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Marionette show, part two.
Filmmaker: Stephane Rituit
Year of Production: 2008
Country: Canada
Marionette show, part one.
Opening ceremonies for the Alianait! Arts Festival 2008, part two
Year of Production: 2009
Opening ceremonies for the Alianait! Arts Festival 2008
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Oatiaroi Circus Performance: Artcirq's latest circus creation (www.artcirq.org)
An ambitious dream of International collaboration driven by the belief that through artistic expression we can build bridges between cultures and promote a greater sens of solidarity. With 'Les 7 doigts de la main' (www.7fingers.com), 'Cirko De Mente' (www.cirkodemente.com.mx) and 'Artcirq' (www.artcirq.org)
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Early 90's interview, Why We Do This? Zach Kunuk, Qulitalik, Norman Cohn, 42:09, Inuktitut and English, three partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions interview themselves about the meaning of their work together. Shot sometime in the early 1990's, date unknown.
Created in 2005, Alianait! Arts Festival is one of the biggest cultural events in Nunavut celebrating and connecting cultures through music and arts.
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Created in 2005, Alianait! Arts Festival is one of the biggest cultural
events in Nunavut celebrating and connecting cultures through music and
IsumaTV will broadcast the Alianait Arts Festival live - June 21 to July 1 - everyday from 07PM to 10PM on www.isuma.tv
Arctic residency of the Fibonacci Project.
with: Artcirq, the 7fingers and Cirko de Mente
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After the screening, audience members had a chance to examine props and costumes used in the film.
more photos from the set
Women's collective screens film for home town crowd by Sonia Gunderson, Nunatsiaq News February 29, 2008 (read article)
Creating together: Igloolik and Puvirnituq co-operate on Isumas third feature film by Jim Bell, Nunatsiaq News January 19, 2007 (read article)
On the set of Before Tomorrow by Isabelle Dubois, Inuktitut Magazine Fall 2006 (pdf)
Marie-Hélène Cousineau: Filmer l'intimité et l'imensité by Denis Lord, Elle Québec January 2007 (pdf)
New in March 2010! Nine Canadian Genie Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Costumes, Sound, Original Song. Four Quebec Jutra Award nominations, Best Picture, Director, Costumes, Music.
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A co-production of Igloolik Isuma Productions and Kunuk Cohn Productions, Before Tomorrow is the first feature film written and directed by Igloolik's Arnait Video Productions women's collective, which has been filming Inuit women's stories since 1991 based on cultural authenticity and community involvement.
Before Tomorrow is directed by Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu from a script by Susan Avingaq, Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, adapted from the novel For morgendagen by the acclaimed Danish writer Jørn Riel. It is produced by Stéphane Rituit, with executive producers Norman Cohn and Zacharias Kunuk. Leading the cast are Madeline Ivalu and her grandson Paul-Dylan Ivalu, joined by Mary Qulitalik, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq and Tumasie Sivuarapik.
Before Tomorrow is the story of a woman who demonstrates that human dignity is at the core of life from beginning to end, as she faces with her grandson the ultimate challenge of survival. The film was shot in remote locations near the community of Puvirnituq, Nunavik (norhtern Quebec) over four separate periods between July 2006 and January 2007 to capture the arctic seasons from June though December.
Before Tomorrow premiered in Igloolik on the weekend of February 23-24, 2008. Members of the Arnait Video collective (Susan Avingaq, Madeline Ivalu, Carol Kunnuk and Marie-Hélène Cousineau) presented the film in front of attentive audiences in the school gym. Actors, props and select costumes from the film were also on display. As with previous films produced by Igloolik Isuma Productions, the film's first audience was the community involved in making the film. The following month producers also screened the film in Puvirnituq, Nunavik, where the film was shot.
Before Tomorrow was released in Canada by Alliance Motion Picture Distribution and Alliance Vivafilm in March 2009. Before Tomorrow is distributed internationally by Isuma Distribution International. U.S. premiere was a two-week run at Film Forum in New York December 2-15, 2009.The film now is available for Video-on-Demand download in standard definition or full HD from isuma.tv/fastrunnertrilogy.
Before Tomorrow was produced in association with Alliance Atlantis, Alliance Vivafilm, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, the Nunavut Film Development Commission and with the support of NITV. With thanks to Makivik Corporation,First Air, and Air Inuit. Thanks also to the people and mayor's office of Puvirnituq, the Nunavik Arctic Survival Training Centre, Kativik school board, and the Cooperative of Puvirnituq for their support.
The founding mandate of Igloolik Isuma Productions is to empower Inuit voices to tell their own stories. Isuma's first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, won the Camera d'or at Cannes 2001 and Best Picture at Canada's 2002 Genie Awards. Isuma's second feature, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, opened the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Isuma's executive producers, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, continue this mandate in Isuma's third feature film, Before Tomorrow, the first written and produced by the Arnait Video Women's Collective.
Bernard Saladin d'AnglureLauréat du Prix de la recherche scientifique sur le Nord
Monsieur Bernard Saladin d'Anglure est né en France, en mai 1936. Il a reçu sa maîtrise en anthropologie de l'Université de Montréal en 1964, puis son doctorat en ethnologie de l'École pratique des hautes études de Paris en 1971. Au cours de ses travaux de doctorat, il a fait plusieurs voyages de recherche au Canada en plus de travailler comme assistant auprès du célèbre anthropologue Claude Lévi-Strauss.
En 1956, il a obtenu une bourse de la Fondation nationale des bourses Zellidja en France, qui lui a permis de faire un bref séjour au Canada, plus précisément au Nunavik. Au cours de ce voyage, M. Saladin d'Anglure a colligé des données démographiques et ethnographiques et réalisé un documentaire qui a été primé. Il a aussi découvert sa passion : faire progresser les connaissances sur les Inuit et les diffuser en recourant à des moyens audiovisuels.
Après avoir obtenu son doctorat, le professeur Saladin d'Anglure a élargi la portée de ses recherches pour se pencher sur le chamanisme et l'organisation politique. Chaque année, il a voyagé au Nunavik et au Nunavut, notamment à Igloolik et sur l'île de Baffin. Il a aussi visité occasionnellement le Labrador, le Groënland, l'Alaska ainsi que les Inuvialuit. Ces voyages lui ont permis de connaître à fond les peuples du Nord avec qui il a discuté de sujets traditionnels ou contemporains chez les Inuit.
Monsieur Saladin d'Anglure a appris l'inuktitut qu'il parle couramment. Sa connaissance de la langue lui a ouvert les portes des peuples autochtones de l'Arctique et lui a permis de bien saisir les pratiques inuites. Afin de préserver la validité anthropologique et scientifique de ses travaux, et par respect envers les droits des Inuit, il a invité des Inuit à prendre part à ses travaux et leur a remis toutes les données qu'il avait colligées auprès d'eux. En 1974, M. Saladin d'Anglure a fondé l'Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc., une société canadienne sans but lucratif dont la principale mission était de remettre aux Inuit les données et les documents de recherche qu'il avait collectionnés, dont des cartes et des arbres généalogiques.
En 1977, M. Saladin d'Anglure a lancé la publication scientifique d'envergure internationale Études Inuit Studies. Plusieurs dizaines de chercheurs et de lecteurs étrangers collaborent à cette publication qui est devenue une source précieuse de renseignements fiables sur les sciences sociales de l'Arctique.
Le professeur Saladin d'Anglure a mis sur pied la conférence biennale et internationale sur les études inuites, qui est le principal forum de recherche sur les Inuit. Il a aussi fondé le Groupe d'études inuites et circumpolaires qui constitue le plus important centre de recherche sur les sciences sociales de l'Arctique.
Tout au long de sa carrière, M. Saladin d'Anglure a joué un rôle de chef de file dans l'organisation, la promotion et la diffusion des connaissances scientifiques sur le Nord canadien. Sa passion d'en apprendre toujours davantage sur les Inuit et de partager ses connaissances avec le monde entier l'a poussé à constituer une imposante collection de documents écrits, audio et visuels qui est appréciée partout au monde. Le professeur Saladin d'Anglure jouit d'une réputation internationale de pionnier dans le domaine des études inuites en raison de ses innombrables et inestimables contributions.
source: http://classiques.uqac.ca/contemporains/saladin_danglure_bernard/saladin_danglure_photo/saladin_danglure_photo.html
Bernard Saladin d'Anglure Northern Science Award Winner
Professor Bernard Saladin d'Anglure was born in France in May 1936. In 1964, he received his masters degree from the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. He received his PhD in Ethnology from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1971 in Paris. During his PhD studies, he made several research trips to Canada and was assistant to the renowned anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
In 1956, he earned a scholarship from the Fondation Nationale des Bourses Zellidja (France) that brought him to Canada for a short visit to Nunavik. On this trip, Professor Saladin d'Anglure gathered demographic and ethnographic data and made an award-winning documentary film. He also discovered his passion: to advance knowledge of the Inuit and to share this knowledge with others through the use of audiovisual material.
