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The loss of the ability to urinate naturally is one of the most difficult things for a person. Foley catheters are a type of catheters that help alleviate a person's condition in this case. They are inserted into the urethra to drain out urine from the bladder.
Each one of us has gone through the ordeal of not being able to find a restroom in some point in our lives. Those moments of urgency are very uncomfortable and many a time painful. But for many people around the world urinating naturally becomes an arduous task due to some kind of ailment or complication. There are many reasons why one is forced to use a supplementary urinary system to expel the toxins out of their bodies.
One of the major devices used to get through the difficult situations of not being able to urinate naturally is the Foley catheter. Foley catheter is a thin and flexible tube that can easily be inserted into the urethra. It is one of the most common indwelling catheter types. The tube has two sections going down its length. One of them is open at both ends and drains urine into a collection bag. The other end has a valve that connects to a balloon at the inside tip. The Foley balloon is inflated with sterile water when it is inside the bladder. This stops the catheter from slipping out. It is made using silicone or coated natural latex.
There are many different complications and ailments that result in the loss of ability to urinate naturally. Some of the common Foley catheter indications are as follows:
Based on the types of Foley catheter tips, there are straight tip, coude tip, and council tip catheters:
One of the most common Foley catheter types, straight tip catheters have a small 1.25 inch opening at the end. They have a hydrophillic coating that allows for easy lubrication. This in turn reduces pain and discomfort. One of the popular straight tip catheter is Medline Silvertouch Two-Way 100% Silicone Straight Tip Foley Catheter.
|Medline Silvertouch Two-Way 100% Silicone Straight Tip Foley Catheter
Named after the French word for elbow (coude), coude tip catheters have a slight bend near the tip. They are generally prescribed to patients who have an enlarged prostate. Their catheter tip is designed to get past tight spots. Bard Bardex Lubricath Two-Way Carson Model Speciality Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity is one of the top selling coude catheter.
|Bard Bardex Lubricath Two-Way Carson Model Speciality Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity
The only difference with this catheter tip is that it has a hole on the top so that they can be passed over a wire. One such council tip catheter is Medtronic Covidien Dover Two-Way Council Tip Silicone Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity.
|Medtronic Covidien Dover Two-Way Council Tip Silicone Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity
Based on the number of lumens, there are two-way and three-way Foley catheters:
Two-way catheters are basic Foley catheters with two lumens and a balloon at one end. The strips of these catheters are usually radiopaque thus making them easier to locate while scans. PECO Medical Two-Way 100% Silicone Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity is a good example of two-way foley catheter.
|PECO Medical Two-Way 100% Silicone Foley Catheter With 5cc Balloon Capacity
Three-way catheters have an extra lumen to infuse an irrigating solution such as a sterile saline. Foley catheter irrigation helps wash away blood clots or stains after a surgery. Rusch Gold Three-Way Silicone Coated Latex Foley Catheter With 30cc Balloon Capacity is a type of triple lumen catheter.
|Rusch Gold Three-Way Silicone Coated Latex Foley Catheter With 30cc Balloon Capacity
Taking care of the catheter is an important step in ensuring that one does not have any complications or infections. Here are a few things one must keep in mind while taking care of the catheter:
Invented by Fredric Foley, indwelling Foley catheters have made it easy for medical professionals as well as for general public to expel urine from the body without any difficulty. The simple yet effective design and working of the catheter has made it an important part of a lot of urological treatment processes. For more information on choosing the right Foley catheters, please Click Here.
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Before living abroad, I never thought of the way to dry clothes. After living in 4 countries over 3 continents, I noticed that drying clothes is a cultural thing; people in each country have their own ways to dry their clothes. I think it depends on electricity cost, and also the weather.
In Thailand, we usually hang the clothes out to dry. In Australia and Sweden, I used dryer. In Italy, it is similar to Thailand, people hang the clothes outside. While travelling in the cities in Italy, I always see the clothes hanging on the lines. But, what surprised me was the lines were installed outside the buildings; some of them were stretched across an alley!!, while some of them were put over the canal!!!! When I saw it, I always wondered how they managed to not drop their clothes. I think hanging clothes like Italian requires skills!!


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It was inspired by the new Springblade shoes from Adidas.
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Of course the shape and mechanism of this device can be designed differently – it could be much smaller, use different material, etc. Can it be used to store and release kinetic energy? Can it double as a suspension system or a way to save a small amount of fuel? I simply add the idea by reading about it in a Magazine, so your input is more than welcome.
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As we mentioned on the previous page, you typically want to only send to around 20% of your list, in order to get decent data. You can also tell Salsa to automatically determine the winner after a period of time you set, or that you'll be the one to manually pick a winner.
If the targeting count looks right, and if you've set up any needed A/B testing criteria (if that's not present, you don't have to worry about it), the next step is to send yourself a test message to confirm what it looks like when you actually get it in your inbox. Type in an email into the box and click the Add button to add that email to the test. If you leave the Save these addresses for future tests checkbox checked while adding emails they will be saved so all future email blasts created will automatically have those test emails added.
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Life is filled with mystery. Paul Coelho remind us, "We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery." A mystery is something that is difficult or impossible to explain or understand.
The origin of the world and the beginning of life is mysterious. Some want to explain it through a cosmic explosion that through evolutionary development eventually led to the conditions for life as we know it. This explanation has some good evidence but it still leaves a lot of questions. The origin of the world and life is a mystery. Can it really be known?
What about the meaning of life? Is there any purpose in our existence? This is a giant mystery that has been discussed throughout human history. Some say there is no meaning. Others say they don't have any clue so we better just live it up. Consumer culture tells us that life is about collecting things. Others says that it is all about family. Many of the world's cultures, religions, and philosophers have thought about this mystery. Can it be known?
Morality is another mystery. What is the best way to conduct our live? Why does it matter and who says so? Some say morality is a political necessity, a human invention to keep human chaos at bay. Others say morality is oppressive and should be eliminated. "You can't tell me how to live!" is the cry we hear from some, including adolescents. Religions, cultures, values, and motivations in the world have competing ideas on morality. Is this a mystery that can be known?
Love is a deep relational mystery without true explanation. Paul calls marriage a mystery (Eph. 5:32). Some wives look at their husbands after he wakes them up with his bear-like snore and you wander why exactly you wanted him in your bed. It's a mystery. Can we understand why we love and crave to be loved?
Mysteries wake up the urge within us to know. Neil Armstrong said, "Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." We would not be human without mystery nor would we want to be. We understand that being human means that we cannot fully understand that for which we strive to learn. But that does not mean that we stop trying to understand.
Lately, after my kids tell me something they learned in school or Bible class and I revel some more about the topic at hand they say, "How do you know that Daddy?" And I often say, "I know a lot of things." They see me as a revealer to some of the mysteries in their little minds. They will soon find out the truth that their Daddy knows very little or at least he knows only things that are available to all humans. Daddy is not a revealer of otherwise unknown mysteries.
Mysteries cannot be known, understood, or explained. Can they? The origin of the world, the beginning of life, the meaning of our existence, the purpose of suffering, morality, and love are a few mysteries of the human experience that cannot and will not be completely figured out by the human mind.
In the Bible, there is a story when the king of Babylon asks the prophet Daniel to reveal his dream and interpret it for him. Daniel says to King Nebuchadnezzar, "No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries" (Dan. 2:27-28). The Bible's message throughout is that we have a creator God that reveals mysteries to us. Systematic theology explains that God reveals truth to us through general (nature) and special (Scripture) revelation. There are things that we cannot know without God revealing them to us.
