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First things first, the good old fry-up is not a healthy meal so don’t pretend it is. Whether you’re preparing for a big day out, trying to get rid of a stinking hangover or simply, it’s just part of your daily life, you need to get it spot on to make it the perfect Full English Breakfast.
Despite many associating the fry-up with the lower classes, interestingly its origins lie with England’s land owning gentry who would treat their guests to big breakfasts as a sign of their wealth. The second half of the 1800s however saw the rise of the Victorians and they brought in the concept of a leisurely breakfast which would, in some cases, involve a three hour sit down. Their ability to do that, while reading newspapers, showcased their high end status to the public.
It may have all started there but by the mid 20th century the Full English breakfast was being eaten by the majority of British citizens. That was largely down to efforts by the hotel industry, as they attempted to boost business for the bed and breakfast trade in the post WWII era.
Phew, history lesson over! Now down to the nitty gritty bit of telling you what you should be doing and expecting from a fry-up.
1) Drink with a large mug of tea
Before anything else make sure you order or make yourself a mug of tea to accompany your breakfast. Yes, coffee may have overtaken tea as the preferred hot drink in this country but the narrow spectrum of flavours in a full English breakfast means the taste from your coffee can become too dominant.
Add to that, many people prefer to drink coffee on its own nowadays, as they allow themselves to savour the hundreds of different flavours available!
2) Make fried eggs
If you don’t have the frying space available, then you can get away with scrambled eggs (just!) but poached is a massive no! You don’t want any of that watery residue adding any unnecessary juices to your plate, do you?
The main case for team fried however is that choosing how and when to pop your yolk is one of the favourite past times of British food and why would you take that away?
3) Egg yolks must be runny
Before deciding whether to pop your yolk with a bit of toast or a sausage, you need to get it spot on first. None of this frying your egg on both sides, leave that for sandwiches. Gently spoon a little fat over the yolk as it cooks and then serve once the white around the yolk has hardened slightly.
4) Cook your bacon perfectly
The first rule with bacon is buy the best you can and buy back bacon, not streaky. Once you have cut off the rind (retain the fat!) it’s time to cook it to perfection. That may be easier said than done but if you keep an eye on it, it’s easy.
You don’t want wobbly bacon that looks like it’s come straight out of the packet but neither do you want to be tucking into a cremated piece of meat. So get it in the middle, and cook it crispy but not too crispy!
5) Use normal pork sausages
Your plain, run-of-the-mill pork sausages are what you want for a fry-up. Maybe add a little salt and pepper when cooking them but avoid adding too much else. Spicy sausages are also a big no, leave them for another meal.
Maybe add a black pudding as well if that’s what you’re into or a white pudding if you’re reading this from over the water!
6) Use cooked tomatoes
If you’re considering adding tinned tomatoes to your breakfast, just don’t. The thought of all that juice running into your beans is not worth thinking about!
Instead, either grill or preferably oven roast them and you’ll have tomatoes fit for a king!
7) Use fresh mushrooms
If you’ve got much room left, it’s time to add your mushrooms. Button or field will do the trick but just promise us you won’t use tinned, please…
8) Don’t let the beans touch the eggs
Heinz baked beans are the only kind up for discussion here. If you’re considering adding cheese or milk to them… honestly?
With that far from our minds, one of the big discussion points with beans in a fry up is how far do you keep them from your eggs? The best thing to do is keep them on the opposite side of the plate, maybe through the use of your sausages. You will probably end up eating it all together anyway but at least you’ve got that choice!
9) Have your toast on a separate plate
Whether you have your fry up with bread or toast it’s up to you but many prefer the former due to its ability to soak up all that tasty grease and bean juice. If you opt for the latter however you need to get it right. Toast means toast, so make sure it’s a decent shade of brown and not so you can’t decide if it has been in the toaster or not!
There’s no need to use any of this posh bread for a Full English Breakfast either, plain white and brown, of course, will suffice. A big must however is that it is served on a separate plate to your breakfast. That allows you to decide when it gets soaked in bean juice and egg yolk, you don’t want it turning up like a drowned rat (hope there’s none of them in the kitchen!).
Of course, if your not bothered about your arteries, there’s always a nice slice of fried bread too.
10) Hash browns, no chips!
Chips on a fry-up? Do me a favour! The only potato based food that you can get away with on a breakfast is a hash brown or two but still, it doesn’t seem right.
11) The bigger portion, the better!
If you’re happy to settle for a cheap breakfast expect one ration of each component but with a fry-up it’s the case of go large, or go home. Once you tuck into a sausage or one of your delightful fried eggs you are guaranteed to want more so make sure you order a bigger breakfast or if preparing it yourself throw in an extra rasher of bacon!
12) Eat every last bit
The simplest and most important step of all. Eat every last bit. But you don’t need us to tell you that…
How about you guys, what do you agree with or what have we missed off?
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I have used this product for some time. I have two Persians that live in my Dog Kennel. Cats seem to attract fleas more than dogs. It is very important they do not bring fleas into the kennel area to infest my dogs. I have no problem keeping everyone flea free with this product. I use Advantage for cats and for dogs. Just a tip, It works on chickens and other fowl for the barn yard flea.
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I love Advantage 11 for cats, it's user friendly and all of my cats are happy to not have fleas!
Advantage II for cats over 9 lbs
I have been using Advantage for several years and originally purchased it from our veterinarian. I am pleased with the product and have never had any problems related to its use.
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It is ridiculous that in Canada you can only purchase Advantage from a Vet, and only after you pay a hefty fee for a useless examination of your pet. My cats only go out in the yard when I am out there with them but they still need flea protection. Thank you Entirely Pets for making the transaction simple and for the quick delivery. I will use and recommend your site and service in the future.
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by ELLIE MAE06/11/2012
We have 4 cats that go inside and outside. After putting the new drops on them, they have all quit digging and scratching. I do not see any fleas on them at all. Their fur feels clean and silky. So far, so good!!
this stuff works
I have found that Advantage is much more effective in flea control on cats than Frontline is.
Repeat Happy Customer!
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Our 3 cats deserve the best! I have used this product for years and it is the best!
We have been using Entirely Pets for many, many years and recommend them highly. We have 10 cats and have used Advantage and Advantage II for a number of years and before the formula change to Advantage II, we got the advertised one month control. Now, it's protection is no more than 15-20 days. It works great, but for a much shorter period. My vet told me a number of people have told him the same thing. I don't like exposing my cats to additional chemicals, but it's the lesser evil than fleas. Thankfully, E-Pets great prices make the added costs more affordable than anywhere else.
by Mes Amis Poilus
Best product I have bought for fleas and ticks. really satisfied
great prices on flea control
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Seems to work, I always order it
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With 5 cats and strays outside, fleas can be a problem. When I put Advantage II on they are not scratching and very appreciative the next day.
Works well on cats of all ages, just pick the right size dosage.
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by cat woman12/29/2011
great product & it realy helps! controls fleas quickly!
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Works wonderfully in a very small amount of time. Made all of my cats much more comfortable.
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THIS PRODUCT GETS THE JOB DONE. NO NEED TO BUY OTHER PRODUCTS!
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This is a good product here in Michigan where we seem to have a lot of sand fleas. I have four cats, two of them are mostly outside cats when the weather is nice. The only problem I've had with the cats is when I stopped using the product in early fall. On the bright side, I found out which cat was allergic to flea saliva. All is well now.
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but I do--it is the only product working for me right now--even though the cats object to having it applied. Thanks again for a wonderful product.
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We have 8 "indoor" cats, mostly rescues, ranging in age from 8 years to 2 years. They only have access to the outside via an enclosed back porch (or on occasion two of the cats go for a walk using a leash & harness). Here in the south, we use flea drops from May to October (sometimes longer) & this product has been the best we have found and we would be lost without it!
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Works excellent. Pretty easy to apply. Cats hate it, but it's a must use.
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from PEARL RIVER, LA.02/28/2013
WORKS ON ALL MY CATS; NEED TO PURCHASE ONE THAT HAS PROTECTION FROM MITES IN THE EARS. WILL CHECK.
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from New York01/21/2013
I've tried Frontline Plus before for my cat and this Advantage works great as well. You might want to try some different ones too to mix it up.
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Have used this product before and it kills most fleas on my cats. When the problem is severe, I supplement treatment with sprays, frequent vacuuming and sprays for bedding and floors. Especially for multiple cats, I wish the price per dose would decrease.
This product (Advantage II Flea Control) is the best product for my kitties!! Easy to use and thanks to Entirely Pets, not that expensive! They have the BEST price I have found anywhere and their service was excellent!!
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from Ontario, Canada06/28/2012
I have only used this product once so far but it worked very well. AND I figured it out as I was ordering this product online...this product cost half as much as I was paying at the vet (even with the shipping costs added). I have two cats that are brothers, it is very important to me to keep my boys happy and healthy WITHOUT it affecting my budget too much. If prices are as low as this every time I need to purchase this product I may never buy it from the vet again!!! I also liked hoe convenient it was to get it 12 mnths (6 for 2 cats) of doses at one time... no feeling guilty about forgetting to make the trip to the vet to get 1 dose for each cat or not being able to afford it that month. Nobody wants a scratchy kitty!!! Thank you for making it so cost effective and convenient!!!!!
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My Vet as well as myself have never been more pleased with a flea product. Finally it is one that REALLY does what it should. NO FLEAS. I will ALWAYS use this product and the price at Entirely Pets is the BEST. I have checked them all as I have 6 indoor cats and 1 inside/outside dog and this makes bonus shopping very necessary.
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from Columbus, Ohio02/04/2013
After a number of attempts to clear up the fleas with shampoos and Frontline ( with only minimal decrease in #) - Our dogs and cats are finally flea-free with only the 1st applications of their Advantage II products
One rescued cat brought into a home with 7 cats = 8 cats with fleas
advantage II for cat over 9 lbs
this product is like a miracle it's easy to use it and work fast i am really happy to find this product less price on your website...thank a lot
from chattanooga tn09/26/2013
It is a necessity & the product works. (just don't let them see the tube)
Best product we have used for cats. Highly recommend.
Best flea product I have used
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With 14 cats, I need a product that is fast and affordable. I have found this in Advantage II for my cats. Easy to apply and fast working, I think I'm in love!!
This One Works!
by Fattyboy's Mom
from Kihei, Maui08/19/2013
Both of my cats are over 20 #'s :( and this product keeps them flea free. I've tried Frontline but they would still get fleas before the end of the month. Now, if I can only find a way to make them lose weight!!
I have purchased this product before and works great.
We have used this products (Advantage) for our cats for 10+ years. Very easy to dispence and we know it works
Used this product on my cats over 8 lbs. So far, no fleas and they are a problem in Georgia this year. Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that I needed to buy the other Advantage II (5-9 lbs) due to weight size for my other cats. Would like to use one product that covers 5-15 lbs. for cats.
Really great product.
from Bokoshe, Oklahoma05/26/2013
We have indoor and outdoor cats. We never have to worry about fleas or ticks with this product. Others I tried before, just were not nearly as effective. I also use the same brand for dogs. Never have a problem even though we live in the country, and always have fleas and ticks.
This was my first time purchasing the Advantage 2. I had read that this version doesn't have the odor of the original advantage. That is a detail that didn't make it to the website and should have. As it happens we used it for the first time today on one cat and the original on the other. Very different reactions.Usually getting flea medicine on them is stressful for the cats. The cat who got the new version didn't react the same way atleast once it got applied. It was no big deal. Maybe next time she won't run away so readily
from Burke, VA10/21/2011
This is the best way to buy the right flea control at the best price. I'll be a regular return customer!
I have been using advantage for some time. It works almost immediately and lasts for the month. Somehow, other brands have gotten one of my cats sick, but the advantage does not. Good stuff!
Excellent price and fast delivery
from hamilton, ontario03/07/2013
I ordered flea control for my 3 cats as it is quite exspensive here in Canada. it came very fast and I had no problems with the border either. I'm all ready for flea season now!!!
from Davenport Fl 3383704/07/2014
Does not kill fleas like it says. Very disappointed!!!
by Old Uncle Mikey
from San Francisco03/16/2014
The cats may not like it, but we sure do - it definitely works. One of our cats is allergic to fleas, so Advantage protects her overall health, too.
only product that worked
I help with local homeless cats, this product was the only one I could find that stopped flea infestation. I would recommend this for anyone interested in stopping the cycle.
Easy to apply if your pet is cooperative, make sure to put on back of head on cats to avoid licking and ingestion of product.
I had fleas for 2 months using Frontlineit did not do the job this year.I purchased advantage II for large cats,I applied it on the 15 of September,with in 2 days i saw NO fleas! I was Very satisfied with this product,and will continue to purchase it!
from San Jose, CA11/06/2012
This is best value I have found for this product.
from Upstate New York10/29/2013
Entirely Pets and this product has never let me down, my cats are always flea free even after roaming outdoors.
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Works to kill fleas
by Cat mom03/27/2014
I have a cat that has flea allergy. I started using this and the fleas and the dermatitis cleared up right away.
Worth the money, even better with a discount!
I moved out of a house with my cat that was really infested with fleas. I think moving helped, but I did get rid of the fleas with Pet Armor at first. Then I found deep discounts on Entirely Pets and bought this product. So far there have been 0 appearances of fleas or any flea dirt. I am satisfied with the product. I just do not like the way it is packaged. The product has never been damaged, but the boxes are almost always crushed. Otherwise, get this product when Entirely Pets has great discounts and I think you will be satisfied.
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by Flea Free in Texas
from North Texas07/05/2011
I have 7 indoor/outdoor cats and flea control is always an issue. I have used regular Advantage in the past with success but have still had to spray the carpets and furniture with flea control from time to time because of fleas hopping on us, and I would still see the occassional flea on the cats. This year, with Advantage II, no random fleas at all. I have been able to go 6 weeks between applications, too. I had tried Frontline Plus in the past with no success at all, so I was leary since Advantage II promised the same type of control. But Advantage II has turned out to be everything it advertises. I'm very pleased.
Advantage for cats
from Westport, MA06/27/2012
very good product. had trouble with frontline not working, so switched. I found this to work great on the bad flea season we had last year.
Good value for money
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One of the best deals I have found for this product. Always arrives very quickly in the mail. Very happy with product and service.
Best flea control on market
from Lansing, MI12/05/2012
Advantage ll works better than others we tried and we tried many. Does not freak my cats out. Will continue to buy at this great price.
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I have used Advantage for years. Thanks for the product. My 3 cats have now stopped scratching and itching. Cindy Hillis
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from South Florida05/30/2012
For a person with 6 large cats, being able to buy 12 packs of Advantage II Flea Control for large cats at a tremendous savings is awesome. It works just fine and I'll continue coming back for more. Thank you for offering it..
Worst purchase ever
Bought about $120 Advantage II Flea Control Large Cat and it is worhtless. Does not work.
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This is a wonderful product. NO FLEAS at all. Other products that I have used were not as effective. EntirelyPets have the best prices I have been able to find. Keep up the good work!!
from S.E. MA.11/13/2013
WORKS WELL, BUT NEEDS TO BE RE APPLIED EVERY 3-4 WKS.
Consistently excellent service
by Cat lover08/01/2012
I have purchased Avantage for my cats from Entirely Pets for several years now, and they provide consistently excellent service, at a reasonable price, from the convenience of my home. My cats all concur with each recommending it two-paws up!
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Even in Florida where bugs rule, it keeps my 2 long-haired cats flea-free.
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EntirelyPets has the best online prices I can find for Advantage. After digging around 1800PetMeds, Amazon and many other online retailers, I still order from EntirelyPets for pet products. Check retailmenot for active coupon codes.
Love the Advantage II
I love Advantage II - it seems to sting my cats less than the Advantage, and applying it once a month keeps my babies flea-free!!
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12 month advantage II Flea Control
Actually both my cats have had fleas ever since the application. I have been combing them; have been hesitant to use another application before the month expires.
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from Colonial Heights, VA05/18/2013
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The Texans moved quickly on Monday to reinforce an injury-riddled secondary in their aggressive win-now style under coach Bill O’Brien.
The team acquired cornerback Gareon Conley from the Raiders in exchange for a third-round pick in 2020.
The Texans wanted to bolster the position with both starting cornerbacks dealing with injuries and another lost for the season. Johnathan Joseph, 35, left a road loss Sunday to the Colts with a shoulder injury, and Bradley Roby remained sidelined with a strained hamstring.
The Texans lost cornerback Phillip Gaines, who started the past two games, to a severe high-ankle sprain that will require surgery. He will be placed on injured reserve because he will require at least five months recovery time, according to a league source not authorized to speak publicly.
Conley is now set to play against his former team Sunday at NRG Stadium. The move came one day after the Raiders allowed five touchdown passes and 429 yards to Aaron Rodgers in a 42-24 loss to Green Bay.
“It was a tough decision, obviously,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said Monday at a news conference following the trade. “We certainly wish Gareon the best. He’s a good young player. We want to look at some young players (rookies Trayvon Mullen and former University of Houston standout Isaiah Johnson).
“Gareon got put on a good team with a great coach that’s in playoff contention. We drafted two young corners to play. We want to get them an opportunity. It’s hard to trade him for anybody, but that’s a decision we made.”
A two-year starter, Conley has recorded 23 tackles and one interception this season. Conley, a former first-round pick from Ohio State, had three interceptions last season and one touchdown and has 67 career tackles, four interceptions and 18 passes defensed in three seasons.
The Texans used the third-round pick they had acquired from Seattle in the Jadeveon Clowney deal.
It was the latest in a series of trades this season by O’Brien, who is acting as the team’s de facto general manager.
The week before the season opener, the Texans traded their 2020 and 2021 first-round draft picks and a 2020 second-round pick to Miami to land starting left tackle Laremy Tunsil and wide receiver Kenny Stills.
They previously had acquired running back Duke Johnson from Cleveland for a conditional third-round pick if he is active for 10 games. He’s already been active for seven. The Texans also traded lineman Martinas Rankin to Kansas City for running back and leading rusher Carlos Hyde before the start of the regular season.
By acquiring Conley, the Texans add a mobile, tall corner who has struggled with consistency issues since joining the Raiders. He started every game this season, recovering from a neck injury sustained in the season opener.
The Texans’ secondary got picked on by Colts quarterback Jacoby Brissett. He exploited holes and a lack of depth to throw for a career-high 326 yards and four touchdown passes.
Gaines played all but three defensive snaps against the Colts before getting hurt. With nickel back Keion Crossen also injuried, rookie sixth-round pick Xavier Crawford was forced into the game on defense for three snaps.
The Texans like what they’ve seen from rookie Lonnie Johnson Jr., a 6-2, 213-pound second-round corner from Kentucky.
By adding Conley with Joseph up in years and Roby playing under a one-year, $10 million contract, they have a chance to pair Conley with Johnson Jr. and perhaps Roby for the future.
The injury situation increases the need for improved communication and awareness.
“You have to overemphasize it in practice,” said Joseph, who played 14 defensive snaps before getting hurt. “You have to overdo it until it’s second nature. Anytime there isn’t communication, you are asking for big plays or you’re asking for guys to run wide open.
“Anytime you insert new guys, just because there are so many moving parts out there, there are motions and different formations, so I think communication is the biggest part from a defensive standpoint. Especially in the secondary.”
The Texans didn’t look particularly confused Sunday in terms of where to match up, but the collective inexperience was a factor in the loss.
“With us being young out there and not playing as much, lack of communication could be a key,” said Johnson Jr, a second-round draft pick who played every defensive snap Sunday. “With the vets being out there, they pretty much see things a lot quicker than us younger guys.”
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If you need a New Year's Eve antidote, go see Jim Brickman in Phoenix on Dec. 31
Songwriter and pianist Jim Brickman has two concerts booked on New Year’s Eve at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Sure, it’s great for the audience, but it seems like it would be a drag for the star attraction. After all, he's working on the biggest party night of the year.
“Believe me, it actually suits my sensibility to have something like this to do on New Year’s Eve,” Brickman says during a phone call. “There’s this expectation about holidays in general: ‘OK, go have fun now!’ I’m not good at the party element like that. I think you should be able to spend your time how you want to spend it.”
And there you have the appeal of the shows. Do not expect colorful hats, streamers and drunken revelry. Instead, there will be some of his hits — lovely soft-pop staples such as “The Gift” and “Valentine” — plus holiday hymns and carols of a more traditional nature.
“This is sort of the antidote for that ‘Happy New Year!’ kind of thing,” he says. “Sometimes a lot of us stay home or don't engage in that. I kind of prefer to have a peaceful, beautiful celebration that is intimate.”
It certainly will be fun. Brickman, 55, boasts a charming stage presence. He's got a quick, unforced wit and a knack for telling engaging stories. He’s a natural at the latter; for more than two decades, he’s hosted his own syndicated radio show.
"It's just great," he says. "I get to have these long-form interviews with other musicians. Just yesterday, I had a great conversation with Bette Midler. Talking to other musicians about music — I just loving doing it."
For someone who is known primarily as an instrumentalist, Brickman actually has to talk a lot in his line of work. He holds annual weekend events, dubbed Brickman Bashes, in which he performs as well as spends one-on-one time with Brickheads, as his fans are dubbed. He says the latter half of the equation didn't always come easy.
“By nature, I’m an introvert,” he says. “Well, I guess I’m really an ambivert, because onstage I’m extremely extroverted. But it’s gotten easier, because I’ve done it for a while and I’ve grown up with it. I’m less concerned with the things that come out of my mouth. I used to edit myself more. But I find the more I'm myself, the easier it is. The more I try to be the expectation of who people think Jim Brickman is, the harder it is."
So what is the expectation? Well, there is that funny and charming thing. And he's always looked rather dashing and swoon-worthy on his album covers and promotional photos: "I should probably stop dressing like a 25-year-old at some point," he says with a laugh.
Still, the combination of heartfelt, intimate music and a likable personality have made him a quiet force to be reckoned with. He's scored more than 25 hits at adult contemporary radio; recorded with the likes of Martina McBride, Michael Bolton, Lady Antebellum and Johnny Mathis; and released more than 40 albums since his 1994 debut, "No Words."
Defining a Brickhead
The people that have turned him into a one-man industry are a diverse lot, he says.
"It's couples. It's young people who play the piano. It's people who used one of my songs at their wedding. It's massage therapists and some ethereal, new-agey kind of people. There's a spiritual side, with people who play the music at church. I'll have a Harley biker guy show up, and I'll think he's in the wrong place or his wife brought him, and he'll go, 'No, man, I'm the one that introduced your music to her!'"
He has a theory about why people connect with him.
"The music itself is so personal and so intimate," he says. "People use it for celebratory things or intimate moments, so it could be a wedding or it could be for a bubble bath. But if you look at the ways people use my music, they're very engaged and feeling things out. They understand the music is there to take to you to a calm place or to set up a mood. The people who listen feel they understand me and know me. In a fashion, writing is the way I make friends. It's like speaking, but it just happens to be melody instead of talking."
In recent years, he's even written a book, "Soothe: How to Find Calm Amid Everyday Chaos," and released a series of accompanying discs. That project came about after he was scheduled to get an MRI, and the medical technician informed him that they normally play his music to help people relax.
"That made me go, 'Wow'," he says. "My music helps people to calm and heal, and I'm a totally neurotic person. It made me start thinking about how I could attempt to dial it down a notch. I'm extremely driven and ambitious and have a million ideas, and I can't get my brain to shut off at night. Yet, at the same time, speaking through my music is my heart, and that helps people."
But what does Mr. Soothe turn to when his brain won't slow down?
"Exercise helps," he says with a laugh. "I like to hike and swim. I don't drink. The only substance I really abuse is chocolate. I don't know. I have a lot of exciting things coming and I just am very stimulated by that, and it's hard for me to sleep."
And strangely for a man whose music calms downs countless people, melody doesn't have the same effect on him.
"I'm just not that into music," he says with a sigh. "It sounds really odd and a lot of my friends tease me. Something really popular will play on the radio and I don't know it. I just don't play in the same box as everyone else."
Reach the reporter at email@example.com or 602-444-8849. Twitter.com/randy_cordova.
'Jim Brickman: A New Year's Celebration'
When: 6 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.
Where: Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix.
Details: 480-478-6000, themim.org.
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Is there such a thing as full coverage dental insurance?
This is a question we get quite often, and the short answer is no. Dental insurance will not cover every procedure you will need at 100%. Dental insurance is a tool to help protect you from extremely high dental bills, but even with the best coverage you will be paying something out of pocket. Most dental insurance will cover preventive or routine work like cleanings and exams at 100%, but coverage for basic or major work will have some limitations.
The most comprehensive dental insurance on the market typically limits coverage for basic and major work in a couple ways. First, most plans include a waiting period for basic and major services. The waiting period is typically 12-18 months of coverage under the plan, although some procedures like fillings may only have a 6-9 month waiting period. Spirit Dental has no waiting periods for Basic or Major Services. Coverage starts as soon as your plan does!
The second way dental plans limit coverage is through the use of annual maximums. An annual maximum is the maximum dollar amount an insurance plan will pay out for covered services per calendar year. This is a real concern for those needing major work because many plans have a low limit, like $1000 or $1500. If you happen to need a few thousand dollars of work, anything after that amount will not be covered. Spirit Dental offers three different annual maximums, $1200, $2500 and $3500.
But the most important restriction most plans have is no coverage at all for some procedures. Many dental plans on the market limit the number of procedures you can have in a period of time, like one crown every year. Some dental plans will not cover crowns, implants, or orthodontia at all. Details like this tend to be buried in the fine print, so it is important to look closely at what a plan covers before you decide to buy. You don’t want to get a plan that does not cover implants or crowns when you know you may need one or both of them in the future. We are happy to provide a Spirit Dental which does cover implants, crowns, and child orthodontia.
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Even before the CDC released results of a study linking sunscreen ingredients to hormone disruption and cell damage, Hulda Clark tested and found sunscreen and many other commercial body products to be polluted with toxic chemicals.
Hulda Clark tested commercially available brands of toothpaste and found every single one of them tainted with toxic chemicals. For instance, Colgate’s list of ingredients begins with fluoride, a much-debated chemical added to most water systems
My husband’s grandmother was an Irish redhead. My husband’s mother had auburn hair. Our daughter’s hair bleached blond under the sun, and darkened as she grew older. She has natural copper highlights in her hair when
Vinegar is an amazing all-purpose cleaner. It is non-toxic and food-grade, safe for the environment and for the family, even those who have asthma. It’s inexpensive, gentle on hands, and deodorizing. It removes fabric stains, soap
Modern Wife is a lifestyle blog based on the health recommendations of Hulda Clark: herbs for healing, a constant pursuit of food, body products, and household supplies free of toxic chemicals, and the Hulda Clark Zapper.
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I believe the answer is yes.
202 donated brains from former football players were examined by the Boston University CTE center. Of those who played in the NFL 110/111 had criteria that the center believes to be diagnostic of CTE.
Finding CTE in former NFL players is not breaking news. The data from men who did not participate past the college level is in a way more striking and alarming. 48 out of 53 college players' brains demonstrated pathological finding of CTE and 27 of the 53 were classified as severe. There were 14 brains from men who only played high school football and of those 3 had changes said to be typical of CTE.
This , of course, does not speak to the issue of what is the prevalence of CTE in any group of players. The data here is highly selective The brains were donated typically by family members often in part because of concern that their family member has some mental or behavioral issue.This is numerator based statistics.
Data was not presented but it seems a reasonable assumption that the college players had experienced at least 8 years of football, i.e. high school and college and likely many also took part in Pop Warner of some such youth league .It is an open issue as to whether repetitive subconcussive or concussive head blows are more likely to cause to cause damage to the young brain.It was a reassuring false believe prevalent for many years that young kids just did not hit each other hard enough to cause concussions or brain damage. Data from accelerometer measurements in helmets of youth league players have been shown to reach the range of impact forces seen in high school players so parents should have been disabused of that notion. but I doubt that most are.
The bubble wrapped,helicopted parented generation(s) of kids protected from tri-cycle falls with helmets are for the most part not discouraged from high school football and in many instances cheered on by their parents who seem not to realize why there is often an ambulance parked near the playing field.
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Have you ever translated all the text from the image, it can take even a day to manually type all the text from the images. The OCR(optical character recognition) is a fast way to convert the image to text to fasten our business processes. The OCR is an image processing technology and provides a convenient and efficient way to convert paper documents into digital format in a matter of minutes.OCR can be a great source of improving the productivity and communication of your organization. We may wonder how the OCR algorithms work for image to text conversions. When you extract text from an image there is a special scheme of an algorithm in place. The OCR tools are readily able to convert all the image files into text files for further use.
The working of the OCR Algorithm:
The ordinary scanners or photocopiers actually create the raster images or the collection of white and black dots on paper. The OCR algorithm actually reads all the dots and shapes for those images and converts them into words. The words are converted into sentences by accessing the original page. This is done by looking done each line of the image and with the OCR photo to text converter and figuring what each dot represents as a number or letter. The charterer recolonization of the OCR technology is amazing as it recognizes characters and then covers them into words or letters. The working of the OCR technology can be distinguished by the various specifications of the OCR technology like the language and the character reorganization.
Specifications of the OCR technology:
There are several OCR photo to text converter readers especially designed for a specific purpose, the main characteristic of the OCR algorithm is as follows:
- Character Recognition accuracy
- Page layout and construction accuracy
- Page layout and reconstruction accuracy
- Multiengine voting accuracy
- Support for various languages
- Support for searchable PDF output documents
- Speed of processing
- User interface and friendliness for user
These specifications are making an OCR better than another photo to text converter as it makes it more productive for the user. Some of the OCR software can recognize up to 200 languages around the world, which can be quite amazing as almost all the languages can be recognized by these OCR images to text online.
The OCR algorithm benefits:
When we are discussing the OCR algorithm, it recognizes the character from the printed sources and converts them into the image to text online. Once the files are converted into text files these are in digital format and ready to use. The digital format is easily searchable and editable. The OCR scanners are easily customized which is ideal for reducing the paperwork. The industries which have benefited from the OCR technology are Banks, Education Institutions, Legal companies, Insurance companies, and telecommunications, a s they need enormous data to convert from g by the photo to text converter.
The various benefits of image to text conversion for the businesses are as follows:
- Reading the Printed documents
- Scanning the image to text
- Coloring the documents according to your own desire
- Avoid proofreading the business documents
- The layout of the pages is corrected automatically
- Save a lot of your precious time
When You are using the OCR technology to image to text converter, you are saving a lot of business time. The accuracy of the OCR algorithm is excellent and you can rely on the accuracy as you are extracting the information from the first-hand business documents. This would save a lot of time and no need for proofreading the documents.
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IBO May 2017 Evening Meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 10th, doors open 6:30 p.m. and meeting starts at 7:15 p.m. at Scandinavia House
Guest Speaker: Joanne Bloomfield
Guest Speaker: Joanne Bloomfield, President of The Marketing Boutique, Marketing Communications and Neuromarketing Lecturer, and Fellow of the Royal Chartered Institute of Marketing
Originally from the United Kingdom, Joanne’s experience in marketing and graphic design spans 30 years. Her role as a marketing agency owner and consultant began 21 years ago when she founded her first agency. She is currently the President of The Marketing Boutique, a highly creative agency specializing in branding and campaigns.
Throughout the course of her career, Joanne has become a leader in the field of Neuromarketing, term which refers to the application of neuroscience in everyday marketing. Neuromarketing is a relatively new discipline that is transforming how marketeers interact with consumers on a B2C and B2B basis. Joanne is at the forefront of this field and lectures on Marketing Communications and Neuromarketing in universities throughout Europe and the USA.
Joanne is also an accomplished graphic designer, an expert communications strategist both online and offline, and has been published in 7 countries worldwide.
She has a proven track record of delivering highly effective direct marketing campaigns and has been nominated for several national direct marketing awards, including the Best Low Volume B2B Direct Marketing Campaign.
Members and and first time non-members may attend free of charge.
Registration open to members and guests.
Become a new member of the IBO.
Renew your 2017 IBO membership.
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Wilson MA, Blondefield PJ. Teaching “Doctoring”: A Model Curriculum for Family Medicine. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2007;107(1):30–34. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2007.107.1.30.
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The authors present a model of an interdisciplinary, longitudinal (lifecycle), generalist “doctoring” course that spans the first 2 years of osteopathic medical education and training. This course is intended to run concurrently with a nongeneralist curriculum and to link this curriculum sequentially. The educational topics and objectives show a unique alignment with anatomy and osteopathic principles. The course encompasses (1) logical sequencing of curricular content; (2) a strong interconnection between the didactic and clinical practice experiences throughout the continuum of education and training; (3) additional exposure to clinical applications during the early and formative stages of medical education; and (4) additional coverage of specific clinical competency areas.
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PRINCETON, MA (WHDH) - The Worcester County District Attorney said a vehicle is now being sought in connection with the murder of a jogger in Princeton over the summer.
DA Joseph Early said a dark-colored SUV was seen around the time of Vanessa Marcotte’s murder on Aug. 7.
Marcotte, a Boston University graduate who worked for Google in New York City, was in Princeton visiting family when she went out for a jog that afternoon. She did not return and family members called police. Her body was found in the woods not far from her family’s home off Brooks Station Road that evening.
Witnesses said the dark-colored SUV was seen parked on Brooks Station Road around the time Marcotte’s murder is thought to have occurred. It was parked near where her body was found.
State Police added that the male suspect was believed to have head injuries after the incident and are asking the public to consider anyone who may fit this description and had access to a dark-colored SUV and been around the Princeton area at the time.
Anyone with information on the SUV or the murder is asked to call the tip line at 508-453-7589.
(Copyright (c) 2017 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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The Giants won, and that is amazing. I would never be able to express how much that means to me and my City. We need to also put into perspective what is happening in Sports and relate it to our own business models.
The Yankees have bought the best team imaginable, yet they didn’t win. The Texas Rangers had the best offense in the league but they didn’t win. Texas is more humble than NY so we like them a whole lot better. It reminds me of a night in Vegas when one of our convention attendees just announced “Just follow the New Yorker…” like the rest of us from all across the world were just schmucks. Arrogance, even when substantiated, is not attractive. After the “New Yorker” was slicing logs dreaming of Steinbrenner’s underwire, my now wife took a couple of our friends to the bar under the waterfall of the Bellagio. We were blessed to attend their wedding in India a little over a year ago. Flash has its limitations. Steinbrenner is dead and Jeeter is as old as my mother. Confidence is good, arrogance is not. In the new “Social” technology it’s all about the no crap offering of an added value and a no-bullshit way of offering it. The New York Yankees are great, but old, both literally and figuratively. People that work that way will be old very soon – if not literally, then certainly figuratively. The Giants are the new “America’s team” from sea to shining sea. My brothers all over the country embrace them. It’s not because they were the best team, although at the end they were certainly gaining traction and probably could have won 8 out of 10 more playoff games. The love affair for these guys is that they pulled together as a team. Barry Zito was a quintessential example. His end of year was disappointing, but if any of his 9 wins were omitted they wouldn’t have been at City Hall yesterday. Left off the playoff roster, he still joined the team and pitched batting practice throughout the series, without grumbling. His Zen wouldn’t let his ego acknowledge that he is still the highest paid pitcher on the staff. Let us all, in business, learn from what a few “misfits “can do working together, with humility, for a common goal.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Billy Joel, Elton John, Ray Charles, Freddie Mercury, Peter Allen… the list goes on. Kings of the Keys celebrates the timeless music of illustrious rock and roll piano royalty.
This epic show is more than just a tribute to the artists, it is a true celebration of the music and its inspiration.
A rockumentary-style commentary will seamlessly guide you through the expertly curated playlist that includes recent chart toppers and one-hit wonders, alongside classics such as I Go to Rio, Rocket Man, New York State of Mind, Walking in Memphis, Bohemian Rhapsody and, of course, Piano Man – plus many more.
Vocalist Liam Cooper leads the show on grand piano backed by a killer live band of drums, bass, guitar and trio of horns.
With 20 years’ performance experience, Liam is a regular on the Sydney live music scene. He has 5 million hits on SoundCloud for his covers of Piano Man, Hey Jude, and Rocket Man. Plus 10 million views on YouTube for an elaborate musical cinema marriage proposal that went viral in 2015, and still attracts thousands of views every day.
Who is Liam Cooper? He is more than a talented musician, he’s a musical entrepreneur. A performer and an ‘ideas man’ – Liam devotes himself 100% to music, his one true passion, translating his love of the craft into a flourishing career.
With a musical adventure that began as a small child, Liam had already performed in front of thousands of people at Sydney's Entertainment Centre for the NSW School’s Spectacular, sung the National Anthem at ANZ Stadium for the Sydney Olympics 10 Year Anniversary and entertained audiences at Tom Jones’ and Lady Gaga’s sold-out Sydney shows – all before graduating from high school.
While completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the Uni of Wollongong, Liam became a regular on the Sydney live music scene, performing in a variety of locations from a late night solo spot in a Manly bar to a lazy Sunday afternoon in one of the many clubs in Sydney’s Inner West.
Now, Liam is an in-demand soloist entertainer for hip venues, weddings, private parties and corporate events across Sydney and regional NSW.
🌻In Loving Memory of Jane Major-Smith
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Nominated for: BEST Local Bands
Rockbottom plays locally in the Akron, Cleveland, and Canton,
Ohio areas. Rockbottom is a "Party" rock band offering a wide
variety of music from the 70's to now! Always looking for new
rockin' places to play!
Do you love Rock Bottom? Be the first to vote for them!
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On Monday 1st June, we will be doing a social crawl of Hepworth, Jackson Bridge, Scholes.
Catch the 19:07 310 First Bus from Huddersfield Bus Station to Hepworth arriving around 19:45.
Then walk down to Jackson Bridge.
Then walk up to Scholes.
Catch the 21:53 310 First Bus from Scholes back to Huddersfield Bus Station (arr 22:28).
We hope to see you there.
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The Afghan Foreign Ministry on Friday expressed appreciation to the Paris Council for honoring Afghanistan’s National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud by naming a square after him.
The ministry said the unanimous decision by the Paris Council shows the depth of friendly ties between Afghanistan and France.
The ministry said that honoring national figures like the national hero of Afghanistan by friend countries not only deepens friendly ties between nations but also strengthens unity among countries in the world in jointly fighting terrorism, ensuring peace and stability and honoring modern and universal values.
Arnaud Ngatcha, deputy of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and in charge of international relations said on Twitter that "Paris is the first city in the world to honor the peace veteran who fought for the freedom of Afghanistan and against the Taliban's obscurantism."
The proposal to commemorate Massoud in Paris was supported by his longtime friend, philosopher, intellectual and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy, according to Anadolu news agency.
