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A Princes of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Read in September 2008
I read this as an ebook from the Project Gutenberg edition of this novel.
I found this a very enjoyable read via my BlackBerry on my morning commute and before bed.
I was amazed at how well this novel appealed to me. For a science fiction novel published in 1912 (actually as a six-part serial in a magazine that year), it has stood the test of time quite well. Granted what we know of Mars makes much of the story ludicrous if you look at it strictly from a factual point of view. But if you suspend belief and imagine that Mars is actually not the Mars we know, but an imaginary world or planet of Burroughs devising, then it's a fine story in an interesting setting.
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Quang Ngai administration has called for efforts from 'the entire political system' to help the unapproved project break ground on time
The administration of the central province of Quang Ngai Province has attracted criticism for providing unusual support for a proposal to develop a seaside resort by a local realty conglomerate.
The proposed FLC Binh Chau – Ly Son resort complex, to be developed by FLC Group, is expected to span thousands of hectares along the beaches in Binh Son and Ly Son Districts upon completion
Even though the proposal has yet to receive official approval for development, the Quang Ngai administration, led by chairman Tran Ngoc Cang, has called on "the entire political apparatus" to provide whatever support FLC Group may need to commence construction of the project on May 19.
Wholehearted support
In its first phase, the FLC Binh Chau – Ly Son resort is planned to be built on a 1,243 hectare plot of seaside land, spanning across four communes in Binh Son District and the Be (Small) Island in Ly Son District.
The massive project is expected to feature such luxury items as an 18-hole golf course, a five-star hotel, a 1,500-seat convention center, modern shopping malls, eco-villas and ocean-view resorts.
The project's second phase will see its premises expanded to 3,890 hectares, covering a plot of land previously allocated to a local industrial park.
Residents living within the project's planned area will be relocated, and public access points to the beaches will be available every eight kilometers, according to development plans submitted by FLC Group.
In separate statements made on April 11 and April 18, Cang, the Quang Ngai chairman, affirmed that the provincial administration was in complete agreement with the plans for both phases of the resort project.
The local government also asked a border guard unit in Binh Hai Commune to relocate its planned watch station to make room for the upcoming resort.
The Quang Ngai administration has even established a special council made up of officials from different regulatory agencies, presided by deputy provincial chairman Nguyen Tang Binh, to "provide all support needed for the project to break ground on May 19, 2018."
In multiple letters and directives concerning the FLC Binh Chau – Ly Son resort project, the government of Quang Ngai persistently stressed the need for "the entire political apparatus to resolve on standing by [FLC Group's] side to help them overcome any challenges and obstacles."
No official approval
No official approval for the development of such a project by FLC had been made as of Saturday, Do Minh Hai, director of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
The developer has not submitted any feasibility study and environmental impact assessment report for the project, a crucial requirement for construction to begin, Hai said.
The provincial decision-making People's Council, responsible for approving local government policies and budget spending, has not made any decision on issues related to the resort project, according to its deputy chairwoman Dinh Thi Hong Minh.
Minh was referring to such issues as the use of the local budget to make advance compensation for residents affected by site clearance, and the project's occupying of areas meant for national defense purposes, she said.
In the meantime, the province's chairman Cang believed that the media had been reading too much into his call for "the entire political system" to support FLC Group's project.
"We only do what we can as government officials to help the developer speed up with administrative procedures and site clearance," Cang explained in a phone call with Tuoi Treon Saturday.
"Quang Ngai always gives the red-carpet treatment to any major investors in local projects."


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I desperately need the encouragement of this passage. My guess is that a lot of you do too. I need it because of what it tells me about my past and my present. Earlier in Colossians we noted how Paul emphasized our future, or the hope we have in Christ of inheriting and experiencing eternal and unchanging glory (see Col. 1:5,21-23,27). But here in Colossians 2:6-7 it is the past and present that concerns us.
In order to see this we need to take note of how this passage is translated in both the English Standard Version and the New American Standard Version. Although I typically use the former, the latter provides us with a more accurate and literal rendering of Paul's words. Here is the ESV translation of vv. 6-7 - "Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving."
Compare that with the NASV - "Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude."
Did you see the difference? According to the NASV, we "have been" firmly rooted in Christ and are "now being" built up in him. I won't go into the technical distinction between the perfect passive participle and the present passive participle in the original Greek text, but I think you can see it for yourself from this English translation.
I HAVE BEEN rooted in Christ! So, too, have you if you believe in him for life and salvation. I AM BEING built up in Christ! So, too, are you if you believe in him for life and salvation. And that's why I'm so profoundly encouraged by this text. Let me explain.
This world can be pretty brutal at times; in fact, most of the time. People disappoint us. We disappoint them. The flesh gets the upper hand. Satan is relentless in his assault, whether by accusation or temptation or taunting. Circumstances get out of hand and dreams are shattered. Society as a whole just seems to unravel before our eyes. And worst of all, I begin to wonder if my life is going anywhere or producing anything of value.
That's why I'm so wonderfully encouraged by Paul's choice of words (and verb tenses) in Colossians 2:6-7. No matter how tenuous and free-floating life sometimes seems, I "have been rooted" in Jesus Christ! God has graciously seeded my soul into the soil of Christ's unchanging and unconquerable grace. My life is rooted in him. My hope is grounded in his goodness. This is my identity. This is my security. This is my strength when I feel like I'm wandering aimlessly and hopelessly through one disappointment after another. Whatever I may encounter, whether good or bad, of this I may be certain: I have been rooted in Christ!
But what about those times when so little spiritual progress is being made? Again, it feels like I'm stuck in concrete, immobile, immovable, unchangeable. That's when I remind myself once more of Paul's words: Not only have I been rooted in Christ in the past, I am being built up in Christ even now, in the present. I may not always see it or feel it or be aware of major developments. In fact, there are times when I feel like I'm regressing rather than progressing. If I'm moving at all, it must be backwards!
No! Paul assures us that however imperceptible it may be, we are being built up in Christ. We are ever and always under on-going construction. A brick here, a board there, but always and persistently being built up by divine grace. Yes, every so often we dismantle what God has done, tearing down his handiwork and experiencing momentary, though painful, disintegration. But God will not give up on us. What he began by grace, he'll finish by grace. The building will be completed. Our souls will grow in conformity to Christ and one day we will be like him for we shall see him as he is (1 John 3:1-3).
I don't know about you, but it helps for me to know that. I desperately need to be reassured that my life, body, soul, and spirit are rooted in Christ and what he has done for me. Being rooted and grounded in my own good intentions or the promises of other people or whatever worldly and financial success I might attain doesn't do much when life stinks and my soul sinks. I need to know that I'm rooted in him.
I desperately need to know that he's still at work in me, slowly but surely building up what I've torn down, conforming and shaping my soul to look like his. Often times our spiritual and moral failures look massive and seem to dwarf our achievements. But I'm assured of this: nothing will lead him to forsake his work in me.
