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|Two of Valhalla's turkey poults at three days old
(a Narragansett on the left and a Midget White on
the right). Even at this young age they were fearless,
extremely friendly, and endlessly curious.
One difficult thing about raising birds or any other animals is the fear that we'll be inadequate stewards and lose them through unwitting neglect.
But we took stock: Valhalla had already successfully raised newly hatched Guinea fowl, Ancona ducks, and Freedom Ranger chicks, plus also successfully cared for month-old Khaki Campbell ducks. We were committed to Heritage breeds and turkeys were listed high on
our wish list for poultry. The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (an excellent organization of which we are members) lists 13 varieties of turkeys that range from "Critical" to "Study." An alarming 7 varieties are listed as either Critical or Threatened.
our wish list for poultry. The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (an excellent organization of which we are members) lists 13 varieties of turkeys that range from "Critical" to "Study." An alarming 7 varieties are listed as either Critical or Threatened.
Consequently we thought that we were duty-bound to make the effort, though we had been forewarned about the perils of attempting to raise them. We selected two varieties: Midget Whites (critical status) because they are smaller than conventional turkeys, very friendly, and good foragers; and Narragansetts (threatened) who have similar personality characteristics but are larger and historically important as descendants of original turkeys brought from Europe and the American wild turkey. We ordered from Stromberg's in Minnesota and were impressed with the quality of poults that were delivered healthy and exactly when they were supposed to arrive.
By the way, most responsible hatcheries require a minimum order so that the little birds can stay warm enough by sharing body heat during shipping. Minimum for turkeys is 16 and we were allowed to split the order with 8 Midget Whites and 8 Narragansetts. As noted, most of the two-day old poults were squirming to get out of the box when they arrived.
Being cautious we dipped their beaks in water and then in food right away before gently placing them in the brooder that had been prepared beforehand using a large galvanized water trough. Usually before we could reach for the next poult, the previous one was already dashing between waterer and feeder - quite unaware that they were supposed to be too stupid to find them on their own.
Only one was distressed on arrival. The tiny Narragansett seemed to have been shoved into a corner by the others during shipping and appeared dead or dying. Refusing to give up on him, we dipped his beak into the water as we had the others, and after the third or fourth effort he suddenly drank and very suddenly popped his eyes open. Then we continued to hold him, dip the beak repeatedly and as he grew stronger, dipped it into the food where he began to nibble. Back to the water; back to the food. Within just a few minutes he was strong enough to walk and take nourishment by himself. He still seems to be a bit vision impaired to this day, but keeps up with the flock while they range and is otherwise quite healthy.
We checked them frequently, changed their water, added food, put in fresh litter, always constantly waiting for them to start dying off. But, they didn't die as per what the literature warned about. They didn't even die at all. By day three, when they were flying all over the brooder whenever we lifted the cover, Chris noted, "I don't think these guys are as sensitive as people say."
Every bird got handled at least twice daily. We'd reach in, pick up a chirping poult, and gently pet and talk to it until it calmed down, then release it back to the flock. We noticed that the Narragansetts became accustomed to handling faster than the Midget Whites, but neither variety seemed terribly upset by the procedure. Unlike other birds we raised, these guys look you in the eye when you hold them as if you ask, "So, who are you and what's going on here?"
One thing that caught us by surprise is how fast these turkeys grow.
We were able to keep Guinea fowl and chickens in the small brooder for a few weeks with no problems, but by the end of week two the turkeys were jumping, flying, and banging off the overhead fly screen. Time for a quick fix!
We were worried - remember all those turkey horror stories? - because we had read that turkeys have almost zero immune system for 12 weeks and couldn't be safely exposed to outside sources of potential disease. And we were a long way from that time. Heck, we had just started. Worse, the literature constantly repeated the dire need to tightly control brooder temperatures at all times, and that's exactly when the heat wave hit here at Valhalla with the mercury soaring over 110F for days at a time: too hot for people, and way too hot for tiny turkeys in a metal brooder outside!
|The new brooder in the living room, where the turkey
poults could be more easily monitored within a
temperature-controlled environment during an
extreme heat wave.
|The poults investigating a new toy for the first time.
Within minutes they were ringing the bell and having
contests to see how many times they could peck a
tiny yellow bead at the top of the string of spheres.
In fact, they had such a good time flying the length of the brooder and trampoline-ing off the fly screen at the end that they caused a minor incident. One afternoon we heard them all loudly chirping and carrying on for some unknown reason; Chris raced into the living room to see what the problem was while I strolled in at a more reasonable pace behind her. We were stunned to watch them dart out of the hole they had knocked in the fly screen and hop to the floor.
|KK the cat with the turkeys he almost ate just weeks
ago. They grew, KK. They're still growing, too.
And they're still not afraid of you.
Before any of our mesmerized feline Valhallans could snap to their senses and do the natural cat thing, Chris began scooping up arm loads of cats while I shuttled poults back into the brooder. Time to upgrade to hardware cloth, which we were able to do without further incident.
All that was nine weeks ago. As soon as we were able we transferred them outside into their own predator-safe house with a small fenced area to run in. With a warm (hot) spring and early summer it was quick. After they got big enough to fly out we put a net over the yard to keep them in. Finally, we took a look and decided that they were ready to free range with the rest of the birds.
|One of Valhalla's nine week old Midget White turkeys giving a
lecture on the evolution of animal husbandry practices from
biblical times to the present (translations currently unavailable).
Wait a minute, we thought. These are heritage birds. Early farmers were generalists by necessity, not specialists by choice. They had a few of everything all of which ran together. Maybe in over-crowded confinement conditions all these warnings and excessive medications are necessary, but these birds need to join their fellows running around the open fields that surround the house all day long.
We opened the door and never turned back.
True, we lock them up at night as a safeguard from local predators (we have plenty ranging from hawks and owls to raccoons, possum, fox, coyote, bobcat, and even a panther that was heard and spotted nearby). Everybody but the Guineas get locked up; they opted for the trees all on their own and so they hide there at night. During the day the yard becomes a poultry free-for-all. Guineas chase the chickens, who chase the ducks, who chase the Guineas. Go figure. Meanwhile the turkeys simply roam around and seem to enjoy the show. One consequence of the frequent handling is that they have no fear of humans and follow us around like puppies. Kneel down to fix something and in moments you've got 16 sets of dark blue eyes intently supervising. Sit in a lawn chair and they hop up to roost on an arm or sit in a lap expecting to be petted.
|One of the young Narragansett Toms
strutting his stuff on the railing of the front deck.
