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Liquid Diamonds – The Most Valuable Diamonds of All
I'd like to think we all have a moment, or, if we're lucky, many moments, when we are suddenly and unmistakably drawn–pulled, even–from our inward-turned world of daily life, when we're shown something that opens our eyes–and opens us–almost turning us inside out, so we look OUTward. It is in these moments that we really SEE who or what is right there in front of us, seemingly put three for us, and us alone, at that precise moment, to notice, take in , to be inspired by, to love, to share and to learn from. Or, we are given the chance to see it for some purpose to be revealed to us later, but we know to tuck it away because it is extraordinary in that moment. Our senses are heightened, our minds are opened and focused solely on that moment, that something, that someone.
That something could be present in our lives already, even on a daily basis, yet be so mundane, so routine or so seemingly insignificant that it doesn't register as anything other than ordinary and expected. Or, it could be a sensation, a vision, a sound, a feeling, an awareness, that we have never experienced until that moment, and it catches our full attention and may even move us deeply.
Sound familiar? Are you picturing fireworks, bells and whistles, orchestral or angelic soundtracks or some other dramatic accompaniment to the moment of "enlightenment"? Or, do you imagine complete quiet , hushed, pleasant sounds from nature, repeated mantra or the steady soundtrack of familiar voices and daily activities humming along in the background, as you uncover a gentle reminder about the importance of small, simple things in a gradual, layer-by-layer excavation? Do you picture a surge of deep emotion welling up inside you and spilling over in the form of tears…or laughter? Will the moment be fleeting, or be forever teched in your heart and mind?
One of these "moments" in my life happened at a time when I believe I really needed it, which is when, at least in my experience, we are most likely to be shown and surprised by them.
My two children, then five and seven, and I were outside in our yard one hot summer afternoon. They were playing with a favorite water toy–a waterway, with multiple pieces, curves and drops and a pump to raise and lower the water level, like a canal, and several different little boats to travel the route they created. I had also filled 2 tubs with shaving cream for them to be silly with, too. They had sunblock on, an umbrella to play under, and two icy cold drinks in their spill-proof cups, each. Just shy of patting myself on the back for thinking of everything they'd need, "I'm all set!"I thought. Soon, I was deeply engrossed in clearing out my garden beds anticipating momentarily getting some long overdue planting done.
All was well, until, as young kids are wont to do, my two got bored with the items at hand, and began asking for "new stuff" to play with. Squirt guns, the small, impossible to fill, empty-in-two-squirts kind that I should have known better than to have bought, were dropped at my feet. "Mom? Mom? MOM! Can you fill these NOW? Please? I want the blue one! You get the red one!" Sigh… I complied, and off they went. I had barely gotten my gardening gloves back on when they were back, with the same, urgent request, now bordering on "demand", since one of them had lost the previous "battle" and gotten sprayed in the face by the other, who was declaring "victory". The fourth time they returned, out of "ammunition" and getting crankier by the moment (as was I), I decided it was time to remind them that "Mommy has work to do, and I can't keep stopping every five seconds (a classic use of exaggeration by a flustered mom) to fill these guys!" They looked at me dejectedly, and I felt that lousy feeling of frustration and guilt combined, knowing the work I was hoping to do was not going to get done (frustration), and the reason why was because my kids needed/wanted me to help them and play with them and I was doing something else instead (guilt).
I set down my tools and went into the garage to get the two Fire Hose Hero backpack pump-action water sprayers that resembled the packs and hoses firemen might carry to put out a fire. My two LOVED the fire department, and had won a pizza party the Fall before for "best costumes" at the department's Halloween tour and costume contest. They sprayers held a little under a gallon of water, and they were a hit when I brought them out and filled them. One quick demonstration of how to use them, and they were suited up and off, running around the yard, squealing with delight. They loved them, and I was happy to get back to work. But they were SO happy that they were back within five minutes, begging me to fill them again…and again…and I had managed to get only two plants in the ground, with eight more to go. Envisioning having to abandon what I wanted to do, and not pleased, I said, "Guys, look. I need to get these plants in the ground! This is the last time I'm filling these!"
As I reached for the hose to fill my son's sprayer, he reached out his little hand and held it, palm up, in the stream of water pouring from the hose. The water missed the opening and coursed over the toy and onto my pants and shoes and his, In the split second that my mind registered, "Oh, great! What a mess! Now there's no way I'll get this done!", my eyes caught sight of something I may never have seen–really SEEN, had I not been granted the gift of "a moment", that particular moment, to see it. I have never forgotten eh vision,the feeling and the impact that one moment had on me…
I watched the water flow out of the hose and over his palm. It was crystal clear, like liquid diamonds, glinting in the brilliant summer sun, and flowing in a tiny river over his warm and dirt-smudged little hand. He was open to the joy and the excitement of that moment, and was elated. He held a little-boy handful of sparkling, liquid diamonds, made of just plain water and sunshine. But, in that instant, I saw and felt with my whole being the beauty of what I was witnessing, as simple and ordinary as it may have otherwise been…and time slowed and my heart sped. Ohhh…his little fingers curled in delight at the sensation of the cool water on his warm skin, and then, he looked up at me and laughed, pure joy written all over his face, and he said, "Again, Mommy! Do it again!", and I realized I had liquid diamonds in my eyes and running down my cheeks.
My daughter came bounding over with her Fire Hose Hero sprayer dragging behind her in the grass, and dropping it, laughed and held out both of her small hands, palms up, and the cool water with the sunshine gave her handfuls of liquid diamonds, too. We were so very rich, my kids and I, in that moment.
Looking down at their sun-kissed blond heads, and hearing their delighted squeals as the water missed their hands and got them wet (my aim was off because there were so many diamonds in my eyes, too many to collect before more came). I felt a flood of joy and a deep, overwhelming gratitude for the gift, right then and there, of being turned OUTward, eyes opened, and heart softened for me to truly SEE and FEEL the blessing of my children, my life with them, and the profound gift of being their mother, all in that single, simple sweet moment. I turned the stream onto my own open palm, watched the sun glinting off it, and felt my whole self washed of all that had closed my heart and my mind, so as to allow it to be written in my mind and on my heart that THAT, the awakening to a moment of new vision, and moments like it, are what matter most .
The plants got planted–eventually. The toys the kids loved then were replaced by book series after book series, two-wheeler bikes were mastered and ridden up and down the street til dusk, and many a kickball game was played with bases that never mattered much when the inevitable silliness ensued.
