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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Dying Contently - Unpublished Selections Explained, Med. VIII.47
Meditation VIII.47 - Dying Contently - Translated by George Long and rewritten by Russell McNeil
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.1 And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.2 But if anything in your own disposition gives you pain, who hinders you from correcting your opinion?3 And even if you are pained because you are not doing some particular thing which seems to you to be right, why do you not rather act than complain?4 - But some insuperable obstacle is in the way? - Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on you.5 - But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done. - Take your departure then from life contently, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.6
(1) Marcus mirrors the frustrations we so often feel around the many external forces in our lives over which we have little or no control. These forces - be they economic, bureaucratic, systemic or natural - are generally beyond the reach of anyone. Still, we often feel personally oppressed or injured by them - a state of affairs that can color our outlook on life. Our emotional reactions to these forces range from irritation to anger. But, such responses are really a useless expenditure of emotional energy which leave us depleted and unable to react to those forces that we can change.
(2) While Marcus seems to state the obvious here - that it is our judgment or opinion about injustice that causes us more harm than the injustice itself - few people realize this. Taking a "whatever will be will be" attitude requires little more than a mental shift - a power each of us has. What we gain in return is peace of mind, and of course the mental reserve to act on those things that we need to act on.
(3) The answer is clear. No one can ever hinder you from shifting your opinion. Opinion is a sovereign power and the source of enormous empowerment in our lives.
(4) Doing the right thing is another area where human beings have sovereign authority. If the way is clear for us to act rightly but we do not act, then we have only ourselves to blame. The pain and guilt we feel can be alleviated in any situation where opportunity for virtue presents itself. Act rightly in those situations and we will never feel the need to complain.
(5) If the way is not clear to acting rightly because there are unmovable impediments in the way - so too, we ought never feel upset about those situations. Those impediments are there for a reason, and the only healthy stance is to accept what is and move toward those things that are in our power.
(6) This advice seems strange, but is sage. Marcus refers here to obstacles that are not only not movable but unstoppable. These obstacles not only prevent us from doing what is right, they threaten our very existence. Marcus may be alluding here to battlefield situations with overwhelming enemy forces bearing down upon a weakened and spent defense. It could equally apply to another sort of battle - such as a death from terminal cancer. Even in these however, the Stoic response is to accept these situations with courage and equanimity. We can do only what we can do, and in the grand scheme of things these forces have a role to play in the realization of nature's plan. If we must die in this situation - we ought to die content, and in the full knowledge that we did all that we could do to live as nature intended.
Russell McNeil, PhD, is the author of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Selections Annotated and Explained by Skylight Paths Publishing. The unpublished selections presented in this Blog are provided as supplemental material to the published selections which are annotated and explained in the book. The published selections are referenced in this Blog by page number and section.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Was Friedmann wrong?
we wondered out loud whether cosmological evidence for dark matter might actually be pointing to something more profound: a deviation of the behavior of gravity from that predicted by Einstein's general relativity (GR). Now let's ask the same question in the context of
dark energy and the acceleration of the universe
We have (at least) two problems to face. First, if you do a back-of-the-envelope estimate of what the vacuum energy (the energy density inherent in empty space, or equivalently Einstein's cosmological constant) should be, you get an answer that exceeds the observationally allowed value by the ridiculous factor of 120 orders of magnitude (10
). That's bad, as far as agreement between theory and experiment is concerned. But nevertheless the universe is accelerating, which could be explained by a tiny amount of vacuum energy -- about 10
ergs per cubic centimeter, if you care. Or perhaps by something else.
For example, maybe general relativity works for ordinary bound systems like stars and galaxies, but breaks down for cosmology, in particular for the expansion rate of the universe. In GR the expansion rate is described by the
Friedmann equation
, which sets the expansion rate proportional to the square root of the energy density. Ordinarily the density drops as the universe expands, and the expansion rate follows suit; if the density is constant (as with vacuum energy), the expansion rate can stay constant. (We would then interpret that as "accelerating", oddly enough. A distant galaxy has a recession velocity
, where
is the distance and the Hubble constant
tells us the expansion rate. If
is constant and
is increasing, we would measure
to be increasing.)
So maybe Friedmann was somehow wrong. For example, maybe we can solve the problem of the mismatch between theory and experiment by saying that the vacuum energy somehow doesn't make the universe accelerate like ordinary energy does. There are different ways to make this happen, none of which strike you as perfectly compelling.
Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, Dvali, and Gabadadze
have proposed a "filter" by which smoothly-distributed energy doesn't affect spacetime in the same way as localized energy; it's somewhat ad hoc, but definitely interesting. With
Laura Mersini
I suggested that the pressure of a substance, as well as the energy density, contributes to the expansion rate, in just such a way as to make vacuum energy (which comes with a negative pressure) cancel exactly and leave spacetime unaffected. We were inspired by models with extra dimensions of space, but the particular models in question don't quite work, so I've since spent a lot of time looking for models that are strictly four-dimensional. No luck yet.
Solving the cosmological constant problem is hard, and a popular strategy is to ignore it and try to account for dark energy separately. That is, imagine that the vacuum energy is set to zero by some mysterious mechanism, and something else is responsible for the acceleration of the universe. There are different approaches to this possibility as well. One is to be largely phenomenological, and just write down alternatives to the Friedmann equation to see what might work. This approach (inspired again by extra dimensions, but basically phenomenological) has been pursued by
Dvali and Turner
, and by
Freese and Lewis
. One issue here is that ultimately it wouldn't be possible to distinguish experimentally between a modified Friedmann equation and some model of dark energy; both would only show up in the behavior of the expanding universe.
So the complementary approach is to come up with a whole new theory of gravity that can make the universe accelerate, and see if what that theory has to say about other tests of gravity. I've been thinking about this recently, having spent the weekend talking to
Mark Trodden
. He and I have written a paper with
Duvvuri and Turner
that explores an especially simple approach to doing this. We just suggest that the curvature of spacetime somehow resists going to zero, and can bounce back to infinity when it becomes small. (There are actually a lot of equations involved, but that's the basic philosophy.) Then we can compare our model to experiments. Sadly, it fails. The simplest way to see this was pointed out by
, who rewrote our theory in a way that resembles other models, and showed that ordinary tests of GR in the solar system are incompatible with our suggestion. Basically, the orbit of Mars would look different. But that's okay; it just goes to show that GR is actually quite robust, and even an attempt to change it exclusively in cosmology ends up affecting all sorts of other things.
A more elaborate approach has been suggested by
Dvali, Gabadadze, and Porrati
(see a recent
by Dvali for more details). They again use an extra dimension of space, imagining that our world is a three-dimensional "brane" embedded in a four-dimensional space (plus one time dimension, as usual). They have invented a scheme whereby gravity can behave differently on and off the brane, become much weaker in the four-dimensional "bulk." But at very large scales the bulk begins to affect our universe. They claim that, if we choose parameters appropriately (there is always a great deal of unnatural fine-tuning involved in these scenarios), we can straightforwardly explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. Even better, they are not yet (as far as we know) ruled bout by solar-system tests, but improved measurements might be able to detect new affects from the extra dimensions in
the orbit of the moon
(see also this paper by
Lue and Starkman
). This theory is not very well understood as yet, and deserves a lot more work to be fully explicated; but it's interesting and promising, so we'll have to see what happens as people think about it further. (There is a nice popular-level exposition by Dvali in
Scientific American
, although you have to pay for the full article online.)
