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Life has been pretty uneventful<|fim_middle|> the fact that you just left him there and went and got your camera to get a picture. Oh man, I seriously can't stop laughing. | these last few days. Sunday night, Orion took his life in own hands, and drew on our bean bags with my expensive stampin-up chalk. I think I under reacted to him, because I was trying so hard to not over react. Oh, I still can't think about it without it making me sick!! He also got it all over his Sunday pants, and it didn't come out, so now, I have to get him new pants to wear to church. SILLY BOY!!! Today I finished Philips cape, and I am almost done with Orions. I just have to figure out how to finish the neck and add the strings. I don't really understand what the instructions are saying. . . Hopefully tomorrow, I will cut out my fabric and get that put together before Halloween. If not, the possabilities are endless. We also made cookies today. They were soo nummy. I had to force myself to put 2 dozen in the freezer and only leave 4 out, so that I wouldn't eat them all. Orion was more interested in the dough then the cooked cookies. At one point today, I heard him crying in his bedroom. It wasn't a hurt cry, it was a "I've gotten myself into a situation that I don't know how to get out of"cry. I went in to find him stuck in the ottoman. Needless to say, he didn't play with it for the rest of today.
ROFL Oh my goodness! That is a CLASSIC picture!
I don't know what is funnier: the fact that he got stuck under there or | 327 |
This came in from Quail Forever.
A combination of unfavorable conditions, from drought in<|fim_middle|> the southeast, habitat improvements are making a difference at localized levels while western quail hunters should be the happiest of the bunch, with numbers for all western quail species strong across the board. Remember to always consult official state hunting regulations for rules and season dates. | the south to hard winters further north, and continued habitat loss will make the 2011-2012 quail hunting season tough on hunters.On top of the drought in Texas to the hard winter in Iowa, there are 5 million fewer Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres – many of which acted as quail habitat - than there were just four years ago. Quail Forever is advocating for a strengthened CRP and other federal conservation programs in preparation of the upcoming Farm Bill, but we cannot do it without your support as a Quail Forever member.
Despite the overall decline, there are still coveys to be had should hunters be willing to walk hard. The quail bread basket of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas will still provide the best numbers of bobwhites. In | 161 |
The favourable climatic conditions and soil quality offered by the Province of Ñuble, as well as the advantages of European hazelnut cultivation for the producers, are undoubtedly important reasons why the planted area of this species has increased exponentially in recent years. However, a key factor behind this phenomenon is the supply contracts system employed by the company Agrichile, of the Italian group Ferrero; the firm that produces the famous Nutella and Ferrero Rocher chocolates. At present, according to the Catastro Frut<|fim_middle|> lower need for pesticides and agrochemicals, the mechanization of the harvest and, for whoever signs the supply contract, a commitment of up to 15 years to purchase the fruit at the market price." According to the Ciren cadastre, the average yield of this species in the Bío Bío Region is 1.6 tons per hectare, with an average density of 589 plants per hectare. | ícola 2016 of Ciren, there are 759.2 hectares of European hazelnut in the province, of which 325 belong to the Ferrero subsidiary. And this figure will continue to grow, as AgriChile plans to plant 300 more hectares. And while only 4% of the acreage devoted to this product at national level is in Ñuble, AgriChile's general manager, Eugenio Ulrici, affirms that it is "undoubtedly a province with a high potential." This was reason enough for the company to decide buying land in Ñiquén, which already had 325 hectares planted, and in which they will plant another 300, according to Ulrici. "This is a product that has seen its demand grow steadily in recent years, making it a very attractive option," added the executive. Growing plantations "Our goal is to help Chile become a world power in the production of European hazelnuts; therefore, we have plans to reach the 4 thousand hectares planted in 2017, thus increasing by 12% our current area, which stands at 3,585 hectares," he assured. He added that they also plan to "continue the development of nurseries, which allows us to respond to a demand of close to a million plants per year, and signing production purchase contracts with any producers interested." When asked about the possibility of new purchases in Ñuble, he discarded them for next year. "We are always evaluating the availability of land in the different regions with the proper conditions for hazelnut cultivation; however, for now, we have no plans to buy more land in Ñuble, at least until we have finished planting the 300 hectares we have already purchased." Infrastructure: AgriChile also has a drying plant in the commune of Ñiquén. "The drying plant is part of the facilities where the fresh fruit from our fields is received and introduced into silos, where the moisture is extracted from the fruit before being shipped to the shelling plant, located in the commune of Rio Claro (Maule Region)," explained Ulrici. However, the upward trend of the acreage in Ñuble and the fact that more than half of the planted area is still in formation may require an increase in the capacity."We do not have plans to expand this infrastructure for the moment, since for now it responds adequately to the existing fruit supply in the area; however, we don't rule out re-evaluating this situation in the future if the area planted in the province continues to expand significantly," stated the executive. Agrichile has three drying units in the country, which process a total of 15,000 tons of hazelnuts per season. According to Ulrici, the main advantages of European hazelnut crops have to do with "the lower investment required, a quantity of water no higher than that of other fruit trees, a | 625 |
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The Panasonic Pagoda sits atop the yard of bricks with eight floors and terraces and<|fim_middle|>quets and meetings.
Directly opposite of the Pagoda and featuring an entrance atop the yard of bricks, the glass-front Pavilions were home to the famous Indianapolis 500 Victory Banquet for years. Because of the courtyard setting, your event can feature an outdoor cocktail hour and then move inside to the surrounding structures. Climate control allows for full comfort no matter the time of year.
Situated next to the Pagoda, these suites offer sweeping views of the front straightaway. The entrances of these suites overlook Gasoline Alley, giving your guests views of the garages and even buzz of the teams' activities during the racing season.
Located in Speedway, Indiana, just minutes away from downtown Indianapolis. | astonishing trackside and spectacular Indianapolis cityscape views. Indoor and outdoor spaces offer a different set of views on each level. The trackside level is also available for use, putting your guests just inches away from the track and pit lane.
The Hall of Fame Museum offers the opportunity to enjoy cocktails at a stand up reception around past race vehicles and memorabilia of record breaking teams. Space is also available for accompanying seated ban | 83 |
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Note: If you receive the message, "Please register your service with Sony to use this service," please register on the Essentials website to enjoy more music. Registration is free.
If you upgrade to Pandora One, you get all the features mentioned below. For more details visit the Pandora internet radio website.
No Ads. No audio ads, no visual ads. It's just you and your music.
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STEP 3: Access Internet music services on your device.
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Get the registration code for your HomeShare wireless device. Select your model below to see the procedure.
Verify your device is connected to your network, powered on and active.
Press FUNCTION repeatedly to select the Music Services function.
Select Registration Code which is at the bottom of the list of service providers.
Press MUSIC SERVICES to select the Music Service function.
The service provider list is displayed.
Note: If the system automatically displays the last selected service or station, press BACK repeatedly until the service provider list appears.
Press the UP/DOWN arrows to select Registration Code and then press ENTER.
Press MENU. The menu is displayed on the TV screen.
Select Music, then press ENTER.
Select SEN (PlayStation™ Network), then press ENTER.
Note: The service provider list appears on the TV screen. If the receiver automatically displays the last selected service or station, press RETURN/EXIT repeatedly until the service provider list appears. Note: You can also use the SEN button on the remote control to select the SEN function directly.
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Open this e-mail message and click the embedded link to confirm your registration with the Essentials website.
STEP 3: Access Internet Music services on your HomeShare wireless device.
Select your model below to see the procedure to access Internet music services.
A list of available service providers is displayed.
Press the UP/DOWN arrows to select the desired service and then press ENTER.
Press the UP/DOWN arrows to select the desired folder or station and then press ENTER.
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Sumerians - Writing In Cuneiform - Geez, Gwen!
That a civilization is a large group of people living closely together, and relying on one another. That a civilization must have 3 things.
We also learned that they lived in a place called the Fertile Crescent which is in today's Iraq.
He was completely serious and though it is the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers, this was a great reminder of why I love home school! I could have missed that<|fim_middle|>'s! Ha!!!
We have covered a lot of material in this lesson and in case you are learning about the Sumerians too, I thought I would share with you a project we did as part of this lesson. We have been learning about cuneiform an ancient written language. T was shocked that this language consisted of 600 symbols and grateful for our nice and short English alphabet. He learned that the root word Cuneal means wedge-shaped which represents the tool they used to write in their clay tablets. We decided to make our own clay tablets and write our names in cuneiform. It was fun.
Here is what you will need to do this lesson.
Start by going to the website and entering your name and initials. It will show you your name! Cool – Copy and Print each of the three blocks into a word document and print them out. You should have something like this.
Here are a few other sources we have used besides out History Book for this lesson.
This website covers the discovery of the Royal Tombs In the City of Ur!
I love this idea. This is such a fun hands on lesson. Thank you for inspiring me.
Thanks for visiting, Christie! We did have a lot of fun! Hope you get a chance to try it! Be blessed and come back soon!
Oh I've always wanted to learn how to write this. Clearly, I should take this lesson. | ! This answer has rewarded me with random bursts of laughter all day long. Not in his presence of coarse but seriously, The Beef O'Brady | 30 |
So what is a mumtrepreneur?
I knew from the start of Bondi Beach Baby the #mumtrepreneur life was for me. Owning<|fim_middle|> proud of who you are. If that's the queen of snacks, or the CEO of your own company, it's all valid, it's all challenging and it's an achievement just getting through the day.
It's not easy mummas, but together we can do this! | my own business allowed me to be creative and hard working, whilst being home every day to put my baby girl down for her nap.
I am interested to hear what inspires other mums, and how they balance babies and business. I look forward to learning more about their highlights and challenges of being a mum and a business woman.
#mumtrepreneur is a place for us to explore the journey, the excitement and achievements of mums who have also carved out a piece of themselves and a side hussle.
In todays world you can be a boss, a housewife, a business woman, whatever you want to be. No one has to pigeon hole you any more into just one role. The strength you gain from childbirth and raising children gives you the capability to go out there and become the woman you have always aspired to become.
Be | 172 |
Mabey, Richard
Nature Cure
Pimlico, 2005 ISBN: 1844130967
In 1999 Richard Mabey developed a severe depression. He found it difficult to work, and had to leave the house he had lived in since his childhood. Nature Cure tells of how his friends helped him, giving him a room in a remote part of East Anglia, where he gradually regained his love of life and the natural world. Continued..
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn
Profile Books, 2011 ISBN: 9781846684704
The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn by Richard Mabey is a collection of short essays based on the BBC Radio 3 broadcasts The Scientist and the Romantic Continued..
MacCormick, John
Nine algorithms that changed the future
Princeton University Press, 2011 ISBN: 0691147140
In 9 Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers John MacCormick sets out to give readers an inkling of the workings of the algorithms driving todays computers and the internet, without requiring prior knowledge of programming or computer science. Continued..
Mackenzie, Dana
The Big Splat or how our moon came to be
Wiley, 2003 ISBN: 0471150576
Since the earliest times the moon has been considered an object of mystery. The Big Splat (or how our moon came to be) describes how one mystery about the moon was resolved - that of its formation. It is now largely agreed that early in the history of the solar system a Mars size planetoid collided with the proto-Earth to result in the Moon and a somewhat modified Earth. Although this was decided over 20 years ago, I have to say that it hadn't really entered my knowledge base - I found it a bit of a surprise. If you too feel that your knowledge of our closest astronomical neighbour needs updating then I would certainly recommend this highly readable book. Continued..
Macnair, Trisha
Long Life Equation
New Holland, 2007 ISBN: 9781847734051
We're always hearing about things that are good or bad for us, but it's difficult to find out precisely how good or bad. Well, in The Long Life Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add or Subtract Years from Your Life Trisha Macnair gives you something mroe definite to go on. Continued..
Macvey, John
Interstellar Travel: Past, Present, and Future
Scarborough House ISBN: 038041368X
Interstellar travel
Macvey seems most interested in the more far out ideas - wormholes, tachyons etc, and the possibilities for aliens. However the book does seem have a strong scientific basis.
Maddox, John
What Remains to be Discovered
Free Press, 1998 ISBN: 0333650093
The progress of science in the 20th was impressive, but there are still plenty of gaps which need to be resolved. In What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race John Maddox discusses what some of these gaps are. Continued..
Maier, Georg
Edelglass,Stephen
Majid, Shahn
On Space and Time
Cambridge University Press, 2008 ISBN: 9780521889<|fim_middle|> Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Leonard Mlodinow explains many of our misconceptions Continued..
Monod, Jacques
Chance and Necessity
Collins, 1972 ISBN: 0002151189
The philosophy of biology is a fast moving subject, as new biological discoveries are coming thick and fast. Hence even a classic like Jacques Monod's 'Chance and Necessity' looks pretty dated after 35 years. But sometimes it's good to go back to see what the important issues were at an earlier time. The book requires a little knowledge of biology, but anyone who has read a few popular science books should have no problem with this one. It's a short book, but a wide range of topics are discussed - vitalism, the second law of thermodynamics and the philosophy of mind are just a few. The reader can also see the beginnings of the idea of the electronic computer as a metaphor for biological processes. Continued..
Moore, Cristopher
New constructions in cellular automata
Griffeath,David
Moore, Patrick
May,Brian
Moret, Bernard
The theory of computation
Addison Wesley ISBN: 0201258285
P vs NP
Aimed at a graduate audience. There is plenty of discussion, rather than going too deeply into the technicalities, so it might be understandable by less advanced readers.
Morgan, Mary
Models as mediators
Morrison,Margaret
Science is based on the creation of theories to explain observatons. But often the theories are too abstract to relate directly to the world. The contributors to this book explore the idea that scientific models act as mediators between the two. I would say that the book is mostly aimed at philosophers and historians of science - I found it a bit wordy and philosophical at times, and intend to look out for a book on the topic more suited to the general scientific reader. On the other hand there are plenty of concrete examples given, and practising scientists who are facing the issues raised in constructing scientific models will find much of interest. It would also be useful someone entering this area of study, as it introduces many of the 'standard' examples of scientific models. Continued..
Morris, Richard
Achilles in the quantum universe
Souvenir press, 1997 ISBN: 0285634429
The paradoxical nature of infinity has puzzled thinkers throughout the ages - an early example is Zeno's paradox. But Achilles in the Quantum Universe:The Definitive History of Infinity, by Richard Morris, doesn't try to bamboozle the reader. Rather it gives a clear explanation of how such puzzles have occurred, and of the proposed solutions. Infinity is a mathematical concept, which some might think is unrelated to the real world. Naturally this book mentions mathematical ideas of infinity, such as infinitesimals and the work of Cantor, but its emphasis is on the occurence of infinities in physics, and how to get rid of them. Continued..
Morrison, Margaret
Morgan,Mary
Moss, Ian
Quantum Theory, Black Holes and Inflation
A well presented textbook on the subject, dealing with QFT and GR then going on to the more advanced topics. Accessible to advanced undergraduates in mathematics or physics.
Moyal, Ann
Allen & Unwin, 2001 ISBN: 1560989777
The discovery of the duck-billed platypus came as a shock to nineteenth century biologists - some people even claimed that it was a hoax, put together out of parts of other animals. In Platypus Ann Moyal tells the story of the problems it caused in the developing science of taxonomy, of the rivalry between the British and the French over classification of newly discovered animals, and how the question was eventually settled. Moyal looks at how the scientists of the day, such as Charles Darwin, Richard Owen and Thomas Huxley, reacted to the platypus, and conversely the effect that dealing with this challenge had upon their careers. Continued..
Mozzochi, Charles
The Fermat Diary
American Mathematical Society ISBN: 0821826700
A description of the years Andrew Wiles spent working on and correcting the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
The Fermat proof
Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1412022037
A very short overview of Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem
Murphy, Michael P
What is Life The next fifty years
Cambridge University Press, 1995 ISBN: 052145509X
O'Neill,Luke A J
In 1943 Erwin Schrödinger wrote 'What is Life', a book which is considered to have had great influence on the future of biology, in particular inspiring physicists such as Francis Crick to take an interest in the subject. 'What is Life? The next fifty years', is based on lectures given to mark the 50th anniversary of Schrödinger's book. Scientists such as Stephen J Gould, Roger Penrose, and Jared Diamond look at which of Schrödinger's predictions have come to fruition and which may form the basis of future research. If you're interested in what eminent scientists think are the hot topics in biology then you should take a look at this book. Continued.. | 261
Modern Cosmology is telling us ever more about the cosmos, but there is always a quest to go beyond what is known and pose new questions about the nature of the universe. In On Space and Time, edited by Shahn Majid a number of eminent scientists tell of their part in this quest Continued..
Malik, Kenan
Oneworld, 2008 ISBN: 9781851685882
Race has always been a highly contentious issue. In Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate Kenan Malik argues that it is also a very muddled issue. Continued..
Mallett, Ronald
Doubleday, 2006 ISBN: 9780385612432
Henderson,Bruce
When Ronald Mallett was 11 his father died and he took in very badly. Over the next few years he began truanting from school, and looked to be going nowhere in life. But then he read some sci-fi stories about time travel, and realised that if he could build a time machine then he could go back and prevent his father's death. The time traveller is his story. We hear of how he started to study assiduously, and got a job in the air force, where he could continue his studies, and which also paid for his university tuition afterwards. Continued..
Mallove, Eugene F
The starflight handbook : a pioneer's guide to interstellar trav
Wiley ISBN: 0471619124
Matloff,Gregory L
This is a well thought out work. It is not just a look at imaginary sci-fi scenarios. It gives in detail the possibilities and problems for interstellar travel, but it does not feel too technical - the mathematical details are separated out into boxes, and the rest of the text is readable.
Marchant, Jo
Decoding the Heavens
In 1900 a wreck was discovered off the small island of Antikythera, and divers recovered many valuable artifacts from Greece in the 1st Century BC . But amid the statues was a small lump of corroded bronze which turned out to be the most important find of them all.In Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer Jo Marchant tells the story. Continued..
Marcus, Gary
Faber & Faber, 2008 ISBN: 9780571236510
The mind is the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution - well you could say that. However, in Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind Gary Marcus points out that it is still fae from perfect. Continued..
Margolus, Norman
Cellular automata machines
Toffoli,Tommaso
Cellular Automata (CA's) such as the Game of Life are well known, but if you want to look further into the subject then you should take a look at Cellular automata machines : a new environment for modeling by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus. The first part of the book gives a short overview of the field. The book then gets on to the different types of CA's and how they can be implemented, including a look at how to include randomness in your modelling. The third part of the book deals with different physical systems which can be modelled with CA's. These include diffusion, fluid dynamics and ballistic computers as well as collective phenomena such as Ising systems and spin glasses. Continued..
Margulis, Lynn
The Symbiotic Planet
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998 ISBN: 029781740X
Lynn Margulis is probably the person most associated with the development of the theory of symbiosis. In The Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution she discusses some of the aspects of symbiosis, and how it has shaped life on earth. She explains the development of Serial Endosymbiosis Theory, and goes on to look at the origin of life on earth, and the origin of sex. All the while Margulis emphasises the problems which occur when we insist on thinking of life as consisting of individual organisms, for instance in the way we give them names. The final chapter discusses the planetwide symbiosis known as Gaia. Continued..
Mind, Life and Universe
Sciencewriters, 2007 ISBN: 9781933392431
Punset,Eduardo
Mind, Life and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time contains discussions between Eduardo Punset and a number of well known scientists , taken from interviews made for Punset's TV programme. Continued..
Yes! 50 secrets from the science of persuasion
Goldstein,Noah
Cialdini,Robert
You might think that making ourselves more persuasive would require learning some complicated tactics and obscure details of human psychology. Yes! 50 secrets from the science of persuasion shows that this is not the case, that sometimes the simplest of things will greatly improve our chances of getting what we want. Continued..
Matloff, Gregory L
Mallove,Eugene F
Matson, Katinka
How Things Are
William Morrow, 1995 ISBN: 0688133568
Brockman,John
In How Things Are: A Science Tool Kit for the Mind John Brockman and Katinka Matson have asked a large number of eminent scientists to write about what they consider to be important in the way that they and other scientists think. Books of this kind can suffer from the articles being repetitive and unsatisfyingly short. This one largely manages to avoid that problem, and I feel that this is because the contributors have been given a sufficiently wide scope to answer the question. Hence the reader gets plenty of novel viewpoints on the nature and practise of science. Continued..
Matthews, Paul
Bard on the Brain
University of Chicago press, 2003 ISBN: 0972383026
We can study the working of the human mind in two different ways. The first is to look at how people behave in different circumstances. This has been going on ever since the beginning of humanity, and is epitomised by the works of Shakespeare, clearly a keen observer of human behaviour. However, now there is a second way, made possible by advances in technology, which is to examine directly what is going on in the human brain. This book attempts to provide a link between the two ways of looking at the mind. Each section starts with a passage from the works of Shakespeare, and goes on to look at how it can be related to a recent research in neuroscience. Continued..
Maudlin, Tim
Quantum non-locality and relativity
Basil Blackwell, 1994 ISBN: 0631186093
Local Realism
A very clearly written account of the problems of Bell's inequalities and relativity. Gives a thorough examination of the subject, but is not too technical and has plenty of diagrams. The middle chapters are more philosophical, but still highly readable.
The Metaphysics within Physics
The Metaphysics within Physics is a collection of essays written by Tim Maudlin over a period of about a decade, arguing for what might be thought of as the 'common sense' philosophy on the nature of laws within science. Continued..
May, Brian
Bang! The complete history of the Universe
Carlton Books, 2006 ISBN: 1844425525
Moore,Patrick
Lintott,Chris
In Bang! The complete history of the Universe the authors have put together an impressive overview of the history of the universe and our place in it. It goes in chronological order, so that it starts with the big bang, then goes on to the evolution of galaxies, the formation of the solar system, and the evolution of life on earth. The book then looks further, beyond the present to the collision of our galaxy with M31, to the destruction of the Earth and on to consider the ultimate fate of the universe. It finishes with useful chapters on astronomy for the amateur, and on the lives of some well known astronomers. Continued..
Mazur, Barry
Imagining Numbers
Penguin, 2003 ISBN: 9780141008875
The square roots of negative numbers are called 'imaginary'. But do they really require any more imagination than other types of numbers, or other types of things. In Imagining Numbers Particularly √-15 Barry Mazur tries to find out. Continued..
McGilchrist, Iain
The Master and his Emissary
Yale University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780300148787
In The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist puts forward the hypothesis that many of the problems of our society are due to 'left-hemisphere' thinking, which has supplanted the more balanced view of the right hemisphere. Continued..
McGrath, Alister
The Dawkins Delusion
SPCK Publishing, 2007 ISBN: 0281059276
McGrath,Joanna
In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins lauched a no-holds-barred attack on all types of religion. In The Dawkins Delusion Alister McGrath demonstrates some of the faults with Dawkins' book. In particular he shows how Dawkins clearly goes over the top with some of his claims, and that most religions are nothing like the stereotypes which Dawkins describes. The trouble is that that's about all there is to this book. McGrath criticises Dawkins for not being particularly scholarly in his attack, but this book is hardly a scholarly rebuttal - there's too much indignation for one thing, and what is worse there's no index Continued..
McGrath, Joanna
McGrath,Alister
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
The theory that would not die
Bayes rule is well known in computing circles, but for a long time it was rejected by many as being unaccectably subjective. In The theory that would not die: how Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines, and emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy Sharon Bertsch McGrayne tells its story. Continued..
Meadows, A J
Science and Controversy
Macmillan, 2008 ISBN: 9780230220201
Norman Lockyer played an important role in the scientific community of the second half of the nineteenth century. In Science and Controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer, Founder Editor of Nature Jack Meadows tells his story. Continued..
Medawar, Jean
Hitler's Gift
Richard Cohen Books, 2000 ISBN: 1860661726
Pyke,David
Anyone who studies the history of science in the first half of the twentieth century will find a large part was played by German Jewish scientists, many of whom fled to other countries with the coming of the Nazi party. In Hitler's Gift, David Pyke takes the point of view that this was Germany's loss and other countries gain, and tells the stories of many of the scientists involved. The book shows that although the decision to leave may have been obvious with hindsight, at the time it was a difficult one to make. It also shows how being transferred to a different environment gave many of the scientists a fresh start, resulting in many important discoveries. This book will be of interest to any reader who wants a better understanding of the decisions which were made by individuals and governments during this confusing time. Continued..
Meharg, Andrew
Venomous earth
Palgrave, 2005 ISBN: 1403944997
This book starts with a look at the scandal of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh in which tubewells put in with the help of oveerseas aid delivered water with high levels of arsenic to the population. We then find out about the occurence and use of arsenic throughout the ages - well known as a poison, but also taken for supposed health benefits. In fact poisoners have got let off by claiming that the victim was taking arsenic voluntarily. There's also arsenic on wallpaper and even in food colouring! A depressing subject maybe, but an entertaining read for anyone, in particular those wanting to put the risks we face today into context. Continued..
Mendelson, Elliot
Introduction to mathematical logic
Chapman and Hall, 1997 ISBN: 0412808307
My main reason for recommending Elliot Mendelson's Introduction to mathematical logic to someone wishing to study mathematical logic is the start of the third chapter (of 5). This chapter is on formal number theory, and starts off with a list of axioms and then some proofs. That's what mathematical logic is all about isn't it? Well maybe it's more about metaproofs - that is proofs about what you can prove, and certainly that is the main content of this book. However, I feel that having a few pages of the proofs you are dealing with is vital to give the student a foothold in this difficult subject, but, somewhat surprisingly, its difficult to find such proofs in books at this level. Continued..
Mendelssohn, Kurt
The quest for absolute zero
Taylor and Francis, 1977 ISBN: 0850661196
The absolute zero of temperature is (probably) an unattainable limit, but it's human nature to constantly strive to get ever close to such a limit. 'The quest for absolute zero' describes these battles to achieve ever lower temperatures. It starts with with the liquefaction of oxygen in 1877, with other gases following soon after, but helium remaining stubbornly gaseous until 1908 when it was liquified by Kamerlingh Onnes, leading on to his discovery of superconductivity. The book then examines how theoretical physics was affected by low temperature reseach, looking at the theories of Nernst and Einstein on the subject. However, the book does not require technical knowledge, rather it uses plenty of helpful diagrams, and would be accessible to readers without a scientific background, but interested in the history of low temperature research. Continued..
The world of Walther Nernst
The name of Walther Nernst is less well known than some of the other scientists who were part of the revolution in physics at the start of the 20th century, but the experimental and theoretical work he did was a vital part of that revolution. In this biography by Kurt Mendelssohn, who studied with Nernst for many years, we hear the story of Nernst's rise as a talented researcher in low temperature physics, followed by a prestigious (and profitable) career as a scientist in Berlin. Nernst is responsible for the 3rd law of thermodynamics, and worked with Einstein on the quantum nature of low temperature physics. The book doesn't go particularly deeply into the science, and is more suited for readers wanting a view of Nernst and the society in which he lived. Continued..
Michie, Donald
Donald Michie on machine intelligence, biology and more
Oxford University Press, 2009 ISBN: 9780199573042
Srinivasan,Ashwin
In Donald Michie on machine intelligence, biology and more, Ashwin Srinivasan has compiled a collection of articles by Michie ranging from his work with Alan Turing at Bletchley Park to his comments on the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Continued..
Midgley, David
The Essential Mary Midgley
Midgley,Mary
Our view of the world has changed a lot in the last half century, and Mary Midgley has played a significant part in commenting on, and indeed sometimes playing a part in, this change. The Essential Mary Midgley is a collection of chapters from her books. The book starts with a look at our attitude to animals - how we tend to project on to them the negative side of humanity, which has no relation to their actual behaviour. In the second part of the book Midgley argues that moral philosophy took the wrong direction in the first half of the 20th century, seemingly wanting to avoid morality altogether. I felt that the book shows Midgley's skill in dealing with many philosophical viewpoints which have passed their sell-by date. Continued..
Midgley, Mary
Midgley,David
Miller, Arthur I
Empire of the Stars
Little, Brown, 2005 ISBN: 0316725552
The first chapter of this book concerns the events of 11th January 1935, the day when Eddington severely attacked Chandrasekhar's ideas on white dwarfs and stellar collapse at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. The rest of the book revolves around this day, looking at what led up to it and what the effects were in the following decades. Its a fascinating story, and demonstrates Miller's skill in sorting out the interactions between the different players. He examines the importance of hard work against personal influence in the struggle to succeed, and indeed what is meant by success. Continued..
Insights of genius
Creativity in science and art isn't something that can be readily produced. In Insights of genius : Imagery and Creativity in science and art Arthur I Miller discusses various aspects of creativity and its link to visual images. One thing he looks at is the distinction between visualization and visualizability - for instance Feynman diagrams are a useful tool in quantum theory, but do they actually show what is happening at the micro-level? Miller also examines the outburst of creativity at the start of the 20th Century, considering the work of Poincaré, Einstein and Picasso amoung others, and looking at interactions between them. Continued..
Milne, Edward A
Relativity, gravitation and world-structure
Clarendon Press, 1935 ISBN: B000HW6H6W
I can't help feeling that Edward A Milne has been treated rather harshly by history. The thing is that he was opposed to general relativity, which is at the heart of cosmology. If you read 'Relativity, gravitation and world-structure' you will see that many of his ideas were clearly wrong in the light of later discoveries. However, that can be said of virtually any cosmologist. Its certainly instructive to take a look at this book, although I wouldn't advise you to try to struggle through the maths. Firstly, it tells you what issues cosmologists were worrying about in the 1930's. Secondly, one can wonder what might have happened if Milne's ideas had been taken more seriously - maybe they could have been made to fit in with later observations. Continued..
Misner, Charles
Clarendon Press ISBN: 0716703440
stretchy space
Thorne,Kip
Wheeler,John
The standard work from the 1970's on General relativity. Although now somewhat outdated, it still has lots of useful stuff
Mitchell, Melanie
Complexity : a guided tour
Many scientists are trying to find underlying rules which govern the behaviour of the complex systems we find around us. In Complexity : a guided tour Melanie Mitchell gives an overview of the field. Continued..
Mitton, Simon
Fred Hoyle: A life in science
Aurum press, 2005 ISBN: 1854109618
Fred Hoyle was a prominent figure in British astronomy for many years, but in his later years was considered something of a maverick. This has meant that he is possibly less well known than his achievements merit. Hence Mitton's new book is an important step in bringing these achievements to the attention of a wider public. Central to the book are the upheavals which astronomy went through in the 1960s. No longer was it just looking through your nearest telescope, there was information from many wavelengths becoming available, theoretical astronomy was becoming a subject in its own right, and observational astronomy meant visiting a distant observatory. Mitton succeeds very well in describing Hoyle's participation in this turbulent time. Continued..
Mlodinow, Leonard
Feynman's rainbow
(Note that the book I read had the alternative title Some time with Feynman)
How does a scientist decide which problem is worth working on? That was the question which faced Leonard Mlodinow when he became a researcher at Caltech. How could he live up to the expectations placed upon him? Fortunately he had Richard Feynman down the corridor to talk to, and this book is the result of their many discussions. The answer seems to be that if you need to ask the question then you shouldn't be doing physics - indeed Mlodinow eventually gave up his career in the subject. Rather you should be driven by your desire to sort out inconsistencies in the current state of things. Feynman's Rainbow is a highly readable book - I read most of it in one go, and I can recommend it to anyone who wants to find out how scientists decide to do what they do. Continued..
Euclid's Window
Penguin ISBN: 0141009098
In this book Mloninlow describes the history of geometry and its relation to other branches of science. The book progresses via the stories of five main characters, starting with Euclid and his 'Elements', then showing how Descartes linked geometry and algebra. It then looks at how Gauss initiated work on noneuclidean geometries, and shows how Einstein used this in the development of general relativity. The last part of the book concerns string theory and its development by Ed Witten. Mlodinow maintains his sense of humour throughout giving a very readable book, which is understandable by the non-technical reader. Continued..
The Drunkard's Walk
Allen Lane, 2008 ISBN: 9780713999228
People have great problems in understanding randomness - we tend to invent patterns when there aren't any. In The Drunkard's | 4,739 |
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Episode 1 Jul 5, 1999 The citizens of Harmony are introduced as they go about their daily lives.
Ep.<|fim_middle|> not truly love him. Although Charity offers to room with Jessica and let Kay have Noah's old room, everyone but Kay disagrees with her. Ethan reminds Julian that he's with Gwen because she is his soulmate.
Ep. #84 Oct 28, 1999 Gwen tells Sheridan's that she's worried Ethan will be unfaithful to her again. Sheridan assures her best friend that Ethan would never cheat on her with Theresa.
Ep. #85 Oct 29, 1999 When Whitney goes off on Chad because of his history, T.C. reminds her that not everyone has the kind of advantages she did growing up.
Ep. #86 Nov 1, 1999 Gwen resolves to give Theresa a chance with the boy she is in love with, not realising that the one Theresa wants is really Ethan.
Ep. #87 Nov 2, 1999 Gwen believes that Theresa is responsible for locking her in the closet.
Ep. #88 Nov 3, 1999 As Gwen tries unsuccessfully to convince Ethan that Theresa has been manipulating them, Whitney warns her friend that it's only a matter of time before Ethan finds out about all the lies and schemes.
Ep. #89 Nov 4, 1999 Gwen considers letting Luis see Theresa at the mansion in order to stop her manipulations. Whitney is shocked to learn she's been pouring her heart out to Chad. Sheridan threatens Julian if he fires Luis.
Ep. #90 Nov 5, 1999 After catching Theresa at the mansion, Luis tells her that her sick obsession with everything Crane needs to come to an end. Ivy faints when she realises that Sam and Ethan will be working closely together.
Ep. #91 Nov 8, 1999 Theresa begs Ethan not to talk to Luis about her job at the mansion, knowing Luis will forbid her to go back. Julian narrowly interrupts Ivy's attempt to tell Sam her secret. Miguel helps Charity set up a diary on the computer.
Ep. #92 Nov 9, 1999 Ethan almost finds Theresa's shrine while in her bedroom, as Theresa worries Ethan will realise how deeply obsessed she is with him. Timmy comforts Tabitha, depressed over not having her powers back, as the little angel girl watches. Julian tells Sheridan that if she keeps talking about dead bodies, Alistair may send her back to the asylum. Miguel is put off by Kay's insensitivity toward Charity.
Ep. #93 Nov 10, 1999 Julian tries to convince Sheridan that she's associating Martin Fitzgerald's disappearance with Katherine Crane's death, which happened at the same time.
Ep. #94 Nov 11, 1999 Sheridan talks to Pilar at the Lobster Shack, who tells her that she doesn't know what happened at the mansion that day (she was at home waiting for Martin), but that Sheridan was devastated when she saw her the next day. At the mansion, Ivy and Julian are swept away by passion and make love in the den.
Ep. #95 Nov 12, 1999 The clerk at the funeral parlor assures Ethan and Sheridan that no coffin was delivered to the Crane mansion.
Ep. #96 Nov 15, 1999 Julian tells Luis that Martin was caught stealing from Crane Industries, and that was why he left town without ever telling his family. Whitney helps Chad search out his past on the Internet, but can't find any Harrises in Harmony, nor Chad's birth certificate in L.A.
Ep. #97 Nov 16, 1999 Chad is shocked when he means Orville Perkins, an elderly man who tells him he was really born in Harmony, and that he can take him to his family. When Luis reveals that Martin may be alive and well in New Mexico, Theresa worries that if Ethan learns her father is a thief, she will never be able to take him from Gwen.
Ep. #99 Nov 18, 1999 Theresa tells Miguel that her schemes are working, and soon she and Ethan will be married, so it won't matter what Martin may have done.
Ep. #100 Nov 19, 1999 Ethan almost realises the truth about Theresa when she is abnormally upset about him going away for a romantic weekend with Gwen. | #2 Jul 6, 1999 Theresa tells Whitney that she is going to marry Harmony's wealthiest man and live like a queen in his castle, even though she's never met him. Eve wonders if the little angel girl is connected to Grace's past. Sheridan is saddened by the memory of her friend Diana.
Ep. #3 Jul 7, 1999 Despite promising to help with the carnival preparations, Theresa refuses because she doesn't want to get her outfit dirty. A still-fuming Ethan calls Gwen and tells her about the crazy idiot who dumped paint on him. Sam tries to comfort Grace after she has another vision of the little girl, this time at the school. In Paris, Sheridan is in a dangerous car accident.
Ep. #4 Jul 8, 1999 Theresa is surprised to learn that Luis had once planned to go to college. Ethan is upset when Julian insinuates the accident was Sheridan's fault. In Paris, Sheridan is told by her friend Diana to live.
Ep. #5 Jul 9, 1999 Luis tells Pilar to take Martin's name off the deed to the cottage, and encourages her to have him declared legally dead. Jessica wants to make a family tree, but Sam reminds her that they know nothing about her mother's side of the family due to her amnesia. Ivy defends Julian to Ethan when Ethan comments on Julian's lack of concern about Sheridan's health.
Ep. #6 Jul 12, 1999 Ethan demands Theresa leave him alone when he sees her at the Burger Hut, but in her insistance on being near him, he winds up with milkshakes and barbecue sauce on him. Mimi is furious to see that Sheridan is young and beautiful when Jean Luc had assured her that Sheridan was ugly. A Grace-lookalike dreams about running through a forest, being chased by something.
Ep. #7 Jul 13, 1999 Ethan realises Theresa is obsessed with him. Faith sees Sam's message on the Internet and replies. Timmy is horrified to be 'won' by a little girl. Sheridan encourages Ethan to propose to Gwen.
Ep. #8 Jul 14, 1999 Faith's daughter Charity is upset that they frequently have to move. Whitney is upset when Tabitha predicts that her father will kill to protect her tennis career. Sheridan calls Gwen and Ethan to say she is engaged, and going to the ball with Jean Luc. Rosie kicks Timmy off the pier when he scares her.
Ep. #9 Jul 15, 1999 Simone reminds Kay that as far as Miguel is concerned she is 'just one of the guys', and she doesn't stand a chance with him. Miguel tries to reassure Luis that Theresa will get over her unhealthy obsession with Ethan Crane. Ethan and Gwen share a romantic date at the carnival.
Ep. #10 Jul 16, 1999 Miguel tries to convince Theresa that she needs to put her fantasies aside, but she tells him that she is going to make Ethan Crane hers no matter what she has to do. Jean Luc whisks Sheridan away to his home in the country in an effort to keep her away from Mimi. Faith and Charity arrive in Harmony, and many of the townspeople think Faith is Grace.
Ep. #11 Jul 19, 1999 Thanks to the waiter André, Mimi is able to figure out that Jean Luc has taken Sheridan to his country house. The parents in Harmony are disturbed to learn that an unauthorized fortune teller is scaring people. Theresa assures Miguel she will marry Ethan and take control of the Crane house and fortune.
Ep. #12 Jul 20, 1999 Ethan is shocked when Gwen refuses his proposal, but she explains that it's because she loves him so much and doesn't want to marry him because he feels it's 'the right thing to do', and Ethan agrees. Miguel asks Charity to try to come back to the carnival the next day. Pilar narrowly misses running into Julian and Suzanne, a Crane maid and Julian's latest paramour.
Ep. #13 Jul 21, 1999 Theresa leads her new co-worker at the cannery to believe that she and Ethan were together, and that she is devastated that he cheated on her with someone else. Pilar finds an upset Ivy, and does her best to keep Ivy from going after Julian, who is in bed with Suzanne. Jean Luc and Mimi argue over his involvement with Sheridan, and Mimi tells Jean Luc to go to Hell.
Ep. #14 Jul 22, 1999 Gwen meets Theresa at the cannery, and is very interested in what Theresa does, but all Theresa can think about is that Gwen's lack of an engagement ring means Ethan is fair game. Kay is convinced that Miguel is her secret admirer despite the fact that he has never shown any interest in her, and Jessica learns that the admirer is Reese!
Ep. #15 Jul 23, 1999 Gwen tries to convince Ethan that the girl he's been encountering doesn't mean any harm, but Ethan is determined to find his stalker and pursue legal action against her. Faith prays to God to save her and Charity from the evil that is out there looking for them. In Harmony, Timmy watches as Tabitha prepares an evil spell to destroy Faith and Charity.
Ep. #16 Jul 26, 1999 Kay blackmails Luis and Miguel into taking part in the contest by telling them that Grace is going through menopause and that her father (who just happens to be Luis' boss) would be upset if they left. Ethan is still bent on finding his stalker, but Gwen tries to distract him by reminding him of his promise to be part of the Mr. Harmony Hunk contest. Faith reluctantly agrees to go back to Harmony at Charity's insistence, but takes her laptop with her.
Ep. #17 Jul 27, 1999 When Ethan unwittingly tells Theresa that he has been looking for a certain girl, Theresa steps up, convinced that Ethan is about to propose marriage to her, but instead he pronounces her as his stalker! Sam and Grace realise that Kay is behind the Harmony Hunk contest just in time to see Miguel win, and Luis come in second. Tabitha's viewing of Bewitched is interrupted when she sees her spirit board floating. Pilar expresses her pride in all her children to Ivy, but Ivy only cares about Ethan.
Ep. #18 Jul 28, 1999 Theresa is thrilled to meet Ivy and to get a job at the Crane mansion, convinced that she will be able to break Ethan and Gwen up in no time, but is upset when Ivy tells her that she will destroy the girl stalking Ethan when she finds her. Jessica meets up with Reese and tells him what he needs to do to make sure that Charity is his. Charity and Faith check into a local inn in Harmony.
