Family Christian Stores has announced that it will be closing all 240 stores. This company has been in business for 85 years. The company claims that the reasons for closing all stores are due to "changing consumer behavior and declining sales". Family Christian Stores is a non-profit and one of the largest local providers of Christian products. The company has not announced when the stores will be closed.
With the growing trend of digital products, the physical demand for books have rapidly declined. Students in schools are even using iPads instead of physical books to cover various school subjects. Personally, I do not like this change, and as a parent, I love the fact that my 2 year old loves to read her books and look at the graphics within them. Although, she cannot quite read yet, she believes that she can and I love to hear her "read" to me as she flips through the pages of her favorite books. The fact that Family Christian Stores are closing all locations in 36 states is not surprising to me but it is devastating to hear a business that has operated for 85 years and currently employees over 3,000 employees will be closing its doors.
In 2015, Family Christian Stores used chapter 11 bankruptcy to wipe away over $127 million in debt with suppliers. Post-bankruptcy, Family Christian continued to pledge all proceeds to charity and had hoped the bankruptcy would be its chance to redirect its focus to serving those in need. According to the company, the Family Christian Ministries has provided over "14 million orphans, widows and oppressed people" humanitarian aid.
I am very sad to hear this news about Family Christian since I love to physically go and browse its aisles for Christian books and gifts to give during the holidays, such as daily devotionals. When shopping online, you cannot really get a feel for whether a daily devotional will work or not for your need. With this closing, it just makes me wonder how this new digital world will affect our children… our leaders of tomorrow.


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Q: Javascript Submit CheckBox Dataform to PHP I wrote some code using javascript to submit checkbox form data to PHP. But the php cannot get the data. The following are my codes. Thanks in advance.
HTML CODE:
<form onchange="fetch()" method="post">
    <input type="checkbox" name="formname[]" value="value1" />
    <input type="checkbox" name="formname[]" value="value2" />
</form>

Javascript Code:
<script>
    function fetch() {
        var data = new FormData();
        data.append("formname[]", document.getElementsByName("formname[]"));
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("POST", "the url to php code", true);
        xhr.send(data);

...
</script>

PHP Code:
$result = $_POST['formname']

A: This an example from MDN (changed a bit) and I think (!) you can then get the value like this:
$res = $_POST["CHECKBOX"];

const btn = document.querySelector('button');

function sendData( data ) {
  const XHR = new XMLHttpRequest(),
        FD  = new FormData();

  // Push our data into our FormData object
  for( name in data ) {
    FD.append( name, data[ name ] );
  }

  // Define what happens on successful data submission
  XHR.addEventListener( 'load', function( event ) {
    alert( 'Yeah! Data sent and response loaded.' );
  } );

  // Define what happens in case of error
  XHR.addEventListener(' error', function( event ) {
    alert( 'Oops! Something went wrong.' );
  } );

  // Set up our request
  XHR.open( 'POST', 'PHP file' );

  // Send our FormData object; HTTP headers are set automatically
  XHR.send( FD );
}

btn.addEventListener( 'click', function()
  { sendData( {CHECKBOX:document.querySelector("input[type=checkbox]").value} );
} )

I hope that this will work.

A: Thanks very much for everyone who tried to help me. I spent a night and find an easy fix for my problem. The solution is to add an id element to the form and add the form id in the FormData element.  I got the hint from this question
HTML Code
<form onchange="fetch()" method="post" id="myform">
    <input type="checkbox" name="formname[]" value="value1" />
    <input type="checkbox" name="formname[]" value="value2" />
</form>

Javascript Code:
<script>
    function fetch() {
        var data = new FormData(document.getElementById("myform"));
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("POST", "the url to php code", true);
        xhr.send(data);

...
</script>

PHP Code:
$result = $_POST['formname']

AND I found the same result even using:
$result = $_POST['formname[]']

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Rajiv Kumar is Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICR IER), a New Delhi based economic policy think tank. He holds both a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University and a PhD in Economics from Lucknow University.
Dr. Kumar is a member of the Indian National Security Advisory Board, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and was previously the Principal Regional Economist for the Asian Development Bank in Central Asia, ADB Chief Economist for Mongolia and China, and chief economist with the Confederation of Indian Industry. He was professor at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, teaching competitive strategy and micro economics, and has published books and articles and contributes regularly to newspapers and journals.
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I would like to be able to "load" the right cert according to the cookie set and request uri.
A sort of dynamic setting.
Perfectly normal since $cookie_ident is empty and no subdomain has been requested.
So, what is the workaround I could use to avoid creating one file per new (self-signed)certificate issued ?
I cannot use only one certificate for all since I have to be able to revoke the certs with granularity.


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And THIS Is Why Celebrities Should Shut Up And Act, Sing, Dance, Look Good, Or Whatever They Did To Get Famous . . .
December 21, 2020 / Jack Marshall
Elizabeth Banks, a B+ movie actress whose career zenith was either playing Jeff Bridges' wife in "Sea Biscuit" or a supporting role in "The Hunger Games" movies, decided to rant about "Stand your ground" laws last week. The impetus was the Ohio legislature passing a version of the law, thus joining about half the states. Banks responded by tweeting, to her
"Stand Your Ground is BS. We used to play hide and seek all over the neighborhood on summer nights. Intent was to play. We were kids but some of my cousins were big guys. There were a few easily-jumped fences in the neighborhood but also houses with no fences at all. A new neighbor moved onto our street. Apparently he mistook us hiding behind trees in his unfenced yard at 9pm for … burglars? Predators?" All of a sudden, an arrow was shot into the tree behind which we hid. From a professional bow and arrow. This guy didn't yell out 'who's there' or 'get off my property or I'm calling the cops' or any other question or warning. He just shot at children. He hit the tree so it was seemingly a warning shot. Message received, WE yelled out that we were just playing and could he let us please run away without shooting. Then we ran."
"Also sometimes our dog got loose. We would go into yards looking for her. All I can think about when people pretend Stand Your Ground is about anything other than permission to kill people are those moments when I myself stepped onto a neighbor's property. Where is the evidence that Stand Your Ground does anything but endanger your neighbors, their dogs, their kids? It helps nobody but people who want justified reasons to use a deadly weapon. If I'd been shot and killed playing hide and seek, would that new neighbor have been able to just shrug his shoulders while living across the street from my grieving parents? With laws like this, probably yes.I don't want to live in a world where we fear our neighbors so much that we can't freely lose a ball/dog/frisbee or cut through somebody's yard to avoid harassment — all things I have done. What yards did you wander into and why?"
1. She's an idiot. Neither of her examples have any relevance to so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws. Even if she was getting that concept mixed up with the Castle Doctrine, her anecdotes were based on a utter ignorance. What kind of person writes a long, public critique of a law without reading it or better yet, understanding it?
Answer: In addition to an idiot, a celebrity who has become convinced that she is special because sycophants around her have been telling her so most of her life, because she has always been unusually attractive and had performing talent as well as the luck that all successful actors must have that allowed her to push past equally talented and attractive competitors.
2. This is, of course, one of the curses of social media. It allows people to have a large audience for their opinions, thoughts and pronouncements without the merit and credentials that once were a necessary condition precedent of having such influence.
3. I am considering creating a code of conduct for celebrities. One core tenet would be, "Don't make people stupid." Impassioned arguments based on nothing but passion without the enhancement of actual knowledge that the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance deceives admirers into regarding as more valuable than the blather of the average drunk in a bar can do real, wide ranging and serious damage.
4. One commenter on Banks' rant called her a hypocrite because she is a pro-abortion advocate who has stated that a woman's access to abortion is a human right. She's not a hypocrite. People like Banks, famous or not, do not generally acknowledge that abortion involves the taking of a human life. (Joe Biden does, however: this is one more aspect of his questionable character that the news media made sure wasn't examined during the 2020 campaign.)
5. In the olden days, actors had publicists to protect them from the career dangers of their own intellectual and character deficiencies. (Danny Kaye's publicist–who did the same job for many stars—told me that Kaye never made a public statement that Bob hadn't approved or scripted.) Cognitive dissonance works both ways. Robert De Niro has revealed himself to be such a vile, vulgar jerk in his various anti-Trump rants that I can't watch him any more. Alec Baldwin is a versatile actor, and I would rather watch a slow loris do Shakespeare than risk putting an extra cent in that asshole's checking account. Woody Allen, of course. Bette Midler, Jim Carey and just about every actress who grandstanded about #MeToo and #TimesUp and still supported Biden.
If mid-level stars like Banks begin losing jobs and income from revealing their inner shallowness and lacl of critical thinking skills, they might start exercising some restraint.
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Michelle K
Anybody know what a "professional bow" is? I've been a bow hunter for over 30 years, and this is the first time I've encountered that particular phrase.
How odd to be so passionate about a topic she's clearly never researched and doesn't understand. Standing your ground isn't a free pass to shoot children retrieving a Frisbee, ball, or a pet. Such a weird argument to make, especially when half of the law is explained in the title "stand your ground".
The thing is, it's not as odd as it should be. Celebrities do this constantly, as if being famous conveys an excuse for irresponsible public statements.
Yes. A "professional bow" is the bow and arrow version of an assault weapon of war.
Terrific, now I can add explaining "professional bows" to my list of things I get tired of explaining…"it shoots one arrow per string pull, just like amateur bows".
To be fair, it also has a sight for accurate aiming, and sometimes other doodads for balance and comfort. One of my law school roomies, an ex-Marine, kept a hunting bow in his bedroom, and it was pretty scary. His was even fancier that the one Burt Reynolds used to kill that guy whole molested Ned Beatty in "Deliverance."
I'm sure this idiot celebrity would consider my hunting bow a "professional". I've never considered it scary looking, but I can see where others unfamiliar with the difference between say a recurve and a compound bow would find the compound to be intimidating. To me it's nothing more than a means to put delicious meat in my freezer.
Or a nice juicy little girl…
Of course, with a nice Chianti.
Michael T Ejercito
Another celebrity, Heather Leigh Sossaman (who is known for playing Laura Barns in Unfriended), came out against the lockdowns in her InstaGram story.
http://www.InstaGram.com/Heather_Sossaman/
She made good points, though her opinion is not worth more than anyone else's. Personally, I give more weight to the opinions of my longtime Usenet ally, Christopher Charles Morton who has over a quarter century record of understanding the issues.
Willem Reese
Thanks so much for putting the name of another useless unknown (to me) celebrity and her idiocy into my brain! That information has probably displaced things I might have wanted to remember later…something about spiders, maybe
LoSonnambulo
I think we'll eventually come to a realization that letting entertainers become part of the WWII public relations effort was a huge mistake. Entertain the troops, yes, but standing on a stage with politicians, even to sell war bonds, was a step too far.
Excellent point. But once that genie was out of the bottle, it was game over. The next cause celebrities were trotted out for was civil rights.Then they started to think they really knew something.
existoid
No, her "career highlight" was playing the heroine in the 2006 horror flick "Slither" which is a true modern classic horror film.
But yeah, her babbling is good to ignore.
I like Slither, disgusting as it is.