After obtaining his PhD, Professor Saladin d'Anglure broadened his scope of research to include shamanism and political organization. Yearly visits to Nunavik and Nunavut, including Igloolik and Baffin Island, and occasional visits to Labrador, the Inuvialuit, Greenland and Alaska allowed him to remain attuned to the people of the North, with whom he discussed topics related to traditional and contemporary Inuit thought.
Professor Saladin d'Anglure learned to speak Inuktitut fluently and his knowledge of the language gave him access to the Aboriginal people of the Arctic and a deeper understanding of Inuit practices. To maintain a scientifically valid anthropology and out of respect for Inuit rights, he involved the Inuit in his research and turned over to them the data gathered from them. In 1974, Professor Saladin d'Anglure founded the Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit Inc., a Canadian non-profit society whose primary purpose was to return to the Inuit the research data, such as land use maps and family trees, that he had collected.
In 1977, Professor Saladin d'Anglure established the international journal of Inuit studies, Études Inuit Studies which has dozens of international contributors and readers, and has become a valued source of high quality information about Arctic social sciences.
Professor Saladin d'Anglure launched the biennial international Inuit Studies Conference, a premier venue for the reportage of Inuit research. He also founded the Inuit and circumpolar studies group (GÉTIC), Canada's leading Arctic social sciences research centre.
Throughout his career, he has been a leader in organizing, promoting and broadcasting scientific knowledge of the Canadian North. His passion to learn about the Inuit and to share this knowledge with the world has resulted in a rich compilation of written, recorded and visual data that is valued throughout the world. For all his contributions, Professor Saladin d'Anglure is recognized internationally as a pioneer in the field of Inuit studies.
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EALÁT is a Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study and is a project that examines reindeer pastoralism in the light of climate change.
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"Inuit Cree Warfare" is the development/research title of one of Isuma's new feature film.
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This project is led by: Zacharias Kunuk (Inuk), Ron Sheshamush (Cree) and Neil Diamond (Cree).
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Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change had its world premiere October 23, 2010, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The complete film also streamed online simultaneously watched by more than 1500 viewers around the world. Following the film, a Q&A with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Dr. Ian Mauro included live call-in by Skype from viewers from Pond Inlet, New York, Sydney, Australia and other locations.
Nunavut-based director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit communities to document their knowledge and experience regarding climate change. This new documentary, the world's first Inuktitut language film on the topic, takes the viewer "on the land" with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. This unforgettable film helps us to appreciate Inuit culture and expertise regarding environmental change and indigenous ways of adapting to it.
Exploring centuries of Inuit knowledge, allowing the viewer to learn about climate change first-hand from Arctic residents themselves, the film portrays Inuit as experts regarding their land and wildlife and makes it clear that climate change is a human rights issue affecting this ingenious Indigenous culture. Hear stories about Arctic melting and how Inuit believe that human and animal intelligence are key to adaptability and survival in a warming world.
Community-based screenings of the film are now being organized across Canada. Stay tuned for more information, new blog posts and videos added to this channel regularly.
Please feel free to contact us should you like to organize a screening in your area. Email us: email@example.com.
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This channel is made up of the raw footage from the Our Traditional Homeland Documentary.
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ᑭᖑᓪᓖᑦ ᐅᖄᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᓐᓂᒃ ᐃᓅᓕᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ 1900-ᐄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᕐᖄᕕᓂᖏᓐᓂ 30-ᓂ. ᐊᑦᓯᔭᐅᒪᔪᕕᓃᑦ `ᑭᖑᕚᖑᓕᕐᑐᑦ` ᓯᕗᓪᓕᐹᐅᓐᓂᕋᒥᒃ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᒐᓴᕐᔪᐊᓂ ᓵᑦᓯᓱᑎᒃ ᐊᑦᔨᐅᖏᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᖑᒻᒥᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᓯᑦᔨᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᓐᖏᑑᑉ ᖃᐅᔨᒻᒫᕆᔭᐅᑦᓱᓂᓗ ᓴᓂᐊᓐᓂᑦ ᑲᒪᒋᔭᐅᓕᓂᒻᒪᕆᐅᑦᓱᓂ ᐊᒥᓱᒐᓴᕐᔪᐊᓄᑦ ᑭᒍᕚᕇᕐᑎᑐᓄᑦ ᑌᑦᓱᒪᓐᖓᓂᐊᓗᒃ.… Read more
Kingulliit The Next Generation Blog is a Related Channel to the site Kingulliit The Next Generation. This related channel documents activities in 2010 and 2011 to move Inuktitut-language multimedia into a new generation of production and distribution through new media and new internet technologies. Starting November 2010, Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk leads a team to Nunavut communities to show how IsumaTV Hi-speed MediaPlayers boost slow internet to high-speed for over 2000 films on www.isuma.tv. Kunuk also screens in each community his newest documentary film, Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, by downloading it from the internet using a Hi-speed MediaPlayer. Kunuk travels with Paul Quassa, former president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Canadian rock-star Lucie Idlout and Nunavut filmmaker, David Poisey, to introduce the potential benefits of faster internet for watching over 720 films in Inuktitut among a total of 2000 Inuit and Aboriginal films in 41 languages worldwide. John Hodgins, IsumaTV Technical Manager, installs the Hi-speed MediaPlayers in schools, libraries, youth centres or other locations where people can gain access to IsumaTV's collection, and where local community videos can be uploaded to the worldwide website. This blog follows the process of their travels and results. Please join us to upload comments, suggestions, videos, photos or other materials relating to bringing Inuit and Aboriginal media out of the past and into the digital future.
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from the Floe Edge:
an Inuit Point of View is
the world's first Inuit film produced expressly for distribution
through the internet.
by Igloolik Isuma Productions founder, Zacharias Kunuk, Canada's
foremost northern filmmaker, Live
from the Floe Edge
uses Isuma's new video website www.isuma.tv
as a global media platform for Inuit to speak through the internet to
the future as they see it.
from the Floe Edge
is the first film, the first chapter of a production series
to be distributed on IsumaTV throughout 2008-2010, presenting the
view from
the Inuit side
of environmental issues, climate change and social, cultural and
human rights challenges facing the arctic homeland in the 21st
presents this unique, innovative and extraordinary filmmaking process
through the internet.
kunuk - Stephane Rituit
Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk
Paul Irngaut, Qajaaq
Ellsworth, 40 Below Film Services
Idlout, Qajaaq Ellsworth, Stephanie Silliker
Paul Quassa
Oana Spinu, Michelline Ammaq, Eric Nutarariaq, Brian Nutarariaq
Assistants/ Camp HelpersSandy
Joshua Kunuk, Paul
Uttak, Jayson Kunuk, Clara Koonoo, Lizzie Makkik
crew / GuidesSimon
Qamaniq, David Irngaut, Peter Awa, Richard Ammaroitok, Hyppolite
Immaroitok, Paul Quassa, Joshua Anguratsiaq, Dennis Apak, Laben
Kunuk, Phoebe Kunuk, John Arnastiaq, Artcirq's collective
Kunuk, Joshua Kunuk, Benjamin Kunuk, Artcirq's Collective
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and English.
Program and schedule of the broadcast (time zone: EST, UTC -5 hours)
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Additional Voices on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change are being uploaded every day to the channel http://www.isuma.tv/ikcc/voices. Some in Inuktitut, others in English.
More discussion about Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, other related human rights issues, see also IKCC at www.isuma.tv/ikcc
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See also: DID Digital Indigenous Democracy.
Nunavut Language SummitOur language brings us togetherIqaluit February 9-12, 2010-01-06
ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕐᒧᑦ ᑲᑎᒪᕐᔪᐊᕐ ᓂᖅᐃᖃᓗᐃᑦ, ᕕᕈᐊᕆ 8-12, 2010
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NPC's traditional Inuit knowledge workshops.
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What We Eat: Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting.
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In 2009, Rachel Uyarasuk, elder of the Inuit community of Igloolik (Nunavut), evokes the ancestors whose name she received at birth. She explains how this transmission ensured their return among the world of the living.
A film by Christin Merlhiot
France, 2014, 11 minutes, animation
Inuktitut with English & French subtitles
Is it possible for First Nations to hold a festival worthy of the name in Québec's metropolis?
The Montreal Frist Peoples Festival asks the question a press release distriburted this morning as the Partenariat du Quartier des spectacles (the PQDS), a paramunicipal body that administers a major program in support of events in Montreal's downtown core cultural district, decided to cut off all grants to the Festival for the year 2014.
