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Health special: Dieting tips for those with a stressful lifestyle
Diet matters, they say. Often and enough number of times, the stress on diet has been made. Not only to lose weight but to curb hair loss, for glowing skin and sharp eyesight
Diet matters, they say. Often and enough number of times, the stress on diet has been made. Not only to lose weight but to curb hair loss, for glowing skin and sharp eyesight. Dash diet is one of the latest additions to the bevy of diets that are available, but this one is a bit different. In a city, like Pune where the stress levels are quite high, this diet just might be its healing pill.
What it means
Dash is an acronym for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. City-based diet consultant Shivani Shah explains, "It is a therapeutic diet which is predominantly prescribed to people who are suffering from hypertension. It helps to lower high blood pressure and therefore, reducing the risk of developing heart diseases."
Krupa Mhatre, nutrition expert reveals that it also works for those who are looking forward to knocking off some kilos. "The focus here is on vegetables, fruits and low-fat dairy produce along with grains, fish, poultry and everything which comes under healthy food. That means you keep the salt, high sugar level products and red meats down."
Both the dieticians support Dash diet for the various advantages it is associated with. "Benefits include a tab on blood pressure and kidney stone creation. It also keeps kidney diseases away and lessens the risk of various kinds of cancer, heart-related concerns and averts diabetes," Mhatre reveals.
Shah substantiates that Dash is a diet that one can have on a daily basis as it consists of the right amount of protein and fibre. It is also very filling, compared to other weight loss diets which starve you and eventually increase one's craving for sugar."
Advice to all
Going for small but frequent meals like eating 6-8 meals a day enables you to eat healthily. Try keeping the food items seasonal and colourful on your plates.
The Dash diet meal
Following are the average portions for one meal:
>> 150-200 gm of low fat dairy products
>> 100 gm of fish/chicken/egg whites
>> 1 fruit which fits in the fist (as a mid meal)
>> 200 gm of vegetables
>> 5-7 dry fruits (as a mid meal)
>> 7-8 gm of oil can be had in cooked meals.
Include these
Whole grains, whole wheat and multi-grain flour should be had for fibre and complex carbohydrates.
Pulses are for proteins.
Fat-free dairy products lower the intake of saturated fats and provide good proteins as well as calcium, magnesium and vitamin B12 among other nutrients.
Vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, chickpeas, cucumber, green peppers, and sweet potatoes are low in sodium, good sources of fibres, and helps reduce excess absorption of nutrients.
Go for fruits with low in sodium and high in potassium like apples, bananas, peaches, pears and watermelons.
Include unsalted fishes, chicken and egg whites for proteins, but make sure it is cooked in a way that maintains its nutrition.
Seeds and nuts happen to be the good guys of fats for maintaining cholesterol levels and providing Vitamin D3 to develop calcium absorption.
While choosing vegetable oils, Mhatre suggests rotating them so that you get both PUFA & MUFA oils in your list.
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Compared to last year's COP21 in Paris, the work that needed to be hammered out in Marrakech was never going to be the most glamorous, but as we again break global records for the hottest year on record, it is especially significant.
And it delivered more of a roller-coaster course than expected. From celebrating the Paris Agreement becoming international law in record time to an unexpected US election result and the usual twists and turns of the negotiations themselves – the Marrakech climate talks have been an exciting ride.
The big news story was of course the surprising election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. The atmosphere at the conference on results day was sombre – after all he'd described climate change as a Chinese hoax – but negotiators took it in their stride and got on with their work.
The resolve of nations to fight climate change didn't waver, and all nations clearly restated that they are in this for the long haul in the Marrakech Action Proclamation, and national statements. Momentum is encouraging on several fronts. Eleven countries including Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom have ratified the Paris Agreement since the day of the US election. As the conference closed in the late hours of Friday night, 112 countries covering nearly 79 per cent of global emissions were members of the Paris club. The highlight was a commitment by 48 of the most climate-vulnerable countries to shift to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 and to look at improving their current climate pledges in 2018 – this is real leadership!
The world is moving to low-carbon and there is irreversible momentum that will grow as commitments across all sectors of society pour in.
Several countries pressed ahead with their long-term carbon-reduction plans in the 2050 Pathways Platform which also sees commitment from businesses and cities to engage in solving our climate crisis. These pledges are becoming more significant as cities and businesses recognise the benefits these sorts of actions bring.
While COP21 was a hard act to follow, this round of negotiations did what it needed to do in terms of setting out the timeline to agree the rules of the game by 2018 – these rules will guide the implementation of the Paris Agreement, including transparent emissions baselines and the five-year cycle to toughen targets. Important, too, was the process on the so-called "2018 facilitative dialogue" which will be an opportunity to compare national and aggregate Paris Agreement targets to the latest science and to start to tighten them.
The efforts by countries, cities, businesses and more are welcome but there still remains a growing "emissions gap" between what is needed to limit warming and the Paris pledges. Rapid and deep emissions reductions along with preparing for worse climate impacts are essential for the world's future prosperity, safety and security.
The story in the UK is still mixed. The ratification of the Paris Agreement, the commitment to phase out coal-fired power generation by 2025 and the setting of the fifth carbon-budget under the Climate Change Act are great signals by the UK. However, moves to expand airports and support fracking over renewable energy are sending the wrong signals. The government needs to maintain the positive momentum and publish the awaited Emissions Reduction Plan that sets out how the UK will follow through our climate commitments. This plan needs to outline a coherent set of policies and deliver action over the next 15 years to achieve the fifth carbon-budget and keep the UK on the right track towards our 2050 goal and a sustainable and prosperous future.

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Advertising 101: Know Your Audience
Ever seen this ad before? If you can believe it, it's a McDonalds ad from a few years ago. In their effort to be really hip and cool, they accidentally offended and annoyed the very audience they were trying to impress. Unbeknownst to the out-of-touch marketing department, they were encouraging young men to copulate with hamburgers. Based on the guy's expression, it appears that he was actually considering it. Those double cheeseburgers must be really good.
What's the lesson here? There are far too many to list, but these are the ones that come to mind:
- Know your audience. If you're speaking to a young, urban demographic, have some sort of knowledge regarding slang terms. Corollary: don't encourage sex with your products.
- Know yourself. If you don't have all the answers, it's ok. Just don't fake it, or you might end up looking foolish (and, in McDonalds' case, creepy as hell).
Obviously, this was a big blunder, but McDonalds is so huge they were able to absorb the impact and not skip a beat. A smaller company, however, might not be so lucky, so unless you're a behemoth like Ronald McDonald you should avoid these types of mistakes at all costs.
Capitalize on your brand equity to gain market share
Frank Sinatra had a Vegas-inspired song called "Luck Be A Lady." One of the lines in the song is:
"Stick with me, baby, I'm the guy that you came in with."
In many ways, marketing is like Lady Luck that ol' Blue Eyes is singing about, especially when it comes to branding. This is one of the trickier subjects to explain to someone new to marketing. In a nutshell, branding is the sum total of experiences and perceptions that a company has with its customers, competitors, and marketplace. The tactical elements of marketing — websites, brochures, advertising, etc. — are physical manifestations of branding. There's also something called brand equity, which is not only a perceived value of a brand, but it can also be a tangible value. In fact, many organizations carry their brand as an asset on their balance sheets, with an actual dollar amount attached to it. Google has the highest brand value in the world, which is estimated to be worth more than $100 Billion. Software giant Microsoft has the second highest rated brand in the world, worth over $76 Billion.