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The invention of scientists from Warsaw will help in the treatment of kidney diseases
Scientists from two Warsaw universities are developing a new diagnostic method that will allow to detect protein in the urine and predict its presence. This method will allow to reduce the amount of steroids taken in the treatment of nephrotic syndrome.
The nephrotic syndrome is a group of symptoms associated with abnormal functioning of the glomerulus, leading to massive protein loss in the urine. Patients have swollen face and limbs, ascites and fluid in the pleural cavities. In the case of severe disorders, thrombotic complications, renal failure, hypertension, abdominal pain and infectious complications may also occur.
The standard method of treatment is to administer steroids. This promotes the subsidence of proteinuria and the accompanying symptoms of nephrotic syndrome. But it is not a permanent cure. Recurrences of proteinuria may occur up to several times a year. They are caused by inflammation in the body or reducing the dose of steroids. Due to the recurrence of the disease, treatment in some patients (steroid therapy) continues for years and causes the development of side effects.
"Based on previous studies, we have confirmed that the developed diagnostic kit indicates the presence of protein in the urine" - says Dr. Maciej Mazur, quoted in the release sent to PAP.
The invention of Dr. Maciej Mazur from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw and Dr. Elżbieta Kuźma-Mroczkowska and Dr. Małgorzata Pańczyk-Tomaszewska from the Medical University of Warsaw will soon be marketed by a new university spin-off - Nephrolab Plus, the representatives of the University of Warsaw inform.
One of the advantages of the solution - according to its creators - is the simplicity of obtaining an unambiguous result. The tests carried out at home involve adding a tablet to a small urine sample collected in a container. After a minute, the test shows the presence or absence of protein in the urine. In the case of competitive products, patients have problems with the interpretation of results. In the case of popular strip tests, the shade on the urine strip must be compared with the colour scale.
Researchers want to go one step further and try to introduce a solution that will capture the moment before the appearance of protein in the urine. Although there are different methods of measurement, all of them inform the patient about the occurrence of proteinuria, that is, the existing disease relapse. If it were possible to detect the moment before the appearance of protein in the urine, many patients would receive a signal of an impending relapse. This would allow them to see the doctor in advance, which means the possibility of taking smaller doses of medication.
"We know that just before the disease recurs, when the protein does not appear yet, the urine changes in a way that is visible to the naked eye. The real breakthrough in our work will be a clear confirmation that the device detects this phase, allowing patients to act quickly. This requires additional research, but I am optimistic. It is difficult to say exactly how long this research will take" - explains Maciej Mazur.
Testing of prototype home diagnostic kits made available to a selected group of patients will start soon. The tests will take several months. Their goal is to confirm the effectiveness of the method and precision of the device. Confirming whether the kit can predict the recurrence of proteinuria before it occurs will take longer.
Nephrolab Plus was created as a result of strategic cooperation of the University of Warsaw and the Medical University of Warsaw, with the support of the University Technology Transfer Centre of the University of Warsaw. Before the founding of the company, the team received a pre-implementation work grant for the development of the discovery as part of the Innovation Incubator+ programme. The invention developed by the company is protected by a patent.
Efforts are also being made to extend the use of the proteinuria test. It could be used to determine protein in the urine of animals.
"But we need to be patient. The diagnostic kit we propose is not sufficient to change the treatment regimen of patients with nephrotic syndrome. After we confirm scientifically that is possible to predict the occurrence of proteinuria, it will be necessary to create a laboratory method that confirms the indications of the kit. In the next stage, it will be necessary to conduct clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of treating patients with lower doses of steroids. The creation of a laboratory test is a necessary condition on the way to introducing changes in treatment regimens" - explains Dr. Elżbieta Kuźma-Mroczkowska from the Medical University of Warsaw, quoted in the press release sent to PAP .
Symptoms of the nephrotic syndrome are very onerous. Patients require frequent urine tests (in the period of severe stages of the disease - even daily), blood tests, clinic visits, and in the relapse period also hospitalisation. Steroids taken over long periods lead to numerous side effects including obesity, hypertension, diabetes, peptic ulcer disease, cataract, glaucoma, osteoporosis, immunosuppression, recurrent infections and inhibition of growth in children. Some children temporarily require individual home-schooling due to a significant immunity reduction, frequent infections and recurrent disease.
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Often you can get by nicely with generic tools, but not when it comes to cutting gear and brake cables/housing. For good results, you really need a purpose-built pair of wire rope cutters, and the Park Tool CN10 is a very sturdy, easily adjustable tool.
With a simple pair of side cutters, while you'll be able to get both inner and outer to the right length, there are a couple problems: the outer housing is likely to be pretty badly crushed, and if the inner isn't neatly round, it may not be possible to thread through the housing at all.
Wire rope cutters have blades which encircle the cable and so result in a much cleaner cut, one which leaves both inner and housing in usable condition.
Wiggle have got the Park Tool CN10C on offer and I highly recommend it. (Or see this collection if you'd rather view other options).
As well as the cutting end (!) the Park Tool CN10C has two different crimping notches for crushing end caps onto your brake and gear cables to stop them fraying.
It's internally-sprung, and strongly enough that it will open easily after every cut so you can work quickly with one hand free to arrange your cable and housing. There's a simple clasp to hold it shut in storage.
The only nit-pick I have is that the tool doesn't feature a spike for opening out cable housing (something I found very handy on my cheaper tool). In more fevered moments I've often thought a filing surface on one edge to square off brake cable housing would be nice too – but to be fair to Park Tool, they've built something that does a particular job, and does it well.
After a short and unsuccessful experiment with a pair of cheaper generic cutters, I caved in and bought the Park Tool version on offer at my local bike shop.
Averaged out, that's a cost of around £1.50 per bike (if you replace your housings once a year, £1.50 per annum per bike).
Just try getting your local bike shop to cable a new bike for £1.50 labour.
If you don't keep the blades tightly aligned, the geometry of the cutting surface breaks down and poor results are all but guaranteed. Strangely, the internet has plenty of negative reviews of this tool (or its predecessors) which makes me wonder how many fail to keep to this simple rule – or are unlucky enough to buy a loose or badly QC'd copy.
Park Tool have a maintenance guide published for this tool, so I won't repeat it here – needless to say, it's not rocket science (and you'll probably get a few years from it before having to worry).
The Park Tool CN10C cable and housing cutter isn't the cheapest option out there, but it's comfortable in the hand, accurate and durable – a tool that you can expect to get good use from for many years to come.
A badly crushed cable housing requires plenty of TLC before it will let the inner run freely (possibly hampering smooth shifting or brake lever return) while a mangled inner may not thread properly through the housing at all.
On the other hand, the curved blades of the CN10 all but guarantee a clean finish. Cable isn't cheap and you won't regret tackling it with the right tool for the job!
After trying practically every alternative, I summed up my purchase of the Park Tool CN-10 as Wow, talk about power!
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1925 debütierte Watanabe für die japanische Fußballnationalmannschaft. Watanabe bestritt zwei Länderspiele. Mit der japanischen Nationalmannschaft qualifizierte er sich für die Far Eastern Championship Games 1925.

