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<|fim_middle|>Turn Around, Look At Me" (1968):
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Turn Around, Look At Me
First recorded by Glen Campbell (US #62/MOR #15 1961).
Hit versions by The Letterman (US #105 1962), The Vogues (US #7/MOR #3 1968).
Also recorded by The Bee Gees (1964).
From the wiki: "'Turn Around, Look at Me' was written by Jerry Capehart. In 1961, Glen Campbell was the first to release the song, and it would become his first song to chart in the United States. The Letterman recorded a version in 1962 that 'bubbled' under the Billboard Hot 100. In 1964, while Bee Gees were still in Australia, they released a version of the song which did not chart. In 1968,
"The Vogues released their cover version in 1968, by far the most successful recording of the song, reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart."
The Letterman, "Turn Around, Look At Me" (1962):
The Bee Gees, "Turn Around, Look At Me" (1964):
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In this edition of Patrolling the Channel, Bar-Lev sat down with the SearchSecurityChannel.com team and talked about the basics of the Check Point partner program, the impact of Check Point's acquisitions on channel strategy, the biggest problems facing today's partners, and the challenges of transferring knowledge to solution providers and resellers that implement Check Point products.
Amnon Bar-Lev, vice president of global field operations at Tel Aviv-based Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., recently visited Boston as he continued his tour across the country to meet the company's various channel partners.
Below, read excerpts of our interview with Amnon Bar-Lev. Listen to the full podcast at the bottom of the page.
"It's not only about selling more. It's about making sure that a lot of people will be educated on Check Point. My personal belief is that the most important thing from partners is to have enough knowledge. Knowledge is what sells. People don't sell what they don't know..."
"Are you familiar with this game of kids standing in line and one tells a story to the other, and then he tells it to the other, and he tells it to the other, and the story at the end is totally different from the one at the beginning? The same thing happens when I'm sending the messaging to my reps, and they tell it to the partners, and they tell it to the partner reps, and the partner reps tell it to the customers. Usually, it's a long way of communication, and we need this flow of knowledge and information to be accurate. The biggest thing is to give them more and more tools of knowledge. It could be technical, but it's not only technical knowledge. It's also key selling points, and how to compete sometimes in different spaces and what's the value that the customer is getting."
"Pointsec was a good example. It was a totally different area, still security, but full disk encryption is totally different than firewall and network security...A lot<|fim_middle|> didn't play in the endpoint space at all, so for them, it wasn't easy, from one side. From the other side, it was a great opportunity, because the endpoint security market is the opposite side of the network security side, so right now, you open the rest of the market for them to be much bigger...It allows our partners to gain much more because they can go to these customers and offer much more than they offered before."
"Sometimes you want your people to focus not on their major comfort zone. They need to go outside of their comfort zone and start offering endpoint, and go outside of their comfort zone, which is network security or firewall appliances, and go out and sell DLP." | of partners at the time | 5 |
Fellowships enable individuals to pursue study in their fields or to introduce them to related fields. Although not consistently defined, some sponsors place their<|fim_middle|> may be some fellowship awards that are intended for certain people like children of veterans, people studying in a certain field of study, students with financial need, etc.
Office of Student Services - 15th Fl. | emphasis on contribution to the individual's own scholarly development. A fellowship often advances, synthesizes, or enlarges the applicant's special area of interest. Or, it may enable the recipient to study in a different area which will extend his or her competence.
Fellowships are similar to scholarships that you may have received as an undergraduate; with the exception that, unlike undergraduate scholarships, the majority of graduate students receive fellowship support at various times during their graduate student career. Fellowships are awards or grants that you do not have to pay back and are intended to attract highly qualified students to graduate programs. These fellowships typically provide payment of College fees, tuition, and/or a stipend for living expenses.
A number of external agencies, foundations, or other entities offer external fellowships or grants that are offered to an individual student by an external organization or agency for study at the College the student attends. These fellowships are awards or grants that the student does not have to pay back. Continuing and entering graduate students at Baruch are strongly encouraged to individually apply to these fellowship programs. Most external fellowships or grants are based on academic merit, although there | 229 |
I have had the pleasure of being a nurse at JRC for 2 1/2 years.
I have worked in many other places such as hospitals and in-patient mental health facilities, and I have never had such a great work experience as I have had here at J<|fim_middle|> a Progress Monitoring Tool? Precision Teaching is the Tool for You! | RC. Unlike other facilities where I have worked, I feel I have the opportunity to get to know our students and clients and become an active and important part of their lives.
Each day, I look forward to interacting with our students and clients and ensuring their well being in a hands-on fashion instead of just through monitoring of charts, labs, vital signs, etc.
One of the greatest things about being a nurse at JRC is that I have the opportunity to see a student or client's health and behavior improve as they receive treatment here at JRC.
This bag of psychotropic medications came to JRC with one student who was admitted. All of them were being taken on a constant basis!
One case in particular really stands out in my mind as a testament to this. We had a student come in at 256lbs and on three different psychotropic medications. She also was on oral diabetic medications and high doses of insulin twice daily. In a year she lost 86lbs and has been able to discontinue all of her psych meds and also is off all her diabetic medications. We don't even need to check her blood sugars anymore!
To have the opportunity to watch the transformation of a student or client who has weaned off medications, and have her personality come out, and her eyes brighten as her body heals and the effects of the medication fade, is truly special.
Due to an outstanding chef, kitchen staff, and physical education departments, we have had the opportunity here at JRC to watch numerous clients and students lose weight and no longer be insulin-dependent and/or medication-dependent diabetics. In a world that is experiencing an obesity epidemic, this is truly an amazing feat.
One of the greatest rewards is not only to see how amazing the clients and students look and feel, but also to be able to speak to the parents and guardians and hear how grateful they are for the changes they see in their children. I greatly enjoy being able to interact and communicate with the parents and guardians of our students and clients, for I feel like this enhances the experience at JRC for the parents and guardians, students and clients, and myself.
At JRC we are a full-functioning nursing department that provides care for our students and clients on a 24 hour-a-day basis. We staff both LPNs and RNs, and we provide medical services in both the school and residences. We have two consulting physicians and also have close partnerships with many local hospitals and specialty offices to ensure our students and clients receive the best healthcare.
Nursing completes medication passes, first aid, sick visits, well checks, immunizations and body checks. Nursing also provides education in hygiene, sexual education, and health promotion. We also provide education to staff as to proper care of our students and clients, Emergency Medication Administration, and medication administration program (MAP) training.
Our goal as the Nursing Department to ensure that our students and clients are receiving the best medical care through a teamwork approach with all other specialties at JRC.
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Watch former Yale cheerleader Frank Gibson '49 demonstrate the Long Cheer, a staple at football games for 75 years.
Those of you who are Yale College alumni over the age of, say, 70, already know what I'm talking about. The liturgical dancers were performing the Long Cheer, a Yale ritual that was born in the 1880s and survived until—well, we're not sure, but probably the 1960s, when so many vestiges of Old Yale bit the dust. The two men were teacher and student: Frank Gibson '49, a former Yale cheerleader, was<|fim_middle|>, I found both words in my Liddle and Scott Greek-English Lexicon, dated Oxford, October 1871.
There was another famous staging of The Frogs in the Payne Whitney pool in 1974 with songs by Stephen Sondheim—and Meryl Streep '75MFA, Sigourney Weaver '74MFA, and Christopher Durang '74MFA in the chorus.—Eds.
The Dramat stages Aristophanes' Frogs in 1941.
'nother little job for the coffin maker.
Alas, "The Undertaker" is no longer heard in the Bowl. An earlier generation deemed it un-sportsmanlike, said Mother.
Surely there's a small book with the words and music, life and death, of Yale cheers.
The Yale Glee Club, which includes "The Undertaker" in its Football Medley, offers for sale a recently updated edition of Songs of Yale that includes a number of traditional tunes, if not cheers.—Eds.
Hear the call of the frogs that may have inspired Aristophanes.
Read the "brek-ek-ek-ex" scene from The Frogs.
Read Judith Ann Schiff's 1998 column on the origins of the Long Cheer.
Read what alumni had to say about the Long Cheer.
Send us your memories of the Long Cheer. | showing Yale College dean Peter Salovey '86PhD the fine points of a cheer that was once shouted by thousands at the Yale Bowl.
It was O'Connor who organized the Woolsey Hall lesson (which was to be a private one until the Yale Alumni Magazine heard about it and brought cameras). He had seen a photo of Salovey directing the Yale band at a hockey game, he says, and thought, "If he can do that, he can lead the Long Cheer." O'Connor's dream is that Salovey will lead a renaissance of the cheer among his student charges.
If you want to learn the Long Cheer, watch our video as often as needed. The dean may need to consult it himself a few times between now and football season.
Thank you for your article on the Yale cheer. Until now I thought what followed the frogs' croak was gibberish, but thanks to your commentary | 186 |
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Posted by Rob Warren on January 12, 2021
The 2020 LNU Lightning Complex Fire in Northern California devastated many lives. None more so than the owners of Quinn, a 12-year-old female Labrador retriever. Just before the fire erupted, Quinn was not feeling herself and was twice taken to her primary veterinarian. After many tests, she came home on the night of August 18. That would be the last time she would be in that home.
Dean Lairmore's COVID-19 Update - January 12, 2021
Posted by Trina Wood on January 12, 2021
Dean Lairmore provides an update on vaccine rollouts, university budget and upcoming town hall on Jan 20.
UC Davis LIVE on COVID-19 Vaccines
Last month saw the first shots of COVID-19 vaccines being given to health care workers at UC Davis and elsewhere. What's in these vaccines? How do they work, how effective are they, and is this really the beginning of the end of the pandemic? Join us this Thursday, Jan 14th, to hear live from two UC Davis experts in vaccines and vaccination.
That's a Doctor, via UC Davis, Who Rode That Last Winner
A feature in the Davis Enterprise highlights Dr. Ferrin Peterson '19, a DVM and accomplished jockey.
Former Resident Wins National Honor Society Research Award
Dr. Mary Thurber, DVM, DACZ<|fim_middle|>Since the scope of recent fires in the west is unprecedented, the full impact on ecosystems and populations will not be understood for months to years to come.
Burned Alpacas Hospitalized for Four Months Finally Go Home
Average stay in the hospital for the more than 50,000 animals that UC Davis treats every year is less than a week. It is a rare occurrence for an animal to be hospitalized for four months, but two alpacas that the UC Davis veterinary hospital's Large Animal Clinic treated this fall did just that. Apple Jack and Jasper became household names at the hospital, being seen by nearly every fourth-year veterinary student who had a large animal rotation. The students and technicians even decorated their barn stall for the holidays.
Training the Next Generation of Comparative Oncologists
UC Davis is taking a major leap forward in training the next generation of scientists engaged in basic and translational cancer research for animals and humans, thanks to a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 grant.
We are proud of our alumni! Check out recent news articles written by or about our alumni.
Equine surgeon and professor Dr. Larry Galuppo '90, prepares to inject millions of stem cells into a 5-year old horse that suffers from joint damage as part of the stem cell therapy provided by the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
UC Davis leads the way with stem cell therapy on horses
Endangered Amargosa Voles Return to Mojave Desert, Janet Foley '93
Newborn Horses Give Clues to Autism, John Madigan '75
To Prevent the Next Ebola, Scientists Try to Catch New Viruses Before They Break Out, Jonna Mazet '90
Two from UC Davis Working on Front Line of Ebola Fight in Sierra Leone, Brian Bird '09 and Kim Dodd '15
Zoo Animals and Their Discontents, Vint Varga '87
UC Davis Veterinarian Wins National Teaching Award, Matthew Mellema '94
Alum Serves as Picnic Day Marshal, Dick McCapes '58
Academy of Sciences vet Freeland Dunker, Freeland Dunker '82
Alum Receives Veterinarian of the Year Award, David Beltran '84
Ask the Vet: Canine bloat, Kristel Weaver '06
David Kenney, 77, first SeaWorld vet, pioneered marine mammal medicine, David Kenney '62
Dogs May Mourn as Deeply as Humans Do, Sophia Yin, '93
Dr. Oz: Add years to your dog's life, Jeff Werber '84
Is it Too Late to Vaccinate my Horse?, April Knudson '03
Major Weight Loss Tied to Microbes, Alice Liou '07
Placerville Veterinary Clinic: For the love of animals, Rick Parsons '74
Scientists Investigate Mysterious Decline Of California Sea Otters, Karen Shapiro '02, Michael Murray '81, & Melissa Miller '94
Ventura County's first veterinarian passes baton to next leader, Craig Koerner '76
Wellness Veterinary Services offers in-home veterinary care, Susan R Baillie '05
Did we miss someone? Contact Pilar Rivera at perivera@ucdavis.edu
Last update: June 9, 2020 | M, a former UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine resident in zoological medicine, was named a recipient of the 2020 Society of Phi Zeta Research Manuscript Award. Phi Zeta, the international honor society of veterinary medicine, annually recognizes two research awards in the Basic Science category and the Clinical Science category.
UC Davis Retains Standing as Best Value Among Veterinary Schools
UC Davis continues to offer the best value among veterinary schools, based on its number one rankings and updated financial information from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).
Dean Lairmore's COVID-19 Update - Jan 5, 2021
We are gratified that the nation's human health workers have begun to be vaccinated, and I want to update you on what we know regarding vaccination of veterinary health workers.
Dr. Wilson Rumbeiha Named Carnegie Fellow
Dr. Wilson K Rumbeiha from the Department of Molecular Biosciences in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine was awarded a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program.
Novel Treatment Leads to Dog's Recovery
Posted by Rob Warren on December 29, 2020
"Case of the Month" – December 2020
Life for Miro, a 5-year-old German shepherd, has been what his owner describes as an "emotional roller coaster" over the past two years. Several peaks and valleys have dotted his metaphorical landscape as he has gone from premiere fitness to dealing with injuries and disease. But a clinical trial at the UC Davis veterinary hospital may have put him back on a positive track.
First Year of Equine PET Scans at Santa Anita is Success
One year ago, on December 12, 2019, Santa Anita Park Installed the world's first MILE-PET device, a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner specifically designed to image standing racehorses. This installation, one of several measures to reduce breakdowns at the racetrack, received a lot of attention at a time when Santa Anita was just coming out of a challenging racing season, with a cluster of horse fatalities early in the year.
UC Davis Veterinary Students Expand Care for Pets of Homeless
Crissy Phillips has been a pet owner for many years and grew up with horses and other animals. Nothing has stopped her from providing the best possible care for her animals – not homelessness, not her battle with clinical depression, and not her daily struggles to provide for them. Her dedication shines through—easily apparent as she unveils a thick file of her two cats' medical records—and just became a bit easier with the opening of a new clinic for pets of the homeless in Davis.
Dean Lairmore's update – Dec 14, 2020
Posted by Trina Wood on December 14, 2020
While it's disconcerting that the county had to join the regional stay-at-home order, I am proud of the School of Veterinary Medicine and university community for our excellent overall track record in preventing COVID-19 spread.
California Wildfires: Compounding the Impacts of Climate Change in the Anthropocene
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WASHINGTON — ATIS today announced that it has successfully demonstrated devices using its OS-IoT Software accessing cloud-based oneM2M standard services over the public LTE network. The OS-IoT open source client platform is now available to allow lightweight devices to access oneM2M IoT clouds without having to run full oneM2M database and routing functions. The global oneM2M standard defines a common, interoperable, platform for IoT systems, providing application-independent building blocks that fulfill core tasks of secure data collection<|fim_middle|>-to-machine communications capabilities. The use of the oneM2M standard can address current concerns about IoT security, trustworthiness and data privacy while still providing openness where appropriate. OS-IoT simplifies development of oneM2M support for the many IoT devices that need to meet aggressive targets for device cost and power consumption.
The heart of OS-IoT is a client library with minimal architectural dependencies – permitting targeting of different CPUs and operating systems. The OS-IoT library provides device-side (i.e. Application Entity in oneM2M terminology) support for fundamental oneM2M network and protocol functions, allowing application developers to interact with the system over a resource-oriented API. ATIS provides test cases and extensive documentation of the library at os-iot.org.
ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ATIS is the North American Organizational Partner for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a founding Partner of the oneM2M global initiative, a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). For more information, visit www.atis.org. | , management and distribution.
As the IoT revolution advances, a broad range of applications, including wearable devices, low-cost environmental monitors, smart meters and smart cities applications, depend on highly-evolved machine | 39 |
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After the young men returned to the United States, Ken and Greg got busy writing letters to raise money so that the Straws could take the trip.
"I believe Ken has a gift in this area of raising funds," Carroll says, "because, in short order, the tickets were paid for and presented to the Straws at our graduation, allowing Principal Straw to visit with Chebangu again after 60 years."
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This summer, 45 years after becoming a student at Southern, Ken Shaw, '80, EdD, returned to campus as president—the first alum to serve in this role. He is accompanied by his wife and fellow alum, Ann, '79. Together, they fondly reminisce about the past and look ahead as God continues to lead them into the future.
We Give Thanks
The popular phrase "It takes a village" encapsulates campus life well. Through the roller coaster of good times and challenges, students, faculty, and staff form a tight community, providing support, prayer, and encouragement to each other. The notes included in this feature demonstrate that frequently it is the seemingly small gestures that leave a lasting impression. Use the form below to share what you are grateful for!
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After more than two years of construction, the Bietz Center for Student Life opened to great fanfare this fall. Click here to view photos from the Grand Opening on October 1. Named in honor of Southern's 25th president, Gordon Bietz, DMin, and his family's long-standing dedication to Seventh-day Adventist education, the Bietz Center underscores the fact that students are the reason Southern exists. This new facility brings together many student-focused services and activities under one roof:
CK2 eatery – fast food
Farrow Family Lodge – living room and fireplace
Game rooms – table tennis, pool, arcade, foosball, interactive climbing wall, PlayStation, and more
The Grid – multipurpose space
Jack Blanco Chapel – worship space
Jimenez Family Hangout – hanging pod chairs
McKinney Family Slide – quick descent
Office of Ministry and Missions – spiritual support
Humanitarian Engagement (local service and short-term missions)
Student Missions (year-long missions)
Prayer room – quiet space
The Southern Shoppe – college gear, school supplies, and textbooks
Student Association – student leadership
Southern Accent (newspaper)
Southern Memories (yearbook)
Strawberry Festival (year-end show)
Student Development – programming, events, and club support
Student Support Services – all-around support
Life Calling and Career Services
Study rooms – focus space
Homecoming: Celebrating His Blessings
The Southern family came together in person and virtually for Homecoming Weekend 2021. Click here to view photos from the weekend. Photos from the golf tournament are available here.
Ken Shaw: A Gift for Making Connections
Carroll Wheeler, '80, and Ken Shaw, '80, were friends long before they arrived as students at Southern, having roomed together at Little Creek Academy. Carroll's parents lived in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), so frequently Ken would invite Carroll home for holidays. In 1975, Carroll had the opportunity to reciprocate, inviting Ken and another friend, Greg Scott (attended), to accompany him to visit his parents in Rhodesia.
En route, the young men spent a month touring Europe together, including France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Carroll recalls trying to find the College of the Barbs in the Waldensian Valley in northern Italy. In their search, Ken happened upon an Italian who shared his interest in ham radio, and instantly they had something in common. A friendship was formed, and this new friend proceeded to show the group all of the historic spots in Torre Pellice.
While in Rhodesia, Ken met an elderly local man named Chebangu, who had been a young oxcart driver when Walter E. Straw first arrived as a Seventh-day Adventist missionary in the area. Chebangu had been a playmate of Straw's son, Leland, who later helped found Little Creek Academy and served as principal.
Ken knew Leland Straw as principal of the academy and thought, "Wouldn't it be | 833 |
Buyer plans to bring Montreal vibe to Wynwood with latest acquisition
By Leah Dellis
Colliers International South Florida arranges sale of Wynwood mixed-use building
Miami, September 5, 2018 – The renaissance of the Wynwood Arts District has seen the neighborhood evolve from a desolated industrial zone to a flourishing center for creative enterprise and trendy nightlife. The latest acquisition of 271 NW 23rd St in Wynwood by WYN Realty, led by Phillip Kakon, seeks to imbue some of the Montreal vibe and nightlife into the scene.
The Colliers' International South Florida team of Mitash Kripalani, Gerard Yetming and Julian Zuniga represented the sellers,<|fim_middle|> news from Colliers International in South Florida, follow us on Twitter (@ColliersSFL) and LinkedIn.
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Email: Paola@topofmind-pr.com | husband and wife Fahd and Kiran Mumtaz, in the sale of a 3,717 SF mixed-used warehouse for $3 Million on August 22, 2018.
With Wynwood already emerging as a global destination for a new generation of entrepreneurs, the building drew the attention of WYN Realty, based out of Montreal, Canada, looking to enter the Miami market, with Wynwood as their first location to launch. The transaction in Wynwood resulted in the team being able to bring the flavor of Montreal's restaurant life and "joi de vivre" into Wynwood's electric neighborhood. The buyer was represented by Jon Kotler, Owner and CEO of Realmont Group, a part of KW Elite Properties.
The closing of the deal illustrates the remarkable change in prices in the Wynwood area.
"This sale reflects a high watermark for the area," said Kripalani. "The buyer was looking for something special in the Wynwood area and this building seemed like a perfect fit for his concept. The close proximity to Moise Mana's planned Wynwood project was also very attractive."
Wynwood has been drawing tremendous interest from domestic and foreign buyers who want to have a presence in the neighborhood. The newest regulations established by the Neighborhood Revitalization District (NRD) plan is driven to transform Wynwood into a vibrant neighborhood with places to live and work, in addition to the existing businesses and restaurants. There are currently 2.3 million square feet of space under construction in Wynwood, many in the form of mixed-use projects, plus an additional 3.3 million square feet of proposed retail, office, multifamily and hotel developments. The area has seen $2.03 billion in commercial sales in the last 24 months.
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For the latest news from Colliers International, visit Colliers.com or follow us on Twitter (@Colliers) and LinkedIn. For the latest | 674 |
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Through the Crucible at Dixon Mills
Kevin Walsh
Hoboken and Jersey City are NYC's sixth and seventh boroughs.
Contrary to what you might see on my website forgotten-ny.com, I do get out of New York City on occasion. In fact, I have posted entries from San Francisco, Los Angeles and even London (my friend Allan Dade, who just passed away this week, supplied some classic bishop crook lampposts formerly in use in London and environs). Though residents of Hoboken and Jersey City would take issue with the sentiment, I think of both towns as New York's sixth and seventh boroughs since their architecture resembles New York's so much, at least in the older, more urban sections. I haven't done any comprehensive surveys in Newark just yet, but it's always in the back of my mind.
One recent foray into Jersey City began with a strange (to me) map notation on a Geographia Hudson County atlas, specifically, in Jersey City at Wayne and Monmouth Sts. just west of downtown. "D<|fim_middle|> oust the quill pen as affordable writing implements during the Civil War era, and Dixon Ticonderoga, its pencils with the familiar yellow color and green metal bands above the eraser, became along with Eberhard Faber, the leaders in American pencil manufacturing. By 1871 the company was producing 86,000 five-cent pencils per day.
Brooklyn also has many remnants of the old Faber pencil works still standing in Greenpoint, while the Faber family settled on the north shore of Staten Island, remembered today by Faber Park and Pool in Port Richmond.
Dixon didn't concentrate on strictly pencils, however; he created graphite stove polish, fast-color dyes, developed an early form of photolithography, and produced steel at the cluster of buildings seen here, which were built between 1845 and 1850 along Wayne St., Monmouth St., and what's now Christopher Columbus Boulevard. The building seen above was home to the company's offices.
The front of the complex was given an incongruous Moderne front entrance in the 1940s, but that in itself has attained classic status over the decades.
Dixon Ticonderoga, now located near Orlando, Florida, sold its Jersey City locale in 1986 and it was converted to a mixed use complex of 452 apartments, retail units, and a health club, known as Dixon Mills. Jersey City Architect James N. Lindemon did a creditable job preserving the complex's 19th-century touches, and added a couple of elements faithful to the spirit of the complex when it was one of America's leading manufacturers.
The other buildings in the complex aren't as fancy as the Romanesque office building—just good old solid brick construction and an unbroken line of windows. I love architecture like this (I've never lived in a building other than a brick building and probably never will)—it just looks impregnable, solid, timeless, and indestructible. This is the NE corner of Monmouth and Columbus. Note the new retro-style sign on the Columbus side, and the Real McCoy, faded but hanging in there, on the Monmouth side.
Christopher Columbus Dr., the northernmost east-west route in the Van Vorst Park area, was once known as North and South Railroad Ave. and featured an elevated trestle carrying the Pennsylvania Railroad to a Hudson River-side terminal and yard. The yards, terminal and trestle were torn down or paved over by the 1950s, and today the Harborside Financial Center sits on land where the yard used to be.
I've always been intrigued by factories that've been converted to residences, and high-end or not, I'm happy with what Dixon Mills has done here.
—Kevin Walsh is the webmaster of the award-winning website Forgotten NY, and the author of the books Forgotten New York and also, with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, Forgotten Queens.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty and the Catholic Gay Sex Scandals | ixon Crucible" it read, and I was drawn there just to see what this was all about.
A crucible is a vessel made of a refractory substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting and calcining materials at high temperatures, but it has a broader meaning as a severe test, or a situation or place that severely tests all those that experience it, such as the Depression or my tenure at the World's Biggest Store. That meaning of the word may or may not have been helped along by Arthur Miller's Cold War era play.
It turns out that "Dixon Crucible" turns out to be an incredibly handsome collection of brick buildings in a Romanesque style that used to be the world headquarters of one of the worlds' largest pencil companies, Dixon Ticonderoga.
In 1827, Marblehead, MA native Joseph Dixon (1799-1869) went into business manufacturing crucibles, containers that can withstand extremely high temperatures which, among other purposes, employ lead and graphite to make pencils, first developed in the 1800s as writing tools that employed dark-colored, lightly greasy substances including graphite. Pencils began to | 244 |
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An amazing desert trio
Adapted to the heat
by Matthew Cserhati
After the global upheaval of the Genesis Flood, the Earth's climate changed dramatically. Even after the Flood waters had receded, the oceans were still warm, causing substantial evaporation and precipitation. There was much volcanic dust, etc. in the air, reflecting sunlight and so cooling the land. All this led to the Ice Age.
The same would be true in principle for a number of other ways for animals to 'beat the heat', though it does not mean that every single kind of animal on the Ark was 'front-loaded' with genes for adapting to future desert conditions.
After a few centuries, the warmer oceans cooled, resulting in considerably less precipitation. Previously well-watered regions of the Earth became dry. Several parts of the world became deserts—such as the Sahara, which still shows evidence of its previous lush climate.1
To survive there, animal populations would have needed to adapt to these extremely hot and dry environments, and some clearly have. God did not create each of these well-adapted species separately. Many can still hybridize with similar species that are not desert-adapted, showing they are descended from the same Genesis kind.
That does not mean that the animals on the Ark had to display features ready to allow them to live in desert areas. Rather, creatures in general were created with lots of genetic variation, and for some kinds this would have included information for features that would be advantageous in very dry conditions. Natural selection in a desert environment would then eliminate creatures lacking this information, or at least its full expression, and thus increase the frequency of this information in the remaining population.
Adaptation to desert environments
One feature that is advantageous in a desert environment is small size. Smaller animals give off heat more easily than larger ones, and don't need to eat or drink as much. Another advantageous feature is slower metabolism. This can be done by something known as torpor. This is a temporary state of slower metabolism like hibernation, accompanied by lower body temperature. A third, easier way to literally escape the heat is simply to be active at night (nocturnal lifestyle) or at dawn/dusk (crepuscular lifestyle), and sleep during the day.
Table 1. Several similarities and unique traits between the sand cat, fennec, and mulgara.
Trait Sand cat Fennec Mulgara
Active time At dusk, night At night At night
Body size Smallest wild cat species Smallest fox species Similar to mouse
Burrows Present Present Present
Colouration Light brown to yellow Light reddish brown to yellow Brown
Diet Rodents, insects, snakes Rodents, insects, birds Rodents, insects, reptiles
Ears Large for prey detection, heat loss Large for prey detection, heat loss Average size
Distribution Sahara, Middle East, Central Asia Sahara, Arabian Peninsula Australian deserts and grasslands
Paws Fur on paws and between toes Furry paws No fur on paws
Torpor Unknown Unknown Present
Urine excretion Unknown Highly concentrated Highly concentrated
It's not hard<|fim_middle|> would be true in principle for a number of other ways for animals to 'beat the heat', though it does not mean that every single kind of animal on the Ark was 'front-loaded' with genes for adapting to future desert conditions.
Let's now look at a trio of fascinating animals well-adapted to desert environments.
The specialized sand cat
The sand cat (Felis margarita, shown on p. 29) is the only cat to live mainly in desert areas, far from water. The geographic range of the sand cat extends from the Sahara Desert to parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, but some live in captivity. Sand cats are one of the smallest species of cat in the wild. When the temperature gets too high in the day, they retreat to their burrows and are active only at dusk or at night.2
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The furry paws of the sand cat.
Sand cats have large, triangular ears (which also help to dissipate heat), and a wide external ear canal, which gives them a fine sense of hearing, up to five times better than other cats.3 This is needed to find prey including small rodents, insects, and even venomous snakes in underground burrows. Though they may drink water when near human habitation, they mostly get whatever water they need to survive from their food. Water is a byproduct from 'burning' of food, besides being present in the food itself.
Another interesting sand cat trait is the presence of pads of fur on its paws and between its toes to protect it from the scorching desert sand (shown on p. 30). Sand cats also have a light brown-yellow coat of fur which helps them camouflage themselves in their desert environment.
The phantom fennec fox
If the sand cat isn't exotic enough, it's as if this creature had a twin brother, the fennec fox (Vulpes zerda, above right). The fennec, the world's smallest fox species, overlaps geographically with the sand cat. It survives the desert heat in similar ways and has a similar diet.
It is light reddish brown to yellow and has large ears which give off heat and enable it to detect prey underneath the sand. Fennecs' ears can be as long as 40% of their own body length. As if these adaptive similarities were not enough, the fennec also has furry paws used for protection against the hot sand.
To release more heat, the fennec's breathing rate can rise from a mere 23 to an amazing 690 breaths per minute, thirty times faster!
Fennecs eat insects, rodents, lizards, birds, eggs, roots, fruits, and leaves. Like the sand cat, the fennec gets whatever water it needs from its food. The fennec also excretes highly concentrated urine in order to retain water.
Just like sand cats, fennecs are also active during the night when they hunt for their prey. During the day, they hide in their burrows to keep cool.4
The maverick mulgara
The crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda)
The last animal in our desert trio is the mulgara (below, also p. 28 left), found in the arid deserts and grasslands of Australia. It is a mouse-like marsupial—i.e. like kangaroos and koalas, the mother raises her young in a pouch on her belly. Its diet is made up of insects, reptiles, and small rodents, which it hunts at night. Like the fennec, the mulgara excretes very concentrated urine to retain water, since it rarely drinks. The two mulgara species are Dasycercus cristicauda, the crest-tailed mulgara, and the smaller brush-tailed mulgara (Dasycerus blythi).
The frequency and length of torpor varies in mulgaras based on their diet. Individuals which mainly eat vertebrates have shorter and fewer bouts of torpor than those which eat invertebrates, which have a lower energy content.5
These exact same combinations of adaptations are unlikely to have happened just by chance, as if two painters each independently painted a picture of the same objects without conferring beforehand.
Can evolution explain it?
Natural selection, as we've seen, is a real phenomenon that aids adaptation to an environment. This is likely how e.g. today's many different cat species—lions as well as sand cats—arose from one pair of their kind post-Flood, rapidly adapting to different ecological niches. But it can only 'choose' from genetic information that is present. It generates no new genes, instead it eliminates them.
Such examples of adaptation generally mean that the genetic information on which selection could act was already present on the Ark—even if not expressed or brought to the fore in the population.
Evolution, however, claims that all features in any animal arose by mutations (copying errors in the genes) over millions of years, on which selection could then act. But the likelihood of a random genetic change creating true design information is extremely small; observations confirm that mutations are, overall, degenerative.
How natural selection depletes information
In this simplified example using dogs, a single gene pair is shown under each dog as coming in two possible forms. One form of the gene (S) carries instructions for large size, the other (s) for small size.
In row 1, we start with medium-sized animals (Ss) interbreeding. Each of the offspring can get one of either gene from each parent to make up their two genes.
In row 2, we see that the resultant offspring can have either large (SS), medium (Ss) or small (ss) size. If in a desert environment, e.g., only the small-sized dogs survive, they will be the only ones to pass their genes on to the next generation (row 3). From then on, all the dogs will be a new, small variety. Note that these are better adapted to their environment, but no new genes have been added. In fact, genes have been lost from the population, i.e. there has been a loss of genetic information, the opposite of what microbe-to-man evolution needs in order to be credible.
So the population is more specialised but less able to adapt to future environmental changes (e.g. back to large size). Not only genes for larger size were lost, but potentially several other genes the larger animals carried if not represented in the surviving animals. Genes on their own are not selected; it's the whole creature and all the genes they carried.
At best, mutations could only explain trivial examples of adaptive change. In almost all cases, they are 'breaking' something, not 'making' something. For example, a mutation that stunts an animal's growth could be an advantage in the desert, but it is still breaking the growth mechanism, not creating anything new.
Change within preset limits
A better explanation is that the information needed for the adaptive features in these three animals was already present in the cat and dog kind, and the mulgara's kind,6 at creation and after the Flood. All cats obviously have genes for fur; these are in every cell of the body, but control mechanisms ensure they are only expressed where needed. A deleterious mutation in that mechanism, giving rise to fur on paws, would normally be selected against, but here would be an advantage, and thus selected for.
The genetic potential for a range of ear sizes was already there too; the animals with larger ears would have the advantage in desert conditions. Such change is not unlimited, however, since it is constrained by the information in the gene pool of the kind as a whole.
Evolution also has difficulty explaining why these three animals adapt to the heat in such very similar ways. See the list in Table 1 for comparison. For example, the sand cat and the fennec are both small, both have large ears and furry paws, and both have similar colouration and are both nocturnal. These exact same combinations of adaptations are unlikely to have happened just by chance, as if two painters each independently painted a picture of the same objects without conferring beforehand.
In summary, this amazing desert trio is no friend of evolutionary theory. Their ability to cope with extreme heat shows the marvellous handiwork and forethought of our Almighty Creator.
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Huang, G.T. and 3 others, Mammalian ear specializations in arid habitats: structural and functional evidence from sand cat (Felis margarita), J. Comp. Physiol. A: Neuroethol. Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 188(9):663–81, 2002. Return to text.
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Pavey, C.R. and 3 others, Vertebrate diet decreases winter torpor use in a desert marsupial, Naturwissenschaften 96(6):679–83, 2009. Return to text.
Possibly incorporating quolls and Tasmanian devils. Return to text.
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The sand cat (Felis margarita)
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Ty Sunkel and his wife, Sarah, opened the facility about four years ago. Their daughter, Taylor, works in the front office and their son, Cole, is a technician.
"We're a family-owned shop and care about customers," said Ty. "We treat people like we want to be treated."
Ty and Sarah learned about 1Collision after attending the 2022 SEMA Show in Las Vegas in November.
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Added Ty, "I went to SEMA this year looking for someone to partner with. I met Jim Keller and after an hour-long conversation, I said, 'This is my guy. This is the guy who can help us get to the next level.'"
Ty has worked in the collision industry for more than 30 years. In 2018, he opened Bremerton Collision. When business slowed down due to the pandemic, Ty and Sarah found a larger building to remodel in downtown Bremerton about five miles away from where they were operating. They moved into the 5,000-square-foot location in May 2021. Since then, they have grown their business and currently have seven employees.
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The shop is also going through the process of becoming I-CAR Gold Class.
"I pretty much eat, breathe and sleep the business right now," he said.
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"You have to keep your head up and look around and see what everybody else is doing," he said. "One of the things I tell my guys all the time, especially my office people, is I'm not worried about fixing cars today, but how are we going to do a better job tomorrow and even better next month?"
The Sunkels recently acquired an office in a building adjacent to their current shop and are going to be moving the office into that location in January. Long-term goals include opening a possible second location in 2023.
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Jack Ma Foundation-promoted Africa Business Heroes Competition has announced top 20 finalists for its 2020 prize and will be selecting top 10 startups among them to pitch at the grand finale.
The 2020 Africa's Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, a flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation's<|fim_middle|> the African entertainment, sports and entrepreneurship scene – including Anita Erskine, UN SDG Advocate and ANPI's Brand Ambassador and Official Host of "Africa's Business Heroes" program; NBA Hall of Fame inductee and philanthropist Dikembe Mutombo; Sean Tong, Partner at Boyu Capital Advisory and Jack Ma Foundation's Board Member; and the top three finalists from last year's debut edition of ABH, Temie Giwa-Tubosun, Omar Sakr and Christelle Kwizera.
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Kitchener Rangers centre Radek Faksa on fast track to NHL
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By Daniel Girard<|fim_middle|> widely considered to be one of the NHL's best two-way players. "There are a lot of scouts watching me.
"It's harder, faster and better for my future when I want to play in the NHL."
Spott's track record with solid, two-way forwards in Kitchener includes veterans Derek Roy of Buffalo and Mike Richards of the L.A. Kings as well as Carolina's Jeff Skinner and Colorado Avalanche Gabriel Landeskog, both of whom are playing in the NHL this season as teenagers. The coach thinks Faksa has an opportunity to follow the lead of those two youngest players.
"He's very humble," Spott says. "I don't think he understands how good he is."
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Radek Faksa
Born: Jan. 9, 1994
Hometown: Opava, Czech Republic
Height: 6-foot-3
Weight: 202 pounds
2011-12 stats:
GP: 48; Goals: 23; Assists: 28; Points: 51; Plus/Minus: plus-18 PIM: 35
• Played for the Czech Republic at both the 2011 world U18 championship in Germany and the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in the Czech Republic.
• Had two goals in six games at the 2012 world junior Hockey championship as the Czech Republic lost 2-1 to Russia in overtime of the quarter-finals and went on to finish fifth.
• Named OHL rookie of the month for November and January. | Sports Reporter
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Radek Faksa has a soft spot for Boston cream doughnuts and blue Gatorade.
As the NHL entry draft approaches, those may be his only weaknesses.
The 18-year-old centre from the Czech Republic, who is in his rookie season with the Kitchener Rangers of the OHL, is big, strong, fast, offensively gifted and more than capable of taking care of things in his own zone.
"We know he's a world-class offensive player," says Rangers head coach and general manager Steve Spott, who took Faksa 22nd overall in the 2011 CHL import draft. "But I think what makes him attractive to NHL scouts is the fact he might play earlier than expected because he's able to defend at what I consider an elite level right now."
Faksa, a native of Opava in the northern Czech Republic, is widely projected as a high first-round pick at the draft next June in Pittsburgh. NHL Central Scouting ranked him fourth among draft-eligible skaters in North America at mid-season.
"I was very surprised when I saw those rankings," says Faksa, who leads all OHL rookies in goals and points. "But the season's not over, so I must keep working hard.
"It's always been my wish to be drafted in the top 10 but I've got too much work to do between now and then."
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I've had my fair share of rock bottom moments over the years, and I know that you have, too.
The ones that (literally) bring you to your knees, that make you feel as though your spirit is shattered in a million pieces.
If there is one thing I honour so much about each and every person I come across, it's their story.
Even if I don't know what it is, I know they<|fim_middle|> about what needs to change. And then, be brave with the answers. You have SO got this. You are more capable than you have ever been taught to believe.
Take your power back, and make the most of the fact that you have a very precious human life! | have one. And I know with certainty, that they have had just as many challenges as the rest of us.
We each get delivered the exact set of hardships that we need – to grow us!
I like to think of them as 'cosmic wake-up calls'.
And looking back at my own life, I know that each of my cosmic wake-up calls was exactly what I needed, to wake me and shake me into CHANGE.
Change and transformation, so that I could move forward into my full self, into the life and purpose that wants to be lived through me.
Because the thing about change is, we often deeply resist it. Even when we're getting all the warning signs, all the nudges … we still resist.
But so often, your weary heart, tired mind, exhausted body, and crying spirit, are simply begging you to make change. And this is when things happen to shove us into that change.
Our entire being trying to wake us up, so that we can create the lives that are destined for us.
So, amazing human, rather than berating your symptoms, your body, your circumstances, your struggles, and your challenges … why not lean in to them, ask them what they want you to know, and then be brave enough to follow the intuitive wisdom that you receive.
(Warning: if you do this, you may just end up manifesting the exact life that your spirit truly wants!).
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Jamie xx, Alexandra Palace, review: 'brilliantly unique'
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Jamie xx is the new, self-effacing face of rave. Twenty-seven years after Balearic euphoria first gripped the hearts, minds and dancefloors of the Home Counties, 8,000 young professionals piled into the cavernous Alexandra Palace to the strains of one of Britain's most exciting, polymathic artists.
At just 26, the south Londoner (whose real name is Jamie Smith) already has a frighteningly impressive CV: not only has he had two hit albums with his austere indie band the xx, but he's also produced and remixed R'n'B stars such as Alicia Keys and Drake, presided over a striking reworking of the late soul singer Gil Scott-Heron's final studio album I'm New Here, and composed a score for a modern ballet at the Manchester International Festival.
Last year, he released his debut solo record, In Colours. Fusing the xx's nocturnal navel-gazing indie, the warm glitch of electronic producer Burial and proper pop-dance music, it revels in the ghosts of raves past, veering between steel-drum-laced jubilation and murky, dislocated melancholy.
Jamie xx's inspired musical alchemy is evident on tracks such as I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times), which samples The Persuasions and sees rapper Young Thug and dancehall vocalist Popcaan bounce off each other to fashion something brilliantly unique. The album was rightly nominated for a Mercury Prize and a Brit, and Jamie xx is now a hugely in-demand club DJ.
And yet, despite the acclaim, last night he cut a reluctant star on stage, grooving unassumingly behind his decks as strafing lasers shot out into the crowd. None of his collaborators on In Colours – such as his xx bandmate Romy Madley Croft – were invited along; this was all about Jamie xx the DJ. Taking in his best tracks, as well some other people's too, his near-two-hour set paid its dues to jungle, reggae, dubstep and house.
From the second he launched into a remix of David Bowie's Let's Dance, the audience was in a state of glee, two-pint-sized glasses<|fim_middle|> loud places/To search for someone to be quiet with."
Some tracks lost their sense of intimacy in the vastness of Alexandra Palace, it's true. But no matter. In an age when the bland, basic likes of James Bay are celebrated with Brit Awards, Jamie xx is anything but. | held aloft among the inevitable sea of mobile phones. Moments drawn from In Colour commanded the most attention, whether it was on the jittery, jungle-inflected two-step of Gosh or the elegiac Loud Places in which Croft sings, "I go to | 53 |
Q: How does wikipedia turn key words into links? I'm trying to code something in Node.js<|fim_middle|> help about links and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links for more details for links in MediaWiki in general.
| where I have a model called "tags". Say I want to see whenever a user types a tag in a comment, and turn that into a link to the relevant tag page.
For example, a user enters a comment: "What is a chicken?", and "chicken" turns into a link to the "chicken" tag page.
My current approach is to parse the text against database queries to the tag model, but this seems like a bad way, not to mention dealing multiple word tags like "chicken soup" etc...
