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Astragalus congestus är en ärtväxtart som beskrevs av John Gilbert Baker. Astragalus congestus ingår i släktet vedlar, och familjen ärtväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A divided United Nations on Friday rejected a U.S.-led campaign to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for stem-cell research, as a General Assembly committee opted instead for a nonbinding declaration. With some viewing the practice as the destruction of human life and others as a potentially lifesaving avenue of medical research, "we thought it would be unbearable for the international community to be divided on an issue like cloning," said Ambassador Mohamed Bennouna of Morocco, chairman of the assembly's treaty-writing legal committee.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A divided United Nations on Friday rejected a U.S.-led campaign to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for stem-cell research, as a General Assembly committee opted instead for a nonbinding declaration.
With some viewing the practice as the destruction of human life and others as a potentially lifesaving avenue of medical research, "we thought it would be unbearable for the international community to be divided on an issue like cloning," said Ambassador Mohamed Bennouna of Morocco, chairman of the assembly's treaty-writing legal committee.
"The bottom line is that stem-cell research will advance. This declaration will not chill stem-cell research," said Bernard Siegel, a Florida attorney who led a lobbying drive by scientists and patient advocacy groups to defend cloning for therapeutic ends.
Adopting an agreement reached late on Thursday between supporters and foes of Washington's three-year drive for a broad anti-cloning treaty, the U.N. committee shunted aside the U.S. proposal by consensus.
In its place, the panel adopted a resolution instructing a working group to meet in February for talks on a political declaration put forward by Italy as a face-saving compromise.
Rome suggested the assembly issue a nonbinding statement calling on nations to adopt laws "to prohibit any attempts to create human life through cloning processes and any research intended to achieve that aim."
While proponents of embryonic stem-cell studies had problems with the term "human life," they agreed the text could form the basis of future negotiations, diplomats said.
U.S. envoy Carolyn Willson had no comment after the vote.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the United States was pleased the United Nations had not issued an endorsement of cloning.
"We are proud of our efforts to prevent human cloning. So the fact that there isn't any action by the U.N. to endorse cloning is a moderate success," Ereli told reporters.
Opponents of the U.S. plan said the outcome showed that a majority of the 191 U.N. member-nations wanted to keep the door open to therapeutic cloning, in which human embryos are cloned as part of research such as stem-cell studies.
But Ambassador Bruno Stagno Ugarte of Costa Rica, who led nations supporting Washington's plan, said it would have won in a straight up-or-down vote but instead faced death through procedural challenges, as happened twice before in the panel.
Friday's committee action fell a little over two weeks after U.S. elections in which stem-cell research was an issue.
Opinion polls showed strong support for such studies, and the U.S. Congress has so far shunned President Bush (news - web sites)'s pleas for a tough law that bans therapeutic cloning.
But Bush has on his own restricted the use of federal money for stem-cell research, allowing U.S. funding only for studies on embryonic stem-cell batches that existed as of August 2001.
France and Germany first proposed a U.N. treaty banning human cloning in 2001, but the issue has been bottled up ever since over whether a treaty should also ban the cloning of human embryos, as Washington insisted.
The United States says this is the taking of human life.
But scientists say the technique holds out the hope of a cure for some 100 million people with such conditions as Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes and spinal cord injury.


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The Civic Alliance of Serbia (; abbr. ГСС or GSS) was a liberal political party in Serbia.

History
Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992.

In the 1992 election, the party was represented by Ratomir Tanić.

Following the election, the Republican Club led by Nebojša Popov and the Reform Party of Serbia led by Vesna Pešić (Serbian successor to Ante Marković's SFR Yugoslavia-wide Union of Reform Forces party) merged into the party. Both had gone in coalition with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.

In 1996 Žarko Korać left the GSS with a group of dissidents who opposed forming coalition with the right-wing Serbian Renewal Movement for the 1996 federal election and formed the Social Democratic Union (SDU).

Notable members over the years included Goran Svilanović, former Foreign Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Nataša Mićić, former parliamentary president and acting president of Serbia, Gašo Knezević, former Serbian Minister of Education, and Vesna Pešić, the party founder and longtime leader.

The future of the party had been in doubt ever since it split into two wings. One part promoted a merger with Democratic Party, while the other part wanted to continue political existence as an independent party. The December 2004 party congress upheld the decision to remain an independent party and elected Nataša Mićić as the new leader. The party decided to apply for membership of the ELDR and the Liberal International. At its May 2004 council, ELDR, accepted GSS as an affiliate member.

However, GSS merged into Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on April 7, 2007. The party had three representatives in the National Assembly of Serbia in 2007 elected from the list of the LDP.

Presidents of the Civic Alliance of Serbia (1992–2007)

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Positions held
Major positions held by Civic Alliance of Serbia members:

