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Category: Cultural Excursion
Cultural Excursion Day: Sao Paulo Scramble!
My phone nearly exploded with all the pictures I have stored from the events, people, and places I took pictures of here in Sao Paulo!
Pole Dancing, Dolls, Mud, and Trains, this is truly a post for all seasons!
Cultural Excursion Day: Sao Paulo, II
Starting in on the second half of the year in Sao Paulo has been wonderful! I've grown into my new circle here and been out to see lots of new things. Here are a few of the most conversation worthy places I've been over the last few weeks! ~>
Cultural Excursion Days: Sao Paulo, Brazil!
First quarter 2015 in Brazil has been a whirlwind! I've adjusted to the massive public transportation loggerheads and finally figured out how to navigate the city. Wateef unchained! ->
Cultural Excursion Day! X-Play & Running Trains in Shanghai!
One of the mainstays of my time in Shanghai, China was always finding unique ways to play!
Cultural Excursion Day Shanghai: Hot Glass, Sculptures, Anime, & Cosplay!
Cultural Excursion Days: Shanghai Museums Edition!
I've never been a fan of drab museums with pictures and exhibits that people have to explain. If it's good art, it'll stand up on its own! I'm glad to say that these places were not what I was expecting and a lot more than I asked for ~>
Chinese Spring Festival, The Cultural Excursion Days!
In the West, we often hear about the Chinese Spring Festival and equate it with our New Years celebration, because of the timing. I can safely say that the Spring Festival is far, far more intense and involving that any holiday we have in the USA. The best part is that most Chinese companies and businesses give everyone a 2-4 week vacation! I spent my time having extended Cultural Excursion Days and exploring China. Here are a few samples of where I went and what I did, enjoy! ->


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ACG New York and The M&A Advisor announced the names of the companies, transactions and dealmakers selected as finalists for the 2018 ACG Champion's Awards. The annual tribute recognizes and honors individual dealmakers and transactions, as well as the leading middle market firms who are driving growth within the greater New York metropolitan area. Pepper Hamilton has been named a finalist for Law Firm of the Year. The firm previously won the award at the 2017 ACG Champion's Awards. Winners will be announced at the Champion's Awards Gala on Thursday, June 21 at the Metropolitan Club in New York.
The full list of the Award Finalists for the 2018 Champion's Awards can be found here.


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Ski school
Whether you are a beginner who wants to learn to ski, or a more experienced winter sports enthusiast who would like to take their skiing to the next level, the CSA Ski School in Obertauern, Austria, is the perfect choice for you.
The CSA Ski School in Obertauern
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A variety of ski lessons are available at the CSA Ski School in Obertauern
Group ski lessons are a great way to make new friends during your ski holidays in Austria. Or if this is your first family ski holiday why not book some family lessons at the Obertauern ski resort. The experienced team of instructors at the Grillitsch Ski School have the skills and knowledge of the area to be able to advise you on where to start exploring the Obertauern piste plan. For the more adventurous guests the ski school can also offer specialist tours: ice climbing, snowshoe hiking and snow safaris.
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The English Club Lessons
These group-oriented lessons are tailored for club members to learn about the diverse cultures of English-speaking countries and how their
English skills can be an effective communicative tool for their future. They are divided by school term and members' grade level. If this club is
connected to the school's pen pal project, they may get a chance to experience a LIVE video chat with their classmates' pen pal and more!
Choose the English club lesson that you need below and print it out. There are two types of worksheet size with the front side in English and the backside in Japanese. They come in as B5 size worksheets or as B4 size worksheets. To make the B4 size worksheets, please put the two parts together to form into one front side and if necessary, do again for the backside.
Getting Started...
Teach the English Club members to...
be good friends, be kind, be truthful, be responsible, believe in themselves, have respect for each other, help others, play enjoyably, share, and work together. SMILE!! =)
Enhancing Project-Based Learning at the Core
These English club video projects empower members to construct deep knowledge about a topic as they engage in researching, building, reviewing, performing, and presenting their videos.
1st Term
Club members are divided into groups, but work together as one club doing the same project. This gives them the opportunity to get to know each other.
2nd Term
Club members are divided into groups according by their grade level.
3rd Term
Club members are divided by groups, but are back together as one club.
Choose the template that comes with the lesson above. To edit any of these templates, please make sure that you have Microsoft Word or Adobe After Affects.
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**Many of these lessons were done from 2013 to 2015 and hope these visual examples will inspire teachers at other schools to do these with their students. A rewarding
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Effect of sand and clay fouling on the shear strength of railway ballast for different ballast gradations
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Ballast contamination by fine materials such as sand and clay in railway track at arid regions is an important issue that causes track instability problems and settlement due to reduction of shear strength of ballast. In this paper, the results of direct shear box test conducted on clean ballast, sand-fouled ballast and clay-fouled ballast for different ballast gradations are reported and discussed. For this purpose, three different fouling amounts according to fouling index are added to clean ballast. Test results show that by increasing the fouling percentage, the ballast shear strength always decreases both for sand and clay fouled ballast. However, the amount of shear strength reduction is low at high normal stresses. Clay contamination has more adverse effect on the shear strength of ballast compared with sand contamination. Also, the results of tests for evaluation of gradation effect on shear strength of fouled ballast which are conducted on various gradations according to American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, show that the maximum particle size as well as uniformity coefficient affect the shear strength of ballast. Also, an empirical equation is presented to observe the effect of ballast gradation on reduction of shear strength with regard to amount of fouling material and normal stress.
KeywordsBallast shear strength Fouling materials Ballast gradation Direct shear box test
Compliance with ethical standards
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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STANY Gathers for Third Annual Meeting and Bootleggers Event
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Tiesto can kick Chuck Norris's ass.
