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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 41
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 41
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Yorgos Sapountzis
He is a visual artist, and a set and costume designer. Born in Athens, he studied at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and the Athens School of Fine Arts in George Lappas´ class. From 1998 to 2002 he was a set designer and assistant director at Diplous Eros Theater, before moving to Berlin in 2002 to study at the University of the Arts Berlin (under Rebecca Horn). Yorgos Sapountzis received the Villa Romana Prize and a scholarship from Kunstzeitraum München. He teaches at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) as a visiting professor in the time-based media department. His works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Barbara Gross Galerie in Munich; the Eleni Koroneou Gallery in Athens; Freymond-Guth Fine Arts in Zurich; the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol; Kunsthaus Glarus; Kunsthalle Lingen, the Ursula Blickle Foundation in Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany; and Westfälische Kunstverein in Münster, Germany. He has also participated in international group exhibitions from Athens to Hanover to Tel Aviv. In addition, he has been involved in theater projects such as the new production of “Lysistrata“ by Aristophanes in 2016 at the National Theatre of Greece in Athens as a set designer, and he has organized performance projects such as “Trial & Error“ at Kunstraum Innsbruck; “Schalen der Zeit / Is das Jetzt Zeit?“ (“Bowls of Time / Is this now time?“) at the 15th Internationale Schillertage in Mannheim; and the series “After Electricity,“ which could be seen at, among other locations, Art Basel Statements; Micamoca Berlin; the National Theatre of Greece in Athens; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. Yorgos Sapountzis lives and works in Berlin.
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Farmington Township, Trumbull, Ohio
Farmington, Trumbull, Ohio One-Place Study
West Farmington Village
Burial records (indigent soldiers) vol 1 1909-1917
small handwritten ledger book with forms. Browseable images on FamilySearch.org.
Ohio, Trumbull County Records, 1795-2010, images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-46264-38528-21?cc=2065327 : accessed 27 September 2015), Cemetery records & Burial records (indigent soldiers) vol 1 1909-1917; images 113; Trumbull County Courthouse, Warren.
The form reads as follows:
BURIAL REPORT
(Under Act Amended April 22, 1902)
To the Honorable Board of County Commisioners of Trumbull County, Ohio:
We, the undersigned, appointed by you for ___________________________
in said County, under and in pursuance of the laws of Ohio, authorizing the burial of the body of any
honorably discharged Soldier, Sailor or Marine, their wives or widows, etc., who die without leaving
means sufficient to defray funeral expenses, have had under consideration the case of:
an honorably discharged soldier _________________________________________
in Company ________________________________ Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry
and after a careful inquiry into and examination of all the circumstances in the case, do find and report that the said ___________________________________________________ died on the
______________________ day of _________________ A.D., 19_____ that we have caused ______
to be buried in a decent and respectable manner in _________________________ Cemetery;
that the occupation of said decedent while living was ______________________________
that the said decedent died in indigent circumstances,
that his family is unable to pay the expenses of the burial,
and that the expenses of burial amount to the sum of ______ Dollars
an itemized account of which is hereto attached.
_____________________________________, Ohio __________________ 19_____
*If he has no family state it here, drawing the pen across the succeeding clause.
We, the undersigned, residents of ____________________________________
in Trumbull County, Ohio, it being the ________________________________ in which
the said decedent _____________________________________________ lived, do hereby
certify that we knew the deceased in life and are well acquainted with the family of said deceased, and they are
in indigent circumstances, and umable to defray said funeral expenses.
[ITEMIZED STATEMENT OF EXPENSES]
[APPROVAL BY COMMISSIONERS]
There are only two entries from Farmington.
Filled-in Forms:
FARMINGTON BURIAL COMMITTEE
43 Peter Thayer 20-Feb-11 Civil War, Co G, 41st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Farmer West Farmington O. C. Osmer D. F. Huntley
44 Agnes Elwell 31-Jan-11 Widow of Amasa Elwell, Co. E, 5th NY, Heavy Artillery Housekeeping West Farmington O. C. Osmer D. F. Huntley
Burial records (indigent soldiers) 1884-1888
West Farmington Places
1850 1874 Agriculture burial businesses cemetery Census deaths East Farmington Farmington Hillside homes map maps military newspapers obituaries obituary photos Trumbull County veterans West Farmington Young Farm
© 2015 tami osmer mize relativelycurious.com
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20-year-old Tibetan herder becomes internet celebrity
发布时间： 2020-12-07 10:48 | 来源： Xinhua | 作者： huaxia | 责任编辑： 江虹霖
Tamdrin stands at the doorway of his home in Litang County, the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 2, 2020. Tamdrin, whose Mandarin name is Ding Zhen, is a 20-year-old Tibetan herder from a village of Litang County in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze in Sichuan Province. Less than a month ago, he was still an ordinary herder, until a 7-second video featuring a smiling Tamdrin went viral, making him the latest social media sensation in China. What makes Tamdrin stand out from other internet celebrities is not just his "sweet and wild" look, as it has been described by fans. As he releases more videos, his innocence and sincerity have also made legions of Chinese urbanites eager for a closer look at his home. Soon after Tamdrin's first video went viral, a local tour operator hired him as the tourism ambassador for Litang. According to online travel service provider Qunar.com, hotel bookings in the Garze prefecture from Nov. 11 to Nov. 25 had increased 89 percent year on year and continued to rise in the following week. Travel websites are tapping into the trend by introducing routes, hotels and places to visit in Litang, and Trip.com has projected Litang will be a hotspot over the upcoming New Year's holiday for tourists from both inside and outside Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
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Deptford events coming up...
The big event this weekend is the London Marathon on Sunday which Crossfielders can watch from the end of the road – unless they're running of course. Get down to Creek Road at around 9.15am to see the elite runners or catch the charity runners from 11ish. But before that, there's...
New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival
Friday 24th April – Sunday 3rd May
37 free films in 17 different venues over 10 days, run by volunteers with more than 40 people curating events. Most of the larger venues or most popular films are already booked up (the first night in particular), but check to see what's left at the website – some events can't be booked so it's first come, first served. One such film we would recommend for loyal Deptfordians is Hide and Seek, a children's film shot in Deptford in 1972, showing on Wednesday 29th at the Big Red Pizzeria (but don't be fooled, it'll be in the container in their back yard, not in the pizzeria itself). Otherwise see you in the queue at the Job Centre on 3rd May...
Deptford Food Festival
Saturday 25th April, 9am–5.30pm, Giffin Square
The first of what is now to be a weekly street food market. The Deptford Dame points out this is the third time it's been tried and fears there may still be not enough demand to make it worthwhile for the traders themselves. Not being an evening event, it's certainly not as trendy an event as Lewisham Model Market which returned to Lewisham High Street last week, but as a food-orientated attraction it's not as poncey as the Deptford Brunch Club and you can do a bit of shopping as well.
Co-incidentally, The Secret History of Our Streets – featuring Deptford High Street in the first episode – is being repeated on BBC4 (catch it on i-Player). The documentary uses film footage from Hide and Seek (see the Film Festival above), funnily enough. When Secret History was first broadcast in 2012 it caused controversy locally. We had our own critical opinion of the episode's inaccuracies (here, here and here) having originally helped contribute to its making in 2011. Also see Deptford Misc's take on it. But it's worth watching to hear how Deptford High Street was once the "Oxford Street of south London".
That reminds us of the meeting held back in early February at The Albany for shopkeepers and market traders, convened by local councillors (who all happen to be Lewisham Labour) to discuss how to increase trade in the high street (or rather, combat the decrease). Traders think business is lost because of parking charges – it's free to park on a Saturday after 1pm but they'd like free all day parking ("like what you get at supermarkets"). Maybe the new Asda can pay for the free parking...
Another demand was for public toilets– the Lounge was built on the site of the previous public loos and doesn't open until 10am. Most demands were led by People Before Profit (in an open attack on the Labour councillors); PB4P touched on a subject that was of no interest to legitimate businesses when they called for an end to frequent harassment from the UK Border Police.
Everyone present thought better signage was needed and one lady shopkeeper bravely suggested that the 47 bus takes a detour (presumably up Frankham Street and down Giffin Street) which is a brilliant but probably impractical idea. The Chair of the High Street Traders Association – who got the anchor removed and to which most traders do not belong – suggested French foods or farmer's markets in Giffin Square. So here you are! Not French cheeses, but lovely street food! Make the most of it! Naturally, you'll be walking or catching the bus to our famous high street, since there's still no all-day free parking. That's probably just as well since Deptford Church Street is usually gridlocked on Saturdays with people trying to get to Surrey Quays and Lewisham shopping centres – or Millwall FC at home...
Posted by Sue at Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Labels Deptford high street, Deptford market, Giffin Square, London Marathon, New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival, Secret History
Deptford Jack in the Green May Day, Friday 1st May
How can we make Deptford a better place to live, w...
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Read This: My Freelance Harmonic Convergence
Yesterday was an interesting day: Three of the book-related posts I’d written for other websites were published within a few hours of each other, giving me a lot to talk about that afternoon. “Whatcha Reading, Jennifer Weiner?” is the latest in my regular series of short interviews for inReads.com—I’d conducted a more extensive interview with Jennifer about her latest novel, Then Came You, for a Beatrice project that’s still in development, but I used a few minutes at the end to get her talking about The Kid, Sapphire’s long-awaited second novel. She does such a good job of “selling” the book that one of my friends on Twitter said that watching the video made her want to buy it and read it. And that, as I’m sure I’ve said somewhere before, constitutes a successful day as far as I’m concerned.
Then there was my weekly post for USA’s Character Approved blog, focusing on Téa Obreht and her debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife. I’d been hearing great things about this book for several months, and the Orange Prize that Obreht won last month kept it on my radar, but I’d never quite found the time to read it until last week. I’m glad I did: It’s a fascinating hybrid of a novel; Obreht’s young first-person narrator describes the chaotic impact of civil war on her Eastern European homeland, but she also shares stories from her grandfather’s life that inject a welcome dose of fantasy. I found myself equally caught up in both halves of the novel, and I was delighted by how Obreht ultimately tied everything together. I’ll be looking forward to seeing what she does with her next book.
Finally, over at Tor.com, I reviewed two books about superheroes as our newest archetypes, but really only one of those books was any good: Grant Morrison’s Supergods. Of course, I have to confess that I’ve been a fan of Grant Morrison’s comic books for just over two decades now, and series like Doom Patrol and The Invisibles have become significant touchstones in my creative philosophy. So I was predisposed in some ways to like this book, which starts out as a sort of cultural history of American comic books—the comparison I draw in the review is to Greil Marcus’ Lipstick Traces—which takes on an autobiographical perspective about halfway through, and eventually works its way to Morrison’s theories about extradimensional intelligences who might view our reality in the same way that we view the world(s) depicted in comic books.
But while Supergods is powerfully inspired, I did find myself wanting more in some places, especially the lost opportunity to go into detail about Morrison’s specific approach to the Batman character over the last half-decade. I’d also say that while the book is loaded with incisive descriptive analysis of comics from the first appearance of Superman right up to the present day, it feels a bit rushed at the end, as if the threads weren’t tied together quite as tightly as they could have been. Still, there’s a lot of amazing stuff crammed in there, more than I was able to fit into my review (especially since I had to spend some time on a book that got wrong nearly everything Supergods got right).
I’d have loved, for example, to delve into Morrison’s application of the chaos magic technique of “hypersigils” to his comic books, a topic I’ve previously tackled in an essay about Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol—one of several aspects of Supergods that are driving mainstream critics at places like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal nuts. (They’re also shocked and outraged that Morrison is unapologetic about those occult practices and the intersecting drug use.) But I see that the University Press of Mississippi has a book about Morrison coming out later this year; maybe that will give me another chance to expand on some of those ideas…
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Rae Bryant Ponders Nabokov’s Signs & Symbols
Rae Bryant is coming to New York City later this week to launch her debut short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, with a Saturday night reading at KGB Bar. In stories like “Postfeminist Zombie Assassins Wear Wonder Woman Underoos,” “Emperatriz de la Orilla del Río,” and “Featherbedding,” Bryant writes about desire with a dream-like quality: “If an average person thinks about sex several times a day,” she told The Nervous Breakdown, “then a single story without the convergence of gender and sex would be a dishonest slice of a natural day. I like natural days. I like to see them stretched and twisted and formed through surreal lenses.” It seems fitting, then, that she would be drawn to the stories, both short and long, of Nabokov…
Nabokov was a master at cutting his readers. His words are dexterous and sharp.
I came to Nabokov by way of Lolita, which may very well be my favorite novel, though tomorrow it will be McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. So today, Lolita.
One of the masteries in Nabokov’s stories, what I admire so much, is how smoothly the stories turn readers into accomplices. In Lolita, we begin cautiously, cringing at Humbert Humbert’s “Lolita… fire of my loins.” The lulling beauty of young Humbert’s language and his flashback affair with age-appropriate Annabel draws the reader into an acceptable narrative and set of mores. The subsequent transition to immorality is seamless. The crafting, perfection. The reader accepts Humbert as an emotionally stunted man, a child, and so accepts his replacement of the dead Annabel with a live and young Lo, who is something of his emotional equal. The moral cutting is almost imperceptible and before the reader fully realizes it, taboo has been severed from its leash and an addiction has formed for Humbert’s voice, his past, his self-delusions and the promise of a painful end. The reader sits quietly in the backseat of Humbert’s car and experiences the relationship unfold between him and his nymphet, one touch after another. Yes, reading Lolita is to be wounded. Nabokov takes his readers to dark places they swore they’d never go.
At times, it is easy to forget Humbert’s abuses as they’re narrated through his romanticized point of view. Further consider the socio-political layers, the undercurrent of commentary, the language play, double entendres and coded phrasings, and this all becomes really quite genius as much as it is vicious. The reader becomes a willing participant in this horror, an accomplice and confidante to Humbert’s actions, because one does not “watch” Lolita, one immerses.
Multi-faceted architecture recurs in all of Nabokov’s works, another being “Signs and Symbols,” re-titled “Symbols and Signs” by The New Yorker when they published the story in 1948. An unnamed son suffers from “referential mania” with an elaborate coding behavior by which he perceives everything around him as references to himself: “Everything is a cipher and of everything he is the theme.” The boy’s parents visit him on his birthday but are not able to see him in the sanitarium because the son has tried to kill himself again, and the nurses believe the parents would further agitate him. The day turns into a journey home, filled with images of a twitching bird, twitching hands, birds with human hands and feet, allusions to the son’s condition, artistic artifacts, Holocaustic history and perhaps the question, what is reality?
Like Lolita, “Signs and Symbols” delivers these artifacts by making the reader an accomplice, an archaeologist who excavates meanings along the way, realizing at the end, the question may not exist in the son’s condition but perhaps in the systems by which these conditions are catalogued. Nabokov doesn’t “tell” the reader to search socially, but rather, he uses the reader to formulate the hypothesis along the way—reality is not always the answer.
