewhere on there. What's up with that? You don't see Presbyterian Bibles, or Church of God in Christ Bibles, so why do Catholics get their very own? Well, the answer involves Hebrew scriptures, Greek additions, Latin translations, Protestant Reformers, and traditional Catholic understanding. Ready for the whole picture? Read on.
Used to be that all Western Christians used the same version of the Bible, one that had been translated in the 5th century by a guy named Jerome. Before that, there were lots of different translations, and they didn't always agree. Pope Damasus I was concerned about all the differences and wanted something that everyone could use, so he turned to his brilliant secretary Jerome, who had learned Hebrew so that he could read the biblical texts in their original languages (he already knew Greek).
In good scholarly fashion, Jerome decided to go back to the sources. This was a little easier said than done for the part that Christians usually call the Old Testament. Jewish communities originally wrote their scriptures down in Hebrew, but when Greek became the common language for some Jewish communities a group of scholars produced a Greek translation, which we call the Septuagint.
Over time the Hebrew and Greek sets of scriptures started to differ a bit, with some things included in the Septuagint that didn't make the eventual final cut for Jewish scripture. These parts -- the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabbees, and additional sections of Esther and Daniel -- eventually became known as the deuterocanonical works ("deuterocanonical" means "second canon" -- they weren't part of the first Hebrew canon, but of the second Greek canon).
When Christians started translating the Jewish scriptures, they used the Septuagint. Jerome went right for the Hebrew, but he kept the parts that showed up only in the Septuagint because Christians of the time agreed that these were part of sacred scripture. Jerome created the Latin version that we now call the Vulgate, which comes from the Latin editio vulgata, the common edition. And common it remained to all of Western Christianity for many centuries.
Then along came the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther translated the whole Vulgate into German but then later decided that some things really didn't belong in the Bible -- not only the stuff that was deuterocanonical, but Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation, too. Hmm, that didn't go over well. Protestants came to general agreement that all the New Testament stuff should stay in the New Testament; easy enough. They came to see the deuterocanonical stuff as not divinely inspired but still important and it all remained part of Protestant Bibles for centuries. Even the King James Version, which has been so influential in English-speaking nations, originally included all the books and stories.
Eventually Protestants started printing the deuterocanonical works in a separate section at the end of the Bible and things pretty much continued that way until the 19th century, when Protestant Bibles generally began excluding them as unnecessary and lots of people kind of forgot they existed. Take a look around the Internet and you'll even find discussions about Catholics adding these books to the Bible (people, please, learn your history!).
Orthodox Christians accept all the same deuterocanonical works as Catholics and a few more for good measure; the exact list depends on which Orthodox Church we're talking about. So that means that Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians all have somewhat different takes on the exact makeup of sacred scripture. Important, true, but that still leaves 66 books that all Christians do agree on. I'd say that the agreement is the most important part here, wouldn't you?
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Technically speaking, the difference between a search directory and a search engine is that the former is compiled by human effort. These humans – usually referred to as 'editors' – decide to approve or disapprove a directory submission and usually rank them as well.
Directories offer a service – that service being a list of what the Web user was searching for, at least in theory. From a business owner perspective, aside from listing your business, directories can help your Web site in terms of natural search engine rankings (SEO). An approved submission creates an inbound link to your site related to that keyword/topic. In the secretive world of how search engines rank Web sites, the directory rankings may have an impact on getting your company ranked on the major search engines, although some people believe the impact isn't as great as it once was.
You should only submit your site to directories when it is in show-to-customers ready. Put your best foot forward for these editors! Most directories don't allow spam – meaning, you can only submit your site under one category. If you have a large site with lots of subdomains, you may be able to successfully submit to more than one topic but thread lightly here.
With the exception of dmoz.org, these cost money. You pay a fixed annual fee versus per click.
If you have a Web presence and want potential customers to find you, you can't ignore these directories and expect to have success with your search engine marketing programs. Getting listed costs a little bit of money and a bit of time but should pay off. As always, make sure you have an analytics package on your site that is tracking inbound traffic to your site to measure directory results.
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I've talked a lot about what I eat day to day, but what about how I fuel during my training? As I move forward towards summer, training volume is expected to pick up. This weekend I have both an 80 minute run and 2.5 hour bike session on the agenda, both which will require some fueling throughout to get me through successfully!
With the rising temperatures, I definitely rely mainly on fluid calories to meet both my hydration and energy needs. But fluids alone get a little boring and I like to include some solid calories throughout! I've written before about how to pick out the best energy bar at the grocery store (see post here), which is a great and convenient option but often not the cheapest. More recently, I've been experimenting with making my own date-based energy bars from home and am LOVING the result. I have a few varieties I've made but today I am going to share the basic recipe which I adapted from Food52.
These cashew-date energy bites are all natural in that there's no added sugar and they're made from whole food ingredients (that you can pronounce!) I source my ingredients from the bulk foods section of our local natural foods store, EATS, which also serves in saving me A LOT of money in comparison to buying snack bars from the grocery store. I make up a large batch every two weeks or so and stick them in the freezer. When I need a few, I pull them out, place in a ziploc baggie and typically they've thawed to the perfect consistency by the time I'm ready to eat them. Feel free to make these as is, or play around with your own extra flavor add ins!
Preheat oven to 350 F and toast your cashews for approximately 5 minutes. Let cool before transferring to your food processor. Now toast your coconut for approximately 3-5 minutes (watch it so it doesn't burn!) and set side.
Meanwhile, blend your cashews to form a nut-based flour (note: thanks to friend Kati for the tip of doing this first!). Next, add your dates, dried tart cherries and pumpkin seeds into the same food processor and continue to blend until it becomes moist and starts to come together. Transfer mixture into a mixing bowl and fold in the toasted coconut by hand. Form into balls, or line a small baking pan with parchment paper and press into bars. Note, you may find it best to use a paper towel to absorb excess oil while pressing (naturally expressed from the cashews). Place in an airtight container in the fridge! These mini snack bites are packed with nutrients and concentrated energy and are naturally sweet...perfect for fueling any ride, run, pre-gym or just as a snack!
To end this post, I have to give a huge shout out to the peeps of UltraVT. As the school semester comes to a close, many individuals are graduating and/or taking jobs that will be pulling them away from SWVA, including the team's co-founders Rudy and Guy. For those who are moving on: you will be missed tremendously! For those who are staying: I am looking forward to see where you take the team next! I had the opportunity to enjoy two great runs with the team this past week and I am thankful for both great runs and fellowship with friends.
Have a great weekend, enjoy those workouts and fuel well!!!


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Japanische Kalenderkunde (, rekigaku, , rekidō) stellt einerseits astronomische Daten wie Mondphasen für das Jahr zusammen. Darüber hinaus gibt sie die aus China übernommenen Kombinationen der Himmelsstämme und Erdzweige (, kanshi) und andere astrologischen Folgen an, aus denen die Gunst bzw. Ungunst (, kitsukyō) von Tagen und Stunden zu entnehmen ist. Die einfachste Publikationsform ist ein Merkblatt, aber es gibt auch Kalenderbücher (, rekihon, goyomi-hon). Diese Kalenderkunde seit der Mitte der Edo-Zeit sehr populär, sie wird aber auch heute noch zu Rate gezogen.

Kalenderbücher

Ise goyomi-hon
In der Edo-Zeit war das Ise goyomi-hon () besonders verbreitet. Es wurde von besonderen Priestern (, oshi) erarbeitet. Diese waren ursprünglich die auf Abe no Seimei zurückgehende und Ommyōdō-Mystik (inkl. Astrologie) spezialisierte Tsuchimikado-Familie () in Kyoto.

