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It's been about four years since I totally changed the way I eat. Prior to that I had done yo-yo dieting for a good portion of my life. The way I eat now is very satisfying and I rarely have cravings.
Another benefit is I no longer do mindless eating.
For those of you who have never struggled with this phenomenon, let me explain what it looks like.
For me it mainly had to do with chocolate. I would occasionally open a new package of Oreos after lunch, and before I knew it, half of them had disappeared! Sometimes the entire package would be gone before dinner.
The sad thing was I wouldn't remember eating them. I would just sit there reading a book or watching TV, mindlessly devouring one cookie at the time. For hours. Occasionally I would look at the package and be shocked at how many times my hand must have reached in there and pulled out another Oreo that somehow made its way to my mouth and into my digestive tract.
It was an amazing feat. Too bad I didn't have a cell phone with a video camera back then. I could have made a fortune on YouTube.
Something about today's passage reminds me of this phenomenon.
Matthew 6 starts out with a warning. Jesus tells us to be careful what our motives are for doing good deeds (practicing our righteousness). He says that if we do them in front of other people, in order to be seen by those people, that's all the reward we'll get. God won't reward us for them.
Then he applies the warning to three of the ways we practice our righteousness. The first one is giving to the needy.
Apparently when Jesus was on the earth, the religious leaders had a habit of announcing their good deeds so everyone could see them. Some would even have a musician blow a trumpet to get everyone's attention when they were about to give a coin to a beggar. They wanted their acts of charity to be enjoyed by everyone. It didn't matter where they were, on the street or in the synagogue, they wanted to be sure everybody saw who they were and noticed how incredibly generous they were being to the people who unfortunately were not so fortunate as them.
Kinda makes you want to throw up, doesn't it.
I don't know anyone today who blows trumpets to announce their donations, but there are other ways of getting people's attention that are just as obvious.
It's difficult—if not impossible—to give without at least one person knowing about it. Even if you make a donation online when no one else is around, someone who works at the charitable organization has a record of your donation and will be sure you get a receipt.
But Jesus is talking about your motivation for giving—not necessarily the anonymity of your gift.
WHY are you giving?
– Are you giving to make yourself look (and feel) good and generous?
– Are you giving so your good deeds might detract other people (and yourself . . . and possibly even God) from some not-so-good deeds you've done?
– Are you giving to make yourself look and feel like you're pleasing to God? (Psst . . . you already are.)
If so, I think Jesus would say the same thing to you today . . . you have your reward. You look and feel good and generous. You've detracted the attention from your other deeds. And you look and feel like you're pleasing God.
Jesus says in Matthew 6:3-4 that the kind of giving to the needy that God rewards is done in secret. And it's the way he describes "in secret" that reminds me of the way I used to eat Oreos.
Jesus says you give "in secret" by not letting your left hand know what your right hand is doing. That sounds an awful lot like mindless eating.
I think this means that your giving is so automatic you don't even realize you're doing it.
You see a homeless person at an intersection and you automatically pull out your wallet and give him cash. Or grab your extra bottle of water and hand it to her. Or pull the fast food gift card out of the glove compartment and bless them with a meal.
Or you see a neatly dressed man standing on a corner with a placard announcing he's been laid off and has three children to feed. Your heart aches for him and his family and, without thinking, you drive to the nearest ATM, take out some cash and go back and hand it to him while his eyes fill up with tears.
I don't think there's anything wrong with planned giving. Or regular giving. Those are an important part of our faith walk. And I believe God blesses us for those gifts—when our motivation is right.
But I think God is just crazy about mindless giving! Those times when our hearts are pierced by the need we see in someone and our automatic selfless response is to share with them what He has blessed us with. I think that kind of heart motivation grabs His attention. And gets us rewarded.
It's not something we can plan and it's not something we want to control. Heck, our left hand won't even know what our right hand is doing! And we want to keep it that way.
Like me mindlessly eating a whole bag of Oreos. Only much better. For everyone involved.
Matthew 6:1-4 English Standard Version (ESV)
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 "Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.


text: Do you ever find yourself lugging heavy packages through the store to your car. You figure you didn't need a cart because you were only getting a few things? I know that has happened to me more than I care to admit. What if I had my own personal valet? Well that may not be too far off in the future. Enter in the rolling robot as seen here:https://www.cnet.com/news/gita-robot-piaggio-new-york-follow-carry-stuff/ who can hold up to 40 pounds. All you have to do is stand in front of it and press a button and it will shimmy a little to let you know it has synced to you. Once that is done it will follow you around like a little puppy dog. Since they are still working on development we will have to wait to see all that the robot will be able to do. I can see this rolling "pet" being of help for everyone especially those who have limited mobility.

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The following review appeared 23 March 2015 on the Mark Twain Forum.
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This review may not be published or redistributed in any medium without permission.
Imagine my surprise when, while wasting time in a local Barnes & Noble outlet, I spotted a familiar face staring at me from a magazine rack, beckoning me, I assume, to risk a look. The portrait on the cover was familiar, an illustration by Michael Deas which previously adorned the cover of the July 14, 2008 issue of Time magazine. Michael Deas is a nationally-known illustrator who works out of his New Orleans studio and whose work includes six Time magazine covers and twenty-one stamps for the U.S. Postal Service, the latter including iconic portraits of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. The contents underscored my conclusion that this special issue, which includes two pieces previously published by Time magazine in 2008, is nonetheless a new and worthwhile addition to any Mark Twain-related library.
This special issue appears to be intended as a broad, general overview of Mark Twain, his life, his work, and his continuing influence and, while its attraction for the beginning serious student of Twain cannot be doubted, there is not a condescending note in its pages. Anyone who reads, studies or teaches Twain, at any level, would be well-advised to keep a copy handy for reference and entertainment purposes.
Twenty-two sections comprise this issue, beginning with an introduction written by Roy Blount Jr. which is a modified version of his essay that appeared in the 2008 Time issue. Blount provides a broad contextual history and a cogent, convincing invitation to anyone who asks, "What does he [Twain] have to do with the issues of our day?" Blount's introduction is accompanied by a timeline in which the major milestones of Twain's life are juxtaposed with significant contemporaneous events in U.S. and world history.
None of the discussions in each section are explored in any great depth, but any newcomer in the world of Twain studies, and even a few veterans, will be entertained by the wide variety of subjects that mimic the vast confines of this extraordinary life. Some of the topics are predictable and vital, e.g., discussions of Twain and race; his Hannibal upbringing; and selections from his store of one-liners. Two sections are devoted to Sam's first travels outside of Hannibal, beginning in 1853, and his subsequent adventures as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi. Sections with familiar topics also include Twain's apprenticeship in the American West and his initial successes as a writer and platform speaker. Others topics will be less familiar to the general reader, including discussions of the writers and humorists like Artemus Ward who influenced Twain; his home and family life in Hartford; and the years of self-imposed exile beginning in 1891.
Sections with a more contemporary focus include reviews, by Richard Lacayo, of the two volumes of Twain's Autobiography published by the University of California Press in conjunction with the Mark Twain Project since 2010. Lacayo, a writer and critic for Time, provides a well-informed overview of the contents of each volume and the history and method of Twain's unique approach to setting down his reminiscences and random observations. The concluding section, titled "Disciples and Fellow Travelers," is one of the more interesting pieces, tracing Twain's enduring influence to other prominent writers and entertainers. Profiles of Dorothy Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, Will Rogers, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Chris Rock, and Stephen Colbert, among others, leave no doubt regarding the vitality and persistence of Twain's influence, a cogent response to the question posed by Roy Blount Jr. in his introduction.
