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FRIDAY, March 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer incidence declined from 2009 to 2010, according to a report published in the March 28 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
S. Jane Henley, M.S.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues analyzed incidence data from U.S. Cancer Statistics for 2010 in order to assess progress towards reaching Healthy People 2020 targets.
The researchers found that, in 2010, 1,456,496 invasive cancers were reported to cancer registries in the United States (excluding Arkansas and Minnesota), yielding an annual incidence rate of 446 cases per 100,000 persons, compared with 459 in 2009. Men had higher cancer incidence rates (503) compared to women (405). Incidence rates were highest among blacks (455), and were driven by higher rates of prostate cancer and female breast cancer. Cancer incidence ranged by state from 380 to 511 per 100,000 persons. Fifteen states achieved 2020 targets for reduced incidence of colorectal cancer and 24 reached targets for reduced incidence of cervical cancer.
"Many factors, including tobacco use, obesity, insufficient physical activity, and human papillomavirus infection, contribute to the risk for developing cancer, and differences in cancer incidence indicate differences in the prevalence of these risk factors," the authors write.
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Going by recorded history, it was King Ashoka who had ruled over entire India. After him, there was no other king to match him for the geography under his command. Even the Great Mughals did not venture into south or north east. After a gap of roughly 2000 years of Ashoka's rule, the British took India under their rule. They unified India to make it easy for them to administer. They built long rail roads and postal network to run their machinery. But that helped none other than M K Gandhi. He traveled by train mostly to all corners of India asking people to unite against a common enemy and fight for their freedom. People wrote to him addressing "M K Gandhi, wherever he is" and it was the job of postal network to locate him and deliver the mails. An idea of independent and democratic India was born and propagated using the infrastructure built by the British. After the independence, it was Mr. Patel played an instrumental role in shaping the geography of modern India, we owe map of India to him. Then Bollywood took over the job of keeping India united. The movie titles such as Raj Kapoor's 'Jis Desh Me Ganga Behti Hai' to multi-starrer 'Amar-Akbar-Anthony', touched the underlying strings of united India. When P T Usha won the medal and Kapil Dev's team won the world-cup for India, we all took pride in being Indians. Now Virat Kohli is not just a cricketer for us but a representative of Indian pride too. Last decade's movies like 'Lagaan', 'Chak De' and the most recent 'Dangal' turned out to be block-buster successes as they were built on the theme of national pride and the motivation to fight against the odds. Though the heroes of these movies do not seem to be understanding what they stood for in their movies, the collective efforts of movie makers evoked the the right feelings in Indians. Thus, Sports and Bollywood have played a very important role in guarding the emotional sense of feeling the national pride.
As the baby boomers are aging and the new generation millennials are taking over, what would help us Indians in remaining united? First is migration across states. There are people from Punjab and North East who have found a home in Bangalore. Similarly lots of Mangaloreans are in Mumbai and Keralites have found to be far reaching and many more such instances. These migrants know the importance of inter-dependence across states and if their home state want to go separate, they would vote against it. But the in-equalities have to be reduced in the first place to avoid any such urges. Goa and New Delhi pay out the best wages in the country but those in Bengal or Orissa earn a fraction of what other Indians earn. This gap has to be bridged. Economic growth should spread and create a homogeneous India. And a step towards that will be played out by the tax reform GST. Central Govt. will collect a uniform tax from entire India and distribute the share to state Govt's. This will avoid some state Govt.'s giving huge incentives and other states levying hefty state taxes. As the tax benefits or impact across states neutralize, focus moves on to labor rates. Those states with lower wages are likely to attract investments in the future, so job creation & economic growth spreads to under developed regions of India. Infrastructure too follows along with it. There comes a better India, with playing ground being leveled. Then Bollywood and Cricket will find some weight being lifted off their shoulders.


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I'll keep this post succinct since I'm really tired and the jet lag wasn't helpful. Today had a job setting up some new Tandberg video conferencing units over at the Cisco campus in Richardson, Texas. The day went by smooth, we hung around to watch some of the Tandberg engineers show us how to do the configuration process.
After that I called up the cab, which came over an hour late… Here's the front of the building, during the wait:
Don't let the friendly blue skies and clouds deceive you, it was HOT outside.
Eventually the taxi arrived, and while making a stop at a bank, I spotted this ridiculously named store:
Yesterday I saw a furniture place called "The Dump." These Texans really have a creative knack for names.


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Double Live is exactly that. Here are two (almost) solo performances from Band bassman, Rick Danko, recorded in 1989 and 1997. Both are bootlegs; one listed in The Band's archive, the other not.
The first set is an off-the-board recording from Cubby Bear in Chicago and it is alleged that Rick was bribed with certain substances to allow it. It has to be said that his performances sound rather "chemically enhanced" in places and the idea of letting the audience sing 'The Weight' while he played doesn't add much to the sum of human happiness. I guess you had to be there. Amongst the solo and Band hits Rick mixes in some old blues and rock. 'Crazy Mama' is a perennial live favourite and you'll also find Ma Rainey's 'CC Rider', Robert Johnson's 'Walkin' Blues' and Willie Dixon's 'Little Red Rooster'.
Rick is accompanied on harmonica by Shredni Vollmer – I found out so you don't have to – but the album suffers, as do many bootlegs, from sloppy packaging. The sleeve notes are generic and there are errors in the track listing ('Sip Some Wine', 'Days Of Glory' and 'Just In Case' which is actually 'Think'). Sadly you'll now find the errors enshrined on the web.
The second set was recorded at Stephen Talkhouse, Amagansett ("we're in The Hamptons", says Rick at one point) and sounds like another soundboard recording. At its best it's top quality but then the tape runs out in the middle of 'The Weight' and comes back half-way through 'Next Time You See Me'. Aaron Hurwitz is on keyboards and his presence helps keep Rick on the straight and narrow for most of the time although you can hear him straining at the leash. For all its faults there are some magic moments – 'Blind Willie McTell', 'Endless Highway', Eric Anderson's 'Blue River' and a gorgeous reading of 'Unfaithful Servant'.
