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Chinese Revolutionary Destinations are important places in China's history from 1911 to 1949, when it cut ties with its long Imperial past and was founded as a republic which then evolved into today's modern communist state. This journey was forged by a great deal of war between the Chinese people as well as the invading Japanese Imperial army, and continues to define the world to this day.
The two thousand-year old imperial Chinese system collapsed in 1911, beginning with the Wuchang Uprising in what is now Wuhan. Sun Yat-Sen (孙中山, Sūn Zhōngshān) was not there at the start — he was in the US raising funds from overseas Chinese — but he quickly returned to China, led the Xinhai Revolution, and founded the Republic of China (中华民国 Zhōnghuá Mínguó).
Central rule collapsed in 1916 after Yuan Shih-kai (袁世凯), the second president of the Republic and self-declared emperor, passed away; China descended into anarchy, with various self-serving warlords ruling over different regions of China.
In 1919, student protests in Beijing gave birth to the "May Fourth Movement" (五四运动 Wǔ Sì Yùndòng), which espoused various reforms to Chinese society, such as the use of the vernacular in writing, as well as the development of science and democracy. The intellectual ferment of the May Fourth Movement gave birth to the reorganized Kuomintang (KMT) in 1919 and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with its first meeting in the French Concession of Shanghai in 1921.
After uniting much of eastern China under KMT rule in 1928, the CCP and the KMT turned on each other, with the CCP fleeing to Yan'an in Shaanxi in the epic Long March. During the period from 1922 to 1937, Shanghai became a truly cosmopolitan city, as one of the world's busiest ports, and the most prosperous city in East Asia, home to millions of Chinese and 60,000 foreigners from all corners of the globe. However, underlying problems such as civil unrest, famines and warlord conflict, still afflicted the vast countryside, particularly the more inland parts of the country.
Japan established a puppet state under the name Manchukuo in Manchuria in 1931, and launched a full-scale invasion of China's heartland in 1937. The Japanese initiated a brutal system of rule in Eastern China, culminating in the Nanjing Massacre of 1937. After fleeing west to Chongqing, the KMT realized the urgency of the situation and signed a tenuous agreement with the CCP to form a second united front against the Japanese. In 1941 and 1942, Japan attacked many territories in southeast Asia and Oceania (including Pearl Harbor, Singapore and Darwin), starting the Pacific War.
With the defeat of Japan at the end of World War II in 1945, the KMT and CCP armies manoeuvred for positions in north China, setting the stage for the civil war in the years to come. The civil war lasted from 1946 to 1949 and ended with the Kuomintang defeated and sent packing to Taiwan with the intention to re-establish themselves and recapture the mainland.
Mao Zedong officially declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China on 1 Oct 1949. After an initial period closely hewing to the Soviet model of heavy industrialization and comprehensive central economic planning, China began to experiment with adapting Marxism to a largely agrarian society.
According to the Communist Party, the Revolution had several phases, including the Cultural Revolution, which was initiated in 1966, and was ongoing to Mao's death in 1976; bringing China's revolutionary era to a total of 65 years. A power struggle between Hua Guofeng, Mao's anointed successor, and Deng Xiaoping would ensue after Mao's death, with Deng eventually emerging victorious in 1978. Deng would abandon a hardline communist policy and re-introduce capitalist elements to China during his years in office, kickstarting an economic boom and the rapid rise of China to one of the world's economic powerhouses.
To this date, Taiwan remains a vestige of the Republic of China. Neither of the two Chinese nations give official recognition to each other, and political relations are complicated. That said, both sides of the Taiwan Strait have developed close economic ties, with substantial Taiwanese investment in the mainland, and direct cross-strait flights having resumed in 2008.
- 1 Wuhan (武汉). Site of the 1911 Wuchang Uprising that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China
- 2 Shaoshan (韶山). Mao Zedong's hometown
- 3 Guangzhou (广州). Site of the Whampoa Military Academy where both KMT and Communist leaders (Chiang Kai Shek, Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong) trained and led troops and political study groups before the Northern Expedition of 1926-27.
- 4 Nanjing (南京). Capital of China during the Republic of China period, and home to the presidential palace used by Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. Also home to the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen.
- 5 Nanchang (南昌). Site of the Nanchang Uprising, the CCP's first armed uprising against the KMT government, which marked the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.
- 6 Jinggangshan (井冈山). The first CCP rural base area after the 1927 crackdown by the KMT
- 7 Ruijin (瑞金). Seat of the China Soviet Republic from 1929 to 1934
- 9 Luding (泸定). Site of a famous forced crossing of a high mountain river
- 10 Yan'an (延安). Primary base area for the Communist Party from 1935 to 1945
- 11 Fenghua (奉化). Birthplace of Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Republic of China from 1928-1949, following which he retreated to Taiwan following the communist victory and ruled until his death in 1975.
- 12 Cuiheng (翠亨). Birthplace of Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China.
- 13 Huai'an (淮安). Birthplace of Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People's Republic of China.
- 14 Guang'an (广安). Birthplace of Deng Xiaoping, Mao's eventual successor who instituted market-oriented reforms that kickstarted China's rise to one of the world's major economic powers.


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Leucadia Hills - Community Voice
Below is a list of events that your Board and Management have undertaken. Each link will take you to the corresponding detail. Please consider the information presented below in your evaluation of your Board's performance
Board Letter Regarding Landscape Renovation - March 2015
Board Letter Promising a Vote on Landscape Renovation - May 2015
Petition from Homeowners Requesting a Vote on Landscape Renovation
2016 Annual Report to Homeonwers
Funds Spent on Landscaping
2015 Elections Issues
Community Gas Leaks

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Feb 4, 2019
Matt and Scott continue their discussion of the Stress-Recovery-Adaptation model with an exploration of the recovery aspect. Plenty of articles on the web tout the benefits of "active recovery," but is there really such a thing? In Starting Strength, recovery is viewed as a relatively simple process driven primarily by food and sleep. Recovery, therefore, could be defined as an absence of stress. Adding more (non-productive) stress in the name of "active recovery" doesn't make sense.
