With 2018 right around the corner, we thought it would be useful to share examples of the activities at the Preservation Alliance that donors like you help support. This output from our small staff and networks of fabulous preservation practioners, organizational partners and civic leaders leads to investment in irreplaceable buildings, stronger communities, jobs and tax revenue and a growing preservation movement.
13. Building assessment matching grants, of up to $4,500, pay for a professional to assess the condition of a historic building, provide cost estimates, and outline phases for preservation. These reports are useful for groups that desire a "road map" for moving forward with a preservation project, for complicated buildings that need an objective eye, for groups seeking LCHIP funding in excess of $25,000, or some combination thereof. Made possible by the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and Rick and Duffy Monahon Fund.
2017's pool included 5 churches/chapels - a marked increase from previous years.
2. Mini Grants of $500 for smaller projects. These matching grants ($100 is provided by the applicant) are ideal for preliminary condition assessments, getting second opinions from professionals who specialize in older construction, or for formulating a re-use or fundraising plan.
This year, one mini grant went to examine the timber condition at the Vilas Pool carillon in Alstead. A second one was awarded to St. Matthew's Chapel in Sugar Hill, which needed a structural engineer to propose solutions for their failing foundation.
204. Attendees from all over the state at our biennial conference, this year in Concord. The day included tours of Main Street; presentations on disaster management, capital projects, and preserving rural landscapes; and a thought-provoking welcoming address by Max Page.
75. Towns visited by Preservation Alliance staff, mostly through our field service program. We help civic leaders and other investors save, re-use and steward historic places and bring preservation tools to all types of communities.
13. Awards given at our annual Preservation Achievement Awards in May.
7. New additions to the Seven to Save family, announced in October in Wolfeboro. We're excited that some of these 2017 projects are already seeing progress. Hinsdale's engine house was relocated to a temporary location to avoid demolition; Bartlett Historical Society and Moultonborough's French-Taylor House both received condition assessments (see above); and the Shaker Regional School District and Save Our Gale School committee continue to move forward with a plan to save the Gale School.
The Seven to Save announcement took place in Wolfeboro's Brewster Memorial Hall - itself a Seven to Save property from 2009.
More than 52 barns making preservation progress thanks to donors to our successful 52 Barns in 52 Weeks campaign. We wanted to help stem the tide of barn loss, and we were overwhelmed and impressed by the outpouring of both need and support.
Twombley Barn, Wakefield received a barn assessment grant as part of our 52 Barns in 52 Weeks campaign.
And here's one last important number: 224-2281. That's our office number. Call us with ideas and concerns about an old building or community issue that matters to you...because it will also matter to us.


text:
Q: No notification received for new answer I posted a bug just now (Referenced topic isn't automatically shown in the Linked section on the ELL site?) and then I guess I encountered another one.
Usually, after someone else answered my question, the SE would send me a notification.
about 8 mins ago, a nice guy answered one of my questions on ELL ("sound natural" vs. "to be natural"). I haven't received that notation since.
On the other hand, I did receive other notifications, which are for some comments on the bugged question and another question.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Junior Malika Singh (Monta Vista High School: MVHS) was sophomore class president last year and serves on the Saratoga Youth Commission.
Senior Ishan Sharma (Cupertino High School: CHS) is his school's ASB president and works to help improve his school by communicating with different organizations and conducting surveys for the students.
Senior Nihar Agrawal (Saratoga High School: SHS) is his school's ASB vice president, was part of the Saratoga Youth Commission and is the co-founder of Committed 2 Community Club.
Junior Alex Mo (The Harker School: THS) is the founding president of his school's UNICEF and Humanitarian Causes club and is one of his school's DECA officers.
Q: How does your school make sure that students' opinions are heard and represented throughout the school?
Singh (MVHS): [Every Thursday], we have Legislative Council, where representatives from each fifth-period class convene during tutorial, vote on different subjects and talk about anything their classes have proposed. We frequently conduct surveys at Legislative Council to get students' opinions and allow them to make decisions.
Sharma (CHS): Our ASB has been trying to improve [by] taking in [more] student opinions. We reformed our Student Senate, [the] secondary student-government body next to ASB. In previous years, Student Senate was originally intended to give students who did not make the ASB interview process a chance to voice their opinions through bi-weekly meetings during tutorials. Like ASB, our Student Senate undergoes an application process and is open to all students, regardless of academic standing. We get a more diverse set of ideas and have a lot of freshman and sophomore applications already, and they are from [many] different sub groups, [not] just our "popular" ASB crowd.
Q: How is the school improving communication between students and staff/administration?
Sharma (CHS): I would improve communication between students and administration by working with [the staff and students] to release more surveys. [Cupertino] is working with Challenge Success from Stanford to gain analytical data on the student body. Two years ago, we asked all students to fill out a survey and we were able to pull apart tons of useful data on stress levels or how safe [students] feel on campus. All these responses have been converted to actionable goals, such as the principal teaching teachers how they can be more "relatable" to students, because one of [the] most alarming survey results we got back was that very few students at [Cupertino] had at least one adult they could go to if they had a problem. The principal gathered teachers from all departments and students in these Joint Leadership Meetings and asked for ways to increase communication between staff and students.
Mo (THS): All students work with both an adviser and a council member who help them throughout their four years on campus. By encouraging these relationships early in a student's freshman year, they begin to feel more comfortable as student life becomes harder as an upperclassman.
Q: What are student leaders doing on campus to make school more welcoming for the student body?
Agrawal (SHS): I think what is so great about kindness on campus is that it can come in small, simple acts which are still personally impactful. I always try to say "hi" to people in the hallways who are looking down or have puffy eyes. Given how much the people around me contribute to my happiness every day, I care about how my classmates feel and if they are having a poor day, I strive to brighten their mood.
Singh (MVHS): We have clubs such as the New Student Support Club. Anyone, especially those who need help or feel unsupported, can join, and others can volunteer to help them, too. We also have Peer Counseling Club for those who also feel that they need help from other students and the advisor too. The club's goal is to raise general awareness about social and emotional health at our school and does this by scheduling sessions for those who request them and holding events in campus.
Mo (THS): We have many student leaders working to make our experiences on the Upper School campus as enjoyable as possible. With over 60 clubs on campus and many programs, most students find groups of friends who they connect with and can seek support from. Though we work together to plan events and plan logistics, we are also a close group of friends who help each other every day. By just being a respectful and outgoing student on campus, it is inevitable that you will make [other] students happy.
Q: Do you feel that there are enough resources at your school for students to go to if they need to talk to someone?
Sharma (CHS): I do feel there are enough resources, but it could probably be improved. Our counselors are severely understaffed and we only have one student advocate. That itself is a problem, and I think a lot of these [students could be helped] if teachers could maybe open up a little more or make more of an effort to connect with students.
Mo (THS): I believe that there are. With all of our amazing students and faculty members, there are more than enough people to help someone with whatever they are going through. Whether certain students use [these] resources is a different issue. Personally, I don't feel like there is an easy solution other than just to slowly encourage [them]. Becoming comfortable with people who help you through tough times will take a little bit of work, but at Harker, I believe that everyone is willing to help someone else out.


Balaam is summoned by Balak. Initially the Lord instructs Balaam not to go. The Lord needed more time to prepare Balaam for his purpose in this trip: Delivering prophetic messages from the living God. When Balaam humbles himself before the living God the Lord has a vessel He may use to speak to Balak. Balaam delivers numerous prophetic messages the Lord gives him.


text:
Brian's Coffeehouse
Commentary on the Politics, History and Culture of the Middle East and Central Asia, by Brian Ulrich
Egypt's Parliament Verdict
In an Egyptian political earthquake, the country's parliamentary elections from several months ago have been ruled unconstitutional:
"The entire Parliament will be dissolved following the Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that one-third of its MPs elected to single-winner seats were chosen on an unconstitutional basis, Farouk Sultan, court chairman told Al-Masry Al-Youm...
"All previous decisions made by Parliament will remain valid, according to the ruling. Sultan added that the Shura Council, the upper house of Parliament, should not be dissolved as part of the ruling, even though it was elected according to the same law based on which the lower house of Parliament was elected.
"The largely Islamist Parliament's legislative authorities will be transferred to the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces."
Expect a significant response from the Muslim Brotherhood, which has long feared the military would keep them from governing as happened to Islamists in Algeria in 1991 and the West Bank in 2006. Keep in mind, too, that the ex-regime candidate Ahmed Shafiq will compete against the MB's Muhammad Mursi in a run-off presidential election Sunday.
posted by Brian Ulrich at 10:23 AM
LK said...
You may find this post interesting:
Why Egypt's Revolution Failed.
http://www.liberalkoshari.com/2012/06/why-egypts-revolution-failed.html
Name: Brian Ulrich
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States
I am an Associate Professor in History at Shippensburg University, where I teach courses in Middle Eastern and world history. My two major research areas are the Middle East from the 7th through 10th centuries and the Persian Gulf from ancient times to the present. Nothing on this site represents an official position of Shippensburg University.
Israel Supports Non-Orthodox
Renewed Oman Protests?
The Ottomans and the Little Ice Age
Socotra's Arab Spring
Kuwait Blasphemy Update
ICG Tunisia Report
Rahmon and Turajonzoda's Mosque
The Problem of Shafiq
The Verdict Protests
Mesha'al Back In

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Pierre Louis Henri Noirot est un homme d'affaires et un homme politique français, né à Reims le  et mort le .

Biographie

Avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Fils de Maurice Noirot, industriel textile, maire de Reims (1896-1900), et d'Amélia Hennegrave, Henri Noirot naît à Reims, le .

En 1908, il épouse à Paris Suzanne Gabrielle Charlotte Marquet (1884-1968), fille du général Georges Marquet, commandant militaire du Palais-Bourbon, puis de l'École Spéciale Militaire, mort au champ d'honneur le  en commandant la 17e Brigade d'Infanterie à Varennes-en-Argonne. De leur mariage naît en 1922 Anne-Marie, fille unique, qui épouse Robert Bourgeois (1916-2013) avec qui elle eut sept enfants : Christèle (1947-2016), Michèle (1948-), Gérard (1950-), Jean-Yves (1951-), Daniel (1953-), Alain (1954-) et Guy (1956-).

