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Political Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2012 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2011.00859.
Narrative as a Root Metaphor for Political Psychology
Phillip L. Hammack University of California, Santa Cruz Andrew Pilecki University of California, Santa Cruz
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The idea of narrative has become increasingly appropriated in empirical research in both psychology and politics, yet there is a notable absence of integrative frameworks that specify a conceptual and methodological approach to narrative research in political psychology. An integrative conceptual framework is proposed and anchored in four principles of a narrative approach: (1) the mutual constitution of language and thought, (2) the need for personal coherence through narrative identity development, (3) the need for collective solidarity through shared meaning, and (4) the mediational property of narrative in social activity and practice. Theory and empirical research related to these principles are reviewed. We argue that a narrative framework has the potential to enhance the relevance and amplify the voice of political psychology within and beyond the academy and to offer new knowledge on the complex and dynamic relationship between context and mind.
KEY WORDS: narrative, politics, identity, collective memory, social representations, nationalism, language, social constructionism
Since its emergence in the 1970s as a scholarly enterprise seeking to link politics, mind, and behavior, political psychology has struggled to nd an anchoring paradigm. Horowitz (1979) argued that the sustenance of political psychology, and its ability to unify social science disciplines, would be determined by its ability to offer solutions to real political dilemmas. This sentiment is echoed in Barbers (1990) call for a progressive and relevant political psychology, as well as Winters (2000) contention that political psychology must address the practical problems of real life. Both Horowitz (1979) and Smith (1979) suggested that the emergence of political psychology was directly connected to historical concerns and processes related to disciplinary structures. And Smith (1979, 1980) cautiously argued that political psychology might provide a multidisciplinary paradigm for the social and behavioral sciences through its commitment to an analysis of the mind in political context. In some ways, the lack of a coherent unifying paradigm within political psychology is related to the demands of continued disciplinary training for emerging scholars. Hence political psychologists trained primarily in political science might privilege rational choice theory over, say, social identity theory, because that paradigm is considered canonical to their disciplinary practice (e.g., Jervis, 1989). Yet the interdisciplinary nature of political psychology commands the development of conceptual frameworks that can cross borders in elds of knowledge production and, in the process, construct novel ways to approach political problems. In this article, we argue that a paradigm has
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begun to emerge which not only transcends disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences but also provides a bridge to the humanities. That paradigm is narrative. Calling upon social psychologist Ted Sarbins (1986a) classic statement of narrative as a root metaphor for psychology, we argue that narrative represents an ideal root metaphor for political psychology in its ability to resolve the analytic problem of linking mind and society. We suggest that Sarbins (1986a) notion of a narratory principlethat human beings think, perceive, imagine, and make moral choices according to narrative structures (p. 8)can be applied to an understanding of psychological phenomena of interest to political psychologists, including political cognition, decision making, ideological identication, collective beliefs and emotions, and motivation to engage in various forms of political behavior, including political violence. We do not suggest that narrative fully explains all of these phenomena and thus resolves all intellectual conundrums for political psychology. Rather, we claim that a coherent narrative paradigm resolves fundamental dilemmas for the scientic enterprise of political psychology and works against both fragmentation within this hyphenated discipline and its root disciplines of psychology and political science. To develop this argument, we begin with two questions: What is narrative, and who needs it? We thus foreground our argument with a clear sense of how this concept has been used and why it is in fact useful. The bulk of the article then presents four key principles which we suggest ought to guide a narrative approach to research in political psychology. These principles speak to (a) the social construction of language, politics, and thought; (b) the need for personal coherence and identity; (c) the need for collective solidarity through shared meaning; and (d) the mediational and motivational role of language in social practice. We review the theoretical basis of each principle, as well as empirical work related to political psychology. In this conceptual integration, we suggest that narrative provides an ideal paradigmatic lens through which to consider thought, feeling, and action in political context. Narrative: What Is It? Who Needs It? For Jewish Israelis, 2008 marked the sixtieth anniversary of victory and independence (M. Bar-On, 2006); for Palestinians, 2008 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic loss of the dream of national fulllment (Sadi & Abu-Lughod, 2007). These divergent historical interpretations represent narratives that are reproduced through the discourse and cultural products of both societies, including educational materials (e.g., Bar-Tal & Teichman, 2005), myth (e.g., Dalsheim, 2007), and commemorative practices (e.g., Zeruvabel, 1995). They are stories that frame the collective memory of young Israelis and Palestinians as they navigate the process of identity development in the midst of intractable conict (Hammack, 2008, 2010b, 2011). How can we begin to understand the psychological consequences of political conict without an appreciation for the role of such stories in the process of social reproduction? In its simplest meaning, a narrative is a storya spoken or written account of connected events (Oxford English Dictionary, 2010). These accounts may occur in materials such as novels, lms, textbooks, or other sites of discourse production (e.g., news media). Or they may occur in the speeches of leaders, the conversation of a community group, or the telling of an individual life story. Hence the idea of narrative transcends disciplinary boundaries in that these storied accounts are located at every level of analysis. They can be identied in the raw data of historians, literary critics, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and scholars in elds like education and cultural studies. As windows into mind and society, stories know no bounds, and it is precisely this inherent transdisciplinary nature of narrative that makes it an ideal root metaphor for political psychology. In psychology, the idea of narrative began to captivate scholars in the 1980s with the emergence of several key publications (e.g., Cohler, 1982; Freeman, 1984; Gergen & Gergen, 1983; McAdams, 1988; Polkinghorne, 1988; Sarbin, 1986b). These early perspectives focused primarily on the
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structure and function of individual life stories. In several key works, Bruner has argued that the narrative mode of thought is primary and that we interpret the social world through the construction of narratives (e.g., Bruner, 1986, 1990). This process of story-making links the individual mind to a social reality, with its particular cultural and political conditions. Bruners (1990) notion of cultural psychology places the systematic study of cultural meaning-making through narrative as central (see also Hammack, 2008). Since the 1990s, narrative research has increased exponentially in psychology. Clinical psychologists have used the concept of narrative to explain the therapeutic process (e.g., Hermans, 1999; Howard, 1991). Developmental psychologists have examined the way in which storytelling and autobiographical memory emerge in childhood and beyond (e.g., Fivush & Nelson, 2006; Nelson & Fivush, 2004; Pasupathi, Mansour, & Brubaker, 2007), how memory-telling is connected to developmental processes (e.g., McLean, 2005; Thorne, 2000), how young adults experience ethnicity (e.g., Syed & Azmitia, 2008), and how narratives are used as positioning devices in social interaction (e.g., Bamberg, 2004). Social and personality psychologists have emphasized the way in which narrative represents a tool for creating a sense of self and identity (e.g., Freeman, 1997; Hammack, 2008; Josselson, 1996; McAdams, 1996, 2006; McLean, Pasupathi, & Pals, 2007; Schiff, 2002), increasingly integrating analysis of cultural and contextual factors in the construction of self (e.g., Freeman, 1993; Freeman & Brockmeier, 2001; Hammack, 2008). In his analysis of narrative and identity, Hammack (2008) argued that narrative provides access to the current structure of identity (see also Sarbin, 1986a), revealing the ideological and experiential content of memory, as well as the motivational anchor for a set of social practices. Just as psychologists have gradually expanded their focus beyond the role of narrative in individual functioning and development to consider the broader context in which stories are encountered and appropriated, so too have elds like political science, sociology, history, and anthropology begun to take a multilevel approach to narrative. For example, in reaction to the essentializing tendencies of identity politics around categories like race, sex, and gender, Somers (1994) suggested use of a concept of narrative identity to restore a sense of time, space, and relationality (p. 606) to considerations of identity. Her conception of narrative identity allows for an examination of structure and agency through an analysis of how social actors are positioned in relation to a metanarrative or master narrative (see also Fivush, 2010; Hammack, 2008, 2011). Suny (2001) called upon this theoretical approach in his analysis of the construction of old histories for new nations (i.e., primordialism). He suggested that while the state and its actors might construct these retrospective myths to legitimize a present national conguration, there is a process of identication that relies upon emotional and cognitive responses among subjects. In this article, we link insights from disciplines like history and political science with the growing movement in psychology on the study of personal narratives (e.g., McLean, 2008). Central to our framework is the idea of narrative engagementthat members of a society engage with collective stories of what it means to inhabit a particular political entity, be it a nation-state, a resistance movement, or a political party. In other words, being Israeli or Japanese, a Tamil in Sri Lanka, a Kurd in Turkey, or a Democrat or Republican in the United States brings with it a larger story of the groups history, identity, and ideology. In this frame, identity is considered dialogical and rooted in the texts that individuals construct to make sense of their lives, which necessarily entails engagement with the texts of their cultural and political surround (see Bakhtin, 1981, 1984). But the internalization of a master narrative is not given, and political psychologists are uniquely positioned to query this process of narrative engagement. The political psychology of narrative thus addresses two key questions that have captivated social scientists since at least the nineteenth century. First, how does social organization inuence thought, feeling, and action? Second, within the constraints of that organization, how do individuals resist and attempt to reinvent the social order? A narrative approach is well-positioned to contribute
to both of these larger questions in its concern with story-making at multiple levelsthe superordinate level of units like the nation-state, the level of community, and the level of individual subjectivity. At all of these levels, we gain access to processes that are social, cognitive, and motivational in nature in that the stories that are constructed and/or internalized provide interpretive anchors for individuals as they navigate a given political reality. Their response to this reality brings us directly to the study of mobilization and change (e.g., Meyer, 2006), or reproduction of the status quo. In tackling this ambitious agenda, political psychology elevates the relevance of its voice in and beyond the academy and, in the process, is poised to offer valuable new knowledge about the complex and dynamic relationship between context and mind. The Politics of Stories: A Review and Conceptual Integration Our central claim in this article is that narrative represents an ideal root metaphor for political psychology. We argue that the idea of narrative resolves the fundamental interdisciplinary dilemma of political psychology of how to conceptually and methodologically link mind and society (Smith, 1979, 1980). In this section, we sketch a framework that makes a narrative paradigm for political psychology explicit. As we outline this framework, we review the growing body of empirical work of interest to political psychologists that has been conducted through the prism of narrative. Although this work has begun to proliferate in a number of social science disciplines, as well as explicitly within political psychology, few studies cite one another, and they are published in an extremely diverse array of scholarly outlets. This suggests a level of fragmentation which, in our view, is undesirable. In proposing an integrative framework, we advocate that this critical line of work on the relationship between politics and mind be more explicitly anchored in political psychology. We suggest that narrative can be dened at two levels. At the most proximal level, narrative describes a cognitive process of meaning-making (e.g., Bruner, 1990). Representing an organizing principle for human action (Sarbin, 1986a, p. 9), narrative describes the mental act of sense-making from the material of the empirical world (e.g., Bruner, 1987; Bruner & Haste, 1987). Story-making, however, occurs not only at the level of individual psychology, but also at the level of social psychology, which leads us to a multilevel denition of narrative. The commemorative stories of 2008 for Israelis and Palestinians to which we earlier alluded do not represent individual historical interpretations. Rather, they reveal the relevance of narrative at the collective level. As opposed to residing within the mind, these narratives exist in the material world, such as school textbooks (e.g., Carretero, Jacott, & Lpez-Manjn, 2002), and are embodied in cultural practice, such as commemorative celebrations (e.g., Bekerman, 2002). Individuals engage with these collectively constructed stories through their own cultural participation. A conception of narrative for political psychology necessarily integrates these two levels of analysis by dening narrative as the sensible organization of thought through language, internalized or externalized, which serves to create a sense of personal coherence and collective solidarity and to legitimize collective beliefs, emotions, and actions. The content of this cognitive process is key to further elaboration and integration of a narrative approach, and we argue that the key components of it are anchored in beliefs about social categories, collective memory, and social representations of history and collective identity. Importantly, these beliefs gain motivational force through affect. Narrative is thus the underlying process that links individuals to political contexts. Our conception of narrative is anchored in four principles. In our principle of language, politics, and thought, we argue that the mind is subject to a received discourse which brings with it political interests and functions. Rooted in a number of traditions within the social sciences, we suggest that the nature of word meanings and storylines fundamentally affects the way we think about the world, including its ideal norms for governance and intergroup relations (i.e., politics). The second principle we develop is the principal of personal coherence. Here we suggest that the mind seeks order in time
and place, hence a sense of continuity that can be provided through story-making. The third principle we suggest is the principal of meaning in solidarity. In advocating for the signicance of this principle, we reject the notion that individuals represent self-contained psychological entities. Rather, we view the need for continuity not only within the person but also within the community of shared practice, whether that be termed the culture, the nation, or some other index of social identity. Finally, we suggest that a narrative approach embraces a principle of mind in action, by which we mean that processes of story-making and narrative engagement do not represent passive endeavors. Rather, we engage with a storied social ecology as we engage in social practice, and our relationship to that practice is mediated by narrative. In the sections that follow, we elaborate the theoretical and empirical basis of these principles. Language, Politics, and Thought At its core, a narrative approach to political psychology privileges the mutually constitutive relationship among language, thought, and social structure. Such an assumption advocates for an underlying theory of the mind as socially constructed and is anchored in the work of thinkers like George Herbert Mead, Lev Vygotsky, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Mead (1934), for example, argued that mind and self are the products of mediated social interaction. He says, Mind arises through communication by a conversation of gestures in a social process or context of experiencenot communication through mind (p. 50). Such an approach reverses the presumed relationship between mind and society from the notion of a bottom-up process by which individual actors shape society through their mental powers to a top-down process by which minds themselves are produced through the social act. Vygotskys (1934/1962) notion of language as a key tool for human development through mediated social activity closely parallels Meads ideas. He argued that we engage with social speech in the process of development and ultimately come to construct inner speech which mediates our practice in the material world. Thought, Vygotsky (1934/1962) claims, is not merely expressed in words; it comes into existence through them (p. 125). In other words, thought is produced through the process of coming to identify word meanings. A narrative approach embraces this idea that the content of consciousness is produced through the process of discerning word meanings. Of critical import to political psychology is the idea that the meanings of words come to form a sense of concepts and categories that are understood through narrative. As Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue, our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people (p. 3). In their study of the use of language, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) reveal the way in which we use metaphor to make meaning of concepts, thus revealing the critical role of language in guiding thought and action. Foucaults emphasis on discourse is worth some discussion in this regard, because he takes language and difference out of the illusion of power symmetry, revealing the way in which meanings serve particular political interests. His seminal work on the way in which discourse constructs the subjectmost notably the prisoner (Foucault, 1977), the insane (Foucault, 1965), and the homosexual (Foucault, 1978)revealed the way in which discourses of social categories emerge historically and construct the consciousness of subjects. Thus we cannot think of language as neutral vis--vis political and historical forces. Rather, it is embedded within a context of power and domination. The idea of narrative engagement, however, suggests that individuals navigate a polyphonic context in which multiple storylines circulate and compete for dominance and primacy in individual appropriation (Bakhtin, 1984). Because political psychology inherently prescribes a multilevel approach to the person in context, it is uniquely positioned to interrogate the way in which individuals assume particular voices (Bakhtin, 1984) in their personal narratives that link to particu-
lar political interests in a given setting. In other words, political psychologists who assume a narrative approach are concerned with the coconstitutive nature of language, politics, and thought at both cultural and individual levels of analysis. These theoretical perspectives are foundational to our framework in that they suggest that the form and content of narratives (either at the level of the individual or the collective) do not represent an intrinsic state but rather are arbitrarily constructed, in the sense that their meaning is not only relative but constituent of a particular way of thinking (see de Saussure, 1916/1972). What is of political signicance, then, is the meaning that individuals make of the storied system of signication they have inherited and the extent to which they actively participate in it or challenge it (hence working for social and political change). In political psychology, this link between politics and language has been most explicitly investigated through the lens of discursive psychology. The discursive approach, situated within the larger social constructionist movement (e.g., Berger & Luckmann, 1966; Gergen, 1985, 1994, 1999), views conversation as a mechanism through which individuals create reality and legitimize their positions within it (e.g., Edwards, 1997; Potter & Wetherell, 1987). There are at least two distinct lines of empirical research of relevance to political psychology that assume this approach: (1) studies that examine the nature of political discourse and rhetoric, and (2) studies that examine social categories as rhetorically constructed. Political Discourse Analysis The rst clear line of research that takes a linguistic approach to the relationship between politics and mind examines the content of political rhetoric directly, typically in the form of political speeches (e.g., Reicher & Hopkins, 1996) or interviews with political ofcials (e.g., Weltman & Billig, 2001). The emphasis in this area of research is largely on the way in which leaders use stories to frame particular political issues and to motivate adherence to a particular political agenda. Three studies illustrate a narrative approach to the analysis of political leaders speeches. Reicher and Hopkins (1996) analyzed speeches made by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock to their respective parties about the 198485 miners strike. Their analysis revealed that Thatcher depicted the strike as a conict between the democratic principles underlying Britishness and the threat of terrorism posed by the strikes leaders. In contrast, Kinnocks speech depicted the strike as a conict between a wide spectrum of groups in British society and Thatcher herself. Each leader depicted ingroup party representativeness as being as comprehensive as possible and outgroup representativeness as being as restricted as possible (see also Herrera & Reicher, 1998). Simply put, Thatcher and Kinnock crafted competing narratives in order to gain support for their agendas and relied upon the power of language to construct a particular cognitive and ideological lens for their audience. Weltman and Billig (2001) analyzed the ideological discourse in interviews with 20 elected political leaders in England. They discovered that leaders constructed a discourse that sought to transcend the ideology of left versus right, even as they maintained distinction through their afliation with a particular political party. Their analysis of political rhetoric at a time of social change (with the rise of the Third Way in England) revealed the way in which political leaders seek to situate themselves within larger discourses by constructing personal narratives of political identity that correspond to these shifting storylines. Leaders constructed stories of their own personal ideological development that corresponded to the perceived popularity of a postideological political context. In this way, they used language to position themselves within a place of personal and social coherence oriented toward political advantage. Leudar, Marsland, and Nekvapil (2004) analyzed speeches of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Osama bin Laden following the September 11, 2001 attacks. They argued that each gure distinguished us from them by constructing distinct narratives of ingroup and outgroup. Whereas Bush
and Blair made category distinctions based on social, political, and moral terms, bin Laden did so in religious terms. 9/11 was rendered an attack on the civilized world and democratic principles by Bush and Blair and a strike against the enemies of God by bin Laden. Leudar and colleagues (2004) argued that such categorizations justify past and future actions. Thus, a military response against bin Laden could be construed as an action in defense of not only the United States, but also the rest of the civilized world. Studies of the discourse of political leaders reveal the way in which narratives are constructed and presented to the populace to serve political interests. While this approach has become increasingly popular, an analysis of the way in which narratives of political leaders impact individual subjectivity remains unstudied. There is a need to empirically link these kinds of narrative analyses to the level of the individual mind through interrogating individual responses to these narratives. Nonetheless, these studies reveal the way in which political leaders assume a social constructionist position as they craft their own discourse. Social Categories as Rhetoric Foucaults historical analysis suggests that social categories not only construct a sense of subjectivity but are also connected to the political and historical conditions of a society (e.g., Foucault, 1978). Although not explicitly linked, this fundamental insight is relevant to social identity theorys emphasis on the relative status and meaning of social categories (e.g., Tajfel, 1981; see also Reicher & Hopkins, 2001a). Research that applies the notion of discourse to social categorization in political contexts can be linked to these earlier social psychological paradigms. Yet, in many ways, this line of research is a response to the more static approach to social categorization and social identity that emphasizes automatic cognitive processes (Billig, 1985, 1987, 2003). These studies focus on social categorization as a rhetorical or narrative process and the way in which the social categories we inhabit are discursively constructed. Potter and Reicher (1987) analyzed rhetorical constructions of the category of community in public (e.g., newspaper, radio, and television) and individual accounts of street disturbances involving police and community members in Bristol, England in 1980. They found that interpretations of the disturbances and solutions for prevention of future disturbances depended on whether the police were included within the social category of community or constructed as outgroup members. Thus perception of political events is intimately linked to how the boundaries of groups are discursively constructed. Inspired by Billigs (1987) rhetorical notion of identity construction, Ullah (1990) examined narratives of second-generation Irish youth in England during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He demonstrated how this unique group of youth negotiated the ideological conict of their identity status through the appropriation and repudiation of some discourses over others. Youth alternated between identication with their Irish or English sense of social identity depending upon their argumentative goals in dealing with . . . others (p. 185). That is, their sense of social identity was dependent upon the context of social interaction, and the youth used language to alternate between identications. Herrera and Reicher (1998) extended this rhetorical approach to categorization beyond the level of individual cognition in their study of category constructions among pro- and anti-Gulf War respondents. They found that memorability of war-related images conformed to rhetorical constructions of pro- and antiwar political positions. Prowar participants found images that conformed to the construction of the war as one in which the civilized world confronted the gure of Saddam Hussein (e.g., images of allied soldiers) more memorable. Antiwar participants, by contrast, found images that conformed to the construction of the war as one propagated by special interests against common human interests (e.g., pictures of dead bodies) to be more memorable. This nding illustrates the rhetorical basis of social categories and their inuence on perception.
In sum, our conception of narrative is rooted in the notion that the narrative mode of thought is fundamental to human cognition (Bruner, 1990). That is, we make sense of the social world through crafting storied accounts of our participation in it. This cognitive process is key to our ability to understand the past and predict future social events (Costabile & Klein, 2008). At the root of this proposition is a basic assumption about the relationship among language, thought, and social realityan assumption that the meaning of words is both relative and arbitrary, all the while serving some political interest. The stuff of thought is made through our engagement with the world of meaningsour participation in a particular regime of signication. In short, how we think and what we think is rooted in the particular set of meaning-saturated signs and symbols we inherit in a given political setting. The empirical work we reviewed in this section links to this fundamental assumption in the priority it accords the concept of political discourse and discourse about social categories. This work either explicitly or implicitly acknowledges a constructionist approach to language and thought, and the analyses provided in these studies illuminate the way in which political leaders utilize discursive strategies to advance their agendas (e.g., Reicher & Hopkins, 1996). Studies that probe the discursive nature of social categories (e.g., Ullah, 1990) begin to take what we consider to be the next step in linking politics and mindan interrogation of the way in which individuals use narrative to create a sense of personal and social meaning. Politics and the Personal: Coherence and Identity One of the most signicant debates in the 1990s, with the explosion of the postmodern movement across the social sciences (e.g., Kvale, 1992), centered on the nature of the self and personal identity. Gergen (1991) posited a saturated self inherently fragmented in an age of destabilization. While Giddenss (1991) account of the psychological consequences of late modernity similarly emphasized the problem of ontological insecurity and existential uncertainty, he argued that there is a fundamental need to create a sense of meaning and coherence out of the muddle of social complexity. Thus Giddens (1991) seeks to link agency and structure in such a way as to fully consider intersubjectivityan important theoretical move that challenges the radical perspectivalism of postmodern social theory. Accepting the foundational argument of both Gergen (1991) and Giddens (1991) on the nature of contemporary social and political life, we believe a narrative approach is sympathetic to Giddenss (1991) interpretation of the individual response to fragmentation, threat, and identity destabilization (see Hammack, 2008; Kinnvall, 2004). Though we emphasize the role of narrative in the provision of coherence, it is important to note that narrative researchers are increasingly exploring issues of incoherence and rupture in the story-making processes (e.g., Hydn & Brockmeier, 2008). The principle of personal coherence that underlies our vision of narrative can be linked to William James (1890) notion of personal identity. James (1890) dened personal identity as the consciousness of personal sameness (p. 331). In his account, he assumed that human cognition is fundamentally characterized by the need to create coherence, order, and a sense of continuity. James assumptions about the way in which personal identity provides an essential psychological sense of continuity in time and space through the mechanism of cognition underlie the narrative approach to identity in personality and social psychology (e.g., Hammack, 2008; McAdams, 1996). In the context of social and political complexity in an age of globalization, this process becomes increasingly intentional but no less pervasive or psychologically essential (Giddens, 1991; Hammack, 2008; McAdams, 1996, 1997). Long before these debates about postmodernity and identity, though, Erik Erikson adopted this Jamesian view of personal identity and extended it to include a comprehensive analysis of the social and political context. While continuing to emphasize the role of a sense of self-sameness, Erikson
(1959) extended Jamess denition of identity to importantly include a maintenance of an inner solidarity with a groups ideals and identity (p. 109, italics in original). Eriksons analysis of the life histories of historically and politically signicant gures, such as Martin Luther (Erikson, 1958) and Gandhi (Erikson, 1969), revealed the way in which particular political circumstances collide with individual experience to produce major social change. He illustrated how individuals are motivated to pursue particular paths of political action based on a need for meaning through identity, in terms of both individual and social psychology (i.e., the need for personal coherence and a sense of collective solidarity). The perspectives of James and Erikson remain alive and well among scholars who study narrative identity. A key line of empirical study related to political psychology in which this area of inquiry has ourished has been on the relationship between national identity and personal identity. The emphasis in this work has been on how individuals construct personal narratives of identity that closely mirror larger national storylines, thus providing a sense of personal coherence and group solidarity. This line of research on personal and national identity is conceptually similar to work on collective memory. But what is of most interest in this work is how personal discourse (e.g., Hammack, 2011) or discourse in interaction (e.g., Greenwalt, 2009) mirrors national narratives of history and identity to provide a sense of personal coherence. That is, researchers are interested in how elements of the national or collective storyline become part of personal narratives individuals construct to achieve a sense of self-sameness. This approach contrasts with studies of collective memory, in which a common goal is to probe individual interpretations of historical events and examine those interpretations in relation to the discourse of the state (e.g., Wertsch, 2002, 2008b). Much of the theoretical emphasis in this work comes from the idea that nations represent imagined communities (Anderson, 1983) which emerged in the transition from imperialism as the dominant mode of human social and political organization in the late nineteenth century (Hobsbawm, 1990). In order to create a sense of collective purpose and meaning, storylines of national identity were constructed, often anchoring themselves in a much longer historical connection to the distant past (Suny, 2001). Social psychologists have increasingly argued that national identity represents a highly salient index of social categorization (e.g., David & Bar-Tal, 2009; Reicher & Hopkins, 2001b), which brings with it numerous implications for psychological processes. A recent example of this approach is illustrated in Hammacks (2009, 2010a, 2011) work with Israeli and Palestinian youth. Examining the personal narratives of youth, he revealed the ways in which the form, thematic content, and ideological setting of personal narratives closely mirrors national storylines. For example, his analysis of Jewish Israeli narratives revealed the way in which contemporary youth narrate redemptive life stories that appropriate the collective storyline of national redemption from the tragedy of the Diaspora and the Holocaust (Hammack, 2009). By contrast, Palestinian life stories assume a tragic form that appropriates the national narrative of collective loss and continued failure to achieve independence (Hammack, 2010a; see also Witteborn, 2007). Palestinian citizens of Israel narrate life stories that reveal the complexity of their hyphenated identities (Hammack, 2010c). Young Israelis and Palestinians thus call upon national storylines as they construct coherence in the midst of intractable conict. Byrne (2007) revealed how narrating what it means to be English was employed as a means of narrating the self among middle-class, white women in Great Britain. Constructing English national identity along gendered, racial, and class lines, participants embedded what it meant to be English in forms of living, personal histories, and everyday routines. Through their engagement with what it meant to be English, the participants were able to construct a coherent collective identity within a multicultural British society. As Reicher and Hopkins (2001b) argue, nationhood is the predominant form of social organization to the extent that it is viewed as a natural rather than as a social fact. Studies that use narrative
to examine the relationship between national and personal identity illustrate this point by revealing the way in which individuals use language to situate themselves within a larger discursive context. This research<|fim_middle|> deserve review. First, Carretero and colleagues (2002) compared the narratives of 1492 in Spanish and Mexican textbooks. They found important distinctions between these narratives, centering on whether events were described as discovery (in Spanish textbooks) or encounter (in Mexican textbooks), and they argued that these ofcial narratives of history link to present-day national identity concerns. Another important study in this area is Buckley-Zistels (2009) analysis of history education after the Rwandan genocide. She analyzed the current government discourse about history teaching to argue that the state is seeking to write a new narrative of ethnic history to transcend past divisions. A key part of this narrative is the idea that ethnicity only emerged as a salient category in Rwanda with the colonial encounter. Thus there is a present-day attempt to institutionalize collective memory through history education, using narrative to achieve political ends for unication. Research suggests, however, that students are not merely passive recipients of the ofcial memory conveyed in history textbooks. For example, Goldberg, Porat, and Schwarz (2006) found that student narratives of the Great Aliyah (i.e., massive immigration) to Israel in the 1950s diverged considerably from ofcial accounts of the event. Student narratives depicted the assimilationist immigration policy of the time as oppressive and problematic in contrast to the ofcial narrative that portrayed the absorption of immigrants as a redemptive and altruistic act by the Israeli state. Porat (2004) examined engagement with collective memory through narrative among Jewish Israeli secondary school students. Students provided a narrative account of a 1920 violent event between Jews and Arabs and were subsequently exposed to the ofcial Israeli historical narrative of the event in a textbook. One year later, they provided another narrative account of the event. Narratives of the event were inuenced by the particular community within Israel from which the students hailed (i.e., secular vs. religious). That is, the narratives youth provided over time were highly dependent on the particular social memory to which they were exposed in their everyday lives, as well as the current political mood within the country. Porats (2004) study illustrates how youth are not passive recipients of collective memory. Rather, their engagement with historical narratives is complex and not uniform. This approach is
particularly suitable for the kind of paradigmatic approach we advocate because it interrogates both the institutional context of narrative and the agency individuals exert as they navigate their storied surround. This study, like Coles (2003) study in Madagascar, does not assume a linear relationship between national identity and the process of narrative engagement. Rather, it reveals the way in which collective memory is always in a fragile place of appropriation and repudiation. Though the primary focus of work on narrative and collective memory has concerned national identity-making, scholars have begun to focus on the role of narrative in constructing other forms of subjectivity. Rivkin-Fish (2009) examined the role of memory in constructing class subjectivity in Russia. She demonstrated how contemporary middle-class Russians use narratives of the Soviet past to legitimize emerging inequalities in the post-Soviet era, thus illustrating how historical narratives can be linked to economic interests. Kuroiwa and Verkuyten (2008) illustrated how leaders and members of a group ghting for political autonomy on the border of Thailand and Burma use narrative to try to construct a common ethnic identity, thus seeking to frame their political movement in a discourse of ethnonationalism. In sum, our conception of narrative is anchored in the notion that the process of narration is inherently social and speaks to a fundamental need for collective meaning. The most prolic line of research calling upon this principle focuses on the study of collective memory, embodied in narratives generated by individuals about historical events (e.g., Cole, 2003) and in ofcial documents that seek to inculcate a particular historical narrative (e.g., textbooks; Carretero et al., 2002). While studies reveal the way in which individuals are subject to particular narratives that serve political interests, there is an emerging consensus among empirical work in this area on collective memory as a social process. That is, studies that link levels of analysis reveal a process of dynamic engagement with narratives of collective memory, as opposed to a static, linear account of the relationship between social memory and individual subjectivity. Thus political subjects are viewed as active social meaning-makers whose appropriation of particular narratives over others offers insight into the political trajectory of a society. Social Representations A second line of theoretical and empirical work that speaks to the role of narrative in the provision of collective meaning focuses on social representations. According to Moscovici (1988), social representations . . . concern the contents of everyday thinking and the stock of ideas that gives coherence to our religious beliefs, political ideas and the connections we create as spontaneously as we breathe (p. 214). As such, social representations provide individuals with a way of making sense of socially signicant phenomenon (Howarth, 2006). Moreover, social representations involve the elaboration of a social object by the community for the purpose of behaving and communicating (Moscovici, 1963) and thus exist both in the world and within the individual psyche (Moscovici, 1988). Thus, social representations provide a conceptual framework for understanding the link that exists between the individual and the social (Howarth, 2006; Moscovici, 1989). Like the narrative approach we advocate, social representations theory emphasizes processes of meaning-making and the fundamental link between context and mind. According to Liu and Hilton (2005), social representations of history serve a crucial role in the development of group identity. At the national level, social representations of history are woven into a temporal form and serve as narratives that inform members about who they are, where they come from, and where they are going. Social representations of history act as a symbolic reserve that can be drawn upon depending on their relevance to present needs (Liu & Atsumi, 2008; Liu & Hilton, 2005). Narratives of history can thus be used to strengthen and/or position national and ethnic identities in relation to others. In terms of strengthening identities, Hong, Wong, and Liu (2001) found that historical narratives of war, regardless of whether they involve ones group, can strengthen ethnic identity. Hong Kong
Chinese undergraduates were presented a slideshow about the Sino-Japanese War or the involvement of New Zealand soldiers in World War II. Accompanying the slideshow were audio-recorded narratives describing each war or, in the control condition, the aesthetics of the images presented. Exposure to war narratives generated signicantly more thoughts about ethnic groups and led participants to attribute more importance to their Chinese ethnic identities regardless of whether the images depicted the Sino-Japanese War or the New Zealand soldiers. Historical narratives containing social representations of war thus appear to serve as a means of strengthening ethnic identication in generally (Hong et al., 2001). In terms of positioning identities, Sibley, Liu, Duckitt, and Khan (2008) explored the role of historical narratives in legitimizing social inequality in New Zealand. Among New Zealanders of European descent, they found that the adoption of narratives negating the relevance and/or legitimacy of historical injustices was correlated with opposition to bicultural social policies for indigenous Maoris. Moreover, after experimentally manipulating exposure to narrative type, they found that presenting an injustice-negating narrative decreased support for resource-specic bicultural policies among liberal-voting participants. Thus, narratives that negate past injustices may serve as a legitimizing myth (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) for status differentials between groups. Social representations of history can also be used to construct narratives that seem to reconcile past injustices. Tileaga (2009) analyzed a report commissioned by the Romanian government that condemned the countrys communist period. He argued that the reports intention to come to terms with the past centered on the construction of a particular social representation of Romanias communist period. This representation identied the communist past as a matter of public concern, portrayed communism as a bounded category associated with criminality and violence, and situated communism as something that occurred in the past. Through this representation, the condemnation of Romanias communist history became a feature in the present constitution of Romanian national identity. As Tileaga s (2009) study illustrates, social representations of history play a crucial part in the political projects of nations trying to reconcile their pasts. In sum, in this section we have suggested that individuals engage with collective forms of meaning through texts of collective memory and social representations of history. We suggest that the concept of narrative importantly links these disparate lines of theoretical and empirical work and provides a conceptual vocabulary that provides greater specicity for empirical research. Many of the studies reviewed in this section embody an important shift in interdisciplinary approaches to narrative. They inherently adopt a multilevel approach in which political discourse is mapped in ofcial texts of memory, such as state historical accounts, and linked to an analysis of individual engagement with those texts (e.g., Cole, 2003; Porat, 2004). Such studies do not assume a linear relationship between master and personal narratives of historical events and, in fact, interrogate the variability in appropriation of master narratives. They seek to transcend the divide between structure and agency by conceiving of individuals as political actors whose motivations to reproduce or repudiate various versions of social memory must be probed. And as many of these studies reveal, such an approach to narrative research moves beyond mere description to provide a window into politically transformative possibilities, such as critical pedagogy around history (Zembylas & Bekerman, 2008). In the next section, we examine the explicit connection between narrative and social practice. From Mind to Action: Social Practice, Emotion, and Narrative Thus far our integrative account of narrative has emphasized the what of narrativeits content and manifestation at both the individual and collective level. This emphasis privileges the primacy of cognition in some ways. But our conception is rooted in a constructionist approach to mind and society. Hence narratives must be viewed not simply as processes or products of cognition but rather simultaneously as the mediated activity of social practice itself. This view of narrative in action takes
us from the what of narrative to the how. Specically, how does narrative as practice speak to possibilities of political transformation? How do stories motivate particular forms of social practice, and how are stories called upon to legitimize political action? The fourth key principle we advocate for a narrative approach in political psychology posits that it is through mediated activity, or social practice, that our mental processes occur. Our engagement with the material world and its received social structure is mediated through the prism of narrative. Here we again link to the pioneering theory of Vygotsky (1978), who argued, after Marx, that consciousness is shaped by the tools we use as we engage with the material world (see also Wertsch, 1991, 1998). Language represents one of these tools, and narrative represents an organization of language to convey a particular meaning (Bruner, 1990). But in extending this view beyond cognition, we suggest that it is in the relationship between affect and cognition that the motivational basis of stories can be identied. The embodiment of narratives in particular forms of practice is thus saturated with emotion, and we suggest a primary role for emotion in the process of narrative engagement. In this view of the relationship among thought, feeling, and action, the mind is produced in the social act (Mead, 1934). In other words, thinking, feeling, and doing are inextricably reciprocal. What concerns us, though, is the way in which particular forms of social activity mandate forms of story-making. To be more concrete, how do particular political processes, like major political events or social change, call upon forms of narrative to create a kind of intelligibility for mediated social practice? How do political ruptures become sensible through attempts at narrative intelligibility, whether among individuals or political leaders? And, in the opposite vein, how might narrative be used for politically transformative ends in settings of an unjust status quo? Finally, what role does emotion assume in these processes? At least four lines of empirical research on narrative begin to shed light on the mediational propertiesand transformative possibilitiesof narrative. One line of research reveals narrative as a tool for sense-making in the context of major social and political change. A second line of research focuses on narrative in the political reconciliation process. In the third line of research, the transformative power of narrative is revealed in studies that illustrate the position of subordinate or subaltern individuals and groups. Finally, an emerging emphasis on the role of emotion in political processes reveals a key motivational mechanism in the process of narrative engagement. Narratives of Political and Social Change A key window into the mediational nature of narrative exists in studies of how social and political ruptures are storied. One area of study has focused on the use of social memory for protest and resistance within a particular political order (for review, see Meyer, 2006; Polletta, 1998a). Studies in this area have examined how leaders of social movements attempt to construct collective memory through narrative for mobilization. For example, Covin (1997) illustrated how the Black Consciousness Movement in Brazil made use of narrative and social memory to motivate individuals to work against the status quo. Polletta (1998b) revealed how a narrative of student sit-in activities in the 1960s emerged as a force for collective identity and mobilization. The most signicant work on narrative and social/historical change within political psychology has been conducted by Molly Andrews. Her study of British social activists examined their lifelong commitment to political change through an analysis of personal narratives (Andrews, 1991). Critically interrogating Western conceptions of identity, aging, and the life course, she illustrated how social activists maintain a strong sense of purpose through their interpretations of the social and political change they have sought to achieve. She extended this general approach linking personal narrative and political change to an analysis of East Germans after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Andrews, 1997, 1998). This key line of research on the interrelations of the personal and the political through narrative culminated in Andrews 2007 book, Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change, in which she reviewed the studies in England and East Germany as well as two other key projects: one on narrative
responses to 9/11 in the United States and one on the use of stories in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of post-apartheid South Africa. In all of these studies, Andrews focuses on the way in which political subjects use narrative to create historical interpretations that, consistent with theoretical accounts in social and personality psychology, create a sense of purpose and meaning for individuals (e.g., McAdams, 1997). Yet her analysis goes beyond a focus on personal coherence by illustrating the way in which personal narratives are linked to social practice, revealing the union of thought and action through narrative. At least three other projects exemplify the use of narrative to study political change. CharlickPaley and Sylvan (2000) applied Pennington and Hasties (1986) approach to story construction in decision making to an analysis of former Soviet and French military ofcers accounts of the loss of Eastern Europe and Indochina, respectively. Using evidence from the narratives of these ofcers and corresponding media narratives, they suggested that military personnel formulated new stories to adapt to changing political contextsstories that justify the change in status. In other words, the military ofcers came to internalize the states narrative of the need to abandon these territories for the larger national interest, in spite of the fact that most military ofcers previously strongly opposed withdrawal from these territories. This study illustrates the way in which agents of state power use narrative to justify their own changes in position vis--vis political issues. Daiute and Turniskis (2005) study of youth narratives in postwar Croatia revealed how individuals engage with stories of political change in ways that serve their momentary social and psychological interest. Unlike the previous generation of Serbs and Croats, the youth in this study narrated intergroup similarity and harmony in direct contrast to the identity polarization of the war. While they recognized the emotional and material legacy of the war among adults, the narratives of these youth suggested a future orientation to intergroup relations that emphasized equality and collective solidarity. Brockmeier (2008) illustrated the challenge of eye witnesses to the 9/11 tragedy in New York to nd words to narrate the meaning of their experience. Their stories revealed the experience of an exceptional moment referring to a collective loss of safety and certainty. In other words, their narratives reected the historical rupture of 9/11its discontinuity with their political and cultural understandings of present and future. Brockmeier (2008) examined use of linguistic devices such as metaphor to interpret the trauma of 9/11, suggesting that trauma can create a breakdown of narrativity (p. 34) through the representational gap between experience and language. Studies that focus on the narration of social and political change are inherently multilevel in their concern for the way in which political subjects make meaning of change. In some cases, the emphasis of analysis is their own participation in making social change (e.g., Andrews, 1991). In other cases, studies are more concerned with how individuals respond to and reect shifting storylines about politics and intergroup relations (e.g., Daiute & Turniski, 2005) or politically traumatic events (e.g., Brockmeier, 2008). Two important areas of inquiry take these concerns a step further and explicitly examine the narrative basis of the political reconciliation process and the transformative power of narrative for subordinated groups. Narratives of Political Reconciliation Scholars of conict resolution and peace studies have increasingly argued for the centrality of narrative in reconciliation processes. Based on the idea that conicts are framed in terms of polarized, negatively interdependent narratives (Bar-Tal, 2007; Hammack, 2008; Kelman, 1999; Rouhana & Bar-Tal, 1998), such scholars suggest that reconciliation and integration of collective narratives is a necessary step on the path to political resolution (Auerbach, 2009; Salomon, 2004). This approach has been advocated in several contexts of political conict, including between Israelis and Palestinians (e.g., D. Bar-On, 2006), Japanese and Chinese (e.g., Liu & Atsumi, 2008), and groups within South Africa (e.g., Moon, 2006).
