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Mutatu Mutandis – or, Worse News at the 'Observer'
Colin Legum
Fleet Street is a raging, under-reported battlefield. For most of the time it's hard to discover what is going on, and even harder to know how much will be left of Britain's national newspapers, or what state they will be in, at the end of the current battle of the tycoons. Most of these tycoons have little or no knowledge of owning or managing newspapers, and many of them are foreigners. There is no rule to prevent any foreigner from buying a British national paper, and Colonel Qadhafi himself tried to do so in the case of the Observer.
Readers have no say in the fate of their favourite paper; and shareholders are often kept in the dark. The affairs of newspaper owners seem not to belong in the public domain: indeed, the rival proprietors go to extraordinary lengths to keep the public in the dark about what is happening. When news leaked out in the Guardian (21 June) about the latest eruption in the Observer's boardroom, Lonrho's spokesman, Paul Spicer, was not concerned to confirm or deny the accuracy of the report: his only response was to warn that a search would be made to discover which of the directors had leaked the information and that the offender would be sacked. That's the language of the new Fleet Street tycoons. David Astor, the former editor of the Observer, wrote in a letter to the Times: 'To allow a newspaper catering to political sector X of our community to be taken over by a proprietor who is a militant member of political sector Y is, plainly, not in the interests of its readers. This is also true in ethical terms; a buccaneer is not a suitable proprietor of a paper trusted for its reliability.'
A rapid survey of the position in Fleet Street shows that at the Observer a state of civil war exists between its buccaneer proprietor, on one side, and its editor, his staff and its independent directors, on the other. Elsewhere, Beaverbrook's old empire (Fleet Holdings) is a matter of contention: 'Digger' Murdoch and 'Tiny' Rowland are reported to have engaged in manoeuvres to divide up between themselves the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Star, with the intention of closing down the last in order to boost the fortunes of Murdoch's rising Sun. (At least this was Rowland's version of what was happening – Murdoch has denied it.) Robert Maxwell is trying to buy a 10 per cent share in Fleet Holdings from the, Australian tycoon Robert Holmes a Court for £15.4 million, while another bidder – it's not clear whether or not he is a rival to Maxwell – is an Egyptian financier: Dr Ashrat Marwan, son-in-law of the late President Nasser and confidant of the late President Sadat, has been secretly buying up shares in Fleet Holdings on behalf of unspecified Middle Eastern interests. Already, with a 4 per cent holding in these Beaverbrook papers, he owns more than the present wielder of power there, Lord Matthews – the tycoon admirer of Mrs Thatcher – from Trafalgar Holdings. In yet another sortie into the Fleet Holdings battle Swiss bankers are believed to be buying shares eagerly – and again, they are buying them for unknown clients.
Another salient is represented by the Mirror newspapers (the 'Voice of the People'). The Financial Times wrote on 16 June of developments in that quarter: 'In the secretive world of national newspaper management', Clive Thornton 'is attacking the established order with the same enthusiasm that he brought to the task of chairman of Abbey National'. At the Sunday Times Murdoch's new team have forced the departure of one of its political columnists, the deputy-editor, Hugo Young – a writer any newspaper might be glad to employ. As to what is happening at the Times – well, reading tastes differ: but who could ever have imagined that the Thunderer would seek to entice readers by conducting an up-market bingo game which is supposed to be more respectable because it is played with stocks and shares? On the outskirts of Fleet Street, the pro and anti-Moscow Communists are engaged in an internecine struggle of their own for the soul of what's left of the Morning Star.
Reuter's – originally set up as a non-profit-making venture to produce one of the world's finest news services – has been stripped of its original charter because its accumulated wealth made irresistible the temptation to float its equity on the Stock Exchange and so enrich a few newspaper proprietors and senior staff – as opposed to using its assets to improve its foreign news service and to investing its surplus in strengthening the financial basis of the media. Whether the guarantees offered to protect the integrity of Reuter's will stand the test of time remains to be seen.
A piece I wrote for the London Review of Books in November 1982 was headed 'Bad News at the Observer'. The worst fears expressed there have been justified by subsequent events, which reached a crisis with the public quarrel between the paper's proprietor and Lonrho's boss, Roland 'Tiny' Rowland, in his Cheapside headquarters, and the editor, Donald Trelford. This began over an article Trelford wrote about atrocities in Zimbabwe. The main point made in 1982 was in line with evidence given to the Monopolies Commission by the paper's former editor David Astor, by the chairman of the Observer Trust Lord Goodman, and by eight associate editors of the paper. The objection to the sale of the paper to Lonrho was that Rowland's far-flung business interests would inevitably prove incompatible with the editorial independence of any newspaper he owned. And this, of course, is precisely what lay behind the row that began with Trelford's report about events in Zimbabwe – a country from which Lonrho derives something like 8 per cent of its global profits. This 8 per cent makes it important for Lonrho to stay on good terms with Mugabe's government. Before publishing what he had discovered in Matabeleland, Donald Trelford took the proper precaution of telephoning his proprietor to inform him of what he intended to say. Rowland's response was predictable and revealing: 'I hear you are trying to destroy my business in Zimbabwe.' Not the response one might expect from a newspaper proprietor interested in printing the true facts about a major political event.
Although Rowland subsequently said the quarrel had merely been 'a lover's tiff, this was far from being the case. Behind the veil of kiss-and-make-up, an unsettling struggle has been going on, with Rowland keen to get rid not only of his editor but of three or four other senior staff members as well – notably the columnist Conor Cruise O'Brien, the financial writer William Keegan, and, in all probability, the political editor Adam Raphael. If he hasn't sacked them yet, it may only be because he finds himself strapped in by the conditions attached to the sale of the paper. But Rowland is a very determined character – as is shown by his relentless fight with the House of Fraser over the future of Harrods. He is the kind of man who, whatever the cost (even if it runs into millions), and however rough and unpleasant the fight, allows nothing to prevent him from trying to get his way.
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Cullinane To Hold Weekly Community Meetings
State Rep. Dan Cullinane announced a series of weekly "Dan in the District" community office hours at five convenient locations throughout the 12th Suffolk District including The Plate at 27 Central Ave., every Friday, beginning March 7.
Cullinane has also scheduled a weekly meeting at Flatblack Coffee, 1170 Washington St. in Dorchester, from 9-11 a.m.
Cullinane, whose district includes Precincts 1 and 2 in Milton, said the initiative is part of his on-going commitment to enable residents of the district to have consistent and direct access to meet with him personally without having to commute into the State House.
"Many people who care very deeply about our communities, who have great ideas and observations, do not have the time or flexibility to visit the State House, to make a phone call during the work day, or to attend a monthly community meeting." Cullinane said. "During the campaign, I made a promise to the people of Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, and Milton to make accessibility for all one of my top priorities. I believe this aggressive weekly schedule blocking 12 hours to meet with residents at five different locations throughout the district every Friday shows that commitment.
"This is just one additional way I hope to engage and empower residents to take an active role in improving the district. I look forward to having conversations with folks as they grab their morning coffee, stop for lunch, or pick up their dinner."
No advance notice is needed and Cullinane said he will meet with constituents on a first come, first serve basis at each location. Any changes to the schedule will be posted on the Representative's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CullinaneForRep or Twitter handle @dannycullinane which can be accessed at www.twitter.com/DannyCullinane.
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Do you suffer from low energy levels? Weight gain? Dry skin? Constipation?
In this video I explain why these, and other symptoms, could be a tip-off that you're having problems with an underactive thyroid.
Your thyroid is a small butterfly-shaped gland in your throat area that contains thyroglobulin protein, which binds to iodine to form hormones, which in turn influence essentially every organ, tissue and cell in your body.
A thyroid condition occurs when too much or too little thyroglobulin protein in your thyroid binds to iodine, hence producing too many or too few hormones. Two key hormones produced by your thyroid are triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). These hormones help oxygen get into cells, and make your thyroid the master gland of metabolism.