Thanks so much for the help! I imagine wikipedia's got a good way of doing this.
A: Actually it is not a bad idea. I have built many apps that do exactly that. Typically I use Redis or Memcache to build my search lists and I wait until I see a "space" before I query. In another app I wanted it to be more sensitive so we set it to space or over three characters to make my query.
If you support multiple words as a tag, which is equally common as single word only tags, then same rule applies but don't initiate the tag until the user clicks enter or on the tag.
Play with tags on Stackexchange and you can see the common UX behavior that you would expect. These are queried on the fly...
A: On Wikipedia, all the links are added manually by editors. So while answering your question, I am sorry it will not help you further. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking for English Wikipedia | 313 |
Can I change the colour, wording or text of your stationery?
You can change all of these items on our cards. Each one is individually handmade so we can tailor the designs to your requests. Please just ask!
How long do I need to allow for the wedding stationery to be made?
After receiving an order we contact you for all of the wording, font and colour choices for your stationery. We create a proof for you to sign off which takes around a week. After you have signed this off, please allow at least 2-4 weeks for your order to be complete. We usually recommend sending out invitations 2-3 months before the wedding so allow approx an extra 4 weeks on top of this for your stationery! This allows enough time for any alterations or confirming final details etc. Having said all of this we do understand you may be working to a tighter timescale, this is fine - please contact us to ensure we can fit it into our schedule.
The prices above assume delivery would normally occur in two stages, invitations and rsvp cards first, and menus, order of service, place cards and any other 'on the day' items nearer the time of the wedding. Any further splits in delivery may incur additional charges. If you live locally orders can be collected with prior appointment.
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When should I send out my invitations to guests?
We recommend sending invitations at least 8-12 weeks before your wedding day to give guests time to make travel and accommodation arrangements. This will also allow time for you to receive acceptances. If you want to let people know the date well in advance, but don't have all the details finalised, why not send save-the-date cards and then follow up with an invitation later. | is usual to order one menu per couple, although 2 & 3 per table is acceptable.
Are envelopes and inserts included in the price of the stationery?
Yes envelopes and are provided where required. This is typically for invitations, save the dates, rsvps and thank you cards. Inserts are provided in all the stationery we provide which is included in the prices shown.
Can I have a sample of a particular design?
Yes of course - we charge just £1 for a sample, this will be an example invitation in your chosen design. If you'd rather have a sample of another item, e.g. a menu just let us know and we'll do this for you.
Can I choose the size of the stationery?
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The Domestic Soundscape » Archive » On Woman's Hour!
This morning I was on Woman's Hour speaking about my work with sounds. I was nominated for this honour by my amazing friend Kate Davies, whose inspiring interview aired yesterday. Our interviews are links in a chain started by Maylin Scott for Listener Week. Maylin recommended Kate, Kate recommended me, I have nominated the wonderful Lara for tomorrow, and so it goes… a chain of interviews with women, connected by female friendships and yarn: HURRAH!
Because I spend so much time editing audio, I am an infrequent listener to day-time radio. However, no feminist professing an interest in women's lives could be ignorant of the amazing National Institution that is BBC Woman's Hour. It was on Woman's Hour that I first discovered the artist Bobby Baker – one of my all time favourite art heroines; and it was while listening to Alison Lapper speaking about representations of disability on Woman's Hour that I was inspired to produce my own radio show about disability entitled The Missability Radio Show. It was a big deal for me to be on there!
I spoke about some very early work I did using the sounds of knitting, and I also spoke about some of the sounds recorded for a more recent project, Listening to Shetland Wool. Jane Garvey asked me about my current work in the Charles Dickens Museum, which celebrates Catherine Dickens.
I cannot tell you how happy I was to hear the baas of Shetland Sheep on Woman's Hour, and to have an opportunity to talk up the mischief and camaraderie of the days when I learnt to knit again in the august company of The Oxford Bluestockings. It seems crazy to imagine that it was a decade ago that I met these amazing women and we ranted together in the pub over our knitting projects.
With some of the Oxford Bluestockings comrades at the end of I Knit London, 2007!
It was through The Oxford Bluestockings that I discovered the world of online knitting blogs, and needled – the (then) online home of Kate Davies Designs. In her glorious writing I felt I had discovered a kindred spirit; a comrade whose thirst to critically engage with everyday objects, textiles and women's history was underscored by a deep, feminist conviction in their cultural significance. When we finally met in real life, I discovered that as well as having closely aligned academic interests, we also shared a raucous sense of humour, a love of good, strong tea; of woolly wool; of fine cheeses; and of setting the world to rights. I was then working on the Fantastical Reality Radio Show in association with Mundane Appreciation, and Kate let me record her descriptions of producing the perfect cup of tea and the contents of her handbag for two radio features: Perfect Tea and What's In Your Handbag?
Kate's interview yesterday filled me with joy for other shared memories; she mentioned our woolly tour of Sussex and Kent, during which we crushed M&Ms and mud into the footwells of the KNITSONIK mobile; I gave<|fim_middle|> We camped in Buttermere with Tom and Kate and attended WOOLFEST in nearby Cockermouth. We spoke of wool and sheep shades; ranted late into the night about the state of the British Wool Industry; met with sheep breeders and their animals; and filled our tents with our glorious hauls of WOOL.
Many of my own subsequent projects – WOVEMBER, HÛRD and Listening to Shetland Wool – grew out of those times; I also cannot help feeling that some of the rich love for WOOL fostered on that trip can be detected in Kate's glorious Buachaille yarn.
A huge amount has happened since I first met the Oxford Bluestockings and met Kate through her blog.
Marriages, babies, house-moves, PhDs, serious illnesses, changes of jobs, publishing projects, art projects and more have filled our lives so that now it seems much harder than it once was to get together en masse and put the world to rights over our knitting.
However, it is hard to overstate the rich influence of the ever-widening sisterhood of wool and, doing today's interview, in the friendship-themed context of the Woman's Hour chain, I found myself reflecting on how unimaginably poor my life would be without it. I do not know what sort of work I would be making and doing without the shaping force of my fellow knitting buddies whose supportive words, abilities to survive crises together, amazing online writings, keen critical minds and ceaseless creative powers have never ceased to amaze and inspire me.
July 12, 2016 | Filed under knitting, Listening, Making, wool and tagged with Kate Davies, Louise Scollay, Oxford Bluestockings, radio 4, Woman's Hour.
15 Responses to On Woman's Hour!
I loved hearing you today and Kate yesterday, you're both great ambassadors for knitting!
Thank you Jenny, I am so glad you think so. I also want to say props to Woman's Hour for this one. There is far too much clownshoes coverage of knitting in the mainstream media, but I feel the team at Woman's Hour have done us proud this time round. They let us talk about our work in our own way and to give context to our knitting; they asked great questions; they edited sensitively and they did not create some kind of comedy intro as so many radio and media features on knitting sadly often do. HURRAH FOR WOMAN'S HOUR!!!
It was brilliant listening to you and Kate on Women's Hour, as Jenny said above, you're both great ambassadors for knitting and sheepy wool appreciation. I loved listening to the sound of the Shetland mantle clock. Thank you for such a great interview.
Such a pleasure listening to you and Kate this week. Can hardly believe how long ago I came across your work- through PYF – and how opened up the sonic world to me. Wonderful to hear the sisterly love.
So wonderful to hear your interview and very excited you nominated Lara! And so great to hear you talk about Oxford bluestockings!
Such a wonderful interview! I downloaded the MP3 file and listened to it last night. I was very interested in Catherine Dickens's life. Love your unique approach to sounds, knitting and people's lives. Thank you!
AMEN TO THIS! I LOVE THIS POST!
So much love for good times, knitting love, amazing friendships, creative ideas and very strong beverages. I also was thinking of our trip to Edinburgh when we went to see Kate, messy Tuesdays and lots of our beautiful conversations.
Hurrah for the bluestockings and for knitting drawing us all together in the first place! It was an honour to be on woman's hour – thanks so much for nominating me!
This is a lovely post. I can't wait to go out and find the recording of your interview!
I think this is so encouraging to Woman thank you for all your hard work in the knitting and wool industry . | Kate the shakes with a legendary pot of espresso-strength leaf tea; and we got lost in the endless marshes of Romney.
In those muddy, joyous, oomska-laden days we hatched a harebrained scheme to produce a zine with Lara, entitled "The Knitting Forecast". It was to be a self-published zine chock-full of feminist content and articles documenting the extraordinary history of knitting and the British Wool Industry. "The Knitting Forecast" never saw the light of day as our respective research projects and PhDs and jobs did not afford sufficient time for its production. However, many of our ideas for articles later appeared on the WOVEMBER website which we co-founded some years later, and which is now run by myself and another glorious comrade from the world of wool, Louise Scollay.
The glorious Louise Scollay, my comrade in knitting punditry and Wovembering – knitter, podcaster, Shetlander and champion of British knitting!
In 2009, Oxford Bluestockings Liz, Lara and I drove up to the Lake District in the KNITSONIK mobile. | 237 |
Cady Ross (#28) steps on home plate after her grand slam home run gave the softball Eagles an 8-0 lead in the fourth inning of Vienna's win over Goreville.
The Vienna High School softball team picked up its fourth straight win last Monday with a 3-2 victory over Elverado, in a BDC contest at Vienna. The Eagles' season record now stands at 16-8.
Against the Falcons, Vienna broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Allie Penrod led off with a base hit to rightfield. One batter later, Maranda Chance got an infield hit before Cady Ross tripled to right-center, driving in two runs. Ross scored when the next batter, Carley Childress hit a hard ground ball off the pitcher's glove, giving Vienna a 3-0 lead. Elverado scored both of their runs in the top of the seventh. They had the tying run on third before the final batter grounded out to end the game.
Emily VanAusdoll went the distance in the circle to improve her record to 11-2.
Top hitters for Vienna: Chance 2-3; Childress 2-3 (RBI); McKibben 2-3; Ross 2-3 (2 RBI).
On Tuesday of last week, the Eagles lost to Hardin County in non-conference action at Vienna, by the score of 6-4.
The contest was a "Pink Out" game for cancer awareness, with all the proceeds going to Karli Cowsert, a member of the Lady Cougars softball team.
Hardin County tallied a run in their first at-bat and the score stayed 1-0 until Vienna tied it in the bottom of the second when Sarah Nelson led off with a single to left field, then scored on an RBI double by Emily VanAusdoll. In the bottom of the fourth, a single by Nelson, a walk to Alice Ann Kotter, and a well executed squeeze bunt single by Maranda Chance put the Eagles ahead 2-1.
Hardin County answered with a four run fifth inning, then added another run in the sixth to take a 6-2 lead. The Eagles rallied to get within 6-4 in the bottom of the seventh on another bunt single by Chance and a walk to Cady Ross. They both crossed the plate when Carley Childress hit a fly ball that the Lady Cougars' rightfielder misplayed, but Vienna could get no closer.
Sarah Nelson pitched the complete game and took the loss. Maranda Chance, Sarah Nelson, and Emily VanAusdoll each had two hits for the Eagles.
Vienna's Katie White slides safely into second for a stolen base during the second inning of the Eagles' win over Goreville, in softball action last Thursday at Vienna.
On the next day, the Eagles returned to the win column with a 4-0 victory over visiting Pope County.
Vienna grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Alice Ann Kotter drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to centerfield. Emily VanAusdoll led off the bottom of the fourth with a single to center. Pinch runner Kayler Hunt stole second, then scored on a base hit by Kotter, giving the Eagles a 2-0 lead.
Vienna<|fim_middle|> 8-0.
Goreville got on the board in the top of the fifth on a triple by Kaylee Webb and an RBI groundout by Alexis Massey. Vienna closed out the scoring with a run in the bottom of the frame on consecutive singles by Chance, Ross and Childress to make the 9-1 final score.
The Lady Blackcats started to rally in the top of the sixth with two runners on and one out, but Vienna ended the threat when shortstop Childress fielded a ground ball, stepped on second, then threw the batter out at first to complete a double play.
Head coach Marc Palmer was pleased with the team's play. He said, " We did everything we were supposed to do. We hit, we fielded, we played well." He also said, "Cady's grand slam was big and Sarah Nelson pitched a very good game." The Eagles had 12 hits and took advantage of six Goreville errors.
Top hitters for Vienna: Childress 3-4 (RBI); Kotter 2-4 (RBI); Stout 2-3; Ross 2-4 (4 RBI); White 2-4.
Vienna travelled to Hamilton County on the next day, where the Eagles notched a 16-4 win in five innings.
The Eagles scored four times in their first at bat before Hamilton County plated three runs in the bottom of the first.
Vienna scored six runs in the top of the second, then added another in the third to push its lead to 11-3. The Lady Foxes made it 11-4 with a run in the bottom of the third, but that ended their scoring.
The Eagles tallied four more runs in the fourth inning, then closed out the scoring with a run in the fifth to make the final margin.
Emily VanAusdoll pitched the complete game and recorded six strikeouts.
Top hitters for Vienna: Chance 2-3 (3 RBI); Childress 3-4 (3 RBI); Ross 3-4 (2 RBI). | closed out the scoring with a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Maranda Chance started things off with a double down the leftfield line. After Cady Ross grounded out, Carley Childress delivered an RBI single to left. Sarah Nelson followed with a base hit, then Childress came in to score on a pop out to short rightfield by VanAusdoll. Pope County threatened in the top of the seventh when they had two runners on and no outs, but the Eagles turned a ground ball into a double play, then the next batter flew out to left field ending the game.
Emily VanAusdoll went the distance in the circle to pick up the win. Carley Childress had a hit and drove in a run, Alice Ann Kotter was 1-3 with two RBIs, and Katie White had two hits for the Eagles.
Last Thursday, the Eagles used a big fourth inning to defeat Goreville, 9-1, in a game played at Vienna.
Vienna plated the first run of the game in the bottom of the third inning. Cassidy Stout led off with a bunt single. She scored two batters later when Carley Childress was safe on an error, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the fourth, Vienna broke the game open by scoring seven runs. Emily VanAusdoll tripled to right-center and Katie White got an infield hit before Alice Ann Kotter followed with an RBI single to rightfield. Courtney Sanders singled, then Stout again bunted her way on to load the bases. The next batter, Maranda Chance, reached on an error to bring in another run, making Vienna's lead 3-0, with the bases still loaded. Cady Ross then cleared the bases with a grand slam home run over the left-centerfield fence. A triple to center by Childress and a double by Sarah Nelson, who pitched the complete game victory, produced another run, putting the Eagles ahead | 399 |
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Cyanogen --not an app, but possibly the best thing you can do for your Android. I have noticed a nice speedup and have used a lot of the tools included with Cyanogen to debug things and poke around, just scratching the surface of what this makes possible.
A task killer. I have been using Advanced Task Killer only because it is the first search result. Before installing Cyanogen I was using something else, which worked equally well. One of these apps is essential, particularly with the limited CPU and RAM on ADP1/G1. Nearly all apps are not worth running backgrounded on this phone. I kill all tasks when things are slow. The mentioned app has a nice big "kill all" button.
Maps -- best<|fim_middle|> I look forward to ending my ATT contract this summer at which point I'll probably buy the fastest iteration of Android phone that is available. | mobile mapping experience I've seen thus far -- "Navigate" and Buzz are nice additions.
Power widget in Android 1.6+ -- quick access to power for the various radios, brightness, syncing.
Listen -- podcast receiver from google labs.
Google Talk -- clean enough to run in background on ADP1/G1.
Calendar -- included app with sync to web.
Included "music" app -- could use some polish, but it works.
Bluetooth -- not an app, but the bluetooth audio support blows me away. I just get in my car, and press play in any music app. All audio goes through car speakers. I use this all the time.
Obvious missing item: mail client. I used K9 for a while, but have mostly given up. The ADP1/G1 is too slow for ~2000 item IMAP. Prove me wrong.
I have some other things that are handy somtimes, but not regularly. These include Amazon, Barcode Scanner, ConnectBot, OpenTable, Paypal- nice when you forget wallet :), Pixelpipe, Voice, Twitdroid.
I've been pretty satisfied with the ADP1 in the ~1 year I've had it. It has left me more impressed than everything I've owned prior including n97 and iPhone. | 266 |
Mark Spudie
This guy 'put out fires,' literally
July 17, 2019 By Brian Fernandes
Mark Spudie, a former battalion chief for Pasco County Fire Rescue, dedicated 30 years of his life in the work of fighting fires.
He hung up his gear on May 30 — walking the corridors of Wesley Chapel's Fire Station 13 for the last time as part of the county's team.
"I wasn't ready to go," Spudie said. "I would have worked a few more years if I could have, and mainly because of the people there."
Battalion Chief Mark Spudie stands near a fire engine at Wesley Chapel's Fire Station 13, where he served before recently wrapping up his 30-year career. (Courtesy of Mark Spudie)
He said his grandfather was a volunteer firefighter, but that didn't spur him to dream about working in the field, while he was growing up in New York.
Indeed, it wasn't until he had moved to Florida in 1984, and had worked in construction for five years, that he decided to pursue a career in firefighting.
He attributes the interest to a desire to find a line of work that was more stable than construction. A friend recommended he pursue firefighting.
So, in 1989, he joined Fire Station 19 in New Port Richey.
Over the years, he worked at stations in New Port Richey, the Lutz-Land O' Lakes area, Hudson and, finally, in Wesley Chapel.
As he made his moves, he climbed through the ranks, taking on titles as driver engineer and lieutenant.
He also witnessed the county's transformation over time.
"<|fim_middle|> as well as Chief Mark Spudie, Fire Marshal Karl Thompson and Deputy Fire Chief of Operations Mike Cassano in cutting a big red ribbon.
In a closing remark, Cassin said, "It's time now to make new memories and turn the page to the next chapter in our history."
After that, those attending were welcomed inside for a tour and refreshments.
Filed Under: Local News, Wesley Chapel/New Tampa News Tagged With: AED, Carin Hetzler-Nettles, CPR, Cypress Creek Middle High School, Dayflower Boulevard, Jackie Parker, Jeff Steinsnyder, Karl Thompson, Mark Spudie, Mike Cassano, Mike Moore, Old Pasco Road, Sam Mazzeo, Scott Cassin, Station 13, Wesley Chapel | Back when I first started, there was very few structures out there on State Road 54," Spudie said. "Now, it's all commercialized and very populated."
By 2001, he was serving at Lutz Station 23 where he spent the bulk of his career. And, like the rest, this station had a major positive impact on him, he noted.
He moved to the Lutz station during the same year as the Sept. 11 attacks.
While thousands of miles away from the devastation, Spudie said he felt a sense of "brotherhood" among all firefighters during the nation's ordeal.
While local citizens had already been in the habit of swinging by the station to offer cookies, or a simple "thank you," Spudie said the community's support ramped up even more after 9/11.
"It gave the community a new appreciation on what we [do] on a regular basis — how you risk your life to save somebody else's," he said.
Spudie doesn't view himself as a hero.
But, he acknowledged there were times during his career when he dealt with issues of life and death.
There are some calls he will never forget.
In one instance, he rushed into a burning building and pulled out a young boy, but despite those efforts, the boy passed away.
Part of the job meant being able to console victims, who are faced with the prospect of putting the pieces of their lives back together.
But, Spudie said he was glad to be part of a fire rescue community that found ways to respond quickly to community needs, and who enjoyed a sense of camaraderie with each other.
"I'm impressed with our guys and personnel because we've been doing so much with so little for so long," Spudie said. "It is like a family after a while. You just get real close and look out for each other. It's a bond you never lose."
Like many seasoned firefighters, Spudie took advantage of the Deferred Retirement Option Plan after being promoted to battalion chief.
The program allowed him to work five additional years before retiring and this year marked the end of his service.
On his last day of duty, in fact, he joined dignitaries in the ceremonial ribbon cutting for the new Station 13.
"It was very bittersweet," Spudie said. "I knew the day I walked out that door, it was going to be totally different from then on."
Filed Under: Local News, Wesley Chapel/New Tampa News Tagged With: Fire Station 13, Fire Station 19, Lutz Station 23, Mark Spudie, New Port Richey, Pasco County Fire Rescue, State Road 54
New Wesley Chapel fire station comes with more offerings
June 5, 2019 By Brian Fernandes
Wesley Chapel now has Pasco County's second largest fire station, and the opening of Station 13 was celebrated at a ribbon cutting on May 30.
The 9,400-square-foot station, off Old Pasco Road and Dayflower Boulevard, became operational several weeks before the celebration because the original station — which had been next to it — was torn down.
With scissors in hand, from left: Chief Mark Spudie, Fire Marshal Karl Thompson, Chief Scott Cassin, Pasco County Commissioner Mike Moore, Pasco County Attorney Jeff Steinsnyder and Deputy Fire Chief of Operations Mike Cassano, get ready to officiate the opening of Station 13 with the traditional ribbon cutting. The ceremony took place on May 30 outside the new station in Wesley Chapel. (Brian Fernandes)
Despite the blistering heat, a crowd of firefighters, county officials and local residents gathered for the event.
The new station improves the county's ability to respond to emergencies in the growing Wesley Chapel community.
"The new station is much larger [and] able to accommodate more firefighters," explained Chief Scott Cassin, who oversees all county stations. "We were just maxed out over at the old station. It was too small for the growing community around here."
The $3.5 million project was funded by the Penny for Pasco program.
Station 13 has three drive-thru bays, which can accommodate five vehicles, including a fire engine, an ambulance, a tanker and a brush truck.
Each rotating shift will be staffed by six firefighters, which includes one paramedic. A battalion chief also will be on duty.
The station is designed to house 10 firefighters, each with their own bunkrooms. The station also has a physical fitness area and a kitchen. There's also a storage space for equipment.
And, there's a sheriff's substation.
"The station is also environmentally friendly, energy-efficient and storm-hardened, which are all critical elements in today's infrastructure," the chief added.
Members of the Pasco County Fire Department are all smiles as they celebrate the official opening of Fire Station 13 in Wesley Chapel. Department members, as well as county officials and residents, were present for the ribbon cutting ceremony on May 30.
In addition to safety precautions, all vehicles will be hooked up to a diesel exhaust extraction system. With this, exhaust fumes will be vented out from the trucks to the outdoors.
"That way none of that diesel exhaust is in the air that we're breathing," Cassin said.
Many in the community came out to celebrate the opening, including Cypress Creek Middle-High School Principal Carin Hetzler-Nettles and student Sam Mazzeo.
"We have an incredible partnership with Station 13," Hetzler-Nettles said. "They are our responding station."
The importance of the station's proximity to the school was evident last year when Mazzeo suffered a cardiac arrest on the school field.
An AED machine and CPR had to be used at the school to keep Mazzeo's heart going before the firefighters arrived and rushed him to the hospital.
"I appreciate all the work you did," the 18-year-old said, before the staff.
As a token of gratitude, the principal and senior student presented the station with a framed No. 13 Cypress Creek sports jersey.
Pasco County Commissioner Mike Moore, who oversees the district where the station is located, offered a few words.
"This station means an improved level of service for both our citizens and our fire rescue team to serve one of the fastest-growing areas in the state, and actually the country," Moore said.
He also added: "When I first came on as a county commissioner, one of the things we promised was we were going to make public safety one of our top priorities. I'm confident that we've done that, and we'll continue to do that."
The newly erected Fire Station 13 stands off Old Pasco Road in Wesley Chapel. The facility is the second largest station in Pasco County with new amenities for a safer environment and shorter waiting times in emergencies.
Jackie Parker was one of many who endured the sweltering heat to join the occasion.
She has been living in Wesley Chapel for more than 40 years and hasn't had concerns about safety – knowing Station 13 is not far away.
"The department here has been quick to respond to needs in the community, and they're very efficient," she mentioned.
In fact, Parker witnessed the building of the original station in 1979, recalling when the antique fire trucks used to be parked on residents' yards.
More Pasco residents will be put at ease when Wesley Chapel's Station 38 will be opened late summer this year.
The opening of the sister station will reduce Station 13's coverage zone, enabling quicker response times, Cassin said.
The occasion was marked with a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony.
With scissors handy, Commissioner Moore and County Attorney Jeff N. Steinsnyder, joined Chief Cassin, | 1,620 |
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Four Steps to Hi-Res Heaven
Al Griffin | Apr 21, 2015
The difference between regular and high-definition video is something that most folks will immediately recognize when they see it. But what about high-resolution audio? Unlike HDTV, which caught on fairly quickly and enjoyed a broad base of support from program providers and hardware manufacturers, hi-res audio or HRA, (now an industry-sanctioned term) has struggled to move out of its audiophile niche since downloadable content first came online back in 2008.
That may be changing, thanks in part to some unusual media attention. Most music fans are familiar with Neil Young and his extensive music catalogue. But many didn't know until recently that Young has been a vocal opponent of the CD, which he has long derided as a low-resolution format that sucks the "life" out of studio master recordings. As for compressed audio formats like MP3 and AAC, forget it; in Young's estimation, they don't even rate.
But, rather than simply gripe about the situation, Young took decisive action to, in his words, "rescue the art form that I've been practicing for the past 50 years." The result is Pono, an end-to-end solution for delivering hi-res audio to like-minded music enthusiasts who crave better-than-CD-quality playback. But while Pono has been the most high-profile of all the HRA developments, it's actually just the latest addition to an expanding ecosystem of HRA music services, software applications, and hardware.
We previewed Pono in detail last year, and you can get an update on it here in the sidebar. But let's first define HRA and dive into the details of how it can deliver sound that's better than what we're used to hearing on CDs, not to mention via compressed downloads and streaming services.
I Wanna Get High, So High
As with HDTV, which bumps up the number of pixels used to display video images from around 300,000 to just over 2 million, the benefits of hi-res audio are easy to appreciate when you check the specs on paper. The CD format samples audio files at a 44.1-kilohertz rate (44,100 times a second) with 16-bit encoding. With digital audio, that first number, the sampling rate, is critical because it defines how frequently the recording system looks at the original analog signal coming from the microphone(s) or analog master tape. Having more samples means less time between them, so there's less guesswork to fill in the gaps later when the signal is reconstructed for playback on your speakers or headphones. The second number is the signal's bit depth; it defines how many possible codes are available to describe the signal's amplitude (i.e., loudness) for any particular sample. Every additional bit adds exponentially more options, which yields a reconstructed signal with finer resolution and less rounding error.
What makes hi-res audio different is that hi-res systems sample the original analog signal at a much higher frequency than CD—usually either 96 or 192 kHz—and typically with 24-bit encoding. DSD, another high-resolution format used for downloads from a few online services, taps the same technology employed for SACD, a format that, along with DVD-Audio, made a failed attempt for major-label and public acceptance back in the early 2000s. DSD uses only a 1-bit sample size, but collects samples at either 2.8 or 5.6 megahertz—that is, 2.8 or 5.6 million times per second.
In 2014, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) partnered with major labels to come up with a formal specification for hi-res, one that would differentiate it from CD-quality audio. It is now defined as "lossless audio that is capable of reproducing the full range of sound from recordings that have been mastered from better-than-CD-quality music sources." ("Lossless" meaning that the final source as played back is equivalent to an uncompressed signal.) The CEA breaks down those sources into four categories of "Master Quality Recordings":
• MQ-P: from a PCM master source that is 48-kHz/20-bit or higher (typically 96/24 or 192/24 content)
• MQ-A: from an analog master source
• MQ-C: from a CD master source (44.1-kHz/16-bit content) in which legacy CD masters are employed as source material and resampled at a higher rate and bit depth. (A controversial approach, to be sure.)
• MQ-D: from a DSD/DSF master source (typically, 2.8- or 5.6-MHz, 1-bit content)
To help push mainstream adoption of HRA, the CEA is also making available a hi-res audio logo that can be applied to products spec'd to deliver HRA experiences, according to the CEA definition. This should make it easier for someone who's curious about HRA but confused by the technical details to select the right gear when shopping. And there has been an explosion in HRA-capable products over the past few years—everything from pricey portable players and standalone digital-to-analog converters (DACs) to low-cost A/V receivers. We'll look closer at those categories in just a bit.
STEP 1: Start a Hi-Res Library
While some high-resolution content is available on shiny disc via Blu-ray and the aforementioned SACD and DVD-Audio formats (still alive), the bulk of it is available for download to your computer hard drive from a range of online music stores. But before you can start building your hi-res library, you'll have to install some appropriate library and player software. For most people who download and rip music, iTunes is their default digital music software. While iTunes can play HRA files, it has a serious limitation: To play files at resolutions higher than 44.1/16, you first need to launch your computer's audio control panel and switch the settings to match the source format's native resolution. When you have a mixed-format music library, including files at 192/24, 88.1/24, 96/24, etc., not to mention CD-quality 44.1/16 or compressed MP3s, having to hit the control panel each time you play a specific track can get old fast.
JRiver hi-res media player
To get around this, you'll find a number of media players available that run alongside or on top of iTunes and automatically switch audio settings depending on the track being played. Aside from freeing you from having to repeatedly open up your computer's audio control panel, these let you use the standard iTunes library interface that most of us are used to. Popular software options in this category include Audirvana+ ($49), Amarra Hifi ($35), Pure Music 2 ($129), and BitPerfect ($10).
In addition to programs designed to piggyback on iTunes, there are standalone media player applications with their own library and playlist GUI that can handle HRA files. Popular options for the Windows platform today include JRiver MediaCenter ($50), Foobar2000 (free), MediaMonkey (free), and Signalyst ($147). JRiver and Signalyst are also available on the OS X side for Mac users. Most of these programs allow you to play DSD files in addition to those encoded as lossless FLAC files and straight PCM-format ones. JRiver has the added benefit of video playback and also works as a DLNA server for streaming your media to DLNA-compliant devices over your home network.
Foobar 2000 hi-res media player
And speaking of file types like FLAC and the others: Don't assume a file's label necessarily makes it hi-res. As described above, hi-res audio is defined by the sampling rate and bit depth of the digital file and the quality of the originating master. These have nothing to do with the type of compression algorithm used to package the file for transport and storage. Hi-res will always be packaged lossless or uncompressed, however, with some common file types being WAV, AIFF, and DSD (uncompressed) and FLAC, ALAC, or WMA Lossless (lossless). You'll want your media software to be compatible with the common file types you plan to acquire, as well as those existing lower-res MP3s or AAC files you may want to bring along for the ride.
STEP 2: Get a USB DAC
Once you've got things straightened out on the software player side, it's time to check out HRA-capable hardware. The main item you'll want that you probably don't already have is a separate USB DAC. There are plenty of options here to consider, ranging from highly affordable ($100 and under) to pricey (thousands of dollars). USB DACs also come with a range of features. Many provide an internal headphone amp for private listening, along with the ability to connect your source computer to an external audio system. Some also function as an integrated amp, typically with sufficient power to drive a decent set of desktop or bookshelf speakers. Reviews of outboard DACs can be found here.
No matter which USB DAC you decide on, the key feature you'll want is asynchronous transfer mode. This allows the DAC to bypass the computer's internal timing and take control of the clock rate at which data is converted to audio—an important factor for eliminating timing errors that degrade sound quality. Being able to sidestep the inconsistent timing mandated by a usually busy computer—a device that continually performs loads of other processing functions aside from audio digital-to-analog conversion—is the key reason you'd consider using an external USB DAC in the first place, as opposed to the DAC already present in your computer or even those typically found today in most AV receivers.
The most affordable—and portable—hardware option for diving into HRA is a USB stick-style DAC. It either plugs directly into a USB port on your computer (like a standard USB thumb drive) or connects via a USB cable. A few examples in this category include the AudioQuest DragonFly ($149), Meridian<|fim_middle|>ive Career Spanning Hits Collection: 1976-2016
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Beyond the ultra-small stick DACs are a number of DAC/headphone amps that can work on the go or on a desktop or rack at home; many are compact enough to be tossed in a suitcase, but may not offer quite the same portability as the models listed above. Some are battery-operated or powered by their USB connections, while others have a wall-fed power supply. Options include the Audioengine D1 ($169), iFi nano iDSD ($189), Micromega MyDac ($369), Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 ($299), and Sony PHA-2 ($600). All units with the exception of the Audioengine handle files up to 192/24; the iFi and Sony can also process DSD. Additionally, there's the Sony UDA-1 ($799), a desktop integrated amp/DAC that offers a built-in 20-watt x 2 amplifier and output connections for desktop speakers.
High-end standalone USB DACs are another option—one that's popular with audiophiles who have a swanky dedicated listening room and don't mind lugging their laptop around to use as a source. These DACs tend to be pricey, and some omit convenience features aimed at desktop audiophiles, such as a headphone amp.
There are also a small number of better AV receivers that feature a built-in DAC with an asynchronous USB input for direct connection to a computer, making them a good option for combining HRA with your home theater. Two examples are the Cambridge Audio Azur 751R ($2,700) and Pioneer Elite SC-89 ($3,000).
STEP 3: Make Everything Else Hi-Res
Investing money in new media player software and a USB DAC doesn't make sense if the rest of the gear you'll use for HRA listening isn't up to snuff. The benefits you get with good hi-res recordings include wide dynamics, crisp detail, and a sense of spaciousness and depth that you just don't get when listening to compressed streams or badly mastered CDs. But you'll need to use speakers, amps, and headphones of high enough quality to hear those benefits; the cheap desktop speakers that came with your computer or inexpensive earbuds are out of the question.
Fortunately, in a home theater environment, the same type of gear you depend on to deliver a good movie or music experience should also suffice for HRA. And unlike with other new developments such as Dolby Atmos, you won't need to upgrade your speakers or receiver. Just make sure the system has a good subwoofer for to enjoy the extended bass you get with the best hi-res files, as well as amps powerful enough to let your speakers play loud passages with ease.
For tabletop or desktop use, you'll definitely benefit by investing in a high-quality desktop speaker system. Recent models that we've selected as Top Picks include the Audioengine 2+, PSB Alpha PS1, and Definitive Technology Incline. Each of these options is available for under $500. And with the PSB, you'll still be in that price range even after adding the company's potent SubSeries 100 compact subwoofer.
Headphones are a good match for HRA audio listening; the intimate listening environment created through 'phones lends itself to picking up the added nuance of hi-res files. High-quality options from traditional headphone makers, along with newcomers and speaker manufacturers looking to get in on the game, have exploded in recent years. They can be pricey, but our Top Picks list includes a range of outstanding models available for under $400 (B&W P7, NAD Viso HP50) and a few that sell for under $200 (V-Moda XS, Audio-Technica ATH-M50).
With a good pair of headphones in your arsenal, you may also want to consider an HRA-capable portable player for listening to hi-res tunes on the move. With the demise of the iPod classic (R.I.P.), such players have become the go-to option for those who want a simple, pocket-sized device devoted to high-quality music playback.
HRA-capable players are available now from companies including HiFiMan, FiiO, Astell & Kern, Pono, and Sony, which resurrected its Walkman concept in order to champion the cause of HRA. Prices range from $300 (Sony and FiiO entry models) to $2,500 (Astell & Kern's AK 240). The main features you gain as you step up in price include things like DSD compatibility, Wi-Fi connectivity, and an OLED display, as well as machined metal control knobs that can adjust volume in fine increments.
STEP 4: Grab Some Tunes
Step 4 on your hi-res journey is the most fun: Start collecting music. Granted, the number of online stores that sell hi-res music is still somewhat limited, as is the total breadth of content offered. But the online catalog is growing rapidly these days, with plenty of selections in a wide range of music genres.
The granddaddy of HRA music download sites is HDtracks.com. This destination boasts an extensive collection of classical, jazz, rock, and world music in 24-bit FLAC, ALAC, WAV, and AIFF formats, much of it available in 88-, 96-,176-, and 192-kHz sample rates. Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Richard Wagner, Led Zeppelin, even pop stuff like Lady Gaga—it's all there in hi-res.
Another go-to site for HRA downloads is Acoustic Sounds' Super HiRez store. While the selection here isn't yet as extensive as what you'll find at HDtracks, the site boasts plenty of titles available in the DSD format that many audiophiles prefer, including plenty of great classics such as Dave Brubeck's Time Out, Steely Dan's Gaucho, Michael Jackson's Thriller, and many others. (Acoustic Sounds also sells LPs, SACDs, and hi-res gear, as does Music Direct, another site with disc and hardware options. Audio Advisor is popular for equipment.)
Additional online music sites that sell HRA downloads include the Pono Music Store (see sidebar), Onkyo Music, ProStudioMasters, the Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound, iTrax, and others. You'll also find smaller audiophile record labels that support sales and sometimes free hi-res downloads of their own titles, among them Blue Coast Records and the Nordic label 2L. Search for "hi-res audio downloads" and start poking around; you might find a few gems.
As for streaming hi-res, the Tidal music service, which at this writing offers lossless CD-quality streams (along with Deezer; currently available only through Sonos systems), will soon make content available in hi-res. The company plans to bring its extensive catalog to the streaming realm via Meridian's MQA (Master Quality Authenticated), a new compression technology that enables bandwidth-hogging HRA files to be efficiently packed for real-time transfer over the Internet. (See "Streamers Say Yes to MQA,". And Note that Meridian MQA is unrelated to the CEA's MQ-A designation.) HRA streaming promises to provide a more affordable alternative to pricey downloads that run $18 to $25 per album.
Flying "Hi"
Now that you've got your HRA software, hardware, and music in order, it's time to luxuriate in all that high-resolution goodness. Compared with the sound of most CDs, the careful listener will find much to appreciate in the meticulously mastered titles that are characteristic of the best HRA digital files, and hi-res offers an enormous technical and sonic advantage over everyday downloads from the likes of iTunes and Amazon. If you truly care about engaging with your music, you really owe it to yourself to check out what hi-res audio has to offer.
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Marketing work needs to be done
Submitted by Old Ben on April 22, 2015 - 7:26am
This is an excellent article - thank you! However, it also identifies the problem - there are too many disparate components that need to be brought together (at a pretty significant price tag) to reap the benefits of HRA. I don't think many people will take the financial leap to HRA without hearing the benefit in some kind of an A/B test against what they are listening to know. The problem is how to go about doing that when you need so many different pieces of hardware and software working together. This seems like a job for the CEA to spearhead in cooperation with a store like Best Buy.
What I would envision is that the CEA would work with the software and hardware developers to cooperatively offer their products for use HRA demonstration kiosks in the store. Consumers would be invited to bring in their current audio equipment (e.g., their iPod and headphones) and use them to compare against one or more HRA setups. To make the comparison a true A/B comparison, the consumer would listen to the same song(s) in their current format and in an HRA format. What would probably be needed is a limited selection of HRA music tracks at the kiosk and the ability to provide the consumer with a free download of the same song in their current format (e.g., through a download code). Of course, the store would include all of the different HRA components for easy purchase (bundles?) once the consumer is sufficiently wowed and ready to buy.
Why Hi-Res video took off and not audio
Submitted by sfdoddsy on April 23, 2015 - 2:52am
Nice article, but it doesn't really address the question posed in the first paragraph.
Hi-res music has been available for many years via DVD-audio and SACD. They've been failures. As have been HR downloads.
The problem is simple. Everyone can see the difference between HR video and LR vid o. Very few can hear the difference between HR audio and LR audio.
I can't, and I spent thousands trying.
Another reason...(Why Hi-Res video took off and not audio)
Submitted by FL Guy on July 3, 2015 - 4:03pm
Ludicrous pricing.
Music has value - definitely. Well mastered, high res more value, sure. But whoever is pricing albums at $50 - $60 (as some of the current distributors do) is simply hallucinating imho.
As I remember CDs didn't take off until prices widely dropped below $20. I'm not saying $20 is the right price point for hi-res today. But pricing clearly plays a role in adoption (or lack of adoption).
The Fifth Step
Submitted by dommyluc on April 23, 2015 - 5:52am
Bankruptcy!
And I agree with sfdoddsy. Some of the sonic difference is so slight that many people are just not impressed. When I watch the Blu-ray of "Prometheus" and compare it to the DVD version, or even the HD version on my satellite receiver, the difference is impressive. But many SACDs and hi-res downloads just don't have the "WOW" factor like when you compare HD video to SD video.
And I still say that a well-recorded and well-mastered CD played using Dolby Pro-logic IIx Music mode through a decent surround system can sound extraordinary. Right now, I am bathing in the sonic luxury of the 2009 digital stereo remasters of the Beatles CD boxed set (sorry, traditionalists, but I already had the clickety-poppity vinyl versions when they first came out when I was a lad during the '60s, and they can take the mono versions and send them to jail with Phil Spector), ripped to the PC in WAV and streamed to my AV receiver. It's the best thing since sex, weed, and chocolate combined. As Bender of "Futurama" would say, "Fun on a bun!"
192/24 is unnecessary
Submitted by kvothe on April 23, 2015 - 9:25am
This is a well written article full of useful information, but it's also constantly on the verge of lying by omission.
I wish the article mentioned the cold, hard truth: Hi-Res audio like 192/24 in and of itself provides no benefit for playback over CD quality. And it can be inferior! Ouch. More on that below.
There are many reasons that many CD's don't sound very good, but the format has nothing to do with it. The article dances around that fact a bit by saying things like "when listening to compressed streams or badly mastered CDs". Yeah, yeah, you covered yourself with that careful language. But come on. The article gives the distinct impression that HRA will improve your listening experience because of the fidelity of the format, which is untrue. Leaving it unsaid leaves a taste like snake oil.
High resolution audio during capture and mastering are necessary however. An analogy might be found in the advantages of shooting and editing photographs in RAW, even though you'll post them as lossy JPGs to friends and family.
Hold on for a deep dive and read this excellent article:
http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
Brief highlights:
- "Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space."
- "There are a few real problems with the audio quality and 'experience' of digitally distributed music today. 24/192 solves none of them. While everyone fixates on 24/192 as a magic bullet, we're not going to see any actual improvement."
- Particularly see the whole "Listening Tests" section that discusses how it's been shown time and again that people are unable to distinguish higher res audio from that of CD quality, including industry professionals.
Yes, there are reasons to grab an HRA audio file. IMHO the main reason is if it's the only digital means to gain access to a better quality (or merely different) master that's not available on a CD release (e.g. the master used for a vinyl release may have had better dynamic range than what resulted on a CD release for the same album). But you'd go this route to gain access to a better master, not a better digital playback format.
Let's talk about points like that, rather than dance around them! It moves the industry forward, and creates more informed consumers.
This is a fun hobby, and eking out every last bit of quality and fidelity is an enjoyable pursuit - even when it won't affect the quality of the audio (attractive components, knobs with a good feel, etc.) So in that regard, knock yourself out with HRA. Have fun. But most people would be far better off improving other aspects of their listening experience first, and it feels like a disservice not to point this out.
That said, certain parts of this article are very useful to almost anyone. I'm going to use the info in this article to finally get a good DAC. I particularly enjoyed that section.
But I think the industry and community are best served by unvarnished truths, even if it's just a "tip of the hat" mention.
This probably comes out more negative in written form than I intended. It's an interesting topic to discuss. Thanks again for the article.
Let's Be Fair
Submitted by vqworks on April 23, 2015 - 9:02pm
I actually appreciate this article. In defense of the cost involved in acquiring both the software and hardware, when has audiophile sound ever been affordable? In the days of analog-only sound systems the cost of software and hardware was, in fact, more expensive overall when adjusted for inflation. Doesn't anyone remember the cost of audio equipment in the 60s through 80s? Both the past and present are the same in that the audiophile market has always been distinctly different from the mainstream consumer audio market.
