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Body Worn Cameras
One of the most important things to consider before purchasing a hidden camera is the environment and context where the device will eventually be used. If you want to make sure that nobody steals anything from your bedroom the next time you have a party, a camera cleverly concealed in a normal-looking clock radio is perfect because this is exactly the type of item nobody would think twice about seeing in this context. If you need covert monitoring capabilities while on the go, however, the same device would leave a lot to be desired as it would definitely attract attention to see someone carrying a clock radio around with them wherever they go.
For this reason, body-worn cameras can be a great asset to people who wish to achieve truly covert surveillance wherever they happen to be. As with all hidden cameras, though, your purchase requires you to keep a few key things in mind.
The Body
As stated, one of the most important things you'll need to look at when choosing a body-worn camera is the type of device it is hidden inside. Some cameras look like a standard pair of reading glasses, for example, while others might look like a completely normal wrist watch or even the garage door opener FOB that goes on your keychain. Always pick the style that makes the most sense for you personally, as if you don't wear glasses but suddenly show up with a shiny new pair with a camera hidden inside, you're only going to attract unwanted attention.
Battery Life
Because body-worn cameras are designed to be used while you're on the move, you'll want to pay careful attention to the battery life of the model you choose. Never assume that just because a unit can store five hours of HD video, for example, that it also has a five-hour battery life. Because these units are so small, you usually have between one and three hours to work with. If you're only concerned with short recording sessions you can't go wrong, but if longevity is a priority always emphasize longer battery life.
Stop/Start Recording
When dealing with a body-worn camera, you'll also want to pay attention to how easy it is to start recording in the first place. Many of these cameras require you to interact with them to begin recording, albeit briefly. While nobody will necessarily think twice about you pressing a button on the crown of your wrist watch, they may notice if you suddenly take a pen out of your pocket, tap the head and put it back without using it. Again, for this decision context is everything. Some body-worn cameras may have a remote control, while others can be remotely activated.
Loop Recording
For units with a longer recording time of four or more hours, you'll likely want to look into a model with loop recording capabilities. If you know that you have yet to capture what you're after, you don't have to manually delete an existing file - the body-worn camera will just record right over it. This enables you to continue to wear your camera without worry, recording for as long as possible until that magic moment does occur.


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Chrono24 Magazine: News and Perspectives From the Watch Industry
Flight Test: A Review of the Sinn 103 St Ty Hd Pilot's Watch
The 103 series is the signature line of the German watch manufacturer Sinn. The new model 103 St Ty Hd has been well received by watch enthusiasts, but has also been the subject of much discussion. We tell you everything you need to know about the Sinn 103 St Ty Hd.
Unsung Heroes: Discovering Overlooked Tactical Timepieces
When it comes to pilot's or tactical watches, the mind often leaps to IWC's iconic Big Pilot or Casio G-Shock's impressive lineup of aviation and survival-inspired timepieces. But, in the world of watches designed for the adventurous, IWC and Casio are far from the sole contenders, catering to pilots, underwater explorers, and desk divers alike.
Sinn Spezialuhren: Functional Watches for Professionals
The German manufacturer Sinn is known for making functional, robust watches. Their diving watches made of submarine steel are especially resistant to salt water and pressure, and are popular among special forces units, such as the GSG 9.
5 Reasons to Buy a Sinn Watch
- Extremely durable watches for use in harsh environments
- Especially resistant to seawater: diving watches made of submarine steel
- The EZM 2B: water resistant to 5,000 m (500 bar, 16,404 ft)
- Officially certified pilot's and diving watches
- For astronauts: the Sinn 140 chronograph made it to space in 1985
Equipped to Serve
Sinn Spezialuhren's wristwatches are functional, innovative, and extremely robust. This German manufacturer from Frankfurt am Main is best known for their mission timers used by rescue services, fire departments, and special forces. For example, the maritime division of the GSG 9, the elite tactical unit of the German Federal Police, relies on the UX GSG 9 diving watch. This timepiece is made of seawater-resistant German submarine steel and is water resistant up to 12,000 m (1,200 bar, 39,370 ft).
In addition to diving watches with high water resistance and durable mission timers, Sinn also produces numerous pilot's watches. There are three-hand versions, as well as timepieces with a GMT or chronograph function. Top models feature both functions and can display two time zones while also measuring periods of time of up to 12 hours. Sinn even has some pilot's watches certified according to the DIN 8330 standard. This makes them particularly special, as most watch manufacturers create pilot's watches without ever having them officially certified as such. Certified watches can not only replace an aircraft's timekeeping instruments, but also stand up to the sometimes extreme conditions experienced during flight. The DIN 8330 is based on the 'Technische Standard Fliegeruhren' (TESTAF or Technical Standard for Pilot's Watches), which was developed by the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Sinn Spezialuhren.
How much do Sinn watches cost?
Model | Price (approx.) | Type | Water resistance | Features/Material |
757 S UTC | 3,400 USD | Pilot's watch | 200 m (656 ft) | Chronograph, GMT, coated stainless steel |
903 | 3,200 USD | Pilot's watch | 100 m (328 ft) | Chronograph, slide rule, stainless steel |
103 Ti UTC IFR | 3,100 USD | DIN 8330-certified pilot's watch | 200 m (656 ft) | Chronograph, GMT, titanium |
917 | 2,800 USD | Rally chronograph | 100 m (656 ft) | Chronograph, countdown timer, stainless steel |
212 KSK | 2,800 USD | Mission timer | 1,000 m (3,281 ft) | GMT, compass, submarine steel |
T2 | 2,600 USD | Diving watch | 2000 m (6,562 ft) | Date, titanium |
UX | 2,100 USD | Diving watch | 12,000 m (39,370 ft) | Date, submarine steel |
103 | 1,700 USD | Pilot's watch | 200 m (656 ft) | Chronograph, stainless steel |
104 | 1,200 USD | Pilot's watch | 200 m (656 ft) | Day-date display, stainless steel |
556 | 1,000 USD | Pilot's watch | 200 m (656 ft) | Date, stainless steel |
Prices for Instrument Chronographs
You'll find Sinn watches with a stopwatch function in the Instrument Chronographs collection. This name emphasizes their role as functional timepieces. Most models are pilot's watches, though there are also racing and rally chronographs available. One such example is the 917 with a bezel that counts backward and works like a timer. Another interesting feature is the position of its crown and push-pieces on the left side of the case. Sinn outfits these timepieces with the proven and reliable ETA Valjoux 7750. This automatic movement powers many chronographs. You can purchase one of these timepieces for around 2,800 USD in mint condition or 2,300 USD pre-owned. The 917 GR with a power reserve indicator costs between 2,300 and 3,200 USD.
The most iconic Sinn pilot's chronograph is the 103 with acrylic glass. If acrylic glass scratches too easily for you, there is also a version with sapphire glass available. A black dial, bidirectional bezel with a 60-minute scale, and luminous markers, numerals, and hands define the design of this series. The 103 St is water resistant to 200 m (20 bar, 656 ft). Thanks to its ETA Valjoux 7750 caliber, this watch displays the day and date at 3 o'clock and can measure periods of time up to 12 hours. In mint condition, this Sinn classic sells for around 1,700 USD. You can purchase a pre-owned piece for about 1,500 USD. Compared to other chronographs on the market, the 103 St offers near unrivaled value for money.
The top model is a titanium DIN 8330-certified pilot's watch with a GMT function. Sinn uses sapphire glass for both the watch front and case back of the 103 Ti UTC IFR. Prices for never-worn pieces sit around 3,100 USD. Since this model is so new, pre-owned examples are currently hard to come by.
A new Sinn 757 S UTC chronograph with black PVD coating demands about 340 USD more. You can purchase a pre-owned version of this so-called "Duochronograph" for just under 2,500 USD. This chronograph's design is all about functionality, making it ideal for pilots. What's more, it's water resistant to 200 m (20 bar, 656 ft), remains unaffected by magnetic fields of up to 1,000 Gauss, and can function in extreme temperatures ranging from -49°F to +176°F (-45°C to +80°C). If you prefer watches without a rotatable bezel, you may enjoy the Sinn 756. Other than the bezel, this Duochronograph is nearly identical to the 757. The standard edition costs between 1,800 USD pre-owned and 2,300 USD new.
The Sinn 903 St with a Slide Rule
The Navigation Chronograph 903 St is yet another Sinn Spezialuhren Instrument Chronograph. Right away, you'll notice striking similarities between it and the legendary Breitling Navitimer. Like the Navitimer, this Sinn watch features a slide rule for making mathematical calculations. For example, you can determine your average speed, rates of ascent and descent, and fuel consumption using the rotating interior bezel. Unlike the Breitling, the 903 St has a crown on the left at 10 o'clock for adjusting the slide rule. The Navitimer achieves this using a rotatable bezel.
