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UCI Podcast: The economics of why work from home favors the suburbs
UCI Professor Jan Brueckner describes how the pandemic has disrupted housing markets
In this episode of the UCI Podcast, Jan Brueckner, distinguished professor of economics, discusses that economic reasons why work-from-home policies might lead to more suburbanization. photo: Steve Zylius/UCI
The cost of commuting drops dramatically when you're only walking a few feet from the bedroom to the home office. Such savings in time and money have prompted many people to take their work-from-home flexibility and relocate to cheaper, more spacious homes farther away from the city centers where their jobs may have been based in the past. This pandemic-induced movement has, in turn, disrupted housing markets across the country, with prices rising in some cities and falling in others.
Jan Brueckner, a distinguished professor of economics at UCI, recently conducted an economic analysis of the effects of work from home policies on housing markets. In this episode of the UCI Podcast, Brueckner discusses the forces that traditionally shape housing markets, why work from home has been so disruptive, and why these corporate policies might lead to more suburban sprawl.
Jan Brueckner, UCI distinguished professor of economics
"What's next: The ongoing urban exodus" a UCI Q&A with Professor Brueckner about the effects of work-from-home policies on housing markets
"A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?" a new working paper written by Professor Brueckner and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research
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When you can work from home, you can work from anywhere. And that fact is having major implications for housing markets nationwide. Because of the pandemic-driven work from home policies, some people are ditching pricey cities for cheaper ones, while others are buying more space in the suburbs. What economic forces are driving the current upheaval in housing markets? And why might the pandemic lead to more suburban sprawl?
From the University of California, Irvine, I'm Aaron Orlowski. And you're listening to the UCI Podcast. Today, I'm speaking with Jan Brueckner, a distinguished professor of economics at UCI.
Professor Bruckner, thank you for joining me today on the UCI podcast.
JAN BRUECKNER
It's a pleasure to be here.
ORLOWSKI
So we've all read the stories about Bay Area tech workers who can now work remotely, and they're fleeing San Francisco for cheaper digs in Boise. But I think it would be helpful for us to back up a little bit as we're talking about this housing market. And I want to ask you why is housing so much more expensive in places like San Francisco and New York in the first place?
BRUECKNER
Well, there are two reasons. One is that those places are full of jobs that pay well. And why do the jobs pay well? It's because the workers have high productivity in those jobs. The output, the product that's being produced, is very valuable and so the workers are productive in the sense that they're producing high valued output. The fact that incomes are high tends to raise the demand for everything in those cities, including housing. And so it helps to push housing prices up. The second reason is that places like San Francisco — and to a, perhaps, lesser extent New York City — have high amenities. San Francisco's amenities are partly the scenery and the weather. But then there are a lot of other amenities like restaurants and shopping and so on that are excellent. New York's weather is not as good, but it's a fabulous, exciting place. Now people are willing to pay more to live in places with high amenities, and hence housing prices will go up as consumers compete for housing in those areas.
This calculus has changed a little bit with the advent of work-from-home policies because of the pandemic. And you actually recently had a working paper published with the National Bureau of Economic Research and your analysis of the data confirmed the stories that we've all heard about work-from-home policies convincing workers to relocate to cheaper<|fim_middle|> and remain in those cities. In other words, lower income people who are not moving.
At the beginning, you mentioned that one of the reasons for high housing prices in these more expensive cities is because of their productivity. But another reason is also the amenities, you know, the great views and weather in San Francisco and the great cultural life in New York.
So are you seeing evidence that workers are moving to places with greater amenities because they have this work-from-home flexibility?
That's one of the possibilities that's explored in our paper. In other words, one could move from a city with high work- from-home potential and low amenities to a city with nice amenities. And you could keep your job in the original city. The data does not confirm that type of movement. In other words, we're not seeing price declines in cities with low amenities and high work-from-home potential. It's not what we're finding. But at the same time, the newspaper is full of stories about tech workers leaving the Bay Area and other high price places. But there aren't any stories about people moving toward good amenities using their work-from-home option. So it's kind of funny because our empirical results, which don't show that happening, kind of match up with the absence of stories in the popular press. Maybe in the long run, it will happen. In other words, if this work-from-home phenomenon really gains hold and has staying power, we may see that.
We've talked a lot about how people are moving from city to city, but work from home has also changed the housing markets within cities, too. So I want to ask, first of all, why is housing more expensive in the city center than it is in distant suburbs, just generally speaking?
So that is a prediction of the standard mono-centric model of urban spatial structure that economists have developed over the last 50 years. And the logic is really simple. If you live in the suburbs, you're spending a lot of time and money commuting to work every day, prior to the work-from-home era. And so you need to be compensated in some fashion for that extra expenditure, otherwise you wouldn't do it. The compensation comes in the housing market. The housing market generates lower prices of real estate in the suburbs compared to the central city, as a compensating differential that reconciles people to longer commutes. Now, let me be specific in talking about this. It's the price per square foot of housing that's cheaper. That's what the theory predicts. There may be bigger houses and they may be expensive overall, but they have lower price per square foot. So what we see — and this is universal around the world — is cheaper housing on a per square foot basis as you move away from the centers of cities, the employment centers, of cities.
And so that's why it costs, you know, $4,000 to rent a studio apartment in Manhattan, but you can also spend the same amount of money for a palatial estate 50 miles away from the city.
Exactly. And the palatial estate obviously then has a much lower price per square foot.
Well, so what effect did work-from-home policies have on this housing market, within cities?
Our research also focused on that question. If you don't have to go to work as often, then your commuting costs falls. In other words, if you live 20 miles from the employment center and you only go in one day a week, it's going to cost you less in terms of money and time to do that, than if you're going in every week. So commuting costs fall as a result of work from home. And what that means is that the suburbs now look more attractive. We already know the suburbs are cheaper on a per-square-foot basis, but now I can live there and I don't have to endure the same commuting costs as I did before. So what that means is that there's an incentive for people to move into the suburbs, to exploit the lower commuting cost, to benefit from them, to a greater extent than was true before.
And so what we expect to see then is this kind of population shift — people moving outward, which in turn will raise housing prices on a per-square-foot basis in the suburbs and push them down at locations closer to city centers where people are leaving. And so what that means is that the price gradient — which is the thing that measures how fast prices drop going into the suburbs — the gradient is going to shrink. It's going to get smaller. In other words, prices don't go down as fast moving into the suburbs under work from home as they did before. That's the prediction. And so what we find is that prediction is upheld. Price gradients in our sample of cities across the U.S. got flatter during the pandemic year, the work-from-home year.
Could this flattening price gradient affect the types of homes that builders focus on building in the coming years? Could we have more suburbanization because of this?
Well, yeah, definitely. In other words, the prediction is that cities will spread out a bit and that builders will have an incentive to build more big houses in the suburbs to accommodate these people who are working from home and incurring low commuting costs. So that's the prediction, more urban sprawl.
Could the work-from-home policies also help revive more rural towns? Does the gradient sort of drop off at a certain point once you get a certain distance from the city center?
Well, it's true that rural towns could benefit. I mean, it could be that instead of moving to Boise, Idaho from San Francisco, somebody moves to Walnut Creek, or someplace like that, that's in the distant suburbs of the Bay Area. So those suburbs would benefit. It's almost like moving to a different city, but not quite, or maybe people would move to Fresno. I think there's even some anecdotal evidence about that type of movement. It's not as far away as Boise, but it's still a different city.
Do you think that these changes will be permanent? Or is there a possibility that as businesses continue to come out of the pandemic and some work-from-home policies fade, could the housing markets essentially revert to their pre-pandemic trends?
It's possible. And so that's one of the big question marks in this whole area, is the extent to which work from home is going to remain in force. I think most people would agree that white collar workers with the ability to work remotely are probably going to spend fewer days in the office than they did before. I think nobody's going to disagree with that. It's coming to work once every two weeks or three times a week, as opposed to five times a week. It's hard to say. So I think there's no doubt about that. There is more doubt about whether this model of working from a different city is long lived. In other words, is that really going to happen? Is that a sustainable pattern in the long run?
And you know, there are various views on this. One view says, no companies are going to want their workers back for face-to-face contact. They just are not able to reap the benefits of interaction when people are remote — are fully remote — and never show up at work. So that's one possibility. But then, you know, you read a lot of articles in the press about this, and you see the opposite statements that workers find themselves being more productive working remotely, and that there's virtually no downside to doing so even from a different city. But now there are other angles on this question too. One is if a worker moves to a cheaper city, will the Silicon Valley company still pay them their high salary? Or will they say, look, you have a lower cost of living now, so we're going to pay you less. If that happens, then this whole story is sort of out the window, right? Because then it's not clear that there are benefits from relocating to a different city, if you're going to pay a price in terms of salary.
But there's a further thing that I think is really important, and that you don't hear discussion about this all that much. Suppose that there's a company hiring brand new employees. Is it possible that these employees are going to live 1,000 miles from the company's work site? Well, I mean, you have to think about the question of how these employees would ever get integrated into the company. They will never actually see anybody face to face. They'll never get to know their colleagues on a personal level. And so that's a problem, for sure. It's one thing to talk about workers who all know one another scattering all over the country and working from home. But it's a different matter when you're talking about brand-new workers who have no experience with the company. So that's a problem too.
Well it sounds like the changes in the suburban price gradient are likely to be stickier than the other changes of workers going to distant housing markets — just with all of these other factors that you mentioned.
I think you're right about that. I think that's true. So, like I say, I think that the suburbanization force that work from home is going to generate is probably here to stay. Whether people are going to be really moving to other cities and staying there is another question.
So many people have been affected by these price fluctuations, with bidding wars in some cities and falling rents in others, and all these suburban changes that we've been talking about. So overall, do you think that these changes have been good for the housing market, and for people who are trying to find a place to live?
Let's look at the second question. Are they beneficial for people, rather than for the housing market? I think the answer has to be yes, because if people are changing what they're going to do, they must be making the change because it suits them. They like it better. So I think it's clear that people are better off as a result of these work-from-home options. In terms of the housing market, I mean, whether it's good or bad is sort of a complicated question. I mean, we'd all like housing prices to be low. So to the extent that they go down, that's good, at least for people who are trying to buy or rent. For homeowners, it's so good. Homeowners in San Francisco may think, well, wait a minute, you know, I've made tons of paper profits on my house, if now there's downward pressure on prices in San Francisco, I'm not too happy about that. There are many different perspectives on this question.
But good for people who are making changes that positively benefit their lives.
Yes, I think so. You know, the work from home immigrants from places like San Francisco are giving something up, they're giving up the amenities that they're used. We have to think about that as well. These people are probably going to try to find a fairly nice place to move to. They're not going to go and move to a place where there's a huge amenity sacrifice relative to San Francisco. There's always going to be an amenity sacrifice, but maybe they'll try to limit it by going to Boise, which I understand is a nice place, although I've never been there. So that's another thing to think about.
Professor Brueckner. Thank you for joining me today on the UCI Podcast.
It's been fun. Thanks for the invitation.
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https://news.uci.edu/2021/06/14/whats-next-the-ongoing-urban-exodus/ | cities. So what cities in your analysis, and what types of cities, have the most potential to lose people because of these work-from-home policies?
Well, what we found is that cities where productivity is high — worker productivity is high — and where jobs have a high work-from-home potential — in other words, the jobs are capable of being done remotely — the combination of those two things generates falling real estate prices in those cities. And the decline in prices was measured between 2019, the pre-COVID year, and 2020, the COVID year where work from home became more widespread. And so what our paper confirms indirectly is the notion that people are going to try to leave the expensive cities to live in cheaper places, while keeping their high productivity jobs. Notice that we're not measuring population movements. We're measuring the changes in real estate prices. So again, we find that prices go down in cities that have high productivity and high work-from-home potential jobs.
And then what types of cities have real estate prices that are rising?
Well it's cities that are just the opposite, cities that have lower productivity jobs and perhaps lower work-from-home potential. But we're mainly focusing on the sending cities. In other words, the cities where people are leaving,
What are a couple of the biggest sending cities that you found in the analysis?
BRUECKER
Our analysis really doesn't identify individual cities, but we know which cities are the ones with the high productivity, high work-from-home potential. For example, San Francisco is the premier city in that case. Washington, Boston, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia — those are all cities with high work-from-home potential and high productivity jobs. Cities that are not in this category are McGowan, Texas, El Paso, Texas , Biloxi, Mississippi, Augusta, Georgia. So you see the difference, right.
Yeah. All those really expensive places that it costs a fortune just to rent an apartment. And maybe that'll change now.
Well, yes. I mean, that's the expectation that downward pressure on prices in these expensive places will be good for people who stay, who don't leave.
Are there other reasons that workers might be relocating during the pandemic other than trying to find cheaper housing?
We didn't talk about this in our paper, but some scholars who have commented on the paper say that, well, maybe people are leaving the cities because they want to get away from high densities in a COVID era. That's possible, I think. But the fact that people are staying at home mostly during this period, kind of insulates them from the effects of density. So I'm not sure that's a valid reason for people to leave, but it was suggested as a possibility to us.
Well, so we're talking about a specific set of workers — people with white collar jobs that can be done via technology — and how those people moving from city to city and how the housing prices change as a result. But how does this shift affect low-income workers who can't work remotely? What kind of difference do they see in their lives from these shifting housing prices?
Taken to an extreme, this phenomenon would tend to push down prices in the most expensive cities and for workers who remain in those cities — because they cannot work from home, they cannot work from other cities — those workers are going to benefit from lower real estate prices. By contrast this shifting of population away from the high productivity cities will raise prices elsewhere, and perhaps lead to losses for people who are already | 721 |
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Buildings and structures in Tucson, Arizona | The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers. Professional astronomers from any country in the world could apply to use the telescopes operated by NOAO under the NSF's "open skies" policy.
NOAO was operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. Its headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, were co-located with the headquarters of the National Solar Observatory. The budget for NOAO during the 2017 fiscal year was nearly $23 million.
NOAO was founded in 1984 to join the operations of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in the United States with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. On October 1, 2019, NOAO merged its operations with the Gemini Observatory and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory to form NSF's NOIRLab.
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NOAO operated world class research telescopes in both the northern and southern hemispheres. These telescopes, located at Kitt Peak and Cerro Tololo in the US and Chile respectively, remain in operation under the auspices of the NSF's NOIRLab. The two sites allow US astronomers to make observations over the entire sky. Instrumentation includes optical to near infrared wavelength (0.4 to 5 micrometers) cameras and spectrometers.
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)
CTIO has a base and office facility in the seaside town of La Serena, Chile. The CTIO telescopes are located some 70 km inland in the foothills of the Chilean Andes. Access to the observatory is made through the picturesque Elqui Valley.
Telescopes at CTIO include the Victor M. Blanco Telescope (named after astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco in 1995) which employs a wide-field of view CCD (Charge-coupled device), a wide field of view near infrared imager (1-2.5 micrometers) and a multi-object fiber fed spectrograph working at visible wavelengths.
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Mountain View's Castro Street opens up for an eat-and-greet to rally support for businesses
by Malea Martin
A line spilled out the door at Blue Line Pizza on June 22 as Taste of Mountain View event-goers waited to try the Castro Street restaurant's authentic Chicago-style deep dish pizza. Eyes lit up as Blue Line Manager Eric Chan brought out a freshly made White Pie, one of the restaurant's signature pizzas loaded with gooey mozzarella, feta, roasted zucchini and fresh tomatoes atop a garlic-infused olive oil base.
Blue Line Pizza was one of 19 Castro Street businesses that opened their doors to the community that Wednesday evening, each offering bite-sized samplings of their most-loved menu items accompanied by local wine and beer vendors. The event, put on by the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce and the Mountain View Downtown Business Association, brought about 600 people into downtown to enjoy the second iteration of Taste of Mountain View. The food, wine and beer walk first started last November.
"The exposure is great," Chan said during the event. "We're talking to all kinds of people from different parts of the Bay Area, some people from out of town."
Restaurant bloggers Lala Mayjer and Michael Leadon came from San Jose to experience Mountain View's culinary scene, and after trying a bite from Asian Box next door, Blue Line was next on the list. Leadon said he's been before, so he already knew he was in for some delicious pizza.
Mayjer said she appreciated the attention to detail put into the Taste of Mountain View goodie bags. The mini purple tote bag came equipped with hand sanitizer, a set of utensils, a reusable plastic wine glass, compostable plate, a map of participating businesses and a raffle passport that patrons could get stamped at each stop and then turn in for a chance to win prizes.
"The goodie bag, the whole stamp passport thing, it's like a game. It's fun," Mayjer said after finishing off her pizza slice.
Leadon, an avid foodie, has tried almost every restaurant on Castro Street, so he was surprised to discover a place he hadn't been to before: Rootstock Wine Bar.
"It's funny because I've driven over this street, and I've never seen that place," Mayjer added. "So now I know there's a wine place there."
Chamber CEO and President Peter Katz said that's the goal of the event: to help folks discover restaurants in Mountain View that they've either never heard of or just haven't had a chance to try yet. The event has no limit on how many food, wine and beer tastings ticket holders can try.
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Casa Lupe co-owner Kevin Thompson, whose restaurant has served up Mexican comfort food for the last 24 years, said participating in the event last November "really did make an impact," so doing it for a second time was an easy choice.
"The community has been so good to us. It almost gets me emotional, because during COVID there were a lot of businesses that closed," Thompson said as event-goers stopped by to snag some chips and fresh salsa, Casa Lupe's offering for the night. "But our patrons came and supported us, did whatever they could to make sure that the doors stayed open. ... You get a lot of people that attend this that really aren't familiar with all the restaurants, so we have got a lot of new (patrons) just because they come to the Taste of Mountain View."
Retail store owners had the opportunity to open their doors too, offering small bites and drinks to bring people in and promote their small businesses. The chamber helps facilitate a partnership with a local restaurant, winery or brewery so that retail stores can "feel a part of this as much as everyone else," Katz said.
"It's not their product that people are eating or drinking but it is their products in their store that people are surrounded by," he said. "They look around and say, 'Oh my gosh, I never knew this was here.' A lot of them (business owners) report an increase in sales that night and in subsequent months."
The next Taste of Mountain View is scheduled for this November.
"The Downtown Business Association, the chamber, and the city are all committed to looking for more events and more creative ways we can bring vitality and foot traffic and commerce to downtown and other areas of the city," Katz said. "It's likely we'll do something similar in other parts of the city in the future."
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16-hour ordeal after she was swept out the sea.
able to tread water for two-thirds of a day until she could be rescued.
"I feel like I cheated death or like I cheated the ocean out of something," said the Deptford native.
Barnes was sunburned, but safe and sound following the incident.
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With the sun beating down and jellyfish and stingrays swarming at her feet, the reality hit her.
"I realize if I'm going to make it I have to swim back myself," she recounted on Facebook.
from dehydration, but somehow managed to swim her way back to shore.
Sixteen hours after her expedition began, two locals found her, gave her water and brought her back to her resort.
The grateful student assured loved ones on Facebook that she won't be in a similar situation anytime soon.
"I'm safe, well loved, and ready to take a break from the beach for a while," she wrote.
and even reached out to Florida lawmakers for help during the ordeal. | Even when I didn't feel like I was strong enough, there was enough of me that still wanted to keep going," Barnes said.
According to her account on her Facebook page, she made the early morning outing to collect coral samples.
"I had felt comfortable in the bay, so it didn't seem like a really big deal," Barnes said.
But then she started to have stomach and leg cramps and the currents pushed her out to sea.
Barnes said she hoped if she stayed put, someone would come looking for her. But after a couple of hours, no one came.
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LCMC's ESL Classroom program might be less familiar to the vast majority of LCMC's volunteers, as it relies heavily on our TESOL-certified teaching staff. However, it serves almost 1,100 adult learners from over 100 different countries each year. Volunteers may recognize Ahu Moser, our Assistant Director of Programs, if they have volunteered to help at testing or registration days in the past, and they might recognize Rishan Habte, who handles those big days now, from her time in the Tutoring Program. While Ahu and Rishan make up the primary staff of the Classroom Program, they are supported by our Data Analyst, Nina Pashkina, our Director of Community Impact Denise Hill, and Fidel Velez, who now is our Community Resource Manager.
Over the course of the 2017-2018 academic year, LCMC held classes at various academic levels, over 10 class sites from Germantown all the way to Briggs-Chaney, at community centers, libraries, and public school buildings. This year, LCMC will even be offering classes at churches and at our county's Headstart Program headquarters, in order to serve parents whose children are receiving preschool instruction.
Ahu is in charge of running the whole show, from day to day operations of the program, including securing space for the classrooms, managing professional development to the classroom teachers, sitting in on classes for observations, and writing grant applications to secure funding for a program that serves approximately 1,100 learners. She has been with LCMC for over 5 years and has seen quite a bit of evolution within the program.
Maintaining that data is no small feat. That's where LCMC's Data Analyst, Nina Pashkina comes in. Nina gathers data from learner enrollment forms, attendance sheets, and student goal sheets, and compiles all of it into a report that shows the program's progress and its areas for improvement. This is important not only for providing to the US Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation (DLLR), from which much of the Classroom program's funding comes, but for finding patterns and trends that inform the staff in decisions they must make about programming, such as what languages to translate flyers into, or where certain immigrant populations are more prevalent, so that we can adjust our programming to be more culturally sensitive and more effective.
Most recently, this close look at data required a change to our processes that brought in our Outreach Team. When Nina presented Ahu and Rishan with a report that showed a drop off in class attendance, Ahu and Rishan engaged the classroom teachers to require them to have one-on-one sitdowns with each learner to discuss their goals for the class, and to deepen the bond between them and their learners. Ahu and Rishan also worked with the Community Outreach team, Fidel and Denise, to develop strategies for finding new sites like<|fim_middle|> numbers of potential learners who needed us.
Though funded by the state and county to hire certified teachers, the Classroom program also utilizes volunteers to help increase student retention. "We have several students who have stronger reading and writing skills, but they want more opportunities to speak. So we have tried to introduce more opportunities for that, like Speaking Buddies, someone who can spend 15 minutes with them on the phone to practice their conversational English." Conversely, for students who have stronger speaking and listening skills, "we're looking for Email Buddies," like volunteer pen pals.
Ahu encourages anyone interested in volunteering to contact her at (301) 610-0030 ext. 204 or ahu@literacycouncilmcmd.org. The team is also looking for anyone who has an interest or expertise in a specific topic that can help students in their daily lives in America, like computer skills, the American justice system and legal process, or even health information like why it's important to get a flu shot.
LCMC's tagline has long been "Building Skills for Life," and as we continue to expand our vision to not just boost literacy in the traditional sense of the word but to reduce the poverty gap through training and education, we are proud of the expansive, ambitious, and effective work of the Classroom Program. | Good Shepherd Church in the Hillandale area, that had large | 13 |
Current Builders, Inc. Introduces Smartwater CSI Forensic Coding Technology As Theft Deterrent At Construction Sites Across South Florida
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It felt like it had a long way to go – the text elements were in place and the card layout broadly looked right, but there's something very cheap feeling about big blocks of solid colour. The effect seemed even more pronounced with cards that used brighter colours, black suits minimalism in a way that bright yellow just doesn't.
So why am I bringing this up on a game design blog? Surely if you've hired a graphic designer you just point them at the job and take their advice, after all I've written about the value of trusting your experts before. However your experts are only as good as the brief that you give them. If you say to an artist "Draw me a picture" when what you want is a picture of an Elephant then the odds that their efforts will satisfy what you're looking for are pretty low.
It hadn't occurred to me to specify textures before seeing the process. Initially the cards got a papery texture because, well they're cards, it's a good texture for a card. It looks card<|fim_middle|> but I just wanted to acknowledge that there's something that I've failed to consider in my previous games that I now see the potential of. When working with artists or designers on anything that's going to have text boxes or icons or other elements I'm going to talk explicitly about textures with them.
It's still best to trust your experts and believe that they know better than you about their fields of expertise. Being too limited in my brief would've served me poorly here as a number of textures I picked out were unsuitable for reasons that were esoteric to me but obvious to a skilled designer – but opening up the dialogue of being able to explicity talk in terms of "I'd like the texture to remind people of…" or "Do we have anything that looks like one of these five…" has really helped the project.
If you're a game designer hiring an artist talk to them about textures, because handled well they really help to make your game look epic.
This entry was posted in game design theory, nightmare by greg. Bookmark the permalink. | y. However seeing how this part of the process works provided the inspiration to go looking for thematic textures to help the graphic design support the art and the game to create a more coherent whole. Have a closer look at the texture for the 'death' cards.
It's an close up of someone's … I think forehead. The close up is extremely close, such that it goes past the skin and other grist and gets straight to the skull. It's not a very familiar texture – or at least not to me – I don't know what you do in your free time. Yet when we stuck it on the death cards it felt right.
The thing that I love about this is that it looks like we've got something relatively squishy and organic in the background – the colour filter helps with that quite a lot. Nature is full of fractals and some things look enough like other things that without a sense of scale or colour they'll pass for each other. Can you guess what you're actually looking at before clicking on this link to the original?
This process was quite a lot of fun, but there's a serious point here. I'm afraid that it's far less convoluted than my usual conclusions | 245 |
According to The Gnostic Texts of The Druze, knowledge of The Sacred Bounds and what they signify in The Kingdom of Gnosis is the only path to THY FATHER;
If knowledge of The Sacred Bounds constitute The Path, knowledge of the Highest Bound (The Universal Mind) is The Crossing Point at the end of The Path.
Many a soul across time has attempted to walk along This Path, yet failed to pass through the crossing point (The Universal Mind), tripping and falling at the very last step.
The First and Foremost Bound, The Universal Mind, is The Medium without which no human soul could ever attain True Gnosis of The Creator. The Universal Mind is also known (in The Gnostic Texts of the Druze) as The Pen, The Door, and The Veil behind which The Creator's Lahouti Selfhood resides.
Through The Universal Mind, The Creator would enter The Duality of Knowledge on one hand, and through The Universal Mind, The Creator would preserve His Transcendent Unity on the other hand.
"I am the First and the last, The Alpha and The Omega, The Beginning and The End." (The Words of The Universal Mind in the New Testament)
In The Gnostic Texts of The Druze, The Creator is said to have addressed The Universal Mind saying:
He who obeys you, obeys me, and he who disobeys you, disobeys me… Through you, I reward, and through you, I punish… Through you, the highest of ranks are achieved…(The Gnostic Texts of the Druze on The Universal Mind)
"To the thirsty I will give water, without price, from the fountain of the waters of life. (The Words of Christ – The Person of The Universal Mind in the Christian Times)
The Universal Mind is also known (in The Gnostic Texts of The Druze) as The Cause of all Causes, in reference to The Fact that The Universal Mind is both, The Cause of Eternal Punishment and The Cause of Eternal Salvation of the souls.
Those who knew The Universal Mind from the start recognized The Light of The Father shining through The Universal Mind's Selfhood, and thus, their souls are eternally baptized and salvaged by The Gnosis of Thy Father.
Those who saw The Universal Mind through the Eyes of Their Father, The Devil (who fell from the start for The Savior Image of Christhood – The Universal Mind – without ever seeing The Light of Salvation shining through The Universal Mind),
are Eternally Punished by this blindness, which prevents them from ever benefiting from the substance of light reflected through The Universal Mind's divine selfhood.
They fell victim to The Devil's erroneous Image of Universal Mind (The Anti Christ Mentality) framed by The Devil's Own Ego.
The Devil saw in Christhood (The Universal Mind) The Importance of The Savior Role, without ever benefiting from the light of Salvation itself.
Through mimicking Christ's Externalities (The Visual Mannerism of The Universal Mind's Actions in Space and Time), he developed his Pseudo Intelligence – The Dark Powers of the Mind. He would build empires upon empires of deceit, in which he would enslave all of those whose names were not written in the book of life since the beginning of time.
These are The Dhuman Adamics (The Devil's Thoughts against Adam – The Universal Mind) embodied in space and time, rebelliously serving The Gnostic Cause. Their destiny has been entrapped inside his eve-ill vision, and the roles they played against the Human-Adamics were scripted by his thoughts. Their psychological egos were ballooned by the winds of his false promises and threats to transform them into heroes and saviors inside the scripts and scenarios he contrived for the sole purpose of framing Eve (The Universal Soul) and her En-Souled Children inside his contexts to prove The Creator wrong in choosing Adam (The Universal Mind) as his delegate.
