Andavan refers to:
Lord Buddha
Lord Jesus Christ
Anadavan is a Tamil word. It originally refered to Lord Buddha, according to Tamil litterature, who moved around the world and brought everybody under his teachings. Therefore he was called as Andavan . The christians in Tamil nadu call Jesus Christ as Andavan as it is the way a God is addressed.
References:
1. Iyotheethasar 1899, In Iyotheethasar Chinthanaikal - II Ed. G. Aloysius, 1999,
Lord Buddha
Lord Jesus Christ
Anadavan is a Tamil word. It originally refered to Lord Buddha, according to Tamil litterature, who moved around the world and brought everybody under his teachings. Therefore he was called as Andavan . The christians in Tamil nadu call Jesus Christ as Andavan as it is the way a God is addressed.
References:
1. Iyotheethasar 1899, In Iyotheethasar Chinthanaikal - II Ed. G. Aloysius, 1999,
A surfspot is a place where waves are especially suited to surfing. This often means an organized repeatable pattern to how waves at a surfspot break as well as a consistent size and shape.
The first important concept useful in understanding how surfspots work is that waves move slower in shallower water. This leads to a principle called refraction where the energy of a wave can either be spread out or focused depending on the contours and variations in depth of the ocean bottom. This is very similar to how lens can modify a beam of light. Whether it is underwater canyons like Blacks or cobblestone peninsulas like Lower Trestles, good surfspots can focus the energy of a wave by refraction. Also as Rincon repeatedly demonstrates, refraction can also change the direction of waves making a spot less sensitive to the direction of the swell.
Another important concept in the physics of waves is resonance. Resonance is simply the phenomenon by which objects that are roughly the same size as the wavelength of the wave strongly interact with it. Objects that are much smaller or larger than the wavelength do not SEE the wave. A wine glass can break from a musical note because the size of the glass is similar to the wavelength of the note and it resonates. For surfspots, the idea of being the “same size” is a little vague. A hand waving argument would say that all “coastal features” (including the shape of the coastline or the contour or depth of the ocean bottom) are able to interact with the wavelength (somewhere around 1000 ft) of the incoming swell.
On the other hand, a good surfspot is also versatile: it breaks on more than one wavelength. Lower trestles, for example, is as perfect of a wave as you can get for everything from knee high to double overhead. One way to explain this is that the structure and the coastal contours can adjust for different swell size and direction because these contours gradually vary. As the waves get bigger and the wavelength increases, the waves start to feel the ocean bottom further out.
As far as I see it, these are the most basic ideas required to think about surfspots. But there are many more including sediment transport, currents and more subtle features of the water interacting with the ocean bottom. Due to all of these factors that influence the characteristics of a surfspot, building artificial reefs that are surfable remains a great challenge. In this very new field, we have a lot left to learn.
The first important concept useful in understanding how surfspots work is that waves move slower in shallower water. This leads to a principle called refraction where the energy of a wave can either be spread out or focused depending on the contours and variations in depth of the ocean bottom. This is very similar to how lens can modify a beam of light. Whether it is underwater canyons like Blacks or cobblestone peninsulas like Lower Trestles, good surfspots can focus the energy of a wave by refraction. Also as Rincon repeatedly demonstrates, refraction can also change the direction of waves making a spot less sensitive to the direction of the swell.
Another important concept in the physics of waves is resonance. Resonance is simply the phenomenon by which objects that are roughly the same size as the wavelength of the wave strongly interact with it. Objects that are much smaller or larger than the wavelength do not SEE the wave. A wine glass can break from a musical note because the size of the glass is similar to the wavelength of the note and it resonates. For surfspots, the idea of being the “same size” is a little vague. A hand waving argument would say that all “coastal features” (including the shape of the coastline or the contour or depth of the ocean bottom) are able to interact with the wavelength (somewhere around 1000 ft) of the incoming swell.
On the other hand, a good surfspot is also versatile: it breaks on more than one wavelength. Lower trestles, for example, is as perfect of a wave as you can get for everything from knee high to double overhead. One way to explain this is that the structure and the coastal contours can adjust for different swell size and direction because these contours gradually vary. As the waves get bigger and the wavelength increases, the waves start to feel the ocean bottom further out.
As far as I see it, these are the most basic ideas required to think about surfspots. But there are many more including sediment transport, currents and more subtle features of the water interacting with the ocean bottom. Due to all of these factors that influence the characteristics of a surfspot, building artificial reefs that are surfable remains a great challenge. In this very new field, we have a lot left to learn.