There's a reason why I mention these two examples together. You've undoubtedly noticed the "Bing" logo at the top of the entry. You may also be asking yourself, "what the hell is Bing?" As it turns out, Bing is the newest incarnation of Microsoft's search engine, renamed from Windows Live Search. In my opinion, Microsoft made a big mistake and squandered a golden opportunity. They took one of the most high-profile aspects of the Internet (search engines), went up against the 800-pound gorilla, and didn't take advantage of the Microsoft brand equity. Even worse, when you go to the Bing home page, the Microsoft name is nowhere to be found, so they can't springboard their new brand off the established Microsoft name. How can you realistically pit a $100 Billion brand against a brand with zero equity? Frankly, you can't. Microsoft doomed Bing to the ash heap of history before it even launched, just like another one of their infamous failures. The rest is just an exercise in futility.
What's the lesson here? The Microsoft branding team should have told the Bing team, "stick with me, baby, I'm the guy that you came in with." The only thing left is a roll of the dice and the hope that Lady Luck is on their side. I wouldn't bet on it.
How do you define a hot lead?
"If you ain't dialin', I ain't smilin'."
"Fill the pipeline and sort it out later."
"All leads are good leads."
We've heard them all before. Most people (and seemingly all of my past bosses) equate number of leads with quality of leads. Go to a trade show, have a giveaway contest in the booth, collect 3,000 leads, and consider the show an unparalleled success. Unfortunately, once the smoke clears and the afterglow of the show has passed, you soon realize that those 3,000 leads were nothing more than "trick or treaters" looking for a freebie to take back home. After spending six months chasing down all 3,000 leads, you discover that only 35 of them are actual revenue-generating customers, and only half of them are ready to make a purchase decision. In the end, you've spent $100,000 on a trade show that netted 12 customers and generated $150,000 in sales. Take into consideration all the efforts to get the booth ready, manning the booth, and time that the salespeople were out of the field, and suddenly you find yourself in a conversation with your manager about cutting back the number of shows your company attends next year.
The problem, of course, is not the show. Rather, it's the way you pre-define prospects, leads, and customers. For every marketing program — whether it's a trade show, advertising campaign, webinar, etc.— you need to have a game plan before, during, and after the event. You need to take the time to fully understand the customers, the needs of those customers, the sales process (see my "Lily pad" marketing entry for more info on nurturing a prospect into a customer), the messages that will resonate with customers in a differentiating manner, and the most effective medium with which to communicate. Complicated? Absolutely, but not on the rocket science level. Effective? Without a doubt.
I've helped many companies and clients with their lead generation needs (here's a success story from my website), so if you're looking for someone to help you, give me a shout.
"Field of Dreams" marketing
Build it and they will come.
If only that were true.
Too often, marketing and product teams fall prey to what I call "Field of Dreams" marketing. Whether it's a slick new website, or a shiny new product, or a fancy new advertising campaign, many companies will rely on their internal 'tribal knowledge' and fail to research, survey, measure, and test new marketing/sales/product ideas. There's an assumption that, if there are enough people that believe in it, it will inevitably become successful. Even worse is the idea that so much time and money has been sunk into something that there's no turning back. These thought processes can prove fatal for companies, especially during a recession, when cash is tight and customers are hard to find.
I have a dirty little secret to share: using good processes on the front end can actually help save you time and money on the back end. So how can you avoid stepping on the Field of Dreams? There are several things you can do to sidestep the pitfalls… let's focus on the three examples above:
- A slick new website – good websites are expensive, and if they aren't done right they can actually act as a barrier to customer acquisition (for more on websites, read my entry "Your website is your strongest sales tool"). Ask your customers about your ideas to change the site. Develop a clear plan for what you want your site to accomplish. Hire an experienced expert.
- A shiny new product – CEOs and VPs love to use their "instincts" to determine the next generation of products and services. Resist the temptation or the results can be disastrous. Use honest-to-goodness focus groups, advisory panels, and marketing research to complement the internal knowledge.
- A fancy new advertising campaign – alas, marketing teams just love to develop new ideas for communicating to a company's audience, but that can be dangerous if kept unchecked, leading to groupthink marketing or even worse (yes, that's a real McDonalds ad). Remember your audience; if your communicating with software developers, for example, you wouldn't want anything over-the-top or cheesy because they would resist it like the plague.
You get the idea. By applying best practices, like the Aximum Marketing Success Cycle, you can make sure your efforts are focused and on-target. Just keep your eye on the ball and you'll be fine.
New Coke – worst marketing idea ever. Don't repeat it.
How many of you remember this?
Most people agree that this was the worst marketing idea ever. After all, how many other marketing blunders are actually on Wikipedia because of their significance? Yet this is exactly what happened back in 1985, when Michael Jackson and the Pepsi Generation were all the rage. Coca-Cola found itself in a dogfight with Pepsi, and they were losing market share rapidly. Instead of acting like the industry leader — assessing the situation, taking advantage of their market presence, coming up with a game plan, and executing on the plan — they decided to do something a little… different. They changed the 100 year-old formula of their flagship product and renamed it New Coke. All the Jello-flavored smirks of Bill Cosby couldn't undo the damage from this fatal error in judgment.
Beware the Law of Unintended Consequences. Instead of Coca-Cola gaining traction and buzz from this huge announcement, Pepsi was able to capitalize on the change by announcing it had won the cola wars. They claimed that Coke knew it couldn't win, so it stopped competing and created a new product instead. A lot of people believed that, and after a very short-lived bump in popularity New Coke continued Coca-Cola's slide in market share until they brought back the old Coke, which they curiously called Coke Classic (probably because pride didn't allow them to fully admit they were wrong).
What's the lesson here? Well, hindsight is always 20/20, so I won't belabor the point any longer. However, it's important to stay true to your company, your products, your strengths, and your mission. If you have a marketing consultant or new marketing director that wants to come in and rebrand your company, ask the question "why?" Be critical in your assessments and judgments. Take the time to understand the situation and make the best decision based on sound knowledge and a prudent vetting of ideas.
There's an old saying: act in haste, repent at leisure. Even Bill Cosby can't argue with that logic.
"Blue" marketing – is it a good idea?
You may be familiar with "blue comedy," which is best defined as comedy that's edgy and offensive. Eddie Murphy (before he spent every waking moment in a rubber fat suit), Chris Rock, and Artie Lange are all great examples of comedians using this type of humor. That said, I've noticed there are several current TV commercials using what I'd refer to as "blue marketing." From a blue comedian's perspective, they're pretty tame, but they are fairly edgy by TV standards. Here are two examples:
Hilarious? Absolutely. Creepy? Yes, but in a good way. "Herding cows the size of schnauzers"… pure gold.
The question is: does blue marketing sell? Personally, I love the idea of moving outside the safe zone and creating content that is both memorable and controversial. How many times have we seen a nice, safe commercial with a company's CEO acting wooden and speaking monotonously? Maybe it makes the CEO look respectable, but does it help accomplish the #1 goal of advertising and promotion: selling a company's products and services?
If you're looking to shake things up in your company, maybe you want to consider using blue in your marketing efforts. It's fun, interesting, and stands a better chance of being the subject at the next water cooler gathering. If you're not ready to move in that direction yet, that's ok. But do us all a favor and stay away from another shade of gray. We could all use a little color right about now.


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Vocabularies of Obsession/Vocabularies of Habit
When I was over halfway through writing the poems for my first book, I had the opportunity to participate in a reading, and I chose a selection of what I considered at the time to be my best—or at least favorite—work. A mentor of mine was in the crowd, and afterwards when everyone was hanging out and complimenting the readers, as happens at those things, he had some nice words to say to me, and then mischievously added, "a very avian reading." Um, so it turns out I wrote a lot about birds.
