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The Korantranslated by J.M. Rodwell Major Quran translation from the 19th century. MOHAMMED was born at Mecca in A.D. 567 or 569. His flight (hijra) to Medina, which marks the beginning of the Mohammedan era, took place on 16th June 622. He died on 7th June 632.THE Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new phase of human thought and a fresh type of character. It first transformed a number of heterogeneous desert tribes of the Arabian peninsula into a nation of heroes, and then proceeded to create the vast politico-religious organisations of the Muhammedan world which are one of the great forces with which Europe and the East have to reckon to-day.The secret of the power exercised by the book, of course, lay in the mind which produced it. It was, in fact, at first not a book, but a strong living voice, a kind of wild authoritative proclamation, a series of admonitions, promises, threats, and instructions addressed to turbulent and largely hostile assemblies of untutored Arabs. As a book it was published after the prophet's death. In Muhammed's life-time there were only disjointed notes, speeches, and the retentive memories of those who listened to them. To speak of the Koran is, therefore, practically the same as speaking of Muhammed, and in trying to appraise the religious value of the book one is at the same time attempting to form an opinion of the prophet himself. It would indeed be difficult to find another case in which there is such a complete identity between the literary work and the mind of the man who produced it.That widely different estimates have been formed of Muhammed is well-known. To Moslems he is, of course, the prophet par excellence, and the Koran is regarded by the orthodox as nothing less than the eternal utterance of Allah. The eulogy pronounced by Carlyle on Muhammed in Heroes and Hero Worship will probably be endorsed by not a few at the present day. The extreme contrary opinion, which in a fresh form has recently been revived by an able writer, is hardly likely to find much lasting support. The correct view very probably lies between the two extremes. The relative value of any given system of religious thought must depend on the amount of truth which it embodies as well as on the ethical standard which its adherents are bidden to follow. Another important test is the degree of originality that is to be assigned to it, for it can manifestly only claim credit for that which is new in it, not for that which it borrowed from other systems.Another important merit of Rodwell's edition is its chronological arrangement of the Suras or chapters. As he tells us himself in his preface, it is now in a number of cases impossible to ascertain the exact occasion on which a discourse, or part of a discourse, was delivered, so that the system could not be carried through with entire consistency. But the sequence adopted is in the main based on the best available historical and literary evidence; and in following the order of the chapters as here printed, the reader will be able to trace the development of the prophet's mind as he gradually advanced from the early flush of inspiration to the less spiritual and more equivocal rle of warrior, politician, and founder of an empire.
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I am a naturopathic medical doctor focusing on treating women's health issues with homeopathy. My new medical practice called Nourish Natural Medical Center in Tempe, AZ has just opened for business as a partnership with my dear friend and colleague Dr. Carrie Rittling, NMD.
It has been my dream to start a practice that incorporates my belief in the body's ability to heal when given the right tools, along with a warm, fuzzy and relaxing feel; a place where women can come and HEAL, inside and out, top to bottom. As everyone knows, when the lady of the house is not feeling well, everyone else in the household easily becomes out of balance as well.
Women do it all. They tend to take on everyone's everything on top of their own work, mothering, cleaning, cooking, exercise, and pets, all while trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle for them and their families.
This is my passion: to keep you in balance and to help you rid yourself of any issues that keep you from ruling your world to the best of your ability.
How did this become my passion? It started when I moved to Arizona from Chicago to attend ASU. While there, I started down the track of pre-med. Something did not feel totally right, but I could not put my finger on why. It was during this time, that I met a Naturopathic Doctor. He told me how he differed from the traditional medical doctor and I was completely hooked. It was just this piece that I was missing from medicine – how to help the body do what it already knows how to do! Healing people without drugs and surgery felt like it was some kind of miracle and I wanted to know everything about it. I began to see a Naturopathic Doctor who specifically used homeopathic treatments and in 1 month had healed my lifelong insomnia. It was at this time I knew I not only needed to be a Naturopathic Doctor, but I needed to employ the use of homeopathy in my practice.
After undergrad at ASU, I completed four years of medical school at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences passing both sets of board exams, and accepted the family practice residency at SCNM. During this time, homeopathy was a specific focus in my treatment plans and I was fortunate to be trained by my mentor Dr. Stephen Messer, ND in addition to further training by Dr. Andre Saine's conferences in Montreal. After my residency completed, Dr. Messer created a second year homeopathic residency sponsored by Standard Homeopathics, which was the first of its kind in the United States. I was lucky enough to get accepted for that residency and get an additional year of training one-on-one with Dr. Messer.
After the conclusion of the second year of residency, I was fortunate to join an existing naturopathic practice at the Arizona Natural Health Center with some of the other most highly trained homeopaths in the country. Maintaining my relationship with SCNM, I also taught homeopathy and ran homeopathic-based shifts at the Student Clinic as well as doing research on homeopathic products. It was while practicing at ANHC that I developed my passion for treating women's health. In particular, I specialize in treating fertility issues, pregnancy concerns and post-partum care. After practicing at ANHC for seven years, it was time to realize my dream and open Nourish Natural Medical Center with Dr. Carrie Rittling, who also uses homeopathic medicine in her pediatric focused practice. It was a perfect match.
At some point in all of this I found and married the light of my life and live with him and my two dogs in Chandler, Arizona. My favorite thing to do really, is goof off with my husband, but I also love to read, relax in the sun, hike, yoga, cook and go camping. I also love the Arizona spring time, it is my favorite time of year. I love the blooming smells, spring training, outdoor yoga and hiking weather. Since my native town is Chicago, I still love the Chicago sports teams and follow them all as well, Go Bears!


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Gingrich's 'Bain bomb' fizzles
The "Bain bomb" is full of wet fuses.
We've been keeping regular track of claims made about Mitt Romney's business history over at our Mitt Meter, but today's video "documentary" from the Gingrich-affiliated Winning Our Future PAC requires its own post. The ominous music, deep-voiced narrator and tales of worker woe were all to be expected. But I also thought that the video would get most of its basic facts correct (and then cover them in innuendo). I was wrong.
The video titled When Mitt Romney Came to Town discusses several Bain Capital companies that eventually went bankrupt or were shut down. What follows is a series of errors:
UniMac was a Marianna, Fla.-based laundry equipment manufacturer that had been around for more than 50 years. A former worker is quoted in the video as saying: "They pulled everybody together and told us we were being sold to Raytheon, which in turn turned out to be Bain." The worker adds that quality control was sacrificed, saying: "I just wish they'd left us alone in the early 90s… at the end they just decided to shut the doors."
The reality, however, is that Raytheon (RTN) and Bain weren't the same thing. And Bain wasn't involved in the early 1990s. Raytheon agreed to purchase UniMac in 1994, and later merged it into a broader commercial laundry unit that also included facilities in Wisconsin and Kentucky. Raytheon then sold that unit four years later to Bain Capital for $358 million, alongside another private equity firm.
Bain would then hold onto the company until December 2004, when it sold it to a Canadian pension system's private equity division for $450 million. The Florida plant and some others would close under the Canadian firm's stewardship, not under Bain's, in October 2005. Moreover, Romney left Bain Capital in 1999, although he retained a financial interest.
The UniMac section also quotes a NY Magazine story about Romney saying that his Bain colleagues had a "high disdain" for "sloppy" American workers. It insinuates that these were Romney's Bain Capital colleagues working on UniMac, but it actually referred to Bain & Co. consultants from decades earlier.