In fact, Paul goes on to say that we are also "being established" in the faith. The word here was often used to describe the practice of guaranteeing legal contracts. God has bound himself to me. He has formally pledged himself to my growth in grace in his Son. He has sealed the document of ownership. I am his and he is mine and he will continue to confirm and solidify me in the experience and knowledge of all that he has made known of himself and his purposes for me in Christ.
There's only one appropriate response to such breathtaking realities: thanksgiving! No wonder Paul's final phrase in v. 7 reminds us of the importance of "abounding in thanksgiving" (ESV) or "overflowing with gratitude" (NASV).
O.K. Thanks God (and Paul). I needed that!
Rejoicing that I'm rooted in him,


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LFPA Health Center in Deir Qanoon al Naher –Tyre Region / South Lebanon
Deir Qanoun al-Naher Center was established in the early nineties, after the end of the civil war in Lebanon, as a referral center for the LFPA field workers in the region and to provide health services.
The Center serves as a health clinic and as the headquarters for all LFPA development activities in the region.
The center provides reproductive health services including counseling, family planning services and various medical specialties. The services are provided by professionals from the region.
The Medical services include the following specialties:
- Gynecology services
- Prenatal & postnatal care
- Family planning services
- Counseling
- Pediatrics and vaccination
- Internal medicine
- Ear, nose and throat medicine
- Dermatology
Around 3000 individuals benefit from the center high quality services. The services are offered at symbolic prices and the RSH services are sometimes offered free of charge if sponsored by donors.
The center is used by the Lebanese University, school of midwifery, as a training center for their students in third and fourth year, as part of the requirements to receive their degrees.
The Center hosts as well the social & development activities implemented by the LFPA in the region, such as training courses targeting women & youth, focus group discussions, youth meetings and other activities …
The center is located in Deir Qanoun Naher main road, and is open daily except Friday & Sunday from 8.30 am – 3.00 pm.
Telephone number: 07- 400960


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Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.
for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.
they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,'" although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works." And again in this passage he said, "They shall not enter my rest."
I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children. Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,' therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God.
For thus says the Lord: "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it."
For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest."
He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you, if you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you."
I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.
"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. But I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the Lord your God, who has separated you from the peoples. You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
"Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.
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From Route 85 in the vicinity of Santa Teresa Boulevard to Route 101 in the vicinity of Guadalupe River.
As defined in 1963, this segment was defined as:
Route 85 in the vicinity of Pearl Avenue to Route 101 in the vicinity of Guadalupe River.
Subdivision (a) of Route 87 shall be added to the state highway system at the time the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara have acquired all rights-of-way necessary to construct a freeway on this route to state freeway standards and have conveyed said rights-of-way to the State without charge; provided, that the commission and the department may take all steps necessary to locate and design said freeway or any portion thereof prior to the time it is added to the state highway system.
In 1965, Chapter 65 allowed construction to begin, changing the caveat to "Construction of subdivision (a) of Route 87, or any portion thereof, may be commenced at the time the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara have acquired all rights-of-way necessary to construct a freeway, or any portion thereof, on this route to state freeway standards and have conveyed said rights-of-way to the State without charge." This was done to permit Route 87 to be incorporated into the design of I-680, then planned to start construction in 1968.
In 1969, Chapter 1179 changed the caveat on (a) again: "Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 89 of Chapter 1062 of the Statutes of 1959, construction of subdivision (a) of Route 87 may be commenced at any time, if the City of San Jose and the County of Santa Clara has conveyed or does convey to the State of California, without charge, all real property presently acquired by it for the construction of said subdivision (a) of this route or such portion thereof."
In 1980, Chapter 777 removed all conditions on this segment.
In 1988, Chapter 106 changed the origin of this segment to be "Route 85 in the vicinity of Santa Teresa Boulevard"
The history of the construction of this portion is as follows:
Sparker on AAroads provided some interesting history on this segment:
(Source: Sparker on AAroads, "Re: LA Times - High Desert Highway", 2/26/2019)
From the '60's forward to recent years, the city of San Jose by and large was looking to enhance their downtown area and wanted to provide access to the greatest number of inbound folks regardless of mode of transport. There was an downtown easement provided for the Route 87 freeway; north from there it had always been assumed that the alignment would subsume the Guadalupe Parkway that had been developed in the '60's. The alignment to the south had been adopted in the early '60's as well; the Route 87/I-280 interchange near downtown was fully built (with stub-ends in both directions) as part of the original I-280 construction in the late '60's and early '70's. Up until the late '80's the city government wanted it, Caltrans wanted to get cracking on it back then, and the downtown businesses definitely wanted Route 87 built and supplying potential customers. But the transit/LR push in the late '80's that culminated in the first phase of VTA LR being built up and down First Street signaled a major policy shift within the city; if it were not for the alteration of Route 87 plans south of downtown -- along with several miles of Route 85 to the southeast -- placing the LR line in the freeway median, the whole thing might well not have been fully built. The northern part was "sold" to city planners as the only way to expedite traffic to and from the airport to downtown. In the meantime, the Guadalupe River, adjacent to the northern half of the Route 87 corridor, was declared a riparian reserve -- so the north half of Route 87 required a redesign to preserve river space, which flanks the ROW along its west side. Also, the management of Mineta Airport argued against a Route 87/I-880 interchange, which sat at the corner of the airport only a quarter-mile away from one of the main runways; any flyovers were considered to pose potential interference issues with airport operations. Although this omission meant a lack of a direct downtown SJ-to-Oakland connection, the interchange was erased from the freeway's plans. But although some planners wished to omit the freeway south of I-280 and simply run the LR line down the ROW, it was the design of the whole thing that combined LR terminals with the various overpasses and undercrossings along the freeway that saved the project; dropping the freeway would have entailed a complete LR redesign -- and a corresponding delay of several years. Still, most of the downtown businessmen, the chamber of commerce, and D4 itself maintained an unflagging resolve to get Route 87 built despite increasing opposition from some quarters.
This segment was LRN 292, defined in 1961. It was unsigned in 1963. Note: the 1961 law said "Route 239 in the vicinity of Pearl Avenue", but this was technically an error as Route 239 was moved from Route 85 to Route 17 by Chpater 1146 in 1961. Chapter 1698 in 1963 corrected the definition of LRN 292, but of course, it was overtaken by the 1963 renumbering (Chapter 385). It was not signed in Route 87 was not defined in the initial set of state signed routes in 1934.