There's still the matter of why these two watches look so similar. At the height of the quartz crisis in the late 1970s, Helmut Sinn purchased the licenses and components to build the Navigation Chronograph 903 St from Breitling. That means the 903 St isn't a copy, but rather a licensed reproduction with improvements made by Sinn. Be sure to set aside around 2,600 USD for a pre-owned watch and 3,200 USD for a new 903 St. You can purchase a pre-owned Breitling Old Navitimer for about 3,700 USD. The Breitling model generally has better value retention, making it a great option for collectors.
Prices for Sinn Instrument Watches
The Frankfurt-based manufacturer Sinn Spezialuhren is also famous for their Instrument Watches that don't have a chronograph function. The 104 is highly representative of these timepieces and bears a strong resemblance to the design of the 103 chronograph. This three-hand watch features a day-date display and bidirectional bezel. It is available with various dials, ranging from black to dark blue to white. The Sellita caliber SW 220-1 helps this timepiece accurately keep the time and is almost identical in build to the ETA 2836. Mint-condition watches sell for around 1,200 USD, while pre-owned pieces demand about 1,000 USD.
The automatic 556 has a no-frills design and is among the most highly-coveted Sinn watches. This model is available with large Arabic numerals at 3, 6, 9, and 12 o'clock or solely with sizable, luminous indices. You can choose from a black, dark blue, mocha, or mother-of-pearl dial. The mother-of-pearl edition changes hands for around 1,100 USD new. The other versions of the 556 cost about 110 USD less. If you're a fan of the 556, but have regular exposure to strong magnetic fields, you should look at the 836. This timepiece has a similar design to the 556 with a black dial, but also has a few small differences. A bright red second hand and stitching on the leather strap contrast beautifully with the otherwise strictly black-and-white color palette. There's also a date display at 6 o'clock. Most importantly, the 836 is unaffected by magnetic fields of up to 80,000 A/m. Prices for this model range from 1,600 to 2,000 USD.
The special edition "K212 Kommando Spezialkräfte" (special forces command, or KSK) is the quintessential Instrument Watch. Sinn teamed up with the Gemeinschaft Deutsche Kommandosoldaten e.V. (the Association of German Commandos, or GDK) to develop a limited edition watch for the German army's elite soldiers. Its small production run was strictly limited to 70 pieces, which were only given to members of this special unit. However, Sinn also released a version with a limited run of 300 pieces for the public. The 47-mm 212 KSK houses an automatic movement and is made of submarine steel. It is water resistant to 1,000 m (100 bar, 3,281 ft) and equipped with a bidirectional bezel with a military compass. The final result is a watch that's as useful to soldiers as it is to adventurers and outdoor sportsmen. If that wasn't enough, the ETA caliber 2893-2 provides this timepiece with a GMT function for displaying a second time zone. A mint condition 212 KSK demands around 2,800 USD.
How much do Sinn diving watches cost?
Diving watches are a Sinn specialty. The watches of the UX series can survive depths of 12,000 m (1,200 bar, 39,370 ft), though the quartz movement guarantees full functionality "only" up to 5,000 m (500 bar, 165,404 ft). That's still more than enough for scuba divers and professional divers alike. This timepiece has a 44-mm case made of submarine steel, the ideal material for diving watches since it's exceptionally corrosion resistant. The crown of the Sinn UX sits on the right side of the case at 4 o'clock. This position means it won't dig into the back of your hand when you bend your wrist. The unidirectional bezel is especially scratch resistant and secured in such a way that prevents it from coming off unintentionally. Thanks to its temperature-stabilized battery-powered movement, this watch continues ticking in temperatures ranging from -4°F to +140°F (-20°C to +60°C). A generous coating of luminous material on the hands and indices allows for perfect readability under all lighting conditions.
Plan to spend around 2,200 USD on a new Sinn UX. Pre-owned, this watch changes hands for about 1,500 USD. The maritime division of the elite tactical unit of the German Federal Police use a special edition of the UX, namely the UX GSG 9. This timepiece costs a bit more than the standard edition, at around 2,300 USD new and 1,700 USD pre-owned. You can recognize this model by the GSG 9 logo on the dial at 6 o'clock and on the crown on the left-hand side of the case at 10 o'clock.
If you're in the market for a mechanical Sinn diving watch, you should take a closer look at the EZM 3. You'll find the automatic ETA caliber 2824-2 ticking away inside its 41-mm case. The crown sits on the left at 9 o'clock so that it won't get in the way on dives. The EZM 3 is water resistant to 500 m (50 bar, 1,640 ft) and can withstand magnetic fields of up to 1,000 Gauss. Furthermore, this timepiece functions without issue in temperatures ranging from -49°F to +176°F (-45°C to +80°C). Be sure to have between 1,300 and 1,700 USD on hand to purchase this diving watch.
Other mechanical Sinn diving watches include the T1 and T2. These are especially appealing to fans of titanium watches. The T2 is water resistant to 2,000 m (200 bar, 6,562 ft), meaning it can dive 1,000 m (3,281 ft) deeper than the T1. Both models work reliably between -49°F and +176°F (-45°C and+80°C) and are powered by the ETA 2892-A2. At 45 mm, the T1 is 4 mm larger than the T2. New, the T1 demands around 2,800 USD and the T2 around 2,600 USD. Both sell for about 2,500 USD pre-owned.
How much do Frankfurt Financial District Watches cost?
The timepieces in the Frankfurt Financial District Watches collection have a much more classic and elegant design than Sinn's other watches. They are ideal for wearing at the office or stock exchange. The 6000 chronograph feels understated and elegant thanks to its black sunburst dial. Measuring 38.5 mm in diameter, this timepiece is comfortable to wear. Luminous hands and indices mean you'll never lose track of the time, even in the dark. The Sinn 6000 comes on a calf leather strap or stainless steel link bracelet.
In terms of caliber, Sinn takes the Sellita SW 500 and outfits it with their own GMT function. This automatic watch can even display a third time zone thanks to its rotating bezel with a 12-hour scale. The dial features a date at 4:30, a small seconds dial at 9, a 30-minute counter at 3, and a 12-hour counter at 6 o'clock. A sapphire glass case back offers a stunning view of the movement within. A never-worn Sinn 6000 requires an investment of some 3,700 USD, while pre-owned pieces change hands for about 3,100 USD. The edition in 18-karat rose gold gives off an extra aura of luxury and costs anywhere from 7,900 to 14,000 USD.
The History of Sinn
The German watch manufacturer Sinn Spezialuhren traces its history back to 1961 when pilot, flight instructor, and rally driver Helmut Sinn founded the business in Frankfurt am Main. At first, the company contracted Swiss manufacturers to produce Sinn watches for direct selling. Then as today, Sinn specialized in functional watches such as chronographs, diving watches, and pilot's watches.
Engineer Lothar Schmidt took over the watch manufacturer Sinn in 1994 and shifted the focus toward functional in-house developments. The first example hit the market that same year: the 244 with magnetic field protection. This timepiece also marked the end of the era of private label watches at Sinn. Before joining the Frankfurt-based company, Schmidt had served as an authorized representative for IWC Schaffhausen.
Helmut Sinn wasn't out of the watch scene for long. In 1995, he purchased the Swiss watch manufacturer Guinand and moved its headquarters to Frankfurt am Main. Sinn had a long history with the company, as they had been producing watches for Sinn since the 1960s. Helmut Sinn owned Guinand until 2014. In early 2018, this titan of the German watch industry passed away at the age of 101.

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Oracle Business Process Management, a member of the Oracle Business Process Management Suite, is a complete set of tools for creating, executing, and optimizing business processes. The suite enables unparalleled collaboration between business and IT to automate and optimize business processes.
The Fusion Middleware Documentation Library is the top-level entry page for all Oracle Fusion Middleware 18.104.22.168.0 documentation. Links to BPM Suite documents in the Documentation Library and elsewhere on the Oracle Technology Network are listed below.
The Installation Planning Guide provides a starting point for determining the proper installation path for your environment. The Quick Installation Guide will help you quickly get started for development or evaluation environments. Refer to the Installation Guide for complete information (e.g., installing into a production environment, clustering, de-installation, etc).
