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Lobby without cassock. Vadym Novinsky`s visits to Constantinople prevent granting autocephaly to Kyiv
Just half a year ago, most Ukrainians didn't know what tomos is and how the word is spelled. Now, the situation is the opposite. The fight for tomos, a document granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, has grown into a nationwide campaign. Supportive public discourse and Ukraine's diplomatic efforts provide serious reinforcement to the clergy's campaign for the document. Soon enough, Ukraine is likely to receive its independent Orthodox Church recognized in the world.
The word autocephaly is a combination of the Greek words for own and head, that stands for independence or self-governance. The family of Orthodox Churches is comprised of authocephalous churches with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople standing "first among equals". Herein lies its difference from the Roman Catholic Church with its clear vertical hierarchy. No specific legal norms or established procedure regulate the foundation of autocephalous churches. As a result, the issue constantly fuels arguments.
However, there is a universally recognized list of factors for a church to be established as autocephalous. It includes the existence of an independent state where that Church acts, the Orthodox clerical structure and the respective will of the secular authorities and the people.
In old times, patriarchates were founded by the holy apostles preaching the Word of God. According to theologists, the emergence of new autocaphalous Orthodox churches is based on Apostle Rule No34, among others, stating "the Bishops of every nation should know the first among them and recognize him as the leader."
Kyiv Rus leaned towards the independence of its church body and rituals since the first centuries following the adoption of Christianity. Under Prince Yaroslav the Wise in 1051 it elected Ilarion, a man of Kyiv Rus rather than Greek origin, as head of its metropolitan cathedra. This was a clear demonstration of independence by the Kyiv Church.
Kyiv Metropole's purely nominal subordination to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople up until 1686 secured its independent development. The Cossacks became the foundation and the basis for its development. According to many researchers, Kyiv Metropole was virtually autocephalous in its status at the time. This provided the ground for Kyiv Metropolitan Petro Mohyla to create the project of constitutional transformation of the Kyiv Metropole into a patriarchate.
Problems began when the Ukrainian Church was illegally subordinated to the Moscow Patriarchate as a result of the loss of statehood by Ukraine and the integration of its lands with the Tsardom of Russia. Given the traditional control of State over Church in Muscovy, this signaled full subordination of all religious life in Ukraine, leading to the unification and elimination of any national differences. In such circumstances, the issue of autocephaly for Ukrainian Church would come up with every wave of Ukrainian national liberation struggle. It did so in 1917-1920, and it has been on the agenda since Ukraine declared its independence in 1991.
Ukrainian presidents and autocephaly
Every Ukrainian president was tested by the autocephaly issue. Leonid Kravchuk, the first president of the independent Ukraine, was generally supportive of independence for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. But his cautious and indecisive nature and reliance on pro-Russian advisors led him to a number of mistakes. The major one was to allow the Kharkiv Assembly in 1992. Under instructions from Moscow and the supervision of its special services, the Assembly elected Metropolitan Volodymyr Sabodan to replace Metropolitan Filaret Denysenko as head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in violation of the Church canons and charter. Some experts blame Yevhen Marchuk, then-chief of the Security Bureau of Ukraine, for this. Regardless of who allowed this event to take place, the Assembly marked the starting point of the current split in Ukraine's Orthodoxy.
"If that split had not happened, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church would have been one and we could have pressured Moscow into granting us autocephaly," Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate, has said more than once ever since. He is probably right: back in 1991, Filaret convened the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Assembly in Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a major Orthodox shrine now occupied by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. The Assembly authorized an address to Alexis II, then-Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, requesting autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The address was signed by virtually all bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, including Metropolitan Onufriy (Berezovsky), the current head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. "Representing all of Ukraine's bishops, clergy, parishioners, monasteries and religious educational facilities, the participants of the Assembly have unanimously decided to request Your Holiness and the Bishopry of the Rus Orthodox Church to grant canonical independence, i.e. autocephaly, to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, to support the recognition of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by all national Churches as an equal sister-Church in the family of Orthodox Churches, and to encourage eastern patriarchs and the heads of other national churches to support the establishment of the Kyiv Patriarchate," the address said. A romantic hope of that time was that Moscow would agree to the independence of Ukraine's Church after it had grudgingly accepted the independence of Ukraine. It never did.
Still, Ukrainians have had their canonic national Church since 1992. Many sociological surveys show that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate takes that place. It has the highest number of Orthodox parishioners. In its March 23-28, 2018 poll, the Razumkov Center found that 28.7% of those polled across Ukraine said they belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, and 12.8% said they went to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate. The number of Kyiv Patriarchate sympathizers has been growing for years.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate is fully independent from any foreign centers, has its own structure, an elected Patriarch – the first one was Mstyslav Skrypnyk, followed by Volodymyr Romaniuk and Filaret Denysenko – bishops, clergy, monasteries and higher theological institutions. It follows decisions by Synods, as well as archbishop and national assemblies. This is a canonical Church since it does not violate any canons or rules, and abides by the Bible, the Holy Tradition and dogmas. The only difference is the use of the Ukrainian language in its services which the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate does not welcome.
So what exactly is the tomos of autocephaly about and why are we campaigning to get it? It will help unite Ukrainian Orthodoxy and make it part of the family of Orthodox Churches, allowing it to communicate and serve alongside all Orthodox communities of the world.
RELATED ARTICLE: Patriarch Filaret: "Almost all Orthodox Churches believe that Ukraine should have its own Church"
Away from Moscow
Leonid Kuchma took the president's office in Ukraine with a clear orientation at supporting Russia. He saw the support of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate as its partner in the sphere of religion. This led to a tragedy when participants of the burial procession for Patriarch Volodymyr Romaniuk were violently attacked and beaten at the St. Sofia Square in Kyiv in 1995. That provocation against the burial ceremony for the second Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, a well-known prisoner of conscience of the soviet regime, caused much resentment in Ukraine and beyond, uniting many of Ukraine's intelligentsia around Kyiv Patriarchate and eventually forcing those in power to shed their bias against it. When Leonid Kuchma approached his second term as president, he began to understand the role of the autocephalous Church in the nation's statehood. He even began to speak about the importance of establishing the unified national Ukrainian Orthodox Church in public statements.
According to different accounts, he changed his mind during a visit to the Holy Land for the celebration of the 2000th anniversary of birth of Jesus Christ. Heads of traditionally Orthodox states stood next to the leaders of their Churches at the ceremony. Volodymyr, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, had to stand next to Alexis II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, not next to Kuchma. This solitude at the celebration made Kuchma realize how deprived an Orthodox nation is without its autocephalous Church and how flawed the project of the "Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate" was.
The dialogue about autocephaly with Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew was first activated under the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko when the Patriarch came for a pompous visit to Kyiv as representative of Mother Church to celebrate the 1020th anniversary of Christianity in Kyiv Rus. The issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was not solved then as the talks were chaotic and inconsistent. Kyiv placed its bets on the show, expecting the Patriarchate in Constantinople to write the autocephaly tomos inspired by visiting Kyiv and seeing rainbows over the ancient St. Sofia Cathedral, accompanied by the honorary guard.
When those in power realized that the Ecumenical Patriarch was not ready for such historic impromptu, they began to discuss the "Crete option" whereby the Kyiv Church would receive a semi-autonomous status within the Constantinople Patriarchate. The bishops, the clergy and the parishioners of the Ukrainian Church were not happy with this: they did not reject subordination to Moscow to replace it with administrative subordination to Istanbul.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities wanted to present at least some results of the talks with the Ecumenical Patriarch to society. Therefore, Viktor Baloha, then-Chief of the Presidential Secretariat, pressured Patriarch Filaret into rejecting the idea of complete independence for the Church. Filaret never ceded to requests or threats. Subsequently, this contributed to the reinforcement of the Kyiv Patriarchate structure.