Short time TA, Long time Guver, Good time giver.
quote:Originally posted by Abercrombie
Tiesto can kick Chuck Norris's ass.
thats a big call... I dunno, maybe if Chuck was tripping out to one of his lightshows... perhaps
so nice that its nasty
so bagging its busting
so sweet that its sick
so dope its disgusting
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quote:Originally posted by Ub3rBreaker
yo! I saw this mofo at the guv and his lightshows are INSANE! Highroller... u dunno who u up against, U better "bring it"
Btw, Traffic is a SICK tune! Heard it the other day on z103... is it new?! Tiesto is like my favority DJ
Traffic has been released??? OMG!! z103 WTFBBQQB ... they have awesome unreleased music!! woohooo....
...is it midnight yet...i'm going insane here at work...
"I'm not stoned...I'm just Asian!"
quote:Originally posted by Lightshow
it was a brown guy, maybe trini, or indi...i dunno, he had no clue...but believe it or not, while i was getting it done, Tiesto was playing on the mall speakers, i dont remember which song though, but i got a little tripped out there for a bit
That's happened to me more times than I can count. I think the mall just knows.
Dave (aka: Upgrade- live pa)
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hey i was recommended to this thread. i know im cutting in on this but can i join the battle next time it happens?
The fucked up thing is, I think that may be me in the striped shirt in the background. WTF!
Graham showed me his choreographed glowdick routine and let me just say, Wow!
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lol Traffic is such an old song fucking z103.5
I think i'm gunna have to wing the whole thing, anyone who is so fond of posing with glowsticks should really know how to use them without a pre-determined routine. especially one to Traffic. A true Glowsticking Great Becomes one with the glow sticks and lets them flow to the beat, no matter what it is, no matter what Genre of Electronic Music.
P.S - Strings are for Cheaters with no real talent.
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lol Traffic is such an old song fucking z103.5
are you sure? I could have sworn it just came out.
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are you sure? I could have sworn it just came out.
We gotta ask DJ Danny D about Traffic man.
I'm sure he knows all about when new tunes come out
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The purpose of this website, sponsored by the Lagotto Romagnolo Foundation, Inc. , is to give breed enthusiasts the chance to educate themselves on health issues that affect the breed, health testing and the chance to avoid the heartbreak that can come from making breeding choices that are not in the best interest of the dogs.
All our health recommendations have been made with prior consultation of our scientific counsel and/or in accordance with the newest research.
Learn about breed specific diseases
Learn about the requirements for our database
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Learn more about frequent asked questions:
How do we want to keep the Lagotto Romagnolo a healthy breed?
Due to the rapid increase of Lagotti in the United States, we are witnessing more and more health related issues in the breed. Unfortunately, when a breed like ours gains popularity some breeders make decisions to breed dogs with health or temperament issues for monetary reason. Also, very often breed enthusiasts with companion dogs jump into wanting to breed because they love their dog and think it is a great idea to produce more without taking the time to educate themselves, find a breed mentor or learn about ethical and responsible breeding practices.
Through our educational site, access to resources, and Lagotto Foundation support for health research we will encourage ethical breeding practices, provide information to mentor breeders and continue to promote research for all of the issues affecting our breed.
Breeding restrictions versus genetic diversity – what is important to know?
Genetic diseases in all purebred dogs is a direct and predictable consequence of breeding practices. The reason is, that intense selection and the extensive use of a limited number of dogs, like frequently used sires, reduces the genetic diversity.
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First of all, 'genetic diversity' and the 'gene pool' are two different things.
The gene pool is the set of all genes in a population. The gene pool will never be larger than it was when the breed is founded. But the gene pool can become smaller when genes totally disappear. Let's pretend you take out all white Lagotti of the breeding program, the gene for 'white' will disappear and the gene pool will become smaller.
Genetic diversity instead is the number of different alleles of all genes and the frequency with which they appear. An allele can be described as an assorted characteristic of a gene. Genetic diversity is distinguished from the tendency of genetic characteristics to vary and it serves as a way for populations to adapt to changing environments. The more closely related two individuals are, the greater the similarity in their collections of assorted characteristics and vice versa. When fewer dogs can be used for breeding, fewer genetic characteristics are available.
In this context, it is important to know that EVERY restriction has the same effect. It doesn't matter if you take out 20% of dogs that don't pass a behavior test or take 20% of dogs out of breeding program that are affected from a genetic disorder. Both leads to the same result, a limitation of breeding choices. The more restrictions you have for breeding, the less dogs meet all the requirements and genetic diversity is limited.
In conclusion, inbreeding, excessive use of stud dogs or intense selection of breeding dogs limits the genetic diversity.
When we set criteria like our health database requirements, we certainly have a selection. Therefore, every selection has to be determined very carefully and we need to find a balance. On one hand, a genetic disorder with a small frequency (frequency = affected dogs and carriers of an autosomal-recessive gene) can be eliminated through breeding restrictions over time. If the number of dogs that should not breed is small enough, it would not affect the genetic diversity because there are still enough choices to make breeding decisions. On the other hand, restrictions for a genetic disorder with a high frequency would lead to an intense selection, because the number of choices would be too small and more or less only a few dogs would be used for breeding.
The difficulty lies in the question of how to determine the percentage of frequency that should cause restrictions without harming the genetic diversity in the breed. This has to be answered for every genetic disorder individually in consideration of the dogs overall qualities.
Which are the requirements for Lagotti to be included in our database and why?
We have decided on four very important health restrictions for breeding:
- Why breeding with BFJE and LSD carriers?
Benign familial juvenile epilepsy (BFJE) is a neurological disorder encountered in the Lagotto Romagnolo breed. Affected dogs suffer from focal-onset epileptic seizures in puppyhood. The seizures invariably resolve spontaneously by four months of age. In some cases, carriers might also present epileptic signs. BFJE is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. BFJE has a frequency of 28.74% in the breed but only 1.09% in all dogs. (source: www.mydogdna.com)
No BFJE "affected" dog should be bred but "carriers" may be used as mating partners to dogs tested "normal". Taking out carriers too would mean elimination of almost every third dog from breeding and that would have been an intense limitation on the breeding choices with an impact on the genetic diversity in the breed.
