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Due to my own love affair with travel adventure, fifty years ago, in the summer of 1969, I took a five-day trip on horseback covering about one hundred twenty miles of the Texas Panhandle. It may seem odd, that fifty years later I am still thinking and writing about this trip, but it has been woven into my imagination and I continue to ponder the meaning of the experience. I assume this sort of questioning of experience, to find its meaning, is the only sort of experience worth having and the only sort of recollection of merit. Raw historical experience or simply the recounting of facts, or arrival at a final meaning apart from the possibility of further reflection, point to either a poor quality of experience or poor powers of thought. I would never presume to write a quest for the true camping trip of 1969, as there was not a trip apart from my original understanding, though I have never stopped expanding upon that understanding.
Being a connoisseur of travel adventure, reflective recollection I would point out, has precedent in the great journeys that mark 19th and 20th century literature and much of which I had already absorbed at the tender age of 13. Jack London's year long trek into the Alaskan wilderness becomes fodder for reflection and stories which he will continue to mine throughout his life. Even his late story, Martin Eden, though it is not set in the wild, will reflect the "survival of the fittest" understanding he develops in Call of the Wild. The dog, Buck, and the characters that will come to inhabit London's novels, were a development of the people, the animals, and the wilds he encountered in his one and only trip to the far North. As I made my own journey, I had London on my mind, along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Pathfinder, and my early foray into the adventures of Davy Crockett and his autobiography which I had purchased at his boyhood home.
Henry David Thoreau, whose Walden, would completely capture my imagination and after whom I would begin to pattern my own wilderness journeys, took almost ten years to reflect on and write about the two-week trip he and his brother, John, would take on the Merrimack River. Even his time at Walden Pond was encouraged and arranged by his friends, poet Ellery Channing and Ralph Waldo Emerson (upon whose land Thoreau would build his cabin), so that he could reconstruct and write about his river trip with John. It may be that the trip would hold such poignant memories for Thoreau, as these would be some of the last days he would spend with his brother, who soon after the trip cut his thumb and died of lockjaw. This later event, the death of his brother, must have forever tinted the lens through which he would remember the trip. This in no way fictionalized his account but it gives it the sort of depth of meaning which would cause him to always cherish this two-week trip.
I imagine if I had a dear brother or close friend with whom I travelled and shared life, if he were to meet a tragic end, I suppose certain memories would be sharpened. Those times where he asked me to pass the salt or to do other mundane things would be long forgotten, but those occasions in which his character shown through or in which our bond was molded, these I would cherish, reflect upon, and turn over and over in my mind.
I did not have a clear idea who John Steinbeck was when I picked up his Travels with Charley. I knew he was a famous author, but I was more interested in his real-life tales of travel than I was in his fiction, which if I remember I tried, and perhaps at that early age found too difficult. Steinbeck takes this journey at the end of his life, as he is dying of cancer and is afflicted with heart disease. He has a specially made camper built, and takes Charley the poodle as his only companion. The warning of Steinbeck's son and of others who have tried to reduplicate the trip, is that it is the work of a novelist and cannot possibly be a true account, as the geography and the sequence of events are out of place. I for one did not want to know exactly when he gassed up or exactly when he stayed in a nice motel or when he might have received a visit from his wife.
As any good seminarian knows, the historical accounts are only the basis upon which the theological unfolds, so that sequence, summary, rearrangement of events, all serve the meaning and not the other way around. One does not read the Gospels for history but for the theological meaning that unfolds from that history. I remember how incensed I was at a high-school teacher that criticized Thoreau for not staying on in his cabin more than a year. I felt, and still do, that she missed the point and was not in a position to critique. The critic that does not appreciate the literature, the story, or the experience being related, exposes their own stilted world.
Those that would critique Thoreau for reducing a two-week trip on the Merrimack to one, or London for his anthropomorphizing his wilderness, or Steinbeck for taking his liberties with geography, are the sort of factualists that cannot interrupt their search for the historical Jesus long enough to take stock of their theology. We do not turn to tales of travel because we want to know just how many birds and rabbits were sighted and their exact location. Which is not to say that every story or every interpreter is equal. Those that imagine they are simply relating the facts reveal by their revelation an incapacity to actually travel or see what is before their eyes, as they are too caught up in their own prejudices.
