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Bulletin 2018-2019 > Special Academic Programs > Studies Abroad
Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement
Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture
Air Force ROTC Aerospace Studies
Army ROTC Military Science and Leadership
Entrepreneurial Scholars Program
Leader Certificate Program
Sojourner Scholar Program
London Summer Programs
Initiative for Christian Antiquities in the Digital Age
Cross-Registration Program
Eduardo Contreras Jr., Ed.D., director
There are many opportunities for students at the University of Portland to study abroad. The University provides an academic-year program in Salzburg, Austria, fall and spring semester programs in Fremantle, Australia, or a spring semester in Galway, Ireland. There are also summer-study programs in Salzburg, London, Tokyo, Spain, and Quito. The University is also a member of the Independent Liberal Arts Colleges Abroad consortium, which offers a fall or spring semester Spanish language immersion program in Granada, Spain. In partnership with the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), the University offers students a variety of options abroad, including a one-semester program in Nantes, France, for students interested in advanced studies in the French language. Business internships are also available at a variety of sites through IES.
For information concerning these programs, contact the Office of Studies Abroad, University of Portland, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, Oregon, 97203-5798. Telephone (503) 943-7857.


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UP Manila School of Health Sciences
A health worker for every village
About UPM-SHS
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University of the Philippines Manila
Main Campus, Palo, Leyte
A global center of excellence and leader in sustainable transformative health professions education directed at achieving health equity and improving the quality of life of the underserved and marginalized communities in the Philippines and countries similarly situated.
•	SHS commits itself to relevant and innovative health professions education, work collaboratively with development partners to produce competent, innovative, and qualified health professionals, pursue health and health-related researches and engage in community service endeavors.
1.	To produce a broad range of health manpower that will serve the depressed and other underserved communities.
2.	To design and test program models for health manpower development that would be replicable in various parts of the country and, hopefully in other countries similarly situated as the Philippines.
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORK DEPARTMENT
Center of excellence for transformative education in midwifery, research and public service directed towards the improvement of health outcomes and attainment of a better quality of life of mothers, newborn and children in underserved and marginalized populations and communities in the Philippines.
1.	To develop clinically competent and socially accountable midwives who will provide quality health and midwifery services in underserved and marginalized communities of the Philippines.
2.	To lead in the design and testing of innovative undergraduate and graduate programs/curricula for the training of clinically competent and socially accountable midwives.
3.	To generate relevant research and publication to contribute to the improvement of maternal, newborn and child health and the knowledge and practice of midwifery.
The Nursing Department as a relevant center of excellence for innovative health human resource development for the attainment of health for the marginalized Filipinos in the context of providing leadership and excellence in nursing development in the global community.
Develop outstanding and committed nurses who will stay and serve the Philippines through excellent community-based, competency based, community oriented education directed towards service in depressed and underserved areas of the countries.
Be the center of excellence in community oriented medical education where the graduates are guided by moral, ethical and professional standards.
Produce excellent and relevant physicians who can influence the health care system; matched by their sense of commitment in the attainment of health of the Filipino people in any setting.
The SHS is proud to be part of the University that has complied with government's transparency requirements.
Community Internship

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There can be a lot of pressure to throw an amazing new year's party, it creates a lasting memory and can define the atmosphere for the start of the new year. Here are some inspirational ideas to make an impact in the right way and give attendees a fantastic new year's celebration to remember.
Give your New Year's event the wow factor and make it more memorable by hosting at an unusual or exclusive venue that aren't usually available every day. For example, this stunning awards gala dinner that is hosted in the London Science Museum alongside some of the exhibits and displays. They can then form part of your event with private tours and exclusive viewings to experience exclusive venues differently to their purpose.
This dancefloor is a fun custom design that, as a clock, fits into the New Years' time theme and can match plenty of colour schemes and décor at your event. A unique dancefloor can showcase the finer details of your event making it even more special and memorable for the attendees, plus it's an excellent talking point.
Signage can be expensive, particularly for one-time use but these funky frames are a cool reusable idea that work. The large ornate gold colouring makes them stand out and the writing is a personal touch that you can incorporate on tables, the bar or entrance table so that it is noticed.
This ballroom has been transformed into a casino with these blackjack tables and stunning lighting effects. Attendees tend to feel lucky around the New Year so they are more likely to get involved and if you don't want real gambling you can create "event money" with sponsor's name and logos.
With evening events being the norm around New Year it stands to reason that you'll need some lighting and if you can make this multifunctional by incorporating it into the furniture then even better. This DJ booth makes a statement and can also light up the dancefloor or change color throughout the event to suit the atmosphere or nearer the countdown.
See in the New Year in style with a champagne toast at midnight when the clock strikes twelve as an elegant way to celebrate. Champagne toasts can be easy to set-up whether it's a table that is signed for "midnight champagne toast" (if you're doing this, let everyone know in ample time so they can go and get their drinks without a crowd.) or wait staff that bring the drinks to the attendees (also make sure these are circulated 5 or 10 minutes before countdown begins).
If an igloo got a makeover by an event designer this would be it, with transparent vases, furniture and candelabras combined with the silver accents and candle lighting creates elegant effects! Draw in colder themes and palettes to enhance the event like this stunning example.
One of the few times you can get away with the tacky glasses, big signs and over the top props. Is it really New Year if people aren't branded with the new date or celebratory favours? They are generally excellent mementos for attendees too, even if they don't wear them they might take them home.
A key feature of the party should include some sort of countdown clock because attendees are always watching the time, seeing how close the New Year is and choosing where and who they want to be with closer to the time. This can be done in a variety of ways by having a digital countdown, an accurate traditional clock or alternatively you could project the time onto a wall or larger screen which is easily connected to plenty of online countdown websites. If you are having a smaller party then you could have the TV coverage on low volume so that you can celebrate the countdown as they do it.
Documenting the final moments of the year, and the first memories of the new one is important to attendees so if you have the budget, a photo booth is an essential. This set-up is quite a cool idea that has a roped off section so attendees know who is in the photo perimeter as well as the printing station close-by for the mementos.
In a venue that is difficult to decorate, like this high ceiling atrium, GOBOs can be a game changer. As you can see there is little else needed which can be cost-effective for bigger events with smaller budgets. Plus, patterned ceilings can make a space feel more intentional and intimate.
Disco is always a fun idea, particularly with the popularity of era themes for New Year events but these are a quirky way to mix things up as décor pieces. The "melting" disco balls can be placed around the room but combined with the right lighting and they can create similar floor effects that they are supposed to do. Plus they are weird to look at which is always a talking point.
Keep it classy this new year (except for a few essentials) with some of these New Year event ideas for your corporate gathering. Regardless of your budget, if you are clever you can deliver on the venue and make it a New Year to remember.


So this is the day some of you have been waiting for, or at least have the good graces to make it seem like you have been.
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Finally, isn't this a good website name? Ink from the Pen.com was taken but this is even better because it tells you in four words what the about. If you have 1 minute to pitch it in an elevator to some big producer with Netflix, that's the pitch. I dare say the men of color and working class actors in general are dying to sink their teeth into a show with luscious characters like Jack Hammer, Thumper, Chainsaw, Loco and Jimmy. Don't take my word for it — read for yourself.


Grounded in a common interest in the varied functions of language, the English major integrates multiple disciplinary approaches, including the literary, the philosophical, and the aesthetic.
Cadets' command of language is developed both critically and creatively through the study of a range of humanistic works and practice in effective forms of expression.
Rhetoric is both an art and a skill in using language, a means of fostering cooperation among human beings. In this definition "language" encompasses the language of music, art, and philosophy as well as of writing and literature. Through a study of these languages, cadets learn to create and interpret a variety of texts and locate them in their cultural contexts. In the process, English majors discover how authors, artists, and philosophers have shaped and been shaped by the values, beliefs, time, and place in which they lived and worked. Cadets thus gain a cultural awareness that will serve them well in today's global society.
Given the necessity of digital communication in the twenty-first century, they also learn how to navigate networked writing spaces and to develop multimedia projects for the web. To extend their education beyond the classroom and prepare them to be engaged citizens and professionals, they apply what they have learned to real-world situations in both courses and required fieldwork experiences.