I'm sure on some level I was aware of it, but I wasn't painfully aware of it until that moment. I didn't—and don't—regret the flocks, the bevies, the congresses and murders and murmurations of birds populating those poems. I needed them at the time. Which is another way of saying they were an obsession. They had become for me a way of talking about some of the themes of that book. Birds were a vocabulary I adopted (and, yes, perhaps a rather conventional or at least traditional one) to express the transactions between an interior life and the external world, for the challenge of trying to capture a present tense that is always winging into the next present moment, for the anxiety over this here mortal coil, and the nostalgia for something transcendent. And in my aesthetics at the time—a kind of meditative poem that makes excursions into a representational report of the world around its lyric speakers—those birds made perfect sense. Yet, once I was aware of that reliance, I had to make the decision to keep trying to perfect and rejuvenate that vocabulary or to move on if I felt it was merely habit at that point. I moved on.
To put things into perspective, here's a little obsessive inventory. In The Currency, the word "bird" or bird-related terms, including species names and words like "feather" and "wing," appear twenty-eight times. In my new manuscript, which is nearing its final stages before publication, such words only appear fifteen times, and eight of those occur in a single poem, the most recent one I've written for the book. The words "bird" and "birds" were used thirteen times in writing The Currency, but in the five years since I finished it, I've called on those words only four times for Pax Americana. Part of this shift was a conscious reaction against complacency, but it's more complicated than that. With new obsessions, I needed to find new symbols in order to communicate.
Here's some additional counting: in The Currency, there are eighteen references to visual art. In Pax Americana, there are four. The Currency alludes to three films (and I mean "films" with all its pretentious baggage). Pax Americana alludes to or directly names seven "movies," seven television shows (with multiple nods to Joss Whedon, Alias, and HBO series), news casts, and a YouTube video. Writing (in the form of poems, letters, philosophical and biographical texts, etc.) comes up sixteen times in The Currency, but there are forty-four references in Pax Americana (including a Wikipedia entry). It appears that I'm still using poetry as an interpretive act, but I seem more interested in how we organize our lives into language than I am in finding those meanings in the tableaux of paintings. I also find I'm reaching towards a larger range of experience.
Obsessions are often the working out of an idea, and they last until the vitality of that search settles into habit. An obsession in a poem can also be the way a poem is made. Every poem is an expression of what a poem can be. Eventually, you might just be writing a poem because, well, that is how you know a poem is made. If you're honest with yourself as a poet, you'll ask why you're making a poem the way you are. When you stop being able to answer that question compellingly, it is probably time to look elsewhere for a new set of images, symbols, and structures, so a new vocabulary.
I've been thinking about cooking lately in these same terms. It's as if the dishes I'm cooking and the ingredients and methods I'm using are a vocabulary for me to express what a dish can and should be. The notion of "should be" is an ever-evolving one. What seems necessary today won't necessarily be so tomorrow. Sometimes I land on a preparation or flavor that I enjoy so much or that has a potential that has eluded me, and so I obsessively use it. Experimenting. Tweaking. Until it becomes a routine. Just a tired iteration. There was a time when what signified a side dish was a pile of roasted carrots and parsnips. Then, there was the age of the Brussels sprouts. For a while, purées of English peas cropped up regularly. For the past three weeks, I can't stop making ginger scallion noodles. Besides, it would be a shame to let these leftover ingredients in the fridge go to waste.
Obsessions in cooking, along with their leftovers, can attract new discoveries, like a planet accruing satellites. The vegetables remaining from Valentine's dinner sent me off to Nippan Daido Japanese Market in west Houston. They also encouraged me to try my hand at making a dessert. Thanks to the Eggs on Sunday blog, that dessert attempt was a success, and I now have something in my repertoire to complete an entire meal, from first course to last.


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Cezanne, fictionalized notes on memory, France, Italy, Mediterranean, memory, short essay on memory, trains, travel
You are on a train. The train is slow, it is not the sort that makes the exterior blur and the interior strangely still.
The train is old enough that one is able to open the windows, to breathe in the salted air, to smell the tall cypress, and to hear wheels lulling the senses to the necessary and the immediate. Some people describe this experience as hypnotic; I think of it more as release. Perhaps the two words point to the same message.
The ground is steady, but the tracks have been dug by miraculous engineering into the side of a cliff. It is interesting to pause your journey here, and to think of those curled muscular hands, burnt-brown forearms, and exhausted shoulders that built the track, two pieces of iron stitched to the earth, crosshatch of wood laid over them in a pattern without end. Do you wonder what time felt like, as the impenetrable cliff gave way, inch by inch, to strength and will?
The train curls tight round this hill that seems at moments to lean into empty space. To your right are the blinding bright crests of the restive tide, on your left the long thin cypress shaded by a late afternoon sun. Suddenly an awareness, like an arrow, makes you shift and grow taller in the cabin's well worn seat. Across the aisle, your attention is caught by an old woman fast asleep, ill and tiny as a child. She wheezes in her slumber, her clothes are the worn black of a widow, and yet there lies around her an unsettled beauty, one you are sure has not been recognized for years, for decades. From seat to seat, you look: the child whose miniature feet do not yet reach the floor, his young mother dozing with a book. A middle-aged man, brows furrowed, leans over a glowing phone in secret dialogue. Next to him slouches a large woman with an old purse, continuously sighing some secret and ancient complaint.
Walk to the back of the car. Out of the window, what do you see? The sea, again, the cypress once more, darker this time, like the moody mud greens of Cezanne. The tracks create an inverted frame. The momentum of the train pierces what is ahead, but distance quickly swallows what is passed through and left behind. There is in you a mild but rising panic, a displacement that leads first to loneliness and then to a passing despair: what did you see, how did you see it, the landscape that was just a moment ago beside you, now gone?
Can you remember? If you remember, is the memory more of a wish, a picture, or a solid form that now sits, rather like a monument, to the experience of this day, now rapidly receding from view?


text: Well, I have done a truly wonderful job of neglecting my blog over the last week or so. Christmas can do that I guess. On a side note, isn't it great how you can blame every little slip on Christmas? Week before last I blogged about my ukulele class and The Designer, my Mum and … Continue reading


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Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards 2017
We were delighted to hold the inaugural Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards on 8th March 2017, during National Apprenticeship Week, at Marlborough Enterprise Centre in Woodstock. See below for a list of winning and highly commended Apprentices, schools and training providers. See also our news article about the evening to find out how some of the winners felt about their achievements.
Award categories
School Award – sponsored by Clarkson Evans
Faringdon Community College
Highly commended:
Larkmead School
The Marlborough School
Intermediate Apprentice of the Year – sponsored by Barclays
Sasha Fraser – Horticulture Apprentice, Oxford City Council
Highly commended:
Adam Fisk - Joinery Apprentice, University of Oxford
Merrin Honey – Business Admin Apprentice, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Apprentice of the Year – sponsored by High Spec Composites
Chloe Penniston – Legal Services Apprentice, The Burnside Partnership
Highly commended:
Kyle Hallett - Engineering Apprentice, University of Oxford
Cain Reddick – Engineering Apprentice, SS Tube Technology
Higher Apprentice of the Year – sponsored by Integration Technology Ltd
Jessica Le Jeune – Business Innovation & Growth Apprentice, Nielsen
Highly commended
Lorraine Ball – Adult Social Care Apprentice, Home Instead Senior Care
Oliver Swaden – Business Innovation & Growth Apprentice, Nielsen
Special Recognition Award – sponsored by NatWest
Gemma Tuckey – Business Admin Apprentice, Oxfordshire County Council
Highly commended
Alex Free - Customer Service Apprentice, Yellow Submarine
Ian Rigsby – Customer Service Apprentice, Yellow Submarine
Training Provider Award – sponsored by The Apprenticeship & Training Company Ltd
Abingdon & Witney College
Highly commended:
ACE Training
Jewel Training
Apprenticeship Ambassador Award – sponsored by Oxfordshire Apprenticeships
Emily Bampton - Relationship Management Apprentice, NatWest
Oxfordshire Apprentice of the Year Award – sponsored by Darke & Taylor
Chloe Penniston – Legal Services Apprentice, The Burnside Partnership
Latest news...
- Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards recognise Apprenticeship All-Stars
- Meet Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards Apprentice of the Year Chloe Penniston
- Meet Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards Intermediate Apprentice of the Year Sasha Fraser
- Meet Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards Higher Apprentice of the Year Jess Le Jeune
- Meet Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards Special Recognition Award winner Gemma Tuckey
- Congratulations Faringdon Community College, OA Awards School Award winner
- Congratulations Abingdon & Witney College, OA Awards Training Provider Award winner
- Introducing the Oxfordshire Apprenticeships Awards committee
About the Awards
See Sarah and Ambassador Emily, Relationship Management Apprentice, speaking from the Awards to That's TV Oxfordshire.
See Paddy and Ambassador Mat, Electrical Apprentice at Darke & Taylor, talking about the Awards and what they mean to Apprentices on That's TV Oxfordshire.
Sponsors and supporters
We were delighted to have the support of some fantastic businesses and organisations as Awards sponsors and supporters. In addition to the category sponsors listed above, we are grateful to the following: University of Oxford (design & print), Arrow Videos (event video & photography), Blenheim Palace (sponsoring host), Nielsen (Awards supporter), Stuart Barr CDR (Awards supporter), Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Awards supporter), Oxford Instruments (Awards supporter), Brethertons (Awards supporter), Blake Morgan (Awards supporter) and Specavers Bicester (Awards supporter).


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The Anatomy of a Spiritual Person
Articles By Vijai P. Sharma, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist
Wayne Dyer, a renown contemporary psychologist says, "We all are spiritual beings having human experience." We are physical, emotional and spiritual beings, a living proof of "trinity," in this case the trinity of the body, the heart and the soul
To what extend we develop the spiritual or the other two dimensions depends on our environment, upbringing and self-cultivation. Exceptional indeed are the people who are fully developed as spiritual persons and live their lives on the spiritual plane on a 24-hour basis. All prophets of any religion, or at least the ones I have studied, were spiritual beings in the total sense of the world.
In common parlance, we sue the terms "spirituality" and "religion" interchangeably. Although many aspects overlap, not all spiritual people are religious, and not all religious people are spiritual.
Relationship between mind and matter:
Spiritual people know they are more than their physical bodies, and their awareness and knowledge are far greater than the sum total of information provided by their five senses. Intuition is at its highest in them. The "intuit" when a solution is beyond reasoning and thinking. They believe they are more than their thoughts, memories, emotions and other mental faculties put together, and that lets them transcend physical limitation.
Relationship with one's own self:
Spiritual people are at peace with themselves. They feel the same compassion for themselves as they feel for all other beings. They are secure in themselves in that they feel totally accepted by the loving force or being of the universe.
Relationship with others:
Spiritual people see others too as more than their physical forms. They believe the same invisible life force flows through others as it does within themselves, so they feel at one with others because of that connection. Their eyes can pierce through hateful behavior and men words and see the beauty of the soul, so they often succeed in bringing that beautiful being out by their compassion and unconditional acceptance. Their motive for all their actions is based on love and compassion for others rather than the motive for return or recognition.
Spiritual people seldom feel alone
. The never feel lack of love because they feel they are being loved by the universe and that Universal Spirit all the time. As a result of this unconditional, every-present love, they are peaceful, compassionate, open and loving to all human beings. They believe in universal brotherhood and sisterhood, recognizing that all other definitions of people in terms of creed, color, sex, nationality and the like too often divide people. They feel the same compassion and love for all without focusing on their faults and weaknesses. They have no desire to control or dominate others. They constantly endeavor to empower others.
Relationship with God:
Knowing that there is an infinitely superior intelligence, they constantly seek the divine guidance. While others look outward for solutions, spiritual people go within and meditate for guidance. They experience a constant presence of God loving them and guiding them. They seek answers to their questions only from the source of all intelligence and wisdom. This relationship is experienced with an overwhelming feeling of joy and gratitude, which can take the form of the lover and beloved as with the Sufis, the teacher and disciple, the parent and child, or the guardian and ward.
Relationship with the universe:
They have a spiritual connection with the whole world. Spiritual people see the universe as part of a divine plan. They see a purpose and inherent logic in all aspects and events of the universe. Nothing is possible outside that plan and it's purpose,. Though it may not be immediately discernible to the naked eye. They are simply in awe of the mystery of the universe as they feel the divine presence in every atom of the universe. They feel grateful for every event in the universe and often experience ecstasy in admiration and awe of how the whole universe runs with such perfection.
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Mohamad, Noridah and Khalifa, Hamza and Abdul Samad, Abdul Aziz and Mendis, Priyan and Goh, Wan Inn (2016) Structural performance of recycled aggregate in CSP slab subjected to flexure load. Construction and Building Materials, 115. pp. 669-680.Full text not available from this repository.
This paper discusses the mechanical properties of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) and its performance in concrete sandwich precast (CSP) slab subjected to flexure load. Various percentage of recycle aggregate (RA) was used in the concrete mixture as a replacement to natural aggregate; namely 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. The structural behavior of the CSP slab was investigated experimentally under flexure load and analyzed in the context of its ultimate load capacity, crack pattern, load-deflection profile and load-slip profile. Analysis from the results showed that the percentage of RA used has a small effect on the mechanical properties of RAC but quite significant effect on the structural behavior of CSP slab under flexure. It was found that the strength of the panels with RAC decreased with the increase of RA in the concrete. The percentage of reduction in the ultimate load of slab panels with RA was about 15% for every 25% percentage increase of RA. The first crack occurred at about 48–67% of the failure load and panels failed with excessive cracks in the tension zone of the bottom wythe. All tested panels proved to be very ductile with large deformation prior to failure and behaved in a partially composite manner.
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The Research Center for the Global Compact, located in the vicinity of United Nations Headquarters in New York, will be providing additional research and analytical capacity to the Global Compact Office in the areas of management change models, analysis of Communications on Progress and other topics of interest to the initiative.
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1. Re: Call Essbase Calc script from FDMEE Custom ScriptFrancisco Amores May 14, 2015 10:05 AM (in response to 745408)
which version of FDMEE are you?
You have an example in support document FDMEE Script Samples (Doc ID 1613836.1)
You can have a MAXL command in your batch file to perform the extract
Example 5
An example calc script to perform an Essbase extract, and then load the extract file with FDMEE.
- Create a batch file (.bat) that performs the extract from Essbase.
- Call the batch file from the BefImport event scriptimport os
import subprocess
import shutil
command = "D:\temp\BatchFiles\helloworld.bat > helloworld.out"
p = subprocess.Popen(command)
retcode = p.wait()
- Load helloworld.out using FDMEE
This Jython script can be created in the BefImport Script.
Then you can have a data load rule with a file name predefined in it (Ex: Essbase_Extract_XXXX) where XXXX is there period-year.
Your jython script should create that file so when import happens, data is imported
Bear in mind that this is an out of the box functionality in 184.108.40.206 so if you are in 188.8.131.52.x I would not put much effort in a complex solution
I hope that puts you on the right path
2. Re: Call Essbase Calc script from FDMEE Custom Script745408 May 14, 2015 10:31 AM (in response to Francisco Amores)
Thanks Amores ! it shound like a solution , i am going to implement it and let you know the status !