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Las Vegas – Henderson, NV (March 18, 2014) – Spread the Word Nevada (STWN), the largest children's literacy nonprofit in the State, is extending a huge thank you to more than 140 of its guest readers during Nevada Reading Week: March 3-7.
The nonprofit collaborated closely with Win-Win Entertainment in securing 20 guest readers including Graham Fenton and Jeff Leibow of Jersey Boys, Maren Wade of Vegas! the Show, veteran dancer Jennifer Romas, The Quad headliner Jeff Civillico, auctioneer Christopher Axelrod, Monica Heuser of Menopause the Musical, and many more!
"We were thrilled to partner with Spread the Word Nevada to help provide them with readers from the Las Vegas entertainment community," said Jeff Civillico, Chairman of Win-Win Entertainment and Las Vegas Headliner. "It was a great opportunity for performers to get hands-on and give back to our local community. And from the reactions I've received from our performers, the experience was just as fulfilling on their end as it was for the students!"
In addition, employees from companies including Bank of America, SuperPawn, Sands Corporation, NV Energy, The Point 97.1 FM, Children's Author Sarah Hoover, as well as students across several high schools and Spread the Word Nevada Board of Directors members all participated in this very important week promoting literacy and the joy of reading books. More than 223 classes were visited across the nonprofit's 29 adopted elementary schools. For a complete list of the STWN adopted schools please visit https://spreadthewordnevada.org/adopted-schools
"This was such an exciting week for Spread the Word Nevada, our guest readers and especially for the students across our adopted schools," said STWN Co-Founder and Special Projects Director Laurie Hartig. "What better way to validate the importance of reading than through the eyes of professionals and older students who grew up with the magic of books. Nevada Reading Week is a great motivator for children to read!"
About Spread the Word Nevada
Spread the Word Nevada, Inc., is a children's literacy nonprofit, 501(c) (3) corporation, dedicated to advancing early childhood literacy by placing books into the hands and homes of children within Southern Nevada's at-risk, low income communities. While developing a love of reading, these libraries promote future academic achievement and self-confidence, which impacts lifelong success. Since 2001, Spread the Word Nevada has distributed more than 2.6 million gently used and new books to approximately 343,000 low-income youth in Southern Nevada. Please visit www.SpreadTheWordNevada.org to learn more about program details or call at (702) 564-7809. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Dear Cecil:
Are the yellow lights on the traffic intersections getting briefer, or am I just getting slower as I inch toward 30? Several times lately I've been nearly run over while crossing the street. I tried watching carefully and found that if the light turned yellow when I was exactly in the middle of the street I could just barely get to the other side. Presumably, then, if it turns yellow just after you've stepped off the curb, you could get yourself killed. Was there a change?
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Dear C.:
Light sequencing is carefully calculated according to a formula found in the Traffic Engineer's Handbook, which is accepted as a national standard. The formula takes into account the width of the intersection and the speed of traffic, but not the speed of pedestrians–the yellow light, you see, is for cars, not people. If you're on foot you're supposed to be watching the "Walk/Don't Walk" signals, which do take pedestrians into account: about six feet per second in most neighborhoods, four feet per second in neighborhoods that have predominantly elderly residents.
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I woke up this Sunday morning distracted after having frantically called and messaged my Mum and stepdad last night to check they were safe after the BBC News app pinged up on my phone informing us of the London Bridge incident. They had been to see Depeche Mode at the Olympic Stadium that night, and seeing as I have little-to-no geographical awareness of where things are in London, I didn't know if they were anywhere near there, or if anything else had happened near them.
It had become somewhat of a dark joke last year; everytime we heard the percussive ping of the breaking news headlines pop up on either of our phones, we dreaded hearing that another celebrity had been found dead in their homes, and secretly hoping David Attenborough was still alive and well. On Christmas Day at my brother's house, we heard the noise-of-doom on my partner's phone whilst we were sat round trying to answer the ridiculous questions of my brother's Christmas Quiz, and I sarcastically piped up, "oh no, who's died now?", which in hindsight, isn't the most appropriate thing to have said but unfortunately that is what I said. Tom took his phone out of the space between the sofa cushions, glanced at the lock-screen and replied, "oh no, I don't think I want to say!". It was of course, a notification to say that George Michael had been found dead, aged 53. We sat in shock for quite a while, discussing how bad 2016 had been for bad news, and for famous people passing-away and wondered how many more faces would be talked about in the past before the year was up.
But of course these are individual people and most of them died by either natural, drug-induced or suicide related reasons. It was achingly sad to hear about Bowie and Prince's passings and even those who I did not personally know much about. Not many high-profile deaths come as good news. However when the news is of yet another terrorist attack on a city, or a nightclub, a famous building or even just a bus, the thing we want to hear next is that the police have caught and ended the lives of the perpetrators. The lemmings, blindly and irrationally following commands of their cowardly leaders who are intent on spreading hate, ruining the lives of people who have nothing to do with them. All in the name of an imaginary being.
It is scarring and scary, and we don't seem to be able to do enough about it. I know that sounds monumentally defeatest but there is internet, there is print, there is travel, there is free-speech and there is unstoppable influence and these things can be, and usually are fantastic tools for movement and for good causes. But people will continue to follow blindly and be brainwashed as they have done for thousands of years. Years decorated by the untimely and unwarrented events to blame for the sudden decline in a specific population going about their daily lives. These foolish few will continue to be able to buy household products and make bombs that could kill innocent people enjoying a pop concert. I hated having to write that last sentence, but can we actually say that anti-terror movements and procedures will mean that this NEVER happens again? No, we cannot. We can't control people and monitor their every movement, and that is frustratingly fair and right.
