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Finding the Mass, Volume, and Density of Water Lab (Google Sheets)

  • Students will practice their measurement skills using a graduated cylinder to determine volume and a triple beam balance to determine mass.
  • Students will determine the density of water by completing 10 trails and finding an average.

I use this lab to tie their measuring skills together and introduce the concept of density. We then do further explorations of density and practice using the formula.

This lab is a modified version of the lab posted at Middle School Chemistry – for further details about the lesson, please click on this link.

Adopt-a-City: Weather Report Summary

My 6th graders completed their Adopt-a-City unit and wrote their weather reports comparing the weather in Morristown, NJ to their adopted cities. Students transferred their data to the following Google Sheet Template and then analyzed their data to write their weather reports using Google Docs.

  • Google Sheets Template for Weather Report (link)
  • Google Doc Template for Weather Report (link)
  • Adopt-a-City Unit with resources (page)

Overall this was a successful unit. The students enjoyed having an independent study based classroom experience and working at their own pace. They worked cooperatively with their peers and were able to explore each topic in depth with the provided resources. They also learned so many valuable skills and had a real understanding of weather. Below are some sample graphs for different cities:

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Morristown, NJ and Butte, MT
Sunset Times
Morristown, NJ and Baton Rouge, LA
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Morristown, NJ and Miami, FL
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Morristown, NJ and Seattle, WA
Morristown, NJ and Las Vegas, NV
Moon Rise
Morristown, NJ and Baltimore, MD

Pacing for Adopt-a-City Unit – students collected data and created Mini-Maps at the start of each class, and they updated their weather data over the weekends. I checked mini-maps and gave a daily grade of 5 pts per map completed and graded completed tasks as they handed them in. I also graded weather data for completion to be sure their data was up to date. Having a shared spreadsheet, with tabs for each student in the class, made it easy to quickly check each student’s data. I also added quizzes to check for understanding along the way. Their weather report was weighted as a test grade.

  • Day 1: Tasks 1-2
  • Day 2:  Tasks 2-3, HW Task 2 completed
  • Day 3: Tasks 3-4-5, HW Tasks 3 & 4 to be completed
  • Day 4: Tasks 4-5-6, HW Task 5 to be completed
  • Day 5: Tasks 6-7, HW Task 6 to be completed
  • Day 6: Tasks 7-8
  • Day 7: Tasks 7-8, HW Task 7 part 1 to be completed
  • Day 8: Tasks 7-8, HW Task 7 – complete Part 2
  • Day 9: Tasks 7-8-9, HW Task 8 to be completed
  • Day 10: Tasks 8-9-10
  • Day 11: Tasks 9-10-11, HW complete Task 9
  • Day 12: Tasks 10-11
  • Day 13: Tasks 10-11-12, HW complete Task 10
  • Day 14: Tasks 11-12-13
  • Day 15: Tasks 11-12-13, HW complete Task 11
  • Day 16: Tasks 12-13
  • Day 17: Tasks 12-13-14, HW complete task 12
  • Day 18: Tasks 13-14
  • Day 19: Tasks 13-14-15, HW complete task 13
  • Day 20: Tasks 14-15 or begin Weather Report, HW complete task 14
  • Day 21: Task 15 or begin Weather Report, HW complete task 15
  • Weather Report due x/xx/xx

What days are the busiest in the Maternity Ward?

This lesson can be used as part of your unit on reproduction, a stand alone lesson to practice collecting and analyzing data, or as part of a math lesson on statistics. This lesson can be extended in several different ways: you can add graphing, plotting data using a stem and leaf (link) for the dates, finding min, max, mode, averages, etc…

The students enjoy this lesson because it is a fun way to analyze their birthdays and many students didn’t know what day of the week they were born on.

  • Google Sheets for data collection (public link) and (pdf)
  • Perpetual calendar – make a calendar for any year (link)


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The Saudi Export of Ultra-conservatism in the Era of MbS – an Update

by James M. Dorsey

There has long been debate about the longevity of the Saudi ruling family. One major reason for doubts about the Al Sauds’ viability was the Faustian bargain they made with the Wahhabis, proponents of a puritan, intolerant, discriminatory, anti-pluralistic interpretation of Islam.

It was a bargain that has produced the single largest dedicated public diplomacy campaign in history. Estimates of Saudi spending on the funding of ultra-conservative Muslim cultural institutions across the globe and the forging of close ties to non-Wahhabi Muslim leaders and intelligence agencies in various Muslim nations that have bought into significant, geopolitical elements of the Wahhabi worldview are ballpark. With no accurate date available, they range from $75 to $100 billion.

It was a campaign that frequently tallied nicely with the kingdom’s deep-seated anti-communism, its hostility to post-1979 Iran, and the West’s Cold War view of Islam as a useful tool against Arab nationalism and the left – a perception that at times was shared by Arab autocrats other than the Saudis.

The campaign was not simply a product of the marriage between the Al Sauds and the Wahhabis. It was long central to Saudi soft power policy and the Al Saud’s survival strategy. One reason, certainly not the only one, that the longevity of the Al Sauds was a matter of debate was the fact that the propagation of Wahhabism was having a backlash at home and in countries across the globe. More than ever before theological or ideological similarities between Wahhabism or for that matter Salafism and jihadism were since 9/11 under the spotlight.

The problem for the Al Sauds was not just that their legitimacy seemed to be wholly dependent on their identification with Wahhabism. It was that the Al Sauds since the launch of the campaign were often only nominally in control of it. They had let a genie out of the bottle that now leads an independent life and that can’t be put back into the bottle.

That is one major reason why some have argued in the past decade that the Al Sauds and the Wahhabis were nearing a crunch point. One that would not necessarily offer solutions but could make things worse by sparking ever more militant splits that would make themselves felt across the Muslim world and in minority Muslim communities elsewhere in multiple ways including increasing sectarian and intolerant attitudes in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The rise of Mohammed bin Salman clearly challenges these assumptions. For one, it raises the question to what degree the rule of the Al Sauds remains dependent on religious legitimization as Mohammed moves de facto from consensual family to one-man rule in which he anchors his legitimacy in his role as a reformer.

It also begs the question of what would ideologically replace ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam as Saudi Arabia’s answer to perceived Iranian revolutionary zeal. The jury on all of this is out. They key lies in the degree to which Mohammed is successful in implementing social and economic reform, his yet to be clarified definition of what he envisions as moderate Islam, and what resistance to his religious redefinition and social reforms will emerge among members of the religious establishment and segments of the population.

Mohammed has so far dropped tantalizing clues, but neither said nor done anything that could be considered conclusive. In fact, what he has not done or said may be more telling, even if it would be premature to draw from that conclusions of the potential limits of change that he envisions. On the plus side, he introduced social reforms that enhance women’s opportunities and relaxed restrictions on cultural expression.

At the same time, he has whipped the religious establishment into subservience and positioned them, including key vehicles like the World Muslim League that the government used to fund and propagate ultra-conservatism, as forces against extremism and militancy and in favour of religious tolerance and dialogue. In February, Saudi Arabia agreed to surrender control of the Great Mosque in Brussels after its efforts to install a more moderate administration failed to counter mounting Belgian criticism of alleged intolerance and supremacism propagated by mosque executives.

Saudi officials have spoken of a possible halt to the funding internationally of religious institutions although an apparent agreement to pump $1 billion into the building of hundreds of mosques and religious centres in Bangladesh would suggest otherwise. The failure in Brussels and the fact that there is little reason to believe that the religious establishment has experienced a true change of heart or that Saudi Arabia has satisfactorily completed a revision of its text and religious books suggests that the kingdom is ill-prepared to propagate a truly moderate form of Islam in Bangladesh or anywhere else.

In some ways, the question is whether this matters as much outside the kingdom as it does domestically. The parameters have changed with Mohammed’s grip on power but the fact that the religious establishment was willing to ultimately compromise on its theological principles to accommodate the political and geopolitical needs of the Al Sauds has been a long-standing fixture of Saudi policy making.

For the Wahhabi and Salafi ulema, the public diplomacy campaign was about proselytization, the spreading of their specific interpretation of the faith. For the government, it was about soft power. At times the interests of the government and the ulema coincided, and at times they diverged.

