Sony may not be doing great in the smartphone industry, but it hasn't given up for sure. Irony is that the waterproof phones are something that seems to be drowning the company. The Japanese electronic giant unveiled two smartphones — Xperia C5 Ultra and Xperia M5.
For these Xperia phones, Sony has turned to MediaTek chipsets. First-up, the C5 Ultra is powered by an octa-core MTK6752 SoC (System-on-Chip) clocked at 1.7 GHz. The phone has 2 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, and microSD card slot. For selfie aficionados, there's a 13 megapixel front-facing camera. The rear camera too has a same megapixel count. Both cameras boast of Exmor RS sensor.
The C5 Ultra features a large 6" Full HD display. The IPS panel is encased in a thin bezel. The phone has an aluminium frame and it comes in three colours — black, mint, and white.
The M5 is the waterproof one among the two. It features the capless USB design seen in recent Sony flagship phones. The M5 is backed by the 64-bit octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 chip clocked at 2 GHz. It has 3 GB RAM, 16 GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot.
This phone offers a more acceptable 5-inch screen size. Sony hasn't mentioned the use of IPS technology, so we assume that the screen type is normal TFT LCD. In the photography department, you get 21.5 megapixel rear camera. There's a 13 megapixel front-facing snapper too.
The Xperia C5 Ultra and M5 are expected to release in a couple of weeks. As of now, Sony hasn't shed any light on the pricing.


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Do my socks respond to my caress?
by Sonia Hazard	November 27, 2017
The author in her bedroom, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1995. Photograph by Mike Hazard.
Age nine, I am joyous and defiant, performing a trick for the camera. I had begun to clean my room when I became diverted. The closet is free of clutter only because I emptied its contents onto the floor. In the morass can be made out a painting of the rainforest, a doll's face, bongos, and some worrisome ephemera like frozen pizza packaging and a paper wrapper from the dry cleaners. The cat, bottom left, looks slightly stunned about this unexpected chaos. A couple of decades on, I have to regard this photograph like evidence in a case history, an early sign of a lifelong attachment to objects that is occasionally disruptive of adult life. While I am no longer quite so jubilantly messy, I have always had trouble putting my things in order. Stuff tends to accumulate to me and I find it vaguely painful to throw things away.
The Japanese lifestyle guru Marie Kondo wrote a bestselling book to help people like me. It is called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. By now, many are familiar with the rudiments of her technique, the KonMari Method. It is a kind of spiritual exercise for self-improvement through clearing out piles of varia. You take each of your possessions, one by one, into your hands. You pause for a few seconds to gauge how your body reacts. If the object fails to "spark joy" then it must be discarded.
Kondo puts words to a crucial reason why people cling to their things, one that is hard to talk about. In short, things affect us physically. Seeing and touching them forces feelings on us. These feelings are good or bad, strong or subtle. They manifest in the body, in a quickening heartbeat, a flushed face, or a pit in the gut.
The feeling of joy intensifies with acts of care. Kondo suggests stroking the leaves of a potted plant, or talking to your sweater, thanking it for keeping you warm. Socks should never be balled up because that stresses their fibers, and socks deserve a rest the same as anyone else. Possessions must be used regularly. Using objects stimulates them by "exposing them to fresh air and making them 'conscious.'" In her words, "things that are loved by their owner and treated with care are vibrant and radiate an aura of wanting to be of more service to their owner." The result is that both the object and its human guardian are mutually enhanced, and the bond between them is strengthened, too. The results, she insists, will be visible: "The genuine emotion of joy resides in the body and in the possessions of the owner, and therefore it can't be concealed." Kondo treats feelings not as psychological inner states but as ambient forces that resound between humans and things. You should own no more than a select few objects precisely because you can only put so much effort into cultivating relationships with each one.
Objects that do not spark joy have to go. Sometimes joyless objects inflict guilt or shame because of some attached memory. More often, these objects simply have been neglected. They endured too long without the care they needed to jolt to life and thrive. Kondo turns melancholic when she reflects on a bag of coins, slowly corroding at the back of a cupboard. "Writing this description is hard enough, but to actually see these coins, stripped of their dignity as money, is heartrending." No matter. It is time to send them on their way. Kondo advises speaking aloud to the soon-to-be discarded objects, thanking them for their service, before gently lowering them into the trash bag. She wants to give us a sense of ritual closure. This ending, with its cruelty and finality, is the part that I am no good at. She does not tell us what to do if everything sparks joy, or more complex bundles of feelings.
Kondo's claim that things have power prompts us to ask why. Is it, as Sigmund Freud suggested, that our fixations on certain objects serve as psychic diversionary tactics? If one cannot fulfill a taboo desire, one projects it onto objects—shoes, cigars, fur—such that the enjoyment appears to emanate from the object itself. Or are we instead fetishizing commodities, as Karl Marx would have it? Marx suggested that everyday items may appear to have a charged or even sacred power "abounding in metaphysical subtleties." The worker's labor that goes into making our products becomes veiled under conditions of capitalism, but imperfectly, so that we often detect the ghostly residue of something alive in the things we buy.
Kondo's theory of the power of things may have more in common with a number of philosophical positions going by the names of new materialism, object-oriented ontology, and actor-network theory. These positions, on the rise in recent years, claim to recuperate a much older but submerged materialist tradition in the West going back to Lucretius. Though I cannot say whether Jane Bennett goes about stroking plants, Kondo shares with her and other thinkers a sensitivity to how material things affect us in ways indifferent to human intentions and psychological projections, with effects that are felt in the body, not primarily at a discursive or cognitive level. They insist that things do not only appear to have power, nor do things simply mediate a power that resides elsewhere, for instance by acting as symbols. Things have a power all to themselves, one that is irreducible to the human. Like religious talismans or icons, the objects that survive a KonMari purge radiate an energy that inheres within themselves.
Is KonMari a religion? The Method, as some followers call it, is flexible enough to accommodate multiple religious genealogies. Kondo notes that she spent five years as a Shinto shrine maiden—a training she invokes in her approach to the home as a "sacred space" with energies that must be ritually maintained. Kondo's American promoters also use religion for branding purposes: The book is currently the bestseller in "Zen Spirituality" on Amazon. Something evangelical may be at work in Kondo's assurances that the method will radically and forever transform life for the better. Your career and relationships will improve and you might even lose weight! That Kondo the personality has catapulted to international stardom also suggests an evangelical or guru-like charisma, felt not only by millions of readers but also her devoted following of seminar-goers and Instagrammers. Finally, her central idea that things have power sounds at least faintly "spiritual" to many of us here in modernity, though this is more often the talk of magic crystals not old socks. Do my socks respond to my caress? There is something woo-woo about it all.