However we can one-by-one teach our children that they have their own minds. They can question and they can have good powers, just as forceful as the preachers of evil ideology living out their anger-filled desires through impressionable young people. We can wrap our kids in bubble wrap and not go and visit the local music festival because we are scared it might be a target for attackers, or we can pop the bubbles in the plastic, rip it off, stamp on it or whatever floats your boat and allow them to see, to hear and to be brave. They will see or hear about more terror attacks, as will we, and I will still frantically try and contact my loved ones if the attacks happen in a place near to them, as my family did when I was due to travel on the Picadilly Line on the morning of the 7/7 bombings with my stepsister, but thanks to her friend being a little too hungover to get up as early as we had planned, we were still in bed when it happened.
I am scared. Scared that it will happen near us or our beautiful children and family members elsewhere. But I am also scared that the fear of it happening will stop us from living our lives. So I think we just have to let the fear subside just enough, and teach our kids that they are brilliant, and brave and powerful and they can do good, have good values and good morals just because they want to, as opposed to needing a god or other source of scaremongering hierarchy to 'make them behave and be good people'.


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I'm having a terrible time getting what should be simple things working in SS. Books, docs, examples, tutorials and code versions all seems out of sync and Im progressing way too slowly.
Is there any way to get paid support from SS or some or a EU based guru to help unstick me?


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Burning the Midnight Oil, 20 years on
It's hard to remember what a breath of fresh air the music of Midnight Oil seemed like on the American Top 40 back in 1987, when the song "Beds are Burning" suddenly was everywhere. A fiery call to arms, with that catchy chorus "How can we dance when our earth is turning / How do we sleep when our beds are burning?" It had the drive of punk, the universality of pop, and a slithery exotic feel that stood out from the pack. It sure didn't sound like George Michael, you know?
With a blast of Australian heat and passion so intensely political that they made U2 look like amateurs, Midnight Oil tackled the environment, indigenous rights, and other causes with their ferocious anthems. To a world that associated Australia with Men at Work and koalas, it was a revelation. Their 1987 disc Diesel and Dust remains a classic, punk power pop mixed with Australian flavours, didgeridoo mashed with electric guitar. It's an antipodean answer to U2's The Joshua Tree.
I can't quite believe it's been 21 years since Diesel and Dust broke Midnight Oil to the world. A massive global hit, it's also an album that sounds nearly as fresh as it did the day it came out. A new Sony Legacy Edition CD/DVD set remasters the album with a bonus song, and a fascinating documentary about the band's tour of the Aboriginal Outback.
Front man Peter Garrett, over 6 feet tall and bald as Australia's monolith rock Uluru, was a stunning stage presence. I saw the Oils live back in the late 1980s, and they were a dynamo – I remember thinking at the time that frontman Garrett's herky-jerky dancing style was like watching a man who'd just been smacked in the spine by a sledgehammer. Garrett's frantic energy leapt off the stage.
The major bonus of this reissue is the DVD Blackfella/Whitefella, which follows Midnight Oil's 1986 tour of remote aboriginal settlements with the great Warumpi Band. This is an astounding historical document, packed with great Oils performances in juke joints, shanty towns and the outdoors. The film is light on narration, heavy on music and a look at aboriginal lives. The hinterlands tour showed the Australia that tourists rarely see, the harsh conditions many Aborigines live in.
"It was the most collectively exciting, eye-opening and ultimately saddening experience for us as a band," drummer Rob Hirst said. But out of the tour came the inspirations for the songs of Diesel and Dust, both an Australian love letter and angry rally against the country's injustices. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Midnight Oil helped contribute to the climate of reconciliation that led to the Australian government's extraordinary apology to Aborigines this year.
Blackfella/Whitefella is a great music road movie, a meeting of the cultures, a fine travel documentary and a real treasure. It's great to see it rescued from obscurity in this new album. Still, this package is a slightly disappointing as a "special edition." There's only one bonus track, the rare "Gunbarrel Highway." I was hungry for a little more – rare B-sides, live tracks maybe, a retrospective essay even.
Midnight Oil went on to release several more solid albums, but Diesel and its followup Blue Sky Mining were the peak of their global success. They put a spotlight on the kinds of issues rock rarely dealt with, even in the "Live Aid" and "We Are The World" era. The band broke up in 2002, but Garrett hasn't given up fighting for what he believes in – he turned to politics, and today is part of the ruling Labor government in Australia as the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Midnight Oil may have hit the charts 20 years ago, but their impact still goes on today.


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Littmann's Sign
In 2007, Littmann and colleagues presented a novel EKG indicator of hyperkalemia based on the computerized "double counting" of heart rate. Over a 13-year period they identified 33 cases in which the GE-Marquette computerized 12SL EKG interpretation algorithm "double counted" or "near double counted" the actual heart rate seen on electrocardiogram. All 33 patients had hyperkalemia (between 5.3-8.8 mEq/L K+) as confirmed by serology taken within two hours of the double-counted EKG recording.
Littmann's sign can be seen in the following EKG, initially presented here as a study in hyperkalemia in September of 2010.
A 65 year-old Caucasian man with sepsis and HHNKC; the potassium was 7.7mEq/L. The heart rate is 72 bpm; the computer counts 137 bpm.
Although the GE algorithm is proprietary and unavailable for analysis, they argue that, "The QRS width and axis measurement by the interpretation software suggested that, on many occasions, the computer recognized the T waves as being the QRS complexes…." (p.586)
Littmann et al. conclude stating, "Although interpretation software double counting of heart rate appears to be quite specific for hyperkalemia, its sensitivity is almost certainly very low." (p.586)
While this research represents an intriguing new insight, it leaves many open questions. How were these 33 EKG cases identified? Were certain populations screened for this anomaly? How many total EKGs were reviewed in the course of this investigation?