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HPQ launches a new green hydrogen extraction technology venture
EBH2 has filled a provisional patent for its new process to make Green Hydrogen, a process that is scalable and adaptable to numerous applications.
August 25, 2021 By Canadian Manufacturing
MONTREAL — On Aug. 24, HPQ Silicon Resources Inc., a silicon solutions and technology development company, announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with EBH2 Systems SA, a Swiss company that possesses a proprietary electrolysis technology that can efficiently extract, from virtually any water source including salt water, a Clean Hydrogen also called Green Hydrogen that can be used to create low-cost electricity with no environmental impact.
EBH2 has filled a provisional patent for its new process to make Green Hydrogen, a process that is scalable and adaptable to numerous applications from various modes of land and sea transport to single home dwellings, district wide power generation and large-scale industrial applications. EBH2 first successfully tested prototype model has a clean energy production capacity starting at 1 Megawatt of power that can be produced over 7 days from 2 litres of water; sufficient energy to power a typical three (3) bedroom suburban house.
EBH2 believes it can scale to power the planned high purity silicon and Nano silicon production by HPQ. If successful, HPQ proposes to bundle the energy production capability of EBH2 systems with its silicon production to further reduce the environmental footprint of its developing high purity silicon, nano powders, and other Renewable Energy products. Under the Agreement HPQ can acquire a perpetual world-wide license to sell or deploy the bundled HPQ Technologies – EBH2 generator-based systems anywhere in the world.
The Agreement establishes the terms of the creation of a new Joint venture Company (NEWCO) owned by HPQ and EBH2 that will market, sell and service EBH2 systems and products in North America (Canada, Mexico, and the United States).
"HPQ has been at the forefront of Silicon innovation development since 2015, yet the fact remains that converting quartz into silicon is a highly energy intensive process. EBH2 Systems SA, with their unique process to extract hydrogen from water to generate cheap green energy present HPQ with one of these games changing synergetic opportunities that we simply could not overlook," said Bernard Tourillon, President and CEO of HPQ Silicon.
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Kootenay Silver Announces 30,000 Meter, Multi-Phase Drill and Resource Expansion Program Officially Underway on Promontorio Silver Project, Sonora, Mexico
Kootenay Silver Inc.
Shares Outstanding: 56,488,850
VANCOUVER, Nov. 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Kootenay Silver Inc. (TSX VENTURE: KTN.V) ("Kootenay") is pleased to announce drilling has commenced on its 30,000 meter, multi-phase drill and resource expansion program on its flagship Promontorio Silver Project in Sonora, Mexico. At present, two core rigs are operating on the project with a third rig currently in transit to the property.
States Kootenay CEO James McDonald, "We are very pleased and excited to announce our aggressive, multi-phase drill and resource expansion program on the Promontorio Silver project is underway. Due to the accelerated nature of the program, shareholders can expect a steady stream of upcoming drill results coming from the Promontorio camp, as the resource expansion program ramps up over the coming weeks and months."
In conjunction with the multi-phase drill and resource expansion program, the Company reports it is currently finalizing the expansion of its on-site camp facilities at Promontorio to accommodate the recent increase in camp personnel and work force. Additions to the 2-shift, 24 hour per day fully serviced camp include the final construction of new air-conditioned bunk houses and a fully equipped medical room.
Current Drilling and Development Initiatives
The resource expansion program on Promontorio, which is designed to increase the overall size of the contained silver resource and to expedite the path to a production decision, will comprise the following components:
Drilling focused on expanding the known resource to the SW and NE and definition of high-grade zones
Step-out drilling on five premier breccia targets that sit outside of known silver resource
Infill drilling to render 'inferred resources' into the 'measured and indicated' category;
Continued scoping and baseline studies to further advance the permitting process;
Continued metallurgical testing to further define precious metal recoveries with emphasis on determining gold recovery of the Dorotea region, where gold content is higher than the resource area;
Oriented core holes to aid in preliminary pit design for open-pit mining;
Monitoring wells for hydrologic measurements needed for pit design and process water assessment
This data will form the basis of a preliminary economic model and provide a foundation for advancement to a pre-feasibility study.
The recent updated NI 43-101 mineral resource (See KOOTENAY News Release—August 21, 2012) contains a combined measured and indicated 61,679,000 silver equivalent ounces contained in two potentially mineable open pits. In addition to the resources that fall within the optimized Whittle Pit, there are 9,136,000 silver equivalent ounces in the inferred category and underground potential of another 2,116,000 silver equivalent measured plus indicated ounces with 5,333,000 ounces of inferred.
The foregoing geological disclosure has also been reviewed and verified by Kootenay's CEO, James McDonald, P.Geo (a qualified person for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects). Mr. McDonald is a director of Kootenay.
Subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, Kootenay has issued an aggregate total of 2,100,000 incentive stock options, which are exercisable for a period of five years at an exercise price of $1.05 to directors, officers and consultants of the company.
ABOUT KOOTENAY
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First allow me to do some myth busting!
Adding citrus juice to the guacamole doesn't prevent browning. We only put lemon for the taste. Yes this the truth! What really works is preventing its exposure to air. Oxygen turns avocados brown.
How you should restrict oxygen from spoiling your guacamole?!
Place the guacamole in a bowl and flatten with the back of spoon to remove any air pocket, cover it with 2 layers of plastic wrap pressed firmly against the guacamole and put it in the fridge.
I promise this will prevent browning for 3-4 hours.
Use a fork to mash the avocado. You can use a pastry blender, but i like my guacamole to be a little chunky.
Sprinkle with salt and garlic powder. Why garlic powder, because it's milder than the fresh one, it blends in better.
But for me i like guacamole where the seasoned avocados are the only event!
Try my sizzling chicken fajitas recipe with this delicious guacamole.
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Siamodon is an extinct genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from Early Cretaceous deposits of northeastern Thailand.