Unter den astronomischen Angaben war der Monatsbeginn bei Neumond besonders wichtig. Da dieser wegen der wechselnden Umlaufgeschwindigkeit des Mondes mal nach 28, mal nach 29 Tagen in unregelmäßiger Weise erfolgt, waren diese Angaben der kurzen und langen Monate für die Terminabsprache usw. besonders nützlich. Um mit dem Sonnenjahr im Takt zu bleiben, musste zudem nach zwei Jahren ein Schaltmonat () an der richtigen Stelle eingeschoben werden. Populär waren dazu auch Farbholzschnitte, in denen die kurzen und langen Monate als Zahlen versteckt in das Bild eingearbeitet waren, die sogenannten e-goyomi (). Für neuere Ausgaben solcher Bücher werden die astronomischen Grundlagen seit 1888 von der Sternwarte Kyoto geliefert.

Jingūkan katei goyomi
Ein modernes Goyomihon wird von dem Tōkyō Jingūkan herausgegeben. Es enthält für das laufende Jahr sowie für jeden Monat Angaben, die der korrekten räumlichen und zeitlichen Orientierung dienen. Darüber hinahs enthält der Kalender auch Angaben zur Wahrsagerei anhand von Gesichtszügen (, ninsō) bzw. anhand von Handlinien (, tesō), gibt er Ratschläge für Hochzeit, Begräbnis und Gesundheit.

Sechs-Tage-Folge
Unter den Angaben, die einen Kalendertag charakterisieren, zusammenhängen, werden heute vor allem noch die Rokuyō (), auch Rokki () oder Sukuyō () beachtet und sind in vielen japanischen Kalendern aufgeführt. Die Rokuyō sind eine Folge von sechs Tagen und ihren Tageszeiten, die seit der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts, aus China übernommen, auch in Japan beachtet wurden. Ursprünglich hatten sie die Bezeichnung Taian (), Ryūren (), Sokuki (), Shakkō (), Shōkitsu () und Kūbō (). Später änderte man die Bezeichnungen und auch die Reihenfolge, bis sich in der Tempō-Zeit (1830–1844) die heutige Form (s. u.) etablierte. Das war auch die Zeit, ab der die allgemeine Verbreitung stattfand.

 Senshō () – "Zuerst Gewinn". Vormittags günstig, nachmittags ungünstig. Morgens sollte man alles schnell erledigen.
 Tomobiki () – "Freund ziehend". Morgens und abends günstig, die Mittagszeit ist ungünstig. An diesen Tagen sollten keine Begräbnisse stattfinden.
 Sempu () – "Zuerst Verlust". Vormittags ungünstig, nachmittags günstig. An diesen Tagen sollten keine dringenden oder schwierigen Geschäfte ausgeführt werden. Der Nachmittag ist etwas besser.
 Butsumetsu () – "Buddhas Untergang". Ein schlechter Tag für jegliche Art von Aktivitäten. Ungünstig für Geschäftseröffnungen.
 Taian, auch Daian () – "Großer Friede". Ein guter Tag für jegliche Art von Aktivitäten, für Feiern, insbesondere für Hochzeitsfeiern, Schreinbesuche (, miyamairi).
 Shakkō, auch Shakku () – "Roter Mund". Ein schlechter Tag in jeder Hinsicht mit Ausnahme der Mittagszeit.

Die Tage folgen wie angegeben aufeinander. Die laufende Folge wird aber, dem japanischen Mondkalender folgend, am 1. Tag des Mond-Monats wie folgt neu begonnen:

Am 1. Tag des 1. und 7. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Senshō
Am 1. Tag des 2. und 8. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Tomobiki
Am 1. Tag des 3. und 9. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Sempu
Am 1. Tag des 4. und 10. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Butsumetsu
Am 1. Tag des 5. und 11. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Taian
Am 1. Tag des 6. und 12. Monats beginnt die Folge mit Shakkō

Vor allem Hochzeiten werden an einem Tag gefeiert, der als Taian deklariert ist.

Neun-Sterne-Folge

Die Neun-Sterne-Folge (, kyūsei, kusei) stammt aus dem chinesischen Volksglauben. Sie umfasst eine Kurzbenennung, die aus den Zahlen 1 bis 9 und einer von sieben Farben besteht: Eins-Weiß ( Ippaku), Zwei-Schwarz (, Jikoku), Drei-Blau (, Sampeki), Vier-Grün (, Shiroku), Fünf-Gelb (, Goō), Sechs-Weiß (, Roppaku), Sieben-Rot (, Shichiseki), Acht-Weiß (, Happaku), Neun-Purpur (, Kyūshika). Die Sterne werden in Form eines Magischen Quadrates angeordnet. Gelb ist dabei ausgezeichnet als Farbe der Mitte.

Die Neun Sterne lassen sich Monaten, Tagen, Stunden und auch den Himmelsrichtungen zuordnen. Die Zuordnung zu den Tagen folgt folgender Regel: Nach der Wintersonnenwende werden die Neun Sterne aufwärts gezählt, nach der Sommersonnenwende abwärts. Mit Hilfe des chinesischen Wahrsagebuches "Qi Men Dun Jia" folgen gute und schlechte Tage für Geschäfte und andere Aktivitäten aufeinander.

Kalendereinträge im Mai 2011

Weitere Angaben in den Kalenderbüchern:

Neun-Tage-Folge
Die Neun-Tage-Folge Kuyō (), auch Kyūyō gelesen, ist eine aus der buddhistischen Kalender-Kunst des alten Indien übernommene Wahrsage-Kunst. Die damals bekannten "Wandelsterne" wurden um zwei erweitert und auf verschiedene Weise mit buddhistischen Heiligen verbunden, von denen hier eine dargestellt ist. Diese Methode von den Wahrsagern des Ommyōdō angepasst.

 Sonnabend () mit der Heiligen Kannon ()
 Mittwoch () mit Miroku bosatsu ()
 Donnerstag () mit Yakushi ()
 Dienstag () mit Kokūzō bosatsu ()
 Freitag () mit Amida ()
 Montag () mit Seishi bosatsu ()
 Sonntag () mit tausendarmiger Kannon ()
 Stern Keito () mit Shaka ()
 Stern Rago () mit Fudō myōō ()

Achtundzwanzig-Häuser-Folge Nijūhasshuku
Bei Achtundzwanzig-Häuser-Folge (, nijūhasshuku) handelt sich es um die "28 Häuser" auf dem Himmelsäquator, die vom Mond (, tai-in) durchlaufen werden. Über den Ursprung dieses Systems gibt es verschiedene Erklärungen. Es wird aber angenommen, dass sich diese Zuordnung einige Jahrhunderte vor der Zeitrechnung etablierte. Alle Häuser sind durch ein Sternbild (, kyosei) definiert, die Breite desselben ist aber nicht genau festgelegt. Mit dem Mond werden durchlaufen
 im Osten: Kaku (), Kō (), Tei (), Bō (), Shin (), Bi (), Ki (),
 im Norden: To (), Gyū (), Jo (), Kyo (), Ki (), Shitsu (), Heki (),
 im Westen: Kei (), Rō (), I (), Bō (), Hitsu (),Shi (), Shin (),
 im Süden: Sei (), Ki (), Ryū (), Sei (), Chō (), Yoku (), Shin ().

Anmerkungen

Literatur
 S. Noma (Hrsg.): Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X, S. 318–319.
 Suzuki, Toshihiko (Hrsg.): Nihon daihyakka zensho. Denshibukku-han Shogakukan 1996.
 Y. Hirakoba (Hrsg.): 2000. Heisei juninen jingukan katei reki. Jingukan, 1999, ISBN 4-915261-85-9.
 Reinhard Zöllner: Japanische Zeitrechnung. Ein Handbuch. (= Erfurter Reihe zur Geschichte Asiens. Band 4). Iudicium, 2003, ISBN 3-89129-783-1.

