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Master blaster's 40th birthday
There are Millions who Watch the Matches Only for the Little Master
He is Celebrated As the God Of Cricket
His Records and Achievements are Uncountable and Unbeatable
Today , Sachin Celebrates His 40th Birthday
Hearty Birthday Wishes to the Legend
on Behalf of
Team WI
As a celebration of Master Blaster's 40th birthday,Team WI recollects Little Master's records from various other sources and organizing it as a collective and coherent article
40 Years – 40 Achievements
A TASTE OF TESTS (1989): At 16 years and 205 days, Sachin became the youngest player to earn a Test cap for India. His debut match was against Pakistan in Karachi.
BREAKTHROUGH SERIES (1990): Sachin justified the faith shown in him during India's tour of England. At the age of 17, he became the second youngest player to score a Test century, hitting a match-saving 119. Tendulkar finished the series with an average of 61.25.
DUKE OF YORK (1992): Sachin earned the distinction of becoming the first overseas-born player to represent Yorkshire in the English County Championship.
HOME HERO (1993): Tendulkar had to wait four years after his debut to score a century at home, but when it came it was one of his most memorable and dominating. His innings of 165 in Madras against England was studded with 24 fours and a six.
BOWLING 'EM OVER (1993): Sachin showed he couldn't just bat, but do magic with the ball as well. He added another feather in his cap when he bowled India to victory in the Hero Cup final against South Africa by giving away just three runs in the last over.
OPEN & SHUT CASE (1994): We tend to forget nowadays that Sachin didn't start his career as an opener. It was five years into his career that he first tried his hand at opening and became an instant hit. His first ODI innings as an opener was an 82 off 49 balls.FIRST ODI TON (1994): Soon after he started opening the innings, Sachin brought up his maiden one-day century.
REWARD FOR SUCCESS (1994): Sachin's sporting achievements are recognised by the Indian government, which bestows the Arjuna Award on him.
RISE TO THE TOP (1995): Sachin wasn't quite talked about as a greatest batsman of all time just yet, but his status as the best batsman of his era was confirmed when he was rated No. 1 by the prestigious Coopers and Lybrands ratings.
AD SENSATION (1995): Sachin was well on his way to become the brand phenomenon that he is by signing a then-record sports management deal with Worldtel for 30 crore rupees over 5 years.
BEST IN THE BUSINESS (1997): Sachin's growing reputation got a major boost when the respected Wisden Almanack adjudged him the Cricketer of the Year. Moreover, just eight years since his Test debut, Sachin received India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.
A YEAR TO REMEMBER (1998): Sachin was at his best in both Tests and ODIs. He scored centuries in three consecutive Tests against the touring Australians. In ODIs, he hammered nine centuries in 12 months, to take his career tally past 18 — the record at the time. He also became the fifth player in ODI history to score more than 7,000 runs.
HITTING IT OFF WITH THE DON (1998): Sachin met the late Sir Don Bradman during his 90th birthday celebrations. The Australian legend said he saw a lot of himself in the Indian maestro.
MAKE IT A DOUBLE (1999): Sachin showed he couldn't just score quickly, but dig in as well. He scored his first Test double century (217 against New Zealand), also notching up 5,000 runs during the same year. In ODIs, he made the highest score by an Indian at the time — 186 not out. He was also made the captain of the Indian side for the second time in his career. He received the Padma Shri as well.
PAST THE QUARTER (2000): Even though India struggled and the burden of captaincy showed on him, runs and centuries both kept coming for Sachin. He scored his 25th ODI century and passed 9,000 runs in ODIs.ON PAR WITH THE DON (2001): The day that Sachin had dreamt of as a kid finally arrived. He equaled Sir Donald Bradman's record of 29 Test centuries by scoring 117 against the West Indies at the Port of Spain.
SCALING THE 10K PEAK (2001): There was no record too big for Sachin. He became the first batsman in the history of limited overs cricket to score 10,000 runs.
CENTURY OF TESTS (2002): On September 5, Sachin became the youngest player from any country to play 100 Tests. He was just 21 years old then.
NO LOOKING BACK (2003): It was World Cup year again and Sachin dominated. India lost to Australia in the final, but Sachin emerged the highest run-scorer of the tournament, earning the best player award. While playing against Pakistan in the group match, Sachin scored his 12,000th ODI run.
LORD OF THE ODI RING (2005): Sachin's aggregate in ODIs rose to 13,000 runs and he also surpassed former Pakistan all-rounder Wasim Akram's record for most ODI appearances by playing in his 357th match.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS (2006): Sachin played his 132nd Test, the most by any Indian ever, at his home ground in Mumbai.
AN ICON & A HERO (2006): Sachin signed a contract with Saatchi and Saatchi's Iconix, valued at 180 crores over 3 years, making him the highest-earning cricketer in the world. Time magazine names him as one of their 'Asian Heroes'.HIGH PRAISE FROM RIVALS (2007): One of Sachin's greatest rival showered him with an unexpected compliment. Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne names him at Number 1 on his list of 50 greatest cricketers ever. Sachin also became the first batsman to score 1,000 runs in a calendar year on seven separate occasions.
AWESOME FOURSOME (2010): Sachin became one of the few players to have scored four centuries in as many consecutive Test matches. The first two came against Bangladesh, while the others were scored against South Africa. His Test century count had now risen to 47.
DOUBLE DHAMAKA (2010): It had been spoken about for a few years, but no batsman had managed to get it. It was only fitting then that Sachin Tendulkar should push the envelope once again by scoring the first ODI double century, a 200 not out against South Africa.
FIFTY FIESTA (2010): Sachin continued his great form in the away series against South Africa as well. At Centurion, he scored 111 not out, his 50th century in Test cricket.PROUDEST MOMENT (2011): Sachin got his hands on the one trophy that had eluded him through his career — the World Cup. The master blaster was overjoyed and said, "Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. … I couldn't control my tears of joy."
PILE OF RUNS (2011): Sachin continued to add runs to his Test tally. Against the West Indies in Delhi, during his 182nd match and his 300th innings, he scored his 15,000th Test run. Reaching the milestone had taken the master blaster 21 years and 358 days.
TON OF TONS (2012): It took some time and the wait was excruciating, but eventually Sachin achieved the unthinkable once again — 100 international 100s. After a delay of more than a year, Sachin reached the remarkable feat with a century against Bangladesh during the Asia Cup.
Most First-class tons(2012): The master blaster scored an unbeaten knock of 140 runs for Mumbai in the Irani Trophy against Rest of India. This was his 81st hundred in first-class cricket, equaling Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record for most first-class hundreds.
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I'm super sneezy, my throat is scratchy, and I've been sooo tired the last few days. But my body is putting up a valiant effort, I must say. Despite the sickening amounts of hershey's kisses and root beer I've ingested over the past two days, I'm pretty sure my white blood cells have been strapping on full body armor and kicking some random virus booty.
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I know ya'll won't mind if I take a little rest today. But I think I can still manage to crank out a little ABC Blog Challenge. Let's see...where are we...ah, yes. The letter R: Regrets.
My thoughts on regret probably aren't very popular, but oh well. :)
Are there things that I regret doing in life, thus far? Absolutely yes. I'm not going to share those particular things today, because there's a reason why I regret them, and I am definitely not interested in rehashing them.
I think it's a lovely sentiment to "live life with no regrets" and perhaps there really is someone alive today who can truly say they don't regret a thing they've done...maybe that someone is you. But I KNOW that there are things that I have done that I knew were wrong before I did them, and I did them anyway. So I cannot honestly say that I learned or grew from those experiences. I was just an idiot. I may have hurt relationships or myself, but I definitely did NOT benefit from those poor decisions then or now. In fact, the only way those decisions have "shaped me into who I am today" is by strapping me with baggage and memories that I'd rather not have.