KB Toys
"Romney and Bain bought the 80 year-old company in 2000." Again, Romney left Bain in 1999 and had no operational role thereafter. It is true that he remained an investor, but so did dozens of university endowments, private foundations and pension systems. None of them played a part in Bain's investment decisions or portfolio company management.
The video also plays a video of Romney speaking at Emory University in 2010, and suggests that he refers to the ultimate failure of KB Toys as "creative destruction." This is taken completely out of context. Romney's Emory comment was pulled from a 45-minute interview that never once mentioned KB Toys. Instead, he was discussing broader economic productivity issues.
DDI Corp.
The video discusses the DDI Corp., a printed circuit board maker that Bain first acquired (alongside several other PE firms) in 1996. It suggests that "Romney and Bain" began firing DDI employees just before taking it public, including 275 Colorado workers. Again, there is a timing problem. Those Colorado employees were let go in early 2000, after Romney left Bain. The IPO also occurred after Romney had left.
The filmmakers later acknowledge that Romney had left Bain prior to the IPO, but then use a 13D filing to "prove otherwise." Fortune has reviewed the filing, which does place Romney on the management committee of a Bain fund that controlled DDI shares. Bain has insisted, however, that Romney had no operational role at Bain after leaving — with a source telling Fortune that Romney's departure for the Olympic Games was hasty, and that the fund management committee listing was just a legacy signatory role that involved no actual decision-making capabilities.
More importantly, DDI didn't file for bankruptcy until two years after its IPO, and two years after Bain had already sold all of its shares. The video insinuates that Bain knew the company was in trouble when it "dumped" its shares in 2001, but gives no evidence to support its claim.
To be clear, none of this is to suggest that Romney and Bain didn't make some very real mistakes, or that they shouldn't be criticized for situations in which they profited from financial engineering rather than from company growth. But the Winning Our Future PAC goes beyond that, intentionally obscuring the record in a way that makes such honest discussions more difficult. And for that, Winning Our Future deserves some scorn of its own.
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The Labour Front was a political party in Singapore. It was founded before the 1955 legislative council elections by David Saul Marshall, Singapore's first chief minister in 1955 and Lim Yew Hock, Singapore's second chief minister. A centre-left grouping, the Labour Front won the 1955 legislative elections and began to form a coalition government for Singapore, which at that time was a separate crown colony. It had won 10 of 25 elected seats in the legislative council.
Between 1955 and 1956, after sending two bi-partisan delegations to London for talks with the British, David Marshall's administration failed to gain approval from Britain for self-government in Singapore. David Marshall, taking responsibility for this failure, resigned in 1956 and soon went to form the Workers' Party of Singapore the following year. Critics believed that the British were not convinced of David Marshall's ability to govern Singapore well and to deal with the then rising threat of insurgency carried out in the name of communism. Marshall's more hardline stance in dealing with the underground Communist movement was only counterproductive. He was succeeded by Lim Yew Hock.
The Lim Yew Hock government did not fare any better. Apart from the threat of the underground Communist movements, Singapore faced problems in public order, poor economy, poor housing and sanitation, low living standards and corruption in the government. The then-opposition People's Action Party (PAP), led by Lee Kuan Yew, grilled the Labour Front government several times on these issues in parliamentary sessions. Later the majority of the Labour Front led by Lim Yew Hock, left the Labour Front to merge with the Liberal Socialists (formed by the Progressive Party and Democratic Party in 1956) to form the Singapore People's Alliance (SPA) in 1959.
In 1957 and 1958, two bi-partisan delegations successfully negotiated Singapore's status to be a self-governing state. Under the new constitution, the general elections of 1959 were held and the SPA composed of former Labour Front members suffered a rout, losing to the PAP. The PAP had won 43 of 51 seats in the parliament with a popular vote of 53% and had campaigned on an anti-colonialist platform with an ambition to initiate several reforms, improve the economy and living standards of the people and to eradicate corruption in the government. The SPA lost power and was reduced to only a handful of seats in opposition. By 1963, the SPA failed to win a single seat and after Singapore became independent in 1965, the SPA was dissolved.
The last remnant of the Labour Front contested with the 1959 elections separately from the SPA, but it was a very small percentage of the original party and eventually faded from existence.


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GreenCentre Partners with Maratek Environmental to Commercialize Novel Solvent Recovery Solutions
GreenCentre Canada and Maratek Environmental Inc. are pleased to announce an agreement to commercialize unique technology solutions for the recovery of industrial solvents.
Industrial solvents are used in the chemical industry to produce a wide variety of products, including paints, printing inks, coatings, and plastics. Recycling takes the used, dirty solvents and converts them to pure form so they can be reused—mitigating their environmental impact and reducing the need for their disposal by incineration or landfill.
Under this agreement, GreenCentre will work with Maratek to address key challenges in the solvent recovery industry. GreenCentre will provide chemistry expertise and access to novel technologies developed at Canadian academic institutions while Maratek will design, engineer, manufacture, and distribute equipment based on these technologies. Maratek will also provide insight into existing industrial challenges faced by its clients and the industry in general.
"GreenCentre is very pleased to have the opportunity to partner with a leading Ontario provider of solvent recycling equipment and services," said Pete Pigott, Executive Director of GreenCentre Canada. "Maratek's equipment manufacturing capabilities and distribution channels makes it an ideal partner for GreenCentre to commercialize exciting Canadian academic technologies. Keeping the economic benefits of these technologies within Canada, and specifically Ontario, is a key goal of GreenCentre's commercialization strategy."
An industrial challenge first addressed in this collaboration is the removal of water from solvents. This drying of solvents is a key requirement for the reuse of industrial solvents, which is currently addressed by energy intensive distillation or expensive molecular sieve technologies. GreenCentre and Maratek are collaborating to commercialize novel drying agents developed by Prof. Philip Jessop at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. This technology, based on a "switchable" polymer material, absorbs water from solvents when exposed to CO2. Removal of the CO2 displacement triggers water release and the ability to reuse the drying agents.
"Maratek is very pleased to have access to the extensive capabilities of GreenCentre, and its university network base of contacts, in order to speed up the development and commercialization phases of our product development strategies," adds Mr. Colin Darcel, President of Maratek.


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Growing up, my parents collected unique chess sets that they found throughout their travels. Though I haven't carried the tradition along in my own family, I've always been intrigued and charmed by the many, many forms a chess set can take. I'm particularly fond of this minimal, cherry and maple wood set from Lanier Graham, designed in 1966. I love how it reduces the pieces to such basic forms and symbols; it's no wonder that it resides in the MoMA's permanent collection! Luckily for us, it's re-emerged and is available for purchase. I may just have to get one!
Chess Set by Lanier Graham available from the MoMA Store: $65 / $52 for Members
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Trump's 100 days: India can expect surprises
During his campaign, Donald Trump only spoke well of two world leaders - India's Modi and Russia's Putin. But his policies in office over the 100 days he's been president have been too uncertain to determine what the US-India relationship might be like on his watchcolumns Updated: Apr 28, 2017 19:46 IST
Since this is the season of the Indian Premier League, a slapdash analogy is timely: Imagine a batsman during a 20-overs encounter. While the strokes may at times appear scintillating, such an innings is forged with not one, but many elements of risk.
The innings that is being played out by US President Donald Trump, now at the 100-day mark, is just that – unconventional and haphazard. Commentators haven't been overly impressed nor the purists bowled over.