Lagotto Storage Disease (LSD, formerly Lysosomal Storage Disease) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by cerebellar ataxia. The first signs can be seen at the age of 4 months to 4 years. Lagotto storage disease is a progressive condition leading to behavioral changes such as restlessness, depression, and aggression. The life expectancy of affected dogs depends on the progression of the disorder and the severity of the signs. Some dogs can live for several years with mild signs, but dogs with severe clinical signs are usually euthanized earlier. LSD has a frequency of app. 10% in the breed and is almost unknown in other breeds (<1%). (source: www.mydogdna.com)
The LSD test has been available to our breed only for a short time. We recommend that dogs tested as 'carriers' of the LSD gene may only be bred to 'normal" tested dogs. The goal should be to eliminate this severe genetic disorder in the breed over the years. Therefore, we highly recommend that breeders choosing to breed a 'carrier' carefully look at the overall qualities of the dog and breed with the goal of eliminating 'carriers' from breeding programs. LSD carriers should never be frequently used in breeding programs and breeders that mate a carrier should test their puppies before they make a decision on selling with a breeding contract.
The Lagotto Romagnolo Foundation, Inc. will be closely following further studies and whether or not the frequency of LSD in the breed will increase. Our hope is that responsible breeding & testing will produce a decrease in 'affected' and 'carriers' of this disease. Through encouragement for breeders to make good choices when breeding LSD 'carriers' and educating potential puppy buyers about the questions to ask, this disease can be eliminated from our breed.
- What are the differences in hip classifications?
OFA uses a qualitative method because no form of measurement is utilized. Instead this method is based on subjective visual criteria such as degree of joint laxity (subluxation) and the presence of degenerative joint disease. The evaluation can be conducted at at least 2 years of age and the dog does not have to be sedated for the procedure.
The radiologist will grade the hips with one of seven different physical (phenotypic) hip conformations: normal which includes "excellent", "good", or "fair" classifications, borderline or dysplastic which includes "mild", "moderate", or "severe" classifications. The final hip grade is decided by a consensus of the 3 independent outside evaluations.
Seven classifications are needed in order to establish heritability information (indexes) for a given breed of dog. Definition of these phenotypic classifications are as follows:
- Excellent
- Good
- Fair
- Borderline
- Mild
- Moderate
- Severe
We include dogs in our database that receive a passing OFA rating of "Excellent", "Good" or "Fair".
OFA Preliminary hip evaluations completed after 12 month will be accepted in the health database but have to be certified by a final evaluation after 24 month.
PennHip is a quantitative and objective method performed under sedation. The technique assesses the quality of the canine hip and quantitatively measures canine hip joint laxity which means it measures the separation distance of the femoral head center (ball of hip) from the acetabular center (socket) while the hip joint is forced to luxate, then divides this measurement by the radius of the femoral head (ball of hip). In effect, this method evaluates how far the femoral head can be displaced from the acetabulum. The resulting number is termed the "distraction index" (DI). The DI score can range from 0 to 1 with scores closer to 0 indicating less hip laxity. Dogs receiving a score of less than 0.3 are considered to have normal hip-joint conformation with little, if no risk for degenerative joint disease.
PennHip evaluation can be performed after the age of 4 month. According to Antech Imaging Services and Dr. Gail K. Smith, VMD, PhD, Founder of the PennHip program and Director of the Pennsylvania Hip Improvement Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, studies* indicated the repeatability of PennHIP DI already at 16 weeks old dogs. Although the best repeatability measured in his studies was between 1 and 2 years of age, early imaging with already 16 weeks of age gave a pretty much reliable information about the dogs risk to develop degenerative joint laxity in his life.
Breeders are encouraged to re-evaluate the dogs hips with this method, especially when the "distraction index" is higher.
* Gail K. Smith et al.: "Coxofemoral joint laxity from distraction radiography and its contemporaneous and prospective correlation with laxity, subjective score, and evidence of degenerative joint disease from conventional hip-extended radiography in dogs" in American Journal of Veterinarian Research, Vol 54, No 7, July 1993
FCI, which is used by most European countries, classifies hips with the help of the Norberg Angle. The procedure is under sedation and performed by a certified veterinarian who is elected by the dog club. The measurements grades are:
/= 105° is A
< 105° is B
>/= 100°is C
>/= 90° is D
< 90 is E
All three grading methods cannot be compared one to one as the age, anesthesia used and the method for taking the x-ray (position of the dog etc.) may affect the end result.
We have decided to include dogs with the following outcome in our database:
- OFA Excellent, Good or Fair
- PennHip evaluations are considered passing only if the results indicate a "distraction index" (DI) that meets or exceeds the median DI for Lagotto as set forth in the PennHip Evaluation.
- FCI: A and B. (Since not all FCI countries grade in B1 and B2, we will accept all B hips in our database).
We want the breed to remain the wonderful companions and working dogs that we have grown to adore, while ensuring they continue to be healthy and long-lived members of our families.


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Alabama River 2nd: Jones Bouncing Around
"I can say that I'm fishing primarily with 50-pound braid and when I get a good one, I'm swinging it into the boat. The water's still so flooded up that I think there's a lot of fish I can't access, so I'm actually hoping it'll come down."
He's catching all spots and his biggest today was a 4 1/2-pounder.
"I missed a couple bites that I never got hooked up with and my biggest one, when I swung it in, it came off and bounced off the windshield and landed on the floor of the boat. I had another one close to 4 pounds stay on even though my rod was caught up in some vines.
"I'm hoping I can get at least 18 pounds tomorrow," he continued, "but I'll just have to keep catching one here and one there."
Chapman rides rapids for lead
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alton Jones and Brent Chapman stood side-by-side. They were the first two Bassmaster Elite Series pros in line to weigh in Friday, the second day of the Alabama River Charge presented by Star brite.
Jones sized up Chapman's weigh-in bag. "I'll go first," Jones told Chapman. "I want to lead for at least one minute."
Jones had it right. His 20 pounds, 4 ounces earned him a fleeting look at the hot seat. Chapman's 23-5 handily beat him. Chapman's two-day total was 41-1 to Jones' 36-10 — a 4-7 difference.