I don't live my life wallowing in regrets, but I also don't claim to have none. I've been forgiven, and I've forgiven myself, but if given the choice I'd rather reverse the clock and CHANGE things I've said or done than to claim I've learned my lesson. If there is one thing that having regret has taught me, it's that I don't want to have any more. Regret sucks.
And that's the gospel truth. According to me. :)
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This week in transportation, a CSX freight train derailed, DOT announced a new program to help cities remove divisive infrastructure, and DC Metro unveiled its major maintenance plan. Here are the most important and interesting stories of the past week:
Reuters: U.S. bullet train proposals shun public funds, favor private cash
Anyone who's been following the California high-speed rail project knows it's been plagued by, among other obstacles, funding gaps that could jeopardize future construction segments. The project has relied on public funding this far, including bond sales approved by voters in 2008, Recovery Act funding, and cap-and-trade revenues. This story takes a look at some of America's other high-speed rail projects - in Texas, Nevada, and Minnesota - that have chosen to go private instead, and what the advantages and disadvantages are to that. A blog post I wrote several months ago explored some of the differences and similarities between California's and Texas' projects.
Fresno Bee: High-speed rail plans Madera stop
Speaking of high-speed rail, work on the California project continues, with the California High-Speed Rail Authority announcing last week that the new system will include a connecting station in Madera linking HSR to Amtrak's San Joaquin passenger rail service. Connectivity will be an important part of how HSR interacts with the larger transportation system in California, but there are likely political reasons for this move as well, given Madera's opposition to the system as a "fly-by" city.
CityLab: The U.S. DOT's newest plan to tackle transportation barriers
In order to tackle the challenge of transportation barriers - such as a viaduct cutting through a city - Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has announced the Every Place Counts Design Challenge. Local governments will work with urban planners, designers, and local residents to identify neighborhoods that face transportation infrastructure-related barriers and compete for special attention from DOT design experts. Having spent a year in Syracuse, NY, where the viaduct has certainly curtailed economic growth in the middle of the city, I think this is an important transportation-related challenge that the federal government should play a greater role in tackling.
WTOP: CSX train derails in Northeast D.C., causing hazardous leak
Early Sunday morning, a CSX train heading from Maryland to North Carolina derailed in Washington, DC, overturning several cars including one that contained a hazardous chemical. Sodium hydroxide is used to make household products such as paper and soap, and Hazmat workers plugged the leak that same morning. It's unclear what caused the derailment, but DC is facing a number of infrastructure challenges and this only serves to re-emphasize that point.
The Hill: Metro to shut down portions of subway in massive repair effort
DC Metro released the details of its massive track work plan, which will take place from June of this year to March 2017. Five stations will be closed at different times throughout that period, with 10 portions of lines utilizing single-tracking for periods of less than one month. Contractors will be brought in to complement the work of Metro crews, which will include replacing insulators, eliminating temporary gauge bars, replacing wooden ties and fixation fasteners, and clearly drains. After a series of embarrassing and dangerous incidents, including tunnel fires, it's clear the work is necessary but we'll have to wait and see how effective it is in mitigating future disasters.
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Welcome to the Citrus Vettes & Camaros Car Club If you're looking for a group of people who love to socialize and love to show and drive their Corvettes & Camaros, you've come to the right place.
Hold onto your steering wheels, because 2018 has the CV&CCC off to the fastest start I've ever seen. New officers on the board along with the newly formed activities committee have been ramping up on their new duties, and the Club Calendar gets more events added every day.
We often comment that participation in club events is an effective way to really get to know your fellow members. Just ask many of the more tenured members and I am sure they would tell you, as I would, that getting involved in club events has resulted in many close and long-lasting friendships. As you can see from the many activities discussed at our meetings, covered in the newsletter and posted on our website, we have many opportunities for our members during the year. Keep checking those opportunities, find one that meets your interest and time constraints and join us for a club event locally or overnight.
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The CV&CCC is proud to be the fastest growing car club in Florida!
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Flood waters recently swept through Louisiana, damaging and ruining houses and property throughout the state. Thousands of families and individuals must now sort through the damage and figure out how to get any benefits or support they can so that they can get back in their homes.
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White House hopeful Hillary Clinton on Monday called for a four percent "surcharge" tax on the wealthiest Americans, seeking to ensure that multimillionaires do not pay lower rates than middle-class families. The surcharge proposed by Clinton would impact those who make more than $5 million per year, or about 0.02 percent of the taxpaying public, and would raise more than $150 billion over 10 years. "This surcharge is a direct way to ensure that effective rates rise for taxpayers who are avoiding paying their fair share, and that the richest Americans pay an effective rate higher than middle-class families," a Clinton aide said.
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Reviewer Steve Moore: Steve is a full-time writer and ex-scientist. Besides his many technical publications, he has written six sci-fi thrillers (one a novel for young adults), many short stories, and frequent comments on writing and the digital revolution in publishing. His interests also include physics, mathematics, genetics, robotics, forensics, and scientific ethics. Follow Here for his WEBSITE.
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The author calls this an archaeological mystery thriller. That pretty much sums it up: there are two intertwined stories here, one about archaeology, the other an international spy mystery/thriller. The author did a lot a research for both stories, but probably more for the first.
Fewer words are dedicated to the second story. I was well into the book (around Chapter 15 or so) when it became clear what was going on. The Chinese lost some damning space debris, and they're willing to spy on the scientific expedition to see if the archaeologists come across it. (Mongolia is in a vise between Russian and China.) How far they will go makes this story that builds up to a climax involving an international cast. (Even before the climax, an Israeli physicist is involved.) In today's geopolitics, you can imagine something like this happening. With elaboration, it could be the main story.
The archaeological story contains many elements: convincing reluctant authorities in a third-world country to cooperate in a scientific mission; dealing with poachers and cave or tomb raiders who can destroy archaeological sites; obtaining help from locals with pride in their heritage and energy for discovery of the same; and facing the remoteness of some sites that makes it difficult to mount a scientific expedition. In the process, we learn a lot about Mongolia, its people, and their traditions, so much that at times the book seems more like a well-written travelogue. I always thought of Mongolia as a remote, cold place, but Ulaanbaatar, the capital, has temperature variations like Fairbanks, Alaska. The country is so large that it contains many different ethnic groups. How science is aiding archaeology is also fascinating and probably one reason the Israeli physicist Uri is so interested in the expedition (there are others).
Cornell professors Rob and Abbey lead that scientific expedition. They had another successful one in Peru with the same Canadian-based sponsor, but the author indicates this one is different (there's a bit of omniscient POV future-predicting all through this first story that's questionable). It is, and Rob is often questioning how it's going and the scientific validity of what he's doing. They have to make up a plan to sell the expedition to the Mongolian minister and satisfy the sponsor, for example, one that Rob realizes is a bit of snake-oil salesmanship. But money talks in Mongolia too as the sponsor and Rob spread around the ten-million-dollar grant. Archaeology wins out in the long run, but I won't offer any spoilers here.
Combining these two stories is a daunting challenge. The author's solution worked for me because I'm interested in the science. Other readers might find that emphasis a problem. Two books to compare this one with are Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Weir's The Martian. The first can become boring by dwelling on undersea flora and fauna; the second can do the same by spending too much time on growing potatoes in human excrement, for example. Both minimize the action scenes, the mystery and thriller parts.
Maybe I found this book not guilty of those same sins because I knew so little about Mongolia (I knew more about archaeology because anthropology/archaeology was one potential career I'd chosen as a child, until I learned how complicated both were and turned to something easy like math and science). The minimal action in this book hits you like a pail of cold water in the face, though, because it comes amidst peaceful academic pursuits. There is a build-up, so it isn't a complete shock, but some readers might want more. I didn't care because I was interested in both stories.