Yet, more often than not the requirements of the government and the family took precedence. While contacts between Wahhabi and Deobandi scholars from the Indian sub-continent go back to the 1930s, if not earlier, Saudi scholars were willing to put their differences aside as Deobandis emerged as a powerful force among the anti-Soviet mujahedeen in the 1980s and subsequent anti-Shiite strife in Pakistan.

The problem in mapping the financial flows of the campaign is that the sources were multiple and the lines between the funding streams often blurred. No doubt, the government was the major funding source but even than the picture is messy. For one, who constitutes the government? Were senior princes who occupied powerful government positions officials or private persons when they donated from their personal accounts in a country in which it was long difficult to distinguish between the budget of the government and of the family?

On top of that, the government had multiple funding streams that included the foreign ministry using its network of diplomatic missions abroad, the multiple well-endowed governmental non-governmental organizations such as the Muslim World League that often were run with little if any oversight by groups like the Muslim Brotherhood with their own agenda, institutions in the kingdom like the Islamic University of Medina and its counterparts in Pakistan and Malaysia, as well as funds distributed by Islamic scholars and wealthy individuals.

Adding to the complexity was the fact that there was no overview of what private donors were doing and who was a private donor and who wasn’t. This pertains not only to the blurred lines between the government and the ruling family but also to Saudis of specific ethnic heritage, for example Pakistanis or Baloch, as well as Saudi intelligence. At times members of ethnic communities potentially served as government proxies for relationships with militant anti-Shiite groups like Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Taiba and their successors and offshoots in Pakistan.

Further complicating a financial assessment is the lack of transparency on the receiver’s end. In some cases, like Malaysia the flow of funds was controlled by authorities and/or a political party in government. In others like Indonesia, money often came in suitcases. Customs officials at airports were instructed to take their cut and allow the money in with no registration.

In other words, while the Saudis donated they seldom prior to 9/11 and the 2003/2004 Al Qaeda attacks in the kingdom exercised control over what was done with the funds. The National Commercial Bank when it was Saudi Arabia’s largest financial institution had a department of numbered accounts. These were largely accounts belonging to members of the ruling family. Only three people had access to those accounts, one of them was the majority owner of the bank, Khaled Bin Mahfouz. Khaled would get a phone call from a senior member of the family who would instruct him to transfer money to a specific country, leaving it up to Khaled where precisely that money would go.

In one instance, Khaled was instructed by Prince Sultan, the then defense minister, to wire $5 million to Bosnia. Sultan did not indicate the beneficiary. Khaled sent the money to a charity in Sarajevo that in the wake of 9/11 was raided by US law enforcement and Bosnian security agents. The hard disks of the foundation revealed the degree to which the institution was controlled by jihadists.

At one point, the Saudis suspected one of the foundation’s operatives of being a member of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad. They sent someone to Sarajevo to investigate. The investigator confronted the man saying: ‘We hear that you have these connections and if that is true we need to part ways.’ The man put his hand on his heart and denied the allegation. As far as the Saudis were concerned the issue was settled until the man later in court testimony described how easy it had been to fool the Saudis.

The measure of success of the Saudi campaign is not exclusively the degree to which it was able to embed religious ultra-conservatism in communities across the globe. From the perspective of the government and the family, far more important was ultra-conservatism’s geopolitical component, its anti-Shiite and resulting anti-Iranian attitude.

The man who was until a couple of years ago deputy head of Indonesian intelligence and deputy head of Nahdlatul Ulema, one of the world’s largest Islamic movements that professes to be anti-Wahhabi, symbolizes the campaign’s success in those terms. He is a fluent Arabic speaker. He spent 12 years in the Middle East representing Indonesian intelligence, eight of those in Saudi Arabia. He professes in the same breath his dislike of the Wahhabis and at the same time warns that Shiites, who constitute 1.2 percent of the Indonesian population and that includes the estimated 2 million Sunni converts over the last 40 years, are one of the foremost domestic threats to Indonesian national security. This man is not instinctively anti-Shiite but sees Shiites as an Iranian fifth wheel.

The result of all of this is that four decades of funding has created an ultra-conservative world that lives its own life, in many ways is independent of Saudi Arabia, and parts of which have turned on its original benefactor. A study of Pakistani madrassas published earlier this year concluded that foreign funding accounted for only seven percent of the finances of the country’s thousands of religious seminaries.

The fact that ultra-conservatives are no longer wholly dependent on Saudi funding is a testimony to the campaign’s success. This realization comes at a crucial moment. Post 9/11 and even more so in the wake of Al Qaeda attacks on targets in Saudi Arabia in 2003/2004, Saudi Arabia has introduced strict controls on charitable donations to ensure that funds do not flow to jihadist groups.

There is moreover no doubt that Saudi funding in the era of Mohammed bin Salman is unlikely to revert to what it once was. The Saudi-funded Bangladeshi plan to build moderate mosques, the relinquishing of control of the Grand Mosque in Brussels, and the World Muslim League’s newly found propagation of tolerance and inter-faith dialogue as well as its effort to reach out to Jewish communities would suggest that Saudi money may be invested in attempting to curb the impact of the kingdom’s decades-long funding of ultra-conservatism.

Yet, there are also indications that Mohammed bin Salman is not averse to funding militants when it suits his geopolitical purpose. The US Treasury last year designated Maulana Ali Muhammad Abu Turab as a specially designated terrorist on the very day that he was in the kingdom to raise funds. Abu Turab is a prominent Pakistani Islamic scholar of Afghan descent who serves on a government-appointed religious board, maintains close ties to Saudi Arabia, runs a string of madrassas attended by thousands of students along Balochistan’s border with Iran and Afghanistan and is a major fund raiser for militant groups.

Abu Turab’s visit to the kingdom came at a time that Saudi and UAE nationals of Baloch heritage were funnelling large amounts to militant anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian Islamic scholars in Balochistan.

It is unclear whether the funds were being donated with Mohammed bin Salman’s tacit blessing.
What is clear, however, is that the funding and Abu Turab’s visit coincided with the drafting of plans to destabilize Iran by exploiting grievances and stirring unrest among Iran’s ethnic minorities, including the Baloch. Those plans have not left the drawing board and may never do so. The funding nevertheless raises the question how clean a break with support of ultra-conservatism Mohammed bin Salman is contemplating.

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario,  Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, and the forthcoming China and the Middle East: Venturing into the Maelstrom

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Hiking to Heal – The Beginning

A rare photo of me with my brothers as children. 1979

As it says on my header, this blog is about “Survival stories of a directionally-challenged hiking hermit.” Although it comes rather late in the piece, this is actually my very first tale of survival. It is the one that began my life-long passion for the outdoors.

There are many reasons why I enjoy hiking. I often write about it being my escape from city living. This is not the complete picture though. The natural world is like an addiction for me. It’s been that way since I was a young child. Continue reading


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World War 2: Wodan’s Wind blew

In my dream
Women flew
Larger than any
Birds I had seen

They flew high
They flew together
Over trees
And dry, dusty land.

They came back, some
After years, with water
Careful in their beaks
For those who had
Forgotten how to fly.

Manju Kapur

Today we remember World War 2.  In May 1940, when the Germans came marching into his hometown my father was only 14. He lived in a city near the German border. He was soon recruited to work as a volunteer in the hospital. This made him grow up fast. He never told us about his work, but I could tell that he saw some things not meant for a boys’ eyes.

My mother was 12 when World War 2 started. Her father worked as an instructor in Morse Code at the post office. In that capacity he was able to forge identity papers from his students to keep them from being drafted. My mother told me that it scared the hell out of him. Every time he did it, he called in sick to work and got into bed. Waiting for the Germans to come and ship him off. luckily, he always got away.

They where no hero’s but they did the best they could to survive. My grandfather even got knighted for his actions during World war 2. He was very proud of that.
Looking back at the family history I wonder what I inherited from those experiences. Could it be that my dreams that refer to Wotan are a reminder of what my parents have been through? Carl Jung wrote an essay on Wotan referring to the First World War, but I think it is applicable to World war 2 as well.