Discovery
Siamodon is known from the holotype PRC-4, a well-preserved left maxilla and from the referred materials PRC-5, an isolated maxillary tooth and PRC-6, a braincase. It was collected in the Ban Saphan Hin site, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, from the Khok Kruat Formation, dating to the Aptian stage of the late Early Cretaceous, about 125-113 million years ago.

Description
Siamodon shows a combination of plesiomorphic and apomorphic features, including a maxilla shaped like an isosceles triangle, with the dorsal process located at about mid-length of the bone; a strong longitudinal bulge on the medial surface of the maxilla; at least 25 maxillary teeth, which bear a prominent median primary ridge, and one short weak subsidiary ridge or no subsidiary ridge at all, and mamillated denticles on the crown margins. The maxilla is 230 millimeters long, and has a height of 100 millimeters. The height of the isolated tooth is about 25-28 millimeters, and the width is about 14-17 millimeters.

Siamodon differs from more basal iguanodontians, such as Iguanodon and closely related forms, in the morphology of its maxillary teeth, which are narrower and bear a strong median primary ridge, sometimes accompanied by a weak subsidiary ridge, instead of a distally displaced primary ridge and several subsidiary ridges, and the apex of the maxilla is in a more posterior position. Its maxilla differs from that of hadrosaurids in the articular area for the jugal, with forms a tab-like jugal process. Whereas in hadrosaurids, the expanded anterior end of the jugal contacts and overlaps a large sutural area on the maxilla.

The combination of characters seen in the maxilla of Siamodon nimngami indicate that it belongs to a group of iguanodontians more derived than Iguanodon but basal to Hadrosauridae. It may be closely related to Probactrosaurus from China but they differ in the number of tooth positions.

Etymology
Siamodon was first named by Éric Buffetaut and Varavudh Suteethorn in 2011. The type species is Siamodon nimngami. The generic name is derived from Siam, the ancient name of Thailand; and , Greek for "tooth". The specific name is in honour of Witaya Nimngam, who donated the specimens to the authors.

References

Iguanodonts
Aptian life
Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Cretaceous Thailand
Fossils of Thailand
Fossil taxa described in 2011
Taxa named by Éric Buffetaut
Taxa named by Varavudh Suteethorn
Ornithischian genera