Thanks again for your quick reply !
3. Re: Call Essbase Calc script from FDMEE Custom Script745408 May 15, 2015 1:13 PM (in response to 745408)
This worked , now i can launch the cmd from BefIMport script and load into FDMEE , thanks Amores
4. Re: Call Essbase Calc script from FDMEE Custom ScriptFrancisco Amores May 15, 2015 2:09 PM (in response to 745408)


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Zesty, chocolaty, orangy! Combined into a 21 cm tube pan what could go wrong? my latest experiment with chocolate and orange combi is a marbled chiffon cake! i had seen a couple of posts on marbled chiffon and they looked really pretty i decided to give it a try and more pics for you peeps!
I love the marble effect texture wise soft and fluffy, sweetness is just right with the chocolate being bitter sweet and orange zesty sweet i love this! Thanks to Jessie of Hearty Bakes for sharing these 2 recipes!
I'm submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #1: Chiffon Cakes (Nov 2010) hosted by Small Small Baker.
Marbled Orange Chocolate Chiffon
(adapted from Hearty Bakes at here & here with slight modifications)
Ingredients for Orange Chiffon Batter
2 yolks
40g castor sugar
40ml vegetable oil
80g cake flour
80ml freshly squeeze orange juice
zest of 2 oranges
4 egg whites
30g castor sugar
- Whisk yolks and sugar until sugar dissolved.
- Add oil, orange juice, orange zest and stir till combined.
- Sieve in cake flour and stir to combine.
- Using a electric beater, whisk egg whites and sugar until stiff peaks forms.
- Fold 1/3 egg whites into yolk mixture gently, followed by the remaining egg whites.
- Set aside. Preheat oven at 170°C.
30g semi-sweet chocolate (i used cadbury gold 70% cocoa)
50ml oil
2 egg yolks
40g sugar
80ml water
40g cake flour
40g cocoa powder
4 egg whites
30g sugar
- Double-boil (A), stir till combined and set aside to cool.
- Whisk (B) till pale in color, stir in chocolate mixture from step 1.
- Add (C) and whisk till combined.
- Sieve in (D)
- Whisk (E) till medium peaks.
- Fold in 1/3 egg whites into the egg/chocolate mixture gently, followed by the remaining egg whites.Set aside.


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BOOK: Murach's Visual Basic 2005
I tend to be more of a C# guy.
It has nothing to do with one language being better than the other and NO Microsoft doesn't prefer C#, Visual Basic will live forever. It's simply that I was a C programmer foir years, the a C++ developer and a Java developer so a language with C ansestry is more natural for me.
I blogged about the Murach's C# book back in July. http://joeon.net/archive/2006/07/17/2683.aspx
What I love about the Murach's books is they have the completeness of a textbook, with a practical perspective.
If you're a Visual Basic person, this is every bit as good as their C# books. Put one on your desk !


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Camarasaurus is an unappreciated sauropod. It wasn't the heaviest or longest of the earth-shaking dinosaurs, but the blunted skull and large teeth of the Jurassic sauropod indicate that it had a different lifestyle than the more famous Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. In 1920, paleontologists at the AMNH created a skeletal and muscular reconstruction of the dinosaur, Camarasaurus being proportionally bulkier for its size than other sauropods then known.
The reconstruction of a model of Camarasaurus had another purpose, as well. In 1908 Oliver Hay published a paper advocating a sprawling, crocodile-like posture for Diplodocus, a posture inferred for all large sauropods. Osborn and others did not think such a pose reasonable, though, and the Camarasaurus restoration served to illustrate that sauropods carried their legs underneath their bodies rather than out to the side, although they still were a little knock-kneed. From a 1920 overview of the model by W.K. Gregory;
The muscular restoration of Camarasaurus was preceded by careful studies of the consecutive poses of the skeleton ofApatosaurus (Brontosaurus) in three phases of the stride. These poses were worked out in a minature model of the complete skeleton, with flexible joints. The conclusion reached is that Apatosaurus was a walking and not a crawling quadruped. As compared with living crocodiles the body was well raised off the ground in the stride. This is contrary to the ideas of Tornier, Hay and others, who advocated a crawling stride. The limbs, however, had not the fore-and-aft pendulum action of the perfected mammalian quadrupeds; the stride had a wide, lateral swing.
Unfortunately no illustrations of the life model were included with the paper, but the text makes it clear that the AMNH reconstruction was at odds with the concept of sprawling sauropods. Camarasaurus was not an aquatic creature like Osborn's vision of Diplodocus, though. The overall conformation of its features seemed to be more consistent with an animal that spent most of its time on land, at best wading into the shallows;
Camarasaurus might well have been an efficient wader. It was positively devoid of special adaptations for swimming; the pectoral and pelvic arches, and the limbs and backbone were adapted to support the great weight of the body presumably on land, as well as in wading; the tail was relatively small and feeble. There was a high ratio of limb power to weight.
[Actually, this is something of a revision of the habits of Camarasaurus. In an 1898 paper, Osborn thought it was both a wader and an apt swimmer, but apparently 20 years later Camarasaurus would not longer be using its tail to propel itself through freshwater lakes.]
The Camarasaurus restoration was not based upon newly-exhumed material, either. In 1877, O.W. Lucas contacted E.D. Cope about some fossil bones found in Canyon City, Colorado, which were dug up and brought back east for description. Among the bones recovered were those that Cope used to describe Camarasaurus that same year (thus having priority over Marsh's "Morosaurus"). The bones were then used by John Ryder to make a life-size restoration of the animal (I assume on paper and not as an actual mount), one of the first full-scale reconstructions of a sauropod dinosaur. Ultimately, however, Cope's collection was obtained by AMNH president Morris K. Jesup in 1902, allowing H.F. Osborn and his cadre of paleontologists a chance to reanalyze Cope's collection.
Gregory, W.K. (1920) "Restoration of Camarasaurus and Life Model." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 6, pp. 15
Osborn, H.F. (1898) "Additional characters of the great herbivorous dinosaur Camarasaurus." Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. 10, pp. 219-233
Osborn, H.F.; Mook, C.G. (1919) "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias, and Other Sauropods of Cope." Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 30, pp. 379-388
Osborn, H.F.; Mook, C.G. (1920) "Reconstruction of the Skeleton of the Sauropod Dinosaur Camarasaurus Cope (Morosaurus Marsh)." Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 6, pp. 16-17
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UH's Guy Lewis turned out winners year after year
The Guy behind it all
Without fanfare or self-promotion, Lewis turned out winning teams of all styles year after year. Those in the know recognize the widely admired coach as a Hall of Famer
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Wherever Guy Vernon Lewis II, a strapping 6-3 East Texas farm boy with movie-star looks, used to go, he left a mighty impression.
Whether wowing an admiring high school basketball coach in New York City, wooing a star athlete in an all-black neighborhood near downtown Houston or attempting to attract the attention of the opposite sex at a tiny-town high school dance, Lewis won people over with his style.
Not all, but most.
It was more than just his loud, er, fancy suits, mesmerizing Southern drawl and eye-catching, signature red-and-white polka-dot and later checkered towels that his Aunt Eva ordered for him through her variety store back home in Arp.
Lewis carried a confident, cool charisma that charmed some and captivated others. For 40 years, he was a Cougar on the prowl at the University of Houston, first as a player, then a coach.
When he retired in 1986, he claimed 592 victories and had been to five Final Fours. Yet 25 years later, the "0" next to his name under NCAA championships is often the first number mentioned in discussions of his legacy.