One requirement that the ALBC has established is that Heritage breeds need to be able to reproduce naturally, something that commercial turkeys are incapable of doing. So even though a few of these birds are destined for the dinner table we intend to keep the hens and one or two toms from each variety with the hope of expanding the flock. By becoming breeders, even on a very small scale, for these rare Heritage varieties we will be able to contribute to the overall numbers and quality of the livestock gene pool. It's part of the Valhalla mission.
For Valhalla at least they have been by far the easiest birds we've raised and some of the most enjoyable.
Photo on the left: Gordon with a chatty Narragansett who had been underfoot in the garden. Instead of pecking or scratching, the young turkeys relax while letting their legs dangle when being carried. They still need to be occasionally carried various distances because if a turkey is ever physically injured in an accident or in a predator attack, staying relaxed while being picked up and carried to safety could mean the difference between life and death.
Photo on the left: Gordon with a chatty Narragansett who had been underfoot in the garden. Instead of pecking or scratching, the young turkeys relax while letting their legs dangle when being carried. They still need to be occasionally carried various distances because if a turkey is ever physically injured in an accident or in a predator attack, staying relaxed while being picked up and carried to safety could mean the difference between life and death.
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The darling of South America, yerba mate has been consumed in one form or another since the 16th century. But only recently have bartenders started tinkering with the grassy, caffeinated tea in cocktails. These are seven cocktails that make the most of yerba mate.
Can't make it to any of the bars serving these great yerba mate drinks? Try making the Evergreen Terrace or Bombilla from this list at home.
Linden Room bartender Cesar Garcia gained inspiration for this cocktail after spending time in South America and, more recently, Europe. He says the yerba mate made into a simple syrup intricately adds bitterness while génépy and tequila add balance and approachability. He finishes off the drink with two dashes of orange bitters and a dash of Bittercube Corazón bitters.
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At rum-centric restaurant Ronero in Chicago, the kitchen focuses on Latin American cuisine, including Argentinean, so having a yerba mate cocktail was a no-brainer. Bartender Allie Kim combines Old Forester signature bourbon with Bénédictine herbal liqueur, stone ground yerba mate syrup, lemon and mint for a refreshingly herbaceous cocktail that works year-round. Meaning "lightbulb," "little pump" and "straw" in Spanish, it takes its name from the metal straw yerba mate is usually sipped from, which allows yerba mate to be served loose-leaf without consuming any large particles.
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While Latin-focused La Pulperia has three New York locations, the Carlos Gardel, inspired by the prominent French-Argentine tango song composer, can be enjoyed at its Hell's Kitchen location. Comprised of vodka (although gin can be substituted) and yerba mate with a blend of lemon, lime and orange juice, it's meant to evoke the spirit of the sexy dance.
At Cure, which won the 2018 James Beard award for Outstanding Bar Program, owner Neal Bodenheimer credits former bartender Genevieve Mashburn with creating the Another Green World, which Bodenheimer calls "restorative." With yerba-mate-infused Macchu pisco, Suze, lemon and honey, the drink is given a hard whip shake before being poured into a coupe and topped with mate dust. "Yerba mate is full of antioxidants and caffeine," he says. "So in our hot and humid climate, cooling and invigorating is a very good combination, especially when you add pisco."
Norman Van Aken's rooftop hotspot in Miami's art-filled Wynwood neighborhood is a natural gathering spot for friends to enjoy DJs spinning a vibrant array of pop, upbeat house, Latin and Afro tunes. In that social setting, its normal to share drinks, akin to passing around the mate gourd, so Nico Abarzua and Tony Fuentes created the Cloud Nine with vodka, mate syrup, egg white, lemon juice, honey and Angostura bitters. "Drinking mate with friends is a common social practice in some parts of the world," they say. "We liked the idea of 'take a sip and pass it around!'"
The team at Estereo likes to have fun, and that's truly the point behind the Breezy. Guests get to pick their own base spirit for the drink, although the staff recommends Caribbean or Latin American spirits like pisco, mezcal or rhum agricole. Where it really gets fun is with the rest of the ingredients—a proprietary yerba mate tea blend created in partnership with Chicago's Rare Tea Cellar, house falernum, lime and bubbles. The whole thing gets carbonated and is served on draft. "The effervescence from the carbonation gives the drink a lightness and crispness that really sets it apart," says manager Michael Rubel.
Marco Zappia, Martina's beverage director and also a 2018 Eater Young Gun semifinalist, creates all the drinks at Argentine-focused Martina, including the Toro y Gallo. The drink, made of vodka, yerba mate, ginger, turmeric, licorice root, orange and lemon, harks back to the original idea behind a Moscow Mule. Zappia wanted to create a drink that was both alluring and approachable to neighborhood diners. He makes his own ginger beer by juicing raw ginger and combining it with a tea crafted from discarded ginger pulp. That paired with the other ingredients offers a bright, zippy drink with a bit of Argentine flair.

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A lot has changed with the new Windows 8 interface. We want to help familiarize you with the new features! Let's start with how you can sign out of a user account in Windows 8
What is a user account sign out ?
There are several reasons why users should sing out of Windows 8. One reason could be preventing unauthorized access if you want to leave your computer unattended, for more on the topic see our locking the computer article. Another reason for the user log off is to increase the speed, if there are too many registered users, it can slow down the computer, and therefore we recommend always logging off if the account won't be used soon after.
Sign out of a user account in Windows 8 in 3 clicks!
The signing off process is quite simple:
- Click the 1 username located in the top right corner of the Start Screen.
- Select 2"Sign Out".
You will now be redirected to the login screen where you may log into a different user account, or shut down Windows 8.
Support for Windows 8 Users
Windows 8 offers many new features that will make your life easier. Unfortunately, this also means that you need to learn some new things. The DarWin8 app helps you with videos and clearly understandable steps, to speed up your learning process. DarWin8 also provides you with a free trial version for testing. For easy access just click on the Windows Store icon directly from your Start Screen and download!


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Eileen Hynes is a teacher at Lake and Park School in Seattle, Washington. She is a member of NCSE's teacher advisory board, a National Geographic Teacher Fellow, and a NOAA Climate Steward.
When I first learned about NCSE's Scientist in the Classroom program, I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the pilot. Scientists in the Classroom is just the kind of program that we look for at our school, one that creates engaging and meaningful experiences for our students. It was not just a gift to get matched with Mary, a first year graduate student at the University of Washington School of Fisheries, but complete serendipity, as I was about to launch into a major thematic study of the ocean with the teachers and students at Lake and Park School.