In June 2008, Mary Gaitskill gave a gorgeous online reading of “Symbols and Signs” at the New Yorker website. Interestingly, Gaitskill read from the Nabokov’s Dozen version of the story with his original title, rather than read the one in the magazine’s archives. In her post-reading discussion with Deborah Treisman, Gaitskill elaborated on the beauty and “tonalities” of the work while being somewhat resistant to discussing the coded language and layered narratives that are so often central to Nabokov’s stories. In Gaitskill’s discourse, is a sense of artistic agnosticism, a willingness to experience the story in its immediacy, linger in the constancy of searching without forcing a particular answer. Nabokov’s stories are good for this constancy of searching, as much as they are good for any other critical approach. For this reason, I return to Nabokov’s works often as a place of wonderment, morality and tireless questioning.
20 July 2011 | selling shorts |
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The Brains Behind Behavioral Science
By Chiara Varazzani
Image: J.K. Rofling
This is part one of a two-part series exploring how behavioral scientists can benefit from neuroscience. Read part two here.
Recently, a friend of mine shared this simple thought: “My ultimate goal is to change people’s behavior. Behavior change techniques are powerful enough tools. I do not need to know what the brain does.”
It’s true. You can easily change people’s behavior while ignoring the brain, just as you can perfectly write software without knowing anything about a computer’s hardware. But are we so sure that knowing what the brain does isn’t important for behavioral scientists? Can neuroscience improve behavioral science? And what is the risk of failing to keep up with the latest developments in neuroscience?
I argue that neuroscience can improve behavioral science in two main areas. First, it can offer an efficient framework for rationalizing the growing list of behavioral biases. Second, it can increase our understanding of people’s behavior and our ability to predict it. In a companion piece, I will argue that the most effective way to change behavior may actually be to change the brain.
The How and the Why
The field of behavioral economics has accomplished much by describing how people’s decisions are systematically biased. For instance, people tend to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task, often ignoring past experience (the planning fallacy), and selectively attend to information that conforms to their preexisting beliefs (confirmation bias).
It is a hard pill to swallow admitting that we behavioral scientists are still at an early stage with our “zoo of behavioral biases.”
However, psychologists and behavioral economists struggle to explain why people are biased. For example, the planning fallacy may result from our tendency for optimism and overconfidence. Similarly, confirmation bias is a combination of overconfidence and optimism bias, anchoring (overreliance on information encountered early in a process), and even cognitive dissonance (discomfort with new information that contradicts existing beliefs). But none of these additional behavioral concepts explain why people reject information that contradicts their beliefs.
As Owen D. Jones, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, recently observed, explaining one cognitive bias with another is like “saying that rain is caused by a rainstorm.” What causes these biases? The truth is that behavioral scientists have no definite answers—but neuroscientists might.
An increasingly influential hypothesis in neuroscience, known as predictive coding, may offer the best explanation of confirmation bias to date. In few words, predictive coding is the idea that our brain predicts our environment actively, rather than registering it passively. Prior beliefs or expectations—for example, that London buses are red—shape our current perceptions and beliefs, such that we look for a red shape while waiting for the bus without even being of aware of it.
Crucially, by predicting—instead of passively registering—our environment, predictive coding allows our brain to conserve cognitive resources and guide our perception and action in a fast and efficient way. But this also means that what our brain notices and attends to is heavily determined by what we already know.
From this perspective, it is easy to see how predictive coding explains our tendency to spot confirming evidence more readily than disconfirming evidence. And because most of these predictions are performed unconsciously, we are unaware of how our prior beliefs blend with new information from the real world. When it comes to explaining cognitive quirks like the confirmation bias, the brain is basically an engine of prediction.
Unfortunately, simply continuing to record a long list of behavioral biases will not provide a satisfactory explanation or understanding of these biases. On the contrary, it risks burying the core determinants of human behavior under a cornucopia of highly specific phenomena. Consider the classification of biological organisms, where building a rational and minimal taxonomy represented a milestone in understanding the evolution of plants and animals, including ourselves. Geneticists and molecular biologists, by detailing the inner functioning of organisms, were instrumental in building an efficient theoretical framework for the life sciences.
It is a hard pill to swallow admitting that we behavioral scientists are still at an early stage with our “zoo of behavioral biases.” Our current stage is similar to when Darwin was first observing different types of finches in the Galapagos Islands. There were many interesting variations, which were curiosities in and of themselves, but it was not until he produced the theory of natural selection that these variations fit a rational theoretical framework. Behavioral science has yet to articulate its theory of natural selection, but neuroscience may be able to guide it.
By using neuroscience to prune behavioral concepts to relevant brain substrates, we can rationalize the zoo of biases. The outcome would be a simpler framework, with a map of behaviors observed in different situations linked to core cognitive functions. Such simplification has already begun and could both help communication among behavioral scientists and lead fundamental and applied research in new directions.
Putting Neuroscience to Use
Neuroscience can help to rationalize the zoo of behavioral biases, but does it have a practical value for behavioral science practitioners? The evidence suggests that it does.
For instance, by studying the way brains change as we age, neuroscientists can help address one of the major challenges for the next generation of behavioral scientists: how to target behavioral interventions for the vastly different brains of people of different ages, cultures, and socioeconomic levels.
By studying the way brains change as we age, neuroscientists can help address one of the major challenges for the next generation of behavioral scientists: how to target behavioral interventions for the vastly different brains of people of different ages, cultures, and socioeconomic levels.
Our brain changes constantly, from the earliest stages of childhood to adulthood and senescence. It takes between 12 and 17 years for a human brain to mature, but not all brain regions develop at the same pace. Brain structures implicated in decision-making, notably, are among the last to mature and the first to be affected by senescence.
In this regard, a huge limitation in current behavioral investigations is that behavioral scientists typically target only the young adult brain.
Recently, it has been noted that behavioral scientists tend to make their conclusions based on samples taken entirely from western college students, a narrow sample of human variation. Why is this group so heavily studied? First, college students represent a convenient and cheap target group for academics. Second, targeting different groups with the same behavioral test is difficult, perhaps impossible. Behavioral tests (for example, “Do you prefer $20 now or $100 in three months?”) could be understood in a very different way by a 12-year-old than by a 65-year-old.
To assess differences among individuals, one objective alternative is “neural indexes.” Neural indexes are brain signatures of specific behaviors. Modern neuroscience has demonstrated that we can now use neural indexes to spot behavioral biases in different populations. Many cognitive biases (like risk aversion, the endowment effect, or framing effects) have already been reduced to specific brain structures or networks, enabling neuroscientists to expand the samples to people of different ages.
With this new understanding of how our brains change with time, neuroscientists can compare cognitive biases across ages. Is a 28-year-old more or less risk averse than a 70-year-old, on average? Neural indices can help answer this question by assessing the age at which each cognitive bias arises or is most powerful.
How might this knowledge benefit behavioral scientists looking to influence behavior? Given that age-related differences in the brain can predict age-related differences in behavior, behavioral scientists could tailor interventions to their specific population of interest.
Moreover, these insights make it possible to pre-empt new cognitive biases. Indeed, one particularly promising direction is to focus on behavioral interventions targeted at young children. For example, Nudging for Kids helps children avoid new cognitive biases and nudges them toward positive behaviors.
Behavioral scientists already know that living in poverty decreases cognitive function, making it harder to think about the more distant future, and that social status and income affect brain development. But now neuroscientists have confirmed that poverty affects the early stages of brain development, making it almost impossible for children to close the gap with their more affluent peers. Interventions that target the brain during these early stages are more crucial than ever.
As that friend of mine would say, you may well be able to change behavior without knowing anything about the brain. But, as we will see in the next piece, you do so at your own risk.
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Further Reading & Resources
De Martino, B., Kumaran, D., Seymour, B., & Dolan, R. J. (2006). Frames, biases, and rational decision-making in the human brain. Science, 313(5787), 684-687. (Link)
Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127-138. (Link)
Jones, O. D. (2014). Why Behavioral Economics Isn't Better, and How it Could Be. Research Handbook on Behavioral Law and Economics. (Link)
Knutson, B., Wimmer, G. E., Rick, S., Hollon, N. G., Prelec, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2008). Neural antecedents of the endowment effect. Neuron, 58(5), 814-822. (Link)
Samanez-Larkin, G. R., & Knutson, B. (2015). Decision making in the ageing brain: changes in affective and motivational circuits. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(5), 278-289. (Link)
Reardon, S. (2015). Poverty shrinks brains from birth. Nature, 30. (Link)
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Biography – WILD, JOSEPH – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
WILD, JOSEPH, Methodist and Congregational preacher, British Israelite, and author; b. 16 Nov. 1834 in Summit, near Littleborough, Lancashire, England, son of Joseph Wild and Rachel Kershaw; m. 15 Aug. 1859 Mary Victoria Hixon, daughter of a wealthy landowner from Bronte (Oakville), Upper Canada, and they had one daughter and two sons; d. 18 Aug. 1908 in Brooklyn (New York City).
All that is known of the early history of Joseph Wild is what he told those who showed interest in his past when he became an eminent public figure as the spectacularly successful pastor of Bond Street Congregational Church in Toronto in the 1880s. His father, a weaver, preached for the Primitive Methodists, and young Joseph, apprenticed to a civil engineer, was himself licensed to preach among the Primitive Methodists at age 16. In 1855 he emigrated to the United States where he looked in vain for a career. Late in 1857 he became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Hamilton, Upper Canada. Immediately after his marriage, he received support from a member of his congregation to study for two years in the United States, perhaps at the Boston Theological Institute in Cambridge, Mass., or at a biblical institute in Concord, N.H. He subsequently spent an unhappy year ministering to impoverished Methodist churches in the vicinity of Goderich, Upper Canada, and then a year in Europe.
In 1862 Wild returned to Upper Canada to a Methodist church in Orono, and in 1864 he became pastor of the Methodist church in Belleville. He also took on the posts of treasurer and professor of oriental languages at the Belleville Seminary (renamed Albert College in 1866). His years in Belleville seem to have been modestly successful, and they coincide with the award of an honorary AM from Genesee College in Lima, N.Y., in 1867 and an honorary dd from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Wild later claimed that he had been a particularly efficient financial manager at Albert College, but Albert Carman* was to embarrass him in 1878 with the discovery of a serious discrepancy in the books dating from his time as treasurer.
Wild moved to Brooklyn in 1872 and became pastor of the Seventh Avenue Methodist Church. Pressed to move after three years by the Methodist itinerancy rule, he accepted instead a call to the pastorate of Elm Place Congregational Church just around the corner. There, hard by the churches of two great American preachers, Henry Ward Beecher and Thomas De Witt Talmage, Wild’s career began to soar. The key to his new success in the pulpit was his discovery of British Israelism, a sectarian movement that took as its foundation work John Wilson’s Lectures on ancient Israel, and the Israelitish origin of the modern nations of Europe (Cheltenham, Eng., 1840). In the 1870s the principal doctrines of the British Israelites were defined and widely published by Edward Hine in his Seventeen identifications of the English nation with the lost house of Israel (London, 1870), and by Edward Wheler Bird, using the pseudonym Philo-Israel, in his monthly Banner of Israel, published in London from 1877. Drawing on these and other publicists of British-Israelite prophecy, Wild found that the identification of British imperial power, stretched to include the United States, with the lost tribes of Israel provided him with a theme that packed his pews. Anglo-Saxon superiority, the moral and political pre-eminence of the white, Protestant, English-speaking world, became the principal message that made him a shining star in Brooklyn.
That same good news, coupled with his technically polished performances in the pulpit, enabled Wild to become an even brighter star in Toronto after he accepted a call to Bond Street Congregational Church in 1880. There, as an evangelist for the glories of the British empire and its prophetic destiny in the civilization and salvation of the world, he regularly drew crowds of 3,000 people on Sunday evenings. Journalist John Ross Robertson*, who was fascinated with Wild, reported that the congregation cheered and burst into applause when the preacher, inspired by “some patriotic fire that burns within him,” rose to a plane of dramatic fervour. With Bond Street as his base, Wild also took his show on the road and preached his blend of prophecy and imperialism throughout Ontario. He further broadcast his views in weekly contributions to the Canadian Advance in Toronto and by issuing numerous collections of his sermons. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec for 1889–90. When the Toronto Daily Mail organized a poll of its readers in 1891 to determine who was the most popular preacher in Ontario, Wild came out on top.
One of the themes that Wild had developed while still in Brooklyn was an elaborate justification of the English language as the best and purest the world had to offer. In Canada he joined his patriotic and religious commitment to English with his detestation of Roman Catholicism and Catholic Ireland. He became an intensely energetic supporter of the Orange order and an enemy of French Quebec. From 1887 to 1890 he went on an anti-Catholic rampage. Spurred on by the agitation over the Jesuits’ Estates Act [see D’Alton McCarthy*], he threw himself wholeheartedly into a battle that made him a national figure. There is some evidence, however, that his extreme attack on Catholicism caused him to lose support among the regular members of the Bond Street congregation.
No evidence survives to explain the catastrophe which overtook Wild in 1893. On 28 June, for reasons that he and the deacons at Bond Street succeeded in suppressing, he was forced to resign his pastorate. It was rumoured that he was in financial trouble at the time. He subsequently served for a few months at First Congregational Church in London, and after that he disappeared into private obscurity. At the end of the decade he tried for a comeback in Toronto, where he rented Massey Music Hall for a season and then the Majestic Theatre. He died in Brooklyn on 18 Aug. 1908, and, with his masonic funeral, his final success, he once again filled the Bond Street church.
R. J. Helmstadter
Joseph Wild’s published sermons include How and when the world will end (New York, 1879); The lost ten tribes: and 1882 (New York, 1879); The future of Israel and Judah; being the discourses on the lost tribes . . . (London, 1880); Seven sermons delivered in Bond Street Congregational Church, Toronto, Ont. ([Toronto?, 1881?]); The Bond Street pulpit; being a series of discourses (Toronto, 1888); Canada and the Jesuits; being a series of six sermons (Toronto, [1889]); Dr. Wild’s Sunday evening sermons (Toronto, [1891?]); and Talks for the times (Toronto, 1896). He is also the author of a book of hymns, Songs of the sanctuary (London, 1886), and The origin and secrets of freemasonry; being a lecture . . . (Toronto, [1889?]).
AO, RG 8, I-6-B, 17: f.18. Lancashire Record Office (Preston, Eng.), Littleborough Wesleyan Methodist Church, reg. of births and baptisms, 1805–37 (mfm.). UCC-C, 3022; Church records, Toronto Conference, Bond Street Congregational/United Church (Toronto), records. Evening Telegram (Toronto), 19 Aug. 1908. Globe, 20 Aug. 1908. New York Times, 21 Aug. 1908. Toronto Daily Star, 19 Aug. 1908. Banner of Israel (London), 32 (1908): 407 et seq. “The Congregational churches of Canada: a statistical and historical summary,” comp. Douglas Walkington (mimeograph, [Toronto], 1979; copy at UCC-C). Cyclopædia of Canadian biog. (Rose and Charlesworth), vol.2. Robertson’s landmarks of Toronto, 4: 479. G. J. Stortz, “Dr. Joseph Wild: nineteenth-century Protestant spokesman,” UCC, Committee on Arch. and Hist., Bull. (Toronto), no.29 (1980–82): 18–32. John Wilson, “British Israelism: the ideological restraints on sect organisation,” Patterns of sectarianism: organisation and ideology in social and religious movements, ed. B. R. Wilson (London, 1967), 345–76.