“What is more than curious – indeed, piquant to a degree – is that the ancient god of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan, should awake, like an extinct volcano, to new in a civilized country that supposed to have outgrown the Middle Ages…. Wotan is a restless wanderer who creates unrest and stirs up life, now here, now there, and works magic”.

I remember meeting the wanderer Wotan in my dreams. I remember being called by him in another dream where the storm was blowing. I think my parents, growing up in an environment taken over by Wotan picked up on this archetypical force and it changed their Dna like epigenetic reasearch has shown in the last decade.

Sharon Moalm wrote an intriguing book about it: Inheritance. I really recomment that you read it. You will understand more about yourself and your family tree.

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We live in an age that makes us aware that what the things we eat, think and experience changes our brain, and even gets imprinted in our dan. Traumatic experiences get encrypted in our Dna and change the future of your offspring.

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How to Choose Piano for Beginners

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Buying piano for beginners is no less than a challenge. A lot of questions will come into your mind before buying it and I faced the same when I had to buy a piano for my kid when he took his first footstep in the world of music. It was more difficult for me because I was clueless about it. I knew piano just as a musical instrument. I made a lot of research and asked his teachers for recommendations and I will be sharing with you my experience in this blog so that you do not need to struggle as much as I needed to, to find your kid his first piano.

Your child needs a good instrument at the initial stage of learning because only this can make his base strong. Your role is to find him the best. When I started my research I had to deal with a lot of questions like should I go for an acoustic or digital piano? What’s the difference? I was not even sure how long my child’s interest will last for piano. I even thought of buying a small keyboard for his basics. I wanted to know the meaning of the terms I heard from his instructor like weighted keys and trust me these questions are common. If you can relate to my story read on to know everything in detail about pianos.

1. Digital vs acoustic piano

There are some piano teachers in Brampton who are very much firm about their choice and directly will ask you to buy an acoustic piano for your child. Acoustic pianos were actually popular 10, 15 years ago when digital technology was not that advanced.

The scenario has drastically changed; even the music industry could not resist the charm of digitalization. Today you can hardly differentiate the quality of a digital piano from an acoustic piano. Whichever your choice is, the sound of the instrument has to be very good.

2. The sound

The sounds produced by digital pianos are the pre recorded sound of acoustic pianos. The quality of the sound depends on the method and equipment used to record the tracks. A good quality digital player should sound warm and less digital, similar to an acoustic piano. Sound preference varies from person to person; choose the one that sounds good to you. You should also look for its articulation and decay to make a wise decision.

3. Full sized piano

The term full sized piano refers to the piano that consists of 88 keys. However you will also come across digital pianos with 61 keys but for advanced pianist 88 keys are recommended. So it is always better to get a full sized piano even for a beginner.

4. Polyphony

Polyphony is the maximum number of sounds that a piano is capable of producing. In simple words a piano with 32 note polyphony can produce 32 notes at a time. An intermediate player should own a piano that has 64 note polyphony. For advanced level, a piano with 128 note polyphony is recommended.

5. The touch response of keys

Touch sensitivity

Touch sensitivity shows how responsive a piano is when you play a key with different amounts of strength. The keyboard senses the velocity with which you play the key and it produces sound accordingly. To get a better grip on your music you should go for the touch sensitive piano.

Weight of the key

Pianos come with three types of keys, keys without added weight; semi weighted keys or fully weighted keys. Weighted keys have been introduced by manufacturers to imitate the heaviness of acoustic keys. Fully weighted digital keys are the best option because its keys are very much similar to the keys of an acoustic piano.

These were the basics of piano that will help you buy the right one for your child. The decision might be a bit difficult but it is important for you to consider the pros and cons of different types of pianos before purchasing it and once you purchase it, be sure to properly maintain it with regular tuning.

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Manuel: Chase Utley is “slowly getting better”

Phillies second baseman Chase Utley is finally beginning to show signs of progress in his ongoing recovery from right knee tendinitis.

According to Dave Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News, Utley has been cleared to start a running program and did some light jogging on Wednesday without feeling any abnormal discomfort in his knee.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel expressed some optimism about his All-Star second baseman on Thursday, but cautioned that Utley is not close to returning to the major league starting lineup.

“It’s still the same,” Manuel said. “It’s a day-to-day thing. He’s slowly getting better. He’s slowly feeling better. Hopefully, he keeps going that way.”

The Phillies have given most of the open playing time at second base to Wilson Valdez, who has rewarded them with a cool .353/.389/.441 batting line and five RBI through 37 plate appearances. That high level of production won’t last, but the Fightin’ Phils have enough pitching and enough other pieces to remain near the top of the National League East standings until Utley is finally ready to roar.

Brett Cecil placed on 10-day injured list due to Carpal Tunnel syndrome

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On Monday, Cardinals reliever Brett Cecil was placed on the 10-day injured list due to Carpal Tunnel syndrome. Cecil, who notably lost 42 pounds since the end of the 2018 season, was having trouble with his mechanics throughout spring training and only logged two official Grapefruit League innings.

Cecil, 32, is entering the third year of his four-year, $30.5 million contract. He struggled last year, finishing with a 6.89 ERA and a 19/25 K/BB ratio in 32 2/3 innings. The lefty dealt with shoulder and foot injuries during the season as well.

The Cardinals bolstered the bullpen in December, signing lefty Andrew Miller to a two-year, $25 million deal. It would be nice to have a healthy and effective Cecil, but the high-leverage workload will be managed by Miller and Jordan Hicks as well as Alex Reyes.

Cecil was among a handful of Cardinals to hit the injured list on Monday, joining Carlos Martínez (right shoulder cuff strain), Jedd Gyorko (right calf strain), Luke Gregerson (right shoulder impingement), and Justin Williams (right hand second metacarpal fracture).


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Letter from David Vengas Reyes, political prisoner in Oaxaca

Ric | 19.04.2007 20:21 | Oaxaca Uprising | Social Struggles

Letter from David Vengas Reyes, political prisoner in Oaxaca

Letter from David Venegas Reyes.
Political Prisoner in the Central Penitentiary Santa Maria Ixcotel of Oaxaca.
Member of APPO and of VOCAL, adherent to La Otra Campaña.

From the Penitentiary of Santa Maria Ixcotel.
April 17, 2007

I am being held in the penitentiary of Santa Maria Ixcotel, in my city, Oaxaca. I was brought here following a fabricated accusation of possession of drugs. When I was arrested, policemen beat me up and forced me to pose for a picture holding the bag of drugs. I refused to pose. After two long days in the PGR – UMAN (Procuraduria General de la Republica – Unidad Mixta de Atencion al Narcomenudeo), I was moved to this penitentiary where I found myself accused of sedition, and other crimes against Oaxacan society, such as the burning of the Court House on the 25th of November. I hardly need to say to the courageous and worthy people of Oaxaca that these accusations are all false because we all know what the state does to take revenge against those who struggle for social justice.

I thank you all for the support you've given me. I know about the actions carried out to demand my freedom and the freedom of all the other political prisoners in the movement of the APPO and of other struggles. I thank you for this. It is only now that I am discovering this new phase of the Oaxacan Commune. The brotherhood and solidarity climbs over and far beyond the walls of prisons. I feel the presence of all of you: my family, my friends and the great people of Oaxaca- great because of your hearts, your hope, and your intelligence. I don't have words to express what your support and protest has meant to me in these difficult days, but if I could I would embrace all of you and perhaps the closeness of our hearts would express what words can't: my gratitude and love. I feel great happiness knowing that the mobilizations continue and will continue. We have to keep up the fight, without hatred towards those who want to keep us subdued- those of us who know we're in the right don't need to look into the ruins of hatred in our hearts to find the motivation to keep struggling. In each ancient face, in each of the movement's chants, in each graffiti image that appears in clandestine by the night, in each child, in each banner, and in each of us in prison- there are the noble reasons to continue fighting. I urge you never to abandon this struggle.