So we don't have any extremely compelling alternatives to Einstein's theory, but there are a lot of possibilities and we have our work cut out for us. The good news is that observed phenomena (the dynamics of galaxies and clusters, the cosmic microwave background, the accelerating universe) are pushing us to think of profound new scenarios for gravity and cosmology.
By the way (as it were),
John Scalzi
links here and suggests that GR is bound to give way pretty soon. I hope that's not the impression I'm actually giving; I personally think it's an incredible long shot, but one worth pursuing. Probably the "standard" story of cold dark matter and vacuum energy are exactly right; this is a robust model that makes many more predictions than there are free parameters, and it's well-motivated (although far from completely understood) in fundamental physics. In contrast, when we start modifying gravity, we're just flailing around, hoping some good will come of it. But that's how science works; the flailing always looks a little silly until it smacks into a bit of miraculous insight, which we then clean up and proclaim to be genius. Right now there's a lot of talk of modifying gravity, because it's well worth considering; but if you're going to bet, Einstein gets much better odds even than
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Jesus' resurrection has stirred doubt and debate since the women ran back into Jerusalem telling stories about an empty tomb. A few decades later Paul had to defend the Resurrection to skeptical church members at Corinth: "Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?" (1 Corinthians 15:12). Even then Jesus' resurrection was questioned. We depend on the faithful testimony of those who have gone before us. They passed on an unfathomable message: "Christ is risen!" Generation after generation of believers have received and struggled with that message.Contemporary theologians continue to probe the meanings of the Resurrection. Their insights can help us claim its truth anew. Here are four. The Resurrection is a historical reality, not just the believers' subjective experience. For many years theologian Rudolf Bultmann's view held sway: "Jesus is risen into the New Testament proclamation." Bultmann supported a subjective interpretation: What is most important is not what happened to Jesus but what happens to those who believe in him and his resurrection. We can't know any historical details about the Resurrection, Bultmann said. We only know that the early church kept believing and proclaiming Jesus after his crucifixion. The disciples' actions - proclaiming Christ and giving birth to the church despite the shock of Good Friday - remain a strong argument for the truth of the Resurrection. But recent scholarship has emphasized the historical nature of the risen Jesus. Wolfhart Pannenberg powerfully contends for the historical character of Jesus' resurrection based on the sources that commend it, both the testimony of original witnesses to the risen Jesus and the tradition of the empty tomb. Jesus' resurrection has more credible historical evidence than many ancient events whose occurrence we don't question, for example, some incidents in Julius Caesar's life. The Jews of first-century Palestine held a lively hope for the final resurrection of the dead. Jesus' resurrection was experienced within this horizon as the first fruit of the final resurrection. In Pannenberg's view, we know where we are going; Jesus' resurrection shows us the end of history. This position challenges those who reduce Jesus' resurrection to a misinformed psychological state in the disciples' minds. Christian faith isn't based on mass hallucination. It is grounded in God's action in history - the raising of Jesus from the dead. The resurrection verifies Jesus' identity and the truth of his message. Jesus announced the nearness of God's kingdom. He taught his disciples to pray, "Your kingdom come" (Luke 11:2). His parables portrayed the unexpectedness of the kingdom's arrival and revealed God's undeserved mercy. He made the kingdom present in his works - healing the sick, forgiving sinners and welcoming dubious characters to share the fellowship of a meal. Jesus boldly forgave sins, claiming God's authority. He courted controversy by welcoming outcasts and frequently violated religious law. With breathtaking audacity, he sharpened God's law. "You have heard that it was said," he would say quoting a bit of the law . "But now I say to you ...."
Questions about who he thought he was were inevitable: "By what authority are you doing these things?" authorities asked (Mark 11:28). Jesus' death on the cross posed the most profound question about his identity and legitimacy. "A man hanged on a tree is accursed by God," Scripture says (Deuteronomy 21:23). Every observant Jew knew this. Little wonder Jesus' scandalized disciples fled and hid. That God's son should die on a cross, an instrument used only to execute criminals, was incomprehensible. The miracle of Easter transformed grieving and despairing hearts to hope and joy. The resurrection was God's verification of Jesus as the son of God. It placed God's seal of approval on everything Jesus said and did. Common believers and theologians frequently create a chasm between the life, teachings and death of the pre-Easter Jesus and the post-Easter Christ. Some emphasize Jesus' death and resurrection in ways that separate this event from his message and ministry, making it unclear why some objected to Jesus and wanted to kill him. Others, like some in the Jesus Seminar, reconstruct the sayings of the historical Jesus in ways that make him look and sound like a different person than the resurrected Christ the church confesses.
Affirming the resurrection as God's verification of all Jesus stood for - his teaching, forgiving, healings and fellowship with sinners - unifies Jesus' earthly life and death. Jesus' resurrection means mission. All four Gospels connect Jesus' resurrection with the church's mission. Best known is the Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20). Among contemporary theologians, Jurgen Moltmann most forcefully shows how God's mission in the world is being accomplished through the power of new life in the risen Christ. The risen Jesus sends the Spirit to empower the church for mission. The Spirit of the living Jesus is present in our worship, in hymn and prayer, in preaching and communion. The Spirit shapes us into the body of Christ and sends us to live out the gospel in words of faith and deeds of compassion. For Moltmann, the Resurrection isn't an ancient event we merely believe once happened. It's a new reality into which we enter as we receive the Spirit and participate in the life-giving mission of the risen Christ.
Too often the church thinks of evangelism and social ministry as different, even opposing, kinds of ministry. Moltmann insists that we think holistically about mission in the name of the crucified and risen Christ. Both ministries are part of the fullness of life Christ works in the world.


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Almost whole 19 centuries, the toilet still resembles 17 centuries euqally primitive, or it is outdoors is built simply on an earth hole, or the bed pan that is park bedroom or indoor and other corner. But we can prove to be early at the beginning of 19 centuries really, the United States ever had used toilet of toilet bowl type. There has been such account in the file of the White House: Jefferson ever had been ordered 1801, but just had installed till 1804. In 18 centuries the Philadelphia of 90 time end, new York and other area had been used possibly also. Toilet of the United States' earliest toilet bowl type, the likelihood also is the closestool type toilet with that exclusive period, outfit in Maryland state governor 60 time metaphase is 18 centuries in the house that oneself build. Our make no doubt of, this toilet is to included to be in the original design of the building apparently. England begins to use similar toilet bowl to get restrospect to 18 centuries metaphase.
Since fast ancient, human excrement and urine is together with outdoors connection. People always goes outdoors liberate oneself. If a person uses bed pan inside house, as a result of the reason of weather and time, he also can reach its tip early as far as possible outdoors. Use toilet bowl undertakes inside house the activity nots less than one case this is pair of traditional challenges. In addition, whether can people work normally from beginning to end to toilet bowl hold very big suspicion.
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Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous over-confidence.[1] In its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that defies the norms of behavior or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator of hubris.
