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Texts = Wrecks
49% of drivers with cell phones under the age of 35 send or read text messages while driving.
A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting driver.
Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field.
An online survey of 1,999 teens ages 16-19 found that 86% had driven while distracted even though 84% know it's dangerous.
While over 90% of teen drivers say they don't drink and drive, 9 out of 10 say they've seen passengers distracting the driver, or drivers using cell phones.
32% of teens who drive while distracted don't think anything bad will happen to them.
77% of young adult drivers are very/somewhat confident that they can safely text while driving.
36% of teens say they have been involved in a near-crash because of their own or someone else's distracted driving.
16% of all drivers younger than 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving.
Distracted driving is the number one killer of American teens.
If that's not enough to make you think, take a look at the video below. A Belgian group gave people a test--to have them text a message while driving on a closed track:
So what can you do to be safe?
Out of sight, out of mind
When you're in the car, put your phone where you can't get it. A place where you won't even be tempted to look for it. No phone, no texting.
Silence is golden
Turn your notifications off. The less you hear your phone, the less tempted you'll be to respond while you're driving.
Designate a texter
Borrow thumbs from a friend, or lend yours to a friend. Passengers get the privilege of texting while in motion.
Such an easy, quick fix for a growing problem.
*statistics and driving tips found on http://www.stoptextsstopwrecks.org/#home


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UH Hilo to host talk on permafrost Oct. 24
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Contact: Alyson Kakugawa-Leong, (808) 932-7669
For Immediate Release
The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Physics and Astronomy department in conjunction with the Office of Mauna Kea Management (OMKM) invite the public to a talk on permafrost geomorphology on Friday, October 24, 7-8 p.m., UH Hilo Science and Technology Building, Room 108.
Dr. Kenji Yoshikawa, a professor from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Water and Environmental Research Center, presents "Tropical Mountain Permafrost," which highlights his areas of research in permafrost geomorphology, permafrost hydrology, and extraterrestrial permafrost. Yoshikawa's primary interest includes searching for and exploring pingos and icings around the world. These two quests by Yoshikawa—one into interior Antarctica and the other across the Sahara for an ancient pingo scar—are described in his biography Finding Mars.
Yoshikawa's research locations have included Svalbard, Greenland, Alaska, Siberia, Tibet, Canadian Arctic, and Mongolia. He has also organized and taken part in many field investigations, including searching permafrost at Mount Kilimanjaro, Mexico, Hawaiʻi and the Peruvian Andes.
For more information, contact John Coney at 932-7187 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. The website with further information is at: www.astro.uhh.hawaii.edu.
Disclaimer: The University of Hawaii at Hilo is not responsible for the contents, links and/or materials presented in any web site listed above that are not of the "hilo.hawaii.edu" or ".uhh.hawaii.edu" domains. All comments, complaints and grievances should be filed with the author, host and/or owner of said site.

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SPORTS SEPTEMBER 7, 2016Written by John Kuhens on September 7, 2016
Mt. Pleasant swept Washington in Southeast Conference volleyball Tuesday night, 25-15, 25-14 and 25-22. Ashlee Menke 5 aces and 18 assists, Mikayla Beason 7 kills. Dani Broeker had 9 digs. Panthers will host Keokuk on Thursday night.
Mt. Pleasant Freshman volleyball team traveled to Washington last night and won in 2 sets, 25-23 the first set and 25-12 the second set. JV won in 2 sets also, 25-19 the first set and 25-15 the second set.
OTHER AREA VOLLEYBALL SCORES: Ft. Madison downed Fairfield 3 games to 1, New London won in a sweep of Van Buren, Holy Trinity Catholic won in 3 sets over Waco, WMU was a 3-1 winner over IMS, Wapello won 3-1 over Lone Tree, Highland 3-1 winner over Columbus Community, Pekin swept L&M 3-0, West Burlington won 3-1 over Danville, Central Lee won 3-1 over Cardinal.
In cross country action Holy Trinity Catholic won the boy's division of the Van Buren Invitational and Danville-New London won the girl's division. In the large school class Fairfield won both the girls and boys classes.
MPHS boy's cross country team has moved to #6 in the Class 3A team rankings. Logan Murray is #1 and Cody Mertens 25th in the individual rankings. From the MPHS girls' team Abby Ryon is ranked #16.
In the latest Iowa high school football poll, Washington who comes to MPHS to play Friday night is ranked 3rd in Class 3A, Cedar Rapids Xavier is #1. West Des Moines Dowling tops Class 4A, North Fayette is #1 in 2A, Iowa City Regina tops Class 1A and St. Ansgar is #1 in Class "A". Lone Tree is ranked #7 this week in 8 Man football.
Mount Pleasant 7th grade football team lost 6-0 to Mediapolis on Evans Field last night. Offensively- Dylon Hagans ran for 100 yards. Defensively – Dalton Church had a forced fumble & also recovered the fumble. Cooper Kelgord had an interception. Levi Graber, Dylon Hagans, Tyler Simon and Trevor Wellington also stood out while accumulating tackles.
The Mt. Pleasant 8th grade middle school football team beat Mediapolis 38-0. Brevin Wilson 2 touchdowns, Jack Johnson, Brennen Bender and Cooper Pullis had 1 td. Cooper Pullis 11 tackles and Jack Schimmelpfennig an interception.
The MPHS Panther freshman football team traveled to on New London on Tuesday and won 27-22, after leading 14-0 lead at the half. Panther Leaders: Brody Bender 9/16 205yd passing, 11-62yd rushing with a touchdown. Rylan Seberg 168 All purpose yards scoring a TD and making 8 tackles. Noah Walls 35 All purpose yards and a TD.
The Iowa Wesleyan men's golf team opened up the 2016 fall season at the Clarke Fall Invitational at Eagle Ridge North Course in Galena, Illinois. The Tigers finished the day with a team score of 325 to put them in third place. Michael Neff led the way for Iowa Wesleyan after shooting a 74 on the day. His score put him in a tie for first place, but the tie breaker did not fall his way. Neff was the tournament runner-up while Mt. Mercy's Sergio Garcia was the Medalist after winning the tie breaker. The Tigers next highest finisher was Connor McLean. He shot a 77 for the tournament which was good enough to put him in a tie for sixth. Neff and McLean were the only Tigers to finish in the top ten in individual scoring. Kiley Miller finished in a tie for 23rd place. Wesleyan's next event will be on September 15, when they will travel to Oskaloosa, Iowa for the William Penn Shootout.
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A free Ethical Insights event hosted by the Ethical Trading Institute.
WHERE: Ethical Trading Initiative – 8 Coldbath Square, London, EC1R 5HL
Wellbeing is seen as an important part of a flourishing society. It is associated with feeling happy, healthy and valued. But what does this mean for workers in global supply chains? How much does worker wellbeing matter to the companies that employ them and benefit from their labour?
Wellbeing is measured and monitored globally, in communities and workplaces. There is clear evidence that happy workers contribute to better company performance and increased productivity, but how much do we know what creates a sense of happiness and wellbeing among workers?
What can we learn about companies that invest in workers' wellbeing, and what do workers themselves think about these? Some would argue that companies should focus on ensuring that workers can access their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining. That way they will have voice, choice and control over their own pay and working conditions and will be able to take care of their own sense of well-being.
What is the relationship between ethical trade and well-being?
The event will explore approaches to wellbeing and demonstrate best practice examples. Come ready for a challenging debate and discussion over breakfast.
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The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a leading alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs that promotes respect for workers' rights around the globe.