None of us should believe that all of life's mysteries can be answered in the Bible. God does not intend to reveal all mysteries to us, but he does not leave us unaware either. God does reveal to us through the story of Scripture the answer to some of life's great mysteries . The basics of the origin of the world, life and its meaning, morality, suffering, and love are revealed to us in the Bible. All angles to these questions are not answered comprehensively in the Bible but they are revealed to us none the less. The point of Scripture, above all, is to reveal God to us. The ultimate revelation of God came in form of Jesus Christ who also brought grace and truth. The truth of Jesus is concrete but it is not comprehensive.
All of our questions will not and cannot be answered and we need to be alright with that. We are called to have faith in God to be the one in control of the mysterious world of which we are privileged to be a part. This does not mean that we cannot discover so many wonderful things about the world and our existence through observation, conversation, science, and experience, but it does mean that we are the created and he is the Creator.
Ultimately, the knowledge we gain from any source, whether from God or human discovery, only reveals more questions. This should lead us to humility, faith, and wonder. Anais Nin reflects that, "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." No matter how much we learn, discover, and know there will always be mystery and questions. This should not lead us to agnosticism but to faith. We know in part but He knows all.
Leonard Sweet writes, "To follow Jesus does not mean that you have all the answers. To follow Jesus does not mean that you are altogether personally. To follow Jesus does not mean that suddenly the shades go up, the light floods in, and the shadows disappear. It just means you keep on moving after the One who has chosen you, the One you've said yes to. And as you travel in his footsteps, things gradually—sometimes very gradually—get brighter."
I guess you could say the greatest mystery of all is faith. A mystery filled with hope and love.


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Located within the newly refurbished Teaching and Learning building, the English Language Centre (ELC) sits right at the heart of our university campus. Opposite a park that's home to local wildlife like kangaroos and deer, the ELC is close to our campus mosque, used by many of our international students and other members of the Armidale community.
You'll undertake classes both within the ELC building, and at other locations on campus. The centre is wireless enabled, and you'll use a laptop as part of your studies. Computer labs are also available at many locations across campus, where you can access your student email and connect to the internet.
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Closing date for any home purchase or sale can be a very stressful time for seller, buyer, real estate agent or mortgage agent. On this date, everything involved in the sale is settled and the money and title is officially transferred from the seller to the buyer. Because of this, including all the stress, you should be prepared for what is to come.
In short, you should expect to sign a lot of papers. On this date, you will sign legal papers that recognize a new owner of a piece of property. Included in this will be many provisions for the property itself, such as the necessary clause to not make weapons of mass destruction on the property. For more benign agreements you can expect to sign, there are clauses that recognize you forfeiting your right to go back on the agreement and the forfeit of any claim to changes in the conditions of the house.
As a buyer, generally, what you see is what you get at closing. In the agreement to purchase you may have included a lot of changes that the seller needed to make before closing. These often include cosmetic and other changes that the agreement is dependent upon: "I will only buy when the carpet is replaced.", "I will purchase given the roof is repaired.", "I will purchase dependent on my ability to secure funding.". When you finally sign on closing, you forfeit your rights to go back on many of these clauses: make sure that you are comfortable with the property as-is at closing! The small protective agreements you can get are included in home warranties (which are mostly scams) and home insurance, which will protect against natural disasters such as hurricanes and hail damage (roof repair is a common insurance claim).
Usually, the condition of the house in the agreement is the protection on the seller. Title insurance provides protection to the buyer (and a sign of ability for the seller) that there is no lien or claim against the house by a third party (for example, a second mortgage that is delinquent, or a home repair secured against the value of the house). With this, it is generally the buyer's responsibility to perform the due diligence on the home's condition. Writing the contract "as-is" will put the burden on the buyer to determine whether the condition of the house is in sufficient condition for purchase and is a good agreement to have in place.
Another major agreement that comes at closing is an HOA agreement. Depending on your geography, HOAs can be considered mandatory, excessive, or simply random. In these HOA agreements, be prepared to sign away your rights to display a tiny ticker on your front window or even display any lawn ornaments. On the flipside, HOAs help protect against unruly neighbors placing obnoxious, tacky decorations on their property. Many people disagree on the value of an HOA – RewardBus is generally skeptical.
The difficulty in closing arises with the fact that you are often presented with 60+ pages of legal agreements to sign. They expect you to sign away your life to agreements that you may not have the time to read or prepare. Generally, they are standard and are covered in your purchase agreement so are not anything to worry about, but pay careful attention to HOA agreements and title insurance.


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An upscale hotel in NYC (of course, where else?) has begun offering guests a new kind of room service, that is, room service of the CBD kind, Moneyish reports. The James Nomad hotel is now offering a room service menu filled with delicious foods infused with CBD. "We're always researching new ways to help our guests relax. CBD extract is proven to have calming effects, easing anxiety and stress. With it being legal in all 50 states, we knew we wanted to get involved," said James La Russo a manager at the hotel.
To prepare these high end CBD goodies, the hotel hired Andrea Drummer, an alumnus of Le Cordon Bleu culinary institute and LA based chef, who began experimenting with cooking with CBD when she began suffering from joint pain. Drummer put some of her favorite comfort foods such as meatballs and tater tots on the menu, but these are not your cafeteria tater tots. Her tater tots with sriracha mayo run $18. Her specialty, the spicy meatballs are $32 and contain 15mg of CBD oil.'
Of curse the service doesn't stop there; guests also have the option to purchase CBD infused beauty products such as CBD lip balm, which goes for $20. I know where I'm staying the next time I'm in NYC!
Source: Moneyish
Image Source: Agoda
Have you stayed anywhere that has CBD room service? Tell us in the comments!


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Monday, March 27, 2017
Monday Morning with Larry (Alexander)
This morning was fun. Classes were prepared, in-box was manageable, meetings were cancelled. So, I spent a few hours with a stack of papers that Larry Alexander had sent a little while back. I don't know how Larry manages to write so much so well, but he does. Check out, e.g., "Is Wrongful Discrimination Really Wrong?" (here); "Brexit and the Future of Liberal Democracy" (here); "Hard Incompatibilism, and the Rejection of Moral Responsibility: A Skeptical Look at an Optimistic Account" (here); and "Against Equality" (here).
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Mital Dipakkkumar Parikh, Abhijit Konnur, Sishir Gang
Department of Nephrology, Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, Gujarat, India
Click here for correspondence address and email
Adenine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency is an inherited condition presenting from infancy to late adulthood. The common features are recurrent kidney and urinary tract stones and obstructive symptoms. The stones are characteristically radiolucent. 2, 8-Dihydroxyadenine (2, 8-DHA) formation is blocked by xanthine oxidase blocker allopurinol. Here, we report the case of an eight-month-old baby girl who presented with obstructive acute kidney injury secondary to calculi which was treated with surgical removal of stone. The analysis of the calculi revealed 2, 8-DHA crystals.
Correspondence Address:Mital Dipakkkumar ParikhDepartment of Nephrology, Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital, Nadiad, Gujarat IndiaCheckDOI: 10.4103/1319-2442.261357PMID: 31249241


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Themes of Russia and GasProm have been actual at the Energy International Forum.
The MP has been participating in the discussion. Giorgi Kandelaki, member of National Movement asked a question to Giorgi Kvirikashvili, related to GasProm, as well as Russia's promotion in the region.
"As for GasProm, we had technical problem with them and finished with additional agreements. We are not very depend on Russia now, as it has been earlier. This chaos around this theme has been merely a political speculation, that Georgia has returned to Russia again. But it is not so", – Giorgi Kvirikashvili declared, he noted, that Russian promotion is "real challenge", however the government managed to support effectively the European aspiration with counter the propaganda.


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These three mistakes are presented here to help future beekeepers avoid them. Before getting started beekeeping, it's best to consult with a specialist beekeeper. If purchasing a certain item looks overly high-priced, always think about the ending price (if they do not purchase this thing now, will it cost them more later on?). In the end, it's up to the individual to decide the best plan of action.


