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Hittite
Hittite: nesili
Extinct Indo-European language of Anatolia, used in ancient times by the Hittites. It was in use from the beginning of the 19th century BCE, or earlier, and abandoned around 1000 BCE.
The name the Hittites used for their language was<|fim_middle|>00's Research into the Arzawa letters (found in Tell el-Amarna, Egypt), written in Hittite.
1902: Norwegian, J. A. Knudtzon, deciphers Hittite.
1915: Czech Bedrich Hrozný is able to It is finally suggested that the languages researched were Indo-European. | nesili, "language of Nesa" or nesumnili, "language of the Neshite". Nesa was one of the most important cities of ancient Anatolia.
Hittite language arrived or emerged in Anatolia and northern Syria in the beginning of the 19th century BCE. Being an Indo-European language, it was soon exposed to influences from local non-Indo-European languages. The most important changes to the language came with lexical and phonetic changes, vowels and new terms were borrowed from local languages. Still, central elements from Proto-Indo-European languages would remain intact.
Our sources to the Hittite language are rich, at Hattusha about 25,000 tablets and fragments have been found. The texts are in two variations, cuneiform and hieroglyphic. Hittite cuneiform is developed on a variant which also is seen from Alalakh. Cuneiform provides the oldest, dating back to 1600 BCE. These texts represent the oldest written examples of any Indo-European language. The newest examples of Hittite texts come from around 1000 BCE.
The Hittite state used Akkadian as its international language, Sumerian was also of some use.
There may been correspondence between Hittite and a language referred to as Kaneshite. The latter is derived from the Cappadocian tablets (19th-18th centuries BCE).
Attempts bave been made to classify Hittite into categories Old, Middle and New. Middle Hittite is then the period of political and cultral weakness, the century between ca. 1500 and ca. 1400 BCE.
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Said Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq: "Do not say idols. Say Allah. It is He, Who is worthy of worship. just like you everyone is obliged to worship Him. One, who does not worship Allah has no guide and no guardian. He is just like one, who cannot see, cannot hear, cannot feel and cannot think. He does not know where to go and on whom to depend when in trouble. Worshipping Allah is a part of living. Every living being worships Him instinctively. Even the animals cannot live without worshipping Him. We cannot ask them and they cannot tell us that they worship Allah, but their well regulated and orderly life is sufficient proof that they worship Him.
When the Imam concluded his discourse, Abu Shakir fell into a deep reverie as if he was greatly inspired.
Imam Muhammad al-Baqir and Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) knew that the Muslim world would be flooded with books of the philosophers of Greece and Alexandria and that the Muslims would blindly accept everything they had written as the Gospel truth. Thus, many of the false and fallacious theories would catch their imagination, corrupt their minds, and keep them under total darkness for centuries, which is actually what had happened in the past. For example the theory of Ptolemy that the earth is the centre of the universe and the sun, the planet and the stars rotate around it was generally accepted by the Muslims as true.
The two Imams explained to their students who were to spread their teachings among the Muslims the theories of those philosophers, pointed out their mistakes and presented their own correct theories. Similarly they taught them physics, chemistry, geography etc prior to the translation of these subjects from Indian ,Greek and Persian into Arabic. Because they were Imams (representatives of Allah on Earth) they had the knowledge of the theories of Greek philosophers and others.
The momentous intellectual awakening of Muslims witnessed in the second century of the Hijra was not due to Hellenic or other foreign influences, as some Western historians have recorded. It was this result of the untiring and ceaseless efforts made by the members of the Prophet's family to bring about that golden age of knowledge.
Among all the Abbasid caliphs, only al-Mamun was interested in knowledge. The rest were only interested in accumulation on wealth, worldly pleasures and satisfaction of carnal desires. A halo of glory and grandeur has been placed round the head of Harun by the historians and story tellers. He was nothing but a tyrant and a despot.
The Abbasid caliph al-Mansur was well aware of the popularity of the Living Imam - Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.). It is reported on the authority of Mufazzal bin Umar that al-Mansur wanted to kill the Imam. He called him many times with this intent, but when he saw him, he was filled with fear and could not carry out his vicious plan. Instead, he placed the Imam under house arrest for long periods of time. He eventually poisoned him secretly.
On the other hand those who followed the teachings of the Imam were systematically persecuted by the Abbasid caliphs. However, as al-Mansur could not still find in the Muslim world anyone who could rival the Imam in physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and other sciences, he spent large sums of money and imported books from different countries on scientific subjects. They were translated in to Arabic, and taught in schools and colleges.
As a result the world lost more than a thousand years of knowledge as the science introduced by the Imam was only discovered by common man in the 19th century onwards. And the credit of this discovery also went to the person who discovered it recently. Little does the world know that they were all made known by the Imam 14 hundred years ago. Learned scholars from Europe started studying Islamic literature from the beginning of the 17th century.
Some people might say that it was only by guesswork that Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) said that the earth rotates on its own axis. Sometimes it happens that guesswork proves to be correct. But the question arises as to why no one else had guessed that for such a long time. This proves that he knew the laws of astro-physics which enabled him to make that discovery. If he had not known those laws, it would have been impossible for him to discover the rotation of the earth on its axis. This discovery could not have been accidental. One must know the cause to know its effect.
At the age of 12 he rejected the theory of Four Elements of Aristotle and proved that it is wrong. He remarked: "I wonder how a man like Aristotle could say that in the world there are only four elements - Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. The Earth is not an element. It contains many elements. Each metal, which is in the earth, is an element.
For 1,000 years this theory was never refuted, and remained the corner stone of physics. Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq proved that Water, Air, and Fire were also not elements, but a mixture of elements. This he said 1,100 years before the European scientists discovered that air was not an element and had separated its constituents. To derive the fact that Air is not an element, but a mixture of elements, was impossible to conclude in the Imam's age and time. He said that there are many elements in the air and that all of them are essential for breathing.
At last, after more than 1000 years, the theory of Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) that presence of all gases in the air is essential for breathing was proved to be correct. He was the first person to discover that oxygen produces acidity. Time did not allow him to make known to the world further such revelations, but he was indeed proved the pioneer and leader in the scientific study of oxygen.
This phenomenon was considered for centuries as inconceivable and the theory remained quite incomprehensible to the leading astronomers. After the 18th century more and more powerful telescopes were built and astronomers could see beyond our solar system. It was in 1960 that it was observed and confirmed by astronomers that distances between our galaxy and the neighbouring galaxies are increasing. These observations have provided sufficient proof that the universe is in a state of expansion. We do not know when this expansion started. The discovery of black holes has proved his other statement that the universe sometimes contracts was also proved true. Hence the Imam's theory was proved to be correct.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) defined 'literature' as no one had ever denied during the past twelve centuries. He said : "Literature is the garment which one puts on what he says or writes so that it may appear more attractive." He further said that it is possible that literature may have no knowledge, but there is no knowledge without literature. Every kind of knowledge contains literature, but every kind of literature does not necessarily contain knowledge. These are indeed concise and comprehensive definitions of the relationship between knowledge and literature.
Results of these analysis show that the ratio of the major elements in human bodies is the same throughout the world as Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) had said. The four elements which are in large quantities in the human body are: Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen. The eight elements which are in small quantities are : Magnesium, Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Sulphur, Iron, and Chlorine. The other eight elements which are in very minute quantities are : Molybdenum, Cobalt, Manganese, Copper, Zinc, Fluorine, Silicon and Iodine.
The discovery of these two gases depended upon their separation from air and water. Separation of hydrogen from water was more difficult that separation of oxygen from air. Pure oxygen is available in the air, but pure hydrogen is not available anywhere. Hence hydrogen could not be obtained till sufficient power was developed and water was hydrolysed.
The world amazes as to how both our Imams could reveal the presence of hydrogen in air which was a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas and does not exist freely in nature. They could not have identified this gas and found out its properties without separating it from water through the process of hydrolysis, which was impossible without a strong current of electricity.
The first person who was able to separate hydrogen from water in modern times was the English scientist Henry Cavendish, who died in 1810. After many years of research he was able to hydrolyse water and obtain hydrogen gas. He was also able to confirm that hydrogen gas was highly inflammable as a result of a freakish accident that he had while doing his experiments, which resulted in his house catching fire. It was eventually Lavoisier, the French chemist, who gave the name of hydrogen to this gas.
The Imams knew such secrets but revealed only to the extend that would be useful to the world, hence the secret of how hydrogen could be separated from water without the use of electricity was never made known to common man. It has been proved that this discovery by Man has not done any good to mankind. On the contrary, it has led to the production of the hydrogen bomb, which is threatening to annihilate the human race. It was better that this instrument of death, destruction and devastation was not invented and manufactured at all so that mankind would be saved from the impending catastrophe.
Another great contribution to science of Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has said that patients suffering from certain diseases emit special types of rays. If these rays fall upon a healthy person, they are apt to make him sick.
One of the unique theories of Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) is that everything except Allah has its opposites, but this does not result in a conflict, otherwise the whole universe would be destroyed. This is the theory of matter and anti-matter. The difference between matter and anti-matter is that in matter the electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively charged. But in anti-matter, the electrons are positively charged and protons are negatively charged. Scientists have concluded that if one kilogram of matter collides with one kilogram of anti-matter, so much energy will be released that the whole world will be destroyed.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has said that among the clusters of stars which we see at night, some are so bright that our sun, in comparison, is quite insignificant.
Because of man's limited knowledge, many people during the Imam's time and centuries after him, considered this theory to be illogical, irrational and unacceptable. They could not believe that these small specks of light which are called stars, can have more light than the light of our big bright sun.
We must therefore accept as Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has said, that, no one except Allah (swt) knows the number of large and small worlds.
This disease is called Eta Eta because the patients cry Eta Eta in pain. The first symptom of the disease is severe and unbearable pain in the bones. After sometime, the bones become so brittle that they break into pieces like glass. The cause of this disease is accumulation of large quantities of cadmium in the body by drinking water and eating agricultural products which have been contaminated by that element. Another new disease has appeared on Kyushu in Japan. Those who suffer form it lose their eyesight and the tissues of their bodies wither away. As a result, they cannot move their limbs. If they are not treated properly they gradually die. The cause of the disease is accumulation of mercury in the body through polluted water and food.
From the time of Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, till today about 40,000 kinds of disease have been diagnosed, their symptoms recorded and treatment prescribed, but the diseases, which have appeared in Japan due to the pollution of their environment are unknown to the science of medicine.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was not only a religious leader, but a scientist, a philosopher and a man of letters. He used to teach theology, philosopher, science and literature. He was the first scholar in the world to have separated science and philosophy. No one before him paid any attention to the important point that they are two different subjects. He remarked, while pointing out the difference between the two which shocked many philosophers. They can be divided in two parts.
As the Imam was a religious leader he already knew the truth through religion and did not want to find it through philosophy. However, it was his firm conviction that philosophy would solve many problems. He was therefore more interested in philosophy than in science because it helped to recognise the Creator.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was not a physician by profession, but he introduced and formulated methods of diagnosis and treatment in the field of medicine. Western scholars find it hard to believe how he could have introduced certain diagnosis in that age and time.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) has advised mothers that they should put their new born babies to sleep on their left side.
For centuries this advice was considered by many as meaningless and absurd since no one could see any use in putting babies to sleep on the left side of mothers. Some people even went to the extent of remarking that it was dangerous to carry out his instructions. Mothers may take a turn while sleeping and crush the baby to death. No one in the East or West took that advice seriously. Even during the Renaissance period, when scholars in Europe studied every theory critically, no one tried to find out whether it had a scientific basis.
In 1865, Ezra Cornell founded the Cornell University in NYK. In this university he set up under the department of medicine, an institute for the Research on New Born and Suckling Babies. A research scholar of this institute who travelled to different parts of the world, observed that mothers in every country carried their babies in the left arms.
Doctors in this institute observed that babies who are put to sleep on the left side of their mothers sleep more soundly and peacefully but those who are put on the right side, wake up every now and then and cry. It was reported that for the first few days after their birth, babies would have no rest at all, if they are not on the left side of their mothers.
After the invention of holography, holographic pictures of unborn babies were taken which revealed that the mother's heartbeat reached the ears of the baby in the womb. Experiments were made of different mammals to find out the reaction of the foetus. All experiments showed that whenever the heart of the mother stopped beating, the foetus became restless and agitated, because it feeds on the blood, which comes to it with each and every heartbeat.
These experiments proved that unborn babies are not only used to hearing their mother's heartbeat, but their very existence depends upon them. Heartbeats mean to them a constant supply of food. Stoppage of heartbeats signals starvation and death. They depend so much upon the heartbeat that even after they are born, they become restless, if they do not hear it. A new-born knows its mother's heartbeat quite well and that is why it sleeps comfortably and peacefully, when it is on the left side of the mother and can hear the heartbeats clearly.
If the Cornell University had not been established and the research work on babies was not done, no one would ever have realised the scientific importance of the advice of the Imam that mothers should put their babies to sleep on their left side.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was ahead of his time by 1,100 years. Indeed he had access to Ilm Ladunni (divine knowledge).
1. Ptolemy was a geographer and astronomer who was born in Alexandria in the 2nd century B.C. He enriched his knowledge by reading the books of great scholars of Greece in the library of Alexandria. He borrowed from Euclid, the great mathematician, the idea that the sun rotated round the earth and then developed his own theory known as the Ptolemaic System. Since then up to the 8th century BC no one refuted this theory. | could know the kind of knowledge and revelations that the Imam had said during his life, 1400 years ago.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq was born in Medina on the 17 of Rabi ul-Awwal in the year of 82 Hijra. His father was the 5th Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) and his mother was Umm Farwa. It is said that Ja'far as-Sadiq was born circumcised.
Contrary to the Western belief, the Shi'as firmly believe that Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq had Ilm-e-Ladunni or 'God given Knowledge'. The Shi'as believe that a man's subconscious mind is quite different from his conscious mind. It is the treasure house of knowledge of mankind and of the world. Modern science lends support to this theory.
When Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq was still in his infancy some people following the example of the Christians spread the belief that the Holy Prophet, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib and the Imams had two natures - the nature of man and the nature of God. They were partly human and partly divine. This belief posed a great danger to their sect. The Imam fought against this thought and saved Shi'ism from disintegration. He realised that it would create differences, split the people into factions, weaken the Shi'a movement and finally destroy it totally.
The Imam knew the history of the Christians. He knew the origin of the Orthodox and Catholic churches and the main cause of differences among Christians and their division into so many sects. In reply to those who propagated that idea, he said that all of them were human beings and had no essence or elements of God in them. But they were God's most favoured servants and were chosen by Him to lead and guide mankind. He announced that anyone who believed or confessed that they had an essence of God in them will be believing in many gods and would not remain a muwahid (monotheist). They would become a mushrik (polytheist).
Another great danger threatening Islam was Monasticism which the Muslims wanted to adopt from the Christians. The Imam fought against that tendency and saved Muslims from a great catastrophe.
In the first half of the 2nd century Hijra, many Muslim sects were inclined to borrow Monasticism from the Christians and introduce it in Islam. They believed that one should give up worldly life and spend his time in seclusion and prayers. The leaders of those sects had arranged some solitary places where they and their followers could go and spend their lives in prayers. Some of them said that in Islam there was nothing better than Salaat (ritual prayer), while others said that fasting was better than prayers and if someone had withdrawn from the world he should fast everyday throughout his life and think of nothing but Allah. Shi'as also, like others, were also attracted to Monasticism. This philosophy appealed to those who did not want to work and earn their own living.
At the beginning of the 2nd century Hijra Muslims were attracted not only to Monasticism, but they also wanted to follow another Christian practice which was Baptism.
Another Christian practice, which was being followed by the Muslims, was celibacy. Considering it as a means of purification of the soul many Muslims did not marry. Addressing the Muslims, the Imam said : " Do not follow the example of Christians. Celibacy is against the Commandments of Allah and tradition of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s).
Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) was one of the most patient and tolerant teachers of his time. He used to take his classes every day. After his lectures he would listen and reply to the objections of his critics. He had asked his critics, who attended his classes, not to interrupt him during his lectures. They were quite free to ask him any question or raise any objection after the classes were over.
"Yes, you can", replied Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq.
"You may say that we can perceive the presence of Allah by our intelligence and not through our inner or outer senses. But our intelligence also needs the assistance of our five outer senses, without which it cannot function. We cannot make any reasoning or come to any conclusion without the help of our senses.
"I must tell you, who claims to be a scholar and the successor of the Prophet, that among all the stories, which circulate among the people, none is more absurd and baseless than the story of Allah, who cannot be seen. There are many baseless stories, but they, at least, depict real life and present before us the people and personalities, who may themselves be fictitious, but their acts and deeds are like those of real human beings. We can see them.
Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (a.s.) did not say a word during the long tirade of Abu Shakir. Sometimes his students, who were present, wanted to intervene but he asked them to remain quiet. When Abu Shakir stopped his lengthy discourse, the Imam asked him, if he had anything more to say.
"I know nothing about them", replied Abu Shakir.
"Do you know how many kinds of diamonds there are and what colours they have?" asked Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq.
"I do not know", replied Abu Shakir.
"I never was a diamond merchant, nor was my father. How can I know why diamonds shine?; replied Abu Shakir.
Said Abu Shakir: "No, I do not. But does blood move in the body?
Then the Imam asked Abu Shakir whether he has seen the tiny living beings, which Allah has created in his body.
Continued the Imam: "Abu Shakir, you have said that everything in the universe came by itself and has no Creator. You think that the grass in the field grows and gets green by itself.
You must know that the grass cannot grow without seeds and seeds would not germinate without moisture in the soil and there would be no moisture if no rain falls. The rain does not fall by itself. First the water vapours rise and gather above in the atmosphere in the form of clouds. The winds bring the clouds. Then the water vapours condense and fall down as rain drops. The rain must also fall at the right time, otherwise no grass will grow and become green.
Abu Shakir burst into a peal of laughter. One of the students of Ja'far as-Sadiq got angry and was about to say something when he was stopped by his teacher.
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On the up: Fulham striker Darren Bent
Rene Meulensteen reckons Darren Bent has put his troubles behind him and can play a part in Fulham's survival bid.
The 29-year-old striker endured a nightmare spell at Aston Villa last season before his summer loan switch to Craven Cottage.
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But manager Meulensteen hopes the former Sunderland frontman has turned the corner following his strike in last weekend's FA Cup draw with Norwich.
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Symptoms tend to imitate other illnesses, so can be difficult to spot, but look out for: a bullseye shaped rash with a clear centre inside a red ring at least two inches across – the first stage of the disease, which is usually apparent within a month of infection. This is generally accompanied by joint pains and flu-like symptoms. NB: Not all cases have started with a rash.
Stage two can occur weeks, months or even years later, when joint pains, which often move from one joint to another with pain-free periods in between, affect the body. If neglected, these can inflict permanent damage in the joints.
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NB: ticks may stay on clothing or on dogs' fur for several days. On returning home, check clothing carefully and shake or brush any garments/boots out of doors, paying particular attention to woollens, tweeds etc.
Carefully inspect your skin for ticks when you undress, remembering that some ticks are smaller than a pin head, and that they can reach parts of the body not easily seen.
Comb your dog with a fine comb, preferably outdoors.
The risk of transmission of infection is reduced if an infected tick is removed from the skin within 24 hours. If you find a tick, try to remove it without leaving the mouth-parts behind. The feeding tick lies parallel to the skin with its mouth-part at right angles to the skin. Use a pair of tweezers to grasp the tick firmly, as close as possible to your skin, and pull it straight out without twisting or excessive pulling and jerking. I find that the tick is more likely to come out mouth-piece intact if the tweezer tips are heated up first over a flame, to as hot a temperature as the skin will bear. But if the tick is swollen, try not to burst it in the process of removal.
Following extraction, clean the area of the bite with an antiseptic wipe or soap and water. | . The patient often experiences the same sort of fatigue that occurs after a number of other infections, especially those due to viruses.
85-90% of people with chronic Lyme arthritis do improve, but prompt diagnosis and treatment are vital. Diagnosis at all stages is done by blood tests, though if the test shows positive, it does not necessarily mean that the individual has Lyme Disease, or that they will necessarily develop it. It signifies that they have been exposed to the infecting organism and have produced antibodies to the bacterium.
No preventative vaccine exists, and there is no screening programme which will effectively prevent this disease. If you have any of the symptoms which cannot otherwise be convincingly explained, and have been exposed to ticks, you should get your GP to organise a blood test. Early treatment with antibiotics stops the course of the disease and reduces the incidence of complications.
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This unique full-colour anthology gathers together for the first time significant portraits of fifty major British and Irish poets from four centuries along with a classic poem by each writer. It ranges chronologically from Sir Thomas Wyatt born in 1503 to Rudyard Kipling born in<|fim_middle|> our poetry transcends the generations to offer us the guidance of art and the written and visual life of our island nations. | 1865, and every poem (like every portrait) has been chosen for its insight, importance and beauty, they can all be repeatedly read, perhaps memorized and certainly treasured.
Each poet gathered here offers you an intimate view from their time, dealing with love, loss, grief, hope and mortality, which will find echoes and reverberations in your own. This is the power of poetry, the only art which allows us to look into the heart of the past whilst trying to understand the present and imagining our possible futures.
From out of our shared literary and visual history, the history of the British Isles and Ireland, | 129 |
Formation of the National Institute of<|fim_middle|> legislators, social organizations and state and municipal governments. | Migración
Last Updated: October 1, 2012 by Roxanna Brock McDade
Categories: Mexico
Article from www.paisano.gob.mx
In the Eighties, leaders of social, enterprise, political and religious organizations of resident the Mexican community and Mexican-American in the United States, were united to present to the government of Mexico the proposal to create mechanisms that they controlled and gradually they eliminated the indices of battering, extortion, robbery, corruption and great power which incurred servants public of diverse organizations of the Federal Government, against the fellow citizens in his enter the country.
For this reason, the 6 of April of 1989 the Federal Executive sent the Agreement by that actions of improvement of the services are orchestrated federal public in the borders, seaports and international airports of the country. Despite of which their objectives concentrated in the generation of majors currencies through tourism, the promotion to exports and the suitable transportation of people and merchandise, also he tried to grant major security to the usuary public, an honest and efficient handling of the goods and resources of the nation, the administrative simplification, the diffusion of the rights and obligations of the users and the promotion of systems of complaints and denunciations. From that year, the actions in the Agreement were known like "Program Of the same country", where eight dependancies were involved: Secretariat of Interior, Secretariat of Foreign Relations, Secretariat of Property and Public Credit; Secretariat of the General Treasury inspector's office of the Federation SECOGEF (today Secretariat of the Public Function), SAGAR (today Secretariat of Agriculture Cattle ranch Rural Development Fishing and Feeding, Secretariat of Communications, Secretariat of Health, Secretariat of Tourism, as well as the General Office of the judge advocate general of the Republic and Auxiliary Airports and Services. Originally the General Treasury inspector's office of the Federation was the one who it summoned to the meetings and evaluated the advances.
The first operation of the Program was realized in December of 1989 and by several years it only worked in holiday periods. Little by little the actions to safeguard the rights of the fellow citizens in their enter or transit Mexico went away extending.
With the National Plan of Development the 1995-2000 Program Of the same country, acquired major importance within the named initiative "Mexican Nation", that it looked for to dignify the work of the Mexicans abroad; that the fellow citizens when returning received a fair treatment, suitable direction and respect to their human rights and properties inherited from parents; and, to recognize the importance of strengthening the cultural bonds and social and economic nexuses with the communities of Mexican and people with Mexican roots in EUA and Canada.
Later, decisions important were taken to fortify it, as it went to integrate it to the strategic programs of the National Institute of Migración (INM); to establish representations in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois and Houston, Texas, and thus to add efforts of | 613 |
Scanning laser range finder<|fim_middle|>. | for area scanning and localization of autonomous robots and automated material handling systems. Ideal solution for academic and R&D start-up applications. Acts as the eyes for mobile robots for guide path planning and obstacle detection within unknown environments. Light-weight, compact design using USB bus power. URG-04LX is a laser sensor for area scanning. The light source of the sensor is class 1 infrared laser of wavelength 785nm. Scan area is 240º semicircle with maximum radius 4000mm. Pitch angle is 0.36º and sensor outputs the distance measured at every point (683 steps). Laser beam diameter is less than 20mm at 2000mm with maximum divergence 40mm at 4000mm. Distance measurement is based on calculation of laser phase difference, from which it is possible to obtain stable measurement with minimum influence from object's color and reflectance.
Scanning laser range finder for area scanning and localization of autonomous robots and automated material handling systems | 214 |
How to choose the best home networking option
By Neil Mohr (PCFormat Issue 237) 2010-03-27T10:00:00.85Z Networking
Wired, wireless and powerline networking compared
What networking tech you choose depends on what you will be using your network for
Which network is best?
Wired, wireless you name it: USB-based solutions through to powerline options, there's a networking solution for everyone available. In this article we'll look at just how fast Gigabit LAN can get, whether you can stream HD movies over powerline gear and just what difference a Wireless-N connection could make to your existing network. It's time to discover whether you should upgrade...
Maybe you're running an ageing Wireless-G network or perhaps you've got Gigabit onboard, but are wondering if it's worth investing in a new switch or router to take full advantage of it? Perhaps you're eyeing up powerline as an alternative but don't know how well it'll perform? Or perhaps you're wondering if Wireless<|fim_middle|> Wired networks
Next Page Powerline networks
See more Networking news | -N is right for you? What are the options for those planning on extending, upgrading or building a network?
Wired networks are still the world's favourite method of communicating between PCs . Ethernet networks have been around for decades, they're robust, reliable, easy to work with, standardised, extendable, cheap and fast. Those are all words we like.
It's so ubiquitous that every motherboard produced will have a port integrated on it, this from a industry that attempts to shave every penny from production costs. The same goes for laptops, so when your standard shipped products offer it effectively for free it's something you have to consider. Particularly when 30m cables costs as little as £7 and that's long enough to reach any corner of most houses.
The beauty of Ethernet is that it's fast and reliable, largely as it has been around for so long. All equipment should be at least 100BaseT compliant, the older and slower 10BaseT was supersede by 'Fast Ethernet' in the mid-1990s. The even faster Gigabit 1000BaseT standard has been widely integrated as standard since 2004 with it being an option since the early 2000s.
In speed terms theoretically a 100BaseT network offers 12.5MB/s of bandwidth, take into account TCP and the Ethernet protocol requirements and in practice file transfers tend to hover around 11MB/s.
Gigabit offers the potential of 125MB/s transfers, though the real-world performance can fall far short of this for a number of reasons, but if you're the sort who likes to throw large files around then any reduction in transfer times is a good thing. We say far short, as the largest bottleneck will be the hard drives.
For our testing this will be an irrelevance, but in the real world this can limit the potential maximum to 20, 40 or at best around 60MB/s for fast up-to-date drives. Our test circumvents this issue and tests the raw throughput, in this instance of the Sitecom 300N-XR. We were pleased with the 101MB/s peaks and average transfer of 95MB/s with an average CPU usage of 36 per cent.
The final issue if you want to rollout Gigabit in your home is that you have to have an end-to-end solution. It's no good connecting your Gigabit laptop to a 100BaseT router and than that to your Gigabit capable home server. There's little to no options for infrastructure upgrades at the moment, it seems all ADSL/Cable routers still only offer 100BaseT ports.
You either need to invest in a Gigabit switch – five-port ones can be picked up for around £30 such as the Netgear GS605 – or opt for a suitable wireless router that happens to sport a Gigabit router, such as the Sitecom 300N-XR Gigabit Wireless router for around £90.
One final mysterious area we want to clear up is the type of cables you need to use to enjoy Gigabit speeds. Simply put: even CAT5 will work as well as CAT5e or even CAT6. Technically yes, CAT5e and CAT6 are superior but generally the extra expense isn't necessary even over long runs.
Just to test this out we re-ran our Gigabit tests with some 15-year-old CAT5 cables that we had lying around. There wasn't a jot of difference to the performance, well, perhaps there was a 5MB/s drop in the minimum recorded speed but the average remained the same.
There's no arguing that Gigabit is fast, very fast. But wiring your house up with CAT5e wire isn't the most spouse-friendly activity or indeed house-friendly activity. You can drop cables under floorboards and behind the skirting, but you are going to need Ethernet faceplates at some point or end up tacking them to walls, for a less desirable finish.
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IPO Lunacy Lightening Up
The adoration that investors once showered upon new tech stocks seems to have morphed in recent days into more of a low-key affection.
At least that's the impression one might get from the up-and-down performance of new issues in the last few days, which seems to indicate that investors have become increasingly selective about which IPOs they'll buy into.
While a few newcomers, such as communications gear-maker Silicon Laboratories, more than doubled in first-day trading, most initial offerings weighed in with smaller gains. One of the more closely watched new issues, from cut-rate computer maker Emachines, actually closed below its offering price.
"This month, it has not been that unusual for an Internet company to go public and only go up 30 or 40 percent," noted Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor who tracks IPOs. In February, an unprecedented 27 companies at least doubled in first-day trading. So far this month only 15 new issues have claimed that honor.
IPO analysts say it's likely the milder IPO climate will carry into next week, when more than a dozen tech offerings are slated to hit the market in sectors ranging from pharmaceutical research to online music sales.
But for folks who've been following the market for a while, next week's lineup looks like more of the same.
"The best way to describe it is the old quote from The King and I: 'Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,'" said Irv DeGraw, research director<|fim_middle|> for routing traffic on the Web, also is hoping to cash in on Wall Street's enthusiasm for companies involved in developing backend Internet technologies.
Other companies poised for profitable IPOs next week include online employment firm Opus360, Internet consultant Zefer, and Websense, which makes software designed to improve employee productivity, said Vincent Slavin, an institutional trader at Cantor Fitzgerald who tracks IPOs.
While many companies will inevitably do quite well in their debuts, fewer are expected to double or triple.
That said, even going up 30 or 40 percent is hardly chicken feed by historical standards. Before last year, the IPO market was lucky if a couple of issues doubled in a year, Ritter said. | at WorldFinanceNet. The unprecedented pace of new tech offerings, many nearly identical to older offerings, has infected many of the IPO faithful with a case of the blahs.
That's not to say there's nothing to be interested in on next week's calendar.
One of the splashier offerings of the week comes from Artistdirect, a site that sells music and other merchandise for a network of musicians it represents. The company is hoping to raise about $55 million through its stock offering.
A few companies in the Internet infrastructure business also are gearing up for some IPO action.
DeGraw expects Telocity, which makes devices for providing high-speed Internet access to residential customers, to get a particularly warm reception. NBC owns about a fifth of the company, which has inked deals with telephone networks for its high-speed DSL Internet access technology.
Arrowpoint Communication, which makes switches | 176 |
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In case you're one for dining out, there are numerous restaurants that offer savory meat-free dishes which are healthy and filling. Embody specifics relating to foods and drinks comparable to what time dinner will probably be served, whether or not or not drinks shall be served, and whether or not it'll include an open or money bar. Throw your rooster within the crock pot that afternoon and be able to devour this scrumptious gluten free dinner that evening. Any dinner for one is difficult while you're used to cooking for extra, so thanks for these delicious wanting strategies.
Coconut Hen Curry – a nice and simple coconut cream-based mostly curry – wealthy, tasty, and so satisfying! Get a wholesome meal on the table in 20 minutes with this sensible plan to divide and conquer: | 329 |
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5. The receiver application must be downloaded and installed on your PC. | of WiFiRemote.
1. Touchpad - Includes all typical touch pad functions plus multi-touch support. You can use two finger tap on the screen to perform right click and two finger slide on the screen to perform vertical scrolling.
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Note: The receiver application must be downloaded and installed on your PC.
2. Textpad - Allows you to compose text on your iPhone/iPod Touch before sending to remote PC. This function is also compatible with the Chinese handwriting recognition input method. You can use this program as a wireless Chinese writing pad.
3. Keyboard - Full feature 70 key landscape keyboard. Includes all the keys you need.
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1. Easy to use! WiFiRemote automatically searches for the receiver's IP address.
2. Multiple remote PCs support. IP addresses can be stored for later use.
3. Uses WiFi networking to control any PC or laptop within the WiFi network coverage.
4. Includes a magnifying glass function in the receiver application. Small on screen objects can now be easily viewed.
Click on the magnifying glass button on Touchpad to enable/disable the | 370 |
<|fim_middle|> who has served in the role since April... | Two US Service Members Killed in Afghanistan
Two US service members died after coming under fire in the Kunduz province of Afghanistan Thursday, according to a Pentagon press release. Four other US service members were wounded in the same train, advise, and assist mission while assisting Afghan...
Pentagon Halts Talks, Imposes F-35 Contract
The Pentagon cut off negotiations with Lockheed Martin on Lot 9 production of the F-35 fighter, announcing late Wednesday it is unilaterally definitizing the contract for the 57 jets in the lot at a price of $6.1 billion. A Joint...
Cost Reductions From One-Way Contract
At the dollar amount the government unilaterally imposed on Lockheed Martin for Lot 9 F-35 production, there will be a "3.7 percent reduction (weighted average) from the (Low Rate Initial Production) 8 contract signed in December 2014, and an overall...
And What About Lot 10?
Joint Strike Fighter program manager Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan acknowledged to reporters at AFA's Air, Space and Cyber conference in September that F-35 Lot 9 and 10 production talks—the two lots were being negotiated together—were dragging on, but he expected...
Hyten Takes Command of STRATCOM
By Will Skowronski
Gen. John Hyten took command of US Strategic Command at Offutt AFB, Neb., on Thursday. Hyten, who had commanded Air Force Space Command since August 2014, replaced Adm. Cecil Haney, who had been at the STRATCOM helm since November 2013....
Recording Suggests al-Baghdadi Might Be Losing Grip on Power
By Wilson Brissett
A new voice recording purportedly made by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi suggests the group's ability to control its fighters "has been severely reduced," Col. John Dorrian, spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said Thursday. Al-Baghdadi reportedly called...
The Isolation Puzzle
Coalition forces have liberated about 50 villages from ISIS in northern Syria, beginning the isolation of the group's stronghold in Raqqa, Syria. The Turkish-led forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces have "done quite a bit to isolate Raqqa" and "increase...
Keeping the Line Open
Pentagon officials met with their Russian counterparts via video conference Thursday to discuss the continued adherence to the agreement regarding flight safety over Syria, according to a statement by Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook. "The conversation was constructive, and the two...
Lightning vs. Predator
Lightning likely caused an MQ-1B Predator to crash in the US Central Command area of responsibility in October 2015, Air Combat Command investigators found. The remotely piloted aircraft was assigned to the 432nd Wing at Creech AFB, Nev., but was...
Working the Strategic Deterrence Muscles
US Strategic Command's annual Global Thunder exercise that ended Monday included a record number of foreign participants. More than 20 representatives from the United Kingdom and Canada took part in Global Thunder 17 at Offutt AFB, Neb., according to a...
McMullen Assigned to ACC
Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein has assigned Maj. Gen. John K. McMullen to be Air Combat Command's vice commander, the Air Force announced Thursday. McMullen will replace Maj. Gen. Jerry Harris, | 712 |
A designer boutique hotel in the heart of Ghent<|fim_middle|> a variety of audio source devices. The Dante network moves audio to K-array KA24 amplifiers and KV52 loudspeakers, which offered the thin profile both Bauwens and the hotel were seeking. Inside The Cobbler, the loudspeakers line a stairwell as guests come and go, and are otherwise positioned around the bar and seating areas. The system includes two KV2 Audio subwoofers – discreetly built into wooden cabinets mounted beneath windows – that are also powered by Dante-enabled KA24 amplifiers. | , Belgium has been equipped with Dante audio IP networking to deliver high-quality background music and audio support to different parts of the hotel.
Designed and integrated by Belgian systems integrator Round Group Audiovisual Engineering, the Dante network delivers high-quality background music in the hotel's atmospheric 1898 The Post cocktail lounge. It also provides audio support for presentations, meetings and events in a large multi-function room.
1898 The Post is a new venture from Zannier Hotels, based in Ghent, that opened this summer. Located in the upper two floors of Ghent's old post office building, the hotel offers 38 guest rooms and public spaces that complement the building's late 19th century architecture. Round Group was hired to provide a "very high-end sound system" for The Cobbler, the hotel's cocktail bar and social hub, along with reception and other public areas of the hotel. The company was soon after provided with an opportunity to extend the system to support AV needs for the multi-function space.
To minimise visibility of the system, Bauwens opted for Dante-enabled Attero Tech unD3IO wall plates and K-array end point systems. The wall plates provide a flexible array of software-selectable inputs and outputs (XLR, RCA, 3.5mm stereo) to support | 267 |
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 16 (UPI)<|fim_middle|> number of nanoparticles in suspension.
Carol Tanner and Steven Ruggiero said a recent practical demonstration showed LTS capable of detecting species-specific DNA, where the presence of one invasive species of Asian carp was differentiated from a closely related invasive sister species.
The technique is highly sensitive and takes only a few seconds to score a sample genetically for species presence or absence, the researchers said in a university release Friday.
Aside from invasive species detection, the researchers say the technique could eventually serve as an important tool in detecting human pathogens and understanding and indicating the presence of genetic diseases such as cancer. | -- U.S. researchers say a new DNA detection method could bring real-world applications that are more rapid, practical and cost effective than current methods.
University of Notre Dame physicists say the new method involves a technique called laser transmission spectroscopy, capable of rapidly determining the size, shape and | 56 |
On Thursday January 26, 2017, approximately 1<|fim_middle|> can pledge to have conversations with the youths in their lives and the program sends parents ideas for the talk.
Screenagers is a great place to start the conversation and it's a conversation that needs to continue in our community, our schools, and our homes. | 75 parents, students, educators and other concerned community members attended the screening of the 2016 documentary Screenagers by Delaney Ruston, M.D. a family care physician and filmmaker. AFE would like to thank fellow sponsors: WFBHS Parent Association and Cumberland PTO.
After viewing the film and listening to the talkback, AFE's takeaway was this: make rules for usage of devices/screen time but involve your child in the rule-making; start a dialogue with your child about their digital life and keep that dialogue going so they can develop healthy habits; and look at your own use of devices and see what sort of example you are setting for your family.
The website www.screenagersmovie.com offers many fantastic resources. One is the Tech Talk Tuesdays program, by which parents | 162 |
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After a year of hard work and intense prep, local lawyer Christina Gibson reached her ultimate goal in November 2018: She placed first in her first figure competition in Atlanta. This win had her hooked, and she went on to place competitively at a Nashville National Physique Competition (NPC) this May.
"It all started when I got involved with training with the Titans and started going every Saturday with local trainers," Christina, 31, says. "I had the chance to go to a competition one of my trainers was in and I saw a girl on the stage whose muscles looked amazing. I wondered if I could do that."
It wasn't an easy road for her; intense work and school schedules initially kept Christina from a consistent training schedule, though once she began she noticed her body changing after only two weeks. "My friends and family noticed my initial weight loss. What I noticed was that my clothes fit differently. I was using muscles I'd never used before and they were screaming days after my workouts."
When Christina teamed up with nutritional coach and trainer Daavon Grayson at Better Life Training in Cordova, her workouts reached the next level. "I struggled for motivation when my body hurt that much, then my coach explained that once I built the muscles up to where they should be it wouldn't be like that. It kept me going. He was such a critical part of this for me, with both the physical and nutritional aspects."
Her prep diet consisted of four to five meals per day, carefully measured according to nutritionist specifications. "It was difficult for me to start eating that much daily," she says. "For future preps, I have to tell my trainer no more tilapia. I ended up eating enough chicken and tilapia to last a lifetime."
After a few months, Christina reached her goal competition weight of 107, and her already-petite frame gave her the edge she needed to take first place. "I was so nervous, but it felt amazing to see the transformation," she says. "I always felt like I wasn't doing enough, and it took seeing my before and after photos to say, 'Wow, I really did that.'"
After a brief break, Christina launched into yet another prep for the Battle on the Bluff bodybuilding competition, which kept her in the gym. Now her typical workout schedule is still strenuous, with only two days off and a full hour of weight training paired with 30 minutes on the StairMaster.
"I've been getting leaner over the past year, and would love to put on more weight. Even though I have more cheat meals now than I ever would during prep, I still maintain my cardio and meal prep every week at home," she says. "Two preps back to back was intense, and I'm happy to be back to balance and maintenance."
Christina is next looking forward to a Spartan competition—a series of obstacle races of varying distance and difficulty, ranging from three miles to marathon distances, including things like wall climbing, slippery walks, and bar | 631 |
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I've had this for over three years of use with longsword and it's still handling weekly practice and events without a dent. It's taken strikes, pommels, punches, daggers, all sorts and is fine. The lining is a bit chewed up, but not to an unusable degree | 189 |
Meet the Single Mom and Brewery Owner Brewing the American Dream
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Photography courtesy of Hopkinsville Brewing Co.
This is a paid, sponsored post presented by Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream.
On one of her worst brew days, Kate Russell, Founder and Head Brewer at Hopkinsville Brewing Co. in Hopkinsville, KY received a phone call.<|fim_middle|>.5bbl brewhouse to a 5bbl system with new fermenters. She expects that equipment to arrive soon.
Beyond those physical upgrades, Russell hopes to just continue to empower her community.
"I don't want to be the next Budweiser or even Rhinegeist. I like just making local beer that makes people happy," says Russell. "I still want to be a space that encourages people to come in and feel welcome."
Looking to hear more about BTAD and the success stories of Kate Russell, Beny Ashburn, the CEO and Founder of BIPOC-owned Crowns & Hops, and more, along with how we can continue to break through barriers for women and minorities in the craft beer industry? Tune into our Brewing the American Dream Turning Your Passion Pro panel presented by Boston Beer Co. during our women in craft beer festival, Beers With(out) Beards on Saturday, Sept. 18th.
And, check out Samuel Adams' Brewing the American Dream's website and Facebook page for more information on upcoming speed coaching events, webinars, ad hoc mentoring opportunities, Pitch Room competitions, Brewing & Business Experienceships, and more. Follow on Instagram @samadamsbtad
Grace Weitz
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Grace is the Managing Editor for Hop Culture and Untappd. She also organizes and produces the largest weeklong women in craft beer festival in the country, Beers With(out) Beards and the first-ever festival celebrating the colorful, vibrant voices in the queer community in craft beer, Queer Beer. An avid craft beer nerd Grace always found a way to work with beer. After graduating with a journalism degree from Northwestern University, she attended culinary school before working in restaurant management. She moonlighted as a brand ambassador at 3 Sheeps Brewing Co on the weekends before moving into the beer industry full time as an account coordinator at 5 Rabbit Cerveceria. Grace holds her Masters degree in the Food Studies program at NYU.
The Story of Samuel Adams' Brewing the American Dream Program
How Samuel Adams Supports the LGBTQ+ Community
Everything You Need to Know About Hop Culture x YETI Presents Beers With(out) Beards Women in Craft Beer Festival | "I almost didn't answer it," says Russell. "The electrical panel wasn't working right, the pump wasn't working right, and everything that could go wrong was going wrong!" But the single mom and five-year brewery owner picked up. On the other end of the line was Jennifer Glanville, Brewer and Director of Partnerships at Boston Beer Co, who told Russell she'd been chosen as the eighth-ever winner of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Brewing Experienceship Program.
"If you picture a comic strip bubble over people's heads my first thought was, Wait, this sounds familiar. I remember I applied for this. This isn't funny because I never win anything," says Russell. "The whole time I was just starstruck. I didn't see it coming."
According to Glanville, "I thought the line may have dropped until she said, Can you repeat that? It made my day."
If you haven't heard of the The Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Program (BTAD), it was started by Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch as a way to provide resources and coaching to small businesses. In the past thirteen years, BTAD has partnered with the Accion Opportunity Fund to provide more than 3,200 loans totaling $65 million to food and beverage businesses in thirty-nine states. Additionally, the program has helped these businesses create more than 9,000 jobs and provided free business coaching to over 12,000 entrepreneurs.
But the crown jewel of the program is The Brewing Experienceship, in which one brewer is chosen every year to learn from Samuel Adams' brewing and business experts such as Jim Koch himself. Furthermore, the winner receives financial support to check out important business building and industry networking events as well as the opportunity to brew a collaboration Beer with Samuel Adams.
And this year, Russell became the program's eighth recipient.
Brewing the American Dream Can Start on Any Given Morning
An early riser, Russell was scrolling through Facebook one morning while drinking her coffee. She saw a post about the Brewing the American Dream competition, filled out an application, and immediately forgot about it.
The story Russell told immediately impressed Samuel Adams. Russell isn't only the single mom of two kids — Bobby and Maeby, ages fifteen and soon-to-be thirteen, respectively — but a female business owner and head brewer.
Samuel Adams chose Russell over forty-nine other applicants.
"Kate's story is one that moved us in more ways than one," says Glanville. "As a single mom who overcame several challenges in her path to building what is now a successful brewery and beloved staple within her community, she is the epitome of the dreamer we aim to support with our program. Not only was she providing for her family throughout this journey, but it was incredible to hear about her evolution from someone with little knowledge of brewing who wasn't even a beer drinker herself to a passionate entrepreneur that has developed a lifelong enthusiasm for the brewing business."
It's stories of entrepreneurs like Russell that have empowered Brewing the American Dream.
What Exactly Is Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream?
In 1984, Jim Koch started Samuel Adams. And although he was an educated white male with three degrees from Harvard, even he couldn't secure a loan from the bank. After thirty-six years of brewing success, Koch never forgot the difficulties of starting a successful small business.
Thus, Koch decided to give back to his community. In 2008, Koch started the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program with two core pillars: First, he wanted to give capital to small beverage and food entrepreneurs. Second, and perhaps most importantly, he wanted to provide mentoring and coaching for business owners.
"One of the most enjoyable aspects of the Brewing the American Dream program is meeting the most incredible people and fostering genuine, longstanding connections with all those who join our family," says Glanville.
Over a decade later, BTAD continues to help entrepreneurs such as Russell gain the acumen, resources, networking, coaching, and financing to wake up every day and do what they love.
"We are so excited to be even a small part of Kate's journey and look forward to supporting her in every way we can," says Glanville.
Who Is Kate Russell and What Is Hopkinsville Brewing Co.?
Five years ago, Russell bought a run-down building in downtown Hopkinsville, a fading town in Kentucky. She wanted to start a brewery and poured her life savings into renovations. Even her parents took out a home equity loan to help her pay for the space. Additionally, she enlisted the help of her friend Jon O'Rourke, a homebrewer, who taught her how to brew, and joined Auburn University's graduate program in Brewing Science and Operations. And on Labor Day 2016, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. opened its doors.
"I didn't realize how much I would enjoy brewing and running a small business," says Russell, who calls herself a very hands-on, DIY project person. A former SIGNIT analyst (signals intelligence) in the US Army, Russell decided early on that, "If this is what I'm going to do, I want to be as good as I can be at it."
Hopkinsville Brewing Co. is a Pillar for the Community
Almost a half-decade later, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. has helped revitalize the town of Hopkinsville. As the only brewery in not only Hopkinsville but the entire Christian County, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. has become a beacon in the community.
And that's been very intentional.
"[Hopkinsville Brewing Co.] is about beer, but more so it's about creating a space where everyone in the community feels welcome," says Russell. "My goal is to create a place where if you weren't from here or if you felt different you would feel welcome. This is a place to bring your kids, your family, or, if you're a woman, to feel comfortable and safe by yourself. I'm very much about inclusion and making sure everyone feels welcome and comfortable."
Following that mantra, Russell includes small touches around the brewery such as free tampons and diapers in the gender-inclusive restrooms. It's little decisions like those that have a big impact in a craft beer industry that for so long has been predominantly dominated by men.
But the journey hasn't always been easy for this five-foot-one brewer.
Challenges as a Woman in the Beer Industry
Despite her success, Russell says she still runs into challenges because of her gender.