Littmann claims that double counting "appears to be quite specific" presumably because all 33 EKGs were associated with underlying hyperkalemia. Yet without insight into the methods used to assemble this case series, I remain skeptical that these investigators did not succumb to confirmation bias in the process of collecting their EKGs. The existence of non-hyperkalemic double counting is not discussed in this publication and no differential diagnosis is presented regarding alternative etiologies.
In fact, concerning alternative etiologies and the specificity of double QRS counting, it turns out that this phenomenon has been extensively described in the pacemaker literature for over a decade. A Pubmed search using the combined terms "double counting QRS" produces numerous references. (Al-Ahmad A, Barold SS, Boriani G)
I reviewed 22 pacemaker EKGs collected over a 10 month period, recorded pre-hospitaly using the same GE-Marquette algorithm. This is what I found:
Looking further through ~50 EKGs collected over the same 10 months I found this as well:
In the first pair of EKGs, the computer appears to be confusing the pacemaker spike for a QRS complex; this is clearly "double counting of the QRS."
The second pair is more complicated. This is not technically "double counting" of the QRS; there is not a 1:1 relationship between each QRS and a particular artifactual deflection. This is over-counting with a coincidental but not precise 2:1 relationship between the total count made by the computer and the total number of true QRS complexes. The interpretation of "Atrial Fibrillation" supports this in that it suggests that numerous complexes are counted during the first 5 seconds and then much fewer in the last 5. Although Littmann's sign is not technically present here, the 12-lead EKG must be scrutinized to reach this conclusion. This seems problematic given Littmann's stated goal of elucidating an "objective", and "easily identifiable" indicator. (p.586)
No clinical data is available on these EKGs and it cannot be proven that these patients did not in fact have elevated potassium.
While producing these two hypothetical "false positives" hardly constitutes significant evidence, it is interesting that such counterpoints to Littmann's specificity claims were so easily identified. Of further concern is the distinction between perfect double counting as seen in the pacemaker case and "near double counting" as seen in both the hyperkalemia case from Sept. 2010 and artifact case. What bearing this has on Littmann's argument remains unclear.
Although a novel indicator, I am not sure that there is as yet persuasive evidence for what exactly Littmann's sign indicates or how often this indication is specific for any one underlying clinical etiology.
Littmann L, Brearley WD, Taylor L, Monroe MH. Double counting of heart rate by interpretation software: a new electrocardiographic sign of severe hyperkalemia. Am J Emerg Med 2007;25:584-90.
Tomcsányi J, Wágner V, Bózsik B. Littmann sign in hyperkalemia: double counting of heart rate. Am J Emerg Med. 2007 Nov;25(9):1077-8.
Al-Ahmad A, Wang PJ, Homoud MK, Estes NA 3rd, Link MS. Frequent ICD shocks due to double sensing in patients with bi-ventricular implantable cardioverter defibrillators. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2003 Dec;9(3):377-81.
Barold SS, Herweg B, Gallardo I. Double counting of the ventricular electrogram in biventricular pacemakers and ICDs. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2003 Aug;26(8):1645-8.
Boriani G, Biffi M, Frabetti L, Parlapiano M, Galli R, Branzi A, Magnani B. Cardioverter-defibrillator oversensing due to double counting of ventricular tachycardia electrograms. Int J Cardiol. 1998 Sep 1;66(1):91-5.


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These were custom made for CRAWL by our friends at CMM Offroad. They are the same bracket we used in the ARB twin compressor install article in Issue 60. This bracket makes it far easier to bridge a gap, like under a seat, and still know that your expensive compressor is tucked away safely out of sight. I like it under the seat, you can mount it virtually anywhere that you have room for the compressor itself. It eliminates blind holes and the mounting of the compressor is made simpler. We also recommend the use of Lord sandwich mounts to reduce vibration, so much so that we're providing a set of four including fasteners along with nutserts for blind installation. These are also available at good hardware and fastener stores if these won't work but they will cover the vast majority of install applications. .
The bracket is pre-drilled for the compressor mounting and has holes at the four corners for bracket mounting. The overall dimensions are 13-7/16" long by 5-7/8" wide, the mount is 1/4" thick aluminum.
The CRAWL logo is engraved deep enough that you can run a DA sander over the bracket to remove any machine marks. These are rugged and ready to go. I've been running the same setup and couldn't be happier. This is a limited run.


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PolyU Education Info Day 2018
Date: 06 Oct 2018
The PolyU Education Info Day 2018 was successfully held on PolyU campus on 6 October. The School organized a series of activities including booth exhibition and consultation, info seminars and guided clinic and lab visits, attracting six thousands of visitors.
Info Day provides an excellent platform for secondary school students, parents and the public to obtain first-hand information about our undergraduate programmes, admission requirements and career prospects, as well as receive consultations from our academic staff.
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Did a really last-minute treat for missy's friends in school. I totally forgot all about it. For the past few years, her old school celebrated Children's Day at the end of October so I usually prepare some Halloween treats for the kids. Now that she is in the new school and there is no Children's Day celebration, it just slipped my mind.
So while on the way home from hub's aunt's wake, we went to Watson to check out some candies. Glad I found some lollipops. Then I started the DIY Halloween Treats as soon as I reached home.
I used tissue papers, black and orange strings and a sharpie to do these Ghostly Lollipop Halloween Treats. Just something fun for the kids at school.
Last Saturday, I did another DIY Halloween Costume and this time is not for missy as she does not want to dress up this year. So I did one for the pooch.
I used a headband, a piece of cardboard, cotton, a straw and glue gun for this DIY.
Can you tell what that is?
I dress Buffy up as a Frappucino and she is known as "Buffycino". The look on her face is hilarious!
Went to Starbucks to get the green straw for this diy project. Gave her lots of treats for her to pose for the camera. Happy Halloween!