That said, HRA is for the audiophile market, a niche market. It will never fly with regular consumers. The biggest reason, as was the case with SACD and DVD-Audio (or even the open-reel and high-end vinyl of yesteryear), is cost. No matter how high the sound quality is (real or imagined), it's a no-go for masses. This is especially true today when the entertainment industry consists of many more market fragments that are somewhat different but overlap each other and compete for consumer dollars. The last thing on most consumers' minds are HRA. The first are probably iTunes and Netflix downloads. Yes, they'd rather choose 69 cent taco meat over filet mignon but that's reality. At the same time, the HRA devotees who are paying for the software may not necessarily always get what they pay for when there are still files re-sampled from files originating from the CD sampling rate. This isn't disclosed clearly on the websites.
This is the second time I've seen the link, http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html. I can only partially agree with what the author (not clearly identified) states. His illustration and description of the cochlea is widely used to support the claim that human hearing ranges from 20Hz to 20kHz. As we age, the upper limit gradually decreases because our hearing nerve hairs stiffen. But some people openly question that hearing range. First of all, the late David Blackmer, the founder of dbx and Earthworks described the human auditory mechanism differently. Second, the hearing tests conducted to arrive at the 20Hz to 20kHz range consisted of sine wave test tones. Complex tones are different since such tones interact and intermodulate with each other. It's widely accepted that anyone in his or her 30s is lucky to hear test tones up to 15kHz. But if anyone remembers the old Stereo Review Test Record that was made from '79 through the early 80s one track used to test the cartridge's tracking performance consisted of a two-tone (two sine waves) signal, 16kHz and 16.3kHz. Even if a 70-year old can't hear these two tones independently, he or she could hear the 300 Hz difference tone. The average 70-year old's hearing tops out at 10kHz for sine waves. My point is that we may not hear the sine waves over 20kHz but we can definitely hear the modulation or beating (or interaction) between the ultra-sonics and the fundamentals (audible frequencies). I haven't even mentioned impulse response.
Yet, most of the audio community, like the author at xiph.org, is adament about insisting on the 20Hz to 20kHz limits of human hearing. The author goes on to state that higher sampling rates really lead to the unavoidable ills of higher distortion and noise as if it's written in stone. The fact is that there are plenty of audiophile amplifiers and speakers that can complete the signal chain accurately enough to keep distortion and noise inaudibly low but allow the listener to at least have the potential to hear the effect that overtones have on their music. Doesn't anyone remember super tweeters made in the 70s that could reproduce highs over 30kHz?
My take is that HRA is a good thing. As long there are enough audiophiles to sustain it by purchasing the software and hardware AND as long as the original master and the rest of the signal chain is well chosen and set up, the potential is definitely there. The audible difference is debatable but it's there. Let's not relentlessly bash something that at least has potential.
Intermodulation
Submitted by Ethyl's Fred on April 24, 2015 - 10:48am
The 300 Hz tone that might have been heard from the Stereo Review record are due to intermodulation distortion of the playback system (most likely dominated by the non-linearities of the cartridge itself), not due to intermodulation of the tones themselves. If you had two completely separate sound systems (including separate speakers) and one played a 16 KHz tone and the other played a 16.3 KHz tone, you would not hear a 300 Hz tone. This is actually a reason why you don't want ultrasonic signals in the audio signal. It just gives more opportunity for improper artifacts to be introduced in the audible region while not contributing an audible signal in the first place.
Submitted by Slartibart on April 24, 2015 - 3:58pm
The beat frequency effect does not have to originate from a single source. Your comment about filtering out supersonic (hypersonic?) signals is correct.
Beat frequency
Submitted by Ethyl's Fred on April 24, 2015 - 5:25pm
The beat frequency is not a separate tone. It is the fading in and out of the sound due to destructive versus constructive interference (see wikipedia under "Beat frequency"). Intermodulation is the creation of a new tone due to non-linearities. If you cannot hear above 15 kHz (for example), you will not hear a 300 Hz tone when a 16 kHz and a 16.3 kHz are playing simultaneously with no nonlinearities.
Intermodulation Vs. Beat Frequency
Submitted by vqworks on April 26, 2015 - 9:32am
Unfortunately, I misused the term intermodulation. In electronics, intermodulation does refer to a form of distortion. But I was originally really referring to beat frequencies.
The 300 Hz difference tone (beat frequency) that resulted from the Stereo Review LP test track was not due to cartridge non-linearities or distortion at all. Ethyl's Fred was correct in pointing out that the audible tone was alternately fading in and out. This was because the two slightly different 16kHz and 16.3kHz sine wave tones were periodically re-enforcing and weakening each other. If the cartridge distortion was inaudibly low, the fading beat frequency (300Hz) would sound clean; if the distortion was audible, the beat frequency would sound at least somewhat fuzzy. The fuzziness would reveal the distortion; not the fading tone itself.
If anyone is still insisting that cartridge distortion or even electronic distortion is producing this tone, let's skip audio equipment altogether and try an experiment with two tuning forks. Some of you may remember a high school Physics experiment using two tuning forks (I do). The only dissimilarity between the tuning forks and the 16kHz/16.3kHz tones I mentioned is that each tuning fork produced an audible tone if you struck them. But the comparison between the tuning forks and music that includes ultrasonic frequencies still works because each tuning fork produced a different tone. The idea is to demonstrate that if you strike one tuning fork alone you just hear a steady tone but if you strike both of them you'll hear the beat frequency or rapidly fading in and out or "ringing" of the destructive and constructive interference (or interaction) that Ethyl's Fred referred to.
Back to HRA. If you know for sure that the entire signal chain of your system at home can produce a very wide frequency response (quite a few amplifiers and speakers can do it well) cleanly, you have HRA hardware and software, and you know the original source came from a higher-than-CD sampling and bit rate, try doing an A-B comparison between a short section of a high-resolution (96kHz, 16bit will do) PCM file with the same section of a down-converted version that was converted using Audacity (or some other audio editing software) to a 16bit/44.1kHz. The only requirement is that you listen to music of natural instruments that are loaded with highs (percussion would do - triangles, bells, steel brushes, cymbal crashes, high hats, piano, etc.).
You don't need to believe what anyone claims. If you hear a difference, great. If you don't, that's okay too. At least you can put this whole issue to rest.
Again, a beat frequency is not an audible tone
and asserting that it is does not change that fact. You even acknowledge that the beat frequency is a "fading in and out" of the volume. That is not a tone. Do you understand exactly what a tone is? Read the Wikipedia articles on "beat frequency" (a volume modulation) and "intermodulation" (actual generation of a difference tone). Two 70 year olds who cannot hear 16 kHz and 16.3 kHz tuning forks individually are not going to hear anything when both tuning forks are struck simultaneously (your original claim), and certainly not a tone in the upper bass/low mid-range region (300 Hz). To assert so indicates a fundamental lack of understanding of how we perceive pitch.
You can repeat the physics experiment with a stringed instrument. For example, a guitar that is slightly out of tune gives a rapid modulation of the sound level (a "beat frequency") when attempting to play the same note on two different strings, but it does not generate a tone in the deep bass. Nor will you hear a tone in the upper bass/low midrange if you strike the two tuning forks, just a rapid modulation in the level of a very high pitched tone. If you did hear an actual tone at 300 Hz when playing the Stereo Review test record and not just a modulation of the sound intensity, it can only come from intermodulation distortion in the system, most likely from the transducers (cartridge and speakers or even the lathe that cut the record groove) since the are the least ideal components.
Re: Again, a beat frequency is not an audible tone
In the case of the tuning forks, I wasn't referring to either of them producing a 16kHz and 16.3kHz but even if I was, there would be a lot of ringing harmonics resulting from the interaction of these two instruments since there is no so thing as a natural sine wave. But, yes, of course I know what a tone is.
Don't get too emotional. My statements don't need to be in lock step with yours.
Are you implying that if you struck two tuning forks you'd actually hear the rapid modulation? Would this modulation be audible? Seems like it would from your statement.
I read an old test report on an old Revox open reel tape deck (1966) that used a bias oscillator that employing a 70kHz frequency (considered low for a bias frequency). The reviewer stated that audible beat tones were detected between 18kHz and 20kHz. Is this modulation the result of distortion in the electronics?
Forgetting about that 70kHz bias frequency for a moment, it's been documented that natural instruments produce overtones over the commonly accepted human hearing limit of 20kHz. Most of these overtones are much lower than 70kHz. Don't you think you'd detect some kind of interaction at least in the audible range?
How would you respond to these findings:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue52/ultrasonic.htm
http://recordinghacks.com/articles/the-world-beyond-20khz/
Don't you think you owe it to yourself to at least do some experimentation or would you just say that the late David Blackmer and others were just trying to push snake oil? Notice how Blackmer describes the inner ear in the 8th and 9th paragraph.
By the way Blackmer, like a lot of other knowledgeable engineers, was a member of the Audio Engineering Society.
Ultrasonic hearing
If the frequencies of the sources are audible then a person would of course hear the modulation of the sound level as the source signals interfere (the "beat frequency"). But if they cannot hear the pitches in the first place there is no sound to modulate. The ultrasonic hearing phenomenon referred to in your links is the result of bone conduction when a transducer is placed directly on the head. It does not occur in normal listening. In fact, a recent masters thesis on a study of that very effect (http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/147171.pdf) explicitly states "The impedance-matching function of the middle ear, necessary to transmit sounds from the outer to the inner ear, is known to be unable to handle ultrasonic frequencies (Pumphrey, 1950)." Most would agree that a researcher that investigates the very phenomenon that is being claimed (and gives citations to the appropriate scientific literature) has more credibility than someone who is trying to sell high-resolution audio equipment.
I have no idea what a reviewer back in 1966 might have been hearing.
And I have run the experiment. I'm 54 years old now and don't hear a thing above 14 KHz. When applying a low pass filter to music or noise I can't reliably tell which is the filtered signal until the cutoff frequency is below 12 KHz. Such are the ravages of age. My kids can still hear tones above 15 KHz. (I've had fun annoying them by playing high pitched sounds.) But these are just more anecdotes that are no more useful than the marketing claims of those selling high resolution equipment.
Re: Ultrasonic Hearing
Everyone's certainly entitled to their own conclusions.
In your words, you said "if the frequencies of the sources were audible then a person would of course hear the modulation of the sound level as the source signals interfere (the "beat frequency"). But if they cannot hear the pitches in the first place there is no sound to modulate."
I would have readily accepted that statement because it relates perfectly to the generally accepted conclusion that humans can only hear from 20Hz to 20kHz. But the 1966 review of the open reell deck that I mentioned can be found here:
http://1drv.ms/1EPvH6g
The Test Results section on the second page states very clearly that there was an audible beat between 18 and 20 kHz between the input signal and the bias. The bias frequency used for recording was 70 kHz (they describe this as a push-pull oscillator between the record amp and VU meter). 70 kHz is not supposed to be audible yet it's beating with a frequency somewhere between 18 and 20 kHz, which is not likely audible for the reviewer either if he was over 30 years old. Although the review doesn't specifically say that the 70 kHz oscillator is for the bias circuitry, it's safe to say that it is because bias is an ultrasonic tone recorded onto tape to make the recording more linear. It's also safe to assume that the reviewer didn't put a transducer directly on his head. True, the reviewer did say that the normal energy content of music is unlikely to result in the audible beat with the bias tone but it's not impossible (the key word is "normal"). By the 80s, cassette deck manufacturers were using extra high bias frequencies (100 to 150 kHz) to specifically reduce the likelihood of audible beating with audible frequencies.
The study you cited predates David Blackmer's by quite a few years. But I can say that the findings of studies often conflict with one another.
At this point, I want to clarify that I'm really not asserting anything; just revealing extra information that I found.
You're not old but at your age your hearing is above average. I'm going to annoy MY kids now.
Magnetic recording
That signal is almost certainly due to nonlinearities in the recording process. Magnetic hysteresis, the mechanism used in magnetic recording, is inherently non-linear. Using appropriate bias and keeping the recording level well below saturation minimizes the nonlinearities, but they will always be there. The fact that the intermodulation product was so low that it was inaudible compared to the signal is fully consistent with small but not zero nonlinearities in the recording process.
This review actually provides good evidence of why you don't want ultrasonic information in the signal. It can only add unwanted artifacts in the audible frequencies if the reproduction system deviates from linearity at any stage (which it must to some level, particularly in the transducers).
Re: Magnetic Recording
Regardless of the inevitable non-linearities of of the magnetic recording process, the reviewer heard a beat at a very high frequency (between 18 to 20 kHz). I haven't heard of anyone even in their mid-30s being able to hear that high. This is coming from a reviewer who wrote for Audio Magazine. Back in the 60s, that publication was extremely objective. There was usually no subjective comments about sound quality until the 70s and 80s.
The beat would have also been detected while testing the record/play frequency response at -10 dB. That's definitely and sufficiently low for the tape to avoid any saturation in the audible range. Any distortion in the extreme highs at that level can't be any higher than 1%.
I wonder why tape deck manufacturers in the 70s and 80s were intentionally designing their products to reproduce ultrasonics. Would they bother with this just for marketing purposes?
I will say that filtering out any ultrasonic frequencies is a good idea if the electronics and speakers (maybe the worse offenders) in the signal chain produce unwanted and audible side effects. Of course, if the entire signal chain didn't produce these problems, why bother filtering?
I wonder what Al Griffin thinks at this point.
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38. July 9, Associated Press – (California) Getty Center, college evacuates due to LA fire. Visitors to the Getty Center art complex in Los Angeles, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains. The fire was 90 percent contained late Wednesday after erupting early in the afternoon and quickly growing to 80 acres above parking facilities for the Getty. The fire eventually moved eastward, away from the museum, officials said. The museum's ventilation systems were shut down to prevent smoke from damaging the artwork, a Getty Center spokesman said. About 350 firefighters worked on rugged slopes and seven helicopters pounded flames with water from nearby Stone Canyon Reservoir. By the time the helicopters were grounded for darkness the blaze was mostly under control, and hand crews were looking for lingering hot spots. About 800 employees and 1,600 visitors to the J. Paul Getty Museum and other parts of the hilltop complex were shuttled to the center's south building as a precaution. A tram took people down the hill to parking lots so they could drive out the south gate, and the center was closed for the rest of the day. Nearby to the north, Mount St. Mary's College was evacuated as a precaution even though the fire was a mile away and a canyon lay between it and the school. College was not in session, but 100 staff members evacuated along with about 200 other people attending a conference. The school used campus shuttles to take them out until the all-clear was given. Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h745V9WTXeUj6OSQ8entPeEP3e1QD99ATHK80
11. July 9, Dow Jones Newswires – (International) Argentina's banks to shut Friday as swine flu measure. Argentina's private-sector banks on July 8 said they will join a special public-sector holiday scheduled for July 10 as part of a nationwide effort to contain the spread of the A/H1N1 swine flu. "The banks which are part of the Argentine Association of Banks…adhere to<|fim_middle|> investigators also assisted along with Keyser Police Department and the Keyser Volunteer Fire Company. The building at 55 N. Main St. served as a residence before it was purchased by Telemedia, which leased it to Comcast. Only one room of the two-story wood frame building was occupied. Source: http://www.times-news.com/local/local_story_189230321.html | the administrative holiday for July 10," the association said in a statement. The July 10 special holiday rolls on from the July 9 Independence Day holiday, and authorities believe people will use the long weekend as an excuse to stay home, and therefore help slow the spread of the virus as winter takes hold. The Central Bank said it will also be closed on July 10. The Argentine health ministry on July 5 reported that the official death toll in Argentina from swine flu has reached 60, and there are a total of 2,485 officially confirmed cases. However, many believe the official numbers lag the actual rate of infection, and that the real numbers are much higher. Source: http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907081038dowjonesdjonline000636&title=update-argentinas-banks-to-shut-friday-as-swine-flu-measure
12. July 9, New York Times – (International) Six from Sky Capital charged in $140 million fraud. Six employees of a Wall Street retail broker, Sky Capital, ran a $140 million "trans-Atlantic boiler room" to defraud investors in the United States and Britain, authorities charged on July 8. Federal prosecutors announced a criminal indictment on securities, wire and mail fraud charges against Sky Capital's founder and chief executive, and five others, Reuters said. The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed civil charges. All six surrendered to FBI agents on July 8 and later appeared in federal court in Manhattan. They entered pleas of not guilty before being released on bond. The SEC complaint said brokers raised $61 million from 2002 to 2006 from investors, but then enforced a policy that prevented investors from selling their stocks in Sky Capital Holdings and Sky Capital Enterprises. They were publicly traded on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange until 2006. Customers were not told that they would be unable to sell their shares, the SEC said. Source: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/six-from-sky-capital-charged-in-140-million-fraud/
13. July 7, Federal Bureau of Investigation – (National) FBI issues 2008 mortgage fraud report. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's 2008 Mortgage Fraud Report, released on July 7, mortgage fraud Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) referred to law enforcement increased 36 percent to 63,713 during fiscal year (FY) 2008, compared to 46,717 reports in FY 2007. While the total dollar loss attributed to mortgage fraud is unknown, financial institutions reported losses of at least $1.4 billion, an increase of 83.4 percent from FY 2007. "Mortgage fraud hurts borrowers, financial institutions, and legitimate homeowners," said the Assistant Director, FBI Criminal Investigative Division. "The FBI, in conjunction with our law enforcement, regulatory, and industry partners, continues to diligently pursue perpetrators of mortgage fraud schemes."
Source: http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/mortgage_070709.htm
33. July 9, Associated Press – (International) Official says 7 SKorean Web sites attacked again. South Korean Web sites were attacked again on July 9 after a wave of Web site outages in the United States and South Korea that several officials suspect North Korea was behind. Seven sites, one belonging to the government and the others to private entities, were attacked in the third round of cyber assaults, said an official from the state-run Korea Communications Commission. Earlier in the day, the country's leading computer security company, AhnLab, had warned of a new attack after analyzing a virus program that sent a flood of Internet traffic to paralyze Web sites in both South Korea and the United States. About two hours after the latest assault, all but one shopping site were working normally. The Yonhap news agency had earlier reported that the Web site of the leading Kookmin Bank was down for about 30 minutes. The South's intelligence agency said in a statement Thursday that it was strengthening cyber security measures for government computer networks, citing a possible new wave of attacks that could target national infrastructure operators like energy, telecommunications, and media companies. So far, there were no immediate reports of financial damage or leaking of confidential national information, according to the Korea Information Security Agency. The attacks appeared aimed only at paralyzing Web sites. According to Reuters, cybersecurity analysts raised doubts on July 8 that the North Korean state launched the attacks on U.S. government and South Korean Web sites, saying industrial spies or pranksters could be the villains. More than two dozen Web sites in the United States and South Korea, including that of the U.S. State Department, were attacked in recent days. South Korea's spy agency has said North Korea may be behind the attacks, while the U.S. government has said it is too soon to make such claims, and Internet security experts agree. Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvH8X8qojQgzc1R8X_5PceTd1nWQD99AVG3O0 See also: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5680CC20090709
34. July 9, V3.co.uk – (International) McAfee warns of new Mac malware attack. Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs have warned that a new malware attack for Mac OS X systems has been spotted in the wild. Known informally as 'Puper', the Trojan disguises itself as a video program for OS X systems called 'MacCinema'. The attack appears as a disk image which launches an installer application for the fictional MacCinema software. Once the installer completes its task, the user becomes infected with a script file named 'AdobeFlash'. The malicious script then launches itself every five hours, and attempts to download and launch other malware on the infected system. This latest attack is similar to others which have targeted OS X users in recent months, often enticing the user to download and install the malware by posing as a video player or 'codec' plug-in required to view movie files. Source: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2245704/mac-malware-attack-spotted
35. July 8, ZDNet – (International) Apple plugs dangerous Safari security holes. Apple has released Safari 4.0.2 to fix a pair of security flaws that could lead to cross-site scripting or remote code execution attacks. The vulnerabilities affect Safari for Windows (XP and Vista) and Mac OS X. The patch solves an issue in WebKit's handling of the parent and top objects may result in a cross-site scripting attack when visiting a maliciously crafted website. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of parent and top objects. The patch also takes care of a memory corruption issue exists in WebKit's handling of numeric character references. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of numeric character references. Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3720
36. July 8, Fayetteville Morning News – (Arkansas) Fiber optic line cut downs Internet for Cox customers. A utility company that severed a fiber optic line caused some Cox Communications customers to be without Internet service on July 7. The outage affected the Springdale office of the Morning News and, by extension, the Rogers office of the Morning News. The Cox Communications director of public affairs said the fiber optic line was cut in the area of Greathouse Springs Road and New Hope Road. She declined to name the utility company that cut the line. The Cox outage affected customers in Tontitown, Elm Springs and western Springdale. Cox crews responded within 10 minutes of the line being cut and were working as fast as they could, the director said. She expected customers to have Internet and other Cox services restored by the evening of July 7. Source: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/07/08/business/070809buscoxoutage.txt
37. July 8, Cumberland Times-News – (West Virginia) Keyser Comcast building fire arson. The July 4 fire that destroyed the North Main Street building housing Comcast communications equipment in Keyser has been ruled as arson. The fire caused a loss of $200,000 to the structure and $100,000 to Comcast equipment. Video and Internet service to Comcast customers in the Keyser area was temporarily disrupted until Comcast established a new communications hub. The deputy fire marshall and another official of the fire marshal's office investigated at the scene along with the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office, which provided an accelerant-detection dog. A private insurance company's cause-and-origin | 1,923 |
Rainbow Awards 2012-Best LGBT Biographies & Memoirs Winner
SILENCE IS MULTICOLORED IN MY WORLD, published by Flying With Red Haircrow, tied for 3rd in the annual event RAINBOW AWARDS hosted at Elisa: Reviews & Ramblings in the non-fiction category of biography and memoirs. Please read about all winners in this category, as well as the other genres at their webpages.
Description: "Silence is Multi-colored in My World is an imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved,<|fim_middle|>, and spending time with friends. The two-spirit author is active in Native American affairs, and can also be found playing RPGs, browsing 2nd hand shops and savoring the meditative Zen of archery with the medieval Longbow."
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By Sarah Black, At Romance on the Lunatic Fringe | he loved with all his heart and soul.
A former sex worker and later a husband, he was an amateur activist and philosopher, a startlingly intelligent, passionate individual able to intensely appreciate even the small wonders of the world and the people for whom he cared.
Part diary, part dialogue, part rhetoric, "Silence Is Multi-colored in My World" is based on actual experiences and is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleed."
Available at online distributors such as Amazon Kindle, Rainbow Ebooks, Smashwords and others.
Editorial Reviews:
"It made me laugh, broke my heart, and made me think of so many things. What a funny, bright, kind and loving young man! His pain makes me hurt, yet he had such an enormous capacity for love in spite of the cruelty and injustices he endured. I just want to hold him in my arms and not let go." –Nancy Ferrer, Outlaw Reviews
"I read this book in a single sitting. It is an inspirational, often poignant, occasionally brutal, collection of essays about love, life, beauty, suffering, triumph, joy, pain and responsibility. I do not generally like collections of essays as a format preferring a straight line narrative. Had I read only the synopsis of this work without the author's additional comments in requesting the review I would not have picked it up. Do not judge this book by its synopsis. Pick it up. Read it. Five stars."- Bob Cherny, The LL Book Reviews
"As someone who has devoted their life to sound, and I suppose, at the same time silence, it is always very compelling for me to learn the perspective of someone who is deaf, and understands the vibration spectrum in a very different, but no less meaningful way….This book transcends all differences, stereotypes, judgements and becomes the sharing forth of a very honest human experience relevant to all of us, connected to all of us."-Ana Cristina Caelen, Sound Therapist and Composer
"Silence Is Multi-Colored in My World is a beautiful and moving collection of essays, diary and blog entries written by a young deaf man. I read this collection with a sense of wonder, humility and inspiration and the writing deeply touched me on a multitude of levels. The honesty with which the writing conveys the joys and sorrows, fears and pains, hopes and dreams of this man serves as a testament and reminder of the capacity of the human spirit to not only persist but also to thrive and to soar." –Indigene, Indie Reviews
Interview With Kathryn Vercillo Author of "Crochet Saved My Life"
Kathryn Vercillo is a non-fiction author and a professional blogger who has just self-published her newest book, Crochet Saved My Life.
What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?
I am a non-fiction writer who believes strongly in the value of each individual's personal experience in this world. I believe that sharing our experience is cathartic for ourselves and is a beneficial for others. When you read something that really connects with your heart, you feel a stronger tie to the larger whole of humanity and that's the writing that I aim to share in my work.
My newest book, Crochet Saved My Life, includes my own mini-memoir about my battle with depression and many people have told me that they really relate to that part of the book. The book also shares stories from other women who went through mental health issues and found creative self-expression and crafting to be healing, so this allowed me to not only share my own story but also to give voice to the true individual stories of other women.
As far as topics, I love exploring creativity, mental health, relationships, human psychology and motivations and all aspects of art and craft. In addition to my non-fiction books, I also write multiple blogs (Crochet Concupiscence, Diary of a Smart Chick, my writing blog) and do articles for various websites and magazines, all in the same vein as my non-fiction book topics.
When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
That's an interesting question because I realized it really early on in my childhood but then kind of lost my way a little bit over the years and it's something I just keep remembering again and again in new ways. I started writing stories when I was barely old enough to write and writing has always been this thread that ran through my life in one form or another. However, I did explore other career paths (social work, law, teaching) so I'd meander away from writing for a little bit and then feel pulled to it again.
It was finally about the age of 24 or 25 that I realized that yes, indeed, I did want to be a full-time writer. Even within that, I wasn't sure what kind of writer I was or wanted to be. I've done everything from academic writing to professional blogging for small businesses to ghostwriting … and in the past few years I finally committed myself to focusing on writing my own creative non-fiction works rather than doing writing on other people's projects. So I'd say I first realized I wanted to be a writer when I was about 4 and then I realized it strongly again 20 years later!
What do you like to do when you're not writing?
My very favorite thing to do is to explore my city. I'm originally from Tucson, Arizona but I moved to San Francisco several years ago because I was just so creatively in love with the city. I thrive here. I adore it here. So when I'm not writing, I am usually out doing something in the city to get inspiration. I love random events (literary, artistic, nerdy, whatever) and off-the-beaten-path attractions and just walking around. Other things I enjoy include crochet, making collages, yoga/pilates, hiking and having random conversations.
Where do you hang out online? Website URL, author groups, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, blog, etc?
I'm fairly active and easy to find online. In addition to the links above, I am active on Twitter (as @CrochetBlogger and @KathrynVercillo), G+, Pinterest and StumbleUpon. I am also active on Facebook, with fan pages for me as an author, my book and my crochet blog.
I am less active but also can be found on many other social sites including craft sites like Ravelry, Etsy, and Hookey and author/book sites like GoodReads and Bookbuzzr.
What types of books do you like to read?
I read quickly and I read a lot. I have a diverse range of interests. However, I am most drawn to non-fiction. I absolutely love memoirs, particular creative and mental health memoirs, especially those written by women. I also love non-fiction books that cover niche topics (like memory championships, written about by Joshua Foer in Moonwalking with Einstein, or the role of librarians in the modern age, written about by Marilyn Johnson in This Book is Overdue). I'll add that physically I prefer print books to digital books.
What would you like readers to know about you the individual?
I want to know you! I really enjoy hearing the personal stories of other people who enjoy my writing. I love allowing readers to comment on my blogs because it gives them a forum for sharing their own truths. One of the things I've done with Crochet Saved My Life is encouraged people who want to tell their own craft-related health stories to email me the story and I'll post on my blog for a welcoming audience.
Name one thing that your readers would be surprised to know about you.
A random fun fact is that a few months before high school graduation I dropped out of school but I did attend my senior prom and was actually the prom queen.
Your Writing Process
I can't not write. I don't even know what I would do if suddenly I was rendered incapable of writing. Writing is integral to my entire experience of processing and relating to the world around me.
What is your work schedule like when you're writing?
I try to write at least six days per week. I think it's valuable to write in some form every day but occasionally I take a day off just to immerse myself in a non-writing experience.
A pretty typical day for me looks like this:
• Wake up without an alarm clock. Yay!
• Drink coffee while watching a short TV show and simultaneously playing a game like Words with Friends on my iPod. Sometimes I read instead.
• Journal.
• Make the day's To Do list, mostly a way to get my brain organized for the rest of the day.
• Check email and answer anything super important.
• Promote all of my posts that went live in the morning on social networks.
• I write best earlier in the day so I try to get going with actual writing no later than noon. Other than a break for lunch I typically write until five or six. This writing may include working on a book, doing some articles or writing blog posts.
• After that I try to spend an hour or two on other author-related tasks. I go through my blogroll and comment on people's posts that I like. I answer the rest of my email. I communicate with my web support guy. I pitch articles or interviews to people or do something to promote my book.
• The evening is spent spending time with friends, talking on the phone with family, reading, crocheting and/or watching TV.
Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?
Stick with it. There is no one right way to write or to make a writing career for yourself. It's an ongoing process that takes years and years to develop. There will be ups and downs and you won't always know if you want to do it or how you want to do it. But if you write, you are a writer, so just keep at it and you'll figure out what works for you.
Is there any other genre you have considered writing in?
I dabble in poetry. I'd love to write a novel at some point but that's probably the area I'm weakest in technically.
Do you listen to music or have another form of inspiration when you are writing?
If I'm working on something that requires a lot of attention then I keep it silent in the house. If it's something that requires a little less focus then I might have on music (via Pandora) or a podcast (craft, business and author podcasts are my go-tos) or more likely I'll have some trashy reality TV show on in the background as noise that I only half pay attention to. I wouldn't say it's inspiration for my writing but it's part of my writing process.
Most people envision an author's life as being really glamorous. What's the most unglamorous thing that you've done in the past week?
Ha, I love this question! People especially think it's glamorous being a writer living in a cute apartment in San Francisco. It's super wonderful and I love it but it's not glamorous. I enjoy living a car-free life and usually walk everywhere but sometimes I do take the bus, which most people would say is not so glamorous.
What is the best writing advice you have ever received?
The oft-repeated advice to write what you know. I have not always listened to this advice and I have usually regretted it when I chose to ignore it.
Your book is about to be sent into the reader world, what is one word that describes how you feel?
How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?
I wrote two books about the ghosts of the Bay Area a few years ago. In 2011 I self-published a booklet of articles so that I could explore how the self-publishing process worked. And then in 2012 I've self-published Crochet Saved My Life, which is my book about the mental and physical health benefits of crafting, posited around the theory that "handmade heals". This new book was really a work direct from my heart and so it's my favorite that's been published so far. But I have to say that my true favorite is the next one … it's always the next one!
What can we look forward to in the upcoming months?
I have two different books in the works right now, both somewhat related to the most recent book. Which one will come out first is up in the air right now, as I'm still in the early stages of seeing how it's all going to develop. One is going to be a creativity book for people who crochet, offering them creative exercises and ideas for using a craft to explore their inner selves and improve their own quality of life. The other is about how crochet doesn't just help individuals but can also help entire communities of people. Anyone who is interested in these books can keep updated on them by following any of my blogs via RSS feed or following my author page on Facebook.
When a new book comes out, are you nervous about how readers will react to it?
Of course! I can't imagine a writer or artist who isn't. On the one hand, you're done now and you've put out the best thing that you can so it seems a little silly to be nervous. But the thing is that you never know if what you intend to convey is going to come across the way that you want it to. Until you start to hear that people are reacting to it, there's a long pause of nervous energy!
What story haven't you written yet but would like to? Is there anything holding you back from writing it?
When I was 21 I worked in a therapeutic level group home for foster kids with behavioral problems. It was an intense, amazing experience. When I left there, I wrote a book about my experiences. However, the book wasn't very good. I was too immature of a writer and I was too close to the experience at the time to be able to share the story properly. I would really love to finish that project someday. I've considered re-writing the story as a novel but I think it'll end up being non-fiction/ memoir-style. We'll see. I haven't done it yet because something doesn't feel ready but I've also never let go of that particular project (I do have other unpublished books that I have let go of) so I know that at some point I'll be ready to write that one.
What kind of research do you do for your books? Do you enjoy the research process?
I love research! Half of what I love about blogging is that I get to do constant research into topics that interest me. For the ongoing research for my crochet blog I subscribe to hundreds of other crochet blogs, receive some crochet newsletters, get all the crochet magazines, read as many crochet books as possible and have Google Alerts set to notify me about new news related to the craft.
The process is similar for my books but it's interesting because it's a more short-term, intense research process. My blogs are ongoing so the research is a long-term, ongoing process but it's done a little bit at a time. The book are intended to come out in a certain period of time so I do similar research but I immerse myself in it really completely and totally for a shorter period of time (a few months to a year). For my most recent book I did all of the same type of research as I would for my blog, plus I read a lot of professional journals and I interviewed two dozen people about their own related experiences.
Do deadlines help or hinder your muse?
Self-imposed, flexible deadlines are what work for me best. I do take deadlines seriously and really hate to ever be late submitting writing that's for a publication or for someone else's project. For my own work, I create self-imposed deadlines. For my blogs, that means writing about certain topics and certain days and keeping that schedule. For my books, it means having a general plan for the month I intend for the book to come out. However, I allow for some flexibility. The deadline gets 90% of the work to the page but I wouldn't want to sacrifice that final 10% of quality just to meet a specific self-imposed deadline.
Do you outline your books or just start writing?
I start writing first so I can see where the passion for the topic is going to take me. Once I've exhausted the free writing energy, that's when I sit down and make an outline. This provides the structure to get the rest of the work done. Then I write some more.
If your book is available in print, how does it feel to hold a book that has your name on the cover?
I absolutely love printed books and of course keep a copy of each of mine around the house. I'm especially proud of Crochet Saved My Life because I worked with a terrific local photographer for the cover and I think the cover design is impactful and beautiful.
Description: In the worst throes of depression I found myself sobbing on the bathroom floor, the tip of a kitchen knife pointed into my wrist. I was aching to break the flesh and bring the pain to an end. Through sheer force of will, I pried my own desperate hands open and replaced the knife with a crochet hook. Then I crocheted to save my life.
In this book, you will get to know me through my story of depression and healing. And you will get to know other women as well. You will meet Aurore who crochets to stay in touch with reality as she deals with ongoing psychiatric hallucinations. You will meet Laurie who made a new life with crochet after years of a life filled with abuse. You will meet Tammy whose crochet helps her with the ups and downs of living with Chronic Lyme Disease. You will meet Liza who crochets through the anxiety of having temporary bouts of blindness caused by an undiagnosed health condition.
The two dozen women whose stories are shared in this book are the women who hook to heal. We are not alone. Studies shows that crocheters are numerous; research and anecdotal evidence show that people of all ages, from all walks of life, with all types of health conditions may find healing through their hooks and yarn. Join us on our journey.
Website: www.kathrynvercillo.com and more about the new book at www.crochetsavedmylife.com.
Now Available: "My Right Leg Is Tastier Than My Left" by Andrew John Rainnie, a Travelogue with a Twist!
Released June 3, 2012:
In 2011 screenwriter, filmmaker and journalist Andrew John Rainnie quit his life to follow his dream and travel the world. Relive the adventures as he charts this exciting and turbulent journey, often mixing his trademark blunt yet comedic opinions of the places he visits with deep personal insights into his past. What emerges is a poignant, poetic and often humorous insight into the lifestyle of a globetrotting aficionado, a mix between On the Road and An Idiot Abroad.
The 342 page book charts Rainnie's adventures through South-East Asia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, South American, North America and Canada. Each chapter opens with a photograph from the vast well collected during the author's adventures. While many travelogues have been written, Rainnie speaks with a frank, often brutal manner, offering those who may be thinking of travelling solo a rare, unique insight into the physical and emotional difficulties faced alone on the open road, as well as the pleasures of escaping the daily rat race.
The book is available from Amazon's Kindle store, as well as on other eReader formats via Smashwords for £0.77 / $0.99. The book should be available on Apple's iBookstore in the near future.
To find out more about the author, or to contact him, please visit http://www.andrewjohnrainnie.com.
About Andrew John Rainnie
Andrew hails from the town of Renfrew, Scotland. He studied English Literature and Film & TV at the University of Glasgow, as well as a postgraduate degree in Screenwriting at Bournemouth University.
In 2006 he moved to London to pursue a career in screenwriting and filmmaking, finding work as a freelance script consultant while continuing to write short and feature film scripts. A number of his short film scripts have been produced and screened across the world. He has directed two of his own scripts; Sugar (2008) and The Collector (2012). The latter, based on a short story by American author Jonathan Lethem, will be debuting at the London East End Film Festival in July 2012.
He has recently completed his first fictional novel, "Spirits of Vengeance: The Stone of Spirits", which he hopes to publish in the near future.
About Smashwords
Founded in 2008, Smashwords operates the world's leading ebook publishing and distribution platform serving authors, publishers, readers and retailers. Smashwords makes it free and easy for the world's authors and publishers to instantly publish and distribute their books as multi-format ebooks. Smashwords puts authors and publishers in full control over the pricing, sampling and distribution of their works. Authors and publishers receive up to 85 percent of the net proceeds from sales of their works.
Smashwords has distribution relationships with leading online retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony and Diesel eBooks, and leading mobile e-reading apps including Aldiko, Stanza, Kobo, FBReader and Word-Player, spanning all major mobile platforms including Android, Blackberry and iPhone. Privately held Smashwords is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com. Visit the official Smashwords blog at http://blog.smashwords.com.
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New Release May 10, 2012: "Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World" Edited by Red Haircrow
From Flying With Red Haircrow:
Description: "This is an imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul.
Part diary, part dialogue, part rhetoric, "Silence Is Multi-colored in My World" is based on actual experiences and is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleeder."
Genre: Biography, Memoir, GLBTIIQ
Publishing: May 10, 2012
Publisher: Flying With Red Haircrow
Availability: Smashwords, OmniLit, Rainbow Ebooks, and other online distributors.
I am G.Y.S., a profoundly deaf man. I have blue eyes and red hair, which I wear long. I am gay and Russian, and was born in 1978 in the Ukraine, but I moved myself to Germany when I was fourteen. You'll learn how and why later.
My words are a mélange of impressions, memories and observations for I love many things and am distressed by many things. I have wandered to a number of countries and enjoy meeting people and getting to know new ideas and perspectives. I find the world both a fascinating and terrible place.
Photography, Nature, Overcoming Disabilities, Inter-societal Understanding, and Love are some of the topics that interest, concern and keep my attention. In writing about me I wish I could have said something clever, unique or witty, but this is simply me: sometimes I'm silly, sometimes I'm angry, sometimes you may find me annoying or overly sad but I'm always honest and sincere.
Flash bits about me? I have a beautiful pink "Grecian" style nightgown I love to wear. I once blew up a vacuum cleaner (not on purpose!). I prefer to sleep during the day but I'm not a vampire. Sometimes I hate being bothered to eat because chewing is usually necessary but can be so very boring.
Other works from Flying With Red Haircrow:
Katrdeshtr's Redemption
The House of Doom, Dreams and Desire
The Coat: Secrets of a Hatcheck Boy
The Angel of Berlin
Enigma,Enigma Book 1
Fighting The Man, Enigma Book 2 (Released May 9th)
Songs of the Universal Vagabond
CORE: A Poetry Collection (Upcoming release)
About Red Haircrow:
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Duke men's basketball team arrived at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., Wednesday afternoon and participated in pregame activities ahead of its NCAA Tournament first-round contest against UNCW.
Members of the media had an opportunity to speak with head coach Mike Krzyzewski, sophomore Grayson Allen, junior Matt Jones and redshirt senior Marshall Plumlee before Duke hit the court for a practice that was open to the public.
UNCW also spoke with the media on the eve of their showdown with Duke. Head Coach Kevin Keatts, redshirt senior Craig Ponder, and redshirt juniors Denzel Ingram and Chris Flemmings all answered questions.
The Blue Devils are set to face UNCW tomorrow, with tip set for 12:15 p.m. Coverage is available on CBS. Duke is looking to stay undefeated in the city of Providence in the NCAA Tournament after winning a pair of games at the site in 1978 on its way to the Final Four.
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I love crepes and I love chocolate, so I thought I may as well put them together...it worked amazingly well. It's basically my regular crepe recipe with a few modifications. I also had a couple of lemons that needed to be used up and whipped up this sauce...this sauce is incredible.<|fim_middle|>ilt the pan in a circular motion so that the batter coats the surface evenly.
3. Cook the crepe for about 2 minutes or until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with a spatula, flip and cook the other side. Serve hot. This makes about 10-12 crepes.
1. In a saucepan, stir together sugar, flour, and salt.
2. Slowly whisk in the milk and lemon juice and cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until thickened.
3. Stir in lemon zest and serve warm or cold over crepes or any dessert or pancakes.
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wow! that is a killer! I love crepes but never have though about adding cocoa powder to the batter. LOVE IT!
Awesome! - Gonna' have to try this one!
Oh my! These sound soooo good!
I just made these and they are a great dessert- not too sweet but very satisfying. I paired these with a small scoop of raspberry sorbet. It was a delightful combination! Thank you for sharing this recipe! | I think it would go great with my lemon poppy seed pancakes, too.
1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, and sugar. Add the eggs. Gradually add in the milk and water, stirring to combine. Add the salt and margarine, beat until smooth.
2. Heat a lightly buttered (with dairy-free margarine) 10-12" frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter into the pan, using just under 1/2 cup or so for each crepe. T | 115 |
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© 2023 www.thecalifornian.com. All rights reserved. | a long and productive road for Suzanne Mann at The Western Stage. Now resident designer as well as costume shop manager, she remembers virtually all the colorful steps along the way.
As an incoming guest designer, she began with "Curtains" in the fall of 2011. Since then, she's designed eight shows herself, and at the rate of six productions a year, helped bring to fruition the work of other designers for many more.
Favorite shows over the years? The Liar, Picnic, Crazy for You, A Christmas Story: The Musical, to name just a few.
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Social Security Disability: Ticket to Work Helped Some Participants, but Overpayments Increased Program Costs
GAO-22-104031 Published: Oct 28, 2021. Publicly Released: Oct 28, 2021.
The Ticket to Work program seeks to help those receiving Social Security disability benefits find jobs and reduce reliance on benefits.
We found:
Participants (after 5 years) earned an estimated $2,451 more per year and were slightly more likely to leave the disability rolls than similar nonparticipants
From 2002 through 2015, program costs exceeded the savings in benefits by about $806 million
Overpayments (which can occur if benefit adjustments are delayed) cost an estimated additional $133-169 million
We recommended that the Social Security Administration identify the root causes of these overpayments and take steps to address them.
Estimated Net Loss to the Social Security Administration from the Ticket to Work Program, 2002-2015
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What GAO Found
Disability beneficiaries participate in the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency program (Ticket to Work) by assigning a "ticket" to service providers who, in turn, provide help with employment. SSA compensates the service providers when Ticket to Work participants achieve designated levels of work and earnings. Using SSA data from 2002, when the program began, through 2018, the most recent year available, GAO estimated that 5 years after starting Ticket to Work, participants' average earnings were $2,451 more per year than that of similar nonparticipants. However, the majority of participants remained unemployed 5 years after starting Ticket to Work.