Double Live comes at a bargain price which makes it an attractive purchase. It's not Rick at his very best but you have to go back a long way for that.
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The service sector in China fell sharply in November and expectations for new business dropped to their lowest level in three months, a study showed on Monday.
An HSBC purchasing managers' index portrayed an economy slowing quickly and in need of policy support.
The index fell to 52.5, a sharp decline given that October's reading was 54.1 -- the highest in four months -- though the index remains above the 50 level that separates expansion from contraction in the sector.
Expectations for new business dropped to their lowest level in three months too, but remained firmly above 50.
"With price pressures easing further, Beijing can and should use policies that are targeted on small businesses and service sectors to keep GDP growth at above 8 percent for the coming year," Qu Hongbin, HSBC's chief China economist, said in a statement.
China's official PMI for its non-manufacturing sector, released on Saturday, fell to 49.7 in November from 57.7 in October, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said.
The readings mirror similar weakness in the country's giant manufacturing sector and underline expectations that Beijing will ease monetary policy further to cushion the blows of the global economy.
PMI data in the past week has shown that both domestic and export orders are weakening, helping explain the central bank's decision last week to cut bank reserve requirements for the first time in three years.
The move to free up cash was a signal that the central bank was shifting toward loosening monetary policy to support the economy, which is widely expected to grow next year at less than 9 percent for the first time in a decade, economists said.
Past performance suggests that half that decline will be recovered in December, leaving the index in the mid-50s, though that is well below the near-60 level it has been at for most of the last 18 months and a clear sign of a slowing economy.
Manufacturing dominates the Chinese economy and made up some 58 percent of activity in 2010. Services accounted for around 38 percent in 2010, losing some share in recent years to manufacturing which benefited from government stimulus programmes to help the economy through the global financial crisis.
Factories elsewhere are also feeling the force of the global economic slowdown. A global PMI released last Thursday by JPMorgan, with research and supply management organisations, fell to 49.6, suggesting a contraction in global manufacturing.
Chinese officials have expressed growing alarm at the slide in the global economy as Europe struggles to produce a decisive solution to its debt crisis. China's economic growth has eased for three straight quarters to 9.1 percent in the July-September period.
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There are two events that send my delicately balanced work schedule into the realms of chaos.
The first is a deadline. The end of the semester is an excellent choice but an upcoming conference also makes a great substitute if the date isn't working with you.
The second is a brand new seminar. Preparing slides to lecture on a new topic (that is, one for which it's not possible to cannibalise previous talks) is immensely time consuming. An unkind person might suggest here that I tend towards perfectionism, but I rebuke this by pointing out pictures take on a whole new level of importance when your audience is pretending really hard not to speak English.
Also, I have an artistic vision and you're not allowed to mess with that, yo!
It is also a sad fact that people take pleasure, nay DELIGHT, in combining these events into one large chaos bomb.
[Note to self: must remind my students that their extended essay is due three days before their final exam.]
Such it was that the world found me awake at 2 am on the last day of my 33rd lap around the sun, putting together the last of my slides for that morning's seminar. The semester end loomed large at the end of the month which meant it was a golden moment for someone to suggest a guest lecture would be perfection in a 90 minute time slot.
But, not to worry! The slides were now drawn and all that was left to do was sort their order and animation flow. I went to bed.
For some entirely unexpected reason, getting up the next morning was a struggle. I was supposed to be in my Japanese class by 8:45 am, but with the homework undone, the test unrevised and my slides still requiring final touches, I took a management decision to cut my losses. And the class.
Even with this guilty concession, I found myself running late for the seminar. I sprinted across campus, tumbled into the lecture room and wished I'd had the foresight to tuck a bottle of water in my bag.
Two minutes later, I would have switched the bottle of water for remembering my laptop's power supply.
I had a spare plug in my office, but that was on the 9th floor of the building, whereas the seminar room was on the 4th. With a single elevator servicing all 11 floors, such excursions had to be carefully timetabled events.
But, not to worry! My battery was fully charged and would probably last through a presentation. Probably.
My first slide flashed up on the screen and I attempted to look like someone who had their life in order. I began to describe the use of computer simulations in astrophysics, relieved that my slides at least looked the part, even if the speaker looked as if she had a hedge as a close cousin.
I was on slide 3 when the next thought struck me:
My period had started.
But … not … to … worry… I focussed on the talk while I tried to plot a course of action.
"There are three main groups of astrophysicists: observers, instrument builders and theorists."
Could I apologise and run to the bathroom? No… I've not got any sanitary pads in my bag…
"One of the problems observers face is they can only see the Universe from one position; the Earth."
Maybe I could run upstairs to my office? No, it would take too long and I don't remember if I have anything there either….
"In reality, we cannot turn-off different physics. But in simulations, physics is like a giant toy box."
Definitely no time to go to the campus store… I'm wearing black trousers... that'll have to do.
This was the scientific equivalent of the thespian phrase: 'The show must go on'. And on it did go while I silently admitted the irony of such a pubescent mistake occurring the day before my 33rd birthday. To anyone who has had 'Young at Heart ' on replay around their birthdays, remember an eternally youthful mind comes at a price.
The seminar ended. Everyone applauded. I answered questions, calmly took my leave and … sprinted back to my apartment to throw myself, work bag and the cat who had appeared under my feet, into the bathroom.
"Why don't YOU get periods?" I demanded to the yellow-green eyes staring up at me.
You've gone mad. Will this affect my food supply?
Freshly clothed (the damage had been mercifully minimal but the day required a new front), I returned to campus and met with my graduate student. Cool, calm and collected; that's me.
"So, what mass are you finding for the star forming clouds?"
Adulthood: Same mistakes. More practised cover-up.
Science: the interpretive dance
I had my brief:
"Give a 20 minute talk to the general public about your research. They probably do not know any science. Or English."