"I'm a small, five-foot-one woman," says Russell. "I don't look like a brewer. I don't even look like I drink beer."
A few weeks ago, Russell released an annual seasonal called Maeby A Watermelon Mint Wit. She recalls someone visiting the taproom asking for, "That girly beer."
Another time, a male keg sales rep stopped by asking to talk to the owner. "That's me," says Russell. Not believing Russell, he then asked to speak to the brewer. "Yup, that's also me," says Russell. In the end, he refused to speak to her, turning instead to one of her male servers. "It's frustrating because beer doesn't have a gender," says Russell.
However, in spite of these hurdles, Russell has persevered.
In an industry where the demographics skew male, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. trends in the other direction. Russell says her customer base is fifty-two percent women. Even on Facebook and Instagram, she has more female followers than anyone else.
A Renaissance Woman Brewing the American Dream
Russell does it all. She owns a business. Along with her partner Joey Medieros, she brews the beer. And she's a single mom.
Somehow she juggles everything. But she's clear that being a mom to Bobby and Maeby has always come first.
"If it comes down to either running the taproom or going to my son's baseball game, I'll be at the field," says Russell. "I have a very amazing partner and staff where I can walk away when I need to and be a mom. I always joke with my partner Joey when I leave the brewery that I'm going to start my second shift now. I'm going to go home and do the mom thing."
It's that tenacity that impressed the Samuel Adams team. So much so, in fact, that they created an entirely new arm of the Brewing the American Dream program.
Moms Brewing the American Dream
Photography courtesy of Boston Beer Co.
This past Mother's Day, Samuel Adams launched Moms Brewing the American Dream to highlight working moms. Fifty winners will be selected to receive mentorship and training sessions. Additionally, they'll receive a $500 check to contribute to childcare or groceries, a voucher to mDesign, a three-month subscription to City Girl Coffee, a Kami Mini camera, and a gift card to Bathorium.
"Over forty percent of our entrepreneurs are women, and in learning about Kate's story as a mom who persevered through challenging circumstances to build a successful business, we were inspired to connect more broadly with moms pursuing their dreams across the country," says Glanville. "The Brewing the American Dream program is one that Samuel Adams holds dearly as part of the business' DNA, and we're honored to be involved in the journey of inspiring entrepreneurs across the country."
For at least the foreseeable future, Russell hopes Hopkinsville Brewing Co. will be an inspiration for moms around the industry and her own community.
Hopkinsville Brewing Co. Continues to Grow and Break Barriers
Following its success, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. expanded in 2020. Prior to the expansion, a grain room on the second level meant that Russell and her team needed to carry fifty-pound bags of grain upstairs. Additionally, since Russell brewed in the same vicinity as her taproom, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) regulations kept her from opening seven days a week; Monday and Tuesday they had to close to brew.
Luckily, a body shop next door came on the market.
"Every six months, I'd ask the owner if he was ready to sell because he was approaching retirement age," says Russell. The owner had plans to pass the building on to his sons, but they had no interest. Finally, he agreed to sell.
"I heard through the grapevine it had been an emotionally hard decision for him," says Russell. "Owning a business now, I get it."
But this story has a happy ending. One night, Russell came to the brewery to find that the old owner had left the sign for Upton's Body Shop leaning against the brewery door. That sign is now hanging up in the taproom.
"It was really gratifying to take an old building and make it pretty to the point where the last person that inhabited it approved," says Russell.
It's one more small nod to her neighbors that will help Russell continue to grow as a brewery.
What Does the Future Look Like for Hopkinsville Brewing Co.?
On Labor Day 2021, Hopkinsville Brewing Co. celebrated its fifth anniversary. And while it's good to take time to reflect, Russell and her team are even more excited to look to the future.
Piggybacking off the expansion in 2020, Russell will be upgrading her 2 | 2,322 |
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There are many meditation techniques including gazing at a mandala, yantras, breath-counting, mantra repetition, chanting, and with candles or holding crystals. Regardless of the method, meditation is directed toward complete awareness in the present moment without thought, judgement or emotion.
These designs have been used to focus in meditation for countless centuries. Although they are popularly associated with Indian Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, they have been used in a variety of spiritual and religious traditions worldwide.
The Mandala is an intricate metaphysical representation of the Cosmos that is at the same time, a magical depiction of the interior state of the enlightened Buddha, as well as being a schematic of a Temple or palace. Mandalas are meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a Mandala is to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.
Mandala meditation is thought to be the easiest method for beginners. We know the meaning relates to beginnings, our eternal nature, and how this is relative to our life journey. So, before meditating on it we set the intention to more clearly understand our life journey, or be shown guidance in a particular area we are having trouble in our life.
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Nevil Shute: On the Beach
Nevil Shute was always one of those authors I intended to read, but my excuse for not having done so was that his books weren't available in nice editions in the UK. (I didn't say it was a very good excuse.) Until recently, the curious House of Stratus kept him in print here, in editions that looked more like textbooks than novels. Now, Vintage Classics have reissued all his novels, though only four (A Town Like Alice, Pied Piper, Requiem for a Wren and this one) have been given cover illustrations. The rest are, I understand, print-on-demand editions and have identical text-only covers a little like Faber poetry books.
When I saw that On the Beach was published in 1957, three years before Shute's death, I wondered if it was a rare example where an author's most famous book is one written late in his career. The reason why On the Beach is so well known is easily seen: its bold conceit is that it describes the last months of human life on earth following a nuclear war.
The 50s and 60s were a boom time for popular dystopias, and the loose environmental future-fear of Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, Christopher's The Death of Grass and Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! probably explain why they're once again in vogue. Shute's springboard in On the Beach, however, was specifically Cold War-related: China and Russia have exploded thousands of nuclear warheads in territorial battle. This is conveyed in a needless ten-page dialogue to explain to the reader how the nuclear devastation came about. I'd have preferred it to remain unspecific, though the details were probably more effective and frightening for readers at the time (the book is set a few years in the future, in 1963).
As a result of the war, the whole northern hemisphere has been devastated by radiation, and no humans survive (though dogs and rabbits will outlive them: no mention of cockroaches though). Winds are bringing the<|fim_middle|> I liked enough to want to read more (then didn't). Any Lem recommendations?
(The mention of The Shockwave Rider also brought to mind the old ZX Spectrum computer game Shockway Rider – I'm guessing the creators must have been Brunner fans. Look at that review, by the way – 9 out of 10 for graphics!)
I'd second the 'Roadside Picnic' recommendation. It's wonderful and strange. And for Lem, next try 'The Chain of Chance' (brief description: statistics as serial killer) or 'His Master's Voice' (the utter unknowability of alien consciousness, even if we do manage to make contact via SETI).
But look at those graphics John! For the ZX Spectrum, that's pretty good.
God, I'd forgotten that machine, we played The Hobbit a lot, it took us ages to realise it randomly generated where the other characters went if you weren't doing anything. Gandalf goes West. West. You see Gandalf. Gandalf goes East. What? Why? Oh well, East. You see Gandalf. Gandalf goes West.
With hindsight, perhaps we should have worked out the pattern earlier than the few hours it actually took us.
Anyway, I digress. I have a great fondness for The Tales of Pirx the Pilot and More Tales of Pirx the Pilot, which are sort of low key Russian vaguely comic sf, the latter containing the funniest and saddest first contact story I've ever read. Those are very straightforwardly sf, Pirx is a spaceship pilot after all, given that's more a side genre for you I'd probably recommend before Pirx The Chain of Chance. Chain of Chance a sort of crime novel in which a former US astronaut investigates a series of suicides in Italy that are suspected to actually be a chain of murders. Also good, though it's twenty years since I read it, is His Master's Voice which is about an attempt to decode a signal from space that may or may not be intended for us to hear and that may not even be artificial but could just be some new form of stellar noise.
His stuff was often slightly subversive, alien contacts where we don't recognise who the aliens are and the mission ends in disaster, messages that may be accidental, secret agents whose missions are so secret they can't be told what they are, reviews of books nobody ever wrote, his stuff is full of sly humour and failure born of bureaucracy and human failings.
A marvellous writer.
Now there's a coincidence, I hadn't seen JRSM's post when I made my recommendations, exactly the same books though.
There you go John, Chain of Chance or His Master's Voice.
I do love the Pirx tales though.
Heh, yes that was pretty good going guys! Are you sure you didn't collaborate? Or perhaps an alien consciousness inserted the suggestions into your brain. Recommendations noted; now I wonder if Lem is still in print in the UK? One for the modern classics presses perhaps?
I promise not to make this into a ZX Spectrum discussion forum, but yes, those graphics actually were pretty good for the Speccy. I was just being mean. A few years ago I bought a CD off eBay which contained a ZX Spectrum emulator and 5,000 games. Five thousand! On one CD! It made me gape in wonder when I realised how much gameplay and inventiveness – and scope – writers of games like Jet Set Willy, Knight Lore or Heavy on the Magick managed to fit into 48K – about the size these days of a small jpg or Word document.
(I was tempted to make those links to Java playable versions of the games, but then I'd never get any work done.)
way back when I was in high school I read Nevil Shute's 1947 novel The Chequer Board. It left it's mark.
Two years after Nevil Shute died I was a soldier and saw On the Beach at one of the Army post theaters.
You can find the English slang expression "on the beach" used in Nevil Shute's novel The Mysterious Aviator (also titled So Disdained).
My interest in Nevil Shute was reawakened by a nice coincidence when I moved to this condo last month. This Condo building is built on the estate of the late Erla Schlather Parker. Between 1928 and 1936 Erla took no less than 6 trans-oceanic 2-day zeppelin flights on both the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg Zeppelin (a year before it crashed and burned). If you Google "Erla Parker" along with "zeppelin" you can get a couple quick blurbs.
This relates to Nevil Shute (real name Nevil Shute Norway) because Shute was the Oxford alumnus aeronautical engineer who did the stress analysis for the de Havilland British "zeppelin" R-100. To show his confidence in his calculations, in August 1930 he flew round trip on the R-100 from England to Montreal and back. However in October 1930 the sister ship R-101 crashed and burned in France, not unlike the Hindenburg in 1937. That was the end of the British airship program.
In 1948 Shute, who apparently still had loose ties to de Havilland, wrote a novel titled No Highway (made into a British movie in 1951) about a new British plane that crashes due to some strange forces. In 1954, two different de Havilland Comets, the world's first jet passenger planes, exploded midair. The cause was later determined to be stress fractures from repeated expanding and contracting of the pressurized cabins. It is as if Shute's unconscious was churning and trying to break out into his conscious mind about the danger.
In 1970 I worked my way across the Pacific from Japan to California on a C-3 freighter and came under the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay early on a Sunday morning. No cars or people were moving in the streets. It was exactly like the movie scene in On the Beach that I had seen eight years earlier. Chilling!
There may be one more interesting connection. Until Hugh Luke of the University of Nebraska got the U of Nebraska Press to republish Mary Shelley's The Last Man in the mid-1960s, there was only one copy of this novel left in the world — in the Bodleian Library of Shute's alma mater Oxford. One can wonder whether he may have heard of it or seen it before beginning On the Beach.
If anyone might be interested, I modernized The Last Man. I also modernized the title to The Last Human. You can read it free at:
Tom Slattery
bookwitch says:
I used to love Nevil Shute's books. Read most of them in my teens and early twenties. Good to see they are back.
I find there are several quotes/thoughts/ideas that have stuck with me very firmly over all these years from his books, which means I regularly revisit them in my mind.
I have copy of the American edition of Nevil Shute's 1928 novel The Mysterious Aviator (apparently published in Britain as "So Disdained"). It was published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York.
On page 202 you can fine "on the beach" almost 30 years before Nevil Shute wrote the novel that would make him world famous.
It is in a letter written by one of the characters in the novel, M.T. Lenden. The letter is about intercepting the products of some espionage. People have been killed along the way. And Lenden apparently wants to soften the blow to loved ones and leave widows something to live on.
As I understand it, the British slang term "on the beach" might mean "wiped out" in American slang.
Anyway, on page 202 we see this: "… and we'd hunt up old Keumer's wife and make her a present of the thousand, because I know she'll be on the beach and I'd like to do that for the old lad."
It may or may not shed light on what Shute meant with his title On the Beach almost 30 years later.
Thanks Tom – I had been meaning to ask if anyone knew the meaning of the title (there is a scene early in the book, on a beach, but that didn't seem sufficient). Perhaps the fact that the very idiom which Shute used to title his book, is now meaningless to most people, is indicative of the way his books has suffered generally from the passage of time (as people above seem largely to agree).
I must confess that I can't read the title without getting that awful Chris Rea song of the same name running through my head.
John Self,
Thanks to your excellent site I was able to make that little trivia observation more widely known. If Nevil Shute did begin to write his novel On the Beach from that working title, it may throw some light on intent of the yarn and nuances in the text.
And ever since I spent some time and effort modernizing Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man so readers in our time might get a better feel for the early 19th century story, I have wondered if Nevil Shute may have seen or may have heard of the (then) only remaining copy of The Last Man in the Bodleian Library at Shute's alma mater Oxford U.
I put a link to my (free) modernization of Mary Shelley's novel in an earlier comment, and you may note that I modernized the title to The Last Human. If some might be furious with me for reworking her work, I did not hack it up so bad as Bride of Frankenstein or any of those. In fact, The Last Human seems like a pretty good yarn for our time in itself.
I should add more to my previous post. In 1989-90 when I was writing my first draft modernizing Mary Shelley's The Last Man, the one and only copy of Mary Shelley's novel for hundreds of miles in any direction was in the Cleveland Public Library, an hour bus ride from where I lived.
It was the Hugh Luke edition that had been republished by the University of Nebraska Press in the mid-1960s to make it available to scholars.
And this may have been the reason that I focused on Nevil Shute possibly having known about the (then) only copy in the world of The Last Man at his alma mater, Oxford U. I think that Shute may have at least heard about it. And if he had heard about it, it would have been tempting to take a look at it.
In order to have Mary Shelley's novel for a long enough time to modernize the whole long several volumes of it, I borrowed the Nebraska-published book from the library and probably violated library rules by xeroxing every page. Copies in 1989 could be made for as little as two cents per page. There were no Xerox machines for Shute to do the same in the 1950s or earlier.
After I had copied it, it took me months and months to figure out a modern story to overlay onto the original one. And I kept wondering if Shute might not have tried the same thing and then realized that he could write his own story with the same general idea. Who knows now? But that's how all of this comment came up.
I'm a 17 year old student in Britain, and I read my Dad's battered old copy of On The Beach last year, because it related to my history course. I instantly fell in love – as I have with all the works of his that I've read. They're not high literature, but they're very good stories.
It's a shame they're not reprinting the whole lot, though; my family recommend "A Town Like Alice", but we don't have a copy anywhere (we even checked the loft) and that's not one of the ones they're reprinting, which is a shame.
xxx Amy
I was just a little older when I read On the Beach. Then I was a bit older when I was a drafted soldier in the US Army and saw the movie version at an Army base movie theater. It was timely then, in the midst of the Cold War. I took a chance and drove in my rusty and coughing-chugging old 1952 Plymouth with expired license plates to the opposite end of the huge Army base. That was only the second car that I owned. The first was a 1951 Hillman Minx. It had turn signals that were illuminated plastic flaps, and when one wanted to turn, these sprang out from slots beside the car doors. Hardly anyone in the USA had a car like that then. And to put the times in context, I believe that was the car that I owned when I read On the Beach.
Hi Amy. The good news is that they are reprinting the whole lot, at least in the UK. I bought A Town Like Alice in the new edition. Only four of the books got the nice new covers, but all his books have been reissued by Vintage Classics, and the remainder of them are in plain-covered print-on-demand editions (and readily available in bookshops, or at least in my local one, which isn't a particularly well-stocked one).
Vintage has now rereleased A Town Like Alice and On The Beach in the US. Pied Piper and Wren are scheduled for August. Cover designs by the always-impressive Keenan.
They're good and readers will buy them. Interesting how the minds of writers influence us from the grave. Not yet in the grave myself, I have a few print-on-demand books listed on book sites. Every now and then I get a "royalty" check (cheque) from the publisher that is slightly less than a good meal at a restaurant. But it feels good to be wanted.
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Rather like The Death of Grass and The Day of the Triffids, the spirit of 1950s British stiff-upper-lip remains (Shute was born in England but settled in Australia after the war.) There is little hysteria, other than one affecting scene – at least to a new parent like me – where a couple discuss what will have to be done to their baby when the clouds come. The only signs of a crumbling of social order are in the last days, when shopkeepers no longer care whether they receive payment: but continue to turn up each day and serve their customers. Unlike later writers such as Golding or Ballard, Shute seems to be assuring us that the veneer of civilization is robust. At times the stoicism seems parodic, as characters joke about the suicide pills being made available by the government.
"Everybody's after these," she said, smiling. "We're doing quite a lot of business in them."
He smiled back at her. "I like mine chocolate coated."
"So do I," she said. "But I don't think they make them like that. I'm going to take mine with an ice-cream soda."
(Smiling seems to be Shute's shorthand for characters who are in a good mood. When they're really happy, there's a lot of grinning.) Out of context it looks like a satire on social mores ("You've got to take what's coming to you and make the best of it"), but even when a character does express fear, they're quickly tramped down. One character wishes she were dead already: "it's like waiting to be hung." "Maybe it is," says her companion. "Or maybe it's a period of grace."
This made me think of parallels with Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, where the characters and their truncated lives represent us all. Similarly, On the Beach could be an extension of all our lives taken to the extreme: we all know that we will die sooner or later, so why bother continuing to plant flowers for next season, taking part in car racing, or any of the other quotidian tasks that the characters here do? As a distraction? As work for work's sake? ("Even if we don't discover anything good, it's still discovering things.") Because the alternative is, literally, nothing?
There is the occasional joke, sometimes gallows humour ("Before the war it had probably been the best club in the Commonwealth. Now it certainly was"), and sometimes a sort of poking fun at how human insularity is abandoned at just the wrong moment, when one woman says she can't imagine how American towns must look devoid of life, then adds, "I never saw them, of course. I've never been outside Australia." Surprisingly, there is almost no suggestion that anyone expects a life after death, though this enhances Shute's bleak vision.
On the Beach is old-fashioned and a traditional popular novel, with a good deal of exposition in dialogue ("We're all going to get it. We're all going to die of it. That's why I want to tell you just a bit about it," begins one such reader-friendly prompt.) Yet part of the appeal is the fustiness of the dialogue and telling – which presumably they weren't when it was published half a century ago. (Abbreviations, unchanged in this new edition, are equally archaic: frig for refrigerator, and bizarrely, it'ld for 'it would'.) A period piece, the interest of On the Beach – a prime slice of apocalypse fiction from the middle of the last century – is more cultural than literary. For a book by a writer known as a popular storyteller, there's not much story in this book, other than The End is more and more nigh. I intend to read one or two of his others to see if they appeal, but I do wonder, if it wasn't for the high concept idea behind On the Beach, whether Shute would still be read today at all.
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ijsbrand says:
I still read him. Because Nevil Shute may have been the writer that taught me to read English. I really liked some of his books in translation, when I was twelve or something like that. Unfortunately, not a lot was translated.
Don't think that a lot of his work has held up to this day, though. No Highway was once praised by Anthony Burgess as one of 99 essential novels. I don't think that's his best — Requiem for a Wren is a remarkably good weepy, Round the Bend is weird but good — but it still is a pageturner.
Tom Slattery says:
ijsbrand,
The Shute stories that I read have kept my attention even though they had been written for a different audience in a different time.
And No Highway keeps its relevance in our time. We have, for instance, the new Boeing Dreamliner. I'm sure that the engineers thought it out well, and there will be extensive test flights. But in the back of my mind I have to wonder about an essentially plastic airplane that was designed by a computer. I sure hope they test it and think about it beyond the usual requirements. People who ignore fiction might be doomed to live it.
Paul M. Cray says:
I thought it was "Trustee from the Toolroom" that Burgess said slipped down like an oyster and it was certainly TftT I read in 1994 in Cornwall, but it is nearly thirty years since I read "99 Novels" and I had got my Shutes confused! Perhaps he mentioned TftT in the "No Highway" entry or somewhere else in the book. Oddly, was thinking about Shute in a different context only yesterday (about books slipping down like oysters).
Funny you should mention the smiling – does he use other types of emotional shorthand too? I see quite a few manuscripts in which people smile at every moment of happiness, weep in response to the slightest piece of bad news or harsh word, scream with anger on alternating pages, and yawn at the slightest provocation… hard to accept in short bursts, over the course of a novel-length work, it adds up to a weirdly disorienting atmosphere of constant hysteria.
John Self says:
I can believe it, Rob. It's the grinning that gets to me though. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in real life grin – well, nobody over the age of twelve, anyway.
ijsbrand, interesting that Shute was your passport to English: perhaps that speaks well of his ability to write in straightforward language. Someone else recommended No Highway, though Vintage presumably don't agree, as it's one of the ones they've given a plain pink cover (or have they? I'm tempted to buy one of those to see if it really does look like that, or whether it's just a placeholder because the designs aren't online yet).
In fact I have A Town Like Alice already, so I'll probably try that one next (unless lots of people here immediately tell me it's awful).
Lee Monks says:
Don't know a thing about Nevil Shute, other than this review. I have come across the books in second-hand or charity bookshops more times than I could possibly count, and I have always instinctively avoided him. Strange, that. I always felt that his name intimated a kind of drab, provincial writing (or surely I had read something that suggested as much and had forgotten about it) concerned with grey businessmen struggling with the usual quotidian woe or secretly drinking curtain twitchers. Wrong indeed.
Lisa Hill says:
True, great literature it's not, but back in the 1980s I read many of Shute's later novels and enjoyed them all as light reading. I have fond memories of Requeim for a Wren, No Highway, and A Town Like Alice, which was made into a beaut film starring Bryan *drool* Brown. Shute's autobiography, Slide Rule, is awful, and almost made me dislike him.
I think the books have a value as an insight into a different period, not just the post war fear of the atom bomb but also that of coming-to-terms with a generation's WW2 experiences.
Lisa Hill, http://ANZLitLovers.wordpress.com
I agree, grinning does rather suggest a grubby ten-year-old boy with a freshly caught frog in his hand.
Well I didn't know much more about him, Lee. Just that he was a highly popular novelist in his day and that he's fallen out of fashion since then. That's what we rely on the likes of Vintage, Penguin and NYRB to do when they reissue books. Perhaps many such novelists should be allowed to 'die', though with the advent of print-on-demand and ebooks, it may be that good books will never go missing again – just be lost in a sea of mediocrity.
Lisa, thanks for the recommendations (and the disrecommendation of Slide Rule. There's an interesting ranking of his books on the Nevil Shute Norway (his full name) Foundation site, which places Trustee from the Toolroom at the top of a popular vote.
The site also includes comments on On the Beach which suggest that the book (and film) was credited with encouraging the end of the nuclear arms race. Now that that seems frankly a less pressing concern, I think this goes to show just how difficult it is to read On the Beach now and to appreciate its force back then.
I remember that an entire window in WH Smith's in Windsor was devoted to A Trustee from the Toolroom in the early 60's so he must have been a very popular writer at the time. I've only read `A Town Like Alice' which I loved. It's a very weepy romance with a nail biting search for a missing character at the end. A crusty old lawyer recounts the story ( secretly in love with the heroine of course). Even in the 70's when I read it, the colonial attitudes to the Burmese and the Austalian Aborigines seemed racist.but the scenes on the Burma road with `Mrs Boon' and the romance that follows are terrific.
Hi Mary – I believe that Trustee from the Toolroom was Shute's last novel, published shortly after his death, so that may explain why it attracted such coverage in Smith's window! A bit like if Dan Brown had died and The Lost Symbol was a posthumous publication.
…Sorry, got a bit distracted there. Where was I?
I hate Dan Brown. Just saying it feels good.
Did you hear Kate Mosse defending Dan Brown on Radio 4 am yesterday? It takes one to know one…….
I didn't but I can well imagine. What was the thrust of the defence? Do they share publishers? Why on earth does Brown need anyone fighting his corner? He's a soaraway hackmeister. Let him and his egregious acolytes continue apace. I can't even walk into my local Waterstones at the mo without averting my gaze. One of my favourite comment these past few years has been a variation of: 'Listen, bear me out, honestly, I KNOW it's garbage but I just CAN'T STOP!…' I did always offer to help, but no takers.
Annabel says:
Gosh – I read all Shute's books as a teenager in the 70s. A Town Like Alice was the one that I remember most, and I loved it then – but I've not read it since …
Well, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got sucked into buying these latest reissues of Shute's work. I bought A Town Like Alice last week on the basis of the lovely cover.
I read On the Beach when I was at school, although I can't recall if it was on the curriculum (sp?) or whether I read it off my own bat. I know that I enjoyed it, but then I was only 15.
Also, do mind out for the "shutists" – they'll be crawling all over this post before you know it. 😉
Yes, I bought On the Beach because it was the only one my local Waterstone's had, kim – then when I went back next, the space where the one I bought had been, was filled with a copy of A Town Like Alice. So I bought that too. Then, last weekend, they had the other two as well, Pied Piper and Requiem for a Wren (I almost wrote Requiem for a Dream then). What game is this??
Thanks for the advance notice of the Shutists. If I'd hated On the Beach, I was going to title this review Nevil Shite. I'm glad I didn't now.
Steerforth says:
During a normal working day, I sift through several hundred secondhand books and I can guarantee that there will be some Nevil Shutes among them. Sadly his books go straight in the bin, as the print runs were so huge that the supply far exceeds today's meagre demand.
With some writers, you can see the potential for a revivial, but Shute's novels feel as if they're way past their read-by date.
JRSM says:
I've read a few Shutes before, 'On the Beach' among them (as part of my attempt to read every 'literary' apocalypse novel before I die (probably from depression-induced suicide)), and though I enjoyed it rather more than you did, it's hard to fault your criticisms.
I'm reading another Shute now–'Requiem for a Wren'–and it displays similar virtues and problems. However, his WW2-set work does show the origins of the stiff-upper-lip nature of his writing: people seeing loved ones shot down or blown up, and having to just get on with life because it was nothing more than those around them were suffering. 'On the Beach' is that attitude taken to the most extreme point.
'What Happened to the Corbetts' is another of his books of science-fiction interest, by the way: it's an attempt to predict how WW2 would happen, through the eyes of an English family, published in 1938.
I have a couple of the POD Shutes on the way from the Book Depository–I will report on the covers.
Biblibio says:
And to point something completely unrelated out, all I could think of while reading this review was of "The End of the World" ("Australia's still like, WTF mate?"). Ahh, connecting literature to silly internet phenomena… the best way to distract from my absolute lack of anything useful to add…
karenb says:
In my late teens I read a number of Shute's novels including 'On the Beach' at the time I enjoyed the books but looking back I can recall very little about them or what really attracted me to them at the time. (late 70's early 80's)
Reading your review has made me wander if I should revisit Shute on the other hand there are lots of authors I have yet to discover so maybe not.
Rose City Reader says:
I've always been reluctant to read On the Beach, although, like Lisa, I ate up A Town Like Alice and swooned over the movie version.
I've been in a mood to try Shute again though as I am developing a fascination for mid-century pop lit.
Glad I found your blog. I'm working my way through Wuthering Expectations' blogroll, looking for book blogers with similar tastes to mine. Looks like I found one.
nicknick says:
I grew up overseas, in a Muslim country, and we didn't have much entertainment aside from a roving tape library (betamax, ha) with, oh, about 300 films. We watched a lot of those films over and over and over, and A Town Like Alice is one of the ones that made an impression on eight-year-old me. It's a shame Shute is impossible to find here in San Francisco. I'd snap up those Vintage books in an instant if I saw them in my local.
You can probably find Shute books at the Friends of the SF Library Big Book sale — it's next weekend. http://www.friendssfpl.org/?Big_Book_Sale
I used to get all kinds of out of print books there. The sale is one of the Top 10 things I miss about living in San Francisco!
Max Cairnduff says:
Interesting writeup as ever. I was another who read this at about 15, back in the '80s (I think it was seen as a bit of a classic then, but of course it was still relevant). I recall quite liking it but not being blown away. Is this the one with scenes in a dead city visited in order to investigate what may be a survivor's radio signal? I recall the city descriptions as being quite effective, but it's been a while so that could simply be the idea rather than the writing.
I absolutely agree that it's a high concept novel, I don't recall a single character, just mood and concept (and a deserted city, as mentioned above).
Posted from a Blackberry as I'm not back from hols yet, so sorry for any errors.
Thanks for the comments everyone (and welcome, Rose City Reader!) – it does look as though Shute is someone best remembered if you read him at a young age. I will still try A Town Like Alice, if only because I've already bought it.
Max, yes, On the Beach is the one with the visit to the dead city (Seattle).
I wonder if it's an age thing John, or an issue of relevance. When I read it, at risk of aging myself, there were documentaries and dramas on the tv about the effects of nuclear war on Britain, books in the shop about it, it was a present and very real fear.
Now, it isn't so much. People don't now consider nuclear apocalypse that big a risk, back then we did, that as much as age may have granted it greater impact than it now possesses.
There's an oddity in apocalyptic sf that the nature of the apocalypse changes over time. The Edwardians had several novels where total war led to collapse, in the 60s we had environmental collapse from overpopulation, in the 70s fuel running out, in the 80s the bomb, now we're back to the environmental but due to climate change rather than overpopulation.
Obviously there are always exceptions, the masterful Earth Abides for example, but there's a tendency for apocalyptic fiction to mirror our own fears, and On the Beach simply no longer does.
I wonder how John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar would read now? Come to think of it, Harry Harrison's Make Room, Make Room has the same theme and you've reviewed that, I must refresh myself on what you made of it and it's continued relevance (if any).
Well certainly Max I remember the second wave of nuclear dread, in the 80s, with the likes of Threads (which terrified me at the age of around 10, even though I don't think I watched more than a few minutes of it), and I received Raymond Briggs' When the Wind Blows for Christmas around the same time, which was probably not aimed at my age group (and not a very festive gift), though I remember reading it over and over with revulsion and fascination.
But it's true that now, even as Iran seems to dip its toe in nuclear waters, the issue seems far removed from our lives. I remember reading Martin Amis's nuclear-themed collection Einstein's Monsters in the mid or late 90s and thinking how almost quaint it seemed. But I have no doubt that On the Beach would have seemed much more relevant, and therefore its literary shortcomings would have mattered less, to readers in the 80s, as well as back when it was first published.
I'm afraid, Max, I don't know much about Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar – anything in fact, other than the title, which I've heard of. And Earth Abides… – which one was that again?
I watched Threads on DVD for the first time about a year or so ago. Grimmest thing I've ever seen, I wouldn't let a 10 year old near it.
Stand on Zanzibar is an overpopulation novel, Make Room, Make Room makes the same points in about a fifth the space. It's by John Brunner, and is better regarded than it ought to be. Brunner wrote some absolutely top notch science fiction, but is oddly enough more famous for works I don't consider to be among his best. His better work, for me, is that which is purer SF and his more accessible work is I think actually weaker.
Earth Abides by contrast is worth reading, it's a 1949 novel by George R Stewart (the man, according to wikipedia, responsible for storms having names). It's an elegaicly toned novel about a plague that wipes out most of humanity, those tiny few who remain aren't the brightest or the best, just random people who happened to be immune. It traces the fate of our buildings, our livestock, our pets, without us and the struggles of those who remain to rebuild a civilisation that they never understood the workings of anyway (I couldn't build a car, repair a highway, how many of us could?).
Stewart wasn't a science fiction writer, I think this was his only entry into the form, but it deservedly won a World Fantasy award (no idea how good an award that is though) and is still I think widely regarded as one of the best post-apocalypse novels ever written.
That said, it's ages since I read it, so who knows, perhaps I would be disappointed today. After all, my fading memory of On the Beach was that it was quietly effective, but your review reminded me of it more strongly and actually I think you're spot on with regard to its problems. It's tricky stuff returning to old novels one loved, sometimes they remind you why you loved them, sometimes not.
First off, what a fantastic cover on this edition.
On the Beach was the first Shute I ever read. I was sixteen, it was the 1980s and nuclear armaggedon was all but a surety according to Ronald Reagan. I loved the book and sobbed like a baby towards the end.
Since then I have read a few other books by Shute and have loved them all. But you are right on the money about them being old-fashioned. They often seem very, very corny. But for me, they are still so enjoyable to read. And the ones that I have read all seem to have a kind of survival theme to them (A Town Like Alice, Pastoral, In the Wet). Almost like adventure tales written by an overgrown boy scout who was always prepared but never quite got the chance to put all of his survival knowledge to use.
Oh, and as for grinning…We had to sit through 8 years of George W Bush with his ridiculous and ever present adolescent grin.
Earth Abides is good fun. Also, John: NYRB's republished Stewart's weirdly engrossing Names of the Land book.
http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=7935
nicknick, as a shameless NYRB fanboy, I will definitely be looking into Names on the Land.
Thomas, thanks for your comments. Despite my misgivings about On the Beach, I do want to try more Shute. Perhaps the powerful concept in that book diminished his storytelling skills – and I take your point about the lately departed grinner. The cover illustration, by the way, is by Mick Wiggins, about whose work you can read more in the link.
Incidentally, for anyone who cares, I've now seen copies of the non-pictorial covers on the Shute titles that Vintage have released on POD, and they are indeed plain magenta background with the title and no illustration. Sadly the spines are the same colour, which puts them out of sync with other Vintage Classics (including the four Shutes which have been given illustrated covers).
I read "Pied Piper" in the first year at secindary as a set book and liked it, "Trustee from a Toolroom", which Tony Burgess claimed slipped down like an oyster, in 1994, not so much so. I understand that Shute went to live in Australia to escape from Socialist Britain and I suppose that the set of attitudes that lead to looking towards Australia as Britain with Sun and without the Working Class is one of the things that has dated Shute (and 1980 is closer to the 1950s than now).
"Stand on Zanzibar" is a very good novel as is Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" . "Earth Abides" is superb and (to me) rather unexpected: the protagonist just carries on living in his parents' house in the Northern Californian suburbs. It is no survivalist wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Ami Parikh says:
I started out reading Nevil Shute from my school library. I fell in love with the first book of his that I read- An old captivity. The second one, I liked almost as much…it was called The Checker Board. I always feel that his worst books are written about the most. Another one of his I loved was The Far Country. You could give these a try
I understand that Shute went to live in Australia to escape from Socialist Britain and I suppose that the set of attitudes that lead to looking towards Australia as Britain with Sun and without the Working Class is one of the things that has dated Shute
Oh that's interesting Paul, I didn't know that. I can't say that reading his other novels with that knowledge is likely to make me approach them in a more positive fashion though. Thanks also for the Brunner and Earth Abides recommendation.
I always feel that his worst books are written about the most.
Not an unusual position for an author, I think, Ami. Thanks for the recommendations too.
The Shockwave Rider is certainly influential, inventing among other things the term "future shock" (which is a reference to this book) and the concept of the internet worm.
It has some deep flaws too though, I've not read it in ages so I can't recall too clearly but I remember some bits getting a bit preachy.
With JB, I tend to think his pure sf is rather underappreciated, stuff like the extraordinarily bleak Total Eclipse for example, or the Roadside Picnic-esque Age of Miracles (published at about the same time as Roadside Picnic, but apparently a reworking of an earlier novel).
For those unfamiliar with it, Roadside Picnic is the novel which formed the basis of the Tarkovsky film Stalker. It's a strange and dark tale, as you might expect, written by Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Like much of Stanislaw Lem, it can be worth checking out even for those who don't normally read much sf.
That's interesting Max – the only Lem I've read is Solaris, which | 5,769 |
To Live a Ghost Story
June 14, 2017 / KPUMC
Last weekend, our neighborhood was the site of the sixth annual Oak Cliff Film Festival. Thanks to a sponsoring church member, I had access to a VIP pass, which enabled me to attend quite a few films over the weekend.
I geek out over film festivals; my favorites are the shorts and documentaries. But this year, I also got to see the big closing feature film, "A Ghost Story," written and directed by local David Lowery.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I saw our very own church members, Margot and Sylvie Tomerlin, in a scene! (Spoiler alert: they played pioneer kids in a covered wagon.) I have no doubt that one or the other will end up being a famous performer; remember that Margot is our star liturgical dancer!
The film itself was an eye-opener. Don't let the title or the marketing materials fool you; this is<|fim_middle|> found himself rooted to one specific space; his identity was tied up in one location in a very particular period of time. As the people and things which inhabit his space disappear over time, the ghost becomes more and more disoriented; he becomes rootless and restless.
The point is clear: we humans inhabit time and space. Everything we do is bound by our place on the earth, limited by the seventy or eighty years we are given. We can't transcend those dimensions as human beings, no matter how much we may strive to make ourselves "immortal."
Only God transcends the dimensions of space and time. And God's revelation in Jesus Christ makes plain to us what ultimately lasts, what goes on into the distant future, beyond our limited lifespan. Three things remain in the end — faith, hope, and agape/love — says the apostle Paul (I Cor. 13:13).
What matters is faith — the unconditional trust that we place in God's love.
What matters is hope — the undying flicker of possibility in the future, however distant.
What matters is agape — the love that gives unconditionally and completely to the other.
These are the things that go on, that remain.
I know that I will die someday. But I sure hope that I don't find myself in a white sheet, loitering around the house long after my death. Instead, I hope to find myself in God's presence, enjoying the shalom I have sought all my life.
And I pray that my acts of faith, hope, and agape will last for a little while, at least, if only to encourage those who come after me to do the same.
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Oak Cliff Film Festival, A Ghost Story, David Lowery, Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, ghost, film, movie, faith, hope, love, Paul, remains, time, space, dimension, place, immortal, afterlife, heaven | not a horror film, nor even a suspenseful thriller. And the one best-known actor in the film, Casey Affleck, spends most of the film under a white sheet. To be honest, "A Ghost Story" fits more comfortably in the "arthouse" genre. But don't let that designation fool you either — the film is accessible to anyone who has just a little more patience than the average "Fast and Furious" filmgoer.
It's certainly a different kind of movie from most Hollywood fare. For example, a few of the scenes are single takes that last four or five minutes. In one instance, Rooney Mara, playing a bereaved young widow, walks into her apartment and eats an entire pie. The whole thing is captured in only two shots, each of which seem to last forever. But the scene portrays grief in the most authentic manner I have ever seen on-screen.
The film is also very quiet. There is little dialogue, not much background music. Only natural sounds of night and quiet meadows. And so it gives the viewer the chance to really engage, not only intellectually, but emotionally with the striking images.
Yes, the story is about a ghost. The ghost walks around with a white sheet over his head. It sounds gimmicky, but it works in a very interesting way. He doesn't come across as spooky or ethereal. Rather, the ghost is a clear symbol of loss, of a void.
The ghost functions as a screen upon which the viewer projects his or her own fears about belonging and identity. As I watched the ghost, I found myself wondering about the weighty matters of faith, love, and spirit. It wasn't so much about the question of the afterlife, but upon what remains when one dies.
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Ben Slythe
What a scene is, how it's constructed, what it does and how to build it so it drives character and plot together.
We've got a structure for our story, now we ned to reassess it in terms ove events.
During the story, what happens and in what order? Who needs to be present and why? Who knows what's happened and who doesn't? Whose goals are advanced by the event? Whose position is weakened? What did the characters each think was going to happen at that moment? What actually did happen?
A scene contains one or more plot events. Ideally it contains at least two, and the characters move from one to the other in the scene itself. A scene also takes place in a specific place at a specific point in the plot. While the events are the basic building blocks of the story, the scene is the basic building block of the film. Structuring the screenplay into scenes is what makes it a screenplay rather than any other kind of storytelling mechanism.
As a way of approaching events, the scene is frequently used by people writing novels as well. They, more commonly, break the events into chapters but a chapter, in many cases is a thematically connected set of events that are individually revealed in scenes. Not all authors work this way but it's something to think about, if for no other reason than one day you'll want to turn a novel into a screenplay. Beginning with the screenplay structure and then including the scenes is a very good starting point.
Once you've got your scenes, I'm sorry to say, the next part is trying to delete them.
Str<|fim_middle|> you have your events put into scenes, the next thing to do is to see if you can delete any scenes by moving events into other scenes. There are generally three ways of doing this:
Rearrange the order of events, placing events that are geographically co-located into a larger scene. Instead of scenes that switch back and forth between events that happen at two locations, use two scenes only, one at each location and put them next to each other.
Strip out any events that simply show 'another' example of something already demonstrated. If you do this you may find there are some scenes that can be omitted.
Finally, look at scenes containing only one event. Delete them if they aren't essential to the plot.
This process can be heartbreaking at times. Stiffen your resolve and be willing to suffer for your art.
Unlike a novel there isn't a lot of free space in a screenplay. You've got 100 pages, use them wisely.
The finished scene
The finished scene contains events that drive plot. Events that drive character transition. Events that affect motivation. Finally they, in finished form, contain the real bones of the script, actions and dialogue.
Broadly you show the events rather than tell people about them. Action trumps dialogue. Despite this, a good screenplay will have plenty of both.
"Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." | ipping out scenes
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I absolutely ADORE this place! Super friendly and attentive staff in a super clean environment. Live bands almost every weekend with an awesome DJ on the side! A decent selection of beer and liquors with GREAT specials pretty much every day! They also have pretty good pizzas and chicken strips too, lmao! Overall, just a really cool place to go chill on the weekends with the local crowd. Maybe shoot some pool or darts, or go watch some live bands. The DJ pulls in a HUGE party after midnight or so on most weekends with hip hop/dance hits and techno/dubstep etc... For a small town local bar, this one is definitely the BEST in town. Also the only one around that allows indoor smoking (it's a pretty big place, so it never really gets smokey).
Best bar in Dickson, TN. Beer only. Bring a bottle of liquor for $5. Plentiful spit cups. Karaoke and pool keeps you entertained.
This is hands down the best BBQ in the area. There are some other places closer to us that we like, but when company comes to town or we are just ready for excellent food we are more than willing to drive an hour to experience Back Alley BBQ. The pulled pork and brisket are moist and tender. The house BBQ sauce is a vinegar based sauce, which I am not really fond of in general. I love the meat with or without sauce. The sides are excellent as well. All made from scratch and delicious. In particular, I love the cornbread which is sliced, buttered and then fried on a griddle until it is warm and toasty. Desserts are also made from scratch and very tasty. The only thing that I wish they would do different is be open all the time. The hours are a little different as they close at 2 PM and re-open at 5 PM. The locals have this figured out and there is often a small line at 5. Don't miss out on this if you are anywhere in the area.
Best BBQ in Dickson. I've had pulled pork, Ribs, Brisket & Chicken. All are wonderful. Someone here knows a thing or 12 about BBQ. The ribs are my Favorite. Try this place out!
Brisket. The<|fim_middle|> very filling. I'd recommend for anyone who loves big burritos. The tacos carne de asade left a lot to be desired. There was no cilantro, onion or limes of any kind which I thought was the norm on these tacos. The fajita steak they used was fatty and I had a hard time chewing it. I wouldn't order these again. Service was exceptionally fast. I'm talking like 5-10 minutes for four meals. Our waiter kept our drinks filled and the food was good. I'll be back. | hardest meat to get tender, moist, and flavored. Back Alley BBQ nailed it. Perfectly smoked, sliced to order, and included a burnt end (if you wanted it). The brisket was on point and as good as any brisket I've had. The sauce offering is good, but not needed. Great meat comes with it's own sauce and added sauce isn't necessary. Back Alley BBQ understands this well. It's worth the drive from Nashville! The sides were good, homemade like, and I was happy with the baked beans and slaw. The only reason there isn't a fifth star is because the meat portion was too small. I know that beef prices are high these days, but I'd rather have smaller sides or pay a buck or two more.
Very clean for a fast food restaurant. I've never had a single order wrong. Also, the staff is always very courteous and approachable. Great place for a quick bite to eat!
I hold this place to high standards out of all restaurants I worked at in high school this was the only one with a kitchen you could work in and then eat from.
This establishment is very clean. It's a good environment generally as well. The employes were kind and delivered my food in a timely manner. If you like Arby's this is one of the best I've experienced!
It's a good thing this place isn't close, or I'd be there every week. The donuts are outstanding. And they run out early on weekends - there's frequently a line out the door. But it's all worth it.
Best place for donuts that's local. The employees are friendly, and the donuts are lower priced. Absolutely the best donuts, biscuits, Apple fritters, cinnamon rolls, and croissants. The line is always out of the door, so that's a downside. And if you get there late morning, it's first come first serve. But it's definitely worth all its downsides. For certain, Dunkin is put to shame!
Two words: Apple. Fritters. Seriously. That's all you need to know. They are excellent fresh, but I like them best when they are a day or two old and they get kind of crunchy. Your mileage may vary. I've always been a little weird. The pink glazed donuts are awesome, too, but these guys don't make a lot of extra anything (no next day bargains) and some donuts that aren't big sellers (like the pink one) they may only put out two or three in a day. You snooze, you lose. Their coffee is mediocre at best.
6 women friends had a 2 night getaway at nearby Montgomery Bell State Park. We made our way to downtown Dickson and found The Front Porch. It was wonderful! Beautiful decor, friendly hostess. Our server had helpful recommendations. Blue plate special was enjoyed by two. Mixed greens with grilled salmon was to die for! All menu items delicious - including coconut trifle for dessert. Will definitely be back!
Were looking forward to eating at a 'local' place instead of the usual places at the exit. Reviews convinced us it was worth going out of the way a bit. Imagine our disappointment when found it closed. Sign said lunch served til 2, M-F, though yelp indicated it was open. Lesson learned....Call to check on hours.
Great local restaurant! I was so happy to find a non-chain place to get lunch. The place was packed when I got there (always a good sign). They had a list of specials on a chalkboard and I ordered the grilled cheese and tomato soup off of it. Perfect for a cold day. Both were very good! The soup had a great taste. It came with a piece of corn bread and a roll with, maybe, maple sugar on top- something like that. It was sooo good- like a dessert! I come to Dickson for work every once in awhile and I will definitely be stopping here again.
This place is sooooooo good! Always a delight coming here. We had the Filet and the homemade cheesecake is one of the best! Very creamy.
Certainly the only place like this in Dickson. Valentine's Day was booked, so we came in on this Thursday night for the regular menu. We had a mix of dishes: shrimp, beef and grouper. Salads were all very fresh and tasty. The main dishes were all attractively presented and nicely prepared. Portions are not large, but enough. For Dickson, it's expensive, but the same experience in larger venues would be at least as much. Service is good but a bit inexperienced for high-end dining. Not a problem. Great attitude, nothing missed. We didn't have dessert, but the choices looked very good. Good bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir.
Don't skip this place. It's just as good as any higher tier restaurants. Victor takes a lot of pride in what they serve. He's a creative chef that won't leave you disappointed!
This is our favorite place in town. We've been eating there since they opened and have never had a bad experience. The staff is very friendly and it's a good place to take kids. It is always clean. The food is fresh and affordable and offers a wide variety of authentic Mexican dishes. Our favorites include the enchiladas Verde, vegetarian fajitas, and Jim nachos. Also great for takeout!
Excellent food and ambiance accompany the friendly staff! This has been our favorite Mexican restaurant for over 3 years! They even have a large covered patio for rainy or chilly weather. Will definitely be back!
This is the best Mexican food place around here. We are regulars, so they already know what everyone wants. The food is very good, and prices are low. Service is attentive and friendly. Beware of the birthday celebration -- if you don't want cake in your face, let them know. It's all in fun, but not everyone likes it.
Best burger in Dickson for sure. Possibly the best in Middle Tennessee. The burgers taste fresh and the fries are for sure fresh. When you walk in you can see this big stainless steel bowl overflowing with fresh cut fries. Delish! My wife often gets a salad (she's trying to eat healthy) and loves it. Like one of the reviewers said, if you are anywhere close to Dickson for lunch, ya gotta give Tony B's burger a try.