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OMENS & AUGURIES – PART II
November 23, 2022 By Robert Palaszewski Leave a Comment
Sometimes we can get a glimpse of the unfolding future by taking a look at the patterns being produced by the near past. When we look at the numbers behind the crisis that followed in the wake of the vaccines we can get a good idea of where we are headed. And once we detect the patterns, we can look at what course correction we can make. We’re going to be talking about something called Excess Deaths. So, let’s start by defining what it is. It is actually pretty straightforward. This is from the Cambridge Dictionary. “Excess Death – deaths during a particular period above the usual, expected number of deaths under normal conditions, which can show the effect of something like a disease or harmful event.”
Edward Dowd is a respected analyst with a long track record with a book coming out titled “Cause Unknown.” He gives this one telling statistic. “The month of August, in the Society of Actuaries for the group life policyholders, the excess deaths were 36% for 18 to 44.”[i] Another source, looked at the Global situation and found between 6 and 10 million excess deaths world-wide.[ii] Even the VAERS System which gathers only a very small percentage of the adverse events associated with vaccinations has recorded a 4070% increase in miscarriages from 2019 to 2021 following the Covid jabs.
Then you have the massive child culling in the EU. “European Medicines Agency (EMA) granting emergency use authorization (EUA) in May 2021 to the Pfizer Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine for use in children aged 12 to 15 years old. Citing official mortality figures for the continent, the Expose said on Aug. 29, 2022 that there was a shocking 691 percent increase in deaths among children up to week 33 of the year – since EMA’s approval. Prior to the EUA, deaths among children in 2021 were below the expected rate. But following the EUA, excess deaths among children had risen by a shocking 1,599 percent by the end of the year compared to the 2017 to 2020 average.”[iii] All of these numbers are inexcusable….Because they knew!
A Look Inside The Vaccines
Noah Yuval Harari
What wasn’t allowed before, but is happening now, is that we have teams of scientists looking inside the vaccines to discover what is really there. They are finding some disturbing evidence. One such team is Dr David Nixon and Dr Ana Maria Mihalcea. Working separately, among other techniques they are using Darkfield Microscopy. As I watched their work, I would describe what I saw as self-constructing nanobots in the vax formula itself. The “vaccines” are a step on the way to total control by the Globalists. That is true on so many levels, but certainly the microscopic level is certainly one. Xiao Liu is a Fellow at the World Economic Forum, who described it this way. “We’re entering the era of the ‘Internet of Bodies.’ Collecting your physical data via devices that can be implanted, swallowed or worn.” Noah Yuval Harari, Klaus Schwab’s right hand man at the WEF, explains where all this is going. “Humans are now hackable animals.” You know the whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside me, so whatever I choose, whether in the election or in the supermarket, this is my free will: That’s over. Free will that’s over.” There are two important concepts expressed in that statement. We are “hackable” and we are products of our genetics….which can be altered. The vaccine then is part of the control grid. And they’ve convinced over half the world’s population to take it. Schwab boils their plan down to its’ most essential element. “One of the features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is that it doesn’t change what we are doing….but rather it changes us.”[iv]
INSIDE THE VAX: Responding to electromagnetic radiation, assembling & disassembling itself
So, let’s dive into the composition of the vaccines. Dr Mihalcea began by asking the question, ‘Is there graphene oxide in the vaccines?’ You will see that this is a very legitimate question considering what she learned about its’ behavior under observation. What scientists saw at first was a single strand, seemingly motionless at first. But then they applied time-lapse photography and it became something else all-together. It had “what appeared to be mechanical arms assembling and disassembling glowing rectangular structures that look like circuitry and microchips…..The formation of the crystals seems to be stimulated by electromagnetic radiation and stops when the slide with the vaccine is shielded by a Faraday bag.” These findings were right in line with many other teams. Doctors in New Zealand, Germany, Spain and South Korea were reporting the same things.
But it gets crazier and more puzzling still. Investigative teams of doctors were not able to find mRNA in the shots. Or they would locate just fragmentary mRNA. Even the European Medicine Agency found only “truncated and modified mRNA species present in the finished product.” Dr Mihalcea said that the Spike Proteins were not there in the samples she looked at, but other proteins were being produced. “If the mRNA is defective, then we’re not making Spike Protein and the proteins that are being found are something other than what the vaccine companies are telling us.”
Next, the investigation turned to shedding. They were finding structures in unvaccinated blood, the same structures in vaccinated blood. It was the same as what they were finding in the Pfizer vials. There were the same structures. “Was it graphene? Are these structures frequency sensitive?” Here it was again. In the absence of exposure to these frequencies – the 5G and the like – the structures disassemble. But whatever it is, the unvaccinated started to show some of the same characteristics as the vaccinated. Their blood too became sensitive to the 5G frequency. And both had these tiny blood clots, that did pass, over time, especially in the unvaccinated.[v] [Seems to me, the shedding could be to some degree inoculating the unvaccinated population.]
EDITORIAL: There are no accidents here. All is planned. If you look at nation’s with high vaccination rates you will find that they also have high death rates. The Globalists have long talked about depopulation. What a brilliant way to pull it off – through a vaccine. The evidence is starting to unfold. Only pray that the world would wake up to this danger before it is too late. The fate of mankind hangs in the balance. “And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.” (Matthew 24:22) (ESV)
[i] Stefan Stanford, A Tidal Wave of Death, ANP, November 13, 2022
[ii] Alex Jones And Lara Logan Expose Satan’s Greatest Secret, Banned Video, October 30, 2022
[iii] Belle Carter, Thousands more are dying as EU investigation on alarming increase in children’s excess deaths drags on, Natural News,
[iv] Dr David Nixon, Nanorobotics in C19 injections, Arthema Sophia Publishing, November 14, 2022
[v] Dr Ana Maria Mihalcea, MEDICAL STUDY: VACCINATED Pose SERIO US Health Risk to UNVAXXED, The Stew Peters Show,
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GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE IN ROMEDEUTSCHITALIANO
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Former Research Fellows
Dr. Federica Di Gasbarro
Researcher Music History
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2005–2008 B.A. in Musicology at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia di Roma (2007 at Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität); 2007–2013 M.A. in clarinet at the Conservatorio Alfredo Casella dell'Aquila; 2011 M.A. in Musicology at the Università Tor Vergata di Roma; 2011–2012 scientific collaborator at the Centro Studi Luciano Berio in Florence; 2012–2013 "Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars" (ESKAS); 2014–2016 scholarship from the Rectors' Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS); 2014–2016 scientific collaborator in the SNF research project "The Performance Practice of Electroacoustic Music" at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ZHdK in Zurich); 2017 PhD, dissertation on the orchestral composition "Amériques" by Edgard Varèses; 2017 scholarship from the Centro Internazionale di Studi della Civiltà Italiana Vittore Branca of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice; 2017–2018 scholarship from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel; 2018–2019 SNF scholarship "Early-Postdoc.Mobility" at the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis-Université Côte d'Azur; 2020–2021 scientific collaborator and lecturer at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, University of Basel; from April 2022 scientific collaborator at the DHI Rome with the research project "In Farben gezeichnet". Orchestration and Form in Early Nineteenth-Century Symphonies and Overtures between Germany and Italy.
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Symphonic music in the 19th century; theory of form, orchestration and instrumentation; music and modernity in the early 20th century between Europe and America; harmony and form in 20th century music; new music in the history of Italian radio and television; history of symphonic performance practice; compositional process and sketch study
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Main page “Hope!”, Pavilion of Ukraine at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia About the works "Please don't take my picture! Or they'll shoot me tomorrow."
"Please don't take my picture! Or they'll shoot me tomorrow."
Year of realization: 2014-2015
Technique: digital print, video projection
Size: 175 x 236 cm (print), dimensions variable (projection)
Yevgenia Belorusets spent months inside the zone of conflict in eastern Ukraine, portraying miners whose place of life and work is neither within the controlled territories of the separatists nor that of the Ukrainian government. Her portraits evince a deep personal engagement to those victims of a war that belong to neither side. The fight of the miners is one of survival in both the short and long term. First they need to survive the war, and second they need to save the mines to make sure their families and villages have a future once the conflict has ended.
During the day, the first part of the work shows a monumental portrait of a miner, an image of a man (dis)appearing like a ghost behind the smoke of his cigarette. The backside of this image is the front page of Today’s Paper, a fictional newspaper that tells a story of life under “the fog of war”. During the night, the narrative introduced in the newspaper is developed through a slide projection covering one glass wall of the pavilion. In this way, Belorusets’ portraits move between appearance and disappearance, using the ephemeral and temporal physicality of the work as a metaphor for the lives of the miners.
I suppose I live in a country that has stepped on its own toes. But now it is going through a war. The neighbouring state punishes it for its essence, for its uncertainty, which is so valuable to me. Hope? Ukraine has always had more of it than you would expect. It is rationality lurking around every corner and maybe that will save us once again.”
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Quarry Chapel
Holding an event
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John Parker family
Peter Parker family
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William Tinsley
Deconsecration
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1974 letter
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Quarry Chapel Cemetery
The stone masons brought over from England by Bishop chase to construct early buildings at Ken
yon College settled in this area. In the 1850s, with the help of the Episcopal Bishop Gregory T. Bedell, they and other families in the community built the “Quarry Chapel” on the land given by John T. Bateman. William Fish, owner of the nearby quarry, donated the sandstone. The church stood unused and deteriorating since 1937. Restoration began in 1972.
(Plaque that stands in front of Quarry Chapel today)
It is difficult to discern what actually took place during the building of Christ Church at the Quarry, as few physical documents concerning the church remain. There exists a photograph of the Chapel being built, but, unfortunately, it is not accompanied by names or occupations. The names of the people in the pictures may, unfortunately, may be lost. Much of what we know today is historical hearsay. The accounts used adhere to the same set of facts, so it is likely that there is merit in these accounts.
In the 1850s, a religious revival took place among the students of Kenyon College. This, coupled with an increasing population in Gambier, created a need for a church (Church of the Holy Spirit had not yet been built. It was not finished until 1869). Originally, people wanted to build a frame building to house services and a Sunday School. This idea was rejected by William Fish, who thought that a stone church would be much better than a wooden frame church. Since he owned the local quarry, Fish also willingly donated the stone for the building of the church. Bishop Bedell, then the bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, agreed to the plans. Accounts differ as to whether it was Mr. Fish or William Tinsley, a Diocesan architect from Ireland, who developed the plans for the church. Mr. Tinsley, who is also the architect for Ascension Hall on Kenyon’s campus, was most likely the architect for the chapel. As Louise Adams, who wrote a piece about the founding of the church, relates, “The chapel as it stands looks suspiciously like a Tinsley structure, strongly resembling the church at Clogheen in Ireland.” She goes on to mention that, “Tinsley was working in Knox County at the time the chapel project began and as Mr. Fish was involved in both buildings [Ascension and the Kokosing house, Bishop Bedell’s residence] it was reasonable that Tinsley would be interested and perhaps donated his plans.” The chapel was constructed on land generously by John G. Bateman, and the stands on the original route that Bishop Chase used in getting to the stone quarry owned by William Fish. The finished chapel stands at the corner of Quarry Chapel Road and Monroe Mills Road in Gambier, Ohio.
The building of the chapel was a community project. Stone masons may have been imported from either England or Ireland (the native countries of Fish, Bishop Chase, and Tinsley) for the construction of several buildings on Kenyon’s campus. As Bessie Rowley Bateman, a former parishioner of the church, put it, “trees were felled in the neighboring woods– stone was quarried and chiseled, and the lasting results of their labors is the small but neat and appropriate stone chapel that graces the quarry knoll.” Bateman attributes the building of the chapel simply to the local settlers. The building of the chapel progressed steadily until the exterior was finished in the winter of 1862, and the building was consecrated on January 18, 1863 by Bishop Bedell. In the words of Bishop Bedell, the first service was as follows:
“I baptized seven children and addressed the people, but the need of further effort on the part of friends to furnish it before the next winter may be felt when I state that the church was not plastered, the window frames and sashes merely set in, the wind blowing in every direction, only a small fire in the one stove whilst eighteen inches of snow was lying on the ground, the thermostat standing at 12 degrees.”
(Quotation taken from Harcourt Parish’s records on Quarry Chapel.)
The life of the Quarry Chapel began inauspiciously. In the following months, furnishings were provided by the community. A local resident named Peter Parker is credited with carving and donating the stone font which stood in the chapel. The “Ladies of Gambier” (who remain largely shrouded in mystery) tirelessly raised money to furnish the fledgling chapel. If ever a community rallied around a common cause, the Quarry Chapel was such an effort.
After it was built and furnished, the chapel was actively used for over forty years. It eventually fell into disuse and, even though it remains a symbol of the Gambier community today, the chapel that was the product of the effort of an entire town was left to simply collapse on its own.
The Western Episcopalian January 22, 1863 Page 118
“Events are God’s footsteps”—Bishop Chase
GAMBIER-On Friday evening last (January 16, 1863), under the auspices of the ladies of Gambier a Festival was held, in the Basement of Rosse Chapel, for the benefit of Christ Church at the Quarry. The mission chapel, the erection of which was commenced about one year ago, is now so far completed that except in the coldest weather it can be used for services. For the last month Sunday School and the Church Services have been regularly conducted in it; and on last Sabbath Bishop Bedell visited it, and baptized ten children. The plan of the edifice was furnished by the well known architect Mr. William Tinsley, of Cincinnati. But besides ornamenting the environs of Gambier, Christ Church will, we hope, be the means of drawing down God’s holy blessing upon this neighborhood. To contribute to the sum remaining to be provided for the completion of the Church, which is $348, the total estimated cost being $991—was the object of the Festival. The citizens of Gambier were generous in their encouragement of the enterprise; all the ladies labored assiduously and contributed bountifully in furthering it; and those charged with the responsibility of its management were especially earnest, energetic, and capable.
The room in which the Festival was held, was handsomely decorated, and the several tables were elegantly arranged and ornamented by the fair hands of those in charge of them. A most pleasing spirit prevailed among those present. All were interested in the success of the ladies, and their laudable enterprise; and every one desired to entertain everyone else. Bishop and Mrs. Bedell were present, as usual had kind words for everyone. The atmosphere of Christian friendliness and kindness which they always carry about them, and to their generous patronage much of the evening’s success was due.