The adjectival form of the noun hubris is "hubristic". Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may unintentionally suffer consequences from the wrongful act. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities. Contrary to common expectations, hubris is not necessarily associated with high self-esteem but with highly fluctuating or variable self-esteem, and a gap between inflated self perception and a more modest reality.
Hubris is generally considered a sin in world religions. C. S. Lewis writes, in Mere Christianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."[2]
Ancient Greek origin
In ancient Greek, hubris referred to actions that shamed and humiliated the victim for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser.[3] The term had a strong sexual connotation, and the shame reflected on the perpetrator as well.[4]
Violations of the law against hubris included what might today be termed assault and battery; sexual crimes; or the theft of public or sacred property. Two well-known cases are found in the speeches of Demosthenes, a prominent statesman and orator in ancient Greece. These two examples occurred when first Midias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theatre (Against Midias), and second when (in Against Conon) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim. Yet another example of hubris appears in Aeschines' Against Timarchus, where the defendant, Timarchus, is accused of breaking the law of hubris by submitting himself to prostitution and anal intercourse. Aeschines brought this suit against Timarchus to bar him from the rights of political office and his case succeeded.[5]
In Ancient Athens, hubris was defined as the use of violence to shame the victim (this sense of hubris could also characterize rape[6]). Aristotle defined hubris as shaming the victim, not because of anything that happened to the committer or might happen to the committer, but merely for that committer's own gratification:
to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: naive men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater.[7][8][9]
Crucial to this definition are the ancient Greek concepts of honour (τιμή, timē) and shame (αἰδώς, aidōs). The concept of honour included not only the exaltation of the one receiving honour, but also the shaming of the one overcome by the act of hubris. This concept of honour is akin to a zero-sum game. Rush Rehm simplifies this definition of hubris to the contemporary concept of "insolence, contempt, and excessive violence".
In Greek mythology, when a figure's hubris offends the pagan gods of ancient Greece, it is usually punished; examples of such hubristic, sinful humans include Icarus, Phaethon, Arachne, Salmoneus, Niobe, Cassiopeia, and Tereus.
Modern usage
In its modern usage, hubris denotes overconfident pride and arrogance. Hubris is often associated with a lack of humility. Sometimes a person's hubris is also associated with a lack of knowledge.The accusation of hubris often implies that suffering or punishment will follow, similar to the occasional pairing of hubris and nemesis in Greek mythology. The proverb "pride goeth (goes) before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall" (from the biblical Book of Proverbs, 16:18) is thought to sum up the modern use of hubris. Hubris is also referred to as "pride that blinds," as it often causes a committer of hubris to act in foolish ways that belie common sense.[10] In other words, the modern definition may be thought of as, "that pride that goes just before the fall."
Examples of hubris are often found in literature, most famously in Paradise Lost: John Milton's depiction of Lucifer (who attempts to force the other angels to worship him, is cast down to hell by God and the innocent angels, and proclaims: "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.") Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manifests hubris in his attempt to become a great scientist by creating life through technological means, but eventually regrets this previous desire. Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus portrays the eponymous character as a scholar whose arrogance and pride compel him to sign a deal with the Devil, and retain his haughtiness until his death and damnation, despite the fact that he could easily have repented had he chosen to do so. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart has been called a modern Greek tragedy, and the main character Okonkwo is a classic tragic hero whose hubris leads to his downfall. Another example is the character Walter White from the TV show Breaking Bad, whose entry into the criminal world gradually caused him to eradicate all moral boundaries (except for the will to protect his family) and perform heinous crimes in order to empower his ever growing meth empire. The characters Pride and Father in the popular manga Fullmetal Alchemist were inspired by the sin of hubris.
One notable example is the Battle of Little Big Horn, as General George Armstrong Custer was apocryphally reputed to have said there: "Where did all those damned Indians come from?"[11]
More recently, in his two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, historian Ian Kershaw uses both 'hubris' and 'nemesis' as titles. The first volume, Hubris,[12] describes Hitler's early life and rise to political power. The second, Nemesis,[13] gives details of Hitler's role in the Second World War, and concludes with his fall and suicide in 1945.
See also
- ↑ "Definition of HUBRIS". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ↑ Lewis, C.S. (2001). Mere Christianity : a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-065292-0.
- ↑ David Cohen, "Law, society and homosexuality or hermaphrodity in Classical Athens" in Studies in ancient Greek and Roman society By Robin Osborne; p 64
- ↑ Cartledge; Paul Millett (2003). Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-521-52209-0. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- ↑ Aeschines "Against Timarchus" from Thomas K. Hubbard's Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
- ↑ "Hubris". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
- ↑ Aristotle, Rhetoric 1378b.
- ↑ Cohen, David (1995). Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press. p. 145. ISBN 0521388376. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ↑ Ludwig, Paul W. (2002). Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory. Cambridge University Press. p. 178. ISBN 1139434179. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ↑ "The 1920 Farrow's Bank Failure: A Case of Managerial Hubris". Durham University. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ↑ Morson, Gary Saul (June 28, 2011). The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture. New Haven. Connecticut: Yale University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780300167474. Retrieved March 5, 2016. "Proving that it is better to be mustered out of the militia than it is to be custered out of the cavalry."
- ↑ Kershaw, Ian (1998). Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-04671-7. OCLC 50149322.
- ↑ Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-04994-7. OCLC 45234118.
Further reading
- Cairns, Douglas L. (1996). "Hybris, Dishonour, and Thinking Big". Journal of Hellenic Studies. 116: 1–32. doi:10.2307/631953.
- Fisher, Nick (1992). Hybris: a study in the values of honour and shame in Ancient Greece. Warminster, UK: Aris & Phillips. A book-length discussion of the meaning and implications of hybristic behavior in ancient Greece.
- MacDowell, Douglas (1976). "Hybris in Athens". Greece and Rome. 23 (1): 14–31. doi:10.1017/S0017383500018210.
- Michael DeWilde, The Psychological and Spiritual Roots of a Universal Affliction
- Hubris on 2012's Encyclopædia Britannica
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
|Look up hubris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.


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Capone broke his nail when he was in his crate. At first we were afraid to cut it, because the break was to far back. He began to lick his paws a lot, but he started to limp to take the pressure off his paw. We then cut his nail so he wouldn't limp anymore. Now the 'meat' is showing. It seems like he isn't bothered by it. He still licks it constantly, but no signs of infections. Should we be worried.
I wouldn't be. Our Dachshund use to tear her nails all the time chasing her ball (now they're wore down to little nubs, which don't break, but occasionally wear to the point of bleeding), and I'd just clip up past the break, dip it in betadine or similar antiseptic, and leave it alone. For more serious ones, I'd soak it in epsom salts daily for a few days afterwards, so you might try that. As long as you got all the broken part off though, I'd say just to keep an eye on it.
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The gardens at Whitby's prestigious youth hostel are one of the town's hidden gems – but to help keep them looking immaculate, more volunteers are now needed.
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Recently had a chat with a singer acquaintance to arrange an upcoming thing, which had to be cut short because… she had to go and serve someone who'd just come into the shop.