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Chip Firm Tianyihexin Bags Several Hundred Million Yuan in C-Round Financing
On Monday, Nanjing Tianyihexin Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it had recently completed a C round of financing worth several hundred million yuan. This round was led by CDH Fund and followed by CITIC, SL Capital, Nanjing Gaoke and Everest Venture Capital. Its previous shareholders Xiaomi Changjiang Industrial Investment Fund and Juntong Capital continued to increase their investment, and Winsoul Capital acted as the exclusive financial consultant.
Founded in 2014, Tianyihexin is an integrated circuit developer specializing in analog technology. Its core team members come from ADI, National Semiconductor, Huawei HiSilicon and other top chip design companies in China and abroad, with more than 20 years of experience on average.
The company has mastered the leading analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion (AD/DA) technology, optical system design and optical packaging test knowhow. It provides a rich product portfolio of optical and capacitive sensing chips, which are widely used in products including smart bracelets, TWS earbuds and smartphones.
The official website of Tianyihexin shows that since its establishment, the company has obtained six invention patents, seven utility model patents, 14 integrated circuit design patents and three design patents, in addition to many ongoing applications.
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According to EqualOcean, an investment research and information services provider, since the establishment of the company, Tianyihexin has completed seven rounds of financing, among which the latest one was the strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan invested by Xiaomi in January 2021.
The company pointed out that this round of financing funds will be used to expand product lines and continuously develop big customers. It plans to invest in products related to high-end gaming mouse sensors, power management and health care.
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AI Chip Company Intengine Technology Wins Tens of Millions of Dollars in Financing
Chinese AI chip company Intengine Technology completed a new round of financing worth tens of millions of dollars, led by investment institution ZY Capital.
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Data Storage Firm Starblaze Technology Completes a B Round of Financing Totaling $78.47 Million
Starblaze Technology Co., Ltd. announced the completion of a B2 round of financing totaling 300 million yuan.
Chip Design Company Microparity Secures nearly 100 Million in Pre-A Round of Financing
Microparity, a provider of high-performance single photon detection integrated circuit solutions, recently obtained nearly 100 million yuan in Pre-A round financing.
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Wi-Fi Chip Firm Zunpai Completes Several Hundred Million Yuan in Pre-A Investment Round
Zunpai Communication Technology (Nanjing) Co., Ltd., a Chinese wireless communication chip company, announced on Monday that it has obtained several hundred million yuan in a pre-A round of financing.
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Wilkes: Bauguess, Bunker, Siamese Twins, Martin
Bauguess v. Martin
In April of 1868, Mary Bauguess and her daughter Melissa brought a suit before the Wilkes County Court of Equity against James O. Martin. Their claim was that he was unfairly attempting to "eject" them from the 245 acres on which they lived in Traphill. The land had previously been owned by Mary's father and grandfather, and they had most recently bought it from the Siamese Twins, Eng and Chang Bunker. This occurred at a time of economic uncertainty during and soon after the Civil War when the value of money was fluid.
Mary and Melissa's Case
It was on 4/18/1868 that Mary and Melissa Bauguess, represented by Abraham C. Bryan, stated their case before the court. Mary was 59, and Melissa was 34. Abraham was 29 years old and part of a wealthy and influential family in the community. He was not only their lawyer, but also Mary's nephew. Their families lived less than three miles from each other, along the southeastern edge of what is now Stone Mountain State Park. In later court appearances, the case was handled by Abraham's brother John Q. A. Bryan who was six years older.
The Bauguess ladies claimed they had bought 245 acres from Eng and Chang Bunker on 9/21/1855, and that they had lived there ever since then. They paid the Bunkers in two bonds, one for $150 and another for $500. The agreement was that they would pay off the balance in "their own time" while they continued to live there. That's quite a deal!
The property was made up of six adjoining tracts that were purchased by the Bunkers between 1839 and 1844. It was located on both sides of Longbottom Rd, and it must have included Old Roaring River Baptist Church and the cemetery. Most of the property was east of the church and south of the road, however, neither landmark was mentioned in the early deeds or in the court case.
Approximate map of the 245 acres owned by Eng and Chang Bunker in 1844.
The largest of these adjoining tracts was 100 acres entered by Mary's grandfather Richard Bauguess in 1791 and sold to him by the state. It's commonly stated that Richard's first wife Nancy McCarty died soon after the family arrived in Wilkes County, and that she was one of the first buried in the old church cemetery about 1790. That would make sense given that Richard owned land here. Another tract was 50 acres entered by Mary's father Robert Bauguess in 1801.
According to From Siam To Surry by Melvin Miles, when the Siamese Twins first arrived in Traphill with their manager Charles Harris, they rented two rooms in the home of Robert Bauguess. Charles soon "took a liking" to Robert's daughter Fanny, and they married in 1839. It was at that wedding celebration that Eng and Chang Bunker met sisters Sally and Adelaide Yates, and four years later they were married on 4/13/1843. The following year both couples had their first child. By 1845 the twins moved away from Traphill to Surry County near Mt. Airy. From this court case, it appears that the twins continued to own their Traphill homeplace for another ten years. In 1855 they agreed to sell it to the daughter and granddaughter of the man who offered them a place to live when they first moved to the area.
Mary, or Polly, Bauguess was born in 1809, a daughter of Robert Bauguess. She never married, but her daughter Melissa was born in 1834. Mary and her daughter were still living with Mary's father Robert in 1839 when the twins arrived with Charles Harris. For weeks or perhaps months, they were all living under the same roof. Even after Harris married Robert's daughter and the twins started buying their own land, they were all living on adjoining property. They were an extended family. This helps to explain why the Bunkers, in 1855, would sell the land to Mary and Melissa Bauguess with essentially no conditions. The Robert Bauguess family had been very good to them, and this was an opportunity to return the favor.
Abraham and John Q. A. Bryan were the nephews of Mary Bauguess.
Returning to Wilkes County court in 1868, Mary and Melissa stated that there were no payment terms on the $650 for purchasing the 245 acres, but they continued to make payments as they were able until December 1862. That's when they received a visitor at their house named James O. Martin. Their claim in the court documents state that he arrived "professing to be their friend". He proposed that he would travel to the home of the Bunkers in Surry County and pay off the balance of the two bonds against the property. He would take the title for himself, and whenever Mary and Melissa repaid him – along with costs for his expenses and trouble – he would reconvey the property to them.
Mary and Melissa stated that they were unsure how much they had already paid, but that it was likely between $300 and $400. With a total cost of $650, even with interest, they had paid the twins about half of the cost already. Upon agreement with Mr. Martin, the ladies gave him and additional $130 in bank bills toward the balance. The following year, in the fall of 1863, they gave local doctor Tyre York $100 in Confederate bills for him to give to Mr. Martin.
Mary and Melissa further state that they now hold notes against Martin that are more than enough to pay the balance of what is due on the land. They wish to settle the account and prevent him from ejecting them from the property.
Martin's Response
It was over a year later on 12/16/1869 that they were again in court to hear the reply of James O. Martin as to the charges made against him. In his response, he agreed that he did buy the land from the Bunkers by paying them the balance of what was due. He says that his contract with the plaintiffs, Mary and Melissa, did not contain any agreement that they could "have their own time" to repay him.
The first page of James O. Martin's response to the plaintiffs' allegations.
He says that, contrary to their claim, he did not offer unsolicited help in December 1862 to pay off the balance of what was owed to the Bunkers. He says the truth is that the Bunkers were pressing the plaintiffs for the money and threatening to turn them out of possession of the land. The ladies had sent repeated messages to him to come to their relief, and that he did at last go to their house at their request. After at first refusing, he eventually relented and agreed to take a deed for the land. When they paid him back – with an additional amount for his trouble and expenses – he would sell the land to them. Martin said he went to Surry County on 12/27/1862 where he paid the Bunkers the balance due.
He says that he took a deed when paying Eng Bunker, but he got no deed from Chang Bunker who refused to sign it. This is curious because it seems like both owners, Eng and Chang, would have to agree to the sale in order for Martin to buy it. But apparently Martin was able to work around that issue. It's also an interesting insight into Eng and Chang, themselves. While it's easy to think of them as one person, they clearly weren't. They each had a mind of their own, and they didn't always agree. I wonder if Chang refused to sign because he was wary of Martin's true intentions. If he was, then he was right to think so.
James Martin states that Eng signed over the deed, but Chang did not.
Martin further stated he agrees that Mary and Melissa did offer him $100 Confederate money in 1864 by way of Dr. York, but at that time the currency had significantly depreciated in value. For that reason, he refused to take it. He admits that he is attempting to remove them from the property for failure to pay. He says that the ladies do not hold any notes against him. (A "note" was an IOU on money borrowed by someone.) However, he says that with the help of J. Q. A. Bryan, "they went around through the country and applied to several persons who held notes on defendant and borrowed said notes". This sounds like, perhaps, the community was rallying behind the Bauguess ladies and trying to help them hold onto their home and farm. Neighbors provided their IOU's against James Martin to Mary and Melissa to counter the notes that Martin held against them. Not surprisingly, in his statement to the court, Martin objected to this practice.
In the spring of 1870, the case was moved to Wilkes Superior Court. In March 1871, the judge requested a deposition of Eng and Chang Bunker at their home in Surry County. On 3/25/1871, J. W. Jackson, a Justice of the Peace, took the deposition of both brothers at the home of Eng Bunker. They were each asked the same three questions, and they gave the same answers.
When asked what kind of money J. O. Martin paid when lifting the notes held against Mary and Melissa Bauguess for the land on which they live, the answer was that he paid all in Confederate money.
When asked if Martin explained what induced him to pay off the bonds or if Martin said anything else about his agreement with Mary and Melissa, they answered that Martin "said he had no interest, but did it to befriend Aunt Polly".
When asked if Martin ever paid them any money other than that one time, they answered that he did not. "I never saw him before nor since to my recollection."
Eng Bunker's answers in the deposition at his house in 1871.
The case was again before the Superior Court on 4/5/1871. Bauguess attorney John Q. A. Bryan stated before the court that three years ago, soon before court began back in Spring 1868, he was present when A. Bryan (presumably his brother Abraham) asked the defendant Martin for a settlement. "The defendant objected to taking any notes or papers then exhibited and stepped off, refused to settle. The defendant admits the correctness after statement." Mr. Bryan is showing the court that the ladies had tried to settle with Martin in 1868, but that he was unwilling to do so, even getting angry and stomping off on one occasion.
John Q. A. Bryan (1833-1905), attorney for Mary and Melissa Bauguess.
The judge arrived at a decision that was favorable to Mary and Melissa. By the court's calculation, Martin's costs amounted to $359.24 which was due to him after paying the Bunkers for the deed. The court also found that the plaintiffs held bonds against Martin in the amount of $360.58. No evidence was offered to show when or how the plaintiffs obtained these notes, only that they did in fact have them. While the defendant objected to the use of those bonds, that was not a matter for the court, and they were allowed as payment. The judge's final order was that Martin was not to interfere with Mary and Melissa's possession of the land. Martin was ordered to pay the court costs, another $10 to the commissioner, and to pay the "small balance due to plaintiffs". This "small balance" must be the $1.34 difference between Martin's costs and the value of the collected bonds, and I imagine he paid that amount begrudgingly with clenched teeth!
After The Decision
After the 1871 decision, Mary and her daughter Melissa continued to live on the land. Melissa married neighbor Winfrey Holbrook perhaps about 1873 when her daughter Myrtle was born. The 1880 census lists Winfrey Holbrook (age 49), Sarah M. Holbrook (age 46, wife), Mary E. M. Holbrook (age 7, daughter Myrtle), and Mary Bauguess (age 67, mother-in-law) in the household.
Melissa Bauguess (1834-1926), daughter of Mary Bauguess.
Winfrey Holbrook died in 1882, leaving his widow Melissa with her elderly mother and young daughter Myrtle in charge of a large farm. In 1883 the property began to be divided with the southwest 27 acres being sold to a Holbrook cousin J. S. Holbrook (DB 4, p350). Melissa died in 1926 at the age of 93. She was buried at Old Roaring River Church which was at the corner of the land where she had lived her entire life.
On 7/29/1931, 110 acres of this property was sold by George W. Brown and his wife Myrtle. Myrtle Holbrook Brown was Melissa's daughter who was born just two years after her mother and grandmother fought to keep their home. By 1950 a portion of this land northeast of the church had been sold to Mack W. Brown, and then to Daniel Joe Hutchinson (DB 260, p378).
James O. Martin
James Oliver Martin was born about 1830 to a wealthy family who lived on the south side of the Yadkin River in the Brier Creek community south of Roaring River. He was 32 years old when he first visited Mary and Melissa Bauguess at their home in 1862. They disagreed about whether that visit was solicited or not, but the result was a contract allowing him to buy their property from the Bunkers. A quick glance online suggests that James may have traveled for several years, living near relatives who spread out into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. It doesn't appear that he married, and he eventually settled back in Wilkes County near where he grew up. He died in 1900.
Eng and Chang Bunker
The court records provide three dates that relate to the Siamese Twins Eng and Chang Bunker. The first is 9/21/1855 when they sold the land to Mary and Melissa. According to Melvin Miles' From Siam To Surry, a year earlier the twins were on a tour throughout the eastern part of the country. Upon their return, and with their growing families, they were exploring options to give everyone some space. After all, they had 13 children between them. This eventually led to them building a separate house. Eng's family would live in one, and a mile away, Chang's family would live in the other. The brothers would divide their time between the two. Perhaps they finally sold their Traphill property as a way to acquire extra money for this project.
On 12/27/1862, James O. Martin visited the Bunkers to pay off the bonds for the Traphill property. This was, of course, in the middle of the Civil War, and the twins were becoming concerned about their economic future. They owned as many as 31 slaves to support their farming ventures, and the result of the war could disrupt that source of income. Surely they realized that a never-ending loan to Mary and Melissa Bauguess was limiting their cash flow. On the other hand, they didn't want to make a decision that would have bad consequences for Aunt Polly and Melissa. Perhaps this conflicted point of view explains why one brother signed the deed to Martin, and the other didn't.
At the time of their 3/25/1871 deposition, the twins were 60 years old. The previous August, they were on a ship returning from a tour in Europe when Chang suffered a stroke paralyzing his right side. This limited their mobility, and caused them to reconsider an attempt at surgical separation. They decided against it, and Chang eventually regained limited use of his right side. They died in 1874.
Eng and Chang Bunker with two of their children.
I wonder how the area along Longbottom Rd would be different if James O. Martin had succeeded in removing Mary and Melissa from the land. Maybe it wouldn't have made much of a difference. As a businessman, he would have probably resold it to make a profit. He had bought the land with depreciated Confederate money, and he could have sold it after the war accepting only the more valuable bank notes. If the 245 acres included the church and the cemetery, that would have been part of the transaction as well.
This version of events is the result of reading court records, land deeds, genealogies, and the book about the twins by Melvin Miles. There are probably other records out there somewhere that would add a new twist or help explain the motivations for the decisions that were made.
I descend from Richard Bauguess through three of his children: James (b1775), Emanuel (b1797), and Sarah (b1800). Son Robert, the father of "Aunt Polly", was born in 1777 and died in 1872, the year after the case was settled in court.
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Today, Surabaya has a new hero in the form of its hands-on mayor, Tri Rismaharini, who is breathing new life into the city. Better known as "Ibu Risma"–"Mother Risma"–Surabaya's mayor is part of a rising generation of new leaders, empowered by the decentralization of authority across Indonesia and ready to seize the reins of national leadership.
Many mornings at 5:30am, "Mrs. Mayor" can be found picking up trash along the roadside. In the afternoons, she hands out balls to children in the parks while reminding them to study hard. At night, she patrols the parks, scolding underage youth for breaking curfew. If traffic gets snarled, she's been known to get out of her car and direct it herself. She also hosts a radio call-in show, fielding questions about evictions, clogged drains, and the occasional obscenity.
Though parks are her passion, Risma speaks proudly of her administration's program to provide free education and healthcare for the underprivileged–all the while streamlining the city's bureaucracy to eliminate inefficiency. The daughter of small business owners, Risma travels widely to other cities to study successful public innovations, adopting improved streetlights from Berlin and better teaching techniques from Seoul.
One of her main goals is to develop not just the city's infrastructure and economy, but also its people, through education and awareness programs–spending 35 percent of Surabaya's budget on education, far higher than the national standard.
Risma has forged important partnerships with the private sector, and is savvy navigating the country's bureaucracy. On just her second day in office, Risma visited Indonesia's vice president to discuss a critical port development project that had languished for decades. Despite repeated efforts to brush her off, Risma refused to leave the office until they agreed to begin construction.
The port groundbreaking took place a week later–and not a moment too soon. Surabaya's port has experienced a 200 percent increase in traffic in recent years. The improvements will boost efficiency and increase capacity as the port continues to serve as a gateway to other parts of the country.
Risma has also met with Belgian officials to discuss a potential "sister city agreement" between Surabaya and Antwerp, home to one of Europe's most important seaports. It would evolve the current system by allowing cargo to bypass Singapore, greatly reducing shipping fees between the two ports while making them more competitive.
It is creative ideas like these that have helped boost Surabaya's economic growth to over 7.5 percent since Risma took office in 2010–while earning her Globe Asia's prestigious 2012 Women Leader Award.
While she speaks, I note the seal of the city of Surabaya –a battling shark and crocodile. As mayor, Ibu Risma has learned to tame the clash of fiercely competing interests. What more might she do for all of Indonesia?
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ESCAPE. IT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
This weekend I was lucky enough to escape the city madness and hit the coast with a couple of nearest and dearest. June has been a horrible month to say the least. With winter hitting us hard and feeling like bad luck has constantly been thrown our way; a little 'r&r' was definitely in order.
For a quick re-group, there is no need to venture far. We headed one hour east of Melbourne city center, down the peninsular coast, towards the quaint seaside towns of Portsea, Sorrento & Rye.
A weekend of fun, food, fresh air and friendship; what a great way to stick June the middle finger.