Weblinks
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Save California, Ban Environmentalists
Hold the straws, legalize the rats.
Mon Sep 9, 2019
The 6-foot-tall man dressed as a giant receipt stood on a stool next to the emblem of the State Capitol in Sacramento. He was there because Assemblyman Phil Ting of San Fran wanted to ban receipts.
California had a great ban streak going. It had already banned plastic bags, straws and dog breeders. Assemblyman Ting, who had only been known for wearing bow ties, had declared war on receipts.
And Ting had his aide wear a giant receipt to show how bad receipts were for the environment. And how better to crusade for the environment than by printing up a receipt 100,000 times normal size?
According to Ting's people, receipts not only wasted trees and water, but were actually toxic. The San Francisco Democrat explained that receipts were coated in chemicals that weren't allowed in baby bottles. It's probably a good thing then that receipts don't go inside baby bottles. Or inside babies.
There was even a hashtag, #SkiptheSlip.
In an extraordinary setback for stupid bans, Ting's receipt ban bill never made it to the floor. But Ting tweeted that he was "glad to have raised awareness about the health & environmental harm receipts can cause. Change often takes time." Next time around, the receipt bill ban will succeed.
Perhaps Ting ought to consider raising awareness about the 16,000 complaints of filth and waste in his own city. The human waste spread by his constituents is a lot more toxic than paper receipts.
The same Democrats who shrug at a hepatitis outbreak gasp at the toxicity of store receipts.
But Ting didn't put all his bans in one basket. That same month, he also called for a ban on facial recognition body cameras for police. The fact that no police forces in California use facial recognition body cameras didn't stop Ting and his partners at the ACLU from trying to ban them anyway.
Meanwhile, yet another bill set out to ban plastic shampoo bottles in hotel rooms. There would be inspections and a $2,000 fine for giving "a small plastic bottle containing a personal care product."
"Small plastic bottles that are less than 12-ounces represent a sizeable amount of waste," Assemblyman Ash Kalra of San Jose declared. The irony was lost on him. Irony will probably be banned next year.
California Democrats allowed drug addicts and the insane to turn the state's major cities into toilets leading to outbreaks of hepatitis and typhus. They still haven't banned public defecation.
But a ban on plastic bottles is their priority.
Assemblyman Karla might have paid more attention to the shigella outbreak in San Jose. Shigella outbreaks are spread through human waste. Not through shampoo bottles. The shigella outbreak in San Jose infected 182 people. The only thing that can worsen disease outbreaks spread by human waste is banning single-use plastic in restaurants and fast food places. So that's what the Democrats are doing.
But banning individual plastic things, like bags, straws and little bottles, isn't a radical enough solution.
"Rather than continue to tinker around the edges with one-off bans of individual plastic items, we need a thoughtful, comprehensive solution," Senator Ben Allen warned. The solution thoughtfully declares that all single-use plastic is pollution and must be banned or everyone will die of plastic poisoning.
Nobody in Santa Monica, Allen's home turf, has actually died of plastic poisoning. Instead, its homeless population is dying of drugs and alcohol, meth, PCP, and a beating with a bolt cutter by Ramon Escobar.
Escobar is an illegal alien who had been deported 6 times and fled to California from Texas. In the sanctuary state, the illegal alien criminal found a fresh hunting ground stocked with vulnerable victims.
Single-use plastics don't kill. Filling your cities with the mentally ill and illegal aliens does. The thoughtful solution would be to criminalize crime, instead of decriminalizing it, while criminalizing everything else.
August's bans were the latest outflow of a torrent of insane bans and bills flooding Sacramento. In July, there was CROWN or Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural hair which bans workplaces from asking employees to come to work groomed. Asking nurses or cooks not to wear dreadlocks is now illegal in California which will do wonders for the health and hygiene of hospitals and restaurants.
Meanwhile a bill to ban flavored tobacco products ran into interference from the Hookah Lobby. The Hookah Lobby, a previously unknown force in the Sacramento mental institution where all of the state's legislative sessions take place, managed to scuttle a ban on cherry and apple vaping products.
But a ban on rat poison succeeded. That's unfortunate because typhus, a disease making a comeback in Los Angeles, is spread by rats. The outbreak began when California Democrats decided that crazy people had a right to live on the street. The filthy conditions helped spread typhus with rats as the carriers.
After making it impossible to stop the homeless camps, Democrats made it impossible to stop the rats.
Democrats cried racism when President Trump pointed out Baltimore's rat problem. Now they've gone to great lengths to protect the homeless-flea-rat typhus pipeline. Good thing the straws are banned.
San Francisco has a huge rat problem.
"We get complaints for rats all over the city," Nader Shatara, a top Department of Public Health guy, said. "Rats are part of the fauna in the city."
The ban on some rodenticides will ensure that rats remains a part of the fauna of all of California.
The most effective rat poisons were banned because they also kill the mountain lions who eat the rats. Better to have a typhus outbreak in Los Angeles than to kill a few lions in the Santa Monica mountains.
While California is drowning in filth and disease, its Democrat elites are focused on the environment.
They caused a drought for the environment. They let fires happen for the environment. Now they're going to cause a rat infestation and typhus epidemic for the environment. It's the environmentalist way.
And, if you're an environmentalist, people dying of preventable diseases is good for the environment,
California's statewide bans include the usual effort to ban circuses, fur, sodas, makeup and bots. Locally, the San Francisco airport, which offers dedicated yoga rooms, banned bottled water. Some California cities are banning natural gas in new buildings. California's civil war with socially conservative states, where travel by Cali government employees is banned, continues to escalate. The latest boycott strategy is to give tax breaks to movie productions that leave pro-life states for pro-abortion California.
The Share Our Values tax credit bill will offer tax credits on up to $100 million for movies and miniseries that leave a state that restricts "across to abortion". What shared values does the state of bans have?
Killing babies is the only thing that can't be banned in California.

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The TOPS at SPAR Wine Show is back!
Posted on April 17, 2019 by thebridgenewsservice
The TOPS at SPAR Wine Show is set for a dazzling "POURformance" this year – popping the cork at Suncoast's magnificent new multipurpose venue, The Globe, from 9 to 11 May, marking the launch of South Africa's biggest and boldest 2019 travelling wine show to seven cities around the country.
After Durban, the WINEderland Tour moves on to Johannesburg from 6 to 8 June, Cape Town from 11 to 13 July, Port Elizabeth from 25 to 27 July, Pretoria from 3 to 5 October, East London from 7 to 9 November, ending off in Nelspruit from 28 to 30 November.
* Tickets for the Durban event, presented by IOL and Independent on Saturday, can be purchased here.
Andrew Douglas, Owner and Producer of The Wine Show, says: "This year's show will deliver more than ever before – with an amazing line-up of well-known and as-yet-undiscovered gems from the world-renowned Cape winelands for tasting and buying, entertainment at every turn, interactive edutainment in our popular wine theatres, as well as many other crowd-pleasing attractions such as the 'Search for a Super Taster' South African Wine Tasting Championships, Wine Label Design Awards presented by Rotolabel, shopping, networking opportunities with wine fundis, and more."
Commenting on the Durban show, Douglas says, "This is the show's seventh appearance in Durban, which has always been warm and welcoming of 'WINEderland'. We are looking forward to launching our biggest ever seven-city 2019 tour in the brand-new landmark of The Globe at Suncoast."
The Globe, which is a vaulted dome that can comfortably accommodate up to 2 200 people, opened to great fanfare in December as part of a massive R1.6 billion re-development of Suncoast, adding a whole new dimension to the entertainment offering on the city's Golden Mile.
"The Wine Show is always fun, and it offers something for every wine-lover from novice to aficionado; it's the place to stock up on old favourites and make new discoveries, which can be shipped free of charge with our complimentary 'Sip 'n Ship' service," he adds.
Industry players who participate in the show to deliver content and build awareness of their roles in the industry, include the Restaurant Association of SA, the Old Vine Project, BLACC (Black Cellar Club), SA Sommelier Association, Platter's Wine Guide, Aware.org (previously ARA), VinPro, Proudly South African, Wines of SA, and the DTI which, as a catalyst for transformation and change and a promoter of cultural diversity in the wine industry, brings five new wine farms to the show in each city.
* For more information and to book tickets, visit www.wineshow.co.za.
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The Pacific Black Brant goose is the reason for the festival. Brant Fest in District 69 runs March 29 to April 10 this year.
The beaches of Oceanside are always alive with wildlife, but in the spring, there is focus on a unique brand of geese and organizers are getting ready to get the party started for Pacific Black Brant.
The little black geese cause a lot of hoopla every spring in these parts and a festival in their honour will celebrate many of the gifts from nature we are fortunate to enjoy on Vancouver Island.
The Brant stop on the shores of Parksville and Qualicum Beach to feed on the herring roe that is left on eelgrass in the early spring. The fattening up ritual enables the Brant to make their trip north to Alaska and their arrival sparks an annual festival that includes a wide array of activities.
Last year the festival featured several events during March and April for children and adults, including wildlife viewing adventures, spring break nature camps, learn to bird and more.
This year's festival runs March 29 to April 10 with many activities lined up that range from an opening night kickoff to wildlife tours to an eagle release.
For 16 years, the Brant Wildlife Festival was spearheaded by the Mid Island Wildlife Watch Society. In recent years, the society was challenged to secure the financial and human resources necessary to organize and operate the festival and now The Nature Trust of British Columbia runs the event.
This group has taken on plans for hosting a big opening night on March 29 at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre (PCCC) from 6 to 9 p.m. that will feature food stations by local chefs, local food producers, displays, live music and a live auction.
The Nature Trust is involved in coordinating the festival but a number of groups and volunteers have come forward to host other events including Brant in the Bay, Big Day Birding, Eagle Release, Family Day on the Farm, and Mount Arrowsmith Walk.
A popular event of the festival is a Kids Nature Camp at Rathtrevor March 12 to 16 for the first week of spring break. The day camp encourages children to get to know nature up close and personal through outdoor activities and indoor explorations in the Nature House at Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park in Parksville. Allison Roberts, Park Naturalist with RLC Parks Services said they have had the camps for a few nears now and they are extremely popular.
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Roberts added they have a new art project this year called stream of dreams. It will involve painting Brant geese that will then be displayed on the nature house.
"It will bring kids perspective and awareness of Brant," she stated.
The camps March 12 to 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. are for children age six to 12 and there is only room for 20 children each day so parents should register early.
To register: call 1-866-288-7878 ext 226 or email rrivers@naturetrust.bc.ca.