The best burger I have had in ages. Made fresh in front of you in an open kitchen. Great quality produce. Nice, casual atmosphere. I have heard they also have great salads, but I can't get past the burgers to try one!
Best burger you can get. Period. Tony B's has earned my vote as the best burger joint anywhere. Hand made burgers, fresh cut fries, all delicious. The patty melt is so good it might make you pass out. I've been to five guys, cheeseburger charlies, etc... None come close to this place in my opinion. If you are anywhere close to Dickson and you need a burger fix, this is it.
Great Service and Great Food. They have the best chips and salsa in town, hands down. The food is always good, hot, and fast. The top menu item is the fajitas (the lunch special for Thursday and Friday). If you are looking for some great Mexican food, Mazatlan should be your first stop.
Three of us walked in and we were promptly seated by a friendly little man and had a basket of hot chips and a spicy bowl of salsa in a matter of seconds. I ordered a side of guacamole and although it needed a bit of salt, it was fantastic. My husband had a #22 which was a Chile Rellenos and a crispy taco with rice and beans. He considers himself a "Chile Rellenos" connoisseur. He thought it was pretty good and said he would order it again. I ordered the "Burrito Mexicano" which was a beef fajita burrito stuffed with grilled onions and bell peppers covered with a cheese sauce and sour cream. It was delicious and | 1,676 |
One of<|fim_middle|> other daily duties.
Ultimately, the company decided to step back and split the initiative into two steps, getting it up and running first and then improving processes later.
"Once we got that through our heads, to kind of throttle back a little bit, we were able to do exactly what we needed to do," Hanawalt said.
That meant first getting the system to pull in data they needed for the forecasts and other kinds of financial reports they had always prepared. And since both the old and new systems were Excel-based, it wasn't much of a change for the average user.
Six to eight months later with reporting in place, CKE began using some of the templates that come with BPC as well as its more sophisticated processes.
Hanawalt said the company is pleased with BPC but would have gone about implementing the software differently if it had to do it all over again. | the nation's largest fast food companies has learned that when it comes to implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, it's easiest to take a two-step approach.
When it came to implementing SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), one of the country's largest fast food companies bit off more than it could chew.
Roughly two years ago, the Carpinteria, Calif.-based CKE Restaurants Inc., which owns the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast food hamburger chains, began replacing Oracle Hyperion Essbase with SAP BPC for its planning, budgeting and forecasting operations as well as for financial consolidations. SAP acquired the software when it purchased OutlookSoft in 2007.
But as Ryan Hanawalt, the company's finance manager put it, simultaneously deploying the software and changing business processes to accommodate BPC's more advanced features proved to be too much.
"I'd love to tell you that everything was peachy-keen and that it all went great, and we did exactly what we said we wanted to do in the time frame we wanted to do it in, but that's just not how it happened," Hanawalt said.
CKE Restaurants began the move to SAP BPC after concluding that its Oracle software was too rigid and too limited to do what the company needed it to do, according to Hanawalt.
When it came to the forecasting process, for example, CKE would get one spreadsheet monthly from each of its roughly 100 cost centers.
"We would then have to take those 100 to 200 spreadsheets, pull that data into one consolidated data source in an Excel spreadsheet, do a pivot table or analysis based on that spreadsheet," Hanawalt said.
The company considered upgrading its Hyperion software and weighed that against deploying new software from SAP or MicroStrategy, ultimately deciding to go with SAP.
"We came away with the best feeling for the BPC tool," Hanawalt said.
SAP BPC, he said, has proven to be a much nimbler system. The tool is also Excel-based, which means that managers can put their numbers directly into the system. Once they add their information, members of the finance department can then export the data directly into a report format and immediately start analyzing those reports.
"BPC has allowed us to get the data into the system quicker," Hanawalt said.
When the implementation began in 2009, Hanawalt said they envisioned being able to implement BPC as well take advantage of the application's more advanced features and capabilities.
That became too much -- especially with the company's ambitious time frame. To make matters worse, CKE Restaurants hadn't set aside dedicated resources for the project, which meant that finance department employees were left to juggle the implementation along with | 574 |
Q: JavaScript array concat I have<|fim_middle|> value.
When you concatenate two arrays, it will copy the values (or references) to a new array.
When you set the value of index 0, you are actually replacing that reference, but the old reference still exists in the concatenated array.
| these two arrays:
let num1 = [[1]];
const num2 = [2, [3]];
I concat these two and create new array:
const numbers = num1.concat(num2);
console.log(numbers);
// results in [[1], 2, [3]]
Now I push a new value to num1:
num1[0].push(4);
console.log(numbers);
// results in [[1, 4], 2, [3]]
But if I write:
num1[0] = [1, 4, 5];
console.log(numbers);
// results in [[1], 2, [3]]
Why reassigning vale to num1 does not reflect change in numbers array but push method does?
A: num1[0] starts out with a value that is a reference to an array [1]
numbers copies that value, so has a reference to the same array.
num1[0].push(4); modifies that array (which you have two references to)
num1[0] = [1, 4, 5]; modifies the value of num1[0] replacing the reference to the original array with a reference to a brand new array. numbers still contains a reference to the original array.
A: That's because arrays are objects in Javascript. And objects in JavaScript are always references, so when you push an array to another array, you are actually pushing a reference, not a | 304 |
A conjugate acid, within the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory, is a chemical compound formed by the reception of a proton (H+) by a base—in other words, it is a base with a hydrogen ion added to it. On the other hand, a conjugate base is what is left over after an acid has donated a proton during a chemical reaction. Hence, a conjugate base is a species formed by the removal of a proton from an acid. Because some acids are capable of releasing multiple protons, the conjugate base of an acid may itself be acidic.
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (left)<|fim_middle|> of the equation, the compound that has one more hydrogen ion of the conjugate base is the acid.
Furthermore, here is a table of common buffers.
3COONa. Acetic acid, along with many other weak acids, serve as useful components of buffers in different lab settings, each useful within their own pH range.
6 and its conjugate base is used in intravenous fluids that consist of sodium and potassium cations along with lactate and chloride anions in solution with distilled water. These fluids are commonly isotonic in relation to human blood and are commonly used for spiking up the fluid level in a system after severe blood loss due to trauma, surgery, or burn injury.
Tabulated below are several examples of acids and their conjugate bases; notice how they differ by just one proton (H+ ion). Acid strength decreases and conjugate base strength increases down the table.
In contrast, here is a table of bases and their conjugate acids. Similarly, base strength decreases and conjugate acid strength increases down the table.
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The Pharmaceutics and Compounding Laboratory - Buffers and Buffer Capacity. | and Martin Lowry (right).
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and Martin Lowry introduced the Brønsted–Lowry theory, which proposed that any compound that can transfer a proton to any other compound is an acid, and the compound that accepts the proton is a base. A proton is a nuclear particle with a unit positive electrical charge; it is represented by the symbol H+ because it constitutes the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, that is, a hydrogen cation.
A cation can be a conjugate acid, and an anion can be a conjugate base, depending on which substance is involved and which acid–base theory is the viewpoint. The simplest anion which can be a conjugate base is the solvated electron whose conjugate acid is the atomic hydrogen.
3 over the hydroxide ion. Based on this information, it is clear that the terms "Acid", "Base", "conjugate acid", and "conjugate base" are not fixed for a certain chemical species; but are interchangeable according to the reaction taking place.
The strength of a conjugate acid is directly proportional to its dissociation constant. If a conjugate acid is strong, its dissociation will have a higher equilibrium constant and the products of the reaction will be favored. The strength of a conjugate base can be seen as the tendency of the species to "pull" hydrogen protons towards itself. If a conjugate base is classified as strong, it will "hold on" to the hydrogen proton when in solution and its acid will not dissociate.
instead of attached to a Cl anion and the conjugate base will be weaker than a water molecule.
Similarly, if an acid is weak, its conjugate base will be strong. When considering the fact that the Kw is equal to the product of the concentrations of H+ and OH. A weak acid will have a low concentration of H+. The Kw (1.0 * 10^-14) divided by a low H+ concentration will result in a low OH- concentration as well. Therefore, weak acids will have weak conjugate bases, unlike the misconception that they have strong conjugate bases.
The acid and conjugate base as well as the base and conjugate acid are known as conjugate pairs. When finding a conjugate acid or base, it is important to look at the reactants of the chemical equation. In this case, the reactants are the acids and bases, and the acid corresponds to the conjugate base on the product side of the chemical equation; as does the base to the conjugate acid on the product side of the equation.
To identify the conjugate acid, look for the pair of compounds that are related. The acid–base reaction can be viewed in a before and after sense. The before is the reactant side of the equation, the after is the product side of the equation. The conjugate acid in the after side of an equation gains a hydrogen ion, so in the before side of the equation the compound that has one less hydrogen ion of the conjugate acid is the base. The conjugate base in the after side of the equation lost a hydrogen ion, so in the before side | 651 |
The Norwegian design duo, Anderssen & Voll, has re<|fim_middle|> also very clearly an exponent for Anderssen & Voll," explains Torbjørn Anderssen, one half of the world renowned Norwegian design duo.
Anderssen & Voll only had their début as designers for Erik Jørgensen, two years ago. At the time, it was with the minimalist BOW sofa.
"Comfort and great design are not necessarily incompatible. Furniture for sitting should be shaped to the proportions of the body, with the challenge being to combine aesthetics and distinctiveness with comfort – and I think we've done this quite well here," he concludes. | interpreted a classic Erik Jørgensen design in a new sofa to be introduced at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.
Norwegian designers, Anderssen & Voll have played with an archetypical Erik Jørgensen design, reinterpreting it in their HECTOR sofa, to be introduced by Erik Jørgensen A/S at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair on 9-13 February 2016.
"It's a classic Erik Jørgensen sofa with a contemporary look. In collaboration with Erik Jørgensen, we set out to create a sofa that expresses the soul of Erik Jørgensen's furniture. At the same time, the sofa is | 139 |
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Bath is a town in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Morgan County. The town is incorporated as Bath, but it is often referred to by the name of its post office, Berkeley Springs. The population of the town was 663 according to the 2000 United States Census. The town is located within the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.Berkeley Springs was a popular resort area during the early years of the United States. The mineral springs drew many visitors from metropolitan areas. Notable visitors to the area included George Washington and James Rumsey. Berkeley Springs is a sister city to Bath, Somerset, England; "Berkeley Castle" overlooks the town (see photo below). The area continues to be a popular resort area with tourism the main industry in the county and four full service spas using the mineral water. It is the home of the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, the longest running and largest such event in the world.Berkeley Springs is a noted arts community with working artists accounting for approximately 1% of the county population of 16,000. Since 1994, the town has been listed in all four editions of John Villani's "100 Best Art Towns in America," one of only 11 towns so rated.
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Cyrus Field Willard (August 17, 1858 – January 17, 1942) was an American journalist, political activist, and theosophist. Deeply influenced by the writing of Edward Bellamy, Willard is best remembered as a principal in several utopian socialist enterprises, including the late 1890s colonization efforts of the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth (BCC).
Biography
Early years
Cyrus Field Willard was born August 17, 1858, in Lynn, Massachusetts, a member of a family of six children. The Willard family moved from Lynn to Boston in 1866, where Cyrus attended public school before gaining employment as a newspaper reporter for the Boston Globe.
In addition to working as a journalist, Willard contributed occasional pieces to the periodical press, including a humorous 1887 interview with poet Walt Whitman, "A Chat with the Good Grey Poet," published in The American Magazine.
Willard had a wide circle of political friends and acquaintances and maintained correspondence with prominent figures of the English and American socialist and anarchist movements, including William Morris, Sidney Webb, Benjamin R. Tucker, and Peter Kropotkin. Willard was additionally fluent in German, which enabled him to attend socialist meetings in the Boston area conducted in that language.
Nationalist
In 1888 writer Edward Bellamy published the book Looking Backward: 2000–1887, a best-selling work of utopian fiction which depicted a futuristic American society of coordinated production and ameliorated social problems. Although the book sold slowly following its initial release in January 1888, Cyrus Field Willard was one of the first to read the novel, published as it was in his hometown of Boston. A correspondence with Bellamy ensued, in which Willard suggested the possibility of establishing a network of local political groups to attempt to put Bellamy's fictional vision of the future into practical existence.
This idea was independently shared by another Boston journalist Sylvester Baxter, who similarly wrote to Bellamy with his concept. The pair were put into contact with one another and on December 1, 1888, an organizational meeting was held for what would be the first in a vast array of Nationalist Clubs. Willard as a co-founder of the Nationalist Club No. 1 became the group's Secretary.
From the outset Willard was deeply involved in attempts to build a broad Nationalist movement from coast to coast, contributing a regular column to the official organ of the group, the magazine The Nationalist. Willard was for a time from Bellamy and the Nationalist movement, hurt by his refusal to assume a<|fim_middle|> Age Magazine, vol. 26, no. 6 (June 1918), pp. 243–247.
Autobiography of Cyrus Field Willard (manuscript). Morgan Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Further reading
Sylvia E. Bowman, The Year 2000: A Critical Biography Of Edward Bellamy. New York: Bookman Associates, 1958.
Arthur Lipow, Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982
Everett W. MacNair, Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement, 1889 to 1894: A Research Study of Edward Bellamy's Work as a Social Reformer. Milwaukee, WI: Fitzgerald Co., 1957.
Daphne Patai (ed.), Looking Backward, 1988–1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Richard Toby Widdicombe, Edward Bellamy: An Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
1858 births
1942 deaths
American Freemasons
American male journalists
American socialists
American Theosophists
Bellamyism
People from Lynn, Massachusetts | leading role at The Nationalist and his subsequent decision to start instead a new weekly newspaper called The New Nation, making use of the financially failing magazine's subscriber list to build his own circulation. Willard lamented that Bellamy had abandoned "his truest friends" so as to "play at politics" with his Boston rivals Mason Green and Henry R. Legate, the latter of whom Willard believed to be a "corrupt politician."
Bellamy's foray into independent publishing would prove to be a short one, with his paper forced to terminate in 1894, with the Nationalist movement falling to pieces. Even after the demise of the movement proper, however, Willard maintained close relations with the author who had inspired it, attempting to bring the ill-and-dying Bellamy into the fold of the emerging American socialist movement.
Socialist
In 1897, Willard became active in the Social Democracy of America and the closely related Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth and its effort to establish a model socialist colony in a Western American state with a view to inspiring others to emulate the project and to eventually win political control of the state government. Willard was deeply committed to the colonization plan, which would ultimately lead to the defection of a minority faction to establish a more conventional political organization, the Social Democratic Party of America in 1898.
Together with Richard J. Hinton of Washington, DC, and Wilfred P. Borland of Bay City, Michigan, Willard was one of three central decision-makers in the selection of Washington as the group's target state. He and Borland were also place in charge of the purchasing of land there for colonization, making possible the establishment there of the Burley Colony.
In Washington the colonization effort abandoned the banner of the Social Democracy of America to become a new organization called the Cooperative Brotherhood. Willard played a leading role in this organization, appearing as the lead signatory on the group's deed of trust for purchase of communal land, and was additionally chosen as the first Secretary of the organization.
Willard would remain a resident of the Burley Colony for two years, before giving up on the project and leaving for the sunnier climes of Southern California.
Theosophist
Following his departure from the Burley Colony, Willard abandoned socialism and became deeply involved in the theosophy movement. He moved to Los Angeles and there established a local chapter of the Theosophical Society there. Willard had long been an adherent of spiritualism, having been introduced in 1884 when he first read Helena Blavatsky's seminal work, Isis Unveiled.
Mason
Willard was also an active Freemason, attaining the status of 32nd Degree. On October 1, 1928, Willard joined with other leading Masons in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to launch the Philalethes Society, a Masonic research organization. The society was based upon the previously existing Académie Française and limited its membership to just 40 fellows, among whom was Willard. The organization continues to exist into the 21st Century and is regarded as the leading Masonic research and writing organization in North America.
Death and legacy
Willard died January 17, 1942, in San Diego, California. He was 83 years old at the time of his death.
Willard was the second cousin of Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and prominent suffragist. Cyrus Willard claimed to have played a significant role in the shaping of his cousin's political views, recalling in his autobiography, "I had a pile of correspondence with her four inches tall and converted her to the proposition that poverty caused as much intemperance as intemperance caused poverty."
Ancestry
Cyrus Field Willard was a 5th great-grandson (8th generation descendant) of the Massachusetts colonist Simon Willard (1605–1676).
Footnotes
Works
"The Nationalist Club of Boston: A Chapter of History," The Nationalist [Boston], vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1889), pp. 16–20.
"The Social Democracy," The New Time [Chicago], vol. 1, no. 6 (Nov. 1897), pp. 337–338.
"Brotherhood: The Hope of the World," Universal Brotherhood [New York], vol. 13, no. 6 (Sept. 1898), pp. 333–334.
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Carlsberg launches £15m 'Danish' campaign in the UK
21st April, 2017 by Lauren Eads
Carlsberg has launched a £15 million integrated marketing campaign aimed at revitalising and repositioning its Carlsberg and Carlsberg Export brands in the UK at a more premium level by emphasising its Danish roots.
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Central to the campaign is a 60-second TV advert starring Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, known for his role in the TV series Hannibal. The advert sees Mikkelsen pondering the secrets to his nation's happiness as he cycles through the streets of Denmark, eventually arriving at the Carlsberg Brewery where he enjoys a Carlsberg Export from the brand's new 'København' glassware featuring 'Dansk' font – which launched in the UK on-trade in January.
The campaign will also flag the brand's new Danish-themed packaging for both the Carlsberg and Carlsberg Export brands rolled out in February, with wider out-of-home, experiential, digital and social activity is also planned throughout the year.
"Denmark is known as being one of the happiest nations in the world, and their philosophy on life forms the centerpiece of our campaign," explained Liam Newton, vice president of marketing, Carlsberg UK.
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The campaign will also see more than 200,000 Carlsberg Export 'København' glasses made available in the off-trade as a gift with purchase, supported by in-store marketing materials.
In the on-trade, in addition to new perfect-serve glassware, one million "shazamable" interactive coasters that can be scanned by consumers to access campaign materials. Once scanned, consumers are "transported to an immersive digital Carlsberg platform" where they can discover content and win Danish-inspired luxury prizes, including hygge home kits, wireless headphones and a trip for two to Copenhagen.
The TV campaign will run until 15 May, with a second run in September, and will also appear in cinemas across the country for an extended period, supported by short-form content rolled out across Carlsberg's social media channels.
7 Responses to "Carlsberg launches £15m 'Danish' campaign in the UK"
Chris grantham says:
Been to the brewery – like the lager – Love the advert! Best one I've seen for ages!
David Rein says:
Don't you mean "probably " the best ad?
Steve Dixon says:
Shame it's not "Real" Carlsberg!
Maureen Hickland says:
Made me fancy a nice cool beer
Wayne Kilby says:
Brilliant bike, chain wheel in first shot of Ad is on his left, then in the following shots it is on his right like nearly all bicycles. Clever that!
What does he say when he's riding over the table ?
FRANK HOLDING says:
I would have thought that after a year or so of this ad being made and shown on t v,they have still not rectified the boo boo of having filmed the bike being ridden in the opening shot and printed the negative in reverse,hence the chain wheel on the left hand side of the bike and then next scene it,s back in the right position . Surely someone running through the ad in the first place could have seen that the bike looked a bit odd .
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Katelyn's Journey | to Africa and Back!
I hope you all are enjoying the Canadian summer. I'm looking forward to enjoying the last couple weeks of summer when I get home in 8 days. , I'm getting really excited to come back to Canada, so I can eat real Canadian food, be around the familiar again, and to see my family and family (especially my nieces and nephew). Although, I have enjoyed every bit of my time here; I think I know this season is quickly coming to an end.
Some of you my wondering what my plans are when I home to Canada. When I first came to Africa I was open to where God wanted me to live once I came home to Canada. However, the more I thought about coming home to Canada the more I realized Calgary was where I wanted to be. I always thought about how much I loved my job at Children's hospital, my church and my friends. I would also think about all the fun things I can do it Calgary and how it's so close to the mountains. I was excited to continue my life in Calgary when I came back home and I generally thought this is where God wanted me to be.
However, one day I was sitting in a meeting a couple months ago, thinking about what I have learned in Africa, especially what I have learned about surrendering your personal wants and needs to serve God and others, specifically in regards to your family. I have met so many people here in Africa that have sacrificed so much to put others and their families before themselves. For example, my African friend helps supports her late brothers wife and children by helping pay for medical bills and school, as well, taking them into their home. It seems like the normal thing here is to take care of your family, where as in Canada it seems like we are constantly putting our needs before others.
Therefore, as I was sitting there in the meeting I felt God was asking me what I doing to take care for my family. I started to think about my older sister's family (her and her husband have three kids under 4.5 years), they recently moved to Grande Prairie a year ago and have no support system. My older sister, Kellie, has not lived by immediate family for 10 years. I, then, started asking myself what would it look like if I moved to Grande Prairie. At first I was terrified, who wants to move to northern Alberta willingly (sorry for those who love the North). I asked God to not make me move to Grande Prairie and leave my "fun" life in Calgary. But, the more I prayed about this and embraced this idea of moving to Grande Prairie; I realized in my heart that this is where God wants me to be. I also feel like that God may ask me to do missions again one day, so until that day comes again I want to be able to spend time as much time as I can with family because that is what I've missed the most about being away from. So, when I come home I'll spend a couple of weeks with friends and family in Nanaimo and Calgary, and then I'm going to be moving to Grande Prairie. I will be finding a nursing job, place to live and a church. I'm trusting God to find me some great friends as well, since I only know my sister and her family there.
Once again, I'm putting all my trust and hope in God. I'm leaving the familiar to follow God into the unfamiliar. It reminds of the Hillsong song Oceans that says "Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders." I feel like the common theme in my life is to trust God without understanding and go where he is leading me, even if it means surrendering my personal needs and wants to follow him. I don't know what awaits me in Grande Prairie, everything might fall into place or it may feel like nothing is working out, or it may be a really hard season of my life or it may be one of the easiest. But, one thing I do know is that as I follow God into the unknown He will be right there in every moment. And the amazing thing to me is that even though there are so many unknowns, God has given me so much peace and joy about this choice. He has also made me excited about moving to northern Alberta, which is a miracle in itself. I'm excited to see what God has in store for me in this next season of my life.
I hope and pray my choice of moving to Grande Prairie has encouraged you to ask yourself where God is asking you to surrender your own needs and wants to follow him. Its not always easy and you may have to leave things behind to follow him and it may seem crazy, but when we step out in faith, God's blessings are always there. He is Faithful (1 Corinthians 1:9).
I officially have 8 days left before I head home. Thank you to everyone who has faithfully read my blog and prayed for me the last 11 months. Please continue to pray for me as I finish my time here and step out in this new season of my life.
Over the last 3 months I have had the privilege of being apart of four Maranatha Workshops in different communities, which many international volunteers do not have this opportunity. Maranatha Workshops is a week-long workshop that Hands at Work Service Centers runs to allow the care workers to encounter Jesus and allow Him to transform their lives. Maranatha means "come Lord, Jesus". The hope of these workshops is that as God transforms the lives of the care workers, the care workers in return will then be able to be a witness to the children and care givers in their communities.
I have felt very privileged to apart of these workshops. As I mentioned that not all international volunteers have had this opportunity; I was asked to be involved because my role at Hands is to support the service centre. The service centre was the one who facilitating these workshops; therefore I went to help support them. My tasks were to take notes/ photos, assist cook, shop, organize food and be a spiritual support by prayer.
As I mentioned Maranatha Workshop is weeklong workshop. Here is an explanation about what happens each day to help you better understand what goes on during the week. On the first day we talk about the Jesus we know, sharing the salvation story of Jesus in the morning and allowing the care workers to have a chance to receive Jesus as their savior. Then in the afternoon the care workers learn about how God sent the Holy Spirit to be with us on earth and help us in our daily life struggles. On the second day we talk about Home Visits, highlighting that because Jesus came to visit us on earth we need to visit the vulnerable children in their homes. In this session, we emphasize that the Holy Spirit will be with them on home visits, and the key elements for every home visit includes: praying before and during, good relationships with the family, and allowing enough time for God to speak to you. After this session we go on home visits with the care workers to allow them to practically apply what they have learned. The third day is care point day, where we discuss different elements of the care point, such as, children should be greeted, feel safe, CW should know the children's needs and children can feel love. Then we have time are the care point where the care workers can play with the children. On the fourth day, care worker are taught the importance of sharing their stories with each other to help heal their hearts and help others understand where they are coming from. Then on the last day we have a time of celebrating what God has done for them, which includes the care workers sharing what God has done in their hearts throughout the week, dancing, singing and eating.
Although every workshop I've been too has been great, there have been challenges. Most of the challenges I faced in the workshops are about being a white person in a foreign place, such as eating their staple food (ie: Pap) every day for a week, sleeping at the care point with no running water, bathing in a bucket, being constantly surrounded by people speaking another language, etc. Another, big challenge is the emotional toll these workshops have had on my heart. All week I hear stories that I couldn't have imagined and wouldn't be acceptable in Canada, such as abuse, neglect and extreme loneliness. It has made me realize how much these care workers need Jesus, because at the end of the day Jesus is the only one that can give them hope. I am so thankful that I believe in a God that is the hope to the hopeless.
Even though were challenges in the Maranatha Workshop, the highlights have far out weighed any challenges I could have faced. One of my highlights was having the opportunity to spend so much time with the service centre team. My relationships with the service centre ladies have grown so much through these Maranatha Workshops. Overall, my favourite thing about these Maranatha Workshops have been seeing how God has been changing the care workers hearts throughout the week and seeing how God has brought hope to hopeless situation. I really believe in these Maranatha Workshop because before the vulnerable children are cared for effectively, the care workers need to be healed and transformed by the power of Jesus, so they can tell the children about Jesus. In my experience, this is what the workshops have done for many care workers.
Here are some stories of care workers that came from the Maranatha Workshops I have been apart of.
– One care worker shared on Tuesday morning that she came to the MW with many problems, but she said after Monday's session she felt her problems were far from her.
– Another care worker shared that through the Maranatha Workshops she realized the importance of focusing on God, rather than sharing her faith in traditional and cultural beliefs. She decided to burn her ancestral blankets, as she wanted to be healed. She decided to turn away from the traditional practices.
– Many care workers have shared stories about how they learned about forgiveness and are now able to forgive people in their lives that they weren't able to forgive before.
– One care worker specifically shared about how she has realized the importance in forgiveness and has begun to apologize to everyone whom she has fought with and asked for his or her forgiveness. She is now apologizing with all of her heart and is no longer holding onto a grudge. She is thankful for this heart that God has now given her.
Last week, I got the opportunity to be apart of the last Maranatha Workshop in Swaziland and it was amazing. I felt like the care workers caught the vision of the workshops and were transformed more then any other of the other workshops. Here is what some of the care worker said about the workshops.
As you can read, God did a lot in the care workers this past week. Please continue to pray for these care workers who have attended the Maranatha Workshops, not only for the ones that I've been apart of, but for all of the Maranatha Workshops that happened throughout Africa (over 30). God has started a great work in their lives, however they have many challenges they face every day in their communities.
Thank you so much for much for your continued support and prayers.I have one month until I come home, so please pray this last month is great and God does what he needs to accomplish in this time.
Celebrating with food, what God has done.
I hope everyone is doing well in Canada and enjoying the nice spring weather. Its crazy how I've been gone for so long that Canada has already gone through three seasons. And it will be especially weird when I come home and its summer, since I left last summer.
Anyways, I thought for this blog I would explain more about the community I live in, which is a huge part why I love Hands at Work. Since it is difficult to explain it in words, I'll show you pictures to help you better understand.
On there Hands property there are normal style houses that long term volunteers live in and then there is "the village" which is dorm-like rooms with a shared kitchen and common room. This picture is the outside of the dorm rooms.
This is my bedroom. I was lucky enough to have no roommates from February to May. But now i'm sharing with a girl from Australia until she goes home in July.
This is the main room of the village. It acts as a multi purpose area, which is used as a living room, kitchen, meeting room, dinning hall, etc. The next two pictures are from inside this building.
This is our communal kitchen, sometimes it gets chaotic in there if everyone is cooking at the same time.
This is the view looking out from the kitchen. Its where we eat our meals or hang out on the couches. It is also where we have our monday and friday morning meetings.
This is one of the many games night we have had in "the village." Its nice to always have people around to play games with.
This is from my friends birthday… At least once a month we are going out for dinner or having a party to celebrate some kind of special occasion.
Each morning (except Thursday) we have a meeting before we start our work day, which everyone needs to attend, including the maintenance team. On mondays we have prayer meetings lead by a small groups, tuesdays is ladies prayer, wednesday is small groups in different people homes and friday is word and worship or updates about what is new with Hands at Work in the other countries we work in. These mornings is what makes Hands unique and helps keep God the focus in all we do.
I hope everyone is doing good back home in Canada. I am doing great and still loving life in Africa . I have been busy supporting the service centre and enjoying my days off doing tourist stuff. Many people have asked what exactly I do in the service centre, so here are some of the daily tasks.
It is not all I do here, but at least you can have an idea of what I am doing.
One thing that has really been on my heart lately is the difference between superhero and community-ownership missionary mentality. Superhero missions is when its about what you are doing for the people and Community Ownership is more about empowering the local people to make a difference in the community. Hands at Work is committed to community ownership, which means that we are not going to come in and do everything as white people. But, instead support local people to care for the people in their communities. After spending so much time in the community and the service centre, I have seen with my own eyes how hard this is and sometimes they do thing that we question or don't agree with. But, we have discovered that if we want anything to stick in the communities there needs to be ownership or else everything will fall apart. Therefore, I thought I would introduce you to some of the Africans I work with on a daily basis that are actively making a difference in the communities in Africa.
This is Audrey, she is the Service Centre Coordinator. She is one of those people who lights up the room. I have learned so much from working with her in the service centre. One of the biggest lessons I have learned from her is that if you're going to lead people well, you need to be willing serve and have grace for others.
This is SIbu, he works in the service centre. Sibu is from Swaziland and now lives at Hands, so I've gotten to know him very well over the last 7 months. One thing that I admire about Sibu is that if he see something that is unfair he'll stand up for what he believes is right. For example, there was a child in a community who was sick and no one was taking him to the clinic, Sibu stood up for this child and made sure he went to the clinic. He is a voice to the voiceless.
This is Melody, she is from one of the communities we used to work in and now is apart of the Service Centre. Over the last couple of months of working in the service centre with Melody I've had the privledge of getting to know Melody. We have become like sisters, sometimes we can just look at each other and laugh. Melody has a beautiful spirit, she is very quiet and shy, but when she is in her element she comes out of her shell. God has used Melody to teach me that when your heart breaks for the broken and you're refuse to do nothing, God will use you in ways you could never have imagined.
This is Jackie, she is from Kenya and works on the regional support team supporting the service center and care workers in the communities. She has been working with Hands at Work for 7 years. Many times people look at the international volunteers from the western countries and see all they have sacrificed. But when I look at Jackie I see everything she has sacrificed. She is a true example of what it means to surrender everything to follow Jesus. I know she misses her family in Kenya with all her heart, but is willing to sacrifice all that to follow Jesus.
This is Promotion, she is the CBO coordinator in one of the communities we work in and she is also the mother of the house I did my first community stay. She is a huge inspiration to me, without people like her in the community we couldn't do the work we do. In the communities we rely on ladies like Promotion who are in the community 24/7 to look after the children. The care workers are the true heroes of Hands at Work and I'm constantly meeting care workers in all of our communities who inspire me to care for the most vulnerable.
It seems crazy to me that I've already been in Africa for 6 months, but what is even crazier is that I still have over 5 months to go. It has been such an adventure. When I think about everywhere I have gone and everything I have done; I feel so blessed that God has given me the opportunity to be here in Africa. I am very excited for what God has in store for me this coming season. Every year at Hands At Work we have a bible verse that we believe God has given us for the year. This year it is Revelations 3:8, "I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." I believe that God is saying to Hands at Work this coming year that He knows everything Hands has done over the years, including its strengths and weaknesses. However, despite all this God is placing opportunities for Hands to walk through this year and its Hands responsibility to make the most of these opportunities. For example, this year Hands at Work believes God is calling us to start feeding children in some of the poorest communities in Swaziland. Although, there are many challenges involved in this we believe God is saying "I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut," therefore as Hands at work we are determined to walk through the door God is opening for us.
As for me, I believe God is saying something very similar in my life. God is saying to me "I have opened opportunities for you in Hands at Work, you may think you are not qualified for the job I have given you, but I know your strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, take advantage of these opportunities for I will be with you every step of the way." For the next 5 months I have been given the role to support the South African Service Centre in whatever way is needed. (The Service Centre is responsible for supporting the community based organization in the surrounding area. For more information about the structure of Hands go to my previous blog (https://toafricaandback.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/hands-at-work-in-a-nutshell/)). When I was first given this role I thought to myself "why did they give me this role, there must be someone better for it then me", but after praying about it I can now see that God knew this was the perfect role for me. In this role my tasks may include helping type stories for reports, helping with administrative tasks, taking minutes during meetings, creating checklists for specific tasks and helping prepare for team season. It will also include building relationship with the Service Centre staff (which are local Africans living in the communities) and visiting communities with the Service Centre. Some of daily tasks include going to communities to be apart of bible studies, taking minutes at Service Centre meetings, and planning community prayer. I am very excited to have this as my role in Hands. It is such an honour and privilege to be working with local Africans and going into the communities on a regular basis, as many international volunteers stay in the office doing behind the scenes work. Overall, I'm really happy God trusted me with this task for I know I am going to learn so much about what it means to build capacity in others.
Thank you once again for everyone who have supported over the last 6 months. I have said it many times, but it such a blessing to have people supporting me in Canada. It is a great comfort knowing that there are people back home praying for me, so please continue to pray. As a missionary having financially support is also so important to being able to do God's work overseas. I have been very blessed by everyone who have already supported me financially, so thank you so much as I do not take it for granted. I'm am still in need of finances to be able to stay until August, therefore if you have not yet supported me financially and feel it in your heart you'd like to support me you can make an online donation at www.paoc.org/donate/KatelynMartinetti. Thank you again for all your prayer and support.
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to blog. I had a really busy December and early January. It all started with my little sister coming to visit me in Africa. I was beyond blessed to have her here. It was nice for her to see where I live and what my life looks like in Africa, so she can tell people back home what I've been up to. While she was here we went into the community for two days and then we did a lot of tourist stuff around where I live. Then mid-way through December the offices at Hands were closed for 3 weeks, so myself and 6 others went on a road trip to Cape Town. (My sister was there for 7 out of the 19 days of the road trip.) During the road trip we traveled a total of 5250km (60 hours of driving) and stopped in 7 beautiful South African destinations along the way, which included Drakensburg, Durban, Coffee Bay, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Colberg and Johannesburg. It was an incredible holiday; I was able to go to many incredible places. Some of the highlights were learning to surf, hiking the Amphitheater Mountain, kayaking along the Cape Town bay, boating to seal island and swimming in the ocean. After the road trip we were tired but ready for 2014 to begin.
I was trying to think about what I should blog this time since I haven't done much since my last blog, other then my vacation. Therefore, I decided I would reflect on 2013 and share with you some of the lessons I have learned since being here in Africa. When I started to think of the process of me coming to Africa and the journey I've been on I have no doubt that God wanted me here. It has definitely not been easy, but I know God is has placed me here for a purpose and he is changing me to be more like Jesus each day. Anyhow, here are three lessons I've learned since being here.
#1-HOPE TO THE HOPELESS- Over the last four months I have been in some of the poorest communities in Africa and have seen children in desperately hopeless situation. For example, I have personally met children who live in mud huts that are falling apart, children who don't know where they will get food next week and children who can't afford to buy soap (which is $0.25) to clean themselves and their clothes. When I see these situation I get discouraged knowing that even if I gave up everything I have that I couldn't help all the children. But, what gives me peace and encouragement is knowing that God is HOPE to the HOPELESS and that in these situations where there is no hope for these children. However, I know confidently that God is their hope. He makes a way possible when there is no way. So, we will continue to help the children we can, but the most important thing I can do is pray for these children that God will intervene in their hopeless situations. I know for a lot of you this might be a discouraging lesson if you don't have the same faith in God as I do. But when you see situations that I have seen you have to believe there is a greater hope for these children.
#2- ITS ALL ABOUT SURRENDER- I have realized that being a Christian is all about surrendering your life to God. He wants us to get to the point where we are willing to follow to him no matter what the cost. It says the following in Matthew 16:24-25 "Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." I want to get to the point in my life where I'm willing to surrender my hopes and dreams to him know that a life following Christ is better then any life I could create for myself. If I am able to do this then it won't matter where I am living or what I am doing as long as I'm surrendering my life to God.
#3- WHO YOU ARE IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN WHAT YOU DO- One of the most common expressions here at Hands at Work is "BEING before DOING". At first I didn't fully understand it, but over the last couple of months I have realized what it means. As westerns we are usually focused on what we do, what school we go to, what job we have, etc. instead of putting the emphasis on who we<|fim_middle|> block/ police on the main roads. Other then those moments we made it safely back to Zambia in one piece.
While I was in Zambia I had the opportunity to go to several different communities and see what Hands is doing in Zambia. Here are my highlights from my time in Zambia.
My first highlight of Zambia was simply spending time at the Hands base there. While in South Africa we hear a lot about what is going on in Zambia, so it was so nice to be there and see it first hand. It was also awesome to meet some of the key leaders involved in Hands that are apart of the Zambia base. I was encouraged to see what God has been doing there and I know God is using Hands at Work to make a difference in many of the children's lives across Africa.
Another highlight was when we did a home visit in a slum outside one of main cities in Zambia. There are 30,000 people living in the small area. Often over 7 people are living in a tiny house. The home we visited was with a girl name Mya *named has been changed*, she and her mom are HIV positive and her father passed past away 2 years ago (probably due to AIDS). When we went to Mya's home her mom explained to us that she has a skin discoloration on her face. This has caused a lot of stress and emotional pain for Mya because the kids at school have been teasing her and not wanting to go near her. This has made Mya not want to go to school at all. I was able to encourage her that she is beautiful and that God created her perfect. And then the care worker we were with, started explaining to use that she is an orphan. As he was telling us this, the girl started crying. She sat there and cried for the next 15 min. We were able to encourage and pray for her and the care worker will now make sure he follows up. I really believe God was using this moment to start to heal all the built up pain in her heart. In Hands we talk about finding one child that touched your heart, so then in the moments you are working behind the scenes or forget why you're here, you can remember one of the children we are helping. I pray for her everyday and look forward to meeting this child once again to see the difference God is doing in her heart/ life.
My time in Zambia felt very short compared to Malawi, but I am very thankful that I got to experience another African country. I am now back at the Hub in South Africa. It is very quiet here, as many people have already left for Christmas holidays. The plan for the next month is that for the next week I'm going to be helping around the Hub, then my sister, Nicole, comes to visit me for two weeks and then I'm going on a road trip down the coast of South Africa to Cape Town. So my next month will be filled with lots of fun adventures with friends and family.
Please continue to pray for me. Some prayer requests are safety driving on the roads, good health and patience.
Thank you once again for all your prayer and support. | our character is. So lately I've been trying to put more emphasis on that. I think we all have to ask ourselves if we are who we want to be or are we more concerned of what we are doing that we have lost who we are in the process.
I hope you got something for what I've been learning here in Africa. I have come to realization that God brought me to Africa not so I could have this huge impact on the people around me, but rather that God could change me to be a better person. Therefore, I'll have a bigger impact in the long run.
Thanks once again to everyone who has been praying for me and supporting me. It means a lot to me knowing that there are people from Canada that are supporting what I am doing here in Africa.
Stayed tuned for my next blog where I will share about what I'll be doing next year.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from 2013!
At the airpot, ready for what awaits me in Africa!
On our way to Swaziland!!!
The team I went with to Swaziland!
On my way to Malawi/ Zambia!
Sleeping under mosquito nets in Malawi!
We bought a live chicken to eat on our community stay.
One of my favourite children!
This child opened my eyes to how poor people are in Africa.
My first motor bike ride.
After my time in Malawi I headed back to the Hands base in Zambia. This involved a long 2-day (20 hr) journey on buses, mini-buses and taxi. Some adventures of this journey was when our bus broke down and we had to cram into another stuffed bus and I then had to stand in the aisle for the last 2 hours of our bus ride. Another adventure was when our taxi driver, from the broader to the town in Zambia, took us on a short-cut on the dirt roads and through random farms to then realize he can't drive through the random farm and then had to turn around. And we then realized, he tried to take the short cut because he didn't have the correct insurance, so he was trying to avoid the road | 435 |
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Low-income regions are grappling with deaths from preventable causes including childbirth
New project aims to use data and digital tools to help save lives of populations
Project will help identify those in need of interventions at the community level, says an expert
By: Gilbert Nakweya
[NAIROBI] An initiative that will use digital technologies such as artificial intelligence has been launched to empower community health workers, promising to help save the lives of at least six million children and women in ten countries by 2030.
The Rockefeller Foundation initiative will be piloted in Uganda and India for its first phase that runs from this year to 2022. It will<|fim_middle|>
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*Following the Ugandan pilot in Africa, the initiative launched last month (25 September) will potentially expand across countries in East and Southern Africa.
The Precision Public Health project, backed by US$100 million funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and partners, to prevent and treat diseases aims to use data for creating effective interventions to address the health needs of populations, especially mothers.
"Our biggest aim is to end mortality due to preventable diseases such as mother to child HIV transmission, polio and yellow fever."
Manisha Bhinge, Rockefeller Foundation
For instance, linking pregnant women to health workers and bringing health facilities closer to where people reside to increase the number of people delivering in hospitals or assisted by a doctor or nurse.
Manisha Bhinge, associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Initiative, says: "Our biggest aim is to end mortality due to preventable diseases such as *malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia in young children, infections disease outbreaks and ensure access to critical primary healthcare services. We know that community-based interventions are critical."
Bhinge tells SciDev.Net that empowering communities to easily access services is vital to ensuring accessible, affordable and high quality healthcare.
"We want to ensure that community workers bring the right information to the right people at the right time," explains Bhinge.
Interventions such as early detection of possible disease outbreaks, she adds, will ensure that key health crises such as cholera outbreaks are mitigated before they outstrip available resources as was the case with the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Rockefeller Foundation will partner with organisations such as the WHO, UNICEF, and governments to deliver the project. It comes as a WHO report published last month shows that in 2017 about 295,000 women died from pregnancy and childbirth, with 94 per cent of the deaths occurring in low-resource regions.
According to the Rockefeller Foundation, developing countries are largely missing out in data science and this could widen inequalities in health outcomes relative to developed nations.
But under the initiative, data analytics will be used to predict problems such as where there are sanitation issues that could lead to cholera and diarrhoea.
"We shall therefore navigate, and get tools in place to respond in time," Bhinge says.
Jane Aceng, Uganda's minister of health, tells SciDev.Net that leveraging data at community levels will help improve healthcare delivery in the country.
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"Data can help us see who is in greatest need and hold ourselves accountable for meeting those needs," explains Aceng. "We are looking forward to working with global partners, engaging technology companies, and translating innovations into lives saved and improved."
Freddie Ssengooba, an associate professor of health economics and health systems management at the Makerere University in Uganda, cautions partners implementing the initiative to focus more on people rather than health systems.
"Health systems are important but can make an impact [only] if it brings health interventions to the people," Ssengooba says, adding that data must be sent "back to the society where action is needed to offer working solutions to health challenges facing people".
This piece was produced by SciDev.Net's Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.
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*A correction has been made here on the request of Global Health Strategies to make it clear where the project will be based.
*A correction has been made here on the request of Global Health Strategies to be clear on what diseases they are focusing on.
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The War Raiders (C) def. Ricochet and Aliester Black – NXT Tag<|fim_middle|>.
WrestleMania's card is triple the length and will be more than double the runtime. And I don't think it has a prayer of topping this. But hey, miracles happen, right?
NXT TAKEOVER: NEW YORK | Team Championships
This is a lesson in storytelling that's multi-faceted. Sometimes, it doesn't get much better than this. The reason why this worked so much for me was the fact that both tag teams tried to see who could implement each other's style better and it was so freaking epic.
You have The War Raiders doing gymnastics and flipping from the top freaking rope and you have Ricochet doing fallaway slams.
They were also still able to implement their styles to perfection as well. The other hint of storytelling that I loved was Ricochet almost getting counted out, a clear call-back to how their Raw Tag Team Title bout against The Revival ended.
Some of the desperation attempts to break up pinfalls were ingenious as well, from The War Raiders collapsing onto Ricochet to Aleister Black busting out Finn Bálor's finisher.
The pacing was pitch perfect as well. The action always seemed to progress and never take a stand-still. The finish of the match seemed to quite clearly indicate that this was Ricochet and Aleister Black's swan song in WWE.
If that's the case, what a hell of a way to go out. They'll be remembered for what they did as singles competitors, but they showed their diversity by competing as a tag team. I don't know about you, but I had a hell of a time watching this tag team match. About as fun as it gets. ****1/2
Velveteen Dream (C) def. Matt Riddle – NXT North American Championship
I was afraid that this match was going to lack the intensity of the match that proceeded it, and boy am I happy I was wrong. This was a fantastic match, and I think that this one was carried by the character work.
The stage was set with Velveteen Dream's entrance. There's just a certain charisma about him that's infective. Matt Riddle carried his weight here as well. He's immensely talented, and I'm glad he has been given this platform to prove his metal.
I liked during the match how Matt Riddle progressively got frustrated that everything he was throwing at Velveteen Dream wasn't working. It had me thinking that he was going to fully turn into a heel. But that German Suplex from the top rope into that top rope reverse corkscrew? I would have bet that was the finish.
Velveteen Dream's energy here was just also fantastic. He knows how to work a crowd with subtleties, but he showed the full essence as to why he's a popular character. He's just an incredible performer.
I also appreciated the finish because it protected Matt Riddle. Velveteen Dream didn't beat Matt Riddle so much as he escaped him. That shows Matt Riddle had him on the ropes, but a quick mistake cost him everything.
While I think it took a teeny bit to get going, once it did, we got a hell of a match. A splendid job by both men, and an entertaining match that had the crowd invested in the finish. ****1/4
WALTER def. Pete Dunne (C) – NXT United Kingdom Championship
Talk about a change of pace, eh? We went from high flying action in the tag team match and tremendous character work in the second to a straight up fight here. Sharp knife edge chops, finger breaking, and face stomping. Seriously, it felt like something straight up out of ancient Greece.
Pete Dunne held the title for nearly 700 days, and I knew this would probably signal the end of his reign. But what I wanted was for him to get a match that was worthy of the person to dethrone him. I'm grateful to say not only did this match meet those expectations, they blew it out of the water.
I envisioned what that match would look like, and the best way I can describe it is this. If I didn't watch pro wrestling before today, I would think this was a real fight. That's how much I loved this. You didn't get the sense either man was holding back.
Pete Dunne's desperation and pulling out everything in his arsenal was awesome. WALTER was too big for a lot of things Pete Dunne tried to do, but since he's a badass, he was able to make it work anyway.
WALTER was also just absolutely incredible here. He kind of reminds me of Vladimir Kozlov, but more refined as a worker. You don't normally see men his size get desperate, but Pete Dunne was more than game and WALTER had to get out of his comfort zone to win. In order to escape submissions, he used his larger frame to get to the ropes. He once even put all of his weight off the mat in a pinfall attempt.
But nothing, and I mean NOTHING, tops that unbelievable powerbomb from the rope. He flung Pete Dunne damn near halfway across the ring. And then he needed to go to the top rope to finish things off.