Owing to the bewitching influence and charming wiles of the ladies who presided at the various tables, the excellence and elegance of the arrangements, and the general interest in Christ Church, the Festival was a complete success. Everything was sold, all were well pleased, and from the lips of everyone came compliments for the ladies of Gambier. The total proceeds were $125.80; the expenses only$2.50; and the net profits $123.30.
DEEP SNOW-Gambier was visited on Thursday last (January 15th, 1863) with the deepest snow ever known here. The oldest inhabitant could not remember a fall of snow, lying 20 inches on a level. Our whole community is indebted to Mr. William Fish for his ingenuity in contriving a horse snow plough and for his energy in using it. In the course of the morning he cleared a path three feet wide, along the main avenue from Seminary to College, and in all directions through Gambier. To these efforts we were no doubt largely indebted for the crowded attendance on our Festival.
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The Reality of Working Virtually
by Stephany Schings Below
7th Leading Edge Consortium Discusses Best Practices and New Research on Virtual Work
The 2011 Leading Edge Consortium (LEC), “The Virtual Workforce: Designing, Leading, and Optimizing,” brought out some of the best and brightest in the virtual work field October 14 and 15 at the historic Seelbach Hilton in Louisville, Kentucky!
Chaired by Kurt Kraiger, with Practice Chair Andrea Goldberg, Science Chair Lori Foster Thompson, and Research Chair Allen Kraut, the 2011 LEC was a weekend full of excellent speakers, informative presentations, and numerous opportunities to participate in the discussion of the virtual workforce.
Attendees heard from 15 speakers on topics including social business, people analytics, virtual collaboration, unified talent management, managing global teams virtually, telecommuting, technology for an aging workforce, enterprise 2.0, advancements in training, and best practices in developing and implementing technology–enhanced assessment. Attendees came from across the United States and the world, with some traveling from as far as Turkey and Belgium to attend the event.
“I was very excited about the overall quality of presentations at the LEC,” said Chair Kraiger. “Our speakers met the challenge of the Program Committee, which was not to just tell us where we've been, but let us know where we should be going. That's what makes it leading edge!”
The event received positive feedback from attendees for the quality of speakers, in-depth discussion of virtual work, and the unique format.
“I have attended many of the LECs and always find them educational, enjoyable, and challenging,” noted one attendee. “They lead me to think about issues I don’t always encounter in my current role."
Many attendees commented on the in-depth nature of the LEC, which enabled attendees to gain a wide breadth of knowledge in the subject area.
“It dealt with one topic, so you get very in-depth coverage and discussion,” commented an attendee. “Sometimes at other conferences…it’s hard to get so much knowledge on a topic of interest.”
In addition to the depth, Kraiger also noted that the breadth of speakers was a benefit for attendees.
“Across speakers, there was a good mix of background information, emerging trends, and application,” Kraiger explained. “Again, the speakers mixed things up, providing both broad overviews of different technologies and platforms, as well as diving deep into some topics. I thought Colonel Nate Allen's presentation on the evolution of companycommand.army.mil, a proprietary professional forum for Army commanders, was a great example of depth. Sarah Johnson's presentation on managing global virtual teams was also jam-packed with practical advice.”
The LEC kicked off with a keynote address titled In the Digital Era, Is “Virtual Workforce” Redundant?by Courtney Hunt, principal of Renaissance Strategic Solutions (RSS), a consultancy that helps organizations increase their effectiveness through the design and implementation of innovative and leading-edge strategies and programs.
During her presentation, Hunt stressed the fact that the definition of virtual work has changed over the last few decades and that it has expanded as technology has brought out new ways of working and communicating virtually.
“In some way or another, you are working inside the cloud, whether it’s Facebook, e-mail, LinkedIn,” Hunt explained. “You’re all virtual workers, though you’re not necessarily telecommuters. Our idea of what is virtual work really needs to expand beyond the definitions of telecommuting.”
Hunt also explained that social media, though it can be a part of virtual work, is not only confined to the “Big Three,” but numerous platforms available, including new and old, such as e-mail.
“It’s not just Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter,” she said. “When we talk about social media, when we talk about 2.0 technologies, you really have to think bigger.”
The program was divided into modules—“How Organizations Are Being Impacted,” “Specific Applications,” and “Impediments to Technological Innovation”—with corresponding sessions, followed by question-and-answer panels.
Before breaking into small groups to enjoy the popular “networking dinners” at a choice of five Louisville restaurants Friday night, attendees also enjoyed a reception in the beautiful Rathskeller room of the Seelbach.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />
For the networking dinners, attendees dined at area restaurants, several of which were located down the street from the hotel in an area known as “Fourth Street Live.”
The networking dinners were a big hit with attendees.
“Networking dinners and lunches provided a great opportunity to meet other professionals interested,” said one attendee.
“The networking dinner was fantastic,” stated another attendee. “I met and talked to a number of new people that I will keep in touch.”
SIOP Fellow Wayne Cascio rounded out this year’s LEC presentations with the closing keynote address Saturday on the topic of “The Virtual Global Workforce: Leveraging Its Impact.” Cascio discussed the limits and possibilities of virtual work, focusing on the idea that technology has rendered geography meaningless—at least when it comes to work that can be done virtually.
Kraiger said he felt this year's LEC left attendess with important points to consider in regards to the virtual workforce.
“At the end of the session, I summarized the two key themes I heard through the consortium in 7 words - virtual work changes everything, but nothing changes,” he said. “Multiple speakers talked about how networks and social media allow us to accomplish goals we would have never imagined a few years ago. However, other speakers reminded us that ‘the fundamental things apply;’ we still need to understand and apply basic principles of change management, good selection, and linking innovation to strategy.”
After thanking the LEC chair and cochairs and presenting them with tokens of appreciation, SIOP President-Elect Doug Reynolds announced the theme of next year’s event, “Advancing Environmental Sustainability at Work,” which will be held in New Orleans at the Hotel Monteleone October 19-20. The meeting will be chaired by Sara Weiner.
We hope to see you next year in New Orleans!
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Entries for the Annual PMA Design & Editorial Awards open from June to July each year. The awards are judged by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The judges look for the best in local and regional parenting publications, special issues, websites and social media. This competition recognizes and rewards editorial, design and general excellence in local and regional parenting publications.
Editorial judges evaluate entries for accurate and comprehensive reporting, superior writing, and thoughtful analysis of the issues relevant to the publication’s audience and evidence of editorial judgment, insight and enterprise. In the design area, this competition recognizes and rewards excellence in the visual presentation of editorial matter and advertisements. Judges look for originality and intelligent use of resources in publication design.
In the Digital categories, judges will evaluate integrative approaches to multi-media and use of new digital tools. They will look for innovative ways that members have utilized websites, social media and other digital media to build “community” and to further extend their reach.
The call for entries in the Annual PMA Design & Editorial Awards is now closed for the 2022 competition. The award winners will be honored on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at the PMA Annual Conference in Denver, CO.
Each year, the awards are judged by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The judges look for the best in local and regional parenting publications, special issues, websites and social media. This competition recognizes and rewards editorial, design and general excellence in local and regional parenting publications.
New in 2022, the competition is based on 2 levels:
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See the brochure for details on each category.
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The winners of the 2021 PMA Design and Editorial Awards were announced on November 15, 2021 at the Annual Conference. To read the full list of the judges comments on the 2021 PMA Design, Editorial & General Excellence award winners, please click HERE.
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The winners of the 2019 PMA Design and Editorial Awards were announced on March 1, 2019 at the Annual Conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida. To read the full list of the judges comments on the 2019 PMA Design, Editorial & General Excellence award winners, please click HERE.
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Washington Association of School Business Officials
Go to site - Washington Association of School Business Officials http://www.wasbo.org/'
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in review: Anaïs Maviel’s “in the garden”
October 17, 2019 By Megan Ihnen Leave a Comment
By Austin Franklin, Special to The Sybaritic Singer
Anaïs Maviel’s recent solo performance at Obey Convention (K’jipuktuk | Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2018) comes to us in the form of a live recording released through Gold Bolus Recordings titled, in the garden. This five-track album features a striking balance between modernity and antiquity, improvisation and rehearsal, and combines unique elements from traditional music found throughout the world. in the garden features several instrumental layers found in the combinations between such instrument as the kamele n’goni, lyra, surdo, singing bowl, and piano, all being held together by the expressive power of Maviel’s voice, which is the centerpiece of the album. It is built in two longer movements, with the first three tracks making up the first movement and the last two tracks making up the final movement.
The album begins with its opening track “bells”, which contains nothing more than a singing bowl ringing softly for the entirety of the track. This ringing quickly becomes understood as a kind of musical palate cleanser that attempts to refresh the listeners mind, allowing them to focus on the complexities that are naturally contained within even the most simplistic of sounds. The next two tracks, “I am you” and “in the garden” consist of only Maviel’s voice accompanied by herself playing the kamele n’goni, which is a type of harp originating from West Africa. Together these tracks form the body of the album and showcase her vocal dexterity. She employs a variety of techniques such as vocal fry, nasalization, melismatic singing, straight tone, and extreme vibrato, and her control of both dynamics and register yields immaculately sculpted phrases from beginning to end.
The accompaniment takes on a variety of roles in these two tracks. At times it is both a kind of rhythmic and harmonic ostinato, creating a hypnotic bedrock under which Maviel’s voice sits. At other times it becomes particularly reactionary to her voice, interjecting with interesting harmonic shifts and even clashing with it for these brief moments of unresolved tension. The most notable feature of “I am you” and “in the garden” however, is that they are the only tracks on the album predicated on a steady pulse.
in the garden by anaïs maviel
The second movement begins with track four “listening”, which features an extended instrumental improvisation with the lyra. Maviel seemingly uses every inch of the instrument, from the wooden shell to below the bridge to create the sounds. This is followed by the entrance of a hauntingly rich drone, which is created by bowing metallic rods that are attached to both the top and bottom skins of the surdo. Her voice takes on a very unique role during this track, sounding almost electronic with a variety of sounds similar to granular synthesis-like crackling and sputtering. This adds a wildly unique texture to the pad of resonating bowed sounds already present.
The track transitions seamlessly into “bells from afar {métadire}” (track 05) after a chilling climax settles to a brief moment of vocal acrobatics. In this final track, time stands still as she plays only sparse notes and chords on the piano. These notes are allowed to ring and decay naturally, as her voice deepens even further to supply the spaces with a soft low growling that fades out to silence and leaves only a few final piano notes to bring the work to completion.
Maviel’s unique musical aesthetic is one that places a focus on growth, reflection, and above all else, listening. Her instrumental choices as well as her adept musicianship make for a musical experience that is both cultural and humanistic. in the garden is a microcosm of various influences used together to create a stunning work of virtuosity and originality that will engage you from the very first note.
Austin Franklin is an emerging composer from Baton Rouge, LA where he is pursuing a master’s degree in music composition at LSU under Dinos Constantinides. His primary area of interest pertains to the development of hierarchical pitch structures and complex patterns in music. Austin’s works have been performed throughout United States and Greece. He has won several awards and commissions, such as the Sound/Sight Art Collaboration and the First Annual LSU Composers Competition, and has several pieces published through C-Alan Publications.
Filed Under: Album Review Tagged With: album review, Anaïs Maviel, Austin Franklin, Gold Bolus, improvisation, New Music, new music for voice, vocal performance, world music
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Home Entertainment The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12: Delayed Until Next Week! Nolan And Team Investigate A Mysterious case
The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12: Delayed Until Next Week! Nolan And Team Investigate A Mysterious case
It looks like Nolan and the team will be investigating a mysterious case while Harper will feel the effects of her newly discovered pregnancy in the returning episode. But sadly, fans will have to wait for a little while for The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12. ABC has delayed the upcoming episode for a week for unknown reasons. Hence, continue reading ahead to learn all about episode 12.
The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12 Preview: What Will Happen?
The upcoming episode of The Rookie Season 4 is titled “The Knock.” Unfortunately, the network has not revealed the official synopsis so far. But as per the promo, Harper will be seen in a more cheerful mood than usual with the pregnancy hormones flowing. Meanwhile, the team will go on a nice dinner to spend some tie off in The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12. Moreover, Nolan and the team will be investigating a case related to a severed moving arm.
In the previous episode, Grey authorized Nolan to investigate Jason. So, Nolan asked Oscar Hutchinson to help him expose Jason’s reality. Meanwhile, Chen and Bradford investigated the murder of an 18-year-old girl named Becca. She turned out to be Tamara’s friend. She had stolen a watch from ClipTock and pawned it at a pawn shop. The shop owner told them about Declan, who could have killed Becca and was also Tamara’s friend.
Further, Harper discovered that she was pregnant with James’ child. She told him, and they decided to keep the baby. Thorsen struggled to shoot a program with his mother to explain His narrative of Patrick’s murder. However, he decided to go ahead with the program. Elsewhere, Nolan and Oscar exposed Jason’s motive to another woman.
After which, Jason turned himself in. He agreed to cooperate with the police in an undercover mission against the Southern front. However, oscar realized that Jason was tricking them into escaping amidst the mess. However, Nolan managed to arrest Jason at the end of The Rookie Season 4 Episode 11.
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The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12: Airing Date
The upcoming episode has been delayed a week. Hence, the twelfth episode will not be aired this Sunday. Finally, ABC will broadcast The Rookie Season 4 Episode 12 on January 23, 2022. The network will continue airing a new episode weekly on Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET. And, each episode of season 4 would have an estimated runtime of about 45 minutes.
Where To Stream The Returning Episode Online?
If you miss ABC’s broadcast, you can stream the latest episode on the network’s official website and the ABC app. In addition, season 4 is also available on Xfinity, Fubo TV, DirecTV, and YouTube TV. So, don’t miss out on the returning episode, and stay tuned for more informative episode previews.
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Home Entertainment All American Season 4 Episode 14: Spencer Tries To Make It To GAU Team, Coop Starts A New Job!
All American Season 4 Episode 14: Spencer Tries To Make It To GAU Team, Coop Starts A New Job!
It looks like Spencer will do his best to show his caliber to the GAU coaches in All American Season 4 Episode 14. Spencer’s teammate will try to help him get to the team. However, all his efforts would seem to go unnoticed. Moreover, Coop will start a new job. So, continue reading ahead to learn all you need to know about episode 14.
All American Season 4 Episode 14 Precap: What Will Happen?
The upcoming episode of All American Season 4 is titled “Changes.” Spencer will continue to put all his efforts to try and prove his worth during the practice sessions. He will try his best to become a crucial part of the team. However, he would end up feeling that his efforts are going unnoticed.
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A fellow GAU athlete will help Spencer concoct a plan to make his way back to the field and the team. Moreover, Coop will start a new job at an old-age nursing home. She will get some useful advice from the elderly women at the nursing home in All American Season 4 Episode 14.
Previously, Jordan invited his football team seniors to his beach house. And Laura informed Coop that she might have to go to jail for justice obstruction. Also, Spencer’s position coach informed him to scout the team in order to get the head coach’s attention. Patience was offered a gig at the Pal Springs Festival after completing her album. The scout-team ploy resulted in Spencer progressing to the three-string wide receiver’s position.
