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Palm Beach Opera Presents Lunch & Learn Featuring "Eugene Onegin"
Palm Beach Opera presented the final Lunch & Learn of its 19-20 season series for an inside look into "Eugene Onegin," the company's final mainstage opera. On March 12, Palm Beach Opera hosted Lunch & Learn at West Palm Beach's National Croquet Center, featuring a warm welcome by General Director David Walker followed by thoughtful…
Palm Beach Opera Celebrates "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at Opening Night Dinner
Palm Beach Opera and supporters toasted to opening night of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion, catered by The Breakers Palm Beach. Guests were welcomed by Palm Beach Opera's Chairman of the Board Dennis Williams and enjoyed a special introduction by General Director David Walker, who shared unique insights into the…
20-21 Season Chorus Auditions
The Palm Beach Opera Chorus is currently accepting applicants for its 20-12 season. The Palm Beach Opera Chorus will be featured prominently in the company's 20-21 season repertoire, which includes Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème," Georges Bizet's "Les pêcheurs de perles," Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte." All singers…
Palm Beach Opera Presents "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at Kravis Center
Palm Beach Opera will present Gioachino Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at Kravis Center for the Performing Arts for one weekend only, on Feb. 28-March 1, as well as the annual Children's Performance on Feb. 29. For the second mainstage opera of the season, Palm Beach Opera will present "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," a nostalgic…
Palm Beach Opera's 2020 Gala Presents Christian Van Horn at The Breakers, Surpasses Fundraising Goal
Palm Beach Opera presented renowned bass-baritone Christian Van Horn at its 2020 gala, the company's largest fundraising event, at The Breakers Palm Beach on Feb. 10. Praised by The New York Times for his "sturdy voice and commanding presence," Christian Van Horn has performed at many of the great opera houses around the world, including…
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This is my collection of notes on the Atari 600xl/800xl line as related to the 6502/6502C (SALLY) CPU and the 65816. At the moement please be careful with this information as it hasn't been verified.
The Atari SALLY (6502C) is a custom 6502 built for Atari to be used in the later versions of the A8 (Atari 8 Bit) computers. It can be found in some older Atari 800's (I think I have one) and in the 600xl/800xl through the later XE line. It differs in that the R/W line is moved to pin 35 instead of pin 34. Additionally there is a HALT line. This allows something like the ANTIC to halt the processor while the ANTIC access memory (DMA).
Since the older 400/800 line also uses the same ANTIC processor but with a normal 6502 (6502B? 65B02?) their schematics contain the HALT circuit built in TTL chips.
address's are being accessed during an IRQ.
38.  M is available during phase zero and X during Phase one.
m and x flags, allowing other devices to decode opcode fetches.
them ourselves. That's where two 74F04 inverters come in view.
using SYNC is the KIM-1 and the Elector Junior.
SO-input is one of the Commodore drives: the 1541.
74ABT32 - OR-gate, 14 pin DIP, for address qualification with VDA and VPA.
The ABT family is chosen for its speed.
While the Atari 400/800 models contain a generic 6502B CPU (a faster version of the original 6502A microprocessor), all of the XL/XE models contain Atari's customized 6502C chip, known as SALLY.
The SALLY has two pins that differ from the normal 6502. One is that R/W is on a different pin (moved from pin 34 to pin 35). The second pin is the HALT pin (on 36). HALT is used by the ANTIC and GTIA to pause the processor to allow them to access memory (is that correct?).
On the Atari computers, there are two microprocessors, ANTIC and the 6502. To allow them to coexist, ANTIC must shut off the 6502, a process called DMA. The 6502B supports DMA, but in Atari's implementation, it required 4 chips. The 6502C has an extra line called HALT. The /HALT is controlled by ANTIC which uses it whenever it needs the data/address bus. The HALT line is on pin 35 of the Atari 6502C and must be pulled high for the chip to work.
Notes from ... What Do I Do With the "Mystery" Pins, SYNC, RDY, S.O., Φ1, MLB, BE, and VPB?
Jeff Laughton has a wait-state circuit on the 6502.org forum using RDY for slow ROM.
Sometimes it gets called RDY (ready-not), but this is incorrect! RDY would imply that you ground it when you're ready to have the processor move on. It's not that way though.; You ground it when you're not ready yet and need for it to wait. As long as the memory being accessed is always ready at the bus's clock speed, you keep RDY pulled up to mean "I'm ready and I don't need any more time to get the data out." High means, "Yes! Ready! Go!" Low means, "No, I'm not ready! Don't go yet!"


Yet if you know where to look (and if you're fortunate enough to boast a spot on the guest list), it's an oasis of the city's hottest nightclubs—a hedonistic haven for the young, fabulous, and rich.
But there's no exiting through the gift shop if you buy a ticket to this show. Once you push past the velvet ropes and pulsing crowds, you might never escape.


In the past, Comic Art Community has discussed the connection between comic books and wrestling and how the former has influenced the latter such as in Chikara (and what it could do for WWE, who has recently adopted a comic-like storyline with Arrow's Stephen Amell, Stardust, and Neville) as well as how wrestling could be adapted for the DC multiverse. In the last year, a new, significant player has been added to the mix.
DC Comics' offers a unique opportunity with its liberal use of the multiverse for offering an entire world where its characters could be adapted to wrestling.
As industry insiders and fans alike try to pin down ways in which the bad fortunes of the WWE can be reversed before the future of the company is placed in jeopardy, its salvation may lie in comic books.


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Split with Ernest Angley tough for his assistant
Bob Dyer Beacon Journal/Ohio.com @BobDyerABJ
Second of two parts.
On many Sundays, attendance at Overshadowed Ministries in Coventry Township is barely more than a handful.
The Rev. Bill Davis attributes that to his 19 years as assistant minister for Ernest Angley at Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls.
"I don't get much of anybody in because I was associated with him and people think I'm a quack," he said during an interview at the church earlier this month.
"... My reputation is ruined. At first, it was, 'Why did you leave there?' Now it's, 'Why did you go there?' "
The public perception of Angley changed after a six-part Beacon Journal series in October 2014.
In individual interviews, 21 former members of the church told the Beacon that Angley is running a dangerous cult where pregnant women are encouraged to have abortions, childless men are encouraged to have vasectomies and Angley personally examines the genitals of the male parishioners before and after their surgeries.
They also said he turns a blind eye to sexual abuse by other members of his church, and consistently threatens and intimidates his flock into following his instructions, bullying them into life-changing decisions that often split up families.
Angley said the former members were lying.
Some ex-followers also questioned his use of the donations that were flooding in, such as Angley paying an estimated $26 million for a Boeing 747-SP, an aircraft so large that it literally won't fit inside any hangar at its home field, Akron-Canton Airport. Angley uses it only once or twice a year for overseas mission trips.
Some big donors who had left the church expressed buyer's remorse, including an Akron man who gave $80,000 over a five-year period. "I was guilted into giving," he said. "It was brainwashing. I was manipulated."
The series was born when one disgruntled church member gave the Beacon Journal an audio recording of a Sunday service in July 2014 during which Angley, responding to rumors of homosexual activity, admitted that he routinely examined male genitals but strongly denied being gay.
He said much the same thing to the Beacon Journal in an interview for the series.
2014 interview with Angley:
"I've helped so many of the boys down through the years," he said during a 90-minute conversation in his office. "They had their misgivings. Sure, I'd have them uncover themselves, but I did not handle them at all.
"And I would tell them how [a vasectomy] would work. And they'd have to watch it. I'd have some of them come back to me that I felt needed to. And I would tell them, I would look at them, their privates — I, so I could tell how they were swelling."
Until now, the Rev. Davis, 86, had not spoken publicly about Angley for a quarter of a century.
Davis grudgingly agreed to talk when he was told the Beacon had a copy of a 1996 audio tape he made of a telephone conversation between him and Angley in which Angley admitted to a sexual encounter with an employee of the church.