There are some special features in the book that deserve mention. I already mentioned the extensive research the author had to do for this book. This is also manifest in the graphics content. The notes at the bottom of each graphic were a bit confusing but made sense when I arrived at the end of the book. They are better viewed in color too, so I had to go between my Kindle paper-white and my laptop. I've often argued that graphics, sound, even video and smell, might be in the ebook's future. That's way beyond my ability, but this author is off to a good start. The graphics are about Mongolia and archaeology and not the mystery/thriller story, though. I reached the end without seeing a graphic displaying what the Chinese were after (maybe I missed it?).
Another feature is the characterization, especially of the scientists. Rob is an anti-hero in many respects; he's not an Indiana Jones type of fellow. He's telling the first story in first person, so you can really get into his mind. Scientific partner Abbey is a real treasure, La Femme Nikita in academic clothing. I would have included more of her background with her father earlier on, but she's definitely Rob's complement in the scientific team. Another character, Sumo, is perhaps the most intriguing character, beginning with why he's called Sumo. And don't forget the huge Mongolian dog called Beast that Rob adopts. The whole cast of characters is good and well-drawn.
Unfortunately, there are editing errors. I was able to work through them, but they can be annoying. The author is comma-challenged, mixes tenses, and drops words, all mistakes a good copy editor should have caught. He's also a bit repetitive—a good content editor would have minimized that. These minor flaws didn't get in the way of the two stories in my case, though. This book won't be for everyone, but I had fun with it. In today's mystery and thriller genres, it's also unique, something you don't see all that often.


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Which two statements about configuring mobile and remote access on Cisco TelePresence
Video Communication Server Expressway are true? (Choose two.)
Answer : B,E
Question discussion
You want to perform Media Gateway Control Protocol gateway maintenance. For this
purpose, you disable Media Control Gateway Protocol gateway using the no mgcp
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Gateway Protocol gateway.
Which command should you use?
Answer : B
Refer to the exhibit.
Answer : A
Question discussion
Which two options are functionalities of subzones in a Cisco VCS deployment? (Choose
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Question discussion
Which three steps configure Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony for SIP
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Question discussion
You need to verify if the Media Gateway Control Protocol gateway is enabled and active.
Which command should you use for this purpose?
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When a call is made from a video endpoint to a Cisco TelePresence EX90 that is
registered to a Cisco VCS Control, which portion of the destination URI is the is the first
match that is attempted?
Answer : B
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Which component of Cisco Unified Communications Manager is responsible for sending
keepalive messages to the Service Advertisement Framework forwarder?
Answer : C
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How many active gatekeepers can you define in a local zone?
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technology provides this ability?
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Company X wants to implement RSVP-based Call Admission Control and move away from
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Where does the administrator go to create a default profile?
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Which statement about the host portion format in Cisco Unified Communications Manager
URI dialing is false?
Answer : D
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Which statement about the function of the "+" symbol in the E.164 format is true?
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How Children Learn
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Monday, August 15, 2011
'Prince of Songket' died in London
Posted by Radin87 at 4:48 PM
A member of Terengganuan Royal Family, His Highness Tengku Ismail bin Tengku Su died at Royal Brompton Hospital, London at 4.30pm. Tengku Ismail was dubbed as Prince of Songket in the past due to his service to uphold the tradition of Songket, a traditional fabric commonly wears by royalty.
Tengku Ismail, 60 was admitted to the Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for a month after suffered a heart attack twice. His younger brother, Tengku Yusof was at his side during his last breath. Tengku Ismail was at London to exhibit his Songket Collections at Royal Weaving Exhibition held at Prince's School of Traditional Arts. He also wants to attend the invitation and give presentation at the Asia House.
According to his close friend, Wan A. Suhaimi, the body of the late Tengku Ismail shall be buried at Ilford Cemetary.
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At Psoas, we get a lot of cyclists, runners, lifters, and swimmers. But there's another important kind of athlete that we get on a daily basis - the desk jockey. As a desk jockey, it's just as important to take care of your body to fight the dysfunction and pain that can come with sitting at a desk all day. Shoulder pain, neck pain, headaches, etc., can be prevented with proper posture. But proper posture doesn't happen overnight! Take a look at this Posterior Kinetic Chain Exercise. Try to implement it into your schedule on a daily basis for a week to start. Let us know if you notice any changes after that week.-Adrienne + the Psoas Team
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Most commonly, we see these forward reaching motions with those who work at a desk most of the day; but we also see these motions with musicians, restaurant workers, cyclists, electricians, pastry chefs and even parents of small children.
If you fit into any of these categories you will probably have a strong and tight chest and front of your neck. These exercises will help your upper back stay toned and ready to combat the ever-strengthening muscles in your chest and neck that are continuously pulling you forward.
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So far, the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (RRO) has failed to comply with final court orders to accept all new asylum applicants by the end of March 2018 and in response, civil society organizations have staged public protests to put pressure on the Department of Home Affairs to fully open the office.
The transformation of immigration management is high on the agenda of the DHA and the Minister of Home Affairs. Honourable MKN Gigaba has identified the development of a new international migration policy as one of his top priorities during his term of office.
The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO), the Scalabrini Institute for Human Mobility in Africa (SIHMA) and the Pastoral Care for Migrants and Refugees of the Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg held a Roundtable discussion on the recently released Green Paper on International Migration by the Department of Home Affairs, on 17 August 2016 at the Cathedral Place in Johannesburg.
In 2014, the South African government began reviewing the current immigration regime with the intention of crafting a new comprehensive migration policy able to synthesise development, security and international obligations. This process, culminated in the drafting of a Green Paper on International Migration, which was released on 24th June 2016. It will lead to a White Paper and presumably to a comprehensive legislation overhaul.
A "big relief for thousands" says refugee organisation Last week, the Western Cape High Court ordered Home Affairs to extend or renew the permits of refugees living in the Western Cape whose permits were originally obtained in other provinces. Despite our crumbling economy, rampant unemployment, and civil unrest; South Africa hosts more than 1 million asylum-seekers, more than any other country in the world. The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said it was building a new site to reduce overcrowding in the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, to house refugees fleeing nearby South Sudan. The number of people displaced from their homes due to conflict and persecution last year exceeded 60 million for the first time in United Nations history
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NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD to Keynote Eighth International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology; Case Western Reserve School of Medicine Sponsors the Conference
Oct 03, 2011, 01:00 ET
International Experts in Integrative Medicine Convene in Cleveland to Discuss "Innovating Integrative Oncology: New Science, New Solutions"
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) announced today that National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, will deliver the keynote address at its eighth international conference, which is co-sponsored by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
As the former head of the Human Genome Project, Dr. Collins has advanced a science that is at the center of many developments in cancer treatment. Dr. Collins will address the group on "Seeking Out the Most Effective Interventions for Cancer Prevention and Treatment."
Integrative oncology facilitates cancer treatment and recovery through using complementary therapeutic options strategically combined with conventional medical care. Such options include natural and botanical products, nutrition, acupuncture, massage, mind-body therapies, and other complementary modalities. Multidisciplinary oncology practitioners from around the world, including stakeholders from virtually every major cancer center in the U.S., will convene to discuss the evolution of evidence-based integrative oncology in practice, the steadily growing science base, and its continued ascent in popularity as patients demand a systematic, whole person approach to cancer care—mind, body and spirit.
The prestigious conference is co-sponsored by nationally-ranked Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. It will be held in Cleveland at the InterContinental Hotel, November 10-12, 2011. Presentation topics include: the future of oncology and necessity of integrative oncology; the science of psycho-oncology; oxidative stress and antioxidants; the effect of circadian disruption on cancer and whole systems research.