Based on GAO's analysis, the costs of Ticket to Work exceeded the savings in disability benefits to SSA by an estimated $806 million from 2002 through 2015, the most recent year with reliable savings data. Savings accrue when Ticket to Work participants receive lower benefits or leave the disability rolls due to earnings from work. GAO estimates that participants were slightly more likely to leave the rolls (9.7 percent) than nonparticipants who are similar across a range of characteristics such as age, gender, disability type, and education level (8.6 percent). A greater percentage of participants left the disability rolls due to work rather than for other reasons, such as medical improvement (see figure).
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GAO estimates that SSA incurred an additional $133 million to $169 million in costs (above the $806 million) from disability benefit overpayments to Ticket to Work participants. Overpayments can occur when beneficiaries who work do not report earnings to SSA or SSA delays in adjusting their benefit amounts. SSA incurs costs when it allows a beneficiary to keep overpayments or expends resources to recover them. GAO estimates that Ticket to Work participants were more than twice as likely to receive overpayments 5 years after starting the program than nonparticipants. While SSA is investigating the root causes of overpayments across its benefit programs, it has not focused on overpayments among Ticket to Work participants, who face unique circumstances due to their ties to service providers. For example, participants may mistakenly think that service providers report their earnings to SSA. Addressing the root causes of overpayments among Ticket to Work participants would reduce repayment burdens on affected participants and increase savings for SSA and taxpayers.
Why GAO Did This Study
SSA pays billions of dollars in Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits to people with disabilities. To help beneficiaries obtain employment and reduce dependence on disability benefits, Ticket to Work was established in 1999. The Explanatory Statement accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 contains a provision for GAO to study the effects of the program.
This report examines, among other things, the extent to which Ticket to Work has led to increased earnings and other benefits for participants, and how the costs and savings from Ticket to Work compared over time. GAO conducted statistical analyses of SSA beneficiary data, analysis of Ticket to Work costs, a literature review, and interviews with program officials, service provider representatives, and disability policy experts.
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GAO recommends SSA identify the root causes of overpayments to Ticket to Work participants and take appropriate actions to address them. SSA agreed with GAO's recommendation.
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Social Security Administration The Commissioner of Social Security should identify the root causes of overpayments to Ticket to Work participants specifically then take appropriate actions to address them. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
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RESPONDING TO HARRY KROTO'S BRILLIANT RENOWNED ACADEMICS!! Part 159 AA "Open letter to Harry Kroto's friend Richard Dawkins" On page 166 in THE GOD DELUSION: "I think it is definitely worth spending money on SETI, because I think it is likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere."
Richard Dawkins c/o Richard Dawkins Foundation,
Dear Mr. Dawkins,
On page 166 in THE GOD DELUSION: "I think it is definitely worth spending money on SETI, because I think it is likely that there is intelligent life elsewhere."
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Both Francis Schaeffer and Richard Dawkins have talked extensively about the life of Charles Darwin.
Sir Harry Kroto with his high school friend Sir Ian McKellan at the FSU National High Field Magnetic Lab on Tuesday, October 27, 2009.
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RESPONDING TO HARRY KROTO'S BRILLIANT RENOWNED ACADEMICS!! Part 48 Nobel Prize Winner and Global Warming Denier Ivar Giaever "I think religion is to blame for a lot of the ills in this world!"
On November 21, 2014 I received a letter from Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto and it said: …Please click on this URL http://vimeo.com/26991975 and you will hear what far smarter people than I have to say on this matter. I agree with them. Harry Kroto _________________ Below you have picture of 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner […]
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER ANALYZES ART AND CULTURE PART 78 THE BEATLES (Breaking down the song TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS) Featured musical artist is Stuart Gerber
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The Beatles were "inspired by the musique concrète of German composer and early electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen…" as SCOTT THILL has asserted. Francis Schaeffer noted that ideas of "Non-resolution" and "Fragmentation" came down German and French streams with the influence of Beethoven's last Quartets and then the influence of Debussy and later Schoenberg's non-resolution which is in total contrast […]
RESPONDING TO HARRY KROTO'S BRILLIANT RENOWNED ACADEMICS!! Part 42 Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
_______ On November 21, 2014 I received a letter from Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto and it said: …Please click on this URL http://vimeo.com/26991975 and you will hear what far smarter people than I have to say on this matter. I agree with them. Harry Kroto _________________ Below you have picture of 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize […]
RESPONDING TO HARRY KROTO'S BRILLIANT RENOWNED ACADEMICS!! Bart Ehrman "Why should one think that God performed the miracle of inspiring the words in the first place if He didn't perform the miracle of preserving the words?"
On November 21, 2014 I received a letter from Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto and it said: …Please click on this URL http://vimeo.com/26991975 and you will hear what far smarter people than I have to say on this matter. I agree with them. Harry Kroto ____________________ Below you have picture of 1996 Chemistry Nobel Prize Winner Dr. […]
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« Open Letter #66 to Ricky Gervais on comparison of the Tony of AFTER LIFE to the Solomon of ECCLESIASTES, Did Tony's whole world have to collapse after Lisa's Death? Tim Keller "If you believe the Gospel and all its remarkable claims about Jesus and what he has done for you and who you are in him, then nothing that happens in this world can actually get at your identity"
Open Letter #67 to Ricky Gervais on comparison of the Tony of AFTER LIFE to the Solomon of ECCLESIASTES, Tony Johnson "You can't change the world but you can change yourself. I will try harder at that as well." However, how is that possible without a spiritual conversion from above? » | for the big answers in life through SETI!!! Below are some thoughts on both the movie CONTACT and INTERSTELLAR:
Over and over in the movie Cooper (played by Matthew McConaghey) says "someone out there is helping us," but instead of pointing to God who created us for a purpose, the film points to impersonal chance evolution as the hero and the final conclusion is no one is out there and we have to help ourselves.
John Cage took a long look at chance evolution and based his music on it and the result was horrible. Living in a world created by chance impersonal evolution has caused the loss of significance of mankind and many have given up of a hope offinding meaning. Furthermore, filmmakers such as Resnais, Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni, Bunuel,and Bergman all attempted to show what it is like to live in the area of nonreason!!!
However, even though there is a clear choice between the two conclusions of how we got here and where we are going, INTERSTELLAR tries to come down on the side of impersonal chance evolution but still give mankind a lasting meaning for their lives when that worldview can only take away any significance for humans!!!!!
The final conclusion of the movie reminds me of the words of Francis Schaeffer when he was discussing the artwork of Francis Bacon then he skips over to Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, and John Cage and compares them to Bacon in their view that possibly that a message break forth from the impersonal chance universe:
I have an essay on Francis Bacon by John Russell. Methuan published it in London in 1964.
Bacon goes on, "In my case all painting–and the older I get, the more it becomes so–is an accident." Now this is very important and to think of Jackson Pollock putting on his paint as a pure accident and you may remember my lecture on Paul Klee.
Paul Klee (1879-1940) speaks of some of his paintings as though they were a kind of Ouija board. Klee thinks that the universe can speak through his paintings. Not because he believes there are spirits there to speak, but because he hopes that the universe will push through and cause a kind of automatic writing, this time in painting. It is an automatic writing with no one there, as far as anyone knows, but the hope that the "universe" will speak.We think of John Cage with the universe speaking though chance.
Now Bacon continues and he says something very similar to what Pollock, Cage and Klee believed, "I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things that are very much better than I could make it do. Perhaps one could say it's not an accident, because it becomes a selective process what part of the accident one chooses to preserve."
Now here from Francis Bacon's own viewpoint. An absurd universe in a total sense and in some element of the paint taking on its own personality and a message may come through from impersonal source.
My thoughts on "Interstellar": It asks all the right questions but gives all the wrong answers. From
by Denny Burk on November 8, 2014 inChristianity, Culture, Entertainment
I saw the movie Interstellar a couple nights ago, and I'm still thinking about it now. It's a mind-bending meditation on the meaning of life set within an epic intergalactic journey to save humanity. Superficially, it's a sci-fi flick. But most fundamentally, it's about metaphysics and theology.Here's the plot in a nutshell. At some point in the not too distant future, the world becomes increasingly uninhabitable to humans. The food supply is afflicted by blight, and the world becomes a giant dustbowl. America no longer has a military and has ceased to lead the world in innovation and technology. In this dystopian future, the decline of American greatness seals the fate of the planet. It is only a matter of time before human beings on earth will all die of asphyxiation and lung disease.A farmer and former astronaut named Cooper (played by Matthew McConaghey) is tapped to lead a mission into deep space to find a habitable world in order to rescue the human race from extinction. If the mission succeeds, there are two plans for saving humanity. Plan A involves evacuating humans to the new world. Plan B involves leaving humans to die on earth and starting a new human colony artificially by bringing to life thousands of frozen human embryos.At the heart of the movie is the relationship between Cooper and his daughter Murphy (played by Jessica Chastain). Murphy has already lost her mother to cancer. And she cannot bear to lose her father as well. As Cooper leaves his family to save the world, Murphy falls out with her father.I'll let you see the movie to see how the plot resolves. It is gut-wrenching and human. As a father of three daughters, I related to the pathos generated by this film. At every level–dramatically, technically, production value–this movie was very well executed.
Nevertheless, it's the metanarrative of the movie that is most compelling. A father leaves his home in order to save the family that he loves and indeed the entire world. He is gone so long that his own children began to question whether he will ever come back. The Father's invisibility causes his children to question whether his word is true. Meanwhile, planet earth has become a kind of Eden that is expelling its human inhabitants. From dust these people came, and to a dusty death they are returning–unless the father saves them. This movie is thick with biblical mythology and allusion.
The film asks all the important questions. In one of the most penetrating scenes, an astronaut named Ameilia (played by Ann Hathaway) talks about human love and how it tends to transcend space and time. Love resides outside the measure of empirical science. Nevertheless, no one questions the existence of love. Perhaps the existence of love reveals that there is more to the universe than meets the eye. Indeed, the rescue mission is motivated in part by an invitation by invisible other-worldly beings who seem to be aiding humanity's rescue.
So the film does ask all the important questions. Unfortunately, it also gives many wrong answers. Without giving away specific details of the plot, the big discovery at the end of the movie is that Cooper realizes there is no one out there to save humanity. Humanity must save itself if it is to be saved. We are the answer to our own questions. At the end of the day, the universe is a closed system, and there is no mysterious other worldly being trying to save us. If we want to be saved, we will have to pull ourselves up by our own humanistic boot straps.
There is more that can and should be said about this movie. I look forward to reading other reviews. This was a rare, smart, thoughtful movie. Highly recommended.
On December 5, 1995, I got a letter back from Carl Sagan and I was very impressed that he took time to answer several of my questions and to respond to some of the points that I had made in my previous letters. I had been reading lots of his books and watching him on TV since 1980 and my writing today is a result of that correspondence. It is my conclusion that Carl Sagan died an unfulfilled man on December 20, 1996 with many of the big questions he had going unanswered.
Much of Carl Sagan's aspirations and thoughts were revealed to a mass audience of movie goers just a few months after his death. The movie "CONTACT" with Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey is a fictional story written by Sagan about the SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI). Sagan visited the set while it was filming and it was released on July 11, 1997 after his unfortunate death.
The movie CONTACT got me thinking about Sagan's life long hope to find a higher life form out in the universe and I was reminded of Dr. Donald E. Tarter of NASA who wrote me in a letter a year or so earlier and stated, "I am not a theist. I simply and honestly do not know the answer to the great questions…This brings me to why I am interested in the SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI)…Let me assure you, one of the first questions I would want to ask another intelligence if one were discovered is, DO YOU BELIEVE IN OR HAVE EVIDENCE OF A SUPREME INTELLIGENCE?"
HERE IS WHERE I'M MAKING THE COMPARISON BETWEEN THE MOVIE "CONTACT" AND "INTERSTELLAR" AND THAT IS BOTH MOVIES SUGGEST THAT WE CAN POSSIBLY GET SOME ANSWERS TO THE BIG QUESTIONS FROM THE IMPERSONAL CHANCE UNIVERSE!!!! Late in the film CONTACT Dr. Arroway makes contact with a more highly evolved form of intelligence and asks him some questions.
Was Sagan ever satisfied with the answers he came up with in his life? It is my view that true peace and satisfaction can come from a personal relationship with Christ and only in the Bible can we find absolute answers that touch this world we live in. The Apostle Paul was totally content when he wrote the book of Philippians from a jail in Rome right before he was beheaded (according to tradition). Paul observed, "Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him (Christ) who strengthens me" (Philippians 4:11-13). On March 11, 2012 my pastor Brandon Bernard at Fellowship Church Little Rock read that scripture and then commented:
Paul is reminding us that in every circumstance and in everything he has gone through that his satisfaction is found deeply in Christ. You think about this guy who is writing from prison. He is in this prison cell and it is a hardship in his life, but him of all people is saying that "I am writing to you but I am content and I am satisfied." That is a statement you don't hear from a lot of people these days… A lot of people are discontent and dissatisfied… Think about the poets from your generation or the generation before us. How about the deep theologians called "The Rolling Stones." Remember them. They wrote this song "I can't get no satisfaction." And you know what they say after that phrase? "And I try and I try and I try." I am not sure how deep most of their lyrics are, but they voice the cry of many people. "I can't get no satisfaction and I try and I am trying and I am trying."
What about one of those other poets by the name of Bono who wrote a song called, "I still haven't found what I am looking for." It is interesting. "I still haven't found what I am looking for." It has a nice melody to it but there is probably a reason why it is so popular because there is a lot of people deep down in their soul feel like they haven't found what they are looking for.
It is true. What is so funny to me is that what is so desired is so elusive.
Rice Broocks in his book GOD'S NOT DEADnoted:
Astronomer Carl Sagan was a prolific writer and trustee of the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) founded in 1984 to scan the universe for any signs of life beyond earth. Sagan's best-selling work COSMOS also became an award-winning television series explaining the wonders of the universe and exporting the belief not in an intelligent Creator but in potential intelligent aliens. He believed somehow that by knowing who they are, we would discover who we as humans really are. "The very thought of there being other beings different from all of us can have a very useful cohering role for the human species" (quoted from you tube clip "Carl Sagan appears on CBC to discuss the importance of SETI [Carl Sagan Archives]" at the 7 minute mark, Oct 1988 ). Sagan reasoning? If aliens could have contacted us, knowing how impossible it is for us to reach them, they would have the answers we seek to our ultimate questions. This thought process shows the desperate need we have as humans for answers to the great questions of our existence. Does life have any ultimate meaning and purpose? Do we as humans have any more value than the other animals? Is there a purpose to the universe, or more specifically, to our individual lives?
Carl Sagan had to live in the world that God made with the conscience that God gave him. This created a tension. As you know the movie CONTACT was written by Carl Sagan and it was about Dr. Arroway's SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE (SETI) program and her desire to make contact with aliens and ask them questions. It is my view that Sagan should have examined more closely the accuracy of the Bible and it's fulfilled prophecies from the Old Testament in particular before chasing after aliens from other planets for answers. Sagan himself had written,"Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death…If some good evidence for life after death was announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere antedote"(pp 203-204, The DemonHaunted World, 1995).
Sagan said he had taken a look at Old Testament prophecy and it did not impress him because it was too vague. He had taken a look at Christ's life in the gospels, but said it was unrealistic for God to send a man to communicate for God. Instead, Sagan suggested that God could have written a mathematical formula in the Bible or put a cross in the sky. However, what happens at the conclusion of the movie CONTACT? This is Sagan's last message to the world in the form of the movie that appeared shortly after his death. Dr Arroway (Jodie Foster) who is a young atheistic scientist who meets with an alien and this alien takes the form of Dr. Arroway's father. The alien tells her that they thought this would make it easier for her. In fact, he meets her on a beach that resembles a beach that she grew up near so she would also be comfortable with the surroundings. Carl Sagan when writing this script chose to put the alien in human form so Dr. Arroway could relate to the alien.Christ chose to take our form and come into our world too and still many make up excuses for not believing.
Lastly, Carl Sagan could not rid himself of the "mannishness of man." Those who have read Francis Schaeffer's many books know exactly what I am talking about. We are made in God's image and we are living in God's world. Therefore, we can not totally suppress the objective truths of our unique humanity. In my letter of Jan 10, 1996 to Dr. Sagan, I really camped out on this point a long time because I had read Sagan's book SHADOWS OF FORGOTTON ANCESTORS and in it Sagan attempts to totally debunk the idea that we are any way special. However, what does Dr. Sagan have Dr. Arroway say at the end of the movie CONTACT when she is testifying before Congress about the alien that communicated with her? See if you can pick out the one illogical word in her statement: "I was given a vision how tiny, insignificant, rare and precious we all are. We belong to something that is greater than ourselves and none of us are alone."
Dr Sagan deep down knows that we are special so he could not avoid putting the word"precious" in there. Francis Schaeffersaid unbelievers are put in a place of tension when they have to live in the world that God has made because deep down they know they are special because God has put that knowledge in their hearts.We are not the result of survival of the fittest and headed back to the dirt forevermore. This is what Schaeffer calls "taking the roof off" of the unbeliever's worldview and showing the inconsistency that exists.
In several of my letters to Sagan I quoted this passage below:
Romans 1:17-22 (Amplified Bible)
17For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith.(A)
20For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],(B)
21Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honor and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead they became futile and [a]godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.
22Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves].
Can a man or a woman find lasting meaning without God? Three thousand years ago, Solomon took a look at life "under the sun" in his book of Ecclesiastes. Christian scholar Ravi Zacharias has noted, "The key to understanding the Book of Ecclesiastes is the term 'under the sun.' What that literally means is you lock God out of a closed system, and you are left with only this world of time plus chance plus matter."
Let me show you some inescapable conclusions if you choose to live without God in the picture. Solomon came to these same conclusions when he looked at life "under the sun."
Death is the great equalizer (Eccl 3:20, "All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.")
Chance and time have determined the past, and they will determine the future. (Ecclesiastes 9:11-13 "I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.")
Power reigns in this life, and the scales are not balanced(Eccl 4:1; "Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors— and they have no comforter." 7:15 "In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these: the righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness. ).
Nothing in life gives true satisfaction without God including knowledge (1:16-18), ladies and liquor (2:1-3, 8, 10, 11), and great building projects (2:4-6, 18-20).
There is no ultimate lasting meaning in life. (1:2)
By the way, the final chapter of Ecclesiastes finishes with Solomon emphasizing that serving God is the only proper response of man. Solomon looks above the sun and brings God back into the picture in the final chapter of the book in Ecclesiastes 12:13-14:
In 1978 I heard the song "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas when it rose to #6 on the charts. That song told me that Kerry Livgren the writer of that song and a member of Kansas had come to the same conclusion that Solomon had and that "all was meaningless." I remember mentioning to my friends at church that we may soon see some members of Kansas become Christians because their search for the meaning of life had obviously come up empty even though they had risen from being an unknown band to the top of the music business and had all the wealth and fame that came with that.
Both Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope of Kansas became Christians eventually. Kerry Livgren first tried Eastern Religions and Dave Hope had to come out of a heavy drug addiction. I was shocked and elated to see their personal testimony on The 700 Club in 1981 and that same interview can be seen on youtube today. Livgren lives in Topeka, Kansas today where he teaches "Diggers," a Sunday school class at Topeka Bible Church. Hope is the head of Worship, Evangelism and Outreach at Immanuel Anglican Church in Destin, Florida.
Thank you again for your time and I know how busy you are.
Everette Hatcher, everettehatcher@gmail.com, http://www.thedailyhatch.org, cell ph 501-920-5733, Box 23416, LittleRock, AR 72221, United States
Canary Islands 2014: Harold Kroto and Richard Dawkins
On November 21, 2014 I received a letter from Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto and it said:
…Please click on this URL http://vimeo.com/26991975
and you will hear what far smarter people than I have to say on this matter. I agree with them.
Harry Kroto
Nick Gathergood, David-Birkett, Harry-Kroto
I have attempted to respond to all of Dr. Kroto's friends arguments and I have posted my responses one per week for over a year now. Here are some of my earlier posts:
Arif Ahmed, Sir David Attenborough, Mark Balaguer, Horace Barlow, Michael Bate, Patricia Churchland, Aaron Ciechanover, Noam Chomsky,Alan Dershowitz, Hubert Dreyfus, Bart Ehrman, Stephan Feuchtwang, David Friend, Riccardo Giacconi, Ivar Giaever , Roy Glauber, Rebecca Goldstein, David J. Gross, Brian Greene, Susan Greenfield, Stephen F Gudeman, Alan Guth, Jonathan Haidt, Theodor W. Hänsch, Brian Harrison, Hermann Hauser, Roald Hoffmann, Bruce Hood, Herbert Huppert, Gareth Stedman Jones, Steve Jones, Shelly Kagan, Michio Kaku, Stuart Kauffman, Lawrence Krauss, Harry Kroto, George Lakoff, Elizabeth Loftus, Alan Macfarlane, Peter Millican, Marvin Minsky, Leonard Mlodinow, Yujin Nagasawa, Alva Noe, Douglas Osheroff, Jonathan Parry, Saul Perlmutter, Herman Philipse, Carolyn Porco, Robert M. Price, Lisa Randall, Lord Martin Rees, Oliver Sacks, John Searle, Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Schaffer, J. L. Schellenberg, Lee Silver, Peter Singer, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ronald de Sousa, Victor Stenger, Barry Supple, Leonard Susskind, Raymond Tallis, Neil deGrasse Tyson, .Alexander Vilenkin, Sir John Walker, Frank Wilczek, Steven Weinberg, and Lewis Wolpert,
In the second video below in the 67th clip in this series are Richard Dawkins' words that Harry Kroto wanted me to see. Since then I have read several of Richard Dawkins books and have attempted to respond to the contents of these books directly to Richard Dawkins by mail. In fact, I have been writing Richard Dawkins letters since May 15, 1994 which was the 10th anniversary of the passing of one of my heroes, Francis Schaeffer. Francis Schaeffer spent a lot of time responding to many of Richard Dawkins' heroes such as Carl Sagan, Jacques Monod, H.J. Blackham, Isaac Newton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Max Planck, Johann Sebastian Bach, Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Gerald Horton, Edmund Leach, Louis Pasteur, George Wald, Jacob Bronowski, Steven Weinberg, Charles Darwin, Paul Kurtz, Peter Singer, Jonathan Miller, William B. Provine, Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky, James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Michael Polanyi, The Huxley family, Antony Flew, and Edward O. Wilson (Dawkins has since revised his opinion of Flew and Wilson, but he earlier regarded them very highly).
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Despite being threatened by tablets for a while, laptops aren't going away any time soon and Microsoft is back with a new version of the impressive Surface Book. We've been hands-on at Microsoft Future Decoded so here's our Surface Book 2 review.
With prices starting at £1,499 not many laptop buys are going<|fim_middle|> Colours reproduction looks to be top-notch again, too, so it's a great choice for those doing tasks such as photo editing.
You can use up to 10-point touch at the same time and as you'd expect, the Surface Book 2 is compatible with the Surface Pen and Surface Dial – both are sold separately. Microsoft told us that not enough customers used it with the first generation so decided to make it an optional extra this time.
Performance is very slick based on hands-on time with the laptop but we'll of course run various benchmarks when we get a final review sample. | to have enough cash to get even the cheapest model. At this level the Surface Book 2 is competing with some serious rivals including the MacBook Pro.
That starting price will get you the smaller 13.5in model which goes all the way up to a whopping £2,999 if you want the top-spec model with a Core i7. We'll explain the different configurations later on.
There is a larger 15in Surface Book 2 but this won't be available in the UK until early next year – it's coming out in the US first.
You can pre-order the Surface Book 2 from 9 November.
Clean lines and symmetry are on show here as is Microsoft's clever Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge. Once again the Surface Book 2 is a 2-in-1 device so it's a laptop and a tablet.
As with the original, the keyboard and trackpad feel great and the laptop is marginally lighter than its predecessor at 1.53kg.
The second-generation Surface Book might look pretty similar on the outside but there are a number of different upgrades on the inside. Let's take a look at what's on offer this time around.
The PixelSense display still uses a 3000×2000 resolution for a 271ppi pixel density. As with its predecessor, the screen on the Surface Book 2 is stunning and everything looks nice and crisp. | 294 |
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The intimate Rothko Room holds four paintings by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and reflects the artist's preference for exhibiting his art "in a scale of normal living."
Duncan Phillips's empathetic response to Mark Rothko's paintings reveals the collector's understanding of the emotional impact of color. In 1957, Phillips held his first group exhibition that included the artist and purchased Green and Maroon (1953). In 1960, he acquired Green and Tangerine on Red (1956) and Orange and Red on Red (1957) from a one-person show held at the museum. In looking at Rothko's paintings, Phillips wrote, "What we recall are not memories but old emotions disturbed or resolved—some sense of well being suddenly shadowed by a cloud—yellow ochres strangely suffused with a drift of gray prevailing over an ambience of rose or the fire diminishing into a glow of embers, or the light when the night descends."
In 1960, as Phillips was designing an adjoining building to accommodate his growing collection, he designated a specific room for Rothko's paintings, making the Phillips the first American museum to dedicate a space to the artist's work. The resulting room was small, with one painting on each wall (Ochre and Red on Red (1954) was added upon its purchase in 1964), dim lights to enhance the resonance of the colors, and chairs for prolonged viewing. From the outset, the room was intended as a meditative space, even referred to by Phillips as a type of "chapel."
Rothko visited the room and treasured the atmosphere. On a 1961 visit when Phillips was away, he asked the staff to make several small adjustments to the space. Phillips noticed—and reversed—the changes when he returned. He did, however, agree to limit the seating to one bench, a decision that is still honored today.
The space set a standard for future commissions for the artist in other locations<|fim_middle|> Room has remained essentially unchanged in scale and character and continues to engage visitors.
Please note that from June 22-September 22, 2019, The Rothko Room will be part of the exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement and will require special exhibition ticketing.
Jun 22 - Sep 22, 2019
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Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island) Artist's Documentary
(Feb 16–May 19, 2019) | , but the Phillips's room remains the only existing installation of Rothko's paintings that was designed in collaboration with the artist himself. Though relocated in 2006, the Rothko | 38 |
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"Beef Marrow Bones Stock "
If you Love Beef Marrow Bones Stock then you are at the right place!!
Beef Marrow Bones Stock is made from pet bones as well as connective tissue-- normally livestock, hen, or fish-- that have actually been boiled right into a broth and also sluggish simmered for 10 to more than 20 hours with natural herbs, veggies, and also flavors. So why is this apparently easy fluid something you would certainly intend to consume alcohol daily Beef Marrow Bones Stock ?
Also our hunter-gatherer forefathers realized that alcohol consumption Beef Marrow Bones Stock was like striking dietary gold, as its earliest variation dates back over 2,500 years. Discarding anything edible was out of the question back then, so animal hooves, knuckles, bones, as well as various other connective cells never ever went to waste. Bone broth has an abundant background of being made use of in traditional Chinese medicine as a digestive system restorative, blood contractor, as well as kidney strengthener due to the high collagen content, bioavailable minerals, anti-inflammatory amino acids, and also healing compounds that can just be located in bones and also connective tissue Beef Marrow Bones Stock.
Enjoy as star health trainer, Thomas DeLauer damages down the ins and outs of what bone broth actually is. In simply two mins, he'll talk about what bone broth is as well as what it can do for your intestine, joint, and also skin health Beef Marrow Bones Stock.
Some phone call Beef Marrow Bones Stock meat water. We call it liquid gold.
What makes this things so unique? The brief answer is collagen. Bones and also connective tissue are the only true dietary resources of kind II collagen-- a protein that's understood for maintaining skin smooth and also supple and also teeth and joints healthy and balanced, along with promoting dozens of various other wellness advantages.
Along with collagen, bones are additionally packed with a number of anti-inflammatory amino acids, minerals, and also compounds that can help accelerate your body's all-natural healing processes from points like sporting activities injuries, joint inflammation, or leaking digestive tract.
So, these "scraps" that the majority of us usually toss in the rubbish are severe dietary powerhouses. But when was the last time you devoured on a piece of cow's knuckle? Or snacked on an ox tail? We'll assume the response is never ever.
Because we don't eat bones in their entire kind, preparing them into a broth that's simmered for 10 to 20 hours (or even more) is the most effective method to launch their effective nutrients, and experience an entire brand-new degree of health and wellness.
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Watch as Celeb Health Instructor, Thomas DeLauer damages down the ins and also outs of what bone broth really is. In simply 2 mins, he'll speak about what bone broth is and what it can do for your gut, joint, as well as skin wellness beef marrow bones stock.
Bone broth has a rich background of being made use of as a digestive tonic, particularly in typical Chinese medication some 2,500 years back. Today, it is just one of the top suggested foods for boosting signs and symptoms of chronic gastrointestinal problems, such as Cranky Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Crohn's condition, and colitis.
The factor for why bone broth is so recovery for the gut returns to collagen, which forms jelly when it's prepared down even additionally. Collagen and also gelatin are not just abundant in amino acids that lower inflammation in the GI tract-- such as glutamine-- they also have the distinct ability to "secure as well as recover" openings in the intestine lining, which can cause a condition called leaking gut disorder.
Although study remains in the beginning, there's evidence to show that dripping gut is the key underlying reason for gastrointestinal conditions. It's also a factor to autoimmune diseases, anxiety, brain haze, anxiety, allergies, dermatitis, acne, and chronic reduced power. Most severe of all, leaky gut can be silent and also reveal no signs in the beginning. It's additionally believed to impact over 70% of the population.
Bone broth is recommended on special gut healing diet regimens and procedures, like the SPACES diet, the SCD diet, as well as the Low FODMAP diet plan.
Whether it's an injury, arthritis, or sore muscle mass, there's no much better way to nurture your bones and also joints than by eating even more of the nutrients already found within them, including hyaluronic acid, glucosamine, chondroitin, calcium, as well as magnesium. Bone broth is packed with every one of these nutrients, plus several amino acids that help reduce joint discomfort and also swelling, like glycine and also proline. It's for these factors that bone broth is coming to be a go-to recovery drink among athletes.
A fun truth: Kettle and Fire Bone Broth was born because our founder, Nick, tore his ACL playing soccer as well as needed a high-grade bone broth to help speed up his healing time. (You can find out more on that particular here.).
Complying with a bone broth diet plan is wonderful for sustainable weight loss. A<|fim_middle|> a nutrient-rich bone broth. The result is a collagen-rich, high protein bone broth that gives your body the nutrients it requires to thrive.
Bone broth is an all-in-one superfood, packed with nutrients that provide energy and motivation, aid you rest much better, make your skin appearance smoother, and also can aid heal digestive problems like leaking digestive tract.
Bones and also connective cells are warehouses for essential amino acids and minerals-- which are doing not have in numerous diet plans today. Bone Broth is also an indispensable source of protein, collagen and jelly.
It's not viable to eat entire bones or tissue, however you can still delight in these health and wellness advantages by sipping bone broth. Collagen is removed when you simmer bones for a long period of time. Commonly, the longer bone broth simmers, the more collagen you'll remove.
Making bone broth is a basic procedure, yet one that calls for plenty of time and perseverance. If time is out your side we can aid you out keeping that.
Bone broth is made by simmering pet bones and tissue for at least 10 hours with vegetables, herbs, and spices such as thyme, garlic, and also bay leaves. Top quality bone broth starts with top notch components, utilizing bones from natural grass-fed pets as well as organic veggies. While any type of bone or ligament can be made use of, knuckles, hen feet, and thigh bones have a tendency to include one of the most collagen.
Simmering bones for an extensive amount of time is what offers bone broth its wellness benefits, removing the amino acids, minerals, as well as collagen. This is a Pot & Fire-tested slow-moving cooker poultry bone broth dish that includes natural hen bones, sea salt, fresh veggies like celery stalks, onions, as well as bell peppers, as well as natural herbs like parsley, rosemary, as well as thyme.
Just cooking bones (no meat) and also water is going to be primarily flavorless. Food preparation the mix for hrs at a time isn't going to make it taste any much better.
The concept that you're obtaining tons of nutrients from the bones is a MYTH that won't pass away, even though it has been unmasked various times, consisting of via laboratory examinations. The concept that adding vinegar to "launch" those nutrients has likewise been debunked. You just wind up with a watery mess that tastes of vinegar.
Instead, get bones with meat on them. Then include veggies such as onions, carrots, celery, and simply enough water to cover everything (normally 8 or 10 mugs). Skip the vinegar! Simmer for 3 to 4 hrs for hen, somewhat much longer for beef. Period according to preference. If you have an Instant Pot, 25 to 35 minutes is about right.
What you will get with this method is a very delicious broth that's most likely considerably more healthy-- including great deals of collagen-- and also even more healthy than any bone broth, and it will taste one heck of a whole lot much better. You can either eat the meat and also veggies (it's called SOUP) or you can strain them out and just consume alcohol the broth if you choose.
See, bare bones that have no meat, or, also worse, carcass bones that have currently been cooked and also removed of their meat, have nearly no taste on their own.
Check Ina Garten's dish for hen broth. It's extremely similar to this and also has actually been utilized with small variations by educated chefs for years.
There are 2 primary differences between bone broth and normal broth or supply: simmering time and the part of the pet it's made from (bones or flesh).
Normal broth as well as stock are simmered for a much shorter time period than bone broth, roughly 2-- 6 hrs. The expedited cooking procedure lowers the quantity of valuable jelly extracted from the bones, decreasing its capability to boost the body immune system, recover digestion problems, and lower the signs of dripping intestine.
Prior To Kettle and Fire was born, among our co-founders, Nick, tore his ACL playing soccer (ouch). His bro Justin became aware of the benefits of bone broth for injury healing. As his schedule really did not leave much time to make bone broth from square one, he set out to get a store-bought, top notch, grass-fed bone broth, considering that both of their busy schedules really did not leave much time to make the broth themselves. (You can find out more concerning our story here.).
Despite just how difficult Justin looked, the ideal bone broth didn't exist. He searched for one that was one hundred percent organic, fresh-- never ever frozen-- grass-fed, as well as slow-moving simmered (in addition to one that could be delivered without wasteful, confusing packaging). So, Nick and also Justin chose to develop a high-grade bone broth on their terms, which is the dish we're happy to supply you today.
" Pot & Fire provides a beneficial, high quality bone broth in a delicious as well as practical shelf-stable format. I love constantly knowing that I've obtained fantastic broth accessible, without clogging up my fridge freezer or needing defrosting." - Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, three-time NYT Best-Selling Author.
The gorgeous aspect of bone broth is that there's actually no restriction to how you can add it to your diet regimen. Besides soups, stews, and plain ol' sipping, bone broth blends surprisingly well into virtually any kind of recipe-- also healthy smoothies! Here are our top ways to obtain it:.
Our bone broth preferences tasty sufficient to sip on its own, but you can spice it up to suit your palate. We created our preferred taste combinations in this cost-free downloadable "Bone Broth Sipping Guide" (bone broth matcha lattes, anyone?). Get your free duplicate right here.
Consuming bone broth doesn't have to be dull-- there are limitless methods to seasoning it and also sip it. Get instantaneous access to over 15 of our preferred bone broth drinking mixes, including ginger as well as turmeric bone broth restorative and chili, and cardamom bone broth elixir. Discover how to use bone broth in your matcha lattes, golden milk, and tropical fruit smoothie mixes.
Our beef bone broth has a mild flavor, which enables it to mix conveniently with practically anything, from shakes to healthy and balanced gummy bears. Our hen bone broth as well as mushroom chicken bone broth improve the savory taste of soups, stews, as well as risotto recipes. A few of our faves consist of:.
The Bone Broth Diet regimen not only increases your consumption of the recovery nutrients and substances vital for digestive tract, skin, joint, as well as bone wellness, but assists combat systemic inflammation, which is at the source of the majority of Western illnesses and also illness.
The bone broth diet plan is a 21-day strategy that's optimal for anybody struggling with a persistent wellness condition (such as an autoimmune disorder), or any person that wants to reset their digestive system and also experience radiant health and wellness. Discover more about the 21-day bone broth diet below. | bone broth diet plan includes consuming Paleo for 5 days and not eating for 2. During this timespan you'll consume bone broth consistently with an increase in usage on the fasting days.
The mix of intermittent fasting as well as bone broth accelerates weight loss with burning fat a lot more efficiently and also limiting calorie intake. When doing the diet plan, we additionally saw a decrease in cellulite.
Fat-Burning Bone Broth Mixed Drink Beef Marrow Bones Stock.
With just a couple of active ingredients, this recipe is excellent for a delicious as well as unbelievably basic fat-burning cocktail that you can work up in a flash on active early mornings prior to job or at nights post-workout.
Also if you had actually never ever heard of bone broth in the past, you've possibly come across collagen, thanks to the appeal industry.
Many anti-aging skin care lines include collagen to their face creams, moisturizers, and also products (and also offer them for a pretty penny). Yet what lots of people do not recognize is that collagen particles are as well large to be soaked up via the skin, which suggests these lotions can't offer much in the method of outcomes.
The bright side is that collagen can be taken in with your digestive system. As well as because there's a straight link in between the gut as well as the skin, including bone broth to your diet regimen is mosting likely to have an even more powerful and also long-term effect on the general appearance as well as health of your skin.
Let's not ignore hair and also nails, which are comprised of healthy proteins like collagen. Collagen aids enhance nails, as well as motivates hair to expand in thicker, quicker, and handle a healthy and balanced luster. (Remember this for the next time you obtain a bad hairstyle!).
Deep, relaxing rest is something we could all use a little bit even more of. As a matter of fact, stats reveal the average individual obtains much less than 7 hours of rest per night, so it is very important to do every little thing you can to make those hours matter.
Bone broth is abundant in glycine, an anti-inflammatory amino acid that services the Central Nervous System (CNS). When taken before bed as a supplement, studies show glycine can improve rest top quality and also lower daytime drowsiness. It's a lot more effective when paired with various other sleep-supportive nutrients, like calcium and magnesium.
All of the advantages you gain from bone broth, your growing infant will experience, too-- including healthy and balanced bones, joints, and also a strong digestion system.
When morning health issues hits, it can be difficult to keep nourishing food down. However bone broth tends to be relaxing for nausea, and also is generally well tolerated. Most importantly, bone broth uses numerous of the nutrients you and also your growing child requirement, including healthy protein, as well as vital vitamins and minerals. As an included bonus, the slow-moving simmer time of the bones makes the nutrients in bone broth very bioavailable and simpler to take in than a dietary supplement.
Bone broth can additionally aid boost fertility, help you have a more comfortable pregnancy by beneficial tight or unpleasant joints, and may enhance calcium levels in breast milk.
Bone broth is a superb source of nutrition on the Paleo diet plan, as well as is urged to consume alcohol during durations of intermittent fasting. It also suits well with macronutrient requirements on the keto diet plan, as well as might help in reducing signs of the keto influenza.
" Not just can bone broth assist you prevent keto flu, but it's also filled with minerals that recover leaking gut as well as lower swelling in your intestines." - Leanne Vogel, Author of The Keto Diet regimen.
The nutrients in bone broth make it an effective useful food that can profit your entire household-- including your hair infants. Bone broth is good for your family pet's shiny layer, bones, joints, digestion, as well as teeth.
Packed with healthy protein - Hen is a fantastic protein source as well as same goes for poultry bones. Pot & Fire bone broth comes loaded with 10 grams of protein per offering Beef Marrow Bones Stock.
Minimizes gut swelling - Bone broth assists recover and seal a leaking gut which is the origin for lots of autoimmune conditions.
Loaded with amino acids - Comparable to poultry bone broth, the nutrients drawn out from beef bones include amino acids like glycine as well as glutamine that boosts digestion and repairs your gut lining.
No. Plants are an excellent resource of vitamins and minerals that can help boost your body to produce its own collagen, however there is no known plant food that supplies type II collagen, the form that uses every one of the health benefits detailed above.
Something to take into consideration regarding bone broth that sets it besides plant foods: Even if you do consume a range of plants that are abundant in collagen-boosting nutrients, if you have a weakened digestion system or leaking intestine, you might not fully absorb them. On the other hand, the collagen in bone broth is exceptionally easy to soak up, even for those with endangered digestive systems.
Naturally, you don't just need to consume it-- although we do have a totally free as well as epic downloadable bone broth sipping guide for when you do. You can blend bone broth into your green healthy smoothies, make healthy and balanced collagen gummy bears, and also use it in everything from clambered eggs, soups, curries, stews, breakfast bowls, and tacos.
We slow-simmer the organic bones to remove the collagen, healthy proteins, as well as amino acids right into | 1,140 |
On Being Earthlings, Part Five
In Genesis 3, the first earthlings Adam (whose name reveals his connection to adamah, the earth) and Eve (Hebrew Khawah, which the text relates to khayah, "life," as she is mother to all living) violate God's command by eating fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The LORD had told them,
Eat your fill from all of the garden's trees; but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it, you will die! (Gen 2:16-17).
The snake told them that this was not so: "You won't die! God knows that on the day you eat from it, you will see clearly and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:4-5). Sure enough, when they eat the fruit, they do not die–at least, not right away. But as a consequence of eating this fruit, they are exiled from the Garden: they lose their access to the other special tree of Eden, the Tree of Life, and so become mortal.
The meaning and significance of the Tree of Life is fairly obvious. But what about the tree of knowledge? What could it represent?
One approach holds that the name of the tree is irrelevant. The point is that the fruit of this particular tree is prohibited by God. In his novel Perelandra, C. S. Lewis reimagined this story as unfolding on a watery world in which most vegetation and animal life lived on floating islands. Here, living on the "fixed land" was the one thing forbidden by God. There was no reason given for this prohibition–the issue was simply obedience, or disobedience, to God's word. By this reading of the Genesis account, the choice Adam and Eve made to violate God's command is the sole point of the story.
Certainly, the humans do disobey, and their action has consequences. But it is difficult to imagine that no meaning or purpose is invested in the tree being given such an intriguing name.
Some have proposed that eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil means learning the difference between good and evil, and so gaining freedom of choice. Before, the humans could only do what God wanted them to do. Now, having eaten the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, they have the capacity to make their own choices, which inevitably leads to their making wrong ones.
In the story as it unfolds in Genesis, however, there is no inkling that God has deprived God's creations of freedom. The woman's choice to eat the fruit, as Phyllis Trible observes, demonstrates careful reflection and independent thought:
She contemplates the tree, taking into account all the possibilities. The tree is good for food; it satisfies the physical drives. It pleases the eyes; it is esthetically and emotionally desirable. Above all, it is coveted as the source of wisdom. . . Thus the woman is fully aware when she acts, her vision encompassing the gamut of life (from "Eve and Adam: Genesis 2–3 Reread").
In short, eating from the tree does not covey these discriminating capacities: the woman clearly has them already.
Perhaps the best way to understand the expression "the Knowledge of Good and Evil" is as a merism, like "young and old" or "length and breadth," referring not just to the two opposite terms mentioned, but to the entire range between them. This would mean that eating the fruit conveyed Godlike knowledge of everything, from good to evil. That is in fact what the snake promises: "God knows that on the day you eat from it, you will see clearly and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen 3:5). Indeed, after the man and woman have eaten the fruit, the LORD says to the heavenly council:
"The human being has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil." Now, so he doesn't stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever, the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to farm the fertile land from which he was taken (Gen 3:22-23).
Reading canonically, these references to the humans becoming "like God" are bound to recall to our minds the statement in the first creation account that the woman and man are created in God's image (Gen 1:26-27)–an idea not expressed in this second account. But for the reader encountering these texts in their context in Genesis, the<|fim_middle|> sadness at innocence lost, but praise for God's determination not to abandon us. A medieval Christmas carol expresses this idea beautifully:
Adam lay ybounden,
Bounden in a bond;
Four thousand winter
Thought he not too long.
