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Written by Yuri Karabatov. Follow me on Twitter.
I've finally started on Japanese, and there's not much time until December, when I'm taking the JLPT.
My mission for today was to memorize all Japanese kana characters, most of which you can see in the picture.
I tried to do it once, several years ago, and failed miserably. It took me three days and even then I confused the characters. Those three days were my first and last days of learning Japanese.
This time, it took me 60 minutes.
What did I do right this time?
0. State the goal before you start
Remember what I've said in "Set Smart Goals — or Else!": always have a goal, no matter what you do. If you don't have a goal, you won't be able to measure your progress and won't know when to stop.
My goal for this mission was "to be able to read simple sentences, written in kana (both hiragana and katakana) with little to no mistakes, in 60 minutes".
My goal had a deadline, it was measurable and it was related to the real world: the sentences were from a textbook I wanted to look through.
Time to start!
1. Discard the unnecessary
Hiragana and katakana are basically organized into a table with vowels in rows and consonants in columns. They also have modifiers (Dakuten) which have an effect on pronunciation.
In order to achieve my goal I did not need to memorize the order of the characters. Quite the opposite: hiragana and katakana characters were to appear in sentences, which meant random order.
If I memorized their order, it would be of no use. If I need order at a later stage, I think you'll agree with me that it's much easier to arrange a set of familiar items that a set of non-familiar ones. And the kana characters were definitely non-familiar at the moment.
So I settled on dropping the order and concentrating on memorizing the characters themselves.
2. Use the simplest mnemonics available
When you encounter a huge number of new characters, it's not the time to use complex mnemonics, which demand a large chunk of attention to maintain. Instead you should use the simplest mnemonics available, like the ones I've used.
I focused on two points:
- Similarity to a picture
- Word to match the picture and pronunciation
The first point is very simple. Remember, when someone pointed out how a cloud looked like something obscene, and you couldn't let go of this imposed picture every time you looked at the cloud?
It's the same here: a character should be easily associated with a picture. You need to do it consciously only once, after that your brain will draw the picture around the character all by itself.
One little advice: if you actually draw the pictures, do it beside the characters, to over them. Drawings should be beside to help your brain identify characters, not replace them in memory.
The second point is a bit more complex. You have to find a word which has pronunciation of the character in its first letters. Ideally, it should also match the picture from the first step.
Example. Say, you have a character も. To me it instantly looks like a fishhook with two worms as bait. Two worms result in more fish.
When you see も, you brain "sees" a fishhook, and then you "hear" the phrase: "More fish". も = mo.
If you do this step yourself, you're losing some time, but in exchange you get personalized associations resulting in rock-hard memory. It's worth the time.
2. Install Anki / Make flashcards
Anki is a great piece of software at a price no one can beat: free. It makes use of spaced repetition. In a few words, it shows you the material just at the moment when you are likely to forget it. It works. I used Anki to randomize the kana characters and check my written answers.
As an alternative, feel free to use flashcards. They are pretty much the same, and don't require a computer. You can flip through them any time you feel like it: in transport, in a queue, or just walking along the street. You'll be amazed at how much time can be squeezed out of a day, if you use any available minute. Flashcards fit those spare minutes perfectly.
3. Learn as you go
Remember: the principle "less is more" works every time. A lot of students make the mistake of not following it. How? By learning everything at once.
If I tried to memorize all of hiragana at once, I would fail. And I did, once. It's too distracting. Our brain craves focus.
Instead of reading through the table of characters over and over again, I ask myself a single question, with a flashcard.
At any moment I have only one character in front of me, which is on a flashcard. It is not passive information, it is a question, and it makes my brain think: "What is this character?"
As I go through all the characters, one by one, I don't lose focus and attention, and memorize each of them almost on first sight.
The first run on both hiragana and katakana took me 15 minutes each.
Some characters are similar and are easily confused, so I paid them special attention. They are ソ (so) and ン (n), シ (shi) and ツ (tsu), テ (te) and ラ (ra). The difference is quite clear once you have a look at them.
4. Two full tests without looking
After the first run I've taken two consecutive runs with Anki, testing each character and not looking it up, recalling it from memory instead. Recall strengthens memory, and during the last run I had no mistakes and few pauses of several seconds.
Some characters were much easier to memorize than the others. It was strongly related to their similarity to the picture I had drawn and the word I had assigned.
My advice: spend a little more time on mnemonics and throw frustration of memorizing out the door. Well thought-out pictures and words help memorize characters at first sight.
I've achieved my goal by reading aloud some sentences written in hiragana and katakana.
Reading whole words was harder than reading single characters, but I had dropped character order for a reason: recall of random characters was quite fast.
Ugh, sorry for that academic language, but experiment demands! And I hope I've made myself clear.
All in all, a few techniques and simple considerations may dramatically reduce the time you need to learn something. That's great, because you can reach fluency faster and save time for other things, like — learning another language. Why not?
Thanks for reading!
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Everything Is Not All There Is
Curated by Nicole Caruth
Exhibition reception: Wednesday, July 18, 6-8pm
Exhibition Dates: July 11 – September 9, 2012
Hours: Weekdays from 10am – 6pm, and weekends from 12 - 6pm
Free and open to the public
Lower East Side Printshop presents Everything Is Not All There Is guest curated by Nicole Caruth, an independent art writer and curator. The exhibition will be on view at the Printshop from July 11 – September 9, 2012 with a reception on Wednesday, July 18 from 6-8pm.
Digital technologies are making it easier all the time to share and receive information. Yet our constant circulating of data obscures messages as easily as we can deliver them. Artists have and continue to probe this daily deluge of stuff to reveal more about contemporary communication and experiences than might be discerned through any interface. Everything Is Not All There Is consists of recent prints and drawings by Lower East Side Printshop residents Shanti Grumbine, Naomi Reis, and Julian Wellisz. Collectively, they explore newspapers, blogs, software, and structural designs. They trace flows of data, unveil unseen narratives, decode systems, and sift cultural memes. Their works speak to the vitality of the print medium (i.e. the analog) alongside newer modes of communication.
Shanti Grumbine cuts and reconfigures pages of The New York Times to lay bare the newspaper's structure and "the aggressive order of the grid." Her latest project Score (an extension of her earlier series Kenosis) follows the life of a certain news story each day all the way through to its end. She removes the text and images with an X-Acto knife and all headlines and pull quotes are erased. This act of, in the artist's term, "excising" implies that the content is irrelevant. It also calls to mind the so-called death of print resulting from new devices and apps. But Grumbine says that with this method she "makes space for what has been censored in media as well as what is lost in the translation of experience into words." She then uses the cut objects as negatives for her screen prints. To the Score pieces she has added a medieval four-line staff and clef, alluding to music composition. "Each score can be interpreted and performed as a chant in which media content is translated into the repetition of sound and breath."
For her Ad Screen Test series, Grumbine superimposes her cut newspaper grids onto full-page advertisements for luxury goods and name brands such as Cartier, Bacardi, and Saks. The effect is comparable to the thin shadows of Venetian blinds, suggesting something semi-private or thinly veiled. In this, Grumbine seeks to "highlight the subtle dialogue between content, viability and corporate funding in printed media and journalism in general."
Naomi Reis eschews text too, favoring instead the celestial. Her Untitled drawings, which are based on a 3D modeling program, "imagine a journey through an industrial wasteland of outdated technologies—dirigible hangers, the interiors of oil refineries—viewed as if through the lens of an airborne surveillance camera." Fine and spiraling white lines on black paper read like the Milky Way—a majestic constellation within an abyss. The Untitled drawings are a delicate confluence of "abstract and realistic space, analog and digital techniques."