"Integrative cancer treatment combines the best of conventional therapies with a broad set of sound complementary interventions," said Keith Block, MD, chair of the Society for Integrative Oncology's 2011 conference. "Today, what is being called 'personalized care' simply means targeting tumor genomics. But an integrative approach to 'personalized care' in cancer treatment requires identifying and addressing the unique, comprehensive needs of each patient in careful combination with targeting the tumor."
"This emerging science offers patients more hope and more options as well as innovative solutions," according to Dr. Block. "A growing body of research and clinical experience demonstrates integrative cancer treatments can diminish toxicity, improve patients' life quality, enhance the impact of conventional therapies and favorably impact patients' outcomes."
"SIO's mission is to educate oncology professionals, patients, caregivers and others involved in patient care about the scientific validity, clinical benefits, toxicities, and limitations of state-of-the-art integrative therapies. Increasingly, patients are asking 'what can I do' in addition to conventional therapies. Integrative oncology interventions have been shown to decrease some of the side effects of cancer treatment, allowing many patients to tolerate their full, prescriptive course, thereby improving clinical outcomes and quality of life," said Gary Deng, MD, PhD, president of the Society.
This CME conference has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and is open to all oncology and medical professionals, including physicians, scientists and researchers, health and social psychologists, oncology nurses, health care administrators, nutritionists, naturopaths, acupuncturists, massage therapists and other complementary therapy practitioners. Patients and advocates are also welcome.
"The number of people with cancer is increasing and integrative therapeutic treatment options are very often complementary to the clinical care that patients receive," said Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, dean of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and honorary conference chair. "Case Western Reserve University and the City of Cleveland are happy to host the Society's eighth conference to help educate professionals about the validity, the benefits and the limitations of integrative therapies."
To download a complete program or for registration, exhibit or sponsorship information for the Eighth International Conference of the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), go to: http://bit.ly/SIO2011.
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About the Society for Integrative Oncology
The Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO) www.integrativeonc.org is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary organization founded in 2003 for health professionals committed to the study and clinical application of evidence-based integrative therapies and natural products for cancer patients.
About Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Founded in 1843, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the largest medical research institution in Ohio and is among the nation's top medical schools for research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Annually, the School of Medicine trains more than 800 students and ranks in the top 25 among U.S. medical schools as designated by U.S. News & World Report. The School of Medicine's primary affiliate is University Hospitals Case Medical Center and is additionally affiliated with MetroHealth Medical Center, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Cleveland Clinic, with which it established the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in 2002. http://casemed.case.edu.
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A few weeks back I had the chance to see Heyrocco at The Tin Roof in Charleston with other local bands, Human Resources and The Give & The Take. It was my first time seeing Heyrocco live, and I don't know why I waited so long to go to one of their shows. It was on the very night that they released their new EP, Waiting On Cool, so they played mostly songs off the new CD. I was front row and enjoyed the hell out of it, and I couldn't help but give it a listen when I got home. As expected, I was thoroughly impressed.
Heyrocco's new EP is filled with an awesome mix of angsty self-reflection, lowcountry vibes, and good old fashioned rock and roll. It's one of those tapes you can play over and over again and still find something new to love about each song. These guys really know how to showcase their individual talents while still creating cohesive songs as a team, and they've gained a major fan in me, and many others. Being a solid six song EP, it's hard to pick favorite songs, but I can break it down a bit to give you an idea of what's good with Heyrocco's Waiting On Cool.
Opening with the punk rock-influenced, high energy, "Yeah" prepares you for the overall sound of the EP. After that comes "It's Always Something New", which is a bit more laid-back and complete with a really catchy guitar riff and great lyrics that tell a story about a guy trying to navigate a relationship with a complicated girl, while still maintaining his sanity and composure. Up next is "Slice Of Life", which is a bit more melancholy and solemn, and tells the tale of a lonesome stroll through downtown Charleston, thinking about ending the relationship, probably with the same girl from "It's Always Something New". This song has the feeling of needing to move on and get away from the same old daily grind, looking for change in your life.
The second half of Waiting On Cool is just as solid as the first half, with "Build It Up" coming in at the end of "Slice Of Life" and getting back into the upbeat energy that the EP started with. To me, this song has a lot of 90s alternative rock influence, and it's awesome. When "Build It Up" fizzles out, the EP transitions into "Venice Beach", which has even more 90s alternative influence. It kind of reminds me of "Loser" by Beck, with that low down and groovy vibe. You can hear the bass a lot in this one, and it's really (Chris) Cool. Finally, we have "Perfect World" which is arguably my favorite song on the entire album. The guitar part sounds a lot like "Edit The Sad Parts" by Modest Mouse, and the song features really tight drumming by Tanner Cooper, aka Taco.
Heyrocco's Waiting On Cool tour starts Thursday, 6/9/16 at the Pour House in Charleston, SC. Go to that show if you know what's good for you. Just in case you can't make it to this week's show, though, I've included the tour poster below with the other dates. Have yourself a kickass day.
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In collaboration with Matthew Evans in Student Administration along with the Division of Information Technology and the Learning Technology Unit in the Division of Student Learning uImagine is coordinating a trial of eExams in a limited range of subjects during 2015. The trial will involve students completing exams on a computer in their own homes or workplaces while being supervised using a remote invigilation service such as ProctorU and BVirtual. Various exam styles will be trialled including the use of the Blackboard Test tool, the use of Word and the use of specialised discipline specific software.
Current Status
Significant & Benefit
The implementation of eExams at CSU could have a significant benefit to the institution and our students too. It could significantly reduce the need for exam centres and help stream line the examination process.
Students have greater flexibility in when and where they take their exams.
A reduction in cost for students required to travel to take their exams.
Remove the need to hand write their examinations.
Improve the range and scope of exams.
Time saving measures related to automating marking of multiple choice test.
Increase the range of tasks and topics that could be covered under examination conditions.
Project Team
Tim Klapdor
Barney Dalgarno
Matthew Evans
Sandra Martin
Philip Uys
Sam Parker
Matt Morton-Allen
The aim of this project is to assess the possibilities and affordance of invigilation services to provide electronic exams to students. The trial is working through the risks and practicalities involved in provisioning online and electronic exams to students.


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A Small Garden in Our Garden
A Corner of Paradise
Some eleven years ago when we bought our house, one of the things that really appealed to us was its garden. It's on a corner lot, not too big, but in summer it is lush and green and we love it.
To some it may appear a bit overgrown: our grass is never mowed to perfection, neither are the shrubs neatly cut all at the same height.
Truth be told, the garden does look like an explosion of greenery; you can barely see the house behind all the bushes and the trees! But we enjoy this more natural look.
We never used any herbicides or synthetic fertilizers either. Everything that grows there grows clean and by itself.
As a bonus, our garden attracts bees, bumblebees, butterflies, fireflies, lots of birds, squirrels, and sometimes a bunny. On rare occasions we have also sighted a raccoon and a skunk by night, but never had any troubles with them.
The Only Issue
The only issue I have is that, while I had always dreamed of growing at least some food myself, this idyllic place is not at all suited for vegetable gardening.
Besides the lot being uneven and too small, it is also very shady. Of course in summer this is a true blessing – for us. But for vegetables, not so much. Also take into account the Canadian climate with its very short warm season, and you don't stand a chance of growing anything (unless you plant the veggies in a greenhouse with artificial lighting).
I'm telling this from experience. Along the years I have tried planting all kinds of edibles: parsley, dill, lovage, radishes, beans, tomatoes, raspberries… but nothing thrived. Only part of the raspberry bushes are still somewhat alive.
I searched the internet and learned that vegetables need a good few hours of sun per day. We don't have that. And I wasn't planning on felling the nice trees just to grow some parsley.