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Being and Becoming
There are moments when we break free and are thrust into new and unknown spaces. This is often terrifying. This is often electrifying, but it is always bewildering first. Bewildering for truly new experiences always are just that. And it is only afterwards that we attach feelings other than our own confusion in face of the mysteriously unknown.
But being human we seek quite fervently the escape from all things beyond our grasp and flee back into what came before. We flee for we must… for our flight to the old world is the only one we know. Whether we wish to or not we must return to it for we can not exist without it. Only in it can we breath and move. Only in it can we see.
The new was but a glimpse of something beyond, a revelation never again to be fully known and held. And no matter how clearly it was laid present to us, no matter how desperately we cling to it… it is left now to only our memory. And just as we return to our old world of old ways, so too does this memory of the new come with us. And in returning that which was new is corrupted and made new no more. It is loss and who we were before loss with it.
But it is in this return that their most crucial moment lay waiting. The moment when they decide the outcome of this mysterious event, whatever in actuality it may have truly been, and ask the crucial questions. They ask…
Who am I?
This they will ask.
Who am I in light of this?
This they will wonder.
Some who found this whole experience beyond experience to terrifying will seek to slip back to who they were and the Being they once knew. They will seek to return to that which they found comfort in though in comfort they will never fully lay again.
Others will defy such comforts and seek to return head long into attaining the new fully for themselves once more. Some will seek to find this in the walk of the ascetics. Some will seek it in the deep contemplations of the philosophers. But all will be only chasers after a dream never again to be had no matter how desperately they close their eyes to the world and their ears to its noise to go to sleep.
But is there not yet another way?
Is there not a middle way?
A way between denying the new and rejecting the old?
For those who in faith and hope and love seek such a path between the subsistence of being-in-a-world now broken and the nothingness of chasing a world not yet possible... there is one path.
One path among the manifold.
One path in many they must walk.
One path.
Their own.
Where this path will lead them no one can know and how it will wind and curve they cannot fathom. They cannot fathom the road ahead, but by grace they must not walk it alone. Though their path may be singular there are a multitude of others walking their own path. Walking their own path and seeking congruent things.
Singular is the path, but manifold are those who walk it.
All seeking to transform that which was once seemingly stagnant and fixed.
All seeking transition from static souls to moving agents.
This is no easy way for this is the most difficult way one can seek to travel in this life of ours.
There is no map and they who choose it will have no guide to aid them and no light to guide them.
No guide.
No light.
None except that which is their own and those beloved who seek to uplift them.
But for those who seek neither Being or Nothingness there is only one path manifold.
The path of Revolutionary Love.
The path of Becoming and Being More…
-Thane Hounchell
Gerry Hounchell
8/29/2017 06:34:56 pm
I like it. We are afraid, most of us, to "break free." But its a great learning experience and chance to grow, almost always worth it.
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March 2018


text: Ah, the holidays. When we put trees in our homes and expect the cats to leave them alone. I'll be celebrating pretty much all week and don't know if I'll touch this blog, so in the meantime, enjoy this photo of Boomer pretending to be innocent and sweet before he tries to eat our (plastic) tree. See you next week!


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Iatric Systems unveils FlexButton for single sign-on
Iatric Systems released a software application that brings together disparate patient data into one electronic health record (EHR) so that providers have a more complete and accessible view.
The app, called FlexButton, is presented through links to patient screens on other systems, pulling data from those into the a variety of EHR systems.
FlexButton can alert clinicians to key patient information in various healthcare IT systems and brings it into the EHR workflow, allowing clinicians to avoid managing multiple sign-ons and passwords or re-authenticating when accessing third-party solutions from within the EHR.
Iatric Systems president Frank Fortner said there are many possibilities for leveraging FlexButton.
"The number of technologies hospitals and clinicians rely on to streamline workflows and improve care outcomes has exploded, creating data silos," Fortner said. "It's challenging for clinicians to access this data easily, yet it's critical for patient care."
Ephraim McDowell Health, in Danville, Kentucky, is an early adopter of FlexButton.
Becky Blevins, IS project manager at the 222-bed hospital, said that FlexButton gives clinicians "the ability to see patient data and images for a specific Medical Record Number residing in other systems right from our EHR."
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Interviews: Garry Chalk (11/03)
This interview was done on 11/03 during the Big Apple Con Convention where Garry Chalk was a guest.
1. Please tell us how you became involved in acting.
I started acting when I was a kid, when I was about 8 years old. I think the very first thing I ever did, and it's going to sound corny, was the "Shoemaker and the Elf", which was a school play. I found that I really liked it. I carried on as a performer, mainly as a singer. And then when I got into high school I got involved with a bunch of fellows who just absolutely loved writing and putting on their own shows. And I got into it with them and just carried on with that doing community theater, musicals and so on.
It wasn't until I started working as a stock trader for a while that I realized I really didn't fit in in the conventional business world. So I went back to college to be a teacher. But when I got there I went to the theater department which wanted to do a play, and it was a production of a play called "Of Mice and Men" and it was a good play. The acting was good, the production values were good and I wanted to be a part of that. So, I abandoned my english lit/anthropology teacher thing and I went down and tried out for the theater department and they let me in! God knows. And I've been working as a professional actor ever since.
Basically I've done everything you can think of. Singing telegrams, gorilla-grams, plays, improvisational theater, children's theater, movies, television, radio. Anything that had to do with performing, I did it. That's what I've been doing now for twenty five years.
2. When I've spoken to other voice actors, they often mention community theater. It seems to be a huge influence on acting careers.
Well, the thing is that you really know you want to do it if you stay in it after live theater. The live theater is the true test of whether you're in love with the idea or reality of performing. Because it's hard work, requires a lot of memory and requires a lot of energy to maintain those performances day after day after day. It's a great training ground to earn all your chops. Basically there's no school that teaches you or prepares you
for television and radio or just for the stage. So you adjust accordingly.