In June 2017, it was reported that the Santa Clara Valley Transportation
Authority and San Jose city officials recently approved a $225,000 study
that will examine the feasibility of creating flex lanes on Route 87. The
study will focus on traffic congestion along the 87 corridor between Route 85 and US 101 (i.e., the entire route) and explore different ways to
alleviate traffic jams. San Jose Councilman Johnny Khamis, whose District
10 encompasses a large stretch of Route 87, says he'd like to see
one extra traffic lane created on each side of the freeway. Both lanes
would start at Route 85 and extend north to I-280 (~ SCL 0.078 to SCL
5.33). Flex lanes serve as an extra traffic lane during commute hours and
as a regular shoulder the rest of the time. A consultant will study such
factors as narrowing all the lanes and by how much to accommodate the
extra lane. A decision on whether that flex lane should also require a
toll during commute hours "will not be made until we find out if the
lane will fit." The study was initiated in response to complaints
from residents about traffic around the Almaden Ranch shopping center.
Consideration is also being given to removing the right-hand shoulder
between the Route 87 on-ramp for a quarter-mile up to Route 85 northbound
and creating a dedicated exit lane. All modes of travel will be explored
during the study, according to VTA officials, who will start requesting
proposals from consultants this summer. Funding for the study is being
split, with $150,000 from the VTA and $75,000 from the city of San Jose.
VTA officials expect the study to be finished by the end of the year.
Adding an extra lane would require repaving the road in addition to
restriping. No estimates or funding sources for construction have yet been
(Source: Mercury News, 6/1/2017)
I-280 to US 101 near the San Jose Airport.
In June 2002, the CTC considered a STIP project to update the existing four lane highway to a six lane freeway with HOV lanes from Julian St to US 101 (~ SCL 6.116 to SCL 9.15) . This was completed in 2004.
In June 2015, the CTC authorized the relinquishment of three segments along Route 87: (1) right of way in the city of San Jose along Guadalupe Parkway from Coleman Avenue to West Hedding Street, consisting of reconstructed city streets; right of way in the city of San Jose at Skyport Drive, consisting of a reconstructed city street; and (3) right of way in the city of San Jose at Airport Parkway, consisting of reconstructed city streets. (04-SCl-87-PM 6.5/7.3, 04-SCl-87-PM 8.4, 04-SCl-87-PM T8.8)
The route has two Single-Point Urban Interchanges (SPUIs): one at Taylor Street (~ SCL 6.916), the other at a new road going into San Jose International Airport (~ SCL 8.372).
There is a rationale for the lack of a connector between Route 87 and
I-880 (~ SCL 7.519). The two freeways are close to the eastern edge of
Mineta San Jose International Airport, meaning that elevated ramps cannot
be built without interfering in the flight path. Route 87 runs parallel to
the Guadalupe River, so tunneling to link the freeways does not work. One
corner of the crossover is the light-rail maintenance yard for the Valley
Transportation Authority, which cannot be easily or cheaply moved. Exits
from Route 87 to Taylor Street and from I-880 to Coleman Avenue and First
Street are less than a ¼ mi away, and Caltrans requires that ramps be
at least a mile apart to avoid merging chaos. Lastly, high-voltage power
lines run through the area, which would be costly to relocate.
[Thanks to Gary Roberts "Mr. Roadshow" for hunting down
this information]
In April 2002, the CTC considered STIP Project #3 [Agenda Item 2.5b.(1)], which would upgrade the current 4 lane highway to a six-lane freeway with HOV lanes from 0.5 km N of I-880 (SCL 8.0) to 0.6 km N of Airport Parkway (SCL 9.0).
The portion of this route completed to freeway standards is named the "Guadalupe Freeway" or "Guadalupe Parkway".
(Image source: Corco Highways)
The portion of Route 87 between Route 85 and I-280 in the City of San Jose
(~SCL 0.097 to SCL 5.198) is named the "San Jose Police Officer
Michael Johnson Memorial Highway". It was named in memory of San
Jose Police Officer Michael "Mike" Jeremiah Johnson , who was
born in December 1976. At the time he was born, Mike's father,
Daniel Johnson, was a military police officer in the United States Army,
who, after his discharge from the army, became a member of the Calaveras
County Sheriff's Department, and Mike and his family moved to
Wilseyville, California. In 1988, Mike and his family moved to the City of
San Jose, where Mike attended Gunderson High School and became captain of
the school's chess team. Mike's first job was delivering
newspapers on his bicycle for the San Jose Mercury News, and, after
graduation from high school in 1995, Mike took classes at West Valley
College while working as an audio-visual specialist at Radio Shack and
later at The Good Guys electronics store. He began studying jujitsu,
ultimately earning a black belt and becoming an instructor to children.
Mike's ultimate goal and desire was to become a police officer and
serve his community. Mike joined the San Jose Police Academy in 2001 and
graduated on June 15, 2001. As a member of San Jose's police force,
Officer Johnson was a dedicated and highly regarded officer who had a
strong sense of duty and great pride in being a police officer. He was
beloved in the community because he always had a genuine smile and a
natural ability to engage people in conversation. On March 24, 2015,
Officer Johnson and his partner, Doug Potwora, responded to an emergency
call involving a suicidal man who was threatening his wife in a domestic
violence dispute. When they arrived, the suspect, armed with a
high-powered rifle, opened fire on the officers from behind an enclosed
balcony. Tragically, the suspect fatally shot Officer Johnson. The suspect
was later shot and killed by Officer Potwora, whose heroic efforts likely
saved several more lives. During his 14 years with the San Jose Police
Department, Officer Johnson worked as a patrolman and court liaison. He
also specialized in prescription drug fraud crimes and had recently been
promoted to field training officer. Officer Johnson was a member of the
Specialist Rifle Program and an expert marksman. He proved his skills each
year when he and his father competed together at the United States Police
and Fire Championships, where he won numerous medals. Officer Johnson will
be inducted into the Police and Fire Championships' Hall of Fame in
2015. Named by Assembly Concurrent Resolution 88, Resolution Chapter 186,
on 09/21/15.