Still, that visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to Kyiv in 2008 allowed him to publicly state that he considered Ukraine the territory of his Church and that the Constantinople Patriarchate was Mother Church for Ukrainian Orthodox Church, now Moscow Patriarchate. He proved that his Church did not write off the Kyiv Metropole back in 1686 for good.
The notorious ex-president Viktor Yanukovych was a follower of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate and ignored Kyiv Patriarchate. In 2009, the Russian Orthodox Church was headed by Patriarch Kirill (Gundiayev) known for his proactive promotion of a neo-imperial concept of Russki Mir, the Russian World. He demanded the bishops and clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate to act towards integration with Russia and is a harsh critic of Ukraine's pro-European vector. He took the patriarch seat as a wholehearted supporter and ideologue of Vladimir Putin.
Interestingly, ex-president Yanukovych and his team were working on the tactical project of replacing Volodymyr Sabodan, then-Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, who was weak by then and could no longer meet their needs as an agitator and organizer. Quite unexpectedly, the Metropolitan – already quite ill – resisted their efforts and refused to leave his seat for Antoniy Pokanych, a young metropolitan loyal to those in power. To blackmail and provoke Volodymyr, Oleksandr Drabynko, an archbishop close to him, was kept under de factoillegal police arrest for a year.
The Maidan and the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2014 changed the situation. It was the St. Michael's Church of Kyiv Patriarchate in downtown Kyiv that sheltered the protesting student violently chased by the Berkut riot police. Later, the Church transformed into a makeshift hospital for those injured in the Maidan.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate kept defending Yanukovych, opened its doors for titushky thugs and separatists, while its bishops often spoke in support of aggressors in the Donbas and collaborated with the enemy in Crimea (all these activities persist today). This helped shape the attitude of people in Ukraine about this branch of ROC in Ukraine. This even pushed some clergy and parishioners within the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate towards mounting frustration with the official Moscow-approved vector of the Church and its status as an affiliate of the Moscow Patriarchate, a religious organization of the occupant state.
Some respected theologists claim that tomos for the Ukrainian Church has "already been written". This may be true, but it will hardly be publicly disclosed this summer. It is more likely to appear closer to the end of 2018. The main thing is that Patriarch Bartholomew has more than once demonstrated resistance to Moscow's intimidation and blackmail in an attempt to counter the tomos, and has shown that he will not give up his leading role in the cause of the Ukrainian Church.
He was recently visited by a group of envoys from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate led by the notorious MP Vadym Novinskiy and priest Mykola Danylevych. The group of clergy known for their openly pro-Russian views was on a mission to persuade the Ecumenical Patriarch to drop the intentions to help Orthodox Ukrainians and leave them under Russia's religious subordination. According to accounts by eye-witnesses, Novinskiy blackmailed Patriarch Bartholomew by saying that there would be war and bloodshed in Ukraine if it received autocephaly, and asking whether Patriarch was willing to take responsibility for that development. Ilarion Alfeyev, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchy's Department of External Church Relations, echoed this phrase about war and bloodshed shortly after.
Patriarch Bartholomew received the envoys in a diplomatic manner, listened to them and gifted them with souvenirs. When they returned home, he declared once again that he would not walk away from his intentions while autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church could be a step towards unity, peace and development of Orthodoxy. The statement was made on July 1 in the Hall of the Throne at his residence. "Let us not forget that Constantinople never ceded the territory of Ukraine to anyone by means of some ecclesiastical Act, but only granted to the Patriarch of Moscow the right of ordination or transfer of the Metropolitan of Kyiv on the condition that the Metropolitan of Kyiv should be elected by a Clergy-Laity Congress and commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch. Listen to what is mentioned in this regard in the Tome of autocephaly, which was granted by the Mother Church to the Church of Poland: "For it is written that the original separation from our Throne of the Metropolis of Kyiv and of the two Orthodox Churches of Lithuania and Poland, which depend on it, and their annexation to the Holy Church of Moscow, in no way occurred according to the binding canonical regulations, nor was the agreement respected concerning the full ecclesial independence of the Metropolitan of Kyiv, who bears the title of Exarch of the Ecumenical Throne," Patriarch Bartholomew said.
Meanwhile, frequent categorical statements of some top representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate both from Russia and Ukraine signal that they are set to aggravate the situation, including with provocations (which Ukrainian security services have to be ready to counter).
When the leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate, which presents itself as "independently administered", goes to an assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia's Yekaterinburg and discusses the problem of Ukrainian authocephaly with people who should hardly have anything to do with it, it explains a lot.
The ongoing historical stage of the struggle for the tomos is decisive. The efforts of Poroshenko's team in this regard leave observers optimistic and make them believe that this campaign will be effective. The assets of Ukraine's campaign for autocephaly include official requests from the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, the bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and some of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate's clergy to the Ecumenical Patriarch, as well as diplomatic negotiations with the leaders of other Orthodox Churches requesting their support for the tomos.
RELATED ARTICLE: Church Opposition
Listed below are the factors that have activated the campaign for autocephaly in Ukraine:
1. The establishment of Ukraine as an independent state with the European vector of development which the Russian aggression failed to break.
2. The development and strengthening of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate as the Church of the Ukrainian people.
3. Aggressive imperial policies by Russia and Moscow Patriarchate. The latter has been growing more assertive in positioning itself as the main patriarchy and challenging the superiority of the Constantinople Patriarchate.
4. Ukrainian authorities now see autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as part of national security. Therefore, efforts aimed at obtaining it have become far more professional and proactive.
5. The crisis of Orthodoxy which requires a strong Ukrainian Orthodox Church to reinforce the family of Orthodox churches, strengthen the balance and block the Moscow Patriarchate's ambitions to become an equivalent of the Vatican in the Orthodox Church (a project initiated by Joseph Stalin).
6. The geopolitical situation in the world where European nations, the US and Turkey understand how dangerous the neo-imperial policies of Putin's Russia are and do not welcome its reinforcement in the religious segment, too.
In this situation, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has the following prospects of receiving the tomos of autocephaly. The document may appear by the end of this year, but the process is more likely to last another year as the Ecumenical Patriarch has decided to go through the whole organic procedure of agreeing this move with other Orthodox Churches. This will actually contribute to the legitimacy of the document. By the way, the process of granting the autocephaly tomos to the Polish Orthodox Church (based on the fact that it had been part of the ancient Kyiv Metropole) lasted three years and was completed in 1924.
How can the cause of autocephaly for Ukraine develop? The decisions declared at the synod of the Moscow Patriarchate in Yekaterinburg signal that this Church will insist on rejecting autocephaly for Ukrainians. This will push the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate farther into isolationism from the interests of the Ukrainian people and state: they will not go for any official negotiations on the issue while playing the Kremlin's card and claiming that the campaign "breeds violations of the rights of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate believers by nationalists." This fundamentalism is likely to further undermine the support for this Church from Ukrainians.
Meanwhile, the bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate will gather for an assembly and read out the tomos of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Ecumenical Patriarch. An election of the leader of the newly-autonomous Church follow. Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv Patriarchate is the most likely candidate for the seat.
Then the Verkhovna Rada can consider a bill to conduct re-registration of religious communities in Ukraine: the previous registration took place a long time ago, so the current register lists many communities and monasteries that no longer exist. This bill would also regulate the names of confessions: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate would go back to its actual name of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.
In 1918, Oleksandr Lototskiy, the Minister of Confessions in charge of religious policy in Pavlo Skoropadskiy's government, spoke to the bishops of then-pro-Russian Orthodox Church in Kyiv. Autocephaly for the Ukrainian Church "is not only necessary for the Church, but for the nation and the State. This is the highest necessity for our Church, our state and our nation. Those who understand and sincerely embrace the interests of the Ukrainian people, also embrace autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church," he said.