All documentation related to BPM Suite is listed on the SOA Suite, Business Process Management Suite, and Web Services view of the Fusion Middleware 18.104.22.168.0
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Just in Case There is a Zombie Apocalypse (19 Photos)
This is all speculation. I have never been in a zombie apocalypse, nor am I an expert in zombie apocalypses, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Also, this is all for fun. So, the zombie apocalypse has come, and you're wondering what weapons you should take to better survive the invasion. Should you take the baseball bat or the chainsaw, the Machete or the flamethrower (and why do you even have a flamethrower in your house?) Wonder no more. Here are a few popular weapon choices for when the walking dead come to life.


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After vision of Christ, Nigerian bishop says rosary will bring down Boko Haram
A Nigerian bishop says that he has seen Christ in a vision and now knows that the rosary is the key to ridding the country of the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram.
Apr 22, 2015
ROME, ITALY: A Nigerian bishop says that he has seen Christ in a vision and now knows that the rosary is the key to ridding the country of the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram.
Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme says he is being driven by a God-given mandate to lead others in praying the rosary until the extremist group disappears.
"Towards the end of last year I was in my chapel before the Blessed Sacrament… praying the rosary, and then suddenly the Lord appeared," Bishop Dashe told CNA April 18.
In the vision, the prelate said, Jesus didn't say anything at first, but extended a sword toward him, and he in turn reached out for it.
"As soon as I received the sword, it turned into a rosary," the bishop said, adding that Jesus then told him three times: "Boko Haram is gone."
"I didn't need any prophet to give me the explanation," he said. "It was clear that with the rosary we would be able to expel Boko Haram."
The bishop said he didn't want to tell anyone, but "felt that the Holy Spirit was pushing him to do so."
He started with the priests of his diocese, and then told participants in the April 17-19 #WeAreN2015 congress in Madrid, Spain. The event is being sponsored by the Spanish Catholic sister groups hazteoir.org and CitizenGo to gather ideas on how to preserve the Christian presence in nations where they are most persecuted.
Bishop Dashe leads the Diocese of Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria's Borno State. In 2009, there were around 125,000 Catholics under his guidance. After a surge in violence from the Islamist extremist group called Boko Haram, today "there are only 50 to 60 thousand left," he said.
Most of those who fled sought safer areas in other parts of Nigeria, he said. Some of the same families are now returning home as armed forces from Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon liberate their homes.
In 2014, Boko Haram became known worldwide when members kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in Borno State. On March 7, 2015, five suicide bombers killed 54 and wounded nearly three times as many in the capital city of Maidaguri, where the bishop lives and works.
The group has killed 1,000 people across Nigeria in the first three months of 2015, according to Human Rights Watch, which reports that more than 6,000 have died in Boko Haram-led violence since 2009.
Just last month, the group pledged its allegiance to ISIS – also known as the Islamic State – which launched a bloody campaign in Iraq and Syria last summer.
Meanwhile, Bishop Dashe has just completed a "consolation tour" to communities in his diocese, promoting forgiveness and continued faith. He believes he was asked by Jesus to spread devotion to the rosary in order to aid them as they do so.
"Maybe that's why he did it," said the bishop, referring to Jesus in his vision.
Bishop Dashe said he has a strong devotion to Christ's mother, and that "I never joke with 'Mamma Mary.' I know she is here with us."
And he is not the only Nigerian bishop putting the future of the country in the hands of Mary. The nation's bishops' conference has consecrated the country to her twice in recent years.
Bishop Dashe believes that one day his diocese will completely recover and grow thanks to her intercession.
"These terrorists… think that by burning our churches, burning our structures, they will destroy Christanity. Never," Bishop Dashe told several hundred people from the dais of the #WeAreN2015 congress.
"It may take a few months or a few years … but 'Boko Haram is gone.'"
He later told CNA that "prayer, particularly the prayer of the rosary, is (what) will deliver us from the claws of this demon, the demon of terrorism. And of course, it is working."--CNA


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Iconography is a fundamental liturgical art originating in the earliest days of the Christian Church. Developed, practiced and preserved primarily by the Eastern Rite, iconography provides authentic, meaningful and dignified images which exemplify the larger consciousness of the Christian Church. Icons carry a patrimony of both theology and art, conveying essential dogmatic and biographical information, embodying the presence of the holy ones depicted.
Iconography continues to present traditional prototypes whose profundity has never been surpassed. As a living, ecumenical art it also provides an idealized language of forms and symbols which can be used to illustrate recently recognized saints as well as those in the Latin Rite for whom there is no iconographic precedent.
All icons are custom made to order. Special deliberation must be made by the client in selecting an appropriate image. The iconographer collaborates with the client to consider the careful integration of each icon into the specific architecture or ethnic tradition of the site where it will be placed.
The icons of this studio are made with natural materials; the foundation
is linen glued to a wood panel, primed with a marble-based gesso. Painted with egg tempera mixed with natural earth and mineral pigments, the halos and backgrounds are gilded with 22 kt. gold. The icon is then varnished with copal resin.
Every effort is made to follow the canon of rubrics governing icon-writing:
- Proper compositional structure
- Proper development of a "schema" or design illustrating the historical likeness of the person depicted as well as expressing the truths realized by his or her life in symbols, without altering the integrity of the Canon.
- Proper development of the "schema" using traditionally prescribed colors.
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Common Things (Review: The Dry)
"The Dry" is streaming on Prime
We all have secrets. From the smallest to the most squalid, everyone has a moment, a decision that they dearly wish the rest of the world would never discover. It's part of being human, and the good news is that for the vast majority of us, our secrets don't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things.
But here's the thing about secrets — if you live in a big, bustling urban environment, you also live with a cloak of anonymity. You can be about your business with minimal worry of being discovered. Small towns, though? The kinds of towns whose best days are decades behind them? The ones that only seem to exist through a combination of grit and spite? It's damn near impossible to keep a secret there.
Like the doomed Jimmy Gator says in Magnolia, "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." To be through with that past and those secrets, a reckoning is required. Historically speaking, small towns don't do well with reckonings. There's too much personal and collective history. The new Australian mystery The Dry is an atmospheric film that dives into the secrets of a small town that bakes in an inhospitable climate.
For twenty years, Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) has managed to stay away. We don't know what sort of life he lives, but he's built a respectable career as a Federal Agent. Odds are he'd be perfectly happy never setting foot in Kiewarra again. It's a small farming community outside of Melbourne, and it's Aaron's hometown. He's got history there.
Aaron has to come back. He has no choice. As far as anyone can tell, his childhood friend Luke Hadler (Martin Dingle-Wall) shot his wife and son. Luke spared their infant daughter, then traveled out into the middle of nowhere and put a bullet in his own head. With a crime that monstrous, Aaron feels that he has no choice but to come home and pay his respects.
There are a few problems, though. The first is that Luke's parents Gerry (Bruce Spence) and Barb (Julia Blake) don't buy the theory that Luke snapped, and they ask Aaron to stick around and investigate further. The second is that Aaron has his own cloud of suspicion trailing him. Twenty years earlier, Ellie Deacon (BeBe Bettencourt) drowned in a local river. The circumstances surrounding her death were mysterious, and a note in her pocket implied that Luke and Aaron were involved.
Most of the town blames Aaron and would be perfectly happy for him to piss off back to his Fed job forever. Greg Raco (Keir O'Donnell), the local constable, doesn't share their prejudice. Besides, while he's a small town cop who's a little inexperienced, he's no fool, and he thinks there's something rotten in Kiewarra. They'll discover the connection between the two crimes and the rot baking in the relentless Australian sun.
I've been writing about film for a minute, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's just how much about film I have yet to discover. Until seeing The Dry, I'd never heard of director Robert Connolly. My plan is to remedy that ignorance as soon as is humanly possible. Connolly is a smart and sophisticated filmmaker, and he does excellent work establishing the feel of the sun-blasted town of Kiewarra. Wide shots show us the world these people live in, with fields ruined by drought and smoke from wildfires on the horizon. Connolly takes it a step further and ties the land to the emotions of these people. Flashbacks show us the powerful river Ellie drowned in, and when Aaron returns, we see him walking down a dusty trough with no water to be found.
Those flashbacks are also peppered throughout the story strategically. Connolly and co-writer Harry Cripps provide us information and just the right moments to make us doubt the truth of what Aaron initially finds, along with the truth of what he believes. It's smart and sophisticated writing that doesn't exist to simply solve a mystery. Instead, their script shows the layers of human behavior and that everyone has secrets. Those secrets resonate in different ways.