Reis also finds inspiration in the visionary Buckminster Fuller. In another suite of drawings titled Broken Geodesic Spheres she reproduces Fuller's iconic structure for the Expo '67 Montreal World's Fair. "Fuller's geodesic forms look as if they belong on the moon…and continue to fire the imagination long after their utility has faded," says the artist. Reis sketched the form with a lightness that makes it appear capable of orbiting off the paper. Yet, as the title implies, there are small breaks, errors, in her versions. In the context of this exhibition, Broken Geodesic Spheres embody many different ideas about digital systems and globalization, the architectures of the web, and to the unknowns of future technologies.
Julian Wellisz surveys bizarre images in the blogosphere in his series .TUMBLR. For each of these silkscreen prints, Wellisz copies images from a single blog, primarily using those of teenagers. "The images in my work have been and will continue to be reused, reblogged, and recycled thousands of times," says Wellisz. "The imagery addresses how seemingly infinite digital access has contributed to the youth's loss of innocence and embrace of the grotesque." Printed in columns, with one image stacked on top of another, each piece feels something like an Exquisite Corpse wherein different streams of consciousness connect, oftentimes resulting in eerie compositions.
About the Artists
SHANTI GRUMBINE (b. 1979, Rhinebeck, NY; lives and works in New York, NY and New Paltz, NY) received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago, and studied at Simon's Rock College of Bard. Select group exhibitions include Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY; and MagnanMetz Gallery, New York, NY. Forthcoming solo shows include A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and Muroff Kotler Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY.
NAOMI REIS (b. Shiga, Japan; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and BFA from Hamilton College. Select exhibitions include Yes Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; Park Ave Armory, New York, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; and Metro Pictures, New York, NY. She has participated in several residencies and received the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship, Millay Colony Residency Award, and the Vermont Studio Center Award.
JULIAN WELLISZ (b. 1988, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in New York, NY) earned his BA from Wesleyan University and is at the start of his career as a practicing artist. Exhibitions include Crossroads Alumni Art Show, Los Angeles, CA and Wesleyan Alumni Art Show, New York, NY.
About the Curator
NICOLE CARUTH is an art writer and curator based in Brooklyn. Her writing has been published by, among others, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Phaidon Press, ARTnews, C Magazine, Gastronomica, and ArtPrize.org. In addition to writing for her own blog, Contemporary Confections, she regularly contributes to the PBS affiliated blog Art21, where she published her food + art column Gastro-Vision.
Caruth's past curatorial projects include With Food in Mind, Center for Book Arts, New York (2011); Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum (2008-2009); and Near Sighted—Far Out, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (2008).
Taking the title from her 2011 exhibition, Caruth recently founded the organization With Food in Mind, which develops and supports projects at the intersection of visual culture, food studies, and social change. The first initiative of With Food in Mind is Artists in the Kitchen, both an artist residency and afterschool program for youth from underserved communities.
Lower East Side Printshop's programs have been supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Private supporters have included: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York Community Trust - Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund, PECO Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and our generous patrons and members.
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This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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We thank our volunteers, friends, members, and patrons for their dedication, support, and generosity.
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Adolescent Mischief24 August, 2011 by: colinparker
It's a tough transition, from childhood to adulthood… some of us are still trying to grow up. Looking after teenagers in a medical context can be tricky too – how can you be cool, without looking like a fool?
In this episode we discuss the challenges of establishing trust, and making a thorough and balanced assessment in a busy, noisy Emergency Department. The HEADSS assessment tool is a great way to start the ball rolling… Check out Colin's pseudo-British accent in the role-play!
Outline: Adolescent Mischief PEMcast
[cp] Introduction, disclaimer
[kb] Definition of adolescence
Cutoff age =16 at our hospital, 18 in US, Adolescent medicine considered by some to be up to 25 yrs age
[rr] Challenges of being a teenager
ie changing body, societal role, expectations, impending career, friends / bullying (including cyber-bullying), belief system, family
[cp] Challenges of caring for teenagers
ie autonomy, risk-taking behaviour, privacy issues vs parents, communication, attitude, limited experience & intellectual capacity
[kb] [rr] Presentations to ED:
Usual medical/surgical conditions +/- modified presentation (eg torsion & shyness, compliance with chronic conditions eg diabetes, asthma)
Mental health / behavioural / self-harm
Sexual health issues
The case for Adolescent Medicine as a subspecialty
eg transition to Adult services for chronic conditions
[rr] UK's RCPCH Adolescent Health Programme
[all] HEADSS:
H: Home environment
E: Education & Employment
(E: Eating)
A: peer-related Activities
D: Drugs
S: Sexuality
S: Suicide/depression
(S: Safety from injury & violence)
Opening lines, good and bad (refer to Table 2 in Goldenring & Rosen 2004 paper):
-exploring ways of communicating with young people.
[all] Goodbye, catch you next time!
Getting into Adolescent Heads: an essential update
John Goldenring & David Rosen
Contemporary Pediatrics, Jan 1, 2004
Goldenring JM, Cohen E: Getting into adolescent heads.
Contemporary Pediatrics 1988;5(7):75
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We Are Hungry: Solving the Food Crisis at Home
By Alexandra Cawthorne | April 18, 2008
The global food crisis may not have received high mention in the American press until recently, but the skyrocketing cost of food commodities, which has incited protests in many countries over the past year, is hitting closer and closer to home.
President Bush released $200 million in emergency food aid to developing countries on Tuesday in response to increasingly violent reactions to the crisis, including violence in the streets of Haiti, where rioters were sprayed with rubber bullets and tear gas; food riots in Cameroon that took the lives of 40 people; and protests in Yemen, where tanks were deployed after days of protest by thousands. While Bush's response is a necessary action to help curb increasing world hunger, growing food insecurity here in the United States also needs immediate attention.
Converging economic problems, including increased food production and distribution costs, associated with the global food crisis, are raising food prices in local communities. Some of the most important staples have increased faster than other goods over the past year. Milk prices have increased by 13.3 percent, since March 2007, cheese by 12.5 percent, poultry by 5.4 percent, and cereals by 8.1 percent, while eggs are up more than 25 percent. These surging costs are impinging on our quality of life as we buy more generic brands, bulk items, or shop less frequently. And this trend is unlikely to end anytime soon; the Department of Agriculture estimates that the prices of food eaten in our homes will rise by 4 to 5 percent this year. 2008!
Food Costs at Record High as U.N. Warns of Volatile Era
"Put Food First"
Feb. 3, 2011
MANILA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Record high global food prices showed no sign of relenting following a rash of catastrophic weather, highlighted by a major U.S. snowstorm and a cyclone in Australia, which could put yet more pressure on prices and spark further unrest around the world. The closely watched U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index on Thursday (Feb.3, 2011) touched its highest level since records began in 1990.
The index rose for the seventh month in a row to 231 in January, topping the peak of 224.1 in June 2008, when the world was last gripped in a food crisis.
"These high prices are likely to persist in the months to come," FAO economist and grains expert Abdolreza Abbassian said in a statement.
Surging food prices have helped fuel the discontent that toppled Tunisia's president in January and that has spilled over to Egypt and Jordan, raising expectations other countries in the region would secure grain stocks to reassure their populations.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick urged global leaders to "put food first" and wake up to the need to curb price volatility.