As one of Angley's closest associates for nearly two decades, Davis is in a unique position to offer insight into the famous televangelist.
Sitting in the office of his small but attractive church at the corner of South Arlington and Warner roads, he explained why he joined Angley, why he stayed for so long and why he left.
It begins with Davis' long, rocky journey to spirituality.
Tough childhood
Growing up on a farm near tiny McConnelsville, southeast of Columbus, Davis cowered under an alcoholic father who was so abusive, both verbally and physically, that he ran away from home at the age of 14.
Davis became an even tougher version of his father — a big, reckless, hard-drinking, brawling, know-it-all who beat up more people than he can count.
His first stop was Zanesville. "That was a rough town then, like old Chicago," he said. "A bunch of hoodlums, really."
Another stop was Louisville, Ky. "I'm in a fast crowd down there. We're passing the bottle. [One man in the group] had lost his girl, was an illiterate, had lost his job, got into it with a bartender and got him down on the floor and stomped his hands and broke his bones and just messed him up real good.
"So he's sitting there, bitter, drinking away. … He said, 'I ought to take this pistol and blow my brains out.' I said, 'Frank! You know where you'd go if you do that, don't you?' He said, 'You believe in all that stuff?' I said, 'I sure do.'
"Well, the next thing you know he took that pistol and put it right to his head and shot himself."
Davis was running in those kinds of circles because the abuse he suffered as a boy pushed him into an almost perpetual state of rage.
He shakes his head. "I hurt a lot of people."
Including his father.
"My father was a powerful man. Handsome. Big man. I was proud of him when he wasn't drinking. When he got drinking he got so vicious. … I said to myself, 'When I become a man, I'm going to whip that so-and-so.'"
When the opportunity finally arose, Davis didn't hold back.
"He came to the house where I was at. He didn't know I was sitting there drinking, and I was just seething."
His father didn't initially notice him. The younger Davis pounced on him and beat him up.
"It was awful," he said. "It was horrible what I did to him."
Bottomed out
Davis knew his life was a mess and that he needed to do something. He finally figured out what he needed in 1965, when he read the best-selling book "The Cross and the Switchblade" by pastor David Wilkerson.
"I was in terrible, terrible mental condition, an alcoholic, in and out of jail. I read the book and for the first time I believed there was hope for people like me."
He could identify so strongly with the characters in the book that he traveled to New York City, where its author was running a mission.
"[When] I went into that mission I was still full of arrogance and anger.
"David Wilkerson's brother came up to me and started talking to me. I said, 'I didn't come here to see you.' I was very rude, confrontational. But underneath I wanted help."
Davis was in his early 30s, but his odometer felt closer to 50.
"My first wife and I were escorted into a chapel. I'm standing there, just seething with frustration and anger. Seemed like it got magnified as I stood there.
"In walks David Wilkerson. He's a small man. When I was younger, I was a good-size man. He walked up to me real quick and he knew exactly how to deal with me.
" 'It's a wonder to me someone didn't stab you in the back a long time ago.' I thought, 'A little twerp talking to me like that?' I wasn't used to that.
"He said, 'If you want saved, get on your knees RIGHT NOW.' It just stunned me. I did. He took me over.
"He prayed for me and instantly I was delivered from the desire for alcohol and cigarettes. I'd been in mental hospitals and through all kinds of treatment, but I just couldn't or wouldn't deal with this problem called alcoholism."
Three days later, Davis realized he hadn't smoked a cigarette since the meeting. Hadn't even thought about it.
"I wasn't even conscious of how much I had submitted to be willing to be helped. … It was miraculous."
Search for church
When Davis came back to Ohio, he attended some "nominal" churches but couldn't connect.
"I'm not against any church if they're helping people. But I didn't fit in. No one was prayed for, no one was helped like me. I just felt ill at ease."
He was looking for what he had found in New York: a pastor who could take hold of people and transform them.
When he heard about Ernest Angley and Grace Cathedral, he headed to Akron. The year was 1967.
"I came up and he was praying for the sick and so forth, and people were getting help. Really, they were. I thought, 'This is where I want to go.' "
Davis became highly active in the church and got to know Angley well. Inspired by Angley's mission, he became a minister and headed south to take over a deteriorating church in South Carolina.
Davis and Angley stayed in touch, and when Angley's wife died in 1970, Angley invited Davis to preach at her funeral.
Seven years later, Davis was losing interest in his South Carolina church and wanted a new challenge. So he phoned Angley and asked if he needed an assistant minister.
The two men grew so close, Davis said, that he could almost finish Angley's sentences.
Although they have only spoken twice since Davis left 23 years ago, his overall respect for Angley remains intact.
"God invested a lot in the man. He's intelligent. He's gifted. He's industrious. He's not out here playing golf. He doesn't take vacations. He's on 24/7. I never saw a work ethic like it."
Davis himself built quite a following. He and Angley had radically different approaches, but the styles complemented each other.
"He was more heavenly minded. And I was kind of where the rubber hits the road, and people could relate to me. It was an unusual blending of opposites, and that's why we got along so well with the people."
Over the years, though, Angley "gradually changed to where he would lie. It shocked me. I felt sorry for him."
End of road
The relationship bottomed out in 1996 after Davis was told by a Grace Cathedral employee that Angley initiated sexual encounters with him five times. When confronted by Davis, Angley admitted he had been in bed naked with the man.
Everything changed after that. Suddenly, Davis said, Angley viewed him as a "mortal enemy."
"He just went beside himself in trying to destroy me to protect himself so he wouldn't lose his people. I had a lot of influence there. See, I was there for about 19 years and people really seemed to take up with me. In fact, the crowds really increased when I took over on Sundays. …
"He's an anxiety preacher. He's just fueled with fear. I didn't know that at the time when I confronted him. … I confronted him in a very sharp way. I didn't know that it stunned him so much that he would be so afraid."
Davis told Angley he wouldn't reveal the secret, and told him why.
"I said, 'If you think I'm going to tell all this and have Mrs. Hodge' — a dear member of the church that worked in his home — I said, 'If you think I want her to hear about this and fall out of the pew, you've got another thing coming.' "
Over time, Davis' faith enabled him to forgive both Angley and his abusive father.
As tough as it was with Angley, forgiving his father was "harder times 10."
Davis realized, while studying to be a minister, that he had to try to make things right with the person he had once loathed.
"I called him. Remember, he's a bad hombre, and he still had that fight in him. I said, 'Dad' — I don't remember ever calling him Dad — 'I just wanted to tell you I love you.' That was hard to say.
"There was a pause. He went, "I love you, too, Bill.'
"It was beautiful. We were never the same. I adored him and he adored me. All that was behind us. He never brought it up, I never brought it up."
Bill Davis didn't want to bring any of this up. But given the circumstances, he said, he owed it to himself and everyone involved to tell the story truthfully and fully.
Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com. He also is on Facebook at www.facebook.com/bob.dyer.31.

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Fluorine – Protons – Neutrons – Electrons – Electron Configuration
Fluorine is the lightest halogen and exists as a highly toxic pale yellow diatomic gas at standard conditions. As the most electronegative element, it is extremely reactive: almost all other elements, including some noble gases, form compounds with fluorine.
Owing to the expense of refining pure fluorine, most commercial applications use fluorine compounds, with about half of mined fluorite used in steelmaking.
Fluorine is obtained by the electrolysis of a solution of potassium hydrogendifluoride in anhydrous hydrofluoric acid.
Protons and Neutrons in Fluorine
Fluorine is a chemical element with atomic number 9 which means there are 9 protons in its nucleus. Total number of protons in the nucleus is called the atomic number of the atom and is given the symbol Z. The total electrical charge of the nucleus is therefore +Ze, where e (elementary charge) equals to 1,602 x 10-19 coulombs.
The total number of neutrons in the nucleus of an atom is called the neutron number of the atom and is given the symbol N. Neutron number plus atomic number equals atomic mass number: N+Z=A. The difference between the neutron number and the atomic number is known as the neutron excess: D = N – Z = A – 2Z.
