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by Jakub Han | 3rd March 2020
Z CAM eND (electronic ND) Filter is a new product compatible with Z CAM E2 S6, F6 and F8 cinema cameras (EF or PL Mount versions). First introduced during the IBC 2019, the eND filter offers ND range from 1.7 to 6.7 stops in 1/3 stop increments. It is now available for pre-order. Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Source: Z CAM Last year during the IBC Show in Amsterdam, we stopped by at the Z CAM booth to talk about their new flagship cameras and we were happy to see the planned optional Electronic ND Filter unit. Make sure to check the video and the article itself. Now, the Electronic ND Filter Unit became a reality. It is ready to start shipping. Optional Electronic ND Filter Unit for Z CAM E2 Series Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Image credit: Yaroslav Soltys The eND Filter is basically a removable piece, which slides in or out of the camera from the side. The piece that comes with the camera contains a pure glass element. The optional eND unit will contain an electronic ND filter, so limiting the light entering the sensor will be very convenient. Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Image credit: Yaroslav Soltys It seems Z CAM's electronic ND filter unit will offer a strong range of 1.7 to 6.7 stops in 1/3 stop increments. The advantage of electronic ND is much more precise control over its strength – the strength changes seamlessly, so the exposure can be consistent even when the light is changing (for instance with clouds during outdoor shoots). The ND filter unit will be held in position by two screws. Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Image credit: Yaroslav Soltys This electronic ND filter will be implemented in all the Z CAM E2 flagship models – Z CAM E2 S6, F6, and F8 – with EF-mount or PL-mount. The only exception is the Z CAM E2 S6 with the Micro Four Thirds mount. The electronic ND unit will not be available for this mount simply because of the much shorter flange focal distance. Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Image credit: Yaroslav Soltys Z CAM eND Filter Unit. Image credit: Yaroslav Soltys Pricing and Availability The Z CAM eND Module is now ready for pre-order and it should start shipping soon. Price has been set to $399 in the USA (around €395 in Europe). What do you think about the new Z CAM E2 cameras? If you own one of them, are you planning to get the eND Module for it as well? Let us know in the comments underneath the article.Read more
by Jakub Han | 12th November 2019
PolarPro BaseCamp is a new ultra-lightweight matte box with a variable ND filter. It weighs 438 grams when all components are in use and 298 grams in its minimal setup. The matte box can be fixed in place on 15mm rods or directly on the lens via adapter rings. The installation is completely tool-free. BaseCamp matte box is available now. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han PolarPro is a camera accessories manufacturer known mostly for their high-quality filters. Many filmmakers are using their variable ND filters for mirrorless and DSLR setups. Today, the company announces a bit more complex product. PolarPro BaseCamp is an ultra lightweight matte box with variable ND filter functionality. PolarPro BaseCamp VND Matte Box PolarPro BaseCamp features ultra lightweight construction. The total weight is only 438 grams when all components are in use, and only 298 grams in the minimal setup. The matte box can be customized according to different scenarios, workflows, and applications – flag and hood are removable. Thanks to its low weight, the PolarPro BaseCamp matte box can be suitable for aerial use with high-payload cinema drone setups. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han The matte box is built from aluminium, carbon fiber, and Aerospace polymers. The installation is completely tool-free. The matte box can be fixed in place on 15mm rods (via the removable 15mm rods adapter) or directly on the lens via adapter rings. PolarPro offers different sizes of the rings starting at 77mm. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han Variable ND System The variable ND functionality works by combining a circular polarizer filter and a fixed square ND filter. There is a built-in mechanism in the matte box that can turn the circular polarizer (CPL) filter to adjust the strength of the ND. Turning the CPL filter is possible via an opening on top of the matte box. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han All filters are custom made by PolarPro, so users can't insert other standard-sized (4 x 5.65 or other) square filters. PolarPro offers two strengths of the VND: 2-5 and 6-9. The square ND filters have aluminium frame with a small aluminium grip on top for better handling and safer locking in the matte box. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han Pricing and Availability PolarPro BaseCamp is available now. The price for the complete VND kit will be $699 with a launch week price of $599. The core unit will be selling for $299 (launch week pricing is $199). Each square ND filter will cost $199, the Circular polarizer filter will cost $149, rail kits $120, Thread plates and Light fly each $40. PolarPro BaseCamp – Ultra lightweight VND matte box. Image credit: Jakub Han We currently have the BaseCamp matte box in our office and we are working on a short video review which will come soon, so stay tuned. What do you think of the lightweight PolarPro BaseCamp? Do you use matte box for your work? Let us know in the comments underneath the article.Read more
by Tim Fok | 3rd September 2019
Freewell has announced a new line of quick-release filters for DSLR and Mirrorless systems. The Magnetic Quick-Swap Filter System offers a variety of filters including Circular Polarizer and Neutral Density that snap on and off in seconds. Freewell is not new to the filter industry, better known for filter systems for pro-consumer drones and action cameras. This is their first venture into more conventional filter sizes suitable for Mirrorless and DSLR cameras. Image credit: Freewell How It Works The Magnetic Quick-Swap Filter System promises lightning-fast filter changes, and the clue to its method is in its own name. Rather than the time-consuming approach of threading filters onto the front of your lens, Freewell Quick-Swaps operate utilizing a magnetic system; filters snap on and off in seconds. It does this by provisionally mounting a UV filter to the front of your lens; the filter has the magnetic front component attached to all other quick-swap filters. Freewell has noted in their YouTube video comments from viewers regarding concerns of always going through a UV filter, however, the company states that the system does not impair image quality. Image credit: Freewell What Filters Are Available Current filters available in the Quick-Swap system: ND64 (6 stops) ND1000 (10 stops) Circular Polarizer (CP) Light Pollution Reduction (NV) End Cap* *The end cap serves as a normal lens cap with the addition of utilizing the same magnetic mounting system as the filters. Image credit: Freewell The current filter line up is set up more intimately for photographers – a full range of neutral density filters, as well as a variable ND, would be useful for videographers. The Magnetic Quick-Snap Filter system is available in 67mm, 72mm 77mm, and 82mm. You can also step up through conventional step up rings, and double stack if you wish to use existing filters, as all Freewell Quick-Swap filters have a threaded front. Image credit: Freewell My Thoughts This is not the first time we have seen magnetic filter systems, and they're no doubt a concept of high interest for self-shooters that demand fast operation from their kit. (Xume magnetic filter concept by Manfrotto offers a similar solution). As mentioned, Freewell needs to expand its lineup to make this a solid option for video work; a filter-less magnetic mount would be useful also for pure-use with other filter systems. The starting price of $99 a filter is attractive, but to truly benefit from the quick-swap system, multiple purchases to cover your wider lens package is advised.Read more
by Graham Sheldon | 5th June 2019
It's been a few years of development but the Cinefade VariND recently started shipping and we had a chance at Cine Gear to catch up with Oliver Christiansen, the inventor of the Cinefade, for a hands on demonstration and to see how the system has progressed. The device looks promising and can deliver more features beyond its signature Cinefade effect (the ability to control depth of field independently from exposure). Details below: My colleague, Tim Fok, recently broke down all the key specs in his article available HERE. The Cinefade is designed to work with compatible 2-stage matteboxs and is powered by LBUS cable. In general, the entire system seems quick to setup and having a variable ND (obviously useful for cameras lacking internal ND) and a rotating polarizer (great for car to car) is very useful in my opinion. Control unit for the Cinefade system. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon While the depth of field effect outlined in the video is admittedly very cool it may not see use all the time on set and thus the addition of the polarizer and ND capabilities make this a device that could certainly live on the front of the camera over weeks of filming. That being said, all these features do come with a cost and pricing ranges from $6655 to $8885 depending on the kit you select. As that price point this is likely to be a rental item for most and it will be interesting to see how DP's and Directors adopt the Cinefade depth of field effect in their projects going forward. Already several films and television projects have found unique ways to use the system and you can find which projects the device has been used on HERE. The Cinefade LBUS power port. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon The full system is available for purchase directly from Cinefade HERE. What do you think? In what ways would you use the Cinefade effect to enhance your story? Comment below!Read more
by Tim Fok | 30th May 2019