In spite of the recent proliferation of perspectives that advance a narrative approach to reconciliation, few empirical studies in this area have been conducted. An early exception is Andrewss (1999) study of the personal narratives of individuals who had been involved in political resistance in East Germany. She conducted interviews with these individuals in the context of the formation of East Germanys truth commission following the fall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Her analysis of the complexities of the forgiveness process highlighted the challenges of mutual recognition of historical events and power asymmetries, and her use of narrative methods to provide a window into this process revealed the meaning individuals made of major political changes. The work of truth commissions largely represents an effort to reconstruct national narrative and collective memory. Andrews (2003) contrasted the nature of this process in East Germany and South Africa, suggesting that the role of the truth commission in each society differed. In East Germany, the truth commission was necessary to forge a new common historical memory, though this process silenced those for whom resistance was not central to their daily lives. In South Africa, the TRC was more closely connected to the nation-building role of narrative. Thus the commission was largely concerned with the construction of a common national identity for a fragmented society. At the level of individual psychology, a narrative approach to political reconciliation provides critical access to the meaning individuals make of major political transformations, particularly when there is a need to reconceptualize rmly held beliefs about historical events. At the level of social psychology, a narrative approach reveals the way in which societies and political leaders use institutions like truth commissions to forge solidarity and to maintain a sense of social coherence in political transitions. At both levels, the implication is that narratives mediate the relation between the material reality and forms of action. At the individual level, the use of storytelling approaches within the context of intergroup contact has been described by Dan Bar-On (2006) and Salomon (2004). In this approach, members of conicting groups share personal stories, with the ultimate goal to develop a common narrative of the conict (Albeck, Adwan, & Bar-On, 2002; D. Bar-On, 2006). Within this framework, individual narratives are viewed as situated in the collective narrative of the conict. Thus, changes in the former are viewed as a means of bringing about changes in the latter (Albeck et al., 2002). Within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conict, the implementation of the storytelling approach encounters mutually exclusive claims of victimhood (Bar-On & Sarsar, 2004) and strict victim-perpetrator dichotomies (Bargal, 2004). Nevertheless, after applying the storytelling approach within the context of intergroup dialogue, Bar-On and Kassem (2004) found that the sharing of personal and family narratives enabled Jewish Israeli and Palestinian participants to transcend strict us versus them dichotomies (cf. Hammack, 2006). Specically, participants were able to incorporate aspects of the other groups narrative into their personal narrative. Therefore, according to the authors, the sharing of personal stories facilitated acknowledgment and legitimization of the other groups narrative. According to Rouhana (2004), reconciliation at the societal level entails recognition of historical injustices. Exploring this issue within the context of Chinese-Japanese relations, Liu and Atsumi (2008) contended that peace-making among Chinese and Japanese societies is related to psychological issues like social representations of historical conict, specically with regard to the SinoJapanese War and World War II, as well as symbolic processes of apology and forgiveness. They proposed a framework for reconciliation based in the indigenous psychology of East Asia and a symbolic approach to mutual recognition of historical narratives. As this brief review suggests, there is signicant optimism among scholars of conict resolution and peace studies on the potential role of narrative to contribute to political reconciliation. Unfortunately, though, there is very little empirical work in this area. The conceptual and empirical work that has been done in this area clearly (though often implicitly) calls upon a view of narrative as a mediator between structure and agency, particularly at the level of the individual. That is, just as
storied accounts legitimize a particular social order of war and conict (e.g., Bar-Tal, 2007; Rouhana & Bar-Tal, 1998), they also can be used to work for a reformulation of thought and action among political subjects (e.g., Salomon, 2004). Hence the reconciliation process necessarily relies upon a reconguration of stories at the collective level, while also a space for the dissemination of personal stories that legitimize the need for political change (e.g., Andrews, 2003; D. Bar-On, 2006). The Transformative Voice of Narrative As we have suggested, an appeal of the narrative approach is its ability to transcend the simplistic account of structure versus agency that plagues the social sciences. Scholars in elds like anthropology and sociology, following theorists like Marx and Durkheim, often privilege the power of structure over agency, while psychologists (outside of social psychology) often rely upon a model of the person as largely self-contained. A narrative paradigm inherently rejects this dichotomy in favor of an analysis of the space between these forcesthe world of mediated social practice in narrative engagement. An important line of work highlights narratives as tools for political transformation and speaks to the possibility of narrative to respond to structural inequities. Personal and collective narratives can thus become resources for empowerment and social change (Ledwith, 2005; Rappaport, 1995). Andrewss (1991) study of social activists in England offers a good example. The narratives of her participants provided both legitimacy and a sense of meaning and purpose to the political struggles with which they were intimately engaged, including advocacy for equal rights based on class and gender. Coutos (1993) study of civil rights leaders in the U.S. South also exemplies research designed to highlight narratives as politically transformative. He interviewed over 50 local civil rights leaders from 1978 to 1988 to illustrate the way in which narratives serve as mobilization devices for political change. Narratives can thus serve as anchors of resistance and provide a sense of collective agency. The use of narrative to reveal the experience of social injustice and structural inequality, including gender subordination (Andrews, 2002, 2006), is increasingly being undertaken. Two examples of this work include Marakowitzs (1996) study of womens political agency in Finland and Skjelsbks (2006) study of rape victims during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Marakowitz (1996) related the limits of political agency experienced by Finnish women to their participation in the construction of the Finnish national narrative. Although active participants in its construction, this narrative stressed gender interdependence and the role of women as nurturers and caregivers. As a result, political participation of women in Finland was legitimized but circumscribed to matters related to domestic issues. Skjelsbk (2006) analyzed the personal narratives of rape victims following the Bosnian war, guided by a commitment to providing voice to the trauma of this experience. She argued that the experience of sexual violence revealed a dual-identity assault for these women in its connection to the identity-based conict that underlied the war. Thus these women were targets in terms of both ethnicity and gender. In terms of ethnic identity, women largely narrated a survivor story, while they narrated a victim story in terms of their gender. The postwar context offered a political setting for them to construct narratives that redeemed the assault on their ethnic identity, yet their narratives retained the powerful trauma of the sexual violence. This type of analysis reveals the strategies women use to cope with the sexual violence that often accompanies war, and Skjelsbks narrative approach provides a direct window into the complexity of meaning that these women made of their trauma. Narrative research that explicitly aims to provide transformative voice directly integrates an analysis of power and intergroup relations, based most frequently on gender though increasingly often on other indices of identity, including sexual identity and national identity. Crawley and Broad (2004) examined the transformative role of storytelling among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals (see also Blackburn, 2009; Hammack & Cohler, 2009). Through their
ethnography of LGBT presentation panels in classes and organizations, the authors suggested that LGBT individuals use stories to both refute stereotypes and to construct a coherent social movement for political equality. In this way, their use of narrative is consistent with notions of transformative voice (Sampson, 1993). Witteborns (2007) study of Palestinian identity provides an example of the transformative approach on issues related to national or cultural identity. Since the majority of Palestinians remain stateless inhabitants of military occupation (Gordon, 2008), they occupy a unique subaltern identity status (Khalidi, 1997). In Witteborns (2007) study, Palestinian participants expressed national identity through personal stories that conveyed themes of dislocation, division, and resistance. She illustrated how the narration of Palestinian national identities became a means of appeal for mobilization of the audience for social change. Narratives not only provide a sense of solidarity within a single national community working for political change but also within transnational social movements. For example, Nepstad (2001) illustrated the use of narrative as a unifying tool in the U.S.-Central America peace movement. She analyzed the deployment of the life story of Salvadoran Archbishop Romero among disparate communities in Central America and the United States to construct a coherent and unied social movement. In sum, studies that examine the power of narrative to work for political transformation implicitly position the story-making process as a mediator between thought and action and, more important, as a motivational force for social and political change. They recognize the power of language and discourse not just to describe but also to provoke new forms of activity or practice (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, & Cain, 1998). Narrative research in this tradition thus seeks to link forms of subjectivity with transformative action at both the level of the individual and collective. An important question is not addressed in this work, however. Simply put, why do narratives motivate particular forms of action? That is, what do stories provoke to motivate individuals to participate in a social or political movement? To address this question, we turn to the increasing line of narrative research on the role of emotion in politics. Emotion and the Politics of Narrative The relationship among thought, feeling, and action has been a major focus of study in psychology at least since Jamess (1890) well-known theory of emotion. He argued that physiological sensations are an essential component of the experience of emotion and are closely connected to our interpretation of events (what he termed perception). Scholars of narrative have increasingly suggested that emotions are central to the story-making process (e.g., Singer, 1995). In his claim that the emotional life is storied, Sarbin (1995) argued that individuals develop patterned rhetorical actions that contribute to ones moral identity (p. 218). That is, they respond to the unvoiced question: What am I in relation to the Good? (p. 219). Affect is thus central to the actions individuals take within the discursive limits of a given surround. The internalization of a particular voice requires an identication with and idealization of that voice, which can be explained through the concept of emotion. Narratives are thus intrinsically provocative. They evoke sentiments that correspond to the ideals individuals come to hold about a given social reality. In this frame, narrative engagement is a process of dialogic encounter with some cultural settingsome community of shared practice. But it is not a neutral encounter in the sense that it is affectively saturated and oriented toward some collective or personal notion of morality (Haste & Abrahams, 2008). The stories individuals develop to fulll fundamental needs for both personal and social coherence are best understood as morality talesstories that speak to individual and collective perceptions of an ideal social reality. In this dialogic view, actors are always inhabiting particular positions vis--vis moral discourses (Harr & van Langenhove, 1991; Haste & Abrahams, 2008). The
task, then, for political psychologists is to map the emotional canvas upon which stories circulate and are appropriated or repudiated. Few studies have directly examined the relationship among emotion, narrative, and politics. Most have focused on the emotional content of narratives in times of war and conict. Zarowskys (2000, 2004) research on Somali returnees in Ethiopia in the mid-1990s revealed the way in which narratives of dispossession were infused with anger toward the actions of local, national, and global institutions. She suggested that a narrative approach to understanding the trauma of these individuals better speaks to their lived experience than the framework of post-traumatic stress disorder. Zembylas has written extensively about the politics of affect, particularly in settings of political conict. Using his studies of educational practice in Cyprus as an example, he argued that the affect intrinsic to narratives in conict settingsaffect closely related to the trauma of conict and warcan be deployed to work for reconciliation in educational settings (e.g., Zembylas, 2007, 2008). Zembylas and Ferreira (2009) illustrated the use of personal storytelling in the classroom as a means to combat the ethos of conict (Bar-Tal, 2000). Using ethnographic data from Cyprus and South Africa, they demonstrated the use of storytelling to promote empathy. In terms of political rhetoric, Loseke (2009) revealed the way in which President Bush used emotion codes to encourage particular affective responses following 9/11. Bushs narrative drew upon the symbolic codes of victim and hero in its depiction of Americans and villain in its depiction of terrorists. The depiction of Americans as victims was meant to invoke feelings of sympathy while the depiction of Americans as heroes was meant to invoke feelings of anger, pride, and patriotism. In contrast, the depiction of those who attacked the United States was meant to invoke feelings of hatred, fear, and nationalism. She argued that narratives that include emotional appeals can be deployed in order to mobilize group members for collective action. Such a relationship has also been examined with respect to the rise of religious nationalism within Middle East politics (Fattah & Fierke, 2009). Noting the relationship between discourses of humiliation and the rise in recruitment of Islamist ghters, Fattah and Fierke (2009) contend that Islamist narratives of Middle East politics give meaning to the collective humiliation that many feel with respect to the West. These feelings are historically grounded in events such as the Crusades, the colonization of the region following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the Wests historic support of repressive, secular governments in the Middle East and the State of Israel. By constructing a narrative emphasizing past and present humiliation, Islamists highlight the failure of secular nationalism to redress the suffering of populations in the Middle East as well as increase their widespread appeal and legitimacy. Narratives thus involve not only a shared set of beliefs but a larger common repertoire (see Bar-Tal, 2007) that consolidates memory and affect in such a way as to motivate particular social practices, such as participation in the political violence that maintains conict. In this way, beliefs and emotions become shared and socially distributed across a collective (Bar-Tal, Halperin, & de Rivera, 2007). Emotions like anger and hatred are encoded into the collective storylines that individuals encounter in conict settings (e.g., Halperin, 2008). And the personal narratives individuals then construct to make meaning of the lived experience of conict subsume these affective qualities. It is precisely the affective valence of personal narratives that allows us to characterize them as tragic (e.g., Hammack, 2010a), redemptive (Hammack, 2009), sad or happy (Witteborn, 2007). Our point here is that the affective content of narrative is inseparable from its cognitive features. The beliefs that comprise stories do not possess neutrality vis--vis larger moral projects (Cole, 2003; Taylor, 1989), roles, or aspirations (Haste & Abrahams, 2008; Sarbin, 1995). Rather, narratives command emotional identication. This identication at least in part explains the sustenance or appropriation of some stories over others (Cole, 2003). Emotion is thus key to the mediational properties of narrative.
Inspired by Marxs (1973) notion of the relationship between consciousness and labor, our principle of mind as action suggests that the stuff of thought occurs in the context of practical activity. In this frame, narrative operates as an organizing mediational feature of social practice. We suggested that four areas of empirical work on narrative implicitly link narrative to political action research on personal and collective responses to political events and social change, the role of stories in the political reconciliation process, the transformative power of narrative for subordinate groups, and the role of emotion in narrative engagement. It is important to note that no studies in these areas explicitly draw upon the theoretical basis for an approach to narrative that emphasizes social practice, which we view as somewhat unfortunate, for the linking of these lines of work in their theoretical assumptions would create greater possibilities for collaboration. One of our central aims in this article is, in fact, to bring fragmented lines of empirical work on narrative together to expose their shared underlying theoretical assumptions. From Metaphor to Paradigm: Toward a Holistic Political Psychology The idea of narrative has become increasingly applied to issues related to political psychology. In this article, we have suggested that narrative represents a root metaphor for the discipline of political psychology. We have argued that a narrative approach inherently bridges levels of analysis in precisely the manner political psychologists have advocated since the emergence of the eld (e.g., Horowitz, 1979; Smith, 1979, 1980). Narrative presents an analytic solution to the problem of mind and society by positing that individuals are embedded within a social context saturated by stories. In this context, they think, feel, and act in ways that are positioned in relation to these storiesaccounts of collective memory and social representations of history (e.g., Bar-Tal, 2007; Hammack, 2008; Liu & Hilton, 2005). Identifying the complex, dynamic relationship between these master narratives and the personal narratives individuals construct to create meaning in a particular political environment represents a key task of political psychology in the twenty-rst century. Through this kind of inquiryinquiry that importantly links an analysis of social structure with individual subjectivitypolitical psychologists are uniquely positioned to identify processes of social reproduction and change. Understanding when, how, and why individuals blindly appropriate collective narratives reveals important information on the boundary conditions of social reproduction information that could be used to offer analyses of many societies or social and political phenomena. By contrast, understanding how, when, and why individuals resist or challenge a collective narrative speaks to political psychologys intellectual commitment to the study of social and political change (e.g., Andrews, 2002). The larger intellectual context in which we propose narrative as a root metaphor for political psychology is one in which the very basis of knowledge (particularly in psychology) has been called into question (see Kressel, 1990). We refer here to the challenge to empirical social science posed by postmodern and poststructural perspectives (see Gergen, 2001). Rosenberg (2003) comprehensively reviews this issue for political psychology and argues that a truly integrative social or political psychology must take this complex relationship between the individual structuring of meaning and action on the one hand and the collective structuring of meaning and action on the other as its point of departure (p. 434). In this article, we have proposed that a narrative approach to political psychology responds to Rosenbergs (2003) call and is fundamentally concerned precisely with this reciprocal relationship between individual psychological and collective meaning-making. Thus, a narrative paradigm responds to the challenge of postmodern and poststructural critiques by suggesting that processes of meaning construction and signication represent critical sites for social scientic inquiry, and such a paradigm historicizes the production of knowledge in its assumptions about the relationship among language, politics, and thought (see Gergen, 1973).
A narrative approach also resolves epistemological tensions within political psychology by combining a commitment to empirical inquiry with an emphasis on the elaboration of voice (see Sampson, 1993). That is, to the extent that narrative data is collected from subjects, political psychologists engage in an analytic process that is more closely grounded in the lived experience of individuals. This approach speaks to Gergen and Leachs (2001) call for enriching the domain of methodology in political psychology by proposing a rigorous alternative to laboratory experimentation and large-scale surveys (though a narrative approach can, of course, be integrated with these methods; e.g., Costabile & Klein, 2008; see also Winter, 2000). Narrative theory and methods provide for the possibility of political transformation through their attention to individual voice in relation to sources of political and cultural authority (e.g., Andrews, 2002, 2006). In this way, a narrative approach addresses critical perspectives within political psychology that call for a greater role of the eld in struggles for social justice (e.g., Barber, 1990; Bar-On, 2001; Gergen & Leach, 2001; Marcus, 2008). And, to the extent that attention to the voices of subjects provides the immediate impetus for the research questions we ask, a narrative approach ensures that political psychology remains concerned with the practical problems of the real world (Winter, 2000, p. 399), as opposed to becoming consumed with academic abstraction (Barber, 1990). In other words, a direct engagement with the storied basis of lived experience in terms of our questions, methods, and analytic interpretations enhances our relevance to the actual problems of political life. In this way, such an approach provides us with an important voice and makes us explicit participants in political discourse. This reorientation fundamentally shifts the place of political psychology from one of supporting a status quo to one of a potential role for social change (Bar-On, 2001). Political psychology thus benets from conceptual integration of the idea of narrative not solely for the increased theoretical clarity and cross-disciplinary conversations it affords, but also for the ability of narrative to illustrate a paradigmatic approach that links knowledge to action. That is, a narrative approach speaks to political psychology as both eld of knowledge and resource (Garzn Prez, 2001) in its provision of key information about the reciprocal relationship between discourse and subjectivity that might be used as a resource for social change. For example, Hammacks (2011) analysis of the life-story narratives of Israeli and Palestinian youth provides basic information about how youth in conict settings engage with competing discourses of secular and religious nationalism as they craft personal narratives of identity. But this information also represents a resource for political psychologists who wish to illustrate the injustice of war and conict on individual lives, for the life stories of young Israelis and Palestinians are constructed within the continued conict that obstructs possibilities for youth. As Garzn Prez (2001) illustrates in her discussion of the development of political psychology in Spain, this role of political psychology as resource is linked to a historical analysis of political phenomenaprecisely the kind of analysis that a narrative approach assumes. Thus, in the tradition of action research in social psychology (Lewin, 1946), there is a need to produce knowledge that can go beyond mere explanation or interpretation toward practical utility in the interests of social change (see also Marx, 1888/1978). Finally, the idea of narrative is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of citizenship in the twenty-rst centurya topic of signicant relevance to political psychology. Haste (2004) argues that contemporary citizenship exists within the larger context of social and historical change, including emergent democracies, societies in transition, and the dissolution of the left-right spectrum in Western societies. She suggests that this changing context for citizenship also accompanies critical epistemological shifts within psychology, with the emergence of elds like critical and cultural psychology. She argues that a narrative approach is fundamental to understanding the dynamics of citizenship in the twenty-rst century because it provides a rich epistemological framework for the study of identity and ideology in context (see also Hammack, 2008). In a similar vein, Moghaddam (2008) argues that narrative research reveals the dynamic interplay between individuals and social context as they negotiate various positions and the politics of identity.
A narrative approach provides access to the way in which psychological citizenship is constructed; that is, narratives reveal the process by which cognitive and behavioral characteristics needed for social and political participation become appropriated and rendered normative (Moghaddam, 2008; cf. Bar-Tal, 2007). These theoretical perspectives on citizenship highlight the utility of narrative research in political psychology to illuminate larger processes of social reproduction. The purpose of this article was to review the disparate but increasingly prolic literature on narrative, psychology, and politics and, in the process, to propose an integrative paradigm that anchors these studies in major social science theories. Our view is that such integration might increase not only collaboration across disciplinary boundaries but also the ability of scholars to see the cross-disciplinary links among studies. We argued that narrative represents a root metaphor for political psychology in the sense that our political existence is fundamentally storied. By this we mean not only that we make stories through basic processes of human cognition (Bruner, 1990), but also that we are saturated in a setting of stories with which we are constantly in dialogue (Haste & Abrahams, 2008; Raggatt, 2002). Individual constructions of identity through the personal narrative represent dialogic attempts to integrate, reconcile, and respond to the discursive basis of society (Hammack, 2008). This process of narrative engagement offers an anchoring principle for political psychology in its ability to resolve epistemological tensions in the eld (Rosenberg, 2003) and to link knowledge production to transformative action (Andrews, 2003). Our elaboration of this process is rooted in four key principles that link language, thought, feeling, and action with fundamental needs for personal coherence and meaning in solidarity. In articulating these principles, we sought to excavate the underlying theoretical inuences of the empirical work on narrative that has begun to proliferate. In our view, the task of twenty-rst century work in this area is one of knowledge integration and application. Through embracing an integrative perspective on narrative, political psychology has the potential to amplify its voice not only across new disciplinary borders but also among a general audience who recognizes the power of story to shape hearts, minds, and collectives. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the anonymous reviewers and editors of the special issue for valuable suggestions. Correspondence concerning this article should be sent to Phillip L. Hammack, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. E-mail: hammack@ucsc.edu REFERENCES
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santimos | suggests that individuals appropriate discourses of the nation-state as they strive to make meaning and coherence out of a complex social and political reality. The empirical work in this area is only beginning to emerge. We suggest that the emergence of this line of research is indicative of the kind of multilevel analysis that a narrative approach can prescribe. In all of these studies, an analysis of discourse at both the individual and the national-cultural level is undertaken. In sum, we suggest that a key assumption of the narrative approach is that individuals use narrative to create a sense of personal coherence. Through story-making about events either lived or collectively imagined (Anderson, 1983), individuals respond to the threat of identity uncertainty and fragmentation (Giddens, 1991; Hammack, 2008; Kinnvall, 2004). For political psychologists, the emerging empirical work on the relationship between personal and national identity offers an example of the use of a narrative approach in action. Politics is linked to the personal through the process of engagement with narratives about the nation and its imagined pasta process that is revealed in analyses of individual life stories (e.g., Hammack, 2011) and the use of discourse in interaction (e.g., Greenwalt, 2009). Meaning in Solidarity: Memory and Representation Research linking the personal and the political through narrative reveals the way in which individuals strive to create coherence out of discursive complexity. This coherence does not occur within a self-contained individual. Rather, the mind is embedded within a social ecology of discourse, and the coherence provided through narrative is one of social coherence. In other words, the meaning provided through narrative speaks to a fundamental human need for collective solidaritya need to not only see oneself as largely the same from one day to the next (James, 1890) but also to see oneself as engaged in a cognitive process that is the same as others within a particular time and place. This idea can be linked to Durkheims (1893/1984) emphasis on collective consciousness: The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or common consciousness (pp. 3839). Thus there is a need for continuity of the mind not only within a single individual over time but also across minds at a single moment in time and space. We suggest that this principle of meaning in solidarity is fundamental to a narrative approach in political psychology. Collective Memory A fundamental premise of our approach is that narratives operate not only at the level of individual psychology but also at the collective (Bar-Tal, 2000; Hammack, 2008). Just as the personal narrative of identity provides a sense of continuity, the collective narratives with which we engage provide a sense of group meaning. This meaning derives from a direct engagement with stories that convey collective memorystories about historical moments in a groups existence. Probably the earliest theoretical statement on collective memory was proposed by Maurice Halbwachs. Strongly inuenced by Durkheims contention that the individual unit of analysis was of less import than the social or collective, Halbwachs (1992) argued that no memory is possible outside frameworks used by people living in society to determine and retrieve their recollections (p. 43) and at the moment of reproducing the past our imagination remains under the inuence of the present social milieu (p. 49). Thus, for Halbwachs, an analysis of the social context of collective memory is essential, including its relevance to the collective needs of the present. At a time when the workings of memory were predominantly interpreted through the lens of individual psychological wishes and drives (e.g., Freud, 1899/1955), Halbwachs radically shifted the lens from the individual to the social basis of memory.
Though Halbwachs provided the initial legitimacy for this line of study, his focus on the group as the unit of analysis inhibits the kind of integrative work on narrative and collective memory of greatest relevance to political psychology. Thus most empirical work in this area recognizes Halbwachs contribution but calls upon other theoretical frameworks to examine the relationship between individual and social memory (for review, see Hirst & Manier, 2008; Wertsch & Roediger, 2008). One of the most prolic areas of narrative study linking psychological and political phenomena is concerned with the way in which stories serve to construct collective identity through the transmission of collective memory and the creation of myths that support that memory (e.g., Bar-Tal, 2007; David & Bar-Tal, 2009; Hammack, 2008). In this frame, narratives represent the institutionalization of social memory into a coherent story that either maintains the political status quo or provides legitimacy for resistance (e.g., Fivush, 2010). Thus, for example, the narrative of Jewish victimization in the Holocaust legitimizes the continued military occupation of Palestinian territory (Bar-On & Sarsar, 2004) and inuences the beliefs about security considered central to Israeli national psychology (Bar-Tal, 1998b, 2000). At the more material level, Brockmeiers (2002) analysis of the Nazi book-burning memorial in Berlin reveals the way in which a physical site represents a text of social memory. Again, however, a central point of analysis often overlooked by social scientists is the individual engagement with these larger stories. Cole (2003) suggested that what is often missing in such approaches to narrative and memory is a conception of agency or an account of how and why individuals appropriate social memory. In her study of memories of the Malagasy anticolonial rebellion of 1947 in Madagascar, she argues that individuals appropriation of particular narrative accounts of the collective past can be interpreted according to the social and political needs of the present. But these needs by no means apply to all members of a national entity. Rather, they vary according to the particular moral projects (Taylor, 1989) that shape the concerns of cultural participantslocal visions of what makes a good, just community (p. 99). Thus Cole (2003) found that distinctions of collective memory of the rebellion based on the local context of political concern explain why particular narratives are embraced by some individuals and not others. This local context is dened by both place (e.g., urban versus rural) and time (i.e., generation-cohort). Cole found that the historical, material, and political location of individuals accounted for differences in narrative appropriation. Wertschs (2002, 2008a, 2008b) studies of collective memory in post-Soviet Russia examined the relationship between ofcial state narratives and individual accounts. Using Bakhtins (1984) notion of multiple voices within a narrative, he illustrated how adults who lived in the Soviet regime for most of their lives constructed narratives of World War II that closely appropriated the voice of the state (Wertsch, 2008b). By contrast, the narratives of youth revealed an engagement with these state narratives that is more locally inuenced and less infused with the state voice. Nevertheless, Wertsch (2008b) argued that a schematic narrative template which positioned the war in terms of the expulsion of foreign enemies was common to both generations he interviewed, thus suggesting a common underlying appropriation of a master narrative of the war. As the work of Cole (2003) and Wertsch (2008a, 2008b) reveals, collective memory is key to the politics of nation-building (see also Muro, 2009). History education plays a major role in the formation of national identity (Korostelina, 2008). Thus, an expanding line of research examines the institutional sites at which individuals engage with specic texts of collective memory within the context of the education system, particularly within contexts of conict (e.g., Bekerman, Zembylas, & McGlynn, 2009). Bar-Tal (1998a) found that Israeli history textbooks focus on Jewish victimization, unity, and security, while providing a positive depiction of Jewish Israelis and a negative depiction of Arabs. Although strengthening Jewish Israeli identity in the midst of conict, such narratives may actually help perpetuate conict (see Podeh, 2002). Efforts have been made to bridge Jewish Israeli and Palestinian historical narratives of the conict and to construct a textbook that legitimizes both. Adwan and Bar-On (2004) described
efforts by Jewish Israeli and Palestinian teachers to create a joint history textbook in the midst of the second Intifada. This textbook incorporated Jewish Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the Balfour Declaration, 1948, and the rst Palestinian Intifada. The development of the textbook reects an understanding of the role of texts of memory in conict settings, as well as their potential role in conict amelioration. Zembylas and Bekerman (2008) integrated an approach to collective memory and the nationstate with an analysis of political challenge in their study of dangerous memories in the history curriculum of Cyprus and Israel. They dene dangerous memories as those memories that are disruptive to the status quo, that is, the hegemonic culture of strengthening and perpetuating existing group-based identities (p. 125). They suggest that such memories can provide students the opportunity to critically interrogate assumptions about xed or essentialized versions of history and identity. Bekerman and colleagues (2009) suggest that essentialized notions of identity are particularly common across sites of intractable political conict and particularly problematic for the resolution of conicts. Through an ethnographic analysis of the integration of dangerous memories in history curricula in Israel and Cyprus, Zembylas and Bekerman (2008) suggested that there are clear openings for the acknowledgment of past collective trauma in ways that still challenge the use of those trauma narratives to maintain hegemonic relations between groups. Thus education provides a site of resistance and reconguration of state-sponsored narratives that maintain a status quo through its ability to problematize ofcial versions of memory. As research on the role of historical narrative in educational materials in Israel suggests, stories of collective memory serve particular political interests for constructing and maintaining identity, as well as establishing clear differentiations among social categories (e.g., Jewish versus Arab; see Bar-Tal, 1996). At least two other empirical efforts to examine this process in other national settings | 2,242 |
Bapatla is a famous coastal town in Andhra Pradesh. It is well connected to other major cities of the country by rail and road transport. The town has many places of tourist interest ranging from beautiful landscape to<|fim_middle|> Bapatla stations. | sacred temples and the Air force airbase. The town has lots of hotels and restaurants that can fulfill the need of accommodation and food for tourists.
The Sai baba temple is regularly visited by devotees especially on Thursday to attend the Arti. The Sri Kalyana Venkateswara Swami temple is a very calm place. The surroundings of the temple are very beautiful and the tourists get a divine experience on visiting this temple. On of the oldest temples of Andhra Pradesh, the Bhavannarayana Swami temple attracts tourists and devotees in large numbers. It was built during the rule of Chola dynasty in 14th century. The temple is preserved by Archeological department of India.
There are three temples in Agraharam in Bapatla. The Sri Lakshmi Padmavathi Sametha Kalyana Venkateswara temple has idols made of black stone. In the other two temples one temple has idols made of white stone and the other one has idols of both colours, black and white.
The beautiful beaches of Bapatla also attract a large number of tourists. The soft sand and the beautiful Bay of Bengal synergies to give a life time experience to the tourists. People can do fishing or go for boat riding in the sea or enjoy various other water sports.
The Closest airport to Bapatla is in Hyderabad. One can hire a private taxi to reach Bapatla.
There is a well connected bus service from Guntur, Vijayawada, Hyderabad, Repalle and Chirala towards Bapatla bus stop.
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Hieracium albiflorum ist eine Art aus der Familie der Korbblütler (Asteraceae). Sie ist in Nordamerika heimisch.
Beschreibung
Hieracium albiflorum ist eine krautige Pflanze die Wuchshöhen von 15 bis 90 Zentimetern erreicht.<|fim_middle|>1 bis 6 Millimeter langen Haaren besetzt, seltener auch kahl. Die Stängelbasis ist kahl.
An der Stängelbasis befinden sich drei bis acht, gelegentlich auch mehr oder auch keine grundständigen Laubblätter, während vom Stängel ein bis zwölf Laubblätter abzweigen. Die Blattspreite ist bei einer Länge von 4 bis 30 Zentimeter sowie einer Breite von 1,2 bis 6 Zentimeter verkehrt-lanzettlich geformt. Die Spreitenbasis ist keilförmig während die Spreitenspitze stumpf bis spitz zuläuft und die Spreitenränder meist ganzrandig, gelegentlich aber auch gezähnt sind. Sowohl die Ober- als auch die Unterseite der Blätter sind mit 1 bis 6 Millimeter langen, feinen rauen Haare besetzt, können aber auch kahl sein.
Die Blütezeit erstreckt sich von Mai bis September. Die Gesamtblütenstände bestehen aus drei bis fünfzig schirmrispen- oder ripsenartig angeordneten, körbchenförmigen Teilblütenständen. Der Blütenstandsschaft ist meist unbehaart, gelegentlich aber auch mit drüsigen Haaren besetzt. Das mehr oder weniger glockenförmige Involucrum enthält 8 bis 18 an der Unterseite behaarte Hüllblätter, die 7 bis 11 Millimeter lang werden. Die Blütenkörbchen enthalten 6 bis 25 gelbe Zungenblüten, welche 9 bis 10 Millimeter lang werden. Die Achänen sind bei einer Länge von 2,5 bis 4 Millimetern säulenförmig. Sie haben einen Pappus, welcher sich aus 30 bis 40 strohfarbenen Borstenhaaren zusammensetzt.
Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 18.
Vorkommen
Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet von Hieracium albiflorum liegt in Nordamerika. Es erstreckt sich von Alaska über Kanada und den zentralen und westlichen Teil der Vereinigten Staaten bis in den Nordwesten Mexikos.
Hieracium albiflorum gedeiht in Höhenlagen von 10 bis 2900 Metern. Die Art wächst im Chaparral auf Weideflächen und Hängen, entlang von Flüssen und an Mineralquellen, in Kiefernwäldern sowie an Vulkanhängen.
Systematik
Die Erstbeschreibung als Hieracium albiflorum erfolgte 1833 durch William Jackson Hooker in Flora Boreali-Americana, Band 1, Nummer 6, Seite 298. Synonyme für Hieracium albiflorum sind unter anderem Chlorocrepis albiflora und Pilosella albiflora
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Mark Coleman is a recognized voice, business advisor and consultant on the convergence of sustainability, environmental stewardship, energy, technology and innovation.
Mr. Coleman actively writes for the Huffington Post and IntelligentHQ, and his work has been published in many notable media platforms including Parent.co, GreenBiz, Triple Bottom Line Magazine, and Environmental Leader.
Mr. Coleman is the author of "Time To Trust: Mobilizing Humanity for a Sustainable Future" (2014) and "The Sustainability Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is Essential NOW!" (2012). Mr. Coleman has advised and worked directly for leading industrial, government, applied research, academic, management consulting, and not-for-profit organizations.
Throughout his career Mark C. Coleman has developed a strong focus on the critical areas of energy, environment, and sustainability. His career has spanned strategic and leadership positions in government, applied research, technology development, and management consulting organizations. This rich and diverse experience has enabled Mr. Coleman to have access to, engage, and work with a broad range of regional, national, and international leaders at every stage of his career, and in the writing of The Sustainability<|fim_middle|>. It does not need authoritative top-down government or corporate leadership. It is organic and very personal—starting with little actions taken by millions of people and beginning with each of us accepting our part. Mark's work is clear, concise, and irrefutable. The responsibility rests with us. Mark's passion, wit, and charm show through in his work and make the argument even more compelling. Generations to come will look upon Mark's work as provocative and liberating, showing us the way.
I have an old friend that tells me he doesn't mind change as long as it doesn't happen to him. He would hate Mark Coleman. Not only does The Sustainability Generation accurately depict the underpinnings of the global tsunami which is sustainability, the book challenges to reader to grab a surf board and ride the wave—another thing that would terrify my friend.
In a time when so many are describing lofty thoughts and very green what-ifs, Mark Coleman has produced an informative tool with depth and supporting backup, that could benefit anyone who is really serious about making a difference.
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The maturation of the concepts surrounding sustainability has been like watching the growth of the Internet . . . only faster. The most fascinating aspect of this transformation has been that business has led the charge. Business is adopting concepts and principles faster than individuals and pushing the boundaries in all directions at once. Mark Coleman not only consolidates and categorizes these learnings, but captures the soul of sustainability—finding personal responsibility in a global context. He contributes a HUGE needed piece of the puzzle that ties the concepts together to suggest that a "never satisfied" humankind and sustainability can happily coexist.
Sustainability is often put forward as the responsibility of governments, companies, and activists. Mark Coleman brings this complex field to a personal level: how can each of us bring our values and our dreams to the decisions we make every day? Just as Mark's life felt transformed as he gazed at his newborn child, each of us is challenged to open our eyes to the interconnected web that binds us to the generations before and after our brief lives.
If we're going to move our world toward sustainability in all its many forms, we'll also have to move ourselves, our families, our communities, and our institutions. Mark Coleman describes how a new generation, born of the notion that "more" is not always better, is rethinking what it means to "have it all." He provides guidance and hope for an increasingly fragile world that seems to be spinning ever faster.
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As an independent sustainability strategist and management consultant, Mr. Coleman has advised start-up and small businesses as well as Fortune 500 and global firms in the areas of strategic business planning, sustainability, enterprise risk, social responsibility, financial and security risks, product stewardship, and innovative practices for achieving business growth. Mr. Coleman has led numerous research studies and has contributed to many publications related to energy, environment, and sustainability.
Mr. Coleman has also led the development and facilitation of numerous executive benchmarking and knowledge-sharing workshops. He also serves as a business coach and mentor to small-and-midsized businesses, supporting the development of their business strategy for day-to-day and long-term growth, profitability, and sustainability.
Early in his career, Mr. Coleman worked as an energy analyst with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Since 2004 he has been supporting the growth and development of several well respected organizations within Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), including the Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS), the Golisano Institute for Sustainability (GIS), the Clean Energy Incubator (CEI), and the Venture Creations Incubator (VCI). During this time he has helped these organizations secure more than $20 million in funding awards toward their development and focus on strategic research, technology, innovation, and sustainability initiatives. In addition to his work at the university, he serves on the board of a not-for-profit organization involving global water development concerns.
Mr. Coleman is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Master of Science in Environmental Management and Policy from the Lally School of Management and Technology. He received a Bachelor of Art in Geography and Environmental Studies from Binghamton University. He resides in Fairport, New York with his wife Aileen and sons Owen Patrick and Neal Garrett.
Coleman's book underscores the truth that we can't mandate, regulate, and legislate our way to a sustainable world. He eloquently describes the moral imperative that we must nourish multigenerational solidarity around preserving the precious natural resources that make up the finite foundation of humankind's ability to thrive. Through an enthralling series of personal revelations and case studies, Coleman leads us to the understanding that environmental protection isn't simply something we do . . .it's who we are, and each individual must decide if they are the kind of person who wastes or replenishes, even when no one is looking. No doubt, Coleman's children will one day thank him for writing this book, as will the children of all parents who read it and put it into practice.
Ultimately, sustainability is about balance and the interconnections of our actions. Mark Coleman's book provides the framework for an inside-out, bottom-up approach to creating positive change. Starting from the assumption that we are all designers of our future, this book provides the roadmap to a journey that starts within. Get ready for the ride of your life!
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We're changing things up this year and have moved our Annual Flower & Photography Show from June to August. This will allow for different types of flowers and plants to be entered and a different range of floral designs to be put into the classes.
Been snapping photos with your phone? Print some out and enter them into one of the photography classes. Everyone is welcome to enter, there is no entry fee for members or non-members. No experience is necessary, this is a show meant for learning and fun.
Entries may be dropped off at the Durham Town Hall on Wednesday, August 14th from 7 to 9 PM and on Thursday, August 15th from 9 AM to 1<|fim_middle|> or Email [email protected] for a show class listing or with any questions. | PM. The doors will close at 1 PM for judging and reopen at 6 PM for viewing of the entries.
At 7 PM we will announce the winners and award the prizes, followed by our general meeting & guest speaker. Refreshments will follow the meeting. Everyone welcome!
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Trexler Middle School proudly returns a recently recovered WWI uniform to the veteran's ancestors.
Before the school year began, a few teachers began cleaning out Trexler's loft area to create a space for a student<|fim_middle|> Lobach, who used to reside on Greenleaf Street, just around the corner from the school.
The teachers decided that it was only right to first contact the family of James Franklin Lobach to let them know what was found. They were very excited to have this information as they are very interested in their family history. This is a family where James Franklin Lobach is a WWI veteran and his son, James M. Lobach, is a WWII veteran.
The great granddaughter-in-law of James Franklin Lobach, Cindy Lobach, traveled to Trexler Middle School to retrieve this piece of 100 year old history.
Read the Morning Call article WWI Uniform. | hang out to coincide with the school's new Positive Behavior and Intervention Support program, BARK. Tucked away in a forgotten corner, a dusty box remained untouched for decades. Upon opening it, the teachers were surprised by what they found. A WWI uniform sat folded beneath a few long forgotten sweaters and shirts. The teachers initially thought it might have been a costume, but upon further investigation they noticed that it had a serial number and that in the top breast pocket was a slip of paper with the name "Mr. Laubach".