Time passed, somehow faster with each passing year. Mastery of the eye-roll, then the impatient, "I've got better things to do than listen to this", arms-folded, heavy sigh, look away, foot tap, and other modes of communicating, like the grunt, the mumble, the silent treatment, and the "WHAAA_TT?" from behind a closed bedroom door when called, rival the complexity of the signals passed between a major league catcher and his pitcher, and prove to be just as frustrating and confusing to the opposing team, aka, this mom. But as proficient as they became these, so, too, did they learn to sneak in a gentle hip check or a silly joke, or a "Mom? Got a minute?" prelude to an unexpected and priceless heart-to-heart about the ups and downs of middle school and high school life. Hugs from mom being accepted and even reciprocated, eye contact for more than a millisecond, and moments of laughter–and tears…all these have learned to recognize as gifts; these moments, of little hands full of liquid diamonds in the sun, and I am grateful and buoyed up by them, especially on days when it feels like I am sinking.
I know now that the tough stuff will get better, and that we will mature beyond these trying years. But, in many ways, especially some days, I want time to slow, or even stop, before my two continue that race down the road to adulthood. I want more handfuls of diamonds days to heal and set my mind and heart right again. But then, I remember to stop. I look. I SEE. I say the words, "I am thankful." and those moments, though they may sometimes take a little longer to recognize, or are a bit more subtle and less brilliant now, reveal themselves to me just when I most need them, and as I open my hands, I see them full of diamonds and hear my children's laughter.
The Author: Kathy Clark
"Live to Give" typifies her heart's truest desire. She maintains her physical and mental health, youthful energy and sanity through daily fitness training (including Kenpo Karate, cross-training, running, snowshoeing and woods-walks with friends, and will compete in her second Tough Mudder this year). She loves her kids, siblings and friends. Clark is a 54 year-old (single) mom of two teenagers. She is an RN who is happiest helping others in every way possible; her mantra, "Love with her whole heart."
Her hope is to continue to Do Good through reaching out to others through ThinkGood, sharing with all of you her energy and appreciation for the (sometimes hidden-suddenly revealed) moments of beauty in life.


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I like this better now then when I bought it. Back then I thought it was just another quiet boring Dishcharge rip off with horrible sound. Now I love it. The guitar sound is just amazing. Anyone hearing similaritys to the guitar sound of the first Minor Threat 7″? I do. Very dry and not too much distortion. Great!
Can't recall seeing Absurd live and what happens to the guys after this beats me. On the lyric sheet they state that their next 7″ would be released in the summer/autumn 1983. That didn't happen. Senap this is a call for you.
As a contrast to the scary looking sleeve I got two cards thrown in from I guess was found in the packages of Honey Puffs? Last year some people here in Sweden got hold of the singer(who's now a priest) and stripped him of some sleevles copies. Beware that they're selling them with very good repro sleeves without letting you know.
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Year: 1982
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The World Oldest Universities History
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Many institutions of higher learning have a very interesting history. University education has taken many aspects of modern life but most universities that have been around for centuries. The oldest ones are:
- University of Bologna
- University of Bologna
- University of Oxford
- University of Salamanca
- University of Cambridge
Situated in Bologna Italy, this is a school that is estimated to have been established in 1088 and is considered to be the first one in the sense of higher learning and awarding degrees to scholars. It is so old that the word university developed from its foundation. The University of Bologna got its charter from Frederick Barbarossa around 1158. A committee of historians that was led by Giosué Carducci did research to trace the founding of this old university to 1088. Since then it has been considered to be the first university. It Latin Motto (Alma mater studiorum) means "nourishing mother if studies."
This university was founded in Paris, France but has undergone many changes since the founding. It began in mid 12th century. The founding date is recognized to be between 1160 and 1170, but other sources claim it could be as early as 1150. The University of Paris has however not run continuously. The faculty suspended learning for an entire century between 1793 and 1896. In 1970, it was divided into 13 autonomous universities (Paris 1-XIII) therefore ceased operating as one institution.
To date, some call it La Sorbonne or The Sorbonne after College de Sorbonne the collegiate system that Robert de Sorbon founded in 1257. A part of it began under the name, but the entire school was not in Sorbonne. Four out of the 23 current successor universities have their presence in historical Sorbonne building. Three of the include Sorbonne as one of their names.
The recorded date for the establishment of University of Oxford is 1167, but it is believed to be much older. There are claims that it could even be the oldest in the world since teaching in the institution existed as far back as 1096. There is no precise date about when teaching began, but it developed at a rapid pace from 1167 after Henry II prohibited English student from going to University of Paris.
Other claims are by All Souls College and The University College that there are documents to prove how teaching at Oxford began in 825. The alleged documents have never appeared in public. What the public knows is that in 1254 Pope Innocent IV granted the university charter in 1254. Like The University of Paris, learning at the University of Oxford was suspended for a lengthy period in 1209 after the killing of two scholars. It was also closed during St Scholastica riot 1355. After that, learning went on continuously even during English civil war of 1642-1651.
The University of Salamanca is famous because of its association with Christopher Columbus, the world famous explorer in ancient times. It is the place where he presented his case to get support for a 15th-century tour of West Indies from the Royals. It was established in 1134 but got its charter 1218. Nonetheless, it was the first European institution of higher learning to get the title of a "University" granted by the Pope together with King of the Castile and Leon Alfonso X. It is in the Western part of Madrid in Spain. The founder King Alfonso IX wanted to imitate recently created universities of Paris, Bologna, and Oxford.
A group of scholars who deserted The University of Oxford after political conflicts in 1209 and got it charter in 1231 established this University of Cambridge. These two institutions are up to now referred to as Oxbridge because they have many similar features. The university name is believed to have come from Cantab an abbreviation for Cantabrigiensis an adjective that founders got from a Latinised form of Cambridge pronounced as Cantabrigia.
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Thriller is the sixth studio album by Michael Jackson and his second to be produced by Quincy Jones, released in 1982. It went on to become the best-selling music album in history, selling over 65 million copies domestically and over 110 million copies world wide. Seven of the nine tracks on the album were released as singles, with each one reaching the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three of the singles, "Billie Jean", "Beat It" and "Thriller" were accompanied by music videos that elevated the record to its iconic status. Although Jackson was already world famous since the 1970's and music videos already existed as a promotional tool, both he and the medium became a dominating force in the music industry. "The King Of Pop" broke down racial barriers via his MTV appearances, won eight Grammys including the 1984 Album of the Year and even met then-US President Ronald Reagan at the White House.
Time Magazine included the album in their 2006 list of 100 timeless and essential albums. and Rolling Stone placed it at #20 in their 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time list. Since 2007 "Thriller" has been included in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry of "historically, culturally and aesthetically significant recordings". In 2009, the iconic music video in which Jackson dances with zombies was included in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry for the same reasons.
Not long after Jackson's death was announced in that same year, many fans around the world honoured him by performing the dance number.
Trope Namer for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Parody.
Side One
- "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (6:02)
- "Baby Be Mine" (4:20)
- "The Girl Is Mine" (3:42)
- "Thriller" (5:57)
Side Two
- "Beat It" (4:17)
- "Billie Jean" (4:57)
- "Human Nature" (4:05)
- "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (3:58)
- "The Lady In My Life" (4:57)
Wanna Be Tropin' Something
- Album Filler: Michael set out to avoid this, wanting to make an album where every song could potentially be a single. It paid off.