The Opportunity
Then this year, while sitting outside on a warm afternoon, I noticed a spot that was bathed in sunlight for several hours. Yay, sun! Should I… try my not-so-green thumb once again?
I told my husband that I'd like to put a small herb and vegetable garden in that spot. And that, this time, I wanted to do it properly.
1. We should erect a raised bed, fill it with good soil, plant the seedlings at the recommended distance, water them, watch them for diseases and support them with props or trellis once they grow tall and (hopefully) bear fruit.
He was a bit skeptical at first, but actually came to like the idea. The discussion moved on from whether we should set it up, to how we would build it and what materials we could use.
2. I also wanted it to look esthetically pleasing (okay, I'm an artist at heart).
A week before we had been to visit some friends, and they had proudly shown us their Costco-bought raised garden – a white 4 by 4' plastic box that had cost about $60. It fitted quite well in their backyard; but in our garden such modern, rectangular structure would surely clash with the scenery. We wanted a style that integrates nicely in the landscape – and preferably something less expensive, too.
The Solution
My husband proposed to build a frame with some old bricks that had been lying in the garage for years. It was my turn to be skeptical; I wasn't sure how that would look.
But when, two weekends ago, we built the raised bed garden, we were quite happy with the outcome: it looks very nice, and it cost us nothing but a bit of work.
Last weekend I bought seedlings and planted them:
parsley, dill, mint, lovage, cherry tomatoes and two jalapenos (my hubby's order). I also planted some garlic cloves in the hope to grow green garlic. We love it but cannot find it here in grocery stores. I was thinking of some sugar peas too, though there isn't much space left.
Nowadays our newest occupation is checking on the plants and watering them early in the morning or in the evening if the soil feels dry. They're looking good and strong so far.
Only the dill leaves were a bit limp, so I supported them with coffee cup sleeves – with a Canadian connotation. J
We already have a tiny jalapeno, about half an inch long. Isn't it cute?
I'm looking forward to the cherry tomatoes, and to picking fresh mint leaves from the garden for our next mojito!
It feels good to have a garden, no matter how small.
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Inca's Balsa Log Raft
What we know about Inca seafaring
= daggerboards
The maritime society in the Pacific developed different
In the conflict with the Europeans the Incas were knocked down in an impressing havoc in good Christian style, due to superior weapon technology + unknown illness that killed more men than the arms. A sort of bacteriological war, we could call it, being a great help for the foreigners, freeing them to do so much killing-work themself.
The bad result costed the Inca-people their freedom, their gold and all their fertile land; but the indigenous survived as race, because the men were good, strong and gratis workers for fields and mines, and the women grew good mothers for the Spaniard's illegitime children. In comparison, the North American indigenous didn't survive so easy.
But as second consequence: the Inca nation too lost their culture and their organizations. Technologically subdued - and still kept down !
Therefor is left so little from their heydays.
As soon as the size of a BOOTY seems larger than the MILITARY COSTS, then the war will break out
- the Incas learned it -
and many nations will experience that phenomenon in a foul way.
Historically, the Incas learned this in the same moment, as they showed their huge richness of GOLD to the Spanish visitors in Cajamarca 500 years ago - subsequent, as told, they only few years after had lost everything.
But things repeat, and even today the Peruvians have a problem with too much Gold recently found in the region of Cajamarca - in Conga.
By its nature "gold" of every sort, being golden, white or black is submitted the same general RULE OF WAR mentioned above.
"The Wealth of Nations":
The discovery of the abundant mines of America, reduced, in the sixteenth century, the value of gold and silver in Europe to about a third of what it had been before.
These liberations changed again the flow of gold and silver going to Europa.
A shortage of silver for the English China-trade ended up 1-2 decades later with the Opium wars, as the English won, opening up for use of opium as payment for merchandises from China.
Neither then, the British hadn't any qualms about the Chinese society getting addicted to drugs.
To meet the balsa rafts was a great surprise for the Spaniards- even their own ships could hardly take so heavy a load. And from the Spaniards we have the oldest written accounts.
The balsa rafts came from the Manta area, as is on the westmost coast of Ecuador just south of the Equator. There they had the materials to construct the rafts and from there they started sailing up and down the coast
After the deed of Thor Heyerdahl scholars and archaeologists seems to have intensified their work, and have found evidence, that the pre-Columbian seafaring, had its center in the maritime coast-society just under Equator. From what today is called Puerto Viejo their rafts sailed up along the coast to Panama and Acapulco in Mexico and down to Chiclayo, Trujillo and Paracas areas - against south until the northern of Chile.
There are archaeological finds as indicate a frequent mercantile interchange together with transfer of technology.
We don't know any historical nor archaeological argument for Heyerdahl's choice of Callao as port of departure for his Kon-tiki expedition, there were never before mentioned rafts starting out from Callao, until he did it in 1947. It seems as a result of an arranged meeting with the peruvian president Jose Bustamante y Rivero, as of narrow political reasons offered the service of the peruvian navy.
Now it is a part of the "Heyerdahl concept", and Callao has developed as a main start-port for oceangoing Rafts - at least for Norwegian rafts.
Callao was founded by the Spaniards, as a lovely site for anchorage, protected from the ocean waves by a natural breakwater: the Island of San Lorenzo.
The people from Manta continued their sailings too under the Spaniards but their oceangoing rafts disappeared together with other big sailships by arrival of steamers and motorships of iron. The route up and down the coasts have still no contemporary raft accomplished, even there have been attempts. On the other side the descendant in form of smaller rafts are still sailing on the coasts of Ecuador.
According to old legends reproduced by the Spaniards, and published by the peruvian historian María Rostworowski, the later Inca Tupac Yupanki around year 1465 (after his conquest of Quito) sailed out from Manta to the islands of Mangareva (23°S and 135°W) - then to Tahiti (17°S - 147°W), returning via RapaNui (27°S - 109°W) - and then back to Puerto Viejo (1°S - 80°W).
He sailed out with a company of 1000 men on 50 balsas of which the bigger were made of 13 logs, had two huts and two masts. He returned after one year round trip.
An artist's interpretation of a Tupac Yupanki Raft with an A-mast, a square sail and a central placed Cabin
- and too the artist has demonstrated an open fireplace on the quarterdeck
- and that the craft was controlled by the daggerboard system in combination with the stabilizing and long-nosed flat keel-system.
The round "mill-stones" on foredeck are anchors.
Ref: Jose Antonio del Busto D.: Tupac Yupanki, descrubridor del Oceanía
Incas comunication means system is called Quipu (also spelled khipu or quipo). Quipus were the means for the Inca's messages = their comunication means to administrate and keep together the Empire. It seems as every Impire need a comunication means system to exist. Quipus is the only known pre-Columbian comunication means system in South America - in Central America both the Aztecs and the and the Maya had their.
A Quipu consists of knots tied on wool and cotton strings and dyed with certain colors - and not symbols carved in wood nor clay tablets neither painted on papyrus, paper nor vellum.
Quipus were a knotted "page" of information as easily could be sent by running messengers and interpreted across all their civilization.
All Quipus were gathered by the Spanish church and burned as heretic, diabolic or heathen - to make a stop for the Andean Deity. The same happened in Central America.
Less than thousand Quipus have survived around in museums and collections, and nobody today can interpret them. Therefore nobody knows if they could tell something about seafaring and the Balsa Rafts? I guess we need to wait for an investigator as understand the soul of the language - that means a person with roots in the Quechua-society - to be able to decode these Quipus.
Drawings of Quipus made by the indigenous chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma around year 1615
Inca language today
The most spoken native languagesin South America is Quechua, the Inca's language - too the biggest native language as has survived in all America. Quechua is still spoken by around 10 millions of persons.