While Hollywood and the media ecosystem are in the midst of massive change, there's one thing that has virtually never changed. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole actors and freaks out when they can't. A good example of this is Eric Bana. Originally a comedy sensation in Australia, Bana came to America and did good work in films such as Hulk and Munich. He never quite became a star, and I'd argue that was a blessing, as it freed him up to concentrate on being a strong actor. As Aaron, he carries The Dry with a combination of quiet competence and deep pain. He's supported by a group of talented actors inhabiting memorable characters, such as the stressed school administrator Whitlam, the local tough Grant (Matt Nable), and Gretchen (Genevieve O'Reilly), the last surviving member of his foursome of friends.
The Dry is more than a rural murder mystery. It's a cautionary tale about how a small town can be slowly ruined by environmental catastrophe, a drama about reckoning with the past, and a sharp character study concerning a close-knit town. All together, The Dry is a strong and perceptive film that deserves to be seen and cherished.


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Russia's resurgence raises a host of questions. Specifically, what does this mean for the future of democracy in the former Soviet republic? How have recent shifts in Russian-American relations influenced Russian ambitions in the "near abroad?" What role – if any – will China play in Eurasian politics? Join Host Ron Granieri, as he "interrogates" Stephen Blank, one of the nation's leading experts on Eurasia, to find out the answers to these important questions and much more!
Dr. Stephen J. Blank is a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian, U.S., Asian, and European military and foreign policies, testified frequently before Congress on Russia, China, and Central Asia, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency, major think tanks and foundations, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2005). He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia's Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin's Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future(Greenwood, 1992).


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"Consolidation" is a term that is bandied about a lot in recent memory research. Here's my take on what it means.
Becoming a memory
Initially, information is thought to be encoded as patterns of neural activity — cells "talking" to each other. Later, the information is coded in more persistent molecular or structural formats (e.g., the formation of new synapses). It has been assumed that once this occurs, the memory is "fixed" — a permanent, unchanging, representation.
With new techniques, it has indeed become possible to observe these changes (you can see videos here). Researchers found that the changes to a cell that occurred in response to an initial stimulation lasted some three to five minutes and disappeared within five to 10 minutes. If the cell was stimulated four times over the course of an hour, however, the synapse would actually split and new synapses would form, producing a (presumably) permanent change.
Memory consolidation theory
The hypothesis that new memories consolidate slowly over time was proposed 100 years ago, and continues to guide memory research. In modern consolidation theory, it is assumed that new memories are initially 'labile' and sensitive to disruption before undergoing a series of processes (e.g., glutamate release, protein synthesis, neural growth and rearrangement) that render the memory representations progressively more stable. It is these processes that are generally referred to as "consolidation".
Recently, however, the idea has been gaining support that stable representations can revert to a labile state on reactivation.
Memory as reconstruction
In a way, this is not surprising. We already have ample evidence that retrieval is a dynamic process during which new information merges with and modifies the existing representation — memory is now seen as reconstructive, rather than a simple replaying of stored information
Reconsolidation of memories
Researchers who have found evidence that supposedly stable representations have become labile again after reactivation, have called the process "reconsolidation", and suggest that consolidation, rather than being a one-time event, occurs repeatedly every time the representation is activated.
This raises the question: does reconsolidation involve replacing the previously stable representation, or the establishment of a new representation, that coexists with the old?
Whether reconsolidation is the creating of a new representation, or the modifying of an old, is this something other than the reconstruction of memories as they are retrieved? In other words, is this recent research telling us something about consolidation (part of the encoding process), or something about reconstruction (part of the retrieval process)?
Hippocampus involved in memory consolidation
The principal player in memory consolidation research, in terms of brain regions, is the hippocampus. The hippocampus is involved in the recognition of place and the consolidation of contextual memories, and is part of a region called the medial temporal lobe (MTL), that also includes the perirhinal, parahippocampal,and entorhinal cortices. Lesions in the medial temporal lobe typically produce amnesia characterized by the disproportionate loss of recently acquired memories. This has been interpreted as evidence for a memory consolidation process.
Some research suggests that the hippocampus may participate only in consolidation processes lasting a few years. The entorhinal cortex, on the other hand, gives evidence of temporally graded changes extending up to 20 years, suggesting that it is this region that participates in memory consolidation over decades. The entorhinal cortex is damaged in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
There is, however, some evidence that the hippocampus can be involved in older memories — perhaps when they are particularly vivid.
A recent idea that has been floated suggests that the entorhinal cortex, through which all information passes on its way to the hippocampus, handles "incremental learning" — learning that requires repeated experiences. "Episodic learning" — memories that are stored after only one occurrence — might be mainly stored in the hippocampus.
This may help explain the persistence of some vivid memories in the hippocampus. Memories of emotionally arousing events tend to be more vivid and to persist longer than do memories of neutral or trivial events, and are, moreover, more likely to require only a single experience.
Whether or not the hippocampus may retain some older memories, the evidence that some memories might be held in the hippocampus for several years, only to move on, as it were, to another region, is another challenge to a simple consolidation theory.
Memory more complex than we thought
So where does all this leave us? What is consolidation? Do memories reach a fixed state?
My own feeling is that, no, memories don't reach this fabled "cast in stone" state. Memories are subject to change every time they are activated (such activation doesn't have to bring the memory to your conscious awareness). But consolidation traditionally (and logically) refers to encoding processes. It is reasonable, and useful, to distinguish between:
- the initial encoding, the "working memory" state, when new information is held precariously in shifting patterns of neural activity,
- the later encoding processes, when the information is consolidated into a more permanent form with the growth of new connections between nerve cells,
- the (possibly much) later retrieval processes, when the information is retrieved in, most probably, a new context, and is activated anew
I think that "reconsolidation" is a retrieval process rather than part of the encoding processes, but of course, if you admit retrieval as involving a return to the active state and a modification of the original representation in line with new associations, then the differences between retrieval and encoding become less evident.
When you add to this the possibility that memories might "move" from one area of the brain to another after a certain period of time (although it is likely that the triggering factor is not time per se), then you cast into disarray the whole concept of memories becoming stable.
Perhaps our best approach is to see memory as a series of processes, and consolidation as an agreed-upon (and possibly arbitrary) subset of those processes.
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin showcasted one of television's earliest canine heroes who left big paw prints for his descendants to follow. Rin Tin Tin was the only dog in Los Angeles to be listed in the telephone directory. Lee Duncan, his owner and trainer, sais, "Rinty was very close to his great grandfather," the original Rin Tin Tin, who appeared in many popular motion pictures of the 1930s and the 1940s, and was for a time the highest paid performer (Actor?) in films. The first episode of this canine crime fighter series commenced when the U.S. Cavalry came upon a wagon train that had been attacked by Apache Indians. The only survivors were a young boy named Rusty and his German shepherd he called Rin Tin Tin. The Cavalry took the boy and his dog to Fort Apache in Arizona, where Lt. Ripley "Rip" Masters made Rusty a Corporal so he could stay on at the fort.


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The tastes of tart green apples and sweet raisins complement the undertone of curry in this versatile stuffing. Use Wehani rice or any unseasoned rice blend.
Festive Rice Stuffing
- 1 1/2 cups Wehani or rice blend
- 3 cups water
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 cup diced onion
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/4 cup diced celery
- 2 1/2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 2 tablespoons medium curry powder
- 1/4 cup apple juice
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 1/2 cups diced Granny Smith apple
- Rinse rice and let drain. Bring water and salt to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in rice, cover and return to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until all the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender. Transfer the cooked rice to a strainer and rinse quickly with cold water to stop cooking. Drain the rice thoroughly, then transfer to a mixing bowl.
- As the rice cooks, heat oil in a small skillet until hot but not smoking. Add onion and toss to coat with oil. Cook, stirring constantly for 1 minute. Reduce heat and continue to cook, stirring often, until onion is soft, about 8 minutes. Raise heat to medium. Add garlic, celery, mushrooms and curry. Continue to cook, stirring frequently, until mushrooms have softened, about 8 minutes. Stir in apple juice and cook just to blend.
- Add the mushroom mixture along with the raisins and apples to the rice and stir to combine. Reheat stuffing in a 350°F oven for 20 minutes before serving. Serve the rice as a side dish or as a stuffing for bell peppers, prebaked winter squash or eggplant.


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Multivitamins are exactly what they sound like: multiple vitamins.
They're supplements that contain several different vitamins in each one. They can also contain several minerals and other ingredients like amino acids or fatty acids. And because there are multiple ingredients, there are low doses of each ingredient.
In fact, they are the most commonly used supplements in the world!
There are 13 vitamins and at least 16 minerals that are essential to health. You need certain amounts of all of these nutrients for optimal health. In fact, nutrient deficiencies can impact reproduction, growth, and regulation of bodily processes.