By Yuriy Doroshenko
Translated by Anna Korbut
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Are you a new music producer looking to find the best websites to sell beats on?
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They have their beats ready to go, but they use a website like SoundCloud as their way of selling beats online.
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General Motors is pressuring its dealers to "commit" to spending hugs sums of their money on equipment and facilities to make GM's electric cars more palatable to buyers. Which begs the question almost no one covering electric cars ever brings up.
Probably because of the answer.
If there were buyers for the electric cars GM is making, dealers wouldn't need to be pressured to invest in such things as fast chargers and other EV-specific equipment, since these things would result in making money.
Dealers willingly add additional bays, hire more staff, buy diagnostic equipment, spruce up their showrooms – and so on – when it is in their financial interests to do so. Dealerships being in business . . . as opposed to the political business.
Which is what EVs are all about.
GM – and everyone else, including Tesla – makes electric cars because of politics. Because of political mandates to make them. And to "sell" them – in air quotes to emphasize the fact that all electric cars are given away in that any money made off the transaction is purely the result of various wealth transfer schemes, such as subsidies and "credits" – in quotes to emphasize the fact that they are extortions. Tesla – the greatest practitioner of this art form – uses the political mandates to make EVs to extort money from other car companies that do not make them; they pay Tesla money to get "credit" for making them, which is easier than actually making EVs themselves and then having to figure out how to get rid of them.
If it were profitable to make the EVs themselves, they'd never pay Tesla to do it on their behalf.
It's noteworthy that every electric car GM has brought out had to be brought back – that is, cancelled – after it became too embarrassing to continue making what couldn't be sold. This includes the 2013-2016 Cadillac ELR, which needed CPR after not-selling. Or rather, not selling for a profit after three years, during which timespan GM gave away just under 3,000 of them.
For a sense of just how dismal those numbers are, during the infamously afflicted Pontiac Aztek's seven year run (2000-2007) GM sold almost 120,000 examples. Without a single government bayonet shoved into anyone's backside.
The only EV GM currently sells – the Chevy Bolt – isn't doing well, either. Before WuFlu, sales were down 22 percent and are likely to go down more if the federal bribe of $7,500 per car is discontinued – a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of Tesla, too.
Reason being that without the $7,500 bribe, paying full price for an electric car – especially one like the Bolt, which is basically an electric economy car absent the economical cost – isn't economical.
The base price of this compact-sized "economy" car is $36,000.
It requires innumeracy to purchase such a car – if the object is to save money – given one can buy an otherwise equivalent actually economical non-electric car for about half that sum.
If the object is something else, okay – but there just aren't that many virtue-signalers with the disposable bucks on hand to pay twice the cost of an actually economical non-electric car for the uneconomical electrical analog.
And yet, GM is doubling down. Making more electric cars, even pricier than the Bolt – because the government says it must and GM hasn't got the guts to say no, we won't. Instead, it is telling its dealers to dig deep – into your pocket. Because the dealers aren't the ones who are going to pay for this.
You will.
If you have a GM car – and take it in for service at one of these dealerships, where the cost of servicing the EV – or adding showroom space for the EV – will be folded into the cost of servicing your non-EV.
Non-electric GM cars will also cost you more, so as to offset the cost of making EVs GM can't sell without losing money.
They're all doing this, of course – because the mandates apply to them all. And because they'd rather play political step'n fetchit than challenge the mandates. Just like the businesses who are too afraid to challenge the "guidelines" of the Gesundheitsfuhrers. At least you don't have to subsidize someone else's Face Diaper.
It is all a great greasy scam that almost no one is willing to talk honestly about, because that would result in the scam becoming unpalatable. So instead, everyone in the business pretends – in the manner of almost everyone pretending everyone is sick being the method used to perpetuate the WuFlu scam.
GM political commissar Steve Carlisle said that pressuring dealers to join in the subsidization of EVs is " . . .a necessary step we need to take to achieve our vision of an electrified future."
Cuing Tonto voice: Who is "we," white man?
Not the absence of any claims about a business future. It is instead a vision – as in mirage or hallucination.
"We can communicate what we think is required to create the environment, and we've got to work with the dealers, the dealer councils and the associations to arrive at a conclusion," he added.
Italics added to emphasize the unspoken.
"Create the environment"? Isn't that like "creating the environment" for wheelchairs by using baseball bats on lots of people who can currently ambulate? And, more pertinently, creating the environment for forced vaccinations by forcing everyone to wear a Face Diaper?
GM is "asking" its dealers to spend between $120,000 and $200,000 each to "ready their facilities" for the EVs GM intends to build because the government says it must. But it does not say people must buy them. Not yet – though that is likely coming and may be what GM is banking on.
Still, most of GM's dealers have "balked" – note the gaslighting – at the prospect of shelling out six figures to service cars that will cost them six figures.
No one is supposed to ask questions about this because it is done for the sake of a cause – "climate change," the religion being displaced by the new religion ("stopping the spread").
And that's the answer no one wants to hear.
Which is why the question is almost never asked.
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You can literally float in the clouds and feel the sunshine when wearing this coat. Amazing and rare vintage 70s down feather filled coat is REVERSIBLE with pockets on both sides, rounded collar and tie closures down the front. Fun tented shape from fitted shoulders, plus a slight flare to the sleeves. One side is sky blue with yellow piping trim and the other side is 100% yellow except for the undercollar.
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Condition: Excellent. One tiny frayed part on the piping at elbow (see last pic)
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Shoulder: 14 ½ "
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Rattlesnakes are not generally aggressive and will try to avoid humans when possible. Rattlesnakes strike when threatened or deliberately provoked, but given room they will retreat.
Most snake bites occur when a rattlesnake is handled or accidentally touched by someone walking or climbing. The majority of snakebites occur on the hands, feet and ankles.
Most bites occur between the months of April and October when snakes and humans are most active outdoors. About 25 percent of the bites are "dry," meaning no venom was injected, but the bites still require medical treatment.
Depending on weather and threatening conditions such wildfires; rattlesnakes may roam at any time of the day or night. If walking at night, be sure to use a flashlight.
To avoid rattlesnake bites some safety precautions will help:
- Wear appropriate over-the-ankle hiking boots, thick socks, and loose-fitting long pants. Never go barefoot or wear sandals when walking through wild areas.
- When hiking, stick to well-used trails if all possible. Avoid tall grass, weeds and heavy underbrush where snakes may hide during the day. Look at your feet to watch where you step and do not put your foot in or near a crevice where you cannot see.
- Do not step or put your hands where you cannot see, and avoid wandering around in the dark.
- If a fallen tree or large rock is in your path, step up on to it instead of over it, as there might be a snake on the other side.
- Be especially careful when climbing rocks or gathering firewood.
- Check out stumps or logs before sitting down, and shake out sleeping bags before use.
- Do not turn over rocks or logs. If you must move a rock or log, use gloves and roll it toward you, giving anything beneath it the opportunity to escape in the opposite direction.
- Never grab "sticks" or "branches" while swimming in lakes and rivers. Rattlesnakes can swim.
- Avoid approaching any snake you cannot positively identify as a safe species.
- If you hear the warning rattle, move away from the area and do not make sudden or threatening movements in the direction of the snake.
- Remember rattlesnakes do not always rattle before they strike!
- Do not handle a freshly killed snake – it can still inject venom.
- Even a baby rattlesnake can inject venom – leave them alone!
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Aleppo, SANA- Turkish occupation forces and their terrorist mercenaries launched artillery and rocket shells on the residential areas in Aleppo northern countryside.
Local sources told SANA reporter that the Turkish occupation forces targeted this morning with artillery and rocket shells the outskirts of Tal Qarah village and residential neighborhoods in Deir Jamal town in Azaz area and Tal Rifaat town in Aleppo northern countryside.