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When it comes to debt, it's normal for us to want to bury our head in the sand and hope the problem will go away. However, the likelihood is that the problem will continue to snowball, often leaving us in a position worse than before. While debt can be seen as something of a stigma, it is actually something a number of us suffer from. In fact, back in 2013, a study showed that over 57% of families were struggling with debt in Ireland.
When we fall into financial hardship, it's easy to blame ourselves. Of course, there can be instances where we can change a few things to make budgeting a little easier, but debt is something that can creep up on any of us unexpectedly. One of the main causes can be a change in income. Some of us may have been made redundant, or lost a source of income. As such, out financial commitments can suffer.
For some people, they could be behind in rent or mortgage payments, whereas others may be struggling with loans and credit cards. When trying to meet several different commitments, you will often find yourself in a vicious circle with no resolution in sight. Many assume that they have to suffer in silence, unaware that there is help available to those struggling due to debt.
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It can be difficult to survive just on your wages as everything seems to be getting more expensive.
You might just need extra cash to pay the bills every month or you might be trying to pay off your credit cards or loans. It maybe the case that you have not had a holiday for a good few years and these ideas might help you save up for that long awaited break away!
Most people don't receive a pay rise every year and when you factor in inflation, the value of your money could even be getting less. So to help make a little extra cash, I've put together a few of my favourite ways below.
Here are my top 5 ways to make extra money in your spare time that I've tried myself.
Become an extra on your favourite TV show or a blockbuster movie. This company website www.movieextras.ie says it may be possible to get paid €50 – €150 a day and some TV adverts pay up to €2000. I spent an exciting week as an extra on Garfield the Movie 2 a few years ago and got paid really well while having a week off work. I played a lawyer and spent most of the week out in the sun meeting lots of great people while I did funny scenes with animals and drove a car. I remember the food on location was delicious and free too!
Have a car boot sale, get up early on a Saturday morning and sell everything you don't need. Some people can make up to €200 a day and you could even ask your relatives or neighbours if they want you to take away anything they don't need anymore. We did a car boot sale last year and made about €300 from lots of items we no longer needed and they were just taking up lots of space in the house. You will need to get up early, probably at about 5am to get a good spot for the day. It's a good idea to spend the night before pricing your items as we didn't do this and when we opened the back of the car we were literally jumped on by professional buyers, (they buy and sell items every week and make a good profit as they know what price to buy and sell at) It was fine for us as we just wanted to sell everything we had.
Warning!! Don't buy anything while you are at the car boot sale as you will just come back home with a car full of items you don't need.
Dog minding/walking, if you love dogs and have time at the weekends you could look after a furry friend for someone who wants to go on holiday but doesn't like putting their dog in kennels. You could an earn €10 – €30 a night. Our dog stays with the same girl every time we work away or if have a weekend break and he loves it there, it's like his second family. She also walks about 10 dogs every day and has made a business out of walking dogs before she picks up the kids from school. If you set up your own dog walking/minding business make sure you take out Pet Business insurance cover as it's good to have an insurance policy in place to cover any accidents and also owners will take you serious if you have insurance.
Rent out your car parking space, you could earn up to €300 a year if you live near the city centre, airport or a train station. www.justpark.com will advertise your space for you and usually charge you a fee of 20% to use their service. We live 5 minutes away from a football stadium and have been renting out our driveway to one of the supporters for the last 4 years. He pays €350 a year and knows his car will be in a safe place every time he goes to a match or visits the city. It's an easy way to make extra money every year and we just need to make sure we move our car or leave enough space for him to park on the driveway when he's visiting.
I really hope some of these ideas can help you make some extra money this year and every year going forward.