For her first visit, Mary brought the tools of an oceanographer, including her scuba gear, to share. The kids were thrilled to hear about the adventures she had as a marine scientist, from collecting data on a dive to using the latest technology in her genomics lab. The students had recently visited the Cedar River Watershed and were working to understand the hydrologic cycle, the relationship between the oceans and freshwater, and the effects of climate change on the ocean. Mary answered all of their questions about climate change and the ocean, and even brought in a game to illustrate the effects of overfishing on ecosystems and fishing communities.
After our first visit, we made plans to travel to the University to visit Mary's lab. During this visit, students learned about fish adaptations, worked with a species identification key, and saw the university's fish collections. At the end of the day, the students played an active game where they "swam" around on the grass looking for genetically similar fish. If that had been all we did with Mary, it would have been plenty—but there was more to come! In November she was back again, joining us on a whale watching expedition in the Salish Sea. On the whale watch, students got to know Mary better. They shared their science journals with her, talked about their observations, and asked her countless questions. In addition to being a scientific expert and role model for the students, Mary was becoming an integral part of our class. Throughout the entire ocean study this fall, Mary helped students practice thinking like scientists. With Mary's help, students wondered, observed, and experimented to understand adaptations and the effect of climate change on the ocean.
In December Mary joined us as we marked the end of one year and the beginning of another with the study of deep time and evolution. Through the use of pictures and a large model of the evolutionary tree of Mammalia, students worked in small groups to arrange the animals on their tree. Another group of budding scientists arranged pictures of the different steps of the evolution of whales from the sea to land and back again. This was a thoughtful and concrete presentation that created an effective space for the students to visualize evolution.
Connecting with Mary has provided Lake and Park School students a wonderful opportunity to see a scientist in action and learn about evolution and climate change from someone in the thick of it. In fact, it was such a great experience that we'll be working with Mary this spring, even as she travels to South Korea for the World Fisheries Conference (we'll be Skypeing her in!). Inviting a scientist into the classroom is such a simple thing, but the impact on my students has been enormous. What will we do with Mary this spring? Stay tuned!


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Via Daniel Florien, I became aware of the video above, "How To Write a Worship Song" in five minutes or less.
I've been doing some songwriting lately, and so I appreciated the humor. But the truth is that much human music, secular or sacred, is the same chord progressions with some pinky movements, and lyrics with rhymes that are not exactly unpredictable. And the most popular songs tend not to be the ones that involve amazing virtuosity throughout, but ones that have an underlying simplicity (with a solo of some sort thrown in, perhaps).
In fact, recently there was a BBC article suggesting that a computer might be able to predict what songs will be hits based on certain features.
And while some have tried to invigorate music by doing things that are radically innovative – from adding new instruments to abandoning tonality – there is good reason to think that, just like a game of chess, the simple rules and structures of tonal music allow for so many different possible combinations, that only an eternal or nearly eternal being could ever become bored of the game (anyone else remember that scene from Star Trek: Enterprise?). And (to make another Star Trek reference) adding a third dimension to chess doesn't necessarily make the new version more enjoyable than the classic game.American composer Alan Hovhaness at one point in his life decided to scrap his very modernistic music and begin composing in a neo-tonal idiom. I shared one example of his prodigious output recently, and it is not at all boring just because it works within a traditional framework of musical expression.
Indeed, it seems as though our very lives are the arrangement of some common features into individual lives that are distinctive, meaningful, and worthwhile. We are just like songs in many respects.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I might write a song about this…


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The Top 10 Solar States
New Jersey is the nation's second largest solar market behind California thanks to the state government's commitment to increase the amount of electricity derived from renewable energy sources over the next decade.
But where are the other leaders in solar energy?
Here, courtesy of the Solar Energy Industries Association, is a Top 10 list for cumulative installed solar capacity in the United States as of 2010.
1. California: 47 percent with 971 megawatts
2. New Jersey: 14 percent with 293 MW
3. Colorado: 5 percent with 108 MW
4. Arizona: 5 percent with 101 MW
5. Nevada: 5 percent with 97 MW
6. Florida: 4 percent with 73 MW
7. New York: 3 percent with 54 MW
8. Pennsylvania: 3 percent with 54 MW
9. New Mexico: 2 percent with 45 MW
10. North Carolina: 2 percent with 42 MW
Obama supports US Solar Industry with a $2 Billion Investment
President Obama has announced that two of America's most established solar companies are set to receive up to $2 billion in loan guarantees in order to further expand the US solar industry.
Sky Trough is the most efficient solar concentrator
The WARP concept provides electricity, water and clean air
To reduce the environmental effects of the inevitable growth of urbanism, Portugese deisgner Vasco Pinto Alves proposes a unique concept that provides energy, water, shade and also clean air just like natural trees do.
Eco Tips: Getting Small Solar Panels for your residence
Although building anything that involves complicated tools may seem daunting and expensive, this is only a small cost when considering the large benefits of solar panels. Most modern homes as well as renovated homes are now on use solar panels to increase their energy independence as well as to increase their energy efficiency.
Breakout year expected as US solar sector posts 37% growth
Some 17,000 new jobs were created directly or indirectly by the solar industry as the nation's generating capacity grew by 37%, pushing through the 2,000MW barrier for total output. The pipeline of developments lined up in the US also suggests strong years ahead. Read more…
DuPont predicts 50% growth in solar PV sales
Chemical company DuPont said yesterday it expects its sales of materials for the solar photovoltaic industry to grow by more than 50% this year.
The company, which provides structural materials, seals and thin films for PV cell manufacturers, achieved $550 million in revenues in 2009 – a 25% growth on the previous year.
Out-performing the rest of the market's 10% growth rate, DuPont said it had hit its sales target for 2010 a year early.
Now with increased market demand for new solar installations in North America, Europe and parts of Asia, DuPont said it expects sales to exceed $1 billion in 2011.
It has set a new goal to pass the $2 billion sales mark by 2014.


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Too complicated for humans: Poker and chess above our heads, Manchester university study reveals
Too complicated for humans: Poker and chess above our heads, Manchester university study reveals
Bad luck was not the reason for your last poker defeat… it was because you're not good enough, according to a Manchester academic.
Dr Tobias Galla, a University of Manchester physicist, claims some games are impossible for people to learn or too complex for human minds to understand.
