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{"text": "Jeff and I take a walk together every morning after seeing Gracie off to school. The school bus drives away, and the next half hour or so is ours. Some mornings, like this morning, are beautiful. Often we bring mugs of tea with us and we talk about our plans for the day, or what we’re currently working on. Today the air was crisp, the sun was just starting to rise over the bluff turning it a tawny shade of gold and the clouds pink. The leaves are changing here in Red Wing which is an amazing sight to behold. Many people travel here in the autumn to witness the natural beauty taking place in the Mississippi river valley.\nJoin us this autumn for the Red Wing Fall Festival of the Arts! Browse our quaint farmer’s market, take a trolley ride or boat excursion, have brunch at the St. James hotel, go to a wine tasting at Falconer Vineyards, and hike the Cannon Valley Trail. Visit the Red Wing Website for more ideas.\nWhat are your favorite things to do this time of year?\n~Melissa"}
{"text": "Business rights\nRe: “Corporations are people? Idea gains traction in high court — Hobby Lobby ruling is latest high-profile case to reinforce principle,” Sunday Business story.\nThe extreme position that corporations have no rights is both absurd and dangerous. If it were upheld, then a corporate newspaper like this one has no freedom of press, no right against warrantless searches and seizures, and no due process in legal proceedings.\nNonprofits, such as schools, churches, charities, labor unions and political groups, would be similarly impacted. Do we really want to go down the road of letting big government determine who does and who does not get constitutional protection?\nKen Ashby, Dallas\nPolitically correct shopping\nIt’s a little early, but when you make out your Christmas shopping list this year, make sure you fully understand every store’s policy on open-carry, birth control, global warming, voter ID, prayers in school, coal-fired power plants, health care for undocumented immigrants, Common Core, Benghazi and maybe even federal regulation of Wall Street dark pools. It is so hard to shop these days.\nEd Kominski, Weatherford"}
{"text": "1\nCenter for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, 1730 Minor Ave., Ste.\n1600, Seattle, WA 98101.\n2 Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, 1935 N.E. Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195.\n3 Division of Mammography, Quality, and Radiation Programs, United States Food and Drug Administration, 1350 Picard Dr., 2nd Floor-HFZ240, Rockville, MD 20850.\n4 Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, MP 702, 1124 Columbia St., Seattle, WA 98104.\n5 Office of Drug Evaluation III, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Ln., Rockville, MD 20857.\nOBJECTIVE. We evaluated the association between clinical image quality and breast cancer occurrence within 24 months of a negative mammogram.\nMATERIALS AND METHODS. We identified women with breast cancer who were younger than 40 years old and older and screened from January 1, 1988, through December 31, 1993. We retrospectively assigned Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) assessments to their screening mammogram. We classified cancers (invasive or ductal in situ) as \"screen-detected\" when found after positive assessments (BI-RADS codes 3, 4, and 5) and \"interval-detected\" when found after negative assessments (BI-RADS codes 1 and 2). One reviewer evaluated mediolateral oblique and craniocaudal views for all cancer cases using a 3-point scale (failure, borderline, pass) for each measure of clinical image quality (positioning, breast compression, contrast, exposure, noise, sharpness, artifacts, overall quality). We used separate logistic regression models and evaluated the odds of interval invasive cancer or invasive plus in situ cancer as a function of each measure of quality using \"pass\" as the referent group.\nRESULTS. We found 492 screen-detected and 164 interval-detected cancers that met study criteria. Cancer detection (sensitivity) was highest (84%) among patients with proper breast positioning, but when images failed this measure (33.4%), sensitivity fell to 66.3%. After adjustment for age, film date, and breast density, interval-detected invasive cancers were more likely after images failing positioning (odds ratio, 2.57; 95% confidence interval, 1.28-5.52%). Failures in overall quality were also associated with interval cancers when cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (p = 0.037) were included.\nCONCLUSION. Invasive breast cancer detection by mammography may be improved through attention to correct positioning.\nCiteULike\nComplore\nConnotea\nDel.icio.us\nDigg\nReddit\nTechnorati What's this?\nThis article has been cited by other articles:"}
{"text": "Destinations International Blog Gain perspectives and insights on destinations and how they help communities, provide opportunities and work with residents to support the growth of cities around the world. Showing 13 - 19 of 19 results Narrow Your Results Filter Results Topics Destination Management Apply Destination Management filter (-) Remove Economic Development filter Economic Development Governance & Policy Apply Governance & Policy filter Visitor Services Apply Visitor Services filter Connecting The Dots: How To Connect Travelers With Top Destinations & Hidden Local Gems Most vacation plans begin with a focal point or a main attraction in mind. Think Niagara Falls or the Sistine Chapel. But it might not...October 2021 The Disconnect Between Destination Organizations and their Communities Almost every day an article like this one comes up in my Google alerts. The headline is almost always the same, “Destination X sets record...September 2021 Tourism is Economic Development If you haven’t read the Oxford Economics DMAI report entitled “ Destination Promotion as an Economic Engine ,” I strongly suggest you do. As...Carl Wilgus, Former President/CEO, Pocono MountainMay 2015 Currencies and Tourism \"In principle, currencies always have an impact on travel and tourism,\" said Taleb Rifai, head of the UN World Tourism Organization, at the Berlin tourism...October 2021 PagesPrevious 1 2 Interested inGuest Blogging?Contribute an idea for a post to the Destinations International Blog.Contact Us"}
{"text": "Builder of Oyster luxury deck-saloon cruisers from 45 to 82 feet.\nOyster 49 Deck Saloon - a review\n\"As a pure sailing yacht, the 49 is tempered without being overly conservative . . . Designed to go to sea with a bit of luxury in tow.\" Good photos in the print version; none on line."}
{"text": "Six people rescued after boat capsizes off JupiterUPDATED 12:55 PM EDT Jun 30, 2014post a comment\nThe Coast Guard has confirmed that six people have been rescued after their boat capsized off the coast of Jupiter early Monday morning.\nVideo Transcript\n- Advertising\nTHE JUPITER COAST AND WE HAVE JUST LEARNED 6 PEOPLE WERE RESCUED FROM A CAPSIZED BOAT. WHITNEY BURBANK IS LIVE IN RIVIERA BEACH WITH MORE. WHITNEY? 3 Lake Worth dispatch station confirms 6 boaters have been rescued.I just spoke to someone inside this station who says the rescue mission is still in progress. These boaters were somewhere off the coast of Jupiter when their boat capsized early this morning.A caller alerted the coast guard He said his boat had just capsized and was taking on water. The caller described seeing tall buildings but the call cut out shortly after.The Coast Guard and PBSO were on the water all morning working to find and rescue those people.Again lake worth dispatchers reporting those 6 boaters have rescued. It's unclear where the boaters will be transported here to the lake worth station but we will stay on top of this developing story.Live in Rivera Whitney Burbank WPBF 25"}
{"text": "A yet to be identified individual posing as a street medic who infiltrated a black bloc demonstration during last year’s May Day protests in Seattle was spotted again trying to gain entrance to another anarchist event. The individual in question, pictured above, was masked, wearing black clothing, and identified himself as a street medic both audibly and by clothing / insignia. During the demonstration he was documented on video approaching and providing details about participants responsible for the property destruction of a federal building to a pro-state, pro-police vigilante group called Rain City Superhero Movement who then pepper sprayed protesters. This individual’s actions on May Day 2012 led directly to violence perpetrated against anarchists.\nThe exchange between the “medic” and the vigilante clowns can be viewed in this video about a minute and fifteen seconds into the clip.\nThis is not the first time hostile agents have sought to infiltrate a demonstration by posing a a street medic. “Anna,” the FBI informant in the case against Eric McDavid, participated in numerous demonstrations as a medic. As it turned out she was not there to provide medical aid nor was she, it’s believed, even capable of doing so.\nWe encourage anarchists in Seattle to find more info about this supposed “medic” and to expose as much information about him and his identity as possible. Stay safe!\nI think this fellow is just liberal snitch, but I could be wrong."}
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{"text": "OK, here we go. My hernia surgery is scheduled for 14 May. Yes, that is quick, but they had an opening and I thought I better get it done before I change my mind! Why? Because the idea of hernia surgery and being awake is not on my list of things I want to do. Yes, it is better for my LBD. And it greatly reduces the known impact on my cognitive outlook. But, think of it, your groin being cut open, while you are on the same pain meds the Dentist uses!!\nNow, the surgeon did say he would have the gas passes give me some meds to relax me! Relax!? He had better get me blown out of my mind! I better be so relaxed they I don't care he is cutting on my groin with a very sharp knife!\nIt is also curious why scope surgery cannot be done with local and full blown, open body, surgery can be!!\nOh well. The hernia needs to be repaired and the surgeon assured me this would work. So, I trust him. He had a kind face.\nIt will all go well. You were worrying you would end up in another time zone. They are keeping you in your own zone after all that worry. Just a thought we used to give people a \"cocktail\" of two drugs before they went into an MRI machine. They were terrified before, but after didn't care at all. They loved it. I don't remember what the two drugs were right now, but wouldn't hurt to ask. As long as they don't fight or feed Lewy."}
{"text": "One man's loss is another man's gain. The same notion can be applied to the automotive marketplace, where bad press for one brand presents an opportune time to capitalize for another. A new Bloomberg puts forth a potential automotive example of this – fallout stemming from the recent Hyundai and Kia fuel economy debacle. The Korean automakers were recently marred for incorrectly calculating their fuel economy data, resulting in the downward adjustment of the fuel economy figures for many of their most popular models.\nWhile this represents a setback for Kia and Hyundai, brands like Toyota and Honda are looking to gain ground on the two Korean marques, which have been catching up to Japan's volume automakers thanks to their radically improved lineups.\nIn 2010, Hyundai began touting its lineup as the most fuel-efficient in America. This stirred emotions at Honda, a brand that had been the nation's top performer in fuel economy for 33 years. With this recent adjustment by Hyundai, Honda is evidently hoping to wear the fuel efficiency crown once again.\nAccording to the report, the Korean automakers' errors came in the EPA's \"coastdown\" test, in which a test car is driven to 80 mph, put in neutral and \"coasted\" to 9 mph. Hyundai admits this part of the test was not performed correctly. According to Sung Hwan Cho, president of Hyundai's US technical center, \"These were just honest procedure errors in a very complex testing process.\"\nAdding to Honda's opportunity is the recently previewed 2013 Honda Civic, set to go on sale the same day it is revealed at this month's LA Motor Show. The 2012 model came in for harsh criticism from the automotive press, though the model's sales proved largely unaffected by the controversy. Industry analysts suggest that Honda's new (and presumably improved) 2013 Civic should put the automaker in prime position to reclaim both consumer mindshare and the industry's MPG crown."}
{"text": "PGY 3\nOpen Positions\nSUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY\nA PGY-3 position available July 1, 2021. Applicants must be currently enrolled as a PGY-2 (progressing to PGY-3 effective July 1, 2021) or a current PGY-3 (effective July 1, 2021), in good standing, at an accredited ACGME. All applicants must have passed USMLE/COMLEX Steps 1, 2 ,3 & CS/PE.\nThe following application material should be emailed as a single PDF document to Residency Program Director Leah Kaufman, MD, at kaufmale@upstate.edu with \"PGY-3 position\" in the subject line:\n- ERAS application complete with personal statement, MSPE, and transcript\n- Current CV\n- Cover letter including reason for leaving your current program\n- ACGME case log report\n- CREOG Scores for year 1 and 2\n- A letter from your current program director with a verification of your being in good standing and a confirmation that they will release from your current contract\n- Two other current letters of recommendation\nPlease do not contact by phone, mail, or fax. Questions should be directed to Adrien Miccio, residency manager at miccioA@upstate.edu. Applicants will be notified via email if we will move forward with the interview process. Speaking with your program director will be required before any offer of position.\nAscension St. Vincent Women’s Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana\nAscension St. Vincent Indianapolis is recruiting for a PGY-3 position (available now). Applicants must be currently enrolled as a PGY-2 (progressing to PGY-3 effective (7/1/2021) or a current PGY-3 (effective 7/1/2021), in good standing, at an accredited ACGME program and on track to complete residency in June 2023. All applicants must have passed USMLE/COMLEX Steps 1, 2 & CS/PE. Passage of step 3 is preferred. No exceptions.\nThe following application material should be emailed as a single PDF document to our Program Email at inindmbobgyn@ascension.org with PGY-3 position in the subject line:\n- Copy of previously completed ERAS application including personal statement, MSPE, Final Medical School transcript, USMLE/COMLEX scores part 1, 2 & CS/PE, USMLE/COMLEX Part 3, if available, and your photo\n- Current CV\n- Cover letter including reason for leaving your current program\n- A letter from your current program director which includes the following: verification of your current level of training; willingness to release you from your current training contract; verification of your current good standing and expectation to complete your current level of training by June 30, 2023; a list of completed rotations (including dates); rotation specific evaluations; summative competency-based performance evaluation; ACGME milestone year-end reports; most recent 6-month semi-annual review report; CREOG scores and ACGME case logs (experience by role report) with all roles displayed.\n- The name and contact information of two attending physicians within your current residency program who will submit letter of recommendations on your behalf. Please have the faculty members send their letters of recommendation, under separate cover, to our Program Email at inindmbobgyn@ascension.org. Please make certain they reference that you have waived your rights to review the letters of recommendation under FERPA.\nImportant note: Please DO NOT contact by phone, mail or fax. Questions should be directed to our Program email at inindmbobgyn@ascension.org. Applicants with completed packets submitted will be notified by email if selected for interview. Only qualified applicants will be considered. We will speak with your current Program Director before offering you this position. We thank you for your interest in our program and look forward to communicating with you soon!\nSt. Joseph’s University Medical Center, Paterson, NJ\nPGY-3 OB/GYN position, unexpectedly, available for July 1, 2021, in Paterson, New Jersey. Interested candidates must have successfully completed two years of training in good standing at a fully accredited ACGME Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Training Program, by June 2021, and have completed the USMLE Step 3 or COMLEX scores.\nThe following application material should be sent via email ONLY to Dr. Khaled Hassan, Attn: Ms. Marianna Eby, Residency Program Coordinator, at ebym@sjhmc.org. Applicants must include the following: a copy of ERAS application with Dean’s Letter, MSPE, Medical School Transcript, USMLE Scores Step 1, 2 CS/CK, and Step 3, Current CV, Medical School Diploma, and Cover Letter explaining reason for leaving current program.\nOnly complete applications will be considered. We will subsequently require current ACGME case log report through April 2021, and three letters of recommendation (one letter of recommendation must be from your current Program Director which should include verification that you are a PGY-2 in good standing, and are expected to satisfactorily complete your training by June 30, 2021, all CREOG scores, list of completed rotations including dates, and rotation specific evaluations once available. The other two letters of recommendation must be from attending physicians at your current program). Only qualified applicants will be considered. If considered, you will be contacted by phone and/or email to set up in-person appointment. We will need to speak to your current Program Director before offering you this position. NO phone calls, please.\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC) Health and Hospital/Queens Training Program\nA PGY-3 position is available starting July 1, 2021. Eligible applicants must be in good academic standing and will have completed two years of training at an ACGME accredited ob-gyn residency program by June 30, 2021.\nInterested candidates should prepare the following information to submit for review (if applicable): Original ERAS application, Medical school diploma, ECFMG certificate, Medical school transcript, MSPE, USMLE scores, Personal statement), Current CV, Cover letter addressing the rationale to transfer to another program, ACGME Log case summary, Evaluations in PGY I and the semiannual evaluation PGY II, list of completed rotations with dates, CREOG scores, summative competency-based performance evaluations, letter of good standing from your current program director verifying your training and progress in the program. Additional, current letters of recommendation.\nYour program director will need to submit a summary evaluation of your performance, all materials should be sent BY EMAIL ONLY, to Marilyn Johnson johnmari@nychhc.org with “PGY-3 Application” in the subject line. You will be notified of an opportunity to interview once your application packet is complete, and all materials have been reviewed. Applicants will be notified by e-mail if selected for an interview.\nSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University/ University Hospital – Brooklyn, NY\nA PGY-3 position is available starting July 1, 2020. Applicants must currently be in good standing as a PGY-2 in an ACGME-accredited Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program. Your program director should be aware that you are applying for the position. Applicants should submit the following to the Program Director, Dr. Mudar Dalloul: 1. Cover letter describing your reason for leaving your current program. 2.Copy of your ERAS application including MSPE and final medical school transcript grades. 3. USMLE/COMLEX Steps 1, 2, and 3 score reports. 4. At least one recent (within the prior 12 months) letter of recommendation from current program faculty. 5. Letter of recommendation from your current program director also verifying your good standing. 6. CREOG scores for PGY-1 and PGY-2 year. 7. List of completed rotations including dates and description of rotations.\nAdditional documents will be requested prior to making an offer including: Milestone evaluations, recent summative evaluation of performance and ACGME caselog report. You will only be contacted by our program once your application is complete to arrange a virtual interview. Applications should be submitted in PDF form via email with “PGY-3 Application” in the subject line. Incomplete applications will not be considered. To learn more about our program:. Please direct any questions to our Program Director, Dr. Mudar Dalloul, via email: mudar.dalloul@downstate.edu.\nKern Medical – Bakersfield, CA\nOur residency program has a PGY-3 opening beginning July 1, 2020. Applicants must be in good standing at their current program and/or successfully completed one year of training in an ACGME accredited ob-gyn residency training program.\nThe following documents are required: ERAS application to include a copy of your medical school transcript, medical school diploma, Dean’s letter, USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, C/S examination score transcripts, Current Curriculum Vitae, Letters of recommendation from two current ob-gyn faculty, CREOG exam scores, Your personal statement indicating reason for leaving program, seeking transfer to our location/program. Up-to-date case log report with all of your post graduate surgical experience. List of rotations completed to date. International medical graduates must have ECFMG certificate, US Citizenship or US permanent resident status, California PTAL or California license. All qualified candidates must be eligible to work in California, and be able to obtain a medical license with the California Medical Board. Please email all documents to our Resident Coordinator: Elizabeth Maya Elizabeth.Maya@KernMedical.com."}
{"text": "While majority of people seem to visit a day on cruise ships, there are numerous things you can do in Santorini to make most of your holiday experience.\nSantorini is a piece of heaven that will surely give you the best memories you’ll never forget. If you are wondering on how to make your holidays in Santorini heavenly, you can stay at various Santorini villas or follow these tips below:\nTip #1: Stay in Luxury Santorini Villas or a Cave Hotel\nSantorini is known for the elegance and luxury of its accommodation. Once you get out of your private transfer and walk up to Caldera for the first time, you’ll be amazed with the view and will surely take your breath away. If you have ever wanted to splurge in your life, luxury Santorini villas are the best choice.\nTip #2: Dine with a Beautiful View\nThere are lots of restaurants in Santorini that offers delicious Greek cuisine. Some of the finest restaurants are inland along with several cobblestone streets, yet nothing says romance like toast over a magnificent view.\nTip #3: Take a Sailing Trip\nYou can’t appreciate Santorini’s beauty without considering a sailing trip. You’ll see how beautiful Santorini is from the sea. You’ll also find huge sea cliffs to be mesmerizing. Aside from a sailing trip, you may go snorkeling, visit some beaches, and swim in hot springs. Lots of boat tours are available in Santorini and depending on your preferences, you may book in advance.\nTip #4: Try a Fish Pedicure\nIt might not be one of the usual things to do in Santorini but after strolling around, a good fish spa is something that your feet would want.\nTip #5: Watch Sunset Over the Magnificent Blue Domes\nWhile many people gather at the caldera to watch sunset, you might want to watch sunset in Blue Domes. The crowd isn’t that massive and by the time blue hour hit, many people were gone already and you can enjoy the moment with your travel buddy.\nTip #6: Enjoy Shopping in Fira\nFira is considered as the busiest town in Santorini with lots of cruise ships arriving at the port and passengers took gondola or do donkey rides up. If you want some souvenirs, Fira is the best place.\nTip #7: Learn How to Cook with Greek Cooking Class\nIf you are the type of person who loves everything about Greek food, you would not want to miss participating in a Greek cooking class. It might be an unusual thing to do in Santorini, but making iconic food in a new place makes your experience extra special. Plus, you can try what you have learned in your home once you’re done with your Santorini vacation. Taking cooking class in Santorini may include wine tasting.\nThere are other things you can do to make your experience heavenly in Santorini. These may include taking a wine tour and eating fresh Greek yogurt. But, before you decide to spend your holiday in Santorini, make sure to book at one of the best Santorini villas for your accommodation needs.\n"}
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{"text": "Today it’s already quite clear that a good event website needs various graphic elements to attract visitors and to engage them. Here are our event website graphics recommendations that we would like to share with you, and some examples to show you and inspire you.\nImages that will appear next to a text section\n- The recommended size for the images: width 600 pixels, height as high as your text.\n- It’s essential to be mindful of the source of the images and the copyrights of the photographer.\n- If you are not sure – it is always better to give credit when credit is due.\nImage Gallery\n- Recommended ratio: 4:3 (width 4, height 3).\n- Recommended size: minimum width of 600 pixels.\n- Important: all the images must be the same size.\nSpeakers/Organizers Images\n- Recommended size: width 270 pixels, height 300 pixels.\n- Important: All the images must be the same size.\n- The images can be shown as rectangles with sharp or rounded corners or as circles.\n- If the images are to be displayed as circular images, they need to be in the shape of a perfect square.\nSponsors/Partners Images\n- Recommended size: width 300 pixels, height 160 pixels.\n- Important: All the images must be the same size.\nAgenda Images\n- Recommended size: width 140 pixels, height 70 pixels.\nThese are our basic event website graphics recommendations – let us know if you have other things in mind and we will try to accommodate them."}
{"text": "1 abismom.1 abyss.estar al borde del abismo (figurative) to be on the brink of ruin o disaster2 gulf (diferencia).entre su sueldo y el mío hay un abismo there's a huge difference between our salaries3 hole, empty space, abyss.4 enormous difference, big difference.5 inferno.pres.indicat.* * 1 abyss\\estar al borde del abismo figurado to be on the brink of ruin * SM1) (=sima) abyss, chasm\nde sus ideas a las mías hay un abismo — our views are worlds o poles apart2) (=profundidad) depth(s); (Rel) hell * ** * =. * abyssal borde del abismo on the edge of the abyssel abismo que existe entre el ejército y el pueblo the gulf which exists between the army and the peopleentre la teoría y la práctica hay un abismo there is a world of difference between theory and practice * \nDel verbo abismar: ( conjugate abismar)\nabismo es:\n1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo\nabismó es:\n3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo\nMultiple Entries:\nabismar\nabismo\nabismo sustantivo masculino\nabyss;\nabismar vtr LAm to amaze\nabismo sustantivo masculino\n1 abyss: entre el carácter de tu hermano y el de tu madre media un abismo, your mother and brother's characters are about as dissimilar as they possibly could be\n♦ Locuciones: figurado estar al borde del abismo, to be on the brink of ruin\nfigurado salvar el abismo, to bridge the gulf\n' abismo' also found in these entries:\nabyss\n- chasm\n- gape\n- gulf\n- yawning\n * 1. [profundidad] abyss;Figestar al borde del abismo to be on the brink of ruin o disaster2. [diferencia] gulf;entre su sueldo y el mío hay un abismo there's a huge difference between our salaries * m abyss; figgulf;estar al borde del abismo be staring into the abyss * *: abyss, chasmal borde del abismo: on the brink of ruin\nSpanish-English dictionary > abismo\n2 estar al borde del abismo\nSpanish-English dictionary > estar al borde del abismo\n3 estar al borde de la ruina• be on the brink of ruin\nDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > estar al borde de la ruina\nСм. также в других словарях:\nOn the Brink — Spooks episode Episode no … Wikipedia\nBrink — (br[i^][ng]k),… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English\nruin — 1 verb (T) 1 to spoil or destroy something completely: The rain ruined our holiday. \| My new white dress was totally ruined! see destroy 2 to make someone lose all their money: Jefferson was ruined by the law suit. ruined adjective (only before… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English\nruin — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 spoiled state ADJECTIVE ▪ complete, utter VERB + RUIN ▪ fall into, go to ▪ The house gradually fell into ruin … Collocations dictionary\nruin — [[t]ru͟ːɪn[/t]] ♦♦♦ ruins, ruining, ruined 1) VERB To ruin something means to severely harm, damage, or spoil it. [V n] My wife was ruining her health through worry... [V n] Entire villages have been washed away. Roads and bridges have been… … English dictionary\nruin — ▪ I. ruin ru‧in 1 [ˈruːn] noun [uncountable] 1. when you have lost all your money, your social position, or the good opinion that people had of you: • The war plunged the country into economic ruin. • a company on the brink of financial ruin (=… … Financial and business terms\nbrink — 01. He got so frustrated at work that he was on the [brink] of quitting his job. 02. The country seems almost on the [brink] of civil war as fighting intensifies between government troops and rebel forces. 03. Government researchers are believed… … Grammatical examples in English\nThe House with the Green Shutters — Infobox Book name = The House with the Green Shutters image caption = author = George Douglas (Brown) illustrator = cover artist = country = Scotland language = English genre = Realism publisher = John MacQueen, London release date = 1901 media… …\nList of The King of Fighters characters — The cast of characters of King of Fighters XI. The King of Fighters fighting game series, produced by SNK Playmore, includes a wide cast of characters, some of which are taken from other SNK games. The story takes place in a fictional universe in … Wikipedia\nGeorge Washington: On the Lack of a National Spirit — ▪ Primary Source At no time during the Revolution was there unity of public mind or purpose in America. Even many of those who generally accepted independence were reluctant to give wholehearted support with taxes or military service … Universalium\nКниги\n-\n- One Minute Millionaire, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen. Bestselling Chicken Soup author Mark Victor Hansen and financial guru Robert Allen offer a practical inspiring lesson in creating true wealth whether you aspire to become a millionaire or… Подробнее Купить за 965 руб\n- Documents Concerning Rubashov Gambler, Vallgren Carl-Johan. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Now on New Year`s Eve, he finds himself on the brink of ruin, and decides to make a bid for the ultimate rush, the biggest gamble… Подробнее Купить за 920 грн (только Украина)"}
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{"text": "Ian Caulfield wrote: > Turning off libmpeg2 fixes the thumbnails in mythweb for me - this > also gives some better clues as to where to look! > Do you still have problems playing back transcoded files?? I still havn't test that yet. Actually I still don't know where to look.. :p I posted a list of files ealier in this thread, one or more of those files cause the problem, so you can start looking from there."}