The easy part came early with a flurry of executive orders for which he fielded few restrictions, other than judicial blocks to efforts at stemming immigrant traffic from seven Muslim nations. The follow-on has been more challenging. Those, though, were largely domestic concerns that do not redound upon the world, unless it's the case of a government neighbouring the US like Mexico, and increasingly, Canada.
But, whether it's with the mother of all bombs unloaded along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border or the strafing of a Syrian airfield, Trump's recent actions are hitting closer home.
New Delhi will pay attention to how this plays out. During his election campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just about the only foreign leader to receive praise from candidate Trump, other than Russian President Vladimir Putin. But a little over three months since Trump occupied the White House, the early calculations haven't quite added up.
There is the concern over protectionism, that aspect which involves work visas like the coveted H1B and its impact on Indian majors in the IT-services sector and their operations in the US. Coupled with the Trump effect of racist of attacks on Indian-Americans, including one that turned murderous, this initial phase has been one of a phobia that's causing students and tourists to skirt the States.
Following the original contacts between India and the Trump transition team, there was optimism that a US-Russia rapprochement could wean Moscow away from its growing appetite for things Chinese. Instead, the chill has returned and the Kremlin appears to be reacting to this White House with the same cold shoulder it showed to the Barack Obama Administration. Meanwhile, North Korea's latest missile-rattling has seen Trump courting China's President Xi Jinping. From tirades to trading plaudits has been a short hop. All of this is occurring as the United States lacks an ambassador in New Delhi.
The American president has displayed a penchant not just for pivoting but pirouetting, making the task of international interlocutors one that is head-spinning. Trump is essaying an innings that changes course regularly, making it hazardous for those attempting to keep track to predict form. It may well have caused enough head-scratching to create permanent follicular damage.
The Trump presidency so far is one where we are uncertain as to what the boundaries are.
The current bilateral arrangement may not be deep sixed, but the predictable volatility of the Trump doctrine may cause many hair-raising days ahead.
Anirudh Bhattacharyya is a Toronto-based commentator on American affairs
The views expressed are personal
First Published: Apr 28, 2017 16:07 IST


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LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canada's Governor General is sending an image of a mascot into space in order to promote a project closer to home.
David Johnston will be getting a little help from astronaut Chris Hadfield when he blasts off into space next year, and will carry a flag with the image of the mascot for EduZone.
Hadfield is scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in late 2012 for a six-month stay and he's been collecting items he can bring along for the trip.
During space missions, astronauts can take with them a certain number of objects from various organizations.
Hadfield will be carrying a small flag with an image of "Eddy," a yellow lion which serves as mascot of EduZone.
That's an online educational tool for teachers and students to be launched in fall 2012 on the Governor General's website. It will provide lessons and interactive exercises about the role and responsibilities of the governor general.
During a video conference Wednesday from the Canadian Space Agency near Montreal, Johnston showed off the small symbol to Hadfield, who was in Houston at the time.
The Governor General made several stops in and around Montreal during a one-day visit Wednesday.
One of the highlights of his visit was to officially reopen a clock tower, which has been an iconic fixture of Montreal's Old Port since 1922, with new lighting.
Johnston noted that it was originally built to commemorate the bravery and sacrifice of sailors in Canada's merchant marine during the First World War.


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District 9400, Magoebaskloof, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
2010 marked the year of the amalgamation of District 9250 and 9300 into a new District 9400. The Magoebaskloof RYLA committee is committed to deliver quality RYLA programs to cater for various age groups within the new District. The RYLA program is certainly one of the most exciting Rotary programs for any club to be involved in. The RYLA program gives clubs the opportunity to directly influence and develop the youth. Sponsoring young leaders of the community to take part in this new advanced RYLA program is an opportunity to introduce Rotary to prospective new members. We urge you to support the District Magoebaskloof RYLA programs.
The D9400 Magoebaskloof RYLA committee will arrange a bus to collect RYLA participants in Pretoria. There will be an additional cost of R450pp to be paid upfront if you choose to make use of this service. Participants who have not paid will not be allowed to get onto the bus, as they will not be booked for. The bus waits for nobody and will leave Doornkloof Mall on the Thursday at 11am sharp. Participants will be dropped off on the Sunday at 5pm at the Doornkloof Mall again. If you wish to make use of this please contact Rowena: email@example.com
RYLA in Magoebaskloof
This RYLA Camp in Magoebaskloof is an official sanctioned D9400 RYLA and takes place at the District RYLA Basecamp in Magoebaskloof. It has been designed to create a structured environment with a balanced mix between outdoor activities and indoor presentations. Topics are tailored to age groups in attendance, but all programs emphasize leadership skills, personal development, emotional development and citizenship. The focus is on experiential learning where participants have the opportunity to break away from the normal classroom environment and learn through various physical and outdoor games and processes.
It is important for the RYLA committee to develop an accurate contacts database of each clubs youth officers. Please assist us by sending us your Club Officers contact details that is directly responsible for the youth programs and activities in your club. You can send all contact details to firstname.lastname@example.com
RYLA April 2015 Magoebaskloof Limpopo
Age group: 12 to 19
Dates: 16th 19th April 2015
Times: Arrival 1600hrs on Thursday. Departure 1100hrs on Sunday
Costs: R1 000, 00 per participant.
Contact: Rowena Viljoen 083 737 2892 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Maximum of 120 participants
Venue: District 9400 RYLA Base Camp (Magoebaskloof)
RYLA September 2015 Magoebaskloof Limpopo
Age group: 12 to 19
Dates: 3rd 6th September 2015
Times: Arrival 1600hrs on Thursday. Departure 1100hrs on Sunday
Costs: R1 000, 00 per participant.
Contact: Rowena Viljoen 083 737 2892 e-mail: email@example.com
Maximum of 120 participants
Venue: District 9400 RYLA Base Camp (Magoebaskloof)
Who should attend?
- All exchange students (both inbound and outbound) are welcome to attend at the cost of their D9400 Rotary Club (not compulsory).
- Interactors and Rotaractors.
- Secondary school students (Leaders should be identified).
- Young leaders in your community (Perfect opportunity to develop new members and to promote Rotary as a vibrant organisation to belong to.)
The Magoebaskloof RYLA committee would like to extend an invitation to all clubs of the new District 9400 to support your district RYLA programs and make a contribution to the development of our future leaders. Feel free to contact us, should you need to discuss the District RYLA programs in more details or should you need any assistance in this regard.
It is the responsibility of each club to deliver and collect their students.
Students are to be delivered between 15:00 and 16:00 on the Thursday and collected at 11:00 on the Sunday. Please check the kit list and ensure that participant is informed of what to bring with Payments.
Banking Details:
Bank Name: Standard Bank
Branch code: 052 749
Acc Name: Warriors Rotaract Club
Acc type: Cheque
Acc Number: 030460050
Reference code: RYLA and name of applicant. Club Name (very important)
On the proof of payment indicate name of club and RYLA
PLEASE THIS IS NECESSARY so that deposits can be correlated with enrolment forms. The following must be faxed or e-mailed to me at 086 672 2567, or E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com for attention Rowena.
- Application Form signed by parent/guardian AND club representative.
- Proof of payment with student particulars
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We have studied that the energy changes always occur during the chemical reactions. Depending upon the evolution or absorption of energy, the chemical reactions can be classified into two categories: exothermic and endothermic.