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It's Winter, and back to the grind. As enjoyable as the holiday break hopefully was for every Queen's student—a time to relax and catch up with friends and family—getting back into the swing of things on campus could be difficult for anybody.
And to be honest, the weather doesn't do us any favours. Having to deal with the cold inside the JDUC as well as outside is about as bad as it gets.
That is, unless you're one of many students who have accessibility needs. Then just getting around campus at any time of year can be difficult. When the one (and only) access ramp to the JDUC is blocked by ice and slush in winter, accessing the facilities and services that you as a student rely on can be nearly impossible.
As you may have already started to see around campus, a referendum campaign is underway on redeveloping the JDUC. In preparation for this, we have been conducting various forms of consultation with students about their needs and wants from a new building.
Across every poll we conduct, focus group we hold, and independent submission we receive from a student, we continue to hear one consistent opinion: Make the JDUC accessible!
Students nearly unanimously agree that accessibility should be at the heart of the JDUC Project's objectives, and it has been every single step of the way.
Currently, the JDUC only has one access ramp and no barrier-free travel through the building. The elevators in the building, while meeting the most basic regulatory requirements, are old and outdated, out-of-the-way, and often too small for students with wheel-chairs or accessibility scooters. And so many important spaces are not physically accessible at all.
None of this is okay in 2019. But we have a choice to make.
We can choose to vote for a New JDUC proposal that has barrier-free access for everyone. A New JDUC will feature at-grade entrances from every direction and will triple the number of elevators serving both the new and historic sections of the building.
There is a social dimension to accessibility as well. Some students, like me, prefer to use gender neutral bathrooms whenever possible. As a transgender woman, I am pleased to work in a building that has a few non-gendered washrooms already, and we are absolutely committed to having more of these spaces in the New JDUC.
This project will finally ensure we have a student life building that works for all students on campus. A building that is fully accessible, for everybody.
By Chloe Draeger
Managing Director of the Student Life Centre


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Saturday, March 31st at 10AM Sharp!
For ages 9 and under.
Chenery Middle School field
Toddlers will hunt in the adjacent playground.
The egg hunt will begin at 10am sharp and have eggs filled with candy, gold coins, and a chance to win a bike! Find eggs with slips for gold coins that you can redeem at the Belmont Savings tent! Free refreshments and face painting. Bring your camera and take photos with the big bunny!


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German: letter of credit.
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Building housing auditoriums (and in this case a library).
Riemann's Habilitationsschrift
In Germany a new faculty member presents a lecture or, in this case, a thesis on taking up office.
Riemann's lecture, On the Hypotheses that Lie at the Foundation of Geometry, delivered on June 10, 1854. It became a classic of mathematics.
the 1859 paper on primes
In August 1859 Riemann presented a paper, On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity, to the Berlin Academy of Science. In the middle of that paper he made what later was called the Reimann Hypothesis (Cf page 496:conjecture). Today, after nearly 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, it remains unproved.
German: the "aha" phenomenon.
Tchetvyortoye Izmereniye
Today more likely transliterated Chetvertoe izmerenie. Russian: (the) fourth dimension.
"Yob tvoyu mat'"
Russian: Fuck your mother. It's as impolite as it looks, but used way more often than in English.
A splinter Bolshevik faction. The name comes from the noun otzyv meaning "recall"; it does not mean "god-builders." The group (existing under this name only in 1908-9) demanded the recall of Social Democrats from the national legislature.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary and founder of Bolshevism and the major force behind the October Revolution, 1917. He studied law at Kazan University but only practiced law for a couple of years before becoming a professional revolutionary. He was arrested in 1895 for his opinions and activities, and was exiled to Siberia in 1897 for three years. At the end of his exile he went to Switzerland in 1900 and became the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1903, and returned to Russia in 1905 during the 1905 Revolution. He left Russia in 1907 and only returned in April, 1917 with Germany's connivance. Lenin inauguraed the dictatorship of the proletariat after the October Revolution. He died on January 21, 1924 and became the demi-god of the Soviet Union. According to Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1988) Lenin was "shrewd, dynamic, im[placable, pedantic, opportunist, as ice-cold in his economic reasoning as in his impersonal political hatreds that could encompass millions. . . . He inspired in the name of democracy a despotism boundless in the power of its ambition and sense of destiny.
Commonly called Bolsheviks. At the Second Congress of the Russia's Social Democratic Labor Party in August, 1903 there was a dispute between Lenin and Martov, two of the party's leaders. Lenin argued for a small party of highly disciplined, centralized and dedicated professional revolutionary elites with a large fringe of non-party sympathizers and supporters. Martov disagreed believing it was better to have a mass party of activists. At the end of the debate Lenin won a narrow victory: 28 to 23 (the only time in the party history up to then Lenin had a majority behind him). From then on, the Party was split into Lenin's faction called themselves Bolsheviks (majority) and Martov's faction known as Mensheviks (minority). The split became permanent as both groups's policy and practice diverged more and more. In 1912, Lenin's Bolsheviks faction formed a separate Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks) which in 1918, after they came to power, changed its name to All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). It finnaly became Communist Party of Soviet Union in 1952 which was dissolved in 1991.
Marxism belongs to the materialist [1] strain of the Western philosophical tradition, stating that the only objective reality is matter. The orthodox Marxist doctrine is divided into historical materialism (which claims that changes of society and even the non-material "superstructure" are determined by economical processes, and thus materially caused); and dialectical materialism, proposed by Engels and then Lenin, which is basically a philosophy of nature combined with a rather crude gnoseology. The latter maintains that matter is the only substance and it is inherently and objectively dialectical in nature, i.e. it is in constant development due to the interactions of conflicting forces on all levels. An anti-Materialist (like Mach, who was denounced as a "subjective Idealist") is one who is against such belief.
Austrian physcist and philosopher. A strong critic of Newtonian absolute time and absolute space. Cf page 412:Ernst Mach (1838-1916). He was the target of Lenin's attack in his best-known attempt to create a Marxist philosophy (in the technical sense), Materialism and Empiriocriticism.
Russian mystic and author of The Fourth Dimension. Cf page 602:Young Ouspensky (1878-1947).
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above this galley-slave repetition of days
ATD motif i.e. rebel against the quotidian day.
the already seen
. . . which we know better under the French term déjà vu.
Staring at the wallpaper.
A parallel to Kovalevskaya, whose father used Ostrogradsky notes to cover the walls. Cf page 500:Sofia Kovalevskaia and wiki.
i, j, and k, the unit vectors
Cf page 526:Gibbsian Vectors.
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Plural of Schnitt. German: cuts.
multiply-connected spaces
In topology, geometrical objects or spaces are connected but not simply connected are called multiply-connected spaces. In mathematics, a geometrical object or space is simply connected
if it consists of one piece and doesn't have any "holes" that pass all the way through it.
For example, neither a doughout nor a coffee cup with handle is simply connected, and so both are multiply connected. Also see Wikipedia for a fine, relatively nontechnical explanation. Sea-ice and Venice were described as multiply connected spaces on p. 136.
'vector space'
In mathematics, a vector space is a collection of objects, vectors, that may be scaled and added.
space of higher dimensionality
Hypersphere. A four-dimensional hypersphere is currently considered the possible shape of our universe. (A 4-D hypersphere is to a 3-D sphere, what a 3-D sphere is to a circle.) In mathematics,
Hypersphere can be n-dimensional with n = 4 and greater. Also see Hypersphere of Wiki Entry.