3. You've been involved in both live action and animation. What are the biggest differences between the two and which do you prefer?
The biggest difference between animation and live action is that, in live action you communicate with your body and facial expressions as well as your voice and your mannerisms and people can see it all on the screen. With animation you have only your voice to give your emotion, geography and your physical intent and whatnot. With limited animation, you have to fill it all in with your voice and they draw around that voice. So, with animation whereas you can get away with a few things in live action, in animation, everything has to be absolutely clear so the audience believes you as that character. Even though you're a cartoon you're still playing in a reality that holds true for that cartoon character, so that character has to remain true as well. So, to my mind it's the purest form of acting there is (animation).
4. Okay, I'm going to name some roles/shows that you have been on, and just throw out whatever comes to mind.
MacGuyver, one of my first experiences as a guest star in a television show, my first experience with Richard Dean Anderson and with a syndicated, hit television network show. Very fun, great people, made a lot of life long friends on that show, Richard Dean being one of them and Michael Greenberg (the producer). It was a bit nerve wracking for me because it was the first time that I was on a big show. All in all, a great time, I had a wonderful experience with the director Les Landau who directed a lot of Star Trek: The Next Generations. And we had a great time, I had a glorious death at the
end of the episode (laughs)!
Dark Angel:
Dark Angel, lot of fun, I really enjoyed the director David Nutter, was a great guy. I've worked with all those guys before through channel films and so on. Jessica Alba, I was a little intimidated by at first, but she turned out to just be a sweetheart. And everyone else involved with the show was quite wonderful. I see Jessica every once and a while, and it was the first time I ever got a love scene!
Stargate, again, Michael Greenberg producing, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, absolute joy. I get to play a Russian. What happened, Peter DeLuise was directing this one episode I did, the first Colonel Chekov episode. I spent three weeks learning the entire scene in Russian and spoke perfect, fluent Russian and then we got to the day, [they said] "I'm sorry, we can't use the Russian, it's just too long." But I had a ball and I love working with those guys. (I pointed out the cast of Stargate seems to be one big family). They are, Christopher Judge, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Greenberg, John Smith. All the people who make that show possible have been working together in one capacity or another for twenty years, so they're really one big family.
The Fly 2:
My first lead in a feature film. I got to meet a lot of people I'd never met before, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga and Chris Walas, who I sort of admired for his special effects from Raiders (of the Lost Ark), Ghostbusters and so on. He won an academy award for it. It was a huge, stressful show for the first couple of days because a) It was my first lead in a big budget feature and I didn't quite know what to do, as I went on with it, I found that it was an incredible experience. I got to work with monsters, special effects, I got to blow off machine guns! How much fun can that be?! So all in all that was one show where it was very sad on the last day of shooting. Everybody was so wonderful on the show, particularly Chris Walas because it was his first feature.
He-Man (1990's):
Where I was He-Man? That was one of those shows that I had about two or three voices on it. It was hard work. I was just sort of getting my legs as far as animation was going. I enjoyed doing it, it was my first experience with Sue Blu. That was fun. The only reason that sort of made it crazy was that we had the bands Motley Crue and Poison in the next studio and they had these huge sub-woofer speakers that sent bass frequency into our studio which they couldn't hear, but but we could hear. And it'd make your stomach upset and make you irritable because of the ultra low frequencies. I used to go "Holy s--t!" and go storming out of the room. That was also the first time I ever worked with Scott McNeil, Venus Terzo, Anthony Holland, Matt Dill and Doug Parker was in it along with Don Brown. I'd see them over and over in the next fourteen years or so.
Exo-Squad was a show I loved to do. That's where I got to play this character Marsala, a very gentle warrior who was half way between humans and the mutants (note: Neosapians were the other race). I liked working on that program, the only thing that made it difficult was Mr. Burr. He was a very exacting task master. Wally Burr, twenty takes of a line to get it perfect. I remember it being a very difficult session, but it ended up being quite fun. Had a great time. He took the work seriously. He used to have drawings, tons of little drawings that he'd write in the script with all these weird things he knew that we didn't.
We don't know what happened. I think there were only thirty nine episodes and they just decided not to do anymore. I don't know why because it was such a great show. We had Robbie Benson as the lead guy in that show, and there was myself, and Scott (McNeil) and who else was in there? Richard Newman. The writing was so good, it was spot on.
Beast Wars:
Beast Wars was an adventure because that stretched out over five years (including Beast Machines). I had a really good first season, a really good second season. The third season (most likely he is referring to the first season of Beast Machines) started to get all spiritual and artsy fartsy. I really didn't like it too much. I didn't like that we were no longer these cartoon hero kind of characters. We became very fragile, very whiney and I thought the writing was just a little bit out of the realm of what the show was for and who it was targeted for. It's not only in it for kids, but it's also in it for young adults, but you don't want it too serious or then it's not a cartoon. (Optimus Primal) became a religious fanatic, yeah, and I didn't want to be a religious fanatic, I wanted to be a cartoon superhero! That's what Transformers is.
After that it started to get a little bit better. The season finale in the last season was amazing. You couldn't get a better ending than that. It also gave me the opportunity to go to the Botcons, and see all the fans all over America.
Armada was fast and furious because a) I never got to work with anybody because it was ADR. I had no lip flaps. All I had to do was just act within a time. So I could just bang out those scripts in twenty minutes. Didn't have to worry about lip flaps or being synched up right. All I had to worry about was performance. And that was great. It was great fun. The only thing I didn't like about Armada too much is, I don't like the little kid characters. I don't know why in Japanese animation they insist on having kids there. So for the kids in the audience they'll have someone to look at and say "Oh! I can do that! I could be that kid!" I just started working on Energon as Prime again, and David Kaye is Megatron again. Scott McNeil is in it as ... Sureshot or one of those characters, I forget which.