The chemical reactions which proceed with the evolution of heat energy are called exothermic reactions. The heat energy produced during the reaction is indicated by writing +q or more precisely by giving the actual numerical value along with products. In general, exothermic reactions may be represented as:
A + B à C + D + q ( heat energy)
The heat evolved is expressed in the units of Joules (J) or kilo Joules (kJ).
Most of the reactions that we carry out in laboratory are processes carried out at constant temperature and constant pressure, the heat evolved is equal to enthalpy change (ΔH). In exothermic reactions, the enthalpy of products (ΣH p) becomes less than the enthalpy of reactants (ΣHR). Therefore, the enthalpy change for exothermic reaction is negative.
As ΣH p < ΣHR
ΔH = -ve
For example, formation of one mole of water from hydrogen and oxygen gases is accompanied by the evolution of 286.0 kJ of heat. It can be expressed as:
H2(g) + O2(g) à H2O(l) + 286.0 kj
or H2 (g) + O2 (g) à H2O (l) ;ΔH = -286.0 KJ
The chemical reactions which proceed with the absorption of heat energy are called endothermic reactions. The heat energy absorbed during the reaction can be indicated by writing +q (or the actual numerical value) with the reactants. It can be indicated by writing -q (or the actual numerical value) with the products. In general, an endothermic reaction can be represented as:
A + B + q (heat) à C + D
Or A + B à C + D – q (heat)
where q is the heat absorbed.
When, endothermic reaction is carried out at constant temperature and constant pressure, the heat absorbed increases the enthalpy of the products. In such a case the enthalpy change of the reaction is positive.
ΔH = ΣHP – ΣHP , As ΣHP > ΣHP
ΔH = + ve
For example, decomposition of 2 moles of mercuric oxide a constant temperature and pressure proceeds with the absorption of 180.4 kJ of heat. It can be represented as:
2HgO (l) à Hg (L) + O2 (g) + 180.4 KJ
2HgO(s) à 2Hg(l) +O2 (g) ; ΔH = – 180.4 KJ


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Despite the evidence that led a jury to conclude that Michelle Byrom masterminded a plot to kill her husband, the fact that the former lounge dancer may now face execution "just feels wrong," former Mississippi Supreme Court justice Oliver Diaz has written.
In 2000, Ms. Byrom was convicted of capital murder for a role in the death of Edward Byrom Sr., sending her to Mississippi's death row. Two co-defendants, including her son, Edward Byrom Jr., the triggerman, received less than 10 years in prison after they agreed to become witnesses for the state.
Now, as the execution looms, Mississippi faces a choice that critics contend could reflect on the US justice system more broadly: Should the state execute a woman said to have mental illness and an abusive past who, as Jackson (Miss.) Free Press columnist Ronni Mott opined, "did not commit the crime she's convicted of"?
Mississippi has not executed a woman in 70 years.
To prosecutors and judges in the state, Byrom's conviction is based on facts and confessions that come to one conclusion: She was an angry, bitter spouse who wanted her husband out of the way so she could cash a life insurance policy.
To critics, however, the courts have failed to halt a travesty. Wrapped up in the last-minute legal wrangling over Byrom's fate are society's changing views of abused women, questions about the effectiveness of appeals courts in ferreting out injustice, and general queasiness about the execution of women.
"If you read Mississippi's briefs in this case, and if you read the rulings of the state and federal courts that have defended this reedy result, you come to an inescapable conclusion: the state, and the judiciary, don't want to go back and look at what is under the rock of this case," writes Andrew Cohen of The Atlantic, in an in-depth look at the legal proceedings over the years.
Despite a series of appeals that point out troubling problems with how the trial was handled, state and federal appellate judges have upheld the verdict.
Mississippi's attorney general, Jim Hood, requested a March 27 execution date for Byrom, who is in her late 50s. Such dates have to be approved by the state Supreme Court, but on Thursday, it did not give approval, with no explanation.
Mr. Hood subsequently commented that such a response by the court usually means it will hear motions about the case. Byrom has been pleading for a hearing to introduce new evidence.
The main problem with the case, critics say, is that Byrom received poor counsel during the trial, including the decision by defense attorneys to exclude psychiatrist Keith Caruso. He said in a post-trial affidavit that he would have testified that Byrom was "psychologically unable to leave the abusive relationship with her husband."
Dr. Caruso, as well as a psychologist, has also judged Byrom to be mentally ill, and they testified in affidavits about her being violently and sexually abused as a child.
Critics, including Mr. Diaz, who dissented from the Mississippi Supreme Court's ruling on the case, have also said that Byrom's confession seems coerced, playing on a mother's instinct to defend her offspring. "[D]on't leave [Edward Byrom Jr.] hanging out here to bite the big bullet," the local sheriff told Ms. Byrom during an interrogation. She replied: "I will take all the responsibility. I'll do it."
Meanwhile, Byrom's current defense points to the fact that her son confessed four times to the crime, saying in one letter to his mom, "I did it."
In a letter that the judge in the case knew about, but which was never shown to the jury, the son wrote: "Mom I'm gonna tell you right now who killed Dad 'cause I'm sick and tired of all the lies. I did, and it wasn't for money, it wasn't for all the abuse, it was because I can't kill myself."
Other things only cursorily introduced at trial – about mental illness and abuse as a child – have not been deemed significant enough by appellate courts to warrant a new trial. In 2006, the state Supreme Court, in a 5-to-3 decision, ruled that her defense's performance in the trial "did not prejudice" her case.
Upholding Byrom's conviction in 2013, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that, though mistakes were made at trial, the original "trial court considered all of Byrom's mitigating evidence and simply determined that it did not overcome the aggravating circumstances also deemed present."
On Feb. 24, the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case, prompting Hood to move forward with plans for her execution.


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Being a work at home mom (WAHM) is no small feat, it takes a lot of organization, late nights, and endurance. I started off as a simple freelance writer bringing in anywhere from $100-300 a month. I have since added a part time work at home job to my work load, and currently make about $1200 a month including the freelance writing gigs. Of course this is still not where I would like to be, but I am slowly growing my freelance writing business, as well as my skills as a writer. It is my goal to eventually bring in $8000 a month, so my husband will not have to work, but simply work because he chooses to do so. I know he would love more than anything to be a stay at home dad, or at the very least work part time and even possibly open his own restaurant one day.
As I do not currently make the money I would like, I have many ways of hustling in side cash, and for now that is my job. Bringing in extra money so that extras are covered and our debt can get paid down. Below are a few ways I bring in the extra cash between freelancing and other spare time activities.
Fiverr.com- I advertise my writing talents here and during the summer when I was really putting myself out there before the baby showed up I was making okay cash this way. The week before the baby arrived I brought in $100, I had only been on the site a month, and prior to that was able to bring in about another $100 over three weeks.
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Craigslist- This is going to sound weird, but I have a knack for finding awesome furniture pieces people are throwing out at the dumpsters around the apartments in my area. I clean them off and re-sell them on craigslist. This is also where I find some of my writing gigs. I even managed to get a regular contract with a company, by posting an ad offering my writing services. You just never know who might be reading, so though craigslist might seem fishy at times, it is a great place to pick up extra cash in a pinch.