For stable elements, there is usually a variety of stable isotopes. Isotopes are nuclides that have the same atomic number and are therefore the same element, but differ in the number of neutrons. Mass numbers of typical isotopes of Fluorine are 19.
Main Isotopes of Fluorine
Only one isotope of fluorine occurs naturally in abundance, the stable isotope 19F. The isotopes 17F and 18F undergo β+ decay and electron capture, lighter isotopes decay by proton emission, and those heavier than 19F undergo β− decay (the heaviest ones with delayed neutron emission).
Fluorine-19 is composed of 9 protons, 10 neutrons, and 9 electrons. Its abundance is 100%; no other isotopes of fluorine exist in significant quantities.
Fluorine-18 is composed of 9 protons, 9 neutrons, and 9 electrons. Of the unstable nuclides of fluorine, 18F has the longest half-life, 109.739 minutes. It has two decay modes, of which the main one is positron emission. For this reason 18F is a commercially important source of positrons.
Fluorine-20 is composed of 9 protons, 11 neutrons, and 9 electrons. Fluorine-20 is one of the more unstable isotopes of fluorine. It has a half-life of 11.07 seconds and undergoes beta decay.
Isotope Abundance Neutron Number
19F 100% 10
Typical Unstable Isotopes
Isotope Half-life Decay Mode Product
18F 109.8 min positron decay 18O
20F 11.163(8) s beta decay 20Ne
Electrons and Electron Configuration
The number of electrons in an electrically-neutral atom is the same as the number of protons in the nucleus. Therefore, the number of electrons in neutral atom of Fluorine is 9. Each electron is influenced by the electric fields produced by the positive nuclear charge and the other (Z – 1) negative electrons in the atom.
Since the number of electrons and their arrangement are responsible for the chemical behavior of atoms, the atomic number identifies the various chemical elements. The configuration of these electrons follows from the principles of quantum mechanics. The number of electrons in each element's electron shells, particularly the outermost valence shell, is the primary factor in determining its chemical bonding behavior. In the periodic table, the elements are listed in order of increasing atomic number Z.
Electron configuration of Fluorine is [He] 2s2 2p5.
Possible oxidation states are -1.
Fluorine forms a great variety of chemical compounds, within which it always adopts an oxidation state of −1. With other atoms, fluorine forms either polar covalent bonds or ionic bonds. Most frequently, covalent bonds involving fluorine atoms are single bonds, although at least two examples of a higher order bond exist. Fluorine's chemistry includes inorganic compounds formed with hydrogen, metals, nonmetals, and even noble gases; as well as a diverse set of organic compounds.
Typical Chemical Compound of Fluorine
Uranium conversion is one of processes of nuclear fuel cycles, in which uranium is chemically purified and converted into the chemical form of uranium hexafluoride (UF6), the input stock for most commercial uranium enrichment facilities. Uranium hexafluoride, known also as "hex", is a chemical compound used in the process of enriching uranium, which produces fuel for nuclear reactors. At atmospheric pressure, uranium hexafluoride sublimes at 56.5 °C. At this stage of the cycle the uranium hexafluoride conversion product still has the natural isotopic mix, i.e. it contains only 0.71% of fissile isotope 235U.
About Protons
A proton is one of the subatomic particles that make up matter. In the universe, protons are abundant, making up about half of all visible matter. It has a positive electric charge (+1e) and a rest mass equal to 1.67262 × 10−27 kg (938.272 MeV/c2)— marginally lighter than that of the neutron but nearly 1836 times greater than that of the electron. The proton has a mean square radius of about 0.87 × 10−15 m, or 0.87 fm, and it is a spin – ½ fermion.
The protons exist in the nuclei of typical atoms, along with their neutral counterparts, the neutrons. Neutrons and protons, commonly called nucleons, are bound together in the atomic nucleus, where they account for 99.9 percent of the atom's mass. Research in high-energy particle physics in the 20th century revealed that neither the neutron nor the proton is not the smallest building block of matter.
About Neutrons
A neutron is one of the subatomic particles that make up matter. In the universe, neutrons are abundant, making up more than half of all visible matter. It has no electric charge and a rest mass equal to 1.67493 × 10−27 kg—marginally greater than that of the proton but nearly 1839 times greater than that of the electron. The neutron has a mean square radius of about 0.8×10−15 m, or 0.8 fm, and it is a spin-½ fermion.
Atomic nuclei consist of protons and neutrons, which attract each other through the nuclear force, while protons repel each other via the electric force due to their positive charge. These two forces compete, leading to various stability of nuclei. There are only certain combinations of neutrons and protons, which forms stable nuclei.
Neutrons stabilize the nucleus, because they attract each other and protons , which helps offset the electrical repulsion between protons. As a result, as the number of protons increases, an increasing ratio of neutrons to protons is needed to form a stable nucleus. If there are too many or too few neutrons for a given number of protons, the resulting nucleus is not stable and it undergoes radioactive decay. Unstable isotopes decay through various radioactive decay pathways, most commonly alpha decay, beta decay, or electron capture. Many other rare types of decay, such as spontaneous fission or neutron emission are known. It should be noted that all of these decay pathways may be accompanied by the subsequent emission of gamma radiation. Pure alpha or beta decays are very rare.
About Electrons and Electron Configuration
The periodic table is a tabular display of the chemical elements organized on the basis of their atomic numbers, electron configurations, and chemical properties. The electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure) in atomic or molecular orbitals. Knowledge of the electron configuration of different atoms is useful in understanding the structure of the periodic table of elements.
Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of neutral or ionized atoms. The chemical properties of the atom are determined by the number of protons, in fact, by number and arrangement of electrons. The configuration of these electrons follows from the principles of quantum mechanics. The number of electrons in each element's electron shells, particularly the outermost valence shell, is the primary factor in determining its chemical bonding behavior. In the periodic table, the elements are listed in order of increasing atomic number Z.
It is the Pauli exclusion principle that requires the electrons in an atom to occupy different energy levels instead of them all condensing in the ground state. The ordering of the electrons in the ground state of multielectron atoms, starts with the lowest energy state (ground state) and moves progressively from there up the energy scale until each of the atom's electrons has been assigned a unique set of quantum numbers. This fact has key implications for the building up of the periodic table of elements.
The first two columns on the left side of the periodic table are where the s subshells are being occupied. Because of this, the first two rows of the periodic table are labeled the s block. Similarly, the p block are the right-most six columns of the periodic table, the d block is the middle 10 columns of the periodic table, while the f block is the 14-column section that is normally depicted as detached from the main body of the periodic table. It could be part of the main body, but then the periodic table would be rather long and cumbersome.
For atoms with many electrons, this notation can become lengthy and so an abbreviated notation is used. The electron configuration can be visualized as the core electrons, equivalent to the noble gas of the preceding period, and the valence electrons (e.g. [Xe] 6s2 for barium).
Oxidation States
Oxidation states are typically represented by integers which may be positive, zero, or negative. Most elements have more than one possible oxidation state. For example, carbon has nine possible integer oxidation states from −4 to +4.
The current IUPAC Gold Book definition of oxidation state is:
"Oxidation state of an atom is the charge of this atom after ionic approximation of its heteronuclear bonds…"
and the term oxidation number is nearly synonymous. An element that is not combined with any other different elements has an oxidation state of 0. Oxidation state 0 occurs for all elements – it is simply the element in its elemental form. An atom of an element in a compound will have a positive oxidation state if it has had electrons removed. Similarly, adding electrons results in a negative oxidation state. We have also distinguish between the possible and common oxidation states of every element. For example, silicon has nine possible integer oxidation states from −4 to +4, but only -4, 0 and +4 are common oxidation states.
Element Fluorine
Number of protons 9
Number of neutrons (typical isotopes) 19
Number of electrons 9
Electron configuration [He] 2s2 2p5
Oxidation states -1
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Properties of other elements
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Other properties of Fluorine
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Michael Ashley Stein, Social Rights and the Relational Value of the Rights to Participate in Sport, Recreation, and Play, 27 B.U. Int'l L.J. 249 (2009).