And all was for an apple,
An apple that he took,
As clerkës finden written
In their book.
Nor had one apple taken been,
The apple taken been,
Then had never Our Lady
A-been heaven's queen.
Blessed be the time
That apple taken was.
Therefore we may singen | connection produces a magnificent irony, not apparent when reading the passages separately.
In L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, all the characters seek from the Wizard qualities that we know, from the story, they already possess: the "brainless" Scarecrow does all the planning; the "cowardly" Lion courageously defends Dorothy and his friends from their enemies, and no one could possibly be more tender-hearted than the "heartless" Tin Woodsman! Just so, in the final form of the Genesis narrative, the woman and the man want what they already have: to be like God. But they do not realize this, and so lose the Garden, and all that it represents.
So what does the Garden represent? At the end of Genesis 2, we are told, almost in passing, "The two of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they weren't embarrassed" (Gen 2:25). Of course, when they eat the fruit, that changes: "Then they both saw clearly and knew that they were naked" (Gen 3:7). The time in our lives when we are naked and not embarrassed, when we really do not care about wearing clothes at all, is in early childhood. With puberty, however, comes a painful awareness of bodies–our own, and others! Could it be that Eden represents a childish innocence, and that eating the fruit represents personal and sexual awakening and maturity? If so, then this is not a story about a "fall" at all. It is a story about growing up, making choices, taking responsibility, and living with the consequences of our decisions, for good or ill.
Theologian Paul Tillich proposed that the story of the fall represented "the fall from essence into existence" (Systematic Theology, Vol 2 [Chicago: University of Chicago, 1957], 29-44). The ideal represented by the Garden is lost to us, not because of a single event in prehistory, but because in actual existence, such ideals are unattainable. In the story, as the earthlings leave the garden, they enter history: our world of painful choices, of estrangement from one another and from God, and of course, of growth, aging, decline, and death. That is the way it is for real people, in the real world.
Sometimes, Christians speak of Jesus' coming as though it were a patch, or a fix: God's way of addressing the sin problem. But as systematic theologian Edwin Christiaan van Driel persuasively reminds us, there has long been another strain of Christian thought (sometimes called supralapsarianism), which regards the Incarnation as too big an idea for this single application. God knew from before creation that calling into being something that was not God, an authentically autonomous creation, meant that that creation would inevitably, in time, act in ways contrary to God's will. Indeed, God's act of creation presupposed that God would consequently enter time and space as a creature, in order to enter fully into relationship with us. Knowing this, and foreknowing all that it would cost, God created the world anyway.
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Burkhart Center Hosts Annual Autism Walk
By: Lori Cortez
Former Athletic Director Gerald Myers will serve as the honorary walk chair.
Gerald Myers, honorary walk chair, and Haley Fowler, Texas Tech soccer player (second from right), with friends of the Burkhart Center.
Texas Tech's Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research will host its annual Walk for Autism Awareness from 2 to 4 p.m. April 17 at Jones AT&T Stadium.
Gerald Myers, the former Texas Tech athletic director, joins the sixth annual event as this year's honorary walk chairman. Janice Magness, director of the Burkhart Transition Academy, which is housed in the Burkhart Center, said the purpose for the walk is to help educate the public about autism, the fastest-growing developmental disability in the country.
"With so many people being diagnosed, it is imperative that everyone is educated about the facts of autism and how to help families living with diagnosed individuals," Magness said. "It is not a death sentence. People living with autism can and do have normal lives."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Autism affects 1 in 110 Americans and every year out of 4 million children in the United States, approximately 36,500 children will eventually be diagnosed with Autism.
Magness said proceeds and donations raised at this year's walk will go toward funding a new building for the center.
"Exciting plans are underway for the Burkhart Center to have its own free standing building that will house outpatient therapy and family consultation rooms, a full-inclusion preschool and the Transition Academy," Magness said. "It will also feature a coffee shop where students attending the academy can be trained on how to run a business."
The Burkhart Center, named for Jim and Jere Lynn Burkhart who have made significant contributions to the establishment and its mission, opened in October 2005. The center provides services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders, their families and the professionals who work with them to improve their quality of life.
Walk-up registration begins at 1:30 p.m. April 17. The first 1,000 individuals to enter the stadium will receive a free T-shirt.
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CALGARY, April 26, 2019 /CNW/ - Middlefield Group, on behalf of Digital Consumer Dividend Fund (the "Fund"), is pleased to announce that it has filed a preliminary prospectus in relation to an initial public offering of units at a price of $10.00 per unit.
The Fund's investment objectives are to provide holders of units with:
(i) stable monthly cash distributions, and
(ii) enhanced long-term total return through capital appreciation of the Fund's investment portfolio
through a diversified, actively managed portfolio comprised primarily of dividend-paying securities of global issuers focused on, involved in, or that derive a significant portion of their revenue from developing products or services related to digital consumer themes, including streaming, digital content, cybersecurity, social networking, e-commerce and connectivity.
The initial target distribution yield for the Fund is 4% per annum based on the original subscription price (or $0.03333 per unit per month or $0.40 per unit per annum).
Middlefield Capital Corporation, the advisor, will provide investment management advice to the Fund. SSR LLC, an investment research firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, will act as an industry advisor to Middlefield and in such capacity will provide ongoing analysis regarding digital consumer themes.
Prospective purchasers investing in Digital Consumer Dividend Fund have the option of paying for units in cash or by exchanging securities of issuers listed in the preliminary prospectus. Prospective purchasers under the exchange option are required to deposit their exchange eligible securities prior to 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on May 24, 2019, in the manner described in the preliminary prospectus.
The syndicate of agents is being co-led by CIBC Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets, and includes BMO Capital Markets, Scotiabank, TD Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., Industrial Alliance Securities, National Bank Financial Inc., GMP Securities L.P., Manulife Securities Incorporated, Raymond James Ltd., Middlefield Capital Corporation, Desjardins Securities Inc. and Mackie Research Capital Corporation.
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Austin schools push back start date amid growing coronavirus concerns
Shawna M Reding, Tori Larned, KVUE NEWS
Aug 7, 2020 | 12:56 pm
School days will be 10 minutes longer this year for AISD students to make up for missed time.
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KVUE — Austin Independent School District's start date has officially been pushed back amid growing concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
Austin ISD's board of trustees gathered for a special meeting August 6. After some conversation and six hours of testimony from parents and teachers, the school board voted at around 3:30 am to push the first day of school back to September 8. The district had previously scheduled the first day of school for August 18.
"As of yet, [I have] no ability to understand how I'm supposed to design the courses, what the expectations are for creating or design content delivery, rigor, etc. So it would be great if I had some extra time to do that," said a high school teacher at McAllen High School during the board meeting.
Under this new plan, schools will stay completely virtual for the first four weeks, but parents who don't have access to technology can request for their student to learn on-campus. Over the course of the following four weeks starting on October 5, AISD will slowly phase students in for on-campus learning depending on what health conditions look like in Travis County and if they prefer to return.
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7 things to know in Austin food right now: Upscale bowling alley rolls into Cedar Park
Brianna Caleri
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Name a more beautiful bowling alley than Spare Birdie Public House, coming in February.
Editor's note: We get it. It can be difficult to keep up with the fast pace of Austin's restaurant and bar scene. We have you covered with our regular roundup of essential<|fim_middle|> now almost two weeks away, so people who love drinking their tomatoes should consider snatching up a ticket soon (although ticket sales will technically be open until the day of the event, if they last). On February 11 from 10:30 am to 6 pm, bartenders are pulling out all the stops, or at least all the toppings. Attendees will vote for participating local bars to choose the best cocktail. Tickets (starting at $49.50) available at thebloodymaryfest.com.
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Sometimes it feels like Austinites always have to be doing something, and that's what makes this town beautiful. In the spirit of not taking drinks sitting down, Spare Birdie Public House is rolling into Cedar Park (1400 Discovery Blvd) for a soft opening on February 1, and a grand opening on February 20. A bit like an upscale Top Golf or neighborhood bowling alley with an incredibly chic interior, the bar and restaurant serves its "chef-driven" food among bowling lanes, augmented reality and indoor golf setups, billiard tables, yard games, and more. The team that started Goodfolks in Georgetown are bowling over alley cliches like hotdogs and fries with lamb meatballs, grilled oysters, and Wagyu sliders.
The Belterra Plaza out in Dripping Springs is collecting new restaurants left and right, making itself a fast burger destination. Mighty Fine Burgers opened its seventh location — the first that is freestanding — in a huge 4,000-square-foot space at 165 Hargraves Drive, Suite T100. The simple menu sticks to the tried-and-true with The Classic Texas Burger, crinkle fries, onion rings, and Blue Bell milkshakes. In January, monthly specials shake up those base elements: a pimento cheese burger and a coconut cream pie shake. The new location is the first in Dripping Springs.
Theres been some buzz about burgers at the Buzz Mill recently, with the very recent departure of the vegan food truck Plow Burger. The buns were barely cold before the Buzz Mill opened its own burger truck, some vegan and some not. The grand opening coincided with the bar and coffee venue's tenth anniversary, on January 20. These are not beefy burgers; the thin patties leave plenty of room for toppings, and there are lots of other snacks to fill up on, like loaded fries, meatless chicken nuggets, and extra patties. The truck is open daily from 11 am to midnight.
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Chefs Michael Fojtasek and Amanda Turner, of Austin's celebrated Southern restaurant Olamaie, are throwing a new chef series in the fryer on January 31, emphasizing Southern cooking styles while utilizing Texan ingredients. "Southern Exposure" is scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month, and there are three on the calendar already. Chef Turner, a James Beard semi-finalist and CultureMap's reigning rising star chef of the year, is taking the lead while collaborating with Fojtasek. Tickets ($100) available at olamaieaustin.com, benefitting the Jeremiah Program.
Nothing gold can stay, and unfortunately that means Loro's golden ramen noodles are ephemeral on the menu. For the month of February, the "Asian smokehouse" is offering two types of ramen. Both serve up a unique Balinese curry broth, one with brisket and one with grilled prawns. These winter items pair also include ajitama egg, green onion, and sesame, as the more traditional elements. Loro does not accept reservations.
If you can't afford rent in Austin, have you tried, like, not buying coffee? That might work if you were used to Proud Mary Coffee Roasters, an Australian company with an Austin cafe offering just 22 super-luxe cups of $150 joe here and Portland, Oregon. It seems like it's worth the price, given its award-winning flavor and very expensive source beans, but in case that's still not in your budget, a golden ticket giveaway may cover it. Purchase a Hartmann presale tin ($48) online on January 26 to enter.
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Secularism: a rising tide
Is the church under threat from secularism?
by Michelle Haines and George Fisher
After a bushfire in Australia some years back,<|fim_middle|> of the possible offence given to Christians by SBS TV screening a program discounting the accuracy of the Bible on Jesus' birth. Warneke wrote that the decision to screen the program "in the middle of the Christian churches' most important celebration, shows lamentable insensitivity". He is right; it was insensitive. And it was an insensitivity that would arguably not have been made against Buddhist or Islamic believers.
This reveals that Warneke knows something that many church members haven't caught up with yet: that Christianity is a religious minority in the Western countries. Rev. Robert Forsyth wrote of an interchange he had with a radio interviewer on the Christian attitude to practising lesbians and gays. Accused of being out-of-step with society, Rev. Forsyth responded that Christians expected to be out-of-step with a society which didn't share their fundamental view of reality. The radio listener "assumed" noted Forsyth, "that the church must keep in step with society's increasingly secular values because in some way the society is Christian. A strange logic." Such is the legacy of being a post-Christian society.
There is no doubt that secularism is changing society. The traditional points of contact between the church and the population - weddings, baptisms - are being lost. Today, no less than 42% of couples will be married by a civil servant. Thirty years ago it was 11%. But a self-consciously secular society is at least an honest one. The real Jesus might get to replace the sham. | the Sydney Morning Herald provided a rundown of fundraising events being held to support the victims. High up among the church groups and Rotarians was this little gem: "Pagans and spiritualists will hold a fundraising weekend at Newtown Neighbourhood Centre.... Tarot and palmistry reading, crystals and books for sale"
It sat without excuse or surprise with notices from the Anglican and Uniting Churches. It is now normal procedure for the media to check "religious groups" of all persuasions when covering such events. They no longer go straight to the church with the confidence of a social majority. The values of an earlier nominally Christian society have been relativised. Christian beliefs are now considered marginal, to be believed, adhered to or defended only by the minority of those who hold to them.
Media reports of Christmas messages now not only feature Anglican and Roman Catholic Archbishops, but also leaders from the Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist faiths. What was once perceived as being the dominant faith of our nation - Christianity - has become relativised, reduced to a mere question of personal preference like a choice between political parties.
A golden past?
Dr Garry Bouma, a sociologist and Anglican minister, has said that there was never really any golden past for Christianity, no peak time from which it has slid. The common experience of Christendom today is generally little different from previous generations. This is not to say that there haven't been times of general renewal or revival, as many a church historian will quickly explain. But it does help us to see beyond the confusing labels of recent generations which have confused Christian dominance with periods of conservative morality. Promiscuity, as just one example, was arguably more rife in 1st century Rome - a time of rapid growth for the Christian church - than in 20th century developed countries.
A sociological change
In America, a country with a long Christian tradition, Christians seeking expression in the public sphere, regularly find themselves face-to-face with vocal and passionate opposition.
Some years back in Santa Rosa, California, council member and Presbyterian elder, Dave Berto suggested that, in line with a time-honoured American custom, the city council pray before each meeting. The council agreed to the proposal on a trial basis. After seven weeks of outraged civic fury, the prayer was abandoned. The people of Santa Rosa had responded with horror to this "infringement of the rights" of the city's diverse groups of faith. Dave Berto had been rudely shocked: Santa Rosa was no longer even nominally Christian, and the people were violently opposed to a Christian church assuming it had more social power than others. The incident highlighted Christianity's new marginal status, even in the land of the progressive pilgrims. Nothing could have made it clearer.
It is a function of democracy that the majority gets its way. Even though 70% claim to believe in God, this does not translate to an actual Christian majority. Only around one in five are committed enough to attend church. Christianity is destined to increasingly stand apart from secular its secular environment.
Troubled times ahead?
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Millions of people around the world have broken a bone a time or two, whether it is a finger, a leg, or anything in between. Between breaks and fractures, broken bones<|fim_middle|> quality of life.
The symptoms of broken bones are typically quite simple: pain at the spot of the break, a significant source of swelling, and depending on the severity of the break, other issues related to blood flow, numbness, sensitivity to the touch, and more. Depending on the severity of the broken bone itself, these breaks can be very, very painful and be extremely significant for those dealing with these problems.
It is imperative that those experiencing symptoms of a broken bone go to see a doctor immediately, as a doctor can diagnose and treat broken bone issues and set the bone back in place while providing a cast and more to ensure the recovery process can begin. Over time, of course, bone breaks will heal, and you will be able to get the most out of your body and your bones, but not until you have adequately healed, recovered, and often times gone through physical therapy. It takes time, though, and you must be patient and consult a doctor in doing so. | and the related problems have become somewhat common in this world: break, pain, cast, cast taken off, and recovery. While that model works and is primarily understood by many, it is also important to understand and recognize how broken bones can have a serious impact on a person's quality of life and ability to live a full and meaningful existence.
And, of course, it is important to understand that bone breaks can have serious consequences if they are not treated properly. Specifically in children, broken bones can have serious consequences in terms of stunting growth, and creating un-even growth, for those who do not know how to treat their breaks properly, or for those who fail to go through physical therapy to improve their condition and more.
The causes of broken bones are as wide and as varied as the breaks themselves. After all, each broken bone is unique and different, and each person breaks bones based on unique and specific issues that happen to them, or are caused by injuries and related problems that they go through. However, there are a few important things to remember about the causes of broken bones right off the bat, including likely culprits, and how to identify causes and problems.
For many people, the causes of bone breaks are physical activity, exercise, fitness, and athletic endeavors where a person breaks a bone due to force or some unnatural issue that exerts pressure upon the body, fracturing, breaking, or snapping the bone. For others, too, broken bones can be caused due to old age, as bones naturally become more brittle and people have to deal with these brittle bones in a serious way as they affect mobility and | 327 |
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Wiley X will Celebrate 30 Years of Innovation at 2017 SH<|fim_middle|>"We're extremely proud to mark 30 years of serving the shooting industry and protecting the vision of people across America and around the world," said Wiley X Co-Owner Myles Freeman, Jr. "We encourage our many friends, business partners and the outdoor media to stop by and hoist up a cold one with us during the show."
All adult Wiley X sunglasses meet stringent ANSI Z87.1 High Velocity and High Mass Impact Safety standards, providing OSHA-grade protection for every type of outdoor activity. Selected models also meet the latest updated MIL-PRF-32432 (GL) Standard for ballistic eye protection. This level of advanced protection is the primary reason why Wiley X has been a leading provider of eyewear to the U.S. military, law enforcement and other tactical wearers for three decades.
For more information about Wiley X products and activities at SHOT Show — or the company's full line of sunglasses offering Absolute Premium Protection for 2017 — visit www.wileyx.com. Or contact Wiley X at 7800 Patterson Pass Road, Livermore, CA 94550 • Telephone: (800) 776-7842.
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Wiley X is a leading provider of protective eyewear for Army Rangers, Navy SEALs and other U.S. Special Forces Units in action around the globe. We began by creating shatterproof, selenite, polycarbonate lenses. Some models have been tested to withstand a 12-gauge shotgun blast from 10 yards away. Factor in sleek design and proprietary technology, and our list of admirers has reached international acclaim. Nationally, we're currently a standard issue item with the FBI, DEA, Army Rangers, Navy SEAL Teams and Military Special Forces.
For more information, visit www.WileyX.com.
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Special "Happy Hour" Events, Meet & Greet With Craig Morgan Set for
January 18-19 in Booth #32211
U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Tactical eyewear innovator Wiley X, Inc. has big plans for the upcoming 2017 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, both in the area of new product introductions and special activities planned to celebrate reaching the landmark of 30 years in business.
Wiley X will be introducing a range of new products of interest to shooters and hunters at SHOT Show, including the WX Enzo, a member of Wiley X's innovative Climate Control Series, and two new-for-2017 Active Lifestyle Series styles — the WX Ignite and WX Nash. Each of these new models is offered in a range of frame/lens combinations designed to provide outdoor enthusiasts with sharp, distraction-free vision and state-of-the-art protection in the most extreme conditions.
Wiley X will also be unveiling three popular sunglass models now featuring the unique styling and outdoor functionality of Kryptek camouflage. Booth visitors will be among the first to see the Climate Control WX Boss with a Kryptek Highlander frame, the WX Valor with a dark Kryptek Typhon frame, and the Active Series WX Omega featuring a Kryptek Neptune camouflage frame. In addition to these new sunglass models and new camouflage frames, Wiley X will also be showcasing their Remington licensed eye and hearing protection products.
Wiley X will be introducing a range of new products of interest to shooters and hunters at SHOT Show
Perhaps the biggest news at this year's SHOT Show is Wiley X's 30th Anniversary, an occasion the company will recognize with special Happy Hour parties in the Wiley X exhibit (Booth #32211) January 18 and January 19 from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. These events will present a great opportunity for people to mingle with industry friends, see all the latest gear from Wiley X, and enjoy a cold beer served in commemorative, collectible stainless steel cups bearing Wiley X's new 30th Anniversary logo. As if all this weren't enough, both days will also feature a special meet & greet with country singer/songwriter Craig Morgan. In addition to his music career, Morgan is host of the popular Outdoor Channel adventure series Craig Morgan: All Access Outdoors. He will be in the Wiley X booth to chat with fans from 1:30-2:30 on both the 18th and 19th.
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Phillip has worked in education for over 35 years. He qualified<|fim_middle|> nationwide 'life after levels' seminars, focusing on the use of standardised assessments in the new national curriculum. | as a teacher in 1983 after gaining a Post Graduate Certificate of Education from Liverpool University. Prior to that, he graduated with honours in Chemistry from Leeds University. He started his career in secondary schools, including working as a Deputy Headteacher with specific responsibility for the analysis and use of internally and externally generated pupil performance data.
However, for the last 15 years Phillip has been our Field Training Manager at GL Assessment and he is responsible for developing training modules to support pre- and post-testing to ensure best use of the assessments and data interpretation. He works across the full range of GL Assessment's Education and Health & Psychology assessments in the UK, ROI and internationally.
Phillip trains people on new products internally and externally, he is a keynote at many conferences and over the last few years he has led a series of | 167 |
The 2007 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Craig Bohl and played their homes games at the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota. The Bison finished with an overall record of 10–1, placing second in the Great West Conference with a 3–1 mark. North Dakota State averaged 40 points per game and allowing just 22 points per game to opponents. The Bison totaled 4,855 total yards of offense, an average of 441 yards<|fim_middle|> During their first four years after moving to Division I (2004–2007), North Dakota State had a record of 35–9 (.795) and were ranked in the top-25 32 of 44 weeks.
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For some reason this week I've lost my cooking mojo (except for cupcake baking), so I've fallen into relying on cheap Asian eats. Thaila Thai is the second of Melbourne's Asian takeaway institutions I've tried this week, and as<|fim_middle|> menu to peruse.
'Victoria's butterflies' ($6) caught our eye as they seemed like a house speciality. Bah bom. Strategic error there, as what came out was effectively deep-fried air, with a dab of inspid bottled sweet chilli sauce. Better stick with the satays next time.
On the other hand our mains were delicious. In my experience the danger with pad thai is that the noodles can be overcooked into a gluggy clump, the taste of fish sauce can be overwhelming and I've even had the dish cooked with tomato ketchup! Thaila Thai's version with prawns ($17) was just right – properly chewy noodles with a subtle balance of flavours. The peanut curry with chicken ($12) was also fragrant and appetising, and we eagerly ladled the creamy peanut sauce over generous chunks of chicken and vegetables and steamed rice ($3). Checking out the other diner's options, I think we made a good choice to stick with the curries – the stir fries, whilst enormous, looked unrefined with everything drowning in oyster sauce. | everyone knows, it's fantastic – tasty, filling and cheap.
8:15pm, Friday night: Hopeful diners lined up almost out to the door. A steady stream of takeaway orders being yelled out over the orchestra of clanging woks and hissing steam. Frantic and mildly distracted uni students carrying huge plates of stir fry. And a sense of achievement when you finally get seated at a just-cleared, unwiped table and are given a sticky purple-laminated | 98 |
Scientists Say They've Discovered a New Organ That Might Explain How Cancer Spreads
Elizabeth Cassidy
Scientists believe they may have discovered a new organ that spans your entire body<|fim_middle|> easier to see structures, but impossible to detect these compartments because the mesh support these fluid compartments would flatten "like a pancake."
A newer technology, the probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy, allows for medical personnel to see live tissues microscopically. The device combines an endoscope, a camera typically snaked down a patient's throat with a laser to light up tissue. This discovery was found by accident during a patient's endoscopy looking for cancer in the bile duct.
Elizabeth is the reporter at The Mighty. Elizabeth also runs the Elizabeth Explains column of Mighty Brief, The Mighty's daily newsletter. Follow her on twitter @ekcassidy4 or send an email to elizabeth@themighty.com.
elizabeth-cassidy | . It's not your skin, it's a new organ called the interstitium, which scientists say may help them understand how cancer spreads.
A new study published in Scientific Reports on Tuesday, suggests that the interstitium is a series of fluid-filled compartments connected and supported by a mesh of collagen and elastin — connective tissue proteins found around the body.
Interstitial space, the spaces between organs, was thought to consist of a dense layer of connective tissues. But now scientists are urging a revision of anatomical concepts of the fascia, dermis, submucosa, and the vascular adventitia, which are all spaces of connective tissue between different organs.
The fluids that make up the interstitium move around easier compared to the dense connective tissue that was previously thought to take up the space between organs. The presence of fluid-filled areas could make it easier for invasive tumors to travel to other parts of the body, or it may create a "highway" of fluid for cancer to use to metastasize. Interstitium also contains lymph, a fluid containing white blood cells, which plays a large role in your body's immune response.
"This finding has potential to drive dramatic advances in medicine, including the possibility that the direct sampling of interstitial fluid may become a powerful diagnostic tool," Neil D. Theise, MD, professor in the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Health and senior co-author of the study, said in a statement.
The study's researchers said that the interstitium can compress and expand, meaning it might act as a "shock absorber," protecting other organs, especially organs that move a lot like the heart, lungs and digestive tract after eating.
Medical experts rely heavily on "fixed" tissue samples under microscopes to examine specimens. Fixed tissues do not have any fluid, making it | 373 |
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Typically, meats are sautéed in oil because they need a higher heat, while vegetables are sautéed in butter to impart a pleasant buttery flavor. Seafood may be sautéed in either one. Many chefs opt to use half butter and half oil when sautéing seafood: They get the benefit of the buttery flavor, but the added oil helps to keep the butter from burning as easily.
Just like the professionals do, you can prevent butter from burning in a sauté pan by adding a few drops of vegetable oil or any neutral-tasting oil.
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DZone > Security Zone > Mobile Security: No Longer the Bane of the Enterprise App Developer
Mobile Security: No Longer the Bane of the Enterprise App Developer
In this article, we discuss how Mobile Device Management and app-level security can allow for more efficient mobile security.
Nikfar Khaleeli
Dec. 04, 19 · Security Zone ·
It's no surprise that enterprise app developers may envy their consumer counterparts – who have the opportunity to develop the next Instagram or YouTube or Pinterest. Mobile app developers strive to create the next killer app, and they obsess over innovating on features or delivering outstanding user experience. Still, others are drawn to analyzing factors, such as usage metrics. And they live for continuous innovation and improvement, which explains the never-ending procession of updates and new versions, each delivering more features and even greater usability.
That's what they want. What they don't want are the tedious, repetitive, or mundane tasks that are also part of the app development process.
So, let's consider security. Every mobile app must be secured, but, in many ways, coding security is the antithesis of coding innovative features and functions. It takes a different skill set, and it can be so tedious that it leads to exasperation. Let's face it: The developer's desire for a seamless, effective, and compelling interface within apps is sometimes at odds with the enterprise's needs for security.
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An Art in Itself
Security requires understanding how to encrypt data correctly. It requires understanding where data used by the app is stored, and how it is shared. Additionally, in securing mobile apps, developers must consider questions such as:
Which API do I use, and am I using it the right way?
How do I use vendor A's security versus vendor B's security?
Where is the data used by the app stored, and where is it shared?
To a degree, mobile security is a puzzle. What if the app had been outsourced, and the in-house security team has just the binary? What if an outsourced app is not secured when it's handed back to the organization? And what can be done if the developer responsible for securing the app is not the developer who built it? What if the developer did not comment their code and has left the company? The ultimate question may be what to do if an app was created by multiple in-house developers working in parallel.
Safeguarding the data shared and stored by the app is virtually a prime directive: the value of the data on a device is hundreds to thousands of times the value of the device itself.
An Engine for Productivity
Many organizations think of mobility as an engine for productivity. That has a number of implications, but perhaps the most important implication for developers is that good design and innovation are critical to enabling productivity. For workers, it means<|fim_middle|> to make both data and security controls available from the device. Today, this is easier because both iOS and Android have made the device controls available in the devices themselves.
It might be the ultimate win-win: both innovative features and ironclad security have become easier to create, even though creating them requires mindsets that are often polar opposites.
MDM Tag-Teams With App-Level Security
Mobile Device Management (MDM) software first came to market in the early 2000s, providing the means to control and secure PDAs and smartphones that were flooding the enterprise. In the intervening years, MDM has become well understood and has become a mainstay with enterprise developers.
What's less well known is that app-level security can be deployed along with MDM, and that it provides real benefits:
For a corporate-managed device – whether it's supplied by the organization or is a corporate-managed BYOD device, you need to have both device management and the security needed when uploading data.
For a non-managed device in enterprise, there's no MDM profile. And yet, because it has app-level security, the organization can control data wherever it's being used by the team.
In short, MDM and app-level security can tag-team to ensure robust security. The greater benefit of app-level security is that the organization retains the intrinsic value of the data by securing the data, but also by ensuring the ongoing management of policies.
Imagine your organization has a mix of 50% corporate-managed devices and 50% unmanaged devices.
For the former, you can provide different levels of access to data because MDM in tandem with mobile app security is more secure. That means users of corporate-owned devices can access more sensitive data.
For the latter, with just mobile app security, the organization can restrict what data the user can access, but at the same time provide the user with sufficient access to data to remain productive.
But, how can we answer the questions about the startling frequency of app updates today – not to mention the need to secure them, which, as we know, is a challenging and tedious task. Well, the answer is that automated integration of updates to both apps and security changes the equation altogether, reducing weeks to integrate security to mere minutes.
A New Dawn for Mobility
Developers are learning that MDM in combination with app-level security can improve both app and device security. What they likely don't know is that every new version of an app needs to be secured, and a change in the underlying OS also means the app needs to be secured again. Finally, what they may suspect – and they would be right – is mobile app security has become so complex that automation and no-code integration are fast becoming the only means available to organizations for supporting provisioning of new devices at a rapid-fire pace.
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Security Partner Resources | being able to quickly access the data for their purposes. In fintech, it may mean analyzing banking data on an iPad. In healthcare, it may mean needing rapid access to CT scans and the data behind them.
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Returning to sport explained
By: Susan Cunningham, for UCHealth
Following an injury, physical therapy is one of the necessary components to returning to sports. Photo: Getty Images.
You've made it through your initial surgery or injury, have worked hard in physical therapy, and now you're ready to get back to your favorite sports. Or are you?
Before jumping back in, it's important to work with your physical therapist on an individualized 'return-to-sport' program.
"It's not like therapy ends and playing sports starts – there's a transition phase," said Aaron Zagrodnik, a physical therapist with UCHealth SportsMed Clinic in Steamboat Springs. "Return to sport is the phase of rehab after surgery or an injury in which you're close to being done with formalized therapy, but need to transition back to playing sports."
Below, Zagrodnik outlines what you need to know about the return to sports process.
A phased approach
When beginning physical therapy after a surgery or injury, the first goals are to minimize pain and swelling, protect the injured area so it can heal and maintain mobility. After that, physical therapy focuses on strength and function.
It can take months or even years for athletes to get back to their pre-injury level of competition. Go back too soon, and you're at risk for re-injury and other issues.
"Just because you feel good doing your daily life doesn't mean you're ready for sports," Zagrodnik said. "If you re-strain or re-injure yourself, you could be back at square one again."
Sports-specific exercises
Physical therapists help patients progress through the stages of therapy, testing strength and mobility at each stage to be sure a patient is ready to move to the next.
Eventually, movement patterns and tasks specific to a patient's favorite sports and activities are incorporated into the exercises.
"We'll start to mimic the things they'll have to do when they go back to sport, and build up that load and intensity," Zagrodnik said. "If they love hiking, I'm going to connect everything we do to hiking. That keeps<|fim_middle|>vic floor health after pregnancy
Aurora man was first patient at University of Colorado Hospital to receive life-saving ECMO lung treatment for COVID-19 | them motivated."
Moving too fast
If a patient gets the go-ahead to return to sports, but pain and swelling ensue, they may need to take a step back.
"When you get back to sport, it shouldn't be painful," Zagrodnik said. "If you have pain and swelling, either you're pushing too much, you can't keep mechanics right, or the tissues aren't ready for that much stress and load."
Athletes who get back to their regular activities but find they can't hit the times or other metrics they did before may be still compensating for the original injury.
Getting out of your head
Don't forget there's an important mental component when returning to sports. A recreational skier who doesn't feel completely confident on their newly healed leg may struggle to make it down runs they previously skied with ease. A mountain biker who broke a collarbone on a downhill trail may find themselves avoiding similar trails.
"There can be some aversion to certain movements, or going by the location where it happened," Zagrodnik said. "It's about the patient gaining confidence and realizing they're strong and stable."
A team approach, in which the athlete works with coaches, physical therapists, their surgeon, family members and even a sport psychologist, can be especially important during this process.
Maintaining motivation
Don't feel bad if recovery takes longer than you expect. While progress may sometimes be made quickly, many surgeries take about nine to 12 months for a full recovery.
"The biggest question is always, 'When will I be able to go back?' And everybody loves the answer: it depends," Zagrodnik said. "But it really does depend on the age of the individual, their status before, how the surgery turned out.
"There are definitely days when people struggle. It's a long process, and every day isn't going to feel like a win. But we meet them where they're at, give support where needed and push them when they need to be pushed so that they can get back to the sports and activities that drive them."
Rehabilitation therapy Sports medicine UCHealth SportsMed Clinic - Steamboat Springs
Susan Cunningham, for UCHealth
Susan Cunningham lives in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys science nearly as much as writing: she's traveled to the bottom of the ocean via submarine to observe life at hydrothermal vents, camped out on an island of birds to study tern behavior, and now spends time in an office writing and analyzing data. She blogs about writing and science at susancunninghambooks.com.
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Le corps s'ouvre, se referme, court-circuité. La voix bégaie, hoquète, se fractionne. Tremblements et déséquilibres s'invitent dans une pièce en trois temps avec sept danseurs de haut vol. Ensemble, ils cherchent l'unité et luttent pour leur identité. Si la fluidité a longtemps été sa signature, Danièle Desnoyers choisit ici un nouvel angle, s'amusant à fragmenter le mouvement, à rendre visibles les tressaillements. Des échos à la fracture humaine, au corps et à la parole<|fim_middle|> the ensemble. | abîmés.
Vibrant au son et à la musique pleine d'aspérités du compositeur Ben Shemie, UNFOLD / 7 perspectives mêle une atmosphère apocalyptique à des instants de douceur et de sensualité raffinés. Autour d'une surprenante structure scénique, Desnoyers teste la résistance du corps et les limites de l'équilibre. Duel magnétique et puissant des forces en jeu dans l'harmonie, l'œuvre captive par sa finesse et sa furieuse énergie.
Since founding her company Le Carré des Lombes in 1989, the Montreal choreographer Danièle Desnoyers has been actively involved in the emergence of new perspectives in Quebec dance.
Her works are based on interdisciplinary resonances between movement, music and visual art. From her decisive encounter with the choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault she has retained a taste for breaking down barriers, for making dance wide open and adventurous. Her repertoire of some twenty works reflects a search for an ongoing dialogue between the language of the body and music, sound, staging and space.
A professor in the dance department at the University of Quebec at Montreal, her works are regularly taught in dance schools and presented at prestigious international venues and festivals. In 2016 her piece Anatomie d'un souffle marked the first-ever collaboration between the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and a choreographer of contemporary dance.
Renowned for her generous, fluid and sensual style, Desnoyers has pursued an interest in the raw material of sound ever since Discordantia (1997), which led to her developing an abstract expression of the friction between the languages of sound and those of the body.
Her new work, UNFOLD / 7 perspectives, developed during a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and also at l'Agora, cité internationale de la danse in Montpellier and in Castiglioncello in Italy, introduces the notion of instability thanks to a flexible stage device that folds out and then folds back in, creating an environment of constraints to probe the body's ability to adapt. After presenting Là où je vis (FTA, 2008) and Sous la peau la nuit (FTA, 2012), Desnoyers is embarking on a new exploration of what the troubles of broken-down language and speech provoke in the body.
You are used to working in an empty space. For UNFOLD you have chosen a flexible, adjustable stage device. Why that choice?
I began by playing with paper, folding it, opening it, testing how spaces generate different tensions. I decided to apply that approach to stage machinery that folds in and out, opens up and closes shut, to study the adaptability of the human body. I had already worked with restrictive spaces in Duo pour corps et instrument for example, where the dancers were confined at the outset to three sound zones, but the effect is more imposing in this new piece.
The set designer Geneviève Lizotte first suggested a big structure in the form of a square in space, but I didn't think we would be able to work with such a large spatial constraint, because to my mind the departure point is an abstract non-space, like an empty anechoic chamber for deadening sound. The space is my primary partner. Dance is born of tensions in the body, many of them generated by the body's relationship to space. I wanted to work with constraints – not having the dancers move less in the space, but having them express something in a stability determined by fixed points, somewhat like the way it is done in painting.
Francis Bacon, for example, placed bodies on platforms so that he could capture their force, which is similar to the process I developed. UNFOLD takes the form of a triptych where a flexible, 3-position structure generates the dance proposal. I begin with maximum constraints and move on to lighter tensions, until what is left is an empty space where the body is highly destabilized.
How does UNFOLD imply friction or a rupture, elements that are quite present in the piece?
Unfurling implies an enclosing. It can be seen in the dancers' bodies, in their fragmented movements. I apply it to all the compositional elements of the piece, from the set design to the music and the sound. The voice of someone who stutters reflects a form of resistance in the body, mechanisms that fascinate me. I like the idea of run-down or damaged voice or speech. It reminds me of something the Flemish writer Pieter de Buysser said: "I have a tree that is growing in my throat." The image of a tree spreading out in the throat as the buds and leaves unfurl evokes a body inhabited by different forms of "unfolding". Stammering is associated with mechanical trouble, and pursuing that line was a learning curve for me.
I deliberately sought to break the fluidity of my dance language, and its association with beauty, grace, aesthetics and mastery, so as to push the limits of balance and equilibrium. The dancers are always on the point of falling, but at the same time convey suppleness and adaptability. They are like reeds. We worked on imbalance and quavering, so similar to trembling and popping. It touches my febrile nature, my excitability, my anxiety, which I don't pass on to others. I like that struggle between extremes.
The fractured body brings me to fractured humans, to flaws and weakness, to the breaking point. How far can we push someone's limits? I look for them in the tension of the body in space, rather than in letting go or in falling. The dancers are constantly working to maintain their balance. There is a search for harmony, but once they achieve it they are destabilized. I push those notions further by deconstructing them. The body that resists is a metaphor for our humanity.
The title refers to seven perspectives. Does the idea of individuality prevail or that of the group?
It is an ensemble piece, but individuality is a strong presence, a reflection of our individualistic society. At one point the dancers create a human chain of constellations. There is a search for mutual aid and support, but someone always slips through and must be brought back. What I ask of the dancers is very demanding.
They must be not only attuned to their individuality but also to events that occur abruptly, to outside phenomena, they must support an ensemble. That constant back-and-forth between their singularity and being a member of the group requires a new form of virtuosity on their part, active prowess. I like playing with that tension: how can we be a community in today's world? How can we dance together while conserving one's individuality, one's identity? The dancers incarnate identity crises that serve | 1,429 |
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492 F. 2d 359 - United States v. Thompson
492 F2d 359 United States v. Thompson
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
David Wade THOMPSON, Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 15, 1974.
Decided Feb. 19, 1974.
David A. Gerdes, Martens, goldsmith, May, Porter & Adam, Pierre, S.D., for appellant.
Larry Von Wald, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sioux Falls, S.D., for appellee.
Before MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Circuit Judge, and SMITH, Senior District Judge.*
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
David Wade Thompson, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Tribe, was indicted for the first degree murder<|fim_middle|> the visible conduct of the actor and what one in the position of the victim might reasonably conclude. The present ability of the defendant to fire the gun, the fact that he pumped a shell into the chamber, flourished the apparently loaded gun in the presence of the others, and threatened some or all that he would shoot unless they did his bidding was quite ample for the trier to conclude that unless the threat alone was enough, the defendant intended bodily harm.
Shaffer v. United States, 308 F.2d 654, 655 (5th Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 373 U.S. 939, 83 S.Ct. 1544, 10 L.Ed.2d 694 (1963).
If the government is correct in its interpretation of Shaffer, we refuse to follow that decision
* * * As used in this section, the offenses of * * * assault with a dangerous weapon, * * * shall be defined and punished in accordance with the laws of the State in which such offense was committed.
-- Every person who, with intent to do bodily harm and without justifiable or excusable cause, commits any assault or any assault and battery upon the person of another with any sharp or dangerous weapon or who, without such cause shoots, or attempts to shoot at another, with any kind of firearm, air gun, or any other means, with intent to injure any person although without intent to kill such person is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary not exceeding five years or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment
S.D.C.L. 22-18-11 (1967). | of Glen Alvin Mowrer on the Cheyenne River Reservation in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1111 and 1153. He was tried before a jury, found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to a thirty-year prison term.
The defendant contends on appeal that the trial court erred by:
( 1) refusing to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense;
(2) denying the defendant's motion for a judgment of acquittal on the first degree murder charge;
(3) permitting an F.B.I. agent to testify as to statements made by the defendant; and
(4) refusing to instruct the jury on self defense.
On the afternoon of October 13, 1972, the defendant and his father, Max Thompson, left the home of the defendant's parents, located about thirty miles southwest of Mobridge, South Dakota, to visit his grandmother. The defendant placed a .22 caliber rifle in the car so that 'if we got over there and seen an animal, badger or skunk trying to break in, we could destroy it.' On their return home a few hours later, Max Thompson observed some of Mowrer's cattle in the 'south pasture' and asked the defendant to drive the cattle 'out of there.' Use of the south pasture had been a continual source of friction between Max Thompson and Glen Mowrer. While the defendant was chasing the cattle out of the pasture, Glen Mowrer and two of his children were herding other cattle along a road north of the pasture. Mowrer intended to place these cattle in the pasture. When Mowrer saw that the defendant was chasing his cattle out of the pasture, he left those he was herding and confronted the defendant. A heated exchange resulted. The defendant then returned to his parent's home and reported the incident to his father. The defendant and his father drove back to the pasture. As they got out of the car at a gate leading into the pasture, Max Thompson removed the rifle and put it near the barbed wire fence. Max Thompson then stationed himself in a position to keep Mowrer from opening the gate. Mowrer and Max Thompson argued about putting the cattle in the south pasture, and at one point as the two physically scuffled, the defendant intervened. He hit Mowrer, picked up the gun, pointed it at Mowrer and told him to 'get the law.'
Mowrer went back to where his children were now holding the cattle. Soon thereafter, Terry Ducheneaux, Mowrer's brother-in-law, arrived and Mowrer returned to the gate. He and Max Thompson argued again when Mowrer attempted to open the gate and Max Thompson tried to prevent him from doing so.
While the two argued, the defendant mounted a horse with the rifle in his hand and rode toward the cattle being held by Mowrer's children. The defendant testified about the subsequent events as follows:
Q. Go ahead. You jumped on the horse, and what happened? A. I started up the road at a lope. I made it as far as the edge of the bridge and that was when (Mowrer) caught up to me. He came up out of a ditch on the south side. And when he started cross-ways, he pulled his horse to a walk and started across the road.
He said, 'You are not going to turn these cattle around.' I told him they are not going through that gate. He said they were and I told him no, they are not. And I said, 'Over my dead body.' By that time he was about four feet in front of me. And he was still coming up. So I just raised this gun, so he stopped. And he said, 'Go ahead and shoot, you son of a bitch, shoot.' And then he didn't move. He sort of raised in his saddle up. And then I shot him. Q. Why did you pull that trigger?
A. Reflex action. It was just an accident. I didn't mean to shoot him.
Mowrer was killed by this shot.
INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER INSTRUCTION
The trial court instructed the jury on first degree murder, second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. The court refused to instruct the jury on involuntary manslaughter,1 stating:
* * * I don't think that anything stated by way of evidence would bring the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter in the picture at all.
We view this as error.