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The story of Islam Murad Baloch
28 July 2022 Off By passamontagna
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This is the story of a young man, Islam Murad Baloch. One of the many who crossed the Montgenèvre border.
It is the story of his long and difficult journey across the murderous borders and their guards. A story about repression in Balochisan. A story of the violence of the thousand borders he had to cross to escape death.
He himself asked that it be spread so that the story of his people and what so-called "migrants" are forced to endure will be known.
I am Islam Murad Baloch, I belong to the barren mountains of Balochistan. Balochistan is a forcefully annexed and occupied territory of Pakistan. It has been occupied on 27 March 1948 by Pakistan. Since then its people have struggled to recover their land and rights from the invaders. Pakistan has continued its suppression and cruelty on Baloch. Baloch have been put in troubles, their survival and identity have become a question mark for them. Pakistan treats them as strangers in their own land. It made tough their lives in their own motherland. Whosoever speaks up of their rights and resources they will be abducted, killed and their mutilated bodies will be thrown in the deserted areas. According to the Voice For Balochistan Missing Person Report (VBMP) more than 53,000 Baloch are missing in Balochistan their whereabouts are unknown for the last 2 decades. I am one of them who has been the victims harof enforced disappearance in Balochistan. Once at 3 pm at mid-night my room was knocked, I thought they are my friends they have an emergency they are knocking the door when I glanced from the mirror I could see the armed men on the door. I knew that they are Pakistani intelligence. To save my life from the cruel Pakistani agency I hurriedly jumped from the second storey of the building. I was terribly wounded and became in critical condition, but successful in escaping. I witch off the cell phone so that they must not trace me. I called home by a friend's cell phone and informed them about the issue. They were worried a lot but they thanked Allah the almighty that I am still alive. Mom suggested me not to further stay in the country. Here your life is in threat. They suggested me to leave the country immediately. Listening these words of mom I was shocked and I refused to leave the country because everything mine belongs to this country. My childhood's memories, friends, family and loved ones. Leaving the country and taking asylum abroad was too hard for me. I was not ready to leave my motherland Balochistan at all. But mom has compelled me that if you do not leave the country, Pakistani intelligence agencies do not leave you alive. They will chase you at every corner of the country. It is better to go abroad. Mom says if you do not go they will kill you. Then there is no need of me to be alive. I will end off my life if you do not go out from this country. It made me compelled to take the hardest decision in my life. I had merely two options to stay in the country to be killed or go abroad. I could not insist to mom because she was already suffering from terrible situations of Balochistan. Then I took the help from agents (human smugglers) to reach in Iran. From Iran I along with 50 other were loaded in a pick up car taken by agents from Iran border for about a 1000 kilometers. The car was overloaded that it was hard to breathe properly. I thought I would not survive in the journey. Agents did not allow us to fresh up ourselves on the way when we asked for the toilet they only humiliated us but also tortured us. It was only the hope of survival which impelled us to continue the journey. There was no break in the journey till we reached at Iran- Turkey border. It was a really suffocating journey that I cannot explain it in words. I thought life will end off from here. Having the constant journey the complete body was numb, kidneys and lungs got terribly affected. This 1000 kilometer journey traumatized me. Agents treated us as inhuman in the whole journey. Even some of the refugees have been unable to walk owing to deteriorated condition of their health. They could not cross the Iran-Turkey border. We, on the struggle with other refugees to cross the border, Turkish army caught all of us. They tortured and gave us inhuman punishment. We were affected psychologically and physically in their custodian. Then they deported us in the Iran border again. We call the agents to receive us Safe. Safe was a code agents told us when we need help we should call them with this code. They received us and treated the same. Agent were infuriated on us that why we have trapped ourselves to the Turkish police. They refused to give us food on our return as well as warned us if next time we would be back they will kill us. The next time we were the same caught and tortured and deported to Iran border but in the 5th attempt I was successful. We approach at Van city of Turkey. Van is 120 kilometers far from Iran border. Agent kept us in safe places but we could not have access of anything to eat, shower, sleep and contact to the family member that we are safe. Then agent provided us Turkish SIM to contact the family member for the payment. I had 200 dollar I purchased a SIM card a cell phone and informed the family member that I have reached safe and sound in Turkey and asked them for the payment of agent. They paid the required money to the agents. Turkish agents called the Iranian agents to come take the refugees to the Tatvan city. In here all refugees were tantalizing of unavailability of water and food. Agent assured us to come in car and take them to Tatvan.
They brought a container and put 500 of us in it. The container did not have any ventilator so that we could breathe. After 20 minutes of journey most of the refugees became unconscious we knocked the container for the help. Lately, it stopped. All of us came out from the container. In the same time Turkish police reached on the spot. They provided us first aid and took the critical ones to hospital. I was taken to the police station. Police wanted me to deport in Iran border, on the border I ran away from police custody they ordered me to stop I did not stop they fired on me but I was successful in escaping from their custody. I encamped in the mountain in the complete night without food and water. I called the agent to receive me. They assured me to receive me on the next day but they did not come, on the 3rd day they received me. I was tantalizing in the thirst of water and dying of hunger. Agent took me to the mountains another day and then took me to Afghan refugee camp. Police was present there too. Police caught me once again. They took us to the Iran border for deportation. Once again I ran away from the police custody. They fired but I did not stop. The reason was I had to pay once again if I were deported to Iran's border. I did not care for my life I was fed up from it. Death carries no meaning to me. If I die it is better I get ride off from this suffocated life. I asked the agents to pay him double to take me a safe city. But they denied that police is so strict they cannot do it. I was very disappointed but still I was optimistic. Because it is hope which keeps life. I decided to go on feet to Caldiran to Patos. Patnos is a bigger city I could get the ticket of Istanbul. It was in distance of 115 kilometers. I went to the nearest market I had 200 dollar bought a bag, and foods then left for Patnos. I travelled in the day near road side and slept at night. After one and half day travelled I was caught by the civilian, they took me to the nearest police station. Police did not keep me in the police station rather they took me to place it looks like a garage. Some Arab refugees were also there, I was kept there. I escaped from the garage merely with my mobile and charger. I tried to walk at night and stay at day. But the weather was so cold that I could not travel at night I walked at day and hide myself from police. It was hard to bear the chilly weather of Turkey. I hide myself in the jungle and found warm places to pass the night. In the surrounding I heard the sounds of animals. In the next day I went to the nearest market where I bought a packet of soap to bathe. On the other day I continued my journey. After a five days walk I went to a nearest Kurdish village. I plead them to give me shelter and food, I have travelled for five days I am unable to walk anymore. They told me that they will provide me everything but cannot give me shelter because Turkish police create problems for them. Kurdish offered me delicious food I took launch and slept on the spot they tried to awake me but I was too drowsy that I could not get up. I got up at 12 pm and took shower and moved towards the destination. I was at the distance of 10 kilometers from Patnos. Unfortunately, police saw me walking along the road. They ordered me to stop, I had the fear that they deport me to Iran's border, I did not stop. I ran away, after 5 minutes they chased me via drone camera. And then the Turkish army approached me with a lot of soldiers they ordered me to surrender. And told me to take off the cloths. I haplessly cried a lot. They told me to deport me at Iran border. I told them kill me or let me go at Istanbul. I refused to go to Iran. Turkish army said we will drop you in a nearest town where you can get a taxi for Patnos. Turksih army felt pity on me they brought back me 30 kilometer to a town where they told me to get a taxi to go to Patnos. I asked the taxis to take me at Patnos but they refused because of security reason. I then continued walking towards Patnos and took lift by the car. He took me to Patnos freely.
Reaching at Patnos I took a ticket of Istanbul, it took us 24 hours to reach at Istanbul. I contacted the next agent in Istanbul he received me there. I stayed at his home for one week. Then I proceed my journey towards Bulgaria with other refugees. Bulgarian border is one of the riskiest borders in the region. We were guided by agent via Google map to pass the border. It is a journey of 5 to 6 hours on foot to reach Bulgaria. Bulgarian army have trained dogs they can trace the refugees via smell. They are very dangerous dogs they can harm a lot. Moreover, Bulgarian border is fenced that is highly risky to cross it. Because after every 20 minutes police patrol on the border. On this border one needs to be very conscious while crossing it. When one crosses the border he/she must hastily need to move in the jungle to hide themselves so that police must not catch them. On the next side of the border agents are ready to receive you. They take them to Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
Unfortunately, on the Bulgarian border police arrested us. They took off our cloths and made us naked and torture us terribly. It is hard to explain the situation. One only can see such seen in the movies. I still be goose bump while thinking about the situation. They treated us inhumanly. As if we were animals. Even one feels pity in while beating animals but these cruel troops did not have any humanly feeling with us. After humiliating us they hand over us to the Turkish army they provided us cloths. We hired taxi and headed towards Istanbul. It was a journey of 5 to 6 hours. I did not have money to pay the fare of taxi drive, reaching at agent's home he paid the fare of taxi. I called my family to send me money to proceeding the journey farther. I was terribly exhausted owing to the long journey. I stayed a few days at the agent's home then he guided me the way of Greece border to go. I have taken food, water and other luggage for the journey. Agent took me to the Turkey-Greece border. We approach at the border at day time, awaited for the night to safely cross the border. At night we crossed the border though a river. Agents prescribed us not to talk with one another in forest and must not stay for lunch only we have to eat to survive in the journey. We were very careful in the journey but unfortunate after the 12 days of journey police us. They took us to the police station and treated the same as Bulgarian police did with us. They took off our cloths and gave us corporal punishment. I lost hope that I cannot survive in these critical situations. It is hard to describe the happened events which occurred with us in the all way. Their punishment was so much hard that I bled and vomited. Then they put salt on the wounds to make the pain worst. Besides this they pour cold water on us in the freezing weather. The policemen say if you try again to enter in Greece you will be treated the worst the next time. My entire body swelled because of hard punishment. Greek and Bulgarian army terribly racists. They did not have any feeling for the refugees. In addition, Greek army brought us to the Turkish border at night deported us at Turkey at 2 pm without cloths and shoes. It was so cold and border was thorny that we could not move ahead at night. It was such a situation that I loved to be dead than alive in enduring the troublesome. We are left haplessly in the open sky. In the dawn we went to the nearest village. They provided us cloths and shoes. I similarly hired a taxi to approach at Istanbul at agent's home. He paid the fare. I called the family to get me money. I stay at agent's home a few days. In the same way I took bags and luggage moved to Greece. For 4 times I was caught tortured and deported in Turkey. I was tried off being deported and tortured again. I made a deal with a taxi to pay him 5000 thousands euro to take me to Greece via car. He was agreed. Listing this agent put me in a cell and tortured me a lot for going with the taxi. He made my video and send it to my family member threatened them to pay him 5000 euro or he will kill me.
Family members were impelled to pay him 5000 euro. Finally he released me. It was the 5th attempt to cross the Greece border. I talked to another agent to take me to the Greece. He assured me to take me by car in Arriana. Arriana is a village of Greece which at a distance of two day to the Greece border. Agent told us to wait for the car they will pick up at the location. Awaiting for two more days no one came. Agent made alibis that car has broken which needs to repaired. But all was a lie, they told us nowadays security is alert we cannot send a car to pick you all up. So you must walk in the forest to reach at Florina city. Unluckily, we did not have good advisor to guide us the way via Google till we reach at Florina. Our food got finished we took some more food for the journey. We reach after a long days of travel we still did not get the car. Agent was excusing. He said you have to come in Cumenthene where we can get the car. We did not have any option besides the working on the instruction of the agent. We proceeded the journey. In here we were dodged too. He did not come for picking us up. He told us to come farther at Xanthi. Agent kept us in hope of car but for six days we stayed in the open sky on the rain. Neither we could sit properly nor could we sleep in the terrible weather. On the other side, we were dying of hunger. It took us 28 days to reach at Thessalonki. From here we took the ticket of Athens the capital of Greece. After the arrival of Athens I rented a room for 6 months to stay here for some months to rehabilitate. My health was deteriorated I went to doctor for the checkup. The long journey made me too weak. In the entire journey I spent couple of months in Iran,Turkey and Greece. Most of journey was on feet with limited food which affected the health severely.
To approach the destination, I with other two friends, started the journey towards Macedonia. One of the friends was a heart patient he had two heart surgeries in Balochistan in 2001 and 2002 respectively. But after all these difficulties he was courageous he did not lose hope in the long troublesome journey. He was shoulder to shoulder with us in whole journey. He was a motivation for us in the journey. This journey was very hard without a guider to reach the next country. We called the next agent to guide us for crossing Macedonian border. He told us to come at Thessalonki. We reached at Thessalonki at his home. The agent guided us to get a train from Thessalonki to cross the Macedonian border. We did not get any ticket from train but were told to sit in the containers when train leaves from the station. We sit in the running train in between containers. The train official did not known some illegal people are sitting in it. It was too risky even to budge up from the position. If one moves, he could lose his life. Agent told us that we must jump on the train after travelling 3 hours. Because at the border of Macedonia, Macedonian army check the containers. We had 3 advisors at the journey. When the border was near they ordered us to jump from the running train. We jumped from the train. Some of the refugees were terribly wounded. We hide ourselves in the jungle at day and moved at night to cross the border. We had three agent advisors; first one was leading, the second was at the mid on the refugees and the third one was at last. They look after the refugees forced them to walk fast whosoever was weak to come were punished. While crossing any road, agents commanded us to cross it by running. Being weak and tried in the journey it was the toughest thing to run. But the compulsion made it done. The two constant-days-journey made the move very complicated for the heart patient. He was completely unable to move ahead. My two friends including heart patients were left behind by the agent because they could not walk any more. In the hard times, I was with them and accompanied them but the last time I could not they were left behind. Because it was not easy for a normal man to climb the Forestay Mountains, how a heart patient could do. Moving ahead the heart patient went missing when I asked the agent about the friend he replies he is no more. Listening this I was completely shocked and dishearten. I wanted to move back to see the friends but agent did not allow me to go to them. Insisting a lot agent pressured me to pay him a thousand euro he would allow me. I assured him that I will call at home they will pay you but he did not let me go. In the mountainous forest I slipped down the mountains I became critically injured and could not continue the journey anymore then the agent left me here in the jungle. I spent the whole night with hard pain of wounds and the next day I went to a nearest town's market in Macedonia where I bought a SIM card and food. When I opened the internet I got a message from the heart patient friend he is safe and sound then I was too much happy that I am unable to express my feelings in word. Listening this news I did not feel any pain and tiredness besides being terribly injured and exhausted. My friends told me that they are at the Macedonian and Serbian border. I walked for two days reached at Belves. Belves is a city of Macedonia from where I fared a taxi to reach the capital city of Macedonia, Skopje.
Approaching at Skopje I called an agent to take me to cross the border he took me at late night at 11 o'clock. It took a 10 minute drive to cross the Serbian border. Agent demanded a thousand euro to take me to the next side of the border. I paid him the required money and 50 euro to the taxi drive for the service. We reached a bus station at Serbia but it was closed because of late night. I slept at night at the station. On the next morning I took a ticket for the capital city of Serbia, Belgrade. Reaching there I was penniless, I saw a Pakistani boy who had a Pakistani passport he could withdraw me money safely from the account. He made an agreement to withdraw the money if I pay him half of the money. I did not have any option I agreed on the term and condition. He took money and ran away. I slept for two days haplessly and the next day I found an Indian he helped me taking out money. He took them out without any charges. I insisted him to pay but he did not take then I offered him for the launch he accepted it. After the launch I took a ticket for Ljubovija. It is a town located at the Serbian and Bosnian border. Here comes a river on the way towards Serbian border I called a boat agent to take me across the river. He sent me a location to approach there at night. At late night I arrived at the location, where also another refugee was awaiting to cross the river. Boat rider took both of us across the river. We went to a near bus station, it was closed at late night. We spent the night there at the next morning I took a ticket for Tuzla. Tuzla is a city of Bosnia, from there Tuzla I took a ticket to reach at the capital city of Bosnia, Sarajevo.
Reaching at Sarajevo, I took a taxi to reach at the refugees' camp of Sarajevo. Resting few days in the camp, I took a bus ticket to go to Kladusa Mirle Camp. Khaldusa is a town near the Bosnian and Croatian border. After a long travel I got to the Kladusa Camp. Here I spent a week. After a week I got prepared to go to Croatia. I bought food, water and other luggage for the Croatian journey. We were three colleagues in the journey, each one us took 3 bottled 500 ml water with us. Croatia is one of the hardest border to cross because here Croatian police have fit camera on the trees and mountains to arrest the refugees. We planned to go in the forest from the highest mountains so that police should not arrest us. But it was very risky we could lose our lives in the top of the mountains. We proceeded the journey with full commitment, to face any kinds of difficulties as we faced in the previous borders. On the 4th day of journey at the jungle we had stricken with a rainy weather. It rained constantly till we reached at the Slovenian border entrance. There was a huge river on the Croatian-Slovenian border. We tried a lot but due to heavy rain water level was so high that it was hard to cross the border. On the other side, we were exhausted and sleepless for the 15 days journey. Neither we could sleep nor could we hand over ourselves to Croatian police. It was the fear that they deport us to the Bosnia again. Finally, we got to a narrow pass of water and succeeded to cross the Slovenian border. From border we walked another day and reached at Trieste, Italy. From Italy I took train to reach in France and then the last destination. I arrived in Netherland after the long struggle between life and death. I suggest everybody around the world not to try this way. It is better to die home but not to endure such a troublesome, humiliated and suffocating journey at all. These were the toughest days of my life, but I did not have any other potion merely opting this way. If not I was abducted by Pakistani intelligence and my mutilated body was thrown in the deserted. We were born free so to live freely is our fundamental right.
Islam Murad Baloch
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PSY's "Horseplay" in "Oppa Gangnam Style" Caricature of Asian Male Stereotypes?
Posted November 26th, 2012 by Annie Chung & filed under Pop Culture.
If you've been on the Internet, listening to the radio, or reading the newspaper anytime in the past month, you will no doubt recognize these lyrics from the K-pop hit "Oppa Gangnam Style" by South Korean rapper PSY.
The music video">music video is now viral on Youtube with over 600 million views and counting. The Korean pop sensation has performed his song internationally on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, Saturday Night Live and The X-Factor. Sparking numerous spoofs and parodies to exuberant Halloween costumes, "Oppa Gangnam Style" seems to be all the rage.
For those of you who haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, there are still some who aren't particularly thrilled about "Oppa Gangnam Style" either. Among those few still wary of PSY's "horseplay" is the Chinese government. Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei's parody of the popular music video has recently been blocked in China according to The Globe and Mail.
For those of you already into "Oppa Gangnam Style", it's not hard to understand why. It's catchy and fun, and even for those who don't understand the lyrics, everyone can still have fun dancing to the song. Even CBC The National's news anchor Peter Mansbridge can be seen dancing to "Oppa Gangnam Style". On The Ellen DeGeneres Show, American pop icon Britney Spears learns the moves from the K-pop star himself. The popular Fox TV show Glee also released a teaser video for their upcoming cover. Canadian teen pop start Justin Bieber and PSY have playfully "sang" "Oppa Gangnam Style" on Twitter suggesting a possible collaboration between the two artists.
But are its dance movies and catchy tunes the only reasons why "Oppa Gangnam Style" has been so popular?
Deanna Pan at Mother Jones raises a particularly interesting issue: "Is "Gangnam Style" a Hit Because of Our Asian Stereotypes?" Unlike other artists who have tried to enter the American market, such as K-Pop groups Wonder Girls or Girls Generation, and have struggled to appeal to the US audience, PSY is different. He fits into the Asian male stereotype of the funny guy who dances and goofs around.
There are similar concerns on Racialicious.com regarding artists like Korean pop star Rain and Taiwan singer Jay Chou, both of whom have had to "fit into a particular conception that the mainstream has of Asian men". In their respective Western films, Rain and Jay Chou have both played martial artists. The features of Asian male sexuality aren't really accepted by Western audiences, but PSY is particularly "non-threatening" with his chubby funny demeanor, and perhaps this is the reason why he has had such great success.
Although PSY's "Oppa Gangnam Style" reveals that music and dance are truly universal languages, the song's rise to popularity is also likely the result of what Western audiences deem as an appropriate portrayal of an (unthreatening) Asian male. While I'd like to think that most of us are "laughing with PSY" rather than "at him", to answer Mother Jones' question, there are certainly some out there that might feel differently.
Annie is currently interning for Schema and studying English at UBC. She enjoys reading, writing, blogging and watching movies in her spare time. You can follow her musings on Twitter @missanniechung.