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1 What are Plantar Warts?
3 What Causes Plantar Warts?
4 Where Can Plantar Warts Show Up?
9 Should I Get Surgery to Remove Plantar Warts?
10 Are Plantar Warts Contagious?
12 What Happens if You Cut off a Wart?
13 Do Removed Warts Grow Back?
16 What Are the Other Types of Warts?
Warts are skin infections caused by the human papillomavirus or HPV that can affect various parts of your body. Plantar warts appear around the soles of your feet. It is caused by the HPV entering your feet through tiny cuts or other weak spots found at the bottom of your feet. Although warts disappear on their own, it is necessary to get plantar warts treated if they cause any major pain or discomfort.
A plantar wart is tiny in size but can sometimes grow bigger. If plantar warts occur in groups, then they are known as mosaic warts. Plantar warts are contagious and can be spread if you come in contact with objects used by someone who has warts on their hands and feet. For example, plantar warts can spread if you wear footwear which was used by someone who had warts on their feet.
There are more chances of you developing plantar warts if you have a weakened immune system. If your plantar warts persist, you can try out the medication or the home remedies mentioned in this article.
It is easy to spot early symptoms of plantar warts in your body. Plantar warts appear at the soles of your feet. They are rough and grainy in appearance and can be found at the base of your toes or heels. The area around which warts appear will have lesions, and the skin around the wart will be hard and thick causing you pain when walking or standing. Plantar warts disappear on their own, but in case they persist you can try out various medications or home remedies.
Plantar warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) on the soles of your feet. The HPV will enter your body if you have a weak immune system. Plantar warts are contagious; there are always chances of getting warts on your feet if you are walking barefoot around public washrooms or swimming pools. It is advisable to wear shoes or slippers on your feet when you are using shared or public washrooms.
Where Can Plantar Warts Show Up?
There are various types of warts that can occur at different parts of your body. Plantar warts grow at the soles of your feet. Plantar warts are named after plantar fascia, the thick tissue at the bottom of your feet.
Children are susceptible to getting plantar warts as they have a developing immune system that may not be able to fight HPV. If your child is suffering from plantar warts and the medicines seem to have no effect, then it is recommended to visit the doctor.
Freezing Treatments (Dr. Scholls Freeze Away Wart Remover): Use Dr. Scholl's Freeze Away Wart Remover for treating plantar warts. Freeze the wart affected area by spraying Dr. Scholls on it. Freezing the wart breaks it down, your body's tissue then regenerates new tissue that replaces the wart tissue.
Wart Remover Salicylic Acid – Compound W – Compound W is a wart treatment cream that has salicylic acid, which is proven to be effective in removing common and plantar warts. Apply the cream on any wart affected area to remove warts painlessly.
Tea Tree Oil – Tea tree oil has a strong smell and antimicrobial properties that make it an effective treatment for warts. Warts spread on your body if you have a weak immune system, tea tree boosts your body's immune system that helps reducing warts.
Wart Stick – The Wart Stick Remover is an ointment consisting of salicylic acid that helps in treating common and plantar warts.
If you are looking for natural and safe home remedies to get rid of plantar warts, try out these cheap and easy options.
Green tea is rich in antioxidants and is an excellent solution for skin care remedy. 2-3 glasses of green tea every day will increase the antioxidant supply to your skin and reduce warts.
Instead of discarding a used green tea teabag, you can also apply it on the wart-infected skin. Place the tea bag on the wart for 10-15 minutes and repeat the process thrice a day along with drinking green tea.
Green tea reduces skin damage and repairs your skin by making it glow from within. There are also polyphenols in green tea that reduces skin inflammation.
Duct tape occlusion is the process of removing warts using duct tape. In this method, you cover the wart with a duct tape, by covering the wart you prevent it from getting air and sun exposure. Remove the duct tape once a week and wash the affected area. Keep the area exposed overnight and reapply the duct tape again in the morning.
To speed up duct tape occlusion, you can apply salicylic acid on the wart and cover it with duct tape.
Garlic has medicinal properties that help fight fungal infections. Allicin, an anti-viral component present in garlic makes it of great medicinal value.
To remove warts using garlic, clean up the affected area with soap and water and keep the area dry.
Crush a clove of garlic and place the crushed garlic on the affected area.
Cover the area with a bandage or a duct tape. Make sure that the crushed garlic is not in contact with any unaffected area or any part of the skin that has cuts or wounds.
Apply fresh cut garlic to the wart-affected area every day. The healing process will take 3-4 weeks.
The vinegar in apple cider vinegar acts like salicylic acid. It burns the infected area and treats the infected skin causing the wart to fall off. The irritation you get from applying vinegar stimulates your immune system's ability to fight the wart.
When applying apple cider vinegar, mix two parts apple cider vinegar with one-part water and soak a cotton ball in the solution. Apply the cotton ball on the wart and cover it with a bandage or a tape. Leave the cotton ball overnight on the wart-infected area. Remove the cotton ball and the bandage and repeat the process until the wart falls off.
Should I Get Surgery to Remove Plantar Warts?
If plantar warts are not removed by application of medicines or home remedies, you can get a minor surgery to remove warts. Surgeries for removing warts are uncommon, however, if the plantar warts are large and painful then it is an option you can choose.
Your doctor will cut off the wart from your skin, since this is a painful process your doctor will first numb the skin. There is always a chance of scarring when performing surgeries to remove warts, hence only choose this option if all other treatments have failed.
There are laser treatment options also available, however, there is only limited evidence of this method succeeding.
Plantar warts are contagious like any other warts. If you are using common washrooms or public swimming pools there are chances of you getting warts through someone who is infected. Warts are common among people who have a weaker or developing immune system, hence they are more common among young children.
Wear shoes or proper footwear when you are using shower rooms in the gym, public swimming pool or washrooms.
Wash your feet thoroughly with anti-bacterial soap or disinfectant whenever you have visited an area from where the virus can spread. If you have plantar warts, do not pick on warts as there are chances of them spreading. Wash your hands if you touch a wart, as warts may spread around areas that have moisture.
Be more careful with your grooming when you have warts. Shaving with a razor may cause the wart to break and spread to other parts of your skin. Avoid shaving, brushing or clipping around areas that have warts.
Plantar warts have chances of spreading through pedicure. Ask your pedicurist to use cleaner or disinfected tools before they do a pedicure on your feet as warts are contagious.
What Happens if You Cut off a Wart?
Cutting off a wart not only causes bleeding but also a permanent scar on your body. Using proper medication can remove warts from your body without leaving any traces.
Warts are sensitive and connected to your skin, trying to pick off a wart can result in excessive bleeding and pain.
Cutting a wart may cause wounds which later can result in infections. It is advisable to use medicines to treat a wart.
Do Removed Warts Grow Back?
Most warts disappear after proper treatment is given. Sometimes it may take months or years for a wart to disappear. But there are chances that a wart may reappear on your body if the HPV still remains.
To prevent plantar warts from spreading or recurring ensure you boost up your immune system and keep your feet clean.
Follow a healthy diet, eat a lot of green, leafy vegetables like spinach and kale that are high in B-vitamins and calcium. Broccoli, tomatoes and bell pepper that are high in antioxidants strengthen your skin's immunity and help your body fight HPV.
Fruits are rich in antioxidants and vitamin-C that helps improve your immune system to fight warts. Blueberries and cherries are high in antioxidants and good for your diet.
Try to avoid caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco as they are known to have a detrimental effect on your skin. Avoid processed food that contains unhealthy fats and is high in sugar. Baked goods such as white bread, donuts, and cake should be had in moderation as it contains unhealthy trans-fat.
Keep your feet clean. Use clean socks and shoes. Always wear footwear when you are using public washrooms or accessing swimming pool areas as plantar warts are contagious. When doing pedicure, ensure you are using clean and disinfected tools on your feet.
Warts are caused by the human papillomavirus or HPV. Plantar warts are painful lumps that can be found on the soles of your feet. Warts are known to affect various parts of your body and are highly contagious. Warts mostly affect children, teens and young adult as they have a developing immune system. Warts often go away on their own but as they are contagious there are various over-the-counter medicines and home remedies that you can try. People also opt for surgery in case of genital warts which can be painful and uncomfortable.
Skin tags or acrochordons are caused in areas where the skin surfaces rub together forming creases. It can be found in the neck, armpit or groin areas and may also appear on the eyelids. Skin tags are tiny, flesh-colored or brown goths that hang from the skin surface. Skin tags mostly occur in middle-aged or older adults. As skin tags do not cause any irritation or discomfort, medical treatment is not necessary. However, if a skin tag is located on the face or any area that causes discomfort, you can visit your doctor's clinic to get it removed.
What Are the Other Types of Warts?
Apart from plantar warts, there are other warts that caused by HPV that affect various parts of the human body.
Flat Warts: Flat warts grow on your arms, face, or thighs. They cannot be noticed as they are small. They are pink, brown or light yellow.
Filiform Warts: Filiform warts are the color of your skin and commonly grow on the face, especially near the eyelids or the lips.
Periungual Warts: Periungual warts can be quite painful as they grow under the toenails and fingernails.
Genital Warts: These are warts that occur around the genital area.
Common Warts: Common warts are small, grainy skin growths caused by HPV that is grown on hands, fingers, and toes.


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import epic.framework.Feature
import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer

case class OffsetFeature(offset: Int, feature: Feature) extends Feature

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@SerialVersionUID(1L)
class OffsetWordFeaturizer[W](offsetFeaturizer: WordFeaturizer[W], offset:Int) extends WordFeaturizer[W] with Serializable {
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What is a folksinger doing writing about heavy metal? Popular music comes with a variety of sounds and takes on many shapes and forms. Heavy-Metal Rules.com, an online magazine from Canada, will review Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music, which focuses on how mythical thinking and imagination continues to have a significant role in popular music. Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music is available from online book sellers, including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.


Many people want to know if we can use brain imaging as a surrogate measure of pain. Insurance companies want to know if brain imaging can tell them whether a person on disability really has low back pain or is he just malingering. Pharmaceutical companies want to know if brain imaging can provide objective evidence of their manipulation's effectiveness. Moreover, can it provide a more sensitive and reliable measure than self report in patients? This talk will consider how MRI and PET may be used not only to understand pain processing but also to measure the pain experience. Our major means of assessing this in humans is to communicate with language. This talk will provide an overview of how brain imaging has been used to in humans and animals to measure nociceptive processes, pain perception, abnormal pain processing, nociceptive and modulatory brain circuitry and connectivity, neuro-anatomical changes related to chronic pain, and neuropharmacological processes related to pain and analgesia.
Brain imaging has been used to measure the neural basis of experimental and clinical pain perception (Apkarian et al. 2005). A core network has been identified that includes the thalamus, primary and secondary somatosensory cortices (S1 and S2), and parts of the limbic and peri-limbic system, including anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and insular cortex (IC). Frontal cortical regions and periaqueducal grey matter (PAG) have been found to be associated with pain modulation. Imaging studies have been particularly important for studying the neural basis of psychological modulation of pain. Human studies examining the effects of attention and distraction show modulation of pain-evoked activity in thalamus and in several cortical regions, including S1, ACC and IC [see (Villemure and Bushnell 2002) for review].
Brain imaging has also been used to examine the neural underpinnings of various chronic pain conditions, including neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, vulvovestibulis, and headache (Apkarian et al. 2005). Many of these studies show that when a normally non-painful stimulus is perceived by the patient as being painful (allodynia), pain networks in the brain are activated (Silverman et al. 1997; Gracely et al. 2002; Pukall et al. 2005; Hofbauer et al. 2006). Anatomical brain imaging now shows that some chronic pain syndromes, such as low back pain, are associated with structural changes in the brain, including loss of cortical grey matter (Apkarian et al. 2004).
Human brain imaging has the potential for revealing much about normal and abnormal nociceptive processes. It can be used as a tool to examine sites of action of new pharmaceutical agents, as well as an overview of brain areas ultimately affected by an analgesic manipulation. Nevertheless, the spatial and temporal resolution is still limited, and the statistical nature of the data analysis makes the interpretation of negative results problematic. A lack of an observed effect with either fMRI or PET technologies does not mean that a clinically important effect does not exist. The sensitivity for detecting what could be a physiologically important signal is limited. However, the technology is advancing at a great rate, so that that the spatial and temporal resolution, as well as the sensitivity, of the techniques will continue to improve.