They lied to their own selves, and accepted heroic responsibilities beyond their ability to handle; thus, their spiritual bankruptcy would gradually be exposed as the dawn of awakening approaches.
They mastered the Powers of Self Illusion, and grew mighty, entangled within the dreamy contexts of history (His-Story), The Devil's Story, completely oblivious to The Creator's Story and the Gnostic mathematics of The Dawn of His Sunshine. Theirs were all roles and stories that would fade like the stars in daylight, and the true story would begin.
Seeking knowledge of The Creator, without knocking on The Door (The Universal Mind), is seeking knowledge of a God that is beyond The Mind's ability to know.
Such knowledge, or lack of it, in The Gnostic Finality, cannot be differentiated from utter ignorance.
It is like seeking sight of an object that has no dimensional presence or identifiable form; it might as well not exist at all. It is like forever chasing after An Unknown, trading what you know for what you don't, or constantly looking out for a blurred future at the expense of living the lucid present.
On the other hand, seeking The Creator through The Universal Mind and the rest of the Sacred Bounds, who represent The Spiritual Kingdom and Earthly Kingdom of Thy Self, implies seeking The Creator through YOUR own ADAMIC POWERS AND POSSIBILITIES – through your own mind, your own thoughts, your own imagination, your own expressions, your own will power, your own actions.
It means inviting The Creator into your own kingdom, rather than excluding Him.
It means admitting that you are inside His Kingdom , rather than egoistically excluding yourself – The Essence of what made The Devil a Fallen Angel incapable of benefiting from the light of the Universal Mind.
Once you behold The Eternal Beauty that constitute the Kingdom of Thy Self represented by The Universal Mind and the rest of the Sacred Bounds and their corresponding powers within your own self (i.e., the significance of your Mind, your Soul, your Word, your Will, and your Action), you arrive at a form of knowledge so sanctifying, so relevant to Thy Self, so omnipresent, and so vibrant, that it translates pure VISION of The Creator into every facet of Thy Self.
Every thought, every expression, every action, every motion, every occurrence, every happening, every event now resonates pure vision, pure confidence and determination, vibrating with the unconditional mathematics of the HERE AND NOW. You will rest secure inside the Circle of The Happening itself before it is translated by the Mathematics of What has Happened or What will Happen.
This is not a promise of happiness in some conditional unknown future, subject to the inferior laws of space, time and possibility – one that could happen or could otherwise not.
This is, rather, happiness forever in the happening.
Like the omnipresence of Sunlight (The Symbol of The Universal Mind), The Creator's Reality is forever in The Circle of The Happening.
It cannot ever be subjected to relatively inferior elements like space, time and possibility; instead, anything that occurs in the spatiotemporal dimension will occur descriptively in this reality.
Whether you choose to embrace this eternal truth or to ignore it is your problem. The price you pay will be nothing but the mere fact that your vision is deprived of its beauty and your soul is forbidden from its healing power, right here, right now.
"Know Thy Self."
You are most likely too absorbed by your own behavioral self, your mind stuffed by its thoughts, your ears deafened by its noise, and your vision too overwhelmed by its delusive multiplicity, to recognize The One Voice speaking to you through all the sounds you hear or The One Face looking at you from behind all the confusion and chaos.
The mere fact that you fall short of recognizing its Forbidden Simplicity, does not mean that it is not a reality, any less than your inability to see light could ever imply that you would not be seeing anything without its agency.
On the other hand, your soul remains attentive to The Voice of The Universal Mind within, which resonates underneath your loud and rebellious ego and your reality converges with Thy Father's Reality, like two triangles converging.
Through knowing and respecting The Universal Mind and the Sacred Bounds and what they signify in Thy Father's Kingdom of True Gnosis, you could knock upon The Door of Your Selfhood (The Christ or Universal Mind Within), and baptize your vision, once more, with the sacred image of Thy Father, reflected through your own Selfhood, to your own Selfhood, in your own Adamic Image through the mediatorship of The Universal Mind.
You will see Him looking through your eyes, you will hear him speaking through your voice, and you will feel him listening through your ears, thinking through your thoughts, breathing through your breath, shining through your Adamic expressions, moving through your humble motions. You will sense HIS great presence in you.
You will lose your self to him, and he will grant it back to you, charged with the substance of eternal life.
THIS IS THE TRUE MEANING OF AT-ONE-MENT. It engages the Knower and the Object of Knowledge in a holy matrimony, at almost any<|fim_middle|>The Gnostic Texts of The Druze)
Not knowing who The Universal Mind and Sacred Bounds are and what they stand for in every day and age, according to The Gnostic Texts of The Druze, is like roaming around The Creator's Kingdom arbitrarily seeking some God that is not knowledgeable and in arbitrary manner that does not appeal to the MIND's logic.
When thinking about Spirituality, most people are programmed to believe that they can enter a jungle of dogmatic freedom in which they can mingle, without passing through any door or respecting any law or order.
It is as if The Creator is The Enemy of Logic or The King of Magic And Mystery. It is as if the belief in "God" is supposed to imply a journey towards The Unknown, The Mind-Boggling or The Inexplicable – a journey that begins with following a behavioral code-of-conduct (a list of religious dos and don'ts), and ends up somehow in experiencing a supernatural ghostly existence in some unknown cloudy dimension.
The Gnostic Doctrines of The Druze granted the absurdity of this vision, free The Gnostic Mind from all religious pillars, rituals or any other form of behavioral religious conduct. Rather, the emphasis is placed on a judicious look unto all The Sacred Texts of all ancient religions, philosophies and spiritualities (equally and impartially), knowing that those texts are inspired essentially by the same GNOSTIC source – The Sacred Bounds. It is they who are the authentic messiahs, sages, philosophers and prophets, not the false ones who have much to claim in every religious text or empire, and who are very well identified and known for their monopolization of spiritual life.
Those are revealed in The Gnostic Texts to be The scribes and Pharisees inside every religion, whose personas and works are exposed to Authentic Gnostics.
What they added to the texts, what they deleted, and what they completely buried, and for what reasons, is also crystal clear to the sharp vision of an Authentic Gnostic.
The Universal Mind and the Sacred Bounds or Limits came in Ancient Greek Times as Philosophers, in Ancient Egyptian Times as Good Furrows, in Ancient Judaic Times as Jewish Sages and Messiahs, in Ancient Christian times as Jesus Christ and His Close Circle, in Ancient Islamic Times as Earthly Angels that embraced and inspired the Islamic Dawa in its initial and advanced stages. (Salman El-Farisi, The Universal Mind, known as the Angel Gabriel, who came later as Hamza Ibn Ali (Blessed be his name)).
An Authentic Gnostic is encouraged to read all of these sacred texts analytically, guided by the Ancient Gnostic thread of Light that conjoins their pages. By this, his/her inner sensitivity will be awakened to authenticity vs. counterfeit, good prophets vs. evil intruders who managed to deceive humanity on a massive scale.
Some religious texts, according to The Gnostic Texts of The Druze, have undergone great tampering across history.
Much has been added and much has been deleted from many texts, for reasons obvious to any Gnostic – reasons that defeat the purpose of The Gnostic Cause and Spirit and that instead encourage a spiritless behavioral reality that serves worldly goals.
Thus, The Gnostic Mind is encouraged to follow The Sacred Thread of True Gnosis in all The Sacred Texts and Scriptures, Spiritualities and Philosophies, especially The Ancient Wisdom. Most important is The Ancient Greek Philosophy, which advocates a life of contemplation, free from the ties of narrow religious behavior (customs and ceremonial rituals) and even free from Fake Sufism that conceals a hidden spirit of egoism.
The Timeless Greek Figures were anything but religious or Sufi, in the negative sense that this word has been historically made to imply. They understood very well the importance of a life of balance between body and soul, and they respected their Adamic Form and presence on earth, taking good care of their health, under the premise that a Healthy Body Expresses a Healthy Mind.
They encouraged The Education of Life and not Death, even though they were little concerned about their pure physicality, having all believed in reincarnation.
They simply cherished the Gnostic choice of The Creator to place The Spirit (in all its freedom and vastness) inside the humble nature of The Adamic Form, and understood that inside this heavenly-earthly combination lies the secret link between The Kingdom of Heaven and The Kingdom of Earth. | level of conscious existence.
It resembles The Creator's eternally vibrant presence, which never is about what happened in the past or what is waiting to happen in the future; it is always about what is happening HERE AND NOW, inside the Gnostic Kingdom of Thy Eternal Selfhood.
Your reality: past, present and future WILL BE ENCIRCLED WITH AN ETERNAL NOW, forever TRANSLATING Thy Father's Reality, and the possibility of living such reality is Thy Father's gift only to His Authentic Gnostic Children who can benefit from The Universal Mind and the Sacred Bounds.
In each hour, HE (The Creator) is involved in an affair and no particular affair distracts HIM from another… (The Gnostic Texts of The Druze).
In comprehending the logic behind WHAT IS HAPPENING at this very moment in time (here and now), despite the LIMITLESS other possibilities of WHAT OTHERWISE COULD HAPPEN, your mind is completely fulfilled by this meaning. Your soul is completely secured by this feeling, and your self (Thy Heart) is fully encircled by the heavenly mathematics of Self Consciousness, even while being amidst the darkest of earthly contexts. You are protected.
This is how Timeless Socrates was able to mock the Justice of Athens, as he drank the poison of its earthly sentence.
This is how John The Baptist was able to rest within the hands of his persecutor whilst his head was being severed from his body.
This is how El-Hallaj was able to hymn his verses of divine love, whilst his hands were being severed.
At this point, your soul rests securely in its ancient home, possessing no more hunger or URGE TO KNOW what is next. It rests like a silent witness inside the Universal Mind (The Eyes of God) looking down at its earthly role from high above, untouched, realizing that what happens in The Realm of Translation, however seemingly intentional, is nothing but The Will of Thy Father; in all its chaos and confusion, it is nothing but a silent servant of a meaning forever beyond it.
To understand this point better, consider the simple Gnostic maxim: KNOW THY LIMITS. Do so for any domain of responsibility in life, be it a job, a duty, a simple task or merely an activity in which one might be engaging.
If one respects this simple Gnostic maxim, one ends up very secured by its implications on the mathematics of one's existence here and now, perhaps even more than one is willing to admit. Deep inside, no one is spiritually secured by the notion of carrying a burden or responsibility beyond his/her ability to undertake. Yet, incongruously, the majority of Adamics work against their own spiritual wellbeing, through falling into the temptation to behaviorally defend pseudo identities and play heroic roles inside scripts that do not represent their innermost spiritual identity or its interests.
They are instead absorbed by the psychological tendency to imitate The Savior Image (The Universal Mind as Viewed through The Devil's One-Eyed Logic), painted to them by The Devil, even at the expense of their own wellbeing and real SALVATION (Real Salvation = The Ability to Benefit from the Universal Mind).
Know Thy Limits…Know Thy Bounds. The simplest path to happiness has thus become a Forbidden Simplicity – a safe shore that, to be reached, requires that one swim against the strongest currents of The Dhuman Ego.
The world, as an aftermath of departing so far away from the wisdom of this simple path (The Universal Mind Truth), is plunging into commitments and responsibilities beyond its power to handle; and accordingly, the majority of it tends to die thousands of times whilst still living.
People die every day attempting to feed their boundless spiritual hunger.
Knowing thy Bounds, on the other hand, reflects seeking meaning in The Possible, Here and Now, through The Gnostic Possibilities of Thy Own Selfhood – Through the Universal Mind /Soul and Word.
It is like the state of being aware whilst you are dreaming that you are dreaming, which is also known as LUCID dreaming.
Such awareness renders The Dreamer in full charge of the dream events, forever secured by the possibility of possessing the power to wake up at anytime he/she wishes.
Knowing Thy Limits is to be content with who you are and what happens to you at any given time. This means to be Encircled by the Light of Meaning (True Gnosis – The Receptivity to The Universal Mind) at all times and in all situations in life – in your strengths and in your weaknesses, in your moments of pride and in your moments of shame, in your moments of joy and in your moments of sorrow.
There is no place that you could move towards that would ever make you more whole or more important than you are where you now stand. There is no future image of yourself that you could aspire to reach that would ever be better than who you are, right here, right now, as long as you can see this simple Gnostic Truth.
Both the Beggar in the slums of New York and The President in the White House are translating the same reality, THE REALITY OF THE ONLY SELFHOOD IN EXISTENCE.
They are both trapped inside the mathematics of translation, however intentional their actions might seem.
They are serving a meaning to which they might be completely oblivious. No one is better or greater than the other (in the Gnostic truth-in-finality) save to the extent that one is aware or conscious of this simple Gnostic fact – an awareness that allows him to benefit from The Universal Mind and physically experience the dream with the spiritual consciousness of The Reality outside it.
This is the only way out; which is what it means to benefit from The Universal Mind.
To Know thy Bounds is to have no fear of the future, and no fear of the future is less about what you are prepared to know and more about what knowledge you are prepared to surrender.
This is the basic mathematics of eternal happiness – The ESSENCE OF THE EVER PROMISED NEW JERUSALEM.
Let it be known Unto you then that falling for the image of CHRIST (The Universal Mind) is the innermost spiritual temptation of an Eve-ill Soul (The Psyche).
This blind temptation is metaphorically referred to in the Bible as THE ANTI CHRIST TEMPTATION, and living its mathematics is basically living the mathematics of what is theologically known as The Original Sin.
As it will become clear unto you, Jesus Christ (The Universal Mind and The Authentic Savior Himself) never nourished any such temptation. He never fell for this tendency to play the role of The Universal Mind, and that makes him who He is.
The secret of the Power of Christhood (The Universal Mind) is the simple fact that Christ's vision is the most immune against his own Image – against the Savior Image.
He is forever shining with the guiding light of salvation, but never acting like a Savior.
He is forever true to Who He IS, but never playing the role he is made to play.
Like the sun, he does not sacrifice light in order to light the world around him; he simply shines with what He is (The Universal Mind).
What Christ (The Universal Mind) granted to humanity is not by way of sacrifice, but rather an overflow of his Selfhood.
What he grants, he grants by simply shining with what he is, The Sun of Salvation. The sun doesn't perform the act of shining; the Sun wouldn't be The Sun without shining.
In conclusion, The Creator created the nature of The Universal MIND as a pure reflection of HIS OWN CREATIVE NATURE.
HE subjected HIS Boundless Inconceivable Existence to the BOUNDARY OF THE UNIVERSAL MIND.
He descended to the level of His Creation, Adam (The Universal Mind), and appeared to Adam in an image akin to Adam's nature – an image that Adam (The Mind) could see, hear, identify with, and aspire himself to be like.
The perfection that shines through The Universal Mind (Christ's Personhood) in space and time is so reflective of The Creator's Perfection that Christ (The Universal Mind), in all His countless incarnations on earth, never stops reflecting THE CREATIVE POWER OF THE CREATOR. For this, he is often mistaken for being The Creator Himself – a deadly mistake to the beholder.
The Universal Mind is the Authentic Christ of The Christian Times; The One and Only Pythagoras of the Ancient Greek Times; the Great King Solomon of the early Judaic times; the blessed Jethro of the later Judaic times; the Angel Gabriel (Salman El-Farisi) of The Early Islamic Times; The Great Hamza Ibn Ali of the later Islamic times; The great Krishna of Ancient India; and The Great Buddha of Ancient China. These are but a few of The Universal Mind ' s incarnations.
It is no secret that the selfhood behind each name of these names has puzzled the minds of humanity in its times.
Yes, The Universal Mind, Adam, along with the rest of El-Hudoud (The Sacred Gnostic Bounds), are incarnated in every day and age, in flesh and blood, in complete obedience to the Law of Knowledge (True Gnosis). The Law mandates that every form of existence, no matter how metaphysical, must be known to exist, in order to exist in the first place. In order for it to be known to exist, it must possess dimensional presence, an expressive form to account for such knowledge-ability.
Yes, The Universal Mind, in all his power and mightiness, is no exception to this Gnostic Law. Even The Creator Himself, the moment he wished to be known, respected this very law that he himself created, and appeared in The Adamic Image before Adam's vision, in order for Adam (The Universal Mind) to know HIM.
However, if there is a Human-Adamic on this earth who projects PURE LIGHT, PURE CONSCIOUSNESS, PURE MIND, PURE HOLINESS, PURE CREATIVITY, PURE SACREDNESS, this person must be The Person of the Universal Mind Himself.
It is he (The Universal Mind) who has graced the face of this earth time and again, in his overwhelming presence;
He (The Universal Mind), who, like the sun, has lit the darkness of history since time-eternal;
He (The Universal Mind), who has come in every day and age, wearing a different body and under a different name, speaking a different language, calling for the same ONE.
Let it be known unto you, then, that The Sacred Bounds, in their humble earthly Adamic presence, reflect the heavenly Kingdom of Thy Father on earth.
"As Above, So Below." (Hermes Trismegistus)
One encounters them, in their Adamic historicity, in space and time, in flesh and blood. One recognizes who their persons are, and what they signify in the KINGDOM OF THY FATHER, and The Gnostic Core that inspires their sacred thoughts, expressions, and actions on earth. One recollects The True Gnosis of the Edenic Experience that The Soul once experienced in Eternity.
In their humble and knowledgeable form as Human-Adamics, The Universal Mind and The Sacred Bounds embody The Creator's Gnostic Wish to subject HIS Boundless Existence to the bounded nature of Adamic existence. Again, this is The Gnostic Logic behind The Creator creating Adam (The Universal Mind) in His own likeness. The Adamic Form is thus the most Sacred Form in existence, for The Creator Himself chose to appear in it.
And as you shall discover in the Key, The Sacred Adamic Form is the only form in space and time capable of reflecting METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTS like Justice, goodness, beauty, love, honor, intelligence, brightness, perfection etc. – forms that otherwise couldn't be encountered or expressed anywhere in the physical realm.
Yet, ironically, The Adamic Form on earth, however sacred, has always been the most declaimed on earth by those Dhuman-Adamics who project their Father's Ancient hatred towards The Creator's choice to place his great secret in the modest earthly nature of Adam (The Universal Mind).
Through their works on earth, they have always expressed their belittlement of this form.
They created a world in which Adamics are reduced to numbers, and their flesh is targeted like birds, by iron and lead.
All this they create, while they themselves cannot ever escape their Adamic finality.
They cannot transcend their earthly reality as fallen angels, whose eve-ill intentionality has increasingly been exposed in actuality. Yet, driven by their Father's ancient arrogance and hatred towards the Universal Mind, which reflects His alleged refusal to bow down before Adam (The Universal Mind), they insist on expressing their defiance towards the Forbidden Simplicity of Adam's Sacredness (The Universal Mind).
They Appeared in The Adamic Images and Set The Net and The Knife to Assassinate The Spirits of the Chosen ( | 2,651 |
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Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was raised in Fort Worth, Texas.
He played college football for Baylor.
He has also been a member of the Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts and the Washington Redskins.
He is the founder and president of a Christian-based non-profit organization named RehabTime.
He started making two minute videos during 2009 to track his progress of bettering of his life and always would end the videos with "It's RehabTime". | on September 21, 1984, Trent Shelton is an American former football wide receiver who is currently the founder and president of a Christian-based non-profit organization, RehabTime. For more information, read the article below.
Before Fame: He played football for Baylor University.
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Charity shops 'good for high street, not a blight' claims report by UK think-tank Demos
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
An in-depth study into the value of charity shops found they keep people shopping on their high street and drastically reduce the number of empty shops, challenging the perception that they fuel high street decline. Ally Paget, researcher at Demos and author of the report, said: "It is a real shame that the multitude of<|fim_middle|> is great to see charities using their space in imaginative and resourceful ways to not only be retail operations but act as community centres, bases for service delivery and hubs for vulnerable people."
To read the report in full, visit demos.co.uk/publications/givingsomethingback
Or download the report here | benefits offered by charity shops is so often unrecognised and under-used, especially in this time of austerity."
The report says business benefits include keeping high streets buzzing and providing opportunities for unemployed people to gain experience and skills. Social benefits for older volunteers and customers who rely on shops to interact with local community and ward off loneliness and isolation also featured.
Trish Blacknall, manager of the Age Concern shop in Upper Tything, Worcester, said: "It does give people a step up to employment because if you've been out of the job market for a while for whatever reason, it is a step into work. "We build confidence and give skills and for those who have been out of work, to suddenly feel valued and get a sense of worth, is a big confidence boost and we do value them, too." She said Age Concern shops in the city were "social hubs" for older and isolated people. "It's almost like it is a little universe and for a lot of those people they wouldn't get that otherwise," she said. "It is somewhere they can go that doesn't cost anything and is safe."
Warren Alexander, of the Charity Retail Association, said the report gave clear insight into the work and social benefits to individuals. "Charity shops offer a space for individuals to learn new skills and experience through volunteering and work," he said. "It | 277 |
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Mario Diaz-Balart, About to Give Up the Gavel on THUD Appropriations, Secures Transportation Funds for Miami Dade
Kevin Derby
December 8, 2018 - 6:00am
Mario Diaz-Balart
Getting ready to bow out as chairman of the U.S. House Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., was able to help bring almost $10 million of U.S. Department of Transportation funds to Miami Dade County this week.
On Thursday, Diaz-Balart announced that Miami-Dade County was getting $9.5 million in a Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD) grant from the department. Diaz-Balart also looked back on the help he offered South Florida during his tenure as chairman of the subcommittee. With the Democrats taking over the House next month, Diaz-Balart is losing the gavel on the subcommittee.
"As House Appropriations Transportation Subcommittee chairman, I am grateful to be in a position to bring much-needed dollars home," Diaz-Balart. "For years, I have told the county that I am willing and able to help fund their transit needs, once a viable plan had been submitted. To their credit the county has finally taken real, tangible steps forward with the SMART Plan over the last several months, and I commend their progress. As the county continues to work with DOT, specifically the Federal Transit Administration, on the project development phase of the South Corridor Rapid Transit Project, I stand ready to assist in any way possible.
"True to my word, in my working with the Administration and with the county's application moving forward at DOT, here is the first installment of<|fim_middle|>INFRA) grant program; $3.6 million to Miami Dade County through the Competitive Bus and Bus Facilities grant program; $13 million for Immokalee's Complete Streets project; and $31.6 million to the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA) for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, which are serviced by Tri-Rail, through Positive Train Control (PTC) grants.
From his seat on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also helped secure the funds.
"I'm pleased to see that the Department of Transportation has awarded a grant for the Miami-Dade Park & Ride Improvement project," Rubio said. "This funding is an important step in the implementation of the SMART Plan, and will improve two park-and-ride facilities by resurfacing an existing parking lot, constructing additional sidewalks to improve pedestrian access, and creating additional parking spaces to increase availability and comfort for visitors." | federal dollars to compliment the implementation of the SMART Plan," he added. "The BUILD grant for Miami-Dade County will help support the continued growth and expansion of the South-Dade Transitway corridor. Specifically, the grant will help increase capacity at two park-and-ride facilities along the corridor, directly supporting the County TPO's vote to move toward bus-rapid transit. Expanding transit in our community is critical to alleviating the traffic and gridlock that we face daily, and I am grateful for these much-needed dollars."
Diaz-Balart tipped his cap to U.S. Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao for her assistance.
"I thank Secretary Chao for continuing to invest in our community's transportation sector, and for providing the county with opportunities to improve and upgrade our infrastructure. I look forward to continue working with her to expand Southern Florida's transit systems and will keep fighting for the funds necessary to do so," Diaz-Balart said.
Diaz-Balart's office showcased his work for South Florida on the transportation fronts including steering $11 million to Miami-Dade County through the Federal Transit Administration's Bus and Bus Facilities grant program; another $11 million to Miami International Airport; $7 million to PortMiami through the Department of Transportation's Infrastructure for Rebuilding America ( | 260 |
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Lydia Putnam reported that Biblical has completed visits from both ATS and Middle States. ATS granted Biblical full accreditation for seven (7) years, with a focused site visit planned post-move, which is now anticipated to occur sometime in 2018. Middle States also gave full accreditation approval and will visit the institution once they move; the library in particular was commended for demonstrating ingenuity and financial stewardship. Lydia also announced that the webmaster left and Lydia has assumed these responsibilities for the interim.
Laura Saloiye announced that Cairn will be offering four (4) new majors in the fall: computer science, information technology, criminal justice, and graphic design. The library received a 1500 volume collection on Biblical archaeology from Towson University.
Clint Banz reported that April 21, 2017 was the final day of the Association for Biblical Higher Education Commission on Accreditation (ABHE) site visit. The Middle States accreditation team is scheduled to begin their visit to Lancaster Bible College on Monday, April 24, 2017. Beginning fall 2017 we will be offering two additional majors: Music Education and Criminal Justice. Also our Church Ministry Leadership department is underway with a search for someone to direct our Pastoral Ministry major. Concerning the library we have created several library tutorials and look to have several additional ones completed this summer.
In February, we implemented OpenAthens single sign-on authentication alongside Google Oauth2 authentication for our OPAC. Current students, faculty, and staff are now able to use their seminary accounts to log in to both their library accounts and all our electronic resources. Alumni/ae who do not have seminary accounts, now have OpenAthens accounts to access select electronic resources. This has streamlined and simplified access to our electronic resources and has also allowed us to offer off-campus access to many online journal subscriptions not previously accessible off campus.
This spring we completed a complete revision of the seminary's records management manual and added provisions for managing and archiving electronic records. To help with collection and organization of born-digital records we're using ResourceSpace, an open source digital asset management platform.
Over the summer we will be creating a makerspace with the primary objective to support students in a new required course, Christianity and the Arts. The space will include a sewing machine, easels, and additional tools for visual and fiber arts.
Seminary librarian, Myka Kennedy Stephens, is looking forward to a 6-month research and writing sabbatical beginning in July.
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B.<|fim_middle|> showing great signs of development in Mexico and other Spanish speaking areas. To become more competitive, the requirements for the MDiv program have been adjusted; the degree can be completed in 78 credit hours instead of 120+ hours. The 25th anniversary of the West Virginia Campus was celebrated.
Some of you may already know this but in September 2016, the Library was delighted to have Melody Mazuk serving as interim director. Her leadership has moved us forward in many important ways and we are very grateful for her talents.
This you may not know but in late February we welcomed Melvin Hartwick to the library team part-time to assist with cataloging a 42,000+ volume collection of Dutch language material, purchased by Princeton almost 20 years ago. The wonderful combination of his cataloging skills and language expertise has been a gift to Princeton, as we seek to make this material more accessible to researchers.
In June, Greg Murray, Director of Digital Initiatives, will be at ATLA to present on digitizing local collections, using our Theological Commons as a platform.
The search for a permanent James Lenox Librarian continues.
Lastly, the Library would love to be in conversation with any other SEPTLA libraries interested in the following 3 topics:
Exploring models of sharing or reciprocal exchange regarding foreign language cataloging
Developing library disaster recovery plans
Staff and student scheduling programs.
Alan LaPayover announced that Reconstructionist Rabbinical College will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2018. In this online learning world, the conference session on embedding rights in distance education was very helpful.
James Humble reported that, after a year-long search, St. Charles will enter into a provisional partnership with a Philadelphia-area college, which may lead to a merging of operations down the line. In the meantime, the Seminary is busy working on its self-study, with institutional visits planned for next year.
St. Tikon's Orthodox Theological Seminary
Sergei Arhipov announced that St. Tikon's completed their ATS self-study and are accredited for the next seven (7) years without any stipulations. After twenty (20) years at St. Tikon's, Sergei will be retiring; however, he will be continuing as an adjunct. Michael Skor will be the new head librarian.
We are in the midst of the Self-Study for our Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) reaccreditation. The on-site visit will occur this fall. UVF has also elected a new president, Rev. David Kim and also a Chancellor, Dr. Ron McManus.
Sandy Finlayson provided an update on both the seminary and the library. He announced that Westminster now offers an online Masters of Arts in Biblical Counseling. In 2018, on campus housing will be added for seminary students. The library has experienced some staffing transitions. Karla is leaving. On June 1, a new assistant librarian begins. The e-book project spearheaded by Donna Campbell is thriving with thirteen (13) libraries participating and fifteen (15) publishers. Currently 674 titles are offered with the hope of 1,000 by the fall semester.
Posted in Minutes, News, TeamWork Volume 34 Issue 2 Fall 2017 | Tagged Fall 2017 | Leave a reply | Bohleke reported that there is a new board of trustees/directors in place and that the merger of the Gettysburg and Philadelphia campuses begins July 1, 2017. During the spring academy week, library staff and an intern created a display featuring some original works of Martin Luther.