There are a number of different problems that can go wrong with your thyroid, but one of the most common is hypothyroidism; a condition where your thyroid is producing too few hormones. Hypothyroidism affects some 80 percent of people with thyroid disease.
Another common problem is nodules on your thyroid, or you may develop the opposite of hypothyroidism, known as hyperthyroidism, where your thyroid is overactive.
Thyroid disease, if left untreated, can lead to heart disease, infertility, muscle weakness, osteoporosis and, in extreme cases, coma or death -- yet it's estimated that half of the cases in the United States, about 15 million people, remain undiagnosed. So if you present certain symptoms, there's a good possibility -- especially if you are a woman – that you might be one of these individuals.
How Can You Tell if You Have Hypothyroidism?
The most sensitive way to answer this question is to listen to your body. Symptoms of an underactive thyroid include:
- Reduced energy levels – Fatigue and lack of enthusiasm and energy is a common symptom of a low-functioning thyroid. This is also a classic sign of depression, so if you've been diagnosed with depression, you'll want to make sure your physician checks your thyroid levels.
Not all fatigue or tiredness is due to thyroid malfunction however, so how do you tell the difference?
Thyroid-related fatigue begins to appear when you cannot sustain energy long enough, especially when compared to a past level of fitness or ability. If your thyroid foundation is weak, sustaining energy output is difficult. You will notice you just don't seem to have the energy to do the things you used to be able to do.
Some of the key symptoms of thyroid fatigue include:
- Feeling like you don't have the energy to exercise, and typically not exercising on a consistent basis.
- A heavy or tired head, especially in the afternoon, as your head is a very sensitive indicator of thyroid hormone status.
- Falling asleep as soon as you sit down and don't have to do anything
- Weight gain – Easy weight gain, or difficulty losing weight, despite an aggressive exercise program and watching your diet is another indicator.
- Dry, rough or scaly skin, and dry, tangled hair – In the winter months, many of us experience bouts of dry skin and hair, but if you have perpetually dry skin that doesn't respond well, then hypothyroidism is a consideration.
- Constipation
- Hair loss – Women especially will want to pay attention to their thyroid when unexplained hair loss occurs. Fortunately, if your hair loss is due to low thyroid function, your hair will come back with proper thyroid treatment.
- Sensitivity to cold – Feeling cold all the time is also an indicator of low thyroid function.
Any of these symptoms can be indicative of an underactive thyroid, but the more of these symptoms you experience, the higher the likelihood that you have hypothyroidism.
How to Diagnose Hypothyroidism
There are a number of different ways to diagnose hypothyroidism. One is to accurately measure your body temperature. Although there are a few different protocols, the most commonly used is the Broda Barnes system.
I prefer using laboratory diagnostic measures; however care must be taken when evaluating them as the lab reference ranges are not ideal.
Typically, a TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) blood test is done. TSH is a hormone produced by your pituitary, which becomes elevated when your thyroid gland is malfunctioning because your body produces TSH in response to decreased hormone levels in order to 'jump start' your thyroid.
The higher your level of TSH, the higher the likelihood that you have hypothyroidism.
Traditionally, the range for acceptable thyroid function is between 0.3 and 3.04, and anything above 5.0 is considered hypothyroidism. However that is simply not accurate.
In my experience, most adults with levels over 3 have hypothyroidism, and more than likely, if your level is above 1.5, there's a good possibility you have this condition and would benefit from thyroid support.
Fortunately, there are additional tests that can confirm whether or not you have an underactive thyroid, and it is vital you have these tests done.
Typically tests for T3 and T4 are used, but even more important are what's called the 'free-T3' and the 'free-T4.' If those hormones are out of the normal reference ranges then you have a problem.
Foods That Heal or Harm Your Thyroid
One of the commonly consumed foods that worsen your thyroid is unfermented soy. It contains isoflavones that are clearly associated with reduced thyroid function.
If you've bought into the deceptive hype that soy is a health food, I urge you to read Dr. Kaayla Daniel's book, The Whole Soy Story, which covers the health aspects of soy in depth.
One food that can improve your thyroid function, on the other hand, is coconut oil. It contains medium chain triglycerides and saturated fat, and is, I believe, one of the healthiest fats you can use as a regular part of your diet.
Iodine Deficiency – A Common Cause for Hypothyroidism
The number after the 'T', such as T3 or T4, stands for the number of iodine molecules the hormone contains. In fact, iodine deficiency -- which is one of the three most common nutritional deficiencies, along with vitamin D and magnesium deficiencies -- is an easily remedied cause of hypothyroidism.
One simple test to check for iodine deficiency entails applying iodine to your skin to see how rapidly it is absorbed.
A simple way to ensure you're getting enough iodine is to get an inexpensive prescription from your physician for SSKI, which is a super-saturated potassium iodine. You simply apply three drops to your skin and rub it in, once a day.
How can you tell if you have enough iodine in your body?
If when you touch something with slightly wet fingertips and it leaves a yellowish stain, then the iodine is coming out of your skin, indicating your body is saturated.
Treatment Options for Hypothyroidism
It's important to realize that early intervention can successfully restore your thyroid function. If you've had your thyroid gland surgically removed, however, you have no choice but to keep taking thyroid hormones for the rest of your life.
When it comes to thyroid hormones, you have two major options: synthetic or natural.
One of the most commonly used is Synthroid, a synthetic hormone. Another common T4 hormone preparation is Levothroid. I rarely recommend using those, as most people cannot effectively convert the T4 in synthetic thyroid preparations to T3. About the only time I find it helpful is for people who are sensitive to Armour Thyroid or for those who have been on synthetic hormones for many years when the benefit for shifting appears to be minimal.
I also do not recommend Cytomell, which is a T3 hormone preparation, although it can be used in conjunction with the others to help balance out your hormones.
If you've been on synthetic hormones for an extended period of time, say 10 to 20 years, the likelihood of you being able to wean yourself off the hormones is limited and challenging.
But if you're newly diagnosed, or have not been on synthetic hormones for very long, I strongly recommend Armour Thyroid – a natural porcine thyroid extract, which provides not only T3 and T4, but also T1 and T2, which will help normalize your hormone response.
As a side note, it's rare for a conventional physician to prescribe natural hormones, and one of the ways you can distinguish a naturally oriented physician from a more conventionally oriented one is by finding out what type of hormone they would prescribe for their patients.
Additional All-Natural Methods to Restore Thyroid Function
In order to address the root cause of an under-functioning thyroid, I strongly recommend you also implement the following lifestyle changes:
- Eat a healthy diet, following a nutrition plan that is right for your nutritional type, and avoid processed and refined foods.
- Make sure you're getting enough selenium and iodine, which provide the raw materials for your thyroid gland to work better.
- Get plenty of omega-3 fats from high quality sources like krill oil. A variety of studies and physiological principles suggest that omega-3 fat in doses of 3-5 grams per day would be helpful in restoring thyroid function.
- Get a sound night's sleep, in complete darkness.
- Address your emotional stress. The vast majority of people's thyroid glands become impaired as a result of weak adrenal glands. The thyroid gland tries to compensate for this and eventually just gives up and stops working.
Well, adrenal impairment is frequently due to emotional stress, and unless you have these previous emotional challenges resolved, there is little likelihood of recovering your thyroid function without hormonal replacement.
Thyroid function is a complex topic, and if you need more information and support, one of the leaders in the field is Mary Shomon, the about.com thyroid expert.


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You know I love parcels. Yesterday's mail was exciting.
Firstly I opened an envelope to find this stunning printed fabric so beautifully packaged from Belinda Kemp (aka gretchenmist). My desk is covered in all things blue and green at the moment so these fabrics continue the theme.