Ep. #19 Jul 29, 1999 When Grace and Sam spot Kay all dressed up and wearing too much make-up (and a push-up bra), they send her upstairs to change, much to Jessica's delight. Ivy brings Ethan and Gwen to meet Theresa, but she's hiding in the closet so that Ethan doesn't realise it's her. Tabitha grabs Charity through the scrying bowl and tries to drown her.
Ep. #20 Jul 30, 1999 Theresa luckily eludes Gwen's memory when the two meet and Gwen, although delighted, believes Theresa looks somewhat familiar. Later Theresa calls Whitney and gloats that it is only a matter of time before she makes Ethan hers. Miguel buys a flower, convinced that Charity is going to be his mystery date, while Kay eagerly anticipates her and Miguel's 'first date'.
Ep. #22 Aug 3, 1999 There's a peculiar tornado blowing through Harmony.. and Tabitha seems to be at it's core. To keep the sisters from meeting, Tabitha drives Faith away with a storm. Unfortunately for Miguel, she also drives away the girl of his dreams. As for Kay, she schemes to salvage her evening, even if it means ditching Reese. In the calm before the storm, Grace seems at peace as the warmth of her sister's spirit gives her joy. Theresa flees from the Crane's before being discovered by Ethan. At home, she's incensed at what she believes is Ethan's innate snobbery -- but can she give him up? Ethan knows he overreacted, but his fury at Jean Luc's betrayal makes him overprotective of Sheridan. Sheridan, just off the Concorde and in a rush to be at home, makes Luis' acquaintance with quite a bang.
Ep. #23 Aug 4, 1999 At home, Ivy and Ethan talk about relationships. Though they're talking about Sheridan's ill fortune in love, there may be more to her own story than Ivy is divulging. Sheridan finds herself a jailbird after flying down the highway. This time Sam backs Luis up on the arrest, but Ethan is indignant at not being able to release his aunt from jail. Having decided to turn down the job offer following Pilar and Whitney's strict advice, Theresa makes her way back to the mansion. Ethan is still down at the station with Sheridan to Theresa's relief. However, not being around Ethan doesn't stop Theresa from losing her head. Ivy makes Theresa an offer that evokes all her years of dreaming. Who could refuse? A search ensues for Miguel's missing date. But Charity is on a search of her own. Following the sounds of a lost child may bring Charity right into Tabitha's clutches. As Faith and Grace pray, unknowingly close to each other, Tabitha stands on the verge of winning.
Ep. #25 Aug 6, 1999 Faith and Grace cross each other's paths again in the church, but Charity's disappearance prolongs their meeting. Faith's fears for her daughter make her miss her sister once again. Rescuing Charity, Miguel finally finds the girl he's been looking for -- she seems to have fallen for him, too. Tabitha and Timmy's plans are thwarted, but she isn't giving up yet. The gruesome two-some won't cease until they have taken care of Charity and kept Faith and Grace apart. Gwen wishes she hadn't turned Ethan down. If she could get him to put the ring back on her finger, she could be rid of that regret. Are Ethan's intentions the same? Luis pulls up to the Crane Mansion at the trigger of the alarm. Despite the harsh greeting from Ethan, his presence is welcome; he is the vehicle of Theresa's escape. She gets off the estate undetected, but will she endure Luis' wrath? The stranger of Sheridan's dreams pulls a dramatic rescue. Who is this brave man?
Ep. #31 Aug 16, 1999 Thanks to Kay, Charity is able to catch a cab home...with Tabitha as the driver! Faith and Grace chat over the phone. Pilar's party continues.
Ep. #39 Aug 26, 1999 While Ethan and Gwen celebrate Theresa's declaration that the stalker is gone, Theresa laments to Whitney that since she has lost her chance to steal Ethan away from Gwen, she must make her career her life. Whitney swears that she will never fall in love if it means becoming obsessive like her friend. Timmy is convinced that Tabitha is dead. Meanwhile, Tabitha has tricked Grace and Sam into leaving the room so that she can threaten Faith through the computer.
Ep. #40 Aug 27, 1999 Whitney dreams about a future with Frank, but knows that it can never happen as long as she keeps lying to him. Theresa, meanwhile, fantasizes about a future with Ethan, but Whitney reminds her that she has been lying to him, and any guy who only wants her because she has to lie to him doesn't want her at all, and somewhere out there, there is a man that will accept Theresa for who she is and not who she pretends to be. Simone wants to tell Charity that Grace is her aunt, but Kay refuses to let her. Simone begs her, telling Kay that Grace has a right to know about her niece and sister, but Kay remains firm. If she can get her cousin out of town, she might be able to manipulate her way into Miguel's heart.
Ep. #41 Aug 30, 1999 Sheridan worries that the reason she has been engaged to and in love with so many of the wrong men stems from her childhood, but remembering Martin, Pilar assures her there are some good ones out there. Grace and Sam realise that Charity is her niece and Faith her sister, but by the time they get home, she's gone. Simone tries to convince Kay to tell them where she is, with no success. Hank asks Luis about his father and brother, but Luis doesn't want to talk about them.
Ep. #62 Sep 28, 1999 Whitney shows up at the cottage and lies to Ethan in an attempt to get him to change his mind about pressing charges agaisnt Theresa. Tabitha and Timmy prepare to leave town until Grace gives Tabitha some interesting news. Luis challenges Sheridan to a game of one on one when she belittles his talent at basketball.
Ep. #66 Oct 4, 1999 Kay pretends to care about Charity while secretly cheering that, thanks to her interference, Charity is afraid of Miguel. Simone's crush on newcomer Chad intensifies, despite Eve telling her daughter to stay away from the young man. Tabitha wonders if Grace's past is starting to come back to her.
Ep. #67 Oct 5, 1999 Theresa takes it the wrong way when Ethan decides to let her keep the job with Ivy, and is convinced that God is telling her to go for it. T.C. accuses Chad of stealing his jacket, but is shocked to learn that Simone sold it to him. Sheridan hides basketball great Robert Horry from Luis when he comes to apologize.
Ep. #79 Oct 21, 1999 While Theresa brags to Whitney and Pilar that it is only a matter of time before she breaks up Ethan and Gwen, Ethan tells his father that he has no interest in Theresa, and reminds him that Gwen is the only woman he loves. Tabitha remembers setting the fire in Grace's apartment in Boston all those years ago.
Ep. #80 Oct 22, 1999 Gwen is shocked when Theresa accuses her and Ethan of being together for money, and informs Theresa that she would never be with any man if she did | 3,105 |
Supply Chain Resilience: Building an Effective Disaster Management Plan
Weather-related risk continues to grow as storms become more frequent and grow in intensity -- all the more reason to prepare a solid business resilience plan.
Philip Renaud II
Alex Stemmer
The topic of business resilience in the 21st century is a complicated one. That is especially true when thinking of the significant challenges facing all business due to the worldwide pandemic.
While the need to focus attention on business continuity during the pandemic is crucial and an essential part of operational risk management, the current hurricane season has certainly added additional emphasis on its importance. It's more important than ever that organizations pay attention to the business resilience needs of corporations facing severe weather-related risks.
The 2020 hurricane season in the United States has been particularly active.
As of this writing, the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is the first on record in which nine tropical storms formed before August and 13 formed before September. The strongest storm thus far in 2020 has been Hurricane Laura with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour at its peak. Laura, which formed on Aug. 20 and dissipated Aug. 29, wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast as well as the Midwestern and Eastern United States. To date, approximately 70 deaths have been recorded and damage costs are estimated to be around $9 billion.
What do we mean by business resilience?
The classical definition of business resilience is the ability of an organization to quickly adapt to disruptions while maintaining continuous business operations and safeguarding people, assets and overall brand equity.
This begins with an understanding that workflows must be preserved in order for organizations to survive unexpected events. An often overlooked element of business resilience centers around the human element in which team members need to be prepared with a structured approach to manage and deal with the event(s) at hand.
Much discussion on business resilience touches on "Black Swan" events, first discussed by Nassim Taleb, who warned that, "Our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable... while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known and repeated."
Truer words could not have been spoken as we think about the significant challenges facing organizations in a complex global world of intertwined supply chains. During the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, we have seen some of those challenges with disrupted supply chains of basic supplies and commodities. The reasons for these disruptions will be the subject of research for years to come.
That's why it's important for companies to develop a focused plan that outlines straightforward and actionable steps to build an effective supply chain/disaster management plan for the significant risk of weather-related events.
What steps to business resilience should you consider?
The development of a solid business continuity plan is at the heart of operational risk management. That point has never been more important than it is today, as businesses large and small are working to manage the impact that COVID-19 is having upon their respective operations. As indicated earlier, however, other operational risks like weather-related events are also extremely important. A key component of any solid<|fim_middle|> completed a thorough risk assessment and documented the locational threats (for example, does the site pose a flood hazard due to coastal and/or low-lying geographic exposure?).
Step 6: Determining choices
Using the risk assessment conducted in Step 5, assure that the operational location has identified risk solutions for each of its critical activities.
Step 7: Determining BCM strategy
Each operational location has determined how it will recover each critical activity within its recovery time objective, including the resources required for resumption. Communication with state and local governments will determine the likely course of action.
Step 8: Business continuity plans
Each operational location has created business continuity plans (BCPs) for all possible risks that could affect critical operations and the BCPs are to detail how to manage the incident and how it will recover activities. Each location has identified primary and secondary locations for storage of supplies and/or alternate work sites. Communicate with local governments to determine a likely course of action.
Step 9: Maintaining and reviewing
Each operational site has ensured and leadership has validated that its BCM arrangements are reviewed and documented at planned intervals. Depending on the situation, the plan may require further development to include where only basic safety and security functions are maintained. Communicate with local governments to determine the likely course of action.
Step 10: Testing and exercising
The IMT has developed a process to conduct at least three table-top exercises during a 12-month period of time. Lessons learned should be incorporated into future planning. The critical incident team has planned for the effective allocation of resources between facilities to meet on a regular basis.
These steps are intended to serve as a guide, rather than a complete strategy. Each business should consider the unique characteristics present within their industry and particular business segments.
Remember: test, modify, test, modify. All plans are dynamic and should be consistently modified to meet the unique characteristics of events as they present themselves.
If organizations are aware of their vulnerabilities and take steps to develop capabilities to address those unexpected disruptions to business operations, significant risk will be mitigated and the business will be in a more advantaged position when compared to peers. | business continuity management approach is consideration to how a business reacts to what we refer to as a "critical incident," which can take the shape and form of weather-related events, pandemics, fire, flood, labor actions, port closures and motor vehicle accidents, to name a few.
The key to each of these events is business preparedness that includes processes that allow organizations to react quickly with strong pre-planned mitigation strategies that can be cascaded to all parts of the business. The situation we face each day is very fluid and subject to state-by-state interpretation and actions they implement. That said, the ability to pre-plan is critical to how we manage and communicate within our business community.
There's a 10-step process for business resilience preparedness:
Step 1: Business continuity management policy
Each operational location has developed a business continuity management (BCM) policy statement and has clearly communicated this to all staff.
Step 2: Provision of resource
Each operational location has appointed a BCM champion with the appropriate seniority to be accountable for implementing the plan and managing a critical incident.
Step 3: Incident management team
Each operational location has formed an incident management team (IMT) with deputies for all key functions.
Step 4: Business impact analysis
Each operational location has conducted a business impact analysis (BIA) that identifies and isolates activities that support its key products and services and its priorities for recovery of critical activities.
Step 5: BIA risk assessment
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Stony corals, Scleractinia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Ehrenberg, 1831
Anthozoa is a class of marine invertebrates within the phylum Cnidaria that are unique among cnidarians in that they do not do not have a medusa stage in their development. These exclusively polypoid cnidarians are characterized by a tubular body with tentacles around the mouth and most are sedentary after the larval stage. Anthozoa includes the sea anemones, corals, sea pens, sea pansies, and sea fans, among others.
Anthozoa is the largest of the four classes of Cnidaria with over 6,000 species (France 2004). They are found worldwide in all oceans, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Anthozoa means "flower animals," which is descriptive of this class of invertebrates.
Anthozoans provide a number of values for human beings. Coral reefs are major tourist attractions and also provide a habitat for fish, mollusks, urchins, and crustaceans that serve as food for people (France 2004). Anthozoans are used in the aquarium trade, to make coral jewelry, and scleractinian skeletons are even used as building materials and in bone grafts (France 2004). Despite these values, various human activities (fishing, development, marine pollution) have had negative effects on coral reefs, with more than half of the world's coral reefs considered to be threatened (France 2004).
3 Behavior, feeding, and reproduction
Anthozoa is one of four classes of the invertebrate phylum, the others being Hydrozoa (Portuguese Man o' War, Obelia, etc.), Scyphozoa (true jellyfish), and Cubozoa (box jellies). All are aquatic and most are marine. The name of the phylum comes from cnidocytes, which are specialized cells that carry stinging secretions that are the cnidarians' main form of offense or defense and function.
The basic body shape of a cnidarian consists of a sac with a gastrovascular cavity, with a single opening that functions as both mouth and anus. It has radial symmetry, meaning that whichever way it is cut along its central axis (that is, by any plane that passes through its longitudinal axis<|fim_middle|>6827080.
Anthozoa history
History of "Anthozoa"
Retrieved from https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Anthozoa&oldid=780437 | ), the resulting halves would always be mirror images of each other.
Theoretically, members of Cnidaria have life cycles that alternate between asexual polyps (the body as a vase shaped form), and sexual, free-swimming forms called medusae (singular medusa; the body in a bell-shaped form). However, members of Anthozoa live only as polyps. The anthozoa larva, once fusing with the substratum and developing into the polyp stage, grows benthic or sessile, meaning it no longer metamorphoses into the medusal stage. (Members of Scyphozoa live most of their life cycle as medusa, the Hydrozoa live as polyps, medusae, and species that alternate between the two, and those of the class Cubozoa are named for their cube-shaped medusae, which form the dominant part of their life cycle.)
Anthozoans are essentially a tubular sac, with a mouth and tentacles position around the mouth on a flattened upper surface known as an oral disk. As with other cnidarians, the tentacles surrounding the mouth have stinging cells and the mouth is the only entry to the digestive system (France 2004).
Anthozoans are only found in marine environments. They can be found in habitats from the intertidalzone to over 6,000 meters (19,500) feet deep (France 2004). Species may be solitary or colonial. While solitary forms may attach to a hard substrate or burrowed into soft mud or sand on the sea bed, the colonial forms may build massive skeletons, such as the reef-building corals.
Larval forms are free moving, but most adult forms are sedentary; some groups, such as those of the orders Actiniaria (sea anemones), Ceriantharia (tube anemones), and Pennatulacea (sea pens and sea pansies) may show some movement.
Anemones and certain species of coral live in isolation, however most corals form colonies of genetically identical polyps; these polyps closely resemble anemones in structure, although are generally considerably smaller.
Behavior, feeding, and reproduction
Giant green anemone, likely Epicystis crucifer, Southern California
Members of most species of Anthozoa are suspension feeders, capturing small planktonic invertebrates, phytoplankton, bacteria, and other suspended organic matter (France 2004). Most common are passive methods of capturing prey, when it comes in contact with the tentacles. All cnidarian species can feed by catching prey with nematocysts, with large sea anemones capable of catching fish, crabs, and bivalves, and corals are capable of catching plankton.
Some of the anthozoan species harbor a type of algae, dinoflagellates called zooxanthellae, in a symbiotic relationship. The reef building corals known as hermatypic corals rely on this symbiotic relationship particularly. The zooxanthellae benefit by using nitrogenous waste and carbon dioxide produced by the host, and the cnidarian gains photosynthetic capability and increased calcium carbonate production in hermatypic corals (Madl and Yip 2000).
Various reproductive strategies are utilized by anthozoans, including production of asexual clones by fission (in longitudinal or transverse direction) and pedal laceration (where pieces of the pedal disk separate and develop new individuals) and fragmentation, and anthozoans may have separate sexes or be hermaphroditic (France 2004). Gametes typically are released through the mouth for external fertilization or eggs may be retained for internal fertilization and embryos released through the mouth (France 2004). The ciliated planula larvae that develop from the embryos may or may not feed (France 2004). Some species can produce larvae asexually (France 2004).
The synchronous release of sperm and eggs by many colonies over a coral reef is one of the most spectacular anthozoan behaviors, with such mass spawning events observed in the scleractinian corals of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as in octocorrallian and zoanthid species (France 2004).
Anthozoans may exhibit aggressive behaviors in defending space from neighboring individuals of the same or different species, including using specialized, extra long tentacles with stinging nematocysts, causing tissue death upon contact (France 2004).
Some species of the subclass Alcyonaria (Octocorrallia) can produce light (bioluminescence) that may even exhibit as a wave of light across a colony (France 2004).
Two subclasses are commonly recognized: Alcyonaria (or Octocorrallia) and Zoantharia (or Hexacorallia). Within these, several orders are recognized.
France (2004) lists three extant orders within Alcyonaira and six within Zoantharia:
Subclass Octocorallia (=Alcyonaria)
Order Pennatulacea (sea pens, sea pansies)
Order Helioporacea (blue corals)
Order Alcyonacea (soft corals, sea fans, sea whips)
Subclass Hexacorallia (=Zoantharia)
Order Actiniaria (sea anemones)
Order Scleractinia (true (stony or hard) corals
Order Corallimorpharia (mushroom (false) corals or called mushroom anemones)
Order Zoanthidea (zoanthids)
Order Antipatharia (black (thorny) corals)
Order Ceriantharia) (tube anemones)
The following is an alternate taxonomy and one includes extant and extinct suborders (Fautin and Romano 2000; Chen et al. 1995; France et al. 1996; Myers et al. 2008; Kotrc 2005; Oliver 1996). Fossils resembling anthozoans are known from the Precambrian era more than 540 million years ago, but around 465 million years ago stony coral fossils became common (France 2004).
Subclass Alcyonaria (= Octocorallia) (eight-way symmetry)
Alcyonacea (soft corals)
Gorgonacea (sea fans, sea feathers)
Helioporacea (= Coenothecalia) (Indo-Pacific blue coral)
Pennatulacea (sea pens, sea pansies)
Stolonifera (organ-pipe coral, tree fern coral)
Telestacea (soft corals)
Subclass Zoantharia (= Hexacorallia) (6-way symmetry)
Ceriantharia (tube-dwelling anemones)
Actiniaria (sea anemones)
Corallimorpharia
Numidiaphyllida †
Scleractinia (= Madreporaria) (stony corals)
Kilbuchophyllida †
Antipatharia (black corals, thorny corals)
Zoanthidea
Heterocorallia †
Rugosa † (= Tetracoralla) (horned corals)
Heliolitida †
Tabulata † (tabulate corals)
Cothoniida †
Tabuloconida †
Ptychodactiaria
Chen, C. A., D. M. Odorico, M. ten Lohuis, J. E. N. Veron, and D. J. Miller. 1995. Systematic relationships within the Anthozoa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) using the 5'-end of the 28S rDNA Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 4(2): 175–183. PMID 7663762. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
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France, S. C., P. E. Rosel, J. E. Agenbroad, L. S. Mullineaux, and T. D. Kocher. 1996. DNA sequence variation of mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA provides support for a two subclass organization of the Anthozoa (Cnidaria) Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 5(1): 15–28. PMID 8869515. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
Kotrc, B. 2005. Anthozoa: Subgroups Fossil Groups. University of Bristol. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
Madl, P., and M. Yip. 2000. Part III: Cnidaria BUFUS Newsletter. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. Subclass Alcyonaria The Animal Diversity Web. Retrieved August 2, 2008.
Oliver, W. A. 1996. Origins and relationships of Paleozoic coral groups and the origin of the Scleractinia. Pages 107-134 in G. D. J. Stanley (ed.), Paleobiology and Biology of Corals. Columbus, OH: The Paleontological Society. OCLC 3 | 2,155 |
Important Announcements re COVID-19
Fellow Members,
Please note<|fim_middle|> for member use, as always, but we won't be holding official races, social events, or cruises during this time. (UPDATE 24 March 2020 – Club building is now locked out to all members and public. Members still have access to their boats and the ramp and moorings but no outdoor gatherings are allowed. )
The committee will reconvene at the end of April to decide whether this pause in activities should continue, or if we can recommence our program of activities. Our current hope is to hold the Rat Race at a later time, rather than cancel entirely, but this will depend on circumstances beyond our control and so we unfortunately can't give definite timelines at this point.
If you have already registered and paid for the Rat Race or associated meals, we will be refunding all payments in the coming days. When we can reschedule the Rat Race, you will need to re-register for the new date.
In the meantime, we encourage members to pay attention to health messages from SA Health and the Federal Government around minimising risk of exposure. Good hand hygiene and staying home if you are feeling unwell are both key actions that we can all take to assist in halting the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses. We encourage all club members to take their health, and that of others, seriously in this case.
CBBC General Committee | the capacity increase in the Clubroom is now 28 or 1 person per 2 square meters.
Contact Tracking:
QR Code Tracking will be in Place – A separate Message will provide information and assistance.
There will be a number of QR Codes in the Veranda and inside the Club
Paper base Contact Register is available if you can't use theQR Code
Club Area Capacities:
Clubroom – 28 (plus staff) – Seated drinking and eating
Veranda – 44 (plus staff) – Standing drinking and eating is permitted.
Grounds – 1,000 (plus staff)
The next First Sunday Barbecue Lunch is this Sunday, 6 December 20
The Club will provide the Meat options as follows:
Steak $10
Sausage (1) $ 2
Spicy Chicken Fillet (1) $ 2
Please bring salads to share on your table.
Salads will not be able to be shared between tables and the Club will not be providing them. So, BYO Salad.
The lunch will be available to CBBC Members, partners and immediate family.
Meals – served by Committee Members and Volunteers.
There will be a COVID Marshal in attendance and the Contact Tracing Register will need to be completed.
Distancing – While not mandatory for people who live together, who are friends or family members, or people who regularly associate with each other, sensible distance principles should be observed.
Hand Hygiene – Hand sanitiser and paper towel is available at entrances, the Bar and in the kitchen. On arrival please use the hand sanitiser and fill in the Contact Tracing Record.
Volunteers – If you would like to help with Kitchen or Barbecue duties please advise as soon as possible as we need to have details for COVID Planning.
If any further information is required please call.
Ric Kies
Please note that as at midnight Saturday night (21 Nov 20), the following amended restrictions apply to the CBBC:
A maximum of 100 people in total are permitted on the Club grounds.
Capacities are to be calculated at 4m2 per person (25% capacity).
1.5m social distancing remains unless seated with friends and family
Maximum number of 10 people seated at a table
No standing drinking (indoor or outdoor)
Contact tracing records to be completed
Clubroom – 14
Veranda – 44
Grounds – 100
Please note we will likely be limited to members only for some time
With further relaxing of restrictions, 14 members are permitted in the Clubroom, 20 under the Veranda and
80 on the open spaces. The Clubroom and verandah area have been laid out and excess seats removed.
Fellow CBBC Members
We hope this finds you all hale and hearty in these interesting times.
With effect today (31 Mar 2020) the SA Government released an updated Emergency directive on COVID-19 exposure management. Under the previous directive the Clubrooms, showers and toilets were closed. The new declaration had the potential to increase the restrictions on our grounds.
However, clarification on the new Emergency Directive has been obtained from Clubs SA and SAPOL and we are pleased to be able to advise that members will be able to launch and retrieve their boats at the Club while observing the social distancing and gathering restrictions. The Clubrooms will remain closed. Clubs SA has been very helpful in achieving this clarification. This is heartening and welcomed for the coming Easter period.
Clubs SA has inquired with SAPOL and their view is: "Yes fine – The social distance requirements apply and groups at minimum but not to exceed 10 congregating. Principle is no different to a public beach, park or other open space"
Your Committee has developed the following guidelines for Club boating in this period:
Enjoy the Lower Lakes if you are able and have the opportunity, it is a exercise activity that has physical and mental health benefits.
Members may launch and retrieve their boats from their hardstands.
Members without hardstands can rig / de-rig their boats either side of the Flag Pole
Members with hardstands who want to keep their boats at the club may continue to do so.
Members who wish to remove their boats for the duration of the restrictions may do so.
Members with boats on the Hardstand waitlist will be offered the empty spaces for the duration of the restrictions or until the original holder wishes to return.
Members not currently on the waitlist can apply for a temporary Hardstand vacancy.
Numbers of boats undergoing rigging and de-rigging may be limited due to social distancing and gathering guidelines
Please observe social distancing and gathering guidelines (2 person per boat x 1.5m spacing / 10 persons total in the CBBC grounds open area)
The Committee wishes to thank all CBBC members and their families for their patience and understanding in these difficult times. Please stay safe, keep an eye on your loved-ones and neighbours.
We have just received official confirmation that the club building is to be locked out to all members and public. I apologise for any inconvenience but it is now a legal requirement for us to comply. Members still have access to their boats and the ramp and moorings but no outdoor gatherings are allowed. Stay safe. See you on the water.
Stuart Rowley
CBBC Commodore
As you are no doubt aware, community groups and organisations are being encouraged to postpone or cancel unnecessary gatherings in the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The CBBC General Committee met this evening (17.3.20) to discuss our club's response to the current situation.
The committee was unanimous in agreeing that we will cancel or postpone all official club activities, including the Rat Race Regatta, for the immediate future. Club facilities will still be available | 1,201 |
Nutter will host the 10th annual Boston Philanthropic Roundtable (BPART) luncheon on May 14. This year's theme, "The Promising Philanthropic Opportunity in Early Childhood," will address how emerging brain research has left little doubt that a child's development of core skills – cognitive skills, emotional well-being, social competence,<|fim_middle|> limited, so there are many opportunities for philanthropists to define the landscape here. If you or your clients are interested in education, poverty, and positive outcomes for young children, then this issue is critical to the success of your programs.
BPART is a study group comprised of a variety of professionals and philanthropists from both the for-profit and non-profit sectors in Boston. For over five years, BPART has delivered valuable content to advisors, charities, and philanthropists, along with an opportunity to network with others who have a shared interest in philanthropy. | and physical and mental health – before entering kindergarten is essential in building a strong foundation for success in adulthood. As such, many philanthropists are racing to move upstream in a child's life and to fund promising efforts to support the early development of young children. Early indicators suggest much success and opportunity in this area. Philanthropists are integrating early childhood strategies into education and anti-poverty efforts because it has been found to be critical for success later in life.
In Boston, the number of funders in early childhood is | 105 |
On December 28, 20<|fim_middle|> to comply with U.S. securities laws by registering the product or obtain a government-granted exemption from those laws before conducting the sale. In this case, the defendant -- whether intentionally or not -- did neither and is therefore strictly liable for offering and selling unregistered securities. Just because utility tokens might one day have a consumptive use does not remove them from being a "security" prior to that use. Promoting the expectation of profit from pre-functional tokens, like Giga Watt did and continues to do, is by definition the sale of a security; and this case will hold Giga Watt accountable for its actions.
Stormsmedia, LLC vs. Giga Watt, Inc., et al. | 17, Silver Miller and Terrell Marshall filed a Class Action Complaint against Giga Watt, Inc. It is important for investors in companies that raise funds utilizing an Initial Coin Offering to know that all pre-functional token sales fit the U.S. laws' definition of the sale of a security, which means the seller either has | 65 |
Roscoe traffic light needs county approval
Betsy Lopez Fritscher
Chicory Ridge resident Bob Bienvenu is hoping for traffic lights at Roscoe Road and Meadowsweet Lane to curb the potential for accidents on his block.
Bienvenu said if the Winnebago County Board approves the measure at its meeting tonight, it also will keep drivers who exit and<|fim_middle|> will meet at 6 p.m. on the eighth floor at 400 W. State St., Rockford. Its agenda includes the possible authorization of an agreement between developer Jeff Petry, the village of Roscoe and the county to install traffic lights at the intersection. The board also is expected to approve land improvements in Hawks Pointe North to widen Roscoe Road and for a third entrance, said Pearl Hawks, public works committee chairwoman for the Winnebago County Board.
The village and Petry have signed off on the light; however, the ultimate decision rests in the hands of County Board members.
"It's the expectation of additional traffic that warrants this," Hawks said. "There's no reason we would not approve this. Petry has an agreement and Roscoe has an agreement and it's up to the county to be a third party on this. If the people of this area are agreeable with this, as they are, we have no reason to disagree with their wishes."
Roscoe village President Dave Krienke said the traffic signal, which has been a longtime coming, could be up and running by April 1. Petry has agreed to use money set aside for a light at a different intersection for the Meadowsweet light.
"It will help during peak times during the commute in the morning and the commute home," Krienke said. "Some people are for it, others aren't. But at the end of the day, it comes down to a safety issue for the residents of Chicory Ridge."
Staff writer Betsy López Fritscher can be reached at bfritsch@rrstar.com or 815-987-1377. | enter the subdivision safe.
The 63-year-old has lived in his home near the Meadowsweet entrance to Chicory Ridge for eight years. Bienvenu has watched morning and afternoon traffic get heavier as the subdivision grew.
"This light is going to save somebody's life," Bienvenu said. "Because they have the right turn lane going west to go into the subdivision, it creates a shadow effect for cars continuing to go west. If you turn out of Chicory Ridge and go toward the river on Roscoe Road, you're going across that lane and it's a matter of time before somebody gets killed. Hopefully with a light there, that won't happen."
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Convocamos a interesados<|fim_middle|>SOIL SCIENCE: Beyond food and fuel" will take place next 12 – 17 August 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It represents one of the most acclaimed global scientific meeting in the field of soil science with an expected attendance of 7,500 participants from 140 countries. The WCSS takes place every four years.
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#GlobalSoilPartnership at the 21st WSCC
Visit the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) at Booth No.22 from 12 to 17 August 2018. The GSP participates with the slogan "Promoting Sustainable Soil Management for All". Learn more about all the developments and activities carried out by the GSP. We will provide you with an informative introduction to our work and our publications and give you updates on new initiatives and programmes. GSP most recent activities and successes will be highlighted in the panels of our booth and useful soil-related gadgets and publications will be freely distributed.
GSP, Promoting Sustainable Soil Management for All
14 August 2018, 14:00 - 18:00
This Technical Symposium will illustrate the work done so far by the GSP and its partners and the challenges ahead of us in terms of SSM. This will include an overview of the state of the art on soil organic carbon in relation to climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, actions to tackle soil pollution at global level, global soil information system, operative communication and soil awareness raising for different stakeholders. The Portuguese version of the Soil Atlas for Latin America will also be launched during the symposium.
Soil information, a prerequisite for SSM
This second Symposium focussing on Soil information will provide a base for sustainable soil management, development of soil policies and plans, and for assessing vulnerabilities and calculating the risks associated to soil functions. The Global Soil Information System (GloSIS) and associated Global Capacity Building Programme, the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) and the Latin American Soil Information System (SISLAC) will help supply crucial and comparable soil data at global level.
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Newsletter No. 19, 9 August 2018
The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) was established in December 2012 by FAO member countries as a mechanism to promote sustainable soil management. One of the key objectives of the GSP is to improve soil governance, ensure healthy and productive soils in all land uses across the globe and with partners ranging from land users, policy makers to general public.
Upcoming World Congress of Soil Science
12 - 17 August | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The 21st World Congress of Soil Science (WCSS):" | 198 |
Unlike your usual detox, the Digitox Challenge is a detox of your digital 'diet'. It's a day where you press the refresh button and ditch all things digital. That means putting down the smartphone, putting away the tablet and stepping away from the computer, for a whole 24 hours.
It's a great way to spend some quality time with your family and friends. More importantly, it's a way to show your<|fim_middle|>'ve all got that one friend that checks their phone constantly, posts selfies galore or is suffering from an unhealthy Insta/Snapchat addiction.
Remember to plan and complete all your assignments and work before August 12, you don't want this to stop you taking on the challenge! | support for young people experiencing homelessness. All young people deserve a safe home and a bright future. Together we can make this a reality!
By accepting the #digitoxchallenge you pledge to put away all your digital devices on International Youth Day, August 12, 2018.
Rope in your friends by tagging them on social media and challenge them to join you on the Digitox journey! It's always more fun when you take on a challenge together with a friend. Plus, you can get a 30 minute pass to quickly jump online or watch your fav TV show if you manage to get another friend on board.
Post a photo of yourself and your beloved digital item on social media with a message about why you are doing the challenge and asking for sponsors.
Tag your friends – come on we | 164 |
Application of Fuzzy Logic decision making algorithm in determining the steering<|fim_middle|> sensors providing the range and heading angle information. Most of the developed automated vehicle relies on a path planning module to obtain appropriate steering commands. In this paper, the fuzzy logic scheme to emulate human driving in order to eliminate the difficulties associated with path planning is presented. Input parameters such as distance between the vehicle and the surrounding obstacle and heading angle are considered with output being the steering angle. Considering the high amount of risk of testing the vehicle in real space-time conditions, tested were first conducted in a simulated environment with the use of Fuzzy Logic Toolbox™ in MATLAB® and then implemented on ground as well as aerial automotive. | angle of the vehicle to control the steering of an autonomous vehicle is analysed. It is assumed that the vehicle is equipped with passive or active | 27 |
Warren County Schools has launched a new employment application system. The new North Carolina School Jobs powered by Teacher Match, provides an innovative way to streamline the hiring process. Applicants will experience an enhanced, user friendly system when applying for positions. To apply for career opportunities, open the link below.
Cover letters and resumes can now be uploaded to your online portfolio instead of sending them by email.
If you<|fim_middle|> Bus Driver). By doing this you make your application visible to our district. Please continue to check the Warren County Schools Job Board for future employment opportunities.
We invite you to complete a new portfolio-application today. If you have questions about Teacher Match or need support with the application process, please call (252) 257-3184 or email ncsupport@teachermatch.com. | do not see a posting for the job(s) that you are interested in, please consider applying to the Generic Posting in the category for which you are interested (Generic – Licensed (positions that require a Professional Educator's License), Classified, Substitute and | 50 |
This edition of MRM's News Bites features 7shifts, Chowbus, DoorDash, Antoine's, Starbucks and Uber Eats, OpenTable, Tropical Smoothie Cafe, Arcos Dorados, Eat Here Brands, PourMyBeer and Toast, Cerity, Washington Hospitality Association, bellagreen and Swish.
7shifts closed a $10 million USD Series A funding round to accelerate growth and bring more automation and labor compliance to restaurant chains. The financing was led by Napier Park Financial Partners ("Napier Park") with participation from Teamworthy Ventures, existing investor, Relay Ventures and former CEO of Snag (Snagajob), Peter Harrison.
7shifts has scheduled nearly 100 million shifts for the 16 million restaurant workers in the US, and collectively saved restaurateurs over $200 million in labor costs. The rapidly growing platform is used by more than 250,000 restaurant professionals and 10,000 restaurants, including large, growing franchises such as Bareburger, Panera, Honeygrow, &pizza, and Smoke's Poutinerie.
7shifts gives restaurant operators and employees software that makes tasks like scheduling, team communication, and shift feedback simple and transparent. The company plans to use the funds to strengthen 7shifts' leadership position in scheduling automation and machine-learning technology for restaurants, while adding enterprise functionality and statewide labor compliance features.
Chowbus secured a $4 million round of funding led by Greycroft Partners and FJ Labs, with additional investment from Hyde Park Angels, Fika Ventures, and individual investors. This new funding helps the company further invest in developing the platform and expanding to new markets.
With its mobile app, Chowbus operates as a food-discovery platform, connecting diners with small, local restaurants' top-rated dishes. Unlike other food-ordering platforms, Chowbus provides restaurants with not only logistical support, but marketing and technology support as well. Chowbus helps restaurants showcase their best dishes by creating dish-centric menus with high-quality photography and user ratings, which in turn helps diners explore new cuisine.
Last year, Chowbus achieved a 300 percent year-over-year revenue growth rate, and projects that the new funding will lead to expansion in 15-20 new markets in the upcoming year. The company currently operates in Chicago, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Champaign, IL, and Lansing, MI, and its services include an online marketplace to order food via pickup and delivery, as well as a Chowbus Shuttle, which delivers food on efficient routes. In addition to expanding geographically, Chowbus plans to onboard several key team members and build a number of value-adding features that benefit the user experience for both restaurants and consumers.
On the heals of DoorDash being the first on-demand destination to reach a national audience, the company welcomed Ryan Sokol as Vice President of Engineering, He joins the company from Uber, where he led and scaled UberEats from its inception and served on the UberEats executive team.
He will lead DoorDash engineering, including product, infrastructure and data science, reporting to CEO Tony Xu. Sokol was previously head of engineering at Voxer and has served stints at Genentech, IBM and smaller technology consultancies including his own.
According to XI, Sokol comes to DoorDash at a critical inflection point In 2018, the company 5xed its geographic footprint from 600 to 3,300 cities and tripled in valuation to more than $4 billion. DoorDash doubled the engineering team to 200+ last year, working on a variety of problems from machine learning applications to logistics to personalizing consumer experiences. This year, they plan to double the team again.
"I'm joining DoorDash to help an amazing team reach new heights," said Sokol. " All of my interactions and diligence with those I trust would lead me to believe that DoorDash is poised to be one of the most influential companies on the planet. I'm most looking forward to learning from some of the best and applying my accumulated knowledge to help DoorDash fast forward its tech to the future and realize its full potential as soon as possible."
DoorDash saw 300- percent year-over-year growth in 2018, tripling business in annual sales. The company also made several key leadership hires over the past nine months, including CFO Prabir Adarkar, VP Strategic Finance Ravi Inukonda and CPO Sarah Wagener.
Antoine's in New Orleans announced that Chef Rich Lee will serve as the restaurant's newest executive chef, stepping into the role that Executive Chef Michael Regua commanded for the last 47 years. Chef Regua is currently helping transition Chef Lee until his retirement later this year.
Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Chef Lee began his career in the U.S. Coast Guard, stationed in Panama City, Florida. After his time in the service, Chef Lee pursued his love of all things culinary and served as line cook and kitchen manager in the Panama City hospitality industry. His first big cooking opportunity arrived when he served as an executive steward for the U.S. Merchant Marines, sailing around the globe as the solo cook aboard his ship.
There he discovered his passion for all different types of cuisines as the ship would pull into each exotic port. He would buy provisions, visit the local restaurants and markets, and incorporate each region's fresh produce, seafood, meats, spices and seasonings into the ship's daily menu. His career blossomed after becoming a land-dweller again, rising to the rank of executive chef over the next decade in the finest restaurants, hotels and resorts in the Florida Panhandle.
After opening, creating the menus, and leading the teams at establishments such as the Saltwater Grill and the Boardwalk Beach Resort, Rich chose to broaden his culinary knowledge in the "front of the house". Over the next 12 years, he worked in various management positions at high‐volume corporate restaurants in the Carolina markets.
He then moved to New Orleans and was hired as a chef and trainer for Sodexo's corporate division. He was quickly promoted to executive chef for Sodexo's Energy and Resource division and ultimately served as senior manager of culinary development.
During his seven years with Sodexo, Chef Lee led a North American Chefs Council of Canadian and American chefs, creating menus and establishing relationships with Sodexo's global teams in Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, the Bahamas, and Canada. He also served as Sodexo's lead chef of their Mindful brand, which provides a healthier approach to a client's standard menu offering.
Starbucks Coffee Company expanded its Starbucks Delivers pilot to an additional six cities across the United States. The expansion, in partnership with Uber Eats, began in San Francisco, the first of six new markets to offer the service to customers. Following an initial test in Miami, the company remains on track to bring Starbucks Delivers to nearly one-quarter of U.S. company-operated stores, with planned expansion to select stores in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., in the coming weeks. In total, Starbucks Delivers will be available in seven U.S. cities this spring.
With approximately 95 percent of core menu items available directly from the Starbucks menu, customers will be able to customize their orders just as they would when ordering on Starbucks® mobile apps. Delivery orders will come with an initial $2.49 booking fee.
OpenTable announced that OpenTable Dining Points can be used for hotel savings. U.S. diners can easily redeem their points to save anywhere from $20 to $200 at over 400,000 participating hotels available on KAYAK. From boutique properties to international favorites, diners can use their points to save on the perfect hotel.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe appointed Charles Watson as its new Chief Executive Officer. Watson will lead the brand through its next phase of strategic growth. As CEO, Watson's goal is to achieve $1 billion in sales and more than 1,500 cafes by 2023.
"Charles has the tenacity, vision and passion this brand needs to continue our upward trajectory and will ensure the success of our franchisees is at the center of every decision we make," said Scott Pressly, Chairman of the Board, Tropical Smoothie Cafe. "He has been instrumental in developing the culture of Tropical Smoothie Cafe and earning the trust of our franchisees. We look forward to realizing Charles' vision for the company."
Watson has more than 10 years of experience with Tropical Smoothie Cafe and led the company's franchise development efforts since 2010. He has been the Chief Development Officer since 2015 and directly responsible for selling more than 800 franchises during his tenure with the company.
"I am overjoyed to have the opportunity to lead such an incredible brand that has truly become a part of my DNA over many years," said Watson. "I am forever grateful to our franchisees, support center team and our Board of Directors for their confidence in me as the leader who can guide Tropical Smoothie Cafe into a new era."