In their striving to transfer the messages from the Bible onto their community many clergymen have expressed the sounds of the local dialects of Quechua into words written by latin letters. Each dialect their own diccionary and each wird with special spelling!
The result is as if a woman has got "half pregnant":Such a hard breed-work serves for nothing because it will not bring any baby. Here a letter written in one region can't be read in another.
On the web-site of Quechua-people we can demonstrate 6 alphabets with many 'surprise-letters' and many 'right writing dictionaries' = as give us different dialectal spellings for the same word in the quechua language.
We can here compare with all bigger colonial languages, as in spite of used in many continents and countries are kept united by one and only one 'right writing'.
Well - it is the task for the Quechua speaking themselves to unite their writings, but that will not happen without some political support from the National States.
Conclusion:we can't expect survived lore expressed in any Quechua dialect.
The last balsa rafts left
The last oceangoing Balsa raft was reported 1910.
As told, they waned and disappeared together with the big sail-ships - by the arrival of steamers and motor driven ships. What we know today comes mostly from historical and literary studies of what some of the first Europeans have heard and seen in this new world - and then have written down.
From then and until the balsa rafts disappeared 1910 we have 3-400 years. That means that there may be much material, that neither is collected, registered nor investigated. One more task for the historians.
On the other side, if the descriptions from all the years are mixed without taken in consideration that during the years and generations, the European technology has been transmitted and mixed in with the original American - then we too could have a source for misunderstandings.
There are neither much investigation of, what we could call the natural base for the existence of those Balsa Rafts: Technology employed on the rafts, tools and methods at disposal for the construction of rafts nor the raw material present in the area - at that time.
Because of this lack of knowledge around what they then could, much misconception is sneaking in. Tools and technology from other parts of the World is creeping into our interpretation and filling up this void.
Evidences from a Past:
The sketch made by lieutenant later admiral F.E.Paris 1841 is the only one we have found showing technical details in the construction of a native balsa raft. The raft is from the north-west coast of South America. The maximum length of the raft is 80-90 feet, maximum width of a raft is 25-30 feet - and with a freight capacity of 20-25 tons. Double size of Kon-tiki.
The curved yardis something totally unseen in the western hemisphere, outside the balsa sail area - and we have no experience. A curved yard is a light construction, tied together of three parts (ref: Brunning photo#1) and therefor not so heavy to hoist in a mast, as at least in Inca-time hadn't any block nor sheave in the top.
On the photo the halyard is passing over a block of some sort, tied at the top of mast. On this drawing we clearly can se both the braces and one single row of reefs on top of sail (what seems very few), but we can't see any parrel - what we too agree could be a little complicated on an A-mast.
A light yard can be more flexible - as a fishing rod - why it shouldn't break so easily. It remind of the flexible lateen yard.
If there are any aerodynamic advantage in this curved construction? As said: we don't have any experience. The drawing verify that an A-mast only need stays and no shrouds.
A photo is showing details as we can't find on a drawing, but these photos are 50 years = two generations younger than the drawing.
This photo#1 of a balsa by Brüning show some interesting details.
1): Over the balsa trunks for buoyancy is tied a layer of crossbeam-trunks to keep together the balsa-logs. Upon them are placed a few longitudinal going trunks, as seems used mainly to lift the deck aun higher from the sea.
That third layer we have never seen or heard about before.
Then at top we have the deck as a fourth layer of timber or whatever they used as deck for crew and cargo.
2): The sail seems rather high and large for a craft of that size - holding around 15 meters in height and 10 meters width.
3): The yard is curved, and build by three sections and seems more across the raft than the fastening of tack and sheet indicate. We don't know why it is so, but perhaps it has a function as an airfoil - to add an aerodynamic pull, when the wind is passing from the port side and over the curved surface of the sail. On the photo we can't see any braces, and we have no experience with curved yards, but that turn us back to the old theme for dispute: if the wind on sail Push - or Pull?
4): The strange claw, as is seen where the bow-line is attached on fore leech, could look like the fork-end of a spar, a sprit, a pole as probably is supported by the foot of mast and attack the leech in an eye.
If that is the case, it signify that there are no force from bowline hauling against fore stay nor downwards on their curved yard - with other words, it is possible for them to position the fix point of the leech where they want and therefor it is easier to "screw" the sail, as it seems they have done.
(We DON'T KNOW that trick from our own one-masted square-sailors.)
5): The mast as is a single-mast and not A. It seems supported by three stays only and we can't see any shrouds. That is a solution as is known from land-based masts for aerials.
This photo has been taken in the childhood of photography - in 1890.
That means from last in the era of the big sail ships - after 350 years of naval development under influence of the Europeans.
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If the Bruning Museum has more photos of Rafts - that is not known
|This second photo from Brüning seems to show the same first balsa
- or perhaps it was the other seen in the distance.
The photo is verifying that it is a sprit as is attacking the foreleech in its bow and in this way give special options for adjusting the sail.
The curved yard seems hanging, but how it is fastened to a halyard is not possible to see - neither how it is controlled by the brace-ropes. It seems more as there are no braces. A curved yard as this probably is easier to hoist, and being of a flexible nature it won't break so easily.
The messages from Early drawingsOur problems with early drawings seems to be many and one of the obstacles is that so little information is left from the Incas - and the drawings and sketches as exist is often object for misinterpretion, mainly because they were drawn under other conditions and with other purpose than we use today.
Some examples:
One of the earliest drawings is due to Admiral Joris Van Spilbergh, who visited Paita year 1615, when he as a consequence of the Dutch War of Independence was send on a raid around the world to loot the Spanish colonies.
The sketches are a product of hand drawings made perhaps long time after. The hand copying technique of at that time was by a glass-plate and a candle and the result were always: MIRRORED.
To be exact they had to be mirrored two times - or copied as pure free-hand drawings.
but no drawing is reliable compared to a photo
Two extracts from Gutenberg EBook around Joris van Spilbergh: "Voyage of George Spilbergen around the world, in 1614-17": (Note: The original document of the admiral was written in Latin language"
1): "On this occasion they took a Peruvian bark, strangely rigged, having 6 stout natives on board, who have been out fishing for two month and had a cargo of excellent dried fish, which was distributed through the fleet." - (seized or paied ?)
2): "While on island of Lobos, the Dutch took two birds of enormous size, not unlike an eagle in beak, wings and talons; their neck being covered with down resembling wool, and their heads having combs like those of a cock. They were two ells in height, and their wings, when displayed, measured three ells in breadth."
And that was van Spilbergens experience and adventure !
So, it is confirmed, that a such strange rigged craft they really meet - and took, and therefor she is drawn on the image from the bay of Payta, and that is the message of the drawing: to tell a story. But many scholars have since taken this subordinated detail out of its main and analyzed it separately. The sail is often named in the running literature around rafts, and she has raised much "technical" discussion among "scholars" in Post Heyerdahl time.
What is wrong?
The draughtsman probably wasn't seaman and couldn't therefor catch all the smaller maritime specialities in his memory for later put them down on paper - so I expect the raft drawing is mixed up with whatever. My guess as sailor is, that the raft has had a Crab-Claw sail as was rather common out among the pacific islands, whereas a Crab-Claw was unknown in the European region - and as Indigenous matter therefor inferior for a Dutchman to pay any special attention more than establish as 'a rare case'. The way the rigging is shown for example: For his reproduction the draftsman picked up the bent mast, but sitting down in his cabin perhaps long time after, drawing the sheet and underleech, he sketched-out something he knew from home - from the lateen sail. Note specially the drawing 'Payta 1' - the sheet of fore sail is drawn as fixed on wrong side of the raft. That is 'Good Enough' for that illustrative purpose, but not as archaeological documentation.