"We are going to be facing a broader trend of increasing commodity prices, including food commodity prices," he told Reuters in an interview.
Higher food prices ahead as corn reserves sink
Feb. 9, 2011
Americans should brace for higher food prices this year now that demand for corn has pushed U.S. supplies to their lowest point in 15 years.
Higher projected orders from the ethanol industry sent corn futures soaring Wednesday, as corn supplies became the latest commodity to plummet. Low levels of wheat, coffee, soybeans and other food staples have already sent prices surging on the global market.
As those reserves decline, U.S. food companies are warning of retail price increases.
Major food makers and some restaurants have already said they'll be raising prices this year because they're paying more for corn, wheat, sugar, coffee and chocolate, all of which are at historically high prices. Weather, such as flooding in Australia and droughts elsewhere, has affected many crops this year.
A severe drought in China, the world's largest wheat grower, could force prices even higher. The U.N.'s food agency has warned that the drought is driving up the country's wheat prices, and now the focus is on whether China will buy more from the global market, where prices have already risen about 35 percent since mid-November. Cereal maker Kellogg Co. said last week it plans to raise prices by 3 to 4 percentage points. Sara Lee Corp. said Tuesday that it will continue its price increases as it copes with higher commodity costs. The company said the price it pays for coffee beans alone is up 60 percent compared with last year.
And J.M. Smucker Co. said Tuesday that it would raise prices again on Folgers and Dunkin Donuts coffee for the third time this year, by 10 percent on average. A large can of Folgers is already going for around $12 at many markets.
Flooding in the Midwest has put a spotlight on the increasing strain on our farmland. With rapidly rising fuel and food costs, increasing global demand on our food supplies, and the ever-present threat of development, local farms and food are under pressure.
America needs its working farms and ranches. They provide an unparalleled abundance of fresh and healthy food, but they are rapidly disappearing. Since 1980, American Farmland Trust has worked to protect farms and ranches and expand local food while keeping farms economically viable.
Prices of many basic foods have skyrocketed in the last two years, leading to a major food crisis affecting millions of poor people throughout the world. The causes of the crisis are many and complex. An increasing demand for food and energy at a time of low food stocks, poor harvests and weak credit have led to record prices for oil and food.
The price of wheat has doubled in less than a year, while other staples such as corn, maize and soy are trading at well above their 1990s levels. Rice, which is the staple food for about 3 billion people worldwide, has tripled in cost in the last 18 months. In some countries, prices for milk and meat have more than doubled.
The United States expects food prices to continue to rise through 2009 and then finally stabilize by 2015 at costs above 2006 levels. This projection indicates the crisis will be long term.
Based on field assessments, Catholic Relief Services believes that a much greater impact will be seen in the coming year than has been felt to date unless extraordinary measures are taken in many countries. People have been consuming food stocks and selling off their assets to purchase food, but they will not be able to do so indefinitely.
The most damaging impact is on the poorest people, who spend a far higher proportion of their income on food. In many cases, households were spending 40 to 50 percent of their incomes on food before the crisis and are now finding it increasingly difficult to afford basic rations. Those who are struggling to pay for food will eat less or cheaper food with less nutritional value. Even the middle class in many developing nations will have to sell their assets to pay for food.
In the worst-affected countries, families eat fewer meals, even skipping days, and children stop going to school to save on fees to pay for food. Child malnutrition is rising, and pregnant and nursing women are among the hardest hit. Women across Africa, for example, feed their husbands and children first before eating what little remains for themselves.
January 10, 2011.
"The massive U.S. investment in ethanol distilleries sets the stage for direct competition between cars and people for the world grain harvest."
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the United Kingdom. Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18-percent annual food inflation rate, sparking protests. China is looking abroad for potentially massive quantities of wheat and corn. The Mexican government is buying corn futures to avoid unmanageable tortilla price rises. And on January 5, the U.N. Food and Agricultural organization announced that its food price index for December hit an all-time high.
Beyond population growth, there are now some 3 billion people moving up the food chain, eating greater quantities of grain-intensive livestock and poultry products. The rise in meat, milk, and egg consumption in fast-growing developing countries has no precedent. Total meat consumption in China today is already nearly double that in the United States.
The third major source of demand growth is the use of crops to produce fuel for cars. In the United States, which harvested 416 million tons of grain in 2009, 119 million tons went to ethanol distilleries to produce fuel for cars. That's enough to feed 350 million people for a year. The massive U.S. investment in ethanol distilleries sets the stage for direct competition between cars and people for the world grain harvest. In Europe, where much of the auto fleet runs on diesel fuel, there is growing demand for plant-based diesel oil, principally from rapeseed and palm oil. This demand for oil-bearing crops is not only reducing the land available to produce food crops in Europe, it is also driving the clearing of rainforests in Indonesia and Malaysia for palm oil plantations.
b]Causes and Solutions to the Crisis
Food inflation in the United States is at its highest levels in 17 years. Enrollment in the nation's food stamp and nutrition programs has grown by 1.3 million to its highest levels ever. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the price of household food purchases will rise by 4 to 5 percent this year. Poor Americans spent almost 6 percent more of their income on food in 2006 than households with incomes above $70,000. Congress must use the Farm Bill and other legislation to provide additional funding to increase the budgets of the food stamp and nutrition programs so that they can serve more Americans in need.
The Case for State Food Action Plans
Laboratories of Food Democracy
School lunch bureaucracy reduction and hunger and obesity reduction efforts would be greatly advanced through better utilizing direct certification procedures, expanding the use of universal meal programs, improving the quality of meals, and easing access for homeless students.
The USDA has provides this nifty database that covers the previous 17 years and gives Official USDA Food Plans Cost of Food at Home at Four Levels: Thrifty; Low-Cost; Moderate and Liberal. The Liberal Plan is almost double the Thrifty, which begs the question: Do rich folks tend to be more obese that poor? What about the lumpen proletariat? Have fun with this one and see where your family fits in the round hole.
Originally posted by gringoboy
Its a reality thats obvious to see,go into any store and buy a box of cereal,compare it to everything else you bought and then figure out your bread and most of what you buy has the same ingredients.
People need to pay attention, the world economic environmemt is on a edge not seen in history, shame.
Good thread, explains all the unrest around the world recently as despiration sets in.
Freedom is something humanity has enjoyed but evidence is pointing to a more controlled environment social and economoically because of dwindling resources.Peace
Now we have less food for the table!
Ethanol can be produced from a variety of feedstocks such as sugar cane, bagasse, miscanthus, sugar beet, sorghum, grain sorghum, switchgrass, barley, hemp, kenaf, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, sunflower, fruit, molasses, corn, stover, grain, wheat, straw, cotton, other biomass, as well as many types of cellulose waste and harvestings, whichever has the best well-to-wheel assessment.
Now it burns faster in the engine, so we have to purchase it more often.
Ethanol (E100) consumption in an engine is approximately 51% higher than for gasoline since the energy per unit volume of ethanol is 34% lower than for gasoline.[22][23] However, the higher compression ratios in an ethanol-only engine allow for increased power output and better fuel economy than could be obtained with lower compression ratios.
Originally posted by GrandArchangel
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If only the people realized they have real power over their government instead of empowering them even more by following like sheeple. But like stated before people are beggining to rise up against these new changes. Hopefully the majority of the human race can be aware of all of this before its too late and they really do bring the end of this world as we know it.