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We've all heard the old wives' tales before
Stories of grandmothers predicting the rain based on how well their rings could fit over their knuckles were common long before there was ever a Weather Channel. But is there really anything to the myth about changing weather and joint comfort/joint health?
It's not really that uncommon of a circumstance when you think about it. It seems that everything has a season - cold and flu season, allergy season, even our mood seems to be predictable when you think of Seasonal Affective conditions. So why not our joints? Or joint flexibility? Or perhaps lack of flexibility? But before we dip into the science, let's find out what our joints are all about.
Your joint is not a physical thing, it's actually the space between two or more bones
It's true. Your joint is not a part of the anatomy but rather a function of it. More clearly, it's the space in between bones, which means your joints actually have no nerve endings or even blood supply. Simply put, the joint is the space where two or more bones come together. So, when people talk about their joints, they are actually talking about the tissues that support movement of bones across one another which includes several tissues like cartilage, ligaments, tendons, even the bone and muscles themselves! And in the case of the knees, all of these relate to a fluid filled sac called the joint capsule. It's this fluid filled sac that might play a role with both weather changes and overall joint support.
Old man winter is making me feel old
In 2007, researchers at Tufts University in Boston reported that changes in temperature or barometric pressure (a measure that refers to the weight of the surrounding air), may trigger joint discomfort. And they even found that either temperature or barometric pressure can change independently and have the same result.
Some researchers believe that the fluids in the joint sac may react to either sudden temperature changes or even unnoticeable changes in air pressure that cause both the weather warnings as well as walking troubles.
Don't let your joint health get left out in the cold
So, now that we know grandma was right, what can we do about it? Here are a few tips to make digging yourself out of snow a little easier this winter:
- Stay warm inside and out - it's not enough to drink hot cider, try eating warming foods that support circulation like cinnamon, ginger, and peppers
- Move those mittens - use your hands to massage your knees before you go outside to promote blood movement and warmth
- Ho Ho Hold the fried foods - Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine said cutting back on fried food will help restore the body's natural defenses
- Lower your AGE - Advanced Glycation End-Products (AGE) are found in foods that are grilled at high temperatures and can aggravate the immune system so go medium-rare this winter and save the baking for summer
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Here are a few ingredients you will find in our formula:
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- Guggul is a revitalizing herb used for centuries and has an affinity for supporting nerves and muscles.
- Licorice is used both in candy making as well as in traditional medicine to support normal cortisol levels which plays a significant role with immune functions and tissue response
- Boswellia supports normal glycosaminoglycans function (part of the fluid in the joint sac) and the natural preservation of cartilage tissue
- Tribulus supports the kidneys ability to remove fluids that build up around joints from excess exercise or from throwing too many snowballs!
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Debugging FPGA images
- 1 Application Note Number
- 2 Revision History
- 4 Abstract
- 5 Overview
- 6 Prerequisites
- 7 Choosing your signals
- 8 Setting up the code for ChipScoping
- 9 Building the debug bitstream
- 10 Running the debug bitstream in the target device
- 11 External references
Application Note Number
Revision History
|Nicolas Cuervo
|Initial creation
This application note covers the basics to get you through the process of probing the signals inside an FPGA. In order to accomplish that, we will review briefly the 'Xilinx ChipScope Analyzer' and will apply it to one of our core RFNoC blocks: the RFNoC Signal generator. The contents of this AN could suit most of your needs while setting your debug bitstream for a RFNoC design. However, keep in mind that the topics described here are strictly related to Xilinx framework. For further information please refer to Xilinx documentation [1][2].
When you are developing your own application, you might come to the point on which you would like to build an FPGA image for your USRP. You might want to modify part of the cores, add some custom functionality, or even add your custom RFNoC block! For that you might follow tutorials such as the Building the FPGA image section of one our "getting started" guides.
But how about debugging your HDL code? This comes really handy when you want to follow closely the behavior of your signals within your hardware design. This Application Note will follow the basic steps needed to create a "chipscope image", which allow you to use the Vivado GUI visual tools to debug your design.
Before we start, this App note assumes that you have been working already with some fpga code and you want to debug it. Being this the case, we assume that you have UHD installed, the FPGA repository cloned, the right version of Xilinx Vivado installed (by the moment this is being written we use Vivado 2015.4) and its environment initialized. If not, we assume you are familiar on how to do the previously noted procedures.
For illustration purposes, here we are going to check the status of some of the output signals of one of the RFNoC blocks we currently provide. However, the same procedure can be used to check the status of any signal within your hardware code, being input, output, or intermediate signal, and being the code a core description, a module for your library or your custom RFNoC block.
Note: Keep in mind that this procedure intends to probe the signals in a fully designed block, which has been also built into a FPGA .bit file and is running in a supported device. This is *not* intended to be a way to test directly your designed code, as building an FPGA image may take several minutes (even hours). For small functionality checks, we strongly recommend you to write a testbench for your code, which will allow you to have more iterations without the need of building and synthesizing your hardware description. You can follow the - Writing Testbenches section of our reference manual to have insights on how to write your own testbench. In addition, there is plenty of online resources (such as [8]) that provide enough information to get you started with your simulation.
- Vivado (version 2015.4): As stated in the overview, you'll be working directly with HDL code that you need to build and synthesize. Depending on your target device, you may even need a non-free license (which is the case for the X3XX devices). In the case of Ettus' embedded devices, you can proceed with your design using the Vivado Webpack.
Choosing your signals
At this point we assume that you have a verilog code that has been properly tested by the means of simulation/testbench, but that you want to inspect into its functionality deeper by probing its signals while it is running on a device. This could be helpful for many reasons, such as getting a deeper understanding on the state of your signal during a given transaction, which could give you an insight on how it is working (or even, can give you a lead on why it isn't!)
For this AN, we will use out block RFNoC: Signal Generator as our Unit Under Test (UUT). However, all procedures to be done can be easily transfered to your own design. In addition, as most of our block and FPGA code is written in Verilog, we will use it also in this document. So let's get started.
The Signal generator's code can be found under
{fpga-repository}/usrp3/lib/rfnoc/. In some of our latest code releases (such as 188.8.131.52), this code is found under
{fpga-repository}/usrp3_rfnoc/lib/rfnoc/. In this directory you can find the RFNoC related code that is used in the RFNoC framework. Consequently, all the HDL for the NoC blocks the we provide is located here. Now, open the file
noc_block_siggen.v in your IDE or text editor of preference and give it a quick look.
As you can see, the code is not too extensive and is the comments divide it properly based on functionality. If your design is RFNoCModtool-generated, you'll get a similar preliminary structure in the verilog files for your block. For information on how to use RFNoCModtool please refer to RFNoC Development - Getting Started Guide. Normally for rather simple designs you won't have to deal with the RFNoC Shell or the AXI Wrapper configuration. However, for illustration purposes, we are going to take some of the signals from this part of the code and probe them in our debugging process. A total of 11 signals will be selected, each from a different internal stage.
Lets take a look at how this boundaries look like in the FPGA Internals. Each full RFNoC design can include several different blocks, which are also called "computation engines". The picture on the right [3] portraits the computation engine internals in a quite self explanatory fashion, although a slightly more detailed explanation about each of the internals from a Computation Engine can be found at the RFNoC Software Page:
From NoC Shell: At the top of the figure you can see the AXI Crossbar, were all the computation engines are wired up together. This is not part of our UUT in particular. However, the connection between the crossbar and our UUT - NoC Shell can be tested within our code. From here we are taking the set_data/addr/stb, which are readback registers and provide information from this interface.
- set_data
- set_addr
- set_stb
From the AXI Wrapper: our next stage from where we are taking signals is the AXI Wrapper. This can be understood as a translating stage in which the data that goes from and to the user's design is correctly encapsulated into a CHDR packet [5]. By probing this signals we expect to find out that the data that is being transported is correct, and that the transaction also takes places at the right moment.
- s_axis_data_tdata
- s_axis_data_tuser
- s_axis_data_tlast
- s_axis_data_tvalid
- s_axis_data_tready
From the signal generator design: Last but not least, we are probing signals from the UUT IP, which means that we are checking directly the value that certain lines inside the FPGA have the correct value at a certain time. In this case, we'll be checking if the wave type is according with the one selected from the host, that the gain value is propagated correctly and, clearly, if the block is generating signals when it is enable and when it isn't.
- gain
- wave_type
- enable
Setting up the code for ChipScoping
To let know Vivado that we want to probe signals, we have to go directly into the code and mark this signals for debugging. This can be done by using reserved words that describe the synthesizing attributes for a given signal. There is a variety of different attributes that you can give to any signal of your design [2], but here we are going to discuss the ones that serve most of the debugging needs:
- KEEP: This attribute prevents the signal to be optimized or absorbed into logic blocks, which would mean that the signal, even though it would be operational after synthesis, may not be accessible for probing. An example of the syntax for this attribute is as follows:
VERILOG: (* keep = "true" *) wire signal_name; assign signal_name = in1 & in2;
VHDL: signal signal_name : std_logic; attribute keep : string; attribute keep of signal_name : signal is "true"; signal_name <= in1 and in2;
- KEEP_HIERARCHY: As well as KEEP, this attribute prevents the optimization. However, this attribute can be applied to a module or instance. By using this attribute, the synthesis tools keep the boundary on this signal static. Example:
VERILOG On Module: (* keep_hierarchy = "yes" *) module example (in1, in2, out1, out2); On Instance: (* keep_hierarchy = "yes" *) example e0 (.in1(in1), .in2(in2), .out1(out1));
VHDL On Module: attribute keep_hierarchy : string; attribute keep_hierarchy of example : architecture is "yes"; On Instance: attribute keep_hierarchy : string; attribute keep_hierarchy of e0 : label is "yes";
- DONT_TOUCH: this attribute works just as KEEP and KEEP_HIERARCHY, with the difference that this one is forward-annotated to place and route to prevent logic optimization. In case where other attributes get into conflict with DONT_TOUCH, DONT_TOUCH takes precedence and will be applied. It also can take values yes/no and true/false. Example:
VERILOG WIRE (* dont_touch = "yes" *) wire signal1; assign signal1 = in1 & in2;
VERILOG MODULE (* DONT_TOUCH = "yes" *) module example (clk, in1, in2, out1);
VHDL EXAMPLE signal sig1 : std_logic; attribute dont_touch : string; attribute dont_touch of sig1 : signal is "true"
- MARK_DEBUG: This is arguably the most important attribute for our current use case, because it is the one that tells Vivado which nets are going to be debugged. This also prevents optimization over the signal, and in addition prepares it to be probed during operation. Virtually this attribute could be applied to any net within the design, but there are some nets with specific properties could have protection against visibility, and can not be probed. The values for MARK_DEBUG are TRUE/FALSE. Example:
VERILOG (* MARK_DEBUG = "TRUE" *) wire debug_wire; VHDL attribute MARK_DEBUG : string; attribute MARK_DEBUG of signal_name : signal is "TRUE";
For other attributes and options, please refer to Xilinx's documentation [1][2]. We are going to use the given almost in every case, if not always. Now, the syntax is rather simple and so is the applications to the attributes to the code. The resulting file should look as the picture on the right. When you have modified the code, you are ready to build your debug bitstream.
Building the debug bitstream
Save the project and finish Synthesis
For this test in particular you are going to need to have a DDC (Digital down converter) in addition to the UUT for visualization purposes on a host. To add this blocks into the bitstream, go to
{fpga-repository}/[usrp3|usrp3_rfnoc/tools/scripts/ and inside that directory run the following command:
$ ./make.py siggen ddc -g
This will set up your Vivado environment and start the build of an FPGA image with the signal generator and the DDC blocks. The option '-g' is telling the script that at some point during the build process the Vivado User Interface should be opened, as it is where we are going to set up our debug image. For
make.py usage and options please refer to the Wiring up computation engines and building the FPGA image section of our getting started guide, or simply run
make.py --help in your terminal
Note: The FPGA image building process may take over an hour.
The Vivado GUI is going to come up at some point of the synthesis. Right after the Vivado GUI has opened, you can go ahead and cancel the process that is running, which is usually the last part of the synthesis (when it shows 90% done is a safe moment to cancel. See "Saving the project" figure). This is because we first have to set up the parameters for debugging and the synthesis has to be re-run. After canceling, save the project and give it a name of your choice; we are giving here the name AN_chipscope, but you can name the project whatever you like. Right after saving the project, click on 'Run Synthesis', which can be found on the left panel under Project Manager->Synthesis->Run Synthesis.
Note: Most of the time Vivado will auto-detect your highest hierarchy module, but it may happen that it just slips to it and then it will ask you which it. If this happens, you can select the verilog file according to the target device that you are chipscoping as the top module (e.g. x300.v or e300.v)
Now wait until the synthesis is finished. This won't take long, and after it finishes a window will prompted saying that the synthesis is done, and asking if you want to run the implementation. Click on cancel, as we need to setup the debugging parameters first.
Setup debug
Go to Project Manager -> Synthesis -> Open Synthesized Design -> Set Up debug, and the wizard will start. Click on next until you see a window listing the nets to debug. Here, two scenarios are expected. See the figure below:
Sometimes Vivado will pick up the clock domain automatically (which is the case depicted on the right side), but there are occasions where the nets to debug aren't clearly defined under a clock domain and this cases require a little bit more of work, depending on your knowledge of your design. In this case, we know that the nets are under the same clock domain as the other signals, but in case of doubt, you'll have to go and find it out through the code. The case on the left can be solved easily by clicking on 'more info', which is just at the end of the red warning. Right after clickling, further, clearly, information will appear. In the prompted dialog, let us click on 'Assign All Clock Domains'
A window will appear where you can choose the common clock domain on which you want to have the signals. Here, in our case, we select
radio_clk_gen/inst/CLK_OUT1, and that would be sufficient to continue. Accept and click next.
Right after, we have to choose the Integrated Logic Analizer - ILA Core Options [6][7]. Here we will only focus on "Sample of data depth" and "Input pipe stages"
The "Sample of data depth" is the maximum number of data sample words that the ILA core can store at run time for each of the probe lines. The input pipe stages is the number of flops or registers that are added to each probe line. This basically determines how big the debug setup will be, and the amount of data that is going to be analyzed per run. Here we select 4096 for the data depth and 1 input pipe line. For further information about the ILA and its configuration, please refer to the ILA documentation [6][7]. With this, the set up is done, and you can proceed to click "next" and then "finish" to complete the wizard operation.
After the setup is finished, go to the left panel and click Project Manager->Program and Debug->Generate Bitstream. This will ask you if you want to run the implementation first, to what we answer 'Yes'. This will prepare the bitstream with which we are going to program our device and debug our design.
Running the debug bitstream in the target device
External references
[1] Vivado Tutorial: Programming and debugging
[2] Vivado Synthesis
[4] Xilinx - AXI reference guide
[6] LogiCORE IP ChipScope Pro Integrated Logic Analyzer
[7] LogiCORE IP Integrated Logic Analyzer v3.0