I should add that she's one of the finest singers I know and works the best gigs in town. But she feels she needs to keep it secret that she does a couple of afternoons working in a shop every now and then, because she fears people won't take her seriously as a musician if it gets out.
Crazy huh? But it sadly seems to be true that musicians and punters alike just assume you're not serious or not very good the moment they find out that you don't live and breathe music. And heaven forbid you're interested in or [FX STING] actually good at something else too…
Let's put this one to bed, shall we. Borodin was a chemist; Ives sold insurance; had he lived a little longer, Elgar would probably have worked at Bletchley Park. Ruben Blades is a lawyer and former government minister, and Paderewski ran a country. As does the King of Thailand…
Closer to home, Art Themen is one of the best post-bop saxists in London – and also a renowned orthopaedic consultant. Dan Reinstein (also sax) is a leading ophthalmic surgeon. Oscar Peterson was admired as a photographer, David Bowie was exhibited as a respected visual artist and Anthony Hopkins has not only written and orchestrated, but conducted a film score. I know a really good trumpeter who works for a hedge fund (he seems to be making a better living with his trumpet these days).
In fact, as far back as you care to go, you'll find that musicians have always been people with a wide range of interests and talents (generally, but certainly not exclusively to do with "the humanities").
I'd go so far as to suggest the whole notion of being a "professional" is rather ridiculous anyway. In fact, it's a relatively recent historical phenomenon.
Obviously you wouldn't want an eager have-a-go merchant doing your triple bypass using the contents of the cutlery drawer, some twine and a car battery, but generally speaking it's rather silly to assume that people can only be good at one thing.
Why should we be surprised if someone comes round to fix the boiler and then sits down and knocks out some really good Chopin while you're making the perfunctory cup of tea? "Six sugars please luv, and do you mind if I do a Nocturne on your lovely joanna?" "Well, as long as you wipe your feet."
It's sadly still worth maintaining the pretence that your every waking moment is music and your life is a whirl of glittering stages and recording studios. But be aware also that pigeonholes are a mental convenience for those with limited imagination. Not a very jazz attitude, really…
PS I related the following experience to the singer to cheer her up a bit. I once got gushed at during a break and asked all about myself. I mentioned that I was also a financial journalist – and the light instantly went out behind the guy's eyes. In a second, I had been recategorised from "cool musician" to "boring suit".


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Post-Fidel Cuba makes undreamed of changes
Cuba has been making some big changes lately, in a way that neither Raul or Fidel Castro or their supporters might have dreamed of at the end of the revolution in 1959.
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: When Fidel Castro stepped down as the President of Cuba three years ago, he handed power to his brother, Raul, and nobody expected big changes in one of the world's last true socialist states. Nonetheless, life isn't quite the same and the changes are something that neither Castro brother could have dreamed off back in 1959. North America correspondent Ben Knight reports from Cuba.
BEN KNIGHT, REPORTER: Miami Airport, Florida. Last call for Havana.
It might surprise you to know that there are flights from Miami to Havana pretty much every day. Certainly did me.
Cuba is famous for being a place where some things haven't changed since 1959. More than 20 years after communism collapsed in Europe, Fidel Castro's revolution is still alive and its economy is a disaster. Something had to be done.
One of the world's last socialist states is opening the door to private enterprise.
Arlen Arce is one of Cuba's new entrepreneurs. He trained as a biologist, but two months ago, he decided to open this gym.
Did you think that one year ago you would be able to do this, to open a place like this?
ARLEN ARCE, ENTREPRENEUR AND GYM OWNER: I don't think so. I don't think so.
BEN KNIGHT: Cuba's economy can no longer bear the weight of having almost every worker in the country, from shopkeepers to plumbers, on the state payroll, so it's trying to shed a million employees by allowing them to go into business for themselves.
ARLEN ARCE: It's first time that it's happened in Cuba.
BEN KNIGHT: So the door's opened a little bit. Now, people who can see through that door, what's to stop them wanting to push it all the way open?
ARLIN ARCE: I think if you open the door, you say, I think people want to get more. There are more changes coming, yes, I think.
BEN KNIGHT: The socialist structure is still in place. There's still a ration system for groceries. But what used to last a month now barely lasts two weeks.
GLADYS MORALES: The changes that we needed 15 and 20 years ago, we're trying to do them now. We've been slow changes.
BEN KNIGHT: Gladys Morales was 19 who Fidel Castro took power. Back then, she worked with Che Guevara setting up night classes for illiterate steel workers.
GLADYS MORALES: No, no, he was very, very human, very close to humble people, very modest.
BEN KNIGHT: Health and education are still two of Cuba's proudest achievements. It has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. But not much else is going right, so, as other communist countries have done, Cuba too is tweaking the model.
GLADYS MORALES: For example, Vietnam, China, they decided to have capitalism for producing goods and socialism for distributing them. Two systems in one country and that's not a bad idea.
BEN KNIGHT: Suddenly shops are opening everywhere, in rooms rented in private houses and in the centre of Havana.
So what you're seeing on this street is really the old and the new kinds of self-employment in Cuba. Now the cafes and the restaurants, they've been doing it for a long time, but this is quite new. Less than two years ago, every hairdresser in this salon would have been a Government employee, but the Government wants them off the books. So the solution has been to allow them to rent their own space inside what is still a Government hairdressing salon, so everyone has their own chair, that's their own small business. But of course, it doesn't work perfectly. The restaurants, the cafes, the hairdressers all have to buy their raw materials from the same stores that regular Cubans do because there's no wholesale market and not all Cubans are happy with that.
GLADYS MORALES: There's no blonde hair dye in the shopping centres. All the hairdressers buy them and then there's only black and red. How would I look in black and red?
BEN KNIGHT: Still beautiful.
GLADYS MORALES: You're very nice.
BEN KNIGHT: Jose Netto is a jeweller who rents a space for himself in a government shop.
JOSE NETTO, JEWELLER (male voiceover): Before, I made around 140 pesos a month. Now I get about 700 pesos. Big difference.
BEN KNIGHT: But even that still only amounts to around $30 a month and he's not so optimistic that more changes are coming.
JOSE NETTO (male voiceover): More changes? I don't think there'll be more changes.
BEN KNIGHT: Well that was very interesting. Our interview with Jose the jeweller just got cut short when another guy in the shop essentially told him to shut up and told us to get out and this is what we're finding: people here are still very reluctant to talk about things like political freedom. So, obviously liberalisation only goes so far. If you take the internet, there is simply no 3G here in Havana, here in Cuba at all. Your smartphone doesn't work. And if you've got internet at home, it's only dial-up speed and it costs $1 an hour, which is way more than most Cubans can afford. It still only means you can do text. And it's interesting when you compare that, for example, to the Cairo revolution, which was all about Facebook and Twitter and social media. That's certainly not going to happen here.
All media here is still state-controlled. Cuban dissidents are still locked up. And even these new reforms only go so far. People can now buy and sell houses, but they can't own more than two. They can now buy foreign cars, but there's no way that most Cubans could afford them.
Fidel Castro is still revered as the leader who gave this country independence and kept it in the face of almost impossible odds. If Cuba can keep that proud independence and life starts to get better, it's hard to imagine these young people won't want more reforms and not just to the economy. But the American embargo still hangs over this country and it's still a source of deep anger.