The number (113) and quality of the photographs and illustrations is such that they would justify the purchase of this modest volume absent any text. Many of the photos will be familiar to Twain scholars, including the first and last-known photo-portraits of Twain made during his lifetime, but viewing them in the pages of a single volume is an uncommon opportunity, adding an appealing contextual dimension not conveyed by unaccompanied text. The beautiful color photographs of the interior of the Clemens family Hartford house, for example, convey opulence as well as any chapters from The Gilded Age. Two photographic omissions are, however, worthy of mention. There are no photos of Sam Clemens's boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, nor are there any photos of Quarry Farm, the resplendent home overlooking the Chemung Valley in Elmira, New York, where Twain and his family vacationed for many summers and the bulk of the writing for many of his major works, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was accomplished. The geographic depiction of Twain's travels in his five best-known travelogues, reprinted from the 2008 issue of Time, is useful for scholars and readers alike. Steamboat illustrations and photos, including one of the John J. Roe, on which Clemens served as a pilot, and a large-format photo of a stagecoach on the street in 1866 Virginia City, are bound to impress the general reader and reinforce the scholar's familiarity with the experiential underpinnings of Twain's work. No major attribution errors are noted by this reviewer in the captions, and a complete listing of the photo credits is provided on the last page.
In a wide-ranging volume like this, there are bound to be a few hiccups, but these are few and trivial, e.g., a typo (?) in a reference to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which Twain "described the novel in 1895, 19 (sic) years after it was published " In one photo caption, Twain is described as "in the last decade of his life, when his temperament turned bitter...(84)," a conclusion which has been cogently brought into question by the research of Michael Shelden in his 2010 book, Mark Twain: Man in White, The Grand Adventure of His Final Years. The Time caption, of course, is not an error, but a disputable and commonly-held opinion, a quibble in the context of this well-produced volume.
Time has done a more than creditable job in its choice of topics, research and production, with much of the credit due to the assistance of the usual suspects, the directors and staff of the Mark Twain Project in Berkeley, the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, and the Mark Twain House in Hartford. Kelly Knauer is listed as the "Editor/Writer" for this special issue and Tresa McBee is credited as its "Researcher." There are two "Special Thanks" sections in the credits, one including twenty-seven names of individuals employed by Time Home Entertainment, and the second, with specific mention of people familiar to Mark Twain scholars: Bob Hirst, Sharon Goetz, Vic Fischer, Mallory Howard, Steve Courtney and Henry Sweets.
Introductory volumes on the life and work of Mark Twain are hardly scarce commodities, and being distinctive in this particular universe is nothing less than an unlikely prospect, but Time, Inc. has succeeded in producing a Twain primer that leaves no doubt regarding his legacy and relevance. Like the 2001 Ken Burns film production of the Mark Twain documentary released on PBS in 2002, this Time special issue will appeal to a wide audience. The best recommendation I can make for this volume is for the Twainiac who reads these reviews and has friends who are mystified by the obsession with a dead "humorist." If such friends can browse the Time special issue and remain unimpressed with the life and work of its subject, my advice is to let them buy their own beer.
These special issues are usually available at most magazine
racks and book stores. Both the Mark Twain House in Hartford and the Boyhood
Home in Hannibal plan to make them available for purchase via their website.


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Friday, September 16, 2011
Saturday Sampling, September 17th, 2011
If you're looking for some great posts to catch up on, this is the place! Saturday Sampling, a collection of our favorite posts from around the blog world.
Important! Today I came up with what I think is a great idea. I would like to offer the opportunity for anyone interested to host Saturday Sampling next week on their blog. I would still hang up a shingle, but I'd provide a link to your blog, where you would collect the post links, instead of me. The next week, I'd send folks to a different host blog, in the same way. This way, readers would get a sampling of your blog, as well as others! You might meet some new friends, and I would get a Saturday off. Let me know what you think! If you'd be interested in hosting Saturday Sampling over at your place, let me know in the comments, and I'll set up a schedule.
And now, for your linking pleasure!
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Oh! I love it! What a great idea : ) Add me to your list, k?ReplyDelete
Thats a great idea, I'd actually love to host! I love your new profile pic...very nice!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
I would at some point, but I am so tech challenged! It might wind up being more work for you!ReplyDelete
Happy Saturday, all. Today is my son's 5th birthday party blast. Prayers and good thoughts are appreciated that this sick mama can make it through!
I think a blog carnival is a great idea! Count me in.ReplyDelete
BTW - Wanted you to know while I don't usually comment, I always read and totally enjoy your Friday Fragments.
Hope the block party was fun!
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If your French is no good, or even your Latin then don't worry because Mathieu Marano from Final Cut MTL is just introducing Rob Bessette from Blackmagic Design and gives you a great outline with some of the newer features in the DaVinci Resolve 10 software programme.
However you may get a different version of the video that starts a minute in after the french intro. I have played the video a few times and get an ad that then skips the video's actual introduction.
Anyways the guys in English thankfully thoroughly rip apart the new version of DaVinci Resolve 10 in this 20 minute clip.
Check out the other great videos the guys from Final Cut MTL have.


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Jack Johnson Announces New Album, 'All The Light Above It Too' + New Single, New Tour Dates, Listen!
Jack Johnson will release his seventh studio album, All The Light Above It Too, available September 8 through Brushfire Records. The album's first single, "My Mind Is For Sale", was released today, accompanied by a lyric video and is now available for purchase through all digital platforms, along with the full album pre-order here. Listen to "My Mind Is For Sale" via the embedded clip above.
All The Light Above It Too was recorded over the past year at Jack's Mango Tree Studio in Hawaii. For the first time in years Johnson handled most of the instrumentation himself, echoing the four-track recordings that launched his career over 17 years ago. He worked with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas), and brought in the band to play on a few of the tracks.
There are a limited number of exclusive album bundles being offered on Jack's online store. Order All The Light Above It Too vinyl or CD bundle which come complete with a Jack Johnson Steelys stainless steel pint cup and cup holder. The vinyl is a blue and clear color swirl and each piece will be unique. If you prefer digital music but have a hankering for something collectible, order the digital album and lithograph bundle and the first 500 will be autographed by Jack. Get your album HERE.
Jack Johnson 2017 Tour Dates
July 13 – 29 West Coast Tour ALL DATES SOLD OUT
August 4 Honolulu, HI Waikiki Shell * (Limited Tickets Still Available)
August 5 Honolulu, HI Waikiki Shell % (SOLD OUT)
Sept 10 San Juan Capistrano, CA Ohana Fest – Doheny State Park
Sept 27 Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheatre ~
Sept 28 Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion ~
Sept 29 Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union at Music Park ~
Sept 30 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheatre ~
Oct 2 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre ~
Oct 3 St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Amphitheatre ~
Oct 4 Tampa, FL MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre ~
Oct 5 West Palm Beach, FL Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre ~
Nov 2 Lima, Peru Jockey Club
Nov 14 Santiago, Chile Espacio Riesco
* with special guests G. Love (solo set) and Ron Artis II
% with special guests G. Love (solo set) and Jake Shimabukuro
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24 Oct Smart grid solutions for water efficiency at WETEX 2018
Bahri & Mazroei Group to present optimised and smart grid solutions that strengthen the efficiency and productivity of water and energy utilities at WETEX 2018
Bahri & Mazroei Group, along with its subsidiary Bahri & Mazroei Technical Systems (BMTS), the UAE's leading solutions and service provider for Power, Automation, Security, Audio Visuals, Fire protection-detection, is presenting an advanced suite of technologies optimised to enhance the efficiency and productivity of water and energy utilities at the Water, Energy, Technology and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) 2018 to be held until October 25 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Center.
BMTS has a strong track-record of supporting the commercial, infrastructure , Industrials and in particular on the power and water utilities covering all applications such as water pumping stations, water treatment and desalination plants, water transmission & distribution, and power generation-transmission-distribution plants through advanced automation solutions such as remote terminal units (RTU), Programmable logic controllers (PLC), Human Machine Interface(HMI), SCADA systems, variable frequency drives (VFD), Metering , Power quality equipments among other general infrastructure solutions.