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Na Cruithne
Na Cruithne (pronounced Na-Cruin-ya) is a Folk Metal Band from Galway City, Ireland. Na Cruithne has a style that incorporates elements of Groove and Black Metal with heavy influences from traditional Irish, Scottish and Breton music. Lyrically the band tend to steer away from mythology and fantasy staples of the Folk-Metal genre. The one theme that is prominent in most songs is of nature and animals, which can be heard throughout the band's songs and compositions. The Irish language features heavily in the lyrics with almost half of the songs as Gaeilge (Gaelic).
They released their debut-album 'Gairm An Fhiántais' in 2017.
In 2019 the band quits.
Na Cruithne Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5QzFgZFMq0
Na Cruithne Discography/Reviews
Gairm an Fhiantais (2017)
Na Cruithne Links
Na Cruithne Bandcamp
Na Cruithne Facebook
Na Cruitne YouTube

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An argument for cleaning things up…
by naylandwblake	on May 31, 2004 May 31, 2004
The ongoing unpack – clean – reorganize project has unearthed many things, good and bad but here's one item I just ran across at the bottom of a box.
No date on it or any information other than what you see here. I even forget where or when I acquired it, but now it's perched on my desk: role model? cheer leader? fantasy fodder? I can't quite decide yet.
art_thirst says:
I love that pic. I could use it as the basis for a drawing (chalk on black paper).
lfkbear says:
WOW! That's pretty incredible.
keanubear says:
Fantasy Fodder! WOOOOOOO!
thornyc says:
Our Friend, the Internet
The man in the photograph will have to remain a mystery, but we can find out more about the photographer:
A fascinating contemporary account of the state of the art of photography in NYC in 1887 (Mora is mentioned in the penultimate paragraph):
http://www.daguerre.org/resource/dagnews/1999/11-06-99.html
As much as we'll probably ever know about the photographer, and a collection of opera stars he photographed:
http://www.historicopera.com/thumb_mora_left.htm
A collection of 53 images by Mora:
http://www.picturehistory.com/search?word1=mora&submit.x=7&submit.y=7
especially these four:
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/19540/mcms.html
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/13388/mcms.html (a professional wrestler in 1870!)
clarkelane says:
Stunning. Thanks for sharing this. Inspiration for us all.
progbear says:
At first, I thought it was you, going to one of those old-timey "Old West" photo places. Whoever it is, he's hot.
I dunno, John Muir's cuter younger brother? I'm at a loss here, people.
minuhcare says:
i love how the rakish angle of the sitter's hat gives him a blackened halo. the hankie/mantle is also a lovely touch.
champdaddy says:
a fine specimen… and an artistic cock of his hat, perhaps an 1800's equivalent of turning your ballcap around?
schantron says:
¡muchísimas gracias, está maravilloso!
tycho_anomaly says:
Mora! Mora! Mora!
Hmmmm, lifelong bachelor, interests in theater, opera, wrestlers, beards, photography, the arts. Extreme packrat. Eats a lot of pies and cakes. Nope, doesn't suggest anybody to me…
The California Historical Society lists the following in its photography collections:
Photo Album No. 80
Description-Photographers sample book. Postage size pictures.
Photographer-Mora, 707 Broadway, NY
Size-14 x 10
(Regrettably, the CHS doesn't seem to have any images online. Also, I'm wondering if Nayland's card might be a Mora self portrait.)
Mora lived as a recluse at the Breslin Hotel at Broadway and 29th.
Also (if I'm Babelfishing this German correctly) there was a type of frameless picture holder named after him. (a "Morastaender")
Der Typ des rahmenlosen Bildhalters wurde als "Moraständer" vertrieben – wohl nach dem New Yorker Fotografen José Maria Mora benannt, der seit 1870 unter der Adresse 707 Broadway ein Atelier betrieb (Robert Taft: Photography and the American Scene. A Social History 1839–1889. New York 1938 [Reprint New York 1989], S. 349, 500)
[Source: M ê l é à n o t r e v i e , p a s s é d a n s n o s m œ u r s:
Zu Geschichte und Funktion der Fotorahmung
Even Mora…
(For the link-phobic, here's the bio from Thor's link to historicopera.com)
José Maria Mora – Photographer: A Spaniard born in Cuba in 1849 [or 1846], he found a safe haven in New York during the Cuban Revolution in 1868. After studying with Sarony, he opened his first studio in 1870 at 707 Broadway. Mora was noted for his extensive collection of painted backdrops (over 150), many designed by himself, that hung in his studio. A great deal of his profit was earned from selling these celebrity images (called "publics") in theaters, hotels and other establishments all over the world. Later in his life Mora chose to live as a recluse at the Hotel Breslin in New York for the last fifteen years of his life. His meals subsisted mainly of fifteen-cent pies and cakes, and other food given to him by hotel guests, even though it was said that he had several savings accounts and property in Cuba and on Long Island. In September of 1926 he was declared incompetent by a sheriff's jury who based their opinion on his appearance and incoherent talk. Earlier in the year he had been sent to St. Vincent's Hospital after he had been found unconscious in his room. When his room was searched it was found to have been littered with scraps of food, and barely alive in a box were two pigeons. His bathroom was secured with four padlocks, and the bathtub filled with theatre programs and newspapers from years ago. Photographs of dead celebrities, and old theatre clippings decorated his walls and tables. Mora passed away on 18 Oct 1926 (the newspapers reported his age to be eighty) at St. Vincent's Hospital. His only next of kin were reported to be cousins in Brazil, N.Y., and Cuba, and a sister who was said to be the wife of the Brazilian Ambassador to Germany in the days of Bismarck.
bearbait says:
Despite his seemingly brusque exterior, I love how he has rather soft, vulnerable eyes.
Mora's Madagascar Magician
(They don't make mustache wax like they used to…)
Details here.
danbearnyc says:
But what color is that bandana?
Given how far the brim of his hat is pushed back, I'd reckon light blue, for cocksucker.
And you may find this amusing:
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/index.php?s=hankies
aa_bronson says:
On first looking at it, I thought it might be your grandfather, Nay…
leatherboy says:
Wonder how they said WOOF back then..
But what about Periwinkle?
Re: Our Friend, the Internet
Interestingly Antiques Roadshow featured an album of cartes de visite, or rather, calling card pictures. The album contained over a hundred Civil War – Reconstruction era cartes and was valued at roughly $8,000. The most valuable were pictures of Sojourner Truth and a black post-Reconstruction congressman whose name I forget.
Do it! Time to draw!
Thor, you never cease to amaze me.
Hmm – I would bet more of a way to keep the shadow from falling across his face, given the lack of elecctical lighting. Still, it is a great angle.
Nice user pic, BTW!
De nada, which is just about all the spanish I know.
It's true he is baby-faced in a delectable way.
Hmmm, unfortunately neither of my grandafthers looked anything like this. Clean shaven types they were.
Probably something like YEEHAW!
If I knew I was going to look that good, I'd be at an old west photoplace in a second!
Neither did my grandfathers, but my Great Grandfather was quite something else. I just arrived in Toronto and I have a portrait here, I will try to photograph it and post it…
badfaggot says:
… or "noteworthy". 😛
As would say, «Oh my God, let's go right now!»
sinnabor says:
Lordy, how did I miss this? I need to keep up with my LJ reading.
He's stunning. Boyish, but not a boy. He's got to be in his 20's. Why can't big beards make a comeback as a fad? Just for a decade or two…
And isn't it funny, in this modern age of online classifieds and webcam crotch shots, to find someone intensely attractive based entirely on a face shot?
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"Hi-Ho"/"Good Bye" is the seventh and only double A-side single by Japanese musician hide, released on December 18, 1996. It reached number 8 on the Oricon chart.

The music for "Beauty & Stupid Tokyo Ska Version" is performed by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Track 3 is a live version of "Pose" recorded at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on October 20, 1996, the entire concert was released as the live album Psyence a Go Go in 2008. On August 4, 2010, the single was re-released as part of the second releases in "The Devolution Project", which was a release of hide's original eleven singles on picture disc vinyl.

Track listing
All songs written by hide.

Personnel
 hide – vocals, guitar, bass, arranger, producer
 Satoshi "Joe" Miyawaki (ZIGGY) – drums on "Hi-Ho"
 Eiki "Yana" Yanagita (ZEPPET STORE) – drums on "Good Bye"
Personnel per Psyence liner notes.

Cover versions
Yoshiki, hide's former X Japan bandmate, covered "Good Bye" on the 1999 hide tribute album Tribute Spirits. Jamosa covered it for Tribute VI -Female Spirits-, while Zeppet Store recorded a version for Tribute VII -Rock Spirits-. Both albums were released on December 18, 2013. "Good Bye" was covered by Cocco for the June 6, 2018 Tribute Impulse album.