The Sapporo 'Science Cafe' is a short lecture series run every other month in a big bookstore near Sapporo Station. It is organised by the science communication department at Hokkaido University who invite researchers in different areas to talk about their work in an accessible manner.
Normally, however, they are allowed to use words.
The 'Science Cafe' session I would speak at would be the first offered in English, rather than Japanese. This made everyone very nervous.
The chief organiser of the event requested to see my slides a full month in advance. As someone who typically writes their talk the night before the presentation date, this required a sudden reshuffle of my schedule. He also wanted two practice run throughs, again several weeks before the talk.
Meanwhile, I responded by inviting all my foreign friends with the idea being this crazy scheme would only work if everyone in the audience was secretly an English speaker.
There were debates about the best way to handle the language barrier. The first idea was that I should stop after each slide and allow someone to translate. The problem with this is that I had designed my talk so that each slide presented a single idea, mainly using pictures. This meant there would be times when I would only say a single sentence, or pause on a science-y academy-award-winning cliff-hanger ready for the next slide. Stopping for a translation would therefore make the flow very unnatural.
My solution ran more along the lines of: "Trust me. I got this." My slides were 90% pictures, there were several slides per key point and of the few words I did use, I added in Japanese if the word was complicated (e.g. laboratory) or particular shiny (e.g. gravity). Plus, it included movies and a picture of a cake. What was there not to like?
Sadly, no one believed I was competent. I wondered if they'd been talking to my students. Or my mother.
The compromise reached was that I would talk, but a second projector would be used to display a rough Japanese translation of what I was saying. This translation was taken from the second practice run I did in front of a video camera.
… did I mention this was done several weeks in advance? And I didn't have a copy of the video to check what I'd said the first time?
Still, so long as everyone picked a single language and didn't try to mix n' match, we'd be good! (And if some audience members could understand both Japanese and English, I was jealous and they deserved to get a headache).
About a week after my practice run, I received an envelope containing fliers advertising the talk in Japanese. I emailed the organiser to suggest an English version also be prepared, since the talk itself would in fact be in English (and I had done my best to fill the audience with people who did not speak Japanese; I didn't mention this, his stress levels might have exploded). To my pleasure, I received a pretty good English translation and was asked to smooth it out.
That was when I realised that the flier description didn't match my talk content at all.
I was talking about star formation and the use of numerical simulations in astrophysics. The flier described a talk on cosmology and the fate of the universe. It sounded pretty cool, but it wasn't in my presentation. In fact, it wasn't even close.
I sent my polished translation back and added the postscript, "This is a little different from my talk … is that a problem?" That this flier is ALL LIES? Maybe the general public were considered commoners of the lowest order and their complaints were unimportant. As a physicist, I was rather impressed with that view, but it rather flew in the face of putting on these lectures to begin with. Shortly afterwards, I got a reply:
"In truth, I wrote the flier before I had talked to you."
In which case, I suppose I should be glad it was at least on astronomy. The saving grace in the situation was that there were to be two speakers for this event, with the second speaker also being from my department and talking about a topic much closer to the flier contents. Rather typically for my work in Japan, this was the first I had heard about there being two speakers. I had long ago stopped being surprised by such twists.
The day of the talk dawned dazzlingly sunny. Light poured through the floor to ceiling windows of the book shop's foyer...
… right onto the projector screen, rendering it near invisible.
May I just say that a physicist setting up that screen would not have made this mistake? I was up for rotating the whole set-up around, but I was told to go away and get a cup of coffee. It was a Big Bang Theory, Sheldon-esque moment.
So invisible slides and no words allowed. Interpretive dance it would be! Actually, I did speculate whether I could demonstrate my main points with audience participants. My friend was expecting a baby, so she could have been the star-forming cloud. There was a small boy in the front row who could have been a protostar, any adult would fill-in for the main star and … I sipped my coffee and wondered if I asked my boss to be a dying-star supernovae he would think I was after his job.
In the end, the talk went smoothly. The projector was inched close to the screen to provide a dim outline of each slide and I was given a pop-star hands-free microphone that allowed me to elaborately gesture every point I was making. Preparing for such an event is a fair amount of work, since the slides have to be carefully crafted and my words selected so as many people would understand as possible. However, the actual giving of the presentation is much more enjoyable. Mainly because for those 20 minutes, it's all about me.
And I love that.
The hardest part of the time was the questions after the event. Even though they were translated into English, they tended to rove all over astronomy. Crafting a suitable response for a non-scientist and then phrasing the English into a concise, simply sentence left me with at least a minute of making goldfish faces at the crowd before I could construct a mediocre response.
The crowd consisted of about 100 people. Some of them probably learnt something about galaxies. Others learnt that fliers lie. Still more took away that British people look like fish when under pressure.
My aim was to speak well enough that everyone understood the general gist of what I was saying, enjoyed the talk as an experience but COULD NOT WAIT to return to the Japanese-only version in two months time. This hope was blown out the window when a friend I'd stashed in the crowd told me that around her, people were requesting via the questionnaire for more talks in English.
I am simultaneously deeply gratified and dismayed.
On Friday afternoons, I take the role of Simon Cowell
On Friday afternoons, I take the role of Simon Cowell.
The British television personality came to fame through his notoriously harsh criticism of talent show contestants. His ability to slam anyone and everyone's attempts on stage got him both a talking wax work model at Madam Tussaud's (where visitors could enjoy being insulted themselves) and a spot on every future talent show on both sides of the Atlantic pond.
Fun fact: Before appearing on 'American idol', Simon Cowell had his teeth veneered to give him the showbiz white smile. This move was ridiculed in the UK, where cosmetic dentistry is frequently viewed as excessive vanity. As a side note, the view that Brits actually have bad teeth is not correct (at least, not my generation and below) but having work done for pure aesthetics is still relatively uncommon.
The afternoon on the last day of the week is the time for our research group meeting. In this hour, a hapless student is made to do a presentation in English on a research paper they have recently read. Bearing in mind that such publications are frequently jargon-heavy, excessively long turgid reads that often refer back to a string of previously published works by the same authors, this is not an easy task.