“This decision is a clear testimony of the friendship that the French people have with the Afghan people for a century. It is also a sign of great admiration and great support that French people have always had for Commander Massoud,” French ambassador in Kabul David Martinon said. “We have to remember that it is no later than March 1980 just after the Soviet invasion that the first French doctors came to Panjshir to create a small hospital. Thanks to Ahmad Shah Massoud who welcomed them.”
He said that Ahmad Shah Massoud’s legacy is long-lasting and enduring in Afghanistan and that his image is the image of a man of great integrity and great courage. “We acknowledge this legacy which is absolutely needed today in Kabul and in Afghanistan.”
The move was also welcomed by Afghans on social media within the country and abroad.
Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, welcomed the gesture.
“Indeed, Massoud was a man of peace whose unwavering commitment to the cause transcended national borders. Massoud’s perpetual struggle and the ultimate sacrifice for freedom and justice will inspire future generations for a long time to come,” he said in a tweet.
First Vice President Amrullah Saleh thanked France for the move.
“I owe Massoud. We owe him. Afghanistan owes him. RIP the last humane, graceful and larger than life freedom commander,” he said.
Massoud’s son Ahmad Massoud also thanked Levy and Hidalgo for recognizing his father’s contributions to peace, justice and freedom in Afghanistan.
“Afghanistan and France’s friendship has deep roots and we will never forget the contributions and assistance that the French nation provided throughout history. My father admired France's history of defending these values and for this reason, he cherished his friendship with the French people,’’ he said on Twitter.
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Announcing PopDev’s New Policy Analysts
The Population and Development Program (PopDev) is pleased to welcome four new policy analysts, including prominent feminist scholars and activists who address key issues of population, environment and reproductive health and justice in their work:
- Rajani Bhatia, Assistant Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, SUNY at Albany
- Ellen F. Foley, Associate Professor, International Development and Social Change, Clark University
- Jade S. Sasser, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
- Susanne Schultz, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
In this troubling political time, population growth is increasingly blamed for climate change, instability and violence, mass migration, species extinction, land degradation and scarcity. Too often, the abuses of population control and the damaging hyperbole of the “population bomb” are forgotten, downplayed or rationalized as necessary in the rush to address current crises. At the same time, population alarmism contributes to rising nationalisms and white supremacy movements, anti-immigrant biases, and the return of targets in powerful international family planning programs. These can overtly, and sometimes unintentionally, stoke unacceptable racialized and gendered stereotypes of the “too fertile” and “too many.”
PopDev is dedicated to recognizing and supporting those who challenge these dangerous framings of population and who uphold reproductive and environmental justice. PopDev recognizes solidarity work and collaboration as vital to effectively understanding and challenging population alarmism. In this vein, PopDev is deeply grateful for the contributions of this new group of policy analysts to the field and to the program.
At the same time, PopDev recognizes Betsy Hartmann’s incomparable contributions to the program. Betsy, who is Professor Emerita of Development Studies at Hampshire College and the previous PopDev Director (1987 – 2014), is stepping down as PopDev’s Senior Policy Analyst this month. She has served in this role since September 2014, offering her insightful political commentary. Betsy will continue to advise PopDev on an informal basis. PopDev is grateful for her generosity, wisdom and support.
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Great question today after the launch event in Cork!
Part of my demo of the more granular security model of SQL Server 2005 involved showing how only one user had access to a symmetric key that was used to decrypt credit card information.
I was asked if it's possible to prevent the DBA (database administrator) from having the ability to decrypt certain data stored in the database. That would facilitate a scenario that this Partner had in mind that would allow their organization to deploy a highly sensitive database.
The SQL Server 2005 team very thoughtfully (and rapidly!) came back with this great article summarizing Security in SQL Server 2005 and beyond.
Short answer: yes. And if you're curious, read the article, it's great!
P.S. I really enjoyed having dinner last night with Robert Scoble, Tom Raftery and the other bloggers after the highly successful and engaging IT @ Cork event - more on that soon, but first, dinner!
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In a world of growing nationalism, a quiet few are determined to resist. This gripping historical mystery explores the darkest days of the early 20th century.
Peter Steiner has given us a work of Historical Fiction with a lot of truth in the mix.
WWI has been lost. Germany is in chaos and the new government isn’t anything to brag about. Everyone is in some way corrupted. Detective Willi Geismeier has a front-row seat to the rise of Adolph Hitler.
You have Fascism and Communism and violence everywhere. This is a country that needs a leader desperately. Unfortunately, that leader comes in the shape of Adolph Hitler. Everything is politicized and investigations of crimes become impossible.
We also have the viewpoints of Maximillian and his wife, Sophie, a reporter. Together they will fight to stay alive, knowing that things are not going to end well for many.
This was a historical fiction story with a whole lot of truth behind it. It moved fast and I really enjoyed seeing Munich in the 1920s through the eyes of those who were there. Good plot, good characters, and a fast pace. Well Done!
NetGalley Reviews/ Severn House September 3rd, 2019
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Units of Measure
While Imperial dimensions and thread standards remain popular in America, engineering calculations benefit from the metric system, and in particular the SI, or MKS (meter-kilogram-second) system.
A number of dimensional units are employed when discussing positioning systems, and some may not be familiar to all users. The fundamental units are those of distance, mass, time, and temperature; all other units can be derived from these (we neglect here the equally fundamental Ampere, mole and Candela).
Time is employed uniformly in both the Imperial and SI systems; we have the second, millisecond (10-3), microsecond (10-6), and nanosecond (10-9). Confusion creeps in where mass and force are concerned: in the SI system, the unit of mass is the kilogram, and the unit of force is the Newton. Weight is the gravitational force on a body and is proportional to its mass, W=mg. A kilogram force is the weight of 1-kg mass, and is equal to 9.81 Newtons or 2.2 pounds. The Imperial pound, ounce, etc. are actually units of force despite the fact that you can “convert” kilograms to pounds by multiplying by ~2.2; the units have taken a beating. The Imperial unit of mass is, of course, the slug; in general, it’s better to forget the Imperial units, and stick to SI.
The SI unit of angle is the dimensionless radian, which is the plane angle whose arc length is equal to its radius. A full circle has 2Š radians, and common subdivisions include the milliradian (10-3), microradian (10-6), and nanoradian (10-9). The Imperial system, which is probably more familiar, divides a circle into 360 degrees; each degree into 60 minutes of arc; and each minute of arc into 60 seconds of arc (or more simply, arc-seconds). For comparison purposes, a radian is ~57.3 degrees, one arc-second is very nearly 5 microradians, and there are 1,296,000 arc-seconds in a full circle. The positioning community is fairly fond of degrees and arc-seconds, and as there is less ground for confusion here than was the case for mass and force, we employ both systems of angular units, as we wish.
The most common positioning units are those of length, for which the SI unit is the meter. Common subdivisions include the millimeter (10-3 m), micrometer (also called the micron, at 10-6 m), and nanometer (10-9 m). Since we are now working with applications whose resolutions are sub-nanometer, we should probably include the picometer, at 10-12 m. The chart below places these units in relation to both their Imperial counterpart (the inch), and recognizable objects of matching dimensions.
Torque is expressed in SI units by the Newton-meter; the corresponding Imperial unit is either the ounce-inch or the foot-pound. The SI units for linear and torsional stiffness are Newtons/meter and Newton-meters/radian, respectively; the Imperial equivalents are pounds/inch and ounce-inches/degree.
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This strap is great matches my mat that i alreaady have. I no longer need to fold my mat roll it up and place standing up. Now when i attend a hot yoga also, I will feel i fit in also-hehehe. But this product is great. Thanks Gaiam
Ok my friends, this brick and its strap ar the best thing to have. Especailly when one is a noivice to yoga, and the pose needs to be correct inorder to reach one's inner self. I love this product because it allows me to do the poses correctly while i build strength so i can do it without or with. Either or the poses are done correctly and one enjoys the benefits!!!! Thanks Gaim!!
I was not to thrill with this dvd, because I think the instructor is too demanding on us in trying to remeber each move after 5mins of additional moves. All segments should just flow and move on to new moves
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Recruitment is just one giant, week-long interview. Sure, you wear trendy outfits and you talk to girls who will one day stand by your side when you get married but that doesn’t change the fact that for a week you’re going to have to go door to door and sell yourself. I know we say it’s a “mutual selection process.” And that’s true. But the way to get selected? Is by putting your best self forward. And so as you get ready to make hours of small talk, walking around in the August sun pretending that you’re not sweating your face off, and crying more than once, let me give you a little heads up.
You need to know what you’re going to say.
You might think that it’ll just flow, and with some girls, it will. But no matter how many great connections you have, you will, without a doubt, be asked these questions multiple times a day. The sooner you have your answers polished, the closer you’ll be to getting a bid to your dream house.
1. How’s Recruitment Going?
This is, without a doubt, the first question you’ll be asked. You just walked in. Girls were grinning and singing in your face. You were awkward about it. It’s fine. Once the music is over some girl who looks painfully pretty is going to turn to you and blurt this out. Have an answer ready. Yeah, it’s hot. Yeah, it’s weird. You can say that. Hell, you can even complain juuuust a little bit — about your feet, about it being a little overwhelming, about being nervous — but be sure to end on a positive note.
Example: “It’s exciting! At first I had no idea what to expect. The doors opened and I was like ‘whaaaat is going on’ *insert laugh here.* But overall it’s been really great! I’m excited to meet everyone and it’s really awesome finally seeing all of the different chapters.”
2. What Year Are You?
They want to know if you’re a freshman. If you’re not a freshman, they want to know what’s going on. While you need to be honest, you also need to answer this question correctly because it’s actually really important. You should answer this based around how many years you have left in school. Say you’re a sophomore, but you changed your major or whatever so you’ll still be there four years, tell them that. They want to know how long you’re going to be in the chapter. If you’re going to be there less than four years, explain why you didn’t go through recruitment before, and what you’re excited for when joining. It seems dumb, but this question can make or break you. Or your bid.
Example: “Technically I’m a sophomore, but I just changed my major to [something fantastic]. Because of that, I’ll actually be here for four years.”
Or “I’m a sophomore. When a lot of my friends went Greek last year, I was a little unsure. But after getting to know their sisters and seeing all that Greek life has to offer, I knew I had to go through this year. I’m so excited to be a part of [name an event] and get involved in [something whether it’s philanthropy, dance, or something else with the chapter].
3. What’s Your Major?
Easy peasy. What is it? If you haven’t decided yet, don’t say you don’t know. Discuss what you’re considering and leaning towards or talk about how excited you are to figure it out. The chapter wants driven girls with good GPAs, so at least act motivated, even if you aren’t feeling it.
Example: “I actually haven’t declared one yet. I’m really interested in business or music. I can’t wait to take some classes and figure it out. What about you? What helped you decide?”
4. Why Did You Decide To Go Through Recruitment?
Maybe it’s for the parties. Yeah, we get to go to those. Maybe it was for the prestige. Yeah, we have that. Maybe you liked the idea of having “ready-made” friends or just wanted people to go out with. Whatever your answer is, you need to have something better than that. Whether you were on a dance team, feeling lonely in school, or whatever other bullshit (or not bullshit, I don’t know your life) excuse you want to make, you need to answer something that doesn’t make you sound like an asshole. Sure, you’ll have someone to get drunk on a Tuesday with and yes, you’ll meet plenty of guys. But there actually *is* more to being Greek than that. Now’s your time to show that you know that. Important.
Example: “I was part of my dance team in high school and I loved how close we all got. The support system was my favorite part of high school, and now coming into college I’m looking for that.”
5. What Are You Looking For In A Chapter?
This goes hand-in-hand with the previous question. Sure, you want sisters to carry you out of a bar if you’ve had too much and set you up with cute formal dates. And you’ll get that — promise. And the girls talking to you know that. Now is not the time to say it. Talk about how you want sisters. You want to be a part of something bigger than yourself. You want leadership positions. Just take all of these key phrases and spout them out. And it doesn’t hurt to throw some Netflix in there either.
Example: “I really want a true sisterhood. I want a group of women who support me and push me to be my best. Growing up I had brothers and I always wanted that sister connection. I plan on getting really involved in [insert some key word here, whether it’s exec, philanthropy, campus communication] and would love to make a difference in the chapter I’m a part of. Plus, if there are people to always watch “Grey’s” with, that’s a huge plus.”
6. What Do You Like To Do In Your Free Time?
Maybe you like doing weed in your free time. And underage drinking! And don’t forget your boyfriend. Or your sort-of-boyfriend. That’s all cool and ~relateable~ but if you even think about saying any of those things during recruitment you should save yourself the application fee and just drop out. Recruitment is the time to show yourself in the best light (read: lie). What do you like to do in your spare time? Maybe it’s working out. Maybe it’s blogging about your *eye roll* travels. Maybe it’s part-time modeling (read: your friend takes pictures of you sitting in the forest behind your house). Whatever it is, make it sound good and make it sound like you do stuff other than stalk your ex and watch Hulu.
Example: “I’m actually super into writing. I recently started a blog and have absolutely loved it! I also like working out (well if you can count dragging myself to the gym “working out” lol). Other than that I really love spending time with my friends and [insert relatable activity here].
7. What Were You Into In High School?
There you go! What were you into, besides skipping class and hanging out in your boyfriend’s car? Was it dance? Cheer? Yearbook? Nothing? Whatever it was, sell it. And if it was nothing, really think about how to make that sound better. This is an easy segue into what you *want* to be involved in in college and what you hope to add to the chapter.
Example: “I was in a few different clubs, like Spanish and dance, but ultimately I liked to spend my time doing photography! I’d do photo shoots for all of my friends and I got this amazing camera as a graduation present. I’ve been looking into some photography classes to take this semester, and I’ve love to help with pictures and videos in the chapter. Do you have a chair or anything for that sort of thing?
8. What’s Your Wine Preference?
Jk, jk. We’ll get to that one after initiation.
What it all comes down to is be yourself. Be the self who doesn’t talk about sex, drugs, drinking, boys, or partying. Find connections with girls and just have a conversation. Whether it’s about books, TV shows, tattoos, or just Greek life, get to know more about the girl you’re talking to, and she’ll want to know more about you. The biggest secret? Everyone loves talking about themselves. And if all else fails, just say the word sisterhood a lot. After Bid Day? That’s when you can start talking about the good stuff. Hang tight, you’re almost there..
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I spent the first eight years of my working life in a line technology role with a third-party supply chain and logistics service provider, joining in 1990 on completing an IT degree. When I left, I wa...
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Graduating from the University of Sheffield with a degree in politics, I never expected my career to be at the forefront of technology. Over ten years at Accenture, however, I built my career leading challenging IT-enabled change programmes across Europe for a range of consumer goods and pharmaceutical companies. I also spent two years working in their not-for-profit business unit, but after that I was up for a new challenge. Berkeley offered me the opportunity to accelerate my development, working closely alongside senior clients and taking greater personal responsibility for building some great client relationships and the promise of succeeding with them, rather than doing something to them. I jumped at the chance.
At Berkeley, I enjoyed the sheer breadth of clients and their challenges, as well as the subtly but crucially different mode of working with them. My work ranged from setting a new organisational strategy at a UK fund manager, via designing the ideal branch network for a retailer, through to programme management of a huge data centre migration in a manufacturing organisation. I developed an increasing expertise and interest in the evolution of DevOps practices along the way – an example of Berkeley’s experienced but intellectually curious outlook stretching its consultants and challenging the preconceptions we pick up over the course of our careers. Berkeley also continued to support my efforts working for a series of charitable causes.
After more than 6 years with Berkeley, the opportunity came up to join a media consultancy business as their CTO. This fitted brilliantly with my passion for unlocking the value of emerging technologies and developing the organisational culture required to pull this off. I had open and honest conversations with the partners – and Berkeley were very supportive in my move in-house at a client. My role at CRC Group is to lead the development of technology and data-enabled aspects of our businesses, transforming our strategy and organisation in this area to achieve this. Of course, the move after 16 years in consulting into an industry leadership role brings new challenges and was a tough decision for me to take. But it was the right challenge for me at that juncture and Berkeley had proven the perfect place to hone my consulting skills, broaden and deepen my professional perspectives and ultimately to prepare and position me for this new role.
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Yesterday, despite widespread opposition, the Senate confirmed Alexander Acosta as our new Secretary of Labor. It is a disappointing turn of events, but not one we cannot overcome.
Acosta’s record of positions and actions harmful to America’s 12 million restaurant workers are no secret. This makes his confirmation all the more appalling. During his tenure at the Department of Justice, he supported efforts to suppress black voters. While a U.S. Attorney, he gave a wealthy business man accused of soliciting underaged prostitutes a light sentence.
There’s more. In 2003, he voted in favor of firing hospital strikers. Later, he disregarded an employer’s efforts to intimidate workers attempting to form a union. He even voted in the minority against penalization of a company guilty of misconduct.
The job of the Secretary of Labor is to protect our nation’s most vulnerable workers from exploitation. The job of the Senate is to carefully and rigorously vet anyone nominated for such a critical role. Our government has failed us on both counts. At his hearing before the Senate HELP Committee, Acosta repeatedly dodged important questions regarding protections for women and low wage workers. That should have been disqualifying. Unfortunately, the Senate thought otherwise.
We cannot be deterred. Resistance to the Trump Administration’s dangerous agenda is growing. From our campaign for One Fair Wage, to our leadership and avid support for Monday’s nationwide May 1 Strike; ROC is committed to this fight. But we cannot do it without you.
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Section: New York > Printer-Friendly Version
Charter School at Tweed Probed for Test Tampering
By ELIZABETH GREEN,
June 2, 2008
The city's Department of Education is investigating a charter school housed in its own headquarters building following an allegation that student scores on a state test were doctored.
The brainchild of the multimillionaire philanthropist Courtney Ross, the charter school is publicly funded but privately run. It is modeled on an eponymous private school Mrs. Ross runs in the Hamptons.
In opening the school, Mrs. Ross received support from New York University, of which she is a trustee, as well as from the Department of Education, which authorized the school and even donated space in its own headquarters to house it.
For the past two years, uniformed children wearing Ross Global insignia on their sweaters have shared Tweed Courthouse's ground floor with suited bureaucrats.
In that time period, relations between department officials and Ross Global administrators have soured.
Department officials last week described their concerns regarding Ross as "serious" and left open the possibility that the school could be placed on "probation" — a danger signal to parents and administrators — or even shut down.
"All the options are on the table," the department's executive director of charter schools, Michael Duffy, said. "Substantial issues have been raised with regard to performance at this school, and we take those very seriously."
The concerns follow two years of trouble.
Saying working conditions were chaotic, many teachers quit and many were fired in the middle of the last school year, and nearly all staff members chose not to return to the school this year. Before Ms. Clagnaz's abrupt departure in May, eight staff members had left by the middle of this school year, a school official said.
Many parents also pulled their children out last year, complaining of violence, disorder, and a disappointing curriculum.
Staff members and parents shared their letters with The New York Sun on condition of anonymity; several said that after leaving they had signed documents promising not to speak to the press about the school.
"Please, please help the other children that still attend Ross," one parent wrote in a letter to the department. "I am frightened about them not having a chance to succeed."
One group of parents and teachers sent their complaints in bulk, walking the winding staircase that separates the school from department officials to hand-deliver their letters.
Members of Ross Global's board of trustees insist that their school is not in crisis. They say the school has turned an important corner in its second year, pointing to improvement in measures such as the percentage of parents who plan to re-enroll their children next year — up to 92% from 72% last year, they say — and that the school now has a balanced budget.
The officials said Ms. Clagnaz departed as a result of a mutual agreement with the board made after it conducted a review of her performance.
Ms. Clagnaz remains the official principal, though she left permanently in the middle of May.
The assistant principal, Julie Johnson, is handling her duties, but there is no acting principal in the building for the duration of the school year.
At least four school heads served and left before Ms. Clagnaz. One resigned before the school even opened. Another who was hired after an extensive search served less than 60 days but was paid nearly $54,000, a department investigation found.
Ms. Clagnaz had taken the reins when the allegation of test-tampering was made last year, by a former staff member.
The teacher wrote to the state and city education departments to say he had witnessed Ms. Clagnaz take two sets of state math tests home with her before turning them in to be graded.
State rules mandate that principals keep tests in "secure storage" immediately after students take them, and principals sign certificates vowing to have done so.
According to the teacher's letter, before Ms. Clagnaz took the letters home, she asked another teacher to write an answer key for her.
That teacher, Stephanie Gantz, who has since left Ross Global, confirmed the letter's account.
She said she did not know what the principal had done with the tests after receiving her makeshift answer key. Under pressure to show good results, the school had mounted a so-called math camp three weeks before the exam to prepare students, four former teachers said in interviews. Administrators hired a group of private tutors to run the camp.
Ross Global officials said they were cooperating with the investigation and knew nothing more about it than what had been reported by the teacher.
Reached by telephone last week, Ms. Clagnaz confirmed that she has left the school but did not say why she left.
Asked about the test-tampering allegation, she said, "I'm not going to address that. I don't know anything about that."
Ms. Johnson said there was no "math camp" this year.
Teacher turnover is another concern.
Eight staff members departed at the middle of this school year, including two main teachers; four associate teachers, and two language teachers, a member of the board of directors, Nicolas Combemale, said.
Several teachers said they left because they felt the school's chaotic nature was hurting students.
"I never quit anything in my life," Ms. Gantz said. "It was just a disservice for me to stay at the school and work for her, for those children. I wasn't doing them any good."
Mr. Combemale also pointed out as a positive that only 10 of 37 teachers do not plan to return to Ross next year. He said parents are also pleased, and that the school's waiting list is growing and now includes almost 300 names.
To parents of prospective students, the image Ross Global Academy projects is gleaming. Every student gets a free Apple laptop, and lessons in Chinese begin in kindergarten. To enhance the school's focus on globalization and cultural history, classrooms are lined with Roman sculptures.
In interviews, parents of children at the school said Ross Global has not lived up to its promises. They described a chaotic environment and said the curriculum is still more test-focused and rudimentary than the elaborate themed idea described in brochures.
Several said they were unhappy that summer school was abruptly canceled for this summer, and that another promise, Saturday school, has dissolved to an optional day that many children no longer attend from a mandatory staple.
The Roman sculptures seem symbolic of the damage done: Their smooth, alabaster-white torsos have been chipped, exposing areas of brown base.
A former teacher, Heather Dallas, said the children had broken the sculptures. "They would throw things on them, they would hang on them, they would take crayons and actually color on them," she said. "They broke off the finger, they broke off the penis — whatever would cross a fifth- or sixth-graders' mind to do with a naked statue in their room."
Some parents have given up hope that the school will pull out of its slump; others already see signs of progress.
"The potential of what we are to become outweighs any of the current problems that we're going through," one father, Ian Pearce, said.
Another parent, Reada Edelstein, said she plans to keep her daughter at Ross for the sake of stability.
Ms. Edelstein said she does not fault the Department of Education but the school's board of trustees for permitting what she described as constant chaos.
Besides Mrs. Ross, perhaps the most prominent member of the board is the dean of the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, Mary Brabeck.
In an interview last week, Ms. Brabeck said the school, one of 25 partner schools to NYU, has shown "tremendous progress" this year.
Mrs. Ross is the widow of a former Time Warner chairman, Steve Ross. She has appeared on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans twice, and she has donated some of her own money to the charter school.
Her publicist at Rubenstein Public Relations did not respond to a request to interview Mrs. Ross.
Ross Global Academy was founded two years after Mrs. Ross's daughter, Nicole, made a gift to NYU in honor of her mother.
The gift endowed a professorship: the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Education and Globalization.
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Sunday, 04 May 2014
I have been trying to declutter my house in recent months, throwing out a lot of accumulated possessions that are of no use to anyone. However, one particular crate of apparent 'junk' had to be kept: that containing 30 years of my garden journals. A motley collection of assorted exercise books, hardback ledgers and spiral-bound notepads, they tell the story of my gardening odyssey.
When I began the first book, in April 1984, I'd had a garden for about two years and it was comprised of plants bought from the local nursery along with cuttings from my parents' Blue Mountains garden. I solemnly recorded every plant I had growing - a medley of annuals, along with a few shrubs and perennials, with no rhyme or reason to their planting. At that stage, anything that actually grew simply enthralled me, but I loved annuals because they grew quickly and didn't take too long to flower. I pompously opined my 'theories' of gardening - which make for entertaining reading three decades later!
I knew few plant names, and plants in the journal were referred to as 'blue-flowering shrub' or 'groundcover thing'. I knew no other gardeners at that time, but shortly afterwards I joined a local garden club, and soon the journal entries included references to some of the people I had met and the plants they gave me, and gardens I visited with the club. There were a number of very experienced and knowledgeable gardeners in the club and they very kindly took me under their wing and taught me much. Very gradually, I began to learn the proper names of some of the plants - this eventually led to an obsession with correct Latin names, all recorded faithfully in my garden journals. Gardening tips and techniques that were passed on to me or which I read about were all jotted down: how to sow seeds, how to take cuttings, how to mulch ... Later I joined other groups and met gardeners who have become dear friends over the years and whose plants have enriched my garden beyond measure.
I began to read a wide variety of gardening books, and I wrote down useful information I had gleaned from these books in my journal, even quite lengthy quotes from some of the books. I drew endless diagrams of how the garden looked and how I wanted it to look in the next year. I recorded what new plants I had put in, plants I wanted to get one day and plants I had promised to give other people. I was desperate to have an English-style cottage garden - all the rage in the 1980s. Many of the plants I wanted to grow were - in retrospect - hilariously unsuited for the Sydney climate, but try most of them I did, and reported back to my journal on how they had performed. As the years rolled by, I eventually worked out what thrived and what didn't, and had some epiphanies - such that plants from warmer climates did better in Sydney than plants from cold climates! This should have been pretty obvious from the start, but when I began gardening, the ideal was the cool-climate garden and many of us tried to emulate this. In the 1990s, there was a burgeoning interest in tropical-style planting and this helped me explore many plants I had never grown before, with greater success.
After a few years, I found I was looking beyond the individual plants and wanting to combine them together to form pleasing garden pictures, and realising that the structure of the garden is equally - if not more - important than the plants themselves. I noted in my journals planting combinations that I liked in gardens that I visited, design ideas, colour pairings - sometimes just a scrawl, but enough to remind me of what it was that had taken my eye. I laboriously recorded what flowers were out each week - these seemingly dull lists became a mine of information for planning plant groupings (to have things in bloom at the same time) and for finding out which flowers go on valiantly for ages and which are over with in a very short time. The diagrams and planting lists document the development over 10 years of our first garden, and over 20 years of our current garden.
My current garden journal follows pretty much the same pattern as its predecessors - lists of wanted plants, plants I have promised to give people (ticked off when done so), interesting garden-related places to visit, ideas for planting ... It is probably those fleeting ideas that are the most valuable - jotted down when they appear in my mind. It may take years, but one day I might put them into practice. I still try to record every plant purchase - now I stick the plant labels into the journal itself. I seem to be using the journal more like a scrapbook at times - pasting in all sorts of things, such as pictures of plants torn from magazines, photos of plants and gardens, empty packets of seeds I have planted, even cards sent to me from other gardeners. I still note the date and place of planting for each new specimen - an essential reference for when forgetfulness strikes! I also keep rainfall records every year in my garden journals.
I believe all gardeners should think about keeping a journal. It may be of interest to no one but ourselves, but it is a wonderful record of our pursuit of our engrossing hobby.
On the Mother's Day weekend 10 and 11 May, three large neighbouring gardens will be open in Lalor Drive, Springwood NSW from 10 am to 4.30 pm. There will be lots of lovely autumn leaves to see, and many interesting plants and design features to admire in the gardens. There will be plants for sale at Wesenden garden (including some unusual Salvia) and teas available at The Glen garden. Entry to see the three gardens is $10 - all proceeds will be going to MS Australia.
- By Jan 2582 Monday, 05 May 2014
That was lovely, thanks Deidre. I have pages of notes here and there were I attempt a diary, but I"ve found I just don"t have the time. So instead every few weeks I get out with the camera and take a photo diary. One day I"ll have the time to make better notes from that as at least I"ll know how long the plants have been in, how they do with each season and when they flower. I did take a lot of photos as well. When my kids were little, I had no time for writing in the journal but the photos were a good record, especially with our current garden, which was started from scratch. Deirdre
- By Georgia 4107 Monday, 05 May 2014
This is so interesting Deidre. An evolutionary tale of sorts about your gardening life. I also take photos. I use the Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens, Roms St Parkland and Indigiscapes at Redland for plant identification then I take a photo of the plant growing in an environment that I hope to translate to my own garden. Light, shade, soil, drainage. I keep a word doc going on my computer and add new plant purchases to it as well as information I find useful. I think in the digital age more people will use computer methods for keeping garden records - unimaginable to me 30 years ago! Deirdre
- By Rebecka 2481 Monday, 05 May 2014
Oh I love this. Diedre, I can place myself (a new gardener - about 5 years worth and everything still in pots!) exactly standing in paragraph 3. I pompously opine, I am starting to care what my plants" latin names are, I"ve mastered cuttings, yet can"t yet germinate a seed. I draw aerial maps of my "current garden" and overlay a "future garden" over the top.I"ve an excel spreadsheet for data-keeping and a pile of kept plant tags etc. But a garden journal? No. And right you are! I"ll grab one. How wonderful to hear that, Rebecka. I still remember the excitement of it all when that was me! Deirdre
- By Peta 2758 Monday, 05 May 2014
I tried this once Deirdre but failed. I"m just not the journal kind although my mother kept a diary all her life. Funnily enough I"ve embraced facebook and love posting images and short comments. My timeline is a record of garden happenings. For someone who once cringed at the thought of social media this is a real turnaround. It"s also improved my photography 100%. I see my garden differently and am having fun. That is fab, Peta. I must say that this website evolved from a need to centralise what I had learned over the years and the blogs also are a diary of sorts! But I cannot let go of those notebooks from the pre-digital age just yet! Deirdre
- By Christine 2429 Monday, 05 May 2014
My first comment online~~~love your site, started a garden journal abut 12 yrs ago when first moved to farm, forgot about it but restarted about 3 yrs ago. Great to look back on, compare weather situations and plant growth, and also plants/cuttings for others and placement in the garden. Esp. salvias and older type roses. Keep labels in a photo album and remove deceased ones every couple of years. Chris. Thanks for your feedback, Christine. Yes it is quite sad when you see your labels of plants that haven"t made it. I had a whole box of those once! But it did help me understand what did and didn"t survive well in my climate. Glad you find your garden journal useful. Deirdre
- By margaret 2122 Monday, 05 May 2014
Could relate entirely to your keeping of a garden journal, I have kept one on, and off for many years. I usually enter daily records, of things planted, when plants have been fed, and with what, weather conditions, time of flowering, and how much produce was picked; from whom I received a special plant/cutting, etc. I find it an invaluable record of garden work, and often look back to see what was happening when. Your journal sounds very comprehensive, Margaret! The observations of our own gardens that we make are so valuable for learning more about plants and gardening, I think. Deirdre
- By gillian 2122 Tuesday, 06 May 2014
Can you provide a link to these open gardens - cant find it anywhere on Google - thanks Gillian
There is no online information but for Sydney readers please see under Local Places & Events on this site for address and times.
- By lillian 3951 Thursday, 08 May 2014
What a great way to start the day, reading yet another wonderful article! I keep thinking it would be great to use technology to keep track of my thousands of bit of info- but since I never organised those anyway, I don"t think I"ll start now. Cheers and many thanks for the entertainment. Thanks, Lillian. By nature, I prefer paper records to electronic! Deirdre
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Manga can be found in libraries and can be bought in stories but one of the most widely used method of obtaining manga is to find it online and read it. Finding manga online can be convenient for the readers themselves but can cause problems for the artists that produce the manga. While it won’t be illegal to just read the manga on the websites, it becomes a legal matter for the people that scan the manga for the websites. If websites scan manga without consulting the artist, problems with copyright arise and the artist doesn’t get paid for the work they put into producing a story. Many companies have found websites that do this and have taken down a lot of content. Examples of this would be the popular manga websites, MangaFox and OneManga. These websites lost most of their scans and were shut down for a short period around 2010 and 2011. Now when going on MangaFox’s website and clicking on a manga chapter a message will appear saying, “ sorry, its licensed, and not available.” So, what do we do as fans? Do we continue finding other websites or do we just buy the manga we want to read? This can become an issue for some fans that just want to read the manga regardless of the limitations. If one doesn’t have enough money to buy something then it is pretty tempting to just go to a free website and read something. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for someone to read from a website but if someone wants to read in a legal way, there are a couple websites to choose from.
Firstly, the website Crunchyroll provides legal manga to read but there is a fee. It’s $4.95 a month for 12 titles so it can be a bit limiting. MangaReborn is a website that allows authors to download manga and it provides translations. Gen Manga is a website that has multiple titles but again has a fee. Although the fee is at the lower end at $1.99 a month. Viz Media allows you to buy online titles and Weekly Shonen Jump is available to multiple countries.
It can be troublesome finding websites that stream manga legally and most of the time there is price involved. Though, most of the websites I showed have pretty reasonable prices. If a reader wants to continue reading manga from a site that can be illegal, there are many other ways to give money to the author. You can use a website to find a manga to read and then buy it later or buy lots of merchandise around that show. But overall, to credit an artist for their work, the best things to do are buying it, going to the library or finding a legal website to read it.
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The Finance Ministry is attempting to correct some problematic clauses in recent tax laws with a bill to be submitted to Parliament on February 27, which, according to sources, will reduce the fines for failing to issue receipts, ease the tax burden on farmers and raise the maximum amount of salaries or pensions that cannot be confiscated from 1,000 euros today to 1,500 euros.
The bill will also introduce changes to the capital gains tax on real estate and stocks, as well as regulations concerning the offsetting of debts to and of the state. Furthermore, the draft law will dissociate the submission of the periodic value-added tax statement from the payment of the tax, and correct certain clauses regarding benefits given to members of the armed forces, police and coast guard. Additionally, the bill will incorporate other regulations for the smooth operation of the market, Finance Ministry officials say.
Originally the draft law was meant to be tabled before representatives of the country’s creditors arrive in Athens – now scheduled for Sunday – but the Finance Ministry’s legal department has asked for more time in order to avoid any errors, as has been the case in most tax bills submitted recently.
Regarding the changes to the capital gains tax on real estate, properties older than 25 years will be exempt from the levy, while for other properties a system of automatic determination of the acquisition price will apply that will incorporate current market rates, effectively reducing the tax that is payable. The rate will remain at 15 percent of the profits from the property’s sale. The tax will be determined by tax authorities and notaries will be responsible for its collection from sellers and its payment to the state.
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Warwick Build Guide by Marz
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The following guide is being written for semi experienced players of whom already have a pre existing knowledge of how jungling works. It will outline your role as a jungler Warwick in three parts. Early, Mid and Late Game. I've successfully used this exact build + some slight variations (For counterbuilding purposes) in quite a few ranked and unranked matches.
For those that are not familiar with Warwick, his role actively changes throughout the game from a jungler, to a ganker, to a DPS/Assassin + Semi Support. At least this is how it would optimally work.
I'm going to save the redundant explanations of what each attack does and jump straight into how to actually use these abilities correctly in conjunction with your role.
The mistake many players make is misunderstanding a Warwick's role in a 5v5. Just because AP and Tank builds are viable, it does not necessarily mean they are optimal, the reason being, there are far better tanks and AP warwick is easily countered making it unpractical. So without further ado, here is how Warwick is correctly played....
*Yes, this build lacks lifesteal. For those that have played high DPS builds with high levels of lifesteal, you'll know a DPS Warwick dies very rapidly upon being focused rendering life steal useless. Any negligible damage taken can be healed via Eternal Thirst + Hungering Strike.
Pros / Cons
One of the strongest junglers in the game
Strong Damage output both sustained and in bursts
Great at ganking
Ult can be interrupted
Dependent on Blue Buff early game
Early Game: Jungling... (Levels 1-5)
Your first purchases will be Cloth Armor and 2 Health Potion and you will select Hunters Call first.
It's possible to successfully jungle without any health potions at all, however, this will leave you constantly at a lower than optimal percentage of health. If you absolutely need to gank or need to hold a lane, you will be greatly disadvantaged.
1.To begin with, have an ally champion leash Ancient Golem. Kill the two smaller lizards first, immediately Smite the Ancient Golem and after 3 melee hits use Hunters Call. This will maximize health returns. Use your first Health Potion now.
Keep an eye on the time. The Ancient Golem respawns in exactly 5 minutes. Take note of this exact time.
2.Providing your ally left the vicinity before you slew the first two lizards, you SHOULD be level 2. Select Hungering Strike now and head straight for the nearby wolves, kill the smaller wolves first, leaving the larger one last. Use Hungering Strike on the first wolf to kill it quickly and reduce incoming damage, use Hunters Call and Hungering Strike virtually on cooldown to maximize health return and clear the jungle faster.
3.Head for the Wraiths now. Similar strategy, use your abilities on cooldown killing the smaller Wraiths first and the large one last.
4.Head for the Twin Golems now. Open with Hungering Strike, Hunters Call and a Smite on the same Golem. After both are killed. You should be level 3 and can probably afford your Madred's Razors. Recall now, heal up, restore mana and get your razor.
5.Once ready, head straight for the Lizard Elder. From here on out, the jungle should begin respawning.
6.Work through the jungle as it respawns, keeping an eye on the remaining duration for your Blue Buff, upon wearing off, simply play conservatively, using Hunters Call on cooldown and Hungering Strike if health starts to drop or you need a kill.
Your experience as a jungler will vary greatly from game to game. Sometimes an enemy jungler will try to counter jungle, other times you will receive bad RNG with low proc rates for your Madred's Razors, and other times, you'll need to hold lanes for allys or gank before level 6. What seperates the good Warwicks from the bad are those that can plan ahead and work around this.
If your jungle is crippled via an enemy jungler, use wards to try and gank/kill him or her. Sit in the top lane until it begins respawning. If you need to back for health, don't be afraid to do so, just try and do your best not to have this happen too much.
As a general rule, as soon as Madred's Razors is done, buy Boots of Speed and later Sorcerer's Shoes as soon as you can afford them. They make jungling alot faster.
Mid Game: Semi Jungling + Ganking (Levels 6-13~)
Upon gaining Infinite Duress you can now gank lanes, and with Warwick this can almost always lead to a kill or at least an assist.
In this section we'll discuss how to set up ganks amongst other things.
This is possibly the most important part of job. Ganking provides map control, gold/kills, facilitates pushes and in a lot of cases can save an ally that would have otherwise met his/her end.
Once you reach level 6, recall , purchase any items you can to contribute towards your Madred's Bloodrazor and buy up to 2 sight wards.