GLADYS MORALES: The US is so near and it has made our life so miserable that we are afraid of anything happening. So maybe that's why changes have taken so long.
BEN KNIGHT: Do you think that those kinds of changes are coming?
GLADYS MORALES: I think that changes must come.
LEIGH SALES: North America correspondent Ben Knight with that report.
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I will have to look for that flavor. Right now I am enjoying wild blueberry. Reminds me of hot August summers. Love the biscuit poem!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yum...I absolutely love tea! And I don't usually eat biscuits with them, but it would be my favorite if I did. I drink so much tea, mostly Vanilla Rooibos, Vanilla Black or Spiced Green tea, that I think the calories would add up too quickly for me! :)Delete
@Debbie, Wild blueberry tea sounds delicious ~ I haven't tasted that - I keep my eyes open & I might find it somewhere...Delete
@Nancy: Vanilla Roibos must have a very nice rats ~ I like the softness of Roibos tea!
That tea sounds wonderful and I love your shot, looking down into the scene. Very nice!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Linda!Delete
Awesome shot! I'm not much of a tea drinker, but that one looks and sounds good.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Judy!Delete
Fantastic shot and I love the poem.... The tea sounds delicious ... Thanks for visiting me today and leaving such a lovely comment....ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Viv ~ I do like your photo & composition!Delete
Love your photo and the snippet of the poem! My favorite tea is Twinnings Earl Grey. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Candy, I like Earl Grey as well :)Delete
Lovely image and texture use. That tea sounds lovely, I'll have to check it out.ReplyDelete
I'll be looking to see if I can get that tea locally, sounds yummy. My favorite is any type of Chi, love spice. and today I'll be eating a white chocolate cranberry cookie with mine.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Roxi, I'm also fond of the spicy taste of chai ~ enjoy your tea and the white chocolate cookie with cranberries - yum!Delete
So lovely, that tea sounds delicious !ReplyDelete
Beautiful poem too !
Enjoy your tea and biscuits :-)
Thank you Sylvia! :)Delete
Lovely photo., Nina. Lately I've been enjoying honey camomile tea and toast with orange marmalade. Usually around mid-afternoon. The white temple tea sounds delicious. I'll have to see if I can find it here. Shortbread is always a good choice. The poem is very sweet, and brought a smile to my face. Have a great weekend.ReplyDelete
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7 of 8 unlicensed operators caught in Needles from across state lines; Brawley sting catches five
SACRAMENTO – The Contractors State License Board (CSLB) took the long route to find and arrest suspected illegal contractors Wednesday, November 18, traveling to the southeast edges of the state to stage a pair of undercover sting operations. CSLB's Statewide Investigative Fraud Team (SWIFT) cited eight persons ¬– seven from Arizona and Nevada – on illegal contracting charges at the sting in Needles, while citations were issued to five persons caught in a Brawley operation.
In Needles, along the Colorado River on the California-Arizona state line, investigators set up their sting operation at a two-bedroom home with the assistance of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.
Posing as the home's owners, SWIFT investigators drew up a list of needed improvement projects that included interior and exterior painting, floor covering, and plumbing. They contacted suspected unlicensed contractors who were advertising on Craigslist, or a local newspaper.
Neither the river, state line, nor California state contractor law provided any impediment to the six phony contractors from Arizona and one Nevadan cited in the Needles sting. The lone Californian arrested was from Needles, bring the total of citations issued to eight. California maintains a reciprocity agreement with those states, which simplifies the application process for contractors in one state who want a license to work in the other. However, possessing a license in one state does not entitle you to work in the other.
CSLB also received complaints from legitimate contractors in the area that illegal operators from Arizona were crossing into California – without proper licensing – to steal jobs from them.
The eight persons who submitted work bids at the Needles home were cited on a misdemeanor charge of contracting without a state license (Business and Professions Code (BPC) section (§) 7028). A state contractor license is required for any bid that is $500 or more in combined labor and material costs for the entire project. Penalties for first-time unlicensed contracting convictions include up to six months in jail and/or up to $5,000 in fines.
"We see this frequently in areas where California shares a border with another state," said CSLB Registrar Cindi Christenson about the out-of-state contractors caught in the California sting. "If contractors from the states that we have a reciprocity agreement with want to work here, they must apply for and be issued a license by CSLB after satisfying our conditions."
In addition, two of the eight also were cited for on a misdemeanor charge of illegal advertising (BPC §7027.1). Contracting law requires unlicensed operators to state in all advertising that they are not licensed; the penalty is a fine of $700 to $1,000.
In Brawley, in Imperial County, all five suspects were cited for contracting without a license after submitting bids for painting, concrete, landscaping, and roofing that exceeded the $500 legal limit. Four were cited for illegal advertising. Officers from the California Highway Patrol and Brawley Police Department assisted SWIFT investigators at the two-bedroom home near the New River.
Two of those persons were taken to jail on warrant violations were discovered; one for possessing a controlled substance and the other relating to motor vehicle violations.
"Although California is a very large state, our investigators travel to the far reaches to stage sting operations and catch unlicensed contractors," Christenson said. "We want to send a message that we will go the extra distance to stop illegal contracting."
Suspects caught in the Needles sting are scheduled to appear on January 8, 2016, in San Bernardino County Superior Court, 14455 Civic Drive, Victorville, CA 92392 (MAP). Those receiving citations in Brawley have court dates of either January 25, 26, or 27, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. in Imperial County Superior Court, 220 Main Street, East Courtroom, Brawley, CA 92227 (MAP).
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Bullhead City, Az.
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CSLB encourages consumers to always "Check The License First" by visiting www.cslb.ca.gov or calling its toll-free automated line: 800.321.CSLB (2752). Also, visit CSLB's website for tips about how to hire a contractor and to sign up for CSLB Email Alerts.
The Contractors State License Board operates under the umbrella of the California Department of Consumer Affairs. CSLB licenses and regulates about 290,000 contractors in California, and is regarded as one of the leading consumer protection agencies in the United States. In fiscal year 2014-15, CSLB helped recover nearly $68 million in ordered restitution for consumers.
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Officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, this oil-rich South American country has struggled in recent years to maintain a stable economy as its democratic processes and institutions have been under attack from authoritarian regimes. Currently, Venezuela's economic policies allow for expanding state control, which has led to stricter currency exchange controls and lowered private sector investment and production. Due to Venezuela's heavy reliance on the petroleum industry for revenues and foreign direct investment, fluctuating global oil prices have contributed to a sense of economic instability. The country's instability is reflected in its high levels of violent crime, high inflation rates, basic consumer goods shortages, lack of medical supplies and medicine, and increasingly politicized military forces.
Since its discovery in the early 20th century, Venezuela has been the holder of the world's largest oil reserves and one of the leading oil exporters. Despite this, the country has struggled with high inflation and poverty rates, and high levels of economic inequality. With petroleum prices lowered throughout the world in 2010, Venezuela's economy once again began to struggle, leading to a currency devaluation in 2013 and shortages of consumer goods. The country officially entered into recession in 2014, and by 2015 had the world's highest inflation, with a rate surpassing 100%. Civil unrest led to the Venezuelan protests of 2014-2015.