(RNN) – Given her long history of supporting progressive causes, it's probably no surprise that Barbra Streisand doesn't care much for Pres. Donald Trump.
But the 76-year-old singer's passions about the president run so deep that she's dedicated a whole new album to them.
Streisand said she knows not everyone will be happy about her anti-Trump album, but she stands by it.
This is a big week for the eight-time Grammy winner.
In addition to the album release, Streisand is also scheduled to appear Thursday in "Carpool Karaoke" on "The Late Late show with James Corden."


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Due to similarities among parasitic worms, new anthelminthics will quite likely protect against a variety of helminth species just as praziquantel, the present drug of choice against schistosomiasis, is active against many trematodes and tape worms. This is of interest also for the large market of livestock.
So far, we have identified several candidates from screening libraries of approved drugs and 400 agents contained in the Malaria Box. Screening is performed in collaboration with Fraunhofer IME ScreeningPort, a research institution with a wide ranging experience in pharmaceutical industry R&D and access to large compound libraries, and with Merck, a key player in the global fight against schistosomiasis.
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A common moss that likes to grow in Florida is Spanish moss. This moss loves the humid climate and moisture that is in the air, and will attach itself to trees in order to thrive. This moss can grow very quickly and if it is not treated, can spread all over the tree. This moss is not truly a damaging moss in the sense that it could kill the tree. This moss is actually not a deadly threat to your trees, and it isn't cause for too much concern in small amounts. You really shouldn't worry too much about Spanish moss growth on your tree, but there are some things you can look out for. Spanish moss can harm your tree if it spreads too much, so here is some information that is helpful to know about Spanish moss.
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Spanish moss can be the home for birds and other creatures in trees. Spanish moss loves to grow in swampland areas, which is why you will see it a lot down south and in Florida. Spanish moss isn't a huge problem when it comes to tree health if it is kept from growing rampant. However, if Spanish moss is becoming the only thing you see on your trees, it may be time to remove some of it.
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Of Course Hunter Got Off Scot-Free
by Gen Z Conservative
For reference, this is the story to which Tim Young is referring: a nice girl had just gotten into Tennessee, her dream school, as a cheerleader. Then, an acquaintance of hers, Jimmy Galligan, decided to ruin her life by posting a video of her from years before singing along to a rap song. People from all over the darker, leftist occupied reaches of the internet piled on, calling her a vicious racist and all manner of obscenities. While a few conservatives stood up to defend her, most were cowards that backed down rather than stand up for some girl who made what should have been, at most, a minor mistake years earlier.
Thanks to all the outrage and furor, the poor girl lost her spot in the school and on the team. Her life was wrecked by a vengeful lunatic.
But, of course, Hunter Biden got off scot-free for his comments. Despite calling his lawyer a "ni***" and joking about being charged "Hennessy rates," Slow Joe's loser son hasn't faced any repercussions.
And, frankly, that's how it should be. It was two friends joking over text, who cares? I certainly don't.
But I do care about the left's hypocrisy. They call everyone who runs afoul of them a racist while refusing to even reprimand the vicious racists and anti-Semites in their own ranks. That matters. It shows that they're cynical. It shows that they're liars. It shows that they don't about care what they spend so much time demanding we fix. They're just after power and aim to attain it by crushing their enemies with accusations of racism.
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The following biden family illegal activities didn't matter to MSM, Republican party, Law Enforcement, Judicial system, US Department of Justice:
1) hunter receives employment with $80,000 monthly wage from Ukraine.
2) biden extorts Ukraine to fire Prosecutors investigating hunter.
3) hunter receives $1.5 Billion dollar business contract from China.
4) hunter receives $3.5 Million from Russia.
5) hunter is caught doing crack/cocaine in civilian and military life.
6) hunter lied on the gun background check form.
7) hunter's laptop with photos of him having sex with underage girls.
8) hunter's laptop reveals numerous other crimes.
And I am supposed to be upset with hunter saying 'niggar' in a nation that guarantees Freedom of Speech?
He's gonna' skate on this one also.
1) hunter went to China with his father (VP biden) on Air Force 2 and got $1.5 Billion for a private equity fund.
2) This fund invested in Chinese nuclear company actively stealing nuclear secrets from the USA.
3) This fund invested in Chinese surveillance technology.
4) This fund helped China to control the world's strategic metals.
5) This fund bought a company that provides dual use technologies to the Chinese military.
Political pressure forced hunter to resign from the board of his China investment firm in late 2019 but, he quietly maintains a multimillion-dollar ownership stake in the firm.
Biden's Resume
1) Plagiarized a speech of a British Labor Party leader, even using the speech's personal experiences as his own.
2) Plagiarized speeches by Robert Kennedy, JFK, and Hubert Humphrey.
3) Lied about academic awards he never received
4) lied about receiving scholarships he was never awarded
5) Lied about his "top" ranking in law school (He was 76th out of 85 students.)
6) Lied about his involvement in civil rights marches (He participated in none)
7) Lied about being trained as a civil rights activist in an African-American church (He was not)
8) Lied about truck driver killing his wife
9) Lied about hunter's Ukraine and China business
10) Lied about never speaking with hunter regarding any of his jobs
11) Bragged about committing extortion crime against Ukraine's prosecutor
12) biden's lies are continuing through his Presidency without challenge.
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The mainstream media picks which stories will be hyped. They calculated that the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was favorable to their narrative, just like anytime a white cop shoots a black a person, so the coverage was endless. But telling viewers and readers about a handful of kids parked on a lawn and starving themselves (with the possible exception of the occasional Big Mac being snuck onto the grounds) doesn't help their agenda, it harms it.
New NIH COVID Treatment Guidelines Worse Than Useless
Of special importance is that NIH has ignored a recent detailed study of ivermectin and aimed at informing clinical guidelines reached these conclusions: "…large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally." An even newer study found remarkable benefits of using IVM, including a 68% reduction in mortality and 56% reduction in hospitalization.
Win-Win, Lose-Lose: The Democrats' Commitment To Science… Political Science
Another possibility, which the "Joe Biden" admin seems to favor a little, is World War Three. We couldn't lose that, could we? Well, at worst it would be a "lose-lose" so at least nobody else would win. Would the US be any worse off without New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and a few more population centers teeming with homeless junkies? (Who rarely show up at the polls to vote, by the way… and if you asked, could they even tell you who's running for president?) World War Three begins to look like our silver linings playbook. London, Paris, and Berlin are not our problem, to be blunt about it.
Joe Biden Greenlights Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine
Handling America's enemies in a manner that serves Her best interests and actually defends Her national sovereignty won't happen, until a strong freedom-minded individual takes the helm of the country and guides us to live and let live and not be put upon to our harm and detriment, by nation's leaders who envy us and seek to conquer or destroy America. Biden is sorely at a loss in this regard and we should all pray that America survives unscathed during these last three years of his continued incompetence and his continued betrayal of America to Her enemies.
More Woke Companies To Avoid: List #5
Woke Companies To Avoid
Is nothing sacred anymore? Hasbro seems to think not. Wokeness' infection within Hasbro runs deep, so let's consider just two examples, with a couple of America's most iconic toys and games having been recently subjected to abject wokeism. In 2020 Hasbro decided that Mr. Potato Head would "Go Green" as their first toy to be made of plant-based plastic. Environmental responsibility isn't a bad thing, but that makeover was merely a harbinger of things to come. Last year, Hasbro decided to throw Mr. Potato Head squarely into the middle of the transgender insanity, promising to make the toy more "gender-neutral" by rebranding him as simply "Potato Head."