Originally posted by IncognitoGhostman
Originally posted by GrandArchangel
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If only the people realized they have real power over their government instead of empowering them even more by following like sheeple. But like stated before people are beggining to rise up against these new changes.
Hopefully the majority of the human race can be aware of all of this before its too late and they really do bring the end of this world as we know it.
I really wish that more people would realize what has really been done for too long. When it happens over such a long time period then it just seems normal.
It's hard to say if people are just rising up or just still being sheeple for the public unions. When you look at it the public unions get taxpayers money simply from other peoples earned wages. Then they see states wanting to remove the bargaining chips they have and potentially the large amount of money they receive from hard working people. Public unions are far worse than big business and are creating and then fixing the problems.
I have seriously been thinking about something and hoping that many people will follow when I do. What I want to do will definitely be right out in the open and will not hurt anyone but probably myself just to shut me up. The only thing holding me back is the thought of my children seeing what would happen to me.
The Canadian newspaper The Beacon is reporting that following recent media reports that radiation saturation has doubled local farms attempted to get their soil tested for nuclear fallout to be sure that the food that they are selling is safe.
Much to the surprise of the newspaper and the farmers private testing companies, government agencies and universities all refuse to test the soil or get involved on any level.
The newspaper points out that the refusal is particularly shocking following reports that [color=limegreen]Japan has admitted to covering up the amount of radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, now admitting to 100% nuclear meltdown in 3 nuclear reactors and a radiation release comparable to Chernobyl levels.
The Beacon says [color=limegreen]while no government radiation tests have been conducted, the Canadian health department insists that everything is fine and is there is no cause for concern.
Health Canada Says, "No Worries."
Farmers in Central Newfoundland who were open to having their land tested for radiation contamination, will not have this work done by government agencies and private companies in Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the June 2 edition of The Beacon, it was discussed how the release of radiation from the Fukushima plant in Japan could potentially be poisoning Canadian soil, and possibly central Newfoundland. [color=limegreen]Evidence from various radiation monitors and news reports have shown that it has become a worldwide issue, and given that the airspace is shared, Canada and the U.S. have been directly affected as well.
Even though local farmers have not tested their soil and water, Nita Abbott of LA Farms, near Gambo, expressed an interest in having her land tested to ensure they're selling a safe product.
The newspaper contacted private testing companies, government agencies, and universities to inquire if they would consider testing local farms. [color=limegreen]All of them said they were not interested in getting involved at any level.
Health Canada also reported that everything is normal.
Even though no official testing has been done in central Newfoundland, Ms. Abbott speculated, "I guess they feel they don't have evidence to take it further."
Worldwide concern
Even though central Newfoundland is considered safe, reports by numerous media establishments have shown that radiation saturation has doubled recently. According to a CNN report, Arnie Gundersen, Chief Nuclear Engineer, said hot particles are showing up in North America.
Nuclear engineers have also been finding hot particles or fuel fleas, which can cause cancer, around the world.
In Tokyo in April, measurements indicated that there are about [color=limegreen]10 hot particles a day, which is a high level of concern in what a normal person would breathe.
In Seattle, for instance, it went down to about five hot particles a day, which can lodge into lung tissue, the digestive tract or bone, and over time can cause cancer.
Media reports south of the border suggest that Japan was downplaying the severity long after people were being affected.
To this, Health Canada is insisting there is [color=limegreen]no cause for concern.
In Seattle, for instance, it went down to about five hot particles a day, which can lodge into lung tissue, the digestive tract or bone, and over time can cause cancer.
Hot particles have made their way across the Pacific, and at least the data for the Pacific NW indicates very high concentrations, the average person in Tokyo breathed about 10 hot particles a day, and the average person in Seattle breathed in 6.
Hot particles present significant health hazard when ingested or entered the body by other means.
They are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than the same amount of radiation emitted from a large source over the whole body because if ingested or inhaled, they do damage to cells at close proximity.
At certain stages of evolution, cosmic "humanities" discover new forms of science beyond the apparent control of matter. Structured dematerialization and materialization are part of them.
This is what your humanity has reached in a few laboratories, in close collaboration with other extra-terrestrial creatures at the cost of hazardous compromises that remain purposely hidden from you by some of your representatives.
Peace does not mean not making war, it consists in becoming what you are in reality: a same Fraternity.
We reached the conclusion that freedom is built every day as a being becomes aware of himself and of his environment, getting progressively rid of constraints and inertias, whatever they may be.
Despite the numerous, brave and willing human consciences, those inertias are artificially maintained for the profit of a growing centralizing power.
Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions.
But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible.
You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind.
For infants it's a terrible valley of death we have created for them. As we shall see for years all of them have been born with already polluted bloodstreams and [color=limegreen]now the very young ones are dying in greater numbers on the west coast of the United States since Fukushima blew up.
After the first week, officials had enough information to call for evacuation of a wide area in Japan and also Hawaii, Alaska and the entire West Coast of North America. They really should have evacuated all of northern Japan and also the West Coast but that was almost as impossible as evacuating the entire planet or the entire Northern Hemisphere.
Evacuation of Planet Earth might be the best way for humanity to avoid the terrible nuclear, heavy metal and chemical toxicity we are now facing all at the same time.
Avoiding exposure is always the best plan but [color=limegreen]there is no way to avoid breathing in air contaminated with tiny hot particles.
Inhalation issues are much more frightening than ingestion issues because you can pick and choose what you eat and drink but you can't buy bottled air.
Nuclear Toxicity Syndrome is about how to survive in nuclear and chemical hell.
But one cannot do what is necessary to survive hell if a person doesn't know they are living in one.
Michio Kaku: In the last two weeks, everything we knew about that accident has been turned upside down.
We were told three partial melt downs, [color=limegreen]... don't worry about it.
Now we know it was 100 percent core melt in all three reactors.
[color=limegreen](We were told) that minimal radiation was released.
Now we know it was comparable to radiation at Chernobyl.
And as far as evacuation, (we were told), 12 miles and that is it. [color=limegreen]
You don't have to evacuate more than 12 miles.
Now they find hotspots, 4 hot spots, outside the evacuation zone.
34,000 school children now have radiation badges when they go to school...
Fukushima 'still a ticking time bomb'
CNN: As a reported within hours of the earthquake and Tsunami, with hours not even a day, there were already statements from the company (TEPCO) and International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) saying there had been safe shut down of all reactors and we know now of course in the end that simply wasn't true.
[color=limegreen]But from the very beginning they were trying to tell us that this was a safe situation.
Kaku: Within hours of the accident we now know it was like the Keystone Cops.
People that are clueless, headless, just running around crazy, not knowing what to do.
We can now reconstruct that accident minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour and we can see this chaos that erupted in the leadership ability.
CNN: What is happening to the people that are working there now?
Kaku: Well, as you know, [color=limegreen]workers are getting sent in and they are getting a year's worth of radiation within just 10 minutes at a time.
At Chernobyl, 600,000 workers had to be mobilized. Each one going in for just a few minutes and each one getting a medal from Gorbachev.
CNN: This will be a Hundred Year Cleanup?
How long with this take to cleanup in your view?
Kaku: 50 to 100 years.
CNN: And we are not there yet.
[color=limegreen]We are not even to the point of talking about the cleanup yet because they haven't stopped the reaction.
It is still happening.
Kaku: Clean up hasn't even started yet.