(Image sources: Mercury News, Officer Down Memorial Page)
The segment of northbound Route 87 commencing
with its intersection with Route 280 and ending at Exit 6B, the Julian
Street/Santa Clara Street exit in the City of San Jose (~ SCL 5.198 to SCL
6.11) is named the "Lewis E. Platt Memorial Highway" This segment
was named in memory of Lewis E. Platt, president and chief executive
officer of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from 1992 to 1999, and
chairman of the board of HP from 1993 to 1999. Lewis Platt was born on
April 11, 1941 in Johnson City, New York and received a bachelor's degree
in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and
a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He also received an
honorary doctorate in engineering science from the University of Santa
Clara. He started at HP in 1966, holding a variety of management posts in
the company's medical products operations prior to becoming general
manager of the Waltham Massachusetts Division in 1974. Thereafter, he
served as general manager of HP's analytical group from 1980 to 1984, and
was elected a vice president of HP in 1983, managing various aspects of
HP's computer business from 1984 to 1988. In 1987, Lewis E. Platt was
appointed to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy Negotiations by
President Bill Clinton and served as chairman of one of its task forces,
the World Trade Organization Task Force. In 1996, Lewis E. Platt was
elected cochair and a member of the board of directors of Joint Venture
Silicon Valley and the Tech Network, formed in 1991, to strengthen the
local economy and make the area a better place to live, and he was a
member of The Business Council, also serving as a member of the California
Business Roundtable from 1993 to 1995. While serving as the chief
executive officer and chairman of the board of HP, Platt took the time to
personally engage in a local transportation measure championed by the
Silicon Valley Leadership Group to improve the quality of life and the
economic health of Silicon Valley, specifically taking the following steps
to promote that measure: (1) Loaning out an HP employee funded by HP for
six months to run the countywide campaign for the measure; (2) Serving as
fundraising chair for the campaign with Ron Gonzales, who was a supervisor
for the County of Santa Clara at that time, serving as his vice chair; (3)
Personally raising nearly nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000) of the
one million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) required to run a
competitive campaign for the measure; and through his leadership, HP made
a sizable financial contribution, as well as the in-kind contribution of
the time and salary of the loaned HP employee. In addition, making fewer
than 15 telephone calls, Lewis E. Platt raised the rest of the funds
needed for the campaign. Platt also motivated the rest of the fundraising
committee through his personal leadership and engagement by chairing
meetings of a communitywide committee of 45 diverse leaders. His
leadership by example motivated that group to raise the entire one million
six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) in less than 90 days. The
campaign resulted in the voters' approval of Measures A and B at the
General Election held on November 5, 1996, with the additional one-half
cent sales tax revenue, which terminated on April 1, 2006, funding 19 road
and rail-transit improvements, all completed on time and within budget,
just as Lewis E. Platt had promised during the campaign for these
measures. Lewis E. Platt died on September 8, 2005. Named by Senate
Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 37, Resolution Chapter 96, on 7/12/2007.
(Image source: Alchetron)
Historically, this route is close to the original "El Camino Real" (The Kings Road). A portion of this route has officially been designated as part of "El Camino Real by Assembly Bill 1707, Chapter 739, on October 11, 2001.
From San Jose easterly of Route 101 to Route 237.
In 1963, this segment was defined as "(b) San Jose easterly of the
Bayshore Freeway to Route 230." There was also a segment (c),
defined as: "(c) Route 230 to Route 480 near the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 89
of Chapter 1062 of the Statutes of 1959, construction of all or any
portion of subdivision (c) of Route 87 may be commenced at any time, if
the City and County of San Francisco has conveyed or does convey to the
State of California, without charge, all real property presently acquired
by it for the construction of said subdivision (c) of this route or such
portion thereof."
In 1968, Chapter 282 truncated segment (c) to be "Route 230 to Route 280 in San Francisco Route 480 near the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." The deleted portion (Route 230 to Route 480) was transferred to I-80. This was part of the major
reworking of freeways in the San Francisco area due to the "Freeway
Revolt". Route 87 was originally planned as a full freeway in the ocean to
the E of US 101. In 1968, the portion from Route 280 to Route 480 [First
Street] was transferred to Route 280 (this was part of LRN 253). The image
to the right, from Chris Sampang's pages, illustrates this quite well.
In 1970, Chapter 1473 truncated segment (b) to terminate at Route 237 (instead of Route 230) and deleted (c). Former segment (c) was transferred to Route 230.
In 1980, Chapter 777 changed the wording of segment (b) to: "(b)
San Jose easterly of Route 101 to Route 237."
This was LRN 289 (defined in 1959). The portion that was transferred to Route 280 and Route 230 was LRN 253.
In January 1964, it was reported that (after a long
fight), the State Highway Commission adopted "Route C" for the Hunters
Point Freeway (LRN 289, future Route 87, later Route 230). Engineers had
proposed a shorter and $5 million cheaper route, but that route would have
uprooted hundreds of people in the Bay View District. It was noted that
the approved route runs for the most part through undeveloped and
industrial land, is 4.6 mi long, and will be a 4 and 6 lane highway, and
cost $49.8 million. It was never constructed.
(Source: The San Francisco Examiner, 1/26/1964, via Joel Windmiller,
In 1962, the CTC adopted the 3.4 mi segment between Evans
Avenue and the Embarcadero Freeway (Route 480). This portion was later
transferred to Route 280, although not all of it was constructed as
(Source: Jan/Feb 1962 California Highways and Public Works)
Sign Route 87 was not defined in the initial set of state signed routes in 1934.
The 2013 Traversable Highways report notes that the route has not been adopted from Route 101 to Route 237. District 4 has not done any study for future alignment of this route.
HOV lanes are planned for or constructed for this route as follows:
Part (2) is completely unconstructed. A route has not been adopted and there have been no studies for future alignment of this route.
Southbound HOV lanes from I-280 to Branham Lane began construction in Fall 2004. S/B direction. This project is being done by VTA. The project was completed in 2007.
In February 2012, there was an update on the project to construct high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane and auxiliary lanes in each direction, construct 13 retaining walls and widen six bridges in San Jose, from 0.3 mile north of Branham Lane to 0.3 mile north of Virginia Street. Evidently, the project is overrunning its budget; the CTC authorized $6,200,000 in supplemental funding.
Route 87 was not defined as part of the initial state signage of routes in 1934. It is unclear what (if any) route was signed as Route 87 between 1934 and 1964.
The following segments are designated as Classified Landscaped Freeway:
County | Route | Starting PM | Ending PM |
Santa Clara | 87 | 0.00 | 0.73 |
Santa Clara | 87 | 4.86 | 6.25 |
Santa Clara | 87 | 6.25 | 6.28 |
Santa Clara | 87 | 6.51 | 6.90 |
[SHC 253.1] Entire route. The portion from Route 101 to Route 237 was added to the Freeway and Expressway system in 1959. The portion from Route 85 to Route 101 was added to the Freeway and Expressway system in 1961.
Overall statistics for Route 87:
In 1933, three segments were added to the highway system: "[LRN 7] near Woodland to State Highway near Yuba City", "[LRN 15] near Marysville to [LRN 21] near Oroville", and "[LRN 3] near Chico to [LRN 21] near Oroville". In 1935, these were formally assigned to LRN 87, which was defined as:
In 1957, Chapter 36 extended the routing and combined two segments, giving:
This route was signed as follows:
This was signed as Alternate US 40. It is part of present-day Route 70, and portions are Route 113 and Route 99.
This connection was originally unsigned; it is present-day Route 149.
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Tag Archives: Religious Fanaticism
Steve Russell : Hiding Behind a Girl
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Pollyanna : Bad News for the Devil
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Gog, Magog and the Burning Bush!
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Here's an interesting article about the dynamics of the Democratic campaign:
The Clinton organization had a clear plan A: It envisioned the candidate, as the choice of the party establishment and natural heir to the presidency, to so dominate 2007 that she would be able to corner, not have to capture, the nomination. It worked perfectly for most of the year.
The strategy has imploded. In a similar situation, Bill Clinton would have changed plans on a dime — he could have gone from B to E during a rest stop.