A man is facing felony hate crime charges after repeatedly vandalizing a church in southwest suburban Orland Park, police said.
Luke Corrigan, 23, of Orland Park, was charged with felony counts of hate crime to a church and arson to a place of worship, according to Orland Park police.
About 2:20 a.m. Friday, officers noticed multiple broken windows and spray-painted doors at Living Word Lutheran Church at 16301 Wolf Road, police said. The church had previously been vandalized four times since late January.
After reviewing recently installed surveillance footage from the church, an officer recognized Corrigan "from a prior police incident," police said. He was then taken into custody at his home, where police recovered evidence from his latest suspected act of vandalism.
Over the course of the five incidents, Corrigan spray-painted "anti-religious" words on doors and walls, cut screens, broke windows and tried to start a fire, police said.
Living Word Lutheran Pastor Steven Lange said Monday night that while the incidents were "malicious," he never had any true safety concerns. He explained he didn't want to "advertise or give any credence" to the attacks by overreacting.
"I don't feel like it's somebody who was interested in hurting so much as showing his disgust with religion," Lange said.
The pastor said nobody at the church had any connection or relationship with the suspected vandal, and he doesn't believe the church was targeted for any reason other than proximity and convenience.
Corrigan is being held without bail at Cook County Jail, according to the Cook County sheriff's office. His next court date is set for Tuesday.