Jones had nothing to feel bad about. Together the two squashed the hopes of the other 98 Elite pros who followed them to the scales. No one knocked them out of first and second. Read More
More than "just" practice
4th: Jones Still in the Hunt
BassFan.com Day 3: 5, 17-04 (15, 53-14) Jones will be about a pound farther back when day 4 starts than he was when he launched this morning, but still thinks he has a decent shot at his second victory in 2 years.
"It's still kind of anybody's game, really," he said. "Edwin had been catching 17 to 18 pounds a day and today he shows up with more than 22, and the areas I'm fishing are capable of producing a stringer like that. I haven't caught one yet, but it might be somebody else's turn tomorrow and I'd love for that person to be me."
Sabine River Bassmaster Elite
What was the biggest key to success this week on the Sabine River?
"The key to my week was my timing on day one. On day one I decided to start in a different area and didn't make the decision to make a move to my key spot until later in the day. I really would have liked to have had that first few hours on day one, the morning was really critical in that area because of the tide. But moving to that area was the reason I was able to do well in this event."
What was your primary pattern throughout the week?
"I was flipping a YUM Wooly Bug, and casting a YUM Dinger weightless all week to anything that looked good in that backwater area."
What were your primary baits and tactics?
YUM DInger (Watermelon Candy), YUM Wooly Bug (Green Pumpkin-Purple Fleck) Read More


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whats is the H.M.S. Challenger voyage???????
1. What was the main purpose of the H.M.S. Challenger voyage?
2. The voyage of the Challenger was truly an interdisciplinary voyage. There were chemists, biologists, and physicists on board.
Over the course of their 4 years on board, what were the accomplishments of this group of scientists?
3. They used many different types of instruments and tools. List three specific types of tools, or instruments, which were used aboard the vessel and tell what the tool was used to do.
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The Challenger Expedition of 1872-76 was a scientific expedition that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.
Prompted by the Scot, Charles Wyville Thomson—of the University of Edinburgh and Merchiston Castle School—the Royal Society of London obtained the use of a ship, HMS Challenger, from the Royal Navy and in 1872 modified it for scientific work, equipping it with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry.
The ship, commanded by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth, England, on 21 December 1872.[1] Under the scientific supervision of Thomson himself it travelled nearly 70,000 nautical miles surveying and exploring. The result was the Report Of The Scientific Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 which, among many other discoveries, catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species. John Murray, who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries".
Challenger returned to Spithead, Hampshire on 24 May 1876, having spent 713 days at sea out of the intervening 1,606.[1] On its 68,890-nautical-mile (127,580 km) journey,[1] it had conducted 492 deep sea soundings, 133 bottom dredges, 151 open water trawls, 263 serial water temperature observations, and discovered about 4717 new species of marine life. Copies of the written records of the Challenger Expedition are now stored in several marine institutions around the UK including the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the Dove Marine Laboratory in Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear
Scientific Instruments:
The HMS Challenger crew faced many challenges when they tried to determine temperature. The most commonly used thermometer on the ship was the Miller-Casella mercury thermometer, which was small, difficult to read and susceptible to the effects of pressure. The Challenger also had a piezo (pressure) thermometer and a resistance thermometer. But both of these instruments were fairly new, and the scientists had little experience with them.
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[Writing-in-progress about working at Kibbutz Shamir.]
After my stint behind the dishwashing machine, I graduated to the avocado fields. The harvest of Kibbutz Shamir's orchards had been nearly completed by the time I got assigned to this detail, so there was only another week or two of work left. Our job was simple enough: ascend the broad-branching trees, pluck the last of the ripe fruit, and deposit the avocados into plastic buckets to be carted away to waiting tractors. ...
To be scaling these trees, clambering from the top rungs of the ladder ever deeper into the nest of branches and leaves, was a new experience. I'd always been a clumsy, nervous, fearful climber as a child—not one of those kids who shimmies up flag poles and garage sidings and the tallest trees on the block, just for kicks. Gravity was not to be trusted, so I tended to keep my running shoes on firm ground. But here, in this new land, I took to the novelty of avocado picking, like I'd be born to the job. The kibbutznik in charge of the harvest nicknamed me "Monkey Man", for my willingness (I hope—perhaps he had other reasons) to pull myself to the topmost reaches of the trunk, for my new arrival's urge to impress, to leave no fruit unplucked, no collective profits squandered and left to rot on a distant branch.
|Working the orchards, circa 1988
There was a satisfaction in seeing, the next morning, sliced fresh avocados in the buffet trays of the dining hall for breakfast or lunch. This was 20 years before the "locavore" movement, before eating lightly on the earth—consuming organically grown, untravelled food, cultivated by the farmers in the neighbouring area code—became the mantra of the middle-class mainstream, even fashionably urbane, not simply hippy-headed back-to-the-landism. Here, on the kibbutz, the community had developed economies of scale to do much of that on its own. It raised cash crops for export: cotton and kiwis and apples and avocados. But like any farm, it could skim the excess for its own kitchen, and add to that bounty vegetables grown in the kibbutz gardens, meat from the cattle operations, honey from its apiaries, eggs from the chicken sheds. Even the table cloths and dish rags came from the kibbutz's "Shalag" factory, which spat out reams of the non-woven fabric for a variety of uses. Our meals shrunk the radius of the 100-Mile Diet down to 10 miles, often closer. We pulled our own food from the orchards beyond the barbed wire perimeter and the tilled acreage in the valley below. I felt like a farmer at last.
The fieldwork, no matter how sweaty and arduous, held a romantic appeal to international volunteers, who were largely city kids like myself. It fit the vague, sepia-tinted image we had of kibbutz life. It allowed us to PhotoShop our faces into the collective portrait of pioneer life, to assume the role of hardy turf-breaker, even if our "pioneering" consisted of boozy three-month stopovers on the Mediterranean backpacking circuit. It was harder to sustain that image when you were scrubbing pots or cleaning toilets or a cog in a noisy factory. Manual labour, on the other hand, as long as we had a return ticket—that we could romanticize.