{"text": "Sydney three-piece The Holidays dropped their new single All Time High two weeks back. The song is the second single taken from their forthcoming sophomore LP which is due out in early 2014. The trio comprised of Simon Jones (guitar and vocals), Alex Kortt (bass), and Andrew Kerridge (drums) created a dream pop tune which immediately captured our curiosity with its infectious synth and atmospheric vibe. Luckily for AMBY, our curiosity was fulfilled in a recent interview where The Holidays spoke with us about the name of the upcoming album, banana chairs, and their first band name– Rookie of the Year.\nAMBY: Hi The Holidays, thanks for speaking with us. What have you been up to the past week?\nThe Holidays: Mostly finalising album artwork and deciding on video concepts for our new single.\nAMBY: How would you describe each member of the band in one word?\nThe Holidays: Simon – scientist, Andrew – entertainer\nAMBY: Your latest single All Time High was released on November 11th. What’s the story behind the song?\nThe Holidays: It’s a song we’ve had for around 18 months but only came back to towards the end of finishing the album. We’ve always loved the main guitar riff but it had no vocals for a long period. When we came back to our (hundreds) of demos to decide on a track list we all felt it had a special something and deserved finishing. The feeling of nostalgia and yearning for that perfect place in time is basically the riff in lyrical form.\nAMBY: Your sophomore album is coming out early next year. What will the LP be titled?\nThe Holidays: Real Feel.\nAMBY: Where did the line “having an existential crisis in a banana chair” come from?\nThe Holidays: I honestly have know idea. I think Simon came up with it.\nAMBY: Does hailing from Sydney have an influence on your sound? And if so, how?\nThe Holidays: no I don’t think so. when we started maybe a little, that’s when the ‘post-punk wear your influences on your sleeve’ scene was really prominent. although even then we had more pop leanings. Simon is the chief song writer in the band and a large portion of the record was written on his travels in Tokyo, London & Berlin, so if anything a lot of the music comes from a place completely removed from the trappings of a certain cities sound.\nAMBY: Which other artists from Sydney should we keep our eyes on?\nThe Holidays: I’m a little out of the loop at the moment but Elizabeth Rose sounds like she has the goods.\nAMBY: What’s the best release of the year?\nThe Holidays: Too hard to say, but I really like Pusha T’s record My Name Is My Name.\nAMBY: And lastly, what’s something about The Holidays that nobody knows yet?\nThe Holidays: The very first band name me and Simon decided on was Rookie of the Year. Truly awful if your not pop punk teenagers\n***\nThank you The Holidays, for giving us your answers!\n[soundcloud url=”″ params=”color=00c4ff&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\nAlicia Atout \| @AliciaAtout"}
{"text": "New sports complex at Vacoas\nDescription:\n- Construction of Two Gymnasium Halls (Weight lifting & Boxing) for competitions sports training, spectator’s accommodation and administrative facilities. – GFA 2317m²\n- Toilet Blocks and Changing Rooms and Storage facilities – GFA 554m²\n- Medical Unit: to be located above existing Wrestling Gym – GFA 916m²\n- Generator Room & Toilets Blocks – GFA. 25m²\n- Internal and External Services: Plumbing, Electrical, Ventilation System, Fire\n- Fighting and Allied Works."}
{"text": "Please be aware by using this website and booking any service with What I’m Cooking Now (hereafter “Marina Boldrini Rivelis” and/or “I” and/or “me”) you are agreeing to the following terms of service (the “Agreement”).\nFoodServe Certification and Insurance\nUpon request I can show you proof of insurance and ServSafe® Manager Certification that provides the required food safety training to foodservice managers.\nWhen and how do I pay you?\nI accept Venmo, Paypal, cash, or checks.\nBooking services\nYour service is booked on our calendar when 100% payment is received. Please be aware that this will be an estimate considering the hours that will be needed to prepare your menu. I will gladly work to meet your hourly requirements however I cannot guarantee how long a menu item will take. I will try to be completely accurate and I guarantee honesty in case additional charges need to be made.\nWhat is your cancellation policy?\nThree business days in advance notice is required before you cancel your meal service without incurring in any fees.\nClient Services Agreement\nOur Agreement is within the scope of the terms agreed upon menu, venue, people attending an event, etc. If anything changes or is outside of the agreed scope there will be a fee charged.\n• The agreed menu and charges do not include groceries.\nThe proposed menu sent to you needs to be accepted by email or text confirmation. Once accepted, additional menu ideas or changes should be addressed know as soon as possible, and at least 24 hours before services will be provided.\n• By accepting the menu and services (and groceries if included), you are entering a legal agreement with me to provide the services as indicated on the menu and for your payment.\n• You must supply a key or garage code for me in case you are not going to be home.\n• Cancellations made after the 3 business day period will incur a penalty of 100% of the quoted price plus the cost of groceries if already purchased.\nIf you fail to pay any amounts due under this Agreement for our services or for groceries, you agree that such amounts will accrue interest at the maximum rate allowed by law from and after our notice to you that payment is overdue and, in addition to such costs, you are responsible for any costs of collection of such amounts, including, attorneys’ fees.\nRefuse Service\nAt my sole discretion, I reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, with or without cause or reason.\nWhat you can expect from me:\n• Show up on the agreed date and time for the cooking session prepared to work. I will arrive in a 30 minute window discussed in the initial consultation.\n• I will be dressed in appropriate attire and will bring disposable gloves for food preparation and meat thermometer.\n• Disinfect the kitchen with cleaning products before and after the cooking.\n• Clean the affected areas of the kitchen during and after the cooking session.\n• Handle and store fruits, vegetables, meats and seafood appropriately.\n• Respect your privacy and property.\n• Provide confidentiality between me and/or your nutritionist and you.\n• Provide advance notice of any unforeseen cancellation by me.\n• Upon our departing from your kitchen, package and label your food with any pertinent instructions.\n• In order to provide the best possible service for you and for safety reasons, I will not be able to answer the phone or the door or be responsible for work people in the home.\nFood Safety\nOnce a meal is turned over to the client, it is your responsibility to properly handle and maintain. I will not be responsible for problems that may occur with your refrigerator/ freezer, or due to improper handling or storage of food.\nI will not responsible for any illness or death due to manufacturing flaws or recalled products. I will inspect all groceries, but is not responsible for conditions unknown or unforeseen.\nIt is recommended that frozen food that is to be eaten be defrosted properly in the microwave or defrosted in the refrigerator overnight. Defrosting food in the microwave should only be done if you plan on immediately heating and consuming the food. Otherwise, use the refrigerator.\nIf it is discovered that a product is contaminated or has been recalled, I will promptly contact you and advise to avoid the item.\n• I highly recommend a food thermometer and is required that food is reheated to food safety reheating recommendations.\nLimitation on Damages\nIn no event I shall be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind resulting from its performance or failure to perform pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.\nSome Limitations:\n• While we I am a cook I am not a medical doctor, nor certified nutritionist.\n• I do not provide medical advice. You acknowledge that I have advised you to seek the advice of your doctor or other health care provider if you have any medical."}
{"text": "Thread\n:\n[Kindle3] cat:can't open '/sys/devices/platform/charger/globals': No such file or dir\n03-05-2012, 09:20 AM\n#\n2\nknc1\nHelpdesk Junkie\nPosts: 7,251\nKarma: 6382328\nJoin Date: Feb 2012\nDevice: Too many.\nQuote:\nOriginally Posted by\nFrenko\nIf I press enter it returns\nCode:\nWelcome to Kindle! kindle login:\nimmediately followed by the ever looping error\nJust close your eyes and keep on typing whatever is expected for the login response.\nIt is a full duplex serial line, it is listening to your key strokes even while outputting other messages.\nThen, once you log in, we just need to find and stop what is sending the error messages. Not to fix the overall problem, but just so the serial line can be used without a bunch of distracting chatter from something failing.\nHints:\nTurn on the 'capture' feature of your terminal and save the capture file. It may be neccessary to use a text editor on the capture file to sort out the input/output from the error message chatter.\nIf your terminal has a provision to define 'keystroke macros' (strings sent in response to a specific key combination), it may be neccessary to use that for the various things to be sent to the kindle (like the login strings).\nAnd/Or - check if your terminal has a 'hand off' feature (many do) it may be neccessary to use that to turn the serial line over to an 'expect' or 'chat' script.\nSome terminal emulators have such a 'chat' feature included, left over from dealing with modems and dial-up connections. It may be neccessary to use that to get past the chatter.\nEventually we will get to the point where we can get a process list of what is running (using either 'ps aux' or 'top -bn1') -\nIt is one of those things which:\nIs a script;\nIs calling 'cat';\nDoes not have stderr redirected;\nAnd not checking the error return from the 'cat' command.\n(And from the content of the message, wants to know if the charger is connected and the state of the battery charge but is doing it\nBefore\nthe software charger controls are loaded. I.E: a start-up script without the proper dependences set.)\nNotes:\nLinux (any nix) starts up with only an \"operator's console line\" (/dev/console) to communicate with the outside world. Everything else is add-ons by other programs.\nSomething (which shouldn't be by design) is still talking to /dev/console.\nLinux (any nix) is a single, stand-alone, program that only runs one other program when it is ready to run anything at all.\nThe usual default is a special program that starts, controls and stops multiple other programs but it does not have to be. A common debugging setting is to set either: 'init=/bin/sh' or 'rdinit=/bin/sh' on the kernel command line.\nThat leaves the system as just you, the kernel, and the command shell talking on /dev/console. No chance for anything else to start up (and fail) while locating the source of the original problem.\nChanging the kernel command line arguments in an embedded system is done from the boot loader (here: u-boot) with commands to 'setenv', 'getenv', etc.\nTranslation: This is good progress, just a bit messy with all of the chatter going on.\nO.P. first complains his machine will not talk to him. Now complains that it says too much. What will make him happy?\nLast edited by knc1; 03-05-2012 at\n09:43 AM\n.\nknc1\nVisit knc1's homepage!\nTrack Posts by knc1 via RSS"}
{"text": "Barbie Bungees Again\nDescription\nStudents will collect and analyze data to help them predict the longest bungee cord that Barbie can use safely.\nThe teacher should find a video showing a real bungee jump and lead a discussion on what makes a good bungee jump. After this discussion, present the scenario about Barbie and her bungee jump.\nBarbie is interested in going bungee jumping. Since she is a thrill seeker, she would like to have the longest jump possible, without hitting the ground. Help Barbie decide how long the bungee cord must be to give her the most fun without getting injured.\nI think this is such a creative and unique way to engage students and to make real-life connections to these topics. Thank you so much for sharing! Definitely saving this activity for later use!\nHow can you build the longest bungee cord for Barbie that keeps her safe?\nCCSS, Content Standards to Domain Level\nCCSS, Standards for Mathematical Practices\nEffective PtA, highlighted Effective Teaching Practice and/or Guiding Principle CCSS\nOriginal author: Samuel E. Zordak\nIlluminations lesson: Barbie Bungee\nCRDT team: Luke Wilcox, Deidra Baker, Jerel Welker, Michelle Greene and Lindsey Gallas"}
{"text": "LCUSD Photo of the Day 005\nO-MA-HA! O-MA-HA! 686 Green 80, on two, on two. Hut, hut, hike....\"\nCheck out photo 001, the first photo in the new LCUSD Photo of the Day collection.\nIn this video, Mr. Brent Beaty discusses what motivates him as an educator and why he believes LCHS is a special place for learning.\nIf you are looking for Dr. E, he makes himself easy to find. In between periods, he can always be found standing in the open doorway of his classroom greeting incoming students with a welcoming handshake and offering big smiles to those passing by.\nDue to high interest, Parent Tech Academy has been moved to the IRC at LCHS. See you there.\nCongratulations to the Class of 2016!"}
{"text": "So you’ve got a crafter in your life that you need to shop for, and you have no idea what to get her/him. Have no fear, we have the ultimate gift guide, and good thing, because Christmas is only 10 days away! Most of the items we feature here are between $20 – $53, so you have a wide range of items to choose from, and you’ll certainly find something in your price range!\n1. Heidi Swapp – 6″ Mini Foil Applicator – $52.99\nAt the time we were writing this blog article, this was on sale for $47.99 at Scrapbook.com, however, now we see that it has gone back up! Since this is such a hot item, the price seems to be fluctuating on a daily basis. This device is essentially a foil applicator where you can transfer beautiful and professional foil effects on to another page. The crafter in your life will have a blast configuring the machine to create beautiful designs on any type of craft project! Click here to get it.\nOf course, if you do decide to buy this foil applicator, your crafter will also need the gold foil paper that coems with it! See the accompanying product that you can buy for $6.53.\n<\n2. Paper trimmer – $40\nFor a scrapbooking enthusiast, cutting straight lines is an absolute must. While the smaller paper trimmers are fine for small jobs, this 15” Swingline Paper trimmer is a true scrapbooker’s dream. If your crafter does not already have a nice paper trimmer, invest in this one for her! Luckily, this item is on Amazon Prime, so if you’re a member, you can get it in literally one day. Hurrah for last minute shopping! Click here to find this product.\n3. Carpe Diem Planner Boxed Set – $39.79\nThe beautiful, yet slightly neurotic world of decorating planners. Ugly, boring, planners are a thing of the past. Nowadays you can buy gorgeous, colorful, and quality bound planners that will help you organize your life, just by being so pretty. Hence, the Carpe Diem Planner Boxed set. Does your crafter have a favorite color? No worries, you can pick the color of the planner you think she would like most! It’s hard to be disappointed by such a beautiful object, we don’t think you can go wrong here.\n4. Washi Tape – $23.99\nA scrapbooker’s love for washi tape loves no bounds, but even the casual crafter can use washi tape in many different projects. Take, for example, this simple, yet elegant, block letter washi tape artwork, and this easy DIY phone holder. This kit would be a perfect addition to a craft supplies arsenal, and the best part is, it’s fairly inexpensive! Purchase this product easily on Amazon.\n5. Stackable Paper Tray (4 pack) – $29.99\nAs every crafter knows, one of the hardest parts about crafting is actually organizing what you have! If you check out our Pinterest board, we have plenty of ideas for organizing a craft room, but this one is an absolute must for the scrapbooker in your life. Buy two of them and your crafter will have even more room for organization! Purchase it here on Amazon.\n6. 1 2 3 Punch Board Envelope and Gift Box Maker $33.63\nThis handy little tool was mentioned in one of our previous blog posts on how to make handmade designer envelopes. We are sure the crafter in your life will asbolutely love this, because we love it ourselves! With this product you can create over 250 different shapes and sizes. Mostly though, you can create pretty much any envelope or gift box you would like. Find this product here.\n7. Mini MISTI Stamping tool – $45\nThis nifty little device is the ultimate tool for cardmaking. We found a Youtube video to show you how it works, but it’s essentially a stamping tool that allows for precision and consistency when stamping a project. If the crafter in your life is into cardmaking, this would be a fabulous gift to give! Purchase it here.\n8. Xyron Creative Station All-in-One Adhesive Maker – $44\nThis all in one tool is perfect for adding stickers, magnets, or lamination to projects. Multiple reviewers have mentioned this tool is invaluable for a scrapbooker and that it is a crafter’s dream. We can certainly see why! Imagine being able to create a sticker from just about anything. You could create magnets from your own photographs, or stickers using a fun image you’ve seen online. This is certainly a great tool to have and we know your crafter will love it. Purchase it here.\n9. Foldable Self Healing Cutting Mat – $34.95\nThis self healing cutting mat is both practical and aesthetically pleasing. Crafters use this for sewing and quilting projects, as well as any paper craft projects that require scoring or the like. This particular mat is foldable for portability, and is also PVC free, which means it does not contain any of the carcinogens that other mats may have. Purchase it here.\n10. A 3 month Scrapbooking Kit Subscription – $46.99\nShameless plug here, but we had to do it 🙂\nWhat better way to show your appreciation for the crafter in your life than to gift her/him a 3 month scrapbooking kit subscription? The crafter in your life will love the surprise scrapbooking kits that arrive at her door step each month, and will be able to create beautiful scrapbooking layouts and cards. You can even write a quick little gift message to include in the first kit. Find out more here.\n11. Special Edition Holiday Embellishment Pack – $22.49\nLast, but certainly not least, we have a special edition holiday embellishment pack that is so lovely! We crafted a specially designed package which contains 6 beautiful embellishments with hints of gold and holiday cheer. There are 6 embellishments that range from gold foil cards to rub-ons to chipboard buttons. Click here to learn more.\nIf you liked this guide you can find more ideas by “Liking” our Facebook page. Also be sure to check out our Instagram and Pinterest. Keep crafting!\n"}
{"text": "\nCategory Archives: Food industry\nRed meat and cancer: the biological evidence\nCategory: Cancer, Epidemiology, Food industry, Health systems, Industry, Nutrition, Preventable Deaths Tagged cancer, epidemiology, food industry, microbiome, nutrition, prevention, public health 1 Comment\nWhy does eating red meat elevate breast cancer risk, especially for young women on the pill?\nCategory: Cancer, Epidemiology, Food industry, Industry, Infectious disease, Nutrition Tagged cancer, epidemiology, food industry, nutrition, prevention, public health 2 Comments\nDo multivitamin supplements increase mortality risk?\nCategory: Epidemiology, Food industry, Industry, Nutrition Tagged communication, epidemiology, food industry, nutrition, public health, vitamins 3 Comments"}
{"text": "Traders river.\nPreecha Jaiphet, Mae Sod district chief, said a flood-rescue centre was set up in preparation to possible inundation."}
{"text": "Arrest in Amsterdam center mistaken ID murder\nThe Amsterdam criminal E.L. (26) has been arrested for the murder of Stefan Regalo Eggermont.\nThe investigation assumes that E.L. belongs to one of the two camps in the Amsterdam gangland who has been fighting a bloody feud. Shortly after the murder of Stefan Regalo Eggermont, the investigation received a tip that a probable murder weapon can be found in L's home.\nStefan Regalo Eggermont was murdered on the night of 12 to 13 July in Conradstraat. The police suspect that he was mistaken for someone else, as he has no link to the Amsterdam underworld.\nL. was arrested for possession of weapons. Last Tuesday he was formally charged for involvement in the liquidation after the Dutch Forensic Institute determined that Regalo Eggermont was indeed killed with the weapon in question.\nThe accused belonged to the group around the career criminal Gwenette Martha, who was killed in May. That group is a rival camp to those around Benaouf A. Thus far this conflict has caused ten deaths since it started in 2012.\nThe fact that the weapon that supposedly killed Regalo Eggermont was found in L. possession, strengthens the idea that the shooter did not mean to kill him, but Omar Lkhorf. Omar Lkhorf is the borther of Youssef Lkhorf, who had already been killed on December 29th 2012. The brothers Lkhorf were known confidants of Benaouf A.\nOn the night of July 12th Regalo Eggermont had been watching football with his brother and a friend. He parked his blue Fiat Punto in a spot where neighbor Omar Lkhorf often parks his blue Fiat Punto. Omar Lkhorf arrived home about half an hour before.\nE.L.'s lawyer Niels van Wersch confirms that he has been charged with the murder of Regal Eggermont. \"That the weapon was found with him, yes, but he denies being the shooter. He also definitely does not meet the description that witnesses gave of the shooter. They described a light colored man. L. is as dark as you can be.\""}
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{"text": "Murfreesboro, TN: QC Kinetix (Murfreesboro) stands out for providing affordable natural pain treatments that act as a great alternative to pain-relieving surgeries. These biologic therapies allow the body to organically initiate the process of repairing and restoring damaged and injured tissues. The pain solutions have been extensively tested and found effective in treating and managing pain induced by musculoskeletal conditions and injury. Experienced pain specialists are on standby to offer regenerative medicine near Murfreesboro, TN, to help locals enjoy the pain-free lifestyle they have always desired. A free consultation service is available from their website.\nAdvanced regenerative orthopedics has come closer to Murfreesboro, TN, where experienced pain specialists are ready to offer the best treatment experience near me. Spawned from QC Kinetix, the clinic believes everybody deserves an improved quality of life and pain-free life. Scott Hoots owns and manages the newly opened regenerative medicine clinic focused on delivering long-lasting results.\nQC Kinetix (Murfreesboro) knee surgery alternative treatment is carefully designed to help repair and strengthen the knee. Ideal candidates include those suffering pain due to arthritis or osteoarthritis, dislocations and fractures, autoimmune disease pain, and pain due to tendonitis. People with chronic arthritis pain can also be helped to overcome the condition using non-surgical regeneration treatment for arthritic pain. Before any treatment is administered, a comprehensive examination of the patient’s condition is conducted, followed by a scrutiny of their medical records.\nThe clinic knows shoulder pain can significantly diminish the quality of life and is doing everything to offer solutions that promise lasting shoulder pain relief in Murfreesboro. Common symptoms of shoulder pain include stiffness, reduced range of motion, unyielding pain and distress, and swelling. QC Kinetix (Murfreesboro) offers an alternative treatment for replacement surgery for patients with bone spurs, pain from overuse, and broken shoulders. The regeneration solutions for shoulder pain can help patients regain the ability to do activities like pushing, pulling, lifting, and much more.\nRegenerative medicine and biologic therapies work concertedly to offer pain relief, thereby eliminating the need for addictive medications and risky surgical procedures. QC Kinetix is dedicated to delivering natural pain treatment to help patients live their lives to the fullest. To help patients achieve this goal, QC Kinetix (Murfreesboro) has a team of providers that includes experienced regenerative medicine specialists and NCCP-certified physician assistants.\nQC Kinetix (Murfreesboro) is located at 1747 Medical Center Parkway, Suite 110, Murfreesboro, TN, 37129. To reach them on the phone, call (615) 249-4024. Patients can also learn more about the effectiveness of regenerative medicine in healing and managing pain by checking out the testimonial videos posted on the QC Kinetix website.\nMedia Contact\nCompany Name\nQC Kinetix (Murfreesboro)\nContact Name\nScott Hoots\nPhone\n(615) 249-4024\nAddress\n1747 Medical Center Parkway, Suite 110\nCity\nMurfreesboro\nState\nTN\n37129\nCountry\nUnited States\nWebsite"}
{"text": "Announcing the 3rd Annual NJQRP Skeeter Hunt:\n\"Skeeter Hunt ...Stay Thirsty my Friends\"\n\"Skeeter Hunt ...Stay Thirsty my Friends\"\nTo see where you placed in the standings in 2013- click here.\nTo see all the soapbox comments from 2013 - click here.\n2014 Roster - Click here.\nThe NJQRP Club is announcing the Third Annual \" Skeeter Hunt\". The objective is to get QRPers out of their shacks for the day; and into the fresh air and sunshine, to spread their wings and fill the airwaves with \"Skeeters\". While commercial equipment can certainly 10th. It will be a four hour sprint - from 17:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC (1:00 TO 5:00 PM EDT).. The official Website for the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt is!\nSuggested Call - Either CQ QRP or CQ BZZ\nExchange - (DIFFERENT this year)\nSkeeter Stations - RST, First name, S/P/C, Skeeter number\nNon-Skeeter Stations - RST, First name, S/P/C, Output power\nNote: For those of you who are new to contesting, \"S/P/C\" refers to your State (US), Province (Canada), or Country (DX).\nMode – CW, SSB\nPower - 5W max CW, 10 Watts max SSB\nScoring -\nWorking a Skeeter Station - 2 points\nWorking a non-Skeeter Station - 1 point (Psst! DX stations do NOT count as \"non-Skeeter\", so don't double-dip!)\nWork a WAE station (or ANY DX station) - 3 points - Yes! The Worked All Europe contest (CW) is the same day - working DX stations (different continent) will get you extra points! And to avoid confusing the DX stations - their standard contest exchange is to be used - with those stations only.\nBONUS POINTS! - Work enough stations to spell out \"SKEETER\" using letters from the callsigns you've contacted and you can claim an extra 100 Points!\nFor example, if you work\nVA3SIE\nK3RLL\nNE5DL\nKD3EM\nNU7T\nthen you've worked enough stations to spell out \"SKEETER\". You can use multiple letters from a call as in the example above, VA3SIE would count for the \"S\" and one of the \"E's, while K3RLL can be used for the \"K\" and the \"R\". To apply for the bonus you must include the calls you are using for spelling out \"SKEETER\".\nTotal score equals the number of QSO points times the number of S/P/Cs worked on all bands (stations can be worked on multiple bands for QSO points and S/P/C credit) times the multiplier for station class. Add 100 points if you can spell \"SKEETER\" from the callsigns you have worked..885 MHz, and for those Novices and Technicians out there who want to give QRP SSB a go (and those who want to encourage them - look for them here!), try gathering about and around 28.385 MHz.\nThese are suggested starting points, of course. Feel free to spread out and give your \"Skeeter\" wings a chance to do their thing.\nCW Only and SSB Only, and Mixed Operating will be considered separate categories. Please indicate with your log summary which category you are participating as. Please also indicate if you are entering as as the Multi-Operator category. - NJ\nSkeeter #4 - All CW\nSkeeter QSOs - 23\nNon-Skeeter QSOs - 5\nDX QSOs - (if any)\nS/P/Cs - 18\nStation Class Multiplier X4\nSKEETER Bonus - 100 points (and here is where you would list the call signs you worked that qualify you for the bonus.)\nHope to hear and work all of you during this year's event. Special thanks to the NJQRP club for their sponsorship!\n5 comments:!/"}
{"text": "Small Businesses Lead the Way in Green Technology Innovation\nSmall Businesses Patent More and Have Important Patents Relative to Size\nWashington, D.C. –When it comes to green technology innovation, U.S. small business is leading the way according to a report released today by the SBA Office of Advocacy. The report titled Analysis of Small Business Innovation in Green Technologies was released by Chief Counsel Winslow Sargeant at the World Green Energy Symposium in Philadelphia. The study was designed to highlight differences in the patent activity of small and large firms in green technologies and industries.\n“Small businesses are leading the way in green technology innovation as they have with innovation over all,” said Sargeant. “It is important that government help foster innovation which leads to commercialization. At Advocacy, we support this process by helping to reduce the regulatory burden on small business.”\nThe report found that while small firms account for about 8 percent of all U.S. patents, they account for 14 percent of green technology patents. Small firms account for more than 32 percent of the patents in both smart grids and solar energy, and 15 percent of patents in batteries and fuel cells. Also eighty percent of the “prolific” inventors—those with five or more recent green patents with a citation index of 1 or more—from small green technology firms had previously worked at large companies, or large government or university labs.\nSmall innovative firms in this study are even more productive, measured in terms of patents per employee, than was shown in previous studies. The current study finds that small innovative firms are 16.\nPrevious Advocacy. The report and research summary is available.\n###"}
{"text": "A Whirlwind Timelapse Tour of Athens by Alexandros Maragos\nCITY OF ATHENS is a non-narrative short film, a portrait of a changing metropolis from filmmaker and award-winning photographer, Alexandros Maragos. The film is an homage to the capital of Greece.\nIt features hyperlapse, timelapse and drivelapse cinematography of the urban area, the skyline and the architecture of “το κλεινόν άστυ” / the glorious city. Shot almost entirely from the highest rooftops, hills and mountains at night, the film explores the urban core, the city center and beyond.\nThe short film was shot exclusively with the use of various timelapse was done in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects. The film was finished for the web at 1920×870, 2.20:1 aspect ratio. Music is by Tony Anderson.\nFor more information visit AlexandrosMaragos.com\nChannels: AMAZING, CREATIVE\nTags: · athens, city tour, greece, hyperlapse, night time, short film, timelapse, travel"}