- Album Single: The Girl is Mine, Billie Jean, Beat It, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin", "Human Nature","P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" and "Thriller"
- All Just a Dream: The music video of "Thriller", where Michael's girlfriend imagines being chased by zombies. Then it turns out it was just a nightmare. Or was it?
- And Starring: Horror movie icon Vincent Price during "Thriller" and Paul McCartney duets with Michael in "The Girl Is Mine".
- Artistic License History: "The funk of forty-thousand years" is a wonderful lyric, but has a lot of fridge logic in that it pretty much exceeds human civilization longer than any surviving tomb could stand.
- The Baby Trap: The title character of "Billie Jean" is pulling one of these, according to the narrator, but the lyrics leave it ambiguous.
- Badass Pacifist: Michael in "Beat It" who breaks up two fighting rival gangs and has them all join together in a dance.
- Changed for the Video: The music video of "Thriller" has all the choruses moved to the end of the song instead of between verses, with Vincent Price's rap coming before the choruses. The bridge is also omitted.
- Continuity Nod:
- The line "Billie Jean is always talking" in "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'".
- Jackson and Paul McCartney share a duet during "The Girl Is Mine". Both singers sang earlier together on the single "Say Say Say" on Macca's album Tug Of War (1982).
- Creepy Cemetery: In the music video of "Thriller" zombies apparently dig themselves up from their graves for no reason at all.
- Crossover: Paul McCartney duets with Michael during "The Girl Is Mine". Both singers had belonged to groups that had their own animated series.
- Darker and Edgier: Compared to Jackson's previous joyful dance output the three Top 10 hit singles of the album were all paranoid songs about escaping from stuff in the dark ("Thriller"), street gangs ("Beat It!") and a woman claiming that he fathered her child ("Billie Jean").
- The Dead Can Dance: There are slow zombies, fast zombies, and then there are funk zombies.
- Duels Decide Everything and Educational Song: "Beat It!" informs street gangs that fighting is not the answer.You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it
You have to show them that you're really not scared
You're playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare
They'll kick you, then they beat you
Then they'll tell you it's fair
So beat it, but you wanna be bad
Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
- Electronic Speech Impediment: Squeaky voices near the end of "P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)".
- Epic Instrumental Opener: "Billie Jean." At least by pop music standards, 27-seconds before the vocals come in is a bit long. Quincy Jones wanted to trim it, but backed off when Jackson told him that the intro was what made him want to dance.
- Epic Rocking: The 6:02 "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: The music video of "Thriller" starts off with a werewolf, but in the middle zombies turn up.
- Evil Laugh: Vincent Price does a great one at the end.
- Face on the Cover: Michael, in close-up, sitting up on the floor.
- Face-Revealing Turn: One of the most famous instances of this trope.
- Faking Engine Trouble: Played With in the Show Within a Show. Michael's character says he's out of gas, while in the woods with his girlfriend.Michael: Honestly, we're out of gas.
Girl: So what are we gonna do now?
[cut to the two of them walking down the road]
Girl: I'm sorry I didn't believe you.
- Genre Roulette: Pop, soul, funk, and R&B. "Beat It!" has an electric guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen, which brought in countless rock fans. In retrospect, the album also has shades of EDM and Hip-Hop (see Unbuilt Trope).
- Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: In the music video of "Thriller" Michael's girlfriend is so frightened that she leaves the movie theatre.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Near the end of the music video of "Thriller", when Michael's girlfriend thinks she's safe again Michael turns to the camera with glowing eyes and an evil stare.
- Grow Old with Me: "The Lady In My Life".And even when we're old and greyYou'll always be the lady in my life
- Hair-Trigger Temper: "Beat It".The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear
- In-Joke: When Michael leaves the film theater in the music video of "Thriller" someone on screen says: "See you next Wednesday." That's the title of a fictional film that crops up in several movies by the video's director, John Landis.
- Let's Duet: "The Girl Is Mine", between Michael and Paul McCartney.
- Lyrical Dissonance: "Billie Jean", a super catchy dance number about a girl claiming that Jackson is the father of her child.
- Lyrical Tic:A-hi-hi-hiiii
- Michael Jackson's "Thriller" Parody: Trope Namer.
- MST3K Mantra: Invoked when Michael and the girl walk out of the movie theatre:MICHAEL: "It's only a movie!"
- Momma's Boy: "Billie Jean":And mother always told me
be careful who you love
and be careful what you do
'cause the lie becomes the truth.
- Nested Story Reveal: The music video of "Thriller" is comprised of several stories within a story Or is it?
- Nightmare Fetishist: Implied to be the case with Michael in the "Thriller" music video. While the rest of the audience is reeling in horror over the scary movie they're watching, he's munching on popcorn with a big grin on his face, looking like he's having the time of his life.
- No Name Given: Ola Ray's character in the music video of "Thriller" is credited only as "Michael's girl."
- Obsession Song: "Billie Jean", where Jackson freaks out about a girl claiming to have been knocked up by him.
- One-Word Title: "Thriller".
- Our Werewolves Are Different: In the music video of "Thriller" Michael looks more like a werecat than a werewolf.
- Pep-Talk Song: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'":So keep your head up high and scream out to the world
I know I am someone
And let the truth unfurl
No-one can hurt me now
Because you know what's true
Yes, I believe in me
So you believe in you
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis: The music video of "Thriller" is so iconic that probably more people across the world are familiar with that than the rest of the album, despite it being the best-selling record of all time.
- Properly Paranoid: "Thriller", "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" marked a change in Jackson's lyrics. While his earlier albums where all cheery dance songs or sad break-up songs he started to move into more paranoid songs.
- Proscenium Reveal: Turns out the opening sequence of "Thriller" is a movie, and Michael Jackson is enjoying some while watching.
- Quarreling Song: "The Girl Is Mine", where Michael and Paul quarrel over the same girl.
- Sanity Slippage Song: "Billie Jean", where the protagonist goes insane over the fact that a stalker follows him.
- Self-Backing Vocalist: On most of the songs Michael is backed by his own vocals.
- Shapeshifting Lover: Michael turns out to be a werecat in the prologue of the music video of "Thriller". You'd think a guy suffering from chronic lycanthropy would cancel any dates that coincide with a full moon...
- Shout-Out:
- "Weird Al" Yankovic spoofed "Beat It" and his music video as "Eat It".
- RunD.M.C.: Their song "King Of Rock" from their album King of Rock has the line: "It's not Michael Jackson and this is not 'Thriller'. Funny enough, Jackson himself would sample from this Run-DMC song on his own single "2Bad" from HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I (1995).