Along with Professor Doyne Farmer from Oxford University and the Santa Fe Institute, Dr Galla ran thousands of tests to gauge the connection between human behaviour and tactics.
He discovered people can quickly calculate optimal strategy in simple games such as noughts and crosses but that they lose rationality when faced with multiple options, like in poker and chess.
This leads to chaotic and, at times, random decision-making stemming from confusion as much as anything else.
Dr Galla argues the research explains behaviour of the financial markets, as economists make predictions based on equilibrium theory.
This assumes traders are totally intelligent and rational, however, which the academics think explains why many predictions prove wildly inaccurate.
"Equilibrium is not always the right thing you should look for in a game," said Dr Galla.
"In many situations, people do not play equilibrium strategies, instead what they do can look like random or chaotic for a variety of reasons, so it is not always appropriate to base predictions on the equilibrium model.
"It could be that we need to drop these conventional game theories and instead use new approaches to predict how people might behave."
Preliminary results suggest the chances of reaching equilibrium decreases as the number of players increases, which again suggests the theory has little relevance in explaining market predictions.
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Background Information
Traffic modelling reports
In order to test the impact of proposed changes to roads in the town centre mathematical traffic models have been used to predict how traffic will respond. The modelling used comprised of "Saturn" which is used to examine the strategic changes to a highway network over a large area and "Paramics" which allows a more localised detailed assessment at key locations. The following reports are available to provide detail of the studies carried out over the last six years:
November 2008: A "Saturn" traffic model was used to test the traffic impact of the Civic Pride proposals developed for Cheltenham Borough Council. The scheme included a two-way bus route through Boots Corner and retained one-way traffic in Oriel Road and Imperial Square North.
2008 November Civic Pride Traffic Modelling
December 2010: A "Paramics" traffic model was developed to examine the traffic impacts in more detail. The validation report reports on the models accuracy in replicating traffic flows.
2010 December Civic Pride Local Model Validation Report
August 2012:The "Paramics" model was used to consider new options for traffic management including the two-way traffic in Imperial Square North and Oriel Road and the effect of promoting other ways of travelling for local journeys in Cheltenham.
2012 August Imperial Square and Oriel Road Two Way Traffic
July 2013: The "Paramics" model was used to provide a report on the impact of the preferred option. This was used to provide information used in the public consultation carried out in July and August 2013.
2013 July Preferred Option Modelling Summary Report
July 2013:A further test was carried out to assess the impact of keeping Rodney Road open to all traffic. In the preferred option test access to Rodney Road was restricted to access only.
2013 July Rodney Road Sensitivity Test
Traffic surveys
May 2009: During May 2009 Clarence Street and Boots Corner was closed temporarily to all traffic for repairs to a gas main. A number of traffic surveys were carried out to examine how traffic flows would respond.
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They have quite a big team, 3 floors in Boulevard, Midvalley. A couple of 'ang mo-s' around, naturally because the company is from D.C. I spoke to one of the managers and apparently they have free breakfast and tea time in the office most of the time. D: It feels like I'm watching Drop Dead Diva with her law firm serving food all the time. I'm devastated. #Drama
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As the second largest community in the greater Oshkosh area, Algoma is uniquely situated for substantial community and business growth. With a Town population of 7,010 (2016 ACS), Algoma is a successful and growing residential community with growing parkland, strong roads, stable government and unlimited potential. Looking for a place to work, live and play? The Town of Algoma is perfect for you.
The Town of Algoma is ideally located along the STH-21 corridor in the greater Oshkosh area. Algoma is bounded by I-41 and the City of Oshkosh to the east, Lake Butte Des Morts to the north and the Town's of Omro and Nekimi to the west and south respectively. Algoma's municipal borders encompass 9.52 square miles (6,091 acres) of land and has substantial business and commercial growth opportunities along heavily used recreation and transportation corridors.
The Town of Algoma is home to some of the highest quality residential neighborhoods in all of East Central Wisconsin. The Town excels in providing executive style residences and has a growing recreational and park inventory. Thanks to its close proximity to the City of Oshkosh, Algoma has experienced positive economic spill over and is on the cutting edge for resident and community input. Algoma is home to Oakwood Elementary School and the adjacent Sheldon Nature Area. With a premier school district, over 45 miles of safe roadways and strong exposure on I-41 and STH-21 Algoma is a prime location for growth.
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WICHITA – A jury has acquitted one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers of violating Kansas law requiring an independent second opinion for the procedure. But moments after the verdict was announced Friday, the state's medical board made public a complaint against Dr. George Tiller on similar allegations…Tiller now faces a complaint before the State Board of Healing Arts, which could revoke, suspend or limit his medical license, or fine him. Read the article here.
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"Fall Feature: Aller & Richter"
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The ocean inspires both Renate Aller and Chris Richter to express their personal vision. In this show, Richter's paintings will "play" off of Aller's large scale photographs, creating a dynamic tension and expression of the power and poise of the ocean.
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«Famoust Chemists of the world»
Arrhenius Svante August
Svante Arrhenius was born in Sweden. He learned to read at the age of
three and became interested in mathematics and physics at an early age.
He proposed in his doctoral thesis that electrolytes split into ions in
water. For his efforts he was awarded the barest of passes. Fortunately,
William Ostwald and Jacobus van?t Hoff promoted his work on electrolytic
theory. He was awarded the 1903 Nobel prize for Chemistry for roughly
the same thesis that had been nearly rejected nineteen years previously.
He had universal interests in science and proposed the greenhouse
Avogadro Amedeo
Amedeo Avogadro was a professor of physics in the University of Turin,
but is best known for his contributions to chemistry. He followed the
work of Gay Lussac closely and realised early on the difference between
atoms and molecules. Avogadro suggested that equal volumes of gases
under the same conditions of temperature and pressure contained equal
numbers of particles. The number of particles in a mole, 6,022×1023 ,
is called Avogadro?s Number in his honour.
Bohr Niels Henrik David
Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen in denmark in 1885. His father was a
professor of physiology at the University of Copengagen. Niels attended
the same university and was a distinguished soccer player as well as a
brilliant student.
Bohr studied at J. J. Thomson?s Cavendish Laboratory and at Rutherford?s
laboratory. At the young age of 28, while working with Rutherford, he
invented the first effective model and theory of the structure of the
atom. His work ranks as one of the truly great examples of an
imaginative mind at work. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for
physics for his study of the structure of atoms.