{"text": ".\nGuideline-based breast and cervical cancer screening are considered essential health benefits and are fundamental components of high-quality primary care services in the United States. The aim of cancer screening is to identify cancers in an early stage when treatment is more likely to be effective. Accurate measurement of cancer screening rates is vital to understanding if women are adequately screened and to determining if disparities exist in receipt of screening. There are trade-offs to consider when utilizing self-report versus medical record documentation. Although self-report data may reduce administrative burden compared to medical record documentation, its accuracy is often questioned.\nConcerns about the accuracy of self-report data for cervical and breast cancer screening and the potential for adverse outcomes, including missed screenings, missed diagnoses, or duplicative screening, have led to policy variations in requirements for reporting documentation of these screenings. Prior to considering changing documentation requirements, it is important to understand the benefits and harms of accepting self-report. Thus, the purpose of this evidence review is to provide an updated synthesis of the evidence on the accuracy of self-reported measures of cervical and breast cancer screening compared to medical records – and the benefits and potential harms of relying on patient self-report instead of medical record documentation.\nInvestigators with VA's Evidence Synthesis Coordinating Center in Portland, OR reviewed the literature including: MEDLINE®, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and other sources up to November 2018. Investigators identified 1,213 unique, potentially relevant articles and included 39 diagnostic accuracy studies (22 in cervical cancer screening, 29 in breast cancer screening, and 1 systematic review) in their analysis. A total of 61,383 patients were included in studies of cervical cancer screening, and 444,055 patients were included in studies of breast cancer screening. No studies assessed clinical or system-level outcomes and no studies included Veterans.\nSummary of Findings\nOverall, results indicate that unscreened women tend to over-report screening, while screened women more accurately reported their screening:\nLimitations\nInvestigators found no studies that reported on clinical outcomes or adverse events or unintended consequences of accepting self-report. In addition, there was significant heterogeneity among studies, which may be due to differences between the populations studied. Most studies had unclear risk of bias due to unclear reporting of blinding and incomplete medical record review.\nImplications for VHA Policy/Practice\nAlthough VA has good systems for tracking screening services delivered by VA, many women Veterans obtain some Pap smears or mammograms from providers in the community. Since records from such visits are not always available in the VA electronic record, clinicians may query women about whether they have had recent screening tests that are not in the record. VHA performance indicators on cervical and breast cancer screening align with HEDIS (Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set) and require documentation of evidence of screening results. The date of the study must be documented by the provider as part of the medical history, but this information may come from patient self-report. With over-reporting of screening by self-report there is the potential to overestimate the success of screening interventions, mask disparities in screening prevalence, under-screen individuals, and miss cancer diagnoses.\nFuture Research\nFuture research should investigate potential clinical adverse outcomes including the potential for missed cancer diagnoses and the masking of disparities in cancer screening, and also may evaluate system-level outcomes (i.e., patient and provider burden) to weigh the potential harms of accepting self-report against the time and resource burden of tracking medical records.\nReference\nAnderson J, Bourne D, Peterson, K, Mackey K. Evidence Brief: Accuracy of Self-report for Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening. VA ESP Project #09-199; 2019.\nView the full report"}
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{"text": "Contact Info\nAuthor Info\nThe Daily Trading Report Cuts Through The Nonsense, Offering Real Strategies\n24-Jun-2012 \| News-Press Release\nIf you are looking for the most innovative, thought provoking and effective Daily Trading Report, you may want to consider following Brad McFadden's blog at. This is a unique opportunity for everyone interested in selling, buying and investing in stocks, foreign exchange and more. Brad McFadden currently specializes in trading currencies, equities, commodities and bonds around the world, and is providing his insight in how to Buy Stocks as well as sell at the right time.\nHe continually looks for securities that are offered at an extraordinary discount, as well as positioning to be in the right place for panicked buying and selling. Unlike other people who will provide you with their version of a trading report, Brad McFadden does exactly what he says he is going to do, following his own advice. He makes it abundantly clear that he is out to protect his money, and beat the stock market in every way possible, regardless of how it looks to other people.\nWith three genuine portfolios for you to look at, each one of them has three specific strategies for performance. He asks that you check out these portfolios for yourself, at to learn more about his strategies, and how you should judge him and his opinions based on those performances, not on how he sounds or personal feelings. This is the real deal when it comes to buying and selling stocks, and learning more about the trading community and how you can take advantage of those opportunities as they present themselves.\nWhile other people provide their version of a daily trading report, most of them simply provide a commentary that justifies the current events in the stock market, which is just useless, outdated information. Brad McFadden's blog cuts through this racket, and deciphers exactly what is going on, and what is driving the stock market in order to focus on the aspects that will make you money. Many people think that Forex trading is extremely volatile, and you are encouraged to find out more about how decipherable financial markets can be.\nWhile most stock commentators never speak about applying their trading strategies, only preach them to you in order to make more money, you are encouraged to discover the difference that a real application of your views could make in your trading strategies. It is vital to your success to pay attention to the development of a solid view, and application of it at the same time. Most importantly, it is your attitude when it comes to any type of stock market trading.\nIt is important to have fun with it, because if you are not having fun and enjoying yourself, it is not worth doing. Brad McFadden believes that you, too, can become an independent stock market trader, and have a lot of fun in the markets, using his commentaries, views, trade strategies and more, which is why he is inviting you to try out his report for one week, completely free. There is no obligation, just the opportunity to take advantage of an innovative and insightful market trader's point of view and capitalizing on it. So, check out the Daily Trading Report at, in person at Level 7C, 299 Sussex Street in Sydney, Australia or by telephone at +61 2 9267 1421 today.\nThis release was submitted by a PRSafe user.\nAny communication related to the content of this release should be sent to the release submitter.\nAuthor Info\nTag Cloud\nCategories\nMore Releases\n- No other releases."}
{"text": ">> pioneer of European integration Denis de Rougemont believed in a cultural Europe, a Europe of direct participation of people beyond the nation-state. Sixty years ago the Swiss philosopher became a founding father of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). He passionately believed in culture as a vital ingredient for Europe’s post-war rebuilding and healing. De Rougemont stated that a peaceful and democratic Europe could only last if European leaders and people work together towards an integrated Europe, anchored in a federal system. He presented the nation state as the main obstacle to a European federation and believed in a ‘Europe of the regions’: regions representing ethnic and cultural units that ensured more direct participation.\nRead Denis De Rougemont's L'attitude fédéraliste (PDF).\nHow relevant are the ideas of Denis de Rougemont on the role of Europe as a political and cultural project today, in light of the dramatic rise in nationalism in Europe these last few years? An increasing number of Member States of the EU concentrate on national priorities jeopardizing Europe as a political and cultural project. We need a new, shared idea of Europe that inspires, levers new energy and confidence in the future.\nRaymond Georis, former Secretary General of European Cultural Foundation, reflected on the ideas of De Rougemont by reading out parts of his speech The Federalist Attitude dating from 1947. Sylvie Goulard, member of the European Parliament, commented on this speech from a contemporary European perspective and placed it in the context of current EU developments. A Q&A session with the floor followed. The event was moderated by Vanessa Mock, EU correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Brussels."}
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{"text": "And it’s another Christmas miracle.\nOttawa Mayor Jim Watson dipped into the bag of taxpayer-funded goodies on Friday and has found millions of unspent dollars to help the mess that is the city’s light rail system.\nJust add the costs onto the – is it too early to call it – a $2.1 billion boondoggle?\nAnd now the promise of fewer buses on our roads isn’t to be, at least not in the immediate future. Not only aren’t we getting what we were promised, and what we’ve paid for, but we’re now having to pay more for who knows what.\nWhat an absolute mess.\nAnd what does council think of Watson’s announcement of another $3.5 million being pumped into putting back buses that have just been recently removed? Well, they weren’t asked or consulted. Just another blow to the concept of democracy at Ottawa City Hall.\nAnd let’s not forget councillors like Gloucester-South Nepean Coun. Carol Anne Meehan were anxious to have a meeting to discuss the never-ending LRT problems. So too were Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney and River Coun. Riley Brockington, but that idea was quickly dismissed by Watson, though he sent Hubley, his good soldier to deliver the news.\nWell, it seems even more obvious now that a meeting should have been held to discuss the problems of LRT and together talk about a way forward. This is a city-wide issue and a city-wide problem. Councillors were duly elected by their constituents across the city. And those same councillors should have had a say on behalf of their constituents.\nIt’s been a long time since Watson cared much about consultation. And now, it’s just not part of his repertoire. On Friday, another mess of an LRT day, Watson took matters into his own hands. Our mayor isn’t even pretending to head up a democratic process. Just because he can do something doesn’t mean he should.\nThis has become something far more akin to a dictatorship where Watson feels empowered to ignore his council. And that’s just what he does, while doling out little goodies to his band of yes men and women. He likes to say he’s the one who represents the entire city, essentially that he knows best.\nI like to say he doesn’t.\nCollectively, he and his council know best.\nWatson implied he and transit chair Allan Hubley made the decision together to add $3.5 million worth of buses.\nThat’s hard to believe. While it’s impossible to blame the horrendous problems of the present LRT system directly on Watson, he is certainly to blame for putting Hubley in as transit chair – a role that is well over the Kanata councillor’s abilities. Everyone knew it at the time and that’s even more abundantly clear now.\nPretty sure any discussion between Watson and Hubley – if there really was one – went something like this. Watson: “This is what we’re doing. And this is just a courtesy call.”\nAnd while you can’t lay all the blame on Watson for this mess, he does own much of it – if only because he insists on ignoring his council. Surely I wasn’t the only one who worried whether the testing done was solid enough to take over the system. And for sure, I know I’m not the only one who is concerned about whether this system will ever actually work. Adding the buses back on is a serious – albeit necessary – step backward.\nSo here’s where we’re at. As taxpayers, we’re paying for a $2.1 billion transit system that doesn’t work. And we’re now paying millions more to put back the buses we took off the streets to help that pricey but flawed system. And there’s more spending to come. Is there any real chance that a transit user will use LRT when they can get on a reliable bus? Will transit riders give LRT another chance?\nAdding insult to injury, we’re now working on phase two of light rail.\nEqually egregious – the councillors who you elected to take your interests directly to city hall – are being ignored.\nAnd so are you."}
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{"text": "Skiing and other snow sports beckon groups to the Swiss Alps\nAs a long-time snowboarder—and a skier before that—I’ve spent years exploring the slopes of several mountain destinations. My experiences, so far, have been limited to the resorts of the United States, but there are many parts of the world I dream of carving one day. On that long list of destinations, Switzerland is at the top.\nI visited Switzerland twice when I was younger, but only in the summer. Its dramatic mountains and homey towns awed me then; I can only imagine what it’s like blanketed in snow and buzzing with winter activity.\nSwitzerland is a true alpine skiing haven and popular winter destination. It’s what comes to mind when I think of elite winter athletes, off-piste powder activities and European ski villages. And I’m not alone. More people are flocking to the Alpine nation, with U.S. visits up 5.3 percent from November to April 2017/2018 compared to the same time frame in 2016/2017.\nThe country’s mountainous landscape offers 55 peaks that surpass 13,000 feet and diverse terrain for all skill levels. It’s home to the famed Matterhorn and Eiger mountains and cozy towns filled with Swiss chalets and medieval landmarks. It boasts miles of snowshoe and winter hiking trails for a more relaxed adventure, as well as hundreds of heart-pumping tobogganing runs to please those adrenaline junkies. Plus, it’s one of the few places on earth you can go glacier skiing. If that’s not a winter paradise, I don’t know what is.\n/>\nThe fresh powder falls practically everywhere in Switzerland. Where and how you choose to track it is completely up to you.\nSouth/Southwest Switzerland\nJust north of the Swiss/Italian border sits one of the most striking formations in the Alps. The Matterhorn peak juts and twists upwards, piercing the sky. From its perch, it overlooks the pistes of Matterhorn Ski Paradise, the highest winter sports region in the Alps. Ski and snowboard groups can enjoy over 200 miles of beginner to advanced runs accessible from 52 lifts.\nAmbitious skiers and riders will love the challenge of the Matterhorn Ski Safari, where they will cover between 32,000 and 41,000 feet in a day, without using the same lift or piste twice. If you have some novices in the group or those who prefer something a little more laid-back, the Matterhorn offers Slow Slopes. These runs allow visitors to make the descent at their own pace, without being disturbed by the more advanced athletes.\n/>\nAt the end of a long day on the slopes, groups can relax in the car-free town of Zermatt. This high-altitude village boasts relaxing spas, a hospitable dining scene and some of the best apres-ski joints in the country. If you want to take a break from the ski boots but still take in the views, head to Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, the highest place in Europe that can be reached by cableway. It features a viewing platform and the highest glacier palace in the world.\nNorth of Zermatt, ski enthusiasts will discover Crans-Montana, two neighboring resorts that make up an alpine-skiing oasis. The villages are set atop a plateau above the Rhone Valley, offering spectacular views of the chain of peaks to the south. There are more than 87 miles of slopes that reach up nearly 10,000 feet to the Plaine Morte Glacier. The diverse terrain offers something for every skill level, from wide-open runs for beginners to steep pistes ideal for seasoned skiers. A golfing mecca in the summer, Crans-Montana courses become a paradise for cross-country skiers and hikers in the winter. And for those in the group who enjoy a spin on the ice, there’s an extra piste reserved just for skaters.\n/>\nA little farther north is the Bernese Oberland region, home to the Adelboden-Lenk Ski Resort. With roughly 125 miles of runs, groups can spend days exploring the expansive terrain, which consists of many sub-areas joined together into one of the largest snow sport regions in Switzerland. Winter hiking trails take groups to the Adelboden sun terrace for stunning views, while the miles of cross-country and tobogganing paths welcome visitors to explore the winter wonderland in a different way. In the evening, be sure to grab a table at Fondue Igloo, the world’s largest fondue parlor and a truly unique Swiss winter experience.\nCentral Switzerland\nLocated a few miles south of Lake Lucerne, Engelberg-Titlis is the largest winter destination in Central Switzerland. The resort is a free-riders paradise. There are several ski tours that take visitors off-piste where they can enjoy incredible downhills—if they don’t mind doing some climbing. For those in the group who aren’t big alpine skiers, there are some 20 miles of cross-country skiing trails to explore. After a day on the slopes, groups can spend some time wandering the streets of Engelberg, which boasts its own distinct character and Swiss flair. For a relaxing and beautiful winter vacation, check out Grindelwald and Wengen in the Jungfrau region of Switzerland. These resorts offer laid-back runs that cater to groups of beginners and intermediate skiers, while also offering plenty of activities for non-skiers, such as winter hiking and tobogganing. Don’t miss Jungfraujoch, the “Top of Europe,” the continent’s highest railway station and a renowned destination in the Swiss Alps.\n/>\nEven more pistes, toboggan runs and walking trails can be found at Murren, a destination made famous not only by its spectacular landscapes, but also by James Bond. Part of the film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was filmed at the innovative revolving restaurant on Schilthorn. Groups can drink in the views of some 200 mountains and 40 glaciers while noshing on a legendary “007 Burger.”\nNorth/Northeast Switzerland\nThe northern part of the country features a well-rounded selection of ski resorts near Zurich and over by St. Gallen. Flumserberg, located less than 60 miles from Zurich, is a popular winter sports destination in the Canton of St. Gallen. It has terrain that suits all skill levels—wide, gentle runs for beginners to steep, mogul-filled slopes for advanced skiers. For something a little different, groups can race down the nearly two-mile sledge run from Prodalp to Tannenheim, or get in some pets and face licks with an introduction to dog sledding. Toggenburg, the largest resort in St. Gallen, consists of three areas connected by 17 lifts. There are plenty of groomed runs, as well as more extreme off-piste options and two terrain parks. For some off-mountain fun, groups can enjoy several miles of winter rambling paths, or take in Mother Nature on a snowshoe tour.\nby Vanessa Day"}
{"text": "“And then another scripted showpiece – a mini-resurrection. One I find myself questioning as “fact” more and more.\nAnd with it “me” and “all the God stuff” you have been taught you cannot and must not question – because I am God and that means …\nI must worship, glorify, serve and sacrifice to you.”\n.\nThe conversation continues.\nIf you want to tag-along – please do. Links are in each of the posts to make catching-up as easy as possible.\n.\n“Wasn’t that all about those who touched me increasing their own “I have” … And wasn’t it often the case that – instead of binding “I have and I am” more seamlessly – the “result” was not that much different afterwards … That the moment passed and the lives of each continued as they chose … ?\nYou don’t read of the “after bits” in your bible – so you fill in the gaps – and the “gaps” now come with debt and obligation and distance … all the biblically correct “gaps” teaching … “\n.\nHave to say I am enjoying this little journey immensely.\nThank you –\nPaul\n.\n.\nWhat do you see and hear mostly in the world, Paul?\nAlways have and have not. What I have defines who I am. The same as what I do not have defines who I am not. And the aspiration is to have more because having more is status and power and respect.\nBut “I am” …\nThat is about me not you?\n.\n.\nAlways. I Am is God and God is I Am or Yaweh or Y***h. And God and I Am means a bible basher, a goody-two-shoes, one who will convert you faster than look at you, one who is only interested in converting you. Which makes ALL the “God (of any name) Squad” insular and “small minded” – which is obviously not who we are taught “God” is at all.\nToday’s verses?\nYour turn …\nAmbulance chasers.\nWe call the “crowd”…\nView original post 549 more words"}
{"text": "It started with a promise. May 2014. Andrew and myself both ran for the Anza Committee and in our election campaigns made campaign promises that we’d try and open up the “black box” kit design process so that members could have more input.\nPoliticians will promise anything to get that vote. I was running uncontested so actually meant it in my manifesto – although the reality turned out to be harder than expected. It’s been a journey to get there but thought it worthwhile giving you some insight into the development of the jersey so you can see how we got to that bit of fabric that’s hopefully in your hands now.\nDecember 2014:\nRather than sit in an ivory tower and design something that the committee thinks is cool, we decided to find out from You All on the favourite jersey of years past. The 2013 Black classic was the runaway winner – taking 54% of the votes cast. This was our starting point for the new kit design.\nAfter being inundated with zero volunteers for members with design experience, We pulled out the highlighter pens during a late night in the office. This gave us a few rough drafts to start playing around with.\nCommittee feedback was that #1 was the more palatable of my childlike scribbles – seeing as it was the only one that didn’t rip off the new Giant-Alpecin jersey. But that we should seek help from a grown-up that knew what they were doing…\nAround this time, high-end boutique manufacturer Babici came on board due to a local connection and a smashing deal we could not refuse.\nMarch 2015:\nSomething went awray in the vendor briefing process and our 1st draft from Babici came back. Vast amounts of passionate feedback were provided in return – including the phrase “shit sandwich“.\nFull marks to Babici as they came back very rapidly with design #2 which was far more in line with expectations.\nSome minor modifications of font, and sponsor placement got us to design #3\nBut then somebody had the bright idea of looking back at our earliest concept and said what about a vertical stripe and so Babici knocked out a vertical stripe design.\nAs all of you who work and have to attend interminable meetings know there is a point at which returns on time and effort start to diminish, but we pressed on with “how would it look if we moved the stripe a little to the right”. As Team Sky would say, not that we were copying them at all “Marginal Gains!” and so with one last effort we had our design #5.\nWe were pretty happy with that but as with all things designed by committee, there were a few more minor tweaks. “Make the ANZA and lead sponsor stand out more” so we rotated it and made use of all that white space ” and ended up with Design #6 which was deemed “Too in your face!”, and so with one final tweak we got to where we are today and pressed the big red button marked “PRINT”.\nDesigning with a committee of 7 different people giving input is surprisingly hard but we all agreed pretty quickly when the final design came through. It retains the essence of 2013 but is a fresh take on the classic design with enough subtleties (mismatched leg colors, vertical writing on the back?) to give it a hint of edginess (at least compared to ANZA jersey’s past).\nMay 2015:\nHope you like it!"}
{"text": "A lamp for my feet\nLiving in a world surrounded by so much of darkness, we need light.\nIt is the word of God that gives us light to our path, according to the Psalmist.\nAppa, let Your word be a lamp for my feet and light on our path, in Jesus’ Most Powerful Name, Amen.\nWrite a comment"}
{"text": "Staff November 16, 2012\n\"Deadline in Disaster,\" a film produced by the Missouri Press Foundation, was shown at the Plaza Frontenac Cinema Thursday, Nov. 15, during the 2012 St. Louis International Film Festival. More than 200 people watched the documentary that tells the story of The Joplin Globe staff's coverage of the May 2011 tornado.\nEmily Younker and Wally Kennedy of The Joplin Globe attended along with Beth Pike, Stephen Hudnell, Scott Charton and Doug Crews.\nBeth and Emily participated in a Q&A session after the screening.\nAnother film on the Joplin tornado, \"Heartland,\" was shown prior to \"Deadline in Disaster.\"\nEarlier in the day, the film was highlighted on a St. Louis television station. Click HERE to watch the segment."}
{"text": "“I would highly recommend Century Fence for any fence project. They provide knowledgeable and experienced personnel at all levels. Their workmanship is second to none.”\nFields Inc., Mike H.\n>>IMAGE.\n“We have been very pleased with [Century Fence] capability and willingness to jump through hoops to help service a client in need…When given the opportunity I would not hesitate to use Century Fence again.”\nHunzinger Construction Company"}
{"text": "Photo: Instagram.com\nJay-Z sent rapper Meek Mill a pricey Rolex wristwatch as a \"VIP pass\" to his high stakes blackjack tournament to benefit his Shawn Carter Foundation at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL, on Nov. 15.\nMeek posted an image of the Rolex Daytona chronograph timepiece on social media, Vladtv.com reports.\nThe 32-year-old ex-con captioned the photo: \"Hov sent these as vip passes smh this rich sh** getting out of control lol. I'm not joking lol.\" Rolex Daytonas made of 18-karat gold regularly retails for $30,000-$39,000.\nThe weekend event will cost $100,000 cash to buy-in to play blackjack alongside Jay-Z and his wife Beyonce Knowles-Carter.\nThe Shawn Carter Foundation gala will include silent and live auctions and a blackjack tournament with a $500,000 jackpot for the winner.\nLess wealthy guests can purchase a $40,000 package that grants them VIP access for the weekend event. Alicia Keys will perform on Nov. 16 in a live concert that the hotel website describes as \"an intimate one-time-only performance,\" according to Revolt.TV.\nJay-Z hosted a celebrity poker tournament with baseball great Alex Rodriguez at Atlantic City in 2006. The tournament, to benefit the A-Rod Family Foundation, raised $403,862 in proceeds, but only $5,090 went to the charity, according to reports."}
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{"text": "I am somewhere around 4-4.5. Used to play on a HS tennis team around 15 years ago (Brooklyn Tech). Looking for a partner of the same level to hit/play sets with somewhere in Brooklyn.\nI am available on weekends, usually anytime.\nLet me know if interested.\n*I don't have a permit. I prefer to play at Kaiser playground, but I am open to any courts.\nViews: 62\nReplies to This Discussion\nHaven't played much at all in 5 years but used to be 4.0-4.5. Weekends are good, especially if we have to meet in southern Brooklyn.\nConey Island is pretty far but there are courts in my neighborhood in Bed Stuy that NEVER have anyone on them. Down to meet in southern Brooklyn when I can borrow my roomates car. Leif Ericson and Dyker Beach park work too.\nI don't play very often either, usually 5-10 times a year (last year I didn't play at all). I sometimes play at Dyker park, but they usually check for permits there. Another new location with 2 tennis courts is on Ave L and E 4th St (Friend Field). But it's only two courts and may have to wait. But the courts are new and nice.\nI much prefer Coney Island courts, because they are in decent shape, I never encountered anyone who checks permits there and there are 16 of them. Let me know if you'd be open to playing on any of these on weekends.\nI would like to get A.M. tennis in Mon-Sun. Available court McDonald Park courts. Kaiser Park is ok for me as I live mile and a half away. I too do not have permit. Not sure how that works at Kaiser, McDonald is ok. I haven't played recently but I have a competitive spirit and not a sore loser. Mostly want to get my strokes back and make sure we get a decent workout. Rally b4 the sun gets caliente!!!\nRudy\n© 2017 Created by Mark / The Mayor.\nBadges \| Report an Issue \| Terms of Service"}
{"text": "Having more than a hundred games at this years IMGA Global, it can be hard to stand out among such awesome games. We asked Darius Guerrero of AppSir, Inc. a few questions about their game, genre in ways unseen in the video game world.\nThere aren’t any games quite like DERE EVIL EXE. It is a self-aware platformer that shifts from retro to humor to meta-horror with plot twists and turns as the terrifying thriller unfolds. It is unique not only because of the narrative but also because of the way it is told. Everything from the game field to the pause button is utilized in its unorthodox storytelling.\nThe game isn’t all horror though, as it pokes fun at and toys with its NES platformer influences along the way. Coins kill you, jumping on enemies kill you, and tombstones are checkpoints. The robotic AI’s deadpan delivery of compliments and crabby comments add to the humor as well. Sometimes, the comments only serves to frustrate the player further. It is a difficult game but beatable with practice and a lot of patience.\nThroughout the game, DERE EVIL EXE subverts the expectations of players not only from a gameplay standpoint but in the storyline aspect as well. The fourth wall is broken early on, and the game uses its meta storytelling consistently in its entire run. DERE EVIL EXE culminates in a meta plot twist ending that rivals even M. Night Shyamalan movies.\nDERE EVIL EXE is a celebration of the creative freedom that indie game developers have. It is an original marriage of multiple genres and caters to fans of platforming, single player adventures, meta storytelling, visual novels, and horror games.\nThe story is inspired from a young gamer’s fears; a game about playing something you aren’t supposed to. We wanted it to reflect the kind of horror people pass on, the kind of story gamers will tell each other while camping late at night while waiting for the monsters to spawn. People will connect with this game as soon as level one ends. Be it because of the nostalgia, the level of trolling, or that unshakable feeling of dread in your childhood as you figure out how electronic glitches happen."}