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Activision and Infinity Ward have announced a new game in the Call of Duty series, titled Call of Duty: Ghosts and although at the moment not much is known about this title except for a teaser trailer that doesn't give us much (and which can be seen below), at least we have the release date for Call of Duty: Ghosts and I am sure that's a date you're going to want to write down in your calendar.
So the official, confirmed release date for Call of Duty: Ghosts is November 5 2013 – something pretty natural for a CoD game and the date that might mark the rebirth of this extremely popular franchise.
As I said, in terms of actual information about Call of Duty: Ghosts, things are not looking that good – we only have the teaser trailer below which doesn't say much. At least, if you watch it to the end, you understand that it won't be a game with arches and such. See for yourself below:
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High pressure generated inside bottles by the carbonation caused frequent leakage and although improved by wiring-in-place, corks were generally unsatisfactorily. Many alternative forms of seals were patented over the year.
One of the alternatives is wire and rubber sealing devices. They're known by several names – swing-top, flip-top, bail, and brace. Wire and rubber sealing devices were especially popular in the USA until the early 1900s. The wire could be either an internal spring form, which held a seal in place on the inside of the neck, or of the external 'swing' type, in which an external wire frame was used to hold a ceramic plug in place against a rubber seal.
First patented by Charles de Quillfeldt in 1874, this latter type is still currently in use for some specialty.
Before the invention of the flip-top bottle, bottles were often made from blown glass and sealed with a cork, which was difficult to open by hand and often unreliable, particularly for carbonated beverages such as mineral water or beer.
Originally, Quillfeldt called it simply an "improved bottle-stopper." Not long after the patent was granted this stopper-type gained the fantastic name "lightning stopper" because it could be quickly sealed.
Karl Hutter seems to have entered the bottle stopper business when Charles de Quillfeldt assigned his reissued patent to him on June 5, 1877. With de Quillfeldt's new stopper under his control, Hutter opened up a bottlers' supply business under his own name – Karl Hutter – no "Co." Hutter registered the term "Lightning" for the fastener on February 12, 1878.
On March 30, 1877, Henry Putnam applied for a patent for an "Improvement in Bottle Stoppers and Bottle Fasteners" and received on September 10, 1878. He manufacturing the stoppers in his Bennington, Vermont, plant.
Hutter, Putnam, and de Quillfeldt continued to design improvements to the Lightning fastener – most with little apparent public appeal – although Putnam had some success with his February 10, 1880 patent.
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What is Power over Ethernet (PoE)? Everything you need to know!
What is Power over Ethernet (PoE)?
What is PoE?
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is the process of sending electrical power and data over copper wire.
The combination of data transmission along with power-supplying hardware onto the same RJ45 Ethernet connector allows for the transmission of power over the network cabling. PoE networks can source power at the network switch side or at a PoE injector to add power to an existing data line.
How Does PoE Work?
Power over Ethernet is a process where devices known as power sourcing equipment (PSE) provide a direct current (DC) voltage over a standard Ethernet cable to another connected device known as a powered device (PD). This allows for the powering of devices without the need for a local power source at the device location or having to run a separate cable for power.
History of Power over Ethernet
Before Ethernet communications, devices like cameras required a signal cable to transmit the image back to a recorder. These devices also required local power supplies to provide power. Because cameras and similar devices are often installed in locations where local power may not be available, companies started running a mix of signal and power cables with a power supply transmitting power from the head end recorder location.
Through further development in signaling and power technologies, cameras started using multi-pair UTP cables, like CAT5, to send a mix of signaling and power. Signaling was sent on one or two of the four pairs of CAT5 cables, and power was transmitted on the remaining two pairs. This helped to simplify installations, as fewer cables were required to accomplish the same task.
When endpoint signaling moved away from analog transmissions to IP, this capability was lost. Then in 2003, Power over Ethernet was created and standardized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Power Over Ethernet Standards
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the governing body that creates standards for Ethernet and other data communications. The first governing document created for PoE was 802.3AF, which states that compliant Power over Ethernet switches deliver 15.4W of power to guarantee delivery of 12.95W at the endpoint.
For more information, see our comprehensive breakdown of Power over Ethernet Standards, History, and Evolution.
What is PoE+?
Improvements to this standard came in the form of 802.3AT, also known as PoE+, which states that Power Sourcing Equipment can provide 30W of power to ensure 25.5W at the endpoint. To guarantee a successful negotiation, both the switch and the endpoint device must be IEEE compliant. However, some device manufacturers have created their own implementations of PoE.
There are three main techniques for transmitting power over Ethernet cabling. These are Mode A (also known as common-mode data pair power), Mode B (spare-pair power), and 4PPoE (4-Pair power). With Mode A the power is provided on the same cable pair as the data pairs used in a 10Base-T or 100Base-TX transmission. With Mode B the spare pairs are used and with 4PPoE all 4-pairs of the Ethernet cable are used for power transmission. Below are the specifics of each mode.
|PoE Mode
|Ethernet Cable pairs used
|Pin allocation
|Mode A
|Data Pairs. Pins 1, 2 & 3, 6
|Pins 1, 2 = Positive Voltage (DC+)
Pins 3, 6 = Negative Voltage (DC-)
|Mode B
|Spare Pairs. Pins 4, 5 & 7, 8
|Pins 4, 5 = DC+
Pins 7, 8 = DC-
|All 4 Pairs
|Pins 1, 2 & 4, 5 = DC+
Pins 3, 6 & 7, 8 = DC-
These have been standardized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) under the Ethernet Standard 802.3. The first being standardized in 2003.
|IEEE Standard
|PoE Mode Supported
|Year of Standardization
|Mode A, Mode B
|Mode A, Mode B
|Mode A, Mode B, 4PPoE
Each IEEE standard depicts how the power is delivered, the voltage (V) supplied, and the wattage (W) available as can be seen in the below table:
|IEEE Standard
|PoE Type
|DC Voltage output at PSE
|Power delivered by PSE
|Voltage Available at PD
|Wattage Available at PD
|PoE Mode Supported
|Type 1 "PoE"
|Mode A
Mode B
|Type 2
"High PoE"
|Mode A
Mode B
|Type 3
|Mode A
Mode B
|Type 4
There are varying names for these PoE standards, as can be seen under the PoE Type heading in the above table but essentially, they all fall under the specified IEEE standards listed.
Power over Ethernet Classes
The Power over Ethernet Class is reserved for powered devices (PD). The class specifies how much power the PD requires to function. There are currently 9 PoE classes ranging from 0 to 8. They are as follows:
|Wattage required at PD
|Valid for Type 1 (802.3af) devices
|Valid for Type 1 (802.3af) devices
|Valid for Type 1 (802.3af) devices
|Valid for Type 1 (802.3af) devices
|Valid for Type 2 (802.3at) devices,
not allowed for 802.3af devices
|Valid for Type 3 (802.3bt) devices
|40W (4-pair)
|Valid for Type 3 (802.3bt) devices
|51W (4-pair)
|Valid for Type 4 (802.3bt) devices
|62W (4-pair)
|Valid for Type 4 (802.3bt) devices
|71.3W (4-pair)
In most cases, the datasheet of a PD will display the PoE Class of the device or at least the IEEE standard it adheres to in the power, power consumption, or electrical sections.
Maximum Distance for Power Over Ethernet
Over the past 30 years, Power over Ethernet technology has seen incredible innovation. Initially, one of the primary downsides of PoE was the limited reach of 328ft (100m). However, new PoE innovations, like those from NVT Phybridge, are pushing the limits of Power over Ethernet transmission over several cable types. For example, the NVT Phybridge CLEER24 is an enterprise-grade 24-port PoE switch that delivers power and data up to 6,000ft (1,830) over a single Coax cable. That's 18 times farther than a standard reach Power over Ethernet switch.