Mike Gurdineer, 7th grade math teacher, took the information to his mother who is a researcher. She discovered that the uniform was indeed the WWI uniform of James Franklin | 147 |
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Moreover, your neighborhood Carpet One in Flagstaff, AZ is locally owned, so we care about the Flagstaff community, are dedicated to helping you, and are committed to delivering the best prices on all kinds of flooring. In Flagstaff, ceramic tile flooring isn't the only thing that Carpet One does! To find out about our other flooring choices, like our natural hardwoods and comfortable carpeting, contact your nearest Carpet One location in Flagstaff, AZ. When it comes to ceramic tile flooring, we promise we'll provide you with the best personal service and value around. | When it comes to choosing ceramic tile flooring, Flagstaff Carpet One has the expertise you need. No matter where you want new flooring, Carpet One can help you find a solution. Our Carpet One sales professionals will find the best Flagstaff ceramic tile flooring for your home based on your price point and style preferences | 61 |
Via motherboard keeps a low profile
The Epia M10000 combines features from the PC and consumer electronics world, including hardware-supported DVD playback, a low-power 1GHz processor - and anti-piracy measures
By Matthew Broersma | April 15, 2003 -- 12:57 GMT (05:57 PDT) | Topic: Processors
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The Epia M10000 motherboard, launched on Tuesday, is designed for a low-profile form factor that looks similar to a DVD player or stereo component. This appearance carries over to the board's integrated components, including an integrated MPEG-2 decoder for DVD playback, hardware-supported 5.1 audio and connectors for television and digital audio. It runs on Via's own 1GHz C3 processor using a "Nehemiah" core.
The Taiwanese hardware maker, best known for its AMD- and Intel-compatible chipsets, said the new board is designed for consumer-oriented PCs as well as high-tech consumer devices such as digital video recorders (DVRs). In order to make the hardware more suitable for the living room, Via said the board consumes 10 percent less power than its previous boards, and produces 50 percent less system noise, due to its fan and heat sink design.
"For VIA, platform-level innovation means enabling new applications through increases in performance combined with decreases in power use and system noise," said Timothy Brown, Via's Epia platform marketing manager, in a statement.
Via, like other PC hardware and software makers, has been aggressively pursuing a growing market for devices combining entertainment and PC functions. Via's approach has been to encourage unusual and compact form factors, first with its Mini-ITX motherboards and now with the low-profile form factor.
The new motherboard distributes various processing needs to different components, offloading the MPEG-2 work to a dedicated chip, for example. This allows the machine to use a relatively low-powered 1GHz processor, which in turn eliminates much of the power-consumption and heat-production issues faced by AMD and Intel processors running at around 3GHz, Via argues.
The MPEG-2 decoder is part of Via's UniChrome CLE266 North Bridge, one of the semiconductors that connects the processor to the parts such as memory and input/output devices. The board supporte IEEE1394 FireWire connections, up to four USB 2.0 ports, an ATA-133 IDE interface, 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet, S-Video and RCA TV-out, S/PDIF digital audio connetions, and a PCI slot.
In a nod to the piracy concerns that have been raised by copyright owners regarding DVRs and similar devices, Via has built in a "data encryption engine", a hardware-based random number generator that can be used for Digital Rights Management technology.
The board is compatible with Mini-ITX chassis, measuring 17cm by 17cm. It supports Windows and Linux and uses DDR266 memory. It is available immediately from various UK resellers for about £109 plus VAT.
Via recently settled a group of legal disputes with Intel, a development that will allow the company to continue producing Intel-compatible products in the near term -- and more importantly, for customers to buy them without fearing legal liability.
The company appears to be anticipating a significant payoff from the end of litigation. It is planning on increasing its orders to manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) by more than 10 percent, according to a report this week in Taiwan industry journal Digitimes.
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Vol 2 No 2 (2011)
A nested case control study demonstrating increased chronic fatigue six years after a Q fever outbreak
DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/mr.2011.e19
Q fever, Coxiella burnettii, chronic fatigue syndrome, chalder fatigue scale, PHQ-9
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Hugo C. van Woerden *
Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Cardiff University, Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Brendan Healy
Public Health Wales Microbiology, Cardiff University, Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
Meirion B. Llewelyn
Royal Gwent Hospital, Cardiff Road, Newport, United Kingdom.
Ian P. Matthews
Hugo C. van Woerden | vanwoerdenh1@cf.ac.uk
The frequency and range of long-term sequelae following acute Q fever infection remains controversial. This study aimed to assess a range of potential psychological and physical sequelae in a follow up study of a large outbreak of Q fever that occurred in Newport, Wales, in 2002. A nested case control study was undertaken six years after a point source outbreak of Q fever. We invited a cohort of 211 factory workers exposed to a point source of Q fever in 2002 to attend a follow up clinic in 2008. Cases, defined as those who had clinical symptoms and serological evidence of acute Q fever in 2002, were compared to controls, who worked in the same factory but were serologically negative at the time of the outbreak. At the follow up clinic blood was taken for Coxiella burnetii microimmunofluorescence and questionnaires were completed including the PHQ-9, Chalder Fatigue scale, and General Health Questionnaire. Results were obtained for 32 cases and 13 controls. Chalder Fatigue scores were significantly raised in the cases (independent samples t-test: P=0.047). PHQ-9 and GHQ scores were not significantly raised in cases. However, post hoc cross sectional analysis indicated a relationship between Phase 2 IgG at follow up in 2008 and Chalder Fatigue scores (P=0.004) and PHQ-9 scores (0.049). A longitudinal association was demonstrated between acute Q fever infection and chronic fatigue six years later. In crosssectional analysis a previously unreported relationship between depression scores (PHQ- 9) and positive Q fever serology was also identified.
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Thanks, Brad. I think you'd like her poems and<|fim_middle|> whole malarky to her. | pictures too.
Jeni is in my thoughts and prayers, for whatever she needs. Sending her flowers, hugs and positive thoughts.
Lavinia, my friend: thank you very much.
Thank you, Jill. Very kind of you.
Beautiful photos H, as ever.
Will send a bouquet if I can figure out how!
That would be lovely, Amy. Thank you! If you have the link to the picture, you should be able to include it with your remark. Usually works for me.
Thank you, dear Cynthia, for thoughtfully letting us know to pray for Jenni. I've been losing track of many of my favorite bloggers and blogs. ❤ Her site is always an oasis in nature.
Yes, I feel the same way about her blog, Wendy. Thanks for your reply.
Thank you, Annika. Well said about WP friends.
H takes cracking photos. You have a fine man there.
Sending my best to Jeni ~ nice to see you again Cynthia.
Such a thoughtful post, Cynthia. I don't know Jeni but have just visited her site and it is as you say, a lovely blog. My prayers are for her and her family.
Thank you, Clare. Jeni is lovely, as are you!
And the same kind wishes to you! Thank you.
What a nice way to send flowers and good thoughts!
Thank you. Wishing you a good day and hope it isn't as cold as here.
Stay strong, Jeni. Flower power, I think, is half the battle.
Thanks for the lovely message, Diane. I like the idea of flower power, indeed.
Wonderful and warm thoughts, Cynthia. Yes, our love and prayers for Jeni and family. Lovely flowers too.
Thank you, Iris. My best to you.
Spring is a time for hope and renewal, and I hope that will be the case for Jeni and her family. I join you in sending her flowers and virtual hugs.
Merci beaucoup, Christiane. Bien dit!
The friendships are what this blogging world is all about, aren't they, Cynthia? I value all of them highly 🙂 Best wishes to you, hon.
And to you, friend Jo. Thank you.
Wow! You guys made me cry, thank you so much for all the kind thoughts and prayers, virtual hugs and bouquets! WP family is pretty amazing. Thank you Cynthia and Hamlin for the lovely flowers. I haven't been outside except to trek back to the hospital but sitting on the sofa watching the evening sunlight paint the sky in palest yellow and orange on a pale blue canvas. Still and serene.
Sending prayers continually from Montrose Colorado. Thank you for sharing your photos, thoughts, and prayers with us!
Thank you Cynthia for sharing your care for a friend, and I am sending all good wishes to Jeni. And, as always, to you.
I have run into Jeni regularly on other people's blogs, I think I've also read her own blog from time to time – when wordpress sends me an update.
Hugs, positive vibes and the | 624 |
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From Social Militancy
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L'équipe de Vox populi en pleine préparation de l'exposition Je(u)ne c'est quoi? présentée lors de l'événement Plein la gueule, octobre 1985. (Marcel Blouin, Jean-Marc Ravatel, Cynthia Poirier, Danielle Bérard et Sophie Bellissent). Photo : Alain Chagnon.
Photo : Marcel Blouin, 1985.
Manifestation des jeunes pour l'emploi, Montréal, 15 juin 1985. Photo : Alain Chagnon.
Lucie Bureau, « Employ<|fim_middle|> of life." The collective used demonstrations, occupation of the unemployment insurance department office and a government minister's office, radio broadcasts, travelling exhibitions, and multidisciplinary events to express its indignation at the socially unacceptable situation facing Quebec's young people. They also made demands for a new form of work organization strongly inspired by Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy and André Gorz's Farewell to the Working Class. Before long, photography emerged as a key tool for social action and dissemination of their ideas. The collective organized an initial touring exhibition of photographs, Sans honte et sans emploi ("Shameless and Jobless"), and began documenting various political and community events. They then created two tools that were vital to the future development of Vox Populi: Ciel variable magazine, in 1986, and the inaugural edition of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal, in 1989. | és ou engagés », texte publié dans Ciel variable, vol. 1, no. 1, 1986.
Vue de la rencontre avec la ministre Pauline Marois, lors de l'émission Forum, printemps 1984. Photo : Marcel Blouin.
Photo: Marcel Blouin, Montréal, février 1985.
Vue de la première exposition Sans honte et sans emploi, présentée au Centre populaire de documentation, 772 rue Rachel E, Montréal, du 17 au 23 janvier 1985. Photo : Marcel Blouin.
Équipe de production de l'exposition Sans honte et sans emploi, 1984 (de gauche à droite : Yves Huneault, Alain Chagnon, n.d, Danielle Bérard, Robert Chayer, Cynthia Poirier, Bernard Vallée, Marcel Blouin). Photo: Marcel Blouin.
Jean-Marc Ravatel et collègues au travail lors de la préparation de l'événement Plein la gueule, novembre 1985. Photo : Marcel Blouin.
L'équipe de Vox Populi en pleine préparation de l'exposition Je(u)ne c'est quoi? présentée lors de l'événement Plein la gueule, octobre 1985. (Alain Chagnon, Sophie Bellissent, Danielle Bérard, Cynthia Porier et Jean-Marc Ravatel). Photo : Marcel Blouin.
Vue du lancement du premier numéro de Ciel variable au Quai des brumes, Montréal, 19 juin 1986. Photo : Alain Chagnon.
Sophie Bellissent, Nicole Gingras et Marcel Blouin dans les bureaux de Vox Populi, 4060 boul. Saint-Laurent, septembre 1989. Photo : Terry Byrnes.
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In celebration of its 30th anniversary, VOX is revealing unpublished archives that contextualizes its activist origins and its transformation into a centre for the presentation of photography.
VOX wishes to thank for their precious contribution Pierre Blache, Marcel Blouin, Lucie Bureau, Alain Chagnon and CIBL.
We also want to say THANK YOU to the artists, founders, members, administrators, collaborators, granting agencies and partners who for the past 30 years have been committed to making a difference with regard to VOX's future.
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Think of 1985, and what generally comes to mind? Dayglo colours, pseudo punk, mullet haircuts, the world's first test-tube baby and the rise of neoliberalism. We tend to forget that 1985 was also International Youth Year, as proclaimed by the UN General Assembly. This celebration aimed at building young people's capacities by providing incentives for them to engage fully in social life, in tangible, constructive ways. Ironically, the youth of the time were the age group hardest hit by the economic crisis that wrought havoc worldwide. In Quebec, most young people were collecting unemployment insurance or welfare cheques, and experiencing all manner of inequities. Economic precarity was a hallmark of the tail end of the baby-boom demographic, which came to be known as the "sacrificed" generation.
Driven by firm determination and a commitment to advance the cause of young people, several militant members of the Saint-Louis du Parc unemployed youth collective founded Vox Populi. Its mission was to "make accessible, to disadvantaged communities, the means of communication they need to improve their quality | 798 |
Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District » News » What's New » Colleyville Heritage High School Hosts its Ninth Annual Color Run
Running to the finish line, students wearing yellow and white shirts finish their 5k run with pride and joy as they have done their part in the effort to combat and rally support for organizations like Operation Underground Railroad. This non-profit organization fights human trafficking while raising awareness and funds to rescue victims all around the world.
Matt Osborne, the Director of Global Operations for Operation Underground Railroad, urges students, teachers, and staff to post on social media about groups like Operation Underground Railroad and others who are out there, educate on resources and on what you can do to protect yourself online, be careful<|fim_middle|> human trafficking hub in the country and it is such a big issue that everyone should know about," she said.
Terry Kitzmiller, CHHS leadership teacher and one of the organizers of the color run, says that students, teachers, and staff should continue to support events like the color run, work with police departments and be educated and aware of your surroundings anywhere you go.
"Education basically is the answer to how we can get this taken care of," says Kitzmiller.
To donate to the cause, visit https://gcisdschools.revtrak.net/high-schools/chhs/chhs-color-run/#/list
Article written by GCISD Communications Student Interns: Suhaib Abdi, Sofia Medlenka, and Mazen Selim | at malls, movie theaters, and other places, and having human trafficking awareness courses in class.
Osborne applauds the Panthers that have continued to show up and support the cause for years.
"I am extremely impressed with the entire CHHS community, who have come together now for the 9th year for this event. This is the longest-running continuous fundraiser for Operation Underground Railroad. CHHS students have raised over tens of thousands of dollars for rescues and it is just amazing to see the community come together. We hope this can continue for years to come."
He's not the only one. Many students who took initiative in running for the cause were pleased to know that support has grown for anti-human trafficking causes and applaud the GCISD community for showing up and donating.
"I think it's very great that everyone here just cares about it and everyone can bring together their human compassion to help these children and humans," said Bethany Hounchell, a sophomore at CHHS.
Hounchell is one of the many volunteers who make the color run thrive year after year.
"I really think it is a great cause and I don't think it's talked about enough since Dallas is the number two | 241 |
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Sambal is sauce or paste made from a mixture of some ingredients such as chili, shrimp paste, garlic, ginger, shallot<|fim_middle|> sometime, you might have to wait for table to be available. This is especially during lunch hour on weekdays.
If you're a fan of Lalapan, you must try this one at Cabeijo if you ever visit Sibu.
The restaurant is located at No. 71 & 71 GF, Lorong Kuda 2, Kpg Nangka, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak. It might not be easy to find if you're not familiar with Sibu town but it can be searched easily in Google Map for direction.
If you're staying in Sibu town, they can do delivery to you. | , lime juice and many other ingredients. Some sambal are different from each other, even the ingredient use to make it, depending on where it is from. It can be very spicy or mild and tangy, the taste is various. As for sambal used in Lalapan, typically, it's quite spicy but the one here in this restaurant is different. We'll show you how different it is from a typical sambal used in Lalapan dishes.
Looking at the menu, they serve a variety of delicious food, not only the famous Lalapan. Lalapan is a dish originated from Java, Indonesia. Typically, it consist of rice, raw vegetables, tofu, sambal, tempe (fermented soybean) and choices of meat from chicken, beef or fish. The one thing that make it special is the sambal. Most of the time, that alone will determine if the Lalapan is good or not.
At Cabeijo restaurant, they serve their Lalapan with not a typical sambal. The sambal was made from green chili instead of the normal red one. It taste a bit sweet and less spicy compared to the typical sambal. It really does make their Lalapan taste different too. Of course, if you prefer the normal sambal, they also serve it but the signature here is the green chili sambal. Even the name Cabeijo means green chili.
We tried their Lalapan Ayam Bakar (Grilled Chicken Lalapan) with a generous serving of green chili sambal and we even asked for extras. We also tried their chicken fried rice, also with that sambal. The fried chicken is crunchy while the grilled chicken is juicy and both are delicious. Both of that dishes taste so good. Thanks to that green chili sambal, it is not the same as the other Lalapan that we had at other restaurant before. To be honest, we are quite picky when it comes to that dishes.
As we mentioned before, the best Lalapan we had was the one at Muara Restaurant in Miri, Sarawak. But, we can't choose which is the best between that and this Cabeijo Lalapan. Both taste equally delicious in our opinion.
According to our good friend from Sibu, he frequented that restaurant few times a week for lunch. It's always full of people, | 489 |
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Transforming Narratives' Cultural Leadership Programme provided a unique opportunity for artists and creative professionals in Birmingham, Pakistan and Bangladesh to meet with each other and contribute to the curation and delivery of new projects within a ground-breaking international partnership.
Taking place in two distinct phases during summer-autumn 2021, the programme built skills, confidence and knowledge, and extended professional networks for emerging and established cultural leaders. The CLP participants learn about the challenges and opportunities in leading collaborative, international, cultural activity.
Phase One of the programme was delivered Culture in Flux and a team from the Institute of Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths College, University of London alongside Culture Central.
Phase Two of the programme was delivered by Hybrid Consulting with Culture Central. Read Dr Samina Zahir's insights into the programme in this interview.
24 people took part in the programme, all of whom are emerging and established leaders from Birmingham, Pakistan or Bangladesh, who have experience of, or an interest in, the arts or creative industries. Here's more about some of the participants:
Jafrin Gulshan
Jafrin thrives in a multidisciplinary cosmos of making art, art writing and research. Her work encompasses personal experience and collective activism that expressively engages the everyday circumstance of life. Most recently her work has focused on art collection management and archiving at the Bengal Foundation.
Masudul Haq
Masudul is a Bangladeshi freelance filmmaker, photographer and storyteller. He is former Co-ordinator of the International Children's Film Festival of Bangladesh. From 2017 to 2019 worked on national newspaper The Daily Prothom Alo as a photo-journalist and documentary film maker, where he gained experience of working in rural areas with different NGOs. His work currently is focused on developing his own creative advertising agency, Beetoqs.
Jesmin Akter
Jesmin is head of the department of Art and Design at BAF Shaheen College, Dhaka. After receiving both Bachelor and Masters degrees in drawing and pinting at Dhaka University, she started her early career as an animator, where we worked on a production of Sesame Street for Bangladesh TV. Besides painting she loves puppetry, illustration, installation, fashion design, mural, ceramics and craft.
Salma Jamal Moushum
Salma develops and directs projects at Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, which is based in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh. Her research interests revolve around the concepts of participatory art, art in public sphere, social practice and community art.
Proggna Paromita Majumder
Proggna is an educationist and cultural practitioner. She is deeply passionate about promoting art and cultural exchange. Through her management of art projects, she aims to develop truly talented artists, giving them a platform to worldwide audiences. She also enjoys reading, writing and translating novels.
Ayreen Khan
Ayreen is a visual artist, writer, researcher, musician and social actor from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her work portrays visions of spiritual awakenings through mystical states, exploring life and asking questions. Her work is described as her personal journey of healing, awakening, becoming and unbecoming. She loves to travel to connect through nature and collects human stories to experience different emotions.
Hira Rasool
Hira is an architect and an interdisciplinary research-based artist. Her practice is an exploration of places and people in relation to context, history, cultural heritage and nuances of the city. She travels to get inspired and writes to share her voice amongst other musings.
Sana Noor
Sana works to support widows, rape victims, acid victims and transgendered people. As a writer, her short stories have been published in leading magazines of Pakistan. She is co-founder of clothing brand Estillo Attire, which has a vision to provide economic empowerment to marginalised women of Pakistan. She also likes to travel, read and try different cuisines. Twitter: @sananoor83
Shama Askari
Shama has been associated with the performing arts for the last twenty years. She has worked with various mediums within the discipline, including dramatised readings, and next aims to explore the field of translation as a means of connecting and communicating with a wider audience.
Sahski Kumar
Sakshi is a visual artist living<|fim_middle|> based artist. Her practice is an exploration of places and people in relation to context, history, cultural heritage and nuances of the city. She travels to get inspired and writes to share her voice among other musings.
Mukhtar Dar
With over 30 years' experience of working in the creative sector, Mukhtar is an accomplished artist, creative producer, artistic director and festival organiser. He is the artistic director of Kalaboration Arts, a Birmingham-based arts development agency, and of Simmer Down Festival, one of UK's biggest reggae music and arts festivals.
Abeda Begum
Abeda developed an interest in creative sewing at a young age, exploring embroidery and needlepoint as a means to create artworks with decorative stitches and beading. She has been involved with community projects creating textiles and mixed media canvases, and particularly enjoys the therapeutic benefits of creativity.
Makbul Chowdhury
As a diaspora visual artist, Makbul Chowdhury is well known both in England and Bangladesh for his work, which is deeply rooted within his community and culture. Makbul's short and documentary films have been shown in many international festivals. He is an active community activist in his home town of Birmingham, and is the founder member of Bangla Connection, a community organisation that promotes art as a medium for change and raising aspirations.
Fateha Begum
Fateha has over 20 years of experience in arts and education as a drama practitioner. Working with local and national organisations, she has delivered programmes of work to engage and increase participation from disengaged and diverse participants. As a British Bangladeshi, Fateha sees herself as a positive role model for young women who would not traditionally consider the arts sector as a career option.
Omar Hanif
Omar is an independent film producer, writer and arts curator, and also a practicing lawyer. He has worked extensively with the BFI, Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council, championing diverse artists and human rights activism. His latest projects for 2021 include the FILM/GAGE Film Festival, Small Heath Voices, Lockdown Diaries and the Kashmiri Arts Forum.
© 2023 Transforming Narratives | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | in Karachi, Pakistan. She has recently graduated from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with a bachelors degree in Fine Art. Her work is experimental and revolves around various mediums and artistic techniques, such as miniature, painting, photography, computer graphics and digital art. Sakshi is currently working as an Assistant Project Coordinator at Vasl Artists' Association.
Ahsan Iqbal Bari
Ahsan is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Karachi, Pakistan. He works across film, music, theatre and poetry, and works actively as a collaborator and a mentor. He is the founder of world music ensemble Sounds of Kolachi. Currently Bari is serving as Director of Special Programs for Music at the Arts Council of Karachi, Pakistan.
Noor Ul Ain
Lahore and Gilgit
Noor graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 2017 and trained as a conservator at at Agha Khan Culture Service, Pakistan. She is now a professional visual artist. Inspired by historical sites, her work has multiple layers of interventions. She particularly enjoys exploring and experimenting with organic mixed-media on a huge scale canvases.
Fiha Barkat Ali
Fiha's work is focused on the majority-minority politics of our everyday lives and surroundings. Through her work, she aims to creating dialogues around unquestioned aspects of society that primarily affect over-looked genders, disadvantaged religious groups and marginalised ethnicities. She believes such conversations would be a step forward to a more inclusive living system.
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By JP Fallavollita Posted on Apr 11, 2012 April 11, 2012
Hitch, Ross and America's Got Powers and An Absolute No Show Top The Wednesday Run – April 11, 2012
Editor's Update: Turns out, the information about the release of one of this week's featured title, gleaned from DC Comics' own website is incorrect. Absolute Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Wars is now scheduled to be released in October, at least according to Amazon.ca. You can order it here and read about why you should after the jump.
But before that, as far as a single issue you should be picking up today, hands down it's America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch. Just when you think you've seen everything a superhero comic could do, these two creators come up with an absolutely brilliant concept (superpowered people competing on television for a spot on a team) and a stellar delivery. Ross' dialogue makes you feel like you're part of the tv show, while Hitch's art is widescreen gorgeous. He makes use of double page spreads frequently, so I do recommend actually getting this issue in physical form rather than digital. For $2.99 and at 38 pages, it's well worth it. America's Got Power is currently scheduled to run as a mini-series, but I'm pretty sure we're all going to wind up wanting more from these two. – Andy Burns
JP Fallavollita on Absolute Green Lanter: Sinestro Corps War
Green, yellow, orange, blue, red, indigo and violet.
Seven colours. That's how many exist in the DC Comics universe. Well, in the Green Lantern corner of the DC Comics universe, anyway. Not including black and white, of course. And not strictly speaking either.
Beyond just colours, those are the various Corps (sort-of militaristic organizations made up of either good guys or bad guys or in-between guys in the DC universe) that are represented by a specific colour from<|fim_middle|> jp fallavollita, JP/Japer, Peter J Tomasi, sci-fi, science fiction, sequential storytelling, Sinestro, star wars, the wednesday run
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3 Replies to "Hitch, Ross and America's Got Powers and An Absolute No Show Top The Wednesday Run – April 11, 2012"
jshayer says: 7 years ago Reply
Can't wait to get my hands on this hardcover and read the oversized pages! Love the Absolute Editions and love this storyline.
Andy Burns says: 7 years ago Reply
It now seems as though DC Comics own web site is inaccurate with their date for this title. It looks as though it isn't out today, but in October! DC, you might want to enter correct dates on your website!
Adam McKay-Allen Jarvis says: 7 years ago Reply
I got back into comics several years ago and bought a bunch of trade paperbacks – the Sinestro Corps storyline made me very glad that I did! Thanks for posting. | the visual colour spectrum.
If you haven't been following one of the greatest monthly comic book storylines to have ever been published in the history of comic book publishing, namely Green Lantern since 2005, than you won't know that: red is the colour of rage, orange is the colour of avarice, blue equates to hope, indigo is likened to compassion and violet is the colour of love. Green is the colour of willpower – we all know that, being the Green Lantern fans that we are. But yellow?
Yellow means fear.
But on this Wednesday, yellow is also the colour of absolute awesomeness.
Absolute Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War
Written by: Dave Gibbons, Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi
Illustrated by: A Whole Colourful Spectrum Of Artists
Published by: DC Comics
Flashback nearly four years (has it been that long?) and I'm in Chicago on a comic convention road trip with buddies Denny B and resident Biff Bam Pop! E-I-C, Andy Burns. Deep dish pizza and sequential storytelling – it doesn't get much better than that!
Anyway, it was on that trip that both Denny and I picked up the hardcover compilations of volume one and two of Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War. We read them simultaneously over that weekend, sometimes in silent amazement, most times out loud, girlishly eeking out: "Oh my god!" or "I can't believe it!" or "Have you seen page twenty-eight yet?" or "I can't believe they just did that!" or, of course, "Holy s@#%!"
The comic was that good. We probably drove Andy (a non-GL comic book reader) crazy with our shared glee.
In the series, head writer Geoff Johns, along with Peter J. Tomasi, Dave Gibbons and a whole host of outstanding artists, broadened the Green Lantern mythos to galactic widths. There was deep, long-standing history in the series now, prophecy and legend inherent in the characters. It was the dense, science fiction comic book version of Star Wars and until reading Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War, I didn't realize how hungry I was for just that kind of mythology.
Neither did a lot of others. The series sold tons and made DC a bazillion dollars with spin-offs, tie-ins and toys. It brought the characters of Hal Jordan, Sinestro, the Green Lantern Corps and the pending "war of light" to the public masses on a worldwide scale. There wouldn't be a sniff of a Lantern-based cartoon if not for this storyline. (Two fantastic standalone, direct-to-video animated movies, First Flight and Emerald Knights have since been released, plus there's a new computer-animated ongoing television series out right now). There wouldn't be a titular video game or a Ryan Reynolds-starred feature film – or the hope (blue!) of its sequel – if not for the series.
That's all due to the enormous love (violet!) of Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War.
Even though it's a little pricey at $100, the oversized visual treatment of this Absolute hardcover version will make this star spanning galactic war story seem even larger than it is. It's the publishing size that the saga was always destined for!
So make the Wednesday Run this week and pick up Absolute Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War. In the next few decades, we'll all look back and hold it up as one of the most memorably epic storylines in all comic book publishing history.
And there's no grey tinge to that prognostication.
Every Wednesday, JP makes the after-work run to his local downtown comic book shop. Comics arrive on Wednesdays you see and JP, fearful that the latest issue will sell out, rushes out to purchase his copy. This regular, weekly column will highlight a particularly interesting release, written in short order, of course, because JP has to get his – before someone else does!
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At midday the Federals finally arrived on the banks of the rising Rappahannock and drew up in line opposite the Reb stronghold at Port Royal. Sweat stood out on Willie's brow as he anxiously studied the Confederate trenches just visible across the river. Glancing at his brother, he<|fim_middle|>When the engineers rushed forward to lay the pontoons, Colonel Dwight howled, "Forward, Bucktails! Form up behind that earthwork."
At the same moment, Willie saw the artillery being rushed into action. Each field piece was hauled by a team of six mules, and the animals were driven on the double-quick into position. After the guns were unlimbered, Professor Phillips said, "Look, boys, those cannon have pine logs for barrels."
"What good are they gonna do us," croaked Asher, "if they ain't genuine barkers?"
"It looks like this whole attack is bogus!" exclaimed Henry. "We done all that dang marchin' an' got soaked to the rear fer nothin'."
"Actually," retorted Professor Phillips, "this is what the army calls a feint. While we demonstrate here, the real attack will occur somewhere else against a weaker part of the Confederate position."
"The only fellas our general surprised was us," griped Henry. "Damn! We're pullin' back without firin' one shot!" | saw the same trepidation mirrored on his face.
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Nick de la Hoyde Drops Stunning Visuals For 'Ghost'
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Delta Spirit Release New Single, 'The Pressure' | singer-songwriter Nick de la Hoyde has dropped a brand new single with accompanying visuals titled 'Ghost'. The track combines infectious melody with nostalgic lyrics and is featured on the artist's forthcoming album, 'A Beautiful Mess'.
Nick's most recent single 'Ghost' is the third single taken from his new studio album 'A Beautiful Mess', which is set for release in January next year. To record the track, the singer teamed up with his longtime collaborator and brother, Joseph (ZU/ZU) de la Hoyde. 'Ghost' melds Nick's signature confessional lyrics with a danceable, anthemic melody.
Speaking about his new offering, Nick said,
"I guess you could say Ghost is an upbeat song that has a nostalgic feel to it, reminiscing on childhood days and the thoughts of growing older and slowly fading away. I collaborated on this song with my brother ZU/ZU who produced the track and many others on my album".
The video for 'Ghost' recently premiered on MTV Upload in Australia, but you can check it out on YouTube below:
Nick de la Hoyde has been delivering his own, special blend of land down under, future-pop ever since he laid down the ball after pursuing a professional soccer career, and through music, he found his true calling.
Growing up in a multi-cultural, musical home where all his brothers wrote and played music, Nick was exposed to many global influences which he began weaving into his music, combining his love of hip-hop and R&B with electronic alt/dance, weaving them together with introspective lyrics that have chronicled a young musician's journey to adulthood.
Nick and his long-time producer/collaborator/brother ZU/ZU have crafted a sound that is simultaneously intimate, expansive and engaging. He has penned confessional, real life anthems such as his feel good, ode to the golden state, 'California', the tropical house flavours of 'Hold Me Close', and the delicate, melodies of 'Love Takes Time'. On 'Animals', Nick delivers his most anthemic and uplifting ballad to date which will be the lead in to his forthcoming debut album 'A Beautiful Mess' releasing January 2020.
With a growing Australian, UK and stateside radio story, Nick has quickly made a name for himself, cultivating a large and dedicated on-line following. Last year, he joined the line-up of Miami's Rolling Loud Festival, alongside the likes of Future, Post Malone and Wiz Khalifa. Nick also supported American singer MAX on his Australian tour. More performances are currently in the planning stages surrounding his latest release.
Nick's latest track, 'Ghost', is inspired by the downfalls of social media.
"Social media stripped me of all of my social skills, my confidence, my happiness and my friends. I spent so much time trying to please people that I had never met, and felt like I had to post certain photos because that's what they wanted to see, it became my drug and I was addicted to it. I was left feeling like a ghost each day, but online I had a presence, which is a scary thought."
"Ironically when you think you know what you want in life, often it's not what life wants for you" Nick said.
You can find Nick de la Hoyde online on SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and his official website.
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For the second time, Apple will<|fim_middle|> the world. | transform one of its iPhone units into a Product(RED) donations strategy.
Apple will once again partner with Product(RED) on their phones. The latest Apple gadget to get the color treatment? The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Both phones will have the glass enclosures but with the signature cherry red color with matching aluminum band and a black front.
The company noted that the Product(RED) iPhone will be available for order online in select countries and regions start on April 10 and can be purchased in-stores start on Friday, April 13. This is the second iteration of the RED iPhone to hit shelves. The RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus units sold last year, but were discontinued after the announcement of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.
Fans of the iPhone X, however, are out of luck. Apple has stated that the iPhone X will not be getting the RED treatment.
The Product(RED) line was founded in 2006 by U2 frontman Bono and ONE Campaign activist Bobby Shriver. It shares its name alongside other private companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, and others in order to highlight HIV/AIDs efforts in eight African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Tanzania. Apple has been partnering with Product(RED) since 2006, and since that time, the company has donated more than $160 million to the Global Fund. This makes Apple the charity's largest corporate donor.
In a statement, Apple's vice president of product marketing Greg Joswiak said, "This special edition (PRODUCT)RED iPhone features a stunning red and black color combination and also offers customers the opportunity to make an impact in fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS. iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus improve on everything we love about iPhone, including Retina HD displays that are more beautiful than ever, the most powerful and smartest chip ever in a smartphone with the A11 Bionic and more advanced cameras for unbelievable photos and videos. We are proud to support (RED) with this bold new iPhone and hope customers think it is as special as we do."
Apple wasn't the only one to make a color-changing announcement. Samsung recently launched a burgundy color of its Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in India's markets. That color of the phone is already available in South Korea, but it has yet to make it elsewhere in | 505 |
'National Geographic Live,' Kleinhans Music Hall announce live speaker series for 2023 season
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"National Geographic Live," National Geographic's touring speaker series that "brings to life the awe-inspiring stories of National Geographic Explorers," and Kleinhans Music Hall announced a lineup of events for the 2023 season. Beginning Feb. 28, and running through April 18, the series will offer audiences some of National Geographic's "most dynamic and entertaining Explorers, live on stage.
"Each event will feature stunning imagery, gripping footage, and first-person stories from world-renowned explorers,<|fim_middle|>'s cat to the elusive clouded leopard. The season rounds out with Bryan Smith, an extreme photographer. Smith's reputation for capturing the impossible has taken him to the deepest canyon in the South Pacific, across the Alaska Range by paraglider and climbing up the ice of Niagara Falls.
Tickets for the "National Geographic Live" series are on sale now. Through Dec. 1, purchase a series subscription to all three events for the price of two. Single tickets may be purchased for $33. VIP ticket options are also available and include special seating and a meet-and-greet with the speaker.
For more information, visit www.kleinhansbuffalo.org. | filmmakers, photographers and adventurers."
Spanning a range of topics, including marine biology, wild cats, caves and climbing, the series programming begins with a presentation from Brian Skerry, an underwater photographer. Skerry will illuminate new insights into the secret lives and culture of whales. The season then continues with Sandesh Kadur, a photographer and filmmaker. Kadur will highlight the diversity of wild cats in India from the tiny, grumpy-faced Pallas | 90 |
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"Constant excitement is the best way to describe the Mexican Baseball Fiesta," Logan says. "The energy, the fans, the music, the food and the fun make this a unique experience for all baseball fans. We encourage everyone to come out for the party."
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Las Vegas Ballpark Welcomes Mexican Baseball Fiesta
Two-day event featuring Mexican Winter Leagues teams promises nonstop family fun
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By Matt Jacob / Las Vegas Aviators | September 16, 2019 11:22 AM
Spring training is coming to Las Vegas Ballpark this weekend - and it's coming in the form of the Mexican Baseball Fiesta, right as summer gives way to fall.
Confused? Here's the explanation: Since 2011, the Mexican Winter Leagues - which feature 10 professional teams that compete from October through February - has been playing several "spring" training games in the United States, mostly in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. These exhibition contests have come to be known as the Mexican Baseball Fiesta, and as the name suggests, it's one huge, colorful party in which fans partake in authentic Hispanic food and frosty libations while enjoying nonstop music, playful mascots and quality baseball.
Two years ago, the Mexican Baseball Fiesta traveled north to Las Vegas for the first time, playing games at Cashman Field. Now it's returning to town, with Las Vegas Ballpark serving as host for a pair of games between two of the top teams in Liga Mexicana del Pacifico (the Mexican Pacific League). Those teams - Los Naranjeros de Hermosillo and Águilas de Mexicali - will square off Friday and Saturday, with both games starting at 7:05 p.m.
"This is truly a party - I really don't know what else to call it," said Mike Feder, president of the Mexican Baseball Fiesta who spent 30 years as minor-league general manager. "It's a lot of music, a lot of drinking, mascots on the field and great baseball. It's just great entertainment."
Liga Mexicana del Pacifico was founded in 1945 and has produced players who went on to enjoy long and successful major-league careers - players like Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza, pitcher (and Mexico native) Fernando Valenzuela and first baseman (and one-time Las Vegas Star) John Kruk. All three once played with Águilas de Mexicali, while alumni from Los Naranjeros de Hermosillo include two-time World Series-winning pitcher Curt Schilling and former Colorado Rockies sluggers Larry Walker and Vinny Castilla.
In fact, Castilla - who is as popular as any baseball player who has ever come out of Mexico - is Hermosillo's current manager.
"It's excellent baseball," Feder said. "The teams' rosters include some former big leaguers and some prospects trying to get to the big leagues, but the majority of players are from Mexico. The quality of play may be a notch [below Triple-A] - you don't have those top prospect pitchers who are throwing 95 to 99. But these are guys who have been around a little; they're more veteran players."
Liga Mexicana del Pacifico has long been extremely popular throughout Mexico, with natives developing a passion for their hometown teams and passing that passion on from one generation to the next. "It's no different than the Diamondbacks or the Dodgers or the Yankees," Feder said. "Teams that play in this league are thought of the exact same way, and it's taken very seriously."
Don Logan, the Aviators' president and COO, echoed that sentiment. "The Mexican Baseball League is as popular in Mexico as Major League Baseball is in the U.S., if not more so," Logan said.
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University of Sheffield engineers 3D print face shields for doctors and healthcare workers
Engineers from the University of Sheffield have joined forces to rapidly manufacture face shields for doctors and healthcare workers
Face shields to be distributed to frontline healthcare workers who may be exposed to COVID-19
University of Sheffield team is now the Yorkshire hub for the national <|fim_middle|> experts in all stages of the manufacturing process, including 3D printing and disinfection, so that the face shields can be quickly manufactured in bulk to help meet the needs of doctors and healthcare workers in Sheffield and throughout the Yorkshire region.
The team has developed a manufacturing process that allows them to maintain social distancing. All materials entering the building are cleaned and the completed face shields are disinfected prior to shipping.
Following their quick response, the University of Sheffield team is now the Yorkshire hub for the 3DCrowd UK initiative and will be making face shields primarily for frontline doctors and healthcare workers across the region from the University's iForge Makerspace.
The iForge – a first of its kind in the UK – is a pioneering facility run by engineering students that gives engineers at the University an opportunity to collaborate, create and make outside of their academic studies. The space contains state-of-the-art equipment and has links with industry.
The team has set up a Just Giving page and is looking for additional support in acquiring plastics and distribution.
Dr Mylon, project lead and founder of the iForge from the University's Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering Education, said: "Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers across the country are in need of PPE. Many staff are anxious about not having the right equipment and potentially exposing themselves to infection. I knew we could do something to help with the fantastic facilities we have at the University of Sheffield. Our multidisciplinary team is able to cover the complete manufacturing process for our face shields."
Dr Sam Pashneh-Tala, an expert in bioengineering from the University of Sheffield's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, who is also involved in the project, added: "The University of Sheffield has a wide range of manufacturing equipment and, crucially, the expertise needed to use it. Our skills in design and manufacture have allowed us to respond quickly and scale up the manufacturing of PPE for use by healthcare workers."
To support the University of Sheffield engineers in making PPE for frontline NHS workers, visit: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/iforge-face-shields
To request/donate face shields, provide materials or help to organise deliveries, contact the team via: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/engineering/faceshields
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A member of the UK's prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines.
Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in.
Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2018 and for the last eight years has been ranked in the top five UK universities for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education.
Sheffield has six Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
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Engineers from the University of Sheffield are responding to a national call for help in the fight against coronavirus by 3D printing face shields for doctors and healthcare workers.
The response, led by Dr Pete Mylon from the University's Faculty of Engineering, is utilising the world class engineering facilities in the University's Diamond building to rapidly manufacture face shields for frontline NHS staff working in hospitals and healthcare practices.
Following a national call for help made by the 3DCrowd UK initiative, started by a small group of makers last week with the aim of providing PPE to healthcare workers using 3D printing, Dr Mylon got to work by assembling an interdisciplinary team of engineers with a range of different specialisms.
The team includes | 153 |
The Gameboy Advance (GBA) sound system may seem to many as black magic because of the availability of information on this specific part of the machine is near inexistent. Moreover, finding relevant or accurate specs for the older Gameboy was and is still problematic. The result is that many will take little or no advantages of sound in their projects. This site will attempt to fill this gap, by providing an *Unofficial*, comprehensive and (well, as much as possible in the circumstances) accurate specification of the GBA sound system (GBAS). It is assumed that the reader will<|fim_middle|>-commercial use. Gameboy is a registered trademark of Nintendo. | have some knowledge of the other basic functionalities of the GBA and knows how to program in C.
The GBAS is a big step forward its older brothers because it now includes two Pulse Width Modulators (PWM) that act as digital-to-analog converters. This adds to the 4 sound channels present on the previous Gameboys. One important improvement to the sound system is that channel 3 's wave ram is now banked, allowing for distortion-free dynamic wave ram reloading.
The GBA BIOS also contains many sound-related functions, for converting MIDI notes and playing music. BIOS may be covered in the future.
Sound registers, as for all other registers in the GBA, are memory mapped and they span from 0x0400060 to 0x40000A6.