Russian: nothing, "it doesn't matter".
if it doesn't work with gold, the next step will be lead
Cowboy alchemy. If you can't settle your dispute with money, you will have to shoot it out. There's a reference to this process on page 105.
it's this damned English practice of talking in code
Refers to commonly noted English cultural tendency to avoid direct expression in conversation.
the Anglo-Russian Entente
The Britain and Russia settled a number of differences in Asia. And with both countries concerned about Germany but friendly with France they concluded the Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31, 1907, in St. Petersburg. It defined their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, with Russia taking the northern areas of Persia and Britain taking the Persian Guld area in the south. Its primary aim was to keep Germany out of that region.
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German: tavern, beer hall.
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In AtD the plural akousmata occurs more often. Look it up in the alphabetical "A" page.
From Greek: image, picture.
minié ball
Rifle bullet with a conical head used in muzzle-loading firearms. See the fuller annotation on p. 101.
A steel-gray hard ductile metallic element with a high melting point that occurs widely in combined form, is highly resistant to corrosion, and is used especially in alloys and in refractories and ceramics.
Zirconium is often confused with zircon and even more often with zirconia. Zircon is a gemstone consisting chiefly of zirconium silicate. Zirconia is the oxide of zirconium. "Cubic zirconia" became a popular surrogate gem a couple of decades ago.
a bluish-gray cubic mineral with metallic luster consisting of lead sulfide and constituting the principal ore of lead.
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Reckon yo tengo que get el fuck out of aquí
Macaronic Spanish/English: Reckon I'd better get the fuck out of here.
Kit said the same thing when he decided to leave Yale (page 318).
Zum Mickifest! Komm, komm!
German: To the Mickey party, come, come! "Mickey Finn" = knockout drops such as chloral hydrate (see any film noir).
German: K.O. (= knockout) drops.
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Group-theoretical implications
Introductions to group theory often use "symmetry under rotation" as an illustration. You can rotate a square 90 degrees and get the same square, and likewise 180 and 270 degrees, so the square has fourfold symmetry. Here Gottlob applies a similar concept to the printed words pun and und, which alternate with every 180 degree rotation.
a whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partly obstructed.
Gottlob! Wo ist deine Spritze?
German: Gottlob, where is your syringe?
"Streng reserviert für den Elefanten!"
German: Strictly reserved for the elephant (not elephants).
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a bitter poisonous alkaloid that is obtained from nux vomica and related plants, and is used as a poison (as for rodents) and medicinally as a stimulant of the central nervous system.
Noncommutative . . . Asymmetric
A relation like "cures" is commutative if "A cures B" implies that "B cures A" and vice versa. Here the situation is fuzzier because a total cure is not at issue: "Chloral alleviates the effects of strychnine" and "Strychnine alleviates the effects of chloral" are both true, so noncommutative doesn't quite apply, but one is more true than the other, so asymmetric is a better choice of word.
Verfluchte cowboy!
German: Damn cowboy! (should be Verfluchter Cowboy)
Achtung, Schwester!
German: Hey, Nurse!
German: nut factory. (Er hat einen Klaps means "He's nutty"; Mühle is a mill.)
one of his canonical outfits
"Canonicals" is a term for priestly vestments.
But also, in the psychology of perception, means 'typical' or 'most easily recognised as'
Dr. Willi Dingkopf
German: Thinghead. Possibly, given other meanings of "thing", Dickhead.
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you are not also Hebraic
Anti-Semetic Dingkopf considered Kit Jewish by his name Traverse.
Jew Cantor, the Beast of Halle, . . . to demolish the very foundations of mathermatics
Greg Cantor (1845-1918) taught mathematics at University of Halle from 1869-1918. (Cf page 593:Greg Cantor). He indtroduced the concepts of infinity and continuum into mathematics and thus brought about one of mathematical crises mentioned on page 594. (Cf page 594:crisis in mathematics).
Dingkopf regarded Greg Cantor Jewish by his name Cantor.
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"Cantor is a practicing Lutheran." "With a name like that? Please."
Dingkopf hears the name and obsessively thinks of the many Polish Jewish families that bear it. But the connection is not as strong as he surmises: The church of St. Thomas (Thomaskirche) in Leipzig had a staff member called Cantor or Kantor, and noted practicing Lutheran Johann Sebastian Bach held the position in his prime years. Cantor/Lutheran is not an absurdity.
"Dr Hilbert . . ." "Dr. . . . David Hilbert"
Cf page324:David Hilbet (1862-1943), a German mathematician. Again, Dingkopf regarded him as Jewish because of his name, David.
German: colony, compound.
The principles of this (apparently) fictional school of design bring to mind Buckminster Fuller's concept of ephemeralization, which notes that as design and technology improve -- "the more rationally a structure was designed" -- the more that can be done with less, process waste converges toward zero and things become physically smaller, "less visible...to the point" -- the "Penultimate Term" -- of being all but invisible. A simple example, the telephone cord is quickly disappearing as we go to cordless phones, and transistors "grow" smaller and smaller as a corollary to Moore's law. The principle of ephemeralization can be applied to design, construction, transportation, computer and other technologies and tools.
into its own metastructure
A German SAP engineer once explained "we control complexity through abstraction."
one is left with only traces in the world, a few tangles of barbed wire
The Invisibilist principles are paramorphosized into a future of kolonies where only the barbed wire outlines are visible. Within the context of antisemitism in the preceding paragraphs, the text is moving from kolonies to concentration camps, concentration camps empty perhaps except for the traces of consciousness remaining, outlined in barbed wire, the plan-view of, not the Penultimate Term, but the Final Solution.
certain odors
cf. p. 408 This has less to do with Proust and involutary memory than with "perhaps certain odors[Italicized in the original] steming from a few tangles of barbed wire upwind, a wind "which itself possesses now the same index of refracton as the departed Structure..." As is explained to Kit by someone in a guard's uniform who may not actually be a guard. That certain odor seems to be the odor of smoke from the ovens.
refraction index
Among other things a refraction index can be used to measure concentration (camps) and confirm purity (ethnic).
someone . . . whom Kit . . . assumed was a guard
Error in grammar by Pynchon or, more charitably, introduced by a copy editor. Punctuating as someone who/whom (Kit assumed) was a guard makes the choice of pronoun clearer. Alternatively: did Kit assume someone? No, he assumed a proposition about someone: someone was a guard. When the subject of that is transformed to "who/whom" for the purpose of linking it into the sentence, it remains the subject: who was a guard.
A quibble over a fine point? Yes, but Pynchon is renowned for his fine points, and this mistake seems to put him on a level with a news intern at a third-tier TV station. So let's consider this a teaching moment: Copy editors, don't impose your ignorance on good writers.
So Gut Wie Neu
German: as good as new.
Dirigible Field
The inmates' occupational therapy is a disguise for constructing this landing facility.
a real Dirigible
The inmates have established a cargo cult Wikipedia article or a UFO cult.
German doof means comically stupid (possibly an origin of English "doofus").
O Tempora, O Mores
Latin: Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (Was there really music under this title?)
The Black Whale of Askalon
"Im Schwarzen Walfisch zu Askalon," comic song. The "Black Whale" is a tavern in the ancient Persian town of Askalon. A paraphrase of the lyrics.
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the head of Jochanaan
In Strauss' opera Salome the title character asks for and receives as tribute John the Baptist's head on a platter. John in the opera is called Jochanaan.
Richard Strauss's opera Salome
Cf page 498:Richard Struass's one-act opera Salome was performed first time in Dresden, Germany, on December 9, 1905. It was a sensation of the year 1905. The opera was based on the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. The time of action: about 30 A.D.; place of action: Jerusalem . . . for the story see Salome.
the Five Jews
In the middle of the opera Salome five Jews argued concerning the nature of God.
Judeamus igitur, Judenes dum su-hu-mus
German university students used to sing Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus ("Then let us be joyful while we are young men"); the melody forms the climax of Brahms' "Academic Festival" overture. Dr. Dingkopf, the Johnny One-Note of anti-Semitism, sings in bastard Latin, "Then let us Jew while we are Jews."