The enterprise-grade 24 and 48-port PoLRE® switches deliver power and data over a single pair of UTP cable (also known as Category 3 cable or voice-grade cable used for telephone wiring) with up to 1,200ft (365m) reach. The NVT Phybridge FLEX24 switch delivers power and data over 2 or 4-pairs of UTP cable (Category 5/6 cable) with up to 2,000ft (610m) reach.
See how our PoE switch performance compares
Advantages of Power Over Ethernet
PoE provides four primary advantages: lower infrastructure costs, fast and simple deployments, improved LAN design, and reduced e-waste.
Endpoint devices require two connections: data and electrical. The data connection allows communication with the network while the electrical connection powers the device. Separately installing both connections is costly and unnecessarily complicated, especially when considering the number and location of the devices across the organization. Power over Ethernet provides both connections using a single wire.
Many companies will install a PoE switch fabric when modernizing from older, analog voice and security systems, or when deploying a new system. NVT Phybridge PoE switches provide numerous benefits:
- Lower infrastructure costs
- Fast and simple deployment
- Improved LAN design
- Less e-waste
Lower Infrastructure Costs
Businesses looking to modernize from analog/digital devices to IP already have the most critical requirement, a proven and reliable LAN infrastructure. This cabling can be leveraged using NVT Phybridge Power over Ethernet technology to support IP endpoints. Organizations have been doing this for over ten years to ensure simple VoIP and security upgrades.
Companies are saving millions of dollars in network readiness costs while avoiding the unforeseen challenges that come with an enterprise-wide network overhaul. These cost savings are realized through significantly reduced labor, cabling, and construction costs, which are often reallocated into devices and applications to improve return on investment.
The extended reach capabilities significantly reduce IDF closet requirements – including space, power, cooling, and backup power – to reduce cost, network complexity, and to simplify network management. NVT Phybridge PoE switches are simple to deploy, configure, and manage. Deploying devices across multiple locations is easy, thanks to the repeatable, predictable, and scalable deployment methodology.
Fast and Simple Deployment
Deployments using Power over Ethernet technology are quick and easy, especially when leveraging network infrastructure that is already in the building. Simply install the PoE switch in the MDF closet, connect to the new or existing network cabling, and connect the device at the endpoint location.
Improved LAN Design
Organizations have the freedom to establish/maintain a physically separate Power over Ethernet network, or centrally converge to the core network using a single wire in a highly secure and controlled manner. This applies to both Cloud and on-premise solutions and significantly improves network security and performance. Quality of service is enhanced while ongoing network management is simplified as IT teams continue to manage the core business network while voice/security teams can handle these separate networks.
Additionally, as core business applications and data terminals (employee computers, Wi-Fi access points) continually require more and more bandwidth, network equipment will generally evolve every 3 to 5 years. By physically segmenting your PoE network, you can make changes to your core business network without impacting or disrupting your communication, security, and other systems.
Less E-Waste
By repurposing existing infrastructure and reducing/eliminating IDF closet requirements, organizations are significantly reducing the environmental impact of their digital transformations. Far less cabling and equipment e-waste is produced. NVT Phybridge Power over Ethernet switches are built with PowerWISE technology to ensure low energy consumption, power redundancy, and hot-swappable power supplies.
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My dad is cheating on my mum what do I do?
you really should talk to your father.
I know everybody is telling you not to tell your mother but I have to say that if one of my kids knew that my husband was cheating on me and didn't tell me I would be pissed off at them.
Your mother deserves to know, but she should hear it from your father. Talk to him and encourage him to tell her.
she'll find out and deal with it. leave it alone, he's an a$$ if he is, and besides...unless you actually SAW him doing it with another chick...it's likely that it might not be what you think. trust me, just mind your business. I know it sucks and it hurts, but just let it be. things will sort them selves out.
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The United Kingdom government has launched a review of waste policies in England with an eye on working toward zero waste.

The United Kingdom government has launched a review of waste policies in England with an eye on working toward zero waste.
The main focus of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) review is policies that can reduce the amount of waste created and maximize recycling and reuse. The review will also look at how waste policies are affecting communities, households and businesses.
"We are committed to working towards a zero waste economy because it makes environmental and economic sense," Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said in a statement. "Reducing waste needs to be made as easy as possible for people, it should be driven by incentives, not penalties and common sense rather than coercion."
The U.K. government's vision of a zero waste economy includes putting a value on all resources, making all waste a resource in some way, and sending as little waste to landfills as possible.
The review is asking for input from anyone in England, from businesses to residents to local governments.
The main topics being addressed by the review are how business and household waste is collected, sorted and recycled; how the government can work with local authorities to increase the frequency and quality of collections; the best ways to encourage and provide incentives to people, businesses and communities to make less waste and recycle more; and future infrastructure needs, taking into account anaerobic digestion and waste-to-energy.
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The rumors come around every trade deadline that Luke Glendening is going to be dealt.
For the last several years the speculation has been rampant, as playoff contenders, presumably, fight over getting the defensive forward who happens to lead the NHL in faceoff percentage victories.
But the rumors never come true. Glendening has yet to be traded.
And the Red Wings continue to be the primary beneficiaries of it.
Glendening continues to win faceoffs and check effectively while being a respected leader as an alternate captain. And on Monday, he chipped in with two goals as the Red Wings lost, 3-2, to Dallas in a shootout.
"He's a great culture guy because of where his work ethic is at," coach Jeff Blashill said. "We talk all the time about outworking, outcompeting the other team, and he embodies that.
"And then he's an effective player on the ice, certainly with his faceoffs but his defensive play and his ability to win battles, and also grinding teams in the offensive zone. They (the Glendening line) don't create offense, or doesn't result in offense as much as any of us would like, but they (Glendening's line) create momentum shifts by playing in the offensive zone.
"I would also say the better your team is, the more valuable he becomes."
Glendening, centering Darren Helm and Adam Erne, has arguably been the Wings' most consistent line this season.
Blashill believes their success stems from the fact they know who they are as players.
"That line has been consistently pretty good. They do it right," Blashill said. "They keep it simple and they're good around the net. Luke has always been a guy who finds his way to be a good screen guy and he got a tip on the one (goal) and he drove the net on the other.
"They (the Glendening line) just do it right and they kind of embody what we need our team to be. That's shift after shift after shift of doing it right and outworking the other team."
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Monday's two goals gave Glendening five for the season.
"Goals haven't come easy for me this year, or last year really," Glendening said. "It's nice to get a few, but it would have been a lot nicer if we could have gotten a 'W.'"
In the last year of his contract, and with a salary cap hit of a modest $1.8 million, it would have been easy to understand why Glendening would have been in demand at the trade deadline.
But the Wings' decision to keep the Grand Rapids native, who starred at Michigan, is quite understandable given the intangibles Glendening brings.
The Wings could have traded Glendening earlier this month, likely received draft picks in return and then attempt to re-sign Glendening in the summer.
But there's always the risk in that scenario that the player suddenly enjoys that new organization more than the one he came from.
General manager Steve Yzerman is likely to re-sign Glendening before free agency begins this summer, as neither side seems particularly interested in splitting any time soon.
Glendening, for his part, wasn't consuming himself on social media with all the trade rumors.
"You can only control things you can control. I believe there is a plan for my life and I'm still here and I'm excited to be here," Glendening said. "I try to stay away from that stuff (speculation) as much as I can. Every year there's speculation and it can really stress you out if you see that stuff every night.
"Like I said, you can only control what you can control and I'm happy to be here."
Vrana sick
The Wings were without forward Jakub Vrana for Monday's game, and Blashill wasn't sure Vrana would be available for Tuesday's game with a non-COVID related illness.
The Wings didn't have a morning skate or media availability Tuesday before the game.
Vrana, who was acquired in the trade that sent Anthony Mantha to the Capitals, scored in his debut last Thursday.
Mantha has goals in his first four games with Washington and has goals in his past five games overall (dating back to his last game with the Wings).