Après avoir obtenu une licence en droit et un diplôme des Hautes Études Commerciales, qu'on n'appelait pas encore HEC à l'époque, Henri Noirot rejoint en 1903 la Maison Lelarge – nom de l'entreprise familiale – dont il devient associé en 1913.  Appelé en 1914, il participe comme sergent fourrier à la Première Guerre mondiale, notamment à la bataille de Verdun au sein du Bataillon du 46e régiment d'infanterie territoriale.

Démobilisé à la fin du conflit, il organise le redémarrage de l'entreprise Lelarge, spécialisée dans la filature et le tissage.

Juge au tribunal de commerce de Reims, élu conseiller municipal en 1935

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Il est nommé maire-adjoint en 1941, il succède en 1943 au docteur Joseph Bouvier, démissionnaire, à la tête de la mairie de Reims. Il défend au mieux les intérêts de la population face aux exigences de l'occupant allemand.

En 1944, il refuse de donner une liste d'otages exigée à la suite de l'exécution d'un officier allemand par la Résistance, et il se porte lui-même otage, accompagné de son conseil municipal. Le , Henri Noirot, ses adjoints et diverses personnalités sont arrêtés. Tout d'abord internés à la prison de Châlons-sur-Marne, puis au camp de Royallieu à proximité de Compiègne, ils sont ensuite déportés en Allemagne au camp de concentration de Neuengamme, près de Hambourg, où ils sont cantonnés dans un « bloc politique ».

Évacués le  par la Croix-Rouge suédoise, ils sont transférés en autocar à la forteresse de Theresienstadt, puis à Breshan (Brezany) en Tchéquie, d'où ils sont libérés le .

Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
De retour à Reims il retrouve sa famille et les Établissements Lelarge dont il arrête les activités au début des années 50 à cause de la concurrence des industries textiles du Nord et de l'arrivée des fibres synthétiques. Il exerce à nouveau comme juge au tribunal de commerce de Reims puis en devient le président avant de cesser ses activités et de consacrer le reste de sa vie à sa famille.

Le docteur Bouvier lui remet la Légion d'honneur en 1950.

Proche de Jean Taittinger, Henri Noirot lui apporte tout son soutien pour devenir Maire de Reims. L'édile, pendant près de deux décennies (1959-1977), impulse à sa ville une nouvelle dynamique économique et un prestige international. Garde des Sceaux sous la présidence de Georges Pompidou, il marque de sa présence la messe d'obsèques en hommage à Henri Noirot, à l'église Saint-Jacques.

Les Noirot reposent au Cimetière du Nord, à Reims. Leur sépulture est fleurie chaque année par la Ville de Reims, le , pour l'anniversaire de la Libération de Reims.

Un boulevard de la capitale champenoise, situé devant le Centre des Congrès, porte le nom de « Maurice et Henri Noirot, anciens Maires de Reims », à l'initiative de Remy Hennegrave, son neveu, qui en a exprimé le souhait auprès de Arnaud Robinet, élu Maire de Reims en 2014.

Sources

 « La Vie Rémoise », revue locale.
 Témoignages oraux, recueillis par Gérard Bourgeois, son petit-fils.

Liens externes

 Généalogie

Maire de Reims
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Survivant du camp de concentration de Neuengamme
Naissance à Reims
Naissance en mars 1879
Décès à Reims
Décès en janvier 1972
Décès à 92 ans

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Press Kit – J. Scott Coatsworth
Buy My Stories
99¢ Titles
Anthologies & Collections
Contemporary / Magical Realism
Sci Fi / Fantasy
Liminal Sky: Ariadne Cycle
Liminal Sky: Oberon Cycle
All My Available Works
Subscribe, Free eBook
The Weekly Fix
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT/GIVEAWAY: Ana Newfolk
February 3, 2019 February 3, 2019 by scott
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I've asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work.
Today, Ana Newfolk – Ana Newfolk was born in Portugal where she grew up surrounded by sunshine and countryside. She has always had a deep love of reading, and ever since she can remember her favorite presents and treats have always been books. She would often be found in her not-so-secret spot reading her favorite adventure books (when she was younger) and romance novels (when she discovered boys). At 20 years old she moved to the UK where she has lived since.
Ana is giving away five copies of "Made in Portugal" with this post – enter via Rafflecopter:
Direct Link: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/50c0711e2/?
Thanks so much, Ana, for joining me!
J. Scott Coatsworth: What was your first published work? Tell me a little about it.
Ana Newfolk: My first published book was never meant to happen. I was writing Made In Portugal when I decided write a Christmas short for the Rainbow Advent Calendar.
Max and Joel invaded my head to tell me they wanted a story. As they were the best friends of the couple from Made In Portugal I never thought much would come of it but they threw me a curve ball. After a rescue and a day out in New York Max and Isaac fell in love. It wasn't their time then so I gave them a happy for now with a promise of more and carried on working on Made In Portugal. In some ways Made In Portugal will always be my first book because it's what introduced me to writing, but Made In New York is my real first one.
JSC: What do you do when you get writer's block?
AN: After I published Made In Portugal I found myself in a slump. It was the summer, I'd been promoted into a new job so I was busy getting my head around it and mostly using it as an excuse to write.
Don't get me wrong, I wanted to write, the characters were in my head, they were having conversations but I was resisting everything. You see, when I have the story in my head it runs like a film. I can see the scenes very clearly, how the characters move, how they engage, it's great, except then I have to put that into words and that's the hard part. It may sound silly but after Made In Portugal I thought I'd run out of words.
So how did I get myself out of my slump? I persisted with the writing. I knew that after a certain stage I'd know the characters so well, the story would write itself.
I also used a little trick I know works wonders on me. A deadline. I booked a slot with an editor and decided on a release date. It was a lifesaver. There is nothing to light a fire under my creative butt like having a deadline!
JSC: What were your goals and intentions in "Made in Manhattan," and how well do you feel you achieved them?
AN: I wanted to create a world in which family comes in many forms but is always there for the best and the worst. When I started writing I hadn't thought beyond the first book in which both character's families are important to their journey, especially their mom's. Now looking back at the four books I released I can see I've achieved it much better than I thought I would. Made In Manhattan, in particular, shows us how we can make our own family from the people we have around us, even when they live on the other side of the world.
JSC: What question do you wish that someone would ask about your book, but nobody has?
AN: No one ever asks me about the Superman doll. Superman was mentioned in Made In Portugal and Made In Manhattan, first as the doll that Joel borrowed from David when they were kids, and now as the doll that belongs to Filipe, a little boy whose brother works in David's café. Has anyone noticed that it is the same doll? How did Filipe come to have it? Why has it been mentioned in both books but not in any significant way? I can't answer all the questions or I'd be giving the game away but there is a sweet significance to the doll. When will you find out? I guess you'll have to wait for the next book in the series. In the meantime I'd love to hear reader's theories.
JSC: How long does it take you to write the first draft?
AN: I've learned that because I'm a last minute, fire under butt kind of person that I can write very fast. I wrote the first few chapters of Made In Manhattan long hand on the beach in September. Then I couldn't get back into the routine of writing until I booked the editor. For work reasons I had to cancel a holiday in November, so mere weeks before the manuscript was due and with only a few chapters done I managed to finish it in seven days. Imagine doing nanowrimo in seven days!
It don't particularly want to write in this way, it's stressful and not healthy but I'm still trying to figure out how to do it by writing a bit each day over a longer period of time. I also have a doctorate in procrastination so…
JSC: Let's talk to your characters for a minute – what's it like to work for such a demanding writer?
Isaac: "She's works in a strange way. Writes a lot and then keeps us hanging for weeks before she comes back and then works us like mad again."
Max: "But babe, the shower scene."
Isaac: "Max!"
Max: "What. You enjoyed that, it was like edging on steroids."
Isaac: "She does have good taste in coffee, and the food is great."
Max: "Damn, the cookie dough."
Isaac: "She made us wait a whole year to get together."
Max: "So totally worth it, though. I wouldn't have changed anything."
JSC: If you could create a new holiday, what would it be?
AN: The mutual appreciation day. A day where you have to say one nice thing about everyone you speak to but it can't be a lie. This should be every day at the moment it would be great to have amnesty from trolls and horrible people even if just for twenty-four hours.
JSC: What's your drink of choice?
AN: Water and coffee. I drink a lot of water. Coffee is a treat that I have way too often.
JSC: If I were a Hollywood producer about to put your book on the big screen, who would you want me to cast as the leads? Why? And can we have pictures to drool over?
AN: I don't know who these guys are. I found them randomly on the internet, but they are exactly how I pictured Max and Isaac.
JSC: What are you working on now?
AN: At the moment I'm working on a Valentines scene with one of my couples which I will be sharing with readers in my facebook group. I am organising a big Valentines event with lots of authors coming over to share their Valentines stories. There is also a flash fic surprise from the authors so it's definitely one not to miss. Readers must join my group, Café Lima – Ana Newfolk's Hangout.
Did I mention I'm a master procrastinator? I'm totally using this Valentines event to delay getting in touch with my editor to set a deadline for the next book. I will be working almost simultaneously on two books. The next in the Made In Series and a new secret project I can't talk about but will release in the Autumn.
I am equally excited and scared. The characters are talking to me but I'm afraid I've misplaced all my words. Don't worry though, you'll get your next fix soon.
And now for Ana's new book: Made in Manhattan:
Will they get a second chance to rekindle their love?
Isaac was kicked out by his family at a young age.
It took him years of hard work to become his own man. Now he's helping the LGBTQ youth of Lisbon so they don't have to go through the same.
Max has a long and troubled past.
An ER nurse in New York City who volunteers at the local Liberty center, he knows first hand what it's like to lose your family and having to make it on your own.
A chance encounter between the two a year ago has them hoping for a happy ever after, if not for the distance between them, but when Isaac takes a temporary work placement in Manhattan, the two men have an opportunity to find what their love is made of.
Will they make it, or will life's tests tear them apart for good?
Made In Manhattan is the second instalment in the Made In series by Ana Newfolk. It is a standalone gay romance novel with a HEA ending and no cliffhanger. Fair warning, there will be naked man-parts touching, a touch of angst, and the claws of an overprotective cat.
Made in Manhattan is 62k words and features the same main characters from Made In New York – A Christmas Short Story.
You don't have to read it, but you may want to find out how Max and Isaac first met.
Series Buy Links
Made In Manhattan: mybook.to/MadeInManhattan
Made In Portugal: mybook.to/ana-newfolk-mip
Made In New York: mybook.to/ana-newfolk-miny-christmas
Made In Paris: mybook.to/MadeInParis
"I never forgot about you, Isaac. I guess I was terrified I'd lose you too. Joel encouraged me to get in touch so I emailed a few months later but I never got a reply so my fear came true."
Isaac got up and went toward the glass panels that surrounded the balcony, but then turned around. "I didn't receive any emails."
His curly hair was flying softly in the breeze. I got up and went to him, making sure we were so close we wouldn't be able to move without touching each other. His eyes looked more green than blue in the brightness of the sunset.
"I thought you'd lied in New York, that I'd just been a bit of fun and you didn't really want to keep in touch. I mean, why would you even? We were only together for a day." The doubt in his voice was as clear as daylight. "But I couldn't get you out of my mind so I sent you an email in February but the email bounced back."
He looked down and I couldn't resist running my hands through his soft hair and tilting his head so I could see his beautiful expressive eyes.
"I don't know what happened, Isaac. Maybe we took the details down wrong. It doesn't matter anymore." I smiled at him and when he smiled back, I felt like the sun had skipped the night and was rising all over again.
"Let's exchange our details properly this time and make sure we speak before we make any more assumptions, okay?" he said.
"Okay." I allowed my thumb to caress his lower lip and felt his breath catch. "Isaac?"
"I'm going to kiss you now."
Ana Newfolk was born in Portugal where she grew up surrounded by sunshine and countryside. She has always had a deep love of reading, and ever since she can remember her favorite presents and treats have always been books. She would often be found in her not-so-secret spot reading her favorite adventure books (when she was younger) and romance novels (when she discovered boys). At 20 years old she moved to the UK where she has lived since.
In 2015 Ana stumbled across her first MM romance novel by chance, and she was hooked. She loves reading about men falling in love, hard, fast and ever so sweetly. This new found love for LGBTQ+ romance has opened a new world for Ana, and in 2017 she decided to finally listen to the voices in her head and write them down.
In addition to the time she spends reading and writing Ana has a full-time job that involves meeting lots of people with interesting stories to tell. She also loves baking as much as she loves watching people eat what she creates, much to the delight of family, friends and work colleagues alike.
You can follow Ana on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or through her blog for up to date news of her book releases.
Join My Newsletter List, Get a Free Book!
Newsletter Consent * Yes, add me to your author newsletter/special offer list. No, I do not want to be added to your newsletter/special offer list.
Categories Author Spotlight Tags author spotlight, giveaway, Made In Manhattan
ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Abaddon's Locusts, by Don Travis
POINT OF VIEW: I Am My Mother's Son
SFWA Member
Foothills Pride
Check Me Out On Hometown Reads
World Shapers Podcast
J. Scott Coatsworth
Author Spotlight: Joe DeRouen
Point of View: The Dragon Eater Teaser #1
Author Spotlight: Michelle Patricia Browne
New Release / Giveaway: Hummus on Rye – Karenna Colcroft
I'm Being Interviewed on the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Podcast
Point of View: Social Like It's 2004…
New Release / Giveaway: The Southern Magicks – Ashton K. Rose
Author Spotlight: C.J. Dragon
Point of View: The Wisdom of Letting Go
Author Spotlight: Warren Rochelle
Jeff Baker on I'm Being Interviewed on the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Podcast
Jeff Baker on Point of View: Social Like It's 2004…
Jeff Baker on Point of View: The Wisdom of Letting Go
Jeff Baker on Point of View: The Future's So Bright…
Jeff Baker on Point of View: The Year That Was
J. Scott Coatsworth, PO Box 19341, Sacramento, CA 95819
© 2023 J. Scott Coatsworth • Built with GeneratePress