Use these wards intelligently. You'll need to use them differently in every game. Usually, i place them just outside lanes prone to ganks or lanes that are struggling. Occasionally I throw one in the enemies jungle to track movement of the jungler and lane champions passing through.
Have Blood Scent turned off at all times. This gives your position away if trying to set a gank up. Only turn it on once engaging in combat.
To set up a gank, 'ping' the gank target and wait in bushes until your lane ally initiates. In some cases you'll need to initiate.
Common mistakes include your ally all of a sudden playing offensively despite being low on HP or your ally suddenly trying to push the lane. These are the exact opposite conditions under which you want to gank. Your target needs to ideally be closer to your turret than their own and your ally needs to feign a poor defensive tactic to allow the enemy to go in for a kill. Upon doing so, you should engage with Infinite Duress, immediately activate Hunters Call and Blood Scent and throw a Hungering Strike as soon as possible. If they escape with more than 15-20% health, don't waste time sitting in the lane. Return back to your jungle.
Yes, you should continue to jungle for as long as you can until your team starts regularly engaging in team fights. If your team is in team fights, ALWAYS help them before farming.
Whilst in bot lane, ideally after a gank, 'ping' the Dragon to indicate for both of the lane's champions to assist you in the kill. Do this as regularly as possible. It allows for a large amount of global gold + often scares your enemy team's mid into thinking he/she is about to get ganked, in some cases, this is exactly what you should do. Warwick is capable of killing the Dragon quite early on, however it is a slow process and with bad luck can result in a death or the need to abandon the Dragon. This always equates to lost time, and time is valuable. Try to jungle as much as you can, whilst also helping out lanes with ganks and pushes. The goal is to try and build as much of your core build as possible.
Late Game: DPS/Assassin/Semi-Support (Levels ~14-18)
Your late game begins as soon as people start focusing solely on the Mid lane and abandon Top and Bot except when trying to go for a push whilst unnoticed.
This is where you begin really stepping it up. Depending on how far built you are, especially compared to the opposing team, you can really begin farming kills.
From here, always be aware of how best you can help your team before engaging in a team fight.
It's quite common for an enemy champion or two to engage in a team fight with low health. Usually this is forced by your team, but occasionally, they are the ranged champions, who sit at the back anyway. Warwick is great for picking off these kills nice and fast. Engage with Infinite Duress, and activate all other abilities after the channel. This should lead to a quick clean kill. You should run immediately afterwards in most cases. If the enemy team is likely to focus you first, your best bet is running in when you see gaps in their defenses or a champion you can pick off.
With 147 AD at max level, 62 magic damage dealt per attack, 4% enemy health dealt as damage per attack and a near capped attack speed. You can really tear stuff up. With Hunters Call you max your speed at 2.5 attacks a second. Thats 522~ damage + 10% enemy health per second. That most definately hurts. Whether you play like this or not depends on how dominant your team is in that team fight. If they are playing definsively and you aren't going to get focused. Slowly pick them off by DPS'ing them down and score kills with Hungering Strike.
One aspect of Warwick which is too often neglected is his amazing ability to support his team in a team fight. With Randuin's Omen having a cooldown almost the same as your ultimate, this creates amazing synergy. But generally you provide a 40% attack speed buff to ALL allys, a 20% attack speed debuff to all enemy champions around you at ALL times, and you can for 3.5s (4 seconds if Wit's End is stacked), reduce the movement and attack speeds of all enemy champions by a whopping 35%.
The fact that these are massive team wide buffs really make Warwick worth having in team fights, even if you're low on health, it's worth staying behind allys to buff them at least with Hunters Call.
The Core Build + Buildcrafting:
The Core Build:
Madred's Bloodrazor, sorceror's shoes, Wit's End and Malady
These 4 items MUST be in every warwick build.
This is self explantory, the great aspect here is that it procs 5 times in 1.8 seconds when you use Infinite Duress. This is an instant 20% of the enemy's max hp.
Attack speed + 42 magic damage per hit. This also procs 5 times when you use your ultimate. If you use the build recommended by this guide, when Wit's End fully stacks it's magic resist the active from Randuin's Omen is extended to 4 seconds.
Cheap, solid attack speed + 20 magic damage per hit that procs 5 times upon the use of your ultimate. The magic resist reduction is amazing due to Hungering Strike + the damage from Madred's Bloodrazor, Wit's End and Malady all being magic damage.
Magic resist as explained above. Warwick doesn't need Beserker's greaves as he become attack speed capped upon the use of hunter's call which has more than a 50% uptime anyway. Ionian Boots of Lucidity are wasted as he obtains enough CDR via Blue Buff and further amounts through his masteries + Randuin's Omen/ Frozen Heart.
This provides great survivability + a great way to turn team fights around. It can be built with heart of gold, allowing for some extra Gold per 5 whilst waiting to build this. Synergizes great with Warwick's pre-existing ways to support his team.
This provides survivability to Warwick plus a great aura that really hurts carrys and semi-carrys. The extra mana means you can really sustain yourself that gap between losing your Blue Buff and re-obtaining it.
Pick this up if your enemy can often out run you despite your Blood Scent. This is basically a permanent Red Buff, but is often unnecessary.
Magic Resist plus a Magic Resist Reduction aura. This is a mage's job. But sometime's it's worth picking up if your team is AP heavy and their's is as well. Be aware of the wasted AP. Makes this item not so worth it's cost.
Unneccesary Attack Speed, but provides a great aura to your team. If you have an AD heavy team, or snowballing AD carries such as Tryndamere who are being fed but wish to build other items, this item will greatly benefit your team. It also reduces the enemy's armor, this is often overlooked too. Be aware how great this syngerizes with a champion such as Tryndamere. They essentially recieve 40% attack speed from your Hunters Call as well as an additional 20% attack speed, 20 armor penetration and 20% life steal from this item.
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FuboTV doesn’t have the name recognition of other streaming bundles, but it’s been quietly building up a service to take on the likes of Dish’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, and Sony’s PlayStation Vue.
Although FuboTV originally launched in 2015 as a streaming service for soccer fans, it later pivoted to a broader mix of streaming cable channels, and has been flying under the radar as a public beta for most of this year. Over the past couple weeks, though, the company has made lots of noise, announcing plans to add channels from CBS and Scripps Networks, and closing a $55 million investment round.
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FuboTV’s Premier package currently costs $35 per month, but that rate that will eventually rise to $50 per month for new subscribers. (It’s unclear when the price will go up, though existing subscribers will get to keep the old price.) The plan places a heavy emphasis on sports, with regional coverage from Fox Sports and Comcast SportsNet, along with national sports channels such as Fox Soccer Plus, Golf Channel, beIN Sports, and NBA TV. FuboTV also includes a mix of general entertainment channels in its main plan, and it sells some add-on packages that largely consist of Spanish-language channels.
There are, however, a few major omissions for sports fans: Disney isn’t on board with FuboTV, which means no ESPN channels or ABC broadcasts, and there are no Turner networks such as TNT and TBS, which provide lots of NBA coverage. Fubo also lacks the NFL Network. On the entertainment side, Fubo doesn’t include AMC Networks, Discovery Networks, Viacom, or Turner channels.
See the full FuboTV channel list at the bottom of this story for more specifics.
Regional sports and local broadcasts
The best way to see what regional sports channels FuboTV offers in your area is to visit the sign-up page, which should attempt to find your location automatically. You can also view a list of regional networks on Fubo’s support site.
FuboTV includes live broadcasts of Fox and NBC channels in a small number of markets, with CBS and CW coming soon. But unlike other bundles, Fubo doesn’t include on-demand programming from these channels in markets where the live feed isn’t available. Head to Fubo’s sign-up page or visit this support page to see which ones are available to you.
FuboTV offers DVR service at no extra charge, but it’s a bit convoluted compared to other streaming bundles. Instead of providing a certain amount of recording time, FuboTV provides 10 DVR slots into which you can store any sporting event or TV show. The number of events you can record at once corresponds to the number of free slots you have remaining.
FuboTV’s DVR has a couple other limitations: Recordings only become available 30 minutes after the live telecast is over, so you can’t start watching an event from the beginning while the recording is still in progress. Those recordings also expire after 10 days. On the plus side, if you decide to record a program midway through the live telecast, Fubo will save the entire thing from start to finish.
For sports, you can watch a smattering of events from the previous three days without having to set up a DVR. Most of Fubo’s entertainment channels also offer TV episodes on-demand, though some channels, such as History and Viceland, do not. If there’s an upcoming episode you don’t want to miss, it’s best to set up the DVR.
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Fubo currently offers apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Chromecast, iOS, Android, and the web. Only Fubo’s mobile and web apps, however, currently offer on-demand programming and full DVR features. And its Roku app uses an old template-based design that lacks a proper channel guide.
The good news is that FuboTV supports nearly 30 TV Everywhere apps, so you can sign in and watch on-demand video even on devices that Fubo doesn’t support with its own apps. Check the support site for a full list.
Compared to other bundles, FuboTV claims to stream at lower latency, so you won’t notice a huge delay if you’re checking social media (or hearing cheers from a neighboring apartment) while watching live sports. In a brief test, Fubo’s FS1 feed was more than 40 seconds ahead of PlayStation Vue, and more than 30 seconds ahead of Sling TV.
But for frame rate, Fubo only hits 60 frames per second on Fox Sports channels and BTN. Other streams are stuck at 30 frames per second, resulting in video that’s not as smooth as cable for sports, news, and talk shows.
Simultaneous streams and other restrictions
Fubo allows two simultaneous streams per account, either inside or outside the home. While traveling, you’re allowed to watch regional sports and your local NBC station, even outside of your coverage area. (Fox will provide the local channel for the current location, if it’s available.)
What’s it like to use?
My snap impression is that FuboTV’s emphasis on sports is refreshing, especially because sports are what live TV bundles are best at. A list of live games is the first thing you see when launching Fubo’s apps, and the channel lineup provides a lot of interesting sports to choose from beyond the usual Football-Baseball-Basketball trifecta. Still, the apps themselves need a lot of work to reach feature parity with Fubo’s mobile and web offerings, and the DVR restrictions don’t mesh well with Fubo’s general entertainment channels.
We’ll have a full review of FuboTV in the near future. In the meantime, find me on Twitter with any questions about this service or any other streaming bundle.
Here’s the full channel list:
FuboTV Premiere ($35/mo now, $50/mo later):
beIN Sports Español
Fox Soccer Plus
beIN Sports 2
beIN Sports 3
beIN Sports 4
beIN Sports 5
beIN Sports 6
beIN Sports 7
beIN Sports 8
beIN Sports 9
beIN Sports 10
The Weather Channel
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Nat Geo Wild
Football Report TV
Fubo TV Network
CBS (Coming Soon)
CBSNews (Coming Soon)
The CW (Coming Soon)
CBS Sports Network (Coming Soon)
Pop (Coming Soon)
HGTV (Coming Soon)
The Food Network (Coming Soon)
Travel Channel (Coming Soon)
Portuguese Plus Add-On ($15/mo): RTP Internacional, LIGA Portugal, BTV, GOLTV Spanish
Jared Newman has been helping folks make sense of technology for over a decade, writing for PCWorld, TechHive, and elsewhere. He also publishes two newsletters, Advisorator for straightforward tech advice and Cord Cutter Weekly for saving money on TV service.
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Probably California. There's a few others there in tight red pants. ;-)
Of course he had to go back to the North Pole. It is that time of year ya know. Maybe Griffin came along and took it. there are a number of possibilities. MB
Well, wherever he is now, he's very busy!
Il est en avance ;))
Le père Noël peut, seul, nous apporter de l'espoir !!
That Santa was quite a climber! A year long grip with a couple of finger...
He may have gone to look for his thumb....
Gee I hope he wasn't destroyed! He's a beaut! Hopefully he will reappear on some other building someday, somewhere...
Great shot! What a loss now that it's gone. Did I ever tell you that I LOVE your banner?
Alas, his disappearance was perhaps foretold by the vanishing of his little finger. Find that and perhaps you'll find the rest of him. ( :
That Santa is awesome. It makes one wonder with mysteries like that. Where did he go all of the sudden. Changes like that often mean new things are coming.... but who knows anymore. It is scary to see the number of vacant businesses in every part of the country.
I think some "political correctness police" took him away! Santa is missed!
Maybe the Stimulus Package put him back to work.
I'm sure he's just gone back to the North Pole. Where else would Santa go?
Sheesh! Now how will I find him to sit on his knee?
Oh, too bad...he looks so cute there. Maybe he just went for a new paint job and will return. (like when our big cowboy disapeared only to return with newly painted clothes)
Whew, it's a lot of work to climb up and down a million chimneys in one night. Santa must be buff under all that red fur. :-)
@ EG - Do you really kneed to sit on this Santa's knee...could it not be more advantageous to sit on another Santa's knee? ;-)
Oh no! They could have at least left him up there until after the holidays.
He has a small lead
Oh no! Sad to hear that another has gone out of business - I'm curious to know what they've done w/ that big ole guy! LoL!
It's sad when the old 'icons' from the past disappear. Things which we have grown up with and been used to seeing. Perhaps the new shop owners have just taken him down for refurbishment and he will return?Melbourne Daily Photo
I heard he could be in Drøbak, Norway...God bless you!Cezar
I bet that Santa is hanging off the side of someone's chimney : )
@ Cezar - Or Luxembourg!
@ Tricia - I've no idea, but it's possible if you've been very, very good, he'll head toward Missouri!
@ Halcyon - Jackson, Miss?
with Elvis! Love to have him (Santa). Stay dry!
even santa has a shelf life!
Maybe he got sold off to help recover debts for Griffiths; he may reappear elsewhere in your town.
Maybe he will show up on Christmas Eve.
Nice photo. If Santa is at the Pole, I hope he has a good boat this year. It seems I missd a blessed event. I'm looking all over your blogs for it! Congratulations in advance :)
Oh no!! I hope he shows back up before Christmas Eve!Guess what! Lulu Studio selected my calendar to be sold on Amazon beginning December 9th! Thanks to you Jacob! It never occurred to me to create a calendar until you mentioned it.
I sure hope Santa found a new home somewhere, seriously. It would be sad to find he went to the landfill/recycling.
Santa is out of the chimney in Florida!!That's a lovely picture.
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Mike Smith is your 18+ Leader this weekend, route as follows and a 830am start
Saturdays 18 ride will be Belliver loop via Dragon Hill. Lunch at Totnes. approx. 75miles. cheers.
Quick note that the Main HQ carpark seems to be open also.
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Try out all O(n^2) subarray and return the max sum.
The basic idea is to record all the maximum subarray that ends at all i. and return the max.
How to construct a maximum subarray
If we have had a maximum subarray that ends on i – 1, to determine the maximum subarray that ends on i, we can either
- add maximum subarray that ends on i – 1 with nums[i]
- start a new maximum subarray with only nums[i]
We will choose 1 if max_subarray[i – 1] + nums[i] > nums[i].
At the beginning, max_subarray = nums
if not nums: return -1 max_sub = * len(nums) max_sub = nums for i in range(1,len(nums)): max_sub[i] = max(max_sub[i - 1] + nums[i], nums[i]) return max(max_sub)
Divide and conquer
def maxSubArray(self, nums: 'List[int]') -> 'int': """ """ def find_mid(nums, l, r, m): """ Find the maxsubarray that ends on m, and the maxsubarray that starts on m + 1, concat th eresult """ cur_sum = 0 left_sum = - float('inf') for i in range(m, l - 1, -1): cur_sum += nums[i] left_sum = max(left_sum, cur_sum) right_sum = - float('inf') cur_sum = 0 for i in range(m + 1, r + 1): cur_sum += nums[i] right_sum = max(right_sum, cur_sum) return right_sum + left_sum def find_recur(nums, l, r): if (l == r): return nums[l] m = (l + r) // 2 return max(find_recur(nums, l, m), find_recur(nums, m + 1, r), find_mid(nums, l, r, m)) return find_recur(nums, 0, len(nums) - 1)
Didn’t init the left_sum and right_sum to -float(‘inf’).
In case of nums of size 2. The find middle will simply return 0. But the middle didn’t include anything so we should return -inf in that case.
At first, I did something more complicated so my code can strictly divide the three cases:
EG in [1,2,3,4] left would be right would be and middle would be [2,3]. But it leads to complicated code because you have to divide cases into even and odd and so on.
a simpler solution
We can just use (l + r) //2 as the middle and find the max subarray that contains the middle.
It might overlap.
[10,20,-1,-1] we have l = 0, m = 1 and r = 3. find_recur(nums, l, m) will find the max subarray in [10, 20]. It is 30. find_mid will find the maxsubarray that contains nums[m]. In this case, find_mid finds 30 as well. But overlap is ok because we only want the max.
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P&P Weekly: #107
Welcome to week #107 of The Photoshop & Photography Blogroll’s P&P Weekly!
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks here at Jason D. Moore Photography! I’ve seen a dramatic increase in readers and I’d like to start off by welcoming all of the newcomers! I would also like to thank those of you who have linked here, particularly about Part I of the John Nack interview. It is very much appreciated!
There has been some growth on the sponsorship front! As I announced last week, the Photoshop Interviews series is now sponsored in part by Towner Jones Photography and there has been interest in sponsorships for other ongoing projects which will be announced once the details are finalized.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of one of our weekly or monthly series, or if you would like to be a sponsor of the blog as a whole, please take a minute to review our “Become a Sponsor” page to find out how!
Also this week, and I realize it might’ve gotten lost in the midst of all of the inaugural excitement, I am now offering my photographic prints for sale! Not only will you now be able to own a piece of my work you can get it for a discounted rate for a limited time! Scroll down to yesterday’s post for more details!
On the 4th of each month throughout the year I invite you to take a photo and send it in. Join me and other photographers from around the world in documenting a day in the life, of sorts. For full details, take a look at our introductory post. If you shot something on January 4th, send me your images today so they will be included in the project!
Every other Friday, we will welcome a new guest blogger that will share their personal workflow with all of us. They will take one of their own photos and walk us through the how’s and why’s of their post-processing techniques so that we might learn and expand our own workflows.
This Friday we will be welcoming photographer Jeff Revell of PhotoWalkPro as he shares his Lightroom workflow.
If you would like to participate in this new series, please email me or leave a comment!
Week #46 – January 30: “Shadows”
Week #47 – Frbruary 13: “Round”
Week #48 – February 27: “Contasts”
Week #49 – March 13: “Wood”
Week #50 – March 27: Contributor’s Favorites
Starting in January I am offering special desktop wallpaper calendars. These desktop calendars will feature my personal photography as well as a listing of holidays and important dates. I offer these wallpaper calendars in a variety of sizes to accommodate a number of screen resolutions. The January Desktop Calendars are up now and February’s will be posted next week.
- Jennifer of Laughing Lion Design – “Free Art Friday Ireland” – an interesting idea!
- Matt of Lightroom Killer Tips – “Video Interview with Adobe’s Tom Hogerty“
- Mike of Mike Palmer Photography – “Green Apple“
- Heather of One Shot Beyond Photography – “Kim’s Outdoor Maternity Session“
- Matthias of Pabst Photo – “Looking Back, Looking Forward“
- Jim of PHOTOBLOG by Jim Larimer – “Fine Art Gum Prints“
- Crash of Photographer Interviews – “Simon Mark Witten“
- Clayton of Photographic Design – “Cass – Old Sawmill“
- Mike of Photography Reloaded – “Back to the Future II“
- Scott of Photoshop Insider – “The Dave Hill Look Revisited, Part One” & Part Two
- Jeff of PhotoWalkPro – “Fake a Pano, Save a Shot“
- Troy of Ramblings Around Texas – “Arizona Desert“
- Roger of Roger Madsen Photography is in India but links us to a really cool time lapse shot.
- Shawn of SDuffy Photography – “2009 Photography Goals” & “DCist Exposed 2009“
- David of Strobist – “Packing Light for Central America“
- Terry of Terry White’s Tech Blog – “Adobe CS4 Stuff“
- Richard of The Airstream Chronicles Continued – “Ghost Towns of Arizona“
- Derrick of The Digital Story – “Update to Geotagging Workflow“
- Dewdrop of The Flight of a South Georgia Storm Chaser – “I’m going to Weather Fest” – the shot at the bottom
- Andy of The Global Photographer – “Photo of the Day“
- Rob of Towner Jones Photography – “Clouds”
- Michael of travel+photography – “Happy New Year“
- Lori of VirtualPhotographyStudio.com – “9 Things to Photograph Before You Die“
- Andy of Visual Realia – “Harrisburg Photowalk – April 18“
- Stephen of watchThisspace – “Post Consumerism” & “Block Head“
- Scott of Weekly Photo Tips – “The Best B&W Conversions You Will Ever See“
- Aaron of What the Duck – ”WTD #444 & 445″
- Martin of What the Heck Journal – “On the Right Track to Nowhere“
- Christopher of Written By the Light recently had an article he wrote published at T.O.P.
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I made a hamburger helper the cheesy quesadilla for Jeremy. I had to babysit my kids late last night so I ate what she had which was this buffalo chicken pasta which was very good.
The df came home with a can of some kind of chili starter, and yet no meat for it. Good thing I had a pound of hamburger frozen! I still had to "doctor" the stuff up....
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Successful people do not have time for lengthy bios and write-ups, right? Express yourself in Five Hundred words or less at FiveHundo.com!
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We came up with the idea for Five Hundo during a business trip as a way to connect others who have great ideas to express, share, and enlighten others.
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View a video interview with David Aber below this article.
For most trade show conference-goers, a trip through the exhibit hall is a must-do, a highlight if you will. They collect brochures and marketing materials, talk with colleagues, and, of course, try out all the new, sometimes cutting-edge, tech tools. Sometimes that walk leads to exciting changes.
Two years ago, David Aber, NREMT-P, volunteer EMS supervisor for the Odessa (Del.) Fire Company and a full-time paramedic with New Castle County, was attending EMS Today in Baltimore when he came across a booth sponsored by Masimo Corp. What caught Aber’s eye was Masimo’s Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeter. The small, handheld device measures noninvasive carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO), methemoglobin (SpMet), SpO2, pulse rate and perfusion index. In short, it was a portable, high-tech patient monitor for carbon monoxide, and Aber recognized the lifesaving opportunities the small device might offer.
He stopped to talk to the Masimo representative about the device, and the state of Delaware has never been the same.
“This tool gives you the ability to read the level of carbon monoxide exposure simply by placing the probe on the finger of a patient or firefighter,” Aber says. Carbon monoxide mimics symptoms of the flu. And although carbon monoxide poisonings happen year-round, EMS responders find more CO poisoning in the fall and winter months, when people are more readily using their home heaters and furnaces. “The monitor benefits not only firefighters, but also benefits any patient that has been exposed to carbon monoxide,” says Aber.
The Birth of a Vision
The longer Aber stood in front of the Masimo booth and looked at the device, the more an idea began to percolate. A big geographic idea. These devices save lives—the lives of patients and the lives of first responders. And Aber wanted every firefighting district in the state of Delaware to have at least one of the $4,000 devices. Given that the numbers added up to around 100 agencies to be supplied statewide, including the University of Delaware and the Air National Guard, the project seemed daunting, and nearly impossible. It was just the kind of challenge Aber was looking for.
The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that the New Castle County project could be funded by a grant through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). But he began thinking on a bigger scale. “We decided to go for a regional grant that would cover all of Delaware,” Aber says.
He thought he had a good chance of getting the grant funding, and the devices purchased and installed throughout Delaware, because carbon monoxide monitors had been added to EMS protocols in 2008 as an optional piece of equipment. “One of the guidelines calls for medical monitoring, including carbon monoxide levels,” Aber says. It’s just the kind of thing FEMA likes to help agencies achieve, and Aber thought it was a reachable goal.
So he began the process of researching data and filling out and submitting paperwork for the $420,000 grant in May 2009, a process that took several months to complete. He gathered information and statistics from as far back as 2007, which proved difficult, but not insurmountable. “It was a project that, initially, did not seem that big of an undertaking,” says the 18-year EMS veteran. “We submitted it through the Odessa Fire Company as a regional grant for the whole state. With the simplicity of the device, and the benefit, it could save firefighter and patient lives. So I gave it a shot.”
He heard back from FEMA in May 2010. It took 14 rounds of consideration before the money was awarded for the project. The award also came with a condition. Every department receiving the device had to pony up $700 of their own money for every device received. FEMA would foot the rest of the cost. All the participating Delaware agencies did just that.
The RAD-57s were ordered in June 2010 and delivered shortly after. But they came without labels and in several pieces. So Aber and members of the Odessa Fire Company assembled the devices. He also arranged for all participating agencies to undergo training, conducted by Masimo, in the maintenance and use of the devices.
Masimo flew two clinical specialists to Delaware, and more than 100 EMTs underwent the RAD-57 training, which was set up in a “Train the Trainer” format. Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden and Thomas Carper, U.S. senator for Delaware, attended the event.
“The goal was to have the EMTs take this training and then take the information back to their departments and do their own in-house training,” Aber says.
The Program Goes Statewide
Through the awarding of the grant, Delaware is now the first state in the nation to have a 100% ability to monitor carbon monoxide levels in all firefighters and patients on almost every ambulance run.
“Anytime there is a working fire in the state, as long as an ambulance is dispatched, this device will be at that fire,” Aber says. “They are not on every single ambulance, but they are at every single fire. If an ambulance goes on a call for a firefighter rehabilitation, the device goes with that ambulance. A few of the fire departments put them on their fire trucks.”
Aber is passionate that these devices be used frequently because of the nature of carbon monoxide poisoning. “Carbon monoxide is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so you don’t know it’s around. And it’s deadly,” Aber emphasizes. “It’s the No. 1 cause of unintentional poisoning in the U.S., and it’s so easily missed.”
Detecting Elusive Carbon Monoxide
Aber worries that EMS personnel and patients can be transported to the hospital with symptoms that mimic the flu or other illnesses, only to have unrecognized carbon monoxide poisoning be the real culprit.
“You don’t know if it’s been missed,” he says. Aber is adamant about not letting that happen in Delaware. “While emergency rooms do a great job, the fact is they get overwhelmed at times. Some patients may be triaged to waiting rooms and left before ever being seen.”
The state of Delaware has shown great appreciation to Aber for all his efforts in keeping EMS personnel and patients aware of, and safe from, carbon monoxide exposure. His efforts were recognized at the Delaware EMS Association’s 2010 state conference. A state resolution was crafted and read to Aber and the Odessa Fire Company at the association’s dinner. The resolution highlighted his innovative thinking and devotion toward acquiring this special lifesaving device for all Delaware citizens.
As a testament to the program and the effectiveness of the device, a family called 9-1-1 after they fell sick in their home. This incident occurred just two weeks after the training on and dissemination of the RAD-57 devices. An EMS crew was dispatched and arrived on scene with a room carbon monoxide detector attached to an oxygen bag. The monitor picked up carbon monoxide in the house, and the EMS crew quickly evacuated the family from the premises. “The family was immediately attached to the RAD-57s and all were found to have high levels of carbon monoxide exposure,” Aber says. The family was treated and released.
Aber would like to see other states implement and deploy the same carbon monoxide monitoring protocols as Delaware. He acknowledges that the grant process can be time-consuming and somewhat arduous, but he believes that the end results justify all the time and expense it takes to get such a program up and running—especially when it comes to saving lives.
“Carbon monoxide is easily missed, and carbon monoxide monitors are versatile tools that can help firefighters throughout the state,” Aber stresses. “Firefighters are the No. 1 frontline providers for the safety of our residents, but the device would help every resident it was applied to.”
Aber’s short trip through an exhibit hall has resulted in a statewide impact for Delaware. More than $400,000 has been awarded to cover the costs of his idea, hundreds of EMTs have been trained in the use of carbon monoxide monitors, and lives have already been saved by the use of the small, handheld devices.
One wonders just what kind of idea David Aber will have the next time he walks through an exhibit hall and stops at a booth. One wonders how many people the idea will impact. It’s certainly worth considering.
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WHITE SWAN Turkish Gulet | From EUR€ 18,000/wk
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Joining us at 13+
Our 13+ entry is primarily for boys who are at a preparatory school. Each year, we welcome around 40 boys who join us in Third Form.
Selection of candidates begins when a boy is in Year 6, to join CLS in Year 9.
Bursaries are available at this point of entry to cover up to 100% of school fees. For more information please click here.
Please note that we have already recruited boys to join at 13+ in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
We do not permit boys to be entered for both the 11+ and 13+ examinations.
Registration for 13+ 2024 is now open. Please click on the red ‘Register’ button above to access online registration.
Registration deadline Friday 8 October 2021
ISEB pre-test deadline by end of November 2021
Invitations to further assessments and interviews sent out by Friday 17 December 2021
Further written assessments and interviews Spring Term 2022
Offers sent out Spring Term 2022
A boy’s age is calculated on 1 September in the year of desired entry. For 13+ entry, a boy will be aged between 13 and 14, and will have completed Year 8 at his current school.
All boys must be registered for our Entrance Examinations by the deadline:
For 13+ entry in 2024 (for boys born 1 September 2010 to 31 August 2011), the registration deadline will be 8 October 2021.
Registration and payment of the non-refundable registration fee must be completed online.
All registered candidates must sit the ISEB Common Pre-test during the Autumn term of their Year 6. This is usually completed at the candidate’s current school. Full details of the test can be found on the ISEB website.
Confidential reports will be required from the Head of the candidate’s current school
Candidates who perform well in the Pre-test will be in invited to the School for short written assessments in Mathematics and English and an interview, in the Spring Term of Year 6. The interview affords us an opportunity to get to know your son beyond his examination results. It is also useful for him to be able to find out more about us. No specific preparation is required or expected for the interview.
An offer is made on the evidence of the examinations and interview, together with a confidential report from the Head of the candidate’s current school. All offers are conditional on continued hard work, excellent academic progress and good behaviour at the candidate's current school to the end of Year 8.
Candidates at schools preparing pupils for the Common Entrance examinations will be expected to sit papers in Mathematics, English, French and, if chosen as a subject in Third Form, Latin. No other subjects will be required and we expect that candidates will be able to achieve a high score (usually above 70%) in each paper.
For candidates studying at schools which no longer follow the full Common Entrance curriculum, we will also expect them to sit papers at the School in early June of Year 8 in Mathematics, English, French and, if chosen as a subject in Third Form, Latin. Candidates will be expected to achieve a high score (usually above 70%) in each paper.
For all candidates, we will maintain ongoing dialogue with their current school between offer and the candidate joining the Third Form and will seek evidence from their school that they have continued to demonstrate a strong work ethic and diligent approach to their learning by virtue of head’s reports and references.
Scholarships are worth £250.
Academic Scholarship candidates are selected on the strength of their results in the ISEB pre-test, their performance in the subsequent interview, group session and short written assessments, and the further Scholarship assessment in Year 8. Candidates who are awarded an Academic Scholarship are expected to maintain excellent academic standards throughout their school life.
Music Scholarships may be awarded on the basis of an audition and interview, and candidates must also satisfy the School’s normal academic entry requirements. Scholarships are offered on all orchestral instruments; however, voice cannot be offered as a first study and singers are also expected to play an instrument. The minimum requirement on piano and strings is Grade 6; on other orchestral instruments, Grade 5 is accepted. In addition to the monetary value of a Scholarship, Music Scholars will also receive free tuition on two instruments at the School, or the equivalent monetary value towards external tuition. Music Scholars are expected to participate fully and contribute positively to the musical life of the School in activities appropriate to their talents, to be involved in a reasonable number of activities out of normal School hours, and to meet the high standards of musicianship expected by the School; they will also be expected to take Music IGCSE.
Sports Scholarships are awarded to gifted team games players who have the ability to make a significant contribution to at least two of the School's major team sports, especially football. In order to be awarded a Sports Scholarship, which are awarded on the basis of a sports trial, candidates must have satisfied the School’s normal academic entry requirements. In addition to the monetary value of a Scholarship, Sports Scholars are eligible to receive funding from the Sports Scholarship Fund to support their personal and team sporting development. Sports Scholars are expected to contribute positively and fully to the sporting life of the School in all three terms of the academic year and to be involved in a reasonable number of activities out of normal School hours. Representation for the School is a key requirement and will only be waived in special circumstances by the Director of Sport.
Specimen Papers Title
Parents should consult the ISEB website or your child's current school for more information.
- How long is the average travelling time to and from School?
Boys attend CLS from all over the Greater London area. The majority travel by public transport, the average journey time being about 45 minutes. Some parents have initial misgivings about their sons covering such distances but the boys tend to make light of it, often using the time to their advantage by reading and learning. Moreover, we find that commuting often engenders a sense of independence and confidence in our boys.
- Does the School accept boys with learning difficulties?
Yes, provided they meet the academic requirements of the School. Parents of a boy who has any special educational need should submit all relevant educational psychologists’, medical practitioners’ or specialist teachers’ reports at registration. This information is required in order to make appropriate arrangements during the exams or at interview. After admission, the Learning Support Department, in consultation with parents, will make recommendations as to the type of help needed by each individual pupil. Support may include individual or group lessons, providing study skills or specialist tuition, enabling boys with special educational needs to work with greater independence and success within the School.
- How is the pastoral system organised?
At the heart of the pastoral system is the Form Tutor who is responsible for all aspects of a boy’s progress through the School - personal, academic, extra-curricular and social. Tutors are encouraged to contact parents by telephone or e-mail if they are concerned or delighted by any aspect of a boy’s performance, and parents are encouraged to reciprocate. We seek an active dialogue, a partnership where trust has been built up between Tutor and parent. A boy will generally keep the same Tutor for two years, the exceptions being for those in Old Grammar (Year 6) and the Third Form (Year 9). Tutors are supported by a Head of Year and the Deputy Head Pastoral, who has overall responsibility for the pastoral system. All parents of new boys receive a Pastoral Handbook, which explains policies and procedures in greater detail.
- How does the House System work?
There are six Houses at CLS, and the boy’s tutor group from the Third Form onwards determines the House he is in. The House System allows boys to compete with others in their age group, particularly at sport, and enjoy a sense of loyalty and belonging. It is not part of the formal pastoral system.
- What links does the School have with City of London School for Girls?
Although both Schools are owned by the City of London Corporation, they are run separately. However, there is much co-operation and assistance in co-curricular activities such as drama productions, musical concerts, clubs and the annual Sponsored Walk – not to mention social occasions.
- What is the ethos of the School with regard to Sport?
The programme aims to provide boys with the opportunity to engage in a sporting activity that motivates, rewards and promotes a healthy and active lifestyle for each individual, regardless of ability. A Games afternoon for all students ensures that the ‘healthy body, healthy mind’ concept remains at the forefront of the pupils’ ideals. Our boys are offered an increasing choice of activities as they progress through the School. A thorough grounding in individual and team sports in the lower years is then enhanced in later years by the introduction of more specialist activities such as sailing, climbing, fencing and martial arts. A full range of outdoor and adventure activities is also available through the Combined Cadet Force. CLS has an extensive inter-school fixtures list, which promotes elite level competition across the four major school sports: football, cricket, water polo and basketball. School teams annually achieve outstanding results in both Regional and National Leagues and in Cup competitions, and we are very proud of our successes. The School invests heavily in maintaining and adding to its outstanding facilities, both on and off-site, in order to provide every boy with the opportunity to extend his individual sporting potential.
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Dodgers Roll Over Diamondbacks 5-3
AP Sports Writer
Paul Lo Duca hit a two-out double in the seventh inning to drive in the go-ahead run, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 Tuesday night.
Lo Duca's liner off third baseman Matt Williams' glove scored Cesar Izturis from first base. It was Lo Duca's second RBI double and third hit of the game.
Williams and Luis Gonzalez homered to give Arizona a 3-2 lead entering the seventh.
Dave Roberts was hit by a pitch from Miguel Batista (0-2), went to third on a hit-and-run single by Izturis and scored the tying run on Shawn Green's sacrifice fly.
Lo Duca came through after Fred McGriff struck out.
The Dodgers added an insurance run in the eighth when shortstop Craig Counsell made a throwing error on pinch-hitter Brian Jordan's grounder, allowing Adrian Beltre to score from second.
Paul Shuey (1-1) pitched two shutout innings to earn the victory, and Eric Gagne worked a perfect ninth for his first save. He had 52 saves in 56 chances last year.
Williams gave the Diamondbacks a 3-2 lead in the sixth when he hit his first homer of the season off Kazuhisa Ishii.
The Dodgers scored a run in the first on Oscar Villarreal's wild pitch with the bases loaded, and made it 2-0 in the third on Lo Duca's first run-scoring double.
The Diamondbacks tied it in the fourth when Gonzalez hit his second homer in as many days _ a two-run shot into the right-field pavilion.
Ishii allowed four hits and three runs in six innings while walking three and striking out seven. He threw 113 pitches.
Villarreal, a 21-year-old right-hander making his first big league start after four scoreless relief appearances, gave up four hits and two runs in three innings.
Batista allowed five hits and two runs in four innings of relief.
Notes:@ The Dodgers purchased the contract of 30-year-old LHP Troy Brohawn from Triple-A Las Vegas and optioned INF-OF Jason Romano to Las Vegas. They also moved LHP Derek Thompson from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day DL. … SS Tony Womack, just 2-for-23 this season, was replaced in the Arizona lineup by Counsell. Womack is 1-for-9 with three strikeouts against Ishii. … Jordan didn't start, but not because his left hand was bothering him. "I'm all right. It's a night off because it's eight days in a row," he said. Jordan was hit by a pitch Sunday in San Diego. … Arizona 2B Junior Spivey was hitless in two at-bats, leaving him with one hit in his last 17 at-bats. … Green got an infield hit in the third to snap an 0-for-11 dry spell.
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New York Fashion week is over and I am finally getting a moment to sit
and organize all my looks to post.. This year for me was about focusing on my personal style rather than making sure I was seen in all the latest trends. I think subconsciously a blend of the two naturally showed up.
This is look one.
I always love
the idea of a monochromatic color pallet in various shades. This winded up being seen a lot on the streets at fashion week. This looks
was all about neutral nudes, maroons with hints of Black
I played with the
maroons around my face.. Using make up and jewelry.. and focusing the blacks
and neutrals everywhere else. This one was fun.. How do you guys plan on playing with color and texture and tone this season?
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US growth weakened on the headline (in line with expectations) but showed strength in the detail. Perhaps the most telling feature is the media reaction. Rather than putting a negative spin on the headline, the tone has been positive. We probably have the FOMC to thank for that.
Japan declined to ease central bank policy any further. The issue of additional quantitative policy is controversial as a good case can be made that it is doing more harm than good to the domestic economy.
Euro area harmonised inflation is due, and as oil base effects ooze out of the data we should return first to positive inflation and then to over 1% inflation. The German data surprised the market on the upside yesterday.
The US is offering labour market data with the quarterly but comprehensive employment cost index, and personal income and spending numbers. The spending data is accompanied by the Fed's favoured inflation measure, the PCE deflator.