As the UAE's leading systems integrator with solutions for different building and infrastructure categories, BMTS has continuously expanded its product lines and service portfolios to meet the growing requirements of its these customers and made inroads in industrial and power-water utilities sectors. From providing advanced solutions for buildings to industrial automation to infrastructure development, BMTS has completed several landmark projects in the UAE such as automation solutions for the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), and have undertaken annual maintenance contracts for the PLC systems of the Federal Electricity & Water Authority (FEWA) in Umm Al Quwain.
A highlight of the participation of BMTS this year is the showcase of innovative charging solutions for electric vehicles at its joint stand with SCAME, an Italian manufacturer of connectors and charging stations since 1999. As a pioneer in promoting electric car charging solutions, SCAME has introduced a new series of connectors called Libera, a safer and more evolved series that enables connection for recharging and informed communication between the vehicle and the charging infrastructure.
In addition, BMTS will also present a wider range of innovative solutions for the utilities sector by leading global partners such as Rockwell Automation, Danfoss and Siemens, among others.
Esam Al Mazroei, Vice Chairman Bahri & Mazroei Group, said:
"BMTS has always been frontrunner to adapt to the technological and customer requirements and challenges on multiple industries where we have evolved as one STOP solution and service provider across multiple technologies and end to end services with state of the art investments in our knowhow, facilities and IOT based offerings to our customers.
"The adoption of electric vehicle and the introduction of electric car charging stations have a profound influence on addressing environmental challenges and in supporting the green vision of the UAE. Through the innovative and world-leading technologies showcased by BMTS at WETEX, we are further supporting the nation to adopt cleaner solutions that will help us secure a green future for our coming generations. The key to our participation at WETEX this year is to provide optimised solutions for the power and water utilities, and with our strong track-record, we are confident that the leading exhibition will further strengthen our business partnerships."


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Your Subconscious & the Mindset of Choice
The subconscious you and your mindset of choice. I'm always fascinated by how we seem to breeze through life with so much going on around us and within us. We socialise, run around with our kids, work, eat, digest, breathe, talk, move our bodies, get stuck on thoughts from the past, thoughts of the future and feel all sorts of emotions as the day rolls on. And just to remind you, 95% of the stuff I've just listed is going on autonomously! Without your conscious mind having to be present at all!
Your phenomenal body runs itself on auto pilot - you don't have to be aware that your heart is beating or that you are breathing or the food you ate 3 hours ago is well on it's way past the duodenum heading into the small intestine after your gall bladder has squirted out some bile to help you break down that fatty food you just ate.
You don't have to be consciously aware that you need to swing your arms to create momentum and fall in sync with your legs as you walk. And to top this off, most of the time you're not consciously choosing the thoughts that fly through your head based on what the man at the shop just told you of his weekend and how you responded with your interpretations and reaction to his chain of events, all based on your perspective of how you see and feel your way through life.
WOW hey - how phenomenal are you!! We do all this stuff in life, and some of us hurry through it and do it ever so autonomously. There was a famous quote once said, "if you don't choose life, life still happens to you". Super true.
My weekend events illustrates this perfectly. I went indoor rock climbing for the first time on the Saturday. Whilst I was 30 metres off the ground, supported by a thin rope attached to my harness and a dear buddy on Terra firma holding me, I became aware of how much trust I had put in myself, the rope, the person way down below that was to pull the rope towards the ground should I slip and otherwise fall and crush myself.
I also became aware of how much was going on. The inside of my forearms were screaming as my subconscious apparently thinks if I grip real tight with my fingers, my whole body will be held. I forgot about really using my arms or these amazing legs that are ten times stronger than my arms, let alone my fingers! I was sweating, my heart rate was elevated and my breath intensified. My mind was in certainty mode talking it up. "You can do it Zsuzs, don't be a wuss. This is easy. Just concentrate. Don't give up". I was committed to climbing right to the top, but that took a lot of concentration, and again, I only became aware of that as my friend on the ground called out to me over and over again as she wanted to take a happy snap. I thought to myself, no way can I look, I'm in survival mode here. There was so much going on! In a nutshell, you have to be really present and conscious whilst rock climbing.
Each time I took on a climb, I would make adjustments. Less gripping with my fingers, use my arms & legs more. Slow down my breathing, loose my competitive edge....Ha? Me, competitive...? Never! I only became aware of this when a younger guy was climbing above me and I overtook him, to which he tried to speed up, slipped & swung off the wall. And of course without the harness, he would have had a nasty fall. And here I tell myself and others over and over again that I'm not competitive! Ha! Cats out of the bag.
So, again, I became aware of my subconscious operating system. If you ever asked me if I was competitive, I would always say "no, I'm here for the fun, who cares about winning." Yet, there it was, plain as day.
This story is a great analogy as to the multitude of things that go on beneath the surface of our presentation of ourselves. My intention is always to help you slow things down, so that you can become aware and consciously choose where you career your mind, body and emotions. The ultimate way I know how to do this before the day gets super busy is either to meditate and set an intention or just simply set that intention before you get out of bed.
(APPLY) Try this - tomorrow when you wake up, choose an emotion that serves you. Choose to be happy. Choose to be light. Choose to be unphased by people who may otherwise get under your skin. Choose to be giving, warm, kind... And if physical ailments or illnesses prevail, choose to be well, choose for your knee to be strong, your shoulders to be relaxed. And when the physical discomfort pops up again, send it love and choose to be well.
If your mind is racy and full or overwhelmed, choose to be trusting. Choose to be peaceful, calm, light. Just choose. It takes a macro second in the morning to run the intention for your day through your head before you get up and your beautiful autonomous, subconscious self kicks into gear again. But note, the times when you set up your thinking, feeling, physical & spiritual day, you will feel more invigorated, peaceful and like you indeed are at the helm of operating your life. Try it, and by all means, feel free to email me anytime and let me know how you got on.


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Top 10 Gyms in San Francisco, California
24 Hour Fitness Ocean Sport
24 Hour Fitness Ocean Sport (b/t Jules Ave & Ashton Ave Mount Davidson Manor) located in 1850 Ocean Ave, San Francisco, CA 94112 is one of the locations of the well known 24 Hour Fitness; the world's largest privately owned fitness center chain. 24 Hour fitness was founded in the year 1979 by Mark S. Mastrov.
24 Hour fitness Super Sport is a health and fitness center that believes in changing lives through fitness. The state-of-the-art facility at the 24 Hour Fitness Super Sport fitness center has just about every feature you could wish for in a gym membership. The San Jose health club of 24 Hour Fitness offers a wide range of group exercise classes, personal training and many other benefits and features. Whether you plan to lose weight, tone-up, or train for a big event, the San Jose club offers a wide variety of gym memberships which you can buy online or in-club.
The Ocean Sport Club of the 24 Hour Fitness offers many amenities such as Kids' Club, Coin Collect Lockers, Indoor Lap Pool, TRX Suspension Training, Personal Training, Sauna, Whirlpool, Pro Shop, Full Sized Basketball Court, Cardio Equipment, Towel Service, Group Exercise, Steam Room, Free Weights, Group Cycling, Training Club 24 – IGNITE and Circuit Training.
Nero D, a resident of San Francisco gave a client review on yelp. He reported that the staff is friendly and they always seem to be doing something like picking up weights or helping someone out. He also reported that the gym has everything you need to get in shape but you just might have to wait a little longer on Mondays because it's always chest.
However, Joe N from Sparks reported that the gym is absolute garbage and the staff there are horrible.
You can get in touch with 24 Hour Fitness Ocean Sport on (415) 334-1400, or just visit their business website at http://www.24hourfitness.com/Website/Club/00539 to learn more about them.


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This year I'm writing a diary entry each month for a typical week in the life of a Principal Curator at the Natural History Museum. In the February entry I cover working in the fabulous Minerals Gallery, helping my PhD student using a mobile phone down a microscope, Zoom fail during a talk to a local Geological Society, writing a digital strategy and finishing a paper about the assessment of the entire museum collection.