I got my money's worth here, and if this was the main event, I wouldn't have been mad. Just an incredible performance by two men who literally busted their asses to make each other look good. ****3/4
Shayna Baszler (C) def. Kairi Sane, Bianca Belair and Io Shirai – NXT Women's Championship
I hate that this had to be the odd match out as the women's match has historically been the NXT match on an NXT TakeOver card that comes before the main event. After what proceeded it, I had no expectations this would be something worth watching.
While the match resorted to the trivial fatal four way trope of having two people fight on the outside and on the j side at a time, I'm thankful to say that there was a lot of good stuff here, and I mean a lot. The teamwork between Io Shirai and Kairi Sane was pretty cool and Bianca Belair getting a chance to showcase her strength was cool as well.
I also think the ladies did about as well as one could expect in their position. They all showcased their character traits well and Shayna Baszler did what she said she was gonna do. Watch the others tear each other apart and pick up the scraps. She didn't even need her entourage to do it.
Shayna Baszler has essentially beaten everyone there is to beat in NXT, and I'm sure we were all thinking this is where she'd be de-crowned in lieu of a main roster call-up. NXT Champions have been called up with their titles (e.g. Kevin Owens), but the decision to have her retain here was kind of confusing, especially since it was a match where she technically didn't have to lose to drop the title.
Overall, the ladies get an A for effort and this was a good little sprint in lieu of the circumstances. ***3/4
Johnny Gargano def. Adam Cole – NXT Championship (2-out-of-3 Falls)
So yeah, let's talk about THIS. You know, considering this wasn't the original match planned, don't you think that this is just about the greatest impromptu wrestling match in…well, history? Let's break it down.
We all knew this was going to three falls. A match like this was going down to the wire no matter what. I'll be honest in saying the first two falls were kind of dull in a way. They weren't bad by any means. It just kind of felt out of nowhere and had no heat to it, but that's just me. The work prior to that was absolutely excellent of course. I just didn't feel that build-up.
But the story of that third fall. Goodness gracious. You talk about storytelling, character work, kickouts and the works. This was freaking incredible, and that adjective doesn't do it justice. I thought the near falls when Johnny Gargano stole Tommaso Ciampa's DDT and Adam Cole did his piledriver had me going. But that paled in comparison to what Johnny kicked out of towards the end there.
We knew eventually The Undisputed Era was gonna come out. There's no way Adam Cole was going to fight a fair fight to the end. But what I loved is that The Undisputed Era as a faction represented everything that Gargano has had to fight against.
All the obstacles. All the losses at Takeovers in the past couple of years. All the times he was told he was too small. Being rejected from WWE. All that came in the form of the Roderick Strong, Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish looking to steal the NXT Title away from him. Yet Johnny kept fighting.
Some may think the kickouts at the end were overkill, but Johnny wasn't kicking out for the sake of kicking out like John Cena used to do back in the day. He was kicking out out of desperation. He had no choice but to fight, and his fight came in handy. Adam Cole was the perfect foil here.
Everything from his trash talk to looking for underhanded methods to win the title is the exact opposite of what Johnny was, and those clash of styles blended perfectly.
Understand that Johnny Gargano is probably what Daniel Bryan was in 2014. Everything feels the same. Tommaso Ciampa coming out to make amends and hug him, the man he shared many battles with, was the icing on the cake.
Needless to say, this was a flawless main event well worth the price of admission. Everything about this match hit me, and I was borderline emotional towards the end. If a fake wrestling match can do that to me, that's all you need to know. Another perfect main event for Johnny Gargano, and a huge showing from Adam Cole. Bravo to all those involved in this effort. I'll admit some of the kickouts might have been overkill, but I didn't mind. ****3/4
NXT gets it. Five matches, about three hours. Give each match time to tell a story and make people care, and you have yourself a great show.
Takeover: New York was some of the best bit of professional wrestling I've ever seen, and I can't recommend it enough. You won't fins something you can't get entertained with | 2,120 |
More parts have arrived! New coil isolators top and bottom! And New Spicer UJoints for my driveshaft!
Looks awesome man. Can't wait to see it all on the Jeep.
you are gonna love the clayton long arms. I went from a 4" BDS short arm to a 6" clayton LA kit, the ride, the flex, incredible difference and the BDS was a capable kit for what it was. Post some photos when you get it on, Lifted WJs look great.
Thanks man im excited. What belly skid are you running?
I just sold all my old belly armor. I have a custom 1/4" full belly skid now. The Clayon long arm mounts to it. Off Road Inovations, Winchester, Va. did it for me, they also did a custom 1/4" tank skid and welded it to my chopped Protofab bumper after my tank tuck<|fim_middle|> thread. Just found and curious if ever finished? | was complete. Here is a photo of my new belly skid.
Kevins offroad has a really nice one, made for the Claytons if you do not want custom, I was going that way but one was not in stock and I wanted to do rocks!
Great build, seeing more and more WJs.
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Using a paint sprayer to repaint furniture makes the job easy, and you'll get excellent results.
Katrina Sullivan of Chic Little House gave new life to a couple of furniture pieces in her dining room using a paint sprayer. Follow along as she shows us how she did it.
Clean the furniture piece with a lint-free cloth. Use mild soap and water, and it allow to dry.
Apply wood filler with a plastic putty knife filling holes. For deep holes and gouges, slowly build the damaged back up.
My favorite wood filler is the DAP Plastic Wood Filler. I prefer using it in a tub because that makes it easier to use a putty knife. This wood filler is super easy to spread, and most areas dry within two to three hours.
After the wood filler is dry, sand the body of the chair using a medium grit sanding block. Pay extra attention<|fim_middle|> a brush on hand to touch up any paint drips.
I'm thrilled with how my dining rooms chairs turned out! The finish on the chairs is ultra smooth and the look brand new!
I'm very impressed with how easy it was to use the Wagner Home Decor Paint Sprayer; I also liked how light weight and compact it is when spraying. It was easy to get into the tight places under the legs.
I'm also thrilled with how the legs on the banquette turned out. There were several spots on the legs and bottom bar with deep chew marks on them. After prepping and painting the legs, my banquette looks brand new. I also like the rich black color paint on the legs better than the old medium stain tone.
I'm excited to start my next paint furniture makeover with my new paint sprayer.
You can find all the materials you need for using a paint sprayer in The Home Depot's Paint Department.
Follow our All About Paint board on Pinterest for more painting ideas and inspiration, and check our more DIY projects here on The Home Depot Blog. | to smoothing out the areas where wood filler was applied.
I used an orbital sander with medium grit sandpaper to sand the seat. Seats on chairs take a lot of wear and tear, and I wanted to pay extra attention to this area. Wipe away dust from the sanding with a lint-free cloth.
Once I completed all the prep work on my four chairs and the banquette legs, I was ready to paint.
I created an outdoor work area on my lawn, laying down a drop cloth to project my grass from spills. I also placed a large piece of lumber on the drop cloth for a stable spot for the chairs to sit on.
When using a paint sprayer, you'll need to thin the paint with water. With some sprayers I've used, this can involve a bit of guess work. The Wagner Home Decor Paint Sprayer makes it easy. I poured the paint directly into the canister and then used the yellow gauge to help determine how much water to add.
Do a test run on a piece of cardboard before spraying your furniture, so you feel comfortable.
Once you're ready to spray-paint your furniture, use broad sweeping movements start and end off your chair. Spray thin-to-medium coats of paint, allowing the paint to build-up overtime.
I waited 10 to 15 minutes before spraying the each coat. Before spraying the banquette, I covered the fabric with plastic and then sprayed the legs of the banquette. Keep | 296 |
The Chicken Who Wouldn't Eat Gravel
by Clara Dillingham Pierson
The Chicken Who Wouldn't Eat Gravel was published in Clara D. Pierson's collection, Among the Farmyard People (1899).
It was some time after the Dorking Hen had come off the nest with her little brood, that the mother of the Shanghai Chickens began to have so much trouble.
She had twelve as fine Chickens as you could find anywhere: tall, wide-awake youngsters with long and shapely legs<|fim_middle|> read more short stories for kids in our Children's Library | and thick down and feathers. She was very proud of them, as any Hen mother might well be, and often said to the Shanghai Cock, "Did you ever see so fine a family? Look at those twenty-four legs, all so long and straight, and not a feather on one of them." His eyes would shine and he would stretch his neck with pride, but all he ever said to her was, "They will do very well if they only behave as well as they look." He did not believe in praising children to their faces, and he thought their mother spoiled them.
Perhaps he was right, for the little Shanghais soon found out that they were good-looking, and they wanted everybody in the poultry-yard to notice their legs. It was very foolish, of course, to be proud of such things, but when the other fowls said, "We should think you would be cold without feathers on your legs," they answered, "Oh, we are Shanghais, and our family never wear feathers there!" And that was true, just as it is true that the Dorkings have extra toes, and that the Black Spanish fowls have white ears.
The Shanghai mother was now roaming the fields with her brood, and there was rich picking in the wheat-stubble. All the fowls were out of the yard now, and would not be shut up until cold weather. Early in the morning they would start out in parties of from six to a dozen, with a Cock at the head of each. He chose the way in which they should go; he watched the sky for Hawks, and if he saw one, gave a warning cry that made the Hens hurry to him. The Cocks are the lords of the poultry-yard and say how things shall be there; but when you see them leading the way in the fields,—ah, then you know why all the fowls obey them.
The farmyard people still tell of the day when a Hawk swooped down on one of the young Dorkings and would have carried him off if the Black Spanish Cock had not jumped out, and pecked him and struck at him with his spurs, and fought, until the Hawk was glad to hurry away. The Cocks are not only brave—they are polite, too, and when they find food they will not eat it until they have called the Hens to come and share with them.
You can imagine what good times the Chickens had in the stubble-fields. They were so old now that their down was all covered with feathers, and some of them wondered if they couldn't feel their spurs growing. Still, that was all nonsense, as a Bantam told them, because spurs do not start until the fowl is a year old. They had long been too large to cuddle under their mother's feathers at night, and had taken their first lessons in roosting before they went to the stubble-fields. They had learned to break up their own food, too, and that was a great help to their mother. Fowls, you know, have no teeth, and no matter how big a mouthful one takes he has to swallow it whole. The only way they can help themselves is to break the pieces apart with their feet or peck them apart with their bills before eating them.
The yellow grains of wheat that lay everywhere in the field were fine food, and should have made the little Shanghais as fat as the Grouse who sometimes stole out from the edge of the forest. Eleven of the brood were quite plump, but one Chicken was still thin and lank. His mother was very much worried about him and could not think what was the matter. She spoke of it to the Black Spanish Hen one day, but the Black Spanish Hen had never raised a brood, and said she really didn't know any more about the care of Chickens than if she were a Dove. Then the anxious mother went to the Shanghai Cock about it. He listened to all she said and looked very knowing.
"I don't think there is anything the matter," said he. "The Chick is growing fast, that is all. I remember how it was with me before I got my long tail-feathers. I was very thin, yet see what a fine-looking fellow I am now." He was really a sight worth seeing as he towered above the other fowls, flapping his strong wings in the sunshine and crowing. His feathers were beautiful, and the bright red of his comb and wattles showed that he was well. "Ah," thought the Shanghai Hen, "if my Chicken could only become such a fine-looking Cock!" And she didn't worry any more all day.
That night she and her brood roosted in the old apple-tree in the corner of the orchard nearest the poultry-yard. She flew up with the older fowls and fluttered and lurched and squawked and pushed on first one branch and then another, while the Chickens were walking up a slanting board that the farmer had placed against one of the lower branches. It always takes fowls a long time to settle themselves for the night. They change places and push each other, and sometimes one sleepy Hen leans over too far and falls to the ground, and then has to begin all over again.
At first the Chickens had feared that they would tumble off as soon as they were asleep, but they soon learned that their feet and the feet of all other birds are made in such a way that they hang on tightly even during sleep. The weight of the bird's body above hooks the toes around the branch, and there they stay until the bird wishes to unhook them.
After a long time, all the fowls were asleep with their heads under their wings. The Sheep, Pigs, and Cows were dreaming, and even the Horses were quiet in their stalls. There was not a light to be seen in the big white farmhouse, when the Dorking Cock crowed in his sleep. That awakened him and all the other fowls as well. Then the other Cocks crowed because he did and he crowed again because they did, and they crowed again because he had crowed again, and the Chickens asked if it were not almost morning, and their mothers told them not to talk but to go to sleep at once and make morning come more quickly.
All of this took quite a while, and the Shanghai mother could not sleep again. She could see her brood quite plainly in the moonlight, and one of them was not plump like the rest. She roosted there and worried about him until suddenly (she could never tell how it happened) she seemed to know just what was the matter.
She flew down beside him and poked him under his wing. "Wake up," she said. "I want to ask you something. Do you eat gravel?"
"No," he answered sleepily, "I don't like gravel."
"Didn't I bring you up to eat it?" she asked sternly.
"Yes, but I don't like it, and now that I am old enough to roost in a tree I don't mean to eat any more. So!"
Just imagine a Chicken talking to his mother in that way! His mother, who had laid the egg from which he was hatched; who had sat upon the nest through all the weary days and nights while he was growing inside his shell; who had cuddled him under her soft feathers; who had taught him all he knew, and would have fought any hawk to save him! She had begun to love him before he even knew that he was, and had lived for him and his brother and sisters ever since.
The mother said nothing more to him then. She spent the rest of the night watching the stars and the moon and the first rosy flush of the eastern sky which told that morning was near. Then she said to her naughty Chicken, as he began to stir and cheep, "I shall never try to make you eat gravel if you think you are too big to mind your mother. I shall just tell you this, that you will never be strong unless you do. I have not told you why, because you never asked, and I supposed you would do as you ought without knowing the reason. You have no teeth, and you cannot chew the grain you eat before it is swallowed. You have a strong stomach, and if you eat gravel this stomach or gizzard will rub and press the tiny stones against the grain until it is well broken up and ready to make into fat and strength for your body."
"But it doesn't taste good," he replied, "and I'd rather eat other things. I don't believe it matters, and I won't eat it anyway."
The Shanghai Hen flew down from the tree and clucked to her Chickens. She would not waste time talking to him. Whenever he came near her that day, he ate everything but gravel. He had his own way and yet he was not happy. For some reason, nothing seemed to be any fun. Even lying under the bushes on the sunshiny side was not comfortable, and when he wallowed in the dust with his brothers and sisters he didn't enjoy that.
Things went on this way for a good many days, and at last he saw that his shadow was only a small black spot on the ground, while his brothers and sisters had big fat shadows. He heard the Black Spanish Cock call him a Bantam, and the Shanghai Cock say that he wouldn't live until his spurs grew. One of the Dorking Chickens was talking to her sister, and he heard her say, "Imagine him at the head of a flock!" Then she laughed, a mean, cackling little laugh.
That night, when the rest were asleep in the apple-tree, he walked softly down the slanting board and ate gravel. The next morning he felt better than he had in a long time, so when there was nobody around he ate some more. He didn't want anyone else to know that he had found out his mistake. Every morning he looked at his shadow, and it grew fatter and fatter. Still he was not happy, and he knew it was because he had not told his patient old mother. He wanted to tell her, too. One day he heard her telling his brother to eat more gravel, and the brother said he didn't like the taste of it. That made him speak at last.
"Suppose you don't like it, you can eat it. Queer world it would be if we didn't have to do unpleasant things. I've just made up my mind that the people who won't do hard things, when they ought to, have the hardest times in the end. Wish I'd minded my mother and eaten gravel when she told me to, and I'm not going to let you be as foolish as I was."
Just then he heard somebody say of him, "What a fine-looking fellow he is growing to be! I like him ever so much now."
It was the Dorking Chicken who had laughed at him. He ran after a Grasshopper, and she ran after the same Grasshopper, and they ran against each other and the Grasshopper got away, so of course they had to wander off together to find something to eat, and after that they became great friends.
The Shanghai Hen looked lovingly after him and raised one foot in the air. "Now," she said, "I am perfectly happy."
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Planned Parenthood says Rep. Tom Price 'poses a grave threat' to their mission.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen pro-life, pro-marriage, anti-Obamacare Rep. Tom Price, R-GA, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Trump announced early Tuesday.
Price is an orthopedic surgeon and the Chairman of the House Budget Committee. He has said "there's nothing more precious or more worth defending than the sanctity of life" in a video made to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
"Now, more than ever, the American people and the lives of countless Americans not yet born need folks who will stand up for life," said Price. In this video, he defended the Hyde Amendment, which prevents taxpayer funding of Medicaid abortions.
"There is nothing more fundamental to our humanity than to defend life," Price commented on the 2011 March for Life. "The March for Life movement has for nearly four decades given a voice to those who have no voice. It is a privilege to stand together with thousands of Americans in solidarity and faithful commitment to our solemn duty to protect and defend the lives of the most innocent among us."
Price reacted to Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision redefining marriage in all 50 states, by decrying the use of the Court system as "a systematic springboard to enact agendas outside the democratic and legislative structures of government."
"Thirty States have held statewide ballots banning gay marriage since the year 2000, and yet legislating from the bench has superseded both public approval and our elected representatives," said Price. "This is not only a sad day for marriage, but a further judicial destruction of our entire system of checks and balances."
Price called the Center for Medical Progress videos showing Planned Parenthood trafficking in human body parts "disturbing" when he voted against funding the abortion giant. He called the effort to defund Planned Parenthood "about common, human decency."
"Anyone who has not viewed the disturbing videos recently released should do so," he said. "It is only with that knowledge that one can know, in horrific detail, the barbaric practices being committed with federal taxpayer dollars. These actions cross a moral line beyond comprehension. The revealing picture is of a supported routine for abortion practices that result in the harvesting and sale of baby parts, some of which are secured in barbaric process. This, if seen, will shake anyone's conscience. Today, I voted to end taxpayer funding for the organization responsible and add criminal penalties in the event of born alive abortions."
"Chairman Price, a renowned physician, has earned a reputation for being a tireless problem solver and the go-to expert on healthcare policy, making him the ideal choice to serve in this capacity," said President-elect Trump. "He is exceptionally qualified to shepherd our commitment to repeal and replace Obamacare and bring affordable and accessible healthcare to every American. I am proud to nominate him as Secretary of Health and Human Services."
Marjorie Dannenfelser, the President of the pro-life political group the Susan B. Anthony List, said Price is an "excellent choice" for HHS secretary.
"He has an 100 percent pro-life record and is well positioned to champion truly comprehensive health care," said Dannenfelser. "He helped lead the charge to defund Planned Parenthood through budget reconciliation, setting the stage for President-elect Trump and a pro-life Congress to reallocate those funds to support comprehensive women's healthcare. As HHS Secretary, he will play a key role in developing a robust health care reform proposal that protects life and consciences, while promoting options for low-income individuals and families."
Price has a zero percent rating from Planned Parenthood. The Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual lobby group, also gives him a score of zero.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said Price's nomination "poses a grave threat to women's health" because he "could take women back decades" and "millions of women could be cut off from Planned Parenthood's preventive health services." Planned Parenthood is America's largest abortion provider and aborts over 300,000 babies annually.
"It is an honor to be nominated to serve our nation as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Thanks to President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Pence for their confidence," said Rep. Price. "I am humbled by the incredible challenges that lay ahead and enthusiastic for the opportunity to be a part of solving them on behalf of the American people. There is much work to be done to ensure we have a healthcare system that works for patients, families, and doctors; that leads the world in the cure and prevention of illness; and that is based on sensible rules to protect the well-being of the country while embracing its innovative spirit."
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El Dodge by Jon Grass
Aug. 7, 2019 — On Saturday, Aug. 10, many Florence-area galleries are showcasing local fine artists with receptions. Be part of the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour from 3 to 5 p.m. and visit more than a dozen galleries.
Galleries include locations in Historic Old Town Florence, around town and uptown. For a complete listing of participating locations, visit www.2ndsaturdaygallerytour.com.
Below are some gallery highlights and art happenings to look forward to in August:
Hot Havana nights continue to be part of August's activities. Besides the Siuslaw Athletic Booster Club's annual auction on Saturday night, The Studios at Jayne Smoley Designs is featuring unique mixed-media photography of Cuba and Havana with "Classic Cars in Cuban Culture," a show by Jon Grass. In addition, there will be a "Classic Cars of Florence" Stand Around to go with the art show.
For Grass, inspiration struck during a vacation stop in Havana in April 2019.
The quick, one-day tour of Cuba provided by the cruise ship included a stop at a parking lot filled with Cuban taxis. With a giant painting of Castro overlooking, the lot was filled with cacharros: 1950's era Chevy's, Dodges, Pontiacs and Fords. The legendary Cars of Cuba. However, it wasn't the classic Bel Aires or makeshift engines under the hoods that piqued Grass's interest. It was the chrome. Or, more specifically, the light hitting the chrome.
"The light reflection drew my attention. I wasn't even looking at the cars. I was drawn to the way the light was catching the chrome," he said.
So he started snapping photos. While the other tourists were taking traditional shots, Jon was in tight, focusing on the chrome, the hood and the tail, with close-ups of the grill and the ornaments.
Earlier in his life, Glass was a painter and later went into commercial photography. Upon selling his company in 2017, he was eager for the next chapter in his life and began doing experimental abstract paintings before his Caribbean cruise. After going through his images of the Cuban cacharros, Grass had a new revelation.
He called up his long-time friend, Joshua Greene, owner of The Archives, a digital print and restoration studio located on the central Oregon coast, which printed 'El Dodgé' on rag media.
Grass pulled out his watercolors and started painting. Not thinking about the car, just seeing it as a work of art.
In the end, Grass created 31 paintings, all part of his show at The Studios.
Grass and The Studios resident artists Jayne Smoley, Tamarah Phillips and Gigi Lassan will attend the 2nd Saturday reception at 1458 First St. There will be live music and a new seasonal Studio Box will be on display.
Florence Regional Arts Alliance
Florence Regional Arts Alliance (FRAA) is featuring the photography of Craig Shreeve and the creative talents of Youth Artist and FRAA Scholarship recipient Alyssa Lydick during August at 120 Maple St. The public will be able to meet the two artists in person, enjoy refreshments and view a collection of their works at the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour.
Shreeve has lived in Florence for the past five years, retiring from the field of telecommunication work in California.
"One doesn't have to go far to be able to see and capture the wonders that our beautiful coast has to offer," Shreeve said. "I am grateful in my ability to see every photo as a blank canvas waiting to be recreated in the mood that I feel will best bring out the uniqueness of the subject matter."
FRAA will debut prints and cards of Shreeve's original photography at the reception.
Lydick is an 18-year-old graduate of Siuslaw High School, class of 2019. She participated in pottery all four years of high school, crediting art teacher Kim Pickell as being her mentor and helping her reach her full potential.
During her senior year, Lydick served as an instructor's aide to a beginner's art class. Besides working part time as a barista at Ocean Grinds Coffee Co., Lydick enjoys being outdoors hiking, fishing, going to the beach and playing with her dog Lola.
As for her near future, Lydick will be attending Lane Community College in Eugene to obtain her prerequisites, and then it is off to Montana State University in pursuit of a bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.
"I cannot wait to see what life has in store," Lydick said.
Siuslaw Public Library
Artwork by River Gallery owner Jan Jagoe will be featured during the month of August at Siuslaw Public Library in Florence. Her work will be displayed in the entry hall and includes pencil drawings, photographs and a collection of close-up photography from Balboa Park in San Diego.
Jagoe studied art and photography at San Diego State University. Several years ago she began studying close-up photography with Paul Johnson at Palomar College.
"I love to share the beautiful things that I see through my camera lens," she said.
Jagoe and her husband, Brian, own and operate The River Gallery in Historic Old Town Florence. Jagoe always dreamed of opening an art gallery featuring local artists. Living in Florence and owning The River Gallery has made that dream come true. The gallery features the work of more than 20 local artists.
Jagoe will be at the library during the 2nd Saturday Gallery Tour.
Backstreet Gallery
Colleen McKnight, gourd artist, and Karen D. Nichols, multimedia artist, will be honored at a reception on August 10 from 3 to 5 p.m., at Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay St., featuring guitar music by Denny Weaver.
McKnight has developed her skills decorating gourds since 2015, converting her skills from systems design and flower design to transforming the organic shapes of gourds into works of art. Her gourd crafting patterns emerge from the use of wood burning, cutting and carving, then finishing with inks, dyes, paints, beading, embossing, decoupage, metal leafing, glass frit and mosaic work.
Whether looking for sculpture, a bit of whimsy, a playful animal, a useful vase, a basket or a beautiful decorative piece of art, individuals will appreciate McKnight's expertise of taking nature's gift and redefining it as fine art.
Nichols' art includes, watercolor, acrylic and oils; however, her signature work is paper painting collage. The original technique she perfected starts with various kinds of fibrous papers. Using watercolor or acrylic paints, the paper is colored. By tearing, cutting and molding paper, she creates three-dimensional sculptural relief works. Certain papers lend themselves to feathery wings or animal fur. While birds continue to be Nichols favorite subjects, flowers and equine creatures come close.
Besides fine art, Nichols writes novels, short stories and poetry. Her seven books and Pocket Poetry can be found at the gallery. Her latest novel, "A Name by Any Other," comes out in September.
She has edited and created cover art and illustrations for other authors. In addition, Nichols enjoys teaching and has been on writing panels, spoken at literary salons and taught classes at writing seminars as well as beginning art workshops.
Oregon Pacific Bank
Oregon Pacific Bank, 1355 Highway 101 in Florence, is showcasing the work of Jo Beaudreaux in August.
A photographer, mixed-media artist and art store owner, Beaudreaux surrounds herself with art every day. She also serves on the Florence Public Arts Committee, the Florence Events Center Gallery Committee and with other community- and arts-focused groups.
The bank is featuring Beaudreaux's stunning encaustic mixed-media photographs, where she creates texture, drama and light effects by pouring wax over her photographs of the Oregon coast. For more information, stop by BeauxArts Fine Art Materials & Gallery, 2285 Highway 101, Suite H, or visit www.beauxartsfineart.com.
Florence Events Center
Galleries one and five at the Florence Events Center, 715 Quince St., continue to display FRAA's "Spirit of Summer" community exhibit. In addition, there is an open call to artists for the next community exhibit, "Everything Odd-Umn." For more information, call the Florence Events Center at 541-997-1994 or visit eventcenter.org for the application.
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The Sonic Drive-In Player-of-the-Game for Friday, February 8, is KJ Bradley of the Eastside (Gainesville) boys' basketball team.
Bradley scored 11 of his team-high 15 points in the second half as Eastside held off rival Gainesville, 50-47, Friday night at Santa Fe College.
The junior had back-to-back three pointers during a third quarter spurt and scored a basket late in the fourth quarter as the Rams went on a 7-0 run to take a 48-42 lead with a minute left and held off multiple three-point shot opportunities to tie by the Hurricanes on the final possession of the game.
Eastside swept rival Gainesville in three meetings this season, also winning 51-41 at the Hitch<|fim_middle|>Citra).
Gainesville had three players in double figures, led by junior Roshawn Bradley with 15 points, and senior J'len Wilson and Williams chipped in 14 and 10 points, respectively.
The Hurricanes finish the regular season at 14-11 after dropping their last two games this week against P.K Yonge (Gainesville) and Eastside.
Gainesville is the top seed as well in District 4-7A, and will play the winner of the play-in game between Vanguard (Ocala) and Lake Weir (Ocala) next Wednesday in the semifinals. The other semifinal pits Forest (Ocala) against Columbia (Lake City). | cock's Challege in Alachua on Dec. 30, and 48-43 in the first meeting at the Santa Fe College gym on January 18.
The Rams got off to a hot start in the opening quarter, as seniors Anthony Wright and Donald Mack and junior Anthony Richardson all knocked down three pointers as Eastside led 16-11.
Richardson hit two more threes in the second period, and had 10 points as the Rams went into the halftime break leading, 25-20.
Bradley hit his two three pointers in the third period, but Gainesville kept whittling away at the Eastside lead and went into the fourth quarter only trailing by two at 36-34.
The teams traded the lead back and forth in the final period before the late run that put the Rams ahead for good. Senior Rod Williams and freshman Daryus Boyd missed three point attempts for GHS that would have tied the game.
Richardson joined Bradley in double figures with 15 points to lead Eastside, which finished the regular season with a 23-2 record.
The Rams are the #1 seed and host the District 6-6A tournament next week. They will play the Dunnellon/Belleview winner in next Wednesday's district semifinal The other semifinal in 6A-6 is Santa Fe (Alachua) against North Marion ( | 295 |
2004/2005 was a turbulent season as the Stags finished right in the middle of the table, and the mediocrity of it was summed up by a zero goal difference. But the main drama of the season was off the field where manager Keith Curle was suspended by chairman Keith Haslam for allegedly bullying a youth team player. Curle was eventually sacked as a result, though vowed to clear his name. Meanwhile Haslam asked his friend Carlton Palmer to help out as caretaker manager while Curle was suspended, and then once Curle was sacked, Palmer was appointed as the new manager.
Before the start of the season, the Stags brought in exciting striker Derek Asamoah from Northampton, full back Scott McNiven from Oxford, and Alex Neil from Barnsley, while strikers Chris Tait and Joe O'Neill joined on a short term contract and 3 month loan respectively. Meanwhile the return of one of the heroes of the 2001/2002 promotion campaign, Adam Murray, was the most eagerly awaited signing. Liam Lawrence had left for Sunderland, where he was to gain promotion to the Premiership in a fine season, while Craig Disley, Bobby Hassell, Junior Mendes, amongst others, had all left for pastures new to the disappointment of the Field Mill faithful.
The Stags had a confidence boosting pre-season friendly 2-0 win over Leeds with memorable goals from Corden and Larkin, while Wolves edged a 2-1 win at Field Mill.
The league season started with a very flat display at home to Bristol Rovers, who ran out 2-0 winners thanks to a fine display from Junior Agogo. Four days later, the Stags were beaten again, this time 1-0 at Oxford, despite playing with a man advantage for half an hour, which would have been longer but for a stupid sending off of Lee Williamson, which angered manager Curle, and probably contributed to the midfielder's later departure.
The season burst into life with a 3-0 win at Chester, with Asamoah scoring the club's first goal of the season, Jake Buxton scoring the second, and an amazing long range strike by Colin Larkin after a fine run. This would turn out to be the goal of the season for the Stags. Things got even better as a double from Larkin overcame the shock of a first minute goal by then-leaders Kidderminster at Field Mill. After a 2-0 loss at Grimsby, the Stags hit the peak of form with successive 4-1 wins over Yeovil and Northampton, two of the better sides in the division. Against Yeovil, an amazing spell of 3 goals in four minutes midway through the second half sealed an impressive win. Asamoah and Larkin were on target again, with the other goals from Artell and Corden. A week later sensational performances from Corden, Asamoah and Larkin (all of whom scored) saw the Stags thump Northampton at Field Mill. The Stags of course had beaten the Cobblers in the Play-Off semi-finals a few months earlier, and the Cobblers had Paul Rachubka in goal, the keeper who had broken the Stags' hearts at Cardiff playing for Huddersfield. The Stags soared into fifth place. Meanwhile Lee Williamson was a surprise departure, signing for the Cobblers, a few days after they had been stuffed at Field Mill.
After the Stags twice came from behind to draw 2-2 at Cambridge, Colin Larkin scored an 85th minute winner to defeat Rochdale 1-0 at Field Mill. The goal put him joint top scorer in the division scoring charts. A 4-0 mauling by Preston brought the team back down to earth in a delayed Carling Cup tie. But then the Stags produced a terrific display to draw 1-1 at leaders Scunthorpe. Dave Artell scored the Stags goal after an early goal from former Stag Ian Baraclough had given the Iron the lead. The Stags were very unlucky not to win the game. Three days later, Scott McNiven was the hero as Mansfield beat Darlington on penalties in the first round of the LDV Vans Trophy. McNiven scored the winning penalty after a 0-0 draw following extra-time.
October started with a great comeback at home to Lincoln. The Imps had led 2-0, but goals from Adam Murray and Alex John-Baptiste earned a point. The goal for Baptiste came as a relief to the youngster, as it was his first ever. Six days later, on a depressing Friday night in Wales, the Stags lost to a last minute goal by Swansea, which sent the home side to the top of the table. But that was all forgotten 8 days later when Notts County came to Field Mill for an eagerly awaited local derby. It was Keith Curle's 100th game in charge of the Stags and what a performance he saw from his side as Notts County were absolutely mauled and so lucky to come away with only a 3-1 defeat. It really should have been 8, but the Stags had to settle for goals from Rhys Day, a screamer from on-loan left back Craig Woodman, and Larkin, while Asamoah missed a penalty and Notts scored a 90th minute undeserved consolation. Mansfield could have gone top with a midweek win at Cheltenham, but put in a poor display to lose 2-0.
Successive draws away to Wycombe and at home to Bury followed, with the Stags perhaps unfortunate not to win both of them, though Colin Larkin's missed penalty against Bury was a very costly error. But the Stags crashed to a 4-0 defeat at Macclesfield in the second round of the LDV Vans Trophy, after making 8 changes from the Bury game. Curle made a huge blunder by proclaiming that he had better players than Macclesfield and that it would be a different result four days later in the league at Field Mill. But Macclesfield won the league encounter too and Curle was made to look stupid, having handed Brian Horton, the Macclesfield manager, an easy pre-match team talk. There was dreadful news off the field as it was announced that Scott McNiven had testicular cancer.
The club hit the national headlines in mid November when manager Keith Curle was suspended, amid huge confusion, "following a complaint against him", pending an internal investigation. Former Stockport manager and England player Carlton Palmer was brought in as caretaker manager by chairman Keith Haslam. At this stage of the season, Mansfield were 12th with 6 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats. Palmer's first action was to bring in Fraser McLachlan from Stockport, initially on loan. The local press were intrigued at how quickly Palmer was able to move in the transfer market. His second action was install Alex John-Baptiste as the new captain – the youngest captain in the Stags history, at 18 days and 287 days. Palmer's first game in charge was at home to Colchester in the first round of the FA Cup. Both Palmer and Haslam were booed by sections of the home fans, particularly when fans' favourites Corden and Larkin were substituted. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with Baptiste scoring a screamer for Mansfield and Derek Asamoah being sent off. The Stags went on to lose a depressing replay 4-1, with fewer than 100 Mansfield fans making the trip to Essex – the lowest away following since routine recording of away followings began 4 years ago.
Carlton Palmer's first league game was away to Boston, and though the Stags put in a creditable performance, they could only manage a 0-0 draw, despite the home side being reduced to 10 men in the first half, in a bizarre incident that actually saw Boston earn a penalty, which Pilkington saved! With the club in turmoil, as the Keith Curle saga rolled on, and was to roll on for a long time (longer than The Mousetrap, according to the CHAD), Palmer told Alex Neil and Luke Dimech that there was no place for them at Field Mill, though in the event neither of them left at that time. Neil MacKenzie was shipped out to Macclesfield, initially on loan. Meanwhile Palmer brought in striker Richie Barker, from Rotherham, a move which was to prove his most popular signing of the season, along with Paul Warne, on loan, also from Rotherham. The pair made their debut at home to Leyton Orient, who were flying high at the time, and the Stags were beaten by a wonder goal from Andy Scott.
Barker scored his first goal in his second game, away to Darlington at the beginning of December, which put the Stags in front, but they were beaten by two second half goals. Four days later, Mansfield put in a terrific performance against lowly Rushden at Field Mill, and were desperately unlucky to be held 0-0. Palmer stated in numerous post match interviews over the coming months that his side had battered Rushden, and he was right. But it was the Stags' eleventh game without a win.
Around this time, TEAM Mansfield (the Stags Supporters Trust) had made a formal offer to buy the club, to enable a community ownership model. But this was rejected by Keith Haslam. TM joint chairman Jeff Barnes told Radio Nottingham: "We can't think of a better time for Mr Haslam to move on. It's gone from bad to worse, we've gone 11 games without a win.". But Haslam said: "At this moment in time the club needs stability for staff and supporters. With details of their bid in the public domain, I think potential prolonged negotiations to purchase the football club would not be in the best interests of anyone concerned." Some weeks later, Stags sponsor Andy Perry told the CHAD he was heading a three-man consortium bidding to buy the club. But he said it was only a counter-bid to the one from TEAM Mansfield. He said: "If it wasn't for the TEAM Mansfield bid we wouldn't be looking into it. I feel a football club should be run from the head as well as the heart and supporters would just run it from the heart. I think the supporters route is the wrong one. But Keith Haslam has told us there are issues that make it the wrong time for the club to change hands and we will just carry on talking."
The Rushden game, albeit a goalless draw, started a run of 11 games with only 2 defeats, and 5 wins to propel the Stags up the table and into play-off contention. Either side of Christmas, Mansfield won back-to-back games, for the first time since August, as Shrewsbury and Southend were beaten away from home. Both were hugely enjoyable and a real relief. Asamoah and Murray scored in a 2-0 win at Gay Meadow, and then Warne scored a late winner at high flying Southend. The Southend win was made even more sweet as the home side had a perfectly good goal disallowed in injury time. It may or may not have been a coincidence that the win over Shrewsbury, Palmer's first, came just 24 hours after Curle was sacked by Haslam.
On New Years Day, the Stags travelled to Northampton for a lunchtime kick off, and in highly controversial circumstances Derek Asamoah was sent off for diving twice in the first half, against his former club. Even the home players admitted afterwards that the referee got it wrong. But against the odds, the Stags took the lead just before half time, only to be undone by two Cobblers goals in the second half. But two days later, Mansfield continued their good form with an impressive win over top of the table Scunthorpe, thanks to an Adam Murray shot from outside the box. But there was disappointment as the influential Paul Warne was recalled by Rotherham.
Three draws followed in mid January, firstly at home to bottom of the table Cambridge, then away to Rochdale, with Richie Barker scoring a spectacular overhead kick to rescue a 1-1 draw, and then at home to Southend. There was shock news that defender Dave Artell had nearly died after being rushed to hospital with DVT. Meanwhile, Palmer told the media that he now wanted the manger's job full-time. However he couldn't be appointed at this time because Curle had appealed over his sacking, and so the saga rolled on. The Stags ended January with defeat at Lincoln as Luke Dimech was sent off for a professional foul.
But the best four days of the season followed as the Stags beat Notts County and Swansea, both 1-0, to be just four points behind the play-offs. Firstly the Stags took 3600 fans to Meadow Lane, for the club's 3000th league game, and saw Richie Barker head the only goal of the game, as the Stags won at their local rivals for the first time since 1958. Then Barker scored again in another 1-0 win, at home to Swansea; this time crashing in a magnificent effort off the underside of the bar from 18 yards. This firmly established the striker as a real fans' favourite. But a chance to push on was missed as Cheltenham came to Field Mill and won 2-1 with a last minute cracker. Popular winger Wayne Corden was shipped out by Palmer to join Scunthorpe. The Stags returned to winning ways with a 2-0 success at out-of-form Bury, with goals from Adam Rundle and a magical volley from Adam Murray. Rundle was proving to be one of Palmer's more popular new signings, having set up both goals for Barker earlier in the month (against Notts County and Swansea). The Bury game was only the second time since mid October that the Stags had registered two goals in a game; a fact not lost on some fans who were disgruntled with the Stags caretaker manager. Nevertheless with 13 games to go, Mansfield were now just three points behind Northampton who were in seventh place.
Failure to win any of the next 6 matches put an end to any play-off hopes. A 4-1<|fim_middle|> Rushden.
The average home attendance before Christmas was 4,637, and the average home attendance after Christmas was 3,560.
The average away following at Field Mill was 512. (The previous season it was 726).
The highest home attendance was 7,682 against Notts County. The lowest was 2,497 against Wycombe on a snowy Tuesday night.
Five teams brought more than a thousand to Field Mill: Notts County (1787), Bristol Rovers (1325), Northampton (1063), Scunthorpe (1053), Lincoln (1024). The lowest away following at Field Mill was Wycombe (91).
Away from Field Mill, the Stags average away following was 662. This was a drop of 25% from the previous season (which was 888).
The highest Stags away following was at Notts County (3600); while the lowest Stags away following was at Swansea (112). | loss at home to Wycombe was a huge shock, especially as Barker had given the Stags a deserved lead and the Stags were cruelly robbed of a 2-0 lead as Fraser McLachlan's perfectly good goal was disallowed. It was tough on McLachlan, who had failed to win over many of the home fans, after being Palmer's first signing. Failure to beat either Rushden away or Shrewsbury at home was bitterly disappointing. After the Rushden game, a furious Carlton Palmer explained that Derek Asamoah would no longer be playing for the club following a breach of discipline. He was to join Lincoln City. Many Stags fans despaired that Palmer was shipping out all the flair players, like MacKenzie, Corden and Asamoah. An independent inquiry into the sacking of Curle, led by local MP and chairman Keith Haslam's friend Alan Meale, upheld the decision to sack the former manager. But the saga was to roll on as Curle vowed to take the club to the High Court for wrongful dismissal. Nevertheless, it opened the way for Palmer to be appointed as full time manager.
Alex Neil scored in the 1-1 draw with Shrewsbury and was a rich reward for the player who was having a great season playing at right back, or sometimes in midfield. The Shrewsbury game saw plenty of booing, mostly aimed at Carlton Palmer. After the game, the caretaker manager explained that he would be considering whether he wanted to take the job as full time manager, in the light of treatment from some of the fans. However he did take the job that was offered to him just a few days later. This had been truly a traumatic and dramatic time for Stags fans.
Palmer's first game as manager was against Oxford at Field Mill in mid March. The visitors ran out 3-1 winners in one of the worst performances that many fans could ever remember, and Carlton Palmer was again roundly booed by a number of fans. This time, he apologized for the performance after the game. Pride was restored a week later after a sizzling display at Bristol Rovers, in front of a select band of fewer than 200 Stags fans. But still the Stags couldn't win as two disgraceful refereeing decisions saw Rovers handed two penalties to gift them a draw. The Stags goals came from Barker (2), Larkin, and youngster Callum Lloyd. Another youngster, Giles Coke, made an impressive debut, having signed from Kingstonian. Yet another draw followed as Chester came to Field Mill and left with a scoreless draw.
With play-off hopes now a distant memory, the Stags travelled to Kidderminster for a reunion with former boss Stuart Watkiss, who had been brought in in mid-season to try to keep the West Midlands club in the Football League. Watkiss's side put in a typically cavalier performance and after taking the lead, should have gone 2-0 ahead but missed a crucial penalty, in an incident where Mansfield were very lucky not to have keeper Pilkington sent off. Kidderminster were to pay for that as woeful defending let them down, and the Stags roared back with two goals from Barker, and one from nippy winger Simon Brown who had previously failed to live up to considerable promise after signing for £50,000 from West Brom.
Brown was on the mark again a week later, at the start of April, as Grimsby were dispatched 2-0 at Field Mill, Rundle getting the other goal. It ended a dreadful run of 5 games at Field Mill without a win. Then in a bizarre game, Mansfield played rather well at high flying Yeovil and somehow lost the game 5-2. The Stags missed a penalty in that game, and missed another a week later in a 1-1 draw at home to Darlington, as Rhys Day missed from the spot but he was villain turned hero as he rescued a point with a late header. The end of season feel continued as Mansfield lost 3-1 at play-off contenders Macclesfield, before seeing off Boston 3-2 at Field Mill in the final home game of the season. The Boston game was a good performance which summed up a topsy-turvy season, as the Stags bobbed back into the top half of the table, yet before the final game at Leyton Orient they could have finished as low as 18th place. The Stags were terrible at Orient for 75 minutes, to trail 2-0, then an excellent late rally saw one goal retrieved, and could have seen a draw. A draw would have seen a top half of the table finish, but as it was, the final position was 13th, and the season was so average that the final goal difference was zero, with 15 wins, 15 draws, and 16 defeats. The main talking point at Orient was the final performance in a Stags shirt of Scott McNiven, who many felt had been poorly treated following his recovery from cancer, and Luke Dimech. As it turned out, Tom Curtis was also playing his last game for the Stags, and incredibly all three were to join Chester City, with Keith Curle their new manager.
So a mid-table finish, and a season many Stags fans couldn't wait to see the back of. Alex Neil picked up Player of the Season awards from Follow The Yellow Brick Road, the SSA and the CHAD, while my own choice for player of the season was Richie Barker. However Alex Neil was to be released by Palmer after the season had ended, and joined Scottish side Hamilton. Colin Larkin was also shown the door after failing to rediscover his early season form following injury. Larkin remained the club's leading scorer with 11 league and cup goals, from 38 appearances, despite only scoring 4 goals after September. Richie Barker, nearly caught Larkin up, scoring 10 goals from 28 appearances. Such was the turbulence of the season that only 3 players started more than 30 league games: Neil, goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington, and Alex John-Baptiste. The Stags used 40 players in league and cup games during the season, equalling the club record set two seasons earlier. This contrasted with only 26 players used in the Play-Off Final season.
1. Colin Larkin, run and long range shot at Chester.
2. Adam Murray, volley at Bury.
3. Craig Woodman, screamer at home to Notts County.
4. Richie Barker, overhead kick at Rochdale.
5. Adam Rundle, run and shot at home to Grimsby.
The average home league attendance for the season was 4,075. This was a drop of 22% in average home league crowds from the previous season's average of 5,207, the second biggest drop in the division after | 1,451 |
Taking a first glance at the Karn Weadock generating complex, a person might think the idea of rehabilitating the entire on-site road network was for the birds.
That is because the 2,400-acre site—located in Essexville, Mich., and operated by Consumers Energy—is abundant with wildlife, including 285 acres of wetlands with a bird rehabilitation center, butterfly garden and nature trail. According to the plant's website, approximately 140 bird species live at or visit the site, along with deer, foxes and various other woodland animals. The complex is even certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council as part of the Certified Lands for Learning Program.
At 70 years old, though, the road network was in need of a facelift. Consumers Energy began focusing on infrastructure reconstruction in 2011 but saved the biggest portions—reconstruction of the main access road, the north employee parking lot and the warehouse district road network—for last.
Tight quarters in the warehouse district and an extensive network of underground utilities throughout the complex made traditional construction out of the question. Together, project designer Wade Trim and Soil and Materials Engineers (SME) advocated for full-depth reclamation (FDR), a decision that resulted in a 2013 ROADS & BRIDGES/Asphalt Recycling and Reclaiming Association Recycling Award for the finished project.
While SME and Wade Trim presented several methods for accomplishing Consumers Energy's goals, the FDR process was ideal for the Karn Weadock project for several reasons.
Chief among them was Consumers Energy's commitment to good environmental stewardship. The company was concerned about how much material needed to be brought on-site and how much material would need to be disposed of off-site. A traditional construction process would have been detrimental on both fronts: Fresh paving material would have to be brought in, and existing material would have to be disposed of off-site.
By recycling the existing pavement, the design team was able to limit the number of trips to and from the site, which in turn cut down on the environmental impact (and construction costs).
Its approach to the abundance of hidden underground utilities was another big point in favor of FDR. "Nobody knew where the utilities were," Noykos said. "You may have sporadic fiber-optic lines, sporadic gas lines, you name it." With so many potential minefields lurking, soft digging to locate them was unavoidable. But since FDR only required going 20 in. or so below ground (as opposed to conventional construction, which could have gone as much as 30 in. down), SME and stabilization contractor Tenmile Creek Excavating were able to significantly reduce the amount of soft digging required.
SME<|fim_middle|>. When it was time to start stabilization, Tenmile Creek brought in a Wirtgen 2500 S soil stabilizer—one of its go-to machines on these types of projects—for the demanding job. As it worked its way through the site, it mixed the cement stabilization product in at a depth of 12 in.
Whenever construction approached one of the discovered utilities, workers resorted to hand-digging around it to expose it. From there, the utility was either relocated or stabilized around it using a stockpile of the stabilization material kept on-site.