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Another warm Summer weekend, and another record turnout, this time of 33 Boats + 4 cars.
8 teams ( each of 3 to 6 persons) took part in the games, and 80 or so members and guests attended. Later, we all crowded<|fim_middle|>!
We began later to have a few drinks along the quayside before dinner, and then many of us spent a pleasant evening in the gazebo chatting and supping wine.
The Reedham members arrived early Saturday morning, making our record total of 33 boats for an outside event. It was a lovely day and very hot for our fun & games, which began early afternoon so as we could go see the Duck race at 4.30pm. We set up our "Olympic" arena on the grass in front of the boats, positioning our chairs around the periphery, and we had 8 teams taking part in the 6 designated "events", including the last event of all having one entry in the charity Duck race – at the cost of £2 per team! It was great in the afternoon sunshine, all teams being most enthusiastic and competitive. Bob organised the games, helped by Dawn as usual in the penultimate "Play your Cards" game, whilst I adjudicated ( a loose term ) & kept score. Points were awarded as per Formula 1 rules, and it was a close run completion right up to the finishing event, the unwinnable Duck race.( 4,000 ducks floated under the Beccles road bridge, of which we had 8 blue ones among 400 blue ones – try adjudicating that race?) The result was left to our honest adjudicator – Me – and based on the previous 7 rounds, the winning team this year, and winners of the "Paul Hodgson" trophy, was KAS ( Satori ) on 111points; closely followed by the Reedham Rebels on 103 pts; with DNA ( Ocean Way etc) in third on 98pts. Bringing up the rear were the Reedham Rascals on a promising 59pts. Well done to all who took part and made it such a Fun Day! Back to the drinking after all that exertion, and to the BBQ's kicking off after 5pm.. All went well with the cooking, the late afternoon sunshine prevailed although the cool easterly wind was rising. Chairs and tables were hastily set up in the gazebos in the evening – disco lights were switched on – and the music entertainment got underway just after 8pm. John and Bim played their hearts out as usual, and Keith got up to do a few numbers on his acoustic guitar. Some of the "girls" dressed as senoritas, a rehearsal for their costumes ready for the forthcoming Beccles carnival weekend, bringing a Mexican feel to the proceedings.
All over just after 11pm, and off we drifted to our boats and bed.
The rest of the day was peaceful, boats leaving as the day progressed, although many stayed on for a week or two to enjoy the gorgeous Summer weather – a repeat of last year.
Moorings are already booked for next season's August Funday at Beccles, but will a hot summer bless us again?
A special thanks to Harbour Master Tim for getting us all in for the Fun Day and for putting up with those of us who stayed on at Beccles after! | inside the gazebos for some nice songs and guitar music from Keith, Bim, and John – Bob had escaped for the evening to see Marty Wilde ( who?) in concert in Norwich!
It all began for me on the Thursday – 19 boats either already there or arriving throughout the day. So glad that we had all let Tim know in advance and had reserved moorings. It was a lovely afternoon, meeting old friends and having a few drinks before heading back early to our own boats. Friday was an early start as lots more of our member boats arrived in the morning, swelling our numbers to 29 before the day was out and making a tight squeeze in the Yacht station. That afternoon we put up both old and new gazebos due to the high turnout, as we did the previous year, with the old tree stump again taking centre-stage. Steve then called an unarranged committee meeting, mainly to discuss overcrowding and the lack of mooring spaces at our riverside events. This was held in the gazebo at 3pm., whilst the others were still putting the finishing touches to the gazebos and raising the flagpole. Busy, busy afternoon | 241 |
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Our Colorado Springs photographers use state of the art equipment,<|fim_middle|> pictures on the right are taken with manual settings to make composite shots. Then taken through careful post processing to achieve the best results. | so they can capture beautiful high definition, panoramic, wide angle architectural images. They are experts in residential and commercial architectural photography, utilizing complex camera techniques and settings, so they can produce a dynamic range of lighting with rich vibrant tones. Many photo images are taken to contribute to just one composite image, which is then fused together to show only the best features of the subject area. Our professional photographers combined with expertise in architectural photography will enhance your real estate marketing efforts substantially.
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See below. The Image on the left was taken with one of the newest phones on the market with its "HDR" mode. The image on the right is a composite of multiple exposures to create a final image that is appealing and true to life.
The Picture on the left was taken with an standard camera lens on a professional DSLR. The picture on the right was taken with a wide angle lens with multiple exposures taken to form the final composite shot. Notice how big the room actually is. The bright window is now clear and reveals what is outside.
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Last week I wrote for the first time about my upcoming half-marathon. Over these past weeks, I've realized how running serves as a mirror for me; it brings my tendencies and personality into much greater relief.
I'm past this now. Mostly.
Running also reinforces my predisposition towards being goal-oriented. I need goals. Or, to quote Jim Rohn, "The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
My premise behind this race is a simple one: if I can train myself to stick to a schedule, push past discomfort, and mentally overcome self-doubt in the running realm, then I can do it in other realms of life as well.
If I can run 13.1 miles by taking one step at a time, then can't I translate this lesson into all other areas of life? To write a book by penning one word, one sentence, at a time? To tackle large projects without being daunted by their magnitude?
Earlier this week I received an email with my race and corral numbers, something that vaguely made me feel like cattle. Corral? Really?
As I read the details, I grew simultaneously excited and nervous -- okay, nauseous --<|fim_middle|> going to die... so I'm in awe of your half-marathoning. How exciting!
Mrs. T, I'm sure you'll jump back in the saddle soon. Sign up for another one!
Carol, right back at you, and thank you so, so, so much.
Karinya, go you! Stay in that "annoying" phase as long as you like -- be proud! I'm certainly proud of you!
You and Mrs. T inspire me. I have always wanted to do a 5k, but I am such a weenie! I also herniated a disc in my back a few years ago and figured running was permanently off limits. I may have to give it a try. Thanks for reminding me how important the small steps are in the big picture.
Sara, thanks so much for your comment. You aren't weak at all! If I had a herniated disc, I'd be skiddish at the idea of running, too. Take good care of yourself! | which must be my default contradictory emotional reaction because I experience it to a certain degree with every large endeavor that pushes me out of my comfort zone.
Two weeks from today: race time!
I did the Couch to 5k thing last year when I started getting serious about losing weight (I'm down 120 pounds! And, as you can tell, am still at that annoying phase where I have to drop that into the conversation whenever possible), and I loved it. I can do about 4 miles comfortably now, 5 and start to wonder if I'm | 115 |
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Most young children know to call 911 in an emergency but do they really know what that means? It is important to show them if they are using a smart phone, how to unlock the phone, how to get to the phone screen and how to make the phone call.
*be careful that they don't really call them during practice because you don't want to tie up their lines for a non-emergency.
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While the ideal situation in the event of an emergency or disaster is that you'll be able to remain in your home, this might not always be feasible, especially if you are evacuated from your area. In this case, you and your family could find yourselves having to walk or ride a bike to reach a safe place. So being physically fit is an important part of preparedness, in addition to creating an overall state of good health and well-being.
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Sir Joshua Alexander "Joe" Loss (22 June 1909 – 6 June 1990) was a British dance band leader and musician who founded his own eponymous orchestra.
Life
Loss was born in Spitalfields, London, the youngest of four children. His parents, Israel and Ada Loss, were Russian Jews and first cousins. His father was a cabinet-maker who had an office furnishing business. Loss attended the Jews' Free School, Trinity College of Music and the London College of Music (now part of the University of West London). He started violin lessons at the age of seven and later played violin at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool and also with Oscar Rabin.
Loss started band leading in the early 1930s, working at the Astoria Ballroom and soon breaking into variety at the Kit-Cat Club. In 1934, he topped the bill at the Holborn Empire but in the same year moved back to the Astoria Ballroom where<|fim_middle|> | he led a twelve piece band. In 1935, Vera Lynn appeared with the Joe Loss Orchestra in her first radio broadcast. With broadcasting, recording and annual tours in addition to the resident work the band became highly popular over the next few years. In the 1950s and early 60s, Loss was resident band leader at the Hammersmith Palais and was remembered by a trainee nurse at Hammersmith Hospital as being as kind and gentlemanly when she attended him in hospital as he was in his public persona. His band's signature tune "In the Mood" would often be requested three or more times a night.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions: in May 1963 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Hammersmith Palais in London, and again in October 1980, when Andrews surprised him at London's Portman Hotel during a star-studded party to celebrate Loss' 50 years in show business. A favourite of the British Royal Family, Loss' orchestra performed not only at Royal Variety Performances but also at Christmas parties hosted by the Royal family, which earned Loss not only the OBE but also the LVO, an honour in the personal gift of the Queen.
Loss' daughter Jennifer is chair of the Jewish Music Institute in London and was married to the British car designer Robert Jankel.
Loss died on 6 June 1990 and is buried at Bushey Jewish Cemetery in Hertfordshire.
Joe Loss Orchestra
The Joe Loss Orchestra was one of the most successful acts of the big band era in the 1940s, with hits including "In the Mood". In 1961 they had a hit with "Wheels—Cha Cha", a version of the String-A-Longs' hit "Wheels". Other hits included David Rose's "The Stripper" in 1958, "Sucu Sucu", "Must Be Madison", "The Theme from Maigret" and "March of the Mods (The Finnjenka Dance)" of 1964.
In April 1951 Elizabeth Batey, vocalist with Joe Loss, fell and broke her jaw. Joe was badly in need of a replacement and remembered hearing Rose Brennan on radio during a visit to Ireland. Within days he had located her and, before a week was out, she was in Manchester rehearsing with the band. She stayed with Loss for fifteen years, before giving up show-business in the mid 1960s. She wrote many of the songs she recorded with Joe Loss under the name Marella, and co-wrote songs with John Harris. Her co-vocalists with the orchestra from 1955 were Ross MacManus (father of Elvis Costello) and Larry Gretton.
The Joe Loss Orchestra carries on under the musical direction of Todd Miller, who was a vocalist with the band for 19 years before Loss' death. In 1989 Joe Loss became too ill to travel and in 1990 he entrusted the leadership to his longest serving band member, trombonist and player manager of many decades, Sam Watmough and to Todd. The orchestra has been in constant operation since 1930 and in 2015 it celebrated its 85th anniversary.
Specialist dance band radio stations continue to play his records. Joe Loss also features regularly on the Manx Radio programme Sweet & Swing, presented by Howard Caine.
References
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
External links
Bio at 45rpm.org.uk
1909 births
1990 deaths
20th-century British musicians
Alumni of the University of West London
Alumni of Trinity College of Music
British bandleaders
Dance band bandleaders
British people of Russian descent
Columbia Records artists
English Jews
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at JFS (school)
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A Single Dad's Message To The Single Mom Who Raised Him – And to You
There was anguish in her cries. And frustration. And sheer exhaustion. And yet the next day, there she was again, with breakfast on the table, school lunches packed, and our clothes laid out for school.
By Jessica Hendrickson in divorce, General, Reflections on October 11, 2019 October 10, 2019
***The following is a Guest Post submitted by Nick Messina***
My name is Nick Messina. I'm a 45 year-old, divorced, single dad. I'm also a teacher and a writer. But before I became any of those things, I was a boy raised by a single mom.
I was eight when my parents got divorced, during a time when not many other kids were coming from broken homes. It was so isolating and made me feel so different. I was the only boy on my baseball team without a dad there to see him play. My friends' dads would play with us in the backyard at their birthday parties; my father had an annual tradition of forgetting my birthday. Even in emergencies, like when I had a severe allergic reaction to multiple yellowjacket stings, the frantic call my father received was not enough to get him to the doctor to hold my hand as I got four shots of epinephrine in one arm and three in the other.
The one who did hold my hand was my mom. Always. Every time. Without fail.
Whenever part of my heart broke because I wanted my dad so badly, my mom was the one to pick up the pieces. She would let me cry on the ride home from my baseball games, gently "shhhh-ing" me and rubbing my head the entire way. She would sit on my bed after my birthday parties were over and offer the mystifying, but somehow reassuring, explanation that I memorized like song lyrics, "I know he disappoints you, but your father does love you." And when we finally made it home after the yellowjacket emergency, it was my mom who helped me lift my arms into my pajamas because I was too sore to lift them myself.
Even as an adult, she helped me stand when I was too sore to move. The last thing I ever wanted to be was a single dad; to have my precious boy, Luke, experience the isolation and loss I felt as a child. And yet when I felt that part of me snap–that part that said, "Enough. I'm better than the treatment I've been receiving. I'm done," it was my mom who reassured me of two things:
1) I was doing the right thing, because she had felt that self-same breaking of her spirit come so many years before, and
2) I was not my father, and Luke would not ever experience the disappointment I became so accustomed to as a child. On my worst days going through the divorce process, when I couldn't see an end in sight and didn't know how I would ever smile again, it was my mom who taught me the will to be strong, because that's what she had to be for the three of us.
As a single dad, I can relate to her even more now–although I'll never pretend that a father's role is equal to that of a mother's. My mom has often told me that when she put me to bed that night after the bee stings, she broke down crying because she realized for the first time she was alone in this. What I've never told her is that I remember vividly how many times I could hear her crying at night from behind my bedroom door. There was anguish in her cries. Anguish. And frustration. And sheer exhaustion. And yet the next day, there she was again, with breakfast on the table, school lunches packed, and our clothes laid out for school. She would be strong for us even if she didn't feel that way inside, and she taught me that I need to be "The Rock" for Luke, despite how loudly my anguished cries may be behind closed doors after he goes to bed.
"The Rock." That's actually what my brother Anthony would grow to call her: "The Rock of Our Family." He was two months old when my mother kicked my father out; so young and innocent that he used to call me "Papa" because he never knew what it was like to wake up under the same roof as his father. Growing up, he was the quiet one, and to this day he doesn't typically emote unless copious amounts of alcoholic libations are involved. Maybe that's why the letter he wrote to my mother on the occasion of her 70th birthday and retirement party shocked us all so much.
Anthony beautifully captured what it was like growing up under my mom's loving care. He recounted all the basketball games and track meets she would attend<|fim_middle|> thank me for everything over the years I did to get him there. It melted my heart. I wish I could go back and tell my younger self to stop worrying so much about him because he turned into such an amazing, well adjusted young man. Love your son fiercely and all will be okay in the end. ❤️
Share Some Comment Love Cancel reply | for his sake–with no mention of ever missing my father, because he did not have that luxury. She was only, ever, all he knew. He told her how while we didn't have money for fancy vacations and the like, the special moments she made for all of us on holidays made up for it, like hiding "one extra gift from Santa" in the closet because the three of us were so good that year–even though we had long-since ceased believing. He thanked her for the little surprises she would bring home from the supermarket from time to time, like Hostess Cupcakes decorated with red and white icing for baseball season. And he recounted the evening he had croup, and she wrapped him in a blanket and rocked him on the back porch to help him breathe. He told her that although it was a frigid January evening and he was sick and scared, she made him feel safe.
This isn't to say she was perfect, but her intentions always were. There was beauty in her efforts and grace in her failings, and she instilled in her three boys the sort of sensitivity and compassion that I'm not sure we would have developed otherwise. I can proudly say that all three of us grew up to become loving, patient, hands-on dads, and devoted, supportive husbands. We wear our hearts on our sleeves and give of those hearts to help the people we love; another lesson we learned from our mother. Our single mother. The one who became, at the tender age of 32, a team of one, and who did what I wholeheartedly believe was a miraculous job.
And that's my message to anyone reading this. Your children are a testament to your love and sacrifice. The struggle you're making your way through today, the tears you may cry behind closed doors, the exhaustion you feel, the second guessing, the special thing you did for your son or daughter today that you may forget a week from now–those things are all part of the letter. You are helping your children write their future letters to you; the ones that they will stand and read proudly to a room of people. And you'll cry and smile at the same time, knowing that all of this, the hard times as well as the good, was worth it.
You're not perfect. You're going to make mistakes along the way. But take it from this 45 year-old, divorced single dad–the one who's a teacher and a writer now, but started off as an 8-year old boy being raised by a single mom–there is beauty in your efforts, and grace in your failings.
And you're doing a miraculous job.
Luke & Nick Messina
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Simply beautiful ♥️ Thank you for sharing. God bless you.
This is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Thank you so much for sharing. Stay strong. Your love for and commitment to your son is crystal clear. Your son will be just fine in the end and so will you. Take it from a once single mom who got a call from her eighteen year son after his first day of college classes this past September. He called to tell me he was happy and to | 733 |
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CTY scholars tour White House at Obama's invitation
Image caption: CTY Center Scholars Program participants pose for a photo in front of the White House.
By Maria Blackburn
/ Published Sept 2012
Most days this summer, you'd find 17-year-old Rachel Viqueira running experiments with mice at the Johns Hopkins Neurogenetics and Behavior Center, helping investigators better understand the intricacies of how the brain works and gaining the kind of lab experience that most young scientists can only dream of. But one day in July, the Maplewood, N.J., high school senior got the<|fim_middle|> for talented youth
More from the September 2012 issue | day off so that she and her seven fellow interns from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Center Scholars Program could tour the White House at President Obama's invitation.
The private tour took these high school students to the East Wing, where they visited a variety of spaces, including the Green Room, the library, and the Red Room. The students, who ranged in age from 15 to 18 and came from across the United States, also met with top White House aide Michael Strautmanis and shared their insights about the positive impact that working in a laboratory environment has had on their interest in pursuing careers in science.
The Center Scholars Program, developed by CTY and Andrew Feinberg's Center for Excellence in Genome Science at Johns Hopkins, was launched in 2005 to encourage bright high school students from historically underrepresented minority groups to explore careers in scientific research, particularly in the field of genomics.
"I'm really glad we had the opportunity to go," says Viqueira, whose group was accompanied on the tour by Elaine Hansen, CTY's executive director, and program mentor and Johns Hopkins epigeneticist Feinberg. "The most memorable part for me was speaking with Michael Strautmanis, who made me realize that the work we do has importance to others. As CTY Center Scholars we can really help change perceptions toward minorities and high school students in science labs."
Students in the three-year program spend their first summer in a three-week residential CTY course on genetics, followed by a second summer studying genomics with CTY. During their third summer, they complete a six-week research internship in Baltimore with faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. They receive full financial support to cover their CTY courses, travel and living expenses, and a stipend during their internship.
The visit came about after Feinberg and colleagues visited the White House to discuss science with the president. During the meeting, Feinberg mentioned his work with CTY Center Scholars as an example of how engaging students early on can foster their interest in pursuing scientific and research careers. When Feinberg offered to introduce the president to some of the scholars, he accepted. Unfortunately, Obama's travel schedule made it impossible for him to meet the students on their visit.
To date, 68 students have completed the CTY Center Scholars Program, which is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. Many of these students have gone on to study science in college and pursue careers in the field. "The literature shows that for science you need to have early exposure for it to have a significant impact on your career choice," Feinberg says. "The CTY Center Scholars Program has been a huge success."
Hansen adds, "Research has already demonstrated that the first cohorts of Center Scholars showed significantly higher interest in science than students in a control group; we know, for example, that 73 percent of the Center Scholars currently enrolled in college are majoring in a STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] discipline, and four of them already have published scientific articles. Spending a day hearing our current interns enthusiastically discussing their lab projects and interacting as a passionate community of young scientists brought those statistics to life. Early intervention with gifted minority students clearly works."
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Prior to being labeled "box office poison" the mid-1930s, Katharine Hepburn's career was looking up. And George Stevens' 1935 romantic drama Alice Adams had become one of the most successful of her career thus far. There was a brief period after her Academy Award-winning performance in 1933's Morning Glory where she had slightly declined in the public eye, but Alice Adams seemed to rectify that. Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington, the film follows a young woman as she attempts to climb up the social ladder and marry wealthy while trying to dust her lower class life under the rug.
Although I would hesitate to call the film particularly progressive, with the exception being that Alice's older brother (Frank Albertson) associates with black people willingly (the caveat being he's a gambler and a slacker), Katharine Hepburn's portrayal of Adams pleasantly avoids being insufferable. The general concept of the film, that a poor person must hide their poverty in order to retain an image of class, was not new and will always be a trope to some degree. But there's a certain kind of self-sufficiency in Hepburn's acting that never comes off as selfish.
More often than not, it is her mother (Ann Shoemaker) that fixates on money as a symbol, but in a sadly nagging manner, drifting into the emasculating of Alice's father (Fred Stone). What's interesting about this dynamic is that Alice's mother understand the power that money has, the influence, and the opportunities that money can give. Money is less to her a tangible thing and more a symbol of progress and wealth. But what feels bothersome is that Mrs. Adams is not actually concerned with her daughter's opportunities, but more her own. She certain drives home the point that Alice "can't go to the dance in a dress she's already owned" and thus must reuse, but these seem to be more residual effects of the fact that Mrs. Adams, too, was a social climber. One feels a sense of pity for Mr. Adams, who, out of his control, had to quit his job and subsequently never took advantage of the amazing glue recipe he and his former partner had created. Mr. Adams certainly wants his daughter to have these opportunities, but is harder on himself and more pessimistic about them.
Alice feel refreshing in comparison. Juxtaposed against the two extremes of her bickering, argumentative parents, Alice's methodology seems slightly more reserved. No less determined<|fim_middle|> is also a highlight. MacMurray's warm screen presence is an absolutely unassuming performance. (Also, he gets really sweaty, which is funny.) He is, as all Prince Charmings must be, very understanding and very genuine. And though Arthur himself isn't a particularly interesting character, Alice's reaction to him makes her more interesting. There's a careful, uncalculated oscillation that occurs as Alice falls in love with him, and when money, despite however she may be explicit in the dialogue, ceases to matter in comparison to earning his love. It is, for lack of a better word, sweet.
Alice Adams is a perfectly competent, even deftly made melodrama, and though it makes the usual narrative pivots in this kind of "almost rags to riches" story, there are interesting dynamics at play. Hepburn, bringing life to the screen as always, is wonderful and, against all odds, does not overplay her hand. Instead, she brings sweetness and nuance to a story of quiet desperation.
Alice Adams is available as a MOD DVD through Warner Archive. | , but she seems to understand the subtlety involved in social climbing, and her desire to do so feels more representative of both understanding money's power as well as more sensitive to that idea. That being said, part of what makes her character interesting is that despite this understanding, there is still a deep sense of naiveté, with Alice trying to hide and/or ignore the fact that she's poor. Everyone must in these kinds of stories, but she does so in a childlike manner. And her understanding of wealth as symbol is maybe more childish than her mother's, at least in how she manifests it through dialogue the natural assumption that people's daughters shower in money, etc.).
That Alice's romance with rich boy Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray) seems to bloom more organically than either she or the audience would expect | 168 |
Home Entertainment Video Games REVIEW: Nostalgic Pokémon action in SHINING PEARL & BRILLIANT DIAMOND
REVIEW: Nostalgic Pokémon action in SHINING PEARL & BRILLIANT DIAMOND
Even if you've been playing every mainline game in the franchise, this feature-packed remake will take you back.
Avery Kaplan
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
In Pokémon: Shining Pearl<|fim_middle|> film helmed by Disney veterans
Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and a whole bunch of comic book articles. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award. She lives in Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, StarTrek.com, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.
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Angoulême Festival announces new dates for March | and Pokémon: Brilliant Diamond, both of which are now available on Nintendo Switch, players return to the Sinnoh region and face off against Team Galactic! The most recent mainline remakes from the franchise have arrived, and they might be the most nostalgic Pokémon games yet.
Classic Pokémon Action
The Pokémon franchise is no stranger to remakes. Over the years, the older games in the franchise have periodically been re-released, usually with updates from more recent titles added in for the convenience of the player.
While games like Let's Go Eevee and Let's Go Pikachu featured updates to their graphics that made them seem more closely aligned to Pokémon Sword and Shield, the graphic updates for Shining Pearl & Brilliant Diamond take a somewhat different approach, with the characters in the over world designed to look like more fully rendered cartoon versions of the pixelated sprites that populated the original Nintendo DS release of the games.
However, when a battle is triggered, those sprites become more fully animated versions of the characters – all of which, from Hikers to Battle Girls, will be instantly recognizable to long-standing players of the franchise.
In fact, these battle sequences are some of the best-animated parts of the game, with even the settings for the battles being brought to life (including background details that make sense from your place on the map, like a towering mountain or, in one instance, gravestones).
But there is one graphical anomaly that is never really resolved: the Pokétch. When Pearl & Diamond were originally released, they were on the Nintendo DS (short for "Dual Screen"). While the main game display appeared on the system's top screen, the bottom touch screen was where the Pokétch screen appeared, allowing the player to tap it at any time in order to access the apps it contains.
Just like the Wiimote control segments in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, the functionality that was attached to the system-specific play features now come across as a strange vestigial inclusion. To compensate for the fact that the Switch lacks a second screen on which the Pokétch would appear, it instead floats in the top right corner of the display. While you can call it up or hide it using the R shoulder button, it nevertheless feels sort of awkward and redundant in a way that almost no other part of this game does.
It's a little thing called style… look it up sometime!
However, this is a comparatively small complaint, and most of the game does an excellent job of seamlessly invoking the earlier incarnation of the title while simultaneously updating it for the Switch era. The net effect is one of the most nostalgic Pokémon games yet. Shining Pearl & Brilliant Diamond really took me back to earlier days in the franchise's history – and that's from someone who has hardly missed a Pokémon title that's been released over the course of the past two and a half decades.
Added Bells and Whistles
While Shining Pearl & Brilliant Diamond do heavily evoke their original releases, like other remakes from the franchise, they also incorporate some of the "convenience updates" that have been integrated into the Pokémon titles in the meantime. Perhaps the most prominent example is the ability to access your Pokémon box remotely, and swap out your team from anywhere, rather than just using one of the PCs located inside Pokémon Centers.
And while all of the functionality that was originally included with Pearl & Diamond remains intact, more functions have been added on, making this one of the most feature-packed Pokémon games imaginable.
No matter what your favorite part of the game is, there are ways to dig further into that angle: for example, if you are a fan of the Super Contest Show, then you can work on collecting outfits to wear on-stage, or building your Capsule Decoration collection so that your Pokémon looks its very best when it emerges from its Pokéball (in fact, you can decorate your Pokéball in 2D or 3D, to give you an idea of the depth of even a function like this).
Another feature with loads of play potential is the Grand Underground. This network of underground caves and tunnels has a bunch of exciting features, including the opportunity to explore alongside other players (using either a local or online connection), catch Pokémon in "wild areas" (where you can see them wandering around in advance of the battle, like many areas in Sword & Shield), and the chance to find more items.
Plus, locating spots in the walls that are filled with "treasure" leads to a fun mini-game that sends you on a search or precious stones and other valuable items.
This is all in addition to the poffin-making feature, which gives you the chance to raise certain stats by cooking poffins with certain berries (which you can collect and grow mostly by gathering berries from naturally growing bushes throughout Sinnoh). Once you have the ingredients you need, you participate in a mini-game to cook the poffin (a style of play that you see continued in the main franchise titles thanks to the curry-cooking feature in Sword & Shield).
Big "left the last latke in the oil" energy.
By fully utilizing the poffin feature, you can improve your Pokémon's visual scores in the Super Contest Show – a great example of the way these games give you the chance to dig into the features you like as deeply as you'd care to do.
Grudge is heavy, and all mine.
Another new addition to the game that is especially enjoyable is Amity Square, where you can take your Pokémon out of their Pokéballs and walk alongside them. Not only is there a camera function that allows you to take pictures from different angles than can be achieved anywhere else in the game, but this feature also allows you to unlock the option to have one of your Pokémon walk alongside you anywhere in the game.
Shining Pearl & Brilliant Diamond
Can he teach me a lesson?
Whether you choose Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl, there is little distinction between the two games – it essentially boils down to the Pokémon that are exclusive to each version. Fortunately, whether you're playing with someone close-by or faraway, trading in the game is easy (and thanks to fellow Beat writer and devoted Pokémon trainer Dean Simons, I don't even have to worry about how I'll get the Pearl-exclusive pocket monsters).
With tons of play potential and enough extra features to keep you more than a little distracted from your main mission of collecting all eight gym badges and Elite Four, Shining Pearl & Brilliant Diamond are another set of solid entries for the Pokémon franchise.
Pokémon Shining Pearl & Pokémon Brilliant Diamond are available for purchase now.
Review code provided to The Beat by Nintendo.
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It's possible. It's all possible. Words that have come out of<|fim_middle|>.
They say that overnight success takes 10 years.
What dream do you have right now that's cooking? | my mouth before but I never truly believed. I never truly believed them because I didn't have a personal example in my life where I actually felt that. That mixture between a deep sense of pride and love for what I was doing. I was close once, but it wasn't in the cards. It was possible for me but the sacrifices were too great. So I had to make the decision to stop.
Life went on dreamless for a while.
Through my personal experience, I have seen first hand that you can change a reality you don't like. The problem is, it takes an incredible amount of work. But like working with clay, what is cold and hard at the beginning begins to heat up and take shape over time. You have to give it time. Without giving something the proper amount of time when you apply your efforts to it, it will simply stay a lump in your hands.
Coming up with a plan and then giving things time to cook is crucial.
Have you ever taken something out of the oven before it is fully baked? That experienced could make you sick for days. You either wish you had left it in the oven or never actually wished it existed in the first place. Trust me…food poisoning is the worst.
It may take longer than you think. When I hit my first 14 week goal I realized that it was probably going to take me a lot longer to actually achieved what I had always dreamed of. Besides, years and years of bad habits cannot all just be turned around in 3 short months. They take time to break and model new habits that will help you become more successful.
If it takes more time, that's just an indicator for you to put it back in the oven and go back to work. Patience is key. Patience is so important because that's one of the single traits that allows you to understand that the end result will eventually come…if you just give it a chance. We live in a society that is so fast paced and "DO IT NOW" that when it doesn't happen right now we think it won't happen at all | 425 |
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Not many of you remember, but in 2016 Intel quietly bought a small startup, "Soft Machines." That startup was developing a new type of processor architecture called VISC.
Quick recap on RISC vs CISC vs CRISC vs VISC:
For the most part, processor architectures are traditionally built around either CISC (complex) or RISC (reduced) instruction sets and execution models. At the same time, more modern designs (<|fim_middle|> that the tech might have disappeared (me included) in the depth of Intel, never to be seen again.
Well, not so fast. It turns out that some of the fundamental principles implemented in the VISC architecture are still being worked on and patented by Intel. The following patent, filed in 2020, is an excellent example.
Patent: [Method and system for instruction block to execution unit grouping - Intel](https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20200341768.pdf)
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| e.g., Intel Core) are increasingly a mix or so-called 'CRISC' design. The difference between CISC and RISC boils down to the fact that simpler designs can be more power-efficient. Still, complex designs can do more complicated things in fewer cycles. At the same time, CRISC essentially meets the two paradigms benefits, though not without inheriting some of the drawbacks. VISC, for lack of a better description, is a RISC design using a custom instruction set over a translation layer that allows a single thread of operations to be dispatched over multiple physical cores.
Now, why bring this up five years later? Many people would have assumed | 134 |
Hours change to nightshift for Bayfront Campus custodial workers
Post author:Eva Gray
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Red text denotes day-shift Custodial and Housing workers, while names in blue show the night shift workers. Seven workers cover the whole of the Bayfront Campus, and are supervised nightly by Bil Harmon.
Every day, students attend classes in rooms with clean white boards and vacuumed floors, in buildings with smudge-free windows, clean restrooms and empty garbage cans.
But New College does not clean itself.
Custodial staff members used to work the early morning shift, starting their work day at 4:30 a.m. and ending at 12:30 p.m. With a short staff and low budget for hiring new employees, the hours for Bayfront Campus custodial workers have changed to late night hours, or third shift — workers now clock in at 11:00 p.m. and clock out at 7:30 a.m. Besides members of the Campus Police, custodial workers are now the only NCF employees on campus overnight.
"The reason we changed the hours was because we had become short-staffed," Custodial Staff director Laurence "Larry" Sultenfuss told the Catalyst. He explained that a few long-time staff had recently left due to retirement, and that there is a hold on hiring new people. "We wanted to do more with less so we figured we could increase their hours by working at night. After eight in the morning students and faculty start coming in … we weren't getting a lot done between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
"The new hours give them roughly four more hours [of] access to campus without running into other people," he continued.
Sultenfuss said that all of the staff agreed upon the new hours, and that management had made the decision after consulting with workers. "[The workers] all wanted to change," he said. "You can do a lot more getting off at 7:30 in the morning than [you can] getting off at 12:30 in the afternoon."
The change became the only solution to logistical and budget issues faced by the maintenance department of Physical Plant.
Some of the problems with cleaning during the day came from the safety hazard of mopping tile floors, as well as complaints that vacuuming disrupted classes and phone conversations in the business and administrative offices. Now the custodial staff generally does all their vacuuming, mopping, dusting and other duties without encountering other signs of campus life.
George Speight, who has been working for New College for 10 years, is responsible for the nightly cleaning of the Caples complex, Sainer auditorium and the Old Caples carriage house, which he said he does not like to go into alone at night.
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With the translation help of Naushin Jiwani, a student of Chinese, the Catalyst spoke with Amy Wu, who cleans the whole ACE building nightly. Wu said that she sleeps as soon as she gets home every morning and that sleep is her biggest priority. "It's hard work every day, day in, day out," Jiwani said of Wu's description of her work.
"It's true," Wu said, nodding in confirmation.
Staff members are given two 15-minute breaks per shift and one 30-minute "lunch" break at 3:00 a.m. Since it takes time out of their break to travel to the other side of 41 to eat at Physical Plant, some said they just stay in their designated workspace.
As employees of the State of Florida, custodial workers qualify for benefits after their first month on the job. "The health insurance is really good — it's helped me a lot," Speight said. "I think that's about the best thing about [the job.]"
"This job is a blessing," Sin Wu said. "I don't have good English. I can't find another job and this job was easy for me to get."
Sin Wu, who has been a resident of the Sarasota area for almost 30 years, explained that at her previous job she got "no holiday, no insurance." She got the job at New College after visiting her husband, Jim Yu, who cooks for Sodexho in Hamilton "Ham" Center. "Here, we have insurance for our whole family," she said.
Custodial workers, while receiving medical, dental and optical insurance, also have pension plans as state workers. However, they are hourly wageworkers, earning a starting wage of $9.00 that has not increased in at least five years. As Sultenfuss noted, "for the level of pay, they're doing a lot of work."
While there are 14 total workers on the custodial crew, two work the West Campus during the day for tasks that don't get done during the night hours. Housing staff have kept their normal hours, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. | working here 10 years," Speight explained. "I love it. I started out on grounds — I guess this is a move up because I'm not outside. At least I don't have anybody over me … I like [working alone]."
While he does run into the occasional late-night art student, he said it startles him to see people and hear noises when he's alone in the complex. "I kind of miss being around the kids … I had a lot of friends, but they graduated," he said.
Speight said that one problem with day hours was incidents like when a student walked in after he mopped the floor. "She got footprints all the way down the hall, but she apologized," he said.
Ron Woodrum cleans the Hamilton classrooms, Sudakoff and the Counseling and Wellness Center. "I don't see [students] as much," he said. "Every once in a while I see a few and say 'Hey, how's it going?'" Woodrum said the new hours have made it easier to finish all his tasks, such as making sure the chalkboards are clean and vacuuming all the classrooms each night.
Staff explained that adjusting to a new sleep schedule has been one of the hardest parts of their new schedule. "[The new hours are] ok, [but] I still gotta get used to it," Speight said. "I haven't been going to sleep that much, maybe like an hour … Monday is terrible."
"It's been a little bit tough sleep-wise … I usually sleep between 10:00 a.m. and three or four in the afternoon," Woodrum said.
Yu Xian "Sin" Wu, who is responsible for Cook Hall, the Social Sciences Building and Bonn House, said that, for her, it's hard to sleep during the day. Her schedule is such that she eats at 1:00 and | 390 |
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Travel and Writing in the Global Renaissance
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Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic
Call For Papers: Cannibalism in the Early Modern Atlantic
Location: The University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Making Knowledge in the Renaissance
The Northern Renaissance Seminar, University of Liverpool.
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Britain, Ireland and the overseas world
Bangor biennial international conference on the Restoration
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Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800
Across faiths and regions and throughout the world, the home was a centre for devotion in the early modern period. Holy books, prayer mats, candlesticks, inscriptions, icons, altars, figurines of saints and deities, paintings, prints and textiles all wove religion into the very fabric of the home. While research into religious practice during this period often focuses on institutions and public ceremonies, it is clear that the home played a profound role in shaping devotional experience, as a place for religious instruction, private prayer and contemplation, communal worship, and the performance of everyday rituals.
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Poly-Olbion and the Writing of Britain
Confirmed speakers include Alison Chapman, Andrew Hadfield, Bernhard Klein, Sara Trevisan, and Angus Vine. The conference will also feature presentations by the Poly-Olbion Project Team: Andrew McRae, Philip Schwyzer, Daniel Cattell, and Sjoerd Levelt.
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John Fletcher: A Critical Reappraisal
Professor Gordon McMullan (King's College London)
Dr Lucy Munro (King's College London)
Professor Sandra Clark (Professor Emerita, Institute of English Studies, University of London)
Professor Clare McManus (University of Roehampton)
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Honoring Pursuit of Excellence, Quality
By Mark Michelson
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I always look forward to this special issue that pays tribute to the Printing Impressions/RIT Printing Industry Hall of Fame inductees and the Gold Ink Award winners. It acknowledges both individual career achievement, as well as the total group effort that's typically required for a printing company to produce an award-winning piece.
Hall of Fame honorees look back to the mentors who helped shape their careers and to those talented staff members who have, and continue to, contribute to their ongoing business success. Likewise, the creation of a Gold Ink Award-winning piece requires the pursuit of excellence by all departments within a printing company.
A similar, unwavering pursuit of product innovation, high-quality print production and leadership by example, have remained common attributes among all Hall of Fame honorees for the past 32 years that we've been recognizing and inducting them. So, too, has their<|fim_middle|>yth — the fourth generation to lead Lawton Printing — who had the misfortune to take over the reins as president of her company just one month after 9/11. Losing half of its sales in the aftermath and forced to lay off workers, she learned valuable business lessons such as making hard choices, when needed, sooner vs. later.
Similary, Andy Lyke had to overcome the business challenges of leading Ripon Printers through the "Great Recession" that followed the stock and housing markets crash. Sales dropped, while company health care premiums soared more than $1 million in a three-year span.
Tom Metzger has also propelled Metzgers to success, despite overcoming personal tragedy. Tom's brother, Joe —who served as president and was himself a 2010 Hall of Fame inductee — died in 2014 at age 50 following a long battle with cancer. Their older brother, Dick, succumbed to cancer in 2004 at age 50, as well. Tom admits to still feeling their loss, but credits a strong support system at home and at work in helping him battle through the grief and remaining focused.
Zarik Megerdichian faced hardship at an early age. When he was just 12, his family relocated in Iran to flee the Iran-Iraq conflict. Zarik eventually immigrated to the U.S. at age 26 with only a high school diploma. Starting out as a driver for a messenger company, he has built 4over into a $200 million trade printing powerhouse. That's what I call overcoming extreme odds and adversity to personify the American Dream.
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Men's Basketball: Bison Rumble into BU
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After an offensive slump, BU returns home to host the Bucknell Bison. Bucknell is tied with Navy for the best record in the Patriot League at 6-1, and holds first place in the conference after beating Navy earlier this season.
Bucknell brings one of the strongest offenses in the league. They're averaging 80.1 points a game, second most in the conference. They also have the second highest scoring margin of any Patriot League team at +4.6 points a game. They round out an impressive team offense with the highest field goal percentage and three point field goal percentage in the league, at .477 and .386 respectively.
The Bison are led by senior guard Chris Hass, the second leading scorer in the conference and 51st in the nation at 18.7 points a game. He set a Bucknell record with 31 points in the first half of a game against Army, finishing with 40 points in that game for the Patriot League's best scoring performance so far this season. He's also given BU trouble in the past. He scorched the BU defense for 28 points on January 24th, and scored 20 more on February 22nd, both performances came in Bucknell wins.
Hass is a contender for Player of the Year, and he is joined by two other double digit scorers. Nana Foulland is averaging 12.1 points a game, and Zach Thomas is averaging 10.1 points a game.
Bucknell might be able to shoot and score, but they do have defensive struggles. They're allowing 75.4 points a game, third worst in the conference. They've allowed 7 teams to score 80 or more points against them, twice have allowed 90 points, and once have allowed 100 points on the season. Opponents can score on them.
BU is the third highest scoring offense, and has multiple players who can get double digit points against Bucknell. Eric Fanning and John Papale will have to stretch the Bison defense with good shooting games. Kyle Foreman and Fanning will have to be ready to run the floor.
BU has struggled to keep up with strong offensive teams this season, so they will have to make it an ugly game. With many of their best players out for the season with injury, BU cannot count too much on quickness and speed to win the game, as they will tire out and have a difficult time staying up with Bucknell's offensive power. They will have to get offensive rebounds, turn the game into a contest of wills, and make it an ugly affair. Whoever draws the matchup with Hass, likely John Papale or Eric Fanning, will have to keep him contained and minimize his influence on the game.
BU's defense will be tested in the game, and BU cannot depend on their offense to out-shoot the best shooting team in the conference tomorrow. They can win, but they will need a strong defense to do it.