During Worls War 2, Bohr and his family escaped from occupied Denmark to
the United States. He and his son, Aage, acted as advisers at the Los
Alomos Atomic Laboratories, where the atom bomb was developed.
Thereafter, Bohr concerned himself with developing peaceful uses of
nuclear energy. Aage Bohr, Neil?s son was awarded the Nobel Prize for
physics in 1975.
Boyle Robert
Robert Boyle was born in Lismore, Ireland. He was regarded as one of the
foremost experimental scientists of his time. It is thought that he was
the first to collect gases by displacing water in an inverted flask. He
discovered the relationship between the pressure and the volume of a gas
in 1660. The relationship, pxV = constant, is known as Boyle?s law and
was one of the first attempts to express a scientific principle in a
mathematical form. Boyle separated chemistry from the realm of alchemy
and estabilished it as a science. On the basis of experiment he defined
an element as something that cannot be broken up into smaller
substances. Robert Boyle devoted his life to experimental science,
taking careful notes of each experiment, enabling other scientists to
learn from his work. He is regarded as the father of experimental
Faraday Michael
The English chemist and physicist Michael Faraday was Born in Surrey,
the son of a poor blacksmith. He was largely self-taught, never thought
too highly of himself but was essentially a very happy man. He is best
known today for his research into elctricity and magnetism. His
reputation, in his own time, was based on his remarkable lecturing
skills; the public at the time looked on electricity as a useful toy and
was more interested in the more useful inventions of Stephenson and
Joule. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder in 1805. Having attended a
lecture by Humpray Davy, he presented Davy with a bound version of the
lecture. Davy was so impressed with the detailed notes and drawings that
he offered him a job as a laboratory assistant. From there on the
relationship between the greatest scientists of their day flourished. He
also collaborated with the mathematician, James Clerk Maxwell who
expressed many of Faraday?s ideas in mathematical form.
Nobel Alfred Bernhard
Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 31st October
1833. When he was 9 years old, his family moved to St. Petersburg. He
was educated mostly privately and at the age of 16 was a
sciencetifically trained chemist.
He loved literature and the natural sciences. He knew English, German,
French, Swedish and Russian. He travelled to Paris and USA to continue
his studies. Then he worked in his father?s factory. He began to
experiment with nitroglicerine, the manufacture of which developed into
a world industry. Then he invented new, improved explosive, dynamit. He
received a patent in 1867.
But it isn?t his only discovery. He discovered other explosives, use to
minig, constructing highways, railways etc. He travelled a lot, so he
wasn?t at home and he was here only on temportary visits. He became very
He died on 10th December 1896 in San Remo, Italy and left the major part
of his large estate in trust to estabilished five prizes. They are
awarded every year in physics, chemistry, psychology or medicine,
literature and peace. The distribution of these prizes was begun on 10th
December 1901, the fifth anniversary of Nobel?s dead. The peace prize is
presented in Oslo, other prizes in Stockholm.
Two people from Czech republic were awarded the Nobel prizes: Professor
Jaroslav Heyrovsky in 1959 for the discovery and developement of
polarography and National Artist Jaroslav Seifert in 1984 for his
outstanding contribution to poetry.
Ostwald Wilhlelm
Wilhelm Ostwald, the German chemist and philosopher became interested in
chemistry at an early age; as an eleven year old he made his own
fireworks. He developed the Ostwald process for the synthesis of nitric
acid using a platinum-rhodium catalyst. He proposed that catalysts speed
up chemical reactions by lowering the energy of activation. He is one of
the founders physical chemistry, the theoretical branch of chemistry
which deals with the properties and reactions of ions, atoms and
molecules. Curiously enough, although he was one of the most eminent
chemists of his time, he did not accept the developement of athomic
theory until 1906. He was awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for
his work on catalysis and on the conditions of chemical equilibrium and
the velocities of chemical reactions.
Pauling Linus Carl
Linus Pauling was born in Portland,
Oregon in 1901. He is the only person ever to recieve a Nobel Prize for
science and a Nobel Peace Prize. He received the science award in 1954
for his work in chemistry into the nature of the chemical bond. His work
in chemistry is important both in range and importance of his
contributions. He studied quantum mechanics with the phyzicists, Bohr
and Schroedinger and combined quantum mechanics with the idea of
electron pair sharing. He explained many important concepts in his
classic book "The Nature of the Chemical Bond". From 1936 onwards he
devoted much of his research to biochemical problems, including the
structure of proteins, sickle cell anaemia and the effects of vitamins
disease. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in promoting nuclear
disarmament which led to the signing of a nuclear test ban in 1962.
Rutherford Lord Ernest
Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson, New Zeland in 1871. He began work
in J.J. Thompson?s laboratory in 1895. He later moved to McGill
University in Montreal where he became one of the leading figures in the
field of radioactivity. From 1907 on he was professor at the University
of Manchester where he worked with Geiger and Marsden.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908 for his work on
radioactivity. In 1910, with co-workers Geiger and Marsden he discovered
that alfa-particles could be deflected by thin metal foil. This work
enabled him to propose a structure for the atom. Later on he proposed
the existence of the proton and predicted the existence of the neutron.
He died in 1937 and like J.J. Thompson is buried in Wesminster Abbey. He
was one of the most distinguished scientists of his century.
Thompson Sir Joseph John
J. J. Thompson was born in Menchester in 1856. His father was a
bookseller and publisher. Thompson was Cavendish Professor of
experimental physics, Cambridge University from 1894 – 1919. He was
described as humble, devout, generous, a good conversationalist and had
an uncanny memory. He valued and inspired enthusiasm in his
students.Thompson was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for his
investigations of the passage of electricity through gases. In 1897, he
discovered the electron through his work on cathode rays.Thompson?s son,
Sir George Paget, shared the Nobel Prize for physics with C.J.Davisson
in 1937. Seven of Thompson?s trainees were also awarded Nobel Prizes.
J.J. Thompson is buried in Wesminster Abbey close to some of the World?s
greatest scientists, Newton, Kelvin, Darwin, Hershel and Rutherford.
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According to MIC, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has moved to push a law called the "Safe Transfer Act" that would make having been accused of rape during your time in college appear on your transcripts. Speier believes this will help to put a stop campus sexual assault.
"Universities and colleges are perfectly willing to include academic infractions like plagiarism on students' records, yet students who have committed sexual assault can walk away from campus with a clean academic bill of health," Speier said in a statement, BuzzFeed reported.