The cmotion Cinefade VariND system is now available for purchase, a previous hire-only package that utilizes revolutionary technology to wirelessly control neutral density. It was two years ago at CineGear 2017 where we interviewed founder Oliver Janesch Christiansen on the original cmotion Cinefade VariND system. This year they have announced a purchase-friendly package, no longer requiring a specialist technician to operate. The technology is revolutionary – it is one of the few systems to offer mechanical changing neutral density. It does so through two circular polarizing filters – a motorized polarizer and a static polarizer. When worked in conjunction they offer a variable neutral density filter. The system is built around the cmotion focus ecosystem. When paired with cmotion motors and controller you can wirelessly control the level of neutral density. What's smart about the system is it can slave to your iris motor, making exposure changes seamless. This is a unique effect in itself – being able to control depth of field independently from exposure; blur the background more or less without changing the exposure. The motorized variable ND alone is great for saving time with filter changes or when filter changes are very tricky due to hard-to-reach camera body (steadicam, techocrane etc.). A handy bi-product of the system is a motorized polarizer (just using the single filter). The full-filter system is designed to work with 2-stages on a 4X5 compatible mattebox. The LBUS cable peripherals work with ARRI and cmotion systems. In more compact solutions, it can just require power via LBUS, and you can control ND levels on the motorized polarizer filter itself. The level of neutral density starts at 1.5 stops (approx. ND.4) and can provide up to 8 stops ND, with an optical safe range (reduced color shift) of 5 stops. See below handy graph. CineGear will once again be a platform for checking out the Cinefade system, now in purchase form. Pricing as follows: cmotion Cinefade VariND (motorized and static polarizer with case) €7980/$8885 +tax. cmotion cPRO Motor Kit (cPRO hand unit, cPRO motor & accessories) €7280/$8100+tax cmotion cPRO Camin Kit (cPRO hand unit, cPRO camin & accessories) €5980/$6655+tax What do you think, will this catch on? Can you see yourself using variable ND filters for your productions on a regular basis, when shooting on high-end cinema cameras?Read more
by Tim Fok | 28th May 2019
Vocas has announced a new 5-axis diopter holder. Offering up precise positioning control of varied diopter lenses. There is quite the variety of types of diopters now available – standard, split field, strip, letter box, effects vary from simply reducing the focus distance of your lens, to offering specific or split focus within your frame. The Vocas 5-axis diopter holder enables you to have more control over these filters, offering up adjustment for pitch, roll, yaw, vertical and horizontal shift. Each axis can be controlled independently and accurately; you can precise dial in your desired position of your diopter filter. The Vocas 5-axis Diopter Holder has built in 15mm compact rod support, but will ship with a 19mm adaptor also. It also has a thread on the top for mounting accessories. It will work with any 138mm round filter, the industry-standard format for diopter filters. It's a specialist bit of kit for sure, but one that will find more than one use. Macro DP/photographers will enjoy the refined control you now get with close up lenses. Of course there is the traditional use of split diopters (and now any combination in-between) where foreground and background elements of your frame remain in focus (Spielberg's Jaws being a classic example). You can also use them in perhaps a less-conventionally-considered way in creating interesting foreground detail elements; utilizing the fact there's a nice chunk of light refracting glass in front of your lens. If you are heading to CineGear later in the week, the 5-axis Diopter Holder will be will be there for you to check out. We'll take a look at it in one of our site videos. What do you think about it? Let us know in the comments below.Read more
by Jakub Han | 8th March 2019
STC Clip Filters are filter inserts designed for use between camera's sensor and the lens. There are ND filters in various strengths, Astro filter and infrared filter inserts available. Many DSLR and mirrorless cameras are supported and more are coming soon. ND filters are a vital component when filming – even on bright sunny days, filmmakers want to stay close to the standard 180 degrees shutter angle for the right motion blur without compromising on the shallow depth of field too. That is impossible to achieve without a light-limiting ND filter. Since the filmmaking world started massively using DSLRs and mirrorless cameras without the internal ND filters known from classic video cameras, there have been few workarounds for that. Naturally, the first option how to limit light entering the sensor on DSLR or mirrorless body is a classic circular threaded filter screwed in front of the lens. That can work just fine for many scenarios, but not every time. Using these filters makes lens changing longer as the filter needs to be switched to the new lens as well. It gets even more complicated when the lenses have different filter thread sizes. Moreover, for some ultra-wide angle or fisheye lenses, it is impossible to use a front filter without vignetting. STC Clip Filter Inserts It appears Taiwanese company STC Optics can offer a solution for such situations. Their STC Clip Filters are specially designed filter inserts made to be used between a camera's sensor and the lens. Right now, the filter inserts are available for Canon full-frame and APS-C DSLR bodies, Nikon full-frame DSLR bodies, as well as for the Sony a7 series mirrorless cameras. A full list of currently supported cameras can be found here. Inserts for other bodies are in development and coming soon (we have been told in about one or two months) – namely for the new Canon EOS and Nikon full-frame mirrorless cameras, Sony APS-C line, Fujifilm APS-C bodies, micro four-thirds bodies, and even FUJIFILM medium format bodies. As I mentioned, the main advantage of the STC clip filters should be no vignetting or color shift in peripheral areas for ultra-wide angle and fisheye lenses. Mounting and removing the clip filter should be quick and easy. The material used for the filter glass frame is black anodized 304 stainless steel which is virtually non-magnetic and less brittle at low temperatures. The STC clip filters feature high-quality double-sided NANO anti-smudge coating, which is waterproof and grease-proof. The line-up of clip filters includes ND filters (ND16 ND64, ND400, and ND1000), Astro filter, and an infrared filter UV-IR CUT filter. Note that, when using the clip filters with a DSLR body, only Live View mode will be available as the mirror needs to stay lifted to make place for the insert. The clip filters are available either separately or in sets. Although we were told STC clip filters are safe, I am personally a bit concerned. I can imagine a scenario when the clip filter insert slips out of my hand during inserting and hits the sensor causing some damage. I also think there could be an increased amount of dust on mirrorless cameras' sensors when putting things between the sensor and lens. What do you think of STC clip filters? Does a product like this fit in your workflow? How do you limit light entering the sensor on mirrorless and DSLR bodies? Let us know in the comments underneath the article.Read more
by Olaf von Voss | 6th March 2019
At this year's CP+ we met Sato-san from Marumi to discuss their latest lens protection filter CREATION Lens Protect. While having a protective filter to save your lens front element from harm is always nice, having one with a silicone rubber frame might be even better, for several reasons. Adding a clear-glass filter in front of your lens in order to protect its precious front element is not exactly a new thing to do. However, since this is a common practice, there may still be some potential for development. This is where the Marumi CREATION filters enter the stage: A silicone rubber covers the entire frame of these clear glass protective filters – not only adding a second protective layer, but also completely sealing the filter itself and thus the front element of your lens from water. Marumi CREATION Filters These filters are designed to add protection to your lens but without compromising on image quality. Marumi has a reputation in producing quality glass filters so I have no doubt these new filters are any different. The new thing here is the silicone rubber coating on the frame itself. According to Sato-san this humble silicone serves not one but two purposes: The filter protects the lens, the silcone rubber frame, however, protects other gear in your bag from being scratched by the frame while transporting your stuff. This might sound a bit odd but these metal edges found on common filter frames tend to be pretty scratchy, indeed.. Secondly, the silcone rubber seals the filter completely from water, as in heavy rain for example. This doesn't make your lens, or camera, waterproof of course but it helps protecting your lens when shooting in harsh conditions. Pricing and Availability These Marumi filters are not available just yet, but the company aims for an August 2019 release. They will be available in common thread sizes but the price is yet to be set. As always with glass filters, it will be very dependent on the size of filter you need for your given lens. Personally, I'm not very eager to use 'plain' protective filters. A filter adds another layer of glass which can result in unwanted reflections and other nasty things. But I must admit, a broken filter is always better than a broken front element of your precious lens.. So depending on the given job, such a filter might be a very good idea to bring along. links: company website Do you use protective filters while shooting? Let us know what you think in the comments below!Read more
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By: Dr. J. P. Hubert
Moral Relativism and Utilitarianism are the reigning (immoral) philosophies in the developed West. Most of our public policy dilemmas are either directly or indirectly related to the widespread acceptance of these post-Enlightenment constructs. Some of the blame for our current predicament can be laid at the feet of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit Priest who attempted to institute a "New Religion" by combining Darwinian evolution with his unorthodox view of Theism.