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
JFK said "Ich bin ein Berliner" at the Berlin wall in 1963. According to Wikipedia, there is an urban legend:
Kennedy should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to mean "I am a person from Berlin." By adding the indefinite article ein, his statement implied he was a non-human Berliner, thus "I am a jelly doughnut". The statement was followed by uproarious laughter.
However, Wikipedia goes on to state:
There is no grammatical error in Kennedy's statement; the indefinite article does not change its meaning. In German, the statement of origin "Ich bin ein Brandenburger" (I am a Brandenburger) is more common than "Ich bin Brandenburger" (I am Brandenburger), but both are correct. The article "ein" can be used as a form of emphasis: it implies "just one of many." As Kennedy did stress the "ein", the usage was, according to German linguist Jürgen Eichhoff [1], "not only correct, but the one and only correct way of expressing in German what the President intended to say."
--Btchakir 07:51, 19 December 2006 (PST)
And Kennedy's motto drew tumultuous cheers, not laughter; the Berliners had no trouble understanding what he meant.
Maybe a Simpsons connection as well:[2]
German: pastry shop.
German: powdered sugar.
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Halfcourt? what kind of a name is that?
This is Dingkopf speaking, in the context of his obsession with Jewish infiltration of British society. "What kind of a name is that?" has the subtext "Is that a Jewish name?"
Der Wall
In German there are at least three words for "wall": Wand (the wall of a room), Mauer (a masonry wall) and Wall (a wall of a fortification). The infamous Berlin Wall was die Mauer.
In this case 'der Wall' means the rampart on which the town wall stood. After this was razed in the 18. century a path was made on top of 'der Wall' along which Yashmeen and Kit take their walk.
dotted quarter rest
Musical notation: brief pause.
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Likely to be the Hainberg-Gymnasium at Göttingen http://hainberg-gymnasium.de/
A wine from the Rhine-Palatinate region in western Germany.
Three different wines.
do a bunk
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a Theosophist
an adherent of theosophy professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual revelation.
Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly, aka The Ace of Spies--a real early 20th century British--and other--intelligence agent [3].
Bumpkin; capitalized, it has a different meaning.
Countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Turkestan, etc.). Possible anachronism; term gained currency after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
No anachronism - in many central-asian languages (Pashtu, Dari, Farsi, etc.) '-stan' means 'land of', i.e. Afghanistan = Land of the Afghans, Nuristan = Land of Light, Frankistan = France, Germanistan = Germany, etc.
One Savile Row
Seat of the Royal Geographical Society.
Now called Kashi, a city in the extreme west of China; at the western end of the Taklimakan desert; a principal town of Chinese Turkestan. Kāshi (Kashgar).
Auberon Halfcourt
The name Auberon is derived from Oberon and related to Alberich, the dwarf in Wagner's Ring cycle. Half-court describes a reduced form of basketball. Another possible allusion (bit of a stretch, perhaps?) is to Auberon Herbert, a British libertarian whom Benjamin Tucker described as "a true anarchist in everything but name."
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the recent Anglo-Russian Entente
Cf page 618:Anglio-Russian Entente of 1907 in which the spheres of influence in inner Asia were divided between Britain and Russia in order to keep Germany out of that region.
Baku and Johannesburg
Cf page 168: Johannesburg; Baku.
One vision . . . spiritual, and the other, capitalist.
Competing visions as to the significance of what lies buried beneath the sands in Central Asia. We have already seen a map that reflects dual visions of the area. The Great Game competition shaping up in Asia is a continuation of a global 'metaphysical' conflict between materialist and integrationist tendencies.
lie doggo
Go underground, maintain a low profile.
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Museum der Monstrositäten
German: museum of monstrosities. Mathematical monstrosities.
motor diligence
Motor taxi, as opposed to horse-drawn.
the Brocken
The highest peak (3,750 ft) in the Harz Mountains in Germany. It is about 35 miles northeast of Göttingen. (The Brocken).
Appears in GR where Slothrop and neophyte witch Geli Tripping encounter the Brockengespenst p. 330. and ....
"An older Germany .... Deeper"
Meaning pre-Christian Germany, as referenced earlier in the passage with the description 'witchlike'.
weapons somehow not yet decipherable
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Knipfler...von Imbiss
Neither one existed. Imbiss is German: snacks, fast food.
Weierstrass Functions
Cf page 589:everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiable.
Russell's Letter
Russell's letter of June 16, 1902. (see below "Poor Frege . . .").
the Set of All Sets That Are Not Members of Themselves
Russell Paradox. Cf page 538:Bertie Russell.
parallax effect
the apparent shift of an object against a background due to a change in observer's position.
Poor Frege . . . about to publish his book . . .
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician. He was one of the founders of modern symbolic logic putting forward the view that mathematics is reducible to logic.
In 1893 Frege published his The Basic Laws of Arithmetic, Vol. 1 in which he axiomatized arithmetic with an intuitive collection of axioms. While his The Basic Laws of Arithmetic, Vol. 2 was at the printer, Frege received a letter (June 16, 1902) from Bertrand Russell in which Russell pointed out that the Russell Paradox gave a contradiction in Frege's system of axioms.
German: shit.
Crotona in Magna Grecia
Crotona is the old Latin name of the Italian city Crotone in southern Italy on the Gulf of Taranto. Ancient Crotona was long one of the most flourishing cities of Magna Grecia (Latin for Greater Greece), the area in Southern Italy colonised by Greek settlers in the 8th century BC. Pythagoras went to Crotona at the age of 40 and most of his philosophical activities occurred there.
Hilbeert . . . August . . . in 1900 . . . International Congress . . . "Paris Problems"
Paris Problems = Hilbert's Problems. Cf page 604:the outstanding problems in mathematics.
zone of dual nature
One place that is two places: this peculiar Pynchonian form of bilocation again.
part "real"...part "pictorial" or let us say "fictional"
Complex numbers are made up of a real number and an imaginary number (e.g "one plus the square root of negative one"), as AtD is made up of real and imaginary (fictional) parts, the effect of which (continuing into P.635) is described as "taking one beyond four dimensional environs...out into a timeless region..." This seems to be the goal of the protagonists, the author, and the reader.
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German: set theory.
one is thrust . . . into a timeless region
Like one of those funhouse rooms where gravity is reversed.
German railway stations all have a big sign: ZU DEN ZÜGEN, to the trains. Here it's to the quaternions.
Nernst light
Light from page 437:Nernst Lamp.
Brougham Bridge
Cf page 561:Brougham Bridge.
complex knife
"part real and part imaginary", and there is a "real" reproduction nearby. These are aides memoires, inspirations--perhaps the dimensions beyond are literally located in imagination, mental spaces.
Sofia Kovalevskaia and . . . Weierstrass
From 1870 Weierstrass was Kovalevskaia's mathematics tutor in Berlin. He gave Kovalevskaia private lessons twice a week for four years. Cf page 500:Weierstrass and Sofia Kovalevskaia.
Here, as on page 500, there is a hint of romantic involvement between the teacher and the student.
Henri Lebesgue (1875-1941) was a French mathematician. He formulated the theory of measure in 1901 and the following year he gave the definition of the Lebesgue integral that generalises the notion of the Riemann integral.
"surface devoid of tangent planes"
In other words, discontinuous functions.
Up to the end of the 19th century, mathematical analysis was limited to continuous functions based largely on the Riemann method of integration. However, in 1902, Lebesgue extended the concept of the area below a curve to include many discontinuous functions and thus generalised the notion of the Riemann integral and revolutionised th eintegral calculus.
