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In Memoriam: Dorothy Stang, S.N.D.deN.
Sister Dorothy Stang's name was not mentioned (as far as I know) during the Pope's just-completed trip to Brazil, but before the focus moves away from that country it would be right and good to recall the memory of this remarkable martyr for the faith.
Many readers probably know the story of this Ohio-born sister of Notre Dame de Namur who went to work with the poor in Brazil in 1966, became a Brazilian citizen, and dedicated her life to working on behalf of the indigenous poor, especially in the Amazon. She worked with the base communities that have been so strongly opposed by powerful interests in Brazil. But she remained resolute.
In February 2005, after receiving many death threats from landowners, two gunmen apparently hired by powerful ranchers tracked her down. She knew what was about to happen, and opened her Bible and began reading from the Gospel of Matthew. They shot her twice in the head an five more times in the body.
"Dot," as she was known, is to my mind the kind of witness to faith and justice who lived out the message of the Gospel. Despite all the criticism of "secularizing" and "activist" religious orders, perhaps her example is one we could look to for some answers to the challenges for the Church in places like Brazil.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Stang or the Notre Dame de Namur site at http://www.sndohio.org/dotstang.htm.
One of the ranchers accused of hiring her killers (who have been convicted) goes on trial today, as you can read here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/13/AR2007051300675.html.
About the Author
David Gibson is a national reporter for Religion News Service and author of The Coming Catholic Church (HarperOne) and The Rule of Benedict (HarperOne). He blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Dorothy Stang and Oscar Romero (and they are not the only ones) are a piercing rebuke to aristocratic Rome. In an age where Karol W made the canonization of saints almost meaningless, these two martyrs to the faith are not recognized as saints. The real church does, though.For that reason papal visits in general become Palm Sundays without Good Friday and Easter Sunday. They are good pageantry without substance. A church of conquest rather than of martyrs. Etc.,etc., etc,.
David Gibson writes: Despite all the criticism of "secularizing" and "activist" religious orders, perhaps her example is one we could look to for some answers to the challenges for the Church in places like Brazil.Jean says: Really good point. It kind of shames those of us who waste our breath griping about how nuns don't wear recognizeable habits anymore. I guess when you're shot seven times on behalf of the poor, a wimple becomes a moot point.
"In an age where Karol W made the canonization of saints almost meaningless..."My God, how true!!!!!!!It would be interesting to learn if the current pope did, in fact, mention the names of AB Romero and Sister Stang. I AM curious!
I am pretty sure he mentioned Romero, Rome has gotten that message. What is not well known is the US govt was very active in terrorizing any social reformers. There are many outstanding people from religious orders who gave their lives to social reform.
I have to disagree about the comment that JPII "made the canonization of saints almost meaningless." Perhaps he was cleaning up a backlog of cases that had been weighed down by inertia and time, but even if he wasn't, I think he was primarily motivated by the desire to give the world many different role models, from a wide variety of cultures and ethnic groups, for living the Christian faith. Sure, he might have influenced more the causes pending for Oscar Romero, Dorothy Day, Thoamas Merton, and some others, and he may have canonized some controversial individuals (Josemaria Escriva comes first to mind), but the Pope's message, IMO, was that these were people like us that we can connect with, who had many of the same faults and problems we have, and who rose above those issues to live exemplary lives. It's worthwhile to stop and think of some of the people JPII canonized and beatified:Padre PioEdith SteinMaximilian KolbeThe Vietnames martyrsThe Korean MartyrsSister FaustinaKatherine DrexelKaterina Tekawitha (beatified)Mother Teresa (beatified)For a witty and memorable reminder about the role the saints can play in our daily lives, I recommend Fr. James Martin's "My Life with the Saints."With a pantheon of saints now available to choose from, thanks in part to JPII, there is sure to be at least one that each of us can identify with and emulate.
I have one problem with Bill Collier's comment. The pantheon of saints offer little or no direct heroes/heroines to married couples , other than those who gave up sex.This continues to be a real issue and underscore the notion that somehow sex is dirty or that married couples are less than religious or consecrated lay in their status.This is hardly to deny the admirable quality of Fr. Martin's work.But, for many, the sanctity of many listed above may seem unapproachable. I must say that the heroism of Sr, Stang wil have real resonance amomng those who've worked for the oppressed and had to face danger from the powerful.
That's a fair comment, Bob. There certainly could be more married saints, especially from "contemporary" times, i.e., the last 100 years or so. However, a few of my favorite saints seem to fit your criteria:St. Thomas MoreSt. PeterSt. Monica (mother of St. Augustine)There is also St. Elizabeth Seton, who was a widow, however, when she entered the religious life. And of course there is St. Joseph, though he likely would not have fit one of your criteria.And though he wasn't married and eventually became celibate, St. Augustine relates in his "Confessions" that he had a robust sex life for many years that included the birth of a son. Some modern day Christians can no doubt find connections with at least some aspects of Augustine's life. I'm curious as to whether you have a married person or persons in mind to put forth as candidates worthy of canonization? If so, I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts.
Hello william (and all),I've been in the thick of finishing grading final exams and preparing to visit my ex-university to attend my former students' graduation ceremonies, so I have had but little time to visit the recent discussions. I hope most of you are well, though today I grieve with the Bacevich family.Thank you very much for your thoughts here William. I've grumbled about aspects of John Paul II's papacy before, and while I have not said so before on this web log I had views regarding John Paul II's numerous beatifications and canonizations similar to those expressed here by Joseph and Bill. For one thing, I have wondered if in a time such as ours of easy communication if the formal processes of beatification and canonization still serves much purpose. For example, I've read and agree that the people of God long ago recognized John XXIII as a saint, and in my opinion his beatification went largely unnoticed. I suspect that far more people know of and revere Dorothy Day and Archbishop Romero than the majority of the people beatified and canonized by John Paul II. I also admit that in my opinion some of John Paul II's choices were not very deserving (such as Pius IX and the Austrian Emperor Charles). And while I have been mistaken about cost considerations on this web log before, I have wondered how much might be saved for other charitable work if the church did not spend the labor and other resources on the extensive investigations of cases for beatification and sainthood.I heard a bishop (whose name I have forgotten) explain in a recent interview that the reason John Paul II beatified and canonized so many was to discipline everyone else. I did not know what to make of that at the time. But I much prefer your more charitable views on this. Thanks for giving us all some good food for thought!
A little known fact is that even conservative clergy in the church were astounded by Karol W's landslide of new saints. I heard that from a speaker on the premises of, that bastion of orthodoxy, St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers.
Maybe it's my Hapsburg heritage coming to the fore, but it should be pointed out that Kaiser Karl I was very married, very seriously, and in a very Catholic spirit.Anti-monarchist sentiment aside (and I once heard Ronald Syme, neither a conservative nor a Catholic apologist, vigorously praise the tolerance and openness of the Hapsburg empire), Karl I at least deserves credit for attempting to put an end to first world war in accordance with the earlier pope Benedict's wishes. And can anyone looking back over the last ninety years really maintain that the bigot Woodrow Wilson's fantasies for the Balkans were an improvement on what existed previously?
Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2007Brazilian rancher guilty in nun's slayingBy Patrick J. McDonnellTimes Staff WriterBELEM, BRAZIL A jury convicted a rancher Tuesday of ordering the slaying of Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. missionary who championed the cause of the Amazon's landless peasants.The verdict was met here with celebratory music, tearful embraces and thunderous applause among farmers gathered in a public square. Human rights experts hailed the decision as a long-awaited break after years of impunity afforded to large landowners in the rain forest region."Maybe this is the beginning of justice," said Romeiro Batista Medeiros, a councilman for the Amazonian town of Anapu, where Stang had lived for more than two decades and had become legendary as a defender of the poor and landless.Medeiros was among the hundreds who had put up a tent city, dubbed "Camp Dorothy Lives," in the plaza across from the courthouse where jurors heard the case against Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, the rancher accused of being one of the masterminds of the 73-year-old nun's slaying in February 2005."Impunity's reign ends with this conviction," declared Marselha Goncalves Margerin, who monitored the case here for the Washington-based Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights.Two of Stang's brothers, both ex-priests, came from the United States to witness the trial.... The Stangs and several nuns of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the slain nun's order, were mobbed by the Amazonian farmers as they descended the stairs of the courthouse and crossed the street into the plaza. An electric guitar played Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" as a celebration erupted in the square, provisionally named after Stang and filled with posters bearing her likeness. A tropical downpour didn't douse the exhilaration."Maybe all these people will finally have some peace," said Sister Jane Dwyer, 66, who lived with Stang in Anapu for almost a decade.The entire story is at http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-stang16may16,1,2729339.story
Thanks for posting that story, Gene. The reactions are a true testimony. David
May Sister's soul and the souls of all the faitfful departed rest in peace.David Gibson wrote: "Despite all the criticism of "secularizing" and "activist" religious orders, perhaps her example is one we could look to for some answers to the challenges for the Church in places like Brazil."Maid: The question then becomes was her service and her example there despite of or because of any possible secularizing trends in her religious community? Do we know?Jean added: "It kind of shames those of us who waste our breath griping about how nuns don't wear recognizeable habits anymore. I guess when you're shot seven times on behalf of the poor, a wimple becomes a moot point."Maid: We should not over generalize: many, perhaps even most world-wide, religious do wear a recognizable habit. The question becomes again - was Sr. Dororthy's apostolic work impressive despite of or because of her community's decision to drop the religious habit? And realize that not wearing a religious habit does not necessarily mean a consecrated woman is theologically left of center or supportive of secularization. The consecrated women in Opus Dei and Regnum Christi do not wear a traditional habit. The Maid


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I have 2 domU virtual machines installed on a 11.10 Oneiric Dom0. My internal network is on the 192.168.1 subnet, and when the domU's start, they get ips on the 192.168.122 subnet. I have attempted to follow the instructions here : http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Xen_Networking
xend-config.sxp is configured correctly, but neither of my domU's have a config file in /etc/xen to modify. ifconfig reports that I have the following devices :
eth0, lo, tap3.0, vif3.0, vif4.0, virbr0
bridge-utils is installed. I also just attempted to follow these steps :
sudo brctl addbr xenbr0
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FFR '33 Hot Rod Build - The Race RodWritten by on November 5, 2009 Contributors: Eric Jacobs We Assemble A Factory Five '33 Kit In Five Days, Start To Finish.
Street rods have never been known as handling cars, but why can't they be? If you're fabricating suspension anyway, why not build in geometry that'll make it go around corners like a slot car, with fat tires on all four corners? Factory Five Racing was reading our minds, literally, and built just that, a '33 Ford kit with real underpinnings and a low enough curb weigh to guarantee blistering performance. For a few coins less than 20 grand, you get everything but the drivetrain, wheels, tires, paint, and a few assorted smaller items. We showed the new kit and what it takes to prep the body in last month's issue and return with a complete buildup of one here.
Actually, complete is not totally accurate since it's impossible to cover everything in even a year's worth of stories in a monthly magazine. FFR's build manual on the kit is a whopping 397 pages of step-by-step illustrated instructions, and when you first start looking through it, it's easy to get intimidated. So we conspired with Factory Five to cheat on a buildup in a most entertaining way-and one we're pretty sure is going to catch on with other people building kits.
FFR has a very active group of customers offering advice and friendship on its website. The word went out on the message board that HOT ROD was going to follow the buildup of a car in California and was looking for volunteers to jump in and help. Approximately 20 agreed and were summoned to Langley Kersonboom's Hermosa Beach, California, shop, LK Motorsports, with the goal of tearing open the boxes on Monday morning and driving the finished car out of the shop by Friday night in time for the annual kit car show at Knott's Berry Farm. The only advantage the team had was that the body had already been painted by Jeff Miller, as we covered in last month's issue.
As stated earlier, seven pages cannot possibly cover even a fraction of what's involved in building the FFR hot rod kit, so don't look at this as anything resembling an instruction manual. Rather, this story is intended to show that it's not an overly difficult kit to assemble (and in fact is easier than FFR's straightforward roadster kits) and that with enough people who know their way around a wrench (and even a few who don't), you can build one in a short amount of time. No lying, it only took five days on this one. And the best part is, you can have fun with a group of buddies while doing it.
Next month we put the finished car to the test, but we'll tease you a little here-it's really fast.
The Crew
All week:
Eric Jacobs, Wareham, MA, project manager
Langley Kersenboom,Owner, LK Motorsports
Mark Dougherty, Hershey, PA
Henry Renaud, Lithia, FL
Karen Salvaggio, Riverside, CA
Andy Salvaggio, Riverside, CA
Dave Boles, San Diego, CA
Mark Stackler
Tom Heltzel, Seattle, WA
Bill Lohmiller, Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Gary Larrivee, Redondo Beach, CA
Bruce Kading, Las Cruces, NM
Victor Menashe, Albuquerque, NM
Partial week:
Jeff Felderman, Mission Viejo, CA
Paul Mastroianni, Corona, CA
Darren Trapp, Orange, CA
John Jones
Ed Holley, Oak Hills, CA
John Cameron
William Robertson, Valencia, CA
David Hodgkins
Donald Cribbs, Burbank, CA
Jeff Rautenberg, Palmdale, CA
LK Motorsports
Langley Kersenboom's Hermosa Beach, California, shop is the West Coast go-to place for pro-built Factory Five cars. While the company specializes in the FFR Challenge series (a class within NASA that runs all FFR roadsters), it's well versed in building turnkey versions of any FFR component car. In the shop on any given day are several street and race roadsters, a GTM supercar in progress, and a hot rod or two. Just before our build party, LK had gotten its new four-wheel dyno up and running, too. If you're reading this story and don't feel like you have the time to build a car yourself, LK can set you up.
Special Thanks
We gotta give props to a few companies that really helped this project come together in a timely manner. First was Summit Racing Equipment, which provided most of the needed parts (like a fuel pump, carburetor, and so on). This build certainly wasn't the first time we've had to make panic-stricken, last-minute calls to Summit to get parts next-day'd, and it probably won't be the last. Also, ANplumbing.com in Lawndale, California, graciously provided the various lines and fittings we needed, and Tom Hanson of Auto Restorations (310/739-1957) did a masterful job of upholstering the door panels, headliner, and rear bulkhead in yummy black leather.