Making matters even more challenging, crews were required to leave up to two sides of each warehouse accessible at all times for Consumers Energy employees. SME and general contractor Pumford Construction coordinated closely with Consumers Energy to minimize disruptions to the regular, 24/7 operations of the plant. With multiple divisions within Consumers Energy making claims for the same space, juggling access almost became a full-time job.
"You had road closure negotiations and a lot of weekend work just to work around the plant," Noykos said. That included a required plant refueling midway through the construction process, which "created even more of a nightmare because everybody and their brother had to do everything and the warehouses had to be accessible," added Thomas.
"It was kind of like surgery—you had to pinpoint exactly what you had to do," Noykos added.
After stabilization was complete, a Hamm 3412 PAC Padfoot Roller came through to compact everything down to the required density, which was checked by personnel with nuclear gauges on-site. Fine-grading was the final step, accomplished with a Caterpillar grader.
All told, the entire road network at the Karn Weadock generation plant was completed exactly two months from the start of construction. Overcoming the many challenges was a point of pride for the entire team. | 's initial geotechnical evaluation revealed substantial variation in paving materials and subgrade conditions across the complex, making mix-design creation a bit of a guessing game. "On-site, we had existing asphalt, we had existing aggregates, and then under that we typically had some bottom ash and some other byproduct materials from the history of the plant," said Thomas. "So we had to use all those materials in various compositions and came up with a mix design." For a stabilization agent, SME added dry portland cement, experimenting with different percentages to account for the changing pavement conditions on-site.
With the constantly changing field conditions, Thomas and Noykos both stressed the importance of experienced personnel to the project's success.
"You have to have good guys in the field who can recognize when a change happens and be ready to adjust the application, the water and the other admixtures to make sure you still get what you want," said Thomas.
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Registration for all makes, models and years will be accepted.
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It's happening on Saturday, Aug. 18 with the same great vibes in downtown North Fork, and everyone is invited — from 3 to 8 p.m. This highly anticipated event brings hundreds of visitors and participants to the exact center of California, | 86 |
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Our complex and rapidly evolving world is extremely fragmented in the ideological, social, political, cultural and scientific areas. There remains little or no trace of cultural unity. We have to deal with many cultures, subcultures and cultural fragments. The trend of differentiation in science is continuing unabated. All that remains are a number of fragments that have little structure or coherence. The fragmentation, rapid changes and large-scale structures of the modern world are leading to an increased alienation. The overview is lost.
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World Views and the Problem of Synthesis, The Yellow Book of Einstein meets Magritte, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Brussels, VUB University Press, 1999. A. de Vries, The Emergence and Evolution of Three Worlds. Second Revision of Poppers Three Worlds Theory. Summary and conclusion. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2009.<|fim_middle|>. Maex, H. Van Belle en J. Van der Veken, Cirkelen om de Wereld: Concrete invullingen van het wereldbeeldenproject, Uitgeverij Pelckmans, Kapellen, 1994. | [pdf].
L. Apostel en J. Van der Veken, Wereldbeelden: van fragmentering naar integratie, DNB/Uitgeverij Pelckmans, Kapellen, 1991. D. Aerts, L. Apostel, B. De Moor, S. Hellemans, E | 69 |
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Whole Sight
On Artistic Passion
Charles Johnson
Categories: Arts in Society, Philosophy, Race
Topics: Books & Ideas, Criticism, History, Memoir, Race
In September 2003 I had the privilege of delivering a lecture on the craft of writing on Bainbridge Island, Washington, for an organization called Field's End. During the question-and-answer session that followed, I said something about the importance of finding one's passion—about how one's passion always claims a greater place in one's life than one's profession or various occupations, how it demands a special kind of cultural and spiritual faith, and how artistic passion in particular, if properly understood, will lead a person to imaginative and intellectual realms that he never in his wildest dreams thought he would visit. I may have even quoted one of my favorite statements by the late Eknath Easwaran, a great meditation teacher from India who was also an English professor, Sanskrit scholar, and prolific writer and translator. I discovered Easwaren's work in 1981, and for the last 26 years I have had his words taped to my desk: "A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun. The life of a great artist or scientist is usually shaped by a single desire, carried through to the very end."
Afterward, a very nice middle-aged black man pulled me aside. He said, "Dr. Johnson, how do I find my passion? I've been looking all my life, and I don't know what it is." I think I replied too hastily and too incompletely by saying, "Your passion is something that finds you. It is something you surrender to, something you embrace because you have no choice." Looking back, I wish I had had more time to discuss the question of lifelong passion in the career of an artist or scholar, especially if he or she is a black American—how it is forged in the crucible of its particular historical moment and how it can transcend that moment and reach for the universal.
In the 1950s, when I attended elementary school in Evanston, Illinois, I was not the best student in all my classes. This was because there was only one activity I was truly passionate about, and that was drawing. Art class was where I got all my best grades and praise from my teachers. As a child, I would often retreat into drawing as a refuge. In my preteens, there was something magical to me about bringing forth images that hitherto existed only in my head where no one could see them. I remember spending whole afternoons blissfully seated before a three-legged blackboard my parents got me for Christmas, drawing and erasing until my knees and the kitchen floor beneath me were covered with layers of chalk and the piece in my hand was reduced to a sliver.
Inevitably, by the time I was 13 or so, the passion for drawing led me to consider a career as a professional artist, which I became when I was 17 and published my first illustrations for a company in Chicago. Over the next seven years, between 1965 and 1972, I published well over 1,000 illustrations and drawings, two books of political cartoons, and I taught people how to draw in an early PBS series, "Charlie's Pad," which was first broadcast in 1970. While drawing was my passion, I also enjoyed writing. From the age of 12, I filled up diaries; in college, I'd write long essays to myself, grappling with ideas, feelings, and cultural questions that I needed to express on the page as a way of freeing myself from them. But the visual arts were for me primary<|fim_middle|> every language you learn." So does a saying by Charlemagne: "To know another language is to have a second soul." Substitute "culture" for "language" (which is one of the defining constituents of culture), and it is clear that every immigrant of color understands what it means to live this dual, profoundly integrationist position in a Eurocentric society, whether he is living in Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, or Brussels.
For want of a better phrase, I call this way of perceiving the world an "aleph consciousness." I borrowed the term, at the suggestion of the Seattle writer Kathleen Alcala, from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges called "The Aleph," in which he describes the aleph as "the place where … all the places of the world, seen from every angle, coexist." It is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and of its shape Borges says that it "is that of a man pointing to the sky and the earth, to indicate that the lower world is the map and mirror of the higher." From its vantage point, Borges says, one can see "simultaneous night and day." Historically, black, Asian, and Hispanic Americans had to develop this epistemic skill, and doing so required a lot of work for an entire lifetime.
Let me give you an example of how someone develops a nuanced, polyvalent aleph consciousness. In Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, the literary critic Lawrence Jackson relates an incident at Tuskegee Institute that proved to be crucial for Ellison's development:
[Ellison's] most significant literary discovery of 1935 was T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." . . . With a prodigious expenditure of energy, Ellison stepped up his reading in order to nail down the poem's meaning. He looked up Eliot's seven pages of references, with [Professor] Sprague's collegial advice informing his search, and began to unpack the layers of the poem . . . . In short order, the library explorations took him into the new territories of geography and anthropology. Ellison began with Jessie Weston's From Ritual to Romance, Eliot's recommended sourcebook, to "elucidate the difficulties of the poem." Weston revealed the Arthurian legend and fisher king myths directly behind Eliot's poem. George Frazer's multi-volumed The Golden Bough provided him with an overview of human ritual and culture. Ellison revived his dusty Latin skills, drilled into him at Douglass [High School, in Oklahoma], in order to understand a generous Ovid quote that Eliot found indispensable; and he made use of the smattering of French that he'd learned in the fall. The exhausting research netted him intimacy with many of the major canonical Western classics not staples in the Tuskegee curriculum, such as Virgil, Ovid, Saint Augustine, Dante, Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare. In the weeks following this historical education in literature and anthropology, he came to the works of Ford Madox Ford, Sherwood Anderson, and Gertrude Stein, and more Hemingway.
In other words, Ellison's education demanded of him that he intimately know jazz and the sources for all the references in Eliot's poem; black history and St. Augustine's Confessions; the works of the Harlem Renaissance and Sherwood Anderson—what a Eurocentric curriculum provided and what it deliberately censored at the time. This required a certain generosity of spirit. But Ellison understood, as Emerson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did, that everything in life and culture is interrelated and interconnected—the black, the white, the Western, the Eastern—connected, as King writes, "in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." This idea of creolization is also central to Buddhist thought and is expressed as the truth of dependent origination (pratitya samutpada), which says that nothing comes into existence independently and that all things in this universe depend on all other things for their being.
When a young black artist in the 1960s (or for a hundred years before that) fully realized just how much of the history and experience of his family and ancestors had been erased, elided, or rendered invisible by the dominant society, he also came to understand, on the deepest levels of his life, that as an artist he had an important, personal duty to fulfill: to make visible the invisible in his work. To disclose in his creations all those things that had been deliberately concealed in our schools, in our popular entertainment, and in the national consciousness—for example, the experience of the slave trade, what exactly it was like to be on those ships that sailed with black cargo for 300 years. In my era, a young black artist or scholar discovered that a crucial part of his work would be to restore meaning lost in American history and to adventurously pursue new meaning after the era of segregation ended.
I wanted to explain to the nice man I met on Bainbridge Island that such a project—a passion—is not something the artist chooses. It chooses him the moment he picks up a brush or pen. At that moment he understands that his art can never have the luxury of being just entertainment or escape. It must be a probing of reality, because art has a phenomenological duty to perform, the duty of disclosure—and not just for black Americans, but for all humankind. Such a personal passion, once discovered, electrifies the imagination and stimulates the artist or scholar's interest in almost every field known to man. He is driven to find the remnants of himself and his ancestors, who are hidden just off to one side of the official historical record; he finds himself in the sciences, for example, in the work of geneticists who, when they add up the tiny genetic variations that make one person different from the next, discover there are more differences within so-called races than between them. In other words, he finds himself, his possibilities, in all the arts and sciences.
To think of the arts and sciences properly, then, is to understand that all our perspectives, all the disciplines we pursue, take us directly to a common situation, a common history from which all meanings evolve. As the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes in Adventures of the Dialectic:
My own field of thought and action is made up of "imperfect meanings, badly defined and interrupted." They are completed over there, in the others who hold the key to them because they see sides of things that I do not see, as well as, one might say, my social back, my social body. Likewise, I am the only one capable of tallying the balance sheet of their lives, for their meanings are also incomplete and are opening onto something that I alone am able to see. I do not have to search very far for others: I find them in my experience, lodged in the hollows that show what they see and what I fail to see. Our experiences thus have lateral relationships of truth: all together, each possessing what is secret to the other, in our combined functionings we form a totality which moves toward enlightenment and completion. . . . We are never locked in ourselves.
I like to believe that this is what novelist John Fowles meant when he coined the phrase "whole sight." When confronted by art, we can never be "locked in ourselves." Art is the bridge from one subjectivity to another, and so the experience of art is, if not universal, then at least intersubjective—and that is the best we can hope for in either the arts or the sciences.
The artist who practices whole sight, the one haunted by the "single desire" that Easwaran spoke of—an overwhelming love—will learn from the conventions of his particular moment in cultural history. But he will go beyond that—specifically, he will, like an archaeologist, look toward the past as he contemplates the future. If he is a writer of novels or short stories, his love of these forms naturally drives him to analyze and take apart the major works of the genre, as Ellison did with Eliot, and to study the biographies of the men and women who produced stories and novels that advanced the evolution of these forms over the centuries. In other words, the love of fiction drives the artist to understand as deeply as he can the theory and practice of his predecessors so that he can know, at his own moment in history, what new works are called for to promote the evolution of his craft.
If that Emersonian and Ellisonian passion leads the artist to realize that he must also become a literary critic—someone who can take the temperature of art produced in his own time and evaluate the significance of art from the past—then this "single desire" effloresces into an appreciation of Eastern and Western philosophy, especially aesthetics or theories of art. When I was 18 years old, a professional cartoonist and journalism major, I knew nothing of philosophy. But at the college I attended, all journalism majors were required to take two philosophy courses. One was logic, which my wise teachers knew was a good thing for a journalist to know something about. The other was a huge lecture course on the pre-Socratics, taught by a young professor named John Howie. Somehow Dr. Howie was able to sing the 2,000-year-old ethical problems confronting Heraclitus and Parmenides in such a way that I realized for the first time that many of the social issues I was publishing drawings about in the late 1960s were problems that had been debated and discussed with sophistication more than two millennia before the birth of the American republic. Dr. Howie made me see that the questions we ask determine the quality of the answers we get. Sitting in a sea of students in his class, I realized that my passion for art demanded a lifelong passion for philosophy as well.
Everything in the "well-spent" career of an artist flows from one original seed, one passion "carried through to the very end." That seed is the desire for art. As the seed sprouts, producing new passions and sending the artist's work forth like shoots into essays, aesthetic manifestos, cultural criticism, screenplays, and appreciations of the artists and scholars on whose shoulders the artist stands, it also produces a love of the English tongue and its manifold possibilities, and, equally, a love of foreign languages.
I never dreamed in my youth that I would now be in my ninth year of Sanskrit study. Foreign languages were never my forte, and I have forgotten almost all the French and Spanish I once knew. But a love of art in general led me in my teens to Eastern art. I studied over and over the "Ten Oxherding Pictures" of the 12th-century Zen artist Kakuan Shien and other Asian artworks as if they were the visual equivalent of a mantra. In Liang K'ai's 13th-century sketch The Sixth Patriarch Tears Up a Sutra I saw a spontaneity in the brush strokes that seemed analogous to the sudden, instantaneous experience of satori, or spiritual awakening, favored by Zen Buddhists. Ma Yüan's Landscape in Moonlight (c. 1200) and Kao K'o-kung's Landscape after Rain (c. 1250–1300) gently nudged me into new ways of seeing. Ephemeral cliffs and mountain peaks were forms briefly manifest in a fecund emptiness (sunyata) that, mysteriously, was also a plenitude of being. Such forms were captured on silk but were ever on the verge of vanishing back into the undifferentiated, the non-dual, leaving no trace of themselves, like waves on water. Landscape in Moonlight and Landscape after Rain were both fine examples of how the beautiful was attained in Buddhist art: by dissolving the false distinction between the beautiful and the ugly.
A passion for art based on the dharma led me to first practice meditation when I was 14 years old; to write the novel "Oxherding Tale" when I was in my 20s; and to embrace the life of a lay Buddhist, an upasaka, in my 30s. And that passion segued into the joy of translating works that have meant so much to me for 40 years—Theravada and Mahayana sutras, large portions of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Advaita Vedanta classic Ashtavakra Samhita—and seeing how many credible translations and interpretations are possible for a single sloka (verse) of four lines, eight syllables each. Just one great love opens one up to the entire vast world of human experience. During this long journey, the aleph consciousness, the soul, becomes enriched and expansive. As Ellison once said, the work of art is "the completion of personality." The great artists I have been privileged to know—the playwright August Wilson, the novelist John Gardner, and the painters Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight—all structured their daily lives around their "single desire." Lawrence was at his easel the day he passed away; Wilson was planning new plays and a novel in his last years; and Gardner taught himself Greek in middle age, as Tolstoy had done, to provide his students with his own translations of Homer.
What one discovers after a creative and critical passage of decades is just how little we know. The limits of knowing always give us a healthy sense of humility. We see that in the 4.5-billion-year history of the earth, modern humans have only been around for between 100,000 and 200,000 years, the mere blink of an eye in a universe that is about 13.5 billion years old. Cosmologists say that dark matter and dark energy, discovered only nine years ago, make up 96 percent of the universe; what we can see and measure accounts for only four percent.
In other words, we find ourselves living in the midst of a great mystery, so the very idea of whole sight in the arts and sciences can only be an ever-receding ideal, like the horizon—something we strive for while recognizing that our knowledge must be partial, incomplete, and provisional. As Bertrand Russell observed, what we know is always vanishingly small.
Art, then, is a daily reminder of this mystery. Obviously, the mystery is us. After I complete each new story, essay, or lecture, I marvel at and am thankful for the strangeness and beauty of a bottomless passion that leads to work across so many related disciplines. And sometimes, late at night, around 5 a.m., when I am finishing a new piece, I remember the famous Chinese poem by P'ang-yun:
How wonderful, how marvelous!
I fetch wood, I carry water!
Charles Johnson is a National Book Award–winning author and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Washington.
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From the Evanston Public Library I lugged home every book on drawing, painting, and cartooning, and pored over them, because for me it seemed that each canvas, each drawing, each image was a portal into a slightly changed way of perceiving and imagining the world. The work of others fed my own passion to create, because the ultimate way to respond to a work that one has received as a gift and loves is by answering it with a creative gift of one's own, one offered in the spirit of what a Buddhist calls dana, or giving—one of the ten paramitas, or virtues.
The gift of art—like the experience of meditation—is always an invitation for the mind to slow down and pay attention. Listening without the ego in the way is always an act of love. The novelist and critic Albert Murray says that fine art is distinguished by its "range, precision, profundity and the idiomatic subtlety of the rendition." When we find ourselves in a gallery, or in a theater, or in the transcendental space created by a novel or poem, we are gently invited to cast aside our presuppositions, to let go for just a moment our conditioned ways of seeing the world, and all our explanatory models for experience. Each powerful encounter with art gestures toward the goal of the philosophical method known as phenomenology, which was never about creating new knowledge but instead promised to deepen our perception of what we think we already know. This method reminds me of the Buddhist teacher Bhikku Bodhi's description of the important practice of right mindfulness. He said, "The task of right mindfulness is to clear up the cognitive field. Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations."
That experience of being shocked into new ways of seeing and knowing—of having the pedestrian replaced by a feeling of mystery and wonder, or having mystery and wonder revealed in the pedestrian—was something I hungered for as a child. I longed to be transported beyond the limitations of my young life in a Chicago suburb—beyond the parochial to new worlds, new ideas, new ways of feeling and imagining my own possibilities; this felt as necessary for my spiritual and emotional and intellectual life as food was for my body. Therefore, I took in everything my teachers placed before me. But this was the 1950s and early 1960s, and works by black authors—and other artists of color—were nowhere to be found in the curriculum of the integrated colleges, secondary, or elementary schools I attended. Black-studies courses did not exist until 1968 and 1969; I was privileged to participate in the establishing of one when I was an undergraduate. Even in the early 1970s, it was rare for the work of a black author to be accepted by a major publisher. In the universe of American education, these works were "dark matter," invisible to the eye and unknown. And, yes, I was sometimes tempted to condemn my white teachers and professors for not placing this history, this art, this literature before me. But I realize now that they had not been taught or exposed to any of this, and therefore had nothing of this sort to transmit to the children of color who filled their classes after Brown v. Board of Education was decided in 1954. So in the 1960s and earlier, a black student had to be an autodidact, someone who became skillful at doing research on his own and teaching himself what the schools did not offer.
Actually, no student, black or white, can hold our schools responsible for the depth and richness of his or her intellectual life. Colleges and universities can only provide a broad foundation and feed the passion for a life devoted to inquiry. Thus, for eight generations the American secondary-school curriculum has wisely included the expansive vision of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who in one of his letters of 1840 wrote, "Every history in the world is my history. I can as readily find myself in the tragedy of the Atrides as the Saxon Chronicle, in the Vedas as in the New Testament, in Aesop as in the Cambridge Platform or the Declaration of Independence." And the America that Emerson envisioned so long ago was also, he wrote in his journal in 1845, "an asylum of all nations, the energy of Irish, Germans, Swedes, Poles, & Cossacks, & all the European tribes,—of the Africans, & of the Polynesians, [who] will construct a new race, a new religion, a new State, a new literature, which will be as vigorous as the new Europe which came out of the smelting pot of the Dark Ages." Emerson saw no one as a stranger, and nothing in the human experience as alien or foreign to him. Everywhere in his transcendentalist writings and speeches, we come across his absolute certainty that he is the other—that the divisions we have erected between races, sexes, religions, and classes are simply, as Francis Bacon would say, idols of the tribe.
If Emerson begins our cultural discussion of self and other in the 19th century, a writer named after him, Ralph Waldo Ellison, advances and deepens that project in the 20th. Ellison writes that in the 1940s, when he was working on his masterpiece, Invisible Man, he discovered that "by a trick of fate (and our racial problems notwithstanding), the human imagination is integrative—and the same is true of the centrifugal force that inspirits the democratic process." The African philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, who was trained at Cambridge and taught at Harvard, has his own way of expressing this most fundamental of truths. In his important book In My Father's House Appiah writes, "We are all already contaminated by each other."
This mutual contamination, cross-fertilization, or creolization is something Ellison and Appiah and all people of color in white-majority societies are obliged to learn quite early in childhood. In school, it is incumbent upon them to know the white humanities curriculum as well as the white students in class beside them, approaching with openness and humility all those works composed by whites for whites, with people of color never part of the author–audience equation. They learn to momentarily identify with the themes, figures, and tropes of the racial other; to absorb the products of the Greek and the Judaic, the Roman, the French, and the British; to empathize and project themselves behind the eyes of whites as diverse as Homer and the Beowulf poet, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Dostoyevsky, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
For children of color, this act of empathy and understanding has always been a matter of survival. They had to know how to carefully and critically read American society from at least two perspectives: from the perspective of how these products are given to whites by whites, and also from the perspective, marginalized and often invisible, of black history and experience. A Czech proverb captures this nicely: "You live a new life for | 1,482 |
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The earthquakes of 2012 in Central America triggered the eruption and activation of some volcanoes in the area, according to a new international study published in the journal Scientific Report .
The researcher of Geosciences Barcelona ( GEO3BCN-CSIC ), Joan Martí , has collaborated in this publication led by the scientist Gino González , PhD student at the University of Bari (Italy) and member of the NGO Volcanes Sin Fronteras .
The study demonstrates the direct relationship that may exist between seismic and volcanic activity. "In our study we quantitatively demonstrate when it is possible for earthquakes to trigger volcanic eruptions," explains Martí.
Earthquakes could influence volcanic activity only when the volcano is already in a very advanced state of eruptive preparation
According to the work, earthquakes could influence volcanic activity, but only in very specific cases in which the volcano is already in a state of eruptive preparation very advanced. "In the case of a volcano in a state of rest, the contribution of seismic energy to its system is not enough to be able to initiate the eruption", adds the volcanologist.
"It is not a situation that can occur in a generalized way but in very particular cases, which indicates the need to have good volcanic monitoring in those potentially active volcanoes," he details the GEO3BCN-CSIC researcher.
Earthquakes as a tool to detect possible eruptions
To verify this relationship, the research team has analyzed the earthquakes that occurred in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala between August and November 2012, a period in which Central America suffered three of the largest earthquakes with a minimum magnitude of 7.3 .
Following these seismic movements, the volcanic activity in that region increased for days and even years later. In addition, there were eruptions of volcanoes that had been dormant for decades or hundreds of years. "Volcanoes and earthquakes are more closely linked than we think and this could have implications for the global geodynamics of the interior of the Earth", highlights González.
The research also points out that, when analyzing the possible effects of a seismic movement on a volcano, not only the size of the earthquake but also the rupture time , its dominant frequency and the radiating energy .
To analyze the effects of an earthquake on a volcano, the rupture time, its dominant frequency and the energy it radiates must be taken into account
"With this regional observation we come to the conclusion that an earthquake, no matter how large, is not capable of reactivate a volcano with very low activity and cause it to erupt. Earthquakes cannot trigger volcanic eruptions, but they can help those with high previous activity to do so ", clarifies the researcher from the University of Bari.
For Dmitri Rouwet, research co-author and researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy , the conclusions of this study are important for the disaster reduction : "We know that big earthquakes will happen. If we previously know the degree of activity of the volcanoes, we could know which volcanoes will erupt in the medium term ".
For this reason, "work must be done at the local and regional level to anticipate possible eruptions and, thereby, avoid loss of human and economic life," adds the expert.
González et al. "Increment in the volcanic unrest and number of eruptions after the 2012 large earthquakes sequence in Central America". Sci Rep
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Ecumenical Councils accepted by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Since her recognition as an Episcopate in 330 A.D., the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church - one of the most ancient church in Christendom - has been fulfilling her apostolic duties up to the present time.
Her doctrine is based on the teaching of the Ethiopian Eunuch, St. Matthew and other apostles. In addition, she accepted the canon and the decisions of the first three Ecumenical Councils, i.e., of Nicea in 325, Constantinople, in 381 and Ephesus in 431 and still is teaching their creed and serving the Lord to this day.
1. The Ecumenical Council of Nicea 325
As is known, the Nicean Council was called to oppose the heresy of Arius. Arius' teaching was based on "The Lord created me at the beginnigh of His work, the first of His act of old" (Prov. 8:22).
Taking the literal interpretation of this verse, Arius taught that God, the Son is a creature. The heresy of Arius originated from the Gnositc Lucian and Anthiochian heritics.Even if it could be said that fatherhood belongs ot God, He could not be the natural father but the adoptive father.
Among the heretical teachings of Arius was this: "There was a time when the Son, known as wisdom, was not; and there was an hour when He did not exist." Arius distorted verses to present God the Son as a creature and thus mislead the people".
Alexander, the Archbishop of Alexandria, made and effort to bring back Arius from his heretical teachings. But Arius kept firm. Yet, starting from 320 A.D. he was spreading openly his heretical teaching in every town. Archbishop Alexander called a local gathering of 100 bishops and presented Arius' heretical teaching. In addition he informed the assembly that he had advised Arius to desist from his heretical teaching in order no to raise a schism in the church and to resolve the problem in peace. The Synod, after examining the heretical teaching of Arius, and realizing that he would not repent, unanimously excommunicated him.
King Constantine sent his close and trusted friend, Hosius Episcopos of Spain, to Alexandria because of the problem. Having discussed the case with Archbishops Alexander and other Bishops, Hosius returned to Spain and informed the king that the matter could not be solved peacefully.
After Archbishop Alexander had notified Constantine by letter, that the matter should be dealt with by a synod, the emperor called a meeting of the synod.
On this basis, the meeting of the synod, which held its preparatory meeting from May 20 to June 13, was opened in Nicea in 325 with the attendance of several bishops and their assistants. Having thus prepared its agenda, the meeting was officially opened with a speech by the Emperor Constantine in the presence of 2000 participants.
The topics discussed by the synod were:
The heretical teaching of Arius
The decision of the Alexandria Synod which was led by Archbishop Alexander against the heresy of Arius.
The Synod, after discussing these matters, explained to Arius that all the biblical verses quoted by him and his followers against the divinity of God the Son were mistaken.
Thus, the fathers attending the Synod, made great effort to explain to Arius that Proverb 8:22 does not show that God the Son, Word of God, was not created like other creatures but begotten from the Father before the world was created.
They quoted from the Holy Bible and explained to him that God the Son, (the Logos) is God. The verses which show that Christ is the begotton Son of the Father are: Jn. 1:1-6, Jn. 10:30, Rom. 9:5, 1Jn.5:20, etc)
Then, the 318 Holy Fathers unanimously excommunicated Arius and condemned his teachings. In addition to this , they issued the Creed which confesses the divinity of the Son and they fixed the Canon Law of the church. The Creed which the 318 Nicean Fathers issued in 325 is the following:
"We believe in one God, God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, that which is visible and that which is invisible. And we believe in one Lord Jesus Christ the Only-Begotten Son of God, the Father who was with Him before the creation of the world, Light from Light, True God from True God, Begotten not created, consubstantial with the Father, through whom all things were made, and without Him was not anything made, things in heaven and things on earth, who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven: He was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Holy Virgin Mary: and He became man, and He was crucified for us under Pontus Pilate: He suffered, died and was buried, and on the third day He rose again from the dead, according to the Scriptures: He ascended to heaven; He sitteth at the right hand of the Father, He will come again in His glory to Judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end."
2. The Council of Constantinople
While Theodosius the first (The Great) was the emperor of Constantinople in 379, 'Timothy the Poor' was the Patriarch of Alexandria. And while Damasus was the Pope of Rome, Macedonius the Archbishop of Constantinople, denying the Godhead of the Holy Spirit, taught: "The Holy Spirit is not consubstantial with the Father and the Son in divinity. If the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father and was sent by the Father and the Son, and was a messenger, He is not equal with Them. Therefore, He is subordinate to Them."
Since this heresy had spread throughout the Eastern Churches, 150 Bishops were assembled in Constantinople in 381.
At this great Council, the Holy Fathers quoting from the Old and New Testaments promulgated, saying "Even though the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father, He is equal with the Father and the Son in nature, divinity and glory" (Ps. 33:6, Isa. 6:3, Acts. 28:25). After explaining this at great length, they ascertained the divinity of the Holy Spirit and they vehemently condemned Macedonius and his heretical teaching.
In the Nicean Creed, which was decided by the 318 Holy Fathers, they added an article concerning the divinity of the Holy Spirit. This article is:
"We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Life-giver, who proceeds from the Father; we worship and glorify Him with the Father and the Son, who spoke through the prophets; and in the one Holy Universal Apostolic Church. We confess one baptism for the remission of sins. We believe in the resurrection of the dead and their life in the world to come. Amen."
This was the unanimous promulgation of the 150 Fathers. From that time on, the Creed was called Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and was made to be recited in the daily prayer and liturgy by the whole congregations in all churches.
3. The Council of Ephesus
During the reign of Theodosius the second, St. Cyril was Patriarch of Alexandria in 412, and Celestine the first was the pope of Rome. Nestorius, the Anthiochian and disciple of Diodore of Tarsus, was entroned as Archbishop of Constantinople in 427 AD.
While Nestorius was Archbishop of Constantinople, there were several heretics who adhered to the teachings of Arius, Mancedonius and Apolinarius. Upon the request of Nestorius, the Emperor issued a decree dismissing the heretics from the city and condemning their teachings.
In the year after the decree, Anastasius the monk who was the secretary of Nestorius in the great cathedral of Constantinople, preached saying "It is true that the Virgin Mary gave birth to Christ in virginity and purity. But it is not right to call her the Mother of God (Theotokos), for God cannot be born from a human being. Therefore, we truly believe that she is the bearer of Christ the Man (Christotokos)".
At that time those who heard the new teaching became disturbed and opposition rose from every direction. The congregations asked Nestorius to tell the monk that he should correct his heretical teachings. But Nestorius refused to accept the requests for he knew that the heretical teaching was his own.
From that time on, Nestorius rejected the Only-Begotten Sonhood and divinity of Christ. And he spread his teaching in word and writing saying, "He who was born from Mary is a mere man. In him, the divinity or the Word of God dwelt and He is called Christ. Therefore, it is wrong to call Mary the Mother of God. But truly she must be called the mother of Christ and not the mother of God."
This heretical teaching of Nestorius spread everywhere. St Cyril of Alexandria on hearing this heretical teaching sent Nestorius an advisory letter for the first time in February 430. At the same time he wrote a letter to the Pope of Rome and to the other Archbishops of the Eastern and Western Churches explaining the danger inherent in the heresy. He also informed Emperor Theodosius about the matter.
Nestorius on his part wrote letters of opposition to those whom St Cyril had addressed. He forbade the priests and monks of his diocese from giving pastoral services and prohibited them from entering the church. However, they appealed to the Emperor and to St Cyril. Then St Cyril, without denouncing Nestorius, but condemning his heresy, sent Nestorius a serious letter and sent copies to the Emperor's office, to the concerned Archbishops and the Archmandirites of different monasteries. In these circumstances, St Cyril and Nestorius exchanged hostile letters for a year. Because Nestorius could not be stopped by any means from spreading his heresy; the Emperor, Pope Celestine the first, and Arch<|fim_middle|>, followed by St. Cyril's against the heresy of Nestorius and the twelve anathemas. On this basis, the heretical teachings of Nestorius were exposed at the synod as contradictory to the doctrine of the Holy Church.
On the other hand, the writings of St Cyril were unanimously accepted by the synod, since they proved to be the same with the teachings of the Holy Scriptures and the doctrine of the Church Fathers.
The synod, after condemning the heretical teaching of Nestorius against St Mary being the Mother of God. Issued the following: "That He who was born from the holy Virgin Mary is God and Mary truly is the Mother of God."
In addition to the participants of the council, the holy Archbishops and Bishops heard:
1. The content of the letters written by St Cyril to Nestorius which state "We believe that the Holy Virgin Mary is the Mother of God, the Logos"
2. The statement of the letter written by St Cyril to the Eastern Bishops which says "While Jesus Christ is God, He became man like us due to the flesh and soul that He took from the holy Virgin Mary; and He is one person and one nature in unity."
3. In the same letter it is stated "We must believe that the holy Virgin Mary is the Mother of God (Theotokos) and it is wrong to call her the mother of the man (Anthropotokos)."
4. in his letter again, he taught "it is not proper to reject the unity of the two natures in Christ based on our subjective viewpoints; and likewise we should not say that the holy Virgin Mary did not give birth to God the Son."
The participants of the council, holy Archbishops and Bishops approved the above mentioned teachings unanimously, and excommunicated Nestorius. The decisions of this great council was signed by Emperor Theodosius and distributed in all places. Moreover, the holy Fathers of the Third International Council also endorsed the Cannon Laws of the church.
All Churches accepted the decision on the doctrine and the Canon Law of these three International Councils, because the Council of Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus took place before the separation of the ancient Church concerning doctrine and Canon Law, and they give great honour to the councils. Especially the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Tewahido Church and its sister Churches such as the Coptic Orthodox, the Syrian Orthodox, the Armenian Orthodox and the Indian Orthodox Churches, fully accept the decisions of the three councils; for they practise the teaching of the Apostles and the canon law which was agreed by the three Councils.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church abides by the decisions, cannons and doctrines of the 318 Fathers of Nicaea, of the 150 Fathers of Constantinople and of the 200 Fathers of Ephesus and condemns those who were excommunicated by the three Councils. She also condemns Apollinarius who was excommunicated by the 2nd Council in Constantinople and Eutyches who was also excommunicated by the Councils of Ephesus.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church does not recognize and accept the councils which took place after the Council of Ephesus. Not only the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, but also our sister churches like the Coptic, the Syrian, the Indian and Armenian Orthodox churches, do not recognize and accept them.
Archbishop Yesehaq. (1997). The Ethiopian Tewahedo Church. Winston-Derek Pub | bishops of Eastern and Western Churches, agreed to call a synod and examine his heresy. It was decided to hold this in Ephesus in 431. About 200 archbishops and bishops attended the Ephesus Meeting. And Cyril was elected to be the chairman of the Synod.
The archbishop of Anthioch was invited to come with bishops who were under his diocese. But he failed to come on time, since he was a supporter of Nestorius. He was awaited for two weeks and he continued to give false explanations about his absence. It was then decided to start the synod in his absence. An invitation was again sent to Nestorius so that he could come and explain his belief. He was invited three time and because he was unwilling to attend, the synod started its discussion in his absence. The documents containing the heresy of Nestorius were read first | 187 |
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Following its first instalment last May, the NARA Under-35 Interclub Championship officially kicked off the 2018-2019 season with little pomp or circumstance at the Montreal Racket Club. MRC Pro Dan Fisher organized a loaded round robin schedule that saw each doubles pair play 6 matches throughout the tournament, a test of endurance for this mostly "out before the stag" crowd. With no black tie stag dinners or balls on the slate, the focus for all was clear: chase glory, on and off the court.
And so began the tournament, with gallery cheering and mostly jeering, the sound of balls cracking against the four walls, propelled by both string and frame throughout. The legendary Montreal-Boston rivalry began the tournament, with each team's A pair facing off against the B's. Interestingly, Frazer Anderson, a true blue-and-gold-in-his-veins Montreal member played for the Boston side this weekend, adding some spice to these highly entertaining matches.
Following the matches on Friday night, the group enjoyed pizza and copious libations in the club, and notions of rest before the next day's matches were quickly dispelled. NARA has a reputation to uphold, after all, and this next generation of touring racketeers soldiered on to the wee hours at Kampai Garden, a venue that is certainly not unfamiliar to CanAm participants. Brian Rassel's dance moves led the way for the group, while New York fellow Toby Calder saw fit to ditch the "old guys" in his quest for love. An especially foolish few gathered at Charles Vennat's apartment after the bars stopped serving for some cleansing ales, dispersing only once they were well past their bedtimes.
Saturday's matches kicked off bright and early, though perhaps too early for some. A fresh-faced New York A squad, the strongest pair of the tournament, was on the court knocking up as poor Stephen Merwin tried to locate his partner. As readers of this screed will likely have guessed, the New York pair avoided the previous evening's follies, while Mr. Merwin's partner certainly did not. Unsuccessful, Stephen resorted to playing an exhibition match paired with Charles Vennat, host of the previous evening's after-party. Readers can likely guess the outcome of that match, too.
Despite the Curious Case of the Missing Bostonian, the tournament continued without a hitch. Tight matches were played throughout the day as participants alternated between naps, Bloody Caesars and furious rallies on the court. Short on sleep, all were fuelled by a good dose of club pride and, of course, the legendary Schwartz's smoked meat sandwiches for lunch. Matches continued on until dinner as<|fim_middle|> roars of laughter.
Club Manager Robert Zietek must have been pleased when this well lubricated crowd finally headed out, costumed and all, to New City Gas to continue the festivities. Thanks to Steven Chamandy's organizational prowess, the group was brought up to their table, adorned with every bottle of alcohol imaginable and surrounded by excellent company. The revelry continued until the wee hours, with the boys and their companions once again heading to Charles Vennat's apartment for more cleansing ales.
It should be noted that though the New York squad had already been crowned champions, the dedicated participants played their Sunday morning matches as if everything were still on the line. Given the previous night's activities, this dogged determination is worthy of mention!
Congratulation are in order to the champions of the Second Annual NARA Under-35 Interclub Championships from the New York Racquet & Tennis Club. In a popular vote, Charles Vennat was crowned the weekend's MVP, and was assured that it had nothing to do with his performance on the court.
Thank you to the MRC's Robert Zietek and Dan Fisher for organizing a wonderful tournament, and to Charlie "George" Elmitt for his (questionable) marking efforts. | some of the boys left to pick up some last minute Halloween costumes, punctuated by a fantastic cocktail match between Steven Chamandy & Ben Belec vs Charles Buaron & Phil Stockton. The latter pair narrowly defeated the Montreal bunch in extra points, energizing the gallery in the process. This victory was enough to clinch the championship for the New York team, which saw its A pair go undefeated throughout the tournament.
Saturday night's Japanese themed dinner provided just enough of an excuse for the boys to decide that sake bombs would be an appropriate evening beverage, and the group certainly did consume its fair share of rice wine. Many even donned Asian robes purchased in Chinatown, further adding to the ambiance. Having consumed a wonderful meal with more than ample portions, the raconteurs stood and entertained the group. Frazer Anderson's famously unsavoury jokes hit the mark to be sure, however even he was no match for Austin Marks, who drew both the lengthiest and loudest | 197 |
This is a try at the 90%<|fim_middle|> of these the other day, really really good bread.....and easy as its very hands off for most of it. | biga loaf. While the oven spring was not great, not bad just not great the resulting loaf was light and airy with a open moist crumb. The flavor and aromas were top shelf. I cut the pictured loaf while still a tiny bit warm, because the aroma just became too much to resist. I ate almost half the loaf with some fresh made butter in one sitting. I'm not proud of myself, but it is what it is. LOL!!!
with a crumb that looks like that! Well done!
Biga: 900 grams of bread flour + 405 ml water + 3 grams of instant yeast or 90 gr sourdough. Disolve the yeast in water. Add flour. Mix 1 minute at slow speed, just until you get wet flour threads. We don't want to develope gluten in this stage. Let the biga mature 14-16 hours at 14-16 degrees celsius inside the same mixer bowl, covered with kitchen rag.
Final dough: All the biga + 100 grams stoneground flour + 300 ml warm water + 20 gr salt.
I used the 90 grams of sourdough starter in my bake.
Bulk fermentation: around 1 hour.
Divide and preshape. Let rest 30 minutes.
Looks like a great loaf to make when you need something for the next day!
i made one | 297 |
Crystel and Toufic came over Beirut to have their wedding in Sifnos. Two wonderful people among many family relatives and good friends ready to enjoy every single moment of this three day crazy party that followed.
Wedding Ceremony took place in the Church of Crysopigi and the wedding party was mind blowing! It took place in the famous Lazarou beach, I am sure that the photos on this post prove it! But it was not only the party..it was a full day of emotion and beauty.
The planning from one of the top Greek Wedding Planners in Greece, Mrs. Vasso Vantali from My Best Wishes Events was remarkable and created a beautiful atmosphere.
And this is the point that I feel the need to thank a few people, who were next to me those days in Sifnos and helped so much. First of all as I mentioned Mrs.Vasso Vantali and her amazing team members; Gregory, Ch<|fim_middle|> Greece again or Lebanon and spend more time together! You were amazing and always stay crazy in love for the rest of your lives!
Let`s roll the post….and they lived happily ever after! | rysa and Irene, the great team of Diapason DJ planning, the wonderful wedding videographer Mr. Nikos Fragoulis and last but not least my second shooter on that day Mr. Marios Valmas.
Before I leave you enjoy the blog post of the wedding day, I should say a big Thank You to our amazing couple Crystel and Toufic, their families and their friends for their hospitality and their kindness!
My friends I really hope to see you soon in | 98 |
Today we welcome back the fabulous<|fim_middle|> cupid's curly hair.
Follow the steps above, then stick the cupid to a popsicle stick and use clear tape (or a rubber band) to add a chocolate bar or any other suitable treat to the popsicle.
Gift it to your lucky valentine!
Follow the steps 1-6 from this tutorial, then glue your chunky friend to an A4 card folded in half to make your 3D Valentine's card. Personalise the card as you wish and add a little message to make your valentine's heart skip a beat.
As an idea to decorate your classroom for February, you could let the kids make their cupid and place them all together to make a beautiful Valentine's day display that shows the diversity of your classroom. If the children ask for glitter say you ran out. Just kidding! Remind yourself how much you love your students and give them all the glitter!
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A set of animal-shaped numbers that comes as Flashcards, A4 Posters and Colouring Pages to help you with early numeracy activities in five different languages.
Template and instructions for a crafty game where the children come up with ideas of round-shaped things that have a specific colour.
A crafty activity where kids use their creativity and random materials to finish the incomplete bodies of different animals. | Box of Ideas! And once again he has created the most adorable Valentine's Printable for you today! The best thing? Not only are these Paper Cupid Gift ideas adorable, but you can use the printable in 4 different ways – as a treat, a bookmark, a Valentine's Card or a classroom display. SO CUTE!
Hello! I am Rodrigo Macias, the Early Childhood Educator behind Box of Ideas, a website full of fresh activities and inspiration for outstanding early childhood education.
I am happy to be back on Red Ted Art for the second time in their fantastic love series. Last year's idea was for pets, and this year's craft is more focused on Preschool children but can also be done outside of the classroom since the craft is so darn cute and easy to make.
This Valentine's day craft is a good fine motor skills activity for kindergarten children because it uses scissors for simple cutting and the way to curl cupid's hair helps kids to work on their pencil grip.
The activity can also be linked to the literacy aspect of the curriculum if you encourage the children to write "Mum", "Dad", etc. or their own name (or the first letter of their name) in the cupid's heart.
A copy of the free printable by Box of Ideas.
Favor: For the Valentine's day candy favor: a popsicle stick, tape (or a rubber band) and a yummy treat (like a chocolate bar).
Card: For the Valentine's 3D cupid card: a sheet of A4 card.
Display: For the Valentine's cupid-themed classroom display: a board on the wall!
Colour in your cupid buddy.
Cut out the cupid and add colour to the back part of its hair.
Make cuts following the dotted line.
Use one of the coloured pencils or anything else around that is cylindrical and slim to roll | 373 |
Alexander Robinson knocked a header between the legs of Crew keeper William Hesmer in the second minute of second-half stoppage time to push Saprissa to a 1-1 tie with the Crew.
Robinson also pushed down Crew midfielder Brian Carroll to get free on the play, which began with a free kick taken by Walter Centeno. Referee Mauricio Morales<|fim_middle|> quarterfinals with a win at home against Cruz Azul coupled with a Crew loss at Puerto Rico. | whistled 45 fouls in the game, but not that one.
The Crew's Robbie Rogers scored on a penalty kick in the first half.
The Crew had hoped to clinch a spot in the quarterfinals with a victory. Instead, it will hope to do so with a win or tie at Puerto Rico on Oct. 20 or a Cruz Azul victory at Saprissa.
"It�s the disappointment that comes from giving up a late goal," Crew forward Alejandro Moreno said. "That�s always tough, that�s always frustrating. We have to go get a result in Puerto Rico. We look forward to that challenge."
The Crew outshot Saprissa 15-8 and dominated much of the game. It weathered Saprissa's pressure in the second half until Eric Brunner, who has had a forgettable Champions League, committed the foul that led to Centeno's free kick and Robinson's goal.
"It's live or die at the moment so we just tried to score," Saprissa coach Jeaustin Campos said.
Saprissa can clinch a spot in the | 227 |
I live now in a city that is just a few cities over from the city in which I spent my youth. It<|fim_middle|> change in time, a totally new and uncharted season. Almost unbearably sweet, like a too-ripe summer peach. | 's part of a group of cities known as "Downriver," meaning that it's south of, or down the river from, the city of Detroit. I guess I don't write about that much because unless you are from Michigan, or more specifically metro Detroit, it wouldn't matter. Even some people from certain metro Detroit cities don't know where Downriver is or know the cities that make it up, but they might think of the area as working class, where a steel mill once thrived, where post-war simple homes erupted and housed the masses. It's that, but more.
Some people wear their upbringing here like a badge; others are ashamed of it. I knew I'd leave here and I did, but I came back. I'm neither proud or ashamed. I don't really feel connected here, though. It's the lake I feel in my soul.
My allegiance is to Lake Michigan; my sense of home is the feeling of sand under my feet.
It's Friday night and I drove home from a friend's house thinking about lacking this sense of home and of my upbringing, with my windows down, my moonroof open, music playing. If you don't let the wind push your hair around or make you have goosebumps on your arms on a summer night, I'm not sure we can be friends. Let yourself feel some wind on your skin, and sing in your car. I don't like to tell people what they should do, but do that.
Anyway. I have said many times in my life that I feel unmoored, trying to gain my footing. I have family, but I don't have a great sense of my ancestry. I identify more with my dad's side of the family, Italians, but I don't know for sure why. I'm a lot like my mother (English, mostly) and also her sister. I feel like I should connect more with that. Will I know myself better by finding a sense of home in my ancestry? I'm not sure. And, have I created a sense of home, of attachment to place of some sort, for my children? I worry I haven't. Will they know who they are, create their own sense of home?
A friend I care very much about told me today that I live in a world that is "fuzzy around the edges, fireflies, everything lavender, dreamy and lovely." I will tell her how much that means to me, because that indeed is the world I want to live in. No hard edges. Full of love and good stuff. Sounds like a perfect home to me.
Summer is waning. This is the first year I don't have a child starting school of some sort in the fall. This in itself feels like a huge shift, a | 565 |
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\section{Introduction}
Consider the wave equation on a Riemannian manifold $X:$
$$
\Box u=0\text{ on } \RR\times X
$$
where $\Box=D_t^2-\Lap_g,$
$$
\Lap_g=\sum \frac{1}{\sqrt{g}} D_j g^{jk} \sqrt{g} D_k
$$
and $D_j\equiv i^{-1} \pa_{x_j}$.