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Why the Dow's Inching Up This Morning
Leading into this morning, it would have been a natural assumption that Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's announcement that he will step down early to make way for February elections would send the markets into free fall. Higher Italian bond yields signaled concerns about the departure's impact on much-needed financial reforms. But Wall Street shrugged at the news, and at 10:55 a.m. EST, the Dow Jones Industrials had managed to gain 32 points despite no obvious progress on fiscal-cliff negotiations.
Among Dow stocks, Hewlett-Packard posted the biggest gain, rising 3.7%. Rumors that activist investor Carl Icahn might be interested in taking a stake in the company sent shares higher. More interesting, though, are Dell CEO Michael Dell's statement that he looked at Autonomy but concluded it was overpriced, setting the stage for HP to pick up the company. Investors should expect the Autonomy scandal to keep affecting share prices for the foreseeable future.
JPMorgan Chase , meanwhile, is down 0.75%. A new paper from the Bank of England and the FDIC (link opens PDF) outlined how contingency plans for dealing with the failure of a systemically important institution like JPMorgan might be handled in a future crisis, contrasting it with the somewhat haphazard way problems were handled during the 2008 financial crisis. The apparent need for increased regulation is never a positive for the bank, and shareholders may be responding appropriately.
Finally, McDonald's is up more than 1% after announcing a 2.4% rise in global same-store sales for November. Perhaps the most surprising news was that U.S. sales gained, even when analysts had expected a drop. New advertising promoting McDonald's value proposition, along with modest economic strength, appears to be favorable for the company, and investors are hoping McDonald's has finally hit bottom after a rough patch for the stock in 2012.
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The moon's violent history is written across its face. Over billions of years, space rocks have punched craters into its surface, flinging out debris. Now, for the first time, astronomers may have spotted rubble from one of those ancient smashups out in space. The mysterious object known as Kamoʻoalewa appears to be a stray fragment of the moon, researchers report online November 11 in Communications Earth & Environment.
Discovered in 2016, Kamoʻoalewa — also known as 2016 HO3 — is one of Earth's five known quasisatellites (SN: 6/24/16). These are rocks that stick fairly close to the planet as they orbit the sun. Little is known about Earth's space rock entourage because these objects are so small and faint. Kamoʻoalewa, for instance, is about the size of a Ferris wheel and strays between 40 and 100 times as far from Earth as the moon, as its orbit around the sun weaves in and out of Earth's. That has left astronomers to wonder about the nature of such tagalong rocks.
"An object in a quasisatellite orbit is interesting because it's very difficult to get into this kind of orbit — it's not the kind of orbit that an object from the asteroid belt could easily find itself caught in," says Richard Binzel, a planetary scientist at MIT not involved in the new work. Having an orbit nearly identical to Earth's immediately raises suspicions that an object like Kamoʻoalewa originated in the Earth-moon system, he says.
Researchers used the Large Binocular Telescope and the Lowell Discovery Telescope, in Safford and Happy Jack, Ariz., respectively, to peer at Kamoʻoalewa in visible and near-infrared wavelengths. "The real money is in the infrared," says Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Light at those wavelengths contains important clues about the minerals in rocky bodies, helping distinguish objects such as the moon, asteroids and terrestrial planets.
Kamoʻoalewa reflected more sunlight at longer, or redder, wavelengths. This pattern of light, or spectrum, looked unlike any known near-Earth asteroid, Reddy and colleagues found. But it did look like grains of silicate rock from the moon brought back to Earth by Apollo 14 astronauts (SN: 2/20/71).
Ring around the sun
Kamoʻoalewa, also known as 2016 HO3, has an orbit (white) that is nearly identical to Earth's (blue), causing the object to weave around Earth as it circles the sun.
Kamoʻoalewa and Earth's similar orbits
"To me," Binzel says, "the leading hypothesis is that it's an ejected fragment from the moon, from a cratering event."
Martin Connors, who was involved in the discovery of Earth's first known quasisatellites but did not participate in the new research, also suspects that Kamoʻoalewa is a chip off the old moon. "This is well-founded evidence," says Connors, a planetary scientist at Athabasca University in Canada. But, he cautions, "that doesn't mean it's right."
More detailed observations could help confirm Kamoʻoalewa is made of moon stuff. "If you really wanted to put that nail in the coffin, you'd want to go and visit, or rendezvous with this little quasisatellite and take a lot of up-close observations," says Daniel Scheeres, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder not involved in the work. "The best would be to get a sample."
China's space agency has announced plans to send a probe to Kamoʻoalewa to scoop up a bit of rock and bring it back to Earth later this decade.


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PulpMX.com Fantasy Wrap Up- Anaheim One
Supercross! Supercross! Supercross! It's back! As always we are beginning the season with a stacked 450 class (deep field bro's!) and a 250 class that is promising to provide entertainment all season long.
I was excited to see what the handicaps would look like for the first round. The Anaheim track looked great for the opener and the rain definitely kept us fantasy players on our toes. Did you change your team because of the weather?
Regarding the handicaps, I am always eager to check handicaps each week, to see where, if any, mistakes were made. This week I could only find one, Jacob Hayes at a 10 seemed like a free square. Let's dig in and take a look at the results.
Most picked riders AKA "the chalk
If you missed this column during the "summer series" and/or you don't play daily fantasy sports, you might not know what "chalk" is. Simply put it's a term denoting highly owned players. From a game strategy perspective, it's important to think about ownership when setting your lineup. Avoiding a chalk rider that busts can give an owner a big edge, especially if you are on a low owned rider that delivers a higher score than the rider who busts. Be careful though, when the chalk goes off, if you're not on them, you will get buried. Note, at the time of this writing, the pick trend statistics were not available so I am making my best educated guess here.
In the 250 class, Jacob Hayes with his 10 handicap was at 51% owned. He qualified 9th overall and looked good all day. To me he was basically a free square, pick him and fill out the rest of the team. Jacob delivered a perfect 52 point score. I am also guessing that Jess Pettis had significant ownership, he qualified 12th, with a 9 handicap he seemed to have a lot of upside and also delivered 52 points for his owners. Update, Pettis pick trend was only 27%, pretty low!
The PulpMX Fantasy handicap crew did a great job on the 450's, I doubt there were any riders, excepting an all star or two, who had more than a 20% pick trend.
Low owned players who delivered – AKA great contrarian plays
Did you roll the dice on these guys? If you did, it paid off, and you probably had a great day. In the 250 class Mathias Jorgensen, a 16 handicap, qualified in 29th and put up a perfect 52 point score after finishing 17th OA. He wasn't picked by anyone, or at least under 1% of users picked him. Bradley Lionnet was most likely right there with him, he had a 15 handicap, qualified in 25th, and finished 18th OA, rewarding his 1% owners with 42 solid points. Nice job guys!
The 450 class saw 15 handicap Ryan Breece qualify in 28th, then finish 20th OA, rewarding his owners with 36 points. The only rider to better that was none other than Carlen Gardner who entered Anaheim Stadium with a 16 handicap, qualified in 27th, and finished 17th OA, rewarding his owners with a perfect 52.