It matters not to some that he never lost a regional final or that four of his five losses in the Final Four were to No. 1-ranked or top-seeded favorites. He never won the big one.
"The coaches I hated coaching against were the real good ones, and Guy was one of those," John Wooden, who died last June, told the San Antonio Express-News in 1998. "I think Guy took a bum rap because he never won a national championship."
Bum rap indeed.
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In 30 years of coaching, Lewis won with tall teams, short teams, white teams, black teams, deliberate teams, pressing teams, set-shot-shooting teams and slam-dunking teams.
Yet most focus only on the latter, especially since the highest-flying team in college basketball history lost a heartbreaker to North Carolina State in the 1983 national championship game.
"The best thing that ever happened to coach Lewis and the worst thing that ever happened to coach Lewis was Phi Slama Jama," 1977 All-America guard Otis Birdsong said. "They were so good, it almost looked as if he wasn't coaching them."
There are plenty "he just rolled the ball out there" critics, but Lewis was more than just a master recruiter. Though he did recruit with style.
He showed up in the Fifth Ward in 1968 driving a Cougar red Pontiac while decked out in a red jacket and, if Wheatley's Jerry Bonney remembers correctly, red slacks to match. Lewis was so sharp he had to be a Hollywood star.
"To this day, I have friends who believe I was so popular in high school that Johnny Carson came to my house," Bonney, a local defense attorney, said with a laugh. "Back then, white people didn't come to Fifth Ward for anything. But coach Lewis was as comfortable as could be.
"Like any pioneer, he wasn't afraid to make a statement and do what he thought was right."
Not only did Lewis drive integration of basketball in the South, he was a basketball genius.
Not a misunderstood genius. A misdiagnosed one. Miscast as someone along for the ride instead of the one who made it all go.
Were he more of a self-promoter, he might have garnered the reverence from the national media that such an accomplished coach deserves.
"I didn't worry about who liked me," Lewis said.
A 1973 Sports Illustrated article said UH "leads the NCAA in spinarounds, curlicues, throw-aways, mix-ups, turnovers, Brillo-inspired hair arrangements and YMBJ defense (as in You Must Be Joking)."
As if Afros and athleticism affect one's ability.
"I've heard all the terms and phrases: 'These guys play street ball. These guys are undisciplined.' And it is usually used because you have all-black starters," retired UH coach Tom Penders said. "Racism comes out when they describe certain teams that play at a fast pace. Guy Lewis' teams fit that."
• • •
Lewis, 89, was part of the inaugural class of the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 but has been a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame just once (2003).
His players say that is a travesty.
"If Guy is not a Hall of Famer, then no one in the Hall of Fame is a Hall of Famer, and I mean that," Birdsong said.
Added Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler: "Not only was he someone who was blazing trails, he was an originator as well. He deserved first-ballot Hall of Fame. The worst thing in sports is that he's not in the Hall of Fame. It's just wrong. It makes no sense."
Of the seven coaches who have more appearances in the Final Four than Lewis, only Tom Izzo, 56 and in the prime of his career, is not in the Hall of Fame. More than half of the Division I college coaches inducted in the Naismith Hall of Fame never won an NCAA championship.
"I will not set foot into that Hall of Fame until they put Guy V. Lewis in there," said Penders, who has written about the snub in his just-released book Dead Coach Walking. "At some point they will put him in, but I think it's a farce."
Lewis didn't necessarily have enemies, and he had respect. But he wasn't great friends with many of the top names in coaching from his era. UH was an independent for roughly half of Lewis' career, so he missed out on the conference bonds veteran coaches usually build.
"He wasn't an establishment guy," said longtime Sports Illustrated writer Curry Kirkpatrick, who penned articles on UH from the days of Elvin Hayes through Phi Slama Jama. "And Houston was the first of the anti-establishment teams, unlike any other program in the country. The Fab 5 were 10 years behind Phi Slama Jama.
"While I don't think Guy was a great Xs and Os guy, he basically invented college basketball in Texas. That's a great legacy to have."
• • •
Lewis had Wooden over for a party at Lewis' house in December 1961 after the Cougars torched the Bruins 91-65.
UCLA went to the Final Four that season, the first of Wooden's record 12 appearances. UH, with a 21-5 regular-season record and two losses to eventual national champion Cincinnati, wasn't one of the 25 teams invited to the NCAA Tournament.
Not long after that, Wooden decided to go with pressing defenses and a more up-tempo style. He brought out his famous "Glue Factory" full-court press a couple of years later, winning a national championship running what some say Lewis had been doing in relative obscurity in Texas for years.
"Guy Lewis was the first (college coach) to press," said Jim Perry, UH guard and co-captain in the late 1970s. "He should be in the Hall of Fame for that alone. He's one of the top 10 all-time coaches.
"John Wooden saw what he did and had to start doing it."
In the 13 seasons before facing the Cougars, Wooden's UCLA teams had scored 100 or more points only four times. By the time the Bruins rolled into the Astrodome to face the Cougars in 1968, they were a run-and-gun team, averaging 99.7 points a game and having scored 100 or more points six times in 13 victories.
The bigger Cougars — aside from 7-2 Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) — looked to control tempo.
Oh yeah, that little game in the Astrodome? The Game of the Century? The rare nationally televised college basketball game? The one in which No. 2 Houston toppled No. 1 UCLA, ending the Bruins' 47-game winning streak? The game that paved the way for the Final Four extravaganzas we now have?
Lewis' idea. Smart man.
But who hasn't heard the one about the day basketball gods were handing out coaching smarts, Lewis was out recruiting a power forward?
• • •
Lewis and Harry Pate, his assistant for a quarter of a century, recruited talented players to UH, but that is where the coaching began, not ended.
Lewis and Dean Smith were the only college coaches with three players on the NBA's 1996 list of 50 Greatest Players. Each of Smith's three players (Billy Cunningham, James Worthy and Michael Jordan) was a high school All-American. None of Lewis' was.
Drexler, with only two scholarship offers, wasn't even All-Greater Houston. Hakeem Olajuwon wasn't even in America.
"We weren't all great players when we got there," said Hayes, UH's all-time leading scorer and rebounder who retired in 1984 in the top three in points, rebounds and minutes played in NBA history. "Any farmer can throw a seed out there. Guy Lewis fertilized us, watered us and cultivated us."
Lewis taught big men to play bigger, little men to play big and all of his players to play tough.
When he was with the New Jersey Nets, Birdsong recalls going to see the Cougars play at Seton Hall. It was Olajuwon's second game at UH.
"He was terrible," Birdsong said. "I said, 'Where did you get this bum from? He can't play.' And lo and behold he is a Hall of Famer. How did he get there?"
The Big Step is a power drop-step Lewis used as a 6-3 center on UH's first basketball team. With the move, Lewis scored 21.1 points a game in 1946, the only time in school history that a player averaged 20 or more points a game and no other Cougar averaged double figures. He taught it to all his big men, from Hayes and Ken Spain, to Olajuwon and Greg "Cadillac" Anderson.
"I can't tell you how much coach Guy Lewis meant to my game," said Olajuwon, who created the now-famous Dream Shake by adding a fadeaway jumper and a soccer move he learned growing up in his native Nigeria to the Big Step.
"He taught me how to play the game; how to compete. How to be a big man and how to dominate."
Olajuwon, in a raspy bass, put a special emphasis on each syllable of DOM-I-NATE.
• • •
But it wasn't just the post players who dominated under Lewis.
A 6-2 flashy point guard (Rob Williams) and a smooth 6-4 jump shooter (Birdsong) joined the 6-9 Hayes in averaging at least 25 points a game for a season under Lewis.