Meanwhile, Jamie surprised Asher by giving him two tickets to GAW’s first game. The seniors gave Spencer, Isaiah, and Jordan some “Fresh Meet” captioned t-shirts. But Spencer refused to wear it while Jordan accepted and got all with the seniors. Unfortunately, Asher stood Jamie up for the match to help Coop out. Billy also came to watch Spencer’s first game. And Layla was frustrated about Patience inviting Clay to their party. On the other hand, Asher told Coop that she can’t lose anything as long as she has Patience by her side.
Further, Layla wanted Clay to understand that they had broken up. Olivia discovered that Noah stole her research and put his name on the article. Spencer was chosen to play for the first game. Coop and Patience had an argument and the duo broke up. Spencer got stripped while breaking away during the game. And Billy told Spencer to forget the fumble and learn from his failures.
Asher asked for Jamie’s forgiveness and asked her to be his girlfriend. Spencer checked up on Coop after finding about her breakup. And Layla negotiated community service for Coop instead of prison. Spencer’s coach made him watch the match tape while Patience and Coop decided not to get back together in All American Season 4 Episode 13.
All American Season 4 Episode 14: Airing Date
The CW will broadcast All American Season 4 Episode 14 on April 11, 2022. The network will continue airing a new episode weekly on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET. And each episode of the fourth season will have an estimated runtime of 45 minutes.
Where To Stream Episode 14 Online?
If you miss ABC’s broadcast, you can stream the latest episode on the network’s website and the CW app. Moreover, season 4 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, Spectrum, Vudu, Xfinity, Fubo TV, DirecTV, and YouTube TV. So, don’t forget to watch the fourteenth episode and keep returning for more thrilling episode previews only on TechRadar247.com.
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Matrix Trilogy, The (4K UHD Review)
The Wachowskis
1999, 2003 (October 30, 2018)
Village Roadshow/Silver Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership (Warner Bros.)
Film/Program Grade: See Below
Video Grade: See Below
Audio Grade: See Below
Extras Grade: A-
Overall Grade: A-
The Wachowskis’ Matrix films have been released multiple times on home video over the years and we’ve reviewed all of them here at The Bits, from the original DVDs, to the special edition DVDs, the eventual HD-DVD (all on the original Bits website), and most recently The Ultimate Matrix Collection on Blu-ray (reviewed here).
In terms of overall content and extras, The Ultimate Matrix Collection on Blu-ray remains the best total package of content for reasons we’ll address in a moment. But Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has now released these films on 4K Ultra HD too, both individually and in this The Matrix Trilogy box set. And there is no doubt that this collection offers the films in the finest picture and sound quality they’ve ever had, are are likely ever to have, and that includes the original theatrical release.
Under the supervision of cinematographer Bill Pope, the original camera negative and master internegative (for VFX shots) has been scanned in full native 4K. The films have been graded for high dynamic range in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and trust us when we say that HDR and wide color gamut make a huge difference with these films. The result is more film-like, natural, and cinematic than ever before. The films also include new object-based Dolby Atmos lossless sound mixes which elevate the sonic experience to new heights. And each package includes not only a 4K Ultra HD version but a new 2-disc Blu-ray release, where the film Blu-ray has also been completely remastered from the new 4K scan.
We’ve reviewed each of the individual films in 4K UHD at The Bits recently, so rather than rehashing our comments here, we’ll simply link you those reviews where you can find all the details:
The Matrix (4K Ultra HD)
The Matrix Reloaded (4K Ultra HD)
The Matrix Revolutions (4K Ultra HD)
Those same three individual releases are exactly what’s included together here in The Matrix Trilogy set, in three UHD cases with a slipcase to hold them.
In terms of extras, each of the films includes nearly – but not quite – all of the previous Blu-ray and DVD special features, which were originally created in SD resolution. Check the individual reviews for the exact details, but essentially what’s missing are the theatrical trailers and TV spots. You do now also get Movies Anywhere Digital Copy versions of the films via a code on a paper insert in the package.
Still, if you do have that original The Ultimate Matrix Collection box set on Blu-ray, you’ll probably want to keep it. The reason is that The Animatrix is not included here in this 4K set. Nor do you get The Matrix Experience DVD discs from that set (which included The Burly Man Chronicles, The Roots of The Matrix, and The Zion Archive). For serious fans and completists, that’s content you won’t want to lose.
If you are a true fan of these films though, it’s rather shocking how much better they look and sound now here in 4K Ultra HD, a format to which they’re uniquely suited. Even the newly remastered Blu-rays are a significant step up from the previous editions. So wait for a good sale price if you must, but don’t miss them. Recommended.
Individual Film Grades (Film/Video/Audio/Extras):
The Matrix: A/A+/A+/A
The Matrix Reloaded: B-/A/A+/B+
The Matrix Revolutions: B/A/A+/B+
- Bill Hunt
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SME Foundation Supports High School Manufacturing, Engineering Education Efforts
Manufacturing industry needs to fill 2.5 million jobs by 2030, upskill existing workers, according to SME.
Airport High School in Carleton, MI, benefits from grant provisions from the SME Education Foundation. Image courtesy of Airport High School.
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Approximately 130 students at Airport High School in Carleton, MI, now have access to new manufacturing education opportunities for the 2022-23 school year through the SME Education Foundation, the philanthropic arm of SME. This Foundation is a 90-year-old nonprofit association committed to advancing manufacturing technology and developing a skilled workforce, it claims.
An event celebrating the launch of Airport High School's PRIME School program was conducted on Oct. 14th, which included additional details about the program, including educational content and involved participants.
Supported and informed by private industry, SME PRIME (Partnership Response In Manufacturing Education) builds cost-effective and tailored manufacturing/engineering programs in high schools across the country, providing equipment, curriculum, professional development, scholarships, and manufacturing-focused extra-curricular activities to students and teachers. Nationwide, the SME Education Foundation provides hands-on manufacturing and engineering education to more than 81 schools in 22 states.
The SME Education Foundation received $6 million from the state of Michigan as part of the 2021 education budget to scale the SME PRIME initiative across the state. The award increases the number of schools participating in the manufacturer/educator partnership-driven SME PRIME initiative by 16—there were already 17 SME PRIME schools in Michigan.
“Coordinated by our staff of highly qualified education program managers, SME PRIME schools are a model; a unique approach to manufacturing education and career preparation implemented by scores of schools across the nation,” says SME Education Foundation Vice President Rob Luce. “They include a curriculum plan of three foundational pathways teaching Metrology/Quality, CAD/CAM, and additive manufacturing or 3D printing, and include one elective pathway that is informed by local industry needs.”
Luce said that the Foundation is focused on helping secondary education students start careers in manufacturing and fill an estimated 2.5 million jobs that will be available by 2030.
“Airport Community Schools understands the importance of preparing students to become college and career ready,” says John Krimmel, superintendent of Airport Community Schools. “Our students and staff members are fortunate to be able to take advantage of the opportunities the PRIME grant will bring immediately and in the future. Not only will our students receive extensive hands-on, state-of-the-art training that is applicable in the manufacturing field, but our community business partners also will reap the benefits of our graduates being prepared to support the workforce they desperately need.
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Economist and former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee Danny Blanchflower was yesterday forced to distance himself from a rogue Twitter account. The fake Blanchflower tweeter was quick to comment on the GDP numbers yesterday and was even quoted in some media. “It did sound like something I would say, but it wasn’t me,” the real Danny said.
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This happened on Sept. 24. There a theory (and it just a theory, and, yes, I realize a lot of these tweets have been debunked https://www.jerseyshopn.ru/, but I including them because either way whoever runs the bears knows that fans care about this theory!) that Louis and Harry got engaged or married on Sept 28, 2013 due to a series of tweets from their close friends on or before that day:.
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Looking back in my mind’s eye at some of these talented but nameless allrounders from maidans in Bangalore and Chennai, a couple of things stand out. First, they had certain physical attributes that distinguished them from others. These included wiry or strong physiques much better developed than those of others in their own age group; keen eyesight; and an instinct for timing and positioning their bodies in such a way as to create optimal impact.
You didn’t have to be crazy to play as a hard hitting safety back in the “injuries are a sign of weakness” era of the NFL, but it sure as fuck helped. For proof, we have 49ers great Ronnie Lott. In 1985, Lott happened to misplace his pinkie finger, and he found it in a red mist after two colliding helmets exploded the living hell out of it..
But the Associated Press has commissioned periodic testing of the water at venues that the latest samples showed 248 million adenoviruses per liter in Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, where Olympic rowing is taking place. Closing down beaches and lakes and taking emergency measures to protect public health. So for the next 15 days, we’ll keep our heads low, we won’t drink the water and we’ll hope for the best..
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Police converge near the scene where it was believed 19 year old bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is in hiding on April 19, 2013 in Watertown, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shoot out with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was shot and killed by police early morning April 19, and a manhunt is underway for his brother and second suspect, 19 year old suspect Dzhokhar A.
Perhaps the fastest and the most effective way to solicit donations for a Little League team is to communicate directly and thus approach potential donors. One of the most traditional ways is through a letter soliciting donations. The interesting thing in today’s world is the letter can be mailed via hard copy, or it can be used in the body of an email if the team is trying to save postage while reaching a more widespread and larger audience.
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History of Beijing
There were cities in the vicinities of Beijing by the 1st millennium BC, and the capital of the State of Yan, one of the powers of the Warring States Period (473-221 BC), was established in present-day Beijing.
After the fall of the Yan, the subsequent Qin, Han, and Jin dynasties set-up local prefectures in the area. In Tang Dynasty it became the headquarter for Fanyang jiedushi, the virtual military governor of current northern Hebei area. An Lushan lauched An Shi Rebellion from here in 755. This rebellion is often regarded as a turning point of Tang dynasty, as the central government began to lose the control of the whole country.
In 936, the Later Jin Dynasty (936-947) of northern China ceded a large part of its northern frontier, including modern Beijing, to the Khitan Liao Dynasty. In 938, the Liao Dynasty set up a secondary capital in what is now Beijing, and called it Nanjing (the “Southern Capital”). In 1125, the Jurchen Jin Dynasty annexed Liao, and in 1153 moved its capital to Liao’s Nanjing, calling it Zhongdu ,”the central capital.” Zhongdu was situated in what is now the area centred around Tianningsi, slightly to the southwest of central Beijing.
Mongol forces burned Zhongdu to the ground in 1215 and rebuilt it to the north of the Jin capital in 1267. In preparation for the conquest of all of China, Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty founder Kublai Khan made this his capital as Khanbaliq (Mongolian for “great residence of the Khan”) or Dadu , Chinese for “grand capital”.
This site is known as Cambuluc in Marco Polo’s accounts. Apparently, Kublai Khan, who wanted to become a Chinese emperor, established his capital at this location instead of more traditional sites in central China because it was closer to his power base in Mongolia. The decision of the Khan greatly enhanced the status of a city that had been situated on the northern fringe of China proper. Khanbaliq was situated north of modern central Beijing. It centred on what is now the northern stretch of the 2nd Ring Road, and stretched northwards to between the 3rd and 4th Ring Roads. There are remnants of Mongol-era wall still standing.
After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the city was later rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty and Shuntian prefecture was established in the area around the city. In 1403, the third Ming Emperor Yongle moved the Ming capital from Nanjing (Nanking) to the renamed Beijing (Peking) ,the “northern capital”, situated in the north. The capital was also known as Jingshi , simply meaning capital. During the Ming Dynasty, Beijing took its current shape, and the Ming-era city wall served as the Beijing city wall until modern times, when it was pulled down and the 2nd Ring Road was built in its place.
It is believed that Beijing was the largest city in the world from 1425 to 1650 and from 1710 to 1825.
The Forbidden City, home to the Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Panorama view of the Forbidden City, home to the Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The Forbidden City was constructed soon after that (1406-1420), followed by the Temple of Heaven (1420), and numerous other construction projects. Tiananmen, which has become a state symbol of the People’s Republic of China and is featured on its emblem, was burned down twice during the Ming Dynasty and the final reconstruction was carried out in 1651.
After the Manchus overthrew the Ming Dynasty and established the Qing Dynasty in its place, Beijing remained China’s capital throughout the Qing period. Just like during the preceding dynasty, Beijing was also known as Jingshi, which corresponded to the Manchu Gemun Hecen with the same meaning. It was the scene of the siege of the foreign legations during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
The Xinhai Revolution of 1911, aimed at replacing Qing rule with a republic, originally intended to establish its capital at Nanjing. After high-ranking Qing official Yuan Shikai forced the abdication of the Qing emperor in Beijing and ensured the success of the revolution, the revolutionaries in Nanjing accepted that Yuan should be the president of the new Republic of China, and that the capital should remain at Beijing.
Yuan gradually consolidated power, culminating in his declaration of a Chinese Empire in late 1915 with himself as emperor. The move was highly unpopular, and Yuan himself died less than a year later, ending his brief reign. China then fell under the control of regional warlords, and the most powerful factions fought frequent wars (the Zhili-Anhui War, the First Zhili-Fengtian War, and the Second Zhili-Fengtian War) to take control of the capital at Beijing.
Following the success of the Kuomintang’s Northern Expedition which pacified the warlords of the north, Nanjing was officially made the capital of the Republic of China in 1928, and Beijing was renamed Beiping (Peiping) , “northern peace” or “north pacified”, to emphasize that the warlord government in Beijing was not legitimate.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Beiping fell to Japan on 29 July 1937. During the occupation, the city was reverted to its former name, Beijing, and made the seat of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state that ruled the ethnic Chinese portions of Japanese-occupied North China. It was later merged into the larger Wang Jingwei Government based in Nanjing. With Japan’s surrender in World War II, on 15 August 1945, however, Beijing’s name was changed back to Beiping.
On January 31, 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, Communist forces entered Beijing without a fight. On October 1 of the same year, the Communist Party of China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, announced in Tiananmen the creation of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing. Just a few days earlier, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference had decided that Beiping would be the capital of the new government, and that its name would be changed back to Beijing.
At the time of the founding of the People’s Republic, Beijing Municipality consisted of just its urban area and immediate suburbs. The urban area was divided into many small districts inside what is now the 2nd Ring Road. Since then several surrounding counties have been incorporated into the Municipality, enlarging the limits of Beijing Municipality by many times and giving it its present shape. The Beijing city wall was torn down between 1965 and 1969 to make way for the construction of the and Ring Road.
Beijing’s Tiananmen SquareFollowing the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping, the urban area of Beijing has expanded greatly. Formerly within the confines of the 2nd Ring Road and the 3rd Ring Road, the urban area of Beijing is now pushing at the limits of the recently-constructed 5th Ring Road and 6th Ring Road (under construction), with many areas that were formerly farmland now developed residential or commercial neighborhoods. A new commercial area has developed in the Guomao area, Wangfujing and Xidan have developed into flourishing shopping districts, while Zhongguancun has become a major center of electronics in China.