Fantasy Duds
We definitely had a few fantasy team wreckers to begin the season. Unfortunately yours truly was on two of them in the 450 class, this was especially painful because I was 18 points off of a perfect score in the 250's. The Bear, Tyler Bowers did not have a good main event. He qualified in 14th and seemed a solid pick with a 7 handicap. He transferred straight out of his heat race, started the main well and then had a big get off in the first few laps. He had to pull off the track for repairs and reentered the race, beat up and three laps down, to finish 21st OA, delivering only 9 points.
Another rider who did not have a good night was Blake Baggett. Blake looked fast all day and actually got faster as practice went on, finishing with the pole position on a rainy racetrack. With a 5 handicap and knowing he was in shape, he seemed a lock for 25 all start points. It was not to be, he qualified straight out of the main, had 5th gate pick and it went downhill from there. Blake finished a distant 12th, leaving his owners with only 16 points. To be fair, Jason Anderson did even worse, scoring only 10 fantasy points. I'm guessing that not many people owned him though as he was a 1 handicap and never looked right all day, only qualifying in sixth.
Fantasy Studs
The fantasy studs are the riders who we expect a good score from and deliver. Let's take a look at who achieved stud status to start the season. The 250 class was sparse, we already mentioned Pettis and Hayes, outside of them we only had expected performances out of all stars, most notably Dylan Ferrandis, RJ Hampshire, and Colt Nichols.
The 450 class had quite a few strong performances. Mookie, Dean Wilson, and AP all scored 42 points. All three were solid picks even though they had fairly low handicaps, the highest among them was Mookie with a 4.
Overall the scoring seemed a little bit on the low side of average compared to last year. We had a tie at the tops of the leaderboard at 322 points. When we break down fantasy points scored by the riders we see very few perfect scores, only three in the 250 class, (Pettis, Hayes, and Jorgensen) and only one in the 450 class, (Gardner). We also had very few riders score over 40 points, only three in the 250 class and two in the 450's. The rest were under 40 points. This is a sign that the handicappers did a really good job going into round one.
Final Thoughts
There should be some edges to be had this week, due to some weird A1 overall results, leaving riders who would normally be all stars eligible for double points. The key will be in how they are handicapped. I'm guessing that Jason Anderson is going to look juicy, but will be a dangerous pick due to a rumored arm injury. We will also have Joey Savatgy, Justin Hill, Blake Bagget, Cole Seely and a host of others eligible for double points. It's going to be fun, I can't wait to see what their handicaps will be and look for an edge.
We will see you after Glendale, thanks for reading!


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BBC 'will lose trust for giving airtime to BNP'
Michael Savage
"A BBC presenter has attacked the decision to invite the leader of the British National Party (BNP) on to BBC1's Question Time tonight, warning that the move "completely contradicts" rules on impartiality and would erode the public's trust in the Corporation.
"Michael Rosen, the former children's laureate, accused the broadcaster of "hiding behind" the BNP's European election victories to justify its decision, adding that executives "were relishing" the ratings that the broadcast is expected to receive. "It is failing in the very impartiality that it claims to be trying to uphold," he said.
"The BBC Trust is due to be handed a letter from anti-fascist protesters this morning calling for the decision to invite Mr Griffin to take part in the programme to be reversed. However, last night the Trust rejected an appeal by the Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain, to block Mr Griffin's appearance because the BNP had an illegal constitution." Read on...Pour citer cette ressource :
"BBC 'will lose trust for giving airtime to BNP'", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), octobre 2009. Consulté le 01/03/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/bbc-will-lose-trust-for-giving-airtime-to-bnp-


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Review: Exquisite Corpse
Adelaide Festival
It's a rare privilege to share in the world premiere of an exciting and innovative new work. Even more so when it is devised, produced and performed by an Adelaide company.
Exquisite Corpse is a 60-minute work initiated by the Zephyr Quartet and composed over eight months by 12 composers.
The sequential collaboration meant each composer took the ending of the previous piece and continued the work before passing it on to the next in line. This spanned the globe, from Australia to the United States, creating a unique musical version of the old parlour game known as "Exquisite Corpse".
In the parlour game, each player adds a word or a line to a story or rhyme, famously resulting in the phrase "the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine".
These short musical elements are played as a continuous composition. There are a few momentary pauses, shorter than even the usual break between movements, and it takes an accomplished ear to discern where one piece ends and the next begins. The musical influences are clear in some sections – a little jazz, some blues, a few Asian intonations and lots of psychedelia, as well as the classical canon.
The traditional string quartet instruments – two violins, a viola and a cello – are amplified and even distorted with special effects. And they are played in all manner of styles, from the traditional orchestral manner to being held and strummed banjo-style or used percussively.
But Exquisite Corpse isn't just about the music. This is a much more experiential composition, with animations by Luku Kukuku and Jo Kerlogue projected behind the players and a giant illuminated octopus spreading its tentacles across the floor. The animations are an artwork in themselves, evoking street art, tattoos come to life, and the manic offspring of Maurice Sendak's beautiful children's book Where the Wild Things Are.
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All of this was revealed to the capacity audience once the ethereal pall of swirling smoke had cleared. (It's always a nice atmospheric, but this was perhaps a little too enthusiastic. I saw more than one person reaching for an inhaler!)
I would need to hear Exquisite Corpse a few more times to decide if I really love the music, but the performance experience was very special. The Zephyr Quartet won a Ruby Award last year for innovation – they might just have to win it again this year!
Exquisite Corpse is being performed over two nights at the Adelaide Festival Centre's Space Theatre, but tonight's final show has sold out.
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Activities for young people in Belle Isle & Middleton
The Youth Service team based at South Leeds Youth Hub have various activities and trips out over the summer. These are for all young people aged 11-18years who live in Middleton or Belle Isle. These trips include Blackpool Pleasure Beach, York Dungeons, Stockeld Park, Paintballing, Doncaster Dome, Breeze at


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CoinGate Review: Trading & Cryptocurrency Payments
In today's ever-evolving world of cryptocurrencies, having a reliable platform to trade, accept and manage your digital assets is paramount. We will be reviewing CoinGate today. In this detailed article, we'll examine its features, supported currencies, fees structure, ease-of-use, security protocols, and other issues. Let's get started and see what CoinGate has in store!
About CoinGate
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In order to use CoinGate, users must first create an account. Registration is straightforward and only requires users' email address and creation of a password. After verifying their email, users can access all features available on the platform and begin taking advantage of CoinGate's services.
CoinGate Wallets
CoinGate offers users secure wallets that allow them to safely store digital assets. These wallets are integrated into the platform, making it simple for users to manage their cryptocurrencies while taking advantage of CoinGate's services.