- Eminem referenced the music video for "Billie Jean" by imitating Jackson dancing on the light reflecting steps in his music video for "Just Lose It".
- Show Within a Show: In the music video of "Thriller" Michael and his girl watch a horror movie.
- Silly Love Songs: "Baby Me Mine", "The Girl Is Mine", "Human Nature", "P.Y.T.", and "The Lady In My Life".
- Singer Name Drop: "The Girl is Mine".Paul: "Michael, we're not going to fight about this"
Michael: "Paul, I think I told you. I'm a lover not a fighter."
- Special Guest: Paul McCartney in "The Girl Is Mine" and Eddie Van Halen during "Beat It". Arguably Vincent Price in "Thriller" counts as well.
- Spiritual Successor: "Thriller" would receive one in "Threatened" from Invincible, this time with clips of Rod Serling instead of Vincent Price.
- Bad seems to be almost the opposite message of "Beat It".
- Subverted if you consider the full expanded version of the video where Michael plays a college kid who came home to "The Hood" and calls out his old friends when they suggest committing crimes and bad mouth his getting an education "from that little sissy school of [his]". If anything; He's telling them that being intelligent, well-educated, law abiding and not some gangsta punk is true "badness".
- Michael Jacksons Ghosts feels like an effort to surpass "Thriller".
- Bad seems to be almost the opposite message of "Beat It".
- Spoken Word in Music: Vincent Price's lines in "Thriller" are spoken.
- Talky Bookends: "Thriller" popularized the concept in music videos.
- Twist Ending: The music video of "Thriller" has three of them. The werewolf transformation in the beginning is actually a movie, Ola Ray being attacked by zombies was All a Dream, but in the end Michael is still revealed to have demonic eyes.
- Updated Re-release: As it happened to several of his other records, this album got several re-releases during Jackson's lifetime and after his passing:
- In 2001, to promote what would be Jackson's last studio album Invincible. This "Special Edition" contained several audio interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton, the 1981 home demo of "Billie Jean", "Someone in the Dark" (taken from the E.T. soundtrack) and an unreleased demo recorded during the album's sessions, "Carousel".
- In 2008 for its 25th anniversary. This version titled "Thriller 25" contained the original tracks plus an excerpt from the voice-over by Vincent Price from "Thriller", remixes with guest appearances by will.i.am, Fergie, Akon and Kanye West and an outtake from the album's sessions, "For All Time". (The Japanese edition also contained yet another outtake titled "Got the Hots").
- In 2009, for the box set titled "The Collection".
- In 2013, in the iTunes-exclusive collection "The Indispensable Collection".
- Unbuilt Trope: To several flavors of Electronic Music and Hip-Hop, especially Synth-Pop. While not a pure example of the genres itself, Thriller's pioneering use of synthetic audio, vocal manipulation, and sampling heavily influenced their evolution.
- Zombie Apocalypse: In the music video of "Thriller" zombies rise and leave their graves.
- Zombie Puke Attack: One of the zombies in the music video of "Thriller" has gross stuff coming out of his mouth.


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BLAM! … The Astonisher's iditor scores another bullseye on her tootsie, while penning a paean of self-praise making the floods all about THEM, not YOU. For comic relief, it can't be bettered.
What's our deputy Doo Dah, Messagebank Walker not telling us? The'Pie hears he is so upset with some Facebook jibes, that he's seeking legal advice.
Also, the (old) gang's all here … Townsville gets another council CEO with a chequered history.
And THAT photograph of a female footy player …to revert to a dismissive saying of his youth, The Magpie asks – what's the hairy deal?
And motor scooters don't usually make us laugh, but this one does.
But first …
In these days of whine and posers, few things are hard to imagine as being impossible but The Magpie being genuinely indignant ON BEHALF of Pauline Hanson would be up there … until this week. This screechy harridan is truly an ill-educated, blinkered ignoramus, but the set piece public bullying ambush on national TV during the week successfully cast her as a victim deserving sympathy … and that's a role she doesn't really deserve. So David Koch and Derryn Hinch have more than their unprofessional behaviour to be ashamed of, but also the fact that it immediately gave Hanson the undeserved role of a victim of misogyny.
The is a deplorable trend in pop media to mistake shouty bullyboy ranting as a justified replacement for clever and reasoned questioning. The smug stand-over tactics of the hugely self-satisfied talent-cipher David Koch was reinforced by a swearing and blaspheming Hinch. Any moral point they were trying to make on Sunrise – i.e. that Hanson's track record of anti-Islamic rhetoric played more than a totally speculative role in the Christchurch massacre – was completely lost by their behaviour.
Bentley was totally unimpressed.
These two dunderheads quickly learnt that their ranting was self-defeating, with viewers generally sympathetic to Hanson and making widespread calls for Koch to be sacked and Hinch … well, we'll just have to wait on the ballot box for him to get his.
The ABC Tries Its Hand At Soft Porn
It was the week of THAT photograph of THAT kick. The image that dominated the public chatterati this week was this one AFL footballer Tayla Harris.
And the young lady can thank Channel 7 for the publicity she is now enjoying (well, she indicates she quite OK with the attention.) The pic was put up by 7 on their FB page earlier in the week, but when it attracted some totally predictable low comments from some pimply near-illiterate trolls, the station made the bizarre decision to remove the image instead of just the comments. This skewed logic suggested they agreed that the trolls had some sort of point with their totally unacceptable view of things. Cue predictable outcry over this sort of flinching management oafishness and back up it went … sans comments of course.
As is the world these days, this attracted a great deal of notoriety for the picture and for Ms Harris, and various members of the professional huff'n'puff brigade.
Now, you may find this hard to believe, but The 'Pie has looked and looked and looked … examined this photograph at least a dozen if not 20 times, and was nonplussed as to what the whole thing was about. But then the awful truth dawned, courtesy of ABC TV news on Wednesday night.
It was what was NOT being said that was the problem.
The ABC's lengthy tut-tutting report showed, for reasons known only to themselves, a series of stop-motion pics of the entire Harris kick. Not once, but TWICE (roll through to 16.38 and 17.39 if the link is still up). The relevance or necessity of the extra pics is not immediately apparent. This very un-ABCish display hit like a freight train to the senses – the lovingly slowed, later zoom, double dose started to take on the semblance of soft porn for the trolls … and talk about the Streisand Effect (decrying the publishing of something magnifies its exposure tenfold).
Because the one thing absolutely no one was saying was that the picture was undeniably sexy. And anyone who indignantly says otherwise is simply lying. Or dead. The athletic female form is every bit as sexy as that of a male … perhaps more so, but it seemed everyone was tip-toeing around this fact.
But The 'Pie let it all pass … until the following night, when a further ABC TV report on the issue again featured the same series of photographs (scroll to 25.14), which started to look like an excuse to run the pics again and again.