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A psalm of praise. Of David. 1 I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. 4 One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your mighty acts. 5 They speak of the glorious splendor<|fim_middle|> possible! | of your majesty— and I will meditate on your wonderful works. 6 They tell of the power of your awesome works— and I will proclaim your great deeds. 7 They celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. 8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. 9 The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. 10 All your works praise you, Lord; your faithful people extol you. 11 They tell of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might, 12 so that all people may know of your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. 13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does. 14 The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down. 15 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. 16 You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. 17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. 18 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. 19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. 20 The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. 21 My mouth will speak in praise of the Lord. Let every creature praise his holy name for ever and ever.
I love how this Psalm, and many others that are amazing psalms of worship, such declarations of God's incredible nature, His worthiness of praise, His goodness, mercy, compassion, faithfulness, justice, righteousness, holiness, eternity and love.
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Review of Poematica del Principio Tai Chi, by Massimo Mori
Sergio Raimondo University of Cassino and Southern Lazio http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4413-3158
https://doi.org/10.18002/rama.v16i2.7130
Martial arts, Chinese martial arts, tai chi, taijiquan, holistic paradigm, multidisciplinary approach
This review covers the book Poematica del Principio Tai Chi (Firenze, Italy, 2020) by Massimo Mori, that gather a lifetime multicultural researches converging on the Tai Chi, Supreme Principle coming from the unknowable Dao. When applied to the martial art, tai chi becomes taijiquan, "Punch of the Supreme Principle". The first chapters provide the coordinates to deepen a holistic paradigm through different trajectories ranging from the classical cultures of the East and the West to the globalized contemporaneity. Complex and fascinating themes are creatively addressed in the subsequent chapters. The book ranges from theology to theoretical philosophy, from physics to literature and art, even to cinema. The chapters on I Qing and Daodejing indicate how the holistic vision of a conscious wisdom can be defined as systemic and essential in the relationship between culture and nature. If the Dao is the Way, this has to be followed in the name of a natural ethic that the Daodejing shows with an enlightening wisdom. Thus, the practice of Taijiquan becomes the "martial art of peace" and the Taiji Supreme Principle, practicable in every activity, is the paradigm of a renewed humanism. Massimo Mori is considered among the masters who have dedicated their existence to the wisdom vision of a New Horizon<|fim_middle|>43) , Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas: Vol. 11 No. 2s (2016)
Sergio Raimondo, Laura Rea, Yong-shun Wang, Taijiquan, genius loci and tourism: a participant observation about Chenjiagou , Revista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas: Vol. 17 No. 1 (2022) | – as he called his school - and his book is a premise to imagine peace between East and West, between all the people of the globe living under the same sky.
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KN-C20543. Arrival Ceremony for President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo
President John F. Kennedy and President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo sit in bubbletop limousine at left, following arrival ceremonies for President Olympio. White House Secret Service agents Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn, Roy Kellerman, and Bob Lilley stand behind car. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
KN-C20542. President John F. Kennedy Greets President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo
President John F. Kennedy (left) shakes hands with President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, upon President Olympio's arrival in Washington, D.C. Under Secretary of State, George Ball, stands at left. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kennedy (left) shakes hands with President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, upon President Olympio's arrival in Washington, D.C. US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke, walks down airplane stairs behind President Olympio. White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman, stands at left in background. All others are unidentified. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Olympio; President John F. Kennedy; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; Togolese Ambassador to the<|fim_middle|> Kennedy and President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo sit in bubbletop limousine at left, following arrival ceremonies for President Olympio. White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn and Roy Kellerman, stand behind car at left. Behind car at right: Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo, Paulin Freitas (in back); President Olympio (at microphones); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (in back); US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn (far right of image). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. L-R: President Olympio; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; President Kennedy; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
AR7109-D. Arrival Ceremony for President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Standing at left: President John F. Kennedy; President Olympio (at microphones); Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (in back); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (partially hidden, wearing hat); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in background); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (below platform, hands folded). Also pictured at right: Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agents, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn, Sam Sulliman, and Roy Kellerman. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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(-)United States. Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Military Air Transport Service. (06/01/1948 - 01/01/1966) (28) | United States, Dr. André Akakpo. Below platform at left (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo, Paulin Freitas; President Olympio; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kennedy (left) visits with President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio (right), upon President Olympio's arrival in Washington, D.C. Under Secretary of State, George Ball, stands at far left; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke, stands behind President Kennedy. Military personnel are unidentified. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Front row of reviewing platform (L-R): President Olympio; President John F. Kennedy. Back two rows on platform (L-R): Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (face partially hidden); Under Secretary of State, George Ball (behind President Kennedy); US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada (face partially hidden). Standing left of platform, in front row (L-R): Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard, stands behind platform (in center of image). Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Blemish in left portion of image is original to the negative.]
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Front row of reviewing platform (L-R): President Olympio; President John F. Kennedy. Back two rows on platform (L-R): Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (face partially hidden); Under Secretary of State, George Ball (behind President Kennedy); US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada (face partially hidden); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo. Standing left of platform, in front row (L-R): Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard, stands behind platform (saluting). Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Olympio; President John F. Kennedy; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada. Standing left of platform, in front row (R-L): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; two unidentified men; Deputy Director of the Office of West African and Malagasy Affairs, Donald Dumont; unidentified. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
Arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Olympio; President John F. Kennedy; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, stands at far left below platform. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. On platform (L-R): President Olympio; President Kennedy; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (in back); US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (bottom left corner of image, wearing glasses). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Blemishes in upper left portion of image are original to the negative.]
President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. On platform (L-R): President Olympio; President Kennedy; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. [Blemish in lower left portion of image is original to the negative.]
President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. On platform (L-R): President Olympio; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo, Paulin Freitas; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (in back); President Kennedy; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (in back, behind President Kennedy); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh, stands below platform at left. Standing in group behind platform: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
A bubbletop limousine, carrying President John F. Kennedy and President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, drives through the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal at Washington National Airport, following arrival ceremonies for President Olympio. Also pictured are White House Secret Service agents Sam Sulliman, Roy Kellerman, and Bob Lilley. US Marine Band plays in background. Washington, D.C.
President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; President Olympio (at microphones); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo, Paulin Freitas (in back); President Olympio (at microphones); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Deputy Director of the Office of West African and Malagasy Affairs, Donald Dumont (in group behind platform, wearing hat); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; President Olympio (at microphones); Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (in back, below platform); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (in group behind platform); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); National Park Service (NPS) Photographer, Abbie Rowe (bottom right foreground, facing camera). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, speaks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. On platform (L-R): President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo, Paulin Freitas (in back); President Olympio (at microphones); Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (behind Ambassador Akakpo, wearing hat); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs of Togo, Dr. Hospice Coco (in group behind platform); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. "Jerry" Behn (in background, at right). US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kennedy and President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo sit in the back seat of a bubbletop limousine, following arrival ceremonies for President Olympio. White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman (at right, wearing hat) and Sam Sulliman (far left), walk alongside car. Military troops stand at attention in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
A bubbletop limousine, carrying President John F. Kennedy and President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, drives through the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal at Washington National Airport, following arrival ceremonies for President Olympio. White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman (wearing hat), walks along right side of car. US Marine Band plays in background. Washington, D.C.
President John F. Kennedy speaks at arrival ceremonies for President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio. On platform (L-R): President Olympio; President Kennedy; Togolese Ambassador to the United States, Dr. André Akakpo; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (in back, wearing hat); US Ambassador to Togo, Leon B. Poullada; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (behind Ambassador Poullada); US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (below platform at left); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard (behind platform at right, hands folded); White House Secret Service agents, Bob Lilley, Sam Sulliman, and Roy Kellerman. US Marine Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
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Book Review, Young Adult
BOOK REVIEW: Tuesdays Are Just As Bad by Cethan Leahy
Jul 16, 2018 Jun 21, 2018 storgykids
<|fim_middle|> M.L. Sloan | Tuesdays Are Just As Bad is a fascinating book, from the vibrant eye catching cover through to the very last page, the book sucks you in and doesn't let go. It's a young adult book that explores and enables its readers to feel that they are not alone, that depression is not the end. I hope it will help young adults to talk and share their wellbeing with peers of family members, it truly lifts the lid on depression and suicide and how you deal with this as a young person.
The book follows Adam who has failed to commit suicide using a hammer to smash his skull in and who is now haunted by his own ghost. Who in Adam's desperation and depression becomes his only friend in the truly dark, isolated and depressed world that he exists in; but can ghosts be trusted? Who knows…you need to dig in to find out!
Other books you may also like Grief Is The Thing With Feathers by Max Porter, A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson.
I have to take my hat off to Cethan Leahy on producing such a thought provoking, deeply moving story for young adults. The theme of which is a very tough subject matter to tackle but Leahy does it with ease, blending perfectly the harrowing experiences of suicide and the complex workings of a depressed young adult mind.
Tuesdays Are Just As Bad is a book that has so much heart beating within its pages I can only dream that this book reaches the audience it so desperately needs to, for those struggling with depression and the choices this brings, to hear this message of hope that clings to every page as you read.
The story follows Adam, a troubled young man who was unable to fulfil his plan of committing suicide using a hammer, an interesting choice you may think, but judging by the scar that tells everyone around Adam what he did, it was also not as foolproof as he thought. When Adam awakes in hospital we find that through this traumatic experience he has another reminder of that night, he is being haunted by his own ghost.
'The room was littered with the clues to the events that had led up to this moment; a pool of red staining the carpet, a note on the nightstand with some closing remarks and a hammer lying useless on the floor. It was pretty obvious what had happened, even to me who had only existed for three minutes.'
Word gets out about what Adam had attempted to do, of course it would, he's at school and people love to gossip, he finds himself in an even worse situation than before, people now see him, but they see the scar first, he has become the boy with the hammer. He spends his time hiding within the school toilets trying to see out the day, with his ghost – who is starting to learn about life on earth and what this whole peculiar thing called school is. Also Adam's ghost is trying to find out why he is here, why he can't leave Adam's side, and why life is so dull.
Adam by chance meets a group of friends, none of which attend his school and begins hanging out with them, they know about his past but keep that out of their conversations, they start to see Adam as Adam – which has a transformative power on Adam as he begins to start enjoying this new found friendship group.
I used to work in a school as a community worker, building and engaging with communities around schools; and it's sad to say but the tragic act of suicide is a lot more common than you might think. Whilst working with children and families from the fallout of suicide – it struck me how often these incidents are occurring in society today and how far reaching their ramifications are.
What leads someone to thinking that suicide is the only option? This is where Leahy works masterfully to uncover the all encompassing loneliness and depression that drives people to this point of no return, revealing the dark underbelly that young people are facing today and how easy it is without help to find themselves in such a predicament and how easy it is to slide into the pit of consuming despair with devastating outcomes.
'In making my perfect plan, I had failed to consider the fact that I had only known him on the way up. This was the way down, and it was dark at the bottom.'
Tuesdays Are Just As Bad is not as depressing it may seem, Leahy has woven a thread of black humour throughout the piece which at times was a refreshing caveat to the themes discussed within. With characters that jump out of the book, which will have many readers drawing parallels with their own friends, there is certainly enough here to keep readers engaged in the delicate matters of the novel whilst also giving them an thrilling read. Leahy also proves himself as a writer, conducting the whole affair with an assured skill all the way through to the stories brilliant conclusion. I for one am looking forward to what he follows this debut up with!
I also wanted to say how brilliant it is to see a publisher releasing such an important book, with a theme that might not see the book on any best seller list, but nevertheless it is such an important book, a book that shines a light on an issue many try to hide away from and I am thrilled that Mercier Press has had the balls to published such a book – may it go into the world and reach young adults, hell anyone that may be going through similar circumstances!
Tuesdays Are Just As Bad is a book that needs to be read…and I challenge you all to answer that call!
Tuesdays Are Just As Bad is published by Mercier Press and is available here.
Cethan Leahy
Cethan Leahy is a writer, filmmaker, and editor of Irish literary magazine 'The Penny Dreadful'. His short stories are published in 'The Looking Glass,' 'Wordlegs' and 'Five Dials' and he has written two Fiction Express eBooks for Middle Grade, 'The Chosen One (and his mum and his dad and his sister)' and 'Prince Charming and his Quest for a Wife'. Cethan's animation short 'The Beast of Bath' was broadcast on national television. His short film 'The Amazing' appeared in Cork film anthology'Cork, Like' in 2013. His radio programmes, including children's drama 'Tales from the Fairy Fort', have appeared on LifeFM and RTÉJnrdigital radio. He has also contributed illustration work to Cork comics press Turncoat Press.
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Threat of HIV/AIDS in children: social, education and health consequences among HIV orphans and vulnerable children in Myanmar
Myo Myo Mon1, Saw Saw1, Yin Thet Nu-Oo1, Khin Ohnmar San2, Wai Wai Myint1, San San Aye1, Pyone Thuzar Nge1
1 Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar), Yangon, Myanmar
2 National AIDS Program, Department of Health, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Date of Web Publication 2-Aug-2013
Myo Myo Mon
Epidemiology Research Division, Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar), Ministry of Health
Background: There is very limited information available on HIV related orphans and vulnerable children (HIV-OVC) in Myanmar. Hence, the objective of this study was to identify and compare the social, education and health consequences among HIV-OVC and children from the families not related to HIV in the same neighbourhoods (neighbouring children).
Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional, comparative survey was carried out in three geographical locations. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with guardians and children using a pretested structured questionnaire including Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for behavioural problems. Outcome measures were compared using Chi-squared test or 't' test or 'Rank-sum' test.
Results: A total of 300 HIV-OVC and 300 neighbouring children were included. A greater number of HIV-OVC than their neighbouring children have experienced family displacement from their original homes (27% and 1%), child/sibling displacement (20% and 2.7%) and family dispersion (20.3% and 1.3%) (P < 0.001). More guardians of HIV-OVC reported that the disease affected their children's education (28.2% and 16.3%; P < 0.05). Fifteen per cent of HIV-OVC and 10.5% of neighbouring children had to work for their families (P < 0.05). Psychological condition was assessed on emotional, conduct, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship and prosocial behaviour. A greater number of HIV-OVC were noted in the abnormal category with regard to hyperactivity and prosocial behaviours (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: Higher incidence of social and psychological consequences among HIV-OVC call for more community support programmes and creation of job opportunities to minimize social impact in the affected families. Future programmes should focus on counselling of HIV-OVC and providing psychological support.
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, Myanmar, orphans and vulnerable children, psychological, social
Mon MM, Saw S, Nu-Oo YT, San KO, Myint WW, Aye SS, Nge PT. Threat of HIV/AIDS in children: social, education and health consequences among HIV orphans and vulnerable children in Myanmar. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health 2013;2:41-6
Mon MM, Saw S, Nu-Oo YT, San KO, Myint WW, Aye SS, Nge PT. Threat of HIV/AIDS in children: social, education and health consequences among HIV orphans and vulnerable children in Myanmar. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health [serial online] 2013 [cited 2022 Jan 20];2:41-6. Available from: http://www.who-seajph.org/text.asp?2013/2/1/41/115837
Globally, the HIV pandemic remains a serious challenge to public health, while AIDS is the leading cause of death worldwide for people aged 15-49 years. Although the number of annual AIDS-related deaths is declining, there were an estimated 1.8 million deaths in 2009. [1] In Asia, the number of people living with HIV increased from 4.2 million in 2001 to 4.9 million in 2009. Similarly, AIDS-related deaths also rose from 250 000 in 2001 to 300 000 in 2009. [1] Furthermore, HIV/AIDS affects children in many ways, including higher infant and child morbidity and mortality rates, lower life expectancy and higher rates of orphaning. [2] By the end of 2009, the epidemic had left behind 16.6 million AIDS orphans. [1]
Even with the expansion of access to antiretroviral treatment, it is estimated that, by 2015, the number of orphaned children will still be overwhelmingly high. [2] The number of orphans in some sub-Saharan African countries exceeds 1 million, and, in some countries, children who have been orphaned by AIDS comprise half or more of all orphans nationally. [3] Most of the AIDS orphans who live outside of Africa live in Asia, where the total number of orphans (orphaned for all reasons) exceeds 73 million. [4] The problems faced by AIDS orphans include emotional impact, household impact, educational impact and stigmatization. [1],[4],[5],[6],[7] HIV/AIDS has many direct and indirect impacts on children's rights, ranging from the consequences of psychological impact of losing one or both parents, to reduced access to quality education and health services. [8],[9] Children's rights to survival, health, development and education as well as protection from economic and sexual abuse have been threatened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. [10] Previous studies focusing on HIV/AIDS orphans in China and Africa have highlighted the psychological problems [11],[12],[13] and problems of unmet basic needs such as food inadequacy, discontinuation of schooling and inaccessible healthcare services [13] faced by the orphans.
Myanmar is one of the countries afflicted by HIV/AIDS similar to other developing countries in South East Asia. According to the National AIDS Programme (NAP), the adult HIV prevalence is about 0.61% in Myanmar. [14] Limited information is available for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) due to AIDS in Myanmar. A previous qualitative study on HIV/AIDS orphans acknowledged that there were adverse socioeconomic consequences such as school discontinuation, family dispersion, effect on a family's economy and stigma/discrimination. [15] However, the study could not identify the extent of these consequences. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the situation and extent of social and psychological health consequences faced by OVC due to HIV/AIDS (HIV-OVC).
The objectives of this study were to identify and compare the social situation, educational condition and psychological and health status of OVC due to HIV/AIDS (HIV-OVC) with that of children from the families not related to HIV in the same neighbourhoods (neighbouring children).
A community-based, cross-sectional, comparative study was carried out in North Okkalapa, Monywa and Tachileik Townships. These townships were selected specifically because of a high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and presence of community-based activities focusing on HIV/AIDS.
Study samples
According to a 20% anticipated difference of study outcomes between two groups, a ratio of HIV-OVC and neighbouring children to be 1:1 and an 80% power to detect this difference, at least 98 children from each group were required. Therefore, a total of 196 children were needed in each township.
HIV orphans were defined as the orphans who were younger than 18 years and have lost one or both parents due to AIDS. Vulnerable children were defined as those who have HIV-positive parent (s). Age group-matched neighbouring children from the same area were considered during the selection of the comparison group. If one HIV-OVC was selected as the study sample, one control child of the same age (±6 months) who lived in the same street/village was also chosen.
A list of HIV-OVC was compiled from different sources, and it was checked for duplication by identifying their name, age, parents' name and address. Next, required samples were obtained through simple random sampling. Children from both urban and rural areas were included in each township. The survey team visited 10-20 wards in urban areas and 15-25 villages in rural areas, according to the random selection from the sampling list.
After developing a structured questionnaire, a pretest was carried out in a nonproject township. A reliability test was performed for Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Cronbach-alpha value was 0.7 for all items (range: 0.6-0.7 for each '5' items scale). SDQ [16],[17] is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire for emotional and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents aged 4-16 years. The SDQ consists of 25 items: emotional symptoms (5 items), conduct problems (5 items), hyperactivity/inattention (5 items), peer relationship problems (5 items) and prosocial behaviour (5 items).
Responsible persons from the NAP, local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) either working with HIV/AIDS orphans or people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in the study townships were contacted. These organizations were informed about the objectives of the study and were invited to attend the advocacy meeting, which was held in each township before field data collection.
Face-to-face interviews were carried out by using a pretested structured questionnaire, which consisted of two parts. The first part was for guardians and the second part was for children. If the child was younger than 10 years, the guardians responded to both the parts. Face-to-face interviews were also undertaken with guardians/care takers for SDQ questions.
Data entry and data analysis were done using EpiData software (version 3.1; EpiData Association, Denmark) and R software (version 2.9.1; R foundation for Statistical Computing, Austria).
Responses to psychological questionnaires were assigned a score ranged from '0' to '2'. according to the direction of the statement. Next, composite scores were calculated and categorized as 'normal', 'borderline' and 'abnormal'.
Descriptive statistics were shown as percentages for categorical variables and mean/median for continuous variables. Outcome measures were compared between two groups using Chi-squared test for categorical variable and 't' test or 'Rank-sum' test for continuous variables.
Ethical consideration
The proposal was approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Committee of Department of Medical Research (Lower Myanmar). Written informed consents were obtained from the guardians after detailed explanation about the study. To ensure confidentiality, only code numbers were mentioned on the questionnaires and interview records.
Background of the participants
A total of 600 respondents were included in the study. Among them, 300 children were HIV-OVC and the remaining 300 were their neighbouring children. The ages of the children ranged from 1 month to 17 years with a median of 8.5 years. Among them, 24% were aged 1 month to 5 years, 44.3% were 6-10 years and 31.7% were older than 10 years. Males and females constituted approximately the same proportion (50.5% and 49.5%, respectively).
Less than half (43.3%) of the HIV-OVC have both parents alive, while 17.3% of HIV-OVC were double orphans, 28.3% were paternal orphans and 11% were maternal orphans. Moreover, about two thirds (63.7%) of fathers and 85% of mothers were HIV positive. One third (33.0%) of HIV-OVC and 27% of neighbouring children were staying with extended family members.
The age of the guardians, including parents, also ranged from 17 to 78 years, with a mean age of 39.5 years. Distribution of the occupation and education of the head of the household was similar in both groups; about half of them were manual labourers (42% of HIV-OVC and 50% of neighbours) and about one fourth (25% and 28%, respectively) of them has passed middle school. Median monthly family income was lower in the HIV-OVC group than in the non-HIV group (80 000 and 96 000 Kyats, respectively) (P < 0.001).
Social situation of the children and their families
This study focused on social situation such as displacement from original homes 1 , sibling/child displacement 2 and family dispersion 2 , which are illustrated in [Table 1]. All three conditions were significantly higher in HIV-affected families than in non-HIV families. A significant difference was detected for family displacement, where 27% of the HIV affected families were displaced from their original homes either within the same township or to other townships (P < 0.001). Similarly, higher proportions of child displacement (20% vs 2.7%) and family dispersion (20.3% vs 1.3%) were seen for HIV-OVC than non-HIV families (P < 0.001) [Table 1].
Table 1: Social situation of HIV-OVC and their neighbouring children
Education and work conditions
Education and work-related characteristics of the children are shown in [Table 2]. Currently, more than 80% of both HIV-OVC and related children without HIV have been attending school. Higher proportions (28.2% vs. 16.3%) of guardians of HIV-OVC stated that HIV status of parents affect their children' education. Specifically, the different types of effects on education included school drop-outs, school absenteeism, inability to pay school expenses, moved to another school and delay in school enrolment.
Table 2: Education and work-related characteristics of the children
Regarding the work-related characteristics, 15<|fim_middle|> total scores were categorized as 'normal', 'borderline' and 'abnormal' behaviour. Significant differences were detected between the two groups for hyperactivity and prosocial behaviour (P < 0.05). However, similar patterns of behavioural conditions were seen for other attributes. An abnormal total difficulties score was seen in 21% of HIV-OVC and 15.7% of non-HIV-related children (P < 0.05) [Table 3].
Health condition
Health-related characteristics are shown in [Table 4]. Of the 300 HIV-OVC, 40 children (13%) were HIV positive, in which 16 (40%) had already received antiretroviral therapy (ART). Among the HIV-positive children, 45% were aged 5 years or younger. Nearly half of the children had a history of illness within 6 months. Most common illnesses included cough and cold, pneumonia, diarrhoea and skin infection. A greater number of HIV-OVC children experienced skin infection than non-HIV-related children (10.2% and 5.3%, respectively) (P < 0.1). Besides illness within 6 months, 5.7% of HIV-OVC and 4.3% of normal children had a history of hospitalization within 1 year [Table 4].
Table 4: Health-related characteristics of the children
The present study identified and compared the social, education, psychological and health conditions of HIV-OVC and children from the non-HIV related families in the same neighbourhoods. Significant differences in social conditions such as family displacement from their original homes, child/sibling displacement and family dispersion were detected between HIV-OVC and neighbouring children. A higher proportion of HIV-OVC than their counterparts had experienced the aforementioned social consequences after their parents died or were infected with HIV. In particular, 27% of HIV-OVC from the current study had experienced family displacement from their original homes. This was much lower than in a study carried out in Zambia where 61% had moved from their original homes. These kinds of social consequences were mostly linked with financial hardship faced by the affected families. Moreover, a few families moved to places where they could get support from different national and international non-governmental organizations (NGO/INGOs). Significant social consequences among HIV-affected families could have a psychological impact on children.
In our study, 15.4% of HIV-OVC had to work for their families, which was lower than the proportion of working OVC children found in a study from China. [18] Regarding education, more than 80% of the children aged 5 years or more were currently enrolled in schools. Parents/guardians of HIV-OVC mentioned the negative effects of HIV on the education of their children. Findings from Africa suggested that orphans are at risk of poorer educational outcomes, with maternal deaths having stronger negative effects than paternal deaths. [19]
The present study identified that 13% of HIV-OVC were HIV positive. Among them, 45% were aged 5 years or younger. In Myanmar, activities with regard to prevention of mothers to child transmission (PMCT) were initiated in 2001 and have covered 245 out of 328 townships. This finding of HIV positivity among children calls for the need for strengthening PMCT activities. Regarding psychological conditions, significant differences between the two groups were detected for total difficulties, and hyperactivity and prosocial behaviour. Specifically, higher proportions of HIV-OVC were found to have behavioural problems than their counterparts. Similarly, in Ghana, the total difficulties score was found to be higher in HIV-orphans than in nonorphans and orphans not related to HIV/AIDS. However, hyperactivity and pro-social behaviours showed no difference. [20] Another study from China identified that HIV-OVC demonstrated poorer psychosocial adjustment than comparison children. [21]
Surprisingly, findings from the current study revealed that more than half of the children from both the groups had peer relationship problems, which was also reported from Africa. [22] However, in Thailand, no difference was detected regarding behavioural problems among HIV-affected pre-school children in comparison with their controls. [23] Higher proportions of HIV-OVC than non-HIV-related children from the current study had high risk of developing behavioural problems in adult life.
This study data highlight that there were adverse social and psychological consequences faced by HIV-affected families, and more attention should be paid towards psychosocial support for HIV-OVC in addition to material assistance.
Development of community support programmes and creation of job opportunities are needed to minimize social impact among the affected families. Counseling of HIV-OVC and psychoogical support focusing on children's behavior should be strengthened to minimize the risk of behavioral problems and part-time formal education programmes for working children should be expanded.
This study was funded by UNICEF, Country Office in Myanmar.
A family displaced from their original house to another place.
A child displaced from his/her family to another house/place.
Family members dispersed to different places.
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orphans and vulnerable children | % of HIV-OVC and 10.5% of non-HIV-related children had to work for their families (p<0.1) and their monthly income ranged from 0 to 96 000 Kyats [Table 2].
Psychological status of the children
[Table 3] describes the psychological status of the children, which was measured using a standard behavioural questionnaire (SDQ). Each of the 25 items is scored on a 3-point scale ('0' = 'not true', '1' = 'somewhat true' and '2' = 'certainly true'), with higher scores indicating greater problems. Contrast is true for prosocial behaviour. Next, the total difficulties score was calculated by adding emotional, conduct, hyperactivity and peer relationship problems. Higher total scores were seen in abnormal behavioural problems. The mean total difficulties score was significantly higher among HIV-OVC than among non-HIV-related children (P < 0.05). The total number of children in the two groups was '272' and '274' since SDQ questions were only for the children aged between 4 and 16 years.
Table 3: Emotional and behavioural conditions measured by strength and difficulties questionnaire
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Carnival signs deal to develop major cruise port on Grand Bahama Island
Carnival Corp. President and CEO Arnold Donald at Grand Bahamas cruise port signing ceremony.
Officials from Carnival Cruise Line and the government of the Bahamas signed an agreement on May 3, 2017, for the construction of a major new cruise port facility on Grand Bahama Island.
The $100 million project is expected to be completed in two years, once the necessary agreements are in place.
The project includes a pier capable of accommodating two of Carnival's largest cruise ships simultaneously and is expected to eventually host up to 1 mil-lion guests annually.
The new port will be funded and operated by Carnival Cruise Line. It will feature a one-mile stretch of beach, food, beverage and shopping outlets, and a wide array of recreational facilities.
The as-yet-unnamed planned port will be the largest purpose-built cruise facility ever constructed in The Bahamas and will provide a significant economic benefit for the country of The Bahamas.
"Carnival Cruise Line is the leader in year-round cruising to The Bahamas and this new development will not only provide a truly extraordinary and one-of-a-kind destination experience for our guests but it will further solidify our partnership with the people of The Bahamas," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. "In 2017, along with Carnival's sister lines, Carnival Corporation will bring close<|fim_middle|> for our company," he said.
The Bahamas Prime Minister Perry G. Christie stated, "The Government of The Bahamas has had a long and close association with Carnival which has been of great economic benefit to both parties."
"This new cruise port initiative in East Grand Bahama will deliver a cruise port in the traditional sense, but more than that, its shore project will create a new 'destination' with a distinctive flavor and characteristics that offer the broadest Bahamian entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, representing another phase in the development of Grand Bahama as a viable tourist center."
The project is subject to a detailed public discussion process, environmental studies and permitting. | to 3 million guests to The Bahamas via calls to Nassau, Freeport, Grand Bahama, Half Moon Cay and Princess Cays."
Collectively, Carnival brands represent the single largest cruise company investor in The Bahamas," Duffy added.
During the signing ceremony, Carnival Corporation President and CEO Arnold Donald said his company has been dreaming of this for 15 years and has been actively working on it for the past three.
"When Ted Arison, the founder of Carnival and the modern day cruise industry, embarked on his first cruise, it was to The Bahamas. … The Bahamas continues to be one of the most strategic and important destinations | 127 |
We celebrate the Feast of the<|fim_middle|> they rise in glory as Mary did. | Assumption this week. Catholic tradition tells us that Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. Perhaps this evokes questions in us and gives us pause to consider what we believe. We ponder the mystery of a Divine love that called her home with an immediacy that we can only long for. We acknowledge that God is infinite in power and majesty – and also in loving tenderness. We who are made of stardust must treasure in our hearts these bodies we inhabit and the planet on which we walk. The deaths of our mortal bodies call for great faith that there is yet within us the Divine image that transcends what we know now. Mary's Assumption assures us that God has not abandoned us in death but called us home in fullness of life. What we perceive as an end to life becomes the beginning of what we trust is a grand new adventure into "what eye has not seen" but our hearts will know as homecoming. May our grief at the deaths of our loved ones be infused with faith that | 206 |
Crazy Park
Crazy Park occupies a rectangular plot of land in Dar Bouazza, roughly ten kilometres south-west<|fim_middle|> as the hardware had reached the end of its service life. It was replaced by a full size pirate ship, an eminently sensible decision albeit one not calculated to please three travelling credit whores. Today the only sign that a coaster had ever existed at the park was a mural showing the train on the wall of an indoor play area. | of Casablanca. It was set up in 2005 by a Lebanese expatriate whose family operates Dream Park in Beirut. We chatted to him for a few minutes about his business, and it quickly became apparent that he was an enthusiast living the dream; he waxed lyrical about his favourite parks in Europe, including Europa Park, Gardaland, and Liseberg, and when he realised how interested we were in the business he spoke openly and enthusiastically to three complete strangers about the challenges he faces every day. The major issue is unsurprisingly financial, as local ticket prices don't fully reflect the upfront investment required to install mechanical rides. Costs are kept under tight control, and maintenance work is done in house; during our visit several members of staff were working on pieces of the Tren Fantôme in a makeshift facility next to the administrator's office.
Our first ride ended up being Chenille (#2328), a generic Big Apple supplied by Lebanese company Master Park; the manufacturer's name of douda is the Arabic word for worm. There were six cars in use today, with the seventh in the maintenance workshop; we were told that they are generally taken out of service individually in order to minimise overall downtime. The experience was much the same as every other example of the genre, with the few bumps fully absorbed by the soft brown leather cushion in each seat. The restraint was a fixed-position bar that left just enough room for an adult to sit comfortably.
From there we went to the Roue Panoramique, an aging sixteen car unit with an illuminated sign labelling it as Fares Wheel. The machine was clearly designed to be portable, with a base frame and an extended support structure, though satellite imagery on Google Earth shows it in the same spot for over a decade. The positioning was ideal for overview photographs, and it also had an unobstructed view of the Montagne Russe (#2329), a Zyklon equivalent from Interpark that at first glance looked like it would be something to ride once and forget about. Much to our surprise, however, it turned out to be an unexpected gem, with perfectly smooth tracking and a gentle pop of airtime on each drop. The six cars were decorated in a variety of bright colours. Four were on circuit today with the remaining two under cover on the transfer track. Efficient operation could in theory allow for as many as six hundred riders per hour, though one doubts that kind of throughput will ever be necessary in its current home. We treated ourselves to a second lap before heading back to our car.
Our second stop for the day was at Magic Park in Salé, just north of the Moroccan capital of Rabat. Online information had suggested the presence of a small coaster from American manufacturer Wisdom Rides, but it turned out that we were too late; Dragon Adventure had been scrapped two years earlier | 585 |
Gymstrada Gymnastics wants to congratulate all gymnasts and coaches and welcome you to the 2016 Virginia Boys Level 5-10 State Championship. We hope you have had a wonderful competition season thus far and that you continue your success at this competition. Please continue to check www.vamensgymnastics.org and this website for ongoing updates.
All State Assessments Fees and State Championship Registration Fees need to be paid by a check mailed to Cindy Walker, Treasurer, VA Men's Gymnastics.
Information on submitting an Ad in the Meet Program is available in<|fim_middle|>.
For reservations, please call hotel directly- 1-800-321-2211. Please refer to the Gymstrada Room Block or Group Code: GYMSTRADA and Group rate of $99.00 per night. | the information packet.
Information on ads for High School Seniors is available in the information packet.
Coaches be prepared to complete your regional packets and purchase regional apparel at the conclusion of each level's state meet session. One gym or booster club check for apparel.
Please call 1-800-HOLIDAY (1-800-465-4329) to make reservations. Please do not call hotel directly, they do not have onsite reservations. Please refer to the Gymstrada Room block or Group Code GSC and Group Rate of $149.00 per night.
For more information on Springhill Suites, visit website | 135 |
Epic Plastics sets the standard in quality landscape edging products made from 100% recycled polyethelyne. Our products Invented as a superior alternative<|fim_middle|>inter. Edge Ex is an economical edging solution featuring a tubular top for easy alignment and comes complete with a section connector and four installation stakes with each 20' section.
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installation. Insert bender board into the trench, ensuring that its top stands an inch above the surrounding ground. Bend and curve each piece to fit within the trench. If your trench which you can install flowers, shrubs or small trees. Cover the area within the border with dirt, wood chips, gravel or another landscaping substrate of your choice, and you are ready to add flora to your newly landscaped yard.
lawn edging, most home owners and gardeners will agree, is one of the necessary elements needed to keep you flower beds looking well groomed and free of encroaching weeds and grass. | to natural wood edgings, Benda Board will not rot or spl | 14 |
Summon the Thunder is a Star Trek: Vanguard novel – the second book in the series<|fim_middle|> the novel, is listed on the title page as the location of one of Pocket Books' offices.
Cover art by Doug Drexler. Station design by Masao Okazaki. Background image courtesy of NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STSci/AURA). | – written by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in June 2006.
The Taurus Reach: a remote interstellar expanse that holds a very old and potentially cataclysmic secret, the truth of which is feared by the Tholians, coveted by the Klingons, and dubiously guarded by the Federation. At the center of this intrigue is Vanguard, a Federation starbase populated by an eclectic mix of Starfleet officers and civilians, whose lives are forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Reach and steadily peel them away... one after another.
Erilon, a key system featured in | 135 |
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### Classes
The goal of modeling classes is to keep it simple enough to do what it is supposed to right now, and is also easy to change later. Design is more of the art of preserving changeability than it is the act of achieving perfection.
### Single Responsibility
Applications that are easy to change consist of classes that are easy to reuse. A class that has more than one responsibility is difficult to reuse. A class should do the smallest possible useful thing. Try to describe what the class does in one sentence.
SRP doesnt require that a class only do one very narrow thing - it requires a class be cohesive - that everything the class does be highly related to its purpose.
Same things apply<|fim_middle|> for only that class. Implementing these changes that data (which is referenced all over) to behavior (which is defined once).
### Direct references into complicated data structures are a maintenance nightmare, because every reference will need to be changed when the structure of the data structure changes.
Example:
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Creating a struct can solve this problem by defining a method that understands the structure of the incoming data structure, so that we only have to change the code in that one place if the data structure happens to change. (if its externally owned data etc.)
The path to changeable and maintable objected oriented software begins with classes that have a single responsibility. Classes that do one thing isolate that thing from the rest of your application. This isolation allows change without consequence and reuse without duplication.
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If you like what you read you can check out my previous posts listed in my [archive](https://jamesnvk.github.io/archives/). Or you can check out my github <a href="https://github.com/jamesnvk/" target="_blank">here</a>. | to not only classes but methods - Ask them questions about what they do and try to describe their responsibilites in a single sentence.
### Design decisions
When the future cost of doing nothing is the same as the current cost, postpone the decision. Applications are never perfectly designed, every choice has a price. "Improve it now" vs "improve it later" tension always exists.
Depending on behavior and not data - behavior is captured in methods and invoked by sending messages.
Use attr_accessors to encapsulate methods | 105 |
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Luling man lends hand to disaster relief coordinator
November 23, 2020 Ryan Arena Featured, News, Newsletters 1
Todd Bourgeois saw the damage done to the trailer of his friend Ken Wetzel's trailer and a phrase came to mind.
"The irony."
The tragic irony Bourgeois, of Luling, saw in the scenario was that for the better part of 15 years, his fishing pal Wetzel has worked through his ministry to assist in the recovery areas affected by major disasters and their residents. But not, Wetzel himself was in need of some help, his family's trailer in St. Bernard Parish destroyed by Hurricane Zeta.
"He's always helping others during times of disaster," said Bourgeois, who has raised almost $2,500<|fim_middle|> most damaged by Hurricane Katrina. But it was Mississippi where Wetzel felt the storm's wrath. Ever since, he made it his goal to help others get back on their feet.
The trailer he had in St. Bernard was destroyed by a tornado spawned from Zeta. It was one of numerous structures suffering serious damage.
"The tornado took a bunch of them," said Bourgeois. "They moved (the trailer) right inside the floodgate of the wall levee area. You'd hope the wall would protect it, but it happened all the same. His flipped over two or three times. The boat right next door to him didn't go anywhere, strangely enough. But they don't have the money to replace that. I'm just hoping to raise enough to help them replace that and get him something he can use, that's ready to go."
The goal of the page (titled New Trailer for the Wetzel Family) is $7,000, the estimated cost to replace the trailer. Bourgeois is nearly halfway to that point, and says he expects he'll keep the page open another week before wrapping up the effort.
New Life Disaster Relief was established by Ken Wetzel and his wife Dawn following Katrina in 2005. The couple were among thousands who whose to ride out the storm – leaving would have been problematic, as Dawn was three months pregnant and her grandmother was in dialysis in critical condition.
As the storm passed through, water rose into their home, chasing the family to the second floor. The flooding reached that level as well, but before the worst could happen, the flooding receded. The family lost all they had, but also witnessed the horrors of other families that had lost family members in the storm.
The couple immediately secured and began helping to distribute MRE meals to others in their community. According to a story written for CBN.com (Christian Broadcasting Network), Wetzel came down with a serious staph infection from the rancid water he was exposed to, resistant to antibiotics. His leg was in danger of being amputated. He told CBN he made the decision within that "If I'm going to die, I'm going to die serving the Lord … if I was going to die, I was going to die with purpose."
He survived after two years of treatment for the infection. The Wetzels haven't stopped serving since.
New Life has been busy this year, including multiple visits to Lake Charles to assist in recovery following Hurricanes Laura and Delta, the former a Category 4 storm and both of which hit the area of 78,000 residents hard. Thousands of residents were displaced, homes went long periods without power, and it rendered businesses unable to operate – leaving the city's people reeling.
Making matters worse was many may have felt their plight was forgotten at times, as 2020 seemingly has not lingered on any one disaster for too long.
Wetzel never forgot, though.
"He was there tarping houses," said Bourgeois. "They go all over the Southeast states lending help. Everyone knows how giving he is. He's always helping and he's just that guy who gives you a hand up.
"For me, that's why I didn't hesitate to try to do something and show we appreciate everything he does. If anyone is deserving of some help, it's Ken."
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Thanks again to everyone who gave
New Life Disaster Relief is still taking donations | through GoFundMe to help Wetzel replace the trailer. "I felt, really, that there was no other choice than to help him, however I could. It's so ironic, because this has been his mission ever since Hurricane Katrina. He lost so much in that storm and it inspired him to start helping others.
"When you see a guy who is so giving, and who suffers a break like this, it's frustrating to see it."
Wetzel, a Mississippi resident, also lives part time in St. Bernard and is very involved in community efforts. Last week, he and his ministry fed 300 people who had suffered major loss due to the Zeta, via a jambalaya cookoff.
St. Bernard, of course, was one of the parishes | 160 |
This morning I assisted my husband by going to pick up something for our school at the church where we minister. I have been travelling over the last few weeks and have not been at<|fim_middle|> popped into one of the classes that I have been involved with mentoring the teacher for a chat with the children. While I have been travelling the class teacher has been sending me pictures of the craft items they have been making for Easter.
After commenting on the craft items I started asking them about Easter and what it means to them and why they were making an egg. (The children in the class are what we called fragile children they either have a physical or mental development issues.) We started chatting about yellow chicks and what comes out of an egg. In the class is a little Muslim girl and as I looked at her the Lord reminded me to take the opportunity of sharing the real story of Easter.I told them that the egg reminds us that when we ask Jesus to be our special friend we are made new like a little chick and that's why we eat Easter eggs.