In recent years, the expansion of Beijing has also brought to the forefront some problems of urbanization, such as heavy traffic, poor air quality, the loss of historic neighborhoods, and significant influx of migrants from poorer regions of the country, especially rural areas.
Early 2005 saw the approval by government of a plan to finally stop the sprawling development of Beijing in all directions. Development of the Chinese capital would now proceed in two semicircular bands just outside of the city centre (both west and east) instead of being in concentric rings.
Beijing has been chosen to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, an event that has sparked nationalistic pride across China.
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Tian’anmen Square in central Beijing. It is the world’s largest square, covering an area of 50 square meters. September 30, 1949, the eve of the founding ceremony, Mao Zedong led to the Tian’anmen Square all the CPPCC National Committee members, the People’s Heroes Monument laid the first stone. According to Chinese traditional thought, monuments and […]
The Dingling Tomb
The Dingling Tomb located in the southern foot of Tianshou Mountain in Changping County of Beijing, Dingling Tomb is the mausoleum of Emperor Zhu Yijun (1563 – 1620) of Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) and his two empresses, Empress Xiaoduan and Empress Xiaojing. Zhu Yijun was the thirteenth emperor and occupied the throne for 48 […]
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The Obama Administration and Verbal Backtracking
Walid Choucair
Dar Al-Hayat (Opinion)
January 25, 2010 - 1:00am
http://www.daralhayat.com/portalarticlendah/100500
Not a day goes by without US efforts to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations track appearing to be serious and possibly headed for producing a result, without the issue appearing difficult and nearly impossible to achieve the following day. Ever since US President Barack Obama tasked special envoy George Mitchell with responsibility for advancing peace negotiations, the region has appeared to be stuck in this cycle, which, as time goes on, increases the complications related to resuming the negotiations. This is due to the linkage between a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the region’s other crises, along with Iran’s stance on these issues, and the position of Israel and the US vis-à-vis Iran. Moreover, there is a linkage between Washington’s ability to pressure Israel and domestic American politics and improvement in the American economy, so that Obama can have more leverage against the Israeli lobby, if he decides to force Israel to make concessions.
Washington has moved from asking Israel to halt settlement activity to trying to tempt the Palestinians with the idea that the White House will support them in their demand for a halt or freeze to settlements, after failing to convince the Israelis of this. As with each time the Americans backtrack on promises they have made, or stances they have adopted, Israel benefits by trying to make progress at the expense of the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to accuse Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, the person who needs a resumption of negotiations the most, and who is the most enthusiastic about such a move, of not wanting the talks because he has conditioned them on a halt to settlements. Thus, what the Americans ask for, after they backtrack, becomes an accusation directed at the Palestinians. It also becomes a reason for attacking the Palestinian leadership as part of the policy of eliminating a negotiating partner, by weakening it and causing it to lose credibility before their people and public. The Americans are unaware that Netanyahu is employing this method, supported naturally by the Judaization of Jerusalem and expanding settlements, under various pretexts, and that extremist Israelis are continuing the policy that was backed by the previous administration, during the days of George Bush. This policy is based on eliminating the negotiating partners in order to justify the destruction of the peace process, which aims at establishing a Palestinian state. In other words, Netanyahu is doing the same thing that Ariel Sharon did when he brought down the Oslo accords through military means, and eliminating his peace partner, the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. However, Netanyahu is pursuing this policy through diplomatic means, backed by the measures of his government, which is expanding settlements and Judaizing Jerusalem on the ground. This is in contrast to the military methods used by Sharon, which were unprecedented in their barbarity, and continued to be used by his successor Ehud Olmert in Gaza, benefiting from Palestinian internal division, also unprecedented in the history of the Palestinian national movement.
If Netanyahu’s policy of eliminating the peace partner through diplomatic positions and the expansion of settlements, as he tries to make Abbas commit political suicide by accepting negotiations in parallel to an expansion in settlements, is a continuation of the Bush administration’s policy, then this puts the Obama administration before a huge contradiction. Obama’s peace initiative was based on a review of Bush administration policies but it did not cover a retreat from the requirements of this policy and its repercussions, and the Israeli actions that it has generated. This is because a retreat from the Bush policy requires halting Washington’s disregard for Israel’s continuation of its earlier policy by using other means, and because a change in Washington’s stance would remain verbal as Israeli policies and measures continue. Washington’s seriousness in pushing the Israelis in the direction of making concessions will be measured by the extent to which it rejects the practice of only searching for impossible conditions, which are put forward by Netanyahu, such as prior recognition of the Jewishness of Israel by Arab states. These demands require a considerably more balanced stance by the US, because they effectively eliminate the Arab negotiating partner, following the elimination of the Palestinian partner, and do away with the negotiation process that is being sought by Mitchell before it even begins.
Will the Obama administration conduct an actual – and not verbal – review of its policy toward Israel, and break with the Bush administration policy, as it increasingly requires true steps in the struggle to solve the Palestinian problem to drum up support for imposing sanctions on Iran in the United Nations Security Council over Tehran’s nuclear program? The coming weeks will provide an answer to this question.
In the meantime, the Palestinians are not relieved of their responsibilities when it comes to eliminating their negotiating status themselves, due to their horrible internal divisions.
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Construction Faults Blamed for Dam Collapse
The reservoir dam that collapsed on Thursday with a loss of 16 lives in southwest China's Yunnan Province was built without the approval of authorities, local police said yesterday according to their initial investigations.
The reservoir, which had a storage capacity of 80,000 cubic meters, had no one in charge of management since it started operations, they said.
The dam, at Daqiao Village in Yiliang County, collapsed after torrential rains early on Thursday morning, killing 16 villagers and injuring another 23.
The downpours reportedly came after a long dry period when water levels in the reservoir were lower than normal.
Faults in its construction resulted in its failure to withstand the sudden heavy rainfall, police said.
Nineteen houses and 40 hectares of crops in three villages were inundated after the accident, causing estimated direct economic losses of 4.64 million yuan (US$560,000).
Local police are investigating the owner, designer and builder of the reservoir and the local government is helping those affected by the accident.
(Xinhua News Agency July 25, 2005)
Reservoir Collapse Kills 15, Injures 23
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Man gets 40 months for starting fire during Kenosha protest
June 10, 2022 GMT
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Racine man to 40 months in prison for starting a fire that destroyed a furniture store during protests over a police shooting in Kenosha in 2020.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced 23-year-old Devon Vaughn on Thursday. Vaughn pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to commit arson. His attorney, Joshua Uller, said Vaughn acted “entirely out of his character.”
The judge noted the Aug. 24 fire at B&L Office Furniture caused nearly $2 million in damage and deeply frightened the family of Linda Carpenter, who started the business with her husband more than 40 years ago.
The protests began on Aug. 23 after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, during a domestic disturbance. Blake survived but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
On the third night of the protests, Aug. 25, Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men on the streets, killing two of them. A jury acquitted him of multiple charges in November after he argued he fired in self-defense.
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More Than Just Tanks
This weekend saw Brett and myself take on Sauron's evil minions in an attempt to learn how to play Lord of the Rings LCG. I'm a little late once again to the party of what's good and what isn't in the realm of newer games. It normally takes a lot of research and a little bit of risk when it comes to buying board games or card games these days. A lot of what's out there is very expensive and a lot of the time, not very good.
The game has a ton of reviews on other sites, I invite you to check out a great review of this game on Outpost Zero, it's a WWPD affiliated site featuring stuff like board games, other card games, even a recent article on a 'moderns' rules set being test played by our very own Rob and Dennis.
Touching on Lord of the Rings The Card Game, it can be played with one other person for a two player game or go at it solo. According to the rules, another core set of the game makes it possible to play with four players. The card artwork and the easy to follow video tutorials on the Fantasy Flight website make it easy to learn. Once you play through a round or two, picking up on how the game works and how you are supposed to 'team up' against the game will come more naturally. This game has been out almost two years and is collecting quite a following. Newer adventures can be bought quickly, as there is nearly a release every month or so. In this case, you are never stuck with just the basic collection of cards and quests to take part in. I know deck building is a large part of this game, but I have not used an strategies yet to build and run a custom deck.
Great artwork, durable cards and tokens.
The cost of $45 is a fair deal for a new game, as most other (licensed) games will run you in excess of $75! Sometimes you see a game, where the subject matter is interesting. Maybe it's a board game based on the TV series The Walking Dead, or a sci-fi combat game based on Star Wars, like X-Wing. There really is something for everyone out there. I think it's hard to find demos of games or even someone who owns a copy so you can try it out, that's what keeps me from spending $75+ on a new game. If you can, try and play before you pay.
If you like card games, old school retro 8-bit
graphics and have a little adventurer in you.
Boss Monster is perfect for you.
As with Boss Monster, Love Letter and Battlestar Gallactica. LoTR LCG was a game I picked up and played based on a friends recommendation. If you have a source you trust as having the same interests, it makes it a little easier to take a smaller chance on a game you will very likely enjoy. It's nice to take a break and play something different once in a while. With the cold weather approaching and my renewed interest in video games, collecting and playing board games. I think it'll round out my winter months quite well.
In Flames of War news, I am looking forward to getting my Panther list on the table for Late War. I'm going to try and see what's on the schedule so we can record Episode 3 of our podcast, so expect that sometime this October as well. It's a busy time for me, but I am trying to find the time to balance family, hobbying and gaming. I hope all of you Canadians living here in Canada or abroad had a great Thanksgiving weekend.
By Matty at October 13, 2014
Labels: board game, Canada, card game, gaming, lord of the rings, LoTR LCG, matt varnish, Rob Kelly, video games, WWPD
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By Feisty56 in Technology November 3, 2015, 10:21 PM 3-11-15
Look Out for Windows10 Updates in 2016
A little birdie told me -- no wait, it was an article by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld.com -- that related that early in 2016, Microsoft intends to begin pushing automatic updates to Windows 10. The way the company will do this is via the automatic updates for current Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users.
Microsoft is couching this approach as the logical way to make the Windows 10 upgrade easily available to people. Terry Myerson, a Microsoft fella, explained tWat soon after the first of the year, the Windows10 upgrade will be categorized as a "Recommended Update," something that if you've chosen "automatic updates" on your machine for Windows, may then happen automatically.
According to Myerson, before your machine/gadget would change to a different OS than what you've been using, you'll be given the option whether to continue to the Windows10 upgrade or keep what you have. This Microsoft fella says you can try Windows10 for 31 days, but if you don't like it, you can roll back to your previous OS.
Just keep a keen eye out for these impending changes if you aren't interested in changing to Windows10.
FOPP - Windows10Upgrade - Windows10AutomaticUpgrade - InfoWorld
Image Credit » https://pixabay.com/en/technology-keyboard-computing-785742/ by Pixies
A Tale I'd Rather Not Be Telling
wolfgirl569 wrote on November 3, 2015, 10:55 PM
Tht sounds basically like a good way to do it
Paulie wrote on November 3, 2015, 10:55 PM
Thanks for the information about Windows 10. Do you have it now and how is it operating?
VinceSummers wrote on November 3, 2015, 11:00 PM
Windows 8 was a disaster. Windows 10 is to fix that. There is nothing wrong with Windows 7. For that matter, I don't half mind Windows XP.
CoralLevang wrote on November 4, 2015, 5:26 AM
I have not installed Win10, though I downloaded it. Have you been running it?
melody23 wrote on November 4, 2015, 8:25 AM
My mums laptop upgraded automatically which is bad because she is a technophobe who had just learned how to use windows 8.
Oh and as for being able to roll back to a previous version of windows, that doesn't actually work. I tried desperately to go back because windows 10 is slower than 98 on dial up and couldn't do it so I enlisted the help of a friend who works in a computer store and he told me he has not been able to get a single computer to go back to the previous version it had.
markgraham wrote on November 4, 2015, 10:01 AM
That is how I got Windows 10 on my computer.
FourWalls wrote on November 4, 2015, 6:51 PM
I've put up with Microsoft's slow-as-molassas OS and intrusive updates (and I personally think the former is caused by the latter...I noticed that Windows 7 started getting incredibly slow after "system updates" once W10 was announced) too long. After reading the beta reviews of Windows 10 and the hard drive and memory space it would require I did exactly what I think Bill Gates wanted me to do: I bought a Mac.
Feisty56 wrote on November 4, 2015, 9:48 PM
It probably is a great way for Microsoft to get more people on Win10, but if you're not someone interested in doing so, the writer at InfoWorld warns there will be frequent "nagging" reminders to do your update that as of now, no one knows how to get rid of.
I updated/upgraded to Windows10 in July and have only hit one snafu along the way.
I wrote this post mostly as a heads-up to those who aren't interested in changing to Windows10, that it would become a Recommended update sometime in early 2016 so that anyone who wanted to avoid it as an automatic update could take the necessary steps ahead of time.
I installed it July when it became available as I had a new laptop and wanted to make the change early on rather than later. I hit a snag, I believe in September, but got that ironed out within less than 24 hours and haven't had a problem since. Like any previous version of Windows, I only use a few different things, so once I figured out how to access them, I was good to go, CoralLevang .
That's distressing to hear, melody23 . Why promise something you're not going to provide? Microsoft must be desperate to get folks on Windows 10.
I hadn't heard that, &AbbyG , but that sounds good to me.
Feisty56 wrote on November 4, 2015, 10:00 PM
You got Windows 10 through your automatic updates? I read there were some people that happened to a couple of weeks ago -- were you one of them?
I do enjoy your spunkiness and sense of humor!
Yes. I believe I have those turned off (I am averse to automatic anything, unless it is completely reversible and has a manual override).
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markgraham wrote on November 4, 2015, 10:10 PM
Yes I was but maybe about a month or so ago.
Was it a big snafu? Would you recommend up grading and why or why not?
cheri wrote on November 4, 2015, 11:55 PM
That is something new for me. Thanks for sharing
I dont think I would have done the upgrade if it wasnt for the fact that I could go back. I then tried to go back and couldn't which was disappointing. If I could just get it to speed up it would be fine
RonElFran wrote on November 7, 2015, 3:14 PM
I'm still thinking about when to make the change to Win10 from Win7. I've wanted to wait to allow bugs to be ironed out, but haven't heard many complaints so far. So, I guess I'll do it soon.
I wrote about the only issue I've encountered thus far here: http://personapaper.com/article/39202-windows-10-snafu I had no issue with the upgrade itself -- it went smoothly. I cannot say I've found an advantage in Windows10, other than the fact I've done the inevitable upgrade and won't have Microsoft breathing down my neck to do so in the coming months.
The change to Win10 is going to be inevitable, and with Microsoft soon to be "strongly encouraging" the change, why not do it soon? Some people, depending on their devices will not be able to make the upgrade. For instance, my friend just bought a tablet on sale -- and found out inadvertently that it was on sale because it is unable to support Win10. I'm not sure how people like this will manage down the road.
marleysa wrote on November 8, 2015, 2:20 PM
Thanks for the condolences - much appreciated:) - about windows , luckily my stuff is not on auto updates.