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Matt Jacobs
I've been around cameras all my life due to my father's photographic passion, but began taking photographs seriously as a teenager in the 80's taking photos of bands in the clubs of London.
I learned to dive in the Philippines and was traveling extensively around the world in the late 90's. It was an obvious and natural progression to combine my love of the sea and photography and I began to take photos underwater. Ikelite has always been my housing of choice since those early days.
Having dived all over the world, Egypt has become my spiritual home and the Red Sea never never fails to amaze and surprise me.
Specializing in ultra wide ambient light photography, my images hang in countless homes in countries and continents around the world and have been published in magazines internationally. I regularly shoot promotional videos for various dive operations around the world.
I became a Panasonic LUMIX ambassador in 2017.
It's fair to say that I'm far more influenced by cinematographers and directors rather than photographers and as such my images have an almost cinematic feel to them. The underwater work of Luc Besson was a big influence on me and probably my inspiration for my monochrome underwater images.
Shooting video as well as stills I'm excited by the incredible developments in the video world that is allowing me shoot underwater footage that was unthinkable just a few years ago.
Awards + Achievements
Panasonic LUMIX Ambassador
Winner Panasonic LUMIX G Videographer of the year 2014
Finalist Rough Guides Travel Photographer of Year 2017
Shortlisted for the British Photography Awards 2018
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Technical Abstract: The Little Washita River Experimental Watershed (LWREW) located in the Red River Basin of the Southern Great Plains near Chickasha, OK is one of USDA Agricultural Research Service's largest and best-instrumented watersheds. The LWREW drains an area of 610 square kilometers and is characterized by variations in topography, soils, and land use. The watershed is located within a steep precipitation gradient of the Southern Great Plains, making it ideal for conducting research on regional mass and energy fluxes at the earth's surface. The LWREW has been operated by ARS since the 1960s and provides a wealth of field and remotely sensed data. An automated meteorological network, consisting of 42 stations, spaced at 5 km intervals, provides 5-minute measurements of rainfall, air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, and soil temperature. These variables as well as wind speed, wind direction, and air pressure are also monitored at three of the University of Oklahoma/Oklahoma State University Mesonet sites. Hourly measurements of soil matric potential, heat flux, and soil temperature are made at 12 soil heat and water measurement stations. Ten stream gages are located in the watershed, with three on the main stem of the river. Current research on the LWREW is designed to address problems that relate to the integrated effects of agricultural land use, land management and climate variability on surface and ground water resources and the use of remote sensing techniques to monitor and predict root zone water content and availability at regional scales. Research from these programs is expected to promote the sustainable use of water resources and to help reduce the risk associated with fluctuations in climate. Current research on the LWREW also serves in facilitating multi-stakeholder discussions for UNESCO's HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy) in the Red-Arkansas River Basin.


James McKendrick conducted two weeks of meetings here with considerable results. The choir was very resistent, but in the end most of them came to the Lord. Fishing was abandoned and people from all around came to see what the Holy Spirit was doing.
For more information see Glory in the Glen by Tom Lennie p206-7 and p404-5.
A view of the fishing village of Ferryden which has experienced many revivals in the past, probably as a result of the close relationships amongst the fishermen and their families.
According to Tom Lennie in the latter half of the 19th century, 1,600 in a parish of 2,500 had connections with the Free Church. There were revivals in 1846, 1860,1867, 1874-5, 1884, 1893 and 1913. Apart from the last, al these revivals took place in the time of Hugh Mitchell, who was minister to the parish.


PRAGUE, Czech Republic - For years he served the persecuted church with The Voice of the Martyrs. Then at the end of a trip to Sudan, Czech national Petr Jasek was arrested and charged with espionage.
He was jailed on that charge with Islamic militants and later sentenced to 20 years. But now he's free from prison and Jasek is revealing some of the details of his harrowing experience.
Shortly after his arrest, missionary Jasek was imprisoned with members of ISIS.
"One of the ISIS members was a Libyan guy who at the age of 12 was a personal guard for Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora and later on when he returned to Libya he was one of the murderers who slaughtered the 20 Egyptians on the Libyan shore," Petr explained.
"He took out a fishing string, quite a strong fishing string from his pocket and he was showing how he could kill a person within a few seconds with this fishing string. He told me if I was an American or Russian that he would break my neck immediately and kill me."
Petr discovered his other cellmates were just as extreme. When asked to share news from the outside, he told them about the Paris terrorist attack.
"When I said the 129 people got killed they interrupted me and they started to shout, 'Allahu Akbar' for several minutes. So, immediately I knew the company that I was in and I stopped telling them anymore news," he said.
"They called me a filthy pig, or filthy rat, and if I did not react to this new name they started to beat me, slapping my face, or fist to my face and they used a wooden stick. So gradually I started to live with the new name. I was not Petr anymore, I was just 'filthy pig.'"
How did it come to this? Why was this man dedicated to helping persecuted Christians now himself persecuted?
Petr's arrest came in December 2015, just two years after the Sudanese government thought it had expelled all foreign Christian workers from the country.
While visiting Sudan, Petr met with Christian leaders and recorded some video. Agents confiscated his equipment and charged him with spying against the government.
During his first four months in jail Petr asked God to return him to his family. His epiphany came after he led some Eritrean prisoners to Christ.
His purpose? To share the Gospel.
"And I suddenly started to realize that there is a purpose, the Lord has a purpose for me to be in prison to share the Gospel with those people," Petr explained.
"And I started to be even more courageous to open my mouth and share the Gospel also with the Muslims who were in the previous cell with me," he added.
In January 2017, a Sudanese court sentenced Petr to 20 years in prison. His work helping persecuted Christians in Sudan was considered an anti-state activity - espionage.
"I really was considered to be a very dangerous person. They mentioned I am an employee of a spy organization called VOM. Actually [they believed] VOM was a spy organization [not a mission]," he said.
The son of a pastor, Petr had experienced persecution before while growing up in communist Czechoslovakia.
Christian oppression intensified in Czechoslovakia after Red Army tanks rolled through Prague in August 1968. Government agents constantly monitored Petr's parents and their Christian activities.
"They knew that we were receiving Bibles, and we were receiving Christian literature and we were also distributing, my parents were distributing that," he said.
One day Petr returned home from school and found his parents missing.
"They were arrested. They were arrested by secret police and interrogated. Apparently the government, the secret police, wanted to know what was going on in our house," he said.
And 36 years later, like his parents, Petr was arrested for his Christian activities - only this time at the hands of Islamists, not communists.
But God prepared Petr for his prison experience years earlier, when his father gave him a special gift.
"Without saying much, he brought the book written by Richard Wurmbrand. The name of the book in German was En Gottis Undergrund, which means In God's Underground in English, and I was fluent in German at that time already. He gave me this book and said read this book. It will encourage your faith," Petr recalled.
His father passed away at the age of 89 while Petr was in prison.
And what did Petr think his father would say to him about his time in prison and what he went through?
"I'm quite sure that he'd be proud of me. I'm quite sure, yeah," he replied emotionally.
Petr was freed after spending 14 months in prison. He credits the Czech government for negotiating his release and the prayers and support of Christians around the world. Nearly half a million people signed a petition for him, and thousands sent encouraging cards and letters.
Petr says he was brought to tears when he heard some Sudanese women near the prison singing Christian praise songs.
How did the prison experience change him?
"When you come through this situation you realize that everything you have is the grace of God and it is on His strength that it is in prison, it is not your own strength that you can survive. Being humble and being faithful to the last moment, this is the moment when we can be more than conquerors when we go through difficult situations because of our faith in Jesus Christ," Petr explained.
A humble servant of the persecuted church, persecuted himself and then freed from prison, he is grateful for those who prayed and for learning to wait patiently on God for victory and grace.