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Mon 10 Jul 2006
linese.com, China's New Language Teaching Site Arrives…DOA!Posted by Mark Baker under Language Learning
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OK, if not actually DOA, then at least in critical condition.
A small blip on the Chinese Language Learning Web Site radar occurred over the weekend when China launched what appears to be an official site for providing lessons on Chinese language learning.
The press release that came out on Saturday says,
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China launched a Web site, www.linese.com, on Saturday offering free Chinese lessons and materials to promote the study and use of the language abroad.
The site includes audio-visual presentations, interactive exercises and advice for teachers of Mandarin Chinese, with photographs and descriptions of cultural icons such as the Great Wall, kung fu actor Jackie Chan and basketball star Yao Ming.
Many of the exercises touch on China's mythical and imperial past, including practice sentences such as "how can you be a hero if you are unarmed" and "I find that Tibetans like worshipping heroes."
China is keen to expand its cultural influence along with its growing economic power, and is also setting up a network of "Confucius Institutes" around the world to promote its culture.
The Web site is only in Chinese and English, but versions in Japanese and Korean are being developed, the official Xinhua news agency said.
More than 30 million people are now learning Chinese as a foreign language and more than 2,500 universities in 100 countries offer Chinese courses, the Ministry of Education says.
But the site itself appears for many to be a functional nightmare. The little bit of feedback I've seen elsewhere on the Web–and my own experience trying to access the site–indicates that the site is prone to crashes (I've gotten more, and more types, of error messages there than actual page loads). And when pages do load, at least when accessed from the Seattle area here, they are as slow as the proverbial cold molasses.
Example: I tried opening one page that contains an embedded video. I don't know how long the video lasts, because after 20 minutes it was only to "Buffering 13%," and then it froze, so I bailed on that.
Much of the site appears to be created with Sun's Java Server Page (.jsp) technology, but other parts are done with Microsoft's Active Server Pages (.asp) technology. I hope they're not planning to make pages on those two platforms communicate with each other at some point. I know of billion dollar corporations who, faced with such prospects, decided it would be cheaper and more efficient in the long run to take a year or more and simply rewrite major application components in one or the other to keep them compatible.
Anyway, the main navigation menu boasts "Home | News | Audio Visual | Studying Chinese | Interactive Lessons | Teacher Training | Experiencing China | Blog | Forum | Community | About," but a number of these don't actually lead to anywhere (at least not when I click them).
This site clearly needs first to fix its bugs first–this strikes me as "Alpha" software: some "parts" in place, but nothing guaranteed to actually work yet, not even ready for Beta testing.
Second, they're clearly going to need to distribute server access around the world. If the site is hosted in China, but most of their target audience is not (e.g. in The Americas, Europe, Africa, and so on), the people they want to reach most are going to have insufferably long waits for page loads, given how slow pages can be to load when served from China but viewed elsewhere around the world–even for sites that aren't "broken."
But wait, look at this! I finally got a complete page to load without errors!
It tooks several minutes, though.
Unfortunately, it's pretty useless.
It's practice reading, I guess: Four short English sentences with Chinese translations (or the other way around, depending on how you look at it) and the headline: "Li Na's Star Rises at Wimbledon."
It says, in English (Chinese version omitted):
Li Na, The 24-year-old former badminton player surprised people at home and abroad at Wimbledon. She became the first Chinese player to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam, beating 10th-seeded Nicole Vaidisova 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 on July 3.
In a country with comparatively backward in tennis, Li Na brought us too many surprises and much pleasure. As to whether or not Li Na can surprise us with more marvelous performances in the matches ahead, let's wait and see.
That's it? I waited, what, five, seven minutes for that? Even with errors in English? ("In a country with comparatively backward in tennis…".) And no vocabulary help, callouts, practice, reinforcement or anything?
OK, as to whether or not Li Na can surprise us with more marvelous matches ahead, fine, we'll "wait and see."
As to whether or not linese.com can surprise us with quick, error-free page loads and genuinely useful content for learning Chinese–at least speaking for myself–we won't.
7 Responses to "linese.com, China's New Language Teaching Site Arrives…DOA!"
Zhongguoist Says:
July 12th, 2006 at 3:50 am
I am planning to try this website although I am going to university later this year to study Chinese. I have found that chinesepod has been ace and great for listening skills as I just listened to it when I was going about China.
In theory, linese is a really nice idea.
Mark Baker Says:
July 12th, 2006 at 5:21 am
I agree that it's theorhetically good, but another possible criticism is against its content. As Roddy pointed out over at Chinese-Forums.com, there are lots of sight-seeing this and China History that topics, but nothing along the practical lines of what language learners will need first: ordering from a menu, asking directions, recognizing tea scams, etc.
Put another way, the content seems more derived from the Ministries of Propoganda and Tourism than that of Education.
That's not to say it won't improve…but it definitely needs to.
A Learner Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 10:01 am
linese.com is not official Chinese language learning website, but a commercial project. Learns will be charged a lot of fee
Today I asked one of their teacher. She told me their service is not free. They are a company who just bribed offcials of China government to get some promotion support from government.
Mark Baker Says:
July 18th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Has anyone else run across this claim (or better still, evidence to support it)?
If true, this may explain the "Copyright by voice of Chinese 2006-2008" on the site, and, as Jay at Shanghaiist.com asked, "Why the Chinese government is suddenly spearheading this move."
I'd pass this off with a "BFD," except that the press releases imply it's an official government launch ("China launched…", "…the Ministry of Education said.", etc.), which forces the question, "Is the CCP now available for paid endorsements?"
If so, I'd love to see them in an iPod ad.
Magores Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Re: Linese.com
I'm an American in Bejing. I'm always looking to upgrade my Chinese skills, so I visited the site immediately upon hearing about it (on the English Language radio in BJ.)
Site is junk. Navigation is junk. Lessons are junk.
MANY better sites exist.
FWIW … Site appears to have something to do with "Happy China". This a a TV program that I see on the China TV occasionally. Show isn't bad. However, the site appears to be a direct transcript of the show. It doesn't work.
Sorry if this sounds brutal, but that's how I see it.
azmatic Says:
July 28th, 2006 at 1:42 am
If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the site you can send them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com or post them here. I would like to see the site become much more useful as I am both working there and trying to learn Chinese myself.
Mark Baker Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 10:16 am
Caveat Emptor: Via the identical posting on another site, it's apparent that the poster "A Learner" above is affiliated with what might be perceived as a "competing" site to linese.com.