The fieldwork, no matter how sweaty and arduous, held a romantic appeal to international volunteers, who were largely city kids like myself. It fit the vague, sepia-tinted image we had of kibbutz life. It allowed us to PhotoShop our faces into the collective portrait of pioneer life, to assume the role of hardy turf-breaker, even if our "pioneering" consisted of boozy three-month stopovers on the Mediterranean backpacking circuit. It was harder to sustain that image when you were scrubbing pots or cleaning toilets or a cog in a noisy factory. Manual labour, on the other hand, as long as we had a return ticket—that we could romanticize.
My keenest work memories are pulled from morning shifts in the lower fields. My autumn arrival meant that I'd missed most of the harvest season: the apple picking, the cotton plucking, the kiwi selection. Instead, as the number of volunteers dwindled, I was assigned to the post-season trimming and upkeep of the orchards. I hacked out shallow irrigation trenches between the rows of apple trees to channel the coming rains. After a brief lesson in horticulture, I trimmed the low canopy of kiwi branches and fixed their ends, with plastic ties, to parallel lines of steel wire, to shape their growth for next season. I often worked in tandem with Grant, a former volunteer from Scotland and the boyfriend of Zeva, a kibbutznik who also taught us Hebrew every week. Grant had a sly, deadpan wit, and fed me insider gossip of how the kibbutz really worked behind the scenes. In exchange, I detailed for him the sexual escapades and soap-operatic dramas of the Volunteer Ghetto, freely embellishing and turning casual speculation into hard truth for his vicarious enjoyment....
Rarely did I worry about how long my shift had run or watch the clock for its end, like I did in the kitchen or the factory. Instead, the 24 daily slices of clock time were replaced with the more subtle, four-beat rhythm of the seasonal round, a kind of slowed-down square dance or hora, in which spring planting led into summer growth and fall harvest and the "dead time" of winter in the valley, when all was prepared for the renewal to come. My stints in the field were the closest I had ever been, and ever would be, to the seasonal cycles of farm work. Even my own circadian rhythms had to adjust to waking before dawn, to the sun coming up over the valley, to the chores that seemed repetitive and without end and that would not produce results until another nine months from now, when I would likely be long departed from the fields.
|Kibbutzniks from Shamir in the cotton fields, circa 1958
It is harder, perhaps, to feel nostalgic about my shifts in the cotton fields. The cotton itself had been fully harvested before I arrived, so I still have little sense, other than from photos, of what a field of ripe cotton looks or smells or feels like. I can't really brag that I "picked cotton". All I remember are the decimated stalks of the plant, like bony claws erupting from the broken soil. And the need to burn away this stubble for fallow. And the tang of gasoline from a trailer-borne tank attached to a tractor, and its hose and nozzle, and how the petroleum reek itched the nostrils and sheened the skin. And the waves of heat as the doused stalks of the depleted plants erupted into flames, a burning bush along the Jordan River, and how we sprinted from this wall of fire to spray and ignite the next row of cotton plants. And how, on the ride back home, sitting in the trailer, we watched a dribble of fuel trace a line from the still-smoking fields and leave a trail all the way home to the kibbutz.
On other days, we were assigned to "harvest" rocks from the cotton fields. In the early years, when kibbutzniks first settled the valley, this was the land's most fertile crop—a perpetual growth of rocks out of land that had once been swamp and marsh, as though the earth's mantle were sending its own hard seeds to the surface. More than 40 years later, the Huleh Valley still produced a bounty of stones that needed to be removed before spring planting. Stripped to our shorts, we would trudge behind an idling tractor and hurl skull-sized builders onto the trailer it pulled. Occasionally, we would stop and try to lever a heavier, more deeply embedded rock out of the soil and carry it away. It was dirty, ankle-twisting, mind-fogging work. Rarely did a kibbutznik join us to do anything other than drive the tractor—and even then it wasn't worth his time, as our slow progress down the length of the fields meant the vehicle only needed to turn around every hour or two. Even a volunteer could do that. It felt like prison work, like we should have been joined at the ankles by iron shackles and crooning soulful spirituals as the sun beat against our bare shoulders. We would curse when we couldn't dislodge a boulder and curse again when we missed the trailer with a pitched rock and curse once more when someone else's errant toss struck the toe of our boot.
Yet, for all our complaining, we relished those moments together, taking a break at the end of each row, smoking and laughing and mopping gritty sweat from our brows and necks. We knew that these labours were not as endless as they seemed, that because we were the first to rise and beat the sun to the valley bottom, we would also be the first to quit our shift, the first to raise raw red faces into the stream of the shower, the first to lounge in the shade of the Ghetto porches with cold bottles of Goldstar in our half-rigid hands.
We didn't know it at the time, but years later we would run this rock-picking duty through the blender of our nostalgia, too, when these hands of ours had grown soft from massaging computer keyboards instead, and our long days in those burning fields of stone would acquire a patina of pseudo-heroism, like we had been wrestling with the land itself, pitting all that simple strength of youth to tame the earth, rolling one boulder at a time. True pioneers, every last one of us.
Nor could we guess that even this lowly volunteer assignment, like so much of the kibbutz's fieldwork, would end, too. Soon enough, as the 80s gave way to the 90s and the new millennium, kibbutz farms from Dan to Be'er Sheva hired low-paid guest workers from Thailand to replace the largely free labour of international volunteers or even hired Arab hands. The Thai workers worked harder, complained less, didn't get drunk and rowdy every other night, and didn't require the same constant cycle of retraining as our clan of itinerant and often unreliable backpackers. Even as rock pickers, we were about to become obsolete.


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Author(s): Rachel Maddow
When Thomas Jefferson spoke of 'never keeping an unnecessary soldier', neither he nor America's other founding fathers could have envisaged the national security state that the country has become. They could not have imagined its tens of thousands of 'privateers'; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Driftargues that America has drifted away from its original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American soldiers in the military, and even the changing fortunes of GI Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we all stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower political discourse.