A defendant is entitled to an instruction on a lesser included offense if: (1) a proper request is made; (2) the elements of the lesser offense are identical to part of the elements of the greater offense; (3) there is some evidence which would justify conviction of the lesser offense; (4) the proof on the element or elements differentiating the two crimes is sufficiently in dispute so that the jury may consistently find the defendant innocent of the greater and guilty of the lesser included offense; and (5) there is mutuality, i.e., a charge may be demanded by either the prosecution or defense. United States v. Grant, 489 F.2d 27 (8th Cir., 1973); United States v. Whitaker, 144 U.S.App.D.C. 344, 447 F.2d 314 (1971).
It is conceded by the government that all but the third condition was met in this case. It argues that the trial court properly held that there was no evidence to justify a conviction of involuntary manslaughter. It reasons from Shaffer v. United States, 308 F.2d 654 (5th Cir. 1962),2 that the defendant's handling of the gun necessarily involved an assault on Mowrer with a dangerous weapon, a felonious act, and that, therefore, the jury could not conclude that the defendant killed Mowrer in the commission of a 'lawful' act or in the commission of 'un unlawful act not amounting to a felony.'
We reject this reasoning.3 Section 1153 of Title 18 of the United States Code provides that the offense of assault with a dangerous weapon is to be defined in accordance with the laws of the state in which the alleged crime was committed.4 The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation lies within South Dakota. Assault with a dangerous weapon under the applicable South Dakota statute5 requires intent to injure' or 'to do bodily harm.' Such intent, of course, can be found by the trier of fact from the objective circumstances, including the 'visible conduct of the actor.' It may be found in the face of a denial by a defendant of such an intent, but it need not be. A defendant is entitled to have his testimony-- that he did not intend to injure or to do bodily harm-- considered by the jury.
In this case then, it was for the jury to determine whether the defendant intended to do bodily harm or to injure Mowrer. The court's instructions effectively took this option from the jury, and it follows that it was error to reject the defendant's request for the involuntary manslaughter instruction. Had the involuntary manslaughter instruction been given, the jury could have weighed all of the evidence, including the defendant's statement, in determining his intent. The failure to give the instruction effectively precluded the jury from considering the defendant's statement that the pulling of the trigger was accidental. We, therefore, have no alternative but to reverse the judgment and remand this matter to the District Court for a new trial.
Because this case may be retried and an appeal may result therefrom, we briefly discuss the remaining issues.
MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL
The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for a judgment of acquittal on the first degree murder charge. The evidence was sufficient to submit the question of premeditation to the jury.
STATEMENTS TO F.B.I. AGENT AND SELF DEFENSE INSTRUCTION
We are convinced that the statements of the defendant to Special Agent Milton B. Kuhl were made voluntarily. There is no evidence of mental or physical coercion. In fact, the defendant's statements were not made in response to any interrogation by Agent Kuhl. The defendant was effectively advised of his rights and he knowingly and understandingly declined to exercise them. See, Hughes v. Swenson, 452 F.2d 866 (8th Cir. 1971).
There was no evidence on which to submit the issue of self defense to the jury.
Reversed and remanded for action consistent with this opinion.
MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge (dissenting).
With due deference, I am unable to agree that the court should have instructed on the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter. I base my conclusion upon the lack of any evidence to warrant submission of that issue. Just recently, we enunciated again the principle that before a party is entitled to an instruction upon a lesser included offense, "the proof on the element or elements differentiating the two crimes must be sufficiently in dispute so that the jury may consistently find the defendant innocent of the greater and guilty of the lesser included offense." United States v. Thompson, 490 F.2d 1218 (8th Cir. 1974).
My reading of the record leads me to conclude that the jury was justified in finding that appellant acted wilfully in killing Mowrer. It is undisputed that the deceased was not armed at any time during the heated argument and altercation between the parties. Conversely, appellant was armed with a loaded rifle which appellant deliberately aimed at the deceased, after the latter defied appellant to shoot him. The only contradictory testimony was the appellant's self-serving statement that he pulled the trigger as the result of 'reflex action. It was just an accident. I didn't mean to shoot him.'
As Judge Heaney points out, the court submitted second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter. Thus, although appellant could have been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter which requires only a finding of intent but not of malice, the jury chose to decide that appellant was motivated by intent and malice in killing the deceased.
I am conscious that the district court imposed a rather heavy penalty upon the appellant, but that factor should not dictate reversal for another trial.
TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge, Eastern District of Michigan, sitting by designation
18 U.S.C. 1112 provides in part:
(a) Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds:
Voluntary-- Upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.
Involuntary-- In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.
The Shaffer Court, in discussing assault with a dangerous weapon under 18 U.S.C. 113, stated:
The only possible question is whether there is sufficient evidence to support the finding that the defendant had the requisite 'intent to do bodily harm' to his guard or the other prisoners. This in not to be measured by the secret motive of the actor or some undisclosed purpose merely to frighten, not to hurt. This is to be judged objectively from | 2,362 |
Visavuori was the home and studio of sculptor Emil Wikström from 1894 until his death in 1942. Wikström designed the buildings himself, beginning in 1894 with a combined studio and home. Destroyed by fire in 1896 and rebuilt in 1902 in the national romantic style, this building is the finest example of Karelian architecture in existence. Wik<|fim_middle|> time, constructed from logs and featuring many "art nouveau" details. The contents of the house today are as they were in Wikström's time.
The castle-like studio with its observatory and winter garden was built in two phases between 1903-1912. In the studio almost 100 of Wikström's works are displayed. Visitors can also see how the artist and his family spent their leisure time: playing the organ built by his brother, taking care of the roses in the winter garden or exploring the stars in his own observatory.
Downstairs in the studio, what was once Wikström's bronze foundry, is a café open during summer months, serving a wide variety of homemade refreshments.
The Visavuori foundation was established in 1966. Wikström's children donated all the works of art and the buildings to the foundation and the Visavuori-museum was opened to the public in 1967. . | ström's home is typical of Nordic artists' homes of the | 13 |
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URBAN CROSSOVER
Twenty years on from its launch, the latest Piaggio Beverly arrives on the scene with plenty of upgrades, but still retains the same sporty no-nonsense attitude and elegant design.
Today, the Beverly is a crossover that combines the versatility and endurance of a medium high wheel with the performance and comfort of a luxury GT. Available in 300 and 400 cc versions, this exciting new formula takes power and comfort to another level for riders and passengers alike.
Versatility is key: the Beverly, a symbol of elegance and agility for over two decades, continues to evolve and surprise. It is 20 years since the Beverly burst onto the scene and notched up record sales and it shows no sign of resting on its laurels, breaking free of traditional categories to become a true versatile crossover.
Available in 300 and 400 cc versions, the stylish Beverly maintains the dynamic traits and endurance of a high wheel bike, but gains the safety, long distance comfort of a GT. Designed for urban commuting in its many forms and situations, its zippiness and great handling makes this tech-savvy Beverly the perfect companion around town and further afield, with plenty of room for a passenger to share in the fun and comfort.
Enjoy the agility of a high wheeler and the comfort of a GT
Discover the stunning new chassis and unparalleled riding experience
Enjoy the brilliant performance of<|fim_middle|> inspiration from the motorcycling world.
Glossy black detailing and seven-spoke wheel rims are bound to grab attention, while the elegant double-upholstered, double-stitched saddle is testament to a meticulous level of attention to detail.
The only thing we haven't improved is the road
The Piaggio design team have worked their magic on the 300 cc High Performance Engine, resulting in a 23% increase in power over the previous model, 16% extra torque and Euro 5 compliance. Mechanical and electronic components have also been fine-tuned to optimise performance and reduce fuel consumption.
A new engine for greater performance than ever before
The new 400 cc High Performance Engine is more than a simple increase in cubic centimetres. Maximum power is 17% greater than the previous 350 cc version, while maximum torque increases by 30% for an engine that delivers over 35 horsepower and is Euro 5 compliant, giving the Beverly 400 the best power to weight ratio in the category.
Made in Italy style
The Beverly has always been elegant, but the latest incarnation is more dynamic than ever, with clean, decisive lines and details that highlight its sporty, gritty personality. The epitome of Made in Italy style, its artful combination of colours, materials and design is destined to have you swooning before you even hop in the saddle.
REDESIGNED FOR YOU
The position of the fuel tank in the centre of the footwell has long been a particular feature of the Beverly. Not only does it better centralise mass for a more agile riding experience, it also means you can refuel without dismounting. Last but not least, it makes for a spacious underseat compartment that is equipped with a courtesy light and can hold two open face helmets. There's more storage in the form of a luggage rack with integrated passenger handles, a handy retractable bag hook and a glovebox with USB port in the rear of the shield for charging your phone on the go.
The 400 HPE also sports a special fairing in a nod to its out-of-town touring credentials and spirit.
Smart technology transforms the bike-rider interaction, simplifying life with features such as Bike Finder, a handy function when you are trying to pick out your bike in a crowded parking area. Simply press the remote and the horn and lights will be activated.
The Beverly has also done away with a traditional key, using a keyless system that enables you to start up the engine, open the seat / fuel cap and position the steering lock, all by simply pressing the fob in your pocket.
The new "navigation bridge" houses a digital 5.5" LCD instrument panel in the centre, with ergonomically designed commands placed for maximum comfort on each side of the handlebar.
All lights and indicators used LED technology.
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Take a new Euro 5 compliant 300 or 400 cc HPE (High Performance Engine) and combine it with motorcycle chassis architecture and you have a winning formula. Not only do you get a notable increase in power and torque for outstanding performance and more agile rideability, but the single cylinder four-stroke, 4-valve, liquid-cooled package with electronic injection delivers reduced noise and fuel consumption, making it ideal for longer trips.
Also worth noting is the improved surface grip, thanks to the balance achieved through the high wheels and light alloy rims, with the front wheel 2" larger than the rear.
SPORTY ATTITUDE
There's no mistaking the original and much-loved distinctive design in this new sporty incarnation, but there are a few tweaks such as the redesigned front and side silhouette which takes on a more muscular look.
The LED indicators and parking lights highlight the edges of the shield to create a type of illuminated "signature" that is recognisable even during the day. LED lighting is also found in the rear while the numberplate holder takes | 238 |
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Caryn is absolutely fantastic. Her knowledge of the market and critical thinking was extremely valuable as we looked at homes and made a decision on which home to purchase. Also we have never had the experience of working with a real estate professional that so thoroughly researched the home and the neighborhood. This has been our best experience in purchasing a home ever. Thank you so much Caryn for your support, patience and flexibility.
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Pope Francis scoots around D.C. in humble Fiat
No fancy wheels for Pope Francis. Rather, he's scooting around Washington in a humble Fiat. After arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Pope Francis was greeted by President Obama before hopping in one what
Pope Francis scoots around D.C. in humble Fiat No fancy wheels for Pope Francis. Rather, he's scooting around Washington in a humble Fiat. After arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Pope Francis was greeted by President Obama before hopping in one what Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1KtDS86
Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY Published 5:00 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2015 | Updated 6:40 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2015
The Pontiff arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before making his way into DC in an Italian Fiat Popemobile. (Sept 22) AP
Pope Francis departs in a Fiat after arrival at Andrews Air Force Base(Photo: MANDEL NGAN, AFP/Getty Images)
No fancy wheels for Pope Francis.
Rather, he's scooting around Washington in a humble Fiat.
After arriving at Andrews Air Force Base, Pope Francis was greeted by President Obama before hopping in a Fiat 500L -- the jumbo-sized<|fim_middle|>593606 SAUL LOEB, AFP/Getty Images
Pope Francis' car is dwarfed by his security detail's SUV at Andrews. Here he is seen waving from the Fiat Jack Gruber, USAT
Pope Francis rides in the back of his Fiat after arriving from Cuba at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
Pope Francis sits in a Fiat 500L before his motorcade departs Andrew Harnik, AP
The hand of Pope Francis can be seen from his car as he departs Andrews Air Force Base Andrew Harnik, AP
Pope Francis departs in a Fiat after arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: 580105479 ORIG FILE ID: 544593858 MANDEL NGAN, AFP/Getty Images
His Holiness knows how to make an entrance. #FIAT500L#PopeInDCpic.twitter.com/a6pLZXQXTL
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The car stood out all the more considering it was surrounded by hulking General Motors SUVs driven by the security detail.
It's not officially what's called the Popemobile. That's the white car with clear roof that the pontiff usually uses for parades. It's believed he's going to be using a version of the Jeep Wrangler for that one.
Both Fiat and Jeep are brands of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Just as the pope traveled to the U.S. on an Alitalia jetliner, he also chose a vehicle that's the pride of Italy.
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1KtDS86 | version of the cheap little subcompact -- for a trip into Washington.
The pope, known for being humble and unassuming, chose a car that doesn't even break the $20,000 barrier. The starting price of the 500L is $19,345 before delivery charges.
Pope Francis hitches a ride in a Fiat
Pope Francis chose a humble Fiat 500L as his car of choice for his visit to Washington. Here, he sits in a car after arriving at Andrews outside Washington Olivier Douliery / POOL, EPA
Pope Francis waves from his car, a Fiat, upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, September 22, 2015, on the start of a 3-day trip to Washington. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEBSAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images ORG XMIT: 580105479 ORIG FILE ID: 544 | 205 |
Researchers from the University of Bristol, the Babraham Institute (Cambridge, UK) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona, Spain) analysed individual wasp and ant brains from queens and workers of both species to see whether caste differences could be explained by variations in how the genome is 'read' and regulated.
As published in the latest issue of PNAS, the two species revealed much more than honeybees about how queen and worker castes evolve in insect societies. Dr Seirian Sumner, a senior author on the paper, and a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, explains: "Unlike honeybees, who as larvae are fated irreversibly to be a queen or worker, paper wasps and dinosaur ants are able to switch role from worker to queen at any point in their life. This flexibility is thought to represent the first stages of caste evolution, when the simplest societies form."
Queens and workers of paper wasps and dinosaur ants look identical. It was only by observing the insects' behaviours and social interactions that the researchers were able to identify their roles. To do this, the researchers fitted the insects with tiny paint spots or identification tags to study the insects in their natural environments.
Comparing the molecular differences between queens and workers of both species was surprising. "We found very few differences in gene expression and gene functional specialisation between queens and workers in both the ant and the wasp," said Dr Solenn Patalano from the Epigenetics Programme at the Babraham Institute and lead author on the paper. "In both, less than one per cent of the genome showed noticeable differences in expression levels. This was unexpected as many hundreds of genes are involved in differentiating queens and workers in the honeybee."
Instead, the authors found that castes were differentiated by subtle, but non-random arrangements of gene networks<|fim_middle|> Sanger Institute and a senior author on the paper, said: "We are excited about discovering molecular mechanisms which in these wasps and ants allow easy switching between workers and queens. There are some applications of these principles to human stem cells to make them more plastic, potentially leading to better stem cell therapies in the future."
"The work illustrates the relevance of genomic approaches, including genome and transcriptome sequencing, to understand animal behaviour. They help to uncover the genetic basis underlying behavioural traits." added Professor Roderic Guigó, coordinator of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain.
This work was supported by Wellcome Trust and Biotechnology and Biological Research Council funding to the Babraham Institute, funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to the University of Bristol, and Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness 'Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2013-2017' to the Centre for Genomic Regulation. | . "This suggest that there is no single master gene regulating caste differentiation in these simple societies, and that genes for simple social behaviour act in interconnected networks involving many genes of small effect," explained Dr Sumner.
The authors also looked at whether epigenetic modifications to DNA (DNA methylation) might be regulating these subtle gene networks. "Surprisingly, we found no evidence that queen- and worker-specific gene expression was driven by DNA methylation and more generally the ant and wasp genomes lack strong epigenetic signatures." said Dr Patalano. "We suggest that this absence of molecular commitment keeps the genome open and responsive, facilitating the behavioural plasticity we see in these species."
"As part of this research we are also really excited to be publishing the first genome sequence for a social wasp!" Dr Sumner added. "Genome sequences exist for eleven ant species and three bee species. The sequencing of the first wasp genome completes the trio of the social Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants), giving us a more balanced understanding of the molecular basis of sociality in insects, and opens up exciting new avenues of research into a somewhat neglected group of insects."
Professor Wolf Reik, Head of the Epigenetics Programme at the Babraham Institute, associated faculty at the Wellcome Trust | 265 |
A few days ago, I witnessed a remarkable change in the kiai of a longtime fellow dojo member. Until that day, for as many years as I can remember, her kiai had sounded somewhat constrained, held back, controlled and partial. It seemed to emanate from her throat area. That day, however, it sounded free, natural, powerful and full. It seemed to emanate from her whole being. Beautiful and inspiring. As if something bottled up in her had been released. Her strikes seemed more powerful, too.
This experience reminded of the book The Second Circle about finding one's "presence" and one's "true" voice by Patsy Rodenburg [Rodenburg] – a voice and acting coach. Her list of clients include many well-known actors such as Judi Dench, Julia Ormand, Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp and Michael Caine according to her bio.
I briefly summarize her book and present some thoughts on it and kiai.
Here are some quotes from the introduction of her book which provide some sense of "presence" which she also refers to as "The Second Circle [Rodenburg]." It is something that we possess naturally – more visible in childhood and seemingly less so as we age [Tremor_Childlike]. And something that we can sometimes recognize in others.
I'd recommend the book for those interested in learning more about presence and the Second Circle concept [Rodenburg]. I believe that being natural, genuine, open, present and calm,<|fim_middle|>.
[KendoInfo_SuenoKiai] Geoffrey Salmon, "Sueno sensei on kiai," kendoinfo.net, July 9, 2012.
[Rodenburg] Patsy Rodenburg, The Second Circle – How to Use Positive Energy for Success in Every Situation, W.W. Norton & Company, 2008.
[Tremor_Childlike] "That childlike state, and Love." Loving-Awareness.org, Nov. 6, 2007. | while limiting one's energy and attention directed towards the chatter and clutter of non-constructive self-talk, are some simple ways of getting "it" back. Going back to the kiai in kendo, I suspect that the concepts described in her book would help those, in search of their voice, presence and kiai, to find it.
After practice, I asked the member what happened. She replied that she felt inspired to let out her kiai after seeing another member who was "on" and sensing that person's energy and intensity. She later reflected that she had also wanted to give it her all since everyone in the dojo was watching her match during a mock shinsa. Interesting how we can inspire one another.
A couple of final notes. A few references are appended for those interested in reading more about kiai. And a "Thank you" to a family member who recommended The Second Circle to me.
[KendoInfo_Kiai] Geoffrey Salmon, "kiai", kendoinfo.net, June 22, 2009.
[KendoInfo_KiaiSae] Geoffrey Salmon, "Kiai and sae," kendoinfo.net August 26, 2013 | 255 |
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Somos Familia: An Interview with Nichole Flores
June 29, 2016 Millennial
US Catholic has a new interview with Millennial writer Nichole Flores:
For professor Nichole Flores, one of the most powerful metaphors to understand God and the church is family. Like other theological metaphors, this stems from her own experiences; she grew up in a large extended family, and Latino/a culture places a strong focus on family relationships. These families include not just nuclear families that live under one roof, but also the complex web of extended family and the family relationships that are created through the sacraments between people who aren't related by blood.
Flores believes not only that families offer a glimpse into God, but that they also inspire justice. If we can think of the global community as a large, extended family, and if families are where our identities are formed, then "the metaphor of family suggests that our identities are challenged by the needs of those beyond our own home," she says. "It invites us to take on others as our own needs and our own challenges."
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For his commitment to freedom, democracy, and human rights in Hong Kong in the face of ongoing persecution and mistreatment, our 2019 Millennial of the Year is Joshua Wong. The Chinese regime has turned to increasingly totalitarian methods to maintain its grip on power—from its anti-Muslim concentration camps to its brutal crackdowns on protesters and persecution of human rights activists and their family members to the expansion of its Black Mirror-like "social credit" system. Taking a stand against the regime, which is looking to consolidate its power within China and extend it abroad, requires great courage—the type consistently displayed by Joshua Wong, who has been imprisoned on multiple occasions for his efforts. Wong first drew headlines as a teenager as a leader of the Umbrella Movement during the 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. And in 2019, as over a million people in Hong Kong took to the streets to protest an extradition bill that would further erode Hong Kong's autonomy, Wong has used his platform to fight against Chinese attempts to discredit the protesters and make Hong Kong more closely resemble authoritarian China. The current movement may be leaderless, but Wong is playing a vital role in this struggle. It is a perilous time for democracy around the world. Authoritarianism seems resurgent. Millennials must fight back against these troubling trends and take a stand for free democracy. Joshua Wong is already doing that.
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School bullying does not directly cause more students to skip school, but challenges to the underlying social and emotional complexities exist, new research shows, the Huffington Post reports. According to a report released Friday by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, victims<|fim_middle|> peers, a gap that is extremely difficult to overcome.
Sharon Lynn Kagan, co-director of the National Center for Children and Families at Columbia University, said during a conference call with reporters that the contest has helped jumpstart what she describes as one of the most exciting times in early education in 40 years.
Educators share views on SIS, LMS solutions
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Teachers and school leaders sometimes disagreed on how easy it is to use data in the classroom effectively.
State education leaders, district leaders, and teachers disagree on the effectiveness of student information systems (SIS) and learning management systems (LMS) they use to capture data to improve instruction, a new survey reveals.
During a Dec. 13 webinar hosted by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), experts from analyst group Gartner Inc., the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), and CoSN discussed current attitudes toward LMS and SIS software use in schools.
The panelists also discussed how creating online communities of practice can help school district leaders better learn how to integrate data into instruction, and they shared some key advice for teachers and school district leaders.
The Gartner-AASA-CoSN initiative, called Closing the Gap: Turning SIS/LMS Data into Action, will produce reports and case studies on various aspects of SIS and LMS software use in schools. The partnership also aims to:
Give school and district leaders a broader understanding of current LMS and SIS capabilities, and inform them about teachers' needs for meaningful data and how to integrate data into classroom instruction.
Help educators and school leaders better select, procure, and implement SIS and LMS solutions.
Empower school leaders and teachers to analyze student performance and work together on how better to support and motivate students.
Ivy Anderson, a managing partner in Gartner's State and Local Government Consulting practice, said the reports are intended to help school districts and state education departments gain a more complete understanding of the current state of SIS and LMS solutions, how those solutions provide data, and how those data are used in the classroom. The reports also will help school leaders become more fully engaged in a dialog about how to implement best practices in data use.
"We believe that assessment and curriculum professionals and leadership will be able to learn from the practices, especially from those districts that demonstrate they're using [data] effectively," Anderson said.
Anderson previewed the results from a survey planned for release in February, in which 574 school and district leaders provided feedback on their SIS and LMS systems, practices, and the intersection of data and instruction. More than 1,000 teachers, 80 percent of whom are already active SIS or LMS software users, also were interviewed about their experiences using SIS and LMS solutions in the classroom and what barriers they encountered as they tried to use data to inform classroom instruction.
"The findings from each role indicate that the education community disagrees on the effectiveness of SIS/LMS solutions and the training in place to encourage their usage," Anderson said.
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While lawmakers seek to make sweeping changes to public education at the national and state levels, some University of Michigan students are looking to reshape K-12 education from the bottom up, the Huffington Post reports. Campus group rEDesign seeks input from students on how best to fix a broken system in which a wide achievement gap remains, and students — both privileged and underserved–struggle to be succeed academically and be globally competitive.
"The only demographic who haven't been engaged to systemically transform the education system is young people," the group writes on DoSomething.org. In a new campaign, rEDesign wants college students to submit ideas on how best to redesign public education in the U.S…
What research exposed about market-based ed reform in 2011
If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the three "major areas" of market-based education reform–charter schools, performance pay, and value-added in evaluations–then 2011 was the year of the slow, sustained march, says Matthew Di Carlo, senior fellow at the non-profit Albert Shanker Institute, for the Washington Post. Last year, the landmark Race to the Top program was accompanied by a set of extremely consequential research reports, ranging from the policy-related importance of the first experimental study of teacher-level performance pay (the POINT program in Nashville) and the preliminary report of the $45 million Measures of Effective Teaching project, to the political controversy of the Los Angeles Times' release of teachers' scores from their commissioned analysis of Los Angeles testing data… | of bullying are often, as a result of social and emotional hurdles, distanced from learning, disadvantaged academically and more likely to fall behind in school attendance. Although the researchers did not find a strong direct correlation between victimization and truancy, the study is limited in its quantitative analysis of just 6th graders within a single suburban Denver school district.
"Parents and schools across the country worry about the devastating harm bullying can cause, and we share this concern for our nation's children," OJJDP Acting Administrator Jeff Slowikowski said in a statement Friday. "This new study highlights the impact of bullying and recommends effective anti-bullying strategies that schools can implement to keep students safe."
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The Pre-K underground
Everyone knows that getting into private preschool in New York City can be absurdly cutthroat and wildly expensive, but getting into public pre-K is not any easier, reports the New York Times. For the current school year, there were 28,817 applicants for 19,834 slots in the city's public pre-K programs. Those numbers do not tell the entire story. The school on our street had 432 applicants—for 36 seats. With 12 children fighting for each slot, lots of families shared our predicament. For parents like us, options are limited. Private pre-K can run more than $30,000 a year at the fanciest schools. Depending on the neighborhood, spaces with community-based organizations—private preschools that partner with the state and accept state subsidies but handle their own applications—can be as elusive as public pre-K spots. If home schooling is daunting, and if not schooling feels wrong, the only other choice, it seems, is to join the many parents who have taken matters into their own hands and formed co-ops…
Opinion: Ignoring the need for lesson plans
Maybe Bruce Friedrich raised the lesson-plan issue because he was so out of sync with the recent college graduates who were the other Teach for America instructors at his Baltimore high school, says Jay Mathews, columnist for the Washington Post. He was 40. He had switched to education after first running a homeless shelter and then working for animal rights. He thought it was odd that despite the forward-looking reputation of the Baltimore district and Teach for America, beginning teachers had to construct their lessons from scratch, as they have done for centuries. They were shown samples of the state tests their students would have to take. They were told where they might find good material. But as rookies, they had little idea which of a million possible options would work…
Texting while driving ban: For Missouri students, debate isn't academic
The text was about something innocuous: A request to go to the county fair. It set off a highway pileup that took two lives, injured dozens and left two school buses and a pickup truck in a crumpled heap, the Huffington Post reports. As the nation debates a federal recommendation to eliminate cellphone use in cars, the high school band students from St. James who were involved in the wreck last year have already done it themselves. After losing one of their classmates, many of the teens made a vow: Using a cellphone behind the wheel is something they just won't do. The young man who was on the other end of the pivotal text exchange, who says he didn't know his friend was driving, is still haunted by the catastrophic result of what began as a simple message about their plans…
10 years of assessing students with scientific exactitude
In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children's academic progress, the New York Times reports. Thanks to the best education minds in Washington, Albany and Lower Manhattan, we now have finely calibrated state tests aligned with the highest academic standards. What follows is a look back at New York's long march to a new age of accountability: DECEMBER 2002 The state's education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, reports to the state Regents: "Students are learning more than ever. Student achievement has improved in relation to the standards over recent years and continues to do so."
Virtual schools booming as states mull warnings
iNACOL acknowledges that states need to do a better job overseeing online schools.
More schoolchildren than ever are taking their classes online, using technology to avoid long commutes to school, add courses they wouldn't otherwise be able to take—and save their school districts money.
But as states pour money into virtual classrooms, with an estimated 200,000 virtual K-12 students in 40 states from Washington to Wisconsin, educators are raising questions about virtual learning. States are taking halting steps to increase oversight, but regulation isn't moving nearly as fast as the virtual school boom.
The virtual learning debate pits traditional education backers, including teachers' unions, against lawmakers tempted by the promise of cheaper online schools and school-choice advocates who believe private companies will apply cutting-edge technology to education.
Is online education as good as face-to-face teaching?
Virtual learning companies tout a 2009 research review conducted for the U.S. Department of Education that showed K-12 students did as well or better in online learning conditions as in a traditional classroom.
But critics say most studies, including many in that 2009 review, used results from students taking only some—but not all—of their courses online. They also point out wide gaps in state oversight to ensure students, and not their parents or tutors, are actually completing tests and coursework.
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Still, virtual learning at the K-12 level is booming. For example, one of the nation's largest for-profit online education providers, Virginia-based K12 Inc., saw its earnings more than double in the first quarter of this year, fueled in large part by a 42-percent enrollment spike.
"Online learning is the future of American education. Precisely because it's so transforming, it's threatening to the established institutions," said Terry Moe, a political scientist at Stanford University who studies the online school boom.
The conflict has boiled over in Colorado, which expects to spend $85 million this year educating some 14,200 students online. The state's online school industry is growing by double digits a year, bankrolled by a state government that pays private companies to teach students as young as kindergarten entirely via computer with limited oversight.
Nine states win early education grants
The goal of the grants is to get more children from birth to age 5 ready for kindergarten.
Nine states have won a collective $500 million from the federal government to help make pre-kindergarten and other early learning programs more accessible and better capable of narrowing the achievement gap between those who start kindergarten without any formal schooling and those who do.
California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington state were announced as winners at the White House on Dec. 16.
"Nothing is more important than getting our babies off to a good start," said Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The money to aid the nation's youngest learners is part of the administration's cornerstone education initiative—the "Race to the Top" grant competition. It has states competing for federal dollars to create programs intended to make schools more effective in exchange for education initiatives it favors. Last year, it handed out $4 billion in similar grants focused on K-12 education.
The goal of this competition is to get more children from birth to age 5 ready for kindergarten. Thirty-five states, along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, applied for the chance to win between about $50 million to $100 million apiece in prize money.
The winnings are to help build statewide systems that affect all early learning programs, including child care, Head Start centers, and public or private preschools.
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Billions are spent annually in America on early education programs, but the quality and availability of those programs varies greatly. Roughly half of all 3-year-olds and about a quarter of 4-year-olds do not attend preschool, said Steve Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.
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What You Should Know About Crystal's Suites & Staterooms
Crystal Cruises is preparing for its first-ever year of river cruise operations. Using the new Crystal Mozart (formerly the ms Mozart), the well-respected luxury ocean line will begin offering up its first season of European river cruise itineraries using this heavily-refitted ship.
But the real ship to talk about will be Crystal Debussy – Crystal Cruises first purpose-built river cruise ship. She's still over a year away, but Crystal Debussy is notable for being the first river cruise ship that Crystal will have full design control of from the ground-up. We've talked in the past about what her deckplans have to say about her new, revolutionary design, and today we're taking a look at her staterooms.
Category S3 and S4 Suites
Rendering of a Category S2 Suite aboard Crystal Debussy. Illustration courtesy of Crystal Cruises.
Located on Deck 1, Category S3 and S4 suites are Crystal Debussy's entry-level accommodations. There are two Category S4 suites with windows (Suites 100 and 101), and 14 Category S3 suites that are identical in all but their physical placement within the ship.
These suites pull out all the stops, even at the entry-level, with king-sized beds that are convertible to two twins, king-sized pillows, Egyptian cotton linens, nightstand with wireless charging pad and USB outlets, a 40" flat-panel television set, a Nespresso coffee machine, and even under-floor heating in the main living area of the stateroom.
These suites will also feature a refrigerator and a welcome drawer stocked with cups and Nespresso coffee pods.
Moving into the bathroom, guests will find a dual vanity, ETRO robes and slippers, and a shower equipped with both overhead and hand-held showerheads.
Most markedly, these suites – like every other category of suite aboard the Crystal Debussy – offer full butler service, including packing and unpacking by request, optional experience arrangements, and in-room hors d'oeuvres & canapes service.
Category S1 and S2 River Suite with Sash Window
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Filed Under: Crystal Bach, Crystal Debussy, Crystal Mahler, Crystal Ravel, Crystal River Cruises | Sash Window are located on Deck 2 and measure 250 square feet. Sleeping two adults, they offer all of the features found in their S3 and S4 counterparts, but with some notable additions.
These suites also include a seating area with a sofa bed or an ottoman which can function as an optional third berth; a rarity on river cruise ships, where the vast majority of suites are designed to sleep two occupants, maximum.
These suites also feature a full-height sash window that can be opened.
Crystal Suite (CS)
Crystal Debussy, Deck 2. Illustration courtesy of Crystal Cruises.
At the top of the pack is the Crystal Suite – Category CS. There's just one of these suites aboard Crystal Debussy and her sister ship, Crystal Ravel, (Suite 217), so expect demand to be high. Coming in at 750 square feet, this Crystal Suite will likely be the largest suite on the rivers of Europe when Crystal Debussy enters service in 2017.
Capable of sleeping four adults, this massive suite features two separate bedrooms, two separate bathrooms, a spacious living area, and the obligatory walk-in closet. The bathroom features both a shower and a separate Jacuzzi tub, along with a privacy window that lets you see out without others being able to see in, so you can admire Europe's passing vistas.
In the living room, you'll find another unique feature: a faux fireplace, perfect for those chilly but beautiful Christmas Markets river cruises in December. Above the fireplace is a recessed flat-panel television, and the suite also features a Pullman-style berth that drops down from the ceiling for additional occupancy.
A seating area with a sofa is also provided, along with a writing desk, two arm chairs, and a full-height sash window that can be opened.
This is Europe's most spacious river cruise ship suite, and it's hardly surprising that Crystal should be the line to introduce it, given some of the lavish accommodations aboard the Crystal Serenity and Crystal Symphony oceangoing cruise ships.
Crystal Debussy will set sail in June, 2017. Illustration courtesy of Crystal Cruises
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One Week Spanish Course At Your Tutor's Home In The North Of Spain
Would you like to have a Spanish course at your teachers' home? Enjoy a Spanish week course at Merche and Fernando's home. Fernando is a prestigious Spanish teachers who worked for the University of Surrey and the BBC and was awarded by the European Union and the British Government with the European Award for Languages. Merche, Fernando and their two twin daughters, Victoria and Raquel, will welcome you to become another member of their family. You will have meals with them, help and learn how to cook Spanish food, go to the supermarket or watch telly with them among other family related activities. However, you will have your own bedroom with en-suite bathroom to enjoy all the privacy you require, in a house dated from 1780s but with all modern commodities. The house is located in the most gorgeous are of Spain.
Santillana Del Mar & Altamira Museum
This is an excellent choice for travelers interested in medieval sights, beautiful architecture, and museums. Take the stress out of traveling on crowded public transport and opt for a stress-free alternative—a day trip with hotel pickup and drop-off included. Visit the stunning village of Santillana de Mar, see the Collegiate Church of Santa Juliana, the Altamira Museum and its Neocave, the Museum of Jesus Otero, and have time for shopping too.
Comillas & Capricho De Gaudí
HIGHLIGHTS • Visit the Mansion known as Capricho de Gaudí • Visit the Major Seminary (optional visit) • Tour around the city to see the Sobrellano Palace, the source of the three pipes and the sculpture "Ángel Exterminador". TOUR DETAILS • Departure: 9:30 am • Finish Time: 14:00 pm (approx.) • Pick-up from your city hotel. If outside the city, meeting at our office (C/ Castelar, 49 -39004 Santander), next to "Palacio de Festivales"
Picos & Potes
Travelers to northern Spain shouldn't miss a chance to experience the region's natural beauty. On this daylong tour from Santander, visitors are whisked to the Picos de Europa mountains, and Hermida Gorge. After a mountaintop photo opportunity, explore El Soplao Cave, and marvel at its natural rock formations. Along the way, visit a small village—Potes—and stop at a monastery housing the Lignum Crucis. Rejuvenate during the busy day with a traditional lunch, included in the tour price.
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HIGHLIGHTS You will... • cross the Gorge of "La Hermida" by van • make a pilgrimage on foot from Potes to the Monastery of San Toribio (about 45 min). • participate in the pilgrimage mass (12.00 am) • visit the hermitages of San Miguel • enjoy a "Cocido Lebaniego" (stew with chickpeas and meat) • visit the village of Potes • visit San Sebastian de Garabandal and its sanctuary • love the landscapes of this part of Cantabria SUMMARY This is a lovely pilgrimage day for you to enjoy a peaceful day in the beautiful Cantabrian mountain's landscape. We propose you to do a short pilgrimage to the Monastery Santo Toribio from Potes (3km) and to participate in the Pilgrim's mass. To complete this beautiful day, you will visit San Sebastian de Garabandal, a small village where the Virgin Mary appeared in the early 60's.
El Castillo & Las Monedas Caves And The Pasiego Valleys
HIGHLIGHTS • Visit caves of El Castillo and Las Monedas, both with cave paintings • Visit the village of Puente Viesgo • Fall in love with the beauty of the "Pasiegos Valleys" • Enjoy a 1-hour e-Bike excursion through a beautiful greenway (optional) SUMMARY Day tour to visit the famous caves of "El Castillo" and "Las Monedas" in Puente Viesgo. To complete this great day, you will enjoy a scenic drive across the Pasiego's Valleys up to the mountain port of Estacas de Trueba. Additionally, you will have the option to also enjoy a 1,5 -hour e-bike cycling tour along the green route of "Via Verde del Pas". (supplement of € 35,00/adult and € 25,00/child)
Private Puente Viesgo Caves Full-Day Tour from Santander
North Trail Through Santander
The northern regions of Spain are often less visited by tourists and mostly unknown to foreign visitors. However, the north of Spain boasts some of the most fascinating places in the country: from amazing mountainous landscapes to charming beaches. Here you'll find friendly people, top-notch gastronomy and expansive nature reserves. This eight-day tour takes you to some of the finest places in Spain for an incredible northern adventure. TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: Bilbao: Discover this famous Basque city and see the famous Guggenheim Museum and other sites and attractions Pamplona: See the capital of Navarre and its Neoclassical cathedral Logroño: Explore the capital of La Rioja and get to know this important wine-producing area Burgos: Admire the imposing Gothic cathedral and the magnificent Miraflores Carthusian Monastery Santander: Without a doubt, one of the most elegant and beautiful cities on the northern coast of Spain
The northern regions of Spain are often less visited by tourists and mostly unknown to foreign visitors. However, the north of Spain boasts some of the most fascinating places in the country: from amazing mountainous landscapes to charming beaches. Here you'll find friendly people, top-notch gastronomy and expansive nature reserves. This eight-day tour tour takes you to some of the finest places in Spain for an incredible northern adventure. TOUR HIGHLIGHTS: Santander: Without a doubt, one of the most elegant and beautiful cities on the northern coast of Spain Santillana del Mar: An exquisitely charming cobblestoned town. Gijon: This city offers an attractive combination of maritime tradition and monumental heritage. Picos de Europa: Driving around and through this mountain range you will find typical villages and panoramic views of verdant valleys and captivating mountain scenery. Potes: Picturesque medieval mountain village.
Santoña: Anchovy Factory & Boat Trip
Spain is famous for its anchovies and this small-group day trip from Santander takes you to the heart of Spanish anchovies. Visit the village of Santoña and its anchovy factory to learn about the process. Then take a boat trip around the bays and marshes for beautiful views of the Cantabria region. This trip is a must for anchovy lovers!
Magic Christmas Tour in Santillana
The exclusive tour only in the Christmas period! This special times brings magic Santillana. Its many historic buildings attract thousands of holidaymakers every year.Together with the professional local guide, you will visit the most beautifully decorated places. You will feel spellbound with the charming atmosphere in the streets which you can feel only this time of the year! What is the story of the Christmas tree? Who was the first to decorate it in the world? What magical things can happen during the Christmas period? Have you heard about Christmas spells? You will hear miraculous Christmas legends about Santillana. You will visit the old-fashioned Christmas Market in the city. What makes it so popular? What local products is must taste at Christmas | 1,038 |
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Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 32, 1718
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The previous year had seen friction with Sweden, the fall of Townshend and Walpole, the settlement of the National Debt on a 5l. per cent basis and the collapse of the Impeachment proceedings against the Earl of Oxford. The year 1718 on the other hand is comparatively devoid of incident at home except for a new quarrel between the King and the Prince of Wales over the baptism of the latter's son. The Prince had designed the Duke of York, Bishop of Osnabrück, to be a Godfather, but at the ceremony on 28 November 1717 the Duke of Newcastle stood Godfather with the King, not as a proxy for the Duke of York, but in his own name. The Prince later expressed to Newcastle his resentment, upon report of which the King ordered him first to keep his own apartments but shortly afterwards to quit St. James's, whereupon he withdrew to Albemarle Street; his children remained at St. James's; it was made known that all persons who should go to see the Prince and Princess should forbear coming into the King's presence (Parliamentary History or Cobbett's Parliamentary History, Vol. VII, p. 500, footnote).
After successive prorogations on 15 July, 12 August, 11 September and 9 October 1717 Parliament met again on November 21. The chief controversies were over Army Estimates and the Mutiny Bill. A vain attempt was made to reduce the Land Tax to 2s. The Royal Mint engaged the attention of both Houses; Sir Isaac Newton was faced with the problem of the proper value of the gold coinage against silver and with the need for a new copper coinage. The Session ended early as Parliament was prorogued on 21 March 1717–18.
Lord Stanhope had professed no desire to serve at the Treasury and on 18 March 1717–18 he was able to effect an exchange with the Earl of Sunderland, whereby he became Secretary of State for the Northern Department; Sunderland became First Lord of the Treasury with John Aislabie as Chancellor of the Exchequer; James Craggs the younger became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, replacing Joseph Addison; James, Earl of Berkeley, remained as First Lord of the Admiralty; Christopher Wansford (Lord Castlecomer) succeeded the younger Craggs as Secretary at War; Richard Hampden became Navy Treasurer; the elder Craggs remained as Postmaster General (Basil Williams, The Whig Supremacy (Oxford University Press, 1939) ). Addison was a man of literary gifts but 'singularly ill-qualified for the rough work of political warfare' (W. M. Torrens, History of British Cabinets, (W. yH. Allen amp; Co., 1894), Vol. I, p. 160). His successor Craggs was equally unlikely to dispute the supremacy of Sunderland and Stanhope; the Government was in effect a duumvirate, Sunderland to direct Home Affairs and Stanhope for Foreign Policy; unfortunately, both being Peers, Finance was too largely left to others who were to prove unequal to the task. Of the Opposition the displaced Whigs under Walpole proved the more effective half; the Tories were still suspect as Jacobites and 'honest' William Shippen's outspoken comments on the King's Speech led to his committal to the Tower during the session.
In foreign affairs a Quadruple Alliance was effected; on 2 August 1718 the Emperor, Great Britain and France became parties to an agreement to which the United Provinces afterwards acceded. Thereunder the Emperor renounced all claims to Spain but was to be granted Sicily in lieu of Sardinia, allotted to Victor Amadeus of Savoy and Piedmont. In spite of an offer of the retrocession of Gibraltar, the King of Spain haughtily refused to surrender his claims to the Emperor's dominions in Italy and the Netherlands or to withdraw his troops from Sicily. Stanhope had negotiated in person at Madrid; his departure thence was the signal for war; the French advanced; on August 11 Admiral Byng destroyed the greater part of the Spanish Fleet at Passaro near Syracuse; in return the goods of English merchants in Spain were seized; but it was not until 17 December 1718 that war with Spain was formally declared.
Devaluation of the Guinea
On 12 August 1717, Sir Isaac Newton was instructed by the Treasury to report on the ratio of the values of gold and silver. There was at this time a great demand for silver and silver coin; quantities of silver were being wrought into plate and unworn coin was being melted down for this purpose; there was also a large export of silver chiefly to the East Indies. Newton's opinion was that 'gold is now become our standard money and silver is a commodity which rises and falls here in price'. He wished the weights of silver coin to be reduced. His suggestions, however, were not acceptable. On 21 December 1717 the Government came to a decision that the value of the guinea was to be reduced by 6d. from 21s. 6d. to 21s. and Newton was told to draw up a table of proportionate reductions. (Sir John Craig, Newton at the Mint (Cambridge University Press, 1946), pp. 102–109; The Mint (same author and publisher, 1953), pp. 215–219). A fuller account of the proceedings in Parliament is given below on pp. xiii–xv.