KonMari is definitely not quite secular. One of the characteristics of our secular age, Charles Taylor tells us, is the sense that the self is "buffered." Modernity in the West brought about "the closing of the sense of porousness" between humankind and the forces that exceed it: Where once gods, spirits, and demons were felt to inhabit our world (made present in the Eucharist, evoked by great art, articulated in the wonders of nature, making us vulnerable to possession, and so on), those divine forces started to retreat heavenward sometime in the middle of the last millennium. We may continue to believe in gods, or feel nostalgic for a lost enchanted world, while finding ourselves buffered from both divine beings and material things. What interests me here is how the secular closing of porousness between humans and divinity was simultaneously the closing of porousness between humans and material things, or what Taylor calls "charged objects."
Taylor writes that modernity ushered in "a quite different framework understanding of what it is to be a thing, of what is important in thinghood." One key episode in the new framework's development was the demise of philosophical realism and the ascendency of nominalism, as in the thought of the fourteenth-century Franciscan friar William of Occam. Nominalism rejected the existence of essences of things. Our names for things, Occam argued, are deeply flawed labels. On a realist view, "sock" speaks to something about the root reality of socks, whereas a nominalist regarded socks to exist only insofar as we call them socks. Occam developed his views about material things to safeguard God's absolute freedom. If humans could know nature in its essences, that knowledge would limit God's agency over nature: God would have to answer to nature and not the other way around. "The good is whatever God wills; not God must will whatever is (determined by nature as) good." So the world we live in must be merely nominal.
When realism prevailed, people assumed that particulars were the instantiation of universals. Things had meanings within them that we could know. Nominalism maintained that we can only impute meanings onto things. Material things themselves are closed to us and we are no longer vulnerable to their charge. The purposes things serve are not intrinsic to them, but extrinsic. That is why nominalism is often tied, as Taylor describes, to the historical rise of mechanistic science and a "new instrumental stance of human agency," one in which "we treat things, and even each other, in purely instrumental terms." Secular moderns, then, are buffered not only from divinity but also from the reality of the rest of the immanent world, socks included.
Is this all there is? The question is profoundly secular. It is maybe even the question that defines the "immanent frame" itself: It presupposes a contraction of our frame, and a resultant state of deficiency, especially a lack of excess, of a charge, and the lack of a sense of vulnerability that excess brings. All porousness has been shut down. God is far away if not gone altogether. Things surround us but are dead. There is not much left here, only the noise of human shouting (and the slow creep of global destruction).
Yet for Kondo's prospective audience—for those who notice a vitality in the gleaming products lining the endless shelves of Wal-Mart, who struggle to let go of pay stubs and ill-fitting pants—the problem is excess not lack. It is too much porousness. It is not so much a moody awareness of our sterile self-enclosure, but more like a sense of exhaustion, of having burned out on the experience of heaping overabundance and its unceasing demands. That hoarding is on the rise—at least as recorded by the medical establishment, with its own entry as a psychological disorder in the DSM since 2013—suggests that our entanglement with things may be a growing phenomenon, a weird sign of our postsecular world.
The problem is not that there is not enough, but that there is far too much. The question must be asked sarcastically: Not "Is this all there is?" but "Is this all there is?" Meaning: enough already! No doubt this felt too-much-ness of the condition of our immanence in the twenty-first century has everything to do with capitalism and its proliferation of junk commodities, showing no signs of slowing even as climate warnings become ever more ominous. Such is why we turn to Kondo and her gospel of self-awakening minimalism.
Kondo is not a revolutionary. Larger structures remain intact. Tidying up is only a stopgap solution in the face of global calamity, and it remains a private exercise with no public or corporate analog. (Is your bank caring for those synthetic CDOs? Do they spark joy?) But she does at least absolve us from worrying about what happens to our castoff items once they reach the landfill. She tells us that the things are happier to have moved on, and we believe her.
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Sonia Hazard is a visiting assistant professor in the department of religious studies at Franklin & Marshall College. Her work focuses on religious print media in the nineteenth-century United States, and addresses questions of materiality, text and image technologies, and the everyday. Her articles appear in Religion and Society and Church History.
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Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her-and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.
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Half-mermaid Tempest Maguire is trying to have it all: fulfilling her duties as second-in-line to the merQueen Hailana while periodically returning home to the California coastline to be with her family and longtime boyfriend, Mark. Living under the sea and rebuilding Coral Straits is grueling work, while being back home reminds her of everyone she loves and misses. But when her old flame Kona arrives bearing news that Hailana has died and Tempest is now officially merQueen, she returns permanently to Coral Straits—even though it devastates her family and rips her apart from Mark. Once there, she discovers that an old enemy has resurfaced, hell-bent on taking over her throne...with or without her. As Tempest prepares for her final showdown against Tiamat and anyone who stands with her, she must decide what—and who—is really important to her. Because there will be few survivors in the ultimate sea battle that is brewing—and Tempest isn't sure she will be one of them.
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Tempest Maguire is happy with her decision to embrace her mermaid nature and live among her mother's clan within the ocean's depths. Even though training to one day ascend the throne for the aging mermaid queen is rigorous, she finds refuge in the arms of Kona, the selkie who first opened her up to her mermaid side. But when word comes that one of her brothers has been gravely injured on land, Tempest immediately rushes to his side—which also brings her back to her old flame, Mark. And in her absence, a deadly battle begins raging at the hands of Tempest's old nemesis, the sea witch Tiamat. As the dangerous war erupts, Tempest's two loves—Kona and Mark, sea and land—will collide for the first time, both to protect her and to force her to choose.


The Irish parliament, the Dail, has voted to cut the minimum wage in the Republic to 7.65 euros (£6.39).
The Financial Emergency Measures Bill will also reduce Irish government salaries and reduce the pensions of retired public servants.
The opposition parties rejected the government's proposal saying it was an attack on the poor, but the bill still got a majority of votes.
A number of stages still have to go through before the Bill becomes law.
Under the Bill, the Taoiseach's salary will be cut by 14,000 euros (£11,713) a year, while ministers will lose 10,000 euros (£8,366).
In the public service, pensions of more than 60,000 euros (£50,204) will be cut by 12%.


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"La Vie en rose" was the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947. The song's title can be translated as "Life in Rosy Hues" or "Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses"; its literal meaning is "Life in Pink". The lyrics of the song were written by Édith Piaf herself, and the melody was composed by Marguerite Monnot and Louis Guglielmi, known as Louiguy. Originally, the song was registered as being written by Louiguy only, since at the time Piaf did not have necessary qualifications to be able to copyright her work with SACEM. Show La Vie en rose piano sheet
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Édith Piaf, born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer who became widely regarded as France's national popular singer, as well as being one of France's greatest international stars. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being of Chanson and ballads, particularly of love, loss and sorrow. Among her songs are "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "l'Accordéoniste" (1955), and "Padam ... Padam ..." (1951).