Sensible yet provocative, deadly serious yet seriously funny, Drifthas already reinvigorated a political debate about how, when, and where America's strength and power should be applied -- and who gets to make those decisions.


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Finally, what every A.R.M.Y. had been waiting for has happened!
And we're not talking about a concert in their city. (But don't lose hope, that might happen too.)
We're referring to BTS comeback teaser!
We finally have an idea of what the music video might look like, and not lying, some of us got slayed a little.
The short teaser mixes pastel colors and beautiful art pop aesthetics with the members own talent, beauty, and charisma to create a pleasant looking masterpiece both visual and musically.
According to the boys, this comeback closes the story that started with I Need U, and that has fueled many, many theories around internet.
We definitely can't wait to see what BTS has prepared for this comeback, but knowing the group's previous works, we know it's gonna be awesome.
Don't forget to stream the Official MV this February 13 on Big Hit's official YouTube Channel.


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By Mark Weisbrot
The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as a tactic to overthrow the elected government. It was December of 2002, and I was struck by the images on U.S. television of what was reported as a "general strike," with shops closed and streets empty. So I went there to see for myself, and it was one of the most Orwellian experiences of my life. Only in the richer neighborhoods, in eastern Caracas, was there evidence of a strike, by business owners (not workers). In the western and poorer parts of the city, everything was normal and people were doing their Christmas shopping – images unseen in the U.S. media. I wrote an article about it for the Washington Post, and received hundreds of emails from right-wing Venezuelans horrified that the Post had printed a factual and analytical account that breathed air outside of their bubble. They didn't have to worry about it happening again. The spread of cell-phone videos and social media in the past decade has made it more difficult to misrepresent things that can be easily captured on camera. But Venezuela is still grossly distorted in the major media. The New York Times had to run a correction last week for an article that began with a statement about "The only television station that regularly broadcast voices critical of the government …" As it turns out, all of the private TV stations "regularly broadcast voices critical of the government." And private media has more than 90 percent of the TV-viewing audience in Venezuela. A study by the Carter Center of the presidential election campaign period last April showed a 57 to 34 percent advantage in TV coverage for President Maduro over challenger Henrique Capriles in the April election, but that advantage is greatly reduced or eliminated when audience shares are taken into account. Although there are abuses of power and problems with the rule of law in Venezuela – as there are throughout the hemisphere– it is far from the authoritarian state that most consumers of western media are led to believe. Opposition leaders currently aim to topple the democratically elected government – their stated goal – by portraying it as a repressive dictatorship that is cracking down on peaceful protest. This is a standard "regime change" strategy, which often includes violent demonstrations in order to provoke state violence.Read rest here.


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You always wanted to be a writer, but started your career first as an editor, and ghostwriter. Your first novel was the Rita Award-winning SUMMER LIGHTNING, a YA paranormal thriller. How did these experiences inform your journey, and do you feel they gave you advantages other writers didn't have? If so, what lessons can you pass along?
I became an editor for the same reason I worked in indy bookstores while I was in college: I didn't just want to write, I wanted to make a living at it. So I approached that goal not just as a talent to embrace or a skill to hone, but as a business I needed to learn from the ground up. The advantage is one any aspiring writer can seize: I did my homework, and I learned to write a marketable manuscript. It's not enough just to have talent, a brilliant idea, a publishing industry connection. You have to work incredibly hard for years just to get published—and then you will work even harder, forever after, in order to stay published. That's the lesson.
As the author of something like 80 novels in the last twenty years (HOW??) you've written both series and stand-alones, but have said that you prefer the latter. What makes them more attractive to you?
Continuity is difficult, given that I write domestic psychological suspense novels about ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances. When you need to sustain that over three books, extraordinary can easily become preposterous. How many times is an ordinary suburban mom going to cross paths with a serial killer? I've worked really hard to pull it off in my first two trilogies for HarperCollins, LIVE TO TELL/SCARED TO DEATH/HELL TO PAY and NIGHTWATCHER/SLEEPWALKER/SHADOWKILLER. My third trilogy was connected only by a social networking theme—THE GOOD SISTER was about a fictionalized Facebook, THE PERFECT STRANGER was about bloggers, THE BLACK WIDOW about online dating. No interconnected plots or storylines, only a shared premise: you never know who is really lurking behind an internet screen name. The latest trilogy, which just launched with BLOOD RED and continues next year with BLUE MOON and BONE WHITE, again features continuing characters, but is made believable because it's set in a town, Mundy's Landing, whose violent past consists of two historic unsolved crimes. An annual festival—colloquially dubbed Mundypalooza—draws armchair detectives, crime buffs, the press, and your garden variety ghoulish gawkers, all trying to solve the historic crimes and claim the Historical Society's ever-increasing reward. It stands to reason that it might just draw a creepy villain or two as well, right?
Many of your plots are inspired by current events and new technologies. What draws you to a story, and what's your favorite part of the research process?
I'm drawn to anything that translates to a high concept idea—that standard one-line Hollywood pitch. For the Mundy's Landing series: What if a quaint village notorious for historic murders attracted a copycat killer who, on the hundredth anniversary of gruesome unsolved crimes, set out to re-enact them?
Research—ah, I love everything about research. I could research around the clock for months, if I only had the luxury. I delve into any subject and setting I'm writing about in order to get every detail exactly right. I don't just read stacks of nonfiction books and pore over websites—I travel to my settings, I speak to experts, I haunt museums, I watch documentaries. It's an ongoing process from the moment I conceive the glimmer of a story until it's gone through its final editing phase. I've lost many a writing day while off on a tangential search for some obscure detail. Research is my perpetual shiny object. I always find it difficult to tear myself away and go back to the writing.
HELLO, IT'S ME, which you wrote under the pseudonym Wendy Markham in 2005, was turned into a movie which just aired on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel. How was that experience? Did you have any input into the screenplay or the process?