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Sending money into or out of Venezuela is overseen by the Central Bank of Venezuela, which sets fiscal policy and monitors the performance of Venezuela's official currency, the bolivar fuerte (VEF). Currently, Venezuela authorizes three official FX mechanisms to sell US dollars (USD) to private firms and individual investors, or to make international transfers. The country's currency commission, the CENCOEX, oversees two of these mechanisms. Potential investors must be registered with one of these two organizations to make money transfers into or out of Venezuela. The Central Bank of Venezuela operates the third FX mechanism, the SIMADI, created in 2015. SIMADI provides investors three types of FX exchanges: retail FX trading, wholesale FX trading, and dollar-denominated trading for brokers and commercial banks.
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Although US and global investors have traditionally invested in Venezuela's energy and manufacturing sectors, the government's tightening control over foreign currency transactions through the three foreign exchange trading mechanisms it runs presents significant obstacles for foreign investors wishing to pursue investment opportunities within Venezuela today.
Venezuela's monetary and regulatory authority
The Venezuela's government and the Central Bank of Venezuela are responsible for setting the country's fiscal and economic policies and ensuring adherence to domestic and international financing regulations. The Central Bank of Venezuela is responsible for supervising the domestic banking system and monitoring all financial transactions, including the operation of cash and electronic payments. It is also responsible for monitoring the bolivar fuerte's performance in the currency markets.
Venezuela's currency, the bolivar fuerte (VEF), became the official currency in January 2008. The bolivar fuerte can be subdivided into 100 centimos, its subunit. It replaces the original bolivar, which has been the currency of Venezuela in some variation since 1879. The bolivar goes by the nicknames bolo(s), luca(s), or real(s) and is a fixed, managed currency that is currently pegged to the US dollar.
Common bolivar fuerte currency in circulation today includes the 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 centesimos coins, and a 1 bolivar fuerte coin. Banknotes circulating include the 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 bolivar fuerte banknotes.


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The Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (POTA) was an Act passed by the Parliament of India in 2002, with the objective of strengthening anti-terrorism operations. The Act was enacted due to several terrorist attacks that were being carried out in India and especially in response to the attack on the Parliament. The Act replaced the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) of 2001 and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) (1985–95), and was supported by the governing National Democratic Alliance. The Act was repealed in 2004 by the United Progressive Alliance coalition.
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Atlanta Botanical Gardens
Following a petition by citizens of Atlanta in the year 1973, the garden was incorporated in 1976 as the private, 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc.. Within a year Bill Warner, previously employed at Holden Arboretum, was assigned office as the first executive director. He was followed by Ann L. Crammond in 1979. The following year, 1980, marked a turning point in the history of the gardens as a 50-year lease was negotiated with the city, securing the site of the Garden for years to come.
A number of promotional activities began, including social events, major art exhibitions and the annual Garden of Eden Ball. The Atlanta Botanical Garden welcomed its 50,000th visitor within a mere three years after the lease was arranged – this was even before any permanent structures had been erected. In 1985, the Atlanta Botanical Garden built its first permanent structure, the Gardenhouse. Expansions following this were The Children's Garden (1999), the Fuqua Conservatory in 1989 and the Fuqua Orchid Center which was added in 2002.
Blockbuster summertime exhibitions began in 2003 with TREEmendous TREEhouses. Chihuly in the Garden opened in 2004, while in 2005 Locomotion in the Garden featured G-scale model trains. On April 29, 2006, an exhibition of the sculpture of Niki de Saint Phalle opened to the public. These huge mosaic sculptures came to the Garden fromFrance,Germany, and California. In 2007 the exhibition was David Rogers' Big Bugs and Killer Plants, and 2008 is Sculpture in Motion, Art Choreographed by Nature, a display of moving, kinetic art. In 2009, the Garden hosted an exhibition of the monumental bronze sculptures of Henry Moore. The summers of 2010 and 2011 showcased the Garden's green expansion (see below), and in 2012, the Garden hosted Independent Visions, an exhibition of contemporary sculptures by nine artists. In 2013, the Garden unveiled Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger than Life, made up of 19 mosaiculture sculptures.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Botanical_Garden and https://atlantabotanicalgarden.org/


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Well, maybe it is dying it doesn't seem like the devs really care that much about the important things. But hey at least we have steampunk items.
We can use them in free play while the servers are crashing everyday.
I'm Brazilian, i'm alredy fucked every day i wake up
toribash next would bring an influx of new players but no matter what you do toribash won't thrive in today's gaming industry


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Monday, March 19, 2012
JOY FM Friendraiser update:
We did it, fellow listeners! The Friendraiser ended two hours early on Friday and the goal was met 100%!!!
The goal starting last Monday morning was 1000 More than Music Mission Partners (people who donate $30 or more a month), and $360,000.
At just before 5 p.m. Friday, the grand total was 1,007 new MMMPs, and a total of $362,356!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving and helping to keep such a wonderful ministry going!
If you didn't get the chance to join in the Friendraiser fun, but still want to give, you can do that on the website!
I love listening to the JOY FM every single day! From me personally:
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Venezuelan DIY science project hits stumbling block
A Venezuelan-designed 'LavaAmp' — used widely as an example of an emerging do-it-yourself (DIY) science since 2010 — is struggling to get off the ground.
The initiative promised to deliver a low-cost portable device capable of analysing blood to help diagnose infectious diseases in low-income communities. It was heralded as being a particularly important technology for developing countries, where disease testing can take days to perform and is prohibitively expensive for local people.
But according to Guido Núñez-Mujica, one of the project leaders, LavaAmp's future is now threatened by a lack of funding. After building a first prototype for just over US$20,000, and additionally investing just over US$30,000 — obtained from the Chilean government project StartUp Chile — the team now needs at least US$150,000 to complete the final prototype.
LavaAmp is a rugged and inexpensive handheld 'DNA amplifier' (also known as a PCR machine), used for performing DNA tests for infectious diseases. It is not limited to testing one specific disease, but works as a hardware platform for testing many different illnesses.
Its low cost and accessibility would pave the way for low-income communities, who otherwise lack access to diagnostic tools, being able to identify diseases more easily, and thus to seek treatment. The aim is that the device will be used to treat both new pandemics and neglected diseases.
"The money we need to raise would be used to pay for laboratory equipment, materials, and salaries for the team, so everyone can work full-time to develop the project," Núñez-Mujica tells SciDev.Net.
If they could secure funding, the team would need nine more months to complete the final prototype, he explains. There would then be a trial phase, to identify whether people with limited technological abilities can use the device on their own.
But "gathering funds can be very complicated," Núñez-Mujica says. The start-up team has approached bigger companies and funders, but he says the competition with other development projects has been fierce, and expresses concerns that projects such as his are a low priority for funders.
And while the funding needed is a major obstacle for the team, it pales in comparison to the amount being poured into similar projects in more orthodox organisations, such as universities and research institutions, he says.
Rob Carlson, a physicist who was in charge of the company that designed the hardware for the first LavaAmp prototype says LavaAmp is an example of DIY science as a "start-up trying to make it to market".