This week one of my own students was on the podium and he was doing an admirable job. While still struggling with speaking English fluidly, he had put together a comprehensive review of the paper, pulled out the relevant highlights from past related works and added helpful diagrams to demonstrate some of the newer concepts.
None of this stopped me tearing him apart limb from limb.
Really, he loved it. If he shows up again on Monday.
The main issue was that --in common with most of his peers-- my student tended to copy out relevant sentences of the paper word by word, rather than using his own terms. The reason is quite understandable: if you're concerned about the quality of your own English, why not use someone else's that's already made the point? However, such a tactic has three problems:
The first is that paper writing isn't designed for presentations. Sentences tend to be long and heavy with technical terms than may (if you're lucky) have been defined in an earlier section. A presentation, on the other hand, needs to have short pithy comments that people can quickly glance at while you're speaking.
The second problem is that --since the sentences are long and technical-- I knew my student would never have written them. This leaves me wondering if he has truly understood the underlying concept.
Finally, since I am the only native English speaker in a group that consists of many 4th year undergraduates and Masters students, using such constructs doesn't help the audience understand the presentation.
This led to each slide presented being dissected and re-explained. Sadly for me, the answers left little to insult. I wasn't able to use any of the lines I had planned. Not even "You're like a singing candle. You just stand there and melt." or "I won't remember you in 15 minutes." or "Did you really believe you could become an American Idol? Well, then you're deaf.". I couldn't even slide in Shut up and start singing.".
… Although admittedly if I had we would still be in the seminar room now while I attempted to explain why I had compared my student to a candle, demonstrated serious memory problems, promptly forgotten we were in Japan and then suggested he set his thesis work to music.
At the end, I just had one final question: "On your 4th slide, what is the difference between the data given by the black line and that by the blue?"
My student explained and then looked at me expectantly. "I actually don't know," I admitted. "It was a genuine question."


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Number of Players: At least one referee and from four to fifty players can be handled in any single campaign, but the referee to player ratio should be about 1:20 or thereabouts.When I blogged about this once before I posited that not every one of those 20 to 50 players was expected to show up for every session. The guys who were there back in the day supported this guess with firsthand accounts.
But then I got to thinking. Sure, in the normal course of business the whole effin' wargames club isn't going to all want to play D&D on the same night. We can all agree that coordinating schedules among gamers just doesn't work that way, right? But what if the stars were right and twenty eager gamers really did show up wanting to all play my game? Could I make that work?
Thus was born the idea for my next D&D con experiment. I call it "Jeff's Big Stupid Dungeon Party", a session of Labyrinth Lord for up to twenty players. Labyrinth Lord is my pick for system because it hews closely to the '81 Basic/Expert sets. I can run those rules in my sleep. When I submitted my event I asked for four tables. Here's the set-up I envision:
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New Annotation: Mistborn Chapter Twenty-One Part One
Yesterday I had diner with Parker, and spent a lot of time with him talking about what it is to be a nerd. I find the concept interesting for a couple of reasons, which I'll address in another overly-long rambling essay. Ready…go!
EUOLogy: On Being Nerds
It seems to me that, when I was a kid, 'nerd' meant something different than it does today. Once, it related to social awkwardness and personality. Now (kind of like the Forsaken in RJ's books) a title that has been given with scorn has been adopted with pride, and we of nerd culture tend to use this term as an identifying feature of our society. (Perhaps like African Americans using a certain once-derisive term for members of their own race?)
Yet, it seems that remnants of that old definition still linger–both outside the culture, and within it. The thing that brought this up was a discussion with Parker and his wife. I referred to Parker as a nerd, and she immediately piped up. "No, HE'S not a nerd."
I proceeded to list his credentials. (World of Warcraft addiction, aspiring fantasy novelist, in-depth knowledge of the Final Fantasy games, among others.) She seemed shocked–as if by implying that he was a nerd, I was implying that she had poor taste in men. (Which, of course, isn't true at all.)
This set me thinking. I've been within nerd culture for so long, it's sometimes hard to remember that there are those outside of it who still cling to the old definitions. And, perhaps that IS the definition for those outside of the culture. I have trouble remembering, or understanding. (Things like this seem to take on a different dimension when you leave high school, and power is no longer directly tied to how popular you are at school.)
Has the definition of nerd really grown up with me, or has nerdy ALWAYS been perceived as a cultural identity by nerdy adults? Is it only children and teens who feel ashamed to be called a nerd? If so, why do so many of us WITHIN the culture still harbor vestigial insecurity surrounding our culture.
(In a funny story, though, a man I talked to last month at church claimed that calling people nerds was a threat to national security. He said that by insulting engineers and mathematicians, we are driving people away from those professions, and therefore making the United States have a more poor crop of people who can grow up to keep us on the cutting edge of technology, letting other nations get better at it than we are. Interesting theory, one that I think is wrong for such a long list of reasons it's hard to begin naming them.)
My definition of nerd has very little to do with social awkwardness or the like. Most nerds I know are quite eloquent, keen minded, and engaging people. True, there are a lot of shy nerds, and some who are very socially awkward, but you'll find that in any crowd, I bet. Yet, that doesn't change the fact that whenever we'd play D&D in my friend's basement, we'd all yell "Hide the books!" if a knock came at the door or a girl came to visit. (We wouldn't really hide them, but we'd only admit what we were doing with a bit of grudging shame.)
I'm confident in my profession. I'm very happy to have the interests that I do. And yet, there's part of me that still wishes to prove that I'm not a nerd in the pejorative sense. This manifests most often by pointing fingers at other people and saying "Well, at least I don't do THAT. Those are the real nerds." (See the Geek Hierarchy for a look at this in depth.) Why do we do things like this? Why do sf/f writers point at people who dress up like Klingons and say "Whew, glad I'm not one of those guys?" Why do role players point fingers at LARPers and say, "Look at those losers!" Do we have any right?