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Concerned Veterans for America called in a statement released on Friday for a new design for the Dwight Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., to replace the controversial proposal submitted by the architect Frank Gehry.
"It's time to honor Ike with a new design—not just for World War II veterans, but for all veterans—and all Americans—both today and tomorrow," the statement said.
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The veterans group's announcement is the latest incident in a years-long argument over Gehry's design, which was selected by the Eisenhower Memorial Commission in 2009.
"We firmly believe that General Eisenhower deserves a fitting national memorial that embodies his values and inspires veterans and all Americans. Unfortunately, Frank Gehry's memorial design utterly fails at that task," the statement said.
Gehry's design features three bronze statues of Dwight Eisenhower in different periods of his life: as Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, as president, and as a lanky Kansas farm boy seated casually on the memorial's stone wall, contemplating his future.
Dwarfing the memorial's statuary is a 400-foot-long steel tapestry "artfully woven and welded" to depict a grey landscape from Eisenhower's hometown of Abilene, Kansas. The steel mesh is held aloft by unadorned limestone columns eight stories tall and 10 feet in diameter.
Much of the criticism directed at Gehry's design has focused on its steel screens and columns, which are a departure from other memorials in the D.C. area. The backdrop, the group said, is inappropriate for the memorial of a legendarily modest subject.
Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society and a leading critic of Gehry's design, said that the bare trees depicted on the steel tapestry suggest "permanent winter—a bad allegory" for Eisenhower's life. The tapestry, Shubow added, is larger than the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles.
Critics contrast the backdrop with the diminutive statue of a young Eisenhower at the memorial's center.
"The focal point of the memorial by Frank Gehry is unrecognizable," said Shaun Rieley, a research analyst at Concerned Veterans for America, at an event on Friday. "It cuts him down to size."
Gehry's proposal has been polarizing as heavy hitters have lined up to argue for and against the design.
Opponents have pointed out that Eisenhower's surviving family is united in opposition to the memorial. David Eisenhower, the president's grandson, resigned from the commission in 2011. Other relatives have publicly criticized the Gehry design.
"When I look at this memorial, I don't see any bit of him in it," Susan Eisenhower, the president's granddaughter, told NBC in 2011.
The Eisenhower Commission has pointed to the all-star cast of its advisory board, which includes three former presidents—Carter and both Bushes—and three former secretaries of state—Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice—among others.
If the commission stands by Gehry's design, it will rely on private donations to cover much of the memorial's projected $144 million price tag. Last year Congress rejected the commission's $49 million budget request to begin construction on the memorial, allocating only $1 million to keep the commission operating day to day.
On Friday, the National Civic Art Society unveiled a proposal to reboot the design process and find a memorial "acceptable to all sides" within five years. It recommended that the Eisenhower Commission hold a new design competition open to all Americans, in contrast with the closed contest that selected Gehry's design.
The proposed competition would require that designs be "modest in scope and scale" in keeping with the wishes of the Eisenhower family. It would also cap the memorial's cost at $25 million, a sum comparable to the budgets of the World War I Memorial and Pentagon 9/11 Memorial.
Chris Cimko, a spokeswoman for the Eisenhower Commission, said that the groups intend to move forward with Gehry's design, disputing critics' contention that the project needs a reboot.
"We don't feel like we're at a standstill at all. We're moving forward," Cimko said.


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You know those people… the kind who live life in a slow way. They wake up gently, and wander through their day. They take joy in gardening and stews that simmer for eight hours. They watch the wilderness around them as they methodically and carefully repeat their perfected 'salute to the sun' each morning.
I wish I was one of those people.
I'm a hard and fast kinda girl. When I wake up, I tumble out of bed (unless I refuse to actually get up… then I stubbornly stick to the sheets and nothing short of a hurricane can move me), I fall down the stairs throwing clothes and make-up in my general direction before bounding out the door with breakfast (and sometimes even a cup of tea) still in hand. When I walk, I've been told, my short legs move comically quickly, and when I cook, I like the satisfaction of having it done and dusted in 30 minutes or less.
This tends to mean when I feel things I feel them big, bold and outrageously. When I love something (whether its shoes, boys or a new food fad) I love it vehemently with every bone in my body.
Right now, every bone in my body is addicted to my Fitbit. It could be worse, it could be crack (although it feels a little like Fitbit is my crack right now).
Basically Fitbit is a pedometer that can also do a million other things. It is the female version of a pedometer – it multitasks. It's bloody amazing.
Think; steps counted, calories in and out recorded, kilometres walked noted, minutes of actual exercise done (verses slow walking steps), sleep tracked and even the ability to log exactly what you are eating. All with a nifty wee wristband (depending on the style you go for, I have a Fitbit Flex) that can talk wirelessly to your computer, Ipad and phone!
Told you it was good.
I know there are people out there who will roll their eyes at the thought of every step being counted and every calorie being stressed about, but I'm seriously loving this insanely motivational tool (and I am always right – right?). Being a stupidly competitive person (see this previous post for tales of my Monopoly board flipping ways), the best thing, hands down, about this devise it that you are competing with yourself. Every day you get goals (they can either be set by you, or automatically generated by the software for you weight/height/aims) and you are encouraged to reach them, exceed them, excel them and push yourself.
If it hits 9pm and I haven't reached my daily steps (my goal is 12,000) then I will go out for a walk. Raining? Then I will pace my miniature apartment and bound up the stairs and back down between each circuit. Call me crazy, maybe I am (ok, I definitely am), but this silly little watch has been more motivating for me to get moving than any inspiring movie, hard hitting book on obesity or personal trainer.
There is nothing I enjoy more right now than the small buzz this wonderful devise gives me when I reach my daily steps target (not a figurative buzz – like it actually vibrates). I am convinced this feeling is exactly the same as when all those ubber fit athletes win medals at the Olympics.
Exactly the same.
I'm pretty much an athlete.