A Silver Mine in Scotland
In March or April 1716 two Scots brought up to London samples of ore from two veins of silver on Sir John Erskine's property at Alva near Stirling. A German physician, Justus Brandshagen, was sent North to have a look at these mines; after a dangerous voyage to Edinburgh the party spent four months in Scotland and another three in London before delivering a report (Craig, Newton at the Mint, pp. 103–104).
Dr. Brandshagen had first to clear the mine (which had been opened before the 1715 Rising) and to get the furnaces built for assaying. On 2 January 1716–17 in the presence of the Earl of Lauderdale, Haldane of Gleneagles and William Drummond of the Edinburgh Mint the Doctor with Thomas and James Hamilton went to the mine and broke off six several pieces. The ore was in a flat vein between two crusts of spar, part roughly horizontal, part leading steeply downwards; the samples taken varied in breadth from fifteen inches at the junction of the two parts to two inches at the beginning of the 'sole'. The Doctor found traces of sulphur, arsenic, copper, tin, iron and lead but only the silver was to be regarded as workable ('Newton Papers' at the Royal Mint, Vol. III; Treasury Miscellanea Various (T.64), Vol. 235).
Copper Coinage in England
An account of this will be found in Newton at the Mint, pp. 95–101, and in The Mint, pp. 219–222.
The licence to a company to get copper struck by the moneyers ran out in 1701 and for the next sixteen years no halfpence or farthings were issued. In 1713, however, the Government decided to start a new copper coinage. Newton summarised the principles; the total should be spread over a considerable time and limited to the needs of circulation; the coins should be of pure copper; six-sevenths of each issue should be in halfpence; the limit of legal tender should remain at 6d. The first coins made, however, possibly owing to an unauthorized admixture of tin, proved unsatisfactory; operations were suspended and any genuine Queen Anne farthings and doubleheaded halfpence are probably strays from Newton's experiments.
By 1717 the scarcity of copper coins was causing grave inconvenience; tenders were accordingly invited on 30 April 1717 for raw copper fillets, i.e. copper already rolled down to coin thickness. An offer was accepted on August 27 and on September 13 a Royal Warrant authorised the details of coinage. This Warrant authorised Newton as Master and Worker of the Mint to receive fine British copper in bars and fillets, which when heated red hot would spread thin under the hammer without cracking and which should be of a due size or thickness, and out of the same to coin halfpence and farthings at 46 halfpence or 92 farthings to the lb. avoirdupois, small accidental errors excepted; the importers were to receive not more than 18d. per lb. of copper supplied, half in money on receipt of the copper, half in money and 'scissell' (the copper left over after the round blanks had been cut); the coins were to bear on the obverse the King's effigy with Georgius Rex and on the reverse a Britannia sitting on a globe, a spear in her left hand and a myrtle in her right, with the inscription Britannia. Provisions were also included for the assay, for the employment and duties of 'the King's Clerk', for Audit etc.
In January 1717–18 coinage started and on 15 February 1717–18 new halfpence and farthings bearing the date 1717 began to issue. Difficulties again arose and processes had to be changed. In 1719, after some 6,000l. had been issued, the Treasury suspended operations for a time; presently, however, coinage was resumed and by January 1724–25, on completion of the period of seven years originally agreed, 30,288l. 17s. 2d. had been issued (Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1720–1728, p. 355; T. 1/253/28, pp. 143–146). (fn. 1)
The End of the Tin Affair
A brief account of the Tin Affair will be found in Newton at the Mint, pp. 57–61. Up to the beginning of Queen Anne's reign the royal interests in the Cornish Tin Mines had been leased out but, by a contract between the Queen and the Convention of Tin Miners, it was then agreed that all tin was to be sold to the Queen; each year for seven years she would buy 1,600 tons stannary weight from Cornwall and 50 like tons from Devon: the tin was to be consigned to the care of the three Principal Officers of the Mint, the Master, the Warden, and the Comptroller. The miners were to get, in lieu of their previous rate of 45l. a ton stannary weight a new and greatly enhanced rate of 69l. 10s. per ton (or 70s. a cwt. less tare); a fixed price of 76l. a ton was charged to merchants in England; this was supposed to do no more than cover the first cost and that of transport, handling and clerical expenses; small quantities of tin were sold locally at 73s. or 74s. per cwt. Arrangements were also to be made for sales abroad through Sir Theodore Janssen and others in Holland, Germany and Genoa at 4l. per cwt. avoirdupois.
Unfortunately the amount of tin purchased by the Mint was far in excess of the merchants' demand. In fact little was sold during the first two or three years of the contract because merchants and pewterers had time to provide themselves beforehand at cheaper rates. Nevertheless in 1710 not only was the contract renewed but the Mint actually promised to take an extra 200 tons annually as soon as the War was ended; the rate to the tin-miners, however, was reduced to 65s. a cwt. (besides the Coinage Duties payable to the Receiver General of the Duchy). (fn. 2)
In the new reign the royal rights in tin reverted to the Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall; on 1 June 1717 the existing arrangements were terminated, and on July 18 a Treasury Minute ordered that a Warrant be prepared to the several Officers for Tin in Cornwall and Devon that their salaries be allowed them no longer than Midsummer then last past and directing them to bring in their Accounts to be passed (Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, Part II, pp. 30, 31).
The Agents, having received no reply to a previous Representation of August 8, forwarded a further Memorial on December 5. They had then almost completed the despatch of tin and had attended at Truro to settle their accounts but, although since the expiration of the Contract their fatigue had been more than before, they had been unable to secure payment of their salaries (ibidem part II, p. 714). That they eventually received them is evidenced by Anthony Nicoll's Account (A.O. 1/1668/483; ibidem part I, p. cd).
The task of disposing of the accumulated stocks of tin was entrusted to John Francis Fauquiere (or Fauquier) as Warehousekeeper of Tin. Fauquiere, a Director of the Bank of England, had been appointed Deputy Master by Thomas Neale at the close of the seventeenth century and remained under Newton. He died 22 September 1726 (Historical Register, Vol. XI, Chronological Diary, p. 37).
The tin had now to be sold at the best prices obtainable and as appears from Fauquiere's Account (see below, p. ccclxxxv) the rates realised, even allowing for the difference between stannary and merchants' weight, were at best little more than those paid the tinminers, allowing nothing for costs of handling nor for that very serious item, the locking up of capital.
The King's Speech
The King's Speech was delivered into the Lord Chancellor's hands from the throne and read.
The King hoped that the early meeting of Parliament would be both a benefit to the Public and convenience to Members.
Having always at heart the security and ease of his people he had never kept up Troops save for their protection and had taken every opportunity to disband as many as he thought consistent with safety; the Army had been reduced to very near one-half since the beginning of the last Session of Parliament; and lessened to such numbers as to be neither a Burthen to his subjects nor an Encouragement to his Enemies; in spite of all attempts 'to disturb the Peace of Europe and of these Kingdoms' he hoped that his good offices to preserve the public Tranquillity had not been altogether unsuccessful.
The Commons must be well pleased to find that their endeavours for lessening the National Debt had, at the same time raised the public Credit; this success must chiefly be attributed to the regard they had shewn to Parliamentary engagements. The extraordinary Supply granted last Session had been so far effectual that they now had a much better Prospect than before; an Account would be laid before them of the very small part thereof which, as yet, had been expended; any further Issues therefrom would also be laid before the House; every part would either be employed for their Service or be saved to the Public. A state of the Deficiencies of the present year, and the several Estimates for the Service of the next, would be laid; which they would find considerably diminished; the King relied on the House making the necessary Provision. Several Arrears of Pay and Subsidy, incurred before his Accession, were claimed by foreign Princes and States; these must be laid, examined and stated; which would much tend to the Nation's Honour and Credit.
The King heartily wished the strengthening of the Protestant Interest; the Church of England, as its main Support and Bulwark, would reap the Benefit of every Advantage accruing by the Union and mutual Charity of all Protestants. He was determined to encourage all those who, with sincere Zeal for the just Rights of the Crown and the Liberties of the People, acted agreeably to the Constitution of his Kingdoms.
The eyes of Europe were upon them at this critical Juncture; it was their Interest and therefore his, that his Endeavours for Peace should take effect, to which end nothing could so much contribute as the Unanimity, Despatch and Vigour of their Resolutions for the Support of his Government (Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. XVIII, hereinafter referred to as C.J., p. 627).
It was resolved to present the usual Address of Thanks; a Committee was appointed to draft the same, from which Lord Hinchinbroke reported on November 22; after an Amendment to safeguard the legal position of the Church of England (described as 'the Bulwark of the Protestant Interest and the truest Support of the Throne') had been negatived, the Address was agreed to (C.J., p. 630).
Estimates Laid
No time was lost in agreeing that a Supply be granted and in ordering an Account of Deficiencies on the Grants for 1717 and Estimates for the coming year to be laid before the House; the House was also anxious to consider the State of the Nation, in relation to the National Debt (C.J., p. 631).
On November 28 Admiral Aylmer presented the Ordinary Estimate of the Navy and an Estimate of the Navy Debt as on 30 September 1717; James Craggs, Secretary at War, likewise presented an Estimate of the Charge of the Guards, Garrisons and Land Forces; and William Lowndes a State of the Supplies for 1717 and Accounts of Deficiencies of Funds and Grants. The next day Lowndes presented a State of the Supplies for 1717; the Commissioners of Customs presented at the Bar of the House their statutory annual Return with the Accounts of prohibited East India Goods and Naval Stores imported from Russia; Edward Ashe presented an Estimate of the Charge of the Office of Ordnance. Further Army Accounts were ordered to be laid; this was done on December 2. Details will be found under Accounts and Estimates below (C.J., pp. 631–655).
Strength of the Army: Debate in Committee of Supply
On December 4 the House resolved itself into Committee of Supply. On the Motion for maintaining the Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain for the Year 1718 according to the Estimate, at a total strength of 16,347 men, a great debate arose. The motion was opposed by William Shippen, Sir William Wyndham and Robert Walpole. The last-named complained that the true number of men was still above 18,000, which was a third part more than the Land Forces in Britain formerly maintained in time of Peace; that there was no due proportion either between the number of Horse, Dragoons and Foot, or between the number of the Officers and soldiers; insomuch as out of 8,000l. for the pay of a reduced Regiment, nearly 7,000l. would go to the Officers and 1,000l. only to the private soldiers; that the keeping up so great a number of Officers, was, in effect, the maintaining of an Army almost double of what was intended; that the pay of the General Officers, which amounted to above 20,000l. was a needless and unprecedented expense. To this the Secretary at War answered that the Security of the State was the rule chiefly to be regarded; that the King had in fact consulted not only the safety but likewise the ease of his People; that the number of 18,000 included Chaplains, Surgeons, Officers' widows 'and such harmless, inoffensive persons'; that there were not much above 4,000 men more now in Great Britain than were kept up after the Peace of Ryswick, a very moderate number 'considering that the embers of an unnatural Rebellion lately extinguished, were still warm, and the discontents industriously fomented by the enemies of the Government; that Parliament had ever been content merely to fix the numbers of the Forces, leaving to the Crown the manner of reducing and modelling that number, and that it was no less a piece of justice than a matter of prudence to keep up as great a number of Officers as possible, gentlemen who had no other way to subsist and provide for themselves and families'.
Craggs was backed by Aislabie, Hampden, John Smith and others; Sir Joseph Jekyll insisted on keeping up 16,000 men at least one year longer; Sir David Dalrymple urged that in Scotland the discontents ran as high as before the late Rebellion. Walpole, Bromley, Freeman and General Erle on the other hand urged that 12,000 men were sufficient.
As the Question was about to be put, Shippen made a lengthy speech in which he said that the chief argument against a Standing Army was not its expense but that the civil and military power could not long subsist together; a Standing Army in time of Peace must impede the free execution of the Laws of the Land. The fallacy of the reductions had been sufficiently exposed by a gentleman (i.e. Walpole) who was better informed of the secret of this affair than himself and who was equally unafraid of being called a Jacobite. He considered that keeping up the number proposed, so far from being necessary for the protection of His Majesty's good subjects, would be inconsistent with their safety and an excessive burthen upon them; he knew that these assertions interfered with what was laid down in the second paragraph of the King's Speech but that Speech must be considered as the composition and advice of his Ministry; the House was therefore at liberty to debate every proposition therein; a 'especially those which seemed rather calculated for the Meridian of Germany, than of Great Britain. It was the only infelicity of His Majesty's reign that he was a Stranger to our Language and Constitution'. So long as the Standing Army were continued, so long was the whole Constitution suspended, or at least in the mercy of those that Parliament had armed against it. Several members, and more particularly Nicholas Lechmere who had taken Shippen's words down in writing, took violent offence at the reference to the phrases italicized as 'a scandalous Invective against the King's person and Government'; after some argument it was decided 'Tha t the words taken down in writing were spoken by Mr. Shippen' and Mr. Chairman Farrer was voted out of the Chair. The Speaker having resumed the Chair, Farrer reported from the Committee 'That Exceptions having been taken to some Words spoken in the Committee by William Shippen, Esquire, a Member of the House, the Committee had directed him to report to the House.
That William Shippen, Esquire, speaking of the King's Speech, said these words 'That the second Paragraph of the King's Speech seemed rather to be calculated to the Meridian of Germany than Great Britain' and also 'That the King is a Stranger to our Language and Constitution'. Thereupon Shippen was heard in his place and withdrew; by 175 voices to 81 it was resolved 'That the Words spoken by William Shippen, Esq., were highly dishonourable to, and unjustly reflecting on, his Majesty's Person and Government; and it was ordered accordingly that for his said Offence he be committed Prisoner to His Majesty's Tower of London' (Parliamentary History, pp 506–511 and for a short account of William Shippen, p. 312; C.J., p. 653). He remained in the Tower until the prorogation in March 1717–18. On December 5 a further Debate in Supply arose in the course of which the member for Droitwich, Jeffries, delivered an historical disquisition going back to Richard II. On December 7 the Committee of Supply reported to the House twelve Resolutions to which they had come on the previous day; the First of these, fixing the number of the Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain and the Channel Islands at 16,347 men (including Officers, etc.) only escaped recommittal by 170 voices to 125; the Second and Ninth, dealing respectively with the cost of the said Guards and Garrisons (estimated at 681,618l.) and with the Charge of Half-Pay to reduced Officers of the Land Forces and Marines (130,361l. 5s. 5d.) were recommitted; the remaining Resolutions were agreed to (C.J., p. 655).
On the First Resolution, among others who spoke against it, Sir Thomas Hanmer contrasted the boastings of the Government over the success of their foreign policy, whereby the Empire, France and Holland were all become fast friends and allies of Great Britain, with the language used over any proposed reduction of the Forces, as though the country were in the weakest and most insecure position imaginable. Their situation was their natural protection; the Fleet was their protection; and a good agreement between King and People would be such a protection as none of their enemies could break through. The numbers contained in the Estimates made an Army formidable enough to enslave the nation; out of 32,000 men, 13 Regiments only had been disbanded; so that these were the Corps, now subsisting of more than 25,000 men, which might be filled up to their entire complement at the pleasure of the Government without notice taken. He entertained no doubt of the King's just and gracious intentions but there was a general suspicion interwoven in the Constitution that too much power lodged in the Crown would at sometime or other be abused. Hitherto Englishmen had enjoyed their estates, their lives and their liberties as their rights; it would be a sad change to make them only tenants at will.
On the Second Resolution Walpole again urged that by the method followed the Nation was being put to an extraordinary and needless charge; by reducing the Army in another manner, the full number of Land Forces might be kept up, and yet near 100,000l. saved to the Nation, besides the pay of the General Officers; Sir Joseph Jekyll then declared his opinion for the recommittal, which was carried without dividing.
On December 9 the Second Resolution was reconsidered in Committee; Craggs, Aislabie and others contended that, having agreed to the number of Troops, it was but reasonable for the House to grant the Sum necessary for their maintenance without entering into particulars of the Regiments; to which Walpole replied that the best way for the Commons to acknowledge the King's most gracious intentions was to point out the means of rendering them effectual; he suggested the disbanding or dismounting of eight or nine Regiments of Dragoons; by this and some other reductions a considerable Sum might be saved; as well as by taking off the pay of the General Officers.
Some General Officers, having said That for their own parts, if having no pay could contribute to make the nation easy, they readily acquiesced, were taken at their word. On Question put, That a Sum not exceeding 650,000l. be granted for 16,347 effective men, the same was carried by 172 against 158 (Parliamentary History, pp. 505–523). On December 10 the revised Resolution was reported to the House, read a second time and agreed to (C.J., p. 656).
The Resolution on Half-Pay was reconsidered on 24 January 1717–18; Hutcheson and Walpole insisted that the Officers of the 13 Regiments reduced in Ireland should have been placed on the Irish Establishment; it was agreed to strike off minors under 16, several Warrant Officers, the Officers of the Regiments reduced in Ireland and the Chaplains not provided for. In this way the Government's Estimate was reduced from 130,361l. 5s. 5d. to 115,000l. but the opposite party pressed for 80,000l. only; a compromise suggested by Walpole of 94,000l. was readily accepted; a proposal to supply vacancies in the Guards from Half-Pay Officers was negatived by 164 to 156 (Parliamentary History, p. 535).
The Chairman then reported to the House That the Committee had directed him to move, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, That all Vacancies which shall happen in the Troops upon the British Establishment, be supplied by Half-Pay Officers, or Officers reduced, in Great Britain of the same Rank, except in the Horse and Foot Guards, and Horse Grenadiers.
It was ordered accordingly.
On January 27 the Committee's Resolutions as to Half-Pay were reported and agreed to by the House (see below, pp. xxv–vi).
The fight was resumed over the Mutiny Bill; the 'Bill for Regulating the Armed Forces' was presented on 20 January 1717–18 and the 'Articles of War' on February 4.
The House on that day resolved itself into Grand Committee under Gyles Erie 'a Gentleman of bright parts, and equally well versed in civil and military affairs'; it was contended by Walpole and others that a Court-Martial in time of Peace was unknown in England; Lechmere, however, pointed out that the Court of Admiralty was allowed in times of Peace as well as of War: the Clause relating to Mutiny and Desertion was at length agreed to by 247 to 229: on February 12 the engrossed Bill was read a third time and passed by 186 to 105, Walpole voting with the Government. The Mutiny Bill then went to the Lords where on February 12 a further debate ensued. The Bill was then debated in Grand Committee on February 21; it was read a Third Time in the Lords on February 24 and passed by 88 to 61.
The Gold and Silver Coinage
On 21 December 1717 Lowndes presented to the House several Papers relating to the Gold and Silver Coins (C.J., pp. 664–666); these were considered and committed to a Committee of the Whole House (21 December 1717, 13 and 16 January 1717–18); further Accounts were ordered and laid on January 18 (C.J., pp. 666, 668, 669, 671, 674, 681, 682, 690, 695).
The first Paper then presented was a Report by Sir Isaac Newton of 21 September 1711; a lb. Troy of gold, 11 oz. fine, 1 oz. alloy, was cut into 44½ guineas while a lb. Troy of silver, 11 oz. 2 dwt. fine, 18 dwt. alloy, was cut into 62 shillings; according to this, with a guinea at 1l. 1s. 6d., a lb. of fine gold was worth 15 lb. 6 oz. 7 dwt. 5 grains of silver money; but at the normal rate for export of Silver in bullion a guinea would be worth but 1l. 0s. 8d. In Spain on the official coinage basis gold was worth 16 times the value of silver of equal weight and alloy, at which rate the guinea would be worth 22s. 1d.; but in fact this rate kept gold in Spain and Portugal and carried away Spanish silver into all Europe; when a Plate Fleet arrived, the premium was small, but, as silver became scarce, so the premium rose and was most commonly about 6per cent, making the guinea worth 1l. 0s. 9d. In France fine gold was put at 15 times its weight of fine silver, which would value the guinea at 20s. 8½ d. On the basis of the ducats which commonly passed in Holland, the guinea was worth 20s. 7½ d. In Italy, Germany, Poland and Sweden, a guinea was worth from 20s. 7d. down to 20s. 4d.; in Sweden gold was lowest in proportion to silver, hence silver was abundant there. In China and Japan 1 lb. gold was worth but 9 or 10 lb. in silver; in East India perhaps 12; hence an export of silver from all Europe.
So, by the course of trade, the ratio of fine gold to fine silver was 144/5 or 15 to 1; and silver flowed to those places where its value was lowest in proportion to gold. The demand for exportation had raised the price of exportable silver about 2d. or 3d. an oz. above that of silver in coin and had thereby created a temptation to export: to discourage this, 10d. or 12d. should be taken off the guinea; but, if only 6d. were taken off at present, it would diminish the temptation to export, or melt down, silver coin … If things were let alone till silver money were a little scarcer, the gold would fall of itself; people were already backward to give silver for gold, and would, in a little time refuse to make payments in silver without a premium as now in Spain; this premium would be an abatement in the value of gold; the question was whether gold should be lowered by the Government or left to fall by the want of silver money. Silver in the form of plate was safer from exportation than silver money; therefore Newton was not for coining plate till the temptations to export silver money were diminished. (The original letter and a copy thereof will be found under the Public Record Office reference T.1/208, p. 204 and p. 207 [Nos. 43 and 43a].)
In a second Report of 23 November, Newton gave an Account of all Gold and Silver coined in the last fifteen years. The Graver of the Mint had been hard at work in making embossments and puncheons for the Half-Pence and Farthings. From 1 January 1701–02 to 20 November 1717 there had been coined:
in gold moneys 145,00l lb. 2 oz. (7,127,835l.)
in silver moneys 25,901 lb. 10 oz. 12 dwt. (66,952l.)
in silver moneys from plate 46,156 lb. 11 oz. 2 dwt. (143,086l.)
The plate was brought in for coining in 1709 and 1711; also in 1704, of 4,007 lb. of silver coined, 3,602 lb. 5 oz. 7 dwt. (13,342l.) was from wrought plate, being Prize from the Vigo Expedition; of the 66,952l., 45,732l. was coined from silver extracted from the Country's own lead ore and 21,220l. chiefly out of old plate melted down by Goldsmiths; and some of it from pieces of eight. Gold coinage had been heaviest in 1715 (39,090 lb.); none had been coined in 1704.
The House, according to Order, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole House, to take into Consideration the State of the Nation in relation to the Gold and Silver Coins of the Kingdom.
Mr. Farrer, the Chairman, reported from the Committee and the House agreed 'That an Humble Address be presented to His Majesty, That he will be graciously pleased to issue his Royal Proclamation, to forbid all Persons to utter, or receive, any of the pieces of Gold called Guineas, at any greater or higher Rate than One-and-Twenty Shillings for each Guinea; and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Pieces of Coined Gold' It was further ordered that leave be given to bring in a Bill to take off the Obligation, and Encouragement for coining Guineas for a certain Time (C.J., pp. 665, 666; Parliamentary History, pp. 525–530).
As a result of these measures the Mint dropped 11l. on its small holding of guineas; other Government Departments lost more; owners of gold coins were resentful; there followed a large, though short-lived, export of gold to Holland; the home price of gold rose to 4l. 0s. 6d. and there was some disturbance of the exchanges; the reduction did not apparently lower the price of silver nor bring an ounce of silver to the Mint; in fact silver was hoarded in hopes of a further change in the relative values. The House adjourned from 23 December 1717 to 13 January 1717–18; the Commons on meeting again at once passed a Motion 'That this House will not alter the Standard of the Gold and Silver Coins of this Kingdom in Fineness, Weight and Denomination'; and it was resolved that the Committee of the Whole House should 'meet again to consider the State of the Nation, in relation to the Gold and Silver Coinage' (C.J., p. 668; Parliamentary History, p. 530 footnote). On January 16 the Committee asked for further Accounts to be laid by the Goldsmiths' Company and by the Master of the Mint and that Officers of the Company and of the Mint should attend the House. Accounts of the Charge for Coinage of Gold and Silver from Christmas 1710 to Christmas 1717 were laid accordingly on January 18; on 20 January Chetwynd, from the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, presented an Account of the value of Foreign Coin and Bullion exported from Christmas 1698 to Christmas 1715; this showed East India to be far and away the biggest purchaser. On January 21 the Goldsmiths produced an Account of silver plate of the old and new standards marked at Guildhall 1693 to 1697 and 1714 to 1717–18 respectively; Mr. Carkesse, Secretary to the Commissioners of Customs, presented an Account of the weights of foreign Coin and bullion entered for exportation from Ladyday 1710 to 16 January 1717–18, distinguishing gold from silver; Holland and Ireland were the chief recipients of gold (C.J., pp. 669, 671, 674, 681, and 682).
On January 16 the Bill for taking off the Obligation to coin Guineas was presented and read: it was read a second time the next day; thereafter, though repeatedly considered in Committee, it appears to have made no further progress in the House (C.J., pp. 669, 671, 675, 690, 701, 708, 720, 728, 737). The Committee 'to consider of Methods for preventing the Waste of the Gold and Silver Coins of the Kingdom' likewise sat but without apparent effect.
The matter was also debated in the Lords in Grand Committee; Lord Bingley called attention to the prejudice to Trade occasioned by the scarcity of Silver; Lord Stanhope ascribed this to several causes:
1. The increasing luxury in relation to silver plate;
2. The vast exports of bullion and other plate to the East Indies;
3. The clandestine exportation of silver and importation of gold to and from Holland, Germany and other parts.
In 1717 the East India Company had exported near 3,000,000 oz. of silver, far exceeding the imports of bullion in that year. The Administration could not remedy this evil without the interposition of Parliament; the most effectual method had been already used, viz. the lowering the price of gold, which would in great measure have been successful but for the covetousness and malice of those who, by hoarding silver, thought either to make considerable gains, or to distress the Government; so that no fault on this score could be found with the Treasury; on the contrary the public credit never ran so high, since the Government could borrow great sums at 3½ per cent. The Earl of Oxford and others spoke on the occasion but further consideration was postponed to Saturday January 25 when it was resolved 'That no alteration should be made in the standard of the Gold and Silver Coins of this Kingdom in fineness, weight and denomination'; the Resolution was reported and agreed to by the House and, after the Officers of the Mint and of the Goldsmiths' Company had been examined, it was ordered that a Bill be brought in to prevent the melting down of the Coins of the Kingdom ('Parliamentary History', pp. 532–534).
Trade With Sweden
Among other matters discussed in this Session was the re-opening of the Trade with Sweden. On 13 February 1717–18 a Petition of several merchants and shipowners was offered; the House declined to have it brought up on that day but on February 19 it was read; it was resolved to consider the Petition and to hear the Petitioners, if they chose; papers relating to negotiations with the States General were asked for and a Return of Ships taken by the Swedes; further Petitions were received the next day from the Cutlers' Company of Hallamshire, from merchants etc. of Stockton-on-Tees, from the Corporation and traders of Leeds and from ironmongers etc. of Birmingham and of Ipswich, all complaining of the scarcity of iron. The Petitions were heard on February 22 and Mr. Jackson, the Resident at Stockholm, was called in and presented a translation of his Memorial to the Swedish Chancery of 16 July 1714 relative to the detention of British Ships. Kingston-upon-Hull also petitioned (February 24). The House considered the Matter again on February 27 when a debate arose. Resident Jackson attended; he considered that the re-opening of trade might be detrimental as the Swedes, being short of corn and salt, were inclined to facilitate to Great Britain, underhand, the purchase of their iron; one of his expressions aroused resentment but Walpole made excuses for him and he withdrew. The merchants on the other hand contended that they now had to buy iron through the Dutch at 4l. per ton dearer than before; a gain of 50,000l. per annum from the trade with Sweden had been turned into a loss of about 90,000l. James Craggs, however, refused to accept these figures. It was moved that an Address be presented to his Majesty to take into his consideration the State of Trade with Sweden; 'and that such Measures may be taken, that his Majesty's Subjects, and those of his Allies, may carry on the said Trade in the same Manner'. Craggs represented that this Address would be a reflection on the King and his Government and, on the other hand, would be needless as his Majesty's wisdom would apply all proper remedies to the evil complained of. Sir William Wyndham observed that, the fear of an invasion being removed, it would be no reflection to take off the prohibition; the Swedes had ever been the support of the Protestant interest and a nation which by Treaties Great Britain stood obliged to defend; but, by 201 Votes to 111, it was resolved to adjourn the debate for a month (C.J., pp. 729, 745, 749, 750, 756; Parliamentary History, pp. 548–550).
Export of Bark
On 28 January 1717–18 the shoemakers of Hereford petitioned about the scarcity of leather due to exportation and prayed that the drawback on leather exported be taken off and Irish hides and calfskins be allowed to be brought in. On February 1 a new series of Petitions against the exportation of bark was presented from the tanners of Boston, Cardiff, Southwark, Denbigh, York (city), Lincoln (city), Monmouth (town), Plymouth and 'Plymton', Launceston and Newport, Berkley and Wotton-under-Edge, Pembroke, Drayton (co. Salop), Montgomery, Shrewsbury, Grimsby, Reading, 'Tottness' and Ashburton, Kendal, Chester, 'Huntington' (county), Pembroke (borough), Brecon (county), Leominster, Okehampton, Bristol, Denbigh and Ruthin, Helstone, Carmarthen (county and borough), Ross, Canterbury, Haverfordwest and Lincoln (county); most of these asked that the exportation of bark be prohibited, others prayed for a Duty or for such Relief as the House should deem meet. On February 3 like Petitions were received from Carmarthen, 'Knutsford Middlewich, and Frodsham', 'Stockport, Altringham and Sandbatch', 'Namptwich'; and the upper parts of the County of Buckingham; on February 6 from Gloucester (city), 'Newcastle under Line' and 'Yeovill'; on February 8 from Leeds and Wakefield, Newbury, Malmsbury, Tavistock, 'Winton and Alesford' [Winchester and Alresford], and Wantage; the Shoemakers of Bridgnorth desired the drawback on leather exported to be taken off and Irish hides and skins to be imported; on February 10 Petitions were received from Leicester (town and county), Monmouth (county), Bedford (corporation), Maidstone, Essex, Bradford, Halifax and Otley, Beverley, 'Leverpool' and Preston, Richmond, Middleham and 'Beadhall' [Bedale], the West Part of the County of York and Cambridge (town); on February 17 from Cumberland, Andover, Warrington, 'Presteet and Ormskirke', Pontefract and Durham (city); on the other side on February 20 the Proprietors and owners of wood in 'Brathey, Skelwith and Monk Conistone', in 'Grisdale, Satterthwaite, Dale Park, Graithwaite, Whaithead, Rusland, Slot Parke, Plumb Green, Finstead and Haverthwaite, in Cartmel Fell in Cartmel and in Great Langdale and Loughrigg, all in North Lancashire or Westmorland, protested that the County produced far more bark than the English tanners could ever use and that most of the Proprietors lands were 'so mountainous, rocky and barren' as to produce 'little besides Wood'; prohibition of importation into Ireland would be their ruin and that of many families of labouring people. On February 27 a further Petition from Suffolk was presented but on March 1 the Corporation of Appleby protested that a law to prevent exportation would result in the Tanners having bark at their own price to the great discouragement of the planting of oak; the inhabitants of Windermere and 'Undermilbeck' likewise claimed that the North End of Lancashire and the neighbouring parts of Westmorland produced more oakbark than all the tanners of the country had occasion for. The shoemakers of Ipswich asked for the removal of the drawback on leather exported and that no bark be transported to Ireland. The tanners of Brecon (county borough) presented their Petition on March 7 saying that unless a speedy course were taken their hides and skins would not be worth the tanning in England. The Petitions were allowed to lie on the Table and no action was taken (C.J., pp. 692, 701–704, 706, 717, 720, 721, 722, 723, 735, 745, 755, 758, 762).
On 1 February 1717–18 the King agreed to become a Governor of the South Sea Company (C.J., p. 706).
The proposal to make Exeter into a port for the importation of Irish yarn caused some protest (C.J., p. 707 et seq.). The rights of the button-makers against the tailors were also considered and became a matter for legislation; smuggling and frauds on the Customs aroused attention.
On 10 March 1717–18 it was resolved that Notice be given to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England That this House will, at Ladyday 1719 redeem the Annuity of 76,830l. 15s. payable to them for circulating Exchequer Bills. Notice was given accordingly on March 17 (C.J., pp. 763, 764).
On the same day a Message from the King was received that, having received information from abroad which made him judge that it would give Weight to his Endeavours to secure the Welfare of his Kingdoms and the Tranquillity of Europe, if a Naval Force were employed, he trusted that, in case he should be obliged to exceed the number of men granted for Sea Service, the House at their next Meeting would provide for such Exceeding. The House resolved that an Humble Order be presented, thanking the King for his unwearied Endeavours … to preserve the Tranquillity of Europe and to assure him that the House would make good such Exceedings as, in his Royal Wisdom, he might find necessary (C.J., p. 767).
On 21 March 1716–17, after the King had given his Consent to a number of Bills, Parliament was prorogued (C.J., p. 774).
Accounts and Estimates
Allusion has already been made to these, particularly the Papers laid concerning the Army and the Mint.
The Estimate for the Ordinary of the Navy was presented on 28 November 1717 and is 'bound up with the other papers of the Session'. An Estimate of the Navy Debt on 30 September 1717 showed:
Wear and Tear: before this Reign:
Freight of tenders and stores delivered into the Yards 446 17 8
Half-Pay to Sea Officers 2,935 15 0
since this Reign:
To discharge all Bills entered on the Course of the Navy 353,189 2 4
Freight of tenders etc. 21,462 6 0
Yards and Rope Yards 293,179 0 0
Half-Pay 26,338 6 3
— 697,551 7 3
Seamen's Wages: before this Reign:
Men unpaid on the Books of Ships paid off since the Revolution 104,073 6 1
Ships in Sea-Pay on 30 September 1717 8,000 0 0
Men unpaid on the Books of Ships paid off 19,306 15 4
Ships in Sea-Pay 296,575 0 0
To discharge Bills entered in Course, for pilotage etc. 3,927 8 2
Victualling Debt: before this Reign:
Short Allowance 81,810 18 5
Bills in their Course etc. 4,061 5 11
Short Allowance 12,243 2 9
Bills in their Course etc. 178,688 1 3
Sick and Wounded: before this Reign:
Quarters and Cure of Seamen sent ashore; and Contingencies 357 18 8
ditto; ditto 4,950 14 7
— 5,308 13 3
total (before this Reign 201,686l. 1s. 9d.; since this reign 1,209,859l. 16s. 8d.) £411,545 18 5
Towards satisfying the above, there was remaining in Money, Tallies and South Sea Stock:
In the hands of the Executors of Sir Thomas Littleton 10,773 7 2
Less sums certified to have been paid etc. 9,014 5 9
— 1,759 1 5
In ditto of Charles Cæsar 8,085 18 3
In ditto of James Aislabie 471,381 18 2¼
£481,381 18 10¼
Whereof for Wear and Tear 22,046 11 3¼
for Seamen's Wages 29,785 0 8¼
for Victuals 12,770 17 0¾
for such Uses as the Treasury might direct 416,624 8 10
481,226 17 10¼
A similar Statement of Navy Debt as at 31 December 1717 was presented 21 January 1717–18, but contained some mistakes; a corrected Account was accordingly presented on January 29 which showed:
Wear and Tear 562,039 2 11
Seaman's Wages 334,593 18 8
Victualling Debt 249,178 7 4
Sick and Wounded 6,617 4 5
total (before this Reign 187,774l. 9s. 7d.; since this Reign 964,654l. 3s. 9d.) £1,152,428 13 4
against which:
In the hands of the Executors of Sir Thomas Littleton 1,759 1 5
In ditto of Charles Caesar 9,067 1 1½
In ditto of John Aislabie to 31 December 1717 65,996 17 11
76,823 0 5½
Received to complete the Proportions for the Year 1717 311,517 8 11½
£388,340 9 5
The net Debt was therefore 764,088l. 3s. 11d. The Treasury had directed:
Out of the 400,000l. Annuity Stock:
To be paid the Treasurer of the Ordnance 26,000 0 0
To be paid the Cashier of the South Sea Company 51,081 8 3½
On Wear and Tear: the Course 83,400 0 0
Victualling: the Course 65,518 11 84
And out of Money and Tallies:
For Wages 50,000 0 0
For Sick and Hurt 1,174 18 11
For the Ordinary and Wear and Tear 42,488 0 1½<|fim_middle|> Loans on Malt 1716, ditto 92,063 7 0
The Accounts of Bullion exported etc. have been mentioned above (C.J., pp. 674, 681, 682).
On 21 January 1717–18 Sir Charles Cooke from the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations presented a Copy of a Representation to the King relating to the East India Company's Exports; this showed:
For the years Michaelmas 1702 to April 1708 388,083l. 8s. 9d. in goods and 1,733,169l. 7s. 1d. in gold and silver; total 2,121,252l. 15s. 10d.
For the years April 1708 to Michaelmas 1714 738,691l. 8s. 6d. in goods and 2,025,824l. 10s. 5d. in gold and silver; total 2,764,515l. 18s. 11d.
Total for 12 years: in goods 1,126,774l. 17s. 3d.; in gold and silver 3,758,993l. 17s. 6d.; total 4,885,768l. 14s. 9d.
Yearly average for 12 years: in goods 93,897l. 18s. 1¼d.; in gold and silver 313,249l. 9s. 9½d.; total 407,147l. 7s. 10¾d.
Of the Manufactures exported the bulk was of broadcloths etc., with 64,166l. of lead, 10,859l. 13s. 5d. of tin and 189,044l. 9s. 7d. of iron, stores and charges.
On 27 November 1717 it was resolved 'That a Supply be granted to his Majesty'; the House asked for Accounts and Estimates accordingly (C.J., p. 631).
The Estimates having been duly presented the Committee of Supply sat on December 2 to consider the Ordinary Estimate of the Navy (C.J., p. 651) and reported next day when the House agreed to the Committee's Resolutions:
That 10,000 Men be allowed for Sea Service for the Year 1718, beginning from 1 January 1717–18, That, for maintaining the 10,000 men for 13 months, including the Ordnance for Sea Service, a Sum be allowed not exceeding 4l. per Man per Month 520,000 0 0
That, for the Ordinary of the Navy for the Year 1718, including Half-Pay, a Sum be granted not exceeding 224,857 14 11
Accounts and Estimates of Extraordinary Repairs having been presented on 12 December 1717, the House on 31 January 1717–18 agreed to the following Resolution of the Committee of Supply (C.J., p. 700):
That for the extra Repairs of the Navy for the Year 1718 a Sum be granted not exceeding 165,317 0 0
— 910,174 14 11
In accordance with Edward Ashe's Estimate presented on 29 November 1717, the House on December 7 agreed to the Committee's Resolution No. 10 (C.J., p. 655):
That, for the Charge of the Office of Ordnance for Land Service for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 73,327 12 11
The fight over the Army Estimates, presented 28 November 1717 has already been described; on December 7 the Committee of Supply reported twelve Resolutions of which the first nine dealt with the Army:
1. That the Number of effective Men … for Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain, and for Jersey and Guernsey, for the Year 1718 be 16,347 including Commission and Non-Commission Officers.
The House agreed to this only on a Division.
2. That, for defraying the Charge of the said 16,347 … Men … for the year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 681,618l. 0s. 0d.
The House recommitted this Resolution.
3. That, for maintaining the Guards and Garrisons in America for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 35,766 5 0
This and the following five Resolutions were agreed to.
4. That, for maintaining the Forces and Garrison in Minorca, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 57,613 14 7
5. That, for ditto in Gibraltar, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 39,382 14 9½
6. That, for Provisions for the Garrison in Gibraltar for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 13,551 9 5
7. That, for Provisions for the Garrisons at Placentia and Annapolis, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 1,558 17 1
8. That, for Ordnance Stores, and Provisions, for the Independent Company in the Islands of Bahama and Providence, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 2,858 13 10
But the next Resolution was recommitted:
9. That, for the Charge of Half-Pay to the reduced Officers of the Land Forces, and Marines, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 130,361l. 5s. 5d.
The Second and Ninth Resolutions having been further considered and on December 10 the House agreed to a revised Resolution (C.J., p. 656):
That, for defraying the Charge of 16,347 effective Men for Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain, Jersey and Guernsey, for the Year 1718, a Sum be granted not exceeding 650,000 0 0
and on 27 January 1717–18 to the following relating to Half-Pay (C.J., p. 692):
That, no Person shall be intitled to Half-Pay who was a, Minor, under the Age of 16 Years when his Regiment, Troop or Company was reduced;
That no Person shall be intitled to Half-Pay except such Persons who did actual Service in Some Regiment etc.;
That no Person having any other Place or Employment of Profit, Civil or Military, under his Majesty, shall be intitled to Half-Pay;
That no Chaplain … who has any Ecclesiastical Benefice or other Preferment in Great Britain or Ireland, shall be intitled to Half-Pay;
That no Person shall be intitled to Half-Pay who has resigned his Commission and has had no Commission since;
That no Half-Pay shall be allowed to any Person, by virtue of any Warrant or Appointment, except to such Persons who would have been otherwise intitled thereto as reduced Officers;
That Half-Pay shall not be allowed to … Officers of the … Regiments … lately disbanded in Ireland, except to such as were taken off the Establishment of Half-Pay in Great Britain;
That, for Half-Pay to reduced Officers of the Land Forces and Marines, for the Year 1718, upon Account, a Sum be granted not exceeding 94,000 0 0
On 31 January 1717–18, in accordance with the Estimate presented on January 25, the House agreed to a further Resolution of the Committee relating to Chelsea Hospital (C.J., p. 700):
That, for the extraordinary Charge of the Royal Hospital, and Outpensioners, for the Year 1718, over and above the Poundage and Day's Pay, a Sum be granted not exceeding 25,000 0 0
— 919,731 14 8½
Deficiencies and South Sea Company
The last two of the Twelve Resolutions of 7 December (C.J., p. 655) were agreed to by the House:
That, to enable the Treasurer of the Navy to make good the Payments, which at or before 24 June 1718, may be demanded of him,… for completing the … 608,000l. per annum payable to the South Sea Company, a Sum be granted not exceeding 29,645 8 9½
That to make good the Deficiency of the Grants for the Year 1717, a Sum be granted not exceeding 581,196 8 0
— 610,841 16 9¼
To these Sums the Treasury Yearly Account adds certain Statutory Charges:
Unsatisfied Loans 86,173 11 7
The Commissioners for Army Debts 6,500 0 0
The Commissioners of Equivalent for two years 7,960 0 0
— 100,633 11 7
Total £2,614,709 10 10¾
Provision had also to be made out of the Income by Forfeitures for allowances to the Families of persons whose Estates had been forfeited, for the salaries and expenses of the Commissioners, for charges of Prosecutions and for Schools to be erected and maintained in the Highlands.