Check out our interview with Emily Zeck, aka, Thatpineapplegirl who was featured in our 2016 Food Issue. You can find her music here.
Can you tell me a little about how you decided to become a musician?
I've always loved music! It's always been a good outlet for me for different emotions and stresses. My biggest inspiration comes from the people that listen to my music. My goal is to make somebody feel something. If an artist makes somebody feel something, anything, they've succeeded as an artist. There's no better feeling than having somebody relate to the emotion and work you put into a song.
How were things early with your music career? When did you feel like you had something?
My music career started after I grew my social media page. I started blogging and connecting with a large fan base, and after that, I released original music. I did it kinda backward … most people release their music and then build a fan base. I built my fan base and then hit them with some originals knowing that I would already have a little support group under my belt to start my career.
As I grew my social media fan base, I made connections with some crazy influential people — Donavon Frankenreiter and Cody Simpson, to name a couple. Networking became my best friend, and traveling and exploring became my second best friend. So far, this journey has been unreal. I cannot wait to see what this world has in store for me in the future!
Who acted as your biggest source of inspiration when you began, and who are you being influenced by right now?
When I was younger, Taylor Swift was definitely the girl I wanted to be. She still kills it! Classy, empowering, and one of the most influential female artists of the century.
My current inspiration comes from all over the place. Meeting people from other countries and cultures, networking in different states, bouncing ideas off people with completely different mindsets and perspectives, and simply just placing myself in nature and letting the beautiful world in which we live to show me the deeper meaning.
iTunes! It's also on Spotify, and I put a lot of my covers on Instagram (@thatpineapplegirl). Just search my name and you'll find some tunes! I'm starting a YouTube page in the near future, but I still have some planning to finish.
Have you performed at any big festivals or alongside any big acts?
I performed with Donovan and Cody a little while ago at a venue in Jacksonville Beach. It was totally spontaneous and absolutely magical!
If you could perform a concert alongside any musician alive or dead, who would it be?
Picking one is so hard, but I'd definitely have to choose Taylor [Swift]. She puts on an amazing show. I couldn't even imagine the amount of energy on stage!
They can take what they want from it. I'm not here to tell somebody how to feel, I'm here to put something out that I feel and let them transform and apply it to their personal life. That's the beauty of music. Once it's out, it's up to the listener to make it their own.


I was a high school English teacher for a number of years. When I had to be out of the classroom, I tried to leave lesson plans for the substitute that were easy to implement. I was not so lucky with this morning's sermon. Our passage today from Genesis 22, often referred to as "The Binding of Isaac," is a difficult and problematic story. Let us see what we can find there together.
As I have read through this passage over the last couple of weeks, I have seen different things. This has never been an easy story for me. First, I have questions about Abraham. Here is a guy who questioned and bargained and argued with God all along the way in his life, and yet, when God told him to take Isaac up the mountain and kill him, Abraham just went without explaining himself to anyone, and particularly not to Isaac.
I also have questions about what the story says about God. I understand that, even though we talk about the Bible as though it were a cohesive unit, it is actually a collection of literature from a variety of sources collected over thousands of years, so the picture of God is not one that has been systematically thought out; there are layers and changes, even contradictions—and we are dealing with one of the oldest and earliest stories, where the picture of God is just beginning to be sketched.
I also understand we are not reading a journalistic account what happened on Mount Moriah. The stories of Genesis—the origin stories of the Hebrew people and the Jewish faith—were written down much later—after the Exodus—to explain who they were, how they got there, and why that mattered. Since our faith grew out of theirs, we lean into these stories to find our place, yet we read them differently because our story spins off from theirs. As I read Jewish interpretations of the story, which is called the Akedah in Hebrew—the binding—I found these words from Rabbi Rachel Barenblatt, who says the difficult thing about this story is the fact that it can be interpreted in a number of ways.
We don't know which interpretation is right, or which is true. It seems unfair, somehow, that the Torah—which is supposed to provide guidance, to help us live sanctified lives— is so unclear on this. The story is there, but Torah doesn't tell us what to make of it. So where do we go?
One place to go from here is up.
Imagine a tower that stretches infinitely high into the heavens. Inside the tower is a spiral staircase, with landings on every floor; at each landing, there's a window. The view from the lowest window is different from the view on the fifth floor, or the tenth, or the hundredth. As we climb the stairs and pause at the different levels, we see new things. Where on the ground floor we saw earth and stones, from the tenth floor we can gaze out over the landscape. After a long while we see stars. Maybe even galaxies. Eventually something vaster than we can imagine. . . . The view is different from different landings, but that view is always God. . . . What changes, as we work to ascend that tower, is us. As we ascend we become able to see more of God . . . but God is fully there on every floor. . . . Depending on what window we're looking through, we'll find different things in the story of the Akedah. Maybe it's ambiguous for a reason: because the process of studying it is itself a way of learning to see God in difficult places.
The window I keep looking through in this story is wondering what it felt like to be Isaac. We have no indication of how old he was. The assumption, for most, has been that he was a child, but we have no detail in the story that supports that. He could have been a young man. Either way, he follows his father to the foot of the mountain, and then up the slope, after they leave their servants behind. He even carries the wood on his back. He never says a word as his father ties him to the altar; never asks a question, doesn't speak up after it is all over—or at least, the writers never give him a voice.
Isaac is, it seems, a victim of the will of God. Abraham is convinced God has commanded him to kill his son—the one who is the human confirmation of God's promise to make Abraham's descendants as numerous as the stars. Isaac was not in on the conversation. He was not given a say in his future, or his present. Abraham did nothing to offer Isaac a view from his window; instead he just bound him up and tied him to the altar.
Part of what is hard for us to understand in the story is the whole idea of sacrifice, which was a significant part of not only Hebrew life, but most ancient religions: most everyone thought that their gods were appeased, if not pleased, when something was killed as an offering. We don't have enough time to unpack all the theological ramifications of how the idea of sacrifice has influenced how we see God and see one another today, even though our ancestors in the faith quit making burnt offerings long ago. And I would like to name that we can too easily let ourselves offer up someone else so we can feel safer or more prosperous at their expense.
When I look at Isaac, I see those we have come to call the Dreamers in our country—young people who came here with their parents from other countries, who are now being told their days here are numbered. I see transgender people who are being told they don't belong because they don't fit into traditional categories. I see people who are blamed for being born into generations of poverty, as though the things that bind them are somehow their fault. I see people who live with mental illness. People who are on the receiving end of the physical, verbal, and systemic violence of racism.
And I listen to the voices of those who say these people need to be sacrificed for the "good" of the greater society and it breaks my heart that, far too often, they make that claim in the name of God.
Or, perhaps, we need to be that voice.
From my window on the story, I can't explain why God told Abraham to take his son up the mountain. I can't explain why Abraham went, or what he thought he was doing in the name of God. But, from my window on the story, I see Isaac, bound and helpless, and I know that had not the angel cried out, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him," Isaac would have been killed.
If Abraham had been left to do what he thought God wanted him to do, Isaac would have been murdered and Abraham would have thought he had done God's will. But that is not what happened. But Abraham heard a different voice, saw God in a new way, and Isaac and his father came down the mountain together. Isaac lived because the angel spoke up.
The ones who most often make the news speaking for God keep saying that God is demanding the sacrifice of those on the margins so the privileged can continue to prosper. God needs others —God needs us—to speak up, to shout, "Don't lay a hand on them." In big ways and in small ways, God needs us to be stonecatchers, to offer life and love and hope to those bound up and unable to free themselves. We may not make the news, but have to do more than just watch from our window. Amen.
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Love this! I've been waiting on the edge of my seat since you told me some of your thoughts about this when we saw you and Ginger Saturday. I've also been reading Just Mercy too. Will continue to stone catch in my corner of the world!
Milton, thank you so much for this. Excellent and a good take on a difficult story.
I changed email addresses, and I don't miss a lot of mail I was getting, but I missed you. As I was remembering to find your blog tonight, I was particularly remembering your writing about Catcher in the Rye, and saying that we needed better catchers. Now we catch stones and each other. Peace, Milton.