The other letter that came in the mail was from the school to say that Sachin is due to start his transition visits in 2 weeks. Awwwww... my little boy going to school! How did that come around so fast? I recall having a conversation a couple of months ago with another mum and saying that I really questioned whether he would be ready to go when he turned five. It's amazing how all of the sudden they develop emotionally and seem so much older in the last term of Kindergarten.
I remember exactly the same thing happening with Ruby before she started school. So young Sachin will be celebrating his 5th birthday in a few weeks and no surprises here, it's going to be a Lego party (remember the t-shirt). No complaints from me. I think it sounds like super fun and there are a stream of ideas running through my head! I've just ordered some of these for the party (favor) bags - aren't they great :)


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This collection of Piobaireachd Terminology provides some delightfull insights into words we commonly use today. I am not sure who compiled the document but it was kindly provided to us by Ron MacLeod MBE, Canada.
In the Piobaireachd Society's books, frequent reference is made to the Cragich, a term attaching to many tunes in the Campbell Canntaireachd. One comment is the mysterious, and another the cryptic Cragich, and its meaning is still seemingly unknown. The Canntaireachd has many mistranslations and misunderstandings of the Gaelic, which would seem to have been the work of either Gaels with a very limited knowledge of the English language, or else an English speaker with no knowledge of the Gaelic, and who translated phonetically. For, quite apart from the fact that words do change their meanings down the centuries, until recently, Gaelic was almost entirely a spoken tongue and many speakers were, by modern standards, illiterate. Therefore dialects also play their part in adding to the confusion, and a perusal of a number of Gaelic/English dictionaries show a wide divergence of meaning.
Cragich being apparently a Pibroch term, and remembering the many references in Ossian to rocky, echoing places, and also to Jos. MacDonald's similar quote, to play amidst Rocks, Hills, Valleys and Coves where echoes rebounded, and not to join a formal regulated chamber concert, led me to search amongst the rocks and crags of the dictionaries, and there I found the word Creachedh. Being a Sassanach, I asked some of my Gaelic friends to pronounce this word for me (none of them had ever met this word) and to my ear it certainly could be Cragich.
Some dictionaries define this word as preying, plunder, spoil, free booting, but in a century-old book in the City of London Guildhall Library, edited by J. M. MacLeod, the definition is Execution on a musical instrument.
This definition opens up a wide field of speculation. It does not distinguish between the player or the tune, or to pipe music and could apply to all instrumental music. But as regards Pibroch, it is well known that in olden times there were indoor tunes, played on a smaller pipe, and with a vocal accompaniment. Also poems are extant called Pibrach and their verses headed Urlar, Siubhal and Crunluath respectively. The instructions were that the Urlar was to be recited slowly, the lines often repeating themselves, the Siubhal to be read a little faster, whilst the Crunluath was a verbal gallop. Then came the development of the Piob Mor, with its loud chanter and drones, essentially an outdoor instrument.
Thus, in trying to classify these outdoor tunes, composed exclusively for the Great Pipe, it would surely be very natural to coin a word from the crags and rocks amongst which they were played, hence Creachedh.
Is this really the meaning of Cragich?
In the City of Westminster Library there is (or was), a Gaelic/English dictionary, again of the mid-1800's. (My recollection, which may be faulty, is that it was an early MacLaren) which had quite a lot of information for the Pibroch student. Apart from a most knowledgeable paragraph (the only sensible one I have read in a non-piping book) there were also a number of very interesting words.
The first word I consulted was Urlar and the definition was ground, floor, etc., hence Theme. But there is another word, pronounced much the same but spelt Urluidh and this latter word was defined as A Lay or melody of great beauty!
In some of the earlier collections of Ceol Mor, we find the terms Taorluidh and Creanluidh latterly spelt as Taorluath and Crunluath. Thus Urluidh could surely be pronounced as Urlar? There is still another Gaelic word, sounding very much the same, aon–luath which was translated for me by a Uist piping friend as meaning, to him, one (finger).
A consideration of the phonetic similarity of these three words gives a probable clue as to the early basis of Pibroch, and to its subsequent development. Can we not deduce that it started as a song, or other melody, and to preserve the pure melodic line, was played simply, with single grace notes (one finger). This was the Urluidh later explained as being the ground of the tune, and thus translated literally as Urlar.
The limitations of the chanter which make accepted harmonies impossible would thus lead to a use of two grace notes, hence the dithis or couplet, and to the Siubhal. As Seumas MacNeill explains in his very scholarly book, Piobaireachd, pipers have now come to accept a distinction between the two movements, the dithis having the accent on the upper note, whilst the siubhal has its accent on the lower, and here this dictionary confirms this view. For apart from the usual definitions of siubhal such as to depart, departure, etc., the word is also associated with death, to depart this life. Musically, the dithis, with the upward throw, depicts life, vitality, standing up, whilst the siubhal is surely for more sombre and sad. This musical thought is extended into certain taorluath variations, notably in the Lament for Donald of Laggan, and in Donald MacDonald's setting of Too Long in this Condition, about which there will be more to say.
The next challenge would be to invent a three grace note turn, hence the tri–luth or tripling. But even the orthodox taorluath is really a three note beating since it was played closed, i.e. the little finger was kept down, so it is a g.d.e. fingering.
The next invention would be the use of four grace notes, which is the crunluath. Again a closed movement (vide Jos. MacDonald) this is merely the taorluath, plus an f grace note. Doubtless the lifting of the little finger, thereby giving an a was a later development.
The five note beating again quoted in MacDonald's Treatise, has dropped out of use and knowledge, but does it not survive in the Flame of Wrath? Add a c to the final two low g's, join them into one movement, and have we not the original MacCrimmon fingering? As is well known, the complications went still further until Patrick Og decided that pipers were being cursed with too many fingers and he felt that the time had come for some measure of simplification.
The appearance of these notes on the lines and spaces of Staff Notation may well have obscured our thoughts as to the essential simplicity and natural logic of this progression.
The other interesting dictionary discovery relates to the mach notes. Mach is generally translated as out and this has been assumed to mean that the piper has reached the end of the variations. But this explanation is not at all satisfactory, and does not explain the taorluath mach. Fortunately the Westminster book gives a far better answer, for it defines mach as certainly meaning out, i.e. the grip is outside the chanter. This is ingenious but surely a wholly satisfying definition. It also confirms our traditional teaching of this movement, that there are two grips, a closed and an open or mach, and that four theme notes should therefore be heard (the first cut) and that the final e must not be over emphasised, since it is not a melody note.
Whilst on the subject of dictionaries, another word Crosanachd relates to the pibroch, The Blind Piper's Obstinacy and throws an entirely different light upon the traditional understanding of this tune.
The Gaelic title is Crosanachd an Doill, the first word being translated as obstinate, perverse, peevish. crotchety, etc., hence the Obstinacy, the tune being something about an obstinate, irritable blind man. This is unrealistic to begin with, blind people are normally very placid, what the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve about, and they are not inclined to lose their tempers. Now there is a well known musical term ostinato frequently misprinted as obstinato meaning a melody with a repetitive or obstinate theme. To this extent, practically all pibrochs are obstinatos, and since Joseph MacDonald in 1760 wrote about Adajios and Allegros surely he, or some other savant from the cities would apply the expression to a pibroch. Hence the Blind Piper's Obstinacy applies to the tune, and not to the piper,
But the music itself tells us what the tune is all about. It is bird song, a cuckoo and a thrush or lark. Many years ago I was told of an old tradition in Gairloch that Iain Dall had composed a tune to sunlight but that the tune had been lost. There is nothing unusual in music or melody being dedicated to the sun, all cultures from the earliest times have done it. But how would a blind man describe his feelings for the sun he could not see ? Surelv by the sounds he hears, and in the wilds of Gairloch it is the birds which express their delight, with song, at the returning sunlight. The Urlar is the call of the cuckoo, the pitch diminishing as the bird flies away, the call slinked by a few notes which, to me, depict vastness or space, the open air. In Var. 2, the other bird joins in, the trill on the E, and thereafter a cacophony of bird song, as the sunlight, and warmth increases. This is what happens when the sun rises to gradually pierce the early mists, or when it emerges from behind a storm cloud. For in the Piobaireachd Society's Book No. 9 (Laird of Anapool's Lament) mention is made of a legend that lain Dall MacKay composed a tune, In Praise of the Rainbow. It is more than probable that the sunlight and rainbow legends are the same.