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.:
(Laughs) I got to work with Stan Lee! Yes! I got to be David Hasselhoff's buddy. I got to hang out with Lisa Rinna. That was fun, I got to do a live action comic book. The highlight of that movie was meeting with Stan Lee, in person. After all these years being a kid reading comic books and hoping to see my letters in the comic books to Stan Lee. Never seeing them. Then actually meeting him made up for it. Face to face just made my life.
He-Man (2000's):
Man At Arms in the new He-Man is great. I'm working with the Dobson brothers: Paul, Brian, Michael, the three Dobson brothers. They're in it. Scotty McNeil, myself, Nicole Oliver, Cam Clarke who's out from LA, he plays the new He-Man. Very good at what he does. He's been around forever and enjoy him very much. I'm not playing He-Man anymore because I aged out of that character. It happens even in cartoon-land, they have ageism (chuckles)! What happens is I get those characters because those are the kind of characters I play in live action. They say I have a strong, commanding presence on film and on camera and with my voice it's just the way that I am. It's part of my nature to be like that and I like to think I am similar to those characters, but with a bit more humor (laughs).
Freddy vs. Jason:
F vs. J was just a lark. I got to work with Ronnie Yu, I got to work with him before in "Warriors of Virtue". Ronnie Yu is the funniest guy to work with. I got to meet with Freddy and Jason and Kelly Rowland! The hard thing about that character was maintaining a straight face because every single scene I said "We're gonna contain this thing.", "Gotta get this thing contained.", "We don't contain this thing...", "I want this thing contained!". Every single scene I had "this thing contained" in a sentence somewhere, so I said to Ronnie "You think I should drop..." but he said "No, you have to play it serious, like you don't realize!" and I said "Okay." It turned out to be fun. Haven't been in a creature feature in a long time. It was great, lots of gore, lots of special effects.
I took my friend's daughter who was thirteen for her birthday to meet Kelly Rowland, because she was a huge Destiny's Child fan. So we go on set the day I happen to pick is when Kelly is in the flaming cabin being chased by Jason. She's covered in blood and flames are roaring and all kinds of effects were happening in the studio. So, she came in with me and was sort of looking around wide-eyed. She meets Kelly Rowland and Kelly says "Come over here honey! Give us a hug!" And she just was like speechless, couldn't say anything so she took out her CD and just asked "Could you sign this?!" and then they got to talk for an hour or so while she got gored up for the next gig. She was in seventh heaven, so that was quite an enjoyable experience.
5. What would you say is the hardest part of being an actor?
The hardest part of being an actor is getting a job and not taking it to heart if you don't get a job. The easiest part of being an actor is doing the job and getting a fat head if you're not careful. Because your ego can swell out of proportion if you're not careful. It's very hard to maintain a sense of ground to be normal Joe Blow and going to the diner to have some fun. People are always telling you "Oh you're great, you're this, you're that" and if you start to believe it, not from what you know, but from what other people tell you, then you're in trouble. But if you you know what you are, that way you maintain a sense of normalcy.
6. You've played Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal, what are the differences between the two?
Optimus Primal was more cerebral. Optimus Primal was more human and more frail than Optimus Prime. He had not so much weakness but he was a bit more lenient than Optimus Prime. Prime is a very gung ho, very "My way or the highway" "Listen, I want it done, I want it done, now" Optimus Primal would be like "Come on guys, let's do this". So the fundamental difference, Optimus Prime is a lot more military.
7. What actor and actress would you love to work with whom you haven't yet worked with? They can be alive or dead.
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8. By playing such a diverse set of roles, do you avoid typecasting?
I have a lot of freedom, but I get typecasted as a cop a lot. I play cops, but different cops, not locked into one specific character. I get to have fun with various roles. I'm playing yet another sheriff in a German/Canadian co production. In the movie I've got playing at the Smithsonian on Thursday, I play a good cop who even though he's good, still bears the guilt and deteriorates to the point where he kills himself.
9. How do you mentally prepare yourself for a role?
Well, first off I read the entire script. And then I determine what the relationships are between every person in the script whom I interact with. Who I like, who I don't, who's above me, who's below me status-wise. So then I just look a the situation and then take it from there and add from my own experiences. The core essence of any character is you, anything else just an embelishment.
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On June 12, 2013, the Québec Superior Court rendered a major decision on environmental liability: Gestion Marc Ménard inc. c. Opérations Pétroles Irving ltée1 (in French only) (Ménard c. Irving). The decision sheds an interesting light on the criteria that must guide the courts regarding soil remediation, while reaffirming the importance of examining the intended land use in order to rule on the level of decontamination to be achieved.
Summary of the Facts
In 2003, the installations of the defendant, Les Opérations Pétroles Irving ltée (Irving), a petroleum products depot located in Granby, were dismantled. Since an environmental assessment confirmed the presence of contaminated soil, Irving proceeded with the decontamination of the site up to boundary between its land from that of the plaintiff, Gestion Marc Ménard inc. (Ménard). Irving also sent Ménard a notice regarding the presence, at the limit of its property, of contaminated soil at concentrations exceeding the regulatory limit values. The land belonging to Ménard is a vacant lot located in a commercial zone.
Within the context of this case, Irving's liability was admitted. The only dispute referred to the Court was the level of decontamination to be achieved. Irving said it was willing to defray the costs of decontamination appropriate to a commercial property,2 while Ménard demanded decontamination to the criteria applicable to a residential property.3 Ménard even asked the Court to go beyond the standards prescribed in the Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Rehabilitation Policy (Policy), to require restoration of the land to the condition in which it was found before the contamination.
The Court, after setting out the decontamination criteria prescribed in the Policy, explained that in light of the evidence, the possible use that Ménard, a buyer or a future buyer could make of the land would be commercial. The evidence also revealed that the land had been part of a commercial zone since 1975 and, according to all indications, there would not be a zoning change in the short or medium term that could allow its non-commercial use. Therefore, the Court concluded that Ménard's insistence on decontamination to the criteria applicable to residential sites was excessive and, in any case, would add little value to the land.