The PQDS claims that the First Peoples Festival lacks sufficiently innovative programming. This is a surprising attack on the Montreal event that has very successfully and continually transformed itself over the years. Since it moved its activities to the Quartier des spectacles, it has offered a brand-new formula that richly highlights First Peoples culture, art and diversity.
First Peoples Festival is a First Nations' multi-disciplinary festival, an event unique in its genre and presented yearly by the Terres en vues/Land Insights society for the last 24 years.
Last year, the festival succeeded in balancing its budget without a deficit although the very day its program was launched, June 18 2013, the PQDS announced a drastic $50 000 cut to the Festival's budget. This year the festival was been hit with a great blow that could prove to be fatal.
The festival states that this new obstacle is a test of the commitment of city of Montreal and government stakeholders to make a place for First Nations culture in Quebec's metropolis and to associate these with the many commemorations set for city's 375th anniversary in 2017.
Festival organizers are demanding that those granting funds to the PQDS, the City of Montreal first and then the government of Québec, must take action without delay to reinstate a funding for First Peoples Festival within a structure that can allow it to develop and thrive.
Moreover, the festival is questioning the very way funding is delivered by the PQSD. Organizers believe that it is high time, as ethical choices, corruption and fair practices are in the spotlight in Montréal during the ongoing Charbonneau Commission, to review the governance of this paramunicipal body that oversees such important budgets.
Source: Land Insights
On Their Terms: A Digital Project to Give Inuit Say in Developers' Arctic Ambitions
BY Elisabeth Fraser
A new project in Canada's north is attempting to bridge the digital divide facing Inuit communities. In doing so, it hopes to give them a say as developers move to take advantage of their resource-rich land.
"Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID) is an effort to bring the community empowerment of new media technology into remote low-bandwidth indigenous communities in Nunavut, across Canada, and around the world," says Norman Cohn, an award-winning Canadian filmmaker who is also the project co-director, with partner Zacharias Kunuk, an Inuk filmmaker.
The idea is to provide high-speed Internet access to Inuit living in northern communities, where extremely low bandwidth access makes surfing the net a slow and cumbersome task. "These people, who most need access to these networks, have the worst cost-per-bandwidth in the civilized world," says Cohn.
Life in the Northern communities where Canada's Inuit live can be challenging. Traditionally, the Inuit are a hunting society. However, nowadays both global warming and opposition from animal-rights groups are negatively affecting the hunt. There are high levels of poverty, substance abuse, and suicide. There is a housing shortage, and high levels of family violence, as well as chronic health problems like diabetes. The remote and vastly scattered locations of these villages carry distinct challenges as well, including sky-high prices on basic goods. Most places are hard to access from the south, accessible via boat during the summer, or by expensive flights year-round. And, despite federal investment to improve bandwidth access in these communities, the Internet remains very slow.
Just how slow is it? "Most people can remember how the Internet was when they first tried it out five or ten years ago, and how much faster it is now," explains Cohn. "Use of the Internet we take for granted right now is only possible because our bandwidth has increased by hundreds of thousands of times, and at a low cost. Those speed increases have not impacted northern Inuit communities. Their Internet is among the slowest and most expensive … There is a digital divide, certainly in the Canadian North, as much as in Bangladesh."
Canada's Inuit are one of three Canadian Aboriginal groups (the others are the Métis and First Nations). They are somewhat unique amongst Indigenous peoples in North America, because they have negotiated a self-governing agreement with the federal government of Canada. Whereas Canadian and U.S. First-Nations people often live on government reserves and receive government assistance or a special tax status, Inuit are by and large self-sufficient.
Cohn says the project is essential to help Inuit protect their rights in a new age of resource extraction. "The origins of this project are in the evolution of two enormous world developments. The one is the evolution of new media technology and its potential for social networking and political change, which we've seen in the Middle East," Cohn says, referencing the Arab Spring. "And this intersects with the evolution of global warming, which has created an increase in natural resource development in the Canadian Arctic."
Digital Indigenous Democracy has been financed and tested around a specific giant mining development (the "Mary River Project") by the Baffinland company.
"If (the development) goes forward in its full capacity, it would be the largest mine ever in Canada," says Cohn. DID was created in the context of Baffinland's ongoing environmental review process, which involves consultation with local stakeholders. These talks have produced an Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreement, as required by law under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
"Our project was proposed and financed to test out this technology as a way of improving Inuit communities' ability to participate in the decision-making process of such an enormous development that will impact these communities forever," Cohn says. "So, we had a compelling technological concept for equal justice, but we also had a compelling urgent need for that project to take place as soon as possible."
Started in April 2011 via Canada Media Fund financing, Digital Indigenous Democracy went live one year later, in April 2012. It runs on the ISUMA TV platform, created by Cohn and co. in 2008. The multimedia website features photographs and government information documents, as well as audio and video recordings, in English and in Indigenous languages like Inuktitut.
In addition to putting forward local content, in the form of radio programming, films and documentaries, and community news,DID has played an active part in the local consultations involving the Baffinland project. A series of radio call-in shows allowed locals to ask experts questions about the development, and Baffinland feedback collected via DID has been complied into a report, which will be presented in the next round of public hearings, tentatively scheduled to take place in mid-October.
Lloyd Lipsett is a human rights lawyer who has been participating in the public consultation process surrounding the Baffinland project. He took part in radio call-in shows the DID group organized in Igloolik, Nunavut, to answer questions and inform locals about the Baffinland project, in English and Inuktitut.
"If you want the people to be confident that the mine is benefitting them, they need to have the information to make that judgment. It's important to recognize that the movement towards transparency in the (extractive industry) is really picking up steam," says Lipsett, who notes the Canadian government has announced it will pass binding regulations ensuring mining companies have greater disclosure towards various levels of government, something the United States and European Union have already done.
Canadian constitutional law and international law now explicitly confirms Indigenous people have the right to be informed and consulted about any resource development that impacts their lands and their communities. According to Lispett, the new approach towards consultation offered by DID is a benefit to locals and developers alike.
Most human-rights interventions involving extraction projects happen after development has started, when things are perceived to be going badly. "Getting involved in public hearings before the project has taken place; you are taking a proactive approach," says Lispett. "You're dealing with all the different stakeholders, including the company itself. To talk to them in a proactive, forward-looking manner, is much more constructive then pointing your finger after, and saying, "You're doing this wrong, you're violating this right, or that right…We're offering you suggestions as to how you can develop this mine in a way that is respectful to people."
The economic stakes are significant, too."The wealth in the arctic is enormous," says Cohn. "It's sort of like the new Congo, but suddenly much more accessible than it ever was before. "The world has changed since King Leopold went into the Congo, but only if technology helps people take advantage of those changes. (DID) is the only way Indigenous people will get a real fair seat at the negotiating table, dividing up what everyone agrees are trillions of dollars."
Frances Abele is a Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at Carleton University. She is familiar with the project. She touts the community-building aspect of DID. "If you haven't been to the North, it's very hard to picture just how far apart everything is," she says. "To allow people to speak to each other in real time is a really powerful change in order to have people talk about their common interests, and politics."
"The local radio has been very, very, important for a long time, it's the main way that people find out what's going on, and they listen to that every day," says Abele. "The genius of what Norman and Zacharias are doing is that they've been able to build on that network to create these communities."
Mark Airut is the manager of the Igloolik radio station, now run by ISUMA since last May. He is Inuk, and echoes Abele's praise for DID. "I think it's really great, lots and lots of people are now following us, and now they listen to our radio all over the world," he says. He says since ISUMA took over, the station's workers have gone from being voluntary to paid staff, and many locals say ISUMA radio is now all they listen to. "We're doing our best work on educational stuff," says Airut. "It's really successful."
Currently, Cohn estimates the project is two-thirds completed. "Our website will play at high speed in what will eventually be ten indigenous communities," he says. ISUMA has been hooking people up since the spring, and will continue to do so during the fall.
Underlying the entire project is the principal of open data and transparency as a tool to combat inequality. "Indigenous people see these developments as the only chance they have to get out of poverty and into the 21st century," says Cohn. "If all the people involved are sharing in the exploitation of the resources, then it's not pejorative. If the people involved are being exploited, then its pejorative … Today, you cannot get away with that level of inequality unless it's hidden from public view."
Cohn believes DID can be a powerful tool to give Indigenous people their fair share of the pie. "If people have those tools, you cannot deny them those rights," he says. "These communities are sitting on mountains of minerals, of gold, of uranium." He sees a future for this project in Indigenous communities throughout the world, and notes it is in developer's interest to properly inform and consult, or risk huge lawsuits down the road.
How much the Inuit will eventually profit from the Baffinland development remains to be seen, but Cohn is hopeful. "Indigenous people are not genetically impoverished," he says. "If everyone owned the land they were living on, Inuit people could quite very well be rich," he argues. "Why are Inuit peoples more like Palestinians than Saudi Arabians? In 2013, you can't do that to people, unless you're doing it in the dark."