As Wolfgang Smith has written, Teilhard de Chardin intended to start a New Religion.[1] He made it quite clear on several occasions. In a letter to Leontine Zanta he wrote:
"As you already know, what dominates my interest and my preoccupations is the effort to establish in myself and to spread around a new religion (you may call it a better Christianity) in which the personal God ceases to be the great Neolithic proprietor of former times, in order to become the soul of the world; our religious and cultural stage calls for this."[2]
Dietrich von Hildebrand and Wolfgang Smith trace much of the heterodoxy of the second Vatican Conciliar process to the circulation of Teilhardian conceptions of science[3] (especially with respect to biological evolution) and derivatively, Teilhard's view of religion. Teilhard seems to have made the transformism[4] of biological evolution palatable to certain Catholic Theologians who wished to embrace what they perceived as modern evolutionary science. Traditionally, the entire notion had been thought heretical particularly as concerned the biological evolution of human beings.
Through his New Religion, Teilhard gave a patina of legitimacy to the entire concept of evolution by theorizing the existence of "point Omega" which ultimately he identified with Jesus Christ. It appears that many Catholic Theologians were duped by failing to differentiate the actual facts of biological science from the prevailing naturalistic philosophy (metaphysical naturalism) which as a result of the assertions of leading biologists, was virtually inseparable from it.[5] This made them "ripe" for Teilhard's proposed incorporation of Evolution into "Christianity." Teilhard's New Religion was therefore very much on the minds of some of the participants of the Council, some explicitly and some only implicitly. One might say that the "flavor" was in the air.
Unfortunately, no systematic refutation of Teilhard's theory was available in 1962 prior to the commencing of Vatican II. Wolfgang Smith's work which accomplished same became available only in 1988. In a sense then, when Pope John XXIII called for "aggiornamento", (whether recognized at the time or not), not only was he opening the windows of the Traditional Catholic Church to the world but to what Teilhard had been promulgating as the New Religion as well. It is the latter effect that has produced the post-Conciliar disaster's with which most Catholics are all too familiar.
Unfortunately, Teilhard's heretical New Religion has been embraced either in part or in whole by several generations of post-conciliar Catholics given that Teilhard's spurious notions have never been formally repudiated.[6] Teilhardism effectively destroyed the Creation tenet of orthodox Catholicism, the Fall from Grace and with it the concept of Original Sin, the atoning death of Christ on the Cross and thereby the entire Salvation/Redemption tenet based as it is on Christ's crucifixion and literal bodily resurrection. One can see the effect of Teilhardism on the Creation tenet displayed in the 1993 Catechism of the Catholic Church for example, an extremely meager treatment that. What is left after Teilhard is through bears virtually no resemblance to orthodox Christianity—at best he created a kind of pantheistic finite godism interspersed with elements of Hinduism.[7]
Moreover, it is remarkable that Teilhard was never de-frocked given his obvious heretical assertions. The notion that he could persist in calling himself a Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order in good standing is particularly disconcerting. The rank and file Catholic faithful are easily led astray when members of their clergy remain in service despite evincing either heresy or apostasy. While Teilhard was barred by the Vatican from teaching theology and from disseminating his views formally, he was never forced to repudiate them as heretical. Clearly his writings establish that at the very least Teilhard was a notorious material heretic—arguably the most infamous of the 20th century.[8] Given that he essentially instituted a New Religion, he was an apostate from the faith as well. One logically expects that Teilhard would have been excommunicated and defrocked for his writings alone since he never appeared willing to publicly recant them. It would not seem illegitimate to wonder whether based upon Teilhard's own admission, his views were satanically inspired:
"The man was walking in the desert, followed by his companion, when the Thing swooped down on him. Then, suddenly, a breath of scorching air passed across his forehead, broke through the barrier of his closed eyelids, and penetrated his soul. The man felt he was ceasing to be merely himself; an irresistible rapture took possession of him as though all the sap of all living things, flowing at one and the same moment into the too narrow confines of his heart, was mightily refashioning the enfeebled fibres of his being. And at the same time the anguish of some superhuman peril oppressed him, a confused feeling that the force which had swept down upon him was equivocal, turbid, the combined essence of all evil and all goodness. You called me: here I am grown weary of abstractions, of attenuations, of the wordiness of social life, you wanted to pit yourself against Reality entire and untamed. I was waiting for you in order to be made holy. And now I am established on you for life, or for death…He who has once seen me can never forget me: he must either damn himself with me or save me with himself. O you who are divine and mighty, what is your name? Speak."[9]
This writer's opinion is that Teilhardism is no doubt of Satanic origin—a true "religion of man", if ever there was one. It is clear from Wolfgang Smith's writing in 1988 that he had a similar view but took great pains to state the case as respectfully and obliquely as possible. These however are exceedingly confusing and difficult times in which a certain almost crass directness is apparently necessary.
A significant amount of the theological confusion today in Catholic circles including the widespread adoption of moral relativism and Utilitarianism in the developed West is no doubt due to the teaching of Teilhard de Chardin.[10] In that regard we are indeed fortunate that Wolfgang Smith produced a systematic refutation of Teilhardism on scientific as well as Theological grounds.[11] He has demonstrated that Teilhard's theory is based upon science fantasy/fiction not reality and does not at all reflect 20th and 21st century scientific understanding.[12] Any theological developments issuing forth from those erroneous assertions are of logical necessity also illegitimate. The biblical adage that "you shall know them by their fruits" (Mt. 7:16) is also applicable here as well. Nothing but "bad fruit" has come from the acceptance of Teilhard's ideas whether from a religious or strictly secular perspective. Thus Teilhardism stands repudiated on the bar of history and Traditional (orthodox) Christianity remains intact despite man's attempts to destroy it. Christians who are committed to orthodoxy should purge the teachings of Teilhard de Chardin from their lexicon of religious belief. This is especially true for Roman Catholics. Teilhard was for them, a wolf in the night, a Trojan horse bent on stealing their salvation.
[1] Wolfgang Smith. Teilhardism and the New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. (Rockford, Ill., Tan Books and Publisher's Inc., 1988), pp. 209-210.
[2] Lettres a Leontine Zanta (Paris: Desclee de Brouwer, 1965), p. 127; quoted by von Hildebrand in Trojan Horse in the City of God (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1967), p. 239.
[3] Which was steeped in Baconian conceptions of science and which fully accepted the Bifurcationism of Descartes.
[4] Also referred to as "Macroevolution" in which major animal body plans are alleged to have developed slowly and incrementally over eons of time from entirely different ones, e.g. amphibians from fish, birds from reptiles etc. In evolutionary biology this is referred to as "common descent" with modification. There is no persuasive evidence that this has occurred above the level of genus or species if dispassionately considered. Recall also that Fr. Stanley Jaki has argued that "Origins" questions by their very nature are not scientific but philosophical meaning that the question of so-called Macro-evolution is non-scientific from the start since the origin and development of terrestrial life is scientifically unrepeatable. The most one could do is make inferences from established facts.
[5] They also failed to follow the theological implications of Teilhardism to their logical conclusion(s).