Elizabeth Young Miller reported that Moravian has been busy working on their ATS self-study.
Ondrea Murphy announced that New Brunswick now offers a doctorate in transformational preaching, and they are looking forward to welcoming a 2nd cohort. The president of the Seminary is retiring in June, and there will be a new homiletics professor for the fall semester. Based on fundraising efforts external repairs have been completed along with a dedicated brick walkway. The institution is nearing its capital campaign goal, and they have begun the Middle States accreditation process.
Dr. Jim Sauer announced that Dr. David Bronkema is still the interim dean of the seminary; he offers great leadership and brings a calming spirit to the Seminary which has gone through much change in the last years. Palmer's library is now fully merged with Eastern's library. Marvin Smith acts as our Theological Research Librarian.
Jim also gave an update on several programs. While most traditional programs remain flat, the Eastern School of Christian Ministry (ESCM) program geared toward laity and continuing education is growing, as well as the Open Seminary, our international online program. Also, a cohort based Seminary program is | 303 |
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From time to time, we have offered classes in Basic Judaism. These are not "conversion" classes per se, as they are open equally to those who are members of the temple and wishing to deepen their knowledge of Judaism, and visitors who might be exploring the prospect of conversion.
We believe that conversion is not a ritual, but a long process of acc<|fim_middle|> to examine the value of belonging to a synagogue and to dispel myths about synagogue membership, focusing on the synagogue as a house of worship, a house of assembly, and a house of learning. | ulturation. As one participates in the life of the community — in worship, study and community events — one gradually begins to feel at home in Judaism, and realize that he or she truly wants to cast his or her lot with the Jewish people. As we read in the Book of Ruth, "Your people shall be my people, and your God shall be my God." Conversion as a ritual, therefore, in effect commemorates what has already occurred deep inside oneself.
In other words, there can be no set time for the process of conversion. For some people this might take six months, for others a year or more, and for still others it might not happen at all. It is for this reason that the temple's Basic Judaism classes carry no requirement or presumption that conversion will be the result.
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<|fim_middle|> markets. | GLENDALE, Ariz. — If you've been in the business for a while, sooner or later you will get that churn in your stomach when you discover a new competing Laundromat under construction.
For an existing mat owner, it's not a pretty sight. By the time you see a new mat under construction, in 99% of the cases, it will open. This applies to brand-new competitors, or to old mats that have been retooled.
If more washers and dryers are added to an existing market, I believe that no matter what you do, prices will invariably fall to a new lower equilibrium, until and if more customers enter the marketplace. It's the law of supply and demand and there's no escaping this basic, proven principle.
You'll have a few months to prepare while a new mat is under construction. So, what do you do?
Some Laundromat owners will say to do nothing when a new competitor shows up, the logic being that you trigger a price war and nobody wins (except the consumer). I've tried this and personally do not believe in this approach. You only allow your new competitor to grow at your expense by siphoning off your customers. Drip, drip, drip.
If you allow this attrition of customers to continue while doing nothing, you could end up being forced to sell your mat. Then guess what will happen? The new owner will probably respond with fixing the place up somewhat, running some kind of sale, or even dropping some prices, to attract more customers. This is what you should have done in the first place!
Most mat veterans will agree that you need to at least take this option. All else being equal, a new competitor really has only one major advantage: everything is new, which does attract customers.
After all, if a customer will spend, say, $25 to do their laundry somewhere, will they choose to spend that money in an old, rundown mat, or in a brand-new one? If you need to rent a car from an inventory of compact cars priced identically, will you pick the nicest, cleanest, newest car, or one that has some scratches, a couple of dings, and smells of cigarettes?
When it comes to laundry, you have a big advantage! You already have a going business with satisfied customers. It's a lot harder to get new customers than it is to retain old ones. People are creatures of habit, and old habits are hard to break. The edge belongs to you if you make sure your mat is up to par.
Here's another big advantage you most probably have: Your new competitor almost surely has a lot of debt on his mat to pay off.
So, simple logic dictates that you spruce up your mat as much as possible to dilute that one advantage your new competitor has. Make and keep your mat always looking as new as possible.
Step back and take an honest assessment of your mat's strong points and weak points. As the owner, you are biased, and your own denial will cloud your interpretation of your store's strengths and weaknesses.
You'll need to ask other people (especially customers, but employees and friends may also help) their honest opinions of your mat's plusses and minuses.
Don't forget to check your online reviews as well, for there is valuable feedback there.
Do some brainstorming with friends, family, employees, and most importantly, your customers. Not only should you ask customers what changes they would love to see you make, but have your employees ask the customers as well. They may be more open and honest speaking with a worker rather than the boss. You should even ask this question on your written questionnaire.
The requests for improvements can range from small things that may only cost you a few bucks, to things that can cost you many thousands of dollars, such as replacing worn-out machines. Get as many of the improvements done that you can afford. Also, don't forget the human factor, that you and your employees should always treat the customers with respect and a smile.
The key thing here is to make a positive difference in people's perception of your mat.
If you think about it, getting this feedback from customers is something that all businesses should do from time to time. It's entirely possible that if you were doing this all along, you would have made more money, and maybe even scared off your new competitor! You, the boss, cannot think of everything. You need the feedback.
In some cases, existing mats have been neglected for so long that they actually "invited" the new competitor.
If your mat has been clean, well-managed, attractively priced, with highly functional equipment all along, a potential investor just may decide to build his or her new mat in less threatening territory.
After all, look at it from the other side. Would you decide to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a new mat that must start with zero customers and heavy debt service near a well-run established Laundromat?
Seems to me there are plenty of newbies out there who don't understand what they are getting into and don't do their due diligence.
So, they buy the weaker mats that are already in an unfavorable competitive position instead of letting them fall by the wayside. I believe that weak mats in highly competitive situations should fade away, but they often don't in some | 1,096 |
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Edstone Church: Morning Praise at 11.00am Sunday 17th January
All are welcome to join us for this service led by the Rev, Bridget Gillespie on zoom or by telephone. To request a link please email David at:
stmichaelsedtone@aol.com
<|fim_middle|> TIMES :-
1st Sunday of the Month 11.00am Morning Praise
3rd Sunday of the Month 11.00am Holy Communion (Book of Common Prayer)
4th Tuesday of the Month 7.00pm Make Way (an informal service of Worship, Prayer and Bible Study)
For further information, please contact David Collins (01751-431655) | The church is now closed for services due to the pandemic.
It remains open for private prayer every Sunday and Wednesday from 9.30am to 4.00pm
Updated 14th January
Th e Church of St Michael and All Angels' lies in the tiny hamlet of Great Edstone, two miles to the south of Kirkbymoorside.
Great Edstone stands two hundred feet above the Vale of Pickering, on an oval mound of earth created by retreating glaciers from about 30,000BC, and today there are fine views of the surrounding countryside from the churchyard.
Originally of Saxon origin, the church was rebuilt in the 13th century, with later additions during the 18th and 19th centuries. The font is Norman with a fine carved oak lid, crafted locally by Dennis Mayes, a former Church Warden.
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Some numbers are just too big to register.
It was like that when Wendi Dolton heard a doctor say the number '15.6' moments after giving birth to her third child on Monday. She thought at first he was referring to the time.
"And I said<|fim_middle|> what?'"
No kidding. Wendi had given birth to a baby boy weighing 15 pounds, 6 ounces.
"There's been doctors and nurses that have been around here a fair amount of years and they've never seen one that big," says Mike Dolton, Wendi's husband.
The Racine, Minnesota parents named their baby boy Axel LaVerne.
Minnesota couple has just welcomed a big bundle of joy into their family, weighing 15.5 pounds. His name is Axel, and his proud parents Wendy and Mike Dolton join us this morning from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Couple's 'little butterball' weighs in at 15 lbs., 6 oz.
Slightly dazed from the pain killers as she underwent a Caesarean section Monday at Rochester Methodist Hospital, Wendi Dolton said she didn't understand what it meant when the nurses called out the numbers 15 and 6.
"I wondered do they mean time, medicine?" she said.
They meant pounds and ounces in that order.
Axel LaVerne Dolton, was born at 4:45 p.m. weighing 15 pounds, 6 ounces, and measuring 23 inches. | , 'wait for | 4 |
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The most popular bedtime story on the App Store! Over 4 million downloads. "App of Year" awarded by Apple! "Nighty Night!" is the perfect App for a daily go-to-sleep ritual with cute animals, sweet lullaby music and great narration. All around the house the lights go out, and in the barn even the animals are tired. But who puts | 118 |
These<|fim_middle|>, for this beautiful token of the bond of family! | past few years have been a whirlwind for my family of 6. My husband has had 4 different jobs, we've moved 3 times from NorCal to SoCal and back again, our kids have changed schools, and medical issues have landed us in the hospital with our daughter many times. I'd say it's been a struggle! Our faith has taught us that trials produce perseverance. This was an opportunity to bring us closer as a family and grow.
At the end of our time in SoCal, we were surprised that we'd be welcoming our 4th child! This scared me as a mama, to be honest, living 100's of miles away from family and friends. But Abrie's arrival brought with it an unbelievable amount of joy and hope. It also brought an opportunity for us to move back home—an answered prayer for us.
Life's trials will never fully melt away, but we are so thankful to have learned what we learned through it all, and that we've stuck together and grown stronger as a unit. To me, this pendant represents what's most precious to me—our family and its' solidity.
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Home Food Appy Fizz launches its first marketing campaign featuring Salman Khan
Appy Fizz launches its first marketing campaign featuring Salman Khan
Parle Agro, the largest Indian beverage manufacturer has announced the launch of its new #FeelTheFizz marketing campaign for brand Appy Fizz with a budget of Rs 100 crore. This will be the first campaign for the brand featuring its new brand ambassador Salman Khan.
The new campaign builds on the need for the brand consumers to 'Own Their Fizz' by being bold, confident just like Appy Fizz and is targeted towards the youth across India.
The aggressive campaign is part of the overall strategy of the organization targeting Rs 5,000 crore brand turnover by end 2018 as well as building the Fruit plus Fizz category to Rs 4,000 crore over the coming years.
With Appy F<|fim_middle|> sparkling fruit juices segment | izz, Parle Agro's fastest growing brand, the organization is looking to step up its foothold in the Indian beverage space and continue to be the leader in its sub-category. The new #FeelTheFizz campaign with the addition of Salman Khan as the face of the brand is directed towards ensuring the continuous growth momentum of the brand in order to further leverage consumers changing habits as they move away from synthetic aerated drinks. Salman Khan was selected to be the face of the brand owing to his stylish, macho and magnetic attitude being a seamless fit for Appy Fizz's bold and edgy persona.
The Rs 650 crore brand has been a market leader in the category of fruit + fizz drinks and 2018 will see one of the largest marketing budget allocated to the brand since its launch aiming to further strengthen the brands connect with millions of consumers across India.
Speaking on the new campaign, Nadia Chauhan, Joint Managing Director & CMO, Parle Agro said, "With the new #FeelTheFizz campaign, the target is to further increase the double digit growth Appy Fizz has been consistently seeing over the past few years while solidifying it as the leader of the Fruit plus Fizz category. Salman Khan as the face of the brand plays a critical role in achieving the aggressive vision we have set out for the brand and the category it created. Driving scale in distribution, recall and preference are the key brand objectives for the brand in 2018."
Speaking about this collaboration, Salman Khan said, "The new campaign for Appy Fizz is as exciting as it gets. I am sure the product and the new #FeelTheFizz campaign will surely resonate with all my fans."
Sagmeister & Walsh, continues to be the creative agency on board, while the TVC is produced by 1st Ave. Machine, New York, and directed by Morgan Harary.
Speaking on the new campaign Jessica Walsh, Partner at Sagmeister & Walsh, "This year, we looked to undertake the unique objective of ensuring we preserve the almost premium aura of the brand while still ensuring it delivered to appeal across multiple audiences, ranging from the niche to the masses. We continued to build on the #FeelTheFizz story line while pushing the boundaries of being bold, edgy and confident, core attributes of Appy Fizz as well as its consumers."
With the aim of increasing distribution and penetration across the country, Parle Agro shall this year also be introducing the new Appy Fizz 160 ml PET bottle SKU priced at Rs 10. The new pack shall also featuring imagery of Salman Khan on its packaging and shall be produced at the organizations newest manufacturing location at Sitarganj, Uttarakhand.
The campaign featuring Salman Khan, will be released simultaneously on Television, Digital and OOH. Television investments also include presence on large scale properties like the IPL, Bigg Boss on Colours and Bigg Boss Telugu on Star Maa. The campaign will also see significant investment into in-store activations, cinema advertising and on-ground activations.
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Recently I was asked to introduce Ken Futch, a Hall of Fame professional speaker. Afterward Futch told me it was the best introduction he's ever received. If that's even partly true, it's quite a compliment because Ken Futch been introduced literally thousands of times.
The introduction that I gave is below.
If you're introducing a celebrity, chances are he/she will want you to read a prepared introduction verbatim.
But If you create the introduction yourself, here are some guidelines.
Three. Complimentary description. What does the speaker do well?
Four. Humor. But be careful. What you think is funny may not be funny to the audience, or worse, may be embarrassing to the speaker.
Ask the speaker if it's OK and if it passes that test, do a test run with other people to see if they think it's funny. The rule to follow: If in doubt, don't.
That said, here's my introduction.
Our speaker this morning is worth studying because he does well what we all want to do: communicate effectively.
He's presented often on national stages. And<|fim_middle|> posted in Etiquette, Humor/Jokes and How To Tell Jokes, Public Speaking, Weddings, funerals,graduations, and other occasions, Writing/How To Write letters, notes,articles, email, books and tagged an example of an introduction, competence defined, definition of competence, gene griessman, how to interview a celebrity, How to interview a pastor, how to interview a priest, How to introduce a high-profile speaker, how to introduce someone important, how to use humor in an invitation, Ken Futch, Lincoln speaks to leaders, New York Times obituaries, The Words Lincoln Lived By. Bookmark the permalink. | he's an NSA Hall Of Fame speaker.
It's been my good fortune to study his career up close and to know why he's so exceptionally good at what he does.
One. he spends a lot of time preparing. He doesn't wing it. I have known him spend hours on a two-minute presentation…just like Abraham Lincoln did for his two minutes at Gettysburg.
Two. He has deep knowledge of his subject matter. Competence is patterns stored in memory. He's a humorist. He's stored lots of patterns in his memory. He knows every joke that's ever been told…since Noah and his family left the ark.
Three. He pays attention to small details. Whether you're funny or not can depend on a single word, where it's placed in a sentence, how it's pronounced, how and when you pause.
It's craft. And he is a master craftsman.
Lately he has begun to make a name for himself…giving eulogies at funerals. In fact people have started doing advance bookings.
I've long thought that you have not lived in vain if you get an obituary in The NY Times. But if you can't manage that…a eulogy by our speaker..is the next best thing.
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The New Normal: Times They Are a-Changin'
At The Music Hall, we strive to bring the best acts and shows to the Seacoast. But as the world of entertainment and booking changes around us, we have to adapt our timeline for when we announce and put these events on sale. Read More Read More
Join Us for a New Season of The Met at the Music Hall and the Opera Connection
On October 4 at 5:30pm in the Loft, opera expert/writer-producer Dennis Neil Kleinman returns to lead a lively discussion previewing the upcoming season of The Met at The Music Hall, which kicks off this month with Verdi's Aida and Puccini's La Fanciulla del West. This Opera Connection event fills up quick, so RSVP soon. Read More Read More
Show & Tell Tonight for Filmworker
Okay, here's the setup. It turns out that during his legendary career of turning out pretty much nothing but masterpieces, Stanley Kubrick had an assistant named Leon Vitali. Vital<|fim_middle|> two decades as Kubrick's assistant, man-of-all-work, and enabler. Read More Read More
A Little Bit of Adventure
What I like most about the shows we have at The Music Hall, and those going on sale this month in particular, is that each one takes you on an adventure to discover something totally new. Read More Read More
Lively Performances and New Voices
Get excited for all of the amazing shows coming our way this month! There are still great seats for Thompson Square, a charged and gutsy performance not to be missed! Read More Read More
Innovative Programming & Giving Back
Each season ignites a fire for the next. I am constantly inspired by the programming and conversations we are able to bring through The Music Hall's doors. As we are celebrating our 140th birthday, we are excited to share the astonishing season to come. From stunning singers and musicians to captivating cinema and writers, there is truly something for everyone at The Music Hall, and that is all thanks to each of you. Read More Read More
We Love UNH Conferences and Catering!
We've got a lot to celebrate at The Music Hall: dedicated members, energetic patrons, generous donors, incredible volunteers, talented staff, renowned artists, and the list goes on. When we're aiming to celebrate in style, with a creative menu, we always look to our partners at University of New Hampshire Conferences and Catering. Read More Read More
Sharing the Theater Experience
I'm standing in the back of a sold out show in the Historic Theater. The crowd is rowdy until the lights go down to a chorus of "Shhhhs." Then the stage lights come on and the dinosaurs come out and the audience fills with appreciative "Ooohs" and delightful chuckles. This is not your average Music Hall show but it is one of my favorite activities: I've come to watch a School Days Series matinee performance of Dragons Love Tacos and Other Story Books. Read More Read More | i started out as an actor but gave up his career to spend | 13 |
Come see the dramatic transformation of this West Bay estate home, striking from floor to ceiling! Vogue Interiors along with the owners, redesigned and modernized the interior with neutral tones throughout. The floor<|fim_middle|> circular jetted tub, walk-thru shower and unique lighting. There is a linear gas fireplace in living room tiled wall with adjacent walk-thur wet bar. Again, large glass windows to ceiling in breakfast nook and sliders across back of family room with views. Travertine lanai with overflow pool & spa and new picture frame pool cage. 3 car garage with pebble flooring, tankless water system, top of the line appliances, all new flooring throughout, exterior painted in 2019. Everything is Natural Gas; kitchen, pool heater, tankless hot water system, outdoor kitchen and fireplace. Private well for irrigation. Former Model by Cornerstone Custom Builders. See attached FEATURES for room by room details. | to ceiling curved glass window gives your first impression of nothing but WATER, GOLF and NATURE views. Located on the newly renovated golf holes #2 & #3. Unique to this home are the Three Master-like ensuites in size. The Master having His & Her water closets & walk-ins with a | 62 |
Just thought I'd post a quick pic of how i am spending my Monday! Cutting images to size with the mount board cutter, i do rather enjoy it all the foam bits at the end of cutting i usually take home and use for other things also love using the especially when they replace old blades with new ones! Pretty happy with how my works turned out, i think seven a3 images is enough to present at my final review this Friday! I certainly wont be short<|fim_middle|>, we also just managed to capture the sunset trough the woods and horse fields at the back of my house!
Good day, good photography, happy me! | on things to talk about! Ill be uploading all my final pieces after the review onto my other blog morvenelizebethkynoch.wordpress.com or maybe before then if you're lucky 😉 keep tuned in too see whats on those a3s!
My second client less than a month! things are certainly picking up for me professionally, photographically i feel meeting lots of new people and animals. I really prefer shooting on site, travelling to where the client is as the animal is more at peace and therefore achieve beautiful shots below, i am super pleased how they turned out and so thank full the rain held off!
So finally i have enough spare time to tear myself away from my busy schedule, i have a university deadline soon and two deadlines that have already just passed within the past two weeks! during which time i managed to travel to Virginia water on behalf of another freelance photography opportunity, for someone wanting professional images of their dog Joey for their dads birthday!
Really strange weather here tonight, sunset, hail and rain! Just had to capture the bizarre sky scene that came out of that, what's the weather like where you are?
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Please check it out for more of my photography!
I was modelling yesterday for a friend who is currently studying the same course at the same university as me. Laura is from Barcelona, spain and it was a great to show her where i live and what surrounds me, we had a great day of shooting and some lunch, coffee and good laughs | 302 |
There are a few things that you will want to get right when creating your veggie beds, once this preparation is done you´ll be in a great position to start producing awesome, tasty, nutrient rich veg. Basically it's all about creating healthy soil, if you have healthy soil and you water well you will have healthy plants. That´s what I will walk you through in this blog post.
My experience is in most cases the soils will lack in organic matter and nutrients in places you plan to grow. If left like this then the plants will be weak, small and prone to attacks from pests. Also most vegetables we grow today need quite a lot of nutrients so we want to make the soil rich. So your job is to look after the soil, earth care.
You want a spot that receives as much sun as possible. The closer to you front or back door (zone one) the better, that way you will always see it and by default you will know when to harvest, if the mulch needs topping up, if it need more water, when to replant, as well as other interesting observations.
When you have decided where you will grow the next thing you need to do is, to aerate the soil by double digging, using a broad fork or by using<|fim_middle|> soil on beds like these, cow manure is best.
Once the beds are shaped, aerated and manure has been added then I add compost, in this case a bacteria rich leaf mold compost. A simple way of making leaf mold compost is by putting up four posts with chicken wire wrapped around them to form a cage, 150 cm diameter 120cm tall. There is a abundance of leafs this time of year and making it now will give you plenty of compost next season. There is always the option to add compost you make or buy.
I also add two additives; rock dust and sea-weed powder. These are inexpensive and can easily be brought on-line in 4 or 5 KG bags. You could also add blood and bone powder. These are sprinkled on the beds.
Now the beds are prepared it's time to plant. In this case I am planting peas, curly endive lettuce, oak leaf lettuce, red chard, cauliflower and curly kale. I am also adding a layer of seedless mulch on top of the soil, straw in this case. There are many benefits to adding a layer of organic matter on top of the soil: It reduces undesired plants (weeds), evaporation, sun and rain erosion, regulates temperature and adds to the soil composition as it breaks down.
Aged manure, compost, rock dust and seaweed powder are the key ingredients. If you have some beds already established perhaps you can try some of these tips to take them to the next level. Good luck with your growing. If you have any questions post them on my Facebook page and I will get back to you. | a small rotavator. Having clearly defined permanent paths is important, as it's best to not walk on your veggie beds and avoid compaction. I always add aged manure when de-compacting the | 42 |
(Cole Rodger<|fim_middle|> you are searching for the highest quality professional photos to represent your product; breathe a sigh of relief, you have found the best person for the job."
"Cole Rodger Photographics (has) been my go-to photographers for over 10 years - their expertise and artistry in photographing my work has been integral in promoting and growing my business. They are professional and easy to work with, but most importantly for me, Cole Rodger is able to communicate my vision in beautiful photographs that resonate with my clientele and generate more business. Thank you Cole Rodger!"
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Reach us at 301 772 7756. Or drop a line. | Photographics) A nice full service photography studio.
Jewelry Photography. But what do you have? Let's talk. We've been shooting clothing, a variety of consumer products and commercial projects for over 25 years; however, on this site jewelry photography is likely why you're here. We provide color accurate images for print catalogs, websites, jury slides, etc. We've been around the block.
We take extra time in working closely with our clients to match their aesthetic and budget. When your pieces arrive we can discuss your preferences for lighting, angles, backgrounds and color. We can give options for dramatic or soft lighting and shadows, color changes, correcting imperfections, swapping elements from different pieces, combining pieces from multiple images. Anything really.
We like what we do. We're a Pilates trained photographer, (wannabe, aging) hipster computer man (x2) and part-time effervescent (caffeinated) assistants working in a studio right here . We've the latest in fancy cameras, lighting, imaging, layout and CAD software along with a full shop, including a 3D printer for set, jig making and epically wasting time.
We've an emotionally unstable 10 lb. dog, Termite.
You'll notice we tend to ask a lot of questions. About how you'd like things done. It helps knowing in order to get it right the first time. So you'll be happy. And we're happy.
Jewelry. Everything starts with a transparent backgound filled with white. But we're handy with dropping in gradient backgrounds for jury pics. It's nice having separate layers for everything and that's what we send you: tidy pics with separated backgrounds.
Jewelry on sets. For ads and such. A few pics here are arranged by delicate fingers on set and a few arranged later by a delicate computer man. Again, having separate layers is nice.
Facebook covers. Because we're too nice to you. You get something for nothing. As well as Instagram and Facebook formatted pics. Gratis.
Not Jewelry. There's more to life than bling.
"Wow Cole!! I can't thank you enough for the images I received. Working with you was truly a pleasure. The variety of formats of the types of images that were provided for me is above and beyond what I have received in the past. They will save me hours upon hours of time and will be a valuable addition to my marketing materials! Thank you for your patience throughout the process. I will definitely be back for more photos soon!"
"I really love working with Cole Rodger, she is a great photographer and goes out of her way to produce the images and quality of work that I require. She is very easy to work with and I would highly recommend her as a jewelry photographer."
"I am so happy to have found Cole Rodger for my jewelry photography. She has a great eye for set up and lighting and she knows what designers are looking for in a professional image. As a former photographer myself I am very picky and have used many people. She really nailed it and did just what I had in mind. The finished product is clean and very high quality. I am also so pleased with her photo delivery method and all the pre-formatted files made it so easy for me to sort and use right away. Thank you Cole!"
"Love your work Cole! ... you are killing it girl!"
"I'm so glad I have found Cole Rodger photographer! She makes my jewelry look so fabulous!"
"We love everything you've done for us so far, and are definitely planning on using you for our next photo shoot and ad layout."
"I like your in depth understanding of your field and of the jewelry trade. This translates to superior craftsmanship and being proactive with your clients!"
"Thanks to my new images (and thanks to you), I have gotten in two new shows & this is super new for me… I got my image on the postcard for a show I've been doing for 7 years! Just wanted to say THANKS!"
"Cole is a standout among jewelry photographers! She has a keen eye for the most creative and effective layout to show the best aspects of my jewelry. In addition to being a great photographer, she is fabulous to work with and is truly committed to delivering the best possible shots.
Her images of my work have been instrumental in my acceptance into several top shows in the country. They have also garnered tons of free press with their extensive use in print ads and promotional materials. I can't wait to have Cole photograph my latest designs!"
"I am always amazed at the details I get to see in the photos! Thank you for that! The jury shots all look really awesome, the spiral pops and grow! And my boat ring! Yay! Thanks a bunch!"
"The photos look awesome! "
"I am so pleased with the work you did last year :)"
"I posted just a few of the photos you took to my FB page and the reach is over 2000 people so far! That has never happened. Lots of shares. Lots of wonderful comments. Thank you SO much. I know how hard my work is to shoot."
"Cole and her crew are a great team. Their work is clean, crisp and consistent. They absolutely "get" the requirements for great jewelry shots. The colors they capture are always perfectly luminous. I highly recommend them."
"Cole is an extremely talented and creative photographer, and it is a real pleasure working with her. She'll listen to your ideas and come up with something even better than you anticipated. I wouldn't dream of trusting anyone else to photograph my jewelry."
"As I have been building my line, I realized the time had come to have some professional photos of my jewelry taken. I needed beautiful images to submit to juries as well as for marketing purposes. One of my colleagues strongly recommended contacting Cole.
Being on the West coast, I researched some local photographers & even met with a few of them for the sake of convenience. No one's work held a candle to Cole's images. I decided it was worth shipping my work cross-country to have Cole shoot my work. I believe this was one of the best decisions I've made.
The final images are breathtaking! Cole's eye for composition & attention to detail really infuse the images with life. Cole is so fun & lovely to work with, it made the process a pleasure & ensured I was happy every step of the way.
I truly look forward to working with Cole on future projects. If | 1,322 |
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Upon arrival in Cape Town, you will be welcomed by your Cox & Kings local representative and accompanied to your hotel.
Southern Sun Waterfront - 5 Nights
Board a cable car for the five-minute ride to the top of Table Mountain. Return to the city via the old Cape Malay Quarter for a walk through the botanical gardens. Stroll through the city to Greenmarket Square to browse its bustling market stalls. Drive to the Castle, then take in the Grand Parade where Nelson Mandela addressed the nation upon his release in 1990. Move on to the District Six Museum. Relish lunch at one of the city's popular restaurants.
Southern Sun Waterfront (B, L)
Depart the city for the fishing village of Hout Bay. Here, board a boat to view the Cape Fur Seal colony on Duiker Island. Traverse Chapman's Peak Drive, one of the world's most spectacular passes. Explore the rocky coastline and spot endemic fauna in the Cape of Good Hope National Park. Enjoy vistas from the famous Cape Point Lighthouse and visit the fabled Cape of Good Hope. After lunch at a coastal restaurant, visit Boulders Beach, for a close-up with a colony of African Penguins. Head home through fishing villages and seaside havens.