Paul Theroux, one of the few travel writers who seems highly unlikeable, cheapens every landscape and commodifies every circumstance, though his fiction, as in the Mosquito Coast, is an insight into human depravity. One might be suspicious, however, that Theroux, in describing his sexual exploits with African women and then complaining of colonial attitudes, is blind. It would be like an Irishman, John Dominic Crossan say, who writes about Jesus as a first-century Galilean peasant resisting Roman imperial injustice in the name of Jewish tradition who fails to notice that he has created his own mirror image: an Irish peasant resisting British imperial injustice in the name of the Catholic (or Celtic) tradition.[1] The poor travel writer, like the poor theologian, is too full of himself to take in the vistas, let alone being changed by them. Crossan, in response to this criticism, presumes one can only struggle between narcissism and positivism.[2] In this world one cannot even leave home, let alone leave it behind.
The notable characteristic you get from Jack London, and most of the other travel writers, is that they are completely sympathetic characters, open to the impressions of the world around them. The inferior travel writers, who may be momentarily entertaining and then turn out to be somewhat suffocating, tell us more of their own small world, no matter the landscape. Like Joseph Conrad, who bases his Heart of Darkness on his journeys into Africa, there is more of the colonizer's darkness than Africa in his story. At a certain stage, I very much enjoyed the angry Japanologists such as Peter Dale, who railed against the ethnocentrism, the nationalism, the racism, of the Japanese, but then with a little more study and a bit more time, I realized Japan is simply a mirror image of the West, an image I bore and resented in "others." It's like the Jesus of Robert Funk who is not coming again, who is not Lord, who does not save, and who is clearly nothing of the fundamentalist Jesus Funk is rejecting. We learn of Funk's prejudices and practically nothing of Jesus from Funk's search for the historical Jesus.[3]
I enjoyed William Least-Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, but nonetheless it was his personal struggles and marital troubles which colored all of his highways. I suppose this would be my critique of Dale Allison's book. He has now gained great insight into the limited role of searching for the historical Christ apart from the theological Jesus, but his skepticism – his personal struggle with Christian commitment – colors every page. A straightforward teaching about turning the other cheek, going the second mile, loving the enemy, perhaps the clearest teaching of the New Testament, is subjected to a barrage of questions. He asks, "what Jesus might have meant by these sentiments," after all "we do not know the occasion" – "was it spoken to his partners in ministry," mere "sympathizers," "a crowd of Galilean villagers?" The "original audience has dispersed, and we remain in the dark about its makeup, which means that we do not know exactly what Matt. 5:38-48 might have meant on Jesus' lips." The result is, we must remain in the dark, forever "uncertain how the evangelist wanted readers to respond."[4] Better not pack the suitcase or make another move, as this sort of highway is black and impassable, forever frozen by skeptical questioning.[5]
As a travel guide, Allison sometimes reminds me of Alan Booth's, The Roads to Sata, ultimately a journey too far, as every Japanese village seems to be filled with the same children taunting him with calls of "gaijin" (foreigner) and the entire effort seems to be to arrive at the goal of Sata. One can march through a country or through a story carrying his own pack of provisions and prejudices, but perhaps it is better to have never left home, as the writer is left unchanged and he never really sees anyone or anything.
Booth should have followed the example of Peter Jenkins who is forever changed by his five-year walk, recounted in Walk Across America. Jenkins takes his time and writes in the best tradition of looking for himself as he searches out the country. In the beginning, Allison is a better guide to the Jesus Seminar than he is to Jesus. He gets off on the wrong foot in his quest for Jesus, but as in many of the best travel adventures, it is the near calamity of the trip that makes for the best ending.
He writes the book with the conviction that the search for the historical Jesus is mistaken in its focus, and this is reflected in the title, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus. The search for the historical Christ apart from the guidance of the theological Jesus is simply testimony to the fact that everyone is bound to find their own face in Jesus, apart from being guided by a comprehensive theological insight. His final chapter is made more beautiful by the struggle of the journey, thus I quote at length:
Persuaded that the true nature of things is not obvious, Jesus, in word and deed, sets out with gusto to fracture the hypnotic hold of life-as-it-has-always-been. He endeavors, in Coleridge's words, to awaken our minds "from the lethargy of custom" and to remove "the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude that covers our eyes." He seeks to shift attention, to alter perception, to expand awareness, to change behavior. "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matt. 4:17). This is a call to abandon rote behavior, to forsake reflexive ways.