This was now beyond ingenuous. And it was dishonest, close up zooms and the like also making it clearly prurient. Of course, the whole thing was clothed in a finger-wagging moral tale, with the photographer wittering on about 'a beautiful, graceful, powerful image '- which it is – and some other thundering gorgon calling for detection and expulsion of the trolls if they were found to be –gasp – members of an AFL club.
Speaking your mind on social media nowadays requires awareness, common sense and an understanding that private thoughts and grubby unattainable ambitions should remain just that, private.
But the media's prissy denial of the reality in this instance, pretending that an obviously sexy image should not be seen as such, just aggravates the situation instead of taking a sober look at the issue. And an image like this can bring out the wrong reaction in the emotionally immature. Sport has always been inextricably linked with sex, indeed, born of it, the first instances of ancient games were devised to advertise the best genes available for breeding purposes … and that's not a million miles away from the way sports like tennis, swimming, gymnastics and athletics are subliminally marketed today. And, like the seasoned exponents of other, established sports, Ms Harris and the other women who play AFL will soon get comfortable with the new reality and no doubt flaunt their new image for fun and profit. (As an AFL die hard, The 'Pie might be unkind enough to suggest the photograph was the only thing worth watching of the new womens league.)
But even after rocking that vision back and forward a score of times, The Magpie admits he is stumped … try as he might, he just can't see it what all the fuzz is about.
The Bulletin's New Slogan … It's All About Us
Well, that's what they meant, and at least that's a refreshing burst of honesty … and hilarity.
In what in The Magpie's experience is an unfortunate first, Bulletin iditor Jenna Cairney has used a prominent two page spread (about $10,000's worth to punters) to tell us how wonderful she and her team have been … for doing their jobs. Like hundreds of others, continuing to do their jobs despite suffering flood damage to property … . And what tough times she and her battling journos had of it. Suddenly it was We're For Us ,and not We're For You.
Self praise is never any recommendation.
But in this virtue-signally fest, a desperate bid to establish that the turnstile staff door at the Astonisher doesn't exist and everybody is here forever, Jenna comes spectacularly undone.
First, there's this laugh-your-arse-off clanger…
Despite in itself the highly questionable claim of who does what and where, (certainly much of the advertising layout is done in The Phillippines) the boast doesn't say much about the paper's writing or subbing – or local knowledge – when it is featured above a picture carrying an incorrect caption. There is no intersection or corner of Norris Street and Queens Road, these streets run parallel and don't intersect, they are two blocks apart. The initial error could be forgiven, formed under trying circumstances … but that was back then, now is now, where any sub with local knowledge would've picked it up, or at least checked. And real papers keep the archives updated.
But that's not the only dubious claim when we read on.
Just love that line 'much of what they say will be true; much will be their version of the truth, and let's be blunt, some may be downright lies.' That would make a much more accurate description of the Townsville Bulletin instead ofnthe mimsy We're For You, which by the way, is a News Corpse company-wide slogan for all mastheads across the country.
So we are to trust you when you tell us '77% of locals read our content'.
As the Hotels Combined bear keeps saying 'Really?' Let's see, total population of the immediate Townsville 'local area' i.e. possible circulation, is, in round figures, about 250,000, 77% of which is 179,000. Yet the latest Roy Morgan readership figures show that on an average weekday, 43,000 see a Bulletin and on the weekends, 52,000 … and almost all these readers are the same repeat readers, the Bulletin is not a destination for casual browsing.
Nice try at creative accounting, Jenna, hope you don't do your books with this method. And your risible claim that we can trust the Townsville Bulletin is as believable as this little bit self-praise bollocks.
Pure and utter tosh, and the city knows it. But good job on youth crime, though, mate, herograms all round to your tough journalists. And boy, is your closing going to come back and bite you on the bum sometime soon.
Like they say in Hollywood, Jenna, when you can fake sincerity, you've got it made. It seems appropriate to follow those sentiments with this …
Make no mistake folks, we're on the campaign trail, and its the Jenny and Jenna show from now until next March. Get used to it.The blizzard of bent bullshit is gathering force down at the Astonisher. We could have been excused for alarm and panic when we read the suggestion that our new council Chief Excecutive Officer is – yikes!! – Mayor Mullet herself!! Isn't that how anyone would see this at a glance?
But hang on, that's obviously an error in putting the story together, so let's ignore the click bait come on, and click through to the real story as it appears in the online Bulletin.
Nope, still looks like Mayor Mullet. But then we get to the story – which is by established practice, usually summarised in photograph and headline – and we find that the familiar-sounding Mike Chiodo has been bumped up from acting CEO to the full time gig. So let's look down through the story, see what this Chiodo bloke looks like. No luck! Seems the Bulletin hasn't got a pic of him to inform us what our new CEO looks like.
So let The 'Pie help out here … this is our man an why his bname souns familiar … AS REPORTED IN THE MAGPIE JULY 15, 2017 EDITION.
Back in 2017, that same article included this ….
The mystery resignation was never publicly cleared up, but – again, in July 2017, – The 'Pie reported this interesting tidbit about Adele The Impaler Young's NT chum and now successor.
Seems Mr Chiodo has hit on another sweet little earner in yet another city he is passing through.
Look, he may be a fine administrator – Christ knows, anybody will do after Adele Young – but a bit more transparency at how the choice was made, and what other interest was shown in the position would have been well in order. But of course, Mayor Mullet is like Jenna, and just wants us to trust her.
OK, Big Mama, we trust you … yeah, right.
A Little Messagebank Mystery
This floated into The Nest during the week from a Magpie contact (trust The 'Pie, please …).
I read with interest an article you put together some while ago with respect to Wellard's possible involvement with certain councillors and some unusual behaviour with feed lots and land.
Step forward to our dispute in relation to the Cattle holding yards near Oak Valley. Plenty of opposition from the locals, and for good reason, the submission by the developer (Gary Dixon & Co aka Ronmar Rural Pty Ltd) was an absolute shambles. I suspect they have been trying to strong-arm the planners at the TCC to get their way. Regardless, I thought that you may find it interesting that Les Walker excused himself from chairing the Planning Committee meeting that heard the case. He alleges that posts on social media (I presume the private Oak Valley Facebook page) indicate that he has a relationship with the developer. There certainly have been some comments, but none that anyone who has a thick skin but is innocent wouldn't deflect with a chuckle.
Therefore, quite curious behavior from our deputy mayor who he is apparently seeking legal advice on the matter.
That's now on The Magpie watch list.
An Historical Bit Of Doggerel For Our Coming Federal Election Season.
Some observations defy time and changing fashion, never to lose their core truth. This from Jonathan Swift 250 years ago.
Let them, when they once get in,
Sell the nation for a pin;
While they sit a-picking straws,
Let them rave at making laws;
While they never hold their tongue,
Let them dabble in their dung …
We may, while they strain their throats
Wipe our arses with their votes."