The Cougars didn't really scrimmage that often. Everything at practice was timed and controlled. Disciplined. But since Lewis didn't call fouls there were a host of tussles among players.
A good fight at practice meant a good practice.
"I always wanted tough guys," said a grinning Lewis, who was in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Hard-charging teams that pressured opponents looked undisciplined to some.
Birdsong, pride of Polk County, Fla., and the Southwest Conference Player of the Decade in the 1970s, said Lewis' teaching helped him become such a prolific scorer (30.3 points a game and a ridiculous 56.9 field-goal percentage as a senior.)
"He out-schemed other teams. It didn't matter what defense I saw, coach Lewis had an answer to get me open," said Birdsong, a four-time NBA All-Star and No. 2 overall pick of the 1977 draft.
Before the 1982 Final Four, NBA super scout Marty Blake said the only sure first-round draft pick on the UH squad was Williams, who was selected No. 19 overall that year by the Denver Nuggets.
A year later, Drexler was the 14th overall pick. Two years later, Olajuwon, first overall, and Michael Young were drafted in the first round.
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If recognizing and recruiting top talent, winning games and developing players weren't enough to cement a great legacy, Lewis opened doors that previously had been closed.
Black players already were playing at Texas Western when Don Haskins got there. In fact, Worthing High School's David "Big Daddy D" Lattin, one of the Miners' five black starters who drove Old Dixie down with a victory over Kentucky in the 1966 national championship game, wanted to play for Houston.
Lewis wanted him to play there, too. And he wanted to sign Yates forward and eventual Drake star McCoy McLemore and many others before that. But in the early 1960s, UH didn't have black athletes on campus. Well, except for those Lewis invited to play against his players at Jeppesen Fieldhouse.
From his start as head coach in 1956, Lewis figured it was silly that black and white players could compete in the summer but not play together at college.
"It didn't make any sense," said Lewis, who grew up in Arp, a small town about 18 miles southeast of Tyler.
In the spring of 1964, Lewis finally got permission to offer scholarships to black players.
He and Pate made the drive to Louisiana to sign Hayes and guard Don Chaney. Pate dropped Lewis off in Baton Rouge to sign Chaney and continued to Rayville to get Hayes' signature on a letter of intent.
"It was needed, it was damn time," Lewis said.
Lewis, whose hometown was segregated, decided not to room his first two black players together.
"If we were going to integrate, we were going to integrate," Lewis said. So he brought New York and Louisiana together in Texas.
Lewis had team manager Howie Lorch, who had the same position at Linton High School in Schenectady, N.Y., when future NBA coach Pat Riley was on the team, room with Hayes. John Tracy, a Brooklyn native who went on to become a noted television director on sitcoms such as Laverne & Shirley, Growing Pains, Full House and Family Matters, bunked with Chaney. The two have been friends ever since.
"Coach Lewis didn't bring us in and try to hide us, he totally included us," Hayes said. "He had a lot of insight and a lot of foresight.
"He knew there would be trust issues, coming from where I was from. He knew how I grew up and knew how to deal with it. He made us put aside things we were comfortable in."
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Lewis, who turned 89 on March 19, had a stroke in 2002. He gets around slowly these days, mostly in a wheelchair, with his wife Dena — the high school sweethearts have been married for 68 years — at his side.
He has aphasia, a neurological disorder that affects his ability to communicate. It is a particularly aggravating condition for a man with so many memories, so many stories to tell.
He says he is proud that he spent his entire career at his alma mater, that he integrated the school's basketball program and that his "Game of the Century" idea helped take college basketball to new heights.
But he is most proud that so many of his players went on to become fine citizens, excellent men (and a few great basketball players), who thank him for helping them achieve.
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Here's an interview we conducted with veteran anime voice actor and ADR director Richard Epcar at Florida Supercon 2008. Some of his more notable roles include Batou from Ghost in the Shell, Jigen from the Geneon dubs of Lupin the Third, Guld Goa Bowman from Macross Plus, Hiko Seijuro from Rurouni Kenshin, and Coach Kamogawa from Hajime no Ippo. That's not even scratching the surface.
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This interview also doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, since Richard Epcar's got tons of stories to tell. Be sure to check him out if he's at a convention near you! At about 30 minutes, this might be the very first AWO release that falls within conventional accepted guidelines for podcast length!
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The crayons are a lot like watercolor pencils. You put the color down and then add water. The difference is that the crayons are "creamier" than the pencils, and the colors are a little more vibrant.
|I started out with a simple black ink sketch on a rough watercolor paper using my Prisma Micron pen
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|Once you add water, the colors start to bleed together. You can add more color, and move the color around with a brush.
|I did this one on a smoother paper, and used a brush to wet the crayon. This is a much more controlled method.
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For millions of children around the world at this time of year, the time to start school has come around again, and for some that time has come all too quickly. If you find yourself dreading the first day back whether a parent of a student yourself, spare a thought for those around the world who have to quite literally go the extra mile to even have an education.
It's easy to forget that for some people, school is something that is hard earned and not easily accessed. For these children, the journey to school is far from what any of us would consider ordinary, and the lengths that they go to in order to get an education is truly remarkable. Here are 25 of the most extreme journeys to school in the world.
This journey into the Mountains of Gulu, China, is probably the most isolated on earth. With a path just 1ft wide, the dangerous journey takes 5 hours.
School children scaling wooden ladders that are unsecured, located in Zhang Jiawan Village, Southern China.
Children embarking on a journey to a boarding school located in The Himalayas, Zanskar, Indian Himalayas.
Students cross a damaged suspension bridge in Lebak, Indonesia.
Some kids would probably love this, but when you think about it, it's actually incredibly dangerous. The children have to fly down a 800m Zipline that is suspended 400m above The Rio Negro River, Colombia.
Forget the morning school run in the car, in Riau, Indonesia, students use a canoe to get to school.
Pupils travelling across an incredible tree root bridge in India.
This young girl rides on a bull to get to school.
Kids ride on a crowded TukTuk in Beldanga, India.
A child and parent make the dangerous journey across a broken bridge covered in snow in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, China.
Children take a wooden boat to get to school in Pangururan, Indonesia.
School girls cross a thin plank on the wall of the 16th century Galle Fort In Sri Lanka.
Pupils traveling on a boat in Kerala, India.
Students riding a horse cart home from school in Delhi, India.
Here, students must cross the Ciherang River from Cilangkap Village, Indonesia, in order to get to school. They are using makeshift raft made using Bamboo.
To get to school students must endure a 125 mile journey through the Mountains, Pili, China.
If you thought the bridges looked scary, they had nothing on this. Students cross a tight rope that is suspended 30 feet above a River in Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Young school children use an inflated tire to cross a river in Rizal Province, Philippines.
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The Lasombra Antediluvian is a powerful third generation vampire with mastery over the shadows of the Abyss, and the progenitor of the Lasombra clan.