My own trek, across what most consider a desolation, has made me realize that the hardness of the journey, the difficulty in seeing the beauty, is the best preparation for learning to look closely and differently. The beauty of the Staked Plains is one that an elite few have come to realize but it is a beauty that requires imagination to comprehend. I am not sure how many miles I travelled but the memory of that particular time is firmly woven through the journeys I made. I could never have worked from the being of the prairie to the being of God, as it was too desolate and empty, apart from the eyes of faith, to see its beauty. Barth said he could not become a Catholic due to the analogia entis and he develops analogia fidei as a counter to the analogy of being. As he describes it, the analogy of faith presumes that human "reality" is a desolate nothing and the Word of God "aims at us and smites us in our existence" (CD I, 1, p.14). Perhaps it is only in seeing the desolation, the desert of our own imagination, that the altered perception of the journey is impressed upon us.
[1] Dale Allison, The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus, (Eerdmans, 2009) 19. Once again, thanks to Tim for gifting me this book and trying to keep me informed.
[2] Allison, Ibid.
[3] Allison, 18.
[4] Allison, 102.
[5] Black is the color bead cast in the vote against Jesus' authentic words used in the Jesus Seminar Allison is describing.


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The Abortion drone flies abortion pills from one country to women in another country. Using the different legislations and regulations it makes the reality of women in countries where abortion is restricted visible by creating access to the abortion pills.
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June 21 th, 2016. The Abortion Drone flew from the Republic of Ireland to…
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The Abortion Drone was a success, women in Poland receive medical abortions.

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Busan Food Journal – Part Six
Every region in Korea has different dishes, and we didn't realize how much we were missing out on until visiting Gyeongju, which was our first time outside of Busan. There, we tried out two famous specialties and loved them both. Taking a culinary tour of South Korea would be a blast.
Food Journal: Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
We had spent the evening at Anapji Pond, and it was past nine by the time we sat down at Gyodong (a recommendation from our barista earlier in the day – location). The restaurant was closing at 9:30, which gave us about twenty minutes to plow through the 28-dish feast known as Ssambap. This is the main specialty of Gyeongju; you take a cabbage or lettuce leaf, pad it with rice, add pork and whatever other condiments you choose, wrap it up in a little ball, and throw it into your mouth. And, yes, we finished everything. [More Pics]
These little round pastries, filled with sweet red-bean paste, are found everywhere in Gyeongju. I have no idea how many the average person must eat to justify the sheer number of bakeries entirely dedicated to hwangnam-ppangs, but it must be an unhealthy number. They're alright, but way too sweet for my palate — I couldn't eat more than one at a time.
One of the most popular treats in Busan seems to be flavored, shaved ice. I know: weird. But people here love it, so we decided to try a bowl at A Twosome Place (a coffee chain which we mistakenly refer to as "An Awesome Place", every time). I had been expecting something like the colorful snow-cones of my youth, where you get through the syrup in ten seconds, and are left with a bunch of flavorless ice. But here, the shavings themselves are flavored (we chose "tea"), and topped with any number of extras, from whipped cream, ice cream, chocolate and fruits to waffles and cookies. Delicious, and our bowl was more than enough for two.
Located on the fifth floor of the Emperor Building (location), the same place I had my eyes LASIK-ed, is Todai which serves up an amazing lunchtime sushi buffet. The price of ?20,000 ($18) per head is expensive at first blush, but considering the spread and everything that's included, well worth it. Freshly-prepared sushi, grilled steaks, noodles, salads, desserts… the choice was never-ending. Soft drinks and coffee were included in the bill. [More Pics]
This recommendation after we had asked for something different in Busan. Yong Ggum (??) translates as "Dragon Dream", and is housed in a musty old WWII bunker (location). It's probably better to visit when it hasn't been raining. This is strictly a seafood restaurant and, when we went, water was dripping from the ceiling and the damp smell of fish was nauseating. The food was good, but we were happy to get back outside into the fresh air. [More Pics]
We make at least one waeguk faux pas per meal, but were hitting well above average while eating Shabu Shabu at Chaeseondang (??? – location). This is Japanese Hot Pot, and looked easy enough; just swish the meat around the hot broth (the word "shabu" means "swish" in Japanese) and pop it in your mouth. But the waitress ran over to our table at least three times to scold us. Turns out that the raw egg is supposed to go into the pot at the end of the meal, and we weren't supposed to be eating the rice out of its bowl. We forgot to cut the mushrooms, and generally made a mess of the whole meal. I had even slobbered all over myself.