Just like no one knows what's best for a child like his mother, each individual, each collective, pueblo, city, and neighborhood knows what it needs to achieve a better life. Our destiny is in our hands. My imprisonment shows, in all its harshness, what the government is capable of doing to continue systematically repressing the movement of Oaxaca. But even in the face of the repression, I hope that the exhaustion of our legs and throats never exceeds the intensity of our demand for justice and freedom for everyone- both those inside and outside of jail. I am deeply touched by the opportunity to communicate with all of the Oaxacan people- dignified by your rebellion. I want you to know that the walls of this prison are only enclosing my body, but that my spirit is with you, strengthening the morale of the rebellion, of freedom, of autonomy. The music of our chants that I heard you calling from outside the prison reached the inside of my cell. They remain deeply engraved in my heart.

I hope that this message reaches you, not like a cat that furtively climbs over the walls, but rather, as a giant that demolishes those walls, spreading the depth of my conviction- that this struggle is a just one, and that we will triumph in the end.

David Venegas Reyes
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  • The Bio Flame 72" Ethanol Firebox SS, 26.5" H x 72.0" W x 15.0" D, Indoor/Outdoor, Colors: Stainless Steel, Black, 33500 BTUs

    The Bio Flame Authorized RetailerThe Bio Flame team introduces the world’s longest ethanol fueled firebox! The ethanol fireplace is the first and only one of its kind in the world and has created a new standard for indoor and outdoor ethanol fireplaces, taking away most of the restrictions involved with typical fireplaces.

    This fireplace allows you to step outside of the normal realm that traditional fireplaces offer. The 72” ethanol firebox is the largest ethanol fireplace in the world and can create a unique, modern look for any home, restaurant, hotel or backyard.

    Easy to install: build a niche in the wall - use non combustible materials for the framing and lining of the niche. There is no clearance requirement off the floor, but you do need 14" above the firebox to any electrical components, like that TV which is so popular to place above the fireplace (see the manual for details).

    • Stainless Steel or Black finish (+$450)
    • 304 Stainless Steel Firebox Construction
    • Brushed Stainless Steel Internal Frame
    • 8mm Tempered Glass
    • 48" Burner
    • Ventless, needs no chimney, no gas or electric hook up
    • Burns eco-friendly Bio-ethanol liquid fuel made specifically for fireplaces. Never substitute another fuel
    • Easy to install: build a niche in the wall - use non combustible materials for the framing and lining of the niche. There is no clearance requirement off the floor, but you do need 14" above the firebox to any electrical components, like that TV which is so popular to place above the fireplace (see the manual for details).
    • Odorless, smokeless, no ash, non-toxic, non-polluting
    • Heats on average 107m2 or 1,152ft2
    • Measurements: H 26.5” (672mm) W 72.0” (1828.8mm) D 15.0” (381mm)
    • 3-year manufacturer's warranty
    • Comes with Lighting Rod, Lighter, and Funnel:

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    Bio-ethanol is produced from renewable resources and is further refined with clean additives to eliminate smoke, odor, and soot when the fuel undergoes combustion. This fuel produces natural-look 12" flames that will be a wonderful art piece for your home!

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      • Warranty will be applied on presentation of a dated receipt and is strictly limited to factory service repair of the piece or pieces that are found to be defective.
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    • In 2007 the developers of Bio Flame changed the world of home heating and indoor and outdoor fireplaces with the introduction of The Bio Flame line of bio ethanol burning fireplaces into the world market. Creating a design that required no venting, gas lines, plug-ins or outlets, more heat production, less waste and no environmental impact The Bio Flame was immediately desired by home builders, resorts, hotels, personal homes and large scale developments around the world. Providing 4X more heat than electric fireplaces and requiring no set up or additional costs it lit the path for an innovative new way to heat homes with a modern appeal never seen before.

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Net-A-Porter launches the festive season creating the ultimate guide to party dressing. Inspired by the unrestrained, bright and colourful disco era, the retailer has chosen an elite selection of brands with the likes of Emilia Wickstead, Rixo London, Roland Mouret and Stella McCartney all tasked with delivering a high level of dynamic glamour. Below are some of the styles made available:

Emilia Wickstead:

This collection comprises of six styles including statement dresses, mini skirts and playful shimmering metallic separates.

Rixo London:

Inspired by 1970s glamour, Rixo’s pallet of navy, silver, and gold adorns the hand-painted silk and richly embroidered pieces from this collection.

Roland Mouret:

The Roland Mouret capsule revisits a selection of early designs and celebrates the 20th anniversary of the brand. The collection consists of 11 styles including satin dresses, tops, cropped sequin trousers, a skirt and a corseted jumpsuit.

Stella McCartney:

An exclusive capsule consisting of 10 ready-to-wear pieces, including a gown in silk georgette, a jumpsuit and separates in double satin and faux fur outwear.

Alongside these will be a selection of occasion outwear favourites from the likes of Alessandra Rich, Attico, Jimmy Choo, Aquazzura.

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STmodular: Clanches PCB/Panel

Clanches is an 6 HP clock source and dual random gate. It is a modification of Olivier Gillet´s module Branches.

This is a PCB/Panel in the Eurorack format.

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Clanches is an 6 HP clock source and dual random gate. It is a modification of Olivier Gillet´s module Branches.

The internal clock indicated by the LED located in the centre is normalled to both inputs of the random gate. If there is an external trigger patched to one of the IN jacks, this connection will be interrupted. The gate takes a trigger or gate as an input and routes it to either one of its two outputs A and B according to a random coin toss.

You can manually adjust the internal clock rate. A Switch changes the range from slow over moderate to very fast.

The CV input gives you the opportunity to use control voltages in order to adjust the clock speed. Any signal above 3V will vary the rate. If the signal drops below 3V the clock generator is forced to hold. This way you can generate very interesting rhythms by just patching a random signal or LFO into the Clock CV. The internal clock is furthermore supplied via the OUT jack.

The two manual controls P1 and P2 and their corresponding CV inputs change the probability of a signal to be routed to one of its outputs. In extreme settings, the outcome is no longer random causing the module to behave like a voltage controlled switch. The two LEDs on top indicate which output of each channel has been selected to route the signal.

In contrast to the original Branches module the two toggle switches simple change the behaviour if the P1 or P2 is set fully clock- or fully counter clockwise. If you hold the button for 2 seconds once the signal will be routed to A and B alternately with each incoming trigger. In normal mode the will just be routed to A (CW) or B (CCW).

And yes…there is an actual airwire you have to solder on the top side of the Main PCB. It is clearly marked, you have dedicated holes to solder the wire ends and you won´t even see it on the finished module. As this PCB is very dense I had no choice to avoid this little wire. This will be improved with a forthcoming revision though.

  • Internal Clock Source
  • Dual Random Gate
  • CV Clock
  • HOLD Function
  • Probability CV
  • Clock normalled to both Gates
  • 3x LED
  • Two separate Gate Inputs
  • Probabilty CV
  • 3U Eurorack module, 6 HP wide
  • Power consumption: 30 mA at +12 V and 5 mA at -12 V

The module consists of two boards:

  • Front PCB Panel
  • Main PCB with all components

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The housing crunch is especially potent in urban centers and populous areas. Perhaps it is most troubling and effective in California, specifically in its major cities. The Bay Area itself has been reported as just about the most expensive place to live in the US. Many in the city, particularly its officials, have decided that the only real solution may be to lower construction costs and expedite building time-frames. Enter Modular housing as the simplest and best answer. San Francisco Chronicle correspondent, Dominic Fracassa, wrote about the push for modular home building’s potential savings, reporting, “As San Francisco officials continue to scout locations for a factory that can churn out modular housing units, Mayor London Breed is lining up the city to be the first customer. Breed is expected to announce Monday that the city is prepared to spend $100 million on hundreds of modular apartments that would grow the city’s stock of affordable housing…Breed and other officials hope the early — and sizable — promise to buy will entice interested operators to set up shop in San Francisco.” All of this goes to show how this new building technique can save money and be the perfect solution for many, including those considering modular homes for their personal property. Modular homes save money and time, point blank and simple.