[6] In addition, many Conciliar and Post-Conciliar documents are extremely difficult to understand in that they seem to represent an amalgamation of disparate views—compromises it appears. The verbal clarity which had traditionally been associated with Dogmatic Conciliar Documents is clearly missing.
[7] As Wolfgang Smith has demonstrated, there is no evidence from modern physical science that "Point Omega" exists in reality. It is a complete fabrication. Teilhard has no use for God the Father or the Holy Ghost for that matter.
[8] All of the following are technically accurate: Roman Catholic Imposter, Heretic Extraordinaire, Subverter of the Faith.
[9] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The Heart of Matter. (English translation by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978), pp. 61 & 68, describing a personal "mystical experience" in 1918 through which he had recently passed. The "Thing" which Teilhard placed in capital letters bears a striking resemblance to something of demonic origin yet he calls it divine and mighty!
[10] Obviously many others contributed especially Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill and their followers.
[11] Teilhard repeatedly and consistently presented his theory as scientifically verifiable which is patently absurd as Wolfgang Smith has well outlined in his book.
[12] Teilhard assumes that Macroevolution (transformism) is an established fact based on the paucity of evidence in existence at the time. While Microevolution is a fact (at the level of species and possibly genus), "macroevolution" even in 2008 is not. It is an inductive (a-posteriori) inference and a not very well grounded one at that based on all the evidence both pro and con which now exists (including the so-called Cambrian "explosion" or Biological "Big Bang.") Recall also that the discovery of DNA was made after Teilhard developed his theory.
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It's August, and don't shoot me for saying this so early — but it's back to school season! Yep, Target had those notebooks and pencils out basically as soon as the 4th of July was over. I always loved picking up all those fresh school supplies, making sure everything was color coordinated just the way I liked. And of course, what's a new school year without a new backpack? I'm simultaneously someone who uses the same bag every day, but often can't resist a new one in stores. Is that a thing? And after last month's jeans, a bag was really the only thing I hadn't made! So this month, I decided to try my hand at the Desmond Roll-top Backpack by TaylorTailor.
*this post was sponsored by JOANN. the experience and my words are my own!*
The Desmond Roll-Top Backpack
Fabric and Supplies
Never having sewn a bag before, I had no idea how easy or difficult all the supplies would be to source. Just like last month, though, it was JOANN saving the day!
The exterior of my Desmond is a charcoal poly-rayon twill. It's amazing how many great bottomweight fabrics JOANN has started selling in the past few years! I want to get some more of this fabric for a pair of pants. Interestingly, even though it looked charcoal on the bolt and when I first started working with it, it looks very blue to me now.
The lining is an adorable floral shirting. I wanted something fun on the inside, to make me smile every time I opened it! It's very lightweight, so we'll see how it holds up. I don't think I'm a user and abuser of bags, but I guess I'll find out!
Even my webbing and hardware came from JOANN. The webbing is gray by-the-yard webbing (this one in gray). I honestly can't remember the last time I bought a trim by-the-yard. I was super proud of myself for remembering to get it before I had the rest of my fabric cut. No second trip to the cut counter here!
I'm super in love with the hardware I grabbed, too. It's all a gorgeous brushed copper-y color. The d-rings aren't on the website yet, but I used six 1" d-rings (you have the choice of two d-rings and four o-rings, or all d-rings), two swivel hooks, and two slide buckles.
Sewing the Desmond Roll-Top Backpack
Okay, I definitely went into this thinking it'd be such a quick sew. And it wasn't a long one! But it did take me an hour or two longer than I expected. Still, it's totally worth the time you put into making it.
One thing I love about the Desmond roll-top backpack? Uhhhhh, THE POCKETS. Y'all. This backpack has three exterior and four exterior pockets! Part of the reason it took a bit for me to get this guy together was because you have to attach all those babies! I think this backpack could be an excellent choice for a parent on the go who has to carries all those wipes and diapers and clothes.
My biggest challenge on the Desmond was putting the front pocket on, and then attaching the backs to the fronts of the exterior and interior. The backpack only has two pieces per layer, the front and the back. The sides and the bottom are all part of the front piece. Putting them together means some corner squeezing and adjusting. That front pocket piece is very similar to my arch-nemesis, the Kelly Anorak pockets. If you're making the Desmond and struggling, maybe Heather's tutorial on the pockets will help!
I'd never worked with webbing before, and I have to admit — that might have been my favorite part. I was so nervous to burn the edges because my smoke alarm is apparently very sensitive (ask me how I know). It was very quick and so easy, and I didn't set myself on fire!
Once you get into the flow, it's amazing how fast the backpack comes together. The lining is definitely the home stretch! After inserting the lining and top stitching, I had to take a step back to appreciate that all of the sudden, it was done. The slides and hooks are the last part and then boom: you've got a backpack.
Overall, I don't think this is the right project for a beginner sewer. I do, however, think it's the right project for someone who is comfortable with zipper insertion and gusset pockets. As a bag addict, I can see myself making this in a more heavy weight fabric like an olive canvas. Plus, it's the perfect thing to make as a nice gift for someone else — not too hard, not too expensive, and doesn't need to fit them!
I also cannot WAIT to decorate it with some patches and my enamel pin collection! I'm planning to grab some more sew-on patches the next time I'm at JOANN. This chill pill one always makes me laugh, and we all need a little more Wonder Woman in our lives, don't we?
Have you branched out into bag making yet? You can hop into Project #SewMyStyle in October to make a bag or two with a couple hundred of us! And, I want to see your favorite pins and patches! Drop me a link in the comments — bonus if they're made by you or someone you know!


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|Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
|early morning in Hood River by David Leahy
|Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
|early morning in Hood River by David Leahy
Your post reminds me of some of what I miss about the PNW (where I lived for 18 years). Skagit flats tulips and Rhododendrons everywhere.ReplyDelete
I had to look the prices on Maui Jim sunglasses. WTHell? I have a pair I love that I got at Wally World for $10.00 and they're even polarized. When I worked as an optician I well remember parents coming in to buy their spoiled teenagers whatever the heck was the sunglasses du jour for over $200.00. We were amazed and mystified that parents would even do such a thing.
Love the spring tulips. Mine are just opening up.
Adrienne, Yep, way out of my price range, I don't believe I would pay that much for a pair of sunglasses if I had the money to do so. (think Sean might have gotten a deal on his via work.)
Always amazed at the prices some parents will pay, so their kids can have the latest stuff. My kids & grandkids have all learned, you want it you work for it. It changes their mind about a lot of purchases.
The tulips are beautiful here, my SIL has some in her yard that are 25 years old and still bloom'n.
Nice to hear you found your shades. I've lost track of the times when I 'lost' something, only to find it a week after I replaced it.
Our tulips are up out of the ground, 12" tall, and loaded with buds. Should be very pretty when they pop open.
drjim, LOL, I have done the whole 'replace and then find the missing thing' so many times...
At Easter we talked about how bright & beautiful the flower colors are here, compared to how faded looking they get in the Cali heat.
Yep, they sure get pretty when you don't live in a coastal desert!
Our crabapple tree is loaded with buds. It should be in bloom in the next week or so. VERY pretty!
Lucky you to have a crabapple tree! Hope you take a photo of it when it's in bloom. Do you make crabapple jelly from the fruit? My granny and I used to do that.Delete
I'll definitely post a picture when it 'pops'.
We're not sure what type of crabapple it is, so we don't know if it's suitable for making jelly.
Heck, I lost my safety glasses on my desk today!
I laid some paperwork on them.
I'm glad you found yours.
I spent an inordinate amount of time recently looking for a pair of shoot'n glasses, to find that I had put them in the other range bag.
Kinda glad I'm not the only one that can lose things right in front of me...lol
Haha. I think a box labeled "Stash" is a great idea!
Glad you found your sunglasses. Now you can save the others for a spare set. :)
Very nice images. Today we drove in the rain from here to there and back again and well into night. As driver, I wore my working (can see) glasses (sunglasses) well into darkness and commented maybe once too often that I could just barely see the road, never mind the other cars and trucks before being blindsided and handed glasses that don't work nearly half as well but aren't actually darkish.