While she was shaking her head and tut-tutting, I wanted to defend myself. "We don't exactly take shabu-shabu courses in Ohio, lady!" But I don't know how to say that in Korean, so I just sat there dolefully and took my admonishment. It was still a fun meal, and one we've vowed to try again. [More Pics]
We first walked through the Culture Alley of the KSU neighborhood during the day, when it was completely quiet. At night, though, the alley comes alive with people and a surprising number of bars and restaurants. We sat down in a makgeolli bar (location) with a couple friends and enjoyed a meal of paejeon (pancake-like dishes of veggies, egg and seafood) and a bucket of the sweet-tasting drink. The rice and wheat based makgeolli looks milky, and is served by the ladle. [More Pics]


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In our first article entitled 'Benefits of The Solid State Drive' we briefly provided comparison between a SSD and a hard drive and described the benefits of such an upgrade.
We are going to follow with a description of SSD components along with an understanding of the purpose of each. This article will not only provide a solid foundation in your understanding of SSDs, but also, will also help in your final decision and choice of the right SSD for the job. If it helps in your purchase decision, it has to be good right?
Every SSD has a number of components that are always present. There are different SSD form factors which we will cover in our next article but, for the most part, there is always a printed circuit board (PCB) which contains a interface to connect to the computer, SSD controller and a number of modules of NAND flash memory chips.
We have chosen to highlight the OWC Mercury Electra 6G SSD for this article because it is a 2.5″ typical notebook formfactor and the most common that most likely see today.
The SATA interface is best seen in the left photo above and consists of a gold connector which easily connects to your laptop or desktop computer. Without belaboring on the definition and revisions of SATA, the consumer only really needs to understand that all SATA SSDs are backward and forward compatible and any will serve the purpose it is intended without question. Most computer systems in use are SATA 2 with newer systems now released with SATA 3 capability.
The difference between the two breaks down to how fast the data can be transferred from the SSD to your computer and, in the case of applications, executed. Typically, a SATA 2 SSD will only transfer speeds as fast as 280 megabytes per second (MB/s) whereas new SATA 3 drives are reaching as high as 550MB/s in a single form factor notebook or desktop SATA 3 SSD. Lets take a look at two typical benchmarks, the one on the left depicting the Sandisk Ultra SATA 2 SSD performance with the one on the right depicting the Corsair Force Series GT SATA 3 SSD.
We can see that these are not peak results, this being the fault of the benchmark software for the most part. An important observation, however, is that SATA 3 typically doubles the performance of SATA 2.
The SSD processor (or controller is it is more commonly referred to) is the heart and soul of the SSD. It is the engine by which information is pulled from storage, translated and then sent to the SATA interface for travel to your computer system. It is the sole reason that a typical SSD is 5-6 times faster than a hard drive in data travel and also the reason that we see a starting point of about a 90x increase in the information retrieval (disk access) from an SSD as compared to that of a hard drive.
Our first article explained how access speed is attained so quickly through the continuous flow of data in a SSD much like a pipeline in comparison to the mechanical movement, location and retrieval of data from a hard drive. Unlike a hard drive which has only one route of information retrieval, the typical SSD can have as many as eight routes of travel or 'channels' as they are more commonly referred to. So, if you can again refer back to the OWC SSD above you will note that their are 16 NAND flash memory chips that are used for storage. This would mean that every two has its own channel 'or highway' by which to send and receive information.
In today's SSD environment there are two common processors which differ in their means of storage. The first utilizes compression to store data, debatably the most popular and a company named SandForce (recently purchased by LSI) is the only that has perfected it. In observing performance benchmarks, a SandForce SSD can be easily identified as it is able to achieve almost equal read and write transfer speeds where others cannot do this. This is only possible because SandForce has been able to achieve a 1 to .6 write ratio which allows for almost equal read and write performance.