In 1935 Piaf was discovered in the Pigalle area of Paris by nightclub owner Louis Leplée, whose club Le Gerny off the Champs-Élysées was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike. He persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness, which, combined with her height of only 142 centimetres (4 ft 8 in), inspired him ... More piano sheets by Edith Piaf
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A vacation to the hills of Shimla or the landscapes of Kerala can sound too mainstream. If you are interested in places which will fascinate you just more than their natural beauty, take a tour to the following, a virtual one for now.
Shani Shignapur in Maharashtra – A village without any doors: Shani Shignapur in the state of Maharashtra is known for its famous Shani Temple. They say that the village has never seen any crime, which is directly attributed to the prayers and blessings of Goddess Shani. The village, apparently, has not a single door frame or locks in the homes. Observing the nil crime rates, the UCO Bank too opened a branch without any lock in Shignapur – the one and first of its kind in the country.
Bibi ka Maqbara – the replica of Taj Mahal in Aurangabad: Did you know that there is not one but also another Taj Mahal in the country? When you pay a visit to Aurangabad, which is just a few hours' drive from Mumbai, go and explore 'Mini-Taj' – Bibi Ka Maqbara which was built by Prince Azam Shah built in the fond memory of his mother.
Gue Village in Spiti – Mummy of Sangha Tenzing: If you think that mummies are found in only Egypt, reconsider your thought. In a small town called Gue, which lies in Himachal's district of Spiti, nestles the amazingly well-preserved 600-year-old mummy which is of Sangha Tenzing, who was a Buddhist monk belonging to Tibet. Found in a position where he is setting, his hair and skin are intact.
Lepakshi in Andhra Pradesh – The Hanging Pillar : Lepakshi, related to the Ramayana is a historical place located near Hindupur town of Andhra Pradesh and 120 km drive from Bangalore. The temple has various paintings on its roof; then there are the hanging pillars, Sita's cradle, the Shivalinga and Nandi idol, all of which are major attractions.
Shetpal in Maharashtra – the land of snakes: Shetpal in the Sholapur district of Maharashtra is known for its worship of snakes. Every house in the village has a place for cobras to rest in their ceiling's rafters. Not a single case of snake bite has been reported till date in this village even though snakes move about freely in the houses.
Magnetic hill in Ladakh – Defying Magnetic Laws : A popular destination among tourists, a short drive from the Gurudwara of Pathar Sahib lie the Magnetic Hills on the Leh Highway. What makes it famous is that it gives the illusion of vehicles moving upward slowly. Do not forget to capture this magic on your camera!" The hills lie at an altitude of 10,000 feet above sea level and are one of the must-see places on the way to Leh.
Most of the places above are well connected by rail and if not, are short road trips from their nearest cities. With great delivery of food in trains, you do not need to worry about the long travel distance either if you really want to visit these fascinating places.
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If Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is to be a radical changemaker, he and those under him must be proactive so that, at the very least, no one else dies while traversing the streets in Mississippi's capital city due to negligence. Photo by Imani Khayyam.
Now that a promising young woman has died because of a massive systems failure in the City, allow us to repeat ourselves: This administration cannot afford to be reactionary to the mounting issues in the City. If Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is to be a radical changemaker, he and those under him must be proactive so that, at the very least, no one else dies while traversing the streets in Mississippi's capital city due to negligence.
Before Frances Fortner, 18, died due to an ignored manhole, Jacksonian Jean Holmes reported the loose manhole cover to a police officer after she had two flat tires earlier that day. An officer deemed the manhole fine, and the City did not care enough to secure the deadly site.
Superior Asphalt, a contractor, is continuing its work after raising the manhole covers at the site of Fortner's fatal accident two weeks ago.
Whether due to low morale in public works or the administration in general, a bad contracting job or overwhelm in the police department, there is no excuse for Fortner's death. We appreciate that Lumumba admitted publicly that no one in the City took the hazard seriously enough to urgently check and repair it. But owning this tragic catastrophe is the least he and his well-paid chief administrative officer could do. What is required is a total systems check and overhaul with transparency, accountability and staff management and motivation instilled at every City position; staffers who don't get on board must be replaced.
This is difficult, but it is what every effective organization must do—especially those taxpayers fund. And it is what both Lumumba and CAO Robert Blaine must require and do. Far too many things happen last minute or too late on their watch—from midnight press alerts of meetings 12 hours later to Friday-night tax increases.
We do not yet see the urgency this tragedy should ignite in the Lumumba administration to immediately institute smart, strict systems that could have kept Fortner alive. At a May 21 press conference, after the mayor said he and Public Works Director Bob Miller are working to come up with better protocols, Lumumba suggested that citizens call both 911 and 311 when they encounter dangerous potholes or uncovered manholes.
There must be a better solution than calling 911 for someone to bring out an orange cone, especially after 40 homicides this year alone—or than calling two places hoping one might respond. The public needs to see a sense of immediacy about who is responsible for taking the call, assigning an immediate response, tracking it, checking it and alerting the public. We want printed policies and checklists showing who is accountable at every stage, which every City department needs to develop for every responsibility we pay its workers to do. Lumumba and Blaine must instill systems today.


If we try to find life and peace through our own reasoning or in the things of this world, it will only lead us to a place or fatigue, emptiness and ultimate death. But Paul reminds us that the result is altogether different when the Holy Spirit governs our thoughts.
Our peace, our Shalom is found in God's Spirit; the same Holy Spirit that has brought about our sonship – a deep identity in Christ that cries from within us "Abba, Father" (Rom 8:15). The opposite of life and peace is death, alienation, division and striving but as a child of God who has the intimate Abba relationship with the Father we find life, rest, peace in Him.
Our life and peace is always found outside ourselves – it is not found in mindful meditation or in introspective self-examination but in having a deep, eternal relationship with God who is our Father. A God who knows us, loves us and has reconciled us to Him. A God whose care for us means that no matter what happens we can find peace – Shalom in Him.
Today, do not be tempted to try to work I tout intellectually, allow your spirit to be filled by Him, rest in Him and you will find peace and wholeness no matter what you face.


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July 20, 2006 City Guides » Halifax Pride
The destruction, rebuilding, vindication and progression of Lindsay Willow
After a six-year battle to clear her name, the Halifax teacher and Pride Parade marshal is still angry. And still fighting.
By Lis van Berkel
Lindsay Willow is not who you think she is. For one thing, she's not a jock; she's a gym teacher, in part because she couldn't imagine being stuck in a classroom all day. She's a lesbian too. And she didn't molest 17-year old Nadia Ibrahim, although that was the misguided allegation of John Orlando in September 2000—"Two seconds that changed my entire life," says Willow. Orlando is the teacher against whom she filed, and subsequently won, a discrimination complaint that also named then Halifax West High School vice principal Gordon Young and her employer, the Halifax Regional School Board.
But you already knew all that—if you watched the progress of her precedent-setting human rights tribunal last winter. In May, Willow's name was cleared in a decision by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission's Walter Thompson and she was awarded $27,375 as compensation for being discriminated against on the basis of perceived sexual orientation. It's less than a third of what the case cost her—in dollars.