Monday – Working in the Minerals Gallery
The Museum is carrying out a review of names and representation across our buildings and websites in the light of the Black Lives Matter movement. Part of this process involves assessing labels on specimens in our galleries. One of my staff is remote working by updating labels in the Minerals Gallery. Some specimens have labels that point to legacies of colonies, slavery and empire, for example using Rhodesia instead of Zimbabwe. However, the images of the gallery that he is using do not always have clear details of the labels for checking. I spend a few hours photographing some specimen labels in the gallery to support this work. It is a breath of fresh air to get out of the house to spend time in this magnificent gallery and does wonders for the state of my mental health. I cannot believe that I am the only member of staff suffering from South Kensington withdrawal symptoms.
Tuesday – remotely supporting my PhD student
I am one of several supervisors for Anna McGairy who is a PhD student at the University of Leicester. She started in September but because of restrictions due to the Pandemic, she has not been able to travel to London and meet me at the Natural History Museum. Her labs at Leicester are not available to her so we have been making some thin sections and plan some analytical work on some specimens she has from Vietnam. She's been sending me some images of microfossils that she has taken down the microscope using her mobile phone. It's amazing the quality of image you can obtain by doing this. However, there's no substitute for face-to-face teaching and I hope that we can soon meet up to assess the specimens in person once restrictions are relaxed.
Wednesday – Zoom woes during an invited talk
This evening I am due to give a talk to the Brighton and Hove Geological Society. I have been sent a Zoom link to join up with members of the society. Everything works fine until I need to share my screen. For some reason they cannot see what I can see on my home screen and they do not see me advancing the Powerpoint slides. We use MS Teams at the Museum so I am not very familiar with Zoom and call upon my 10 year old Pelham to come and help me out as he Zooms regularly with his friends. The confusion is because I'm using two parallel screens, a laptop screen and a separate monitor. Eventually I am able to give my talk including the story of the Heron-Allen and Earland Christmas card slides. Amazingly there are two members of the Heron-Allen Society in the audience.
Thursday – writing a digital strategy for Earth Science collections
It is coming up to planning time for the next reporting year when we will need to set targets and write forward job plans. One of my roles is to chair the Earth Science Digital Group and as part of this we have been writing a digital strategy. Digitisation of information relating to our collection is a key part of the Museum Strategy to 2031. During lockdown we have been able to prioritise this activity but will need to increase this level of work in order to achieve our aims of digitisation our entire collection. The move to Harwell for some of our collections will be a big opportunity to increase the rate of digitisation of our collections.
Friday – Assessing the 80 million specimens in the museum
In 2018 the Museum ran a collections assessment survey that has given us data about the state and status of our collection. This is the first time that we have held such a comprehensive survey of our collection and the data is being used to develop strategies for management of the collection including planning the move to the new site at Harwell. I've been involved heavily in the working group that delivered this project and have authored a paper with other members of the team. There are a lot of co-authors on the paper so I have spent several days incorporating final changes after comments on the pre-submission draft. The internal name for the project is "Join the Dots". You may be able to see why from the image above.


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Now Paging the Pages
The U. S. Capitol Page Alumni Association starts rolling into town today for a reunion weekend jam-packed with educational activities and nostalgia-stoking get-togethers. Too bad most of Congress won't be around to participate.
The "Page Alumni Homecoming" not only falls on a long weekend — Memorial Day, for you noncalendar watchers — but also smack-dab between rolling recesses (the House returns just as the Senate skips town) that have kept lawmakers from the two chambers on different pages, so to speak, throughout most of the 112th Congress.
While USCPAA President Jerry Papazian said he is hoping for a stellar turnout — "This first-ever homecoming will bring together Americans who roamed the halls of Congress as young messengers from the World War II era through 9/11 and beyond," he trumpeted in a news release — the reality is that most lawmakers would rather be home for the holiday.
HOH reached out to sitting lawmakers who actually went through the page program. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) was the only one to even tentatively sign on — "Sen. Wicker hopes to attend some of the events," his staff said — for the commemorative confab. The other respondents seemed inclined to sit this one out.
Members who were pages back when include Democratic Reps. John Dingell (Mich.) and Dan Boren (Okla.).
Returning alumni are expected to fan out across the Capitol through Sunday, engaging in panel discussions, tours of the House and Senate floors (plus the Supreme Court) and an awards dinner Saturday night.
In August, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced that they were killing the House page program. They said the decision was based on the findings of a report by independent contractors that found the program costs $5 million a year and that pages' duties have become obsolete because of technology.
The Senate has stuck with its own program.


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Garmin VIRB XE
The Garmin VIRB XE is one of the cameras that offers quality recording. It provides easy access to the users. It offers several photos capturing that is suitable for all your needs.
Whether you take part in fast actions like wing walking or sport, this camera is perfect for capturing all your memorable moments. It has a new feature called G-Metrix. This function is not available in many action cams.
As I mentioned above, the VIRB XE is no different from VIRB X, so the size of both devices is similar. Its weight is 151g with a dimension of 1.4 x 3 x 1.6 inches. The small size indicates the easy use. The action camera is said to be facilely wearable if it's not bulky as no one can ever imagine going on an energy trip with a cam that is hard to wear. Such types of cameras are nothing, but a burden on the head.
If we look at the appearance, this portable action camcorder has a sleek look and black in color. It has an LCD of 1 inch. The construction of this cam is tough that make it shockproof.
Image stabilization
In all the action our body keeps moving or shaking that make it difficult for the camera to capture the images. This camcorder has a stabilization technology that takes every shot clear without any blurriness.
Burst and Time-lapse mode
These are the two modes that can be switched to capture photos. For capturing fast actions, the burst mode is the best as it takes 30 photos in a second. When you turn on the cam, it automatically comes on the time-lapse mode that captures photos at a particle interval; 0.5 seconds to 2 minutes.
Waterproof design
You don't need to a buy a protector for the device as it had a rugged construction and designed to go with you in the water up to 164 inches. Any other camera hardly offers this range. If you want to go in water deeper than this, then you can purchase a dive case to extend the limit.
VIRB Editing and Tracking
The editing software can be downloaded on your PC to edit the footage. This is free software from Garmin. With this, you can write the content, set the G- Metrix gauge, made changes in camera angle, and also add music. When the content is ready, you can share your experience with friends and family. The tracking lets you know the last location of the camcorder.
Single button
You can press the button that is on the top of the action camera to switch it on. The shutter button lets you capture the still photos of the moment. The same button also allows you to start recording the action.
WiFi Connectivity
This connectivity lets you connect the device to your tablet or smartphone. You can preview the videos, edit it, make some other necessary changes, and also add some effects to enhance your footage. After the edit, you can easily share it on the social networking sites.
This action device has integrated GPS and sensor. Plus, it has a capability to external sensors wirelessly and other devices add more data. It adds the speed, heart rate, and many other factors. The additional information with the footage allows you to share your complete experience.
As compared to the "X model", it offers a slight change in resolutions. The various resolutions are designed for different sceneries and environment. You can switch to the one that best suits the moment. The resolution mode includes 1440p at 30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps, 960p at 100fps, 720p at 120fps, and 480p at 240 fps (for slow motion).
Besides the vast range of video resolution, it also captures the photos at 12 megapixels. It adds a professional touch to all the pictures.
It has a proper light that gives a sharp image and high-quality video. It also works fine even in dim light, so you can enjoy the action without getting worried about the footage quality.
The sound system of this highly portable action cam is of top-notch quality. The internal microphone records a clear audio. It only captures exceptional audio of your action as it has a technology that reduces the distortion and noise. Moreover, it has a port to plug in the microphone or wireless Bluetooth.