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CoinGate is committed to privacy and security. To meet its strict privacy guidelines, CoinGate uses numerous security measures such as two-factor authentication to provide additional protection and secure storage. CoinGate also adheres to strict privacy regulations in order to protect user information.
CoinGate Supported Cryptocurrencies
CoinGate supports a variety of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. This wide selection allows traders and merchants to choose the digital assets they prefer.
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Speak English, if you speak at all (to all advanced)
# serjio
Thank you for the remarks, Maria, I'll take them into account. I wonder how it came that you know so confidently the way the real native speaks? I, being Russian, am not certain about my Russian colleges, the way they will speak…
A kind of irritation you have, haven't you? Why? I didn't mean to harm you, by no means. Some like these words, some prefer others, a matter of preference, nothing more, hey? Finding a more suitable word is a matter of skill and, I dare say, art.
I assume I was not precise in some places, nothing more appropriate came in mind, thank you for the advice. But I am afraid, such a strict approach will scare off all the participants of the conference.
1…"Thank you," he said. "What lies directly ahead for us comes down to looking and listening, mostly".
(S. King, "Wolves of the Calla")
…"You are in the habit of using it for valuable documents?" queried Malcolm Sage.
"As a matter of fact very seldom. It is mostly empty." was the reply.
(Malcolm Sage, Detective by Herbert Jenkins)…Flagg was wearing jeans, a checked shirt, his jeans jacket with the two buttons on the
breast pockets, and his rundown cowboy boots. In the sudden hush the sound of
those bootheels clocking their way down the cement path' was the only sound . .
. a sound out of time.
(S. King, "The Stand")2 If you don't know a word, that does not mean that it is wrong or does not exist:
obtrusive – навязчивый
obsolete – устарелый
what not – и так далее, и тому подобное
(Большой Англо-Русский словарь, ред. Гальперина)P.S. And the "Word" is a good spelling checker, yet.
# maria
If you don't know a word, that does not mean that it is wrong or does not exist:
obtrusive – навязчивый
obsolete – устарелый
what not – и так далее, и тому подобное
(Большой Англо-Русский словарь, ред. Гальперина)
This post is not fair, just because it was me who suuggested obsolete.It obviosly means i knew the word/
Then it was me who suugested annoying instead of obtrusive Yes did not know the word obtrusive then i looked it in the dictionary and suggested a synonimous word.Which is more colloqual.The strict approach which scares forum-users is yours/ And i was even stricker/ Because everything genious is simple.Your English is the same what is the russian of ,say, Tolstoy- in real life people never speak like in books of Tolstoy. More ovr it difficult for them to listen t this language with foreign acsent. Once i spoke to an italian woman she tild me 'Состоится ли прибытие самолета в 8 часов" There were no mistakes in her speech.
# maria
The problem is that if your purpose is communication you should speak as simple as possible. five year ago i also spoke like you i cited books and people kept saying to me tha my English is too good. This taught me to look for oher word i bought in England some books for children and newspapers. And rewrite most frequently used diologues. The result was marvelous.All the dictionaries are made by people i one my own made some artickles ifor wekiepedia and they were placed and now you can read them/ All people make mistakes. I just try to explain ti you that the purpose of language is to communicate not to humiliate the people and showing off/ Every single day i speak to native speakers andmay be twice a week (exept shops )i speak to russians.I read english books and what movies in English. And i just know because i know. When i can distinqwish australian from american and english from american. All of them speak differently and use diffrent words. But I always can distingwish between a russian who makes mistakes because he doesn know, who makes mistakes because he is just tired or in a hurry (ussually native spekers also make the same mistakes/or example many of them dont say s with the verb and the 3rd person.)and the one who tries to speak even more beutiful language
and whose language could be good if it was not that funny. -
# maria
sorry for misprints i hope you understand that not one my own but on my own, five years ago , just i rush
# maria
and very angry
I always get angry when I come across thing like this because there is nothing to do about people like you. They charge huge money for this. -
# maria
Get on peoples nerves and really scare them off from communication/
# aksinia
I apply especially to Serjio....Excuse me, where have you learnt your English? The matter is fact, your English is very bookish.I like it, but nobody speak so,especially american people.Although they are not an exemple for imitation... -
# Orchid
Probably, no one can find an appropriate subject.
# Orchid
American people are not an example for us.In some way they speak broken english, they are a lot of mistakes in their speech.Actually,they speak language as they like. -
# serjio
2 maria.
Tut-tut. So much ado about nothing. Mind you, I never claimed I had no mistakes
maria: "sorry for misprints i hope you understand that not one my own but on my own, five years ago , just i rush..."
I understood nothing, did you? "No decoding possible". Signed: parteigenosse Bormann
2 Aksinia
Yes, I learned English mainly by books, now –TV and films, and my job is linked with reading a lot of technical literature. Oral contacts – occasionally. I have warned I was reading a fantasy book at the time, very specific in style (saga-like), it influenced my language. And I'm used to relate my thoughts written, of course I speak differently. Though I've no problem when speak to a native, Americans included, I'll practice more, it's fairly easy to arrange. I speak one way, write another, but now I'm "writing", not "speaking", so how can I? I always write absolutely correct Russian (all commas and dots in places) in my Russian posts in other conferences and hate mistakes in Russian. Moreover, the conferences I am interested in (high tech problems), are all of the same style.
I reflected on the ways we communicate at work. Here are examples:
My chief: «Я полагаю так, что эту проблему мы сможем решить самостоятельно, не прибегая к помощи цеха?»
My colleague: «Не знаю, не знаю. Моя интуиция мне подсказывает, что…», or "Позвольте спросить Вас как программист схемотехника…"
What kind of language is it? Are we crazy?
(I did my best to simplify my sentences and vocabulary)


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So that scene lets us know that Jack is a charmer but not really a steadfast kind of guy. One can imagine the unseen parts, he gets all caught up in the fastpaced world he has entered, and she is waiting and getting worried at home, then he decides he is not ready for a settled down life yet. Which, when you are as young as they were, is not so unusual.
Are they two different men, can someone change their basic character?
Whoops, forgot to make this discussion member only for it's duration as I usully do, have now done so..perhaps encouraging our lurkers to join in ; )
"When you think about magic, it is imagination plus willpower focused in such a way that you can create a conscious effect in the material world..."
Nicolas Cage
Lady T, how interesting, i dont feel they are two separate men, rather elements of each in the other magnified. my perception of Jack in the opening scene is slightly different, i see 2 people who have career paths and both equal in that, and someone who is committed and loving, that their decision is mutual and he has every intention to commit to their relationship long term.. but that something happened to him to bring about a change in that from him he was away..Kate had a gut feeling but it felt spontaneous...
He certaimly seems like a very charismatic and charming man, in the opening credits scene and till he enters his new life. Totally into his job andthe rush of it, but not necessarilly a bad man.
Perhaps Kate had a glimpse too.