[Lasombra] is the name "modern" Cainites use (the term dates back to the Roman Empire). Around 1991 BCE, [Lasombra] was named Lau-Som-Bheu, which can be translated from Proto-Indo-European as "profiting by knowledge" or "profiting together through domination". His priests among the seafaring people worshipped him as Laza Omri Baras, the "God of the River of Darkness".[1]
|Who was Lasombra in life? Perhaps he was himself a man of power. I suspect, however, that he was a pathetic failure, Embraced (as we call it) for some trivial reason, who flourished unexpectedly. Someone who had lived with real success would surely not be so obsessed with the matter forever after. Gratiano was perhaps what Lasombra wished he had been.
|— Ming, Clanbook: Lasombra Revised
After the fall of the Second City, [Lasombra] returned to the sea, eventually settling on an island in the Mediterranean (which one is not certain, the most likely being Malta[2]). From there, he assumed command over the pirate people of the Hyksos, directing them against the civilizations populated by his brothers' progeny. Still, [Lasombra] himself was seen little in those days. He dwelled upon an island, some said, or in the depths of the wine-dark sea, rising from time to time to hunt and to guide his worshippers. Occasionally he granted his Embrace to a chosen few, but this happened less and less often as time passed. For centuries, the Sea Peoples were strong under the watchful guidance of their dark god. After the eruption of Thera, darkness clouded the sky and [Lasombra] left the sea, wandering extensively across the earth, visiting strange cultures and engaging in social experiments to search for desirable childer, as evidenced in Montano's Embrace around 1496 BCE.[2]
When [Lasombra] returned in the early age of the Roman Republic, he took residence in Sicily, building himself the tomb-fortress that would be called the Castle of Shadows by his descendants. There he would remain, in torpid meditation, attended only by his closest childer, contemplating the great Abyss. Occasionally, he would awaken and leave without announcement.[3] This made him one of the more active Antediluvians of the time, as the only other directly active Antediluvian was Tremere, in the short period of time before Saulot's consciousness overwhelmed him. The Sea of Shadows, one of the great Kindred feudal realms of the age, was nominally under his control, but he delegated much of the administration to his childe Montano.[4] In his waking time, however, [Lasombra] took a keen interest in the developments of the world, searching for more potential childer.
The Sabbat scholars claim that [Lasombra] sealed his fate when he introduced the young Italian bishop Gratiano de Veronese into the Clan, ignoring warnings from Montano. Among the Lasombra, there is still debate about the motives of [Lasombra] to introduce Gratiano into the Clan. Some believe it was a plan that had gone awry, others that [Lasombra] finally felt the weight of ages and wanted to commit suicide, others that his mind had become feeble and weak, and others even presume the influence of infernalists and other forces behind it. Most believe that it does not matter.
|None of you know what it's like to exist in the presence of a god, or something so powerful that it might as well be a god. You look at your leaders in the Festival and find them intimidating, but not one of them is more than four centuries old. I was the oldest present at the rite, and I am less than a thousand years old myself. But I know what our founder's gaze was like, and why it made the great patricide necessary.
|— Brother Oso, Clanbook: Lasombra Revised
There is another tale, fiercely denied by the Sabbat. It tells that [Lasombra] allowed for his own diablerization, to free himself from the shackles of his physical body. After that, his soul entered the Abyss, seeking to become one with it. In the process, he became more than a mere vampire, turning into an abyssal monstrosity void of any remains of humanity that were left in his undead form. Unfortunately for [Lasombra], the native beings of the Abyss regarded the creature as insignificant for his past as a creature of flesh and it seeks to remedy this by causing the Abyss to collapse into the physical world, blotting the sun out forever and recreating the original world, before God created light.[6] To this end, it has begun to use those who command Obtenebration as his sensory organs in the physical world to find a way to achieve this goal.
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|As we were scouting the place out, we found Him. Him. I don't know if He was our clan founder, just a real old Keeper, or something completely different, but when He saw us, we felt the pull to his gigantic mouth, his all-consuming black hole. The void was calling. I wasn't the only one to see Him out there... Some claim to have encountered Him in Libya, others in Afghanistan. There's even a report of His presence in Sicily, and some claim the so-called Emperor of D.C. is just Him in another form.
- Abyss Mystics have discovered over four hundred names for the Lasombra Clan founder, and these names still have a potent sway over the denizens of the Abyss, for example - "Lau-Som-Bheu," which is quite passable Proto-Indo-European for "profiting together by knowledge" or "profiting together by domination".[8] [9]
- The Ventrue have referred to Lasombra the Antediluvian as Lucien, "who drove his brother into torpor and salted the earth where he lay."[10]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 DAV: Players Guide to High Clans
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 VTM: Clanbook: Lasombra Revised
- ↑ VTDA: Libellus Sanguinis 1: Masters of the State
- ↑ DAV: Dark Ages: Vampire Rulebook
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Lasombra
- ↑ VTM: Gehenna
- ↑ V5: Chicago by Night 5th Edition, p. 45
- ↑ VTM: Clan Novel Trilogy Lasombra 1: Shards, p. 65
- ↑ VTM: Clanbook: Lasombra Revised, p. 18
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Uche Jumbo's Movie premiered this past weekend in New York, and featured a good fan base and the Nollywood stars on the main tour – Uche Jombo, Kalu Ikeagwu, Tonto Dikeh.
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Because of what God does to Uzzah in chapter 13, I'm going to rerun my comments from episode 328, in which we read of this same event in 2 Samuel chapter 6. If you were with me then, please bear with me and our new listeners. It's important, I think, to have a better understanding of why God reacted as He did. Comments: Well David is finally king over all Israel. At God's direction, Samuel had anointed him as the future king when he was a shepherd boy of about 12 or 15 years old. As we read today, he was 30 when God finally put him there. God always keeps his promises, but we never know what his timing will be. So upon taking the throne, David decides that the Lord's chest, better known as the Ark of the Covenant, should have a proper home. It had been captured by the Philistines many years before, and then brought back to Israel, where for some time it was in the home of Abinidab. Now, there are some passages in Scripture that are hard to understand. This is one of them. Scholars have some ideas, but still some people really struggle with the following scene. First I'll recap what happened then I'll give some possible explanations. The Ark is loaded onto an ox-drawn cart to make the trip from Abinidab's house to David's City. The two sons of Abinidab, Uzzah and Ahio went with it. Ahio was in the front to lead the oxen, Uzzah was close behind. Something happened that caused the oxen to stumble, which Uzzah evidently thought threatened to cause the Ark to fall, so Uzzah put his hand on the Ark to steady it. God was angry at this, and He stuck Uzzah dead. It's hard for a lot of people to understand God's reaction to Uzzah's actions here, and we're told that David became angry at God for doing this. So what happened? Why did God do this? Here are the thoughts of scholars. First off, when God gave His instructions to the Israelites on how they were to build the Ark, he was very clear about the most minute detail, including how it was to be transported and who was allowed to move it and who was allowed to touch it. It was never to be put onto a cart, but it was to be carried by Kohathites only. There were two poles that went through two loops on each side of the Ark, and these poles were to be placed on the Kohathite's shoulders, bearing the Ark between them. No one but a priest was to touch the Ark, because the Ark had the very presence of God upon it. Remember, this all happened before the Messiah had come, and only the priests had direct access to God and only priests could perform the sacrifices that could cover the sins of the people. The Ark represented a holy and awesome (in the very real sense of that word) God, and God had made it very clear how it was to be honored, because it was a reflection on how they were to honor God Himself. So by putting the Ark on the ox drawn cart, they were all guilty of transgressing God's direct instructions. Why was Uzzah killed? Touching the Ark was a direct violation of God's clear instruction. It could be that God saw the condition of Uzzah's heart, that he didn't have the proper attitude toward it. It had been in Uzzah's house, after all for some time, and he might have become indifferent to it. We must not become indifferent to God. He. Is. God. The creator of all that is. The One who gives us life and sustains us. It could be that Uzzah had a cavalier attitude regarding God's Word. He didn't think it was important to sweat the details. Maybe his reaching out to steady the Ark reflected a lack of faith on Uzzah's part, that God somehow needed his help. What we might want to draw from this is that we need to pay attention to what God says, and we should do all we can to be obedient to Him. Yes, He is loving and He is merciful. But He is also Holy, and it is important that we never forget that. It is His holiness and justice that requires payment for sin. It is His love that made a way for me and you to not have to make the payment for our s...