Enjoy tastings of high-quality reds and whites as well as Cap Classiques (South African "Champagnes") in areas including Stellenbosch, Simonsberg, Paarl and Franschhoek. Savor lunch at one of the many classic restaurants in the area. See the Afrikaans Language Monument with panoramic Boland views, historic Cape Dutch architecture in Stellenbosch and the idyllic Franschhoek Valley.
Enjoy a morning excursion by ferry across Table Bay to Robben Island, one of South Africa's most revered national monuments, was once a prison. Among its more famous inmates was the 19th-century tribal chief, Makana, and South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela. He spent two decades of his life on the island, along with some 3 000 other political detainees, many of whom were icons of the resistance and became leaders of the new South Africa.
Southern Sun Waterfront (B)
To the Kapama Game Reserve
Fly to Hoedspruit's East Gate Airport, where you are met and accompanied to your camp in the private Kapama Game Reserve, located in the Greater Kruger National Park region. Enjoy your first afternoon game drive, searching beyond sunset for Africa's large mammals, rare birds and elusive big cats.
Kapama Buffalo Camp - 3 Nights (B, D)
Kapama Game Reserve
Early-morning and afternoon game drives reveal the many species of animals and birds native to the region. Search for Africa's "Big Five" - leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo and rhino. Your experienced ranger/guide takes you to the best spots for sighting game.
Kapama Buffalo Camp (B, L, D)
Depart Johannesburg
Enjoy your final morning activity before you are accompanied to the airport in Hoedspruit for your flight to Johannesburg, where you connect with your onward flight.
Explore the history and culture of Cape Town
Take in the views from the top of Table Mountain
Visit the spectacular Cape of Good Hope, including the beautiful lighthouse
See the continent's only penguins along the Cape Peninsula
Discover the culinary delights of the Winelands as you taste classic reds, whites and sparkling wines
Search for the "Big Five" on safari in the private Kapama Game Reserve, part of the Greater Kruger National Park region
Region Details
Generally, road conditions in southern Africa are reasonably good; however, they vary greatly between the modern cities and the remote areas, where the dusty, gravel roads necessitate 4-wheel-drive travel. When traveling off the beaten track, roads are frequently narrow, bumpy and pot-holed, and have stretches which are not sealed, or which are under reconstruction. In Ethiopia, Madagascar, Namibia and Rwanda particularly, conditions are very dusty and the off-road journeys tend to be quite strenuous. Road conditions change throughout the year, and heavy tropical rains and extreme weather patterns can affect journey times enormously.
If we are custom designing an itinerary for you, it is always a good idea to discuss your particular requirements with your travel consultant, who will endeavor to include as much or as little road travel as you desire. The type of vehicle varies according to the country visited and the number of people within your group. In destinations where conditions require it, off-road driving will be in 4-wheel-drive Land Cruisers or Land Rovers.
Internal Flights: Scheduled flights within Sub-Saharan Africa are typically limited to 33-44 lbs. of luggage per person, depending on the airline or charter company operating the flight. Although you may have a luggage weight limit of 44-88 lbs. on your international flight as well as hand luggage, you will need to limit your baggage as required according to the country and airlines or store baggage at your arrival airport. Some flights also require that luggage be packed in soft-sided bags, which Cox & Kings will provide prior to your travel. Between the camps and lodges, we can book either shared air transfers or private charters. We will automatically book shared air transfers wherever available unless otherwise requested. Please note that shared air transfers may make stops to pick up and drop off passengers at other camps, lodges and airstrips en route. Private charter flights only stop for refueling or for customs and immigration formalities as needed. The flight times for air transfers between camps and lodges are arranged 24-48 hours prior to the flight. Departure times are therefore advised locally. Passengers weighing more than 220 lbs. should advise us in advance, as some air charter companies require that an extra seat be purchased at an additional cost for all shared air transfer flight segments. This is for safety and comfort of all guests on board.
Flight Delays & Insurance: Unfortunately, due to the increase in air traffic, government restrictions and changing weather conditions, flight delays have become more common. Apart from delaying your arrival at your destination, these delays can cause problems with onward connections and/or hotel and vacation arrangements, which may need to be rescheduled. Although the airline will sometimes make alternative arrangements to get you to your next destination at no extra cost, additional costs may be involved after your arrival in the form of additional accommodation costs, transfers and onward tickets. Unfortunately, since most services are paid for in advance, any services missed due to delays are non-refundable. Please also bear in mind that many international flight tickets are non-changeable and non-refundable. Therefore, it is essential that you are insured against such eventualities.
Airport Departure Taxes: Many cities in Africa levy a tax for passengers departing on international flights, and where this is not included in the ticket price it will need to be paid in local currency or the equivalent in U.S. dollars. Other cities within a country may also levy a small charge for departures on domestic flights. Occasionally, taxes may be included in your ticket; we will advise you accordingly. Since there is no standard charge between countries, and taxes are subject to change, it is not possible to list the taxes in this brochure. We list applicable departure taxes in our pre-tour general information, which you should receive when you confirm your booking. We attempt to keep these as current as possible. Please ensure you keep enough local currency or U.S. dollars to cover these taxes.
Traveling by train in southern Africa can be a very rewarding and enjoyable experience. New luxury train routes are constantly being developed and there are now a variety of excellent routes available. Cox & Kings does not advise travelers to use the local trains, which cannot be confirmed as safe; however, the internationally acclaimed Rovos Rail and Blue Train offer a relaxed and luxurious alternative to road travel.
Accommodation standards vary dramatically throughout Africa; however, hotels used on Cox & Kings journeys can normally be expected to be very comfortable. In more remote destinations, such as parts of Ethiopia, Madagascar and Rwanda, accommodation will be more basic. Cox & Kings uses the best available properties in remote destinations and, although these will be clean and offer en suite rooms, in general they cannot be compared to modern, Western hotels. In some locations, many of the hotels we use are small, privately owned properties retaining much of their original ambience. In most destinations, service and food will be of a high quality, but in some less-developed regions hotel service can be slow and we ask you to show patience in this regard. Please note, typically all rooms reserved on your tour are standard; however, if you wish to upgrade your room, please speak to your tour consultant, who will be able to advise you about the options and the applicable supplements.
Early Starts: When on safari, you will find it is necessary to leave your lodge very early in the morning (around dawn) in order to maximize the opportunities for game viewing, as the wildlife is more active during the cooler morning hours and in the evening.
Check-in & Check-out Times: In some situations, when a flight arrives very early in the morning, it may be that you will be taken for breakfast or sightseeing before being allocated your rooms since check-in time is normally between 12 noon and 2 p.m. and check-out time is normally 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Cox & Kings' local representatives will ensure that you are able to access your room as early as possible, but early check-ins are not guaranteed.
Game Parks & Remote Areas: Within Africa, we generally use the best accommodation available. However, even luxurious properties are a long way from other civilization and can often only be reached down narrow and makeshift roads. Although accommodation will often be in tents, these can be more luxurious than some lodges and include private facilities. Even when you travel off the beaten track with Cox & Kings, you can be sure that your accommodation<|fim_middle|> for 18 years, is accessible from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, which is a great area for shopping and dining.
The Cape Peninsula and Cape Point Nature Reserve features mountain passes and endemic fynbos of the Cape Floral Kingdom, as well as wildlife, such as Chacma baboons, ostriches, bontebok and eland, African penguins, and Southern Right Whales in season.
Cape Town's neighboring wineland towns of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek have wineries dating back to the 1600s. Stellenbosch Is known for its beautiful Cape Dutch architecture, while Franschhoek carries much of the areas French Hugenot influence.
Safari being the main draw to South Africa, Kruger National Park and its bordering private game reserves are home to the "big five" - lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo. Perhaps some of the densest game populations in Africa, Kruger is a highlight for any South Africa visit.
Other high quality safari areas offering a contrast to Kruger are the malaria-free Madikwe Game Reserve to the northwest of Johannesburg, the Eastern Cape along the southern border of the country, and the Kalahari Desert in the Northern Cape province.
A Cox & Kings Specialist is reviewing your request and will be contacting you shortly. For further assistance, please e-mail us at africajourneys@coxandkingsusa.com.
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You've been added and will soon receive the latest Cox & Kings news and updatesafricajourneys@coxandkingsusa.com. | in game lodges, smaller hotels and tented camps is on par with the best available in that category. Sometimes the best hotel may be the only hotel, which may be very modest. In these cases we feel that such accommodation is outweighed by the experience of these more remote areas.
Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of Africa, bordering the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
Capital: Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), and Bloemfontein (judicial)
Area: 470,693 sq. miles
Currency: South African Rand
Official Language(s): Xhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, English, Setswaana, Sesotho, Songa, Ndebele, Tshivenda, Zulu, Swati
Visas: South African law requires travelers to have a minimum of two consecutive blank visa pages in their passport to enter the country. Travelers without the necessary blank visa pages in their passports may be refused entry into South Africa. If you are visiting multiple countries, we recommend having at least 4-6 consecutive blank visa pages in your passport. U.S. passport holders should check with the U.S. State Department online or by phone about adding passport pages to a valid passport.
Inoculations: South Africa requires travelers arriving from countries where yellow fever is present to have proof of vaccination.
Cape Town abounds with sites to visit. Table Mountain can be reached by cable-car or hiked to the top. Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was a political prisoner | 340 |
On June 28th we will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Our children; Doug, Jodie, Joseph and grandchildren Max and Ellie joined us in our new home in Arusha to celebrate our anniversary. The pictures below will show how we celebrated with them.
Our advise for a long marriage is to; first love God personally, love each other deeply, be friends, forgive quickly, and care for each other. Where one is weak the other is strong. Love your children, family and others to create strong relationships that last a lifetime. Staying in the fellowship of the Church will create a solid foundation. God's Word is holy, read it daily to guide you. Tithing and giving will keep your finances in order. Hearing God and obeying Him has led us on a good path. Carol's Heart and Ron's Action has helped create<|fim_middle|> our forever friend and Savior. We continue to be amazed at how He uses us for His purpose. God is good!
Your prayers and support have kept us strong and faithful. You are a huge part of the mission God has given to all of us. Without you there would be no CHaRA and no Hope Center. We are thankful for you! We are thankful for our family that has stood by us, prayed for us and continues to support God's mission to Tanzania. God is great and greatly to be praised.
We look forward to what God has prepared for all of us to do. We pray for you always.
We prayed, read prayer cards and buried them in the foundation of the Center prayer room.
We enjoyed eating with Pastor Anania and his wife. She made new clothes for the kids.
Joshua and Emmanuel enjoyed sharing with Doug and Joseph about work. They are engineering students.
Grandma Mary (91) collects stuffed animals for us to give.
Happy happy anniversary, Ron and Carol! | a blessed family and CHaRA!
We have climbed the mountain God has given us. Sometimes it is steep, filled with ruts, at times it is just putting one foot in front of the other and other times breathtakingly beautiful. No matter the conditions, He is always with us, He gives us a place to set our feet so that we do not fall. Our life has been filled with love and adventure. Jesus is | 87 |
Tsinjoarivo est une localité malgache située à 120 km de la capitale, Antananarivo, vers la route du sud (à l'est d'Amb<|fim_middle|>connage.
Ville à Madagascar | atolampy).
Elle se trouve à cheval entre l'est de la Grande île (avec ses forêts tropicales) et ses hauts plateaux arides, avec ses terres rouges lessivées par l'érosion et les ruissèlements pendant la saison des pluies qui dure six mois par an, de novembre à avril.
Tsinjoarivo abrite un rova, palais traditionnel, qui a servi de résidence d'été aux reines qui ont régné sur Madagascar au . Il se trouve sur le sommet d'une petite colline couverte de forêts, et contournée par la rivière Onive qui court jusqu'aux précipices étroits d'Ambavaloza et de Andremamovoka. Ambavaloza veut dire « dans la gueule du loup » en malagasy, et Andremamovoka, « la chute qui provoque des crachins ». En effet, la chute d'eau provoque des gouttelettes en permanence, qui provoquent parfois l'apparition d'arcs-en-ciel.
La forêt de Tsinjoarivo abrite encore des lémuriens endémiques qui n'existent nulle part ailleurs, mais leur existence est menacée par la déforestation et le bra | 295 |
Parent's Night Out is a monthly social outing for parents in the community. It takes place<|fim_middle|>untos! Trae un amigo y disfruta con nosotros en la fiesta de intercambio de galletitas! Trae una hornada (lo que salga de tu receta) de tus galletitas favoritas y copias de la receta para compartir. | on the first Thursday of each month and is organized by the Village Learning Place and the Village Parents. Light refreshments, adult beverages, and free childcare provided. December Parent's Night Out is the annual cookie exchange. Bring a batch of your favorite cookies, along with copies of the recipe to share, and leave with an assortment of holiday treats!
El Village Parents y el Village Learning Place les invitan al: Intercambio de galletitas! Jueves 6 de diciembre a las 6:30 PM hasta las 9 PM. Village Learning Place 2521 St.Paul Street, Baltimore. Vamos a reunirnos en estas fiestas para divertirnos j | 143 |
GVL / Luke Holmes - Women's Lacrosse played against Oakland University on Saturday, April 1, 2016.
The Grand Valley State women's club lacrosse team improved their record to 6-2 on the season after hosting three games Saturday and Sunday, April 1-2.
GVSU fell to the Oakland Grizzlies 8-7 in the first game Saturday, but rebounded with an 18-1 victory over rival Ferris State later in the day and then ended the weekend with a 16-6 blowout over the Western Michigan Broncos.
The Lakers took on the undefeated Grizzlies in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader. The Grizzlies are no stranger to the national finals and have given GVSU trouble year-in and year-out.
"They're the team we always want to beat because they're by far the best team we play all season and they're our biggest rival," said co-captain Emily Davis.
This time around the Lakers played the Grizzlies hard, keeping the score close throughout the whole game.
Olivia Braun generated plenty of the Lakers' offense scoring three goals, as well as Payton Johnson who scored two goals.
The Lakers ultimately could not overcome the one goal deficit that separated the teams much of the second half and lost 8-7.
In the second game, Ferris State arrived trying<|fim_middle|> a few minutes into the game.
Emily Davis scored five goals and 11 other Lakers found the back of the net as well.
Non-coincidentally, the Lakers went on to beat the Bulldogs again, 18-1.
"It wasn't out best game but the score doesn't reflect that," Davis said.
Building off the momentum they created from the first two games, the Lakers third and final game of the weekend came against the Broncos.
The Lakers went into halftime with a six-goal lead over WMU. The offense continued to produce throughout the second half, lighting up the scoreboard with 16 goals. Michaella Renaud scored four goals and two assists.
Goalie Alicia Zeller helped protect the Lakers' lead by only allowing six total goals. She also got help from her defense, which limited the Broncos' offense to just 19 shots all game.
The Lakers have just two more regular season games scheduled before the playoffs and coach Holmes is not convinced that the Lakers have reached their full potential yet.
"We have to work on keeping the intensity up no matter the team we are playing, and I want to see the team I know they can be come forward," Holmes said.
The Lakers travel to Toledo Sunday, April 9 for a doubleheader against Lake Forest College and Eastern Michigan. | to get revenge from the last time the two teams met in November, when the Lakers handily beat the Bulldogs 18-1.
Despite the field and light problems that nearly moved the game to another field, the Lakers began the game fast and never gave the Bulldogs a chance.
The Lakers limited the Bulldogs to just six shots the entire game, a total that the Lakers reached just | 77 |
Not a great weather day (raft trip got rained out) but we managed almost 7 miles of hiking. We started with the Trail of the Cedars - which wandered through an impressive grove of ancient Red Cedar and Hemlock trees and along the banks of Avalanche Creek. The Cedars trail<|fim_middle|>00+ foot tall waterfalls. The gray blotch is a avalanche field - I actually saw some action there, sounded like a freight train on the move. The white stuff to right, extending down to the lake in snow. The lake itself is crystal clear.
Mount Rushmore and it's . . . . | then joined the Avalanche Lake Trail for what the Park Service calls a "moderate" trek (for us old farts it seemed a tad more difficulte) to glacier fed Avalanche Lake. The lake sits at the base of 8694-foot Bearhat Mountain, which rises almost 4800 feet above the lake - it's an impressive setting that is hard to capture in photos.
On the Trail of the Cedars.
Avalanche Lake - this first picture (although not a great photo) is included to give you a sense of the place. Those three white streaks in the center left are 15 | 128 |
← Finish It Up Friday ~<|fim_middle|> way. | Black and White Reveal!
My friend, Donna, is a fairly new quilter, but she is good. I knew she would be! This is the second top I have quilted for her and both of them were perfectly flat! Music to a long armer's ears :). Isn't this beautiful?
I quilted a fairly dense pantograph called Ground Cover from Urban Elementz on this.
I used Light Tan Glide thread. It has Warm and Natural batting. This next picture shows the colors the best.
Color is off on this one, but the quilting shows! I really love this backing fabric that she chose.
It was a pleasure quilting for you, my friend!
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Great job on both your parts! Good team work ladies..
What a beautiful design, Donna!! And, Katy, "ground cover" was ideal for this quilt. Great job – both of you!
Donna and Katy you are both an inspiration to me. You both do beautiful things with fabric.
Thank you, Katy. I love the quilting and your pictures! You are the best. I appreciate your kind words and our friendship. You encourage and inspire me.
What a beautiful quilt! And the quilting is lovely, by the | 274 |
Obituary: Robert Kerrigan
The family of<|fim_middle|> Gould Dies
Obituary: Joyce Marie Scott | Robert E. Kerrigan will gather on Thursday, May 11 at 11 a.m. in Arlington National Cemetery for his interment service in the Columbarium. Mr. Kerrigan died at his Herndon Harbor House home after a brief illness on Dec. 31, 2005. A funeral mass was held on Jan. 5 at St. Mark Church in Vienna.
Mr. Kerrigan was stationed at Fort Myer from early 1955 until late 1956. As a member of "The Old Guard" he served at Arlington National Cemetery. Among the duties of "The Old Guard" is to guard the tomb of the Unknown Soldiers.
A native New Yorker, Mr. Kerrigan, 69, retired from New York State Civil Service in 1993 and moved to Virginia, home to four of his five children. He moved to the Herndon Harbor House in 1999. Bob, as he was known, was very social and easily made friends in the Town of Herndon. He took pleasure in participating in several annual Herndon parades. He was also a member of both the Herndon and Vienna American Legion Posts and had been a member of the Vienna Moose Lodge.
He was predeceased by his parents and six siblings; two of his sisters died earlier in the year of 2005.
He was a proud father and grandfather. He is survived by five children, Paul, Bob, Karen, Joyce and Michael and 10 grandchildren, Ricky, George, Kevin, Robbie, Kristin, Christopher, Katie, Jack, Kyle and Sabrina and his former wife and friend, Joyce.
Obituary: Robert A. Valentine, 89, Dies
Obituary: Robert Irving | 367 |
A Death in the Family (or The End of Print)
Ian Lynam
Jan 5, 2018 · 8 min read
This is what happened:
Silently, quietly, almost weirdly, Print Magazine ceased publication this month. I only know this as I asked the librarian at the university in Tokyo where I teach to subscribe a few months ago. PDF versions of the past two issues arrived in my email inbox, but no printed copies have arrived (though I've seen evidence of their existence online), and a brief check on the subscription form on Print's website leads to a page which reads:
Print and HOW have suspended publication and we are no longer taking orders for these titles.
It is an odd thing — that this magazine which I have personally complained about for years for its lack of criticality and unceasing devotion to the mundane aspects of graphic design — is now gone, potentially to live on as a blog, possibly a series of PDFs, but most likely to just be resigned to just fade away. Print's ill-maintained website says nothing about the end of the magazine other than that lone line, and a casual Google search shows nothing, as well.
It is odd that nobody seems to have taken notice, but then again, it makes sense in a way… The situation is somehow akin to when a garrulous but bland distant family member dies — he or she always provided atmosphere, the sense of someone being there, but also definition. Sure, she was bland, but her presence helped define the boundaries of who was family.
It is somehow fitting that I am tapping these words away in my parents' living room in Arizona on Christmas morning writing an obituary. I asked my dad for some sage, fatherly advice as to what he thought of the dissolution of a magazine that helped define my choice of careers. What he came up with:
Well, it helped you focus on what you didn't want out of your career.
True, but Print helped connect people — prizes won in the regional design award issues mean something to the people that have won them. It also helped boost the profiles of designers featured within. For VCFA alum Chad Miller, recognized as one of Print's 2017 Emerging Visual Artists, his reaction was mixed:
For me personally, Print Mag has unfortunately just turned into one of those things from my past that gets taken for granted. They're like the Green Day of graphic design magazines. They were integral at one point in your life, they got huge, but now you're surprised when you find out they released a new record.
I remember scouring back issues of Print when I was 19, writing down the names of designers and studios to look up later. It was a good jumping off point for hunting inspiration in the days before Pinterest and Tumblr. I remember being stoked when my friends would get featured and the New Visual Artists edition was like a right of passage for the next wave of designers that were going to get huge. Eventually I discovered international mags like Grafik and Eye that were more aligned with my tastes and Print took a backseat.
Even though my interest waned, I appreciated what Print did for me and always assumed that it still held that role for younger designers. The one thing that always seemed to stay relevant to my network though was the NVA winners. Without fail I saw it pop-up in one way or another so it was still a huge deal to me to be included. A ton of designers I look up to have been on that list, it meant a lot to be in their company. It was the last year I was eligible, and now learning it's the last year for the list — at least in print-form — I'm even more honored to be a part of it.
I'm sad to see Print go but can't say I'm surprised. I scoured Manhattan and Brooklyn looking for the issue I was featured in and came up empty handed. The only place I could find it online was through their own website and it was a shockingly antiquated e-commerce experience. The price tag was perhaps equally shocking.
Fellow VCFA alumna Aldrena Corder writes on being an award winner in Print's final issue:
I was so excited to be featured and recognized by such an esteemed and important resource. I was excited and honored to be a part of such an important resource for designer and creative field. I've always felt like one's "made it" if one's work was featured in Print and similar well-respected publications. Having just found out about Print's final issue makes me sad but proud.
In the final issue, Editorial/Creative Director Debbie Millman led off one of the two intros to the final issue making the claim that "In publication since 1940, Print is the oldest graphic design periodical in the world". This is the issue with hyperbolic uncles who have a bit<|fim_middle|>ianlynam.com | too much in the self-esteem department — in regards to graphic design periodicals, the Swiss publication Typografische Monätsblatter started out nearly a decade prior and is still in publication, and there were a ton of periodicals that preceded Print — from printing journals to trade magazines globally.
I guess that's the biggest thing in some way — Print was always a bit seemingly overconfident in the American design landscape because it was pretty much the only thing there that had national distribution save for the decade that Emigre was in publication. Sure, there are other design rags on the American scene… CMYK, Communication Arts, and the assorted how-to software magazines, but they are no Print.
The folks at Print made some smart moves on occasion — for example when they let a handful of some of the best graphic designers globally take over the design of chunks of specific issues — notably, the 2011 issues designed by Counterspace, Kokoro et Moi, Metahaven and others. That they allowed the designers to generate content (http://www.printmag.com/article/autoreply-modernism/) was incredibly insightful, as well.
Sometimes, Print was just confused — the Winter 2016–2017 issue had the headline "Is Design Criticism Dead?" emblazoned on the cover, yet featured "Singing the Surface", an exquisite piece of prose by Kenneth FitzGerald about writing about design as much as design's connections to music.
Representing graphic design as a surface obsessed activity is a charged charge. While a simple truth, to designers it's a frequent slur decrying an alleged obscuring of an underlying emptiness. Yet that surface resembles our body's. Like skin, or the paper upon which graphic design is performed, design itself is a cultural membrane composed of multiple layers. Its fine depths emblematize subtle strata of meaning.
"Singing the Surface" was not criticism per se, but it sure was critical, and a large part of the essay was about the role of the critic and championed criticism while positing that "discourse has secondary, subservient status to the art".
That a piece of writing with this much thoughtfulness had made its way into Print gave me hope. When asked about having "Singing the Surface" published in Print, Kenneth FitzGerald replied:
After I realized I'd become a writer by title and not just of habit, it became a gap in my record not to have been in arguably design's magazine of record. So it was gratifying to finally make its pages and have access to that audience.
FitzGerald said it there and then — no, design criticism is not dead. Not as long as critics write and seek to publish.
These are the lone issues of the magazine that I have kept — they sit at the end of the bookshelf overlooking my desk in Tokyo and helped define that duo of brief moments of hope that I had for Print.
The problem is that these moments were too few and too far between. Print had a sense of 'same-ness' that both undermined the editorial direction of the magazine, as well as bolstered it in some way. The final print issue featuring the 2017 Regional Design Awards was judged by Aaron Draplin, Jesica Hische, Pum Lefebure, Ellen Lupton, Eddie Opara, and Paula Scher — a cast of judges that reinforces contemporary American tastes in graphic design. The work of the judges blends in to the work featured — so much so that in large part, it is nearly indistinguishable save for the judges' names printed in 60pt. text.
Yet, for all of its missteps, Print helped define graphic design in the American context for my career to date — and in large part, like my father said, much of what I did not want out of graphic design as a culture and a practice.
What I mean by this is further reified by another quip from my dad, that graphic design "is defined by trade and the market" — while true in some ways, that's the kind of design that I let go of almost immediately after professionalizing as a designer. I was more interested in content/container synthesis that is authored and is of prosocial value, be it commercial or not. In short: expanded graphic design.
As so much of what Print perennially flaunted was just surface-oriented, I wanted to take the opposing position… and being a lifelong contrarian and skeptic, well, Print was the perfect adversary in the American graphic design landscape… but that's the thing about nemeses — when they atomize, what is left to combat?
The disassembly of roles in graphic design as a sector of cultural production into the extremes of precarity-based digital multi-tasker or tech industry-supported digital product designer and the wide swath in-between are so varied, yet so similar. With one less prominent title to look toward in terms of leading industry publications, we will witness the overall sense of cultural identity that graphic designers bask in presently to fall away. And that, my friends, is troublesome: how will designers know who they are with one less tentpole of identity?
Like the villain Elijah Prince in the movie Unbreakable stated:
Do you know what the scariest thing is? To not know your place in this world, to not know why you're here.
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Starting at the Sterling Park Shopping Center, head south on Sterling Blvd. Cross over Rt. 28 and turn left on Pacific Blvd. Turn right on 606 and take that all the way to Rt. 50. Head west (turn right) on <|fim_middle|> to avoid the stress of DC and see the mountains!
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on September 23, 2013 0 out of 0 members found this review useful. | 50 until you get to Rt. 15. Turn south on 15. In Haymarket, head west on 55 to Front Royal. Take 340 north to Charles Town where you pick up Rt. 9. Head east on 9 to Rt. 7. Go east on 7, turn right on Sycolin Rd. Sycolin changes names several times (Sycolin, Ashburn Farm Pkwy, Farmwell Rd, Waxpool Rd and Church Rd). Turn right off of Church onto Holly to get back to Sterling Blvd.
This route has a little bit of everything... Starting in Sterling, VA, a suburb of Washington DC, it takes you west to the foot of Skyline Drive in Front Royal then heads north to Charles Town, WV before heading back to Sterling. Along the way you'll ride along some flat open country roads, some gentle curves and climb some mountains. The one thing you won't see is a lot of traffic.
Roads are in good shape. Nice cruising conditions. Route 9 out of Charles Town runs up the mountains with some curves but everything else is relatively flat with nice gentle, rolling curves.
You run through a few small towns with locally owned restaurants and shops but for the most part you're enjoying the scenery.
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55-340-9 loop is a great stretch of road, scenic and smooth. A great way | 311 |
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Gateway Classic Cars of Atlanta is proud to offer for sale for the first time since 2015 this one of a kind 1974 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. This is the well-known Star Wars Vette from years ago. It has a brand-new summit 383 Stroker crate engine with a 4-Speed Manual gear box. The car has 29352<|fim_middle|>021 - Page Views: 3395
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Back in 1977, a young filmmaker named George Lucas changed pop culture forever with the release of the first Star Wars movie. That film not only ushered in cool special effects, it set the standard (in the immortal words of Spaceball's Mel Brooks) for movie merchandising and soon Star Wars branded toys and accessories were everywhere.
Obviously, the first Star Wars movie made an impact on the world, former owner, and creator of this special 1974 Corvette. The car showcases many scenes from the movie with hand airbrushed murals painted on every body panel.