They are not even looking at getting to cold shutdown until next year.
Cold shutdown is when boiling stops. There is boiling water right there at the reactor releasing radiation into the environment and [color=limegreen]releasing radiation into gigantic vats.
CNN: How are they storing and disposing of this stuff?
Kaku: That is the killer (pun intended?) because we have all of these vats that are filling up now and [color=limegreen]they may have to dump it into the ocean again.
At that point the Chinese, the Koreans, the fisherman they get up all in arms because there is so much damage (to the reactor cores) that every time you put water (into the reactors to cool the fuel rods that are melting down) it just leaks right out again, highly radioactive, and it is filling up at the site right now.
CNN: So what do they do with it?
Kaku: Right now, they are just counting the gallons as they pile up desperately trying to bring more vats in but [color=limegreen]once they saturate they are going to have to dump and at that point it is another crisis.
CNN: Lets talk about the radiation in the environment, in the atmosphere.
We have been told that it would be [color=limegreen]measurable but a miniscule amount on the US West Coast
and around the world?
Is that true?
Kaku: It is still minimal around the world (based on what we are being told from government reported radiation readings). Most of the damage is concentrated within 20 to 50 miles of the reactor. That is where we have the hotspots, that is where we have 20 times normal amounts of (annual adult) radiation (limits) in school yards outside of the evacuation zone.
Kaku: But in New York City, (based off government released radiation measurements) you can actually see it in the milk. You can actually see it has iodine, 131, actually spiked a little bit in our milk in New York City, but it is very small.
CNN: Just even hearing that, though, even hearing that you can detect it, that there's a catastrophe, the worst industrial catastrophe in history, we can see it in milk in New York, that's frightening.
Kaku: That's right. This could be the grand daddy of all industrial accidents topping Chernobyl at $200 billion, topping the Gulf Oil Spill at $15 billion, topping the Columbia and Challenger disasters out in space at about $10 billion.
[color=limegreen]This could be the world record holder for an industrial accident.
Kaku: Realize Chernobyl was one core's worth radiation causing a $200 billion accident and it is still on going.
Here we have 20 cores worth of radiation.
Three totally melted, one damaged and the (rest in) spent fuel pools, 20 cores worth of highly radioactive materials.
"Ticking time bomb" is correct.
If the melted cores do fully breach their containment vessels by literally burning their way through the bottoms of the containment vessels, then you can instantly have a situation where tons of molten core material hits the huge volume of water pooled in the bottoms of the reactor buildings.
The resulting explosion would obliterate what is left of the buildings and blow off the tops of the primary containment. It may be only a matter of time before this actually happens, and this is the reason why Kaku recommends the Chernobyl option of burying the cores with tons of boron, sand and concrete.
No, the reactors did not shut down immediately after the control rods were inserted. Inserting the control rods merely begins the weeks long process of eventually achieving cold shutdown. You need to do some research about nuclear reactors.
It is factually correct that the nuclear reactions have NOT been stopped. This is why far more radiation than was "expected" is showing up in the water filtration system which keeps breaking down.
In fact, it may be impossible to completely stop the nuclear reactions now that the cores have fully melted down into giant masses of molten slag since it is now impossible to moderate the nuclear reactions occurring at the center of the giant masses of molten core material.
Swarming Bee Theory
I give Mr. Kaku a lot of credit for making a continued effort to speak openly about the situation in Fukushima.
What does it take to see, really. What does it take?
I cannot believe there are people on here who expect to be taken as representing a real viewpoint and are still, in the face of THREE core meltdowns, containment pools blown into the upper atmosphere, etc, persisting with the fallacy that because no one DIED this month everything will be ok.
It is nothing short of insanity to persist with this debate over the merits of nuclear fission used in applications like this.
Nuclear fission as practiced today is an antiquated technology, dangerous beyond measure, as in LITERALLY beyond measure. Some of the components of radioactive waste have a half life of 200,000 years, some 700,000 years, some more that that. Far longer than any administration in the history of our good country, that's how long.
It is remarkable to me that the rabid right wing tea partiers etc are always whining about the country swinging left.
The truth is it is money and power.
If we turn our attanetion of it; smoodfedswskjjwejjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjl wjk
A pound of plutonium could kill every human being on the planet.
And yet we continue to allow ourselves to be drawn into arguments with self-serving profiteers, people and corporations with no fealty to the US or to life in general, but rather to profit at any cost.
This highly organized miliitant faction of the US government in concert with the multi national energy cartel is working hard to have us believe this is actually a rational and reasonable alternative to aggressively reducing our current demand (like in Las Vegas counties for ex) combined with a solid commitment to alternative energy development.
It's nuts.
There really is no good reason to continue.
All plants should be immediately shut down and decommissioned.
The nuke plants shouid be scrapped.
Fukushima 'still a ticking time bomb' – In the Arena - CNN.com Blogs
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Hi Michael I'm glad you responded to my comment because it provides proof my comment was posted before being taken down by some sort of censor.
I'm reposting. Let us see how long it is up this time.
First of all, it is not at all clear that workers at Fukushima have not died. Read the article: Contract workers registered with TEPCO have mysteriously disappeared from the contractor's employment records. Mainichi: "Whereabouts of 30 nuclear power plant subcontractors unknown: Health Ministry" mdn.mainichi.jp...
Second, there is considerable evidence of ongoing fission at the Fukushima plant reactors given the ongoing production of Iodine-131, which has a 8 day half life.
See Gunderson's Fairewinds updates www.fairewinds.com... and Washington's blog for an essay with citations on ongoing criticality georgewashington2.blogspot.com...
Third, spent-fuel pool #4 is an ongoing cataclysmic disaster. Building #4 was damaged by #3's explosion and the spent fuel pool in #4's attic was reported by the NYT to be cracked.
This pool is full of rods and is leaking water and was recently found to be 2/3 empty, meaning there was a high likelihood that the fuel rods were exposed.
Fourth, de-contamination of the radioactive water has not gone well and has had to be stopped over and over because of various problems www3.nhk.or.jp... www3.nhk.or.jp...
Fifth, radiation releases continue to be very large sankei.jp.msn.com...
"Estimates of the radioactive materials emitted double doors opening to the Fukushima No. 2 unit building 1.8 billion becquerels"
Well, I spent three weeks following that Fukushima story doggedly... then in the end I found out three things...
1) Except for a handful of people and those that live in the area... NO ONE CARES...
2) We are still here... 1000's of nuke tests (especially near my home town) medical radiation, space radiation, CME's, cell tower radiation, microwave radiation... etc etc.. and we are STILL HERE.. and world population is increasing exponentially
3) Radiation is good for you
Iodine-131 was measured in a rainwater sample taken on the roof of Etcheverry Hall on UC Berkeley campus, March 23, 2011 from 9:06-18:00 PDT. The 3 Liters of rainwater collected contained 134 Becquerels of Iodine for an average of 20.1 Becquerel per liter, which equates to 543 Picocuries per liter.
The federal drinking water limit for Iodine-131 is 3 Picocuries per liter, putting the rainwater sample at 18,100% above the federal drinking water limit.
20.1 Becquerel per liter (Bq/L) = 543 Picocuries per liter (pCi/L)
Conversion calculator here.
The federal drinking water standard for Iodine-131 is 3 pCi/L. source
[color=limegreen]]Perhaps the worse news is confirmation that radioactive fragments and particles, including the deadly Plutonium "MOX" fuel, has been shot high into the atmosphere during the hydrogen explosions.