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China Joins Whiskey Trade War With New Tariffs on US Exports As Distillers Pay the Price
June 18, 2018 – The list of countries scheduled to impose import tariffs on Bourbon and other American-made whiskies has grown again, with China becoming the latest nation to challenge the Trump Administration's hard-line stance on global trade. Over the weekend, Chinese officials announced plans to retaliate for new US tariffs on Chinese exports of electronics and other products announced Friday by US President Donald Trump. Beginning July 6, China will slap a 25 percent tariff on imports of American whiskies, along with automobiles and a range of agricultural products including beef, pork, and soybeans.
As with similar tariffs on whiskey and other exports previously announced by Canada, Mexico, and the European Union, the list of targets is designed to create political pain for the Trump Administration by hitting products from so-called "red states" led by Republicans. For instance, almost all of the American-made whiskey exported to China comes from Tennessee and Kentucky, the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"I do worry about — and a lot of my members worry about — the impact on, let's say, Kentucky bourbon, for example, or Kentucky farmers," McConnell told the Washington Examiner last week. However, McConnell blocked an attempt by Tennessee Senator Bob Corker to restrict the president's ability to impose tariffs on imports without Congressional approval. "I don't think it makes sense to try to impair what President Trump's doing." McConnell said in an interview for the Examiner's "Behind Closed Doors" podcast. "The best thing is to continue to engage with the administration, make our arguments, and hope that this doesn't continue."
While the whiskey tariffs could begin to take effect as early as Wednesday, when the European Union plans to start phasing in its list of targeted exports, most will not take effect until July 1. Brown-Forman executives confirmed earlier this month that they increased export shipments of Jack Daniel's and their other whiskies earlier this year to countries likely to be affected by a trade dispute in anticipation of potential tariffs. Like many of the larger American whiskey distillers, Brown-Forman controls much of its global distribution and has warehouses available to stockpile several months worth of whiskey to minimize the impact of a trade dispute.
"We are just innocent little bystanders in a game being played way above our pay grade," says FEW Spirits founder Paul Hletko. His distillery in Evanston, Illinois exports between 15 and 25 percent of its annual production overseas, and took a major hit two years ago when the UK's Brexit vote sent the British pound plunging against the US dollar and other world currencies, raising the cost of his and other American-made whiskies significantly.
"FEW exports one-half of one percent of US spirits exports to China, and we expect that to evaporate," Hletko said during an interview at the New York Independent Spirits Expo. Hletko is a former president of the American Craft Spirits Association, one of the trade groups lobbying Trump Administration leaders to explain the larger impact of the steel and aluminum tariffs. Those groups have been working for years to remove tariffs on distilled spirits, along with other barriers to trade, and the results of that work appears to be evaporating almost as quickly as whiskey evaporates from barrels in a hot Kentucky rickhouse. That evaporation is called the "angel's share," but for distillers, the devil is in the details of market access worldwide.
"Any time, and I mean any time, that we have constraints on market access is a big deal for us, and this is just one more instance of inability to move product because of yet another restraint of some sort," said ACSA executive director Margie Lehrman. Her team has been meeting with members of Congress and their staffs, and has been trying to meet with administration trade officials "to make sure that they understand the overall impact on a burgeoning industry that is reliant on this market access."
The industry cheered December's tax reform legislation, which included a two-year cut in the federal excise tax on the first 100,000 proof gallons of spirit distillers produce each year. While distillers large and small benefit from that cut, the biggest impact was projected to be on small-scale distillers, and many had already started reinvesting their savings from the tax cut in expansion projects and hiring new workers. Adam Spiegel of California's Sonoma County Distilling Company has already started expanding his facility from around 6,000 square feet to 21,000 square feet, with additional room for barrel storage and expand his annual production by up to five times current levels when the expansion is completed this fall.
For Spiegel, the trade war is a double whammy. Not only will his export sales be affected by tariffs in the European Union, where Spiegel exports around 25 percent of his annual production, but the US tariffs on imported steel and aluminum have blown up his construction budget.
"I have a bunch of new stainless steel tanks that are on their way here that I just so happened to purchase apparently at the wrong time, Spiegel said as he rolled his eyes during an interview. He estimates the tariffs could add as much as $60,000 to the cost of his expansion, but admits that he has no clear guidance from his suppliers. "Everybody's just kind of on hold…they're saying 'listen, all of our pricing was good up until a certain point, we're going to have to see what happens when it lands…we'll know what tariffs are assessed the day it lands," he said.
Spiegel's tanks and other equipment are being fabricated in the US from imported stainless steel. "The welders are here in the States putting together all the bits and pieces for us, so they may have rolled it four or five thousand miles away, but we're actually hurting American jobs by what they're doing…as a small business trying to get some traction here, I think it's really unfortunate," he said. Spiegel estimates the money he will pay in higher costs for his steel could have covered the cost of hiring one or two new full-time employees.
FEW's Hletko also points out the collateral damage from the escalating tariffs. "It hurts our farmers, it hurts our truck drivers that are moving the grain, it hurts our truck drivers that are moving the bottles, it hurts all of us, and it's really, really unfortunate that small American businesses are being toyed with in this fashion," he said.
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Worldtraveled1, I agree with you that if it truly happened, even once, it is too many times. For this reason, I recommend that an inventor move quickly to commercialize his/her own product concept. There is no fairy godmother/father who is truly interested in seed stage funding. "Submit your idea and watch a miracle happen" is puffery advertising at best, gets the attention of dreamers, and misleading for the naive. First to market successfully, carries a lot of weight. If all one has is an idea, it isn't worth anything until someone does something with it that makes it commercially viable.
Again, I emphasize that many people are creating solutions for the same problem. It happens all the time and I see it when I do research for inventors to determine feasibility for moving forward.
Bonnie, I agree with the fact that it takes a lot of hard work and determination in order to get any business off the ground and that inventing - rather bringing a product to market is much akin to making a business successful. However, this 'submit your idea and watch a miracle happen' concept is JUST what Edison Nation is proposing with their inventor competitions. 'Submit your idea and if chosen, you will receive compensation. Reading some of the experiences from some of the people who submitted their ideas only to have them stolen out from under them is a horrific nightmare! Even if this type of thing only has happened to a hand full of EN submissions...really...isn't this happening ONE TIME too many times?! I am a creative productive person and I understand how they must have felt. I, too, loathed the non-producers whose sole profit core is from stealing from creative producers and fattening their own pockets without paying any compensation to the one who initiated the idea, etc. Keep your heads up, my fellow producers of the world! Karma always catches up.
Edison Nation and Louis Foreman do not run a non-profit organization. None of Louis Foreman's at least 5 companies are non-profit. If you are unwilling or unable to pursue your own invention, then you can't complain if someone else is offering the opportunity and expects to earn a very generous profit from doing so. That is business and why those who have money tend to make more money.
Jen, Venting, and Ideas, need to educate themselves about the ins and outs of the inventing process through a non-profit educational association [local inventors organization or the United Inventors Association (501 (c)(3) non-profit (www.uiausa.org)] because their comments are naive at best. Be ware of those that claim they are there for educating the inventor but are just a front for a profit-making company. Look for educational inventor organizations listed on the United Inventors Association's website.
Inventing, like starting any business, is a high risk endeavor and the vast majority fail in the first year. Inventors' product ideas tend to fail at an even greater rate than traditional start-up businesses. Even the products that Edison Nation has invested in and taken to market on behalf of inventors have not succeeded as well as one might think. It is not easy or everyone would do it. Foreman's companies make money in other ways. He is an excellent promoter and knows how to leverage technology. I give him credit for that. Don't ask him to donate to your favorite charity...you will pay him for the right to submit the idea.
The majority of inventors do not understand what it takes to successfully commercialize a product and underestimate the value of a team. Many think someone should "take it and run with it" just because the inventor thinks he/she has a good idea. Get real, there are no charities for inventors who have no money. You are at the mercy of whomever you give your idea. Patents only give you the opportunity to sue someone, take 3-5 years to get issued, and cost upward of $500, 000 to litigate against infringement. I have worked with new products both with and without patents for over 16 years. What I can tell you is that if you think there is a need for a solution to a problem, someone else is thinking the same thing. Rewards go to those who act quickly. To think someone has stolen your idea is naive...they steal or imitate commercially successful products, not ideas. Move your feet, not your mouth.
As I read reviews online about Edison Nation, I came across a few that read almost verbatim to my experience with this company! I submitted an idea to them and it made it to the 3rd tier only to stop there. I thought ok, that's fine but THEN less than one year, I saw an advertisement for my same idea - right down the EXACT illustration mock ups, ad-copy and other information that I submitted directly to Edison Nation! I was floored and angry and hurt all at once. I contacted EN and they, of course, gave me the standard Plausible Den. rhetoric; however, both I and God know what transpired there. The problem may or may not be at the top levels of the company, but somewhere within their system they are flawed because someone within their company 'leaked' my idea (or just outright sold it) to another company for profit. I received nothing but broken dreams. Thank God I am not a quitter but DO NOT SEND YOUR IDEAS TO THIS COMPANY. This is the inventor's greatest nightmare.
No no no. That is not how you protect a idea. Write up everything about your idea. Then go get it notarized stamped with a date and time. That is the poor mans provisional patent. That shows that your plan is to go public with your idea. This will stand up in court if any one takes your idea. I saw a video on youtube of this lawyer Darrcell walker.
That really bites Jen. One way to protect your idea, which may not all ways work, but is a cheap measure, is to write out your patent in a letter, then mail it to your self registered mail. I would even go as far as mailing two or three letters. When you goto the PO, ask they stamp the back of your letter. When you get them back, don't open them, keep them in a safe place.
Your idea is patentable at the time it was conceived. If no one else submits it to the USPTO, your idea is yours. But using the method above, and someone else patents your idea, you may have recourse if you came up with the idea first. The letters satisfies the legal rules in a court of law.
There are all ways stipulations, as in sometimes if you have an idea and just sit on it, the USPTO or a court may rule in favor of another. You have to be actively seeking an ideas development. This is just one example. As I opened with, this may not all ways work. However I think that $5 to $15 is least worth some protection.