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My hubby and I were just handed an opportunity to land the side job of a lifetime. All it would take is a new hitch and trailer--we would be back to making the income we lost when the economy crashed and get to travel occasionally to boot!! (Yes, it
My hubby and I were just handed an opportunity to land the side job of a lifetime. All it would take is a new hitch and trailer--we would be back to making the income we lost when the economy crashed and get to travel occasionally to boot!! (Yes, it is completely legitimate, offered to us because of our clean driving records, early arrival times and through the company he already contracts with for building jobs.)
We are scared of the changes we would have to make in our current life, the time we would potentially be gone from home (one-two weeks per month) and leaving my retail business in the hands of someone else while we are gone.
The benefits would be a very good income, traveling, potential for a more lucrative and exclusive career and adding another business to replace one I am currently phasing out over time.
What would you do--why?
I HATE change. But when I know it will be good for me even when it's scary at the time, I always try to soldier up and just do it (Nike is good). And get really stressed out and nervous and say "what if everything goes wrong" But I know it will be good so I just do it. That isn't the same but I try to take every opportunity I get and sometimes I need someone to be my Nike life wingman and encourage me to take steps and JUST DO IT.
Every time I move to a new apartment or house, I flip out right beforehand. But then I get there and I'm fine. Same with vacations. I just really hate change but change is what life is all about so I am trying to get more used to it.
I think the benefits of what you're describing sound great. Weigh the pros and cons, but don't let fear of change be a con.
It sounds like from your follow-up post that you're worrying a lot and having some anxiety about everything. That's ok. Everything is a 'what-if' and that's hard. But what if everything goes better than expected? I'd talk with your husband about your concerns as well so he can help weigh the realistic pros/cons. I know I always need someone helping me decide stuff lol. I'm indecisive and worry too much.
If splitting driving time is a dealbreaker for you then it is a dealbreaker and that's ok.
As for turning your business over, I would try to look for a new person to oversee things who is trustworthy and who you feel safe with them running your business while you're gone. You could also sit down and brainstorm ways to make sure the business is going well, keep in touch with the person you hired to handle your retail business via skype and phone call. I don't know much about running businesses but I feel like with the technology we have today that there should be a good way to make sure everything goes smoothly, even from a distance. You could start interviewing people and maybe skip it if you don't find someone you feel comfortable with.
Good luck! I hope you are happy either way you choose to go
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How Estrogen Affects You (No Matter Your Gender)
Looking for a simple way to improve your health? Balance your hormones! Every single day, I see patients of all ages and both sexes with health problems related to hormones. One of the most misunderstood topics in the health arena, hormones can be your best friends or your worst enemies. The determining factor is balance. But these days, that’s no small feat. Currently, a potentially disastrous development known as estrogen dominance threatens to undermine all our efforts to stay healthy. I’m not exaggerating when I say we all need to make some simple changes to protect ourselves.
How Hormones Work
Simply put, hormones are chemical signals relayed from organs to specific points in the body, where they can turn cells on or off.The endocrine system, which consists of various glands and organs, is responsible for hormone production.
What to Know About Glands and Their Hormones:
- Adrenal glands: Produce more than 100 different hormones, including epinephrine, norepinephrine, DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), aldosterone, and cortisol. These play various roles in blood pressure, heart rate, metabolism, and inflammation.
- Hypothalamus: Produces five different hormones, including one that monitors the kidneys and several others that activate the pituitary gland.
- Ovaries: Release the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, which relate primarily to female sex characteristics, reproduction, and other bodily functions.
- Pancreas: Produces two hormones, insulin and glucagon. Insulin directs glucose to its destination and assists with fat storage. Glucagon elevates blood sugar levels to provide the body with energy.
- Parathyroid: Produces parathyroid hormone (PTH), which controls calcium and phosphate distribution.
- Pituitary: Produces six different hormones, including growth hormone and others that work in conjunction with the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, and testicles.
- Testicles: Release two hormones, testosterone and the less well-known inhibin. As with ovaries, these hormones primarily relate to the development of male sex characteristics and reproduction.
- Thyroid: Produces three hormones. Two of these regulate cellular metabolism, while the third monitors calcium levels in the blood and bones.
Here’s a good example of how hormones work in real life. Let’s say, for example, that you’ve just eaten lunch. The digestive process breaks the food down into various elements (such as glucose), which are then transferred to cells throughout the body to be used as fuel. The hormone insulin, produced in the pancreas, makes this happen. So in a sense, hormones act as traffic cops, directing specific substances to the right places.
Fortunately, hormones function automatically without any input from us. Of course, that’s true only when the endocrine system is working properly. For instance, we could consider diabetes a deficiency of the hormone insulin. This is because either the pancreas can’t produce sufficient quantities of insulin or the body no longer recognizes it, so we must relieve the symptoms with insulin or other medications from outside the body. Similarly, we could describe menopause as a deficiency of estrogen.
Clearly, hormones are essential to life as we know it. During the past few decades, scientists have unlocked quite a few hormone-related secrets, making it possible for us to take advantage of synthetically produced hormones. For individuals with serious hormone deficiencies, like thyroid disturbances, these developments are giant steps forward.
When Hormones Go Wrong
But there’s another hormone-related issue you should be aware of. It’s called estrogen dominance, and it is affecting all of us — men, women, and children alike. And as my patient Nick discovered, there are ways to remedy estrogen dominance. But first, let’s look at what’s happening and why.
Whether you’re a man or a woman, you have estrogen in your body, although women have considerably more. Estrogen encourages growth, which is fine as long as there’s progesterone available to balance it.
Trouble begins when our hormones get out of balance. This can happen for several reasons, including adolescence, pregnancy, and aging. But you may not have considered some other factors that play a role in hormone levels. Stress, for example, ramps up the body’s production of the stress hormone cortisol, which requires progesterone. That means there’s a good chance that estrogen levels will rise without progesterone to rein them in. Insulin resistance has a similar effect, as does the typical American couch-potato/poor-nutrition lifestyle. Clearly, the stage is set for elevated estrogen levels.
Why Extra Estrogen Hurts Our Health
To make matters worse, we have the relatively recent phenomenon of estrogenic chemicals in food, water, and the environment. Just one of these — a synthetic estrogen known as bisphenol A (BPA) — has attracted considerable attention, so much so that nearly 7,000 studies focus on BPA in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) database.
I won’t mislead you — not all the research is damning, and many questions about BPA have not been answered. But there is certainly enough proof to convince me of two things: One, just about everyone has BPA in his or her body; and two, it is definitely an endocrine-disrupting substance. Research shows that BPA may be linked to hormonal irregularities and health concerns such as obesity, heart disease, cancer, attention deficit disorder (ADD), genital abnormalities, and diabetes.
Signs and Symptoms of Plastic Toxicity:
- Brain fog, inability to concentrate
- Stomach discomfort or irritation
- Rapid heart rate
When Plastic Isn’t So Fantastic
By now, you may be wondering where BPA comes from. BPA is used in plastics of all kinds, as well as in the lining of cans used for food and beverages. Unfortunately, BPA leaches into the contents of the can or bottle, so we end up ingesting it. An article published last year in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that subjects who ate canned vegetable soup once a day for five days had BPA levels that were a whopping 1,200 percent higher than subjects who ate homemade vegetable soup.
You could probably live without canned soup, but that wouldn’t protect you from BPA. Think about the endless stream of plastic and cans in our lives. We put our vegetables in plastic bags at the supermarket, we grab a bottle of water when we’re rushing out the door, we buy medication and personal-care products packaged in plastic of some sort. And who doesn’t have at least a few cans of fruit or vegetables in the pantry? Even though urine removes BPA from the body, our exposure is nonstop, 24/7, so whatever we excrete is soon replaced. Not surprisingly, one recent survey found that 95 percent of Americans had BPA in their bloodstreams.
How to Put Plastic in Its Place
So what can you do to protect yourself and your family from this toxin and others like it? Here are a few suggestions I have found helpful:
- Swap plastic food-storage containers for glass or another plastic alternative.
- Do not microwave food in plastic because heat breaks down BPA, allowing it to migrate into the food.
- Replace a plastic shower curtain with one that is BPA-free.
- Buy a BPA-free water container, such as stainless steel or glass, to use instead of plastic bottles.
- Never reuse plastic water bottles and never drink from those left sitting in a hot car, since BPA levels could be even higher than normal.
- Try to avoid canned foods.
- Install a water filter to eliminate toxic substances from your cooking, drinking, and bath water.
- If you’re a fan of soy, eat only fermented soy foods, like tempeh, natto, and miso. Unfermented soy contains disruptive, estrogen-like compounds.
- Increase your intake of organic fruits and vegetables to reduce your body’s toxic load and to add substances that minimize the effects of toxins.
- Look into supportive supplements like beta-glucan (100 mg once daily), derived from grain and mushrooms; diindolylmethane (DIM), from cruciferous vegetables (100 to 200 mg twice daily); or a green food supplement containing assorted vegetable compounds (follow dosage instructions on the product).
- Finally, don’t forget to review my earlier newsletter on detoxification for more ideas on how to avoid these unhealthful substances.
We may not be able to avoid as many hormone-disrupting chemicals as we’d like; but with a little effort, we can eliminate many of these toxins from our lives. When it comes to changing lifelong habits, my favorite method is to take it one step at a time. Before long, you’ll begin to see how well-balanced hormones can make a difference in your health.
Last Updated: August 16, 2018
Originally Published: May 18, 2012
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Bob Pulte started his first dealership in 1975 as a Oldsmobile Dealer in Cincinnati. In 1992, Bob Pulte opened up Bob Pulte Chevrolet in Lebanon, OH.
We know that price sells but service is what keeps you coming back. You can have both. 70% of our business is repeat business. We want to make all new and used Cincinnati, Dayton, Mason, Middletown and Lebanon Chevrolet customers a "Customer for Life!"
At Bob Pulte Chevrolet you don't just buy a car, you buy the way we do business.
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News at JSB
JSB, BCT, & CNB announce community bank ATM Network
January 14, 2005 - Jefferson Security Bank, Bank of Charles Town, and Citizens National Bank have joined together to form a local ATM Network. Customers of JSB, BCT, and CNB can now use the ATM's located at the other bank's offices without paying a surcharge. ATM locations can be found on the "Find an ATM" portion of JSB's website at www.jeffersonsecuritybank.com.
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|Dark Tales★Bk I: The Invisible Chains★Chapter 50: Some Kind of Love
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Original slash/yaoi recs, reviews, and resources
Title: Dark Tales of Randamor the Recluse - Book I: The Invisible Chains|
Format: Novel - Original characters
Length: Chapter: 7 414 words - Total: 412 402 words (August 30th, 2010)
Rating: NC-17 - M - M/M Slash
Warnings: Violence, incest, rape, non-con, domination may all occur in varying degrees
Chapter 50: Some Kind of Love
Guess what happens when the warrior prince returns home...
What is Anaxantis going to do with the captive Mukthars? And the arrested pages? A lot of other decisions have to be taken as well. Ehandar also makes up his mind. The warlord returns home, but first has a conversation about the future with Uppam Fraleck, the Lord Mayor of Dermolhea.
Anaxantis and Ehandar finally meet again...
Randamor gives Mandigaill some background information and his own insights.
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|Real Name||Damian Wayne|
|Abilities||Skilled martial artist|
Skilled weapon user
|Team Affiliations||League of Assassins|
Character History
Damian Wayne was created and born from an artificial womb, and it was intended he become a fierce warrior. He is raised by Talia and the members of the League of Assassins for most of his childhood. Eventually Talia reveals to Bruce Wayne that Damian is his child, and she leaves him with his father in hopes that it forces Bruce to live a more normal life. Damian was initially very disrespectful towards his father, Alfred, and Robin. Damian wished to replace Robin as Batman's sidekick and this would leave to a few confrontations between the two. Damian then had his sword taken away and was grounded, but he escaped and using a makeshift costume from League of Assassin's gear and parts of the Robin outfit, Damian went out and fought against one of his fathers adversaries, Spook. The battle ended with Damian decapitating him.
Batman then confronted Talia about the actions of their son, but before anything could be resolved, a torpedo exploded against a ship the three of them were on. Batman escaped without much injury, but Damian was so seriously injured that he required extensive surgery and organ transplants. However, the young man would make a full recovery.
Once healthy again, Talia takes Damian to a remote location in Austuralia to learn about his grandfather, Ra's Al Ghul, who had died. However, once there, it is revealed that White Ghost, a former servant of Ra's, intends to use Damian as a vessel for the return of his grandfather. Knowing this would result in his death, Talia, with the help of Batman, is able to save their son as White Ghost is killed by falling into the Lazarus Pit.
Ra's Al Ghul is still able to return, but only as a weak and feble corpse. He tells Damian that he needs his assistance to become his former self. After fighting off ninja servants of Ra's, Damian flees back to Wayne Manor to warn his father, Bruce. Once there, he encounters Robin and pleas for him to help him. Robin does not believe is story and the two begin fighting. Damian runs away and encounters Alfred, but before he can ask the butler for assistance, the League of Assassins break into the house and kidnap both Robin and Damian. Ra's intends to use one of them as a sacrifice and intends on forcing Batman to make the decision for him.
Batman offers up his own body instead, but Ra's Al Ghul refuses, insisting that he needs a younger body to inhabit. Then Batman suggests the Fountain of Essence which contains similar qualities to that of the Lazarus Pit. Batman and Ra's then go to search for it, leaving Tim Drake, Nightwing, Alfred, and Tali to battle the Sensei. At one point, Damian leaves Tim and his mother for dead and goes off to search for his father. Instead, he is captured and nearly killed by Ra's before being saved and taken away by Talia.
His current whereabouts were unknown for some time, that is until the events of Batman R.I.P., where Damian appeared at Wayne Manor to search for his father, only to find Alfred bound and taken hostage by one of the Black Hand members. Damian manages to defeat the member and save Alfred, taking the Batmobile with Alfred to search for his father's kidnappers. Although he shows heroic traits here, Damian does boast about saving Alfred, telling Alfred that he's lucky to be alive.
Following the events of Batman R.I.P. where Bruce goes missing and is presumed dead, Damian jumps for the chance at taking up the mantle. Dick steps in, however, and decides to give Damian a side-kick role, in which Damian reluctantly agrees. Similar to Dick's task as to changing Ravager over to the 'good' side, he now focuses on teaching Damian Bruce's crime-fighting methods, all the while upholding Batman's name across Gotham City's most notorious villains. Damian's rash attitude with Tim continues to grow, as he decides to claim the Robin mantle for himself. Of all his half-siblings, Damian does show some respect and credability to Dick, but is sticking by as a partner in hopes that if and when Dick grows weary of the Batman role, he can finally step in as the successor of Batman.
Possible Future
In Batman #666, an adult Damian Wayne has assumed the Batman identity after Bruce Wayne is killed by an unknown enemy. Along with having some apparent supernatural powers (i.e. ability to heal wounds), Damian has a cat named Alfred, and has a growing rivalry with Commissioner Barbara Gordon.
Skills & Abilities
Damian Wayne is a very skilled martial artist and is highly intellectual, much like his father. He is also very skilled with projectile weapons and is quite good at escape and stealth. He also is capable of mimicking a person's voice, a skill he learned while with the League of Assassins.
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The security business today faces the staggering trial of keeping up operational capability in the wake of extended test and the dynamic fiscal environs. These isolated, protection organizations need to oversee shut book courses of action that incorporate huge cost of help, managing legacy systems and low returns. Insurance shut books have been at the point of convergence of real conversation starting late.
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The Need to Oversee Shut Books More astute
Protection offices are looking at cost decline, customer dependability, capable help transport and opportunities to deliberately pitch/up-sell. Back up plans are examining additional strategies to expel a motivating force from their shut book exercises by organizing it with the general client officials technique.
There is a creating need to move from a fixed cost model for shut book the board to a variable cost model. With a diminishing portfolio size, the fixed cost model extends the per methodology cost. There is moreover the peril of reputation and business soundness as there is negative perception among the two administrators and customers. With extended wearing out, the data base to keep up the legacy IT structures and organization levels of the thing is speedy contracting.
A segment of the key responses for these security net suppliers to respond to these troubles are to modernize their legacy systems and moreover look towards Business Procedure redistributing (BPO) for assurance organizations.
Dynamic additional security transporters are focusing on cost hold reserves, extending operational capability and staying related with customers in locales, for instance, new business getting ready, administrator updating and certifications. This has inferred that life and annuity shut book association has become the staggering core interest. Given underneath are a few troubles that life and annuity protection organizations have expected to search with respect to close book the board.
Lessened Venture Returns
The beginning of the 21st century saw cash related organizations endure a noteworthy shot; security firms were furthermore affected stunningly. Protection offices most impacted were the people who had thing portfolios with a high confirmation bundle. These associations were in this manner constrained to end their hazardous theory things and update their thing portfolio.
A development in regulatory examination in the UAE provoked exceptional load on security firms as their portfolio the board and association went under the radar Digital transformation for shipping. There are hindrances as to realizing managerial changes due to the mechanical controls of legacy system payment bookkeeping administrations This extra weight on advantage.
Channel on the Organization’s Capital
Keeping up assurance shut books infers that insurance firms are constrained to assemble their thought on managing these current back-books regardless of the way that there are no new trades being coordinated on the comparable.
Money related Strain
Assurance firms that are experiencing fiscal difficulties are under tremendous strain to keep up insurance life and annuity shut books. A reduction in dissolvability levels incorporates pressure the organization of insurance shut books. Should the association be looked with mergers and acquisitions, there is confined association and deliberately pitching as there is inadequate thing and strategy data.
Addition in Per Approach Operational Expense
Other than lawfully permitted extends (wherein rebuilding premiums are gotten by the understanding), additional security shut books don’t have any new methodology bargains. With no new game plans being sold, there is a diminishing in the portfolio size. In any case, the cost of the assistance establishment must remain steady due to the long haul of cases getting ready redistributing payment.
Critical cost of Innovation
The in-house administrators of shut books in security squeezes these associations, as the costs of keeping up legacy systems for these shut book reports are gigantic. Habitually individual shut books require independent gatherings of architects, designers and customer relationship boss.
Low Spotlight on Client Maintenance
Often policyholders have no contact with the organization experts of their things and this suggests there is no street for insight or organization from the security firm.
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Etihad Launch New 360 Video Featuring Nicole Kidman And It's Incredible
After releasing a trailer for their new commercial one month ago, Etihad yesterday launched 'Reimagine', a new virtual reality film staring Nicole Kidman. The commercial is not only unique in it's length, it is five minutes long, it also features all the latest social media technology in a 360 video where users can rotate the video for a fully immersive look inside the Airbus A 380 and engage with the story being told. They also used Facebook Live to discuss the making of the campaign at their headquarters in Abu Dhabi yesterday. It's all part of a virtual reality push by Etihad.
Etihad hosted a live Facebook chat in their Abu Dhabi HQ to discuss the making of the feature length comercial
"The film is a culmination of Etihad’s vision to tell the airline’s story in an extremely innovative way and a commitment to engaging with the public as has never been attempted by an airline before. It was a great challenge but one which has definitely paid off and it was great to be part of such an exciting project"Nicole Kidman
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On the second day of drinks my true love sent to me…
The holidays are stressful enough, that’s why the Celebración punch is just the thing for a gathering of any size. It is perfect parts fruity and festive!
Celebración Punch (serves 4)
- 6 parts Milagro Silver
- 12 parts Guava Nectar (Pink)
- 2 parts Ginger Simple Syrup
- 3 parts Lime Juice
Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl and mix. Top with Club Soda (Top Chico) or Prosecco and garnish with lime wheels and white edible flowers to resemble guava flowers.
Moon Wine & Spirits is located at the corner of Moores Lane and Franklin Road. Open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, you can visit their website, Facebook page or call (615) 472-1772.
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THE HERO OF HILL HOUSE
BY MABEL HALE
Home and Mother
The Stricken Home
Austin and His Father
Austin Goes to His Father
Humiliation for Austin
To the Country Again
The Captain's Guest
With Uncle John Again
Austin Takes Care of Himself
The Young Church-Member
The Battle of Two Wills
Seeking New Pasture
To the Hay-Fields
Six Weeks of Haying
Indecision and Restlessness
Mother Hilman's Opinion
Like the Troubled Sea
Planning for Themselves
Austin and Amy
Uncle Philip's Children
The Family Circle Narrows
A Stormy Season
Austin's New Home
The Opinions of Parson Hawley and His Wife
THE HERO OF HILL HOUSE
HOME AND MOTHER
It was the evening of a quiet day in late autumn, and the inmates of the little farm home were gathered safely together around the supper-table. I say the family, but they were not all there. Father's place was vacant, for he had gone to town that afternoon and would not be home till late bedtime. His reason for being late was the great shadow over this otherwise happy home. The children, down to baby Doyle, three years old, knew that when he came, he would be in no condition to be seen in the presence of his children, and that money which was needed badly in his home would have been spent for strong drink.
But all the others were there. Mother sat in her place at the foot of the table, and little Doyle sat at her right hand in his high chair. The others were ranged on both sides of the table, leaving the vacant place at the head. There were eight children in all, the eldest a boy of sixteen, and the youngest little Doyle. The three older children were boys, George and Wilbur, sixteen and fifteen years old, respectively, and Austin, aged thirteen. Then were two girls, Amy and Nell. After them came Harry, a fine little fellow of seven, Lila, a tiny girl of five, and last of all the baby.
Every child was robust and rosy, ready for a hearty meal and all the fun that was to be had. Mother sat as queen, a dear, beloved queen, and the children as they talked back and forth in happy freedom turned to her for reference and sanction in all that was said. There was not one but bowed in adoration at the beautiful mother's feet. And her eyes, how lovingly they rested upon them! And how she seemed to be treasuring them in her heart! This was indeed her kingdom, and she was happy. But of course there was a sadness in her happiness, because her husband and the father of her children was choosing a path that took him out of the family circle. But since such was his choice, she was determined to make it up to her lads and lassies to the best of her ability, and throw her teaching and daily instruction against the influence of their father. She was making this evening pleasant that they might forget the shadow that hung over them.
With supper over and the evening chores done, the family gathered about the fireside, some read, the little ones played, and Mother busied with her sewing. An atmosphere of peace rested upon them, in spite of the shadow that hangs over every home into which the demon drink has entered.
"Doyle, Lila, it is time for little people to be in bed. Harry, you have no lessons, you had better go to bed also," said the mother.
"So soon, Mother? May we not play a little longer?"
"Bedtime now, little man, and run along without waiting for more play."
Three little people trooped off to bed to be tucked in a little later after the good-night kisses and evening prayers. Soon the girls went sleepily off to bed with a good-night kiss. Just Mother and her boys were left, and now was the time for a quiet talk with them. A gentle word from her and the conversation was begun.
Softly she led them on till they were telling her of their doings among the boys, and their plans and hopes. It was only a friendly visit, but into it she put wise counsel as well as thoughtful understanding. They wondered, afterward, if she this evening felt the other shadow which at this time was entirely hidden from their eyes, that she should talk to them so. Perhaps she did. We can not know. But deeper than this was her yearning for her sons just entering manhood. She knew that only a little way at best could she go with them, and then they must choose their own path. She wanted the little time left to be filled with those things that would make their pathway light.
The evening passed, and after a time all were in their beds. Only one low light remained, and that was set to guide the father when he should return.
When the father came, if he had been in condition to notice, he would have seen a bare little room now that the mother was out of it, with signs of poverty everywhere. The old table and worn chairs, bare floors scarred with the tread of little feet, the scant cupboard, the worn shoes by the fire, all told how little the queen of the home had to work with. There was nothing of beauty here but herself and her love.
But Henry Hill did not think any of these thoughts. He was already half asleep, and he crawled into his bed without a word or thought for those whom he should have loved and protected. And in the morning each one of the family secretly thanked God that Father had lain down without disturbing them.
The morning brought another day of busy care for Elizabeth Hill. Her hands were full from morning till night helping, lifting the heavy burdens, and directing the work of the children, in all bearing the responsibility of the family.
Was she happy? Yes, in their love, and in the anticipation of the future of her children, especially her boys just entering manhood. Her thoughts were always with them, and her prayers followed them in all that they did. So much was at stake. Three lives to be made or marred. Three men to bless the world or to curse it. And they had the blight upon them which their father was bringing. Every woman who is a real mother knows that Elizabeth Hill's face was often wet with tears as she contemplated what the future might bring. And happy are the sons who are blessed with such a mother. Her value is untold. The wealth of the world has nothing to compare with her. Yet how often it is taken for granted that she will be as good as she is, and her life made unhappy by the ones for whom she works and prays!
If Elizabeth Hall had known, and if her boys had known, what lay just ahead, perhaps the days would have been made fuller yet of loving counsel and happy association. But the veil was before their faces, and they did not know. Possibly that was best. If the veil were lifted and we knew our future, our hearts might faint within us. It is enough that for each day is given grace for its toils. Elizabeth loved her boys and was giving them the best of herself, and that is all she could have done if she had known.
THE STRICKEN HOME
Henry Hill sat before the fire with his head in his hands and his elbows upon his knees, a picture of utter dejection and sorrow. The house was quiet with an unearthly quietness, those who were compelled to speak using the lowest tones, and tiptoeing about. The little ones, Doyle, Lila, and Harry, were not at home. Amy and Nell were silently, tearfully, trying to wash the few dishes that had been used at the almost untouched breakfast. The boys were attending to the morning chores, with faces as solemn and hearts as heavy as each could carry. A neighbor woman, kind, sympathetic, and busy, but with the same sadness pictured upon her face, kept coming and going between the bedroom and the room in which Mr. Hill sat.
Only that morning the physician had been there and had told them that she whose life had been the light and strength of the home was lying now upon her death-bed, that she would never again rise to take the burdens of life, that they would have to let her go. He had felt for Henry Hill as he had spoken, for the white horror and anguish in the man's face would have called out sympathy from a harder heart; but he wanted to say also that had she been given a lighter load to carry, if some of the anxiety and concern that now stirred his heart had been expressed when his wife was well, things might not now be as they are. But the kind doctor left these words unsaid. Henry Hill had all he could bear without them.
The holidays, with their festivities, were over, and life had just settled back into its every-day way, when Elizabeth Hill fell sick. She had never been ailing before. Her children had always known her as able to take the constant care and oversight of the family. Without her they were helpless and distraught, for there was no one to take her place. And when after one day's illness it became certain that her condition was critical, the anxiety and tension became intense. He who should have lightened her burden long ago now awoke to her need and was constantly by her side doing all that was in his power to restore her to health. But the black cloud settled heavier upon the home as each day saw the mother coming nearer the gates of death. The children looked at one another with pale faces and wide, frightened eyes as they saw the kind neighbor women come from their mother's bed with averted faces.
Though all was done that could be done, they could not hold her, and one night, with her weeping family around her, she loosed from her earthly habitation and went away. She who had been the soul of that home, lay dead. The calamity came upon the family like a shock. It left no spirit nor life in them. They knew not which way to turn. From the father down to Baby Doyle they were bereft. She to whom they had always looked for counsel and guidance lay in a sublime sleep from which they could not waken her.
As Henry Hill looked upon the motionless form of the woman whose love and confidence he had gained and who had been to him such a faithful wife in spite of his fickleness, he wept, and vowed; but what are tears and vows when the will has been weakened by self-indulgence? He looked about him helplessly. What was he to do? What could he do without her? He was almost a stranger to his children, and had no idea how to care for them. She had always carried the burden, taken the oversight, been the one to go ahead. He faced the future as helplessly as one of his little children.
Her boys looked upon her and knew that they had lost their best friend. Home would have little more attraction for them. George and Wilbur took selfish comfort in the thought that they were old and strong enough to care for themselves, but Austin forgot himself in wondering what would become of the children. The little ones spoke to Mama, but she did not answer, they called to her, but she did not hear, and they went away weeping; for though they could not tell what, they knew something dreadful had happened.
Kind friends and neighbors came in and did what has to be done at such a time. They pitied with full hearts the afflicted family, and they wept for their friend, for they too had loved her. They took her and laid her with others of death's sleepers in the silent churchyard, and her orphaned children returned with their helpless father to the lonely and broken home.
Only those who have returned home after Mother is gone know what these children and father suffered. Kind hands had put the house in order and the familiar furniture in its accustomed place, endeavoring to make the house look as if all were well. But they could not bring back the one who had made this house home, and to the children it was a dreary, lonely place. Fearfully they crept out-of-doors, only to find it as cheerless there.
That first night around the fireside without her, what a desolate place it was! The father sat with drooped head and heaving breast, and the children huddled together and some of them sobbed. Just to escape their misery they went early to bed, and little pillows were wet with tears. When they were all in bed a gentle hand tucked them in with a kind caress. "It is what Mother would have done," thought Austin, as he made the rounds.
In those first days of sorrow every one seemed to remember only his own heartache: but hearts can not always lie broken; in a little while they began to live again.
It was now, when life was dropping back into its old ways, that the greatness of their calamity became apparent. If Henry Hill had understood his opportunity, he might have stepped into his children's affections and been a true father to them. But he forgot them in his own self-pity. He was lonely, unspeakably lonely, and the house was dreary and dull without Mother. He who had always sought first of all his own pleasure and comfort now reached out for solace somewhere. And he found it with his old associates in his old haunts. When he returned to his home after these seasons he found the gloom and emptiness there more hard to bear. He hated with a deeper hatred the feeling of responsibility and care that was thrust upon him by the sight of his motherless children. He felt himself sinking under the strain, and he longed to ease himself in some way. If only a friend had been found to take the burden and bear it, how gladly would he have relinquished his place; but there was no one who would accept it. The neighbors were willing to help him with the children, but none of them were willing to do his part, and they waited for him to take the place that a father should.
George and Wilbur were restless at home since their mother was no longer there. It had been her influence that had kept them at home and in school for some time, and now she was not there they felt free to go when they wished, and they were out of the home in a short while. Night after night when the shadows crept over the fields, only Austin was at home with the children. It was he who cooked their meals and waited upon them. He loved them with a yearning love, thinking always of their mother and how she had labored for them. He was a boy thoughtful beyond his age, and, looking ahead, he saw what probably lay in store for them. To him home meant all, and the thought of the children's being scattered, never to know the sweetness of home association, was more than he could bear.
Added to his own feelings in the matter was the thought of his mother. If she knew, how it would grieve her to have her babies among strangers, and possibly to be ill-treated! Austin believed also that his father would be glad to see the home circle broken and the children scattered. It seemed that there was but one person to stand between the children and a broken home, and that person was himself. Though but a boy of thirteen he dedicated himself to them with a determination to stand by them and keep the home together. He put out of his mind every thought of following the example of his brothers, and settled himself to the care of the children. When he had made this decision, it seemed to him that his mother was near and was well pleased with what he had done. The children were quick to recognize in him their true friend and champion, and turned to him as if he had been their mother. So it was not long till apparently home was running along as smoothly as ever. Of course those living there felt a terrible void, which never could be filled.
Austin's father looked on with secret satisfaction at the course the boy was taking, glad that some one, if only this child, was willing to carry the responsibility of home. Day after day, as the household settled back into order and harmony, he felt his burden slipping; but the loss of his wife was as keenly before him as ever. He had loved her as much as he was capable of loving any one, and he felt the loss of her. Now that Austin was doing so well with the children he determined to get away from it all for a while.
"Austin, you could get along very well with the children if I were to be gone a few weeks, could you not?" he asked one day. "I am not feeling well, and it is so lonely here that I am not myself. Perhaps if I could have an outing, I should be better able to endure it."
AUSTIN AND HIS FATHER
Though Austin was but a child, he knew that his father was acting very selfishly in going away at this time, and that his real desire for going was to avoid responsibility rather than to cure loneliness. Many thoughts pressed in upon the boy as he contemplated his father's long absence, but the thought that gave him an answer was that if he refused, the home might be broken up. He seemed to see his mother's face, and it encouraged him to be brave. It was only a moment that he hesitated in answering, "Yes, Papa, I think I could manage all right; I might have to miss school part of the time."
"Well, I shall go with some of the boys down into the hills for a while to see if I can not get straightened out so that I shall be more fit for work. Your uncle John will look after you and see that nothing happens to you."
So the matter was settled. In a few days Henry Hill was off for a month of pleasure, leaving the children in Austin's care. He was right in thinking that his brother-in-law, John Moore, would look after the children. Mr. Moore was a brother to the children's mother and had the same noble principles as she had. He would gladly have taken the entire care of the children, but he thought it was their father's place to have their oversight, so stood back and said little. But when he knew they were left alone in the farmhouse, he was careful to know each morning and evening that all was well with them.
"Austin is as steady and reliable as a little old man," said his uncle after one of his visits. "He manages things over there as well as many an older person could."
"How a father could put so much on a mere child is a mystery," said some of the neighbor women.
"I would hate to be tied to a kitchen and a row of babies like he is," was his cousin Frank's opinion.
But of all these comments Austin was ignorant, nor did he think he was doing anything brave. He was doing the one thing that would keep the children together, and was encouraged with the thought that his mother was pleased with him, for it seemed to him that she knew.
Though Henry Hill was a selfish man, he often thought of his children while away, but stifled every remorseful thought with the assurance that Austin was taking good care of them. He assured himself that they were getting along as well as if an older person were with them; and this was true, for in the month that he was away, nothing of enough importance for comment occurred. The days went by as evenly as if the father had been there. But if Henry Hill thought that his mind would be more settled by his absence, he was disappointed; for as soon as he was again in sight of the house, the old loathing of the place attacked him. He longed to be away from it all forever. And when a man has all his life given way to his own personal impulses rather than stand by his duty, you need not expect him to brace up at a time like this and do his part.
From the point of reasoning which Mr. Hill took he was justifiable in feeling as he did. Everything about the little farmhouse reminded him of the woman he had loved. He never came to the house without a pang of painful loneliness at her absence. He felt himself incapable of caring for the children. She had always done that, and he did not know what they needed nor why. It would be better both for him and the children to be away from this dreary, grief-laden spot. But he could not take the children with him, and what would he do with them if he did? But there was Austin. Why should he feel tied to the children when Austin was willing to look after them? The thing to do was to get out and find a more suitable place, leaving Austin to look after home and the little ones.
But it would be pretty hard to leave so many children on one boy. The neighbors would have a great deal to say. Maybe he had better get a place for some of them. But where could he find a place? Why, to be sure—why had he not thought of that before?—he would take Lila and Doyle to his mother's, and Austin could manage the rest. That was just the thing, and no one could find fault with the arrangement, at least no one who knew Austin. And reasoning thus, he had his plans all made before he mentioned them. The sunny, pleasant days of spring had come, and the air was balmy and sweet with the perfume of blossoms, making the vagrant soul of Henry Hill sick with wanderlust, and he could hardly wait to put his plans into action.
"Austin, I believe I shall take Lola and Doyle out to your grandmother's, and try to get work there," he said one morning at the breakfast-table. "You can stay on here with the other children, and can get along very well if I am gone all summer. It will make it easier for you if I have the little ones."
Austin's chin dropped, and he looked at his father in blank amazement. Surely he had heard wrong. He started to protest, but another suggestion stopped him. "If I refuse, he will take all the children away, and we shall have no home; that would grieve Mother," mused the boy. Because Austin hesitated in answering, his father continued to explain his plan. "If I find a good job I shall get a house and send for the rest of you children and we shall live near your grandmother and uncles. I believe we can do better there than here." And having said this, he waited for Austin to speak.
"Yes, I suppose we could manage to get along a while," the boy said, choking a little. How lonely and bare his path looked before him he could not explain, and intuition told him it would be useless for him to try to do so. His father seemed to forget that he was lonely too, and missed the gentle mother.
Little more was said on the subject, but Mr. Hill arranged his affairs and, taking the two younger children with him, went to a distant State, leaving Austin and his two sisters and younger brother to look out for themselves for an indefinite period.
John Moore and his wife were shocked beyond measure when they learned Mr. Hill's plans, but knowing that it would be useless for them to remonstrate, they said nothing. However, they vowed in their hearts to look after the orphans in their father's absence. But there was one feature of his father's absence that Austin had not told any one. Had his uncle John known this, he would have been more than angry with his brother-in-law. Henry Hill had not left sufficient means with Austin for the care of the children. He had needed a neat sum for his fare and had taken almost all from the family purse, promising to send something back to Austin soon. One week had passed, and a second, and although a letter had come announcing their safe arrival, nothing had been said about money. The little home was becoming bare of food, and Austin did not wish to tell his circumstances to any one. He would have to find a way to make money for himself.
The neighborhood in which he lived abounded in market-gardens, and Austin decided to get work in the garden of a neighbor, with permission to bring the children with him and allow them to work what they could also. All of them together would be able to support themselves till their father found work and should help them again. With Austin to decide was to act, and the very next morning he went to the house of Mr. Long and asked for work. Mr. Long had been observing the boy and liked his pluck, and gave him work as he wished.
Now began a new epoch with Austin. There was a feeling of independence in making and using his own money that was very pleasant. He did not wonder that the older boys had gotten out to do for themselves. Though he had to rise early and work late to keep up his house-work and home chores, and his field-work, he did not count it a hardship. He felt manly and strong in doing it.
Mr. Hill smiled with pleasure when he read in Austin's letters of the arrangements he had made and how well they were getting along. That was just the thing. With the wages of the children they would not need much from him, and he would have more for himself. There was no need of Austin's having more than was actually necessary, and that would not be much. It was certainly fortunate that Austin had such a head for business.
But the best-laid plans sometimes prove to have a flaw, and this was unpleasantly true in this case. Though Mr. Hill explained at length to his parents how nicely Austin was getting along, he could not make them think all was well. They seemed to think, and others were of the same mind, that he was neglecting his duty.
"Who has the care of the children?" his mother asked him one day.
"Austin is looking after them," was the easy reply.
"You do not mean to say you left that boy with the care of the children," she exclaimed in amazement.
"Why, Mother, he manages them fine. I was gone a month a while back and everything was running along all right when I came home, and he had Lila and Doyle then, also."
"It is asking too much of the child, and I do not see how you can do it," was the sharp reply. "I will send for them as soon as I get enough ahead to set up housekeeping," promised Mr. Hill.
"Henry, when are you going to bring those children here?" she asked of him a few weeks later.
"Austin is working there and the others are helping him, and they are getting on so well I hate to bother them," he answered.
AUSTIN GOES TO HIS FATHER
One evening Austin and the children were coming home from their work in the gardens, tired and lonely. They could not get used to coming to the house so quiet and empty. Home was not as it used to be, but the brave children were making the best of it.