The Republican National Committee will meet in DC this week to hold what is likely to be the final vote on amending the rules governing the 2016 election process, a subject that has been at the forefront of debate at each RNC meeting over the past year.
The RNC Rules Subcommittee, a 17-member group which was formed at the August meeting of the RNC and has met twice since, drafted the packet of amendments which will be presented to the RNC Standing Committee on Rules on Thursday. If passed by the rules committee, the packet will then be presented to the entire body of the RNC for a final vote during Friday's general session meeting.
In a letter sent to RNC members requesting support for the subcommittee's proposal, RNC Special Counsel member James Bopp describes the impact of the changes. Bopp states that the three amendments will enact strict and clear penalties upon state parties that violate election-timing guidelines, ensure the proportional binding of delegates for states whose process is held during the first two weeks in March, and extend the delegate certification period from 35 days to 45 days prior to the convention. The third change is meant to act in conjunction with an earlier National Convention schedule in order to reduce the overall length of time for the presidential primary period.
Guests of subcommittee members finish their lunch in the hallway after being asked to leave the room in which RNC rule amendments are discussed.
The proposals were unanimously approved by the subcommittee in meetings which are described as "open and transparent," though depictions from observers in attendance have not indicated the same. At the December meeting of the subcommittee, guests of members were asked to wait in the hallway outside of the meeting room while aspects of the rules were discussed.
The rules governing the primary election process have been the subject of national controversy ever since the 2012 Republican National Convention, in which a vote on rule amendments was met with loud opposition from RNC delegates. Over the course of the past year, activists have continued to oppose attempts within the RNC to incrementally implement further changes.
During the last RNC meeting, held in Boston, MA, proxy Bryan Daugherty introduced a proposal to rebuke the rules in their current form and revert to a previous set of rules. Daugherty also spoke in opposition to the formation of the subcommittee, stating that members were not given enough notice in advance of the vote and should refrain from making a decision on the formation until more time was given for consideration. "The smaller group will only further consolidate decision making by removing the grassroots and their representatives from the process as well as increase the distrust that already surrounds the amending process," predicted Daugherty.
Former RNC Committeeman Mark Willis, who resigned after what he described as power-grabs taking place at the last meeting of the RNC.


"It's calming and awesome, you're almost lost for words."
Randy Burgett said it is hard to explain what it is like to be a guest on the largest freighter in the Great Lakes.
"Everybody I've talked to has said it's a trip of a lifetime and I have to agree with that," the Fort Gratiot man said from aboard the Paul R. Tregurtha Thursday.
Burgett and his wife, Lynn, boarded the 1,000-footer Tuesday in St. Clair with friends Bob and Linda Kempf, Janet Knust and Rick Sheffield.
The Kempfs won the trip in an auction benefiting the March of Dimes this past winter.
"It's been awesome," said Linda Kempf of Marysville. "I have talked to people who have been on this trip and I guess it's like anything else, until you actually experience it, it's unbelievable."
The guests have three staterooms on the same floor as the captain on the ship, along with a larger community room with picture windows giving them a view of the ship and waterways.
"They actually assign to the guests a porter, an individual who looks after us, keeps us advised ... She's constanly bringing us plates of goodies," Randy Burgett said Thursday from the ship.
Those goodies are everything from pastries and cookies to smoked sausages.
"You name it," he said laughing.
Burgett said after boarding in St. Clair where the ship was offloading coal, they continued to Monroe where more coal was offloaded. They are currently upbound, headed to Duluth, Minnesota.
"It's calming and awesome, you're almost lost for words," Linda Kempf said.
"I've lived here all my 60-plus years and watched plenty of boat traffic come and go, but I had no idea what was truly involved in keeping a vessel like this running," he said.
A handful of area fundraisers offer trips on the freighter, including the United Way of St. Clair County. The nonprofit will start selling raffle tickets for its trip in November, according to its website.


text:
Q: JSON download to ListView I found this code that I have modified to suit my needs. However I am facing a bit of an issue. It appears that the data is obtained from the remote host but cannot be parsed into adapter.
I have reviewed my entire code structure to ensure that everything is in place but I cant seem to find the problem. The ListView is inside of a Fragment that is part of a TabbedActivity.
This my code:
Fragment inside a Tabbed Activity
public class shops extends Fragment {
String url="http://link to remote webservice";

//FragmentManager fm;

//newInstance() method return reference to fragment
public static shops newInstance(){
    shops fragment = new shops();
    return fragment;
}

public shops() {
    // Required empty public constructor
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    //fm = getFragmentManager();

    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_shops, container, false);

    final ListView listView = (ListView)view.findViewById(R.id.shops_info);
    final Downloader d =new Downloader(getActivity(),url,listView);
    d.execute();

//calls DialoFragment
    FloatingActionButton fab = (FloatingActionButton) view.findViewById(R.id.fab_edset);
    fab.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            DialogFragment newEdQua = new createNewEdQua();
            newEdQua.show(getActivity().getFragmentManager(), "createNewEdQua");

        }
    });

    // Inflate the layout for this fragment
    return view;
}

}

Downloader(receives data and parses in the same class)
public class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Void,Integer,String> {
Context c;
String retredq_url;
ListView listView;

String data;
ArrayList<String> shopl=new ArrayList<String>();//its the ArrayList that we bind to ListView

ProgressDialog pd;

public Downloader(Context c, String retredq_url, ListView listView){
    this.c=c;
    this.retredq_url=retredq_url;
    this.listView=listView;
}