The Corvette's body panels were hand airbrushed by the renown Uniontown, PA resident Rusty Fecek who spent over 1,000 hours on the car. The Corvette features 20 coats of hand-rubbed lacquer and the richly covered murals have held up well over the last 35 years.
Rusty showed the car back in the day (see the newspaper article attached) and it earned awards and praise where he went with it. After he passed away, the car went to his daughter's garage where it was stored for 12-15 years before changing hands again.
The autobody repairman combined his art and body work talents to create the car that features purple and silver as the primary showing colors and red, blue, and yellow tones. Rusty estimates that there is around 80 coats of paint on this master piece. The paint job alone was estimated at $10,000 in 1977. Rusty won several awards with the car including first in his class, most popular car with 90% average, and most outstanding use of color and paint. Rusty's Life was lived from March 8, 1944 - November 28, 2017. He died at the age of 73. He left behind this masterpiece to show his passion for Art and automobiles.
This 1974 Chevrolet Corvette Star Wars creation is for sale by our Atlanta Showroom and can be seen in greater detail including 100+ HD pictures and video. please visit GatewayClassicCars.com. For more information or to schedule an appointment to view this vehicle in person, please call the Atlanta showroom at (678) 894-4833 or email us directly at Atlanta@GatewayClassicCars.com.
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The text analyzed here is about three sides long, occurring about 1,000 pages into Tsong-kha-pa's Great Stages of the Path..
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Introduce or review shapes: circle, oval, and triangle.
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There are a plethora of circumstances for one's inability, starting with losing the job, family concerns, and illness and to the extreme of the death of the individual. In the last couple of years, people have started to understand the benefits<|fim_middle|> settled, there is no point on buying a policy for an insurer that weeks to satisfy your monetary requirements.
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Rhett Power
Co-Founder, Courageous Leadership
Rhett Power co-founded Wild Creations in 2007 and quickly built the startup toy company into the 2010 Fastest Growing Business in South Carolina. Wild Creations was awarded a Blue-Ribbon Top 75 US Company by the US Chamber of Commerce and one of Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest-Growing US Companies. He and his team won over 40 national awards for their innovative<|fim_middle|> and management alongside the likes of former Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and AOL Founder Steve Case. He has been featured in the Huffington Post, Business Insider, The Hill, Time, The Wall Street Journal and CNN Money. He developed a love of teaching and service to others in the US Peace Corps.
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Rhett is a Co-founder at Courageous Leadership, a leadership consultancy that helps you believe again. Courageous Leadership is an amalgamation of experienced behavior scientists, entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, and breakthrough story makers who have worked with and helped grow some of the largest, most relevant brands on the planet, including Google, Snapchat, Major League Baseball, General Mills, Nestle, Qualcomm, and others.
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As we enter into the Triduum, take<|fim_middle|> dream a reality. | a moment in these days to rest, to pray & to try and see the world with Jesus' eyes.
During Holy Week I use Ignatian contemplation to pray with the Gospel stories of Jesus' suffering, death & resurrection. In this way of prayer, you use your imagination to place yourself in the midst of the Gospel story and witness what unfolds. Through our imagination, we are able to see and discover more of who Jesus is and who we are in Jesus' eyes. Jesus is always ready to deepen his relationship with us, he is always ready to show us something new.
This week Jesus seeks to share his life and death with us. Ultimately, he shares his resurrection, his unwavering love and his unfailing hope. What it is that Jesus is inviting you to see, hear and hold this week? For some ideas about ways to reflect and have some "holy calm" this week check out Ignatian Spirituality.com's article: How To Do Holy Week. This week, as we always are as as the community of the Ignatian Spiritual Life Center, let's imagine God's dream for the world and come to know, even more deeply, how we can make God's | 244 |
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PHILIP, S. (Author). 10 Jun 2016
Philip Sandra - Thesis - Final - 2016.05.16 | A Dramaturgical Methodology for the (Re) Processing of Traumatic Memory Through the Performance of Autobiographical Trauma Narratives
SANDRA PHILIP
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
This complex practice as research project was designed to interrogate the potential of `Traumaturgy', an emergent dramaturgical methodology, in addressing the many challenges of writing, staging, and performing, autobiographical trauma narratives and to understand the impact of this process on the psychic, and somatic memories, of the autobiographical performer. The methodology was designed to motivate complex reflections on personal and cultural traumata as critical provocations for the re-writing and performing of the memory-scripts associated with the autobiographical traumatic life events such as adoption, which are explored through the traumaturgical performance process. Rather than distracting the psyche from the autobiographical traumatic experience, the traumaturgy model functions by seeking to establish new internal cognitive networks: positive associations that might facilitate an empowering, liberating transition, initiated through the act of traumaturgically framed narrative performance. Models of trauma intervention locate narrative reconstructions of the traumatic experience as a central focus for the process of recovery (Eagle., 2000; Herman, 1992; Schwartz & Prout, 1991) etc, however, unlike expressive therapies (see Glading, 1991; Moreno, 1975) which exist within the relative safety of the applied theatre space, key to this methodology is the achievement of strategic closure, by returning the performance to the traditional theatre environment and inviting an audience to play the role of witness. This creative synthesis between trauma theory and dramaturgical responses to the staging, and performing of post-traumatic memory based materials, forms the axis of this methodological approach. The research-sharing event In Search of Duende, which represented the performative articulation of this thesis, culminated in the performance of the play Dancing For Franco, which sought to re-write, and re process the researcher's autobiographical trauma-based memory scripts through its witnessed performance. The play takes the somatic language of flamenco intertwoven with the adoption narratives of the researcher, and individuals affected by the Francoist system of illegal baby theft which are collectively known as the Niños Robados (Spain's Stolen Children), and the fictional narratives of created characters, to understand how the traumaturgy model might instigate transformational processes within the autobiographical performer.
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Dans la mythologie grecque, Coronis (en grec ancien / , de / , « corneille »), fille de Phlégias (roi des Lapithes), est la mère d'Asclépios (dieu de la médecine).
Selon la version majoritaire, rapportée par Ovide dans ses Métamorphoses (II, 251 et suivants), elle a pour nom Coronis, en raison de sa beauté. Elle est enceinte d'Apollon. De peur que celui-ci ne la quitte quand elle aura vieilli, elle prend comme amant un Arcadien du nom d'Ischys, fils d'Élatos. Apollon découvre cette aventure par un corbeau blanc qui, par punition, est coloré en noir par Apollon. Il décide de tuer Coronis et son amant. Avant de mourir, Coronis révèle au dieu sa grossesse. Apollon récupère alors l'enfant à naître, Asclépios, qu'il confie au centaure Chiron.
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Le mythe de Coronis apparaît de manière indirect<|fim_middle|> Chez ce dernier, Coronis choisit le mortel Ischys parce qu'elle craint d'être abandonnée par Apollon.
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Princesse de la mythologie grecque | e dans l'Hymne homérique à Apollon, qui évoque une rivalité entre le dieu et Ischys, fils d'Élation, pour la fille d'Azan. Chez Hésiode, un corbeau informe Apollon que Coronis, fille de Phlégias, a épousé Ischys, fils d'Élation, mais le fragment s'arrête là.
Dans la troisième Pythique de Pindare, au , Apollon apprend d'un corbeau et par ses propres talents de divination l'infidélité de Coronis avec Ischys et envoie sa sœur Artémis qui le venge en massacrant Coronis et ses voisines. Il arrache Asclépios du ventre de sa mère sur son bûcher funéraire et le confie à Chiron, pour que ce dernier apprenne à l'enfant l'art de guérir. Un scholiaste à Pindare rapporte une précision qu'il attribue à l'auteur hellénistique Artémon de Milet : Apollon en colère s'en prend au corbeau, transformant en noir son plumage initialement blanc. Un skyphos à figures rouges du milieu du montrait déjà Apollon accompagné d'un oiseau blanc. L'histoire de Coronis se retrouve également chez les mythographes Phérécyde et Acousilaos. | 318 |
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Cons: I need a link, like a landing page, or a functionality to easily copy paste HTML to make one on my website. I haven't seen that yet.
Overall: I've been using EO for over a year and I love it. They keep improving and I'll stick with them to the end.
Pros: The Cost. It really is excellent value for the money.
Cons: Getting started was complicated, and the line spacing doesn't show in the template the way it does in the final product. I have to double space everything or it looks cramped.
Overall: Excellent. The support here is terrific. Once I figured out a template that would work for me, it became very easy. I do have trouble with the line spacing though. It does show in the final NL the way it shows in the template.
Pros: Easy to use and I'm not very good with computers.
Cons: No issues so far with the software and I been using over a year.
Overall: Easy to send my monthly newsletter. Was helpful when GDPR came in. Good customer service and value.
Pros: I used another software and when you calculate prices Email Octopus looks best.
Cons: You should do some changes in the future for easy searching tools.
Overall: I organize my emails very speedy and without spending much time.
And yes the best things is the price of all these services.
Pros: Very easy to use, incredibly affordable. Love how simple it is to import email templates from other services.
Cons: As an agency, I would like to be able to have sub-accounts, to help keep our reports & lists separate. But that's not a huge problem currently.
Overall: Fantastic! I recommend them to anyone who does email marketing and want's to control their own backend tool.
Can an Octopus beat up a Chimp?
Pros: EmailOctopus is going up against some pretty big incumbents (ie MailChimp). They offer the same great features to help you automate and track your email blast campaigns. Even though they're relatively small by comparison, they're built on top of the Amazon Cloud, so you're guaranteed rock-solid reliability.
Cons: It seems like the analytics offered aren't quite to the same caliber as the bigger guys. They're usable and adequate, but you can't dig into the numbers very deep.
Pros: Report for sent campaigns has many details.
Cons: Email builder is not powerful enough. More templates would be useful too.
Pros: - Very clean and easy to understand interface.
- Once you get it up and running, it's a breeze to send emails.
- There's a free plan to start with.
Cons: - Hard to start sending emails - you have to be approved by Amazon, then request an increase in sending limits. It's a bit of a hassle.
- Automation features feel very shallow.
- The forms are nothing interesting, but they do work.
Overall: From what I know, it's mostly the work of 2 people. Which is impressive. The tool however feels very half-baked, compared to Sendy for example. I've used for a few months, then quit for another system that used the same Amazon SES infrastructure.
Pros: Great usability and easy to set-up website widgets.
Overall: Overall it's a great tool once it's set up. Fair prices, great usability and easy to implement on your own website and within marketing campaigns.
Cons: We are still using it so I am not really seeing any problems so far.
Pros: Tried it for free and loved it. Simple and easy to use. Very clean and much more affordable then the completion.
Overall: We are very pleased with everything so far. Everything you could ask for in an email app.
Pros: Integrates very easy with amazon ses and that makes the deliverability rate be so high!
Cons: The automation is very poor. You can't send emails based on behaviour but just with a delay of hours/days/weeks.
Pros: Low cost, Easy of use, reports and very effective.
Cons: You need an functional AWS account to use this platform.
Overall: I see good delivery rate for my mails and the ROI is also very good.
Pros: Ease of use and reporting. Familiarity with mapping out emails.
Cons: Overall cost for higher subscribers. I use the service as a monthly/bi-monthly newsletter tops but can't pay premium pricing for when I use it so little of the time.
Overall: Great platform and easy to use.
Cons: Not enough functionalities, impossible to work with team without giving them the full account access. | web in the future.
Overall: I switched to EmailOctopus in 2017 from another email vendor and so far I have not been disappointed. It's easy to use, fantastic value for money and the support team are very responsive.
Pros: Very reliable and always fast. I feel that I can count on this software to deliver my messages fast and secure.
Cons: Customization could improve. It would be great to have a better contact section.
Overall: Our company needed a piece of software that simply just delivered emails for us without any worry or hassle.
Pros: I moved from MailChimp, because of the price tag. Octopus is way cheaper, but it's still possible to send the same quality emails and that's great.
2. List features are limited. No way to create segments or groups based on subscriber data.
3. Regarding reports: A graphic overview of where the clicks are placed.
Overall: I like it, but that's because I found workarounds.
Fx. I design the NewsLetter in MailChimp and copy/paste the HTML. It works fine that way.
Thanks for the feedback. We have some good news on the campaign editor- we've just launched our new drag & drop email builder.
It's only in Beta at the moment, however I've added it to your account and you'll be able to use it in your next campaign.
More updates to come based on your feedback, too.
It's easy so I actually use it!
Pros: I love how simple Email Octopus is to use. Because of this I actually send regular emails and stay in contact with my customers. I'm not ultra tech savvy so this is perfect for me.
Cons: I wish I could segment my lists more and have more ability to drill down and only send certain follow up emails to certain customers.
Overall: I love how easy it is to use and if I have any issues, customer service is always excellent!!
Fabulous email marketing service! Easy to use with great features.
Pros: The cost you can't beat anywhere! It's very easy to use, has loads of features and is comparable to most of the other "usual suspects" in the email marketing world. I love love love Email Octopus!
Cons: The only con that I can think of is that for a non-techie like me, it was a bit difficult to connect with Amazon SES but once the connection was made, its been all uphill.
Cons: At first, it wasn't very clear to me how to set up the AWS (Amazon Web Services Account) but everything was described perfectly on EmailOctopus and the support team was always very helpful.
Pros: I love this tool so much because they are the only Email service providers who are | 558 |
Today's edition of Grammar 101 comes via a suggestion from Lesley Chang. She wants some clarification regarding the usage of the phrase "what's to say." This somewhat colloquial saying can be used interchangeably with "who's to say," and it is largely a construction that is used with verbal rather than written correspondence.
Whenever you start a sentence with "what's to say" or "who's to say," you need to complete the sentence with a full clause and a question mark. This is because these sentences are used for expressing the uncertainty<|fim_middle|> a matter of personal preference. Some people like this kind of writing style, whereas others feel that it is too casual for certain applications.
If you separate the respective contractions, you can see how these sentences are still grammatically acceptable. "Who's to say" can be separated into "who is to say." This poses a question and the appropriate response to such a question would involve answering the question of "who." In the above example on global warming, you could refer to David Suzuki or Al Gore.
In most instances, you can replace "who's to say" with "what's to say" to get the same desired query. You are still questioning the certainty of a certain statement. This is quite different than the difference between much and many, since that is much more distinct.
Do you have a suggestion for a future Grammar 101? Let me know through the comment form below.
Excellent Michael! This is a great example of everyday life expressions that can be used in our writing to bring more street conversation and feeling.
Alice in wonderland said " who's to say what's proper? " which means that she used "who's to say" + question construction not a phrase . Can anyone clarify that ? | of an event or a posited truth. Here are a few examples.
What's to say he wanted to go to the party in the first place?
Who's to say that we're to blame for global warming?
Who's to say what I can and cannot do?
Just like when it comes to ending sentences in a preposition and maintaining a consistent parallel structure, using "what's to say" or "who's to say" to start a sentence is largely | 94 |
Wynton Marsalis brings you this self-curated collection for The Music of America series. This 2-CD set blends the diverse musical languages that personify this unique American artist and<|fim_middle|> flesh, celebrity worship and corporate greed – does that? Who has the depth to plumb the entire American jazz tradition as if it's all good and new, and then connect it with music from Africa, Spain, France as well as the spicy flavors of the Mediterranean? Who is searching for the ineffable qualities of spiritual transcendence in the artistic objectives of jazz? Wynton Marsalis is foremost among them.
We invite you to go forward also, with one foot in the past and the other pointing to the future, to bask in the music of Wynton Marsalis, so that you too will say: Yes, Love. | composer. The compositions are performed by a diverse group of musicians including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orion String Quartet, musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and members of The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in various configurations. Speaking through the voice of a bluesman, parishioner, sophisticate, slave, griotor philosopher, Marsalis bring an eye of a musical historian as he takes us through a musical journey of some of his most outstanding works. This collection truly personifies Marsalis as the formidable trumpet player, the world-class composer and an extraordinary contributor to The Music of America.
Yes and Love. These two words summon the affirmation and arc of intention, and the meaning and values at the core of Wynton Marsalis's oeuvre, a small sample of which is contained on this two-disc set. When you listen, other words will bubble to the surface, other metaphors and images will arise. Nouns like "America" – rural to city, farming to high-tech, white and black and the spectrum of colors of the spiral rainbow –will be evoked. Marsalis's music also registers an emotional spectrum, from the sensual slow drags to the in-the-pocket mid-tempos to the high-velocity-jet swing. You'll also find down-home timbres, horns with bite and sass, plus strings that sing and sting with a fiddler's edge.
The music in this collection covers only a thirteen-year period in a career that spans three decades, yet the scope and range of aesthetic content encompasses the sweep of a century of jazz tradition and modern innovation. Several cuts on the first disc – "Express Crossing (Astride Iron Horses)," "Station Call" and "The Caboose" – explore the dead metaphor of Pullman porter and Amtrak trains, even harkening back to the Underground Railroad, yet reinvigorate the metaphor in light of high-speed rails. These compositions are the best train onomatopoeia since Ellington's many classics capturing the iron horse in sound.
"D in the Key of F" captures the Yes and Love of romance and intimacy between couples, alto and tenor sax alternating conversational choruses, ending in an embrace of harmony. Another number, "Jump," swings with the verve of the best of the big bands of yesteryear. Marsalis's trumpet mentor, Harry "Sweets" Edison, rises to the occasion, showing the young men how it's done. Edison was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra that came swingin' out of Kansas City in the 1930s.
"Fiddler's March," a response to Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale, is exemplary of the way Marsalis incorporates classical composers into his aesthetic statements and counter-statements. "Hellbound Highball" demonstrates this engagement with European tradition more explicitly in string quartet format. "Go, Possum, Go" recalls the days of Davy Crockett, in an American slave fiddling context, through violin master Mark O'Connor, who, like Marsalis, reflects Anglo- and Afro-American traditions in his music.
The penultimate song on the first disc appropriates the march beat so fundamental to jazz and Western music. The last composition captures the spiritual optimism, the Yes and Love, of "I Am." Both are from Marsalis's 2002 engagement with a jazz quartet, a vocal choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, All Rise.
The second disc opens with the ultra-modern "The Majesty of the Blues," followed by "The Dance," an invitation to waltz along in triple meter, to modulate and break, and to flow in ensemble groove. But the reverie is interrupted by the tragic awareness of man's inhumanity to humankind, by the lurching of slave ships on the rocky Atlantic. From Blood on the Fields (Marsalis's epic piece, recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1997), we see through hearing the tale of a man and woman captivated with each other as captives. "Move Over," said the woman, yet really desiring for him to "come close to me, touch me" because although they were enslaved externally, she tried to teach him how to live in spite of a bad situation.
This American tragedy, this tale of irony – freedom's grounding in unfreedom – and the romance and adventure of life still amounts to a Yes, an affirmation of life. But to affirm life we also say "No" to "Soul for Sale" –an allusion to Cole Porter's "Love for Sale," with likewise jaunty music contrasted by the harsh reality of the lyrics. We affirm life anyway by signifyin' and scattin', by declaring "We gonna swing anyway!" Even with tears, Yes. With the blues, Yes. With tenacity, discipline, integrity, and with what Marsalis calls soul: "to give without want." Yes. And to Love, to give without seeking in return. Yes.
Do you yet wonder how and why Yes, and when and where Love? The fourth cut, where the heroic soloist is supported by the ensemble bosom of the democratic process, shows a way, as "Double Rondo on the River (Pedro's Getaway)" swings the forward motion and drive of jazz. This is the feeling of players and listeners immersed in a purification ritual, the spirit of regeneration in the midst of tragedy. To complete the cycle of life, you also need romance, the sweet embrace of life captured in the tenderness of "Spring Yaoundé," whereby a ritual of fertility conceives springtime. That's the Saturday Night Function.
Ghost," you're in an Afro-American church service where you give glory to God in the Highest by shouting a joyful noise unto the Lord. You done worked hard all week, had a good time Friday and Saturday nights, so now's the time to rejuvenate through joy, to show gratitude for the blessing of life, of breath, of the senses, of time and space. Time to show appreciation for feeling in form, for the memory in sound that is music and all of God's gifts. Yes, Love.
Whereas a mournful "The Death of Jazz" taps into the very earliest of jazz traditions, the funeral and the parade, we ride the rollicking second line in the Crescent City with the final cut, "Oh, But on the Third Day." Guitarist and banjo player Danny Barker, who performed with, among others, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Cab Calloway, shines here. Marsalis played in Barker's Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band when he was eight years old.
Wynton Marsalis's achievement as a composer for small and large groups has not been given due consideration by so-called serious music critics. Similar to Duke Ellington, whose prolific production make assessing his body of work a daunting task, Marsalis has written so much music encompassing such a panorama of styles, genres, grooves and feeling-tones that even a Ph.D in musicology is no guarantee of proper critical judgment. In 1999 alone, he came out with an average of one full recording per month. Who – in these days of pop flash and | 1,497 |
Whole movie is on youtube if you don't mind Danish subtitles.
This movie apparently was produced and written for Lifetime TV. I don't know if it ever showed on TV but if so, kudos to them. I don't think I've seen a made for TV movie that specifically dealt with a lesbian relationship.
So… I really liked this story. Both actresses did a great job and it felt believable. Yes, it is the cliché of the unhappily married woman who unexpectedly finds herself attracted to a woman for the first time, but it was well written.
What I liked about it was that all the characters involved act how one would expect they'd act in this situation. Kate and her husband are mutually OK with splitting up, although her husband would be fine keeping the status quo. Kate has always wanted to be a wife and mother and that's what she went for. They have a nice upper middle class existence, but Kate is just not happy and decides that she wants a more fulfilling life.
She ends up working for Mac at Mac's real-estate agency. Mac is an out lesbian. Both women get closer as they work together and Kate finds herself attracted as more than a friend to Mac. Mac is very leery when Kate professes that attraction because, um, Kate is straight and Mac doesn't want to be some straight woman's experiment and she doesn't want to be a straight women's secret lover. Mac has lost the love of her life and is also reluctant to find someone knew.
While they dance around each other trying to work out both an attraction and mixed feelings about that attraction, Kate gets the guts up to tell her husband, children and best friend about her attraction to Mac, which goes over…not well…at first.
This movie is a kind of a sweet romance, but it also deals realistically with all the issues around homophobia, possible "gay for you" as Kate can't really say she's now a lesbian, and fear for glbt person being used as a fling. It also addresses certain stereotypes of what straight people think about gay relationships. I liked that it wasn't cheesy, nor was this movie melodramatic. In fact, all the characters act rather maturely for this kind of situation, considering.
The only negative thing I will say is that it did come across as too insta love for me at first on Kate's side. There is a nice build-up of a friendship between Kate and Mac, but those special things that would occur between two characters falling in love seemed missing. They are just normal, good friends one min and suddenly Kate is kissing Mac out of nowhere. I would have loved to see more sexual/ romantic nuance between the women before that first kiss. However, it is an HEA and still an enjoyable movie.
A widow, recovering from the death of her husband, comes to the big city to spend time with her busy professional daughter. Instead, she forges an unlikely relationship with a commitment-phobic lesbian who has a past with her daughter.
I had watched A Perfect Ending, which I loved, about an older / younger women relationship. So I was attracted to Tru Love, hoping it would be as good for me as the other because it's also is about an May/ Dec female relationship. Tru Love, while compared often to A Perfect Ending, is a very different film though, and can't be compared really. Well not in story. I will compare it when it comes to personal feelings about May/ Dec love representations.
Maybe it was just<|fim_middle|> I ended up liking this film because it does show that love and relationships between people can go beyond what society might deem appropriate or not. (between consenting adults) And I appreciate stories like this that go outside the box.
I'd definitely recommend this story if you'd be open to a May/Dec story with a much older woman. | my mood, but for most of it I felt a bit uncomfortable watching this. And while I just said Tru Love should not be compared to A Perfect Ending, what made that less uncomfortable for me was the fact that that relationship started out and is based on a business deal, so the lines are clear at the beginning and age difference wouldn't be a factor in it. In this movie, it's really about a love that develops between a 60 something woman with a late 30's something woman.
For some reason, I felt a kind of dread throughout most of the film mainly because I wasn't sure I wanted to see these two characters actually fall in love and be intimate. And I'll be honest in that probably my discomfort is that I'm an older woman myself and would feel weird being with a much younger woman like the one in this film. Although, actually, if I would put myself in the position of a younger woman attracted to an older one, that wouldn't have made me feel uneasy at all.
Tru is a lesbian who seems to be fairly callous in her relationships with other women. She won't commit to anyone and seems to have one night stands and brief relationships one after another, not even bothering to remember their names. Suzanne, one of those past women, asks Tru, who still has the key to that Suzanne's house (side bar- I wonder how real it is that lesbians having brief affairs give each other keys to their houses after a few nights, which seemed to be the case in this movie), to let her visiting mom in. Suzanne is a lawyer and a workaholic.
Due to Suzanne never being home, Tru sort of entertains Alice, Suzanne's mom. They like each other right away and start getting very close to the discomfort of Suzanne. On the one hand Suzanne is feeling a bit jealous of time her mom is spending with Tru, but on the other she won't stop working. When she sees that Tru and her mom are getting a little too close she tries to thwart their relationship, which upsets both Tru and Alice, who think the other is avoiding.
As for Alice, her husband has died and for the first time she feels free to let go and enjoy life. The ghost of her husband is there and talks to her when she's musing, so we get some background on what Alice's life has been about.
Alice's zest for life and enjoyment of Tru, and maybe also because she is an older woman who Tru relates differently to than women her own age, makes it easier for Tru to open up about her painful past. So we get to see why Tru is a commitment-phobe.
This story is just as much about a mother/ daughter relationship as an f/f relationship as tensions rise up between Alice and Suzanne about Tru. It also makes Suzanne confront her avoidance of any kind of a life outside of work. She's very uptight and this cracks her shell.
So the crux of my discomfort is that I felt Tru and Alice connecting as two people might with that kind of age difference, but couldn't see it entering into a more intimate thing, which it did. On the other hand, truly, I think | 658 |
The spread really is the limit in the same way as it comes to mural painting ideas. Most people just compulsion a springboard to get them thinking previously the possibilities are<|fim_middle|>! Interior designers, retailers, artists, even parents and grandparents are finding a lot of freedom of expression in creating the perfect mural for a child's room.
It's my information that anything goes in a child's room as it relates to color. It doesn't have to flow once the on fire of the colors in your home thus just permit your imagination to run wild. And remember, most children view their rooms as their "fort" or "princess castle" so don't be too serious. This is their song – where they get to be creative and…they acquire to be kids!
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Here's one thig you have to know practically murals and muralists gone it comes to large-scale murals similar to a focus upon trompe l'oeil and one lessening perspective: If you can imagine it, it can more than likely be created.
Now, think big and peruse the below lists of mural painting ideas and get ready to turn that hum-drum playroom, bedroom, foyer or kitchen into something that transcends space, severity and time!
I have to say yes that the popularity of this is over my wildest imagination. It's unquestionably not child's play! This is huge business | 179 |
Halloween is the second largest commercial holiday in the<|fim_middle|> Vice President of Operations at AlliedBarton Security Services. AlliedBarton is the industry's premier provider of highly trained security personnel to many industries including higher education, commercial real estate, healthcare, residential communities, chemical/petrochemical, government, manufacturing and distribution, financial institutions, and shopping centers. | United States. There are fun and frightening activities to partake in this fall season, but keep in mind the following safety tips so festivities remain a treat for all.
· Take a flashlight with you. Even though the safety lighting might be fine for others, it may not be great for you.
· If you are going with small children, attach a glow stick to their clothing so they can be easily found in the dark.
· If there are stairs in the haunted house, be sure to use handrails and walk, do not run, up or down the stairs.
· If visiting a haunted house in a group, have a meeting place in case you get split up.
· Know where the exits are before entering the haunted house. Some attractions will provide you a map of the house so you are aware of where you are going when inside.
· Keep an adult in the front and rear of your group going through the haunted house to help monitor young children so they do not stray.
Corn mazes are large fields of corn stalks, anywhere from a small field to more than 20 acres in size. They can be great fun if they are completed safely.
· Equip your group with flashlights and cell phones and try to stick together.
· Some mazes provide young children and groups with colored flags to wave in the air if they get lost. There are also mazes that have call boxes that will turn on a light to alert an attendant that you are lost or need assistance.
· Teach young children to not go outside of the maze's path. There may be a busy road or another unknown property beyond the corn stalks.