The day was not a good one. It was duty and love and familial regrets but,
last night I found my CAR KEYS!!!!!!!!! missing these last 3 months AND, MY EZ PASS!!!!!!! missing about 3 years.
When one sees the little faces upturned to heaven, mine will be among those of the little tots for I HAVE FOUND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!
stupid keys, stupid ez pass.
The fourth pair of eyes, they're kind of critical. Trading back and forth between glasses at 80mph when the dominant eye shifts from the one lens to the other, well, let's say eye popping and doing it at twilight, not for amateurs. In the rain.
Ok I had to look them up to see how much they cost and Mercy--they are ridiculous. So glad you found them and now you can use the $12 ones for everyday and keep the others in a secure location for when you want to impress:)ReplyDelete
Where I'm from we call it "Odenheimer's Disease". The first symptom is when get up and go to the kitchen then back to the living room with a blank stare on your face. The little woman used to laugh, but not anymore.ReplyDelete
I still have the Serengeti Drivers I bought in the early '90's. Have yet to see a pair I like better.ReplyDelete
scamorama, one of my BILs gave me a pair of Serengeti Drivers long ago, they were the best! In fact the Cowman liked them so much he borrowed them, which was not a problem til he had a little dust up with a mean ol mama cow while wearing them...Delete
No stash but I had a "Stuff" drawer. Had I say because now several drawers seem to be full of stuff. One of them had a small Christmas gift for a grandkid that I gave up on finding and re-bought. Sorting those drawers out for Goodwill or St. Vinnies.ReplyDelete
Good you found them. I've never heard of them but they sound lovely.ReplyDelete
Snerk, at least they weren't in the glove box in the car... Not that 'I' have ever lost a pair there... Nope...ReplyDelete
Loved the pictures and loved the story. I am still looking for things that I stashed to be sure to find them. Surely they will surface someday.ReplyDelete


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Sample free essay on Health Care and Ethics.
The 28th amendment of the constitution clearly states that "every US citizen has a fundamental right to access health care." However, only the rich and upper class society seem to have the benefit of accessing valuable health care: these problems are due to lack of adequate regulation of ethical concerns in the heath-care system. According to Cannon (2008), the current system of health care is indeed very expensive and unaffordable, costing more than nine hundred billion dollars each year and consuming 15 percent of the country's GDP. The gap between good healthcare and every citizen's financial capacity to access it clearly shows that healthcare is not adequately regulated and needs massive reforms.
The government has been unable to reform the heath care system and has only come up with temporary solutions, for example, the 2004 Tax Act clearly shows that issues of ethical concern are not seriously being addressed; the act gave employers incentives to buy heath policies for their workers since they would get interim relief in return. This caused the health care costs to increase dramatically and also took away the employees ability to set their own heath care plans (Corrine, 2008). This Act not only turned heath care from a right to a privilege but also caused the whole system to favor the wealthy with the introduction of 1st dollar coverage to cater for all medical expenses. The right to heath care ceased to exist after the government failed to recognize the two growing sections of the US population: the poor and the elderly. No attempt was made to finance the proposed health insurance program or the medical trust fund program for these groups which could have easily come from marginal tax payroll.
The US court system is also proof that health care ethics lack adequate regulation and assessment. The US court system which is supposed to uphold the law and bring fairness and justice has been immensely abused by unscrupulous attorneys so as to favor wealthy insurance corporations and deprive the common citizen the right to access affordable healthcare. This factor has definitely turned access to health care to become a privilege and not a right. Insurance premiums are obscenely high in the US because millions of dollars have been awarded by courts as compensation to malpractice victims (James and Dean, 2010).
Attorneys on the other hand have compounded the health care problems by filing for damages worth millions on their client's behalf so that they can get a share of the compensation. Several ways to reduce insurance requirements have been shot down, starting with the limitation of lawsuits such that patients claiming malpractice compensation will only recover the medical cost incurred and nothing more. Courts have also failed to uphold ethically binding policies, signed by both patients and physicians, which would address the current healthcare problems being faced by most citizens. Nowadays patients can file lawsuits against physicians even though both parties may have signed a legally binding policy limiting the scope of lawsuits (Rick, 2010). This has caused insurance premiums to increase drastically in order to cover law suits which has caused most citizens to be deprived if their right to good health-care.
Lack of ethical regulation in the current heath care system is evident in several reports issued by independent agencies; according to Corrine (2008), the government continues to portray the current heath care system as giving every citizen the right to health-care yet the new 2010 report issued by the US Census Department states that 50.8 million citizens of America don't have insurance; nearly half of the uninsured are between the age of nineteen and sixty two. Furthermore, insurance companies are now allowed to deny health coverage to persons who have preexisting illnesses this is very unethical. This leads to discrimination against the millions of Americans who have pre existing conditions. Congress itself carried out an investigation involving 20000 cancellation of insurance coverage by insurance companies and found that the companies involved saved millions while the people involved were left to pay their medical bill. Even after the investigation, congress failed to come up with legislation abolishing this practice called rescission. This reinforces my opinion that regulations concerning ethics in the health care industry in America lack adequate regulation and assessment.
Corrine, J. Naden (2008), Heath Care. Right or Privilege: Controversy! pp. (98-122).New York: Paperback press.
Cannon, F. Michael, (2008), Health Care and Competition: What's Holding Back Heath Care pp. (216-392).New York: Paperback Publishers.
The Final Call News Website, Retrieved September 24, 2010, from, http://www.finalcall.com /artman/ publish/article_2980.shtml
Rick Smith. (2010, September 24, 2010). Health Care Is A Privilege. Retrieved from http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/politics/social-security/1296-Health-Care-Privilege-Not-Entitlement-for-All.html
James T. Willerson, Dean J. Kereiakes, (2010, September 24, 2010). US Health Care Retrieved from http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/109/12/1460


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... and so to the
- James H contributes 2 Common Tern (the only ones so far!) over Alex on the 17th
- The only Whinchat, a female in the Old Sewage Works (only my second ever here) on the 16th
- Cuckoo slips on to the list on the 27th
- Jono and I play raptor top trumps: a six species special on the 17th*
- Gary Hewitt wins bird of the month with his flyover Great White Egret on the 24th while out jogging
- Stu gets a wayward Lapwing on the 14th
Not only did all our favourite birds evaporate, all the interesting warblers stopped singing, which is good as it means they were getting down to business. The Garden Warbler was seen carrying nesting material and by the end of the month Common Whitethroat were fledging. The Willow Warbler was still singing, but not as much by the end of the month, though we don't know whether that is good or bad in his case, but Reedy finally got his act together and the reeds at the Shoulder of Mutton to his liking and promptly pulled.
Swallows kept on coming through beyond the end of the month, our House Martin are a full compliment of between 8–10 birds, and a few Sand Martin popped in and out again. Swift numbers rose, mostly on the grottier days, of which there were plenty.
Four Gadwall made pretend that they were interested in settling down, but it was a lie and they had all gone by month's end (though I suppose they could be on the ornamental waters if someone could be resolute enough to go and check!).
For only the second time in recent times a six raptor day was had: 3 Red Kite, 7-8 Common Buzzard, 2 Hobby, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk. One of the better days of the month it also featured nearly 40 Swallow, 8 House Martin and a few Sand Martin moving north. In our way of top trumps I win as I saw all mine in the park.
In other news our twitter account was briefly followed by Kelly Clarkson (who?), who apparently is a winner of American Idle or some such twaddle and has big hits. She soon realised the error of her ways and un-followed before I could give her an update on Coot on Angel the next morning. Her loss!
That's enough, now go away till August.
Wanstead Flats: Hobby, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Swallow, House Martin, Swift, 5-6 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, pr of Reed Bunting, singing Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 3 Egyptian Goose (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan).