//Before job starts
@Override
protected void onPreExecute(){
    super.onPreExecute();
    pd=new ProgressDialog(c);
    pd.setTitle("Refreshing List");
    pd.setMessage("Please Wait...");
    pd.show();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {
    data=downloadData();
    return data;
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String s){
    super.onPostExecute(s);

    pd.dismiss();

    if (s !=null){

        try{

            JSONArray ja=new JSONArray(data);
            //JSONObject jo=null;

            shopl.clear();//we need to add the data to ArrayList, so clear list first to avoid duplicates

            for (int i=0;i<ja.length();i++){

                String shops=ja.getJSONObject(i).getString("Qualification")+ ja.getJSONObject(i).get("eq_end_date")+
                        ja.getJSONObject(i).get("eq_loc_shops");//retrieve the column name into a string
                shopl.add(shops);

                ArrayAdapter<String> adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(c,R.layout.list_item_shopl,shopl);
                listView.setAdapter(adapter);

                listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
                        Snackbar.make(view,shopl.get(i),Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    }
                });

            }

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            Log.e("Downloader", "Error", e);
        }

        /*
        //call the Parser here to parse the JSON after we confirm string writer is not null
        Parser p=new Parser(c,s,listView);
        p.execute();*/

    }else {
        Toast.makeText(c,"Unable to download data", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

}

private  String downloadData(){
    //connect and get a stream
    InputStream inputStream=null;
    String line=null;

    try{
        URL url=new URL(retredq_url);
        HttpURLConnection con=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        inputStream=new BufferedInputStream(con.getInputStream());
        BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

        StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer();

        if (br !=null){

            while ((line=br.readLine()) !=null){
                sb.append(line+"\n");

            }

        }else{return null;}

        return sb.toString();

    } catch (MalformlocRLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }finally {
        if (inputStream !=null){
            try {
                inputStream.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

    }
    return null;

}
}

JSON output (Checked with ARC plugin on Chrome)
{"qualifications":[{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"}],"success":1}

A slight difference from what ADM sees (The success message comes first here)
{"success":1,"qualifications":[{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"},{"eq_edu_Institution":"Oracle","eq_start_Date":"1998-06-14","eq_end_date":"2005-08-23","Qualification":"Software Engineer"}]}

I defined the success message while struturing the array in php webservice
I intend use the Downloader class in several tabs for the same purpose(retrieve data from url parse and display in ListView). The urls and data are independent ot each other so I guess it should work...

A: Going over LogCat and reviewing JSON data obtained from server I was able to figure the problem. My previous code would have worked without any issues if the data was an Array with Objects in it. But I checked and the structure of the JSON was an Object with the Array inside.
What I had to do was get the Object with JSONObject then that Object retrieve the Array with JSONArray.. Like this:
            JSONObject jsonObject=new JSONObject(data);
            JSONArray jsonArray= jsonObject.getJSONArray("qualifications");

//now this Array has Objects needed

            for (int i=0;i<jsonArray.length();i++){

                String institution=jsonArray.getJSONObject(i).getString("Qualification");
                edqua.add(institution);
            }

            //provide the ArrayAdapter<> needed
            ArrayAdapter<String> adapter=new ArrayAdapter<String>(c,R.layout.list_item_edqua,edqua);
            listView.setAdapter(adapter);

It should be in a try-catch block.. It is good to know the structure of the JSON that is expected. I was rather asking for an Array when Object was being offerd, hence the type mis-match error. I also realised that I will be unable to use the same class for different data sources, as the tables are completely. Any suggestions of how to use one class for different data urls will appreciated.

A: As the ArrayList<String> shows, the list item will be like
Qualification eq_end_date eq_loc_shops as a single string, so initialize the adapter like
adapter = new ArrayAdapter<>(context,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,shopl);

A: Most of your code can be reused but the part which starts from data generated by downloadData() to the JSONArrayObject that your listview needs.
So you can extract these code to an Interface(here called IPreParser)'s method (called JSONArrayObject arrayFromData(String)), like this:
public interface IPreParser{
    JSONArrayObject arrayFromData(String data);
}

Your Downloader need hold a reference to IPreParser, and invoke its method in onPostExecute(). And you can initialize this reference by declaring doInBackground(IPreParser).
In anywhere you what download and parse your data, just implement IPreParser, and then execute your downloader with downloader.execute(yourImplementor);


Lunzygras: I'm a big loser!
That's great Lis..it really is alot to loose when you picture the actual weight of that. I always think of butter when I hear about weight loss because I can picture a pound of it! You need to watch Super Size me..did I ever tell you that? My kids don't even ask for McDonalds after watching it with us. I would be weak over a ton of other things though...I LOVE to snack! I'd say a random Mcburger here and there for you is still doing pretty great and obviously working for you!
Nik- I know, I should watch it, but fear it might scar me forever more. lol I read Robbins "Diet for a New America" and became a vegetarian immediately. Total grossed out and couldn't eat anything. He only does MDs right?? I need my monthly Whopper Jr. ;) And since you worked at Starbucks, coffee is okay too?


rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers. rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers. Crusher - Wikipedia. A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, or rock dust..
rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers. rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers. Samscreen's replacement jaws are designed with the toughest applications in mind, such as the crushing of mid hard and above mid hard rocks and ores.
Jaw Crusher Liner Replacement - . Jaw Crusher Liner Replacement. SBM is a production of heavy mining machinery, scientific research, production and sales of large enterprises.
Rock Crusher Jaw Replacement Liner For Small Crusher. replacement bearings for rock sale in Malaysia.This page is about the crusher,The crushers includes jaw crusher,Rock rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small .
rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers. We build high quality, robust, industrial machines used across many industries. Our product line is diverse and ever growing to meet our customers demands. HOME rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers.
rock crusher jaw replacement liners for small crushers ... rock crusher grinding roller replacement. rollers for a rock crusher. Model RC, 46 Rock Crusher with "Roller Scraper" Amazing 3 Barmac VSI crushers can be used successfully as a replacement for a roll With . Get A Free Quote.


text:
HIV still has a negative stigma among New Zealanders – survey
November 28, 2018 by newzealand
A new survey reveals that Kiwis still has a misunderstanding that destroys hearts around HIV.
Forty-six percent will feel uncomfortable if their children play with other children who are infected with HIV.
Thirty-eight percent will worry about having a flat friend with HIV, and 88 percent will worry about having sexual relations with someone with a virus.
The National Coordinator of Positive Women, Jane Bruning, has lived with HIV for 30 years. Time has changed, but he said stigmatized yet.
"The biggest obstacle for people living with HIV is actual stigma, people can live a long time but there is a lot of stigma and we want to try and eradicate it by educating people about where HIV is now."
Eve van Grafhorst became the face of HIV in the 1980s after being among the first Australian children to be infected, through blood transfusions. He was banned from the local pre-school school for fear he would infect other children, but was embraced by New Zealand.
Even so, some fears remain even today.
"This is 30 years later, and many of those messages have not yet come out," said NZ AIDS Foundation chief executive Jason Myers.
"The reality is that there are very few ways that HIV is acquired, and children playing with each other in the playground are not one of them."
HIV can only be transmitted through:
sharing needles
direct blood contact to the blood
HIV cannot be transmitted by:
share drinks
share food
skin contact and hug
Even sex can be safe. Once tested and on treatment, modern antiretroviral drugs can make the virus level very low, effectively there is no risk of HIV transmission. And there is always a condom.
There is tremendous progress in information and medicine, but what remains behind is our attitude.
Positive Body spokesman Jono Hendl was diagnosed 12 years ago and said it was the biggest obstacle that prevented people from being tested and treated.
"This is really a terrible thing, it really isolates," he said.
"These days with all the biomedical advances, I will live as long as other people and I will live a very healthy life, but that is a stigma that is a real obstacle."
It's time to get rid of outdated myths.
Newshub.
Categories newzealand
Abu Dhabi F1 Test: Ferrari's Charles Leclerc defeats the benchmark Vettel – F1
Svein Ludvigsen was accused of sexual assault


V neck ruched sweetheart short purple bridesmaid dresses wedding. Short purple bridesmaid dresses dresscab. Royal blue bridesmaids dresses ,purple short bridesmaids dresses. Short purple bridesmaid dresses with sleves bridesmaid.


Turns out a lot of other people thought it was a great idea, too. While my other posts on LinkedIn typically receive a couple hundred views, this post hit 6,000 in under 7 days.
This erased any doubts I had around validating the need for the Summit. Clearly, a lot of people are interested in what product marketing is, what we do and how to leverage us.
Check out the post on LinkedIn!


text:
Dr Michalis Attalides
By CEFTUS ADMIN	 Last updated Apr 12, 2017
CEFTUS Roundtable with Dr Erol Kaymak and Dr Michalis Attalides
Dr Michalis Attalides was until 1 April, 2016, the Rector of the University of Nicosia and is the chair of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Politics and Policies at the University. He has been a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester, a counterpart to the UNESCO Expert at the Cyprus Social Research Centre and a Guest Lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. He has represented the Republic of Cyprus as its Ambassador in a number of capitals, including Paris, London, and the European Union in Brussels, before being appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also represented the Cyprus government in the European Convention.He held a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam at the University of Nicosia between 2011 and 2014. His books include Social Change and Urbanisation in Cyprus: A Study of Nicosia (1971) , Cyprus Reviewed (ed.)(1977), Cyprus: Nationalism and International Politics (1980) and (in Greek), Cyprus: State, Society and International Environment (2009). He has also published a number of articles on society and politics in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, and on the European Union.
CyprusDr Michalis Attalides
Dr Erol Kaymak
Senem Aydın-Duzgit


Master Car Rental has cooperated with Sixt, Germany leading Mobility Service Provider founded in 1912. Sixt Operates in 105 Countries from over 4,500 locations globally and is the No.1 Car Rental Company in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ukraine, Croatia and many countries. Sixt Rent a Car offers great vehicle at low rates all over the world. Get a great deal on your car rental now. Save on your next rental car with Sixt and Make a Car rental reservation all over the world.