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This Dog Has Trust Issues, So The Owner Built A 'Boudoir Bedroom' That Even Has A 'TV', To Comfort Him
Animals, DIY
Ilona Baliūnaitė
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Dog owner Sean Farrell loves his buddy Buster so much, he thought it should get his own dog house. After browsing the internet for some inspiration, he decided to give up a corner in his home and build Buster a "boudoir." Despite having "absolutely no experience in carpentry and making things like this," the DIY project turned out absolutely pawesome.
"Buster is my 12-year-old rescue Staffordshire Bull Terrier," Sean, 47, told Bored Panda. "I've had him just over 2years. He's not had the best life, and that changed the day I met him. Initially, I was only supposed to foster him, but I fell in love, and we [both] knew we were meant to be together."
"Due to bad experiences in his life, he doesn't like to be around single men, and when we're alone at home, he stays on his own in the bedroom. He will only come down when other people are here as well. Or for walks and food," Sean said. "We've been working really, really hard on his trust issues. And because his behavior has improved so much, he is now a therapy dog, and we visit residential homes hospitals and a brain injury rehabilitation clinic. He also accompanies people with low social skills, autism, agoraphobia, etc. out shopping."
"The boudoir was an idea to give Buster a cozy space of his own in the same room as me. To really let him know he can be safe around me and feel secure in his little den at the same time. [After finishing it], he went in there almost instantly. It has been a few weeks now and he's happy to sleep and hang out in his house."
In total, Sean has spent around £80-£100 ($104-$131) on his adorable dog's new crib. The man has been updating Buster's Facebook page with pics of the multi-day home project, and his fans are loving it.
"As it was in my own living room, I wanted it to blend in and look part of the room," Sean explained. "I had no real plan, I just bought some wood and plyboard, and just did it as I went along due to its enormous success with over 20 million views on Facebook."
"'Imagine being a monkey' on the front is the first line from a lullaby I sing to him when he has bad dreams."
"A lot of the cosmetic finishes, like the TV and shelf and mood lighting, were really just a bit of fun, but the cooling fan works really well," Buster's owner said. "It's all battery run, so no electrics are in there. The items were just lying around the house."
"There are also pictures of my previous dog Zook on the wall. Zook was a bit of a celebrity. He was disabled and had a very large Internet following all over the world." Zook passed at age 17, but if it wasn't for him, Sean would've never found Buster.
"From start to finish, the boudoir took me about four days to make. After I painted it and used carpet adhesive, Buster wasn't allowed in for another 2 weeks."
"I'll never fuss or play with him when he's in there as I want him to feel it's his own little safe space. But if he wanders on to my turf, he's in tug o war hell."
"I'm absolutely blown away by the response it had from hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. Staffordshire Bull Terriers are getting very bad press, and it's so lovely to be able to show them that they are beautiful, cute dogs that deserve a wonderful life as family pets and not in animal shelters."
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Ilona is a photo editor at Bored Panda with an MA in Communication Of Creative Society. Before Bored Panda, she worked as a social media manager and freelance graphic designer. When she is not photoshopping or searching for the most interesting photos for stories, she is usually watching good movies and says that The Godfather is the best.
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"'Imagine being a monkey' on the front is the first line from a lullaby I sing to him when he's having bad dreams." I've just about died right now ❤❤❤
I MUST hear the rest of this lullaby!
Merlyn Emrys
Right?? MY little rescue dog was almost paralyzed when I got her so she had to stay in a crate and heal from her back-saving treatments, but she got antsy to come out and was in a lot of pain even with the medicine. So I played guitar for her, and found out this dog LOVES music. She's fond of Jewel and James Taylor, but her absolute favorite is "Can't Help Falling in Love With You." So now that song makes me tear up a little. She's a happy active mobile dog now but if I get out the guitar and sing she comes running to listen.
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That's pretty cool, I'm a carpenter and a damn good one and he did just fine considering
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I love this post so much!
Buster,
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Q: Type mismatch during creation of pivot table : Excel vba I new to VBA. I am trying to create pivot table for very big record(around 30K Record). This is my code for creating the pivot table. while creating the pivot table it throws error as  "Type mismatch". It was working fine for small set of records.
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Version:=xlPivotTableVersion12).CreatePivotTable TableDestination:=wsPvtTbl.Range("A1"), _
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Please help me on this.
Thanks in advance