Ice chips
After missing two games, Evgeny Svechnikov returned to the lineup Monday and had an assist on Glendening's first goal while playing almost 14 minutes.
"He had his ups and downs," Blashill said. "He was a little bit rusty coming back. His last game in Carolina (April 12) he was excellent, and it might have taken him a bit to get back into the game."
… Monday's 3-on-3 overtime session didn't have the up-and-down, back-and-forth vibe of other overtimes, and that's been the case increasingly around the NHL this season. Teams are playing a more defensive style in overtime.
"We haven't done a whole lot different in terms of messaging," Blashill said. "We've given up some easy goals on 3-on-3 during the course of the year, so our guys are more conscious defensively.
"In overtime, you get your chances when you give up chances. Everybody is trying to win the hockey game. How do you win hockey games? You can't win it by being careless. If both teams are doing a good job of not being careless, then it's hard to create a whole bunch (of offense), whether it's three or five or one guy on the ice."
… Robby Fabbri (upper body) was unavailable Tuesday, marking the ninth consecutive game he's missed.
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Saguaro Sharps Silhouette Perfect .38
- 38-55 with percussion ignition
Saguaro Sharps rifle is a replica of the famous American rifle from 1863.
Mainly it was a centerfire gun, however there were also percussion ones, made on requests. This is what we offer to you gentlemen !
It is the design and the idea of our company , made by great manufacturer Davide Pedersoli . That is why we are the world's only distributor of this model. The original one is in the private hands in the USA, it is described in the book
"Sharps Firearms" by Frank Sellers.
New model Silhouette was modified , so it's quite different from Saguaro Sharps Sporting:
-Heavier barrel,
-Chamber for caliber .38 Saguaro 2,125 . It is a new percussion caliber (parent case 38-55 2,125") , according to the length of used bullets cases can contain 40-45 grs of BP. Smaller amount of BP means less recoil.
-New pistol grip, which improves the stability while shooting from a standing position
-Wide buttstock means less recoil,
-Greater total weight = 5.20 kg.
This rifle needs .38 caliber , thin-walled reusable cases with sealed flash hole.
Thanks to them it is the superior version of the Sharps rifle models , devoid of defects that occur in other breech-loading rifles.
The lock is 100 % sealed, fire from the percussion cap do NOT blow into shooter's eyes!
It can fire 100 shots one by one and percussion cap bridle remains clean , only flash channel needs to be wiped to get rid of caps residue.
Our Sharps rifle is the most accurate from all breech-loading guns. Because of the use of a long bullet , caliber .38 we can get repetitive results at distances up to 700-800m.
Case sealing system used in this model is patented by our company.
To reload the ammunition you need a reloading press and dies 38-55.
The case can hold 40-45 grains of 1,5 Fg BP . Recommended BP : 2Fg or 1,5 Fg Swiss
Standard 6mm - 4 wing caps work perfectly, there is no need to buy expensive 6wing ones.
Technical details :
Caliber : .38 Saguaro 2,125
Length: 1240 mm
Weight : 5,20 kg
Barrel length : 813mm -32" , 6 lands barrel , 1-12'' Twist
NOTE ! : The gun is constructed only for shooting with black powder ( the kind mentioned above) The use of modern nitro powder may cause serious injury or death !!!
Here you can find a useful set of accessories to our rifle:
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On Friday night August 28, Big Brother surprised Lockdown Housemates with a special treat and fun time haven told them that their Wager Task for the week has been secured.
It began with the charade games hosted by Oracle Neo in the garden with Housemates daring each other with some fr**king bits of rules and order.
Thereafter, Erica was speaking to Tolanibaj about how the whole night has being and present situationship with their respective male co-housemates.
However, Laycon was seen sitting on the bed in the garden and staring at them. Erica then says to Tolanibaj, 'look at him staring at me, probably wishing me bad.'
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After a while, Erica approached Laycon and had a conversation with him. They talked about their friendship and she said she felt like he hated her now because of his response to her eviction question and Ebuka's question about Vee accusing her of being manipulative.
Laycon reassures her that he is not her enemy, and that even though they can't be friends, he still feels the same way about her. At this point, the ended the conversation.
Then, another conversation started some minutes after Erica had her shower and from how it began, it seemed they had both agreed to finish their conversation because Laycon asked her if she was sober enough to finish the discussion or they should wait till tomorrow.
Erica assured him that she was cool enough to talk. Laycon expressed himself and explained why he had to be the way he is to her and that he doesn't hate her.
According to him, its usually thoughts of what could have happened between them or how beautiful she looks and assured her it wasn't negative thoughts. Erica responds by saying that manipulation and prayer conversation he had with Vee, exposed by Ebuka threw her off and thinking otherwise.
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But Laycon explained that his conversation with Vee wasn't anything harmful, just that it was proved out of context after Ebuka revealed about it.
Laycon continued that for his personal reasons, he cannot talk to her (Erica) and it helps him get over her. He expressed how seeing her and Kiddwaya made him uncomfortable and she offered to talk to Kiddwaya about it but Laycon told her not to and she should stop worrying about others including him (Laycon).
Laycon also told her that he cannot be there for her because she has someone already. Erica agreed but concluded she was alone (because she understandably has doubts about Kiddwaya) but she understood his stance.
Laycon asked her why she felt alone and what she and Kiddwaya do other than kiss. Erica told him they talk; Laycon asked her if she was happy with what she was doing and she said yes. He then said that's all she needed to worry about.
In a nutshell, this conversation ended with a very emotional hug and both agreed to only talk when it is very necessary.
A lot of points made were left out but this was a very candid conversation. Laycon expressed himself better than he has ever done since the show began. Erica also was able to clear the air on the Vee conversation because it obviously bothered her.
Nothing bad came out of the conversation as opposed to what is currently making rounds the internet.
LAYCON: I still care about you but For now, it has to be this way. Every time you come back to meet me and talk about this, it's like me having a relapse and I don't want that. It's the same thing as me telling you not to be with KIDD and that's wrong. I don't hate you. #BBNaija pic.twitter.com/45OsCtc6KZ
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Halloween Traces Roots to Emerald Isle
October 10, 2017
With Halloween approaching, many are scrambling for costumes and candy. Few, however, stop to consider the origins of the holiday itself.
For Ireland's ancient Celtics, November 1 marked the advent of harvest time. October 31 was a day on which the veil between the world of the living and the realm of the dead was easily broken. Ghosts were believed to return to the world to cause mischief and tell of natural events to occur in the impending winter.
Celts both welcomed and feared October's spirits. To drive out the spirits before harvest time, Celts lit bonfires and shielded themselves from ill-meaning spirits with the skulls of the Irish dead. They also disguised their own identities, sporting animal skins and dancing ritualistically around fires.
Originating as protective anonymity, masks evolved into elaborate costumes. As the use of skulls grew out of fashion for decoration, illuminated squashes and radishes replaced human remains. Perhaps most famous of Halloween symbols, the modern Jack O' Lantern draws its roots to the often O'-named Irish people, who grew the tradition from the story of a man named Jack.
A miserly and thrifty man, Jack twice tricked the devil into waiting to steal his soul. At the expiration of the devil's 2nd attempt, Jack trapped him beneath a cross, refusing to release him until he vowed to surrender his nefarious efforts. On Judgement Day, neither Heaven nor Hell accepted the crafty Irishman. Jack was allotted a piece of coal and a carved turnip as a lantern. Caught between the two worlds, he is said to have been wandering the Earth ever since.
As immigrants traveled to America, so traveled their traditions. While Halloween crossed the Atlantic with the Irish, Protestants rejected its pagan nature. Though Protestants attempted to diminish its importance, Halloween caught on in the Southern American colonies. Southern women adopted the holiday's spirited aura by beginning to use October 31 as a day on which to perform rituals for determining their future husbands.