You will notice that the high sequential read and write scores are much closer with the 'SandForce Driven' OCZ Vertex SATA 3 SSD on the left as compared to the Intel 510 SATA 3 SSD on the right.


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An engine can last anywhere from 50 to 500,000 miles depending mostly on how well you maintain it. While some engines are certainly more reliable than others, all of them depend on maintenance to fulfill their greatest potential. The Auto Repair Place in Boulder, CO has provided for you some of the determining factors of engine lifespan, to help you make sure your engine lasts as long as it possibly can.
If something is broken, fix it.
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Blue Mountains International Hotel Management School offers a grant of AUD10,000 to contribute to the successful applicants Year 2 (Only) Tuition Fees for the following program at its institution:
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Please note: Payment of the above funds will be awarded to the successful student by direct payment off the total fees for Year 2 tuition Invoice only. Students will be required to enrol in the minimum 2 year Associate Degree and must be able to fund the total Year 1 Fees independently. No year 2 direct entry applications will be considered for either of the above awards. The scholarship grant is administered by the nominated member institution. The scholarship money does not include any air fares international student health cover, accommodation or text books and it is the scholar's responsibility to finance additional expenses and living costs over and above the AUD10,000.
Please do not submit an application if you do not meet the general eligibility and merit based selection criteria, or if you do not have adequate financial support to cover the expenses outlined above
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Nightclub Soundproofing in Qatar
Nightclub Soundproofing in Qatar
Discover premium nightclub soundproofing materials in Qatar with MMT Acoustix. Our extensive range of acoustic solutions, meticulously designed for the dynamic nightlife scene, ensures an impeccable auditory experience. From acoustic panels that eliminate sound reflections to bass traps that control low-frequency noise, our products are engineered for optimal sound control. We recognize the importance of preserving the energy and excitement within the club while maintaining the peace outside. With MMT Acoustix, Qatar 's nightclubs benefit from state-of-the-art soundproofing materials that meet the highest standards of quality and performance, ensuring an unforgettable experience for patrons and harmony with the neighborhood.
To attain the desired recording room conditions, we recommend a three-layer approach: Layer 1 features the SoundBlanket® sound isolator, Layer 2 incorporates the BassBloc® Low-frequency absorber, and Layer 3 utilizes Echsorbix® PET Acoustic panels, SoundAxe® Wooden Acoustic Panels, MMT Acoustix® Acoustic Fabric etc to absorb mid and high frequencies effectively
Step 1: Assess Your Space
Before you embark on your journey to perfect sound, it's essential to evaluate your nightclub space. Take note of any external noise sources, structural flaws, and acoustic challenges within the room. This assessment will guide your choice of MMT Acoustix products.
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Soundproofing Doors: To begin, focus on sealing sound leakage through doors. MMT Acoustix Door Soundproofing Kits offer high-density soundproofing tiles designed to block out external noise. They come in various designs to suit your aesthetic preferences.
Windows: If your nightclub has windows, MMT Acoustix Window Soundproofing products can be a game-changer. These solutions, such as soundproof curtains and acoustic window panels, effectively minimize sound penetration. Its best advised to seal off all windows with wooden boards or bricks for best results in a nightclub.
Walls and Ceilings: Isolate the dance floor and speakers from the rest of the building to minimize sound transmission. This involves adding a high quality thick sound dampening membrane on the walls and ceiling like SoundBlanket MLV sound Isolator in 8mm or 5mm thickness. Covering the membrane with a frame work and adding a bass absorber to eliminate transmission of vibrations and bass low frequency sounds eg., BassBloc. This treatment is valid for both walls and ceiling.
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BassBloc & Bass Traps : In the context of nightclub acoustics, achieving optimal sound quality is paramount for an exceptional auditory experience. Our strategic approach includes the placement of bass traps in corner spaces and the comprehensive coverage of all walls and the ceiling with Bassbloc sound and vibration absorbers. Notably, Bassbloc excels in absorbing low-frequency sounds, which are most commonly produced in nightclubs and are notoriously challenging to control. This is a significant advantage, as traditional materials like glasswool often fall short in effectively managing these low-frequency sounds, leading to a potential loss of investment in sound quality optimization. By countering this limitation, Bassbloc ensures a superior audio environment that resonates with quality and energy.