Abstract: This article considers the contributions of the CRPD to the development of social rights. More specifically, it tracks the normative content of the social rights to participate in sport, recreation and play and considers the relationship of these rights to the substantive equality vision reflected in the Convention. The article begins by charting the paradigmatic shift from a medical model of disability to a social model and ultimately to a rights-oriented understanding of disability that makes possible an equality approach to dismantling persistent disability discrimination and social marginalization, isolation, and exclusion. Next, it analyzes the conceptual framework for social rights in the CRPD and the connection between State obligations to eliminate disability discrimination and social rights' guarantees for equal participation in sport, recreation, leisure and play. It further considers the content of CRPD's Article 30(5). Finally, it explores the implications of these rights for the expressive and socializing effects of the Convention.
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Counting her chickens
Topics: farming livelihoods "sustainable development"
Raising chickens and selling the eggs has made a life-changing difference for Saliwe. Credit: Tracey Robinson/Act for Peace
How a meaningful gift for a loved one in Australia empowered Saliwe in Zimbabwe.
Putting food on the table for her four children was hard enough before Saliwe's husband died. They live in a rural part of Zimbabwe, where the worst drought in 35 years is crippling people's crops and livelihoods.
After Saliwe lost her husband, surviving became even harder. With barely any income and no support, she struggled to feed her children and keep them in school.
Her two older boys moved away to find work and she was left to care for her teenage daughter and youngest son on her own. It was tough. Saliwe was desperate.
She prayed constantly, asking God to protect her and her children. Thankfully, through a Gift for Peace, her prayers were answered.
Act for Peace's local partner in Zimbabwe, Christian Care, saw the dire situation that Saliwe was in, and invited her to join the chicken farming program, funded through Gifts for Peace. A Gift for Peace bought by someone for a loved one in Australia, enabled Saliwe to be given chicks, feed and building materials. She learnt how to build a chicken coupe, raise healthy chickens and run her own business.
Saliwe began making an income from selling her eggs and extra chickens. Soon, she had enough to buy more chicks, as well as turkeys, which fetch a higher price. Using her business training, she found more business supplying the boarding school down the road.
Today, Saliwe is a thriving poultry farmer, and her biggest customer is the same school her daughter goes to. Because of her Gift, Saliwe can now afford to feed her children and give them the education they need to build a better life.
Saliwe stands in a nutritional garden, which is providing her Masvingo community with a valuable source of income. This is just one of twenty gardens across the region that this program has helped. Credit: Tracey Robinson/Act for Peace
Saliwe believes this gift saved her life:
I can't thank you enough for funding this program. Without this knowledge, I would have been dead by now and I do not know what would have happened to my children.
It has made a life-changing difference for Saliwe. But it doesn't stop there. This is a gift that gift keeps on giving. Now Saliwe is also helping to improve the lives of other children and families – by providing them with an affordable source of protein during a time of desperate shortages.
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Outlander: Je Suis Prest
Previously on Outlander: Claire and Jamie gathered the beginnings of a little army and set off to join Prince Charles's rebellion.
Claire VOs that they and their 100 men headed for Murtagh and the others, losing some along the way because, as it turns out, people kind of hate being forced to leave their families and farms to go fight a war they really don't care about. Simon was sent to try and persuade them to return with gifts of land when the war was over.
They reach their destination and are greeted by Murtagh, who doesn't think much of the men Lovat sent (unsurprisingly, the old men kept the best for himself). Fergus appears and gets a happy hug from Claire and complains about how awful it's been having to serve Murtagh. He had to mend socks and everything!
The next morning, Claire and Jamie find Angus and Rupert, who haven't changed a bit. She asks after Willie and everyone looks all sad, like Willie's died or something, when in reality he just went and got married to an Irish girl and moved to America.
And here's Dougal, who also hasn't changed much. Jamie asks if his presence there means that Colum has changed his mind, but it doesn't: Dougal, Rupert and Angus are there because they believe in the cause. Dougal is so, so proud of Jamie for joining The Cause and tells everyone this is their time, for glory and for Scotland. Jamie manages to smile and says they all have their work cut out for them training this bunch. Dougal's not delighted to hear they won't be marching right away, but Jamie's in charge, so he goes with it.
Murtagh gets to work training the men in the fine art of queuing. Baby steps. Watching him from afar reminds Claire of her own army days, watching officers drill the men.
She walks away and sees Fergus playing lacrosse with some of the other guys, which also reminds her of young soldiers playing, so she goes and meanly drags Fergus away, scolding him for not getting the water she sent him to fetch.
Murtagh, Jamie, and Dougal train the men while the women prepare bullets and other battlefield necessities.
Dougal decides things are going well enough for them to join Charles. Murtagh says the men are nowhere near ready, so Dougal tries to work on Jamie, hinting that going now would help guarantee him a seat on the prince's council. Jamie doesn't care about that and won't be swayed. He agrees with Murtagh.
Claire sees the men eating and hating the food and flashes back to the army camp, where she befriends a pair of young American soldiers—Grant and Lucas, both in the airborne and separated from their unit since D-Day. Lucas asks what the hell black pudding is and Grant is befuddled by the British method of calling things 'pudding' that don't resemble that viscous slop Americans call pudding. Claire quotes Shaw, and Lucas recognises the quote because his mother loved Shaw.
Back in the 18th century, Jamie finds Claire trying unsuccessfully to de-stress in their room and asks if she's ok. She lies that she is, there's just a lot to do and a lot on her mind. She examines Jamie's brooch, with 'Je suis prest' on it—I am ready. Jamie apologises for bringing her to the camp and promises they'll get through this and he'll make sure she's safe, no matter what. She reassures him she's fine. She's so not fine.
Jamie watches Murtagh drill the men. It's not going terribly well, so Jamie stops them to give a Rousing Speech and warn them that a well-trained army is a formidable thing and maybe they should take this seriously! It works! Of course! For about five minutes, and then Dougal and some of his men come running amongst them, topless, screaming, and wielding swords and scatter Jamie's men, telling them that this is how you scare some Redcoats: with a highland charge! Yeah, you might throw them off for about five seconds, and then they'll regroup and shoot you all dead. Jamie points out that such a charge requires the element of surprise, which they aren't necessarily likely to have. He dismisses the men and asks for a word with Dougal.
Dougal totally talks down to Jamie, doing the 'I've been doing this for a long time' thing, but Jamie says he knows exactly what these men will face, and also, these are his men, so Dougal needs to not only back down, but to start obeying Jamie's orders, or get lost. Dougal reluctantly accepts.
Dougal finds Claire making some food and sits down by the cooking fire. After a brief silence, he suggests that Jamie needs help but is too proud to ask. He asks Claire to help out and have a word with her husband, see if he can get him to listen more to Dougal. He then tactlessly brings up the promise he once squeezed out of Claire, to marry Dougal if Jamie ever died. She informs him that Jamie knows all about that and that she was forced to go along with it. He's surprised Jamie has no problem with that. Claire calls him a narcissist and accuses him of wanting James on the throne out of his own selfish desires, not patriotism.
He lets her have her say, admits she's right about him loving himself, but says he loves Scotland more and would give everything he has, including his life, to see a Stuart back on the throne.
Training continues. The men begin to improve. They finally get to start using proper weapons.
Jamie watches Claire listlessly tending a cooking pot from afar and admits to Murtagh he doesn't know what's up with her. Murtagh agrees she's not herself and says it's unlike her to beat about the bush. Jamie says he's asked her what's wrong and Murtagh thinks it'll take more than just asking to get the truth out of her this time.
Claire finds Angus and Rupert laughing over Angus's feet, which are in a sorry state. She warns him he needs to take better care of his feet, or risk losing them to trench foot and gangrene. Claire starts to get angry with them and they're briefly startled, then start laughing.
Flashback! Claire leads a class in foot care with some of the young soldiers. One of them is smiling at her and she accuses him of not listening.