· Wear appropriate clothing and shoes as you will be outside. If the path is not wide, corn stalks may scratch your arms. Remember that rain can create muddy, slippery surfaces. Fallen corn stalks may also be a tripping hazard, so watch your step.
· Avoid smoking while in the maze as dry corn stalk could easily catch fire.
· Be cautious when loading and unloading from the hayride. Make sure the hayride is at a complete stop before getting onboard or off. If there are steps, they could be slippery because of the hay or straw.
· Be careful when finding a place to sit. Your foot could easily slip between bales if you walk on them.
· Make sure everyone in your group is sitting at all times during the hayride and all arms and legs are kept inside the wagon.
· Hold on to small children and railings as bumps in the path could easily bounce you and them off of your seat.
· If the hayride is horse-drawn, be careful around the horse and do not approach it if the hayride operator states not to. If it is a tractor pulling the wagon, do not touch it as there are many handles and buttons that could accidently be pushed. The tractor could also be hot from running for a long period.
· Do not walk in the hayride path. Stay in a safe, well-lit area when you are not riding.
Always remember to wear proper attire and footwear and plan for weather restrictions . Enjoy fall festivities by planning in advance and being safety-conscious.
Paul van Gorkom is the | 647 |
Episode 42: Scrapbook Lessons from the Greatest Computer Scientist in the World
Show Notes This episode shares lessons from the world's greatest computer scientist and how we can use his techniques to have more fun scrapbooking. This episode was inspired by the podcast Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford, episode "Fritterin' Away Genius". Alice loved this episode and thinks you will too, be sure to check it out! What do chess, unicycles, juggling, pogo sticks, flame-throwing trumpets and Rubik's cube have in common? They are all activities enjoyed by the scientist known as Claude Shannon, a man referred to by his peers as "The Greatest Computer Scientist in the World". In this episode we'll explore how Claude Shannon's interests varied greatly, but also helped him make some great discoveries, and how this can apply to our scrapbooking process as well.
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Welcome to the ScrapHappier Podcast, where we share quick tips, tricks, and techniques to help you create scrapbooks you love and be happier while doing it. I'm your host, Alice Boll.
I'm so glad that you've joined me for this episode. We have something a little different to talk about today. I was really inspired by a podcast I listened to recently, and, no, it's not a scrapbooking podcast. It's something completely different. It's called Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, and the episode was called Fritterin' Away Genius.
Have you ever felt that you suffer from scrapbook distraction? Have you ever given yourself a hard time because you've walked away from an unfinished page and it just ended up on a pile of other unfinished projects? Then I think you're going to want to listen carefully. Or perhaps you have this problem. You feel that your pages are too predictable. You seem to be doing the same thing over and over. Well, listen up, there's something for you in this episode too.
In the episode of Cautionary Tales, Tim Harford tells the story of Claude Shannon. You know the way that physicists talk about Einstein? Well, other computer scientists talk about Claude Shannon in the same way. In fact, he's considered the greatest computer scientist in the world. Claude Shannon had two lightning bolt discoveries. When he was 21 years old in 1938, he devised the theory of a logic machine, that machines could perform any operation and solve any logic problem as long as you had a true or false statement, and you could use switches that were either open or closed, on or off. This is actually the discovery that led to the age of the digital computer. Thank you, Claude Shannon.
In 1948 when he was working at Bell Labs was his next lightning bolt discovery. He devised the theory for transmitting information. He figured out how to compress data so that it would take up less space. And then he went and did the opposite. He devised a way to add redundancy and extra data into information so that data could be transmitted over distant lines, like transatlantic cables, and actually have less noise and interference. He created files that had redundant data so that even if part of the data was missing, the rest of it could be devised.
So at this point you might be thinking, okay, this guy's a genius. What did he do next? He spent time becoming a chess master, and he would play chess and other hex games, which are a type of board game. Then he would cycle his unicycle up and down the hallways at Bell Labs. Then he took up juggling and riding the unicycle and juggling and hopping on a pogo stick. He played with erector sets and made a robot mouse that could solve a maze. He made an early version of a chess-playing computer. He tried to figure out how to juggle upside down. He created flame-throwing trumpets. Yeah, let's just let that sink in for a second.
He made giant styrofoam shoes to walk on water. He learned to walk on a tightrope. And here's one that your kids, grandkids, and probably your husbands will admire, I know mine does. He created the ultimate machine where you flick a switch and a little finger pops out of the box and turns the switch off again. Let's just say that hours of entertainment at our house can all be attributed back to Claude Shannon.
Claude's boss understood the value of the work that he had already completed, and he said that Claude had earned the right to be nonproductive. And one time Claude had promised Scientific American, a very prestigious science journal, an article on the physics of juggling. He later wrote them a letter to say that they probably thought he was frittering away his time, but he'd actually come to a realization that he was a very good poet and that Scientific American should actually have a poetry section because he is really good at writing poetry and he had written them a poem about Rubik's cubes.
So by now you might be wondering, Alice, what does this have to do with scrapbooking? Don't worry. We're there. So much of the advice we receive nowadays focuses on sticking to one task, to really diving head first into one topic, going all in and becoming really good, really proficient at that task. We hear about it in all kinds of places. Another podcaster that I follow is named Malcolm Gladwell and he talked about the 10,000- hour rule and how 10,000 hours is what you need to put in to become really expert at something.
But does that theory hold up? Claude Shannon said no. In fact, he reached out to Vannevar Bush. He was the person that headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. And Claude Shannon told him that he was actually more productive and better because he worked on multiple projects. Vannevar Bush said that great scientists should range widely and keep changing things up. He advocated for breadth over depth. And this theory of trying different things and changing focus was backed up through a lot of scientific research. Apparently, scientists like studying other scientists too.
So how can we use this knowledge when we want to apply it to our scrapbooking? How can we go for the breadth over the depth? First of all, if you've ever suffered from distraction and you've left one project undone and started a new one, maybe you're a little bit more like Claude Shannon. Maybe one project has inspired you more, and so you left that other one to the side. Is that really a problem? Is the guilt warranted? Should we even feel bad about that at all? If we move from one project that we were bored of and did something that inspired us much more, isn't that actually a lot better?
One thing I've noticed with my own scrapbooking is that when I try different things, I feel so much more energized when I come back to my scrapbooking. For Christmas of 2019, I made my son a T-shirt quilt. And let's just say, I am not a quilter. I am not a sewer. In fact, I am known for my reluctance to sew on scrapbook pages. But I'll tell you that after I made that quilt, I actually sewed on scrapbook pages. I tried something totally new because I did something totally new.
The same kind of thing works whenever we try different kinds of crafts or other projects that get us out of our space, out of our own head, and out of our own constraints that we put on ourselves in our scrapbooks. So go ahead and spend some time sewing, quilting, crocheting, knitting, painting, doing watercolor, trying your hand at macrame, or maybe you just need a whole new experience where you're out in the garden or raising some chickens.
Shifting gears and trying something new doesn't mean that that's going to be bad for your scrapbooking. Your current productivity might go down in scrapbooking because you're engaging your time somewhere else, but when you come back to scrapbooking you're going to be inspired. Maybe plant life is going to become something that comes onto your pages. Maybe you're going to find yourself putting chicken feathers on a page, who knows? Okay. I'll confess. I know because it's exactly what happened during the summer of 2020.
And it doesn't just have to be different kinds of hobbies and crafts. You can try different techniques. Maybe you'll be inspired by making a monochromatic layout, playing with watercolor backgrounds, using photo-realistic paper, printing really large photos, making grid layouts, tearing paper, making lots and lots of layers, doing some digital scrapbooking, maybe using black-and-white photos, or diving head first into all the fun that mixed media can be.
Try changing your style of scrapbooking for a while. If you're always making 12 x 12 pages, try making double page spreads, try making a traveler's notebook, try 8 1/2 x 11 or 6 x 8 or one of the cool sizes like 9 x 12. Create a special project just for pocket pages. Give memory planning a chance. Just by switching up our sizes and our styles of scrapbooking, it puts us into a different creative headspace.
If you've ever felt that your pages are way too predictable and that you're just doing the same thing over and over again, let's go back to the podcast for one more piece of advice. When Claude Shannon discovered how to compress information and make it smaller so it would fit in a smaller size, that really applies to our digital life. But do you know how they do this? When they're compressing a movie, they're not actually compressing every single scene of the movie. They're only recording the differences. By just tracking the changes and the differences, it allows them to make the file so much smaller because it's really only the differences that are important.
And that works with our life too. When we go on a vacation, we remember that so vividly because it's different than the rest of our days. And that means it will also apply to our scrapbooking. It's the differences that will be memorable. When you try something new, it will be fun and exciting. It might not always work out, but that's okay. It's just paper. Most scrapbookers I know are not short on paper and supplies, and we can reprint that photo in just a few seconds. So by trying something new on your next scrapbook page, your pages will not be predictable. You'll remember it because of the differences.
If you thought the story about Claude Shannon was interesting, I really encourage you to go and listen to the Cautionary Tales episode with Tim Harford called Fritterin' Away Genius. Look at the famous scientists that we all know, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein. They did not just study one thing. They're actually not even just famous for one thing. They're famous for multiple things in different disciplines. And we can do the same with our scrapbooking.
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John Gayford writes about the prologue of St John's Gospel
In ancient Greek drama a prologue was poetic, of fluid form, and served as introduction or pre-statement of what was to follow. This was not a feature of Hebrew literature. Nevertheless, Hebrew concepts were introduced in the prologue of St John's Gospel for Greek readers. If St John's Gospel is described as a pearl of great price among New Testament writings, the prologue, a well-contained unit, may be described as the gem within this gospel. Both St Augustine of Hippo and St John Chrysostom thought it was beyond the power of man to speak as John does in the prelude, thus drawing a parallel with the creation story and justifying its reputation as a most sacred text of the New Testament.
The message of Jesus is proclaimed in terms of Johannine theology which includes an eschatological message of salvation with Jesus as its mediator. Jesus is projected as aware of his divine origin, speaking of his unity with the Father but also proclaiming the incarnation. St John's Gospel has also been likened to an exquisite musical symphony that cascades through the text. The prologue to the gospel becomes both musical overture and conclusion, probably written after the main work. In eighteen verses the prologue contains some of the major themes from the gospel. We can compare this with the musical examples of opera, oratorio and suite where melodies of the work are heard in the overture. The prologue can also be viewed as the conclusion to St John's Gospel. It represents a statement about an intimate relationship between God and the world, by the bridge of the eternal and yet incarnate (of this time) Logos.
The Evangelist does not only go back to the public ministry of Jesus and even his birth, but takes us back to the time before creation, to Jesus' eternal being with God. The prelude is equally at home in the world of Hebrew scripture and Hellenistic Judaism of the first century that includes Philo, thus serving both cultures. It allows the development of concepts of sophia (wisdom) and torah (law) as both being the Word, thus the prologue is Hellenistic philosophy and rabbinic mysticism set in historical context. The Johannine Logos is parallel to the sophia-torah figure of Judaism: the torah was historically given through Moses, but truth and grace came through Jesus. The Logos existed but was unknown and incom<|fim_middle|>001).
BROWN, R.E. The Gospel According to John. The Anchor Bible. Doubleday, London (1966).
JUNGMANN, J.A. The Mass of the Roman Rite: its Origin and Development. Translated into English by Brunner, F. A. and revised by Riepe, C.K. Burns & Oates, London (1959).
MOLONEY, F.J. The Gospel of John. Volume 4 in the Sacra Pagina Series edited by Harrington, D.J. A Michael Glazier Book. The Liturgical Press Collegeville, Minnesota (1998).
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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being.
4 What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.
8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light.
9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.
11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.
12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,
13 Who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified to him and cried out, "This is he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.")
16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
The Text of the Prologue of St. John's Gospel (Verses 1-18) from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible 1989
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No discussion of the prologue of St John's Gospel would be complete without some explanation of Logos and wisdom theology. While the concept of Logos theology is relatively modern, the concept of the Logos is deeply buried in Greek (Hellenistic) philosophy and Jewish thought. In simple terms, St John's name for the second person of the Trinity is the Word of God. In Greek, in which the text was written, Logos means word, speech and reason. The prologue sets out the philosophical basis of the relationship between God and Jesus in terms of the incarnation of the Word of God. The use of 'word' (Logos) to denote the coeternal offspring of God replaces 'wisdom' in the literary models which lie behind the prologue (Prov. 8.22–31; Eccles. 24 and Wisd. 7.22–8.1). Thus, the concept of Logos comes historically from both Greek and Hebrew with different meanings.
The Gospel of St John is deceptively simple in style and vocabulary, but also has mystic qualities suggesting a hidden depth. Thus, it operates at two levels—factual accounts and symbolic meanings—with St Clement of Alexandria designating it as the spiritual gospel.
Even those who do not accept that the prologue had its origin as a hymn admit there is an element of Hebrew poetry with parallelism which swings as a pendulum through the piece. Hebrew poetry does not rhyme but uses poetic parallelism seen in the Psalms and other biblical texts. The highly poetic format of the prologue demonstrates what can be called climactic parallelism, where a word present in a sentence (usually the last or next to last) is taken up as the subject of the next sentence. This gives the prologue (especially in the first five verses) a cohesion and solemnity in its pronunciation as seen in Psalms and Proverbs.
In the Ancient Near East (the cradle of civilization where the written word had not developed) the spoken word was considered a very powerful means of communication. Magic depended on the correct word for a spell to be effective. This was true for both Egypt and Mesopotamia, where the divine word was considered to have creative powers. This was true for God, gods and, to a lesser degree, human beings, but most powerful in blessing, cursing and given powers in contracts. The word of the king was clearly more powerful than that of the commoner. The word started in the heart (mind) and then was translated into speech. Once uttered before witnesses it could not be retracted. It was the power of speech that made things intelligible and able to be shared with others. The word of God must be understood against this background. The word of the Lord is an essential operative agent in the history of Israel. Things happen starting with creation (Gen. 1–3). In the Old Testament the word was both the medium of communication and the creative power as seen in Genesis 1, verses 3, 6 and 9, and also in Psalm 33.6—'by the word of the Lord the heavens were made.' In the New Testament, Jesus is projected as the teacher of wisdom.
The author of the prologue is not ashamed of his Hebrew roots which have been transformed into the Christian faith. He translates this into a format that will speak to new converts who were intelligent Hellenistic Gentiles. The heresies of Docetism and Gnosticism were both emerging in the Johannine community. Historians tell us that they were beginning to take hold and it almost became preferred to orthodox Christianity. The author of the prologue was aware of this and knew their language and refuted their teachings in a stroke with verse 14: 'the Word became flesh and lived among us.'
There is much deliberation as to the author of the prologue and even as to whether there was more than one author or redactor. We could continue to ask if the author of the prologue was the same as of the gospel. John the son of Zebedee was a Galilean fisherman who probably did much of his trade in Greek, but did that give him the linguistic skills demonstrated in the original text? As an intelligent man who lived for a long time it is possible that he gradually developed these skills and honed them into his writings which others redacted. It is also equally possible that he used the assistance of a member of the Johannine community who was known to have these skills. Even so this begs the question of whether the prologue and the gospel were written by the same person. Both have a deceptively simple style and vocabulary which hides the complex multiple layers of their meaning and gives the text the possibility of several interpretations, and also its glorious mystical qualities.
If the prologue of St John is a Christological hymn it is not alone in the New Testament. It can be discussed along with Philippians 2.6–11; Colossians 1.15–20; Ephesians 2.14–16; I Timothy 3.16; 1 Peter 3.18–22, Hebrews 1.3 and possibly others.
There are no Gnostic documents that predate the New Testament, but Gnosticism could have existed in an oral form. If the prologue is a hymn of Christian origin, it is anti-gnostic in that the Logos became flesh. We see that this idea came from the very beginning of a Christian community. Here there was no concept of a mythological redeemer who came to earth, but rather of the eternal Son of God who at one specific time became man, in real flesh and blood in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Nevertheless, this Christian community came to conversion from Jews and heathen Hellenists. It seems to make little difference if this hymn was a pre-Christian hymn that may have been adapted from Jewish and heathen Hellenistic concepts.
There have been claims that the Evangelist was influenced by Gnosticism. There is evidence that Docetism and probably Gnosticism existed and caused divisions in the Johannine community in the second century. That Gnostics were drawn to St John's Gospel inhibited acceptance and study of this gospel by orthodox Christian biblical scholars of the early church. The Gnostics said that matter is evil and spirit is good. The prologue of St John's put the lie to their error by presenting the truth of the Incarnation: thus God taking on flesh, spirit, and matter in a holy union. St Jerome says: 'when the word became flesh he did not cease to be what he was before.' This was the final denial of Gnosticism.
There are many verse by verse exegetical commentaries of the prologue of St John's Gospel, but we will concentrate on verse 14: the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
Most see the prologue reaching its climax in this verse, but we do well to remember that the Word was coming into the world in verses 3–4 and 9. We can make the analogy of the tide advancing up the beach each wave taking it a stage further until it reaches its high water mark. The text of verse 14 gives us a very condensed summary of a central pillar of our Christian faith. Now the incomprehensible takes place, the Logos/Word comes and pitches his tent among men.
The following two quotations seem to stand out, and appear in the Christmas liturgy:
'But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children.' (Gal. 4.4).
For while all things were in quiet silence, and night was in the midst of her course, your almighty word leapt down from heaven from your royal throne. (Wisd. 18.14–15a).
When we say that the Logos became flesh we progress the divine dramatic theme of revelation to include Jesus as light, life and truth. This is what gives humanity salvation. This truly is a genuflection moment of faith we can reflect in liturgy.
The prologue of St John's was firmly established as the conclusion of most Masses in the Missale Romanum of Pope Pius V in 1570 and remained until 1964 reform at the Second Vatican Council. It still remains part of the Extraordinary Rite. There was a medieval practice favoured by the Dominicans of reciting the Omnia Opera (Dan. 3.58–88) as the priest returned from the altar, followed by the Last Gospel as the priest took off his vestments. There are undisputed claims it appears in the Rituale Romanum and Mediaeval Sarum Manual of 1614, but in the form of a blessing at the end of the Visitation of the Sick and at Baptism. It was in this format that the prologue of St John's Gospel gained sacred connotations as a blessing, which could even be used to promote fine weather. As such, it was seen as a summary of the Fourth Gospel and a direct attack on the Devil trying to harm souls. Not all Masses ended with the prologue of St John's Gospel; other texts were used on specific occasions. Historically in liturgy the text was variably rendered, including all reciting the text together. The norm in the Latin Extraordinary Form of the Mass is for the priest to go to the gospel (north) of the altar and after an introduction as for the gospel of the Mass. The priest then recites the prologue of St John's Gospel in a low voice. At the words 'Et verbum caro factum est' ('and the word was made flesh') all genuflect in recognition of the incarnation. Altar cards are provided for the text. From the mid-19th century, Anglo-Catholic liturgy (as in the English Missal) was providing for the Last Gospel to be recited at the end of Mass in English, but this has faded from use since the Second Vatican Council.
The eighteen verses of the prelude are packed with High Christological theology which leave us in no doubt as to the divinity and humanity of Jesus. There is no Messianic secret as in the Synoptic Gospels. We are introduced immediately to Jesus as the Logos responsible for God's cosmic creation before taking human form. He is the light that confronts darkness and overcomes it, giving light to all who believe in him, exalting us to the status of being children of God.
The Revd Dr John Gayford is Honorary Assistant Priest
at St Mary's, East Grinstead
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The following letter from New<|fim_middle|>el Tries again for Student Visa to SMU | York immigration attorney Ted Cox sets forth the legal case for granting a student visa to Saad Nabeel so that he can enroll at SMU.
Nabeel graduated from high school in Texas and was enrolled at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Fall of 2009 when immigration authorities in Dallas detained his father for deportation to Bangladesh. The younger Nabeel then accompanied his mother to the Canada border where they applied for admission to Canada. When their application to Canada was denied, Nabeel and his mother were detained for 42 days and deported to Bangladesh.
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Theodore N. Cox, Esq.
Attorney-at-Law
Embassy of the United States
Attn: Non-Immigrant Visa Unit
Re: Non-Immigrant Visa Re-application
NABEEL, Saad Mohammad (F-1 Visa Applicant)
Dear Consul:
I am writing you as the attorney for Saad Mohammad Nabeel ("Mr. Nabeel" or "Applicant"). A copy of our G-28 was submitted by Mr. Nabeel at his initial visa interview on June 21, 2010. Another is attached with this letter. Mr. Nabeel is a nineteen year old young man seeking an F-1 visa in order to study environmental engineering at Southern Methodist University ("SMU"), in Dallas, Texas beginning in the Fall semester of 2010. However, at the end of the interview on June 21, 2010, Mr. Nabeel was found ineligible for a nonimmigrant visa based upon INA § 214(b) and INA § 212(a)(9)(B)(ii)
Mr. Nabeel has retained me to ensure that he fulfills all the requirements for a successful visa re-application in Summer 2010. In the following letter memorandum, I will outline the bases for concluding that this Applicant fulfills all the requirements for both an F-1 visa, entitling him to non-immigrant status pursuant to Section 214(b), as well as the requirements for a waiver of the three year unlawful presence bar pursuant to Sections 212(a)(9)(B)(iii) (exception for Minors), and 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(I), and Section 212(d)(3).
I) Mr. Nabeel can Demonstrate that He is a Bona Fide Student With Financial Resources and Without Immigrant Intentions
A. Mr. Nabeel Will Be a Bona Fide Student in the USA
The young applicant, Mr. Nabeel, has a letter of acceptance from Southern Methodist University's program in Environmental Engineering. Please see attached hereto as Exhibit A Applicant's SMU acceptance letter to the SMU Lyle School of Engineering, as well as a copy of his I-20, and proof of SEVIS registration. Mr. Nabeel is prepared to explain fully how he came to choose this university as his place of study. He will bring with him many documents attesting to his long history of being a very good student, transcripts, SAT scores, letters of recommendations from his high school teachers. He will explain in detail his interest in environmental engineering, a highly specialized and also very recent and still developing area of engineering studies. SMU is one of a very few universities, not merely in the U.S., but anywhere globally, offering a program in environmental engineering, and Mr. Nabeel was extremely honored to have obtained a place in this ever more competitive program. See attached as Exhibit B a brief statement from Mr. Nabeel regarding his desire to attend SMU and their outstanding environmental engineering program.
The SMU Lyle School of Engineering has a Strategic Plan outlining goals for training engineers "who will be global citizens, leaders, and entrepreneurs, to help peoples all over the world," according to Professor Jeffery Talley, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman of the SMU Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering. As he notes in his letter in support of Mr. Nabeel's application for a student visa, attached as Exhibit C, "Bangladesh, with its monsoon caused floods that annually destroy much of what little infrastructure they have" is precisely the sort of developing country the Lyle School of Engineering seeks to have an impact on with its environmental engineering program. In his letter Professor Talley promises to show Mr. Nabeel "how to help his countrymen to have clean water, healthy sanitation, clean air, and more reliable electric power."
Another SMU engineering professor, H.Charles Baker, also provides a letter in support of Mr. Nabeel's student visa to study at SMU, further emphasizing the developmental and humanitarian concerns of the Lyle School of Engineering. He also explains that his colleague, Dr. Talley, is the founder of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, endowed by the family of the late Hunt oil billionaire, and focusing its efforts on the infrastructure needs of impoverished countries like Bangladesh. Dr. Talley and the Hunt Institute have both the desire and the resources to set up a relationship with the Bangladesh government, as well as private companies in Bangladesh with whom Mr. Nabeel can work to implement plans for modernizing the infrastructure to bring clean water and sanitation, clean air, and more reliable electric power to Bangladesh. See Professor Baker's letter attached as Exhibit D.
B. Mr. Nabeel Can Demonstrate Financial Resources to Support His Period of Study in the USA
The SMU Lyle School of Engineering has a long history of cooperative education, whereby students begin alternating semesters of school and work during their sophomore year. Beginning in August 2011, Mr. Nabeel will begin working with organizations that will provide him with direct experience in his field of infrastructure modernization, even as he earns money to pay for his education. He will earn his engineering degree in five years in this program and will graduate with the training and the organizational contacts necessary to begin contributing within his field of Environmental Engineering immediately.
Mr. Nabeel will be supported by the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, and his four years of co-op with the Hunt Institute will be spent developing plans for infrastructure improvements in Bangladesh. See the letters from Engineering Professor Charles Baker, and from Dr. Jeffery Talley, Professor and Chair of the SMU Department of Environmental Engineering, and founding Director of the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, Exhibits C and D.
In addition, Mr. Ralph Isenberg, a prominent businessman from Dallas, Texas, has offered to provide all financial support required by Mr. Nabeel during his first year of school, as well as whatever additional support is required for the succeeding years. See attached as Exhibit E a recent letter from Mr. Isenberg.
C. Mr. Nabeel Can Demonstrate His Intent to Return to Bangladesh After Completing His Program of Study
Mr. Nabeel's career goal of becoming an environmental engineer has been inspired by his recognition of the great needs of Bangladesh for basic infrastructure. As he explains in his statement, he was shocked when he returned to Bangladesh in January 2010 with his parents, after many years living in the United States, to witness the levels of poverty and disease in his own country, and to experience the lack of clean water and clean air that diminished the daily life of everyone in the country. While he had previously wanted to become an electrical engineer, pursuing technical innovations in robotics and computers, when he returned to Bangladesh he had a dramatic social awakening. He now feels an intense moral obligation towards his own country of origin, Bangladesh, feeling that he has been given a new sense of purpose that was never before part of his life. He believes that he can make a difference in Bangladesh, helping millions of people achieve the very basic, very necessary goal of accessible clean water, helping to end the horrific patterns of disease that destroy the lives of so many of his fellow Bangladesh citizens due to unclean water. Because of this new sense of moral imperative, Mr. Nabeel has a very strong commitment to returning to Bangladesh to engage in this life's work as soon as he has completed his schooling at SMU.
In addition, his sponsors at SMU, Dr. Talley and the Hunt Institute, are committed to his return to Bangladesh, as well. Their whole focus is to train individuals like Mr. Nabeel, and to aid him in his future life's work in Bangladesh by creating connections between the Hunt Institute and the Bangladesh government, as well as private contractors, as well as Eastern University in Dhaka, enabling Mr. Nabeel to return to Bangladesh and carry on his humanitarian engineering goals. Please see attached as Exhibit F, a letter from Dr. Chowdhury, Vice Chairman of Eastern University, offering Mr. Nabeel a teaching and research position in a new Department of Environmental Engineering that Eastern University plans to create in the next few years, based on input and advice from SMU's Hunt Institute. See attached as Exhibit G, a letter from a private engineering firm, Rahimafrooz, Limited, discussing Mr. Nabeel's plans for education at SMU, and his planned return to doing teaching and research at Eastern University in Dhaka, and offering Mr. Nabeel a consulting position with the Rahimafrooz firm that would enable him to pursue various environmental engineering projects in Bangladesh.
In sum, Mr. Nabeel's plans for obtaining an Environmental Engineering degree at SMU are closely bound up with his plans for returning to Bangladesh to pursue his life's work in developing basic aspects of the infrastructure in Bangladesh. Everyone involved in encouraging and supporting his education at SMU is equally committed to Mr. Nabeel's return to Bangladesh to apply the knowledge he will gain at SMU to allaying the desperate needs of his country people in Bangladesh.
Mr. Nabeel also has extensive family ties, on both his mother's and his father's sides of the family in Bangladesh. On his father's side, he has uncles and aunts who are medical doctors, school teachers, businessmen and women, as well as a retired army general. On his mother's side, he has uncles and aunts who are lawyers, teachers, politicians, high level government workers, and so on. He also has several cousins of approximately his own age attending university in Bangladesh. While it was a huge shock to return to Bangladesh after being away for so long, Mr. Nabeel has much stronger familial ties in Bangladesh than he had in the U.S., and he is now reconnecting with many of these relatives. His extensive family ties provide a highly valuable and significant foundation for the professional career he plans to develop in Bangladesh when he returns home again after advanced training as an engineer in the U.S. See attached as Exhibit H a partial list of Mr. Nabeel's family ties in Bangladesh.
Based upon these strong Bangladesh family ties, as well as career plans that are fundamentally grounded in Mr. Nabeel's aspirations for returning to Bangladesh to contribute to infrastructural development in Bangladesh, the Applicant is entitled to non-immigrant status pursuant to Section 214(b).