Willow also paid for her victory in stress: She has fresh acne scars to prove it, she says. She's lost weight and sleep. She says she feels 15 years older instead of six. She got Missionary Bible Church hate-mail—she gave it to the police. She's now paranoid, she says, illustrating her point with several incidents, like this one: On prom night, she backed out of the washroom after seeing a female teenager throw up and asked a straight female teacher to go in and help the student. She doesn't quite trust people.
On a warm day the week AFTER SCHOOL locked its doors for the summer, she's sitting in a south-end Halifax cafe wearing a pale pink ball cap, a white tank top and shorts. As someone who's been burned by her employer, Willow projects an uncommon level of purity, not spite: She smiles warmly and speaks directly about the toll her case has taken on her.
She grew up in Fairvale, New Brunswick, the only girl in a blended family that also included six boys. When she came out to her guidance counsellor in high school, she was told she needed counselling. "I realize now how damaging that was," she says, cringing. A few years later, when she came out to her mother, a lawyer, Barbara Stanley told her daughter she hoped she didn't become a "poster girl" for gay rights.
Was it a premonition? Willow calls her recent human rights battle her "fate."
She decided to become a teacher after reading a student essay in a newspaper about the impact of a teacher on the student's life because she wanted to have that kind of influence.
Until she sued the Halifax Regional School Board, Willow was like most other gay teachers: She wasn't even out to her students, never mind the rest of the world. She recalls, "I was the sort of person who would insert 'they' for 'her' when talking about my girlfriend."
But she's savvy: She says she wore suits and struggled to remain attentive during the long tribunal days. As she puts it, "I role-played myself." She learned from a reporter's description of Gordon Young gazing absently out the window during much of the testimony.
In fact, she says whenever she lost perspective on how well inquiry testimony was going, she regrouped by reading the news. She quotes from an editorial that called Young "Teflon man" because he has neither apologized nor been penalized by the school board, even though the tribunal found him responsible for "perpetuating the effect" of John Orlando's allegation by not quashing it.
Surprisingly, Willow says her victory didn't happen just when she won her case— "There were people who told me I would never win against Gordon Young. And it's partly true"—but it started when she won the right to an inquiry. That was after a failed attempt at mediation through the Commission, during which board reps refused to apologize. Ultimately, she got an apology from the school board, one ordered up by Thompson.
She says she's probably going to sue the school board—she'll decide in September. It would be a further onerous financial burden: Even after receiving $4,000 in donations on top of the award, legal bills have left her almost $70,000 in the hole. No gay and lesbian advocacy groups would fund her legal defence. Not the national advocacy organization Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) and not the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project because they told her it's not their role.
And she's angry that activists have picked same sex marriage as their cause célèbre when there are still more basic rights to win, like employment free from sex discrimination.
"I do think the biggest stereotype against us is as a sexual predator," suggests Willow. "We think if we don't say it, then people won't think it. But they think it." She says she had to legally confront the rumours that circulated around her for the same reason that she spurns the board's diversity survey, introduced just days after the decision—and derided in the media as extremely ill-timed. In their survey, the board requests that teachers divulge their sexual orientation.
This school board "has no idea—it took them one-and-a-half years to make , hundreds of thousands of dollars to process it," Willow says, incredulous. "And if teachers witness me having to go through this, why would anyone say that's OK? They're scared—I'm still scared."
What she supports is a LGBT—that's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered—caucus as part of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. One exists in BC, where Willow has been garnering some of her support. But she says NSTU rules require that a caucus have 100 members, half of whom are willing to sign their names. Willow says she knows 100 LGBT teachers in Halifax, but only eight are willing to go public.
Respect is something Willow never begrudges teenagers: "There's no fluff. The gay youth today—my god, they're brave. A shining example of what you have to do to be happy." Eight of those teens established Gay Straight Alliance at The West, a project that she says she helped along during the early days of the Commission's investigation. "I decided I had to stop being scared," she recalls. "But I kept the case a secret in the beginning; all I wanted then was an apology." She says most of her support was from that group, which unlike the flightless teachers' group is now 50 strong.
It's an irony of this story and other stories like it—such as those of Nova Scotia's Eric Smith and Alberta's Delwin Vriend, two gay teachers who lost their jobs in the 1990s—that the accusations stem not from the school's students but from overzealous, misguided adults among the administration. Neither Smith nor Vriend went through human rights tribunals—Vriend successfully took the Province of Alberta even further, to the Supreme Court of Canada—and neither one got their teaching jobs back. But their cases resulted in sexual orientation being incorporated into the list of protected rights in their respective provinces. This ultimately resulted in the employment protections that Canadian lesbians and gay men have in 2006.
Some of Willow's most profound support came from Nadia Ibrahim, the girl she was accused of molesting: "She didn't even know me as a person," says Willow, still clearly impressed. Ibrahim's integrity was recognized in Thompson's decision, when he awarded her $2,500 as acknowledgement that she was treated like a "dupe" rather than a mature 17-year-old student just helping the gym teacher put things away. Willow says Ibrahim, who just graduated with her Bachelor of Education from the Université Sainte-Anne, is one of the school board's newest employees: She'll be teaching this fall at Cornwallis Junior High.
There are a few more things you probably don't know about the 33-year-old Grand Marshal of this Saturday's Halifax Pride parade, who testified for 14 hours at the hearing and whose journal—which she kept at the advice of her mother—was part of the evidence. For instance, she wants to have a child soon with her partner, Ruth Wilkins, without whom she says, "I would have cracked"—it's a dream deferred by the legal limbo Willow's been in since she approached the Commission in 2001.
"These were supposed to be my yuppie years," laments Willow. "I sold my house in Mahone Bay and we bought one in Martins River. I sold my new car and bought a $1,000 beater."
She's toying with the idea of writing a guidebook for people out to defeat sex discrimination, filled with common sense tips on stuff like keeping a journal.
The last Friday of June was also the day she said goodbye to The West, the school where she started her career. This 10-year veteran—probably no other young teacher deserves the title like Willow does—decided to put everything that's there behind her. In September, the gym at Sir John A. Macdonald High School in Tantallon will be home.
"I need to stop saying the words 'Halifax West'—I need an opportunity to be in a new space." She says she couldn't leave until now, despite the advice of her union: "I wanted to prove the point that the harassed person should not be the one to leave—that went against everything I was trying to fight."
Lindsay Willow has a medicine wheel tattooed around her right forearm and, on that same shoulder, a crow flying skyward. She got both when she wasn't much older than her students. Nurturing, balance, spontaneity, magic. Almost 15 years later, they still symbolize these things to her.
"People always ask me, 'What are you going to do now?' And I say, 'What are you going to do now?'"
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Fresh from dethroning the defending champions in their final elimination match, the University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons asserted its leadership in the league by drubbing University of Santo Tomas (UST) Growling Tigers, 3-0, in the semifinals of the UAAP Season 78 men's football tournament Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
With their victory, the Fighting Maroons advanced to their sixth finals appearance for the past eight years.