In her new present, she screams at Angus and Rupert and stomps outside, where the camera starts twirling around her while her ears fill with the sounds of roaring trucks and gunshots.
Dougal joins Jamie and some of the other men by the fire with some new men and Jamie asks how Dougal managed to get into the camp with ten new men without a challenge from the sentries. Dougal says he just smiled and they let him pass. Probably because they knew him. I'm fairly sure they'd not have done that with a stranger or even with someone who wasn't their commanding officer's uncle. Jamie orders the men on duty to be brought to him and others put in their place. Dougal points to the new men and says they're volunteers for their cause. Jamie doubts it and asks them if they're really prepared to leave their families and homes and fight and possibly die, committing treason all the way. He tells them they can leave, if they want to, and they all do.
Jamie dismisses the others and tells Dougal they won't be recruiting another clan's men an they won't be forcing anyone to fight. Dougal says that sounds great on paper, but isn't hugely realistic. He accuses Jamie of doing a crap job at training, considering Jamie's men just allowed ten armed men to wander into camp. Jamie acknowledges it and puts Dougal in charge of security.
The men who were on sentry duty are brought in and Jamie tells them they were lax and are now under arrest until their punishment in the morning.
The following day, the men are gathered and told what happened. The two men on duty will receive six lashes a piece for their negligence. Claire can't watch. Even some of the men flinch.
Claire walks past some men drilling in shooting and clearly starts to have serious problems hearing the gunshots. Jamie watches her duck behind a hay cart to have a panic attack.
Flashback to World War II. Claire's driving in a jeep with some of the young recruits, including Lucas. They suddenly come under fire and when Claire comes to, she can hear Lucas screaming for help. She's been tossed into a ditch with Grant, who warns her to stay down and quiet, because there's a German tank going by. Lucas keeps screaming for help and the Germans search for him (it's nighttime). Grant tells Claire to stay put and goes to try and find a way out of this. He doesn't get very far before he's machine gunned. Then the Germans blow up the jeep. Claire drops to the ground, clapping her hands over her ears, begging Lucas to just be quiet.
The next day, she's found by some of the Americans. One of them asks if she's ok and asks what she's doing there alone. Claire shakes and can't seem to move.
In the 18th century, Claire has fallen to the ground in a fetal position, sobbing. Jamie lifts her up and comforts her.
Later, after she's told him the whole story, he tells her there's nothing she could have done. She knows, but it doesn't make it better. She just tried to put that night behind her, but watching all these young men being turned into soldiers all she can hear is a young soldier crying out for his mother in the night. She's not sure she's ready to go to war again. I can't help wishing some of this had come earlier. It feels oddly like it's just jammed in here, and coming a little out of nowhere, having never been seeded even the teensiest bit earlier in the show. It would have done a lot to help explain her serious motivation to derail the rebellion, because honestly 'preserving the Highland way of life' never quite felt like a strong enough reason to me for her to be going so crazy in France. Yes, she wanted to see the people she'd come to know stay safe as well, but not wanting to see young men march off to yet another slaughter is pretty powerful motivation, and her apparent experience makes it all the stronger.
Jamie offers to send her back to Lallybroch, but she refuses to leave, saying she'll just feel helpless while people she knows and loves are out fighting and dying. Well, Claire, I hate to say it, but your PTSD is likely to keep you from being hugely helpful here. Nevertheless, they both agree she can stay.
That night, while Jamie's taking a leak, some young guy tries to jump him. Jamie manages to overpower the lad, breaking his arm, and holding him at knifepoint until Murtagh, Angus and Rupert appear. They find a letter on the kid addressed to a British officer and accuse him of being a spy, but the boy says he isn't. He saw the light of their fires and came to investigate, and when he got closer he recognised Jamie as Red Jamie, the rebel. Jamie asks who the boy marches with and presses on the kid's arm to get him talking. The boy says he's prepared to die but Jamie's not ready to kill him. He brandishes a wicked looking knife and begins heating it in the fire, asking again who the boy marches with, demanding to know how many they are and which direction they're headed.
Claire comes upon them and immediately begins some credible playacting, calling Jamie a sadist and offering to 'surrender herself' to Jamie if he lets the boy go. Jamie plays right along, grabs Claire and threatens to rape her right in front of the boy before handing her off to his men to do as they like. Claire starts to fight back a little too convincingly, suggesting to me that this might have gone a teensy bit too far and tapped into some other traumas, but the ruse works and the boy suddenly offers to talk, in order to protect Claire. Jamie tells the guys to hold onto Claire until the boy answers his questions. She gives Jamie a 'you'll be sleeping on the sofa tonight' look. The boy tells them that he's a viscount's son and travelling with 200 men to Dunbar to join Cope's army. He warns them they have heavy armament and a company of 30 cavalry. Jamie asks where the men are at present and the boy says they're 3 miles to the west. Jamie tells the guys to tie the boy to a tree one mile from the camp so his friends can find him the next day. Before he goes, the boy acknowledges that he owes Jamie his life and sees that as a debt of honour, but once that debt is discharged, he'll kill Jamie. Jamie tells him to basically go ahead and try.
The men are brought together so they can find out how this latest security lapse happened. Jamie says that their unshielded fires drew the lad to them, and Jamie sees that as his own fault, so he takes off his shirt and has Murtagh give him 18 lashes. And after that, they'll go take care of those British troops. Busy night.
Jamie takes his beating, then takes some of the men (not Dougal, who's not happy about being left behind) to the British camp, where they remove the wheels from all that heavy ordinance and make a big bonfire out of them (seems wasteful—surely they might need wheels at some point?).
Jamie bursts into his and Claire's room, clearly still on an adrenaline high, wakes her and vies her some pieces from the wheels, I think. Ahh, yes, they're the pins. He tells her that their success that night was because of her selflessness. Her actions will help save lives. She's pleased to hear it and gets ready to get busy, but he tells her they all need to get on the road, because the British will be waking soon.
Off they all march, presumably to join Charles. Ready or not. Jamie gives Dougal the honour of riding ahead to announce their presence to Charles.
EditorBee June 6, 2016 June 6, 2016 based on the book, Outlander season 2, Scotland
2 thoughts on "Outlander: Je Suis Prest"
ZelM says:
That 'boy' grows up into our boy (I'm Antipodean)- the *very* handsome David Berry in S3 – are you going to do the recaps for that? I've enjoyed your 98% completely accurate commentary, & look forward to more.
Glad you like the recaps, but I'm taking a pass on season 3. I tried to watch, but just wasn't getting into it. I think I'm just a bit fed up with Claire, to be honest. So, alas, Outlander is now retired on the site.
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Friday's Jobs Report for February could be a major market mover. Plus, there's important news on inflation, personal income and spending, and manufacturing.
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Have you ever been chosen last when your friends picked teams in a game? I wasn't that great at sports and so when I got picked last for a team at recess I hated it! I always wanted to be better at the game and wished that I could avoid getting picked last.
No matter how good or bad you are at a sport or a team, it doesn't really matter. It's being chosen that makes you important. And the good news is, God not only did God choose you, but He chose you first. This verse says that God chose you before he made the world. He chose you first. He loved you and wanted you to be a part of His family. So regardless if you feel unloved, chosen last, or ignored, that's not the truth. God loves you and He chose you first!
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In this guide, we will show you how to replace the RAM in your laptop.
Make sure the device is turned off and unplugged from the charger.
Using a T5 screwdriver, remove all 10 screws.
Pull off the back cover of the laptop.
A pry tool may be needed to pull off the back cover.
Pull lightly on the blue tabs until the silver bridge is free.
Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, remove the 5 marked screws.
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Gently pull on the connector until the connector disconnects from the base of the object.