Seems like a silly issue, I know, but for me it ties back to the self-loathing I sense from a lot of fantasy authors who get big. I know I've mentioned this before, but nothing annoys me more than a writer who says something like "Well, you're right, fantasy is crap. Fortunately, I don't read or write that crap. I'm special." (I'm looking at you, J.K. Rowling and Terry Goodkind.)
United we stand, divided we fall. Every time we within nerd culture make fun of someone else's hobby or passion, all we're really trying to do is mainstream ourselves in a futile attempt to get a little bit closer to that 'coolness' that most of us never knew in high school. I think we should just give it up. It's all in our heads.
We, as fantasy and science fiction authors should understand that concept.


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After visiting the Stepping Stone Falls I headed east through Genesee and Lapeer counties to a place I wanted to see. ( that will be a post for a different day) I live in Saginaw County where you can pick a road in the rural parts of the county and it seems to go on forever never being interrupted by a pond or lake since there are no natural lakes in Saginaw County. Zig-Zagging through Lapeer county around the ponds and rivers a few miles north of Lapper, I came across this old church that looks to be converted into a house on Millville road. Nearby was an old schoolhouse and more houses along with Plumb Creek flowing through the countryside. I found out it was on this creek that Horace Lathrop built a sawmill in 1837. It was the start of the town of Millville but like many sawmill towns in Michigan the timber was gone and the sawmill moved leaving the little town's population to dwindle. I was still intrigued to find this beautiful brick church in the Lapeer countryside, I guess that's why I continue to take the long indirect way to get to where I want to go.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.
Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.
The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
There does seem to be a sense in which physics has gone beyond what human intuition can understand. We shouldn't be too surprised about that because we're evolved to understand things that move at a medium pace at a medium scale. We can't cope with the very tiny scale of quantum physics or the very large scale of relativity.


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These tests typically focus on measuring specific job skills or job knowledge, but can also assess more general skills such as organizational skill, analytic skills, and interpersonal skills. Work samples and simulations typically require performance of tasks that are the same or similar to those performed on the job to assess their level of skill or competence. For example, work samples might involve installing a telephone line, creating a document in Word, or tuning an engine. (For more information on this topic, see the article entitled, Work Samples and Simulations).
Advantages of Work Samples and Simulations
- Have been demonstrated to produce valid inferences regarding the ability to perform the job.
- Can reduce business costs by identifying individuals for hiring, promotion or training who possess the needed skills and abilities.
- Are less likely to differ in results by gender and race than other types of tests (depends on particular skills being assessed).
- Maybe more accepted by test takers due to the obvious link between the test and the job.
- Less likely to be influenced by test taker attempts to impression manage or fake responses.
- Can be used to provide specific developmental feedback.
- Can provide test takers with a realistic preview of the job and the organization.
Disadvantages of Work Samples and Simulations
- Does not assess aptitude to perform more complex tasks that may be encountered on the job.
- May not assess the ability to learn new tasks quickly.
- Often not conducive to group administration.
- May require some level of job knowledge and therefore may be inappropriate for jobs where knowledge may be obtained via a short training period.
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It's a black black day on the net today in protest of the crappy legislation SOPA/PIPA. If the social media community can't derail this, we can't derail nothin! Do your part, visit http://stopsopa.com and add your name. And don't try going to Wikipedia or about a million other sites that are blacked out today. That said, there are some tabs that are burning up some of my mind cycles and I want to get them logged and posted before I explode. I need to get back to "work," thank you. ALSO: Find your government official who supports SOPA and PIPA and give'm hell.
BBC's Coverage of the modern day Titanic in Italy.
View of the stricken cruise ship which ran aground and capsized near the island of Giglio in Italy on 13 January. The image was taken on 17 January. (And I am compelled to ask, "How the F could this happen in 2012?") What Happened on the Costa Concordia (BBC) and finally the amazingly beautiful and horrifying pictures.
Learning From Big Social Media Blunders (Ad Age)
The list is entertaining and disheartening. Entertaining because of the shenanigans and plain idiotic social media mistakes committed by some very smart people. Disheartening because nervous businesses considering social media may unduly focus on the blunders and ignore the benefits.
Design Your Schedule So Your Creative Duties Are When You're Tired (Lifehacker)
Ever wonder why that brilliant idea always comes right before you fall asleep or when you're standing half awake in the shower? According to a recent study in the journal Thinking & Reasoning it's because you're more creative when you're feeling groggy.
Pinterest Invites (ReadWriteWeb)
It seems everyone can't enough of Pinterest, and for a social networking site which is still invite-only, it's managed to garner over 6 million monthly users, and receives millions of hits per week.
Twitter Follower: How Did You Find Me Here? (a new twitter follower)
Today a pretty woman from Toronto followed me on Twitter. No big deal. But when I looked at her Twitter profile I saw that she was following exactly 10 people and had tweeted once. So I asked her, how did you find me and why did you follow? Perhaps it's a vanity question, or a flirt. (But she IS in Toranto, Canada) I am awaiting her reply. She may n0t be hip to @ messages yet. Perhaps I should DM her… (grin) I'll let you know what she says, in the meantime, don't over whelm her with follows, okay?
5 Ways Content Marketing Connects Brands and Customers (1 to 1 Media)
The concept of content marketing may be well-known, but as technology develops, content has progressed with it. Instead of mere words, content marketers now produce videos, podcasts, slideshows, and other forms of evolving media that are designed to attract and engage customers via a variety of channels.
4 Ways Hyperlocal Vendors Are Helping Merchants Run Efficient Campaigns (Street Fight)
1) Getting in the weeds. 2) Equipping them with hardware. 3) Hanging out shingles. 4) Doing it for them.
Are You Open to the World or Trapped Inside a Marketing Bubble? (Ad Age)
I had conversations with two very different CMOs last week. One was collaborative and wide-ranging. The other meeting, which the CMO had postponed twice (I'd first scheduled it in August), lasted less than half an hour. We shared our time with his smartphone, which he dutifully checked the many times it beeped, and he was clearly preoccupied.