Halloween festivals became common, encouraging children to go from door to door seeking 1st food, and later, treats. Halloween became less dark as its spiritual origins became obscured by the colorful candy and jubilant costume-buying of a consumer-driven American culture.
Nowadays, Halloween presents a rare opportunity to live to extremes, posing as someone or something other than ourselves, and consuming inadvisable amounts of Skittles and Twix. From supernatural to materialistic, Halloween has transcended its Irish origins to become a thoroughly American tradition.


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Classroom Teaching
During Fall'17 I was a Teaching Assistant for 15-122 Principles of Imperative Programming, Carnegie Mellon's introductory imperative programming course. I taught two recitation periods, a lab period, held office hours, participated in grading, helped draft exams, and served as a liason between the two instructors and approximately two dozen undergraduate Teaching Assistants.
I was a Teaching Assistant for the Spring'16 iteration of 15-424 Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems at Carnegie Mellon. In addition to holding weekly recitations and grading assignments, I transitioned course infrastructure to the use of the KeYmaera X theorem prover and re-designed several recitations to support this transition. Using KeYmaera X instead of the legacy KeYmaera 3 system enabled students to take on more ambitious course projects. These projects were presented to judges from industry, government, and academia at a competition shortly after the course completed.
I re-designed and presented a guest lecture in Carnegie Mellon's Spring'17 iteration of 15-424 and guest lectured on numerous occastions in Carnegie Mellon's imperative programming course (15-122).
Undergraduate Advising
Undergraduate research is a fantastic pedagogical tool for teaching problem solving, research, and communication skills. I've mentored many undergraduate research projects, some of which resulted in undergraduate theses or peer-reviewed publications:
- May Wu (MIT '20), Verification of Magnetic Control Algorithms for Fusion Reactors. Publication in FMICS.
- Viren Bajaj (CMU '18) and Karim Elmaaroufi (CMU '17), Verification of SCUBA Ascent Protocols. Publication in EMSOFT.
- David Bayani (CMU '16), Undergraduate thesis: Investigation and Implementation of Invariant Generation in The KeYmaera System for Hybrid Dynamical Systems.
Software can play a key role in helping students explore concepts. I've developed several pieces of software that instructors at various universities have incorporated into their teaching.
- The KeYmaera X theorem prover plays a central role in Carnegie Mellon's Cyber-Physical Systems course, and has been used in more limited capacity in courses on Cyber-Physical Systems at other universities, as well as in tutorials and summer schools.
- A simple demo of adaptive cruise control is useful for teaching the role that constraints play in safe reinforcement learning.
- The KeYmaera I theorem prover was developed to support Carnegie Mellon's Constructive Logic course, an undergraduate offering in Carengie Mellon's Computer Science Department.
- A simple discrete predator/prey model was used in a Math Bio course at the University of Pittsburgh's Mathematics department.
Other Teaching Experience
- I designed and taught CS-themed weekly enrichment activities at Pittsburgh Public School's Science and Technology magnet.
- I developed pedagogical software for 15-317 Constructive Logic at Carnegie Mellon. I also provided some support for both course staff and students in both 15-317 and the Spring'17 iteration of 15-424.
- As an undergraduate, I tutored throughout the Computer Science curriculum and served as a Supplemental Instructor for an undergraduate Computer Organization course at Carthage College, a small liberal arts college.


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CityFibre appoints advisor for UK-wide fibre project
UK firm CityFibre Holdings has appointed Macquarie Capital to act as financial advisor on its next stage of capital formation, as it gets ready to build fibre networks across the country that will eventually connect one million homes and 50,000 businesses.
CityFibre is planning to invest up to £500m ($801m) in building metro networks and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) networks across the country, providing towns and cities with gigabit speeds. Construction of the metropolitan city networks will start early next year.
The company plans to partner with service providers, technology vendors and construction firms to deliver these networks, and has already completed fibre broadband projects in York, Ayr and Dundee.
Meanwhile, incumbent telco BT recently revealed that it expects to have connected two-thirds of UK premises to its fibre-based broadband network by the end of 2014 – one year ahead of its original target of 2015.


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Min Qty: 0.5 g
Description: Indeterminate. Colorful, mild and sweet, makes an interesting addition to salads.
Planting Instructions: 70 days. Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Plant seeds in flats or peat pots 1/4-1/2" deep in a sterile potting mix. Keep warm, above 70F and evenly moist until germination in 7-10 days. Transplant outdoors 18-36" apart after the danger of frost has passed and plants are hardened off. Choose a location with rich, fertile, well-drained soil with plenty of sun. Tomatoes can be buried deep, up their stems, where they'll grow additional roots. Prefers even watering and lots of composted, organic fertilizer. Plants grow to 3' and benefit from additional support.


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Script: Cavan Scott, Justina Ireland, Jody Houser & Steve Orlando
Artist: Ivan Fiorelli, Georges Jeanty, Kei Zama and Paul Fry
Cover: Phil Noto
Colours: Chris Sotomayor, Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Ruth Redmond
Letters: Ariana Maher
Editors: Mark Paniccia, Danny Khazem
Publisher: Marvel
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Happy LIFE DAY!
Celebrate the galaxy's favorite holiday with a collection of festive tales from all across the STAR WARS SAGA! Life Day is the last thing on HAN SOLO'S mind when he and CHEWBACCA find themselves outgunned and under fire. But Chewie won't give up hope, remembering the lessons of Life Days past and present. As for Life Days yet to come… well, they'll have to survive the night first!


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History of sesame seed cultivation in the world
Sesame seeds are considered to be the oldest oil seeds of mankind. There are many species of sesame, and the oldest wild caught in Africa and India.
Records from Babylon and Assyria, dating back to about 4,000 years ago refer to sesame.
The area of roasted sesame seeds recovered from archaeological excavations dates from 3500-3050 BC.
Thomas Fuller (1608 -16/8/1661) in his work mentions the sesame seed trade between Mesopotamia and what is now Pakistan and India in 2000 BC. . Other reports claim that sesame was planted in Egypt during the Ptolemiac period. Ancient Egyptian bibliographies said that Papyrus Ebers (about 3600 years ago), sesame was called "sesemt" as a medicinal plant.
Archaeological reports from Turkey show that sesame was planted and pressed to extract oil at least 2750 years ago in Urartu's empire.
Ancient sesame is widely planted in arid areas on the edge of the desert, where no other crops have grown. Sesame has been called a 'survival' crop.
This is a domesticated tree in tropical regions around the world and is grown for edible seeds due to its high fat and protein content. In addition, sesame is also used as medicine.
Sesame is very drought-tolerant, partly due to its extensive root system. However, it requires proper humidity for germination and early development. Moisture before planting and flowering period, fruit set is the most important.
In South America, sesame was introduced from Africa after European discoveries in the Americas in 1492 (introduced by Chritophecoloms, Portuguese and Spanish).
Since the 1950s, the expanded production of sesame in the US has been concentrated in Texas, with areas ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 acres (4,000-8,000 hectares) in recent years. However, the production of sesame seeds in the US did not meet the demand of domestic consumption, the US had to import many sesame seeds and sesame oil products abroad, mainly in South America.
About sesame seeds
Currently there are thousands of varieties of cultivated sesame (Sesamum indicum), they have also been classified according to many different species. However, with modern molecular genetics, although sesame plants have many different shapes, flowers, fruits, seeds, and seeds, they are still different varieties of cultivated sesame (Sesamum indicum).
Bright white and yellow sesame seeds are common in Europe, the Americas, Western Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The darker sesame seeds are mainly produced in China and Southeast Asia. Africa produces a variety of sesame seeds.
The cultivated sesame varieties have adapted to a variety of soil. High-yielding crops grow best on fertile soil, are well drained, and have a near neutral pH. However, this is a pioneer crop in the soil of poor nutrition and drought, so it is a hunger eradication and poverty reduction crop in difficult agricultural production areas of Africa and Asia.