My evaluation says, that both rafts (this with a condor and that with curved mast) are drawn of decorative reasons on that sketch of a battle - or to tell a good story - or simply to fill out an empty space on the paper. At least we know, that very few raft will sail voluntary into an active battle field as is indicated here.
- and that means probably one original and two mirrored copies -
Not all what is drawn with ink is old
- too sketches can simulate to be oldish -
The dominance at sea
This sketch has given much confusion
An encounter between two cultures in that time was always hostile - pure sea robbery - well, the raft was conquered, the seamen thrown out and the women taken on board
These strange alike lateen sails seem to be an erroneous interpretation from a draughtsman.
But that isn't so - the sketch was made and published to justify the choice of lateen rigging for the Manteña Huancavilca expeditions twenty years ago.
SKETCHES and copies of SKETCHES
If not done as free hand, copying in that time before Xerox too was by a 'Photo-Graphic technology'. (Photo=light and Graphic=draw)
in the time before the photography
The tool was a simple glass plate, a candle plus ink and a pen to trace the reflected image.
Therefore not any drawing are possible to accept as a reliable testimony and source for studies, but often it is difficult to see which one is the original - and which is a later careful handmade copy; but in general a copy is with fewer details.
The mirrored technology was very useful to produce a matrix for later book-print. The glass-plate principle for copy of drawings was used until we got the photocopier.
The Spilbergen sketch
Nobody says that the original drawings are made 'on-site' - perhaps drawn after the memory - as illustration for a book printed years later in another country as Holland.
As I understand the sketch, the admiral Spilbergen had ordered his sketchsman to illustrate the position of the Dutch fleet in front of Payta (all 6 with Dutch flag).
I can't see where the draughtsman has been seated while sketching, but I know, that a draftsman in that time must have worked with ink and feather pen, and that normally claim conditions as is difficult to obtain outdoor and in no way flying above the ocean in the middle of a bay. Sitting down in his cabin he had to rely on his memory and imagination, and that is OK for drawing of the Dutch ships, as he knew very well - the landscape he could control by peep out, but the surrounding adorning details are uncertain.
The compass is drawn of decorative more than informative reasons - the arrow point more to East and not North, but that isn't marked. Too we know that two Condors ware caught on 'Isla de Lobos' 100 nautical miles before the arrival to Payta and it seems incredible to imagine, that the one animal was brought by a paddling balsa all the way to Payta.
Our conclusion is, that the raft simply is placed on the drawing for decorative and illustrative reasons only - what was very common in those years - or to give occation to tell a good story.


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The Association of Hotels and Tourism of the Dominican Republic (ASONAHORES) announced that the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment 2013 Conference (CHICOS 2013) will be held in Punta Cana, in the country's eastern region, November 7-8 of this year.
Organizers said that more than one thousand investors, developers, government officials and representatives of international hotel chains and other tourism-related businesses, are scheduled to participate in the event, which is organized by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), and HVS, the largest international hotel consulting firm. More information available: www.hvschicos.com.
The Conference will be held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana. This meeting is sponsored by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA). ASONAHORES is a subsidiary of the CHTA.
CHICOS 2013 is the most important activity held jointly by the private and public sectors. The goal is to encourage investment in the Caribbean tourism sector.
This conference will mark a milestone in the country's tourism industry, since it will be the first of its kind to be held in the Dominican Republic.
Paris Jordan, Caribbean managing director for HVS and CEO of CHICOS, said that in the future this event will be held annually. This event was formally organized by the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC), the name formally given to this conference.
Simon Suarez, the head of the Local Advisory Committee, is former president of the CHTA and a member of the Board of Directors of ASONAHORES.
Hard Rock Hotel
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Punta Cana is the first all-inclusive hotel of the Hard Rock brand.
The 1,780-room facility features 65,000 square feet of convention halls, an 18-hole golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus, the largest casino in the Dominican Republic, 15 swimming pools, four of them with poolside bars, pools for children pool and an artificial river.


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The Swiss American Club of Miami will celebrate its 75-year anniversary on Nov. 6 with a commemorative brunch at Fritz and Franz Bierhaus, 60 Merrick Way in Coral Gables. For this event, string music band Streichmusik Alder Urnaesch will be flown to Miami for a two-day tour of the city with three scheduled performances.
"The visit of the folklore group Streichmusik Alder is an absolute highlight for the Swiss community and not only club members have been invited, but all Swiss living in South Florida," said Bea Schmied, Swiss American Club Miami's president.
Since its founding in 1941, the club's purpose has been to preserve the Swiss heritage and traditions within that community in South Florida. Members of the club celebrate their "Swissness" with regular meetups and three special events throughout the year.
"[We host] the Swiss picnic at the Tropical Park where we enjoy Swiss bratwurst, cervelats and beer, as much as chit-chat in our native language," Schmied said.
On their second day of tour, the band will perform at two local schools, Richmond Heights Middle and Holmes Elementary, as part of an enriched social studies lesson on Switzerland.
To achieve the club's goal of disseminating Swiss culture throughout Miami, the club "liaise[s] with the Consulate of Switzerland in Miami the Honorary Consul Ferdinand Kurt, as well as the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce," Schmied said. "The Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta supports and organizes the visit of the 'Streichmusik Alder Urnaesch' to Miami this November and is a big support throughout the year."
The club currently has 350 members who live and work in the greater Miami area. For their brunch celebration, the club expects about 150 attendees.
The event is only open to Swiss Club members and friends. For membership information, visit https://sites.google.com/site/swissamericanclubmiami/application or email email@example.com.


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Médicins Sans Frontières have tasked us with rebuilding their blog website. Built for a very large global audience, this site needs to be flexible enough to work for the extensive range of individual users and organisations it serves. And, of course, it aims to reach many more as a result of the redevelopment and redesign. As a very positive charitable organisation, MSF are well suited to BrightLemon, with a large proportion of our client list dedicated to charities and health organisations.
Providing a window into MSF workers' lives
Founded by a group of French doctors and journalists in 1971, MSF now provides aid to over 70 countries, and also runs long-term medical programmes worldwide. MSF promote the idea that everyone should have access to medical care, no matter who you are or what your situation is. This belief has driven their main aim to provide care in countries where war and manmade or natural disasters have left people in dire need of medicine, doctors and nurses.
Whilst MSF's main website provides important information in regard to the extensive work that they perform as a charity, this new blog site portrays the 'human' in each MSF worker. The written and photographic blogs posted by MSF representatives (doctors, etc.) allow them to voice personalised accounts of their experiences of fieldwork and aid programmes.
The flexible approach: turning to Drupal
In order to provide users with simple site navigation and ease of access to solutions for common goals, we will be applying a range of new features. These will include: localisation, multilingual capabilities for MSF's global audience, translation for blog entries, syncing of blog content to other MSF sites, commenting, maps to show blog writers' locations throughout the world.
In order to improve engagement and user friendliness, we will be retheming and redesigning the whole site. We will also build it in a responsive format in order for it to be used on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. There is, of course, a necessity for modern sites to be adaptable for all available platforms in order to reach a complete target audience range, and MSF have recognised this as an important aspect of the development.
Maintaining MSF's drive
As with all clients' projects we work on, each process of the build will resulting in a reflection of MSF's overall aims and image as an organisation. MSF reaches a worldwide audience, so the site needs to be built in a way that will help them publicise, progress and maintain the positive and charitable role they play for this extremely large user base.


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Conqueror! The dictionary meaning of the word 'conqueror' is someone who defeats or subdues, as by force of arms; to crush, subjugate, capture, seize, win, gain, acquire, obtain, occupy, overrun, triumph or prevail over, master.