. . . everywhere continuous and nowhere differentiable
Cf page 589:everywhere continuous but nowhere differentiabl, Weierstrass function and page 594:crsis in mathematics.
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The Kaiser now seeks in Mexico . . . opportunities for mischief toward the U.S.
Now and for years to come: America's entry into World War One was spurred in part by the Kaiser's offer to return part of the Southwest to Mexico.
German: one who shits raisins. More commonly "Korinthenkacker", insulting term for a very pedantic person.
a world line...never travel
A world line is a tensor, a four-dimensional vector through space and time, therefore a history. Here Gunther is describing the closing off of his future possibilities. In quantum theory observation causes possible states to 'collapse' into one measured state; hence, the past observed from the present is deterministic (it has only one possible state), but the present observed from the past has many possible states until our actions cause it to collapse into one state. Our actions will then be seen to have been inevitable, a world line [4]. Hence: "Ach, das Schiksal".
Ach, das Schicksal
German: ah, fate.
chloral to coffee
A depressant to a stimulant, antipodal (opposite) effects on neuronal function.
that terrible ecstasy known to result from unmediated observation of the beautiful
Cf. Rilke, First Duino Elegy: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel is terror."
Rilke features strongly in V and GR (with Weissmann/Blicero). The idea that 'the sublime' involves an element of terror is fundamental to Romanticism.
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The preceding sections are a concise, riotous, poignant summary of life at an institute of higher learning; students and to some extent faculty are, notoriously, children at play. Yashmeen, Kit and Gunther are graduating, without diplomas but going out of the hothouse atmosphere of the University into the "real world". But given the preceding 5 pages, how real is that?
But this is not so much about the University as about 'the Museum' on the Brocken, and the issue is really who is speaking. Who would feel qualified to call them 'children'? They're in a 'strange, underground temple' and the Brocken is an ancient, magical place. Associated especially with witches and 'the Spectre of the Brocken', an aerial phenomenon that resembles a human figure (actually the shadow of the viewer on the mist).
The next time you visit...
The University never looks the same after graduation; also, nothing ever does: Heraclitus' dictum that no man ever steps in the same river twice. Time (pace Proust) cannot be reclaimed (even if you can find the tesseract's entrance again)because even if you go back in time, you are not the same person you were; you have been changed by experience.
Again, it's 'the Museum' that's closing. This isn't the Museum of Professor Klein at the University, mentioned on p. 632, it's a 'nocturnal equivalent' out on the Brocken.
"You know who I am."
Cf. Leonard Cohen: "You know who I am, you've stared at the sun. I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one." Some sort of god of mathematics, the curator of the museum? The Spectre of the Brocken (seen by Slothrop and Geli in GR)? Rilke's angel, the terrible ecstasy referred to on p. 635? All three?
Another possibility: the author. After all, the characters are his 'children', his creations. And in a fiction, the author is God. The Museum that he's closing isn't only a museum of mathematics, it's a musuem of narratives about mathematics.
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caldo tlapeno
Mexican chicken vegetable soup.
Tampico means "the place of the otters". As a city, it is Mexico's second most important commercial port along the Gulf of Mexico, is located on the southeastern tip of Tamaulipas. The State of Tamaulipas is on the northeast side of Mexico directly south of Texas; but Tampico is about 300 miles from the US border.
Chiapas is a poor and largely agricultural stat in the southeast of Mexico. It is best known for its 1994 Zapatista movement.
"El Atildado"
Spanish: the neat man. But it also suggests "the man marked with a tilde" (see page 600). When reading this passage aloud, think about how to stress the word "also" in "a gift Günther von Quassel had also been blessed with."
(In mathematical notation, the tilde "~" means "approximately" or "is proportional to," depending on country.)
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German: beans
As Gunther says, a variety of coffee bean, large in size, grown in Mexico and Central America [5].
Not only a brand of coffee, but a method of preparation also known as "Cowboy Coffee" similar to Turkish/Greek coffee in one boils the grounds in the water [6]. Synonymous here with "plain old, unfancified coffee"--perhaps a swipe at 21st century coffee gourmets and at Starbucks. Another paramorphic-mirror image of the early 21st century in the early 20th.
Cowhands expected their coffee to be 'brown gargle", hot, black, strong and thick enough to float a six shooter in.
It's really, really hard to equate cowboy coffee to Greek coffee. Greek (Turkish, Serbian) coffee is made from beans ground to powder and boiled for a few seconds, usually in sugar syrup. Grounds in the cup are a virtue. Cowboy coffee starts as coarse grounds, which are boiled for several minutes (or, heaven help us, longer) and often "refined" with eggshells, which cause the grounds to settle out.
Perhaps as in pistolero; i.e. a barrista.
el otro lado
Spanish: the other side (in one sense or other).
bucket shop
A stock swindle, in which one set of trades is reported to the customer, while the brokerage is really using the money in other, usually riskier trades ("bucketing"). A place where the public could bet on the daily motions of stock prices before 1929 and before the advent of instant stock quotes via the Internet.
Given the year, this may be related to the Panic of 1907. Steve/Ramon bought stocks on margin and when they went south he was slammed.
Probably = indulging in flimflam (fraud, swindles)
north wind.
Plaza de Toros
A bullring.
[S]louching away into the yellow opacity, he invited them all up to a wingding [...] that evening.
Compare with T.S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panesLicked its tongue into the corners of the evening
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Rio Bravo
Mexican name for the river known in the US as the Rio Grande.
Ramos gin fizzes
The original Ramos gin fizz was invented in the 1880s by Henry C. Ramos, in his bar at Meyer's Restaurant, this is one of New Orleans' most famous drinks.
jungles of Tehuantepec
Jungles of The Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico. The isthmus represents the shortest distance between the Guld of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.
unnatural boom
Another paramorphic mirroring of the 21st/20th centuries; tech stock boom/bust of ~2000.
Cf page 168: Baku.
adios chingamadre
Spanish: goodbye, motherfucker.
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In Norse mythology the Valkyries are minor female deities.
Mondragón semiautomatics
A self-loading rifle designed and patented by Mexican General Mondragón in 1896 — so it was only 10 years ago. It's magazine capacity was of 8-round or 10-round box, or later 30-round drum (for German service). For a picture of the refined 1908 model and its 1907 patent see Mondgragón M1908 rifle.
An American magazine-fed, bolt-action rifle. See Springfield.
Schnecken rigs
A possible anachronism, but it is hard to be sure. The German word Schnecken in the small-arms context (Schneckenmagazin) refers to what's called a "cylindrical magazine" in English. The best-known weapon using this magazine is the Russian PP-19 Bison submachine gun, but the Bison is based in part on Kalashnikov technology and hence could not have been developed until after World War II. The definitive online information on the Bison not only identifies it as using the Schneckenmagazin but also contains excellent cutaway drawings of the "helical feed" system; use your browser's search function to find the word Bison. This page has a photo and specs in English. The Schnecken rig is definitely not the drum magazine used with the American Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s.
Opponents of the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, hence left wing. Eventually, ten years later, to become the Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
the Pánuco
Río Pánuco, a river in Veracruz state, east-central Mexico. It is formed by the junction of the Moctezuma and Tamuín rivers on the San Luis Potosí-Veracruz state line, the Pánuco meanders generally east-northeastward past the town of Pánuco to the Guld of Mexico about 6 miles below Tampico.
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Mondragóns will get you through
Echoes the wonderful 1970s slogan "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope."
Coin with a portrait of Miguel Hidalgo (1753 – 1811), hero of the Mexican war of independence against Spain.
este . . . perdón
this . . . sorry
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La Fotinga Huasteca
Fotinga is Spanish: jalopy. Huasteca is a region of the Sierra Madre Oriental north of San Luis Potosí. A local equivalent to "Tijuana Taxi"?