Wanstead Park: 25+ singing Blackcap (OSW), 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Gadwall, fledged Long-tailed Tit (Nick Croft/Tim Harris)
Wanstead Flats: 30 + Swift, 20 + Swallow, 3 House Martin, Sand Martin, Garden Warbler with nesting material, Willow Warbler still, 5-6 singing Lesser Whitethroat, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 2 Linnet, 2 Reed Bunting, 12 Tufted Duck, 3 Little Grebe (Nick Croft/Dan Hennessy/Bob Vaughan)
Wanstead Park: 20 + Swift, 10+ Swallow, 3 House Martin, 2 Hobby, 3 Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Egret, 2 Gadwall, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, singing Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Red Kite (12:38), Hobby East, 280 Swift through SW (most in afternoon), c40 Swallow N, 2 Sand Martin, 14 House Martin, Kestrel, Grey Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Whitethroat, 2 singing Willow Warbler, 4 Black-headed Gull over, also early am: Fox carrying dead cock Pheasant (Stuart Fisher)
Wanstead Flats: 20 + Swift, 5 Swallow, 2-3 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, 3 singing Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: singing Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Nuthatch, Kingfisher, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 2 Gadwall, 10 + Swift (Nick Croft)
Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Common Buzzard, 50+ Swift through, 13+ Swallow through, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Common Whitethroat, Willow Warbler (Stuart Fisher) Hobby (Mike Messenger)
Wanstead Flats: 50+ Swallow west, 6 House Martin, 3-6 Sand Martin, 10+ Swift, Willow Warbler, 4 Lesser Whitethroat, pr of Reed Bunting, 2 Egyptian Goose, Kestrel, 5 Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 4 Skylark (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
Wanstead Park: 2 Gadwall, Egyptian Goose, 4 Great Crested Grebe, 10 Swallow through, House Martin, 10+ Swift, singing Goldcrest, Goldfinch/Linnet hybrid (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
Wanstead Flats: territory count: 5 Skylark, 4 Meadow Pipit, 55 Wren, 15 Dunnock, 21 Robin, 26 Blackbird, 10 Song Thrush, 3 Mistle Thrush, 21 Blackcap, 1 Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 19 Common Whitethroat, 9 Chiffchaff, 24 Great Tit, 2 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch (T Harris)
Leyton Flats/Snaresbrook: Lapwing over from West then turned North 7:10 am (2nd site record for me), Common Whitethroat, 2 Swallow, Sparrowhawk, Little Egret N, Great Crested Grebe (Stuart Fisher)
Wanstead Flats: 2 singing Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, 2 Swallow, 7 House Martin, 10 + Swift, Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Common Buzzard, Kestrel, Reed Bunting, Skylark (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: 5 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 3 Gadwall, 3 Little Egret, singing Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Linnet, Swallow, 30+ Swift (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: 2 Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, pr of Reed Bunting, Swift, 4 Meadow Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Skylark, Kestrel, m Pochard, Egyptian Goose, 5 Black-headed Gull (Nick Croft/Jonathan Lethbridge)
Wanstead Park: Lesser Whitethroat, 10 House Martin, 6 Swift, pr Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe (Nick Croft/Tim Harris)
Wanstead Flats: Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 3 Meadow Pipit (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: f Whinchat (Old Sewage Works - only my 2nd record here), Hobby, Kestrel, 4 Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, 5 Egyptian Goose, Kingfisher, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 40 + Swift, Swallow, several House Martin, plus Muntjac (my first record) being chased by a fox, Noctule, prob Duabenton's and Pipistrelle (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: 2 Common Tern west, 40+ Swift, 6+ Swallow, 10+ House Martin, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 4 Meadow Pipit, 3 singing Skylark, 2 Kestrel, m Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Reed Bunting, pr of Pochard (Wanstead Birders)
Wanstead Park: 3 Red Kite, 7-8 Common Buzzard, 2 Hobby, Peregrine Falcon, Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk, 30+ Swallow north, Sand Martin, 8 House Martin through, 50+ Swift, Little Egret, 2 pair of Great Crested Grebe (one with 3 newly hatched young), 2 Little Grebe, 2 Gadwall, singing Goldcrest, Lesser Whitethroat (Wanstead Birders)
Wanstead Flats: Hobby, 2 singing Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler, Egyptian Goose, 3 Little Grebe, 6 Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, 3 Skylark, 2 Swallow (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: Lesser Whitethroat, 20 + Swift, 8 House Martin, 2 Swallow, Kestrel, 3 singing Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: 2 pr of Great Crested Grebe (one with 2 chicks), pr of Little Grebe, Kingfisher, singing Goldcrest, 30 + Swift, pr of Hobby, male Kestrel (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 2 Swallow, 40+ Swift, 2 Kestrel, pr of Little Grebe with 2 young (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
Wanstead Park: Great Crested Grebe with 3 young + 2nd pair, pr Little Grebe, Kingfisher, 30+ Swift, House Martin, Kestrel (Nick Croft/Bob Vaughan)
Wanstead Flats: Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, 5 House Martin, 10+ Swift, 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 2 Skylark, 3 Meadow Pipit (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: 2 pairs of Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe, 8 Egyptian Goose, pair of Gadwall, f Common Whitethroat carrying food, Kestrel, 20+ Swift, House Martin (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: late news of Great White Egret flying west (Nick Croft per Gary Hewitt)
Wanstead Flats: Willow Warbler, singing Goldcrest, Swallow, House Martin, 20 + Swift, 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 2 Egyptian Goose, pr of Pochard, Reed Bunting, 3 Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Kestrel, House Martin, 30 + Swift, 6 Great Crested Grebe (2 young), Little Grebe, 2 m Gadwall, singing Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: Cuckoo, Willow Warbler, 2 Swallow, 4 House Martin, 30 + Swift, 2 Kestrel, 3 Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: 6 Little Egret (at dawn, together on Roding at northernmost point of the park), Nuthatch (Malcolm Hibberd).
Wanstead Flats: Buzzard, Kestrel, 2 singing Meadow Pipit, 4 Skylark, Lesser Whitethroat, 40 + Swift, 4 House Martin (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park: singing Reed Warbler, 2 x pr of Great Crested Grebe (one with 2 chicks), 3 Little Grebe, Little Egret, 20 + Swift (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: Lesser Whitethroat, Linnet, 3 Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Swift (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: 2 Swallow, Sparrowhawk (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Flats: Hobby, Kestrel, 2 Egyptian Goose, Pochard, 30+ Swift, 3 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Common Whitethroat with young (Nick Croft).
Wanstead Park: pr of Reed Warbler nest building, second bird singing, 6+ House Martin, 40+ Swift, 1-2 Little Egret, 2-3 Kingfisher, Sparrowhawk, 2 m Kestrel (Nick Croft).


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[The City of Seattle is the first municipality to try a new] technology [that] may allow peaceful coexistence with Canada geese, whose daily 5-pound poop production has had officials here and in other cities killing them by the thousands….
According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington state has about 70,000 resident Canada geese — each producing as much as 5 pounds of waste per day.
[The inventor] , a welder, said he came up with the machine after goose droppings on Victoria play fields got in the way of a kids' soccer team he coached. The 4- by 4-foot trailer is towed behind a small lawn tractor. A gas-powered motor turns the nylon bristles to "tickle" the grass without damaging it. Droppings and other debris go into a hopper made of a special plastic that can hold up under nitrogen-laden droppings.
In a test run this week at a park near downtown, the hopper was quickly loaded — not only with poop, but also old turf plugs, cigarette butts and spent fireworks…it can also pick up lighters, bottle caps and even syringes.
A judge after my own heart
A [Painesville, Ohio] judge ordered two paintball shooters to take aim at their own cars in order to stay out of jail.
Joshua Breeding, 20, and 19-year-old Christopher Lyons were found guilty on Thursday of splattering up another man's vehicle with paintballs in May. They each got a sentence of 60 days in jail. Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti gave them the option of shooting their own cars with paintballs and then cleaning up the mess. They also have to spend 40 hours painting at a Habitat for Humanity home.