Mid and High Frequencies: MMT Acoustix acoustic PET panels, wooden slats, acoustic fabric and acoustic foam are perfect for addressing mid and high-frequency absorption. Crafting an immersive auditory experience in a nightclub relies on impeccable mid and high-frequency treatment, incorporating an array of acoustic solutions. Strategically position PET acoustic panels on walls and ceilings to control sound reflections and reverb. Wooden acoustic slats offer both aesthetic appeal and acoustic functionality, enhancing sound quality. Acoustic foam optimizes sound clarity, while diffuser panels disperse sound waves effectively, preventing direct rebounds. Suspended acoustic ceiling clouds further contribute to sound diffusion. Fabric-covered acoustic panels combine form and function, absorbing and diffusing mid and high frequencies. Regular testing and professional consultation ensure these treatments meet the nightclub's unique needs, maintaining an exceptional audio ambiance.
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Listening to a recent episode of Jeff Goldsmith's Podcast The Q&A with Logan-director James Mangold, I came across this exchange. Host Jeff Goldsmith can't help himself as he asks about continuity issues between Logan and the other X-Men-Movies and thereby prompts Mangold to go on a juicy rant about the superhero movie industrial complex.
Jeff Goldsmith: Obviously there was a timeline reset in Days of Future Past which Simon Kinberg wrote, and he's the producer of this film as well. I'm just curious: How does this fit in the timeline? Because in X-Men: Apocalypse, there was a different Caliban and I'm just curious if this an offshoot, a different timeline …
James Mangold: I have no idea. As you can tell by the way I'm sparring with you on these questions, I don't care. Meaning that I think that stuff is in the way of making good movies, not in support of it. It would be as if I'm making movies for the Catholic church and I have to pass some kind of papal approval for what happens to Jesus in this episode. It's just ludicrous …
I'm just curious where it fits in.
I know, but your're part of the industry, when you ask those questions, of maintaining the sense of 'Did you break canon or stick with canon?'. In fact, I think canon sucks.
I was just trying to find out, where it was in the canon.
Nowhere. The reality as a marketeer would be that we very carefully positioned it beyond all the existing movies, so it's up to you. My feeling is: I want to have a relationship with the audience, not with internet crazy factcheckers with a hundred episodes of shit accusing me of getting something wrong. It's the actual audience that I am most concerned with and that they exist in the immediate, taking in the movie. And unless it's wildly contradicting something that they just saw in another movie, it's not of concern to me. (…) My own arrogance or spiciness with you about these questions is partly about how you get the movie made. The gravitational pull between the kind of internet industry of superhero movie worship, the actual industry itself of selling these things, the merchandising machine, the toy manufacturer, the comic books, the rival companies, the summer dating, all of it is not a friend to movie making. It's a friend to corporate money making. And part of my own defense to making a movie and not just a commodity, is to have a lot of hostility towards a lot of the value systems, some of which fans bring to the material, where they're actually serving corporations and not themselves, in my opinion. They're actually demanding the movies work as a box set. They all can then be bought and sold so that the action figures will work consistently from one movie to another, the animated Saturday morning one can match the — they're actually demanding something that helps the companies sell and ram all these products at the same time. It's much harder for the companies to make money off eight different visions of what Batman could be, but for me that's phenomenally more interesting.