Arcos Dorados, the world's largest independent McDonald's franchisee, expects to employ more than 55,000 individuals in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2019, an increase of eight percent over the number employed in 2018. The company is positioned as a catalyst for change through its commitment to labor inclusion and reduction of inequality for young people. Arcos Dorados is one of the region's largest formal employers of youth between the ages of 17 to 25, providing training and development opportunities.
Over the last three years, Arcos Dorados provided approximately 150,000 employment opportunities for young people. For many of them, the experience was their first in the workplace. Arcos Dorados' commitment to work inclusion is supported by partnerships with prestigious institutions in the region that are also dedicated to helping young people formally integrate into the working world. The company signed agreements in recent years with the primary foundations dedicated to eradicating youth unemployment in each country of the region, including Instituto Ayrton Senna (Brazil), Cimientos (Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay), Forge (Chile, Peru), NEO (Colombia) and the International Youth Foundation (Global), among others.
"At Arcos Dorados, through public-private partnerships, we contribute to the development of our communities by attacking one of the region's main social challenges, youth unemployment. Through our programs, we assume the responsibility of actively collaborating to reduce the barriers to access a first formal job, " said Alonso.
Arcos Dorados promotes the inclusion of vulnerable groups, offering them an opportunity for formal work that contributes to their development and independence and supports greater social integration. "All are welcome at Arcos Dorados. We promote a culture of work that is characterized by respect, inclusion and equal opportunities. We provide adequate training and career development to all young people in the countries where we operate and are committed to furthering the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal of reducing inequality," concluded Alonso.
Eat Here Brands, owner of eight Babalu® restaurant locations, sold its stake in Flowood, Mississippi restaurant Table 100 to Bill Latham and Al Roberts on December 31. Latham and Roberts, the co-founders of Babalu®, Table 100 and Eat Here Brands, both remain actively involved on Eat Here's board of managers. The sale is part of Eat Here's strategy to shift its focus to growing Babalu®, its core asset.
Eat Here Brands, headquartered in Roswell, Georgia is the owner and operator of Babalu®, with locations<|fim_middle|> Executive Officer of Employers Holdings, Inc.
The Washington Hospitality Association Education Foundation is partnering with the nonprofit Businesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking (BEST) to increase access to human trafficking awareness training for the state's hotel employees.Starting this month, which is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, BEST's training will be offered to the 6,500 Washington Hospitality Association members and their teams free of charge.
"We are woven into the fabric of the daily lives of our guests and team members," said Anthony Anton, president and CEO of the Washington Hospitality Association. "As a result, hospitality industry leaders are recognizing the important role we play in preventing and ending this crime. Hotels take profound pride and responsibility in serving and protecting all guests."
"When hotel employees are trained to recognize and report potential human trafficking situations, it can make all the difference in the life of someone who is being trafficked," Brettmann said. "For this reason, BEST is thrilled to announce our new partnership with the Washington Hospitality Association. This partnership will allow us to train thousands of hotel employees in Washington, and it will make our region even more proactive in preventing human trafficking."
BEST's program is a 30-minute training that can be taken by individual hotel employees or in a larger group setting. The training is available in English or Spanish, and it has been proven to increase hotel employee reporting.
bellagreen™ celebrated Earth Week last year with a pledge to cut its plastic footprint in half by March 2020. The brand is proud to announce that this promise has been fulfilled 14 months early, further advancing bellagreen's mission to make life and Earth more beautiful with every meal.
As of January 1, 2019, all eight bellagreen restaurants offer only paper straws and to-go bags, effectively reducing its plastic footprint by 50 percent. The American bistro believes the positive impact on the Earth is more than worth the incremental $40,000 annual investment.
The creators of Facetune launched Swish, a new tool for food and restaurant professionals. Swish, by Lightricks, is a video content creating app that allows users to create short video ads with no editing experience necessary. The app gives small and large businesses the ability to create dynamic videos to help them compete with the big dogs. With foolproof templates users are guaranteed to be able to create a beautiful video every time — on-the-go, from the palm of your hand. Videos from Swish can take as little as two minutes to create.
Targeted to small businesses and creators on-the-go, Swish capitalizes on the company's goal of empowering everyday individuals to unleash their creativity. Swish provides an easy-to-use resource for small businesses looking to make an impact online and more effectively market their brands without hefty graphic design or video editing fees. | in Atlanta; Birmingham, Alabama; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Jackson, Mississippi; Lexington, Kentucky; and East Memphis, Memphis and Knoxville, Tennessee.
PourMyBeer is partnering with Toast. With the integration, PourMyBeer clients who use the Toast POS can track beer sales more efficiently, leading to increased revenue from beverage sales.
Cerity launched to enable small business owners to quickly and easily protect their team, their assets and their livelihood through an online workers' compensation solution.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are over 29.6 million small businesses in the U.S. and that number is climbing. Many traditional insurance models were not built with a focus on small businesses, but it's these owners who often need the most guidance and support as they look to properly and affordably protect their team while growing their operation. Cerity was designed specifically for small businesses and freelancers to be able to quickly input information, generate a quote, and purchase a policy, so that they can get back to what matters most – their business.
Powered by a complex algorithm, Cerity's proprietary pricing model provides tailored quotes that address the individual needs of business owners. Cerity has more pricing tiers than most insurance companies – up to 100 – making quotes more precise.
Cerity is backed by Employers Holdings, Inc. , an industry veteran with over 100 years of experience in workers' compensation. "With its team, technology and vision, Cerity is uniquely positioned to quickly become a major player in the industry," said Douglas D. Dirks, President and Chief | 323 |
Home Comics Previews Preview: Amelia Cole and the Unknown World #3
Preview: Amelia Cole and the Unknown World #3
Monkeybrain Comics continues its spot on releases with the upcoming AMELIA COLE AND THE UNKNOWN WORLD #3. As one of the launch titles for Monkeybrain, Amelia Cole is a young female magician, living between two worlds whilst being trapped in a third world. Written by Adam P Knave and DJ Kirkbride with art by Nick Brokenshire, AMELIA COLE is a fluid, fast-paced story that vibrantly captures and creates new worlds, again for the convenient and satisfying price of $1.99.
The first issue of AMELIA COLE AND THE UNKNOWN WORLD proved to be a great success in setting the stage for a fusing of two universes: one of magic and the other of technology. Nick Brokenshire was able to skillfully depict the differing realms in the short introductory; using shades of beiges, browns, and grey for each world, and almost instantaneously splattering brighter colors upon the emergence of magic. While it is definitely harder for a shorter web comic to make a splash right off the bat, AMELIA COLE's first issue had a great start because of its ability to blend kinetic and fast art with a familiar yet unique story line.
AMELIA COLE has only proved to get better with each issue; the second installment featured a mature and altogether eye-popping cover, as well as showcasing the comic's blended comedic and serious tones. Although the targeted age group is "12+," AMELIA COLE has been able to appeal to both younger and more adult audiences. A lot of the art has undertones of older comic art, especially in the facial features of the characters, not to mention the banter is witty enough for both young and old alike to follow along with.
Boasting an impressive team of Eisner award winner Adam P. Knave and WOMANTHOLOGY letterer Rachel Deering, AMELIA COLE AND THE UNKNOWN WORLD #3 comes out today and is available through Comixology. With its price and all ages appeal, it's indefinitely worth a peek.
To see for yourself, here's a preview at what's in store in issue 3<|fim_middle|>Nick Brokenshire 09/19/2012 3:35 pm At 3:35 pm
I hasten to point out that these preview images have been somehow over saturated and they lock kinda blobby. Please check out the cbr previews to see the correct images. Sorry, we managed to send the wrong images out!!!
Nick Brokenshire (the artist of Amelia Cole)
Oh, and thank you Jessica for the nice review!!!
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It's raining cats and dogs in Barney's world! Well maybe not, but Barney : Furry Friends is all about our favorite friends, our pet dogs and cats! We are all about the pets around here but I think some people especially kids take their furry friends for granted. Barney is here to show us just how special the relationships we build with our pets really can be!
Three episodes plus a really cute hide and seek dvd game are included on this DVD. All of which are about having cats and dogs as pets. Kids will learn about not only household pets but about some extra special pets like guide dogs, about dog shows, and even about the neighborhood dogs that live near Barney. For those of you that read our blog before the name change you might remember that several of our dogs were show dogs, so it was pretty cool to see Barney host a little dog show for fun.
With only three episodes included this Barney dvd is rather short compared to some of the others we have seen lately. However if you have a cat or dog fan in the house or are preparing to introduce your child to their first pet this would be a great dvd to add to your collection to introduce those ideas. Connor has had a puppy or dog in his hands practically since he was born so we have had the opportunity to teach him how to<|fim_middle|> and understand regardless if they have pets at home.
Barney : Furry Friends is available right now on dvd and you can pick up your copy on Amazon !
Disclosure: We were given a copy of Barney : Furry Friends free of charge, we were not compensated for this post in any other way. My opinions and comments on items we review are always my own and are never influenced by sponsors. | properly respect and play with animals but I think that its something all kids need to know | 17 |
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Hi Kirk, great article. VERY encouraging for me. The article has helped me to persevere in the midst of a constant drip of criticism and 'bad news' (declining numbers and finances). You helped remind me that anxiety always looks for a quick fix, and that pressure can cause us to lose our long-term bearings instead of maintaining the course like Jesus (Hebrews 12:2<|fim_middle|> strengthen pastors like me. It's having a deep impact… more than you know.
By the way, there's a great series on Netflix called 'The Medici' that talks about the history of Florence…. fascinating. | ) who ran the race set before him with perseverance. I think part of it may be due to our becoming accustomed to instant solutions with all our technology, that we expect the same from people and institutions like the church. I'm realizing what an important thing it is for me to 'keep my cool' in the midst of the anxiety and not give in to it. Thanks for these articles. Thanks for the stand you're taking to strengthen pastors like me. It's having a deep impact… more than you know.
Hi Kirk, great article. VERY encouraging for me. (Sorry I can't post comments to your website due to a problem with the way my internet is configured.) The article has helped me to persevere in the midst of a constant drip of criticism and 'bad news' (declining numbers and finances). You helped remind me that anxiety always looks for a quick fix, and that pressure can cause us to lose our long-term bearings instead of maintaining the course like Jesus (Hebrews 12:2) who ran the race set before him with perseverance. I think part of it may be due to our becoming accustomed to instant solutions with all our technology, that we expect the same from people and institutions like the church. I'm realizing what an important thing it is for me to 'keep my cool' in the midst of the anxiety and not give in to it. Thanks for these articles. Thanks for the stand you're taking to | 294 |
The IR Extender and the IR Repeater Box are perfect for controlling source devices over long distances using CAT5 Cable. By using the built-in IR Receiver of the IR Repeater, users are able to control up to five<|fim_middle|> choice.
With USB being the standard connection for consumer electronic products, there has long been a need for something to let us operate our many devices over long distances. The USB over CAT5e/6 transmitter and receiver boxes developed for this purpose as they can operate in both the home and commercial markets. These devices allow most of the USB host to send data bidirectional within a 100-meter distance while offering up to 4 USB outputs, giving this product the ability to act like a USB hub. In addition, this product can also access data from the output port devices even when there's 100 meters separating the devices or using Ethernet hub in between to extend the distance double up to 200 meters. The USB over CAT5e/6 transmitter and receiver boxes are the ideal choice for your USB extension needs. | sources (with the original remote controls) at the same time at a distance of up to 250m. There are no space limitations with these devices, which means even if the sources are in a different room or even another floor than the display, the performance stays the same. The IR Extender and the IR Repeater Box give users an easy and convenient way to control their desired source. If however, users only wish to control sources in the same room then the IR Repeater Box will be enough to control up to 2 sources. The IR Extender Box is designed for longer distances and extra source device control than the IR Repeater Box.
The 4 by 4 Infrared Matrix is designed to control up to four sources from four display locations, using the original source remote or universal remote controls. You can control DVD/Blu-ray players, satellite and set-top boxes. A true matrix design allows any of the four inputs to be routed to any (or all) of the IR outputs giving full independent source to screen control.
With the added benefit of an IR master input and output, which can be used to control an HDMI™ matrix, this product will allow you to fully control your sources and displays. Simply place the IR extender near the display and put the IR blaster in a position so that all devices will receive the IR signal. So, if you are looking for a way to extend the control of IR, The 4 by 4 Infrared Matrix is a great | 304 |
Sometimes it would be nice to have the kind of blog where your posts start out with phrases like "if you ever find yourself in the south of France, be certain to visit the chateau la durantie. . ." instead of "If you're buying crickets for your chickens, get them cheaper at the bait shop instead of the pet store. . ."
This weekend I learned a bag of crickets is a Happy Meal for chickens because Mr. Bromeliad's parents in South Carolina<|fim_middle|> Bee.
p.s. btw, the word "cricket" is French for little creaker. And you thought we had no class.
I have been wanting urban chickens for quite some time now. thinking that as renters whose landlord lives behind us its probably not gonna fly. those are sure some cute chickens your in-laws have though!!
My uncle has a few hens, The brown eggs are great for baking.
And French chickens say "Coco Rico" instead of "Cockadoodle doo." At least according to David Sedaris. One of my jobs a long time ago I had to buy crickets on an almost daily basis. Don't ask. And yes, urban chickens are chic.
I just want the fresh eggs.
I did not know they could run 7 miles an hour. I would take a chicken over a chihuahua any day!
your egg photo is awesome. I just aborted egg photos this morning. Inspired to try again.
I enjoyed your opening line. Gave me a good chuckle. And when you closed again mentioning France, I just had to comment about one of my most favorite bloggers. Him and his wife are expats from Great Britain who bought a gite in the South of France, and he's a photographer! So if you enjoy posts about traveling in France along with great photos, then feel free to visit Brian at Life in the France Lane at http://www.blog.french-holidays-aude.com/. I know I've really enjoyed following his blog. | have three hens. Also that chickens can run seven miles an hour, which is the approximate speed at which they lunged for the cricket sack.
Chickens are way better than Chihuahuas. They also are, believe it or not, a bit hip and trendy. For more info on urban chickens, see Simplified | 67 |
NTCC Board of Trustees honors Frankie King, holds August meeting
Board of Trustees honors Frankie King, holds August meeting
The Northeast Texas Community College Board of Trustees met for a public hearing and its regular August Meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 23. A reception was held before the meeting to honor Frankie King, who retired from the board in May. King, of Camp County, served from 2019-2022 in Place One. King was presented with a plaque commemorating his service.
"We are very grateful for Mr. King's service on the board. His tenure took place during a very difficult time for the college as we were dealing with the pandemic and his steady leadership made such an impactful difference. Frankie will certainly be missed and we wish him the very best in his retirement," Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President, said.
A public hearing meeting on the proposed 2022-2023 operating budget and proposed tax rate was held before the regular meeting. There was no public comment so the hearing was adjourned.
In the president's report, Clinton said that the fall semester has started off on a positive note, with a 1.9% increase in enrollment as of August 23.
"It is still early and we won't have firm numbers until after the 12th class day, but we are feeling optimistic about enrollment and appear to be faring well in comparison with other institutions around the state," Clinton said.
He reported that 94 students graduated from NTCC earlier this month, bringing the total to 559 degrees and certificates awarded for the 2021-2022 academic year.
"That is a tremendous number of graduates and it reflects a lot of work on both their part and that of our faculty and staff. Those graduates are taking with them a great deal of hope and expertise that will benefit our community and State," Clinton said.
Clinton gave a brief overview of NTCC's reaffirmation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). He outlined the college's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), which is called "Sowing Seeds (Show up Engage Experience Develop Succeed) For Success." He said that documentation is currently under review and a team of evaluators will be on campus for a site visit in late September.
Clinton also announced that board chairman, Chuck Johns, has been elected to serve on the board of the Community College Association of Texas Trustees (CCATT).
"We are very grateful to Mr. Johns for his willingness to serve in this important role. This is a critical time for community colleges in Texas and we are happy to have him representing NTCC, and other rural colleges, at the state level," Clinton said.
In action items, the board approved the consent agenda and then tabled an item regarding the waiver of penalty and interest on two camp county properties due to an omission in the agenda.
The board then unanimously approved the 2022-2023 operating budget as presented by Dr. Clinton and Jeff Chambers, Vice President of Administrative Services. The $20,472,986 balanced operating budget was up about $614,145 (<|fim_middle|> Clinton said that the increase was due to a number of factors including a 3% raise for employees, increases in employee benefits and group health insurance, utility costs, insurance premiums, and other rising expenses.
Next, the board voted to approve the 2022-2023 tax rate. The rate was approved in two motions. The first adopted a rate of .0388 cents per $100 property valuation for Interest and Sinking and the second a rate of .08112 cents per $100 property valuation for Maintenance and Operation. This combined for a total tax rate of 12 cents, which is a decrease of a little more than 7% over the 2021 rate of 13 cents.
Finally, the board approved hiring four new employees: Benjamin Schmidt, Funeral Service Education Faculty Member; Jennifer Myers, Interim English Faculty Member; Cali Butler, Academic Advisor; and Sheila Eddy, Associate Director of Academic Advising.
There was no call for an executive session and the meeting was adjourned. | 3.09%) from the previous fiscal year. Dr. | 13 |
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Action Alert about the Asian Development Bank's policy revision. The IAP is taking the following steps toward promoting a more just, equitable and sustainable world:
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Changing international policy and legal frameworks and development paradigms to prevent unsustainable projects, including by empowering civil society and by stopping the externalization of costs onto local people and the environment. This includes improving systems of accountability, problem-solving capacity, and enforcement tools.
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Building long-term working relationships based on solidarity, friendship and mutual respect among colleagues from the Global North and the Global South who are working to defend human rights and the environment, and building effective coalitions to demand justice for existing harm and to change the course of future development.
We are based in San Francisco, California, and we are a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE). | The International Accountability Project (IAP) challenges unjust displacement by exposing and demanding accountability for the human rights impacts of development-induced displacement. We exert strategic pressure on the international banks and corporations that finance projects causing displacement, while strengthening communities' power to hold their ground and defend their fundamental human rights … (full text Homepage and latest news).
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Our work builds on the stepping stones of accountability laid by decades of civil society campaigning to promote principles of justice, accountability, environmental sustainability, gender equity, development effectiveness, transparency, disclosure and participation at international financial institutions.
Although we have made significant progress over the years, much of that progress is currently being | 227 |
The Arizona State Fair is back and better than ever!
They are getting ready to open up their gates for the first time this year from October 16 through November 08. They will be open Wednesday – Sunday.
Have a chance to enjoy the city view while riding on La Grande Wheel and capture a picture of the beautiful Arizona sky-as the moment lasts only a few seconds. It may be<|fim_middle|>. Have a chance to see some of your favorite artists live on stage!
You don't want to miss out on the fun this fall break. Take a trip to the Arizona State Fair before it's too late. | your only chance to relax before getting on the Cyclone. The Cyclone spins you around at a fast speed and may leave you asking yourself why you decided to get on.
That is not all; the Arizona State Fair offers so much more! It has various fried foods such as fried Twinkies, Oreos, and even lemonade! Although, it is rumored that the turkey leg is the best food at the state fair.
The fair also includes fun game stands. Get the chance to play a game of ring toss to win a fluffy, big stuffed animal or maybe even a gold fish. Prizes are given to those who compete against another person and win!
Don't miss out on all the concerts happening at the fair | 146 |
Did you ever marvel at the pretty tea tags that come with every delish cup of tea? Have you been saving pockets full of colorful tea tags hoping knowing they will be useful someday? Yes, excellent!<|fim_middle|> | No, start saving!
Step 2: Decide between warm or cool colors or both.
Step 3: Start laying out different patterns; I chose a 16 block pattern with 2 missing for the drawing.
Step 5: Mark the center of your page...either by folding, guessing or measuring. (Personally I am a guesser.) Then lay the 3rd column of tea tags just to the right of that center mark. (below) Next lay the 2nd row to ensure equal spacing between tea tag columns. Lay the end column down last.
Step 7: Ink that little drawing!
Step 8: Place a drop of glue in the center of each tea tag, and glue it to the paper. Start gluing from the center columns to ensure symmetry. Let dry. I forgot to take a picture until I was about to glue my last one.
Step 9: Eraser any pencil marks/lines. Now step back and look at your beautiful arrangement!!! Finally snap it into a frame and display it somewhere in your kitchen or wherever you'd like.
I suppose this is an ode to Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans"...who also had a love of design no matter the avenue.
I noticed this the last time I was at your place! Love your creativity! | 267 |
The Taurus female is ruled by Venus, a fact that is reflected by her natural and feminine tastes. One who loves to be pampered, the Bull girl admires men who never fail to make her feel special and beautiful. Hence, the basic trappings of romance are essential for her – fine dining, long-stemmed flowers, gourmet chocolates, long drives, dinner by candlelight et al. Although outwardly easygoing, the Taurus female is particular about substance and stability in life and in love.
She loves the good life, so she wants to make a wise and realistic choice when it comes to a partner for life. When in a relationship, the Bull gal doesn't believe in playing around. Yet, she expects her partner to be someone with class, taste<|fim_middle|> for. What she looks for includes security and reliability. The Taurus woman will normally have excellent taste in fashion, dressing well, using beautiful scents - and have a great natural beauty in her own right. Sometimes it is the natural beauty that stands out (though she may not think of herself as beautiful), undisguised by expensive clothing and perfumes, but with an preference for a natural environment and wholesome food. Either way, the Taurus woman enjoys the physical world for its own sake, seeing no point in justifying her enjoyment in any way (Virgo has to do that), and certainly no point in allowing emotional complexity to intrude.
Your Taurus woman's enjoyment of the physical for its own sake has wonderful implications for your sexual relationship as long as you allow plenty of time, and make sure if you deny her that you have a good pragmatic reason for doing so. But take care because if she is satisfied she will glue you to her, and if lasting commitment is not to your taste you will find it very difficult to get away. If you do manage to get away don't bank on being welcomed back (as you may wish to be when you remember her sensuality), as her wounded feelings, not to mention her common sense, may get the better of her desire to experience again whatever was good between you.
If you are the fiery type, which is quite likely since Taurus is often attracted to fire (especially, it seems, if she has the planet Venus in Taurus and you have it in a fire sign), then the Taurus woman you love will be excited by your exuberance and perhaps your naivety, but may not be able to follow you if you have spiritual or religious aspirations. If these take you physically away from her for a while, be sure to tell her when you will return. And if you return weary because you feel your explorations have not given you lasting value, she will probably not say accusingly "I told you so", but rather just welcome you back to earth and give rest to your soul! | , manners, style, spirit, and sensibility, not to mention a stable ground (fancy degrees, solid families, moolah – all count). And of course he needs to be loyal and stable; she only expects the commitment she is willing to give. The driving force of a Taurus Female is loyalty. Once she gets someone who fits the bill, she will not hesitate in sacrificing her own needs for those of her partner's.
If you are looking to love what is often called a "real woman", then a Taurus woman may suit you very well, provided you are willing to give her what she looks | 126 |
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There's more<|fim_middle|> new marketing program designed to make the latest version of the Legacy both aesthetically and financially more attractive.
The Legacy was first introduced in 1989 and currently represents about 60 percent of Suburaus' sales volume. All Legacy's sold in the U.S. are now assembled here at Subaru's modern facility in Lafayette, Indiana. Starting in mid-1995 Subaru will open a new engine assembly plant there that will turn out its 2.2 liter, horizontally opposed 4-cylinder engines. This will further increase the made-in- USA content to qualify the Legacy as a domestic vehicle.
Subaru sells safety! Part of Subaru's new pricing strategy includes lowering the price of the Active Safety Group. This package consists of AWD (all-wheel-drive), 4-wheel disc brakes, ABS (anti-lock brakes) and cruise control at a price that is 50 percent less than it was last year. Rather than try to be the vehicle for everyone, Subaru is targeting Legacy for specific geographical areas and occupations where the benefits of all-wheel-drive are widely accepted and required. However Subaru does not plan to exclude potential customers in other occupations or other geographical areas from the benefits of Active Safety and other positive attributes of the Legacy .
APPEARANCE: Subaru used to design its products for substance rather than style. While its coupes, sedans and wagons were loaded with practical features they didn't turn too many heads as they paraded down the road. However in the nineties Subaru has developed into a clean, quiet and stylish automotive product, with the Legacy AWD wagon being one of the more notable examples. Its smooth lines are slightly rounded, there's a handy roof rack on top, plus integrated bumpers in front and back, frameless side windows, large body colored side mirrors and black trim around all windows.
COMFORT: Even though the Legacy L AWD is the mid-range model in the wagon lineup, it is still very well equipped with convenience items that make travelling a pleasure. The front bucket seats are supportive and manually adjustable, while the rear ones are split 40/60, or can be folded almost flat when more cargo area is needed. Analog gages are mounted on the recessed instrument panel, as are the controls for the very efficient climate control layout and the sensitive and compact AM/FM/CD/cassette sound system. A roller-shade type cover protects items stored behind the back seats, while dual cup holders are hidden in the dash. The powered door windows are frameless, but the improved weather stripping practically eliminates wind noise. Other convenience items of note include power locks and mirrors, tilt steering wheel, cruise control and flash-to-pass headlight switch. The interior is roomy with excellent seating room for all.
SAFETY: Safety is Subaru's middle name. Long known for its active safety devices such as AWD, ABS and all-wheel disc brakes, Subaru uses many passive systems too. Among the passive safety items are dual front air bags, height adjustable front seat belts, a rigid body structure, front and rear crumple zones, and a side body protection system.
ROADABILITY: One of the advantages of full-time all-wheel dive (AWD) is better and more predictable handling in all kinds of weather, road and traffic conditions. On a part of our test ride we encountered light snow and slush on an area of twisty mountain roads and the new Legacy behaved impeccably. Contributing to its excellent road manners are speed-sensitive power steering, anti-lock disc brakes, Goodyear all-season Eagle Touring tires and independent suspension.. New weather stripping, soundproofing and close fit insure a quiet ride.
PERFORMANCE: Subaru uses its unique horizontally-opposed, four-cylinder, four-valve per cylinder, single overhead cam, multi-port, distributorless ignition engine in the Legacy.. This time- proven 2.2 liter engine now develops 135 horsepower and 140 lb/ft of torque, and produces sufficient power for all but the most drastic of driving situations. An electronically-controlled automatic transmission smoothly moves up and down through the gear ranges to deliver the proper amount of power as needed to all wheels.
CONCLUSION: In today's competitive and segmented automotive market Subaru has decided to position itself as the premier marketer of all-wheel passenger cars and station wagons in the U.S. Safety, quality and dependability are the cornerstones of Subaru's marketing image.
Base Price $ 16,955
Price As Tested $ 20,624
Engine Type H-4, sohc - 16v, smpfi
Engine Size 2.2 liter/135 cid
Horsepower 135 @ 5400
Torque (ft/lbs) 140 @ 4400
Wheelbase/Length 103"/184"
Transmission 4-speed EC automatic w/od
Curb Weight 3120
Pounds per Horsepower 23
Fuel Capacity 16
Fuel Requirement Unleaded regular (87 octane)
Tires Bridgestone SF411 P185/70R14 all-season
Brakes anti-lock standard vented disc/disc
Drive Train front engine, full time all-wheel drive
EPA Economy - miles per gallon,
city/highway/observed 22/28/23.4
0 to 60 mph 11.9 sec
1/4 mi (E.T.) 17.8 sec
Coefficient of drag (cd) .34
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Sisley skin care and makeup is ultra luxe, but the new Phyto-Teint Expert redefines all expectations of a luxury foundation. This new skin care formula delivers on all fronts. I have not been so thoroughly impressed by a liquid-to-powder foundation before! This all-day long, flawless formula enhances the surface of my skin and provides a smoother, more even-toned complexion. Find out more after the jump!
Sisley claims the Phyto-Teint provides radiance and optimal coverage. True to its word, this new oil-free foundation hides imperfections using ultra-pure pigments with perfecting and<|fim_middle|>. Since I tend to wear bronzer often, I usually go half a shade or so lighter for balance, but I love wearing the Sisley Phyto-Teint Expert in Ivory alone. I tap it in with my warm fingertips, and it does not oxidize throughout the day. I may try Porcelaine (0) and Vanilla (0+) during the winter months if my skin tone becomes fairer. Currently, there are eight shades available.
Bottom Line: I have my hands full with testing the multitude of foundation launches this Fall, but Sisley's Phyto Teint-Expert is fast becoming my favorite and potentially my Holy Grail for medium-full coverage!
How does it compare to KGD Aqua foundation?
I really want to try this foundation! How would you compare the longevity of this to YSL Fusion Ink and maybe an old favorite of yours like Lancome Teint Idole Ultra? | soft-focus powders. Phyto-Teint is also non-comedogenic and more importantly, does not emphasize any of the existing blackheads on my nose. It does not irritate my sensitive skin whatsoever.
While the new YSL Fusion Ink and the ground-breaking Armani Maestro foundations are very popular, I believe the Sisley Phyto-Teint outshines them all. Most of these new generation, 'weightless' liquid-to-powder foundations tend to accentuate any and all surface dryness, but the Phyto-Teint manages to soothe and unify. I love the semi-matte finish, which looks very much like real skin while providing medium-full coverage with just three pumps. It does not dry down quite as powdery as the Fusion Ink or Maestro; Phyto-Teint maintains a suppleness to the touch as it settles. The botanical extracts like Frangipani blossom, cucumber, and glycerin soften and moisturize, keeping my skin comfortable. I actually skip the powder entirely on colder days! Most of my readers know how much I love powder, so that should speak volumes to the loveliness of the lightweight, velvety finish.
Best of all, Ivory (1) is the perfect match for my skin tone | 262 |
The owner kindly collected me from Wien Mitte and drove me to the apartment, showing me some sights and explaining how to get around on the way. He was available to message if I needed any further information. The apartment was fine, well equipped with everything you need. Plenty in the kitchen if you wanted to cook.<|fim_middle|> в центр. Недалеко есть магазины, где в день приезда купили продукты, ресторанчики. Зимой, в квартире было тепло.
L'accueil sympathique,le fait que le propriétaire nous ait proposé un logement plus grand sans surplus, la situation géographique,à une vingtaine de minutes à pieds du centre de Vienne,le fait qu'en en bas du petit immeuble où nous résidions, il y avait un petit supermarché très pratique,le calme;.Petite précision:pour l'eclairage dans les pièces,il faut tourner l interrupteur pour augmenter la luminosité !
Gastgeber hat mich bei der Anreise kurzfristig vom Hbf abgeholt. Bei einer technischen Frage wurde alles erklärt. Später kam nochmalige Rückfrage, ob alles in Ordnung sei.
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It would have been really nice if the shower had been connected to the wall.
Not the best view but very quiet.
I couldn't find a hair-dryer. TV has a line of dead pixels in the middle of the screen. | The apartment is convenient for transport and it's pretty easy to get wherever you want to go. I had a great time and would stay there again.
Close to centre and trams. Owner took us to buy milk etc as we arrived late.
I am sorry to say this and i normaly don't do this but the flat it's horrible . Nothing works there ! There it's a horrible smell inside ! Please make clean !
This simple apartment is located 20 minutes walk from central ring in safe district. The apartment is quiet, fortunately, I didn't hear any neighbours. There is almost everything you'll need. As Vienna is an expensive city, this apartment is a value for money.
Все понравилось. Заселение было легким и отношение очень доброжелательным. Квартира полностью соответствует описанию и фотографиям, небольшая, но очень хорошо спланированная, есть все необходимое как для отдыха, так и для работы, хороший Wi-Fi . Не в самом центре ( 4 район), но 5 минут от остановок трамваев и автобуса 13 , на которых быстро и легко можно добраться | 254 |
James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift In 1907, shortly after publishing his book of love poetry titled Chamber Music, James Joyce penned a letter to his brother Stanislaus: "Some of the verses are pretty enough to be put to music. I hope someone will do so, someone that knows old English music such as I like." A century later, 36 electronic, folk and rock musicians have done just that.
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James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift
GUY RAZ, host:
If he were alive today, the Irish writer James Joyce might just feel hip enough to hang out in the club that played this:
Ms. SWEET TRIP (Singer): (Singing) Lightly common,<|fim_middle|> Their only restriction was that they couldn't mess with the words in any way, they couldn't adjust the words or place the words in a different order. And their role was as a composer of the music and Joyce was the songwriter.
RAZ: Was there something about these verses, "Chamber Music," that James Joyce wrote in 1907, 101 years ago, that just struck you, that you thought this is going to sound really interesting performed by the artists that I know?
Mr. NICHOLS: Yeah, I just think (unintelligible) and simplicity really compared to Joyce's other work. They have a kind of an airiness to them and dreaminess so…
RAZ: Almost a whimsy.
Mr. NICHOLS: Yeah, whimsy. And I think they have more of an impact as songs than they do actually as poems.
Mr. ANN CALIFONE (Singer): (Singing) Passes in the sunlight, by ways that know the light footfall?
RAZ: Chicago-based Ann Califone performing Verse 8 from the album "Chamber Music," 36 modern interpretations of James Joyce's poetry.
Mr. CALIFONE: (Singing) …mien so virginal?
RAZ: Earlier we spoke with the record's producer, James Nichols, and two artists who contributed songs - Owen Tromans and Jerry Mitchell. To hear more from the album, "Chamber Music," check out the music section of NPR.org.
Mr. CALIFONE: (Singing) …of all the sunny woodland, carry so brave attire? O, it is for my true love, the woods their rich apparel wear, O, it is for my own true love… | lightly go. Though thy heart presage thee woe…
RAZ: These lyrics, lightly common, lightly go, though thy heart presage thee woe, they were written by James Joyce. He published them in 1907 in his book of poetry called "Chamber Music." The song you're hearing is by the San Francisco-based band, Sweet Trip. It's a track off a new album of electronic, folk and pop interpretations of James Joyce's poetry. It features 36 artists, including R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and more obscure names like the Chicago-based indie rockers, Puerto Muerto.
Mr. PUERTO MUERTO (Singer): (Singing) Ah, could they ever hold me there, gladly were I a prisoner…
RAZ: The words in this song come from Verse 22 of James Joyce's chamber music poems. The album - it's also called "Chamber Music" - is the brainchild of British record producer James Nichols, who joins us now from London. Mr. Nichols, I want to read a quote from a letter James Joyce wrote to his brother Stan Islaw(ph) in 1907 about this poetry.
He writes: some of the verses are pretty enough to put to music. I hope someone will do so, someone that knows old English music such as I like. Now, Mr. Nichols, it's certainly not old English music but would James Joyce appreciate this album?
Mr. JAMES NICHOLS (Record Producer): It's a very difficult question to answer, but I think he would have because he was quite a rebel himself. And a lot of these artists on the project come from the avant-garde and that they're sailing in the opposite direction from the mainstream. So, I think he would've appreciated it if he was around today.
RAZ: Where did the idea come from? Why did you decide to take James Joyce's "Chamber Music" and ask artists to set them to music?
Mr. NICHOLS: It was a spur of the moment decision really. I didn't really dwell on it. The idea came to me as I was reading the "Chamber Music" book. I just was looking at it and thinking this would be great if it was set to music.
Unidentified Woman #2: (Singing) (Unintelligible)…
RAZ: James Nichols, when you brought this idea to all these various artists, what did you ask them to do?
Mr. NICHOLS: It was pretty simple really. They only had to put the words to music. The only restriction was that they couldn't mess with the words in any way. They couldn't adjust the words or place the words in a different order. Their role was as the composer of the music and Joyce was the songwriter.
RAZ: Mr. Nichols, two of the artists who perform on the album are with you. Singer-songwriter Owen Tromans and poet Jerry Mitchell. First, Owen Tromans, you chose verse 10 from James Joyce's "Chamber Music" to perform…
Mr. OWEN TROMANS (Singer-Songwriter): Yes.
RAZ: …on this record. The part that begins: bright cap and streamers, he sings in the hollow, come follow, come follow.
Mr. TROMANS: (Singing) Bright cap and streamers, he sings in the hollow, come follow, come follow…
RAZ: Owen Tromans, talk about the process of taking the words of one of the greatest literary figures, James Joyce, and setting it to that music. That must be a bit intimidating.
Mr. TROMANS: Well, I suppose it was intimidating. I kind of tried a few things with different verses and the tenth verse I thought would work really, really well for what I wanted to do, which was to pick up a (unintelligible) kind of a real, real kind of pastoral kind of sound. It was almost - although Joyce (unintelligible) the Irish, it kind of almost English, old kind of merry England kind of feel to some of the pieces.
And yeah, that's why I decided to do it in that style, which is just a guitar and voice.
(Singing) With ribbons streaming…
The song felt like a pop song to me, and so that's why it's performed with that amount of melody and that amount of simplicity if you like.
RAZ: And next to you is Jerry Mitchell. And, Jerry, you also sang on this album. Verse 26…
Mr. JERRY MITCHELL (Singer): Yeah.
RAZ: …from Joyce's "Chamber Music." Can you read from that part of the poem for us and then we'll hear some of the actual track from the record.
Mr. MITCHELL: All right. Yeah, I'll just get up. Thou leanest to the shell of night, dear lady, a divining ear in that soft quieting of delight. What sound hath made thy heart to fear? Seemed it of rivers rushing forth…
(Singing) …from the grey deserts of the north? That mood of thine is his, if thou but scan it well, who a mad tale bequeaths to us, at ghosting hour conjurable, and all for some strange name he read in Purchas or in Holinshed.
RAZ: Jerry Mitchell, what do you think James Joyce is trying to say with these words?
Mr. MITCHELL: Well, I think he's trying to say that love's such a fickle thing that you can gather all away for just a line of what you dread about something that's totally obscure to you. You know, your whole world can be changed in an instant.
RAZ: James Nichols, this is love poetry that James Joyce…
Mr. NICHOLS: That's right.
RAZ: …wrote. How does it sort of unfold through those 36 verses?
Mr. NICHOLS: Well, it charts love from innocence to experience. I mean, that's the quote we used to promote the record but it's also the quote used many, many times to explain that it charts low from that kind of, like, the beginnings of love where you lust and excited with the boy or girl that you are with until it essentially eats you up and consumes you.
And there's a great quote from Joyce himself. He said that he wrote this while wandering the streets as a young boy in Dublin just hoping that some girl would love him. And I think that's what he says it all to be honest.
Unidentified Man #2: (Singing) My dove, my beautiful one, arise, arise.
Mr. NICHOLS: It was pretty simple really. They only had to put the words to music. | 1,416 |
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Chances are you've heard the hype about Instagram and may have even started an Instagram account for<|fim_middle|> you use, the more you're engaging with other Instagramers, the faster your audience will grow. So get to posting!
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If you're looking for great people to follow, try following people that your followers follow (I know, that's a mouthful!). When you go to your notifications page on Instagram, switch over to the "Following" tab. This will show you all the posts that those you follow are engaging with. Chances are you will have similar interests and like many of the posts and people that those you're following like. You can click on the posts and go to these other users' profiles. Scroll through and follow anyone of interest. Instagram is fairly reciprocal and if you like and engage with people, they will often like you back. Just a heads up though, don't follow someone just to get them to follow you and then unfollow them – it's rude and not good etiquette. Follow people you have a genuine interest in.
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'Girls rule': Teen-led event offers inspiration, empowerment
by Sam Stroozas May 25th, 2022 May 26th, 2022
Miss Illinois Teen USA, Gissell Bahena, told the young girls, "I want you to be yourself, boldly yourself, what you have in you right now - no one can take that away from you." Credit: Sam Stroozas
"No Scrubs" by TLC and "Déjà vu" by Olivia Rodrigo echoed through a speaker as dozens of young girls sang along at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center.
Nearly 100 girls from around Illinois participated Saturday in Girls Who Lead, a day of empowering workshops hosted by the founder of the Her Rising nonprofit, Cherie Animashaun, who is a junior at Niles West High School.
Animashaun has been hard at work distributing her workbooks – Compass: Her Steps in the Right Direction – to assist young girls and women with self-help materials at an affordable price, and leading on the Girls Play Sports board.
Girls raise their bouquets to win at "Guess that Song." Credit: Sam Stroozas
But Animashaun wanted to do more, so she launched Girls Who Lead, a statewide leadership event that connects young girls to STEM, dance, arts and culinary workshops. Animashaun applied for a community grant through Evanston's Cradle to Career organization and was able to host the event in conjunction with the Hershey Company.
Kim Holmes-Ross, community engagement specialist for Cradle to Career, said when she saw Animashaun's application cross her desk, she knew Cradle to Career had to be a supporter.
"Today has just been beautiful," Holmes-Ross said, describing the event. "It is a safe space for girls, and we need more of these in the cruel world we live in. This feels kind and caring, it feels good."
Animashaun enlisted the help of many of her friends and local young activists, including Evanston Township High School sophomore Olivia Ohlson, founder of Diversify Golf and Evanston Hygiene Kits, to lead the day of events. The girls were split into different workshops: screenwriting, dance, computer science, engineering, cooking and community leadership. The day ended with a keynote speaker, Gissell Bahena, Miss Illinois Teen USA.
Chef Debbie Gold teaches the young girls how to perfectly slice tomatoes. Credit: Sam Stroozas
Evelyn Herbert, a friend of Animashaun's and a fellow junior at Niles West High School, helped organize the event and took photos. Herbert said she enjoyed seeing the girls participate in STEM workshops and be able to ask questions without being "overshadowed" by young boys.