This camera has a Li-polymer rechargeable battery of 980 mAh that claims to work 2 hours on HD recording. This claim is proven to be true by customer reviews. The battery life is also similar to the previous model of Garmin. An action is completed within 2 hours, but if you like to continue doing several activities in a day, then this life is probably not good enough for you. No need to be sad about it as it has a replaceable battery.
You can purchase some extra batteries for all day long activities so that when one battery finishes, you can replace it with a new one and continue your action.
When we open the box of any product, we will be pleased to see the included accessories as these are the items added by the manufacturers to enhance the performance of the product. Same goes with this action camcorder; the accessories contained in the box are the rechargeable battery, mounting hardware, long extended arms, flat adhesive mount, standard mount adapter, short, extensive arm, curved adhesive mount, vertical mount adapter, data/charging cable.
If you need more accessories like mounts, tools, bags, and cables, then you can buy these required items separately. It also supports a memory card of 128GB that is not included in the box.
Garmin Virb XE
Garmin VIRB XE performance action camera shoots high definition footage at 1080p/60fps. Specifically built for rough conditions, VIRB XE provides gyro based image stabilization and stunning clear 12MP photos at up to 30fps.
Excellent Video Recording
With Image Stabilizer
Good Battery Life
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Halifax has many claims to fame: the birthplace of a building society, a centre for the Georgian wool trade and, more recently, the setting for a BBC1 drama about childhood sweethearts who have one Last Tango in their twilight years.
Now the West Yorkshire town has gained another tagline. According to BBC 6 Music it is "the Shoreditch of the north". The station recently broadcast live from Halifax, rhapsodising its burgeoning craft beer and music scene and raving about the pork pies at the Grayston Unity, the UK's smallest gig venue - capacity 18, or 12 if the band insists on bringing a drum kit).
The town's reputation as a mini music mecca has been growing for a while. The Stone Roses chose Halifax's Victoria theatre for a warm-up gig in June 2016 ahead of their homecoming show in Manchester. The Lantern, a new 150-capacity venue with a great little pub attached, has been sold out every night since it opened in November, welcoming acts from Martha Reeves and the Vandellas to I Am Kloot.
Two of the most hotly tipped bands right now hail entirely or in part from Halifax: Hookworms, who received a five-star review from the Guardian earlier this month, and the Orielles, a dreamy 80s-inspired trio who were signed by the hip Heavenly label when some of its members were still at school.
Both will support Father John Misty, also given five stars by the Guardian, who has chosen Halifax for his one non-London date of the summer. He will headline at the jawdropping Piece Hall, a vast balconied courtyard that looks like Venice's Piazza San Marco transplanted to the West Riding. This incongruous grade I-listed masterpiece is the sole survivor of the great 18th-century northern cloth halls and reopened in August 2017 after a £19m renovation.
Not all hipster tropes are present. A town with this many hills and cobbles is not kind to single-speed bicycles and "you can't get away with having stupid hair or dressing like a twat", according to Matthew Benn, synth player with Hookworms. Twenty-somethings with waxed moustaches tip-tapping at typewriters are mercifully absent.
Nicky Chance-Thompson, the chief executive of the Piece Hall trust, moved up from her native south London 12 years ago. Unlike the leader of the local council, who admitted he didn't know what Shoreditch was when he heard the 6 Music comparison, Chance-Thompson jumped on it.
"Shoreditch gets a knock but what it did was shift the centre of cool away from Soho and become at the forefront of music and fashion. I see that happening here. It's cool because you don't expect it. What you get here is a city vibe in a town context," she said.
Benn moved back to his native Halifax from Leeds when he got "sick of the student lifestyle". The 29-year-old paid £120,000 for a two-bedroom house with a garden in Sowerby Bridge, three miles down the valley. As he puts it: "You couldn't get a shed for that in Leeds."
Chance-Thompson's London friends cannot believe the size of her house. One – "the last person in the world I thought would ever leave London" – has just decided to join her. You can see why: £430,000, the price of a one-bed flat in zone 2, buys a five-bedroom Victorian terrace five minutes from the moors of Brontë country.
Tom Hughes is the manager of the Victorian Craft Beer Café, a beautiful independent pub and the centre of the now annual Indy Fax Beer festival. "It's crazy what's happening in little old Halifax," he said, marvelling at how they were now serving people from Leeds and Manchester when just a few years ago the custom all went in the other direction.
It's not all beer and vinyl. The town's Square Chapel arts centre reopened last year after a £6.6m facelift and the council decided to build a spectacular new library when many others are choosing to shut them down. Then you have Dean Clough, an 8-hectare (20-acre) complex of eight Victorian mills, which houses a gallery, artist studios, cafes and independent businesses.
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visited Piece Hall on Friday, and the heir to the throne was impressed at the town's rejuvenation since his last visit 25 years ago. The royals took a tour of the hall's independent businesses, which include Loafers, a record shop-cum-cafe, and a deli selling wine from gooseberries cultivated in nearby Luddenden valley and a sort of halloumi pressed by a Syrian refugee in Sowerby Bridge.
Cheese is one of Halifax's strong suits. At Westgate Wine & Cheese you can buy a local delicacy known as Yorkshire Fettle, thanks to EU laws that forbid the makers from calling it feta. The town recently got its first artisanal coffee shop when Top Door Espresso opened in the market, selling flat whites and avocado toast for £1.50.
Later this year Shibden Hall, a Grade II*-listed historic house a mile out of town, is set to receive a flood of visitors when it stars in Gentleman Jack, a BBC/HBO co-production written by Sally Wainwright of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley. It stars Suranne Jones as Anne Lister, a lesbian landowner trying to find a wife in 19th-century Yorkshire.
For Nick Simonet, whose Revo record shop is gaining popularity with the resurgence of vinyl and local bands, the town's revival went into overdrive when the Piece Hall reopened. "It was like somebody turning the light on," he said. "Now Halifax is booming again."
The other contenders for Shoreditch of the North?
Chorlton in south Manchester has a vegan cooperative supermarket and has been mocked by the Manchester Evening News for its Fairtrade condiments and the fact that a local bar once held a screening of The Secret Life of Cats.
Hebden Bridge is just eight miles away from Halifax but is in a league of its own. It has a school that offers yoga and meditation in assembly and its Trades Club regularly reaches the final of the NME small venue of the year awards.
Not so long ago Ouseburn in Newcastle was a picture of post-industrial decline. Now it's the city's cultural quarter, home to The Biscuit Factory, a contemporary art gallery, and Seven Stories, the national centre for children's books, plus music venue the Cluny and a pop-up cabaret cinema.


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How To: Backup an iOS Device to iTunes or iCloud
There are many reasons to back up an iOS device. Need to replace that iPhone? Backup and restore! Upgrading to a new iPad? Backup and restore! Sometimes an iOS device just acts weird with no way from the user end to fix them, and a full restore can help a device run in a much smoother manner. As well, the beauty of the restoration process is that a backup can be reinstalled on a completely different device, making upgrading to a new version of the iPhone or iPad easy. It makes upgrading to a new type of device, such as going from iPod touch to iPhone, and even to an iPad possible as well. But how does one go about doing this?
The iTunes backup process is fairly simple. While a backup is created after every device sync, individual full backups can be made by right clicking (or Command-clicking) on the device in the iTunes sidebar, and choosing Back Up. After the lengthy backup process, that backup with its date and time will appear in a list of backups when restoring from iTunes.
iOS 5 introduced iCloud backups and restoring, and these skip iTunes altogether. The advantage to iCloud backup is quite simply that it does not go through iTunes. There's no weirdness involved with apps and media getting inadvertently deleted from a device unintentionally because iTunes decided to replace them. It's much more painless when restoring, and handles downloads from multiple iTunes accounts much easier. As well, iCloud backups happen automatically overnight when charging, so if something bad happens, the restored device will not be far out of date.