Elisabeth Fraser is a freelance Canadian journalist. She lives in Montreal.
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Corn growers now have access to a new herbicide option for their fields, as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently approved Balance Flexx herbicide from Bayer CropScience.
Balance Flexx controls more than 50 grass and broadleaf weeds with the power of Recharge.
As little as a half-inch of rain during the growing season reactivates Balance Flexx, which can be applied from early pre-plant burndown through the 2-leaf collar growth stage (V2). Balance Flexx will be labeled for use in field corn production, corn grown for silage and on tolerant seed-corn inbreds.
"The new herbicide serves as a solution to protect field corn from weeds that have shown resistance to ALS-, glyphosate- and triazine-based herbicides," says Brent Philbrook, Bayer CropScience product development manager.
"Balance Flexx is a very competitive product compared to the current choices growers have," says Philbrook. "In our 2008 trials, we saw it take down some of the field's toughest weeds, including kochia and woolly cupgrass, while still providing excellent crop safety."
Balance Flexx contains the new proprietary Crop Safety Innovation (CSI) Safener technology that enables the herbicide to be used on any soil type with a broad range of crop compatibility. While protecting the plant from herbicide injury, the safener has been shown to result in increased root growth and plant health.
Flexible enough to fit any tillage program, Balance Flexx works through the roots and shoots of weeds to provide excellent burndown and residual control.
"Balance Flexx will control problem weeds and grasses, such as marestail, common ragweed and barnyardgrass," says Jeff Springsteen, Bayer CropScience product manager for selective corn and soybean herbicides. "It's also flexible enough to serve as a solid set-up product in a sequential program with Ignite, Laudis or other postemergence herbicides."
To control tough grasses, such as woolly cupgrass, growers should apply the herbicide at a rate of 5 to 6 ounces per acre.
This new product reinforces the Bayer CropScience commitment to provide growers with the innovative tools needed to maintain healthy, clean fields, which ultimately maximizes yield potential.
"We want growers to have more options in their field management toolbox," says Springsteen. "By bringing growers the next generation of control against tough weeds, we can ultimately help them increase their bottom line."
For the 2009 growing season, Balance Flexx will be available with limited supply to growers in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas.
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Plenty of drag out before the knock down
Knocking down dilapidated structures isn't what it used to be.
Back in the late 1970s and early '80s, when Lawrence Baker, a 31-year veteran of the demolition game, was just starting at the city of Beaumont, there wasn't much in the way of regulations when it came to tearing down houses and commercial buildings.
"There weren't regulations for abatements such as asbestos back then, and that's driven the costs up, but the added regulations are a good thing," said Baker, who handles all the demolition projects for the city of Port Arthur after 17 years with Beaumont.
And Mother Nature wasn't pounding the Gulf Coast as often back then as she has in the last decade, either. "We didn't have any hurricanes back then. That's one of the biggest differences," Baker said of the damage that has been done to vacant structures and commercial buildings throughout Port Arthur and Jefferson County as a whole.But for Baker and Danny Daniels, building official with the city of Beaumont, as well as those associated with the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission, the actual amount of work that goes into securing funds to proceed with the area's much needed demolition is as numbing to the mind as the ragged structures are appealing to the eye.
The paperwork involved is itself a process, and the rules of the fundraising game can change as often as if you're playing against an 8-year-old."It's not uncommon for the rules to change in the middle of the game," said Shaun Davis, executive director of the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission. "It can be very challenging."
In many cases, the structures needing attention have been abandoned and damaged by storms, creating a health and safety hazard in their respective neighborhoods. And those health and safety hazards are often havens for transients and the homeless who might have drug and alcohol problems, thus inviting nefarious activity to the neighborhood.
"People in Port Arthur have had it up to here waiting for these houses to be removed in their neighborhoods," said Baker, raising his right arm outstretched above his head. "And that's the frustrating thing for me, trying to explain to people that we're trying to get this done as quickly as possible."
In an era of budget cuts affecting every governmental body, large or small, the money allotted to demolition is slotted somewhere between slim and none, and none usually wins the day. So for Beaumont and Port Arthur, the reliance on the federal government is absolutely necessary. In the past, Community Development Block Grants, or CDBG money, has been used, and still is used when available, to fund demolitions. The CDBG program is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and has a wide range of applications, including disaster recovery and neighborhood stabilization, among others.
In the wake of Hurricanes Rita and Ike, other federal funds have become available, and currently, Beaumont and Port Arthur are waiting for money to be released from the feds so each city can begin tearing down roughly 700 dilapidated residential structures.
Of course, the waiting game has been going on since 2009 when the money was first awarded to the area. And while it's not a "waiting game" per se, because the money is available, there are a number of environmental checks and balances that must be completed first before money can start flowing and the bulldozers can start dozing.
"It's the process they're going through now," said Mike Foster, housing manager for the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission, of what is being done to get the money. "For residential, there are two situations — people that are still in the house, and then there are those homes that are dilapidated structures, and taking care of the environmental clearances and other programmatic details to demolish those homes."
Part of that environmental process, and Foster said this is one of the final hurdles before money should start being dispersed, is that this area is scrutinized more when it comes to demolition because of the proximity to petrochemical plants. HUD representatives in Washington D.C. have to analyze maps from this area and give the clearance to go ahead with the demolition, and that's what the SETRPC is waiting for, and then the demolition can begin.
While Beaumont and Port Arthur wait for the clearance, Beaumont has gone ahead and started demolishing some of the 400 or so residential structures it has thanks to "a little bit of money from the city's general fund," according to Daniels.
Port Arthur it will begin the process of demolishing 76 dilapidated commercial structures throughout the city thanks to $2 million in grant money it received from the Texas Department of Rural Affairs. Baker said the pre-bids for the demolition projects have begun, and he expects the first 14 structures to be taken down starting in late March or early April, and the process will continue throughout the year.
Baker said the demolition of the commercial structures downtown and along major thoroughfares and in spots throughout Port Arthur is just another way the city is trying to clean up and present a better image to both residents and people passing through.
"We may not have all the funding we need, but we're going to take what we do have and use it in the best way possible to make this area better for the people of Port Arthur in the long run," Baker said.


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Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG) Falls 3.06% for February 08Equities Staff Follow |
One of the S&P 500's big losers for Monday February 08 was Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. (HIG). The company's stock fell 3.06% to $39.30 on volume of 3.15 million shares.
The stock opened the day at 39.98 and traded between a low of $39.04 and a high of $39.99. The stock finished the day down $1.24 per share. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has an average daily volume of 3.01 million and a total float of 409.61 million shares. The 50-day SMA for Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is $42.30 and its 200-day SMA is $43.96. The high for the stock over the last 52 weeks is $50.95 and the low is $36.54.
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc is an insurance & financial services Company. Its business segments includings Property & Casualty Commercial, Consumer Markets, Property & Casualty Other Operations, Group Benefits, and Mutual Funds.
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is centered in Hartford, CT, and has 17,500 employees. Today's trading day leaves the company with a market cap of $16.1 billion. The company has a P/S ratio of n/a, P/B ratio of 0.88, and a 11.3.
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What could be nicer on a warm summer's day than to dine al fresco with a beautiful garden all around you?
August is the month for it. June is unpredictable, July can be just as hit-and-miss; but August is usually the month when we can confidently set the table outside for lunch or dinner under cloudless skies.
For me, there is no better place than my own deck, from where I am not only surrounded by lovely plants, but from where I can see the garden from end to end in all its beauty.
There are three other key sitting areas in my garden where I love to have a sandwich and beer for lunch or pop a bottle of Prosecco for a lazy afternoon.
But when it comes to more formal dining with friends and family, there are a few places where I love to go to relax and dine in a wonderful garden setting.
The delightful rooftop patio of Joe Fortes Seafood and Chop House on Thurlow Street is one of them.
A few years ago, then-owner Bud Kanke decided to install what at the time was one of the first green walls in town.
He also decided (with the help of talented designer David Vance) to replace the rambunctious perennial garden with a more formal series of planters, each containing a silver-leaked weeping willow pear tree (Pyrus salicifolia 'Silver Cascade') with lavender 'Anouk' underneath.
Today, all this has matured into a lush garden, with the lavender bushes bursting out in great mounds of purple flowers below the silver foliage of the trees.
Blue ornamental grasses and agapanthus have also been added here and there to add other cool shades of blue.
And the green wall - once dotted with tiny plug-plants - has now filled out into a dense, vertical tapestry of green and silver with a lavish mix of sedums, heuchera, helichrysum, artemisia and strawberry plants left to freely tumble down into a vibrant jumble of colour and leaf texture.