If all this means to conquer, then what does it mean to be 'more than a conqueror'? Someone once said, "when you are busted and disgusted, down and out, and you still hold on, you are a conqueror. But when your bank account is empty and you still have debts to pay, when your spouse has left you with the kids and no money, when you have lost everything and you still can praise the Lord for His greatness, then you are 'more than a conqueror.'
Romans 8:31-35, 37-39: What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul exclaims in his writings that "If God is for us, who can be against us?" When you really think about it, it only makes sense that when the God who created the universe, who hung the stars and named them, who sits in the heavens with the earth as a footstool is on your side, how can you help but come out not just ahead, but way ahead? This mighty one who is love, who loved us so much that He gave His Beloved Son to die for us that we might live—sticks up for us because we are His children. The spirit of this same God who raised up Jesus from the dead to sit at His right hand in the Heavenlies lives inside the person who had been birthed into the Kingdom of God.
Our Father has given us everything we need to live abundant lives here on this earth. He has given us His armor for protection as we do spiritual battle against powers in high places. Since there is no power above God's power, no power that God did not create, then anything God has is greater than anything that can come against us. This armor is not only for our protection but is made to equip us for battle. Just as the children of Israel had to overcome their enemies in the Promised Land, so we must overcome the enemies of our soul. Some of these enemies are fear, intimidation, laziness, compromise, pride, jealousy, oppression, ungratefulness, complaining, murmuring, lack of commitment, false humility, fault-finding, criticism, and self-pity. When we know for sure who we are through Christ we can live every day as more than conquerors.
The enemies of Old Testament Israel were subject to Israel when the people obeyed God and walked in the authority given to them by God. In Exodus 23, God told Moses He would cut off Israel's enemies, drive them out, and cause them to flee, as long as Israel obeyed Him and did not worship the god of these heathen people. In Deuteronomy, God told Israel to 'utterly destroy' her enemies (20:17). The importance of destroying the enemy is carried over to the New Testament, only now the enemy is spiritual. Jesus says to his followers in Luke 10:19, "Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you." A study of the names of the enemies of Israel shows that they were much the same enemies we have today. For instance, the name Hivittes means "compromise," Perrizites means "lack of commitment," Amorites means "murmuring/ complaining," and Canaanites means "oppression." These are just some of the enemies which Israel had to confront.
The enemies we face are not things such as addictions, situations, or people. We may be tempted with addictions, we may face situations that cause us trouble, and we may be surrounded by people who make our lives harder, but these are not our real enemies. Our enemies are the motivations that cause us to be tempted by addictions, situations, or people. We make wrong choices because we compromise (settle for a lower standard), we lack commitment, we are lazy or we fear that we won't fit in. We give in to situations because of pride, jealousy, intimidation, oppression, or lack of commitment. Relationship problems happen because of self-pity, ungratefulness, compromise, jealousy, pride, false humility, criticism or fault-finding. These are examples of motivations that cause us problems. Sometimes things happen to us because of these faults in others and are beyond our control, such as situations that happen to children. We can't choose our parents or the environment in which we are born, and these things highly affect our thinking, our perceptions, our habits and our beliefs. However, as we become adults, we can make choices to improve ourselves. We can choose to get help for our problems.
With which enemy or enemies do you battle? Ask God to help you be more than a conqueror in this or these areas. Remember you have His Word and His promises to protect you. In order to be more than a conqueror, you must speak out the Word specific for your situation, and then expect it to work for you. God said His word would not return empty and lacking but would perform that which it was sent out to do. Make a practice to declare the Word of God every day, since the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) is the only defensive weapon God gave us with which to defend ourselves. And it is enough. It will do the job when we use it diligently. What can we lose by using it to defend ourselves? Nothing! What can we lose by not using it to defend ourselves? EVERYTHING!


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Discussion in 'NDS - Console and Game Discussions' started by Shady Guy Jose, Jul 1, 2010.
Anyone have an updated database with the cheats for the translated version?
just change the game ID to the translated one with r4cce.
cheats still work.
What would be the translated game ID?
AYTJ, same as the original... however the CRC (or what I assume is the CRC) needs to match as well, and that's changed via the patch. Get r4cce, open up your usercheat.dat file with it (it takes a while), scroll down to the [English] entry for ToI, click it, and after the game ID and CRC there should be a box with an ellipses (three periods) in it. Click that and "open" the ROM file with it and it'll enter the correct CRC. Then save the changes.
Thank you. Worked like a charm
not all codes will work
battle related codes
HP related
TP related
All Weapons
Will this work for Acekard as well? or just R4?
Cheats aren't card specific...the databases are, but you can use usrcheat.dat for the R4 as well as Acekard, so yes "this" will work for Acekard.
Thanks for the reply.I'll get to it now. . It worked! awesome


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Gemini Moon – Angels & Fairies
Gemini Moon people best interact with the Moon in Sagittarius, Pisces and Aries. This is because they love dealing with people that can cope easily with change and uncertainty. The Moon in Gemini is a strong character that loves adventure, laughter, jokes, challenge and wittiness. Those that love being certain and in control may have a hard time dealing with the Gemini Moon persona. A majority of people prefer approaching a difficult matter in well deliberated and planned steps. The Moon in Gemini, however, does not operate in such a manner. They have the ability to handle different issues simultaneously and can link together unimaginable elements to come up with a viable solution to a problem that they face. Others tend to view them as the insane or even genius characters that have a unique way of perceiving life. Usually, it is difficult to understand these people so instead, others are left awe at their uniqueness. To prove this scenario, we can use the likes of Roman Polanski, Henri Rousseau, John Cage and Sati. These authentic and artistic geniuses have lived mysterious lives and have had very unique mannerisms. They all have Moon in Gemini .
The Gemini Moon can assume so many roles at one instance. They can invent, entertain, and be delusional at the same time. In all the characters, they always tend to maintain their inspiration and knowledge. Interestingly, they can answer deep questions and unravel complex riddles in a fun way. The ruling planet of the Gemini is Mercury that is known for being intellectual, cosmic and quick-footed. Mercury is often associated with brainwaves, fluency, wordplay, knowledge and authenticity as are the Gemini people. Additionally, they are very creative and their ability to imagine things is beyond that found in any other Zodiac position. Although not all of them become renowned in the world, all of them certainly have this character and do the best that they can in their different capacities.
The authenticity of these people cannot be overlooked. In fact, it is often coupled with independent thinking that allows them to weave together varied attitudes and judgment about varied disciplines. The ones who are lucky to acquire a good education become excellent at solving academic issues that others may find very challenging. Their mental ability is often very sharp and they are able to quickly analyze an issue and to change their judgment about it. They tend to fight with much determination to defend what they believe is the best decision and thus they make very good debaters. Since these people can adapt quickly to new situations and environments, they are considered strong in nature. Intellectually, their ability to understand and translate concepts into practical aspects makes them the best at whatever task they are given. Generally, they can be regarded as the best employees. Listening to others is not their strongest quality because they have brains that are normally too engaged or can sometimes talk too much. This business of the mind sometimes hinders them from listening to their intuition as well. More often than not, they act on what their heads decide rather than what their hearts demand. As a result, they are prone to making erroneous decisions and conclusions that can lead to the termination of vital relationships. As much as they have a very good sense of things, they tend to overlook important aspects known by themselves or those that are highlighted by other people.
Some people have generally equated the Gemini Moon as fairies and angels. This descriptive phrase has nothing to do with their physique but rather their true nature. The typical Gemini Moon is sweet, loving, caring and very gentle towards other people. In particular woman who have Moon in Gemini become very attractive as a result. They offer much comfort and joy in their intimate relationships. Their partners, therefore, have to learn how to handle them as delicately as they would want to. Once they fail to get the same tenderness in return, they are likely to terminate the relationship in favor of another that meets this need.