That was thrilling to learn! Of course today things changed completely, but it is good to know how plan B is looking like, if all the electronic stuff fails. Only a few captains nowadays will make such experiences (except of all the seamen on these small asiatic ships and boats without any modern equipment).
Thank you for this lively explanation!!!
I was reading through all this this morning and found it fascinating. I broke off to do other things and having returned I have just been swotting up on spring lines and docking small boats!
But seriously, these accounts are really enjoyable and I hope to see more. Thank you, Nari and Ombugge.
I think I may have posted this story before but could not find it - so at the risk of doubling up, here it is.
We were returning home to the Line islands on a medium sized vessel of the Union Steamship Line (an old NZ shipping service) and were approaching Tabuaeran in early morning light.
This thread has turned into mixture of Sea Stories and Anthropology I'll continue with a story from a different part of the world and a different time.
She was sold to Atlantic Drilling, which was owned by Ben Line of Scotland, who wanted to have their own Captains and Chief Engineers on board. She was chartered by ONGC in India.
I continued as Master for the first trip and for the first anchoring operation, with the two Captains who were going to take over as Mates. We sailed from Singapore to the Andaman Islands under our own power, which meant a speed of 6 kts. with a clean bottom and good weather.
Andaman was closed to foreigners at the time so we all had to get special permit for every individual to be allowed to enter there. In the regular crew there were 19 different nationalities. In addition we carried drill crew from Thailand for a total of abt. 100 persons, so not an easy administrative task to get the paperwork in place.
I read from the Bay of Bengal Pilot that "the Andaman Islands is populated by Indian settler, freed convicts and several tribes of Aboriginals", which promptly got the comment; "just like Aussie, mate". It went on to say that the area next to where we were to drill was populated by the Jawara tribe, who were "known to kill on sight".
After we had managed to anchor we had to wait for a couple of days for the Supply boat to arrive from Madras with spud material etc. so we decided to have a lifeboat drill and actually launch the boats. The two mates took charge of a boat each and, with a few crew members on board took a spin around the rig. Unfortunately one of them moved to within a mile or two from shore.
He claimed he had seen some natives with bows and arrows and spears on the beach, but had wisely stayed well outside arrow or spear distance.
Since we were only a few miles NE of Port Blair, the lifeboat had been observed and, since I was still the Master, I was call in to get a reprimand from the Harbourmaster, but luckily nothing more.
We were the first foreign ship that had been allowed into Andaman since WWII, except for Russians ship to their base at Port Luise, further north.
I left with the first crew change plane to Phuket, which was also the first foreign plane to land at Port Blair airport.
Now for the anthropology part. Some of the tribes on the Andamans are as black, if not blacker than the Bukas. One theory is that they are remnants of an early migration out of Africa and that they got stranded when the land bridge to the rest of Asia disappeared. They are close relatives to some other negroid tribes in India and S.E.Asia, as well as to the now extinct Tasmanian Abos.
I don't think they are related to the Bukas though, because they have a more Caucasian build and features.
"I don't think they are related to the Bukas though, because they have a more Caucasian build and features".
I withdraw that statement. Having compared pictures of Jarawa and Buka people I can see similarities in the build and facial features.
Could they have evolved alike on different islands far apart, or is the theory that they migrated from Africa correct?
That was a nice story, Naripalmer. Children in this age have a very photographic memory. I must have been around this age, when i was discussing with my parents on a ferry we used for the first time about the correct stairway to get back to our car. I convinced them, we took a completely different stairway as they were heading to and stood right in front of our car when we entered the car deck. I was also often surprised, how perfect my children remembered places and ways in that age.
Obviously no great interest in the Andaman, or the fact that there are people there virtually living in the stone age still.
Maybe this was too far OT?
Very interesting, Ombugge. Only just catching up with reading some of these links.
Nari wrote; "His favourite town was Lae in PNG".
Actually that was my favourite place too and the nearest to civilization, outside of Port Moresby and Rabaul.
Sitting in the Lae Club and listen to the stories told by some of the oldtimers, while they showed off scars from arrows and crocodile attack, was an adventure in it self.
Lae was also the first place I visited in the area, arriving with the Slidre from Japan.
We had carried a cargo from Singapore to Moji in early 1968 and was sitting at anchor outside Shimonoseki waiting on order when we received a telegram instructing us to proceed to Lae, PNG to load sawed timber and then to proceed from there to Sydney to enter into a charter with Karlander New Guinea Line.
The problem was that we had no charts for the area. We managed to get hold of a chart for the North coast of PNG, incl. the Bismark Islands and the Huon Gulf, but nothing for the Pacific Ocean, and no Plotting charts.
I went onboard a Greek bulker that was anchored close to us and managed to get a chart that covered all of the Pacific, from the Bearing Strait to Cape Horn. We had come up to Japan via the China Sea so we had charts for that area, which we could use as plotting charts. We only had to changing the longitude as required for the route we were sailing.
So, using a magnifying glass to ensure we didn't miss any little speck, we marked every island and reef along the route as big squares on the China Sea charts and planned a route that would take us well clear of them. Capt. Just Olsen decided that that was good enough.
But the Charterers had also requested an ETA, not just to Lae but to Sydney. "How in the H*ll can you give an ETA for such a long trip, with a loading port in between as well". Capt. Olsen replied with a date and hour.
We made the trip to Lae without any problems and got our first taste of PNG and the Island trade, where we got charts for the east coast of Australia.
We loaded full in Lae in a couple of days and arrived in Sydney within an hour or two ahead of the ETA given from Japan some three weeks earlier.
When the Charterers came on board, their first greeting was; Congratulation on your ETAs.
After that Lae was a port of call on most trips with the Slidre and Slidre Timur, until I left the trade in Aug. 1970. Many memories from there, mostly good, some funny.
I read about these peoples with a great interest, hoped there would be many more such accounts and don't see that it was OT, given an open-minded interpretation of the thread's title.
But we don't always comment on everything seen on the forum, DO WE, OMBUGGE???
OK, OK, guilty as charged.
Oh ....it was the personal stories and connections that make the anthropology so much more interesting!
I agree with Cecilia. Surely, sea stories include not only the journey itself, i.e. while on the water, interesting though that can be, but also what is met with as a result of any particular voyage. Too narrow a view can exclude those experiences of the narrator once at the destination which are worth relating and all part of the story. You can't leave them out. It is like Cecilia telling about her trip on the Serenissima but confining it to what happened on board and what sort of weather was encountered.
As Nari said at the beginning "..... what goes on in the ports they visit." Without that voyage you would not have met the Andaman.
I appreciate Ombugge's accounts of his ventures into the wide Pacific and am checking my father's old tatty accounts of what he did and where he went.
Personally, I am interested in accounts of where and what, not who was there on arrival.
That's just me - Ombugge's stories are very interesting to me without anthropology taking away attention from the events.
It looks like the Ladies have a difference of opinion on the matter of mixing sea stories with anthropology.
As a Gentleman, I'll compromise; if and when I add more to this thread I'll only mix in anthropology if it is a natural part of the story.
Last edited by ombugge; March 3rd, 2015, 05:11.
I'm happy with that compromise. I am well aware that I am in a minority with my prime goal of travelling being the landscape - au naturel.
Now I just wonder who showed interest in the anthropology sideline??
As far as I have determined there was no cannibalism within the Polynesians and Micronesians but the Melanesians were prone to eat their enemies up until the 1940s.
Yes cannibalism was, if not common, known to occur well into the 1940s, with the war years leaving ample supply of "long pig" for the pot.
It was obviously not the first time this had been done, just his way to introduce newcomers to the way of PNG.
He also pointed out an island which could be clearly seen from the anchorage in Wewak locally called; Walk-about Island. (Official name; Vokeo Island) It is a fairly large island with abt. 600 m. high volcano of near perfect conical shape as seen from Wewak. On the the BA Chart it was outlined with dotted lines and marked; position uncertain.
If you take a bearing of the island from Wewak in the morning and again before the rain in the afternoon, the result with be different by a number of degrees. I can't remember how many degrees, but enough to where it was noticeable by bare eyes.
Last edited by ombugge; March 3rd, 2015, 10:47.
Why would a bearing vary significantly between early am and pm?
I recall in 1955 (I think)we passed Malaita in the Solomons on the way to Tulagi to load timber. The skipper made a point that there were no ships at that time loading at Malaita - too dangerous. My second cousin, half Solomon Islander, was the sole protector of the munition cache at Bougainville.
When the Malaitans arrived to take it over, about twenty of them, he threw up his arms in surrender, and the Bougainville problems were resolved in a sort of way.
The reason is probably refraction caused by changing humidity in the air between morning and afternoon.
In Wewak it would start to rain at three in the afternoon every day. You could almost set your watch by it.
We would stop cargo work at 1430 hrs. and cover the hatches in preparation for it.
The rain would only last for 20-30 min. as a rule.
Back to Lae and the Lae Club Gentlemen. When we arrived from Japan with the Slidre and started on the Island trade we had a crew of mainly Singapore Chinese. This was at the time of the Cultural Revolution in China and "The troubles" in Malaysia, with Communists trying to influence politic in Singapore. The younger of the crew had gone true training on the TS Singapore, a hotbed of Communist influence.
After a couple of trips they got restless and homesick and started to make trouble, so we decided to send home the troublemakers and take Kanakas as crew.
We retained the older and key crew members, like the Engine Drivers, Bosun, Chief Steward, the Captain's Boy and Cooks, however.
At the Lae Club we were advised; "Make sure you mix the tribes. Don't get too many of the same tribe, otherwise there will be trouble".
Luckily we had enough crew to continue our few hour trip to Lae without problems.
When we got there we had to ask the Agent to supply a new crew, "but make sure they are from different tribes, not too many "one-talks".
By the time we got to the Lae Club in the evening, everybody there had obviously been told of our "adventure". "How was your trip and how was the crew"?? "Well, we told you to mix the tribes".