{"text": "I have been cursed with asthma as long as I can remember. Well, that’s an exaggeration, but for anyone who understands what it feels like to have asthma, I salute you my fellow comrade. Though it is a part of me, it doesn’t affect me 24/7, and it’s not like a disease. But for a homeschooled teenager, it is my Thanos. And when Thanos snaps, he literally snaps my oxygen out of existence. Asthma is the inner nerd in me. An absolute pain in the neck.. or shall I say the lungs (though sometimes I have a far lower opinion of it).\nAsthma isn’t a completely useful condition, yet it can sometimes help out in dire situations. I guess the time has come to expose the advantages of asthma, which nobody should ever use, but maybe I will just one more time. Not only is it a pain inducing condition, asthma sometimes makes an entry in the most peculiar situations.\nA long while back, my family and I went out for dinner. I sat with my father and my mother sat with my brother so the conversation went along amongst our two separate groups. Our server obviously noticed this, as at the end of the meal, whilst my father was in the restroom, she asked my mother twice if we needed separate cheques. The third time she approached her, the waitress was adamant on splitting the bill, and I was intently listening. My mother refused once again and the waitress complied, then left to retrieve the machine with a sympathetic smile.\nI instantly burst out laughing at the thought of somebody thinking my parents were divorced. Not like it doesn’t seem like it at times, but the thought still came across as absurd. Where the heck does that assumption even come from? And finally, to top the cherry on this sundae, Mr. Asthma showed up at the party and I started heavily coughing. The cough lasted up to the point where my “divorced” parents almost had to call someone for help. My father returned and the experience made us all giggle into the night.\nThinking back to most of my asthmatic moments, my public school memories rush back instantly. Oh what fun I had during those times. Of course, asthma didn’t come in handy all the time, and there were some moments which I definitely blame for creating a problem, but all in all, I can’t crap on it too much.\nI remember every year, I would always find some odd way to bring up to my new classmates and teachers that I had asthma. Believe it or not, even 8 year old Adi knew this condition would somehow come in handy during the school year. All I had to do was lay out the groundwork and make sure it was set in stone, that poor, tiny, thin Adi Sharma was wrongfully bedevilled with asthma. It was essentially a perfect plan… let me rephrase, it was the perfect plan according to an 8 year old.\nDuring my years in Elementary school, we had the opportunity to join sports teams near the end of the semester. Now, being the avid sports player I was, I eagerly signed up to join as many as possible (who could refuse a day off from school with free jerseys, snacks, and a free ride to the venue?). Let’s just say, I didn’t make the second cut of any team until late fifth grade.\nSubsequently, every time I didn’t make the cut, I blamed my obvious athletic faults on asthma. Imagine this, I am running and dribbling the basketball in my right hand. A defender is all over me, but I’m sure I can get through him and make the shot. My teammates are calling for the ball, but what am I, some sort of team player? Absolutely not. I go up for a layup and… the ball is blocked and slams right into my face.\nNow, at times like this my mind would either go into a frenzy and scramble hopelessly for the long gone ball, or, I would revert to my lifeline. It was almost like a computer program would initiate the wheezing and coughing protocol. With sorrow filled eyes and a posture worse than a witch, I got up and apologized to my gym teacher,\n“Sorry Mrs. Moulson, it’s asthma. I just can’t control it!”.\nWith my plan already in effect since the moment Mrs. Moulson had met me, she nodded, cooly dismissing my horrible skills and lack of camaraderie for a breathing condition. She continued with writing down students who made the first cut on her clipboard. Let’s just say I got away with this excuse more time than I can count.\nThere were also times where I really was affected by my asthma and I have got to say, it is pretty awesome. Being the attention seeker I was, having a circle of teachers looking after me while the class girls watched with empathy in their eyes wasn’t a bad experience. Though during these situations I am coughing repeatedly and my chest feels like it has tiny needles stabbing it. But the attention still outmatches the pain.\nAnd since it is sort of the perfect problem to have (not life-threatening but still severe), it’s just cool to say I have got asthma. Every person I tell instantly feels some sort of remorse, it is almost hard to watch now. You really get to take advantage of it and move up the social chain at school. The perks of just making it my excuse for everything are limitless, and there is no telling what students will believe or not believe, so it’s a hit or miss situation.\n“Adi, why can’t you get your work done quick enough?”\nMy only reply to that is asthma. It is eating at the muscles in my hand and straining parts of my body, almost as if I am paralysed. My oxygen intake is lessening drastically and my chest is in agonizing pain. There is just no way to get the work done!\nOf course, this is an over-dramatization of asthma, but I always recycled those terms depending on the class and teacher, and I still can’t believe they continuously fell for it. Now, you’ve heard all about the good things that come from asthma, but don’t forget, it’s still a pain in the neck.\nFor 3 years, I attended a creative arts camp in Niagara, Canada. Since it was placed in a rural area, there was a lot of pollen. And of course, pollen is the one thing I am allergic to. It is the worst trigger for my asthma and can make it far more pain inducing than usual. So, every evening when we would have camp wide activity time, my experience would go something like this.\nI am walking with the people in my dormitory, probably doing something part of the game or event we are participating in. I am having a good time with friends and a beautiful sunset is seen over the horizon. Suddenly, we come up to a small area of grass, and there it is, the dreaded pollen. Instantly it attacks me with the mighty vigour of a thousand elephants, and just a few steps later, walks in asthma.\nI am panicking, but the deed has been done, and pollen has left me for the dead (not really). I start to wheeze and fall behind the group. My chest is starting to hurt and I can barely breath. There is a peculiar throbbing sensation climbing my back as well. Thankfully, one of my friends knows the drill, and he informs our counsellor that we need to get back to the dorm room for me to take my inhaler. I start to jog as fast as I can, the asthma catching up to me quicker than Usain Bolt has ever run.\nMy back has a searing pain and I am barely keeping my body up. We run into the dorm and grab my puffer from my room as I signal my panicked friend to hand me the water. I shake the inhaler, take two puffs and wash it down with a few gulps of water. Seconds later, I am relieved. The pain is gone and I collapse on the uncomfortable, rigid cot, finally able to breath again. As my friend motions me to come along in a few moments, I agree with a shaky thumbs up and a deep sigh of relief. But, in the back of my mind I know, I may have won this battle, but asthma will win the war.\nNow, this may seem to be yet another exaggeration to you, but in fact to a teen with asthma, it is no less than the harsh reality. I mean, the back pain and scrambling for my puffer, they were just getting things started for my two weeks at camp.\nI have heartily taken advantage of this condition, I’ve battled it for quite a while now as well. I like to think of asthma as a mother. Always sticking with you no matter what and very helpful at times. But also waiting to attack at your most vulnerable moments, literally knocking the air out of you.\n72 comments on this post. Please login to view member comments and participate in the discussion."}
{"text": "We have implemented a new CRM system and our agents historically make very long notes with no abbreviations, I was wondering if anyone has a glossary/list of commonly used abbreviations, e.g. CC Customer Called etc.\nI’d be really grateful for any assistance!\nSystem note abbreviation help needed?!\nCall Centre Helper Forum » Call Centre Management\nWe have implemented a new CRM system and our agents historically make very long notes with no abbreviations, I was wondering if anyone has a glossary/list of commonly used abbreviations, e.g. CC Customer Called etc.\nGood morning,\nI just wanted to share my opinion on abbreviations within CRM systems. I do not advocate the use of them as often, they confuse the message that is recorded. And, text speak often creeps in. I prefer to communicate to the team that clear, concise notes are required, no essays necessary! :-)\nStill, small abbreviations are used which I can forgive as long a the information is there.\nThe potential impact on AHT is mitigated by the quality of the data.\nOf course, these are just my thoughts. Hope this helps.\nAt the last place I worked we used a set of defined company standardised abbreviations and ensured that notes were simply reduced to the outcome rather than \"I said\" \"he said\" affair, of course including any important information gained for future reference.\nWe worked with about 100 standard abbreviations and text talk was not an accepted form of communication. Obviously the type of calls you are handling will determine the abbreviations you will use but here are some that I can recall:\nLMTCB - Left message to call back\nTPF or TPM - Third party female or male\nUTLM - Unable to leave message\nSPS - spouse\nRCVD - received\nTOM - tomorrow\nNUM - number (this was important so that we could distinguish between the use of the word number and the word no)\nMOB - mobile\nTEL - telephone\nINF - informed\nVM - voicemail\nADV - advised\nANS - answer\nCB - call back\nOur notes sections per call were limited to a certain number of characters to keep notes short, there was an option to enter an additional set of notes if it was a particularly detailed call.\nWe also used to type in CAPS as this is much easier on the eye when trying to read the notes quickly when the called is already on the line.\nIf I can remember any more I'll let you know.\nHope this helps.\n"}
{"text": "200 m²\n6 Bedroom Beach Villa\nAntiparos\n12 Guests\nDescription\nThis villa sits on a beautiful seaside landscape, just a 15’ stroll to the Port of the island and the town.\nThe estate can accommodate up to 12 guests offering luxurious amenities, top quality interiors of total 200 square meters surface and foremost indulgent sea views. The 6 bedrooms are spacious and airy, providing for comfortable accommodation especially for larger groups.\nThe main house consists of 4 Bedrooms whereas the guest house houses the reminiscent 2. Each bedroom has its own private bathroom, en-suite in most cases.\nIt features very comfortable living space, a beautiful and large green garden, an inviting swimming pool embraced by a terrific wooden deck and direct access to a quiet sandy beach. This saltwater beachfront swimming pool, is the hub of the outdoor living experience with the visitors diving in the sea any time of the day.\ndistances\nBeachfront Location\nAntiparos Town/Port: 1,5 km\nSecluded Beaches – 0-2 km\nAntiparos Cave – 10 km\nfeatures\n- Semi-private Beach\n- Town Proximity\n- WiFi Connection\n- Beach/Pool Towels\n- Cable-Satellite TV\n- CD/DVD Player\n- Hairdryer\n- Iron & Ironing Board\n- Washing Machine\n- Housekeeping\n- Swimming pool\n- Outdoor Dining\n- Pool Bar/Lounge/BBQ\n- Garden\n- Parking\nspecial offers\n> Early Booking Offer (3 months prior to arrival)\n*excl. high season\nBook now and save an additional 10%!\nGreek National Tourism Organization Authorized License Number – 1175K91001056401"}
{"text": "Somehow I have thrown away my desktop folder. I cannot drag anything to my desktop. disks and drives still show up, but i can't save files to the desktop or drag and drop to the desktop.\nIt also disappeared from my sidebar in finder.\nI have restarted several times, run applejack... all to no avail.\nI booted from my backup and all is well.\nI rebooted again from my normal startup disk and dragged the desktop from my backup into finder. It shows up normally, but it still isn't there.\nPage 1 of 1\nlost my desktop\n#1\nPosted 09 November 2012 - 09:46 PM\n0\n#2\nPosted 09 November 2012 - 10:21 PM\nall fixed now... I dragged the desktop folder from my backup drive into my startup drive... duh!\n0\nShare this topic:\nPage 1 of 1"}
{"text": "Drama. Dance. Dialogue.\nThe Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company, in conjunction with the Creative Arts Academy, is combining the power of theater with the power of conversation for its first spring fundraiser, \"Cabaret and Conversation.\"\n\"It's an open, honest conversation about what it means to be in 2013 with all these racial tensions and cultural ideas about where we should be as a community,\" said Ryan Johnson-Travis, the new artistic director of PRPAC.\n\"Cabaret and Conversation\" will be held April 19 and 20 from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse. The suggested donation is $20 and the dress is semi-formal. The event will raise money for PRPAC's 2013-14 theatrical season and will feature students from Corcoran, Henninger, Nottingham and Cicero-North Syracuse high schools. Students will perform a song, a dance or a monologue of their choice. After the performance, there will be an open conversation about colorblind casting, and the effect of race and culture on theater.\nThe idea for the event formed after the C-NS music department drew much criticism from parents when musical director, Caryn Patterson, did not cast any black students in leading roles of this year's musical, \"The Wiz.\"\nJohnson-Travis said a parent in the district approached him about putting on a performance featuring students who don't often have the opportunity to perform on stage.\n\"When you look at the students who will be performing in this cabaret, some are graduating seniors, some are students who aren't a part of their drama clubs in their high schools,\" he said. \"And so PRPAC again becomes a space for any and everybody to come and perform.\"\nThe event will also feature a raffle and a silent auction. Johnson-Travis said a \"laundry list\" of sponsors have helped donate items and gift cards for the event.\nPRPAC will give out three awards at the cabaret event: One for an individual artist, one for a local business and another to an elected official. Johnson-Travis said all recipients have been major supporters of community theater and of PRPAC.\nUltimately, the event is a way to showcase the talents of the Syracuse community, Johnson-Travis said. He hopes it will spread the word about PRPAC, and get other people excited about the performing arts.\n\"We're reconnecting to the community and essentially saying, 'Hey, we're here, and we're back, and we're ready to make an impact,'\" Johnson-Travis said. \"This is our first tangible demonstration of what the new PRPAC looks like.\"\n\"Cabaret and Conversation\"\nWhat: A cabaret-style performance featuring area high school students, and an open dialogue about colorblind casting\nWhen: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. April 19 and 20\nWhere: Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse\nCost: $20 suggested donation\nContact Stephanie Bouvia at snbouvia@gmail.com, or follow her on Twitter at @snbouvia."}
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{"text": "Dumbarton House: Home of America's First Register of the U.S. Treasury\nIf you're interested in historic homes in the D.C. area, Dumbarton House should be on your list of must-sees. Located at 2715 Q Street NW in Georgetown, the home is a wonderful example of Federal architecture and decorating in the city. Originally owned by Joseph Nourse (pronounced Nurse), this historic home is now the headquarters for the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. The home was built around 1800 and, according the NSCDA's website, is \"one of few brick homes of its style still in existence in Georgetown.\"\nJoseph Nourse, who was the first Register of the U.S. Treasury (today's equivalent of the Treasurer of the United States), lived in the home with his family from 1804 - 1813. While he lived there, it was called Cedar Hill. It features all the classic characteristics of a Federal style home right down to the furnishings, which are often present in duplicates and set so as to mirror one another. In the entry hall, the home features an Argand Chandelier that Mr. Nourse paid $10 for in 1804. The wood floor is covered with a piece of canvas that was painted seven\nOne of the unusual features of the home are the rounded bays at the back of the home on both sides. This wasn't typically a component in Federal architecture, but was included as a means of providing more natural light to the rooms on the back of the house. In 1814, Charles Carroll bought the home and renamed it Belle Vue. It was here that Dolly Madison, First Lady and wife of President James Madison, having saved precious documents and a portrait of Washington, first stopped as she fled\nThe home is open to the public for tours. The cost is $5/person--relatively cheap compared to other historic homes--and is near Dumbarton Oaks, Oak Hill Cemetery, and within walking distance of Georgetown's waterfront. Unfortunately, photography is not allowed in the home, so all I have are exterior shots. The home features a lovely garden and side patio which can be rented for special events. Dumbarton House is Metro accessible. (Click on images to enlarge.)\nPhoto copyright: D.C. Confidential, 4/08"}
{"text": "These Naked Pictures Are A Reminder Of What REAL Beauty Looks Like\nStretch marks, scars and body hair – all hail The Naked Diaries ruling Instagram\nTeenager Taylor Giavasis (above) has flipped the digital world's obsession with filters on its head by showcasing – and celebrating – raw beauty on her Instagram account The Naked Diaries.\nShe posts women of all shapes and sizes celebrating their body hair, folds and rolls, bones, scars and stretch marks in gorgeous pictures.\nIt's powerful stuff; we're so used to seeing heavily edited and beautifully lit selfies that flatter our faces and figures, sometimes we loose sight of the female form's real beauty.\nTaylor explained the idea behind her art project came from a situation most of us can relate to. ?'\"\nWant in? She's inviting us all to become part of the naked revolution by emailing over our personal pics – which we're all for. The more we celebrate diversity, the more we gain a sense of pride for our individuality – which is a beautiful thing.\n[embed type=\"article\"]39015[/embed]Cosmo UK"}
{"text": "This event has already passed\nSir Antonio Pappano will be conducting the Orchestra of Santa Cecilia at the Royal Festival Hall, with pianist Yuja Wang.\nThey will be performing some classical music by Gioachino Rossini, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Ottorino Respighi.\nRossini -- Overture, The Siege of Corinth\nTchaikovsky -- Piano Concerto No.1\nRespighi -- Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome\nGot a question? – Talk about this event\nMore classical music · More Tchaikovsky · All events at Royal Festival Hall\nIf you enjoy Tchaikovsky concerts at Royal Festival Hall, then here are some other events you might like…\nProms Concert #17 — Mark Simpson and Tchaikovsky – 27th July 2017Proms Concert #17 at the Royal Albert Hall will include some classical works by Mark Simpson and Tchaikovsky.\nProms #58 — Copland, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky – 27th August 2017Proms Concert #58 at the Royal Albert Hall will include some classical music by Copland, Bernstein and Tchaikovsky.\nProms #63 — Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Taneyev – 31st August 2017Proms Concert #63 at the Royal Albert Hall will include some classical music by Taneyev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky..\nProkofiev and Tchaikovsky — London Symphony Orchestra – 29th October 2017Join the London Symphony Orchestra for an evening of works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky at Barbican Hall.\nHalf Six Fix — Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.4 – 1st November 2017Gianandrea Noseda will be conducting a 'Half Six Fix' of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4:\nSpeakers' Corner\nIf you want to hear some speeches in Hyde Park then the best time to come is Sunday lunchtime.The speakers can turn up… more"}
{"text": "- Fri\n- Feb 27, 2015\n- Updated: 12:22am\nGold price declines as physical purchases slow\nDecline in price of metal comes as Asian buying is hit by Lunar New Year holiday\nMost Popular\nGold retreated yesterday after posting the first monthly advance since August as physical buying across Asia slowed during the Lunar New Year.\nBullion for immediate delivery lost as much as 0.2 per cent to US$1,242.15 an ounce in Singapore trading yesterday. Prices gained 3.2 per cent last month as the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities fell 4.1 per cent on concern that a rout in emerging markets might worsen.\nMarkets in mainland China, which probably overtook India as the largest gold consumer last year, remain shut until Thursday.\nVolumes for the benchmark contract on the Shanghai Gold Exchange slumped on Friday to the lowest level since June 2011. Holdings in the SPDR Gold Trust, the biggest exchange-traded product backed by bullion, posted on that day the first two-day expansion since December 2012.\n\"The Chinese market is on a one-week break, taking some momentum out of physical purchases,\" Edward Meir, an analyst at INTL FCStone, wrote in a note dated yesterday. \"We suspect that the global equity markets will likely see more turbulence in February, which likely will mean that gold should be fairly resilient for a little while longer.\"\nRising physical demand in Asia has helped bullion rebound from a six-month low on December 31, when prices capped the biggest annual drop since 1981. Rate increases by central banks in Turkey, India and South Africa last week failed to contain January's 3 per cent sell-off in emerging-market currencies, while a Chinese manufacturing gauge fell to a six-month low in January.\nGold for April delivery gained 0.3 per cent to US$1,243.80 an ounce on the Commodity Exchange. The net-long position jumped 40 per cent to 60,672 futures and options in the week to January 28, the most since July, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data shows.\nFor unlimited access to:\nExisting subscribers, login here"}
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{"text": "Uzbekistan Strengthens Security Ahead of Nowruz\nFriday 15 March 2013\nTASHKENT (Gazeta.uz) – Uzbekistan will beef up security nationwide ahead of the March 21 Nowruz holiday, police Col. Kobilzhnon Nakibov declared.\nLaw enforcement officials will work to prevent fires, emergency situations and threats to public security, he said. Security personnel are co-operating closely with local governments, businesses and schools. They plan to hold discussions on proper behaviour in emergencies, including fires. They also plan discussions at neighbourhood associations – mahallas – to ensure public safety, Nabikov added.\nMeanwhile, Uzbekistan will have nationwide volunteer workdays the weekend of March 16-17 as Nowruz approaches. Volunteers will clean up public grounds, plant trees and flowers and perform other activities.\nUzbekistan has a volunteer work weekend every year just before Nowruz."}
{"text": "§ 7-16-5. Formation.\n(a) One or more persons may form a limited-liability company by delivering or causing to be delivered executed articles of organization for filing with the secretary of state.\n(b) When the secretary of state accepts the articles of organization for filing and issues the certificate of organization, the limited-liability company is formed under the name and subject to the conditions and provisions stated in its articles of organization.\n(P.L. 1992, ch. 280, § 1; P.L. 1997, ch. 188, § 5; P.L. 2008, ch. 57, § 5; P.L. 2008, ch. 123, § 5.)"}
{"text": "Most all of the reviews I read sounds a lot like what I have been dealing with. They have you ship the item to them, they send you a text saying a box and shipping label is on its way to you, however you never get it so you have to call about it; only to find out that they don't do that, my question is if they don't do that why do they send you a text saying its on its way to you?\nSecondly, they come up with some stupid *** reason as to why they deny the claim just so you've wasted time and money in my case cause I had to pay for the damn warranty, and to print off the label and paper, to send it to them and the paper that went into the box.\nThey don't know what they are doing. RUN FROM THE EXTENDED WARRANTY OFFER.\nProduct or Service Mentioned: Walmart Shipping Service.\nReason of review: Poor customer service."}
{"text": "Orientation Leaders\nAly Hathaway\nOrientation Coordinator718-390-3276 orientation@wagner.edu Old Bridge, NJ\nSenior French Studies major\nOn campus, Aly is a member of the Greek Community and the Women's Professional Network. She is so excited to return as an Orientation Coordinator and to share Wagner’s wonderful campus with the Class of 2022!\nDeyja Gentile\nOrientation Coordinator718-390-3276 orientation@wagner.edu Oxford, CT\nSenior Public Policy & Administration major; Civic Engagement minor\nDeyja is a Bonner Leader, Co-President of BSU, and is a member of Student Alumni Association and Greek life on campus. She's happy to be back as an Orientation Coordinator this year, and she’s excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nHolly AlexanderKingston, Jamaica\nJunior English and Government & Politics double major\nHolly plans on pursuing a law degree after receiving her B.A. at Wagner. She is excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nKate ArnoldOceanport, NJ\nJunior Nursing major\nOn campus, Kate is involved in Project Sunshine and was previously a writing tutor. This is her first year as a Community Leader and she is very excited to welcome the class of 2022!\nRory BakerHillsborough, NJ\nSenior Arts Administration major\nRory is the treasurer for the Society of Arts Administration Students, and is a member of Alpha Mu Theta and Omicron Delta Kappa. He is excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to the wonderful world of Wagner!\nRemy BarsonBucks County, PA\nSophomore Theatre Performance major; Art minor\nRemy is involved with Completely Student Productions and appeared on the Wagner College Mainstage last semester in “Hair.” He is so excited to meet all of the incoming freshman and help make Wagner their new home away from home!\nSavannah BeckfordIslip, NY\nJunior Theatre Performance major\nKyra BowesNorth Plainfield, NJ\nSenior Theatre Studies major\nKyra is the Vice President of Asian Culture Club, and is a member of the Greek Community on campus. You could always find her enjoying the nice weather on Sutter Oval, or grabbing a coffee at Hawks Nest. She’s so excited to meet and welcome the wonderful class of 2022!\nAbby BryantShrewsbury, MA\nSophomore Nursing major\nAbby is involved in the Treble Concert Choir, Project Sunshine, and Greek Life. Abby loves knowing everyone on campus and she is so excited to be welcoming the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nAbby BuckboroughSwansea, MA\nSophomore Film & Media Studies major\nAbby is currently the Vice President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Marketing Coordinator for the Pre-law Society, as well as a member of the fencing team. Abby is super excited to meet all the great freshmen and to introduce them to our awesome campus!\nNicole CarpenterLincoln, RI\nSophomore Physician Assistant major\nNicole is a member of the Physician Assistant Association, Project Sunshine, Greek life, and the Cheerleading team. She is super excited to meet and get to know the Class of 2022!\nRegan CastlePleasant Ridge, MI\nSophomore Biology major\nRegan hopes to go to veterinary school once she graduates. She looks forward to meeting the Class of 2022!\nKayla ColaianniBrick, NJ\nRoss CoughlinPlattsburgh, NY\nJunior Theatre Performance major; Spanish minor\nRoss is involved in various department and student-run theatre productions at Wagner and is in the Honors program. He is very excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to the Wagner campus!\nClarice CrawfordLong Island, NY\nJunior Nursing major\nThis is Clarice's second year as a Community Leader and she’s so excited to meet the Class of 2022!\nErica DiPietroHowell, NJ\nSophomore Government & Politics major\nErica is the manager of the Men’s Basketball team. She’s so excited for the Class of 2022 to join our Wagner family and explore New York City to its fullest extent! Welcome Class of 2022!\nEbony EsogaGlendale, AZ\nJunior Nursing major\nEbony is an active member of Greek Life on campus and is Vice President of Student Government Association. She is excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nJack GrahamLos Angeles, CA\nJunior Psychology major\nJack originally came to Wagner as a Football player, but his passion for creating positive change on campus led him to be elected President of the Student Government Association. He is excited to meet the Class of 2022 and to have an awesome orientation!\nTravis HarleyBronx, NY\nJunior Theatre Performance major; Writing minor\nTravis is heavily involved in the Theatre community here at Wagner. Ze also takes part in both BSU and Iris Alliance. Travis is an open book, and ze is incredibly excited to meet and to help the Class of 2022!!\nShanon HarrisMobile, AL\nJunior Behavioral Economics major; Music minor\nShanon is the VP of College Choir and Pre-Law Society. She is also a member of Stretto jazz ensemble and other vocal groups, marching band, and the Student Government Association. She is thrilled to welcome the class of 2022, another year of students ready to change the world!\nBrianna JeremiahBridgewater, NJ\nSophomore Physician Assistant major\nBrianna is on the swim team at Wagner and is so excited for the Class of 2022 to be joining the Wagner community! She says, “Just remember to be the best you, class of ‘22!”\nCorey KarpeWest Long Branch, NJ\nSophomore Physician Assistant major\nCorey is involved in Greek Life, Wagner Cheer, Physician Assistant Association, and Project Sunshine. He cannot wait to meet the Class of 2022!\nRuth KupperbergWantagh, NY\nJunior Theatre Performance major; Business Administration minor\nRuth is the President of the campus Hillel Club, an Admissions Ambassador, and an intern at the Holocaust Center on campus. She is also an active member of both the Wagner College Choir and Wagner College Theatre! She hopes the Class of 2022 will love Wagner as much as she does!\nSarah LimanniReading, PA\nSenior Nursing major; Psychology minor\nSarah is a member of the Women’s Water Polo team and is a member of the Art Club. She is looking forward to being a Community Leader and meeting the Class of 2022!\nMona LipnitskyStaten Island, NY\nSophomore Physician Assistant major\nMona serves as the social media ambassador for Project Sunshine, writes for Highlight magazine, and is involved with Greek life. Mona is so excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner, and help to create a fun Orientation experience!\nLora MargerumVincennes, IN\nSenior Theatre Studies major\nLora is very active in theatre and dance on campus, especially student-run theatre and partnering club. This is her third year of being a Community Leader, so she is incredibly excited to meet the Wagner Class of 2022!\nOlivia MelilloAdams, MA\nSenior Arts Administration major\nOlivia is a born-and-raised New Englander. She is involved in Greek Life on campus, and she’s very excited to meet the Class of 2022 at Orientation! Welcome to Wagner!\nPatrick MooneyStaten Island, NY\nJunior Psychology major\nPat grew up on Staten Island doing Theatre and playing basketball. On campus, he is involved in Greek Life and the basketball program. You can also find him running around the gym as the Green Man at Wagner's basketball games. He cannot wait to meet the Class of 2022!\nNatalie MorseGlenville, NY\nSophomore Biopsychology major\nNatalie is a member of the Varsity Swimming and Diving Team and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She hopes the class of 2022 is ready for all we have to offer! She cannot wait to help the class of 2022 fall in love with Wagner, just like she did!\nAmy NicefaroHamden, CT\nSophomore Arts Administration major\nAmy is the secretary of Wagner's Completely Student Productions, has been involved with Wagner College Theatre, is a LEAD Ambassador, and is involved with WagCab. She is super excited to meet the class of 2022!\nIjeoma Miracle NwobuStaten Island, NY\nJunior Nursing major; Psychology minor\nMiracle was raised in Nigeria, but has lived in NY since 2012. She is on the Track & Field team, and a member of BSU, Women of Color Dialogue, and the Nursing Student Association. Miracle is excited to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nJames O'HanlonLong Island, NY\nJunior Arts Administration major\nJames's passions include being creative, artistic, singing, acting and dancing as well as listening to music and hanging out with friends. James is extremely excited to get to know and welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner!\nShaelynn O'KeefeOrange County, NY\nJunior Arts Administration major\nShae is the treasurer of Good Vibratones, a member of the Society of Arts Administration Students, and loves being involved in theatre. This is her second year as a Community Leader and she cannot wait to meet the class of 2022!\nMikaela PritchettMorristown, NJ\nSenior Sociology major\nMikaela works at the Office of Campus life at Wagner, and is an active member of Women of Color Dialogue Circle. She is excited to welcome the Class of 2022!\nMoses Ramos LinoStaten Island, NY\nSophomore Business Administration major\nMoses was raised in Honduras, but has lived in NY since 2015. He is a Bonner Leader, President of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and a member BSU. Moses is thrilled to welcome the Class of 2022 to Wagner, and to help facilitate a fun orientation experience!\nAlyssa SaggauBrick, NJ\nSenior Nursing major\nOn campus, Alyssa is involved in the Student Government Association, Cheerleading, Greek Life, and is a Student Ambassador. She is super excited to meet the class of 2022!\nWinona ScheffVernon, CT\nSophomore English and Government & Politics double major\nShe is the SGA VP of Communications, a writing tutor, a member of BSU, Women’s Professional Network and Student Alumni Association, a HawkTalk blogger, and a copyeditor for the Wagnerian. She wishes the class of 2022 good luck!\nMahina TagliesHonolulu, HI\nSenior International Affairs major; Civic Engagement and French minor\nMahina is a Bonner Leader, IMPACT Scholar, student-athlete with Women's Fencing, and a proud brother of the co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Mahina is so excited to meet and to welcome the Class of 2022 to the Wagner family!\nIfe UdomSan Francisco, CA\nJunior Psychology major; Philosophy minor\nIfe works around campus during the school year and sometimes over the summer. She is also a proud supporter of the Black Student Union, and she is incredibly excited to help introduce new students to Wagner’s campus and curriculum.\nKyle VitiNorth Grafton, MA\nJunior Arts Administration major\nKyle is the President of Good Vibratones, the Co-Ed a cappella group on campus and he works as a Lead Ambassador with Admissions. He's thrilled to be returning as a Community Leader this year, and looks forward to meeting the Class of 2022!\nGabriella WalkerBerea, OH\nSophomore English major; Film minor\nGabriella is an editor for the Wagernian, and a member of Greek life on campus. She is ecstatic to see what the Class of 2022 has to offer!\nErin WeisertSouthlake, TX\nSophomore Nursing major\nErin is a member of the Women’s Water Polo team and is in the Honors Program. She’s very excited to be a Community Leader and meet the class of 2022!\nMiles WilkieDecorah, IA\nSophomore Theatre Performance major; Art minor\nOn campus, Miles is a co-founder of the Partner Dance Club and is a member of Good Vibratones, Wagner’s co-ed acapella group. He is also involved in Student Government and off campus mentoring.\nLeeanne ZotyniaPequannock, NJ\nSenior Arts Administration major\nLeeanne has been a community leader in residence since her junior year, is part of the Arts Admin Honor Society, and spends a lot of her time interning in the city! Orientation is her favorite time of year and she can’t wait to meet the class of 2022!"}