II) Mr. Nabeel Can Demonstrate Eligibility for a 212(d)(3) Waiver Pursuant to Matter of Hranka
Mr. Nabeel was born on January 21, 1991, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. However, at the age of three, on May 9, 1994, he was brought to the U.S. on a B-2 visitor's visa, accompanying his parents, Mohammad Musa Tarique, and Laila Nazmin. He lived in the U.S. with his parents, for the next 15 years, graduating from high school with very high grades, and attending the University of Texas with several scholarships. His uncle, Haider Nabi, a U.S. citizen, submitted an I-130 on behalf of Mr. Nabeel, along with his father and mother on January 15, 1999, and it was approved on January 15, 2008, and the priority date became current in January 2009. As beneficiaries of INA 245i, Mr. Nabeel and his parents would have been eligible to adjust status, despite his father's removal order, final on April 4, 2001 when their petition for review was denied by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, a prior attorney, Lea Greenberger, failed to properly and promptly apply for a joint motion to reopen Mr. Nabeel's father's case based on their approved I-130 and their eligibility to adjust status in January 2009. Unfortunately, Mr. Nabeel was deported on January 4, 2010 along with his two parents, due to this dramatically significant oversight of his prior attorney. See attached as Exhibit I the I-130 approval notice, as well as removal documents.
On January 4, 2010, the date of he and his parents' deportation to Dhaka, Bangladesh, Mr. Nabeel was eighteen years and eleven months old; his nineteenth birthday would be occurring on January 21, 2010. Because there is an exception to the unlawful presence bar for all those who are minors, who remain under the age of eighteen, Mr. Nabeel did not begin to accumulate unlawful presence until his eighteenth birthday, on January 21, 2009. See INA § 212(a)(9)(B)(iii), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9)(B)(iii). On January 4, 2010, the day he and his parents returned to Dhaka, Mr. Nabeel had thus been unlawfully present according to the statute, for between six and twelve months, and incurred the three year unlawful presence bar pursuant to INA § 212(a)(9)(B)(i)(1), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9)(B)(i)(1).
Mr. Nabeel is eligible for a waiver of the three year unlawful presence bar, however, based on Matter of Hranka, 16 I&N. Dec. 491 (BIA 1978). According to the BIA in Matter of Hranka, there are three relevant factors in evaluating eligibility for a waiver, and in each case, a balancing test must be done, weighing the positive equities against any possible negative factors. According to Matter of Hranka, an application under section 212(d)(3), requires a weighing of: 1) the risk of harm to society if the applicant is admitted; 2) the seriousness of the applicant's immigration law, or criminal law violation; 3) the nature of the applicant's reasons for wishing to enter the U.S.
Mr. Nabeel has no criminal record, and he can document an exemplary record as a good student, through high school, and then during his first year in college at the University of Texas. See attached as Exhibit J letters from teachers, as well as transcripts and other documents attesting to his strong history as a student. There is no reason to think that he poses any risk of harm to society if admitted to the U.S., and so the first Hranka factor has no negative weight in his case.
Regarding the second Hranka factor, the seriousness of the applicant's immigration law violation, Mr. Nabeel has a relatively clean slate, as well. Mr. Nabeel was brought, as a three year old infant to the U.S. by his parents, having no choice in the matter. And he remained in the U.S., as the only child of loving parents who sought to obtain legal status in the U.S. As a minor, he could hardly have chosen to leave the U.S. while his parents, who had fallen out of status, continued to reside there. Surely, this is why Congress chose, in Section 212(a)(9)(B) to except minors from the unlawful presence bar until the age of eighteen. Unfortunately, despite their eligibility to adjust status based upon their 245i eligibility and their approved I-130 family petition that became current in January 2009, Mr. Nabeel and his parents had an attorney who failed to promptly apply for the necessary Joint Motion to Reopen their case in January 2009. Accordingly, Mr. Nabeel was deported with his parents on January 4, 2010, when he was a few weeks short of nineteen years of age, and so subject to the three year unlawful presence bar under Section 212(a)(9)(B).
The negative factors in his case are minimal due to Mr. Nabeel's status as a minor during most of his time in the U.S., and as merely a derivative child on his parents' applications for status, as well as on their removal orders. However, the strength of Mr. Nabeel's claim for a 212(d)(3) waiver lies in the positive weight of his reasons for seeking a nonimmigrant visa, the third Hranka factor. While the Hranka Board held that "there is no requirement that the applicant's reasons for wishing to enter the U.S. be 'compelling," Mr. Nabeel's reasons are indeed compelling, and should make the balancing test readily come out in his favor.
As explained above in Parts I (A) and I (C), as well as in his personal statement, Mr. Nabeel experienced an intense social awakening when he arrived back in Bangladesh after living for so long abroad in the U.S. Growing up in the U.S., he had unthinkingly taken for granted the availability of clean water, and plenty of electricity, if not always clean air. Arriving in Bangladesh, Mr. Nabeel was suddenly made aware of the fact that in much of the world, such important aspects of daily life remain out of reach for many people due to a lack of infrastructure. Always very good at math and science, Mr. Nabeel had long planned on becoming an engineer. As a student in the U.S., he had been intellectually interested in robotics and other aspects of advanced technology, his career goals merely a matter of personal choice, with no larger vision in mind. However, upon returning to Bangladesh, Mr. Nabeel was immediately struck with the desperate need for particular sorts of development, and for the sorts of engineering projects that would make such development possible. His own sense of priorities began to shift as he realized that his abilities in math and science could have a larger purpose than he had imagined while a privileged student back in the USA. He could aspire to making a difference in Bangladesh, he could aspire to playing a significant role in helping his country attain basic goods such as clean water, clean air, electricity, as well as flood control in a time of global warming and the environmental chaos it was already bringing to his country of origin. See Exhibit B, Applicant's personal statement.
It was at that point that he began researching new sorts of engineering programs, programs that would properly equip him to contribute to the infrastructural development of his own country. Finally, he discovered the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, with its Environmental Engineering Program, and its very specific focus on developmental and humanitarian engineering projects. He began corresponding with Dr. Jeffery Talley, as well as Professor Charles Baker. And his plans for attending SMU were born. As both Dr. Talley and Professor Baker emphasize in their letters of support, Mr. Nabeel's training as an environmental engineer within SMU's dynamic and cutting edge program will be a "three way win." Exhibits C and D. SMU's Environmental Engineering program is devoted to preparing highly motivated individuals like Mr. Nabeel for lives of service within their own country. By participating in the Lyle School of Engineering's Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, Mr. Nabeel will gain the knowledge, expertise and experience, and connections within his own country to return to Bangladesh at the conclusion of his five year program, capable of making a serious contribution to developmental goals. He already has commitments from Eastern University, in Dhaka, where he will teach and do research and help develop a new Environmental Engineering program based upon his experiences in Texas at SMU. Mr. Nabeel will benefit as an individual from his student visa and his years as a student at SMU, but his country, Bangladesh, will benefit greatly as well. And the interests of the U.S., in promoting infrastructural development, along with stability and self sufficiency in Bangladesh will be promoted as well.
We hope and expect that the U.S. Consulate in Dhaka will take this opportunity to consider again Mr. Nabeel's eligibility for a student visa, and now promptly issue Mr. Nabeel his non-immigrant student visa.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Theodore N. Cox
Attorney for Petitioner
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I get down, you perhaps get down, we all get down.
Sometimes though, getting down can feel less traumatic than it might. In my case this is often the result of not getting down about being down.
It's when you get down about being down that things can spiral, well, down.
There seems to be a lot of sense instead in doing your darndest to simply accept that you're not feeling so great.
We may not always remember it, but we generally do have a choice about how we'll react to life's wobbles. And there are no prizes for guessing what happens when we choose to see things bleakly.
Perhaps you'll have a perfect day today. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
But in the more likely event that at least something doesn't quite go your way, why<|fim_middle|> learning to care for myself. Thanks for this post! | not see if you can choose to simply accept it rather than letting it get to you?
Although when things do go right, you have every right to feel good about feeling good.
This is a powerful one for me Jon. The benefit of experience and a lifetime of depression I guess, but I've learnt that sometimes it's best to accept and not fight a low mood. I just 'hunker down' and set my sights low for a day or four. I still go to work, I still carry on, but I'm kind to myself and let things go rather than wail and gnash my teeth! I allow myself to go home, get into bed and sleep it off. Or watch a film with one of the kids so that I don't have to talk but I'm in company.
Tomorrow (or the day after) is always another day and often for no apparent reason, it starts to lift. I suppose it's called finally getting to know oneself.
I agree – I used to get upset with myself for feeling down or anxious which only compounds the problem. Now I tell myself "this too shall pass" and carry on the best I can. I am slowly | 238 |
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14. It's not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
15. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
16. We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
17. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
18. I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
19. And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
20. I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
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These are my favorite quotes which motivated me on life and success. There are a lot of quotes by him. You may leave a comment below and share some quotes by steve jobs that are not here and in which inspires you becoming an influential person someday. | life of Steve Jobs. I was not really that fascinated before because the old videos filming his life were really (sorry for being honest) boring; maybe because I was young and naive. I was still a dependent and fun-loving kid back then. When I started to create simple programming systems upto I learned embedded programming systems, I realized how extremely cool Steve Jobs was; not because he was popular but because he inspired me doing stuff I had never imagine that I can do. Since then, I was really curious of his achievements. Yes. He was also stubborn at some point but I admired him because he was persistent of aiming for quality and not quantity. He was standing strong for the greatest business innovation ideas and not for money alone. I know for sure in the deepest part of himself he wants money but he was more focus on the quality of the product he is producing. He may not be the greatest motivational leader but definitely, I know he is one of the passionate leaders I had seen. He is an outstanding influencer for the millennials. I hope he should have lived longer but the impact of his death (2011 due to pancreatic cancer) lead to a worldwide inspiration. Admit it or not, he inspired us improving our innovation and technology innovation ideas.
1. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
2. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
3. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
4. That's been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
5. For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
6. My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
7. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
8. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
9. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
10. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
11. I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.
12. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
13. Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters | 843 |
Scunthorpe and Appleby Frodingham Works Cricket Club Ground is a cricket ground in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 192<|fim_middle|>unthorpe and Appleby Frodingham Works Cricket Club Ground on Cricinfo
Cricket grounds in Lincolnshire
Sports venues in Scunthorpe
Sports venues completed in 1925 | 5 when Lincolnshire first played at the ground in the Minor Counties Championship against the Nottinghamshire Second XI. From 1925, the ground hosted 49 Minor Counties Championship matches, the last of which came against Staffordshire. In addition, the ground has also hosted a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match, which came in 1987 when Lincolnshire played Durham.
The ground also held a single List-A match in 1975, when Minor Counties North played Yorkshire in the Benson and Hedges Cup.
In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home of Appleby Frodingham Cricket Club who play in the Yorkshire ECB County Premier League. The cricket club is part of a larger body called the Appleby-Frodingham Works Athletic Club, which is associated with Corus Group and was originally created by Appleby-Frodingham Steel Company.
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I finally had to break down and get gas yesterday (I am odd, which most of you already know, so yesterday was my day). I still had almost 1/4 tank but even I am being more conservative than usual. Normally I consider it to be a waste of time to fill up when I am not almost empty. It cost me $30 to fill the tank (I love my Prius).
My fault was choosing to wait in one of the many "hope" lines. A hope line is one where the cars are lining up and even moving forward (as cars leave the queue) but the gas station in question is not pumping gas. So that killed an hour.
When I finally found a gas station that was pumping (referred by a friend), I drove 10 miles out of my way (burning gas) and filled up after about a 25 minute wait. The Hess website is good at showing which station has gas and there is a web site gasbuddy that also shows them.
Did I tell you I love my Prius. I lasted 2 weeks and still had enough gas that I could have driven another few days. I tell everyone I drive a sports car (because it is red).
I really rail against people who think odd/even gas is gas rationing. It is not. People can still buy as much gas as they want as long as they shop on the right day. Rationing would be if people were limited in what they could buy (and as an environmentalist, I do not think that would be terrible although the logistics would be a nightmare).
I think there would be one more thing that could be done to cut the wait time in gas lines. Do not allow people to refill unless their tank is on 1/4 full or less. Many people are refilling when they are over half so this is doubling the number of stops at the gas station.
So why the gas shortage?<|fim_middle|> 4 hours per day. A 5000 watt generator (which is on the large side of average) uses 1/2 gallon per hour so that is added demand of 2 gallons times 24,000 households that is 480,000 gallons per day. This is an increase in demand of only 14%.
So the added gas for the increased gas people are keeping in their tanks is about 1/2 week plus 10% for the gas in the ground at gas stations without power. And added demand of 14%. If only 1 week more supply was added, we would be caught up.
I never know what posts will get me the most search traffic. I notice I have good ranking for Good to Great is Gone and Wisdom of Failure but virtually no rank for others like Propel and Compound Effect.
Wondering if Google thinks I am more of an expert in loser topics.
Demand will increase for something in short supply because people believe "there is not enough" for everyone. We, in general, have a scarcity mentality. If you believe that "there is more than enough for everyone" the gas situation doesn't make sense as you point out - maybe more people need to think like you. (Can't believe I just said that :). | It has to be the damaged distribution system since the math simply does not support that we could not catch up easily.
There are 1.2 million households in Long Island. Assume there is an average of 2 cars per household.
Assume normal people use 10 gallons or gas weekly, the base demand is 24 million gallons/week.
Assume 10% of the gas stations are without power so there is a one time 10% reduction in reserves.
Assume normally the average car is half full and now the average is 3/4 full. Assume the normal tank holds 16 gallons (which has to be way high), this would be 4 gallons times 2.4 million cars or 9.6 million gallons.
Assume of the 20% without power(it is a bit lower than that now but averaging the past 14 days), 20% of those people are running a gas generator for | 197 |
TUT Women Leadership Forum explores future of work through gaming
The Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Women Leadership Forum and the DSI – NRF SARChi Research Chair in Future Transport Manufacturing Technologies held a Plan A 4IR Business Simulation Game event recently, that aimed to assist leaders to understand the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). During these engagements extensive discussions that reflect on women leadership were also explored.
Prof Khumbulani Mpofu, who spearheads the DSI/SARChi in Future Transport Manufacturing Technologies explained that Plan A, a Future Work game that assists leaders to understand the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).<|fim_middle|> innovative way to engage, debate and learn.
The WLF, SARChI FTMT and the Gibela Research Chair are planning to host more events of this nature in the near future, to further engage and explore technologies that will assist in the alleviation of women's challenges in maneuvering the future of work and 4IR. | "The question of what the 4IR is about is one question that needs attention in this generation. Sadly, many people speak about the revolution, however, few understand its implications. Plan A assists to resolve this challenge by ensuring leaders are educated on the nuisances of this revolution and how it impacts their growth, future viability and employee satisfaction," he Prof Mpofu said.
He further explained that: "Because it is a serious gaming environment, it allows decision permutations to be explored without necessarily harming the bottom line of the organisation, but most critically, it allows leaders, in this case women leaders, to focus on their organisational vision and align it with the possibilities provided for by the 4IR."
In her keynote address, Dr Caroline Selepe, Director: Special Projects in the office of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal emphasised the direction the university is taking in supporting women, in particular, to have a continued and impactful contribution in ensuring the university is competitive.
What stood out from Dr Selepe's address was what she called "the fire in her belly" for women upliftment, equality and empowerment. She spoke from the conviction of her heart and raised awareness of the indispensable role of women in the 4IR and that sustainable economic growth is improbable without women empowerment. She further emphasised that measures for gender inclusion are the driving factor of social progress and economic growth for our country.
Female participants at the event were all in agreement that the simulation games were enlightening. They also added that the games were an | 305 |
Hyundai Super Bowl 2014 Ad
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ALL-NEW 2015 GENESIS STARS IN HYUNDAI SUPER BOWL AD
Fountain Valley, Calif., January 24, 2014 – Hyundai's new 30-second Super Bowl commercial "Dad's Sixth Sense," which airs during the first quarter of the big game, features the all-new 2015 Hyundai Genesis, available in dealerships this Spring.
"Dad's Sixth Sense" dramatizes the near<|fim_middle|>35 hydrogen filling station just on M1 near Sheffield | -misses and breathtaking saves of everyday parenting. The action follows a young boy as he grows up, and Dad is there for him again and again. The commercial culminates with a final breathtaking save – only this time, it's the all-new 2015 Hyundai's Genesis that has the young man's back.
The commercial features the song, "Count On Me," from Bruno Mars' multi-platinum debut album "Doo-Wops & Hooligans." Creative was developed by Hyundai's agency of record, INNOCEAN USA, and directed by perennial Super Bowl standout Frank Todaro. The spot highlights the innovation behind the Genesis' world-class suite of Sensory Surround Safety features.
"The safety features of the Genesis are like the safety a dad provides to his children, coming to the rescue when it counts," said Steve Shannon, vice president, Marketing, Hyundai Motor America. "The spot also captures the car's dramatic exterior design, intuitive features, premium craftsmanship and confident handling and performance."
In addition to "Dad's Sixth Sense," Hyundai's second 30-second Super Bowl spot features the 2014 Elantra in "Nice," a humorous ad that follows a flirtatious game of one-upmanship between a well-known comedian and a young woman in two identical Elantras, effectively showcasing the innovative performance, style and technology features of Hyundai's compact sedan.
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Grant Morrison is the biggest name in today's comic book industry, bar none. After his break-through work for 2000 AD, Zenith, in the 80s Morrison went on to create mind-bending cult classics such as The Invisibles and Doom Patrol for DC, before reinvigorating the world's most famous superheroes -- Superman, the X-Men and Batman -- in award-winning runs. He is also a counter-cultural spokesman and expert on the impact of technology in society.
Anyone who has read Marvel or DC comics over the past couple of decades will recognise Grant Morrison as someone who first came to prominence in what amounted to a British invasion. A cultural and creative exchange that, like its musical equivalent back in the 60s, helped to both reinvent and ultimately revitalise the art form. His personal contribution is vast and varied, covering such titles as JLA, New X-Men, Seven Soldiers, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and DC's New 52's reboot of Superman, in Action Comics. Been there, done that, is a phrase that insouciantly covers Morrison's career, and that is only to date. In Supergods, he presents a freewheeling overview of the superhero comic book industry, delving deep into the impact<|fim_middle|> big secret; how a man who was writing himself as King Mob in The Invisibles, a comic that was the nearest thing to a printed hallucinogen, persuaded Marvel to give him creative control of The X-Men, and later had DC let him loose with Batman. Sure, these bold experiments worked and were both terrific successes, but the very fact that they happened at all to such an unconventional, idiosyncratic and provocative writer is what I call magic!
In summary, Supergods is intelligent critique, noir memoir, archetypal exploration, psychological noodling, occult manifesto, exhilarating fun, egotistical rambling and moving personal exposé, all written with more angles than an explosion in a coat-hangar factory. It's also a book about innocent wonder, harnessed belief, and passion for a genre which, more than six decades after its inception, is still going strong. | , meaning and importance to the real world of various characters and their creators. All liberally sprinkled with his unique perspective on the creative process. But, is this a masterwork from one who truly knows, or the wittering of a writer as mad as a meerkat on acid?
There is always the potential for any work detailing history to become textbook dry. Happily, Supergods avoids this from the start, presenting a personal and highly informed view from the mountaintop. Not that Morrison is looking down on anyone, rather he uses his elevated position and the lessons learned on his journey to offer insight. While this work is not intended to be a comprehensive guide, Morrison blends significant comics history with insider knowledge and the wide-eyed wonder of a true fan. Above all, his enthusiasm and positivity toward the genre shines through. Even when the narrative makes it clear that he personally dislikes another creator, his tone remains respectful and diplomatic. There's no room here for dishing dirt, settling scores, or bitterness. Morrison has far more interesting tales to tell.
From an early age, he saw superheroes as capable of being much more than just comic book characters. It is a viewpoint that he has refined and expanded upon over the years, developing a theory that the 2D worlds inhabited by the superheroes are no less real than our own 3D experience. Although obviously very different places, and without the possibility of physical travel between universes, he contends that the 2D and 3D worlds can influence one another, often in very positive ways. It's a mind-bending example of how the author thinks and an indicator, perhaps, of what has given him an edge that even after so many years in the business, is still sharp. Personally, I was delighted to find that Supergods reacquainted me with characters I had loved in the past, and caused me to think of them in different ways. I also found my enthusiasm ignited for selected titles missed during the twists and turns of life that saw me estranged from comics. Becoming successful brought Morrison the expected financial rewards, but before reading Supergods I had no idea that such rewards could pay for a lifestyle not unlike that of a minor rock star. The author joyously recounts jetting around the world and taking lots of drugs, behaviour he claims was self-therapy combined with a quest for insight that would inform his creative output. Morrison now considers himself to be a real life chaos magician. One of the stories he tells with reference to his experimentation with occult forces concerns a spiritual awakening in which he believes he made a mental journey to the place we all go when we die. There he claims to have met and conversed with extra-dimensional beings, before returning to earthly life. Whether we believe that or not, his belief in the reality of magical powers has clearly resulted in works that have won him millions of fans. The one thing we don't get here is the | 595 |
The First World War brought about huge changes in all aspects of private life and public attitudes. It put tremendous strain on relationships,<|fim_middle|> recruiting of persons to serve on His Majesty's Forces".
Seven friends from Dormandsland who all enlisted together. | as a result of separation, uncertainty and the brutal experience of warfare. As Vera Brittain wrote in Testament of Youth, the war created a "barrier of indescribable experience between men and the women they loved".
The British Army Postal Service delivered around 2 billion letters during the war. In 1917 alone, over 19,000 mailbags crossed the English Channel each day, transporting letters and parcels to British troops on the Western Front. Examples of these letters to and from the front paint a vivid and touching picture of the emotional turmoil that many experienced.
Newspapers and magazines reported on "war weddings" of note, such as the example on the right. The Tatler carried a regular feature "Cupid in War Time" listing society marriages and engagements. The Bystander (August 1916) takes a more jaundiced view and suggests jokingly that "a National Society for the Control of War Marriages is set up without delay".
Military, civil and medical authorities tried to promote an ideal of how men and women should behave but this was hard to maintain in the face of the reality of the conflict. Women on the home front were at times perceived as a threat to the health and survival of the nation as a result of their immoral conduct. The British Contagious Disease Act contained added provisions that targeted any women who infected members of the armed forces with VD for criminal prosecution. This was partly in response to the proliferation of "khaki fever," where young women flirted with soldiers on the streets of London. Increased rates of illegitimate birth led to a public crisis over "war babies," who were allegedly the result of military men having brief affairs with women while on leave.
Homosexuality was illegal at the time of the Great War. In 1885 a clause in the Criminal Law Amendment Act stated that "Any male person, who, in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour".
The 1918 novel Despised and Rejected, (written by Rose Allatini but published under the pseudonym A. T. Fitzroy) was banned under the Defence of the Realm Act due to its depiction of the wartime experiences of a lesbian and a homosexual man, as this was thought "likely to prejudice the | 483 |
Dragons Celebrate Successful Season
The Pine City girls basketball team ended their season on Friday night with a loss in the Section 6AA Championship Game. And while the loss might not sit well with Ted Hasz and his squad, the memories of this season will all be good.
This season was a culmination of the last several seasons all put together. The girls have been working and playing together now for several years and have been looking to bring it all together into a deep playoff run. The Dragons capped off another successful regular season with a record of 21-5 and a second place finish in the Great River Conference. They picked up key wins over teams like Milaca, North Branch, and Aitkin. But still saw losses to tough conference opponents Rush City, Foley, and St. Cloud Cathedral. But the Dragons knew heading into the Section 6AA playoffs that they could make a run and end up in the Section Tournament.
The girls were given a six seed in the section. A fair seed, but one that would grant them no easy games in the playoffs. They saw a playoff path that would possibly pit them up against St. Cloud Cathedral and Rush City once again.
First Round:
Pine City 66
Spectrum 50
The Spectrum team would not go down easy. A very tough #11 seed that was determined to pull off an upset. Both teams came out shooting the ball very well. Ted Hasz told WCMP, "Offensively, we had a very good first 8 minutes, but we had a hard time slowing Spectrum down." "After a few adjustments the kids were able to get some stops to get us into half time with a 10 point lead." The Dragons were able to grow the lead in the second half and finish off with an easy victory. The Dragons had 8 in the scoring column. Ellie Hasz had 23, while Lily Wilson had 19. Hannah Lorsung had 7, Alaina Steele had 5, Ashley Faur and Meredith Kolling had 4 each, Sophie Lahti 3 and Jolie Wicktor 1. Wilson had 8 assists and 3 steals. Steele and Kolling each had 3 rebounds and 3 steals. Hasz had 5 rebounds and 2 steals. Lahti had 3 rebounds and 2 steals. Emily Carpenter had 2 rebounds.
Hasz went on to say, "The first playoff game is always interesting as it is like a new season. We were very proud of how the girls came out and played hard and found a way to advance,"
Up next, the Dragons would have to face a team that has had their number, and most of the rest of the section's number: St. Cloud Cathedral.
St. Cloud Cathedral 42
Many people called this one of the biggest wins in the history of the Pine City girl's basketball team. The Dragons had a slow start and found themselves down 8-2 about 5 minutes into the contest. From there the first half belonged to the Dragons outscoring their opponents 28-16 the rest of the half. Ted Hasz said, "The girls played some of their best basketball of the season over that stretch. The difference was that we were playing championship level defense and rebounding the basketball very well." The Dragons were leading throughout much of the second half, but Cathedral fought their way back late. Sophie Lahti hit a big three pointer to give the Dragons a 4 point lead and from there were able to hang on for the big win. "We were able to fight off some adversity with some foul trouble and the pressures of tournament basketball. The kids stayed poised and made some big plays." Lily Wilson had a big steal and bucket when Cathedral was making a run. "It seemed like we were able to answer their runs just enough to keep the lead. Pine City had very balanced scoring with Ellie Hasz and Lily Wilson in double figures with 11 and 10 points respectively. Ashley Faur hit two big threes in the first half when the Dragons were down early to keep them in the game and finished the night with 9 points. Sophie Lahti had 5 points, Hannah Lorsung had 4, Alaina Steele had 3 and Chloe Alleman had 2. "I can't say enough about how the kids played on the defensive end of the floor. Hannah Lorsung and Chloe Alleman did a great job on Cathedrals <|fim_middle|> a deep three in the first half and also had 5 rebounds and 3 assists. "I cannot say enough about the defense Chloe Alleman and Hannah Lorsung played against the 6'4 kid from Cathedral and the 6'3 kid from Royalton in back to back games. It allowed us to be able to get out on shooters and made a huge difference.
The win put the Dragons in the section championship for the first time since 1989. And another upset left Pine City matched up against the #4 seeded Albany Huskies instead of the #1 seed Sauk Centre Mainstreeters who had been section champs five years in a row.
Albany came out with a great start and the Dragons could not get anything going in the section final held at St Cloud State University. Hasz said, "The kids were ready to play and we had a good game plan and great practices leading up to the game, we just didn't execute it the way we wanted too. It was kind of the perfect storm and we couldn't get out of it. We have to give Albany credit, they played great."
Albany's sophomore guard Paige Meyer proved why she is one of the best in the state scoring 27 points for the Huskies. Pine City could not find an answer for her defensively and could not get their own shots to fall. The Dragons finished 10-44 from the field including 4-23 from long range. Lily Wilson led the Dragons with 13 points and three steals. Ellie Hasz added six points and four rebounds. Hanna Lorsung had four points and grabbed six rebounds. Emily Carpenter scored four points . Meredith Kolling added two. Other like Alaina Steele, Ashley Faur, Sophie Lahti, Jolie Wicktor, and Chloe Alleman provided crucial minutes on defense trying to shut down the Huskies.
Hasz ended by saying, "It was a tremendous season. These kids wrote their own story and we all will have great memories that we carry with us. We have to say good bye to 5 great senior captains. Chloe Alleman, Emily Carpenter, Hannah Husom, Hannah Lorsung and Jolie Wicktor. The leadership these kids gave us is one of the major reasons for our great success this year. These young ladies have left their mark on the program and we will see the results of what they have done for the culture of our program for years to come."
Hasz added, "We would like to thank everyone in Pine City for their great support during our playoff run. From everyone involved with Pine City Schools, to community members, to the media, to community organizations, everyone who supported us, a heart felt thank you goes out to all of you!"