Spanish: battery (collection of percussion instruments).
[T]hat dirty li'l back-shootin Bob Ford.
Ford shot notorious outlaw Jesse James in the back on April 3, 1882; Ford himself was shotgunned to death in 1892. The event inspired one Billy Gashade to pen the verse that became the popular folk ballad "Jesse James," recorded by Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, and many others.
bnilsson 01:41, 2 January 2007 (EDT)
eight seconds . . . rodeo
A bull rider must stay aboard for eight seconds to score.
cerverzas Bohemias
Bohemias (brand) beers, a Mexican beer.
Cuervo Extra
a kind of tequila ?
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Spanish: frontier.
Ambushed, betrayed.
Repeating-bolt-action rifles designed by the Norwegians Ole Krag and Erik Jorgensen in late 19th century (1886). From 1892 Krag-Jorgensens were used by the United States army as standard arms. And now it is a popular collector item.
Ciudad Juárez, or simply Juárez, is a city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It stands on the Rio Grande across the border from El Paso, Texas. Juárez is the major port of entry and trnasportation center of north central Mexico.
Vaya con Dios, pendejo
Spanish: Go with God, asshole.
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How do you know when you are in love? No 1-800-line psychic will tell you. No notice will be sent by registered mail. Not even a ping from your iPhone. But there are a million ways of figuring it out, and we've asked some people when they knew. Here is one way:
When you make a fool of yourself for her. Even three decades later.
Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife, Lisa, have been together for more than 30 years — and they're still in love. Their secret?
"You have to allow your spouse to reinvent themselves every seven years," the host of "The Dr. Oz Show:" said. "In some ways, I've been married to four different wives." First, she was the woman he met, then she became interested in theater, and they focused on child rearing, and more than 21 years later, she has moved from acting to production. "She's taught me different things as her interests changed," he said, which he deemed critical to staying in love. "You have to find different parts of each other to connect to."
A couple of years ago, Ms. Oz, who is editor at large of the Dr. Oz the Good Life magazine, told him she didn't want material gifts anymore. She wanted him to make her stuff on Christmas, her birthday, Valentine's Day. "Anything," she said. At first, he got stressed; it's much easier to pick out something in a store. Instead, he started writing her poetry, not an easy feat, he said, when you are not a natural poet. Sometimes they rhyme. Sometimes they don't. He isn't sure how good they are. But he does it for her.
Dr. Oz, 56, loves to watch her reaction as she reads them, so much so that she started reading them privately, because he studies her facial expressions so closely. "It makes her so happy," he said, "and it reminded me that she wanted me, and nothing else."
We would like to hear about the moment you knew — and how you knew — that you were in love. Share your story with us here.


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Peace. It's not just for wimps!
A little over a week ago my wife and I did something we have not done for many years. Seven years, in fact. We went on a little trip all by ourselves. It was great. We had a good time and grew our relationship.
My wife, as usual, wanted to shop. We spent some time in a mall west of Houston. When we left the mall we went in search of a grocery store to get some snacks. Waiting to turn under a freeway I saw a man with a sign: "I'm Old, I'm Ugly, and I'm Hungry." He looked pretty ragged. I took a few bucks from my bill fold and gave it to him. As usual, all my money was in the bank so I didn't have much cash. I wanted to give more.
Leaving the man behind I drove half a block to a massive super HEB grocery. It was a huge store, the largest HEB I've seen. The amount of food in that store and the incredible variety and the price of most of it made me very guilty. What a contrast, a man probably my age in ragged clothes begging for money half a block from a store with enough food to feed a whole community for weeks full of shoppers spending hundreds of dollars for expensive wines, fancy cheeses, foreign delicacies, and so much more. There's just no equity in this world. Life is not fair.
I am working on a re-write of my book The Lies, The Truth, The Way. When I finish that I'm going to write a short book called Buddha is not God… and other things Christians need to know. Those are top priorities. But they are yesterday's projects. I have to decide what I am going to do next. Where shall I put my effort?
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Hi everyone and welcome to the late Spring blog. Busy, busy these past weeks, took in two car shows and enjoyed them both, great feeling to be out with friends and fabbo cars.
First-up I attended the Surrey Street Rodders bash at Rushmoor Arena, Aldershot, you may recall last year was a complete wash-out but the 2019 event was blessed with plenty of sunshine and outstanding cars.
My report for Classic American magazine shows the three vehicles that grabbed my attention.
Next up was the Hayling Island 28th Reunion on the beach at Funlands Amusement park. A great diversity of cars with plenty of Hot Rods and pick-up trucks. The influence of TV programmes such as Fast n Loud featuring Richard Rawlings Gas Monkey Garage was very evident not only in the appearance of the show cars but also the owners, plenty of hipster beards, tattoos and attitude black t-shirts. Bad news is that this could be the last Reunion at Hayling as the land has been sold to the dreaded Developers!
On the valuation front I have appraised a really rapid street/strip FE5 red 1970 Road Runner and am currently involved with a Tri Chevy, 73 Barracuda and a 66 Mustang, lastly a super cool 68 Charger.
After a phone conversation, (remember them) I made my way to darkest Stockbroker Belt Surrey to see a collection of mighty fine Mopars. A freshly imported 1970 340 Cuda from the Netherlands really stood out of which the owner required a detailed valuation, that along with a 1963 Signet built at the Los Angeles plant.
Sad news on the passing of Niki Lauder probably the bravest racing driver ever. Winning three Formula 1 Championships for both Ferrari and McLaren. A true sporting legend and hero.
Next up is Brooklands for the Mopar show and hopefully the Deer's Hut Father's Day Classic Car bash at Liphook, Hants in June.
Enjoy the summer and keep drivin' them old cars!


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I need to be able to print draft copies of books, brochures, photos etc. to proof them before they go to a printer and to show clients to give them (and me) an idea of how things will look before they get a proof copy from the printer. I'll need colour but I expect black and white and grey scale to be the bulk of it. I need it to print both sides (duplex). It needs to be able to show graphics in colour and grey scale reasonably well. It doesn't need to be fast. It doesn't need to print on special papers. It doesn't need to do photos on photo paper as I have access to a very good photo printer.
I do have an older scanner but wouldn't mind replacing it with an all in one printer/scanner if the scanner on the printer was of very good quality because I do need a very good scanner for scanning photos at high quality for printing restored photos and to use in publications.
For paper size, up to A3. Brochures go all the way to the edge but I suppose I could proof scaled down versions as I doubt printers go all the way to the edge. I can't imagine larger paper sizes would be required often enough to be worth the added expense of printers that do larger paper.
Budget: don't know yet. I'd like good quality, a workhorse. I'll look at the spend after I get a range idea.
Connectivity: wifi would be ideal. I'm not sure if I'm going to sit it in the hall next to my fritz!box 7390 router and network it that way via the router USB port or in my office next to my laptop where I suppose it will take up a USB port.
OS used with: Windows 8.1, AirPrint for the iPads would be nice but not essential.
Thanks for your suggestions!


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Planting Milkweed Will Help Save the Monarch Butterfly
Planting Milkweed Will Help Save the Monarch Butterfly
We live in an Age of Extinction. Animals and plants are falling out right and left in the face of 7.6 billion Great Apes (us) clogging up the works. And though some species are flagging for mysterious reasons, for others it's pretty obvious: They're running out of food, there are too many people hanging out in the places they need to be or their habitat has been changed too quickly and drastically for them to adapt.
Take the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus): The North American population has tanked in the past 20 years, dropping by around 80 percent since the turn of the millenium.
These vibrant beauties migrate between 2,000 and 3,000 miles (3,200 and 4,800 kilometers) each year on their delicate orange, black and white wings, from the United States and Canada to their overwintering grounds in Mexico. And although they're sturdier than they look, they can't make that grueling trip without snacks. And their only snacks are becoming increasingly scarce.