text:
Revision history of "Magtens Korridorer tekster"
(cur | prev) 06:11, 28 February 2009 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (453 bytes) (-49,527) . . (Reverted edits by 196.21.64.112 (Talk) to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 06:43, 9 November 2008 84.97.235.235 (Talk) . . (49,980 bytes) (+12,910)
(cur | prev) 20:47, 2 November 2008 119.31.126.134 (Talk) . . (37,070 bytes) (+12,916)
(cur | prev) 05:45, 25 October 2008 85.93.98.147 (Talk) . . (24,154 bytes) (+11,569)
(cur | prev) 17:40, 19 October 2008 196.21.64.112 (Talk) . . (12,585 bytes) (+12,132)
(cur | prev) 06:33, 7 October 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) . . (453 bytes) (-21,261) . . (rm spam)
(cur | prev) 06:33, 7 October 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (21,714 bytes) (-10,544) . . (Reverted edits by 211.24.226.8 (Talk); changed back to last version by 89.111.146.214)
(cur | prev) 21:26, 6 October 2008 211.24.226.8 (Talk) . . (32,258 bytes) (+10,544)
(cur | prev) 10:12, 6 October 2008 89.111.146.214 (Talk) . . (21,714 bytes) (+10,676)
(cur | prev) 00:19, 24 September 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (453 bytes) (-87,246) . . (Reverted edits by 212.235.183.97 (Talk) to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 00:18, 24 September 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (87,699 bytes) (-12,698) . . (Reverted edits by 198.65.122.125 (Talk); changed back to last version by 72.37.252.121)
(cur | prev) 10:33, 17 September 2008 198.65.122.125 (Talk) . . (100,397 bytes) (+12,698)
(cur | prev) 16:42, 23 August 2008 72.37.252.121 (Talk) . . (87,699 bytes) (+12,555)
(cur | prev) 13:40, 23 August 2008 221.11.172.92 (Talk) . . (75,144 bytes) (+12,580)
(cur | prev) 00:32, 23 August 2008 125.135.15.181 (Talk) . . (62,564 bytes) (+12,393)
(cur | prev) 20:15, 21 August 2008 117.74.97.174 (Talk) . . (50,171 bytes) (+12,279)
(cur | prev) 22:27, 20 August 2008 124.225.65.39 (Talk) . . (37,892 bytes) (+12,719)
(cur | prev) 10:02, 20 August 2008 194.106.106.146 (Talk) . . (25,173 bytes) (+12,376)
(cur | prev) 03:55, 10 August 2008 212.235.183.97 (Talk) . . (12,797 bytes) (+12,344)
(cur | prev) 09:19, 8 August 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) . . (453 bytes) (-12,021) . . (rmspam)
(cur | prev) 09:18, 8 August 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (12,474 bytes) (-145) . . (Reverted edits by Nathan (Talk) to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 09:17, 8 August 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (12,819 bytes) (-12,318) . . (Reverted edits by 205.178.184.113 (Talk); changed back to last version by 218.201.40.117)
(cur | prev) 01:43, 8 August 2008 205.178.184.113 (Talk) . . (25,137 bytes) (+12,318)
(cur | prev) 14:52, 6 August 2008 218.201.40.117 (Talk) . . (12,819 bytes) (+12,366)
(cur | prev) 16:41, 18 July 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (453 bytes) (-12,166) . . (Reverted edits by 218.84.186.230 (Talk) to last version by KaiAdin)
(cur | prev) 16:38, 18 July 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (12,619 bytes) (-12,414) . . (Reverted edits by 203.177.74.139 (Talk); changed back to last version by 218.84.186.230)
(cur | prev) 15:37, 29 June 2008 203.177.74.139 (Talk) . . (25,033 bytes) (+12,414)
(cur | prev) 17:24, 27 June 2008 218.84.186.230 (Talk) . . (12,619 bytes) (+12,180)
(cur | prev) 13:59, 20 June 2008 KaiAdin (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-12,052) . . (Reverted edits by 203.177.74.135 (Talk); changed back to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 01:16, 17 May 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-11,979) . . (Reverted edits by 63.165.0.63 (Talk) to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 01:15, 17 May 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (12,418 bytes) (-12,064) . . (Reverted edits by 66.212.28.29 (Talk); changed back to last version by 63.165.0.63)
(cur | prev) 17:39, 13 May 2008 66.212.28.29 (Talk) . . (24,482 bytes) (+12,064)
(cur | prev) 13:30, 13 May 2008 63.165.0.63 (Talk) . . (12,418 bytes) (+11,979)
(cur | prev) 15:42, 12 May 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-12,035) . . (Reverted edits by 194.126.102.10 (Talk) to last version by KaiAdin)
(cur | prev) 15:30, 12 May 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (12,474 bytes) (-11,949) . . (Reverted edits by 61.155.41.165 (Talk); changed back to last version by 194.126.102.10)
(cur | prev) 00:17, 12 May 2008 61.155.41.165 (Talk) . . (24,423 bytes) (+11,949)
(cur | prev) 11:24, 11 May 2008 194.126.102.10 (Talk) . . (12,474 bytes) (+12,035)
(cur | prev) 00:02, 10 May 2008 KaiAdin (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-11,894) . . (Reverted edits by 128.122.130.135 (Talk); changed back to last version by KaiAdin)
(cur | prev) 04:23, 9 May 2008 128.122.130.135 (Talk) . . (12,333 bytes) (+11,894)
(cur | prev) 08:02, 8 May 2008 KaiAdin (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-11,747) . . (Reverted edits by 216.138.162.82 (Talk); changed back to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 05:20, 8 May 2008 216.138.162.82 (Talk) . . (12,186 bytes) (+11,747)
(cur | prev) 12:53, 1 May 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-13,382) . . (Reverted edits by 165.138.18.100 (Talk); changed back to last version by KaiAdin)
(cur | prev) 16:19, 28 April 2008 165.138.18.100 (Talk) . . (13,821 bytes) (+13,382)
(cur | prev) 07:04, 27 April 2008 KaiAdin (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-13,299) . . (Reverted edits by 68.87.66.101 (Talk); changed back to last version by Nathan)
(cur | prev) 04:17, 27 April 2008 68.87.66.101 (Talk) . . (13,738 bytes) (+13,299)
(cur | prev) 17:16, 20 April 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (439 bytes) (-13,067) . . (Reverted edits by 130.237.112.15 (Talk) to last version by KaiAdin)
(cur | prev) 17:15, 20 April 2008 Nathan (Talk | contribs) m . . (13,506 bytes) (-13,123) . . (Reverted edits by 60.48.155.154 (Talk); changed back to last version by 130.237.112.15)
Retrieved from "http://bluwiki.com/go/Magtens_Korridorer_tekster"


I will never forget meeting Funké. It is the kind of meeting that you replay in your head, over and over again, wondering if you dreamed the whole encounter. During my time as Editor-in-Chief of Applause Africa, an online magazine dedicated to showcasing innovation and success within the African Diaspora, I took a team of three to cover the first installation of the MIT Africa Investment Forum in 2013. I saw her before she saw me, and it was not until a colleague introduced me to her that I realized I had found the woman I wanted to be when I 'grew' up. By then I had already read her bio and, given her accomplishments, I instantly assumed that she wouldn't bother speaking to me. So I was shy to approach her; but, to my surprise and immense relief, she hugged me warmly during our first encounter. Not only did she make me feel welcomed but we also spoke extensively about our mutual interests. I could not believe that a woman of her caliber found the time to listen to, advise and even champion my causes. For a while I thought I was an exception, but then I saw her do the same over and over again. The rest, as they say, was history; that day I learned that Funké was a novelty in the realm of successful women.
Nigerian-by-Birth and Kenyan-by-Marriage Funké Michaels is co-founder of The Pro-NICHE Network, a not-for-profit organization that provides free concept incubation, niche-networking and consulting services for African startups. She started this venture after spending over 19 years in managerial positions with brands such as Coca-Cola, Peugeot, Rothmans, Heineken, Subaru and Samsung. She has spent her time in the corporate circuit as a cross-functional resource for African, Caribbean and North American governments and multinationals in various consulting capacities.
With three children, two of whom were born while she was finishing her MIT Sloan Fellowship and preparing for her Mason Fellowship at Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government, Funké inspires one to have the audacity to chase their dreams. You will often hear her call her women colleagues "Rock Stars"- a phrase that I have since borrowed from her.
To her, there is no greater instrument for change than that of women who are united together with a common goal."Women are like the proverbial broom. As individual broomsticks, we can achieve little. But bunched in a strong bond, we become the instrument of change: sweeping out systemic laxity and preparing our communities for the future. Women hold society together, we hold our families together. It's time to actively hold our sisters together. We are more effective when we work in solidarity, " she told me.
More often than not, when she is not speaking on entrepreneurship and education, her favorite topic is women and their advancement politically, socially and economically. You will not hear it from her, but she has fought for women's inclusion in various dialogues and often has funded women leaders all over Africa to attend conferences on the continent and in the United States.
I am inclined to believe her because if women were empowered to excel, we would see a different Africa than we see now.
Nice read; Funke sure is a strong woman to reckon with, I admire her a lot.