References

External links

1996 singles
Ska songs
Hide (musician) songs
Songs written by hide (musician)
1996 songs


Transfering phone contacts from Nokia mobile to Android HTC Desire without using PC but by Bluetooth.
Home/Transfering phone contacts from Nokia mobile to Android HTC Desire without using PC but by Bluetooth.
First thing you need when you switch to a new mobile is your contacts.
Last year when I switched from one Nokia to another Nokia phone, I used sync feature.
But I faced a little frustration initially when I got my HTC Desire Android phone.
Some of the solution I got on Internet were long that involved connecting your phones to PC.
However here is the short and fast way of transferring your contacts to your Android mobile.
Goto Contact on you Nokia mobile.
Select your HTC Desire mobile.
On HTC Desire it will ask permission to pair. Allow pairing as you will be transferring multiple contacts.
Once you receive the contact files you will get a notification on your HTC Desire.
Open the notification and tap on any one of the contacts and then select "Import all vCard files" and viola you have all the contacts in your new HTC Desire in less than a minute and without opening your PC.
This is great information, but what if after you mark them all there is no choice to send them out? The only thing I was able to do was to copy them to a sim card which is not what I want. It appears on older Nokia phones that the send option is not available. My phone is about 4 years old. so how to do use bluetooth on an older device to transfer contacts to an Andriod phone?


Event 1 - Complete as many loops as possible in 20 seconds.
Event 3 - Start Timer. Take off, land behind the streamer laid out on the field. Stop Timer. Shortest time wins.
Event 1 - Start Timer. Take off, Do One Loop, Land, Bust Balloon Shortest Time Wins.
Event 2 - Most number of touch and goes in two minutes.
Event 3 - Start Timer. Take off, Do 2 Loops, 2 Left Rolls, 2 Right Rolls, Land. Shortest Time wins.
Pictures from this event can found in the picture gallery.
Event 1 - Start Timer. Pop One balloon on field, take off and complete one circuit around the field perimeter. Land. Pop Second Balloon. Shortest Time Wins.
Event 2 - The Classic Bomb Drop.
Event 3 - Climb 20 seconds, kill engine, longest plane in the air wins. Results table shows seconds in the air.
Event 1 - Closest landing to the marked spot on the field wins. Numbers in results table reflect feet from the marked spot.
Event 2 - Climb 20 seconds, kill engine, longest plane in the air wins. Results table shows seconds in the air. There was a penalty if your engine remained running(R), or you landed off the field(O).
Event 3 - Closest flight time to 1 minute (without using a watch) wins. There was a five second penalty for going over the minute mark. Times in result table include that five second penalty.