If $X$ happens to be an odd dimensional Euclidean space, then \emph{Huygens' Principle} applies, i.e.,
the solution
$$
\cos t\sqrt{\Lap} \delta_q
$$
which has initial data a delta-function (and initial derivative zero)
is supported exactly on sphere of radius $\abs{t}.$ In even space
dimensions, or on a general odd dimensional manifold, this principle
is well known to fail, but quite a nice proxy for it persists: we in
general have
$$
\singsupp u(t) \subset \big\{p:\ \text{there exists a geodesic of length } \abs{t} \text{ with endpoints }p,q\big\}.
$$
(Recall that the singular support of a distribution is the set of points near which is it not locally a smooth function.)
A more precise result yet is the refinement of this statement to deal
with the \emph{wavefront set} of the distribution $u;$ $\WF u$ is a
conic closed subset of $T^*X$ such that $\pi \WF u=\singsupp u.$ H\"ormander's
rather general theorem \cite{Hormander9} on propagation of
singularities tells us in this special case that for a solution $u$ of
the wave equation, $\WF u$ is invariant
under the (forward and backward) geodesic flow on $T^*X.$ Thus the
initial wavefront given by (the lift to the light cone of)
$N^* \{q\}$ then spreads into the conormal bundle of expanding
distance spheres.
Generalizing this result to manifolds with boundary (with Dirichlet or
Neumann boundary conditions) turns out be a rather complicated story.
Chazarain \cite{Ch:73} showed that singularities striking the boundary
transversely simply reflect according to the usual law of geometric
optics (conservation of energy and tangential momentum, hence ``angle
of incidence equals angle of reflection'') for the reflection of
bicharacteristics. The difficulties arise, however, in the treatment
of geodesics tangent to the boundary: in \cite{Melrose-Sjostrand1} and
\cite{Melrose-Sjostrand2} Melrose--Sj\"ostrand showed that, at
these ``glancing points,'' singularities may only propagate along certain
generalized bicharacteristics. By parametrix constructions of Melrose
\cite{Melrose14} and Taylor \cite{Taylor1}, these $\CI$ singularities
do \emph{not} propagate along concave boundaries (e.g.\ they do not
``stick'' to the exterior of a convex obstacle). Note that this last
<|fim_middle|>dy)$---this is a computation of
Cheeger--Taylor \cite{Cheeger-Taylor1}, \cite{Cheeger-Taylor2}
involving bravura use of the Hankel transform. In particular, we
can evaluate the symbol of the diffracted wavefront explicitly in that
case. More generally, in \cite{Melrose-Wunsch1} the author and
Melrose prove that near a cone point, the diffracted front of the wave
propagator is guaranteed to be a conormal distribution. The first new
step is therefore to show that in the non-product case, the principal
symbol of the diffracted front is still, modulo adjustments involving
comparing half-densities on the two spaces, given by the same
expression as in the product case where we use the model metric
$dx^2+x^2 h\rvert_{x=0} (y,dy).$ This involves comparing the two
propagators and showing that the difference
between model and exact propagators can be estimated by a
\emph{Morawetz inequality} near the cone tip.
Having understood the effect of a single diffraction, we then proceed
as follows. We take a microlocal partition of unity $A_j$ on $X,$
where for technical reasons the $A_j$ are restricted to be simply
cutoff functions near each boundary component $Y_i$ but are otherwise
fully localized in phase space.
We then decompose the wave trace as follows: fix
small times $t_j$ with $\sum t_j=T.$ Then by cyclicity of the trace
$$
\Tr U(t) = \sum_{i_0,\dots, i_{N}}\Tr \sqrt{A_{i_0}} U(t-T)A_{i_1} U(t_1) A_{i_2}\dots
A_{t_{N}} U(t_N) \sqrt{A_{i_0}}.
$$
By propagation of singularities, this term is guaranteed to be trivial
unless there is a diffractive geodesic successively passing through
the microsupports of the $A_{i_j}$'s, hence we may throw away most of
this sum. The remaining terms are then computed by a stationary
phase computation, gluing together the propagators for ``free''
propagation through $X^\circ$ with those for the diffractive
interaction with cone points (this was the same strategy previously
used by Hillairet in \cite{Hillairet:2005} as well as by the author in
\cite{Wunsch2}).
\section{Lower bounds for resonances}
While $\Tr U(t)$ only makes sense (even distributionally) on a \emph{compact}
manifold, if we return to the setting of Section~\ref{section:BW}
where we have a \emph{noncompact} manifold with Euclidean ends, we may still
make sense of an appropriately \emph{renormalized} wave trace, and use
the diffractive trace formula (Theorem~\ref{theorem:FoWu}) to obtain
lower bounds on resonances.
In odd dimensions, we let $\mathcal{A}$ denote the generator of
the wave group, and hence $e^{t \mathcal{A}}$ the wave group itself;
likewise we let $\mathcal{A}_0$ be the generator of the wave group on Euclidean space.
We
then have the trace formula
\begin{equation}\label{traceres}
\Tr (e^{t \mathcal{A}} -e^{t \mathcal{A}_0}) = \sum_{\lambda_j \in \Res} e^{-i \lambda_j t},\ t
> 0
\end{equation}
where the sum is over the resonances, counted with multiplicity (see
e.g. \cite{Sjostrand-Zworski5} for the details of how to makes sense of
this difference of operators in a wide variety of contexts).
This result in various settings was first proved by Bardos-Guillot-Ralston \cite{Bardos-Guillot-Ralston1}, Melrose
\cite{MR83j:35128}, and Sj\"ostrand-Zworski \cite{Sjostrand-Zworski5};
an analogous result in even dimensions can be found in \cite{Zw:99}.
Now if we can actually guarantee the existence of singularities in the (renormalized) wave
trace, a Tauberian theorem of Sj\"ostrand-Zworski
\cite{Sjostrand-Zworski3} allows us to deduce from \eqref{traceres} in
a lower bound on the number of resonances in logarithmic
regions in $\CC.$ Fortunately, Theorem~\ref{theorem:FoWu} applies
equally well in this context, and we obtain a lower bound on the
number of resonances as follows.
Let
$$
N_\rho(r) =\# \{\text{Resonances in } \smallabs{\lambda}<r,\
\Im \lambda \geq -\rho \log \smallabs{\Re{\lambda}}\}.
$$
Then we have:
\begin{theorem}[Hillairet--Wunsch]\label{theorem:HiWu}
Under the geometric assumptions of Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu}, let $L$
be the length of a closed, strictly diffractive geodesic $\gamma$
undergoing $k$ diffractions. Assume, in
the notation of Theorem~\ref{theorem:FoWu}, that all the diffraction
coefficients $\mathcal{D}_j$ are nonzero along $\gamma;$ assume also that there are no closed diffractive geodesics
beside iterates of this one having length in $L\NN.$ Then for all $\ep>0,$
$$
N_\rho(\rho)\geq C_{\rho,\epsilon} r^{1-\epsilon}
$$
provided
$$
\rho > \frac{(n-1)k}{2L}
$$
\end{theorem}
A detailed proof, which simply consists of using the trace formula
(Theorem~\ref{theorem:FoWu}) in \eqref{traceres} together with the
Tauberian theorem of \cite{Sjostrand-Zworski3}, can be found in
\cite{Ga:15}. Note that the bound on $\rho$ written here is that
which we obtain by considering the whole sequence of singularities of
the wave trace obtained by considering arbitrary \emph{iterates} of
the geodesic $\gamma.$ We remark that the distinction between the
trace of the full wave group and $\Tr U(t)$ is immaterial for this
purpose since the former is twice the real part of the latter, and it
is not difficult to verify from examination of \eqref{symbol} that the
singularities arising from iterates of a given geodesic cannot all be
purely imaginary.
The optimal $\rho$ here is generally obtained by choosing $\gamma$
to be the geodesic that
traverses the longest geodesic segment connecting a pair of distinct cone
points, back and forth (assuming the diffraction coefficients are
nonvanishing). If
$D_{\text{max}}$ denotes the greatest distance between a pair of cone points, then we
have a closed geodesic of length $2 D_{\text{max}}$ with $k=2,$ and we
obtain the bound
$$
\rho > \frac{(n-1)}{2D_{\text{max}}}.
$$
Remarkably, this theorem is essentially sharp, as was shown by
Galkowski, who has produced an effective version of the Vainberg
argument previously employed in \cite{BaWu:13}:
\begin{theorem}[Galkowski \cite{Ga:15}]
Let $D_{\text{max}}$ be the greatest distance between two cone points. For any
$\epsilon>0$ the
constant $\rho$ in Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu} can be taken to be
$(n-1)/(2D_{\text{max}})-\epsilon,$ i.e.\ $N_\rho(r)$ is \emph{bounded} for all $\rho<(n-1)/2D_{\text{max}}.$
\end{theorem}
Since $N_\rho$ is bounded for $\rho<(n-1)/2D_{\text{max}}$ and (subject to the
nondegeneracy hypotheses of Theorem~\ref{theorem:HiWu}) almost linearly
growing for $\rho>(n-1)/2D_{\text{max}},$ we find that in any set near the
critical curve $\Im\lambda=-((n-1)/2D_{\text{max}}) \log \smallabs{\Re
\lambda}$ of the form
$$
\big(-\frac{n-1}{2D_{\text{max}}}-\ep\big) \log \smallabs{\Re
\lambda}<\Im \lambda<\big(-\frac{n-1}{2D_{\text{max}}}+\ep\big)
\log \smallabs{\Re \lambda},\quad \abs{\lambda}>\ep^{-1}
$$
there are infinitely many resonances. The intuition behind the
importance of the longest geodesic connecting two cone points is that
repeatedly traversing this segment back and forth is the way in which
a trapped singularity can diffract \emph{least frequently}. Since each
diffraction loses considerable energy owing to the smoothing effect of
diffraction, a resonant state propagating back and forth along this
geodesic is the one that loses energy to infinity at the
slowest rate.
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| result ceases to be true in the analytic, rather than smooth,
category.
A simple summary of some of the fundamental results in the subject is provided by Figure~\ref{figure:fundamental}.
\begin{figure}[bth]\label{figure:fundamental}
\includegraphics[scale=1.3,angle=-90]{obstacle3.pdf}\caption{Singularities
of the fundamental solution of the wave equation exterior to a convex obstacle.}\end{figure}
This figure shows the singularities of the fundamental solution the
wave equation in the exterior of a convex obstacle in the plane.
There is (part of) a circular front of directly propagated
singularities as well as a curved front of singularities reflected off
the obstacle in accordance with Snell's law. Most crucially,
\emph{there are no singularities behind the obstacle} in the ``shadow
region,'' as a consequence of the parametrix construction of Melrose and Taylor.
By contrast, it has been known since the late 19th century (starting
with work of Sommerfeld \cite{Sommerfeld1}) that if the obstacle has a
sharp corner, singularities \emph{do} propagate, i.e., \emph{diffract,}
into the shadow region behind the obstacle. Figure~\ref{figure:wedge}
shows the fundemental solution of the wave equation in the exterior of
a wedge; we can easily see a circular wave of singularities emanating
from the tip of the wedge and giving rise to singularities in the
shadow region.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{wedge-edited.pdf}\caption{Singularities
of the fundamental solution of the wave equation exterior to a
wedge. \label{figure:wedge}}\end{figure}
As alluded to above, general boundaries present special difficulties
of their own, so in order to study the diffraction phenomenon in a
simple setting, we now mostly set aside this class of manifolds, and focus on
\emph{manifolds with conic singularities} where wave equation
solutions will exhibit diffraction, but the geometry of geodesics is
relatively manageable.
\section{Conic geometry}
We define a \emph{conic manifold}
to be a manifold $X$ (of dimension $n$) with boundary $Y=\pa X,$ and a Riemannian metric
on $X^\circ$ such that in terms of some boundary defining function $x$
we have in a collar neighborhood of $Y,$
$$
g=dx^2 +x^2 h
$$
where $h$ is a smooth symmetric 2-cotensor such that $h|_{Y}$ is a
metric on $Y.$ Note in particular that $g$ degenerates at $\pa X$ so
as not to be a metric uniformly up to the boundary.
The upshot is that while $X$ looks like a manifold with boundary from
the point of view of $\CI$ structure, it is metrically a manifold with
conic singularities: from the point of view of metric geometry, if we
write the connected components of the boundary as
$$
Y=\bigsqcup Y_i
$$
then each boundary component $Y_i$ should be viewed as a \emph{cone
point}. (See Figure~\ref{figure:conicgeometry}.)
\begin{figure}[bth]
\includegraphics[scale=.2,angle=-90]{conicmfld.pdf}
\includegraphics[scale=.2,angle=-90]{conicmfld2.pdf}
\caption{Smooth structure, and Riemannian picture of $X$ \label{figure:conicgeometry}}
\end{figure}
The conic manifold as defined here should thus be viewed as a manifold
with conic singularities \emph{already equipped} with the blow-up that
has desingularized it to a smooth manifold with boundary. Here the
cost of having a smooth manifold is of course having a degenerate metric.
A very special case of a conic manifold is that of a surface
obtained by gluing together two copies of the interior (or exterior)
of a polygonal planar domain along their common edges. This gives a
flat surface with cone points where the polygon had vertices. The
study of the wave equation on the original domains with Dirichlet/Neumann
conditions is equivalent to the study of odd/even solutions of the wave equation on the
doubled manifold---see Hillairet \cite{Hillairet:2005}.
The behavior of geodesics on conic manifolds is of considerable
interest near the cone point. The crucial observation is that it is
in fact quite hard to aim a geodesic so as to hit the cone point: most
will pass nearby and miss. Indeed, starting out near the cone point,
there is a unique direction to aim in, in order to reach a nearby cone point.
\begin{proposition}[Melrose--Wunsch \cite{Melrose-Wunsch1}]
Every $y \in Y=\pa X$ is the endpoint of a unique geodesic; these
geodesics foliate a collar neighborhood of $Y$:
\end{proposition}
This is equivalent to a normal-form statement for the metric: we can
find coordinates so that $h=h(x,y,dy)$ has no $dx$ components, and
thus the curves $x=x_0 \pm t, y=y_0$ are unit-speed geodesics.
A crucial point in trying to make sense of propagation of singularites
is to make a reasonable definition of the continuation of a geodesic
that reaches a cone point. There are two reasonable candidates for
this definition, one more restrictive than the other, and both play a
role here:
\begin{definition} We define geodesics passing through $\bigsqcup Y_j \equiv \pa X$ as follows:
\begin{itemize}
\item A \emph{diffractive geodesic} is a geodesic which, upon reaching
the boundary component $Y_i$ along a geodesic ending at a point
$y\in Y_i,$ immediately then leaves the boundary from some point $y'
\in Y_i.$
\item A \emph{geometric geodesic} is a geodesic which, upon reaching
the boundary component $Y_i$ along a geodesic ending at a point
$y\in Y_i,$ immediately then leaves the boundary from some point $y'
\in Y_i$ such that $y,y'$ are endpoints of a geodesic \emph{in $Y_i$}
(w.r.t.\ the metric $h|_{Y_i})$ of length $\pi.$
\item A \emph{strictly diffractive} geodesic is one which is
diffractive but not geometric.
\end{itemize}
\end{definition}
A more intuitive definition of geometric geodesics is as follows: they
are the geodesics that are \emph{locally approximable} by families of geodesics in
$X^\circ$. We refer the reader to \cite{Melrose-Wunsch1} for more
detail on these definitions.
\section{Propagation of singularities on conic manifolds}
Consider now solutions to the wave equation on a manifold with conic
singularities. We always employ the \emph{Friedrichs extension} of
the Laplacian acting on $\mathcal{C}_c^\infty(X^\circ).$
(This stipulation is important only in dimension two, where $\Lap$ is not
essentially self-adjoint.)
We now can (roughly) state the following:
\begin{theorem}[Melrose--Wunsch \cite{Melrose-Wunsch1}]
Singularities for solutions to the wave equation propagate along diffractive geodesics; strictly
diffractive geodesics generically propagate \emph{weaker}
singularities than geometric geodesics.
\end{theorem}
The genericity condition is that the incident singularities not be
precisely \emph{focused} on the cone tip and applies, e.g., to Cauchy data
that are conormal with respect to a manifold that is at most simply
tangent to the hypersurfaces at constant distance from a cone tip. In
this case---and in particular for the fundamental solution---we
find that \emph{the diffracted wave for the fundamental solution is
$(n-1)/2-\epsilon$ derivatives smoother than the main wavefront,}
where $n$ is the dimension of $X.$
We remark that this result has been subsequently generalized to cover
the cases of manifolds with incomplete edge singularities \cite{MVW1},
as well as manifolds with corners \cite{Va:04}, \cite{MeVaWu:13}.
The rest of this paper is essentially applications and extensions of this result in various contexts.
\section{Local energy decay on conic manifolds with Euclidean ends}\label{section:BW}
Consider now a noncompact $n$-manifold $X$ with ends that are
Euclidean. We will consider solutions to the wave equation
$$
\Box u=0
$$
on $X$ with compactly supported Cauchy data in the energy space.
If $X$ is a smooth manifold, it has long been known that the decay of
local energy can be obstructed by the trapping of geodesics; recall
that a geodesic is said to be forward- or backward-\emph{trapped} if
it remains in a compact set as $t \to \pm \infty.$ Classic work of
Lax--Philips \cite{Lax-Phillips1} and Morawetz \cite{Morawetz:Decay}
shows that, for odd $n,$ absence of trapping implies exponential local
energy decay; on the other hand, results starting with Ralston
\cite{Ralston:Localized} show that trapping of rays implies that
exponential local energy decay cannot hold. The usual line of
reasoning in obtaining such estimates involves obtained bounds on the
\emph{cutoff resolvent}
$$
\chi (\Lap-\lambda^2)^{-1} \chi,\quad \chi \in \mathcal{C}_c^\infty.
$$
It is well known that in odd dimensions this operator can be
meromorphically continued from $\Im \lambda>0$ to $\CC,$ and its poles
are known as \emph{resonances}. Exponential local energy decay is
then obtained by showing that no resonances lie in some \emph{strip}
$\Im \lambda>-\nu,$ $\nu>0$ (and that the resolvent has an upper bound
with polynomial growth in this strip).
The situation with conic manifolds is thus interesting for the
following reason: as soon as we have more than one cone point (or,
indeed,\footnote{The author is grateful to Yves Colin de Verdi\`ere
for pointing out this possibility. In practice, it seems hard to create an
interesting example of a non-simply connected manifold where the
\emph{only} trapping is a strictly diffractive geodesic of this form. On the other hand one may probably add a complex absorbing
potential to the problem to destroy other trapping and create
non-simply connected examples.} at least one
cone point if the manifold is non-simply connected) there must be trapped
diffractive geodesics: we can simply continue traversing geodesics
connecting the various cone points. An example of particular interest
is (the double of) a domain exterior to one or more polygons in $\RR^2$: diffractive
geodesics can move along edges of one polygon and also along lines
connecting vertices of two different polygons.
To what degree, one wonders, does this obstruct energy decay? The
following theorem (which answers affirmatively a conjecture of
Chandler-Wilde--Graham--Langdon--Spence~\cite{CWGLS:2012} for
polygonal exterior domains) shows that the obstruction is very minor:
\begin{theorem}[Baskin--Wunsch \cite{BaWu:13}]\label{theorem:BaWu}
Assume that no three cone points in $X$ are collinear and no two are
conjugate. Assume that geodesics missing the cone points escape to
infinity at a uniform rate.
For $\chi \in \CcI(X),$ there exists $\delta>0$ such that the cut-off resolvent
$$
\chi (\Lap-\lambda^2)^{-1}\chi
$$
can be analytically continued from $\Im \lambda >0$ to the region
$$
\Im \lambda >-\rho \log \smallabs{\Re \lambda},\ \smallabs{Re \lambda} >\rho^{-1}
$$
and for some $C,T>0$ enjoys the estimate
$$
\norm{\chi (\Lap-\lambda^2)^{-1}\chi}_{L^{2}\to L^{2}} \leq C
\smallabs{\lambda}^{-1} e^{T\smallabs{\Im \lambda}}
$$
in this region.
\end{theorem}
We contrast this with the the standard result for smooth non-trapping
perturbations of Euclidean space. In that case the methods of Vainberg
\cite{Vainberg:Asymptotic} and Lax--Phillips \cite{Lax-Phillips1} yield precisely the \emph{same}
resolvent estimate on $\RR$ and a slightly stronger result on
resonance-free regions: \emph{any} region of the form $\Im \lambda>-\rho \smallabs{\log \Re
\lambda}$ is free of resonances outside a large disc. Thus
the effect of diffractive trapping by cone points is extremely
weak. Previous results in this direction include energy decay results of \cite{Cheeger-Taylor2}, Section
6, in certain special cases of conic singularities; analogous results
for multiple inverse square potentials were previously proved by
Duyckaerts \cite{Duyckaerts1}. Burq \cite{Burq:Coin} gave a
precise description of the resonances in the closely related case of
two convex analytic domains in the plane, one of which has a corner
facing the other. The
diffractive trajectory here bounces back and forth between the corner
and the other obstacle, and Burq showed the associated resonances lie
along a family of logarithmic curves.
We now briefly describe some results on evolution equations that follow from Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu}.
We let $\mathcal{D}_s$ denote the
domain of $\Lap^{s/2}$ (hence locally just $H^s$ away from cone points) and let
$\sin t\sqrt\Lap/\sqrt\Lap$ be the wave propagator. Let $\chi$ equal $1$
on the set where $X$ is not isometric to $\RR^n.$ In odd dimensions,
the resolvent is a meromorphic function of $\lambda\in \CC$ (with no
difficulties at $\lambda=0$) so in this case
Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu} shows that there are only finitely many
resonances in any horizontal strip in $\CC.$ This enables us to show
the following by a contour deformation argument:
\begin{corollary}\label{corollary:resexp}
Let $n$ be odd. Under the assumptions of Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu}, for all $A>0,$
small $\ep>0,$ $t>0$ sufficiently large, and $f \in
\mathcal{D}_1,$
$$
\chi \frac{\sin t\sqrt{\Lap}}{\sqrt{\Lap}} \chi f= \sum_{\substack{\lambda_j \in \Res(\Lap) \\ \Im \lambda
>-A}}\sum_{m=0}^{M_j} e^{-it \lambda_j} t^m w_{j,m} + E_A(t) f
$$
where the sum is of resonances of $\Lap,$ i.e.\ over the poles of the
meromorphic continuation of the resolvent, and the $w_{j,m}$ are the
associated resonant states corresponding to $\lambda_j.$
The error satisfies
$$
\norm{E_A(t)}_{\mathcal{D}_{1}\to L^{2}} \leq C_\ep e^{-(A-\ep)t}.
$$
In particular, since the resonances have imaginary part bounded above by a
negative constant, $\chi \frac{\sin t\sqrt{\Lap}}{\sqrt{\Lap}} \chi f$ is
exponentially decaying in this case.
\end{corollary}
Another corollary is a local smoothing estimate for the Schr\"odinger
equation. As it comes from the resolvent estimate on $\RR,$ this is
again lossless as compared to the situation on free $\RR^n$:
\begin{corollary}
\label{corollary:local-smoothing}
Suppose $u$ satisfies the Schr{\"o}dinger equation on $X$:
\begin{align*}
i^{-1}\pa_t u(t,z) + \Lap u(t,z) &= 0 \\
u(0,z) &= u_{0}(z)\in L^{2}(X)
\end{align*}
Under the assumptions of Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu}, for all $\chi \in C^{\infty}_{c}(X)$, $u$ satisfies the local smoothing estimate without loss:
\begin{equation*}
\int_{0}^{T}\norm{\chi u(t) }_{\mathcal{D}_{1/2}}^{2}\, dt \leq
C_{T} \norm{u_{0}}_{L^2}^{2}.
\end{equation*}
\end{corollary}
The elements of the proof of Theorem~\ref{theorem:BaWu} are twofold.
The first step is to show that a \emph{very weak Huygens principle}
holds. We recall that in nontrapping manifolds, a solution to the
wave equation with compactly supported initial data is eventually
\emph{smooth}---this is the usual ``weak Huygens principle.'' Here we show instead that the solution eventually gets
\emph{as smooth as we like}:
\begin{proposition}\label{proposition:Huygens}
Let $\chi \in \CcI(X).$ For any $s \in \RR,$ there exists $T_s\gg 0$
such that whenever $t>T_s,$
$$
\chi U(t) \chi: H^r \to H^{r+s}
$$
for all $r.$
\end{proposition}
The second part of the theorem is a modification of the celebrated
pa\-ra\-met\-rix construction of Vainberg \cite{Vainberg:Asymptotic} (see
also \cite{Tang-Zworski1}). This argument in its original form builds
a parametrix for the resolvent out of the fundamental solution to the
wave equation, assuming that the latter satisfies the weak Huygens
principle; the new variant, by contrast, makes the weaker assumption
of the output of Proposition~\ref{proposition:Huygens} and produces a very
slightly weaker result (smaller resonance-free region).
Among the further applications of this line of reasoning is the following
theorem on Strichartz estimates for exterior polygonal domains (joint
work with Baskin and Marzuola) \cite{BaskinMarzuolaWunsch:2014}):
for an exterior polygonal domain where the only trapped geodesics are
strictly diffractive (and where no three vertices are collinear) we
find that the same Strichartz estimates for the Schr\"odinger equation
hold as on Euclidean space (locally in time for Neumann conditions,
and globally for Dirichlet).
\section{The wave trace}
If $X$ is a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary let
$$
(\phi_j, \lambda_j^2)
$$
denote the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of $\Lap.$
One might like to study
the ``inverse spectral problem'' of using the $\lambda_j$ to
characterize $X$ by forming a useful generating function out of the
$\lambda_j.$ An obvious but not directly useful one might be
$$
\sum_j \delta(\lambda-\lambda_j),
$$
but a much more tractable one is the Fourier transform of this
quantity,
$$
\sum_j e^{-it\lambda_j}.
$$
The utility of this generating function stems from its identification
as
$$
\Tr U(t),
$$
where $$U(t)\equiv e^{-it\sqrt{\Lap}}$$ is the ``half-wave'' evolution
operator, mapping functions on $X$ to (certain) solutions to the wave
equation. If we can say something about the trace of $U(t)$ in terms
of the geometry of $X,$ we can thus hope to learn something about
spectral geometry.
In the setting of smooth
boundaryless manifolds, we have the following classical results on the
wave trace. Let
$$
\LSpec (X) =\{0\} \bigcup \big\{\pm \text{lengths of periodic
geodesics on }X\big\}.
$$
\begin{theorem}[Chazarain \cite{Chazarain1}, Duistermaat--Guillemin
\cite{Duistermaat-Guillemin1}; cf.\ also Colin de Verdi\`ere \cite{Co:73a}, \cite{Co:73b}]\label{theorem:smoothpoisson}
$$\singsupp \Tr U(t) \subset \LSpec (X).$$
\end{theorem}
This allows one to dream of ``hearing'' lengths of closed geodesics,
but does not rule out the possibility that the allowable singularities
do not, in fact, arise. The presence of honest singularities is,
however, guaranteed by:
\begin{theorem}[Duistermaat--Guillemin \cite{Duistermaat-Guillemin1}]
Let $L$ be the length of an nondegenerate periodic closed geodesic
$\gamma$ on
$L$ that is isolated in the length spectrum. Then near $t=L$ we have
$$
\Tr U(t) \sim \frac{L_0}{2\pi} i^{\sigma} \abs{I-P}^{-1/2}(t-L)^{-1},
$$
where
\begin{itemize}
\item $L_0$ is the length of the primitive closed geodesic if
$\gamma$ is an iterate of a shorter one.
\item $\sigma$ is the Morse index of the variational problem for a
periodic geodesic, evaluated at $\gamma.$
\item $P$ is the linearized Poincar\'e map, obtained as the
linearization at $\gamma$ of the first return map to a hypersurface
of the phase space, transverse to $\gamma.$
\end{itemize}
\end{theorem}
Note that the nondegeneracy condition in the hypotheses is simply the condition that $I-P$ be nonsingular.
The generalization of Theorem~\ref{theorem:smoothpoisson} to compact
conic manifolds is straightforward: let $$\DLSpec(X)=
\{0\} \bigcup \big\{\pm \text{lengths of periodic
diffractive geodesics on }X\big\}.$$
\begin{theorem}[Wunsch \cite{Wunsch2}]
On a conic manifold $X,$
$$
\singsupp \Tr U(t) \subset \DLSpec{X}.
$$
\end{theorem}
The singularities at lengths of geodesics in $X^\circ$ are easily seen
to be described by the same formula given by Duistermaat--Guillemin,
but the geodesics interacting through conic points are not so simple.
We consider $\gamma$ a closed, \emph{strictly diffractive} geodesic
undergoing $k$ diffractions and traversing geodesic segments
$\gamma_1,\dots, \gamma_k$ connecting cone points $Y_{i_1}, \dots
Y_{i_k}.$ Recall that the hypothesis that the geodesic be strictly
diffractive means that it interacts with each cone point by entering
and leaving on a pair of geodesics that cannot be uniformly locally
approximated by geodesics in $X^\circ.$ This is generically the case
for all closed geodesics. Assume further that the length $L$ of
$\gamma$ is isolated in the length spectrum, and make the additional
nondegeneracy hypothesis that no two cone points along the geodesic
are conjugate to one another.
Note that the following was previously known by work of Hillairet
\cite{Hillairet:2005} in the important special case of flat surfaces
with conic singularities (hence in particular for doubles of
polygons).
\begin{theorem}[Ford--Wunsch \cite{1411.6913}]\label{theorem:FoWu}
Near $t=L,$
$$
\Tr U(t) \sim \int e^{i(t-L)\xi} a(\xi) \, d\xi
$$
where
\begin{equation}\label{symbol}
a(\xi) \sim L_0 \cdot (2\pi)^{\frac{kn}{2}} \, e^{\frac{ik(n-3)\pi}{4}} \,
\chi(\xi) \, \xi^{-\frac{k(n-1)}{2}} \prod_{j=1}^k i^{-m_{\gamma_j}} \, \mathcal{D}_j
\, \mathcal{W}_j \ \text{as $|\xi| \to \infty$}.
\end{equation}
\end{theorem}
Here,
$\chi\in \CI(\RR)$ is $1$ for $\xi>1$ and $0$ for
$\xi<0.$
Note that the power of $\xi$ is such that we obtain greater smoothness
as the number of diffractions increases. The leading order
singularity as a function of $t$ is proportional to $(t-L+i0)^{-1+k(n-1)/2}$
(but is multiplied by $\log(t-L+i0)$ if the power is an integer).
As before $L_0$ denotes the length of the
``primitive'' geodesic if $\gamma$ is an iterate of a shorter one.
The integers $m_{\gamma_j}$ are simply the Morse indices of the
variational problems associated to traveling from one cone point to
the next, evaluated at $\gamma_j.$
We will now explain the factors $\mathcal{D}_j$ and $\mathcal{W}_j.$
The terms $\mathcal{D}_j$ are associated to the diffractions through each
successive cone point $Y_{i_j}.$ They are constructed as follows.
Each cone point $Y_{i_j}$ is equipped with a metric $h_{i_j}\equiv
h\rvert_{Y_{i_j}}.$ It thus has a Laplace-Beltrami operator
$\Lap_{i_j}$ and we may use the functional calculus to take functions
of this operator. In particular, let $$\nu_{i_j} \equiv \sqrt{
\Delta_{Y_{i_j}} + \left( \frac{2-n}{2} \right)^2 }.$$
We then form the operator family
$$
e^{-it\nu_{i_j}}: L^2(Y_{i_j})\to L^2(Y_{i_j}).
$$
This is essentially a ``half Klein Gordon propagator'' on the link of
the cone point (i.e., a boundary component). Now let $\kappa(\bullet)$ denote the Schwartz
kernel of an operator. Supposing that the diffractive geodesic
$\gamma$ enters $Y_{i_j}$ at the point $y$ and leaves from point $y',$
we set
$$
\mathcal{D}_j \equiv \kappa(e^{-i\pi \nu_{i_j}})[y,y'].
$$
The propagator kernel is of course not continuous in general, however note
that the strictly diffractive nature of the geodesic ensures that $y$
and $y'$ are not connected by a geodesic of length $\pi$ in the link,
which in turn precisely ensures, by propagation of singularities, that
the Schwartz kernel of the time-$\pi$ Klein Gordon propagator is
smooth near $(y,y'),$ hence the evaluation of this distribution makes
sense.
Now we turn to $\mathcal{W}_j$. These quantities are associated to the
geodesic segments $\gamma_j$ connecting successive cone points. They
are best described in terms of Jacobi fields, but can also be
viewed as a proxy for a quantity involving the derivative of the
expenential map, hence a substitute for the term involving the
Poincar\'e map in the Duistermaat--Guillemin formula. Note that the
exponential map from one cone point to the next does not make sense,
since any small perturbation of the geodesic $\gamma_j$ will miss the
next cone point entirely rather than simply hitting it at a different point.
Correspondingly, if we let $\mathbf{J}$ be a set of Jacobi fields that are
orthonormal to $\gamma_j$ and at $\gamma_j(0)$ give an orthonormal
basis of $TY_{i_j}$ then $\mathbf{J}$ becomes \emph{singular} as we approach
the end of $\gamma_j$ at $Y_{i_{j+1}}.$ On the other hand, the metric
is also singular at cone points, in the sense that it vanishes on
$TY,$ so we can nonetheless make sense of the determinant
$$
\det_g \mathbf{J}\rvert_{Y_{i_{j+1}}}.
$$
Then we have
$$
\mathcal{W}_j \equiv\big\lvert\det_g \mathbf{J}\rvert_{Y_{i_{j+1}}}\big\rvert^{-1/2}.
$$
This quantity can be made to look more like the derivative of an
exponential map as follows: we set
\begin{equation}\label{thetaj}
\Theta_j=(\length(\gamma_j)^{-(n-1)})\big\lvert\det_g \mathbf{J}\rvert_{Y_{i_{j+1}}}\big\rvert.
\end{equation}
Consider the case in which $Y_j$ is a ``fictitious'' cone point
obtained by blowing up a smooth point $p_0$ on a manifold. Then Jacobi vector
fields tangent to $Y_j$ are obtained as lifts under the blow-down map
of Jacobi fields vanishing at $p_0,$ and
$\Theta_j$ becomes
a standard expression
for $\det D\exp_{Y_j} (\bullet)$ in terms of Jacobi fields, at least
when evaluated in $X^\circ$ (cf.\
\cite{Be:77}): in that case we simply have
$$
\Theta_j=\det_g \big\lvert D \exp_{Y_j}(\bullet)\big\rvert.
$$
Since $\mathcal{W}_j=\length(\gamma_j)^{-(n-1)/2} \Theta_j^{-1/2}$ we
recover the relationship with the exponential map in the case of a
trivial cone point.
In rough outline, the proof of Theorem~\ref{theorem:FoWu} goes as
follows. We know explicitly what the wave propagator look like on a
model \emph{product cone} $\RR_+\times Y_j$ endowed with the scale
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amazing facts, architecture, art and designs, creativity, design, Did you know?, inspiration, places to visit, talent<|fim_middle|>architecturearound the worldart and design installationscreativitygkindshivanistan munrotalenttoothpick citytoothpick worldwonderful structures made entirely from toothpicksworld monuments with toothpicksworld's tallest toothpick structure |
Have you ever heard about the Toothpick City or Toothpick World? Here's the wonderful creation.
October 13, 2016 Gkindshivani 1 Comment
Stan Munro, a big fan of architecture, though not a student has first build a Toothpick City and then a Toothpick World which is in the 2015 Guinness Book of World Records for the tallest toothpick structure: Burj Khalifa, Dubai (16ft.) entirely made out of toothpicks.
Burj Khalifa, Dubai entirely made out of toothpicks. (The tallest toothpick structure)
Stan learned everything through books, the internet, History Channel, and a little something called "8th-Grade Algebra."
Toothpicking has been a hobby since his 5th grade art teacher brought a toothpick project to the classroom. Stan stayed with it, and almost 30 years later. Stan makes a living at it.
10 years ago, when his wife Suzi was suffering with some kidney liver disease and he had to stay home caring for her, he started toothpicking. In 2006, he sold his first Toothpick City exhibit to a museum in Spain. Suzi is getting better day by day and who is Stan's inspiration, his muse, and the center of his world. They are located in Syracuse, NY.
He completed Toothpick City 1 (A History of Skyscrapers), which had 50 of the world's tallest buildings, in 2005.
After its sale he decided to start work on Toothpick City 2 (Towers and Temples) which will have 40 buildings made out of four million toothpicks and 170 litres of glue.
It includes the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame in Paris, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Parthenon in Athens.
So far Stan has created more than 100 unique masterpieces consisting famous structures from around the world which are entirely made out of toothpicks.
Toothpick World is a traveling exhibit – unlike anyone has seen before. It is a collection of more than 60 famous buildings from around the world–ALL built to the same 1:164 scale, and all out of toothpicks. It can be set up in any configuration, and in a number of different museum spaces. Toothpick World is a sensory experience of engineering, architecture, culture and just plain craziness. It ABSOLUTELY has to be seen to be believed.
In March, 2012, Stan formed Toothpick World, LLC, a traveling exhibit corporation. The purpose of the exhibit is to entertain, educate, and even enlighten, as museum-goers see what one man can do with a little imagination, a whole lot of time, and more than 3 million toothpicks.
Few of his creations are:
Toothpick city I at the Museum of Science and Technology
Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
The Roman Coliseum
The U.S. Nimitz – CVN68 Aircraft carrier
La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Akshardham Temple, India
The Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
Grand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Statue of Liberty, New York
St. Peter's Basilica Square, The Vatican
The White House, Washington D.C.
Tower Bridge, London
Taj Mahal, India
Visit Toothpick City and World for more images in detail.
Have a view on other similar post on Taj Mahal from matchsticks.
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"He had great respect for the community," says former NKU Professor of the Year and administrator Dr. James Ramage. "And he always put students and faculty first."
Tesseneer served as NKU's Academic Vice President, Interim President, and President of the University's Foundation during a distinguished educational adminsitrative run. It was here he honed his skills, hiring faculty for the newly-minted Northern Kentucky University in the early 1970s.
There is even a scholarship in his honor. NKU juniors or seniors with a major in psychology and a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher can apply for in-state tuition for one academic year.
"He will be missed," Ramage said. "He was one of the finest people."
Dr. Ralph Athen Tesseneer, Jr. of Campbellsville, Ky., died at 5 a.m., Sunday, Oct. 11, at his home. He was 91.
Funeral services were Wednesday, Oct. 14.
Son of the late Ralph Athen Tesseneer, Sr. and Susan Geneva Kirkland Tesseneer, Ralph Jr. was born in Russellville, Ala., on April 23, 1924. He spent his high school and early college years in Murray, Ky. During World War II, he served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater. On May 5, 1946, he married Laura Mae Fisher of Earlington, Ky., and together they raised three children.
Dr. Tesseneer earned a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts College, an M.A. in Educational Administration and Psychology from Peabody College, and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Louisiana State University. Dr. Tesseneer was a psychology professor at Western Kentucky State College, McNeese State College, Murray State University (where he was also Dean of the Graduate School), University of Durham in Durham, England (as a visiting professor), and Campbellsville University (where he was vice president of Development).
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Tesseneer was the recipient of multiple academic and community awards and recognitions. He served as a counseling psychologist in mental health clinics in communities where he lived, and was also a frequent public speaker and educational consultant.
"He was always a wonderful administrator," Ramage said. "He was someone I could trust and believe in."
Ralph Tesseneer is survived by the following:
A daughter: Susan Tesseneer Walters and husband, Joe, of Campbellsville, Ky.
Son: Ralph Athen Tesseneer, III, M.D., and wife, Beverly, of Spartanburg, S.C.; Herbert Hoffman Tesseneer and wife, Gale, of Florence, Ky.
Two sisters: Myra Jean Tesseneer Cooper and husband John, of Texarkana, Texas; and Susan Tesseneer-Pope and husband Ken, of Campbellsville, Ky.
Three grandchildren, and two great-grandsons.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Gerald Ware Tesseneer, and a grandson, Ralph Joseph Walters.
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"He had great respect for the community, and he always put students and faculty first."
He devoted his life to higher education and community involvement.
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A majority of faculty members find first-year students prepared for college-level academics, with 23 percent responding that first-years were "very prepared" and 50 percent responding that they were "somewhat prepared" in a Herald faculty poll conducted earlier this month.
He added that there is a "high bar" at Brown, with material in some courses like biology and chemistry taught in one semester, despite being taught over an entire year at other institutions.
First-year students may lack some prior knowledge in social sciences specifically, due to little emphasis on such subjects in high school, said Russel Church, professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences.
"I don't think that the students have a great deal of knowledge of psychology in general, but they have a lot of competence to learn it," he said, adding that he has found students in his first-year seminar, CLPS 0050I: "Art and Science of Learning," to be very well-prepared.
Many faculty members said work ethic and motivation are the most important to helping first-year students succeed.
Dan Katz, lecturer in mathematics, who teaches MATH 0090: "Introductory Calculus Part I" and MATH 0100: "Introductory Calculus Part II" and oversees the calculus program, said students who do work beyond the requirements are more likely to succeed.
"One of the biggest mistakes students make is that they choose to skip the first optional problems, and then later in the semester find they are in over their heads," he said.
Stein also said motivation is<|fim_middle|> are comparable in their ability to master sophisticated material," he said, adding that the only difference is that students are now much more reliant on their calculators for computations.
Howard Chudacoff, professor of American history and urban studies, said he has not noticed any change in first-year preparedness, but he questioned whether University efforts to increase first-year preparedness are necessary.
"The question is, 'Why does the Dean of the College think first-years aren't prepared?'" he said. "Why have they developed a bunch of programs to deal with this 'lack of preparedness'?" he said, citing examples such as the increase in writing requirements and constant communication between deans and first-year students.
Many students said they felt well-prepared for college.
Gabrielle Hick '16, who attended a small all-girls private school in Canada, said her high school adequately prepared her for studying in college.
Angela Guo '16, who attended a large public school, said her high school "fostered an environment of 'just be yourself'" that was helpful in encouraging academic exploration.
Fletcher Bell '16, who said he attended a small public high school that was "not very diverse," did not learn "specific skills that translated into college" but instead gained useful habits like participating in class, he said.
Some students said they wished writing skills were more emphasized in high school.
Particularly in English classes, "Knowing what my professor was looking for is something I've learned more and more being here," Hick said.
Students said background knowledge was not critical for success.
Hick said that taking the time to do work for class is important, like completing assigned reading. | important, noting that though there are no weekly assessments in NEUR 0010, students should keep up with the reading in order to succeed.
Robert Pelcovits, professor of physics who teaches PHYS 0070: "Analytical Mechanics," said students who take advantage of optional sections tend to benefit.
First-year preparedness has been consistent throughout some faculty members' careers at Brown, they said.
Pelcovits said students he has taught recently have been equally as prepared as those he taught in the same introductory physics course 30 years ago.
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Ultrasonic cleaners use high-frequency sound waves to produce bubbles that perform a scrubbing action on a range<|fim_middle|> as the parts that require cleaning. | of items to clean them where other methods cannot. Tanks are a critical component of ultrasonic cleaning equipment and are made out of metal; stainless steel is the most popular choice because its smooth surface has corrosion resistant properties that allow the tank to be cleaned and sanitized quickly and easily.
Ultrasonic tanks must be air and water-tight. They are available in many different shapes and sizes depending on the type of objects cleaned in the tanks. When selecting a tank for ultrasonic cleaning, its size is an important factor. For objects like golf clubs, which are long and vertical, the tank used to clean them must match their size and be deep enough to totally emerge the club. Ultrasonic blind cleaners, for example, are often oblong in order to best accommodate the window treatments.
The medical, pharmaceutical, automotive, electronics, weapons, marine, sports equipment, beverage, and food processing industries use ultrasonic tanks to clean both process machine parts and products that are contaminated during manufacturing.
Tanks are one of three main parts of a complete ultrasonic unit; other components include a transducer and a generator. The tanks used in ultrasonic cleaning systems typically have a drain, nozzles, and a thermostatic-controlled heating system. The top may be open or have a lid. Small items are placed in a basket which is then submerged in the cleaning solution. Large ultrasonic tanks can fit multiple items at the same time and they may have rotating parts holders, tumbling baskets, or oscillating systems to make sure that all parts are evenly and thoroughly cleaned. The cleaner's transducer, the component that introduces sound waves into the cleaning solution, may be mounted directly to the ultrasonic tank or may be manually placed in the tank before operation begins.
The ultrasonic cleaning process begins with cavitation, a process which occurs when the transducer introduces ultrasonic sound waves into the tank producing innumerable, minute, and intense imploding bubbles. These bubbles release both energy and heat to provide a highly efficient method of scrubbing exposed and concealed surfaces of the immersed parts. It is important that metal objects not come in contact with the sides or bottom of the ultrasonic tank because the vibrations caused by the transducer may scratch the item as is the case in ultrasonic jewelry cleaners.
Ultrasonic Tanks Ultrasonic tanks are immersion tanks used in ultrasonic cleaning systems that hold cleaning solution as well | 479 |
Parked in front of the Acapella show room: the Acapella show car, a more affordable Acapella product.
Note: Factory pictures featured in this review.
The Acapella Triolon Excalibur loudspeaker system arrived in three wooden crates, one of which weighed about 1,500lb, the two other over 400lb each. The initial delivery from the freight company went smoothly enough but did require a truck with a hydraulic lift and the use of a pallet jack. Moving the speakers from my garage into the listening room required the services of four piano movers.
Fully assembled, the Triolons are an imposing sight even in my 19 by 27 by 10 feet room: two woofer towers, each 14-inch by 28-inch by 7 feet tall, each weighing 650lb plus a cross piece holding a plasma tweeter attached to the woofers, and a sword bearing two horn loaded speakers, one horn 3<|fim_middle|> to have one this summer for review. I have heard it at a friend's home over a three day period on his Triolons and it was stunning. | 0.5 inches in diameter, the other 18.5 inches in diameter, each side weighing 880lb total.
The day before, I had carefully measured and marked off the positions of the speakers since, I figured, that once they were bolted together, there was little chance that I would want to move these monsters. The speakers were positioned much as I had positioned my prior speakers, the Acapella Campanile Highs: front inside corners 73 inches apart, back corners about 79 inches and about 60 inches from the back wall, with the back of the listening chair about 12′ feet from the front of the speakers. Surprisingly this turned out to be a really good location and allowed about 36 inches from the outside edge of each speaker to the side wall.
The frequencies below 170Hz are handled by four 10-inch SEAS drivers in each woofer tower. Each pair of woofers is in a separate sealed enclosure. Each woofer tower is composed of two of these enclosures. The enclosures are extremely rigid, heavy and well damped with felt, bitumen and lead. The bass towers are finished in a piano black high gloss. The sound from 170Hz up to 40,000Hz emanates as a spherical wave front. Frequencies from 170Hz to 700Hz are handled by the 30.5-inch horn which loads a 12-inch driver; those from 700Hz to 5000Hz, the 18.5-inch horn, and frequencies above 5000Hz is handled by a plasma tweeter, which emits a violet light clearly visible in a lighted room.
The horns are cast from a mineral loaded resin, polished and then painted with automotive paint to yield an extremely high gloss finish. On this particular pair, the horns are deep red. The horns are mounted on a separate mirrored sword so that their sound is not negatively impacted by any energy generated by the woofers. The Acapella Campanile Highs are similar but crossover to their woofers at 500Hz, use the plasma tweeter plus a single horn and are lower in efficiency (92dB). The Triolons are typically a 4-ohm speaker but have a very narrow impedance spike centered at 30Hz of 2.8 ohms, not a particularly easy load for an amp to drive.
The Triolons are one of the few speakers which in the right system do some things so well that it can result in a suspension of reality, particularly in a darkened room at night when outside noises are at a minimum and the voltage from the line is clean – you are no longer listening to reproduced sound in your room, but are somehow transported to the event. This is particularly true with respect to small string ensembles, jazz groups and folk singers accompanied by a small number of instruments – I have a tendency to think/listen in terms of how well a system does certain things and how well it avoids doing things which irritate me, which is to say that I focus on the pieces rather than the whole. With these speakers I often stopped analyzing the sound and just listened to the music.