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"O God! that one might read the book of fate." ~ William Shakespeare (King Henry IV, Part II)
I revealed in my last post that I recently quit my soul-sucking job. A few weeks before I gave my notice, I applied for two high-level professional positions that fortune seemed to point in my direction. One was with a local nonprofit group that does great things in the community, the other with the University of Texas. I was extremely interested in both positions, and I'd been trying to get a job with UT ever since I moved to Austin over three years ago (the hiring process at UT is extremely competitive).
Both jobs paid significantly less than the salary I was making at the time, but I was so ready to get out of my toxic work situation that I didn't even care. I think I would have accepted being paid in chocolate coins if it meant less stress and more meaningful work.
The nonprofit group was the first to reach out, and called me in for an interview. I ACED it. I have to admit, I love the feeling you get from a well-oiled job interview! (My secret tip that I don't mind passing along to you: sing "I Have Confidence" from the Sound of Music in your best Maria impersonation at the top of your lungs right before you go into the interview. Preferably in the privacy of your car. You're welcome.)
It was shortly after that interview that I gave my notice at my then-current job (a very UNunhappy moment by the way). A day or two later, the UT office at which I'd applied called me to schedule a phone interview. I was ecstatic! It was the first UT job I'd applied for (of many) which had reached the interview stage. And, the job seemed to be literally written just for me: they wanted someone who had lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa (thank you Peace Corps), spoke a foreign language (oui, moi), and had experience advising students (I used to work as an advisor at the University of NM).
The UT phone interview went great, and they then scheduled a second interview for a few days later, to be conducted via Skype. Everything meshed and it went swimmingly well. I made funny quips and asked well-researched questions. I'd done my homework and I was prepared – as I have been my whole life. Organized, detailed, prepared – that's me.
I was feeling great! I was in the running for two jobs in what seemed to be a perfect timing situation! I'd finally quit my miserable job that was driving me into the ground, and I was headed for happier times! I drove by the UT office near campus and it was in a beautiful setting; I was already imagining working there and figuring out where I'd park.
The day of the Skype interview with UT, the nonprofit group called me to offer me their job. However, they told me that between the time of my interview and now, they'd decided to change the job title and some of the duties of the position I'd applied for; it was still a good job, but it was no longer what I thought it was going to be. It now wasn't as attractive to me as the UT job – which by this time I was 99% sure I was going to get.
Notice those words "perfect" and "sure" above? Not-so-subtle foreshadowing. By now you can probably guess what happened.
I declined the nonprofit job offer. And then UT emailed me a few days later to say they decided to hire someone else.
I think I stared at that email for about ten minutes in pure disbelief. "Oh Crap" is a tame version of my reaction. My perfect interviews and my perfect preparation and my perfect planning all crumbled away into nothingness as I sat there. I started to feel the fear rise up from a pit deep inside me – what had I done?
In the following days, I searched for the bigger message in this ego-busting development. I looked for the answer in many different forms of chocolate, but nothing materialized (except lots of calories). I even blamed the huge Texas flag hanging on my wall that was visible in the background of my Skype interview camera view; I took that flag to the 2010 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong autographed it for me right in the middle of the white star…maybe they saw that and held it against me, another casualty of the cycling doping controversy?
This wasn't the way things were supposed to happen. Or was it? Where was Shakespeare's quoted book of fate when you needed it? Of course I wanted to know why this detour had forced me to take another direction, but then I started to think that maybe what I needed to focus on was not the "why," but the new direction in and of itself.
You see, before I'd applied to either of those jobs or quit my current job, I'd been thinking of and toying with the idea of doing something completely different with my life. Ditching the traditional 40-hour office landscape for a much different one that I'd been thinking of for many, many years. One that is vastly more colorful and joyful and meaningful. I applied for those two jobs out of interest, yes, but also out of fear. Fear that my other visions and hopes and ideas weren't good enough somehow.
But now here I was at the literal crossroads of fear and fortitude. Inextricably intertwined. Giving into one could mean sacrificing the other. And even though I would have been very good in either of those jobs that I applied for had I gotten them, I feel somehow that the universe was, just maybe (even though it's pretty busy with all the supernovas and collapsing stars and whatnot) whispering in my ear, "It's not the right time for that." And so I decided to listen. And I'm ok with the way things turned out.
As I finished the last few days at my job, I felt strangely calm – this, despite not having a perfect plan in place for my next steps. Or maybe because of the lack of a perfect plan. Or maybe it was just blissfully-ignorant shock, but it was nice. And I felt a sense of freedom – not just from the weight of the job stress being lifted off my shoulders, but also from the blank slate being presented to me. (But I hate the feeling of chalk on my hands, so I'm going to think of it as a blank whiteboard.)
Yes, I've had a few moments of self-doubt…I think it would be strange if I hadn't. I have to keep reminding myself that we get this one life, this one chance in a fleetingly short blip on the universal timeline of history to do what makes us feel alive and worthy and content – to do what makes us UNunhappy.
Is the universe talking to you? What is it saying? And does it have an accent? Enquiring minds want to know.
À la prochaine!
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As an SUV-buying society, we haven't properly appreciated the Volkswagen Tiguan all through its existence. Now that it's 2019, it's still not too late, but the boundaries have changed.
For years, the Tiguan, Volkswagen's compact crossover, was the company's SUV, even when it wasn't so much an SUV as a tall station wagon. It was always convenient for hauling a family and gear on trips, across the country or to the mall, or to hockey, soccer, baseball or basketball practice. It was solid, substantial, and performed well for both power, agility and gas mileage.
When the SUV craze not only hit but escalated rapidly out of control, companies that built cars soon realized that if they didn't also build SUVs, they might soon be marketed right out of existence. I recall when Porsche built its first Cayenne, those of us in the invited automotive media assembled to drive the vehicles on and off a race track and off-road. The question on everybody's mind finally got asked.
"Why would Porsche, a company that builds the best sports cars on the planet, bother building an SUV?"
The Porsche executive answered without hesitation: "So that we can continue to build the best sports cars on the planet."
Those words ring true for every manufacture now, and not just because Porsche comes under the Volkswagen corporate umbrella. The other reason is that Porsche buyers also wanted SUVs, and they wanted high-end SUVs and were willing to pay a lot of money for them. The Cayenne gave Porsche buyer/owner types the chance to buy an SUV and stay within the Porsche family.
For Volkswagen itself, Beetles, Golfs, Jettas and Passats remained as good cars, great cars, maybe, but sales were shrinking as buyers were going elsewhere to find and buy SUVs. The Sport-Wagen worked well enough, but more size was wanted, if not needed. So the Tiguan continued as an SUV, and Volkswagen added a couple larger SUVs, including the Atlas.
But a year ago, Volkswagen decided to lengthen the Tiguan. Buyers who liked it also wanted a third-row seat, and to meet the demand, or at least the request, VW lengthened the Tiguan and added a third row seat, which could fold down for added cargo space.
For 2018, Volkswagen sold two Tiguans, the remainder of the shorter model, and the highly promoted longer one. For 2019, the longer one is the only one still being produced. To meet all desires, VW makes the two versions different.
The difference comes with a choice of VW's 4Motion all-wheel drive or front-wheel drive, and the choice of two rows of seats, seating five, or three rows, seating seven. Typical of German companies, VW tells us which choice we must buy.
If you want all-wheel drive, you can get either two or three rows; if you choose front-wheel drive — for better fuel economy or because of no need for AWD — you can only get three rows of seats. If you want two rows and FWD, you're out of luck.
It may not be a big issue, because the test vehicle we had came with the colorful R-Line trim that included bright "Saffron" insets in the black leather seats, and we folded the third row down to carry some larger items, and promptly forgot it was even there. So folding it down flat behind the roomy second row is a viable option, and if you wind up as the car-pooling driver, you can pop it up in a flash and use the third row seats.
The Tiguan SEL Premium R-Line test vehicle, with 4Motion, carried a list price of $40,485, including a $595 tag for the third-row seat.
It came with Volkswagen's tried and trusty 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine, a jewel of performance that has dual overhead camshafts, direct fuel injection and a turbocharger, produces 184 horsepower and 221 foot-pounds of torque, running through all four wheels with 4Motion, and regulated by an 8-speed automatic transmission.
That is the only powertrain offered in any Tiguan. The vehicle has a towing capacity of 1,500 pounds, which isn't a lot, but is pretty good for a vehicle that is calculated to be just a bit smaller than what qualifies as a midsize SUV.
With its tall seating position and well-supported comfort, the Tiguan is always pleasant to drive, or to ride in, and just to make my North Shore home on Lake Superior more viable as the perfect road-resting venue, we got a quick and surprising snowstorm that covered and surrounded the Tiguan, but it simply breezed through every challenge.
Well, almost. The greatest challenge was another Volkswagen/German decision made for its owners and drivers. There is a neat little rotating mode switch on the console, and you can turn it to engage different settings for Eco, Normal, Sport, or Custom. Eco gave us front-wheel drive, for most normal driving. After the snowstorm, we simply turned the switch to the setting that incorporated snow driving, as opposed to highway, hills, mud, rocks and off-road, and it went fine.
I noticed my wife, Joan, pulling out one morning and the front wheels spun a bit as she got going in our driveway . I sent her a text message for later reading to say I thought somehow she had switched into front-wheel drive. She responded that I was correct and that she realized quickly that the Tiguan would go to default every time you shut it off, so when you start up again, you're in FWD, not AWD.
I'm not sure that's a major issue, but it would make more sense, in Northern Minnesota, for every VW to have AWD as its "Default" setting from November to May. If you start up after a blizzard that is deep enough and on a slippery base, you could get into more trouble than you deserve if you think you're in AWD but have only FWD.
Because they have made the Tiguan rock-solid for years, driving the new Tiguan gives you a secure feeling of confidence, and the car also handles our other two premier test-driving attractions: Steep hills and enough potholes to meet the requirements of any obstacle course.
Along with the safe build quality, the Tiguan SEL Premium houses adaptive cruise control, park distance control front and rear, remote start, and keyless access, for convenience. Once underway, you also benefit from forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking and pedestrian detection, active blind spot and rear traffic alerts, lane keeping system with lane assist, high beam control, touchscreen navigation, anti-theft alarm with engine immobilizer, voice-control with touchscreen navigation, all the USB and connectivity receptacles, and a special feature — the Digital Cockpit borrowed from affiliate Audi that can be adjusted to get all sorts of information within the gauges.
The Tiguan has gotten more attractive since being stretched, with a Passat/Jetta style grille and front styling, and its proportions seem to fit the lengthier body style. The longer Tiguan makes the previous one look short and stubby by comparison, and not as elegant.
For the sake of full disclosure, however, I have to say now that the shorter Tiguan is out of production, I really miss that vehicle. Long live the new Tiguan, but thanks to the used car market, the older, shorter Tiguan will still be findable.