"I wonder if there will be a letter from Papa," Amy said as they drew near the mail-box, "and if he has a new home for us yet. I should like to see Grandma, and I do want to see Doyle and Lila." Harry, running on ahead, reached into the box and drew out a letter, at sight of which the other children quickened their steps. It was addressed to Austin and was in their father's handwriting:
"Dear Austin, I have gotten things in shape to have you children come to me. I will send you tickets in a few days. In the meantime dispose of the things in the house excepting what you can bring in your trunks. Uncle John will help you do this and see that you get started all right. Write me a card early enough so that I shall know when to meet you. We are all well. Henry Hill."
Austin was trembling all over with excitement mingled with tears. He was glad for the change, for the loneliness was nearly killing him, but he hated to leave Uncle John and his family, and all the neighbors, and Mother's grave. He had almost ceased to hope that his father would send for them, but here was the letter at last.
Henry Hill was careless, we must admit, in his duty, but he was not careless of the opinions of others. Be had been stung to the quick more than once by the insinuations and admonitions of his parents and acquaintances that he was not doing his duty by his children. His mother especially nagged him about it. He might have passed her words off as the whims of childishness, but she was not alone in her condemnations.
"Henry, you are not doing right. Austin is only a little boy and you are laying on him too great a burden," she would say.
"That is where you are mistaken, Mother. Austin is as tall as I am, and plenty strong enough to do all he is doing. They are getting along fine. Austin says so in his letters," he would answer.
"You are not doing right," retorted his mother, and her tones implied more than her words.
It seemed strange to Mr. Hill that he could not make any one understand the situation. Austin had been willing to stay. He had expressed no reluctance at all, and every week brought a letter from the children telling how well they were getting along. He was not hurt by any remorse at their words, but it seemed to him that they were unnecessarily partial to Austin in their judgment, and he felt a sort of animosity toward him on that account. Austin was only doing his duty by the children, so why should he be so praised and pitied? But a man can not long stand the bite of a fly without flinching, and Henry Hill found that he must do something to rid himself of these criticisms. He hated to do it, but he would have to send for the children and again set up housekeeping.
"O Elizabeth," he thought, "why did you have to be taken from me when I need you so much? If you were here, I would not have all this to bear. You made my life easy and happy."
It was with satisfaction that Mother Hill listened to her son explain that he had already sent for the children and must look for a house for them.
After a hasty toilet and a little to eat the children took the letter over to Uncle John's. Mr. Moore read it through, then sat still for a while without comment. At last he spoke, "What does Henry mean by laying such heavy responsibility upon the boy? No instructions, no plans! One would think he believed Austin to be of age."
"I suppose the only thing, Austin, for you to do is to make ready to go to him as your father tells us to do. I shall be glad to render you all the assistance possible. But I hate to see you go. If you remained here I could look after you and see that you get along all right. But it is not for me to say how your father shall manage his affairs." If John Moore expressed a little bitterness in addressing the boy, he kept back most of what he felt. He knew the habit of drink that bound his brother-in-law, and how it was weakening his manhood, and he doubted either the interest or the capability of the man to care for the children. He was certain a great deal of responsibility would rest upon Austin, and he feared the father would not always be just with him. But he wisely kept all these doubtful thoughts to himself and helped the boy prepare for the journey.
The children were up early the next morning for their last day of work in the gardens of Mr. Long. That gentleman was much concerned when Austin told him of the letter and their plans.
"Austin," he said, "you are a brave boy, and one that can be trusted. I am going to ask you to promise me one thing. When you are with your father again, do not follow in his steps. Your father has habits that are no good to him, and would only ruin your life."
"Mr. Long, I promised Mother long ago that I would never touch a drop of liquor," said Austin, knowing well what the man meant.
"Good for you, Austin; stand by that decision as long as you live, and it will be well with you."
Uncle John and Aunt Tillie were true to their promise about helping the children prepare for the journey. They spent much of the time with the children, and when the little house was empty of its furniture, they took them to their own home till time for them to go. Every day they heaped Austin with advice and counsel. The children heard them talking to him telling him just how to make the changes on their journey and how to arrange the baggage, and how to conduct themselves, and it filled them with respect for their brother. They felt safe in his care and certain that he would bring them safely to their father once more.
"Austin," said his uncle one day, "there is one promise I wish you to make me. You are a good boy and have started out the right way to make a noble man. I want you to say that you will not follow in your father's footsteps. He is not the man he would have been without drink. He caused your mother many heartaches. You will promise?"
"I promised Mama that before she died, and I will always keep it," answered Austin with feeling.
"I do not know how things will go when you are gone from here, but I tell you now, boy, that if you ever need a friend or find yourself out of a home, let me know, and I will send you money to come to us. I am sorry you are going so far away. I want to see that you have a chance to make good in life."
To the neglected, over-burdened boy these tender words were like a balm to his heart. He felt no sense of protection from his father, and he missed his mother always. At times it seemed that his load was too heavy for him to bear. Yet to his father he would make no complaint, lest the home be broken up. He loved the children tenderly for their own sake, and with a deeper love yet for her sake who had been called away from them. Sometimes he had to forget that he was a boy and look ahead and think like a man.
"Austin, we hear you are going to your father. We are glad of it, but, boy, take the advice of a friend of your father's, do not follow his footsteps. He is a good fellow and we like him, but he would have been a better man to his family if he never had learned to drink. It would never do you any good," said Pete Dykes one day.
Pete was one of his father's cronies, and this advice surprized Austin.
"Pete is right in that. You are better off if you never learn to drink," said Sam Phipps, Pete's companion.
"I have that settled and mean to stay by my decision," answered Austin while his eyes rested on the two men in pity.
At last the day came to start, and everything was ready for the journey. They would be at least a day and a night on the way, and would have to change in the heart of a great city, but Austin was certain that by following his uncle's careful directions they would get along all right. They started to the station early so that they should have time to stop and speak to the neighbors who would be at their gates to bid the children farewell. The eyes of the neighborhood were upon the children, and many expressions of disapproval of their father's management were made. Also the kind people remembered with genuine sorrow the loss of their friend and neighbor, Elizabeth Hill. Tears wet honest faces as the people bade the children good-by.
Uncle John and Aunt Tillie stood with their arms about the children as the great engine drew near, and clasped them once more to their bosoms in a last caress, then they were on the train and away. This journey was like their first month alone, too uneventful to deserve any comment. Their father was at the station to meet them and took them directly to their grandfather's home. As this home was too small to accommodate them long, their new home was waiting for them. Grandmother Hill received them with open arms. She felt much more contented to have them where she could know all was well. Lila and Doyle were delighted beyond measure to see their sisters and brothers, especially Austin. In all it was a most happy reunion, and it was with satisfaction that they went on down to the little cottage that had been prepared for them.
HUMILIATION FOR AUSTIN
His experience in the gardens of Mr. Long had a direct effect upon both Austin and his father. To Austin, whose manly feelings were early awakening, there was an untold sweetness in handling his own money. He found a keen pleasure in this that gave him a thirst for money-making, which was certain to assert itself at the first opportunity. No longer could he be satisfied in the house doing merely woman's work. He wanted to be a bread-winner also. He felt proud not to depend entirely upon his father.
His father was as enthusiastic as Austin at the anticipation of his making money, but the father's enthusiasm lay in the fact that so long as Austin was making money it would take less from him for the support of the family. To one who longed to spend upon himself and his accursed drink all that he could obtain, the supplying of a family of seven with food and clothes was no small burden. Henry Hill was not a common workman, but was capable of making good money, and had been favored with an opening which brought in plenty for the needs of his family. It was not necessary that they be in cramped circumstances But when the support of his family had been taken from his wages, it left but a small margin for his personal pleasure, and he hated sacrifice. While Austin could not make a man's wages, what he did earn helped remarkably in the family expenses.
The satisfaction of Austin and his father was mutual—though prompted by very different motives—when Austin obtained a position in one of the village stores. At this time he was just past fourteen, stood nearly six feet tall, and was well proportioned for his height. Many men were no taller nor heavier than he, but he lacked the strength of a full-grown man.
Amy and Nell were little misses of twelve and ten, pretty, dainty girls, full of life and activity. Their mother had begun their education in housework, and they had helped Austin since he had been taking the lead. They knew how to do all the simple household duties needful for their humble home. They could also cook simple meals quite well, and so far as knowledge of proceedings was concerned were able to keep up the housework. Austin was at home in the morning and evening and oversaw their work, helping with the heavier part. Working thus together they got along very well. But you must not suppose that these children were able to keep their home as an older person would have done. Always there was lacking the mother-touch.
When Austin saw how well the girls did, he felt satisfied to go to the store each morning, and his wages were sufficient to supply the family with plenty of good, wholesome food. His father was glad to have him do this, and withheld his own money, allowing Austin to assume the responsibility. Seeing that all was going so well, he would be away days at a time, and always when he returned everything was prospering.
Mr. Hill was apparently contented for a short while, but soon he had another attack of wanderlust, and, giving up his good position, he went into an adjoining State where an oil-boom was on and much work was to be had. He left the family as before in Austin's care, and also this time failed to provide means for their support while he was gone. He was sure Austin would find a way to keep things going. Austin was thankful for his work and that he could keep the home up, and stayed steadily at his place every day.
"Does Austin Hill work here?" asked a gentleman of the proprietor of the store one afternoon.
"Yes. He is in the back of the store now. I will call him. Austin." The boy answered, coming in immediately.
Taking him to one side, the man looked him over sharply and said: "I am a welfare officer and have received complaints about your family. I am told that your father is away and that the children are not being properly supported, in fact that they lack the food they should have. Is this a fact?"
Poor Austin! he stood in amazement, his face growing red and white by turns. He had been priding himself that he could do a man's part by the children, and had been elated at his success, and here the people thought he was starving them! When he could find words, he answered, "It is not true, I assure you. My father is away, but he has not been gone long, and in that time we have had plenty. At this time the house is well stocked with food, as you will find if you search it. Go see for yourself that this report is not true."
"No, I do not want to do that. I only want to know that the children are having plenty," the man replied.
"But I want you to go. I want you to know that it is not true. If you do not wish to go alone, take my aunt with you. She lives near by," Austin urged.
"Well, Austin, for your sake I will investigate. I am sorry I have wounded you so much, but I had to do something about it," he answered.
An hour later the officer was again in the store to see Austin. "I found the reports to be utterly false," he said. "If every family in town were as well supplied as yours, some people would live better." Austin's heart felt sick, and he was almost too ashamed to lift his head as he started for home. He felt disgraced and humiliated in the eyes of his neighbors. That it had been one of them who had uttered the complaint he was certain, but which one could be so base and false he could not guess. Never before had he had occasion to think he had enemies. Till now every one had seemed to be full of faith in him. What had he done to break their confidence? Not once did it occur to him that even if the reports had been true, he would not have been to blame. No one was accusing him of not doing his duty. It was evident that he was doing all he could. Nor did he stop to consider that to the minds of the people it was inconsistent that he, a boy of fourteen, should be supporting a family of six. He took the whole insult upon himself, writhing under the humiliation. He was half tempted to give up trying to care for the children. It looked as if failure was all he could expect.
But determined persistence was one of Austin's strong points, and he set to work to investigate the origin of these reports, and when he found their source, a new difficulty was presented and a real cause for concern made bare. Austin was gone all day long, being at home but a few moments at noon. The children, when not in school, found the house lonely and dull. They had no one to direct their efforts nor to control their impulses, so they came and went as they pleased. Austin had not thought of this difficulty, for till now they had lived in the country.
One of their neighbors had children about the age of the Hill children, and the two families played together much of the time. Amy and Nell, as well as the younger children, had formed the habit of gadding about among the neighbors, being at home very little. They were especially often found in the kitchen of this near neighbor, and, as one can easily see, the cooking of this woman would taste better to them than what they prepared at home themselves, and they were always glad for anything to eat they could get. This woman noticed the tendency of the children to seize upon any bit of food offered them, and formed her own conclusions. She was a woman who liked excitement, especially the kind caused by gossip, and, going about among the neighbors, she had circulated the reports which finally reached the officer with the result we have just heard.
But the contradictory reports of the officer put things in a different light, which angered her considerably. Why, we can not say, but she and her family vented their chief anger upon Austin. He it was who had discomfited them, and was therefore to blame.
Austin did not spare his reproofs to the children nor his commands as to their behavior in the future. He blamed them for running about as they had. Because he was so little older than the girls, he could not see why they should not feel some of the responsibility that loaded him. He could not sympathize with their carefree and thoughtless ways, and reproved them accordingly. He was indeed finding that the cares of a family man are many.
One evening as he and his family were eating supper, the thick, incoherent voice of a drunken man fell on their ears. Turning to the door, they saw him coming up the walk staggering. Austin stepped to the screen and latched it, not wishing him to come in among the children in that condition. The fellow was in a terrible anger, and, reeling up to the door, he said, "I want you, Austin Hill, to come out here. I am going to whip you for the lies you have been telling on us." Austin recognized him as one of the men from the home of the neighbor who had circulated the evil reports.
"I do not want to fight you. You are in no condition to fight, and I have done nothing to deserve a whipping," said Austin quietly.
"You come out here, you coward, and I will show you how you can put the lie on us as you have. Come out and let us settle this like men," commanded the fellow with horrid oaths.
Seeing he was crazy with drink, Austin said no more; but, making the door safe, he went away and left him alone. The man after a while went back home, and no more was said about it. But this incident depressed Austin all the more. His problem seemed too hard for him to solve. That night his pillow was wet with tears, and he longed for his mother to advise him. Though surrounded by his father's people, he had little help or encouragement from them, for they feared that Henry would depart and leave them the entire responsibility of the children if they assumed any care of them now. They had all confidence in Austin, but very little in the stability of his father.
His aunts were quick to see the mistakes Austin made in the management of the children—and he made many mistakes, for he was too young to have the wisdom to manage such a large family.
No wonder the boy was discouraged and depressed. But one vision strengthened him. Again he thought he saw his mother and that she smiled on him and bade him stand by the children. He took courage and the next morning was ready to face life again. Austin loved the children more and more, and as the responsibilities deepened upon him, he cried out in his heart, "God help me." And the Lord heard that prayer.
TO THE COUNTRY AGAIN
There were in Austin's mind grave doubts as to his being able to manage the children in town. They could not be trusted to do the right thing in his absence, and would be constantly bringing themselves into reproach. That his father could manage them better was doubtful, but it was easier when his father was there. In those days of discouragement Austin was near giving up. But the heaviest load will some time be lifted, and Austin felt his heart grow more light when he received a letter from his father, saying he had obtained work that suited him and had a house ready for the children as soon as they should come to him.
"Why not make the children ready and send them to him and you stay on with your work?" whispered the tempter, and the suggestion sounded good to Austin. Again came the vision of his mother and her desire that he keep the children together. He pitied the poor little things to be left to the mercies of their careless father. He was fast losing all respect for his parent, and he could not bear to let him neglect his mother's precious children.
Again it fell to Austin's lot to make ready for moving; but this time there was no Uncle John to take the oversight. The furniture was to be packed and sent as well as the bedding and clothes. It was a big undertaking, but was finally accomplished. It was with a feeling of relief that Austin left his grandfather's village. His experience with the welfare officer had been too great a humiliation to be soon forgotten.
The town to which his father brought them was full of excitement over an oil-boom, and men were making money fast and spending it just as fast. It was a gathering-place for loafers and gamblers, sin and wickedness abounding on every hand.
Mr. Hill was not located in the town, but had care of engines which kept pumps going out on the field. He was to have a house near his work after a while, but for the present he had a house five miles away. The country was wild and the neighbors few, and Austin saw that he would not be bothered with his children gadding among the neighbors here. That was a consolation, though he grieved to have them so far from a good school.
True to his impulses Austin found work as soon as he was settled in the new home. This time he hired to the farmers who had not all their fall work done yet. When he could no longer get work among them, he was compelled to remain at home, for he would not go away where he could not keep in touch with the children. But there was plenty to do at home. They wished to farm the next year, and he could prepare the ground this fall; besides, he obtained the privilege of clearing a certain piece of ground for the posts he could get from it. The sale of these posts brought in something, though not so much as if he had been working for wages.
It seemed especially necessary that he be at home with the children at night, for his father was often gone till late and then came home partly under the influence of drink. Austin knew that the children needed his protection.
"Austin," said his father in a surly tone one morning, "why are you lying around home all the time? Why do you not get out and make some money? I have enough to support without doing for you."
"I can not get any work near enough to be at home nights with the children. Besides I am working at those posts," was his answer.
"There is no need of your thinking you must be at home at night. The girls do the work anyway, and you could just as well get out and make something. Go hire yourself to one of the ranchmen along the river. Have some ambition and try to do something for yourself."
How these unkind words stung Austin! He was angry, vowing to himself that if that was all the thanks he was to receive for keeping the ends of the family together he would get out and make money.
That afternoon he visited two or three of the ranchmen, offering himself as a workhand; but when they observed how young he looked, each one asked concerning his age. When they heard that he was but fourteen, they said their work was too heavy for a boy.
"Did you get yourself a job?" asked his father that evening.
"No sir, no one would hire me because I am so young."
"Why did you tell them your age! they would have believed you if you had said you were seventeen."
"But I am not seventeen, and I do not like to tell what is untrue."
"You like an excuse to lie around home. I am getting tired of it, and mean you shall get out and hustle. Do you hear me?"
There had been a few rainy days just before this outbreak of his father's, and Austin had been in the house. But the next morning was sunny, and Austin was again at his chopping, and no more was said till another rainy spell. Then his father attacked him even more roughly, demanding that he get out and find work at once. Austin bore these insults as best he could because of his unwillingness to desert the family.
One Saturday night the father did not come home. After the children were in bed Austin sat up with a queer chill of anxiety in his heart. Something was amiss he was certain, for this was pay-night. He had no doubt but that his father was drinking and gambling with the other fellows in the little town or, worse yet, had gone with some of them down the track a dozen miles to the county-seat. If this were true, he would come home without a cent and be even more angry with Austin for not earning wages.
At last Austin lay down and fell asleep, and he did not waken till day-light. Seeing that his father's bed was not occupied, he knew his worst fears were realized and that his father was in trouble somewhere. The engines needed attention, and if they were neglected his father might lose his job, then where should they be? Touching Harry, who lay at his side, he said, "Harry, wake up and get ready to go with me to see about the engines; Papa did not come home last night, and we shall have to tend them. Amy, Nell, get up and fix us boys some breakfast and a lunch, for we shall have to see about the engines. Papa is not home yet." Hurrying into his clothes, he went out to feed and harness Old Ben, the white horse, which would pull them to the engines.
Two hours later the boys were off in a little open buggy behind poky Old Ben; a cold, drizzling rain was coming down, which wet and chilled them through and through, yet the boys journeyed with light hearts, for so buoyant are the spirits of youth that they can rise above the most unfavorable circumstances. They laughed and sang as the old horse ambled along.
At the first well Austin found the engine still, but with little Harry's help it was soon started.
The second engine, though, would not go. The boys worked with it till they were exhausted, but their efforts were without avail. Some little thing was wrong which neither of them knew how to remedy. As they stepped to the door of the shed to rest a little, to their surprize they heard the sound of voices. They were off from the main road a long way, and in a part of the country where they hardly expected to see any one on this rainy day. Looking in the direction from which the voices came, they saw two men approaching, driving a single horse. At closer range one of the men proved to be their father, and he was in a maudlin condition, reeling back and forth as the buggy bumped along. They could hear the men's voices in ribald laughter and singing. When they were near the building, Mr. Hill climbed clumsily out of the rig, and Austin tried to tell him what the difficulty was.
"Oh, that's nothing," he mumbled, "shoon have it fixed." Reeling as he walked, he went into the shed that sheltered the engine. The boys followed him, and while his mind was clear enough to adjust the engine, his legs were not steady enough to hold him up, and his boys had to hold him to keep him from falling into the machinery while he repaired the engine. It seemed to Austin at this time that he utterly despised his father. He wondered if he could ever feel toward this reeling, staggering, evil-minded man as a son should feel toward a father. Again came the thought of the children and what it would mean to leave them to him. He would not leave them so long as his father would permit him to remain under the home roof.
Before the hard, cold winter came, they moved into the house near his father's work. It was a lonely place with only a small yard cleared in the brush, and was as desolate a location as one could imagine. Yet the house rang with the laughter of the children, whose changing fortune had not chilled their merry hearts.
Thanksgiving passed as any other day, only that the children spoke of their mother oftener than usual. Even they wondered at all the changes which had come to them since the last Thanksgiving.
There was much damp weather, and Austin was unable to work much in the woods. So every day was made dark with the taunts and threats of his father. Sometimes it seemed to him that he could not stand it another day. He longed to get away, to be forever from the presence of his father, but he could not leave the children. What would become of them if he did? Very well he knew that in less than six months they would be scattered here and yonder, some of them to be abused and mistreated.
His father's insulting manner was bearing fruit in the children, and they were no longer submissive. It seemed to Austin that he had failed entirely.
It had now rained steadily for a week, and the mud and drip everywhere made all outdoors unpleasant. But in the Hill home the indoors was even more disagreeable. The new home was near the engines. Mr. Hill was in the house much of the time, and he was never pleasant among his children. Austin could not work in the woods because of the rain, and his presence irritated his father all the time. They were never in the house together but what something unpleasant was said between them, and Austin's spirit was becoming worn with the constant rasping. He thought he could not endure it much longer, and since his presence made the home so filled with contention he doubted whether he was doing right to stay.
"Austin, how much longer are you going to lie around this house? You have not done a day's work in weeks. I can't stand your idleness much longer. Why can you not be like your brothers?" growled Mr. Hill one morning a day or two after Thanksgiving.
Austin said nothing, for he had exhausted all his arguments; but at that instant a determination formed itself in his mind to put a stop to the whole affair. When his father had gone to the engine-room he went to the attic and brought down his best suit of clothes and, coming into the kitchen, prepared to brush and press them. When he put the irons on the stove, Amy noticed what he was about to do.
"You can't press those clothes this morning, for I am going to use the irons," she said in a fretful voice.
"I shall have to use them, Amy, but it will not take long."
"You can't have them, so there! You always want to do just your way, no matter what we want to do."
"Did you hear what Father said this morning?" asked Austin.
"He didn't say any more than he is always saying," she said a little less fretfully.
"He will not have to say anything of the kind again, for I am going to find work and not coming back till I have it," said Austin.
"Austin, you can't go away. What shall we children do!" exclaimed Amy, all her vexation leaving at the thought.
"I do not know; but it can not be much worse than having Father so angry all the time. I will get work on the river if I can, and will see you all as often as possible," answered Austin soothingly.
Amy said no more about the irons, but turned to her dish-washing with tearful eyes, her heart almost standing still at the thought of home without Austin. The other children who had heard the conversation stood about with consternation written on their little faces. Harry, who was a child to act when he thought he might help, hurried out to the engine-room and told his father what had occurred. Henry Hill was vexed because Austin's wages no longer came in; but he had no thought of sending the boy away. He knew too well that Austin's presence was needed in the home. But the seed of animosity that had been sown in his heart against Austin during the past summer was now bearing fruit, and he took a sort of pleasure in annoying the boy. He saw that Austin was sensitive about being dependent and he enjoyed seeing him wince. At Harry's alarm he only grunted a word of disapproval and went on with his work. He believed Austin was only trying to bluff him. He did not think the boy could be driven away from the children.
An hour later Harry was back again at his father's side, his face bathed in tears and his breast heaving with sobs. "Papa, Austin is going. He has his suitcase all packed and is ready to start."
Henry Hill jumped to his feet, his face red with anger. Could it be possible that Austin had such an idea in his head? If so, he would soon frighten it out of him. This looked too much like defiance in the boy!
"I will show him how to run away, the rascal. Harry, go to the barn and bring the buggy whip," and saying this the father rushed across the little opening between the two buildings and stamped into the kitchen. Austin was on his knees fastening his suitcase, which was all packed and ready for his start. He had not meant to bid his father good-by, nor to tell him any of his plans. He was too angry and his heart too defiant to want even to look at him again. When his father came in, Austin rose from his knees and faced him.
"What is up here, young man? I will let you know right here that there is going to be no running away from this ranch! You get that grip where it belongs, in a hurry," thundered the irate father.
"I am going away to find work. I shall take care of myself from this time on," said the boy resolutely facing the angry man.
"Take care of yourself," sneered his father, "you could not exist a month on your own resources. You take those clothes out of that grip and stop this nonsense!"
"I am going away, and you need not try to hinder me," said Austin in firm, even tones.
A fearful oath escaped the father's lips and he grabbed the whip which the sobbing Harry had brought; for as much as Harry loved Austin he dare not disobey his father's command. Turning again to Austin, the man thundered, "I'll thrash you within an inch of your life. Don't you dare to tell me you are going away when I forbid it. For once you will obey me."
Just then the engine gave a warning sound, which meant that without immediate attention it would stop running, so the enraged man turned about without another word and went out, leaving the frightened children looking after him. But the pause was only for a moment. Austin seized his opportunity and, picking up the suitcase and bidding the children a hasty farewell, he bolted out of the door and across the lot to freedom. He had been running as hard as he could go when still he heard the wails of the children and heard them calling to him. He took a course across the unbroken lands where there was not so much as a foot-path. In his timber-cutting he had become familiar with the lay of the land and took this rough way on purpose that his father might have difficulty in following him. He ran for almost a mile before he slackened his pace, and at every step he seemed to feel his father right behind him. He knew that now his father would be so angry as to have no sense at all, but would beat him nearly to death.
When at the edge of the river-bottom he stopped to take a breath he found that he was wet to the skin and that he had stepped into low places where the water had come up over his shoe-tops. And he remembered too that he had not a penny in his pockets, nor a bite to eat. A more forlorn boy could not be found than Austin as he stood there and looked across to the farmhouses along the river. But he smiled a little to himself as he thought, "I am one fellow who actually ran away from home. It was no walk away."
As he approached the river he found the lowlands much more wet and marshy than it had been in the hills, and he had to wade above his shoes a good deal of the time, and still the heavy drizzle kept up. He made for a farmhouse where he hoped to get work. As he came up he wished in his heart that the man would ask him no questions about his condition; for he saw that besides the wet and mud, he had torn his clothes in several places. But he was determined that if any questions were asked he would tell the truth, just as it was. He would not shield either his father or himself. His cause should stand upon its own foundation. He believed that almost any one would approve of his leaving home under the circumstances.
He knocked at the farmhouse door, and the man of the house answered his rap and hospitably invited the boy in. It was a temptation; but Austin remembered his soppy condition and did not like to soil the housewife's floors, so refused to enter.
"I am looking for work. Have you anything I can do?" he said.
"Are you not that Hill boy who wanted work a few weeks back?" asked the man kindly.
"Yes, and you thought you might have something for me later," replied Austin hopefully.
"If you had come yesterday I should have hired you; I found a man over at town last night, and he will be here today to begin. I am sorry I did not know you were still wanting the place."
With a heavy heart Austin turned from the door and journeyed on in the rain and mud. He had little hope of getting work at any of the other farms, and he did not know where to go. But he determined to do his best in seeking employment, and so stopped at every house he passed, asking the same question.
At last he reached the river at a place where a foot-bridge crossed it. To cross this bridge seemed to him to be cutting off the last retreat home. Here he must make his final decision. He stood with one foot on the bridge and one hand on the railing and pondered. Should he go on, or should he go back and face his father? He knew the taunts he would receive even if he were not beaten; but he would bear all that if it was his duty. Then there came to his mind the picture of his father that day he had come home after his drunken spree and found the boys trying to start the engine. At the thought his loathing of his father overcame him, and he turned and walked across the bridge. Never would he go back to live in the same house with that drunken fellow. If Henry Hill had realized the effect his life was having on his children even he would have considered.
Now that Austin had cut his last shore-line, had crossed the bridge away from home, he began to plan for himself. It was now past noon, and he was both hungry and cold. When he thought of his penniless condition a chill of apprehension came over him, for he had no mind to beg. He continued his search for work on this side the river, but with as little success. Though he could hardly have told why, he had kept on toward the railroad, and was approaching it where a small station stood. He had no money with which to buy a ticket, yet he hoped that in some way he might be able to follow the road to where he could find work.
When he reached the station he found no depot and only a few houses; a box car had been set beside the track and in it was a tiny waiting-room with a fire burning. A couple of men sat idly by smoking and talking, scarcely noticing when the boy came in. Austin was thoroughly tired out, more hungry than he had ever been in his life, and chilled to the bone. His feet had been wet all day, and he had not a dry stitch of clothing on him. Setting the suitcase down, he sank upon the rude bench at the side of the room and hardly moved for a long time. The early twilight of the gloomy evening came on, and still he sat, with a thoughtful, far-away look in his eyes. He did not know what to do next.
After a while the ticket agent came in. Seeing the boy sit in such a dejected position and without moving for a long time, he guessed that he was in trouble and in need of help.
"Where are you going, sir?" he asked Austin kindly.
"I hardly know. I have been looking for work among the farmers all day and none of them want to hire me, and I hardly know what to do next," said Austin.
"Do you live near here?"
"Yes, I have walked from home today; but I do not want to go back if I can avoid it. I want to find work."
"Had some trouble?"
At this question Austin looked around, and seeing that they were now alone and feeling certain that the man was kindly disposed toward him he told him all, shielding neither his father nor himself. It was so evident that he told the truth that the man believed him.
"Have you any means, or any way of making your expenses while you are looking for work?" was the next question.
"No sir, I have no money, and only want to get work. I have a friend at the next town whom I am quite certain would help me if I could only find him."
"Have you anything about you that you could sell if you got into a pinch?" again asked the man.
"Not a thing unless it would be this," and he held up a pocket-knife, which had been a gift of his mother's.
"If you will give me the knife I will give you your supper and a ticket to the next station," tactfully proposed the man, not wishing to make Austin feel like a beggar.
Accepting the offer he was taken to a little restaurant and given a good supper, and before it had grown much later he had a ticket and was aboard the train bound for the town where his friend was at work. Austin had taken opportunity while waiting for the train to change his clothes, and he now presented a much better appearance than when he was sitting by the little box-car fire.
When Austin left the train it was dark, and had been for some time. He had been so tired as the train bounded along that he hardly sensed his position. Dimly he had wondered where he would sleep that night. Now he stood for a moment on the little station platform wondering what he should do next. He did not know where to find his friend and was not certain he was here at all. This had been his only hope of finding work, and now he realized it had been a very forlorn one. Since he was here he must find the man or stay out in the cold all night. He saw the light of a hotel across the street. Going there, he asked if they knew his friend; but his friend was a stranger to them. He inquired about other hotels and rooming-houses, and was directed to two or three, which he visited with as little success. Standing again in the outside darkness he pondered what to do. He thought perhaps his friend might be known at the livery stable, and going there he asked again. The stableman knew no such a fellow, and by the flickering lantern-light he saw the look of disappointment and concern that crossed Austin's face.
"Where are you going to stay tonight?" he asked.
"I do not know. I have made no inquiry about it, hoping to find my friend," the boy replied.
"Every house in town is full; some folks will have to sit up at the hotel for lack of a bed. I have no idea where to tell you to go." Then after a moment's thought he added, "I could fix you a place here in the barn where you would be comfortable, and welcome."
"Thank you, sir; but, to be honest, I have no money to pay for even that bed," truthfully replied Austin.
"Well, a fellow can't stay out in the cold a night like this. Prepare to roll in and maybe you will have better luck tomorrow," good-naturedly replied the man, and taking an armful of rugs he went to an oat-bin and spread them out and left Austin to get to rest as soon as possible.
Though this was a novel bed to the boy, and the surroundings new and strange, so weary was he that he was soon fast asleep. It was morning when he wakened, but not yet light. He heard the man in the barn with the horses, so jumping up hastily he dressed and went out to help him, with the hope that he could remain and work about the barn, though this was not the kind of work he had wished for.
"Have you need of a hand around the barn?" he asked the man after a while. "If you have I should like a job."
"No, I can manage all there is to do very well," was the discouraging reply.
"Do you know of any work around here I could get?"
"Not a thing. You are most too young to stand the work in the oil-fields, and that is about all there is to do this time of year. I shall go over to the house now for my breakfast, and you look after things while I am gone and then you may go get yours," said the man, who felt genuine pity for the boy.
Austin enjoyed the warm breakfast and the kindness of the housewife who gave it to him. Before he left, the man handed him almost a dollar in change, another act of kindness.
Taking his suitcase again in his hand Austin proceeded on his uncertain journey. The money the stableman had given him would be sufficient to carry him to the village where his grandparents lived, and as he had heard that Wilbur was there, he decided to cease looking for his friend and go on to his grandparents' home and get assistance from his brother. He thought this would be only fair, for Wilbur had borne no responsibility, while he himself had given all his wages for the support of the family.
"Why, Austin!" exclaimed his grandmother when he came to her door. "Can this be you! I did not know you intended coming. How did you leave the children!"
"Everybody is well, thank you," primly replied Austin; for he was always a little afraid of his sharp-spoken grandmother. "Papa thought he could get along without me for a while, so I am looking for work. Do you know where I could find Wilbur? Perhaps he could help me get something right away."
"Will is in town somewhere; I see little of him. You come in and spend the night with us, and hunt him in the morning."
Austin spent a pleasant evening with the old folks; but he told them nothing of the trouble between him and his father, lest they might detain him and send word to his father where to find him. The next morning he found his brother, who was as surprized to see him as the grandparents had been.
"Hello, kid, how are the folks?" he had greeted him in a jolly tone.
"All right. Papa thought he could get on without me for a while, so I am looking for work. Do you know where I can get any?"
"No, I do not know of a thing. There is not much around here that is light enough for a kid," replied Wilbur, who felt his two years' superiority very much.
"Well, then, could you let me have some money to keep me till I do find work? I am completely broke and have not been able to get a thing to do."
"I'm sorry, Austin, but I am in the same fix. I lost on a game last night, and it left me in bad shape. I would let you have it if I could."
Austin did not remain with his brother long. He felt sick at heart to think he had so soon turned to the very course his mother had warned him against. From the flippant remarks Wilbur made it was plain he was sowing his wild oats with a reckless hand.
Though in the village where many of his father's people lived, Austin felt as lonely as he had the day before in the little box car beside the railroad. Thoughtfully he walked down toward the depot, wondering what to do. He had no heart to look for work. At the depot he met a young fellow of a friendly disposition who seemed disposed to talk with him. It took but a little probing by this smooth fellow to get from Austin all his story; for the boy was entirely unacquainted with the ways of the world. And to his new friend the whole thing seemed a joke. He confided to Austin that he was in nearly the same predicament, but that he knew a way to ride about the country without funds. Austin had heard of such things but did not know how it was done, and showed some interest; and the young man proceeded to explain to him the tricks of his trade, for he was by profession a loafer, a tramp.
That what the young man did was wrong, Austin knew; but he was so kind and engaging in his manner, and seemed to be such a friend just when Austin needed a friend very much, Austin consented to go with him on his next trip, which he intended beginning that very afternoon. Presently another young fellow of the same type as Austin's new found friend joined them, and the three boys waited at a convenient place for boarding a box car without being noticed.
THE CAPTAIN'S GUEST
It is hard to explain Austin's feelings at this time. He had a tender conscience and knew he was doing wrong; but he was penniless and so in need of a friend, and this young man had showed him kindness, and a way out of his difficulty. He kept promising himself that only this once would he be guilty of such a deed. He would get work as soon as possible. And he thought of the children. It seemed impossible that he had been gone from them only two days.
But the boys were not so successful as they had hoped to be in boarding the train and were able to get into only an open coal-car. Here they had to lie down till the train was out of the station, when they sat up and looked around. It was not long till they became painfully aware that the journey would not be taken in comfort. A strong wind was blowing and, after the rainy spell, it had turned cold. None of the boys had heavy coats, and the wind cut them through and through. It seemed to Austin that he would freeze to death. They huddled together to keep themselves warm. The older fellows laughed at the trouble they were in, for they were hardened to it. But to Austin, who was used to the shelter of home, it seemed horrible. Never will he forget that cold ride.
Added to his physical discomforts was the mental consciousness of wrong-doing.
Just at nightfall the boys climbed out of their uncomfortable carriage in the freight-yards of a thriving town some fifty or sixty miles north of their starting-point. Austin was so chilled he could hardly walk, but managed to follow the other fellows up-town. It is needless to say that his initiation into the life of a "bum" was not pleasant. But his companions seemed not to mind their discomfort, and he trudged along with them. When they reached town, they first got something warm to eat, then inquired for a place to stay. The man of whom they asked understood their circumstances, for he had seen many of their kind, and directed them to the auditorium in the city park as the most likely place they would find. This building had been made for the convenience of public speaking, not for a dormitory, and was a very poor place to stay on a cold night. It had walls on only the east and north, but afforded a shelter from the force of the cold north wind. The boys had no bedding, and had to keep themselves warm by building small fires of the leaves and sticks they could pick up in the dark, and by walking. It seemed to Austin that he would never see the night through; but finally morning came. He was again treated to a warm meal by his friend, and then they parted company with the third member of their crowd. Austin and his companion decided to strike out on foot to the next town. This pleased Austin, for he hoped to get work somewhere along the way. They had not gone far until it was plain that his companion was not looking for work, but for adventure. Austin wished he had not fallen into such company. However, after the kindness the boy had shown him he could not turn from him coldly.
At noon the hoys stopped at a farmhouse for dinner. They were not posing as tramps, but offered to pay for their meal. The family with whom they stopped was a lively, jolly one, and the glimpse of home-life Austin got made his heart ache. He longed to tell the kind man all his troubles but had no opportunity, for his companion led all the conversation telling the farmer and his boys a long and brilliant tale of his travels. He posed as a rich young fellow traveling in the present manner only for the novelty. Austin had a poor opinion of his methods and modes of travel, and decided that his companion was a cheap braggart, and nothing more.
After the noon's entertainment the boys tramped on, Austin longing for something solid to base his plans upon, his companion evidently contented with his vagabond life. Night found them in a town twenty miles north of the place from which they had started in the morning, and penniless.
But Austin's friend knew what to do. His first inquiry was for the Salvation Army, and being directed to the home of Captain Albright, they knocked at his hospitable door. He invited them in and made them welcome, asking them few questions about themselves. But the young man was inclined to talk and told the Captain how he had been converted in an Army meeting two nights before and what a glorious experience it was. Austin looked at him in astonishment and disgust. He knew now what kind of fellow he was traveling with—one who would lie about holy things for a bed and something to eat. The shame and mortification he felt were so keen that he could hardly look up while his companion enlarged to the Captain on his religious experience.
In the morning, after the boys had had a good night's rest and had eaten a hearty breakfast, good Captain Albright took them into his front room and read and prayed with them, then gave them some kind advice before they should go on their way.