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Lambretta's winding history
For true scooter enthusiasts, the Lambretta name is certainly not strange. Yes, we are knew that Lambretta is the name of an Italian company which in its heyday was a rival for its compatriot scooter manufacturer Piaggio.
Innocenti Lambretta scooters, reliable and fun transportation that was affordable and revolutionary in design. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2MsV6Kh)
Ferdinando Innocenti, the
founder of the Lambretta
manufacturer. (Picture
from: http://bit.ly/35rwOZy)
But then the Lambretta scooters had disappeared of the world scooter market in quite a long time span. So it could make the Lambretta scooters as a figure of two-wheeled vehicles that are quite rare. Which then analogous by the world scooter fans as a diamond among the pile of gold, aka something very valuable.
At the beginning of its development, the Lambretta scooter manufacturer could not be separated from the compatriot manufacturer which was at the same time its rival Piaggio who later produced the Vespa scooters. At first glance, there are seen a similarity design between Lambretta and Vespa scooters. This can be seen directly in the physical form of the scooter produced by those two Italian manufacturers. This is not a coincidence, but there's a story that is quite interesting in it. Are you curious?
Lambretta's design was inspired by an American-made scooters
Corradino D'Ascanio, the
designer of Lambretta and
Vespa scooters. (Picture
from: http://bit.ly/33jwL0a)
Before making a scooter, Ferdinando Innocenti first established an engine manufacturer named after his name, Innocenti SA. in the 1920s.
Initially, the factory producing components for the Italian Air Force since 1922. When the war raged that factory was bombed to the ground by Allied forces. After the war, Innocenti needed to find a new product in order for his business to survive.
In the midst of the debris of his steel tube factory, Innocenti got an idea to create a cheap and resilient transportation ride, and then a scooter concept was born!! When the company decided to make a scooter, Innocenti knew if he had to find someone who could make the design of his dream vehicle.
The first Innocenti scooter designed by Corradino D'Ascanio. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/35puO4d)
Then Innocenti handed over those design work to an aeronautical engineer named Corradino D'Ascanio. It's strangely and funny as well, actually D'Ascanio doesn't like motorbikes due to previously he worked for Piaggio's aircraft manufacturer before and during the war.
The Innocenti Lamborghini scooter history. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2IIuPGy)
At that time Innocenti told D'Ascanio if he wanted the design of a simple, resilent and affordable two-wheeled vehicle, so it was easy to drive by men and women also it wasn't easy to dirty the clothes when ride it.
1947 Lambretta 125M (A), the first Innocenti-made scooter. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2MxiAxD)
In the process of the design work, D'Ascanio took the figure of the Cushman scooter that was made before World War II in Nebraska, the United States became one of the design references for the vehicle he was going to make. These American-made scooters were in Italy in large numbers, ordered originally by the United States military as field transport for the paratroops and marines.
1943 Cushman Airborne Military was one of the Lambretta scooter design references made by Corradino D'Ascanio for Innocenti SA. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/1zct9Yf)
It's known that the American soldiers had used those scooters to get around German defense tactics of destroying roads and bridges in the Dolomites (a section of the Alps) and the Austrian border areas.
1949 Lambretta 125M (B). (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2OFlvqH)
In order to fulfill Innocenti's desire for a good two-wheeled vehicles that able to keep the rider and passenger clothings in clean condition when riding it, then a protective part in front called a "shield" is deliberately formed.
1953 Lambretta LD 125 Mk.2. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/315xr7V)
Since then the company produced the Lambretta scooters over the years, and regarding to the scooter's name, it's taken from the Lambrate district name of Milan in northern Italy, which is near to the steel tubing factory location.
The spar frame concept dispute made D'Ascanio turn back to Piaggio
In the development of the company, there was a dispute between Innocenti and D'Ascanio about the concept problem. Because Innocenti wants the spar frame to be produced from the steel tube plant of his. Before the problem found a solution, Innocenti revived his two steel factories in Milan which previously destroyed to the ground by Allied forces.
1959 Lambretta LI Series 1. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/311JuDj)
Somehow, then the dispute bears the separation. Which then makes D'ascanio finally turn back to collaborate with Enrico Piaggio. And in 1946, the results of his collaboration with Piaggio produced Vespa spar frames. On the other hand, after D'Ascanio left the company, the final design of the Lambretta scooter was completed by another engineers named Cesare Pallavicino and Pier Luigi Torre.
The first production of Lambretta scooters favored by the Italians
Lambretta has a good milestone when starting marketing its scooters. Their first products named the Lambretta 125M (A) launched in the 1947 and were favored by the Italians so that the Lambretta's scooter riders population increased significantly in the country.
The first production of Lambretta scooters directly favored by the Italians. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/326Q2lk)
And a year before, Piaggio had launched their first Vespa 98 models. Then the first model of the Lambretta scooters came with two options, ie the seats for passenger or a compartment to store goods at rear.
This Lambretta 125M (A) scooter uses a 125cc engine with three speed transmission system and then its gear shift was on the foot where only the Innocenti Lambretta models have such thing.
1960 Lambretta TV175 Mk.2. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/316WAiD)
The front shield is made of aero metal materials which develops into leather. Uniquely on the storage drawer that is similar to a car dashboard. And by the late 1940s the Lambretta scooter was sold overseas. Innocenti became one of the new industrial giants of post-war Italy, and the scooterphenomenon was on its way to becoming a legend.
1967 Lambretta SX 200. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/315znNJ)
The scooters continued to produced in Italy until 1971, then the company did a massive expansion with the scooter production abroad under the full license, such as to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India and Spain, making it a worldwide brand.
1970 Lambretta GP 200. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/35pMOLE)
Lambretta scooters were also manufactured under licence by Fenwick in France, NSU in Germany, Serveta in Spain, API in India, Yulon in Taiwan, Pasco in Brazil, Auteco in Colombia and Siambretta in Argentina.
Lambretta had a long sleep before finally being reborn
This Italian scooter brand had disappeared from circulation in the world scooter market. As it is known that in the 1970s The British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) acquired shares of Innocenti. After experiencing a financial crisis and industrial strike at BLMC. By 1972, Innocenti had stopped production.
2018 Lambretta V-Special. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2IIuPGy)
They had been bought by a large company who did not foresee the changes to come in the motor industry. Strikes and falling sales did for Innocenti, even in emerging markets like India, where cheaper Japanese motorcycles were better choices for consumers.
In 1972, the Indian government bought the machinery of the Milanese factory, creating Scooters India Limited (SIL) in order to produce the Lambro three-wheeler under the name Vikram for the domestic market and made them until the late 1990's.
They seen never gave up and continue to struggle. Recently a Lugano-based Switzerland consortium purchased the Innocenti SA. which then directly owned those famous scooter brand. Now, we can see the Lambretta scooters back to enliven the competition in the world's scooter market by launching its newest Lambretta V-Special models with two engines options 125cc and 200cc. Will they be able to survive?
Kept spur your adrenaline on the power of two-wheeled monster and stay alive with the true safety riding. May God will forgive Your sins and so does the cops...... *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LAMBRETTA STORY | LC | ACE SCOOTERS]
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Q: Row-wise difference in two list in pandas I am using pandas to incrementally find out new elements i.e. for every row, I'd see whether values in list have been seen before. If they are, we will ignore them. If not, we will select them.
I was able to do this using row.iterrows(), but I have >1M rows, so I believe vectorized apply might be better.
Here's sample data and code. Once you run this code, you will get expected output:
from numpy import nan as NA
import collections