"I think it is really important for young girls to have an outlet and learn stuff they don't typically learn in school," she said. "They can't be overshadowed here."
Kemone Hendricks, founder of Evanston Present and Future and Evanston's annual Juneteenth parade, hosted the community leadership workshop. She said Animashaun reached out to her to lend her expertise and she "<|fim_middle|>ozas is a reporter and the social media manager at the Evanston RoundTable. She covers small businesses, social justice and human interest stories. Contact her at sam@evanstonroundtable.com and... More by Sam Stroozas
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"I admire all that Cherie has done at the age of 17 to put this whole event together," she said. "It has been amazing, these young girls are all extremely educated and they have blown me away. It has been a very insightful time for me."
Kate Compton leads a computer science workshop. Credit: Sam Stroozas
Many of the attendees at Girls Who Lead said they appreciated the event because they feel like there aren't many spaces dedicated solely to young girls.
Ten-year-old best friends, Jailyn Davis and Noelle Chaney, said their moms signed them up to go together.
"We are having lots of fun, the food was amazing," Jailyn said. "Girls rule, and without women, there wouldn't even be any boys."
"Or hair products and women's rights," added Noelle.
Animashaun said the event exceeded her expectations but "this is just the beginning," adding that it will continue twice a year, with the next one planned for August.
Jailyn Davis (left) and Noelle Chaney pose for a photo. Credit: Sam Stroozas
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The NEMSIS NHTSA Version 2.2.1 DataDictionary provides over 400 definitions that can be implemented by an EMS system. National data elements are defined that should be collected for the National EMS Database, but additional data elements should be considered for use<|fim_middle|> been added, the script adds in the Primary keys for each table and then establishes the foreign key relationships between the different tables. To maintain the validity of data, the "DEMOGRAPHIC" database is more stringent than its corresponding XSD's. Users of the "DEMOGRAPHIC" scripts should keep this in mind while using the database structure created by the scripts. | at the state and local levels depending on each state or local EMS system's need.
A copy of a guide for using the NHTSA NEMSIS Version 2.2.1 dataset entitled "Data Entry Navigation Logic Document" as recommended by the EMS Performance Improvement Center (EMSPIC) is available for public use. The EMSPIC was an essential partner with the NEMSIS TAC for the development of the NEMSIS NHTSA Version 2.1.1 dataset, offering experience and best practice recommendations on the use and documentation of the dataset by EMS professionals. The EMSPIC provided this document as an example for software developers.
The navigation logic document describes how each of the NHTSA NEMSIS Version 2.2.1 data elements can be presented to an EMS software user in the most efficient way while improving data quality and validity.
The EMSPIC developed this document based on years of experience in developing EMS data entry tools and data analysis systems.
If you have any suggestions on how to make this document better, please forward them to the NEMSIS TAC or Jeff Robertson at the EMSPIC for consideration. The EMSPIC maintains this document on the EMSPIC website (www.EMSPIC.org) for everyone's use.
An EMS Dataset is a subset of information describing a complete EMS event. It includes information that is considered important from an EMS system, EMS personnel, and an EMS patient's perspective. The data elements within the EMS dataset provide documentation of the system performance and clinical care.
The EMS Database scripts are designed to be executed from within a database management tool such as MS Query Analyzer or TOAD. The script will first create a database called "NEMSIS," and then it will add the tables required to support the EMS XSD.
Once all of the tables have been added, the script adds in the Primary keys for each table and then establishes the foreign key relationships between the different tables. The database structure has been tested against the XSD's and was used to import sample data.
The DEMOGRAPHIC Database scripts are designed to be executed from within a database management tool, such as MS Query Analyzer or TOAD. The script will first create a database called "DEMOGRAPHIC," and then it will add the tables required to support the DEMOGRAPHIC XSD.
Once all of the tables have | 479 |
BABY PANDA's name is "Saihin".
Image of the panda family of information and Saihin You can see.
This spring's baby was born.
We have many new lives.
"Happy Wedding" compiled under the supervision of Adventure World.
Only one Wedding / A couple's story starts being blessed by animals.
Let's learned animals from animals.
AWS Animal Academy / Open Campus open for entries in 2017.
We aim to develop of human resources that it can realize the importance of life, kindness and importance of big-hearted with a theme of contact with persons, animals, and nature.
Saihin will celebrate 8 months after birth.
Cape penguin<|fim_middle|> | baby was born.
Ring-tailed Lemur baby was born.
Various kinds of rare animals that we want you to see at least once.
There are typical animals of the wild, for example, Giant Pandas , Lions, African Elephants, Reticulatad Giraffes, and Bottlenose Dolphins. In Adventure World, you can have close contact with animals.
There are tons of attractive goods in our unique shops offering park confectionery and park original goods of many kinds of animals like Giant Panda and Penguin.
Our restaurants have a great variety of dishes.
Enjoy various menus! From children to adults, you can dine on a hearty meat dish, fresh seafood, and casual café plates and so on.
You can experience extraordinary adventure in about 800,000 square kilometers of park ground!
In Adventure World, there is a large-scale zoo, aquarium and amusement park all in one that will keep you entertained all day.
Park operation day with special night adventure.
*On the busy day, park opening hours may be changed. | 232 |
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Dickens' London
Jillian Rose Banks (born June 16, 1988), known simply as Banks (often stylized as BANKS), is an American singer and songwriter from Orange County, California. She releases music under Harvest Records, Good Years Recordings and IAMSOUND Records imprints of the major label Universal Music Group.
She has toured internationally with The Weeknd and was also nominated for the Sound of 2014 award by the BBC and an MTV Brand New Nominee in 2014. On May 3, 2014, Banks was dubbed as an "Artist to Watch" by FoxWeekly.
Jillian Rose Banks was born in Orange County, California. Banks started writing songs at the age of fifteen. She taught herself piano when she received a keyboard from a friend to help her through her parents' divorce. She says she "felt very alone and helpless. I didn't know how to express what I was feeling or who to talk to."
2013–present: Breakthrough and Goddess
Banks used the audio distribution website SoundCloud to put out her music before securing a record deal. Her friend Lily Collins used her contacts to pass along her music to people in the industry; specifically Katy Perry's DJ Yung Skeeter, and she began working with the label Good Years Recordings. Her first official single, called "Before I Ever Met You" was released in February 2013. The song which had been on a private SoundCloud page ended up being played by BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. Banks released her first EP Fall Over by IAMSOUND Records and Good Years Recordings.Billboard called her a "magnetic writer with songs to obsess over." Banks released her second EP called London by Harvest Records and Good Years Recordings in 2013 to positive reviews from music critics, receiving a 78 from Metacritic. Her song "Waiting Game" from the EP was featured in the 2013 Victoria's Secret holiday commercial.
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London is a Canadian city located in Southwestern Ontario along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 366,151 according to the 2011 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately halfway between Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. The City of London is a separated municipality, politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat.
London and the Thames were named in 1793 by Lord Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest Southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest municipality, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surrounded it.
London is a regional centre of health care and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and several hospitals. The city hosts a number of musical and artistic exhibits and festivals, which contribute to its tourism industry, but its economic activity is centred on education, medical research, insurance, and information technology. London's university and hospitals are among its top ten employers. London lies at the junction of Highway 401 and 402, connecting it to Toronto, Windsor, and Sarnia. It also has an international airport, train and bus station.
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Charles Dickens' works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels. These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character.
Dickens described London as a Magic lantern, a popular entertainment of the Victorian era, which projected images from slides. Of all Dickens' characters 'none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself', it fired his imagination and made him write. In a letter to John Forster, in 1846, Dickens wrote 'a day in London sets me up and starts me', but outside of the city, 'the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern is IMMENSE!!'
However, of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work, scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist, and, while 'you can track Dickens' London, and see where things were, but they aren't necessarily still there'.
In addition to his later novels and short stories, Dickens' descriptions of London, published in various newspapers in the 1830s, were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836.
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Luke Lawn
My name is Luke Lawn and I am currently a senior in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. My course of study is Information Management and Technology and I have a minor in global enterprise technologies. I am very excited to be working with WCNY throughout the course of this semester. I am working with a project team of three other students at Syracuse to produce new content for the WCNY website. Our goal is to actively engage the community through fun and frequent events in the area.
This summer I worked for a Pharmaceutical Service company in Exton, PA. While I was there, I had the opportunity to take a week of my internship and dedicate it to community service. I assisted a local food shelter move their entire operation to a new location. This included hundreds of thousands of pounds of food products, business materials, shelving and more. I also assisted with updating their website content. I enjoy giving back to the community and will look to work for companies who also value giving back to their communities.
I am passionate about technology and how it can be used to better our world. One of the reasons I am so excited to be working with WCNY is their utilization of many forms of technology. Education is the basis for a strong society. I have been fortunate enough to have access to spectacular educational facilities throughout my life and I look forward to promoting the education of others through community engagement.
Andrew Godnick
Have you ever met an obsessed sports fan who has been to Disney World 20 times? No? Well, now you have.
Hi, my name's Andrew Godnick and I'm a junior sport management major with a coaching minor at Syracuse University. Ever since the day I could hold a basketball people have symbolized it with, and as, me—it has defined me; it has become me. From a varsity captain to a beat writer for the Syracuse Men's Basketball team for NunesMagican, basketball has become the reason why I get up every morning. The game has provided me an outlet to express myself both on and off the court. However, despite this jock image you may have of me, I am not that tall serious athlete that stands out in the room.
I'm a 5'8", but really 5'7", guy who has an extreme obsession with Disney World. From Space Mountain to walking the countries in Epcot, Disney World is my happy place that provides me somewhere to be the 12-year-old boy I really am. Really, ask co-Disney-fan brother what it's like watching a 21-year-old run through the streets of the Magic Kingdom with a smile the size of Mickey Mouse's ears on his face. There aren't many of us sports fans that want to spend their time in a Mickey Mouse costume, but it's what separates me from the rest and what allows me to<|fim_middle|> for common usage. My courses, apply directly to our project and possible future endeavors at WCNY. My role can be very diverse and flexible considering my experience ranging from editor to mediator.
In my time serving the community, I have served meals to the poor in soup kitchens, volunteered for Meals on Wheels, the Breast Cancer Walk with my previous college. I was also a Senator in Student Government involved in Academic Senate and many other activities that represented BMCC as a whole on behalf of the students. I prefer any type of leadership role most times I find myself to be the leader or on equal standing with everyone in the group as team players. I approach everyone with respect, a smile, and an open ear for understanding.
I am dedicated to not only to my group, but to WCNY as well. I am passionate about bringing our group together and achieving great work that will leave an impression on WCNY. It is my duty to strive for the best whilst motivating my team and others around us do the very best. I believe that we can accomplish our work combining our many versatilities together to make a great team.
WCNY Round Table Discussion
As fall commences in upstate New York, voters are starting to look forward to the upcoming general election in November. While there are no seats up for re-election, the election is not one to be overlooked! This general election is particularly exciting because it will include a ballot that New York natives see only once every 20 years. See More!
Double Down Preview
By Andrew Godnick
Are you ready to feel disappointed with your intelligence? Are you ready to be out-smarted, out-worked, and out-trained? Well, you're about to face the hardest test of your life on Sunday, Nov. 5 at 6 p.m. — except, you'll be behind the cameras. See More!
Syracuse Mayoral Race
By Luke Lawn
The political season is upon us in New York State. Make sure to stay informed with your friends here at WCNY! There are a few different votes approaching and it is important to stay educated about upcoming political decisions and issues. See More!
The 46ers Premiere Party
By Nico Basile
On Nov. 8 from 5-7 p.m. ,WCNY will be hosting a Premiere Party for The 46ers. The documentary captures those who create life experiences from scaling the 46 Adirondack Mountain High Peaks in New York state. See More!
The seasons are changing from fall to winter in New York State. The weather starts to cool and thoughts of snow approach, but the community remains active! WCNY has adopted the spirit of fall and has plenty of shows and community events hosted before the weather gets too cold. See More!
American Graduate Day 2017
WCNY-TV presented American Graduate Day on Oct. 14. American Graduate Day highlighted the inspiring organizations/individuals that help students graduate from high school and focus their attention onto the next chapter of their lives. See More! | live my life as one that is full of joy and excitement. I hate heights but will do any roller coaster that presents itself to me; I hate ketchup but love tomatoes; I hate chocolate ice cream but love anything else chocolate.
So, yeah, I'm a little corky at times, but it's what makes me who I am and I can't to share the latest gossip/news with all you readers.
Nico Basile
Brianna Johannes
I am recent transfer from Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) in New York City with an Associate's Degree, majoring in Communications with a concentration in Broadcast Journalism. I am a Junior, double majoring in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication & Rhetorical Studies. My experience in journalism, writing, and communications proves serving to this project due to other works not only inside of the classroom, but outside of the classroom.
For two summer's I worked at a Public Relations firm in which I learned how to work and write at a professional level. I also learned how to deal with public life, how to create exposure for a client, how to network, and how to create a clientele. In my three years of college I have learned many different versions of writing both short and long. My knowledge ranges from business communication to public speaking, intercultural communication, conflict resolution, marketing, etc. This semester I am taking a class where I am learning how to code, create a website, along with making apps functional | 301 |
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Trinity Sunday (Year B)
In an earlier era, the Feast of the Visitation was assigned to July 2, the day after the end of the octave following the feast of the birth of John the Baptist, who was still in his mother's womb at the time of the Visitation.
In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved it to its current date of May 31, "between the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord (March 25) and that of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24), so that it would harmonize better with the Gospel story."
And Mary rising up in those days went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda. [Lk. 1.39]
How lyrical that is, the opening sentence of St. Luke's description of the Visitation. We can feel the rush of warmth and kindness, the sudden urgency of love that sent that girl hurrying over the hills. "Those days" in which she rose on that impulse were the days in which Christ was being formed in her, the impulse was his impulse.
Many women, if they were expecting a child, would refuse to hurry over the hills on a visit of pure kindness. They would say they had a duty to themselves and to their unborn child which came before anything or anyone else.
The Mother of God considered no such thing. Elizabeth was going to have a child, too, and although Mary's own child was God, she could not forget Elizabeth's need—almost incredible to us, but characteristic of her.
She greeted her cousin Elizabeth, and at the sound of her voice, John quickened in his mother's womb and leapt for joy.
I am come, said Christ, that they may have life and may have it more abundantly. [Jn. 10.10] Even before He was born His presence gave life.
With what piercing shoots of joy does this story of Christ unfold! First the conception of a child in a child's heart, and then this first salutation, an infant leaping for joy in his mother's womb, knowing the hidden Christ and leaping into life.
How did Elizabeth herself know what had happened to Our Lady? What made her realize that this little cousin who was so familiar to her was the mother of her God?
She knew it by the child within herself, by the quickening into life which was a leap of joy.
If we practice this contemplation taught and shown to us by Our Lady, we will find that our experience is like hers.
If Christ is growing in us, if we are at peace, recollected, because we know that however insignificant our life seems to be, from it He is forming Himself; if we go with eager wills, "in haste," to wherever our circumstances compel us, because we believe that He desires to be in that place, we shall find that we are driven more and more to act on the impulse of His love.
And the answer we shall get from others to those impulses will be an awakening into life, or the leap into joy of the already wakened life within them. [Excerpted from Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God]
Almighty ever-living God, who, while the Blessed Virgin Mary was carrying your Son in her womb, inspired her to visit Elizabeth, grant us, we pray, that, faithful to the promptings of the Spirit, we may magnify your greatness with the Virgin Mary at all times. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Trinity Sunday (Year "B") - June 3, 2012
TO GIVE GLORY TO THE TRINITY
[Texts: Deuteronomy 4.32-34, 39-40 [Psalm 33]; Romans 8.4-17; Matthew 28.6-20]
In different ways, both the Old and New Testaments witness to God's interaction with people chosen to journey from this world into the mystery of the One God.
The Book of Deuteronomy was often on the lips of Jesus. It gives unique testimony to the love of God in the history of Israel. Telling of God's mysterious predilection for Israel, Deuteronomy reveals a spontaneous and unmerited gift from God, one previously unheard of among the nations of the world:
God chose a nation in bondage in Egypt and made them His peculiar possession, redeeming them from slavery and revealing to them laws and statutes that would ensure Israel's holiness and happiness. For the Deuteronomist, clinging to this Lord—who alone is God in heaven and on earth—becomes the only path to peace and serenity.
The New Testament declares that this redeeming and revealing God became manifest when the heavenly Father worked to save people in an entirely new manner through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Not a break with the past, this saving design flows from God's earlier revelation. In fact, Christ's death and resurrection are said to constitute a new Exodus (this time from the bondage of sin) and his teaching a new revelation to be completely obeyed as the path to eternal life.
In Romans Paul remarks that, when Christians entered into union with Christ by baptism, they received a gift of adoption into the inner life of the Trinity, sharing intimate family life with God. The Holy Spirit was lavishly poured into human hearts to enable them to pray as Jesus did in Gethsemane, "Abba! Father!" (cf. Mark 14.36).
Paul borrowed the legal term 'adoption' from the Greco-Roman world in which he lived rather than from Judaism (which did not have such adoptive practices). He applied it to Christians of both Jewish and Gentile background. In his milieu, such an adoption meant the legal assumption of someone into the status of sonship within a natural family.
The Holy Spirit, who effects this adoption of the believer into God's family, causes the Christian to enter into a special relationship with Christ, the unique Son, and with the Father. Thus do Christians become God's daughters and sons, sisters and brothers of Jesus.
For Christians, the only God of the universe became manifest in a totally new way in the person of Christ, the risen Lord. His divinity led the disciples to adore him, even if a degree of resistance persisted among them ("When [the Eleven disciples] saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted").
This glorified and majestic Jesus declared that the Father had given Him sole authority over all the inhabitants of the earth ("All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations ... teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you").
Baptism in the name of the Trinity would be the sign that people agreed with God's revelation in Jesus ("baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"). Though the Persons of the Trinity are mentioned, use of the singular 'name' in their regard points to the unity of the three.
Only Matthew records Jesus' command to baptize, but the practice of the early Church supports its historical nature (cf. Acts 2.38; 8.12, 38; 9:18, etc.) Early accounts of the church's baptismal practice sometimes refer to the sacrament as having been administered "in the name of Jesus Christ" (Acts 2.38; 10.48) or "in the name of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 8.16; 19.5). Clearly, baptismal terminology used by the early church knew various formulations before our Trinitarian formula became normative.
The 600th Anniversary of the Birth of Saint Joan of Arc - Sainte Jeanne d'Arc [memoire facultative]
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, also known as the Maid of Orleans; Jean D'arc; Jehanne Darc, was one of five children born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romee: shepherdess and mystic. She received visions from Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Michael the Archangel from age 13.
In the early 15th century, England, in alliance with Burgundy, controlled most of what is modern France. In May 1428 Joan's visions told her to find the true king of France and help him reclaim his throne.
Carrying a banner that read "Jesus, Mary", she led troops from one battle to another. Her victories from February 23, 1429 to May 23, 1430 brought Charles VII to the throne. Captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English for ten thousand francs, she was tried by an ecclesiastical court, and executed as a heretic. In 1456 her case was re-tried, and Joan was acquitted (23 years too late).
"About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter" - Saint Joan of Arc, as recorded at her trial.
Born: 6 January 1412 at Greux-Domremy, Lorraine, France; died burned alive on 30 May 1431 at Rouen, France; beatified April 11, 1905 by Pope Saint Pius X; canonized May 16, 1920 by Pope Benedict XV.
SAINTE JEANNE D'ARC
Vierge, Libératrice de la France (1412-1431)
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc montre une fois de plus, et d'une manière particulièrement éclatante, deux choses: combien Dieu aime la France et comme il est vrai qu'Il Se plaît à choisir les plus faibles instruments pour l'accomplissement des plus grandes choses.
Jeanne d'Arc naquit à Domremy, dans la Lorraine actuelle, le 6 janvier 1412; ses parents, Jacques d'Arc et Isabelle Romée, étaient des cultivateurs faisant valoir leur petit bien. La première parole que lui apprit sa mère fut le nom de Jésus; toute sa science se résuma dans le Pater, l'Ave, le Credo et les éléments essentiels de la religion. Elle approchait souvent du tribunal de la pénitence et de la Sainte Communion; tous les témoignages contemporains s'accordent à dire qu'elle était « une bonne fille, aimant et craignant Dieu », priant beaucoup Jésus et Marie. Son curé put dire d'elle: « Je n'ai jamais vu de meilleure chrétienne, et il n'y a pas sa pareille dans toute la paroisse. »
La France était alors à la merci des Anglais et des Bourguignons, leurs alliés; la situation du roi Charles VII était désespérée. Mais Dieu Se souvint de Son peuple, et afin que l'on vît d'une manière évidente que le salut venait de Lui seul, Il Se servit d'une humble fille des champs. Jeanne avait treize ans quand l'Archange saint Michel lui apparut une première fois, vers midi, dans le jardin de son père, lui donna des conseils pour sa conduite et lui déclara que Dieu voulait sauver la France par elle. Les visions se multiplièrent; l'Archange protecteur de la France était accompagné de sainte Catherine et de sainte Marguerite, que Dieu donnait à Jeanne comme conseillères et comme soutien.
Jusqu'ici la vie de Jeanne est l'idylle d'une pieuse bergère; elle va devenir l'épopée d'une guerrière vaillante et inspirée; elle avait seize ans quand le roi Charles VII, convaincu de sa mission par des signes miraculeux, lui remit la conduite de ses armées. Bientôt Orléans est délivrée, les Anglais tremblent et fuient devant une jeune fille. Quelques mois plus tard, le roi était sacré à Reims.
Dans les vues divines, la vie de Jeanne devait être couronnée par l'apothéose du martyre: elle fut trahie à Compiègne, vendue aux Anglais, et après un long emprisonnement, où elle subit tous les outrages, condamnée et brûlée à Rouen (30 mai 1431). Son âme s'échappa de son corps sous la forme d'une colombe, et son coeur ne fut pas touché par les flammes.
L'Église a réhabilité sa mémoire et l'a élevée au rang des Saintes. Jeanne d'Arc demeure la gloire de la France, sa Protectrice puissante et bien-aimée. Elle a été déclarée sa Patronne secondaire par un Bref du Pape Pie XI, le 2 mars 1922. [Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950.]
Saints John of Avila & Hildegard of Bingen to be Doctors of the Church
Saint John of Ávila, Apostle of Andalusia (San Juan de Ávila) (January 6, 1500 – May 10, 1569) was a priest, preacher, scholastic author, religious mystic and saint.
At the conclusion of a special World Youth Day Mass for seminarians at the Cathedral Church of Santa María La Real de la Almudena, in Madrid, Spain, on 20 August 2011, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would soon declare St. John the 34th Doctor of the Universal Church.
On Pentecost Sunday, the Holy Father noted that he make this solemn pronoucement at the Opening Mass of the Synod on the "New Evangelization" and will also add St. Hildegard of Bingen to the list of those who, by their way of life and the wisdom of their spiritual doctrine are worthy of being designated perennial "teachers of the Church".
St. John of Avila was a parish priest and theologian in 16th century Spain who exercised some influence over ideas concerning the reform of priestly reformation at the Council of Trent. Avila linked the priesthood closely to the Eucharist and regarded holiness as the preeminent quality of a priest, who must serve as a mediator between God and man. To this end, he recommended painstaking selection of candidates followed by rigorous spiritual and intellectual formation within a community. For Avila, renewal of the priesthood demanded the priest's conformity to Christ as both Good Shepherd and High Priest.
Sixteenth century Spain was a golden age of sanctity during which a veritable procession of saints appeared on the scene before and after the Council of Trent and contributed in a multitude of ways to the reform and renewal of the Church. We might mention, for example, such saints as Ignatius of Loyola, Peter of Alcantara, Teresa of Avila, Francis Borgia, and John of God. All of these saints were religious who renewed the life of the Church by founding or reforming communities that became renowned for holiness of life and apostolic zeal. Less often noticed, but definitely a participant in the procession of sixteenth century Spanish saints is St. John of Avila, a diocesan priest who laboured as a preacher, confessor, spiritual director, catechist, evangelizer, educator, and theologian and knew and helped each and all of the saints mentioned above.
Venerated in Spain as the patron of diocesan priests, John Avila was a major figure in the reform of the life and ministry of parish priests who, as shepherds of Christ's faithful, have direct influence on the holiness of the Church. His teaching on the priesthood and its renewal continues to be illuminating for the Church, especially in the contemporary situation in which profound questions have been raised about priestly life and ministry. Avila was profoundly convinced of the holiness of the priestly state and of the holiness of life required of each and every priest. He considered the very holiness of the Church and its members to depend on the careful selection and formation of candidates for the priesthood so that they might be holy and exercise their office of sanctifying others.
St. Hildegard of Bingen was a most remarkable woman, and one of the greatest figures of the 12th century. This German mystic was a poet and a prophet, a physician and a moralist. She fearlessly rebuked popes and bishops, princes and lay people.
Becoming a nun at 15, Hildegard led an uneventful life for the next 17 years. But more and more she found herself foretelling the future in her conversations. After she became prioress of her community she felt the need to begin writing down the visions and revelations that were coming to her. The archbishop of Mainz examined her writings and declared, "These visions come from God." Encouraged, she began her greatest work, 26 visions dealing with God and man, creation, redemption and the Church. Full of apocalyptic language, warnings and prophesies, the writing took 10 years to complete. Pope Eugenius III examined the results and cautiously told Hildegard to continue to write whatever the Holy Spirit told her to publish.
With the blessing of the pope, Hildegard, overcoming much opposition, built a larger monastery for her nuns in a place that had been revealed to her in a vision. The new monastery had such things as running water for the 50 women religious who resided there. And Hildegard was able to entertain the community with hymns and canticles for which she wrote both the music and the words. She composed a sacred cantata and wrote 50 allegorical homilies to be used for community reading.
Her more than 300 letters, written to popes and kings, to clergy and abbesses, are full of warnings and prophecies. As was to be expected, she was widely criticized by some, including her own nuns, while others valued her counsel. Despite sickness, she continued to write. One book was on natural history, another on medicine. Some of her ideas on blood circulation and mental illness were far ahead of her time.
Although she has never been formally canonized, the Roman Martyrology lists her as a saint.
Hildegard once said, "These visions which I saw—I beheld them neither in sleep nor dreaming nor in madness nor with my bodily eyes or ears, nor in hidden places; but I saw them in full view and according to God's will, when I was wakeful and alert, with the eyes of the spirit and the inward ears."
KofC Ontario State Convention, Toronto
On the Victoria Day weekend I attended the Knights of Columbus Ontario State Convention at the Doubletree Hotel at the Toronto International Airport. It was good to see large numbers of fellow knights from across Ontario, particularly a good contingent of francophone and English-speaking Knights and their Ladies from the Archdiocese of Ottawa. A few days before, Knight Armand Lafond had come by my office to present me with a cheque, the proceeds of the Annual Dinner in favour of my charitable fund (below).
Here are a few photos from the Convention:
Former Staff Deputy Art Peters and Rick McLaughlin
More brother Knights
This week, I will be in Niagara Falls at the Carmelite Retreat Centre for one of the sessions of the HAMILTON PRIESTS RETREAT, which I commend to your prayers. Blogging will be lighter until the weekend.
The Solemnity of PENTECOST: The Birthday of the Church
By Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Almighty ever-living God, who willed the Paschal Mystery to be encompassed as a sign in fifty days, grant that from out of the scattered nations the confusion of many tongues may be gathered by heavenly grace into one great confession of your name. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Memorial of St. Philip Neri, Founder of the Oratory
Cyril Leeper, St. Philip in ecstacy during Mass
(as viewed by Fr Jonathan Robinson) 2012
Today, the Church remembers St. Philip Neri, founder of The Congregation of the Oratory.
Happy Feast Day to the members of the Toronto Oratory, who have responsibility for the parishes of St. Vincent de Paul and Holy Family and who direct St. Philip's Seminary.
Congratulations also to Father Jonathan Robinson, who two weeks ago celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his priestly ordination.
In Canada, St. Philip Neri is the patron of the home missions, Catholic Missions in Canada.
Saint Philip Neri, one of the glories of Florence, was born of an illustrious Christian family in that city of Tuscany, in 1515. His parents lived in the fear of God and the observance of His commandments, and raised their son to be obedient and respectful. Already when he was five years old, he was called good little Philip. He lost his mother while still very young, and it seemed he should have died himself when he was about eight or nine years old. He fell, along with a horse, onto a pavement from a certain height. Though the horse landed on top of him, he was entirely uninjured. He attributed his preservation to a special intervention of God, destined to permit him to dedicate his life to the service of God.
He fled from a prospective inheritance to Rome, where he desired to study, and there undertook to tutor the two sons of a nobleman who offered him refuge. He led so edifying a life that word of it reached Florence, and his sister commented that she had never doubted he would become a great Saint. He studied philosophy and theology, and after a short time seemed to need to study no longer, so clear were the truths of God in his mind. He always kept the Summa Theologica of Saint Thomas Aquinas near him for consultation; this and the Holy Bible were his only books.
Saint Philip seemed surrounded by a celestial splendor, the effect of his angelic purity, which he never lost in spite of the many dangers that surrounded him; he came victorious from every combat, through prayer, tears and confidence in God. He often visited the hospitals to serve the sick and assist the poor. At night he would go to the cemetery of Saint Callixtus, where he prayed near the tombs of the martyrs.
He attracted a number of companions who desired to perform these devotions with him. He loved young boys most of all; he wanted to warn them against the world's seductions and conserve their virtue in all its freshness. He would wait for them and talk to them after their classes; and many whom his examples impressed consecrated themselves to God. Assisted by his excellent confessor, he founded a Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity for the relief of the poor, convalescents, and pilgrims who had no place of refuge. He gave lodging to many in the great jubilee year of 1550, even receiving several complete families in the houses he had obtained.
At the age of 36 he was not yet a priest, and his confessor commanded him under obedience to receive Holy Orders, which he did in the same year of 1551. He joined a society of priests and heard many confessions. Saint Ignatius of Loyola called him Philip the Bell, saying he was like a parish church bell, calling everyone to church, but remaining in his tower — this because he determined so many souls to enter into religion, without doing so himself. He himself was about to follow Saint Francis Xavier's renowned examples, by going to India with twenty young companions, but was advised by an interior voice to consult a saintly priest. He was then told that the will of God was that he live in the city of Rome as in a desert.
The famous Society of Saint Philip, called The Oratory, began when a group of good priests joined him in giving instructions and conferences and presiding prayers; for them he drew up some rules which were soon approved. He became renowned all over Italy for the instances of bilocation which were duly verified during his lifetime. Many holy servants of God were formed in the Oratory, a society of studious priests, made ready by ten years of preparation in the common life for a service founded on sacerdotal perfection. Saint Philip died peacefully in 1595 on the Feast of Corpus Christi at the age of 80, having been ill for only one day. He bears the noble titles of Patron of Works of Youth, and Apostle of Rome. [Source: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 5.]
Father, you continually raise up your faithful to the glory of holiness. In your love kindle in us the fire of the Holy Spirit who so filled the heart of Philip Neri. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
A Visit to Salt + Light TV Staff - OM: St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi
Among my varied activities last week while I was in Toronto was a visit to Salt and Light TV. There I concelebrated Mass with Father Tom Rosica CSB, the CEO, and afterwards delighted in lunch and conversation with these dynamic young (and young-at-heart) people involved in contributing to the new evangelization through the new media (tv, radio, apps, blogs, etc.--you name it, they're into it!)
A few more photos follow:
When I had this blog entry ready for posting, I noticed that the Salt and Light TV blog mentioned my visit as one of many that take place regularly; to read about it, go to http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/
SAINT MARY MAGDELENE DE' PAZZI
Today's liturgy allows for three possible optional memorials: St. Bede the Venerable, Pope St. Gregory VII and the mystic featured above.
Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, a highly gifted mystic, had made a vow of chastity at the age of ten. She entered the convent of the Discalced Carmelite nuns in Florence, because the practice of receiving holy Communion almost daily was observed there.
For five years her only food was bread and water. She practiced the most austere penances and for long periods endured complete spiritual aridity. Her favorite phrase was: "Suffer, not die!" Her body has remained incorrupt to the present day; it is preserved in a glass coffin in the church of the Carmelite nuns at Florence.
Purity of soul and love of Christ are the chief virtues which the Church admires in St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi. These virtues matured her spiritually and enabled her to take as a motto, "Suffer, not die!"
Purity and love are also the virtues which the Church today exhorts us to practice in imitation of the saint. We may never attain her high degree of holiness, but we can at least strive to suffer patiently out of love for Christ. [— Excerpted from Pius Parsch, The Church's Year of Grace.]
O God, lover of virginity, who adorned with heavenly gifts the Virgin Saint Mary Magdalene de'Pazzi, setting her on fire with your love, grant, we pray, that we, who honor her today, may imitate her example of purity and love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. +Amen.
Blessed / Bienheureux Louis-Zepherin Moreau
The Canadian Church honors Blessed Louis-Zephirin Moreau today. He is the founder of the communities of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and the Sisters of Sainte Marthe. He also participated in the founding of numerous other institutions and pious works. He died on May 24, 1901.
Aujourd'hui l'Eglise au Canada peut feter «le bon Mgr Moreau » quatrième évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe (1875-1901)
A la suite du décès du troisième évêque du diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe, le 15 juillet 1875, M. l'abbé Moreau écrit au cardinal préfet de la Propagande en ces termes: Par ces lettres en date du 10 juillet courant, Charles LaRocque m'a nommé Administrateur du diocèse avec tous les pouvoirs qu'il pouvait me communiquer en vertu du 16e Décret du dernier concile Provincial de Québec approuvé par le Saint-Père, le 1er septembre de l'année dernière. C'est en obéissance à ce Décret que je me hâte d'annoncer à votre Éminence la triste nouvelle de la mort du Vénérable Titulaire du diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe et ma nomination à la charge d'Administrateur du même diocèse, Sede Vacante.
Le 22 octobre suivant, Mgr Agnozzi, pro-secrétaire de la Propagande écrivait à l'abbé Moreau pour lui faire part de la décision du pape Pie IX qui venait de le désigner comme successeur de Mgr Charles LaRocque en le nommant au siège épiscopal de Saint-Hyacinthe. Mgr Louis-Zéphirin Moreau devenait ainsi le IVe évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe.
Le nouvel évêque est originaire de Bécancour dans le diocèse de Nicolet où il voit le jour le 1er avril 1824. Sa mère, Marie-Marguerite Champoux et son père Louis Moreau appartenaient à deux respectables familles de cultivateurs. Très tôt, il manifeste des signes évidents d'une vocation sacerdotale. Il fait ses études au Séminaire de Nicolet. A l'âge de vingt ans, il manifeste son désir de devenir prêtre. Accepté tout d'abord par l'évêque de Québec, il doit interrompre ses études théologiques en raison d'une santé fragile. Devant cette situation, Mgr Signay croit plus prudent de demander à M. Moreau de se retirer définitivement du Grand Séminaire. Après quelques mois de réflexion, il s'adresse donc aux autorités du diocèse de Montréal afin d'y être admis au nombre des futurs prêtres. Mgr Ignace Bourget qui est alors évêque du diocèse de Montréal est sur le point de partir pour un voyage à Rome. Il accepte donc M. Moreau comme futur prêtre dans son diocèse et le confie aux bons soins de son auxiliaire, Mgr Jean-Charles Prince. Louis-Zéphirin Moreau reçoit l'ordination presbytérale le 19 décembre 1846.
Lorsque Mgr Jean-Charles Prince devient le premier évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe, en 1852, le jeune abbé Moreau l'accompagne à titre de secrétaire. Dans les diverses fonctions qu'il exerce auprès des trois premiers évêques du diocèse, M. l'abbé Moreau s'est mérité l'affection et l'admiration de tous par le rayonnement de ses vertus. Il fut entre autre curé de la cathédrale à deux périodes différentes, de 1854 à 1860 et de 1869 à 1870. On le retrouve comme procureur de l'évêché de 1860 à 1866 et vicaire général du diocèse de 1869 à 1875. À quatre reprises, il fut administrateur du diocèse en l'absence de l'évêque titulaire ou pendant la vacance du siège épiscopal, à la mort de Mgr Prince et sous les deux évêques Joseph et Charles LaRocque. Il est élu évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe par le pape Pie IX en novembre 1875 et reçoit l'ordination épiscopale le 16 janvier 1876, en la cathédrale de Saint-Hyacinthe.
Le IVe évêque de Saint-Hyacinthe laissera pour ainsi dire une marque indélébile de son passage à la tête de cette Église diocésaine. Il sera proche de ses prêtres et dotera le diocèse du Chapitre-cathédrale qui existe encore. Il aura à coeur de développer l'éducation en ayant recours à plusieurs communautés religieuses, tant féminine que masculine. Il fondera lui-même deux communautés religieuses : les Soeurs de Saint-Joseph à qui il confie l'éducation de la foi des jeunes dans le monde rural et la communauté des Soeurs de Sainte-Marthe pour répondre aux besoins du Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe et du clergé en s'adonnant aux tâches ménagères.
Homme d'une grande piété et grand ami des pauvres, il s'est déjà gagné une réputation de sainteté durant son vivant. Les gens l'appellent le bon Mgr Moreau. Il s'endort définitivement dans le Seigneur le 24 mai 1901. Le 10 mai 1973, l'Église, de façon officielle, reconnaît l'héroïcité de ses vertus, et le 10 mai 1987, Mgr Louis-Zéphirin Moreau est déclaré bienheureux par le Pape Jean Paul II, à Rome. Il est le premier évêque d'origine canadienne à être déclaré bienheureux. [http://www.diocese-st-hyacinthe.qc.ca/dio-ae-moreau.htm]
THE FIRE OF THE HOLY<|fim_middle|> long fascinated interpreters, but no one has yet been able to give a satisfactory explanation for its origin (a list of nations where Jews resided?) or the order in which regions are mentioned.
The catalogue of nations begins in the east and moves westward, from Persia and Iran towards modern Iraq, with Judea -- where Jerusalem is located -- suddenly appearing in the midst of the pattern. Next, areas of Asia Minor are mentioned, then Egypt and the region west of it; finally comes Rome, capital of the Empire, where Acts will terminate. 'Jews and converts' suggests that mix of God's people and Gentiles who would be fashioned by 'the Spirit of Truth' into the mystery called 'the Church'.
In Galatians, Paul shows that the Spirit helps believers overcome the 'desires of the flesh' to produce 'the fruit of the Spirit'.
IN THE STREETS OF MONTREAL
On Sunday evening, several of us bishops took turns carrying the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament in a procession from St. Joseph's Oratory to the Cathedral of Mary, Queen of the World in downtown Montreal. Kyle Ferguson, the new national coordinator of Canadian Catholic Campus Ministry Association, sent the following report to Salt and Light TV's blog.
On Saturday evening about 450 young people accompanied by Bishops Lepine (Montreal), Dowd (Montreal), Lacroix (QC) and Prendergast (Ottawa) took part in a Eucharistic procession which started at St. Josep's Oratory and cut right through the heart of downtown Montreal arriving at the Cathedral: Mary Queen of the World.
For five kilometres, the four bishops walked shoulder to shoulder sharing the task of carrying the monstrance every step of the way. As one got fatigued the other bishop stepped up and took on the weight for his brother bishop. It was an incredible witness of episcopal friendship, collaboration and solidarity.
When we turned onto St. Catherine's Street, Bishop Lepine, the Archbishop of Montreal, held the monstrance high and quite bravely lead us down the middle of St. Catherine's with 450 young people joyfully clapping, singing and bearing witness to Christ in the midst of the glamour, glitter and sensuality of St. Catherine's night life as it unfolded.
In this act, it was as though the Archbishop was reclaiming the city and its people to Jesus. Those who passed by were visibly touched by this public witness to Christ, many stopping to applaud us, take pictures, join in the procession, or with arms tightly crossed to their chest watch curiously. The procession did not go unnoticed!
People, young and old, were being drawn to their apartments and shop windows to witness not a protest of aggression unfolding, but a procession of love outpouring. Moreover, spectators were being drawn out of themselves, out of the mundane and into the mystery and joy of the Christian faith. To say the least, it certainly was a juxtaposition to the recent protests in Montreal.
I really think the bishops of Quebec should be commended for this act of bravery. I am certain that the bishops of Montreal received no shortage of advice telling them to cancel this procession given (a) the current circumstances of the city and its student protests, and (b) the precarious position, in general, of religion and its public displays in Quebec society. Yet, despite these serious concerns, they went ahead and took the risk.
The Quebec Church, I think, provided a great witness to three things this weekend: first, that we need to be bold in our proclaiming of the Gospel, yes, we must listen and be attentive, and have charity rooted in everything we do, but we cannot hide out light under the bushel basket; second, being bold will involve vulnerability and risk and if we try to mitigate all risk and vulnerability from our efforts we end up burying our talents in the sand; and third, the unity and community of our Church is essential for effective proclamation and witness – no person is an Island, we need to stand together.
Waiting for the Holy Spirit - St. Rita of Cascia (Optional Memorial)
The Living Water of the Holy Spirit
The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of living water, welling up into eternal life (John 7:38).