The downside is that instead of installing from the computer, it downloads apps from the web, which can take up a long amount of time depending on connection speed and depending on how many apps one is restoring. I have too many apps installed (way more than 148) so I usually leave the process to finish overnight. Note that any media synced from a computer will have to be re-added through iTunes. As well, Apple servers tend to get hammered during new product launches, so early adopters may not enjoy a smooth experience. As well, those who take a lot of photographs and videos will find that the Camera Roll takes up a lot of iCloud space. It becomes a choice between either foregoing backing up the Camera Roll (as individual app backups can be disabled in the iCloud menu) or shelling out for more iCloud space.
iCloud backups must be enabled by selecting it as the backup method in iTunes. While the iCloud backup process is otherwise automatic, it can also be manually initiated by going to Settings -> iCloud -> Storage and Backup -> Back Up Now.
In order to reset a device to restore it as new from iCloud, go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Erase All Content and Settings. This will set it up as if it was a brand new device. Enable iCloud while setting back up, choose to restore from iCloud, and choose the name of the device that was backing up to iCloud that you wish to restore from.


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It's the second half of the year, we begin a new month, and a new week in the seventh month of the year. So yes, taking a moment out of your day to reflect on the past six months of your life would not be a bad idea. In fact it's a healthy decision to make as you get to reflect on the past, count your blessings, see failures, and ask yourself questions. Questions like: the goals i set at the beginning of the year, how many have I achieved? How many did I not achieve? what did I do wrong? What have i done right? how did i get to this point?
If one can succesfully go through these questions and answer them honestly, then trust me the remaining half of the year would be way more productive for you.
FOR those of us who didn't set goals at all, it's another time to do so. I mean you, sir/ma, do not want to live through the next six month as livid as the last six months, because the world is on its own a fast lane and nobody is waiting for anybody, but everybody is on the move to become better in their own world, so everybody has to be on the move to be somebody.
The goals are kind of hard to keep up with, but with constant reminder by oneself of what it is you stand to gain by working on them, you will be surely be moved to keep up.
So dear friends, it's a new week and a new month, the seventh month in the year and a MONDAY. So happy half new year, Just get up and do whatever it is you've been meaning to do!!!
Ps: this is a note to myself but I kind of feel somebody might also need to see this, so I'm sharing. Therefore, let's regroup and comeback at the end of the year with the final report card to check our grades.


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Who Really Has Blood on Their Hands? Not Brave Whistleblowers Like Private Bradley Manning
I am the mother of an Iraq vet who endured two horrific and lengthy tours in Iraq. I have just written a letter of support to Pvt. Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old intelligence analyst suspected of passing videos and documents to Wikileaks. Manning is now in pre-trial confinement in Quantico, VA, facing decades in prison and, if Congressman Mike Rogers has his way, the death penalty. I encourage you to write a letter to this brave young man and CODEPINK will deliver it to him during a rally on Sunday in Quantico, near Washington DC. To submit a letter to be delivered please email it to us at CODEPINK!
In the midst of all the grief my family has endured and the sorrow I feel for the Afghans and Iraqis who have died, I am grateful that someone out there was courageous enough to bring the powerful and dreadful truths about these wars into the light.
Admiral Mullen said that those responsible for the leaks have blood on their hands. But no one could possibly have more blood on their hands than the Bush/Cheney regime and now the Obama administration--the blood of our troops, the tears of their families, the legacy of the innocents killed and maimed in these immoral wars.
With these Wikileaks horrors revealed, it will not be so easy for politicians to convince us that these wars are just, that they are worth bankrupting our nation, or that we can achieve peace by more killing. My hope is that the national discussion that has emerged from the videos and documents will hasten the day when our troops come home. For that, the whistleblowers deserve our deepest thanks.


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This post is simply "for the record," in light of the distortions of the facts posted elsewhere.
Last Sunday, I was perusing that Branden-worshipping cesspool of a discussion forum known as "Objectivist Living." I noticed the following announcement in a thread entitled Phoenix Objectivists start new lecture series:
Posted by Mike Renzulli on Apr 19 2008, 01:47 PM:
When: Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Black Bear Diner
2410 West Bell Road
Phoenix, AZ
Admission: Attendees must buy something to eat.
Event Description: For our first meeting at our new location and the last of the month, we will listen to the first in a six-part pre-recorded lecture series done by Diana Mertz-Hsieh titled: Objectivism 101 which was a lecture Mrs. Hsieh gave at The Atlas Society's Summer Seminar in 2003.
Ayn Rand's novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged offer a unique and inspiring moral vision, but translating those ideals into daily life can be challenging. Through a mixture of lecture and discussion, Diana Mertz Hsieh will survey the basic principles of Objectivism, from metaphysics to aesthetics.
She will focus on both the theory and practice of the philosophy, contrasting it with common religious and cultural views. Ideas discussed in these six sessions will include reason as the only means to knowledge, free will as the choice to think or not, the integration of mind and body, emotions as automatic value judgments, life as the standard of value, the major virtues, the trader principle, capitalism as the only moral social system, and much more.
Mrs. Hsieh is a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
I was more than a bit surprised to learn that I was to be the lecture series! I'd not been contacted by anyone about playing my lectures at this meeting.
By way of background, the six-lecture series was given at the last Summer Seminar of The Objectivist Center I attended. While I'm still reasonably proud of those lectures, precisely because I worked hard to clearly and accurately present Ayn Rand's Objectivism, I'm sure that I'd find all kinds of problems with them if I listened to them now. So as a general matter, I'm not too keen on the idea of anyone playing them before a group, particularly not without some strong warning that I do not vouch for the content and that I've disassociated myself from The Objectivist Center (today, The Atlas Society).
After some inquiries to Arizona friends, I was pointed to the web site for the Phoenix Objectivists. (That's not the same group as the Arizona Objectivists, a group that I've had nothing but good dealings with in the past.) Any possible willingness to allow my lectures to be played at the Phoenix Objectivists disappeared when I saw its page of links: it's a "Who's Who" list of dishonest pseudo-Objectivists, without a single link to anything associated with or supportive of the Ayn Rand Institute. It even lists "ARI Watch" (!!). Basically, I don't wish to provide any kind of value to the very people so invested in attacking me and mine. (I also saw from other web surfing that the group's leader Mike Renzulli is actively involved with the Libertarian Party.)
So I wrote the following letter to the e-mail address for the group listed on the web site.
From: Diana Hsieh
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:49:56 -0600
To: Subject: My Objectivism 101 Lectures
Mike —
I recently saw your announcement to Objectivist Living about your forthcoming event(s) featuring my Objectivism 101 lectures. You should know that those lectures are copyrighted — and that the copyright is held by me. (TOC's copyright expired after two years.) So you cannot play them before an audience without my permission.
Given what I've seen on the Phoenix Objectivists web site, I am not willing to grant you permission. You might be a decent fellow, but I do not wish to be associated the promotion of destructive and dishonest critics of Ayn Rand and Objectivism — as found on your web site. (If you wish to know my reasons for those judgments, you are welcome to peruse the many essays I've written at http://www.dianahsieh.com/ff.)
If you choose to go ahead with your plans, I won't stop you. However, you should know that you would be violating my property rights. The moral wrong of that should be obvious.
You are welcome to forward this letter to anyone you please.
In response, he asked for documentation of my claims. Meanwhile, he began a thread on Objectivist Living entitled Diana Mertz-Hsieh nasty gram (!!) with the following:
Posted by Mike Renzulli on Apr 21 2008, 05:48 PM
Well Folks,
Diana Mertz-Hsieh has struck again. As it turns out, she just sent me an e-mail stating that she doesn't give me permission to play her Objectivism 101 lectures for my group's meeting coming up this Thursday.
Hsieh says that she holds the copyright for it, that TAS's copyright for her lectures has expired and, while she will not stop me, she states that my doing so would be stealing her intellectual property.