Protected from the searing midday sun by the white canvas of large patio umbrellas, it's not hard to see why this elegant roof garden is such a popular al fresco lunch spot with locals and tourists alike.
The patio at Shaughnessy Restaurant at VanDusen Botanical Garden on Oak Street is another of my favourites, especially if I can get there early enough to snap up one of the little bistro tables on the cosy covered-deck area with a view of what used to be the children's garden.
Looking out on to this lovely garden of conifers and weeping beech, day lilies, golden grasses and astilbes - all nicely framed by wooden trellising - you also get to enjoy the soothing sounds of water gurgling in the little cherub fountain.
The quieter inner courtyard area, with its overhanging fig tree and large windmill palm in the corner, has a more tropical flavour; but the garden view is hard to beat.
By the way, the chicken and papaya salad with jicama is easily the most popular summer lunchtime dish, although my favourite is always the niçoise salad, ideally accompanied by an ice-cold Viognier, Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc.
If you are looking for something more casual, there's Truffles café only a few steps away in VanDusen's new $22-million visitor centre.
You can get great salads and sandwiches here and find a fabulous spot at one of the café tables outside on the patio overlooking Livingstone Lake.
Egan Davis, one of VanDusen's top gardeners, has broken up a pile of terracotta roof tiles and scattered the pieces into a slender border edged by a low clipped willow hedge and planted lavender, nicotiana and an assortment of culinary plants such as kale and sage.
The view from the patio also takes in the evolving meadow garden that Davis has been working on.
A set of three striking white Carrara marble works of sculpture by David Marshall have also recently been installed in this garden, further enhancing the view and artistic visual stimulation and interest for patio diners.
On the other side of town, The Teahouse in Stanley Park has a striking white and green entrance garden leading to its patio.
This curving border comprises a fun mix of tall white Nicotiana sylvestris and large blue leaves of cabbage with frilly lettuce and ornamental grasses tossed in for foliage interest.
Designed and maintained by Karin Hers-Schaffner, of Botanica Design, the garden surrounding the Teahouse's inviting patio contains a bright stand of red monarda and bright yellow pot marigolds.
Chefs at the restaurant still dip into the garden for ingredients, taking clippings from various herb plants - mint, rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano - as well as plucking kale leaves when needed.
Take time before summer's over for a leisurely al fresco lunch at one of these superb dining spots. Your friends will appreciate the invitation.
If I am not there, I'll be on my own patio popping a bottle of Prosecco to go with the antipasto. Ciao!
I asked friends for their favourite garden patio places and here's what they said:
. There is a "hidden" one in a garden behind T Room Tea on West 10th.
. Provence Mediterranean Grill on West 10th has a lovely little deck and it usually has some gorgeous hanging baskets.
. There is a lovely low hedge and some planting off of the Dockside patio at the Granville Island Hotel. The patio overlooks False Creek.
. Provence Marinaside at the foot of Davie faces the marina and the False Creek sea-wall. It has baskets and large planters.
. Adesso Bistro in the Buchan Hotel on Haro Street in the West End has a lovely hidden patio surrounded by trees and hedges.
. C Restaurant on Howe Street has a wonderful patio that looks over the mouth of False Creek and over to Granville Island
. Pier 7 is right on the dock at the foot of Lonsdale in North Vancouver. It has both a patio and deck. Both have spectacular views of the harbour and downtown Vancouver.


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Scotty McCreery to Return to 'American Idol' for Season Finale Performance
Scotty McCreery is gearing up to return to 'American Idol' for a second time this season. This time, the now-seasoned country superstar will head back to his old television stomping grounds to for a very special season finale performance of 'Please Remember Me' on May 22.
Phillip Phillips and fellow hopeful Jessica Sanchez were named the last two standing after last night's (May 17) episode, which saw Joshua Ledet narrowly missing out as a final contestant. It has become somewhat of a tradition that the winner from the previous return to the finale as a homecoming celebration. Pop singer Rihanna will also make an appearance for the final episode of the season.
McCreery was crowned the 'American Idol' victor last year, during the 10th season of the popular reality competition. The 'Water Tower Town' singer was propelled into superstardom after the release of his debut single Top 15 'I Love You This Big,' which was certified gold, signifying more than 500,000 digital copies sold. His follow-up single 'The Trouble With Girls' followed suit, reaching gold status and topping out at No. 17 on the country charts.
The North Carolina native released his debut album, 'Clear as Day' on October 4, 2011 and has sold more than a million copies in less than a year. The success of his debut effort made McCreery one of the most successful 'American Idol' winners in recent years, and lead the young singer to an ACA and ACM win for Best New Artist.
McCreery has been on the road for most of 2012 providing opening entertainment on Brad Paisley's latest headlining tour. Want to catch him in concert? Click here for tour dates and ticket information. Or, tune in for the 'American Idol' season finale on May 22.


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Had the same as a few different classes for a few builds. Just confirmed it by asking the forum and doing a couple more runs.
q 3 wrote:JJ is not giving any starting piety. Ever. I just tested it about 20 times and it was "rolling imaginary dice" "0 piety" every single time. That includes prepped versus purist and everywhere from 0% map revealed to 100% map revealed.
(This better be a bug, and not deliberate... I'm guessing the reason no one has reported this yet is that no one is even using JJ as a starter deity anymore anyway ( ), since he takes way too long to start being beneficial, and isn't even stronger in the long run than deities who have quicker starts.)
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Thanks to everyone's cooperation, we were able to close out the central accounting system for fiscal year end 1997-98 in record time. The successful closing was due mainly to the state agencies monitoring their accounts for atypical balances, sending vouchers to our office in a timely manner, and not requesting manually prepared vouchers on the last day of the year. Your cooperation was greatly appreciated!
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
Photos & Scanning....
My thoughts on digital vs. film photography. Now personally, I love the new format of digital photos! It's easy, convenient, space saving, etc...a wonderful invention. Yet, how much of a guarantee do we have that 50+ (heck, make that 10) years from now, we'll still be able to have access to them? Think about it for a minute. Technology nowadays is constantly changing, while they are coming out with the latest version of something, they are already in their laboratory's improving it for the next/newest release. Remember the floppy disk? Where is it now? (((I'm just saying....)))
Don't get me wrong, I don't think we need to chunk the digital format & go back to film processing necessarily. I have family photos over 70 years old & I'd just hate for the future generation to lose all of the digital photos being taken nowadays....just because 70 years from now, they can't access their old photos. So what is the answer? Maybe it would be a good idea to get your digital photos printed out professionally, so you'd at least have a physical copy for future, instead of just sitting on your computer. I say professionally printed out, such as by Walgreens, Wal-Mart, etc.....don't depend on your home computer printer for that keepsake photo. The ink used by home printers just isn't as long lasting as what a photo processor uses. I know you can get a CD disk copy of the photos you have developed nowadays, I wished they could/would also offer a set of negatives as well. Now that would solve the dilemma all around in my opinion.
HINT: If you do have a digital camera & have your photos saved on your computer, be sure to....do I really need to say it? Back-up....Back-UP.....BACK-UP!!!! lol Put them on a CD, an external hard drive, flash drive -- or even doing all 3 wouldn't hurt.
HINT: Now that you've backed them all up & have them on a different device, make 2 or 3 different copies & store them in different places. Such as a safety deposit box, at work, at a relative's house, might consider mailing them to someone in a different part of the state you live in.....heck even someone out of state wouldn't be such a bad idea. And the reason on that, like in my home state (Arkansas), we are known for having tornadoes, where disasters can happen over a wide range of an area. Maybe I sent my copies to my sister in the northern part of the state & a tornado comes through, traveling the 60 miles between us leaving destruction along the entire way. You never know....
HINT: Quick note on editing your photos. If you do any editing, you might want to consider making a copy of the original & do your editing on the copy. Keeping the original as it is, is just good practice, but as I mention above, technology is always changing. What you might correct on your original today, could be done much better with the latest software in the future. Yet now you've edited your original & won't be able to get the better results. Besides, it is just good practice to keep the original as is....you take your chances of messing it up for good by using the original.
Later, Deb
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_30_Days_of_Juicing is a Windows Phone fitness app that guides you through a thirty day program that gradually incorporates high-nutrient ingredients into your diet into juice drinks. The idea being that if you slowly start adding vegetables in with fruits, you will develop an appetite for vegetables.
Even if you don't begin craving vegetables, _30_Days_of_Juicing (yes, the dashes are in the title) offers a wide range of nutritious juice drinks. It falls a little short on tracking the 30 day program but it's a nice reference app to help establish good nutrition during fitness month and beyond.
The app has two options from the main page, read the about screen and launch the program. Each day has a juice recipe and it looks like around Day Six, vegetables start showing up in the mix.