"Boys, the kind of life you are now living does not pay. You are both young and strong and able to work, and you had better get something to do and stay with it and make men of yourselves. You are building now for all time and you can hardly afford to waste all your young manhood."
Austin was a quiet boy, and it was hard for him to speak, especially when his companion was so quick to occupy all the opportunity for conversation. All the morning he had been trying to get a chance to explain himself and get help from the Captain in finding work. Now was his chance, and he seized it, for his companion was silent on the subject of work.
"That is just what I want, sir. I am not used to this kind of life and I do not like it at all. Do you know where I could find work?"
"Right, my boy. You are welcome to remain with us till you can find something. Have you anything in mind you wish to do?"
"I have an uncle who has always been kind to me, and he promised to send me money and help me if I ever needed help, but as yet I have found no place to stay until I can hear from him."
"You are welcome to make your home with us until you can hear from him, and I advise you to write today," said the Captain.
Austin was only too glad to accept this offer and to part company with his doubtful friend. He took the postal card the captain gave him and hurriedly wrote his cry of distress and got it into the morning mail. His heart was now light, and he expected a reply in three or four days at the longest. In the meantime he made himself as useful as possible in the household of the kind Captain.
After a week a letter came to the Captain's address, but it was for Wilbur Hill instead of Austin. This puzzled Austin somewhat, but feeling certain it was meant for him, he opened it. The letter proved to be from his cousin Frank, and was in answer to his card.
"Will," the letter ran, "start east right away, working your way as best you can, and when you are nearer, I will help you." Austin was perplexed and not at all pleased. He did not wish to try any more penniless traveling. Three days of that had been enough for him. And that his uncle should fail in his promise seemed indeed unlike Uncle John.
Austin wrote again to his uncle, a letter this time, explaining the situation more clearly, and asking that the money be sent for his fare and promising to return it when he had work. His hopes had rallied much in writing the letter, and he was sure a more favorable answer would come soon. While he waited, he helped Captain Albright as much as he could. The Army people were making ready for their Christmas celebration, and found plenty for Austin's willing hands to do. Much food and old clothing had been donated to the Captain for distribution among the poor, and to Austin was given the task of gathering this together. He was happy in doing this, feeling that he was at least earning his board. But he could not understand why an answer to his letter should not come. Three weeks passed since he first came into Captain Albright's home, yet his uncle did not send him money nor acknowledge his letter.
One day a telegram came to him saying a ticket was at the office for him, and the message was signed by his uncle. Joy almost to distraction filled the boy's heart as he rushed to the depot to see if it were truly so.
It was only a day or two till Christmas, and Austin had consented to fill quite a large place on the program for the entertainment, but he could not wait now that his message had come. Captain Albright had been sorry for Austin in his perplexity and rejoiced with him in the good news, and released him from his part on Christmas Eve.
When Austin reached the great city on his way home, he was told that his train had gone and he could not get another till the next day. The fast train, which would pass through his uncle's town, stood then on the track; but it would not stop. Austin was getting wise in traveling and believed he could not get into anything out of which there would be no escape; so if he could once get on the fast train, he would trust luck to get him off. Dodging past the gatekeeper, he boarded this train. The conductor told him the train could not stop, but Austin waited to see what would happen. He had no money to stay in a hotel, and he wanted to get to his old home very much anyway. Shortly before they reached the village, the conductor told him the train would stop just outside for water.
WITH UNCLE JOHN AGAIN
It was noon, Christmas Day, when Austin stepped from the train at the watering-station just outside his old home village. Oh, the joy of familiar sights! He felt as if he should like to stoop and kiss the very earth under his feet, he was so glad to be at home again. He had not gone far till he saw familiar faces, but he did not stop, though all were glad to see him back again. His one thought was to see once more his beloved uncle. He hurried on, swinging his suitcase in his hand. For some reason it seemed much lighter than at other stages in his journey. He could hardly keep his feet on the ground, so light was his heart as he sped along.
At last the old farmhouse came in sight, and about the door were his cousins, who were wondering if Austin could have come on that train. They were expecting him any time and had a hearty welcome for him when he did come. Aunt Tillie had the Christmas dinner just ready to sit down to when the glad cry of the children announced Austin's arrival. All of them were at home that day to celebrate their last Christmas in the old house, for their father had sold the homestead and they were to move the coming week. It was with joy that the extra plate was laid for the wanderer.
"Well, well, Austin! you are here at last! I suppose you thought we never intended to answer your letter," said Uncle John laughing.
"I could not help wondering why you waited so long," answered Austin reproachfully, for he still felt grieved at his uncle's neglect.
"Look at this and tell me if you wonder that I did not answer it," said Uncle John bringing out the card Austin had written him from Captain Albright's home three weeks before. To Austin's surprize it was unsigned.
"How was I to know who wrote this?" asked his uncle with twinkling eyes, "you will have to sign your name if you want money from me."
"I do not see how I came to do anything like that," said Austin, abashed at his mistake.
"We never suspected you, and after talking it over at the supper-table we all came to the conclusion that the card was from Wilbur, and that he had gotten into some trouble and wanted help. He is so trifling that I decided to let him fight his own battles, so paid no more attention to the matter," explained his uncle.
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The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort & convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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On Monday evening, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed live on the Jimmy Fallon show. At age 62, Springsteen still has no idea how to just mail in a performance. As vital and vibrant as ever, Springsteen showed everyone once again why he's the best that ever was. The song "Wrecking Ball," which serves as the title track for his next album (available March 6th everywhere), seemed like a throwaway romp when he performed it on the last tour, ostensibly in honor of the tearing down of the Meadowlands. And yet, with just a few word twists, it serves as an incredibly worthy anchor to what is going to be an epic album. In context to the rest of the album, the protagonist stands defiant telling all the forces that serve to bring him, us, down to step to the line, take their best shot. And even when you knock down the structure, the spirit always remains. A powerful reminder, indeed. I can't help but see this as the rest of the story to the wide-eyed teen that was running from anything and everything some 37 years ago. Now in his mid to late 50s, having survived the rattle and hum of every day life, he now knows that you can run but you can't hide. There are forces greater then us all that can take you down even when you've tried to do everything right. And yet, and yet, not even the wrecking ball can tear us down. Remain resolute, if you think you've got the balls.
Enjoy this video from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and please, please, please buy the album:
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Never has a moment in baseball made me feel more like Michael Coreleone in Godfather III then the rescission of the 50-game suspension handed down to last year’s National League MVP, Ryan Braun, when he tested positive for extremely high levels of testosterone.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. I thought I was through with screaming from the rooftops about how poorly baseball is run and how foolish they've been in dealing with the drugs. Weren't they getting better? Hardly.
At this point, major league baseball remians popular by accident. It has a business model that makes no sense. It has too many teams that never have a realistic chance of competing. It operates under separate sets of rules between the leagues, which is idiotic. But perhaps its biggest problem is that it is presided over by Bud Selig, The Worst Commissioner in Baseball History™, a point I’ve made before and now need to make again.
My issues with Selig stem mostly from his fragile spine. He’s never once stood up for the game in a meaningful way by staring down narrow-minded owners who care only about their bottom line and not the health of the entire sport. And even in those rare cases where he could get consensus with the owners, Selig had no ability to take on a players’ union run by short-sighted shallow thinkers over any issues of substance, including substance abuse. By not standing up, Selig has fallen for almost every issue, not the least of which was baseball’s rampant drug problem, one of the worst scandals in American sports.
Selig’s apologists point to his leadership in bettering baseball’s drug policy as proof of his effectiveness while conveniently forgetting that Selig’s conversion on this issue came not of his free will but at the business end of a gun pointed at his head by Congress.
And yet, while baseball’s drug policy is indeed far better these days along comes a case like Braun's to put baseball and its approach nearly back to square one. Losing the Braun arbitration in the way they did makes it look as though baseball is being run by Peter Griffin. Maybe that would actually be better.
The Braun case more than demonstrates that baseball's brain trust can't even handle a urine sample effectively. How can it be trusted on anything reeking of even slightly more complication?
Let’s set the background.
Braun has claimed that his elevated testosterone levels aren’t the result of illegal drug use, which seems dubious if only because I’m still waiting for the first person to test positive to actually admit that they really did ingest illegal drugs.
Braun’s argument raised questions about the integrity of the testing process and was buttressed not by his actual test results but by the inherent distrust most people have toward drug testing in the first place. Anyone who has ever been subjected to a drug test, and by now that’s most of us, always fears the mythical “false positive” test. Despite the sophistication of the testing at this point that makes it nearly impossible to get a “false positive,” the potential for a false result hangs over the program like Billy Crystal hangs over the Oscars.
And so it is, sometimes to extremes, that we let irrational fears like these drive results that don’t seem plausible. Irrational or not, however, the fact remains that whenever there is any sort of hiccup in the protocol related to procuring and then securing the urine sample the results will always be suspicious. But that's not news. Nearly every drug testing case that is lost is because of an issue related to the testing protocol, no matter how small or insignificant of an issue it might be.
Had baseball’s deep thinkers remembered this while taking a more sober view of their case and acknowledged this fact before they ever decided to suspend Braun, this mess could have been avoided and Braun, if he is a drug user, caught under circumstances that could never have been questioned.
Braun based his claim of a false positive on what his lawyers argued was a broken custody chain in the handling of his urine sample. That’s not really true, but it’s true enough, which was also enough for neutral arbitrator Shyman Das.
The reason it’s true enough is simply that the person who took the urine sample for major league baseball never bothered to read Protocol 101. The same holds for MLB’s lawyers. From the time that the sample was collected until it was shipped (not tested, but shipped) was 44 hours or nearly two full days. The protocol in baseball is that once the sample is collected it is to be shipped immediately via FedEx to baseball’s testing lab in Montreal.
When Braun’s sample was collected, it was a Friday evening and supposedly after the local FedEx office had closed. So the collector let the sample sit in a container of Tupperware on his desk for almost two days, which reminds me never to accept an invitation to eat leftovers at that collector’s house.
You don’t need to know any more about the case than that to know that baseball should have just bit its lip and thrown out the sample and either re-tested Braun or lived to fight another day. No arbitrator was ever going to sign off on the results and the punishment that comes from them under that scenario. Again, it’s the fear of a false positive that mandates there be no screw up, no matter how small or insignificant in the testing process.
Anyone who has litigated a drug case, and I’ve done several of them, knows this to be the case. Yet baseball’s lawyers convinced baseball’s management that this fact didn’t matter and now they have a mess on their hands.
How did they get to this point? Because when you look at it holistically and not necessarily legally, you pretty much come to the conclusion that Braun had something illegal in his system. So you try to make it work because suspending the reigning MVP is a pretty big get.
In fairness to the collector, it wasn’t as if Braun peed directly into the Tupperware container. Braun peed into one of those brown bottles and handed it over. The collector immediately placed a seal over it, put that sealed bottle into a packet and sealed that packet as well and then put the packet into a FedEx box that he likewise sealed. To that point the protocol was followed and most of us know the routine. It’s just that with the FedEx office closed, the collector held onto it for 44 hours before sending it along. Once it arrived in Montreal, everything was completely in tact and sealed. There was no evidence that any of the seals had been tampered with or, by extension, that the sample was tainted.
That's pretty powerful stuff. But where major league baseball screwed up was in testing Braun at a time of day when the sample couldn’t be immediately shipped, though as Lester Munson, writing for ESPN, noted, Braun’s attorneys more or less debunked baseball’s claim that the FedEx office wasn’t open by highlighting several other FedEx offices nearby that were.
Because the sample sat in a sealed pouch for two days at the collector's house instead of in a lab, that raised more then enough doubt in the mind of the arbitrator on an issue that is fraught with doubts anyway. With the test discredited Braun’s suspension had to be overturned.
It's understandable how baseball got into this predicament. You combine a seemingly guilty looking player with a baseball hierarchy known more for missteps then efficient execution you end up with a recipe that yields a result pretty much in line with what they got. Yet if they had tested Braun a day earlier or maybe two days later, either of which would have been at a time when they could have found an open FedEx office, they could have nailed Braun and, in turn, looked serious about finally ridding the sport of drugs.
As it is, they look foolish instead. Maybe now Selig will understand that simply saying you have a world class drug testing program doesn’t make it so. As for ridding the sport of drugs, we’ll this is certainly a step backward. Unwittingly, by virtue of their own hubris, major league baseball has created the impression that they can’t be trusted. And that, really, is the sad legacy that Selig has written for the sport he claims to love.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
There was a time in Cleveland when Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez and Omar Vizquel formed the heart of a team that gave Indians fans their most significant reason to cheer in decades. They were great players growing into the prime of their careers that several times put the Indians on the precipice of a World Series title that now seems further away then ever.
But players like Thome, Ramirez and Vizquel were never going to spend their careers in Cleveland. We can bitch about the reasons why but the truth is that the identity of a particular player and a particular team is as outdated as the reserve clause.
One of the byproducts of the system that Marvin Miller sold first to the players and eventually to the owners was a revolving door concept of player movement. You take two greedy parties—players and owners—whose economic interests naturally clash and eventually you end up a league full of players who, if there's any length to their careers, each probably average having played with 4 to 5 different teams by the time those careers are over.
If the Indians didn’t create the concept of “small market team” then they were at least at the forefront of the concept. When baseball’s runaway financial structure, driven by the kinds of dollars teams were willing to throw at players like Thome and Ramirez in particular, became too dizzying of a ride for less heeled owners around the league, teams either had to find a better way to make use of the money they had or become, well, the Kansas City Royals.
So for the Indians, like their West Coast cousins, the Oakland As, it was easy to say goodbye to players they never intended to keep and replace them with someone who might vaguely replicate their production at 1/10th of the price.
As a result, every off season in Cleveland is filled not with splashy free agent signingsbut a smattering of goodbyes followed by acquisitions like Casey Kotchman, Kevin Slowey and Cristian Guzman. Even Derek Lowe fits the profile. It’s the only way that the Indians can think of to keep a budget within reason while still turning a profit for their owners.
But it’s a myth that only teams like Cleveland and Oakland do these sorts of things. The Indians and As may do more of this kind of barrel scraping then others, but there isn’t a team in the major leagues that isn’t in the market for an aging veteran pitcher with a history of success and coming off of arm surgery. Heck, Bartolo Colon was a big part of the Yankees’rotation last season.
That’s why it’s fascinating to watch when players like Thome, Ramirez and Vizquel, players who were such a big part of local fans’ dreams, face their comeuppance. No longer are they prizes to whom teams are still willing to throw indiscriminate money toward but instead they are, in effect, some other team’s Kotchman, Slowey or Guzman.
When the Oakland As signed Ramirez earlier this week, it more than drove home the point. Ramirez is mostly a discredited two time violator of baseball’s drug policy. He could be signed on the cheap because he grew fat and remained stupid and he has a 50-game suspension that still must be served.
But the other reason the As would take a chance on Ramirez is for the same reason that aging baby boomers will still buy tickets to a Paul McCartney concert. McCartney may be 70 years old but his voice is still good enough to make you remember when it was coming out of a 25 year old body.
So it is with Ramirez. He could get as big as Prince Fielder but as long as the sweet batting stroke remains in tact, and As general manager Billy Beane assures us it is, then there is very little to be lost except maybe a half million dollars if Ramirez is a complete bust. As cheap as teams can be, they still think little of giving away $500,000 to a player who could credibly occupy a final roster spot.
Still there is a certain pathetic underpinning to it all, isn’t there? Assuming Ramirez’s lack of self-discipline extended to matters financial, the assumption is that Ramirez signed because he needs the money. He never came across as someone who loved the game given his abject indifference toward its formalities for so many years. It's the sad epilogue really to the far headier days when he and his agent dangled the disingenuous notion of his re-signing with Cleveland under a “hometown discount” before maxing out with the Boston Red Sox.
Take away the two drug violations and Thome’s story closely parallels Ramirez’s. He left Cleveland in much the same way, with his agent trying to portray Indians’ management as the bad guys for not paying him his “value” even as he chased the maximum cash that any other team was willing to pay him knowing full well it wouldn't be Cleveland.
Thome had great years with the Phillies and became a very solid 1 percenter in the process. But age and weight and injuries caught up with Thome and for the last several years he’s been a hobbled mercenary looking for a few bucks and a way to extend his career. He’s now on his fourth team since 2006.
It, too, seems just a tad pathetic. And yet there is something gratifying by the way Thome, like Ramirez, has had to humble himself to those he exploited now that he's just another spare part, a plug hole in some team’s budget, as he clings to baseball even after making well in excess of $100 million during his career.
Then there’s Vizquel. He didn’t get there in the same way as Ramirez or Thome but he’s there all the same. Never the splashy free agent that either Ramirez or Thome was it could well be argued that his value as a baseball player was at least as high as either of them.
Vizquel didn’t leave Cleveland because he was chasing free agent dollars. He left because general manager Mark Shapiro kicked him, his 37 year old body and his relatively modest $6 million a year salary to the curb in favor of a potentially promising Jhonny Peralta who worked much more cheaply. Since then Vizquel went on to start for the San Francisco Giants for years but now finds himself as a 45 year old trying to keep a million dollar salary coming in. As long as he can still field the ball on occasion and doesn’t make waves, he’s the perfect plug hole in some team’s budget as well.
That Vizquel still clings to baseball as a bit player is a sad end to a glorious career. There's no reason not to take the money that some team wants to throw your way but it really is rather sad that in the pursuit of another dollar a player of his stature is willing to tarnish an otherwise glorious career.
In retrospect, it all seems rather ludicrous to have gotten so excited about trying to retain at least Ramirez and Thome, even as I still question Shapiro’s decision to jettison Vizquel when he did. Even if they all had remained in Cleveland and had put up exactly the same numbers as they did for their new teams, there is no certainty that the Indians would have won a World Series.
But even more to the point is simply that they more then prove that as much as major league baseball markets its superstars, the only real way to remain committed as a fan is to love the game more. Players come and go quickly, particularly these days, and their self interests will always break your hearts. But the game itself still endures and is the reason to watch. It’s the only way to be a fan in Cleveland and, frankly, every other city with a major or minor league team.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
One of the abiding questions for beleaguered Cleveland sports fans is whether or not LeBron James and Art Modell really belong in the same conversation. It's easy to equate the two sports pariahs because the similarities can be striking in the oddest ways.
From the classless and graceless exits to the sorry state in which they left their local fans it's quite natural to want to bury each up to his neck in his own private chamber in Cleveland sports hell, drip honey on their foreheads and watch as rodents and fire ants pick them clean.
You'll never witness me asking anyone to forgive LeBron James for the shiv he stuck in this town's collective backs. But if presented with the Hobson's choice of pulling one or the other from in front of a RTA bus driven by a meth-addicted escaped felon, I'm pulling LeBron away every time. Sorry, Artie.
And this was before LeBron's recent bout of maturity in the form of acknowledging that his noisy withdrawal from the local sports scene was a mistake. I don't begrudge any athlete chasing whatever dream comes his way. For James, the money was going to be there wherever he decided to play. Like any generational athlete what drives him is the elusive goal of immortality. In sports that's always been defined by championships.
What chafes about James is that ultimately he is not who we thought he was. We convinced ourselves he was Michael Jordan on limited evidence that came in the form of an ability to do things with a basketball that most of us can never fathom. When he left, we imagined with it all the championships he'd take with him.
But the sad truth when it comes to James is that he's never going to be who he thinks he is. He's not a king and he's certainly not Jordan. He's an overgrown kid who just happens to be really good at his sport. If or when that championship comes his way, he'll never own it like Jordan or Kobe. He'll have earned it on someone else's back.
Saying all this isn't supposed to serve as criticism, which is why James gets a pass when the only choice is to save the lesser of two evils. James is not a leader but instead one of the most talented followers in history. His inability to convince his superstar friends to play in Cleveland instead of Miami (although I blanche at the notion of Chris Bosh as a superstar) is all the proof you need of that. His playoff collapses are just the icing on the cake.
In that context James chasing his dreams where the real alpha dogs take them makes sense even if it hurts. James reached the conclusion long before the rest of us that there was no reason to build a team around him. He works far better when it's built around someone else.
So James throwing the locals a bone by suggesting he could see himself playing in Cleveland somewhere down the road is pretty much the same thing Jim Thome said on his way out of town the first time, too. It was the kind of empty statement that athletes say to get to the next question.
Besides I don't expect it to ever come to pass anyway unless James ends up like Thome, a mercenary playing out the string of on a great career but unable to call it quits. But even then I still doubt it, at least if Dan Gilbert still owns the team. He strikes me as the kind of guy that James is not--driven to success and motivated by slights. And that’s a good thing.
James doesn't exactly warrant a pass even as his situation at least has a thread of schoolboy logic to it. Modell, on the other hand, is a far different cat. In simple terms, he ran a franchise into the ground through the kind of stupidity the Lerner family can only dream about and then uprooted it for the sole purpose of trying to preserve it for the benefit of his idiot son.
There has been a lot of revisionist history afoot when it comes to Modell, mostly led by Modell directly or through those he has paid to be his dishonest messengers. Modell was always quick to try to blame a city he thought was more preoccupied with the Indians as the driving force to what he has claimed was an inevitability.
But nothing about Modell moving the Browns was the least bit inevitable. Owning a NFL franchise is the same as owning a license to print money. You can be Dan Snyder stupid and still keep each of your loved ones in Gulfstreams. The only thing you can't be is Art Modell stupid and before you dismiss this as merely snark, remember that despite the ludicrous stimulus package that the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland gave Modell he still went through it like a brokenhearted teenage goes through Mars bars and had to sell the team anyway.
Modell could have sold the team to a hundred different buyers without ever sending Browns fans afloat. If he didn't like his deal with the city there were dozens of others who would have found a way to make it work in Cleveland. He moved the team because he was selfish and amoral. He could not have cared less about the psychological or financial impact that selfishness had on the thousands that helped finance a lifestyle that he didn't deserve.
Modell was a business owner who bled the city and its patrons for as long as he could and then skipped town to do it again somewhere else. James on the other hand was and always will be just a really good player. His leaving was felt because he’s an otherworldly talent and he was classless in his exit but the scale is just not the same and never will be.
Putting James and Modell in their proper historical context makes me tend to appreciate the entry level ineptitude of Randy Lerner a little more both for what it is and what it isn't.
The Browns have been awful under the Lerner family ownership. To that there can be no doubt. But at least we have the ability to scream from the rooftops about it. We've seen the alternative in Cleveland and as between an incompetently run franchise and none at all, there really is no choice.
No matter how poorly Randy Lerner has run the franchise, no matter how frustrating his impetuousness has been, there's virtually no likelihood that he abandons the city. The one thing he has that trumps all is money and while even that can be fleeting, there's no chance he squanders a NFL team like Modell did.
That's really quite good news actually, probably the best of all news. The team is on solid financial footing. Under Modell it was always a shaky existence.
The problem now is the abject inability to build off that solid base. Lerner's best qualities as an owner are his passion and his willingness to write a check. Unfortunately those are his only qualities as well. This team is still light years away from being a top tier outfit and so much of that starts with Lerner's poor stewardship.
Still, as much as Lerner frustrates me, he also makes me glad that he was willing to take over when his father passed away. While this town and this team could always do much better, we know firsthand it could be much worse. And that's always something I try to remember each time the Pittsburgh Steelers treat us take our temperatures rectally twice each year.
With NFL draft speculation in full swing now, this week’s question to ponder: Are the Browns’ needs at quarterback so vast as compared to the rest of its needs that it’s worth trading two number one picks for Robert Griffin III?
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The dominoes continue to fall and now it won’t be long before college football finally has a legitimate playoff to determine its national champion. The news that the Big Ten is noodling various playoff scenarios carries with it the significant implication that it not only can be swayed but that it will. To this point the Big Ten served as both the enemy of progress and the 10,000 pound elephant in the playoff advocates’ ointment.
There is this overwhelming unmet need of so many to crown a national champion in Division I football on the field. Initially it stemmed from the distinct possibility that the two ranking groups, the Associated Press and the United Press International Coaches Poll, since taken over by USA Today, left open the possibility that there could be, God forbid, a difference of opinion on which team really was the theoretical best for that year. Indeed they did disagree at various times, though it should be noted that it didn't result in rain falling upward or dogs playing with cats.
Despite all the supposedly smart men in hideous blazers paid by universities to wring hands and scratch brows over all things related to college football, no one could quite figure out how to deal with an incredibly antiquated and increasingly irrelevant bowl system that seemed to be an insurmountable hurdle to a national playoff system.
The preservation of this goofy bowl system, which is really a vestige of a bygone day where it was difficult and expensive for teams to travel anywhere but locally, always has been a curious thing. There’s no overriding reason, for example, why the Rose Bowl needs to continue to exist except to enhance the pockets of those who run it. Sure it’s tradition. So was the Maypole dance. Everything has its time and its expiration date.
What started out as a nice way for a handful of teams to celebrate an end to a football season has since morphed into an impossibly controlled crazy quilt of games that no longer celebrate any real success. All it takes to become bowl eligible is for a team to win half its games in a given season and as the number of bowl games propagate faster then Kris Kardashian Jenner the relevance gets even harder to find. Bowl games are now the equivalent of participation trophies that little leagues hand out so that no kid is left to feel bad because his team didn’t win.
So a legitimate football playoff season has been hamstrung by the abject refusal of anyone with any guts to admit that the king hasn’t been wearing any clothes for at least two decades. Thus we’re left to act like the bowl games matter and that taking a back hoe to them would be tantamount to tearing at the very fabric that holds this country together.
Certainly the Big Ten’s Jim Delany, whose title is commissioner but who has always seen himself as much more of a deity, has been the biggest advocate for the current bowl system. In the past he has vowed that the Big Ten wouldn’t ever consider approving any sort of playoff system. I wonder what’s turned his head?
Well, let’s start with the fact that his conference has become mostly shut out from winning a national championship for the last 6 years. When the SEC sent two of its teams to play for this year’s national championship, Delany had to see it as the disaster it really was. The nation was left to witness a redux of sorts of the SEC Championship game, Delany's conference was losing its competitiveness and the spotlight and the situation doesn’t look to change any time soon.
But there is more. When horse-and-buggy thinkers like Delany put the clamps on any talks of a legitimate playoff system it’s not as if others didn’t still try to make something, anything happen. Thus was born probably the single dumbest creation in college football history next to the flying wedge: the Bowl Championship Series.
Through a convoluted point system that weighs everything from a team’s ranking in the more traditional polls to the color of its uniforms, the BCS tries to force a matchup of the two best teams in the country in one super, duper bowl game that takes place at the end of a particularly hellish week of other BCS-related bowls run by the very idiots whose interests run counter to the rest of the college football fan base.
The hope I guess was that by having the BCS align with the traditional bowls and their traditional conference alignments and then throwing millions of dollars at the conference anyone with any authority would look the other way at the inequities it caused. It's worked, sort of, except that all anyone really does is complain about the way it works.
It’s not just that the BCS system ignores teams/conferences it doesn’t deem sponge worthy that causes the problems, although that’s a big part of it. It’s the fact that despite all the rigor of its ranking process in the end those same guys in the hideous blazers get to ignore those rankings when deciding who will participate in the bowl they represent. The draft used by most fantasy football leagues makes more sense.
How did this lead to Delany’s evolution on the subject of a playoff? How about the fact that Michigan got to play in a BCS bowl game which Michigan State, easily the conference’s second best team and a team that handled Michigan during the regular season, did not.
No one outside of Ann Arbor thought this was fair and I suspect Delany heard an earful from most of the rest of the conference. The selection of Michigan instead of Michigan State by the Sugar Bowl was indefensible. It wasn’t based on on-field accomplishment but more so on which team supposedly traveled better. That’s code for which team had the more affluent alumni base that would buy tickets to a game that was played for absolutely no stakes and had even less meaning then that. And don’t get me started on Virginia Tech. How they played in anything beyond the Meinke Car Care Bowl remains a bigger mystery then Newt Gingrich.
In truth, it was only a matter of time before the inequities of college football started impacting the Big Ten in a negative way. Until recently, the Big Ten has had it mostly its way and had absolutely no incentive to do anything different then simply being the petulant child who refuses to get into the car so that the rest of the family can leave for vacation.
But the thing we know most about college football these days is that it’s not about the athletes and it’s not about the students. It’s about the money. State legislatures everywhere continually squeeze the budgets of the public universities that taxpayers help support and university presidents are forced to find new revenue streams as well as ways to widen the existing streams.
It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that Delany’s whispered sanctioning of a playoff system comes with the notion that it would involve an additional home game for the top two seeds. The best teams in the Big Ten have stadiums the size of Rhode Island and fill them with an ease that even a touring Bruce Springsteen would admire. That’s a lot of extra money for a conference that splits its proceeds among all its members.
Now nothing comes easy when it comes to Delany and the Big Ten, which is why their kicking around of a 4-team playoff is akin to dipping one's toe in the tub to test the temperature. But Delany is smart enough to know that you can't be a little bit pregnant and understands full well the history of how the NCAA's basketball tournament went from a sleepy little 8-team tournament to the 68 team monstrosity it is today. Once you start there's no going back.
And just like that the bowl system is no longer the insurmountable hurdle to a more equitable system. It will take time and it won't be perfect immediately but make no mistake that the path is being paved. Who knew, except everybody, that money would solve all problems?
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The truth is, I hate PvP! And I hate PvP seasons (tournaments) even more! I'm not alone, I think everybody hate PvP seasons. Seriously, do you know ANY player who likes PvP that much? Who enjoys fighting more than 100 times in a month, who likes that thrill when you check your score on the PvP after a good night's sleep?
I had to put this out of my chest...
Now, when we stop and think, PvP has its place on M:AA. There are players who put their efforts on many heroes, they want to recruit all heroes and are well prepared for Spec Ops; they are the "Pokemon players". There are players who put their efforts in a few heroes, they might not have many heroes on their cast, but they have two or three heroes at the top levels equipped with the best Iso-8 and are well prepared for PvP; we can call them "Army of Two players" (because they only need two heroes besides the agent). Playdom decided to contemplate these "army of two" players with more than high ranks.
Spec Ops are good for "pokemon" players; PvP seasons are good for "army of two" players. But there's something wrong! Despite all the complaining about Spec Ops, LOTS of players complete them, but how many players get good PvP prizes? 0.5% is a really SMALL NUMBER, even 3% is small too. You have 3% happy and 97% (or 99.5%) really sad. I'm seeing desmotivation among the most loyal players... PvP season make people spend more gold, but, in a long run, Playdom will loose money with this.
But I'm not here just to complain, I have a suggestion to solve this issue.
M:AA started with a big success. Not a surprise, it's Marvel, it's the Avengers! Any game with these characters would have a lot of players at it's begining. Several months later, developers knew that updates are necessary to keep the game interesting (and keep $$$ gains). They released a new hero and the Special Operations. The first Spec Ops was hard for me, I didn't have great heroes like Capt America and Thor and I wouldn't get Mockingbird if developers haven't made it easier.Then the Queen arrived! After a lot of announcements at San Diego, Playdom released a new Spec Ops. Different from the previous one, it was task-based.
Why this was so important? The 25 tasks we had to complete fit perfectly with the RPG essence of M:AA. This is the basis of a RPG game, a QUEST! Hellfire club was atacking, we fought against them, figured out what happened, discovered Mystique's location, defeated her and gained Emma's trust. It's was perfect. Emma is not just one of the strongest heroes in the game, she is a hallmark of major changes in game's history.
So, task-system fixed the Spec Ops issue. Can it fix PvP seasons? I think it can!
So, if I could design the next PvP season, here's how I'd do it!
Instead of a simple tournament, which players have fight like crazy animals to achieve the goals, I would use the Spec Ops model: 25 tasks (for example), all related to PvP. But in this case, we could complete the tasks simultaneously.
Razorgirl made an amazing comment about the tasks-based system: "Stuff that would challenge not only our ability to make an awesome team, but stuff that would challenge our ability to think outside of our comfort zones and to try new things in PVP".
Some example of tasks for a PvP Season:
- Win 10 consecutive ofensive battles
- Win a battle using a specific hero
- Win a battle against a higher level player
- Win a battle using two bruisers
- Win a battle without ofensive gear (no meele or ranged waepows, just gadgets)
- Win a battle using two X-Men
- Finish 3 battles with agent's stamina full (and win)
- Finish 15 battles without losing any hero
- Perform 20 overkills
- Perform 3 epic overkills
- Kill an enemy with bleeding debuff
- Win 100 battles
The prizes wuold be a mix of SpecOps with the current PvP season's system:
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The introduction of Spec Ops was a great idea, but needed some adjustments. PvP Seasons was a good idea too, but need fixes as soon as possible. With this system, players that buy gold with cash will still have their advantages, but success will rely only on player itself, won't depend of the opponents; and it would end the "last day madness" that occurs on current PvP tournaments...
It's 06/24/13, six months and nine tournaments later...
Looks like the tournaments won't change and I am resigned to this. As a PVP hater, is really frustating to loose any goodies that the tournament give but, although I love my Power Armors and my Scroll of Angolob, I could live without them and still have fun on the PVE (where I belong). It took me a while to accept, but PVP seems to be really lucrative for Playdom (more than any other feature) and people who spend lots money and tons of gameplay hours with the game MUST be rewarded. I still prefer the task-based system, but I know that it wouldn't generate as much money as the tournament.
"At any rate, people have different priorities. I enjoy PVP. So I spend (money) on PVP. You don't, so you play PVE and enjoy a game subsidized by people like me.
If you don't enjoy PVP in general, I don't understand why you would play it. You don't need gold for PVE. PVE is the non-competitive portion of the game. No need of gold, LE weapons, fancy armors or really anything that doesn't drop in the game to play PVE well. CPs are free to farm, and not that hard to obtain if you know how and special ops are also easy.
Now, if I were someone who didn't want to spend anything on the game, got frustrated with PVP, and just wanted to play story mode, I would probably do 5 fights a day, and set my team as the worst possible PVP team to play, and rack up easy wins against low level competition for the extra XP, the roulette rewards and the free silver"
The introduction of daily bonus, collections and side-quests brought a new meaning for PVP, good rewards even for players who can't stand the huge volume of fights, specially on the final moments; a good reason to play PVP every day.
The introduction of more side-quests/tasks would improve the PVP tournament and I think that the rewards could be less "luck-based". The PVP has evolved, the tournaments probably will not end and I hope it to have even more features one day.
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High-Density Plantings Could Boost Profits for Florida Citrus Growers, Say UF/IFAS Experts
By Tom Nordlie
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida citrus growers who plan to establish new groves might want to consider high-density planting, according to experts with the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred, part of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, or UF/IFAS.
Wider spacing between trees and rows was common decades ago but, with yields down and input costs up, such low-density plantings are less likely to be profitable. The yield declines and cost increases are consequences of the bacterial disease Huanglongbing, also known as HLB or citrus greening, said Michael Rogers, director of the Lake Alfred center.
“In the age of HLB, it costs every grower a great deal more money to produce a box of oranges or grapefruit than it did back in the years when many of our current mature groves were planted,” said Rogers, also a professor with the UF/IFAS entomology and nematology department. “For this reason alone, we recommend that growers approach the issue of planting density with an open mind.”
To help growers and grove managers assess the performance of various planting densities, UF/IFAS citrus economist Ariel Singerman has developed an Excel spreadsheet that is accessible free of charge at https://tinyurl.com/ydyr3384.
Singerman, an assistant professor at the Lake Alfred center, emphasizes that although planting density is a key decision for all growers establishing a new grove, it is not a “one size fits all” proposition.
“Every operation is different,” Singerman said. “So the message we try to communicate to growers is, ‘customize our spreadsheet using the input costs of your operation so as to figure out what planting density would benefit you the most.’ ”
To explore the relationship between planting density, yield, input costs and prices, Singerman led a study analyzing Valencia oranges planted at densities of 145, 220 and 303 trees per acre – for comparison’s sake, 145 trees per acre is approximately the current statewide planting density average. The results, which will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal HortScience, show that groves with higher densities yield more fruit per acre than those with lower density.
“Planting higher-density groves could offset some of the impact of HLB by decreasing the cost of production per box, due to costs being allocated to a higher number of boxes,” Singerman said. “Ultimately, this could contribute to an increase in profitability per acre.”
Singerman notes that start-up costs often represent the most significant hurdle for growers wishing to adopt high-density planting, because the more densely the trees are planted, the greater the initial investment.
However, the state and some private companies currently offer incentives for growers interested in establishing new groves, which could help growers get started with high-density planting. Singerman has written a document describing some of the incentive programs currently available and their requirements for participation, which can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/ycctqezc.
By: Tom Nordlie, 352-273-3567, email@example.com
The mission of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences is to develop knowledge relevant to agricultural, human and natural resources and to make that knowledge available to sustain and enhance the quality of human life. With more than a dozen research facilities, 67 county Extension offices, and award-winning students and faculty in the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UF/IFAS works to bring science-based solutions to the state’s agricultural and natural resources industries, and all Florida residents. Visit the UF/IFAS web site at ifas.ufl.edu and follow us on social media at @UF_IFAS.
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We are delighted to welcome Michelle Crozier Yates to Adobe as our new Director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Executive Director of the Adobe Foundation. Michelle spent the last ten years at Warner Bros. Entertainment in Southern California where she was Director, and subsequently Vice President, of Corporate Responsibility. During that time, Michelle developed, implemented and oversaw the company’s corporate responsibility program at what is the world’s largest film and television studio. Michelle has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, and an MBA in International Business & Corporate Responsibility from the London Business School.
Michelle joins us at a special time of the year. This month is Community Action Month, Adobe’s annual community involvement initiative where our employees at sites all over the world show how they embody our “Involved” core value. As Adobe employees, we have the opportunity to participate in more than 70 different volunteer initiatives including sorting food at the local food bank, building playhouses for children, or assembling toiletry kits for families in need. We know that just a little bit of our time can have a big impact in local communities. Although volunteering happens year round at Adobe, we all look forward to Community Action Month as a great way for teams across the company to dedicate some time away from work to come together to share the Adobe spirit of generosity and volunteerism. Last year, more than 1,200 Adobe volunteers gave more than 4,000 hours to local communities across the globe. Adobe has a proud tradition of supporting our communities through volunteerism and we’re looking forward to even more employee involvement this year.
Curious about Michelle’s background and why she decided to make the move from Warner Bros. to Adobe, we interviewed Michelle. Check out her story posted on our Corporate Blog.
Visit our Corporate Social Responsibility Facebook page to get the latest news on all of our CSR efforts and photos of our employees in action in our Community Action Month album! Check back throughout the month for updates.
Posted by Esther R., Corporate Social Responsibility team.
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Jason InsdorfAssociate Attorney
Jason Insdorf is an associate attorney with Pacific Workers’ Compensation. Jason hails from Florida, where he attended Florida State University and earned his undergraduate degree in Economics. He attended a Joint Degree Program and earned a Master of Environmental Management with a concentration in Law, Policy, and Economics) From Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in conjunction with his J.D. from the Pace University School of Law.