Now for what the dictionaries have to tell us about Crosanachd. All those I have consulted give obstinate, stubborn, peevish, etc., but in a work by (the late Dr. Norman) MacLeod and Dewar, it is further defined as a certain mode of versification. Could this, by any chance, be the verbal recital of pibrach previously mentioned? But the final interesting discovery is in a dictionary by Alex. MacBain, which extends the meaning to Poet and Chorister, and a standard English dictionary defines the latter as Any singer, i.e. as a bird!
Thus Crosanachd=a singing bird and the dictionary finally confirms the music, which confirms the tradition, and at last gives sense and reason to the traditional instruction that the variations are to be played lively.
I trust that these thoughts may stimulate others into similar research, and thus clarify a little of the confusion over Pibroch nomenclature, and give a new meaning towards its understanding, and playing.
To conclude with two rather random points, but still on the aspect of mistranslation, there is the word Spaidsearachd, translated as March and many tunes have this word in their title. But I was told many years ago that this was not a happy translation, that there is, in fact, no English word which really describes its true meaning. In olden times, the piper was a proud man, high in the Clan hierarchy, and when he appeared before his Chief, properly apparelled and bannered, to play his tune, he strutted or stalked, i.e. carried himself with pride and dignity. This was the spaidsearachd and unlike Obstinacy, applied to the piper, not to the tune.
This mention of the Chief recalls a comment the late Dr. Calum MacCrimmon made to me about the Piper's Warning to his Master. Calum would have none of it, the piper was not a menial, a dog, and he acknowledged no master, his allegiance and duty was to his Chief. If this tune were renamed the Piper's Warning to his Chief it would be true to tradition and may find greater favour with present-day pipers. Personally, I was originally biased against it simply because of its present name.
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Jan 11, 19 01:28 PM
Playing Jigs - for this video Pipe Major Bill Robertson introduces you to the technique of playing Jigs on the bagpipe chanter
Jan 09, 19 03:33 AM
Strikes. Pipe Major Bill Robertson demonstartes the correct technique for playing strikes on the bagpipe chanter


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#TwitterfailThursday, April 30th, 2015
Twitter shares fell nearly 20% Tuesday night after a financial service company posted Twitter revenue, first-quarter earnings, and user figures:
Revenue jumped 74 percent from the year-earlier period, but the total was worse than even the most pessimistic of the 36 analyst estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.
The company's second-quarter revenue outlook of $470 million to $485 million was also well below the average Wall Street forecast of $538 million.
"We anticipate the factors that affected our first-quarter results will also affect our 2015 guidance," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said in the company's earnings call.
Monthly users went up and advertising revenue actually skyrocketed by 80% but the stock got clobbered after hours.
When it comes to social media sites like Twitter, the thing that always amazes The Mayor is not the increase in revenue they seem to turn every quarter, but the fact that their revenue is more than 1 cent. The Mayor can't figure out how any of these sites make actual money. Do they make it by clicks? If so, does anyone know anyone, ever, who has actually clicked on one of their ads? Other than by mistake, of course.
How does Twitter make half a billion dollars not producing anything but clicks, and Facebook makes a magnitude of 10x what Twitter makes by actually not selling anything but clicks?
The Mayor knows there is more to it than that, but really there isn't that much more to it than that.
The fact that social media sites make anything is astounding. They produce nothing. They can't even outsource jobs to China because there aren't any jobs to outsource.
Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr – they are all worth billions, but eventually they will all have the same place in history alongside Myspace.


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Accelerite doesn't just hire graduates. We hire the best graduates. We don't offer jobs. We offer careers. We believe in a group of driven, smart, experienced, passionate, innovative, forward-thinkers. We are problem solvers. We respect each other. We believe in challenging the status quo. We believe in thinking differently.
Accelerite provides the opportunity to work with some of the brightest in the industry. The best part about working for Accelerite is its people and the values-based culture which ensures individuals career growth, while growing as a company.
I appreciate working in a true team environment where everyone, including top management, is readily available to support you and help you to excel.
Great collaboration and team spirit among the multi-cultural distributed teams who are centric around the unique company culture makes Accelerite a great place to work.
I work with global teams across multiple regions and no day is the same. It's this diversity which makes working at Accelerite really enjoyable.


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A quick rundown on the reported specs of HTC's new flagship model, it is rumoured to include a 5'' 1080p display and is powered by Snapdragon 810 chip with an octa-core processor. The phone is also carrying a 20.7 MP rear camera and a front 13 MP or Ultra pixel selfie snapper for all of your picture taking needs. Unsurprisingly, Android 5 Lollipop and HTC Sense UI 7.0 are running the phone.
Recent news has revealed that the HTC Hima would come in Gray, Silver and Gold Variants which are quite reminiscent of its big brother, the HTC One(M8).


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MR. JOHN SILVESTER VARLEY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION, BARCLAYS BANK PLC (UK.) 19 FLEET STREE, LONDON EC4p 4DR, UNITED KINGDOM. I am the chief executive in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of the Barclays Bank Plc. London, United Kingdom. I crave your indulgence as I contact you in such a surprising manner but I respectfully insist you read this letter carefully as I am optimistic it wills open doors for unimaginable financial rewards for both of us. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of Eight Million Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$8.4m) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers (Mr. Rick Rescorla from Irish-Republic of Ireland) who died alongside with his wife, in a tragic terrorist attack that wreck the World Trade Centre on 09/11/2001 in New York, United States of America. On January 16th 2000, Mr. Rick Rescorla made a FIXED deposit of the sum of Eight Million Four Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$8.4m) for Nine(9) years and after the expiration of his Fixed deposit, and payment due,I discovered that he and his wife was among the dead victims in a tragic bomb blast that wreck the World Trade Centre on 09/11/2001 in New York. Find out more on the below webpage; http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,,553732,00.html#article_continue http://money.cnn.com/2001/09/11/news/wtc_crash/ On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a next of kin and all attempts to trace his next of kin were fruitless since he died with his wife (MISS. NEIL RESCORLA), and they have no children. Upon my further investigation, I discovered that Mr. Rick Rescorla did not declare any next of kin in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork. This fund still in our bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year and no one will ever come forward to claim it. According to the British Banking Law has contained in the memorandum of association, as at the time he deposited the money, at the expiration of Nine (9) years, the money will revert to the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill if no one apply for it. Since we got information about his death, no one ever come forward and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortunately there is no one that comes for the claim. It is therefore upon this that I now decided to make this business proposal to you so that the money could be released to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner. I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 50% would be for me and 10% for any expenses that may arise and also part to the homeless, Privileges and motherless homes. Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your Name, Your private telephone and fax number, Your Home Address and Occupation for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remit. 1. NAME IN FULL:... 2. ADDRESS:... 3. NATIONALITY:... 4. AGE:... 5. SEX... 6. OCCUPATION:... 7. MARITAL STATUS:... 8. PHONE... 9. FAX:... Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the full details of the transaction and application form to apply to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free, 100% risk free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me on my private email at (firstname.lastname@example.com) as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you and please kindly give me a call. This is my private phone number: +44 203 695 3422 Yours faithfully, Mr. John Silvester Varley email@example.com


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ABC News reported this morning that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's Web site to track stimulus spending, was calculating jobs created in non-existent congressional districts.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty picked up on the news this afternoon, tweeting "Fed spending out of control- it appears to go places that don't exist. MN has 8 cong districts; Recovery.gov says we have a 57th."