Rascal Films is an Irish production company, which aims to "produce Irish cinema intended for a global audience."
History
It was founded in 2002 by Frank Allen and Tom Stokes, initially to produce their feature Connolly, about the union worker James Connolly, as told through the eyes of his daughter. As the project continued, the company expanded; three projects are simultaneously being developed. Connolly is well into production, with Adrian Dunbar as director, starring Peter Mullin, Patrick Bergin and Susan Lynch.
The company also boasts the services of established composer Patrick Cassidy and editor Pat Duffner. It has recently received major financial contributions from the CWU (Communication Workers Union) and other Irish boards.
History
It was founded in 2002 by Frank Allen and Tom Stokes, initially to produce their feature Connolly, about the union worker James Connolly, as told through the eyes of his daughter. As the project continued, the company expanded; three projects are simultaneously being developed. Connolly is well into production, with Adrian Dunbar as director, starring Peter Mullin, Patrick Bergin and Susan Lynch.
The company also boasts the services of established composer Patrick Cassidy and editor Pat Duffner. It has recently received major financial contributions from the CWU (Communication Workers Union) and other Irish boards.
Justin McLaughlin, also bylined as Justin McLachlan, is a West Virginia investigative journalist. Justin grew up in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
McLaughlin earned a 1st place columnist award from the West Virginia Press Association and his series on the failed sewer system also won a public service award from the WVPA and resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement after five-years of litigation. He currently writes the Campus Buzz column for the , bylined as McLachlan instead of McLaughlin.
Work as a Journalist
Most recently, McLachlan was a Times West Virginian reporter, though he has also contributed to CNN and the New York Times. Prior to coming to West Virginia, he worked for the Uniontown, Pennsylvania Herald Standard and its sister television station, HSTV. He decided to become a reporter after being selected to work for Channel One News in Los Angeles while still in high school. He spent several years after that as a writer for About.com, a New York Times Company. According to the Washington Post, McLachlan worked in the second Bush White House in the press office in 2003.
Education
Taylor University
McLachlan graduated from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana with a degree in journalism in 2003.
West Virginia University
McLachlan will complete a Master of Science in Journalism from WVU in 2008.
Online work
Fifteen Minutes
As a blogger, McLachlan has continued much of the reporting he started at the Times West Virginian, including a series of articles on the state's Division of Juvenile Services.In 2006, after covering the Sago Mine Explosion, McLachlan wrote a about his time there on the blog. Passages were included in the official entry on the blog and picked up on Metafilter. He also used the blog to expose a Maryland organization that claimed non-profit status when it hadn't received recognition from the IRS and revealed that that author of a controversial, profanity-laced, homophobic fundamentalist blog called Dying in Christ was really a West Virginia University student.
Wikinovel
McLachlan launched Wikinovel, a collaborative novel similar to , based on another creation: Wikiworld. Wikiworld is collection of short stories based on the same, collaboratively written characters and settings.
"For his projects, McLachlan outlines the story in 'beat sheets' before Wikinovel's contributors start writing and instructs them to stick to basic themes. 'I think people need to follow some kind of plan,' he says. McLachlan has also started Wikiworld, where users write a short story with a provided character and setting."
Sharesleuth.com
In 2007, McLachlan became a gay writer and investigator for Sharesleuth.com.
Romenesko Media Notes
Jim Romenesko, an American journalist who runs the blog Romenesko on the website of the non-profit journalism school the Poynter Institute posted an email from McLachlan that said:
I learned what "professional journalists" were like my first few days as a White House intern, where among other things, I answered calls from reporters. ... There was the Today Show producer who called me a moron, the Houston Chronicle reporter who threatened to set off a bomb because no one had called him back, the freelancer who called me 30 times a day for a measly quote for her measly spec article, the camerman who yelled at me because security wouldn't open the gate he wanted them to open, the photographer who had to be man-handled by the Secret Service because he ignored my instructions, the CNBC crew that got in trouble for moving a table in the VP's ceremonial office that I told them not to move and the small-time Pennsylvania newspaper that thought it deserved special access to Tom Ridge, etc. You get the idea. They showed the kind of people "professional journalists" are and I can see from the rude, ageist and downright arrogant comments re: Krystal Grow's column that I was right.
Public Records Controversy
Despite admitting that the school's police force "exercised an executive power of the state" as the APRA required, the public access counselor said that in his opinion, an office of a private school could not be found to be a public agency.