Mr. Insdorf graduated from law school cum laude. As a student, he participated in Moot Court, wrote for the Law Student Newspaper, and served as a Law Clerk in the fields of asylum law, environmental law, and natural resource law. Upon completing his studies, Jason relocated to California, where he accepted a law fellowship at The City Project in Los Angeles.
Jason has practiced law for over a decade, with a focus on Social Security, Environmental Law, and Applicant side Workers’ Compensation. Having spent years serving as an attorney for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR), Mr. Insdorf is an expert in disability law. During his time at ODAR, Mr. Insdorf worked with unions and saw the plight of injured and wrongfully terminated workers, which drew him to the field of employment law and Workers’ Compensation. He is an active member of CAAA (California Applicants’ Attorneys Association). Outside of the legal profession, Jason has founded a sustainable food company and served as a United States Customs Broker.He is passionate about nature, conservation, animals, and the outdoors. He volunteers his time working pro bono family law cases for low-income clients. In the past, he has taken pro bono work defending natural resources with the Inter-American Association for Environment Defense (AIDA). He also volunteers with his church. Jason resides in Albany with his spouse, their two young children, and their dog. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his kids, watching movies, and attending music festivals. Jason is highly proficient in Spanish.
- Pace University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2007
- Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, M.A., Environmental Management (concentration in Law, Policy, and Economics), 2007
- Florida State University, B.S., Economics, 1997
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In South Florida, football is played with a sense of speed and style that transcends the field of play. The University of Miami Hurricanes have become more than a team — they embody the soul of Miami and have defined the culture of the sport.
The new Hurricane uniform design reflects the vibrant, bold style of the city — from the beach to the architecture to the people. Steeped in tradition, the new aesthetic is anchored by the familiar orange and green colors, as well as the iconic split-U logo. Modern accents have been added in order to harness the team’s early cutting-edge style both on and off the field in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
“Historically, UM has been a trendsetter in college football for uniform designs,” Miami Athletic Director Blake James said. “With this latest uniform design, we are able to combine our iconic history with South Florida tradition and a modern edge.”
The ibis has long been an important part of the university’s heritage. As a well-known Native American symbol for both danger and hope, the bird was believed to be the last animal to seek shelter before an oncoming hurricane and the first to emerge after the storm. An aggressive interpretation of the Miami Ibis has been integrated into the uniform on the shoulders, hip and helmet.
Miami will now feature four interchangeable uniform colors. The tonal colors of the Ibis logo (green, orange and white) inform three of the four new looks. At home, the Hurricanes will dress in orange. The orange jersey is accented by green directional graphics at the shoulder. A clean white and silver helmet, featuring an anodized finish and grey facemask, completes the look. The white jersey and pant combination is accented with green at the shoulder, and serves as the foundation of the away look. The white uniform is also capped with a matching white and silver helmet. The team will also showcase two alternate uniform colors – the first alternate showcasing a green jersey and pant with a white helmet. The team will also introduce a new alternate anthracite “smoke” jersey and pant serving as a reminder of the early pioneering pre-game smoke that opened every home game.
“The uniform comes at the right time for the right team,” said Miami head coach Al Golden. “These young men, who unselfishly guided us through some very dark days, now display a renewed attitude and spirit! These new uniforms capture that outlook.”
“The innovative look respects our tradition but perhaps more importantly, represents the future and our current Canes,” Golden said. “We have one of the most iconic logos in college sports and Nike has combined that with its latest performance technology to produce a sleek, dynamic new uniform for The U.”
Miami will also keep its traditional and iconic white helmet with the split “U” in rotation, giving the Hurricanes three different helmet options.
“This more aggressive look will amplify our brand as well as incorporate Nike’s latest uniform technology,” said James. “We have one of the most recognizable brands in college athletics, and we hope this begins to strengthen that position in the years to come.”
The uniform font and numbers are now larger, refined and more aggressive, amplifying and anchoring the entire design. Graphic details on the uniforms include the primary “U” logo on the helmet, jersey neck patch and back of the pant. The “U” is also present in custom palm graphics on the Nike Vapor Jet 2.0 gloves, appearing thumb to thumb when the hands are locked up.
This fully integrated uniform system incorporates the latest in Nike’s performance innovation, where the athlete's baselayer works in concert with the entire uniform – true innovation from the inside out. Lightweight padding is integrated directly into the crucial “hit zones” in the baselayer. Innovations include integrated Flywire technology in the neckline for reduced weight and lockdown fit over pads. Additionally, increased sleeve articulation provides better range of motion, and four-way stretch fabrication delivers a streamlined, shrink-wrap fit.
As the first team to bring a refreshed sense of style to the game back in the '80s and '90s, this new uniform aesthetic harnesses the team’s ever-present style and bravado, while positioning the Hurricanes at the leading edge for the future.
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Elysium has released a new trailer, in which Matt Damon sets about trying to save humanity in a dystopian future where the poverty gap between rich and poor is wider than ever.
While the deprived underclass are forced to scrape a living on the ruined husk of planet Earth, the wealthy elite live in the lap of luxury on the Elysium space station.
Usually, there’s no crossing the divide, but when radiation poisoning begins to decimate the Earth-bound majority, Damon sets about breaking into Elysium in the hope of curing himself and the rest of his fellow sufferers.
Take a look at the new trailer, below…
The new trailer doesn’t give too much more away in terms of plot, but there are some great new sequences of footage, including Jodie Foster’s ruthless security chief dealing with would-be interlopers with extreme prejudice.
Directed by Neill Blomkamp and co-starring Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga and William Fichtner, Elysium will open in the UK on 9 August 2013.
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Suspect sought in Rankin Co. police chase
A suspect is still being sought after a traffic stop led to a high-speed chase in Rankin County Sunday.
Around 4:45 p.m. The Mississippi Highway Patrol attempted to pull over a white 2008 Honda Accord on U.S. 49, WLBT reported.
The driver and three passengers sped away through a residential area.
The vehicle stopped at a residence on Green Leaves Drive.
MHP took the driver and two passengers into custody. One of the suspects was taken into custody after being tased. A third suspect escaped.
The driver is identified as G. Reynolds and is charged with failing to yield. Other charges are pending.
When last seen the third suspect was seen running through the neighborhood carrying a black bag.
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We introduce a ray class invariant X(C) for a totally real field, following Shintani's work in the real quadratic case. We prove a factorization formula X(C) = Xn(C) · · · Xn(C) where each Xi(C) corresponds to a real place. Although this factorization depends a priori on some choices (especially on a cone decomposition), we can show that it is actually independent of these choices. Finally, we describe the behavior of Xi(C) when the signature of C at a real place is changed. This last result is also interpreted in terms of the derivatives L′(0, χ) of the L-functions and certain Stark units.
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Welcome to the Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Our goal is to provide information about Alzheimer’s research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, offer support and tips for people living with Alzheimer’s and their loved ones, and inform the community about our research efforts.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Center at UT Southwestern is dedicated to finding ways to treat and prevent this devastating illness, which is predicted to rise to 12 million cases by 2030.
Our researchers depend on the men and women who participate in the many studies that we conduct each year. Through this website, we hope to educate people with Alzheimer’s and their loved ones about the research, treatment, and support available at UT Southwestern.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Center is one of 30 such centers funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging to evaluate patients and to conduct scientific research into the causes of Alzheimer’s disease. It is the only one located in the south-central United States.
For the past five years, our Center has focused on the workings of the vascular system – particularly inflammation – to find risk factors that contribute to the risk and rate of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
We have found many such risk factors: hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus, and high blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that also indicates an increased risk of heart disease.
The Center is also participating in the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Initiative, a national effort that aims to find the gene or genes involved in late-onset Alzheimer’s. Blood samples and other information will be collected from members of 1,000 families that include at least two siblings and another family member with late-onset Alzheimer’s.
In another genetic study, the Center will look for variations in the 24,000 human genes that are associated with a risk of Alzheimer’s. This project, part of the Texas Alzheimer’s Research Consortium (TARC), will recruit more than 800 patients with Alzheimer’s disease and 500 healthy people.
We are also part of a TARC effort to find distinctive chemicals, or biomarkers, in the blood as a means of diagnosing Alzheimer’s earlier and accurately, so treatment can begin sooner.
Finally, in an effort to prevent Alzheimer’s from developing, we are developing a DNA vaccine against amyloid proteins that accumulate in the brains of people with this fatal, devastating illness.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Center continues to emphasize research into the biology of this disease; develop new data on potential new experimental therapies; care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders in our Memory Clinic; and provide comprehensive educational programs for patients, caregivers, their families, and the community.
We are making major progress in understanding the basic biology of Alzheimer’s disease, and testing new therapies to prevent and slow the symptoms of memory and cognitive loss. We thank you, our patients, caregivers, and friends, for your support and continued dedication to finding effective therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.
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translated by Michael Fuller from Spanish at Non Possumus
In October of 2012, Bishop Williamson was unjustly expelled from the Society of St. Pius X. We are going to present certain facts which, connecting them together, lead us to conclude that the Society is being controlled by outside forces, which have achieved in dividing it and taking it to the point of no return with modernist and heretical Rome and that, in consequence, little by little towards the loss of faith.
As many of us know, the Society used to clearly and firmly preach the doctrine of deicide and the truth about the people of the deicide. In recent years we have seen with surprise and indignation that most of the articles on these issues have disappeared from the official website of the Society, as well as the press distribution tables in the chapels. It's almost a matter that’s considered “taboo”, which is best not to talk about. Even Bishop Fellay has stated, to answer the question: Does the book (The Jew in the Mystery of History, by Father Meinvielle) express mainstream views in the Society today? “Not that I would know.” Do you endorse such views yourself (by Father Meinvielle)? “Not like that, no.”
And Father Bouchacourt clearly denied deicide in the now famous interview with the newspaper Clarín, denial that until today has not been retracted and in spite of this interview (or because of it?), Father Bouchacourt was promoted to District Superior of France, the most important district of the Society.
What's happened? How is it possible that the Society succumbs to the golden calf?
The attitude of Christians regarding Judaism, was always based on the account of the four Evangelists of the Passion and the teaching that the Fathers of the Church derived from it ... It is this fundamental, theological basis which Jules Isaac (1877-1963, Jewish member of the B'nai B'rith) wanted to destroy, by fighting against the historical value of the Gospel accounts and discrediting the arguments of the Fathers of the Church ... On June 13th, 1960, Jules Isaac was received by John XXIII who he asked to condemn the "teaching of contempt" and suggested the creation of a subcommittee to study the problem. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Isaac "had the joy of learning that his proposals were accepted by the Pope and passed on to Cardinal Bea for consideration". In 1964, this matter was referred to the Council.
Isaac devoted two books to criticizing and demolishing these two foundations of Christian teaching regarding the deicide, i.e. the Gospel accounts and the doctrine of the Fathers of the Church. In “Jesus and Israel”, the first of these two works published in 1949, Jules Isaac attacks the Evangelists, mainly Saint John and Saint Matthew: “The historian has the right and duty to consider the Gospel accounts as evidence against Jews ... strikes the eye so that the four Evangelists had the same concern, which was to minimize the Roman responsibility in order to increase the Jewish responsibility ... the Christian accusation against Israel, the accusation of deicide ... it is this itself which is the murderer; it is the most serious, the most harmful and also the most iniquitous” (Jules Isaac, The teaching of contempt, p. 141). In summary, in the story of the Passion revised and edited by Jules Isaac, the Evangelists appear to be spineless liars, but the poison is, without question, Saint Matthew (Saint Matthew perhaps because his Gospel mainly proposes to show the Jews that Jesus had fulfilled the predictions of the Prophets).
The Christian roots of antisemitism by Jules Isaac
The Church, Jules Isaac tells us, is the only guilty culprit; the Jews are completely innocent ... so the responsibility of making an act of reparation falls only on the Church in order to rectify its millenary teaching. And Jules Isaac calls on or rather demands from the Council “the modification ... of liturgical prayers regarding Jews”, particularly those of Good Friday, an assertion that the Jews are not responsible for the death of Christ. The origin of the conciliar scheme Nostra Aetate, comes from the request of Jules Isaac to the Vatican, and the 2041 Council fathers that felt that the version of the Passion according to Jules Isaac was preferable to that of Saint John and Saint Matthew. This decision, under the guise of Christian charity, is one more step in the way of abandonment of traditional Christianity and the return to Judaism. In the eyes of the Jews, this conciliar reform should be a new phase in the way of abandonment, resignation, and destruction of Catholic traditionalism that in this way is slowly being emptied of its substance (León de Poncins, Judaism and the Vatican, taken from the article by Don Curzio Nitoglia, The Deicide, p. 14).
Well now, if the Jewish people are no longer responsible for deicide, the “holocaust”, as stated by the Jew Richard A. Cohen, is certainly a Catholic issue: The Holocaust is a specifically Christian theological issue for at least two reasons. First, as I have indicated, those who perpetrated the Holocaust, both nazis and collaborators, were baptized Christians, none of whom were excommunicated. Second, anti-Judaism has been an essential part of Christianity, one of its most deeply held beliefs, from its earliest formation as a Church onward.
Therefore, we cannot blame them for deicide, but they can certainly blame us for the “greatest crime”, the “holocaust”, which Bishop Williamson dared to question, which for their propagandists is equivalent to “denying” ... It is, of course, a dispute about something beyond the strictly historical, it has been brought to the category of a secular religion for the New World Order
The SSPX, Jews and Bishop Williamson
As reported in previous posts, the Society received a substantial inheritance from Mrs. Rosa Von Gutmann, approximately 90 million euros. This money comes from the steel businesses associated with Rothschild. Bishop Fellay, in an effort to control the wealth, advised by God only knows, decided to remove the rightful holders (Father Michael Weigl, Ewald Stadler, Maria Schöffmann-Schlossstein) of the inheritance and put two characters who we have seen, have highly dubious connections with Jews (Krah) and eminent members of the Vatican Freemasonry (Ankershofen). In the words of Maximilian Krah in his interview to The Remnant, he was chosen by the Gutmann family.
The political family of Ankershofen was the founder of and has been a part of Pro Oriente, and this pro-ecumenical foundation and faithful follower of the masonic religious freedom of Vatican II has Cardinal Schonborn as its current president, who is a close friend of the political family of Mr. Ankershofen. The founder of Pro Oriente was Cardinal Konig (an ally of Casaroli), its guardians are Kasper and Willibrand ... They are all interrelated in their work in favor of ecumenism and the Jews.
In the Catholic Herald (later taken down but reported on here in the L'Osservatore Romano) of June 18, 1965, Cardinal Konig speaks about the Pro Oriente Foundation saying: “Its main purpose is a deeper understanding between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and it is a subsidiary of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity of Cardinal Bea (yes, the same who, along with Jules Isaac, is responsible for Nostra Aetate!)”
The Pro Oriente Cardinals and the Jews:
In an interview with the Jewish newspaper “Jewish News from Austria” Cardinal Schonborn and the Jewish Allerhand talk about Cardinal Konig:
Interviewer: Professor Allenhand, you held conversations on a regular basis with Cardinal Konig. What did you speak about?
Allerhand: I once invited him to a lecture given at B’nai B’rith and since that time we spoke once a month. We compared the Bible, the Koran and the Psalms and discussed the question, who is Christ? I told him where I cannot agree is the claim of Jesus as the son of God. For me Christ is a Pharisee (in the sense of a scholar) who revolted.Later: Schonborn (speaking about the film“The Passion of the Christ”: “Today, no Catholic who relies on Catholic teachings can claim that the Jewish people are globally guilty of the death of Christ. Thanks to Cardinal König’s considerable contribution, the text containing the declaration of the Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate, on the relationship to non-Christian religions explicitly stated that. (…) we must admit that the death of Christ is, in a mystical sense, the consequence of our sins. In admitting this, a final stroke is given the tragic story of the accusations of the Jewish people.”
At the end of the interview: Jacob Allerhand is Prof. Emeritus for Jewish- and Hebrew Studies at the University of Vienna…He was also Vice President of the Jewish Association, “B’nai B’rith.”
Cardinal Schonborn and P. Bouchacourt declare the same statement:The Jewish people did not commit deicide.
Maurice Pinay mentions the Jewish origin of Cardinal Schonborn (see his article here).
Regarding Kasper, who was named "guardian" of Pro Oriente, at the time of his retirement, the B'nai B'rith issued this statement:
"B’nai B’rith pays tribute to Cardinal Walter Kasper upon retirement as Chief Vatican Liaison to the Jewish community. (...) B'nai B'rith described Kasper as a true and faithful partner, occasionally in difficult times, in advancing the Catholic-Jewish friendship over the decade he held the post."
Regarding Cardinal Konig, as far as meeting with the Vice President of B'nai B'rith once a month as we lay out above, he also received members of this lodge in Vienna in 1966.
In 1967 he received leaders of the American Jewish community and told them he was extremely hopeful that the Christian Jewish understanding would deepen as a result of the spirit emanating from Vatican Council II.
Cardinal Lehmann, also having actively participated in Pro Oriente, is both a great friend of Cardinal Kasper, the guardian of Pro Oriente, and also Bishop Arborelius. We will return to Bishop Arborelius later.
Cardinal Lehmann was awarded the Abraham-Geiger-Preis in March 2006 by the rabbinical institution in Germany, for his role in promoting tolerance and freedom of thought. In the same manner, when Lehmann resigned as head of the German Bishops Conference, the Jewish community of that countryexpressed deep regret.
The Pro Oriente Cardinals, Archbishop Arborelius and Bishop Williamson.
On the 1st of November 2008, Williamson was interviewed by two reporters from a Swedish television (see the complete 6 part documentary, The Swedish Crusade and Bishop Williamson here): Ali Fegan and his wife Belinda Olsson. In that interview Williamson questioned the number of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps by gassing in gas chambers. The program that provided the interview vanished into thin aired two days before the “lifting of the excommunications” by Benedict XVI was made public. The decree was published on January 21st, 2009, but it is said that it was was signed from the day of January 19, the date of the issuance of the interview with Bishop Williamson.
Since the interview was released, the Pro Oriente cardinals openly condemned Williamson:
Cardinal Kasper hiding his crucifix in a meeting with Jews
Cardinal Kasper even anticipated the Representative of the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) that the Williamson affair will soon be over and will not, in the long term, weigh on relations between Jews and Catholics.
He also claimed that Bishop Williamson's statements were stupid and unacceptable.
Cardinal Lehmann said that the rehabilitation of Williamson was a disaster for all Holocaust survivors.
We would like to emphasize that one of the first newspapers that announced the interview, if not the first, was the German newspaper Der Spiegel in an article dated January 19, 2009 and signed by PETER WENSIERSKI. Remember him? Yes, the great friend of Maximilian Krah! (See here).
Krah and Peter Wensierski
-He is a close friend and collaborator of Father Pfluger and Krah.
-Bishop Fellay encouraged close collaboration between Wensierski, Father Pfluger and Krah.
-The level of collaboration and trust between Menzingen and Peter Wensierski reached the level of providing the content of a private communication between Bishop Williamson and Menzingen so that Wensierski could make use of it for his articles.
It was by Wensierski that Menzingen declared that Bishop Williamson was a “first class provocateur” who "always has strange ideas" and "exaggerates", that he was like “a ticking time bomb”, “uranium”, he “doesn’t study documents” has “Parkinson's disease” that “he is not a scholar”, etc. (See here –notice that there are three pages you must click at the left hand bottom corner) In this article, Bishop Fellay says “we have an appeal for extremists, who we don’t even want”.
-In contrast, the Father Pfluger describes Wensierski as someone “honest and upright” and that his reports “were very helpful for the Society” (Personal letter from Father Pfluger to Bishop Williamson on 1 January 2011).
See here the dozens of articles of Der Spiegel against Bishop Williamson.
To learn more, read this testimony from the then editor of the Eleison Comments, Stephen Heiner, about what happened between Bishop Williamson and the journalist friends of Bishop Fellay.
Some months passed with statements from both the Society emphasizing their distance from Bishop Williamson, as also from Rome and the Jews.
But the Williamson affair returned to the front pages of newspapers in September 2009, even though Cardinal Castrillón and Father Federico Lombardi said that Pope Benedict XVI had no knowledge of the “extreme positions” of Bishop Williamson before issuing the decree of lifting of the “excommunications”. Anders Arborelius, the Archbishop of Stockholm, Sweden, issued a statement saying the opposite:
Monsignor Arborelius appears in the documentary featuring the interview of Bishop Williamson on the gas chambers.
Archbishop Arborelius reveals that his diocese had informed the Vatican about the content of the statements that Bishop Williamson had made to be televised before they were released and before the Pope decided to lift the “excommunication”.
Arborelius also reported that on the same day of the release of the statement a program was made in which “it will be made clear that in the Diocese of Stockholm, as we usually do in matters of the Church, we had sent the information that we had about the Society of St. Pius X and Richard Williamson, including what we knew about the content of the interview that he gave to Uppdrag Granskning”.
Several centrist media spoke of a plot against Pope Benedict XVI. And that's what most people thought. But if we dig a little more, who took a loss because of this interview? The SSPX and Benedict XVI negotiations continued as if nothing had happened. In fact, they were about to reach an agreement if it had not been for the leaking of the letter of the three bishops to Bishop Fellay. In reality, the only one harmed by this interview was Bishop Williamson. What really happened?
The fact is that Archbishop Arborelius sent the information to the Vatican since late November 2008. How did he find out that the Swedish reporters had interviewed Bishop Williamson and about his statements?
That’s easy; the Swedish reporters had had an interview at the home of Archbishop Arborelius in April 2008. The same Belinda Olsson tells us this in her blog. This means, most likely, that they worked together in the ambush against Bishop Williamson.
It is curious that this couple of reporters had been invited by Archbishop Arborelius since they are not even Catholic.
In addition, in the program announced by Archbishop Arborelius in his statement, he noted the presence of his friend Cardinal Kasper.
Kasper and Arborelius have appeared together several times, for example at the celebration of the Feast of St. Bridget in 2003 or at the concert of choirs in Stockholm in 2009.
The pressure from the Jews to have Bishop Williamson expelled from the Society continued:
"New York, NY, September 16, 2011 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) urges the Vatican to ensure that a breakaway Catholic sect which teaches anti-Judaism will be required to accept the church’s positive teachings about Jews and Judaism before they are fully accepted back into the Roman Catholic Church (...) It would be unthinkable to allow a Catholic breakaway sect that includes a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson, to be reintegrated into the church while still being allowed to promote anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism- which they have been doing for years in their teachings and on their Web site.”http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/interfaith/adl-urges-vatican-to-ensure-anti-jewish-sect-accepts-vatican-ii.html
Berlin, October 19, 2011. - “A group of European rabbis has called on the pope to condemn the latest anti-Semitic remarks by a Holocaust-denying Catholic bishop. The Brussels-based Conference of European Rabbis slammed comments by Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson in which he allegedly blamed Jews for deicide (…) Goldschmidt called for the Church to ‘suspend negotiations with extremist Catholic tendencies until it is clear that these groups show a clear commitment to tackling anti-Semitism within their ranks’.”http://www.jta.org/2011/10/19/news-opinion/world/pope-called-on-to-condemn-bishops-new-anti-semitic-slur#ixzz2k5rE0Uvu
Tying up the loose ends, it seems that this whole scenario was mounted so that the SSPX could be recognized by the conciliar church by first ridding itself of Bishop Williamson and with him all the undesirable and uncompromising followers of Archbishop Lefebvre. It calls strong attention to the relationship between the Swedish reporters and Arborelius, as well as his relationships with Kasper and Lehmann, who collaborate with Pro Oriente, who have relations with Ankershofen and Krah, and these who are partners of Bishop Fellay and Father Pfluger. A string, we believe, of conspirators who achieved their goal: to expel Bishop Williamson and achieve the goal of having the SSPX accept the positions of the Jew Jules Isaac dictated to them. The proof is in all the declarations in favor of the Jews by Bishop Fellay and the denial of deicide by Father Bouchacourt. Can anyone think that this is due to chance?
Something probably more intricate must be clarified, and it is how the Judeo-Masonic power continues its harassment on whoever has the audacity to stain the immaculate dogma of the religion that comes to replace the salvation of Christ dying on the cross (“A Catholic God does not exist”, says Francis) with that of the redemptive Jewish people, and how it can even do this by those who can present themselves as from tradition, particularly extreme groups or sedevacantists that don't hesitate to use for their purposes all the filthy resources, such as the disgraceful images that the Jewish press used to attack Bishop Williamson when he left Argentina. Matching apparent opposites in a dialectical game that Judeo-Masonry handles like a charm to fulfill one of its own favorite statements: "Neither forget nor forgive."
When it comes to investigating a crime, the first question is who benefits? The answer is undoubtedly that Menzingen benefited from it as finding in it the perfect excuse to get rid of Bishop Williamson: first by marginalizing him and then by expelling him. Bishop Williamson would not be a hindrance to the "cronyism" of Bishop Fellay with Benedict XVI and the Jews. It was a dirty trick, which we do not know if it was the initiative of Bishop Fellay and Father Pfluger, or Krah and Ankershofen. Or all of them. It matters little, because we know who was benefited. Some say deliriously that the interview was agreed upon by Bishop Williamson and Bishop Fellay, but what has Bishop Williamson benefited? Crucified by the world press, expelled from the Society of St. Pius X, trials held against him, the prohibition of entering into several countries, his Australian visa canceled, etc.
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With many parts of Spain advancing into Phase 1 of the country's de-escalation plan, life in Madrid remains the same, which means staying in Phase 0. That's the decision of the central government after evaluating the state of cases in the Community of Madrid and following a meeting with health advisers and the country's autonomous communities. The Community of Madrid will not enter into the next phase, as had been petitioned by the body's president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
The decision came after days of back and forth within the local government. While Ayuso initially hinted at her preference to stay in Phase 0, the vice president of the Community, Ignacio Aguado, was in favour of moving on to the next phase of de-escalation. In the end, the official request by the Community of Madrid went in Aguado's direction.
Amid the quarrels, the general director of Public Health of the Community of Madrid, Yolanda Fuentes, resigned on May 7. In a letter, Fuentes said that health criteria was not the priority in the petition to bring Madrid to Phase 1, though in the end it is just that which has won out in the final decision.
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Six Monstterran widows sat around a carafe of moonfish bile and oh-so-casually inserted as many mentions of dead husbands as they could into their otherwise banal discussion of the weather. No matter what my childhood impassivity instructors would have said about making sure to keep an open mind about other cultures, Monstterran women were creepy when they counted coup.
Thankfully, I'd spent most of my time in Monsterra hanging out in universities, where everyone was far too young for mating games. It wasn't like here in Srineport, where most of the time it felt like mating games were the whole point of the classes. Here, university existed only to subtly enforce a caste system that had been technically outlawed a century ago.
The widow with ring of jade snakes wrapped around her prehensile tail held a priceless porcelain teacup a handspan from her nose and paused for effect. "Would you believe he expected me to dance?"
"No!" the woman I was trying to serve nearly knocked the bowl of snapper pie right off my serving tray as she flung her hands up to cover her ash-grey cheeks.
It had taken me sixteen years to work myself up to this position, learning everything there was to know about the cuisines of all the realms that could be reached from the aetherroads criss-crossing my homeland. I recovered my balance and kept on serving the appetizers.
"I like this one," Green Snake said in a language I realized belatedly she didn't realize I knew. "I think it would make a good host for my sixth nest."
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Benjamin Mason Meier and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
The United Nations recently launched a US $40 billion Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to accelerate progress on the Millennium Development Goals related to improving the health of women and children. To create state accountability for this bold five-year effort, the World Health Organization has convened a Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health to recommend international institutional arrangements conducive to realizing this commitment. With the commission set to deliver its final report in May 2011, this Perspective raises key issues to assist in its rapidly evolving efforts, analyzing the importance of independent monitoring bodies as a means to ensure state reporting, oversight, and accountability.
During the September 2010 United Nations (UN) summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health to accelerate progress on MDGs related to improving the health of women and children.1 These interconnected MDGs for women’s and children’s health—including goals for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger (MDG 1), promoting gender equality (MDG 3), reducing child mortality (MDG 4), improving maternal health (MDG 5), and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases (MDG 6)—led states to commit an additional US $40 billion under the global strategy to revitalize international efforts leading up to their 2015 deadline to achieve the MDGs.2 With states seeking to create international institutions of accountability for this ambitious new commitment, the global strategy calls on the World Health Organization (WHO) “to establish a process to determine the most effective international institutional arrangements for global reporting, oversight and accountability for women’s and children’s health”.1
In realizing this mandate for accountability, WHO has convened a Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health, chaired by Jakaya Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, and Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.2 This commission—with appointed representatives from developed and developing countries, academia, civil society, and the private sector, organized into working groups on accountability for resources and results—is seeking to recommend international institutions to track progress and assess challenges in saving the lives and improving the health of women and children. Proposing an accountability framework and action plan to help donor and recipient countries monitor resource allocations and health impacts, the commission expects to report back to the Secretary-General in May 2011.3 With this high-level commission meeting throughout the coming months, this Perspective raises key issues to assist the commission in its rapidly evolving efforts, highlighting the advantages of independent monitoring bodies as an international institutional arrangement conducive to state reporting, oversight, and accountability.
I. Accountability through independent monitoring
Grounded in annual monitoring and assessment, this proposed accountability framework would track the commitments of all stakeholders and assess how these commitments contribute to improvements in women’s and children’s health at local, national, and global levels. As WHO Director General Margaret Chan recognized, “accountability is vital. It means keeping promises and measuring results. To measure results, we need much stronger systems for health information.”4 With this accountability framework based on streamlined indicators and submitted information, the commission is expected to urge stakeholders to report annually on assessing policy, program, and financial commitments; monitoring health impacts; and outlining future expectations.
Beyond an emphasis on health information, however, accountability will require independent assessments of national commitments from both donor and recipient countries. Assuring the “mutual accountability” long advocated in foreign assistance commitments, international institutions can be developed to provide predictable, transparent reporting requirements, with government reports reviewed through an independent monitoring body.
Where self-assessment is not sufficient to establish accountability, independent monitoring bodies can assure objectivity in assessments and legitimacy in observations. Monitoring body members, selected on the basis of expertise in women’s and children’s health, could be nominated by governments and assisted in their work by an institutional secretariat. They could compile and summarize independent experts’ findings to provide a global picture of women’s and children’s health in accordance with the global strategy. Through such independence in expert review and support through secretariat staff, monitoring bodies could review state reports and respond to those reports in recommending country-specific policies and programs for women’s and children’s health.
II. State reporting to monitoring bodies
While accelerating development programs to improve women’s and children’s health will require coordinated, sustained efforts among public entities, private-sector partners, and civil society organizations at the international, regional, national, and local levels, accountability mechanisms should ultimately hold states responsible for reporting processes and policy reforms. Under the global strategy, states have voluntarily committed to forming and supporting international accountability institutions, and it is expected that the states would submit themselves to the monitoring institutions established by the commission. With states pledging and receiving critical resources conditioned upon effective monitoring and evaluation, they must honor reporting responsibilities to an independent body — to demonstrate appropriate resource utilization and improved results and to demonstrate accountability for women’s and children’s health.
A. From state report development to independent monitoring body review
To engage in periodic reporting with an independent monitoring body, states must coordinate all national stakeholders and develop strong institutional structures and processes for compiling reports. Through capacity building for reporting to monitoring bodies, states can create a methodical data collection system at the national level for funding allocations, epidemiologic surveillance, evidence-based interventions, and trend analysis. Such reporting structures must facilitate (1) transparent dissemination of resources to local programs, (2) communication networks to overcome implementation challenges, and (3) data collection to assess processes and outcomes. In order to adequately monitor resources, evaluate programs, and measure results, states must work closely with all stakeholders to build the capacity necessary to compile state reports.
To facilitate independent monitoring body review, states should structure periodic reporting processes through a stakeholder working group, appointing representatives from each implementing partner institution to serve as task force members, report on program implementation, and advise the responsible government representative in drafting the state’s periodic report. In such a stakeholder task force, representatives would be responsible for their respective periodic reports, detailing resource allocations, implementing partners, program goals, implementation processes, and result evaluations. These reports should be uniform across national stakeholders and should reflect the guidelines for governmental periodic review to the extent possible, in order to ensure that the task force uniformly collects and coherently compiles appropriate information. Submitted in advance, government representatives could then summarize these organizational reports into a single state report for periodic review.
State reports should follow an official formatting standard, predetermined policy indicators, and standard programmatic results – all developed in accordance with monitoring board guidelines. Measures of resource allocations should adhere to these guidelines for measuring progress, outcomes, and benchmarks for interim state progress on women’s and children’s health. Given that states have different levels of control over the process and outcome achieved, state reports should consider the context of program implementation, limitations on state control, and actions to mitigate impediments. For example, government agencies have more control over the content of guidelines for program planning than the decline in maternal mortality through program implementation. Thus, state reports may enumerate factors limiting programmatic success (such as natural disaster or internal conflict) and describe the steps taken to mitigate the negative consequences of such factors. To the extent that gaps exist in the state’s final report, the monitoring board would have authority to submit issues for clarification or request additional documentation. The state representative could then return to the task force for stakeholder consultations throughout the monitoring board’s constructive dialogue.
B. From monitoring body dialogue to state policy reform
Monitoring body dialogue should be less prescriptive and more constructive. With the independent monitoring body able to review reports and ancillary documentation, assuming that the monitoring body secretariat is given a mandate to keep members apprised of state reports, this body has the opportunity to lay out in advance a list of issues to address during the periodic meeting of the monitoring body. Rather than focusing solely on state reporting, ideally compiled in accordance with the aforementioned stakeholder collaborations, it is necessary that nongovernmental actors also have the ability to communicate independently with the monitoring body. Complemented by findings from the UN’s other international institutions—whether specialized agencies, independent experts, or other monitoring bodies—such nongovernmental communications would allow consideration of all available data on national progress in women’s and children’s health in framing the meetings of the monitoring body.
Through the monitoring body’s deliberative process of “constructive dialogue,” states would have the opportunity to answer questions and respond to comments, with the monitoring body becoming a partner in accountability for women’s and children’s health. Rather than shaming or embarrassing the state, these meetings (held, in accordance with the practice of other bodies, two or three times per year and often lasting one or two days per country) provide a forum for legitimacy and confidence in national efforts. As with treaty monitoring bodies—such as the UN’s Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights—state reports should be examined in public sessions, with expert members engaging in open dialogue with state representatives. Beginning with an opening presentation by state representatives (to summarize the state report and address issues submitted in advance), this government delegation would then submit to questions from (and dialogue with) the monitoring body on national efforts to meet the global strategy.
Based upon the state report, shadow reports, meeting dialogue, supplementary materials, and independent research, the monitoring body could then meet in private to draft concluding observations. These observations would highlight positive developments, identify key national challenges, enumerate unanswered questions, and make recommendations for improving women’s and children’s health. Given follow-up action through the national-level task force, political engagement by civil society, and technical support from nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations, these concluding observations, and an official response by the state government, could inform national policy reforms – including legal, policy, budgetary, and programmatic reforms in women’s and children’s health.
III. Monitoring bodies as crucial to accountability
Through annual communications between state governments and monitoring bodies, a virtuous cycle emerges by which states set benchmarks, monitor and evaluate resources and results, and continuously build upon past efforts in realizing women’s and children’s health. In its recurring review of past observations and subsequent progress, the expert monitoring body can establish a robust documentation of best practices—sharing information for comparative study, improving understanding of common obstacles, and highlighting precedents for women’s and children’s health initiatives—working with the secretariat to summarize, disseminate, and archive this information for state advancement. Framed by an agreed-upon set of structural, process, and outcome indicators and building on the institutional frameworks of treaty monitoring bodies, the commission can expand opportunities for accountability through an independent monitoring body for women’s and children’s health.
A. Opportunities through independent monitoring bodies
An international monitoring body of independent experts can provide consistency in assessment while allowing flexibility for accountability. Realizing the aspirations of the global strategy, an independent monitoring body would be best-positioned to take advantage of this short window of opportunity to make final observations and constructive recommendations – highlighting unmet commitments, budgetary shortfalls, and policy failures in national efforts to advance women’s and children’s health. In honing its scope of practice and administrative procedures, such a body would prove uniquely suited to meeting the accountability needs of the global strategy through health policy information sharing, cross-national comparative analyses, and participatory policy reform frameworks.
Crucial to good governance, transparency encourages open government decision making through health policy information sharing. Independent monitoring bodies have a vested interest in encouraging open processes to evaluate resources and results—assessing state reports, shadow reports, and independent evaluations to provide access to an unprecedented range of data on women’s and children’s health—using this information to recommend avenues for policy and program reform policies and programs at the local level. Through the transparency enabled by a monitoring body, accountability is encouraged by information flow and constructive dialogue to improve monitoring and evaluation for advancing women’s and children’s health.
By developing systematic mechanisms for reporting and review—in the form of set standards (including structural, process, and outcome indicators), guidelines for program implementation, data collection, monitoring, and reporting—independent monitoring bodies can establish consistent administrative guidelines to facilitate national evaluations. For example, structural indicators might measure whether states have enacted laws and policies to ensure free maternal health care in public health facilities; process indicators might evaluate resource allocation, agency standards, and policy implementation to determine whether the state has fulfilled its commitments. Although states have less control over outcomes given mediating determinants of health, indicators measuring maternal and infant mortality over time could nevertheless denote a state’s effective use of resources toward improving results. Examining these varied data through flexible institutions of expert review and dialogue will best assist an independent monitoring body in evaluating state action and holding states to account for global strategy commitments.
In addition, these mechanisms would facilitate cross-national comparison through standardized state reports and monitoring body recommendations, ensuring consistency and predictability in state reporting. By allowing comparative examinations of health policies and programs across national contexts, a monitoring body would derive “best practices” for achieving results while accounting for meaningful differences in resource allocations.
To ensure public accountability, an independent monitoring body would review state resource allocations and programmatic results through an agreed-upon set of structure, process and outcome indicators, with independent experts assisting the state in institutional problem-solving and policy reform efforts. In preparing a state report, participatory frameworks would allow national actors to share grievances and expose potential public or private corruption, inefficiency, or bottlenecks in systems for allocating resources and implementing results. The resulting state report, grounded in indicators and developed by stakeholders, would thus provide a more in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of possible intervening variables that impede the government from reaching agreed-upon benchmarks or outcomes. It would also help identify implementation problems and solutions to improve women’s and children’s health.