I already have a call into Ed Hudgins at TAS to see if what she is saying is accurate. I may have to bag using the lectures until the legalities of doing so are cleared up unless someone on these boards knows otherwise.
Regardless if she is right or not, its one more feather in her cap of making an ass out of herself.
As you might imagine from that "OL" crowd, the replies were even worse. (Note that Mike didn't actually see fit to post my actual e-mail, as I expressly gave him permission to do.) So, feeling less than generous at that point, I replied to his request for documentation as follows:
From: Diana Hsieh
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:40:31 -0600
To: M Renzulli
Subject: Re: My Objectivism 101 Lectures
You should have done your homework before you scheduled the event, e.g. by e-mailing me to inquire about any required permission. The fact that you failed to do so doesn't oblige me to rush to get you the documentation at the last minute. I'm certainly not going to do so while you and your friends on Objectivist Living are attacking me left and right for the mere assertion of my rights and other imaginary moral evils.
So here's what I'll say:
(1) My TOC contract was standard: the rights reverted to me after two years, if TOC didn't publish the lectures in some form other than "TOC Live.". TOC didn't do that, so the copyright is now held by me. You can inquire with TOC about that.
(2) The difference between listening rights and performance rights is well-established in copyright law. You're playing my lecture at a public event in a public venue, advertised on the web to anyone and everyone, not at a private party for friends. You can inquire with a lawyer about that.
Since then, Mike has begun a new OL thread solely devoted to wild speculations about my psychology, without the slightest bit of concern for my actual and stated reasons for rejecting The Objectivist Center, condemning people like Nathaniel Branden and Chris Sciabarra, and now endorsing the Ayn Rand Institute. He likens me to a religious dogmatist and a communist enforcer. He claims that I've sold my soul for the cause. He claims that I'm seeking to appease the ARI hierarchy for the sake of publication venues and job opportunities. Um, okay.
Mike also sent me two further e-mails. He told me that he expects an apology from me if I'm wrong in my legal claims. He said he'll do the same if he's wrong, but given his absolutely libelous personal attacks on me on OL, that's of no value whatsoever. He's also suggested that I just ask him nicely not to play the lectures. Fat chance of that: I shouldn't have to ask nicely for him to respect my rights, particularly not while he spits in my face. (Do I need to ask a car thief to please not take my car?!?)
In any case, yesterday afternoon, I finally dug up my old "Speaker's Agreements" with The Objectivist Center. The following e-mail to the relevant folks at The Atlas Society explains the exact terms of the contract:
From: Diana Hsieh
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:44:43 -0600
To: Gene Holloway , Ed Hudgins
Conversation: Termination of Rights to Lecture Recordings
Subject: Termination of Rights to Lecture Recordings
Ed and Gene –
Due to the plans of Mike Renzulli to play one of my past TOC lectures at a public event this week despite my protests, I recently reviewed my speaker's agreements with TOC for lectures given in 2001, 2002, and 2003. (I could not find my contract for my 2000 lecture.)
Before I reviewed the contracts, my recollection was that all rights to the recording automatically reverted to me after two years, provided that TOC didn't publish an official recording (as opposed to a "TOC Live" tape). However, that's not quite accurate, as you can see from the following quoted clause:
"If TOC fails to produce or arrange the production of the Recording for use as a permanent product carried by The Objectivism Store within 24 months following the delivery of the Work, either party has the right to terminate this portion of the agreement. In case of termination of this agreement under this clause, all rights to the Recording, except the right of TOC to maintain a copy for archival purposes, revert to Speaker."
(The same basic clause is found in my 2001 and 2002 contracts. I presume that it is also in my 2000 contract.)
So: I hereby terminate all of TOC's (or The Atlas Society's) rights to recordings of my past lectures, except the right to maintain a copy for archival purposes.
Obviously, I can't imagine that you'd ever want to do anything with my past lectures for TOC, but I did wish to officially terminate your rights to them, in case such a strange situation ever arises again.
Also, I should mention that as far as I understand the contract, TOC has never had any right to license the work to be played in public. (As far as I know, you've not done that with Mike Renzulli.)
I have attached a scan of the relevant page of the 2003 contract.
Finally, please confirm your receipt of this e-mail and acknowledge the termination of rights.
Thank you,
Diana Mertz Hsieh
As for the question of rights to public performance, Paul found this handy summary of the relevant law (and this one and this one and this one and this one) for me. It's very clear that an event open to the public, held in a public venue, and advertised on public message boards and web sites does not qualify as a private performance on par with inviting friends over to watch a movie.
Also, I should mention that I've spoken repeatedly with two lawyers about this matters over the past few days. Both of them used to speak at TOC, and so they are familiar with TOC's "Speaker's Agreements." On both legal and moral grounds, they wholly support my right to refuse permission to play these lectures.
I don't expect any further troubles on this issue — except more of the usual crap from OL — but I did wish to set the record straight. To put it bluntly, Mike Renzulli hasn't a legal or moral leg to stand on. He doesn't have the right to play my lectures before an audience just because he bought the tapes. I don't have any obligation to assist a man who actively subverts my values. He's also behaved in a less than gentleman-like fashion, without any provocation. Still, I won't hold my breath waiting for that apology.
Update: On October 10, 2011, Mike posted a public apology. Thanks, Mike, that's appreciated.


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For nearly 30 years now, downtown Hartford has hosted one of the country's great celebrations of that genuinely American musical form of jazz. And the 2018 edition of this beloved event is fast approaching—now's the time to book your Goodwin guest room or suite so you're in the audience for it!
We're speaking, of course, of the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, the biggest free jazz concert event in all of New England. More than 70,000 music lovers took in its singular pleasures in 2017, and what'll likely be a comparable contingent of festivalgoers will be on hand Friday, July 20th through Sunday, July 22nd for this year's iteration.
The 2018 Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz: Location & Lineup
As usual, the 27th annual Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz will go down in the oldest public greenspace in the country: Bushnell Park, less than a mile from our boutique hotel here on Haynes Street. There's an illustrious register of past performers at the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, including Nancy Wilson, Herbie Mann, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Pamela Williams, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio, and this year's participants certainly continue the top-shelf tradition.
The festival's Opening Ceremony gets underway at 6:30 PM on Friday, followed by a lively concert by the acclaimed Connecticut jazz/salsa band Orquesta Espada that'll feature flautist Nestor Torres and Alisha's House of Salsa Dancers. Spyro Gyra closes out the festival's first night beginning at 9 PM. Saturday's Pavilion Stage lineup includes Trombeatz (2:30 PM), Ace Livingston (4:30 PM), and Michon Young (6:30 PM), with evening performances by Elan Trotman Caribbean Connection (8:30 PM), the Side Street Dancers (10:30 PM), and Andy Bassford's Jazz Conspiracy (10:45 PM).
On Sunday, the Funky Dawgz Brass Band takes the stage at 2:30 PM, followed by Jocelyn Pleasant and the Lost Tribe (4 PM), the Mike Casey Trio with Benito Gonzalez (6 PM), and the Azar Lawrence Experience finishing off the festival at 8 PM.
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Besides the stellar music, the Greater Hartford Jazz Festival will also feature a wide range of food vendors as well as a well-stocked arts-and-crafts marketplace.
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Fortnite Season 5 starting on July 12
Fortnite is not as old as other online multiplayer games with millions of players, such as World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, or World of Tanks, but it definitely managed to quickly gain a large following. Considered by Epic Games as a cross between Left 4 Dead and Minecraft, Fortnite is now less than three days away from the Season 5 adventure of its Battle Royale mode that quickly turned into a standalone game after its introduction.
Around two months ago, Season 4 arrived with a meteor strike that changed some parts of the map completely, also adding new features and new modes. Now, the time has come for Epic Games to take the strange rift events one step further, although the changes have not been unveiled yet.