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Thursday semiar - two presentations, on consent law in Sweden; and maternal birth injuries
Two previous Master students at the Centre for Gender Research present their Masters' dissertations:
"Allt annat än ett ja...": En genusvetenskaplig analys av det sexuella samtyckets konstruktion i lagstiftningsprocessens publikationer (Hilda Broqvist)
Erfarenheter av förlossningsskador: Hur genus- och sexualitetsnormer påverkar diagnostik, vardagsliv och sjukvård i Sverige (Sara Persson)
Death at the End of the Rainbow: Rethinking Queer Kinship, Rituals of Remembrance and the Finnish Culture of Death
Varpu Alasuutari defended her PhD in gender studies at the University of Turku, Finland on June 5, 2020. In her dissertation, she has examined death and loss as parts of queer and trans lives in Finland from the 1980s to the 2010s. Her research interests include queer kinship studies, queer death studies and feminist affect theories.
Unpacking the coloniality of power nexus in Indian surrogacy
This talk explores the historical legacies of colonialism to contemporary forms of reproductive labour in India.
Children and child-centeredness as social mechanisms in father-to-father relations during parental leave
This presentation explores, from a feminist and critical realist perspective, whether and how children and child-centeredness function as social mechanisms in father-to-father relations.
Digitala förbindelser: Rum, riktning och queera förbindelser
(NB this seminar is held in Swedish)
Evelina Liliequist disputerade i etnologi 24 april 2020 vid Umeå universitet. Sedan maj 2020 anställd som förste forskningsassistent på Humlab, Umeå universitet. Nuvarande forskningsprojekt kommer handla om hur hbtq-personer uppvisar/gör familj och släktskap på Instagram med utgångspunkt i två tematiska hashtags.
Gendered territoriality and the contemporaneity of colonialism in present-day Brazil
Messy Trans Experiences in Norway and the Paradox of Legal Gender Recognition
The questions guiding this presentation are: What impact does legal recognition of one's gender identity have on one's sense of self? And, is the law really as progressive for trans people as it appears to be?
Trans and Sex Change in Contemporary Iran: A Socio-legal Study of Gendered Policies and Practices
Zara Saeidzadeh completed her doctoral degree in Gender Studies at Örebro University, Sweden on June 4, 2020. In her doctoral thesis, she examines the lives of trans people who undergo sex-change surgery in Iran from a socio-legal perspective. She now teaches and works as a researcher in Gender Studies at Örebro University. She is also a research associate at Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concord
The toxicity of industrial/breadwinner masculinities; when climate change denial and white supremacy meet
This presentation will scrutinize a particular emblematic example of how anti-environmentalism and anti-feminism today overlap; that of Greta Thunberg.


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Running In May
I am making fantastic progress on my 2012 running goals 🙂
- Miles Run: 152.1
- Days Run: 24
- Days Off: 7
- Longest Run: 13.3 5/15/12
- Fastest Run: 8:13 5/27/12 – Home 5K Course
- Best Week: 50.88 week ending 5/27/12
Shoes Run In
- Nike Free 4.0 v2 – Absolutely love them, I ran 50 miles in them the first week I had them with NO problems. They just fit my feet and running style.
- Saucony Kinvara 2 – Have been retired to walking and mowing the lawn.
- New Balance MT110 – Are in the closet until I start running trails again.
- Newton Gravity – Are in the closet, they required too much work (shoe surgery) to make them fit my feet correctly and so that I didn't keep rubbing my ankle raw. It is too bad because I really like the Newtons.
Races Run
Summary: While I haven't raced this month, I consider it a great month! On 5/17 I got to talk with the local Newton representative about my form and my shoes. So I know what improvements I have to make with my form.
I found the shoes that work for me better than any have in recent memory and went back to my old standby – Nike. I have more gear and have worn more Nike shoes than any other brand and I keep coming back to them for a reason – they just work for me.
This month in a word: Great
I ended April at 155 and today 5/31 am at 153 still loosing about two pounds in a month – it doesn't sound like a lot, but the reality is that it is in that 155 is MY GOAL WEIGHT, so it is a huge deal! I am under my goal weight. I really believe that the number of long runs and mileage that I am putting in is getting the weight down.
With better weather on the horizon, I have a feeling that I will be hitting my goal weight and staying between 150-155 which is where TheWife would like me to stay and I think that is a good weight for me to be at.
43 pounds lost since June 17, 2011
Run Blogging
- Tommie Copper Sleeve Review – First Impressions
- First Run in Asics Gel Blur 33 – 2/16/12
- My Transition Plan to Minimalist Running Shoes
- Tommie Copper – Is Working
- Wordless Wednesday – 2/1/12
- Newton Gravity–After 50 Miles
- Running Log Spreadsheet Template
- Narrowed the Choices Down to 5 Running Shoes
- Zensah Compression Socks – Follow-up Review
- Saucony Kinvara 2 – After 50 Miles
I have made a couple of decisions and we will see how they turn out over the course of the next month. But I should be doing a lot more blogging and getting back to being who I am really am.
One of the things that I really like to do is to review new gear. Whether I buy something myself or provided a product to review, I enjoy trying it out and seeing if it works as advertised or not. But more importantly – whether I like it or not and why. Blogging about running related products makes me think differently about what I am using – which is a good thing.
I have done the following product reviews this month:
- Nike Free 4.0 v2 – After 50 Miles – Personal Purchase
- First Run in Nike 4.0 Free Rides – Personal Purchase
- Zensah Compression Socks – Follow-up Review – Media Sample
- Newton Gravity – Running Shoe Surgery – Personal Purchase
I didn't have many opportunities to review products this month, but that is okay, I enjoyed just focusing on my running for a change.
Running Goals
A slight change to my goals – is to make sure that I am enjoying running and not letting it become too much like work.
Good progress, while I worked hard at my running, I didn't allow it to become work. I still look forward to my runs and don't get too wound up about them if they are not quite what I am looking for that day 🙂
This year my big goals are:
- Run 1,200 miles – I am ahead of schedule having a total of 672.9 miles through 5-months.
- Run a sub 20:00 5K – This will be very tough to do, but for now I am working on my mileage base and not worrying too much about speed, in training runs last month. I am just getting ready for the 1/2 Marathon on June 24th.
- Get through 2012 without any significant down time or injuries (running related or others). Just some aches and strains so far
- My unadvertised goals from the start of the year are to be able to finish a half-marathon. Ran a 01:48:59 for a training run, so I am way ahead of schedule for this one.
- Run a few trail races when the weather gets better – I just haven't run any trails, since I found the young lady with a broken leg, I don't know if that affected me subconsciously or what, but I need to get back to my trail running – I do miss it.
My long-term goal will be to run the 2013 Marine Corps Marathon. I finished the 1983 Marathon and to run/finish Marine Corps again 30 years later would be very cool. This is one of the major goals that I have in mind for my running and it would be even more fantastic if I could qualify for Boston that same day. Therefore, I am doing a 2 year work-up to the Marathon distance, just to see if my knee will hold up.
The reality is that
May was another great month for running. I hope that I finally got my shoe miseries sorted out and that the Nike Free 4.0 are as great at 300-500 miles as they were in their first 50. There is just something about how I run in them that makes me feel comfortable running in them.