Lots of people say that if you follow a "balanced diet," you'll get enough vitamins and minerals. I personally would love to believe it … but it's just not true. Many people are eating way too much processed food that is devoid of nutrition. There's a lot of research that shows many people don't get enough vitamins and minerals. Period.
How do you know which vitamins and minerals are in your multivitamin? Read the label, and don't be afraid to ask questions! If there are at least three different vitamins and minerals listed, it's a multivitamin.
Do multivitamins work?
Multivitamins have been studied a lot.
The quality of the multivitamins studied has not been consistent. Some studies consider any supplements with at least three vitamins to be a "multivitamin." Most of the time, the multivitamins studied are ones that are very popular and are available everywhere.
So, what exactly do we know about the health benefits of multivitamins?
Here's a quick summary of the science:
● Multivitamin use is linked with improved moods. Interestingly, if someone has nutrient deficiencies, they may have mood imbalances. So, if the multivitamin addresses an underlying
deficiency, this makes sense.
● In terms of memory and cognitive performance (ability to think), there seems to be an improvement in people who regularly take multivitamins.
● In terms of cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, there seems to be a slight improvement.
● In terms of heart disease, the results are mixed. There may be an increase, or a decrease, or no effect on risk of heart attacks.
● In terms of cancer, there is a slightly reduced risk of certain cancers in men.
● In terms of mortality (death), there doesn't seem to be a clear increase or decrease in mortality rates for people who take multivitamins.
All in all, multivitamins aren't magical "health pills." They're not guaranteed to improve your mental or physical health, or help you live longer; but, they do have some health benefits.
Are multivitamins safe?
Just about every study that looked to see if multivitamins were health-promoting, also looked at side effects. They have consistently shown that multivitamins are very safe.
Now, I'm not talking about high-dose supplements. High doses of many nutrients can be harmful. But specifically for multivitamins where there are several nutrients included, all of which are in low doses. Those are safe.
Unless you have a knowledgeable practitioner advise otherwise, you want to stick to the dose on the label. That dose should be safe for most people.
However, there are many times when supplements (not just multivitamins) have been tested and found to contain different ingredients than what's on the label; this may be different quantities of vitamins or minerals. Sometimes they contain ingredients that are not supposed to be in them at all (like toxins or prescription medicines).
This is why choosing supplements that are licensed, if applicable (like in Canada), and from reputable companies is so important.
Multivitamins are not a way to optimal health. There is limited evidence that they improve health for most people. But there are some benefits.
Since they contain low doses of many different nutrients, they're also safe (as long as you have a quality product).Of course, taking a multivitamin is not a way to improve a poor diet. I always recommend eating a balanced diet of whole foods. There is plenty of evidence that eating a diet of whole, unprocessed food prevents many diseases.
So try out my superfood salad – It's like a multivitamin with benefits.
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Like a spear thrusting into the Gulf of Mexico's gut, the Isle de Jean Charles is turbulent with ruinous daily oil and gas accidents, rising sea levels, and tropical storms. Homes on the Isle de Jean Charles perch on delicate wooden stilts thirteen feet high, their paint peeling in the sun. A solitary road snakes down the spine of the shrinking island. Stained American flags billow slowly in the Gulf breeze, affixed to porches where one can catch the nasal tones of plaid-clad men bantering in Cajun French.
The island was the backdrop of the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, an allegorical fantasy about the impacts of climate change through the eyes of a small child. The cameras have left, but the islanders who remain are confronted with the real-life consequences of a warming climate, threatening to wipe out what remains of their traditional way of life.
Most of the men on Isle de Jean Charles, young and middle-aged, work the water, casting nets to trawl for shrimp and oysters. Such has been the way for the Biloxi-Chitimacha, the small Native American tribe who first settled on the isle in the 1840s and carved out an existence amongst its swamps and marshes. But that existence, and way of life, is now in jeopardy. Where 200 Biloxi-Chitimacha families once lived, fishing, trapping and rearing cattle, only 24 remain.
"There was land on both sides of the bayou," said Chris Chaisson, pointing out the window of his SUV parked just at the head of the island road. "Now, it's just open sea." Chaisson, 30, spoke to us about coming to church on the isle as a child by way of pirogue, a long, open fishing boat native to the region. Oil outfits, digging extensive canals to lay pipelines crisscrossing southeastern Louisiana, have left behind a maze of slowly widening waterways through which the Gulf is sucking land out to sea. Saltwater rushes into the newly-dug pipeline ditches, killing freshwater vegetation, loosening the earth for the sea's advance.
"We have to suffer from the lack of responsibility of the oil companies," said Chaisson, decrying an industry that he believes has done tremendous damage with little justice from the local government. "When I get to 60 years old, will the island still be here? It's difficult to say with the way the government is dragging its feet."
"Living off the land is impossible now," said Albert Naquin, 64, the brim of his cap low over his eyes as he speaks to us in a pavilion beside his home in Pointe Aux Chenes, just a few miles inland from the Isle. Albert is chief of the Biloxi-Chitimacha, a title passed down from elders for more than 100 years. There is pressure, he says, from the state government, real estate interests, and even tribal members to relocate.
The island – along with the rest of Louisiana's coastline – is disappearing into the Gulf at a speed almost visible to the eye.
Thirty square miles of South Louisiana's land– an area roughly the size of Manhattan – vanish every year into the Gulf of Mexico.
Dr. Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, a professor in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University, notes, "Our research in coastal Louisiana has shown that the rate [of sea level rise] over the past century has been about five times higher than in the previous one thousand years."
With about a football field being swallowed by the Gulf every half hour, the area is one of the fastest disappearing landmasses on earth.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is constructing a 70-mile levee system called the "Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Project" along the endangered coast. By the time it is completed in 2020, the levee, an $887 million project designed to stem wetland erosion exacerbated by canals and oil pipelines, will protect 120,000 people from hurricane damage. Those on Isle de Jean Charles will not be amongst them.
A report by the Army Corps of Engineers said that extending the levee around Isle de Jean Charles was economically unviable. Instead, it suggested relocating the people of the island – at a cost of $8 million – to someplace further inland.
In his deep Cajun accent, Albert Naquin defends the island. "To an outsider, it might not seem much worth saving," he said. "But this is a our paradise; it's quiet, it's peaceful, you don't have to be fighting traffic. We have our roots here. It's kinda hard to pull an oak tree outta the ground and set it someplace else."
The Biloxi-Chitimacha, along with other native groups in southern Louisiana, have long been the target of discrimination from state authorities and local whites alike. Naquin recalls with a fierce clarity the fear he felt growing up as a Native American in the 1950s. "As a kid, my daddy told me if you hear a car coming, go hide in the woods. So we did; they couldn't find us in there."
It was not until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Naquin and his peers were allowed to attend public schools. Even after civil rights legislation was passed, they continued to face discrimination. A line of thin white scars on Naquin's forearms serve as a reminder of the beatings he was dealt as a child for speaking Cajun French, his mother tongue, in school. He and other islanders see the potential forced removal of the remaining islanders in the midst of a decaying environment as a continuation of this injustice.
Yet the sinking isle is emblematic of an environmental crisis that is affecting many more communities than just the Biloxi-Chitimacha. "State and federal Agencies regularly look the other way for the energy industry in the Gulf," creating an "energy sacrifice zone," said Scott Eustis, of the Gulf Restoration Network.
The massive BP Deepwater Horizon spill four years ago, which spewed oil along the entire Gulf Coast and beyond, devastating the fishing industry and wildlife, is just one example of the results of government turning a blind eye to safety precautions. There are thousands of offshore wells and oil pipelines in the Gulf and, this February, a federally imposed embargo against BP partaking in the region's offshore oil boom was lifted. The Department of the Interior has touted stricter safety measures, but many in the region who depend on the Gulf waters to earn a livelihood want drilling to halt entirely, fearful of the next blowout.
Yet, for the the Biloxi-Chitimacha, sea level rise – spawned by heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions from the oil being extracted in the Gulf and elsewhere – remains at the root of the tribe's most pressing problems. The phenomenon won't affect only the Biloxi-Chitimacha and their isle. Coastal areas around the world are under threat.
"The global average rate of sea level rise is just over 3 millimeters per year for the past 20 years," Dr. Törnqvist points out. "This may not sound like much, but it is a rate higher than the Earth has seen in the past 7000 years."
The Biloxi-Chitimacha stand on the front-lines of this ecological transformation.
"I enjoyed this marsh," said Wenceslaus Billiot, an 87 year-old veteran of the Second World War who tends Isle de Jean Charles's graveyard, his voice shaky and eyes wandering. "My kids will enjoy some of it, but our grandkids don't stand a chance."