This is a new kind of water, a living, leaping water, welling up for those who are worthy. But why did Christ call the grace of the Spirit water? Because all things are dependent on water; plants and animals have their origin in water. Water comes down from heaven as rain, and although it is always the same in itself, it produces many different effects, one in the palm tree, another in the vine, and so on throughout the whole of creation. It does not come down, now as one thing, now as another, but while remaining essentially the same, it adapts itself to the needs of every creature that receives it.
In the same way the Holy Spirit, whose nature is always the same, simple and indivisible, apportions grace to each man as he wills. Like a dry tree which puts forth shoots when watered, the soul bears the fruit of holiness when repentance has made it worthy of receiving the Holy Spirit. Although the Spirit never changes, the effects of his action, by the will of God and in the name of Christ, are both many and marvelous.
The Spirit makes one man a teacher of divine truth, inspires another to prophesy, gives another the power of casting out devils, enables another to interpret holy Scripture. The Spirit strengthens one man's self-control, shows another how to help the poor, teaches another to fast and lead a life of asceticism, makes another oblivious to the need of the body, trains another for martyrdom. His action is different in different people, but the Spirit himself is always the same. In each person, Scripture says, the Spirit reveals his presence in a particular way for the common good.
The Spirit comes gently and makes himself known by his fragrance. He is not felt as a burden, for he is light, very light. Rays of light and knowledge stream before him as he approaches. The Spirit comes with the tenderness of a true friend and protector to save, to heal, to teach, to counsel, to strengthen, to console. The Spirit comes to enlighten the mind first of the one who receives him, and then, through him, the minds of others as well.
As light strikes the eyes of a man who comes out of darkness into the sunshine and enables him to see clearly things he could not discern before, so light floods the soul of the man counted worthy of receiving the Holy Spirit and enables him to see things beyond the range of human vision, things hitherto undreamed of.
[from a catechetical Instruction by St. Cyril of Jerusalem]
Grant, we pray, almighty and merciful God, that the Holy Spirit, coming near and dwelling graciously within us, may make of us a perfect temple of his glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
SAINT RITA OF CASCIA
Since St. Rita was the patron of my home parish in Montreal, I have always maintained an interest in her story, which was recounted to us particularly on her feast day, May 22. Pope John Paul II restored her feast as an optional memorial when the new Roman Missal was published in the year 2002.
St. Rita was born in Spoleto, Italy in 1381. At an early age, she begged her parents to allow her to enter a convent. Instead they arranged a marriage for her. Rita became a good wife and mother, but her husband was a man of violent temper. In anger he often mistreated his wife. He taught their children his own evil ways.
St. Rita tried to perform her duties faithfully and to pray and receive the sacraments frequently. After nearly twenty years of marriage, her husband was stabbed by an enemy but before he died, he repented because St. Rita prayed for him. Shortly afterwards, her two sons died, and St. Rita was alone in the world. Prayer, fasting, penances… of many kinds, and good works filled her days.
She was admitted to the convent of the Augustinian nuns at Cascia in Umbria, and began a life of perfect obedience and great charity. She had a great devotion to the Passion of Christ. "Please let me suffer like Thee, Divine Saviour," she said one day, and suddenly one of the thorns from the crucifix struck her on the forehead. It left a deep wound which did not heal and which caused her much suffering for the rest of her life.
For several months before Rita died, she was unable to get out of bed. A legend about St. Rita tells us that a friend visited her and asked if there was anything she wanted. Rita said that she wanted a rose that was blooming in the yard of the house where she grew up. The friend knew that this was impossible. It was winter, and roses do not bloom in the snow.
The woman left Rita and began to walk home, sad that she was not able to give Rita the one thing she had asked for. Along the way, the woman passed Rita's childhood home. To her amazement, a single colorful rose was blooming on the branch of a rosebush. The woman picked the rose and hurried back to the convent to give it to Rita. It was as if God was rewarding Rita for all the thorns in her life with the miracle of the rose. You will sometimes see artwork of St. Rita holding roses.
Rita of Cascia died on May 22, 1457 and was canonized in 1900. Along with St. Jude, she is the patron saint of impossible causes. St. Rita's example reminds us to put our faith in God, who raised his only Son, Jesus from the dead and promises us that we, too, will share everlasting life with him in heaven.
Bestow on us, we pray, O Lord, the wisdom and strength of the Cross, with which you were pleased to endow Saint Rita, so that, suffering in every tribulation with Christ, we may participate ever more deeply in his Paschal Mystery. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Centenaire de la paroisse Saint-Bernardin Parish's Centennial
This past weekend was very busy: a Jesuit priest's ordination in Toronto on Saturday morning, followed by the opening ceremonies of the 109th State Assmbly of the Knights of Columbus of Ontario that evening, yesterday morning presiding at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the Centennial of the Village and Parish of St. Bernardin (whose feast on May 20 gave way to the Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord) and, finally yesterday and today the middle and closing part of the Montee Jeunesse/Youth Summit in Montreal.
A report on these events will be given in coming days, especially the wonderful procession with the Blessed Sacrament in the streets of Montreal (from St. Joseph`s Oratory to the Cathedral of Mary Queen of the World & St. James) and the news that the next Youth Summit-Montee Jeunesse will be held in the Archdiocese of Quebec in 2014!
Meantime, here is my homily at yesterday's Parish Centennial Mass with photos courtesy of Rhéal Lafrance.
Solennité de l'Ascension du Seigneur – 20 mai 2012
POURQUOI L'ASCENSION DU CHRIST
EST IMPORTANTE POUR NOUS TOUS
[Textes : Actes 1, 1-11 (Psaume 46[47]); Éphésiens 4, 1-13; Marc 16, 15-20]
Les anniversaires sont des moments importants dans la vie des paroisses, comme ils en sont dans la vie des personnes, des familles, des peuples. Ils permettent de regarder le passé et de l'apprécier à sa juste valeur. Ils invitent à considérer le présent en discernant ce qu'il recèle de beau et de bon. Ils impliquent aussi un regard vers l'avenir.
Au cœur des anniversaires des paroisses, il y a toujours une messe, une eucharistie. Le mot eucharistie signifie action de grâce. L'eucharistie de ce matin en ce 20 mai 2012, jour de la fête de votre patron saint-Bernardin… – mais qui cède cette année sa place pour fêter l'Ascension du Seigneur – est un moment important dans les fêtes du centenaire de votre paroisse et a pour but de rendre grâce pour l'histoire de votre communauté chrétienne. Pour toute l'histoire : celle d'hier, celle d'aujourd'hui et même celle de demain qui est à construire.
Il y a de cela déjà plusieurs années, les évêques du Canada décidèrent de transférer la solennité de l'Ascension du Seigneur du quarantième jour après Pâques ''le jeudi de l'Ascension'' au septième dimanche de Pâques. Puisque l'Ascension est porteuse d'une vérité tellement précieuse pour les disciples du Christ, les évêques décidèrent qu'il valait la peine de la déplacer afin de permettre au plus grand nombre de fidèles de célébrer cet événement et d'en percevoir la profonde signification dans le cadre du mystère pascal.
Le départ de Jésus dans la gloire le jour de l'Ascension, ne signifie pas qu'il ait quitté notre monde. Au contraire, son absence physique s'est traduite par une nouvelle présence parmi tous les peuples, pour tous les siècles à venir. Le jour de l'Ascension, le Christ ne s'est pas placé en dehors du temps; il s'est plutôt investit dans le temps, pour tous les temps! J'aime bien rappeler, particulièrement lors des anniversaires comme celui de ce matin, la parole de Jésus qui affirme : 'Je suis avec vous tous les jours jusqu'à la fin du monde.'
Le jour de l'Ascension Jésus ''est entré dans le ciel même, afin de se tenir maintenant pour nous devant la face de Dieu (Hébreux 9, 24). L'Ascension nous parle également de notre propre destinée, car Jésus est allé nous préparer une place dans la maison de son Père (Jean 14, 2-3) De retour auprès de son Père, il nous fait don d'une force intérieure, celle de l'Esprit Saint, qui nous permet de nous mettre en marche pour la mission qu'il nous a donné ''d'aller faire des disciples partout dans le monde'' (Matthieu 28, 19).
Cette mission que Jésus a confiée à l'Église nous est décrite ce matin dans l'évangile de Marc (16, 9-20) et nous fait voir comment l'Église a toujours considéré la Résurrection et l'Ascension du Christ comme constituant les éléments fondamentaux dans l'histoire de la foi et le point de départ du travail missionnaire des premiers chrétiens et de la mission de salut de l'Église.
L'évangile d'aujourd'hui ne débute pas avec les paroles de Jésus dans lequel il reproche à ses disciples leur difficulté de croire (16, 14). Il commence plutôt avec le commandement que Jésus nous fait : ''Allez dans le monde entier. Proclamez la Bonne Nouvelle à toute la création'', texte semblable à ceux que l'on retrouve dans les Actes des Apôtres (Ac 1,8) et dans l'évangile de Matthieu (Mt 28, 18-20).
Il est bon de se souvenir que ces paroles du Seigneur sont à l'origine de toute démarche en Église et certainement de la décision de fonder de votre paroisse en 1912. Votre paroisse a été fondée par mon prédécesseur Mgr Charles Hugh Gauthier à partit d'un détachement de territoire des deux paroisses voisines, Saint- Bernard de Fournier et Saint-Grégoire-de-Nazianze de Vankleek Hill.
On raconte que les nouveaux paroissiens désiraient un nom semblable à leur ancienne paroisse… pas facile à trouver avec Saint-Grégoire-de-Nazianze, mais plus facile avec Saint-Bernard. Chose certaine Mgr Gauthier vous plaça en 1912 sous la protection de saint Bernardin. Ce saint franciscain devient prêtre et son prieur lui donna la charge de la prédication… charge qu'il assuma fidèlement toute sa vie. On dit qu'il prêcha partout… particulièrement sur les places publiques cherchant toujours à parler d'une manière concrète, directe, insistant sur l'importance d'une vie chrétienne authentique et sur la première place à donner au Christ. Vie mystique, vie morale et vie sociale sont chez saint Bernardin inséparables. Par sa parole et son exemple, il annonça l'Évangile avec grand succès jusqu'à la fin de sa vie. Saint Bernardin a répondu à l'appel du Seigneur ressuscité : ''Allez dans le monde entier. Proclamez la Bonne Nouvelle à toute la création''. Le Christ a fait des dons à son Église pour que la mission continue. Il le fait toujours aujourd'hui… Cela dépend aussi de nous, du sérieux avec lequel nous construisons le corps du Christ.
Vingt prêtres se sont succédés comme pasteur de votre communauté depuis l'abbé Alphonse Sénécal en 1912. De nombreuses personnes généreuses se sont engagées depuis la fondation de votre paroisse pour faire de Saint-Bernardin une paroisse vivante et chaleureuse. De ce terreau de foi ont surgi des vocations sacerdotales et religieuses. Aujourd'hui encore de nombreux baptisés travaillent pour soutenir et servir la paroisse et depuis quelques années j'ai mandaté deux personnes de votre communauté pour aider les prêtres dans leur charge pastorale.
Après avoir envoyé ses disciples en mission, Jésus fut 'enlevé au ciel'; cela nous révèle que cette action fut accomplie sous la puissance de Dieu le Père. Et Jésus 's'assit à la droite de Dieu' – cela confirme que Jésus est le Seigneur de l'Univers et de toute activité humaine. Le Christ ressuscité et glorieux est toujours à l'œuvre alors qu'ils proclament son message de vie par toute la création. Voilà pourquoi nous pouvons dire que l'Ascension du Seigneur et la mission apostolique de l'Église sont intimement liés.
Les dernières paroles que l'on retrouve dans l'évangile d'aujourd'hui sont fort semblable à celles que l'on retrouve dans les Actes des Apôtres, ils nous font voir que le jour de l'Ascension marque le début de l'action missionnaire de l'Église et de la proclamation de l'Évangile. Monté au ciel, le Christ demeure présent à son Église : ''le Seigneur travaillait avec eux et confirmait la Parole par les signes qui l'accompagnaient''.
La communauté chrétienne qui est ici à Saint-Bernardin a connue des joies mais aussi des défis… en 1986 vous avez apprit que l'église présentait des faiblesses de structure… elle devait être fermée et démolie. En peu de temps la communauté de l'époque - ça fait déjà plus de 25 ans - décident de reconstruire une nouvelle église plus petite et plus adaptée. Elle devient source de fierté et rappelle encore aujourd'hui la présence de la communauté des croyants dans votre petit village de l'Est ontarien.
Votre paroisse a cent ans. Elle n'est plus ce qu'elle était. Elle n'a pas à redevenir à ce qu'elle a été. Regardez en avant. Allez de l'avant. Continuez à travailler avec les paroisses de votre unité pastorale… c'est une source sûr pour l'avenir de l'Église dans votre région. Soyez chaque jour des chrétiens et des chrétiennes dignes de ce nom. Faites honneur à Dieu en vivant dans la joie et dans l'espérance. Dieu vous bénira. Il vous fera porter du fruit. Et n'oubliez pas : il compte sur chacun et chacune d'entre vous pour relever les défis du temps présent et construire l'Église qui vient.
Jésus ne nous demande pas de convaincre, de prouver… mais de témoigner avec joie de notre foi. Il nous invite à être des chrétiens audacieux, joyeux de croire, et qui donnent envie de le devenir. Que nos visages révèlent à nos frères et sœurs la joie du Christ ressuscité! Et rappelons nous que de retour auprès de son Père, Jésus nous fait don d'une force intérieure, celle de l'Esprit Saint, qui nous permet de nous mettre toujours en marche pour la mission qu'il nous a confié!
St. Vincent's Archbabbey Seminary & College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania
On May 11, I flew to Pittsburgh, en route to St. Vincent's Archabbey Seminary in Latrobe, PA, where at the invitation of Archabbot Douglas Nowicki, O.S.B. the seminary conferred on me a degree of Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) during a Service of Vespers and I delivered the Address at the seminary's convocation.
The legendary Benedictine hospitality was very much in evidence and I was pleased to get to know the abbey and the seminary (its history dating back to the first abbot in the USA, Abbot Boniface Wimmer, who founded a large number of institutions that began by serving German Catholic immigrants and later extended their ministrations to every other ethnic group, mainly--in keeping with the monastic tradition--in rural areas).
St. Vincent's College, with some 1800 students, is also a going concern, served by numerous monks from the archabbey's community numbering over 160, and many lay Catholics who share the vision of the monastic community. They have recently redone their science complex, which is now state of the art, and are delighted with the Fred Rogers Conference Centre, where a festive dinner was held and which fosters the values and hosts the archives of the TV series, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
It was a very happy experience as the remaining photos, made available by the archabbey's communications office, show:
New Toronto Auxiliary Bishop - La Montée Jeunesse commence ce soir dans l'Archidiocèse de Montréal – Youth Summit Begins
NEW TORONTO AUXILIARY BISHOP
Today it was announced in Rome that His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Msgr. Wayne Kirkpatrick, P.H., currently Chancellor of the Diocese of St. Catharines as Titular Bishop of Aradi and Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto.
Congratulations, Your Excellency!
May God grant you many happy years of episcopal ministry.
YOUTH SUMMIT 2012
The latest embodiment of the Montée Jeunesse/Youth Summit begins this evening in Montreal and runs through Victoria Day, Monday, May 21.
The MJ/YS began several years before the 2008 Eucharistic Congress in Quebec to engage young Catholics in the missionary dimension of the Eucharist. There was a follow-up in Quebec in 2009 and the MJ/YS moved to Ottawa in 2010. Now it's Montreal's turn.
Procession with the Blessed Sacrament on the Interprovincial Bridge
from Gatineau to Parliament Hill during Montee Jeunesse in May 2010
A good number of youth and young adults, accompanied by youth ministers, religious and priests from Ottawa will attend. I will join them after the Centennial celebration at Paroisse Saint-Bernardin on Sunday morning. I am looking forward to the presence of peace-loving and non-confrontational youth in the streets of Montreal.
For more details: http://monteejeunesse.missionjeunessemtl.org/
Discussing Issues on a Pastoral Day at the Diocesan Centre
Yesterday and today the two sectors (Francophone and Anglophone) gathered at the Diocesan Centre to discuss matters of interest in the Pastoral Life of the Archdiocese.
Abbe Andre-Louis Naud, liturgist from the Archdiocese of Quebec, was the featured speaker on Wednesday. My photos from that day are on the other memory card that I left at home, so I won't be able to post them until my return from Toronto and Montreal (where I will attend the Youth Summit on Sunday and Monday).
Here are some photos of the presentation by Julie Salach-Simard from the Catholic Centre for Immigrants on the parish sponsorship program for refugees and the luncheon afterwards:
The Ascension: The Glorification of Jesus at God's Right Hand - Ordinations in Halifax, Toronto
The Solemnity of the Ascension (Year "B")—May 20, 2012
[or Ascension Thursday, May 17, 2012]
THE ASCENSION AS END AND BEGINNING
[Texts: Acts 1.1-11 [Psalm 47]; Ephesians 4.1-13; Mark 16.15-20]
The last twelve verses of Mark's gospel (16.9-20) are known as the Longer, "Canonical" Ending. While these verses are recognized by the Church as illuminating Christian faith and remain normative for subsequent generations, Mark almost surely did not pen them.
The Greek word 'kanon' means a 'measuring rod' and suggests a 'rule of faith' when used of 'normative' writings chosen by Church authorities for inclusion in the New Testament. What is true of the Longer Ending of Mark applies also to a two-verse Shorter Ending printed at the close of the gospel.
Manuscript traditions show the Longer and Shorter Endings of Mark attempting to overcome the abrupt ending of Mark 16.8, whether the evangelist intended to end his gospel this way or a part of the original gospel was lost.
Close inspection of the verses in the Markan Longer Ending shows that they contain a pastiche of appearances by the Risen Jesus found in other gospel traditions.
Thus, the apparition to Mary Magdalene in Mark 16.9 echoes John 20.11-17 (with a possible allusion to Luke 8.2), while Mary's role as messenger in Mark 16.10 parallels what we find in John 20.18. The disciples' unbelief—Mark 16.11, 13—perhaps derives from Luke 24.11-41, whereas the appearance "in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country" (16.12) recalls the journey to Emmaus (cf. Luke 24.13-35).
Jesus' rebuke of the Eleven's unbelief while they were at table (Mark 16.14) evokes John 20.24-29, and the evangelising commission (Mark 16.15) may reflect Matthew 28.19 or Luke 24.47. The description of the Ascension (Mark 16.19) may allude to Luke 24.50-51 or suggest the theology of Jesus' presence at God's right hand found throughout the Epistle to the Hebrews (beginning with 1.3, 13).
Those parts of the Longer Ending not accounted for (Mark 16.16-18, 20) go beyond Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension to speak of the Church's missionary preaching activity. Mark 16.16 stresses that faith and baptism guarantee salvation, likely drawing on the Lord's command to baptize found in Matthew 28.19-20.
A virtual summary of the Acts of the Apostles is found in Mark 16:20: "and they went out and proclaimed the Good News everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that accompanied it".
Mark 16.17-18 lists some 'signs' found in the Acts of the Apostles. An oddity is the reference to disciples surviving snake handling (possibly a reference to Paul's experience in Acts 28.3-6) and withstanding the effects of poisonous drinks as ongoing characteristics of Jesus' followers. The word for 'snake' is the same one found in the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) in the account of the serpent's temptation (Genesis 3.1-15). Perhaps a metaphorical meaning should be inferred, that the curse of the serpent has been overcome in the age of salvation.
Mark 16.9-20 has a notable collection of words not found in the rest of the gospel, giving the Longer Ending a second-hand flavour. Indeed it departs notably from the lively style found elsewhere in Mark 1.1-16.8. Still the canonical conclusion serves as a sequel to Mark's ending by communicating the conviction that the promises made by Jesus in Mark 14.28 and 16.7—of his ongoing relationship with the disciples in Galilee and beyond—were realized in the life of the Church.
The secondary ending stresses the call to Jesus' disciples to pass from disbelief to belief about the resurrection. The witnesses who reproach their stubbornness of heart increase in number and authority: from Mary of Magdala, to the two travellers to Jesus Himself.
A later addition to Mark 16.14 shows that the early Church struggled with issues such as sin and temptation blaming its disobedience in part on the Devil: "And [the apostles] made excuse, saying, 'The age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan who does not permit the truth and power of God to prevail over the unclean things of the spirits. Therefore, reveal your righteousness, now'".
Jesus' reply to the disciples' struggle noted that, while Satan's authority had been exhausted and other terrible things approached, his death took place so that people might "return to the truth and sin no more, that they may inherit the spiritual and imperishable glory of righteousness that is in heaven".
While the Longer Ending of Mark appears incongruous, it recalls that the church remains a believing, confessing and worshipping community, as it was from the beginning after Jesus' Ascension.
PRIESTLY ORDINATIONS OF
CRAIG CAMERON
& GERARD RYAN, SJ
This is the season for priestly ordinations and I rejoice particularly in the ordinations of two men I have gotten to know over the years. The first is Father Craig Cameron, who will be ordained Saturday by Archbishop Anthony Mancini.
Father Craig Cameron will be ordained as the first priest
of the newly-amalgamated Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth
at St. Mary's Cathedral-Basilica, Halifax at 10 o'clock
The second ordinand is a fellow Jesuit, Gerard Ryan, whom I will ordain at Toronto's Our Lady of Lourdes Church the same day.
Gerard Ryan, SJ (right), a native of Tipperary, Ireland, will be ordained for the Province of the Jesuits in English Canada on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10 o'clock.
Congratulations to them and to others being ordained to the priesthood in these days; may they have long and fruitful ministry in the Lord's vineyard!
Ad multos et faustissimos annos!
St. Isidore, Farmer - New Leader of Jesuits in English Canada
St. Isidore the Farmer's feast is observed in the United States but is not in the Canadian calendar of saints.
There are two parishes in our Archdiocese dedicated to him: a francophone parish in the east (Saint Isidore-de-Prescott) and a parish in Kanata North-South March (which has just moved into a newly-constructed church of the site of earlier churches):
When he was barely old enough to wield a hoe, Isidore entered the service of John de Vergas, a wealthy landowner from Madrid, and worked faithfully on his estate outside the city for the rest of his life. He married a young woman as simple and upright as himself who also became a saint-Maria de la Cabeza. They had one son, who died as a child.
Isidore had deep religious instincts. He rose early in the morning to go to church and spent many a holiday devoutly visiting the churches of Madrid and surrounding areas. All day long, as he walked behind the plow, he communed with God. His devotion, one might say, became a problem, for his fellow workers sometimes complained that he often showed up late because of lingering in church too long.
He was known for his love of the poor, and there are accounts of Isidore's supplying them miraculously with food. He had a great concern for the proper treatment of animals.
He died May 15, 1130, and was declared a saint in 1622 with Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Avila and Philip Neri. Together, the group is known in Spain as "the five saints."
Patron: Farmers; farm workers; ranchers; rural communities; Madrid, Spain; death of children; for rain; livestock.
NEW JESUIT PROVINCIAL
The Jesuits in English Canada were recently informed that Father Peter Bisson, 54 and a native of Edmunston, NB, has been named by the Very Reverend Adolfo Nicolas, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, to succeed Father James Webb as Provincial of the Jesuits in English Canada effective May 31.
Father Bisson has been serving as the assistant to Father Webb, who is stepping down for reasons of health. Please keep both of these fine men in your prayers.
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"THE RUSH OF A VIOLENT WIND" AND "TONGUES OF FIRE"
[Texts: Acts 2.1-11 [Psalm 104]; Galatians 5.16-25; John 15.26-27; 16.12-15]
Easter, the new Passover, and Pentecost -- the Jewish celebration fifty days later -- are the hinges of the Church's liturgical year. The Greek Old Testament twice used 'Pentecost' to designate the 'feast of weeks', the second of Israel's three great annual pilgrimage celebrations (the third is the feast of 'booths' in the fall).
In the Hellenistic era, the covenant God made with Noah (Genesis 9.8-17) was renewed, but after the destruction of the Temple Pentecost was associated with God's bestowal of the Torah on Sinai. For Luke, Pentecost fulfils Jesus' promise to his followers that they would be empowered once they had received the Holy Spirit from on high (Acts 1.5, 8; cf. Luke 24.49).
The evangelist does not tell his readers where the early community was gathered when the Holy Spirit came, only that 'they were all together in one place'. Tradition suggests the group of believers numbering about 120 persons -- the minimum number in Jewish law to establish a new community -- met in 'the room upstairs' (Acts 1.13). Whatever its precise location, there they gathered around the apostles, 'with certain women including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers', and devoted themselves to prayer.
Powerful symbols describe the Spirit's coming: there was 'a sound like the rush of a violent wind'; also 'divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them'. These were the outward signs of the invisible reality, that 'all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit'. The subsequent external manifestation of the indwelling Spirit was that these all 'began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability'.
Elsewhere in Scripture the 'Spirit' is likened to the .wind' (cf. John 3.8). In fact, pneuma in Greek has both meanings. The noise made by the violent wind of the Holy Spirit was so palpable that its sound seemed to have 'filled the entire house where they were sitting'. In the past, God's presence at Sinai had been accompanied by a loud sound (cf. Exodus 19.16-19), while a turbulent wind had been associated with the theophany to Elijah (1 Kings 19.11-12) as well as his ascent to God in the flaming chariot (2 Kings 2.11).
God had been revealed to Moses in the flaming bush (Exodus 3.2) and the image of a fire was often featured in moments of divine presence. John the Baptist foretold that God's coming in judgment would be manifest in a divine, cleansing fire (cf. Luke 3.16). Luke's description of the divided flames says that a tongue came to rest on each person. It is interesting to note that in Jewish tradition fire occasionally was said to rest on the heads of rabbis when they studied or disputed about God's law.
The ancient world valued highly ecstatic speech because it was thought to derive from direct possession by the deity. Paul's discussion of the phenomenon of glossolalia or 'speaking in tongues' (cf. 1 Corinthians 10-12) suggests that ecstatic, babbling speech was known at Corinth. Luke stresses not the ecstatic but the communicative feature of this religious experience ('all heard them speaking in their own languages'). One commentator tries to resolve the two types of speech by suggesting the hearers thought they heard and recognized words of praise to God in their own dialects ('in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power').
The sequence in the list of nations present at the first Christian Pentecost ('Parthians, Medes and Elamites ...') has | 922 |
Exactly five years ago, on July 1st, 2009, I was appointed as director of the "Vienna House", the liaison office of the city of Vienna, in Brussels. I wanted this job, I had been working for it. Because I knew than and know now that women careers do not come by mere chance. They do not "just happen" to you. I am a little bit older today, of course, and I have gained new knowledge, made interesting experiences, found new friends. They have added to my truly European family.
To put it blankly: when I started, I was simply overwhelmed by the amount and density of information flooding in each day. How can one make a difference between the really<|fim_middle|>, still. But with all my empathy, my experience and my routine I feel well prepared for the next round, despite the redundancies.
The strong emphasis of the EU on internal market issues will clearly continue to trigger challenges for city politics. Why do we get a proposal for a 4th railway package without awaiting the implementation of the 3rd? How sure can we be of the respect for the principle of subsidiarity with all the continuous attempts to interfere with social housing systems in the Member States? And had we the worst really behind us with the crisis – why is there no boost in the economy, creating new opportunities and jobs?
All of this is only possible with the inspiration I receive from all those I have the chance to work for since five years: the 1,8 million inhabitants of the city of Vienna. The have a right to a rich and beautiful life. They shall have access to safe and affordable housing and a decent job as a starting point to build their lives. This is what I am working for. Securing, defending, developing the chances of the people of my home town in a European policy context. I am proud of my job and grateful to be able to do that. And I am looking forward to even more of it.
Read more on Vienna House here.
(c) Courtesy for nice pictures to Julie de Bellaing/Wien-Haus Brüssel, Harold Naaijer/Graz, Ermeson Vieira/Brüssel.
Kategorien: Kunterbuntes | Tags: feminism, vienna, vienna house brussels, women rights | Permanentlink. | important bits and parts and the things you better skip from your mind and desk? I will never forget the magic moment of enlightment when suddenly it all fitted together in my poor brain and my scattered heart. I was sitting in my enchanting garden in Brussels and I did not only know, I truly felt that I was ready now to take part in the game. All these weird puzzle parts suddenly fitted together and made sense. Since then, the two worlds of my professional and private life – the European policy field and my Vienna home base – are stably linked up with each other.
Today, a lot of things in the job are much easier, logically, There is some redundancy, of course, especially now when we start a new five year term on EU-level. The whole architecture of the European Parliament has changed, we are observing the power play between Member States for the new Commission and all the other high level posts. Not a lot of women names dropped among the proposals, unfortunately we are far from a fair share. But all of this is less intimidating than five years ago. Now, I understand most of the processes and procedures, I can translate this for all those who might find it useful.
A lot of people did make my start a smooth and easy one. The great team at Vienna House, of course. Excellent colleagues! All the women and men working in and around EU institutions, in regional offices, city representations, networks, social partner, civil society, NGOs and many more. Some became really good, close friends. They are part of my European family now. We helped each other in finding good strategies on common goals, but we also were there for each other in the sometimes difficult moments expats can experience abroad. This is very comforting and reloads the batteries.
Every five years, there is something like a déjà-vu momentum in EU politics. Of course, there is a clear line to take in my main areas of work: public services, public finances, all issues around cities and the urban agenda. International trade, TTIP, human rights need to be observed as well with respect to their possible influence on local and regional policies. Making women visible has always been and will always continue be a compass of my professional life as I am convinced that true democracy will only be achieved with full participation of women. There is lot to do here | 473 |
So, I had some left over fun polka dot chiffon fabric from a shirt that I made for my bestie (that only took me like 7 months to do...sorry Ang, it's done now, so come get it!!) And I wanted to use it, but it was a smaller piece so I couldn't make a whole other shirt, so I started "draping" like they do on Project Runway and came up with using it as sleeves!<|fim_middle|> I chose the pocket.
8. Lay the fabric over the pocket and cut about 1/2" wider than the original pocket. Fold the edges under and machine stitch around both sides and bottom of the pocket right to the shirt. Then, hand stitch the top down so that the pocket can still open. | I love my dress form for this very reason-- it really helps with creativity and makes me feel so professional! ;-) As you can see below I also considered adding a little ruffle on the bottom, but didn't in the end.
1. Cut off sleeves (including the seams).
2. Find an existing shirt (this is one I made that I still haven't posted about yet, sorry). The striped shirt wasn't very stretchy, so I found one to trace that was also non-stretch. Lay the one to trace on top and trim the sides, leaving about 1/2" for seam allowance.
4. Open up the shirt and lay it right side up.
5. Take one sleeve and pin it, right side down, to the arm hole of the shirt. Pin and sew a straight stitch. I probably should have used a zig zag stitch on the edge as well to help with fraying, but I haven't done that yet.
Now, my sleeve was a little longer than the opening, so I made one "pleat" at the top of the shoulder, which actually looks kinda cute!
7. Turn the shirt right sides together. Pin and sew using a straight stitch up the side seams and down the arm. Again, you should probably also sew a zig zag stitch along the raw edge to minimize fraying.
Now, I decided to add a little bit of the polka dot fabric to the pocket as well. I couldn't decide if I should do the pocket or a ruffle on the bottom, but | 312 |
Faculty members in SHSU's new nursing program, which will accept its first cohort of 35 students in January, include (from left) Louise Plaisance, Lori Neubauer, Susan Mathew, Mary Anne Vincent and Kerri Cravey.
The highly anticipated Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program at Sam Houston State University has been given the green light by both the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Board of Nursing and will take its first cohort of 35 students in January.
"We are delighted that the Board of Nursing and the Higher Education Coordinating Board recognized the high quality of the proposed nursing program and the pressing need for it in our area," said SHSU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs David Payne.
"This program will open the way for a dramatic expansion of Sam Houston State University offerings into a variety of allied health professional programs which will be developed over the next few years," he said.
The nursing program is a department within the College of Arts and Sciences. The college is headed by Jaimie Hebert, who was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the establishment of the program, according to Payne.
"We are very fortunate to have found such high quality nursing faculty who have the experience and the skill that was necessary<|fim_middle|>Currently more than 240 students are enrolled in the pre-nursing program at Sam Houston State and those surveyed have expressed a strong interest in continuing their education at the university. Before now, pre-nursing students had to go to other universities to complete a bachelor's degree.
In addition to civic leaders from Huntsville and surrounding communities who have endorsed the new nursing program, physicians in the area across several specialties wrote letters of support for the program, which were included in the proposal, according to Plaisance.
Local health care facilities have indicated to Sam Houston State that space is available and students are welcome to do their clinical work at those locations.
"The university has agreements with Huntsville Memorial Hospital, East Texas Medical Center in Crockett, and two long-term care facilities in Huntsville," said Plaisance.
The Department of Nursing is currently located in Academic Building III on campus, which has been renovated to include space for classrooms, offices, a conference room, and a skills laboratory.
"The program is designed for students to gain nursing skills through skills laboratories simulation experiences before hands-on patient care learning activities," said Plaisance.
Although the nursing program is new to Sam Houston State, university officials are already exploring the possibility of adding an RN-to-BSN program. In this program students who have completed a two-year associate degree program would be able to take courses totally online for the completion of a bachelor's degree in nursing science.
"We look forward to the expansion of the nursing program into articulation with other nursing programs and graduate programs in addition to the basic baccalaureate in nursing," said Payne.
For more information about the Department of Nursing at Sam Houston State University log onto www.shsu.edu/~nursing or call 936.294.2371. | to present our case so effectively under the leadership of Dean Jaimie Hebert to those accrediting bodies," said Payne.
Louise Plaisance was hired last year as associate dean of nursing to develop the curriculum for the new program and serve as its director. She has 28 years of nursing education and administrative experience.
Since then, four additional faculty members have been hired including Kerri Cravey, Lori Neubauer, Mary Anne Vincent and Susan Mathew.
Plaisance, who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in nursing and a doctorate in nursing science, worked with nursing education consultant Ellarene Sanders to prepare the proposal for board review.
There are no professional nursing educational programs within a 40-miles radius of Huntsville and only one vocational nursing program in the local area.
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Last Monday (18th November), local MP Tom Brake teamed up with Sutton police and local councillor Peter Fosdike to tackle speeding around Carshalton.
Armed with a speed gun, the team acts as a visible deterrent to speeders and comes in response to residents' calls for police action to tackle speeding.
A<|fim_middle|> guns can help our local community to tackle the problem of speeding and to challenge dangerous drivers before someone gets hurt."
Safer Neighbourhoods PC Barrie Walton said: "Local residents have told us their concerns about traffic travelling in excess of the speed limits on residential roads in Carshalton especially around the school run times. Helping keep the roads safe for everyone is a priority for us. We are running regular anti-speeding operations as well as talking to drivers to make them aware of the importance of driving considerately and safely. We would like local residents to join us in these operations. We will explain how these operations work and you will be shown how to use the speed gun. If you are interested, please contact us on 020 8721 2898 or 020 8721 2490."
Due to the success of Monday morning, and strong local demand for the issue of speeding to be tackled, the police have agreed to roll out the programme of radar guns across the borough. | radar gun detects the speed of a moving vehicle. If caught speeding, the driver receives a warning letter suggesting that next time they are caught speeding by a trained police officer or speed camera, they will be fined.
Tom Brake said, "The vast majority of motorists keep to the speed limit but it is important to send a strong message to the small minority of drivers who put lives at risk."
Peter Fosdike, local councillor for Carshalton South and Clockhouse, welcomed the police action saying that "Radar | 104 |
Miguel Rodrigo Pereira Vargas (born 18 November 1978) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a winger.
Club career
An unsuccessful Sporting CP youth graduate, Lisbon-born Vargas only appeared for its reserves as a senior, also being loaned three times, the first at Académica de Coimbra where he made his Primeira Liga debut at age 19.
After his release in the summer of 2001, Vargas moved to F.C. Alverca, experiencing his most steady period in his country with three consecutive seasons – two of those in the top division – being relegated in 2003–04. Subsequently, he moved to U.D. Leiria, but quickly changed to G.D. Estoril Praia of the second level, initially on loan.
Vargas began playing abroad in the 2006 off-season, his first stop being with Cyprus' APOP Kinyras FC, being instrumental as the side managed to remain in the First Division during his tenure. He moved clubs in the same country in the January transfer window of <|fim_middle|>ão players
Sporting CP footballers
Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
F.C. Paços de Ferreira players
S.C. Espinho players
Sporting CP B players
F.C. Alverca players
U.D. Leiria players
G.D. Estoril Praia players
Cypriot First Division players
Cypriot Second Division players
APOP Kinyras FC players
AEL Limassol players
AEP Paphos FC players
Ayia Napa FC players
Portugal youth international footballers
Portugal under-21 international footballers
Portuguese expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus | 2009, signing with AEL Limassol and rejoining former Sporting (youth), Alverca and Leiria teammate Pedro Torrão; again an undisputed starter, he provided several assists to his team's goals while also scoring twice in as many wins (against Doxa Katokopias FC for the game's only and at Nea Salamis Famagusta FC, a 3–1 win, both in the 2009–10 campaign).
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Segunda Divis | 148 |
In enzymology, a galactosylceramide sulfotransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
3'-phosphoadenylyl sulfate + a galactosylceramide adenosine 3',5'-bisphosphate + a galactosylceramidesulfate
Thus, its two substrates are 3'-phosphoadenylyl sulfate and galactosylceramide, and its two products are adenosine 3',5'-bisphosphate and galactosylceramidesulfate.
It belongs to the family of transferases, specifically the sulfotransferases, which transfer sulfur-containing groups. The systematic name of this enzyme class is 3'-phosphoadeny<|fim_middle|>ingolipid sulfotransferase. This enzyme participates in sphingolipid metabolism.
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Enzymes of unknown structure | lyl-sulfate:galactosylceramide 3'-sulfotransferase. Other names in common use include GSase, 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate-cerebroside sulfotransferase, galactocerebroside sulfotransferase, galactolipid sulfotransferase, glycolipid sulfotransferase, and glycosph | 94 |
Six Of The Best Women's WorldTour races of 2021
It's been another fabulous year of women's racing, most which we have been able to watch, here are our six favourites
By Owen Rogers
With cancellations and rescheduled races, the 2021 Women's WorldTour season was another truncated by COVID, but that didn't stop the series bringing us some exciting racing. Here we've picked six of the most exciting and interesting days, spread between March and October, proof, if it were needed of another vintage year.
Oxyclean Classic Brugge - De Panne, March 25
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We all love a bit of crosswind action, right? With its pan flat coastal roads and mid-March place on the calendar, we can more or less guarantee that's what we will get at Brugge - De Pan<|fim_middle|>umbo-Visma talk to Manchester United about tactics and managing egos
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'It's a really absurd way of racing' - EF boss Jonathan Vaughters on WorldTour relegation scrap
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By Tom Davidson • Published 11 November 22
Annemiek van Vleuten to target Vuelta-Tour-Giro treble again next season
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By Adam Becket • Published 27 October 22 | ne. And this year's race didn't disappoint.
One of the longest races on the calendar, no sooner had the peloton rolled out of Brugge than a couple of riders were up the road, but they, and other small moves were never allowed any space, and the whole bunch entered De Moeren - an especially windy section of flatlands - as one.
The second time through here SDWorx put the race in the gutter, and only 12 women emerged into a tail wind section. With a number of teams represented with more than one rider, the group worked well, and such was the chaos behind they were never likely to be caught.
On her own in the leading group Grace Brown (BikeExchange) knew she wouldn't out sprint the likes of Kirsten Wild (Ceratizit-WNT), Lotte Kopecky (Liv Racing) and Jolien D'hoore (SDWorx) so, with 10km to go she attacked hard.
While the group looked around to see who would chase, the Australian soon had a gap. But, in what was a hugely tense final, the Australian's that lead was never more than 25 seconds, and it tumbled as sprinters' team mates went to work. In the end though, Brown hung on, winning by just seven seconds.
Amstel Gold Race, April 17
The pandemic made sure this year's Amstel Gold Race was like no other, with the entire race happening on the local circuit around Valkenburg, close to the Dutch city of Maastricht.
Though two riders escaped early on the first of seven laps, the race soon descended into chaos, as a group of 20 caught the leaders the second time up the Bemelerberg. This break didn't last long though, Anna van der Breggen (SDWorx) bridging with Grace Brown.
After the race re-formed there was a brief period of calm, only for Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) to attack on the race's signature climb, the Cauberg, with just over two laps to go. Wearing her European champion's jersey Van Vleuten was unable to get a gap and it was Grace Brown and Pauliena Rooijakkers (Liv Racing) who emerged, the pair staying together onto the final circuit.
The Dutch rider was dropped on a descent, and with a lead of 30 seconds it seemed Brown might pull off a second solo win. However, desperate work from both Trek-Segafredo and SDWorx brought the Australian to within touching distance as the final ascent of the Cauberg loomed.
In what was a dramatic final 2000m, Brown was caught by a rampant Van Vleuten, but Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) never her let her get away, and with Trek-Segafredo's Elisa Longo Borghini caught her and rode off into a winning position.
However, in an odd twist, when Niewiadoma brought back an attack by the Italian the latter refused to work, and despite the polish woman's imploring the pair were caught with only 300m remaining, and a 10 woman sprint was on the cards.