He's right. In fact, not only does the site list a 57th district, but there's also a "42nd," a "27th" and even a "00," which received about $400,000.
Recovery Board officials told ABC that the district mixup was the result of stimulus recipients submitting forms with faulty data because they "don't know what congressional district they live in."
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Ideas and Findings
Classes that mix students at different ages and grade levels are growing in popularity in schools worldwide. But teachers and parents often oppose the idea, arguing that learning suffers when educators have to contend with a wider range of student abilities.
A study published in the Winter 1995 Review of Educational Research suggests that such concerns may be unfounded.
Simon Veenman, a researcher from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, analyzed 56 studies from 12 countries. He separated the research into two groups--studies involving schools that were mixing grades for economic reasons and studies involving schools trying out the idea for pedagogical reasons. He labels the two groups multigrade and multiage classrooms, respectively.
Veenman found that, for the most part, students in multigrade classrooms did not learn more or less than students in single-grade classrooms. And their attitudes toward school and toward themselves were no different than those of their peers in more homogeneous settings. What's more, Veenman adds that multiage classrooms didn't have any effect on student achievement either. But they did produce slight improvements in the way students felt about school and about themselves.
"These classes are simply no worse, and simply no better, than single-grade or single-age classes," he concludes of both classroom arrangements.
At the same time, however, Veenman calls for better training for teachers who have to work in these new settings. "Teacher training institutions should acknowledge that the multigrade/multiage class is a present and future reality."
Common wisdom has long held that low self-esteem can lead to a host of disturbing social problems, ranging from unemployment to murder. And schools have done their part to fend off those outcomes by taking steps to boost children's confidence in themselves.
But a new and potentially controversial report published in the February 1996 Psychological Review calls into question the conventional view.
Researchers Roy F. Baumeister and Joseph M. Boden of Case Western Reserve University and Laura Smart of the University of Virginia contend that high self-esteem--not low self-esteem--may be a cause of violence.
As part of their study, the researchers reviewed dozens of empirical studies from several disciplines on people with hostile tendencies. They looked at data on murderers, rapists, violent young gang members, and spouse abusers, among others. They also reviewed studies on political terrorism, genocide, prejudice, and oppression. In some of the studies, the aggressors' self-esteem was directly measured; in others, it had to be inferred.
Rather than feeling negative about themselves, the researchers found, "violent and criminal individuals have been repeatedly characterized as arrogant, confident, narcissistic, egotistical, assertive, proud, and the like." Moreover, the offenders became violent when their highly favorable--and often unrealistic--views of themselves were challenged. They point to the rapist, for example, who claims he attacked a woman because she acted "superior."
"The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone," Baumeister and his colleagues conclude, "may therefore end up doing considerable harm."
Do boys do better in math than girls? The question has been a subject of controversy among researchers for years. In the latest study on the subject, a University of British Columbia researcher offers up an international perspective.
For his master's thesis, Xin Ma re-examined data on 13-year-olds and high school seniors from the 1982 Second International Mathematics Study to compare male and female students in Canada, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Within each setting, he found, female students at both age levels scored just as well as their male counterparts in algebra and geometry. But Ma did find some slight differences when he looked across the entire testing population. Analyzed that way, the data showed that male high school seniors had a slight edge over their female counterparts in geometry. Among the 13-year-olds, both genders performed equally well.
"If the gender gaps in algebra and geometry are fairly small up to the age of 13," Ma writes, "it is reasonable to suggest that boys and girls may notbe born with different abilities in mathematics." His study was published in the November/December 1995 issue of The Journal of Educational Research.
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Wikileaks: Clinton Proposed Drone Bombing Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange
Julian Assange announced Sunday he was cancelling his much anticipated announcement on leaked Clinton documents.
Assange said he was cancelling the planned speech due to security concerns.
Assange was going to make the announcement on Tuesday.
Obviously, Julian Assange is concerned about his safety.
Julian Assange announced in August: The "Most Interesting and Serious" Wikileaks Info On Hillary Clinton Yet to Be Released
Now this…
Wikileaks posted a document this morning that reportedly shows Hillary wanted to drone bomb Julian Assange.
Wikileaks tweeted this out this morning:
To Silence Wikileaks, #HillaryClinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016
Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ pic.twitter.com/qy2EQBa48y
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016
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The Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM) is a concept to build the first expressway between India and China, which will pass through Myanmar and Bangladesh. The concept emerged in the late 1990s from China's Yunnan province about possible sub regional cooperation involving south-western China, eastern India, Myanmar and Bangladesh. This eventually led to the development of the platform, which came to be known as the 'Kunming Initiative'. The first meeting of the initiative was convened in 1999 in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. Proponents of the idea projected two prominent objectives behind the BCIM initiative; one economic integration of the sub-region and second, development of the border regions.
On April 26 2017, the Joint Study Group (JSG) of the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor concluded its third meeting in which four separate reports involving 11 sectors were presented for consideration by the respective governments. These included general principles on objectives and modalities; connectivity; energy; investment and finance, trade, and trade facilitation; human resource development; sustainable development; and the institutional mechanisms required to implement the recommendations.
However, there is a perception among the Chinese scholars that India has become lukewarm to the BCIM project by linking it with its reservations on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
It seems that after witnessing slow response from India, China may put in more concentrated efforts to link Kunming with the Bay of Bengal by establishing its route through Lashio, Mandaley to the sea port Kyauk Phyu in Myanmar, which is feasible in terms of distance and location. Myanmar plays a significant role in China's Belt and Road Initiative, due to its strategic location close to Southeast Asia and its better opening in the Bay of Bengal.
But in the current context of trust deficit between India and China, the initiative
does not seem to be reaching the implementation phase in the near future. There is fragile security situation in northeastern states of India, the Rohingya crisis and security in Rakhine State of Myanmar resulting in trust deficit between Bangladesh and Myanmar. The two major countries, India and China have different agendas, purposes, and viewpoints that continue to hold back progress on the BCIM initiative. Indian External Affairs Ministry Additional Secretary A. Gitesh Sarma pushed for caution on BCIM in the recent JSG meeting: "We should be mindful of different domestic circumstances and developmental aspirations in our respective countries. While we focus on expanding trade volumes, equal attention should also be paid to its sustainability. Greater access to each other's markets is desirable to achieve more viable and sustainable trade cooperation in our region."
India fears that the BCIM would simply facilitate Chinese imports of natural resources and exports of processed goods to the region, ignoring its massive trade deficit with China. On the other hand, China reportedly wants immediate action and commitment to the initiative. It is also advocated in India that for the BCIM corridor project to be successful, China must stop river diversion and dam-building projects as it impacting relations among the member states. Differences in perceptions and approaches to the BCIM project continue to hinder the project, which may remain on the table.


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FotoFinder Hub allows you to syncronize your patient database between FotoFinder Hub and handyscope.
You can access your full FotoFinder Hub patient
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FotoFinder Trichoscale is the tool for counting hairs digitally with handyscope. It can be considered as a modified version of the trichogram, combining epiluminescence microscopy with digital image analysis for the measurement of hair. Install the local FotoFinder Trichoscale software and enjoy the direct login to your FotoFinder
Hub account. More on FotoFinder Trichoscale.
The noninvasive method can be used to determine the main parameters of hair growth automatically and painlessly. The FotoFinder Trichoscale software assumes that anagen hair grows at a rate of about 0.3 mm a day, whereas telogen hair does not grow at all. The software detects hairs, measures their length and uses this information for automatic calculation of number of hair, hair density and anagen-telogen rate. The vellus and terminal hair number and density are determined as well.
This method is advantageous because it is possible to take photographs easily and quickly, the process is painless and it is possible to reproduce and store the results. The same areas of the scalp can be examined again and again. Therefore, it is recommended to do clinical photo documentation.