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There is a special section in the recent Wired magazine that highlights their annual Wired World's Fair, aptly titled NextFest. There is one invention in particular that caught my eye—and my breath: the 6.5 foot tall AVX400 turbine made by AeroVironment, Inc.. It is not yet advertised on their site, but this Treehugger article explains it well. Here is a photo from Treehugger:
The AVX400 turbine has amazing potential: co-op communities in NYC could install these on the tops of apartment buildings, and it's not like they would be an eyesore, as most NYC apartment buildings are ugly to begin with. If the company manufactures and sells millions, it will only be a matter of time until custom-designed turbines are made that match the building's décor and the surrounding environment.
What it's really about is scale: chipping away at this problem little by little, one person or business at a time.
The possibilities are endless. What about solar power? One company, Solardyne, makes solar panels and other renewable energy equipment and high efficiency appliances, but cells are currently too expensive and the initial cost is off-putting for most middle class folks.
Personal waterpower could also prove valuable. There are hundreds of millions of homes around the world that could easily install personal hydropower (waterpower) turbines in small rivers. They could be designed in such a way as to not affect wildlife, and perhaps to be virtually invisible. For many folks, it's about whether these devices are eyesores or not. Although personally, I think transmission lines, power plants and smog are bigger eyesores, but hey—everyone has a different opinion.
Renewable energy devices could be attached to every single machine we own. In fact, many devices we use day-to-day already use this technology: solar-powered calculators, watches and clocks, laptop batteries, etc. Now we need to apply these ideas to everything else. What about solar cells that can be easily attached to your water heater? What if you live in an area where the wind and the sun are strong, so both types of power could offset each other?
I often wonder why scientists have not figured out a way of harnessing the lost energy of vehicular travel. With millions of cars traveling the highways, the least we could do is figure out a way of capturing every last bit of energy they release. Perhaps highways could be designed so that the constant pressure of cars and trucks could power stop lights. I am not an environmental scientist, and this seems tricky, but there has to be a way.
And what about health clubs? Every exercise machine should be rigged wth a Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator. Perhaps large health clubs could pay their electricity bill by retrofitting each machine with this device or something similar.
To some, these renewable energy devices might seem highly inconsequential, but we need to look at the big picture. It's about whole buildings and communities embracing this technology and chipping away at the problem little by little. If our government and others around the world will not tackle the global warming problem and our dependence on oil head-on, then it is time for all of us to take personal responsibility and fix this problem ourselves.
Unfortunately, most people don't even know that these devices exist. The public is not really educated about the potential of these inventions. Sure, we see an occasional article in the news, but usually there is some sort of negative tone attached to it that dissuades everyone from giving this a chance. Many of the papers, magazines and TV programs are in some way run by businesses that are somehow attached to the oil industry, so many amazing inventions never see the light of day. This is common: throughout history, great ideas have been bought and shelved or considered too strange to manufacture on a grand scale. Think Nikola Tesla.
It seems to me that if you put the power of the people behind renewable energy sources, they could really take off. In the end, it is all about cost, availability and personal responsibility. So far, only products like electric cars and solar-powered laptop batteries and calculators are mainstream. If families, individuals and small businesses could easily purchase affordable devices that would either offset or replace their reliance on the power grid, we might be on our way to a much less oil-based economy.


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1. Check the selling prices of comparable homes in your desired area. Web sites such as Zillow can give you a general idea of what you should expect to pay. You can also do a quick search of actual MLS listings in your area on a number of Web sites, including the site of the National Association of Realtors or by having one of our Teammates customize your profile in our database so you can start receiving automatic updates on new inventory, open houses, price changes with homes in your area, etc.
Better yet, this is one of the services all of our agents offer their clients as their buyer's agent. Our team will make sure you won't overpay!
2. See what you can afford. Use Bankrate's mortgage calculator to see what your payment would be. Of course, you'll only be able to get approximate numbers until you know the actual specifics of your transaction.
3. Find out what your total monthly housing costs would be, including taxes and homeowners insurance. To get a feel for the maximum amount you should spend, including taxes and insurance, use MSN Real Estate's home affordability calculator.
In some areas, what you'll pay for your taxes and insurance escrows can almost double your mortgage payment. According to the Insurance Information Institute, the average yearly premium can range from a few hundred dollars to several thousands. (The actual number will depend on whether you're purchasing a condo, single family, or multifamily home.)
Either way, have no fears: Team D&V can help you secure great homeowners insurance at an affordable cost! To get an idea of what you'll pay in insurance, pick a property in the area where you want to live and make a call to a local insurance agent for an estimate. You won't be obligated to get the insurance, but you'll have a good idea of what you'll pay if fast possible!
4. Find out how much you'll likely pay in closing costs. The up-front cost of settling on your home shouldn't be overlooked. Closing costs include origination fees charged by the lender, title and settlement fees, taxes and prepaid items such as homeowners insurance or home-owners association fees. You can see what closing costs average in your state by looking at Bankrate.com's annual closing cost survey.
Your lender should also be able to give you an accurate closing cost schedule… We can make some excellent recommendations for lenders as well. (Having an extensive network is both efficient and effective for clients – "who you know" in the Real Estate world absolutely matters!)
5. Look at your budget and determine how a house fits into it. Fannie Mae recommends that buyers spend no more than 28% of their income on housing costs. Go much past 30% and you risk becoming house poor. If you're a little "unsure" about how all these numbers compute, don't worry – this is yet again one of the things any of our agents can help you with.
6. Talk to reputable real-estate agents in your area about the real-estate climate. Ask them if they believe prices will continue leveling off or do they think the Boston/Metro-West area has hit bottom or will rise soon? What trends are impacting the community that you should know about? In 5, 10, 20 years+ what should you be thinking about when pertaining to resale value?
7. Remember to look at the big picture. While buying a house is a great way to build wealth, nurturing your investment can be labor-intensive and expensive. When unexpected costs for new appliances, roof repairs and plumbing problems arise, there's no landlord to turn to, and these costs can drain your bank account quickly.
As you can imagine, there is an onslaught of things to keep in mind as you begin the buying process. To help you strategize, goal-get, and maximize your return-on-investment as either a buyer or seller, we will be putting several blog posts so you will be the most informed buyer out there.
To the futures of your home-buying success,
Jamie Venezia
Owner/Agent, Team D&V Real Estate
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The Need
In the 2017-18 school year there were 2,663 K-12 homeless students in Washington county - of those, 552 are unaccompanied youth. On top of these numbers, there are many more youth who are disconnected from schools (and are therefore not counted), have left or graduated school, or are under the radar who also access support at HomePlate.
Top 3 school districts of homeless students in Oregon:
Beaverton School District: 1,799
Portland School District: 1,141
Medford School District: 1,164
Unaccompanied youth attend school but are not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian. Unaccompanied youth and children include young people who have been thrown out of their homes, have run away from home, or have been abandoned by their parents or guardians.
Suburban Poverty
Suburban neighborhoods weren't designed to respond to financial-crisis and low-income needs like the safety nets seen in urban centers. During the economic recession, middle class families, many struggling with foreclosures and job-loss, were with few resources. Youth in these families are sometimes struggling with their families, sleeping in cars or shelters; are asked to leave home to relieve their family of a financial obligation (see youth unemployment below); or experience incredible stress in their family unit which may cause concerns for safety. Across the nation, suburban communities are being confronted with the dire consequences of a limited social-service safety net.


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Coconut Chia Crunch Granola!
I've had tons of granola in my life.