But Carlson adds that technical problems could delay the launch of field trials.
"Getting the whole project working requires solving some problems in sample handling and microfluidics," he explains. And to solve these problems, the team will need more funding.
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John Kinsela has represented his country in the Olympic Games and in the Army
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Not many people can lay claim to serving their country at war and at two Olympics, but John Kinsela represented Australia at Mexico and Munich before volunteering for Vietnam.
Mr Kinsela is the special guest of Blacktown City Council's NAIDOC week celebrations.
He is a national wrestling champion and was placed seventh in the world at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games.
He is also the nephew of Reg Saunders, the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army.
His father was a Wiradjuri man from Condobolin and his mother a member of the stolen generation who grew up in Adelaide but whose family are from the Jarwan country in the Northern Territory.
Less than 24 hours into his tour of Vietnam he was confronted with tragic realities of war as he drove past a mass grave of Viet Cong.
He's now retired and supports the community's circle sentencing program and hopes to continue being role model for other young aboriginal athletes.
I spoke to him in Blacktown. Click on the player above to hear my interview with him.
The photographs above are from the 'Generations of Knowledge' Project as conceived and commissioned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders on Campus, University of Western Sydney.


text: Tesla has the only BEVs that have a DC fast charging network and are therefore capable of longer trips. The only competition are ICE and hybrid cars. The Chevy Volt is still the only hybrid capable of both full electric operation and normal gasoline range and performance. How do the two compare? The review by "the 8-bit guy" on YouTube is a great place to start. I started a spreadsheet below. Thoughts? GSP Tesla Model 3 Chevy Volt Base MSRP: $35,000 $37499 Available: 2017-2018-2019? Depends on how early you made your $1k deposit Now! Propulsion system: BEV PHEV - EREV EV Range: 215+ miles 53 miles Total Range: 215+ miles 400+ miles Fast charging network: Yes, by far the world's best Yes, far more locations than Tesla, but IC engine is req'd Included charging cord (EVSE): 120/240 V, up to 40 A? 120 V only, but capable of 240 V use with homemade adapter. 16 A Interior room: Larger: 5 passengers comfortable, EPA midsize? 4.5 passengers, EPA compact? Cargo room: Larger rear cargo space + frunk 10 ft^3 Tow package available? Yes No Autonomous Driving: Level 4! TACC - (ACC) coming soon Styling: Yes, included Yes, included Quality, Reliability, Durability: Tesla is committed to improve QRD and to have high quality at M3 launch Gen 1 Volt has been world class competitive Service Network: Smaller network, and servicing could be overloaded with work Large network, not overloaded, but Dealer owned and operated 0-60 mph: 3-6 sec 8 sec Top speed: 155 mph 98 mph Handling: Better Very good


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The 5 Pillars Of Web Site Promotion
The 5 Pillars Of Web Site Promotion
By Ralf Skirr.
If the only way your web site can go is up – then it's time to seriously promote your web site on the internet.
What I learned from talks with fellow entrepreneurs is that many business people who've had a business web site for years still have no clue on how to make it successful.
They don't have much visitors; and the few who come to their web site don't turn into customers. A visitor shows up, clicks, leaves, and is never seen again.
This is not what you want, right?
Successfully promoting your web site is neither hard to do nor is it a hidden secret nor is it expensive.
In the upcoming months I will show you dozens of strategies you can use to get targeted traffic to your business web site.
- What makes the difference between a successful web site promotion and a failure?
- What if you had a simple plan, a guiding principle, to promote your web site from zero to hero?
Having A Successful Website Does Not Happen By Accident.
Instead it is something that you can plan and then achieve easily step by step.
You're guaranteed to turn your site into an internet marketing success if you commit to the 5 Pillars Of Web Site Promotion and do a few simple steps on a daily basis.
How To Build A Solid Foundation For Your Marketing Plan.
Just like building a house, building a successful web site requires a strong and solid foundation. Your success cannot be built on something ethereal, you want to build a house to last.
So before taking any promotional action you need to be clear about the overall goal or your web site.
Read again: do not take any action unless your 100% clear about your site's goal and your targeted visitors.
Don't take this lightly. It sounds so obvious and simple that most people rush over it and never really think about it.
But you should.
I've had dozens of consultations with business owners who ignored that advice. These are the people that say internet marketing doesn't work.
And they are right.
If you put up random web sites without a goal and a plan you set yourself up for failure. But that's true in any area in life, isn't it? Taking action without a plan and a goal just doesn't yield much.
Here's your chance to get it right. Print this article out and then write down the answer to these questions:
- Who exactly is your ideal visitor? Where do you find these people online? At first you might find it hard to be precise about that. You may be afraid to leave people out and reduce your chance. Actually your chances of success will increase if you narrow your target.
- What do you want your visitors to do once they come to your site? What is the primary goal of your web site? Sure, you do not want to leave them for good. But what do you want? And how do you make them do what you want them to do?
The answers to that will be your guiding principle whenever you're not sure what to do next and what to focus on.
It sounds more complicated than it is.
But you'll never figure it out unless you write down your goals and start taking the appropriate actions.
Once you know your goals and your ideal visitor you can implement a step by step internet marketing plan.
The 5 pillars of web site promotion represent 5 topics you should use on a daily basis to make your site successful.
Taking little steps each day will be much more profitable than doing a huge and expensive marketing blast in one week and then do nothing for the next 12 months.
Continuity builds success.
That's why you rather do 15 minutes a day. The little actions you take will build up like compounded interest in your bank account.
So What Are The '5 Pillars Of Web Site Promotion'?
At first glance it might seem a lot – but if you take it one step at a time all will come easy and natural to you. Here you go:
The first pillar of web site promotion: Getting back links to your site. That's really important. The more back links you can get to your site, the better. Ideally try to get links from sites that match your site in topic. So if you have an internet marketing site, you don't want too have all your links coming from sites about golf or dog grooming.
- Visitors from a related site are more likely to click through to you.
- Search engines like Google will give more weight to that link if the site's topic matches yours.
What else do we have for your 'promotional consideration'?
The second pillar of web site promotion: Email Marketing. I hate to break it to you, but let's face an ugly truth here: Unless you capture their email address 99 from 100 visitors leave your site for good.
They did not buy, and they will never come back.
The way to turn this around is email marketing. Get your visitors email and permission to email them with marketing messages.
Here are a few benefits of capturing your visitor's email:
- You can send out promotions for your own products and services to increase sales.
- You can send out promotions for affiliate programs and earn commissions.
- You can point your your readers back to your site and thus create repeat visits.
Now if you manage to drive new visitors to your site for free, you'd have a killer marketing strategy funneling your free traffic into your email promotions. Getting free web site visitor's is what the next pillar is about.
The third pillar of web site promotion: Search Engine Optimization. 85% of all visitors arrive at your site through a search engine. So they did a search, for example with Google. Your site came up at the search engine results page (SERP) and the visitor clicked through.
The more often your site is at the top of search engine results pages, the more free traffic you get.