B. Challenges in implementation
Outside of highlighting challenges in national efforts to realizing women’s and children’s health and recommending reforms to alleviate these challenges, a monitoring body would have limited authority to prescribe remedies, sanction failures, or punish wrongdoing. Where donor states have not met promised resource commitments, such shortfalls can be easily identified (if not easily rectified), but where a recipient state is not meeting health targets, it is unclear whether an independent monitoring body, even one analyzing robust indicators, would second-guess the national budgetary allocations or policy decisions that led to these results. Yet despite these challenges to enforcement, challenges that transcend international health institutions, an independent monitoring body would add far greater enforcement of commitments to women’s and children’s health, supporting accountability for states in realizing the goals of the global strategy.
The Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health estimates that as many as 16 million additional lives may be saved by 2015, but these prospective gains to the interconnected human rights of women and children will depend upon accountability frameworks to assure that states meet commitments and implement national programs. With states long having resisted accountability frameworks in implementing international health initiatives, this new commission represents a unique opportunity for UN agencies to reassert their role as leading authorities in the realization of global health. By establishing an independent monitoring body for reporting, oversight, and accountability on women’s and children’s health, the commission has the opportunity to develop a new model for international health institutions and secure state progress under the global strategy.
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, JD, MPH, is Program Director at the Virtue Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
1. Ban-ki Moon, United Nations Secretary General, Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health (2010). Available at http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/maternal/20100914_gswch_en.pdf.
2. United Nations, “U.N. Establishes High-Level Commission to Track Results and Resources for Women’s and Children’s Health,” news release, December 16, 2010, http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Press_Release_Accountability_16Dec_final.pdf.
3. United Nations. Every Woman Every Child: Commission on Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health. Available at http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/pages?pageid=14.
4. World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, The Global Campaign for the Health Millennium Goals 2010: Putting the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health into Action (Oslo: November 2010). Available at http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/mdgs/2010globalcampaign.pdf.
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The General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational company. For more than 125 years, GE has invented the future of industry. Today, GE is best known for its work in the Power, Renewable Energy, Aviation and Healthcare industries.
- Symbol: GE
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- SEC CIK: 0000040545
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- Location: Boston, Massachusetts US
- Web: www.ge.com
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- Industry: Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing
- SIC Code: 3724
- Shares Outstanding: 1,100,000,000
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The following is an excerpt from “Cut From the Team? Here’s how to deal with it.” For the full article, click here.
The sun is shining, the weather warming up, pools are being open, and the shorts and sandals are being taken out of the closet. But before we dive into three months of swimming, golfing, cottage getaways, and beach vacations, young hockey players will find out what team they’ll be playing for come September.
Yes, it’s tryout season. Tryout season brings many ups and downs, as athletes celebrate making a team, or deal with getting cut. Many athletes struggle with the devastating blow of being cut from a team. But learning how to properly deal with it will not only help you feel better in the short term, it will also turn you into a better player in the long term.
Struggle leads the way for growth. Overcoming one challenge will make you more confident for the next. The trick is knowing how to handle it, and according to sports psychologist Dr. Justin Anderson from Premier Sport Psychology, it’s all mental.
Over the years, Dr. Anderson has worked with several professional and Olympic athletes to develop a champion mindset. I asked Dr. Anderson how to overcome getting cut from a team. What I got were the five key factors that he, and the rest of the Premier Sport Psychology team, use to turn an athlete’s failure into success:
1) Growth vs Fixed Mindset
One of the first things Dr. Anderson looks for is whether the athlete has a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. Someone with a fixed mindset looks at things in black and white. A situation is either good or bad in their eyes. When being cut, an athlete with a fixed mindset will look at it negatively. They may think that they’re just not good enough, lose motivation and even give up.
The mindset an athlete wants to develop is a growth mindset. Growth mindset gives athletes the ability to find opportunity in adversity. Dr. Anderson teaches athletes to “recognize that not making a team, while it can be emotionally draining, may in fact lead to more efficient and effective growth.”
When faced with rejection from a team, athletes with a growth mindset will ask themselves how they can learn and grow from the situation. Reflecting on the situation objectively is a good way to learn the growth mindset. Dr. Anderson notes that growth will come “particularly if people can reflect on it objectively.” With the growth mindset, athletes can look at getting cut as an opportunity to learn and grow, ultimately becoming a better player.
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Walter Richard Parker (20/09/1881- 28/11/1936) was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Gallipoli during the First World War.
The Citation reads:
“On the night of 30 April/1 May 1915 at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, Turkey, Lance-Corporal Parker, a volunteer stretcher-bearer, went out with a party of NCOs and men to take ammunition, water and medical stores to an isolated trench containing about 40 men and several wounded. There were no communication trenches leading to the trench, and several men had already been killed in an attempt to reach it.
After crossing an area of about 400 yards swept by machine-gun and rifle fire, Lance-Corporal Parker was alone, the rest of the party having been killed or wounded. On his arrival he gave assistance to the wounded and when the trench was finally evacuated early the next morning, he helped to remove and attend the casualties, although he himself was seriously wounded.”
He is buried in Stapleford Cemetery, Nottingham.
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Not a day goes by the the corrupt, criminal left wing scumbag Democrats don't humiliate themselves.
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Posted on 13 March 2017
We now have updated ticket details for our trip to Swansea in the Premier League on Wednesday, April 5 (7.45pm).
Swansea City v Spurs
Wednesday, April 5Kick-off 7.45pmAllocation: 2,010
Adults: £30.00Seniors over 60: £22.50Under-16s: £22.50
Season Ticket Holders who applied by the deadline with 178 or more loyalty points have been successful and will be issued a ticket.
Loyalty points: 4
23 January 2018
Updated ticket details have been confirmed for our Premier League trip to Liverpool on Sunday 4 February.
9 January 2018
Updated ticket details have been confirmed for our Premier League trip to Southampton on Sunday 21 January 2018.
17 November 2017
Updated ticket details have been announced for our trip to Watford in the Premier League on Saturday 2 December 2017.
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
|Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam|
The entrance side of the museum
|Type||Modern art, contemporary art|
|Collection size||90,000 items|
|Director||Karin van Gilst (managing director)|
|Curator||Ann Goldstein (artistic director)|
|Public transit access||Tram: 2 , 5 , 12
Bus: 170, 172
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (colloquially Stedelijk) (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsteːdələk myˈzeːʏm ˌɑmstərˈdɑm]) (English: Municipal Museum Amsterdam) is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw.
The museum was founded in 1874. The current building was designed by Adriaan Willem Weissman and opened its doors in 1895. Between 1945 and 1954, the museum was renovated and the floor space was doubled. Between 2003 and 2012, the building was again renovated and a new wing designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects was added. The museum was reopened for the general public on 23 September 2012.
The collection comprises modern and contemporary art and design from early 20th century up to the 21st century. It features artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Karel Appel, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Lucio Fontana, and Gilbert & George.
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19th century
The museum's own building opened its doors in 1895. The Neo-Renaissance building designed by architect Adriaan Willem Weissman. The construction was financed by dowager S.A. Lopez Suasso-de Bruyn and the heirs of the merchant banker C.P. van Eeghen, among others. They bequeathed their collections to the museum. The building housed a number of collections including militaria of the Amsterdam militia, Asiatic art, the Museum of Chronometry and the Medical-Pharmaceutical Museum. The Association for Forming a Public Collection of Contemporary Art also regularly held exhibitions here.
20th century
The museum first began to collect art in 1909. P.A. Regnault donated a number of pieces by renowned artists such as Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso. In 1934, the Museum for Modern Applied Art was also housed in the same building. Today, the Stedelijk has one of the world's finest collections of art and design objects, with groundbreaking designers including Marcel Wanders, Ettore Sottsass and Studio Job. During the Second World War, the Stedelijk collection and that of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, were transferred for safekeeping to a bunker in the sand-hills near Santpoort. Museum staff took turns keeping watch. Director Willem Sandberg only just managed to evade arrest; in 1943, when a German search party was sent to apprehend him, Sandberg fled by bicycle into the dunes. Despite the upheavals of war, the Stedelijk continued to hold exhibitions.
Outstanding works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Henri Matisse were added to the collection at the end of the 1940s and 1950s. During this time, the Stedelijk also acquired artworks by De Stijl and related international movements such as Russian Constructivism and Bauhaus. In 1954, the annex known as the 'Sandberg Wing' was built to accommodate experimental art; the annex was demolished in 2006. The demolition got off to a symbolic start: council member Carolien Gehrels threw a stone through one of the windows, causing a storm of protest in the press. The museum's famous CoBrA collection, dating from the 1950s, was augmented, and is now one of the museum's rich and exciting core collections. In 1958, Sandberg acquired a unique group of works by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich. In the same year, Sandberg began acquiring photography for the museum’s collection; the Stedelijk was the first western European museum for modern art to collect photography. The collection includes seminal photographers of both the Dutch and international avant-garde in the interbellum period (such as Erwin Blumenfeld, László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray), an extensive selection of post-war Dutch photographers (including Eva Besnyö, Ed van der Elsken and Cas Oorthuys), artist portraits, photojournalism and autonomous fine art photography from the 1970s onward.
In the 1960s, New York became the most influential international centre for the fine arts. Museums began exhibiting the Abstract Expressionist work of Willem de Kooning, the Color Field painting of Barnett Newman and the sculpture of minimalist artist Carl Andre, while Pop Art flourished with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
Video art was also coming into its own and, in the early 1970s, the museum made its first acquisitions of video work by European artists including Dibbets and Gilbert & George. Today, the collection of video art contains around 900 works and installations by Nam June Paik, Bill Viola and Bruce Nauman. In the 1980s and 1990s, the accent shifted to include South America and, with the fall of the Berlin Wall, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Ilya Kabakov's impression of a Russian school library, Skolnaje Biblijoteka (1995), is one such example.
21st century
In 2001, a remarkable group of drawings by Kazimir Malevich and other Russian avant-garde artists from the collection of the Khardzhiev-Chaga Cultural Centre enriched the museum's collection of Russian art.
At the end of 2003, the Adriaan Willem Weissman building was closed at the insistence of the fire department and renovation work could begin. The Stedelijk took up temporary residence in the Post CS Building where it would remain for 4.5 years, until the building had to be returned, empty and stripped. The SMCS period was one of great activity and a profusion of exhibitions. In 2006, debates and lectures were organized in the context of the exhibition 'Mapping the City' which explored the relationship of artists to the city. A space was created – 'Docking Station' – for monthly presentations of work by emerging artists. In 2008, 'Other voices, other rooms', an exhibition highlighting the video work of Andy Warhol, was a huge success, drawing 600,000 visitors. 2005 marked another watershed during this time, when the museum established a partnership with The Broere Charitable Foundation; on behalf of the Monique Zajfen Collection, the museum acquires contemporary European art works, which are placed with the museum on long-term loan.
From late 2008, the Stedelijk was undergoing major construction and described as a 'museum without walls'. In responding to this situation, an innovative and dynamic project, 'Stedelijk goes to Town' was announced allowing the museum to continue its strong visual presence within the city of Amsterdam. The project ran until the latter half of 2009 and featured a series of workshops, lectures and presentations in various locations throughout Amsterdam.
From August 2010 until January 2011, the Stedelijk Museum opened its doors with a unique program called The Temporary Stedelijk in the restored, yet unfinished historical building. After the success of welcoming 'art, artists and the public' back through its doors, the Stedelijk continued with this temporary program. The Temporary Stedelijk 2 opened in March 2011 and focused on the renowned collection of modern and contemporary art and design. The exhibition showcased the breadth of the museum's collection and exhibited works by Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Charley Toorop, Henri Matisse, Donald Judd, Willem de Kooning, Yves Klein and Bruce Nauman, among others. Selections from the collections were presented on a rotating basis. Distinctive aspects of the collection were highlighted in two thematic presentations: Recollections and TV as.... The Temporary Stedelijk 3 began in October 2011 and featured exhibitions, presentations, and activities located throughout Amsterdam.
On 21 March 1986, Gerard Jan van Bladeren cut the painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III (1967) by Barnett Newman with a utility knife during a psychosis. He was convicted to eight months in jail and two years probation. He was banned from the museum for three years. On 21 November 1997, the same man cut the painting Cathedra (1951), also by Barnett Newman. He had an insanity defense and was not convicted. But this time he was banned from the museum permanently.
On 15 May 2011, the victory of AFC Ajax in the national competition was celebrated at the Museum Square. During the celebration, supporters damaged the roof top and glass panels of the Benthem Crouwel wing of the Stedelijk Museum. The damage to the building costed a total of 400,000 euro. In 2012, the victory of Ajax was not celebrated at the Museum Square, but near the Amsterdam Arena instead. The city government believes the Museum Square is still a suited location for well planned mass events.
Art theft
On 20 May 1988, the first and only art theft from the Stedelijk took place. The three paintings Vase with Carnations (1886) by Vincent van Gogh, Street in Nevers (1874) by Johan Jongkind, and Still life with bottles and apples by Paul Cézanne were stolen during a break in. On 31 May 1988, all three painting were recovered undamaged by the police, while they pretended to be buyers. The thief was arrested and convicted.
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The museum collection holds almost 90,000 objects (current on 25 February 2010), collected since 1874. With important clusters and cores focusing on De Stijl, Bauhaus, Pop Art and CoBrA and, more recently, Neo-Impressionism, the collection represents virtually every significant movement in art and design of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Stedelijk also has a comprehensive collection of drawings and paintings by Kazimir Malevich. Key pieces by Post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh exemplify art from the late 19th century. The collection is sub-divided into the following disciplines:
- Painting 4,395
- Sculpture 1,654
- Installation 211
- Moving image and sound 622
- Prints and drawings 19,678
- Posters 19,322
- Photography 10,880
- Graphic design 19,450
- Industrial design 5,322
- Artist books 4,253
- Lucebert archive 122
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Weissman building
Adriaan Willem Weissman, architect of the city of Amsterdam, designed the building for the museum in 1895. With its design of the upper façade and tower in a combination of pale stone and red brick, the exterior references 16th century Dutch Renaissance architecture. In 1938, Sandberg had the interior walls painted white, creating ‘white cube’ gallery spaces. When he had the opportunity some years later, in 1954, a largely glass extension arose, flanking the Van Baerlestraat. It came to be referred to as the ‘Sandberg Wing’. Sandberg also replaced the museum’s heavy, rather uninviting doors by a glass entrance.
Benthem Crouwel wing
Due to poor maintenance and the lack of modern facilities, including climate control, the building was no longer able to meet today’s standards. Nor did it have the space to feature the highlights of the collection on permanent display; since its beginnings, over a century ago, the collection had vastly increased. The art depots and workshops had also become far too cramped. In 1993, a leak in the roof of the museum damaged several large paintings, among them pieces by Ellsworth Kelly and Julian Schnabel. A competition was first held in the early 1990s, with Robert Venturi beating Rem Koolhaas, Wim Quistm, and Carel Weeber to the job; Venturi was replaced by Alvaro Siza Vieira in 1996.
The building was forced to close in January 2004 as it no longer complied with fire regulations. After further discussions about whether to relocate the contemporary art museum in an Amsterdam park, a new jury eventually awarded Benthem Crouwel architects the renovation and construction contract for their daring design for the new building, fondly referred to as the ‘bathtub’. The new Stedelijk will have an exhibition surface area of 8000 m2; double its previous gallery space.
When Alvaro Siza had originally designed the plans, the reopening was scheduled for 2007. In 2004, when a new competition was held it became clear that this date was not achievable. Although the renovated original building was completed in early 2010, conditions were not suitable for exhibiting artworks because there was no climate control system; this will be installed in the new wing. The press poured criticism on the delays. A campaign by Dutch cultural entrepreneur Otto Nan, ‘Stedelijk Do Something’, urging people text their disappointment at the delays, drew considerable media attention and a huge response from social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Otto Nan hoped that what he referred to as an ‘amicable coup’ would attract political attention with an occupation of Museumplein. Moreover, by sending SMS messages, people could raise money to help the museum re-launch a little sooner. The re-opening, previously heralded for spring 2010 , was later moved to 2012. The restored original building went ahead and opened in 2010..
After eight years of work, the new Stedelijk opened in September 2012. With the renovation and expansion, the highlights of the collection are on display in the old building (in a series of changing presentations). The new wing (fondly referred to as the ‘bathtub’) primarily hosts experimental, compelling exhibitions and film and video art. There are three main elements to the new building: a large glassed entrance, which opens onto Museumplein, upper-level temporary exhibition galleries in a structure nicknamed “The Bathtub” and a basement with a substantial display area for the permanent collection. Most of the €127m project has been funded by Amsterdam’s city council.
Originally a municipal body, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam attained the status of stichting, or independent foundation, on 1 January 2006, and is accountable to a Supervisory Board.
- Jan Eduard van Someren Brand (1895–1906)
- Cornelis Baard (1906–1936)
- David Roëll (1936–1945)
- Willem Sandberg (1945–1963)
- Edy de Wilde (1963–1985)
- Wim Beeren (1985–1993)
- Rudi Fuchs (1993–2003)
- Hans van Beers (2003–2005)
- Gijs van Tuyl (2005–2009)
- Ann Goldstein (2010–present) (artistic director only since 2013)
- Karin van Gilst (2013–present) (managing director)
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My Life: The Presidential Years
Vintage Books, 2005 - 696 páginas
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.
It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.
We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil rights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.
We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father’s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; drawn to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, Chelsea, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.
President Clinton’s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.
It is a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.
It is the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far Right, and how he survived and prevailed.
It is a treasury of moments caught alive, among them:
• The ten-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his family’s new (and first) television set.
• The young candidate looking for votes in the Arkansas hills and the local seer who tells him, “Anybody who would campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to carry one box. . . . You’ll win here. But it’ll be the only damn place you win in this county.” (He was right on both counts.)
• The roller-coaster ride of the 1992 campaign.
• The extraordinarily frank exchanges with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.
• The delicate manipulation needed to convince Rabin and Arafat to shake hands for the camera while keeping Arafat from kissing Rabin.
• The cost, both public and private, of the scandal that threatened the presidency.
Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions, told openly, directly, in his own completely recognizable voice. A unique book by a unique American.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Haylee Lindsey, center, and her mom, Lori Hiatt, check out the heart and lung themed cake that was there at the surprise one-year anniversary party on Wednesday for Haylee, 23, who a year ago received a new heart and lungs in a rare transplant surgery. About thirty members of her family and friends were on hand for the party. Photo by Don Boomer
Haylee Lindsey, 23, of Escondido spent half her life struggling to breathe; now she has full and active lifeEscondido — On Wednesday morning, Escondido resident Haylee Lindsey rewarded herself with a “re-birthday” gift, a small black tattoo that starts with the spiky line of an erratic heartbeat, then a flatline adorned with a bow, followed by a smaller and “beautifully regular” heartbeat.
The tattoo was inked on Lindsey’s forearm at the same moment one year ago that she underwent a rare heart and double-lung transplant at UCLA Medical Center. Lindsey, who is 23, spent 143 days in the hospital awaiting donor organs for a surgery so rare that only about 25 are performed in the country each year. Of the 123,000 Americans on organ donor waiting lists, more than 7,600 die each year without getting the call.
At a surprise “transplantiversary” party Wednesday night at her family’s home, Lindsey said reaching the milestone is not just a celebration of her survival — it also marks the time doctors said she is now free to live a full life. The tattoo, which doctors made her wait for because it can carry a risk of infection, was the first item on her bucket list. Continue reading
You have the power to SAVE Lives
We are asking you to register as an organ, eye and tissue donor today.
...and have a conversation with your family
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Degree: Master of Arts in Education
Program: Curriculum and Instruction: Special Education and Reading
Degree Level: Graduate
Credit Hours: 36 credit hours
Delivery Format: Online
Prerequisites: Bachelor's Degree with a Teaching Certificate
The Master of Arts in Education in Curriculum & Instruction is a unique blend of the well-known UNK Special Education and Reading programs. This innovative and creative educational program will provide you with the skills and knowledge to work with struggling readers and students with exceptionalities. This 36 credit hour degree is designed for K-6 classroom teachers, as well as Special Education and Reading teachers. Any educator who is interested in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and methodology to diagnose and facilitate instructional strategies for students would benefit from this program. This may include classroom teachers, resource teachers, reading specialists or school administrators. This program does not complete requirements for endorsements in Reading or Special Education. Individuals who would like to complete an endorsement in either or both areas should contact the appropriate advisor. All coursework is offered online including the Practicum which will be completed in a school system at a location near you. Because this is offered in a cohort format, students will complete the program with peers and colleagues who have similar career goals. Comprehensive exams will be completed during the final semester of the program. The 24-month program begins in August 2011 with a completion date of December 2013. Students pursuing certification in other states must check with their State Department of Education for certification requirements.
UNK’s College of Education online graduate programs have earned "Honor Roll" recognition in U.S. News and World Report’s national rankings. To earn national Honor Roll status in the U.S. News ranking program, online graduate education programs had to place among the top 30 percent in three out of four categories. UNK ranked in the top 30 percent in all four categories.
Basic computer literacy is required to succeed as an online student. To decide if online learning is for you, click on http://www.unk.edu/acad/continuing_ed/ecampus/index.php?id=4788. To determine if you have the minimum hardware and software needed, log on to http://www.unk.edu/acad/continuing_ed/students/index.php?id=6213.
TE 845 Contemporary Theory and Practice in Reading
TESE 834 Characteristics and Identification of Behavior and Learning Disabilities
TESE 863 Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Students with Disabilities
TE 854 Reading in the Content Areas
TESE 870 Differentiation in the General Education Classroom**
TE 804 Curriculum Development in Multicultural Education
TE 846 Diagnosis/Correction of Reading Difficulties
TE 805P Overview of Assistive Technology
TE 816B Practicum: Reading
TE 803 Philosophy of Education
TE 800 Educational Research
TESE 840 Bilingual Special Education
*Subject to change and may be extended with advisor guidance.
Why choose UNK?
The University of Nebraska at Kearney is a mid-sized comprehensive public university. UNK is one of four institutions in the University of Nebraska system. In a typical year, UNK draws students from 47 states and 50 foreign countries with a total enrollment approaching 7,000 students.
Affordable - UNK has one of the lowest tuition rates in the country. For tuitions rates, click here.
Accredited Programs - UNK is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Quality Education – UNK offers the same quality distance degree programs and courses that are offered on the campus. The majority of the instruction is taught by credentialed full-time faculty with doctoral degrees who are committed to quality teaching. Students and teaching remain the first priority with faculty at UNK.
Quality Student Support Services – Quality student support services are a hallmark of education at UNK. To help students get started with their online courses, a set of online video tutorials are available, as well as the Online Student Orientation. Other services include library services, discounted software and hardware, a writing center, 24/7 technology help desk, online bookstore, and more.
How do I get started?
Program Contact: Mary Volker
Department: Teacher Education
Address: College of Education, Room B116, UNK, Kearney, NE 68849
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Jeffery Snover is the
person most responsible for PowerShell, which revolutionized my approach to
database administration. He has a background in scripting going back to VMS
(IIRC), which is how he came to create PowerShell. His Twitter bio lists
"Microsoft Technical Fellow/ Lead Architect for Enterprise Cloud Group/
Azure Stack Architect/ PowerShell Architect / Science fan".
From my point of view,
he directs strategy for Windows administration. I listen to him because the
things he talks about are likely to influence my work life and they give
insight into how the PowerShell team expect people to use their product.
The podcast covers a
variety of things in a light way. The thing that grabbed my attention the most
was that Snover seems to be saying that Windows will be implementing things
similar to what linux does with root and sudo. (My linux experience is limited
but my two takeaways are: You never log in as root and sudo controls what your
'day to day' login can do.) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, as
Beyond that, it seems
that I should be working towards two goals.
One of those goals
should be to get my code into an open repository.
I have been using
version control for many years, but I have always kept "my code" in a
Initially, I used
subversion. At first, I ran my own server (on an old Sun workstation) out of my
home office. I moved to a cloud-based solution after experiencing a number of
power outages. (I just logged into my old Subversion repository for the first time
in well over a year. It has over 3,000 check ins.)
In spring of 2014,
Subversion was seeming old-fashioned, so I tried Git for a while. That was
during an extremely slow period for changes to my code, so I never got very far
into it. I documented the start of that period with this blog posting.
I've been using
Microsoft's TFS Online for the last couple of years. This seemed a natural fit
because I spend a lot of time in Visual Studio, it provides feature and bug
tracking and it a cloud-based solution. Since then, Visual Studio has come to
TFS Online seemed like
a pretty hot technology in 2014, but I feel like I've missed the boat with GitHub.
The current trend seems to demand use of GitHub. The work required to move my
code from TFS Online to GitHub is large. There are over 170 files of varying complexity, with a few being modules with
many functions. I work very hard to keep client-specific things out of "my code", but I would need to vet everything again.
I did do a pass with ScriptCop through much of that code in
2015. I fixed most of the things that ScriptCop spotted. Other than that, much
of this code hasn't been looked at in years.
I don't want to split
my code between different repositories. I like being able to install one set of
tools and I don't want to get into situations where I'm looking for something
that is in the other repository.
The other goal is to
start testing operational environments like developers test their code. In my case, I'd like to test my code like
developers test their code. :-/
I fiddled around with
PSUnit when that was the hot thing, but I never integrated it with my
day-to-day work. The current hot technology for this is Pester, and I'd like to
do more with it.
Implementing Pester (or any testing framework) "for real" would be a lot of work. My earliest code was
written in the PowerShell 1.0 and 2.0 era. Other than Transact-SQL, my coding
at that time was mainly in DOS batch and Windows Scripting Host's version of VBScript.
PowerShell was a new thing and it was not obvious that it would be as
successful as it has been. My PowerShell scripts were not written with
testability in mind. The technical debt is enormous. Layers of code are based on that work. Testing nearly
anything seems to require reworking layers of code. Changing that code breaks
other code. Since there is no testing framework, those bugs aren't noticed
until I happen to run them.
In short, it looks like I can't do anything
without doing everything and there is no time budget for that. If I work on the
testability of recent code the going seems slow, there isn't much impact,
working on that code is not my "day job" and I can't keep the
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TOP 5 LONGEST RIVERS IN INDIA / 5 RIVERS IN INDIA:- History as well as current scenario clearly proves that rivers are the important part. They are the source of living for animals and human beings by providing fresh water. A number of rivers are found in India and maximum of them are related to Hinduism the rivers of India have played a huge role in civilisation of India and providing livelihood. They help in providing cheap transportation water for farming. And many other advantages here we compile
widest river in india
5 rivers in India
- INDUS RIVER IS 1,976 MILES it is the longest river in India and flows through northern part of Indian Territory .annual flow of Indus is less. River Indus was the reason for biggest civilisation the Indus valley civilisation Indus River originates at manasarowar and falls into Arabian sea.
- BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER: I it is the second largest rivers in India and it is a male river starting from south-western Tibet popular as “yarlung Tsangpo River” is 2900 km long this river flows through Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and finally falls in Bay of Bengal.
3>GANGA RIVER:: . Ganga covers 1560 miles measured from source mouth.it is the widest river in India. Banaras is the most famous place at the bank of river Ganga. According to ancient scripts Ganga starts from the hairs of lord Shiva Ganga is known to the purest rivers in Hinduism.
4>GODAVARI RIVER:: it is the largest river in Maharashtra it flows through telengna Madhya Pradesh Odisha Karnataka and flows into the bay of Bengal. The total length of this river is 1,465 km this river is 40 m in depth one of the important rivers supporting livelihood from ancient
SUGGESTED- BEST FACTS OF INDIA 2018
5>KIRSHNA RIVER:: 1,300 km long Krishna river starts near Mahabaleshwar in jor village goes through Maharashtra ,Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and falls in bay of Bengal. The area near this village is highly fertile. At Sangli many tributaries joins Krishna river. Krishna river is considered very important form Hinduism and historical point of view.
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Archives of the TeradataForum
Message Posted: Tue, 12 May 2009 @ 09:33:18 GMT
| Subj: || || PPIs - Downside |
| From: || || Goli, Srikanth |
Hi - I am looking for any information available on cost of using PPIs. I have come across one article, that has some considerations, namely, a
PPI that does not contain all PI columns may degrade performance ( may be because of the need to search in each partition for PI value). Are there
any criteria to consider or should we just convert every table into PPI as long as the PPI columns are a superset of PI? I am specifically looking
for any experience where PPI did not help performance or degrade performaqnce, so I can avoid those. Appreciate any feedback.
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
Ely MN Grouse Hunt Sept 2009
This past weekend I was able to go up to Ely MN to grouse hunt. I've been going up there for the 2nd weekend of grouse hunting for the past 10 years.
One of the challenges is that we've been hunting the same areas for 10 years now. The spots that were hot 10 years ago are now about 10 years past peak.
On Friday we got out at about 1:30 and it was 70 degrees, sunny, and not much of a breeze. We hit our usual spot. I ended up seeing/hearing 6 birds - shot at 3 and ended up missing all three shots. The cover was thick and I didn't really feel like any of the shots were that doable but I've made tougher. We ended up quiting at about six as the dogs were hot and tired.
Saturday we got out at about 11 am. Cooler at 60 degrees but more humid as the weather was changing. We went back to the old reliable spot one more time. Saw 3 more, shot and missed one more time. As we were pulling out 2 1/2 hours later we saw two separate trucks pulling.
I decided to drive down the main road a little bit further. I ended up seeing a nice looking fire road and decided to try it out. I unloaded Tina, my seven year old English Setter, and started to walk. After walking about 100 yards I could hear a chainsaw just up the trail. We went back loaded up and drove up to the chainsaw area. I stopped and spoke with the two guys cutting wood and they said the trail went a bit farther up and that they had seen some grouse now and then. Drove another 100 yards parked and unloaded Tina again. We went a little ways and got a nice point and proceeded to miss another shot. Five more minutes of walking and another point. Finally I connected. 10 minutes another connection and a miss. We worked out way back to the truck and took turns working Marge and Fergie. Marge had a nice point on a ridge but the bird went straight out in front of her so I didn't get a shot off.
Took a bit of a break for a Snickers and a Dew. Unloaded Tina again and decided to rework the original portion of the trail that we had gotten our birds on. We got another point after a short while and I was able to connect on a double so I felt pretty good about myself. I ended up taking 4 out of the last 5 birds that I shot at. We didn't see any more birds and called it a day at about 6:30.
I think we saw/heard about 16 birds on Saturday between the two spots. I think the numbers are up from last year but not to the crazy numbers that I'd seen 8-10 years ago.
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Bargain basement opens to business
Years from now, the banking crisis of today will probably be seen as the beginning of a period when market dominance started to pass to foreign hands.
In the long term, the banking crisis will probably be remembered as the beginning of the period when market dominance started passing to foreign banks. The Turkish banking sale season has opened and there are many bargains. "Compared with price-to-asset valuations of around 50% to 60% a year ago, bank valuations have now declined to 15% to 20% of assets," says Credit Suisse First Boston's head Turkish analyst, Afa Boran. "We are entering a phase of foreign bank domination," says Burhan Karacam, chairman of Kocbank, which belongs to one of Turkey's biggest privately-owned industrial conglomerates. "Turkish banks need to recapitalize but have not got the resources to do so. They must therefore find joint-venture partners. Small and medium-size banks will disappear. There will be just an handful of big banks and a few speciality banks left."
HSBC is negotiating to buy Demirbank from banking authority BDDK. BDDK has already sold Sumerbank to Oyak Bank, owned by the army pension fund. Bank Ekspress, a small bank, has been sold to another small bank, Tekfen Bank.
Up to now the foreign bank presence in Turkey has been quite small. They shied away from becoming big players because the sector was not properly regulated or supervised and the risks involved were too high.
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Learning to build sentences is an important skill for young children and begins after children learn to link single words together. This takes place alongside their vocabulary development; the two skills are closely interlinked. Children need to know around 50 words before they will be ready to start building sentences – take a look at the vocabulary pages for some ideas.
Young children learn to build sentences by listening to others; often this skill develops rapidly after they have learned to link 2 or 3 words together. They will make lots of mistakes along the way and rely on adults modeling correct sentences and sometimes correcting mistakes in a supportive way appropriate to their age and stage of development.
Once children can speak in sentences, they can use language to make requests, comment, ask and answer questions, and a number of other purposes!
Children of this age will begin joining 2 words together e.g., more juice, mummy work, eat banana.
Note: A child needs to learn around 50 words before they can start joining words.
Children of this age progress to joining 3-4 words together in a sentence. At this age, it is common for children to:
Children of this age are producing longer sentences by putting lots of words together and may use joining words such as ‘and’ & ‘because’. They may also:
Children of this age begin including more grammatical information in their sentences:
Ask lots of questions e.g. Why? What? Where?
Last updated: 17 April, 2018
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TOTT: A Taste Of Sun Life's Food OfferingsDolfans you better come hungry to the games this season - hungry for a win and for the fantastic food at Sun Life Stadium.
South Florida's Best Scholar Athletes Recognized At Awards LuncheonSouth Florida’s best high school scholar athletes were recognized on Wednesday in Miramar.
Fans Crowd Miramar Bar In Anticipation Of Mayweather, Pacquiao FightHours before the fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao started, a line formed outside Bokamper's in Miramar.
Miami Dolphins Reveal Tasty New Food Options At Sun Life StadiumFans attending Miami Dolphins games in the upcoming NFL season can feel better about coming to the stadium on an empty stomach.
Best Places For Sports Fans To Watch The GameOn game days, the some of the best places to watch a Miami Dolphins game are at Bru's Room, Bokamper's, Champps Americana, Sports Grill and Village Tavern.
Best Sports Bar/Grill In South FloridaBest of South Florida - Sports Bar & Grill. Bokamper's. Dan Marino's. Bru's Room. Mr. Moe's. Duffy's
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by Stephen Dafoe
The Morinville Youth Basketball Association’s Orijen Sabretooths hosted an outdoor 3-on-3 basketball tournament June 14 and 15 in Morinville and Bon Accord. The tournament, open to U11, U13, U15, U17, and adult players, drew more than 100 players.
The idea for the event came from MYBA parent Jessica Steele who was looking for the same kind of experience that attracted her to the game in her youth.
MYBA Coach and Information Manager Samantha Ringuette said the outdoor 3×3 tournament went extremely well over the weekend. The event included five U11 teams, four U15 girls teams, four U15 boys teams (three boys teams with 1 U17 girls team in that division), four U17 boys teams and five Adult Men’s teams.
“We were so happy with the amount of athletes and teams we had,” she said, adding more than 85 games were played over the two days. “Games were played at Bon Accord Community School and MCHS. We were not expecting the amount of teams that we had but were very happy with the interest. The tournament brought together teams from across Sturgeon County and helped bring together the local basketball community.”
The association is hoping to run another 3×3 tournament in the future.
Below are some photos of the event courtesy of MYBA and Samantha Ringuette.
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2022-06-25T20:19:08Z
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Formal structure of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)":
Intro (ch) 0:00-0:13
Verse 1a 0:13-0:36
Verse 1b 0:36-0:53
Verse 2a 1:05-1:27
Verse 2b 1:27-1:44
Solo (verse a) 2:25-2:48
Solo (verse b) 2:48-3:06
Verse 3a 3:45-4:07
Verse 3b 4:07-4:24
Comments: Each verse has two subsections, both featuring the same melodies and similar chords, but a fourth higher (the first half is centered around A minor, while the second half is centered around D minor - though it certainly is not a key change).
The transitions that follow each verse are perfectly designed to be tags, however with no defining musical motif, I have to call them transitions.
The song ends with the chorus, the 5-bar phrase that defines the chorus is heard 14 times and on the 15th time it is abruptly cut off. There is no coda. The purpose of the coda, of course, is to conclude the song. In this case, there is no conclusion, it simply stops. Thus, there will no concluding gestures, there can be no coda.
The macro-scale formal layout can be seen as 4 iterations of Verse (both parts a and b) + transition + chorus, with the first such iteration omitting the chorus, all of which is preceded by the introduction.
This blog is a workshop for developing my analyses of The Beatles' music.
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The school announced today that the executive committee of the Alabama A&M board of trustees, which has been tasked with negotiating a new contract, will meet Thursday at noon in Birmingham. The topic of the meeting is Hugine's contract.
The trustees said in February it was starting talks with Hugine on a new contract. In June, Odysseus Lanier, president pro tem of the trustees, said negotiations should be completed "pretty soon." Following a closed-door session at the meeting, the full board gave the executive committee the power to finish the negotiations.
Hugine's original four-year contract, worth $230,000 in salary annually, expires July 16, 2013. He also receives a monthly $3,000 housing allowance as well as a monthly $800 car allowance, among other perks.
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The big annual event is this week, let's see what the news there is
This is the week of academia and industry's big APEC 2010 power event, formally known as The Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. If there's one aspect of design that is common to every application and system, of course, it's power–whether you are in a micro-energy harvest regime or have a big AC outlet handy (I mean "common" here in the figurative sense, not the literal "common" or "ground"). "Power"" is all its guises is the inescapable common denominator of electronics (note that I did not say "lowest common denominator", which it is most definitely is not).
I won't be there, but several EE Times editors will, and they'll be looking for new products, topologies, tools, design ideas, and more. As they post their stories, I'll collect them here at the Power Management DesignLine home page so you can see them all in one place. ♦
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Everybody wants to carry out offshore wind farm projects but in the first place Poland needs to start building a nuclear power station, its a matter of credibility with the European Commission, Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski announced on Monday.
"Everyone wants to finance and build offshore wind energy, there is a fashion for it, but in the first place we need to start building a nuclear power station," Tchorzewski told journalists on the sidelines of the All-Poland Energy Summit in Gdansk (northern Poland).
Asked if that meant a nuclear power station is the priority, the energy minister replied: "It is for our credibility with the European Commission."
Tchorzewski went on to indicate that offshore wind energy requires additional solutions. "Firstly, how great will the interest be? Secondly, how do those who want to build want to contribute to the network?"
Asked when a decision could be expected on starting construction of a nuclear power station, Tchorzewski replied: "This year or never."
Meanwhile, Investment and Development Minister Jerzy Kwiecinski told PAP that Poland is ready to finance a nuclear power plant from its own resources, if such a decision is taken.
"We must take a decision on building a nuclear power plant very prudently, based on the best possible analytical research," Kwiecinski told PAP. "Such research is already being finalised at the Ministry of Energy. Considering the very long investment process, characterised by high expenditures and a long project life cycle, capital and debt financing will have to be implemented."
"We have a strong state and strong financial institutions," Kwiecinski continued. "Thats why, if such a decision is taken, we are ready to finance it from our own funds. We are also open to working with others and already see great interest from around the world." (PAP)
Национальный банк Украины на 13 июля установил курс доллара на уровне 26,22 грн. Это столько же, как было вчера. Сообщает сайт НБУ. Евро подешевел на 20 коп. Стоит 30,57 грн. Курс российского рубля - ...
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2018-07-16T10:29:24Z
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