It went from being a health food, to being a "no-no" food, to being a "high-carb" food, to just being off limits entirely unless it was completely only nuts and seeds without anything yummy on it.
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with organic and gluten-free whole grains.
In fact, I find them extremely delicious and wholesome! Not to mention filling and energizing.
This granola has no refined sugar or oils and is completely vegan and gluten free!
You can mix it in coconut (or dairy) yogurt, cereal, put it stop your smoothies, and your salads! It's crunchy and perfect.
3 cups organic rolled oats
1 cup organic raw buckwheat groats
1 cup flaked coconut
3/4 mixed dried fruit (I used Organic jumbo raisins)
1/2 cup cacao nibs
1/4 cup chia seeds
1/4 cup flax seeds
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1/3 cup Raw pumpkin seeds
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt
Wet ingredients:
1/4 cup organic raw coconut nectar (you can find this at a health store, but you could use honey or coconut sugar or maybe even maple syrup here)
2 tbsp coconut oil
1/4 cup canned light coconut milk
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
-Throw all those dry ingredients in a big mixing bowl. Don't be shy, do it!
-In the meantime, melt the coconut oil in a small cup in the microwave (or if you already have liquified coconut oil, skip this step duh)
-stir in the coconut milk to the melted coconut oil
-Pour the wet mixture over the dry and stir together. Yes. That's about all you're gonna do.
-Divide the mixture onto the two prepped cookie sheets and SPREAD THE MIXTURE FLAT!
-Bake for fifteen minutes (or until you can smell it!) then take out the cookie sheets, toss the granola, and reverse the racks. (Just switch the positioning of the two cookie sheets in the oven)
-Bake for 10-15 more minutes (keep an eye on the coconut, once it's a nice crispy tan, you're DONE)
-remove and turn off oven. Let coolCOMPLETELY (approximately 30 minutes)
-Once all is cooled, break apart granola into chunks (I like it chunky!) and place in your container or plastic bag! I froze half of mine because I can't eat like six cups of granola on my own. Lol!
-Consume within the week to ensure freshness!
AND YOU'RE DONE! How easy?! So easy.


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Lloyd Rees
(Australia 17 Mar 1895 – 02 Dec 1988)
recto: Nave of St Paul's Cathedral, London verso: Details of pilasters
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Lloyd Rees travelled to Europe several times, first in 1923-24 when he acquired a particular love of France and Italy and subsequently during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
In 1923 he travelled by ship to England, to join his first fiancée, sculptor Daphne Mayo who was furthering her studies there. Rees spent several months in London drawing and painting in St Paul's Cathedral and also drew from the model at the Chelsea Polytechnic. He travelled to Paris with Mayo and made visits to the villages of Kingsand and Cawsand in Devon and Cornwall. The drawings in this gift date from this first visit and include a group of studies of the interior of St Paul's Cathedral another of life drawings made at the Chelsea Polytechnic and a number of other architectural studies.
- Year
- (1923)
- Media
- Drawing
- Medium
- pencil and carbon pencil on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 23.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Alan & Jancis Rees, the artist's son and daughter-in-law 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Accession number
- 62.2014
- Copyright
- © A&J Rees. Licensed by Copyright Agency


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Happy New Year Everyone! I know it has been a while since I posted something, but I had to start some of those resolutions, you know, organizing, catching up with friends, more organizing and so on. 🙂 One of the things that I haven't been able to achieve, for myself, in years, was to finish projects in which I started. My mind goes into overdrive when I see any new project. I feel I have to take part in a project just to feel complete. But, this year, I think things will be different. For the first time this week I actually turned down a chance to learn a little about painting with oils. Now, I would love for the chance to experience it, but that means I have to get all the supplies and actually do something with them. Now add that to my love of pastels, watercolor, photography and creating silver jewelry AND what do you get? "Jack of all trades and master of none!!" It sounds cliché, but I find it to be a very true statement in my art world.
Above is a picture that someone took of my brother Mike. Yes, I actually created another picture in watercolor, but I was not happy with the outcome, so I felt the need to do it over in pastels. I absolutely love this picture. I feel it has a sense of depth with a lot of vibrancy. I also feel that I captured his "sense of wonder" in this picture…a thought provoking action I always see in my brother. To me, this picture by far shows some warmth and true emotion. Enjoy 2012 everyone!


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Here are 5 reasons why you humans should get a dog:
- Dogs do not care what you look like.
- Dogs make you get some exercise.
- Dogs do not correct your stories.
- Dogs do not criticise your driving.
- Dogs enjoy the way you sing.
What would you add to this list? I would love to hear what you think about my blog – leave me a comment on the blog, like me on facebook follow me on bloglovin' or twoof me @rubys_rambles on Twitter.
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With the Los Angeles Lakers getting trounced from the playoffs by the Oklahoma City Thunder Monday, talk of how LA will revamp for next season has already begun.
The Lakers are well over the salary cap and already traded away their 2012 first round draft pick to the Cleveland Cavaliers, which means their only avenue for improvement is trading one or both of their assets: Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol.
We can play around with trade scenarios forever, but the bottom line is this: the Lakers won't be an elite team again until they move on from the Kobe Bryant era and start anew.
It may sound ludicrous, but it's true.
Kobe may still play at an elite level, but his age, impatience and giant contract give LA zero flexibility.
The Lakers don't have the time to develop a young player like they did with Bynum, lest they want to anger their 34-year-old superstar.
And the current LA roster is in that weird in-between stage they found themselves in after the 80s Showtime teams got older and before Kobe, Shaq, and Phil Jackson teamed up a decade ago.
But trading away Bynum, Gasol or both means putting together another team on the fly.
Keep in mind, building a championship squad via free agency isn't exactly working in the NBA these days.
By doing that, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak would basically be guaranteeing more quick playoff exits in the years to come.
We're not suggesting they get rid of Kobe, that would lead to all out mutiny from fans.
We're merely pointing out the obvious: Kobe is too old to care about the future of this team and only lives in the now.
So the Lakers are stuck.
In a perfect world, the Lakers would build a young, athletic team around Bynum and be back in serious contention with the likes of OKC and Miami in a few years.
That won't happen any time soon, though.
Expect Gasol to be sent packing this offseason and for this team to continually have short-lived playoff appearances in the near future.


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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Stampin' Up! Butterfly Basics
I thought I'd share one of the cards we made last weekend at my event. I love these butterfly dies and we ended up using them on both of our projects. :) This one is my favorite! I love the combo of Strawberry Slush with Rich Razzleberry.
I'll share the second one on Tuesday and then see which is your favorite. I'm off to watch The Little Mermaid with the family.
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Obviously I think about Cloud Computing a substantial amount of my waking hours. Actually, I have for quite a while in one form or another. Personally, I'm very glad I finally have a name for these thoughts. I decided to review for my own sake, I have been asking myself some basic questions again. Good to help think things through.
What is Computing?
What is a Computer?
What is the Cloud?
What is a Cloud Computer?
What is Cloud Computing?
What is computer software?
What is a cloud computer application?
The seem like simple questions. But, they can create quite a lot of debate. My goal in this post isn't necessarily to answer all those questions explicitly, but to discuss what the act of asking myself those questions made me think.
It must be that cloud Computing happens on a Cloud Computer. But, what is a Cloud Computer? It's probably best to start with some kind of definition of what is a computer. "A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions."2 The manipulation of that data, programming, is essentially what we call computing. "Computing is usually defined like the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware and software."1 Without getting too fancy then, Cloud Computing might be considered the activity of using and developing computer technology, computer hardware, and software on a Cloud Computer.