Pinterest, Ticketmaster, 60 Others Demo Open Graph Websites and Apps That Auto-Publish To Facebook (TechCrunch)
Facebook's Open Graph app launch event is about to start here in San Francisco, where the company will demo over 60 new Open Graph websites and apps that can publish user activity back to Timeline and Ticker. (OPINION: All we need is more AUTO-PUBLISHING within Facebook! Oh please, and I'm guessing we can't turn it off! Again, a big thing for FB is going to be a downer for "communicating" using facebook. Soon it will ALL be ADS.)
Just Click It; January 13, 2012 – blogging, content marketing, CES, mobile, why tech is boring
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- My Dream for You; How Social Media Can Change Your Life – This Is What I Do
- ROCKIN THE TWEET: Twitter Tools, Twitter Lists, Stats, Discovery #Twitter
- YouTube Video Marketing Results; 60 Days in the Video Content Creation Business
- How to Get Useful Business Information Out of Twitter: Hashtags for Social Media Research
- The Twitter Bubble; Don't Let Your Followers Fool You Into Feeling Influential
- Twitter Signal to Noise Ratio: Trying to Find Meaning & Losing Friends
- YouTube Video Marketing Results: Traffic Up, One Breakout Hit (CHART)
- Social Marketing Strategy: Thinking Beyond the Page (VIDEO)


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The New Blues & Rock Menu at Quaker Steak & Lube
This past week, I had a great time enjoying lunch with my friend Sam at Quaker Steak & Lube®.
The first thing Sam said when we pulled up was how she loved the vintage/retro feel of the restaurant. That was a perfect way to describe the restaurant that first opened up in the 1974 as a "Cook Your Own Steak" restaurant! During the gas crisis of the time, The Lube® preserved the culture of old gas stations and muscle cars. Today, Quaker Steak & Lube® is an award-winning casual-dining restaurant known for its Best Wings USA and more than 25 sauces!
The Lube has just released it's limited-time Blues and Rock-themed menu, available at its New Jersey locations in Brick, Edison and Pohatcong. Developed by The Lube's culinary team, the limited-time Blues and Rock menu is themed around the Blues and Rock genres of music, giving guests great new tastes that fits with the wide variety of entertainment. Quaker Steak & Lube's Blues and Rock menu includes:
Bourbon and Blues
· Rhythm & Blue Sirloin – Topped with sautéed peppers, onions, mushrooms and Bleu Cheese
· Jammin' Bacon Sirloin – Topped with The Lube's sweet and spicy Thai 'R' Cracker® bacon and jalapeno jam
· Beale Street Bourbon – Bourbon Arnold Palmer
Rock the Boat
· Mojo Mahi-Mahi – Drizzled with spicy, garlic honey sauce.
· Pub Style Fish & Chips – Hand-breaded traditional Cod Fillet dipped in a seasoned batter, coated with panko crumbs and lightly fried.
· Celuberate Cake Shake – A delicious blend of party cake topped with whip cream and rainbow sprinkles
· Cool Lemon Tart Bar Jar® Sundae – Lemon pie filling topped with streusel and ice cream
For a starter we had the Fully Loaded Lube Chips which was homestyle extra crispy Lube Potato Chips loaded with White Queso, Pico de Gallo, Cheddar-Jack cheese and Bacon, piled high with house-made pulled pork.
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We are giving away a Quaker Steak & Lube Dinner for Two gift certificate. Please note, the certificate is only valid at Quaker Steak & Lube locations in Brick, Edison and Pohatcong. To enter, leave a comment telling us what new Blues & Rock Menu item you'd like to try! Giveaway ends 3/20 at 11:59p ET. Good luck!
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Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty looked like the naughty kid outside the principal's office Thursday as he waited on a City Hall bench for a meeting with Mayor de Blasio's aides about the botched snow cleanup on the Upper East Side.
"I don't know what the real problem was. The problem was it snowed," Doherty said after the meeting, when he was asked about his department's failure to adequately clear the neighborhood of snow Tuesday into Wednesday.
With de Blasio at a national mayors conference in Washington, Doherty was consigned to meet with Hizzoner's aides — whom he refused to name.
"Various people," he said.
The day before, de Blasio hung Doherty out to dry, foisting blame for the fiasco on his plower-in-chief — whom the mayor said he had to instruct to "double-down on cleanup efforts" in the neighborhood.
"The mayor made a statement, put it out to the press. I think that's the city's position," Doherty said Thursday. "I have no comment other than that."
The cowed-looking commissioner wouldn't say whether the mayor was disappointed in him.
"I think the mayor said it was disappointing in his comments, and he had us look at the district again and work at it," Doherty explained.
Amazingly, Doherty claimed he hadn't spoken to de Blasio directly.
"I have not talked to him," Doherty said when asked whether he had misled de Blasio about the treacherous conditions that remained in the neighborhood for more than 24 hours.
"I don't think he was misled," Doherty said before skulking off. "It was a storm. We have to move forward."


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A trio of Massachusetts mayors hosted a who's who of rising Democratic stars at a fundraiser for Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum, the Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate who's facing off against President Donald Trump acolyte Ron DeSantis, in Boston last night.
Guest of honor Gillum was a no-show, due to flight delays, according to Gillum's campaign staff.
But, judging from the photos, the candidate's absence didn't seem to curb the enthusiasm of his supporters.
The event at the UMass Club was hosted by Framingham Mayor Yvonne Spicer, an African-American educator who made history last year by becoming the city's first mayor, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera.
Yep, that's lawyer Angela Rye, the political diva and CNN commentator, with Spicer. Rye was one of about 100 attendeees who showed up to help Gillum make his own history as Florida's first black governor.