As I left the class I was so grateful for the Spirits promoting to focus on Christ during my time with the children and my prayer is that the seeds that are being planted everyday in the class by the teacher will grow into real faith. | the school for a while, so I | 8 |
6Abraham answered, "Make sure that you don't send my son back there! 7The LORD, the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and from the land of my relatives, and he solemnly promised me that he would give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel before you, so that you can get a wife there for my son. 8If the young woman is not willing to come with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not under any circumstances take my son back there." 9So the servant put his hand between the thighs of Abraham, his master, and made a vow to do what Abraham had asked.
18She said, "Drink, sir," and quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and held it while he drank. 19When he had finished, she said, "I will also bring water for your camels and let them have all they want." 20She quickly emptied her jar into the animals' drinking-trough and ran to the well to get more water, until she had watered all his camels. 21The man kept watching her in silence, to see if the LORD had given him success.
50Laban and Bethuel answered, "Since this matter comes from the LORD, it is not for us to make a decision. 51Here is Rebecca; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the LORD himself has said." 52When the servant of Abraham heard this, he bowed down and worshipped the LORD. 53Then he brought out clothing and silver and gold jewellery, and gave them to Rebecca. He also gave expensive gifts to her<|fim_middle|> so he was comforted for the loss of his mother. | brother and to her mother.
"May you, sister, become the mother of millions!
61Then Rebecca and her young women got ready and mounted the camels to go with Abraham's servant, and they all started out.
"He is my master," the servant answered. So she took her scarf and covered her face.
66The servant told Isaac everything he had done. 67Then Isaac brought Rebecca into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in, and she became his wife. Isaac loved Rebecca, and | 105 |
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Single Sign-On (SSO) is a session and user authentication system that permits a user to apply one set of login credentials (i.e. username and password) to access multiple applications. Those applications can be based on-premise and/or in the cloud. The SSO service authenticates the end user for all applications for which the user has been provided rights. SSO enables a seamless work experience when moving from application to application during the same session, since, once the user is authenticated, there are no additional login prompt screens.
Behind the scenes, organizations can leverage the SSO logging of user activities to monitor and pull audit records on user<|fim_middle|> BeyondTrust PAM to Streamline Access & Secure Privileges
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Option 1: When a user logs into the OneLogin SSO portal, they will click on the BeyondTrust icon to begin accessing accounts, applications, or assets. BeyondTrust Password Safe injects privileged credentials into the secure session initiated directly from the Password Safe appliance to the target system. This approach prevents pass-the-hash and man-in-the-middle compromises because the privileged credentials are never stored on the user's workstation.
After the user has provided their MFA token (either manually or via push) to authenticate themselves into OneLogin SSO, they have several options in how to access systems via Password Safe. These options are available to maintain the user's normal productivity, while providing secure access across the enterprise.
Option 2: The OneLogin and BeyondTrust integration also enables users to access the Password Safe Portal via their standard internet browser. The Password Safe Portal will provide all the accounts, applications, and assets the user has been configured to interact with, based on predefined role-based access controls for that user or group. Note that users and groups can be added to Password Safe through Active Directory, LDAP, SailPoint, and centralized user management within BeyondInsight, which is the integrated platform that supports the PAM solutions from BeyondTrust.
Figure 2: Password Safe Portal via the user's standard internet browser
A user may access systems via PuTTY or another terminal services application of their choice, just as they normally would. In a similar fashion, the user could also initiate the session via a Direct Connect icon from the user's desktop. The ease of use is immediately apparent to the user because they may connect to the same asset as they did before deploying a privilege management solution, except the user is not required to remember the passwords (thanks OneLogin SSO!). BeyondTrust will automatically inject those credentials into the secure proxied session. The added benefit is that the assets, account credentials, and data stored on those devices now have protection against privileged attack vectors.
The ability to initiate a secure session from Password Safe to nearly any device (Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac, iSeries, Network devices, DevOps, IOT, SCADA, etc.) delivers consistent and reliable security across heterogeneous environments. BeyondTrust helps organizations enforce best practices around privileged credential management, such as requiring every device, database, application, server, administrative, and service account to have a unique password and rotating that credential after each use. If end users are not required to remember those privileged credentials, then organizations won't have them stored in unsecured spreadsheets, word documents, or written on post-it notes. BeyondTrust can also generate alerts and complete audit reporting for all account activities, down to the keystroke, across a customer's enterprise.
Ultimately, IT security teams benefit from end-to-end visibility and auditability of user activity when they're leveraging both OneLogin SSO and BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management. When integrated, these solutions give you better control, visibility, and auditing capabilities, helping you drastically eliminate, or at least defang, dangerous threat vectors.
If you're interested in getting deeper insights on integrating PAM with SSO, check out the joint webinar from BeyondTrust and OneLogin: Dialing up Your Privileged User Strategy Leveraging Single Sign On.
Shaun Pressley is a Sr. Solutions Engineer with BeyondTrust, and is based in Dallas, Texas. In his current role, he evangelizes how Privileged Access Management solutions can prevent data breaches and minimize risk, across a customer's environment. With over twenty years of Enterprise Data Center infrastructure experience, he has worked both as a customer, for eight years with Charles Schwab, and as a technical consultant within the IT industry. Shaun has worked with customers in a variety of industries including Global Financial Services, Defense Contractors, Transportation, Retail, HealthCare, Communications and Energy.
BeyondTrust gives organizations the visibility and control to reduce risk, achieve compliance objectives, and boot operational performance. We are trusted by 20,000 customer, including half of the Fortune 100, and a global partner network.
View all posts by Shaun Pressley | accounts and access. Organizations can also layer on multi-factor authentication (MFA) with SSO to improve security.
Privileged access management (PAM), also called privileged account management, refers to the practices and solutions for securely managing the privileges/privileged access of user accounts, applications, databases, servers, network devices, etc. Typically, privileged accounts have access to mission-critical systems or applications that could contain confidential information or intellectual property.
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On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W.<|fim_middle|>, explains, "It all started with a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Crescent City, Illinois, who needed a ramp."
Once the team built the ramp – and word got out about the project – demand for their services grew steadily. In the early years, a small number of determined volunteers built 10 ramps a year on average. Today, the Ramp Builders have 20 volunteers who build 50 to 60 ramps each year.
Burton credits the group's increased visibility for the growth. "A lot of people find us through Facebook and word of mouth," he says. "And the more ramps that go up, the more people hear and talk about us."
Virtually all volunteers share deep experience working with their hands. As Burton notes, several in the group are retired farmers, and their carpentry skills are a given.
"It's about being generous with my time to help people in need. To me, by building these ramps, I'm living The Thrivent Way."
When people see the finished ramps, their joy is palpable. "They're elated to have them, and amazed at how quickly they go up," Burton says. With 10 to 12 volunteers, a typical ramp can be completed in six hours.
The Iroquois County Ramp Builders make their services available for free to anyone in the northern Illinois county, whether their disability is temporary or permanent. As a Thrivent Action Team, the group receives $250 Community Impact Cards for some builds. They also receive funds through frequent partnerships with the Options Center for Independent Living, a nonprofit dedicated to assisting people with disabilities. These and other monetary donations help purchase materials, tools and transportation.
For Burton, who's volunteered with the group whenever possible for five years, getting to witness the immediate impact of his efforts is powerful. "It makes a difference to quality of life right away, to help someone get in and out of their home." He also sees the work as an ideal combination of his professional and personal values. "It's about being generous with my time to help people in need," he says. "To me, by building these ramps, I'm living The Thrivent Way." | Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. In part, the law states that people with disabilities are entitled to equal access to public life. This includes physical access in the form of elevators, stair lifts and wheelchair ramps. But while the ADA has transformed public spaces, it stops short at the doorstep of a vital institution: the private home.
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The Iroquois County Ramp Builders have been building home wheelchair ramps since 1988. As Larry Burton, a Thrivent Financial representative and volunteer builder | 178 |
https://nplus1.ru/news/2019/03/14/seismic-stars
Астрономы заметили ускорение вращения астероида Бенну
Анимация вращения Бенну, смонтированная из снимков, полученных камерой MapCam 4 декабря 2018 года перед первым пролетом OSIRIS-REx над северным полюсом астероида.
NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Астрономы обнаружили, что период вращения астероида Бенну, который сейчас изучает межплан<|fim_middle|> a view of asteroid Bennu from the equator, looking south toward the largest boulder on the asteroid and then off into space. It was taken by the MapCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 14 from a distance of 2.2 miles (3.6 km). The field of view is 830 ft (253 m) wide. For scale, the light-colored rock just below the center of the image is 36 ft (11 m) wide, which is about the same length as a telephone pole. The spacecraft obtained the image during Flyby 2 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase.
This week is the beginning of a new mission phase - Detailed Survey: Equatorial Stations. This phase is designed to obtain the observations needed to hone in on the best sample collection site.
Over the next 7 weeks, I'll be making north/south slews on 7 different stations around Bennu in order to get observations from different sun illumination conditions. More details on my operations during Detailed Survey: Equatorial Stations: https://bit.ly/2VhJMqx
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190321-polycam-boulder-field/
Detail of Boulder Field on Bennu
This image shows a region in the southern hemisphere of asteroid Bennu that contains a mix of large and small boulders. The PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 21 from a distance of 2.2 miles (3.5 km). The field of view is 160 ft (49 m). For scale, the large boulder in the upper half the image is 82 ft (25 m) wide, which is a little less than the distance between bases on a baseball diamond. The image was obtained during Flyby 3 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the equator, pointing PolyCam toward the south of the asteroid. | етная станция OSIRIS-REx, сокращается примерно на одну секунду каждые сто лет. Это может привести к его разрушению через несколько миллионов лет, а за процесс ускорения, по мнению ученых, ответственен YORP-эффект. Статья опубликована в журнале Geophysical Research Letters.
500-метровый околоземный астероид (101955) Бенну является представителем углеродных астероидов спектрального класса В. Изучение подобных объектов может дать важную информацию о формировании и эволюции Солнечной системы, кроме того, считается, что богатые углеродом астероиды, такие как Бенну, могут быть ответственны за поставку аминокислот и воды на молодую Землю. Бенну был выбран в качестве цели для автоматической межпланетной станции OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), которая в настоящее время изучает его с орбиты. В начале июля 2020 года станция сблизится с поверхностью астероида и соберет с нее при помощи специального манипулятора 60 граммов пыли и фрагментов породы, после чего, в марте 2021 года, космический аппарат отправится к Земле и сбросит в атмосферу капсулу с грунтом в сентябре 2023 года.
В новой работе группа астрономов во главе с Майком Ноланом (Mike Nolan) изучала, как изменяется скорость вращения астероида со временем. Для этой цели ученые проанализировали данные наземных наблюдений за Бенну, проводившихся в 1999 и 2005 годах, а также данные за 2012 год, полученные космическим телескопом «Хаббл» и новые результаты, полученные OSIRIS-REx. Оказалось, что период вращения Бенну сокращается примерно на одну секунду каждые сто лет, это может привести к тому, что в течение нескольких миллионов лет скорость вращения астероида вырастет достаточно сильно для того, чтобы начался процесс его разрушения. Сейчас, по данным OSIRIS-REx, Бенну совершает один оборот вокруг своей оси за 4,3 часа.
Существует несколько гипотез, объясняющих изменение скорости вращения, такие как изменение момента инерции из-за столкновения с другим объектом или потерей массы в результате различных процессов. Однако наиболее вероятным механизмом ускорения, которое наблюдалось у других околоземных астероидах, начиная с (54509) YORP, является эффект Ярковского — О'Кифа — Радзиевского — Пэддэка, заключающийся в изменении скорости вращения астероида ассиметричной формы под действием солнечного излучения. Правильность этой идеи должен подтвердить OSIRIS-REx на основании дальнейших наблюдений, в ходе которых он определит точную форму астероида, тепловые свойства поверхности и распределение силы тяжести вблизи нее.
Еще одна действующая миссия по доставке грунта с астероида — автоматическая станция «Хаябуса-2». Зонд 27 июня 2018 года прибыл к своей цели — астероиду 162173 Ryugu, который принадлежит к наиболее распространенному типу астероидов — классу С. Изучение химических свойств его вещества позволит ученым судить о составе протосолнечной туманности.
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3D Shape Model of Asteroid Bennu
NEW HORIZONS v2.0
Опубликовано: 20 мар. 2019 г.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Roman Tkachenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udoaJty0rjQ
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/bennu-in-stereo
Bennu in Stereo
This set of stereoscopic images provides a 3D view of the large, 170-foot (52-meter) boulder that juts from asteroid Bennu's southern hemisphere and the rocky slopes that surround it. The stereo pair was created by stereo image processing scientists Dr. Brian May, who is also the lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, and Claudia Manzoni. In January, May and Manzoni formally joined NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission science team as collaborators to create stereoscopic data products, which will be used by the team while selecting a sample collection site on Bennu.
"I'm proud to have been adopted as a collaborator on the OSIRIS-REx team, along with my colleague Claudia Manzoni," said May. "Our passion is producing stereoscopic (3-D) images from the astounding data that the OSIRIS-REx mission has been collecting."
The two images in this stereo pair were taken from slightly different viewpoints, with one of the images meant for the left eye and the other for the right. The two images are then combined by the brain to give the perception of depth. To see the pair in 3D, cross your eyes and relax your vision until there are three images, then focus on the center image. Tilt your head as needed to bring the image into focus. A version of the image suitable for viewing through a stereoscope can be found here.
The cropped and processed images were obtained on December 1 and 2, 2018, by the PolyCam camera during the spacecraft's final approach toward the asteroid.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
Editor: Karl Hille
https://www.asteroidmission.org/updated-bennu-shape-model-3d-files/
75-CENTIMETER SHAPE MODEL (MAR. 2019)
After studying asteroid Bennu at close range for three months, the OSIRIS-REx mission team has developed a new shape model with a 75-centimeter resolution. This more precise model, which was created using imagery taken by OSIRIS-REx's PolyCam camera, shows features on Bennu smaller than one meter.
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NASA's OSIRIS-RExПодлинная учетная запись @OSIRISREx 41 мин. назад
This week I'm gearing up for Flyby 5 of Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. On Thurs., I'll be flying north to south, imaging Bennu with PolyCam, OLA and OTES from a distance of 1.9 - 3.1 miles (3.1 - 5 km).
More on my whereabouts: http://bit.ly/WhereIsOREX
Somewhere on this rock - in one of these views - is the spot that will ultimately be chosen as our sample collection location. The OSIRIS-REx sample site selection campaign is in full swing! Get the downloadable graphic here: https://bit.ly/2FLRvnf
https://bit.ly/2FLRvnf --> https://www.asteroidmission.org/bennu-sides-and-global-mosaic/
Four Sides of Bennu with Corresponding Global Mosaic
This image shows four views of asteroid Bennu along with a corresponding global mosaic. The images were taken on Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's PolyCam camera.
Date Taken: Dec. 2, 2018
Instrument Used: OCAMS (PolyCam)
OSIRIS-REx: Orbiting Asteroid Bennu
NASA Video
Опубликовано: 3 апр. 2019 г.
Olivia Billett, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft science lead at Lockheed Martin, talks about the complexities of orbiting around asteroid Bennu.
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft launched Sept. 8, 2016, and began orbiting asteroid Bennu on Dec. 31, 2018. Its primary science objective is to study Bennu and collect a sample for return to Earth in 2023. Bennu is a carbon-rich asteroid that records the earliest history of our solar system, and which may contain the raw ingredients of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukbgNGwrO4M
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/osiris-rex-captures-laser-3d-view-of-bennu
OSIRIS-REx Captures Laser 3D View of Bennu
This three-dimensional view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency, on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. From Feb. 12 through 17, OLA made more than 11 million measurements of the distance between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu's surface as the spacecraft flew less than 1.2 miles (2 km) above the surface – the closest orbit ever achieved by spacecraft. OLA obtained these measurements by firing laser pulses at Bennu and measuring the amount of time it takes for the light to bounce off the asteroid's surface and return to the instrument. That time measurement is then translated into altitude data. Using this data, the OLA team created the 3-D model of Bennu's surface. The colors represent the distance from the center of Bennu: dark blue areas lie approximately 197 feet (60 meters) lower than peaks indicated in red. Some parts of the asteroid have not yet been measured, which creates gaps in the image. OLA will take nearly a billion more measurements throughout 2019 to complete the first-ever high-resolution 3D lidar map of a near-Earth asteroid.
Credit: NASA/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190329-fb4-equator-view/
Bennu's Equatorial Ridge
On March 29, the PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took this image of a region of dark regolith on asteroid Bennu. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was positioned over Bennu's northern hemisphere, looking southward over the asteroid's equatorial bulge. The field of view shown is 168 ft (51.2 m) wide. For scale, the bright, rectangular rock above the dark region is 8 ft (2.4 m) wide, about the size of a long bed on a pickup truck. This image was taken during Flyby 4 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase.
Date Taken: Mar. 29, 2019
NASA's OSIRIS-RExПодлинная учетная запись @OSIRISREx 3 ч. назад
This week is Flyby 6 A&B of Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. On Thurs. and Fri., I'll be flying south to north, imaging Bennu with PolyCam, OLA and OTES from a distance of 1.9 - 3.1 miles (3.1 - 5 km). For more on this week's ops plan: https://bit.ly/2U5MniW
NASA's OSIRIS-RExПодлинная учетная запись @OSIRISREx 5 мин. назад
So we're clear, that rock was like that when I got here ...
This image from DS:BBD Flyby 1 shows the rocky surface of Bennu just south of the equator. That cracked rock is 69 ft long, about the length of 4 parallel parking spots.
More detail: https://bit.ly/2IpIKSG
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190307-polycam-cracked-rock/
Rocks and Boulders near Bennu's Equator
This image shows the rocky surface of Bennu in a region just south of the asteroid's equator. The PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 7 from a distance of 3 miles (4.8 km). The width of the field of view is 185 ft (56.4 m) of Bennu's surface. For scale, the cracked rock at the top of the image is 69 ft (21 m) long, which is about the length of four parallel parking spots. The image was obtained during Flyby 1 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase.
Date Taken: Mar. 7, 2019
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190307-polycam-northern-boulder/
Northern Boulder Imaged by PolyCam
This image shows one of the largest boulders on asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere. It was taken on March 7 by the PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a distance of 2.9 miles (4.6 km). The field of view in the image is 191 feet (58.2 meters) and the boulder itself measures 77 feet (23.5 meters) on its longest dimension, which is about the same length as one-fourth of an American football field.
The image was obtained during Flyby 1 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase while the spacecraft was flying over Bennu's equator and pointing PolyCam to the north and west of the asteroid.
Date Taken: March 7, 2019
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190307-southern-boulder-region/
20190307 Southern Boulder Region
This image shows a region in the southern hemisphere of asteroid Bennu that contains a large population of boulders. The PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 7 from a distance of 3 miles (4.8 km). The field of view for the image is 190 ft (58 m) wide. For scale, the smaller, smooth, rectangular boulder on the left is 40 ft (12.1 m) across, which is about the length of a standard telephone pole. The image was obtained during Flyby 1 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the equator, pointing PolyCam to the south and east.
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190307-polycam-benben/
Bennu's Boulder No. 1 Imaged by PolyCam
This image shows a portion of the largest boulder on Bennu, located in the southern hemisphere. The PolyCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took the image on March 7 from a distance of 3 miles (4.8 km). The field of view for the image is 191 ft (58.2 m) wide. For scale, the shiny rectangular rock just to the north of the boulder is about 5 ft (1.5 m) wide, which is about the length of a bicycle. The image was obtained during Flyby 1 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was over the equator, pointing PolyCam to the south and west.
This is the last week of Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase. On Thursday and Friday, Flyby 7 executes. I'll be running a north/south pass, observing Bennu at +/-40° latitude with the MapCam, OLA and OTES instruments.
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190314-mapcam-southern-limb-and-crater/
Bennu's Southern Limb and Large Crater
This image shows asteroid Bennu's south pole and a large crater in the southern hemisphere. It was taken by the MapCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 14 from a distance of 2.2 miles (3.6 km). The field of view is 847 ft (258 m) wide. For scale, the light-colored, rectangular rock at the top of the image is 27 ft (8.3 m) wide, which is the width of a tennis court. The spacecraft obtained the image during Flyby 2 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase by pointing the camera to the south while flying over the equator.
Date Taken: March 14, 2019
Instrument Used: OCAMS (MapCam)
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https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190314-mapcam-eastern-limb-and-boulders/
Boulders on Bennu's Eastern Limb
This image provides a view of the region around Bennu's equator. It was taken by the MapCam camera on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 14 from a distance of 2.2 miles (3.6 km). The field of view is 837 ft (255 m) wide. The large, protruding boulder near the center of the image is 115 ft (35 m) wide, which is about the length of two boxcars. The spacecraft obtained the image during Flyby 2 of the mission's Detailed Survey: Baseball Diamond phase by pointing the camera to the east while flying over Bennu's equator.
https://www.asteroidmission.org/20190314-mapcam-boulders-benben-and-limb/
Southern View of Bennu from the Equator
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FILLER: Dominican Habano 92, Nicaraguan (Esteli & Jalapa) & Penn.
La Madrina is a theme-centric cigar from Dapper paying tribute to the traditional Latin American holiday Dia de los Muertos or "Day of the Dead". This seems to be a common (and easy) homage many different cigar brands include in their portfolio - Las Calaveras from Crowned Heads, Santa Muerte from BLTC, etc.
Reith (Dapper's head honcho) took the theme an extra (and appreciated) step however. "La Madrina" literally translates to 'godmother' and is a reference to Yolanda Garfias Woo, a San Francisco woman who served to educate many locals about the holiday. Personally, I feel like this added touch shows Reith's effort to develop a more well-rounded and unique take on the whole Dia de los Muertos thing.
Straight from Ian Reith (via Halfwheel), he notes the concept of La Madrina provides him "a personal reminder to ... live life to the fullest extent knowing at any time death can be right around the corner."
Just to breakdown the blend a bit - the wrapper is from Oliva's La Luchita farm; the filler is four-part - Pennsylvanian broadleaf, Nicaraguan - from Guadalupe farms in Esteli and Cofradia Relleno farm in Jalapa, and lastly Dominican 92 Habano. Lots of regions and leaves involved in this blend to be sure.
Ian remarks that he considers La Madrina the perfect cigar for the seasoned smoker looking for something complex and intense.
Apparently there is a maduro mix in the works set to be released next year (2019). The natural version originally used a dark wrapper but Reith nixed in the thought that the maduro and natural would be easily confused.
If you haven't yet, read this interview from Small Batch Cigar with Dapper's founder/owner Ian Reith - it's phenomenal and very informative not only to the brand, but to the industry.
The blend is a dual-effort between Reith and one of his most-trusted blenders, Raul Dilsa. Disla is a staple in the industry and has been involved with several other Dapper blends. Raul's vast knowledge of tobacco available, blending intricasies and palate have helped him become an unsong rockstar within the cigar world. Prior to becoming the production manager at NACSA, he cut his teeth as a torcedor with Davidoff and head of operations for Torano. This dude knows his sh*t.
This band is instantly iconic. Reith tapped his usual artist, Dan Greta, to develop a band that really captured the concept of Dia de los Muertos - a holiday which focuses on celebrating those that have passed and inherently reminding the celebrants of the joys of life. What better way to capture this notion than a skeletal hand carefully grasping a rose, typically a universal symbol for life.
Dapper seems dead set on not just replicating the same ol' bands and branding you've seen throughout the ages - each line of the brand captures a distinct essence that not only accurately depicts the sentiment of the cigar, but captures it in a unique manner. The design is perfectly executed and uses the same metallic process found in many of their bands. Dapper loves using an expensive and very appealing gold powder on their bands that honestly brings a richness to the band unlike the usual foil gold you see. I love Dapper's bands and the La Madrina may just be the best - not only from Dapper but across the cigar industry.
The Ecuadorian Habano wrapper adorning La Madrina is a gorgeous dark, velvety brown color with a light, oily sheen to it. The wrapper is quite dark - closer to a colorado than maduro - and has a nice variation from black/brown to milk chocolate brown.
The seams are fairly well done but on both sticks I smoked there were areas where the seams weren't completely glued down and had a raise to them. To the casual eye, the seams blend in perfectly and it's really these couple of minor lifts that are the only knock on them. There are also plenty of visible, raised veins running rampant throughout this cigar's body. This is a very firm cigar with only minor give when compressed.
The cap is nicely applied - serving it's purpose to terminate the head of the cigar and sitting mostly flush as it transitions into the body. The shoulders are very well done - dropping deeply and symmetrically. La Madrina's blend is showcased in a densely packed foot. Otherwise, the foot is unremarkable - no complaints but also nothing too much to note.
The wrapper and foot give off some very distinct barnyard aromas. There is also some damp, forest-like smell. This smells like a very rich cigar.
The cold draw is very open. This is partially my own fault - I typically stand a cigar straight up on the table then snip the tip with a straight-cutter. For whatever reason, this seemed to remove way more of the cap region than I was comfortable with. I'll be smoking a second stick to corroborate my initial review notes with a v-cut to see how it compares. Flavors off the cold draw are emblematic of a stereotypical San Andres wrapped cigar - a nice pop of sweet raisin is at the forefront. The blend seems to bring some cedar and cinnamon roll/Golden Grahams.
V-cutting the second cigar produces a nearly perfect draw with great resistance. Same flavorful awesomeness.
I put some fire to the foot and the La Madrina lights up easily and evenly. The open draw really brings some heat and definite peppery harshness. In addition, there are some preliminary wood and heavy cream notes.
As noted, the draw is too open. In my opinion a good stogie has just enough resistance on each draw. La Madrina, at least<|fim_middle|> burn problems. I know i will continue reaching for La madrinas without hesitation! I am really looking forward to reviewing this cigar in some additional vitolas to see how the experience varies - watch for updates!
La Madrina seems to be all over the board from various reviewers with an average rating of 7.9. Some people seemed to love it enough to bump it to a 9.1 while others were closer to my 8.4. Developing Palates has a relatively unique scoring system but it's worth including. I am really interested to try a few more vitolas of La Madrina - especially the robusto to see how it performs!
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The burn is perfect. The deviations that are present are very, very minor - leaving a razor sharp burn line. The first few layers of ash have an interesting brown/tan hue backed by a medium gray with black striations.
The v-cut is producing a much cooler cigar to smoke. The draw is open but with enough resistance to be right where it should be.
La Madrina puts out a rewarding amount of smoke without being over-the-top or excessive. The smoke is an opaque brownish, white velvety color with a pleasant, peppery aroma to it.
Dapper's La Madrina starts with a punch to the palate with a heavy dose of pepper. The pepper pops on the front end and then really lingers as you rest it between puffs. It seems to start light enough on the back of the throat and builds quite a bit as it lingers. In addition, there is a rich, deep meat and maltiness as well as some very strong black coffee mixed with heavy cream.
The retrohale really defines the pepper to more of an anise flavor to me, not a black pepper. There is also a faint but present toasted sesame cracker flavor present on the retrohale.
Like I've noted a couple times now, the draw is very open. It's probably my own fault - we'll see how #2 smokes.
Second Stick Update: The draw really is about perfect now - modifying my initial score to raise it to a "3" from a "2".
The perfect burn extends into the first third. Absolutely zero complaints regarding the burn line or initial burn experience. As the cigar progresses, the ash is stacking very nicely with same coloration - black and gray layers with a brown tint throughout.
Before I get into the flavor profile of the middle third, I want to note the smoke output went bananas a little before the midpoint. The La Madrina went from mild-mannered typical cigar to Liga Privada coal engine.
The flavors of the second third have softened significantly. The pepper that really dominated the first third has dissipated to be almost non-existent. The prominent flavors are gearing more towards the grain-like qualities hinted at previously. There are some toast, maltiness and toasted crackers that pop-out right away. Also, present is a very faint sweetness that is welcomed after the peppery dominance of the first third.
The draw continues to be very open but the cigar is not smoking too hot as long as I take my time smoking it. Extended rests between puffs let it cool enough not to completely fry my taste buds.
Second Stick Update: Draw is much better with a v-cut. Lesson learned - don't hack the top of the cigar off ... cue eyeroll.
The burn line still impresses but at the midpoint of the stogie, it goes out. A quick relight and I'm back in business. I noted that a couple other reviewers needed relights at the middle third as well. My second stick went our at nearly the exact same point.
It was a little hard to judge the back half of the middle third in terms of flavor. The relights served to reboot the pepper in a way however, I am getting much more of the anise on the palate that was noticeable on this initial retrohales. Also found some minor chocolate and nutty notes. The final third really seems to bring the strength as well - you can definitely feel the nicotine kick in significantly.
In terms of flavor progression or variance, I think this is one of Dapper's simpler experiences. That's not to say anything disparaging, but I've found the Cubo Maduro and El Borracho to provide slightly richer flavors and more natural progression of flavors than the La Madrina. La Madrina really is three acts that open and close the same way - pepper, toast/malt, pepper. I think if the final third would have migrated a new direction rather than reverting to the peppery experience of the first third, I would have enjoyed it more. But all in all, the flavors were prominent offered enough complexity to be interesting and enjoyable.
Oof ... the burn. The first and final thirds of La Madrina leave nothing to be desired for quality of burn. The line is crisp, it's not burning too fast/hot (except where I destroyed the cap on one), and all-in-all it's damn near perfect. Then the middle third happens. I smoked three sticks and every single one took a nose dive in the middle third. Especially after the first one went out, I made sure to smoke carefully at the mid-points for the latter two to be sure I wasn't letting it rest too long between puffs. I'll say the performance of the middle third of La Madrina really hurt the overall rating I could give the cigar.
dapper's la madrina has some really fantastic flavors to offer but moments of the smoking experience are truly plagued by major burn issues - primarily relights. I smoked three stogies total for this review and they all had the same issues around the same point. that said, if you're willing to grab your lighter a couple extra times, the flavors and quality of the cigar may be enough to power through any | 1,081 |
Marxuquera (també anomenada ocasionalment la Marxuquera), és una caseria i una partida extramunicipal repartida entre els municipis de Gandia, Palma de Gandia, Ador i Alfauir (La Safor), amb uns 934 habitants repartits en un xicotet nucli històric i diferents urbanitzacions, a més de gran quantitat de cases diseminades. La major part de la partida rural pertany al terme municipal de Gandia.. La partida està formada per un extens pla, tancat al nord pel massís del Mondúver, a l'est per la Serra Falconera, a l'oest i al sud per la Serra Grossa i els últims contraforts del Buixcarró i el Vernissa. La seua extensió és d'unes 750 hectàrees, que equivalen al 12,21% del terme municipal de Gandia, més l'enclavament d'Ador (3,53 km²), que forma una llarga llenca de territori entre els termes de Gandia i Palma de Gandia, al llarg del curs del barranc de Lloret.
La carretera Gandia–Simat creua Marxuquera des de Gandia i va cap a la Valldigna, passant per la Drova i Barx, a través del coll dels Caragols. El barranc Verd discorre pel sud del pla, i pel nord ho fa el barranc de Marxuquera, també conegut com a barranc de Sant Nicolau o de Beniopa. Els accidents naturals separen Marxuquera en dos parts ben definides, deixant al centre la serra Falconera i determinant així el límit entre la Marxuquera Alta i la Baixa, exactament dividides pel Racó de Tomba.
Gràcies al seu clima, protegit per les muntanyes i en conseqüència, l'alleujament dels vents que per allí s'hi dona, Marxuquera ha sigut històricament un lloc propici per a l'assentament humà.
Història
Per tota Marxuquera podem trobar nombrosos vestigis de poblament humà al llarg de la història. L'etimologia del seu topònim equivaldria a "plana litoral". És geofísicament un complex càrstic, característica que explica la formació de nombroses coves, moltes d'elles poblades -com la cova de les Meravelles o la del Parpalló, un dels primers enclavaments poblats de forma permanent al Mediterrani peninsular i un dels jaciments arqueològics més importants d'Europa -per quantitat de troballes- en la prehistòria.
També hi ha indicis de poblament musulmà, assenyalat per la presència de l'anomenat "Morabito", una espècie d'habitatge o corral d'animals amb característiques de les construccions musulmanes, del qual encara que no s'ha arribat a un consens sobre l'ús que va tindre en el seu temps. Hi havia també una altra construcció similar, a pocs metres d'aquesta i que connectava ambdues mitjançant un túnel, però fou derrocada pels aleshores propietaris del terreny i ningú es preocupà per preservar-la.
Una característica del pla de Marxuquera és que ha estat dividit històricament entre diferents termes municipals. A l'edat mitjana, a principis del , se'l repartien els termes de Bairén, Borró i Palma, els tres pertanyents al ducat de Gandia. Encara avuí dia les terres d'aquesta unitat territorial que és Marxuquera pertanyen a diferents termes municipals, com hem vist.
La història de l'actual població de Marxuquera comença amb la transformació de les seues terres en cultius de secà, creant-se a la segona meitat del a Marxuquera Alta una comunitat de propietaris d'estos terrenys, molts dels quals no vivien a Marxuquera, si no a Beniopa, Benipeixcar, Benirredrà, Gandia, Palma, Ador, Ròtova o Alfauir. Es reunien cada mes de gener per a tractar temes de les seues terres a les Escoles Pies de Gandia i hi havia un representant de cadascun d'estos pobles a la junta directiva. Durant la dècada de 1870 les zones vitivinícoles d'Espanya sofriren la greu plaga de la fil·loxera, que acabà amb moltes de les vinyes. Les famílies que vivien d'aquests cultius van haver de desplaçar-se en búsqueda de noves terres i cultius que treballar. Així, famílies de l'àrea de Xaló i Pedreguer, zona valenciana tradicionalment dedicada al cultiu de vinyes, es reubicaren a Marxuquera, on començaren a treballar de casers i llauradors per als amos de les terres.
Gran part de les actuals famílies de Marxuquera són encara descendents dels primers pobladors d'aquesta. La majoria de famílies provenen de Pedreguer, Benipeixcar, Xaló, Ròtova, Gandia o Barx. Marxuquera va funcionar durant alguns anys com a municipi independent, fins que s'annexionà a Gandia.
A partir de la dècada dels cinquanta del , hi hagué una sèrie d'accions que transformaren la vida dels marxuquerers, com l'asfaltament de la carretera de Gandia a Barx, però sobretot, l'inici de la transformació de les terres tradicionalment de secà en regadius i l'emigració de les famílies a Gandia amb la venda de les seues terres a gandians que les transformaren en fanecades de tarongerar. Els que es quedaren, també transformaren les seues terres al monocultiu dels cítrics. A partir dels setanta, part dels emigrats a Gandia i altres de nous, tornaren amb la millora de l'habitabilitat de les cases i la introducció dels electrodomèstics, però ja molts com a segona residència. Així començava la urbanització unifamiliar en forma de xalets que actualment caracteritza a Marxuquera com una zona residencial.
Històricament, el nom de Marxuquera és extensiu a tot el pla, que abasta fins als límits de Ròtova, Palma de Gandia, Beniopa i la Drova. Però el que determinà la seua identitat és el caseriu que es va aixecar entorn l'Ermita, dedicada a la Verge del Mondúver. Actualment, a més d'este nucli originari i les cases de camp disperses, comprèn també tot el conjunt d'urbanitzacions assentades a les dos Marxuqueres, l'Alta i la Baixa: l'Ermita (Ermita I i Ermita II), Barranc Verd, Xauxa, Montepino, Montesol, Las Cumbres, Racó de Tomba, Racó del Niu, Racó dels Frares i Molló de la Creu (Molló I i Molló II). Segons l'INE, el 2007, Marxuquera Baixa tenia 351 habitants i Marxuquera Alta, 583 hab.
Llocs d'interés
Són diversos els llocs visitats assíduament a Marxuquera, gràcies principalment a la seua diversitat ambiental i paisatgística, però també històrica i cultural.
El seu gran parc, conegut popularment com a parc del camp de futbol (camp en desús des de fa uns anys enrere) i els seus torradors, va ser durant les dècades dels 80, 90 i 2000, un dels llocs preferits dels gandians on anar a passar el diumenge en familia o entre amics, amb una paella o "torrà". Actualment seguim trobant gent de Gandia i els voltants que va a passar el dia, encara que l'afluència ha disminuït notablement des de la crisi econòmica de 2008, junt a uns anys en què es va prohibir l'ús dels torradors allí presents (ara de nou en funcionament després de rehabilitar-los seguint les noves normatives).
La Font de Lloret, un paratge natural i font de la qual s'abasteix gran part de l'horta de Marxuquera i que forma part de la seua història. La canalització de les seues aigües va permetre l'extensió dels cultius de regadiu a Marxuquera i va afavorir el poblament de l'enclavament. Es tracta d'un dels indrets més estimats per la població local.
La Cova de les Meravelles, on s'han trobat restes prehistòriques que la situen com una de les primeres zones habitades de la Península Ibèrica i d'Europa. Aquesta cova se situa a la vessant oest de la Serra Falconera, pel que va ser utilitzada al llarg de la història com a abric per a pastors d'ovelles i els seus ramats, així com a lloc d'esplai per als xiquets de Marxuquera. Trobem a aquesta cova gravats i pintures del Paleolític Superior, que junt a la propera Cova del Parpalló, fan de Marxuquera un dels enclaus més importants del paleolític a nivell Europeu, encara que tristament és un recurs turístic i divulgatiu poc explotat. Són representatius de la Cova de les Meravelles quatre dels seus gravats, entre el que destaca el gravat complet d'un cavall. També s'han trobat monedes de l'època ibèrica i romana, junt amb restes de ceràmica, que fan especular sobre el seu possible ús ritual entre el primer mil·lenni a.C. i el primer d.C. Fet curiós és la peculiaritat del seu topònim, llargament repetit al llarg de tota la geografia valenciana.
La Cova del Parpalló, que se situa al massís del Mondúver, al paratge natural municipal Parpalló-Borrell, encara en terme municipal de Gandia, fitant amb el de Barx. S'accedeix per la carretera Gandia-Barx (coneguda com "la carretera de Barx"), abans d'arribar a La Drova. Es tracta d'un dels jaciments del Paleolític Superior més importants d'Europa i està catalogat com a Bé d'Interés Cultural (BIC), inclòs en la llista del Patrimoni Mundial de la Unesco degut al seu important conjunt d'art rupestre. Va ser una de les primeres zones habitades per lHomo Sapiens al llevant peninsular. El 1929, després de les primeres troballes, es va tancar al públic per al seu estudi i acondicionament, reobrint-se l'any 2014, després d'una llarga espera de 85 anys, amb l'objectiu de difondre el seu patrimoni històric, artístic i cultural. Com a anècdota, destacar que el seu nom prové d'un xicotet ocell conegut amb el nom de Parpalló, que era habitual en la zona. El centre d'interpretació del paratge natural municipal Parpalló-Borrell es troba a l'entrada del camí que arriba fins a la cova, i en ell ofereixen informació de la cova a més de tot el paratge, així com visites guiades.
El paratge natural municipal Parpalló-Borrell, que, com el seu nom indica, aglutina dues zones diferenciades, dividides per l'anomenada carretera de Barx: la zona del Parpalló, a l'est d'aquesta si ens dirigim en direcció Gandia-Barx - on es troba l'anteriorment mencionada Cova del Parpalló -, i la zona del Borrell, a l'oest de l'esmentada carretera. Un espai protegit de 549ha amb una microreserva protegida de papallones. Dins d'aquest paratge, destaca, a més de la Cova del Parpalló, la zona del Borrell, nom derivat del barranc de Borrell que discorre per aquesta àrea, i amb una meravellosa ruta en la natura que inclou la famosa estructura natural d'El Portalet. Es tracta d'un gran arc de pedra format de manera natural. Aquesta va ser durant la guerra i la postguerra zona habitual d'amagatall dels maquis i també va ser el camí de pas entre la població de Pinet i Marxuquera, ja que molts dels seus habitants treballaven al camp de Marxuquera i es desplaçaven cada cap de setmana per estes sendes per anar del treball a casa i de casa al treball. Aquest paratge natural compta amb el seu centre d'interpretació, a l'entrada del camí que arriba a la Cova del Parpalló. La zona del Borrell va sofrir intensament els efectes d'un devastador incendi a l'agost del 2018, originat a Llutxent i que va arribar fins al nucli urbà de Marxuquera, arrasant amb la major part de la vegetació de la zona. Durant els anys 2018 i 2019 l'Ajuntament de Gandia va realitzar treballs de neteja, adequació i reforestació a la zona, amb ajuda de la Generalitat Valenciana i també canalitzant la voluntat pública de reconstrucció a través del projecte Marxuquera Verda, un projecte de readequació i reforestació amb mètodes no invasius. L'associació local Grup d'Amics de la Natura de Marxuquera, pel seu propi compte, també va sol·licitar a l'Ajuntament de Gandia el permís de treball per a una parcel·la de propietat pública en la zona afectada per l'incendi, amb la concessió del qual va realitzar tasques d'adequació i reforestació durant tot un any, fins a l'obligatorietat de quarantena per la pandèmia global de coronavirus l'any 2020.
El "Morabito" és una polèmica construcció amb característiques àrabs, a la part oest de la serra Falconera. Relativament a prop de la Cova de les Meravelles. Les investigacions han variat al llarg dels anys entre les opinions que apunten a que aquesta construcció era, al principi, un simple corral per als animals en l'època,<|fim_middle|> posar-lo en valor abans que ho aconseguira.