Cesium-137 has been detected in drinking water and milk here in the United States.
Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City, Guam, and Saipan while Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.
The EPA has radiation monitoring sites situated around the country.
Radioactive isotopes spread through the atmosphere accumulate in milk after they fall to earth in rain or dust and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle.
Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body's soft tissues and bone marrow where it increases risk of cancer.
The EPA said in March that "while they were above the historical and background norm, the levels weren't considered harmful to human health."
• It's more a matter of something happened that we didn't want to happen.
• We know its going to impact public health.
[color=Cyan]• There's not a whole lot you can do about it.
• Once you let the horse out of the barn, hell, the horse took the barn door with it.
• We're stuck, this is an accident that should have been prevented. It's hard to respond to it.
[color=Salmon]And so what, the Japanese will have a few babies born limbless or with blotchy skin,
they will adapt to their environment.
You're joking, right?
My wife is Japanese, my in-laws are Japanese, and many of the surviving in-laws did time in Tehachapi and we do not appreciate your attempt at levity or derailment.
If you do not think anything is wrong, you eat the yellow snow and drink the milk.
[color=Salmon]Now just to clear the air, i do not like what is going on over there but we cannot help the situation playing keyboard tag with the mongering of fear.
Speak for yourself.
"Playing keyboard tag," as you call it, just might invigorate enough concerned citizens to get up off their lazy butts, turn off American Idol, Dancing With the Stars and Cupcake Wars and
question authority.
In April, the Japanese government raised its maximum limit for children from one to 20 millisieverts per year, a level that leads to 2,270 cancers annually per million people (or 160,000 lifetime cancers per million), according to data in a landmark 2006 U.S. National Academy of Sciences report on radiation cancer risk.
A massive outcry later forced the government to reverse the move.
[color=8AFB17]About a fifth of the 1,600 schools in Fukushima prefecture were exposed to at least 20 milliseiverts of radiation this year, according to a Bloomberg story in July. [...]


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text: Akane Tendo is one of three daughters of Soun Tendo, owner of the Anything-Goes-School-of-Martial-Arts. With the arrival of Soun's friend Genma Saotome and his son Ranma, Akane's life has never been the same. With the arrival of the Saotome's, Akane and her two sisters Kasumi & Nabiki were told that one of them would be betrothed to Ranma. Doing the honorable thing, the elder sisters Kasumi & Nabiki elected Akane to be Ranma's fiancee. Of course, this didn't sit well with either Ranma or Akane, seeing as they were not asked for an opinion. At first, Akane was wary and constantly angry to be called Ranma's fiancee, but after awhile, she grew to actually care for him. Inside, she knows that Ranma scretly cares for her, but he's sometimes too stubborn and, being young, is prone to saying the wrong thing. Also, at times the fact that Ranma can turn into a girl when doused with cold water is another factor.


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I'm building off of the sketchbook idea only for my bass playing. I want very much to improve. Please help!
http://youtube.com/user/Bassnoob21I played guitar (extremely badly) for four years. On 5/10/08 I bought my first bass guitar that I am currently learning to play. This is a blog where I will post videos of my playing and you can give me comments, critiques, and suggestions on my playing. Maybe other beginners can learn a thing or two as well.
Entry One
Sorry for the obvious discomfort, I was extremely nervous. The purpose of this videos is to receive tips, advice, and critiques on my playing. I am trying very hard to improve.
I don't know why I'm chewing like it looks like I am...
Sorry for the bad editing.
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If you are ever back in the York-area, feel free to stop in a Maewyn's Irish Pub for Beer School on the third Thursday of every month, or on the first Thursday for the Beer, Food & Music Experience in the upstairs Abbey – lots of great things going on in the York area, thanks for the kind words!
York's Blossoming Craft Beer Scene
When I originally wrote about the Susquehanna Ale Trail, I featured the stops listed on the trail as well as some pit stops located near and in Lancaster. When the trail was first publicized, there wasn't much to report on in York just yet. There was a bar or two that served craft beer and one brewery, so I waited to share my thoughts with you. Since then, a few more craft beer stops have pulled in to York, slowly immersing the city into the craft beer scene.
I went down a few weeks ago to do a quick walking tour of the area's hot spots and am delighted to report to you a couple of hidden jems just down the road.
The first stop on my little tour was to Liquid Hero Brewery. When I originally embarked on the ale trail a few months ago, Liquid Hero was celebrating its grand opening. I wasn't able to make it over to their location then, but in a way I'm glad I waited.
Liquid Hero is a small, quaint spot just across from the York Revolution stadium. Currently it's only open Thursday through Sunday with very limited hours, but in speaking with them it seems these hours could expand sooner rather than later.
My favorite beer of theirs so far is something they call The Mix. This concoction contains about equal portions of their Heroweizen and Schweet (strawberry) Ale. I love mixing two different beers together, so this was right up my alley. Also, their Hop Hero IPA series seems to be the favorite among my beer circle.
Next up was the Holy Hound Tap Room. Formerly known as the Good Dog Tap Room, Holy Hound is a great weekend hangout spot featuring 30 taps of craft beer, snacks from nearby restaurants and live music most nights. I was delighted to find quite a few beers on tap here that I hadn't had before — including a quick favorite, Lavery 1847 Rye Stout.
Since their opening exactly one month ago, they have already gone through 100 kegs of beer, which demonstrates their immediate success in the area. This is a must-stop for craft beer lovers!
Just a short walk away is Mudhook Brewing Company. Featuring deliciously crafted beers named after fish, Mudhook is my new favorite place to hang out in York. I first visited Mudhook way back in April and was able to snag the first pint of their Wolfgang Chocolate Lager. As the name implies, the beer was brewed using local favorite Wolfgang Chocolate and was served with a Wolfgang chocolate covered pretzel. This beer has since come and gone, but I recommend you try their Deep Sea Stout for a great full-flavored beer.
It's easy to make your own York bar tour, and there are plenty other spots of note around York for you to check out, including:
- Bistro 19 – I have heard nothing but good things about the atmosphere here and was delighted to find that they have a growing selection of craft beer available a monthly featured $3 all day every day craft beer special.
- White Rose Bar and Grill – I popped in here for lunch a while back and had an awesome chicken salad sandwich. To my surprise, they also have a growing craft beer selection. There are two separate bars in this building – one with smoking and one without, so be sure to find the right one for your preferences.
- Cobblestone's – A favorite amongst York locals for many years, Cobblestone's features a growing variety of craft bottles, 67 taps, and a beer of the month on cask.
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Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for sharing. I cannot wait to plan a weekend to get out to York to check out these hidden craft beer gems.


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America in 3D: Bridging Iloilo City with the USA
America once again experienced the warm welcome of the Ilonggos as they officially open America in 3D: : A Road Show in Diplomacy, Development, and Defense – a 3-day event aimed at strengthening the friendly ties of the Philippines and the United States of America. The event will run from March 2-4 with most of the activities held at SM City Iloilo in Mandurriao District.
These are some of the highlights in America in 3D:
America in 3D here in Iloilo had its kickoff program at the activity center of SM City Iloilo and was attended by U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassett, Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, and Governor Arthur Defensor, Sr.
Ms. Bassett reiterated the importance of US-Philippine relations in terms of trade, education, culture, and defense. This was also highlighted by our local officials in their own remarks. Mayor Mabilog also appreciated the efforts of the US Embassy in promoting the values of brotherhood and friendship between the two nations.