According to the Student Press Law Center, McLachlan attempted to appeal the counselor's ruling. "'I respond with force to your opinion because, effectively, it says that the State of Indiana has legally authorized the creation of police forces equal to sheriff's deputies in power and authority, with shared jurisdiction in certain geographical areas, the power to arrest and detain citizens, without government control and public oversight of their operations,' McLaughlin wrote in his appeal," the .
The complaint garnered media attention and was picked up by the Associated Press and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Despite McLachlan's appeal, the counselor stood by his decision and McLachlan didn't pursue the issue.
Later McLachlan won a complaint filed against the Grant County Sherrif's department over records about Taylor University it tried to withhold.
McLaughlin earned a 1st place columnist award from the West Virginia Press Association and his series on the failed sewer system also won a public service award from the WVPA and resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement after five-years of litigation. He currently writes the Campus Buzz column for the , bylined as McLachlan instead of McLaughlin.
Work as a Journalist
Most recently, McLachlan was a Times West Virginian reporter, though he has also contributed to CNN and the New York Times. Prior to coming to West Virginia, he worked for the Uniontown, Pennsylvania Herald Standard and its sister television station, HSTV. He decided to become a reporter after being selected to work for Channel One News in Los Angeles while still in high school. He spent several years after that as a writer for About.com, a New York Times Company. According to the Washington Post, McLachlan worked in the second Bush White House in the press office in 2003.
Education
Taylor University
McLachlan graduated from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana with a degree in journalism in 2003.
West Virginia University
McLachlan will complete a Master of Science in Journalism from WVU in 2008.
Online work
Fifteen Minutes
As a blogger, McLachlan has continued much of the reporting he started at the Times West Virginian, including a series of articles on the state's Division of Juvenile Services.In 2006, after covering the Sago Mine Explosion, McLachlan wrote a about his time there on the blog. Passages were included in the official entry on the blog and picked up on Metafilter. He also used the blog to expose a Maryland organization that claimed non-profit status when it hadn't received recognition from the IRS and revealed that that author of a controversial, profanity-laced, homophobic fundamentalist blog called Dying in Christ was really a West Virginia University student.
Wikinovel
McLachlan launched Wikinovel, a collaborative novel similar to , based on another creation: Wikiworld. Wikiworld is collection of short stories based on the same, collaboratively written characters and settings.
"For his projects, McLachlan outlines the story in 'beat sheets' before Wikinovel's contributors start writing and instructs them to stick to basic themes. 'I think people need to follow some kind of plan,' he says. McLachlan has also started Wikiworld, where users write a short story with a provided character and setting."
Sharesleuth.com
In 2007, McLachlan became a gay writer and investigator for Sharesleuth.com.
Romenesko Media Notes
Jim Romenesko, an American journalist who runs the blog Romenesko on the website of the non-profit journalism school the Poynter Institute posted an email from McLachlan that said:
I learned what "professional journalists" were like my first few days as a White House intern, where among other things, I answered calls from reporters. ... There was the Today Show producer who called me a moron, the Houston Chronicle reporter who threatened to set off a bomb because no one had called him back, the freelancer who called me 30 times a day for a measly quote for her measly spec article, the camerman who yelled at me because security wouldn't open the gate he wanted them to open, the photographer who had to be man-handled by the Secret Service because he ignored my instructions, the CNBC crew that got in trouble for moving a table in the VP's ceremonial office that I told them not to move and the small-time Pennsylvania newspaper that thought it deserved special access to Tom Ridge, etc. You get the idea. They showed the kind of people "professional journalists" are and I can see from the rude, ageist and downright arrogant comments re: Krystal Grow's column that I was right.
Public Records Controversy
Despite admitting that the school's police force "exercised an executive power of the state" as the APRA required, the public access counselor said that in his opinion, an office of a private school could not be found to be a public agency.
According to the Student Press Law Center, McLachlan attempted to appeal the counselor's ruling. "'I respond with force to your opinion because, effectively, it says that the State of Indiana has legally authorized the creation of police forces equal to sheriff's deputies in power and authority, with shared jurisdiction in certain geographical areas, the power to arrest and detain citizens, without government control and public oversight of their operations,' McLaughlin wrote in his appeal," the .
The complaint garnered media attention and was picked up by the Associated Press and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Despite McLachlan's appeal, the counselor stood by his decision and McLachlan didn't pursue the issue.
Later McLachlan won a complaint filed against the Grant County Sherrif's department over records about Taylor University it tried to withhold.