And Another Timely Reminder Of These Political Times
It applies just about everywhere.
This Is Just Fall-About Funny
Motorbike fanciers, can't yet afford that souped-up, scream machine you've always dreamed of? Here's your answer in the meantime.
This Week In Trumpistan
Just when you think America's Chump In Chief can't sink any lower in his increasingly demented ramblings, this week was dominated by his attack on much-loved war hero Senator John McCain. While a young Donald dodged Vietnam because of alleged 'bone spurs' made him unsuitable for the armed forces, pilot McCain was captured by the Viet Cong but remained loyal and unbreakable through years of imprisonment, deprivation and torture. Of course, McCain couldn't reply to Trump's barbs, he's been dead some months now. Trump denigrated McCain viciously, and for no real apparent reason except McCain wouldn't go along with his loopy policies … the response to the attack came from across America and was instantaneous, as reflected by cartoonists on all side of the political divide.
Another ridiculous week has gone by, and somehow, we're still here. Hit the comments page with your thoughts or just for silly fun. And sincere thanks to those who have supported this blog with a donation, times are a bit skinny at the moment, funds are always needed to defray costs; if you can help out, the how to donate button is below, it will be greatly appreciated..


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Local businesses get behind grants
NT Shade in Winnellie are one of the many local businesses benefiting from the government's investment through the Immediate Work Grants.
Over 100 applications have been received from community and not-for-profit groups to take advantage of the $10 million in grants to upgrade their infrastructure.
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Text: 1 Corinthians 1: 1-3
All the saints are Lutheran but it does not necessarily follow that all Lutherans are saints.
The first part of that sentence: All the saints are Lutheran. I know that statement seems "out" there because historically that can't be true since it was only in the Reformation that "Lutheran" was coined. But in another sense, it is true. Now, we are not baptized unto Dr. Luther. He is not our God and Savior. I do not believe in him and will not be saved through him. Therefore, in this sense I am not a Lutheran. When I am asked however whether I confess with heart and mouth the doctrine which God has again given to me through his instrument Dr. Luther, then I do not hesitate nor am I timid to call myself Lutheran. And in this sense, I am and may I remain a Lutheran all my life.*
What is the doctrine? The saints are remade saints on account of Jesus Christ alone who did for all the world atone. It is by faith a saint in Christ is saved because of Christ Jesus. Christ is the whole megillah, true man and true God, who bore every saint's, and would-be saints' sin. The doctrine is the teaching of justification by faith through grace alone on account of Christ alone. This is the doctrine in the Bible and so the Holy Spirit, through the written, incarnate and spoken Word has woven the teaching of Christ the life of all the living, Christ the death of death our foe, into the very warp and woof of His Church. It was granted to Luther to see plainly and clearly this doctrine which had become obscured and muddied by man-made works and traditions, even trying to keep God's Law perfectly to attain heaven. From the apostle Peter to the child or adult who is being baptized this very day, in Kenya or China or Virginia, this one-way grace, from the Lord to the baptized is administered, on account of the Lord's death and resurrection. So, in a very real sense, the name "Lutheran" is correctly and intimately with the doctrine of justification from day one of the Church, the communion of the saints. Lutheran can describe all the saints who thus believe.
The Apostle Paul consistently in his epistles' greetings is to all the saints as this morning's sermon text attests:
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
When the called Apostle Paul so wrote to those "called to be saints", he was calling the whole "church of God that is in Corinth" "saints". The Apostle does not call "saints" some super-spiritualized group within the Corinthian congregation but all of them, including those brothers and sisters in Christ who were going back to the ways of sin and death. In his greeting, the Apostle Paul writes they are sanctified, made holy in Christ Jesus. How? Their vocation: "called to be saints together with all those in every place call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ". Being a saint is not our call! It is the Lord's call and we need His call! Everyone needs to be a saint because all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Wouldn't "everyone needs to be saint" be a way of describing evangelism?
Luther said:
"The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God."
The saints found that out: they were not good enough to make themselves good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy and good God. This very God and Lord called them and us, and The Holy Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens and sanctifies the whole Christian Church on earth and keeps her united in Jesus Christ. As sinners were and are, "… called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours." Please notes: In every place! In Facebook, every day pastors and laity from around the world "friend me": Christians in Uganda, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Brazil, Madagascar…in every place!
Dr. C. F. W. Walther, founder of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Concordia Seminary/St. Louis brought forth the clear contrast between the Christian faith and other religions:
"All other religious say to man: "You must become just so and so and do such and such works if you wish to go to heaven." Over against this the Christian religion says: "You are a lost and condemned sinner; you cannot be your own Savior. But do not despair on that count. There is One who has acquired salvation for you. Christ has opened the portals of heaven to you and say to you: Come, for all things are ready. Come to the marriage of the Lamb.""…grace is not something for which I must look in my heart. It is in the heart of God."
So Walther also points out that all the saints are Lutheran but it does not necessarily follow that all Lutherans are saints:
"Why must it be the name 'Lutheran' that you use?" We answer: We know well that the real substance is not in the name for there are many who call themselves Lutheran who have given up the doctrine long ago, who have laid aside our church in her symbols, especially in the unaltered Augsburg Confession and the small Catechism of Luther. Such false Lutherans are however easy to distinguish from the true Lutherans because our church has published these public confessions for all the world.
As Lutherans denying the validity and inerrancy of Scripture and the enduring voice of the 10 commandments, which means the Gospel is not for atonement because there are no sins to atone and Christ's death on the cross can be construed as solidarity with the marginalized, not the power unto salvation. Yet there are Lutherans who have been taught the doctrine of faith alone throughout the world and in many church bodies. Walther:
"It is…an awful mistake to claim that men can be saved only in the Lutheran Church. No one must be induced to join the Lutheran Church because he thinks that only in that way he can get into the Church of God. There are still Christians in the Reformed Church, among the Methodists, yea, among the papists. We have this precious promise in Is. 55, 11: 'My Word shall not return unto Me void." Wherever the Word of God is proclaimed and confessed or even recited during the service, the Lord is gathering a people for Himself. The Roman Church, for instance, still confesses that Christ is the Son of God and that He died on the cross to redeem the world. That is truth sufficient to bring a man to the knowledge of salvation. Whoever denies this fact is forced to deny also that there are Christians in some Lutheran communities in which errors have cropped out. But there are always some children of God in these communities because they have the Word of God, which is always bearing fruit in converting some souls to God.
John wrote, Beloved, we are God's children now. Who we are is on account of Who's we are: we are the Lord's in every place.
The other day, a hospice patient said to me, "I don't know about people saying those in heaven are looking down on us, they can't be, they're too busy." Yes! What are they doing if not 'looking down to us'?