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NSLC president offers glimpse inside Nova Scotia's 'unique' cannabis stores
Behind the counter are dozens of white boxes that will eventually contain types of cannabis. The available products will be displayed on TV screens and are divided into four distinct categories: relax, unwind, centre and enhanced.
By Aly ThomsonThe Canadian Press
Wed., July 18, 2018timer3 min. read
HALIFAX—The Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. offered a glimpse inside one of its coming cannabis stores Wednesday, showcasing a unique retail hybrid not likely found anywhere else in the world.
NSLC president and CEO Bret Mitchell took media on a tour of the cannabis store that's inside the NSLC on Joseph Howe Drive in Halifax, saying Nova Scotia is the only jurisdiction that brings cannabis and alcohol sales under one roof.
"We have a very unique situation here in Nova Scotia and one that's definitely going to be setting the stage for the world," said Mitchell inside the new cannabis store, located in a renovated section of the liquor store.
"It hasn't been done to my knowledge anywhere else in the world, and so it's going to make it a very different retail environment than you'll experience in any other jurisdiction."
The entrance to the 130 square-metre rectangular-shaped store — which will be one of the largest in the province — is located in the back left corner of the liquor store beneath large letters that read "cannabis."
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Customers walk through an opening with frosted glass and around a corner into a brightly-lit space with light-coloured walls.
Behind the counter and spanning an entire wall are dozens of white boxes that will eventually contain types of cannabis. The available products will be displayed on TV screens and are divided into four distinct categories: relax, unwind, centre and enhanced.
Mitchell calls this a "discovery guide approach."
"The four categories are how we will be grouping our assortments to hopefully help those who are new to the category have an ability to choose what they're looking for when they buy cannabis," said Mitchell.
For example, a sign on the wall explains that, "relax" products offer "relaxing and calming experiences that are generally more focused in the body than the mind."
There are a number of tablets at wood grain countertops that will contain information to help customers choose a product. Mitchell said "hosts" will greet customers as they come in, firstly to determine if they're legal age, and secondly to show them how to shop.
The cannabis will be provided in a sealed bag, and must be purchased before leaving the cannabis store boundaries.
Products and accessories will be displayed in cabinets on the walls. Customers will not be able to smell the product, except for at its Clyde Street store in downtown Halifax. NSLC says the products will have descriptions regarding their "nose."
There are also a number of safety messages posted on signs throughout store, including warnings against smoking and driving.
Barriers that weave in front of the checkout counters will help control the expected lineups, but Mitchell said the hope is to eventually remove them once the initial rush dies down and customers become more familiar with the process. The store can comfortably accommodate roughly 60 people.
Mitchell conceded that the store's opening would not come without growing pains.
"This is a new experience for us and it's going to take time to figure out," he said.
He said in order to have a cannabis store within the liquor store, they must abide by a number of federal regulations, including that it be totally separate from the liquor store. No one under the age of 19 is allowed in the cannabis section.
"There's going to be some learning. Do people shop the same way? Do they come at the same time of day? How do they interact with staff? It's going to be a very different experience," he said, adding the average alcohol transaction is three minutes, whereas cannabis transactions will take up to 20 minutes.
Twelve cannabis stores will be opening inside NSLC locations on Oct. 17, said Mitchell. He said they're anticipating up to 90 people an hour will use the cannabis store at the Joseph Howe Drive location once it opens.
The introduction of cannabis is expected to double that location's retail sales, from $11.5 million a year to $22.5 million, said Mitchell.


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Ayn Rand, high priestess of capitalism, reincarnated in an American hedge fund? Deep in the collective conscience of the world's leading hedge fund, the $122 billion Bridgewater?
Yes, Rand's spirit is alive, in the vision of the iconic Ray Dalio, the perfect capitalist, 55th on the 2010 Forbes 400 with $5 billion, a guy who could easily be cast as Howard Roark, the ultimate individualist in "The Fountainhead." Here's his secret: Why his flagship fund Pure Alpha II returned 44.8% in 2010.
Actually Bridgewater's 1,200 employees see Dalio more as the reincarnation of Socrates, the perfect mentor (his new title), because of his uncompromising insistence that "above all else, I want you to think for yourself—to decide 1) what you want, 2) what is true and 3) what to do about it … in a clear-headed thoughtful way, so that you get what you want," says Dalio in his online book, "Principles," which should be required reading for every MBA student.
How? Simple. Dalio says: "I am going to ask only two things of you — 1) that you be open-minded and 2) that you honestly answer some questions about what you want, what is true and what you want to do about it." And "if you can't do these things, you should reflect on why that is, because you probably have discovered one of your greatest impediments to getting what you want out of life." Thus begins the secret to winning big.
Dalio's "Principles" caught my attention recently while waiting for my wife, a psychotherapist. We were headed to a Byron Katie workshop at the Esalen Institute in the Big Sur. I was waiting, reading Bloomberg Markets' issue on the "50 Most Influential in Global Finance." Dalio's "Principles" were mentioned.
For decades Dalio's been telling his Bridgewater staff that, when practiced, the "Principles" will "evolve from 'Ray's principles,' to 'our principles,' and Ray will fade out of the picture" as "people only pay attention to what works" in their lives and become part of the Bridgewater "machine" (his term).
So, before we left for the Big Sur, I copied and packed Dalio's "Principles" alongside Katie's materials. That weekend I read Dalio with my left-brain while listening to Katie with my right-brain, triggering many questions. As a result, Dalio's own words inspired me to challenge Bridgewater's "Principles:" Are they true? For all America? Or just hedge funds?
"When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism, with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church. Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice because capitalism demands the best of every man, his rationality, and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him." Sound familiar?
Rand turns "traditional Christian morality" on its head warns Prothero: "Altruism is immoral and selfishness is good. … there isn't a problem in the world that laissez-faire capitalism can't solve if left alone to perform its miracles." Yes, capitalism works miracles.
But ask: "Is that true? Does our financial industry have any responsibility for America's increasing poverty? Dying middle class? The truth is, America's financial industry does fit perfectly in the Ayn Rand capitalism mold … they love money, know where and how to make it, how to get rich … they don't care whether the market's going up or going down … they get rich on the action, the trade, up or down they make money, they love high volatility … and yes, they are in denial of the real world outside their bubble.
So, yes, the financial industry, hedge fund machine, super-rich all get richer and more powerful marching in lockstep to a cadence that matches an overarching ideology that rejects Adam Smith's moral code. It has taken over America's brain, an ideology canonized by Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan and Ronald Reagan, with Ayn Rand their high priestess.
Dalio also discovered that "one of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads." Get it? Most people's heads are loaded with "wrong theories," a limitation for world leaders — financial, corporate and political — as well as the 99% masses.
Since my days at Morgan Stanley, I've been watching capitalism in action. Bottom line: These "Principles" are actually unproven hypotheses, not scientific theories, speculations on a limited equation that works inside Bridgewater's bubble but not out in the real world.
Remember Dalio's earlier warning: "One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads." Shouldn't that implied Socratic challenge also apply to the unproven "hypotheses" above?
Ask yourself: Do these "hypotheses" have anything to do with the death of the middle class? Rise of poverty? Rapid concentration of more wealth at the top? Risk of another global economic collapse? Class warfare? Revolutions?
Bridgewater's challenge: Ask yourself, are we really "thinking for ourselves" in our bubble? Ignoring the rest of America? Do we have a responsibility to go deeper, to reexamine our core beliefs, their moral foundation?


It has been brought to my attention that there may be copyright issues with some of my prints.
I am making an original piece of art , because the linocut is made by me, its handmade — but it is based on a found image, and these may belong to someone else, its a grey area as it depends on an interpretation of my artwork and the used image.
If I had access to the people I want to honour I could take my own images to base my prints on, but in most cases this is not possible.
You allow me to celebrate you and your work free of charge?
I would be happy to share with you a percentage of the small profit that I make on each print, for the permission to carry on printing from my original artwork?
If you wish me to stop printing and distributing the prints – then I will of course do this.