A: You can use something like this with your rngData variable:
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The Shire of Northern Grampians is a local government area in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of  and in June 2018 had a population of 11,431, having fallen from 12,087 in 2008. It includes the towns of Stawell, St Arnaud, Great Western, Marnoo, Glenorchy, Stuart Mill, Navarre and the tourist town of Halls Gap. It was formed in 1995 from the amalgamation of the City of Stawell, Town of St Arnaud, Shire of Stawell, Shire of Kara Kara and parts of the Shire of Wimmera, Shire of Dunmunkle and Shire of Donald.

The Shire is governed and administered by the Northern Grampians Shire Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Stawell, it also has a service centre located in St Arnaud. The Shire is named after the major geographical feature in the region, The Grampians, and that the northern part of this feature occupies the southern part of the LGA.

The local economy is based on a diverse range of industries including agriculture, tourism, wine production, gold mining, brick manufacturing and meat production.

Council

Current composition
The council is composed of four wards and seven councillors, with three councillors elected to represent the Stawell Ward, two councillors elected to represent the Kara Kara Ward and one councillor per remaining ward elected to represent each of the other wards.

Administration and governance
The council meets in the council chambers at the council headquarters in the Stawell Town Hall Offices, which is also the location of the council's administrative activities. It also provides customer services at both its administrative centre in Stawell, and its service centre in St Arnaud.

Traditional owners
The traditional owners of the Northern Grampians are the Djab Wurrung, Jardwadjali and Dja Dja Wurrung.

Townships and localities
The 2021 census, the shire had a population of 11,948 up from 11,439 in the 2016 census

^ - Territory divided with another LGA
* - Not noted in 2016 Census

See also
List of localities (Victoria)

References

External links
Northern Grampians Shire Council official website
Metlink local public transport map
Link to Land Victoria interactive maps

Local government areas of Victoria (Australia)
Grampians (region)