It was utterly rewarding and surreal to visit the set and watch my characters, setting and plot come to life courtesy of talented actors and an amazing crew. I consider myself blessed every day to make a living doing what I love, and there have been plenty of unforgettable highlights over 80 books and 22 years as an author. But ranking right up there at the top was the moment I walked onto the set and met my fictional heroine Annie, now a living, breathing person (Kellie Martin, who starred in the film and who is an absolute sweetheart). I didn't write the screenplay, and it was very different from the book, but I completely respect the process and I adore the executive producer, Jon Eskanas, who really embraced and nailed the theme. On a personal front: the book HELLO, IT'S ME was published just a few weeks before my mom lost her battle with breast cancer, yet she made it to one of my tour events. She'd read every book I'd ever written, and that was the last. She loved it and told me it would be a great movie. With its theme of love that lives on after death, this has been an emotional project for me, and I find it poignant that it began filming on May 11, 2015—the tenth anniversary of my mom's death.
Can you tell us a little bit about your latest BLOOD RED, your upcoming NINE LIVES and what's coming next for you?
BLOOD RED is the launch book for the Mundy's Landing suspense trilogy. The village is, as I mentioned above, notorious for an unsolved historic crime—think Lizzie Borden's Fall River. This is a town that's seen better days, but it's been revitalized by tourist dollars that pour in due to Mundypalooza. The old guard thinks it's exploitive; newcomers want to cash in. I loved the idea of exploring murder-as-industry, this modern-day culture of bloodthirsty media and ambulance chasers fascinated by the gory details of other people's tragedies. BLOOD RED's heroine, Rowan Mundy, grew up in Mundy's Landing as the youngest child in a working class family. Her older siblings were stellar students and fine upstanding teenagers. Rowan was not. She ran wild in high school, but made good on a deathbed promise to her mother that she would turn herself around. She went to college, married hometown hero Jake Mundy, had three children, and got a teaching job at her old elementary school. Except for one fleeting, errant moment, she's walked the straight and narrow for the past thirty years. Then she gets an anonymous package containing 13 burnt cookies wrapped in a yellowed newspaper bearing the date of her near slip-up—a telltale sign that somebody knows what she did. The predator intends to make her pay for her sins, and is creeping ever closer, while claiming lookalike redheaded victims.
NINE LIVES launches my new LILY DALE series from Crooked Lane. These are cozy mysteries written for an adult audience, but they're set in the real-life spiritualist colony Lily Dale New York, where I based a successful Young Adult series several years ago. Lily Dale is a lakeside cottage village populated entirely by people who claim that they can communicate with the dead. I grew up a few miles away, and have always been fascinated by it.
For years, those who read and loved my young adult Lily Dale series (AWAKENING, BELIEVING, CONNECTING, and DISCOVERING) as well as my Lily Dale-set adult thriller IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE have been asking for more. I take my readers' feedback very seriously, and I finally found the time and opportunity, so this is my gift to them. It's a new series and fresh start, but I promise some appearances by beloved characters from the original books.
While my YA series was paranormal—there were definitely some ghostly goings-on—these books are firmly rooted in reality. Readers can decide for themselves whether the things that go bump in the night are ghosts. Our heroine, Bella, is a skeptic surrounded by eccentric mediums and psychics. She's a young widowed single mom who finds her way to the Dale on a cross-country drive, thanks to a pregnant stray cat named Chance, who turns up in her path. That was inspired by a real life pregnant stray cat named Chance, who turned up on my doorstep last year, delivered six kittens, cost us thousands in vet bills when she nearly died of a bacterial infection, and who now cozily resides on the rug next to my desk (her kittens are all living happily ever after in equally cozy homes). In the book, Bella and her son Max wind up staying in Lily Dale to help run a guesthouse and solve a mystery (or many). Their lovable new neighbors are sometimes so busy seeing what isn't there and talking to people no one else can hear that they miss what's all too obvious to logical Bella.
COMMENT ON THE INTERVIEW by using the Comments box further down on this page, or on our Facebook page and be entered to win a copy of BLOOD RED! (U.S. entrants only, please.)
Book she wishes shecould read again for the first time: The enchanting MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, which I read in Savannah, where it's set.
What she's reading now: ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE..
Favorite sentence she's ever written: I'll choose my favorite in BLOOD RED, from the cop's POV after discovering a victim and the serial killer's peculiar crime signature: "She was covered in a sheet of dry cleaner's plastic, shrink-wrapped like a bodega cucumber."
Period in history she'd like to visit: The 80s, so I could give myself a sorely needed fashion makeover.
One thing she wishes she had known when she started writing: Cliché, but I wish I'd anticipated that every valley, no matter how low, is sooner or later followed by a peak—and vice versa.
Favorite Online Resource: I have a tough time with titles, and idioms are helpful for brainstorming, so I often come here —you can plug in a search term that matches the theme of your book—for exaple, "Wedding," or "Blood"—and it will kick back a list that helps to jumpstart ideas.
Favorite independent bookstore: Can't choose a favorite because I have never met an indy bookstore that I didn't love, so I'll say that the most recent one I visited—the wonderfully welcoming, author-friendly Mystery to Me in Madison, Wisconsin, where I did a pub day event this week—blew me away!
If she could have one superpower: To be in two places at once—a feat I attempt on a daily basis to no avail.
If she could meet one of her characters: I love Sullivan Leary, the spitfire female NYPD detective who was intended to be a quick secondary character in THE BLACK WIDOW, but has since found her way into BLOOD RED and the upcoming sequel, BLUE MOON, and—along with partner Stockton Barnes—is apparently here to stay.
If she could invite four people to a dinner party: Lizzy Borden, Amelia Earhart, D.B. Cooper and my mom—the first three because I want to solve history's greatest mysteries, the last because I miss her desperately. And she was a great cook and a sparkling conversationalist.


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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
What are a Dog Breeder's Responsibilities?
If you are sold a purebred dog, many of which are prone to some genetic, breed-specific "deficiencies" and are guaranteed against any of these deficiencies and your dog is 6 months old with, the absolute worst case of this deficiency a vet has ever seen in a dog that age in his entire career, what are your options?