It was also the seventh straight match this season that UP scored a clean sheet, or leaving their opponents scoreless in their match-up, dating back to the elimination round.
Rookie Kyle Magdato prevented two UST defenders to score the first goal from the left side of the turf during the 24th minute.
Magdato also scored the lone goal for the Maroons in their 1-0 victory against Season 77 champions Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws last April 21.
That win by UP slammed the Final Four hopes of FEU, with the latter finishing fifth in the team standings with 24 points. It was only one point behind fourth-seeded UST, who finished with 25 points.
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Charles F. Horne
Reforms of Selim III and Mahmud II
Battle of Navarino
[Authorities: As before, also Paton, "History of the Egyptian Revolution"; Marmont, "State of the Turkish Empire"; Howe, "Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution"; Latimer, "Russia and Turkey in the Nineteenth Century"; Diplomatic Papers of Metternich.]
The disintegration and panic of the Turks before the resistless advance of the armies of Catharine II, marked the lowest ebb to which the Ottoman Empire had yet descended. Even in our own day and despite its recent losses, Turkey is stronger than it then seemed to be.
In 1787 the intervention of England and Prussia appeared useless to preserve the Turkish domain for more than a moment. The death of Catharine when she was planning another and final attack, gave it further respite. Then the Titanic struggles of Napoleon drew all eyes away from the Osmanli and so altered ancient enmities that we find Russia and Turkey for a moment in alliance. France defeats a Turkish army in Egypt, English forces aid the Ottomans in an heroic defense of Acre against the French, and most amazing of all, an English fleet threatens Constantinople and is forced to escape from the Hellespont, suffering some loss from Turkish batteries.
All these kaleidoscopic changes were, however, only temporary. The Napoleonic madness passed; and the disruption of the Ottoman Empire would inevitably have been resumed, had not the Turks themselves undertaken internal reform. Two Sultans, Selim III and Mahmud II, were really awake to the needs of their country, and understood its desperate condition. By their vigorous efforts they saved it from what seemed the very throes of dissolution. The first of these, Selim III (1789—1808), was girded with the sword of Osman during the Russian war. He saw its hopelessness, and after securing peace began the reorganization of his dominions. Schools were instituted that the dense ignorance of the Turks might be overcome, and with it their disastrous contempt for everything Christian or progressive. At the same time, Selim made an effort to introduce the European system of discipline among his soldiers; but at this the Janizaries rebelled and compelled its abandonment.
Repulse of the Russians by Bairactar's troops.
Selim saw that he had no real power over his empire. Not only did the Janizaries force him to do their pleasure, but each Pasha of a distant province acted as an independent ruler and treated with contempt the orders of the Porte. The Barbary States had long yielded the Sultan only a nominal allegiance. But now Egypt under its great Pasha, Mehemet Ali, showed equal independence. So did the Syrian governor, and the rulers of Bosnia and the other Balkan States. Except in some districts in the heart of Asia Minor, the Sultan could find nowhere any subjects who offered him real obedience. He began operations in Servia. The Janizaries there had completely cast off their allegiance and were plundering the inhabitants, Mahometan as well as Christian. Selim summoned the people to defend themselves, encouraging to resistance even the despised rayahs or Christians. These, under their peasant leader "Black George," overthrew the Janizaries, but naturally refused submission to the Mahometan governors who were then sent to rule them.
The fanatic Moslems cried out against their Sultan; he was deserting them, they said, abandoning their faith and ancient laws and upholding even their rayahs against them. The Turkish troops everywhere revolted. Leaders who remained loyal to the Sultan were defeated and slain. In Constantinople the Janizaries once more went through the ceremony of overturning their camp kettles—thereby declaring that they would accept no more food from the reigning Sultan—and marched against the palace. Selim submitted to the inevitable and abdicated. His cousin was proclaimed Sultan as Mustapha IV. Anarchy had again triumphed. The Janizaries were king.
But through it all, one of Selim's lieutenants remained loyal. He was General, or Pasha, Bairactar, who was defending the line of the Danube against Russia. The Russian war with France relieved Bairactar of his opponents, and he promptly marched his troops to Constantinople. Defeating the Janizaries in a pitched battle in the streets, he demanded the surrender of the palace and the restoration of Selim.
Then ensued the last of those too common scenes of turmoil and horror within the walls of the seraglio. Sultan Mustapha bade his servants hold the gates against the invaders, while he hastily ordered the execution of Selim and also of his own younger brother Mahmud, the only other surviving member of the royal house. Were these two dead, Mustapha knew he would himself be safe. No Turk would venture on the total extinction of the race of Osman. Selim defended himself desperately, the cries of his rescuers without, ringing in his ears. But he was finally overcome and strangled, and his body was thrust out to Bairactar as proof of the impossibility of restoring him to power. The infuriated general continued for vengeance the assault which he had begun for loyalty.
Mustapha's other victim, Mahmud, escaped the slaves sent to destroy him. He hid in the furnace of a bath and while the murderers wera still hunting for him, Bairactar's soldiers burst in the gates and proclaimed him Sultan.
Mahmud II (1808—1839) had been the companion of Selim in the royal kawah or cage, where they were held by Mustapha. There the deposed Selim, the ruler who had failed in his reforms, imparted to this untried cousin, this recluse from birth, the story of his own reign, his struggles, and his defeat by the power of the Janizaries. Hence Mahmud II was in a way a reincarnation of Selim, possessed of his views and aims. Mahmud had also the support of his rescuer, Bairactar, and for some months reform progressed rapidly. Then the Janizaries, who had pretended submission to Bairactar, suddenly attacked his troops. He had unwisely dismissed most of them from the city; the remainder proved insufficient for his protection. His fortress home was stormed. Its tower citadel in which he took refuge, was blown up; and Sultan Mahmud was forced in his turn to become the servant of the triumphant Janizaries. He was only saved from deposition and death by the fact that he had slain their former creature, Sultan Mustapha, and was thus the only remaining member of his race.
In this extremity Mahmud showed himself subtle as well as resolute. He affected submission to the old order of things. At the command of his tumultuous masters, he proclaimed the recent innovations and all other Christian customs to be accursed. Each reform was solemnly repudiated.
We must regard Turkey at this period as merely a set of Mahometan provinces, each virtually independent of the others and making little pretense of obedience to any central authority. Servia continued in rebellion and could not be suppressed, though the Turkish Pasha of Bosnia warred against it on his own account, hoping to add Servia to his government. The Pasha of Egypt made war upon the Mamelukes and showed his nominal master at Constantinople an example not afterward forgotten, by coaxing these formidable soldiers into a trap and there massacring them all (1811). The Pasha of Albania had long been accustomed to make treaties with the Europeans quite as an independent monarch, and in 1820 he embarked in open war against Constantinople. Encouraged by his successes, the Greeks also rose and began their war of independence.