Wimmera

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The Shoulders of Giants
Categories: History Moon to Mars Retrospections
By Richard Corfield - Feb 8, 2010
The 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building, where space shuttles are assembled before heading out to the launch pad.
Image credit: NASA
Visible from space, the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral rears out of the thick, moist air of the Florida swampland like a leviathan from a prehistoric age. A few miles away is the NASA Apollo/Saturn V Center, surrounded by tour buses which periodically disgorge a throng of people who stream into a mock-up of Mission Control and then into a giant auditorium where they can gaze in awe at a Saturn V – the vehicle that took men to the Moon. This is all part of the regular NASA tour of the Kennedy Space Center complex, and it is very popular. But there is another, lesser known tour that departs from the same bus station – the Canaveral Then and Now Tour.
I, with my family, was privileged to take this tour the last time we were at the Cape. Instead of heading straight to the Apollo/Saturn V Visitor's Center, the bus trundles off the main drag and down small service roads that criss-cross the sprawling Merritt Island launch facility that is home to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
This is a place where the fusion between today's NASA and its roots in the military rockets of the Cold War are visible for all to see. One of the first stops on the tour is Launch Complex 5/6 where Alan Shepherd, the first American in space, was fired into his fifteen minute suborbital flight on May 5 1961. When asked what he was thinking as he lay in his cramped capsule waiting for lift-off he answered "The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder…" It was a fateful thought, and one that would echo down the years as America's Apollo Program got under way later in the 1960s.
Some of the many other highlights of the Canaveral Then and Now Tour are the lighthouse where Wernher Von Braun watched the flights of the monster boosters that he designed, Launch Complex 40 where the hugely successful Cassini-Huygens mission lifted off for Saturn, and Launch Complex 41 where the historic Voyager missions departed for the edges of the solar system – and beyond.
Grissom, White and Chaffee at Launch Complex 34 before the Apollo 1 tragedy.
In amongst these treasures is a sober reminder that America's space aspirations have not been without their price. Here, where the Atlantic breeze sighs among the stunted palmetto palms and whines mournfully through the twisted steel grid-work of abandoned skeletal launch gantries, is Launch Complex 34, site of one of the first – and worst – disasters in space history.
It was here, forty-three years ago, on January 27, 1967 that astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when fire swept through the capsule of Apollo 1. The cause was later traced to faulty insulation around a wire that sparked and ignited the contents of the capsule.
Jim Lovell, mission commander of one of the most famous near-disasters of the Apollo era – Apollo 13 – made the point to me that a lot of the problems with the Apollo 1 fire had to do with the fact that the capsule was pressurized with pure oxygen. In such an environment, ordinary materials burn with blow-torch intensity.
Another problem was the door. So nervous were the engineers about the possibility of rupture in the vacuum of space, that they clamped the door shut with no less than twelve bolts. In addition, the door was so heavy that White and the other astronauts – superfit specimens all – used it to practise their shoulder presses. It had never been made for rapid egress, and nobody at NASA had even considered the possibility of a fire on the launch pad. Bolted inside a steel capsule in such an atmosphere, Grissom, Chaffee and White never stood a chance.
The disaster paralysed NASA and the burgeoning American space industry. All work on the Apollo program was halted while the cause of the fire was determined and steps taken to prevent a repetition. There was little time though, because John F. Kennedy had mandated that America must land a man on the Moon – and return him safely to Earth – by 1970, at that point less than three years away.
Grissom, White and Chaffee in the Apollo 1 capsule.
But lessons were learned. Today, as Lovell points out, astronauts leave the Earth in spacecraft which are at sea-level pressure. Only the spacesuits contain pure oxygen in order to prevent the 'bends'. In addition the door was redesigned so that it could be opened easily in the event of an emergency. NASA had taken the first steps in a process that would be on-going – learning from the sometimes high human cost of spaceflight.
By a twist of fate, the last week of January and the first week of February also sees the anniversaries of two other NASA tragedies.
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board, including the school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The Rogers Inquiry which investigated the accident traced the source of the launch failure to the malfunction of a single 'O' ring that joined two segments of the solid rocket booster (SRB) together. Such 'O' rings worked just fine in all conditions except low temperature, and NASA managers had taken the decision to launch that cold January morning against the advice of a least some of the Morton Thiokol engineers who manufactured and maintained the boosters. Unlike the shuttle's liquid-fuelled main engines, once the SRBs were ignited there was no way to shut them down. Jim Lovell acknowledges that the decision to launch was a mistake, pointing out that the 'O' rings were known to be inelastic at low temperatures and that leakage of hot gas under such conditions was considered a real possibility.
NASA's Launch Complex 39-A & 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center. The launch pads were originally designed to support the Apollo program and were modified for space shuttle launch operations.
The Rogers Inquiry included some of the heaviest hitters in the American space and science community. Neil Armstrong – the first man to walk on the Moon – was on it, as was Charles 'Chuck' Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier and anointed bearer of Tom Wolfe's 'Right Stuff'. Also on the panel was Richard Feynman, arguably the greatest physicist of his time. Feynman was incandescent at what he identified as a culture of mismanagement at the heart of NASA, where status and schedules took precedence over science and safety. Feynman demonstrated graphically what must have happened that fateful day. At the press conference where the Rogers Inquiry announced their findings, Feynman took an 'O' ring at room temperature and twisted it to show its superb flexibility under the right conditions. Then he dipped it into a glass of iced water and repeated the experiment. The 'O' ring was as rigid as cold candle wax.
There was no denying it – the immediate cause of the Challenger disaster was clear and the reasons behind it were too. NASA should have waited for warmer weather before launching but took a gamble to stay on schedule – and lost. Feynman was scathing. 'Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.'
The shuttle fleet was grounded while the issues were addressed and resolved, delaying for years the launch of several satellites and the development of the International Space Station.
Ice build up near the Challenger SRB's at time of launch.
And then there is the final tragedy. Seven years ago on February 1, 2003, NASA's very first operational space shuttle, the venerable Columbia, broke up over Texas on approach into Cape Canaveral, having been damaged by a piece of frozen insulation that hit a wing during launch.
NASA's own safety regulations identified very clearly the risks of debris strikes from the external fuel tank cladding, but repeatedly NASA had launched shuttles having failed to address it. Once again safety concerns were subordinate to the operational requirements of a system that was repeatedly advertised as being as routine as taking a bus – but wasn't.
Chris Riley, author of the superbly detailed Apollo 11 Haynes Workshop Manual as well as co-producer on the highly acclaimed movie In the Shadow of the Moon, points out that a common factor with all three tragedies is 'Go-fever' – the desire to launch even when conditions are not optimal.
Riley highlights the fact that damage to the silica tiles that protect the shuttles from the heat of re-entry is a problem as old as the design of the orbiters. "[The reason for the Columbia tragedy] was simply because the seriousness of a breach in the silica tiles was not appreciated until Columbia. If you look back at the very first launch of the shuttle (which was also Columbia) there were damaged tiles then, too, and there was all sorts of consternation at the time but they carried on [anyway] through twenty years plus of shuttle flights. There were hundreds of incidents of tile damage on tens of missions throughout the shuttle's history, and at the time it was just an accepted aspect of the design of the shuttle. It wasn't until this random incident happened on Columbia when a very large piece of cladding fell at high velocity onto a leading edge that it actually caused the problems we suffered that day."
A year after the Columbia tragedy, in January 2004, President Bush announced that the ailing space shuttle fleet would be retired and replaced. The Orion vehicles replacing the shuttles would carry between four and six astronauts into orbit atop a booster rocket – the Ares – which was partly based on the tried-and-tested Saturn V that so successfully took men to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s. Not only was the Orion-Ares combination designed to serve the International Space Station, it also would take humans back to the Moon by 2018 and thence to Mars, by NASA's reckoning, by 2030.
The space shuttle Challenger Explodes, January 28 1986.
However, NASA announced last week that it wants to cancel the Constellation program that was developing the Orion-Ares, and instead turn over launch technology to the commercial space sector. The decision was based on the 2009 Augustine Commission, which reviewed the Constellation program to take humans to the Moon, Mars and beyond, and concluded the program was behind schedule, and the money and technology to achieve its goals were out of reach.
As Congress debates the proposed cancellation of the Constellation program and the commercialization of launch facilities, they will no doubt discuss what form the future US presence in space should take.
NASA has said that the future design of US spaceflight will depend on the solutions brought to them by the commercial space industry. They are hoping for fresh innovations in spaceflight, but it remains to be seen if commercial developers can create something better than the one-off capsule-and-rocket combination of Apollo, or the partially reusable space shuttle. Certainly their designs will depend on NASA's decades of space technology development.
While the shuttle design might seem less wasteful, the capsule-and-rocket system of Apollo also had advantages. As Chris Riley points out, "the brilliant thing about all the Apollo spacecraft was that they were sitting above the boosters and that they had escape systems. With the shuttle you never really had any realistic escape system and there is a fair amount of fuel and therefore explosive capability [around you] and above you. With Challenger the shuttle itself was pretty well built to break up into intact components but because the explosion essentially immersed it in liquid fuel – propellant and oxidiser – the whole thing became a fireball because the shuttle was lower down on the fuel stack."
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrates on re-entry, February 1, 2003.
Whatever the shuttle replacement turns out to be, it won't be ready for active duty until 2016. In the meantime, NASA will use Russian space vehicles after the end of shuttle operations (projected for later this year).
Riley points out that we now stand at the hinge point of fifty years of crewed space exploration – a time that has been dominated by government-sponsored space programs. "We're seeing the emergence now of the commercial sector in human spaceflight. Under these circumstances spaceflight will be different. You will get good value in general because commercial companies use finance more effectively than governments… these companies will have to go and create new materials and procedures to make the enterprise viable for shareholders. In theory it will be a new and economically efficient way of going into space."
He also has a warning however, "We should never forget that it is a dangerous thing to go up into space. These are experimental vehicles which are never, ever, going to be vehicles that have the same levels of testing as commercial airliners…Even the shuttle, as it nears the end of its operational life is still really an experimental craft…."
Artist's impression of an Ares 1 rocket leaving Cape Canaveral. NASA proposed last week to cancel the Constellation program, including the development of the Orion-Ares launch vehicle.
So will the commercialisation of space reduce the risks? It is easy to point the finger at 'Go-Fever' and identify it as the culprit, but the truth is that NASA – along with all space agencies, including the Russians – has to occupy the real world where the pressures to adhere to a tight time-line, for example, the construction schedule of the International Space Station (as well as other missions) can be intense. Perhaps we will just have to accept fatalities as the price for humankind's ambitions to step away from the planet that gave it birth?
The Cape Canaveral Then and Now Tour reminds us of the successes and the tragedies that have accompanied our first faltering steps into space. From Launch Complex 34 where the Apollo 1 astronauts died to the decommissioned Minuteman missile silo that houses the remains of the space shuttle Challenger, it reminds us that we must learn from the sacrifices made by the brave men and women who here 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God'.
In the future we will be taking steps along the path of our species' next great journey – the colonization of the planets. This path is visible to us for one reason only: we see it from the shoulders of giants.
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Lyft is still just a small competitor compared to Uber, but improvements to the user experience should help the company gain more customers. At some point, function becomes way more important than cute branding.
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San Francisco-based says it won't use the beacons for ads, though the passenger-facing side might be devoted to sponsored campaigns, such as a beer company warning against drinking and driving.
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Questions that people ask about higher criticism may be much larger than what we realize. This is a massive subject and requires an understanding of the philosophical presuppositions of those who hold to higher criticism.
It is important to distinguish between higher criticism and textual criticism.
1. Textual criticism = this is a study that determines the validity of the 5,600 Greek manuscripts. This is a true and objective science.
2. Higher criticism = this is the study of the origins of the Bible itself. This approach often (most often) denies the authenticity of the Word of God. It seeks to find who was the "true" author of Scripture. It is a search for the genuineness of the Bible. For example, they hypothesize that the authors of the gospels were not Matthew, Mark, Luke and John but people who lived much later than the apostles who wrote in their name. They set forth the postulate that there is a Q document from which the so-called biblical writers got their information. Higher criticism is not scientific in the pure sense of the word but more philosophical with massive operating presuppositions.
Higher criticism originated in German Rationalism (truth can only be found in the mind, i.e., not supernaturally). The first German Rationalists viewed themselves as champions of the faith who were counter attacking philosophical skepticism (spread abroad from the French Enlightenment). The key person in this movement was Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918). Many have followed in his footsteps. He postulated that Moses did not write the Pentateuch but that it was a group of redactors. These redactors were summarized by JEPD. That is, there were four different classifications of writers. J stands for the authors that used the name "Jehovah." E stands for the authors that used the name of God called "Elohim." P stands for the priestly authors. D stands for the Deuteronomic authors. This theory has fallen to ashes as do all of these theories with time. In fact, the history of higher criticism is a cyclical history of a new theory and it runs the gamut for a few years and is proven wrong only to have another theory follow in its steps.
The main point to keep in mind is that these theories are built upon subjectivist, humanistic, rationalistic and relativistic presuppositions. The Anchor Bible is a commentary that accepts these presuppositions. Their presuppositions become their modus operandi (their mode of operation). If you use a tool that has anti-supernatural presuppositions built into it you are going to end up with anti-supernaturalism. Many people in this movement question whether there is any revelation at all. Bultmann believed that the Bible was all myth except for a tiny core. Many people have in modern higher criticism ended up in skepticism. As a result many resorted to their personal experience as the only source of truth.
1. It imbibes the unsupported belief-system (presupposition) of antisuperanaturalism.
The foundations of antisuperaturalism have crumbled with the discovery of quantum physics and the Big Bang theory. According to modern physics extraordinary events (miracles) cannot be ruled out. The problem with antisupernaturalism is that it is based on its own presuppositions.
2. Higher criticism neglects or minimizes the role of the eyewitnesses who recorded the events.
Every book of the Bible was written by a contemporary eyewitness. If this is true, then much of higher criticism falls for it assumes much later dates for the alleged myths and distortions to occur.
3. In the New Testament, they assume that the NT writers did not distinguish between their own words and those of Jesus.
Note Paul distinguishes his words from Jesus: Acts 20:35; I Cor. 7:10,12,25) for example.
4. There is a vast difference between the simple New Testament account of miracles (for example) and the embellished myths of the second and third centuries A.D.
The New Testament specifically disavows myths (2 Pet. 1:16; 1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:4; Titus 1:14).
5. New Testament higher criticism is based on the implausible premise that the early church had no real biographical interest.
6. Higher criticism obviates the role of the Holy Spirit in activating the memories of the eyewitnesses and guiding them to the writing of Scripture.