Grilled avocado with roasted tomatoes makes a great side dish or a quick, light meal. This easy-to-make recipe is raw and will leave you full without feeling fatigued. If you aren't into grilling, simply roast the avocados along with the tomatoes.
Prepare the grill for a medium-hot fire.
Set the oven to roast setting at 550ºF or as high as it will go.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add tomatoes to a bowl along with the garlic cloves and corn. If using fresh corn, slice it from the cob and add to a bowl. Chop onion and add to bowl. Remove stems, membranes, and seeds from 2 of the peppers. Chop and add to the bowl. For more heat, leave the seeds and membranes in the peppers. Add 1 tablespoon of olive oil, salt, and pepper to the bowl then mix well to coat all the vegetables. Turn vegetables onto parchment paper.
Place in oven and roast until lightly browned, turning once or twice during cooking. In the meantime, slice the avocados in half lengthwise. Coat each half of the flesh side of the avocado, with a little olive oil. Place the avocados, flesh side down on the grill and grill until warmed through and slightly charred. If you don't want to start the grill, roast the avocados in the oven with the other vegetables.
Turn grilled avocados over and fill the center with the roasted vegetable mixture.
Top with chopped cilantro and sliced peppers.
Squeeze with fresh lime juice and serve with extra wedges of lime juice on the side.
Total Calories: 1357 | Total Carbs: 99 g | Total Fat: 97 g | Total Protein: 17 g | Total Sodium: 16 g | Total Sugar: 18 g	Note: The information shown is based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.
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How MLB Announcers Favor American Players Over Foreign Ones
An analysis of 200 televised pro baseball games reveals broadcasters' hidden biases.
Adam FelderSeth Amitin
Sports broadcasting history is littered with stories of announcers making offensive remarks about a player's race. To name a few:
1983: Howard Cosell's description of a catch by black Redskins receiver Alvin Garrett: "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" Cosell insisted there was no racial aspect to the comment, and that he referred to his own white grandson in the same way. Cosell had actually used the term to describe other players—white and non-white alike—prior to the Garrett incident.
1988: Football commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, on black athletes: "This goes back to the Civil War...the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman...so that he could have a big black kid." Snyder was fired for his comments.
2003: Rush Limbaugh, then in the booth for Monday Night Countdown, on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb: "I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." Limbaugh was gone from the show soon after.
2005: San Francisco sports radio host Larry Krueger, in regards to the Giants: "Brain dead Caribbean hitters hacking at slop nightly." The quote would eventually cost him his job.
The aforementioned instances—possibly excluding Cosell's—have an obvious racial tint. What is more difficult to prove is the existence of subconscious racial bias: a white man crossing the street as a black man approaches, for example. The white man may not even realize he is acting in a way that assumes the approaching stranger means to do them harm, but is acting on a racial bias nonetheless. Are sports announcers guilty of this sort of bias, and are viewers unknowingly absorbing them?
To answer this question we dispatched a group of ten people to combine to watch every single television broadcast of a Major League Baseball game for a week last season—95 games total, and nearly 200 separate broadcasts, since nearly every team fields its own broadcast for every game. We analyzed these games for the words announcers used to describe players, with the goal of finding out whether broadcasters spoke about white players and players of color differently.
Our analysis shows that while black players are not discriminated against, foreign-born players—of which the vast majority are Latino—find themselves at a disadvantage.
"Last season, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!"
–Tom Selleck as Jack Elliot, in the 1992 movie Mr. Baseball
Virtually everything a baseball player can do on the field has a corresponding metric, no matter how completely meaningless (ninth-inning doubles in the month of August), misleading (pitcher wins), or downright silly (fielding percentage). Announcers, however, still find themselves commenting on things that are inherently immeasurable. These "intangibles" nonetheless comprise a significant portion of announcer language.
While baseball discussions often reference countable statistics such as home runs, batting average, and strikeouts, they also reference intangible characteristics that cannot be listed on the back of a baseball card. Descriptors such as "scrappy," "hustling," or "plays the game the right way" are bandied about despite the fact there's no way of actually measuring these qualities.
As a general rule, these descriptors tend to fall into three categories: performance-based, effort-based, and character-based.
Performance-based descriptions often take the form of contrasting equivalents—praising a pitcher for being "a pitcher, not a thrower." or being "not just an athlete, but a baseball player."
Effort-based descriptions rely on the old standards of "grit," "hustle," "scrap" and other such synonyms that seem to rely on how much dirt a ballplayer gets on his uniform over the course of a game.
Character-based descriptions ignore the on-field product and instead describe the subject as a person. Announcers frequently like to call ballplayers "professionals" as a compliment. This category also includes praising players for "respecting the game" and being "old school."
Then there are the descriptors that belie categorization: Vin Scully of the Dodgers likes to use the term "Big Butter and Egg Man." George Grande of the Reds has used "Colorado Antelope." Most, however, fall into one of the previous three categories.
From August 11 to 17, 2011, we watched and coded every single television broadcast of Major League Baseball as data gatherers listened for such intangible code words. Coders were compensated thanks to funding gathered via Kickstarter last fall.
Why August? In theory, due to how long the baseball season is, selecting any one-week window should be representative of any other one-week window. August, however, is unique:
The make-up of rosters has largely stabilized: players who left spring training with their teams but failed to impress are in the minor leagues, and will not be called up until rosters expand in September.
The trading deadline has passed, further lending stability to rosters.
Most teams are well aware of their chances to make the postseason, a factor that may play into how announcers describe the on-field product.
This late in the season many players' statistics (most of which are ratio-based rather than count-based) have normalized, so that very little is left to the announcer's imagination when measuring a player's on-field contributions.
Our primary purpose is to determine if there are significant links between player race and how announcers describe these players. However, one cannot simply look at announcer language to determine the presence of racial linkages; several factors besides player race must be accounted for to make sure they're not driving announcer comments. Specifically:
Race of Announcer (white or non-white)
Player "Performance" (measured by offense and defense)
How Close the Game Was
How Close/How Far a Team is from a Postseason Berth
Player Place of Birth
Player Height (shorter players seem more likely to be praised for intangibles)
Special Events: Two rather extraordinary events occurred during data collection and need to be accounted for. One event was Jim Thome hitting his 600th home run, a milestone only 7 others have reached in their careers. Announcers made mention of this event and praised Thome's character.
Similarly, then-Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano was ejected from a game for throwing at Braves third baseman Chipper Jones. In the locker room after the game, Zambrano said he was retiring from baseball, a claim which he later retracted (he has since been traded to the Miami Marlins). In any event, the incident and Zambrano's subsequent suspension were sufficient material for announcers to remark on Zambrano's lack of character.
While this is a scientific analysis, some of the categorization is an art rather than a science. Lumping each descriptor into the general category of "performance, effort, or character" is a task that could be reasonably interpreted in different ways by different people.
In the "performance-based" category, the most popular terms were things like "athlete," "talented," "clutch," and "plays the game the right way." Some terms were context-specific: calling a player a "baseball player" is not an evaluation unless in the larger frame of "so-and-so is not merely an athlete, but a baseball player." All of these are completely meaningless terms, of course: by definition, all baseball players that manage to make it to MLB are both talented and athletic. No player runs clockwise around the basepaths; all players play the game the right way. In the "effort-based" category, the most popular terms featured "hustle," "scrappy," "effort," "hard working," and "lazy".
The "character-based" category was all over the map; this area is where the most discretion was needed. On the whole, however, several themes emerged: "patience," "leadership," "class," "intelligence," and "professional."
This allows for several analyses depending on how one slices and dices the data: whether the use of positive/negative terms is linked to race, and whether specific descriptors are linked to race.
Results: Top-10s
Before delving into the full analysis, looking at which players are most commonly addressed is interesting. The most-commented players, in hindsight, are largely predictable:
Top 10 Most-Commented Players
Carlos Zambrano SP-Marlins
Jim Thome DH-Orioles
Jose Altuve 2B-Astros
Prince Fielder 1B-Tigers
Zack Greinke SP-Angels
Justin Upton OF-Diamondbacks
Nyjer Morgan OF-Brewers
Albert Pujols 1B-Angels
Chris Carpenter SP-Cardinals
Jimmy Paredes IF-Astros
Even before the 2012 incidents, Zambrano and Thome had cultivated their respective reputations.
Altuve, a 2012 All-Star, is the shortest man in MLB. Many of the comments about Altuve were in seeming awe of his ability not to be stepped on by normal-size players, much less to play professional baseball competitively.
Fielder and Pujols, two of the game's premier players, were in the final year of their contracts with their respective teams. Given how often home-team announcers praise their local nine, one wonders if this particular praise was attempting to prime listeners for impending free agency.
Nyjer Morgan is frequently cited for his personality—or more accurately, the personality of "Tony Plush," Morgan's suave and gentlemanly alter ego. It is a reputation Morgan clearly goes out of his way to cultivate.
Top 10 Most-Praised Players
Position/Team
Andrew McCutchen OF-Pirates
Darwin Barney 2B-Cubs
Justin Sellers IF-Dodgers
Ryan Braun OF-Brewers
The list of most-praised players is very similar to the most-mentioned players. By and large in the data, announcers were quick to praise and more sparing in their criticism. The absence of Pujols—the face of the Cardinals throughout the 2000s—on this list speaks to the possibility that Cardinals announcers were perhaps priming listeners to accept the possibility of his leaving for greener pastures via free agency.
Top 10 Most-Criticized Players
Dioner Navarro C-Reds
Mat Latos SP-Reds
Pablo Sandoval 3B-Giants
Brandon Belt 1B-Giants
Juan Rivera OF-Dodgers
Livan Hernandez RP-Brewers
Whereas the most praised Top-10 was more similar to MLB's demographics (62 percent white, 27 percent Latino, 9 percent Black, 2 percent Asian)—and perhaps even over-represented black players, the Top-10 criticized list is Latino-heavy. Only Brandon Belt and Mat Latos are white. Pablo Sandoval, the Giants' All-Star third baseman, has battled a weight problem throughout his young career—a problem that his nickname, "Kung-Fu Panda" emphasizes. The only black player, Upton, was nearly moved at July's trading deadline due to conflicts with senior management.
Top 10 Most-Used Terms
Good Effort
Most of the commonly-used terms are intended to be proxies for the effort the player gives on the field. The presence of "clutch," describing the ability to succeed in the most crucial situations, is notable: there's no such thing as "clutch" statistically.
The full analysis yields the most interesting results.
Results: Positive/Negative Terms and Race
The analysis reveals that foreign-born players—the vast majority of whom are Latino—are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to receiving praise for intangibles. Latino players are almost 13 percent less likely to be praised for intangibles than their white counterparts. Announcers are nearly 14 percent more likely to praise a US/Canadian-born player for intangibles than they are their international counterparts. Unfortunately, data is inconclusive as to whether or not American-born Latino players such as the Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez are also at a disadvantage, or whether the bias only applies to foreign-born Latinos. Black players—a population in decline in MLB—are not at any particular disadvantage. There are not enough Asian players in MLB to draw any meaningful conclusions.
A difference of 13 to 14 percent may not seem very large, but over the course of a 162-game season, a player is exposed to over 300 broadcasts—nearly every MLB team has its own affiliate with its own announcing crew that covers its games. Add in the fact that in any given broadcast, announcers are likely to use from between 20 and 40 intangibles, and the number of intangibles that could involve the player leaps nearly into the thousands. This bias over the course of the season can help paint a picture of a player using terms that have no grounding in measurable reality.
Knowing that announcers treat players differently based on their nationality or Latino status is less interesting than knowing how they treat players differently. Here, the distinctions become more obvious.
While there is no difference between race or nationality when it comes to performance-based descriptions, effort-based and character-based descriptions make a big difference. Players born in the US or Canada are 10 percent more likely to be praised for their effort. White players are 10 percent more likely to be praised for their character.
Indeed, it is not so much that announcers are unwilling to praise non-white players, but the terminology they use in so doing falls into a set of pre-defined "code words." For example, if a player is described as being a "guy next door," or "regular guy" there is a greater than 80 percent chance that player is white. If a player is described as "impatient" or "over-aggressive," there is a greater than 50 percent chance that player is not white. This echoes the findings of similar research in the field of print sports journalism.
Setting aside the questions of race and/or nationality, some other factors affect how announcers talk about players. Take very short players: For each inch a player grows above 5'6", announcers are 2 percent less likely to praise him with intangibles. By the time you reach Jon Rauch (6'10") stature, you had best be a good pitcher on merit; he has no citable intangibles.
What was viewed as a racial construct at the outset of this project may well be a nationalism construct: announcers are biased against foreign players, and most of these foreign players are Latino.
In December, Albert Pujols, likely the best player in baseball over the last decade, signed an enormous contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim: 10 years, $240 million. The Dominican-born Pujols was raised in Missouri, is an American citizen, holds a US passport, and has lived in the US for decades. This did not stop rumors from surfacing during his free agency that his birth certificate was a fraud and that any long-term investments in him should be colored by his questionable age—most baseball players see significant declines in performance as they reach their late-30s. Per CBS's Jon Heyman (who was with Sports Illustrated at the time):
What we have here is "baseball birther-ism." Certainly, there have been instances in recent years of Latino players lying about their age (Miguel Tejada) or even their identities (Fausto Carmona actually being Roberto Hernandez, Leo Nunez actually being Juan Oviedo), but none of those players are American citizens, and none of them have resided in the US as long as Pujols. Presumably, Pujols went through far more stringent tests of his documentation when applying for citizenship. Heyman's birth-certificate quip is unwarranted for Pujols, and would be completely laughable if suggested for Joey Votto, the Cincinnati Reds' Canadian All-Star first baseman who signed a $200 million deal of his own this season. Heyman's skepticism only applies to Latino players, and is entirely inappropriate in the case of Pujols. Presumably Heyman—who has a history of this sort of thing—did not intend to make an offensive remark, but the tweet is informed by bias.
It's worth taking a minute to think about what is said in the broadcast booth, and by sports journalists and fans more broadly. While there is much to be said for the sentiment that "the game isn't played on spreadsheets," an overreliance on intangible descriptors can be dangerous. Given the millions of baseball fans and the billions of dollars invested in MLB, the bias involved in intangibles is no small matter. While giving up on intangibles would rob fans of a rich variety of descriptors that enhance the game, broadcasters should employ more caution when using them.
Adam Felder is the director of digital analytics at Atlantic Media.
Seth Amitin is a writer for IGN.com and the editor of Dingersblog.com.