Also included in the first day of events at SM City is the awarding of the winners in America in 3D Kabataan Challenge on Facebook – a writing competition aimed at giving "opportunity for Filipino youth to speak their minds and share their vision about how they can work together with their American peers for the greater good (US Embassy)."
Later in the afternoon of March 02, another event was held at Hotel del Rio. This is the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between Iloilo City and the US Embassy regarding the launching of Cities Development Initiative (CDI). Cities Development Initiative (CDI) is a project focusing on higher education, economic growth, investment opportunities, and energy. The program launch was initiated by US Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) Leslie Bassett and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Gloria D. Steele, together with Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, and was witnessed by Senator Franklin Drilon.
Back at SM City Iloilo, Ilonggos are entertained by artists performing at the Activity Center. The audience was stunned by a breath-taking hip-hop performance by Philippine All-Stars. Other Pinoy singers expected to perform are Erik Santos, Jed Madela, and Arnel Pineda.
Also, one of the highlights of the event is the performance of the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet band "The Orient Express". The crowds are mesmerized by the beautiful voice and the energetic dance moves by Musician 3rd Class Gabriel Brown. Joshua Haney, a Philippine-American member of the band, entertained the crowd by his rendition of the Black Eyed Peas' "Bebot". (Note: Videos on The Orient Express performance will be added soon)
Booths are open for the public to inquire about visa application, studying and doing business in the US, and also information about USAID. Talks on visa application and studying in the US are also presented to the eager crowds. Seminars on stopping human trafficking and meeting the millennium challenges like eradicating poverty are also included in the scheduled events. In addition, mangrove farming in Arevalo and repainting of some public schools are activities organized by the US Embassy staff.
Definitely, America in 3D was a success! And one's thing for sure, Uncle Sam will miss the City of Love!Tags: Iloilo City
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A suburban Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $86,000 from two churches.
The U.S. attorney's office says 59-year-old David Townley, of Raytown, admitted Tuesday to one count of wire fraud, one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion.
Prosecutors said Townley skimmed money from cash tuition payments while working as the business manager for the Nativity of Mary church and school in Independence.
Prosecutors also allege that Townley stole from the Sacred Heart of Guadalupe church in Kansas City while volunteering to pay the church's bills, make financial committee reports and file the church's tax returns.


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What IS the difference? The pyramids indicate that it is more that just strength (concentration).
How much are they alike - and how do they differ?
(I have PH Extreme EDT and PH normal aftershave - hard to compare ...)
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What IS the difference? The pyramids indicate that it is more that just strength (concentration).
How much are they alike - and how do they differ?
(I have PH Extreme EDT and PH normal aftershave - hard to compare ...)
My experience is that the Extreme is just rather sharp without the more sweeter, musky refinement of the original. I think sillage is the emphasis of the Extreme, but the original overall smells better imo.
I like the Extreme better; it's very long-lasting, and is a little fresher and easy to take. Would recommend it to the younger crowd, as the original may be a little too mature..
I have both, and would say that the basenotes pyramids, whilst undoubtedly accurate, suggest two fragrances which are more different from each other than they actually are. The Extreme version lasts longer, and seems to dwell more on the sharper top and mid notes, but they are very obviously the same fragrance with just some subtle differences, to me at least.
I had Extreme but gave it away, did not like the sharp grapefruit note at all, but I got to say it has some major sillage, you can smell someone who is wearing it from miles away :o. But I prefer Bulgari Pour Homme over the Extreme.
Its not wildly different from the original in the way Eau Sauvage Extreme is much different from the original.
I tried the Bulgari Extreme in a mystery scent challenge, and identified it as the original ... I wasn't exactly sure because I picked up some citric notes.
So to me... that is the only difference, the citric notes. I can't comment on the duration though. Personally the original lasts on me all day, so I don't need an Extreme version to extend it.
I don't like the extreme. I much prefer the PH original.
The bottom line over the years, as I understand it, is that Pour Homme is more subtle with light tea, light musk and wood, a touch of pepper. Extreme is a higher concentration of those notes, ramped up a few notches on the pepper. This is only forwarding of info. from way past. I know only of the Extreme first hand. I love it and will be replenishing my dwindling supply very soon.


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Досье Роберт Анчиполовский
Адрес: Израиль, Тель-Авив
Происхождение: Киев
Дата рождения:15 Октября 1974
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Роберт Анчиполовский родился 15 Октября 1974 года. Он был рожден в городе Киев. Также, мы выяснили, что сейчас он проживает в городе Тель-Авив, Израиль.
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Born 1974 in Kiev (Ukraine).In his music family father was also jazz saxophonist, and grandfather was professor of academy of music in Kiev. At around the age of nine Robert has begun to play the clarinet under direction of his father and grandfather. He started practicing the classic music of Mozart, Weber, Shpor, etc. In 1982 he has started to practice at music college in Kiev. In 1988 Robert has started to practice alto saxophone because he loved jazz music more, and of course, he loved the music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. He continued learn at academy of jazz music in Kiev. 1991 Immigrated to Israel. In 1992-1996 Studied in New York under direction of Mr.Phil Woods. 1996 back to Israel since then he has formed and lead several bands in the country. Since 2002 Robert Anchipolovsky working in popular international television Show " 7:40 " He continues to participate in jazz festivals all over the world and his career includes work with legendary musicians from the first line such as: Phil Woods,Valery Ponomarev,Randy Brecker,Brian Linch,Larry Willis,Curtis Fuller, Steve Turre,Mulgrew Miller,John Hicks,Jim Rotondy,Deborah Brown,Kirk Lightsey,Odean Pope . Taking jazz on traditional main-stream, Anchipolovsky has established himself as a virtuoso instrumentalist, a brilliant performer and an artist passionately committed to his music. The intensive concert appearances were combined with musician's participation in big jazz contests. Robert Anchipolovsky plays with powerful intensity, sophisticated technique and remarkable sensitivity. Anchipolovsky is constantly continuing to innovate and to renew his repertoire and styles. While in Europe,he has performed and recorded with some of the finest European musicians such as: Tony Pancella, Pietro Iodice,Massimo Moriconi, Massimo Manzi, Bepi D'Amato,Max Ionata, Leonid Ptashka, Jamie O'Donnell, Ruslan Sirota,Sergey Vasiliev, Igor Nadezhdin, Daniel Kramer. In 2004 has received the first premium on International Massimo Urbani Award "I.M.U.A." 2004


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If you've grown weary of the repetition of the same old political stories over and over again by the corporate media, and you're looking for a new narrative, I have a suggestion: Look to the presidential campaign of Mosheh Thezion, one of the first Republicans to declare a candidacy for the 2012 election season.
Say what you will about Mr. Thezion, but it's clear that he's an honest kind of politician. As he says, " I will actually do what I say I'm going to do, and I say very clearly what I plan on doing, how I am going to do so, why I'm going to do it, and why you should and will be very happy that I was able to."
Thezion's honesty starts with his dour expression. He explains, "I don't like having my picture taken, and I dont feel like smiling, but I do so, as part of my honest effort to help my fellow humankind, and not let personal weakness or frailty prevent my efforts. And since I run for office to fix the wrongness of our government and its many entrenched problems, I see no honest reason to smile, since the reason I am running for office, is because those in government today piss me off, due to their lack of vision, commitment, and lack of faith in doing the right thing."