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Constant ear noise is distracting and disturbing
By Dr. Donohue , Herald-Tribune
/ Sunday, July 29, 2012
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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: For all my life, which now amounts to 63 years, I have had no serious illnesses. I still work. My job is a high-pressure one, but I enjoy it and plan to keep working for as long as I can. Something new has happened to me: ear noise. I have a constant roaring that intensifies at night when I'm in bed. My doctor told me I must learn to accept it. I try, but it's impossible. Have you anything more upbeat than my doctor? -- B.K.
Dr. Donohue
ANSWER: Your doctor is right in saying that there is no universal cure for tinnitus (TIN-uh-tiss or tin-NITE-iss; you pick the pronunciation you like), but there are remedies that make the noise less of a nuisance.
People describe tinnitus as whistling, buzzing, chirping, hissing or pulsating constant noise whose intensity varies but never completely leaves. It's tough to deal with, but something can be done for almost all those plagued by it.
Tinnitus often appears when hearing starts to wane. People with normal hearing, when put into a soundproof room will, in a short time, start hearing ear noises. The reason is that the background noise of daily life has been eliminated. Background noise suppresses ear-generated noise. When hearing becomes impaired even slightly, the background noise is eliminated, and people develop tinnitus. A hearing aid restores normal hearing and eliminates tinnitus for many.
If a hearing aid isn't the answer, masking devices can dampen tinnitus. They're worn like hearing aids, and they emit a constant sound that blunts tinnitus. At night, when tinnitus always gets louder, turning on a bedside radio to soothing music quiets tinnitus. If that doesn't work, turn the dial to a position where static comes from the radio. That often makes tinnitus bearable.
Tinnitus retraining programs are scattered throughout North America. Instructors teach people how to desensitize their ears to tinnitus by listening to low levels of noise and habituating their ears to it. That suppresses tinnitus. It can take a long time to take hold, and it is expensive.
Contact the American Tinnitus Association, an organization dedicated to supporting tinnitus research and to keeping people abreast of the latest treatments. You'll find them online at www.ata.org. If you don't have a computer, ask a friend or relative to make the connection for you.
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I know this is cancer, but I haven't heard of adenocarcinoma. Will you please explain? My dad died quite quickly. -- R.J.
ANSWER: "Adeno" refers to glands. Carcinoma is cancer. Adenocarcinomas include cancers such as colon, lung, kidney, stomach, uterus, esophagus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, pancreas and gallbladder. It's a word that embraces many cancers but doesn't specify which one. If you want the precise type of cancer your dad had, call his doctor's office. Or it may be that the microscopic exam of the cancer cells was unable to identify the precise cancer type.
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ANSWER: When there's a difference in the pressure in the arms, the higher reading is taken as representing your true blood pressure.
A difference of 10 points between the two arms might be due to a narrowing of the arteries supplying the arm with the lower pressure.
A difference of 15 points often indicates peripheral artery disease, a partial plugging of arteries throughout the body. You should ask your doctor for an explanation. The higher reading calls for some kind of treatment -- dietary (weight loss, sodium reduction, exercise) or maybe medicine.
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Everyone knows that guy. He's a #JERK @authorkattmasen
He was that boy in the playground. The one that pulled your pigtails. The one that lifted your dress in front of the entire school. Now he's that guy in the office. The one that steals your lunch from the fridge. The one that gets away with everything. I'm sure you know him. Everyone knows that guy. He's a #JERK.
Presley Malone knew her relationship with her fiancé, Jason, had run its course. The second that ring came off her finger, she didn't expect to be the pawn in an immature game played by the office jerk.
His name is Haden Cooper, and he is six years younger than her. Immature and irresponsible, getting drunk and stoned every weekend like he never left college. He rode a motorcycle, carrying a different girl each week. He was everything a jerk should be—insensitive, unreliable, and most importantly, a heartbreaker.
Haden enjoyed playing games, and when it came to Presley Malone, it was all too easy. Miss Know-it-all with her over-the-top OCD was soon going to get a taste of what it was like to live on the edge.
But what starts off as an innocent prank soon becomes an unhealthy obsession.
He is wrong for her and she is wrong for him. It's a battle of the sexes ready to go to war. But in this battle there are no winners, and it takes only one fateful night and six tequilas for their lives to take an unexpected turn that changes them both forever.
Deep into the second chapter of an erotic thriller, I feel the presence of someone beside me. The charcoal grey pants are a dead giveaway and inadvertently, I groan, granting myself some patience to deal with him today. Why the fuck won't he just leave me alone? I've met my share of annoying human beings but Haden Cooper takes the cake. "I'm taking orders," he huffs in annoyance. I give him my full attention and decide to have a little fun with him. After all, he did ruin a blouse that even the dry cleaners declared a write-off for. Yes, I will have fun. Serves him right for being such a jerk. "At my beck and call? Well I'll have the roast chicken on rye, lettuce, tomato, and no mayo. I repeat—no mayo." He stares back at me without writing down my order. "You might want to write it down." "I have a good enough memory." A loose laugh escapes me. "That's funny, I think Trina down on ten would beg to differ." His eyes twitch, caught in an awkward moment. I want to see what pathetic excuse he has for this. "Who?" "Really, Haden? I don't know how men can just screw around with strangers and not even take a moment to remember someone's name," I rant. He leans on my desk and rubs the slight stubble on his chin. "You seem awfully interested in my sex life, Presley Malone. Is there something I'm missing here?" "What?" I shoot back, almost a little too nervous. "Please, I wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole. No, make it a twenty-foot pole with an extension. God, you're so insensitive. You don't care about anyone's feelings and have zero respect in the workplace." "Anything else?" "Plus, you're a jerk."
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Derma Love
One day while flipping through a magazine, one of PD's co-founders (Matt) stumbled across a column on DIY body cream made from tallow. Totally obsessed with all things at the intersection of Paleo, ancestral health, and reclaiming old craftways, the story sparked his curiosity. He was familiar with the use of fat as skincare in theory, but this article included the history, chemistry, and a recipe, making the process seem fun and doable. Matt decided to give it a try.
Then he needed to find the fat. Since he gets most of his food from farmers he knows personally, Matt asked his beef guy if he had any tallow. The beef guy normally just threw it away, but that day he did happen to have some on hand. He said he'd happily sell Matt 10 or 100 pounds for the same price. Matt took the 100 pounds and started developing his recipe.
After the first batch, Matt discovered that the article's recipe was clunky and the proportions were way off. The original recipe ended up way too soft and with a low yield. But he kept experimenting, doing five- or ten-pound batches at a time, until he developed his own recipe that had a much smoother consistency. He played around with different fragrances (eventually working with a professional scent mixer who who crafted a scent to balance out the natural smell of tallow), gave a bunch away, and people loved it. The response was so positive that after hearing "you should totally sell this" over and over, he knew he was on to something and decided to go for it.
Although Matt was an executive at the Food Network for five years, he'd never launched a product-based business. The development of Primal Derma has been entirely bootstrapping trial-and-error. But it is also deeply rewarding. With one product Primal Derma nourishes and supports so many different communities.
Today, Primal Derma is hand crafted in Harlem by Matt, with a deep commitment to sustainability, health, and ancestral traditions.
Matt Stillman
Matt Stillman has made a long career out of using his inherently inquisitive and exploratory nature to find creative, sustainable solutions to complex problems. He has worked for years in diverse arenas to create and discover deeper connections with both the people he interacts with and the community in which he resides.
As a former Food Network executive, Matt brought such groundbreaking shows as Iron Chef and Good Eats (and many others) to American audiences.
In 2006 Matt conceived of and wrote a treatment for "The End of Poverty?" - a feature length film about the origins of poverty and why it persists in a world with so much wealth. The film premiered at Cannes in 2008 and was selected as a Critics Choice of the Festival. Matt was honored to speak at the UN four times about the film. His experience making the film crystallized his understanding of global issues, commerce, waste, sustainability.
Matt has been inspired and influenced by the Paleo and Primal philosophy and diet since 2004, and began doing Crossfit in 2008. Fascinated by ancestral health, reclaiming old food and health pathways, Matt has a deep relationship with the small scale farmers from which he gets most of his food.