Thus, FotoFinder Trichoscale helps quantifying hair loss and evaluating the results of hair treatments. By taking sequential photographs, e.g. before and 6 months after the beginning of the treatment, detailed reports may be drawn up with regard to the success or the failure of the treatment.
FotoFinder Hub can be licenced as a platform for teledermatology projects with private user groups. For example, a dermatologist could review dermatoscopic images taken by general practicioners in his region. Within an institution physicians upload their images for review by experts of the clinic. Thanks to its cost- and time-saving workflow FotoFinder makes efficient telemedicine projects possible. Please contact FotoFinder for additional information about Private Groups.
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Program Description:
Students participating in this one hour program learn about the soldiers who fought at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, and the choices which confronted colonial men and women in the turbulent years leading up to the outbreak of war. Students meet a Colonial Militiaman, British Soldier or Daughter of Liberty (portrayed by a Park Ranger) at Hartwell Tavern or Minute Man Visitor Center / Whittemore House and discover what it was like to live through this incredible period of history and the events of 1775. Students will get the chance to perform 18th century military drill, role play, examine period reproduction objects and witness a musket firing demonstration. During the course of the program, the complexity of the Battle of Lexington and Concord emerges as students compare and contrast the experiences and perceptions of British soldiers, Colonial militiamen, and Colonial women committed to the cause of Liberty.
Colonial militiamen, British regular soldiers, and Colonial women each had their own distinct experiences that influenced their ideas about liberty and military service, and the course of events on April 19, 1775.
To create a balanced, vivid, wide-angle view of the Lexington Alarm as a historic event and its significance in American history, and gain a better understanding of the soldiers and civilians who took part in it.
Behavioral Objectives:
- Students will be able to place key events surrounding the Lexington Alarm in their chronological order.
- Students will recognize key vocabulary terms that come up frequently in the story of the Lexington Alarm.
- Students will be able to locate Concord in relation to Boston and surrounding communities and calculate distances.
Students will gain a better understanding of the Lexington Alarm and factors leading to American victory and British defeat.
Students will understand why a citizen militia made sense to the colonists instead of a professional army, and what qualified a person to serve.
- Students will gain insight into the life of the British soldier
- Students will understand how and why18th-century battles were fought they way they were.
- Students will learn how women of Colonial New England served the cause of resistance, even before the first shot was fired.
- Students will gain insight into the division of labor between men and women, how women would serve the military, political, and domestic needs of their communities, and how their roles would begin to change after the Revolution.
Knowledge Required:
Before taking part in this program, students should know:
The various acts of Parliament and political arguments that caused tensions to mount between Great Britain
The events that led up to the outbreak of war on April 19, 1775
Information for the teacher:
April 19, 1775 was the first day of the American Revolutionary War. Known today as the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the event itself was much larger than just what happened whithin those two towns. During the Revolution, the event was often refered to as the Lexington Alarm; and that's what it was, an alarm, brought on by the British march to Concord. The colonial response to the alarm was massive, well planned, and well executed. By nightfall, 4,000 miltiamen had seen combat. By April 21st, 20,000 militiamen had responded to the call to arms and were marching towards Boston to lay siege to the British.
Though we often hear about battles and the contributions of men during the American Revolution, women also played important roles in the founding of America. When the cause of resistance employed the boycott of imported goods, in order to deny import revenue to the British government, it was the women and their skills that supplied homespun substitutes to their communities.
Pre-Visit Materials:
The following pre-visit materials are designed to help students understand key concepts relative to April 19, 1775 and the Revolutionary period. We recommend you use the Rebels, Redcoats, and Homespun Heroes Activity Guide as a classroom preparation to your fieldtrip to Minute Man National Historical Park. The two maps will also be very helpful.
Rebels, Redcoats, and Homespun Heroes Activity Guide


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Even if you're Tommy Lee, releasing pictures of your junk (intentionally or not) is never a plus in the musical credibility column.
So it's no surprise that off-stage incidents like that progressively turned Pete Wentz into much more than the bassist and lyricist for Fall Out Boy, arguably the biggest rock band to come out of (suburban) Chicago in the past decade. He became the group's focal point to such an extent that, when the chart-topping band went on hiatus in late 2009, Wentz said in an interview, "I think the world needs a little less Pete Wentz. A lot of people think Fall Out Boy is me."
Now that the reconnected quartet has announced both a new record ("Save Rock and Roll," out May 7) and a corresponding tour (they hit the Riviera on May 16), FOB deserves a big welcome back and a reminder that this is a really good band that makes music—not, say, the easily dismissed diary of some guy who married Ashlee Simpson.
Yes, Wentz did marry (and divorce) Jessica's little sister, which may not endear him to fans any more than the band's appearances in stuff like the atrocious comedy "Sex Drive" or much-mocked WB show "One Tree Hill." Apparently Wentz also directed a music video for Train, which is pretty much the worst way to get people to start taking you seriously. (Insert mandatory anti-Nickelback comment here.)
None of these gripes has much to do with Fall Out Boy's records, though, which if nothing else must be recognized for singer Patrick Stump's increasingly soulful voice and his knack for writing catchy songs you don't mind getting stuck in your head. The group, whose past three albums debuted in the Billboard Top 10 and transitioned smoothly from punchy pop-punk to R&B-laced; pop-rock, shouldn't be lumped in with inferior acts like Gym Class Heroes or Panic at the Disco.
I know, it's easy to want to dismiss FOB as a novelty, maybe because of the local band's many young fans (if the kids like it, it can't be good!) or because Wentz's lyrics can veer from smartly ironic to groan-worthy in the same song. Still, you should ask yourself not whether it's "cool" to like Fall Out Boy but why it should ever be uncool to think a song with a fantastic hook and terrific vocals is worth hearing.
These days, it's almost impossible to become a huge band without acquiring both a legion of die-hard fans and a boatload of passionate detractors, probably because the industry has more Justin Biebers than Foo Fighters. Yet as a longtime Fall Out Boy fan, it's hard for me to figure out why Wentz's public image so strongly mobilized people against a group whose members, it's worth saying, haven't done any of the terrible things that many other popular mainstream artists have done.
Sure, FOB embraced success by having high-profile guests (Jay-Z, Lil Wayne) on their albums and continued to deliver songs about unhappiness even after the fans and non-fans at home thought they should be living the good life. Would you rather hear tracks about how comfortable the couch is at Kanye's mansion?
In simpler terms: Fall Out Boy's last album, 2008's "Folie a Deux," offered several of the band's best songs, and I am absolutely in favor of hearing musical evidence of how the past five years have treated them. Anyone who's been with them since the early days knows how much FOB has sung about loyalty. Regardless of what anyone thinks, I'm still on board.
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Last year, my friend from Thailand came to town and one of the things he had wanted was a watch. He originally wanted either a Panerai or Rolex but after I brought him to the IWC Boutique, his mind was made up immediately when he saw the Pilot's Watch Chronograph, Edition Le Petit Prince.
This is a special edition piece with their signature cockpit dial in a sunburst midnight blue colour. Sits perfectly on my tiny wrist. And the reflection from the sunlight gives the dial a much lighter blue hue.
The raised applied markers are well finished and adds a touch of class to the timepiece.
Another look at the midnight blue dial - a very clean and legible layout. This is the reference 3777 with a case diameter of 43mm.
The accompanying brown calfskin strap with beige stitching perfectly matches the timepiece.
And the case back reveals that the timepiece is water resistant to 6 bars. Engraving of the Little Prince makes this a special edition.
As I have said before, my friend was so taken by this timepiece that he did not hesitate to purchase it on the spot. He tells me that even his wife likes it too and they share the piece together.
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ClassDojo is an app used in communication in a classroom. It is used to share reports and other class information between parents and teachers. The classroom communication app was launched by Liam Don and Sam Chaudhary in 2011. It is a common tool used by many non-English speaking parents and guardians to communicate and maintain regular contact with teachers in charge of their children. It is one of the main home-to-school communication apps that assist in bridging the language difference between tutors and parents. It maintains a connection between teachers, parents, and students and at the same time helps students to develop skills.