{"text": "MK Asante * Spiegel & Grau * May 3, 2014 * 272 Pages\nFind this book on Goodreads \| Amazon \| BN\nThis was a surprisingly good book–and much more emotionally gripping than I thought it would be. Asante’s descriptions of his life as a young teenage boy are honest, powerful, and heartfelt. I especially appreciated how he wove his mother’s diary entries into his own story; her perspective added depth to Asante’s experiences, and I actually felt more connected to Asante through her words.\nChapter 13, “Midnight Train,” where Buck describes (SPOILER ALERT) the day his father left him and his mother, was short but still very emotional. Perhaps because I have experienced something similar–and perhaps because I have young children of my own now–I felt so sad for young Buck as he suffered the intense sadness and disappointment of having his father walk out on him. And his mother’s reaction to being left was so acute, so obviously full of pain and utter hopelessness, it was heartbreaking to read. This chapter and the chapter describing the death of one of his good friends were probably two of Asante’s most powerful moments as a writer.\nAnd there can be no doubt that Asante is a capable writer. His prose is very poetic, and it flows effortlessly. True, there is a distinct melancholy to his writing, so much so that even happy–or at least hopeful–moments feel sorrowful. But I suppose that is to be expected; the losses we’ve experienced are always with us.\nMy only criticism is that I found the frequent use of music lyric excerpts to be a bit irksome. Sometimes they added something extra to the story, but most of the time I felt that they interrupted the flow of the book. Thankfully, Asante used them less and less as the book went on, relying on his own words more often–which, I suppose, may be the point.\nOverall, this was a quick but engaging read, and I would be curious to check out any other books Asante decides to write in the future.\nAdvanced Reader Copy provided through Amazon Vine.\n4 thoughts\nshame it’s not on kindle\nHi, there, Eric. Thanks for looking at my post. Buck is on Kindle! Here’s the link:\nReblogged this on Memoir Notes."}
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{"text": "Batonka Guest Lodge is a little oasis away from the bustle of town, but close enough to access all the main attractions. It's renowned for its exceptional service standards and lush gardens with an easy going tone that makes it perfect for family vacations or romantic getaways alike.\nThe lodge offers 27 rooms that combine Victoria Falls' colonial past and African flavour in elegant, contemporary décor. All of the rooms are air-conditioned and have en-suite bathrooms as well a private balcony or patio to enjoy sweeping views of the surrounding gardens and swimming pool areas.\nThe main resort area offers both indoor and outdoor dining options, a cozy lounge or, guests can relax with a drink while enjoying the beautiful scenery from an open veranda overlooking the gorgeous gardens and the pool.\nThe Batonka Guest Lodge directors are actively involved with the day-to-day running of the establishment, which is one of the reasons why their service levels are so fondly talked about by their guests on Trip Advisor and other review platforms.\nAs serious advocates of safeguarding their environment today and for generations to come, Batonka have implemented a number of energy efficient and recycling features into the Lodge construction, such as solar heated water boilers, water collection and recycling, inverter air-conditioning and LED lighting technology to name a few.\nThis lodge was officially opened on the 21ˢᵗ of June 2016 by the Honourable Minister of Tourism and Hospitality, Dr Eng Walter Mzembi (MP).\nBatonka Guest Lodge are proud partners of Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, and through them, are GIVING BACK to the environment: with every night of your stay, $5 is donated towards wildlife conservation in the region.\nTripAdvisor Guest Review Rating\nBatonka Guest Lodge Facilities\n24-hour Security\nActivity Desk\nBar\nInternet Access (Complimentary)\nLaundry Service (Available)\nMobile Connectivity\nPool\nRestaurant\nLounge\nCurio Shop\nSecure Parking\nMosquito nets\n43” flat screen TV\n10 satellite channels\nFans and air conditioning\nMini bar fridge with Complimentary water\nTea and coffee facilities\nHairdryer\nDigital safe\nInternational plug sockets\nUSB ports\nNightly turndown service\nWi-Fi\nAirport Shuttle (Available)\nCredit Card\nRoom Service\nBird Watching\nRoom Types\nEleven rooms with spacious patios look out over a private garden with manicured lawns and indigenous trees that offer a welcome perch to a variety of birdlife. Eight of these rooms inter-lead and are ideal for families or groups travelling together. Each large, well-appointed room boasts a spacious en-suite bathroom with double basins and large shower.\nOne of these rooms has an annex which has been set up as a child’s room. It has two single beds with an adjoining bath and toilet and is decorated in child friendly prints and style. It is one of the inter-leading rooms so with the annex, main room, and the inter-leading it comfortable fits a family of six.\nBed configuration on request, double or twin. Extra bed can be in place for children under 12 years. Cots also available.\nSixteen rooms with private patios look out over manicured lawns to our secluded pool area. Each large, well-appointed room boasts a spacious en suite bathroom with double basins, bath and shower for our weary travellers.\nBed configuration on request, double or twin. An extra bed can be in place for children under 12 years. Cots also available."}
{"text": "Entered CNET Catalog: 08/23/2006\nSKU: 90NEAA241316221L60\nManufacturer: ASUSTek Computer Inc.\nManufacturer descriptionWith hand-embossed leather, jeweled hinge and polished keyboard, the S6 excels in computing capability and leads the way to classic luxury. Enjoy revolutionary entertainment on the go - S6F with Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology.\nUser opinionsSelect a User Opinion to view: 1 2\nUser Rating:\n4/10\nUnreliable\nPros: Compact, Fast, looks nice\nCons: Unreliable, runs extremely hot.\nUser Rating:\n9/10\nUltra portable with Ultra class\nPros: Light, powerful, and stylish. Good connectivity with DVD burner built in.\nCons: Expensive, thicker than other ultraportables, screen glare\nOne complaint is the placement of the CTRL and FN keys as shortcuts can be tricky. Other than that the glare from the screen is bearable but bad in a bright environment."}
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{"text": "So you want to be that guy tonight who says “10, 9, 8 – wait a sec everybody that countdown is 52ms fast possibly because they overcompensated for the broadcasting delay” or do you just have OCD over something like your phone or computer’s clock’s accuracy and distrust your carrier’s method? That puts you in the market for an NTP client, so here’s a list:\nFor Android you’ll want ClockSync. It’s free, on the market, though if you want it or any other NTP client on Android to manipulate your system clock for you (EG I have this set to sync once a day only on wifi), you’ll need root. But who doesn’t have root? Do I have to write another rooting article or could you please just google that finally?\nFor iPhones, Emerald Time looks good, you can pick from a list of time servers or put your own, however iOS won’t let programs change the internal clock so this is only useful, versus the normal way it grabs the time, to report to you the super precise time, whatever your definition of time may be. Try to define time yourself without looking it up, it’s really hard. I know you think you’ve always known what time was, but I bet you can’t articulate what the hell it means. Bet you never paused to consider that. Trippy, right?\nFor WinMo, grab Dave Shaw’s TimeSyncTZ from xda. Timeless!\nFor WP7, well, I can’t seem to find anything. Weird. Anyone know of a WP7 ntp client? If not, now would be a good time to program your own and toss it on the Marketplace because it’s got to be pretty easy to code, some people want it and you’d be the only one offering it. Same deal with Blackberries, nothing, just carrier syncing which is lame.\nWhat’s that? You need to take a break to watch some guy kick everyone’s ass like I did in my writing this year? Allow me to arrange that for you my man.\nOkay where were we. Clocks, syncronicity and the self. For your Windows on your PC, SP TimeSync – 32bit, 64bit and also WinMo. In its options you can tell it whether or not to run automatically or on demand. The WinMo advantage of this over Dave Shaw’s which I mentioned earlier, I believe, is that it will work while you’re activesynced over usb.\nFor Linux, UNIX and UNIX-like you want ntpdate if you don’t already have it (and maybe ntpd). If you want it to sync regularly, make a cron tab for it. Here it is in action baby:\nOh what, that didn’t impress you? Let me switch servers and see how easily I shut your smart ass up:\nSweet offset right there. If you’ve got a better offset, submit screenshots please! If you’ve read this far, that means at least two people (you and I) actually are intrigued by this.\nAnd in case you plan to bring your Macbook to the party or Times Square to advise people of the discrepancy no one but you is aware of or cares about (unless you’re with your OCD support group buddies), hit up the Apple menu, System Preferences or whatever, Date & Time, check off Set date & time automatically (probably need admin by hitting the unlock thing at this point), then in the field type in time pool.ntp.org or time time.apple.com like this and apply. Or if you’re not a GUI lamer fire up the terminal, su to root and hit systemsetup –setnetworktimeserver pool.ntp.org (or any other ntpd).\nHappy syncing everybody! Don’t get too drunk otherwise you might forget to stare at your phone’s clock tonight as 2011 strikes instead of, say, kissing some random chick on the street like the sailor did in that famous photograph (go for the Japanese tourists, they either dig it or don’t put up a fight, so sort of position yourself near a cute one before the ball drops and give her the ol’ sneak attack smooch; and if you’re looking for more action than that, tell her you know someone who’s selling white iPhone 4s and she’s all yours).\nDoug Simmons\nNot sure if its using NTP, but just downloaded New Year Clock for WP7, which is counting down by the second to zero hour. Will announce Happy New Year in one of 12 languages and play Auld Lang Syne. Glad the app is FREE cause it will get deleted at about 12:01am.\nDon’t know why the developer would bother to cook up an NTP client into it rather than just rely on the system clock which is probably synced sufficiently for most people through their carrier by whatever system they use. But I prefer NTP, atomic clocks and all the math behind the protocol, server networks and clients that try to get the client the exact time with a precise margin of error even though the server may be on the other side of the world. That’s impressive to me. The DNS structure alone behind the ntp.org network is impressive to me.\nI was thinking before I posted this of tossing up a New Year’s Eve countdown widget onto the upper right of the site but then I realized the pointlessness of that, but then I stopped thinking too hard about its pointlessness as I didn’t want to feel like my article was entirely pointless. The OCD references sound funny I think but really, people who are both comfortable with computers and have a mild to extreme version of OCD may really appreciate this article, especially if they have a rooted Android phone.\nThe developer of this program you mention would have gotten one more star from me if he programmed it to uninstall itself at 12:01am… showmanship.\nI didn’t go too far with the title, did I? That’s not too bad, right? Wouldn’t want to stress Smith excessively on a holiday, but slightly as the rest of the article is pretty dry.\nLove the title man haha."}
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{"text": "Reddit Combats Trolls, Harassment With New Blocking Tool The online community on Wednesday introduced a new \"block user\" feature to help you filter unwanted messages. Spam, trolling, and harassment should soon be less of an issue on Reddit. The online community on Wednesday introduced a new \"block user\" feature to help you filter unwanted messages. Reddit has offered a basic blocking feature since at least 2011, but you could only prevent others from sending you private messages. Now, you can hide comments and posts from specific users as well. To do so, just click the \"Block User\" button while viewing a reply in your inbox. Once you do that, the person's profile, along with all their comments, posts, and messages will be \"completely removed from your view,\" and you won't receive any alerts if they message you in the future, Reddit said. It will almost be like they never existed at all. And you won't have to worry about Reddit alerting the blocked user about this. Just like before, the block is completely silent to the offending party, meaning they won't be privy to the fact that you silenced them. You can always reverse the action from your preferences page, if you so choose. Related Reddit Bosses Are Doing Everything Wrong Reddit Bosses Are Doing Everything Wrong \"Our changes to user blocking are intended to let you decide what your boundaries are, and to give you the option to choose what you want — or don't want — to be exposed to,\" Reddit wrote. \"Of course, you can and should still always report harassment to our community team!\" Reddit said this is just one of the first steps its planning to improve the user experience on its site. \"We're looking forward to announcing many more,\" the site said. The change comes after Reddit last year tweaked its harassment policy in an effort to prevent attacks. But vitriol and questionable material has long been an issue on the site, and former CEO Ellen Pao said she saw \"the good, the bad, and the ugly\" on Reddit during her eight-month tenure, and \"the ugly made me doubt humanity.\""}
{"text": "Iniko: Hi! :-)\nTraenor: Hey, Iniko ! Hey, everyone!\nKaelThomas: Morning!\nAlucard_Vess: hey morning?\nKaelThomas: Yes, i'm from the future.\nAlucard_Vess: wow, that's one time difference it's 5 pm here\n@Renos: Hiya How is everyone doing?\nKaelThomas: 7am\nTraenor: Renos knows how I am, I cried to him already.\nSomebody had a yardwork accident this morning. Woe is me! hehe\n@Renos: Traenor... Shall I send manius over for you buddy?\nHe will heal you and berate you for having an accident at the same time\nKaelThomas: berate is putting it nicely\nthose eyes...\nTraenor: This is a case of life imitating art. Doesn't Traenor have a bum knee too?? Wonder where I got that inspiration from...\n@Renos: Srerial Killer right KT?\nKaelThomas: Definitely\nAlucard_Vess: Everytime I see Traenor's name I keep thinking \"no treble...\"\n@Renos: LOL, that sucks. Pretty sure I've done similarly though\nAlucard_Vess: something is wrong with me...\nTraenor: Haha!\n@Renos: So everyone, how has your weekend been so far then?\nAlucard_Vess: pretty good. First Saturday off in I don't know how long\nIniko: Mostly consisted of angry baby yelling at me\n@Renos: That's nice Vess! I hope you've been making the best of it and enjoying it\nIniko - been there done that, got all the sympathy in the world for you\nAlucard_Vess: went to Barnes and Noble for some comics\nTraenor: Ahh, babies. Cute for like 5 minutes a day, right Iniko ?\nAlucard_Vess: so yeah\n@Renos: Oh nice Vess. Just browsing or did you come away with anything?\nIniko: They're adorable! But soooo noisy and gross.\n@Renos: They make the most unholy smells. Also - dogs do too\nAlucard_Vess: Batman: Year one and Kingdom Come\nIniko: Yeah, I got two cats, and they're only a little less nasty\nTraenor: Dogs have the decency to go outside to do so tho...\n@Renos: I think both dogs I had growing up let rip the worst 'carpet slippers' I ever smelt\nAlucard_Vess: all our dogs growing up were outside dogs, so we never had to worry about that\n@Renos: aka 'air biscuits' because the smell is so thick with it that you can almost taste it\nI hope none of you are eating... just saying\nAlucard_Vess: just finished, but I'm not grossed out by much\n@Renos: Just as well\nI'm done being a pig now oink oink\nAlucard_Vess: dog farts may be bad, but be glad you don't have to tiptoe around doggie land mines at work\nIniko: What are doggie land mines?\nAlucard_Vess: turds\n@Renos: I might have the benefit of being on both the Darwin and Victory but for everyone elses benefit, let's hear about what's been going on IC lately\ndoggie landmines?\nAlucard_Vess: see my last\n@Renos: right\nAlucard_Vess: I locate underground utilities, so I have to go on peoples yards, so...\n@Renos: Ah I was gonna ask\nAlucard_Vess: So, IC we just got the Victory back\n@Renos: Yay\nTarna missed out on such an awesome re-christening ceremony\nAlucard_Vess: and Sevo is floating mid-air\n@Renos: But you can totally read it in Top Sims\nAlucard_Vess: or search it on the website, whichever is easier ;)\n@Renos: Tarna is my Trill medic. He's awol right now. I am wondering how Vess (his new boss) is going to react to that one\nIniko: Why is he awol?\n@Renos: Darwinians - let's tell Vess about what we have been up to too :)\nTraenor: Science!\nAlucard_Vess: hey, I AM the only Victorian, the heck?\nTraenor: And some diplomacy, but mostly Science!\nAlucard_Vess: Oh, and Tarna should be afraid. Very afraid. ;)\n@Sundassa: I am the only Doyle officer here too\nAlucard_Vess: I'm thinking Graveyard shifts for him\n@Renos: It's be a miracle if Tarna doesn't leave Starfleet altogether (or do worse tbh) the way things are right now\nI'm sure he'd like that\nAlso Vess\nAlucard_Vess: The nightshift is peaceful at least\n@Renos: If he doesn't leave expect him to be late for a few shifts, fail to turn up for others and if he is on graveyard - well he might be asleep on a free bed till a patient comes to wake him up for some service\nAlucard_Vess: what kind of science are you all doing?\nsleeping is what all docs do, the ER my mom nurses at even has a special crash room unless they get a lot of patients\nTraenor: We are sussing out the mysteries of a flooded planet and an ancient forgotten religion... We haven't seen Indiana Jones yet, but he might show up at any minute.\n@Renos: Iniko he went awol to go to an appointment with the Trill evaluation board. This Co said he couldn't go (he's not medically fit to go anywhere as he has brain damage. But since he has brain damage he's not making rational or good decisions)\nSo he upped and left\nAlucard_Vess: yeah, and almost got killed in the process\nflooded planet, nice\n@Renos: Well he nearly killed himself through bad shuttle piloting and navigational choices too...\nAlucard_Vess:two words: Seaquest DSV\nKaelThomas: I used to LOVE that show\nAlucard_Vess: he won't be replacing Alucard at the helm...\n@Renos: Heck yeah, talking dolphin, that's all we need\nIniko: We just found a super creepy ancient generator room\nAlucard_Vess: the talking dolphin was named Darwin...\n@Renos: Pretty sure Lyldra discovered some dolphin-like not-dolphin creatures at one point\nKaelThomas: :-)\n@Renos: Get them back and get a chat going. Suddenly the Asavii aren't the only sentient species any more. dun dun dun\nIniko: heh more secrets\n@Renos: We'll fill our sphere with water from the ocean put the talking not-dolphins in it for keeps\nHello mascot\nAlucard_Vess: the show went downhill after Roy Scheider left\n@Renos: Yeah Vess it did. My partner loves that show\nKaelThomas: Jaws!\n@Renos: That young boy was a bit Wesley-ish and annoying\n@Quinn_Reynolds: Seaquest was rad.\nAlucard_Vess: really, the second season space stuff kinda helped...\nLucas Wolenczak was a good character, I agree\n@Renos: Also, Iniko I am looking forward to finding out just what is in that generator room\nAyiana_Sevo: Hey yea. Got distracted and totally forgot\nAlucard_Vess: yes! Another Victorian!\n@Renos:hey hey\nHi there Sevo! :)\nHow are you?\nAyiana_Sevo: Making LCARS\n@Renos: Nice!\nWe were just talking about what's been going on Ic on our ships\nTraenor: Hey Ayiana! Welcome!\nAyiana_Sevo: ayiana is crowdsurfing apparently. then vess shuts off the gravity around her\n@Renos: LOL :D\nAlucard_Vess: well, yeah. What's the point of rank if you can't pull it?\n@Renos: I love it. Vess is such a cool character\nAlucard_Vess: coulda been worse. I could have started some rave music and replicated a disco ball :)\nAyiana_Sevo: Mariannete would have kicked you out\n@Renos: Someone did similar to one of my previous PCs once\nThere was also the most annoying holographic entity to go with it\nSo - what is the funniest thing that ever happened to your character?\n(if your character is new, maybe something from Academy days?)\nAlucard_Vess: The day his son was born, he was the first to change his diaper. Anyone who has had baby boys knows they can't control things. Luckily, Alucard was able to dodge the stream...\nAyiana_Sevo: my pahkwa-thanh almost ate Ayiana's new bird\nim crowdsurfing in zero-g in a skirt\ni punched a romulan\ntake your pick\nTraenor: Traenor got busted bringing booze onto the bridge while on duty.\nAlucard_Vess: Trill girl problems...\nIniko: Not much to work with yet. Iniko had an allergic reaction to the holodeck, somehow\nAyiana_Sevo: ...how\nare you allergic to light?\nAlucard_Vess: alregic to photons?\nallergic\n@Renos: Traenor that booze stuff was soooooo funny\nIniko: I have no idea!\n@Renos: Well it will be fun to explore! If you want to throw some ideas around for that one let me and/or other staff know\nwe're all here today too, yay waves\nIniko:I forgot I was on the holodeck when I wrote it. I'm interested to see what happened\nAlucard_Vess: at least she won't get holo-addiction\nIniko: Very true\n Traenor is furiously planning an all-holodeck mission...\n@Renos: Actually...\nAlucard_Vess: or maybe she will. that would be interesting\nAyiana_Sevo: SPEAKING OF HOLODECK\n@Renos: I already semi-kinda had something in mind along those lines\nIniko: Possibly something to do with fielding and lomale physiology\nAlucard_Vess: Batman!\nAyiana_Sevo: Victory Batman Holodeck\ncourtesy of tarsii\n@Renos: It was actually inspired by that batman stuff\nAlucard_Vess: although it kinda evolved to all DC universe capture the flag\nKaelThomas: Can we all be superheroes?'\nAlucard_Vess: sure\n@Renos: It won't be along those lines but it got me thinking of those cool episodes on Trek, like with Moriarty or sailing ships\nIniko ^ cool idea\nAlucard_Vess:\n@Renos: Cheers Vess\n@Renos: Reminds me to update our quiz on the forums, now that I'm caught up IC after that internet outage\nKaelThomas: Yes, hand over those points\n@Renos: LOL. Well we'll see who has earned em\n@Renos: In a few months we have a joined Darwin/Victory shuttle race coming up soon\nA few people here have signed up to join in already\nEach team generally has 2 to 3 people in. A pilot is an obvious choice, or an engineer to design/build the shuttle\nIniko is that something your character might be up for joning in with?\nIniko: Maybe!\nIs there anybody looking for an engineer?\n@Renos: Any teams got an open slot?\nThis engineer is a real good pick, so you better be quick is all I'm sayin' ;P\nIniko: Aww thanks!\n@Renos: We have a few new players who might be up for it - Rennyn would be a good potential choice as he could pilot. I don't know if he's got a team yet\nLyldra also has a helmsman for a MI:PNPC, so another good option there\nIf you want to join in you won't be stuck\nAnyone know of any Victorians who might be up for it and go for a hybrid team?\nAyiana_Sevo: didnt we get a new pilot?\nAlucard_Vess: Stoyer\nAyiana_Sevo: yes\n@Renos: Well he might not have heard about it yet. So that could be pretty cool potentially :D\nAlucard_Vess: I believe he's currently in the crowd surrounding you while you float\n@Renos: Someone should tell him IC xD\nAlucard_Vess: Ayiana might want to rethink wearing skirts in the future...\njust saying\n@Renos: LOL indeed, Vess, indeed\nAyiana_Sevo: >.>\n<.<\n@Renos: If your character could have any pet aboard that they wanted - what would they pick?\nAlucard_Vess: Alucard has wolfhounds and children, he has all the pets he needs\nAyiana_Sevo: Xanti might want an alligator\n@Renos: I think Nicu Icavoc (Dokkaran, aka plant species) would have one of the small species of dragon from his homeworld given half a chance. It would have to be a non-fire breathing species otherwise he might go up like kindling in the middle of the night.\nIniko: Some sort of land octopus that'll curl all its tentacles around your arm and ride on your shoulder\nKaelThomas: Mini Pig!\n@Renos: Cute Iniko\nTraenor: Awesome ideas!\nKaelThomas: Gotta run guys sorry!!!\nbeen a pleasure as always\n@Renos: I can just imagine Traenor having a beagle\nNP KT\nTraenor: Have a god one, KT!\n@Renos: Thanks for joining us :D\nKaelThomas: cya later!\nTraenor: ^good one\nSorry, a bit of a zzom there.\n@Renos: haha, so it was Traenor\nWhich brings to to a possibly amusing, final question for the night\nWhat is the most amusing typo you have made?\nAyiana_Sevo: Uh..I don't really recall making typos. At least not embarrassing ones.\nAlucard_Vess: honestly can't remember, but I'm sure there were some\n@Renos: Well amusing. Not necessarily embarrassing.\nAyiana_Sevo: same difference\nAlucard_Vess: the difference is who's reading, the writer or the end-reader\n@Renos: Maybe to you. LOL. I'm sure in one of my first sims I made a typo referring to one of the other characters and hoping they enjoyed 'sims' as much as my character did\nIt was something like that and a few people spotted it and got a chuckle\nI can't even remember what I was actually trying to say but it was pretty funny\nTraenor: I proof my posts pretty OCD before sending them, so all my typos are done during IM or texts.\nIniko: I said my character was 6'11\" . . . not completely outrageous, but that would have made for a pretty different character.\nTraenor: But, I just blame autocorrect.\nAyiana_Sevo: same as traenor. i'm pretty zealous with proofreading\n@Renos: That's where the bulk of mine are too. haha yeah that darned auto correct xD\nAlucard_Vess: same here, I never add the address until I'm ready to send\n@Renos: I'm the same with that Vess. I made a mistake once or putting in the address before it was ready and accidentally sending it early by pressing a short keys combination I didn't even know existed\n@Renos:Well folks thanks very much for attending our joint ship chat. It's always fun to get to know you a little better and have a little friendly banter\nI hope to see you all again same time, same place, next month"}