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There's always a full moon over the Caliph
It was bizarre then, and it's bizarre now
Chad Deal
Kenny Ard: "Last dance, last dance for love"
3100 Fifth Avenue, San Diego
One day in 1957, Philadelphia disc jockey Hy Lit fell asleep listening to a stack of new releases. The last single played repeatedly until Lit awoke, leading him to include it in his rotation at WFIL and eventually propelling the song to #3 on the Billboard Top 100. Three years later, a hole-in-the-wall piano lounge with Moorish windows would open in the low-income, geriatric neighborhood of Hillcrest. Now, seven decades after the song's release, the author of Lit's sleeper hit ("Silhouettes," lyrics by Frank Slay, performed by the Rays) sips white wine at the Caliph's curved bar as the piano man plays Frank's signature tune for the second time in an hour. An evening crowd of 15 or so whistles its approval.
"Thirty years ago, when I first played here, there was a real piano behind the bar," Kenny Ard says after the keyboard's backing MIDI track chirps through a coda. When he arrived in the late '80s, Hillcrest was undergoing a boom of revitalization as a hub for San Diego's gay community.
"It was bizarre then and it's bizarre now," Kenny smiles at the recollection. "I'm from New Orleans. It's as strange of a town as this is a place. You know, we have a saying here: 'There's always a full moon over the Caliph.'" In a scratchy voice chiseled by 10,000 midnights, he greets regulars as they duck in the door. "There used to be a dalmatian that would sit in a booth in the corner wearing a handkerchief, drinking a cocktail, and nobody thought anything of it. That's Bonnie, you know? So, what kind of music do you all like?" A few inquisitive bars of "Jeopardy" before someone shouts "Motown!" and Frank, who lives in the penthouse next door, cracks from his stool, "'She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain When She Comes!'"
"This is the man who wrote the top-ten song three times, so he can get away with being a smartass," Kenny grins, leaning his way into "It's De-Lovely."
The disco ball spins, the rope lights sparkle, and the crowd takes to the little 4´x6´-tile dance floor sipping heavy-handed cocktails and feeling let in on a fantastic secret until late into the night, when Kenny eventually signs off, singing, "Last dance, last dance for love, yes, it's my last chance for romance, tonight."
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Internet2 and Educause To Kick Off Electronic Content Pilot Project
By Leila Meyer
Internet2 and Educause have introduced a new electronic content pilot project for higher education targeted for a spring 2013 launch. Announced this week at the Educause 2012 conference in Denver, CO, the pilot gives schools a chance to explore nontraditional educational materials, such as electronic textbooks, and gives content providers an opportunity to try out new business models.
The pilot project involves content providers Courseload, CourseSmart, Elsevier Science and Technology, and McGraw-Hill Education, and organizers said they expect more than 20 colleges and universities from across the country to participate.
The two main goals of the pilot are to "advance the higher education community's understanding of online materials," so they can figure out how to meet or exceed the educational outcomes associated with traditional textbooks, and to "explore innovative business models, terms, and conditions" that make digital educational materials effective and economical for both institutions and publishers, according to Internet2 and Educause. The pilot project will also document lessons learned as part of a collaborative research effort and share the results with the higher education community.
Participating educational institutions will select one of three package options, each of which offers two or three tiers of service. Students and faculty will receive the electronic materials through an institutional license for all content, rather than through individual purchases by students.
Package options include:
Package A, which offers a newer version of Courseload's e-reader and access to McGraw-Hill Education's Courseload eText portfolio;
Package B, which offers access to Elsevier's Science and Technology text and has no optional extras; and
Package C, which allows up to 20 educational institutions to participate in a trial of the CourseSmart Subscription Pack.
"With its increasingly diverse group of participants and content packages, this pilot enables us to explore a broader range of issues related to eContent implementation and adoption," said Greg Jackson, vice president of Educause, in a prepared statement. "As findings from the pilots become available, we expect that they will enable electronic textbooks to make higher education more effective and affordable."
Internet2 and Educause will discuss the pilot project during the "Educause and Internet E-Text Initiative: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward," session at the Educause 2012 conference in Denver Nov. 8.
Additional information about the spring 2013 pilot project is available on the Internet2 site.
Leila Meyer is a technology writer based in British Columbia. She can be reached at [email protected].