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August Car Boot Sale Cancelled
It is with great regret that we have to cancel the Car Boot Sale scheduled for the 4th August. This is traditionally one of the busiest of the season and the decision was not taken lightly but a combination of holidays and family commitments mean that we will not have enough Lions available on the day to run the event safely and efficiently.
We apologise to everyone who will be affected by this decision.
Bransgore Fun Day 6th May 2019
We were there! Complete with our Coconut Shy.
Lion Receives Top Award
At our Club Meeting on 2nd April, Club President Josey Carpenter presented our Treasurer Ann Allen with the Melvyn Jones Fellowship Award. Melvyn Jones founded the Lions organisation in 1917 and his award goes to Lions who have rendered outstanding service to both their clubs and community. In presenting Ann with the shield, President Josey said that in the seven years that she had been a member of Christchurch Lions, Ann had served as Treasurer, Vice President, and President and, whilst serving as President, she had planned and organised our first Family Fun day on The Quomps, an event that was an immediate success. She had repeated this success the following year and continues to be involved as a key member of the team putting on this year's event.
Travelling Trends Fashion Show - Saturday 28th April - Supporting Macmillan Caring Locally.
A great evening at the Mudeford Woods Community Centre, with over 75 visitors who seemed to enjoy the Fashion Show and the opportunity for a little retail therapy afterwards. Definitely an evenig that we want to repeat!
Fun Day Supports Macmillan Unit
Our inaugural Fun on The Quomps event on August Bank Holiday was held to raise funds for local charities and half of the proceeds was designated for the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital. The picture shows Lions and members of the Mac Unit team at the presentation ceremony.
Prostate Cancer Testing
Working with PCaSO (Prostate Cancer Awareness) on the 23rd September we organised PSA testing for 166 men in the Christchurch area. Two men later got in touch to tell us, gratefully, that they had been referred to their GPs for further tests and both had been diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer. For both the prognosis is good but there is very little doubt that, without the early test, they would not have had such an early diagnosis with potentially a much worse outcome.
Psychic Evening 7th July
A first for us and we were delighted to make over £300 for our admin account. Well done to everyone involved and thanks to all those who supported us.
Highcliffe Residents' Association
Christchurch Lions have recently been in discussion with Highcliffe Residents Association and we are now pleased to be taking on responsibility for maintaining and tidying the seating and garden area near the Globe car park In Highcliffe. Our team are poised to start in January and with regular input we can keep the area looking neat and tidy. Look out for us, we will be wearing our bright yellow Lions tabards
Christchurch Music Centre
In their own words. . .
New Member - Sheila Downer
At our Business Meeting on the 7th November we were delighted to welcome Sheila Downer into Lions.
Lorraine and Barry get 15 years. . . .
At our monthly Business Meeting on the 3rd October, District Governor David Taylor presented Lorraine and Barry Kenyon with certificates marking their 15 years of service as Lions.
Lions Race Ducks for Charity
Bank Holiday Monday in Christchurch was once again marked by Christchurch Lions' Charity Duck Race when Lion President Lorraine Kenyon launched hundreds of plastic ducks into the Mill Stream in a race to raise funds for Lions charities, watched by crowds of spectators along the bank.
Earlier anxieties about the water flow proved to be unfounded although falling water levels did raise concerns that the ducks would be grounded on the shallows. In the event, in a close-run race all the ducks made it to the finishing line and were recovered safely. The sponsors of the three winning ducks were all notified of their good fortune shortly after the race ended.
After the race, Lorraine Kenyon said: " We were so lucky to have beautiful weather on the day, which helped to make this event such a lot of fun for spectators and Lions. We are extremely grateful to everyone who bought a ticket and for the contribution that you have made to our work of supporting local causes."
On 4th July, Cilla Rawles was inducted into membership of Lions.
Cilla first came into contact with us as a seller at our Car Boot Sales, liked what she saw and agreed to join us. The photograph shows Cilla (on right) with President Lorraine Kenyon
Giant Easter Egg Raffle raises £1,000 for Macmillan Caring Locally
In the weeks leading up to Easter, we raffled 12 Giant Easter Eggs in a number of local pubs. The proceeds were donated to Macmillan Caring Locally at a presentation ceremony in the beautiful gardens of the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital. Our grateful thanks go to the management and staff of the pubs for promoting the raffle and to all of their customers for their support of this very worthwhile cause.
We are delighted to welcome new members Elaine & Peter and Pauline & David who have recently become Lions. We wish them a long and happy association with Christchurch Lions.
Spectacles Recycling
For many years, Lions Clubs around the UK have collected used spectacles and re-cycled them for use in Third World countries where they can make a life-changing difference to people with sight problems. This year Christchurch Lions handed over 3800 pairs of used spectacles, an increase over last year, and means that our area has collected over 120,000 pairs of spectacles in this year alone. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this most worthwhile cause.
50th Charter Anniversary Dinner
On the 21st November we held a Dinner Dance at Dudsbury Golf Club to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. The event was attended by the Mayor of Christchurch, Councillor Fred Neale and the Mayoress Barbara Neale and Lions District Governor Alan Chapman and his wife, Anne as well as club members, Lions from other local clubs and friends and relatives.
In proposing the toast to Lions Club International and the Lions Club of Christchurch, Lion President Bernard Gilbert reminded everyone what the world was like in 1965, when he was a slip of a lad of 19, Christchurch was still in Hampshire and the Somerford Estate was still an operational airfield. He paid tribute to all the many Lions and their partners who had been part of Christchurch Lions over the years and promised that Christchurch Lions would continue to play its part in both the local community and the wider community of Lions Club International.
Lions give Frisbys for October 2015 Sight Day
Lions Club around the World have been supporting various sight programmes since 1925 and World Sight Day which, this year, was on the 8th October is always an important event in the Lions calendar.
This is especially the case in Christchurch Lions, where last year's President, Margaret Taylor, was an ophthalmic nurse and was keen for her chosen charity to be sight-related. The club has therefore donated £1,000 to the Eye Unit at Bournemouth Hospital that has been used to purchase sets of Frisby Stereotest plates, which can be used to test for sight anomalies and will work for all ages down to children as young as 10 months old. The Frisby uses natural vision, with no special glasses, and has three transparent plates, which are shown to the patient one at a time to test for stereopsis.
Margaret Taylor says: "I have been interested in anything connected with eyes ever since my training so it therefore gave me great pleasure, as part of my Presidential year, to be able to give £1000 to the Eye Unit"
Head Orthoptist, Julie Cartledge, said: "We're really grateful to Christchurch Lions for this donation and are delighted with our new Frisbys, which we'll be able to use across the whole of our area."
Air Scouts benefit from the last Boot Sale of the Season
Christchurch Lions last monthly Car Boot Sale of the season at Stanpit Marsh was devoted to raising funds to support the opening of a new Air Scout Group in Hurn following an appeal for support from the District Commissioner for Christchurch Scouts, Brett Jones.
The unseasonably fine weather brought out large numbers of buyers and sellers and, as a result, the funds raised exceeded all expectations.
Lions President Bernard Gilbert said: " It's been an amazing season for us, with no sales having to be cancelled because of bad weather, and our charity account has benefited as a consequence. Making the proceeds of the last sale available to support the opening of a new scout group means that a relatively small amount of money will impact upon a large number of young people now and in the future. We made them work for their money, too, as we had scout leaders helping out at the sale and we really enjoyed working with them."
Brett Jones said: "Opening a new scout group presents enormous challenges and needs a great deal of support from the whole community and we've been very lucky in this respect. The new Group will be based at Hurn and we are now raising funds to acquire a modular building to use as a scout hut. Once we find one, we'll need all the usual scouting equipment of course. We are hugely grateful to the Christchurch Lions for their generous donation which is a great start to our fundraising efforts."
New President takes Office
At a dinner held at The Amberwood, Walkford on 26th June the outgoing President of Christchurch Lions, Margaret Taylor, formally handed over the Chain of Office to the incoming new President, Bernard Gilbert.
In his first speech as President, Bernard thanked Margaret for all her hard work in her year of office and presented her with a bouquet of flowers as a "thank you" from the Club. He went on to say that in his year of office the focus would be on recruiting new members to enable the Club to build on its already successful fund raising activities.
Lion John celebrates 50 years in Christchurch Lions
At a recent ceremony at Hoburne Park, Lion John Barty was presented with a special Charter Member's badge and commemorative chevron to mark his fifty years of service with Christchurch Lions. The presentation was made by Vice District Governor David Taylor, who congratulated John on his remarkable achievement and thanked him for his outstanding contribution to the Club.
John was one of the people who founded the Lions Club of Christchurch back in 1965 and has been one of the stalwarts ever since, serving as Club President in 1967 and holding most of the other Offices in the ensuing years.
The picture shows John (left) receiving his award from David Taylor.
Presentation to Marie Curie
At our Business Meeting on the 10th May, Lions President Margaret Taylor presented Sue Rutherford from Marie Curie with a cheque for £1,000 raised from our Giant Easter Egg Raffles. Thanks to everyone who bought a ticket, congratulations to the lucky winners and, to those who didn't, win better luck next time. A very special thanks to the local pubs and Stewarts Gardenlands for their support.
May 2015 - Support for Nepal
Following an appeal from Lions Club International Foundation (www.LCIF.org), Christchurch Lions have donated £1,000 to support the victims of the earthquake in Nepal.
Says Lions President Margaret Taylor: "Although we generally aim to support local causes, no-one can fail to be moved by the plight of the poor people in Nepal and the Lions Club of Christchurch has a special affinity with the Lions Club of Kathmandu as our Lion, Tom Muir is an honorary member."
In the wake of the disaster, LCIF donated US$ 100,000 for emergency relief and local Lions clubs in Nepal are already hard at work supporting victims in the affected areas.
Christchurch Lions raise their funds through various activities locally, principally by running their Car Boot Sales at Stanpit Marsh on the second Sunday of every month from March to October.
Getting serious about Petanque.
Following several friendly matches last year, we have now entered a Lions team in the New Forest Petanque league. Our home "terrain" will be the Three Tuns in Bransgore and although we have modest expectations in terms of results, we do expect to give a good account of ourselves in the bar!
Petanque players looking for a game are invited to get in touch through our Contact Us page. Membership of Lions is NOT a pre-requisite to playing for our petanque team.
February 2015 - New member Josey Carpenter
We were delighted to welcome Josey Carpenter as a new Lion just in time for the start of our car boot season! The picture shows President Margaret Taylor, Josey and her Lion mentor Ann Allen at her induction ceremony at The Somerford.
January 2015 - Support for Ebola Orphans
In response to an appeal from Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF), Christchurch Lions have agreed to donate £1,000 to support children in West Africa orphaned by Ebola. Since the outbreak begun, it is estimated that over 4000 children have been left without parents and the money raised by LCIF will initially be used to feed and clothe them and then, in the longer term, provide orphanages to house them.
Lions President Margaret Taylor says: "As parents and grandparents, our hearts go out to the children orphaned by this terrible illness. Not only have they suffered the emotional trauma of the loss of their family but who they also face a very uncertain future in some of the poorest countries in the world. Christchurch Lions were very glad to be in a position to support the appeal from LCIF. There are 167 Lions Clubs with over 8,000 members in the affected countries who will be working with LCIF to try to make life better for these unfortunate children."