{"text": "A Rabid Fundamentalist Column\nc.2005\nby\nJohn W. Cowart\nWhat's your name?\nWhat a fine name! It's a biblical name, isn't it?\nSure it is. No matter what your name is, there is a Bible verse where you can find it.\nActually, I had not thought of this verse for years, until the other night my family stopped at a Pizza Hut where we meet a waitress with an unusually charming name.\nThe first thing we noticed about this young woman was her bright friendly personality. Then I noticed her eyes, soft warm eyes like Bambi's mother in the forest. Then I saw her red name tag -- TOY.\n\"Were your born around Christmas for your mother to name you Toy,\" I asked?\n\"No. My birthday is in September,\" she said.\nToy's full name is Toyshere Marcer and she was not named for anyone else in her family, but her mother had chosen her name solely for its euphonious sound.\nHer pretty name reminded me of a story, and of other biblical names -- like yours -- which I have run across.\nOnce years ago, I meet a girl who named her newborn daughter, Merry.\n\"It's for Merry Christmas, the Mother of Jesus,\" she explained when I asked her about it.\nOK.\nThe meanest, roughest, toughest (and I think the ugliest) human being I have ever meet, my sergeant in Basic training on Tank Hill, Fort Jackson, S.C., bore a hyphenated first name chosen by a mother's love: Sweetest-Angel-Of-Victory.\nMaybe that name is what made him so tough. Far be it from me to tease anyone about their name; I know the last letter of my own last name generated many a fight when I was a schoolboy. Imagine that poor kid having to go through school with the other guys calling him \"Sweetest\".\nMy father's first name was Zade. I've never met anyone else with that name.\nA fireman told me about going to help a young mother in labor. She had already chosen a name for her baby: Manly if a boy, Ragina if a girl.\nBy the time rescue arrived she was already -- Surprise --in the process of giving birth to twin daughters. Wanting the names to rhyme, the mother simply changed the initial R of the first child's name to a V for the other's.\nWell, OK. When they get old enough to read, both children will be able to find their names in the Bible.\nThe Bible places great emphasis on a person's name.\nThe angel told Joseph, \"And she (Mary) shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins\" (Matthew 1:21).\nThe name Jesus, Jehoshua in Hebrew, means \"Jehovah is salvation\"; the title Christ, Christos in Greek, means \"Anointed One\" or Messiah.\nIn some verses, Jesus is referred to by the name or title, \"Emmanuel\" , which means, \"God with us\" (Matthew 1:23). This name comes from the prophesy of Isaiah:\n\"Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and call his name Immanuel\" (Isaiah 7:6).\nFundamentalist Christians believe that the Creator of the Universe lowered himself to become a human being in order to seek and save the lost. Because we needed rescuing, He somehow emptied himself of a bit of divine sizzle and was born as a baby in Bethlehem becoming both God and man. We call this belief the Incarnation.\nIsaiah also prophesied:\n\"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace\" (Isaiah 9:6).\nAll these names tell us about some facet in the character of Jesus: God come to earth to save us from what's hurting us most, God in the flesh who cares enough to listen to us and guide us to where we really want to go, God in the here-and-now who won't go away, God who knows the troubles of this world from personal experience because he's been here and who still says peace of mind is possible.\nAll that good stuff is tied up in the name of Jesus.\nBut what about our names? Where's my own name in the Bible? What's the verse that seeing Toy's red name tag at the Pizza Hut reminded me of?\nHer beautiful and unusual name reminded me of a story that happened in London back during World War II.\nHeavy rain drove a kid off the streets into a church where vespers were being held. The pastor was reading from that passage where some people gripped because Jesus had supper with some shady characters (Luke 15:2).\nAfter the service, the street urchin stayed behind, huddled in a pew, as the parishioners left. The pastor saw she was upset.\n\"Why are you crying little girl,\" he asked?\n\"Because my name is in that Bible you was reading,\" she said, rubbing her nose with her sleeve.\n\"What's your name,\" he asked?\n\"Edith,\" she whimpered.\nThe puzzled pastor racked his brain. There is nobody named Edith anywhere in the Bible\n\"Honey, there was a Queen Esther in the Old Testament, but I don't know of an Edith in the Bible,\"\n\"Sure there is. My name was right there where you just read,\" the child protested.\nThe pastor opened his Bible and read the passage again:\n\"Then drew near him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them\" (Luke 15:1-2).\nWell, that's what it's all about; he was named Jesus because he would save us from our sins no matter what our name might happen to be.\nChrist Jesus receiveth sinful men and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, and Zade, Ronald, Mary, Terry, Valerie, Barbara, Beau, Toy, Tonyaa, Donald, Patricia, Jennifer, Michael -- Ragina and her twin sister -- and Adam and Eve, Virginia, Georgia, Edith and ...\nWell, this is a good place to insert your name too, because He recieveth, he even welcomes, sinful men and us with them. That's why the angel said he was to be named Jesus, Savior.\nSo be of good cheer; our names -- mine and yours, no matter what it is -- are in the Bible.\nThat's fundamental.\nEND\nThank you for visiting\nI welcome your comments at John’s Blog!\nYou can E-mail me at cowart.johnw@gmail.com\nReturn to John’s Home Page\nYou can view my published works at"}
{"text": "So I have been doing a little bit of shopping this week and thought I would share with you lovely lot what I have bought.\nFirst things first this gorgeous duvet set from Asda. It has a really nice hot pink and white print and was an absolute bargain in the sale at £5.50 from £12. I was actually quite suprised at the bedding range that Asda sell as they stock some really pretty designs at affordable prices.\nNext I have Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits, don't judge me! I am a big Mariah fan and did have a copy of her greatest hits from years ago but it vanished off the face of the earth so thought I would replace it. One thing that I have really got into doing is buying albums off eBay as they are generally alot cheaper than buying them from other wesbites or in shops. To give you an example this cost just 50p, bargain!\nNow I come to a product that I am really eager to try but I am just finishing off using my previous product, this is a heat defence spray with argan oil from Pound Land. I have found Pound Land products to be a bit hit and miss but I am looking forward to using this and will keep you guys updated.\nI absolutely love H & M, it is one of my favourite high street shops. So when I walked past the other day and saw they had their sale on I was super excited. This photo does not give this summer dress justice. It is a really pretty design and cut, its is fitted around the waist and is backless. I love this as a summer dress as it is really light and airy. Before the sale this dress was £14.99, I picked it up for just £7!\nThe other item I got in H & M was this gorgeous denim floral print skirt. £20 down to £10, cannot complain! I also think this is something that I will get a lot of wear out of.\nWhat have you been buying this week?\nI'm currently trying out the pound shop spray too! Not sure if it's working yet, hope it does because things with argan oil in cost way too much :(\nAmy xx\nI know, and you can't go wrong for £1 really :)"}
{"text": "Hayley Barblock says that she and her mom Paula are \"pals\". More than that, they are now business partners and launching a subscription box business that they hope will spread some hometown love. The business is called \"City Box: 716\" .\nThey have business cards, a website and plans to launch officially in October. It all began when Hayley was away at college in Pittsburgh, and her mother would send her little gifts from home. Paula says \"I sent her t-shirts that had Buffalove on them, shirts that had Buffalo Bills on them, socks, wall plaques with 716.\"\nHayley says that getting those special Buffalo gifts from home made her happy adding \"it was really cool, actually my friends were jealous and they were like-can your mom send me a box too?\"\nYou can find City Box: 716 on Facebook and at their website."}
{"text": "“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”\n— William Shakespeare\nAs I got a ride back to the car dealership tonight for our fixed-up van, I had a pleasant conversation. The driver and I chatted about schools, rental cars and the all-to-rare sun. Trivial things, that probably won’t be remembered.\nYesterday, I got a ride from another driver. We chatted about things like the sun as well. We also discovered that we were both from the midwest – I from Iowa, he from Ohio. We talked about the Great Lakes and it turns out this gentleman had an interesting connection with history.\nHis neighbor was the brother of the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald. On that fateful day, Capt. Ernest M. McSorley was on his penultimate voyage before retirement.\nFor those of you who didn’t grow up with a connection to the lakes, the Edmund Fitzgerald was a tanker that went famously down in a storm on Lake Superior in the 70’s. Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the loss in his famous song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.\nThe entire crew was lost along with Capt. McSorley. Yet, his name will live on.\nIf a person holds power, gets elected to office, is rich, or wins a championship, we remember his or her name. Even if they were the captain of a doomed ship, we remember their name.\nI don’t think that will change. On the other hand, do we even ask the name of the lady behind the counter at the 7-11? Do we think about asking the name of the guy who fixed our car?\nWhy bother? After all, what’s in a name?\nA person. That’s who.\nToday’s small gift of time … When I said good bye to my two drivers, I asked their names. Nick and Walt.\nBeautiful write up Eric. Thank you for sharing. For anyone, their name is the most important word and it more than helps to bond with people by addressing them with their names.\nAnd here I am almost leaving a comment without including my name 🙂\nThanks, Sri! It’s an interesting thought that a name is the most important word in a person’s life.\nI know that names are precious, but sometimes addressing a stranger by name seems contrived. At our grocery store, the receipt prints out with my name on it. The clerk reads the receipt and then says, “Thank you, Mrs. Stevenson.” My husband reads their name tag and says, “Thank you, Ruth.” We all don’t know each other, but there’s this protocol for grocery clerks to try and make it personal. Maybe I’m just being a little curmudgeonly this morning, but if somebody is going to call me by name, shouldn’t there be some conversation attached?\nI don’t know if there’s a protocol, or should be, but let me ask this.\nIf you know a person’s name, are you more or less likely to say hello and converse with them if you see them again?\nIn my own experience, if I learn a person’s name, I’m much more likely to say hello and have a conversation with them the next time I see them. It doesn’t seem to matter if it’s “just” a clerk in the grocery store, or my neighbor.\nThat gives me a warm feeling, because if I know their name and have a conversation with them, then my world is a little less cold and impersonal.\nJust my 2 cents. Thanks for the thoughts, Natalie."}
{"text": "A high of 68° with sun and southwest winds promised that some bigger bass had pushed into the area. It was difficult to imagine the near 70-degree\nA high of 68° with sun and southwest winds promised that some bigger bass had pushed into the area. It was difficult to imagine the near 70-degree warmth and sun when I got into the old Suburban, a.k.a. “The Quahog Cruiser,” at 5 a.m. that morning. But, with the unfettered optimism that fills fishermen on Cape Cod during May, I hardly noticed the chilly 50-degree air. Driving to the marina was easy because there was no one on the road, and I soon had the boat loaded up. I noticed bass blitzing right behind my boat and before I even put the key in the ignition, I had my first bass of the season over 28 inches. I fished all over the harbor that day, caught dozens of bass, and never got above no-wake speed. That’s the beauty of May on the Cape.\nBoat and Kayak Fishing\nYou don’t need a boat or kayak in the spring to do well on stripers, but it sure helps. This is not the time of year when making long runs is going to be crucial to success. Some days, a flats boat might be the ideal craft, especially if you are trailering it. Small boats let you get all over the Cape and use some of the lesser-known ramps that a larger boat may not be able to use—particularly if the tide is low.\nKayaks, paddleboards, and even canoes are highly effective this time of year. In fact, it’s probably the best time of year to kayak-fish for Cape Cod stripers. With car-top vessels, use your connections with friends who have houses on fishy pieces of water. A bottle of wine or a case of beer can go a long way in helping you launch closer to the action.\nBuzzards Bay\nThe first place the bass—especially bigger bass—show up is in Buzzard’s Bay. The shallow water warms quickly, and the many harbors fill up with bait.\nIn general, target outflows like creek or river mouths, or harbor entrances on the outgoing tide. The mouth of Weweantic creek, the mouth of the Wareham river, and the west end of the Canal are reliable spots for spring stripers on the western side of the bay, while fishermen on the eastern side should have luck at the mouth of Pocasset Harbor and at Hospital Cove.\nOn the incoming tide, stripers feed around the points of land that extend into the bay. You really must watch your depth when fishing these areas as it can be shallow and there are a lot of motor-eating rocks in some areas.\nThe South Side\nIn Nantucket and Vineyard sounds, the idea remains the same. On this stretch between Woods Hole and Chatham, my favorite way to fish is to hit the outflows on the outgoing tide. These consist of river mouths, harbors, and salt pond entrances, and all of them hold fish at some point. The Upper Cape is thick with these spots, such as Three Bays, Great Pond, Waquoit and Popponesset bays, and Cotuit Harbor.\nCenterville Harbor reliably holds fish in May and can be fished on either tide. The boulder fields are loaded with fish, but you must be extremely careful or you’ll wind up with a hole in your boat. Bass River holds fish, though the mouth of river gets crowded on weekends.\nI fish these areas by bringing the boat up the mouth of the river or bay and drifting back out, making casts ahead of the drift to give my bait time to sink before slowly stripping it back.\nMost of the bait around in the spring are 2- to 5-inch “white bait,” so a Clouser Minnow is perfect to imitate all of them. I favor duller colors like olive or olive/brown since the water is clear, and bright colors aren’t be needed to attract the fish.\nThere are also many harbors and mooring fields that hold fish in May. Bass in these areas won’t necessarily be glued to any sort of structure unless bait are around. My advice is to poke around before running to another spot. You may find enough fish 100 yards from the dock to make your day right there.\nFrom Shore\nThere are plenty of opportunities to catch spring stripers from shore as well. Any outflows with shore access are potential hotspots. West Dennis is a favorite of mine because it’s not a long walk to the river mouth and I can walk upriver a long way on the eastern side. The marshes and sod banks upriver warm faster than the main channel (keep that in mind at the very beginning of the season). Dowses Beach is another spot that offers easy parking and a short walk to the water.\nFishing the outgoing tide at the river and harbor mouths from shore is simple. Cast at a 45-degree angle up-current and slowly use two hands to strip the line as the fly swings down-current. The two-hand strip is nice because it keeps you tight to the fly and ensures the line is going directly into the stripping basket. I use only sinking line in this scenario, usually 8 weight. In my experience, if it is shallow enough that I need a floating line to keep the fly off the bottom, I don’t catch many fish unless I can sight-fish to them. An intermediate line works, but I prefer the full sink in moving waters.\nFly-fishing the upper harbors and rivers themselves can be tricky since many of them are pond-like with few indicators on where to start. In these scenarios, I fish the lower half of the tide and look for drop-offs. When I find them, they may fish well at the lower tide stages but, if not, I take note of the locations and come back when the tide is high.\nFishing deep inside the bays requires a lot of moving and blind-casting to find the fish, but these areas warm up first and often hold the first good striper fishing of the season. They are the places for your 110-foot “hero” casts to cover as much water as possible. Don’t be surprised if you hook a bonus weakfish in these areas. There are a few more taken every year.\nAs the water warms, the bass are less concentrated in the uppermost parts of estuaries and harbors and will begin feeding more at the harbor mouths and the open water of the Sound or Buzzards Bay. This is one of the most exciting times of the year on the Cape, so get out there and have fun!"}
{"text": "Michael Blake, Irish Showjumping Manager, spoke recently about the unusual situation he finds himself in as when “you get your dream job, the world stops.”\nThe Co. Clare-native, who spent three years as Irish Team Development Manager and was named as High Performance Director in 2019, succeeded Brazilian Rodrigo Pessoa in the top job in Irish Showjumping for this season.\nOver the past number of years, Blake has played a crucial role in the success of the Irish team. He has filled the role of chef d’équipe for the senior team at 18 International shows and acted as assistant team manager at a further 43 shows.\n“I have been at home now for over 50 days which is very unusual for me”, says Michael Blake, “I would have been in Mexico, Le Touquet, La Baule, St Gallen and so on – we were just preparing to get into a very busy season (then the Covid-19 pandemic hit).”\nBlake spoke of his long-held ambition to manage the Irish Showjumping team:\n.”\nIrish showjumping’s top man believes the decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 was the correct thing to do as it at least gives clarity.\n.”\nHe doesn’t believe, however, the Tokyo Olympics delay will have any sort of negative effect in the Irish team, stating:\n.”\nThe Banner County man is of the opinion that fielding so many Irish teams in various Nations Cup competitions around the world has had huge benefits for Irish showjumping:\n.”\nMichael Blake continued:\n.”\nMichael Blake, who has been involved in Irish Show Jumping for many decades including pony and young riders, spending five years with the under-age squads, says Ireland now has almost 30 riders in the USA with an FEI licence and a similar number in Europe and in Britain.\nThe man, who in 2013 started a bursary system for young Irish riders to get opportunities in the USA and Europe is rightly proud of the success of the scheme:\n“Several Irish Young Riders are now doing extremely well in America, Europe and the UK. Jenny Rankin, Cormac Hanley, Oliver McCarthy, Stephen Moore, Eoin McM.”\nWith so many impressive new young riders with International experience, coupled with the established Irish stars based both in Europe and North America, Irish showjumping is certainly in a great place right now, and the sport has a highly experienced and ambitious High Performance Director at the helm."}
{"text": "Part One: Articles Veterinary Notes Rev. Mehitabel Astrology Rev. Leona Psychic Vampire or Energy Vampires Nita Hickok Quote & Thought of the Day Rev. Nehal Roumanian Fairy Tales The Slippers of the 12 Princesses Poets Retreat Poem, Maiden, Mother, Crone\nPart Two: Tradition Announcements & Adverts New Announcements: Temple, Shrine, Order and Study Group Services Listed Orders & E-Groups Other Publications Correllian Herald Subscriptions\nThe Correllian Herald in pdf can now be accessed from the pages of correllian.com Please submit all articles, adverts, letters and features for the Herald to: heraldeditor@googlemail.com\nThe Correllian Herald is best viewed in pdf format: Subscribe PDF Format: CorrellianHerald-pdf-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Download a free copy of Adobe Reader:\nDisclaimer: Any views expressed within the articles in this publication are not necessarily the views of the Correllian Tradition the Correllian Herald Publication or the Correllian Herald Editors. Any egroups advertised within the Herald which are not part of or affiliated to the Tradition are not endorsed by the Tradition.\nVeterinary NotesRev. Mehitabel\nFoxesAdvice from the RSPCA dvice&marker=1&articleId=1024473693863\nFoxes are generally fearful of people and will try to avoid both adults and children. Occasionally, foxes are a little bolder and will enter gardens in broad daylight when people are about. They may be in search of a quiet place to rest, foraging for food scraps, or are simply being inquisitive. Their boldness is not a sign of aggression - a healthy fox would only attack a person if provoked.\nMany people derive tremendous pleasure from watching foxes in their garden. But it is important to remember that foxes are wild animals, which may carry disease, and that you should not try to touch or tame them.\nIf you choose to feed foxes, you can put out cheese, boiled potatoes, cooked or raw meat, bread, fat scraps and cooked vegetables at dusk. Provide only enough food for one meal otherwise leftovers may go off and cause sickness or attract unwanted visitors. The RSPCA has produced a fox fact sheet - Living with foxes.\nASTROLOGYRev. LeonaThis week we move away from the planets and into the third element that makes up astrology. This week we will begin to examine the different houses of the astrology chart. Each house represents a certain part of our life. This week we will look at the first house. The First House deals with you personally. There is a variety of lessons that can be learned by working together with your First House. In this house you will see your physical self as well as your own self-image. Here are the workings of your mind and body. In the First House you will find all of your own likes and dislikes. This house makes up the self and is where you will be able to find out who and what you are. Through the personal you will learn how to react in constructive manners. You will learn the key to interacting with yourself as well as others whom you will encounter upon this journey. The First House will function as the stage upon which you will build the whole performance of your life. This House holds all of the elements that will define your path upon which you will walk. There is nothing within the First House that you cannot overcome. The First House brings into the focus the first elements with which you will associate and will function as your introduction to the world. Here you will have to look honestly at yourself. When you look at your life you will be faced with very difficult questions which you must answer openly and honestly if you are to grow and develop during this lifetime. You will be able to see how the different events and lessons that you have faced have made you the person you grew to be. Some of the questions posed by the First House are: Are you living your life the way you have been meant to live? Are you fulfilling all of your dreams and developing all of your own talents? The qualities of the First House will help you to determine the type of person you will eventually grow to be. When working harmoniously with the First House you will develop the ability to move back through time and space to a place where you will see how and when your own character was developed. For this reason a great deal of emphasis is placed upon your formative years. During this period of your life you will have laid the foundations for your own characteristics as well as your beliefs and attitudes. Your childhood is the time when you spend your energies on growing and developing into a healthy and whole person. Should your path have detoured or deviated during this time, your work with the First House will then able to identify the key events which led you to become the person you are today. The First House will provide you with the tools necessary to develop your personality and character traits that will follow you throughout life. A key element to remember when working with the First House is that even if you have negative personality or character traits you will always have the chance and freedom to change these. The most important lesson of the First House is to learn to accept yourself. For this reason you will spend time coming to know your own body. You need to spend a great deal of time with yourself in order to feel comfortable inside your own skin. Many people will never feel comfortable and happy with their own physicality. This is why there are so many people with low self-esteem. When you have a healthy relationship with yourself then you will not be fooled by the images of society and you will be happy and content inside your skin. The First House will show you different activities that you can do to help you learn how to love and accept yourself. This house reminds you that you are always looking at yourself through many different lenses. These different lenses can have the effect of distorting your own personal views. The First House will show you how you can remove the lenses and restore your own views to normal. Here you will learn how to look through your own eyes free of the biases and the structures of society. The power of the First House will follow you throughout all of your life. There are some qualities that are bestowed upon you by the First House that you can never change while others are always in flux and can never remain the same. How tall you are, how many fingers you have on your hands, your freckles and complexion are all things that are decided upon in the First House. These are the characteristics you cannot change. There are those who will look at their physical characteristics and alter them until they feel that they have reached perfection. The evolution of cosmetic surgery comes\nfrom the deep human need to be perfect. There have always been those who have tried to alter their own appearances to make themselves look and feel better about themselves and their role in society. The First House calls you to look upon the trends in different societies and asks you just how far are you willing to go to fit in? Whose standards do you live by? When you are working with the First House you must always remember that people are always harder when judging themselves. For this reason you will be willing to notice all of the strengths and talents in other people but often fail to take notice of these same traits in yourself. Take time to look at yourself. When you have mastered the skills of the First House you will look around at the world free of lenses of criticism and will be able to see yourself for the truly wonderful being you are. Without these lenses the questions of the First House are easily answered. Does it matter that you may not have blonde hair? Does it matter if you have green eyes? Does it matter if you do not have a rounded nose? Does it matter that you may be a little rounder this year than you were last year? When was the last time you looked at all of your physical characteristics and gave yourself credit for your own beauty? The First House is the key to learning how to love yourself and how to use this love to make your life better and happier. There is nothing wrong with a person who has a healthy self-image. The First House prides itself on being able to teach you how to be balanced and fair. When you are working with the First House you will be able to see and appreciate that not everyone is the same. Not everyone will have the same features, same characteristics and same strengths. This diversity is what makes the world a wonderful place. Accepting the diversity will allow you to grow in your own personal development. Along with your personal characteristics the First House will highlight your talents and skills. This house has the ability to show you talents that you did not even recognize before. This will be the time when you should look at the hobbies and the interests that have followed you throughout your life. There may be a stronger message hidden there than you never thought possible. Working with the First House you will meet many challenges that will force you to test out these talents and skills in an attempt to define your own limits. With these tests you will discover ways to move beyond your limitations and in the process improve your life for the better. When the First House comes into play there is something that has come out of balance in your personal life. This means that you have to take the time to commune with your higher self. When you refuse to listen or when you allow the self to be ignored you are creating blockages that will seep into all other areas of your life. You are the only one who can listen. You are the one who must make the choices in your life. No one else can make these choices for you. You need to stop and see what has fallen out of balance in your personal life. The First House asks you: Who is in control of your life? Who is the one who makes you feel bad/good about who you are? Who are you trying to prove things to? Working with the First House is the only way to answer these questions. When you are working with the First House you will be taking time to know yourself. This is the time when you will be your best friend and you will need time alone to meditate upon what it is that truly makes you unique. cooperate with them were driven crazy,. It is what psychic vampires affect by their energies along with cancer. The energy system takes years to heal and by then it has harmed the victim to the point of illness. The aura cleansing ritual and the self-banishing ritual on this website should help to remove the energy vampires connections..\nQuote of the Day: An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. Buddha Source: Thought of the day: The.\nThey lived altogether in one large room of the Palace, and slept in beds of gold, encrusted with flowers of diamonds and emeralds. 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{"text": "- \nYiangos House\nFrom $77 / night\nHide Property Details\n- 3 bedrooms\n- 2 bathrooms\n- Sleeps 6\n- House\nDescription from the owner\nYiangos house (205m²) targets on groups of friends or families which are drawn to traditional housings at areas which reside between mountain and sea (near the beach, 3minutes by car). The house is located at Neo Chorio Paphos (Cyprus), a location which is ideal for visiting the \"Aphrodite Baths\" which are approximately 5 minutes away by car. Also, Akamas's protected forest is nearly located. A variety of restaurants as well as other services such as taxis, supermarkets and local touring guides are easily accessible as the property is extremely near Latsi Port (1.5 km). Inside the accommodation there is 1 Master bedroom with a double bed and...Read more\nMap\nYiangos House\nPaphos, Cyprus\nWhat's Nearby:\nAdditional Location Information\nThe Paphos region\nPafos Region , such as business centres, salt-water pools, exotic gardens and health spas, for any budget. Relish mouthwatering delicacies at the numerous restaurants serving both local and international cuisine and offering exceptional value.\nLiving the good life - in Pafos town you can eat good food, drink fine wine and dance the night away.\nPolis\nNeo Chorio area\nThe village of Neo Chorio lies on the northwest coast of Cyprus, nestling in the hills above the small fishing port of Latchi and the legendary Baths of Aphrodite. It is the last village before the Akamas wilderness begins and is therefore also known as The Gateway to the Akamas.\nTraditionally a community of shepherds, farmers and fishermen, the village has taken progress in its stride, growing rapidly with people wishing to buy property and come to live in this beautiful area. Tourism too has had an impact in the area.\nThe architecture in this village is dominated by stone houses and narrow winding streets which provide a traditional Cypriot atmosphere. With two Cypriot tavernas, a small grocery store and a couple of 'kafenions' where locals gather to socialize and chat over thick, strong coffee the theme of the village is laid back.\nThe Akamas peninsular covering approximately 230 square kilometres is where you will find wild landscape, amazing natural beauty, deep gorges and wide sandy bays.\nIn early spring the area is carpeted with wild anemones and cyclamen, for which the region is famous, bloom. There are many wild orchids to discover, some of them quite rare and in April a dark red tulip, found only in Cyprus, flowers on the Akamas. The area also holds one of the world's main migratory routes and is therefore a magnet for birdwatchers. So whether your interest lies in flowers or birds, or simply in walking and delighting in the magnificent scenery, Neo Chorio makes a perfect base from which to explore the Akamas. The Forestry Department has laid out several nature trails, one of which is actually an old trade route used by camel traders who, long ago, transported gypsum down to a large wooden jetty near the Baths of Aphrodite for shipment overseas.\nOf interest is also the Triskelion Pottery where exquisite, handmade reproductions of ancient Cypriot ceramics are produced using original methods and materials as well as the Hawkins Art Studio with its permanent display of original paintings, drawings and books by Harry and Sheila Hawkins residents in the area for many years. Traditional rug making is still carried out and a working loom is on view.\nOn the outskirts of the village there is a shaded lookout point. The views from here are beautiful in the extreme and it is one of the few places, where you can sit and enjoy the view of the sea on both sides of the island at the same time.).\nMore About This Location\nBeach or lakeside relaxation, Mountain nearby\nGetting There\nCar is not necessary\nAvailability\nLast updated on February 01, 2015\nNot available for your dates? Check availability for 227 other Paphos rentalsCheck Availability for Paphos\nAmenities\nGeneral\n- Linens Provided\n- Safe\n- Soap/Shampoo Provided\n- Fireplace\n- Washing Machine\n- Towels Provided\n- A/C or climate control\nPhone / Internet\n- Internet Access\nProperty Features\n- Parking\n- Mountain Views\n- Ocean or water views\nKitchen\n- Microwave\n- Stove or Oven\n- Refrigerator\n- Paper Towels Provided\n- Freezer\n- Grill\n- Toaster\nEntertainment\n- Satellite or cable TV\n- Books\n- DVD Player\nOutdoor\n- Patio\n- Outdoor Dining Area\n- Garden"}