That's why you should optimize your site for the search engines. The process is called 'search engine optimization'. In short it means that you optimize your site in a way that makes it relevant for specific search terms people might use. Let's say your site is about 'the 5 pillars of web site promotion'. When someone enters that term in a search, then you would want to see your site at the top of the search engine results.
About the 5pillars … ah, well, it's not something people are likely to search for … I know that. ;-)
You can learn more about search engine optimization in this blog's category 'search marketing'. Now let's see how to make humans and search engine robots fall in love with your site, it's pillar #4:
The fourth pillar of web site promotion: The amount and attractiveness of content on your web site. Search engines as well as visitors love regularly updated and content rich web sites.
After all: why would someone come to your site twice if there's noting new to discover. On the internet we've become information junkies.
- People browsing the net are looking for information.
- They are looking for sites that provide value.
- They are craving new content all the time.
That's why it's easy to put your competition to dust.
Most of them treat their web site like a business brochure that is rarely updated. Take advantage and post fresh and useful content. Your visitors and the search engines will love it, come back often and refer your site.
The fifth pillar of web site promotion: Promoting your web site with paid advertising. This is the fastest way to get targeted visitors to your site: placing ads on other web sites and offline in print magazines and news papers.
The crucial point of course is that it costs money to place an ad. Unless you already have a marketing budget you should start to set one up. Or- if you're dead broke – your paid marketing will have to wait till you made some money. It is however an area not to be neglected.
There's no other means of online marketing where you have that much control about who gets exposed to your promotion.
But since it's costly: better make sure your web site converts visitors to buyers before running a campaign. When running an ad campaign keep track of cost and be sure to stop it if it generates a loss.
So those are the 5 pillars.
Remember our building analogy?
There's a final piece missing to build your house – the roof of your successful web site promo.
Let's Top Your Success – With A Roof
The final piece of your marketing plan is 'Measure Your Success'!
You do not want to waste your time and effort and money on any activity that doesn't pay off. So measure what works and what doesn't. Then expand what works and discontinue what doesn't.
How do you do it?
Well, first of all get yourself a software to track what visitors are doing on your site. The easiest way to go is Google analytics.
Technically it's a tiny piece of text that will be incorporated in all your pages. Then the analytics software will track what happens on your site.
A site analytics tool will show you useful information like:
- how many visitors come to your site
- what pages do they look at
- how long do they stay
- where do they leave
- etc. etc.
So there you have it, the foundation, the 5 pillars and the roof.
That Finishes Our Picture…
Here You Have It, The Step By Step Plan For Successful Web Site Promotion.
1. Before you start promoting decide who should come to your site and what action you want your visitor to take.
2. Work on improving all 5 pillars for your site. You could for example invest 15 to 30 minutes each day on 1 of the pillars. If you follow through from Monday to Friday you'll be amazed. You'll see your traffic grow and people coming back to your site again and again. Example:
- Monday: 30 minutes link building.
- Tuesday: 30 minutes to improve your email marketing.
- Wednesday: 30 minutes to SEO one page on one of your sites.
- Thursday: 30 minutes to add fresh content to one of your sites.
- Friday: 30 minutes to place an ad through PPC, E-zines, or print advertising.
3. While building your traffic and working on the 5 pillars, monitor what's happening on your site. Put more time, energy and money in promotions that produce results. Stop promotions that do not produce results.
Remember: Continuity Builds Success! Follow through with such an easy plan on a day by day basis and you simply can't fail.
You're guaranteed to see your traffic jump through the roof.
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National Parks Service personnel demonstrate the weapons and relate the experiences of the Colonial Spanish soldier stationed in St. Augustine in 1740's. Demonstration times are 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. throughout the year. Firing times are subject to change depending on weather conditions and staff availability.
The Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fortification in the U.S., was built by the Spanish in 1672 to help protect their empire in the New World.


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Clermont County Board of DD will be entering the third year of implementing the Sanctuary Model of Trauma Informed Care in 2016.
What is the Sanctuary Model?
The Sanctuary Model promotes change in an organization and addresses the ways in which chronic stress, adversity, and trauma influence individual behavior as well as recognizes the ways in which whole organizations can be influenced by chronic stress, adversity, and trauma.
Sanctuary is a treatment and organizational change model that integrates trauma theory with the creation of therapeutic communities which then provides safety for individuals we work with and the staff who work with them.
The philosophical structure of the Sanctuary Model is reflected in seven commitments. These commitments apply to the entire community, staff, administration, families, students and adults we serve.
The Sanctuary commitments are:
Nonviolence – being safe outside (physically), inside (emotionally), with others (social) and to do the right thing (moral).
Emotional Intelligence – managing our feelings that we don't hurt ourselves or others.
Social Learning – respecting and sharing the ideas of our teams.
Open Communication – saying what we mean and not being mean we say it.
Social Responsibility – together we accomplish more; everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture.
Democracy – shared decision making.
Growth and Change – creating hope for those we serve and ourselves.
Sanctuary gives us a shared language and framework for communicating with everyone in the community.
S.E.L.F. stands for Safety, Emotions, Loss & Future
By focusing on four very simple components, the S.E.L.F. frames our conversations and allows us to touch on the very complicated issues our community (families, students, individuals, staff) faces using a very simple framework.
The Process
Implementation of Sanctuary is a three-year process; it is our goal to obtain certification in March, 2017. There are four elements that make up the basic three-year implementation process:
Evaluation – formal diagnostic and certification evaluations and informal self- evaluations.
Training – staff training, orientation, boosters for staff and psycho-education for families and individuals.
Planning – core team meetings, execution of tasks that reinforce the seven commitments.
Practice – use of the tools and concepts in the community.
The Certification
The certification standards were developed by the Sanctuary Institute with Dr. Sandra Bloom as a way of measuring adherences and fidelity to the practices and
philosophies of the Sanctuary Model. Achieving certification is contingent upon satisfactory implementation of the model. Evaluation of the model is organized along the four pillars of Sanctuary: Trauma Theory, the S.E.L.F. framework, the Seven Commitments and the Sanctuary Toolbox.


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a while ago we had the big idea that it would be fun to open one Toronado and close the other Toronado on the same day. the jet is finally scheduled. Virgin America will take us to San Diego in time to open Toronado there and then return us back to San Francisco so we can close 547 Haight Street "the same day".
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Is this Saturday November 10th at the Bistro in downtown Hayward. Take BART. See you there.
the homework is beer but it takes your money to fund the research required to find the next topic.
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The 21st Amendment is sponsoring a Beer Bus to the south bay breweries that we normally never get to. The cost for the entire trip is $120 which includes beer, food, and the bus for the entire day. Once you get on the bus you won't have any other expenses. That is unless you buy a t-shirt at every stop! But who would do such a thing?
To get on the bus just stop by or call the 21A for a resevation. The number is 415-369-0900. Don't wait because it will …
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The Beer School crew is attending the Great American Beer Festival. We're there for the whole thing so if you want to find for pictures, autographs or chatting about beer there's plenty of time to find us. Watch this article for all the details of how, when and where to find Motor and John plus past guests such as Gabby, Steve, Justine (not yet on the show), ShaunO.
If you are going to be at the GABF put a comment below.
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The fall sends us traveling. Look for stories and commentary about our travels here.
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