Matt's favorite way to Derma: "I use it on my face, lips, and torn-up CrossFit hands. I also use it as massage oil -- so it goes anywhere!"
You can reach him at m@primalderma.com
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Summer and Matt have been friends since 2009 when they took a course called Creativity and Personal Mastery and bonded over their philosophical views of life and their love for 80's and 90's rap music. As a trusted friend, she was a tester of Matt's early Primal Derma samples. Matt and Summer had played with the idea of going into some kind of business together but when Matt decided to launch Primal Derma, Summer said "this is the thing we should be doing together." And it worked because Summer with her MBA could work the business side of things.
Summer specializes in business development, strategic planning and marketing for corporations, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations. She received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Boston University. Summer is a proud Detroit native currently living in NYC.
Summer's favorite way to Derma: "I love using it on my lips and hands, and if I have a little extra on my hands, I run my fingers through my kinky-frizzy hair for a nice shine that also conditions. I also use it on my baby's skin from anything to post-bath softness to diaper rash protection. It really does work everywhere."
You can reach her at s@primalderma.com
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Q: How to find endpoint? How do you find the coordinates of endpoint of arc (pi + s) when the endpoint of arc s on the unit circle is (-sqrt (21)/5, 2/5)?

A: For your particular problem, with $\pi$, there is an almost no work way of doing things.  You want to travel counterclockwise from $(1,0)$ to $(-\sqrt{21}/5, 2/5)$, and then travel through a further angle $\pi$, which is halfway around the circle.
You end up at the point which is $(-\sqrt{21}/5,2/5)$ reflected through a point mirror at the origin.  This changes the sign of both the $x$ coordinate and the $y$-coordinate, so you end up at $(\sqrt{21}/5,-2/5)$.
If a point mirror at the origin sounds unintuitive to you, you can think instead of $(-\sqrt{21}/5,2/5)$  rotated about the origin (counterclockwise, though with $\pi$ it doesn't matter) through an angle $\pi$. That takes you from the second quadrant to the fourth quadrant, but it is clear that the absolute values of the $x$-coordinate and $y$-coordinate don't change, so you end up at $(\sqrt{21}/5,-2/5)$.
More generally, suppose that you have a circle of radius $1$, and starting at $(1,0)$ you travel through an angle $\alpha$ (counterclockwise) and then through a further angle $\beta$.
Then you end up at the point with coordinates
$$(\cos(\alpha+\beta),\sin(\alpha+\beta))$$
Now use the identities
$$\cos(\alpha+\beta)=\cos(\alpha)\cos(\beta)-\sin(\alpha)\sin(\beta)$$
$$\sin(\alpha+\beta)=\sin(\alpha)\cos(\beta)+\cos(\alpha)\sin(\beta)$$
In your particular example, $\cos(\alpha)=-\sqrt{21}/5$ and $\sin(\alpha)=2/5$,
and $\beta=\pi$ so $\cos(\beta)=-1$ and $\sin(\beta)=0$.
So we find using the identities above that $\cos(\alpha+\beta)=\sqrt{21}/5$ and $\sin(\alpha+\beta)=-2/5$.
So that's another way of finding the answer, overkill for a simple angle like $\beta=\pi$, but potentially useful in more complicated situations.  For instance, you might want to compute where you end up if instead of $\beta=\pi$ you have $\beta=\pi/4$.

A: I'm not sure what arc $s$ and arc $(\pi+s)$ mean, but maybe it means find the point on the unit circle you get to if you start at $(-\sqrt{21}/5,2/5)$ and go around a further $\pi$ radians, in which case, can you see that going $\pi$ radians from any point $(x,y)$ on the unit circle gets you to the point on the circle diametrically opposite to $(x,y)$? and, do you know what that point would be?

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Registration and identification of pets in urban areas is important for the wellbeing of the animals themselves, owner's peace of mind, and to allow Council to plan for future community needs. In Townsville, all dogs must be registered each year and wear a registration tag and cats require an approval that is renewed each year.
For a full list of animal management offences and associated payments, please refer below. For more information on animal fees and charges, please visit Council's Fees and Charges page.
All dogs, including puppies, must be registered within 14 days of acquisition or moving to Townsville, and wear a registration tag. Annual dog registration costs differ depending on whether the dog is desexed or entire, and whether the owner is eligible for a pensioner concession. Annual registration and approvals need to be renewed by 31 August each year.
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Regardless of land size, only one cat is permitted to be housed on Magnetic Island or Paluma Range properties. An Application Form must also be completed.
You can pay your animal registration renewal online here.
All puppies and kittens must be microchipped before 12 weeks of age from 10 December 2010 onwards. It is the responsibility of the owner, whether they are the current owner trying to sell or give the animal away, or the new owner acquiring the animal, to ensure the animal is microchipped.
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Owners are encouraged to microchip their cats and dogs from 8 weeks of age as it ensures these pets can be quickly reunited with the owners after separation.
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a restricted dog, including a dog that is the subject of a declaration under section 94 of the Animal Management (Cats and Dogs) Act 2008.
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As we've discussed elsewhere, Arizona probationers may be permitted to move to a new state under the interstate compact rules for transfer of probation. Normally, an interstate compact probation transfer application can take months to complete. Someone who applies in June may not get their reporting instructions (the official permission to move) until December. But in certain circumstances, expedited reporting instructions may be appropriate. The typical expedited transfer case involves a probationer who works and resides in another state, but happens to have committed the Arizona crime.
Before an expedited interstate compact transfer can be contemplated, the probation department must agree that "emergency circumstances" exist. Then, if the receiving state also agrees that "emergency circumstances" exist, then the expedited reporting will be appropriate. If one state or the other does not believe that those circumstances exist, then expedited transfer is not available and the normal processes must be used. The term "emergency circumstances" is not well defined within the interstate compact rules, but common sense applies.
Note that the expedited reporting instruction section does not apply to cases where the probationer was already living in the receiving state at the time of sentencing. In such a case, a different rule applies to permit the probationer to return home in an accelerated manner.
If the states do each agree that emergency circumstances exist sufficiently for expedited reporting instructions, things move faster. The expedited reporting process doesn't necessarily cut time off of the application process itself, but it DOES allow the probationer to report to the receiving state while the application is pending.
In the typical interstate compact case, the receiving state has 45 days to review the application before giving an answer. If the request for expedited reporting is made, then the receiving probation department has to determine within 2 days of receipt of the application whether the expedited reporting instructions will be granted.


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Edward Said: Remembering a Palestinian Patriot
The 2019 Memorial Lecture at Columbia University in New York honoring Edward W. Said, "Out of Place: Refugees, Immigrants, and Storytelling" couldn't have come at a more appropriate moment. And the main speaker for that event, Viet Thanh Nguyen, was the right person for the job. Viet Thanh Nguyen, the author of the novel The Sympathizer, shares with Said two qualities: his political concerns, and the widespread recognition for his work. He also shares with Said a feeling of displacement; him as a refugee, Said as an immigrant.
Edward Said was perhaps one of the most profound analysts of the Palestinian situation, and one of the most vocal critics of the Israeli government policies towards them. To his credit, he is equally critical of both.
Following the Six-Day War (5-10 June 1967,) Said worked hard to dispel the stereotyped misrepresentations of Arabs in the U.S. media, which had no bases in the political and historical realities of the Middle East. In that war, the combined armies of Egypt (known at the time as the United Arab Republic,) Jordan and Syria were crippled by Israel, which had in the United States a most powerful ally.
As a result of the war, huge civilian populations were displaced, resulting in long-term consequences. About 300,000 Palestinians fled the West Bank, and about 100,000 Syrians fled the Golan Heights. In addition, the war had a disastrous effect on the morale of the Arab people.
Said wrote extensively about the West's misrepresentations of the Arab cause. In 1979, in his essay "Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims," Said argued in favor of the political legitimacy and right to a Jewish homeland; but also on the right of the Palestinians for self-determination.