El monestir de Sant Jeroni de Cotalba. Es tracta d'un convent fundat l'any 1388, construït entre els segles i , localitzat en la franja de Marxuquera pertanyent al terme municipal d'Alfauir. És una de les construccions monàstiques més notables dins del País Valencià, fet accentuat per la seua gran varietat estilística que va des del gòtic medieval al neoclàssic, passant pels estils mudèjar, gòtic valencià, reinaxentista i barroc, degut a l'extensió del temps de construcció. El monestir va ser manat a construir pel Duc Alfons d'Aragó i Foix (conegut com a Alfons el Vell o Alfons IV de Ribagorça) -, aleshores senyor de Gandia, net del rei Jaume I i cosí de Pere IV el Cerimoniós- sobre el Tossalet de Cotalba. Va cedir aquest terreny a una comunitat jerònima de Xàbia per a que s'hi traslladaren, a causa de les contínues incursions per part de pirates berberiscos a la costa valenciana i el segrestament de monjos per a demanar rescats. Així, el monestir de Sant Jeroni de Cotalba es convertí en la Casa Mare de l'Orde de Sant Jeroni, en ser el primer monestir d'aquesta comunitat en establir-se a la Corona d'Aragó. L'encarregat d'organitzar l'edificació del monestir fou Pere March, pare del conegut poeta valencià Ausiàs March, com a majordom del que aleshores era el senyoriu de Gandia, més tard ducat. Tanta relació hi havia entre la familia March i el Convent de Sant Jeroni, que molts dels membres d'aquesta familia van ser soterrats allí. Aquest monestir es va convertir en el centre espiritual i cultural de la cort del Ducat de Gandia i del que avuí és la comarca de La Safor.
La Cova Negra, un atre topònim que es repeteix a moltes poblacions valencianes, és una cova menuda i de menor importància que les comentades anteriorment, situada a la serra Falconera, a prop de la Cova de les Meravelles. L'entrada a la cova fou enderrocada fa anys i solament queda un accés de tipus "ximenera".
La Coveta de les Tres és una xicoteta cavitat, també a la serra Falconera, molt poc coneguda inclús per la població local. Es troba en una zona amagada i de difícil accés, sense senda. L'entrada és descrita com un forat vertical al terra, tan estret que només cap una persona per a entrar i eixir, amb poc més que el diàmetre de la cintura. Una vegada dins, la cova té una xicoteta sala. L'entrada a aquesta cova roman tapada per una gran roca, col·locada per a evitar que algun despistat puga caure a dintre sense adonar-se'n.
La Mina de l'Aigua, que és un seguit de construccions realitzades a la primera meitat del per a canalitzar l'aigua provinent de la Font de Lloret per a abastir de reg els camps de Marxuquera, que havíen sigut reconvertits del secà al regadiu. Aquestes construccions segueixen el curs del barranc de Lloret i acaben al parc del camp de futbol de Marxuquera, on encara es pot veure l'antic llavador.
A Marxuquera es troben nombroses sendes i rutes de muntanya, que comencen i acaben dins de la partida de Marxuquera o bé continuen cap a altres poblacions. A més de les rutes que condueixen a les diferents coves esmentades, i les rutes que discorreixen pels paratges naturals municipals, també trobem sendes quasi en desús que connecten Marxuquera amb poblacions com Pinet i Llutxent, utilitzades antigament com a via de pas habitual, o d'altres que arriben fins a Gandia travessant la Falconera. Una de les rutes més importants que arranca de Marxuquera és la GR-236, la Ruta dels Monestirs, inaugurada l'any 2018, que comença al monestir de Sant Jeroni i passa per 4 monestirs més: el monestir del Corpus Christi de Llutxent, el monestir de Santa Maria de la Valldigna a Simat de la Valldigna, el monestir d'Aigües Vives a Carcaixent i finalitzant al monestir de La Murta, a Alzira. Per tant atravessa tres comarques valencianes: La Safor, La Vall d'Albaida i La Ribera Alta. Es pot realitzar en quatre modalitats diferenciades: a peu, en cotxe, en bicicleta o a cavall, amb itineraris distints.
La Penya Roja (un altre topònim repetit a diverses poblacions valencianes) és una muntanya situada a la part dreta de la carretera de Barx, venint des de Gandia, enfront de la serra Falconera. Es tracta d'un lloc famós i de visita habitual entre els escaladors aficionats valencians, ja que es tracta d'una zona fàcil d'escalada apta per a principiants.
Equipaments públics
L'ermita de Marxuquera. Es tracta de l'element més reconegut de la partida de Marxuquera. L'ermita al voltant de la qual anà creixent el nucli urbà més gran -encara que menut en realitat- de Marxuquera. Aquesta ermita va ser construïda pels mateixos habitants de la zona, en un acte solidari i de germanor del poble per al poble. Tot i així, tant l'ermita, com la plaça de l'ermita (coneguda localment com "la placeta") i l'edificació annexa a l'ermita construida amb fons públics, van ser inscrits com a propietat de l'Església amparant-se en els articles 206 i 304 de la Llei i el Reglament Hipotecari, que permet als bisbes emetre certificats de domini amb la mateixa validesa com si foren funcionaris públics.
El centre social, seu de la Junta de Districte de Marxuquera i de diverses associacions del barri, així com lloc de trobada dels veïns. Es tracta d'un centre social construït l'any 2010 per a proporcionar un espai associatiu i veïnal a la barriada gandiana de Marxuquera, que prenguera el testimoni de l'antic centre social, encara existent, que havia quedat insuficient tant per espai com per equipament. A més, dita edificació, tot i que fou construïda amb diners públics, va ser adscrita per l'Església junt a la vella plaça i el propi edifici eclesiàstic de l'ermita, raó per la qual no se'n podia fer un ús públic adequat.
Camp de futbol de sorra i camp de futbet de formigó. Aquests van ser edificats junt a un gran parc de zona verda amb torradors, per la qual cosa durant els anys de bonança econòmica, entre els anys 80 i els 2000, s'omplia de gent cada cap de setmana i durant dies festius, que anaven a dinar o a passar el dia. El camp de futbol de sorra va ser utilitzat durant diversos anys com a camp d'entrenament ocasional per algunes escoles de futbol de Gandia. Des de la crisi del 2008 en avant, va anar disminuint la quantitat de gent que acudia a passar el dia al parc, així com el manteniment del camp de sorra i el de futbet, deixant també d'acudir equips gandians a entrenar. Com a conseqüència, el camp de futbol de sorra es va tornar impracticable amb el pas del temps i, després de l'incendi del Borrell l'any 2018, va ser utilitzat com a abocador de fusta cremada, com continua a l'any 2020. En els darrers temps han sorgit propostes de rehabilitació de l'espai per a convertir-lo en una zona on acollir mercats de productes de la terra i altres tipus d'events.
Gastronomia
La gastronomia de Marxuquera és un bon exemple de la dieta mediterrània. L'alimentació es basa en fruites i hortalisses de l'horta i la paella, destacant també l'arròs al forn i l'arròs caldós. Tot junt amb carn de la terra, sobretot pollastre i conill. Alguns plats típics, a més dels arrossos anomenats abans, són les coques de dacsa, les coques de tomaca, pebre i tonyina al forn, el bonyítol al forn, i el conill o pollastre "a l'ajillo".
Vida associativa
A Marxuquera podem trobar diverses associacions culturals:
Associació de Veïns Independent i Progressista de Marxuquera Alta: una de les primeres associacions de veïns de Gandia i de La Safor, que reuneix demandes dels veïns locals per al contacte i debat amb la Junta de Districte de Marxuquera, i així amb l'Ajuntament de Gandia. Amb el pas dels anys i el creixement de les diferents urbanitzacions de Marxuquera, van anar sorgint noves associacions de veïns en cada urbanització.
Associació de Festes de Marxuquera: associació de festers i festeres que s'ocupa de la gestió i celebració de les festes patronals en honor de la Mare de Déu del Mondúver, al voltant del 15 d'agost, i d'altres festes i events realitzats al llarg de tot l'any, dirigits per una comissió de festes triada cada any.
Grup d'Amics de la Natura de Marxuquera: associació fundada en 1996 com a grup excursionista que poc a poc anà derivant en un grup en defensa de la natura i el medi ambient, sense deixar de banda la part excursionista. L'any 2019 comptava amb més de 100 socis de diverses poblacions de La Safor. La seua activitat anual més destacada és la Pujada Nocturna al Mondúver, que en algunes edicions ha arribat a congregar a més de 300 persones.
Associació d'Ames de Casa de Marxuquera: associació que realitza activitats per a l'animació i oci de mestresses de casa de Marxuquera.
Festes
Les festes patronals de Marxuquera se celebren durant diversos dies, depenent de l'any, al voltant del dia 15 d'agost, en honor de la Mare de Déu del Mondúver. De les festes s'encarrega l'Associació de Festes de Marxuquera, mitjançant una comissió de festers''', que organitzen festes i sopars durant tot l'any (Nadal, Cap d'Any, Carnestoltes, fogueres de Sant Antoni, Romeria de maig, les festes patronals d'agost, Halloween, Sopar del Pobre, etc.).
Les festes patronals s'inicien amb el tradicional sopar de "La lligà del gos", i la resta de dies podem trobar les típiques nits amenitzades per orquestes o discomòbils, jocs per als xiquets, cavalcada de disfresses, etc., destacant també la processó en honor de la Mare de Déu del dia 15.
Altres aspectes
La llengua mare a Marxuquera és el valencià. En ser un lloc clarament amb població envellida, hi ha molts majors els quals han rebut pocs estudis o cap, i la llengua transmesa de pares a fills era el valencià. Molts majors no saben parlar bé el castellà, i es nota ràpidament en la pronunciació. Així mateix, el valencià a Marxuquera conserva certes peculiaritats lingüístiques: s'entremescla el valencià estàndard amb l'apitxat gandià, i això junt amb la influència del castellà crea mals usos de la llengua peculiars.
Existeix també gran afició a la pilota valenciana, en especial la modalitat de raspall. Durant els anys 90 i la dècada dels 2000, durant els mesos d'estiu, tots els dissabtes de vesprada es jugaven partides de raspall per grups al carrer Camí Tohuero, conegut com "el carreret". El manteniment d'aquesta tradició va permetre que durant els darrers anys es creara una escoleta de pilota valenciana-raspall per als xiquets, que competí a nivell autonòmic i inclús quedà campió. Tot i això, aquesta escoleta va desaparéixer degut als pocs xiquets que hi ha a Marxuquera, i per tant, la falta d'alumnat. A partir del 2010 la tradició anà perdent-se i actualment són molt poques les ocasions en que es fan partides.
Enllaços externs
web sobre Marxuquera
La font de Lloret
Geografia de Gandia
Entitats de població de la Safor
Partides rurals del País Valencià
Ador | una espècie de santuari musulmà al mode de les ermites cristianes, com els que existeixen al nord d'Àfrica, o una xicoteta nevasca de transició entre les que existeixen a zones de muntanya més altes, com Barx, i poblacions costaneres com Gandia. Aquesta construcció estava dins de la propietat d'un terreny agrícola fins que l'Ajuntament de Gandia el va adquirir, temps durant el qual es va deixar fer malbé. Actualment es troba en labors d'acondicionament per a la seua posada en valor. Cal destacar que, fa menys de 50 anys existia una segona construcció igual que aquesta situada a escassos metres, ambdues comunicades per un estret túnel. Aquest fet és poc conegut, inclús entre els arqueòlegs que treballen en la zona, però és un fet conegut per la gent major local, ja que els anteriors propietaris del terreny, en vista de que les construccions tenien un valor cultural i certs col·lectius mostraven cert interés en preservar-lo, va intentar desfer tot allò possible, enderrocant eixa segona construcció i intentant-ho amb l'actualment conegut com a "Morabito''". Aquest darrer no va aconseguir enderrocar-lo perquè les autoritats pertinents van començar a | 356 |
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One of the most important issues in a lease negotiation is the financing of tenant improvements by the landlord. Tenant improvement financing is usually provided in one of two ways.
Under the "tenant improvement allowance" approach, the tenant negotiates a cash allowance to be used for construction and related costs. The tenant is responsible for costs that exceed the allowance. If the allowance is properly negotiated, the tenant retains the savings if construction costs are<|fim_middle|>, the landlord, at its sole cost, is responsible for all elements of construction. With a turnkey buildout, the landlord manages the process and bears the financial risk of construction costs going over budget.
In this blog post, we will explore the pros and cons of tenant improvement (TI) allowance provisions. Pros and cons of the turnkey buildout approach will be discussed in a separate post.
If the provision in the lease was property negotiated, the tenant will keep any overage.
A fixed lease start date may mean that the tenant is responsible even before construction is finalized due to unforeseen delays.
There are a number of potential pitfalls tenants should be aware of prior to signing a lease with a tenant improvement allowance provision. Tenants should remember that, even if they are managing construction, the landlord will require approval of vendors (contractors, architects, engineers). Negotiate the approval of important vendors in the lease, before construction starts. Most importantly, engage a tenant representation broker along with qualified project managers and architects as needed to conduct due diligence and identify any potential issues that should be addressed and planned for during lease negotiations. Read more about how to negotiate leasehold improvements.
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At Gray, we often like to ask our team members how they would describe the company using one word or phrase. Without fail, it seems, nearly every response we get has something to do with family or feeling at home.
There is something to be said about being comfortable and feeling loved where you are. The difference between a company where you feel like you belong and one where you feel like you just come to work is really<|fim_middle|>, president and CEO, Gray Construction.
When we asked Youssef what it was that made Gray so special, his answer was similar to so many others.
"It's a good company to be a part of."
That is a unique and perfect way to put it. Our team members each play a part in the success of the business. From those who have been here 30+ years, to those who started this week, we all are a part.
For Youssef, it may have been a long road all the way from Egypt to Lexington, but he is finally home.
"And the rest, as they say, is history."
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Gray's Marcus Taylor Receives Top Young Professionals and 40 Under 40 Awards. | the difference between a job and a passion.
But oftentimes finding your work home is a journey that has several stops along the way. For Nasr Youssef, vice president of engineering, his journey is one that began thousands of miles away, as the citizen of another country.
Egyptian Education
"Growing up in Egypt was certainly different than the U.S.," says Youssef. "The culture was different, the weather was different, but wherever you grow up, you don't know any different. That's all you know."
Youssef was born, raised, and received most of his education in Egypt. There were no school buses to provide transportation, but Youssef says it was all just a part of the journey. In elementary school, it was nearly a 20-minute walk to and from the schoolhouse every day. In high school it was a little further, about four and a half miles, so Youssef purchased a bike to cutdown on his commute.
"It was great!"
The educational structure in Egypt at the time is part of what Youssef credits for his success today in the field of engineering. Starting in middle school, all children were required to learn a second language, including English. This of course became a huge advantage down the road when Youssef would begin his move to the U.S. Also, when he got to high school, students were incentivized to pursue certain curriculum that would be directly applicable for different career fields.
"You could choose to pursue arts or science, and then within science you had the option of biology or mathematics. Biology and chemistry are more for doctors and the medical field, and of course mathematics is more engineering," says Youssef. "From then on, it was really preparing me and setting everything up for me to take the national exams and get into college and pursue engineering as a career."
That education did exactly what it was intended to do. From high school, Youssef went on to Cairo University where he studied and received a bachelor's degree in engineering before taking a summer internship in Germany that would change everything.
"Growing up in Egypt was certainly different than the U.S. The culture was different, the weather was different, but wherever you grow up, you don't know any different. That's all you know."
Nasr Youssef, Vice President of Engineering
Moving to America
While working as an intern in Germany, Youssef was exposed to a way of life he had never seen before. This new, western way of living was something that intrigued him so much that, after graduation, he decided to "give it a try."
"At that time, you had several countries that accepted immigration: Canada, U.S., Australia, Brazil. So where do you want to go? I thought if you're leaving your country, you might as well shoot for the top!"
Youssef filled out all the proper paperwork, crossed the t's, and dotted the i's, and to his amazement, he was accepted!
"You're young, single, what do you have to lose? If it doesn't work, you just turn around and go home."
So, armed with a suitcase, the clothes on his back, and a one-way plane ticket, Youssef headed off to chase America with a dream.
He arrived at Kennedy airport on the Saturday before Labor Day, headed to the state employment office to look for open positions, and by that Thursday, started work as a junior engineer for the city of New York.
"The city of New York is such a melting pot and the office where I worked had every nationality, every religion, every color, and they were so helpful. You fit in, you blended in. It was a good job, and things really worked out," says Youssef. "Day after day, year after year, you just stop thinking about going back. You like the city, you like the people, you like the job, so why go back?"
"At that time, you had several countries that accepted immigration: Canada, U.S., Australia, Brazil. So where do you want to go? I thought if you're leaving your country, you might as well shoot for the top!"
Climbing the Ladder
Youssef was doing anything but resting on his laurels during his time in New York. The young engineer was hard at work advancing both his professional and personal life. During his seven years working for the city, Youssef met and married his wife. The couple also had one child. Youssef additionally took and passed the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination, but he still was hungry for more growth.
"I really wanted an American degree. So, I started looking around at my options and I again thought, let's shoot for the top."
Youssef applied and was accepted to Columbia University where he received his master's degree in electrical engineering.
Nearing the end of his time in New York, Youssef began to look around and consider options about the future. One potential option that caught his eye was a design-build company out of Boston that had a large operation in Saudi Arabia.
"After a couple of interviews with the company, I was offered the job, but they told me instead of going to Saudi Arabia I'd be staying in the Boston office."
Youssef took the job and flourished. He quickly rose up the ranks from senior engineer, to head of the department, and then eventually vice president. Business was booming and all was going well until one wrong decision.
"They took a bad job, a very bad job, and it bankrupted the company," says Youssef.
The company was bought out by an outside organization and for a couple of years Youssef stuck around to try and right the ship. In that time, some of his friends from the Boston-based company left, and asked him to come join them at a design-build firm in Lexington, Kentucky.
Nasr, on the far left, with the Gray Annual Meeting Customer Satisfaction Award winners in 2003.
Finally Finding Home
"I did not even know where Kentucky was."
It has now been 31 years since Youssef made that decision to come to Gray. He has been an integral part on a number of projects, in which his vast experience and expertise has provided invaluable assistance in winning and successfully completing key facilities including the T. Marzetti Sister Schubert's bakery, Nestlé Waters North America water bottling facility, Austal USA naval ship modular manufacturing facility, Buffalo Trace Distillery mash house renovation, EGGER Wood Products particleboard manufacturing plant, and many others.
Nasr, on the front right, and Gray's Austal team celebrating the project win at the bell-ringing ceremony in 2002.
"Nasr has played a significant role in both Gray's engineering department and company culture," says Stephen Gray, president and CEO, Gray. "Nasr constantly keeps the customers' best interest in mind when it comes to budget and project performance needs, and he is excellent at solving complex problems while leading customers to value-driven solutions that exceed their expectations."
"I've witnessed countless customers rapidly build genuine trust with Nasr and his leadership. Additionally, he is often called upon to share his wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry with his Gray team members," says Brian Jones | 1,494 |
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Archaeology, history, Shipwreck | the National Science Foundation has begun to piece together an archaeological and historical narrative of how the crew of the wrecked 19th century Russian-American Company sailing ship Neva survived the harsh subarctic winter.
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Board index Neverending Nightmares Game Discussion
Removing enemies?
Discussion of the game should go here. Let's keep the rest of the forum free from spoilers!
Re: Removing enemies?
Post by matt » Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:23 pm
So update! We got some feedback from the indiecade judges (we didn't get in), and some of the judges felt like the baby monsters weren't the best, so I finally bit the bullet and decided to cut a set up out. I removed the first one, then moved the set up with just on cabinet to the hallway where the second one was. People got stuck on that anyway, so probably cutting it is for the best.
So basically, I ended up taking RightClickSaveAs's advice, but I swapped around the hallways so there is a little more build up to the first enemy. I feel like the first one appeared too soon anyway since I'd like people to get a feel for the new location and wonder what might await them in the dilapidated mansion, so I think it will<|fim_middle|> think the enemies (especially the early ones ie. baby monster/inmate) are a bit of a weak point in the game, and I want to rethink how I approach enemy design in future games, so I definitely am taking your feedback to heart.
Return to "Game Discussion" | probably work out for the best.
Thanks everyone for the advice!
Post by Grabthehoopka » Mon Sep 15, 2014 4:42 pm
Might be a little late for suggestions, at this point, but screw it, here's my two cents:
I personally thought that the inmates were scarier than the baby monsters, primarily because the baby monsters have much simpler behavior and you're supposed to completely avoid them, so ideally, they walk one way and you walk the other and you don't have to share the screen with them (except for that one part).
The inmates, however, are trickier. You can't avoid crossing paths with them, and I think the stealthy nature of the inmate encounters just inherently makes them more tense. I'm not sure how similar an experience I had to other people, but the first time I played through it, they killed me twice and I didn't really know why. It wasn't frustrating, it actually did the exact opposite; it gave them an air of unpredictability. Even now, I can't seem to get through the asylum without dying at least once. They're a bit random, but not overwhelmingly or annoyingly so.
With that said. I think the babies were used just about right, while the inmates may have dragged on a bit too much. On my first playthrough of Lost Child, I got the impression that there was one singular baby monster, and it gave me a sort of cat-and-mouse vibe, where I didn't know if the baby monster would be around the corner or not. You had the introductory cabinet, the first simple encounter, then I think the empty hallway next (you bastard), the more complex one where you had to walk behind it, the chase, which was a scripted event entirely different from the other encounters, and then the "final exam", in which we apply what we've learned and you stand over us with a wrist-slapping implement to make sure we were paying attention before. Also, in that last encounter you explicitly reveal that there are at least two baby monsters, which I felt was a rather brutal reveal and made it more tense, cause now it gave everything we'd learned up to that point new context; how many of these things are there? What fresh hell awaits me now? These questions of course were ultimately fruitless, since that was the last one, but I think that's what made it so effective. There was a very deliberate pacing that was short and sweet, to the point where I can rattle each encounter off the top of my head like that, cause they were memorable.
The inmates, on the other hand...I can tell you I was scared of them, and I can tell you about the two "puzzle" encounters and their solutions, but I couldn't tell you exactly how many encounters there were. They weren't distinct and paced apart quite like the baby monsters' were, they all kind of blend together. There's the first one, where you encounter the inmate for the first time, which was incredibly memorable for me, but it gets a little fuzzy after that. I think there's two inmates in the first encounter, but there might be one in the first and two in the second; and I remember there was one moving in a wavering trapezoidal path that you changed to a diagonal line in one of the patches. There was glass in one that wasn't necessary to solve anything - the second one I think? With the weird diagonal line walker? Or maybe that's the third. Then, there's the one where you have to follow the inmate and hide in the recess when he patrols the other way, and then I think that's all, and there's the jumpscare death and cutscene with Gabby. Then, you get thrown back into the hallway, and then I thiiiiiiink you do the one where you step on glass to lure the inmate away, and I think that's the one with the corpse pile, and then after that is the step-on-glass crazy inmate footrace jamboree? Or maybe that was before, to reinforce the glass/noise thing?
Whatever. The point is, despite the amount of inmate encounters that I think there are, which is probably like 50% more than what is in the game, it drags on a little too long, and I think I mentioned before that having that cutscene in the middle and then throwing you back out into the bloody hallway for more gave the situation a bit of gallows humor (that made me laugh). I understand that from a mechanical standpoint, the inmates are considerably more complex than the baby monsters, and you wanted to really make sure that the concepts are reinforced and that we really understood them before making us solve puzzles with the mechanics, but I don't know if there were too many encounters too close together, or if the encounters themselves just felt longer because you had to tip-toe through them.
I remember reading a neuroscience article about how our brains compartmentalize memories based on locations and changes, which is why we sometimes go to another room to do something and then forget what we were going to do upon entering the room. Random, I know, but I think that might factor into why the baby encounters are more memorable than the inmate ones. The baby monster encounters benefitted from the simple nature of the babies. Each encounter is discrete and spaced apart, each one has a specific purpose, and each one is memorable in some way because of the "a-ha!" moment. The inmate encounters leave an impact, but they are not as individually memorable. I can distinctly recall features of them, like the first time there were two at once, and the crazy diagonal-walking one, the broken glass, the corpse pile, the puzzles and the chase; like I said, it's impactful, but it all kind of blends together.
In terms of how to fix it, I'm not sure. I think the best way would be to space them out somehow. If the intensity of it had peaks and troughs, and each one was bookended by a less intense part, maybe they would be individually more memorable, but I'm not sure how to intersperse them without killing the pacing of the level as a whole. You could try to sort of mush two of the encounters together, but that's a lot of work.
However, insanity already starts on a really high note, what with the banging and screaming and the whatnot, so maybe if you just transplanted that first introductory encounter and stick it in somewhere earlier in the level? It's certainly a shock the first time you see them, and the player is already expecting something to be close because of the intro, so maybe if they see them and figure out how they work, it would give you a nice peak, and then afterwords, go back to the trudge through the hallways, which would bring it down to a trough but still clearly express that shit got real, and prepare them for the more puzzley encounters later? Plus, removing one of the encounters from that series might help the pacing and keep it from dragging on.
I think this would also solve the problem of introducing the broken glass mechanic. You have the inmate cry out when you step on it, but until then, the player doesn't have anything to contextualize that noise, so the player might not properly put two and two together (I didn't). That awesome jumpscare you added from looking through the window might help with that, but I think if you have an encounter sandwiched between that jumpscare and introducing broken glass, that would be the missing bow tie that would pull everything together:
Player sees spooky scary jump scare. They see a thing, albeit really quick so probably indistinctly, and hear the noise it makes. Player encounters spooky scary monster, and if encountered jump scare, recognizes the enemy. If not, monster is spooky and/or scary regardless. If they die, they hear the noise they make and make the connection with the jumpscare. After, player moves onto next area, and steps on glass. This triggers spooky scary noise. If player saw jumpscare, was killed by monster, or both, they will reinforce the connection that monster A makes noise B, and making monster A make noise B is undesirable. If neither conditions are met, player has still encountered spooky scary monster and might assume that either they have alerted said monster, or that noise B is associated with monster A in some way.
Result: player is spooked and/or scared.
Anyways. This is the most elegant solution I can think of; I hope it helps.
Post by matt » Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:39 pm
Hmm..... Those do sound like good ideas, and I've gotten some feedback that Insanity runs on a little too long, but other people really like it. I think if I had to do it all over again, I probably would redo Insanity completely - although probably the same could be said about the entire game.
Since we are running out of time, I'm hesitant to make big changes though just because I don't have time to push a build, get feedback, and then make changes based on that. I'll give some thought to what can be done, but I might just keep it as is since we are running out of time.
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The third annual Blessing of the Bicycles married religion, environmentalism, and<|fim_middle|> saw some lovely liturgies from San Francisco and Seattle and adapted them a bit," she said. "[I added] some particular prayers about our particular situation, things like Bikes on Bloor and wanting more lanes."
Van Nie says that the event also blends nicely with the United Church's broader commitment to social justice.
"We also see this as kind of a political statement," he said. "[Showing] solidarity with people who have concerns around bicycle safety, the use of pedal power instead of gas guzzlers, et cetera. We've kind of tailored the liturgy in that direction."
Among those who brought their trusty two-wheelers in for a blessing was 83-year-old Catherine Marsh. She's been riding the same Raleigh for 40 years, and felt that a blessing could help keep her safe while riding the bike that is her primary mode of transportation.
"I could sure use a blessing with all these crazy drivers around," she said. "A little blessing never hurt anybody."
Catherine Marsh gets a tune-up from Bike Pirates volunteer Jeffrey Bercarich.
Jeffrey Bercarich, a volunteer mechanic with Bike Pirates, also came by the ceremony, offering free maintenance on the sidewalk outside the church. Although Bercarich isn't a believer, he understands why people would want to have their bikes blessed. "I can understand people's sensibility in acquiring that trust for the streets," he said. "Because you're not always in control. You can only control so much."
He opted to help out at the blessing because it fits into Bike Pirates' mandate to help make cycling more accessible. "It's a good way to get people understanding that bicycles need work, as well as their soul," he said.
According to Obedkoff, the blessing acknowledges, more than anything, the special relationship that cyclists have with their bikes: "It's like affirming this new creature, the trusty steed of the bike."
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Roughly 50 cyclists brought their bicycles through the doors of Trinity-St. Paul's United Church on Sunday, for the third annual Blessing of the Bicycles.
While attendees did ask for certain holy protection for certain parts of their bicycles—brakes were a popular choice—Reverend Hans van Nie, one of the two reverends involved in the ceremony, told us that the blessing is meant to be more of a celebration of cycling rather than a safeguard against the dangers of the road.
"This is a moment of thanksgiving," he said. "The sense of blessing is tied to the joy of it all…. It's not that it's kind of a magic thing where we're asking for some sort of special thing."
Reverend Vicki Obedkoff, who was also involved in the blessing—a ceremony that involves both prayer and a sort of bike baptism, in which the bike is sprinkled with water—explains that the idea came from some parishioners after they heard about similar events on the West Coast. "We partner up with people in our building, and I went online and | 268 |
Monsanto touts 35+ Climate FieldView pipeline projects
By AGDAILY Staff Published: January 05, 2017
One major highlight in Monsanto's R&D pipeline update today was the Climate Corporation's extensive 35-plus projects in its research and development pipeline. The Monsanto subsidairy also announced plans to expand its industry-leading Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform into new international geographies over the next few years.
"Climate has made incredible progress this year and the digital ag pipeline is now the most robust in the industry with more than 35 projects in R&D, including six advancements to commercialization that are all part of the paid elements of our platform," said Robert Fraley, Ph.D., Monsanto's chief technology officer, in Monsanto's R&D pipeline update today.
The science behind the company's widely adopted Climate FieldView platform leverages data from the soil, field, and atmosphere to help farmers better understand field variability and customize their agronomic practices to get the most out of every acre.
The Climate R&D pipeline highlights include:
Seeds & Planting Product Selection – Through the collection and analysis of millions of data points on seed product performance across many geographies, Climate's seed product selection research is designed to help farmers select the most ideal seed products for their fields.
Fertility Prescriptions – To help farmers efficiently manage fertility and maximize productivity, Climate is working to develop variable rate prescription tools for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. With these tools, Climate expects to provide the industry's first comprehensive fertility solution, delivering customized insights for crop nutrition and fertility management, tailored to farmers' unique goals.
Field Health – Disease Insights – Climate's field health R&D is focused on providing data that helps farmers see what's happening in each field, prioritize in-season crop management, and use satellite imagery and other field data to make input decisions for the next season. A first for the digital ag industry, Climate is also developing a new directed scouting tool to help farmers understand which fields to prioritize during scouting, helping them save time and protect their yield before it's impacted at the end of the season.
"There's a tremendous opportunity for farmers to maximize their yield potential by tailoring their management practices to address field variability," said Sam Eathington, chief scientist for The Climate Corporation. "Farming at the zone level is the new reality.<|fim_middle|> actionable insights to help them operate more efficiently and sustainably, while supporting all of the key decisions they have to make each year to optimize yield." | Climate is already delivering advanced seed scripting and zone-level nitrogen monitoring capabilities, and our robust research pipeline ensures we will continue to provide farmers | 26 |
Immunity,<|fim_middle|> oral hydration were among the greatest health advances for children in the 20th Century. Immunity — yes. Mutiny — no.
Posted in Guest Columnist | impunity, mutiny
By sa | January 21, 2016 | 0
Book title: On Immunity: An Inoculation
Author: Eula Biss
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions 2015
Reviewer: Prof Denis Gill
Its author Eula Biss has one son who is allergic, about whom she seems both hyper-reflective and hyper-reactive at times. She has certainly talked the talk, walked the walk, done her homework and reading, research and provided much to chew over.
So to commence the cud-chewing, a sample of Biss's quotable quotes:
"I would not let my son be cursed by my own carelessness or cupidity."
"Vaccine resisters saw their bodies not as potentially contagious but as highly vulnerable to contamination and violation."
"Vaccination works by enlisting a majority in protection of a minority."
"The idea that toxins rather than filth or germs are the root cause of most maladies is a popular theory of disease among people like me."
"I suspect that Coca-Cola is more harmful to children than vaccination."
"The idea that the consumer is always right, imported to medicine, is a dangerous dictum."
This is a considerate, worthy, wordy, contemplative book replete with relevant allusions and historical anecdotes. It seems to be written for a literate, graduate, informed audience. Much is made of military associations, such as conscientious objectors, killer T-cells, immune and defence systems.
Biss's book is a healthy antidote to the successive anti-vaccine diatribes (on the Internet) and to ill-informed vaccine denier 'celebrities' being paraded and pandered on US TV stations.
Andrew Wakefield loved the media, and the media uncritically and unquestioning loved him during the 'MMR scare' in the UK. Wakefield was a charlatan and an imposter. In the year 2000 we experienced in Temple Street Children's Hospital a measles outbreak with 300 admissions, 10 children in ICU and three deaths, all attributable to his misrepresentations.
Immunisation has two objectives: to protect the individual and to protect society. Immunisation is a very socialist activity. I wish that vaccine advocates would drop the term 'herd immunity' (which many equate with guinea pigs and lab mice). The term 'community immunity' is much preferable. One hundred per cent vaccine uptake = disease eradication, 90-95 per cent uptake = disease elimination. In these areas, infectious diseases are not transmitted and the unvaccinated children can share in community protection.
A child with diphtheria can infect four other children. A child with measles can transmit to 18 other children in the prodrome phase. A child with influenza can spread it to countless others. Children are promiscuous coughers, sneezers, nose-rubbers, and hand- and face-touchers. Adults with waning immunity are spreading pertussis back to infants. Prevention of transmission is one of the keystones of immunisation. In the US today, unvaccinated children are likely to be Caucasian, have a mother in her 30s, and live in a house with an income of $75,000 or more.
Vaccination in Western countries protects against 13-15 conditions and involves a lot of shots and boosters. Its success in eradicating diphtheria, polio, tetanus, measles, rubella, Hib disease and invasive tuberculosis has produced a generation of mothers (to whom vaccine decisions are mostly left) unaware of these conditions, but inappropriately scared of trace amounts of the universal aluminium, other unidentified 'toxins', adjuvants, etc.
Biss, herself the daughter of a doctor, is besotted by her son, obsessed by Dracula, highly anxious (because he is highly allergic), a baby-monitor user, fearful of pesticides, bisphenol A, phthalates (in shampoo) and triclosan. She rightly rails against excessive sterilisation of infants and their households. She is, in my opinion, TOO SOFT on Wakefield. But she takes on Dr Bob Sears, a US vaccine commentator who plays on mothers' fears and promotes his own false 'selective' and 'alternative' vaccine schedules.
Biss observes that we resist vaccination in part because we want to rule ourselves. Other vaccine deniers play on fears, uncertainties and anxieties. When a mother has to make a decision about vaccination, her reason and emotion may come into conflict. No mother knowingly wants to harm her child. Biss is undeniably pro-vaccination, but with a questioning mind and quivering pen.
Vaccination, in the end, is about building and boosting immunity based on trust that doctors, nurses, health authorities and vaccine committees, on informed reflection, want to help and not harm children. I like Biss's final sentence: "Immunity is a shared space — a garden we tend together." Metaphors of military defence permeate this book and our immune imagination.
Not an easy read, but an honest one. Biss has a fertile mind and fluent pen. Her book concludes with 20 pages of notes and 10 pages of sources.
Immunisation is an evolving science — I suspect that today's medical graduates will look back in 2050 with horror at our current practice. Nonetheless, sanitation, immunisation, antibiotics and | 1,142 |
Anyone who reads about<|fim_middle|> | food knows what they should eat. And they probably have a pretty good sense of what they could eat, if they had plenty of money and an elastic gut.
But there's remarkably little food journalism devoted to what people actually eat when the nutritionists, tastemakers and focus group leaders aren't watching. That's why City of Ate's set out to document -- sporadically and unscientifically - Dallasites' culinary habits by asking them what's in their lunch pails.
I found Kevin Sears taking a peaches-and-casserole break from redoing the windows on Founders Square on Jackson Street. "It's rice, green beans, gravy and a little chicken," he told me of the dish, which looked wholesome and hearty enough to serve at a Midwestern church potluck.
Assuming the recipe probably came with a long family history, I asked Sears whether it was something he'd made before.
"Yeah," he said. "I made it last night for dinner." | 199 |
Pipeline Publishing, Volume 5, Issue 6
This Month's Issue:
IMS: the Way to True Convergence?
Milestones on the Way to IMS
IMS Isn't Necessary...Yet
If you can see this, your browser does not support iframes! Please check<|fim_middle|> set of services will go far beyond communications to span payments, personal preferences, tailored
We will need a real-time signaling system that crosses service domains to achieve ubiquity, and IMS is the first attempt at its design.
The industry has been working on this problem for nearly a decade, but silos continue to proliferate and examples of successful consolidations are few and most often limited in scope. If service ubiquity is the Apollo mission, then overcoming this specific challenge is akin to developing the Saturn 5 rocket. We're not getting anywhere near the moon without it.
advertisements, rewards program relationships, and all of the privacy and security that will be mandated to go with it.
That's a tall order for an industry that's still struggling to present a single view of customers and product offerings to a contact center agent, to bundle multiple services together, and to present everything on one accurate bill. Most communications providers are still struggling with product and customer information silos that are difficult to integrate and reconcile.
Real-Time Service Fulfillment
Another critical step toward service ubiquity is to achieve real-time service fulfillment. Today we can deliver very specific instances of real-time services. Google can deliver search results and tailored ads in real time to any Internet-capable device. Cable operators can deliver movies and TV episodes on demand from massive content libraries. But IMS promises to give us access to any service connected to any network any time we want it. The problem is IMS only deals with signaling
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By Brian Cappellani
The communications industry's excitement about IMS peaked nearly three years ago, but the technology hasn't become irrelevant. IMS has a future purpose yet to serve, but that purpose hasn't quite arrived yet. IMS, in one form or another, will be a critical enabler for the kind of seamless and ubiquitous service environment found only in futuristic movies today. That ubiquitous service environment is the communications industry's Apollo mission.
We're all working towards the moon landing, but we have a lot to learn and more to fix in order to get there. IMS isn't necessary to enable fundamental service integration in the near term. The Internet, the iPhone, and Skype have already done that. We will need a real-time signaling system that crosses service domains to achieve ubiquity, and IMS is the first attempt at its design. But before we light off the rocket that will shoot us into lunar orbit, there's much to be accomplished back at mission control to make sure the whole thing doesn't explode on the pad.
Product and Customer Integration
If service ubiquity is the communications industry's Apollo mission, then at best we're in the early stages of the mission. Think about what a ubiquitous environment entails. It means that subscribers have access to any service from any device at any time. The way things are headed, this | 276 |
Step back in time to a Southern Mansion that looks like it belongs in Georgia. It is reminiscent of Oak Alley in Louisiana or Tara from "Gone with the Wind". Casa Reta is a beautiful plantation-style home in Davie. With its deep front porch and two stories of columns, nestled among oak trees, Casa Reta evokes a feeling of another time. The centerpiece of the home is the 300-year-old wood and stained glass front doors that were originally in an English monastery. Casa Reta is a photographic fiesta with many locations for fantastic photo shots – also an antique bus and miniature horses are at the rear of the property.
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<|fim_middle|> now open. | The next Saturday Seminar of the 2011–2012 academic year will take place on February 4. The topic will be The Role of Technology.
Led by Astrid Baumgardner, the coordinator of YSM's new Career Strategies Office, the seminar will feature three guest panelists: Greg Anderson, Anya Grundmann, and Jessica Lustig. The seminar begins at 11 am on the stage of Morse Recital Hall.
Greg Anderson (left) is a 2008 School of Music graduate and one half of the technologically and musically innovative Anderson & Roe Piano Duo.
Anya Grundmann (pictured at right) is Executive Producer of NPR Music, the part of the network that develops and presents music on a variety of radio and online platforms.
Jessica Lustig, Managing Director and Founding Partner of 21C Media Group, was the more project architect of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert last March that was viewed by 34 million people.
All three guest speakers work in areas that blend music and technology in new and interesting ways. The use of technology and new media has become an increasingly important part of the broad fields of music and the arts, and many artists employ these technologies to broaden their audience, connect with their fans, and promote their careers.
Students must register for the Saturday Seminar in advance. Registration is | 276 |
L-R Producer/closein camera person, head camera person, sound guy (with furry microphone), and director.
The team had never worked together before this current series, but being professional they did it all very efficiently.
They all said I did great, but I know it was hard for me to remember to tie 3 thoughts and a single action together without going blank. I've never been able to memorize lines, unless they were tied to music, and even then I prefer to have the lyrics available.
Speaking of music, they did let me record some instrumental banjo in the garden, which may or may not work its way into the production, which should air next Spring.
Another packed day, that started with waking at 3:30 am. After finishing a novel, I got up, and went down to the lake, enjoying peaceful duck families safely grazing on the water weeds.
Then I got involved on getting the float ready. I still have something to live for, in that I haven't yet gotten my inflatable pot float into the 4th parade. This looked to be the year. I got a surplus 12 volt blower, made a pottery housing for it, and hooked it to a spare car battery, to inflate a 6 foot tall mug made of black plastic with blue highlights spraypainted on, and a dozen helium balloons attached on the handle. I took care to secure the mug to an old coaster wagon, but didn't secure the blower or battery, as they seemed heavy enough to stay in the wagon. I didn't count on the bucking acceleration of my riding lawnmower in high gear, which left the blower in the intersection just as I left the house for the parade.