_30_Days_of_Juicing has potential but needs a little work. While the recipes include the ingredients they lack any preparation directions. Granted most can guess that you throw everything in a blender like the Omega J8004 Nutrition Center Commercial Masticating Juicer (just like the one Georgia uses) but you never know.
You do have thirty days worth of juice drinks but the app won't remember your progress. So when you're on day twelve, you have to scroll through the first eleven days. If you start the program mid-month and lose track of which day you're on, it could cause problems.
As is, I'm not sure how well _30_Days_of_Juicing is as a nutritional program app but it seems to be a nice reference app if you're looking for a juice drink recipe.
_30_Days_of_Juicing is a free, ad supported app that you can find here in the Windows Phone Store.


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Ogunquit Beach
Sauna/Steam Room
Massage Room
Inn-Room Delights
Common Rooms
Hot Tubs
Guest Kitchen
Downtown Ogunquit
The Nellie Littlefield offers on site massage services year round. Our Massage Suite has 2 heated massage tables. Every effort has been made to ensure your comfort such as soft music, dim lighting and warm flannel sheets. We have 5 exclusive massage therapists and all Massage Therapists are Maine Licensed.
All spa services should be booked with the Nellie Littlefield and if possible prior to your check in.
Services Include:
Deep Tissue and Relaxation massage is offered for $85 per hour, we offer .60 minutes, .75, .90 and 120 minute massages from 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM 7 days a week.
Add $15 per hour for maternity massage.
Couples Massage class, a two hour or three hour class in our massage room with our therapist. Learn how to massage your partner while each of you take 1 hour or 1 /1/2 on the table while the other learns. A very detailed and hands on experience learning all the latest techniques. Learn a new level of connection with your partner, studies show that partners who engage in mutual therapeutic massage feel a stronger bond with each other, and find a new, healthy way to respond and communicate in other aspects of their relationship. The class is $189.00 for two hours or $259.00 for three hours.


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From Qi-Hardware
The bootloader is a small program to load kernel and pass kernel command line to kernel. The NanoNote use U-Boot as bootloaders.
[edit] General
More information on u-boot can be found at
[edit] Compile
in openwrt run:
$make package/uboot-xburst/compile V=99
it's will generate two files in bin/xburst :
- openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin
- openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot-for-xbboot.bin
[1] is for the NanoNote nand flash. to reflash the uboot to nanonote, first boot nanonote to usbboot mode by
$sudo usbboot -c "boot;nprog 0 openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot.bin 0 0 -n
[2] is for the NanoNote ram. we can use xbboot to upload this image to nanonote. first boot nanonote to usbboot mode then run:
$sudo xbboot -u 0x80100000 /PATH/TO/openwrt-xburst-qi_lb60-u-boot-for-xbboot.bin
[edit] Boot Mode
- [POWER] + [U] goto USB BOOT mode
- [POWER] + [S] enable serial console. bootloader wait input from Serial Console for 3 secs.
- [POWER] + [M] boot from SD card. load the kernel form sd card partitions 1 with kernel name uImage. boot the ROOTFS at SD card second partition and this partition must be ext2, after this commit, 2010-05-30 16:15:38. boot from sd card will load kernel from first ext2 partition with /boot/uImage.


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Bangor Police ID Victim in Saturday Night's Fatal
Police say the person found dead in a Bangor supermarket parking lot over the weekend appears to have been struck by a vehicle elsewhere in the city and dragged.
Officers were called to the Hannaford store on Union Street at about 8 p.m. Saturday for the report of a person struck by a car.
Bangor police Sgt. Cathy Rumsey says the victim, 43 year old Larry Furbush, was struck on Vermont Avenue by 48 year old Darren Matheson of New Brunswick who was unaware of the man being under the vehicle.
Weather conditions, poor visibility, and the victims dark colored clothing are all considered factors in this accident.
As per state guidelines for investigating fatal accidents, toxicology tests were done on both the driver and the victim. Those test results are pending.
There were no indications at the time of the accident that the driver was under the influence.
No charges have been filed.


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Protecting the environment
I think that lots of people would like to spend their free time somewhere when they can run away from everyday life, like mountains, forests, lakes and so on. Fresh air and wild nature for sure help to be calmed and relaxed. That is why we should protect our environment from pollution and learn what we can do to achieve this. We have to take care for environment by ourselves because no one do this for us. Very easily way to care of nature is segregation of rubbish. Nowadays are more and more recycling bins for paper, glass and plastic. Some countries have well developed recycling system and for example in shops are machines which give some money for bottles. Moreover a very good idea is to use sun, water and wind power to make electricity. It is helpful for the environment and we can also save some money. We have to be aware how important is to protect our environment. Sometimes little effort can help with it.
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Si Lowrie necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 254 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a writer living in England. Marianne! is my second novel, and is due out late March in paperback, e-book, and audiobook. I have a third coming out later this year, and if this goes well I'll be looking to 99designs for that one as well. Entrants to this contest can be assured of feedback every day, and thank you for taking part.
The demographic for audible.com is mainly professional women aged 25-50. The image will appear with hundreds of competing novels, so this one needs to be intriguing enough to prompt a mouse-click to find out more. The book has a romantic element, but most of the power should come from the image itself, and I don't want the font to be too flowery and curly in the way of a conventional romance novel. If you like, take a look at audible.com to see how the image will be used.
The brief is for a jpg, 600 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi, which will be the icon / graphic for an audiobook at audible.com (audible com is the branch of amazon that sells audiobooks).
You will be working with a beautiful photo (to which I have the rights) of a girl running up a path. For some strange reason audible.com icons are square, so the challenge is for you to use the space in an attractive way. The title ('Marianne!') must be clearly visible, as must the author name (Simon Lowrie). Watchwords would be 'colorful' 'radiant' 'hint of magic' etc. Check out the attached paperback cover for my interpretation of those words, but then feel free to do your own thing. I do like the 'white halo' effect on her dress though, so please include this. Essentially, if it catches the eye and makes people go Wow! you have succeeded. The full title is 'Marianne! ~ a Journey Round a Golden Sun' and although I don't want the 'Golden Sun' part appearing as text, if the image is lit up with sunbursts etc., that could be good.


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jraines needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 174 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
I need a contempary logo for a small consulting firm I am building a website for. Orange/blue scheme, needs to look good on a webpage or business card. Needs to include the company name.
Basically this logo needs to have a deep blue / red-orange main color scheme. Those don't have to be the only colors, but that's the overall color scheme.
Go to the website -- the logo will go in the top header so it needs to be large and bold, but also iconic. You don't have to use the colors of the website, but it would be helpful if you provided the approximate Hex color codes for the dominant colors you use so I can tweak the design of the page if necessary.
Client wants a contemporary look, with circles incorporated. So maybe a flame inside a circle, or several circles (balls of fire maybe?). The icon should be to the left of the company name.
The client is a consulting firm that brings in talent and organizes events for Atlanta's Spanish-language community. So if you have some idea of how to give a Latin feel to a contempory, iconic logo for a consulting firm, go for it. If not, don't worry about it. I personally can't envision what that would look like; but that's why I'm on this site!
- Iconic, contemporary logo.
- I like the logo for the 9rules network, for an example
- Too busy to look good on a business card
- Retro or "vintage" look
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Bandage-Dress Designer Gets a Do-Over
WSJ's Nadya Masidlover joins Lunch Break with a look at how Paris haute couture is changing through the eyes of Herve Leroux, formerly Leger, inventor of the bandage dress. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Hi Maki,
I've been downloading a bunch of the pdf versions of your recipes, and I've noticed that in at least one case, the file has omitted parts of sentences (the one I noticed is in the gomashio furikake article, where the pdf file says "I think I'd want a bit more than that in my bento box, but there osekihan Japanese azuki beans and rice.").
The pdf files also seem to turn apostrophes into question marks (though to be honest, I don't really care about this problem so much). I'm not sure if one or both of these problems can be attributed to a software problem on my end. If so, sorry for the trouble! Any suggestions as to what I can do to fix it would be great. Let me know if you need the versions/types of the programs I'm running.
As always, love the site. I made the red peppers with maple syrup and chili today for dinner, and they were delicious.
wanpo, it's definitely nothing to do with your settings. The PDF module I am using seems to be very basic, and has a limited font set. It doesn't handle 2-byte characters (Japanese) so if I put any Japanese in, you will get a row of ????s or just blank. I am sorry about that but the alternative at the moment is to use a VERY slow PDF rendering thingy which may affect the site performance. So...I know it's flawed but hopefully it's tolerable..otherwise, the regular Printer Friendly option should print out all the text properly :(
The Big Onigiri.
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Ah ok. Just checking :) I think it's the first time I've seen a pdf file actually cut words out, so I was a bit confused. But the pdf option is still wonderfully useful. Thanks!