If and when the time comes to leave, Billiot says, moving the graves from the burial ground will be out of the question.
"Buried they'll stay. Right here. They'll be underwater, but at least we'll not be disturbing them."
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McVea, Emilie Watts
by Martha S. Stoops, 1991
17 Feb. 1867–26 July 1928
Emilie Watts McVea, nationally recognized educator, was born in Clinton, La., the daughter of Judge Charles and Emilie Rose Watts McVea. Her ancestry was Scottish and French. After Judge McVea's death, Mrs. McVea moved with her young daughters to Raleigh to be near her sister, Mrs. John Esten Cooke Smedes, wife of the second president of St. Augustine's College. Young Emilie was educated at St. Mary's School in Raleigh (1877–84), where her record was outstanding. She remained active in St. Mary's alumnae affairs and in the Episcopal church throughout her life.
In 1886 she returned to St. Mary's to teach and in 1898 became lady principal. She worked with the Reverend Dr. Bennett Smedes, second rector of the school, to enrich the curriculum. She was, according to her students, an inspiring teacher who made her classes in literature and history "an unforgettable experience . . . an introduction to life." Scholarly and deeply religious, she was also forthright and tough-minded. Perceptive, friendly, and witty, she was so quick to sympathize that her young students loved as well as respected "Emmie Mac." A large and energetic woman, she gave the impression of vitality, always accomplishing incredible amounts of work. In reality, she endured chronic poor health that eventually forced her into early retirement.
After the death of Dr. Smedes in February 1899, Miss McVea supervised the school until the new rector, the Reverend Theodore DuBose Bratton, was established. She then began long-planned advanced studies at George Washington University, where she received an A.B. degree in 1902 and an A.M. degree the next year.
She taught English literature briefly at the University of Tennessee, where she was active in extension work with public school teachers. When Dr. Charles W. Dabney, formerly director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station and then president of the University of Tennessee, was named president of the University of Cincinnati, he recommended Miss McVea for the position of assistant professor of English literature at the latter institution. In 1909 she was elected dean of the Women's Departments.
Emilie McVea's career at the University of Cincinnati was distinguished and her contributions to the life of the city were considerable. When she left Ohio in 1916, she was honored at a civic reception by tributes from the leaders of almost every reform movement of the time. She worked and lectured on behalf of many liberal causes—child labor laws, better secondary schools, more competent teachers in women's colleges, an open university forum, the parity of men and women in university posts, and, above all, the right of women to equal education, equal job opportunities, and suffrage. She also gave lectures in support of the YWCA, and in 1903–4 she served as secretary-treasurer of the Southern Association of College Women. Among the administrators at Cincinnati, she was the indisputably equal colleague whose firmly held convictions came to be "the solidifying force" of the institution, while, according to one of her fellow professors, the home she shared with her mother was "the social heart of the university."
Sweet Briar, a small, nonsectarian academy and college for women near Lynchburg, Va., was barely ten years old when Dr. McVea became its second president. By 1925 Sweet Briar was a fully accredited and respected college with a scholarly faculty and a strong liberal arts curriculum. The endowment had been increased and a number of buildings added. Dr. McVea believed that the times demanded rigorous training of women and that women should attack the root causes of social and economic problems. She continued her interest in local and national affairs, lecturing widely on education and, during World War I, for the Federal Food Administration. In recognition of her contributions, she received the honorary Litt.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1916 and an honorary LL.D. degree from The University of North Carolina in 1921. In 1922 she was appointed to a four-year term on the board of visitors of the University of Virginia; she was the first woman member of that body.
When she retired in May 1925, Dr. McVea was made president emerita of Sweet Briar College. By then she was nationally recognized for over forty years of service to the cause of women's education. From 1926 to 1928 she lectured on English literature at Rollins College. She died while on a visit to Cincinnati and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh.
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The beauty of this cross design is an elegant reminder of Christian faith.Lindisfarne Gospels Illuminated Manuscript Pages, British Library, London.35″ x 35″ – Hand-screen printed – 100% Silk Twill. Hand-rolled hem.
St. John's Gospel Silk
The Lindisfarne Gospels is one of Britain's greatest artistic and religious treasures. An outstanding surviving example of Insular Anglo-Saxon and Celtic book-painting of the early eighth century.Written and illuminated in honor of God and St Cuthbert circa 715-20, the Gospels are famous for the superb quality and intricate design of its decorated pages. A single artist-scribe, Eadfrith, later Bishop of Lindisfarne, was responsible for both script and decoration throughout these Gospels. The volume is painted in a large and subtle range of pigments made from a selection of local plants and minerals - the work of someone attuned to the environment. Each of the four Gospels (St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke and St John) opens with a miniature of the appropriate Evangelist and an elaborate decorative "carpet" page based on the form of a cross.
Pope Damasus recognized the need for an accurately-translated Latin text of the Gospels to be used during services. In 382, he appointed a young, scholarly priest, Jerome, later St Jerome, to revise all Latin translations of the Gospels. In due course, St Jerome's translation was adopted by the Church as the official Latin text. Over 300 years later, it was used for the Lindisfarne Gospels. St Jerome's Letter to Pope Damasus introduces the manuscript.


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Scoliosis is an abnormal sideways curvature of the spine, resulting in a shape like an "S" or "C." Most people with scoliosis develop it when they are going through a growth spurt during their childhood or teens, and girls are more likely to have it than boys.
It is sometimes caused by certain neurological, muscular or connective tissue disorders. However, most of the time we don't know what causes the spine to curve, though it does tend to run in families. While many people are not bothered by scoliosis, in some cases it can lead to ongoing pain and fatigue, especially as we age.
Symptoms of Scoliosis
Adults with scoliosis may carry one shoulder or hip higher than the other or have one shoulder blade that seems to stick out more. The curve in the spine will show clearly on an X-ray or other imaging study. Often the curve is mild, but if it is severe or worsens over time, the spine can also twist. Scoliosis is considered mild if the curvature is less than 25 degrees. Moderate scoliosis is a curve between 25 and 50 degrees, and over 50 degrees is considered severe. The greater the curve, the more likely it is that you will have the following symptoms:
- Low back pain
- Stiffness and limited motion
- Pain or numbness from pinched nerves
- Fatigue from uneven weight distribution in the lower back and legs
People with scoliosis often develop more symptoms as they age because of degeneration of the spine, which worsens the curve. Stenosis, or narrowing of the spinal canal, may also develop and increase pain and pressure. If the curve is in your mid back and is severe, no matter your age, it can deform the rib cage. This can affect lung function, limiting the ability to breathe deeply.
People with scoliosis may begin to lean forward, because a bent-over posture opens up space for nerves in the spinal column, relieving pressure and pain. In addition, scoliosis can reduce the natural outward curve of the lower back, which can also make you lean forward. People with scoliosis may compensate by bending their hips and knees in an effort to stand straighter.
Treatment Options for Scoliosis
Even in moderate cases of scoliosis, wear and tear on the spine tends to happen more quickly in comparison to a normal curvature. Being proactive with your abnormal curvature before there is pain will give you the best outcome. In young people, if the curve is becoming more pronounced or it is causing discomfort, your chiropractor may recommend wearing a special brace to keep the spine as straight as possible until it is fully grown.
Spinal fusion surgery may be recommended in severe cases, usually if curves progress beyond 45 degrees in patients who are not fully grown and above 50 degrees in grownups. In this procedure, metal implants are attached to rods that straighten the vertebrae. Eventually, the spinal joints fuse together. Though this may result in a straighter back, it is common to experience limited flexibility and wear and tear above and below the fused segments. Your chiropractor will measure your curves to determine if a surgical consultation is necessary.
There is a natural way to help treat the pain associated with scoliosis without pain medication or spinal fusion. Chiropractic care cannot cure an abnormally curved spine, but it can keep you more mobile and reduce pain and fatigue. Spinal adjustments and muscle work can help you stand straighter, lessening the strain on your back and legs.
In a study of 28 patients in Michigan (National Institutes of Health, U.S. Library of Medicine), those who received chiropractic care for scoliosis reported improvements in pain and disability following treatment. Twenty-two of them had a reduced "Cobb angle" (which measures the curvature) after treatment, and patients also showed improved lung function. The improvement remained two years later.
Periodic visits to the chiropractor as recommended by your practitioner are a safe, non-invasive way to minimize the effects of scoliosis on your daily routine. Adjustments will help keep your joints moving. Addressing spinal misalignments can reduce inflammation and improve overall function. Increased mobility and spinal health will help your body manage the stress of an abnormal spinal curvature and lessen the impact of scoliosis over time.