About productivity of sesame
The average yield of sesame in the world is only about 490 kg / ha. The most effective sesame seed farms in the world are in the European Union with an average yield of 5.5 tons per hectare in 2010; Italy reports the best national average yield of 7.2 tons per hectare.
There is a big gap in the productivity of sesame seedlings, which is a barrier in knowledge of cultivation, breeding and high technology use.
Production and trade
In 2010, the world planted 7.8 million hectares of sesame, harvesting about 3.84 million tons of sesame seeds. The largest countries producing sesame seeds are Burma, India, China, Ethiopia …
Japan is the world's largest importer of sesame and sesame oil. Sesame oil, especially from roasted seeds, is an important ingredient in traditional Japanese cooking. China is the second largest importer of sesame seeds and sesame oil in the world after Japan. Other major importing countries of sesame seeds and sesame oil are the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey and France.
Handling sesame seeds after planting
After harvesting, sesame seeds are cleaned and kept intact or peeled. In some countries, when the sesame seeds have been hulled, they are passed through an electronic color sorting system to remove other colored seeds to ensure that the seeds are completely pure. Distinctive colored or differently sized grains are used to press the oil. Therefore, pure colored sesame seeds have higher selling prices than those of low-tech countries.
Sesame seeds are sometimes sold in detached seed form – decorticated. This type usually appears to decorate the upper part of the cakes in countries with developed economies.
Export of sesame seeds and sesame oil is very different in price. The importing countries of sesame seeds and sesame oil have strict quality criteria.
The current requirement for sesame is to improve farming technology to overcome productivity barriers. At the same time, it is necessary to change the processing technology to meet the international standar.


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Hewitt's meltdown continues here. In the process, he implies that the prescription drug benefit was in fact perfectly consistent with conservatism and that the GWOT is about protecting the middle and lower classes:
Did the tax cuts help families making less than $50 K a year? Did the prescription drug benefit? Does not getting attacked since 9/11 benefit only the middle and upper classes?
As a libertarian, I'll leave the rhetorical questions about tax cuts alone- but you get the picture.
Hewitt even sounds a bit like an Alex Jones-style conspiracy theorist at one point:
[T]he conservative activists have to realize that there is an attempted coup underway.
Hewitt then hits a perfect 100 on the Arrogance and Condescension Scale:
He or Rudy need to win in Florida, or achieve a three way tie with McCain to put the campaign back into the hands of the people who built the party over the past 28 years.
This last statement is simply astounding. Hewitt actually thinks that the Republican establishment is responsible for building and maintaining the Reagan coalition (which by the way started as a run against the Republican establishment!). He thinks that the establishment is entitled to win the primaries every year.
Hewitt's ravings today show exactly how insane one can become when they equate outright partisanship with actual political principles like conservatism is supposed to be. Huckabee, McCain, and Paul are three very different types of conservatives- but they are all actually conservatives of one sort or another, even if not necessarily of the Burkean variety. The Republican Party line- and those who ascribe to it wholesale- have no understanding whatsoever of conservative principles. They just think that whatever they say is automatically the principled conservative position.
The arrogance of Hewitt and the establishment is shown by their apparent belief that the various groups of principled conservatives don't actually have any principles. Hewitt does not and cannot understand the fact that these principled conservatives built the coalition by realizing they had a common interest and agreeing to follow the GOP establishment. If anyone deserves credit for this, it is Reagan and perhaps Gingrich for showing these groups why they had a common interest in supporting the GOP establishment. But these groups ultimately joined the coalition of their own free will, not because Hewitt and his ilk magically invented a consistent ideology that encompassed all of these groups. Now that these groups have realized they no longer have a common interest in supporting the establishment, they are finding their own leaders to support: Huckabee, McCain, and to a lesser extent Paul and even Thompson.
The principled conservatives aren't betraying the GOP establishment; they are realizing that the establishment betrayed them. Without their support, the GOP coalition never would have existed; without Hewitt and Limbaugh's attacks on anyone who violates the party line, I suspect it would still be strong.
Last night's results, in which the two true "establishment" candidates drew less than 30% of the vote (and a little over 40 if you consider Thompson the "establishment") amounts to Republicans of principle expressing their ability and willingness to think for themselves.


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Teachers and Students Reconnect Virtually On First Day Of School
As part of WUNC's Series "Unprecedented," Liz Schlemmer will report throughout this semester from Lakewood Elementary in Durham.
The hallways at Lakewood Elementary are dark and quiet, with many doorways shut, but the lights are on in Kelly Shearon's 5th grade classroom.
Shearon stands at her whiteboard facing a jumble of stacked up desks, ready to meet her students online – with a dance party. She plays the song "Échame La Culpa" as she dances to greet her students.
"Good morning, A'Niyah!" she says to the first student who arrives in her Zoom classroom.
Shearon breathes a sigh of relief as ten more students funnel into the virtual classroom at 7:30 a.m. on the first day of an unprecedented school year. Given the challenges her class of 16 students have faced to be there, attendance has exceeded her expectations.
School Districts Struggle To Supply All Students With Devices
Like more than half of school districts across the state, Durham Public Schools has chosen to at least start the semester online -- but that comes with complications. Like a handful of other school districts in North Carolina, DPS is still waiting to receive some of the devices it ordered for students.
DPS spokesman Chip Sudderth says a delivery of devices manufactured in China have been held up by U.S. Customs. Other districts simply may not have the resources to buy a device for every student in need.
Dozens of families at Lakewood Elementary haven't received Chromebooks or Wi-Fi hotspots yet. Because the school serves many economically disadvantaged students, some families were depending on the school's supply. When devices ran out, the plan for the first week of school had to change.
"Our principal Mr. Hopkins sent out a mass email saying, 'We are not going to give those students who just happened to have an early [device] distribution date a leg up'," Shearon explained. "Everything we do that's content related needs to wait."
The DPS school board voted to make the first week an "orientation." Students with internet access are expected to log on for two hours each morning to learn basic skills on the Zoom video platform -- and get to know each other.
"Raise your finger if you are excited to learn in our virtual classroom," Shearon instructs as an icebreaker, then adds, "Raise a finger if you're also nervous to learn in our virtual classroom."
Ms. Shearan and her students each hold up an index finger and bond over their mixed feelings.
Reaching Families By Every Means Possible
After these morning sessions, Lakewood Elementary teachers and staff will spend their afternoons -- and likely nights and weekends -- calling families one by one to check in.
Five of Shearon's students weren't able to log in the first day. She and her co-teacher and "bilingual buddy" Mayra Morales split up that list of students and start reaching out to their parents. Lakewood Elementary's Community Schools Coordinator Anna Grant fields questions in English and Spanish on her phone and assists parents who drop by the school for help.
They'll troubleshoot tech problems and mark the students they reach as present for attendance purposes. After a week of ironing out the glitches, reading and math instruction are scheduled to start next week.
"I think that just speaks to our school's commitment to equity," Shearan said. "We're not going to leave any of our kids behind because of the systemic barriers that they face."
Some Schools Open With Hybrid Learning Instruction
While a majority of schools are starting the year completely remotely, others, especially in more rural areas, are opening with a hybrid of in-person and online instruction.
David Allen is principal of Shelby High School, about 45 minutes west of Charlotte. The school has set up a rotation for students to come into the classroom two days a week and learn remotely on other days. Allen says planning for the semester with the fluid situation around COVID-19 has been a challenge.
"It just makes it kind of difficult to build a schedule and make all the rearrangements you need to make when the game keeps changing, if that makes sense," he said.
Allen says he and other school leaders had been hopeful the COVID-19 outbreak would be stable by now.
Still, while this is nothing like any other first day of school, many students and teachers seem happy to be back to some version of a normal routine.


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