Marianne Vos knew she was the fastest sprinter in the group, going clear and raising her hands early in celebration, only for her smile of joy to fade for an anxious moment after SDWorx's Demi Vollering pushed her close, Vos eventually winning by a tiny margin.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège, April 25
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Since its inception in 2017 the women's Liège-Bastogne-Liège has always provided entertaining racing, though many were unaware as the early editions were not televised. With good coverage this year we witnessed a masterful team victory and a changing of the guard at the top of the sport.
With an early break caught, SDWorx sparked a dynamic race, sending riders up the road and making their way into a number of breakaways. And it was the Dutch team's then world champion Anna van der Breggen who made the race with a scintillating attack on the Côte de la Roche aux Faucons.
Marianne Vos has never won Liège and missed the group of six created by the rainbow jersey, but worked hard to get back on, though just as she did Van der Breggen went again, creating a five woman group which would contest the win.
Van der Breggen led the group for every one of the closing 13km, selflessly leading out team mate Demi Vollering, who capped off a stunning team performance winning the first of four WorldTour victories in 2021, and placing a hand on SDWorx leader's baton for the first time.
Stage four, Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, May 23
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Head to head battles between Annemiek van Vleuten and Anna van der Breggen, come around once a year at best, and they are invariably enthralling. Adept in the mountains and against the clock, the Dutch pair have similar skillsets and have been the most dominant women of recent years.
This year's clash of the titans came on the fourth and final day of the season's first WorldTour stage race, the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas, on the final ascent to Lagunas de Neila.
Van der Breggen began the day sixth on GC, two seconds behind overall leader and team mate, Niamh Fisher-Black, indeed SDWorx had four women in the top eight, with Van Vleuten just behind, only five seconds off the lead.
SDWorx set the pace on the final climb, chasing a huge breakaway which began to fall apart, though two women remained ahead inside the final two kilometres. After Demi Vollering brought the final two escapees back, she was dropped leaving the two Dutch masters alone into the final 500m, with then world champion Van der Breggen resolutely stuck to the front.
Van Vleuten seemed to be struggling, and her task was made more difficult as the road curved round to the left and her rival, still looking strong, stuck to the nearside barrier, forcing her compatriot to take the long way round.
When the Movistar rider finally made her move Van der Breggen had time to respond and easily out sprinted the older woman, taking the stage and adding another GC title to her impressive palmarès.
Stage 4, Simac Ladies Tour, August 28
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Over its 23 editions the Simac Ladies Tour has consistently defied the somewhat uninspiring Dutch terrain and served up a dish of gnarly, entertaining racing, and this year's penultimate stage was one of gloriously entertaining chaos.
After a stunning time trial Marlen Reusser (Alé-BTC Ljubljana) led the GC by 10 seconds from Chantal van den Broek-Blaak, and it was the SDWorx rider who kicked off the chaos. The former world champion escaped with Ellen van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo), the two Dutch women building a small gap.
Short of team mates Reusser was very much on the back foot, but chased them back only for Anousker Koster to get away alone. With their teams controlling, then reducing the advantage, Van den Broek-Blaak and Kasia Niewiadoma bridged across when the gap was small enough, taking Koster's Jumbo-Visma team mate Marianne Vos with them.
Even with Marta Bastianelli now there to help, Reusser could not close the gap, but was given hope when a counter attack brought the leaders within touching distance, making for a nail biting final.
However, the leaders were three of the best and even had time to finesse. Niewiadoma attacked early on the dig to the line, however, no one was likely to match Vos and she took the stage by two seconds, while Van den Broek-Blaak put 21 seconds into Reusser, taking third on the day and the GC.
Paris Roubaix Femmes, October 2
After years of waiting, grasping at every tiny hint of progress, the women's Paris-Roubaix was finally announced as part of the rejigged 2020 WorldTour calendar. Anticipation was further increased when the pandemic caused its cancellation. Twice. But in October it finally happened.
And what a race.
At only 116km some it was too short, but it was hugely entertaining, despite not a lot happening for the opening 30 kilometres. On the first cobbled sector, more than 80km from the famous velodrome, Lizzie Deignan, staying safe at the front, found herself with a gap, and taking her opportunity, she forged on alone.
What followed was a masterclass on many levels. Each time someone chased, one of Deignan's Trek-Segafredo team mates was there too. Despite crashes they infiltrated every group, causing it to falter. Meanwhile at the front the Brit ploughed on.
Only inside the final 20km was Marianne Vos able to break the Trek-Segafredo stranglehold, attacking and taking chunks out of Deignan's lead. But it was not to be, as Roubaix grew closer, Vos began to falter and her deficit began to grow. Eventually, Deignan won by 1.17, one of the best rides you are ever likely to see earning her a place in history.
Owen Rogers
Owen Rogers is an experienced journalist, covering professional cycling and specialising in women's road racing. He has followed races such as the Women's Tour and Giro d'Italia Donne, live-tweeting from Women's WorldTour events as well as providing race reports, interviews, analysis and news stories. He has also worked for race teams, to provide post race reports and communications.
USA Cycling unveils step-by-step pathway for hopefuls wishing to race for Team USA
The American cycling governing body, USA Cycling, today unveiled its Athlete Development Pathway (ADP), a clearly defined, step-by-step process for those wishing to race for Team USA.
By Anne-Marije Rook • Published 24 January 23
The National Cycling League announces the dates of its inaugural 2023 season
The National Cycling League (NCL) today announced its inaugural 2023 season with four races in Miami Beach, Atlanta, Denver and Washington, D.C.
Global backers in talks over new British WorldTour team
Former management of Ribble Weldtite courting interest in new project
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From the World Championships to Paris-Roubaix: Cycling Weekly's wins of 2022
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'Current WorldTour system is killing all the smaller teams,' says Reinardt Janse van Rensburg
South African ex-Lotto Soudal rider fears more teams could find themselves in B & B Hotels-KTM situation if the system doesn't change
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As Cristiano Ronaldo puts the boot in, J | 2,525 |
Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster
A. J. Young, A. S. Wilson, C. G. Mundell
We report subarcsecond X-ray imaging spectroscopy of M87 and the core of the Virgo Cluster with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The X-ray morphology shows structure on arcsecond (∼100 pc) to 10′ (∼50 kpc) scales, the most prominent feature being an "arc" running from the east, across the central region of M87, and off to the southwest. A ridge in the radio map, ending in an "ear-shaped" structure, follows the arc to the east. Depressions in the X-ray surface brightness correspond to the inner radio lobes, and there is no evidence of shock-heated gas surrounding them. There are also at least two approximately circular (centered near the nucleus) "edges" in the X-ray brightness distribution, the radii of which are slightly larger than the nuclear distances of the inner radio lobes and intermediate radio ridges. We speculate that these discontinuities may be spherical pulses or "fronts" driven by the same jet activity as is responsible for the radio structure; such pulses are found in recent numerical simulations. All these results provide good evidence that the nuclear activity affects the intracluster medium. We present a temperature map of the intracluster medium and obtain the temperature, pressure, and cooling time as a function of nuclear distance for the arcs and the ambient intracluster medium. We show that the gas in the arcs is cooler than, and probably overpressured with respect to, the ambient intracluster medium. The metal abundances of the cooler gas in the arc are somewhat enhanced relative to the ambient intracluster medium, favoring a "buoyant plume" origin for the X-ray arc, in which ambient gas near the nucleus is entrained by buoyant radio plasma and carried to larger nuclear distances. The gas within the inner front (nuclear distance ≃3.5 kpc ≃45″) is at least a two-temperature plasma, with the cool component at ≃1 keV. This cool region is concentrated to the north of the nucleus and is strongly correlated with the Hα+[N II] emission line distribution.
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Galaxies: active
Galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo)
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Young, A. J., Wilson, A. S., & Mundell, C. G. (2002). Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster. Astrophysical Journal, 579(2 I), 560-570. https://doi.org/10.1086/342918
Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster. / Young, A. J.; Wilson, A. S.; Mundell, C. G.
In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 579, No. 2 I, 10.11.2002, p. 560-570.
Young, AJ, Wilson, AS & Mundell, CG 2002, 'Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 579, no. 2 I, pp. 560-570. https://doi.org/10.1086/342918
Young AJ, Wilson AS, Mundell CG. Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster. Astrophysical Journal. 2002 Nov 10;579(2 I):560-570. doi: 10.1086/342918
Young, A. J. ; Wilson, A. S. ; Mundell, C. G. / Chandra imaging of the X-ray core of the Virgo Cluster. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2002 ; Vol. 579, No. 2 I. pp. 560-570.
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by Charon on Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:16 pm
(Okay guys, this is an ARP set in the typical TR/AQW world, with the introduction of a little more technology. You can use either your AQW character or an Original Character, or both, but you are only allowed to have two characters to limit confusion. No god playing, and no farfetched characters.)
Charon's house was alive with the sounds of TR members partying. The Staff had created their own little gathering, and Ry and Flaw were arguing avidly about which monster was better: zards or cacti.
"But Zards are more manly, yet they still have the cute factor!" Ry declared.
"Zards smell funny. Cacti are pretty, and green, and pokey, and just completely wonderful!" Flaw retorted.
"You do realize that cacti aren't even monsters, right, Flawsie?" Charon queried.
"Oh. Well... I guess you win this time, Ry."
Just then, Shadow burst into the circle. "Hey guys, urgent message for Vamp. Something about a fish market."
"Ooh, I've been waiting for this for weeks!" Vamp said, grabbing the note and dashing madly through the crowds and out of the house. The rest of the group stared after him, dumbstruck. Then they all roared with laughter.
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by Cial on Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:27 pm
Cial followed close behind, keeping up a steady pace behind Vamp.
"For SPARTA!!!" He yelled, a red gloved fist high in the air.
He was dressed in a royal suit, with a Santa hat on and a hockey stick in his grasp. Now he was wearing red knit gloves, which Flaw gave him for Christmas. Cial began to pass Vamp.
"Better keep up! He said, "Or you won't have the strength to be our leader anymore, Vee."
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by Deathclaws on Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:42 pm
Unnoticed by most, but perhaps not all, a lone figur was quietly sipping from his Chardonnay in one of the lone corners of Charon's mansion. The dry wine did its brand justice, and DC found himself intrigued by the taste, the rest of the world losing focus, and the overall warmth shooting into his limbs
~I need this bottled and send to my house asap...~
His eyes started to adjust to the light that illuminated the entire party, he still wasn't used to walking outside of the shadows ~Its unhealthy~
His black trenchcoat had been losely buttoned, 2 daggers hanging freely as always at his belt. A panama hat covered part of his eyes, leaving just a small slit to peer out of. Pale hands were covered by leather gauntlets, as dark as the night itself.
DC buried his white face in said gauntlets as he beheld Vamp and Cial rush out of the door, apparently eager to make it to a fish market ~This place is nothing more than a nutshell~ Ry and Flaw were the next to be inspected, but he didn't even bothered when a slight breeze, possibly produced by V and C's sudden flight, carried part of their conversation his way ~And theres a generous amount of nuts here too~ The Necromancer remained in his corner, not too eager to join the rest ~New Worst case scenario: I'll become one of them~
Note: ~ is DC thinking ~
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by Flaw of Insanity on Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:11 am
"What I don't understand though..." Ry continued with his argument, even after seemingly winning it, "Is why you would think a cactus is so powerful?"
Flaw sat there, if he didn't have a massive skull mask on, he would have raised an eyebrow, "Have you even had several bandits attack at once and all you have was a cactus?"
"Yes I have." Ry answered, without skipping a beat, "It was a prickly situation," he laughed, receiving a groan from everyone but Flaw, who probably laughed louder than Ry.
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by Winnie on Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:33 pm
Winnie sighed off in the corner. "I'd have to side with Flaw on this one, Actually." She said. "Zards you can get with your bare hands, unhurt."
"I suppose, but go find one a kill a cactus ingame!" Ryzaa retorted, staring at Winnie and Flawsie.
"I think I'll just go back to the inn before everyone gets totally drunk."
"Cya Win." Everyone said, as she walked out the door. Nobody really knew much about her, except that she didn't like to stay in one place for more than 20 minutes, and that she can pull up and quote from any broadway musical in thw universe to give you advice. She also sang a lot.
As she walked through the door, a loud roar came from the sky. It was going to rain.
She walked home, as the rain fell on her. Somthing had been really bothering her latley. She didn't care if she had run away, she had to get out of that meeting.
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by Ryzaa on Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:54 pm
Everyone heard the rain start to pour, Charon sent out another round of drinks, Flaw went back to his cactus, Ry went to tend to Fredrick -who was out in the rain and could catch a cold D:!
*it's 12:30pm.., I can't think straight..*
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by Shadow on Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:29 pm
"I agree with Flaw, cacti are fluffy, cute and awesome!" Shadow said, still puffing from his long run from the docks.
"So Shadow, tell us how your trip to Lolosia went..." Charon inquired curiously.
Shadow hated the sea and everything about it, especially the smell of salt. He despised it, even loathed it. He would have been much happier in a dark and largely uninhabited forest anytime. But he had an important mission, he was sent by Vamp himself to find the fish market that the quirky leader of TR was so interested in. This mission was a complete secret, Shadow was not allowed to know why he was sent off to Vamp's bidding, and none of the other TR members knew a thing about it.
Shadow had been searching the bustling docks all day, and the rancid smell of the dirty pirates was starting to rub off on his his pristine tuxedo. He was just about to give up, when he saw what looked like the stall out of the corner of his eye. He didn't know why this one was so special, but he was specifically told to find the one that had one fish for every colour of the rainbow.
"I wonder why this crazy stall is so important," Shadow mused to himself before making his long journey back to Charon's house.
(I've never done any RPing before, but Charon suggested I post here, so I thought I'd give it a go. I'm not actually approved... is that ok?)
by Deathclaws on Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:14 am
DC flipped his dagger from his belt impatiently, getting annoyed by all the rucus, and the constant blabbering about pointy vegetables. A reason to abandon the party revealed itself as winnie took her leave, DC made his way after her quietly, gripping his fine leather coat from the rack and pushing open the oak door, leaving Charon's house behind himself through a curtain of silver drops. He did not put the coat on, just carried it with him
~It cleanses body, spirit, soul~ he welcomed the cold drops penetrating his harnass, finding their way onto his bare skin and chilling him to his core. It felt refreshing, after the hot and rather disgusting establishment there was no reason to shield himself from it. Winnie was a mere figur within the dark shadows cast by a sunless sky and large, ominous trees. After walking quietly for some time he yelled out to her
"Melady Winnie, you'll catch a cold death in this rainy weather" he shouted, a cold breeze sweeping most of his words into nothingness ~Blast and Damnation~. He attempted to close the distance and extended ohne arm to grip, what he suspected was, Winnies shoulder "What brings a charming lady like you into a grey winter's day like this one" he asked in a jovial tone "If you don't mind me asking of course" he added quickly ~Let us not seem impolite at first glance~
by Charon on Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:11 am
"Lovely story, Shad. So what did you find that Vamp wanted so much?" Charon asked.
"Well, he had wanted me to find information about the Fish of Origin, the most ancient and powerful fish that there ever was, and he had heard that a certain Lolosian stall might have some information about it. I went and checked it out for him, and it turns out that he was right, the vendor did know something about it, but he would only talk to Vamp directly." Shadow said.
"Interesting." Charon replied.
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by Winnie on Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:52 am
Winnie turned her head, the rain falling on her face. Her eyes were a silky brown, and her hair was shining on the streetlights. "Hi." She said, Sighing. She decided to answer the question. "I'm not Cold, DC. I'm never cold." She contined. "And I'm hiding."
"Do you do this often?"
"A bit. Only when it gets too loud, or too busy. I like quiet places better."
"Ahh."
"I'm here becuase there's one person in this world that just makes my fingers teem with rage."
"Mind telling me who?"
"Yes. It's a secret."
"If you ever need a friend, I'm here."
Winnie smiled.
"Friendship is thicker than blood." DC Reminded her.
"That depends."
She walked off. She took a leather jacket out of her pack. She put it on, over her black shirt, and shivered in the cold.
by V on Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:56 am
// Scene Switch: Outside on the outskirts of Lolosia, Cial and V are "racing" to wherever their destination is.
Cial and V were now a good 2 miles away or so away from the Lolosia, churning up the the slippery hills of the Swordhaven Meadows. "We should be at the Neverbridges soon." Vamp said.
*Neverbirdges, a narrow, broken, and dangerous path laid out across the sea to get from Lolosia. Due to constant Wild Hydra Attacks, Tidal Waves, and Rouges, boat travel was much more popular at the time. Of course, if you needed to get to Lolosia fast, it was your only choice.
"Cial, you need to take off your belt." Vamp muttered as they trekked through the muddy outskirts of Swordhaven. "Ew, no!" Cial spattered out in disgust. "No no, not like that." Vamp said, facepalming. "You need to take off any large metal objects before we start venturing across the Neverbridges. With all the lightning dancing in the sky, you have a high chance of being hit when it's just sea." Vamp finished. "Yeah, right!" Cial said, chuckling. Now reaching the seashore of Swordhaven, Cial started prancing around, poking fun at Vamp's statement. "This isn't going to end well..." Vamp muttered, but before he could get another word out, a glare followed with a large vibrating CLAP! smashed into the beach, hitting Cial's left arm.
"Aah, Vamp!" Cial cried. After waving his arms to get through the smoke, he muttered "You see? Bad idea!" but before V could go on, he realized that Cial was in critical condition. He knew he had to get to those stalls fast, so he asked Cial "If I construct a burrow for you, will you be able to heal and get back to base? "I-- I guess so." Cial said in a fragile tone. After wiping the salty foam from the wet sand, Vamp closed his eyes, raised his hand, and started to focus his mana into a tree trunk. Within seconds, a large glob of salt water slapped into the trunk. After the foamy white salt washed away, it seemed to of left a large whole in the trunk. Fortunately, below the trunk was a hollow cove, giving Cial shelter. "Can you rest here?" Vamp asked. "Yeah, but... Hey did you do tha--" But before he could finish, Vamp simply said "It was just a simple Xia spell. Now please, take my coat and wrap it around your hand. It should give you enough of a bandage to stop your bleeding."
*Xia Spell: Meele-Based spell, meaning if enough Mana was available at the time, it could be used without any preparation or spell preset. The reason Xia spells aren't commonly used is because their considered to lethal for common-folk, so the more advance scriptures are usually kept hidden in temples.
With a hasty dash, V started to trek upon the sloshing Neverbridges. He could see a blurry ship in the distance, as the sky flashed with lightning. "This isn't going to be fun..." V said, as he cloaked his head with a black hood.
After about a mile of jumping, slipping, crawling and hopping, V could make out the horizon of Swordcove*. With a smile almost hitting his face, he continued walking on the now very narrow bridges. Right then, he could hear cannons firing in in the opposite direction. Squinting, he could see that it was coming from a ship with the initials engraved "SD" on it. "S.. Sea... Sea Dragons, perhaps?" Vamp muttered to himself, hoping that it wasn't a malicious crew.
*Swordcove, a small extension of Swordhaven that was originally used to scope out enemy ships that were going to attack Swordhaven. The troops on Swordcove would use Dwakel messenger technology to alert the Pactagonal Knights, were they could set up the appropriate strategies for the situation. However, ever since the alliance between Swordhaven and Lolosia, Swordcove has now turned into a small trading community, with everything from home-cooked pasta, to boats.
With a sigh of relief, Vamp set foot on Swordcove Bay. Greeted with a Bellringer, he was asked "Tourist or Resident?" the Bellringer asked. "Rarehunter." Vamp said in return.
Setting foot into the brisk, misty town of Swordcove, Vamp was trying to scoe out a small boat -- or even a trained Hydra. After a few minutes into his search, he spotted a man in blue overalls that seemed to be a BeastKeeper. Vamp waved his arm to him and shouted across the street "Do you sell Travel Hydra, sir?" "Yes, of course!" he said in return.
Vamp walked across the street into his small shack, which was actually a small storefront followed by a olympic-sized aquarium, filled with Hydra that appeared to be bouncing a red ball from one to another. "They certainly aren't Alfredo... But they'll have to do." Vamp muttered to himself. "Alfredo?" the BeastMaster asked. "Oh, nothing." Vamp replied, as he pointed to the once he wanted to rent*. After eyeballing the Hydra, he looked at V and said "300,000 Gold, sir!" The BeastMaster said with a large smile. "They aren't cheap, are they?" "Nope, but these guys will take you wherever you need to go; Sun or Thunder!" "Well good, because it's going to be quite a rough venture. Are they fire-trained*?" "Of course! These Hydra aren't amateurs."
*Renting Hydra, or even training Hydra, was a strange policy Swordcove adapted. Adventurers, Pirates, Rarehunters, and questers alike would rent Hydra to take them across the Sea. When told, the Hydras would fly back to Swordhaven. Most creatures obviously would not be able to do this, but Hydra's had complex brains, similar to the ones of Homing Pigeons.
*Firetrained Hydras are a rare strain of Hydra that could blow a Salty, Scalding fire out of their mouth when instructed to do so. Strangely enough, if they felt that the situation was injustice, they would hold back and get violent to their holders.
Without further discussion, Vamp tossed the BeastMaster a large sack with the payment, and whistled to the selected Hydra. The Hydra leaped up from the aquarium and playfully nuzzled V, as he chuckled. "Alright Buddy, it's time that we've set out!" Seeming as if the Hydra understood, the BeastMaster tossed Vamp the appropriate riding equipment. He hopped onto the Hydra, and with a quick "Whoosh!" they flew up and launched into the windy Sea.
//Meanwhile: Back to Deathclaws/Winnie.
Alfredo the Sock Dragon* wrapped a dark green scarf around his neck and stepped foot outside of his cozy home into the horrid rainy weather. Hearing Deathclaws shout for Winnie peaked his curiosity, so he decided to fly in the direction of the distress. After a few settle flaps of his wings, he saw DC and Winnie talking to eachother. "I'm sorry to interrupt you two, but there is something I need to ask you." Alfredo continued "Have you seen Vamp anywhere? He left Jeff at home, and well... He never leaves Jeff.
*Alfedo's Persona: A normal Sock Dragon that can change in size at will, and has a settle British accent. Enjoys Soft Cheeses and Mango Juice.
"The last time I've seen that preposterous Vampire was him darting through Charon's mansion looking for some Multicolored Fish." He looked at Deathclaws with a worrysome face. "Maybe you should ask someone at the pub, eh Alfredo?" They heard a crash, followed by a scream that sounded like "CACTUS!". "Yeah, it's defiantly not too far away." They both chuckled.
-Sidenote: Sorry if this post seems to be mostly based off of my character, I just wanted to develop Vamps/Cial's adventure a bit more.
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by Atriax on Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:23 pm
@Graarg Didn't understand a word of that, lol.
Scene switch back to the mansion
Unknown to the friends in Charon's mansion, there was another in that room. Atriax the Darf Elf paladin was hidden not 2 meters away. But even if they had known he was there, they wouldn't have seen him.
He quietly crept down, and sat in between them. They both jumped, then chuckled, muttering something about dark elves in general.
"Nasty weather. I hope Vamp and Cial are ok." started Atriax. "I'm sure Vamp'll be ok, it's Cial I'm worried about. He always seems to get hurt." Was Winnie's response. She turned around, realizing that Atriax had slipped away once again. Not for the first time today, she mumbled something about drow.[img][/img]
Atriax
DemonHunter
Age : 2019
Location : In the shadows... and not Shadow the player, the dark kind of shadows.
by Deathclaws on Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:13 pm
DCs jaw slightly dropped as a so- ~A SOCK DRAGON?!~ darted through the heavy rain towards him. Winnie replied to the strange abomination set before his eyes, but he was unable to utter a single sound ~That would look so unique on my wall....~ His hand rested on the hilts of his dagger ~Or in vinegar, to preserve it....~ muttering quietly to himself about the many possibilities that unfolded themselves. He handed Winnie his coat, not even listening to wether she took it or not "Warm yourself up, its thick leather...." he heard himself murmur as he was still googleing at the abnormal apparition ~Vamp's property huh?~. The world blurred around him, his target on the other hand, came into extreme focus ~One stab, arm off, two stabs, arteries opened, three stabs, DARN IT, ITS A DRAGON, NOT AN ELF!~
~Never mind that~ were the last thoughts that crossed his mind before he hurled himself forward, attempting to grab the dragon's neck with one arm while stabbing his dagger into any vital sock arterie that could possibly grant this abomination life. His aims were the necks and lungs, but he didn't know whether those would actually prove to be fatal points for such a strange dragon. The stench it radiated brought tears to his eyes, but he blinked them away as fast as a rogue possibly could ~How can a single being SMELL this much?~
Isn't everyones RP be solely about THEIR actions?! Isn't that RP?!
by Winnie on Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:51 pm
Winnie put the Jacket on, Now wearing 2 jackets and a black shirt. She wished she had plaid pants.
She watched in horror as the sock dragon began bleeding bad smells.
"DC." She said, looking at him stabbing it. "Please refrain from killing Vamp's pet sock dragon. It's a rare item, and since I was here when you did it, I'll have to be a witness to testify against you in court. We don't want that, do we?"
"...." DC Said, looking at her. "I Want it on my wall!"
"It's not yours!"
"So?"
"Fine." DC Said, letting the dragon go. The smells wafted through the air and Winnie plugged her nose.
"It smells like Cysero's feet." She said, looking at the dragon. "Lets heal it up, before all of BattleOn can smell it..."
She took out a small bottle and poured it out on the sock dragon. It's wounds began to heal. Then Winnie removed a can, and began to spray the air.
"What's that?" DC Asked, confused.
"Air Freshener?" Winnie looked at him, smiling. "You've never heard of it?"
"Yes but why do you carry it with you?"
"For situations like this?"
Point taken, Winnie.
[NOTE: I've made at least one broadway reference in each of my posts except my first one. Find them!]
by V on Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:03 am
As Winnie was healing Alfredo, while lecturing DC on how he couldn't go around stabbing people's pets, Alfredo slowly rose up, seeming to be partially healed.
"You have your prey right there, with full mana, spells, and weapons-- And all you can do is a deformed Falcon Punch?!" Alfredo spitted out, while a lilac-colored glow shined around his coat. It seemed to be giving him a different scent. Peach, perhaps?
Between Winnie's and Alfredo's lecturing, DC became angered again. Before even responding, he leaped into the air with a devious look, trying to puncture Alfredo with his dagger again. With a lift of Alfredo's paw, DC froze.
"DC, DC, DC..." "You should atleast know the creature your hunting! Almost all hunters know that Sock Dragons can alter their smells at will- With another curious little ability - Alteration of gravity!"* Alfredo stated with a sarcastic chuckle. Winnie now having her jaw open with all of the events, she stood back as Alfredo swiped DCs Dagger. "Keh, you amateur little renegade." And without further dialog, Alfredo poofed in a large clap.
With Alfredo gone, DC seemed to of been unfrozen. "You don't always have the best judgement, DC..." Winnie glared. "But-- That was my Dag--""I don't want to hear it!" she said, as they continued to walk in the rain.
=V
If I'm writing something large, I'd want it to make sense in the order of events. Is there something wrong with that?
Defyyyyying Graaaaaaaavity!!!!!
Defyyyyyyyyyyinh DC!!!!!!
Both good ideas. o:
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by 5secondchaos on Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:31 am
As Cial returned to number 13, Shadow'ing road back to Charons large house, he met 5SecondChaos as he was coming out of the door.
"Hello Cial are you alright? You look a little shaken up to say the least"
"Yes yes Five, I'm fine. Its not me you should be worried about though. Its Vamp, he left me in a hollow tree and wen't off overseas to Swordcove" and then he took a big breath in, and at that moment Five frowned then gave a whistle.
"So why did he leave you in a hollowed out tree?"
"Well Vamp told me to take off my belt" At this Five sniggered. "Carry on", "Well he told me to take off my belt so the lightning would'nt hit me, and I gave the same reaction as you and started laughing, this was a vital mistake. Because at that moment the lighting struck the bracelet on my left wrist and knocked me off my feet" Just as Cial had finished his speech, Five's Platinum Dragon, Elthain*, landed down next to Cial.
"Well Cial, sounds like a good story, me and the rest of TR would like to hear it. But when I get back. For now, you go inside and rest." At this Five climbed upon his Dragon and bellowed "Up". The dragon gave a jurk of his ankle's and a flap of his wings and then became airboure. It flew away in the direction of Vamparagons house, as Cial stepped inside he was greeted by Charon, Ryzaa and Flawsie who were still arguing about the Cactus and Fredrick.
Heehee... isn't that just a rearrangement of the letters in Elnaith? xD
I have only just realised, I have had that name since before I joined TR so you cant sue me for copyright infrigment. I'm going to change his name now.
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Platinum Vampire - Art Fanatic!
by Winnie on Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:50 am
Winnie walked back to the Inn, and went to her room. After giving DC His coat back.
She shut the door behind her and locked it. The water fell on her window, blurring it. It's like visions, She thought. You can't see the lines.
She pulled out her guitar and began to strum it profusely. For some reason the same tune came out as a thousand times before. Mabye that was becuase it was the first song she learned. Mabye it was sheer boredom.
Unadulterated Boredom. <--Wicked!
She strummed the strings to the farmilliar tune, and put it back in the corner. She sighed. Of all the things that were going on, music should have been the least of her worries.
All she ever wanted was to be an Artist. I didn't matter what kind, she loved all forms of art. Except Dada art. Eww.
She had pained, drawn, and sang as a little girl. She always wanted to be a singer. She had loved to act with her friends, and grew to love Broadway. She was Elphaba in Wicked in elementary school. She wrote plays. She wrote musicals. She acted them out with her friends. She pulled out "Furrbies of Doom" and began to play the opening number. The staging was also written, and she imagined the actors she invisioned so long ago prancing around the stage.
She then realised how stupid that must have just sounded.
She trashed it and pulled out "The Regulars", a musical she was writing. The lines were thicker on the paper than before, and her ink was running dry.
She sighed and went to sleep.
[HAHA! FIND THE REFERENCES! There are 3 this time... I don't think anyone will get the third one... ever... ever...ever...
Hint: Why are we friends with these people?]
by Deathclaws on Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:52 am
DC stared into nothingness, the events that had just occured in front of his eyes finally hitting his rather sensitive nerves, reality becoming nothing but a dull grey "I lost...." the words came from his mouth like death rattles. He stopped in his tracks, his gaze fell upon the dagger, tainted with sock dragon blood, still several feet removed from his grasp "I lost to a...." His body trembled, his eyes watered, and the cold wind wasn't quite responsable for it. He fell to his knees, first, deep red tears, running down his face, the sanguine liquid disturbing the puddles the rain had formed as it fell "How, why, where did I...." ~Gravity altered~ He slammed his fist into the mud, over and over again, and didn't stop when he heard joints crack and bones shatter as it hit the solid rock beneath ~Dragon's magic~ Eventually he lost the strength to slam his fist down as his hands grew numb "I'm a failure....
The world regained none of its many colors as he arose, his unharmed hand shooting upwards to pull his hat over most of his face ~Do not weep, you cannot alter the past. But the future, perhaps it holds more than just lost battles~ He averted his eyes, unable to look at winnie "Leave me Melady, leave me to myself while I still behave human" he murmured, just loud enough for Winnie to hear. His feet moved on their own accord as he staggered into the forest, leaving his dagger to rest in the dirt "I need time to think...." Winnie had already taken off anyway, and after she had returned his coat he had merely dropped it to the ground ~Extra weight, unneeded like my own miserable existence~
Actually, i was saying that it was GOOD, how you only played yourself and made sense of the events. I don't see why people control other characters. They don't BELONG to them. it just makes them harder to develop for the original author, and fights aren't fun at all.
-DC
Actually, I was replying to Winnie when she said reserving posts [s]wasn't right.[/s] unprofessional.
I NEVER SAID THAT! I SAID "What's up with the reserving posting", BUT NOT THAT IT WASN'T RIGHT! DON'T MISPHRASE ME!
"What's up with the reserving posting" and you then stated that it seemed unprofessional for Advanced Roleplay. Did you not?
by Winnie on Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:28 am
The next morning, Winnie woke up with her feet on her pillow and her head where her feet normally go. Her covers were strewn aside.
"Rough night, eh." She said, sitting up. She was still fully dressed and hadn't intended to fall asleep when she did. She wondered what time it was.
She glanced over at the clock. 9:30. She was late. Again.
She wake up, took a shower, and put on a purple velvet shirt and black pants. She Grabbed her jacket and walked out of the room.
By 10:00 she was standing in her spot at the regulars official meeting. She hadn't missed much. Ryzaa and Flaw were still arguing. This made her wonder if they had stayed up all night and just moved 10 feet over.
Vamp's house was packed. Official mod meeting. There was Special, sitting in his spot. He had a broken arm, and looked sad.
She whispered to him. "Hey, where were you?"
"I was on Vamp's business with him. Got struck by lightning." He replied, rolling his eyes. "Stupid shirt has metal..."
"Sorry. You ok?" She asked him, looking at his arm. "It looks like that bled for awhile."
"Yeah. I was stuck in a tree for awhile. Used some cloth as a bandage. After awhile it wasn't really helping any so I just had to let it bleed."
"That's never a good idea." Winnie said, reviewing her healing skills. She gave up healing after awhile, but was still knowlegeable.
"I know, but what was I supposed to do?"
"Take your cape and make a small bandage and replace it every 1-2 hours?"
"...that was retorical."
"Sorry. Why are we here?"
"Becuase. vamp called us here to talk about his discovery. He's not here yet though."
"So were farting around?"
"...yeah."
"Ok. Thanks."
At that moment, Vamp walked in. Everyone greeted him and got in their seats around the large table. Vamp began...
[This one's Hiding. :) HINT: Usually I hide them in the first few paragraphs. Muahahah!]
by Atriax on Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:50 am
Atriax was once again hiding in the shadows, albeit in a different room now.
In fact, although he wasn't a mod, he was in the mod meeting room.
Atriax often came to these meetings, always uninvited. He knew he'd get into trouble if he was caught, but the chances of that happening were slim.
He was a paladin, so not as stealthy as an assassin, but a dark elf is a dark elf, and dark elves are good at not being seen. As he settled down to watch the meeting, Ilyx flew to him silently and stealthily. Atriax, startled, jumped down into plain sight. Several angry faces greeted him, but he knew the punishment could wait. Ilyx' report was very worrying. A small force of orcs were making their way to the TR stronghold.
by V on Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:11 am
"Greetings, everyone!" Vamp said with a concerned smile. "I usually wouldn't ask you to come to a meeting on Saturday morning, but I have important news."
"As you might of known, I have been searching for a particular stall in Lolosia that held strangely colored fish- That are actually Water Imps." Vamp took a variety of koi-looking creatures out of his backpack, as they whisked around in a nearby fishbowl. "You should know that I haven't just hunted these brilliant creatures for hobby purposes, no, that stall and these creatures held something much more divine in them." "It would take a long time to explain the whole thing; But I will say is its a Spell, a Hex, an Essence... Or something that could make Lore a much brighter place - And put a end to this reign of Chaos held by Drakath."
"The second reason I'm bringing you here is because a group of Sea Dracomancers called the 'Sea Dragons' were also perusing these Water Imps. for their own selfish purposes" "Unfortunately, they seem to of sent a hoard of Orcs to thwart our plans, and even worst, they managed to steal 'The Fish of Origin'."
Vamp continued, "Ryzaa, Rage, Flaw, I need you to get the members ready for the battle. Since these Orcs aren't agile creatures, an attack from above would be our best bet. I'll leave the rest up to you." He turned again "... Atriax. You've been a good enough sleuth to evade our vision for quite a few of these conferences, so I'm going to give you the job of seeing what kind of battle we're dealing with. Since theres lakes all around this base*, take my Hydra and try to scope out as much as you can."
*This particular base was located in Green Guard West.
With the short, brute commands Vamp finished up with "Me and Alfredo will be going along with Atriax to spy, and possibly get a head start of battling these gu--" Ry cut in, "Vamp, will you<|fim_middle|>leen to go."
[Oh so hidden... oh so well hidden...]
by Deathclaws on Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:22 am
DC had spend the last night within the forest, frequently assaulted by smaller or larger zards. The few plates on his leather armor had been dented, and large parts of his unprotected limbs showed deep claw and bite marks. His face was pale, his hat had been shredded to bits (a loss he couldn't quite cope with) and his endurance was nearing it's limit. Thick green blood dripped from his dagger as he stumbled deeper into the forest. A clearing revealed itself, low groans and rather rough shouts. What he found when he pulled aside twigs and leaves, was an encampment of sorts. Hides, the stench of orcs in the air. As he staggered into the open, the greenhide sentries' eyes widened in shock ~Have I turned into such an abominable figure?~ He briefly looked down at himself, finding that he was indeed bleeding from several deep cuts, and he could imagine that his broken nose had turned his face into quite a mess. He swept blood encrusted hair aside to get a better view, then spoke in broken orcish a few words ~Thank god languages is one of the few things I actually didn't suck in~
"I come not to haunt or harm you, as dread an apparition I might be"
Heavy axes left their belts and sheaths and DC finally noticed how his hand was still clutching the dagger. He dropped it quickly, bowing his head and holding his hands up
"I am a mere wanderer, seeking solace. I promise to pay you in gold and service, or may the spear of glorious Gruumsh cleave my head in twain"
They grunted for quite some time, yet DC did not lift his head for a second. The orcs grabbed him by his neck and shoulders, urging him forward with cold brutality. He did not dare move anything but his legs, as he was brought before the warlord for inspection. A bulk of greenish meat, a heavy double bladed Axe behind his throne of bones and horn, the warlord was indeed a sight that would freeze the blood if faced on a battlefield. DC fell to his knees as the guards loosened their hold, not intentionally, but strength was leaving him with every drop of blood he lost. Suspicious eyes observed him, gazed briefly at the many dents on his armor, then the warlord snorted once before lifting his heavy axe and trodding forward
"Tell me, elf" And his voice echoed in DCs ears in broken elfish "Why spare your life when it would be so much easier to create a goblet out of your empty skull?" DC reflected on these words for a few seconds, then spoke quietly and slowly, realizing that one wrong word would cost him his life "Dread lord, I come to you a humble servant. If it is your will to stop my beating heart, there is no need to hestitate. Yet I beg you, let me prove to you that my service is of value. Let me show you how my blades can dance to the tune of your wardrums" A shiver ran down his spine, as he saw the grip of the warlords hands tighten around his axe "And you have my oath, you will not regret it" Silence fell once again upon the hut, as the orc chief considered the words of the bleeding elf before him
"A man with this many wounds should be dead, yet you grovel before me, your lungs breathing and your heart beating. If Yurtrus rejects you, there must be reason for your coming here"
DC did not see how the warlord jerked his head in the direction of his 2 retainers, did not hear the coals sizzle, but as the burn mark of the one eyed deity Gruush was pressed into the naked skin on his back, he did indeed gasp in pain, yet bit on his tongue to prevent himself from screaming. The warlord grunted in approval as DC was dragged away by his hair, body and will broken.
He awoke hours later in an empty tent, first streams of daylight creeping in. His broken body had been tended to. They had scorched his wounds shut, knowing that every scar would remind him of his servitude "I made the right choice" He tried to convince himself ~I am not going to break this oath. There is no going back~ News of his arrival had spread, and after having a long conversation with the camp's smith, his armor had been mended, and his daggers reforged. A brand new shortsword dangled from his belt, a mask of iron now covered his face, forged in the shape of a leering demon. "We march today" came the grumpy voice of a wardrummer "You better prepare"
~March I will, against whatever fate will throw my way~
Little did he suspect....
Gentlemen, if you fight me, or interact with me, please don't just mend the outcome the way you want it. Winnie has already turned me into a brute who doesn't even know what air freshener is, Vamp has defied me, and if I face one of you on the battlefield, I don't just want you to write "DC recognized the TR members and turned on the orcs". Don't we all want to develop our characters ourselfes?
This is the way we RolePlay. We all contribute to the storyline, and we can use each others characters as long as we don't godplay. Meaning we can't just kill off someone's character without their assent.
Ok, everybody can now kill off my characters. I don't think I can survive this way, so just kill me off at some point and don't mourn.
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by Charon on Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:28 am
As all of TR emerged from their designated areas on and around the West Greenguard Fortress, they saw just how massive the approaching threat was. The Sea Dragons were apparently much more powerful than anyone had expected, for an army made up of hundreds upon hundreds of Orcs of all kinds was marching steadily toward them.
At the armys head was an Orc vehicle, made of wood and heavy iron*. Four Orcs dragged it along behind them, acting as beasts of burden. It wasn't covered, so there was a clear view of the ornate steel throne that adorned it. Upon this throne sat not an Orc, but an extremely tall and muscular man, clothed not in the robes of a king, but in the armor of a tank soldier. As the army reached the one strip of land that connected the massive fortress to the rest of Greenguard, the bethroned vechicle halted, the rest of the force following suit. The man rose from his throne and spoke, his voice booming across the open air that seperated him and the members of TR.
"Greetings, Vamparagon. I am Zamdine, the warlord of the Sea Dragons, and I've brought a little gift for your clan to make up for taking... this," he said as he lifted something into the air. He was close enough to the fortress that everyone could see the fish that he grasped. It looked to be as old as time itself. Its scales were pitch black, and small ridges of bone trailed across the length of its body. It had two icy blue eyes that glowed with potent magick. Although it was out of water, it didn't seem to be having any trouble breathing.
"The Fish of Origin!" Vamp gasped. "Your hands aren't fit to touch him! TR, we fight now!"