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This was the scene at LK Motorsports when the kit was first delivered. Owner Langley Kersenboom set aside the area next to his new four-wheel dyno so everyone had enough elbow room during the build.The front suspension is the first area of attack. The kit uses inboard-mounted Koni coilover shocks mounted just behind the radiator.That big box on the frame is the fuel tank. It's mounted behind the seats and is concealed when the body is on.At any one time there were three or four areas of the car being worked on, which allowed us to build it in a week. Here you can see where the MSD 6AL box and starter solenoid are mounted. The aluminum firewall should be mounted while the body is fitted to the chassis since it is a locator for a bunch of other parts. We painted the body before the build, so the firewall had already been positioned and marked.The kit is designed to use a Ford 8.8-inch rearend from a Fox or SN-95 Mustang, and you can choose from a stock-style four-link or a more race-oriented three-link suspension. This car uses the three-link, and we loaded the 8.8 with 3.73:1 gears. That big bracket bolted to the housing is the upper link mount.Some of the aluminum panels were installed before the body went on and some afterward. Cleco pins are a brilliant way to hold them in place to make sure all the holes are correct and everything lines up. This photo also shows how the pedal box was mounted. Notice the hanging Wilwood pedal and three master cylinders (two for brakes, one for the clutch). The trick reservoirs mounted in front of them are an LK Motorsports setup, and once the body is mounted, they're accessible from a removable panel on the cowl.Ah yes, the horsepower jewelry. Ford Racing supplied a Boss 347 crate motor and Tremec TKO-600 five-speed transmission. The engine makes 450 hp at 6,000 rpm and 400 lb-ft at 4,900 with a hydraulic roller cam, 9.7:1 compression, and Ford Racing Z heads. The forged crank and pistons will also allow us to spray it at a later date, but with the car's final curb weight of about 2,300 pounds, this should be plenty...at least for a while.
There are quite a few aluminum panels for the floor, trunk, and other areas. They are precut to fit, but you still have to drill the mounting holes in the panels and the frame.The Optima Red Top battery was hidden under the fuel tank and looks to be a bear to remove, if that's ever needed.After assembling the grille/radiator/fan assembly, it was installed. The kit comes with hoses and everything else needed.With the fuel system plumbed and the wiring hooked up, we all stood back and listened to the first engine firing. The gesturing dude in the middle is Ford Racing's Jesse Kershaw, who came to visit the buildup.The body is not that heavy, but we used plenty of hands to carefully lower it into place without scratching anything.With the fuel system plumbed and the wiring hooked up, we all stood back and listened to the first engine firing. The gesturing dude in the middle is Ford Racing's Jesse Kershaw, who came to visit the buildup.
The stainless steel mufflers sit right under the seats, so we covered the floor with Damplifier Pro insulation.Miller installed the door hinges and doors. Five-point Simpson harnesses are included for both sides and attach to a chassis mount before the rear bulkhead and seats go in.The roof is held on with about 10 bolts and Rivnuts and is removable. Here, Dougherty drills the cowl for the Rivnuts.The interior of the roof and the bulkhead behind the seats are finished in black gelcoat, but we went the extra distance and had Tom Hanson masterfully cover them in leather. It really makes a difference. Hanson works out of the LK Motorsports shop, so many of the company's cars get his touch.The roof was lowered into place and bolted down. We doubt we'll ever remove it since it looks too cool installed. You can see part of the rollbar. The kit comes with double-hoop bars, a la Cobra. But with the roof in place, that would look weird, so we converted it to a single bar the width of the interior.To separate the flat and shiny parts of the paint job, Bruce "The Brush" Brennan was called in to lay down some red pinstripes.


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I want to create one border layout which is shown example in layout manager / border layout
in this layout if i want to set PHP page link in center then how can i set it.
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about to display link
actually i want to build one website layout. means in north i set some button like home , contact , act.
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Let $m$ be a natural number. Can $m(m+1)$ be written as a seventh power of a natural number? If it is true, is it possible to generalize?
I can use only Euclidean Division. I am not suppose to use the Fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
I think the answer is no, then I have assumed that $m(m+1)=a^{7}$ and I would like to get a contradiction. I know that $m(m+1)=2(1+2+\cdots+m)$, but I got stucked here. I have tried to use the Euclidean Division and write $m=aq+r$, for $0\leq r <a$, and this doesn't help me as well.
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Is it considered good or bad practice? A friend of mine told me that, generally speaking, it was not considered a good practice in most languages now a days, but that he thought he heard that this was not the case with fortran. Is this true? And if it is true, why?
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In 30+ years of programming in Fortran I've never come across anyone using Hungarian notation. Your friend might be confusing Fortran's long-standing (and now deprecated) ability to implicitly type variables depending on the initial letter of their names. But that long predates widespread awareness of what is now called Hungarian notation.
On the more general issue of whether Hungarian notation is, or would be, a good idea for adoption when writing Fortran, I agree with David, and (I think) the wider software development community which regards it as a not-very-useful practice. Fortran certainly does not require it, variable (and other) names follow rules very similar to those in many programming languages.
Systems Hungarian
Systems Hungarian notation essentially adds type information into variable names so that you know the types of the values you are using, and are less likely to use a value in an incorrect way. This is of dubious benefit in modern strongly typed languages, as type-safety significantly reduces the chance of using/accessing a variable erroneously.
However, for less strongly typed languages, including this sort of information can be beneficial, as it keeps the programmer constantly aware of the data they are dealing with.
The biggest criticism of HN (besides it being of limited benefit in a strongly typed language) is that the type prefixes used can result in extremely obscure and confusing variable names, so while you may gain a measure of pseudo type-safety, you can lose clarity in the code (or at least create code that is only readable to be an expert in your conventions) which can harm maintainability.
If you need to produce code to someone else's naming convention then you have little choice, but if you are in control, you can define a sensible, clear, simple naming convention that may suit your needs better, giving a good balance between making variable names information-rich and introducing confusing clutter. For example, one practice is to name boolean variables in the form of
Apps Hungarian
In response to the first comment, there is another form of Hungarian Notation (Apps Hungarian). See Wikipedia for a more in-depth description of it, but essentially it associates information relating to the usage or purpose of a variable with its name, rather than its type.
In strongly typed languages this is a much more useful approach, and is well worth considering - or at least (IMHO) in concept. I find the prefixes chosen often tend to be rather complicated and unfriendly (e.g.
A Modern Alternative
In my opinion/experience, what usually matters is clarifying a few key differences between variables (e.g. we need to treat members, pointers, volatiles and constants quite differently from each other - mixing up a member and a parameter or indexing an array with the wrong index variable can be catastrophic, and modern compilers do little to protect us from these mistakes). The difference between a list and a string is usually obvious if sensible descriptive variable naming is used, and type-safe languages will tell us if we've mixed these types up, so we don't need prefixes for these cases. This led to my own extremely simple prefixing approach which is explained in my answer to this stack overflow question.
Hopefully this post may give you something to think about when deciding if prefixes will be beneficial for you. Ultimately, any prefixing scheme you apply needs to be something that you believe (or better, can prove) is beneficial to you and your team. Don't just follow someone else's scheme - think about how and why a prefix might be useful, and evaluate it objectively before you adopt it or discard it.