A Land Tax Bill was ordered on 12 December 1717, read December 13 and read a Second time and committed December 14; it was ordered to be Reported on December 16, Reported and ordered to be engrossed on December 17; read a Third time and passed on December 19; it was agreed to by the Lords and received the Royal Assent on December 23 (C.J., pp. 657, 658, 659, 661, 667). In spite of an attempt to secure a reduction to 2s. in the 1l., the rate remained at 3s. [4 Geo. I, c. 1],
The Malt Duties Bill was ordered 16 January, 1717–18, read January 17, read a Second time and committed January 18, 22, 27, 31, February 5, ordered to be reported February 10; reported, read a Second time and ordered to be ingrossed February 11; read a Third time and passed and agreed to by the Lords, February 19 [4 Geo. I, c. 3]. (C.J., pp. 669, 671, 672, 684, 692, 701, 716, 724, 725, 743.)
On January 18 there were referred to the Committee a Petition from the Merchants and Traders of Bristol, complaining that Exporters of Cyder had been compelled to pay Duty on their Exports, likewise a Petition from Dealers in English Bone-lace who protested against being classed as Hawkers and Pedlars (C.J., p. 670); the Committee was empowered to receive a Clause for the Petitioners' relief, also a Clause of Credit and a Clause for renewing Exchequer Bills etc. lost, burnt or destroyed; on January 21, however the Committee was discharged from consideration of the Petition from the Dealers in Bone-lace which was referred to a specially constituted Committee who reported in the Petitioners' favour on January 23 (C.J., pp. 675, 685).
On January 31 the Committee on the Malt Duties Bill was instructed to consider a Petition of the Maltsters of Bridport, who complained that they were being undersold by their neighbours; on February 3 a similar Petition was referred to the Committee from Basingstoke (C.J., pp. 701, 707).
According to the Treasury Yearly Account (p. xciv below) the Land Tax was estimated to yield 1,410,000l., the Malt Duties to raise 700,000l.; thus against grants in Supply etc. of 2,614,709l. 10s. 10¾d., the Revenue granted in Ways and Means amounted only to 2,110,000l., leaving an Estimated deficit of 504,709l. 10s. 10¾d.
Some Acts of the Session
Land Tax. 4 Geo. I, c. 1. An Act for granting an Aid … by a Land Tax … in Great Britain for the Service of the Year 1718.
This Act provided for raising 1,529,514l. 3s. 2½d. in Great Britain whereof 1,493,548l. 12s. 4d. in England. Personal Estates etc. to pay 3s. in the 1l. Clause of Loan at 5l. per cent.
South Sea Company. 4 Geo. I, c. 2. An Act to enable his Majesty to be Governors of the South Sea Company.
To vote by the Sub-Governor or Deputy Governor acting under Royal Warrant. On receipt of a Message from the King on February 1 the Bill was passed through all its stages in the Commons on the same day and received the Royal Assent on February 3 (C.J., pp. 706, 708).
Malt Duties. 4 Geo. I, c. 3. An Act for continuing the Duties on Malt … for the Service of the Year 1718 … and for appropriating the Supplies.
This Act continued the Malt Acts to 24 June 1719. Clause of Loan at 5l. per cent. The Principal Sums lent on the Malt Act 1716 were directed to be paid out of the first moneys advanced under this Act.
Appropriation, after repayment of Loans on the Land Tax, Malt Duties etc., of all the Money granted in this Session:
Navy 744,857 14 11
Ordnance 73,327 12 11
Land Forces 919,731 14 8½
Deficiencies 581,196 8 0
To the Navy Treasurer, to make up the South Sea Company's Fund 29,645 8 9¼
with a Saving for the South Sea Company, for the Commissioners of Army Accounts and for the Commissioners of Equivalent.
New Churches. 4 Geo. I, c. 5. An Act for finishing the Tower of the Parish Church of St. Michael Cornhill, London, out of the Duties … for building Fifty New Churches.
The Act arose from a Petition presented on 25 January 1717–18 (C.J., p. 688) on which a Committee reported on February 1 (C.J., p. 704). The Bill was presented and read a first time on February 3, read a second time and committed on February 8, ordered to be reported on February 10, reported and ordered to be engrossed on February 11, passed by the Commons on February 14 and agreed to by the Lords on February 25 (C.J., pp. 708, 721, 724, 725, 731, 753).
Bone-lace. 4 Geo. I, c. 6. An Act for the Relief of the Wholesale Traders … in English Bone-lace, by obviating several Doubts in the several Acts for licensing Hawkers and Pedlars. Such Traders need not be licensed.
The Petition presented on 17 January 1717–18 was referred first to the Committee of Ways and Means considering the Malt Duties but later to a special Committee; the Bill was presented on January 24, read a second time and committed on January 27, reported and ordered to be engrossed on February 1, read a third time and passed on February 3; it was returned from the Lords on February 27 with a slight amendment, to which the Commons agreed the next day (C.J., pp. 670, 672, 675, 687, 691, 706, 708, 756, 757).
Buttons and Button-holes. 4 Geo. I, c. 7. An Act for making more Effectual an Act [8 Anne c. 11].
The object of these Acts was to encourage the use of Mohair and Raw Silk by the prohibition of buttons or button-holes made of, or used, or bound with cloth etc. There were Petitions from various button and button-hole makers that the provisions of the earlier Act were being evaded. (C.J., pp. 675, 676, et seq.).
Forfeited Estates, Trustees for the Sale of. 4 Geo. I, c. 8. An Act for vesting the Forfeited Estates in Trustees to be sold for the Publick. …
Estates vested in the King for the use of the Public under 1 Geo. I, st. 2, c. 50 and 3 Geo. I, c. 20 were to be vested in Commissioners and after 25 March 1718 were to be sold to Protestants; a sum of 20,000l, was appropriated for erecting Schools in the Highlands and the remainder, after payment of allowances to the families of forfeiting Persons etc. and of the salaries etc. of the Commissioners, was to be applied for discharging the Public Debts. In the course of Debates in the Lords on the Bill on 4, 5, and 11 March 1717–18 (see Parliamentary History, pp. 550–554) it was objected that by making the determination of the Trustees final the Bill set aside the Courts of Judicature in North Britain and even the authority of the House of Peers as Supreme Judges in all Civil Causes; also that the Public would get little or nothing by the Forfeitures. The Commons were in some fear that the Lords might seek to amend a Money Bill, but eventually the Bill was passed by 82 to 76.
Commissioners of Public Debts. 4 Geo. I, c. 9. An Act to appoint Commissioners to take … the Debts due to the Army; and to examine … the Demands of … Foreign Princes.
This Act continues 1 Geo. I, st 2, c. 24 and 3 Geo. I, c. 17. The demands related to Troops which after 6 July 1712 had refused to separate themselves with the Duke of Ormonde but had continued with the Allies.
Dividends on Annuities. 4 Geo. I, c. 10. An Act for making the Divident of Subscribed Lottery Annuities … payable half yearly at the Bank of England.
This substituted half yearly for the quarterly payments under 3 Geo. I, c. 7. The closing of the transfer-books for some two-thirds of the year to adjust the shares and to make out the dividend warrants was causing grave inconvenience (C.J., p. 683, 695)
New Churches. 4 Geo. I, c. 14. An Act to impower the Commissioners … for building Fifty New Churches to direct the Parish Church of St. Giles in the Fields to be rebuilt instead of one of the said … Churches….
This was a controversial measure (see C. J., pp. 698, 704–705, 715–716, 723, 731–732, 736, 763).
The late Dr. Shaw's Work on the Treasury Calendars
This volume is the last of this Series for which the text was prepared by the late Dr. Shaw. A brief account of his official work by the then Deputy Keeper of the Records was inserted in Volume XX, part I; the following is an attempt to survey more particularly the scope of his Introductions.
When in 1895 Dr. Shaw came as an Editor to the Public Record Office, Joseph Redington, a former Assistant Keeper, who retired on 31 December 1891, had already prepared a Calendar of Treasury Papers from 1556–7 to 1728; these were published in six volumes between 1868 and 1889 but covered only the Treasury Board Papers (T.1) of which a general description appears in the Introduction to the first volume. Dr. Shaw obtained the then Deputy Keeper's approval for a more extended Calendar to cover other Treasury Records. An explanation of the nature of, and reasons for, this change appeared in the Introduction to Dr. Shaw's first volume of the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, which was published in 1897 and covered the period 1729–30. He concluded that a correct impression of the functioning of the Treasury required knowledge of the decisions of the Board to be found in the Treasury Minute Books (T.29); again much of the work of the Department never appeared in the Board papers, but must be gathered from other Classes, such as the Money Books (Warrants relating to Money, T.53), Order Books (T.60), and Disposition Books (T.61). The chief Classes judged unsuitable for the new Calendar were the records, preserved among those of the Treasury, of such extraneous bodies as the Royal African Company (fn. 4) or of temporary and expired Commissions and also the various series of Revenue and Establishment Books, which were mere books of account.
Between 1895 and 1903 five volumes of these Calendars of Treasury Books and Papers were published; Dr. Shaw's Introductions to Volumes I, III and IV were directed to the examination of Treasury method in the discharge of the Department's main executive function, the issue of money out of the National Exchequer; in his last volume, however, he dealt with the question of Treasury control over the preparation of the National Estimates.
It was originally intended to continue the Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers to the death of George II, but after the series had been carried to 1745 it was decided to go back to the Restoration and to complete Redington's Calendar for the years 1660 to 1728 by a Calendar of Treasury Books. The first volume of this new series appeared in 1904; it covered the years 1660–1667 prior to the keeping of a regular Minute Book. The Introduction dealt with the financial situation on the King's return and drew upon the Statutes and the Journals of the House of Commons; no attempt was made systematically to abstract the Declared Accounts but the second and last Account of James Nelthorpe and John Lawson, Commissioners for disbanding the Army (A.O.1/47/8), (fn. 5) will be found on pp. x, xi. Tables of (A) Annual Receipts from the Fixed and Hereditary Revenues of the Crown, of (B) Annual Revenue derived from Extraordinary Parliamentary Grants, of (C) the National Expenditure, and of (D) Yearly Payments into the Exchequer and Yearly Expenditure, together with (E) An abstract of the actual as compared with the estimated yield of the King's hereditary revenue, are given on pp. xxx–xxxiv. As explained in Volume II, p. xiii, these tables were calculated largely from the half-yearly Declarations of Accounts, drawn up by the Auditor of the Receipt and the Clerk of the Pells (both forming part of E.405); fair copies of these Declarations were submitted to the Treasury (T.33 and T.34); there are thus four possible sources of information but for some years about this time no Declarations at all exist. (fn. 6) The next volume for 1667–1668 appeared in 1905 and again gave on pp. xii and xv Statements of Income and Expenditure; in the absence of half-yearly Declarations Dr. Shaw had recourse to the Pells Issue Book (part of E.403); several Declared Accounts were given in a highly summarised form on pp. xvi–xxxiii. In this volume Dr. Shaw also devoted several pages (xxxiv–lxxxvi) to the Parliamentary Commission of Accounts.
In Volume III, part I (1908) Dr. Shaw carried the story up to the 'Stop of the Exchequer' in 1672; again he found the Declarations very defective, which led him to give further details from the Declared Accounts on pp. xv–xv; similar statements were included in Volume IV (1909) on pp. xx–xxxv, together with details of pensions etc. on pp. xlvii–lii and in Volume V, part I (1911) on pp. xi–xxxiv (this Volume also contains on pp. liv–lx details of the Forces and the Garrisons in 1678); again in Volume VII, part 1 (1916) on pp. xli–lxxxviii, covering the period from 1679 to the death of Charles I; and in Volume VIII, part 1 (1923) on pp. xxvi–xciii, for the reign of James II.
With the accession of William III the Treasury Yearly Accounts (Treasury Accounts, General, Yearly, T.30) began and Dr. Shaw's Introductions took on a new form; the Accounts formed a separate part of the Introduction and were no longer embodied in his general survey. Thenceforward this became the invariable plan. The Introduction to Volume IX, part I (1931), which covered also the period of Volume X, devoted pp. xvi–cx to Parliamentary Proceedings for fixing the King's Ordinary Revenue, pp. cx–cli to the Provision of Supply for War purposes, pp. cli–clxxiv to the Commission on the Public Accounts, pp. clxxiv–cxcvi to Appropriations of Supply and pp. cxcvi–cci to a financial summary of the first seven years of William's reign. The Accounts of Revenue and Expenditure and the Declared Accounts followed (pp. ccii–cccxiv); and a short conclusion ended this Introduction. There is one Introduction only in a separate volume to Volumes XI–XVII (1934), embracing the second half of the reign of William III; a Table of Contents is given; the subjects dealt with on pp. v–ccxxiv include the Civil List, the Land Bank Project Deficiencies, the Great Recoinage of 1696, Exchequer Bills, the Public Accounts Commission, Annuities and Lotteries and the National Debt. The Revenue and Expenditure Accounts are given on pp. ccxxvi–cccxxv and the Declared Accounts on pp. ccccxxvi–dciv.
Each volume, however, for Queen Anne's reign has a separate Introduction; in Volume XIX (1936) will be found details of the provision for the Queen's Civil List, of funds for meeting deficiencies and of provision for the War; the Accounts, covering one year only, take up pp. xlviii–cxcii. In Volume XX (which, owing to Dr. Shaw's death, to the War of 1939–44, and to subsequent printing difficulties, was not published until 1952), details were given of the Agreements with Foreign Princes, without which the Declared Accounts of the Army would be unintelligible; the Accounts cover pp. lxvi–cccxxxviii; in this and subsequent volumes the Introductory matter, including the Accounts, has been published in separate Parts, which can be studied independently of the Calendar proper. Volume XXI (1952) gave details of Supply and Ways and Means etc. in 1705. As by this time the Introductions were lagging behind the Text of the Calendar Dr. Shaw decided to include two year's Accounts in Volume XXII (1952) but his Introduction dealt with, the year 1707 only and his account of the financial basis of the Union of the Kingdoms was deferred to Volume XXV; Volume XXIII (1949) gave further agreements with Foreign Princes; Volume XXIV (1952) described Godolphin's dismissal and Volume XXV, the last volume for which Dr. Shaw had prepared an Introduction, not only dealt, as stated above, with the financial basis of the Union, but brought the history of Queen Anne's finances down to the South Sea Company Act of Robert Harley.
The necessity for the continuance in some form of the Introductions has been explained in Vol. XXVI, part I. The present Editor's object has been not to summarize nor to give any account of the records abstracted in the body of the Calendar but rather to supplement them by adding some account of the Department's relations with the Administration and with the House of Commons, particularly in the matters of Estimates, of Supply, and of Ways and Means and of Legislation.
1. The Account annexed to Fauquier's Report is substantially the same as that in A.O. 1/1635/281 abstracted on pp. ccclxxxvi–vii of this volume.
2. A Memorandum will be found in the Treasury In Letters under Public Record Office reference T. 1/208 p. 147 (No. 30).
3. The figures given add up to 102,394l. 8s. 11½d.
4. For the Records and History of this Company see K. G. Davies, The Royal African Company (Longman Green & Co., 1957).
5. Their first Account is under references. E.351/310 and A.O. 1/47/7.
6. The Pells and the Auditor's sets are not identical in their lay-out but should and normally do give the same totals. |
For the Victualling 6,731 9 11
To redeem the like sum in Tallies on the Land Tax 1716 2,000 0 0
£120,394 8 11½ (fn. 3) [sic]
There was also presented on January 21 an Account of what the Navy Treasurer had received out of Moneys voted for the year 1716 and 1717; amounting to 624,045l. 0s. 0½d. for 1716 and to 1,220,946l. 17s. 6¾d. for 1717 together with 188l. 10s. 3¾d. and 223,923l. received but unapplied to any particular Head.
An account of Rebuildings and Extra Repairs to Ships etc. showed:
For Works of the Ships 9,950 6 5½
For completing their Rigging and Stores 1,991 3 7¼
For Completing Rigging and Stores of Ships supposed to be in good condition 5,498 10 7
For extra buildings 1,958 3 9¾
9,398 4 5½
This was divided among the Yards as follows:
Deptford 3,580 19 9
Woolwich 2,231 12 3
Chatham 4,457 19 9
Sheerness 305 7 11¾
Portsmouth 6,696 1 9¾
Plymouth 2,126 2 11
£19,398 4 5½
(C.J., pp. 633–634, 678–681, 696, 697.)
Accounts and Estimates of Extraordinary Repairs, presented on 12 December 1717 and Accounts of Ships employed, presented 16 January 1717–18 were 'bound up' (C.J., pp. 657, 668).
Also 'bound up' were Accounts of Naval Stores from Russia (C.J., p. 641); and of the Production of ditto in America with the Premiums paid for such Stores and the quantities of Pitch and Tar imported thence and bought for the Navy (C.J., p. 698).
An Estimate, presented 29 November 1717, of the Charge of the Ordnance for the Year 1718 showed for Land Service:
The ordinary of the Office 38,835 7 6
The Establishments of Mahon, Gibraltar, Annapolis, Placentia and North Britain 9,962 3 9
Half-Pay of Officers and Chaplain 2,230 1 8
For building Barracks: in North Britain 9,300l.; at Portsmouth 2,000l. 11,300 0 0
For Fortifications: at Mahon 8,000l.; at Gibraltar 2,000l. 10,000 0 0
For Repairs and Barracks at Placentia and Annapolis 1,000 0 0
— 22,300 0 0
£73,327 12 11
(C.J., p. 641.)
The Army Estimates were presented on 28 November 1717 but the House asked for further Accounts. The Estimates showed:
For the Land Forces in Great Britain:
Horse: for four Troops of Guards, Two Troops of Grenadier Guards, the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards and three Regiments of Horse (Lumley's, Pitt's and Wade's) 172,018 8 4
Dragoons: for the Royal Regiment of Dragoons and thirteen other Regiments of Dragoons 157,175 1 8
Foot: for three Regiments of Guards and seventeen Regiments of Foot 280,934 8 4
General and Staff Officers; Garrisons; Contingencies 71,490 1 8
For the Forces in the Plantations etc.:
In the Plantations: two Regiments, eight Independent Companies 33,172 8 4
The Garrisons of Annapolis Royal and Placentia 2,593 16 8
In Minorca: the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and three Regiments 51,458 18 4
Officers of the Garrison 6,154 16 3
In Gibraltar: three Regiments 35,633 2 6
Officers of the Garrison 3,749 12 3½
Provisions for Col. Phillips's Regiment at Annapolis and Placentia 1,558 17 1
Provisions for the three Regiments at Gibraltar 13,551 9 5
147,873 0 10½
For Ordnance Stores; Providence and the Bahamas 1,946 0 10½
For Provisions for the Independent Company at Providence 912 10 8½
£150,731 14 8½
(C.J., pp. 635. 636.)
On 30 November 1717 the Secretary at War presented:
An account of the Numbers of Men in each particular Regiment of the Guards and Garrisons;
an Account of the Disposition of 23,929l. 8s. 6½d. granted last Session for General and Staff Officers;
an Estimate of the Charge of such Officers for 1718; an Account of the Disposition of 28,245l. 9s. 2d. granted last Session for Garrisons etc. in Great Britain:
an Account of 2,758l. granted for Fire and Candle, part of the said 28,245l. 9s. 2d.
The Account of the Numbers showed:
Horse 2,071 men; Dragoons 2,898; Foot 11,378; Total 16,347.
On the General and Staff Officers 2931. 14s. 4½d. had been saved; against 23,635l. 14s. 2d. spent in 1717 the Estimate for 1718 amounted to 22,496l. 7s. 6d.; nothing in either year was allowed for the Captain General; the Generals were reduced from three to two; the 5 Lieut. Generals, 6 Major Generals and 11 Brigadiers remained. Of the 28,245l. 9s. 2d. for Garrisons etc. in Great Britain the Abstract showed:
Berwick 868 15 10
Blackness 665 0 0
Calshot Castle 136 17 6
Carlisle 346 15 0
Chester 456 5 0
Clifford's Fort 109 10 0
Cinq Ports 1,585 10 0
Dumbarton Castle 665 0 0
Edinburgh Castle 1,796 10 0
Gravesend and Tilbury 820 2 6
Guernsey 413 13 4
Hull and the Blockhouse. 868 15 10
Hurst Castle 182 10 0
Holy Island 36 10 0
Jersey Island 401 10 0
Landguard Fort 346 15 0
St. Maws 191 2 6
Pendennis Castle 295 10 0
Plymouth and St. Nicholas Island 2,067 15 10
Portland Castle 130 15 10
Portsmouth 1,334 3 4
Sheerness 911 7 6
Scilly Island 365 0 0
Scarborough Castle 52 10 0
'Sterlin' Castle 1,659 12 6
Tynmouth Castle 573 15 0
Tower of London 3,344 9 2
Upnor etc. 492 15 0
Fort William 655 17 6
Windsor 1,328 10 0
North Yarmouth 73 0 0
Isle of Wight 1,750 2 6
Small Payment 560 12 6
Fire and Candle 2,758 0 0
£28,245 9 2
(C.J., pp. 642–650.)
An Account of Land Forces disbanded since the beginning of last Session was also presented; it was ' bound up'
On December 4 the Estimates and Accounts were referred to the Committee of Supply (C.J., p. 652).
Accounts relating to Half-Pay Officers and Irish Halt-Fay Officers were presented on 16 December 1717 and on 16 and 21 January 1717–18 but were 'bound up' (C.J., pp. 659, 669, 675).
An Estimate of the extraordinary Charge of Chelsea Hospital was presented 25 January 1717–18.
The Reductions of the Forces would result in a decrease of the Funds of the Hospital (out of the Deduction for Poundage and Day's Pay) of 12,500 0 0
The Disbandment of 1372 Invalids would involve an Addition for their Allowances as Outpensioners of 10,478 11 8
Additional Outpensioners found qualified as such on the Reduction of the Forces, would cost about 2,021 8 4
(C.J., p.689)
A State of Demands of several Foreign Princes for arrears of Subsidies was presented on 17 February 1717–18:
By the King of Denmark, for an arrear of Subsidy (whereof 48,437l. 10s. to the day of Separation) 75,000 0 0
By the King of Prussia, for arrears for the 8,000 men which served in Italy; at 50,000l. per annum for all pay and extraordinaries 25,000 0 0
By the Landgrave of Hesse, for arrears of the First Subsidy (whereof 7,440l. to the day of Separation) 12,000 0 0
For additional Subsidy to the two Regiments of Horse which served in Italy (whereof 3,000l. to the day of Separation) 15,000 0 0
total (whereof 58,877l. 10s. to the day of Separation) £127,000 0 0
There were other claims from the King of Portugal and the States General.
Similar demands for arrears of Pay:
By the King of Prussia for his 5,000 men 12,883 13 5
by ditto, for his Troops of Augmentation, to the day of Separation, and march money 14,095 4 8
by ditto, for agio, bread and forage for the 12,000 men under Count Lottum 24,358 4 0
By the Landgrave of Hesse, for an arrear to the day of Separation, march money and notice money 37,944 0 0
By the Duke of Saxe Gotha, for arrears, extraordinaries and notice money 12,253 11 4
£101,534 13 5
The Grisons had likewise a demand for a Regiment which served in Spain:and there were other demands for Extraordinaries.
(C.J., pp. 736, 737.)
Deficiencies etc.
Accounts of the Navy Debt have been noted above.
On 28 November 1717 William Lowndes presented a State of the Supplies for the Year 1717; this showed:
Navy: granted 947,560l. 5s 3d., Paid 610,042l. 16s. 3½d.; remains 337,517l. 8s. 11¼d.
Ordnance: granted 73,077l. 9s. 3d.; paid 38,000*. 0s. 0d.; remains 35,077l. 9s. 3d.
Army etc.: granted 1,273,910l. 9s. 6d.; paid 1,039,476l. 18s. 9¾d.; remains 234,433l. 10l. 8¼d.
To enable the King to concert Measures with Foreign Princes [against Sweden]: granted 250,000l. 0s. 0d.; paid 3,000l. 0s. Od.; remains 247,000l. 0s. 0d.
To the Navy Treasurer to make good the South Sea Company's Fund: granted 166,502l. 5s. 7¾d.; paid 43,490l. 17s. 6½d.; remains 123,011l. 8s. 1¼d.
The Commissioners of Army Debts: granted 6,500l. 0s. 0d.; paid 3,250l. 0s. 0d.; remains 3,250l. 0s. 0d.
To make good losses and damages by Riots: granted 5,579l. 15s. 3½d.; paid 5,579l. 15s. 3½d.; remains nil.
Total: granted 2,723,130l. 4s. 11¾d.; paid 1,742,840l. 7s. 11¼d.; remains 980,289l. 17s. 0d.
(C.J., p. 637, 640.)
An Account of the Deficiencies of the Grants for the Year 1717 showed:
Supplies granted in Parliament:
The Land Tax 1,410,000 0 0
The Malt Act ultra 143,494l. 10s. 1d. transferred 556,505 9 11
— 1,966,505 9 11
The Produce of the Funds for the South Sea Company over and above the Sum estimated, about 107,211 8 1¼
£2,073,716 18 0¼
The Navy 947,560 5 3
The Ordnance 73,077 9 3
The Army etc. 1,273,910 9 6
To concert measures with Foreign Princes against Sweden 250,000 0 0
To make good losses etc. by Riots 5,579 15 3½
To the Navy Treasurer to make good the South Sea Company's Fund 166,502 5 7¾
To the Commissioners of Army Debts 6,500 0 0
£2,723,130 4 11¼
Deficiency of the Grants £649,413 6 11
Deficiencies of several Funds payable at the Exchequer:
On the 135,000l. per annum for the Lottery 1710 174,138 0 0
On the 160,000l. per annum to the East India Company 123,490 14 9½
On the Duty on Hops, besides Interest 8,590 16 8½
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Matthew Whitaker, at age 11, began performing before crowds in various clubs and concert halls around the world, and he was doing so while completely blind. Photo: CBS 60 Minutes
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Aug 19;44(14):6868-82. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw575. Epub 2016 Jun 28.
SLIRP stabilizes LRPPRC via an RRM-PPR protein interface.
Spåhr H1, Rozanska A2, Li X3, Atanassov I3, Lightowlers RN2, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZM2, Rackham O4, Larsson NG5.
Department of Mitochondrial Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, D-50931 Cologne, Germany Spahr@age.mpg.de.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Centre for Medical Research, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
Department of Mitochondrial Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, D-50931 Cologne, Germany Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden Larsson@age.mpg.de.
LRPPRC is a protein that has attracted interest both for its role in post-transcriptional regulation of mitochondrial gene expression and more recently because numerous mutated variants have been characterized as causing severe infantile mitochondrial neurodegeneration. LRPPRC belongs to the pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) protein family, originally defined by their RNA binding capacity, and forms a complex with SLIRP that harbours an RNA recognition motif (RRM) domain. We show here that LRPPRC displays a broad and strong RNA binding capacity in vitro in contrast to SLIRP that associates only weakly with RNA. The LRPPRC-SLIRP complex comprises a hetero-dimer via interactions by polar amino acids in the single RRM domain of SLIRP and three neighbouring PPR motifs in the second quarter of LRPPRC, which critically contribute to the LRPPRC-SLIRP binding interface to enhance its stability. Unexpectedly, specific amino acids at this interface are located within the PPRs of LRPPRC at positions predicted to interact with RNA and within the RNP1 motif of SLIRP's RRM domain. Our findings thus unexpectedly establish that despite the prediction that these residues in LRPPRC and SLIRP should bind RNA, they are instead used to facilitate protein-protein interactions, enabling the formation of a stable complex between these two proteins.
SLIRP stabilizes LRPPRC. (A) Purification of LRPPRC, SLIRP and the LRPPRC–SLIRP complex. The gel was stained with Coomassie brilliant blue, purified proteins are indicated on the right and molecular masses according to a standard in kDa on the left. (B and C) Thermofluor profiles of LRPPRC–SLIRP or LRPPRC. The melting temperature (Tm) corresponds to the temperature where 50% of the protein is unfolded. (B) Effect of pH on LRPPRC–SLIRP or LRPPRC thermal stability. The buffer composition was citric Acid/CHES/HEPES [2:4:3] with the pH indicated. (C) Effect of NaCl concentration on LRPPRC–SLIRP or LRPPRC thermal stability. The buffer composition was 50 mM HEPES pH 7.5 and 0–1000 mM NaCl.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Aug 19;44(14):6868-6882.
RNA binding by LRPPRC, SLIRP and the LRPPRC–SLIRP complex. (A) CLIP analysis of SLIRP. The number of CLIP hits is shown on the y-axis and identified targets on the x-axis. (B) REMSA of LRPPRC–<|fim_middle|>ila melanogaster. Crucial amino acids for LRPPRC–SLIRP interface integrity are indicated with asterisks. The predicted PPR motifs of LRPPRC and the RRM domain of SLIRP are highlighted with coloured dashed windows. RNP1 and RNP2 motifs of SLIRP are indicated.
Structure prediction of the LRPPRC–SLIRP interface. SLIRP (amino acids 18–94) is shown in purple and the PPR motifs of LRPPRC (amino acids 404–503) are shown in salmon, green and blue, respectively. Amino acids crucial for LRPPRC–SLIRP interface integrity are shown with sticks. | SLIRP, LRPPRC or SLIRP. RNA template sequences are indicated. Protein concentrations used were 0, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08, 0.16, 0.36, 0.64, 1.28, 2.56 μM, respectively.
LRPPRC–SLIRP is a hetero-dimer. (A) Formation of the LRPPRC–SLIRP complex in vitro. The in vitro formed LRPPRC–SLIRP complex was subjected to gel filtration on a Superose 12 column and peak fractions were separated by sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). (B) BN-PAGE of LRPPRC and the LRPPRC–SLIRP complex. (C) Crosslinking of the LRPPRC–SLIRP complex with BS3. Non-crosslinked and crosslinked LRPPRC–SLIRP complexes were analysed on a SDS-PAGE gel. (D and E) Gelfiltration analysis of LRPPRC–SLIRP or LRPPRC. Proteins were loaded on a Superose 6 column and analysed on SDS-PAGE. (F and G) Gelfiltration analysis of LRPPRC–SLIRP or LRPPRC when bound to a RNA fragment corresponding to nucleotides 8657–8685 of MTATP6. All gels were stained with Coomassie brilliant blue with purified proteins indicated on the right, elution volume on top and molecular masses according to a standard in kDa on the left.
Crosslinking pattern of LRPPRC in complex with SLIRP (A) and LRPPRC alone (B). Circular plots were prepared with xVis () showing intra-molecular crosslinks in red and inter-molecular crosslinks in blue. Sequence numbers in 250 aa increments are indicated. (C) Numbers and pattern of unique LRPPRC intra-molecular crosslinks identified from LRPPRC alone (green and red), LRPPRC in complex with SLIRP (blue and red), in both states (red).
Identification of the LRPPRC–SLIRP binding interface. (A) LRPPRC truncations. A schematic representation of LRPPRC is shown, where the mitochondrial targeting sequence (MTS) is depicted in purple and the predicted PPR domains as blue rectangles. PPR motifs are annotated according to Supplementary Figure S2. Sequence numbers of LRPPRC fragments co-expressed with SLIRP are indicated. (B–D) Binding ability of LRPPRC fragments to SLIRP. Co-expressed LRPPRC fragments and SLIRP after Ni2+ purification. Proteins were separated by 4–12% SDS-PAGE and stained with Coomassie brilliant blue. Expressed LRPPRC fragments are indicated on the top and molecular masses according to standard in kDa on the left or right.
Amino acids crucial for LRPPRC–SLIRP binding interface. (A and B) Mutagenesis of the LRPPRC–SLIRP interface. Co-expressed LRPPRC (aa 404–675) and SLIRP (aa 18–94) mutants after Ni2+ purification. Proteins were separated on a 4–12% SDS-PAGE gel and stained with Coomassie brilliant blue. Mutations are indicated on the top. (C and D) Sequence alignment of LRPPRC and SLIRP. Sequence conservation is shown with Zappo color code (i.e. aliphatic/ hydrophobic, pink; aromatic, orange; positive, blue; negative, red; hydrophilic, green; conformationally special, magenta; and cysteine, yellow). Species abbreviations are: Hs, Homo sapiens; Mm, Mus musculus; Xt, Xenopus tropicalis; Dm, Drosoph | 843 |
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As you may have heard, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales recently announced changes to simplify the traditional court attire worn by judges and lawyers there. Effective January 2<|fim_middle|> by Cardozo School of Law professor Charles Yablon (Cardozo Life, Spring 1999).
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There abides in the human heart a desire for deep and expansive vision. This is proven by the yearning we have for building skyscrapers that provide stunning views of a city's downtown or skywalks like the one overlooking the Grand Canyon. The reason for this is simple: we are rational beings who desire to know. Like other animals we desire to look at many things, but our enjoyment of grand-scaled vantage points of our world show that we take pleasure in knowing the intricacies of complexities behind the structure of reality. In looking upon a city, we can begin to see why the city planners arranged it in that certain layout and why that arrangement would become more advantageous to the city's inhabitants. Likewise, in the Grand Canyon we are blown away by the river's winding path through<|fim_middle|> wisdom, an experiential knowledge of God by grace. This is the knowledge of God that comes by intimate friendship with him. Wisdom begins in this life, is perfected by grace as we continue through the spiritual life, and it is consummated in the beatific vision.
Send her forth from the holy heavens, and from the throne of your glory send her, that she may be with me and toil, and that I may learn what is pleasing to you. For she knows and understands all things, and she will guide me wisely in my actions and guard me with her glory (Wis 9:10-11). | the soft limestone and by the story that these rocks tell of nature's power. This exercise of seeking out the structures of reasoning and causes behind the marvels of the world is something that can be easily translated to other parts of life and reality.
It is primarily through the faculty of vision that we obtain knowledge of the physical world, and this gives us a platform for understanding the spiritual side of things. Being made in the image of God, we have a sort of spiritual vision by which we obtain knowledge and understanding of things. This is the highest part of ourselves, and we desire to exercise it to the full because it is the thing that will perfect us and make us most happy. This exercise is simply the act of gaining wisdom. The wise man, as described by Fr. James Brent, O.P., is the one who has "a glimpse of the first principle of all things, and an all-embracing understanding of Reality as a whole in light of the first principle, especially in light of the goal or purpose of it all." This is what it means to know things from God's perspective, who has ordered all things in his infinite wisdom.
God offers us the gift of wisdom at three different levels. The first gift is that of natural wisdom, which is knowledge of the highest causes of things by our natural human powers. We come to this knowledge mostly in philosophical speculation. The second is theological wisdom, wisdom gained by the knowledge given to us in revelation. We can arrive at this wisdom by the contemplation of scripture and practice of theology. The last is mystical | 316 |
Mantelhof, a farm in the Aalen district of Württemberg, Germany, the site of numerous martyrdoms. On 1 January 1531, the horsemen of Württemberg and of the provost of Ellwangen, led by provost Aichelin, surprised Mantelhof and seized the resident farmer and his son besides 20 other persons, all of them Anabaptists. The farmer and his son were hanged on a linden tree in the neighboring village of Essingen. The farmer was let down three times, and was offered his life if he would be converted, but to no avail. The son was probably similarly treated. The others were given a chance to recant and save their lives; few did so. Fourteen of them lost their lives by being burned together with the house they were in. Beck states that 23 persons were burned at Mantelhof. The saying was current that if they had waited another day or two a large crowd of Anabaptists, perhaps 200, would have been caught at Mantelhof, for<|fim_middle|>/index.php?title=Mantelhof_(Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg,_Germany)&oldid=144330.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 471. All rights reserved. | there were many of them in the desolate places of the Aalbuch. Some of them were seized by Wolf von Rechberg at Hohenrechberg and released upon payment of a fine.
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Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 311.
Beschreibung des Oberamts Aalen. Stuttgart: J. B. Müller 1854. Reprinted Magstadt b. Stuttgart: Verl. f. Kultur u. Wissenschaft Bissinger, 1962: 321.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 22.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943: 54.
Bossert, Gustav, Sr. "Mantelhof (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 Apr 2019. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mantelhof_(Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg,_Germany)&oldid=144330.
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A few weeks ago I mentioned Homemade Cookie Day – celebrated weekly in this house. Today is Homemade Bread Day, also celebrated regularly around here. I love homemade bread. Both the making and the eating.
There was a time I would hand-knead the dough for upwards of ten minutes (good workout for the arm muscles) but then I got a stand mixer and now I let the machine do the hard work. I still enjoy the fruits of its labors though. And I still hand-knead an old family recipe for Shredded Wheat Bread that makes too much dough to fit in the bowl of my mixer.
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So good. My mouth is watering just thinking of a slice of this bad boy, lightly toasted and slathered with butter (real butter, of course). Heaven! As I was saying to my friend Cara, homemade bread is my kryptonite.
Do you make your own bread? Have a favourite recipe?
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Vestibular problems can affect your balance and eyes. If you suspect you might have a vestibular problem, Dr. Steigbigel and his team can perform a full vestibular evaluation and treatment. They offer only the most advanced diagnostic techniques to all of their Milford, CT patients.
A vestibular disorder is any sort of problem that develops with the inner ear and parts of the brain<|fim_middle|> is best for patients that have an unclear or bumpy vision when turning their head or watching moving objects. Balance training is a great technique for helping people become more steady and avoiding dangerous falls. | that control sensory information. Vestibular disorders typically cause problems with balance, eye movements, and dizziness. Some common vestibular disorders include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, Meniere's disease, perilymph fistula, labyrinthitis, vestibular neuritis, and secondary endolymphatic hydrops.
How Are Vestibular Disorders Tested?
Vestibular testing typically works by tracking the eyes while stimulating the vestibular system through head movements. One of the most common methods of vestibular evaluation is an electronystagmography (ENG). During an ENG, electrodes are placed around your eyes. Next, you will be asked to follow different visual targets as well as have your head placed in different positions. You may also have your ear canal stimulated in order to measure eye movements.
Other types of testing include rotation tests, in which your head is slowly rotated back and forth; video head impulse testing, in which the head is moved quickly; vestibular evoked myogenic potential, in which electrodes measure how vestibular organs respond to sound; and computerized dynamic posturography, in which your ability to maintain an upright posture is tested.
If your vestibular evaluation reveals that you have a disorder, you must then undergo vestibular treatment to correct the problem. While the underlying issue cannot be corrected, rehabilitation can relieve symptoms and help you feel better. It can also help you learn to compensate for any deficiencies.
The three main types of treatment include habituation exercises, gaze stimulation, and balance training. Habituation exercises are typically used to treat dizziness that occurs when a person is moving or makes a quick head movement. Gaze stimulation | 334 |
St. Louis City SC opens up team store at Centene Stadium
Ahead of the franchise staging its first game Sunday at Centene Stadium<|fim_middle|>.
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St. Louis City SC is opening its in-stadium retail store for fans to purchase merchandise.
Author: Nathan Rubbelke (St. Louis Business Journal)
Published: 11:19 AM CDT September 13, 2022
Updated: 11:39 AM CDT September 13, 2022
ST. LOUIS — Major League Soccer expansion franchise St. Louis City SC's Centene Stadium is open for business.
Ahead of the franchise staging its first game Sunday at Centene Stadium, fans will be able to begin shopping for team merchandise at the Downtown West stadium. City SC has announced its in-stadium team store, CITY Goods, will open Tuesday, operating with temporary hours of 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
CITY Goods is located on the Southwest corner of Centene Stadium, at Market and 21st streets. Its opening comes as construction is still being wrapped on City SC's flagship retail store, City Pavilion, which will be located at its training campus just south of Centene Stadium. City Pavilion is expected to open later this fall. Following the opening of that facility, CITY Goods will be the team's store for merchandise on match days.
In the meantime, before City Pavilion begins operations, City SC said its in-stadium store will house special releases, including a new shoe being released this week that is modeled on Adidas' Copa soccer cleats.
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Michael A. Casatelli, 74, passed away Saturday, June 14, 2014, surrounded by his loving family. He was born June 14, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of the late Albert Casatelli and Florence LaGrega Casatelli. Michael is survived by his sons, Michael J. Casatelli and James Casatelli; daughters, Debbie McGinn and Colleen Lagreca (Johnny); brothers, Timothy Casatelli (Sandra) and Peter Casatelli (Mary); seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; and his many nieces and nephews.
He was a friend of Bill W. for 34 years.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his son-in-law James F. McGinn.
Michael was a proud United States Marine, serving from 1957 to 1960.
Michael enjoyed riding his motorcycle and being part of the Leathernecks Motorcycle Club. He was also an avid powerlifter. In 2000, he won first place in the U.S.P.F Sub-Masters/Masters Powerlifting Nationals.
A funeral service in memory of Michael will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 17, 2014, at Compassionate Funeral Care, 402 Maple Ave. (Route 9/Marion Avenue), Saratoga Springs, New York. Friends and family may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, June 16, 2014, at Compassionate Funeral Care. Interment will be held at | 355 |
VR has been heralded as the biggest thing to come<|fim_middle|> of the fact that we came to the session today with an idea we'd discussed, and were able to create a functioning POC that shows basic functionality and provides a vision of where we're headed.
We learned the difference between our initial idea of an MVP and the true definition of "version 1." We learned how to fetch the data we want, and where to get it from. Now, we can easily tie it together to make the application functional - rather than just a POC. | along in years in games and entertainment… what does this mean for baseball sports viewing?
Currently, approximately 70% of television viewers are simultaneously engaged online. What could the optimal baseball viewing experience be? What can we really deliver?
Turn Two gives users an immersive event platform, with access to anything they desire - right at their fingertips, in real time, through 3rd party application integration of resources that are currently (or will soon be) available.
We built this tool by imagining what was possible, talking to each other about what we really want to know (or do) during a game, and outlining an iterative roadmap for design & development for a minimum viable AR product. We started with the game viewer: watch your team wherever you are, at whatever size you like, with on demand style controls. Next, we approached the sabermetrics - how could we revolutionize statistics and the box score for a VR experience? What should a digital baseball card be? Then we started to imagine what key 3rd party apps could provide value and generate revenue. Partnerships with subscription services will be key - MLB network, Fantasy sports - and of course, FOOD could deliver transactional fees.
Our primary challenges were the limited time allotted, and the tools currently available. Most of the tools are still hard to come by and a bit awkward to use - the fact we had access to a hololens was a primary driving force behind our idea. The 3d rendering tools are much more labor intensive because unlike front end web frameworks, for instance, there aren't many resources.
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The<|fim_middle|> enhance production and productivity in the health care organizations. | relationship between organizational trust and nurse administrators' productivity in hospitals | Bahrami | .
BA, Faculty of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Management of health care organizations based on employee's mutual trust will increase the improvement in functions and tasks.
The present study was performed to investigate the relationship between organizational trust and the nurse administrators' productivity in educational health centers of in the Health-Education Centers of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.
This research was a descriptive and correlational study.
The population included all nurse administrators'. In this research, 165 nurses were selected through random sampling method. Data collection instruments were organizational trust questionnaire based on Robbin's model and productivity questionnaire based on Hersy and Blanchard's model. Validity of these questionnaires was determined through content validity and theirs reliability was calculated through Cronbach's alpha. Statistical analysis used: The data analysis was done using the SPSS (18) statistical software.
The indicators of organizational trust such as loyalty, competence, honesty, stability were more than average level but explicitness indicator was at average level. The components of productivity such as ability, job knowledge, environmental compatibility, performance feedback and validity were more than average level but motivation factor was at average level and organizational support was less than average level. There was a Significant multiple correlations between organizational trust and productivity. Beta coefficients among organizational trust and productivity were significant and no autocorrelation existed and regression model was significant.
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