df = pd.DataFrame({'ID':['A','B','C','A','B','A','A','A','D','E','E','E'],
                   'Value': [1,2,3,4,3,5,2,3,7,2,3,9]})
#wrap all elements by group in a list
Changed_df=df.groupby('ID')['Value'].apply(list).reset_index()
Changed_df=Changed_df.rename(columns={'Value' : 'Elements'})
Changed_df=Changed_df.reset_index(drop=True)

def flatten(l):
    for el in l:
        if isinstance(el, collections.Iterable) and not isinstance(el, (str, bytes)):
            yield from flatten(el)
        else:
            yield el

Changed_df["Elements_s"]=Changed_df['Elements'].shift()

#attempt 1: For loop
Changed_df["Diff"]=NA
Changed_df["count"]=0
Elements_so_far = []

#replace NA with empty list in columns that will go through list operations
for col in ["Elements","Elements_s","Diff"]:
    Changed_df[col] = Changed_df[col].apply(lambda d: d if isinstance(d, list) else [])

for idx,row in Changed_df.iterrows():
    diff = list(set(row['Elements']) - set(Elements_so_far))
    Changed_df.at[idx, "Diff"] = diff
    Elements_so_far.append(row['Elements'])
    Elements_so_far = flatten(Elements_so_far)
    Elements_so_far = list(set(Elements_so_far)) #keep unique elements
    Changed_df.loc[idx,"count"]=diff.__len__()

Commentary about the code:

*

*I am not a fan of this code because it's clunky and inefficient.

*

*I am saying inefficient because I have created Elements_s which holds shifted values. Another reason for inefficiency is for loop through rows.

*Elements_so_far keeps track of all the elements we have discovered for every row. If there is a new element that shows up, we count that in Diff column.

*We also keep track of the length of new elements discovered in count column.

I'd appreciate if an expert could help me with a vectorized version of the code.

I did try the vectorized version, but I couldn't go too far.
#attempt 2:
Changed_df.apply(lambda x: [i for i in x['Elements'] if i in x['Elements_s']], axis=1)

I was inspired from How to compare two columns both with list of strings and create a new column with unique items? to do above, but I couldn't do it. The linked SO thread does row-wise difference among columns.
I am using Python 3.6.7 by Anaconda. Pandas version is 0.23.4

A: You could using sort and then use numpy to get the unique indexes and then construct your groupings, e.g.:
In []:
df = df.sort_values(by='ID').reset_index(drop=True)
_, i = np.unique(df.Value.values, return_index=True)
df.iloc[i].groupby(df.ID).Value.apply(list)

Out[]:
ID
A    [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
D                [7]
E                [9]
Name: Value, dtype: object

Or to get close to your current output:
In []:
df = df.sort_values(by='ID').reset_index(drop=True)
_, i = np.unique(df.Value.values, return_index=True)
s1 = df.groupby(df.ID).Value.apply(list).rename('Elements')
s2 = df.iloc[i].groupby(df.ID).Value.apply(list).rename('Diff').reindex(s1.index, fill_value=[])

pd.concat([s1, s2, s2.apply(len).rename('Count')], axis=1)

Out[]:
           Elements             Diff  Count
ID
A   [1, 4, 5, 2, 3]  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]      5
B            [2, 3]               []      0
C               [3]               []      0
D               [7]              [7]      1
E         [2, 3, 9]              [9]      1

A: One alternative using drop duplicates and groupby
# Groupby and apply list func.
df1 = df.groupby('ID')['Value'].apply(list).to_frame('Elements')

# Sort values , drop duplicates by Value column then use groupby.
df1['Diff'] = df.sort_values(['ID','Value']).drop_duplicates('Value').groupby('ID')['Value'].apply(list)

# Use str.len for count.
df1['Count'] = df1['Diff'].str.len().fillna(0).astype(int)

# To fill NaN with empty list
df1['Diff'] = df1.Diff.apply(lambda x: x if type(x)==list else [])

           Elements             Diff   Count
ID
A   [1, 4, 5, 2, 3]  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]     5
B            [2, 3]               []     0
C               [3]               []     0
D               [7]              [7]     1
E         [2, 3, 9]              [9]     1

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