She said the discrepancy reveals that schools take plagiarism more seriously than they do sexual assault, a veritable epidemic on college campuses across the country.
"My bill will ensure that students who try to transfer schools to avoid the consequences of their violent acts will, at a minimum, face the same consequences as students who transfer because they've cheated on an exam," Speier said.
However, laws like this — which have already been passed in states like New York and Virginia — have been known to punish both guilty and innocent alike. As Ashe Schow noted in her article at the Washington Examiner, the accused — usually men — are guilty until proven innocent.
And the narrative being pushed by activists has been one of black and white, good and evil. According to them, accusers, mostly women, always tell the absolute truth, and the accused, almost universally men, are awful even if proven innocent. That double-standard has led to policies that treat accused students as guilty-until-proven-innocent. These policies also have to carve out special provisions that ensure accusers are innocent of sexual assault even when both parties would have a reasonable claim.
With the passage of this law, that guilty verdict sans-verdict will follow a student around, even if he's proven innocent.
It looks like another misandrist that is trying to destroy the lives of young men on college and university campuses nationwide. Let's contact our Congressional Representative and the Speaker of the House and let them know to oppose this monstrosity. The more of us they hear from better.
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Let's tell Donald Trump to dismantle Dear Colleague
I was at the Community Of The Wrongly Accused or COTWA and I was reading how Donald Trump is going to dismantle the Office of Civil Rights division of the Department Of Education. A lot of publications and organizations are bringing this to the forefront. Among them are Inside Higher Ed,Weekly Standard,Buzz Feed and Vox. This is a good thing if you are an MRA or you actually care about due process for the accused. I thank them for bring these issues to the forefront so the rest of country and planet can see what goes on at America's Universities and Colleges. Contacting Senators Lamar Alexander and James Lankford was a good idea. They are pressing on this with the tenacity of a pit bull. Congress has the power to yank the DOE's funding and with the Republicans running Congress that is a safe bet. Donald Trump has a Twitter account so let's contact him there and let him know what we think on this subject.
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Flash Monitor, Cyberdetective
Lately business in the cyberdetection game has been slower than a dial-up modem circa 1990. Since then, a megaton of traffic has traveled the Information Superhighway, but the online universe hasnt gotten much safer. Not only that, websurfers and twitterers dont give a fig about their privacy.At least, not enough to hire the likes of me.
Now and again a job popping up on my screen means a handful of bitcoins to keep a couple of PPV sites streaming. But what I really need is a blockbuster case so I can finally afford an ink cartridge. The wells so dry my printing queues hasnt moved an inch since the Bush II Administration.
The other day I thought I found the answer to my prayers. When I logged on a live one (so to speak) was already waiting for me on my screen. She was one smokin cookie, all right, vamping across my screen while vaping up a puff of virtual smoke. Forgive me, #metooers, but I gotta believe theres not a hacker between here and the depths of the dark web who wouldnt want to take a byte out of her bits.
What can I do for you, Toots? I typed. Align your algorithms? Sweep for viruses or excuse the expression Trojans?
The screen slightly rocked from side to side. No, nothing like that, Mr. Monitor, she tapped.
Call me Flash. Or just f.
Upper case or lower case?
Either one. So, uh, tell me what cha got. Connection problems? Incompatibility? Does Windows 10 pop a message up every time you want to open your word processing program?*
Its not as bad as that. But Im being hacked! Overloading my website with threads that have nothing to do with my dedicated content! What makes it worse, every postings cluttered with cornball emojis!!! The animated kind thatll give you a convulsion if you dont avert your gaze!!!
Talk about your user friendly. I was one hundred per cent sure this chick had a passionate nature. I could tell from the number of exclamation points she used.
Hmmph! (Try typing that without summoning Spell-Check. I dare ya!)From what youre telling me, its coming from the outside. These are bad actors. They could be across the globe or across the street.
Who do you think it is, F? Russian hackers? Nigerian princes?
Nah. This is the work of some kind of manufactured entity. Hook me up to your devices, and lets take a look.
Next thing I knew, a tablet, a laptop, and a pink smartphone with a cracked screen materialized in my workspace. I shut em all down, waited 30 secs or so, and then rebooted the lot.
Then boom!
Holy Kaspersky! Hundreds-- nay thousands --of little insect-like creatures scampered all over the place. They looked like tiny Minions from the movies, except they werent yellow. And they slithered around like theyd ODd on a shot of mercury.
Turn off the lights! Maybe thats attracting them, I furiously typed. Your problem is bots, Lady! You got em, and you got em bad!
At first I didnt know how to handle the situation. But then I spotted an army of em heading straight for my entertainment center. Oh, no, not the DVR! Not when I still had half a season of Legion left to binge-watch]**
After scanning the premises for some 3-D hardware, I grabbed what I hoped would be an appropriate weapon. Then I hurled it at the little buggers like Syndergaard lettin loose with a fast ball.
Got em!
Looks like your little problem is history, Miss.
Oh, F, she typed. I cant thank you enough! By the way, what was that big red thing you threw?
That? Oh, its just a leftover from the last century. They called it Websters Third Dictionary. After all these decades, it was actually good for something.
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She grew up a tomboy in suburban Chicago, a fan of Hot Wheels, baseball cards and Blackhawks hockey. So when her two brothers tossed a football in the family's half-acre backyard one day, Amy insisted on playing. They said no, she begged, and one of them whipped the ball at her so hard that it sent her to the ground in tears.
"Our other sister was a real girl," one of the boys blurted out.
The comment left Amy, about 8 at the time, dumbfounded. There was no other sister, or so she thought.
She raced inside, found her mother smoking at the kitchen table, and told her what her brother Bobby had said.
"Is it true that you had a daughter before me?" asked Amy, who, like her brothers, was adopted at birth.
Marge Sandberg slowly blotted out her cigarette in an ashtray.
"Listen carefully," Amy recalled her mother saying, "because I'm only going to tell you this story once."
It was around 1970 in Deerfield, Ill., and Ms. Sandberg told her youngest child a closely guarded secret about a choice the family had made, one fueled by the racial tensions of the era, that sent a black girl and the white girl that took her place on diverging paths.
Decades later, the journeys of the two women tell a nuanced story of race in America, one that complicates easy assumptions about white privilege and black hardship. Lives take unexpected twists and turns, this family story suggests, no matter the race of those involved. And years later, it is not easy to figure out the role of race when looking for lessons learned.