The ClassDojo platform enables parents to access their student's report. Moreover, teachers can monitor the behavior of their students using the app. Teachers also share photos and videos of students with the parents during class sessions. The main objective of the app is to improve education and promote community building between teachers, parents, and other stakeholders. Today, ClassDojo is used by more than 90% of the district schools in the United States. The app uses 35 languages and it is available in more than 180 countries globally. ClassDojo enables tutors to register for free accounts and conduct classes with their students. The app also allows the instructors to invite parents to see the progress of their children in school. The app also allows the instructors to timely reward their students for good performance and improvement. Tutors can also customize the app to enable the students acquire specific skills based on the educational needs.
The creators of ClassDojo developed it based on the trust relationship that needs to be fostered between parents and teachers. To earn the trust of their users, the app has standard privacy protection measures. The app has a privacy center that fosters transparency in protecting the privacy of students and their parents. ClassDojo does not require sensitive information including the address, ID number, and the gender of the students. The app is compatible with all the devices that have web browsers. Additionally, it is compatible with all android and iOS devices. It is free for teachers all over the world.


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World's first illustrated Christian Bible discovered at Ethiopian monastery30. June 2016 - 12:56
The world's earliest illustrated Christian book has been saved by a British charity which located it at a remote Ethiopian monastery.
The incredible Garima Gospels are named after a monk who arrived in the African country in the fifth century and is said to have copied them out in just one day. Beautifully illustrated, the colours are still vivid and thanks to the Ethiopian Heritage Fund have been conserved.
A new church for Christian refugees from the Nineveh Plain was inaugurated in Ankawa30. June 2016 - 11:17
The new, large church inaugurated on Monday, June 27 by Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I in Ankawa, a Christian-majority suburb of the city of Erbil, where many Christians fled their villages in the Nineveh Plain in front of the offensive of the self-styled Islamic state militias (Daesh) found shelter, is dedicated to Mary Mother of Perpetual Help (as the icon donated by Pope Pius IX to the Redemptorist Fathers exactly 150 years ago, in 1866).
'Fanatic' Muslim mob torches 80 Christian homes in Egypt over church rumour22. June 2016 - 12:48
The Muslim mob, which were described as "fanatic" by a terrified witness, began wreaking havoc at a Christian-owned building which was under construction.
The crowd believed it was set to be turned into a Christian church and took umbrage, setting fire to the building and other nearby Christian properties.
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The morning prayer from the Koran was read at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul on the first day of Muslim Ramadan, Monday, June 6, in the presence of Turkey's general secretary of religious affairs.
40,000 Christians Persecuted By Muslims In Germany12. May 2016 - 14:28
Multiple human rights organizations are warning the German government of the conditions that Christians in asylum homes are being subjected to. One organization in particular has chronicled 231 specific cases of the harassment of Christians by Muslim migrants and Muslim security guards in asylum homes.
Syrian Bishop: West Must Stop Welcoming Refugees5. May 2016 - 14:21
According to the Archbishop of Aleppo, when Westerners open their doors to Syrian refugees, it hurts, rather than helps, their cause. The solution lies not in welcoming more refugees, but in helping resolve the situation back home so they will not need to leave.
Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart said he is "not happy" with the news that Canada has welcomed about 25,000 Syrian refugees in the past few months, despite its good intentions.
1050th Anniversary of Christianity in Poland4. May 2016 - 13:32
During 14-16 April 2016, Polish people celebrated the 1050th anniversary of Poland's Baptism by duke Mieszko I, the first ruler of the Polish state, by organizing several religious and political ceremonies. His Beatitude Sawa, Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland, participated in the events, orthodox.pl reports.


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Passing by the weather channel I was thinking of all of you living upnorth already or close to be in freezing rain & snow. Because of icy winter roads many among you have to prepare your bike for a few months of storage . Time to think about conditioning and stabilizing your tank fuel. If not, don't wonder later why your bike will crank but not start, or at best will start but will ride very roughly. Your carb will for sure have varnish build-up, reason why the fuel delivery system is not working properly. Very few bikers know that fuel stabilizers also provide lubricity and prevent ethanol fuel-accelerated corrosion problems. Personally, I am still surprised that so many that I consider experienced don't take a simple and cheap measure to protect their rides. Cleaning a carburetor is not necessarily fun …and it's time lost on the road. Spectro Fuel Conditioner And Stabilizer.
4 Responses to "Spectro Premium Fuel Conditioner & Stabilizer."
Nov 12th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I teach fuel quality and winterization practices to my students in the Powersports Program here at Mitchell Technical Institute. The fuel stabilizer we utilize is the one from Spectro. Spectro has partnered with the school in an effort to help keep our students on the cutting edge of lubricant technology and gives them the opprotunity to work with the products they will be working with after graduation. As Cyril said, most carb cleaning adventures could be avoided by spending a little time prior to storage, preparing for the off season. If anyone is interested in what we do or teach here at Mitchell Technical Institute, please feel free to drop me line at : firstname.lastname@example.com
Nov 12th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Although this is probably a great fuel conditioner/stabilizer, the only product that I'm aware of out there that will 100% take care of most ethanol issues is Star Tron. Star Tron is also a fuel stabilizer.
Nov 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
We use STA-BIL our shop. Same difference.
Nov 19th, 2009 at 1:52 am
Who needs them??


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Amiko Alien SHD 8900 HD - How to add CCcam and clines in Spark
Here we shall install the Emu's including CCcam to Spark.
First thing to do is delete all your installed Emu plugins.
Click Menu -> Plugin and click the Green button to delete each one.
Now you will need to download the emu_plugin file
Once you have downloaded and unzipped the emu_plugin.zip
Place the folder 'plugin' onto a USB stick and insert the USB stick into the USB port on the rear of the receiver.
You will then see the following popup window, click Yes to install
Now open DCC, I still use version 2.80,
When setting up the Configuration use the following logon data:
Username: root
Password: root
Once a connection has been established, click FTP
Now click var -> /root/plugin/var
Now click on Keys
Now select on your CCcam.cfg file and click on the transfer button, boxed in Red below.
When asked to overwrite click Yes
You can check the CCcam.cfg file is correct, by clicking on it and then click View
If you need to edit the file you can do so by clicking the Edit option.
Once your happy the CCcam.cfg file is okay, you can close DCC.
Now click Menu -> Plugin
Select CCcam214 and click the Enter button, this will start the emu.
You will see it has been started as the Red Off icon will change to Green.
Now you have started the CCcam Emu, you can exit.
Now let us check all is working correctly,
Select an encrypted channel you know your cline will open,
for this example we shall select Calle 13
Once selected click Enter to view the channel.
If you followed the above correctly, you should now get access to the channel.


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Tuesday, 3 September 2013
T 1351/10 – No Excuse
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This decision is not surprising at all, as it is in line with a whole series of similar ones.
In the present case, T 1351/10, it would have been wiser to maintain said request when entering appeal, especially as auxiliary request 1 introduced during Oral proceedings before the Opposition Division was not admitted by the latter.
Since appeal procedures are primarily there to verify whether the decision of first instance was correct, it seems prima facie reasonable to start in appeal at least with a request which had been found not allowable by the first instance.
On the other hand other filing requests without any indication of their purpose and any explanations as to why they can overcome objections raised beforehand is also averse to them being admitted in the proceedings, cf. T 2422/09, T 1706/08 and T 1678/11.
A change of representative has never been a good excuse when filing requests late.
Just a few examples:
T 319/05, T 1457/08, or even missing the time limit under R116(1),as in T 1056/02.
Even the fact that a representative had an accident shortly before the OP and was changed did not allow to file auxiliary requests 1 and 2 (which actually consisted of a combination of granted claims) after this time limit, cf. T 1585/05. It was held that the proprietor has the responsibility for timely filing requests.