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There was no Muslim leader offering prayers or reading scripture at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday, serving as a symbol of the incoming administration's contempt for the religious community.
The swearing-in featured six faith-based leaders including five Christian leaders and one rabbi. Two of the clergy were prosperity preachers, who preach that God rewards the faithful with financial rewards. This inauguration was the first time prosperity preachers participated in the ceremony.
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump has garnered support and praise for proposing hardline views on Islam and discriminatory anti-Muslim policies. Some of these include calling a religion with 1.6 billion followers a "hateful foreign ideology" and advocating for a Muslim registry. Trump also called on Rev. Robert Jeffress, of St. John's Episcopal Church, to preach at a private church service on Friday ahead of the swearing-in ceremony. Jeffress once called Islam an "evil religion" that "promotes pedophilia."
Lila Igram, a mother of three children from Austin, Texas, said she's not surprised there's no imam featured in Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
"I would just say considering Trump's track record to date, it doesn't surprise me," Igram said. "But it's a shame. If he truly wants to be a president for all Americans he would be more representative. Although I'm not surprised, I still find it shocking to not include a representative from the second largest religion in the world."
Igram, who is Muslim American, said she's concerned about the future of her family under Trump's America — but she remains optimistic. "The theme remains — stay positive, more work to do," she said.
The inaugural committee, however, selected Imam Mohamed Magid to perform the athan (or the Islamic call to prayer) on Saturday. Magid will be one of 26 religious leaders who will read scripture at the National Prayer Service held at the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday. He also led prayer at Obama's 2013 inauguration prayer service.
Magid is an imam for the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center in Sterling, Virginia, and has received mixed reaction from the Islamic community for his involvement in Trump's inauguration service.
Dr. Maha Hilal of the Muslim American Women's Policy Forum said that Magid's decision to participate in the interfaith service "represents nothing less than an acquiesing of any political power that Muslims in the U.S. could have had." Hilal said Magid's involvement at the service will signal to the new administration that Muslims will "tolerate a hostile discourse and problematic national security policies," referring to Trump's draconian approach to crack down on "Islamic extremists."
"At a time when Muslims should be rising up, Imam Magid is instead bowing down and setting a dangerous precedent for how Muslims can be treated and still cooperate in the next four years," Hilal said.
In a statement posted on Facebook, Magid said his decision was an effort to "to elevate our shared principles, champion freedom, and promote civil rights for all Americans."
"In doing so, we will demonstrate to all who witness this service that our nation is strengthened by our diversity, enriched by our common humanity, and sustained by our belief in God Almighty," Magid said.
Sabiha Ansari, a Muslim-American mother from central New Jersey, said she trusts Magid's judgement and believes he didn't take this decision lightly.
"The American Muslim community is quite diverse and there will not be one single way to tackle the incoming administration," Ansari said. "This is the time for the community to support our leaders and have faith that their years of service and engagement will lead to the right choices."
Shahed Amanullah, a former senior adviser in the Obama administration, said Muslim leaders are put in a tenuous position between being an advocate for their community and serving as representatives within government engagement under a Trump administration.
"Muslim leaders who for years have advocated for engagement with government are being put in a difficult position," Shahed Amanullah, a former senior advisor in the Obama administration told Mic via Facebook message. "Avoiding, or worse being excluded from, participation in governance is a complete reversal of the strategy of the last decade — after all, it's our government too and we have a right to a seat at the table. But giving the Trump administration even the slightest bit of validation is unthinkable."


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6 chicken breast halves, skinless and boneless
1/8 tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
6 slices Swiss cheese — 4-inch-square
2 cans (10 3/4 oz ea) condensed cream of chicken or mushroom soup
1/4 cup milk
1 box herb-seasoned stuffing mix (Stove Top is good)
1/2 cup butter — melted
Place chicken in a lightly greased 13x 9x 2-inch baking dish; sprinkle
with garlic powder and pepper. Top each breast half with a cheese slice; set aside. (Or slice a block of Swiss cheese and put as much cheese over the chicken as you like.)
Combine soup and milk, stirring until smooth; pour over chicken.
Sprinkle with stuffing mix, and drizzle with butter. Cover and bake at 350* F. for 50 minutes or until chicken is done. Yield: 6 servings.
½ lb. Pasta bow ties – cooked/drained
1 lb. Chicken sausages
3 Onions, coarsely chopped
6 Garlic coves, minced
½ c. White wine
28 oz. Crushed tomatoes
2 T. Basil
1 T. Oregano
2 T. Fennel seeds
½- 1 c. Cottage cheese or ricotta
½ c. Parmesan
Prick sausages; place in pan with 1″ water and 1 T. olive oil;
bring to boil; reduce and let liquid cook away and brown till
crisp or broil till crisp; deglaze pan w/wine. Slice on angle.
Saute onions, garlic; add sausage; herbs, tomatoes & bring to
bubble; cook on low. To drained pasta; add cheeses. Place half
of sausage mixture in oval baking dish; top with pasta and
remaining sausage; cover with Parmesan grated or shaved; place
under broiler till cheese are browned and melted.
Chicken Recipes – LOW CALORIE CHICKEN
Famous Recipes
2 (15 ounce) chicken breasts, split
½ cup tomato puree
1 (4 ounce) can sliced mushrooms, drained, reserve liquid.
½ medium onion, diced
2 tablespoons fresh parsley
½ teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup plain yogurt
Brown chicken in no stick skillet. Drain off fat. Add tomato puree, mushroom liquid, and next 5 ingredients. Cook and simmer over low heat until chicken is tender. Stir occasionally. (if puree starts to stick, add small amount of water.) Reduce heat and add yogurt and mushrooms. Stir until mixture is heated through. DO NOT BOIL.
Serves 4.
250 calories, per serving.
Famous Recipes – Saucy BBQ Chicken & Potato Skillet
Saucy BBQ Chicken & Potato Skillet
Famous Recipes – Chicken Recipes
10 new red potatoes, halved (1 lb.)
2 tsp. oil
4 small boneless skinless chicken breast halves (1 lb.)
1 medium onion, sliced
2 cups frozen peas
1/4 cup fat-free reduced-sodium chicken broth
1/4 cup KRAFT Original Barbecue Sauce
1/4 cup KRAFT CATALINA Dressing
PLACE potatoes in microwaveable dish; cover. Microwave on HIGH 15 min.
or until tender.
MEANWHILE, heat oil in large nonstick skillet on medium-high heat. Add
chicken and onions; cook 10 min. or until chicken is browned on both
sides, turning chicken over after 5 min. and stirring onions
ADD potatoes, peas, broth, barbecue sauce and dressing; mix well.
Cover. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer 5 min. or until peas are
heated and chicken is cooked through (170°F.)
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You've made it through your first full-time position, congratulations! Getting the first position is the hardest part, but you've managed to break into the industry. You've got the experience and some new skills, but how do you take it to the next level?
Below are five ways to get to the next level in your career.
Act like you are already in the next position.
Once you've mastered the requirements of your current position, start learning about what's required at the next level.
Let's say you are the assistant account executive for your team. You are charged with maintaining media lists, keeping the department clip report updated and assisting the team as needed. What does an account executive do? They might take your efforts further and build relationships with contacts on the media lists, they might create custom media lists, they use the clips in the report to share results with clients, etc. Start emulating those actions.
Take inventory of your job responsibilities and see how you can take them a step further.
Become a resource for your department
Is your boss having trouble getting a client invoice approved through accounting? Having trouble getting timely numbers and results from your research department?
It pays to network, even inside of your organization. Get to know the different parts of your organization and make yourself a resource for getting important but tedious tasks done quickly.
Continue your education
Become involved in your local PRSA chapter. Attend monthly luncheon or happy hours. Join a committee or participate in a Twitter chat or webinar. There are so many ways to get involved with PRSA and it shows that you are invested in becoming a better PR professional.
A positive attitude goes a long way
We've all had days when you are just not feeling up to it, whatever it maybe. Or things may be stressful in your personal life. But remember, work is not the place to take out your frustrations.
Maintaining a positive attitude may seem insignificant, but your coworkers and most importantly your boss will notice if you have a negative attitude. Shooting down others' ideas, not participating in team activities, showing disgust for tasks that you believe are beneath you will not get you promoted, but they can get you fired.
Learn to take constructive criticism
No one likes to be criticized. However, constructive criticism is crucial to advancing your career. Learn how to effectively take criticism and apply it to future situations and assignments. Incorporating feedback shows that you are a good listener and are mature enough to learn for criticism.
Most importantly, advancing and excelling in your career is a process. Learn from mistakes, apply criticism and feedback accordingly and cultivate your skills. You never know when the next opportunity will appear.
Victoria Lightfoot graduated from Georgia State University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism, concentrating in public relations. She is currently the PR coordinator at the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau and volunteers on PRSA Georgia's College Relations Committee and co-chairs the Travel & Tourism Special Interest Group. Connect with Victoria on LinkedIn and Twitter (@Victoria_Lenese)