"Florida needs Andrew Gillum. Florida deserves Andrew Gillum. We are at a crossroads in our country. One road leads to chaos and division and the other leads to unity and growth for all. Mayor Gillum has shown excellent leadership skills as a voice for the citizens of Tallahassee. He has stood firm on education, gun control and climate change and his discussions that have led to "Ban the Box", are just some of the work and policies that are a brand for Mayor Gillum. He's a creative leader with a heart for the people of Florida. We support him here in Massachusetts and encourage Floridians to not only come out to vote but to vote for Andrew Gillum," Mayor Spicer told Truth or Dara when we asked about the last night's event.
Also on-scene was Ayanna Pressley (shown to the left of Spicer in the bottom-left photo), the Boston city councilor who made national news by toppling veteran Congressman Mike Capuano, who's held the seat for two decades, in the September primary.
Pressley focused on minority and youth voters, a strategy that helped boost Gillum to victory in Florida's crowded Democratic primary in August.


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Rooney Mara has signed on for her first project since landing the most coveted role of the past several years, Lisbeth Salander for David Fincher's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The Playlist reports that Mara will reunite with another former director, Francesca Gregorini of "Tanner Hall", for "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes".
Mara will play a troubled young woman who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor that looks uncannily like the girl's dead mother. Playlist also reports that rumors that had linked Rachel Weisz to a role in the film, presumably the neighbor, have been shot down her the actress's reps. Gregorini and Mara have long talked about working together again and it appears they will finally get to as "Emanuel" gears up for a summer shoot. Their film "Tanner Hall", which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival all the way back in 2009, might finally see the inside of a movie theater this year as new distrubition company Anchor Bay plans to release it late 2011 to coincide with Mara's "Dragon Tattoo" release.Mara has been in Sweden filming "Dragon Tattoo" since September, though she and director Fincher, who first worked together on "The Social Network", have both been spotted hobnobbing at various awards season fetes in LA in the past couple of months. Sony, the studio behind both "The Social Network" and "Dragon Tattoo", could be giving the production a bit of a break as the "Social Network" gang is in the midst of a very close fight for Oscar glory.
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Stephanie Arne is a wildlife educator and adventurer, going all over the world in search of new animals to learn about and share with others. She's also the host of the legendary Wild Kingdom TV show, which has been on the air for years.
Recently, Arne and Wild Kingdom traveled to Southern California to a place called Nurtured By Nature. The non-profit allows people, particularly sick children, to interact with animals one-on-one. Arne got a chance to swim with a group of otters, and it basically the happiest few seconds of video to ever grace the Internet. After watching, you're going to want to visit these overjoyed otters as soon as possible.
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Bob Farren has seen plenty of changes since he started working at Pinehurst in 1982, but he never thought an 18-hole putting course would generate so much attention. The new layout, located near the first tee and 18th green of the resort's No. 4 course, debuted on Aug. 31 to rave reviews. "Frankly it's created a lot more energy than I ever thought it would," said Farren, Pinehurst's director of golf courses and grounds. "The reception it is getting has been astounding."
Called "Thistle Dhu," the 15,000-square-foot green was the brainchild of Pinehurst CEO and owner Bob Dedman Jr. and inspired by the Himalayas putting course in St. Andrews. (Its namesake is a Pinehurst estate with its own miniature golf course built in 1919.) The new putting course is free to play but currently open only to resort guests and Pinehurst Country Club members.
Despite its location near the first tee, the heavily contoured Thistle Dhu is no mere practice putting green. "It would blow your mind to try and practice on it before you went out to play," said Farren. "You would have no confidence whatsoever. I wouldn't say it's over the top, but it's right at the top.
"You might have two holes out of the 18 where you have a completely level putt," Farren continued. "And you better make those because you could very likely four-putt the next hole and go off the green."
The Pinehurst Resort also has plans for a new green and approach shot area, designed to replicate shots found on Pinehurst No. 2, the venue for both the men's and women's U.S. Opens in 2014. The new practice area will be on the former site of the 18th green on the No. 1 course.
"We think the new practice area will help people understand what makes No. 2 so special and enable them to get a little taste of it before they play there," Farren said.
So why would a world famous resort with eight layouts build a putting course? It's not just for fun, or to provide golfers with a way to settle bets while enjoying a cocktail. "There are ways as an industry that we can grow the game and expose people to the game," Farren said. "This may be one of them going forward."
Thistle Dhu was built by Toby Cobb and Dave Axland, associates of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, who renovated the resort's famed No. 2 course in 2011.


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Oppo Medical Elastic Posture Aid comes with adjustable straps so that the user can get the highest level of comfort. Also, it is skin colored so doesn't show even on white clothes. Slouched shoulders, or improper posture caused by longer period of work, workout injuries etc. would be treated well with this posture corrector. Also, it's a specialized clavicle brace to help with the collar bones. Price: $13 – $25.75.
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The Cincher Tan Women's Back Support is functional and fashionable at the same time. It could be very well concealed under the daily worn outfits and not be awkwardly seen, and the job would be well done as well. Production material is nylon and spandex, and the fit could be customized using the straps and hooks. However, doctor should be consulted prior to using it. Price: $39.30.
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BSN Medical Pro-Lite Deluxe Clavicle Support is made to either place the shoulders correctly, or provide support in extreme medical conditions like a fracture in the clavicle. This product is intended to be worn over the outfit, and so it's made with prominent padding and strong stripes and hooks. Price: $
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Plenty of people don't get a chance to actually stand up and stretch during their works, and the EquiFit Shoulders Back Lite is made to help with the incorrect posture and pain issues caused by prolonged period of desk work. It comes in Black, and is manufactured in USA. Price: $20 – $55.96
Posture Corrective Brace
Posture Corrective Brace is made of nylon, cotton, polyester and rubber mostly, there are few other materials as well. Ample amount of hooks and straps are provided for an adjustable fitting. The terry-cloth material in the back of this brace provides protection against sweat, even during workout the brace mostly remains dry. Price: $29.99.