The Bay area is dealing with skyrocketing prices for homes and a shortage of residents that can afford to fill them as a result. Fracassa quotes, “We are in a crisis. We need more housing in San Francisco, so we have to be open to exploring every opportunity to produce more, and produce faster,” Breed said. This is the needed attitude to get the housing crunch under control. Once people consider all their options, it is plain to see the benefits and great advantages that modular home construction provides for a community. The speed and accuracy with which a structure can be built, whether that structure be a single-family home or a multi-family complex to house many of the San Franciscans that are currently demanding new housing, modular can solve that crisis and meet those demands with ease.

The traditional construction market has a hard time keeping up with that demand because of its impracticality in regards to cost and construction speeds. Not to mention that in an urban center like San Francisco, the process of getting to the job site, preparing it, and working in the fog and rain is very costly and easily halted multiple times. A modular housing factory would have its own parking lot, weather-controlled structure, and outside interference would be nearly impossible because of its factory nature. Then a house needs to be delivered to the site only once and never worried about again.

“Right now (modular construction) for sure delivers speed. It’s very efficient in terms of getting materials in place with design certainty,” said Kate Hartley, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the agency expected to put up the money for the modular units.

And so, the Bay Area might just have a solution on their hands in the form of modular housing. The method will certainly save them plenty of money and get the buildings up in a quick and effective way. Truth be told, seeing all this new savings that the area will save on might make them reconsider all their building methods for city structures. The adaptability of modular housing makes it perfect for city spaces and working around existing buildings as necessary, especially those with historical value like the area is full of.

Check out what savings could be passed onto you in your search for a new modular home today! These modular retailers and modular lenders can help you decide what course of action is best for your housing and financial needs.


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‘I lost valiantly’: Overheard quotes of the week

I listen. Sometimes I hear things I feel are worth writing down. Here are some recent things. Some of these overheard things are funny in context; some may be more amusing when read out of context.

1. Last weekend was my town’s festival. Think cover bands, Budweiser beer, and bronzed bros. I helped out, and felt important when I got to carry a walkie-talkie, over which I heard (with no explanation) a man’s voice:

“Rachel, I have your big one, and it works phenomenally.”

2. After the festival shut down at midnight, many people went to nearby McDonald’s. My wife and I saw several women in their early 20s sing-shout a spontaneous, acapella version of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.” (“BUM, Bum, bum.”) We also saw a table of 5 guys, who probably became legal to drink quite recently, and one of these guys said,

“I can’t get rid of these fuckin’ hiccups, bro.”

One of these five young men was wearing red jeans. A comrade of his said,

“I’m gonna rip those f***ot-ass pants off your body.”

Red Jeans answered, “Your mom likes these pants.”

Comrade: “I doubt it.”

A few minutes later, two local police officers came into McDonald’s. Red Pants decides to ask one officer for a ride home.

Officer: “Call your parents.”

Red Pants: “My dad hates me.”

Officer: “Call your friends.”

Red Pants: “All my friends are here.”

Officer: “You need some new friends.”

Red Pants: “Touche’, touche’.” (I heard, “too-SHAY, too-SHAY”)

Before long, Red Pants and the officer were having a rock-paper-scissors contest for a ride home. Red Pants counts off, “one-two-three, shoot,” and after three rounds, the officer was acknowledged as winner.

Red Pants said, “I gotta walk home as a loser.”

Later, as the officers were leaving, Red Pants or one of his buddies called out, “Have a good night. Don’t arrest me.”

Once the officers left, Red Pants shared his post-Rochambeau analysis: “I came out strong. He was thinking too much. … I lost valiantly.”

Another one of the dudes commented again on the pants: “I don’t give a fuck about your red ‘Jersey Shore’ pants.”

At this point, Red Pants appealed for a fashion decision to two women, apparently in their late 20s or early 30s, sitting nearby.

One woman said, “I’m not prejudiced against pants. But I also live with a guy who just kicked your ass at rock-paper-scissors.”

The woman later said they were teachers, and asked if they were from a nearby town where she taught. One of the boys mentioned another teacher, a Mrs. Tib-oh-doh (spelled “Thibodoux”?).  The teacher said, “Mrs.  Tib-oh-doh is related to everyone.” Responded one of the boys, “You calling her a whore?”

Later, after the teacher corrected one of Red Pants’ statements, he said, “Oh, ‘Missus I-didn’t-get-my-grammar-right-at-one-twenty-four-in-the-morning’.” (I was surprised and impressed that he had actually gotten the time my phone also showed.)

The boys continued talking to the women, but the boys’ attentions faded as one of them said, “when they know my friends’ parents, I’m out.”

After the boys had left and the first woman went to the restroom, the second woman said, (seemingly to my wife and me),

“I have two little boys. I do NOT want them to grow up (short pause) — and be THAT.”

3. One of our regular waitresses at our regular diner looked at my sweat-soaked shirt and said to me and my wife, “I think he’s hot.” I said I’d ignore the context and take it as a compliment.

4. Nostalgia for the recent: In the last hours of the festival, on a hot Sunday afternoon, I heard a boy (of approximately 10 years) tell his friend, “Remember how much people there were last night?”

5. At my dentist’s office this week, an old man, there with his old wife, said to the daughter of a different old woman, “My dad died at fifty-eight, and here I am, the opposite numbers, eighty-five. … [the dad died on] Thanksgiving day of 1950” and “he died of uremic poisoning before they knew about dialysis.”

The old man said his father had worked too hard, and the daughter said, “You learned from him not to work 16-hour days?” The old man said he himself had worked hard, too. The daughter said, “You DIDN’T learn from him.”

Later, the old man’s wife talked about her cornea transplants of a few months back, and how she just had seven of the stitches removed, and there were nine more to go, and “That’s an experience you don’t want to go through” and it’ll still be some months before she knows if the transplants will really clear up her vision: “You’ve gotta be kidding. I don’t want to be 89 years old and not know if I’m gonna see.”

6. A woman who’s friends with my wife and me told us, “my husband has seen lots of boobs,” but she added that all the boobs belonged to her; she was speaking of “volume rather than quantity.”

7. Yesterday, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bookstore, in the between the department of red Badger t-shirts and the department of notebooks, I heard a gray-haired fellow say to a boy of about 10 (perhaps his grandson?): “The number system you’re accustomed to is base-ten, right?” and the man soon asked the boy to convert from decimal to binary numbers: “‘Five’ is one-one-one” and the boy said, “‘Six’ is one-one-zero.” “Right,” said the older man — but who (if I heard and wrote accurately) was gonna correct HIS wrong conversion?

8. Last night, a friend over to our house was eating a lemon-bar food and getting attention from my dog and my friend said to my dog, “what makes you think any of this is coming your way?”

9. And earlier this week, a fellow-teacher was talking about her lack of familiarity with Greek myths we will start teaching to our high-schoolers in the coming year when she said, “theoretically, I’m supposed to be smarter than them.” Another colleague explained, of Zeus’s wife, “Hera’s just a vindictive bitch,” the “Erica Kane” of Greek mythology.

P.S. All the quoted material above is from notes I made in the immediate seconds after hearing the words spoken. I was not trying to listen in to any of these conversations; they were just happening around me, loud enough for me to hear them, and as such, these are public — not private — conversations, and therefore, in my opinion, ripe for the transcribing. Few people ever ask me what I’m writing — my assumption is that nobody is paying much attention to what a dude with a pen and a piece of paper is doing.

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Suffering.Pain.Sorrow.Crucifixion.Death.Resurrection.Hope.Love.Light.L I F E

SP/Cross made from popsicle sticks and dental floss
Circa: 2009

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  1. Works just as well.

    February 3, 2014 at 11:06 am

    • That was deliberate so there could be a message within a message. 😉

      February 3, 2014 at 11:54 am

  2. First time I’ve seen “Jesus” tagged along with “grunge”!

    February 5, 2014 at 12:35 pm

  3. Wow, this is amazing. The colors and the grunge really draw me in, I really like the interpretation.

    February 7, 2014 at 10:41 am

    • Thanks, O. I get tired of “rainbows” and “babbling brooks” pertaining to scriptural images, you know? I want to see GRIT sometimes- not marshmallow goo! Glad you like it. :0)

      February 7, 2014 at 1:06 pm

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I don’t currently suffer from Montrealgia, but I notice it around me, in Ottawa. It comes in two related flavours: the pain of Montreal-envy or the bittersweet sorrow of Montreal nostalgia.