It really depends more on the development environment and the team standards than on the language. If you happen to be using Fortran, but in a good IDE with code analysis and navigation, then you probably don't need Hungarian Notation.
I think the real question to ask yourself is, "What would Hungarian Notation give me?"
That is, what is its value? Even when using an old language, you can still apply good coding practices and techniques. Keep routines small, keep variable scope small, etc. Now, I'm not expert in Fortran, so I don't know what the limitations are. But I imagine it would still hold true.
Hungarian Notation is particularly useful when you're using a limited editor (no information about the variable on mouse hover, for example) and when your variable has a fairly long lifespan. By which I mean the use of the variable continues well beyond its definition.
Since the inception of Fortran so long ago, we as an industry have learned a lot about organizing code and working effectively on development teams. (Even if the team is only you... Remember that any code you wrote more than a few months ago may as well have been written by somebody else.) You may be able to apply these lessons to your Fortran code.
Use informative variable names. Storage isn't expensive, characters don't take long to send over modems anymore... Reasonably long variable names are both acceptable and encouraged, provided that they convey information about what that variable is and means. Additionally, keep the use of the variable close to its definition. So the additional context of the surrounding code reveals more information about the variable than just its name.
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What's the word for "to go back" of time? I'm trying to say that time cannot go back. For example:
I wish I were a child again, but time does not "go back".
What's the word for "to go back" of time? I'm trying to say that time cannot go back. For example:
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Things are ever changing and time never retreats.
Time never retreats and is one of those rare concepts that is linked uniquely to Eternity. The Human Being is an equal and rare creation that shares a special connection with eternity and time. (Time Management)
Here I would use the phrase "turn back the clock".
The noun regress ("The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression" or "The power or liberty of passing back") can be used in sentences like "We have no power to regress time" or "Time has no regress".
Various metaphors for the passage of time imply time cannot be turned back, that it is a one-way street. The dozens of metaphors at grammar.about.com and xamuel.com include characterizations of time as:
Time as a flowing river is a well-worn metaphor. In about 500 BCE Heraclitus of Ephesus wrote:
which in translation resemble
Revert comes to mind, from Latin revertere, "turn back".
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The first Hall of Fame Military Bowl will have a local flavor on both teams with 14 players from the area.
The senior all-star game will take place June 29 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.
Among the local players on the National Guard team are Wolcott quarterback Mike Nicol, the 2012 Republican-American Red Zone Player of the Year, Naugatuck wide receiver Mick Pernell, Derby wide receiver Dillon McMahon, Holy Cross inside linebacker Myles Pompei-Grove, Woodland defensive lineman Eric Collodel and Housatonic Valley defensive lineman Mark Wildman.
The local players on the Marines team are Oxford quarterback Brennen Diaz, Ansonia wide receiver Rashaun Finney, Woodland offensive lineman Jeremy Clark, Woodland wide receiver Rahmi Rountree, Ansonia outside linebacker Jh'mel Trammell, Crosby inside linebacker Nygel Gladney, Southington inside linebacker Nick Spitz and Southington safety Nathan Bonafonte.
Woodland head coach Tim Shea is on the coaching staff of the Naional Guard. Former Kennedy standout and assistant coach John Ferrazzi, the head coach at Sheehan High, is on the staff of the Marines.
The first 25 players from each team were drafted by coaches Wednesday night at Rentschler Field with an additional 25 players being picked for both teams.
There will be a team meeting April 11 at 6:30 p.m. at Southington High. Players are being asked to wear a shirt and tie for their arrival to the game.
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|Leading Central Florida Ballet to Success
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Born in Transylvania, Romania, Mr. Petrutiu trained at the Romanian Academy of Fine Arts and graduated at the top of his class with the highest degree in the field of dance. After graduation he joined the Romanian National Opera and Ballet in Bucharest where he was spotted by the great director/choreographer Oleg Danovski, who invited him to join The Classical and Contemporary Ballet of Romania, as principal dancer and touring extensively throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. In 1982 he defected while on tour in USA. In 1984 Mr. Petrutiu established his residency in the United States and later got his US citizenship. He held the Principal Dancer position with several companies including Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Cleveland-San Jose Ballet, Dallas Ballet, Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Nevada Dance Theatre, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Alberta Ballet. His distinguished career encompasses an extensive list of leading roles in the great classical ballets and many contemporary master pieces.
During his dance career, Mr. Petrutiu worked with noted personalities such as Frederick Franklin, Reid Anderson, Natalie Krassovska, Laura Alonzo and Flemming Flindt. In addition to dancing, Mr. Petrutiu also acted as master teacher, school director, ballet master, choreographer, and artistic director for several companies, most recently Southern Ballet Theatre, now Orlando Ballet, in Florida. Under his direction SBT, now Orlando Ballet, successfully eliminated its trailing deficit of over 400K, tripled season subscriptions and earned a surplus of 100K by the third year of his leadership.
In 2000, Mr. Petrutiu founded and incorporated The Ballet Academy of Central Florida and the Central Florida Ballet, guiding the two organizations to great success. The Academy reached an enrollment of over 300 students in just four months, and the professional company made its debut with Tutus, Tangos, and More. This program featured several of Mr. Petrutiu's ballets and was a smash-hit debut for the new company. In 2004 Mr. Petrutiu's Nutcracker Production reached international attention being featured in USA Today and later highlighted by CNN Headline News as one of five outstanding Productions in the nation. Mr. Petrutiu engaged many international stars including Gelsey Kirkland, Fernando Bujones, Angel Corella, Irina Dvorovenko, Maxim Beloserkovsky, Sascha Radetsky, Yanis Pikieris, David Palmer and Dragos Mihalcea.
In 2007, Mr. Petrutiu inaugurated the World Ballet Competition, which became the first ballet competition to be entirely broadcast on the internet (with 148,000 viewers) and generated numerous magazine features, including a five page layout in Dance for You Magazine based in Germany. Mr. Petrutiu is excited to continue working with professional dancers and students as well as to bring quality in dance to Central Florida.
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1970 Chevy Chevelle- You LoseWritten by Mike Finnegan on April 30, 2012 Contributors: Wes Allison If You Had the Nerve To Test This Street Car, You Probably Would.
Seeing is believing. During HOT ROD Power Tour® '11®, we watched this '70 Chevelle roast the rollers on a Dynojet mobile chassis dyno before splitting a header collector in half. That was with a soft tune-up. On the next pull, the dyno said the heavy Chevy's 580ci Rat with an F-3 Procharger was pushing 1,377 hp at the drag radials. The crowd went nuts. It was the highest number put up by any car during that Power Tour®. A few months later at HOT ROD Drag Week™, this thing towed a trailer on the highway while sipping pump gas and then went 8.22 at 167 mph in the quarter at Topeka, Kansas. Two stops later on the five-day, four-track race fest, it pulled a wheelie high enough that Bryant Goldstone had to pedal it because he couldn't see the track. The Chevelle came crashing down and remarkably didn't even scuff the headers on the ground. However, it did break a connecting rod in the lights, ending Bryant's bid for the Modified Power Adder class title. He'll be back.