The Albanian Pasha, "the old lion of Jannina," was overthrown, as much through treachery as by force; but the Greeks continued to struggle, and again and again repulsed the disorderly hordes of Janizaries who marched against them. That body being thus discredited, Sultan Mahmud at last ventured upon the attack he had been long maturing. Recognizing the value of artillery against such a mob as the Janizaries had become, he carefully strengthened that branch of his army. Under plea of the mechanical and therefore inferior labor required in handling the cannon, he collected his artillerymen from new recruits, many of them not even Turks by birth, but recusants from the Christian faith. By kind treatment and many privileges, he gained the personal devotion of these men. He also ventured to revive a few of Selim's regiments, trained to obedience and discipline on the Western model.
Then, pointing out to the mufti the failures of the Janizaries and the successes of his own better-ordered troops, he secured from these religious judges a declaration that the discipline of the Janizaries must be restored. The insulted and unsuspecting bullies of the empire promptly overturned their camp kettles and advanced against the palace. Met by Sultan Mahmud at the head of his twelve thousand loyal artillery, they were mowed down in the streets. They retreated to their barracks, and there defended themselves with a valor worthy a better cause. No direct assault was made on them, but from a distance the artillery steadily continued its fire until the barrack buildings crumbled into ruin. The defenders rushed out in repeated sallies, but were driven back. Some few cried for mercy; they were shot down. No chance was to be given them to turn suddenly on their conquerors as they had on Bairactar. The cannonade was kept up until nothing was left of the Janizaries of Constantinople but their dead bodies and the burning, bloodstained ruins which had been their homes (1826).
Surrender of Varna to the Russians.
The grim massacre extended throughout the empire. Then Mahmud, really master of his dominions at last and avenged for the wrongs done him in earlier years, began the construction of a new army which might well have rehabilitated the Ottoman power in the eyes of Europe. Time was not given him, however, to carry his reforms to their full fruition. To check the successes of the Greeks he had appealed for aid to his powerful Egyptian vassal Mehemet Ali, and Ali so cruelly and completely suppressed the insurgents that Europe interfered. A combined English, French and Russian fleet entered the harbor of Navarino, where the Turkish navy lay. There had been no declaration of war, but the intrusion was threatening if not openly hostile, and the Turkish admiral fired on the advancing ships. A battle ensued in which, after an heroic defense, the Turkish navy was annihilated (1827).
With it disappeared most of Mahmud's hopes. The Western Powers insisted on the freedom of Greece. The Sultan, infuriated though despairing, refused to consent. Indeed, fearing his own people, he dared not consent. Russia, twice checked in her southward advance by the other Powers, seized the opportunity to secure their approval in the chastisement of the obdurate Turks. The war of 1828 followed, and Mahmud's new troops, few as yet and incompletely organized, failed to hold back their foes. A Russian army passed the Balkans, seized the ancient fortifications of Varna and took possession of Adrianople. The force that had thus penetrated to the heart of the Sultan's domains was in reality small and almost exhausted; but Mahmud, astounded, bewildered, and misled as to the number of his foes, asked for peace. Every behest of the Powers was agreed to. Greece was made independent. The vassalage of Servia and also of ancient Moldavia and Wallachia was reduced to little more than a name. The Russian frontier was advanced to the Danube (1828).
The unhappy Sultan had next to face the revolt'of Egypt. Mehemet Ali, seeing the helplessness of his ancient master, extended his authority over Syria as well as Egypt; and when the Turks sought to expel him from his new possession, he asserted a complete independence, defeated their armies, and marched his forces to the walls of Constantinople. Nothing saved the Sultan but the interference of the Western Powers, which had promised to protect him in the weakness to which they had themselves reduced him (1831).
After several years of preparation, the persistent Sultan again felt himself strong enough to compel the obedience of his overgrown Egyptian vassal. The Turkish army had been completely reconstructed, and a new fleet had been slowly and laboriously rebuilt to replace that lost at Navarino. Fleet and army were both despatched against Egypt with high hopes of victory; but the corruption which had for generations sapped the honesty of Ottoman officials, now played an extraordinary part. Mehemet Ali's bribes must have been high indeed; for whole battalions of the Turkish troops deserted to him on the very eve of battle, leaving the more loyal regiments to be easily overthrown. As for the commander of the fleet, taking leave of his sovereign with repeated oaths of the great deeds he intended to perform, he sailed straight for the Egyptian port of Alexandria, and there handed over all his vessels to Mehemet Ali (1839).
Sultan Mahmud was saved the knowledge of these last unparallelled acts of treachery. Worn out by years of anxiety and endeavor, he died before the news of the double disaster reached Constantinople. His career has been mocked at by his own people who have hated his innovations; his purposes had been foiled by foes whose subtlety dug deeper than his own; and he had brought his throne to what seemed hopeless ruin. Yet he cannot be charged wholly with failure. He accomplished much with little means, and the continued existence of the Ottoman Empire to-day is largely due to the reforms inaugurated by Mahmud II, the projects that he carried through, and the reawakening respect for both himself and his people which he extorted from reluctant Europe.


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The Brearley School
Westfield Friends School
Summer School Physics Teacher
Kindergarten Faculty
The Summit Preparatory School of Southwest Missouri
Location: New York, New York
Salary: $22 - $83 per Class
Private music teachers at Brearley are paid by the lesson and by the number of students taught in a single lesson (typically one, but sometimes two or three). Pay ranges from $22.00 per student for teaching a thirty-minute class of more than two students to $83.00 for teaching a single student in a sixty-minute lesson. This position does not carry benefits.
Internal Number: 1173
The Brearley School, an independent girls' school serving over 770 students K-12, welcomes candidates for a Private Music Teacher of Piano. As part of our extensive music program, we provide individual instruction in a variety of instruments to our students at all grade levels outside the school day. Lessons typically take place between 3:00 and 6:00 pm during the week and may be thirty, forty, or sixty minutes in length. A teacher may have a total of one to ten students depending on enrollment.
Founded in 1884, the school is a center of intellectual exuberance, attracting students from across and beyond New York City. Our mission has long combined outstanding academics with an insistence on a larger purpose: to cultivate in our students a commitment to the greater good. In pursuit of this goal, we actively strive to build, nurture and sustain a diverse faculty and student body. We are committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and antiracist school community, and we expect our faculty, staff, students, parents, and trustees to pursue meaningful change through deliberate and measurable actions.
Providing instruction in the piano to beginning learners in person
Working with the Private Music Coordinator to schedule weekly lessons
The Brearley School is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to hiring exceptional, dedicated teachers of diverse backgrounds. We consider qualified individuals for employment with the School regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or any other state or federally-protected classification.
We invite interested candidates to apply for this position by completing an application and uploading a cover letter and resume at https://www.brearley.org/page/about/employment-opportunities.