My initial reaction to listening to music on the Triolons was to be struck speechless. I would not utter a word until the piece of music ended. If you know me, that says a lot. These speakers discourage conversation or, for that matter, attempts to read or do other tasks while they are being listened to. More often than not, I now listen to an entire performance, not just favorite tracks.
Prior to the Triolons, I lived with the High Campaniles for a number of years and they were by a significant margin the best speakers that I had ever owned. They were a difficult speaker to make work properly, required a large room and were hard to drive. Amps that drove the woofers well did not ever seem to work as well on the midrange horn and ion tweeters. The happy medium was either the best solid-state amp I could find or a tube amp capable of driving the load while maintaining transparency. The two types of amps sounded different on the Campaniles and exhibited different strengths and weaknesses. Given my familiarity with the Campaniles, I have, throughout the remainder of this review, used them as a reference point, focusing on how they sounded in my room and how the sound of the Triolons would differ.
All of this is a prelude to talking about the sound of the Triolons. Although the Triolons do come alive with a high-power, high-current, low-output-impedance amp, this review focuses on their interaction with vacuum tube designs.
The Triolon Excalibur's relatively high efficiency opens up the possibility of using lower-powered tube amps such as the Lamm ML2.1, Audio Note Kegons and the Einstein OTLs, which are used by Acapella itself at the factory. The Triolons are much easier to drive than the Campaniles, but also more revealing of the associated equipment used to drive them. During my initial listening sessions, different combinations of equipment resulted in different tradeoffs. Generally, superior designs are more expensive and they involved fewer tradeoffs.
In many systems, the soundstage is either localized between the inside edges of the speakers or perhaps extends to the outside edges of the speakers. With the Campaniles and the right equipment you can get a soundstage that extends from wall to wall and has excellent depth. Focus and image specificity are good but never pinpoint. Image size is believable, i.e. no sopranos with mouths the size of a baby grand. If the Campaniles manifest a problem in this area, it is that without proper setup and the appropriate equipment, some frequencies can localize on the horns. This is most problematic during the time when the speakers are breaking-in, but can happen with the wrong wire or associated equipment and is, thus, set-up dependent.
In contrast, the Triolons create a massive soundstage with huge amounts of air and space. The sidewalls of the room from the plane of the speakers to the back wall disappear. Instead of recreating the recorded venue in your room, the room no longer seems part of the equation. Its almost as if the space where the event occurred is appended to the end of your room and the recorded event is occurring there (note that this is only true with certain recordings made in large halls and properly recorded and not with every piece of music played or with all associated equipment or wire).
Imaging and focus are quite good but edges are a bit diffused as in real life. Images are very three-dimensional and fully fleshed out. Within the soundfield, instruments and singers are three-dimensional and their location, both right and left as well as forward or backwards, is well defined. It is also usually easy to discern the height at which different sounds are emanating. The Triolons do not impose a single template on everything played. Stage size can vary from intimate to cavernous depending on the recording and other factors.
The Campaniles will play loud and are very dynamic from pp to fff; the same is true of the Triolons but much more so. The Triolons significantly extend the dynamic envelope with excellent micro dynamics and crescendos capable of rattling walls, all with a vanishingly low level of distortion. More importantly, given the complexity of the speaker and the varying radiation patterns of the drivers, the Triolons do an excellent job of preserving the dynamic envelope — different portions of the frequency spectrum do not get loud at different rates.
Detail retrieval, particularly low-level ambient detail, is phenomenal. I am simply hearing low-level detail that I never knew existed on familiar pieces. Richard Lee once said that every speaker has a volume level at which it will seem to come to life, depending on the mass of the drivers and the inherent noise level of the speaker. For the most part, electrostatics will always provide a pleasurable listening experience at lower sound pressure levels than speakers using dynamic drivers. The lower noise level of the electrostats will also allow the listener to hear more low-level detail. The Triolons challenge even the Crosby modified Quad 63's in these areas. Detail, even at low volume levels, is excellent and is further enhanced by the speaker's own, vanishing level of self-generated noise.
The Triolons are very coherent. They have an effortlessness that is reminiscent of the Goldmund Reference TT which I owned for several years. In comparison to the bass of the Campaniles, the bass of the Triolons is tighter, better controlled, goes lower with more authority and is faster with greater retention of harmonics. More importantly, by pushing the horn technology down to 170Hz and dividing the range between 170Hz and 5000Hz so that it is handled by two horns, there is a significant lowering of intermodulation distortion that affects the entire frequency range. A friend is driving Watt/Puppy 6's with MacIntosh 501's. This combination has great punch in the midbass. The Campaniles never had this degree of punch in the midbass. With the Triolons this is no longer the case.
Their midbass is extremely detailed, fast and well-controlled with excellent slam. Acapella has been able to do this in such a manner that the two horns act almost as a single unit. You cannot pick out the crossover point and there are no discontinuities as the sound moves between the horns. Bells and other percussive instruments have a steep leading edge with a natural reverberant tail. In this area, the Triolons remind me of the Van den hul Colibri cartridge. The plasma tweeter remains the best high frequency driver that I have heard and that includes the superb diamond tweeters used in the Martens and Kharma's.
The Triolons are a significant improvement over the Campanile Highs. They are much more detailed without being bright or strident, the micro and macro dynamics are vastly superior and the bass, particularly from 170 to 700Hz, a region in which the larger horn operates instead of a dynamic woofer on other speakers is superb; faster tighter, better controlled and much better integrated with the smaller horn and tweeters. Unfortunately, the Triolons' resolution is a two-edged sword and tends to magnify problems with other components.
No multi driver system of this complexity, regardless of design, will image like a small two-way monitor. Inversely, small monitors will never move the amounts of air or properly produce the soundstage of an orchestra playing Mahler at full tilt. The imaging of the Triolons is more akin to what I hear at a live musical event.
In speaking with the designer of the Triolons, his goal was never to plumb the depths of the bottom-end. It was to make this speaker with its multiple dissimilar drivers coherent. I believe that he has been successful. If you examine the two most expensive Acapella speakers, you will note that the Sphaeron Excalibur has a larger bass horn that allows a lower crossover point, and uses 15-inch woofers. However, I doubt that it has much extension below 30Hz; yet in terms of sound, it probably far exceeds the Triolon Excaliburs.
The hierarchy for the Triolons (i.e. best sound) in magnitudes of optimization is: i) bi-amp and tri-wire, ii) single amp, tri-wire, iii) single amp, bi-wire, iv) single amp, single run of speaker wire. In particular, the use of bi-wiring on the single amp makes a significant difference in bass control and extension.
The Triolons are very clean and excel at creating the well-defined leading edge of struck instruments that characterizes a live performance. This is particularly evident with percussion instruments and with the piano, which in my experience, after the human voice is the hardest instrument to recreate in a believable manner. Massed strings are also equally good. Decay of instruments is captured in a way that is lifelike and natural. I find it rare that a piece of electronics is equally good at capturing the leading edge and also the decay of sounds. Most seem to favor one over the other.
Human voice is well served, both male and female. Herman Winters, the founder, loves opera. He always brings a treasure trove of opera recordings to shows. At the recent Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, he brought a particularly good recording of Luciano Pavarotti which was stunning on the Triolons.
Listening to music is meant to be an emotional experience. This is difficult to achieve in a home environment. The Triolons have been one of the few speakers that I have heard in my home system that accomplished this (another was the Quads). In this case, their ability is probably a result of their extremely wide dynamics, tonal accuracy, sublime clarity and musical flow. The sound that they create can be musically and emotionally exhausting, just like live music. In the final analysis, these are probably not the right speaker for everyone given their size and cost, particularly when you consider the level of associated equipment which is necessary to make them sing. However, for me, these will probably be the last speakers that I will ever own.
Finally, a word about amps used during auditioning. Initial listening was done with a variety of amplifiers. For my particular tastes, the Lamm ML2 at 18 watts and the Audio Note Kegon at 20 watts stood out. The Edge Reference was also excellent at significantly more power. Longer term listening involved extensive use of modified pair of Parasound JC-1s. In many ways, the JC-1s were a good match, particularly with respect to properly controlling the woofers. Both dynamics and bass slam were quite good. Highs, while lacking the last bit of extension and sweetness that the plasma tweeter can deliver, were neither bright nor grainy. What the Parasounds did lack was the tonal balance and dimensionality that the single-ended amps could deliver. With the Triolons, it is more the quality of the amplification than the power, although 18 to 20 watts is a minimum.
Within the last three weeks, I have been able to substitute the new balanced version of the Audio Note Kegons. Although nowhere near being fully broken in, they are by a significant margin the best amplifier which I have heard driving the Triolons. In combination with the Triolons, they bring a richness of texture and tonal rightness to the sound, coupled with an increased level of energy in the mids and lower treble.
Very nice review, thanks! I'm wondering if a biamp setup like Jadis SE845 (or SE300B) (Hi-Mid) + JA30 (Low) can drive these speakers at it best? Cheers!
I have considered whether that would be a better answer than a single amp solution and concur that it has merit. The primary negative for me is that I have become convinced that the relatively simple architecture of my Balnced Kegon 300B amps and the gains to transparency associated with the simple circuit path might be lost if I inserted an external crossover and additional cabling. I think that I may have finally found the ideal amp to drive the speakers, the new amplifier being manufactured (here I really mean built individually by a single craftman) for Acapella in Germany. I hope | 3,241 |
Andy Allan joined OpenStreetMap in October 2006 mapping around Putney, London with his flatmate and co-conspirator Dave. Together they created the cycle map in July 2007 and it has since gone from strength to strength. Keen photograper, mountain biker and volunteer Sustrans' Ranger, Andy is the Technical Lead at CloudMade, and was previously an IT Support Manager at Imperial College London. The cycle map is perhaps the best-known example of customised OSM cartography. Featuring everything a cyclist needs to know about – from cycle routes to contours, bike parking to, of course, pubs – the cycle map has driven the state of the art in customised maps in a number of ways. Andy will discuss some of the technology behind creating the map, along with getting the cycle map onto portable devices, as well as sharing some tips and tricks for other custom cartographers.
Graham Asher was born in Abingdon, England, in 1957. After studying linguistics at York he graduated in 1979 and has since worked as a programmer in the fields of text layout, typesetting, font rendering and graphics. Graham will be talking about CartoType, a portable map rendering and route finding library written in C++, which runs on Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and Palm OS as well as on desktop computer operating systems like Windows XP. Graham recently integrated OSM data into CartoType and will be sharing his experiences with us.
Bob Barr is co-founder and Managing Director of Manchester Geomatics (MGL), a company that specialises in the handling. and quality assurance, of spatial data for urban and social analysis. He is also a well known commentator, and campaigner on spatial data policy, through his Dangling Segments columns and many public appearances. Bob worked at the University of Manchester for 30 years before taking early retirement to spend more time with MGL and as a local councillor. He advised the Social Exclusion Unit on better geographic information and campaigns to maximise access to street and address data. Rob's going to revisit a fable he wrote some 15 years ago, called "The Megagalactic super visible street sign company" which was a warning against the evils of anyone 'owning' the street map for commercial exploitation. Truly prophetic!
Steve Chilton is Technical Manager at Middlesex University, and also Chair of the Society of Cartographers. He has been peripherally involved in OSM for 2 years, more deeply since the Cartography Day in Oxford in early 2007, since when he has been possibly the most active person in introducing new elements and tweaking existing ones in the mapnik slippy map. Steve also created and maintains the zoom-linked Map key that is accessed from the map display page. In his presentation Steve will concentrate on examples of different uses of the OSM data from a small sample area (London Borough of Enfield). The presentation will show examples of the diversity of the OSM database, and how by using the same source selectively, and by using different cartographic styles and differing rendering devices many different outputs can be achieved.
Simon Cortesi is an IT consultant working with FOSS technologies. Based in Italy, Simon started working on OpenStreetMap in 2006 and is mostly working on building OSM's community and locating open data ready to be acquired. Simon's going to give us a round up of OSM activity in Italy, which looks like a lot of fun.
Schuyler Erle is a free software developer and activist. He is responsible for NoCatAuth, an early open source wireless captive portal, and geocoder.us, an open source U.S. address geocoder. Erle wrote O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks with Jo Walsh and Rich Gibson, and Google Map Hacks, also with Rich. Previously, he worked with MetaCarta in Cambridge, MA, USA, developing nitfy geographic projects like OpenLayers, an open source web mapping framework written in pure JavaScript, and Gutenkarte, a service for exploring the geographic dimension of classic works of literature. Erle is proud to be a founding member of the OSGeo Foundation.
Mikel Maron is co-founder of Mapufacture, and web developer for hire, specializing in Open Geospatial and Wiki tech. He's been active in the standardization of GeoRSS and in the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project, and several open source projects. He's developed two of the first Wikis in use at the UN. Previously, Mikel worked as senior developer of My Yahoo! and researched evolutionary models of ecosystems for an MSc at the University of Sussex.
Schuyler and Mikel's talk will focus on a series of multi-day workshops they held in February 2008 in several India universities. Researchers, students, and members of the community were invited to participate, learn, and take stewardship of their city. These were very practical, hands-on days, covering the entire toolset of OpenStreetMap and empowering participants to lead the growth of free and open mapping in India. "We will map India!"
Ed Freyfogle is one of the founders of Nestoria. Previously he worked in various engineering roles at Yahoo! Europe. He has an MBA from MIT, and was a Fulbright Scholar. Nestoria is a search engine for property in several EU markets. In the last 18 months they have experimented with different ways to use OSM data in their service. Ed will discuss these attempts – both the successes as well as some of the hurdles still to be overcome for wider commercial adoption.
Dair Grant – CTO of RouteBuddy, a UK-based developer of GPS/mapping software for the Mac. As a licensee of commercial map data, Dair is interesting in exploring how OpenStreetMap data compares to professional data for both quality and completeness.
Sean Gorman is<|fim_middle|> spanish GIS community has been reacting to
OSM, and how it may develop in the future.
Nick Whitelegg has been involved in open mapping since 2004 when, driven by a lack of freely-available countryside maps, he started Freemap, a project which aims to produce free maps for the UK countryside. After discovering OSM in 2005 Nick contributed his initial Freemap data to the project. Nick maps rural and urban areas of Hampshire as well as contributing code to various OSM-related projects such as Mapnik whilst continuing to develop Freemap and push forward the provision of open geodata for countryside users. Nick's talk will explore ideas about an open database designed to supplement OpenStreetMap, to which countryside users can contribute and access photos and navigational information, together with a discussion of web-based and mobile software to access and manipulate the information. The goal of the project? To ensure that countryside users never get lost again.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf holds the Chair of Cartography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bonn. Before that he was Professor for Applied Computer Science and Geoinformatics at the Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying at the University of Applied Sciences FH Mainz. He did his PhD at the private research institute "European Media Laboratory" (EML) in Heidelberg in his project "Deep Map" after studying mathematics and geography at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests include a broad range of aspects of Geoinformatics, GIScience and Cartography from LBS to Web2.0 and ubiquitous GI services. | a rabble rouser and general trouble maker currently working on trying to productize the effort at FortiusOne with a thing we are calling GeoCommons. It is largely the fusion of a variety of interests and experiences in geography, GIS, infrastructure, physics, statistical mechanics, web 2.0 stuff, and generally making the world of data (especially the geospatial variety) available to the masses. The success of OpenStreetMap and several other projects has brought access to increasing amounts of open geodata via the Web. This data, though, is often disconnected in different repositories making universal data discovery difficult. What approaches are available to begin to connect these data repositories together to create a federation of open geodata? Can we interconnect our data to create more mapping possibilities for everyone?
Jordan Hatcher, Open Data Commons, Open Knowledge Foundation, and opencontentlawyer.com. Jordan's presentation explores the issues surrounding open data — taking an approach similar to free and open source software or open content but for data— uncovered by research and practical work on the Open Data Commons project and the development of licensing tools for data. The discussion will centre on two aspects: dedicating data and databases to the public domain and applying free and open source software/open content licensing principles to data and databases. If you find yourself writing IANAL more often than you write your name, this talk is for you.
Jani Patokallio is the managing editor of Wikitravel Press, a company that combines Jani's passions for technology, open content, travel and photography to publish free, complete, up-to-date and reliable guidebooks using Wikitravel content. After completing his M.Sc. on wearable computing at the University of Tokyo and doing a spot of cryptography for the Finnish Army, Jani worked in telecommunications for five years before launching both his own consulting business and Wikitravel Press. Now a notional resident of Singapore, Jani continues to rack up 100,000 flight miles in an average year, traveling, writing, photographing or coding anywhere from rural Zambia (2005) to northern Sulawesi (2006), the Bahamas (2007) or Saudi Arabia (2008).
Mark Jaroski is the editor of the Wikitravel Press guide to Paris and a mapping enthusiast. He has been fascinated by computers since childhood, when he subscribed to Dr. Dobbs journal and poured through lines of code for fun. In 1996, after volunteering at a popular Chicago based online magazine, Mark took up programming professionally to support his pursuit of a graduate degree in conceptual and performance art at Columbia College. Since September 2001, Mark has been working at the World Health Organization in Geneva, but somehow he has still found the time to draw a map of Paris by hand, throw it all away, and build a new engine to extract data from OpenStreetMap and merge it with Wikitravel data instead.
Jani and Mark's talk will look at Wikitravel Press, a company who publishes travel guidebooks using free Wikitravel content. One of the major challenges facing the project has been finding freely licensed, high-quality street maps of destinations, a challenge that OpenStreetMap looks set to address.
Torsten Rahn works as a consultant for Open Source solutions at credativ GmbH in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He has been an active KDE core developer since he finished his physics studies 10 years ago. Having a passion for all kinds of maps and education he started to work in his spare time on a virtual globe called Marble. When he doesn't browse maps he's trying to find directions to the milky way by using his telescope. Torsten's talk will look at Marble, a light weight multi purpose widget set for KDE that shows the earth as a sphere using OSM data.
Frederik Ramm started contributing to OpenStreetMap in 2006. He runs Geofabrik, a German company providing software and services around OpenStreetMap. He is co-author of the world's first book on OpenStreetMap and a restless OSM evangelist, giving talks and attending conferences throughout Germany (and beyond). Frederik is the current maintainer of the JOSM editor and has contributed code throughout the project, from rendering to API code. In his talk he will explore some of the risks facing OpenStreetMap in the years to come. His talk, 'Threat Analysis, Things That Could Spoil Our Party', will look at some of the potential risks to OpenStreetMap and present some ideas for solutions.
Iván Sánchez has been a PHP geek since the dot-com bubble, having developed a
variety of web applications since those heady days. A web map mashup was the reason for
him to ditch web map mashups and become one of the earliest spanish OSM
contributors, in late 2006. As a self-proclaimed copyfighter, Iván has been
talking to he national mapping agency (the IGN, which already is looking past
INSPIRE), and other cartography producers into freeing the available geodata.
Iván will be reporting on how the | 1,062 |
Turing Laureate Colloquium
Towards a Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Colloquium
Manuel Blum
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
This<|fim_middle|> Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience
10/24/18: Computational Complexity in Theory and in Practice
10/31/18: The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box
11/07/18: A Numerical Analyst Thinks about Deep Learning
11/14/18: Game Theory in Auction and Blockchain | lecture will be livestreamed in 306 Soda Hall and at
https://www.youtube.com/citris/live
Thanks to major advances in neuroscience, we are on the brink of a scientific understanding of how the brain achieves consciousness. This talk will describe neuroscientist Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Model (GWM) of the brain, its implications for understanding consciousness, and a novel computer architecture that it inspires. The Model gives insight for the design of machines that truly experience (as opposed to simulate) the ecstasy of joy and the agony of pain. It also gives a reasonable explanation of free will in a completely deterministic world.
Joint work with Lenore Blum
Manuel Blum, the Bruce Nelson University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, is a pioneer in the field of theoretical computer science and the winner of the 1995 Turing Award in recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its applications to cryptography and program checking, a mathematical approach to writing programs that check their work. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where his parents settled after fleeing Europe in the 1930s, and came to the United States in the mid-1950s to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While studying electrical engineering, he pursued his desire to understand thinking and brains by working in the neurophysiology laboratory of Dr. Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts, then concentrated on mathematical logic and recursion theory for the insight it gave him on brains and thinking. He did his doctoral work under the supervision of Artificial Intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, and earned a Ph.D. from MIT in mathematics in 1964. Blum began his teaching career at MIT as an assistant professor of mathematics and, in 1968, joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. He accepted his present position at Carnegie Mellon in 2001. Blum has supervised the theses of 35 doctoral students who now pepper almost every major computer science department in the country. The many ground-breaking areas of theoretical computer science chartered by his academic descendants are legend.
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‹ 10/10/18: A new Golden Age for Computer Architecture up 10/24/18: Computational Complexity in Theory and in Practice ›
9/26/18: From Basic Idea to Impact: the story of modern cryptography
10/03/18: Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation
10/10/18: A new Golden Age for Computer Architecture
10/17/18: Towards a | 603 |
My Father Held A Gun
Sahand Sahebdivani & Raphael Rodan with Guillermo Celano & Iman Spaargaren
Genre: Contemporary, Fringe Theatre, International, Live Music, New Writing, Political, Theatre
Venue: Sweet Werks 1
"A passionate, storytelling show with live cinematic music about war and peace, acts of heroism, and the love for life."
I've seen a lot of war shows. Plays, musicals, cabarets, even stand-up comedy about almost every conflict you can think of. The world wars and the wars of the world are not new territory on the performance circuit. But leafing through the Fringe schedule this one particularly caught my attention. Passionate storytelling with live cinematic music and a production team all the way from Amsterdam. This was something I needed to investigate. How would they be able to balance the horrors of war with a love for life? I had to find out.
As we entered the<|fim_middle|> what we truly feel, while throwing political correctness and British politeness out of the door. There is no space here for fluff or existential debate.
We are here to answer the question "Why do men make war?". "When you think about all the wars our world has seen – how many times were they started by women?" Instantly images of the Falklands War flash into my head and I picture Margaret Thatcher facing off against the Argentinian administration, epic cinematography running through my mind as a soundtrack from the MTV generation plays. But we are not here to talk about that, there's a lot of ground to cover, and we're running short on time.
As the live stage music (brilliantly orchestrated and performed by Guillermo Celano & Iman Spaargaren) fades we meet Sahand and Raphael, our disarmingly charming and wonderfully witty storytelling hosts for the night. This already does not seem like your run-of-the-mill war drama. Almost as if this is an improvisation, the men energetically introduce us to some family background, themselves, and why they are here, and where, of course, they came from. But in this there's a question. Breaking the fourth wall and directly addressing the audience we are asked to try and identify which of the men was from Israel and which from Iran. An easy task? Perhaps. If you think you can gain the correct designation by making judgements based only on looks. But how often do we do that?
The point of the question is, as you might expect, to validate the maxims 'never judge a book by its cover' and 'assuming things just makes an ass of you and me'. The majority of the audience get it wrong. And why? Because we make judgements based on superficial data? Because we swing back to an accepted stereotype which in many cases does not actually apply? In the relative anonymity of the theatre we can often hide in plain sight and hope that no one asks us anything directly. But that's not the case here and the audience is engaged from the first beat until the last breath.
Raphael and Sahand take us on a narrative journey through a series of stories, expertly guiding us through their own personal history as well as some of our own. We are poignantly reminded of the Christmas football match in no man's land and the soldiers singing carols together before returning to the trenches and continuing to maim and kill each other. "Can't we just create an atom bomb of peace?" we're asked. "If one man can put down his gun, why can't another?" It seems that the greatest act of courage is not in picking up the gun, but having the strength and resolve to put it down in the face of inevitable carnage and destruction.
In our current political climate with the seemingly constant barrage of news which fills our inboxes, peppers our television channels, and posts to our social media, we could be forgiven for passing over a show like this opting for something 'easier', perhaps, or 'more accessible'. Switch your brain off entertainment can be very attractive at times. But this is not that time. My Father Held A Gun is somewhat of an enigma, a chameleon, a wolf in sheep's clothing. It lures you into a false sense of security with projected camaraderie and big smiles, while all the time just waiting to punch you in the gut. This production is engaging, beautiful, painful, political, amusing, abusing, confusing, and amazing. Run, do not walk, to the projected battlefield but leave your armor behind. This is about stripping away everything you have perceived, tearing up the rule book, putting down your weapons, lowering your defenses, forgiving our differences, and finding a new direction for moving forward together.
"Peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind."
– Mos Def | theatre we could hear the music already filtering down the passage towards us. A strange melange of rock guitar and what sounded like Klezmer dances punctuated by the occasional saxophone interlude. I had visions of some kind of strange conglomeration of Schindler's List, Apocalypse Now, and Miss Saigon. More and more intriguing. I truly had no idea of what to expect. But then isn't that what theatre should be? A journey of discovery for both the audience and the actors?
My Father Held A Gun is all about discovery. The twists and turns we encounter on the path through life and the unexpected pitfalls and potholes we may encounter along the way. From the moment we walk into the relatively nondescript and unadorned space, we strangely feel that somehow we are part of something bigger than ourselves. And we are. From the first word of the performance Sahand Sahebdivani & Raphael Rodan engage us on an intimate level, challenging us to find answers, to look inside our own hearts and minds and find what we truly think, | 221 |
I have long subscribed to the idea put forward by people like Frederick Buechner that the place where your passion and the world's need intersects, there lies your calling. I'm not so sure of that anymore. I'm not so sure that following Jesus is about doing what makes you come alive, as has become popular teaching amongst many Christians. I have seen this idea taught in theological colleges and I have told it myself<|fim_middle|> I wish it didn't have to be that way, but it does.
Love is the narrow way, because so few travel it. It is the way of paradox: we die to live, we open ourselves to hurt and rejection to gain joy, and we surrender to gain victory. It is the only way. Any other way is not the way of Jesus. But any other way is not worth the life and joy we gain when we follow the way of the One who had to be crucified before he was resurrected, the One who is the Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief, who bore our sufferings because he did what was right. | to numerous people. But after my experience calling the offices of some MPs and the strength of concern I have had over the abandoned men on Manus Island, I'm changing my view.
Jesus calls us to be prophetic, and that, by its very nature, is hardly ever comfortable. Unless you're the sort of person who just loves an argument and is always up for a fight, then you're not going to be very comfortable expressing your concerns about a grave injustice to the very people who are perpetuating that injustice.
Our conversion comes when we follow Jesus into the uncomfortable places, just like he did, and when we do it because it's right, just like he did, not because it makes us come alive. It is when we go and do what is right that we gain energy and our passion. It is in the doing, whether it makes us feel alive or not, that our passion is born and grows. Even though I didn't want to ring the offices of those MPs, my anger and disbelief at what our country has come to with the treatment of the Manus men affected me so much that I could not just sit back and do nothing. The image of the prophetic Jesus within compelled me. To paraphrase the words of the wonderful movement that does so much for asylum seekers, love made a way.
If we want to have the abundant life that Jesus promises, if we want to experience the Christian life and be close to God, then we just go out and do it because it's the right thing to do. There's a reason that Jesus said 87 times in the gospels, "Follow me". Doing what is right is rarely easy, and there are so few Christians who do it. Love by its very nature is sacrificial. As the late, great Ross Langmead wrote many years ago, love is rare.
Jesus acted; he loved. His life was a living sacrifice. That's why St Paul calls us to do the same in his letter to the Romans. Because that is where we find life, in sacrifice, in discomfort, in doing what we don't want to do.
God is love and love is giving, to quote Ross Langmead again. Love, by its very nature, opens itself up to hurt and abuse. But it keeps loving. That's what Jesus did and it's what he calls us to. It's the only way we will find the life we have always wanted. | 493 |
Any time I have come to Interstate All battery Center I have been greeted with a positive attitude. Associates are very helpful and more than willing to assist me be it installing a battery in my watch or answering questions. If they are not able to help me with a need they are willing to refer me to another business, ie, cell phone repair.
I've used interstate batteries for all my businesses replacement battery needs. The customer service is always good and the products by far outlast those from standard auto parts stores.
I really like they have what I need to get things working.
Friendly and helpful. Answered all my questions. Made shopping easy. Reliable batteries. Helpful that<|fim_middle|> on the return of a 75 month warranty battery dead after 69 months. The replacement battery was carried by the associate to my car. The whole process was less than 10 minutes.
Love the personnel there. Great people.
Explain with complete detail about my purchase very courteous I was comfortable and I appreciated time during my service visit .
competitively priced; courteous, helpful service.
Competitively priced; knowledgeable, friendly help, reference to God..., in word and deed!
They last longer than any battery I have ever used.
Attentive, knowledgeable sales staff who also do the labor to install the battery which results in quick service.
I and my family businesses have been doing business with interstate for over 40 years. Their service and value have always been excellent. A recent purchase with Thomas at the East 21st St Store, Indianapolis, was fast, friendly, a good value, consistent with history. Thomas was particularly helpful and easily convinced me to purchase better. Well done.
Great selection of product and great service.
The employees are extremely courteous and helpful, willing to answer all of your questions. The price of the service(installing battery cable ends) was very affordable.
The variety of batteries, the friendly helpful service. I am also impressed with your company philosophy where you are not afraid to glorify God. You also mention customers as well as your investors.
Many products available and employees very nice and helpful.
Very friendly staff and prompt.
My sales person was very friendly, but I thought the watch batteries were overpriced. | they take old battery when purchasing a new one to properly dispose of it.
Staff was friendly. Jacob installed my battery very quickly and had great conversation while doing so.
I called 3 places and Interstate Battery's no doubt, had the best deal for my dollar,Very happy..
An associate opened the store door for me and took the heavy battery from me. He immediately began to service me at the register. I was given a small discount | 88 |
OceanStore is a global persistent data store designed to scale to billions of users. It provides a consistent, highly-available, and durable storage utility atop an infrastructure comprised of untrusted servers.
Any computer can join the infrastructure, contributing storage or providing local user access in exchange for economic compensation.
Now we need to add a processor—or a million processors—to the Internet, and it will look like one gigantic computer. We'll want an OS too. But what should we call this global machine? "Supercomputer" would be an understatement.
IS it up N Working?
Sounds interesting, but I need to be convinced. What are its benefits - to the poor, the oppressed, the uneducated?
it all soungs cool but wouldnt that be asking for trouble. some dude takes down the 'supercomputer' and the internet is kaput, no?
Better communication among people through computer media benefits everyone. The computer is also an essential tool in scientific research, and improved tools lead<|fim_middle|>, the worldwide computer will be decentralized and fault-tolerant: taking down part of it wouldn't affect other parts. There are of course risks inherent in introducing new global infrastructure, which I discuss here and here.
How about HAL, SkyNet, or Zion Mainframe?
The way I figure it, give people access to that sort of space and power, and they'll find ways to waste and abuse it. People on the web are clever like that.
I would love to rent some of my storage to such a system, say perhaps 1 cent per TB per day? | to advances in science which benefit humanity as a whole. If you consider Internet to be a step in the right direction, then evolution of the Internet is a welcome development.
Like the Internet | 37 |
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Milton L. Petersen
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Savannah, GA 31412
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The University of Michigan Law School: J.D., cum laude, 2000
University of Minnesota: M.S., 1984
Iowa State University: B.S., with distinction, 1981
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Milt Petersen is a partner in HunterMaclean's information technology and outsourcing practice group. He is a leading information technology attorney with wide-ranging experience in the areas of information technology, outsourcing, and health care technology.
Milt's practice covers all types of information technology-related transactions, including outsourcing, ERP, and systems integration transactions; information technology consulting and support services agreements; telecommunications services and equipment contracts; software development and technology licensing/acquisition deals; e-commerce and Internet-related issues; and privacy and confidentiality concerns.
Specifically with regard to health care technology transactions, Milt has helped clients negotiate a wide array of different types of agreements with vendors large and small, including licensing of health information systems; subscription agreements for cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) systems; outsourcing of revenue cycle management, food and nutrition management, housekeeping management services, and clinical technology management services; agreements with group purchasing organizations; and agreements for participation in state-wide health information exchanges.
Prior to attending law school, Milt worked for over ten years as a computer and network performance consultant in the information technology industry. His background and experience with technology give him a unique perspective and in-depth understanding of the issues relating to information technology transactions.
Before joining HunterMaclean, Milt was a partner at a major law firm in Chicago, where he counseled public and private sector clients on a wide variety of IT-related transactions and issues. His clients have ranged from technology start-ups, to Fortune 100 companies, to various public sector entities.
Milt graduated cum laude in 2000 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as executive technology editor of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. Milt also has an M.S. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from Iowa State University.
Martindale-Hubbell: AV Rated
The Martindale-Hubbell® PEER REVIEW RATINGS™ are an objective indicator of a lawyer's high ethical<|fim_middle|> Petersen, published on May 7, 2015 on SpringCM.com.
Do You (or Does Your Vendor) Need Cyber-Liability Insurance?
As our world becomes increasingly networked and Internet-centric, data and security breaches are more frequent and commonplace. HunterMaclean attorney Milt Petersen discusses how companies can prepare for and mitigate the resulting damages of a security breach in his article for Business in Savannah.
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Transforming Logistics (and Everything Else)
In our increasingly interconnected world, technology is constantly providing new tools and new opportunities, creating business models that were almost unthinkable only a few years earlier. Many of these new tools involve the use of "software-as-a-service" (or SaaS), in which a vendor or service-provider makes a software application available for widespread use through an Internet site or mobile app. The near-universality of mobile devices and wireless or broadband communications is now enabling SaaS to transform how we conduct both our lives and our businesses.
What to Look for in SaaS Agreements
HunterMaclean Partner Milt Petersen discusses the importance of understanding SaaS agreements in today's business world.
Legal Challenges Facing C-store Businesses in 2013
Convenience store businesses of every size are greatly impacted by changes to state and federal law and other legal issues. From standalone stores to chains with retail locations nationwide, c-store owners benefit from keeping a close eye on the constantly changing legal landscape. The HunterMaclean Convenience Store and Gas Station Industry Group have compiled a list of legal challenges facing C-stores in 2013.
Avoiding Disputes on Software Agreements
HunterMaclean Partner Milton L. Petersen examines the issues that can lead to software agreement disputes, offering insight into this fast-changing area of the law.
Be Prepared for a Data Security Breach
Data security breaches can result in damage to an organization's reputation and business, as well as significant direct and indirect costs. Milton L. Petersen discusses why businesses need to create an incident response plan to prepare for a potential data security breach.
Top Three Cloud Computing Implementation "Must Haves" for Lawyers
By Milton L. Petersen, published on November 9, 2011, in Small Business Computing.
This guest article is an interview with Milton L. Petersen of Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, P.C.. who advises law firms on successful cloud computing implementation practices and other legal IT matters.
This article is the seventh in a series. Other articles in this series: "Attorney discusses IT outsourcing", "Does the billable hour negate IT's value?", "Legal IT statistics", "IT gives law firms an edge", "Legal IT easier than you think" and "Legal IT and cloud success stories
Service Organization Control Reports Demystified
By Milton L. Petersen, published in September/October 2011 in CIO Insight.
Using New SOC 2 Reports to Help Access Cloud Computing Security Risk
By Milton L. Petersen, published on September 1, 2011, in Tech Journal South.
Customers or users of outsourcing and cloud computing services are often, and justifiably, concerned about the risks associated their service providers, especially security-related risks. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has recently established a structure of Service Organization Control (SOC) reports to replace SAS 70 reports (i.e., reports produced pursuant to Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)), which have been used for years, often for purposes beyond their intended focus on financial reporting and controls.
What to Include When Writing a Privacy Policy
By Milton L. Petersen, published on June 13, 2011, in Business in Savannah.
As we move to an ever-more-interconnected world, the privacy and confidentiality of personal information is becoming increasingly important and harder to control.
There are various different laws and regulations that require companies to maintain privacy policies and to make them available to their customers. For example, HIPAA requires health care providers and health plans to maintain notices of privacy practices and make them available to their patients or members. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires financial institutions to develop privacy policies and share them with their customers. Most Web sites have privacy policies, and the Federal Trade Commission has authority to bring actions to enforce those policies.
Cloud Computing: Legal Risks Every CIO Should Know
By Milton L. Petersen, published on June 7, 2011, in CIO Insight.
It comes as no surprise, especially in this challenging economy, that cloud computing continues to gain popularity among businesses, as it is often viewed as an easy way to reduce IT costs and increase efficiencies.
Cloud Computing Has Its Risks
By Milton L. Petersen, published in March 2011 in TechJournal South.
Beware of the Legal Risks of Cloud Computing
By Milton L. Petersen, published on December 15, 2010, in Business in Savannah / Savannah Business Journal.
Conducting Business Online Requires 21st-Century Legal Protections
By Milton L. Petersen, published on August 2, 2010, in Business in Savannah / Savannah Business Journal.
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Keys to Developing Effective IT Consulting Agreements
By Milton L. Petersen, published on April 28, 2010, in Business in Savannah / Savannah Business Journal.
Know Your Termination Rights
By Milton L. Petersen, published in November/December 2009 in Executive Counsel.
Know Your FACTA Rules
By Milton L. Petersen, published in January 2009 in FORUM, the monthly magazine of Association Forum of Chicagoland.
Technology Contracting in the Public Sector
Chapter authored by Milton L. Petersen, published in Case Studies on Digital Government by Bruce A. Rocheleau (Ed.) (2007), Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Controlling the Chaos: A New Approach to Streamlining Outsourcing Negotiations
By Milton L. Petersen and Diana J. P. McKenzie, published in November 2005 in Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal.
Preventative Law: Disentanglement Clauses in IT Outsourcing Agreements
By Milton L. Petersen and Diana J. P. McKenzie, published in September 2005 in the Computer Law Association Bulletin.
Legal Protections Related to Security Concerns
By Milton L. Peterson and Diana J. P. McKenzie, published in the Journal of Healthcare Information Management (Summer 2003).
Developing a Winning IT Negotiations Strategy
By Milton L. Petersen and Diana J. P. McKenzie, published in the Journal of Healthcare Information Management (Winter 2003).
Struggling to Comply with HIPAA Transactions and Code Set Standards by the Deadline? Consider Filing for an Extension
By Diana J. P. McKenzie and Milton L. Petersen, published in Inside HIPAA Compliance (Spring 2002).
By Diana J. P. McKenzie and Milton L. Petersen, published in December 2001 in InsideHIPAA.com.
Regulatory Risks and Issues in Monetizing Data: A Survey of Issues
Presented by Milton L. Petersen at the Cloud Adoption and Data Analytics conference in Seattle, Washington, on June 28, 2016.
Legal Considerations in Implementing your Vision
Presented by Milton L. Petersen and Colin A. McRae at the Southeastern Warehouse Association Convention in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, on September 18, 2015.
Emerging Technologies and Preparing for Investors: A Legal Perspective
Presented at Health Care IT 2015: Critical Issues in New York, New York, on May 28, 2015, by Milton L. Petersen.
Third Party Relationships: Risk Management and Contract Compliance
Presented at the ITechLaw International India Conference in Bangalore, India, on January 30, 2014, by Milton L. Petersen.
Third Party Relationships: Important Factors to Consider in Contract Negotiation
Presented for The Knowledge Group Live Webcast on April 11, 2013, by Milton L. Petersen.
Cloud Computing Contracts and Risks
Presented at the SNW Spring 2013 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on April 2, 2013, by Milton L. Petersen.
The Best Place to Start is Always at the Beginning: Legal Issues for Startup Companies
Presented at Georgia Tech and The Creative Coast in Savannah, Georgia, on April 21, 2011, by Milton L. Petersen.
Don't Get Lost in the Cloud: Legal Risks and Implications of Cloud Computing
Presented at the Storage Network World Conference in Santa Clara, California, on April 7, 2011, by Milton L. Petersen.
Legal Considerations of Cloud Computing
Presented at the Greeninfotech Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2011 by Milton L. Petersen.
Navigating Data Security Breach Notification Laws
Presented at the Sophos IT Compliance Event in Chicago, Illinois, on October 28, 2009, by Milton L. Petersen.
Understanding and Mitigating IT Project Risks
Presented at the 103rd Annual Conference of the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) in Seattle, Washington, on June 30, 2009, by Milton L. Petersen.
Stimulus Package Jumpstarts EHR Adoption and Toughens Health Information Protections
Presented at the NGE Business Law Seminar Series in Chicago, Illinois, on April 1, 2009, by Milton L. Petersen.
Navigating Security Breach Notification Laws When Patient Information is Exposed
Presented at the Eclipsys Seminar Series in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 10, 2009, by Milton L. Petersen.
Appropriate Protections for your IT Contracts in a Recessionary Economy
Presented at the NGE Business Law Seminar Series in Chicago, Illinois, on October 14, 2008, by Milton L. Petersen.
Contractual Protections in an Unstable Industry
Presented at the Annual Conference of the Downstate Illinois Chapter of the GFOA in Utica, Illinois, on August 6, 2004, by Milton L. Petersen.
Buyer Beware: Procuring Software & Services in an Unstable Industry
Presented at the 98th Annual Conference of the GFOA in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 14, 2004, by Milton L. Petersen.
A Sprint Through HIPAA
Presented at the Chicago Bar Association Computer Law Committee meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on December 16, 2003, by Milton L. Petersen.
Compliance Countdown: Real World Strategies for Implementing the HIPAA Privacy Regulations in Illinois
Presented at the Illinois State Bar Association Health Care Section, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Seminar, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 19, 2002, by Diana J. P. McKenzie and Milton L. Petersen.
Know the Key Legal and Security Risks in a Cloud-computing Contract
Lucan Mearian of ComputerWorld writes about Milt Petersen's presentation on SaaS contracts at this year's SNW Conference in Orlando, FL. SNW is the world's largest independently produced conference series focused on the evolution of architecture for a new world of mobility, Big Data and business agility.
Milt Petersen to Present on Third Party Relationships: Risk Management and Contract Compliance
Milton L. Petersen will speak at the Knowledge Congress' webcast on "Third Party Relationships: Risk Management and Contract Compliance" on April 11, 2013 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm (ET).
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HunterMaclean partners with Junior Achievement of Savannah to expose K-12 students to business professionals and law careers, as well as educate them for the 21st century workplace. In this award-winning video, HunterMaclean attorneys teach in local classrooms, speak at Career Day, and bring students to the Firm on Job Shadow Day. | standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations of lawyers by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the United States and Canada.
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Addicted to Tetris? Looking for a version you can run on your PC? Look no further, you've found the best, most addictive version of the old classic Tetris<|fim_middle|>...' or 'Save Target As...'. | on any platform.
You can play the game in one of two modes in single player mode. Game-A is an endurance game where you keep on playing until your board fills up while the falling blocks get faster and faster and your score gets higher and higher!
In Game-B you are challenged to complete 25 lines while getting the highest score possible. In this mode, single lines just won't do, and you must try for those elusive triples and tetris's.
You can also play a friend in the two player mode. Each player takes one side of the screen in a battle to fill up your opponent's board with lines. By getting doubles, triples and tetris's lines are added to your opponent's board.
It gets fast and furious as you get used to the game. This is the most addictive mode of Tetris. The first player to fill up their opponent's board or get 30 lines is the winner.
A unique add on to this game lets you design your own block sets for use in any of the game modes. This will let you design your own easier or fiendishly difficult block designs to change the way the game plays. You can save up to ten of your block sets for later use.
Note: Netscape users will need to right-click on the link and choose 'Save Link As | 267 |
Vinnie Politan cheers Court TV return, revisits Casey Anthony case
Vinnie Politan will be lead anchor on Court TV, which launches May 8. (Courtesy Court TV)
Vinnie Politan, a veteran of Central Florida News 13 and the Casey Anthony trial, is exuberant about the comeback of Court TV.
"I've been waiting 10 years for this," says Politan, 54, a reporter and anchor at the original Court TV. "Are you kidding me? I didn't want to leave Court TV. Court TV left me."
Court TV returns May 8 with Politan as the channel's lead anchor and host of "Closing Arguments" from 6-9 weeknights.
The updated channel will offer gavel-to-gavel trial coverage from around the country.
"What's different, you'll get more coverage," said Politan, who will anchor from the network's studio in Atlanta. "We won't be cutting off at 5 o'clock, at 3 o'clock as happened in previous incarnations of Court TV, then when it became 'In Session' on truTV."
The first Court TV ran from 1991-2007. In 2008, it was relaunched as truTV, which featured trial coverage on "In Session," but that show was canceled in 2013.
The team at Court TV includes, from left: Julie Grant,<|fim_middle|> about our system. The media cover a story, and it's inevitable that the person will be convicted. When push comes to shove, prosecutors still have to convince those 12 people beyond any and all reasonable doubt."
Politan added: "And that's a good thing because it protects the innocent. There may be a few that are guilty that aren't found guilty, but if that's the price we pay for limiting the number of innocent people that get convicted, I think it works."
Email Hal at hboedeker@orlandosentinel.com. Follow him on Twitter: @tvguyhal. Instagram: TVGuyHal
Hal Boedeker | Vinnie Politan, Seema Iyer and Yodit Tewolde. (Courtesy Court TV)
Politan, an attorney and former prosecutor, remains baffled that Court TV went away and cites the popularity of true-crime TV shows and podcasts. Katz Networks, part of the E.W. Scripps Company, will bring back Court TV.
"Nobody is covering trials on television," Politan said. "Cable channels are all about politics. There's a huge hole, and Court TV has stepped in and we're going to fill it."
The new channel will be live streamed on courttv.com and available via the Court TV app. In Orlando, Court TV will be over the air on Channel 49.5 (WOTF). "Court TV is free. Get your antenna," Politan urges. (Check cable listings in your market.)
Possible early trials for Court TV, Politan suggested, could involve film mogul Harvey Weinstein, former NFL star Kellen Winslow II and singer R. Kelly.
Singer R. Kelly, right, shown with Gayle King on 'CBS This Morning,' could be the focus of early Court TV coverage. (Courtesy CBS This Morning)
"There's no shortage of compelling, important cases out there that we'll be covering," he said. "Our trial tracking team is busy keeping tabs on all of them, coast to coast."
Court TV covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and the new channel could do the same if President Donald Trump faces that crisis. Court TV would focus on the legal aspect unlike news channels, Politan said.
On the three-hour "Closing Arguments," Politan will feature fellow anchors, reporters and in-house experts in the first half. In the second portion, he'll bring in outside experts, such as investigators, psychologists, defense attorneys and former prosecutors.
Orlando was crucial in his career, Politan said. He worked here from 1999-2001. "One reason I went to Central Florida New 13, I could get live experience," he said. "It taught me how to be a reporter and ask questions and think and communicate those stories without a script. That experience in Orlando carried me to Court TV."
He started as a correspondent at Court TV in 2001, then became an anchor. When Court TV became truTV, he moved to Atlanta and was part of "In Session." In that time, he also went on to host three HLN shows. The third was "After Dark" during the Jodi Arias and George Zimmerman trials. After HLN, he worked at the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, where Court TV is rising again.
Defense attorney Jose Baez and Casey Anthony react after the jury acquitted her of murdering her daughter, Caylee. They learned the verdict on July 5, 2011. (Orlando Sentinel file)
Politan said being back in Orlando in 2011 for the Anthony trial had a huge impact on his career. His takeaways from that case?
"Can criminal defendants in a high-profile case get a fair trial?" he asked. "That trial answers that question very clearly. Yes is the answer. You can always find a jury that will be fair and impartial to someone even if the court of public opinion is wholly against that person."