29th November 2014 - Christchurch Christmas Festival
Once again Lions were helping out at the Christmas Festival helping to marshall crowds at the Priory queuing to see Father Christmas and his reindeer. The dry, mild weather was much appreciated as was the mulled wine!
June 2014 - Triumphant David completes his ride at the Macmillan Summer Fete.
The pictures show the happy conclusion to David's fund-raising challenge.
June 2014 - Lions help cyclist David get on his bike!
On the 19th June, David Canty will embark on the challenge of riding his bike 900 miles from John O'Groats to Christchurch to raise funds for Macmillan Caring Locally, the Macmillan Unit at Christchurch Hospital. He has chosen to support them in appreciation of the fantastic treatment given to his father-in-law when he spent time in their care two years ago.
Despite the pressures of work and a young family, David is training evenings and weekends with 50 to 100 mile bike rides in and around the New Forest. He is undertaking this challenge on his own, without support, and at some considerable cost - being self-employed he doesn't have the benefit of paid leave!
Christchurch Lions became aware of David's plan through his mother-in-law, Linda, one of their members and have invited him to use their Car Boot sales at Stanpit Marsh for publicity purposes as well as themselves making a sponsorship donation.
Lions President Howard Knight says: "When we heard about David's challenge from Linda, we were in awe of what he was proposing to do, all on his own, for such a good cause and wanted to do as much as we could to help him. We have agreed to donate funds but ideally we'd like everyone in the Christchurch area to get behind him and offer their support by logging on to www.justgiving.com/JOGDOR and making a donation. "
April 2014 - Giant Easter Egg Raffle
Thank you - that's the message from the Lions Club of Christchurch following an amazing response to this year's Daffodil Appeal. In partnership with Marie Curie, members of the Lions Club raffled Giant Easter Eggs at Stewart's Garden Centrein March to help provide free local nursing care to terminally ill patients in their own homes and Marie Curie hospices. Easter Eggs were also successfully raffled in a number of local pubs.
Lions Club president, Howard Knight, says: "Thanks to the generosity of local people we collected over £1200. Every penny collected by Lions Clubs goes directly to good causes as our membership fees cover any administration costs. This means our Daffodil collection will help fund 60hours of hands-on nursing care within our area. We are proud to be at the heart of the community, and our partnership with Marie Curie demonstrates how Lions Clubs offer vital support for local people"
Visitors to Stewarts Garden Centre over the weekend of 4th, 5th and 6th March will have seen us in the entrance wearing funny hats and selling tickets for our Giant Easter Egg Raffle, which this year is in support of the Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal. We would like to thank everyone who bought tickets and special thanks go to the management and staff at Stewarts for their support.
30th November - Christchurch Christmas Festival
Christchurch Lions were one of the sponsors of the Festival and were prowling around The Priory grounds marshalling the crowds queuing to see Santa and his reindeer on a very cold November afternoon. Coming from the North Pole, we know that Santa is well-used to the cold but we have to pay tribute to him and his lovely elf for sitting on his sleigh for over two hours and being very kind and patient with the huge numbers of parents and children who queued to see him. Never have so many photographs been taken of the same pose. . .
We commiserated with the father who queued for an hour to see Santa, only for his small son to back out at the crucial moment! It's small consolation, sir, but you'll be able to wind him up about it when he's a strapping young man!
All in all, a successful afternoon for the Lions, raising our profile in Christchurch and giving us the opportunity to publicise what we do and to talk to prospective new members.
Lions Clubs provide life saving relief in Philippines
Christchurch Lions Club is providing life saving relief for local communities affected by the disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Lions Clubs throughout the British Isles and Ireland have pledged £200,000 to send 1,000 Lifesaver water filtration systems providing up to 20 million litres of sterile water for drinking and medical use. The local donations support the US $500,000 (over £310,000) pledged immediately by Lions Clubs within South-east Asia and other global fund-raising activities.
This money will deliver vital on the ground relief through volunteer members of Lions Clubs in the Philippines working closely with government officials and other agencies. Lions Clubs in the area, including four in Cebu and one in the disaster epicentre of Tacloban, were already helping those affected by last month's major earthquake in nearby Bohol, when the latest crisis occurred. "Lions Clubs provide a global network that is able to give immediate practical and financial support when such disasters strike," explains president of Christchurch Lions Club, Howard Knight. "Through our Lions Clubs International Foundation we maintain a disaster fund enabling the organisation to respond immediately, with one hundred per cent of donations going direct to local relief efforts co-ordinated by Lions operating in affected communities. "In addition, local fund-raising in the Christchurch area is going to provide the most basic of human needs, clean drinking water. Typhoon Haiyan has been called the worst storm to make landfall in recorded history, and its devastation is hard to imagine. As Lions, we not only help our local communities throughout the year but are able to respond when relief is required in any local community. "
Lions Duck Race Funds Good Causes
On the 7th November, at a Presentation Evening held at the Kings Hotel, Christchurch Lions used the funds raised at their annual Duck Race to make donations to Cauldwell Children, (£1,000) Dorset Blind Association (£1,000), £200 to the Macular Disease Group and £500 to brave Highcliffe youngster, Charlotte Beasley.
President of Christchurch Lions, Howard Knight, said: " We are really grateful for all the support that we had from the public and local businesses at our Duck Race. We raised a record amount of money and are very pleased that this has enabled us to make donations to these very worthwhile local causes. We'd also like to thank the Kings Arms Hotel for their generosity in sponsoring this evening."
The star of the evening was Brownie Charlotte, who has acute walking difficulties. With a friend she had shown great determination in completing a sponsored walk to raise £1,000 to help fund a motorised wheelchair to give her mobility and independence out of doors. The Lions donation will help to make this dream come true.
Local Lions celebrate Good Deed Week
Between 5th and 13th October 2013, Christchurch Lions Club celebrated Good Deed Week joining 17,000 members of 900 Lions Clubs throughout Great Britain and Ireland to recognise the support they receive from local communities in raising funds and helping good causes.
"Lions Good Deed Week is our opportunity to say thank you to everyone in Christchurch and the surrounding area who has given money, time or other support to Lions," explains club president, Howard Knight.
During Good Deed Week Christchurch Lions were promoting Lions World Sight Day on 10th October, which focuses on projects to eliminate preventable blindness and improve sight. For example, Lions have been recycling used spectacles for over 30 years, with over 300,000 pairs collected across Great Britain and Ireland last year alone before being sent to eye camps in Africa, India and Eastern Europe in partnership with Medico Lions Clubs de France.
On World Sight Day, a number of Lions from Christchurch attended an open day at the Spectrek recycling centre in Chichester to see for themselves how the spectacles are sorted and graded by volunteers from Chichester Lions. They were told at first hand by a Sri Lankan Lion how these spectacles were doing no less than changing the lives of those fortunate enough to receive them. Spectacle wearers will well understand how difficult life would be without them and this is the reality for so many people around the world.
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Last year Blackberry launched 2 touchscreen smartphones DTEK 50 and DTEK 60. Now it comes, once again with the full-screen handset, called as the Motion. However, the company launched the new smartphone in the Middle East at a price equivalent to RS 30,000. The company has not yet confirmed anything when it will available in the market.
The Chinese company received the rights to manufacture BlackBery smartphone last year, and the smartphone runs on Android 7.1 Nougat and with the full touchscreen. The display size of the smartphone has a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080×1920 pixels) LCD with 16:9 aspect ratio.
The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it's a mid-range smartphone and the RAM is 4GB. The Smartphone has inbuilt storage 32 GB and battery backup is 4000 mAh. The rear camera of the smartphone is 12MP with f/2.0 and the front camera is 8MP for selfie lovers.
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'Inverted' hawker centre, cruise ships and schools open to the elderly among winning ideas in contest
Ms Sandra Leong, one of the three winners of a contest to come up with ideas to reimagine how the elderly can live and play in their communities, with her grandfather Mr Chua Pee Tong.ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
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SINGAPORE - Stalls at hawker centres and wet markets are usually lined up in rows, packed between tables, chairs and food wares.
Seniors on wheelchairs or elderly persons who use walking sticks may find it difficult to manoeuvre their way around the stalls, especially when it is crowded or when the floor is wet.
What if these stalls are situated in the middle of hawker centres or wet markets instead, to form a circle or rectangle?
This is the brainchild of Ms Sandra Leong, one of the three winners of a contest to come up with ideas to reimagine how the elderly can live and play in their communities.
The contest was organised by philanthropic organisation Lien Foundation and The Straits Times. The other two involve having cruise ships with facilities for the elderly circle the island and opening up schools for older people to use and mingle with the younger generation. In total, about 150 readers sent in their ideas.
Ms Leong said of her idea: "Inverting the stalls to form an inner core means the stall owners can work more closely together and enjoy economies of scale in operations, and the outer ring can be made barrier-free with non-slip tiles for seniors to move around more easily."
The 36-year-old, who works in the social service sector, has two grandfathers in their 90s who enjoy doing the marketing. However, her family does not let them do so unless they are accompanied, lest they fall down.
She said such hawker centres and wet markets can be built in mature estates such as Queenstown, where there are a higher proportion of older people.
Another winner, Mr Ng Tze Yong, 38, suggested opening up the libraries, classrooms, gardens and sport facilities in schools to the elderly after school hours or during school holidays to maximise usage.
Lien Foundation leads call for a rethink on spaces and living concepts for seniors
"These can be spaces where the elderly are not customers or care recipients, but custodians of our children and they can serve as traffic wardens, canteen operators, crowd controllers, storytellers or teaching assistants," said Mr Ng, chief executive of local charity Equal-Ark, which rehabilitates vulnerable persons by working with therapy horses.
The third winning entry was from civil engineer Ng Kok Ann, 29, who came up with the idea of having the seniors go on board cruise ships to use facilities such as pools, gyms and libraries. These ships circle the waterways and make various pit stops, allowing them to board and alight anytime.
The contest was launched after the release of Second Beginnings - Senior Living Redefined, a book that features 10 ideas on how underused spaces such as empty warehouses or the spaces below MRT tracks can be creatively transformed to meet the needs of the elderly.
These ideas cover lifestyle spaces and eldercare centres, as well as alternative residential living options such as assisted living facilities.
Readers also chose their favourite of the 10 ideas.
The top three were the "Garden of Life" where a hospice is integrated with a nature park and tree nursery, a "Wholesome Market" where seniors can enjoy food, health checks and performances in the same space and a "Healing Stadium" where a cluster of apartments for seniors are built in an old sports complex, alongside safe green spaces for exercise and onsite care services.
The winning entries were picked by The Straits Times, Lien Foundation and Colours, a local design consultancy which worked with the foundation on the book.
"To cater to the evolving needs of an ageing population, it is crucial to design our spaces, services and systems to enable our seniors to lead independent, engaged and meaningful lives," said Lien Foundation chief executive Lee Poh Wah.
"We hope this exercise will inspire government planners, architects and developers to explore and expand on the ideas."
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My question is if $T$ is an expansive homeomorphism?
I think it isn't a homeomorphism at all... so in particular no expansive homeomorphism.