The ideal candidate will:
Have a master's degree in music
Have one to three years of teaching experience with young people
Have experience or familiarity with the Kodály method, in which our students are trained
Possess competence in inclusive, anti-bias, and antiracist pedagogy
Have a genuine passion for and command of their subject matter
Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Bring to their work a collegial spirit and a sense of humor
About The Brearley School
The Brearley School, an independent school for girls, was founded in 1884 to provide its students with a college-preparatory education equal in rigor to that of boys, and, in the words of the mission statement today, to prepare them for "active responsible citizenship in a democratic society." Within a highly articulated 13-year curriculum, and with a 6:1 student-faculty ratio, teaching methods are varied, flexible and pragmatic, taking into account individual patterns of development and ways of learning. The School's program is designed to challenge eager, able students intellectually, and to give each one the opportunity to gain competence, self-reliance and self-knowledge through academic achievement as well as experience in the visual and performing arts, sports, community service and a wide variety of extracurricular activities. Brearley's K-12 enrollment is divided into Lower School, Middle School and Upper School, and consists of about 747 students from throughout the New York metropolitan area who represent a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and points of view.
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From Russia's Urals mountains thru western Germany to Scandinavia, high temperatures hovering stubbornly in the mid-30s C has baked northern parts of Europe, which are usually spared the heat of the Mediterranean.
With the maximum in the day touching 34c in Moscow on Saturday, there was the rare sight of women in bikinis sunbathing Thursday in Kolomenskoye park in Moscow.
n several times. With locked windows, dozens of passengers were afflicted with heat exhaustion after spending hours trapped in temperatures of up to 50 C (122 F).
On Friday, Finland, reported a 75-year record of 34.2 C , stocks were quickly running out of fans and air conditioners. The same happened in Germany and Hungary, where the mercury hit 37 C (99 F).
Lamia (Greece): 38c, Rome (Italy): 35c,Budapest (Hungary) :35c,Senkursk (Russia): 35c,Berlin & Liepzig: 35c. While the hottest in Germany was Cottbus at 36c.


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Watch Baroness Perform "Tourniquet" in Isolation
"Be safe. Be good to each other. Act with personal and civic responsibility. We'll see you again soon"
While Baroness had some world tour plans postponed due to coronavirus, the band are reminding listeners of music's power in troubling times with a new video for "Tourniquet."
The visuals for the Gold & Grey cut — now dubbed "Tourniquet (Socially Distant)" — find the four-piece playing through the song from their respective homes.
As the band wrote in a statement, the video "isn't meant to highlight musical perfection or precision. Personally, it serves as a reminder that, no matter what situation we face, we are still able to enjoy friendship, family and community through something as simple as a song."
You can find their complete statement below.
As of press time, Baroness are still slated to begin a North American co-headlining tour alongside Against Me! next month.
Gold & Grey arrived last year and was named one of Exclaim!'s 10 Best Metal and Hardcore Albums of 2019.
Hey everyone! Here's an as-live-as-possible performance of 'Tourniquet' that we made over the course of a couple days during this period of isolation. We have all maintained a rigid policy of social-distancing since becoming aware of this pandemic; which has unfortunately deprived us of our much preferred means of playing music. Throughout this crisis, the overall safety and responsibility of our global human community far outweighs the individual value of any show, festival or tour. We're refocusing and redoubling our energy to adapt to this situation as it unfolds. As difficult as it seems to navigate the effects of this virus, the isolation has not stripped us of our passion for Baroness' music. Playing music so far from our bandmates will never be particularly natural. However, the experience of making this video through emails, texts and phone calls has been a powerful reminder of how inspiring and invigorating music can be in times of stress, struggle and confusion. We hope you enjoy this performance. It isn't meant to highlight musical perfection or precision. Personally, it serves as a reminder that, no matter what situation we face, we are still able to enjoy friendship, family and community through something as simple as a song. Isolated but never alone… Baroness.
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Pisco: India's CS Santosh was placed at a creditable 13th among the bikers at the end of the first stage of the gruelling Dakar Rally while his Hero Motorsports Rally teammate Joaquim Rodrigues met with a spectacular crash to end his race.
Santosh clocked 24 minutes 11 seconds to cover the first stage of 30 km. The first stage covered from Lima to Pisco. Another 13 stages are remaining in the world's toughest off-road rally which will end on 20 January in Cordoba of Argentina via Bolivia.
"First day of a race is usually nervous. Today was just 30 km and tomorrow more than 200km. It is a long way to go and anything can happen at any stage in such a long rally," he said after the first day's race.
"This year, there is a big change in the bike from last year and so much easier to ride. I am enjoying my time."
Riding on a vastly improved and new look Hero RR 450 bike with the Indian tri-colour imprint on it, Santosh set off from the starting line in bib no 49 on Saturday.
His Hero Motorsports Team Rally teammate Joaquim Rodrigues met with a crash midway into the 1st stage. The rider from Portugal, who finished 12th last year, suffered injuries at his hand and back and will not take part in the remaining stages.
"It is unfortunate that Rodrigues' race ended early. He met with a crash and suffered injuries in his hand and back. He is all right now but will not further take part in the race," a team official said.
Rodrigues overshot a sand dune for nearly 10m and his bike landed on top of another dune. He was thrown out of his bike and had to be evacuated from the course. He was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
"X-rays were taken and he was examined by doctors. He was all right and his condition was not that serious. But he is out of the race," the team spokesperson said.
Hero Motorsports Rally's third rider Oriol Mena Valdearcos of Spain was placed at 22nd after first stage.
Another Indian in the bikers' category, Prabhakar Arvind of TVS Racing was at 30th.
Earlier on Saturday, Santosh set off for the fourth time at the gruelling Dakar Rally with an aim of recording his best ever show at world's toughest off-road rally.
"I believe I am having my best preparation ever and I hope to do well. I am mentally and physically prepared," Santosh said, even as he rode his bike towards the starting line in Lima.
"The weather is also almost similar with that in India and so I am confident I can do well. Let us see," he added.
Asked if he is expecting the best ever finish this time, he said, "Every time I take part in a race I want to do my best. The same this time in this race also, I want to have the best ever finish."
Santosh is taking part for the fourth year in the Dakar Rally. But this is his second year with Hero Motorsports Team Rally. He finished 36th in his debut year in 2015 but failed to complete the race in his next two attempts due to problems in his bike.
Head of Hero MotoSports and Hero MotoCorp Chief Technology Officer Markus Braunsperger said the team's main target was to have a top 10 finish.
"If there is no major issues or an accident, we hope all our riders to complete the race and then a top 10 finish is our aim and it can happen. At least we can do better then last year. If that is done we will be happy," he said.
"Our CMD Mr Munjal had sent us good wishes. He is very happy about taking part in world's toughest off-road race and India flag flying. He is in constant touch with us," he added.
The new 'Hero RR 450' rally bike made its debut at the Dakar this year. The new bike is an upgrade of the well-proven rally bike from last year, with new design and styling of tank, body parts and front section to improve mass centralization, handling and riding ergonomics.