The judge also ordered the pair to apologize to their victim and pay court costs.
Fish n' Flush
You love your pet fish, but constantly neglect them, leaving them to feast on each other's soft cadavers like a Uruguayan rugby team. Instead, integrate them into a mandatory part of your life with Fish n' Flush: a fully-functioning aquarium/toilet tank.
Developed by California-based Aqua One Technologies, the FnF is a filtered acrylic aquarium wrapped around an integrated flush-tank core. The aquarium exists independently of the toilet's reservoir, so you won't annihilate your buddies after every urination. But, to keep things interesting, the flush valve does launch a jet stream into the tank that swirls the fish for a few seconds of exhilirating tidal joy. Wee.
What's gold and vaporizes when lightning hits?
A Russian teenager survived a lightning strike which was so powerful it vaporised a gold cross on her neck. The bolt hit Marina Motygina, 16, from Ekaterinburg in western Russia on the top of her head and seared through her body into the ground.
The necklace she had been wearing was 'atomised', leaving burns in the shape of a cross on her neck, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported. Only a couple of links of the chain could be found.
A doctor at the local hospital who treated her said: "It is a miracle she has survived. She is fine now but will be staying in hospital for another two weeks.
"But she will have deep scars on her neck where the cross was for the rest of her life."
Osama? Who's that?
A cafe called Osama opposite the US embassy in Belgrade has been told to change its name after diplomats complained.
The word Osama means 'secluded' in Serbo-Croat and cafe owner Milomir Jeftic said he had named his shop after a local shelter for the homeless. But he has been told to change it after an official complaint from the US Embassy, local media reported.
But Jeftic said: "I had no intention of offending Americans. It is just a word in Serbian. I admit I have heard of Osama Bin Laden, but until now I was not quite sure who he was."


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French President Francois Hollande announced the country's retaliation shortly after a series of deadly attacks on its capital city, Paris, shook the nation on the night of November 13th. The president called the attacks on Paris an act of war, and announced the country's response of bombs against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, who have claimed responsibility for the terrorist acts.
Whispers of the beginning of World War III have been making their way around the globe within the past couple of weeks, and some have speculated that France's retaliation could be the spark.
"It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France," said President Hollande. "It is an act of war that was prepared, organized, and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish."
Even Pope Francis called the attacks "piecemeal World War III."
The violence is the worst that Paris has seen since the second world war, with 129 dead and hundreds of others injured after attacks were made on bars, restaurants, a stadium and a concert hall. The country's state of emergency and closed borders are also a first since World War II, and President Hollande has said that he would table a bill to extend the state of emergency for three months, and would propose changes to the constitution.
"Our democracy has prevailed over much more formidable opponents than these cowardly assassins," President Hollande said a day after France dropped airstrikes against the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State, Raqqa.
The attacks were planned in Syria, organized in Belgium, and carried out in Paris, and officials say they have found who they believe to be the leader: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, from Belgium, who had supposedly mentioned plans to a French citizen returning from Syria about attacking a concert hall.
French authorities have so far carried out 168 raids across France in attempts to prevent future terrorist threats, and the country is now seeking global coalition against the Islamic State.
The president called on The United States and Russia to destroy ISIS. "We must combine our forces to achieve a result that is already too late in coming," Hollande said.
"France is at war," Hollande announced to a session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles on Monday. "We're not engaged in a war of civilizations, because these assassins do not represent any. We are in a war against jihadist terrorism, which is threatening the whole world."
Although the US-led coalition has been bombing ISIS for a year now, it's safe to say that this is far from over.
"We know that more attacks are being prepared, not just against France but also against other European cities," said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. "We are going to live with this terrorist threat for a long time."
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that this is just the beginning, and that these actions are going to continue. He also told reporters that French police had made nearly two dozen arrests in 168 raids across France in attempts to prevent future terrorist threats, seizing arms including a rocket launcher and automatic weapons.
Hollande announced his plans to create 5,000 jobs in security forces, to boost prison service staff by 2,500, and avoid cuts to defense spending before the year 2019.


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Alphabet Exploration
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These are great ideas! ABC centers are so important at the beginning of kindergarten! I do a lot of the ABC matching games and playdoh letters too. I also use salt boxes and gel bags for the students to practice making letters. Thanks for the connect 4 game...too cute!ReplyDelete
I am going to use the image of the game on my Promethean Board. I made translucent blue and red circles that will fit over the chosen letter. A child on the blue team can just drag the blue circle over the letter he wants to "block or build". Thank you so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
Looks like your students will be having lots of fun with the alphabet! Isn't it such a challenge when some students know all of the letters and some know none! I have those very same alphabet beads and have never thought to have them make their name-I need to do that-we have only used them for making sight words later in the year. Good luck this week!ReplyDelete
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Protecting and promoting children's rights requires commitment, understanding and skills. Early childhood professionals, families and communities are well placed to start conversations about children's rights, and to identify how, as individuals, communities and a society, we can collaborate and advocate. This second Everyday Learning Series booklet on children's rights aims to deepen understanding about the nature of children's rights, and our responsibilities in promoting and enacting them every day and in every setting, including homes, communities, and education and care programs. It is hoped that reading and reflecting on the ideas in this book will promote new and deeper conversations about children's rights and how to advocate and take action for them. Topics highlighted in Book 2 of Children's rights: Every day and everywhere include:
- children's rights—inspirations, challenges and misunderstandings
- interpreting and enacting rights for children every day, everywhere
- children's right to play
- teaching children about rights.
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Washington State Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
In January 2016, Washington state released State Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. The State Plan identifies goals, strategies and recommendations as a blueprint for action. Read the State Plan.
Leading the charge to implement the plan is the Dementia Action Collaborative – a group of public-private partners committed to preparing Washington State for the growth of the dementia population.
The Dementia Action Collaborative hosts two meetings each year that are open to the public. The dates for this year are April 23, 2020 and September 23, 2020. Learn more about the 2020 DAC Meetings.
Dementia Action Collaborative Information and Resources
Resources for Individuals and Families – DAC creates resources for the public to raise awareness of the many issues and concerns surrounding dementia-related care and to help individuals with dementia and their families prepare for daily challenges and the road ahead. Including:
- Dementia Road Map: A Guide for Family and Care Partners English | Spanish
- For a paper copy, please send your name and mailing address to firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Dementia Safety Info Kit
Resources & Tools for Providers – DAC creates, and partners with others to make available, resources for providers to enhance the quality of care for people with dementia. Click here to find information on Brief Cognitive Screening Tools and newly released guidelines for Primary Care Providers.


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Congratulations for joining the winning team with Firstbeat Sports Cloud account! Here is a quick walk-through how to get started.
Everything starts with registration and logging in to the new account. Firstbeat sends a welcoming email named "Welcome to use Firstbeat Sports" to the new coach with guidance how to register for the service and log in. See an example of this email below.
Clicking the Register button from the welcoming email opens your web browser.
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Catching up with Gary Vaynerchuk is no easy task these days, but Patric Fransko was able to grab a few moments of his time between meetings a while back to discuss a variety of topics we thought you might find interesting. Check out the audio of the conversation below and give us some feedback. It is only just over 10 minutes long, but it is packed with some solid information.
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The new MacBook Air, which was presented on 30 October at the presentation of Apple, has already gone on sale around the world. Unfortunately, in Russia the laptop while it is impossible to get – according to representatives of the company, it will be available later. Meanwhile you can find related MacBook Air the leading Western publications. Did the updated notebook your expectations?
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People love Mac. It's great computers to perform any everyday task. Until recently, the best laptop for most users remained MacBook Air. Apple too for a long time didn't updated it, despite its popularity.
And finally, the company showed the updated version. If you rely on the fact that the new MacBook Air will be as revolutionary as it was in his time the old version of Air, I dare to disappoint you — it is not. This is just another good laptop, no frills.