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{"text": "Plato Investment Management has increased its forecast for 2021 gross yield from the ASX 200 from 4.1% to 4.8% following the competition of the February reporting season.\nThe firm said the decision to increase it was the result of the positive company results coming out during the February reporting season where many companies paid out record dividends.\nDon Hamson, managing director of Plato, said: “The February reporting season saw a number of companies declaring record dividends and what’s most encouraging is that many of those businesses that have handsomely rewarded investors, look to have strong tailwinds in the foreseeable future.\n“For retirees trying to generate income, this uptick in dividends is great news. We believe diversity, active stock picking which focusses on avoiding dividend traps and tax effective portfolio management will be the keys to getting even more from dividends in the coming 12 months.”\nIt was particularly the case for miners with three of the top-six largest dividends coming from mining firms. Plato said it believed the mining dividends were sustainable due to the supply/demand dynamic.\n“When it comes the miners, we think this is a space income investors can’t afford to ignore right now,” Hamson said.\n“Of the top six dividend payers in Australia, three are now mining stocks. Are the payouts sustainable? Well, we think the supply and demand fundamentals for iron ore prices remain solid and if prices come off $100 per tonne from the highs, these companies still have good profit margins.\n“Management at the big miners also seem to be learning from mistakes about over-investing in new mines which have impacted dividends in the past.”\nOther strong areas included banks, where Plato’s top pick was Commonwealth Bank, which had forecast a payout ratio of 70%-80% for 2021, and JB Hi-Fi and Super Retail Group which had both seen strong sales momentum.\nAdd new comment"}
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{"text": "Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry star as P G Wodehouse's immortal creations Bertie Wooster and his faithful butler Jeeves. Bertie, with fluff where his brains should be and Jeeves who devotes his mighty intellect to getting his master out of all sorts of scrapes - and the clutches of any prospective brides. The series has introduced countless new fans to the work of P.G. Wodehouse, and remains a show does not have to do too much on its own, to make you fall off your chair, other than follow the script. P G Wodehouse is brilliantly hillarious. There is never a time that is sad enough when he cannot make you smile, atleast. Coupled that with Hugh Laurie's performance, everybody's extremely english accent, and the frequent trips that Bertie and Jeeves take to the countryside and you have a show that makes for a perfect evening in bed with a hot cup of cocoa! The line that I have used as the title of this is a part of the dialogue in the show between Bertie and Jeeves.\nWas this helpful?\nJeeves and Wooster Complete Collecti... - DVD\nRRP: £39.99\nOutside Edge - Complete Box Set [Rep... - DVD\nRRP: £19.79\nOutnumbered - Series 1-5 - DVD\nRRP: £49.99\nFather Brown - Series 4 - DVD\nRRP: £29.99"}
{"text": "Back to Journals » International Journal of Nanomedicine » Volume 5\nBenefit of magnesium-25 carrying porphyrin-fullerene nanoparticles in experimental diabetic neuropathy\nAuthors Hosseini A, Sharifzadeh M, Rezayat SM, Hassanzadeh G, Hassani S, Baeeri M, Shetab-Bushehri V, Kuznetsov DA, Abdollahi M\nPublished 16 July 2010 Volume 2010:5 Pages 517—523\nDOI\nReview by Single-blind\nPeer reviewer comments 4."}
{"text": "Digital Running Club » Columns, Downsizing » Facing Obstacles\nFacing Obstacles\nThe only time in my life that I can recall actually choosing to run was between my junior and senior year of high school. I wanted to go on a teen missions trip to England and Scotland, which first meant enduring two weeks of boot camp. In preparation for boot camp, I needed to lose 20 pounds and be able to jog a one mile winding trail. For weeks I jogged around town with a clear focus of what I needed to achieve.\nAs I reflect back on my boot camp experience, the intent of the trail and obstacle course we faced everyday apply to my current situation as well: follow instructions, work within boundaries, and be a team player.\nBy the end of the two weeks, each teen had to demonstrate mastery of a few obstacles, such as running through tires and crawling under wooden planks. My fitness journey seems to parallel three such obstacles: The Slough of Despond, Jacob’s Ladder and The Wall.\nThe Slough of Despond\nThe Slough of Despond is a mud pit – my biggest nightmare! The only way to get past it is by swinging on a rope. If you don’t get a good running start or don’t have enough confidence, you’re doomed to fall in the mud. If this happens, you have to try it again and again and again until you succeed.\nAs a teen, when I watched team members swing on the rope, those who successfully made it to the other side landed on their feet and didn’t budge. When it was my turn, I tried doing the same thing, but as soon as I landed, I would fall back into the mud. I had to quickly get out of the mud before it pulled me down further into its gnawing hands. On my third attempt, I was determined to fall forward. Who cares what worked for others; I needed to find a solution that would work for me. Sure enough, when my feet hit the dry land and I went forward to my knees, I successfully mastered the challenge.\nWhen I stumble as I journey toward better health now, I realize that I have a choice. I can stay stuck in the situation and let it pull me down even further, or I can quickly find a way out and get back on track. Such was the case when I was ill recently. While fighting chills and aches and fending off the need to vomit, I craved carbohydrates. I gave in to the cravings because those foods stayed down, but as soon as I was feeling better, I knew that I needed to quickly get back on course.\nWhenever I face an obstacle and need to do things differently, my great-niece Brianna is my inspiration. Bri was born without her lower right forearm and hand, caused by Amniotic Band Syndrome. Bri has such a love for life and a positive attitude. When faced with a challenge, she thinks it through and gives it a try. If she doesn’t succeed on the first attempt, she uses a different tactic. Bri has taught me to not get worked up over something that doesn’t come easily. Instead, think it through and be willing to try different approaches.\nDuring the winter season most of my walks have been indoor walks. Ten laps (1/2 mile) or twenty laps (1 mile) aren’t too bad, but when faced with forty laps (2 miles) I needed to get creative in coping with the monotony of the laps. I played different music, added some arm movements every fifth lap and switched direction midway through. Thanks Bri for the inspiration!\nJacob’s Ladder\nJacob’s Ladder is a 30 foot rope net. The object is to climb up and back down the other side, always facing the net. You are not allowed to just slide down the net.\nMy first few attempts at Jacob’s Ladder were filled with fear. I’m not fond of heights and couldn’t make it to the top of the ladder. A teammate then offered to climb the ladder with me. He told me, “Focus on the small steps and not on what still needs to be accomplished.” I focused on getting my feet off the ground… getting into a pattern of climbing the net… reaching the top of the ladder… safely getting over the top and facing the net as I climbed downward… it worked!\nWhen Coach Brian told me to walk that very first mile, I was fearful. I was fearful that I physically couldn’t walk a mile and scared of the numbness in my feet. If I walk where I can easily touch something to catch my balance, I’m not as fearful. So walking in the middle of a road was hard for me, but I learned to focus on making it to the end of the corner, one corner at a time.\nAlthough I have many more pounds to lose and a long way to go in regards to walking or jogging, I have to recognize and appreciate the achievements made thus far. If I only focus on where I want to be months or even years from now, that can be discouraging and cause doubt to enter my mind. I don’t want to go there. In fact, I am amazed by the progress I’ve made so far. Check this out, it’s part of the journaling I’ve been doing through this process:\nThe Wall\nThe Wall stands twelve feet tall. It is only by group effort that everyone is able to make it up and over the wall.\nFor me, The Wall was actually my favorite obstacle. I fully trusted the guys who boosted me up, was thankful for the arms ready to help me over the top, and breathed a sigh of relief as other team members guided me safely to the ground. The Wall was also the final obstacle of the course and I knew I was finished for the day!\nAs I continue on my fitness journey, I am very encouraged by the team that surrounds and supports me.\nMy niece Amanda, Brianna’s mom, is probably my number one fan! Prior to working with Coach Brian, Amanda knew that I had a desire to get healthy. She knew my struggles and she even wished that we could go on “The Biggest Losers” together before she lost weight. (I’m proud of you Amanda!) Amanda constantly sends me little encouraging messages. She believes in me.\n- Coach Brian and his wife Raffi provide me with great guidance. Brian challenges me to do things, such as a 10 minute half mile, that I didn’t know I could do. He also is frank if he observes I’m going off course.\n- “Father” Joe, my healthcare coach, is probably my biggest support. He has been there with my early struggles and cheers me on as I master goals one at a time.\nDr. Gunzburger takes my blood pressure every Monday night. Although it only takes a few minutes to take my blood pressure, Dr. G. has a genuine interest in my progress. If I’m having doubts or questions about something, he listens and gives great advice. He’s even verbally taught me how to fix haddock–something I’ve never done before!\n- Dave, a pharmacist and a neighbor up the street, inspires me with his dedication to walking to work every day. He has walked to work for at least fifteen years, always with a smile and a friendly wave. For years I wished I could be a walker like Dave and I’m getting there!\n- Family, close friends and Facebook friends have also been very encouraging and supportive. I’m humbled by the sincere interest others have in my fitness journey. I’m inspired by those who have “been there” and are doing so well in their own journey. Yet, I’m teary-eyed by those who share their current struggles and are desperately looking to make a change.\nIn a recent exchange of emails with Coach Brian, I told him that I was almost overwhelmed by the support I am receiving. Brian reminded me that people are willing to commit to helping me, or encouraging me, to get me up and over that wall (getting my life on a healthy track) as long as I’m giving it my all.\nI continue to look forward to where this journey takes me and I will always be grateful for the opportunity that I’ve been given. For anyone who is in a similar situation, it all begins with you. In order to make a change, you have to choose to want to change. No one can make that choice for you. Along with choosing, you need to be fully committed to change–no more procrastination and no more excuses. Do what you need to do to free up your schedule so that you can stay committed.\nSurround yourself with support. Seek out individuals to help you. When people realize you’re serious about your commitment, they will help you up and over The Wall.\nFiled under: Columns, Downsizing · Tags: Healthy Living\nWow! Love this and love you! I really appreciate your insight. Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us.\nThanks Patti.\nSuper honored to be your #1 fan :-) Love you and I’m very proud of you.\nAwwwww THANKS Amanda!!!\nThis is so inspiring. I have been overweight most of my life and making it a journey to get healthy now. You have inspired me! Thanks for sharing your journey. I used to live beside Carl and Melody at TFC when Amanda and Candace where just children.\nHi Sherry. Good for you for wanting to get healthy. You can do it!!! Set small goals and focus on them. I still have a long ways to go, but keep my focus on the small goals. Keep us posted!!!\nHi Barb,\nAs you probably know, I read all of your posts here and on Facebook. This was particularly interesting to me because of “the wall”. Did you know runners use that phrase all the time? They talk about hitting an imaginary wall that your brain and body just don’t want to get past. As someone who is not easily self motivated, I related well to the WALL analogy.\nMy healthy lifestyle journey had to be more about “a diet” or something I tried for a few months. I had to find within myself the desire to live a healthy life, determine my goals, make my own rules – and make it a whole new lifestyle. That was the only thing that worked for me. Essentially, I think I built myself a world without walls! And wide open space is always more fun to run around in!\nThanks for the comments Raffi.\nBarb, give up the great job. How long have we “talked” about getting healthy and didn’t, and now we are both on a journey to getting healthy. Some days I struggle with proper eating & exercise, but I have to remind myself of how far I’ve come and how I don’t want to ever go back. We have a lot to be proud of girl and one step and one day at a time we will both get there, because we have finally CHOSEN to do, not talk !!!!!! WOOHOO!!! Very proud of you Barb!!\nI’m proud of you as well!!!!!!!!!!1\nBarb, you’ve taken on a serious challenge, and it’s great to see the progress you’ve made already! You’re doing this! Keep at it. :)\nThanks a lot Sarah. I’m glad that I’ve finally gotten to a point where I was ready to make changes.\nHi Barb, I finally caught up with your wonderful writings, wonderful progress. Thanks for sharing so deeply and in such an interesting and challenging way. I heard from Sandy Rowley today how disciplined you are when facing snacks at the small group. She is in awe. I am too. Well done dear Barb. Looking forward to seeing you again soooooon ! Missed you!\nThere are food temptations all around, but it’s getting easier. In my head I still LOVE cookies, but haven’t given in. I did enjoy some things while on vacation, but also ate several healthful meals."}
{"text": "Main Contents\nThe Jewett Journal\n.\nJewett on Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Imperialism:\nA Reply to Her Critics\nJosephine Donovan\nWhether or not it was their intention, several Sarah Orne Jewett scholars of the recent past have succeeded in establishing as a widely accepted commonplace of Jewett criticism that her work was racist, classist, pro-imperialist -- even \"proto-fascist.\"1 While these characterizations have already been challenged,2 the stigmatization that they entail lingers over Jewett scholarship; indeed some of the most recent studies seem to imply that there is now critical consensus on the issue, that we must reluctantly accept the fact that The Country of the Pointed Firs, for example, was in fact all of the above.3 As these characterizations are simplistic and distortive and as the evidence upon which they are based is both slim and has been ahistorically misinterpreted, further analysis of them would seem to be in order.\nIn this article I intend, therefore, first, to refute or at least drastically modify these attributions by reinvestigating the alleged racism, fascism, pro-imperialism, and classism ascribed to her work. The latter of these charges was made primarily by Richard Brodhead in Culture of Letters (1993) where the former three allegations were made by several of the contributors to New Essays on \"The Country of the Pointed Firs\" (1994), notably Elizabeth Ammons, Sandra Zagarell, and Susan Gillman. I will begin with Brodhead and the question of Jewett's class positioning.\nBrodhead's work is regrettably tendentious and seriously flawed with numerous factual and interpretive errors.4 In positioning Jewett and other local-color writers (including, for example, Celia Thaxter, whose brilliant Among the Isles of Shoals he amazingly dismisses as tourist propaganda [151]) as little more than tourist writers, Brodhead is out to prove that local-color writing is indeed from the vantage point of the Arnoldian masterpiece canon an inferior form of literature. Those who have asserted that Jewett belongs in said canon are dismissed as \"utopian\" and \"illusionistic\" (108). Moreover, the \"nearly obsessional critical attention [of feminist scholars]. . . has not produced a female Spenser or Shakespeare, or even a Surrey or Nashe\" (108).5 In short, although (or because) it provided access to women writers, local-color writing is inferior: \"Regional fiction set as the competence required to produce it the need to know how to write, but it set this entry requirement unusually low. . . it did not require the more elaborated writerly skills that other forms asked for successful performance\" (116). \"[V]irtually anyone who could supply this commodity could get his or her work into print\" (119).\nAside from the fact that it is completely false (Jewett regularly had stories rejected for publication, as did the other local-color writers) and ignores the long-standing praise Jewett has received for her style, from eminences such as Henry James and Willa Cather and continuing through legions of nonfeminist critics, this statement betrays Brodhead's agenda, which is to discredit Jewett and the local-colorists, to, as Judith Fetterley early recognized, \"revanish\" them (\"'Not in the Least'\" 882). Brodhead claims he is out to rescue Jewett studies from \"weakly specified\" notions of a \"women's culture\" (149) in which feminist scholars have located her, instead placing her in \"a quite specific late nineteenth-century upper class\" (149).6 Jewett's and other regionalists' work was not produced \"for the cultures it was written about, which were nonliterate and . . . orally based\" (122); instead she was writing for the upper-class tourist. The Country of the Pointed Firs is \"a world realized in a vacationer's mental image\" (145). The evidence Brodhead produces for these erroneous claims is one rooted largely in fallacious guilt-by-association logic: since Jewett published in journals like the Atlantic Monthly, which also produced \"touristic or vacationistic prose\" (125) for \"an upper-class-centered social interest\" (126), she must therefore be writing such prose. To judge serial fiction by the contents of the journal in which it appears is to reduce literature to the status of sociological artifact.\nBrodhead's thesis may be challenged on several other counts as well. For one, as Charles Johanningsmeier has demonstrated, Jewett published numerous stories in popular newspapers and syndicated outlets, the audience for which was popular, not elite. Jewett's interest in reaching a popular audience was not financial (as Johanningsmeier implies), however, but related to her view of literature as a form of moral teaching.7 And while certainly part of her readership was the elite Boston subscriber to the Atlantic Monthly, her reason for wanting to reach this reader may best be understood in terms of the dialectic I treat below. From her earliest theorizing Jewett maintained that she wanted to rescue the rural Mainers who are the subjects of her fiction from preconceived touristy prejudices held by the urban upper classes. One of her most earnest explanations of her own sense of writerly purpose is the following:When I was, perhaps fifteen, the first city boarders began to make their appearance near Berwick; and they so misunderstood the country people, and made such game of their peculiarities, that I was fired with indignation. I determined to teach the world that country people were not the awkward, ignorant set that those persons seemed to think.8Finally, while the world Jewett wrote about was largely \"orally-based,\" as Brodhead asserts, it was not \"nonliterate.\" There is considerable evidence that Jewett also wrote for and was read and appreciated by the unelite of her own Maine neighborhood. On several occasions she mentions reading a story to her family or neighbors. For example, in an unpublished (probably 1887) letter to Annie Fields, Jewett mentions reading a story (probably \"The Courting of Sister Wisby\"), which she had just completed, \"to Mother and Mary [her sister] and Miss Grant this afternoon and they all laughed most of the way through and were very kind in applauding.\"9 \"Miss Grant\" was Olive Grant, a local dressmaker, characterized to me once as \"eccentric\" by Elizabeth Hayes Goodwin, a South Berwick native who knew her.10 Jewett once said, \"my stories are full of her [Grant] here and there,\" and implied that she also saw Grant as a storyteller from who she derived amusing phrases (and perhaps story ideas as well).11 That Jewett therefore read her work to a person who was one of its subjects considerably complicates the question of who her primary audience was; Grant in any event was hardly an upper-class tourist.\nJewett mentions what was evidently a practice of reading her work to locals as early as 1869. In a diary notation she comments: \"Read [\"The Shipwrecked Buttons\"] to Grandma . . . and we had a great talk.\"12 She also indicates in a later comment that she worried about whether \"An October Ride\" would prove popular, noting the difference between her \"highly critical friends in Boston\" and presumably local readers to whom she read the story in order to prove to her editors that it would fly with them.13\nJewett's negative attitude toward tourists is clearly expressed in a letter written from Poland Springs, Maine, a tourist watering hole, in the early 1900s. \"I think this great place would amuse you . . . but the line between being innocently amused and wickedly bored is very narrow.\" Observing nouveaux-riches vacationers from the latter perspective, Jewett notes, \"Their jewels and their gowns are a wonder. . . . They are apt to speak of last winter at 'Pa'm Beach,'\" recalling to her a comment once made by her grandfather of a similar crowd, \"'They're not people, they're nothing but a pack of images!'\" She also notes their class privilege and how one was \"fine and masterful above quailing maids.\" Jewett concludes this passage with a comment about the decadent materialism of turn-of-the-century America: \"One thing certain is, it is a rich country -- it is like Rome before it fell!\" (Fields 191).\nJewett in fact was early aware of criticism like Brodhead's and strongly refuted it. Deephaven, she wrote in 1877, shortly after it appeared, \"is not the result of careful study during one 'summer vacation,' as some persons have thought, but I could write it because it is the fashion of life with which I have always been familiar\" (Cary 36). Indeed, in an important theoretical statement made in 1885, Jewett claimed that she was trying to write fiction that was neither for the elite, \"so-called intellectual persons,\" who already have \"the wealth of literature in . . . books that belong to all times\"; nor for the popular market that read \"the lowest level of literature, the trashy newspapers and sensational novels.\" Instead she was aiming to \"stir . . . the minds and hearts of the good men and women of such a village as this [South Berwick, her home town]. These people may not be \"readers by nature [and] . . . do not get their learning that way, but the truth must be recognized that few books are written for and from their standpoint.\" Jewett goes on to suggest that these people would read such books of the \"middle ground,\" \"if they had them\" (Cary 51). It is clear that this was what she hoped to provide. Thus, while Jewett was born into relative wealth and privilege (her class positioning has hardly been neglected by critics and biographers),14 she was able to imaginatively and sympathetically construct the lives of the poor and less privileged and did so throughout her fiction. That she identified with them more than with a Boston elite is suggested in her poignant comment about the servant woman in \"Martha's Lady\" (1899): \"Nobody must say Martha was dull. It is only I\" (Fields 113).\nI turn now to the charges of racism, fascism, and imperialism made in New Essays on \"The Country of the Pointed Firs.\" The first of these is Sandra Zagarell's \"Country's Portrayal of Community and Exclusion of Difference.\" Zagarell argues that the Bowden family reunion in Pointed Firs is racially supremacist and expresses \"racial exclusion.\"15 She bases her case primarily on three evidentiary matters: one is the general assumption that racism and nativism were in the air when Jewett wrote and therefore she must have expressed them. The principal link here is Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an acquaintance of Jewett's who espoused anti-immigrant views. Here is another example of guilt-by-association logic; there is no evidence to my knowledge that Jewett anywhere expressed agreement with these views. On the contrary, her sympathetic protrayal in several stories of Irish immigrants -- probably the most despised group of immigrants in New England at the time -- suggests quite a different attitude.16\nIn a short history of her home town, which was published in 1894, Jewett registers in fact a positive attitude toward immigrants: \"The assimilation of successive foreign elements . . . [has] not been without great value.\"17 Indeed, that Jewett's view of her community was racially inclusive is suggested in a passage in the same piece devoted to the African Americans in South Berwick. Speaking of a local Baptist church Jewett comments, \"The arrangement of the pews and benches reminded one of the time when there was such careful attention paid to social precedence, and provision made for the colored people, of whom there were formerly a large number in Berwick, and many have been excellent citizens\" (21). While \"the arrangement of the pews\" suggests there may have been some sort of segregation, and while Jewett's tone is defensive, she is clearly attempting to deflect, not endorse, a racist stereotype. Jewett further notes how \"most of the prominent families\" \"possessed one or more African slaves in the last century and one may still hear delightful stories of their strange traits of inheritance and their loyal affection to their families which they adopted as their own\" (21). Jewett further notes that a local landmark, \"Cato's Hill,\" was named after \"a native Guineaman\" for whom it was known to be a \"favorite retreat.\" \"[T]he last generation loved to recall the tradition of his droll ways and speeches\" (21). Again, while \"strange traits of inheritance\" and \"droll ways\" certainly connotes \"difference,\" even \"otherness,\" when seen within the context of Jewett's overall and repeated affirmation of difference, the comments seem to bespeak once again her interest in hearing the stories of the marginalized and dispossessed, which is manifest throughout her fiction. Cato and his \"tradition\" therefore were part of local oral history, which Jewett clearly honors in this passage. It is an inclusive perspective: African Americans are seen as part of the community culture and history.\nThis attitude appears to govern Jewett's handling of African-American slave characters in The Tory Lover (1901), who are seen as part of their respective owners' families. One upper-class character does express a stereotypical view of his slave Ajax as lazy and deceptive,18 but otherwise the treatment is sympathetic. Jewett also writes positively and inclusively about some Cuban boys with \"handsome dark faces\" with whom she went to school in her early teens. They gave her guava jelly and cigarettes, which she said she smoked.19 Jewett did write one racist story, \"A War Debt\" (1895) (see Donovan, Sarah Orne Jewett 95). This story is set in the Reconstruction South and in it Jewett appears to have picked up uncritically the point of view of white former slave-owners. In his biography John Eldridge Frost claims it was a story that was told to her (147), and in any event can only be seen as an anomaly within the context of her complete oeuvre.\nZagarell's second piece of evidence, much more serious, is that Jewett espoused a kind of racial chauvinism vis-à-vis the \"Normans,\" from whom she believed herself descended, and that that chauvinism is exposed in the Bowden reunion episode in The Country of the Pointed Firs. As evidence Zagarell proffers Jewett's juvenile history, The Story of the Normans (1886), a work that does indeed laud the Normans as a superior \"race.\" Even this lamentable text, however, presents a by no means unambiguous view of its subject. In equating the Normans with present-day Americans, for example, Jewett notes, \"For with many of the gifts and many of the weaknesses (and dangers, too) of our viking ancestry, we have repeated the rapid increase of power which was characteristic of our Norman kindred.\" She goes on to say \"the secret of Normandy's failures was the secret of all failures -- blindness . . . and unwillingness to listen to her best . . . teachers.\" Citing Carlyle's remark, \"There has never been a nation yet that did anything great that was not deeply religious,\" Jewett concludes by warning that a people should not choose \"the things that are easy and near\" but rather \"the things that make for righteousness.\" Whenluxury becomes not the means, but the end of life . . . humanity's best intelligence is dulled and threatens to disappear. The church forgets her purpose and invites worshippers of the church instead of worshippers of God. The state is no longer an impersonal administrator of justice and order, but a reservoir from which to plunder and by which to serve private ends (my emphasis added).20Jewett concludes, \"I have not been unmindful of the dark side of [the Norman] character\" (364). Jewett thus offers in the conclusion of her book on the Normans a not-so-veiled critique of American materialism and imperialism, one that echoes the sentiment cited above that she made about the American tourists presaging the fall of the American empire.