In an essay published in The Nation in 1980, "Islam through Western Eyes," Said wrote, "Very little of the detail, the human density, the passion of Arab-Moslem life has entered the awareness of even those people whose profession it is to report the Arab world. What we have, instead, is a series of crude, essentialized caricatures of the Islamic world, presented in such a way as to make that world vulnerable to military aggression." These are topics that he had written at length in his books Orientalism and in Culture and Imperialism, and on numerous articles on this topic.
Said had been a victim of the media bias against Arabs and Palestinians. On July 3, 2000, while touring the Middle East with his son Wadie, he was photographed throwing stones across the Blue Line Lebanese-Israel border, and accused of personal sympathy with terrorism. That photograph was published in several leading newspapers in the U.S. and the journalist Edward Alexander labeled Said "The Professor of Terror."
His action was sharply criticized by right-wing students at Columbia University and by several Jewish organizations. To his credit, though, Columbia University's provost published a five-page letter defending Said's action as an academic freedom of expression saying, "To my knowledge, the stone was directed at no-one; no law was broken; no indictment was made; no criminal or civil action has been taken against Professor Said."
Said, an accomplished pianist himself, founded with his friend Daniel Barenboim the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, with Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians. In addition, they established The Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville, Spain, to develop educational music projects. He received several prizes and was awarded some twenty honorary university degrees from the most prestigious academic institutions.
Said always carried with him the pain of not being able to return to his original home. Mahmoud Darwish's words, "Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?" could have been his. On 24 September 2003, after enduring 12 years of unrelenting chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Edward W. Said died in New York City. He was the leading Palestinian figure of its time. Said's vision and his hopes for a more peaceful Middle East remain alive.
César Chelala is a physician and writer born in Argentina and living in the U.S. He wrote for leading newspapers all over the world and for the main medical journals, among them The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, The China Daily, The Moscow Times, The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, Harvard International Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The British Medical Journal. He is a co-winner of an Overseas Press Club of America award and two national journalism awards from Argentina.
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Last week, I had a chance to test-drive the new 2014 Ford Fiesta ST, Ford Focus ST and Ford C-Max, Ford's hybrid car. As you can tell from the headline, my favorite of the three was the Fiesta, although the C-Max blew me away in terms of quiet power and gee-whiz visual controls. But it was the Fiesta that partied its way into my heart.
The 2014 Ford Fiesta ST is equipped with 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine that delivers an impressive 197 hp and 202 lb.-ft. torque. That is more power than my Mercedes Benz SLK, and it weighs 3,110 lbs., while the Fiesta tips the scales at just 2,742 lbs. As you might expect, with a weight-to-horsepower ratio that's better than a 2006 Porsche Boxster, the Fiesta is satisfyingly quick. The turbo-charged four-cylinder engine boosts power when needed and does a great job to keep the Fiesta ST moving.
I could not test the Ford SYNC system since it requires registering an account, but the navigation and entertainment system worked as advertised, once you figure out that to call up the individual system elements, you have to press the outer corners.
My Ford Fiesta ST featured the must-have Recaro seats with red contrast insets that will blow your, and your passengers', mind. Available in "Molten Orange" or "Smoke Storm" colors.
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We had no problem with the Fiesta's climate control, which worked well, although on a chilly San Francisco summer day, it was hard to tell how well. Suffice it to say, we think it should function correctly in most of the world.
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The Ford Fiesta ST comes equipped with a USB plug and can accommodate both USB thumb drives or SD cards filled with music. You can also directly integrate Android phones, although iPhones need to be plugged in. Ford's SYNC has too many features to list here, so read this page.
Bluetooth syncing with my iPhone worked immediately and the Ford Fiesta comes with a trial subscription to SiriusXM Traffic and Travel Link. The entertainment system also features a Pandora internet radio4 and, for optimum parking. a rear-view camera is available as an option.
What can I say about the Recaro seats? They're world famous for providing great support and you simply can't go wrong with this option. The doors closed solidly and there was no evidence of any rattles or poor assembly.
The Fiesta offers a lot of standard niceties and options that make motoring pleasant, including power moonroof, ambient lighting, Bluetooth integration, cap-less fuel filler, heated front seats. Ford SYNC Services are complimentary for the first three years and offer turn-by-turn directions, 411 business search, personalized sports scores, news, stock quotes and even your horoscope.
Front-wheel-drive, four-wheel disc brakes, 205/40WR17 tires and not an overly assisted rack-and-pinion power steering added up to a very drivable experience. The Fiesta ST is rated at 26 mpg in city driving and 35 mpg highway. It is also only available with a six-speed manual transmission, which, unfortunately, does not offer hill assist (a big plus in San Francisco).
The Ford Fiesta has a full complement of navigation and digital controls that should make any Digital Lifestyle denizen very happy indeed. Hands-free calling using your Bluetooth phone allows you to answer calls at the touch of a button, and even issue commands to get news, stock quotes or, gasp, your horoscope.
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Thousands of educators from across Ontario descended on Queen's Park on Saturday to protest impending changes to the province's education system.
The rally was organized by members from five different teachers' unions. Demonstrators, some from as far away as Sudbury, Ont., arrived to Toronto in more than 150 buses.
"We want to make sure that our voices are heard. We want to make sure students know that we are fighting for them and that we care about them," said Kristen Smyth, who teaches high school drama and ESL in Kitchener, Ont.
The protest comes in the wake of the provincial government's decision to increase average required class sizes in intermediate and high school grades, introduce mandatory e-learning modules and cut at least 3,475 full-time teaching positions, it says through attrition.
School boards have warned the revisions could lead to classes with up to 40 students and result in various electives being cancelled altogether. The fallout could be compounded by an overhaul to Ontario's autism program, which will likely see schools trying to cope with a sudden infusion of students with challenging needs.
On Thursday, tens of thousands of students at some 600 schools across the province staged a walkout to protest the coming changes.
Marissa White, who teaches art to high school students in Kitchener, says that because many of her courses are electives, she will likely be directly affected by the government's revamps.
"I honestly do not understand how anyone can read about what's happening and think that it's a good idea," she told CBC News from the sprawling lawn at Queen's Park.
White said her classes currently have about 33 students. Bigger class sizes will make her daily tasks nearly unmanageable, she says.
"There's not physically enough room. Classrooms weren't built for that many kids. Thinking about how I'm going to do tracking and manage my students, there's no way one person can handle all of that," she continued.
Smyth said that more students and mandated e-learning courses will be particularly difficult for students still learning to speak English.
"I won't be able to have as much time with each student as I would like, to make sure that they are growing, make sure that they are understanding," she says.
Despite considerable pushback from educators and students, the Progressive Conservative government says it has no intention of revisiting its policy plans ahead of a new round of collective bargaining negotiations this fall.
In a statement Friday, Education Minister Lisa Thompson said the government would not be "distracted by union tactics" such as protests and rallies.
"The fact is that Ontario's teacher unions have been handed control of the education system for the past 15 years," Thompson said.
The Ministry of Education says the five-year high school graduation rate was 86.3 per cent in 2017, up from 70 per cent in 2004, and the four-year graduation rate was 79.8 per cent, up from 56 per cent. Math scores for high school students held steady in 2017 compared to 2006, but have declined in elementary school.


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in Manchester - September, 1848
from Life and letters of Sir Charles Hallé; being an autobiography (1819-1860) , page 232:
[L]ast Wednesday he [Sir Charles Halle] played a Concerto of Beethoven's for the Amateur Society ; he obtained a magnificent success ; I never saw such great and general enthusiasm.
Charles Halle, and Marie Hallé and Charles E Halle (ed.), Life and letters of Sir Charles Hallé; being an autobiography (1819-1860) (London, 1896), p. 232. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428915633563 accessed: 28 January, 2023
location of experience: Manchester
written by Beethoven
Date/Time September, 1848
Quote taken from a letter from Sir Charles Halle's wife to her sister in New Orleans
Originally submitted by Meg Barclay on Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:00:33 +0100
Approved on Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:24:45 +0100