Hordes of TR members poured out of the fortress gates as the Orcs began to stampede down the stretch of land toward them. Swords and axes clashed, spells rocketed across the battlefield, and bodies fell to the ground on both sides. The hydras head reared out from the water with Atriax on top of it and breathed its salty flames on the Orcs. Flawsie and Alfredo led a group of members as they flew down through an altered gravity field onto the tops of the attackers. Ryzaa and Rage led the main attack force as they hacked away at their enemies. Charon acted alone, taking out every Orc that crossed his path with a combination of his Scion powers and his deadly scissors. At first, it looked like TR was winning.
But the Orcs kept coming.
They climbed onto the Hydra and pummeled it until it crashed into the lake, sending a wave over the warring clans. They began to adapt to TR's fighting style, knocking floating members out of the air with the flat sides of their broad axes, dodging spells, and countering attacks. Their brute strength would have eventually won their side the war if an immense burst of magic hadn't erupted in the middle of the field, seperating the forces and sending them back to their own sides. All of the warriors stared in wonder at the man at the center of where the blast had occured.
He wore an immaculate grey suit that was partially covered by dark grey, silver trimmed platemail. Dark black hair fell to his back. He rose one hand, pointed his finger at the Orc army, and uttered a string of words under his breath. The entire Orc force except for Zamdine turned grey, frozen in the positions that they had been in a moment before.
Every TR member's jaw dropped. They all looked at the stone army, then at each other, and then back again. Finally, they began to cheer. The man turned his head to look behind him, one cold eye staring at the joyous clan. "This victory comes at a price," he spoke without any emotion. The clan stopped and stared once more, this time in fear.
"What do you mean, a price? And who are you, anyway?" Charon asked in his sonorous baritone voice.
The man emitted what would have been a chuckle, had it not sounded so dead. "They call me Grey. And I want you, Scion." Before anyone could move, Grey spun around and pointed his finger at Charon, who turned to seeming stone just like the Orcs. Grey snapped his fingers, and Charon and the Orcs were teleported away.
"Hey, what have you done with my army!?" Zamdine bellowed from his throne, still holding the Fish. "Come down here and fight like a man, you coward!"
Grey disappeared and reappeared directly in front of the warlord. Zamdine's eyes widened as Grey slid his hand through his body and back again. Zamdine looked at the gaping hole where the center of his chest had been. Grey took the Fish from him as his eyes rolled back in his head. "Never doubt the power of Anima," he stated, and teleported away.
*Heavy Iron: A type of Iron that only Orcs know how to create. It is rougher than any other form of iron, but what it lacks in smoothness it makes up for in strength.
(Sorry for taking the entire battle scene, it was necessary)
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If you'd try to remember back to last september, You'd find that the world was quite different than it is in december.
Winnie sighed. Stupid fortune cookie.
Fortune cookies are always right.
"STUPID FORTUNE COOKIE!" She shouted.
Winnie was feeling emo. She's not emo- Just feeling emo at the moment. She didn't want to fight. She'd only fight if she was attacked first. Anyways, she wasn't that muscular...
She chipped at her black nail polish. Everyone was wearing black nail polish these days. It's so irrisistable... so clhippable...
She changed and went to bed. There was a long day ahead of her. She had decided to go stay home for awhile, wait till the way moved here. She knew it would.
Anyways, her policy had always been "Stay here, as long as Yulgar will go buy you ramen when your hungry you'll never have to leave."
She Looked out the window. The sun was rising. She went back to bed.
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Create a forum | © phpBB | Free forum support | Report an abuse | Forumotion.com | be okay? I mean... What if theres Chaos Draconians?" Vamp replied, "Alfredo has a good handle of freezing opponents, and we all have full Mana counts. We'll be fine! Now please, get our fortress ready for battle."
Without further ado, all of the TR staff ran off in different directions to prepare for the battle. V gave Atri a nod, and they set off into their sleuthy journey.
Winnie sighed. Grrrrrrrr. What the heck. She walked over to Vamp.
"Vamp." She said, looking at him.
"Yes?"
"Am I in charge of anything?"
"Oh, ok, bye."
She didn't walk away.
Winnie was half glad half sad. She was never out in charge of anything. Ever. She got demoted from being an official allout mod for deglecting her job. Once. She'd made a point of getting better. She had. She always did her job now.
It was on December 30th, 9:17, so that means it had been almost a year. Her thoughts confirmed. After a whole year of hard work..
"I guess I'll see you at the showdown. I'll try to get Kay | 256 |
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When life does not go according to plan – whether you go to prison, fight an addiction, become a victim of crime, go through a divorce, lose a loved one, lose your job, become homeless, or wherever your story has led you – your story is not over… it is<|fim_middle|> rewrite their stories and give them hope for the future. Join us as we help those in prison to not only be rehabilitated but also to find redemption. Let's give them the tools to continue their story.
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However, that all changed when I found myself sitting behind bars after a mistake that has now defined my entire life. It was in that experience, that I saw good people who were simply lost and hurting. They were not monsters and neither was I. However, media today tells us that people in prison deserve to be there and that they are these terrible human beings. I remember seeing these "tough" guys wipe away the tears as they kissed a picture of their baby girl goodnight and a thought entered my mind that I could not get rid of. How many families are broken because of the prison system?
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Analog Artist Digital World: Wekiva Paint Out.
At the end of February and the first week of March, 29 artists created plein air paintings at the Wekiva Island Paint Out. I went on the evening of a night paint out to watch the artists at work. Wekiva Island (1014 Miami Springs Dr, Longwood, FL 32779), has a a bar called the Tooting Otter. A band was setting up as<|fim_middle|> guitar music added to the festive evening. Barbara was a bit distracted. I stopped sketching after the first set and I think she got more work done during the performer's second set.
I later learned that she was a bit uncomfortable with my being at the bar and sketching. She had the strange notion that I was copying her painting. I really didn't pay attention to her work in progress. My back was against the bar, so there was no opportunity to back away from her work in progress. We joked about the difficulty of working in a tight space and parted ways on decent terms. I later saw her finished painting in the wet gallery where it hung with all the other paintings completed at the paint out.
My favorite work in the wet gallery was by Elizabeth St. Hilaire who does collages instead of plein air paintings. Her pieces were mostly of palm trees executed with colorful strips of paper. seeing all the variety of work created on the one week was in itself exciting. Outside artists were doing nocturnes of the riverfront. One artist had Christmas lights wrapped all around his easel which acted as his working lights. That was a sketch opportunity, and perhaps Ill catch him at work next year. | I arrived inside the bar, and I decided this was a perfect sketch opportunity. Plein air painter Barbara set up her easel between the bar stool I was sitting on and the stage. I sketched the room as she got the easel in place. Since she predominated the scene I included her in the sketch.
Barbara focused on a close up painting of the performers. A game of Jenga was stacked up on the table in front of Barbara. In Jenga, you have to remove a wooden block from the stack, without letting the entire structure fall down. The fiddling and | 121 |
Watch George Harrison and Eric Clapton Play The Beatles' "Taxman"
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As we've pointed out (over and over and over again), George Harrison and Eric Clapton continued to work together long after those mythic days of "Sour Milk Sea," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Badge." This is especially true of the early Seventies and the late Eighties, when Clapton appeared on Harrison's Cloud Nine (1987) and Harrison appeared on Clapton's Journeyman (1989).
When the pair toured Japan together in 1991, Harrison's set was packed with a crowd-pleasing assortment of Beatles tunes (it was the first time Harrison had performed Beatles songs in Japan since 1966).<|fim_middle|> The Beatles, Part 1 and Part 2.
And speaking of dynamic duos and songs that sound like "Taxman"...
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The Allman Betts Band Hit the Road in Support of Debut LP, 'Down to the River' | Among the highlights each night was "Taxman," which originally appeared on the Beatles' Revolver (1966), and which the Beatles never performed live.
Above, you can watch Harrison and Clapton tackle the classic Harrison-penned tune. Harrison plays an attractive Clarence White-esque Telecaster while Clapton plays the solo on a Strat. You'll notice that Slowhand starts off the solo with a nod to Paul McCartney's blistering original—but then veers off in a far more pentatonic, bluesy direction.
If you like what you hear, track down the double album recorded during this tour, 1992's Live in Japan. It features live versions of other Beatles tunes, including "Piggies," "I Want to Tell You," "Old Brown Shoe," "If I Needed Someone," "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
For more about the music recorded by Clapton and Harrison after the breakup of the Beatles, check out Exploring Eric Clapton's Collaborations with | 213 |
Remembering a Garfield classic, 'Thousand-Mile War'
Author: Nancy Lord
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Howard Nunooruk Sr. places flowers on the gravesite of his brother Romeo Nanooruk at Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Veterans Day on Nov. 11, 2016. Romeo Nanooruk, who died in 1987, was a World War II veteran who fought in the Aleutian Islands campaign, according to Howard's son, Homer Nunooruk. (Marc Lester / ADN archive)
The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
By Brian Garfield; University of Alaska Press; 1995; 456 pages; $24.95 paperback
This space is normally reserved for reviews of newly released books, but an exception is being made here to take a fresh look at a classic. Brian Garfield's "The Thousand-Mile War" was originally published in 1969 in response to the 25th anniversary of World War II's Aleutian campaign and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. It was republished in 1995 in the University of Alaska Press' Classic Reprint Series, to commemorate the campaign's 50th anniversary. This year marks the 75th anniversary — a time of remembrance and retrospection as the veterans of that war depart us and our national memory fades.
A surprising number of Americans today are unaware that part of World War II was fought in the Aleutian Islands, involving upward of half a million men and costing perhaps 10,000 lives. In early June of 1942, Dutch Harbor was bombed, and then, at the end of the Aleutian chain, the Japanese invaded and took control of the islands of Attu and Kiska. On Attu, the 42 Native Attuans were captured and shipped to Japan as prisoners of war, along with the white schoolteacher. (Her husband, a radio operator, was killed.) On Kiska, 10 members of a weather team, the only inhabitants, were similarly taken prisoner.
For the next year Japan held the two islands, while the U.S. built up air and naval bases on other Aleutian islands and bombed Kiska at every opportunity. (The U.S. also evacuated the Aleut people from the remaining islands in an ill-planned relocation that left them in terrible living conditions for the remainder of the war.) The Aleutians' notoriously bad weather and difficult terrain became a common enemy for both sides.
Death on both sides
Then, in May of 1943, the Americans counterattacked Attu. The Battle of Attu, thought by its planners to take no more than a couple of days, ended up raging for 19 days before routing the Japanese from their dug-in positions in the mountains. In the end, the American force suffered 3,829 casualties — including 549 dead and a couple thousand with severe-cold injuries and foot damage due to inadequate clothing and supplies. The Japanese dead numbered 2,351. This was the second-most costly American battle in the Pacific — second only to Iwo Jima.
A Japanese ship rusts in the waters off Kiska Island. (Nancy Lord)
In August, American troops made a similar attack on Kiska — only to find that the island had been quietly abandoned under fog a couple of weeks earlier.
The details of all this, deeply researched and with great attention to various military leaders and strategies, fill the pages of this fascinating book. Garfield was primarily a novelist before turning to this history, and his talent for storytelling — for bringing readers right into the lives of his characters and the action — is evident here. Many of his sources were unavailable until he succeeded in having them declassified, making his book the fullest account of the Aleutian war at the time (and still, arguably, the best). In the 1995 edition he corrects errors and adds new information; he also adds to the extensive bibliography so that other scholars and interested readers can go deeper into the research.
Garfield does not hold back with critiques of personalities, decision-making and poor planning. A reader cannot help but wonder whether much destruction and loss of life could have been prevented with additional caution, coordination and planning. Garfield shows us that, again and again, the men making life-and-death decisions discounted what others had to say, operated on poor intelligence or let egos get in their way. The strategic value of the Aleutian campaign is still debated — and probably will be forever.
Fighter pilot John Geddes stands on Attu Island on June 2, 1997, near the monument placed there by the Japanese, five decades after he ditched a Lockheed P-38 "Lightning" into Massacre Bay at Attu after being shot down by a Japanese "Betty" during the Aleutian campaign of World War II. (Bill Roth / ADN archive 1997)
In recent years, veterans of the Aleutian campaign have made numerous return visits to the islands. On this 75th anniversary, there are few left to remember what they went through, and still fewer capable of making such a long trip. Similarly, the names of some who played significant roles are now detaching from those roles and, if not forgotten, are remembered for different reasons.
It's likely that more Alaskans are familiar with the Buckner Building, the abandoned eyesore in Whittier, than with Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Army's Alaska Defense Command who played multiple key roles during the war (and was killed in Okinawa.) Gen. Benjamin Talley lived quietly in Anchor Point until his death in 1998;<|fim_middle|>." Her new novel "pH" will hit bookstores this month.
An inscription on the monument placed on Attu Island by the Japanese , in Japanese and English, reads: "In memory of all those who sacrificed their lives in the islands and seas of the North Pacific during World War II and in dedication to world peace." Photographed on June 2, 1997, as American soldiers study the battle. (Bill Roth / ADN archive 1997)
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Nancy Lord
Nancy Lord is a Homer-based writer and former Alaska writer laureate. Her books include "Fishcamp," "Beluga Days," and "Early Warming." Her latest book is "pH: A Novel." | he was known as the "father of military construction in Alaska" and was famously responsible for building airfields in the Aleutians in a matter of days. Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid, who commanded the Navy forces in the Aleutian campaign, is memorialized with a destroyer, the USS Kinkaid.
Uninhabited today
Today the islands of Kiska and Attu are entirely uninhabited by people and are part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. They are beautiful fog-shrouded and wind-whipped landscapes still riddled with tunnels used by the Japanese, pocked with water-filled bomb craters, and littered with the remains of military debris. Their history each year sinks farther into the tundra.
With U. S. approval, the government of Japan placed a peace memorial at the battle site in 1987. (Nancy Lord)
The main battlefield area on Attu is a national historical monument. In 1987, with U. S. approval, the government of Japan placed a peace memorial at the battle site. Its inscription, in both English and Japanese, reads, "In memory of all those who sacrificed their lives in the islands and seas of the North Pacific during World War II and in dedication to world peace."
In an early chapter, Garfield noted that "Japan had captured a pair of islands she did not really want and had precious little use for. At equal expense, the United States had made strenuous but impotent efforts to defend the same unwanted and useless islands … Japan was afraid of an American invasion; America was afraid of a Japanese invasion. Fear forced the choice of their pathetic battleground."
We would do well to ask, in 2017, what lessons we may have learned from the thousand-mile war.
Nancy Lord is a Homer-based writer and former Alaska writer laureate. Her books include "Fishcamp," "Beluga Days" and "Early Warming | 400 |
REVIEW: Private Politics by Emma Barry
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Dear Ms. Barry:
This is the second book in the series centering around characters in DC. As I said in my previous review of your book Special Interests, I generally shy away from political books but you are able to write a book about people passionate about causes yet unabrasive which I find to be some kind of wizardry.
Alyse Philips is a wealthy socialite<|fim_middle|> a damsel in distress, though, needing help from those around her to extricate herself from a potentially career ending political scandal. Part of her character conflict is that people do tend to see her as shallow and vapid and in part, Liam views her that way as well. Not shallow and vapid but at times I felt that his emotions were elevated above hers.
Liam is a sweetheart of a hero. He's a successful political blogger who managed to leverage his college hobby into a career with employees. But he's also a control freak and he's finding it a challenge to delegate control so that he can grow his burgeoning blog. The story that Alyse brings to him can catapult him from second tier to top of the search engines or the so called front page of the internet. The situation allows Alyse to see the passion and intensity that Liam brings to his avocation. He is not merely a man with a keyboard attached to the end of his fingers, but one who is as dedicated to his job as she is to hers. This shift in paradigm takes Liam from nice and nerdy to warm and protective. Alyse begins to view Liam anew and when she sees him on a date, the shift becomes complete.
And as Alyse begins to eye Liam differently, he's embolden by her possible attraction and that becomes a feedback loop. Liam is more confident leading to Alyse being more attracted. Alyse wasn't a doormat though, relying solely on good looks. She knows immediately something is wrong with the books, offers up suggestions on how to resolve the problem and works together with Liam.
The passion for politics link makes their romance believable, particularly when it appears Alyse had perused what Liam had to offer previously and rejected it. (I think that Liam never actually got up the nerve to ask Alyse out which could have also contributed to her viewing him continually as a friend only). Making the story about graft and corruption instead of a particular ideology helps to render this work palatable for both sides of the party divide. After all, who isn't for literacy, nerdy boy bloggers, pretty girls, and love winning out? Curmudgeons, obviously but for the rest of us, Private Politics is a good escape. B-
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Oooh, good- I hadn't realized this was out yet! Yay! I adored the first book! :-) | who works as a fundraiser for an international girl's literacy non-profit. The job gives her validation in the face of expectations of her parents who would prefer her to be married to a Wall Street banker and popping out babies. She uses her understanding of people and her ability to negotiate a cocktail party to get donors to open their wallets for her charity. Alyse's job takes an unsavory turn when she discovers discrepancies in the books of her charity during an annual audit of Young Women Read, Inc.
She takes the issue to her roommate's boyfriend, the lawyer and male protagonist of Special Interests who recommends she seek out the advice of political blogger Liam Nussbaum. Liam has had a crush on Alyse for months, but he's not the type of guy who gets a girl like Alyse. His closet isn't full of sharp suits and he spends more time behind his computer than in the gym. He tried to flirt with her but was the attraction wasn't returned and he resolved to set aside his feelings and move on. When he finds out that she needs his help he comes running, still wearing his heart on his sleeve.
Because heroines are often judged on a harsher scale than their male counterparts, pretty, wealthy, and good at reading people Alyse could have come off as villainous. As I was writing this review I remembered that many of the historical books pre-2005 featured glorious heroines who caused an earthquake of male attention. I don't know that the Alyse archetype is as common perhaps because it may be more difficult to pull off without giving her some traumatic background like rape to make her sympathetic. She is a bit of | 335 |
Love Story: Meet Kristen and Jason Desaulniers, winners of the wedding give-away
Newlyweds Kristen and Jason Desaulniers share a kiss in front of the marquee at the Garde Arts Center in downtown New London during their March 25 reception.
Kristen Deptulski was working her second shift job — as an international clerk at the Waterford UPS — when she got the call that she and her fiance, Jason Desaulniers, had won theday.com's wedding contest giveaway.
"Oh my gosh. Really? REALLY?" she said, on hearing the news. "Everyone kept telling me, 'A lot of people are going to enter this. Don't get your hopes up.'"
"We really didn't think we'd win," she said later. "But we saw the contest and thought, 'why not?'"
Couples were asked to share their stories in short essays on theday.com, and the winner was chosen by popular vote.
The Desaulniers' story - of standing together and making the best of things in bad times - resonated with readers:
"Jason and I have not done things by the book, and we are happy about that," Kristen wrote. "About 3 years ago we were blessed with the birth of our son Liam. Jason was then laid off from his job and enrolled in a trade school to start a new career. He has since graduated school and is still in the process of finding a job. I work part-time myself, so saving up for a wedding is not an easy task when our finances go towards bills and providing for our son.We are looking for a way to have some kind of wedding ceremony so that we can get married and take our love to the next step as husband and wife."
A couple of times, Kristen had suggested to Jason that they go down to City Hall "and just make it official," Jason said.
"But I kept telling her, you'll regret it."
He said he worried she would look back someday and wish they had done a more elaborate celebration. "Besides," he said smiling, "she deserves this. She deserves a great day."
Kristen and Jason have the kind of rapport you see between people who enjoy a connected, close relationship. They refer to one another when they talk. They finish each other's thoughts, switching back and forth during the interview: "OK, you tell this part." They crack up when talking about Jason's proposal. The couple co-hosts a podcast for movie and<|fim_middle|>'s 3-year-old son, Liam, enjoys a nap on his "PopPop," (Andrew Moeckel of Amelia Island, Fla., ), during his parents' wedding reception March 25 at the Garde Arts Center.
The wedding party poses for a photo onstage at the Garde.
Please scroll through the photos for details on the local businesses that gave so generously and worked so hard to create a memorable day for this special couple - on a three-week timetable. Special thanks to Alona Comito, events manager at the Garde Arts Center; Michael Ferreira, executive director of catering of The Coastal Gourmet Group, and Seth Jacobson Photography for serving as the de facto wedding coordinators and guiding everyone through the event. An extra-special thanks to the winning couple, who handled the time constraint with great humor.
(We have also learned from Facebook that Jason recently found work as an assistant maintenance technician. Congratulations Jay!)
Friends and their dogs get a change of scenery in East Lyme | comic fans, and Jason snuck the words: "Will you marry me Kristen?" into the "news" portion of the program that Kristen reads aloud.
Jason: "So there she was reading..."
Kristen: "and then I got to, 'Will you marry me Krist-' OH MY GOD!" she laughs. "And I got up and ran over and hugged him."
The couple, who shared their first kiss at a Journey concert, said their relationship has endured challenges which have tested and proven their love. Challenges like Jason's layoff and Kristen's struggle with postpartum depression.
"It was like I lost her," Jason said. "For a while there, it was like she became a stranger." But they held fast to their commitment to each other and their little boy. Kristen recovered. Jason completed training as a Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning technician at Lincoln Tech Institute in East Windsor, is now universally EPA certified and holds an OSHA 10 certification.
And they look on their past with confidence that surmounting the dark times has seasoned them for what lies ahead; and all the experiences that come with sharing a long life together.
Joining Kristen and Jason at their celebration were Jenn Cass of Colonie, N.Y. and Katherine Reale of Plainfield as matrons of honor. Kristen Deptulski of Norwich, sister-in-law of the bride, served as bridesmaid. Matthew Desaulniers of Canterbury, the brother of the groom, served as best man.William Deptulski of Amelia Island, Fla., brother of the bride, and Daniel Reale of Plainfield served as ushers.
The ringbearer was Liam Desaulniers of Moosup, the son of the bride and groom. He was escorted down the aisle by his "Amma," Deborah Moeckel of Amelia Island, Fla., the mother of the bride.
Raymond Deptulski Jr., the father of the bride, escorted her down the aisle. Also in attendance were his wife, June, of Preston; Raymond Deptulski III of Norwich, brother of the bride; and Leo Desaulniers of Canterbury and Pamela Desaulniers of Coventry, parents of the groom.
Sneak peek video of Kristen and Jason's wedding from Marsal Studios
Raymond Deptulski Jr. of Preston walks his daughter, Kristen, down the aisle during her March 25 wedding to Jason Desaulniers at the Garde Arts Center in New London.
The old-world elegance of Jason's tuxedo from COLIN's TUX SHOP in Old Saybrook and Kristen's movie-star hair and makeup by BELLA VITA SALON in Westerly married perfectly with the historic backdrop of the GARDE. PENTANGLE BOUTIQUE of Mystic, which provided Kristen's dress, also outfitted her with a pair of complimentary shoes.
Yum! In addition to a beautiful harvest table of fresh fruits, vegetables, gourmet crackers, homemade hummus and artisan cheeses, COASTAL GOURMET CATERING of Stonington put out amazing hors d'oeuvres, including sesame-seared Ahi tuna on a wonton crisp with micro greens and a wasabi drizzle. Rounding out the temptations were jerked pork on plantain crisps and chorizo-stuffed mushrooms. All this prior to the main courses, which included a choice of grilled angus flank steak with tomato soy marinade or sauteed boneless breast of chicken with shiitake mushroom, leek and white wine ragu.
YO U TAKE THE CAKE of New London; ADAM'S GARDEN OF EDEN of Pawcatuck and ARROW PARTY RENTAL, also of New London, provided the picture-perfect cake, flowers and linens, respectively.
The generosity shown by the event's sponsors was as lovely as the ceremony itself. Mallove's Jewelers of Waterford gave the couple the wedding rings they saw them admiring in the store, though the rings were worth more than what the shop had initially and generously pledged.
You won't see them in these photos, but videographers Virginia and Rick Marsal of MARSAL STUDIOS in Salem were on top of the action, and very energetic considering they had just welcomed a new granddaughter into the world the night before! They had three cameras going to capture the celebration from every angle, including the couple's first dance with music by deejay Fred Pierce of PIERCE PRODUCTIONS.
Kristen and Jason | 916 |
Northwestern's Piano D.M.: A Three-Program Approach
Arthur R. Tollefson
Early in the 1970s the School of Music at Northwestern University, at the instigation of a newly appointed administration, undertook a thorough, introspective reassessment of its longstanding, traditional undergraduate curricula. In keeping with the "comprehensive musicianship" philosophy so convincingly expounded by the Contemporary Music Project since its inception in 1959, the School, as a basis for all undergraduate programs, devised and implemented a core of integrated history-theory-performance courses to be required of all Freshman and Sophomore music students. Such a program has proven singularly successful over the past few years and, by all indications, Northwestern's B.M., B.M.E., and B.A. curricula are now, in 1977, functioning very well indeed.
During 1974-75 the School of Music, upon the recommendation of its Graduate Committee, voted to implement a competency-based curriculum for each departmental program leading to the M.M. or M.M.Ed. degree. Although such programs theoretically took effect in September, 1975, the primary thrust of the Graduate Committee during the 1975-76 academic year was geared towards clarifying and specifying the details of such curricula department by department. The Piano Department thoughtfully and enthusiastically accepted the mandate of the Graduate Committee and, by year's end, had devised a fair, thorough competency-based M.M. program in Piano. Distinctive features of the program included: (1) the availability of alternative programs in Performance and Pedagogy or Performance and Ensemble/Accompanying; (2) a two-hour departmental diagnostic examination administered at entrance establishing a candidate's initial competencies through the assessment of his knowledge in such areas as keyboard literature, stylistic analysis, bibliography, and piano history; (3) the articulation of individual competencies expected for each program1; (4) the further delineation of more specific behavioral objectives which demonstrate the attainment of each competency2; (5) the identification of instructional options for achieving each competency: recommended courses or departmental-designed self-study modules; (6) a battery of reexaminations establishing a candidate's successful completion of self-study modules. Such a program, now<|fim_middle|> triple-option approach to the D.M. in Piano at Northwestern is both sound and realistic. While maintaining those standards which have constituted a hallmark of the program in past years, the new curricula provide the prospective student with a variety of options which we believe will better prepare him to meet the challenges of a diversified and ever more competitive profession.
1All students must "demonstrate solo performance ability at the graduate level," "know the standard piano solo repertoire," and "cite important piano solo bibliographic sources"; those electing the pedagogy route must additionally "apply pedagogical concepts in group and individual piano instruction" while those electing the ensemble/accompanying option must "demonstrate ability as ensemble player and accompanist" and "know the standard piano chamber music repertoire."
2I.e. under the competency "know the standard piano solo repertoire" a student must "identify major works in the standard piano repertoire," "recognize stylistic features in piano works of major keyboard composers," and "outline chronologically basic developments in the evolution of piano music from the eighteenth century to the present."
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Arthur Tollefson has performed as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber player throughout the USA and Europe for over a half century. In addition to several solo performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, notable appearances with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra included Tollefson's debut at age 12 and his West Coast premiere of Kabalevsky's Piano Concerto #3 . Holder of the first doctorate in piano awarded by Stanford University, he was invited back to his alma mater to perform in commemoration of the music department's 50th anniversary. After early studies with Adolph Baller, Rosina Lhevinne, Egon Petri, and Paul Badura-Skoda, Mr. Tollefson in 1975 began a seven-year term as Chair of Northwestern University's School of Music's Piano Department. A former winner of the Kimber Award, he has recorded Virgil Thomson's piano music, gave the New York City premiere of David Maslanka's Piano Concerto, and has given master classes at the Ravinia Festival. He is a Steinway Artist and a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota. Mr. Tollefson has served as President of the College Music Society, Chair of the International Society for Music Education's Commission on the Education of the Professional Musician, Chair of the National Piano Foundation's Education Advisory Board, and Chair of the Music Teachers National Association's College Faculty Forum. Upon his retirement after 17 years as Dean of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's School of Music, he was named Dean Emeritus of the School. | in its second year of implementation, has proven practical. Piano students view it as both thorough and equitable; even initially skeptical faculty members admit that the program is, at present, a model of clarity and efficiency.
In the spring of 1976 the department, with B.M. and M.M. piano programs now operating smoothly, needed to focus its major attention in 1976-77 on restructuring its D.M. program, thus bringing full circle the curricular revision begun almost seven years earlier. In early October of last year, it began its doctoral deliberations.
Northwestern University had been granting the D.M. in Piano for several decades and could enumerate, among successful graduates of the program, many notable performer-teachers on the American musical scene, past and present. Although listed as a D.M. in "Performance: Piano" with all the catholicity that such a broad title might imply, the lesson-project-recital oriented curriculum was and always had been, in truth, a degree program essentially emphasizing advanced piano solo performance. Although courses in important ancillary areas could be elected such work was not obligatory and, if only by dint of such omission, was relegated to a decidedly subsidiary role in the makeup of the degree.
In recent years the Piano Faculty at Northwestern had begun to observe a number of trends which surfaced dramatically during our discussion of imminent D.M. division: (1) an increase in the percentage of vacancy listings requiring or recommending advanced course work, if not an actual degree emphasis, in Chamber Music, Accompanying, and/or Pedagogy; (2) increasingly frequent unsolicited inquiries from potential doctoral candidates into the availability of programs in Piano Ensemble and/or Pedagogy; (3) statistically based predictions of a soon-to-be-witnessed dramatic proliferation of junior and community colleges, precisely those institutions of higher learning which might be expected to create a considerable demand for well-trained specialists in group piano pedagogy. Thus, the Piano Faculty came to the unanimous conclusion that our present D.M. in, essentially, solo piano performance was, indeed, too restrictive to meet the multiplicity of current and future student needs.
In assessing both the personal and programmatic resources and limitations of the department, the school, and the university, we were pleased to note that, with minor exceptions, we were well prepared to begin framing doctoral options in the long neglected areas of Ensemble/Accompanying and Pedagogy. As cited earlier, significant faculty research interest in these areas had been developing for years, much of it reflected in a diversity of interesting and, in some cases, truly unique courses already taught on a regular basis. What was wanting, however, was a concrete plan which would coordinate such curricular resources into solid, new terminal degree programs. In a few months of feverish activity such a plan was readily framed, received enthusiastic administrative support, and was unanimously approved by the School of Music Faculty in January, 1977.
Several important questions demanded resolution once the desirability and practicality of implementing D.M. programs in Ensemble/Accompanying and Pedagogy were determined: (1) Should the new programs completely replace the existing program in solo performance or should such a program be retained as yet a third option at the doctoral level? (2) Should the Ensemble/Accompanying and Pedagogy curricula require any solo performance as integral parts of the degree programs? After considerable discussion, faculty consensus on these points was reached: (1) Although our recently revised M.M. program upon which the new D.M.s were theoretically built required each student to combine studies in either Ensemble/Accompanying or Pedagogy with those in solo performance, the Piano Faculty decided to maintain the separate Solo Performance option at the D.M. level. While recognizing an obligation to divert at least a portion of a younger, perhaps less experienced, M.M. candidate's attention in directions he may have neglected previously (e.g., ensemble or pedagogy), the faculty nevertheless wished to preserve a specialized place for the more mature D.M. student whose talent and inclination might lead solely in the direction of solo performance. (2) Although a person may understandably wish to specialize in Ensemble/Accompanying or Pedagogy at the doctorate level, experience dictated that most teaching positions in piano normally require some solo performance, often at the interview level. Thus, the Piano Faculty felt compelled, in the best interests of the student, to maintain some solo performance component in all three degree programs. Upon resolution of these two questions, then, three separate programs leading to the D.M. in Performance: Piano were devised—a Solo Performance Program, a Performance and Ensemble/Accompanying Program, and a Performance and Pedagogy Program. All three are operating at the present time.
Several common features apply to all three programs. Prospective students must appear on campus for a solo piano audition, interviews, and written diagnostic examinations in history, theory, and piano. All candidates must complete a minimum of eighteen quarter-units of credit beyond the master's degree, demonstrate a reading knowledge of French or German, pass qualifying and final examinations, and finish all degree work within seven years of entering the program. Beyond this, the three programs differ in their requirements.
The on-campus audition for the Solo Performance Program consists of a well-balanced, memorized 75-minute recital. That for the Ensemble/Accompanying Program requires a 45-minute recital plus the submission of a minimum 30-minute tape recording of representative accompaniments and chamber music performances. A 45-minute recital by the prospective Pedagogy student must be supplemented by the submission of a paper on a pedagogical topic, an outline of the student's pedagogical background, and a list of piano literature and materials used in prior teaching. The Performance and Pedagogy Program is principally aimed at candidates having at least two years' full-time piano teaching experience, although applicants with less experience will be considered.
The D.M. in Performance: Piano (Solo Performance Program) continues the flexible design of the single D.M. Piano degree that existed prior to 1977:
Applied Piano 6 units
D.M. Projects and/or Major Document and/or Lecture-Recital(s) 3 units
Advanced course work (electives) 9 units
Three short (minimum 45-minute) recitals are presented, each involving music from a different period in music history. A final (full-length) recital is designed by the student and prepared without coaching from teachers at Northwestern or elsewhere. Three projects are written, each related to one of the three short recitals. If desired, a major document may be written in lieu of the three projects, or lecture-recitals (75 minutes each) may be presented in lieu of either the second or third project or both.
The D.M. in Performance: Piano (Performance and Ensemble/Accompanying) is considerably more structured:
D.M. Projects and/or Lecture-Recital(s) 3 units
Practicum (each unit will include studies in Piano Chamber Music, Interpretation of Vocal Repertoire, and, possibly, Advanced Accompanying) 3 units
Piano Repertoire (Chamber Music, Piano Ensemble) 1 unit
Introduction to Music Bibliography 1 unit
The project-recital component involves three different types of short recitals: one solo recital, one chamber music recital, and one accompaniment of a vocal recital. The final recital may be either instrumental chamber music or a vocal accompaniment.
"Practicum" is a title-of-convenience coined in the Graduate School several years ago to identify a unit course comprising two or more performance-oriented "mini-courses." In Piano Chamber Music, graduate piano majors meet several hours a week for rehearsals and class sessions coached by full-time members of the Piano Faculty. To provide a regular pool of qualified string players for such ensemble experience, the Graduate School, beginning in 1976, has annually assigned a number of graduate string assistantships directly to the Piano Department; without such generous administrative support the chamber music component of both the D.M. and M.M. piano programs would not operate nearly as efficiently as it now does.
Interpretation of Vocal Repertoire has, for several years, imaginatively served both the Piano and Voice Departments with a rotating, six-quarter course sequence covering all phases of lieder, the art song, and the solo operative literature. Advanced Accompanying, a quarterly course involving graduates and undergraduates alike, is required of D.M.s needing additional strengthening in this area.
The Spring Quarter of the departmental Piano Repertoire course is devoted to literature involving the piano and other instruments (e.g., chamber music, piano ensemble, and the concerto) and is required of all D.M. candidates in the Ensemble/Accompanying Program. In like manner, Introduction to Music Bibliography, a course designed by the Music History Department specifically to serve the needs of performance D.M. candidates, is considered a curricular essential both here and in the Pedagogy Program.
The third D.M. program, that in Performance: Piano (Performance and Pedagogy), is, like the Ensemble/Accompanying option, quite specific:
Piano Pedagogy and/or Independent Study in Piano Pedagogy 3 units
Internship in Teaching 3 units
Seminar in College Teaching or Seminar on Music in Higher Education 1 unit
Since pure performance plays, quantitatively, a less strategic role in both the purposes and design of the Performance and Pedagogy Program, it was decided to require only three units of Applied Piano (rather than six) for Pedagogy. The project-recital component here differs substantially from its counterpart in the other degree programs. Only one recital (full solo or half solo/half duo-piano or piano four-hand) and related project are required. In addition, though, the candidate must present a lecture-recital at an advanced level and submit a written project on a pedagogical topic. The final, summary program requirement comprises not a full-length recital but a three-to-four-hour public workshop of a nature appropriate to piano teachers; this workshop, like the final recital in the other programs, is designed and prepared by the student without outside aid.
The six-unit pedagogy "core" of the program consists of (1) a basic three-quarter Piano Pedagogy course or, if the student has already taken the course or its equivalent in an earlier degree program, further Independent Study in this area and (2) Internship in Teaching, supervised graduate-level field work in class, group, and individual piano instruction. As participation in the D.M. in Piano: Performance and Pedagogy Program grows, it is anticipated that the Independent Study will be replaced by a regular D.M. Seminar in Piano Pedagogy team-taught by the Piano Faculty.
Both the university's inter-school Seminar in College Teaching, currently taught in the School of Education, and the School of Music's own Seminar on Music in Higher Education involve studies in curricular development and, in so doing, acquaint piano pedagogy D.M.s with organizational philosophies invaluable in future teaching careers.
Considering both the divergent inclinations and varied backgrounds of the D.M. piano applicants and the rapidly changing nature of professional opportunities in the field, we feel that our new, | 2,334 |
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ManvsMachine is more than just a title – it's a company ethos. For the Cannes Gold Lion-awarded design studio – based out of East London's Haggerston – the creative process is all about the synergy that occurs between imaginative concepts and the tools that are used to implement them. Tools, for example, like CINEMA 4D.
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"Technology and ideas just go hand in hand," begins ManvsMachine managing director Tim Swift.
"We ended up selecting the name because it sums up our approach – individuals coming up<|fim_middle|> replicate the trainers for the Nike commercial, ManvsMachine turned to 3D scanning technology. "We use it for almost every Nike project, because it's really important that the shoe looks exactly like the real shoe," explains Winckelmann.
"The Nike design team has spent a lot time designing the product, so we want to rebuild it in a 100 per cent accurate way: there's details in every joint, seam and component of the shoe that we need to represent correctly. You can achieve that by modelling, but 3D scanning produces a one-to-one replication in a much shorter time frame."
In order to morph the shoe for the commercial, ManvsMachine turned to CINEMA 4D's surface and mesh deformers. "To do that, we would build a low poly representation of the 3D scan, and then bend and morph that. The surface and mesh deformers in CINEMA 4D are really useful, as they help us to work with assets like that which have a really high high poly count.
However, when it comes to deforming shoes, in many cases we use different tools for every deformation – sometimes that's the surface deformer, sometimes the mesh deformer, sometimes a PoseMorph combined with sculpting, and so on."
It's this flexibility that makes CINEMA 4D the main pipeline tool at ManvsMachine. "During the create process we usually utilize almost every feature CINEMA 4D has to offer, so it's difficult to pick specific features that really stand out!" says Winckelmann.
"The main strength of CINEMA 4D for us is that we can combine all of those different features – in most situations, when we come up with an idea or a design, we are able to find a way to make it happen using CINEMA 4D. It's versatility is the main reason that we turn to it so often."
Nevertheless, CINEMA 4D is but one tool in the ManvsMachine arsenal – it's the human creativity that ultimately powers its output. "It's all about that balancing act of technology and ideas – fusing raw design and branding skills with high-end visual effects output," concludes Swift.
"It's not just about simply making images – it's about understanding the client, coming up with the right strategy, approach and visual execution, and then delivering that using the tools best suited to the task at hand. CINEMA 4D is truly a key tool in bringing that process to fruition." | with unique concepts, and then driving them forwards using the latest technology."
One recent example of this philosophy in action is the recent Air Max Day campaign for Nike, which features CG versions of the footwear being morphed, pulled apart, and explored in the kind of detail only attainable via the digital realm.
In order to create the complex visuals on show, ManvsMachine turned to CINEMA 4D, thanks to its balanced offering of power and simplicity. "It's just a really well-designed tool for what we do," explains Matthias Winckelmann, head of 3D at ManvsMachine.
"The initial burst of ease of use is great, and then as you explore there are the more in-depth functions too – it can do the design work, but can also scale to the heavier VFX content."
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How Toronto-based fashion designer Narces met her husband and managing director
The two went from a haute romance to a fashionable affair featuring the designer's own bridal couture
by Andrew Mannsbach for Streets Of Toronto Posted: September 13, 2019
Austria-born power couple Nikki Wirthensohn Yassemi and Stefan Wirthensohn, of the Toronto<|fim_middle|>023 in Toronto
The story behind these neon hearts popping up all over Toronto
Join Michael Scott at Dunder Mifflin with The Office Experience in Toronto this spring | -based womenswear label Narces, can trace their success in life and love back to their first date in Toronto. Nikki, the creative director and designer behind the label, has risen to the top of the fashion industry with her husband Stefan by her side as the managing director of her line. The two look back on their courtship and how it all started.
How they met
Nikki Wirthensohn Yassemi: "We met during our MBA studies at Schulich School of Business. Stefan was an exchange student from Austria, and I was also born in Austria. So we got into a lot of birth country debates at a university event that my closest MBA friend had begged me to go, which Stefan had organized."
The first date
Stefan Wirthensohn: "Soon after, we had our first date at a cool cocktail bar on College Street. Nikki was the one who initiated our first date and asked me out to tour around the city with its important sites to see. Conveniently it was reading week, which gave us a lot of time to spend together 24/7, and we started dating since that point on. This was two months before I had to go back to Austria!"
NWY: "We loved a famous German kids book, 'Oh, Wie schön ist Panama', where a tiger and bear leave their home to find Panama, the best place in the world, to come back home and realize that home is the best place. So Stefan organized a trip to Panama in the summer of 2006 and proposed there. While in Panama, I realized soon enough what was about to happen, and he felt nervous and sick. So the proposal had to wait! Still Stefan pulled through, and I said yes!"