Ottawa is close enough to Montreal, geographically, that links between those two cities abound. Lots of Ottawans either come from Montreal or have spent a significant amount of time in Montreal. Some people commute between the two cities. Ottawa businesses have ties to Montreal and Ottawa youngsters go to Montreal, like all the time. Both cities are bilingual, though in distinct ways. Historically, ties cut rather deep, as Ottawa was chosen as Canada’s capital after an incident in Montreal caused a national crisis. Before the seat of financial power moved away from Montreal to Toronto, it sounds quite likely that Ottawa politicians and Montreal financiers were in close touch as some of this may still happen. The fact that, in 2017, Ottawa will be the main site for the 150th anniversary of the Canadian confederation is particularly interesting given the importance 1967 had for Montreal. Arguably, “Expo 67” marked the main shift in Montreal’s history, becoming an “international city”. Not that Montreal has been coasting ever since, but there’s a definite notion that the late 1960s and early 1970s were something of a Golden Age for the city.

Montrealers rarely talk about Ottawa and, when they do, it’s either about a quiet and quaint tourist spot or about federal politics. Then again, Montreal has become even more insular over the years. (Sure, it’s already an island. But it’s also isolating itself, IMHO.) Not too long ago, there was a lot of Paris-envy among Québec’s intelligentsia, especially in a few parts of Montreal. Nowadays, much of the contacts between the largest Francophone cities in Europe and North America relate to «PVTistes», Ubisoft employees, and other French people fleeing France to try their luck in Montreal. Startup founders in Montreal might be as jealous of Silicon Valley as are many people in Boston, but Montreal as whole doesn’t tend to face West.

And, no, Toronto isn’t really on Montreal’s radar. Sure, Trawna’s more populous than Montreal. So are many cities around the world. Contacts between Canada’s two largest cities tend to be utilitarian, more than like a true rivalry.

So, Montrealgia and people’s attitudes towards Montreal, from the outside. It’s not exclusive to Ottawa, but it’s pretty common, here. In a way, Ottawa is the most Montreal-centric place outside of the Montreal region.

I did use to get nostalgic about Montreal. I’d long for something specific from Montreal. Often food. But I don’t get that, anymore. Because, reasons. Part of it is that I still spend a significant amount of time in Mtl, as my job is based there. So, apart from telecommuting and trips to other places, much of my professional life happens in Montreal. Though there are occasionally things I miss from Montreal, while I’m home in Ottawa, it’s mostly about making the time to enjoy it while I’m in town, which mostly gets difficult because of time management.

There’s another form of nostalgia that I get, but it has less to do with Montreal and, quite frequently, I associate it with another place. It’s more about a specific experience that I had. It’s closer to nostalgia in general and much further from being “homesick”. It may relate to how Montreal used to be, but it can’t be satiated by what Montreal is, nowadays.

Which is the other main reason I don’t get Montrealgic. Noticing rapid changes in Montreal’s overall vibe or ambiance, I don’t really get the pangs of pain from not living there. Even passing by my favourite neighbourhood leaves me relatively unfazed. PetPat is still a fun place to be, and I’d try to live there if I were to move back to Montreal. But it’s not part of my identity the way it used to be.

Sounds like Montrealgia mostly affects people whose perception of Quebec’s Métropole is encapsulated by a specific idea. Like this server from Ottawa who described Montreal as so much better because “it’s Brooklyn”. Young Albertans who moved to Montreal as artists/students may miss something similar, if they move away from Sala Rossa and Divan Orange.

Speaking of Casa Del Popolo… Taking the bus to Montreal, right now, to go to an album launch there. Started this blogpost a couple of days ago and decided to finish it today.

Feels fitting.

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Moonlight MusicFest 2018 Limited Edition Poster

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MotherTongues: Wear Words, Celebrate Cultures

about words, languages, cultures, travel

Favourite links August 25, 2005

Filed under: Uncategorized — Michelle @ 1:31 pm

I’d like to share some favorite links of mine.

Some favorite T-shirt sites to browse around:

And a forum with all things t-shirt related:

I never realized that there are so many people selling t-shirts over the web!

Peace to all, MotherTongues

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WordPress Scheduling Plugin

A Closer Look at WordPress Scheduling Plugins

Online presence is one of the key factors of business success in today’s digital era. Moreover, the majority of customers often check online reputation of the business before making an actual purchase or visiting the company’s office.

Enabling your website users not only to gain general info on your company but to also obtain a detailed list of your services or timetable of the events you hold online would be a solid argument in your favor.

That is why today we picked for you a collection of the top-rated and the most well-referenced WordPress timetable plugins for any taste and budget: some of them are universally applicable tools with a huge variety of features, others are designed for specific tasks and purposes; some of the plugins offer freemium model, while others are available for free download.

If you would like to get concise grab-and-go report on each plugin’s main characteristics — our brief features and functions checklists at the top of each plugin description are at your disposal.

Timetable and Event WordPress Scheduling plugin by MotoPress

Free version essential features check: color-marked event filtering, fully responsive layout, upcoming events widget, event search filter, tag/category events differentiation, XML data export/import.

Timetable and Event Schedule plugin by MotoPress allows you to obtain all the essential scheduling features. While adding your event lists to a page you will be able to adjust all the necessary shortcode settings such as fields to be displayed in the event descriptions, set time frames for the events (up to 15 mins possible), manually enter desirable row height of your chart, decide if you would like empty rows to be shown and tailor many more other setups.

The plugin guarantees proper exposure of your timetables on any device, and, moreover, gives you a chance to define their mobile behaviour: showcase your events as a chart or let your mobile users see them as clean-designed list.

Timetable & Event plugin allows fitting the look of your event lists to the design of any theme: fell free to choose background and font colors for every single cell of your timetable and define hover shades for its elements.

If you use MotoPress Content Editor to build your website pages, you can as well complement the scheduling functionality with a premium Countdown add-on to keep your users informed of the timing of your important events.

Price: $0.

All-in-One Event Calendar

Free version essential features check: upcoming events widget, color-marked event filtering, Google maps.

Among the most notable features of the plugin’s free version is, first of all, data exchanging with outer iCal calendars. You will as well get a chance to furnish out your events info with featured images: add images both to any single event or to the whole category.

Developers team provides the users with MO and PO files for the plugin to be further translated into any language and offers 6 already translated locales as well.

Free version functionality can be extended by purchasing premium edition or separate add-ons.

Free add-ons for the pro version include:

  • Extended Views add-on (provides wide choice of event view modes: from regular day/week/month view to the custom Agenda or detailed Postboard displaying ways.)

Paid add-ons are:

  • Twitter automatic cross-posting
  • Tickets selling
  • Venue lists creation
  • Front-end event submission.

Price: starts from $29.00 per add-on.

The Events Calendar

Free version essential features check: tag/category events differentiation, upcoming events widget, color-marked event filtering, Google maps, fully responsive.

The whole concept of this WordPress schedule plugin can be for clarity split into several components: the free core plugin itself, its pro version and free or paid add-ons and extensions.

The core plugin functionality enables you to define modes of event demonstration by choosing among the standard calendar, list, day, or week views. Your website visitors will get a chance to navigate through the events via keyword search.

Basic iCalendar and Google Calendar import/export options are available as well. The events exchanging process can be automated through the free Advanced iCal Export extension (may be of use for bulk exchanging of events feed) or by means of the paid Event Aggregator add-on (easy event import from Meetup, Eventbrite, GCal and iCal.)

As for the premium version of the plugin, it, first and foremost, widens the event categorizing modes. List your events grouped by venues they are held in (Venue View) or by the person hosting them (Organizer View). Let your users enjoy a “near me” event search by choosing Map View option: your website visitors will be able to see nearby events on Google map.

Having purchased the premium version, you will also get a chance to manage recurring events and add custom fields to your event descriptions.

Price: starts from $89.00.

Quick Event Manager

Free version essential features check: tag/category events differentiation, color-marked event filtering, Google maps, event registration form.