The happenings in the ongoing by-election political campaigns in Sisheke are provocative to the peaceful people of Southern Barotseland and a clear manifestation of the ruling party's politics of confrontation and abuse of state police.
The escalated political violence under PF, especially the sharp decline in the rule of law, constitute an urgent problem that is if not well resolved, it will put the country on political turmoil that the current regime will fail to quench. Politics of violence is by-gone and not admirable by people with civilized minds.
We are very much aware of politics of enslavement as a major component of PF regime and at play in provinces perceived to be strong hold of opposition parties. I suffice to state that PF is taking advantage of rampant poverty and unemployment among the people of Barotseland, Sisheke in particular, to recruit young men to cause havoc and weakening the authority of the reigning Prince Inyambo Yeta through enticement of monetary gain.
The intimidation and even life threatening acts of the PF militia is unacceptable because other competing political parties are a creation of the constitution that brought about multipartism and the birth of Patriotic Front (PF), otherwise Rupia Banda and MMD would have remained in power to date.
Sisheke is not Kaoma, people of Sisheke expect to hear what PF or UPND have for the district in terms of economic empowerment. They have every right to receive a share of development from Zambia as they too pay tax and contribute to Zambia's revenue through the Katima mulilo border.
Any sane mind would not condone the political violence being perpetrated in Sisheke by-election campaigns by the unprofessional Zambia Police.
It is strange for the local traditional authority of the BRE in Sesheke to remain mute when the people are being massacred by ruthless PF thugs hired from Northern Rhodesia! The attitude of the BRE in this matter is an indication of weaker position of the traditional authority in the face of Zambian politics.
The people of Barotseland have on several occasions called for urgent reforms in the governance system in Barotseland that should have strong political element. In this case, the would be voters in Sisheke parliamentary by-election are not protected from intimidation and violence by both the traditional authority and Northern Rhodesia state authority, aimed at silencing their democratic right to choose the candidate of their choice.
People must exercise their democratic right of choosing a candidate of their choice without undue influence of barrel of a gun.
The violence in Sisheke by-election is the worst so far by Zambia's ruling Party, particularly in the contested territory of Barotseland. Politically-motivated killings and other attacks have occurred in many other areas of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) but the incidence of Sisheke shootings was like that of a war zone. People should understand that the Police work under command, therefore, no doubt the police acted according to the commanding authority.
PF party is full of contradictions, it practices divide and rule tactics through ethnicity to galvanize political support, stirring up sentiments that could spark further communal violence in Barotseland, as evidenced by the traditional authority wrangle in Kaoma district.
Secondly, during PF's tenure in power, most of the cases of political violence remain unresolved. Although the police have made some arrests, prosecutions are rare against PF cadres but quick on opponents. It is immoral for the PF to perpetuate Impunity by encouraging ruthless attacks on anyone not in agreement with their party policies. God has a way to deal with cruel leaders as demonstrated in the past.
But why electoral violence and not violence to end poverty? This is what the people of Sesheke need. Violence does not predict popularity, especially if perpetuated by the party in power, but representation of failed leadership.
It is difficult to know if the frequency of these political violence against the other competing political parties are a product of PF's interest to hold-on power or to provide leadership service to the people. A key question is whether/how these forms of violence causally occur without the knowledge of the president?


For Patrick King, fighting villains is part of a day's work. As Wolverine in Marvel Universe LIVE!, Patrick's most recent role involves battling classic villains in combat scenarios. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa., the professional stunt performer has acted in independent films and television series, including the History Channel mini-series Six.
Loyola Magazine 2005 graduate shares experience as a professional stuntman and latest role, Wolverine in Marvel Universe Live!
My professors at Loyola really helped mold me into both a better actor—and a better person. They prepared me for the entertainment world and encouraged me to never give up on my dreams.


TripBit Token (TBT) now listed on Blockfolio!
TripBit would like to let the community know OOOBTC has got into contact with us again regarding the listing. We will provide a proper update to the community as we hear back soon.
Vote for TBT on DeltaRelay!
The DeltaRelay.com decentralised exchange has entered TBT as a potential coin to list, provided we get enough votes. If you want to see TBT listed on a new exchange, GO HERE AND VOTE!


ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — State environmental officials are advising people to be alert for animals with unusual or aggressive behavior after several positive rabies tests in the eastern Adirondacks.
The Department of Environmental Conservation says reports of wildlife behaving strangely have resulted in positive rabies tests in the towns of Moriah, Crown Point and Ticonderoga in eastern Essex County.
Wild animals with rabies may act tame, sick or unusually aggressive. They may also stagger, have convulsions, choke or froth at the mouth. Officials advise people not to approach such animals and to report them immediately to DEC.


text:
Q: Nginx subfolder redirecting to url with trailing slash This is my setup:
location ~ \.php$ {
    include fastcgi_params;
    include fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/example.com$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
}

if ($request_uri ~* "^(.*/)index\.html$") {
    return 301 $1;
}

location / {
    root   /var/www/html/example.com;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
}

When I go to url https://example.com/subfolder browser redirects me to https://example.com/subfolder/ and if I try to remove trailing slash with rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;, there are too many redirects.
Is there a way to remove a trailing slash for subfolders?


I believe that most of you have heard the well-known quote by Marilyn Monroe: ' Give a girl the right pair of shoes and watch her conquer the world.' For me every pair of high heel shoes is the right one and the first place I would like to conquer with you is the kitchen.
If you wish to impress your relatives at the next family venue or maybe you have invited friends over dinner or it's just a regular weekly night and you want to make your loved one happy with a homemade dessert, here you can find recipes for every occasion. I will happily read your comments, so please make sure to include your thoughts, ideas and of course, questions.


text:
Q: Cross checking query on the same table How do I write a query to display records where sample1_id = 3 and sample2_id = 5  or Sample1_id = 5 and sample2_id =3.
Meaning it should check the row of sample1_id and see wherever there is a record of 5 in line with sample2_id having a record of 3 and also checked if sample1_id is having a record of 5 line with sample2_id having a record of 3.
I hope my question do make sense

A: Just going by what you have provided, a mock statement would look like this:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE (sample1_id = 3 AND sample2_id = 5)
   OR (sample1_id = 5 AND sample2_id = 3);

If this is not correct, please provide some sample data and a sample of the results you would like.
Added the following in response to question about using variables:
DECLARE @intId1 int,
        @intId2 int;

SET @intId1 = 3;
SET @intId2 = 5;

BEGIN;
    SELECT *
    FROM MyTable
    WHERE (sample1_id = @intId1 AND sample2_id = @intId2)
       OR (sample1_id = @intId2 AND sample2_id = @intId1);
END;


text:
Newsroom / News Releases Leadership Announcements September 08, 2015
Hawaiian Airlines Appoints Timothy Somerset to Director – Facilities Management
HONOLULU – Hawaiian Airlines has announced the appointment of Timothy Somerset to director – facilities management. Somerset is responsible for managing Hawaiian Airlines' new projects and renovations, as well as the administration and maintenance of facilities company-wide.
"Timothy's exceptional management skills in facilities planning, development and day-to-day operations will allow us to efficiently address our current and future facilities' needs," said Hoyt Zia, senior vice president – general counsel and corporate secretary for Hawaiian Airlines.
Somerset has over 25 years of preconstruction and construction management expertise, having most recently served as director at Cumming Corporation Hawaii. Previously, he was the director of preconstruction and estimating at WEST Builders, where he worked with clients to lead all phases of various projects, from conceptual estimating to design and permitting to scheduling and construction. Somerset has held numerous other leadership roles, including managing partner at Urban Core Inc., vice president and regional manager at Charles Pankow Builders, operations manager at American Constructors, and project manager at Central Real Estate Development Corp.
Somerset holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also is a licensed contractor in California.
Hawaiian® has led all U.S. carriers in on-time performance for each of the past 11 years (2004-2014) as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Consumer surveys by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure and Zagat have all ranked Hawaiian the highest of all domestic airlines serving Hawai'i.
Now in its 86th year of continuous service, Hawaiian is Hawai'i's biggest and longest-serving airline, as well as the largest provider of passenger air service from its primary visitor markets on the U.S. Mainland. Hawaiian offers non-stop service to Hawai'i from more U.S. gateway cities (11) than any other airline, along with service from Japan, South Korea, China, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa and Tahiti. Hawaiian also provides approximately 160 jet flights daily between the Hawaiian Islands, with a total of more than 200 daily flights system-wide.
Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA). Additional information is available at HawaiianAirlines.com. Follow updates on Twitter about Hawaiian (@HawaiianAir) and become a fan on its Facebook page.
HA_Timothy Somerset


Tuesday is when the KS1 children pull out their latest dance moves and strut their stuff with our qualified dance coach. The children are having lots of fun creating a group dance routine which they hope to perform to parents at the end of the sessions.
Every Tuesday evening, the boys in KS2 take to the football pitch with Mr Giampalmer and Miss Shortland. With only a few weeks until they compete in a local tournament at Asfordby Amateurs, all the boys are fighting for their place on the team. They are working hard on their ball skills, communication and team work and have some great new equipment, thanks to premier league primary stars, to practise with!
Secret Sports at Swallowdale is an exciting after school club aimed at selected children in KS2. Each week, as the children change into their P.E. kits, they can be heard speculating with eager enthusiasm about what might be happening. The children do not know which sport they will be taking part in until the club begins. The aim is to encourage children to take part in a range of activities they might not otherwise feel confident to try.
Wednesday evenings are a time to relax. Rachel from Shine Yoga is ready and waiting to calm the children with an hour intensive yoga session. It is an opportunity for the children to work on their core strength and balance as well as learning about the importance of taking time to reflect and rejuvenate.
On a Wednesday, whilst yoga is happening in the small hall, there is quite a different picture in the large Hall. It is a scene of flying balls as the children playing table tennis work hard to improve their speed and accuracy of play. The team are looking forward to taking part in their first competition early next term and we know they will represent Swallowdale with enthusiasm and spirit.