A Computer is:
- Processing (CPU) - A Processor
- Transient Storage (RAM) - Sticks of Memory
- Persistent Storage (Disk) - Hard Disks
- Message Passing (Networking) - System Buses, etc.
- Input - Data
- Output -Data
A Cloud Computer is:
- Processing (CPU) - Compute Node (a whole computer virtual or physical)
- Transient Storage (RAM) - Distributed Memory Hash (like Memcached, Tangasol, etc)
- Persistent Storage (Disk) - Distributed Storage Node perhaps
- Message Passing - Ethernet, Internet, etc.
- Input - Data
- Output - Data
The cloud computer is not just hardware anymore. The individual pieces have been "virtualized." It is not bound to a single machine. It has become something more. I remember following a few Single System Image (SSI) projects like OpenMosix and OpenSSI for quite some time; both mothballed more or less I'd say. I'm often reminded of those when thinking about Cloud Computing. A cloud computer is essentially a virtual computer presented as software. There are Companies and individuals that are developing software, hardware, and services for Cloud Computers. Those people are developing cloud computing applications, systems, and more. There is a long history of similar type of technology that was not called cloud computing to which we have to pay homage. Cloud Computing has become the term we use for the mashup of techniques developed over decades. They have been called HPC, Utility Computing, Cluster Computing, Parallel Processing, Parallel computing, Grid Computing, SSI, Super Computing, The Internet, and much more.
There is a big difference between virtualizing a single computer and building a cloud computer. Although virtualization is a very important piece to be sure. Cloud Computers and the Cloud Computing Applications that run on them have a common set of two characteristics that I have noticed. They are, or at least aspire to be, elastic and also they aspire to be or are highly available. Elasticity3 is the ability to increase or decrease capacity on-demand or automatically. Being Highly Available3 implies explicitly that the the loss of any one software or hardware component of the systems overall architecture will not halt or severely degrade the service in question; like a CRM SaaS application running on a Cloud Computer. These problems of elasticity and availability are very hard problems to solve. No one is doing this perfectly today. But, I think a true Cloud Computer embodies those features probably. Not even Google, Amazon, or any others are 100% getting this right yet. But, I do believe we are getting very close and progressing very fast. Right now, writing applications for Cloud Computers is a very new thing and most applications are definitely not ready; although some are.
While at this point, it almost seems obvious to me. The act of Cloud Computing while made up of many things3 (using Cloud Computers) seems to be truly about just a couple of things. One, the freeing of computation itself from the confines of the single computer. Two, the democratization of large scale compute power via utility pricing models that effectively bring vast quantities of computing power within the reach of large numbers of people that could not access it before. Until very recently only large sovereign governments had access to the kind of compute power available today for relatively very little money. And it can be had on-demand. You can now rent massive capacity by discreet units of time and spin entire "data centers" up in minutes or days for bringing your idea to life, crunching your calculation in minutes instead of decades, or giving your organization a competitive advantage in your field by shifting resources effectively. That is a paradigm shift if ever there was one!
These are exciting times and in my mind, that makes Cloud Computers and Cloud Computing pretty important concept.
Oh, one last question. Does anyone happen to know the current non-biological computing capacity of the Solar System?
A Few Resources:
- WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing
- WikiPedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
- Get Your Head in the Clouds - http://www.productionscale.com/home/2008/4/24/cloud-computing-get-your-head-in-the-clouds.html
- Cloud Comptuing Ectropy and Other Thoughts... - http://www.productionscale.com/home/2008/7/13/cloud-computing-ectropy-and-other-thoughts-for-july-2008.html
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A photo Journalistic Journey for the sign of our times.
same sex coupleas this fall Virginia faces a Marriage referendum that will ban and deny any chance of same sex relationships and/or purhaps other kinds of unmarried partnerships the same rights of the legal union between a married man and woman.
Gays and lesbians in America are victimized in hate crimes twice as often as blacks, and numerous studies show these attacks are much more brutal than most assaults.
On the evening of May 15, 2006, the President made a very interesting speech. In fact I believe it was the first time I actually saw him take any kind of firm stand on the immigration issue.
Yes, the immigration issue, which has taken this country by the throat and has brought out concerns for our border security as well as becoming a growing political wedge issue , not to mention bringing racially based individuals out of the woodwork.
One of the groups who have taken up the immigration issue is the Minuteman Project. The Minuteman Project was started by Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox of California out of border and illegal immigrant concerns, yet, there has been much controversy on whether they are racist based or just an issue based organization.
(Chris Simcox below and Jim Gilchrist in photo on right)
They claim there is no racist based motivation for starting the group, yet they have had a tremendous struggle weeding out racists who have been attracted to volunteering for their movement.
So, with facing trouble from both racists and anti-racists, last spring, Simcox and Gilchrist had decided that they needed extra professional help with public relations, fundraising and the Gilchrist congressional campaign, so they signed on with the management group Diener Consulting, which is headed by Mr. Philip Louis Sheldon, Jr., the son of the Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition.
(Bill White, in Nazi uniform, crashes Minuteman Rally in DC)
Now, for those of you with a good memory, Phil Sheldon also operates Responseunlimited.net, which is an ideologically conservative mailing list service.
If this still does not ring a bell, let me remind you of the Terri Schiavo extravaganza, Diener and "Response Unlimited" with Phil Sheldon were the handlers of the public relations, the rallies, and the fund raising and in return have all the names and information of individuals who supported and gave to the Schindlers.
Much to their credit, Diener did help the Minutemen by giving the group a good professional polish. They hired and placed some experienced people from the DC area to handle some of their concerns and to help organize their rallies, lists and fundraising.
But, what people might not realize, as they were not aware of with the Terri Schiavo situation, is that when they signed up for the Minutemen they were also handing their personal information to be sold and used for profit by thousands upon thousands of conservative and Republican organizations and campaigns for bucks in the pockets of Mr. Phil Sheldon.
Now, really, this isn't unusual in the political world, but, the public should be aware that when they sign up for a cause they feel passionate about, where is their information and money going and how it is going to be used at a later time.
On the 15th of December 2005, due to some heated disagreements about using Diener as their public relations firm, Gilchrist and Simcox split up and parted ways.
Simcox is still signed with Diener and runs a Minuteman group called "Minuteman HQ/ Minuteman Civil Defense Corps", while Gilchrist with his own group which is called "The Minuteman Project".
Well, hope this has helped inform the public on the behind the scenes of this odd world of grassroot politics.
Until next post
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Designed another pool yesterday, pool house too, though it wasn't requested. Pool house along with decking & pool shapes were 'self-evident'. Also 'self-evident' was the master bedroom bay window becoming French doors leading to a new terrace flowing to the new pool.
Another meeting must take place after Pinterest boards have been exchanged.
That meeting will include: clients, pool contractor, general contractor, & me.
Pool, decking, & pool house dimensions will be lined/flagged on site.
And, the interior of the pool will be arranged along with color choices.
Ironically, choosing the pool's interior will take the most time.
Garden design is all about contrasts, and repetition, exactly why these umbrellas 'work'.
This client, above/below, spends a great deal of time in the Caribbean and wanted those colors. She also knew she wanted a rectangular pool, he wanted turf around the pool. After that, I was on my own.