Another major lesson: "How difficult it is in our system of justice to prove someone guilty beyond any and all reasonable doubt," he said. "I think a lot of people sometimes are skeptical | 717 |
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Actresses Zoe Saldana and Gina Rodriguez were the Honorees at the Eva Longoria Foundation gala at the Four Seasons Hotel. Founded in 2012<|fim_middle|> on Mother Nature as the ultimate healer. Some of the celebs atop the roof of the Montage Hotel included Brian Dorlet (The Hills) and award winning director Chris Livingston. We were even treated to an oxygen elixir bar. Tough job — but somebody has to do it! | , this Foundations purpose is to empower Latinas to reach their full potential. They have raised over $3 million dollars and reached more than 23,000 women & girls thru programs designed to help Latinas succeed.
Among the slew of celebs, we caught sight of Rosario Dawson, Olivia Munn, Roselyn Sanchez and adorable Mario Lopez who was the evening's emcee. He introduced ELF founder, Eva Longoria who spoke about the Foundation's cultural-relevant programs that help women reach their goals. Eva herself is the perfect role model — among the many hats she wears, the award-winning actress is a producer, entrepreneur & philanthropist. A long-time champion of women, the Latino community and youth with special needs, She is National Spokesperson for Padres Contra el Cancer. There is nothing this lovely Latina cannot do!
Famed Furrier Edwards Lowell is going out of business after 78 years. The public will be able to buy over a Million Dollars worth of Celeb vintage & designer furs used in major TV series & movies for 50% off Each week the sale of items will benefit a different charity. Starting Nov. 25th, the public can come in from 10-6 and purchase the same furs worn by Joan Collins, Lady Gaga & Joan Rivers to name a few. Their address is 8712 Wilshire Blvd. You might catch me rummaging thru the fantastic collection of vintage furs. Tell Paul & Jeffrey that Marci from Hollywood Beat sent you there.
And last, but not least, we attended a charming cocktail reception for Dr. Sanda Moldovan, and her new tome "Heal Up!" Sanda has developed seven vital ways to heal your body, which are derived from nature's own resources. She teaches you how to rely | 373 |
Undoubtedly, kitchens are the heart of today's well-designed, furnished and highly equipped homes. Everybody prefers that their kitchen area should be clean and totally hygienic for having fresh and energetic feeling while preparing delicious yummy dishes for their family members, loved ones and friends.
If you are planning to remodel your existing kitchen style or want to install a brand new one and looking for something more warm, cozy, welcoming and comfortable than the usual one, you can explore our wide new range of country kitchens designs, especially designed to meet your higher standards and requirements. Country styles are gaining much popularity from past few years because of their simple, cozy design style that doesn't demand perfectly matched furniture. Country kitchen styles focuses on natural materials and fine craftsmanship in an effort to create a warm and comfortable kitchen space where guests will feel welcome and love to spend plenty of time. Appliances and accessories also act as important elements for country style kitchens. Moreover, if you have grown vegetables in backyard, you better know these smart hacks.
A country-kitchen should inspire a feeling of togetherness and we hope below mentioned some of our ideas will inspire those feelings in you.
Contemporary kitchen design with natural wood cabinets shine like a marble piece. The lower portion of the island painted with light, muted green color looks amazing. An iron baker's rack on the left wall side, topped with pottery and other decorative accents add more charm to this simple yet cozy design and ranks on top among other country kitchens style.
The style is quite impressive and is a bend of refurbished pieces and fresh paint. Warm beige paint color updates wood floors<|fim_middle|> different variations depending on the geographical location, but the unique part is that the most different variants have similar elements of design. Let us know the kitchen designs you liked and got inspired. | worn beyond repair.
• To complete this charming country design, add fresh floral fabrics, wicker accents and wall brackets beneath upper cabinetry.
• Lighting effects may be easy to overlook, but it helps this fabulous kitchen style stand out in the crowd.
No French country style kitchen is complete without an imposing stone enclosure around the stove. The cabinets of these kitchens are painted in muted shades of beige and brown. An adjacent plank table with four antique style stools is a focal point and acts as both a breakfast area and an additional preparation area, whenever needed. Accents in a French kitchen include furniture like subtle carvings, pots made from copper and woven baskets.
Rustic kitchen style with a stone fireplace, distressed cabinetry and trim can simply rock the atmosphere of any type of house. The iron and crystal light fixtures placed above this spacious island are elegant accents.
• Adding colorful sink is a great way to pop a small amount of color in rustic country kitchens or make it more of a focal point by using the same hue in the background.
The traditional kitchen style features a big farmhouse sink and furniture-style cabinetry. It's popular as the kitchen of the future. The wall of glass-font cabinets and two big windows over the sink help the kitchen feel airy. The concrete counter-tops and an island made from a refurnished farmhouse table add more to its country appeal.
When it comes to exploring tables and kitchens, natural wood styles generally seems to be the right approach for country kitchens.
• The three bright green distressed stools placed at the center of the kitchen add a bright pop of color.
• The patterns on the backslash and on the cushions are perfect for country style.
On each side of this kitchen area is layered stone walls that both visually separate the room from the others and add an element of rustic style. For contemporary touch, polished wooden cabinets with small pulls are matched with a muted blue vent hood.
At last, country kitchens style comes in several | 392 |
I'm constantly surprised by how poorly many sales people communicate within their own organizations. Sales people complain, "I'm not getting the information I need to finalize my proposal to the customer," "My customer isn't getting the service levels I committed," "I'm not getting the support I need to<|fim_middle|> you doing this every day?
Timely, just attacking this problem now within my organization. I plan to share with all. Thanks.
Love this perspective. When developing sales professionals, we focus on two customers — the internal customers and external customers. Internal customers are your resources, your team, your co-workers, your administrators, etc–anyone who can assist in the customer acquisition and retention process. Too many sales people miss this one. These resources make the rest of the job easy if you have built the right relationship and communication channel with them.
Dave, thanks for joining the discussion. Too often sales people take these internal relationships for granted. They are important to the success of sales people and need to be nurtured as carefully as salespeople nurture relationships with their customers. Thanks for helping remind us of this!
Well said! It's SO easy to forget how valuable the sales support staff is. (i.e., the entire rest of the organization) They are all an extension of the sales rep and must be treated, informed and respected as such.
Todd, thanks for the comment. Sometimes we focus all our energies on our customers and neglect developing our relationships within our organizations. No one can be successful in sales without this support. We can't take them for granted! As always, thanks for the great contribution. | do this deal," and the whining can go on. At the same time, when I talk to people within the organization, I hear, "Our sales people aren't keeping us informed of what's going on, we need to know what's happening to manage our resources properly," "The sale person just dumps all this work on my desk, I don't know what they want or what they've committed to the customer. They just expect me to handle it." And likewise, the list can go on. Sometimes, the treatment these internal people get from sales people borders on being rude and abusive.
No sales person, whether a lonely "hunter" or someone "farming" a current customer can do their job by themselves. Every sales person needs support from within their own company, whether it's pre-sales technical support, whether it is leads or programs from marketing, whether it is support in pricing a proposal, legal review of a contract, support in entering the order, support in customizing or changing the product offering in some way, servicing the customer after the sale. Every sales person is really part of a team, dependent on their support for the sales person to be successful. At the same time, each member of this team needs information and support from the sales person to be able to respond.
Then there are those times, when the sales person needs something special, something needs to be rushed, a call to a specific customer needs to be made, we need to make an exception for a special case. Sales people always have something that needs to be done for them, and they need it yesterday.
The best sales people recognize their success is dependent on the support they get from within their own companies. They carefully build and nurture relationships internally. They over-communicate what's happening with customers. They are effusive in thanking people for their support–along with buying key people lunch, coffee, or flowers to thank them for special support.
What are you doing to "sell" within the company? How are you keeping your "team" informed–so they can support you? How are you thanking them for helping make you successful? Are | 431 |
Put me in, Coach – I'm ready to play today
Ron Knecht
(Ron Knecht) – Crash Davis was always a hero to me.
In the 1988 movie Bull Durham, Crash is a slugging catcher nearing the end of a long minor league career. He once spent 21 days in The Show. The greatest 21 days of his life, he said.
People remember the film as being hilariously about baseball, loose women, wild man-boys and great music – a loving tribute to all four. About witty repartee between Crash and Annie Savoy, a worshiper in the Church of Baseball and part-time community college English teacher. About the often funny, sometimes desperate, sometimes hopeful but mostly forlorn life in the minor leagues.
It was about all those things. But in Crash it was about a lot more. Craftsmanship and completion. Adjusting to change and new roles as one ages. Respecting the game, yourself and others. About mature full relationships between men and women. About teaching these manly virtues to the next generation.
At the outset, Crash is demoted from triple-A ball to the hapless single-A Durham Bulls because with his savvy and maturity he can play and be an on-field and clubhouse coach for young prospects. Make that, "projects".
The organization has just acquired a major project, Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, fresh from high school with a million-dollar arm and a five-cent brain. The bonus baby buys a Porsche, which contrasts vividly to the sorry lot of everyone else. Crash is assigned to teach this obnoxious kid not only baseball, but also life as an adult to prepare him for the big leagues.
Arriving simultaneously from opposite ends of the universe, they get into a fight at a bar over Annie, even before the kid<|fim_middle|>, be blessed.
Ron Knecht is Nevada State Controller.
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Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly & what you missed at the circus | knows who Crash is – let alone that the older man is supposed to become his mentor. Youth and athleticism are under-matched against experience and cunning in the fight, so Crash wins that. But the boy pitcher gets the girl, who convinces him to adopt the nickname, "Nuke".
In one early game, the arrogant Nuke insists on throwing his heater (fastball) when Crash calls for the curve. To teach the punk to listen to his catcher, Crash tells the batter what's coming, and he tattoos it, hitting the bull on the scoreboard and winning a free steak dinner. Increasingly from there, Nuke learns some modesty and common sense and to do what his catcher tells him.
As Nuke leads the hapless Bulls into a mid-season surge of joy and great baseball, Crash realizes that the kid will be called up to the majors late in the season. So, he begins to instruct him in the essential soft skills: Mainly, how to speak in cliches. Crash dictates and Nuke learns.
When the phenom gets to The Show and is interviewed by a comely lady TV reporter, he has the presence to restrain his adolescent impulses and deliver his lines. Something like: "Just happy to be here, and I hope I can help the team. We'll play it one game at a time, and with a little bit of luck and a lot of hard work, maybe something good will happen."
He's still a callow kid, but he's on his way.
Meanwhile, Crash is working on a project that only he and Annie know about. He's closing in on perhaps the most bittersweet record of all, the minor league career homerun record. A testament to great skills that were not quite great enough, but more to the character and craftsmanship that surely were. He has accepted his fate, and when he gets the record, he contentedly retires without telling anyone about it.
The whole experience has changed Annie, too, maturing her at last. So, while Nuke got the girl, Crash inherits even better and gets the woman. They plan a future together with him becoming a manager, hoping eventually to make it to the bigs that way.
All this comes to mind because this week, Mike Hessman of the triple-A Toledo Mudhens got the real minor league career homer mark by hitting his 433rd. He broke one that stood since 1937. He even hit 14 more in The Show. Not Stan Musial or Ted Williams, but still great character and accomplishment. May he, too | 527 |
<|fim_middle|> The secure data network has recently gone fully operational: thousands of smart meters are being installed onto it, at a rapidly accelerating rate.
Alongside delivery of the smart metering network, the DCC is also delivering the programme to bring first-generation smart meters onto the new system; developing communications technology to overcome physical challenges such as signal strength in high rise buildings; and directing the programme to design and implement a new Centralised Registration Service which will underpin Ofgem's reforms to allow consumers to switch energy supplier within 24 hours.
To deliver these vital programmes, the DCC is investing in highly-skilled, multi-disciplinary professionals capable of operating in a dynamic environment with significant levels of engagement with industry, Government and service providers.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic communications professional who will work across various media to ensure the long-term success of DCC and our customers.
Working closely with the Switching Programme's Director, Deputy Director and Programme Managers, the focus of this role is the management of Switching Programme's external and internal key communications. The role will develop and maintain the strategic objective for communication activities in the programme. Crucially, the role will involve liaising and collaborating closely with communications colleagues in DCC Corporate Affairs.
The role will work to a Stakeholder Manager currently being recruited. The real challenge of this programme is bringing a lot of organisations with us across a complex business landscape, including contractors, existing service providers and energy companies.
The role will lead on advice on communication strategy, use of different media, messaging, etc. | 30 million homes and small businesses in Great Britain are being offered gas and electricity smart meters by 2020.
Underpinning these smart meters is a highly secure, nationwide data network which connects the smart meters in homes and businesses with energy suppliers, network operators and authorised third parties.
The Data Communications Company (DCC) is delivering this once-in-a-generation project, which is one of the most ambitious, challenging and exciting of its kind in the world.
The secure data network which DCC is delivering will serve as vital national infrastructure and will be a catalyst for the most significant and innovative transformation of the energy sector in decades. This technology will help Britain become a global leader in smart energy and clean growth.
The DCC is funded by, and operates on behalf of, the energy industry. As well as designing and developing the solution, it procures and implements it, and then performance manages it. | 183 |
How to create an omnichannel strategy
Graham Johnston, Head of Omnichannel, Three
This week, I had the pleasure of chatting to Graham Johnston, the Head of Omnichannel at Three (the British telecomms & internet service provider).
Since their launch in 2003 (03/03/2003...), Three has grown to 10 million customers and has led the way in a number of incredible omnichannel customer experiences.
Graham's an omnichannel expert and has been with Three for a significant part of their growth journey, so naturally we dug into omnichannel from all sides: definitions to use cases.
We discuss two of Grahams initiatives in particular, Three Store Now and Three Live. Both of which brought customers closer to the brand through a mixture of digital and physical worlds.
If you want to dig deeper yourself, Graham has his own podcast, 'Think Omnichannel' which is incredible in-depth and insightful on the omnichannel subject.
In this interview, we answer these questions:
What is omnichannel?
What challenges are there for large companies when it comes to omnichannel?
How can you overcome legacy systems?
What is Three Store Now (an innovative omnichannel project delivered by Graham Johnston) and how has driven exceptional omnichannel experience?
What is Three Live? How has it helped keep customers on-site and increase the likelihood of purchase?
How did Three use digital experience to keep customers calm and confident during the pandemic?
How did Three pivot during the pandemic to reduce contact centre waiting times?
In what ways have Three had to change WHO they hire to meet the skillsets of their innovative technology?
Why is ease of integration is now so important for tech providers to get right?
How does Three collect customer feedback (from closed-loop reviews to support tick analyse)?
Phew, we covered a lot in 30 minutes. Safe to say this episode was thought-provoking and packed with insight.
Omnichannel strategy guide
Ben Goodey: Hi, Graham. Welcome to the Support Insights podcast.
I think a great place to start would be you and omnichannel, your experiences and just let the basics, how do you define omnichannel?
Graham Johnston: Excellent. yeah, so first of all, the definition on the channel it's interesting. I ask everybody that comes on my podcast. Exactly. That one question I've had so many different, brilliant examples of it, but for me, it is providing a seamless experience for customers across all touchpoints, regardless of where those touchpoints are.
So whether that be social media, physical retail store, online app, indirect third party delivery etc. An omnichannel experience really is about how a customer experiences the brand and providing a seamless handoff between those different channels or touchpoints. We don't have to be any particular channels, but obviously, it is a phrase that is not a customer-facing phrase because people don't talk like that.
They don't say I'm going to go out and have a great omnichannel experience. They don't see it. 'Hey, I love shopping with Three because it's really omnichannel'. They don't do that. They just see the experience they get from that business. And that's the whole point of omnichannel is that behind the scenes it's super complex, but to the customer, it should seem very seamless and very straightforward.
So it's about making sure that the business is set up to provide the best customer experience to that customer that feels personalized. It feels relevant. It doesn't feel clunky. And, behind the scenes and the business is organized. Both in terms of the ways of working and in terms of where the people are in the organization to enable a seamless omnichannel experience.
So is essentially customer experience but through a multitude of different touchpoints. I'll give an example of and it's a frustration that most people have where, they go into a store and they say, look, I've seen this deal, or I've seen this particular offer and I saw it<|fim_middle|> done in the last couple of years to bridge that gap between online and offline is deploy new initiatives that harness the best parts of all of our channels.
So I'll talk about Three Store Now, for example. So Three Store Now is where our retail advisors. And all of our stores now can be able to support our customers digitally. And what I mean by that is we all know in retail that the footfall and retail stores generally across the country has been declining for years. That's just a trend that has been there. And everyone's fully aware of that.
Online, conversely has been going up, but we also know that's in a store. You get a great human experience. And certainly, in our stores, you get a great human experience. We're famed for that on the high street, we've got great people that provide great service.
We've got fantastic people in our contact centres. So when people speak to somebody on the phone or over chat with our contact centres, they get a great experience from those people because they've been trained on how to interact with our customers.
To introduce a human into the process and I think when you do that, you get a much better result. If you want to speak to somebody, if you want to go to a retail store, normally you're quite happy to speak to somebody. If you're online, you don't expect to be able to speak to somebody. And therefore, a lot of people will go on and browse and start the journey by just exploring and looking around.
I think we want a bit more help, maybe something as complex as, buying a phone with, multiple different options, different pricing options, different products and services, all that kind of stuff. You might want to go and speak to somebody just to get some advice, whether at BMA or a family member, or actually go into a physical store and get some advice, but not everyone can make it into a physical store even before the pandemic people's lives are busy and doing making that extra step to speak to somebody wasn't always an option.
So what we introduced was Three Store Now and where, if somebody isn't a shop and they're not with a physical customer, they take that for an hour. They go onto the app and they go I'm available. And that sends a message through to make sure that the system knows that.
That person is available or there is at least one person of Ella in the business, and it pops up an opportunity for our customers in the right place, on the website to click on it and say, they want to speak to one of our in-store experts. And that creates a normal chat that you would expect to see in any chat platform.
The difference being that, the hero platform, it's just that the company we've partnered with who predominantly focus on fashion and high-end fashion, almost like a VIP personal shopper type experience. It allows you to share photos, videos, and go on a live stream between you and the customer.
So you're bringing the in-store experience to life for that customer. And if someone's saying, Oh, I want to see the size of the new iPhone versus the old iPhone. Then, the store advisor can take a photo of the old one, the new one, say there, it goes on. I want to see it in your hand. Okay.
There you go. That's the size of it in the hand. I want a demo of it, right? Okay. Let me call you and I'm going to give you a demo of it. So you're bringing the, all those different elements of an in-store experience, but to the comfort of somebody's home. So that's what we've done with Three Store Now.
And it started small. We just you know, 30 odd stores and we increase that. Earlier on in this year to 75 stores. And then obviously when the pandemic was coming and we knew that lockdown was eminent, we got every store trained up, which meant that day one and in lockdown, customers were able to be supported by our retail teams, some of which were working from home and able to support them.
So that's been a real lifeline for our business. And. Now that we're in lockdown2.0 in England, especially all of the stores being closed. We have got our store managers are all working on Three Store Now from home providing continuous service to our customers when they're on the website.
So yeah, there's one example of how we've leveraged on the whole online, offline experience and trying to bring and harness the best parts of each of the different channels together and merge them and create that seamless experience that customers can have.
Ben Goodey: That's so interesting. I think it's a stupid inventive and cool project. What do you find is the advantage of having someone in the store pick up that phone rather than just someone in the contact centre say with like the video chat on.
Graham Johnston: That's a good point. not in a physical store, they normally have all the products and services set out. You've got all your physical devices, so you can, take photos of them and the point of sales there, you can show them that.
Our contact centre is predominantly there to support customers who are already with us and live support, basically account queries etc. So I think that you know, the retail stores are more used to, they do spend about half of the time doing customer service.
The other half of the time they spent sitting down with customers and understanding their needs and understanding how they can help them and then physically demoing the product. So that's the element that. The contact centre teams wouldn't have necessarily because I guess training 4,000 people in a contact centre on that, just in case it's probably not a good investment of training resource when actually they're required to support our customers with greed is about customer experience, bills etc.
Whereas the retail teams, they do that day in day out. It's second nature to them to talk about products and services, to demo the devices, to explain how it all works. So actually at that point, they are there to enable that.
And there was a time when we did have a team in their contact centre, supporting customers with new queries via chat, but because our base grew and because we had more and more customers on the base, we have more customers looking to upgrade. So we moved that team to focus on upgrades and, and support for our customers that were already with us and moved our retail teams to help our customers that were new to the website who wanted to explore a little bit more about the brand so that they could focus on those product demos.
Ben Goodey: I think it's an incredible way repurposing the skilled employees. You know, rather than having to retrain a whole new group of people, it's just repurposing those in their spare time. Especially over the pandemic
Graham Johnston: It is. and, they, the feedback we have from the advisors in the stores is amazing because their role has changed from being a customer service or retail advisor in a store, dealing with physical customers, to being an advisor that deals with physical customers and customers online. So it mixes up their experience adds a different element to the role and from a manager store manager's perspective.
Again, it's expanding their reach because they're thinking a little bit differently about the fact that we all know we've all worked in retail. We've all watched on the shop floor and it's when there are no customers for a couple of hours, there's only so much you can clean. There's only so much you can learn. There are only so many online learning modules that you can do and you want to speak to people you want to, that's why you're in retail, you're in retail because you want to speak to people.
You want to help people. You want to. Create a great experience for people. And if there's nobody in the store and you can just flip to supporting customers who are not in the store, but online, it's great. It's a great experience for people who are working in the stores to do that.
And as I said, for managers, they have to think slightly differently about that. They have to make sure that they balance the in-store and online allocation and the experience so that, they're not having people all online at the same time because if a customer walks in, you need to make sure that they're available to go and support them.
But conversely, you don't want two or three people without anything to do. You want to make sure that they are focused on support customers.
Ben Goodey: Super interesting. I can see really clear benefits to doing stuff like this. I think on our first episode, we talked to Sean McKee who the director of e-commerce at the Shoe. And he also injected like South Australian professionals into the buying journey, um, through video chat.
Um in a slightly different way but they sort of ridiculous like increase in the sales and conversion rates basket size and that kind of thing
Graham Johnston: Yeah, it's amazing. So, Sean and I know each other pretty well we've we used to, when life was normal, we used to meet in Edinburgh and have a coffee every couple of months and just chat through, what we're doing in a non-competitive environment. Shoe in Three are not competitors in any way, shape or form.
So we were able to sit and share, what we were working on, any great ideas that we had. And, we've discussed lots of different ideas and topics that we've both been looking at and it's been, it's always been good to hear what you do and, they have a great Omnichannel experience by the way.
And I think Sean's done, they've done an amazing job in Shoe over the years to, to bring that to life and to innovate. Especially the way that they manage stock and use their stores as, distribution, hubs and stuff. Fantastic. And we also have, live video interactive video called Three Life.
And, we launched this maybe two years ago. I think it was when we first did it. And it very much came from that whole concept again of that flat content experience, online, a little bit of video, but not a lot, and not being able to properly get a demo of a product apart from, what we found was customers who wanted a demo of a product we'd leave our state, go onto YouTube, or, GSM arena or whatever. Get a demo.
And at the same time, they may come back to our site and buy, but when you move on to another site, then, it's almost like walking into a store and walk into another store to see if you can see something, you're off the site. And what we felt was would be a great opportunity for us to be able to use the skills and experience that we have in our own business to bring those products and services to life.
So we partnered with, a company called Wisbey who do one to many broadcasting and we did the test and learn where we just had. It was Brendan who heads up our, devices team. He started the whole program because he was the first one to do a presentation, on-air and we picked Brendan to do it because he also did all of our product demos on YouTube.
So he knew the product inside out. He was great on camera. So he was seconded to us for a couple of months to get it up and running. And, it was funny how we started just a wall, a room with a blank wall behind and a few products. And we went live for 10-15 minutes at a time doing live product demos.
And what happens is the customers can watch this live broadcast and they can interact with it. So it's one to many. So there'll be, that can be up to a hundred, 200 people watching at any given time and they could be asking questions and it's just an iPad screen that the presenters got so they can see the questions popping up on the iPad screen.
Okay. And happens is that the presenter can see what's going on and then they can amend the broadcast, according to the questions that are coming up. So that's brilliant. And, we've just, we've grown that hugely over the years. And now we operate from a studio in Glasgow. I say we do operate from a studio in Glasgow.
All of our presenters now have a studio set up in their own homes so they can go live from the comfort of their own home with the official three backdrops behind them. And studio lights and, the camera and everything like that, all set up in their own home, but they go live and do these interactive broadcasts for our customers on the site on the hour, every hour, most days.
And, we've evolved from just doing basic product demos to actually doing unboxing events and live events with vendors and partners. And during the pandemic, we were able to pivot overnight when we had the situation where the, we lost our contact centres overnight because of the lockdown in India and also in the UK.
And we were facing the prospect of not having any voice support for our customers on day one of lockdown, which, that was before the chancellor announced the furlough scheme and all the other bits and pieces. So people were concerned about paying their bills and everything like that. So the inbound contact was huge.
So what we were able to do with Three Live was rather than have it focused on product demos, we were able to pivot and focus on customer experience and have it on our contact, us landing page, where we were informing customers of what measures we were taking in COVID to support them. And it was just like to click here to watch a live broadcast.
So we had. Thousands of people at a time watching those broadcasts and asking very similar questions about, I'm trying to get in touch with the contact centre. what happens with my bills? How can I make changes on my account? And it turned from being a commercial channel to being purely a support channel for multiple customers at the same time.
And what that did was two things. Number one, it gave our customers a lot of confidence and assurance that we're looking after them and we're finding a way of communication to them all at once and making sure that they were kept informed. And second of all, it meant that people weren't sitting in queues waiting to get through to the contact centre or waiting in a long queue for a chat or whatever, or.
You're struggling to find information out. So that worked just for us well. and as we were able to stand up more of the traditional contact centre operations with telephony, chat, because we had people working from home in India, we were able to start to think a little bit more about what else we could do with three life to support vulnerable customers.
And also, some of the commercial, gap that we were seeing emerging because of our retail stores being closed and we were able to start mixing up the different broadcasts that we were doing. And customers that watch a 3d live broadcast are twice as likely to come back and buy something from the site that just shows you the impact that it has commercially.
But, during the middle of the lockdown and the last stages of the locked down, we were able to work with our discovery team who are based primarily across the business to support our customers with digital learning. We did a broadcast every day for customers who have been sent a foreign and connectivity as part of, the support for charities, where we were distributing free phones and sims to vulnerable customers that didn't have any way of staying in contacts with their friends and relatives.
And we did a training morning training session for those customers that had got the brand new phone. So they could understand how to learn, how to use it, how to set up basic features, functions, all of that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's just been, it's been green, some great learning during the lockdown period to be able to test and learn, but that different product set.
Ben Goodey: It's interesting to see how everyone is adapting. I wonder there, how has the skill set of like who you hire it had to change, like have you had to hire more video producers now everyone's working from home producing videos like this?
Graham Johnston: So we have, we've been, so for Three Live specifically, we have been, growing our capability there and doing a lot more of the, more complicated, types of broadcasts, where we are using multiple cameras and multiple feeds, we're interviewing people remotely.
So having two or three different people from different locations being invited on to do demonstrations of products. So for example, we did a Samsung launched recently, their new device, and we had a Samsung expert who was, on to talk about the product and bring to life the different features and functions.
And we have our content producer, we've got them all the cat in his house and he can mix remotely. All of these different feeds, his whole life there's lighting streaming, but he's able to mix it like you would mixer a normal TV broadcast. Yes, we've invested in more skills, but we invested in those skills before the lockdown happened.
It's just that some of the technology that we needed to make it, give it the experience that we needed to do that June lock data and get that sent to them. But we didn't need to hire multiple different, video producers and all that kind of stuff. Cause the technology we use is quite straightforward.
He'd probably shoot me for saying this, but it's pretty straightforward in terms of, the work had been done upfront to make sure it was embedded into the site. The work that then is done afterwards is the in-stream and broadcast mixing which in itself is an absolute art and the guy's a genius.
Ben Goodey: That's one thing that you mentioned like earlier on in the podcast was about planning for the future. How do you do that when you're starting a new project? Whether it's Three Live or, Three Now?
How do you make sure, do you think ahead and think, okay, how are we going to make sure we don't create a legacy system out of this?
Graham Johnston: Absolutely. Yeah, no, that's important. It's a really big question as well because you don't want to have a technical debt of investing in something that's then going to be defunct. And they're like, Wow, so that is a really big consideration. And, we are deploying, Salesforce or, our new CRM.
And that is a lot of systems now, API focus where you can plug in different technology. So anything that we invest in now on our, on our existing systems, it's important that transfer seamlessly over to any new systems will be introduced.
And, most SAS companies now are easy I say, easy to implement. So making sure that technology can be translated and moved over and seamlessly operate where the rest is very important. And that does drive our decisions around what we invest in and the different types of products that we test and learn with.
Ben Goodey: I think in most software companies are building around integrations like that seems to be a requirement of so many of their customers, that integrations are basic to getting the sale
Graham Johnston: Yeah. Yeah. It's
It's and it's vitally important as well. And ease of deployment is key because as we know things move quickly, and if you invest in something that is going out of date pretty quickly, if you, if it takes a while to install, then you know, you're already behind the curve.
You need to make sure that it's a, it's able to be installed and integrated pretty easily. Be aides, a seamless experience and see can be upgraded. So like most things that we've all got and most technology, firmware, upgrades etc, you want to be with a piece of technology that continuously evolves and with a partner that continually test and learns and innovate.
Ben Goodey: One thing I wanted to ask you was about in the omnichannel space. How do you collect customer feedback? how do you scale collecting feedback in different ways fro multiple channels?
Graham Johnston: Yeah, really good question. it's important to get feedback from as many different places as possible and while it would be ideal to have all feedback at one place, I think if you can get a good bunch of feedback into one place.
And then, to have different strings of feedback coming in, as long as you've got one place that can pull the analysis together, then you should be sorted. So the way that we use feedback at three years, we value them the reviews that we get for customers from our system that we do first-party reviews.
So through Medallia, and that gives us a good. The feedback from customers that come from any of our channels that have either purchased or worked with any of our channels for any point and service or support. But what we also pulled together into one place is reviews that we get from Google, Facebook a multitude of other social media platforms that are unsolicited. So we haven't gone out and asked for these bits of feedback. They've just left them and some can be fantastic and others can be not fantastic. And it's really important to make sure that we see all of them and we're able to use all of them in real-time.
So we, a few years ago, partnered with a company called Yext and initially the reason I went out looking for a new provider to support us with local listings of where our stores were and all the information to make sure that they were kept in one place and continuously updated onto the different, search platforms, but also to have a single view for Google reviews, Facebook reviews, et cetera.
And their platform is fantastic. It's really easy to use and let pills then Trustpilot it pulls in all the different platforms where customers will get reviews. And enables us to cut the data in so many different ways where you can look at, store by store, you can look at the region by region 80 by 80 cohort stores by cohort. It's very flexible to set it up. And we also, have a team of people that responds to all reviews as well. Okay, they're saying thank you for a nice review and making sure that the relevant teams get the feedback for that nice review or whether it's to, pick up on some negative feedback and turning that into one-to-one contact with the customer to try and explore a little bit more about the situation and how we can resolve it.
So it's fighting to the important, and then using Adobe analytics to pull all that information into one place. And be able to take out some of the trends and some of the key learnings from it again is vitally important so that you're not just dealing with it. Then, in the moment feedback, you're also looking at the more kind of macro trends of the feedback and experience that's happening across all of the different platforms, the different areas of the business and the different locations.
So that things can be fed back for recognition, but also fed back to support learning and development and improvement. Yeah. Experience.
However, the future for this, which is where, I think this is, this is the big piece that I'm looking at the moment is omnichannel attribution and omnichannel orchestration.
And again, that is about trying to pull all the different feeds in terms of what customer journeys are happening across all of the different touchpoints, where they're going wrong. So where customers are. Pausing dropping out, finding a failure. And then, maybe if it's a digital journey, they're trying to get some support from, and they're looking for self-service and then they can't do that.
And they pick up the phone to the contact centre. That's not going to be a nice call because that customer is going to be like, 'I've just, and I've tried to sort this out in your website and I could do it stuff I have to call you'. That's the type of inbound call you want to prevent because the digital content or the digital self-service capabilities should be better.
So that in itself gives you a flag to say, 'Right, either we just need to develop, some content or we need to develop a new journey', but that type of insight is really important because then you can see where the journey is breaking down and you can then go and fix that.
And one of the bits of technology that we've invested in recently, that helps to resolve that is answers, which is another Yext product, but it's, on-site search and it allows you to have really good control of what customers get when they search for a particular question or a particular phrase on the site search, rather than just getting a list of blue links.
You get a Google, like response with tabs and, all of those searches can be customized. So we can customize a response to that. What customers see as a result of the types of searches that are being made and spin up very easy FAQ's and content to help customers to achieve what they want to achieve digitally.
First time, if they're trying to do is get their own, the self-service capabilities,
Ben Goodey: Uh, Yext. How do you spell that? I'd love to check it out.
Graham Johnston: Y E X T. The best way to see it, though, if you go onto our website three.co.uk and go to the search bar and just type in, a phrase, in our search bar, you will see all of that in its glory, what it looks like.
So normally if you go to a site search on the website, the experience is pretty old fashioned. And almost like Google from the, from the early noughties, it's just a list of blue links that use keywords. Some even use key letters rather than keywords, whereas we've got rarely give you exactly.
Exactly. So what this gives us is natural language. Processing. So you type a phrase and it gives you the answer to that question rather than trying to a walkout by the words you've used, what you might be looking for and drawing up documents from 2013 that are bare, no relevance to what it is that you're asking for.
I'll give you an example. Before we deployed it, a customer, I taped into our site search say, 'Tell me about 5g' and it came up with, how do I cancel my contract as the number one result on the blue links? unbelievable. So yeah, needless to say, that doesn't happen anymore. Yeah,
Ben Goodey: That's good. I can see it. So it pops up all the FAQ's and that's really smart.
Graham Johnston: It does. And if you start to feel like, you know, if you just typed in Samsung or something like that, it also brings up all the products. It brings up videos that relate to that. It brings up our Three Live videos. So the historical Three Live unboxing events that we've done that has them there as well.
So it's a one-stop-shop for everything really in a Google-like UX.
Ben Goodey: That's so cool. So coming back quickly to the customer feedback that you collect, how do you make sure that it's actionable? Like, I think we know that the people who leave reviews tend to be the ones who leave one star or five stars, either very happy or very angry. And, and with surveys, just 1% of people who receive services filled them out so how to do you kind of tackle bias so that you can make real business decisions
Graham Johnston: It's a really good question. it gets fed. We have a program called the voice of the customer where we, we look at insights, we'll look at feedbacks and then me and the trends, and then we call customers back, for those functions.
So if there's a particular issue with online, there's a particular issue with a contact centre or whatever, then we call customers back. From those, the teams call them back from those departments, not the frontline people, actually, people from, more from the leadership perspective for those customers back and just get the qualitative feedback from them as well and understand a little bit more about some of the issues that are experiencing because there's one thing, looking at data trend. There's another thing seeing it for yourself or hearing it from a customer or, we use, several, software that sees the types of routes that customers are taken on the website.
So you can see where they're dropping out, where they're facing problems, etc. But there's nothing better than actually having a conversation with somebody to say, listen, we know it's this, can you tell us a little bit about that? But also we have a customer community, and we ask them to what their opinion is on different aspects, whether that'd be a new journey, whether that be products and services or whether that be something else.
We go to that community and get them to feedback to us so that in turn does help us as well. It's a two-way conversation. Good. Not active and empathy as well. And you get a lot, you get a lot more from that conversation than you, you might do pouring over a bunch of stuff.
Ben Goodey: How do you tackle this problem from the contact centre like how do you collect data from the contact centre?
Graham Johnston: Yeah and contact centre transformation is one of my, one of my areas that I'm accountable for and looking at the systems that we have within the contact centre, they are teams that we work with are amazing and they capture verbatim, a lot of the time from these conversations that the customers have so that there's a feedback loop.
They come in from all the channels from retail, from the contact centre, from, the verbatim comments that we get in reviews and feedback loops. So it all comes into one place. And, our quality team looking to the verbatim feedback that the contact centre gives the team leaders will have mostly, do coaching and training with the advisors, from the contact centre, by listening to the calls and understanding where customer advisors could have offered a different approach, but also gaining the insight that's being given to us by customers so that we can take that and have it drive the changes that we make to the customer experience. So it's vital. And it's all strands now. It's and that's why Three Live and Freestyle now are important as well because you get rich feedback from those two channels, as well as calls and chats into the contact centre.
As well as people walking into a retail store, sending us an email, tweet us, all of these different strands coming into one place and being able to analyze and take action as is. I think what the definition of what customer centres are? is that you learn from your customers, you understand, we're not getting, we're not going to get it right all the time, but as long as we listen to the feedback and act on it, that's slightly important to improving.
Ben Goodey: Thank you so much for coming on and talking to me on the podcast, it's been super insightful so thank you very much.
Graham Johnston: Thank you very much for having me. It's been great. | on your website and they go, yeah, you have to go online to do that.
Or, you want to update something on your account and they say, 'Oh, I'm really sorry. You have to fill in the contact centre to that'. It's that they, these are the barriers that everyone becomes aware of that on, against an omnichannel experience. An omnichannel experience really truly means it, regardless of what channel you're in, you should be able to do whatever you want and you should be able to do whatever you want whenever you want, regardless of what channel that you're actually in.
So there's lots of technology that enables this. But omnichannel should not be mistaken for digital transformation and deploying certain systems and, products and features because that enables it for sure. But it's not the be-all and end-all.
An omnichannel experience or omnichannel transformation is all about the people and enabling the people and the culture of the business to operate in a way that supports customers wherever they are, whenever they are and allow them to do, or have a great experience throughout that journey.
Ben Goodey: So why is that, that companies will have that authority siloed in different places.
Graham Johnston: Yeah. Yeah. It was a great question. And it comes, I think mostly from legacy. Systems and legacy processes that have been in place. So a lot of businesses start on a channel. So you know, where you've been a pure-play online retailer, and then started to branch out into physical retail stores, and then you upload an app and then you maybe realize that you need a contact centre.
All of these things are sort of added on and added on. And then as those things are added on either the right source store, they are a different system is introduced into that business, or you've got businesses that have acquired or merged or whatever. So what then happens is you've got different parts of the business operating in a silo and trying to build some kind of fake it solution in behind the scenes to ultimately try and join it all up.
So that's where business processes then come in to say, okay, Hi, How do we ensure that we get the best experience? Okay. Well, the best experience is if they call the contact centre or the best experiences that they go to the local store, or if they go on the app or whatever, and it is not easy to change that because you have to, there, you have to either deploy new systems or you have to educate people, or you have to change the way that your business is set up.
So for that to happen, there's a huge amount of, of steps it needs to, which is why you probably feel that if you deal with a brand new business, something that, you know, about the business has been stood up fairly recently that's got in our new, very agile core single view of the customer CRM system, a brand new app, a brand new website, and maybe a few stores or, the deal with third parties or whatever.
You tend to find that you have maybe a more seamless experience because it's new, it's innovative and they don't have that legacy of all processes that dictate where customers go. So that's probably why you find that in a lot of businesses.
Ben Goodey: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. That's actually a really difficult challenge for businesses.
So what about you and Three I mean how long three been around 20 years now, there must be some legacy systems so how have you dealt with this problem
Graham Johnston: Absolutely. Yeah, 100%. And so Three has been around since 2003. It was the third of the third, 2003, when three was launched, which was probably a good day to launch a brand called Three, so you've been around for a while and yes. It has got legacy systems and as you grew a business, Like through the is complicated where you've got multiple different facets to it.
You've got, a system that's built to deal with the customers that you have at that moment in time, the growth that you've had through the 17 years that the business has been in existence for is phenomenal going from zero customers to over 10 million customers in that period is, it's big growth.
And obviously, there were periods where the business was doubling and. as you want to deliver and deploy new features and new function, new functionality for customers, you have to introduce new systems or systems become integrated. So, we are in a big and in the middle of a big business transformation at the moment, there's a lot of great innovation going on.
We've already deployed some of that transformation and other elements of it have been through testing and learning different ways of joining together the channels. But, it doesn't happen overnight. And it is really important to, for businesses to know that does not happen overnight.
Business transformation, customer-centric, transformation, technical transformation is long, and it takes a lot of time because you have to keep your business operating. During the day and make sure your customers are getting the best experience possible while building for the future. And it's almost like trying to change the engines on the plane while flying it.
It's difficult, it's not easy. And, you have to make sure your businesses are running at a good pace and your customers are getting great experience well, trying to innovate and move forward. So some of the things we've | 1,137 |
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The History of Temple Anshe Sholom
Beginnings:
In the early 1850′s, a small group of German Jewish families settled in the city of Hamilton. In 1853, they banded together to form the Hebrew Benevolent Society Anshe-Sholom of Hamilton.
Religious services began in 1856 and in the next year, a half-acre plot was purchased as a cemetery site. On May 5, 1863, a "Body Corporate and Politic under the name of the Jewish Congregation Anshe-Sholom of Hamilton" was formed listing 19 founding members.
Early meetings were held in members' homes, with religious services, at first, largely restricted to the High Holy days. In 1866, a room was rented above a leather goods shop in downtown Hamilton; this was the first formal synagogue location for Temple Anshe Sholom.
Temple Anshe Sholom on Hughson Street:
Less than 20 years later, a site was chosen and the necessary funds were raised to construct a synagogue. Often referred to as the Hughson Street Temple, this building was dedicated in 1882. It served as the congregation's home for almost 70 years. Edmund Scheuer, who arrived in Hamilton in 1871, served as President of Anshe Sholom for thirteen years from 1873 to 1886. Scheuer was the founder and first teacher of the religious school. He was an early proponent of interfaith understanding, a value and tradition that Anshe Sholom carries forward to the present day. The congregation pioneered in introducing English into the service, both in prayer and in the sermons, which had previously been given in German. Women no longer sat in a separate gallery; families sat together in pews. Music was introduced, both instrumental and vocal.
The Seeds of Social Action:
In 1870, the Deborah Ladies' Aid Society (later Deborah Sisterhood) was founded, being the first group of Jewish women organized for charitable purposes in all of Canada. Sisterhood has always been a vital part of Temple Anshe Sholom, involved in numerous humanitarian, educational, charitable and social projects.
The great wave of immigration that swept into Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought many families, mainly Orthodox, to the community. During this period, men and women from Anshe Sholom were instrumental in founding such vital Jewish organizations as the B'nai Brith, Council of Jewish Organizations, Jewish Social Services and the Council of Jewish Women. Temple Anshe Sholom Moves to West Hamilton: After the Second World War, Temple Anshe Sholom became the first synagogue in Hamilton to make the post-war move westward. On April 15, 1951, the sod was turned for the new building and in June of 1952, a dedication weekend saw the scrolls ceremoniously installed in the Ark. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath was on hand to preach the Dedication Sermon. Thirteen years later, the addition that houses the present Reiss-Frank Auditorium, Religious School classrooms, library, youth lounge and offices was erected, more than doubling the size of the building on its present site.
Rabbinical Leadership:
Throughout the years, Anshe Sholom has been blessed with capable and dedicated rabbinical leadership. Records of the congregation show that the following have served as spiritual leaders: Wolf Landau, Herman Birkenthal, Joseph Friedlander, Jacob Minkin, Julius Berger, Iser Freund, Arthur A. Feldman, Arthur Lebowitz, Emil Fackenheim, Luitpold Wallach, Bernard Baskin, Irwin Zeplowitz, Phil Cohen and our current rabbi, Jordan D. Cohen (Anshe Sholom's first Canadian born Rabbi), who began his service to this congregation on January 1, 2007.
Interfaith Pioneers:
The late Rabbi Feldman, who served as rabbi from 1926 to 1941, was a gentle and kind leader, who led his congregation throughout the difficult days of the depression and the rise of Hitler. He had a doctorate in philosophy from Vienna, and a profound understanding of Freudian psychology. Outspoken in his hatred of sham, bigotry and hypocrisy, Rabbi Feldman was a pioneer in interfaith activities and left an indelible imprint on the thinking of his congregation.
Rabbi Emil Fackenheim served the congregation from 1944 to 1949. The depth of his insight and the unique character of his spiritual message as well as his valuable work in the community won him a lasting place in the hearts of his congregants. During his incumbency, the first of the Interfaith Institutes was held at Anshe Sholom, with well-known Rabbis and church leaders on hand. Rabbi Fackenheim was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, was also associated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and exercised worldwide influence as a leader of Jewish thought.
The Growth Years:
Rabbi Bernard Baskin served as rabbi from 1949 to 1989. Under his wise and devoted leadership, the congregation grew from 100 to 400 families, attracting many members who had previously been unaffiliated. The congregation was extremely active and a wide variety of spiritual, educational, social and cultural events and programmes flourished. Family life cycle events and religious school enrolment increased dramatically. The congregation worshiped on the classical side of Reform. Rabbi Baskin has served on and held office with countless local, regional and national organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, and built a genuine sense of goodwill, respect and understanding within our Jewish community and between the Jewish and general communities. Among the many honours he has been awarded are a Doctor of Laws degree from McMaster University and a Doctor of Divinity degree from HUC-JIR. A highly respected and distinguished speaker, writer, teacher and leader, we are privileged that Rabbi Baskin, now our Rabbi Emeritus, continues to be involved with our congregation. This past year Rabbi Baskin made the move to Toronto to live near his family. He turned 100 years old just as Temple Anshe Sholom is turning 170 years old!
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With the strong foundation established by Rabbi Baskin, Rabbi Irwin Zeplowitz arrived in l989. The congregation was fortunate to enjoy this dynamic and caring Rabbi. His family-based innovations enabled the synagogue to grow in a number of ways, ranging from enriching educational opportunities and congregational dinners to involvement in mitz<|fim_middle|> Israel. He introduced liturgical and ritual changes, including increased use of Hebrew, and innovations to make services, life cycle events and ritual observance more engaging and meaningful for people of all ages and backgrounds. He combined a respect for the past with optimism for the future.
At this time, Temple Anshe Sholom is traditional yet innovative in its worship and ritual observance. Under the dedicated leadership of Rabbi Jordan Cohen, Cantor and Program Director Paula Baruch and Educator Dora-Ann Cohen Ellison, the congregation is inclusive and embraces diversity. Its core values include education, social justice, egalitarianism, creative expression, congregational participation in prayer and leadership, strong identification with Israel and dynamic, relevant spirituality. There are joyful Sabbath, Festival and Holy Day services, vibrant religious education programs for students from Kindergarten through High School, popular youth groups and camp programs, family retreats, seniors programs, and a multitude of adult learning opportunities. The Temple building also serves as home to the Temple Playhouse Multicultural Enrichment School and the Kehila Jewish Community Day School and Les Petites Pommes French School, and hosts many community organizations such as a Storytellers Group, The Shalom Community Teaching Garden, The Asper Foundation Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program, The Mahjong Club, The Hamilton & Area Jewish Genealogical Society, various community meetings and gatherings and several youth arts and activities programs and summer camps. The members of the Anshe Sholom congregation are actively involved in all Jewish communal activities and are committed to every aspect of the life of the greater Hamilton community. At Temple Anshe Sholom, we strive to create a place for everyone and foster warm and supportive relationships.
This year we will celebrate our 170th anniversary and we are proud to be Canada's oldest Reform congregation. We look ahead with confidence and hope to many additional years of service to God and the community in a land of freedom, peace and opportunity. We have risen to the challenge of staying safely connected at this time of the COVID pandemic.
Yom Shishi, 19 Shevat 5782 | vah projects and challenging issues of the day. He encouraged the congregation to be more inclusive and promoted greater participation of young people in congregational life. He played an important role in the decision to hire a full-time educator in 1992 and worked with our educators to revitalize our school. Deeply committed to social action and interfaith understanding, Rabbi Zeplowitz also strengthened our ties to the people and land of | 86 |
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