During Season 4, an in-game missile launch caused random objects to show up, such as a carriage from the Old West or the Durr Burger statue from Greasy Grove, but these rifts also cause the removal of some parts of the map. To make it all even more interesting, a real-life Durr Burger statue was placed in the real world, near Palmdale, California.
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The Three Brothers
Fairy tale by The Brothers Grimm
There was once a man who had three sons, and nothing else in the world but the house in which he lived. Now each of the sons wished to have the house after his father's death; but the father loved them all alike, and did not know what to do; he did not wish to sell the house, because it had belonged to his forefathers, else he might have divided the money amongst them. At last a plan came into his head, and he said to his sons, "Go into the world, and try each of you to learn a trade, and, when you all come back, he who makes the best masterpiece shall have the house."
The sons were well content with this, and the eldest determined to be a blacksmith, the second a barber, and the third a fencing-master. They fixed a time when they should all come home again, and then each went his way.
It chanced that they all found skilful masters, who taught them their trades well. The blacksmith had to shoe the King's horses, and he thought to himself, "The house is mine, without doubt." The barber only shaved great people, and he too already looked upon the house as his own. The fencing-master got many a blow, but he only bit his lip, and let nothing vex him; "for," said he to himself, "if you are afraid of a blow, you'll never win the house."
When the appointed time had gone by, the three brothers came back home to their father; but they did not know how to find the best opportunity for showing their skill, so they sat down and consulted together. As they were sitting thus, all at once a hare came running across the field. "Ah, ha, just in time!" said the barber. So he took his basin and soap, and lathered away until the hare came up; then he soaped and shaved off the hare's whiskers whilst he was running at the top of his speed, and did not even cut his skin or injure a hair on his body. "Well done!" said the old man, "your brothers will have to exert themselves wonderfully, or the house will be yours."
Soon after, up came a nobleman in his coach, dashing along at full speed. "Now you shall see what I can do, father," said the blacksmith; so away he ran after the coach, took all four shoes off the feet of one of the horses whilst he was galloping, and put him on four new shoes without stopping him. "You are a fine fellow, and as clever as your brother," said his father; "I do not know to which I ought to give the house."
Then the third son said, "Father, let me have my turn, if you please;" and, as it was beginning to rain, he drew his sword, and flourished it backwards and forwards above his head so fast that not a drop fell upon him. It rained still harder and harder, till at last it came down in torrents; but he only flourished his sword faster and faster, and remained as dry as if he were sitting in a house. When his father saw this he was amazed, and said, "This is the master-piece, the house is yours!"
His brothers were satisfied with this, as was agreed beforehand; and, as they loved one another very much, they all three stayed together in the house, followed their trades, and, as they had learnt them so well and were so clever, they earned a great deal of money. Thus they lived together happily until they grew old; and at last, when one of them fell sick and died, the two others grieved so sorely about it that they also fell ill, and soon after died. And because they had been so clever, and had loved one another so much, they were all laid in the same grave.
From Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Household Tales, trans. Margaret Hunt (London: George Bell, 1884)
Household tales by the Brothers Grimm
Notes: Translated by Margaret Hunt, this is the only book that contains the complete collection of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales - 200
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Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Published: 1884
Translator: Margaret Hunt
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced on Tuesday that the conforming loan limits for mortgages acquired by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would increase to $510,400 in 2020, an increase of 5.38% over the 2019 limit of $484,350. This will be the fourth straight year that the FHFA has increased the conforming loan limits.
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Team UVify is excited to announce that Red Bull has invited us to take part in the DR.ONE event taking place between 29 – 30 September 2017 at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria
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Students from Kashmir University's prestigious Institute of Music and Fine Arts (IMFA) have bagged top awards in various competitions/events held recently.
According to a statement issued here, Suhaib Ahmad Hakeem from 2nd year (Applied Art) won the first position (cash prize of Rs 50,000 and a certificate) in the Calligraphy Competition/Exhibition held during the Pahalgam Winter Carnival by the Directorate of Tourism, J&K. NumairQadri and Anis Rashid from 4th year (Applied Art) bagged an award of Rs 1000 USD each in the Creative Activism Awards by Iara Lee Foundation. The ILF awards are designed to maintain and expand important work of artists, musicians, writers, designers etc in pursuit of social justice and creative expression. SnowberTrumboo from 3rd year (Sculpture) qualified for nationals (going to be held soon) in the HDFC and Red FM Talent Unlock (North Regional Level Winner competition).
Vice-Chancellor Prof Talat Ahmad Saturday felicitated the awardees at a modest ceremony held in the lawns of the VC Secretariat. Registrar DrNisar Ahmad Mir, Principal IMFA Dr Mohammad Hussain and Special Secretary to VC DrTanveer A Shah were present on the occasion.
Congratulating the students for bringing laurels to the university, Prof Talat appreciated the efforts of IMFA in encouraging its students to participate in different competitions. He also wished the students best of luck for their future endeavors.
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Check for corrosion, cock and force at the specified height. Any visible pitting is cause for replacing the valve spring. Significant corrosion can cause premature failure. If the spring is cocked more than .030", discard it. It will cause uneven wear on the valve
stem and face and the valve guide. The specifications we use for minimum force are: '33-48 37 lbs @ 2 1/8", '49-51 40 lbs @ 2 1/8", '51-53 39 lbs @ 1 57/64". These are from 1940 and 1953 Motor's Auto Repair Manuals.
The late springs are shorter and are checked at a shorter height to accommodate the two piece spring retainers which allowed valve rotation. This setup does not accommodate the higher lift hot rod cams, although lifts of up to about .350" are usually OK.
Check for coil bind.
Spring Retainers
Seldom do you have to replace spring retainers except to change type. Occasionally, they will sustain mechanical damage during tear down. Some of the new replacement 49-51 spring retainers have improper angles and/or rough machining in the split lock area. Check this; just because parts are new does not mean that they are right. The 32-48 retainers are less critical in this area.
Split Locks 49-53 only
Split locks may show wear but are typically reusable. They are inexpensive to replace, even with modern hardened split locks.
Check for the mechanical condition in the guide retainer groove and in the groove for the removal tool. 32-48 split guides are difficult to check for stem to guide clearance. If you put a test valve in the split guide, and hold the halves oriented correctly, you may lightly tighten them in a vise to check clearance
with a dial indicator. They sometimes have as much as .007" clearance with all new parts. We try to hold a maximum of .005", especially on intake valves.
The 49-53 solid guides are much easier to check; they can be held in a vise and checked with the dial indicator. New parts usually yield .002 to .003" clearance, we use a wear limit of .005".
Some guide bores in the block are oversize from chemical stripping or other causes. If guides are loose in the guide
bores the guides can be plated with copper.
For some high performance engines, guides are machined on the top to promote more airflow. Sometimes this is done with the guide bonded in place with Loctite. These guides would then be dedicated to that port in the machined orientation.
Guide Locks
These are usually damaged beyond use during teardown; replace them.
Current practice generally is to allow
between ½ and I degree of interference between the valve face angle and the valve seat angle. The stated angle for the valve face is smaller than for the valve seat, resulting in line contact at the top of the valve seat surface. This, when done properly, gives a gas tight seal without lapping.
If you must lap, remove all traces of compound before assembly. This is not easy to do because the lapping compound panicles are actually imbedded in the metal.
Grinding of valve seats is
typically done with three or more stones, each with a different angle. The top "corner "between the seat angle (usually 45 degrees) and the top angle (usually 30 degrees) should be under the head of the valve, falling near the outside of the face. The inside angle stone(s) (60 75 degrees) then narrow the seat to the specified width.
There are now some cutters that cut all the angles at the same time.
For use with unleaded gasoline, the exhaust valve seats should be
of a hard, tough material. Many of the '48 and earlier already have these, as do some of the '49'53. The intake seats may be cast iron and the stock or normal aftermarket replacement valves are fine for unleaded fuel.
Next issue we will talk about assembly.
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