Creating the curve, below, was inspired from their new kitchen with marble topped island in the same shape. Bulls-eye, there was the contrast.
More than choosing paint color, which you live with for years before changing, designing pools is a single shot.
Often, I'm not the 1st person designing the pool. That person typically works for a pool company.
My scope is from the center of the home to the property lines.
What does that mean in real life? The 1st pool designed was a Gilligan's-Island-Wig-Wam-Waterfall-Snaking River-Infinity Edge-Gobs of Stone-Trendiest Tiles of the Moment-Landed From Mars Behind the House entity.
Oddly, I've never worked a site needing that pool. Would love the chance ! Less the trendy tiles & horrible stone configurations, instead more of a lost- world- found-only-great-literature-can-describe.(Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Welty, Nabokov, Byatt, Austen, Forster, Woolf, honestly, why think small.)
Lawn, above, is not sickly, just has plenty of visits from the new puppy!
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Pics taken in client garden last month. We built the pool 2 years ago & are adding a perennial garden.
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Concentrations of hazardous substances close to natural levels
10.1 Characteristics of litter in the marine and coastal environment10.2 Impacts of litter on marine life
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Monitoring is to be carried out to fulfill assessment requirements of HELCOM ecological objectives that are specified through HELCOM core indicators. The requirements on monitoring can
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There is wide experience and data collected on beach litter, litter in the seafloor and fishing gear/lost fishing nets in the HELCOM area. Beach litter monitoring is seasonal and associated to clean-up activities. Seafloor litter collection is integrated to bottom trawling for fish stocks assessment, so therefore the selection of the sampling stations as well as frequency is associated to the casuistic of the species of interest. Finally, information provided from fishing for litter initiatives contributes to the assessment of the quality of the open water.
National monitoring is ongoing in several Contracting Parties, although no coordinated monitoring programme is in force.
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Looking out my kitchen window, there is a tree that I never really notice until autumn settles in. This time of year, the tree is brilliant, it's branches dangling with heavy, yellow fruit. Upon closer inspection, the vibrant yellow fruit is a far cry from it's fuzzy little green beginnings. One would think this is a pear tree but it is actually a quince tree. What does one do with a quince???
I pick a few and toss them into a bowl with plans of cooking them .... somehow as it is impossible to eat these raw. In the meantime, when I walk into the kitchen, they greet me with a fragrance of bittersweetness ...... a kind of honey and lemon combination.
I decide to cook the quince ... slowly ... in a pan with butter and sugar. When topped off with the buttered quince, rice pudding is the perfect match. Rum & raisins are my favorite, but this certainly is good. I'm not much of a cook but I do enjoy baking .... ONCE IN AWHILE. The fact that I have never eaten a quince before, sparked some renewed interest in the kitchen.
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Many people are wondering; can I drink alcohol and still lose weight? The real question is how much. You can eat anything and lose weight but you have to watch how many calories you are consuming. That's the biggest reason that people gain weight, not realizing how many calories are in their drinks.
Since you are here I know that drinking is part of your life and you are probably looking for someone to tell you that you don't have to give it up to lose weight. You still want to be able to go out to the club, party with friends or just have a nice glass of wine after dinner. There is no reason that you shouldn't be able to do this within reason.
Calorie count of popular alcoholic drinks from lowest calories to highest
If you are going to have a chance at losing weight while still having a drink once in a while then you are going to have to know how many calories are in your favorite drinks. Here is a breakdown of some of the more common drinks at the bar.
Shots (1 oz) of 80 proof liquor (Tequila, Whiskey, Vodka, Rum, Gin) = 64 calories
Beer light 12 fl.oz = 100 calories
Wine 5.1 oz glass = On average 115 – 130 calories
Beer 12 fl.oz = 150 calories
Mixed drink (Regular soda with 1oz of 80 proof liquor) = 200 calories
Mikes Hard Lemonade (11.2 fl.oz) = 240 calories
Pina Colada without cherry or pineapple (4.5 fl.oz) = 245 calories
Smirnoff Ice (12 fl.oz) = 253 calories
These values are averages, check your individual brand for exact numbers. I got these numbers from the calorieking website. As you can see some of the coolers can really set you back on your weight loss since they are sugary and high in calories. Adding regular soda or juices to shots of liquor would increase their calorie values to around 200 calories.
Why alcohol makes you gain weight.
Calorie Consumption: Most people will drink alcohol without considering the amount of calories that are in it. If you are dieting to lose weight then this is definitely necessary. Every alcoholic drink that you have will take away from your daily food allowance. The question is do you want to give up food for alcohol?
Mixing Alcohol: The fact that alcohol is usually mixed with other drinks like coke, juice or other sugary mixes makes the drink that much more damaging to your weight loss efforts. As you can see above mixed drinks are usually a lot more calories than beer and wine when you aren't using a diet or zero calorie alternative.
Food: Where there is alcohol there is usually food, or food soon thereafter. Many students can't go out to a bar without making a pit stop for a pita, sub or hamburger with fries after. I was one of them. It just tastes so good that early in the morning. This can add up to another 1300 calories to an already high calorie night.
Alcohol blocks fat loss: The reason that alcohol is said to block fat loss is because alcohol in your body takes priority over carbs and fat. This is actually the opposite of what exercise does to your body.
You lose count: I'm sure many of you have been there and done that. After a few drinks and a couple shots the last thing on your mind is how many drinks you have had.
Can I drink alcohol and still lose weight?
Being responsible and accountable is the key to losing weight and that's exactly what you need to do with your alcohol consumption as well. If your goal is to lose weight and you are really serious about it than your best bet is to drink as little as possible.
If you consuming one of the higher calorie options that I mentioned then there is an easy way to cut your calories.
Beer – Switch from regular to light. (Lowers calories by about 50)
Coolers – Switch your drink to beer, wine or mixed drink with diet. (Lowers calories by at least 100)
Mixed Drinks – Switch the regular soda to zero calorie soda. (Lowers calories by about 135)
How to drink alcohol and still lose weight?
OK so how is this going to work. You want to go out and have fun like these guys/gals.
Here is the strategy so you can still have fun once a week.
- Figure out how many drinks you are going to be having so this is your absolute limit. (Unless you want to make up for it next week. Which you probably won't.
- Calculate the calories of these drinks.
- Subtract these calories from other days of the week.
So if I decided that I'm going out on Saturday and I'm going to have 7 beers with the guys. (This would make me really tipsy.)
I'll choose light. So that's 7 x 100 calories = 700 calories. NO food afterwards.
If my regular daily diet allowance of calories is 1800 then my weekly allowance is 12600.
Cutting 700 calories from this shouldn't be too hard.
Option 1 – Cut 100 calories from each day making them 1700 calorie days like the anything goes diet.
Option 2 – Cut Monday and Tuesday by 350 calories each by cutting out breakfast or shrinking your meals.
Option 3 – Complete 1 fast (Eat Stop Eat) for that week therefore eliminating 1 x breakfast and lunch. (Do the fast at the beginning of the week so you aren't empty when you are drinking).
That doesn't seem that hard does it? Just think, if I was drinking rum and diet coke or another liquor with 0 calorie mixes then I would only have to make up for 7 x 64cal = 448 calories. That's 252 calories less.
If you are also planning on dining out on the weekend then you can also calculate the extra calories you will be consuming and use one of the 3 options to make this work as well.
Be responsible with your calorie intake and you should have no problem losing weight.