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb
Yes, very busy waiting in joy in heaven for the Resurrection, as they look to the Lord alone as they were saved by Him alone. They were allowed to give and receive good here on earth. Surely, some are more noted saints than others, but are they boasting and saying look at me? Surely not! They are saying, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". The great multitude knows that the Lord will take care of His own, and now their trust is fulfilled. The communion of saints is likewise encouraged to look to Jesus, here and now:
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.


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Figures of speech, odc. 9
- Sobota 27.07.2019
- 22:45 English Club TV
- 15 min
Figures of Speech is a programme for those who wants to learn English idioms. Each episode reveals the places of interest through the world.. In this episode: cross the famous river Thames and learn some idioms with the words TUNNEL, TUBE, DOME, LIFT and GRASS.


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Dr. Muzaffer Basak
Turkish Society of Radiology
Istanbul, Turkey
The Turkish Society of Radiology was founded in Istanbul in 1924. Its founding members included leading experts at the time, Dr. Sevki Bey, Dr. Suphi Neset Bey, Dr. Burhanettin Toker, Dr. Kilalditi, Dr. Zakar, Dr. Sukru Bey and Dr. Selahattin Mehmet Berk Bey. The goals of the society at the present moment are still in harmony with those originally set down in 1924.
Presentation of History and Activities
The goals of the Turkish Society of Radiology (TSR) include supporting the progress of radiology as a science, preserving the rights and benefits of our members, and strengthening occupational, social and scientific relationships between its various members. We are also closely involved in the monitoring of domestic and international developments in radiology, particularly in x-ray, angiography, ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, bone densitometry, interventional radiology and any new radiological advances.
We are also concerned with upgrading educational material for widespread use, and for this purpose, organising scientific congresses, seminars, symposiums, meetings and creating publications. Furthermore, we aim at increasing the level of radiologic education and its standardisation, organising courses and increasing the number of national health facilities in which radiology is practiced.
The society has three branches, based in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. Both radiologists and radiology residents have the right to join as members of the TSR. As of 28 February 2007, the society has 2,510 members, accounting for up to 85% of all practicing radiologists in the country. The TSR also works with subspecialty societies in a cooperative spirit.
Role of the TSR Journal
The TSR publishes a quarterly journal to disseminate new radiological information. Since 2005 this journal has been published in the English language as "Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology", as well as in Turkish, as "Turk Radyoloji Bulteni". Also, we published all of the scientific posters and oral presentations presented during the national radiology congresses, in a collective book.
The TSR has an actively functioning Board Commission. Board exams, which consist of two parts – one a theoretical exam and the other a practical exam - are held by the society to ensure the high quality of radiology services in the country. The first was held on 30 October, 2004. Only those participants who passed the first step were forwarded to the next step, which was the practical exam. In November 2007, the fourth nationally instituted board exam will be held. This represents an increasing interest in ensuring the highest educational standards for radiology in Turkey.
National Congress Plays an Important Role
Between 1924 and 2007, the TSR has organised twentyeight national congresses. The first national Turkish Radiology Congress was held between 15 - 17 September in 1966 in Istanbul. The 2007 congress was held between 27 - 31 October in Antalya. In parallel, all three branches of the TSR, based in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, arrange scientific meetings on a monthly basis except during the summer months. Besides these monthly meetings, symposiums are also held in various cities such as Malatya, Erzurum and Kocaeli. The TSR is a founding member of the European Society of Radiology (ESR), and it works proactively with its representatives within the commissions of the ESR.
Education a Priority for the TSR
The TSR also maintains an ongoing institutional cooperation with the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and takes part in its annual congresses. Additionally, in 2008 the Turkish/German Radiology Congress will take place due to a new partnership between the German Society of Radiology and the TSR. In the long term, the TSR envisions new projects regarding resident exchange with the purpose of improving radiology education.
The duration of the Turkish radiology residency programme is five years. This time period has been set out as sufficient for a comprehensive resident education according to the TSR. The society is of the opinion that new branch specialties like interventional radiology, neuroradiology and paediatric radiology will have to be instituted within the society in the near future, as they are growing at a rapid pace and the society wishes to ensure that Turkey keeps pace with the rest of the world in terms of radiological developments.


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EIA: US Ethanol Stocks Down
WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Domestic ethanol stocks posted the first draw in three weeks as blending demand continued higher during the third week of November, reaching the highest level since late October, Energy Information Administration data released Wednesday, Nov. 21, shows.
Total domestic ethanol inventories were drawn down 723,000 barrels (bbl) in the week ended Nov. 16 to 22.791 million bbl, which is still about 4% higher than the corresponding week in 2017. Data showed ethanol stocks at the East Coast PADD 1 dropped 360,000 bbl to 7.449 million bbl, a 5.7% year-over-year supply surplus. At the Midwest PADD 2, stockpiles declined 211,000 bbl to 7.264 million bbl, 8.8% lower than inventory on-hand last year. Gulf Coast PADD 3 stocks posted a 133,000 bbl draw to 4.555 million bbl, a steep 21.1% above a year ago while West Coast PADD V ethanol inventories stayed flat at 3.2 million bbl.
Plant production decreased 25,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.042 million bpd during the week ended Nov. 16, 2.3% lower than the corresponding week in 2017, and at the lowest level since the week of Oct. 19. Four-week averaged production was 1.059 million bpd versus 1.060 million bpd during the corresponding four week period in 2017.
Net refiner and blender inputs, a measure for ethanol demand, rose for a third straight week, up 2,000 bpd to 928,000 bpd during the week-ended Nov. 16, 0.9% above a year ago. For the four weeks ended Nov. 16, blending demand averaged 927,000 bpd, 5,000 bpd above the same period in 2017.
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Art. 1
Association Smart Manufacturing Lab, can be labeled S.M.LAB, free association of fact, nonpartisan and apolitical, with unlimited duration and non-profit, regulated by law and by the present document. The Association is located in Torino – Italy , Via Principe Tommaso 49.
Art. 2
The Association has the following purposes:
1. To spread its culture to the development and production of mechanical metal objects and / or polymeric three-dimensional printing by means of innovative techniques;
2. Extend the knowledge and research of nanotechnologies for the realization of metallic and polymeric materials adapted to be used in technological devices of three-dimensional printing, for the obtaining of objects constituted in highly innovative structures;
3. Open the educational and engineering horizons acts to use nanotechnology and technological tools of three-dimensional printing for innovative mechanical objects, increasing the operational and functional value of the objects themselves as good for the person and social value;
4. To propose as a meeting place and aggregation in the name of scientific research and engineering for the creation of manufacturing processes and objects, through the growth in the search for new materials, new production techniques and new tools for the structural formation of objects, ideal for continuing education purposes;
5. Ask yourself as a reference point, observation and research to the science of nano-structured materials and structural engineering, for the construction of production-based devices mechatronic techniques (typically three-dimensional printed) and software and hardware tools to support research engineering and innovative production;
6. Encourage and promote cultural activities such as: conferences, debates, seminars, simulation environments of production systems;
7. Encourage and promote research activities such as: nano-structured materials applications for three-dimensional printing, engineering structures and objects for applications, new concepts relating to the use of new nano-structured materials and three-dimensional printing techniques;
8. Encourage and promote training activities: management of new manufacturing processes through the use of new materials and three-dimensional printing techniques, qualifications of new objects created through new technologies;
9. To encourage and promote publishing activities: publication of new technologies in trade magazines, publication of proceedings of conferences, seminars, as well as the studies and research carried out;
10.Organizzare promotional activities, etc. to be appropriate for achieving the same purposes;
11. Encourage the creation of organizations or groups that, even for individual sectors, we propose a similar aim to the right favoring their activities, collaborating with them through the proper connections and even encouraging their membership of the Association.