These are the parade video links. It was more a concept than a good way to make a parade video, but I posted them as the sign on my lawn mower advertised... And one person who saw it subscribed to my videos as a result. If you were there, you could probably find yourself by stopping the video at the right moment... It gets especially jerky when I got to the main crowd (around pt 4) on Maine St., when I was having the mower buck as I weaved from side to side.
I got my first mosquito bite tonight (this to taunt Minnesotans).
Meanwhile the weather continues hot.
I've got a fairly new namebrand printer with 6 colors, and it never seems to make it through more than a few copies without needing to replace ink cartridges, clean nozzles, and calibrate by staring with a magnifying glass at little rows of print that are poorly aligned. When all the systems are go, it makes nice photo pictures on gloss paper, but this is rare.
So there's still room in my worldview for sending off photos to be printed... I selected about 20 of my better local nature photos, and uploaded them tonight, and look forward to seeing what they'll<|fim_middle|>ries, draw hordes of yellow jackets and hornets to feed on them. They mostly don't eat the hard fresh fruit, but the soft overripe ones. Yellow jacket populations grow rapidly through the summer, so if you were able to enjoy a picnic outside in June, expect company if you try it from here on out.
Mostly with pottery work I'm doing a bit of this and that every day, but like waves that sometimes build to form a breaker, some days are more of one thing than others. Today I mixed batches of 3 of my 6 glazes, which took most of the morning. I tried a new form of iron oxide in my gloss brown glaze. The pottery supplier lists at least 3 different iron oxides like they're special roast coffees. Mostly they vary in purity and particle size. The last type I tried (Spanish crude) was a bit too grainy, leading to unwanted speckling in one of my glazes. All glaze ingredients are dug out of the earth and pulverized or refined in other ways. As such they vary in composition, which can lead to problems over time with your glazes. The best way to avoid that is to buy fairly large quantities of the glaze ingredients you use regularly, so when a new batch of one chemical is brought in, its effect can be isolated from other variables, if your glaze is acting up. That doesn't necessarily lead to a solution, but it helps identify the problem.
Of course the heat doesn't help much... Two of our three vehicles don't have functional air conditioning. I decided to drive a more gas efficient (no a.c.) car in today, so I took along a wet towel and an bottle of ice, which I kept spread out on top of me while I drove in the 90 degree heat. It worked pretty well.
I glazed most of the 100 pots I made last week today, filling two kilns with nearly another kiln load left to go. Sales are currently outstripping production, though, which is good.
My son and fiance arrived today for a visit, returning with my other son, who'd been visiting them.
Meanwhile my mother-in-law who lives with us fell at the nursing home we left her with on Sunday, so she's (hopefully) briefly staying in the hospital.
So today was a lot of cleaning, pottery making, and odds and ends. I made another 100 pots, but about 40 of them were minipots--1/8 pound tiny plates and toothpick holders. Unfortunately they take about as long to make as larger pots--all the steps are the same, only the size changes. I say "unfortunately" because they are the most inexpensive pots I sell. In the same time I use to make a minipot, I could make a larger pot that sells for 10 times as much. Still I like making all sizes of pots, and they are great kiln fillers--fitting in the nooks and crannies, so I keep making them. | look like at 11 X 14 inches. I hope to sell them from my studio at a profit. It seemed a reasonable activity to do when the heat forces you to stay indoors, as it has the last couple days. This is a reinvestment of the money I made from selling one photo a week or so ago... I forgot to include the one above, which I took a couple days ago. It's seldom that ducks do anything as orderly as this, but they're still young and following the lead from Mama Duck.
Church was a family affair today, with my wife guest preaching, my sister in law accompanying the organist on piano, and me providing guitar music before church.
Then we spent part of the afternoon at the beach in Coeur D'Alene, where the water is cooler than Spirit Lake, and the beach much more urban. I took this picture as a typical beach scene (no one I know is in the picture).
Summer and the pottery keep rolling along. This was the first day in a long time that there were only a couple strawberries, and the raspberries will start being ripe tomorrow, so it was a gap in the fresh fruit supply. We're pouring water on the gardens, as the heat pours on as well.
I swam around the Mill pond with goggles and snorkel on today. I never saw a fish, but I did see lots of underwater plants in the area, which was bare gravel for the past few years from the work of placing a liner on the bottom. I didn't think any of them were milfoil, the water weed most feared in the area. While the bare gravel was nice from a swimmer's point of view, I'm sure the plants help contribute to a better ecology for the fish... The water lilies are making a good comeback in the Mill pond as well.
I picked raspberries this morning, and peas this evening. We're still eating all of them (besides giving away some to friends)--they're too novel to freeze them yet.
Tonight I went to a bluegrass concert in the Park in Rathdrum. By doing so I escaped a "drug free" youth rock concert in Spirit Lake, which you can't avoid hearing when you live two blocks away. When I got home, there was still someone hurting their vocal cords screaming into the mic here. The bluegrass concert was a quartet, playing classic bluegrass, and making over some pop standards like "Don't think twice, it's alright," and "Norwegian Wood." They were called Too Hot to Handle, and are from nearby Newport.
During the concert a windstorm came through, with a bit of lightning and a few sprinkles. Such a storm can be devastating when it's so dry, and it's possible some fires were started in the mountains that will be fought for weeks, but so far things seem okay.
I picked about 4 gallons of cherries today, which I put in a pot with 2 gallons of water, boiling it, hoping to produce some usable cherry juice from some cherries which will soon become totally unusable from insect damage.
Even though it was a Sunday, I picked gallons of raspberries and strained out the cherry juice. Picking raspberries doesn't seem like much of a chore yet--it has its own rewards... I also swam across the Mill Pond to see the grebes again.
There's a newer site that got mentioned in Newsweek last week, http://www.birdcinema.com/, which promptly got hacked as a result of the attention, but promises good things for birders.
When I went to swim, there was another pair of grebes near where I start swimming, while I could see the pair that stays near the lily pads. I decided to swim out to visit the "old" grebes anyway, and I noticed there was a second smaller grebe on the mother's back, and the one from a few days ago is growing and not hitching rides as much. It makes sense that if the eggs are laid a day or two apart, the young might be staggered as well.
I framed most of the nature photos I'd blown up today, so I'm now in the photography business.
I totally forgot about blogging yesterday. Of course there were a couple relatives visiting, and lots of pottery sales, so life is about as chaotic as it gets here. Plus our oldest son will be getting married in September, so that puts everyone in an altered state.
Today the relatives left, I bicycled to and swam around the Mill Pond, and the weather returned to the high 80's, making it normal summer again.
Every year the garden has experimental elements. I tore out some blackberries last fall, and knowing they were pernicious and gregarious by turns, covered them with cardboard and a deep layer of mulch to try to kill them off. So this spring I decided to plant the squashes on that space. I think my mistake was planting them in hills of manure which were shovelled on top of the leaf mulch, instead of through the mulch. I'm not sure what's happening when they hit the leaf mulch, but they all have "failure to thrive" syndrome, whereas the ones planted at the other garden in pure manure are growing nicely.
On the other hand, I did a major hacking job at some grape plants we inherited this spring, and the pruning resulted in plants laden with grapes, whereas previous wimpier attempts yielded wimpy results.
So currently ripe in the garden are spinach, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, and cucumbers. Raspberries are becoming a chore, rather than a pleasure. The cherries which were protected from cherry fruit flies by nylon net bags (I think cheap lady's hose would work as well) are ripe. I plan to prune the trees to allow bags to slip farther up to improve our organic cherry harvest.
I dodged several bullets today. I went and got clay 35 miles away, a short trip but usually fraught with tension.
Earlier today I was thinking of a definition of stress I heard years ago, that stress is insufficient resources. A certain amount of stress is actually healthy, compared, for example, to the stolid safety of a nursing home.
So the clay story starts with the last time I got clay. I started hearing a noise in our old van, which I identified as a wheel bearing going out, on the way back with the clay. If anything is going to wear out a wheel bearing, an extra ton of clay might do it. So we got rid of that van, and today I did some things to make the new van compatible with the trailer, such as the wiring, a new ball hitch, and I got some leaky tires repaired last week.
Final thought of the day, "Birds may be stupid, but they can fly."
I hadn't been seeing quail much since early spring, but today I saw bevies of them, first in our back yard, later down the hill , then in our other back yard. I don't think they were the same group each time, so maybe now the young quail are big enough (and flying enough) to be wandering about more.
As interconnected as the web makes the world, some things are kept off the web, at least, for free. I'm not a big sports fan, but I do enjoy some baseball and football, but these are not found on the web. You can monitor pro games from the stats,and some primitive graphics, but can't even get the audio without subscribing. Even most college sports aren't broadcast, audio, on the web. Money talks, and these sports make lots of money.
As a higher number of people move from TV to the web (partially to escape commercials), commercials move to the web as well. These commercials should be smart enough to be tied to the content you're watching, since that is the likeliest set of people to use the services. If this were the case, I wouldn't mind watching the commercials. But before watching little news clips you're forced to watch ads, making it about as bad as commercial TV. The only difference is that you are choosing the content, which is still a big plus, as you don't have to listen to a half hour news show to see the news items that interest you.
Detritivores and scavengers are the garbage collectors of the natural world. We don't notice them much, but they keep the place smelling better by cleaning up. Crows can strip a deer carcass in a few hours. Ants haul off dead bugs. Hornets and yellow jacket wasps, as hard as it is to love them, flourish because people leave lots of food lying about that begs for recycling.
The reason I mention it is that as the raspberry season starts to wind down, the overripe raspberries, like the wounded cher | 1,823 |
Fish. Fish. And more fish.
One thousand pounds of live catfish will be dumped into the river in Stephenville City Park before hundreds of young people converge<|fim_middle|> Post 9181, Knights of Pythias, Poston Feed Mill, Flamingo Bingo, Wal-Mart and SHS Outdoor Adventure Class. | and take part in fishing activities Saturday at the 6th Annual Fish Day in the Park.
T-shirts will be given out to the first 200 children who participate in the event, which is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. until noon tomorrow.
�The big thing - everything is free. There�s no cost when you come down there,� said Jerry Land, secretary-treasurer for the Stephenville Bass Club.
The local bass club is co-coordinating the event with the Stephenville Parks and Recreation Department (SPARD).
Brenda Brown, of SPARD, said the event is open to children age 15 and younger.
Land said most of the catfish will weigh about 1.5 pounds, but larger catfish will also be placed in the river, along with possibly having 20 albino "channel cats" included in the bunch.
"Whoever catches one of them (albino fish) will win a free rod and reel," Land said.
Other prizes, such as fishing lures, sinkers and hooks, will also be made available for participants to win.
A new attraction at the event - the "Bass Tub" - will feature Oklahoma fisherman Jason Reynolds doing demonstrations from a boat mounted on a massive, nearly 5,000-gallon aquarium.
"There will be a man there catching fish and showing techniques," Brown said.
Onlookers will be able to watch fish being caught because the aquarium has glass sides.
"I hope everybody will come see it," Land said. "I think a lot of people will come to just see the tank."
During every one of Reynolds� shows Saturday, one of the children will be called up to fish, and prizes will be given away during each show, Land said.
Coach D�Anna Green�s Outdoor Adventure Class at Stephenville High School and the Stephenville Bass Club are co-sponsoring the demonstrations, he said.
Also Saturday, the Texas Game Warden Association will have their "Hall of Shame" trailer on hand, featuring examples of illegally caught fish and animals and the penalties each of the culprits faced for violating the law.
Eight to 10 game wardens will be on hand to assist those who are fishing. A trailer filled with 250 rod and reels will also be open to "furnish any kid" with needs fishing equipment. Bait will also be provided, Land said.
"Tell anybody who needs us to just holler at us," Land said.
"They can bring their own equipment - or we have a limited supply of stuff that they can borrow," Brown said.
The event has also added a contest for children between eight and 14 years of age. Participants in the "casting, pitching and flipping contest" will try to hit fishing targets at three different distances. Two participants in each age group (8-11 and 11-14) with the most points will receive a medal and a rod and reel and be eligible to go to a state competition.
"If they win there (state), they could go to the national competition," Land said, noting national winners could win college scholarships.
Finally a hot dog lunch, which will start around noon, will be served to "all the kids and their parents," Land said.
"In the past, we�ve cooked about 600 hot dogs and furnished the chips and cookies," Land said, noting that there will be "several buckets of ice water set up" for those on hand to drink.
Event sponsors include the Texas Game Warden Association, Stephenville Bass Club, SPARD, Ladies Auxiliary | 737 |
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I've grouped these sites by age because that's exactly the kind of information I was looking for myself, and couldn't find. The grouping is based on how easy it is for children to participate in the activity, or to access and 'read' the information at their age. But don't let the groupings hold you back – take a look for yourself to see what would best suit the children that you're playing and learning with.
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How's your long weekend been? As you're probably in a chocolate haze, and recovering from all those family get togethers, I thought I'd share a relaxed play idea.
Fridge play– duh. Magnets go on the fridge, right? Put them high, put them low, move them around, have them chat to each other… see where your toddler takes the play. You could also use a magnetic easel or board.
Who am I? Take turns to say an animal noise and have the other player(s) find the magnet that matches your sound. eg. "I'm thinking of an animal that says "moo". Which animal is it?" Start with only a few animals to choose from, then add more as your kiddo gets more confident.
Doll house play– Of course the animals can come on over to the doll house! Turn the doll house into a zoo. Or maybe the animals are housemates.
Animal Hunt – hide the animals around the house and give clues for finding them. A magnifying glass and a basket for collecting with make this hunt oh-so-much fun.
Sand play– rock some animal magnet fun in the sun with a sand tray or sand pit. Use branches, leaves, twigs and seeds to create a home for the animal friends.
Sorting– how many different ways you can sort the animals. Colours, sizes, spots, stripes. Keep it simple with toddlers. Find out how they want to sort them.
Free play – the most important option! Don't feel like you always have to lead the play – children are the experts. They need time and space to use their imagination. Follow their lead, join in, or give them some independent play time, which is an important skill too. Put your feet up and have a cuppa!
Bubs will get a kick out of exploring these safe-for-baby magnets and sliding them around on a magnetic surface.
Make a visual board for bubs next to the change table – pop a magnetic board on the wall and stick<|fim_middle|> stories too.
Using two sets again you could pop a selection of matching magnets face down on the floor and play 'memory'.
Get really tricky by sorting the animals using the sounds in their names – all the animals that start with 'a' or all the animals that have an 'a' sound in the middle.
What about organising them into alphabetical order? Use an alphabet chart to help or sing the ABC song.
Got something to say? Go on, you know what to do. | some animals magnets on it. Have a natter about the different animals and the sounds they make, or do your best Old Macdonald rendition.
Get two sets of inexpensive magnets to create your own matching game.
Kick the sorting game up a notch by making the categories more complicated – ask them to put together all the animals that live underwater, or all the animals that have fur.
Use the animals to make up stories – take turns to pick an animal and say "one day there lived a insert-name-of-animal who loved to make-up-something-funny", eg. One day there lived a horse who loved to eat ice cream.
If you're keen you can get dramatic and act out the | 141 |
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Edinburgh based brewery Pilot recently travelled to The Griffin brewery in London to begin brewing their unique collaboration beer for the Fuller's and Friends project – where it will feature as one of the brews for the highly anticipated mixed pack.
Returning for its second instalment, Fuller's & Friends is a collaboration project between Fuller's and six breweries – this time from all around the world. Each partner brewery is hand-picked by Fuller's and paired with a Fuller's brewer and they are given full creative freedom –<|fim_middle|>'s heavy, it's "huvvy like a huvvy dug". It's a phrase we've never heard of before, and Google suggests it's nonsense, but that's what we decided to name our beer. Matt has outdone himself with the bottle design, and we think it will be a real treat for people when they open the six pack from Waitrose.
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Pilot co-owner Patrick Jones travelled from Scotland to kick-off the brewing process on 24 January. While he was busy brewing with Fuller's Brewer Henry Kirk we asked him a few questions about the beer they're creating together for the Fuller's & Friends project.
Q&A with Patrick Jones from Pilot Brewery, Edinburgh
Why did you say yes to the Fuller's and Friends project?
"When a big heritage brand asks you if you want to do something, you say yes – of course we do! The opportunity to come down and see how a big brewery like Fuller's works was just far too good to miss. There was that element of freedom as well – we could do anything really. We do lots of collaborations with smaller breweries which is great, you learn a lot, but this is something completely new and different which was really exciting."
Tell us a bit about your brewery and your brewing story. How did you start out?
"My business partner Matt and I both had early 30 mid-life crises! We both studied brewing and met each other the first day. Matt was a graphic designer and I was in finance and we thought we both had a good set of skills. We both wanted to remain in Edinburgh, so that's how we began."
What was the first Fuller's beer you tried?
"When you come to London you always have a pint of London Pride."
What type of beer are you making for the Fuller's & Friends project and why?
"We've brewed a Wee Heavy. We're a Scottish brewery and it's a really interesting style to do – it's quite a high ABV style but it's not a big imperial stout, and it's not heavily hopped so it's quite malt-forward. Henry was very much up for it as well. It's easy to throw hops at beer to make it taste good but it's a lot more challenging to just work with malts and yeast. Fuller's yeast is legendary in the beer community and I think it will work really well with the malt-forward beer we're making."
Fuller's Brewer Henry Kirk added:
"Malty, old historical styles are endlessly fascinating to me, so when he wanted to do a Scotch Ale I was thrilled. There are six different malts and we're going to be boiling it for two hours so there's going to be a lot of caramelisation, so it will be interesting to see what happens to the yeast and what it produces. This is the first time we've ever made this beer, so we have no idea how it's going to turn out, and that's the thrilling part."
What did you name your beer and why?
"We have called our beer Huvvy Dug (Heavy Dog). Our business development manager, Jordan from Dundee, says if something | 585 |
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The recent consolidation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and Canadian International Development Agency, brought about new challenges to the organization to unify their Recordkeeping and Information Management processes. The two organizations had differing systems and approaches, as well as a differing scope of operations and back end platforms. The department also needed to ensure that the unified approach was compliant with the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) Directive on Recordkeeping and would meet the deadline of March 2015 for implementation.
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With a commitment from the Executive Director to have key stakeholders involved, BP&M facilitated a Lean Value Stream Mapping exercise to create a visual representation of the current state<|fim_middle|> Resources of Business Value (IRBVs) and their associated risks all in one step. The teams also relocated closer to the client base to reduce travel time.
There were also improvements in the streamlining of the process. Client satisfaction was enhanced as requests were actioned more quickly. Complex projects were identified in advance and sent to a Project Team for appropriate processing. Service Level Standards were established and published to provide management with a benchmark for performance, and changes can now be identified to make further improvements. Further, employees feel more engaged and focused on client satisfaction and team performance.
Since both sides assessed the process together and developed the future state together, the event acted as a team building exercise. A sense of unity was developed in the newly combined team, which helped to define the way forward. Roles and responsibilities are now clearer, deliverables are simpler to identify and reporting to management was improved.
The numerous enhancements were presented in a concise Action-Out Report carried out incrementally over 30/60/90 days with many of the improvements being made within the first 30 days. This laid a foundation for staff to continue making improvements well into the future. Due to the success of the Recordkeeping initiative, the department is now employing the methodology for broader application to streamline other processes in the organization. | from end to end. Assessing the process from the client point of view, teams were able to highlight areas of waste and inefficient processes.
Waste areas were identified in several stages of the process. These included overproduction of reports; waiting for approvals; excess motion requiring clients to travel between buildings; and reassessing the business case as reports and documents were transferred along the way.
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By Angie M<|fim_middle|> to school. | ellen
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Pictured: Scott Tomayer with the school supplies.
In about a month, kids everywhere will be returning to school. This time of the year can be stressful on both kids and parents. A local boy is looking to ease that stress for one single parent.
Scott Tomayer is 14 years old and for the first nine years of his life he was raised by a single mom, so he saw the challenges first hand. With school approaching, Scott and his mom Amanda went out and bought school supplies for a grade one boy and posted on social media saying they wanted to give the supplies to the child of a single parent.
While they decided to do this together, his mom Amanda Tomayer says she is very proud of her son.
"It's absolutely amazing, especially for a young teenager who would probably rather spend money on something else, instead he wants to give back and help somebody else out."
Scott says, "I wanted to do this to help out the community and help [by] going out to get the supplies because they might not have the money and make kids a lot happier that they might have school supplies when school starts back up."
Both Scott and Amanda say the response on social media has been great. They haven't picked a family to help yet, but say they should have one within the week. Scott adds he is looking forward to going back | 289 |
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April 15th, 2011 at 10:30am
So hopefully you remember the incredibly awesome "Create Your Own Conspiracy" Contest we hosted with Nevermore last year, in which reader Ben Robson ultimately got to stand on stage with the band in front of a real live paying audience and sing his own version of the title track from The Obsidian Conspiracy. When Ben won that contest, his buddy, film student Kyle Heider, made a killer little mini-documentary chronicling Ben's entire experience, which you can and should watch here. And since that time, Ben has proven that his winning was no fluke — he's a really, really talented dude.
Well, as it turns out, Kyle ain't no slouch either.
Via e-mail, Kyle tells me:
"I just recently got done with my cinematography thesis. I listened to a lot of Triptykon during the preproduction stage, but never actually anticipated on using any of the music for the film until just recently, when it fit way too well for me not to include it.
"It's not an alternate music video, nor is there really any semblance of plot or character arc. Just smoke a bowl, turn on HD + maximize, CRANK your speakers, turn off your lights, and let it wash over you."
As I write this, it's still a little early in the day to smoke a bowl (even for me), but even stone cold sober, this video (above, in case you didn't figure it out) is still really cool. Even if it doesn't have a real story or character arc or whatever, it's certainly still a gajillion times superior to like 99% of all the metal videos we see each week. Since it was a student project, I can't imagine it cost much, either. My point being that every band that releases a shitty video should now feel a hundred times more ashamed of themselves.
Meanwhile, we still haven't heard from Steph Malesic or any of Ben's other friends who attended that Nevermore show, but I'm awaiting e-mails in which she/they turn out to have an amazing unsigned band, or have written the great American novel, or discovered a cure for cancer, or some other such ridiculous shit.
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The following are some of the most typical projects our client's are looking for. However, we look forward to any ideas you have when it comes to the house of your dreams.
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The first thing that God created was angels, and I have shown you, and this is so important, I want to repeat it again. I want to repeat this, as Franklin D. Roosevelt would have said, "Again, and again, and again," because I want you to really get it. The one thing that God Almighty cannot create direct and by fiat, is perfect spiritual and holy character. That is something that must be developed.
That is why we are on Earth. But first God and the Word created angels. Then they created the physical universe that is described in Genesis 1, verse 1 (Genesis 1:1), the very first verse in all the Bible. And at that time, however, as you'll read in the 38th chapter of Job (Job 38:7), the angels were already here, and they shouted for joy at the creation of this Earth, because it was to be their home, their habitation.
Before Adam, before the first human being ever appeared on this Earth — suddenly created as a whole, mature man, and did not come up by process of evolution — there were angels who inhabited this Earth. I read to you in II Peter of how the angels sinned. In other words they rebelled against the law of God. God put his government over them.
Now the government of God ruled the entire Earth at that time. And God placed a super-archangel to rule. His name was Lucifer. Lucifer was the highest creation of angel that God himself could create. He was a super-archangel. However, God could only instruct him in the right way, but he had to leave the choice to him, because otherwise there could be no character. And Lucifer chose the wrong way, and he led his angels into a rebellion.
And the government of God was taken away from this Earth, and that left only God who had the type of character that would not — and because he would not, could not — commit sin, and go the wrong way. Now sin is the transgression of that law that is the basis of that government of God. And it is a way of life. It is the way of love, of outgoing concern to want to help everybody else, the way of cooperation, the way of giving instead of getting.
Now this Lucifer turned to the way that we now call human nature, and it came from him and not from God, and it is the way of vanity that exalts your own self and debases others, to try to mount up above others. I remember so well a motion picture. I think it came very shortly after World War II. And it was a picture of Hitler and Mussolini. Who took those parts? I think Charlie Chaplin took the part of Hitler, and Oakie, what was his name? He took the part of Mussolini.
And anyhow, here was Hitler and Mussolini and one of them was visiting the other, I don't know whether they were in Berlin or down in Rome, but anyhow, they had the private barber shop of the Fu<|fim_middle|> And he did.
Now it has been that way all the way along. Now I'm going to leave you with that, but I have shown you that those that God calls, that he wants, tried to get away and run away like Jonah. They didn't want to accept it. And I didn't. I'll tell you, after I had been converted, it took about two and a half to three years of other people, several of them pleading with me, to preach. And I wouldn't do it, for two and a half or three years, before I finally found something that I just knew the people ought to hear. And I wanted them to hear it so badly that I finally gave in for the first time. I had spoken for them, and my wife at that time didn't call that a real sermon, but I had something to say. I will say that, I had something to say. And they thought they'd heard a good sermon, even though the delivery wasn't much like a sermon.
Well, I say goodbye now. This is Herbert W. Armstrong, saying goodbye until the next time. | hrer, or of the Italian leader. And it has a two-chair barber shop. That reminds me, really, the one in Ambassador College in Pasadena, the men's' barber shop is a two-chair shop, and, which I have used many, many times.
Well anyway, in this thing, Mussolini reached down on the lever and jacked it up to lift him about half an inch higher. Hitler saw it and he took and jacked his up two times, to make him a little higher than Mussolini. Then Mussolini raised, jacked himself up a little higher, and then Hitler a little higher, and then they kept on till they both hit the ceiling on top. Now that was laughable, but it shows you that little quirk of human nature, of everyone wanting to make himself a little higher than everybody else.
Satan — "The Prince of the Power of the Air"
And that, as I say, I haven't time to explain too much of that in this program, but that really has come from Satan, who is called in the Bible the prince of the power of the air. Now we get through the air, and I know that probably every one of you in this country have a television set or two at home, and you tune in, and there comes the picture and the sound and the voices, the music, the whatever, and it's just coming through the air.
You may have an inside aerial just above your set, or you may have one upon the roof. But let me tell you, in this room where we are right now, there are many voices, only your ears can't pick them up, because they're not tuned to the right wavelength. And you don't hear them, but you bring radio sets in here, and tune them into a number of different radio stations, and get them on the right wavelength, and you can boost up the sound, and you'll find that you have a great conglomeration of singing, of speaking, and of every kind of noise.
It's in the air, but we're not hearing it. Now it's marvelous, the things that we can send through the air today. Did you ever stop to think about that? We have come to the time — most of the inventions and the things we have, have come in my lifetime. I tell you, back when I was a little boy, we were still in the horse-and-buggy days. We had just gotten rid of the horse-drawn streetcars, and had the first little (what we called "little dinky") trolley cars, in Des Moines, Iowa, where I was born and reared.
And I remember when the first automobiles came. We called them horseless carriages, and that was quite a sight. And if an automobile came past the house, everybody would run to the window to see it. Now we often called them horseless carriages because some of them, they just took carriages and put a motor in it, and they put a stick to turn one — it wasn't a wheel to steer it, but a stick that would turn one way or the other.
And I suppose most of you are not old enough to remember having seen one of those, but they called them horseless carriages because they had just taken a regular carriage and put a motor in it, and it was running. Well, one day when I was 11 years old, I remember my father said, "Hey, everybody come quick! Here's a horseless carriage going by!" And the whole family came running up to the front window and sure enough, there was a horseless carriage. It was a carriage drawn by a mule. And my father had a great laugh.
How does the human mind differ from an animal brain? An animal just looks with dull eyes, and he's not thinking because he doesn't have thinking capacity, but he has a brain just exactly and precisely like a human brain. Now they have taken apart the brains of whales, of elephants — they're all a little bit larger than human brains — and then of a chimpanzee, which is just slightly smaller, but all of them are just exactly alike. And the human brain is not even probably 5% superior, physically, and in the physical brain itself. Why then do we have the ability to think, and to think creatively, to reason and to make decisions?
I'll tell you why. First, it's because God knew that he wanted to develop character within us, and in order to do that, he put a spirit within every human being. Now that spirit is not a person. It is not an immortal soul. It is merely spirit essence, just like a handful of air. You remember Solomon had tried everything and every pleasure in the world, he'd built great projects for his nation, and he wanted to see what life was like, and he finally ended up saying that everything was vanity.
He said it was like grabbing a handful of air, and what have you got? Nothing. And it's time that many of learned that lesson. Solomon learned it a long, long time ago. But the spirit in every one of us is just like so much air. It's not a person. It cannot think, it cannot see, it cannot hear. Your physical brain sees through the eye, your physical brain hears through the physical ear, and it is your physical brain that does the thinking, but the spirit in every one of us transmits the power of intellect to that physical brain.
Now, where did Satan come from? This Lucifer that was set as a super-archangel over the angels of this Earth before man was put here, was said to be — and I read that scripture in the first one of the present series of programs — that he was perfect in all his ways from the day he was created. He was not born. He was a specially created being, and he was perfect in his ways as God created him. But it says, "till iniquity was found in him."
Now God had told the angels the right way. He started this Lucifer out on the right track. But he turned, and all of his angels, he turned his angels into rebellion against God instead of going the way of God. In other words, God's great law, the foundation of his government, was the way of love, the way of giving, the way of cooperating, away from self, not incoming but outgoing, and the way of helping, of concern for the welfare of others and not just for yourself alone, the way of humility instead of vanity.
God had a great job he wanted those angels to do, but they, they sort of flunked out on the test. And they disqualified themselves to go on. The job he had is a job that now is the potential of human beings, and the great potential that is ahead of us now, and that is that we are to go to the planets all over this vast universe and complete their creation, and turn them from decay which has come as a result of the sin of those angels and the sins of men, and turn them into production and into beauty, and turn darkness and ugliness into beauty. God is the author of beauty; Satan is the author of ugliness.
Now this Lucifer that was the super-archangel — God changed his name to Satan the Devil. "Satan" means... Lucifer, let me tell you first what his name "Lucifer" meant — "cherub" or "shining star of the dawn." It meant he was a bringer of light and truth. But "Satan" is just the opposite. It is a rival, an adversary, or an enemy, and that is the meaning of the word "Satan the Devil." Now this Lucifer became Satan.
He is an immortal being, and his angels became demons, and they get into people. I have cast a few of them out of people when they were in, and freed those people from that thing, because a demon can get into people and take control of their minds. Now don't get alarmed, because a demon cannot get into you unless you completely lose your head in a rage of anger, until you've lost all control yourself, and, or else you are seeking a spirit like some people that instead of seeking the Holy Spirit of God, they just want to seek (as they call it) "the spirit." And they agonize and everything, and let any old spirit come into them, and that's what does it. Demons finally can.
Now I don't know of any other way a demon can get into you, so you don't need to worry, because if you don't do one of those things, no demon can get into you. But demons do get into people. Now in the 6th chapter of Genesis (Genesis 6:5), God saw that (and this is about 1900 years later, almost 2000) "God saw the wickedness of man was great in the Earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Now God called Noah. Noah wasn't seeking God, but Noah was a man who wanted to be righteous. He was the only man that was pure in his generations by birth. So God now called him out of the world, and says, 'Noah, I've got a job for you. I want you to build a great ship,' and it's called an ark in the Bible. And he said, 'I'm going to bring a flood on this Earth. And this ship will save you and your entire family, because of you your family will be saved out of it.' Otherwise no flesh would be saved alive, even then.
Noah did obey God, and built the ship. He must have, well I imagine that people all around him must have jeered and mocked him, and ridiculed him. "Why, look at the great crazy fool! Building a ship right out here on dry land! There isn't any ocean here, there isn't any water. Where's he, how's he going to get this over to the water?" Well, the water came and drowned them.
Now, the next case we have of where God intervened in the world to call some for himself out of Satan's world is in the 12th chapter of the book of Genesis (Genesis 12:1). "Now the Eternal had said unto Abram," or Abram if you prefer to call it that, "Get thee out of thy country," he was living in the country of all the bright lights of that day, the gaiety and the pleasures of Babylon. And God says, 'You get out of here and to come out.' And really, disciples today are the come-out ones, the ones that come out of this world.
"Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, and unto the land I will show thee." Now there none of that kind of pleasures over in this land where he was to go. Well, it just says: "And Abram went" with no argument. In so many cases, when God had something for a man to do, he wanted to argue and he didn't do it. But Abram did not. It's all about the only case, I guess, in the Bible like that, where he just agreed to do what God had called him to do at the time, without quibbling about it one way or the other.
God said, 'I know that, and I have provided for that, I have provided to have your brother go along with you, and "he will be your spokesman, and he will speak for you." (Exodus 4:16). 'Now you can stutter yourself out until he understands, and then he will speak to the people for you. There were 600,000 men, not counting women and children. So if you add another 600,000 women, that's a 1,200,000. Now adding the children, and there were not less than 3 or 4 million of those Israelites. Now that is a lot of people, and Moses led them out.
Of course, God performed miracles at the Red Sea, and all of that, but God led them out. And they came finally to Mount Sinai. There God himself gave them the Ten Commandments, and they all heard the voice of God. They did not get the Ten Commandments from Moses. The people got the Ten Commandments direct from God. Moses was standing there with them at the time. However, God through Moses made a proposition.
But listen, brethren, listen. God did not promise them spiritual salvation, not at all. That was only to Moses, later to the various prophets. Well, now and I want you to notice that the rest of the world all this time didn't know anything about God. They went out and formed their own governments, and their governments that got into wars, once against the other, because they weren't trying to give, they weren't trying to cooperate and help, they were trying to get from the nation. They were getting into quarrels and disputes, and they would invade in order to take away from the other.
God wanted Jonah to go and warn Nineveh of the destruction that he was going to send to them, but if they would heed the warning, it wouldn't come. But Jonah tried to run away, he didn't want to do it. Notice that usually the men God calls don't want to do it. They want to run the other way, and this Jonah tried to run away in a ship. And he got on a ship, and God had him thrown overboard, and God had prepared a great fish just to swallow him up. The Bible does not say a whale, but God prepared a great fish. There had probably never been a fish like that before or since. Anyway, it swallowed him up, and it was like being in the belly of the grave.
And anyway, finally, Jonah there agreed that he would do what God said, and so he was, it was a type of the resurrection of Christ after three days and three nights. And he was vomited up, and then he did go and he delivered that warning, and the city of Nineveh was saved. Now after Jonah, and also after Moses, we come on down to the time when the children of Israel were governed through the prophets that God had called.
Next came Joshua, and after that were the different so-called judges, or heroes, or ones that God called to deliver Israel at different times. And then we came to Eli the prophet, and Samuel was reared under him, and God rejected Eli because he allowed his sons to go contrary to God, and he didn't correct them. Now we come down to the time of Samuel.
Samuel had the spirit of God. Samuel, though, was the one God was using to rule this people that he had called out of the world, and separate from the world. Now we come to the 8th chapter of Samuel, and beginning with verse 4 (Samuel 8:4). "Then the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and they came to Samuel unto Ramah, and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all of the nations."
In other words, they wanted to become more secular. They wanted to get away from God's ways and they wanted to be like the world, like Satan's world outside, and people are always like that, and they're getting that way today. "But the thing displeased Samuel," and he went to God, "and the Eternal said to Samuel," well, "you listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me," God, "that I," God, "should not reign over them."
God spoke to Jeremiah and said, 'I'm calling you out, and giving you a special call, and I want you to go before kings and people.' And he said, 'Oh but Lord, I can't do it. I'm just a youth, and I'm not old enough, and I can't do it. I'd be afraid of their stern faces.' And God says, 'Don't fear their faces. I will be with you, and you will do what I tell you.' | 3,404 |
Reinosa is a municipality in<|fim_middle|> to the A67 motorway. The town contains a number of hotels and restaurants, and Montesclaros High School is located here. The source of the River Ebro is in the village of Fontibre where a stream emerges from the ground from the town; a large artificial lake Embalse del Ebro was created in the Franco era by damming the river just below Reinosa. This is one of the largest reservoirs in northern Spain and is mainly filled in spring as a result of the melting of the winter snow in the mountains. The lake is the uppermost of many reservoirs on the Ebro.
Twin towns
Deltebre, Spain, located at the mouth of the Ebro River.
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Reinosa - Cantabria 102 Municipios
Municipalities in Cantabria | Cantabria, Spain. , it has 10,307 inhabitants. The municipality, one of the smallest by land area in Cantabria, is notable for being one of the nearest towns to the headwaters of the Ebro River. It is surrounded by the municipality of Campoo de Enmedio and was created a city by King Alfonso XIII in 1927, being one of only three urban centres in Cantabria with that honour, the others being Santander and Torrelavega.
History
The first documents mentioning the town date back to the year 1000, when it was divided into four solars by Sancho García, the Count of Castile. By 1404, it was emerging as the main town of the region and was organised into seven Hermandades, military units aimed at retaining law and order. The procurators of these brotherhoods met once a month with the Corregidor to organise the town's affairs.
In 1497, Prince John, son of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon met his affianced wife Margaret of Austria here, the meeting or marriage ceremony probably taking place in La Casa de las Princesas.
In 1517 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor was passing through the town when he was taken ill. He stayed for nine days at the Convento de San Francisco while he recovered. The convent was being built at the time, and a hundred years later had thirty friars while the town had five hundred inhabitants. In the eighteenth century, under the Bourbons, a new highway and a bridge over the River Ebro were built. These works contributed to an economic boom in the region and the town becomes a bustling and prosperous place, on one of the main routes to the port of Santander. In 1927 it received its charter as a city from King Alfonso XII.
Geography
Reinosa is the largest town in this area of Cantabria and is on the main railway line and located close | 431 |
Boys Varsity Basketball · Dec 15 Boys Basketball Off To A Strong Start
Junior Brock Buckley with the rebound. Photo courtesy of Rick McIntyre of McIntyre Imaging
The boys basketball team (<|fim_middle|> action live at IndianaSRN starting at 5:55pm.
By David Pfeifer on Dec 15, 2020 | 3-0) is off to a strong start this season. Because their season came to an abrupt end due to the pandemic last March, the Warriors have some unfinished business in their pursuit of a State Title. Due to the success of this year's football team, the season started a little later with Covenant opening up against Circle City Conference opponent Roncalli. Both schools' saw their football teams win a State Championship the previous weekend, but it was Covenant who came out on top with a 70-59 win over the Rebels.
Senior Trey Flatt holds to ball. Photo courtesy of Rick McIntyre of McIntyre Imaging
The Warriors took that momentum to Greenwood Christian Academy last Thursday night, where they routed the #9 Cougars, 87-61. A couple days later, the team took on Circle City Conference foe, Brebeuf Jesuit, and beat them in a 62-60 thriller for the program's first win over the Braves.
Senior Caleb Crane and junior Brock Buckley lead the Warriors in scoring, averaging 12.3 points over three games. Seniors BJ Lomax and Trey Flatt follow closely behind 12.0 and 10.3 ppg, respectively. Senior transfer, Micah Wilson, has also provided a spark for the team, averaging 3.0 steals per game and 3.0 assists per game, while Buckley and senior Graham Shelton are averaging 5.0 rebounds per game.
The Warriors return to action on Friday when they host Bishop Chatard in a girls and boys varsity double header. The girls tip-off at 6pm followed by the boys around 8pm. You can catch the | 346 |
The Physician Quality Improvement Program, a partnership between the Doctors of BC, Specialist<|fim_middle|> and celebrate our accomplishments, collaborate with patients and peers and inspire involvement in engagement and improvement.
The final agenda is now available. To register, click here. | Services Committee and Island Health, supports physicians leading quality improvement projects. Since 2016, Island Health physicians have had the opportunity to sign-up for organized QI training and support to lead a QI project in their area of clinical expertise. With the support of the Specialist Services Committee this program is now in its third year.
For example, Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment, umbilical cord clamping, opioid substitution therapy and pre-surgery preparation provide just a brief snapshot of the the exciting work physicians lead in the PQI program.
Medical staff should reach out to the Physician Quality Improvement Program if they have any questions or are interested in leading their own QI project. Cohort 4 application forms are available here.
On April 25, approximately 300 people will gather in Nanaimo for the Vancouver Island Quality Showcase 2019. Attendees will get to see the efforts and achievements of the Quality work being done in Island Health | 196 |
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Tanner Kahl is a sophomore at Utah Valley University having transferred to UVU<|fim_middle|>. | in the fall of 2016 after studying at LDS Business College. He is studying Communication with an emphasis in Public Relations and loves being involved with PRSSA.
Currently, Tanner is employed as a Payroll Specialist at Northstar Home in Orem, Utah. Over the summer, he came up with the idea of doing Office Olympics to help bring his company together through some healthy competition, and helped plan some of the events. The Office Olympics at Northstar turned into a fundraiser for Utah Special Olympics, and raised over $4,000 for Utah Special Olympics.
Being a Colorado native, Tanner naturally loves nothing more than French fries and even considers them a food group, and enjoys anything sports related, especially playing golf. Tanner also enjoys barbequing, shooting sports, skiing, and hanging out with his family.
Tanner hopes to continue his career by pursuing opportunities in public relations through politics, sports, and humanitarian aid. He sees the best in everyone, and is a friend to all he meets. His passion for public relations is always growing and he is always looking for ways to grow and develop professionally | 226 |
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