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Crafting the Perfect Blog Structure: A Guide for Effective Blogging
Every great blog post starts with a solid structure. A well-structured blog not only enhances readability but also keeps your readers engaged. This post will explore the key elements of an effective blog structure.
1. Captivating Headline
Your headline is the first thing readers see. Make it catchy, clear, and concise. It should pique interest and give a hint about the content.
2. Intriguing Introduction
Begin with an engaging introduction. Use it to hook your reader, provide context, and set the tone for your post.
3. Organized Body Content
Break your content into clear, digestible sections. Use headings and subheadings to guide readers through your post. Each section should flow logically and contribute to the overall topic.
4. Use of Bullet Points and Lists
Where appropriate, use bullet points or lists to present information clearly. They make the content easier to scan and digest.
5. Inclusion of Images and Media
Visuals can break up text and add an extra layer of engagement. Use relevant images, infographics, or videos to complement your content.
6. Personal Touch
Add your personal insights or experiences. This personal touch can make your blog more relatable and engaging.
7. Conclusion with a Call to Action
End with a conclusion that summarizes the main points. Include a call to action, encouraging readers to engage, share, or explore further.
8. Consistent Formatting
Maintain a consistent format throughout your blog. This includes font sizes, styles, and color schemes.
A well-structured blog post is crucial for engaging and retaining readers. By following these guidelines, you can create posts that are not only informative but also enjoyable to read. Happy blogging!


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Visit Holland - The Netherlands
The site includes up-to-date information on locks, bridges and sections of canal that are currently shut for construction work or repairs.
The map also shows the location of Amsterdam's marinas, gas stations, slipways and charging stations.
Vaarkaart Amsterdam has usefully mapped all the bridges on the canal network. As well as providing Street Views of all the bridges the map shows the bridge heights and the canal depths. Finally, Vaarkaart Amsterdam has mapped the routes of a number of tours that you can take on its canal system. The tours include routes to see the best of the Western Isles, the Wallen district, the Plantage area and South Amsterdam.
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A hullabaloo erupted between France and Germany that both governments are trying to silence to death. According to unnamed sources of Zeit Online and Reuters, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble broached an unprecedented topic with the members of Germany's Council of Economic Experts on Wednesday when they presented their Annual Report. In its 49-year history of advising German governments, the Council has never delved into policy proposals for other countries. And yet, Schäuble asked them: Could they produce a reform concept for the troubled French economy?
The French, who are currently engaged in national soul-searching and navel-gazing to halt their declining "competitiveness," were not amused. The office of President Francois Hollande wrapped itself in silence. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault brushed it off. The German Ministry of Finance declined to comment on "unofficial discussions." Council Chairman Wolfgang Franz backpedalled: "That's largely misinformation," he said. "An order for a Special Report is not even in the most distant sight." He figured that the French government "wouldn't tolerate something like that."
Nevertheless, he said, the government is highly interested in reform ideas that would make the monetary union more stable. And it is in this context that the Council would "think about France" in December. After which they would talk again with Schäuble, he said.
But the Council is already "increasingly worried" about the economic developments in France, admitted Council member Lars Feld when he presented the Annual Report to Schäuble. "The largest problem isn't Greece anymore, or Spain or Italy, but France because France has done nothing to rebuild its competitiveness and is even heading in the opposite direction." He didn't mince words. "France needs labor market reforms," he said. "It is the country among Eurozone countries that works the least each year; so how do you expect any results from that?"
The problems are piling up in France. While central government spending—56% of the economy!—is expected to remain relatively constant and provide some stability, the private sector is deteriorating with breathtaking speed. Every day, new evidence seeps out.
On Friday, it was an Insee poll of CEOs in the manufacturing sector. They're cutting investments in plant and equipment in the second half. In 2013, they would reduce their investments by an additional 2%—though in the previous poll in July, they'd planned on increasing their investments by 5%. A harsh reversal, one that has been playing out for months.
Then the Bank of France released an estimate for fourth quarter GDP: it would shrink by 0.1%. For the third quarter, it also estimated a decline of 0.1%. If these figures are confirmed, France entered a recession in July. Five quarters in a row of total stagnation, a first in France's post-war history!
The Germans are concerned. France bought €101 billion of German goods in 2011, or 10% of total exports. But German exports fell 2.5% in September, and exports to the Eurozone crashed 9.1%. Germany has been through this before. Its economy lives and dies by its exports.
Schäuble must feel the pressure. But fear of a dip in exports to France might not be enough for him to risk a diplomatic confrontation with his most important neighbor. He certainly wouldn't want to stir up, without good reason, even more accusations of meddling and Teutonic arrogance. So why this unusual request?
Fear and desperation within the government about a much greater threat. The credit markets, which are currently sleeping through the French private-sector fiasco, might wake up someday—as Greece found out, it can happen suddenly—and demand much higher yields. Even if still digestible for France, it would likely throw Spain over the edge, and Italy would follow. Or the markets might walk away from France entirely.
France is too big to bail out. If the debt crisis suddenly arrived in Paris, only all-out, no-holds-barred, unrestricted bond-buying operations by the ECB could save the euro. But it would violate even the last pretense of treaty-based limitations, and would in the process debase the euro. While this might please some countries, including France, it would enrage German voters who might take out their anger on Chancellor Angela Merkel and her government. And that strikes terror into their hearts.
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Hello All!
This is something I wrote years ago about my grandmother moving away from the home she lived in during my childhood. It was a house my grandfather partially built before he passed away when I was 16, and it was on five acres of wooded land in Springfield, OR.
This essay came up the other day in a conversation I had with someone, so I've pulled it out to share with the world. I hope you like it =-)
Best, Noetical.
My grandmother told me yesterday that she bought a new house. I know what follows. She is going to sell the old house that is the only place that I really consider "home." I had a rather migrant childhood, and the memories from that old house, with woods for a backyard, seem to be the only memories that I didn't get through a car window.
I can't think of any one interesting story that happened there because they all melt together into a collage of mostly happy times. There are no beginnings or endings to these memories, and I don't think I could find a climax within any of them, even if I tried. Nonetheless, in my lifetime, we had about eight Easter-egg hunts, fourteen summer vacations, and thirteen Christmases in that home. As I sit here trying to write about all the memories that fill my mind, it is a terrible strain even to describe the furniture, the rooms, or the smells, all of which I know so well. I can only try to turn them into words.
I guess my favorite part is the woods out back. I especially love their smell, because the air is thick with cedar scent. As I walk along the path, I move prickly, spider web-draped branches out of my way. They quickly snap back as my body passes by. My feet rustle through the moist ground that is blanketed with trampled twigs and pine needles. Passing by each well-trodden point in the path, I think I remember slices of my childhood. I know that I once chopped wood with Grandpa over there in that clearing, and I think that between those two trees is exactly where I once walked smack into a giant spider web, complete with a giant spider.
More than remembering particular happenings, though, I remember that those woods were a place for exploration, fantasy, and also a place that I could share with my family. I used to love to ramble through the maze of Douglas-firs and find hiding spots of little elves or of similarly tiny and fantastic creatures. But more special than anything else about the woods was that they belonged to my father and grandfather too.
I loved to roam the woods with Grandpa, looking for fallen trees to split into firewood with his wedge and sledgehammer. The hammer was big and heavy, and I must have been quite a sight, heaving that big old thing above my slight nine-year-old shoulders. But Grandpa was always patient as he watched me discover my own strength and power.
I also spent many hours exploring here with my daddy. He would point out mushrooms and flowers, and occasionally we would find beautifully crafted arrowheads, left behind long ago. Here both my grandfather and my father loved me and paid attention to me.
By mid-day, it is the warmest, and the sun is at its highest. But still it is not too bright here, below the trees, as their shadow covers the ground like a knit afghan, with just enough light streaming through the holes to let me know it is still day.
Leaving the woods behind now, I walk back up to the house. I go through the garage to get to the back door. Walking up the steps, they creak faintly under my feet. I can smell the familiar musty scent as only damp wood and cold mountain air can create. The door opens easily, and I step into the warm home where, at least in spirit, my grandfather is still alive and my parents are still married.
Just to my right is the bathroom that Grandpa always used to shave in. He had an old-fashioned cup of shaving cream and a big brush. He would swish the brush around in the cup and then cover his scruffy face with suds. To tell the truth though, I think for all the years I was alive, he used twin-blade disposable razors.