Regarding Ménard's argument that accepting decontamination to the criteria applicable to commercial sites would be a form of encouragement for pollution or contamination of land, the Court pointed out that decontamination based on these criteria would be evidence of adequate management of a situation resulting from negligent or heedless behaviour of another era, with which it is now necessary to live and which must be managed [TRANSLATION] "as well as possible".
Ultimately, the Court ruled in favour of the position preferred by Irving, i.e., decontamination conforming to the Policy's requirements for a commercial site.
This is an important decision, because it reaffirms that a plaintiff, within the context of this kind of litigation should not obtain soil remediation according to stricter criteria than those imposed by the use for which the land is intended.
The decision also recalls the Superior Court's decision in Église Vie et Réveil Inc. c. Sunoco Inc.4 (in French only) (Église c. Sunoco). In that case, the Superior Court had concluded that Sunoco was liable for a migration of contaminants to a neighbouring property and Sunoco had been condemned to pay the plaintiff the necessary costs for decontamination of the land. According to the plaintiff's claims, the Court had also been asked to examine the question of the stigma that might be associated with the land and impair its market value, even after the completion of the work. However, the Court refused to grant the amounts claimed by the plaintiff in this regard with a view to remediate to Level A of the Policy,5 given that the land was located in a commercial zone. The Court had refused this request, pointing out that there was no proof that the property would be affected by a stigma after the performance of decontamination work conforming to Level C of the Policy. The Court had also preferred the application of the criteria prescribed in the Policy regarding the use of the land, while reserving the plaintiff's rights in the event that, at the time it undertakes the remediation work, the applicable legislation and regulations are amended and require additional remediation work.
In this matter, the Court had also been asked to analyze the Tridan Developments Ltd. v. Shell Canada Products Ltd.6 decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal. In this case, where the defendant Shell had admitted its liability regarding the contamination of the plaintiff Tridan's land, Tridan was asking for complete decontamination of the soil to "pristine" condition, whereas Shell maintained that decontamination meeting the criteria applicable to a commercial site was sufficient. The Court awarded Tridan the decontamination costs corresponding to the "pristine" level, i.e., those relating to restoration to a condition identical to the one prevailing before the contamination, regardless of the use of the land. An important point in this decision arose from the fact that the amount of the work required to achieve "pristine" condition was far lower than the value of the compensation that could have been granted for the stigma affecting the property. The conclusion requiring a correction to "pristine" condition (without stigma) was justified by the very specific evidence that had been presented in the circumstances of this Ontario case.7
In Québec, the courts have not been inclined to accept remediation beyond the applicable criteria according to the use of the site. This approach was rejected in Église c. Sunoco, and again in Ménard c. Irving. When identifying the level of decontamination sought, the courts prefer a pragmatic approach based on the actual use for which the land is intended.
In Ménard c. Irving, the Court issued a permanent injunction, enjoining the defendant to rehabilitate Ménard's property completely at the defendant's expense. It is reasonable to question the appropriateness of issuing injunctions in such circumstances, when decontamination work is generally very complex. Needless to say, the execution of the order alone could lead to new problems between the parties and require the Court to intervene again.
One can question the issuance of an injunctive relief in a matter of soil decontamination. The Environment Quality Act8(EQA) grants the Minister vast powers to intervene if he recognizes the presence of contaminants in the environment. Division IV.2.1 of the EQA, the object of which is land protection and rehabilitation, further allows the minister to require a remediation plan and its execution. The Supreme Court of Canada, in Imperial Oil Ltd. v. Québec (Minister of the Environment),9 also reaffirmed that the minister's power to require and order the performance of a remediation plan is a broad discretionary political power. Seeking an injunction order to force soil remediation thus invite the Court to substitute itself to the legislative regime established under the EQA, which confers vast land protection and rehabilitation powers on the minister. This having been said, we should mention that Irving does not appear to have contested the request of an injunction order in this case. Therefore the value of this case as a precedent on this issue is limited.


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Bendigo Jockey Club to be the nursery for next generation of Australian race callers
THE Bendigo Jockey Club has long-been renowned as the 'Nursery of Champions'.
But from Wednesday it will also lay claim to being the undisputed breeding ground for the next generation of Australian race callers.
A newly developed 'Nursery of Race Callers' program is set to provide a pathway to aspiring race callers, with the first trainee already champing at the bit to get down to business at Bendigo Jockey Club.
He will arrive with a first-class pedigree, as the nephew of leading Australian trainer Darren Weir.
Sixteen-year-old Dayne Barry, from Swan Hill, is already no stranger to some of the region's punters.
The teenager has already called official races at Tocumwal, Burrumbeet and Wycheproof and will be working with the BJC to complete his Certificate II in Racing Services (racing administration).
BJC chief executive officer Aaron Hearps said the club was proud to assist the industry and young race callers by providing a platform that will further develop their race calling skill set and also provide practical involvement in the running of a country racing club at the same time.
Barry has been guided in the early stages of his career by well-known country race caller and proud Bendigonian Ric McIntosh, a strong supporter of the program.
"I believe it's great that the Bendigo Jockey Club is providing a pathway for Dayne and other young kids who might want to become race callers in the future," McIntosh said.
"Come October when all jump outs in Victoria will be filmed and uploaded to the internet I think having them called will only assist the owner and punter when they watch the footage.
"It's great that Bendigo is leading the way in this area."
The BJC's reputation as the Nursery of Champions was forged through the success of 21 eventual Group 1 winners, who all had their maiden race wins at Bendigo racecourse.
From Wednesday, it's hoped Barry will become the trailblazer in a long-line of premier race callers to have kick-started their career in Bendigo.
Racing returns to the BJC on Wednesday with an eight-race card starting at 1pm.


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