text:
Alvaro Bautista World Superbike win in Aragon as Spaniard beats Jonathan Rea
Bautista led from start to finish to claim his seventh straight win in the series
Alvaro Bautista finished in front of Jonathan Rea
Jonathan Rea had to settle for second place once again as Alvaro Bautista claimed his seventh straight win in this season's World Superbike championship.
Bautista led from start to finish at Aragon with Rea finishing ahead of the Spaniard's Aruba Ducati teammate Chaz Davies.
Bautista and Rea have finished 1-2 in every single race this season.
The former MotoGP star extends his lead over Rea in to 31 points, with a 10-lap race and race two to come on Sunday.
"I managed to reach fifth by the end of turn two on the first lap and settled into a nice rhythm with Chaz and the Yamaha boys," Rea said afterwards.
"I made some ground on the early parts of the laps but in the last sectors the other bikes had the legs on us.
"I tried to be perfect on the last lap and go into the long straight with a bit of a gap and I managed that."was second in the opening World Superbike race of the weekend at Aragon as Alvaro Bautista made it seven wins from seven starts this season.
Could this electric Superbike be the future of motorcycle racing?
Four-time world champion Rea started Saturday's race from 10th position on the grid.
Despite being nudged by German rider Markus Reiterberger at the start, Rea progressed through the field and finally got the better of Welshman Davies.
Bautista finished the race 15.17 seconds ahad of Rea to become the first Spanish rider to win in Spain since Ruben Xaus 12 years ago.
Meanwhile, Eugene Laverty had to settle for a point after making contact with another rider on the final lap and sliding into the gravel.


text:
Spartan Newsroom (https://news.jrn.msu.edu/2017/05/influx-of-chinese-students-creates-cultural-challenges/)
Influx of Chinese students creates cultural challenges
By Zuying Zhu | May 8, 2017
More on Who are we?
Subscribe to Who are we?
The numbers of Chinese students, as the largest group of international students in the U.S., has increased dramatically in recent years, according to the Institute of International Education.
The institute said that from 2005 to 2009 India sent the most students to the U.S. From 2010 to 2016, China became the largest source of international students in the U.S.
Even though the numbers of Chinese students continue to go up, that growth has slowed down in 2015 and 2016, according to Open Doors Report.
In 2011, 3,374 Chinese students were enrolled at Michigan State University. In 2015, 5,527 Chinese students were accepted to study on campus, according the Office for International Students and Scholars.
"Right now, about 70 percent of our incoming class this year was from Michigan, and the other 30 percent was from abroad and other states in the U.S.," said Patricia Croom, the university's director of international admissions, recruitment and student success.
MSU is trying to keep a balance between out-of-state students and students from overseas, Croom said, while keeping total international and out-of-state enrollment under 30 percent of the student population. She said that number may drop in future years.
A different education system in the U.S.
Zuying Zhu
James Dorsett, director of Office for International Students and Scholars.
Chinese educational institutions use a "teach-centered system," said James Dorsett, director of Office for International Students and Scholars in Michigan State University. Chinese instructors teach in the class while students take notes. Students rarely ask questions.
When Chinese students are considered unspoken students in class, it is not only because of the language barriers they have, but also the educational ways in China that Chinese students accepted since elementary school.
Ran Bi, a freshman majoring in media and information.
"The U.S. has an excellent quality of college education, which is totally different from the educational system that I received in China," said Ran Bi, a freshman majoring in media and information.
"I want to gain a different experience in a different area. MSU became my final choice because of its sports atmosphere and major ranking," Bi said.
"The U.S. has a better academic atmosphere than other countries in the world, including paper publications, research and the abilities of professors," said Xiaoran Zhang, a doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry, is spending her fifth year at MSU. "So when I applied for being a student of analytical chemistry major, I chose the U.S. As for MSU, I came here because it offered me a full scholarship to me."
After graduation, Zhang said that she wants to find a job in a pharmaceutical factory in the U.S. before going back to China.
"As a fresh graduate, it is not competitive enough to find a job in China because there are too many returned students from foreign countries," she said. "Also, I would like to say that living in the U.S. makes me feel less stressful than in China."
Looking at rankings
Courtesy of Lei Tang
Lei Tang, a sophomore majoring in education.
Lei Tang, a sophomore majoring in education, said that she originally chose to study communications, but then she changed her major after she came to MSU.
"I figured out that communication is not what I imagined about the media industry, and my parents wanted me to find a stable job in the future, which caused me to choose education eventually," Tang said. "Also, people thought highly of the education major because it is on the top list."
Chinese families often choose overseas universities by comparing school rankings, said Tom Melcher, chairman of Zinch China, a company providing study abroad information to Chinese students.
Yongle Pang, who has a doctorate in chemistry, works as a staff scientist in Covance, Wisconsin.
"I was interested in the topics that MSU chemistry professors were researching when I applied to the U.S., so I made a choice that MSU would be my destination for the years to come," he said.
Facing a new culture
Ke Ma, who is earning a doctoral degree in chemistry.
"I chose MSU simply because when I applied to 17 universities in the U.S., only MSU gave me the offer," said Ke Ma, who is earning a doctoral degree in chemistry. "I have not met any big challenge so far, but I did have some cultural issues with my American colleagues in terms of food culture."
Ma's boss loves Szechuan food, he said. One day when they had a meal in a Chinese restaurant, Ma ordered a course of chicken that was not de-boned. His American colleagues did not eat that course.
"That was a little bit embarrassing for me because I did not realize that American people preferred boneless chicken," Ma said.
Cultural conflicts, including stereotypes and language barriers are one of the challenges that Chinese students often face, especially when they try to adapt to the American culture, according to a study by Arizona State University researchers Kun Yan and David Berliner.
"I have a class which mentioned stereotypes about Chinese students," said Tang, the education sophomore.
Tang was surprised classmates thought all Chinese students were rich and that Chinese students never talked in the class. Tang was trying to change that.
Another cultural conflict can be language.
Bi, the media and information freshman, the biggest challenge during his first year at MSU was that when his American friends were making jokes, he could not understand what they were laughing at.
"When I really do not understand their jokes, I ask them why they laughed," Bi said. "If their laughing points were from dramas or songs, I would just watch or listen to it later, trying to join in next time."
MSU's Dorsett said hanging out with American students and joining clubs is a good way to build confidence for students whose first language is not English.
"For international students, the most helpful is oftentimes getting out of their comfortable zone and meeting people who are not like them, who do not speak Mandarin or Cantonese," he said.
Five misconceptions about Islam debunked
President Trump's executive orders earlier this year seeking to ban citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen from traveling to the United States led Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham to say the ban sends a signal that Muslims are not wanted in America.
Meanwhile, FBI crime statistics show hate crimes against Muslims are on the rise.
Three experts clear up five misconceptions about the fastest growing religion in the world.
We may be Americans, Michiganders and Spartans — but what does that really mean? The Spartan Newsroom special projects team takes a look at some of the characteristics that shape our community and make us who we are.
One thought on "Influx of Chinese students creates cultural challenges"
Lance on May 8, 2017 at 7:15 pm said:
Nice insight because being an international student is difficult, given our complex culture and language. Assimilation assistance must come from numerous sources to aid these young people embarking on their life's journey. Most struggle in their efforts and need guidance from schools' international departments, immigration protection, host families, concerned neighbors and fellow students, and even informative books to extend a cultural helping hand so we all have a win-win situation.
An award-winning worldwide book/ebook that reaches out to help anyone coming to the US is "What Foreigners Need To Know About America From A To Z: How to Understand Crazy American Culture, People, Government, Business, Language and More." It is used in foreign Fulbright student programs and endorsed worldwide by ambassadors, educators, and editors. It also identifies "foreigners" who became successful in the US and how they've contributed to our society, including students.
A chapter on education explains how to be accepted to an American university and cope with a confusing new culture, friendship process and daunting classroom differences. Some stay after graduation. It has chapters that explain how US businesses operate and how to get a job (which differs from most countries), a must for those who want to work with/for an American firm here or overseas.
It also has chapters that identify the most common English grammar and speech problems foreigners have and tips for easily overcoming them, the number one stumbling block they say they have to succeeding here.
Good luck to all at MSU or wherever you study or wherever you come from, because that is the TRUE spirit of the American PEOPLE, not a few in government who have the loudest voice!


Due to a short supply of rubber during World War II, vinyl became a valuable stand in. PVC or polyvinyl chloride is very durable for a fabric. Because vinyl fabrics are more durable they tend to be used for more outdoor related activities. Vinyl coated fabric comes in all sorts of pretty prints and it is widely used for toys that children play with because it is safe and easy to clean.
Printable vinyl can be used for furniture covering and can really make your outside furniture sets look much more attractive. In addition to just making them look better, vinyl coated fabric can add a unique twist that your neighbors will envy.
Even though laminate fabric would be great for outdoor furniture, sixty percent of vinyl coated fabric is used by construction companies. Also, vinyl coated fabric was used as a wire coating during World War too because it was just as safe and more readily available.
In 1926 Waldo Lonsbury Semon, a researcher at the B.F. Goodrich Company, invented plasticized polyvinyl chloride. Little did he know that eventually his invention would be transformed into vinyl plastisol which is the coating used to make vinyl waterproof. When making a vinyl sign material is easy to come by.
Website resellers are significant contributors to the success of your website. SEO and reselling SEO services is a relatively new type of online marketing. SEO, which is short for "search engine optimization", utilizes backward engineering to manipulate your written content so that it will be more likely to pop up in search engine rankings. Seo resellers outsource their direct clients' SEO work to the SEO company, and depending on the website reseller.
To understand why a social media reseller is so important, it might be useful to consider just a few statistics. For example, there are nearly 2 billion people who use the internet. And over 90 percent of these use a search engine. And over 75 percent of these use Google as that search engine. For this reason, having a strong search engine ranking when it comes to Google's PageRanking is one of the most important things for a website reseller to keep in mind.
A website reseller is not the only service that can provide quality internet marketing. However, if a website reseller can get a company's PageRanking up to the number one spot, this will make a huge difference. The reason is because most people do not go beyond the first page when they are searching for something online. Most, in fact, just click on the first result that Google is able to find.
It is for this reason that a website reseller is one of the best services for companies that are looking to gain more recognition on the web. Private label SEO typically uses the best practices for making sure that a website neither is disqualified as spam nor is insufficiently referenced to be located for those who are searching for it. It is for this reason that a website reseller is one of the best options for a lot of people who are looking for a way to increase their website presence.