In this case it would have been wiser to request postponement as the accident of the representative is a serious reason for allowing postponing.
A change of proprietor and a concomitant change of representative is also not an excuse to file late requests, cf. T 799/05, since it must be assumed that all actions taken in the opposition proceedings and opposition appeal proceedings prior to the change in representative had been undertaken with agreement of the appellant and reflected the way in which the appellant wished to conduct its case.
A similar stance applies and even to a request for postponement of Oral Proceedings, see T 37/97 and T 301/08.
As a general comment, I would like to say that it appears surprising how little some representatives are aware of the Rules of Procedures of the Boards of Appeal, which are applied more and more strictly by the Boards.
I think here especially of
- Art 12(2)-completeness of a party's case,
- Art 12(4)-request which should have been filed or refused before the first instance, as well as
- Art 13(1)-amendment of a party's case, or
- Art 13(3)-no admission of requests which may necessitate to postpone Oral Proceedings.
- 3 September 2013 at 12:49
Good comment from Raoul. The Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal are clear (always have been) but hitherto have been applied inconsistently, and sometimes appallingly loosely.
This is unfortunate. Tightening up on Rules is a contentious and problematic thing to do, ever likely to cause ill-feeling and resentment till practice becomes consistent and predictable. Once the class teacher loses discipline, getting it back is almost impossible.
Raoul, do you think DG3 has done everything in its power to warn the community of representatives, to the outermost circles of representatives, that the Rules of Procedure are, from now on, going to be imposed strictly.
I often wonder whether representatives make the mistake of supposing that a tribunal at the EPO will behave in the same way as a tribunal in their own national jurisdiction. Like German courts allowing the patent owner to re-write the claims during the determinative court hearing. And as for variations within DG3, do some German members of EPO DG3 still think the EPO ought to do what the German courts do
- 3 September 2013 at 15:16
The rules have been revised at some point and I think that from that moment on 6their application has become stricter.
- 4 September 2013 at 02:21


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August 23, 2012
MICHAEL TROEGER, PLAINTIFF,v.ELLENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Gary L. Sharpe Chief Judge
I. Introduction
Plaintiff Michael Troeger commenced this action against the Ellenville Central School District ("the District"), alleging multiple violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).*fn1 (See Compl., Dkt. No. 1.) In a May 8, 2012 Memorandum-Decision and Order, this court granted in part and denied in part the District's motion for summary judgment. (See Dkt. No. 25.) As a result of that Order, Troeger's only remaining claim alleges failure by the District to accommodate his disability between November 7, 2007 and the end of the 2007-08 school year. (See id.) Pending is the District's motion for reconsideration. (See Dkt. No. 28.) For the reasons that follow, the motion is granted and Troeger's remaining claim is dismissed.
II. Standard of Review
"In order to prevail on a motion for reconsideration, the movant must satisfy stringent requirements." In re C-TC 9th Ave. P'ship v. Norton Co., 182 B.R. 1, 2 (N.D.N.Y. 1995). Such motions "will generally be denied unless the moving party can point to controlling decisions or data that the court overlooked-matters, in other words, that might reasonably be expected to alter the conclusion reached by the court." Shrader v. CSX Transp., Inc., 70 F.3d 255, 257 (2d Cir. 1995). The prevailing rule "recognizes only three possible grounds upon which motions for reconsideration may be granted; they are (1) an intervening change in controlling law, (2) the availability of new evidence not previously available, or (3) the need to correct a clear error of law or prevent manifest injustice." In re C-TC 9th Ave. P'ship, 182 B.R. at 3(citation omitted). "[A] motion to reconsider should not be granted where the moving party seeks solely to re[-]litigate an issue already decided." Shrader, 70 F.3d at 257.
III. Discussion
The District contends that reconsideration is appropriate here for the purpose of correcting clear legal error in the court's underlying disability analysis. (See Dkt. No. 28, Attach. 2 at 4-10.) Specifically, it avers that the court erred, as a matter of law, in finding that a genuine factual dispute existed as to whether Troeger suffered a substantial limitation of a major life activity between November 7, 2007 and the end of the 2007-08 school year. (See id.) Upon reconsideration, the court agrees.
Under the ADA, "disability" means "(A) a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities . . . ; (B) a record of such an impairment; or (C) being regarded as having such an impairment." 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1). Allegations of disability advanced under the first method require of the plaintiff: (1) a showing that he suffers from a physical or mental impairment; (2) identification of the supposedly-impaired major life activity; and (3) demonstration of substantial limitation of that activity. See Duttweiller v. Eagle Janitorial, Inc., No. 5:05-CV-0886, 2009 WL 1606351, at *18 (N.D.N.Y. June 4, 2009).
For purposes of the ADA, a physical impairment is "'[a]ny physiological disorder, or condition . . . affecting one or more of the following body systems: neurological [or] musculoskeletal.'" Francis v. City of Meriden, 129 F.3d 281, 283 (2d Cir. 1997) (quoting 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(h)(1)). "[M]ajor life activities" include "functions such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working," as well as "sitting, standing, lifting, [and] reaching." Ryan v. Grae & Rybicki, P.C., 135 F.3d 867, 870 (2d Cir. 1998) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). Substantial limitation occurs where a plaintiff is "(i) [u]nable to perform a major life activity that the average person in the general population can perform; or (ii) [s]ignificantly restricted as to the condition, manner or duration under which [he] can perform a particular major life activity as compared to . . . the average person." Id. (quoting 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2(j)(1)). A proper substantial limitation analysis considers: "the nature and severity of the impairment; its duration or expected duration; and the existence of any actual or expected permanent or long term impact." Capobianco v. City of N.Y., 422 F.3d 47, 57 (2d Cir. 2005).
The physical impairment underlying Troeger's claim is a back injury which originated in 2004 and was allegedly exacerbated in October 2005. (See Def.'s Statement of Material Facts (SMF) ¶¶ 6, 23-25, Dkt. No. 12, Attach. 15.) After narrowing the disability determination to the question of substantial limitation,*fn2 the court, in its May 8 Order, erroneously found that a genuine issue of fact existed as to whether Troeger was substantially limited in his ability to perform the recognized major life activities of, "inter alia, lift[ing], sit[ting], stand[ing] and work[ing]." (Dkt. No. 25 at 13.)
A. Lifting
Although a determination of substantial limitation is fact specific, see Ryan, 135 F.3d at 872, certain lifting restrictions have been found by a number of courts to be, as a matter of law, insufficient. See, e.g., Cortes v. Sky Chefs, Inc., 67 F. App'x 66, 68 (2d Cir. 2003) (finding a ten pound lifting restriction insubstantial); McDonald v. City of N.Y., 786 F. Supp. 2d 588, 609 (E.D.N.Y. 2011) (same, for twenty pounds); Glozman v. Retail, Wholesale & Chain Store Food Emps. Union, Local 338, 204 F. Supp. 2d 615, 621 (S.D.N.Y. 2002) (same, for ten pounds); see also Colwell v. Suffolk Cnty. Police Dep't, 158 F.3d 635, 644 (2d Cir. 1998), superseded on other grounds by 42 U.S.C. 12102(3)(A), (finding insubstantial the inability of respective plaintiffs to lift "very heavy objects" or "anything heavy").*fn3
On November 17, 2006, approximately one year before the start of the relevant time period, orthopaedic surgeon Paul Jones opined in a school-ordered independent medical examination that Troeger "could work if he avoided bending and lifting more than about 10-15 pounds." (Dkt. No. 16, Attach. 18 at 2-4.) Troeger's physician, Dr. Megan McMullan, later indicated, in November 2007, that he "should be limited to lifting less than 20 pounds." (Dkt. No 16, Attach. 21 at 2.)
Because Troeger's lifting limitations fall within the range of restrictions which have been deemed insufficient as a matter of law, he has failed to establish a substantial ...
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