It all started in 1959 when a developer bought a plot of land in Deerfield to build 51 homes. He said he would sell a dozen of them to black people.
This small community about 30 miles north of Chicago had spent years growing in the image of mid-20th-century suburban America: tract housing, green lawns and a population that was virtually all white. Deerfield residents made it clear that they wanted to protect the racial order.
Vandals struck two houses under construction. Someone burned a cross on the lawn of a resident who supported the development. A local pastor who advocated the housing received an anonymous letter that called him a vicious racial slur and told him to "let your children marry one of them and present you with a nice dark brown grandson or daughter," The New York Times reported on April 17, 1960.
Among those who wanted to see the housing built were Marge Sandberg and her husband, Len, who had moved to Deerfield with their two adopted sons in the mid-1950s. As a Jew, Mr. Sandberg said he had always had sympathy for persecuted minority groups. Ms. Sandberg joined a local group that supported the development. But the efforts to get the homes built were unsuccessful; the city ultimately seized the land from the developer and built a park.
While the talk of the town was about the housing development, the Sandbergs were talking about expanding their family. They wanted a daughter. And so they hired a lawyer, who found a woman looking to put up her newborn girl for adoption. The baby, whom they planned to name Rebecca, was born on April 19, 1962, and when she arrived at the Sandberg house days later, what they saw surprised them.
She was black.
Immediately, Mr. Sandberg said, he thought of the burning crosses and racist taunts, the upheaval in their community over the prospect of black people moving in. Interracial adoptions were far less common then.
"I said at that point that I wasn't going to go forward with it," Mr. Sandberg, now 89, recalled.
His wife protested vigorously. She cried. She called on a pastor at the Unitarian church they attended to try to convince him to change his mind. Mr. Sandberg would not budge.
"I thought, 'My God, how are you going to raise a child in this neighborhood with the way people are feeling about this thing?'" said Mr. Sandberg, the owner of a prosperous manufacturing company. "It just wouldn't have been great for her."
The Sandbergs returned the child. A few months later, they adopted a newborn white girl and named her Amy.
Even as the Sandbergs moved on, the impact of what they did lingered. Ms. Sandberg, who died of cancer in 1997, kept journal entries saying she thought about the girl every April, the month she was born. The Sandbergs eventually separated and divorced. The family almost never talked about what had happened.
But the white daughter they kept, Amy, who is now married and goes by the last name Roost, began thinking about the family secret again in 2012, after Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, was killed by a neighborhood watchman in Florida, setting off a national conversation about racial disparities in America. Ms. Roost wondered if the girl her parents had sent back had ended up on the short end of the country's racial divide.
Ms. Roost, now 55, had graduated from George Washington University with a degree in political science, and worked as a press aide on Capitol Hill, as a university administrator, and as a grant writer for nonprofit organizations. She became a freelance journalist, and, using her reporting skills, set out to find the woman her parents had given up. Ms. Roost documented this search for a story that will air on WNYC's Snap Judgment podcast.
Ms. Roost dug through Illinois adoption and birth records and searched the internet, eventually finding the woman: Angelle Kimberly Smith. It was 2015, and Ms. Roost called Ms. Smith, nervous about what she might say.
The conversation did not go as Ms. Roost had imagined.
"She was really, really cool about it," Ms. Roost said.
That's because after the Sandbergs had given her up, Ms. Smith had landed with a loving couple, Harry and Ruth Smith, who were black. Her father ran a stationery store. He also was heavily involved in an underground lottery, with tentacles that extended into the city's political and organized crime worlds, she said. Her mother was a homemaker. Her upbringing, Ms. Smith said, was comfortable and loving in a solid, black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. She attended a private grammar school.
But tragedy struck when Harry Smith died of a heart attack when his daughter was just 8.
Ms. Smith and her mother endured. Her mother ran the stationery store, she said, and neighbors treated them like family.
"I was raised by people that really loved me and really wanted me," said Ms. Smith, now 55.
As she entered adulthood, Ms. Smith moved to Los Angeles, lured by the prospect of a glamorous life. Instead, she found trouble.
In spite of her stable home life, Ms. Smith said she was sucked into freewheeling circles in which drugs were common. She became addicted to cocaine, she said, and became homeless and was incarcerated for burglary. She had four children, two of them while living on the streets, and lost custody of all of them.
Ms. Smith eventually pulled her life back together. She earned an associate degree, started working on bachelor's and master's degrees online and worked as a counselor. By 2007, all of her children were back in her life. She wanted to learn more about who she was, so she searched for her biological parents, listed as Neal Gordon and Juanita Green on her birth certificate, but never found them.
But life had taken so many twists and turns that by the time she heard from Ms. Roost, she felt she could handle anything. She greeted the news that she had been given up by a white family by telling Ms. Roost that she held no hard feelings, and would not have wanted to be raised by white parents in a white neighborhood.
Over time, the two women built a relationship, discussing the good and the bad places that life had taken them. They talked openly about whether they had traveled stereotypical racial trajectories — the white girl soaring to success with the support of a wealthy, white family; the black girl struggling in despair.
That jaded narrative, it turned out, was far from the reality. Ms. Smith wondered whether she actually would have been worse off had the Sandbergs kept her.
The way she saw it, Ms. Smith said, race never felt like much of a determining factor in her life. She went to school with white children and enjoyed some of the same benefits as white people, from her education to her family's vacation home. She felt lucky to have grown up in a predominantly black neighborhood, rather than in Deerfield, where she said she likely would have faced discrimination.
"There were no people of color in that community at all," Ms. Smith said, adding that "when white people have to deal with black people, I think, there's a misperception of who we are, what we stand for."
When Ms. Roost learned what Ms. Smith had gone through as an adult — hustling to make ends meet, living in Los Angeles's once notorious MacArthur Park — she could not help but think of how different her own life had turned out and how her parents' racially motivated decision might have impacted both of them.
As she contrasted her life with Ms. Smith's, Ms. Roost said she believed that without having to face racism, her family was able to do well financially, allowing her to get a college education and stable jobs. It felt like white privilege, she said.
Yet she also realized that her assumptions about Ms. Smith's life did not fully ring true.
"When I found out she had been adopted by a black family, I assumed her life probably wasn't as good as mine," Ms. Roost said.
But Ms. Roost has endured her own tumultuous times, despite enjoying the overseas vacations and luxe Christmas parties that her family's wealth afforded her. A family member sexually assaulted her. With her parents divorced by the time she was 10, her relationship with her father grew distant and her mother's alcoholism complicated their relationship.