A: HINT for $T$: Let $x=\langle 0,0,0,\ldots\rangle$ and $y=\langle 2,2,2,\ldots\rangle$; what are $T(x)$ and $T(y)$?

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Impressionism, light and colors through the eyes of Claude Monet.
Oscar-Claude Monet, is one of the most historically important figures in the art world. Born on November 14, 1840 in Paris, France, his abstract work focused on capturing light, color and natural forms, a style later named "Impressionism".
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Claude Monet was fascinated by the outside world from a very young age and rarely spent time indoors, especially if painting. During his teen years, he had already gained some recognition for his charcoal caricatures and later, influenced by Eugéne Boudin, began painting with oil, mostly the residents in the port town "Le Havre" where he lived at that time.
Nearing his twenties, Monet decided to move to Paris to pursue his artistic talent. There, he met his muze and future wife Camille Doncieux, as well as numerous artists that helped him shape his future vision of landscapes and the mastery over light and color.
After years of working on a new technique, a process filled with bursts of depression, self doubt and burnt or cut paintings whose number goes beyond 500, the time to write history finally came. In 1874, Claude Monet showcased his work "Impression, Sunrise".
Devoid of the photographic precision inherent to a traditional landscape, this depiction of port "Le Havre" at sunrise instantly became a statement.
The work was widely unaccepted by the contemporary artistic community of that time. The piece was laughed at and ridiculed for its lack of precision and detail, an impression of an image, offering no more than a faint abstraction of what should be on the canvas.
The renown of that time critic, Louis Leroy, wrote a satirical article from the perspective of an old-fashioned painter, shocked by the works of Mone, and little did he know, it would name the Impressionist Art movement.
"-...What is this a painting of? Look in the catalogue. -Impression, Sunrise. -Impression-- I knew it. I was just saying to myself, if I'm impressed, there must be an impression in there… And what freedom, what ease in the brushwork! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more labored than this seascape!"
Although the term "Impressionism" was used for the first time by critics in a humorous way, it started what we now call the Impressionist Movement. Monet offered a whole new outlook on what art can be and became the father of many more unique forms of abstraction.
He filled the canvas using very fast and precise brush strokes, delivering unseen by that time realism in the perception of light. This technique was improved throughout his whole life and later became a key characteristic of the newly found Impressionist movement.
Following his historical exposition, he managed to accumulate some wealth, but unfortunately, mostly all of it was spent on the medical bills of his wife. After giving birth to their second child, she became ill and eventually passed away. Monet's intense grief can still be felt through his famous painting of Camillie on her deathbed.
Around the 1890's, he finally found financial success and married Alice Hoschede. They moved to Giverny, where Monet created a beautiful private garden from his passion for landscapes. The garden was his most valued work of art and he often painted the water lilies from the pond there, becoming one of his most famous series of paintings.
A notable work ethic of Claude Monet was to paint the same scene over and over again, but from different times of the day, thus understanding how light interacts with objects and how he could replicate it onto a canvas. This was evident in many of his paintings as dark tones were used to highlight the brighter colors.
Another interesting case is The Waterloo Bridge series by Claude Monet, that studied the vast variations in contrast, saturation and clarity caused by light scattering. Dynamic colors from an aerial perspective. The series consisted of over 40 paintings, successfully depicting the same cityscape and providing undisputed realism of tones and shades.
The series of impressionist paintings often called "Haystacks" accurately described this idea. He painted the same haystacks at different times of the day and night, as well as from various angles, to show how even a slight change of the available light and color tones can drastically shift the perceived emotions from the paintings.
Color, is nothing but a visual perception that exists only in our minds and is extremely subjective. The late paintings of the painter show us exactly how fragile this perception truly is. He suffered from cataracts, which shifted the range of the perceived wavelengths by his eyes.
In 1911, following the death of his second wife Alice, Monet developed cataracts in his right eye, but it was not enough to keep him from painting. Ten years later, his cataracts had progressed to both eyes and some hues became indistinguishable to him. As a result of this health issue, his paintings shifted from a fine impression of reality to portraying the anxiety of a man losing the world around him.
In 1923, he finally underwent surgery to replace the diseased lens in an attempt to save his failing sight. This surgery gave him the "superpower" of seeing some ultraviolet light, normally invisible to a healthy eye. And so, Monet's successful career as a painter was not over. In a pursuit to understand the impression of light, he maniacally painted the colors only he could see till the rest of his days.
Monet was truly the father of Impressionism. His method of rapidly painting a scene at an exact moment in time, allowed him to observe the variations of color and light, caused by the daily or seasonal changes. The focus was on what a person feels, their impression of the scenery. Claude Monet will remain in history as a person who broke free from the pre-19th century art norms and paved the way for many new forms of abstraction.
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