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Bail Bonds: A Legal way to Protect Rights
While in prison, many people seek temporary freedom through bail bonds. Bail bonds are legal documents that are mainly drafted in a form of contractual undertakings between the defendant and the bail bondsman.
This legal document indicates that the bail bondsman will take the responsibility of the defendant to appear in court when summoned at any point of time.
In most cases, family members or close friends call bail bondsmans service for the early release of the defendant. In this document, an amount of money is mentioned which is mutually agreed by the judge and the bond broker.
For giving his or her services to the defendant, a bail bondsman gets 10% of the total bail amount. This legal document is paid in full and guarantees that the defendant will be present in a court as and when summoned.
Usually, the amount of bond money varies at a great extent. It is mainly depended on the degree of the criminal charges against the defendants and his or her past records. If the charges are of high degree, a defendant may have to sign a collateral for security with the bond broker.
A collateral is signed in case if a defendant skips out the bond. Thus, it is very important to sign if the charges against are serious.
You can contact any bail bond agency and hire an experienced and skilled person who can help you to get instant relief. Bail bondsmen are expert people who can take care of your legal issues irrespective of the degree of charges against you.


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Deere & Company plans to buy a small tractor manufacturing plant in China to begin offering low-horsepower tractors to Chinese farmers. Deere recently announced the purchase of Ningbo Benye Tractor & Automobile Manufacture Co. Ltd. From Ningbo in southern China.
The Benye tractor plant builds tractors in the 20- to 50-hp range, which Deere will continue building. Deere says the small tractor in China is growing because of more mechanization by rice farmers.
Deere operates two other manufacturing plants including a wholly-owned facility located at Jiamusi where combines and tractors are built. Deere also builds 60- to 120-hp tractors in a factory located in Tianjin. This factory is in a joint venture.


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Checking in on… the Mountain WestPosted by rtmsf on February 12th, 2010
Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Mountain West Conference.
Standings (as of 2/11)
- New Mexico 22-3 8-2
- San Diego State 17-7 6-4
- Colorado State 15-9 6-4
- Utah 11-12 4-5
- Wyoming 9-15 2-8
- Air Force 9-14 1-9
Team of the Week. New Mexico. Huge week for the Lobos, getting a couple hard-fought wins, including a home overtime win over San Diego State and an impressive road win at UNLV. Those wins, coupled with UNLV's win over BYU, leave the Lobos sitting alone atop the MWC standings, having now won their last eight games after starting conference play 0-2.
Player of the Week. Darington Hobson, Jr, New Mexico. Hobson was our player of the week after the first two weeks of the regular season, but struggled a little the first time around the conference, especially with his shot and too many turnovers. This week, for the first time since 2009, that Hobson we fell in love with early in the season was back. The JuCo transfer averaged 22.5 points, 12.5 rebounds, five assists, and three threes, plus threw in a half-court shot at the first-half buzzer and hit the two game-winning free throws with 2.7 seconds left against San Diego State on Saturday. When Hobson's jumper is falling like it is right now, he's the best player in the conference, simply because he can do so many other things with ease as well. If the Lobos hope to make a splash nationally in March, they'll need Hobson to bring his A game.
Newcomer of the Week. Hobson.
Game of the Week. New Mexico 88, San Diego State 86 (OT). This game tipped off just as UNLV's defeat of BYU in Vegas went final, giving the Lobos a chance to create a three-way tie at the top of the conference. Likewise, if the Aztecs had won this, there would have been a two-way tie at the top with SDSU and New Mexico tied a game back. With such a logjam at the top of the conference, it was no wonder that this game would be a wild one as well. While the level of play in the game was stellar across the board, this game really came down to a battle between Hobson and Aztec junior guard D.J. Gay. Hobson tossed in a half-court shot at the end of a back-and-forth first half to put the Lobos up five at the break, and the Lobos extended their lead as high as ten early in the second half, and after some back and forth, the lead was still ten with just two minutes remaining. But Gay went off for 11 points on his own in the last two minutes, knocking down three (increasingly improbable) threes before getting fouled on another three-attempt with his Aztecs down two with just one second left. He made two of his three attempts to send the game to OT. But Hobson was not to be denied, scoring eight points in overtime, including his two game-winning free throws with 2.7 seconds left. Gay finished with a career-high 25 points while playing every minute of the game. Hobson, meanwhile, did take a couple minutes off, playing just 43 minutes, but still wound up with an amazing line of 29 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, four threes, and three steals.
Game of the Upcoming Week. UNLV @ San Diego State, 2/13/10, 1pm PST, Versus. The Rebels hope to maintain their position near the top of the MWC standings, while the Aztecs still believe they have a chance at an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. While that bid for the Aztecs looks unlikely at this point (their loss to Wyoming early in the MWC season was a killer, especially coupled with the lack of big non-conference wins), they still sport a strong 17-7 overall record and an RPI in the mid-40s. And, most importantly, they still have opportunities, with this home game and a trip to Provo in a couple of weeks. The roadmap to an Aztec at-large berth begins with a win over the Rebels on Saturday, an upset of the Cougars in Provo and a run to the MWC final in March, all while taking care of business with the teams at the lower end of the conference. It is a tough road to be sure, but one this team is capable of getting done.
League Notes
We're only a week into the second go-round in the MWC, but things have really started to clear up. New Mexico, BYU and UNLV are all more-or-less locked into NCAA bids; it would take quite a collapse for one of those teams to not be invited to dance.
The regular season championship will likely be decided February 27th when New Mexico visits BYU. New Mexico should coast from here to that game, likely riding a 12-game winning streak at that point. BYU will have to take care of a tough San Diego State team on the Wednesday before that game, but it is likely those teams will be tied atop the conference when they meet.
That leaves the Aztecs. Let's assume they beat UNLV at home this weekend. And, let's say they beat TCU, Utah, Colorado State and Air Force. That right there would put them at 22-7, 11-4 in conference. They win in the first round of the MWC tournament, then face the regular season champ in the semis and win that matchup too before losing in the MWC championship. Put them at 24-8 at that point with wins over New Mexico, UNLV and whoever the MWC regular season champ is, with their next best win over Arizona. Throw in a bad loss to Wyoming. RPI would likely be somewhere around 40. Is that good enough? I don't think it is. But, what if they also get the win at BYU on February 24th? I think if they get that, they can make a good case at 25-8 with wins over every other MWC team that will make the tourney.
Team Roundups
New Mexico
Looking back: Two big games, two big wins, and now all alone in first place (albeit still tied in the loss column with BYU). After a week in which New Mexico got back all of the mojo it had at the start of the season, the Lobos are a shoo-in to go dancing in March. After the overtime thriller with San Diego State on Saturday, New Mexico took control from the opening tip in Vegas on Wednesday. All four of their big offensive threats (Hobson, senior forward Roman Martinez, junior guard Dairese Gary and sophomore guard Philip McDonald) scored in double figures and the Lobos absolutely destroyed the Rebels on the glass all night long, finishing with a 45-23 advantage. The Lobos also shot 52% from three and knocked down 13 of their 14 free throw attempts and, despite a late Rebel run, held on for a convincing ten-point win.
Looking ahead: In the middle of February, it can be very easy to lose your focus, especially coming off a week in which you've knocked off two of your biggest competitors. The Lobos travel to Utah on Saturday night, and while this is by no means a strong Ute team, they are capable of rising up and biting the ankles of some of the teams ahead of them. Just ask UNLV. After the Utah trip, the Lobos return to the Pit to host Wyoming and Air Force.
Looking back: The Cougs are itching to get back on the court. They played only once this week, and before the matinee Vegas crowd had even opened their peanuts, BYU was on their way to getting blown out. The Rebels outscored BYU 56-34 in the first half, shooting 65% from the field and 70% from three and the Cougars were never able to scrap back into the game, dropping their second conference game of the season. Junior guard Jimmer Fredette wound up with 21 points (plus seven rebounds and six assists), but shot just four of 15 from the field. Freshman forward Brandon Davies missed the UNLV game with an emergency appendectomy and is expected to miss the next two weeks.
Looking ahead: The Cougars will have had a week to chew on that loss to UNLV by the time they host Air Force on Saturday, and that can't be good news for the outmanned Falcon squad. BYU will then travel to Colorado State on Wednesday.
Looking back: After putting a whooping on BYU on Saturday to move into a first-place tie, the follow-up game with New Mexico on Wednesday had to be a tough one for the Rebels. They came out of the gates flat, struggling along to a 12-point halftime deficit and, despite making a run late in the game, never seemed to fire on all cylinders. The most unforgivable sin was their lack of effort on the glass as they got outrebounded by 22, allowing the Lobos to score repeatedly on the offensive glass. The Rebels remain squarely in the thick of things near the top of the MWC leaderboard, but their loss to New Mexico relegated them to a team that needs multiple things to happen in order to win the regular season title.