\nThe fact remains, however, that in this and various other writings Jewett did express a belief in Norman superiority, which Zagarell, following Ferman Bishop, her main source, labels \"Nordicism.\"21 The question is how are we to interpret this. I believe the vexing problem of nineteenth-century race attitudes, which I have addressed elsewhere in connection with Uncle Tom's Cabin, has best been analyzed by George W. Frederickson. In The Black Image in the White Mind Frederickson distinguishes between modern racism and what he terms \"romantic racialism,\" which was prevalent in the nineteenth century. The former he defines as a \"de facto\" belief in one groups's \"inferiority\" and \"opposition\" to its \"aspiration to equality,\"22 whereas the latter, \"romantic racialism,\" deriving from the cultural nationalism of German scholar Gottfried von Herder, entailed a belief that ethnic groups and nations have distinctive cultural traits by virtue of which they may be seen as unique and indeed often superior in those respects to others. Romantic racialism, while it engaged in egregious stereotyping about alleged national traits -- the hot-headed Spaniard, the cold-hearted Anglo-Saxon -- was not necessarily racist in the modern sense of scapegoating one group as inferior and for this reason a threat to civilization. I believe, in short, that Jewett was engaging in \"romantic racialism\" in vaunting the Normans' alleged positive traits, such as their courage, adventurousness, and hospitality.\nJewett's affirmation of her French ancestry must be understood in the context of the Anglo-Saxon cultural hegemony in New England. To affirm a minority group's distinctive cultural traits in the context of a dominant surrounding culture that considers itself superior is quite different from vaunting the superiority of the dominant group. Persons of French ancestry were a distinct minority in nineteenth-century New England. Indeed, the Franco-Americans were, along with the Irish, its most despised minority group. An official state report issued in Massachusetts in 1881 reveals the racism directed at Franco-Americans at the time: \"The Canadian French,\" which it terms \"a horde of immigrant invaders,\" \"are the Chinese of the Eastern states.\"23 That Jewett chose to focus positively upon two such maligned groups as the Irish and the Franco-Americans suggests to my mind not racism but sympathy for oppressed minorities. (In addition to her Irish stories [see Morgan and Renza] Jewett wrote two stories about Franco-Americans, \"Mère Pochette\" [1888 ] and \"Little French Mary\" [1895].) That she may have erred in the direction of romanticizing these groups -- especially the French -- is undoubtedly true, but it is in my opinion more a matter of pridefully asserting an ethnic group's heritage than anything more sinister.\nWhile a distinction must be made between Americans of French descent who came from Protestant (Huguenot) ancestry and the Franco-Americans of Québecois or Arcadian origin (Jewett being of the former and not the latter group), it seems possible that in her conception of the Bowden family in Pointed Firs Jewett was expressing solidarity with the Franco-American ethnic community of nineteenth-century New England. A central issue for this (as for every) immigrant group was \"la survivance\" of ethnic culture and language. One of the ways by which Franco-Americans attempted to ensure such cultural survival was through \"mutual-aid societies,\" which restricted membership to \"Catholics . . . of French-Canadian descent\" (Chartier 27). Often at meetings or celebrations of these societies members would hold parades or processions; some societies even had uniforms. In addition to securing cultural survival these associations were intent upon refuting the negative stereotypes foisted upon them by their Yankee neighbors. One way they did this was by vaunting their own ethnic traits. \"With criticism coming from all sides,\" one historian notes, \"it is hardly surprising to find [Franco-American] orators and journalists . . . trumpeting pride in their origins\" (Chartier 85).\nIt is likely that Jewett knew of these Franco-American rituals of \"survivance,\" of cultural survival. There was a substantial Franco-American community in Somersworth, New Hampshire, some four miles from her home in South Berwick, Maine, and others as well in Biddeford/Saco, Maine, about twenty miles away. Jewett may well have had their rituals in mind as a model for the Bowden family get-together. Of course, the Bowdens have already lost their native language -- they speak English (albeit in Maine dialect) -- and their ritual procession is not overtly Catholic, though there is a decidedly Catholic tone to the event (indeed it is hard to imagine a Protestant family of Puritan heritage behaving in this way). The sympathetically portrayed protagonist of Jewett's story \"The Foreigner\" (1900), Mrs. Captain Tolland, also of French descent, is, however, emphatically Catholic.\nThe third piece of evidence Zagarell presents in support of her claim that the Bowden reunion exhibits race supremacism and exclusivity is that one of the characters, Mari' Harris, is described as looking like a \"Chinee\" by Mrs. Caplin, one of the attendees, in a conversation with Mrs. Todd, a central character, about eccentricity. Zagarell terms the word Chinee a \"racist slur\" (39) and argues that as it is applied to a woman Mrs. Todd doesn't like, this is evidence that the woman is thereby excluded from the community, which signifies the \"racial exclusion\" of the Bowden community.\nThere are a number of problems with this interpretation. For one, Mari' Harris is never excluded from the community. Indeed, in \"The Foreigner,\" Mrs. Todd recalls how in an earlier unpleasant encounter with Mari' Harris she had then lamented that she would continue to have to deal with her because she remained a fixture of the community.24 (The issue is raised again during the Bowden reunion when Mrs. Todd mentions having difficulty tolerating a cousin of her husband's whom she similarly regrets having to see at every community gathering.25) Second, though \"Chinee\" is obviously a racial characterization, it is not clear that it was a pejorative term, a \"racist slur.\" Standard dictionaries designate it as slang but not pejorative. The dialect term \"Portugee\" is used nonpejoratively, for example, by a character in \"The Foreigner.\"\nMore important, however, is the context in which the discussion between Caplin and Todd occurs. The basic issue -- that of \"differentness\" or eccentricity -- has been provoked by the example of Sant Bowden, the would-be general who leads the family procession. It is at this point that Mrs. Caplin observes that you can find lots of examples of differentness in one's own parish: \"you could pick out the likeness of 'most every sort of foreigner when you looked about you. . . . I always did think Mari' Harris resembled a Chinee\" (169). \"The pleasant voice of Mrs. Blackett,\" arguably the most authoritative voice in the work, immediately intervenes saying Mari' Harris was a \"pretty . . . child.\" Mrs. Todd, who we already know doesn't like Harris, rejoins that she is nevertheless a \"homely\" adult; Todd's main objection to Harris, however, is not her looks nor her \"foreignness,\" but rather that she doesn't treat Captain Littlepage compassionately and keep his house in proper shape (17, 44, 169), showing instead impatience with -- intolerance of -- his eccentric tales. Harris's intolerance of deviancy or differentness is highlighted in \"The Foreigner\" in which she is one of the main critics of Mrs. Tolland's dancing in the church. That Harris also reproached Mrs. Blackett for enjoying said dancing was unforgivable, according to Mrs. Todd. (Harris seems in that incident to have been retaliating for Mrs. Tolland's criticism of her singing off key [312].) In any event, the rejection of Mari' Harris is because she lacks tolerance, exemplifies provincial small-mindedness, and fails to exhibit the compassionate embrace of otherness that is apotheosized in \"dear old Mrs. Blackett,\" who at the conclusion of the discussion between Todd and Caplin says, \"Live and let live\" (170). This seems to be the final wisdom on the subject; it is hardly a message of racial exclusion.\nElizabeth Ammons and to a lesser extent Susan Gillman have joined Zagarell in characterizing the Bowden reunion as an ominous ritual of Aryan supremacy. Ammons terms it a celebrations of \"white imperialism,\" of \"the triumphant colonization of Indian land by white people\" (92). While nineteenth-century New England obviously is an example of such colonization, there is virtually no evidence that Jewett or her characters at the reunion are celebrating this fact. Ammons gives as evidence: first, various examples of souvenirs that bedeck Dunnet Landing homes brought back from remote lands by seafaring relatives. While these items can undoubtedly be read as signs of American (economic) imperialism, can they really be considered \"trophies of empire\" (97)? Nor do they warrant the assumption that Jewett or her text celebrate this imperialism. More recent critics have unfortunately picked up on this mischaracterization. In 1999 Kate McCullough, for example, considers that the narrator in Pointed Firs expresses a \"celebration of imperialist expansion,\" offering as support the dubious proposition that as Jewett was \"a descendant of wealthy ship owners\" it is \"not surprising\" that she \"would support imperialist expansion.\"26\nJewett's actual views on imperialism are stated quite clearly in her letters. When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Jewett says she has reluctantly come to support it, despite past misgivings, which included that the war was largely an expression of \"petty politics . . . mercenary hopes . . . naval desires for promotion. . . [or just] the liking for a fight.\" The reason she is supporting it despite these misgivings is that on visiting Cuba two years previously she had been struck by the suffering of the Cuban people, and she felt that \"Spain [had] made Cuba suffer . . . too long,\" having proved \"herself perfectly incompetent to maintain any sort of civilization in Cuba\" (Fields 150-51). Presumably she believed the United States would do a better job. Elsewhere, Jewett adopts a similar \"white man's burden\" attitude in her discussion of the necessity for the English to govern \"backward\" Ireland until it is ready for independence (Fields 23). While today we see that such missionary motives were but an ideological screen for the underlying reasons for imperialism that Jewett enumerated in her list of misgivings about the Spanish-American War, one can nevertheless hardly conclude from this that Jewett was a rabid celebrator of imperial expansion.\nMoreover, we should not forget, as the advocates of the \"neo-imperialist thesis\" (so labeled by Lawrence Buell)27 seem to have forgotten, that imperialist discourse of the late nineteenth-century was steeped in social Darwinist masculinism. Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes, and Houston Chamberlain saw themselves as \"great predators . . . for whom the world is a jungle, a battleground, a gladitorial arena.\" As Theodore Roszak notes, this bellicose \"blood and iron\" view anticipated twentieth-century movements of \"Fascism and Nazism,\" which similarly \"ennoble[d] violence . . . [and] cheapen[ed] compassion and tenderness.\"28 In their attempts to \"historicize\" Pointed Firs as an imperialist document recent critics have strangely elided the masculine face of imperialism -- the virtual antipodes of the world of Dunnet Landing.\nA comparison in this regard of The Country of the Pointed Firs with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a text published two years after Pointed Firs that deals overtly with imperialism, is instructive. Both concern quests undertaken by metropolitan narrators into the heart of remote \"uncivilized\" territory. Unlike Marlowe, however, the narrator in Conrad's text, the narrator in Jewett's work discovers not the evil of Kurtz but the goodness of Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Blackett. She discovers in Dunnet Landing not a world of darkness but of light:\nThe sunburst upon that outermost island made it seem like a sudden revelation of the world beyond this which some believe to be so near.\n\"That's where mother lives,\" said Mrs. Todd. (45)\nSome might argue that the luminous feminine world of Dunnet Landing facilitates and enables the dark masculine world seen in Conrad's depiction of imperialism, but I would argue to the contrary that Jewett is offering a counter world, an alternative world that by definition provides a \"negative critique\" (in Theodor Adorno's sense of the term)29 of the masculine world of conquer and plunder (indeed, the masculine characters in Pointed Firs are virtual parodies of heroic imperialist males, as various critics -- including Ammons [90] and McCullough [20-21] -- have noted).\nAmmons's second piece of evidence in support of her imperialist reading is a reference to American Indians made by Mrs. Fosdick in her description of Shell-heap Island, Joanna Todd's lonely abode. Fosdick's description is used metonymically to characterize Joanna as living in a remote, vaguely mythical world, distant from the comfortable coziness of Mrs. Todd's parlor. Ammons adduces negative stereotypes from this characterization, but I believe she is in error. She interprets \"bangeing\" as meaning \"lazy,\" for example. (The island is said to have been a \"bangeing-place\" for Indians [100].) A \"bangeing-place,\" still current in Maine dialect, is simply a gathering place, like a village store. \"Bangeing\" means \"hanging out\"; it need not imply lazy. (In \"A White Heron\" \"jay birds\" are described as \"bangeing\" in a particular location.)30 Nor does Mrs. Fosdick's assimilation of Indians to the shades in Littlepage's tale imply that the Indians are \"slippery.\" Instead it invokes the spiritual mystery of the land between the living and the dead that Littlepage describes. That the Indians left a captive on the island to die similarly comments on Joanna's self-imposed abandonment, and the comment about cannibalism has the effect of releasing local Indians from the category of \"otherhood\" that cannibalism necessarily entails (for the non-cannibal reader).\nIt is also important to stress that the view of Indians presented here is Mrs. Fosdick's and not necessarily Jewett's. The comments are consistent with Fosdick's character and outlook, which is clearly presented like that of most of the characters in Pointed Firs as somewhat comically circumscribed.31 This brings me to the final and crucial point in my rejection of the Ammons-Gillman thesis: all the characters and events in Pointed Firs are ironized by the work's narrative frame. The Bowden reunion in particular is laced with comic irony.\nAmmons seems oblivious to the irony that governs the Bowden family processional, which she characterizes as exhibiting \"blatant\" \"military imagery\" (95), evincing a \"subtle but clear protofascis[m] . . . with all those white people marching around in military formation ritualistically affirming their racial superiority, global dominance, and white ethnic superiority and solidarity\" (97). Gillman similarly claims \"the Bowden family might as well be one of the many fraternal organizations -- among them the Knights of Columbus and the Ku Klux Klan -- that flourished during this period\" (113) -- a gratuitous equation providing yet another example of recklessly inaccurate mischaracterization.\nLet us reexamine how Jewett treats the Bowden reunion -- especially the allegedly \"militaristic,\" \"protofascist\" processional. That it is led by Santin Bowden, a comically pathetic character, more than \"partially\" undercuts the alleged militarism of the scene (a fact Gillman acknowledges [114]); it renders the entire event tragicomically ironic, an exercise in entropy. Sant Bowden is a shoemaker (166) given to drink (167) who has Walter Mitty fantasies of heroic military exploits. While plying his trade he fantasizes battle strategies, going so far as to have \"aim[ed] a cannon . . . right for William's fish-house five miles out on Green Island\" (167). He had been rejected by the Union Army when he attempted to volunteer because \"he ain't a sound man\" (165) -- the implication being that he ain't sound in the head.\nWhat is particularly interesting about the way Jewett constructs this section is how she interweaves theorizing about the Normans with the emerging details about Sant Bowden, thereby clearly ironizing the romantic views she espoused in Story of the Normans. In her comments on Bowden, Mrs. Todd, who characteristically defends his deviancy (she takes a similarly protective position vis-à-vis other \"strayaway folks\" in the work, such as Joanna and Captain Littlepage), observes that he is often called upon to lead local \"Decoration Day\" parades. (This comment alone tends to undercut the later linkage made by the narrator of the Bowden reunion to the \"great national anniversaries . . . lately kept\" [179]). Mrs. Todd notes how \"noble\" Sant Bowden looks in such events; by way of explanation she adds, \"he comes of soldier stock\" (166).\nThe narrator then inserts her comments about the Bowdens being descended from the \"adventuring\" Norman -- \"of Huguenot blood\" (166). Mrs. Todd picks up on this, remarking that Santin's military prowess likely came from his militaristic ancestors: \"'t was born in him\" (167). Having missed his calling, \"poor gloomy spells come over him now an' then,\" Mrs. Todd acknowledges, \"an' then he has to drink\" (167). During this discussion, Mrs. Caplin, Mrs. Todd's interlocutor, continually undermines Mrs. Todd's already heavily ironized praise. She says he's \"good for nothing else most of the time\" (165). Moreover, he routinely screws up the veterans parades he attempts to organize (168). Sant Bowden is in short hardly a proto-Brown Shirt. Nor could he possibly be construed as a shining exemplar of Norman superiority. Indeed, one senses that the Bowden family joins in the procession largely to humor one of their more eccentric members, much as the community women in Jewett's story \"An Autumn Holiday\" nonjudgmentally accommodate a deviant neighbor who has become a transvestite. Jewett's textual construction and ironic treatment of the procession therefore preclude taking it seriously as a militaristic, \"protofascist\" ceremonial equatable to a gathering of the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, to engage in such hyperbole not only needlessly tarnishes a great writer, it shamefully trivializes the monstrous evil perpetrated by the Klan and by twentieth-century fascism.\nOne final point about Jewett's complex use of irony in this work. While most critics seem to think the narrator is virtually Jewett herself, this is to overlook the vein of self-parody that governs the treatment of the narrator. It is after all the narrator who uses fancy Hellenistic similes to describe characters and events (Zagarell sees Jewett's \"Hellenism\" [\"Country's Portrayal\" 53] as another indication of her racial biases). That such \"high-fallutin'\" literariness clashes with and is undercut by the discourse of an uneducated but authoritative figure like Mrs. Todd weakens its authority in the text. Mrs. Todd's attitude toward overly erudite prose is clearly stated in her critique of Reverend Dimmick's \"high soundin'\" sermons (123), and she pointedly contrasts his eulogy of Joanna to that of a bird that \"lit on the coffin an' begun to sing while Mr. Dimmick was speakin'. . . . I may have been prejudiced, but I wa'n't the only one thought the poor little bird does the best of the two\" (125). Mrs. Todd's attitude effectively undercuts the narrator's own \"high soundin'\" figures, thus diminishing the authority of the latter's urban, educated, modern voice; it also suggests that there are rural \"languages\" and viewpoints such as that expressed by the bird that may be missed and thereby silenced by intellectual outsiders like Dimmick and the narrator, who represents modernity.\nDespite, therefore, the ostensibly celebratory character of the event, the Bowden reunion is laced with destabilizing subnarratives, such as that concerning Sant Bowden, that leave one not with a sense of unshakeable monolithic chauvinism -- which would be required for the event to be truly fascistic -- but rather on the contrary with a sense of the instability of all human positions and perspectives. That this instability is historically grounded I attempt to develop in a forthcoming article, \"Jewett, Local-Color Literature, and Modernity.\" Meanwhile, I conclude this discussion by emphasizing how the Bowden get-together ends on a note of pathos, in part for the limitations of rural life, but perhaps more importantly on a note of elegy for the entropic nature of all life. \"It was not the first time that I was full of wonder at the waste of human ability in this world, as a botanist wonders at the wastefulness of nature, the thousand seeds that die, the unused provision of every sort\" (174). The last two characters mentioned in the episode both register a sense of failure. The creator of the gingerbread house laments its imperfections (176), and the \"poetess,\" Mary Anna, who presents a \"long, faded garland of verses\" (177), is seen to be like Sant Bowden a pathetic simulacrum of the real thing. Despite the narrator's apparently earnest appreciation for the way the reunion functions to pull the community together, giving its members a feeling of connection and meaning -- a \"moment of being,\" the overall sense one has as the participants depart back to their hard, lonely, isolated lives is one of ontological emptiness and of the temporality and fragility of human connection.\nThis essay appeared originally in Colby Quarterly 38, no. 4 (December 2002): 403-16 It is reprinted here by permission of Colby Quarterly and Josephine Donovan. ©2002 by Josephine Donovan. It may not be reprinted in any part or form without permission of the author.\nJosephine Donovan is the author of Sarah Orne Jewett (1980; rev. ed., 2001), New England Local Color Literature (1983), and other books and articles. A complete list of her publications is available on her web site:. She is Emerita Professor of English, University of Maine.\n[ Top of the Page ]\nNotes\nl. Elizabeth Ammons, \"Material Culture, Empire, and Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs,\" in New Essays on \"The Country of the Pointed Firs,\" ed. June Howard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 96. Further references follow in the text.\n2. See especially Judith Fetterley, \"Commentary: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Politics of Recover,\" American Literary History 6, 3 (Fall 1994): 600-11; Fetterley, \"'Not in the Least American': Nineteenth-Century Literary Regionalism,\" College English 56, 8 (Dec. 1994): 877-95; Laurie Shannon, \"The Country of Our Friendship: Jewett's Intimist Art.\" American Literature 71, 2 (June 1999): 227-62; Jacqueline Shea-Murphy, \"Getting Jewett: A Response to Sandra A. Zagarell, 'Troubling Realism',\" American Literary History 10, 4 (Winter 1998): 698-701; Shea Murphy, \"Replacing Regionalism: Abenaki Tales and 'Jewett's Coastal Maine.\" American Literary History 10, 4 (Winter 1998): 664-90; Paul Petrie, \"'To Make Them Acquainted with One Another': Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of Deephaven,\" in Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon, ed. Karen L Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999), pp. 99-120; and Marjorie Pryse, \"Sex, Class, and 'Category Crisis': Reading Jewett's Transitivity,\" American Literature 70, 3 (Sept. 1998): 517-49.\n3. See, for example, Kate McCullough, Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 29, 53; Sandra A. Zagarell, \"Crosscurrents: Registers of Nordicism, Community, and Culture in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs,\" Yale Journal of Criticism 10, 2 (Fall 1997): 355-70; Mitzi Schrag, \"'Whiteness' as Loss in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreigner',\" in Kilcup and Edwards, ed., Jewett and Her Contemporaries, pp. 185-206, the latter gratuitously throwing in anti-Semitic for good measure, p. 189.\n4. Richard Brodhead, Culture of Letters: Studies of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993). Further references follow in the text. Among Brodhead's errors: South Berwick is not \"a coastal town,\" as he claims (151); Jewett was not \"well-educated\" (152) as compared with male peers. He also claims erroneously that Jewett \"never constructs . . . in traditional religious terms\" (160) -- on the contrary, she wrote numerous conventionally didactic religious stories. He cites as definitive an opinion she voiced on Stowe's Pearl of Orr's Island that she later recanted (see Josephine Donovan, New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition (1983; New York: Continuum, 1988), 46. He incorrectly states, \"Stowe . . . shifted into regional writing with The Pearl of Orr's Island and Oldtown Folks\" (122). Untrue: Stowe's regional writing began with her first published story in 1834. Brodhead also makes patently false historical statements, such as \"There was no . . . suppression of local-cultural economies in the period of intense capitalist-industrial development\" (121). On the contrary. Or: \"regionalism's representation of vernacular cultures as enclaves of tradition insulated from larger cultural contact is palpably a fiction\" (121). All I can say is Brodhead can not have spent much time in Maine where such enclaves -- including the Martinsville area where Pointed Firs is thought to be set -- still exist.\n5. For a rebuttal of similarly conservative revanchist charges, see Josephine Donovan, \"Women's Masterpieces\" in Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization, ed. Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).\n6. Brodhead specifies as one of his targets my New England Local Color Literature, arguing that \"the feminist reconception of regionalism has tended to repeat the autonomy fantasies of the nineteenth-century ideology of separate spheres\" (144). Brodhead appears to misunderstand the concept of \"women's literary realism\" I adumbrated in New England Local Color Literature, which stipulates that it was directed against the restrictive sphere of \"the cult of true womanhood.\" As for the charge that the notion of a \"women's culture\" is \"weakly specified\" and ahistorically essentialist (as other recent critics -- Susan Gillman, \"Regionalism and Nationalism in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs,\" in Howard, ed., New Essays, p. 103; McCullough, Regions, p. 20; and Kilcup and Edwards, Jewett, pp. 6-8, for example -- have claimed), I think a careful reading of my After the Fall (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1989) will show that my conception of the nineteenth-century \"women's culture\" is indeed historically based.\n7. Charles Johanningsmeier, \"Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): Two Shrewd Businesswomen in Search of Markets.\" New England Quarterly 70, 1 (March 1997): 57-82.\nJohanningsmeier lists ten Jewett stories that were syndicated but there are at least twelve more that were published in popular journals and may have been syndicated, as well as several early articles that appeared in Maine newspapers. On Jewett's moralizing tendencies see Josephine Donovan, \"Jewett and Swedenborg,\" American Literature 65, 4 (Dec. 1993): 731-50.\n8. Helen Winslow, Literary Boston of Today (Boston: L. C. Page, 1902), p. 68.\n9. Sarah Orne Jewett, ALS to Annie Adams Fields, Houghton Library bMS Am 1743 (255), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Published by permission of the Houghton Library.\n10. Elizabeth Hayes Goodman, Interview with Author, 31 May 1977.\n11. Annie Fields, ed. Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), pp. 208, 37. Further references to Fields follow in the text.\n12. Sarah Orne Jewett, 1869 Diary, Houghton Library bMS Am 1743.26 (3), entry for 21 Sept. 1869, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Published by permission of the Houghton Library.\n13. Richard Cary, ed. Sarah Orne Jewett Letters (Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1967), p. 45. Further references follow in the text.\n14. See Josephine Donovan, Sarah Orne Jewett (New York: Ungar, 1980; rev. ed., Cybereditions, 2001); Paula Blanchard, Sarah Orne Jewett (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1994); and Alison Easton, \"'How Clearly the Gradations of Society Were Defined': Negotiating Class in Sarah Orne Jewett,\" in Kilcup and Edwards, ed., Jewett, pp. 207-222; and Sarah Way Sherman, \"Party Out of Bounds: Gender and Class in Jewett's 'The Best China Saucer',\" in Kilcup and Edwards, ed., Jewett, pp. 223-248.\n15. Sandra Zagarell, \"Country's Portrayal of Community and Exclusion of Difference,\" in Howard, ed. New Essays, 39-60. 47. Further references follow in the text. Zagarell modified her position somewhat in \"Response to Jacqueline Shea Murphy's 'Replacing Regionalism',\" American Literary History 10, 4 (Winter 1998): 691-97.\n16. See Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza, ed., The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996).\n17. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Old Town of Berwick (1894; South Berwick, Maine: Old Berwick Historical Society, 1967), p.19. Further references follow in the text.\n18. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901), p. 14.\n19 John Eldridge Frost, Sarah Orne Jewett (Kittery Point, Maine: Gundalow Club, 1960), pp. 18-19.\n20. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Story of the Normans: Told Chiefly in Relation to Their Conquest of England (New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1886), pp. 360-61. Further references follow in the text. Ironically, an earlier critic, Richard Cary, criticized Story of the Normans for its feminist bias! (Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett [Boston: Twayne, 1962], p.157).\n21. Ferman Bishop, \"Sarah Orne Jewett's Ideas of Race.\" New England Quarterly 30 (1957): 243-49.\n22. George W. Frederickson, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on the Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1917-1914 (New York: Harper, 1971), pp.13 n. 22, 101-14. See also Josephine Donovan,\"Uncle Tom's Cabin\": Evil Affliction, and Redemptive Love (Boston: Twayne, 1991; rev. ed., Cybereditions, 2002).\n23. Armand Chartier, The Franco-Americans of New England: A History (Manchester, N.H.: ACA Assurance, 2000), p. 37. Further references follow in the text.\n24. Sarah Orne Jewett,\"The Foreigner,\" in The Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, ed. Ricahrd Cary (Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1971), p. 313. Further references follow in the text.\n25. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896), p. 171. Further references follow in the text.\n26. McCullough, Regions, pp. 55, 290 n. 47.\n27. Lawrence Buell, \"Circling the Spheres.\" American Literature 70, 3 (Sept. 1998):477.\n28. Theodore Roszak, \"The Hard and the Soft: The Force of Feminism in Modern Times,\" in Masculine/Feminine, ed. Betty and Theodore Roszak (New York: Harper's, 1969), pp. 91, 93.\n29. Theodor Adorno, \"Reconciliation under Duress,\" in Aesthetics and Politics, ed. Ernst Bloch et al. (London: Verso, 1980), p. 160.\n30. Sarah Orne Jewett, \"A White Heron,\" in The Best Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, ed. Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Josephine Donovan (Augusta, Maine: Lance Tapley, 1988), p. 84.\n31. Shea Murphy, in \"Replacing Regionalism,\" has shown that Jewett evinced a respectful attitude toward Indians elsewhere in her work.\nMain Contents\nThe Jewett Journal"}
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