Both Jacks take great pride in their work and have a strong work ethic. And a large capacity to enjoy their life too.
it was a bit of a shock when we leap 13 years forward, while sitting in bed Jack lowers his paper, we see the naked back of a woman with blonde hair, who turns around.... and it is not Kate! i was thinking, 'what happened?'
but he is oh so charming and gorgeous in that scene, in a one night stand play boy kind of a way..but even then there is a tinge of the loneliness we see in Jack later on when he asks to see her again but she is going to see her family for Christmas....
It might have been interesting to see some of Kate's other life.
Well, we are all self-oriented from birth, I believe, and our life experiences make us what we become to a certain extent, so I can believe that someone's life could go in such diverse directions, depending on the path they follow.
I don't know Lula, he didn't look so lonely to me when he hopped out of bed and one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie began!
then this!
Lady Trueheart wrote:I don't know Lula, he didn't look so lonely to me when he hopped out of bed and one of the most enjoyable parts of the movie began!
true! but i did neverthelessee a glimpse or mybe it was a foretelling!
interesting too that La Donna E Mobile means 'Woman is fickle' just after his one night stand left, declining his offer !
LOL! Has to be said...... so awesome seeing Nic singing like that, naked except for his tight little black underpants! ooooomph!!!
He is really NIColicious in that scene!


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They claim that the technology is there but not the money to do it.
Gingrich said his program would be "90 percent private sector" and he'd like to see space flight become so common that there would be "six or seven launches a day." He added: "I'd like to have an American on the moon before the Chinese get there."
Inflatable moon bases proposed by Bigelow Aerospace
Gingrich went so far as to bring up a proposal he made when he was a young congressman to create a "Northwest Ordinance" for space in which, as soon as 13,000 Americans lived on the moon, they could petition to become a state.
I believe a carefully crafted series of prizes can work.
There are already Google lunar prizes.
The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is igniting a new era of lunar exploration by offering the largest international incentive prize of all time. A total of $30 million in prizes are available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon and have that robot travel 500 meters over the lunar surface and send images and data back to the Earth. Since its launch, NASA has also offered a complementary $30 million in contracts to those who successfully land on the lunar surface and meet certain scientific objectives. The teams have until the end of 2015 to get to the Moon, meet the prize objectives, and win the prize purses.
Prizes that follow up
Have a $60 million prize for a robotic lunar base by 2017.
$300 milion prize for more elaborate robotic lunar base by 2018.
$200 million prize for robotic and/or teleoperated base in earth orbit by 2015.
$500 million prize for manned inflatable base at earth orbit by 2016.
$1 billion prize for manned inflatable base at a lagrange point by 2018.
$2 billion prize for manned base on the moon by 2019 (not permanent but weeks at a time.)
$10 billion prize for the permanent manned base by 2020.
Have a lot more sub-prizes for other goals.
Bigelow Aerospace has discussed proposals for private moon bases. A quick-deploy moon base capable of housing up to 18 astronauts in inflatable modules on the lunar surface.
The moon harbors large amounts of water ice, along with lots of other potentially useful compounds. Shackleton — a 12-mile-wide (20-kilometer-wide) crater appears to have lots of water ice.
Lunar space elevator using 6 cubic meters of Zylon
the Moon's gravity is only one sixth that of Earth, it drastically reduces the requirements of the ribbon. A material that is available now, a synthetic polymer material called Zylon (poly(p-phenylene-2,6-benzobisoxazole) which has high strength and excellent thermal stability, could be used.
* The biggest hurdle could be getting access to the 6 cubic meters of the Zylon material.
* A lunar elevator would use a ribbon at least 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles) long extending through the Earth-Moon L1 LaGrange point from an anchor point near the center of the visible part of Earth's moon.
* This is a very small system, capable of transporting 200-250 kilos
* Once the initial ribbon is up and running, Laine said you could send up more ribbon to strengthen it
Setting up an inflatable space station at Lagrange points for teleoperated support
Any permanent space presence needs redundancy, support and quick access to robust help. By having space stations in low earth orbit, geosync, lagrange points and on the moon, then you would have easy ability to provide robust teleoperated assistance. Having multiple bases on the moon and having some robot operated would provide fallback positions in case one base is compromised. You can send crews from station to station as well with very small rockets.
Earth moon L1/L2 is enabling site for lunar surface telerobotics
• Latencies less than 6 times from Earth, 400 ms -so cognitive operations
• Continuous access to the near-or far-‐side (except poles …)
• Communication LOS with Earth is stable and reliable
• Little orbit maintenance needed – of order tens of m/s/yr
• Control options for multiple surface sites
• Avoid putting humans in deep gravity wells in near term
People can still go the lunar surface.
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The success of many a start-up often comes down to blood, sweat, tears – and self-discipline. While running your own business can mean more freedom, it also means that you need to be able to manage yourself: for some, self-discipline comes naturally, but for most of us it's an uphill battle.
A business doesn't run itself, and, in a world full of distractions, how do successful business owners follow through to get things done?
Here are some tips that can help you manage yourself – so that you can manage your start-up:
Set achievable goals
Set yourself a specific target. This can involve anything you want to do, whether it's getting up earlier or finally doing your tax return – but be realistic: start small, and set a reasonable deadline so that it's not open-ended. When you achieve a goal, reward yourself.
The more milestones you reach, the easier it'll be to hit those big goals – like increasing turnover, or landing that big client. Keep yourself motivated by tracking your progress (use a goal-setting app or a simple journal).
Change your perception of willpower
Most people give up before they even begin by claiming they have no willpower. But it's not something that you have or don't have: it's a behaviour you can learn. Understanding that willpower is something that needs to be practised is half the battle won.
Like goal-setting, you need to start small – and you need to implement an "if X happens, I'll do Y" approach. For example, want to wake up earlier? Don't leave it up to willpower to get out of bed, rather set your alarm 10 minutes earlier at first (and put the alarm out of arm's reach so you need to physically get up to switch it off). Keep doing this for a week, then set it 15 minutes earlier, and so on. That way you practise – and then instil – an early-rising habit.
Remove distractions
It makes it much easier to remove distractions so that they don't add to temptation in the first place. This takes willpower, but as we've already mentioned, you'll need to put a plan in place in order to guarantee success.
For example, if you are working on a desktop, you can use an app blocker to block the websites that distract you (try Google Chrome's Stay Focused extension), or if you have a habit of checking your social feed on your phone, simply delete all the social media apps. Need to get more work done in the evenings? Cancel your Netflix subscription, and put your phone on Do Not Disturb mode.
There are many tasks that we would rather do instead of others, but those tasks may not be as important. Start by writing down what you need to do and when it needs to be done by. Next, rank your tasks in order of importance and urgency. You will find that some may be important but not urgent or vice versa. Start with tasks that are both important and urgent and then work your way through to tasks that are less urgent and/or less important. You'll have a visual representation of all the tasks at hand, so it's easy to see how far you've come and what still needs to be done (pro tip: try keep your top to-dos to a maximum of three).
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