Looking ahead: UNLV's last major challenge of the regular season comes Saturday with a trip to Montezuma Mesa to face San Diego State. After that, the Rebels just need to remain focused and take care of business against the lower tier of MWC teams, beginning with a trip to Utah on Wednesday for some revenge.
San Diego State
Looking back: While the Aztecs did take New Mexico to overtime on Saturday, the dirty little secret there is that they were really outplayed rather significantly by the Lobos, right up until the time when New Mexico got a little too conservative and Gay went nuts. But, give credit to Steve Fisher's squad for bouncing back on Wednesday with a dominating performance in knocking off reeling Wyoming. Freshman forward Kawhi Leonard went for a career-high 26 points (on 10/14 shooting) plus added eight rebounds and three steals as the Aztecs led by as many as 37 in the second half on the way to a 88-57 win.
Looking ahead: Huge Saturday for the Aztecs as they host UNLV before traveling to Fort Worth to face TCU on Wednesday.
Colorado State
Looking back: The Rams are officially tops in the second tier of the Mountain West. While they don't have the horses to play with the big boys above, they have been consistent enough to edge their way up to this fifth spot. This week, Colorado State took care of business, sprinting past Wyoming on Saturday and then edging Air Force on Tuesday, and have set themselves up nicely to potentially gain an NIT berth. Junior forward Travis Franklin was the star against Wyoming, scoring 18 of his 20 points in the second half. Against Air Force, it was more of a collective effort, with junior forward Andy Ogide scoring 12 and both freshman guard Dorian Green and freshman forward Greg Smith adding ten.
Looking ahead: The Rams have a week to prepare for their chance to host BYU on Wednesday and a chance to see if they have taken any steps forward since the Cougars crushed them early and often in a 91-47 game a month ago.
Looking back: The Utes began the second half of their conference schedule in much the same way they started the first half, with a solid victory over TCU. Freshman wing Marshall Henderson lit up the Frogs for 24 points on five threes and added six rebounds; junior guard Carlon Brown added 12 points. But the Utes still needed Henderson and senior guard Luka Drca to combine to go 10/10 from the free throw line in the last two minutes (both teams combined to shoot 30/33 from the line) to seal the win.
Looking ahead: Utah gets a chance to make a huge impact on the MWC race this week as they will host both New Mexico (on Saturday) and UNLV (on Wednesday). Expect them to pull off one upset this week, while they lose the other by 25 while shooting somewhere south of 30% from the field.
Looking back: If it hadn't happened already, it definitely happened this week. Head coach Jim Christian has turned the page and started to look towards next year. With Zvonko Buljan and Edvinas Ruzgas in the middle of disappointing senior seasons (their play in conference has been especially depressing), it looks like the Horned Frogs are starting to see what type of pieces they have to build around for next season. Sophomore point Tuffy Moss is a given. While he has showed some inconsistency, commits too many turnovers at times and is all too likely to fall in love with his jumper, he is a talented player on both ends of the court. Junior guard Greg Hill has been getting more attention offensively of late, and while he too can be wild at times, he is a capable shooter, knocking down seven threes on his way to 23 points in a win over Air Force on Saturday. And freshman forward Nick Cerina has shown flashes of brilliance this season, despite some inconsistency. He had 17 in the loss to Utah on Wednesday. Sophomore forward Kevin Butler and freshman guard Garlon Green have also proven themselves to be pieces who can be valuable for the Horned Frogs in the future.
Looking ahead: The Frogs travel to Wyoming on Saturday then return home to host San Diego State on Tuesday.
Looking back: At the start of the season there was a lot of optimism around Laramie, with a fast-paced offense, some pressure defense, a budding star in sophomore Afam Muojeke, exciting incoming transfer JayDee Luster and a handful of interesting parts, there were even some Cowboy fans who whispered a bit about postseason tournaments. Some three months later, head coach Heath Schroyer is the one MWC coach squirming on the hot seat, Muojeke is lost for the season, and the Cowboy roster is in disarray. This week, sophomore guard A.J. Davis announced he was leaving the program; Davis was still the team's third leading scorer, despite having seen his minutes drop drastically in conference play. Schroyer has now had six of his recruits leave the program in his three seasons in Laramie (Davis was the second this season – junior guard Thomas Manzano left the program in December) and in the Cowboys' losses this week (by 16 to Colorado State and by 31 to San Diego State), they only dressed ten players, only nine of whom were on scholarship.
Looking ahead: Playing out the string, the Cowboys host TCU on Saturday, then travel to New Mexico on Wednesday.
Air Force
Looking back: Just a couple weeks back the Falcons had broken their 22-game conference losing streak, their players were starting to get healthy and optimism surrounded the program. Now, the Falcons have started a new losing streak (up to three games now), senior forward Grant Parker continues to sustain injuries (dislocated shoulder most recently, although he is still playing through it) and it seems like the same old story in Colorado Springs. The Falcons did play Colorado State strong on Wednesday, even having a possible game-tying three by junior Evan Washington with five second left, but in the end this goes in the books as another two-loss week for Air Force.
Looking ahead: This will definitely not be a two-loss week for Air Force, as they play only once, traveling to BYU on Saturday. So, it will just be a one-loss week.


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Luci Thai (aka Lucy Thai) was born on November 13, 1984, in Long Beach, California. This mysterious Asian vixen has been heating up the camera lenses with steaming, no holds barred performances since she entered the porn industry back in 2003. Since her debut at age nineteen she has become well known for her anal and double penetration scenes as well as her many excellent facials. Luci loves to get extreme and although she insists she will never do double anal she has done double vaginal penetration in a handful of films. This kinky vixen has also shown a penchant for gangbangs and a love for well-endowed co-stars. Despite her petite physique she has been able to take on some of the biggest talent in porn including Lee Stone, Peter North and Shane Diesel. Her sizzling performances earned Luci a 2005 AVN nomination for Best Starlet.
As many of her fans know, Luci is not the only talent in her family. Her younger sister Nyla is also in the business. The two have appeared in several movies together although they don't play with each other sexually.


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The Humble and the Proud
Using the parable about the Tax Collector and the Pharisee, this activity will help show the difference between humility and pride.
Humility, Praise, Pride
Plain paper
Approximately 20 minutes
Have the kids follow along in their Bibles as you read the parable about the Tax Collector and the Pharisee in Luke 18:10-14. Have the kids review the story as they draw a picture to show the difference between the two men. Allow about 10 minutes to complete the picture. Then, have each child give his/her picture to the person on the right. Then have each child tell the class the positive aspects of the picture he or she is holding.
The Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee
"Two men went up to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood
up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers,
adulterers-or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his
breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' "I tell you that this man, rather than the
other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and
he who humbles himself will be exalted." Luke 18:10-14
Additional Questions:
1. Did you find one character easier to draw than the other one, if so which one and why?
2. How did you feel when your classmate explained what they liked about your picture?
3. Were there any pictures you did not think were as nice as yours? How did that make you feel?
4. If you had to choose to be one of the people in your picture, which one would you choose? Why would you choose this character?
5. Where does our ability to draw well come from?
When we boast about what we have, or look down on someone who is less fortunate, we are telling God that He is not important, and that we think we can do things on our own. This is so far from the truth. All good things come from God, by ourselves we are nothing. Therefore, we must live a humble life before God, and admit that without Him we are lost. To avoid being proud, we must acknowledge and thank Him for all He has given us. When we do this, God will exalt us. Remember that God knows what is in our hearts.


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That light is getting stretched and blurred, and researchers are getting to see it all in unprecedented detail, said NASA in a news release issued today.
In this instance, the corona -- a source of X-ray light that sits near a black hole -- recently collapsed in toward the black hole that's named Markarian 335.
The NuSTAR telescope has been collecting X-rays from black holes and dying stars for the past two years.
The craft completed its primary mission earlier this year, and it was redirected to investigate Markarian 335 once scientists noticed that the black hole had become dramatically brighter. NuSTAR observed that Markarian 335's gravity sucked the corona's light, an illuminating action that NASA likened to someone shining a flashlight for astronomers.
Scientists can now see the corona "lighting up material around the black hole," which allows them to study "the most extreme light-bending effects" of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, said NuSTAR's principal investigator, Fiona Harrison, in the news release. She is with the California Institute of Technology.
As if NuSTAR's observations and Einstein's theories aren't mind-boggling enough, NASA says the black hole Markarian 335 "spins so rapidly that space and time are dragged around with it."
The space agency says the new observations could help scientists better understand mysterious coronas and black holes, which are thought to be formed when massive stars collapse, creating such density that not even light can escape their intense gravitational pull.
Scientists believe supermassive black holes reside in the centers of galaxies. Some are more massive and rotate faster than others.
source: cnn.com By Suzanne Presto