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Reliability and availability | Hot swappable. |
Breakout supported | No |
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Dimensions without packaging (H x W x D) [mm(in.)] | 19.8 mm x 193.8 mm x 209.3 mm (0.78 in. x 7.63 in. x 8.24 in.) |
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The Advisory Board (AB) of Baltic Gender is responsible for overseeing the progress and the decision-making process of the consortium as well as bringing in expertise on gender and gate-keeping practices. The AB meets once a year attached to the annual meeting of the project and gives its recommendations following the meeting. The specific tasks of the AB are as following:
Dr. Andris Andrusaitis is the programme manager of BONUS (the joint Baltic Sea research and development programme) based in Helsinki, Finland. He is responsible for the scientific coordination of the programme including development of the strategic research agenda, monitoring and following up of the projects, etc. Andris Andrusaitis is a biological oceanographer with a research background in Baltic Sea ecology. He initiated the establishment of the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, where he served as the Director from 1995 to 2003. During 2003-2007, he worked as the Assistant Coordinator of the Baltic Sea Regional Project funded by the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility, and implemented jointly by HELCOM and ICES. During 2006-2009, Andris Andrusaitis coordinated the Latvian national research programme on impact of climate change on aquatic systems (KALME). | |
Prof. Susan Buckingham is an independent researcher and consultant on gender and environmental issues, and currently a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK. She participated in the COST Action GenderSTE (2012-2016) and led the working group on gender aspects of energy and climate change, which involved advising the EU on its gender strategy for Horizon 2020. She was a co-researcher in the project on "Women involved in street sex work in the UK: an analysis of service need and provision" and a co-writer of the resultant report published in May 2016, which aims to initiate broader structural and policy changes around sex work in the UK. Susan is also the gender auditor for the Horizon 2020 research project URBAN-WASTE – Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities (2016 – 2019). Susan has published widely on gender and environment, most recently Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations, to be launched by Routldege in May 2017. She is the series editor for the new Routledge book series on Gender and Environment' | |
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Dr. Dalia Šatkovskienė is an associate professor of physics at the Vilnius University, Lithuania. She coordinated several projects on gender issues in science: the FP6 project "Baltic States Network, namely: Women in Sciences and HT" (BASNET), the FP7 project "Structural Change Promoting Gender Equality in Research Organizations" (SAPGERIC), the EEA and Norway Funds Bilateral programme project "Gender Equality Implementation in Research Institutions: Collaborative Approach" (GEIRICA)and others. In 2008, she initiated the establishment of the regional Baltic States BASNET Forumasassociation. She is president of BASNET Forumas association, member of the Managing Committee of genderSTE COST project and member of the Advisory Board of FP7 projects TRIGGER and EGERA. Having strongly contributed to the implementation of gender mainstreaming policy in the Baltic States region, Dalia Satkovskiene was awarded a medal in 2014 by the Baltic Assembly for promoting the unity and cooperation among three Baltic nations (i.e., Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia). | |
Dr. Nina Steinweg is a senior researcher at GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences/CEWS (Center of Excellence Women and Science) and a lecturer at the University of Cologne in Germany. Being a lawyer by education and having worked as a self-employed attorney, she took up a researcher position at the University of Cologne (2004-2008), followed by her current position at the CEWS. Her research includes the judicial aspects of gender equality in higher education, quality assessment of gender equality measures, gender equality policies and politics, and the recruitment of leadership personnel in research institutions. Nina Steinweg performs evaluations of gender equality programs and politics in Austria and Germany. She is in charge of the online portal for gender equality law in Germany and provides advice to the applicant institutions for the Total E-Quality Award. Since 2009 she coordinates the development and the realization of the "toolbox" for the DFG´s research-oriented standards on gender equality, an online collection of equal opportunity measures. She also cooperates with the EU project GenPORT |


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David Blitz and Pim van Vliet, both of Robeco, and yours truly wrote a paper outlining the various explanations for the low volatility effect, Explanations for the Volatility Effect: An Overview Based on the CAPM Assumptions. The aim wasn't to trash or champion any particular approach, though I'm sure our biases show (we aren't in lock-step on this, note Blitz here vs. my approach here, which has a subtle distinction). As most papers on the low volatility focus on the data, often with very different motivations, we thought a paper addressing these various theories would be helpful.
In any case, we go over the following explanations:
In any case, we go over the following explanations:
- Leverage constraints
- Regulatory constraints
- Constraints on short-selling
- Relative utility
- Agents maximize option value
- Preference for skewness
- Crash-aversion
- one-period model
- Attention-grabbing stocks
- Representativeness bias
- Mental accounting


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Sangiovese grapes I harvested at Cecchi Winery |
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Travelers and enthusiast come from all over to help out. It's a fascinating and convivial experience that shows off the ancient winemaking and olive pressing process, while emphasizing the importance of teamwork. As a bonus, participants get to taste local wine and eat hearty food. Continue Reading ➔


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