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Development in Leeds
Developers said 'no affordable housing was possible' for Leeds mini village
The developers want to build 437 homes on an old tank factory in Crossgates
Nathan Hyde
The developers want to build over 430 homes on the former Vickers tank factory in Crossgates
Developers who were obliged to make 66 new homes they're building in east Leeds affordable tried to argue that "no affordable housing was possible".
Strata Homes and Redrow Homes have submitted plans to build 437 homes on the former Vickers tank factory in Manston Lane, Crossgates, but there have been disputes about obligations set out in Leeds City Council's Core Strategy.
Under one council policy, the developers are required to ensure 15 per cent of the new homes are affordable, but they submitted a viability appraisal which concluded that "no affordable housing was possible".
The council says that after further discussions with the district valuer and the developers, they have agreed on a 7.5 per cent affordable housing provision, which is "clearly disappointing" but can be permitted when "a viability case is verified".
The council has been told that 1,230 affordable homes should be built across the city each year to meet rising demand.
The location of the planned development (Image: JTP Architecture)
But last year, Cllr Stewart Golton revealed that Leeds is "one of the top five" cities for letting developers off their affordable housing requirements because of a viability assessments.
And in 2017, the housing charity Shelter found that 2,500 (79%) of the affordable homes that were supposed to be built in nine places, including Leeds, were lost after developers used the 'viability assessment' loophole.
In the case of the Crossgates development, the developers have also claimed that they cannot make s106 payments, which are invested in local infrastructure to minimise the impact of large developments, as they are "not viable".
Predicted profit level for the developers
Another council policy states that 30 per cent of homes built as part of new development must be "adaptable to the needs of disabled". However, a council report says that "no accessible dwellings are provided".
The developers say the plans would need "to be reviewed almost wholesale" to include homes adapted for disabled people and that would have a "significant affect upon viability", according to a council report.
The report adds: "Planning authority officers have taken a pragmatic view in this specific instance, and have not required the developers to fundamentally redesign the scheme from first principles in order to achieve compliance with policy.
"There is therefore conflict with this policy, however for the reasons outlined above in this particular instance it is considered there are reasons to afford this conflict limited weight."
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The houses will range in size, from one to four bedrooms, and be built with a mix of artificial stone and brick, with artificial grey slate roofs.
The council report states 40 people have objected to the plans for the massive development, raising concerns about the impact on transport, a loss of green space, a lack of S106 commitments, "unsustainable" construction materials, the "mediocre design" and "the perceived impact of social housing tenants".
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It is a beautiful day, as if to make up for the beautiful day, the wind decides to show its presence and the rain decides it does not want to be left far behind. So, here we have the wind and the rain, a perfect ending to a beautiful day. The garlic is sprouting, I have a ton of rhubarb, that I don't know what to do with.
It just reminds me of that time in Crosby, when Mary and me went Rhubarb picking in the neighborhood. She loved Rhubarb. "People don't care for it", but I do she said with a glint in her eye. "I love Strawberry Rhubarb pie, and have you had the jam?" "Simply delicious!" She declared, with a dreamy look on her face. Mary looked completely lost in her land of Rhubarb.
I had seen her excited before, but not this excited. Winning a game of Yahtzee or a game of cards put her in good spirits, but to express a longing for something … that was just not Mary's style. She was content with whatever she had. SO, I dediced to go rhubarb picking with her.
We drove back to her house, as we carried bundles of our loot out of her car, she exclaimed, " Wonder where I am going to put it now?" I didn't quite understand. But, when I opened her freezer, I understood. It was full of packets filled with neatly chopped Rhubarb.
Playing around with the idea of rhubarb. Quite unique I would guess. I enjoyed it.
I had no idea that I would… it just happened!!
Ah Rhubarb, such memories. A lovely twist at the end. Our family used to dig up our rhubarb roots and take them with us when we moved house!


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The Ant Bully (2006)
Tired of weathering constant attacks on their colony, ants shrink a destructive boy, named Lucas (Zach Tyler Eisen), to their size and sentence him to live among them until he learns the errors of his ways. Guided by his insect guardians (Julia Roberts, Regina King, Bruce Campbell), Lucas discovers a world he never knew existed and soon joins forces with his new friends to combat an exterminator (Paul Giamatti) who threatens their colony.
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Release Date: July 28th, 2006
DVD Release Date: November 28th, 2006
PG |1 hr 28 min
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Cast: Zachery Tyler, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Nicolas Cage, Paul Giamatti, Regina King, Bruce Campbell, Lily Tomlin
Director: John A. Davis
Genres: Fantasy , Children , Animated , Adventure
Production Co: Legendary Pictures, DNA Films, Playtone Productions, Warner Bros.
Distributors: Warner Bros.
Keywords: Amusing, Heartwarming, Moving, Witty, Friendship, Growing up, Sister
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do my eyes deceive me? a rare vintage Thomas DAM monkey boy troll?!! where have you been all my life? just take a look at those toes. he fits right into that niche of uglycute. but alas, he does not belong to me.. i spied him on eBay and just had to share him with you. judging by the out of con-troll bidding i'm not the only one who's tickled by him. dam monkey boy troll, dam you.
*ps. i just read this in his description: "but is missing his sailor hat and his pants." now that would have been too much!
at the height of my vintage Russ figures collection, god, i must have had about 40 different ones, and a few rare giant ones. this was way before digital cameras, so i never took pics. i had planned to catalog them somehow like a mini museum book. where was flickr then??
so back to my original thought (: i'm flattered that my tiny Bronwyn twins sculpture was included in etsy ugly cute treasury, curated by darkfaerie. check out all the uglycuteness before it expires!
cozy new friends for december!
*this luxurious hand dyed red mohair with black tips is one of my faves... i had just enough to squeeze out one more bear. it's a discontinued mohair, so there's no more left!
great news! my november bears have finally arrived at Abracadabra UK shop! as i suspected, the parcel was held up in UK customs (grrrrr!). i breathed a big sigh of relief when i heard the news today. the bears have missed their party cake (banish the thought!) so they're needing a little extra spoiling for all their hardships. could you find it in your heart to spoil a hungry little bear? adopt them over at abracadabra teddies.
so you're thinking, what's this? yet another bird post? it just happened that way, i swear! my grandpop was an avid birdwatcher. he took my brother and i birdwatching as kids, and gave us those little red wooden bird calls. maybe a bit of the birdwatching is in my blood.
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