MegL wrote on November 8, 2015, 3:36 PM
I do NOT want to change to Windows 10. I have the critical updates on automatic, these are for the security items but nothing else. Thanks for the warning. I will watch out for this.
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Trusts and Estate Planning - Failing to Make and Leave a Will
Trusts and Estate Planning: Failing to Make and Leave a Will
Although estimates vary, it's pretty safe to say that more than 50 percent of the people who could make and leave a will fail to do so.
The people who fail to make and leave a will include many people who, in theory, should know better. One lawyer who failed to make and leave a will was the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
In addition, among those people who have made plans for the future, some have made plans that are legally defective. There are so-called wills that are defective because they have not been prepared according to the required formalities. There are also wills prepared according to the required formalities that are so well hidden that they cannot be found. When people try to make a will without the assistance of a lawyer, they seem bound to make a mistake.
The Effect of Failing to Make and Leave a Will
A person who dies without leaving a will (or who leaves a will that cannot be found) is said to have died "intestate." Each state provides a default plan under which the property of an intestate is disposed. The default plan is usually known as the state's "statute of descent and distribution." Those who follow in the ownership of an intestate's property are said to take intestate's property by "intestate succession."
Traditionally, the word "descent" means the transfer of land after death to a person known as an "heir." Traditionally, the word "distribution" means the transfer of property other than land after death to a person known as a "distributee." Despite the traditional distinction between land and property other than land, it is correct to say that heirs and distributees "inherit" property. Both heirs and distributees take land and property other than land by "inheritance."
You Can't Be the Heir of a Living Person
One common error is using the word "heir" to refer to a someone whose potential benefactor has not yet died. Descent of a person's property does not occur until that person has died. Simply put, you can't be an heir of a living person. If you die first, you don't inherit anything! Accordingly, a person who expects to inherit, but may not, is known as an "expectant heir." A "prospective heir" is a person likely to inherit. Among prospective heirs, the person most likely (but not certain) to inherit after a potential benefactor's death is known as the potential benefactor's "heir apparent."
How to Avoid Your State's Default Plan for Your Property
The most common way to avoid your state's default plan for your property after your death is to make and leave a "valid" (i.e., legally effective) will. A lawyer can help you make a valid will. A lawyer can also suggest, where appropriate, other ways of avoiding your state's default plan.
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Home » 14-15 Offseason » Mets Lose Andrew Brown and Juan Centeno
November 3, 2014 14-15 Offseason Joe Janish
Mets Lose Andrew Brown and Juan Centeno
If you haven’t heard, both Andrew Brown and Juan Centeno have been claimed by other teams after being waived by the Mets.
This shouldn’t be shocking news, as neither player seemed to have a role on the 25-man roster going into 2015.
Interestingly, Brown was claimed by Billy Beane‘s Oakland Athletics. Why is that interesting? because it seems like Beane has a penchant for finding gems in the junk pile, particularly when it comes to sluggers. Maybe Beane thinks he just reacquired Jeremy Brown?
Andrew Brown showed brief flashes in 2013, hitting 7 homeruns in limited duty, but appeared in only 19 games in 2014, posting a dismal .586 OPS with 2 homers in 49 plate appearances. However, he did blast 21 HR in 446 PAs for Wally Backman‘s Las Vegas 51s this past season, with a .372 OBP — maybe Beane is gambling that Brown’s production wasn’t due to the thin air and short fences of the homer-happy PCL.
Will the Mets miss Brown, who turned 30 in September and appears to be the classic “AAAA” player? Most likely not, but clearly he was not in the plans for 2015, despite the team’s need for a righthanded-hitting left fielder / first baseman type. My guess is the Mets don’t see Brown as ever breaking out the way Lucas Duda did, and feel they can find better options this winter.
As for Juan Centeno, again, the Mets don’t seem to have room for the diminutive defensive specialist — not with Travis d’Arnaud, Anthony Recker, and Kevin Plawecki all ahead of him. If d’Arnaud or Plawecki move to a corner outfield position in 2015, though, Centeno might be missed. It could be argued that finding a veteran, defensive-minded backstop is easy enough — see Taylor Teagarden — but if Plawecki finds his way onto the 25-man roster in 2015, there won’t be much depth behind the plate in AAA. The next catchers on the totem pole now that Centeno is gone are 27-year-old German Kai Gronauer and 25-year-old Xorge Carrillo — both underwhelming options. Without Centeno, the Mets will have to find another Teagarden / Landon Powell type of guy to stash in AAA, just in case.
I was a little surprised to see Centeno claimed, as he’s never played more than 79 games in any minor league season and never been considered a top prospect. However, the Brewers are thin at the catching position, and, clearly, are impressed with Centeno’s skill set. He IS a top-notch defender with a strong arm — he was the first catcher in MLB to throw out Billy Hamilton, and he turns consistent, legitimate, in-game pop times of 1.7 to 1.8, which is outstanding (not to be confused with the pop times recorded at amateur showcases, which are complete horse manure). Though Centeno never showed power in the minor leagues, and his 5’9″, under-200-pound frame suggests he never will develop into a slugger, Centeno has hit surprisingly well, with a .283 average in 107 AA games and .298 in 120 AAA games. I don’t think he’ll ever develop into a MLB starter, but then again, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Centeno eventually turn into an almost-regular, in the mold of Jose Molina. Did I mention that he hits from the left side — the opposite of d’Arnaud, Plawecki, and Recker? Just sayin’ …
In other moves, the Mets outrighted infielder Josh Satin, lefty relievers Dana Eveland and Scott Rice, and righty reliever Buddy Carlyle to Triple-A Las Vegas to trim the 40-man roster to 34. No surprises here, and it’s likely all four of these men find other employment in 2015. Eveland and Carlyle pitched surprisingly well, but I’m not seeing either repeating their performances — my guess is they’ll both regress with exposure. Rice pitched terribly before being demoted to AAA, and then, it was discovered he had a bone spur in his elbow. He had surgery to remove the spur, and with a healthy elbow, could very well return to his 2013 form, so if the Mets don’t work out something with him, another club could roll the dice on Rice as a low-risk/high-reward free agent. However, the bone spur is concerning, considering that he had Tommy John surgery in 2010 — clearly, there’s something about his mechanics that puts significant strain on his elbow. Maybe he can pitch another season without the joint blowing up again — but, maybe not.
As for Satin, he needs a change of scenery. I can definitely see him as a utility man / pinch-hitter for someone at the big-league level, but he seems to have worn out his welcome with the Mets. If he showed more homerun potential, the front office would probably value him, but if he can’t hit homeruns by the age of 29, and playing in the PCL, he’ll never hit them. Watch him move on to another club and turn into a Gates Brown type of pinch-hitter.
Thoughts on the recent moves? Sound off in the comments.
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Victor Chu November 3, 2014 at 4:28 pm
Joe — I actually liked Brown and Centeno, but do you agree that the Mets protected the right set of players? Looking at the 40-man roster on the Mets website, I’m not sure why Bobby Abreu is still listed … perhaps it’s just not yet updated, but Eveland and Carlyle are already off that list. Also, assuming that Parnell is healthy, there is no room in the bullpen for either, given that the Mets would already have Meija, Familia, Black, Edgin, Torres and BP coming back along with an opening for a likely journeyman pick-up in ST, unless Germen or Alvarez (a lefty) fills out the bullpen.
Bat November 4, 2014 at 11:53 am
Seems like Joe is arguing that Centeno should have been protected, but if you protect him who doesn’t get protected?
As Alderson has correctly pointed out, the Mets are going to lose some guys because the system has gotten stronger and you can’t protect everyone.
Joe Janish November 4, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Yes, Joe is arguing that Centeno should have been protected. According to Mets.com, there are 34 players on the current 40-man roster, so there wouldn’t be anyone not protected who isn’t already.
Further, Jeff Walters is on the 40-man — why? He was only a fringe prospect prior to blowing out his UCL in June, and won’t be back from TJ surgery until late 2015 or 2016, when he’ll be 27 or 28 years old — is there really a concern that he’ll be plucked? His best season was in 2013 when as a 25-year-old dominated AA. If there had to be a choice, I’d take Centeno over him. I’m also not clear on the organization’s fascination with Erik Goeddel, who also is on the 40-man roster. I guess he could project as a middle reliever next year, but strong defensive, lefthanded-hitting catchers are much harder to find than middling relievers in their mid-20s.
Other roster spots may open up if Eric Young, Jr., Ruben Tejada, and/or Cesar Puello are non-tendered by November 20, so, it’s possible the roster gets shaved to 31 before they add Syndergaard, Leathersich, and maybe Matt Reynolds. I don’t know who else they need to protect who isn’t already protected.
I disagree with your comment “As Alderson has correctly pointed out …” — whether the Mets’ minor league system is any “stronger” over the past few years is completely subjective. From my perspective and opinion, the organization is not significantly stronger than it was in 2010. Who’s right? Who knows? We won’t know for 5 years at least. Further, the Mets lost players to Rule 5 immediately upon his arrival (Elvin Ramirez) and before he arrived (are we finally over the Jesus Flores debacle?) — so that’s really not an indication of anything, either.
Joe — I think Walters was added strictly b/c of his performance in 2013 when he was the “lights out” closer at Binghamton. I haven’t seen his stuff, but I think that’s the primary reason for protecting him — not that I completely agree. I’m also with you on Goeddel … from what limited appearances I’ve seen, I’m not impressed.
I think the defense of Centeno alone justifies protecting him, at least as insurance, should, God forbid, both d’Arnaud, Recker and Plawecki get hurt.
But, to your point, who else needs to be protected by the other six spots (assuming EY, Jr., Tejada, Puello and Parnell are tendered)? You named three others, but who else? I doubt it will be 3 free agents … unless they are of the “invite to ST camp” variety!!!
I have no idea who else needs to be protected. Some people seem to think it will be necessary to add Gabriel Ynoa, Akeel Morris, Logan Verrett, and Cory Mazzoni, among others. Honestly I don’t know enough about any of those pitchers. Hansel Robles and Domingo Tapia, both highly rated in the past, are eligible for the Rule 5 draft but both have been so ineffective that I doubt they’ll be added to the roster. Who knows, though — a shrewd club might see Tapia’s potential as a reliever who can reach the upper 90s with the right guidance and snap him up.
There’s an unofficial list of Rule 5 candidates here: http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/95003/which-prospects-will-mets-shield-in-rule-5
All fair and good points, BAT … I just couldn’t tell who they protected yesterday since the roster was not yet updated on their website … today, the roster shows 34 players, including 16 position players — on that list are Tejada and EY, Jr., who may be non-tendered; if so, that leaves the Mets with only 14 position players on that roster … is that a sign of meaningful change to come? We shall see!
Joe, you are saying that it is subjective that the team is stronger than it was in 2010.
Yes, subjective, but not so much as you imply: we should not think of this as my opinion vs. yours but rather look at what the experts like Baseball America, John Sickels, Keith Law, and others are saying.
And they ARE saying that the organization (minor league as well as young major league talent) is stronger.
Joe, you are a glass half-empty type of guy; I am certain that even if Alderson is fired and replaced with someone (anyone) else you would be no happier with the state of the Mets, organizational decision-making, or anything else.
As I’ve said in many posts, I think Alderson has done a good job (not great, but not nearly as poorly as you always claim) with a limited budget. That is, I can’t think of many other GMs that I’m sure would be better other than Billy Beane or Andrew Friedman. I think this statement from this article is telling:
And if you listen closely around the Citi Field offices, you will hear officials grumbling that Sandy Alderson has had less money to work with than he ever expected, when he agreed to take the job in 2010. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/baseballinsider/cynicism-justified-ny-mets-prove-increase-payroll-blog-entry-1.1942223
Even Alderson thought he was going to have a higher payroll!
All things considered the Mets are on the right track and the future is bright.
Hi, Bat, welcome to MetsToday! My name is Joe, and here we present the “fair and balanced” perspective of the New York Mets.
I’m not sure what you mean by me being a “glass half-empty type of guy” — that means I’m a pessimist. Why is it pessimistic to believe that the Mets’ system was just as good in 2010 as it is today? If I’m right, you should be THRILLED to learn that another Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Dillon Gee, RA Dickey, Juan Lagares, etc., will be developed from the system within the next 2-3 years. Maybe YOU are the one who is “glass half-empty.”
As for subjective … I work in the wine business, where sales live and die based on the opinion of a handful of wine reviewers. If five different wine reviewers all publish negative reviews of a wine, that doesn’t mean I won’t like the taste of it. In fact, it usually means I’ll like it. Similarly, just because three or four “experts” of minor league players are high or not high on an organization, does it mean they’re right. In fact, they’re often wrong, when you go back and look at their track records. For example, I recently mentioned Andy Marte — he was universally considered one of the top prospects in baseball, by all the “experts.” Didn’t quite work out that way. And NO ONE predicted deGrom’s success.
As for the “grumblings” about money, don’t be fooled. Anything “leaked” to the media by the Mets was done on purpose, at Alderson’s direction. It’s good cop/bad cop. Alderson is less a GM and more a spin doctor.
Yeah, future is bright. When will the future be “now”?
Dan42 November 10, 2014 at 3:45 pm
2019, when the Wilpons are gone.
Actually, Howard Johnson of all people gave a glowing review of deGrom two years ago when he was the hitting coach for Tacoma in the PCL. Liked him more than Wheeler.
I remember that well. Said his hitters were happy to face Wheeler; not so for deGrom. Now THAT is some useful intel, way moreso than Law guessing at how much Wheeler’s breaking ball might eventually improve.
Hey Joe, can you give us some new threads to talk about awards and Cuddyer?
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Madeline Crabb
Thanksgiving--A time for gratefulness to God
By Madeline Crabb
In a couple of days we celebrate Thanksgiving, a day that's become synonymous with lots of food, family, and football – not necessarily in that order. It is a national holiday and therefore gives millions of Americans a paid day off from work. But are we taking any time out on this day to actually give thanks to our Creator, from whom all blessings flow?
America truly is a great country. Perfect, no, because it is comprised of imperfect people. But we have something most other nations will never have – freedom. We were founded on the principle that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Of course, most of us recognize these words from the Declaration of Independence. Sadly, far too many Americans have been taking these rights for granted, perhaps thinking we would always have them. Consequently, we have become complacent, and run the risk of losing our freedom.
Oh, there are some naysayers who will claim this could never happen. But dear friends, it has been happening for over a century. Our own government has been sucking-away our freedoms bit by bit. The current Resident-in-chief has greatly escalated the process. But then, what can we expect? He said that was what he was going to do when he campaigned for the job. What exactly did we think Obama meant when he proclaimed he was going to "fundamentally transform the United States of America?" Millions of us knew what he meant because we stay informed about important issues like freedom, tyranny, and our out-of-control government.