He's been here awhile, actually, first with a '73 AMC Javelin—which he still owns and that ran 7.50s at 185 mph—and again with a tube-chassis '98 Monte Carlo that runs in the 6s at 200-plus mph. Bryant's Chevelle is also no fairground cruiser, which is interesting because he bought it with the intention of performing a full restoration, not destroying speed parts at tracks across the nation. But his good friend and painter Joe McNamara took long enough to spray the car that Bryant had time to realize how much more fun racing is than cruising, and he changed the direction of the build in an aggressive way. The N.O.S. parts catalogs were quickly shelved in favor of speed-parts websites. But the car is resto-clean, another amazing feat for a car this brutal.
Purchased for $8,000 back in 2007, the Chevelle was torn apart and rejuvenated in less than three years, with help from family and friends. Bryant's father-in-law, Norm Beerhorst, owns Ultra Tech Racing Engines and built the powerplant and rode shotgun during Drag Week™. Dave Tjapkes works at Ultra Tech, too, and also provided support. Mike Roy, a Drag Week™ veteran, handled the tuning duties (many of the engine parts are from his old Procharger combo, before he went turbo for 2011).
From the 'cage work to the plumbing, wiring and engine installation, this is one of the cleanest and best-executed street/strip builds we've seen in a while. To date, the Chevelle has pulled a 1.31 60-foot time, and Bryant isn't finished tweaking on it. We can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve for this amazing machine.
It's all business in the trunk. The fuel cell carries 20 gallons of premium pump gas that the 9.0:1-compression engine drinks on the street. Race fuel is mixed 50/50 when the boost is turned up. There's a pair of Weldon fuel pumps at work because at one point the engine was fed E85, and standard practice for a 1,400hp engine was using lots of fuel volume. It's overkill for the current combo but necessary to survive the rigors of Drag Week(TM). These days, a Weldon pump controller takes cues from a BigStuff3 ECU, which tells the controller to slow down the first pump when Bryant is cruising the highway, then to speed it up and turn on pump No. 2 when the pedal hits the carpet. It's the hot ticket for keeping the fuel cool during long drives and to prevent wearing out the pumps. A Spaghetti Menders (SpaghettiMenders.com) modular wiring system powers the entire car, keeping the weight and complexity of the electrical system to a minimum.
Chevelles are not light, so Bryant shaved weight where he could, beginning with 100 pounds saved via a Dart aluminum block. Ultra Tech assembled the long-block with a 4.50-inch Callies crank, Callies 6.535-inch rods, and Diamond pistons machined for a 4.53-inch bore. Total Seal gapless rings seal the 580ci beast. You can get away with a medium-size cam in a boosted application, but you still need heads that flow, and 24-degree Edelbrock Victors fit the bill after Ray Franks massaged them thoroughly. With a Crane 0.600-lift, 240/250-duration cam with a 114-degree LSA and an intercooled F-3 Procharger, the engine made almost 1,400 hp to the rear wheels. Fuel is delivered through Mike Moran 235 lb/hr injectors to a Profiler Sniper Jr. single-plane intake manifold. Air comes from the intercooler through a Wilson throttle-body. An MSD ignition system provides the spark.
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Traction plus massive torque equals immortality when the camera shutter keeps up. Bryant Goldstone's Chevelle survived this skyward launch; a connecting rod in the big-block Chevy did not.A custom belt guard not only saves the wheeltubs from damage but also serves to stabilize the Procharger and keep the belt in place at full boost.Here's a look at the backside of the firewall-mounted intercooler. A Mike Roy-programmed BigStuff3 Pro SEFI computer controls the electronic fuel injection while an MSD 8-Plus ignition box works with an MSD Power Grid to control ignition timing and other programmable features like a launch controller.The TIG-welded, 3-inch-diameter, aluminum charge piping is wrapped in carbon-fiber-style vinyl. The piping passes through the firewall via a way-cool aluminum air-to-water intercooler that fills the gap left over from the old A/C system. The windshield cowl directs air to the fins of the intercooler.Apart from the Larry Larson-crafted 7.50-spec 'cage, the interior is pretty stock looking. Auto Meter gauges fill the dash and A-pillar, a Cheetah shifter resides between the stock seats, and Stroud harnesses keep passengers in check during hard launches. The wheel is a Billet Specialties piece.The bottom of the car is busy. A trussed 9-inch is stuffed with 40-spline Strange axles, a Strange spool, and 3.73 gears. The axle swings on ladder bars with a track bar and is twisted by torque multiplied by a Rossler three-speed auto trans with a Coan converter that stalls at 4,500 rpm. A 3-inch exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers and a pair of bullets dumps over the axle. Adjustable QA1 coilovers work with Mickey Thompson 315/60R15 drag radials to make wheelies and low-8-second e.t.'s seem easy (the street tires are shown here). That's a trans cooler and electric fan mounted ahead of the custom trailer hitch.Global West suspension is present up front along with QA1 dampers. A Flaming River manual steering rack and a set of manual Wilwood disc brakes not only work but also shave a bit of weight. Weld TR forged wheels (in 15x10 and 15x4) and Mickey Thompson tires are found at both ends of the Cortez Silver Chevelle.


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Tara K. Stadelman-Cohen, B.M.Ed, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a vocal pathologist/singing voice specialist at the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an instructor at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and a clinical supervisor of graduate students in speech-language pathology.
Stadelman-Cohen performs acoustic and aerodynamic analysis of voice production, in addition to both transoral and transnasal laryngeal endoscopy for vocal tract visualization. She provides voice therapy treatment for a wide array of adult voice disorders, including those of organic, functional and neurogenic etiology, in addition to transgendered voice, with a clinical specialization in rehabilitation of the injured professional voice.
Stadelman-Cohen received her B.M. degree in music education (1992) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a classical voice and piano emphasis. She was a high school vocal music educator until the year 2000 and directed women's, men's and mixed choral ensembles, musical theater, show choir and vocal jazz groups. Additionally, she was an adjudicator for the Wisconsin State Music Association (WSMA) at local and state level music festivals.
In the year 2002, Stadelman-Cohen received an Outstanding Young Music Educator Award from the Wisconsin Music Educators Association. She completed her M.A. degree in Communicative Disorders (2003) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received clinical certification in speech-language pathology the following year. She is currently a member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).
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The sky reflected rays of gold and blue as the warrior looked out over the plains. The leaves of the Judan trees were shades of gold, red and brown and danced along the wind towards the ground. The young warrior watched this dance as if it were a memory. There was no need for him to look at the calendar that was considered important. Just by looking at the landscape could he tell what time of year it was but it was not so much the appearance of the land but the feeling in the air. The old ones said that one could always tell the time of day by what they feel. Perhaps this is what they meant.
For many years, ever since he left, he had never fully embraced the feeling as the old ones said he should yet he always returned at the same time of year. He came because they said that it was a time for family and he loved his family but when tragedy struck, he left and stayed away. He ignored the feeling and stayed away. This time though, the feeling was stronger and rather ignoring it, he hopped on the next freighter home where he found the one person he should have been there for waiting for him, standing there in the courtyard with a smile on her face.
She had welcomed him home with the same tranquility he remembered and said, Always late you are for supper.
Mother, Morgan greeted her with a kiss on her cheeks and forehead. He looked at her and saw that she was holding the lead to Kumori and he was loaded with a pack as if she were going on a journey. He asked, Where are you going Mother?
She looked at him with an indulgent smile, If you felt it, you would know. Now I must go. She then climbed up on Kumori and began a gentle pace out of the courtyard.