I cannot imagine this scenario being a dog-lover and past dog owner myself. I cannot imagine falling in love with a new member of the family for 6 months and then being told by your vet that your only options are a) extremely costly, extremely invasive surgery you cannot afford or b) putting the dog down.
Right now I am researching this...getting some feedback. Would love your input.
4 comments:
- septembermom said...
Wish I could help you with some advice. Hope you get the answers that you need. Hugs :)
- March 2, 2010 at 11:21 PM
- Mon said...
Is this your dog? omg, how horrible. Well, we had to put our little boy down in 2008, so if I say too much I'll start crying. But hope some miracle happens. What matters is the dog doesn't suffer unecessarily. Good luck friend.
- March 3, 2010 at 1:15 AM
- SwedishJenn said...
Thanks for the compassion folks. No, not my dog, a family member's dog. I vowed after going through the heartbreak of losing two: one through old age and the other, because we moved overseas (and he eventually got hit by a truck on the farm where he was living), that I would never again own another dog. Though I love them dearly :-)
- March 3, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- LostInTraslation...Literally said...
How did i miss this???
that's extremely depressing. :*( poor doggies, sad thing is, alot of purebred dogs are absolutely adorable. but is it worth the risk??
- March 4, 2010 at 1:34 AM


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Hypnosis is a natural state of relaxation where you have focused attention and a heightened sense of awareness. In this powerful state, your intensified concentration and attention will allow your subconscious mind to get to the root of the problem quickly.
Healing a wide range of issues at a much quicker and deeper level than traditional talk therapy, hypnosis is highly effective in treating early trauma, abuse, phobias, addiction, unhealthy relationship patterns, emotional eating, and grief and loss. In fact, hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been endorsed and used by the medical community since 1958 to help patients decrease pain, create anesthesia, control epileptic seizures in children, overcome infertility, and manage or eliminate many other medical issues.
When hypnosis techniques are applied to the field of therapy and counseling, it is called hypnotherapy. By accessing the resources within the subconscious mind, clients can learn new, positive ways of thinking and eradicate problematic beliefs and behaviors.
Hypnosis allows the subconscious mind to utilize internal resources to promote natural healing and balance from within. Because of this, hypnosis can be used within the therapy process to help clients access the deeper, more vulnerable parts of themselves. This allows clients to discover the subconscious reasons for their symptoms, behaviors, or habits, which can be extremely empowering!


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The last-of-its-kind, 100 year old Galapagos tortoise named "Lonesome George" died Sunday.
- His relatives say in all those years, he never really came out of his shell.
- Some say he was a real risk taker… who stuck his neck out one time too many.
- Caretakers admitted that George was "feisty"… saying he snapped at his nurses right up until the end.


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Re. "Commentary: Leece is the only good council member," (July 29):
It was disappointing to read the Joseph Weber editorial where he attempts to re-ignite the debate over the death of former city worker Huy Pham for political gain.
For those that don't recall, Mr. Pham chose to end his life at our City Hall by jumping off the roof. He endangered the lives not only of our city workers, but of our residents.


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Paint swatch art is pretty popular these day, not to mention, virtually free to make! Although, I haven't attempted any of these DIY projects myself, I would imagine they aren't too complicated…maybe just a bit time consuming. But, hey, if the majority of your supplies come from the free paint swatch section at Lowes, you really can't complain!
This DIY project is double-duty (my favorite!). You can use it as a backdrop or accessory for a party and then use it in your home after!
Here are a few DIY ideas for Paint Swatch Art:Via A Beautiful Mess
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Have you tried any paint swatch art?


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Mixed Reality Technologies (Machine Learning & AI, Hardware, IoT and Software) For Simulation and industrial Applications
Brief Background: Tag Team Inc Pte Ltd
TAG TEAM INC, a technologically driven company credited for their expertise in the world of laser tag. We are pioneers in the use of artificial intelligence machine learning through the field of networks, sensor technology, and embedded systems that revolutionized the game today. TAG TEAM INC is looking to expand overseas through franchise and licensing as well as provide solutions and technology customization to various enterprises that will benefit from their knowledge and research in the various fields mentioned above.
Recent article about Tag Team Inc from International Business Times:
Technology Overview
Tag Team Inc designs and builds
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Using Machine Learning and AI, the hardware understands spatial movement, gesture & orientation, and has vision and audition capabilities. These technologies are deployed in 2 x Tag Team Inc Gaming Centres since 2014.
In 2017, Tag Team Inc completed a Simulation and Training project with a law enforcement agency and is currently working on another project in the Marine and Offshore engineering sector, and developing a preventive maintenance system for lifts and escalators using our proprietary technologies with a local company.
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Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving automobile project, has actually sent a letter to United States Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today with a plan for selling autonomous cars that have no wheel or pedals, AP reports. The plan appears to be pretty uncomplicated: Urmson argues that if a self-driving car can pass standardized federal safety tests, they must be road-legal. Urmson includes that regulatory authorities could "set conditions that restrict use based upon safety concerns," AP states, though it's not clear exactly what those conditions or issues might be.
In recent months, regulators, automakers, and tech companies alike have actually all revealed interest in speeding up rulemaking that gets out of the method of autonomous cars. Current rules, a lot of which are decades old, are created specifically with human drivers in mind, and getting those rules altered can take several years; just the other day, NHTSA noted that had vehicle companies not informally agreed to standardizing automated emergency situation braking, for example, a main rule would've taken another 3 years to put in location. In January, Foxx revealed that "vehicle" guidelines would be drafted by mid-year for producing a constant nationwide policy on self-driving policy, and he motivated personal companies to take part in the procedure.
Google and Urmson in particular has been one of the most outspoken voices about the benefit of self-driving innovation, which some argue might considerably lower or eliminate driving deaths if presented on a broad scale. However the innovation has seemed to advance much more rapidly than the corresponding regulatory authority structures at times, leaving fully autonomous automobiles like Google's in a legitimately murky area. Simply previously this week, Urmson participated in a Congressional hearing on self-driving technology, which seemed to impress a number of the lawmakers involved.