If you're tired of politicians who engage in evasive doubletalk, Mosheh Thezion's campaign web site will provide refreshing reading for you. Thezion has many interesting ideas which he introduces quite directly. Among these is his claim to have developed a "unifying field theory" during an early period in his life when, in order to escape the anguish of his unrequited love for a woman he now refers to as "Tonya the lesbian", he sought to delve into the deepest scientific mysteries of the universe.
Thezion seeks to assure voters that he is not at all bizarre. "Many of you, may think of me as extremist, but I am not. I am old fashioned to be sure. But I recognize that no matter how you cherry coat it… how you dress it up.. and how you paint it… Progressive liberalism… is leading directly into the open adoption of basic Satanism."
For the record, though I am a progressive liberal, I have never ever been cherry coated. It sounds like a yummy, though sticky, experience – even if it does lead directly into the open adoption of basic Satanism.


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For those of us experiencing an extreme condition called "SOCAP withdrawal" after last week's gathering in San Francisco, the following is a list of 5 upcoming events worldwide that are designed to bring together the most passionate and intelligent folks who care about creating long-lasting, positive changes in society. Consider this a warning, however, because history tells us that attending these events may provide an emotional – in other words joyful, tearful, empowering, inspiring – rollercoaster that may change your life forever.
1) Social Enterprise World Forum 2012 (October 16-18, 2012)
The Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) is an initiative of NESsT, an international company that offers support to social enterprises in the planning, incubation, and expansion phases. SEWF focuses on building global awareness of the effectiveness of social enterprises in solving social problems. This year, it takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and includes keynotes from social enterprise pioneers and investors, training workshops, presentations, a social enterprise marketplace, a social enterprise awards gala, and live entertainment. Participants are also able to attend site visits to social enterprises in Rio de Janeiro. Attendance is estimated to be over 700 people from more than 30 countries.
This will be the 5th SEWF. The first one was held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2008 and has since traveled to Melbourne, Australia (2009), San Francisco, California (2009), and Johannesburg, South Africa (2010). SEWF 2012 will focus on "impact investing", which is an asset class expected to rise globally. Registration for this event is still open.
2) Social Finance Forum 2012 (November 8-9, 2012)
Over in Toronto, Canada, the 5th annual Social Finance Forum hosted by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a 2-day impact investing program that will examine the opportunities and challenges surrounding impact measurement, what makes a good deal, and how existing market opportunities measure up. The momentum for impact investing has been building over the last few years, but key questions still need to be answered: What is impact? How is impact measured? How should we value impact? What is a good deal? Who is impacted?
There will also be pitch sessions from social ventures and workshops for skill-building. By bringing together investors, finance professionals, academics, representatives from government, impact measurement practitioners, and organizations with social missions such as social enterprises, the Social Finance Forum is a place to connect and move ideas forward. Registration for this event is open until November 7.
3) Global Social Business Summit 2012 (November 8-10, 2012)
The 4th annual Global Social Business Summit (GSBS) takes place in Vienna, Austria. "Social business" is a term coined by Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus to describe a non-loss, non-dividend company with a social objective. Created by Muhammad Yunus' Grameen Creative Lab, the GSBS brings together experts from corporations, civil society, governments, and academia to foster innovative ideas for social business to serve society's most pressing needs.
This year, the focus is on creativity coupled with the advantages of technological progress. Numerous international social business entrepreneurs will be present to share their expertise and exchange groundbreaking ideas. Registration for this event is still open.
4) Make a Difference Asia 2013 (January 25-27, 2013)
Since 2010, Make a Difference (MaD) Asia has been putting together an annual forum for over 1,200 difference makers aged 16-35 with a goal of inspiring young people to create positive change in society. The event is held in Hong Kong and divided into four activities: MaD Dialogues is a conversation with seasoned movers and shakers, MaD Studios offers an opportunity to learn methods to create real impact in communities, MaD Experiences is a wide range of experiential activities designed to inspire and empower, and MaD @ West Kowloon takes over the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade with art, performances, workshops, and other creative activities to foster co-creation.
This year, there will also be a "MaD Venture Fellows Programme" on January 24-27 that will invite social entrepreneurs from around the world to discover investors, partners, and opportunities to take their businesses to the next level. A highlight of the Programme is the "MaD Ventures Salon" which will select six finalist Fellows to pitch their ventures to potential investors and partners. Out of the six finalists, three winners will be invited to present at the main forum. To encourage applications from abroad, Fellows may be eligible for full or partial travel subsidies. Applications are due October 28, 2012.
5) Skoll World Forum 2013 (April 10-12, 2013)
If you want to attend an event that has a high probability of putting tears to your eyes and filling your heart with joy, the Skoll World Forum is the perfect one. An initiative of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll World Forum was created to recognize and support the world's leading social entrepreneurs – many of whom have a story to tell about their triumph over adversity. The Forum gathers 900 key government officials, social finance professionals, academics, philanthropic funders, and other key players to tell these stories.
Over three days, attendees engage in debates, discussions, and work sessions aimed at innovating, accelerating, and scaling solutions to social challenges. The Skoll Award For Social Entrepreneurship recipients will also be announced at the gathering. This time, the Skoll World Forum will take place once again in Oxford, UK and will be in its 10th anniversary. Though it is an invitation-only event, applications to attend will be accepted and will open later in the year.
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This week I had the privilege of writing a guest post for Worship Links. It's something I wrote to lead pastors and preachers about how they're the "real worship leaders" of our churches. Now, I'm nowhere close to qualified for giving lead pastors or preachers any advice, other than maybe "here's why you shouldn't let your youth group kids play with lighters and cologne in the summer camp cabin." But in my time leading worship, I've noticed how influential these pastors are in creating a culture of worship in their church. This post is a "thanks" to them.
Here's a nibble of the post:
"Once when I was nine or ten years old I spent the summer at my grandma's house. I'd just bought a sweet new plastic ninja sword, and I was playing by myself in her backyard pretending to be a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle or something. I was fighting some imaginary evil ninja bosses, and I was really taking names and feeling good about it.
My karate moves were complete with kicking sound effects and a hearty "hi-YA!" every now and then. I flew through the air taking out sixty-two bad guys with one jump kick. At one point I got swept up in a moment of ninja bliss, and busted a roundhouse that would have made Chuck Norris cry like a baby. But as I spun around, I froze in terror…"
(Melodramatic linkbait cliffhanger!)
…now go read the rest on the excellent Worship Links site!
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Greg Watts July 5, 2014 at 11:05 am
Nick, very nice article! My experience is not only with the church that I'm a member of; but I'm sure many have experienced that significant changes can occur at a moments notice in any church. This goes slightly beyond the "worship" aspect but at the same time is related to that aspect of any church. In my experience, the lead pastor, has always provided the strongest foundation and "link" in a church. At least that has been the case where I attend. The lead pastor role affects the worship aspect in not just the direction of the "style" of music; but, in how the music is related to the lead pastor's message. Very good article and I appreciate your always respectful and honest discussions.


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About your body, life, someone else's life? Share it her so we can tell you how ridiculous you are lol. And just get it off your chest- since if you shared it with someone irl they'd remember what a twit you are forever.
Here's mine- my bottom lashes are too long. If I put mascara on them they look like spider legs.
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by Rachel on Jul. 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM
A mosquito bit me where my jeans sit around my waist and it's terribly itchy :(
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I'm sweating so bad right now it's dripping down my elbows ( I have hyperhidrosis)
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