Morgan watched her go. He knew that she was on the main road that led to Xao Lin but there were many turnoffs so she could go anywhere. He was tempted to follow but he knew that if he did not know why he had come home, then the way would remain lost to him until he did. He stood there staring the way his mother had taken, not noticing the star that shown brightly in the sky. He sighed and said to himself, I return to her to find her leaving, but where to? There must be hundreds of places she could go. He then began to pace about the courtyard not noticing that he was being followed by a small creature.
When he stopped, the creature bumped into his boot and he started, intent on defending himself. He looked around until he looked down and saw the creature. It was a pale gold creature in color and was furry with a long tail that moved on its own and large floppy ears. The eyes were dark brown and they had a playful smirk to them. Morgan had only seen one of these creatures in his life and now one was staring at him. He kneeled down and talked to it, Hey there. Never seen you before. You hungry? He fished a biscuit from the ration pack he kept on his belt and held it out to the creature.
The creature sniffed before reaching out with his forepaw and grabbing it. Holding it like a human, it began to munch on it. Morgan was amused and said, So you like that. Well good thing to have when youre on the move. He then stood up and looked around. Well I guess I better get going. I might find the answer along the way. He then started walking in the direction his mother started.
He did not get very far when a heavy weight landed on his back and clambered on his shoulder. He looked to see the creature sitting on his shoulder, expecting to be going. So you want to come along? Alright. First I better give you a name. He looked at the creature and it looked like a cross between a wolf and one of those critters that ate nuts though the ears and tail he could not account for. He thought about it and said, How about
It means sun and it fits for your fur.
The creature looked at him and then rubbed against him and settled on his shoulder. Morgan smiled and started in the general direction his mother took, the main road to Xao Lin, the Sacred Heart. The walk was going to be a long one but he was young and strong. It was not long before he came across three kataran herders who were herding their animals. He greeted them, Hail herders, what brings you out this night?
The leader of the herders looked up from his work of tending one of legs of a calf and replied, We have felt the call and we must go.
Morgan was puzzled and a little frustrated. His mother had virtually said the same thing and he knew enough about Avalonian culture to know that they had given a sufficient answer. Yet he wanted more. Taiyou must have sensed it and jumped down and trotted towards the injured calf. The mother was not alarmed but rather calm at the sight of the creature. Morgan looked at the calf and the mother and saw that he might be able to help. He said, One of your calves is injured.
Yes, the herder replied, The journey has been long and hard and the earth hasnt been kind.
Might I be able to help?
The herder nodded and Morgan approached the downed calf carefully. The mother did not move, as if she sensed that no harm would come to her calf. Morgan though was cautious. Kataran mothers were very protective and if you did not move correctly, they could charge. As it turned out, it was a bad sprain and with a little poultice, it would heal in no time. The herder thanked Morgan as he hoisted the calf onto his shoulders and said, May your journey go well traveler.
With a whistle and a command, the herd began to move following the lead herder, leaving Morgan where he stood. He waited until they were gone before looking for Taiyou. He found him further up the road. Every time Morgan tried to catch up, Taiyou seemed further away. Morgan tried to run to catch up but it was to no avail. He ended up tripping and falling down the hill. When he landed, he ended up cursing in any language that seemed fitting.
This is stupid! Here I am chasing a critter trying to figure out why I even came back here. Why did I even bother? Morgan yelled out his frustrations and did not care if anyone heard him. Heck there is no reason to come back except for mother.
You mean to say that there is nothing else about the land that has been a reason for you return? A voice replied in the darkness.
Morgan sprang to his feet with his dagger drawn. The stranger appeared in the moonlight to reveal an old man and he replied, No need to worry stranger. I wont harm you. My companions and I heard a noise as we were about to break camp and continue our journey. I came to investigate. It seems that you are lost traveler. Perhaps something weighs you down?
Morgan returned the dagger to his belt and replied, I was traveling I think towards Xao Lin with my companion when we separated and I was chasing after him.
Yes a pale gold furry thing with floppy ears and a tail. Its like he ran away.
The old man looked at Morgan and replied, You were traveling with a
? A sign surely. Come, my companions will wish to speak with you.
Morgan felt compelled to follow the old man to the camp. There he was greeted by two other men. As it turned out, they were advisors to their tribes and they too had answered the call they felt. Morgan answered their questions, not omitting anything especially about the Zhìhuì. I started after my mother thinking that I might find answers. The Zhìhuì accompanied me up until now and I dont know why.
The one who led him into camp looked at him. Morgan failed to notice that he was wearing a tunic the same pale gold as Taiyou. The old man replied, The Zhìhuì is a symbol of wisdom. That is where its name comes from. Supposedly it appears to a chosen one to impart wisdom to him or her. They are rare to see especially in the color you describe it.
More likely on a wild bantha chase, Morgan replied. I dont even know why I am doing this. I havent observed the ways ever since my father died.
And he was close to you, the old one replied. Perhaps you may find what you seek where we go.
The others had finished packing and had come to tell their companion that it was time to go. Morgan followed them out and asked, And where are you going?
The stars guide my young friend. Surely you have felt that as much.
The caravan then started off, leaving Morgan alone. Morgan watched them while pondering what was being said. He then looked up into the sky and saw a large star shining brighter than the others in the night sky. He looked at the ground and saw that the caravan was following it. Perhaps I should follow it too. Morgan then began to follow the star, not sure of where he was going but trusted that it would lead him to where he needed to go.
It seemed like hours when he finally came to a small city. It was called
, one that he had heard of but had never been. He felt it strange that the star led him here but it felt right and he entered through the city gates. He saw others moving, heading towards a single point and started walking with them. While he was walking, he bumped into someone who turned to look at him. Morgan was just as surprised to see his old friend, Tulre it has been so long.
Yes it has. You felt it too?
Yes but I dont understand. Morgan was puzzled. It was clear that even though he had been raised under Avalonian tradition, there were many things that he did not understand.
Seitan Konpaku
, Tulre replied. He began guiding Morgan through the crowd to a point where he could see everything clearly.
Seitan Konpaku? Morgan repeated.
It literally means soul birth but it means much more. See? Tulre pointed out to an open shed. There was a couple kneeling next to a box that was made into a cradle where and infant was sleeping.
Seitan Konpaku
is the night when souls are reborn and in particular the soul of Taiyou, the sun, a signal of the end of winter.
How can souls be reborn?
Tulre looked at his friend. He knew how much pain Morgan had gone through and how close he was to his father. He replied, Seitan Konpaku allows those that have departed to return to their loved ones. It honors those who have died and those that have been born. Often the souls of the departed return in the form that they will assume in their next life. It sounds strange but some souls return due to unfinished business or they have achieved contentment and just want to say hello and various shades in between. Seitan Konpaku teaches us about the cyclical nature of life. The festival lasts seven days and nights but the first night is most important. Tonight is special.
Morgan listened and watched as the people outside the shed began lighting candles. Others were laying out altars of food and plants such as sandalwood and Judan tree leaves. There were even offerings of Jasilyn blossoms. He had never seen anything like it even though he was familiar with the lessons the specific holidays taught like
, or the Festival of New Beginnings yet he never delved deeply into it but observing it since he was brought up on Belos. He asked, What are the candles for?