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I love to entertain, and I'm always looking for new items to make me feel like the 'hostess with the mostest'. Which is why I'm so thrilled with one of GiftTree's new products, the Art Carafe with Glass Cork. I absolutely love it! It is an elegant, functional and versatile carafe.
You can definitely use this carafe for wine – it keeps chilled white wine cooler longer (which is perfect for those warm summer days) and it serves as a decanter for red wine. Even if you aren't a wine drinker, you will still find the carafe handy. It would make a wonderful presentation on the breakfast table with juice or you could even us it to store your favorite oil with style. The carafe holds 400 ml and comes elegantly wrapped to make it the perfect gift.


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Another Wolf Was Just Mysteriously Killed In Oregon
No one knows who's behind it.
Another endangered gray wolf was just found dead in Oregon. This is the latest in a string of mysterious wolf killings in the region and state officials are trying to find out who's responsible.
The wolf, known as OR-23, was found on November 14 in Wallowa County, Oregon, apparently dead of a gunshot wound.
"We are upset and frustrated by the unlawful wolf killings in Oregon," Doug Cottam, wildlife division administrator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), said. "Poaching of any wildlife is wrong and harmful to their conservation."
The body of OR-23 was found just a week after another wolf, a 4-year-old male known as OR-25, was found dead. Mere days earlier, an elk hunter shot dead a female wolf, reportedly believing her to be a coyote. And earlier this year OR-33 was found dead. Last fall, the body of a mother wolf, OR-28, was also discovered. Barring the elk hunter, who was excused because he claimed self-defense, no one knows who is responsible for all these deaths.
The situation becomes complicated because state officials in Oregon sometimes allow the killing of wolves in certain parts of the state when wolves prey on grazing cattle.
A study has found that when the state orders these killings it can actually increase illegal killings of wolves. "State-sanctioned killing is more likely to increase poaching than reduce it," Maggie Howell, executive director of the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC), told The Dodo recently.
According to Center for Biological Diversity, at least nine wolves have been poached or died under mysterious circumstances in Oregon since 2015. These deaths can reverberate through the packs and cause major setbacks for wolves trying to find mates and start families.
"The trend is indisputable," Brooks Fahy, executive director of Predator Defense, told The Dodo. "Individuals in Oregon are getting away with murder."


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Lycra crotchless panty reviews
Soft, feminine, demure and crotchless all this describes the Lycra Crotchless panty by Coquette. I love wearing something that is so very comfortable and allows full access to my charms. Going out in public sort of makes me glow and gives me a naughty look on my face that makes my guys smile knowingly. I would buy every color if EF would decide to offer more!
While the Lycra Crotchless Panty by Coquette is comfortable and pretty, the crotchless slit just does not work for me. The slit starts too low down my crotch and makes its way up my bum crack. If I wanted the slit to sit where it does when I wear other crotchless panties, I'd have to pull the front of the panty up near my belly button. Yeah, not going to happen. The panty may work for others but it didn't for me.
The item may well be worth the cost for less sensitive women who range more either to the smaller size or larger size. The plus size was too plus for my wife and I wonder if the one size fits most would have been the right size.
Want to blow your partner's mind with these sexy and demure looking underwear? Show off your naughty little secret! Easy access is hidden in the crotch of these underwear. Yep, a slit that stays closed during wear, making them look like a normal pair of underwear. Wear these any time you want a sexy boost and as a teaser for your partner to enjoy!!
These panties have me torn. On one hand they are super high quality and amazingly comfortable. They are sexy and the cut it super flattering, and the lace and silky material look lovely. I can say all these nice things about these panties, but the point is that the crotch-slit is about useless. It's way too hard to push aside and it's too far back to really let anyone have access to the important bits. These get a four star review from me, but I may end up just sewing the slit closed.


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Join us every Thursday evening for a festive night of live music, drink specials, and easy-going REVELRY.
Modeled in the funk and soul tradition, Aztec Sun's boisterous crew of performers are known for infectious songwriting, rhythmic versatility, and energetic performances.
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
Expected Run Time is 75 minutes


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Jef Gilson was born Jean-François Quiévreux in 1926. He was the great father figure of franch modern and avant jazz, which is quite surprising since he had qute conservative views on life. Well… At least compared to his peers, as you couldn't say Bernard Vitet, Michel Portal or Jac Berrocal (all past guests of this show) were the most balanced beings back then, those were a furious bunch set to revolutionize jazz and more. Jef was probably the best channel to that fury. Having started his professional career in the Boris Vian Big Band, he was used to handeling bands, big ones. A true inovator of the piano, he wasn't shy with new technology and fashions, embraced the studio and it's pasting techniques, embraced the electronic keyboards, and first and foremost, he embraced his time! His own Palm label is the only true historical competitor with the great Futura label, and he helped launch musicians such as Byard Lancaster or Khan Jamal into new heights. But his greater contribution is to have set the standard of french avant jazz at its highest, while still reconizing its musical roots. His meeting with Madagascar and its musicians is also of high interest, as when stuck there in may 1968, he discovered the musical scene and collaborated with many local musicians, brought them back to Paris and set a new tradition. He
Jef wasmostly retired from the music scene years ago, and he died February the 5th. We've often played his music over the years in this show, but it's sad that he's still not recognised as he should be, so let's hope this very show helps people finding their way into the world of one of the most versatile and innovative musician of the 20th century.
Bertrand Delanowave
Jef Gilson – Three Four One – LP – Enfin! – Le Club De L'Echéquier (1963)
Jef Gilson – Curious – LP – Enfin! – Le Club De L'Echéquier (1963)
Gilson – Salegy Jef – LP – Malagasy At Newport-Paris – Palm (1973)
The Jef Gilson Nonet feat. Jean Louis Chautemps – A Free Call – LP – New Call From France – Polydor -1966)
Gilson – Sodina – LP – Malagasy – Palm/Lumen (1972)
Jef Gilson / Jean-Charles Capon / Gilbert Rovere / Jean-Luc Ponty / Lionel Magal – Chromatisme – LP – Concert À La M.J.C. Colombes – Palm (1972)
Jef Gilson – L'Imagination Au Pouvoir – LP – Le Massacre Du Printemps – Futura (1971)
Europamerica – Chromatisme – LP – Europamerica – Palm (1977)
Jef Gilson / Jean-Luc Ponty / Jean-Louis Chautemps – Chant Inca – LP – Œil Vision – Club De l'Echiquier (1963)