Posture Corrector
Posture Corrector goes by a very generic name, yet it's one of the most comfortable USA-made posture correctors to be found in the market. A bright team of R&D worked behind the manufacturing process to come up with collaboration with Medicare and Bax-U. People with kyphosis, forward head carriage etc. would find this product much useful. Price: $50.
IntelliSkin Women's Empower 2.0 Posturecue Sports Bra
Being a sports bra, the IntelliSkin Women's Empower 2.0 is intended to improve the productivity of women over a busy day – especially for those who spend a lot of time in practical work fields that involve physical stress. The materials are mostly Nylon, and some Lycra. Price: $104 – $140.
Back Corrector Ease Pain Kyphosis Supporter
This posture corrector is especially made to help with Kyphosis issues. The design is certainly much friendly for longer time wearing, and it's fashionable as well. Nylon, Polyester, Polyurethane, Resin, Wood, Cotton etc. are some of the materials used in this product. Price: $66.99.
Neo G Medical Grade Posture Correction
The Neo G Medical Grade Posture Correctionprovides shoulder support in a greater extent, and typically used in medical conditions. This product is usually prescribed by doctors, however anyone who requires a posture correction can consult their doctor prior to buying this product. Price: $36.99.
Posture correction is much easier with posture correctors like the ones mentioned in here. The pricing is quite reasonable, and most of these companies offer excellent refund options as well.


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WorkSource Seattle-King County Expands through New Sites & Partnerships/
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Seattle, Wash. – The public workforce system of services known as the American One-Stop Job Network and "WorkSource" throughout Washington State has expanded in Seattle-King County. WorkSource Seattle-King County has expanded to 44 locations under the oversight of the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County and partners. New sites and partnerships broaden the system's geographical reach and make services more accessible to a wide range of youth, adults, and businesses. Tax dollars at work provide employment and training services free of charge—including résumé and interview support, access to technology, employer hiring events, and more.
WorkSource Seattle-King County now includes 2 Centers offering access to all services, 6 Affiliates offering access to most services, and 36 Connection Sites offering electronic access to many available services (See map and menu of services here). All WorkSource locations are chosen strategically based on demand, with many featuring specialized staff to assist the diverse needs of job seekers and businesses. During the last program year, WorkSource Seattle-King County provided 206,689 staff-assisted services to 31,079 jobseekers in King County.
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The WorkSource system's 36 Connection Sites are founded on interagency partnerships through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), and provide access to WorkSource employment and training services in historically underserved communities. By partnering with a broad array of organizations typically serving niche populations with resources and services not exclusively related to employment or education—including housing, English language classes, disability resources, and mental health resources—WorkSource Seattle-King County expands and complements these opportunities to assist individuals working towards self-sufficiency.
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- Attribute: Perception
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This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience. The volume brings together a group of scholars who explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the relationship between architecture, art and ritual. Contributions also tackle both methodological and theoretical issues related to the study of pilgrimage, sacred travel and other types of movement to, from and within sanctuaries through case studies stretching from the first millennium BC to the early medieval period.
"an important and welcome [volume]"
- Alexander Meyer, University of Western Ontario, Canada, The Classical Review 2019
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1. Introduction: Archaeologies of pilgrimage
Wiebke Friese and Troels Myrup Kristensen
2. Inter-cultural pilgrimage, identity, and the Axial Age in the ancient Near East
Joy McCorriston
3. Collective mysteries and Greek pilgrimage: The cases of Eleusis, Thebes and Andania
Inge Nielsen
4. Of piety, gender and ritual space: An archaeological approach to women's sacred travel in Greece
Wiebke Friese
5. The pilgrim's passage into the sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
Bonna Wescoat
6. Pilgrimage and procession in the Panhellenic festivals: Some observations on the Hellenistic Leukophryena in Magnesia-on-the-Meander
Kristoph Jürgens
7. Palimpsest and virtual presence: A reading of space and dedications at the Amphiareion at Oropos in the Hellenistic period
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
8. Roman healing pilgrimage north of the Alps
Martin Grünewald
9. Visiting the ancestors: Ritual movement in Rome's urban borderland
Saskia Stevens
10. The pilgrim and the arch: Paths and passageways at Qal'at Sem'an, Sinai, Abu Mina, and Tebessa
Ann Marie Yasin
11. Movement as sacred mimesis at Abu Mena and Qal'at Sem'an
Heather Hunter-Crawley
12. The allure of the saint: Late antique pilgrimage to the monastery of St Shenoute
Louise Blanke
13. Excavating Meriamlik: Sacred space and economy in late antique pilgrimage
Troels Myrup Kristensen
14. Pilgrimage and multi-religious worship: Palestinian Mamre in Late Antiquity
Vlastimil Drbal
15. Excavating pilgrimage
Jas' Elsner
16. Pilgrimage progress?
Jan N. Bremmer
The public prominence of religion has increased globally in recent years, while places associated with religion, such as pilgrimage centers, and famous cathedrals, temples and shrines, have attracted growing numbers of visitors and media attention. Such developments are part of a global process where different forms of travel – physical movement such as labor and lifestyle migration, tourism of various forms, the cultural heritage industry and pilgrimage – have become a major feature of the modern world. These translocal and transnational processes involve flows of not just people but also material objects, ideas, information, images and capital.
The public prominence of religion aligned to the modern growth of tourism (sometimes now claimed as the world's single largest industry) has created a new dynamic relationship between religion, travel and tourism. It has been mirrored by expanding academic research in these areas over the last twenty years across a variety of disciplinary areas, ranging from anthropology, sociology, geography, history and religious studies to newly emergent areas such as tourism and migration studies. Such studies have also expanded exponentially in terms of the geographic spread of places, religions and regions being researched.
This series provides a new forum for studies based around these themes, drawing together research on the relationships between religion, travel and tourism. These include studies from global and cross-cultural perspectives of topics, such as:


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Harp 1, arranged for advanced beginners, can be played on a 26-string unlevered harp, with the lowest string the C one octave below Middle C. Also playable as a solo harp arrangement.
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