Tulre replied,
. They guide souls to their familys homes. The offerings of food are for them. A nice gesture. Once the hour strikes, gifts are given that are meant to reflect the potential rebirth of their loved ones soul.
Morgan took this all in and then spotted the herders and the tribal advisors he had met. They were at the open shed where the couple and the baby were. He asked, Why is everyone at that shed?
Tulre followed the direction of Morgans gesture. Seeing the sight, his face curved into a smile and he replied, They are there because it has been over two thousand years since Taiyou walked this earth. It is the year of Taiyou, the sun and it is written that the child born on this day will be the rebirth of the Guardian of the Sun.
Morgan knew about the guardians. They were among his favorite stories but this he had never heard of. He knew that his uncle Kirabaros was the Heart of the Guardian but he had been dead since he was a child. How do you know?
The strength of feeling.
But Ive felt it every year. This year was strongest and I even saw a Zhìhuì. A pale gold one with a mischievous twinkle in its eyes.
Tulre looked at his friend. There was a reason his friend had been summoned and he sensed he knew the answer and wished that Lilah was there to interpret but she was lighting the path to their lodgings. She had told him to go and wait here and not to come back until it was time. He did not know when that would be but when Morgan showed up, he sensed the time was near. It was also surprising to hear that Morgan had seen a Zhìhuì. Such creatures were a rarity and because they were highly revered, it was considered a sign to see one. He remembered when they saw their first years ago. He replied, Perhaps it is something you must door ask of yourself.
What old friend? I mourn my father and my mother must have come this way. What am I to do?
Tulre shrugged his shoulders and replied, Ask Taiyou. Only the Guardian of the Sun will know your burden.
Morgan wanted to ask Tulre what he meant but he closed his mouth and looked at the shed. The couple was kneeling and watching over the baby while people where coming and bringing a gift. He frowned in a puzzled way but he inched his way forward. He did not really have anything that he thought appropriate for a gift until he remembered and put his hand up and clutched the lump under his shirt.
His father had given it to him when he was a boy. It was a strange shape tied onto a piece of leather thong. It was the symbol of
, the symbol of life. His father once told him that as long as he wore it, his father would be with him always in his heart where life begins. Morgan remembered this as he approached. He slowly lifted it from around his neck and held it in his hand. He asked a question from within his heart and placed his gift in the babys hand. He then turned to leave. He walked back to his friend. Tulre was waiting and asked him, Did you find what you were looking for?
I believe so, Morgan replied feeling lighter in his heart. Perhaps Lilah is waiting for us?
Aye. She told me to wait and I would know. I guess that is now. Tulre smiled, happy for his friend. He led Morgan back to where they were staying and where Morgans mother was waiting and Morgan was able to tell how he felt all those years.
In the morning, Morgan walked through Shēnghuó to find that people were still in bed. He paid a visit to the shed he was at the night before. It was empty, as if there had been no one there. Morgan could not believe it since there had been piles of gifts and of course the woman and her baby. It was as if no one had been there. He took a few steps forward to investigate when a glimmer from the light caught his eye. He followed it to the empty feed box that served as a cradle. There dangling on the edge was his Seikatsu. He could not bring himself to touch it and stood there staring at it for the longest time.
It is a gift kiddo.
Morgan spun around to see who was talking to him. He had to shield his eyes since it seemed that the sun had become brighter in the last few minutes. He could make out a familiar shape but had to asked, What do you mean?
The glare reduced to reveal a person that Morgan knew like he knew pazaak. The person replied, It is a gift. One that was given for yours.
Morgan replied, But I gave my Seikatsu because it was the greatest gift I had received from you Father.
Atton stood there looking as real as a person as he smiled his cocky grin and replied, And that is why this is being given to you. You gave a gift that was given to you with love and is the most treasured. Easy for anyone to see your heart that way.
Not if youre playing pazaak in the head. Morgan smiled back. Father, I-I missed you and I have always been angry. Angry because you left without saying good-bye.
I know its been hard on you kid. Things are never easy having me for a father. Your mother said that plenty of times before she died. Im sorry kid.
It doesnt matter now. I know that your time came and its one adventure that we all must take. I realized that when I gave Seikatsu away. My guilt washed away and I realized I was angry at myself for not being the son I should have.
I couldnt have asked for a better son.
Nearby the bells started to chime the hour. Morgan looked in the direction of the sound and back to his father. Atton shook his head and said, Never enough time to say anything.
Its been more than enough, Morgan replied. Seitan Konpaku is on for six more nights. We can still talk. And theres always the Force, and he gave a grin.
Yeah. Perhaps it will be made better now that you kids are together again. It was a mistake to separate you three when you were young but times were different then. You are more than capable. Attons image began to fade away as the bells struck closer towards the hour. He looked around and then back at his son. He said, Its not a bad thing kiddo. Really. Like holding a tiebreaker.
Morgan smiled as he bent to retrieve his Seikatsu. When he stood up, his father was gone. In his place was the Zhìhuì that he had met. It looked at him with that scoundrels twinkle in the eyes. He grinned wryly thinking it a nice joke or an irony of sorts that his father be allowed to be reborn within a creature that represented wisdom. It occurred to him that he may never see the child that had been born that past night again but he would always be grateful for the gift that he had given him. He looked at the Zhìhuì and said, Come on Dad, and headed back towards Tulre and Lilahs place. Tulre was right about Seitan Konpaku being a time of rebirth and in its own way one of joy. One rejoices in those around them. It was certainly true when he entered the apartment and Tulre, Lilah and his mother presented him with a new pendant. It was the symbol of Seikatsu and Zhìhuì, almost as if they knew what had just happen. Morgan found that he will always miss his father but being around people he loved kept his spirit alive. That was the true spirit of Seitan Konpaku.
A/N: When I wrote this piece I had no idea where I wanted it to lead but then I started taking bits and pieces from different holidays and woosh I got Seitan Konpaku. The new names I introduce are real names and are a mixture of Chinese and Japanese.
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The second-hand market can be a good source for a used bender, but buyers must be careful. A thorough evaluation of the bender's capabilities and condition is necessary before making a purchase. Because modern benders are complex and sophisticated, the evaluation is best carried out by the manufacturer, not the buyer. Another option is buying a reconditioned machine from the manufacturer. However, depending on the bending needs, a new bender might be the only viable option.
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NDT systems are limited in how close to the end of a tube or pipe they can test successfully. They rely on electromagnetic or ultrasonic waves to flow through the tube or pipe, and the end represents an abrupt change in the wall's characteristics, making the test results difficult to interpret near the pipe or tube end. A new system overcomes the conventional obstacles by aiming clockwise, counterclockwise, and transverse transducers at a single point of entry. A timed delay based on the 1-kHz transmit frequency prevents the signals from interfering with each other, enabling the receiver to interpret the results accurately.
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Most EPA inspectors used to pay scant attention to welding fumes; these days they warrant much more attention. Regrettably the EPA relies on AP-42, a document that is thorough in some areas but not too detailed in welding processes. This means an overly zealous inspector might rate your facility as emitting more than it really does, forcing you to implement expensive and unnecessary controls
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Asian stocks ended mostly higher on Wednesday as comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped improve risk sentiment, though Tokyo shares continued to be weighed by a strong yen.