Of course, the new MacBook Air is faster. But given three years of waiting, the difference is very minor. On this computer you can do all the things that were done on my old MacBook Air. I work with many apps in the background and Chrome is always open at least 10 tabs, and no problems I do not watch.
If you are going to work with video or work with RAW files take MacBook Pro. The new "air" laptop is not suitable for these tasks. Yes, it is more powerful than the MacBook 12, but the difference, again, is not that big.
MacBook Air received a pretty major update. The laptop has become more expensive, but the price seems more justified, than, for example, the cost of a new Mac Mini. If you have a choice between MacBook and MacBook Air — do not even think. An updated version of the "air" laptop surpasses it in almost everything. And this is the best option to buy now.
MacBook Air (2018) uses the same technology of the screen, and the MacBook 12. The display has got the support of the extended color gamut of DCI-P3 as the MacBook Pro, limited range of sRGB. If you need this, you definitely should not buy a MacBook Air. Otherwise, it is a good choice for today.
When we started to compare the updated display version of the MacBook Air with MacBook Pro 15 (2017), we noticed that the brightness of the "air" laptop turned out to be much less. Looking at the specifications, we found quite a significant difference: the Pro version has a matrix with a maximum brightness of 500 nits. Air also boasts increased intensity to 300 NIT. This is particularly noticeable in bright daylight. But for indoors it will be enough.


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2 Day Shortest Morocco desert Trip: is the shortest trip to visit the desert begining from Marrakech and ending in Marrakech, if you dont have enough time in Morocco this trip is the best way to experience the deserts life to witness the sunset & sunrise and ride the camels.
2 Day Shortest Morocco desert Trip
DAY 1: Marrakech ~ Atlas Mountains ~ Zagora desert
The 2 Days Shortest Morocco desert Trip will set forth by meeting you at your accommodation and drive in the direction of Zagora desert crossing the highest snake road in Morocco called Tizi ntichka Pass (2260m).the road is one of the oldest roads in Morocco made by french colonization to make it easy for their solders to cross the mountains from Marrakech to the desert Then head to cinemati artistical city to have a look of its old large construction called Taourirt Kasbah, or mountain's castle. then continue to take a look of the largest cenima studio in Africa where many international movies took place such asthe Lawrence of Arabia that win an oscar. later on we will have lunch befor we head our way to Zagora desert to put on our scarfs and start riding the camels to the camp to spend our unforgettable night under the stars.
DAY 2: Zagora desert ~ Draa valley ~ Marrakech
Your camel man will Make sure to wake up early to witness the natural features of the desert before the sunrise and after, subsquently you will have breakfast and shower to start our long journey full of African and Moroccan Landscapes starting by the longest valley in Morocco which is called Draa valley ( 1200 km ), the Draa valley is a long green spot in the middle of a dry world surrounded by the many typical villages inhabited by brown skinned desert poeple. the locals mostly depend on the agriculture in the valley such as the the dates from palm trees, grass for their animals, vegitables, fruits…. at the lunch time we will get to visit one of the famous memorials of Morocco, called Ait Ben Haddou castle, it was the conccured place for caravans and prosperous merchants of salt and gold previously. after that we will cross the Atlas mounts to get back to Marrakech.
end of your trip:2 Day Shortest Morocco Desert Trip
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FAQ About the TK Curriculum
Frequently asked questions are answered by the ADLA TK Curriculum Team. (This version was updated on August 2017.)
Additional Questions
1. Who are "little learners?"
Little learners ...
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- need experiences that will prepare them socially and academically for success in elementary school.
- increase their thinking and problem-solving skills with a hands-on, developmentally based curriculum.
- are students like yours!
2. What is TK?
- A: A child is granted a most important gift when she participates in transitional kindergarten (TK). This gift is the gift of time. TK provides a bridge between preschool and kindergarten. This year lays an important foundation for formal education. TK students have experiences that will prepare them socially and academically for success in elementary school.
3. What do TK children need to succeed in school?
- A developmentally based curriculum
- Lessons based on developmental themes
4. What is a developmentally based curriculum?
5. What are developmental themes?
6. How do I design my classroom?
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Title : FROST INVESTIGATIONS. FISCAL YEAR 1951. FIELD INVESTIGATIONS AT FROST TEST SECTION LIMESTONE, MAINE.
Descriptive Note : Interim rept. (1st).
Corporate Author : ARCTIC CONSTRUCTION AND FROST EFFECTS LAB BOSTON MASS
Report Date : JUN 1951
Pagination or Media Count : 81
Abstract : The purpose of the field studies was to obtain information relative to the magnitude and the duration of the reduction in pavement supporting capacity due to frost action as measured by plate bearing tests, and to verify established criteria for the design and evaluation of pavements for airfields and highways. A test section was constructed at the Limestone Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine, with provisions made for performing plate bearing tests at selected locations to obtain comparative strength values at various periods during the year, and under varying ground water conditions. Additional areas were provided for excavation of test pits to measure density and water content variations, to study ice lens formation, and to perform California Bearing Ratio tests on the subgrade for the purpose of correlation with the other studies. Facilities were also provided for water table control and observation. (Author)
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The Gambling Commission has warned the betting industry that its advertising is putting young people at serious risk of addiction.
A new report reveals that the number of children classed as 'problem gamblers' has quadrupled in the past two years.
Since 2005, The Christian Institute has warned that: "Lifting restrictions on advertising will undoubtedly encourage gambling. That is its whole purpose. Whilst the Government proposes a new offence of inviting children to gamble, many in the industry acknowledge the obvious – much of the advertising media cannot distinguish between adults and minors."
Problem gamblers
The research uncovered that some 450,000 schoolchildren in the UK bet away £16 of their pocket money every week.
Tim Miller, head of The Gambling Commission, said: "There's no doubt that today's figures on children and gambling should make people sit up and listen."
Yesterday Liz Ritchie, whose son ended his own life at the age of 24, spoke about his early gambling addiction.
"It was because of deregulation that these machines came on the High Street so that Jack and his friends were able to gamble in their lunch hour."
She has also blamed advertising for normalising gambling among young people and has urged the Government to ban it.
The Christian Institute spoke against deregulation in 2005 saying: "The scale of the proposed deregulation is truly breathtaking. It will turn Britain into one of the gambling capitals of the world, heralding a proliferation of addictive slot machines and betting shops, and casinos of a size never seen before in Britain."
This month, Sky became the first broadcaster to announce voluntary limits on gambling advertising.
This week the Remote Gambling Association which includes Bet365, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and William Hill met to discuss a complete ban on pre-watershed advertising.
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Congratulations to our Member Of The Quarter!
Introducing The Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club's Member of the Quarter, Andrea Floro! Andrea is employed by LifeAct as Program Manager and joined The 20/30 Club to become more active in Cleveland's Young Professional scene.
Below is a brief bio and Q&A that we did with Andrea! If you see her at an event over the next few months, be sure to congratulate her!
1) What is your occupation and company?
Program Manager at LifeAct
2) How were you introduced to the Club?
I was looking for ways to get involved in Cleveland's young professional community, and found my first event several years ago through a Google search. I met so many great people, and the warm welcome sealed the deal for me to keep coming back.
3) What made you decide to become a member?
The Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club fills a vital role in having a healthy young professional community by acting as a centralized "hub" for making connections and enjoying unique opportunities. I wanted to support an organization that is making broad impact and has a solid reputation.
4) What do you enjoy most about the Club that keeps you coming back?
I love the intersection of new relationships, new places, and new experiences with seeing familiar faces and deepening the connection with my city.
5) What's one fun fact about you that people typically don't know?
As a kid, I refused to say I was "afraid" of spiders; I wasn't afraid of anything, so I "hated" them. One day, I decided to face my unnamed fear by holding a tarantula. Instead of conquering the fear, I embraced it and nearly threw the thing across the room. The experience left me both authentic and armed, with flip-flop in hand.
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Led by instructors from the Four Dragon's Institute, the class will help you to de-stress, find inner peace, and increase overall health.