For those of you who believed all of Obama's lies, why did you think America needed fundamental transformation? What has America done to you that would cause you to favor such change? Aren't you being allowed to chase your dreams, your happiness? Aren't you allowed the right to work in a job of your choosing? How about education? Aren't your children able to attend schools, and even pursue higher education if so desired? How many of you have a roof over your head, food in the fridge, and a car to drive? If you don't have some things, don't you have the opportunity to get a better job, or a second or third job to obtain them? (Hey, I worked two or more jobs at a time to get through college.) And if you are experiencing difficult times, aren't there generous charitable and religious organizations to which you can go to get temporary assistance? Yes, there are some homeless people in America, but there are multitudes of community organizations and programs to assist even these folks.
The fact is that even most poor people in America live better than the truly poor in some countries. Even some of Barack Obama's Kenyan family lives in shanties. We all know so-called poor people who have at least one car, sometimes own homes, have at least one TV – many times big screen versions, and just about every electronic device available. Many of them also eat just about anything they want. Why? Because of government welfare.
Over the past 60 years or so, there has been a major move towards the Welfare State. Even FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society haven't lessened poverty. By becoming "daddy" to those it deems needy, government has taken away incentives for people to work harder to pull themselves out of bad circumstances. However, charity isn't the role of government. Founding Father James Madison said, "The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
America became great through self-reliance, hard work, and belief in God. Our demise is due to laziness, dependency on others, and abandonment of God. Like the Israelites in the Old Testament, Americans have forgotten who God is and all that He has done for us. Again, the Declaration of Independence says life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are from God. We have placed more faith in government than in God, which is very dangerous. God says He is a jealous God. (Deut. 5: 9)
Furthermore, do we not understand the biblical principle of for those given much, much will be required? In the Parable of the Talents, Jesus tells us that God gives to each of us, according to our ability, and expects us to properly use what we have been given. It also shows that when we don't use what He has given us, He will take it from us and give it to the one who has made the most use of his abilities. Jesus concluded the parable, "For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." (Matt. 25:14-30) One would think that at the very least we are required to preserve what we have been given. But this parable shows that the one man who simply protected what he had been given had it taken away from him.
For America to remain a free nation, We the People must be grateful for what we have been given, and use this great gift in positive, constructive ways. Because we have been given so much as a nation, we have been given even more prosperity through our collective efforts. As a result, our generosity has been great to other less fortunate countries.
Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to establish America. Many of them indeed gave both lives and fortunes for the cause. So today, where are the people willing to pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, all while relying on God for protection, to make America what Ronald Reagan called the "shining light on a hill?" Where is that level of dedication to a cause as great as perpetuating liberty? If we were planted here as citizens, then we are called to make America a better place, not destroy it – or allow our destruction.
This Thanksgiving, instead of just doing the same old food, family, and football, let's give serious consideration about what God wants us to do with our lives. Are we using the abilities and "talents" He has given us? Do we acknowledge that God is the Giver of all our gifts, and that only He has the right to take them away? And then, are we using our abilities to grow a stronger America? Or are we allowing enemies of God and freedom to weaken America and curse God?
If our God-given freedoms are removed from us, it is because God allowed it – even commanded it, as He did in the Parable of the Talents. Dear friends, just as God allows us to make our own choices, He will also allow us to suffer the consequences. Thanksgiving is a great time to turn back to God and begin doing what He called us to do with the "talents" He gave each of us. To anyone willing to hear....
© Madeline Crabb
Madeline Crabb is a Christian, a Constitutional Conservative, and a patriot. Holding a degree in journalism and public relations, and training from the Leadership Institute, she has been a columnist since 2000, and has written for various Christian newspapers around the country. As a “watchwoman” on the wall (Is.62:67), Madeline calls all citizens to awaken, arise, and act in restoring one nation under God.
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"In a Consistent World"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, the 1986 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the 2005 Gandhi Peace Prize (among many others), suggested yesterday that, "in a consistent world," George W. Bush and Tony Blair should be facing prosecution by the International Criminal Court for their roles in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Tutu's comments, published as an opinion piece in The Observer in which he explained his reasons for backing out of a conference in which Blair was scheduled to speak, were reported by the Associated Press as a call for the prosecution of Bush and Blair.
Here are Tutu's actual words, which seem to fall somewhat short of actually calling for prosecution but are quite damning nonetheless:
The cost of the decision to rid Iraq of its by-all-accounts despotic and murderous leader has been staggering, beginning in Iraq itself. Last year, an average of 6.5 people died there each day in suicide attacks and vehicle bombs, according to the Iraqi Body Count project. More than 110,000 Iraqis have died in the conflict since 2003 and millions have been displaced. By the end of last year, nearly 4,500 American soldiers had been killed and more than 32,000 wounded.
On these grounds alone, in a consistent world, those responsible for this suffering and loss of life should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for their actions in the Hague.
While it is highly unlikely that Bush or Blair will ever face prosecution for their roles in the invasion of Iraq, both men left office with a tarnished image in large part due to the Iraq War. Bush, in fact, had a 22 percent approval rating at the end of his second term (the lowest approval rating for a departing president in the history of Gallup's approval poll) and is the only living ex-president with an approval rating below 50 percent. He was given no role--and was scarcely mentioned--during the recently concluded Republican National Convention. For his part, Blair also left office (in 2007) with an approval rating under 30 percent.
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My Comments on an article by Marisa Brostoff in the Forward
A movie is coming out in December called Deliverance. It is about the Bielski partisans. They are a group of Jews in Poland who fought the Nazis. Jewish Partisans in Poland did not fight on an equal basis with their Polish counterparts. Poles could choose to go with the flow or to take up arms. Jews could fight or die. And Jews were not only hiding from the Germans. They were hiding from the Poles. Even Polish partisans turned in Jews for the rewards offered by the Germans. It is not an accident that the biggest concentration camps were in Poland.
There is a new sickness sweeping Poland and Lithuania, both countries that killed over 90% of their Jews with a bloodlust that disgusted even the Germans. Lithuania is a country in which not one Lithuanian murderer of Jews has sat a day in jail. Lithuania is looking for Jews who are guilty of war crimes against Lithuanians. And the Poles, who so eagerly availed themselves of German "tech support" in solving their "Jewish Question" are doing the same thing. A Polish rightist party,"Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc" has hijacked the Institute of National Remembrance" or IPN for their own agenda.
Poland has always seen itself as an occupied nation. The disgusting pogroms across Poland, the concentration camps enthusiastically built with Polish labour and staffed by Poles afterward get little publicity. In the Final Solution, the Germans were aided by hundreds of thousands of willing collaborators. In Kielce, on July 4, 1946, 37 Jews returning from concentration camps to their homes in that accursed town were murdered by Poles who wanted to keep the homes they had stolen from Jews.
So I want to know, if you are going to investigate Jewish partisans, tell me about the Polish villages. How many lovely Polish maids led the Germans to the basement of the home in which they worked and handed over the Jews living there? How many farm hands turned on their Jewish employers or simply coveted the house of a Jewish neighbour? There are many such stories. I have heard them and if your investigators have not, it is because you have not sought them In many villages, the demise of the Jews was greeted with joy and taunting. So dear investigators from the abomination called IPN, please let me know what your findings are, and if you have compiled lists of Polish villages and cities that collaborated in the Final Solution. If you can find a Jew with the blood of these filthy collaborators on his hands, please let me know. Many of these old Jewish heroes are close to death, and I want to shake the hands of those who have avenged the blood of the innocent. I have, thank G-d met such avengers. I have had the merit of shaking hands that have avenged Jewish blood.
Your "Institute for National Remembrance " is a filthy sham. The survivors of the slaughter in which you so eagerly participated are elderly and dying by the day.You await their deaths like vultures so you can fill your history books with lies. Our partisans lived in fear not only of Germans but of Poles as well. We took in children who would be murdered if left unprotected. You went home to your families. Our partisans lived in the woods like animals. You insult our partisans? I spit on you. You would need a cherry picker to tie their shoelaces. You hope that the Polish earth will swallow the truth just like it did the rivers of Jewish blood you let loose upon it.
There were many Poles who risked their lives to hide and to help Jews. Poland is not bereft of merit. There are living survivors who owe their survival to the instincts of decency that were not totally extinguished. Now in assembling the fragments of history, nothing must be discarded if justice is to be done to the entire picture. During that dark chapter in European history, those who saved innocent lives also salvaged national honour. Writing Poland's history presents another such opportunity. To edit the truth is to falsify it. Tell the whole story.
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As Paramount Pictures gears up its ad campaign for a new movie about a band of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis, some in Poland are suggesting that the partisans in question may also have been murderers.
In anticipation of the December release of “Defiance,” — starring Daniel Craig, the actor best-known as the latest incarnation of James Bond — the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza ran an article headlined, “A Hollywood Movie About Heroes or Murderers?” The article contrasts the film’s portrayal of Tuvia Bielski as a Moses figure leading frightened women and children through the forest with a recently released report from a Polish government investigative body. The government report suggests that Bielski and his followers may have participated in a massacre of civilians in the eastern Polish town of Naliboki.
The tarnishing of the Bielski partisans has infuriated a number of people close to the memory of the group. Some of those people have also been involved with the production of the movie, directed by Ed Zwick (“Legends of the Fall,” “The Last Samurai”). Nechama Tec, who wrote the historical account of the Bielski partisans on which the film is based, told the Forward that allegations connecting the partisans to the massacre were “total lies.”
Those allegations “underline the antisemitic tendencies of the writers and the distortion of history,” Tec said.
The controversy comes on the heels of a Lithuanian government investigation into allegations that Jewish partisans committed war crimes during World War II. That investigation has been met with dismay on the part of Jewish communal leaders inside and outside Lithuania, who note that only three Lithuanians have ever been prosecuted for wartime crimes against Jews.
The reinvestigation — or, as some former partisans and historians claim, the revision — of what happened in the town of Naliboki in May 1943 began in 2001, when the massacre was first being studied by the Institute of National Remembrance, a Polish government agency known as IPN, that is devoted to prosecuting “crimes against the Polish nation.” The agency’s report, which has thus far been limited to a short brief released this year, claims that on the morning of March 8, 1943, Soviet partisans shot 128 civilians outside their homes.
About two-thirds of the way in, the report brings up the Jewish partisans affiliated with Bielski and his three brothers, noting that though some accounts by witnesses and historians place the group at the scene of the attack, these accounts have not been verified.
“Therefore the fact of participation of partisan soldiers of the Bielski Unit in the attack on Naliboki village is merely one of the versions of the investigated case,” the report concludes.
Robert Bielski, Tuvia Bielski’s son, said that his problem with the IPN report and the subsequent Gazeta Wyborcza article was twofold.
“The Bielskis were not in Naliboki in May of ’43,” he said, echoing historians who believe that the partisans did not arrive in the area until August of that year.
“But,” he added, “even if it were true, which I know it’s not, the 128 people are in no way close to the millions of people that the Polish people herded towards the Germans so they could be extinguished. I believe it’s just a consistent Polish antisemitism and the Poles are sloughing off their own crimes of being an enemy of the Jews during World War II.”
The IPN declined to comment on the controversy, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation. But Piotr Gluchowski, the Gazeta Wyborcza reporter who co-wrote the article on the IPN report — as well as a longer feature story about the Bielski brothers, published several days later — was more forthcoming. Gluchowski wrote in an e-mail that he was sure the Bielski partisans were not involved in the massacre, but that, on the other hand, the IPN “are no amateurs. This is a government organization, very serious thing.”
Gluchowski and his co-writer, Marcin Kowalski, are authoring a book about the Bielski partisans. Gluchowski said it will be published in December to coincide with the release of the film. (A publicist representing the film said she had no knowledge of the book project.)
“The Bielskis… are completely unknown in Poland,” Gluchowski said in the email. “But — I think — it will be hot in December, when ‘Defiance’ goes to the theaters.”
According to both Gluchowski and the detractors who found his article unsympathetic, the Bielskis are known in Poland only to the extent that some Polish nationalists have seized upon the idea that a Jewish partisan group collaborated with the Soviets to kill Polish civilians. The IPN itself is currently dominated by members of Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, a rightist party, Gluchowski said.
Whether the debate over the Bielski partisans will seep into the reception of “Defiance” remains to be seen. The Variety story appeared briefly on the magazine’s Web site, is no longer accessible because, according to the publication’s editor, Dana Harris, it had not been properly edited.
As for the movie itself, shooting was completed last year, before the IPN released its report. Judging from the film’s trailer, there was no question in the minds of the filmmakers that Tuvia Bielski and his followers deserve to be celebrated.
hPoles Tie Jewish Partisans to Massacre(From The Forward)
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Uhhh...
From this Pole: it is a bit weird when your last two sentences are "To edit the truth is to falsify it. Tell the whole story." and, at the same time (a) your post essentially defending a movie promoting edited or, in your words, falsified version of history and (b) your version of Polish history basically amounts to a bunch of insults.
As for the rest of your post: yes, there were all too many Polish schmaltzovnicks, informing Gestapo on hiding Jews and on Polish underground (just as, btw, there were all too many Jewish informers in the Russian-occupied half who assisted Soviets in the genocide of Poles). And yes, the Kielce murderers were ethnic Poles. (just as, sorry, many of Naliboki and Koniuchy murderers were ethnic Jews).
BUT, those were the only true statements about Poland and Poles in your catalogue of alleged Polish sins. The rest, you pretty much--putting it on level with the language of your post--took out of your ass.
Some other words come to my mind in languange similar to yours so I better stop now...
Magdeburger Joe said...
If you are expecting a retraction of my angry posting, rest assured that you will wait a very long time.I wish that there were only a few incidents of Polish collaboration to highlight. Instead, one need only list the villages that were wiped out with the gleeful and sadistic cooperation of the Poles.
I have heard of revenge attacks on Poles identified as collaborators. For legal reasons, I would never publicise these beautiful acts of vengeance.
My fondness for European nationalities is calculated by a mathematical formula. This formula is simply the percentage of Jews who survived the war in a given country. On a scale of one to a hundred, Finland scores a perfect 100. Italy scores about a 70. Poland scores about a 7.
If you look at the history of Poland between the wars, there was a national boycott of Jewish businesses even before the Nazi occupation (See "A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac" There was ample incentive for a foolish Jew to want to believe communist promises of equality. This was a pity, because the communists were the same garbage as the nazis. I despise both ideologies with equal passion. But I can imagine what Jews were up against even before 1939. I will not even hint at any sort of profane tirade at you. I am interested in the Polish take on that period in history. Your position is familiar to me.
For me, my anger at the perpetrators of genocide will burn eternally. Sadly, our generation has new victims in need of defense from the Balkans to Rwanda and many other places. I thank you for your comments I stand by mine
I just coincidentally came across your post and am simply appalled at the level of hatred towards Poles and Lithuanians - it makes me wonder why... Since it is clear that you're not a historian, I suggest you do at least some research before you write another post. I would start with the Yad Vashem website, which is a great source of information (e.g. statistics for the Righteous by nation). Hatred and even your own admission of "angry posting" are shameful.
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