Speaking at his semiannual report to Congress, Mr. Bernanke said that the central bank's bond buying program was helping the economy by keeping long-term interest rates lower. The speech was interpreted as Mr. Bernanke remaining in favor of continuing the central bank's stimulus measures.
The news helped most markets in Asia rebound after they took a beating on Tuesday as inconclusive results from Italy's election revived concerns over the European debt crisis.
"Asia was battered by forces from outside the region [on Tuesday]. There has been a recovery today due to signs that Bernanke will continue to inject money in the market," said Guy Stear head of research for Asia at Societe Generale SCGLY -0.60 % in Hong Kong.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 ended up 0.7% at 5036.60 and South Korea's Kospi Composite rose 0.2% to 2004.04.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index added 0.3% to 22577.01, while the Shanghai Composite in mainland China gained 0.9% to 2313.22.
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This hotel definitely offers a room with a view. Until recently the old communist TV tower in Prague was just known as the ugliest building of the Czech capital, but now it has a new attraction on offer - a luxurious one-room hotel looking out on the city.
Erected in the mid-eighties with the intention to prevent TV and radio transmissions from the West, the building of the tower coincided with the use of satellite dishes. Therefore rather than fulfilling a purpose, the tower became known for its ugliness, even being named the second ugliest building of the world by an international survey.
To improve the surface a bit, well-known Czech artist David Cerny let his baby sculptures crawl up the tower, attracting more visitors and adding to the growing popularity of the tower.
Now a five-star apartment has been built 70 metres high in the tower, in the place initially used by the technical stuff.
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"We think that the apartment will be mostly used for special occasions like weddings but anyone can spend a night here. I think the clientele will be middle class or well-off," said Cerna.
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We all love cars in general and here at Diesel Station we also really love super cars. Who doesn't really? I personally don't know anyone in my life that hates super cars. Nevertheless we are also quite serious when it comes to responsible driving, and that's probably because we do know how dangerous reckless driving can be. That being said, we figured out we should take a small break and have a look at one car in particular that has been designed from the very start to be a Police Pursuit Vehicle, and we're talking about the Chevrolet Tahoe PPV 2013.


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If the experiment is done with single photons and a "detector" at one of the slits the interference pattern breaks down. What happens if three slits are used with single photons and a "detector" at, say, the right hand slit. Does the interference pattern occur in the two remaining slits or does the interference pattern breaks down for all the slits ? Thanks for any response
In much the same way that putting a photon-absorbing detector at one slit in a double-slit experiment gives you the single-slit interference pattern back, putting a detector at one slit out of three will give you the two-slit pattern back.
It might help to think of the detector as blocking photons, in the same way that the material in which the slits are cut blocks photons. A detector doesn't have magical powers different from other physical objects, and blocking one slit doesn't do anything to the remaining slits. You could get the same visual result by putting chewing gum in one slit, you just wouldn't get any data from your gum. :)
As detection necessarily decoheres the input signal, one gets a combination of the pattern with a single slit (for the observed slit) and of the pattern with two slits (for the unobserved slits).
I agree with arnold, the detector need not interfere with the photon as it passes through the detector; e.g. delayed response quantum erasure experiments have gotten around this. And really, you can't talk about blocking a photon, because if it exhibits an interference pattern, it probably didn't pass through both slits, just a man made probability wave to estimate its final position. A detector doesn't "block" a particle, it just means that the particle had to exist to serve the purpose of the detector at that point in space and time, to service consciousness and measurement. For if you were to erase the which path information detected by the detector, after it passes through the slits, the interference pattern comes back. I am of the opinion, that a photon doesn't exist in any form until it absolutely had to, it's just in superposition of infinite possibility, until required by some conscious purpose. Quantum mechanics and the "laws of nature" just sound a bit like a marvelous type of technology if you ask me. But I ramble.


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How can I prevent someone from modifying the contents of an email they received and then forwarding it to others? Some employees cheat managers by changing the content of emails and forwarding the modified email to them. I need a policy that prevents this backdoor.
Email is an insecure communication channel. The "to" and "from" headers can be set to anything. Anything can be written into the body of an email message. This includes changing the quote text.
The first issue of manipulating "to" and "from" headers can be prevented in a closed environment such as company internal mail. The company mail server can verify that the "from" header matches the account used to send the email. And it can verify that the visible "to" header matches the real recipient.
But there is no easy and reliable way to prevent manipulation of quoted text.
You could use GPG / PGP or s/mime signatures. But rolling out a public/private key infrastructure is usually not worth the costs.
There is no simple technical solution. Use a social or legal approach ("Cheating a manager" sounds serious enough to warrant a talk with the human resources department).
Email is unsafe -- deal with it.
Email can be made safe for an adequately defined value of "safe", through the use of signatures (S/MIME or OpenPGP). This is not as easy as it seems (I mean, it does not look easy, but in reality it is worse). The cornerstone of the system is that unsigned emails should be rejected automatically; human users should never see them at all, because if they read them, they will always believe them a little, regardless of how much you may have explained to them how insecure and unsafe plain emails are. Therefore, switching to signed emails is like a big jump into the unknown. In practice, it is essentially a way to break emails (or to induce users to switch to gmail...).
What you can do is to educate and then to educate again:
This is what cryptographic signatures are for. GPG or PGP signed messages ensure integrity of the messages.
Besides the very valid answer of having managers sign communications, referencing sources would be the other appropriate way of handling things. If there's a debate about the content of an email, the sent messages archive is the better reference for each party. If you have an email archiving system, then the server's copy of the message would be best.
At that point, we're back to the human element. If you forge an email and the server shows that you wrote something which wasn't really sent then you can forget about having a job.
One last comment on signing: a caveat with signing is that you'll run into issues where the message is signed, then altered, then sent. If the receiver doesn't verify every signature, then nothing would really be "valid."
Archive it - this is what archiving is for.
People treat email like it's gospel but it's so easy to manipulate (as you've identified).
There are some off the shelf solutions, or you can get some consultancies to roll out a whole apparatus just for archiving - SaaS sort of thing.


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What If You Could Combine the Marlins and Astros?
If tomorrow Bud Selig called for a mercy rule and let the Astros and Marlins—the two worst teams in baseball—combine their teams, what would that look like? And how good would they be?
The pitching would be much improved, for sure. By cherry-picking a five-man rotation and three relievers from the two rosters, we got a WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched) of 1.25, entering Sunday. of 3.31. That's considerably better than the Marlins (1.31) or the Astros (1.51). The closest current team in WHIP to our "Marstros" is the Yankees, who ranked eighth entering Sunday.
The big problem for this team would be hitting: The Astros are bad, with an on-base-plus-slugging percentage of .670, while the Marlins are historically bad—last in baseball at .631. The chosen Marstros lineup has an OPS of .696, comparable to the Pirates, who ranked 22nd at .698.
As for wins and losses, we can determine those by putting the runs scored by the Pirates (355) and the runs allowed by the Yankees (365) and the average games played between the two of them (93 before Sunday) into the Baseball Pythagorean Expectation Calculator for a record of 45-48.
The Marstros wouldn't be a good team, but they'd be considerably better than either of their component teams. They wouldn't even be in last place in the National League West.
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