Monarchs only eat one thing: milkweed. As its name suggests, milkweed is a weed — it's a pretty common roadside plant. But the unrelenting tidiness of state transportation departments with their constant mowing, and the use of herbicides like Roundup along highways and in private gardens is starving out the iconic monarch. In conjunction with habitat alterations due to climate change, as well as casualties from pesticides that weren't meant for them, they're really struggling.
The Center for Biological Diversity is advocating for the monarch to be protected under the Endangered Species Act.
But if you have a yard, you can be a monarch hero! There are lots of different types of milkweed that grow in a variety of soils. Milkweed also attracts a host of other pollinators, including native bees, bumble bees and honeybees.
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Sidorak was the king of the Visorak horde. In his early life, he was a minor power in a land filled with conflict. He rapidly discovered that by claiming credit for victories won by those beneath him, he could advance in the eyes of his leaders. Whenever a commander objected to the credit being stolen, Sidorak would simply dispatch him on a dangerous mission from which he would not return. This talent for treachery attracted the attention of Makuta. Makuta made Sidorak one of his lieutenants, along with Roodaka.[1]
Sidorak was the king of the Visorak horde. His spinner power was obedience. His weapon was a herding blade. His allies were the Visorak legions. His preferred tactic was to have others fight his battles for him, or else strike foes when they were already weakened.[2]
Sidorak came from the same island as Krekka.[3]
Sidorak's primary power was his strength. Although not as strong as Keetongu, he was far stronger than a Toa. He was an excellent strategist and tactician, having masterminded a number of Visorak campaigns. He was skilled at manipulation, so much so that it never occurred to him that he might be manipulated in turn.[1]
Sidorak was not a king who hid in a fortress – he preferred to be out leading his Visorak into battle. Deep down, however, he knew that he had not really earned his position, which made him try that much harder to prove a successful and ruthless conqueror. He did a good job at hiding from the Visorak any doubts he may have had about his leadership. Unfortunately, he was not able to hide them from Roodaka.[1]
Sidorak carried a herding blade which could be used to communicate orders to the Visorak in the field.[1]
Sidorak carried a mechanical Rhotuka launcher.[4] His obedience Rhotuka spinner produced blind obedience in anyone it struck, reflecting the fact that he favored blind obedience from his horde above all else.[5, 1]
In his battle with Gladiator, the crimson-armored Sidorak was powerful, but his fighting style was crude, limited to charging forward in hopes of landing a blow.[6]


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Why should guardrail be used as opposed to fall arrest cable systems? What are the benefits of guardrail over a cable system? What type of guardrail is needed on a building?
Firstly, the answer is that guardrail should be used as the first consideration over a fall prevention cable system, and is recommended when regular access to the protected area is required. A cable system should be a secondary consideration, and used when the roof in question is only to be accessed at sporadic periods. With more frequent access, it makes sense to eliminate the risk entirely by inserting a perimeter guardrail, which also allows more of the roof space to be available for equipment, services etc.
The benefits of having a guardrail system in place over a cable system are:
- Provides collective protection rather than having to hook on and access through the use of a lanyard and harness.
- This ensures that anyone can access the roof and do not require specialized training in the use of PFPE.
- There is no need for annual re-certification (Fall Prevention System) or 6 month inspection (PFPE). (Although it is good practice to self-examine the guardrail regularly in order to ensure there are no defects caused by tampering etc).
- Excludes the need to have a rescue plan in operation in the case of a fall arrest situation occurring.
- There is peace of mind provided in knowing that whoever accesses the roof is safe from falling and will not be in need of rescue, whereas if a fall arrest system is in place, a 'buddy system' is required in order to organise a rescue if such a fall took place.
Benefits of a KeeGuard® system:
Flexibility- There are various types of guardrail to suit the requirements. These can include freestanding or fixed, non-penetrative, suitable for areas of limited space and even collapsible in order to avoid spoiling the aesthetics of a building.
Long Lasting- Built to last- Each of our guardrail solutions are strong and durable, and designed to withstand harsh conditions.
Corrosion Resistant- The fittings and tube which comprise KeeGuard are constructed from galvanised steel and thus resist the effects of corrosion.
Architectural Look- Our guardrail systems have a strong architectural look and rather than look out of place, they look like a natural part of the building. However, the Foldshield option allows for the guardrail to be collapsible and thus out of sight if desired.
Skyways guardrail systems are used in developments all over Ireland, and we specialize in customizing the system to meet the required environment. They can also be used in conjunction with the KeeGuard® Ladder Kit, which offers a safe access point for access and egress. Our guardrail projects include Hamilton Sundstrand in Shannon, Dublin Airport and Tallaght Hospital.
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IATO Run for Responsible Tourism -32nd IATO Annual Convention - 18- 21 September 2016 Chennai
05th September 2016
Subject: IATO Run for Responsible Tourism -32nd IATO Annual Convention - 18- 21 September 2016 Chennai
From Amaresh Tiwari, Convener of the IATO Run for Responsible Tourism
Dear Registered Delegate:
Thank you for registering for the 32nd Annual IATO Convention. Again this year we have a good number of registrations; a clear indication of the quality of deliberations one can expect. We are really excited at what all is in store for our members and delegates.
I write to invite you to participate in the "IATO Run for Responsible Tourism" .
So get your running gears and join us on Tuesday morning (September 20th, 2016) at 6:00 am.
Come join your industry in the IATO Run for Responsible Tourism starting from Marina Beach.
The sign up details are below.
IATO RUN Registration :
18th & 19th September 2016 : 10 am till 5 pm at IATO RUN Registration Counter in front of Conference Venue. For Registration, participants need to show there IATO Convention badge and provide us Registration No.
Activity Level:
We will have two levels based on your endurance. For those who do not want to run, enjoy a pleasant paced walk at Marina Beach.
• Run for 5 kilometers
• Walk for 5 kilometers
What to Wear:
Please bring Jogging / running shoes and comfortable attire such as track pants as your desire. A T-shirt, Cap and Hydration Bottle will be provided by us. Our Registration Counter will open at ITC Grand Chola Convention Centre at 10 am on 18th & 19th September 2016 and close at 5 pm.
Run Program:
05.00 am : Wake up call at respective hotel.
05.30 am : Transfer from respective hotel to Marina Beach (IATO will organize transfer)
06.00 am : Assemble at Starting Point : Marina Beach.
06.15 am : Declaration and important announcement.
06.30 am : Race / Walk start. Flag off by Tamil Nadu Tourism Commissioner & President IATO
07.30 am : Race / walk finish.
07.45 am : Participants will be transfer back to their respective hotel.
• Top Winners will be awarded at IATO Convention on 20th September 2016.
Prizes will be given for :
• Top 3 in the 5 km Run - Category Men
• Top 3 in the 5 km Run - Category Woman
• Top 3 in the 5 km walk - Open category
• Top 3 in the 5 km walk - Sr. Citizen
• All participating children will get a goody bag
• All the Successful participants will be given "CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION"
This is an opportunity to mingle with your fellow delegates in a relaxed environment. So join everyone in showing your solidarity to IATO. .
All IATO registered delegates are entitled to Register for IATO Run. They need to show-up in the morning for Run.
All the delegates will get RUN kits.
Note: Candidates not registered with IATO Convention, are not qualified for the Prize.
If you have any questions, please do call me at 09811412517 or IATO Office.
To sign up,
• Please email Ms. Ashwani : email@example.com and cc to : firstname.lastname@example.com
• Please send us names of participants and Your T-shirt Size.
Run with us in Chennai!
Very Best Regards
Amaresh Tiwari
Convener - IATO Run for Responsible Tourism
& Hony. Treasurer - IATO