"You can look at it and think, 'Oh, the white child probably had the better childhood in this ritzy, tony suburb,'" Ms. Roost said. "But then again, peel it back a layer and you'll see it was a horrible childhood."
Had she experienced Ms. Roost's childhood, Ms. Smith said, she very well might have slid into drug addiction more quickly.
Those possibilities, however, are of little consolation to Mr. Sandberg, the man who refused to keep a girl because of the color of her skin.
"It was a tough decision and I did feel guilty," he said. "I'm ashamed of myself. I don't know whether I made the right decision or the wrong decision. As I look now, in this day and age, I feel that I was wrong."
When he met Ms. Smith two years ago for the first and only time at a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., she ran toward him and they embraced.
"Thank you so much," Ms. Smith recalled whispering in his ear.
He asked why she was thanking him.
"'I don't know if you've battled with this through the years, but you did the right thing,'" Ms. Smith recalled telling him, adding that he seemed visibly relieved. "I watched 50 years worth of guilt and shame roll off of him."
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Worship: For Heaven's Sake Thorny ground hearers, according to Matthew, Mark and Luke, are those who allow the cares of this world, along with its deceitful riches and pleasures to choke out the Word of Life. In such cases, no fruit of the Spirit can be brought to perfection.
"Cares, riches, pleasures, all are used by Satan in playing the game of life for the human soul. The warning is given, 'Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.' 1 John 2:15, 16. He who reads the hearts of men as an open book says, 'Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life.' Luke 21:34. And the apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit writes, 'They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil; which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.' 1 Timothy 6:9, 10." {COL 55.2}
"Grace can thrive only in the heart that is being constantly prepared for the precious seeds of truth. The thorns of sin will grow in any soil; they need no cultivation; but grace must be carefully cultivated. The briers and thorns are always ready to spring up, and the work of purification must advance continually." {COL 50.4}
We must take the time to spend with God to develop and cultivate the fruit of the Spirit, says Pastor Flemons. The heart must be kept under the control of God. And the Holy Spirit must be allowed to work unceasingly to refine and ennoble the character. Only through this unceasing work of the Holy Spirit can we reflect the perfect image of Christ.
[For additional details, please read Matthew 13:7, 22; Mark 4:18,19; Luke 8:14; Christ's Object Lessons, COL 50-55; and Galatians 5:19, 20. And listen to the recording to hear the commentary of Pastor Flemons, who sang Hymn 495, "Near to the Heart of God."]
Worship: For Health's Sake Shelem Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, referring to the Bible says that there is always a cause for the curse or disease, or it would not come. Modern medicine often categorizes diseases as idiopathic, meaning that the cause is unknown. But the Bible, through King Solomon and Job, tells us that we must know and search out the cause. (Read Proverbs 26:2; Job 29:16.)
These two principles must be applied to recover from any disease, says Pastor Flemons. This is how we cooperate with God for healing. He says that reviewing the laws of health will help us both trace and identify the cause.
"Disease is an effort of nature to free the system from conditions that result from a violation of the laws of health. In case of sickness, the cause should be ascertained. Unhealthful conditions should be changed, wrong habits corrected. Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system." {MH 127.1}
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Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days. (Also read Conflict and Courage, CC 33.)
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The 5-Minute Meditation Challenge
Meditating is hard work for me. There, I said it. Whew! So, happy to get that off of my ego mind's "What the heck, I'm a 15-year yogini who teaches for God's sake and should be an expert meditator by now!" shoulders. But, now that I've confessed, I feel like I can better offer up a tip or two to my family, friends, and students on how to sit still, because we're all in this together!
This idea of stillness and finding a physical and mental place to quiet the mind and find clarity is difficult for many of us to grasp when our lives are filled with teaching multiple yoga classes, cooking up breakfast, lunch and dinner for a teenager, the guy you love and clients, blogging, workshops, retreats, cleaning house, New York City,… Wait! Ok, so that's my bit of craziness, but you get the drift. It's tough. But, meditation/stillness/whatever you want to call it is absolutely, positively, without a doubt a necessary part of the yoga practice. Who doesn't want ease and peace?
"Ok, I get it. Meditation rocks. So how do I get there, Tracye?", you ask. Well, I'm definitely no guru, but I can share what's working for me and maybe something might resonate with you.
Decide to practice
Meditating takes practice. It goes right along with showing up with our Lulu's, fancy customized mat, and even fancier coconut water to turn ourselves inside and out like pretzels. You have to show up and practice. So, set aside (and I mean schedule it, like with an alarm on your phone or something) a time during the day, preferably first thing in the morning, when the powers-that-be say that our minds are the most open. Find a place that affords you the most quiet and the least distractions. Three days a week, I meditate in the steam room at one of my studios. Whatever it takes!
Breathe in, breathe out, and let it flow
Here's the really hard part. Let go. Let go of what you think meditation is supposed to look like, what you're supposed to or not supposed to think about. Just begin. Find an easy seat, close your eyes and begin to breathe. There's no need for any fancy yoga breath. Just breathe. Decide to let whatever comes to mind come. No judgement if you start thinking about how badly you suck at meditating. Just let the thoughts come and go. Breathe in. Breathe out. See what happens.
Take 5
I sat and watched a guy meditate in Central Park last summer for, well, forever! I thought, "Man! That's how you get it done." Not so for this gal at this point in my practice, it would seem. You might be thinking, I'm good for 5-minutes max. Ok, then start there. Get yourself a timer or alarm. Sometimes, I grab the $7.99 Duane Reade kitchen timer I use to bake bread. Hey, whatever works. The ticking actually becomes a form of mantra sometimes for me. Take the 5-Minute Meditation Challenge. Just sit, for 5-minutes each day for two weeks. It's a start and we have to start somewhere. You might actually be surprised. That 5-minutes might only be 1-minute one day (Hey! It's totally happened to me.) or you could find yourself in a 20-minute sit. You never know until you try.
It works
There are a myriad of facts that support the benefits of meditation i.e. stress relief, better sleep, nicer, etc. It just works. Give it a try. I'll be sending you "be still" vibes!
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Before I reported about the pros of the Llobe City II but as with all new gadgets there are cons too. I only have the bike or EPAC/pedelec for 2 days but there are things I am not happy with. Don´t misunderstand me I love it more everyday but the designers could have done some things better in the points listed below.
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I´ll try to get in every con in detail so everybody will understand what I mean.