To my left is the room my brother and I used to sleep in. Straight ahead lies the kitchen, a favorite spot for all grandchildren. This was the place where we ate homemade blueberry hotcakes on Saturday mornings. It was also the site of the making of many batches of cookies, many fresh biscuits, and many luscious fruit pies. Grandma rolled everything out on that kitchen table with the old green plastic table cover. This is also where we stretched peanut brittle and frosted Christmas cookies, my two favorite things to make and eat.
That doorway leads to the living room and Grandma used to hang mistletoe there at Christmas time. Once I caught Uncle Norman under there and let him have it with a big slobbery kid kiss. Right through that doorway is Grandpa's chair, an overstuffed easy chair with a matching ottoman. He used to sit there and read the paper at night. Before bed I would climb into his lap and kiss his bald forehead goodnight.
There is a small cold hallway, with doors on either side, which leads from the living room to the master bedroom. I always think of that room as being cold. I guess that's because it was usually morning when I went in there. I used to love to wake up Grandma and Grandpa in the mornings. My grandfather was pretty Scotch and would always turn off the heat at night, which made for some cold mornings. I remember how the cold linoleum floor would burn against my bare feet, warm and swollen from a night of sound sleep.
On the bedroom wall hang three portraits, one of each of my grandmother's children. I remember one summer when my parents left my brother and me to stay there for two months. After the first month, I began to miss my mommy and daddy terribly. Every day of that month, I went into that room to stare at that High School portrait of my father. Sometimes I was sure that he blinked or even smiled at me.
The whole house and its grounds have become an anachronism for me, because they aren't so much a place of being anymore, but rather a place in time. The other day I broke down on the phone to a woman I love dearly, and who has lived in that home for over forty years. In those forty years, she raised three children, buried two parents and two in-laws, watched six grandchildren come into the world, and buried a beloved husband. This month she will move into a new house. There can be no doubt that her sorrow in leaving is much more complex than mine, but there can be none more poignant than that of a woman who sees her childhood sold, never to be seen again.
But memories are in the mind, aren't they?
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Peter Pauper Press does Anne of Green Gables.
"This is the very last of the Queen Anne's Lace for the summer." ~ Diana Barry
Could there possibly BE a greater flower on the planet earth after such a statement? (I'm ignoring the history of its use which I just learned on Wikipedia - that bountiful fountain of knowledge.)
At any rate, anyone who loves Anne (as much as I do) must love Queen Anne's Lace, right? Even my son figured out it was my favorite flower (mostly because I told him it was) and last summer every time he saw one he would pick it for me. "Look Mommy! It's your favorite!" Education starts early. (Hopefully his future wife will be equally fond...)
You can imagine my utter glee and joy when I discovered that Peter Pauper Press, my hands-down favorite stationary company, offered a line of Queen Anne's Lace products. (Insert: long string of wild exclamation marks.) I cleaned my whole desk off just so I could display these boxes and smile in peace and tranquility, thinking of Anne and my beloved Prince Edward Island (that I've only been to once.) See? I think God gave me the next best gift of all by planting me in Oregon. Next to PEI, it's the most incredible and beautiful place I've ever seen! I love the land where I live! But I digress...
Prince Edward Island. Queen Anne's Lace. Anne.
Behold the beauty of the Queen Anne's Lace Note Cards. I shall have to refrain from purchasing any other sort ever again! What says
They are even green! (That's my favorite color - another well-known fact my son is aware of.) I have never been so excited about a NOTE card before in my life. Because, you see, I don't want to be BLATANTLY all about Anne...just subtly. That's why I went this route. It indirectly makes my point! (And if you can't figure it out, I'm not telling you.)
And THEN! This Queen Anne's Lace Roller Ball PEN!!!! I honestly had a hard time opening the box because it was so pretty. I am very picky about the pens I use to write. (This pen makes me want to work on things like handwriting again.)
Anne would approve of this pen, I think. She detested scratchy pens and wrote Gilbert only short notes when the pen was bad. But when the pen was good she felt motivated to write. This pen motivates me to write. It may sound silly and over obsessive, yes. (Yes?) No apologies. Am I not allowed to be thoroughly delighted from time to time? (If not, go away.) If so, read on!
Now, I'll be real and confess that I don't typically make a habit out of writing little notes on square pieces of paper that are not sticky. These Queen Anne's Lace Boxed Designer Desk Notes are so pretty though. And I practice using my pen on them. And I wrote a few little notes to stick in books that are being mailed out and packed away in suitcases. They are just so pretty! Did I mentioned I cleaned off my desk for these boxes? I do not want ANYthing distracting from the beauty which are these products.
Now. Seriously folks. I can't make up this stuff!! It's incredible and awesome and there's no way in a Queen Anne's Lace world I could wax eloquent on stationary for THIS LONG unless I loved it.
I'm just taking a moment today to express my adoration and love affair with Peter Pauper Press's Queen Anne's Lace line. Because I love it. Because I CARE! Because it's Anne. And mostly - because I'm me.


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There are a few interesting things coming up in the month of November.
- David Sonnenschein is once again running his Sound Design for Pros webinar series. It begins Monday, November 5th. Full details and registration links can be found here.
- Bernie Krause will be presenting at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on Tuesday, November 13th at 7PM. Tickets can be purchased through the JCCSF website.
- Zynaptiq will finally be releasing RTAS and AAX versions of Unveil; their fancy reverb removal/balancing plug-in I've been itching to test out for a while now. It releases on the 15th.
Also, don't forget that there are some cool new videos out on the web related to some recent high profile releases. ;)
Watson Wu's video diary of his weapons work for Assassin's Creed 3. Available on 360 & PS3 (and on PC shortly)!
The final entry in the "Making Of" series for the Zombie Apocalypse Library, now available from Blastwave FX!


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You joined friends and went into the local casino to buy good time before heading back for lunch with your wife and kids. Well, you said to yourself, "I'm just accompanying these guys and will probably put a bet or two for fun, nothing powerful." Then, you ended up losing half of one's salary and in your mind, you perhaps all that in the next bet, which will never turn out your way. Forgetting your lady and kids waiting at home. If so, you have gambling addiction certainly not know how avoid gambling.
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Enabling Autorecovery for the Tungsten Replicator
erics, August 7th, 2019
The replicator is a critical piece of the Tungsten Clustering solution for MySQL / MariaDB, as well as its own stand-alone data replication product. Automatic recovery enables the replicator to go back online in the event of a transient failure. In this blog, we discuss how to enable Autorecovery.


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As you may already know, a group of UCSD students executed a rare synchronized home training fail of massive proportions when they decided to post the following Facebook message to UCSD's Greek Community "in honor of Black History Month."
February marks a very important month in American society. No, i'm not referring to Valentines day or Presidents day. I'm talking about Black History month. As a time to celebrate and in hopes of showing respect, the Regents community cordially invites you to its very first Compton Cookout.
For guys: I expect all males to be rockin Jersey's, stuntin' up in ya White T (XXXL smallest size acceptable), anything FUBU, Ecko, Rockawear, High/low top Jordans or Dunks, Chains, Jorts, stunner shades, 59 50 hats, Tats, etc.
For girls: For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks-Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes - they consider Baby Phat to be high class and expensive couture. They also have short, nappy hair, and usually wear cheap weave, usually in bad colors, such as purple or bright red.
They look and act similar to Shenaynay, and speak very loudly, while rolling their neck, and waving their finger in your face. Ghetto chicks have a very limited vocabulary, and attempt to make up for it, by forming new words, such as "constipulated", or simply cursing persistently, or using other types of vulgarities, and making noises, such as "hmmg!", or smacking their lips, and making other angry noises,grunts, and faces.
The objective is for all you lovely ladies to look, act, and essentially take on these "respectable" qualities throughout the day.
Several of the regents condos will be teaming up to house this monstrosity, so travel house to house and experience the various elements of life in the ghetto.
We will be serving 40's, Kegs of Natty, dat Purple Drank- which consists of sugar, water, and the color purple , chicken, coolade, and of course Watermelon. So come one and come all, make ya self before we break ya self, keep strapped, get yo shine on, and join us for a day party to be remembered- or not.
Pause...allow time for the full insult of that rancidity to settle in…continue.
UCSD's Chancellor, Marye Anne Fox, has invited students, staff and faculty to participate in a teach-in TODAY from noon to 2 p.m. in the Price Center East Ballroom to "explore how such incidents continue to occur today and to discuss the importance of mutual respect and civility on our campus."
My take on this shit?
The home training fail may be a shameful reminder of just how not post- racial American society is…but I think holding a teach-in to address that mess is a fantabulous way to honor black history.
A bitch hopes that the students who need to be there show up, listen and share…
…because a mind is a terrible thing to waste.