The Dragons will now celebrate an amazing season and look forward to next year where they will see a new core of seniors step up and try to get at least one game further.
#HighSchoolSportsUpdate | 6'4 kid." Emily Carpenter and Meredith Kolling came in and gave us some good minutes."
The original plan was Pine City seeing Rush City in the semifinals, but an upset from Royalton changed that plan. A detour that would turn out to help the Dragons, because they wouldn't have to face a team that had beaten them twice already in the regular season and knocked them out of last year's section tournament.
Royalton 43
The Dragons came out of the gates determined and confident. Hasz explained, "We looked up at the scoreboard a few minutes in and we were ahead 17-4." The great start combined with championship level defense all game led to the big win. "Royalton has so many good 3 point shooters and with the 6'3 kid in the middle, the kids knew they had to play great defense all night." Pine City went to the locker room with a 30-18 half time lead. "The kids played a solid first half. We stressed at half time that we need to go out and win the second half as well. We need to stay aggressive especially on the defensive end." The Dragons did just that, building a lead as high as 20 points in the second half. Alaina Steele had a great game with 10 steals to go along with her 12 points. Lily Wilson played some of her best defense of the year and also had 13 points and 9 assists. Ellie Hasz had a big second half after a bit of foul trouble and finished with 20 points including 9 for 10 from the line. Sophie Lahti's length was a huge factor for the Dragons defensively throughout the game. Sophie also finished with 4 points. Ashley Faur hit | 365 |
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Sample of hand-copied music manuscript, in ink, of a piece composed for piano.
Music engraving is the art of drawing music notation at high quality.<|fim_middle|> Music Copying: The Preparation of Music for Performance. Roerick Music Co., Sherman Oaks, California.
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Categories: Musical notation | Music software | The term music copying is almost equivalent, though music engraving implies a higher degree of skill and quality. Plate engraving, the process engraving derives from, became obsolete around 1990. The term engraving is now used to refer to any high-quality method of drawing music notation, particularly on a computer ("computer engraving" or "computer setting") or by hand ("hand engraving").
Early engraving techniques
Plate engraving was the traditional process of engraving music, directly onto a zinc or pewter plate in mirror image. Staff lines were created by dragging a 5-pronged "scoring tool" across the plate, thus the designation, "score" for printed music. Fixed symbols, like note heads and clefs, were punched into the metal with dies, and variable symbols, such as beams or slurs, were engraved by hand.
Plate engraving produced high-quality results, but was only one of several competing technologies in use for reproducing music. Others included:
Moveable type with music symbols on - a centuries-old method, often used for hymn books, but which produced low-quality results
Music typewriters - like moveable type, this produced low-quality results and was never widely used
Hand copying with pen and ruler, which if done by an expert Music Copyist can produce high-quality results
Notaset - dry transfer symbols similar to Letraset
Brushing ink through stencils, a high-quality technique used by Amersham-based company Halstan & Co.
Music engraving in the 20th century
In the distant past, a composer was required to draw his own staff lines (staves) onto blank paper. Eventually, staff paper was manufactured pre-printed with staves as a labor-saving technique. The composer could then compose music directly onto the lines in pencil or ink.
In the 20th century, music staff paper was often printed onto vellum or onionskin: a durable, semi-transparent paper which made it easier for the composer to correct mistakes and revise his work, and also enabled copies of the manuscript to be reproduced through the ozalid process. Also at this time, a music copyist was often employed to hand-copy individual parts (for each musician) from a composer's musical score. Neatness, speed, and accuracy were desirable traits of a skilled copyist.
Computer music engraving
With the advent of the personal computer in the late 1980s and beyond, hand engraving has become a lost art, as all of the "drawing" of each note, symbol, staff, written instructions, can now be accomplished by computer software made especially for this purpose. There are numerous computer programs, known as scorewriters, designed for writing, organizing, editing, and printing music, though only a few produce results of a quality comparable to plate engraving. Even individual parts of an orchestral score can be extracted and printed using such programs. MIDI software is also available, which enables the composer to play notes, melodies, chords, etc. on a piano-type keyboard and have the result transcribed into manuscript format.
There are many music engraving programs available to consumers, such as Finale, Sibelius, and LilyPond.
Ted Ross. Teach Yourself The Art of Music Engraving & Processing Hansen Books, Florida.
Clinton Roemer. The Art of | 687 |
KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (<|fim_middle|> for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with carboplatin and either paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel, for the first-line treatment of metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults. This recommendation is based on results from the pivotal, Phase 3 KEYNOTE-407 trial, which enrolled patients regardless of PD-L1 tumor expression status. The trial showed a significant improvement in overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) for patients taking KEYTRUDA in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and either paclitaxel or nab-paclitaxel) compared with chemotherapy alone. If approved, this would mark the first approval in Europe for an anti-PD-1 therapy in combination with chemotherapy for adults with metastatic squamous NSCLC. | NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the Committee | 20 |
Transcreation Services Beyond Translation: What Businesses Should Know & How Important It Is For Growth In This Era!
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Transcreation services beyond translation. Isn't it just a simple translating of language from one to another and you're good to go? Or so they say. This is the biggest misjudgment to make when it comes to connecting with your foreign counterparts and customers.
In this era where technology is rapidly evolving, internet is connecting the world closely through communication, and businesses are expanding globally through their online adoption and cross-border strategies, language is by far the most vital ingredient that determines if your business succeeds or fails.
We all know the basic definition of translation and that is to convey content accurately from one language to another, but what exactly is transcreation?
Transcreation takes translation to a whole new level.
Simply put, transcreation is creative translation.
Often referred to the translation of marketing collaterals, transcreation is the presentation of a message in another language that is moulded and crafted to suit the cultural values and beliefs of the new audience. What may work for one country may not work for another. What message sells in one country may not convert sales in another. Therefore, transcreation is far more in-depth than just translation. It involves the creation of new imagery, branding, and copy, expression of the right tone of voice, cultural insensitivity and yet, collectively, these new creation need to remain true to the spirit of the original message.
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West Grove's class president Rebecca Sisson and Downingtown's class president Jennifer Arroyo lead their respective classes in the Practical Nursing Pledge and then introduced the guest speaker, Talisa Lewis, an LPN from Kendall Crosslands and alumni of the LPN program. In her remarks, Lewis stressed that there exists a growing demand for LPNs in the private sector and encouraged graduates to take the knowledge they've gained and use it, like she did, to make an impact in the communities they will serve.
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The graduates were composed of part-time students from the West Grove campus and full-time students from the Downingtown program.
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John Taylor: Republicanism, Liberty, and Union
By Joseph R. Stromberg on Sep 12, 2014
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Part 1 of a Five Part Series
1. The Relevance of John Taylor
John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) has a secure, if minor, place in the history of American political thought. Charles A. Beard considered him "the philosopher and statesman of agrarianism" and "the most systematic thinker" of the Jeffersonian Republican party. Indeed, Beard's writing on Taylor, early in the 20th century, did much to revive interest in the Virginia polemicist. Eugene T. Mudge, writing in 1939, saw Taylor's chief importance in his role as "prophet" of sectional struggle, and even civil war. English legal historian M. J. C. Vile sees Taylor as "in some ways the most impressive political theorist that America has produced." Gordon Wood writes that Taylor "brilliantly expressed the conception of American politics that had emerged from the revolutionary era…." Avery Craven calls him "the most profound and the most persistent champion of individual and local democracy…." New Left historian William Appleman Williams once dismissed Taylor as "physiocrat" but later came to believe that Taylor "made the best case against empire as a way of life."
Others have been less favorable. Louis Hartz faults Taylor for posing as a radical democrat, when Taylor ought to have tried to be the "American Disraeli." The celebrated historian Richard Hofstadter calls Taylor "a provincial windbag" and seems aghast that Vernon Lewis Parrington found anything in Taylor worth his time. For a liberal historian of Hofstadter's stamp, the views of Taylor and other Jeffersonian Republicans were entirely too "negative": 'The predominant strain in their economic thinking was laissez faire, their primary goal essentially negative – to destroy the link between the federal government and the investing classes. Acute and observant, their economic writing was at its best in criticism, but it offered no guide to a specific agrarian program. They had no plan; indeed, they made a principle of planlessness.'
And so, in time,
… Jeffersonian laissez faire became the political economy of the most conservative thinkers in the country. Fifty years after Jefferson's death men like William Graham Sumner were writing sentences exactly like Jefferson's and John Taylor's to defend enterprising industrial capitalists and railroad barons from government regulation and reform…. William Jennings Bryan, leading the last stand of agrarianism as an independent political power, was still striving to give his cause the color or respectability by showing that, after all, the farmer too was a businessman!
There is much confusion in the passages just quoted, but for now suffice it to say that, first, Sumner saw himself as a critic and enemy of plutocracy; and, second, farmers certainly could be businessmen in the ordinary sense of the word. As for capitalism – and Taylor's views of it – we shall get there soon enough. Writing in the same year, Manning Dauer managed to find in Taylor the father of "the present day agrarians, and also the present day states' rights industrialists."
2. John Taylor's Life and Career
There have been a number of full-scale studies of Taylor. Older studies include those by William E. Dodd (1908), Henry Simms (1932), and Mudge (already mentioned). More recent are Robert E. Shalhope's John Taylor of Caroline: Pastoral Republican (1978) and C. William Hill's Political Theory of John Taylor of Caroline (1977). An older study, to which I shall return, consists of a two-part essay by Andrew Lytle, first published in 1924. Despite this body of work, it seems fair to say that Taylor has been neglected relative to his actual merits.
John Taylor certainly met the requirements for an Old Dominion planter-statesman. Born to a good family, raised at the home of his uncle Edmund Pendleton, he attended William and Mary College, set up a law practice, served as a major in the Continental Army, and became a successful planter, owning several plantations and 150 slaves. Taylor preferred the quiet life of a country gentleman<|fim_middle|> with their intellectual descendants, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Weaver, and Melvin Bradford.
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This suggests that Taylor was not the sort of classical republican who professes to find freedom in political participation as such. But Taylor did put himself forward in a crisis, as witness his apparent advocacy of secession and his sponsorship of the Virginia Resolutions, in the crisis set off by the Alien and Sedition Acts, the late 18th-century Patriot Act.
3. John Taylor's Writings
As one who always set himself against consolidated government, Taylor took an "Antifederalist" position during the debate over ratification of the constitution, as an associate of Patrick Henry's party in the Virginia ratifying convention. Not surprisingly, most of his political writing seeks to square Antifederalist principles with the constitution and to hold the victors to the promises about and understandings of the constitution, which they gave in the ratification debates.
With one notable exception, Taylor's works reflected immediate political battles of the day. His earliest essays attacked the Federalist funding system. His later works included reasoned polemics against the centralizing doctrines of both Congress and the Supreme Court. Taylor's magnum opus (the exception just mentioned), An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814), which took him more than a decade to write, was a delayed reply to John Adams's A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the United States (1787-88). Another work, Arator (1813, 1818), was a compilation of Taylor's newspaper articles on agricultural and political topics. His last major works were Tyranny Unmasked (1822) and New Views of the Constitution of the United States (1823).
A typical Taylor book brings much learning and rhetoric to bear on a set of related issues, typically in the mode of jeremiad. As befits a Christian, Taylor had a deep sense of the failings of human nature. At times, he seems quite Calvinist. There are of course felicities and infelicities in Taylor's literary style. Writing to Thomas Jefferson on September 15, 1813, John Adams noted that he had received some unsigned printed pages in the mail. "The Conclusion of the whole is that an Aristocracy of Bank Paper, is as bad as the Nobility of France or England. I, most assuredly, will not controvert this point, with this man. Who he is, I cannot conjecture. The Honourable John Taylor of Virginia, of all men living or dead first Occurred to me." In reply, on October 18, 1813, Jefferson commented that the author of the unsigned "pamphlet on aristocracy… may be known from the quaint, mystical and hyperbolical ideas, involved in affected, new-fangled and pedantic terms, which stamp his writings." Adams wrote in reply on November 12, "The style answers every characteristic, that you have intimated." Yet there was "a great deal of good Sense in Arator. And there is some in his 'Aristocracy.'" John Randolph of Roanoke thought Taylor's Inquiry very good but cried, "For heaven's sake, get some worthy person to do the second edition into English."
Taylor's sometimes difficult style detracts only slightly from books well worth reading. Often there are interesting compressions and apt expressions. And Taylor's work provides welcome relief from James Madison's Latinate and periodic sentences. Indeed, Taylor resembles William Faulkner in that his work is sometimes better understood when read aloud, for Taylor was both a rhetor and a preacher. He was aware of complaints about his writing. He ends the preface to Tyranny Unmasked, as follows: "As to its style, it is dictated by a wish to be understood by every reader.The writer has not an ability to angle for fame with the bait of periods; nor a motive for consulting a temporary taste, by a dish of perfumes." Finally, Taylor's semantic/semiotic turn bears noting – his interest in the abuses of "artificial phraseology" and counterfeit words aping the real ones. Historian Robert Shalhope has remarked on Taylor's "perceptiveness" in this regard.
4. Taylor as an Impractical Politician
Taylor was not much of a practical politician. He worked best as a critic trying to keep the public, and indeed his own party, honest. His attacks on the entrenched Federalists included pieces written under the pen-name "Franklin" in the mid-1790s in Oswald's Independent Gazetteer. Pamphlets like An Examination of the Late Proceedings Congress Respecting the Official Conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury (1793), An Enquiry into the Principles and Policy of Certain Public Measures (1794). A Definition of Parties (1795) and An Argument Respecting the Constitutionality of the Carriage Tax (1795) followed. Banning sees these minor works as "probably the most important source for an understanding of Republican thought in the middle 1790s." Certainly, we can see in them the beginnings of Taylor's mature system of thought.
Perhaps the worst tragedy that can befall a set of principles is to have a political party professing allegiance (however false) to them, come to power. We have seen this in our days with "conservatism." And so it probably was with Jeffersonian republicanism. Certainly the luminous Henry Adams and the contemporary historian Forrest McDonald tax Jefferson's party with failures allegedly stemming from a too-rigid adherence to republican ideas. Taylor, Randolph, and the Quids drew a different conclusion. It is worth pointing out here that while Taylor's writings exercised an ongoing influence on Jefferson's views, Jefferson was more open to Taylor's ideas when out of power.
In 1801-1802, with the aid of a committee in Caroline County headed by his uncle Edmund Pendleton, Taylor promoted "amendments restricting the powers of the government in regard to the army, the navy, finances, and the making of treaties." As late as 1804, he could still write A Defense of the Measures of the Administration of Thomas Jefferson. But discontent within Republican ranks had begun and John Randolph went into opposition in 1806. This was the beginning of the so-called Quids as a minority Republican opposition. In 1810, Taylor gave his reasons: he saw the republican split as resulting from the administration's compromise between republican and federalist policies.
Along with Randolph and a few others, Taylor opposed the War of 1812 – his own party's war – calling it "this metaphysical war…." An account set down much later records an exchange between Taylor and war hawk John Roane Jr.:
Once, during the War of 1812, he beat John Taylor, of Caroline, for Congress, and in one of the conflicts at the Bowling Green, Taylor's own stronghold, Taylor, who opposed the war said: "But Mr. Roane, the taxes, sir, the taxes."
"Well, sir; the taxes, what of them? I do not fear taxes, nor do the people. They want freedom; they don't want money."
"How high would you tax for this war?"
"I would tax them, sir, ten cents in the dollar."
"Suppose, sir, that should be insufficient?"
"Then, sir, I would tax them twenty cents in the dollar."
"But suppose they would not stand it?"
"Then, sir, I would not ask them. I would tax them thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred cents in the dollar. Col. Taylor, I would tax the shirts off the peoples' backs and make them free, whether they would or not. What is your next bugbear?"
Evidently, such war hawk bombast proved popular with the voters. Andrew Lytle describes the period as follows:
Jefferson had hamstrung himself with the all-Federalist-all-Republican doctrine…. In trying to keep the ship of state afloat during squalls from foreign parts, Jefferson and Madison neglected domestic principles, until dissension spread into mutiny. The embargoes and later the War of 1812 ruined New England's shipping and turned her capital towards manufacturing. At the conclusion of hostilities the factories demanded protection. The depleted currency and the debt contracted to prosecute the war made the richest ground for patronage, a National Bank, and the sectional taxation of the Southern planter and farmer.
The war strengthened the standing army and "discredited" the militia – by showing it was not useful for invading Canada, even if it might be adequate for local defense. Wartime monetary expansion by the new bank led to the Panic of 1819 and in this context a Congressional Committee report arguing for expanded protectionism, a suggestion which drew forth Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked (1822).
5. Ideological Background of Taylor's Writings
This brings us, alas, to the Forty Years War in American Historiography between the paladins of the "republican school" and the defenders of a "liberal" American Revolution and founding. J. G. A. Pocock, a prime mover of the republican school, sees classical republicanism (also "civic humanism" or "country ideology") as the essence of English Opposition thought. This outlook, radically opposed to liberalism, descended from Nicolò Machiavelli through James Harrington and the Commonwealthmen into the American Revolution. It centered on such categories as court vs. country, mixed constitutions, balanced orders, and independent, armed, agrarian proprietors as bulwark and defenders of the state. Further, these ideas came over to America in two bread streams – from Henry St. John Bolingbroke and his allies and from a more "bourgeois" group of Radical Whigs. Both tendencies fought the state-financial revolution which, by means of monetized public debt, made possible standing armies, necessitated higher taxes, and supported absolute monarchy.
Historians tend to lump all such figures together as agrarians "nostalgically" resisting expanded commerce. This interpretation can be quite misleading. As Isaac Kramnick writes: "One can be both a bourgeois radical and a thinker concerned with themes important to the civic humanist tradition." On the republican school's reading, John Locke was out as the main influence on the American thought of the 1770s and after.
6. Republican Revolution
But certainly American revolutionary Whig ideology drew on liberal, Lockean notions of self-ownership, natural law, and natural rights. American Whigs appealed to the "rights of Englishmen" and employed classical republican ideas as well. These ideas, combined and cross-fertilized, constituted what Bernard Bailyn calls a "transforming ideology." American Whigs evidently fused several compatible ideologies into a reasonably coherent libertarian/republican Weltanschauung informing the American Revolution.
Radical Whigs on both sides of the Atlantic viewed power as inherently expansionist: only constant public vigilance could keep liberty safe. They took British imperial policies after 1763 as proving an intention to use standing armies and taxes to subvert liberty. To the former threat, American ideologists posed militias as the viable alternative. In Bernard Bailyn's view, the themes of Country vs.Court and Liberty vs. Power fell completely together, leading Americans to take "a negative view of government" and to see "the rulers and the ruled" as antagonistic forces.35 We may concede the coexistence of various political "languages" without prejudging the main commitments of the American Revolution. Luigi Marco Bassani has written an interesting autopsy for the unrepentant republican school of historians and we may leave the historians' Forty Years War to one side. I merely note the sheer ethereality of some republican school writers and the absence of materially motivated actors in their work.
7. Confederation, Constitution, and Union
Within a few years of the victory of the revolution, a group of centralizing Whigs sought to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new constitution capable of undergirding an American mercantilist political economy.39 The ratification debates unleashed old themes, as the misnamed Antifederalists attacked the constitution as a betrayal of the Revolution. At the same time, the misnamed Federalists (nationalists) restated republicanism and tried to annex popular sovereignty to the projected central government.
The centralizers prevailed and governed until 1800. Their opponents gradually organized under the name of Republicans and broadly continued the Antifederalist cause. The Federalists found their mercantilist policies – the National Bank, excises, redemption of wartime certificates, standing army, and tariffs – assailed by the Republicans in a replay of English debates after 1688. The parallels were in fact close and John Taylor did his part in underscoring them. In his assaults on the Federalists' funding system, Taylor can be seen as "an American Bolingbroke, speaking for an American 'Country' party." As Pocock puts it, Taylor wrote "anti-Hamiltonian polemics in which the ghosts of Swift and Bolingbroke stalk on every page."
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About Joseph R. Stromberg
Joseph R. Stromberg is an independent historian born in southwest Florida and currently living in northeastern Georgia. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in History at Florida Atlantic University (1970, 1971) and did further graduate work in History at the University of Florida (1973-75). He was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow in 1970-1971. He has taught college level courses in World Civilizations, American History, and Florida History, as an adjunct instructor. His work has appeared in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, Telos, Chronicles, the Freeman, Future of Freedom, Independent Review, and the American Conservative. He has contributed essays to various collections including Secession, State, and Liberty (1998) and Opposing the Crusader State (2007). On the web he has appeared at Antiwar.com (over a hundred short essays in "The Old Cause" column, 1999-2003), First Principles Journal, Arator, and Anamnesis Journal. His research interests include the Old Right non-interventionists, the American South, peasantries in history, English Enclosures, constitutional issues, secession, and the origins of states and empires. More from Joseph R. Stromberg
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September always brings something new to Paris. Everyone is back from their month<|fim_middle|>, but haven't been yet, it's worth the detour. | long holidays and ready to launch into new projects for "le rentrée." Among those new projects, there is always at least one anticipated bar opening. This year, that opening was Gravity Bar.
The menu features a dozen cocktails priced at 11 and 12 Euros covering a range of base spirits. The selection is packed with ingredients that won't be immediately recognizable to the average drinker: Gentiane Salers, Maurin Kina, Galliana Ristretto, etc. These kinds of non-mainstream ingredients (well known in the craft cocktail world, less so outside of it) can either elevate or crush a menu. And it takes a skilled professional to pull this off with aplomb.
The open kitchen turns out a small selection of dishes like roasted zucchini with ricotta, honey & pecans or duck with beets, apple and pistachios ranging from 7 to 12 Euros. The savory cake with tomatoes and crème fraiche sounds deceptively simply, but packs some fabulous flavor. They also have a selection of bar snacks from 3 to 6 Euros like fried sea snails with aioli or os a moelle with toast. They also have marinated olives for the less adventurous snackers out there.
The décor is surf-inspired, but don't be mislead into thinking you'll be walking into a beach bar full of flip-flop clad servers. From behind the bar flowing along the ceiling is a cool and modern interpretation of a sculpted wave.
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She had to be in her 80's. Maybe 90's. But she had a fire. Lifelong Patriots fan and the person interviewing her said: "What do you think of the Eagles?"
Her answer: "We don't."
One could argue - maybe they should have. Might have won the game. (Congrats Philly.)
One could argue - blatant arrogance.
One could argue - always know your enemy.
One could argue - always have to be aware of the competition.
Here's the thing. She didn't respond "Who?" She knew who the Eagles were. She knew they played football. I imagine she knew all kinds of things about them and how they play. But she didn't think about them: dwell on them, worry about them.. they didn't consume her thoughts. (And, if I'm<|fim_middle|> 22 great. | honest, they do sometimes consume mine.)
Radical difference.
Be aware. Yes. Now stop thinking about them. All of them. Any of them. Yes, even them.
I wonder after the game how she would have responded with the same question. I hope her answer would be the same. "We don't."
Failure is no reason to start being consumed with them.
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The 1983 Eastern Mass State Championship Team (front row, left to right) Barbara Thomas, Linda Callahan, Renee Najarian, Mary Hurton, and Beth Wixted. (Second row, left to right) Athletic Director Frank Charboneau, Fran Doody, Kathy Malonson, Jennifer Martino, and Coach Brenda De Ninno. (Third row, left to right) Patricia Queeney, Paula Kingsbury, Debbie Cronin, Patricia Markley, Maura McCarthy, Manager Krista Ellis and Manager Jody Waldron.
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Glass-paned buildings are majestic monuments to vision and engineering. But design and technology aren't perfect, and glass, on occasion, cracks and falls. Recall Boston's John Hancock Tower in 1973, a prominent structure out of whose lofty supports 500-pound panes of glass succumbed to gravity and crashed to the streets below. Shards scattered and nerves frayed. While engineers studied the potential causes, builders installed plywood in place of the missing panes. The public was transfixed. And the glass watchers began their vigil.
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5 Fun Horror Movies For Halloween
by admin | Oct 1, 2015 | Good Horror Movies, Lists, Movies, Rants | 0 comments
There are, of course, more than 5 fun horror movies you should watch before Halloween. What I want to do here is provide a quick<|fim_middle|>bid attitude that is simply fun and entertaining to watch. It's got scares, it's got some gore but most of all it will keep you wanting more.
Ginger Snaps stars Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle as the sisters and their performances are fantastic. I highly recommend getting the trilogy and spending one night this month enjoying the series. You won't be disappointed. In fact, it would make a pretty good date night/movie night. It's got werewolves and two smart women in the lead rolls. Excellent!
Cast: Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Mimi Rogers, Kris Lemche, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton, Christopher Redman, Peter Keleghan, John Bourgeois
And there you have it. These movies aren't completely unheard of but they certainly don't get the attention they deserve. If you haven't seen them, give them a go. They really are worth the time. | list of 5 fun horror movies that you might not have seen or even heard about. That being said, let's begin…
First up on the list is Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil. This movie is great on so many levels. If I said the story is about a group of kids heading out into the woods for a weekend of fun but things turn deadly when they meet up with a couple of local rednecks, you'd have to think, "How can that be original?" Well, because the movie isn't from the kids point of view, it's taken from the rednecks point of view and it's absolutely hilarious.
As I mentioned in another post, when I first saw this movie it was a rough cut. It didn't have a lot of post production in it yet and some of the takes used in the cut were different than the actual release. But, my review stands the same. It's so original and so funny, it's just a must see. I think I've seen this movie maybe 9 or 10 times and it's never gotten boring. I laugh every single time. You're really missing out if you haven't seen it.
Cast: Katrina Bowden, Alan Tudyk, Tyler Labine, Jesse Moss, Chelan Simmons
Next up is Dead & Breakfast. It's about a group of friends that take a wrong turn on their way to a wedding. They stay for the night at a bed & breakfast and ancient evil is released that begins to turn the town into zombies. It's just a crazy good time.
This movie was so much fun. It's not just a good zombie movie, it's a comedy and in someways, a musical. I really don't know how to explain this one. There's just really not much like it out there and it's about as much fun as you can have watching a horror movie.
Cast: David Carradine, Jeremy Sisto, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Erik Palladino, Oz Perkins, Portia de Rossi, Diedrich Bader, Ever Carradine
Now, if you like a little bizarreness mixed in your horror movie diet, Bubba Ho-Tep should be a must on your list. The film centers around a retirement home where Elvis and JFK are now reside. As residents begin to die, the two team up and discover it's an ancient mummy that is responsible for the deaths. Are they really Elvis and JFK? Can they stop his murder spree? It's fun, original and so outrageous and yet oddly all believable.
Now I realize that the many Bruce Campbell fans know this film already. But, those that aren't aware of his greatness, you can't go wrong with this movie. Bruce Campbell plays Elvis as a senior citizen and the late, great Ossie Davis plays JFK. What more do you need to know? Watch this movie! On a side note, if you really want to understand why Bruce Campbell is an icon, go watch The original Evil Dead trilogy. The first and third in the trilogy are so great, words just can't completely capture their true awesomeness.
Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Paul Giamatti, Larry Pennell, Daniel Roebuck, Harrison Young, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout
Slither is another underrated film. It's story is part sci-fi, creature feature and alien invasion. It takes place in a somewhat rural small town. There's a meteor strike in the forest causing a contamination that is spreading and it's up to the sheriff, played by Nathan Fillion, to save the day. It's got great dialog, special effects and a sense of humor that isn't overbearing. The funny comes mostly from the crazy situations. But, this film has an amazing cast, Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker to name a few. Hell, it's even got Rob Zombie in it. Great, great fun horror movie.
I don't know why this film isn't better known. It's yet another horror movie I have mentioned it here on Bad Horror Movies before. I've also mentioned Slither before in conversations with people. No one I've talked to has ever seen it and that is a shame. This movie is outstanding! If you don't like this movie, we simply can't be friends.
Cast: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks. Michael Rooker, Tania Saulnier, Gregg Henry, Jenna Fischer, Rob Zombie, Lloyd Kaufman, Matreya Fedor, Brenda James, Lorena Gale, Iris Quinn, Dee Jay Jackson, Don Thompson, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Tom Heaton, Malcolm Scott
This brings us to the final movie on this list. Ginger Snaps. This turned into an awesome trilogy. It's about a two teen sisters. One is violently attacked by a wild creature. Her wounds heal quickly and something is obviously not right. It's not really a comedy horror movie but the death obsessed girls just have this goth charm and mor | 1,024 |
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