The new 'Hero 450 RR' proved its capabilities at the OiLibya Rally in Morocco this year. The key learning from the Teams rookie year and last year's Dakar experience have been implemented in the bike.
There are several improvements in the bike, which have affected an increase in riders confidence.
The biggest and toughest rally-raid in the world, Dakar, in its 40th edition will cross three countries, starting with Peru today and travelling through Bolivia before concluding in Argentina on January 20.
This edition will witness participation of 500 competitors from 60 countries who will cover a grueling stretch of almost 9,000 km.
Out of the overall 14 stages, seven will include 100 percent dunes/off-piste, 1 marathon stage for all categories and 1 marathon stage for bikes and quads only.


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Maria I. Diedrich (* 7. März 1950) ist eine deutsche Amerikanistin.

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Nach der Promotion zum Dr. phil. in Marburg 1976 wurde sie Professorin für Amerikanistik an der Universität Münster.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Kommunismus im afro-amerikanischen Roman. Das Verhältnis afroamerikanischer Schriftsteller zu Kommunistischen Partei der USA zwischen den Weltkriegen. Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-476-00426-0.
 Ausbruch aus der Knechtschaft. Das amerikanische slave narrative zwischen Unabhängigkeitserklärung und Bürgerkrieg. Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04486-8.
 Aufschrei der Frauen – Diskurs der Männer. Der frühviktorianische Industrieroman. Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-515-05849-4.
  mit Jürgen Heinrichs (Hgg.): From black to Schwarz. Cultural crossovers between African America and Germany. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10109-9.

Amerikanist
Hochschullehrer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität)
Deutscher
Geboren 1950
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There are plenty of concerns for leaving everything on at all times. Chief among those are for energy-saving reasons and that the computer components may be harmed by staying on at all times. Let's handle the latter first. It has never been proven that leaving your computer on will harm it, or your mobile device for that matter, and many consider that thought to be technology myth.
As far as saving energy, yes it can help to shut your computer down every night. But there are other methods that can save some money as well. Certainly leaving any electronic device plugged in and on will add up on the electrical bill. That's a valid argument. However, you can also power down the monitor and hard drive overnight so that they are using less energy. It's somewhat of an electronic compromise.
Will regular shutting down hurt the computer?
Confusing the matter, there are also concerns with doing a daily shutdown on your computer and devices. Some believe that the computer components can be harmed with this practice as well, feeling as the the constant on and off will put additional strain on the components. While it does affect the components, it's never been proven that it's a particularly harmful effect.
And of course, the number one reason we want to leave our computers on is because it's a pain to open up and sign back in to numerous apps and websites. Of course there are plenty of apps and browsers that will save that information and automate the opening process, but it can still be a pain. It's so much easier just to leave it on. With phones, we often leave them on because we don't want to miss that important call.
Since it's a hot debate, we put this question to our staff here at Make Tech Easier, asking them what they do with their machines. Surely we can look to them for some expertise. Not only do we write about them, we're on them all day long.
I've gotten into the habit of never shutting anything down. I'm one of those who hates to open everything up again. I used to shut down every night, but no longer. One of the reasons I got out of the habit is because of my use of mobile devices. Most work I do is on my iPad, and there just seems to be no reason to turn that off. When I do shut my Mac Mini, iPad, or iPhone down it's because I'm turning it right back on again. If something's not working right, my first option is always a restart. It clears out memory and makes things work quicker and better, even if it's just a little bit. I do utilize the sleep modes on my Mac and my devices.
Ruji is a lot like me in this regard. She never shuts down her devices, as she doesn't see the need. She, too, performs shutdowns when a computer is acting up, yet logs right back in again. "I loathe the process of waiting for my computer to boot, so I avoid shut-downs." She only shuts her phone down when she's changing the battery.
Emmanuel is one of those who shuts his computer down every day, sometimes twice a day, as he does it before bed, as well as before leaving. He doesn't want to waste the energy of leaving it on all the time. If he has to perform a large upload or when he's updating OS X on his Mac, it falls under the very few times he will keep it running all night. He likes to use the Mac's Power Nap feature in that instance.
Trevor is another one to make sure everything gets a daily shutdown. He shuts down his Android phone and tablet daily and his Windows laptop gets power-cycled usually every day. He finds the devices gain some speed after a reset, especially his phone. Some apps he uses seem a little glitchy if he doesn't power down every day or two.
For Soumen, the option to leave his computer on or shut it off depends on how the PC is being used. He has a Lenovo laptop with a really bad battery life, so he just leaves it connected to an external monitor and uses it for secondary tasks. He never shuts it down and just does restarts every few weeks or so. On the contrary, his Dell laptop, the PC he uses for all his professional work, enjoys a regular shutdown schedule. It stays in standby when he's working, and he shuts it down every night.
Like Soumen, whether or not to do a daily shutdown depends much on your usage and what you feel comfortable with. Just know that it's neither safe nor unsafe for your computer or devices.
If you have some sort of "continuous backup" set up, you could probably shut down your machine nightly. But for doing a scheduled daily backup that won't interfere with your work, you probably have no choice but to keep it running 24×7.
Aside from your energy bill – which I don't have to worry about since it's bundled with my rent – the only real reason to worry about keeping the machine on is the wear and tear on the power supply. Just expect to have to replace the power supply sooner. It's probably best to schedule a power supply replacement rather than waiting for it to fail.
Before I retired from Lafarge Plasterboard every computer was always left on for twenty four hours. The enviroment was extremely hostile, dust and extreme heat everywhere. if one was opened up in my section (for a service: They were hired) it would be mired in dust. the only thing I witnessed was some screen burn on older monitors otherwise, no problem. Myself, I always shut down.
I tend to put my computers into sleep or hibernation, occasionally shutting them once every week or so. The majority of windows users have to shut there computers down at least once a week for the stupid updates. Thankfully I only use Windows once or twice a month!
I put all of my computers in sleep at least to save power. That said, I only fully shut them down when I know I'm not going to use them for more than a day.. I very rarely shutdown mobile devices (unless I run the battery totally flat) because they're so annoying to startup..
They're too much like a WinXP machine with lots and lots of bloatware set to autostart..
Shutdown, really? The most damaging thing that can happen to an electronic component is the current surge during turn-on. I leave everything on, only turning off when absolutely needed. Rarely ever have anything fail. Stuff here gets replaced because it gets too out-dated, not because it died.
Do You Shut Down Your PC at Night?


The third grade enjoyed a great day at Canterbury Shaker Village. Instead of reading from a textbook how the Shakers lived they were able to experience it. They entered the meeting house with boys and girls using separate doors, then learned to sing and dance to a Shaker song. The third grade learned to write their names in cursive while keeping a mint on their hands. The best part was getting to eat the mint when they finished. They left Canterbury Shaker Village with some beans in a seed packet that was invented by the Shakers. Wow!