Create events and specify their title, start/end dates, location and cost; add a short description, link or featured image to the event info and generate a shortcode for adding the list of created events to any page you wish.

In case of choosing list mode of your events displaying, you are getting an opportunity to specify how would you like the listed items to be arranged and styled. The plugin offers 7 pre-designed displaying variations. Some of the examples are: basic event list, list with start and end dates indicated, event with a map, event with an image and so on.

This WP schedule plugin can as well create a simple registration form to let you keep account of the number of people, intending to visit your events. You will be able to define maximum amount of guests for any event and (optionally) set the registration form to be hidden after the event has become fully booked.

Authors of Quick Event Manager had the foresight of implementing primary payment functionality to the plugin, so feel free to make the best use of the basic PayPal payment form.

Upgrading to the pro version of Quick Event Manager opens up extended functionality for the event registration, enables Guest Events, MailChimp integration and In-Context Payments option.

Price: $20.00.

Event Calendar WD — Responsive Event Calendar plugin

Free version essential features check: tag/category events differentiation, color-marked event filtering, Google maps, fully responsive layout, SEO-friendly.

Event Calendar WD was designed to be easy to use even for the first-time WordPress users. Aside from taking care of the well-written documentation, the developers team has posted a detailed step-by-step video guide on the plugin’s page in the official WP.org plugin directory.

With Event Calendar WD you will be enjoying fully responsive layout of your event lists, get a chance to create unlimited number of events and display them in any of the four available ways: Month, Week, Day and List.

Let’s now pass on to the advanced capabilities.

You can expand the potential of the plugin by purchasing extra add-ons, some of which are:

  • Front-end event adding
  • Upcoming events widget
  • Event tickets add-on
  • iCal/GCal integration.

Please keep in mind that the add-ons in question are only applicable to the premium edition of the plugin. You will be able to purchase each of the add-ons separately or buy a premium software plan to get all the pro add-ons at once.

Price: starts from $25.00.

Chronosly Events Calendar

Free version essential features check: tag/category events differentiation, color-marked event filtering, fully responsive layout.

Chronosly Events Calendar is one more tool that offers both essential functionality for the basic event listing and sophisticated customization options for advanced purposes.

Lite version of Chronosly Calendar brings fully responsive design, plenty of event showcasing types (lists, single events, calendars, categories) and can be flawlessly translated with any localization software like Loco Translate, WPML, Poedit and so on.

However, the main area of strength of the plugin is freedom of design-related tailorings. Lite version comes with the Default layout template, which can be replaced with the paid Dark, Grid or Ticketing ones. The templates offer pre-designed styles for your event calendars, defining their color scheme and events listing mode. All the extended templates can be purchased and added both to free and pro plugin versions.

Apart from this, you will be able to receive a significant functionality boost from the paid add-ons, among which are:

  • Recurring Events
  • Filter & Sort add-on (grouping and displaying events according to the certain criterion)
  • Field Builder add-on (custom fields creation)
  • Import/Export of the calendar data.

If you, however, would like to get a fully-featured potential of the plugin at once, you are free to purchase its premium edition.

Price: starts from $25.00

Simple Calendar — Google Calendar Plugin

Free version essential features check: fully responsive, setting max number of events to be shown in a cell.

This plugin stands out from all the other ones in our collection by being a highly specialized tool — it is an ultimate solution for importing events from any Google Calendar to your WordPress website.

The free version permits you to add info from public Google Calendars only. At the same time, you won’t have to make any question about the imported data fitting your WordPress theme design: feel free to pick a color scheme for your event calendar. The lite version brings two modes of event displaying (calendar or list) and enables you to tune regional settings of your timetables: set time zone, date format and starting day of week for them.

Meanwhile, the extended functionality add-ons concept is very straightforward: there are two powerful pro extensions available.

The first one, FullCalendar Add-on, enables day and week event displaying modes and allows column height customization in accordance with the amount of events it contains.

The second Google Calendar Pro Add-on lets you import events from both public and private GCals and mark each event with exactly the same color that was used in the Google Calendar the events were imported from. You will be as well allowed to display event extended data (organizers, participants info and their gravatars) or add attachments to the event descriptions.

Price: starts from $29.00 per add-on.

My Calendar

Free version essential features check: category/location/author/host event filtering, upcoming and today’s events widget, recurring events management.

Other useful features of the plugin’s free version are: various event displaying modes (calendar or list/month, week or day) and a widget for creating mini-sized versions of your calendar. The plugin developers recommend usage of mini calendars for taking care of better mobile experience. The free version doesn’t offer responsive layout option, so the mini cal will fit the bill for small screens.

If you prefer having responsive design on default, the premium version is here for you to lend a helping hand. In addition to offering fully adaptive design, My Calendar Pro allows posting events by visitors and generating events from already created posts or vice versa.

Price: $49.00 for the one-year license.

Very Simple Events List

Free version essential features check: specifying event location and time, adding featured images and links to the event descriptions.

This plugin is a smooth solution for the users who would like to straightforwardly enjoy creation of event calendars without digging into the knotty coding and customization issues. We consider this tool to be an example of the most straightforward plugin WordPress has ever had.

The events listing process is held by means of various shortcodes.

Create your events and come up with the page you would like them to be displayed on. You will be able to showcase your events as a standalone list on a separate page or use a widget to add your events list to any of the already existing pages.

There are still some more extended settings that can be fine-tuned by going to Settings → VSEL menu on your admin dashboard (e.g., hide or show event title, category or featured image; delete or keep created events after the plugin deinstallation; choose the size of event featured image, etc.)

The plugin provides for the basic Gutenberg support, so the events can be created and added to the lists through the new WordPress editor as well.

Price: $0

EasyTimetable — Responsive Schedule Management System

Free version essential features check: category events differentiation, color-marked event filtering.

Among the convenient benefits of EasyTimetable plugin is editing event calendar from one single spot — create new items, manage them and tailor the overall style of your timetable at the same time. This plugin is one more hassle-free tool, intended solely for quick schedule and calendar creation, the basic functionality of which can be extended by installing premium version.

The pro edition provides unlimited number of events and unlimited event duration (there are limits for these properties in free version.) Along with that, you will be able to add as many timetables to one page as you wish.

EasyTimetable pro also allows its users to embed two activities into one cell and display different timetables for specified periods of time (weeks, days, etc.)

Price: €19.00

Closing remark

Every WordPress event schedule plugin is, beyond argument, a boon for your website both in terms of providing your users with necessary info (e.g., any gym visitor would be grateful for having a schedule of all the sport classes available online on the gym website) and in terms of making the process of timetable creation more convenient and automated for you. As long as you are using scheduling software, everything you need to do is, globally speaking, add your custom event data and get the time-bill or agenda generated on your site.

We consider event plugins to be apt for unlimited types of needs and purposes. And what about you?

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Tips for Motorists

• Be careful whilst going through intersections.

• Look left, proper and left again for motorcyclists. Also, be conscious that due to a bike’s small size, a motorbike can without problems conceal in a car’s blind spot.

• Allow for greater following distance. Most motorcyclists do no longer set off their brake light whilst slowing down. They gradual down by downshifting.

• Don’t expect motorcyclists are dashing. Due to their small size, motorcycles may appear to be moving quicker and appear farther away than they simply are.

• Motorcyclists regularly alter role within a lane. This helps them be visible greater effortlessly through motorists. They additionally generally tend to avoid the center of the lane because of drinks that leak from automobile engines, transmissions and radiators.

Tips for Motorcyclists

• Be cautious while going via intersections.

• Be seen whilst you trip. Try to avoid blind spots, put on shiny-colored, shielding clothing, activate turn signals early and constantly use your headlights.

• Flash your brake lighting fixtures while slowing down. This helps others on the street recognize your intentions.

• Leave sufficient space among you and the car in front of you. You’ll have extra time to react to other motorists’ actions.

• Ride within your limits. If you’re a new rider, bear in mind taking a schooling direction. Rush hour isn’t always the time to learn how to maneuver your motorbike. All riders need to avoid excessive temperatures and inclement weather.

Motorcycle insurance is extraordinarily important. Its no longer most effective a good insurance should some thing occur it s an awesome funding.