The association does not pursue any order to even indirect profit, not seeking to engage in any business or sole or principal economic activity.
Art. 3
The Association is open to anyone interested in the realization of the institutional purposes and in possession of technical and scientific requirements, they share the spirit and ideals as:
1. founding members: persons, organizations or institutions that have contribute in a decisive manner, through their work and / or their material or financial support to the the original constitution of the association endowment fund itself;
2. Ordinary members: people or organizations or institutions that are committed to pay for the entire stay of the associative link, the annual fee established by the Board;
3. deserving members: persons, organizations or institutions that have contributed decisive, with their work or their material or financial support, the establishment of 'association and are voluntary, are exempted from payment of annual fees, are not eligible to executive positions and are not entitled to vote in the Assembly.
Units or membership fee shall not be transferable except for transfers due to death and are not subject to rivalutazione.La division of members in these categories does not imply any difference in treatment between the members themselves about their rights and duties with regard the association.
Art. 4
The admission of ordinary members is decided on request by him to the Executive Council shall, in order to their admission on the basis of their technical and scientific requirements.
Art. 5
All members are required to comply with the provisions of this statute and any rules of procedure, according to the resolutions passed by the competent bodies. For diverging behavior that would undermine the purposes or the association's assets, the Board will have to intervene and impose the following sanctions: recall, warning, expulsion from the association.
Art. 6
All members, founders and ordinary, are entitled to vote for the approval and modification of the statutes and regulations, and for the appointment of the governing bodies of the association.
Art. 7
The association's financial resources consist of:
– Movable and immovable property
– contributions
– Donations and legacies
– refunds
– Marginal activities of commercial and productive
– Any type of revenue.
The initial endowment fund of the association consists of the payments made by the founding members.
The contributions of the members shall be the annual membership fees, established by the Governing Council and any extraordinary contributions established by the Assembly, which determines the amount.
The cash donations, the donations and bequests are accepted by 'general meeting voting on the use of them, in keeping with the statutory purposes of the organization.
It is forbidden to distribute profits or operating surpluses as well as funds, reserves or capital during the life of 'Association, unless the destination or distribution is required by law.
Art. 8
The financial year begins on 1 January and ends the l 31 December each year.
II Governing Council has to draw up the budget and the final balance. The budget must be approved by November 30 and the final balance must be approved by ordinary meeting every year by 30 April of the following year.
It must be deposited at the Association within 15 days prior to the meeting in order to be consulted by any member.
Art. 9
The bodies are:
– The shareholders' meeting;
– The Executive Council;
– President;
– Secretary-Treasurer.
Art. 10
The shareholders' meeting is the key moment of confrontation, which would ensure the proper management of the association and is composed of all the members, each of whom has one vote, regardless of the value of the share.
It is called at least once a 'year in the ordinary way, and in extraordinary session when necessary or requested by the Board.
In first call the Ordinary General Meeting shall be valid if there is a majority of the shareholders and shall be effective with the majority of those present; on second call the meeting is validly constituted regardless of the number of those present.
The extraordinary general meeting resolves, in first and second call with the presence and the favorable vote of the majority of shareholders.
The summons must be made with public notice posted to 'register of the office at least 15 days before the date of the shareholders' meeting and / or convocation sent to the e-mail or pec individual members shown in the register of shareholders.
The Assembly resolutions should be publicized by filing a copy of the minutes of the meeting at the Association and / or transmission of the individual partners, via e-mail or pec, the copy of the report itself.
Art. 11
The ordinary general meeting has the following tasks:
– Elects the Board of Directors;
– Approve the budget and final accounts;
– Approve the rules of procedure.
The extraordinary general meeting resolves on amendments to the Statute and the eventual dissolution of the association.
The shareholders' meeting is chaired by the President of the association or, in his absence, the Secretary / Treasurer of the association.
All 'opening of each session, the assembly shall elect a member as Secretary of the dossier in conjunction with the Chairman of the meeting shall sign the final report.
Art. 12
The Board is composed of two members elected by the Assembly among its members.
The Executive Council shall elect:
– That the President has the legal representation and is responsible for all activities by itself. It convenes and presides over the Council. The Chairman is vested with the powers of representation pursuant to art. 36 c.2 of the Italian Civil Code.
– The Secretary-Treasurer of the association every administrative aspect; It has treasury management, including maintaining relations with the Credit Institutions; take minutes of Board meetings and sign them with the President; It can preside over the Council in the absence of the President.
The Board is validly constituted by videoconference when there is the Secretary at the Association. The members of the Executive Council shall hold office for three years.
The Board of Directors can be revoked Assembly unanimity of the members, excluding the vote of the shareholders of which requires revocation.
Art. 13
The Executive Council is the executive organ and is convened:
– By the President;
– The secretary;
– If it is done written request by at least 30% of members.
The Board of Directors has all the powers of ordinary and extraordinary administration.
In the ordinary management of its tasks are:
– Prepare the documents to be submitted to;
– Formalizing the proposals for the management of the association;
– Draw up the balance sheet which must contain the individual expenditure and revenue for the period of one year;
– Draw up the budget, which must contain, including single items,
estimates of expenditure and revenue relating to the exercise next year;
– Determine the amounts of the annual quotas of the various categories of members. Each meeting must be drawn to be communicated to shareholders in accordance with article 10 of this Statute mode.
Art. 14
The dissolution is approved by the Extraordinary.
The institution's remaining assets must be donated to associations with similar purposes or for public purposes, heard of the control body under article 3, paragraph 190 of Law 12.23.96, n. 662 of Italian code.
Art. 15
To the shareholders entitled to reimbursement of various expenses, which they should advance, regularly documented.
Members can work reasons behalf of the association, behind any agreed reward.
Art. 16
For matters not covered by this statute they are subject to the applicable Italian legal rules.


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Then I had the thought, why don't you write what you want to read?
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I'm Michael, a book-obsessed author with a love of children's and young literature. I've read it, sold it, blogged about it, studied it and written it. Here's where I'll be writing about the literary goings-on in my life.