For the great coverage for your bike continually enquire approximately insurance before you buy the motorbike. There were instances in which the buyer has observed himself not able to insure after shopping for the motorcycle. Living in a totally excessive crime charge vicinity, too younger and really high priced machines are the few reasons.

A motor insurance employer provides wonderful coverage alternatives. But look for a consultant motorbike coverage agent or business enterprise and you will do simply great.

Remember getting complete insurance on a bike is expensive and frequently handiest reserved for motorcycles of high fee. Make certain your bike insurance covers

Liability insurance
Collision coverage
No-fault insurance
Service coverage
Uninsured insurance and
Passenger insurance
Another treasured insurance is Bodily Injury Liability. Bodily Injury covers different humans’s injury or demise which you are answerable for as much as the bounds you purchase.

Medical and Uninsured Motorist also are available. Medical covers scientific fees to you and your passengers injured in an accident. Uninsured Motorist covers accidents to you and your passengers while the opposite person in the accident is at fault however does no longer have insurance or does not have enough coverage.

Although putting the points hole and the ignition timing are vital to the performance of these machines, it is a rather clean activity for the home mechanic to do.

The equipment required to undertake this task include:

Crosshead (Philips) screwdriver
Metric feeler gauge
Wrench (to turn the crankshaft) – sizes will range relying at the unique motorbike (see word beneath)
12v test light bulb or multi-meter

Spark plug wrench (the plugs must be removed to allow smooth crankshaft rotation)

The touch factors gap ought to be set correctly first. Most of those early Japanese machines wished a factors gap of 0.35-mm. Turing the crankshaft slowly (ignition off) the points cam lobe should be positioned at its maximum elevate towards the touch points heel. This activity ought to, of path, be repeated on both units of points.
Set 1 and four First

The number one and variety four cylinders’ timing need to be set first. To find the firing factor for those cylinders, the crankshaft have to be rotated (see be aware underneath) till the piston on wide variety 4 cylinder is on its compression stroke (a plastic ingesting straw placed via the plug hole onto the piston works well).

As the piston nears TDC (top useless center), a hard and fast of timing marks at the cam-lobe backplate will come into sight via the inspection window.

When the timing marks just begin to appear, a 12v test mild (or a multi-meter set to 12 volts DC) must be connected across the contact factors (one facet to ground, one to the hot lead on the opposite facet of the factors).

With the mild in vicinity, the ignition should be grew to become on. Further rotation of the crankshaft will deliver the factors cam lobe into touch with the heel of the factors. At the factor when the light illuminates, the timing marks must be aligned.

If the timing became out, the timing plate need to be loosened, the crankshaft set at the firing point, and the timing plate circled until the take a look at mild is simply approaching. Locking the timing plate screws and checking the timing once more is critical to the process of tightening the plates screws will slightly adjust the timing function.
Timing Cylinders 2 and 3

With the timing set on cylinders one and four, the mechanic must maintain rotating the crankshaft till the variety 3 cylinder’s piston is approaching TDC. The timing marks for cylinders  and 3 will now seem inside the timing window. The method used for checking/setting the timing on one and 4 cylinders need to now be repeated for cylinders two and three.

Adjusting Drive Chain Slack on a 1998 Triumph Tiger

No rely which brand or version motorbike you very own, constantly talk over with the owner’s manual for greater information on the precise system for adjusting the chain.

If you plan on doing all your own primary maintenance duties including converting the oil, adjusting the chain or checking the spark plugs, you can need to purchase an respectable shop manual and/or a 3rd-birthday celebration preservation and repair guide from Haynes or others.

The official Triumph keep manual calls for a most slack (vertical movement) of 35 to forty mm for the Tiger’s chain. Most manuals call for rotating the wheel till the tightest a part of the chain is hanging underneath. The slack measurement can be laid low with how plenty load is on the swingarm. A middle stand takes maximum or all the weight off the swingarm, every so often inflicting the highest slack size. A swingarm stand does have a tendency to load the swingarm, causing a distinction in the amount of slack when the bike is decreased go into reverse on its aspect stand.

The bottom line is — try and follow the producer’s directions as intently as viable! This is a great rule no matter which upkeep or restore undertaking you are tackling — and it goes double for oil guidelines.

Don’t attempt to 2d wager the manufacturer’s engineers!

It’s interesting to be aware that Triumph recommends first checking the wheel alignment before adjusting the chain.

This can get complex for beginners, and to be honest, except the rear wheel is way out of alignment, it is probably very tough to tell the distinction.

Fuel Tank

In 2009, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stated that the front-stop mounts on Harley visiting bikes should distort in a front-give up crash. Such a crash ought to have ended in a gasoline leak, which could then ignite and injure or kill the rider. As a result, Harley-Davidson recalled nearly 112,000 motorcycles in December of 2009.

Brake Light and Fluid

Two problems with the braking gadget came about on severa 2009 to 2012 fashions. First, the rear brake light transfer was uncovered to excessive exhaust warmth, that may motive it to prompt the brake light without the brakes being implemented or fail to achieve this altogether. Second, the exposure to immoderate warmth ought to have cause a leak of brake fluid, thereby growing the threat of a crash. As a end result, Harley recalled about three hundred,000 motorcycles in October of 2011, nearly 251,000 of which have been within the United States

Tail Light

Multiple 2003 Harley models suffered from a illness in the tail mild. Although it regarded minor, the tail light bulb was prone to falling out of it’s socket, rendering the tail mild and brake light inoperative. This posed a risk of a crash, for the reason that a driving force wouldn’t have a clean indication that the biker become slowing down and a lack of lights at night time.

Know the blind spots. 77% of vehicles injuries arise in the 10, 11, 12, 1, and 2 o’clock positions of the motorbike, in keeping with the Hurt Study.

Most accidents arise at intersections. Be maximum careful when an automobile is making a left turn at the opposite aspect of the intersection and be organized to let the motive force flip left before you move immediately, if needed.

Watch for SUVs, vehicles and other motors that could have blind spots. Make sure they see you in their replicate and depart more space and warning – simply in case. And consider to be on unique alert all through unsafe road situations.

Stay seen: Reflective apparel or tape can surely make you stand out on the road. Don’t overlook to sign regularly; the ones flashing lighting fixtures can light up your way.

Check your insurance: Motorcycle Safety Advocate Paul Cote urges cyclists to take a look at their coverage regulations and ensure they’re sufficiently blanketed in Bodily Injury Caused By An Uninsured Auto, Optional Bodily Injury to Others, and Bodily Injury Caused By An Underinsured Auto.

Support your cherished cycle with clean engine oil each 3,000 miles. Think about the oil as the bicycle’s stamina. You would prefer not to fuel your bicycle with grimy donut oil. What’s more, should you offer your bicycle later on, incessant oil changes are attractive for new proprietors. After each oil change, guarantee that the electrolyte levels in the battery are steady.

Offer an indistinguishable faithful regard to your tires from you would a hand to hand fighting teacher. The tires and spokes are your partner. Locate the essential load and weight data stamped on the sidewalls and utilize your cutting edge advanced tire weight gage to check them. A current cruiser tire weight contemplate the country over uncovered that scores of riders are unconsciously riding with over expanded or under swelled tires (Dunlap Motorcycle). Push splits, victories, and cadaver separation can all be dodged with predictable consideration. You can even monitor those tire weight readings with a bike application on your iPhone.

What’s more, now, the cruiser chain … the shroud and-knife, once in a while double-crossing and high upkeep bit of apparatus. Win the chains dependability by guaranteeing that it is dirtless. At that point, respectably bless it with oil about twice per month to guarantee extra security out and about. To figure out whether the pressure in your fasten is acceptable, use on-line instructional exercises with well ordered directions. In the event that this data sounds dazing, ask for the chain be checked amid standard support.

Since cruiser links draw in soil and destroy quick, you’ll need to check them every now and again. Most are produced using twisted wire with an adaptable metal coat canvassed in plastic for insurance. Check for any exposed strands by dragging a cloth over the links. Supplant frayed strands that catch the fabric, and afterward, include a spot of oil along them additionally helps with keeping flotsam and jetsam away and to avoid rusting.