NWY: "We got married on Aug. 8, 2008, in the South of France at Chateau Dior. I designed both of my dresses, and none other than my mother made these beautiful garments. The first dress for the ceremony was a cloud of gathered mini tiers of tulle with 3D handmade flowers on the bust. The second dress for the evening was inspired by 1950s ballerina dresses and was made out of double-sided silk satin."
The honeymoon
SW: "We didn't really have time for a real honeymoon and still are talking about doing one now. We went to Corsica for four days after our wedding, which we called our honeydays."
NWY: "We live and work in the most beautiful village, formerly known as Yorkville Village, established in 1830 and then annexed into Toronto in 1883 (the Rosedale-Yorkville area). Super central, inspiringly creative with beautiful art galleries, unique boutiques, beautiful parks, flagship stores for all major luxury brands, gorgeous hotels and restaurants, all within walking distance. Our house is also our design studio and is a heritage house from 1870, close to Yonge and Bloor."
NWY: "We have two children. Zoë and Aryo."
Balancing careers and marriage
SW: "Our life balance is not always easy because we are running our own company together, and the family keeps us very, very busy. We try to have at least one to two date nights a month to recharge and reconnect and try not to talk about business. But we just end up looking at pictures of our kids that we miss after a few hours."
SW: "We both love film and music. So movie nights and concerts are on the agenda as often as possible."
Secret for success
NWY: "Not sure if we have a secret that works for everyone. We do believe that all couples need to do it their way! One thing that we both believe is important is keeping in mind that, even though we are together in a relationship, we need to be happy individually!"
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Home Love & Relationship What Does It Mean When A Guy Says To "Be Good"?
What Does It Mean When A Guy Says To "Be Good"?
So a guy told you to "be good"? That might not be something that you are used to hearing on a daily basis. So it might throw you off a little bit when it is said to you. Especially if you feel like you are always being good. Now you might be wondering what he could have meant by it. Was he being rude? Does he think you are a bad person? What the heck does "be good" possibly mean? Especially when you felt like you were good before. Well, do not get too riled up about it. When a guy tells you to be good it could mean a few different things. It could be good or it could be bad. It's all about how, when and where he said it to you. Not sure what we mean by that? Well take a look at these five following reasons a guy says to be good below to help you better understand!
He Doesn't Want You To See Anyone Else: A guy might tell you to "be good" for many different reasons, but one of the most common reasons that he might say this is because he does not want you to see anyone else. Besides him, of course. This is generally what he means if the two of you are unofficial. Or not exclusive at this point with one another. You may not have set boundaries with each other just yet and this has made him feel the need to tell you to be good. He does not want to share you with anyone else. He is hoping that by saying be good that you will not spend time with anyone else romantically. This is a fairly common reason that a guy will tell you something like this. Whether or not you want to remain exclusive with him because of it is totally up to you.
He Doesn't Want You To Cheat On Him: Are the two of you already in a relationship with one another? Then there is a strong chance that he is telling you to "be good" because he does not want you to cheat on him. People can get insecure in relationships and they may feel threatened when their partner goes off on their own. So when you are leaving his place to go to a party or hang out with friends he might tell you to be good. This is his way of saying, "Please, be good and do not cheat on me." Men are not the only ones who say this in this fashion. Women tend to do it as well. They might say it teasingly, but they mean it in a serious fashion. They are just trying to make the situation seem less controlling by using lighter terminology.
He Is Flirting With You: So maybe the two of<|fim_middle|>He Wants You To Stay Out Of Trouble: It could also be said in a situation where you have actually done some bad things and when you leave he will tell you to "be good" in hopes that you will actually be good. He does not want you to get into anymore trouble than you might already be in. He is saying this because he cares about you and does not want to see you fail anymore. He is hoping that by telling you this you will start making better decisions. You will know this is what he means if he says it in a more serious manner after you have already made some bad decisions.
He Is Poking Fun At You: Or he could just be messing around. It might not have any other meaning behind it than that. He might be trying to get a rise out of you. How? By implying that you make bad decisions. However, if you do not make bad decisions you might be upset that he would insinuate so. This is exactly what he wants. He wants to rile you up and get you all flustered with him. He might think that this funny. Remember to not let him get to you! He might just be trying to be a bully if this is the meaning behind it.
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If the two of you are flirting, then nearly any statement this person makes is an attempt to flirt with you. Decide what you feel is appropriate for your character and his desires. Speak with him about your thoughts and feelings. Nourish this relationship by spending additional time with him in person. Have a great day, Tiffany! | you do not have any relationship at all. If so, he might be telling you to "be good" because he is trying to subtly flirt with you. He is essentially saying that you are (jokingly) a bad girl and that you will be good because he told you so. He is just trying to make you giggle or get you to smile. This is often a sentence that men use when trying to tease a woman. He thinks it is funny and lighthearted. It usually does not mean anything negative at all. He just wants to play banter with you and is hoping that you will respond with something back to him to keep the flirting going between the two of you.
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FISHERMEN OF PLUM ISLAND VIDEO IS COMING
Megalops posted a topic in General fishing topics [other]
Anyone who has spent any time fishing on Plum Island or the adjacent waters whould take a look at this. A new video, "Fishermen of Plum Island" is soon to be released. When I looked at the trailer on this web site I recognized a lot of the folks I knew as a member of Plum Island Surfcasters and NE Saltwater Flyrodders. Kay, Martha, Liz and the crew from Surfland B&T. Bob Smith, Rocco, Roccus and a slew of others. Great shots. Can't wait to see the whole thing. Goto http://www.plumislandfish.com/description.html and don't miss clicking on the video trailer.
Public Comment on Angler Registry
Megalops replied to apmaurosr's topic in Regulations / Licensing / Politics
Surprised there is no comment on this. When it becomes mandatory to have a saltwater license, I'm sure we will hear from the whole choir.
Nauset Beach
Megalops replied to sckfish's topic in Massachusetts - Cape Cod and the Islands
Nice to see your report, Stephen. Glad you got up to the Cape. Am I jealous ?
WOW NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE 75 LBER
Megalops replied to zippy's topic in Massachusetts - North Shore
Here's a link to the story with pictures - http://www.abc6.com/news/featurestory/2573...?corder=regular There was an even bigger fish taken from that area by a spear fisherman a few days before.
Classic Old SW Lures for Sale
Megalops replied to Megalops's topic in Tackle Building and Reviews
Two more lures sold. This is what's left and my price. Make an offer. Price of 1 + 5.00 postage/handling. Two or more, tell me what you want and I will get the price of postage from PO and quote total price. Payment by bank check or postal money order. 1 Mdl. #6800 -- White/Blue/Flash colors Jointed $30.00 2 Mdl. #5500 -- White/Blue/Flash " " SOLD 3 Mdl. #3000 -- White/Blue/Flash " " $30.00 4 Mdl. #6800 -- Black " $30.00 5.Mdl. #5500 -- Black " SOLD 6.Mdl. #6800 -- White/Green " 30.00 7.Mdl. #3000 -- White/Green " 30.00 8.Mdl. #3000 -- White/Green/'Flash " 30.00 9 Mdl. #6000 -- White/Green/Flash " 35.00 10 White/Green------------Not Jointed 40.00 11 #1934 Blue/White/White bucktail -Striper Strike SOLD 12 #1920 Black/White/White bucktail " " SOLD
SOMETHING FISHY IN BUZZARDS BAY ??
Megalops replied to Megalops's topic in From a Boat / Deep Sea
Inattention eyed as factor in boat crash THE STANDARD-TIMES by Curt Brown July 22, 2008 DARTMOUTH — Investigators have ruled out alcohol as a cause of the fatal collision Friday between two boats on Buzzards Bay, but officials have investigated whether anyone was at the helm of the power boat that struck a Padanaram-based sailboat. "Alcohol doesn't appear to be a factor in the accident," Sgt. Rick Sylvia of the Massachusetts Environmental Police said yesterday. Sylvia also said that while investigators know the answer, they are not yet saying whether anyone was at the helm of the Reasons, a 63-foot, Gloucester-based power boat, when it hit the Priority, a 35-foot sailboat. Experienced sailors familiar with the accident and the bay have speculated that either the Reasons was on auto pilot or someone was not paying attention when the accident happened. Asked whether the power boat was on auto pilot, Sylvia said he "can't say at this time." He said the investigative agencies involved will meet today and there may be a statement after that meeting. The accident, which happened around 1:30 p.m. Friday about 2½ miles southeast of Mishaum Point in Dartmouth, resulted in the death of David J. "D.J." Walsh, 64, of Dartmouth, past chairman of the Buzzards Bay Regatta, and the retired president of Teledyne Rodney Metals, a specialty metals manufacturer. Warren G. Hathaway, 66, of Dartmouth, publisher emeritus of Hathaway Newspapers, part of the SouthCoast Media Group, was injured but managed to escape the damaged sailboat. Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, said yesterday three people were aboard the Reasons — Fred Bevins III, 64, and Ellen Bevins, both of Gloucester, and a juvenile — at the time of the accident. Bevins, who lists an address of 22 Honeysuckle Road, Gloucester, is the owner of the Reasons, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site. He has not returned numerous calls from The Standard-Times to both his business and his home. Miliote said the district attorney's office has jurisdiction over the case because the incident resulted in an unattended death in Bristol County. "I don't have a specific cause of death to release at this time," he said. Sylvia said the investigation is still in its infancy and investigators are inspecting both vessels and gathering evidence from the accident. He added that investigators have spoken toFred and Ellen Bevins. Although there were other boats in the area, Sylvia said there were no witnesses to the collision. According to the Coast Guard, seas at the time were less than 1 foot and winds were 5 to 10 knots, with visibility of 2 to 3 miles. Curt Brown can be reached at cbrown@s-t.com
Fred M. Bevins of Gloucester is the owner of the Reasons, a recreational boat built in 1993, according to a Coast Guard vessel database on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web site. However, neither the Coast Guard nor the Mass State Police who are investigating have released or confirmed that information. :mellow:
Megalops posted a topic in From a Boat / Deep Sea
Something Fishy in Buzzards Bay ?? Last Friday , a large go-fast power boat ran over a sailboat off Padenarum and a very well-known sailor, at the helm of the sailboat was killed and his boat is a total loss.. Now, three days later, everyone knows the name of the owner and of the operator of the sailboat because it's been in the press, on the air and TV. But, the same information concerning the powerboats' ownere and, more importantly it's operator is still unknown. Why have not the Coast Guard, the State Police and the local district attorney released the name of the owner and operator of the motor boat? Something is fishy, IMHO
Latest fish count inmerrimack
Megalops replied to Cat Johnson's topic in Massachusetts - North Shore
NMFS says while the license will be require in 2009 if you fish for Stripers or other anadromous fish inshore, or anything offshore and are over 15 you will need the license but, it will be free till 2011. Then, the funds derived from the license can only be used for data collection by law.
Well, when you consider that ladders are not efficient with dams over 27 ft. high and elevators are and the cost of either; I guess you cannot blam them for opting for an elevator. If memory sereves correctly; Essex Dam is 32' above mean Spring river height. But, what most folks don't want to realize is that the restoration on the Merrimack and the Connecticut rivers has been an abject failure !!! I would not expect to see the feds or states spending any more money on either river. To do so, with today's economy, would be criminal, IMHO
I asked that question years ago of the fisheries folks. They advised that the old ladder never worked well because of the dam's height. As for the new, when we had fish in the river in any numbers; the fish lift passed many over the dam. Just look at the old statistics. I spent a number of days down there with the guys from MADMF who operated the lift.
I don't know who the "experts" are that say ladders work better than elevators. The old fish ladder never worked. What you see cemented over is only the lower few feet of the old ladder. When a dam is over 27' high, all over the world, modern fisheries rely on elevators to lift fish. The one at Lawrence worked fine as long as we had returning fish. Similar ladder is in use at Amoskeag Dam in Manchester and at Holyoke Dam on the Connecticut. Many Canadian and west coast rivers use elevators for high dams.
Thanks Mike. $ received today. Lure will be in mail tomorrow
How come no Great White Shark reports from the North Shore. The Cape & Islands websites are loaded with reports of sightings of sharks and of BIG fins inshore. So, time to get out there and look for the birds, and................................................................................................................................... This one was filmed by a Fishery Services plane following up on a report of a dead whale SE of Block Island a while back. It's an excellent photo and the dead whale is in the upper left corner of the pix. Some say the BIG Fin sightings were reported from boats tied up dockside in Hyannis, Nantucket and M. Vinyard who had seen a few too many of these fins...............
A world without Stripers
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The states represented are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New<|fim_middle|> WaterWonk on the Bay.
Before continuing let me put in a shameless plug or two for AWRA..
1) The AWRA Annual Conference will be in Baltimore, 4-8 November 2018.
Click here to see the Program-at-a-Glance and here to see a more detailed program. There will be much on the Chesapeake and Delaware River watersheds.
2) Our September 2018 issue of Water Resources IMPACT (now in press) will feature Great American Megabasin: Chesapeake and Delaware. I have reproduced the cover here. It's a great issue highlighting two of the USA's most important basins - far more important than their sizes would indicate. Guest Editors Martha Narvaez, Joe Berg, Asia Dowtin and Carol Collier and their authors have done an amazing job.
So here goes......click on the graphics to enlarge them.
The Chesapeake Bay (the Bay) is the largest estuary in the United States. It is recognized as a "Wetlands of International Importance" by the Ramsar Convention, a 1971 treaty about the increasing loss and degradation of wetland habitat for migratory waterbirds. The Chesapeake Bay estuary resides in a more than 64,000-square-mile watershed that extends across parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bay's watershed is home to more than 18 million people and thousands of species of plants and animals.
A combination of factors has caused the ecosystem functions and natural habitat of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed to deteriorate over time. These factors include centuries of land-use changes, increased sediment loads and nutrient pollution, overfishing and overharvesting, the introduction of invasive species, and the spread of toxic contaminants. In response, the Bay has experienced reductions in economically important fisheries, such as oysters and crabs; the loss of habitat, such as underwater vegetation and sea grass; annual dead zones, as nutrient- driven algal blooms die and decompose; and potential impacts to tourism, recreation, and real estate values.
Congress began to address ecosystem degradation in the Chesapeake Bay in 1965, when it authorized the first wide-scale study of water resources of the Bay. Since then, federal restoration activities, conducted by multiple agencies, have focused on reducing pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay, restoring habitat, managing fisheries, protecting sub-watersheds within the larger Bay watershed, and fostering public access and stewardship of the Bay. Congress has authorized various programs and activities to restore the Chesapeake Bay, including the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP), created in 1983. The CBP implements the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, a periodically renewed agreement between executives in the watershed states, a joint Bay state legislative body, and select federal agencies that aims to coordinate Bay restoration efforts. The most recent agreement was signed in 2014 (known as the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement) and set a series of restoration goals and actions to be completed by 2025. The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, like others in the past, is not binding. Other restoration plans—including the 2010 Chesapeake Bay Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (pursuant to President Obama's 2009 Executive Order 13508), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load, and a draft Comprehensive Plan from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—harmonize with the goals of the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and contain objectives for federal agencies and states.
As work continues toward the 2025 restoration goals set by state and federal plans, Congress may consider what role the federal government plays in Chesapeake Bay restoration, if any. In considering the federal role in Chesapeake Bay restoration, Congress may weigh issues related to coordination of federal activities and federal agency authority, funding and total cost of activities, and the rate of progress toward restoration.
The Chesapeake Bay (the Bay) is the largest estuary in the United States. Congress has described it as a "national treasure" (P.L. 106-457), and it is recognized as a "Wetlands of International Importance" by the Ramsar Convention.1 The Chesapeake Bay estuary resides in a more than 64,000-square-mile watershed that extends across parts of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. It is home to more than 18 million people and thousands of species of plants and animals.
Over time, the Bay's ecological conditions have deteriorated due to land-use changes, increased sediment loads and nutrient pollution, the use and spread of chemical contaminants, overfishing and overharvesting of aquatic species, and the introduction of invasive species. These changes have resulted in reductions to economically important fisheries, such as oysters and crabs; the loss of habitat, such as underwater vegetation and sea grass; annual dead zones, as nutrient-driven algal blooms die and decompose; and potential impacts to tourism, recreation, and real estate values. Joint state and federal restoration attempts did not begin until the early 1980s. Since then, federal agencies have worked together under a watershed-wide agreement and through a restoration program spearheaded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Congress has and may continue to examine Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. Actions in the Chesapeake watershed have served as examples for other estuary restoration efforts in the United States. This report provides background on the physical and ecological properties of the Bay and watershed, its economic value, the health of the ecosystem over time, and federal governance of Bay restoration efforts. It then discusses issues facing Congress as work continues toward 2025 restoration goals set by several state and federal plans.
Lara Fowler, the senior author, sent me this report via Twitter: Flood Mitigation for Pennsylvania's Rural Communities: Community-Scale Impacts of Federal Policies. It's worth reading. regardless of where you live.
Recent changes to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are critically impacting Pennsylvania because of its history of flooding, its pattern of development along rivers and streams, the age of its structures, and its system of local government.
In the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, Congress mandated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) adopt "full risk" or "actuarial" rates for flood insurance to address what was then a $20 billion budget shortfall caused by damage from recent storms. This resulted in sharp premium increases, especially for those whose rates had been subsidized.
In response, Congress then passed the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2014, which delayed the rate increases. Despite the 2014 legislation, the move away from subsidized federal flood insurance remains a fundamental shift with profound community-scale impacts across Pennsylvania. At this point, the NFIP officially expired on September 30, 2017; however, it has been extended through a series of continuing resolutions that have also kept the federal government funded.
This research explores the impacts of these changes on Pennsylvania's rural communities in the following ways: reviews the legal and policy framework at a federal, state, local and individual level; examines the demographic and geospatial information associated with flood-impacted communities in Pennsylvania; examines the economic impacts to the housing market in floodplains; and explores how flooding, flood insurance, and other federal and Commonwealth programs have impacted Pennsylvania's rural communities by focusing closely on eight communities as case studies. The research offers a number of recommendations.
Oh, yeah - Lara mentioned that the National Flood Insurance Program expires on 31 July.
Note added on 25 July 2018 (thanks to Elaine J. Hanford): The House just voted to extend the NFIP through 30 November 2018, The Senate has not voted on the extension yet. See WHYY story. The GAO expresses its opinion here and here is another.
My (MEC) take: the program needs reform. I listen to my friend Gerry Galloway.
Oh, boy this one hits close to home....I grew up on LI but was closer to the South Shore than to Long Island Sound. The North Shore of my county - Nassau County - was the high rent district. First place I ever went SCUBA diving. It needed restoration even back in the early 1960s.
Read about the Long Island Sound Study here.
Still waiting for the bridge to Connecticut.
Here we go - from the report's website.
Long Island Sound, an estuary in one of the nation's most densely populated areas, provides many economic and recreational benefits. However, development and pollution have degraded water quality and led to hypoxia, low levels of dissolved oxygen that increase mortality of fish and other species.
A federal-state partnership funded restoration projects and created a plan and cost estimates to restore the Sound. However, current reports and estimates do not provide complete information about how progress will be measured or what restoration will cost.
We recommended steps to improve the partnership's progress reports and cost estimates.
Progress toward 1994 Plan. The Study established an initial plan for the Sound in 1994 and has collected data on certain indicators of the Sound's health and published progress reports on its website. However, the Study has not comprehensively assessed progress against the 1994 plan. In the absence of such an assessment, GAO interviewed Study members who generally agreed that moderate progress has been made in achieving goals for five of the six problem areas in the 1994 plan. Without a comprehensive assessment, it is not possible to determine the extent these views reflect actual progress.
Reporting Progress for the 2015 Plan. The Study's 2015 management plan identifies 20 long-term targets and associated numerical indicators that will be used to measure future progress. The Study has also updated the format for pages on its website to provide more consistent progress reports for these targets. However, the reports do not yet fully incorporate leading practices for performance reporting that GAO has previously identified. For example, they do not include evaluations of goals that are not met for 15 targets. By ensuring that leading practices are fully incorporated into the Study's performance reporting efforts, EPA can help the Study better assess and report on future progress.
Estimating Costs of Restoration. The Study has estimated that the future costs of restoration will be at least $18.9 billion through 2035. However, the current estimates are understated because they do not include the costs of all activities that will be needed to accomplish the 2015 plan, and they do not reflect the uncertainty associated with some of the costs. By capturing the full costs and uncertainties in cost estimates, the Study can provide decision makers critical information needed to allocate resources effectively.
Long Island Sound, an estuary bordered by Connecticut and New York, provides numerous economic and recreational benefits. However, development and pollution have resulted in environmental impacts, such as the degradation of water quality. EPA partnered with both states to create the Study to restore and protect the Sound. The Study developed a comprehensive conservation and management plan in 1994 and updated the plan in 2015.
GAO was asked to examine federal efforts to restore the Sound. This report examines, among other objectives, (1) what is known about the progress made toward achieving the 1994 plan, (2) how Study members plan to measure and report on progress toward achieving the 2015 plan, and (3) estimated costs of the restoration. GAO reviewed Study plans, reports, and data. GAO also interviewed 12 Study members—including federal and state agency officials—and representatives of 5 Study work groups about restoration efforts and progress made.
GAO recommends that EPA work with the Study to ensure that it fully incorporates leading practices into its performance reporting efforts and that its cost estimates include the full range of activities as well as those for which there is uncertainty. EPA agreed with GAO's recommendations and highlighted steps the agency will take to meet the recommendations.
For more information, contact J. Alfredo Gómez at (202) 512-3841 or gomezj@gao.gov.
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Hot off the press! From my former MS student, Holly A. Mondo, who successfully defended her thesis on 1 June 2018: A Look Beneath the Surface: Developing a Transboundary Groundwater Governance Framework and Agreement for the Memphis Sand Aquifer.
Groundwater is often misunderstood because of its subsurface nature. Consequently, policies intended to govern the resource are fragmented as is evident in the Supreme Court case between Mississippi and Tennessee. Here, disagreements over ownership and the scientific-hydrogeological scope of groundwater in the Memphis Sand Aquifer have led to an 11-year battle. The Supreme Court has found itself in the midst of a potential regime shift in terms of its decision over transboundary aquifer and groundwater governance. Moving forward, implications of this decision will act as a catalyst for transboundary aquifer and groundwater governance, both nationally and internationally. Using the Memphis Sand Aquifer as a case study, the ultimate objective of this analysis is to create a governance framework that will allow for the development of agreement(s) over the groundwater in transboundary aquifers. This research systematically reviews existing aquifer sharing agreements (2 model agreements, 2 legally-binding agreements, and 3 informal agreements) using elements of political sociology. In doing so specific tools, such as data sharing mechanisms and conflict resolution strategies, embedded within each agreement are illuminated and can be used to determine the necessary components of an effective transboundary aquifer agreement. Additionally, the Internationally Shared Aquifer Resources Management (ISARM) program is evaluated as a framework for key considerations when attempting to manage a transboundary aquifer.
Holly will be presenting her work at the upcoming AWRA transboundary groundwater conference next month. | Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.
Delayed shill alert: I am the AWRA Technical Director.
The American Water Resources Association (AWRA) is pleased to present this publication resulting from its third National Leadership Institute (NLI) Workshop for State Officials. State leaders gathered during a three-day period in 2017 (November 8-10), in a workshop designed specifically for state officials who have responsibility for developing their state water plans. Their professions were diverse and included engineers, planners, scientists, economists, and other disciplines.
The workshop covered a wide variety of topics, including the latest updates on groundwater policy, water governance models, open source data tools, the fundamentals of integrated water resources planning, and how to build support for water planning. Discussions quickly turned to the desire to develop original materials and analysis for the American Water Resources Association, drawing upon the expertise of current and previous workshop participants.
We asked the authors to follow a common format, providing an "elevator speech" that succinctly describes the purpose of each water plan. From there, we asked them to point the reader to the statutory underpinnings, to help set the formal context. Authors then described the planning horizons, scheduled deadlines, and current status of their plans. They have provided a summary of the process used and the resulting components contained in each plan. Authors took the time to make some observations about the challenges overcome and the challenges that yet remain with these efforts. Finally, they provided a sense of scope and scale, both geographically and financially.
In the concluding chapter, we highlight some of the common themes and threads we observed along the way.
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. "
A few weeks ago I posted GAO reports about the Puget Sound and Long Island Sound restorations. Both were more along the lines of how the work could be improved.
Today I am posting a CRS report by Eva Lipiec published on 3 August 2018: Chesapeake Bay Restoration: Background and Issues for Congress. This report is more a description of the Bay and project and the issues facing Congress rather than a suite of recommendations. It's a great overview for someone like me who's not a | 461 |
Rich is editor of GPSTracklog.com, the leading consumer GPS site in the U.S.
A lifelong love of the outdoors and maps, combined with a serious weakness for tech toys, led Rich<|fim_middle|> outdoor activities are mountain biking and hiking, preferably in a place so isolated that it has never been properly mapped. He also enjoys geocaching, snowboarding, technical canyoneering, craft beers and alt.anything music. | Owings to purchase his first GPS in 2003.
In those early days of handheld GPS, Rich started making his own GPS maps and doing crazy things like tethering his GPS to a PDA to display satellite imagery, all in an effort to find rarely explored spots in the remote wilds of Northern California. He ended up sharing that expertise in a book, GPS Mapping.
In 2005 he started GPSTracklog.com, the leading consumer GPS website in the US, which offers GPS reviews, news, tips and tricks.
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The Kelly Clarkson Show Renewed
By Michael Ausiello / November 18 2019, 12:00 PM PST
SNL Mocks Bel-Air With Gritty<|fim_middle|> has been renewed for a second season.
Ranking as this fall's No. 1 new syndicated series, Kelly Clarkson Show has been averaging 1.9 million viewers an episode. Among all talk shows, it currently places fourth behind Dr. Phil, Live with Kelly and Ryan and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"The Kelly Clarkson Show is connecting with viewers in a unique way and we are so happy to build on that momentum, bringing Kelly's brand of humor, heart, and, of course, the incredible 'Kellyoke,' to stations for a second season," said Tracie Wilson, NBCU's EVP of Creative Affairs, in a statement. "It is a privilege to be in business with Kelly and our production team, led by Alex Duda, who have a clear creative vision and a talent for storytelling and creating quality entertainment that invites you in for a good time and leaves you feeling happy."
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In Kindred Spirits, premiering its third season on Travel Channel on Thursday, January 24 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, Amy Bruni and Adam Berry expand their mission to help families afflicted by haunted homes to some of America's darkest locations as they seek answers to enduring mysteries. In each one-hour episode, their ultimate goal is to determine who or what haunts the space and whether it's safe for the living to remain. Their multi-layered investigations dig into the past in order to identify the dead, while using an arsenal of paranormal investigation tools and their hands-on investigation style to give voices to the restless spirits.
Special guests this season include Traveling Museum of the Paranormal & Occult curators Greg & Dana Newkirk, as well the museum's Advising Archivist, John E.L. Tenney, so it's a safe bet to say you'll see some mysterious haunted artifacts, eerily expert tarot spreads, and deep-dives into historical records in the third season of Kindred Spirits.
"With its broader locations and terrifying tales, the new season of Kindred Spirits is right at home on Travel Channel," said Jane Latman, general manager of Travel Channel. "Amy and Adam have built a strong trust with their fans who can't get enough of their unique perspective of helping the haunted by reconstructing the faded stories of the dead — their investigations bring peace to the living and give a voice to the afterlife."
For more about the third season of Kindred Spirits, head over to Week in Weird.
Check out the first teaser trailer for Kindred Spirits' latest season below, and set your DVR for | 379 |
It was announced this week that the Walker is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate Achievement for 2009. The award is given to institutions that "use design as a strategic tool of its mission and exhibits ingenuity and insight in helping to advance<|fim_middle|> graphic design, interior design, and architecture; published the influential magazine Design Quarterly; commissioned world famous designers to create everything from our building expansion to our custom typeface; maintained an in-house design studio and fellowship program; and integrated design into the fabric of the institution.
Speaking of Andrew, Mr. Blauvelt is featured prominently in Gary Hustwit's new movie Objectified, which played to sold out crowds last night here at the Walker (it was great—definitely a sister film to Helvetica). If Hustwit plans on making a third movie about design, I'm hoping that he chooses to expand upon Andrew's story about the Bionic Hamster. | the relationship between design and quality of life in the United States." Some previous winners were Apple, Google, Target, Aveda, and Nike.
The award recognizes the history of design at the Walker, which dates back to the 1940s, when "design" was referred to as "everyday art," a concept used to bridge the gap between people's daily lives and the heady world of modern art. Since then, the Walker has hosted numerous exhibitions displaying the best of product design, | 103 |
What does the word perspective mean to you? For me, I usually think of it when I feel the "need for some perspective" whether that be at home, with personal and financial goals, or even simply for a little distance from whatever I'm doing. This weekend is chilly… cloudy with light snowfall and the early March winds. It lends itself to considering things like perspective.
But we all get busy, and sometimes a little "perspective" goes a long way. I'm working on finishing up a final for one of my classes.<|fim_middle|>, we can appreciate more the day for what it is, with glad acceptance for what we have. Time marches on, and yet we are but a part of the grand adventure of living things. A small, but significant part. I see God in this view of perspective, in that I feel the wonder of life we are privileged to share, and His presence in this wondrous Universe. Here's wishing you a little perspective when you need it most. | I feel the need for some distance, fresh air, and yes- perspective… The goals and to-do lists are always there, and they can control our lives if we let them. But it doesn't have to be that way… we can simply stop, and shift gears to another focus. Not so easy at times.
But when I think of the word perspective, one of my favorite photographs always comes to mind… yes, the one below. It's from one of NASA's Apollo moon missions… not sure which one. But what a picture! It is easy to take for granted and simply say, "Yeah… that's nice." But when you really stop and look at it… how amazing it is to see the earth from such distance, to see the moon firsthand, and know the gulf of empty space that exists between the moon and our home planet. And to try and imagine the totality of space… in many ways it helps me appreciate the little bit of focus I do have.
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First day of school for our girls.
On Tuesday, our girls went back to school for the new year (South African schools start a new school year in January). Our little SJ has started Grade 00 and EN has finally joined the same school<|fim_middle|> year for them.
How did your kids and family cope with the first week back?
Love this post my friend! Such a nice way to remember that day as both girls went proudly to school.
Loved "after a tantrum in the car" 😂😂 elliePops! | in their Playgroup. These sweet sisters are so excited to be at the same school and these parents are even more excited that now there is only one school drop off in the mornings and pick up in the afternoons – and so close to home!
We were a little nervous for EN as this is a new school, new classroom and new teacher and no familiar friends faces. But she walked into school (after a tantrum in the car!) with her bag on her back, greeted her headmistress and straight into her classroom to give her new teacher a big hug. She put her bags away, have her teacher her gift and started playing with her new toys. A very proud Mommy & Daddy walked away with the biggest kisses and happy heart.
SJ has been counting down the days to school starting – she is one conscientious and confident little girl who loves school, being with her friends, structure and routine and being the teachers pet. She couldn't wait to see her new classroom, new locker, friends after the long holidays and her new teacher (who she begged for last year!). A quick goodbye and another little daughter who was happy to kiss and wave us goodbye.
We are so grateful for the confidence and independence that our girls showed yesterday and that they feel so comfortable and at home in their school environment. We have been blessed with the most lovely pre-school, beautiful classrooms, attentive and involved headmistress and loving and caring teachers.
Here's hoping it's a happy | 298 |
When planning my wedding, I really just wanted it to be FUN; fun and relaxing. In the end, that's exactly what it was.
I love that fun was at the top of Lyndsey and David's list when it came to their rustic wedding – every beautiful photo by Victoria Greener Photography simply radiates happiness. They both look like they're having the best day EVER – which, I'm pretty sure they were!
Just wait till you see Lyndsey's chic up 'do and elegant lace dress, the many goofy faces of David, the little white chapel and cute rustic cabins of Still Water Hollow in Idaho, the bridesmaids in nudes and pinks with clusters of different white flowers in each of their bouquets, barefoot flower girls handing out sprigs of baby's breath on their way down the aisle and David's adorable son, Trace as 'ring security'.
But sweetest of all, Lyndsey's grandparents celebrated their 65th anniversary that day and shared a special dance.
My favorite memory from that day was the first look with my husband. We chose to have it before the ceremony to allow plenty of time for pictures. I remember I<|fim_middle|> So long as you allow yourself enough time to adequately plan the wedding of your dreams.
Maybe in 65 years time you'll be dancing together at your grandchild's wedding.
Many thanks to Victoria Greener Photography for brightening up our day with these beautiful, joy filled photos. | was so nervous, all the way up to the moment before I saw him. At that moment, time seemed to stand still and all was right with the world.
I am so glad that I hired the photographer that I did, Victoria was just perfect. She did not miss a single thing that day and she went above and beyond what she needed to. And now, I can look at all of the stunning photos that she took and remember the day for what it was: beautiful.
At the ceremony, Lyndsey and David put letters they had written to each other into a box and nailed it shut. Later in life, they will open it back up and read the letters.
Major Events decorated and set up everything for the ceremony and reception. Their team showed up bright and early and took care of it all; from the tables and chairs to the centrepieces and bouquets. Their work was flawless; it looked exactly the way I wanted it to, maybe even better.
Every wedding is going to have its fair share of things that don't go as planned, and mine was no exception. Of course, I do have some advice for all the brides-to-be out there: don't procrastinate. I know that's what everyone says, but believe it or not, this process can be relatively stress-free! | 265 |
The end of another financial year is fast approaching and you need to start planning your tax strategy now. Here, Chris Ridd shares tips on how to reduce your business tax bill by timing your income and expenses.
We all know that when you run your business, you want to maximise income and keep expenses as low as possible. But when it comes to tax time you should aim to do the opposite – minimise income and maximise expenses in order to reduce your assessable income and the amount of tax you have to pay.
Of course, you don't do this by turning away customers or needlessly spending money. Instead, it's all in the timing. In other words, you bring forward expenses into the current tax year, and defer income into the following tax year. While you might eventually have to pay tax on the money you save, in the meantime the extra money is yours to use as you see fit – to invest back into your business, to reduce your borrowings and hence your interest payments, or to leave in the bank earning interest.
Many SME business owners start out with cash accounting – that is, recognising the income and expenses in your business when they are physically paid. Timing strategies work best with accrual accounting so, if you haven't already, you might consider making the change.
Accrual accounting recognises income and expenses when you issue an invoice or receive a bill, not when you receive or pay money. This accounting method creates<|fim_middle|> These include costs like insurance, rent and professional association membership fees. If you calculate your tax using the accrual method, the good news is you don't have to actually spend the money before June 30 to get the deduction. However, what's important is that the invoice is issued to you before then. For example, if your business is getting an IT upgrade, you can ask your supplier to issue their invoice before the end of the tax year. Even if you don't pay it straight away, you can still get a tax deduction for the expense.
Likewise, think about any purchases you'll be making for your business in the new financial year. Is there anything you're thinking about buying in July that you might bring forward by a few days or weeks? Another reason to spend the money now and not later is that there are some generous small business tax concessions available for depreciation of assets that might not be available next year.
But don't go overboard. The whole point of this strategy is to maximise the cash you have on hand by increasing your tax deductions, so don't bring expenses forward by too much. There's little point in buying supplies you won't use for 11 months, say, because you'll be doing without all that cash for the sake of deducting only some of it.
Look at the invoices you have coming up, particular for major sales or projects. Can you hold back on issuing them until after June 30? If you do, you won't have to pay tax on the income until the following year, giving you more cash in hand. As with expenses, however, don't delay invoices too much for the sake of the 30c in the dollar tax saving.
The same applies with sales of assets, such as your business premises or goodwill. Any gains your business makes will be taxable, so think about deferring sales until the new tax year. Likewise, if you think you'll make a loss on the sale of an asset, see if you can bring forward the sale to the current tax year so you can offset it against your current income and pay less tax. It's worth knowing that there are tax concessions available to small business for the sale of some assets, so check with your accountant before you offload anything.
Once the calendar tips past June 30, you will have missed your chance to take advantage of accruals. So start planning now. Comb through your expenses to see what you can bring forward and look for any income that you can delay. Invest a bit of time in this groundwork now and you'll benefit from some useful tax savings come July.
Chris Ridd is Managing Director of Xero Australia. | debtors and creditors, so it's a good idea to use online accounting software, which makes it easier for you to keep track of your business' cash flow and its true financial position.
First up, look at all of the regular expenses you have coming up and see if you can bring any forward to before June 30. | 67 |
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Look at the decorations, they are exquisite! Catchy studs are set along the leather strap. These decorations are brass plated and, thus shine with stylish glittering. The extravagant design of this FDT Artisan collar is matchless and unique. Due to these embellishments, this full grain leather dog collar has a spark. That means your pet will have his individual and exquisite style.
As for the hardware of this embellished full grain natural leather tool, it is brass plated. It matches amazingly with the embellishments. This covering provides extra protection for the | 148 |
Överstegring, även kallad stall (böjning: stalla, stallning), är en förlust av lyftkraft hos exempelvis en flygplansvinge, orsakad av att luftströmmen kring vingen bryter samman och separerar på ovansidan av vingen vid alltf<|fim_middle|>en och möjliggöra långsam flygning är olika sorters vingklaffar.
Att åstadkomma en medveten överstegring räknas som en begränsad avancerad manöver inom flygning, och är ett obligatoriskt inslag i utbildningen till flygcertifikat.
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Aerodynamik | ör stora anfallsvinklar, vilket leder till en plötslig förlust av lyftkraft. Om förhållandet inte korrigeras faller flygplanet okontrollerat mot marken.
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Begreppet stall kommer av äldre slang för att stoppa eller sakta ner något under gång (exempelvis "motorstall" eller "stalla en pågående process"), vilket härleds från akten att stanna rid- eller dragdjur och låta dem "stalla", det vill säga stanna för utfodring och vila, vilket ursprungligen är samma ord som "ställa" (därav namnet för byggnaden stall – ett "ställ" för djur).
Inom flygterminologi har begreppet främst populariserats av engelskan i samma stavning och betydelse som ovan (engelskt uttal: [stɔːl]) och uttalas på svenska därför ibland även "ståhl" efter det engelska uttalet.
Beskrivning
Överstegring kan inträffa vid vilken fart som helst där anfallsvinkeln överstiger en viss gräns. Speciellt vid flygning i låg fart måste farten övervakas noggrant eftersom man måste hålla en högre anfallsvinkel för att få lika mycket lyftkraft som vid en högre fart. Vid låg fart ökar också det inducerade motståndet vilket ytterligare gör att motoreffekten måste anpassas. Överstegringen hävs genom att piloten för fram manöverspaken så att anfallsvinkeln minskas och att piloten i ett motordrivet flygplan ökar motorkraften.
Stallfarten är den fart då flygplanet har en anfallsvinkel precis under stall, och inte lyfter. Om planet flyger under stallfarten sjunker planet. Det enda sättet att då lyfta är att öka hastigheten över stallfarten. Om man försöker lyfta genom att öka anfallsvinkeln överstegrar planet och faller mot marken.
Låg vingbelasting (stor vingyta i förhållande till flygplanets vikt) ger en lägre stallfart för planet. Flygplan med låg vingbelastning (till exempel vissa Biplan) har därför ofta låg stallfart. Hjälpmedel som används för att öka lyftkraft | 604 |
Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy. Tim Roughgarden. ix + 196 pp. The MIT Press, 2005. $35.
Suppose you have two routes home from the office. Main Street is never congested, but it has many stoplights, and so the trip always takes an hour. The freeway has a higher speed limit and will get you home in 30 minutes if traffic is light; however, if more than half the commuters in town crowd onto the freeway, traffic freezes up, and that route too takes an hour. Which way should you go?
Assuming that travel time is the only factor at issue, you have nothing to lose by taking the freeway. If you get lucky, you save half an hour; if not, you're no worse off than you would have been on Main Street. The trouble is, everyone else in town reasons the same way, with the result that everyone endures a full hour of bumper-to-bumper on the freeway, while Main Street is deserted. Looking at the situation from a more global point of view, there is clearly a better solution. If the stream of traffic were divided half-and-half between the two roads, no one would have a longer trip, and half the drivers would get home 30 minutes sooner. The average travel time would fall from an hour to 45 minutes.
This curious phenomenon, first described in 1920 by the British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou, is the point of departure for Tim Roughgarden's book Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy. "Selfish routing" is the process of choosing a path based strictly on one's own interests, without regard for how that choice may affect anyone else; "the price of anarchy" is the penalty that may have to be paid for this oblivious individualism. These twin concepts have applications not only in highway engineering but also in the design of communications networks, including the Internet. But applications are not really the focus of this book. It is a work of mathematics and theoretical computer science, more concerned with proofs than with practical advice for commuters.
The failure of selfish routing to produce an optimal outcome in Pigou's problem runs counter to some of the intellectual trends of our time. Systems of interacting, autonomous agents are very much in vogue as problem-solving devices and models of complex behavior. In economics, for example, agents competing in a free market are said to achieve a better allocation of resources than any central planning authority could. In biology, "leaderless" algorithms are invoked to explain the flocking of birds, the foraging of ants and the aggregation of cells to form tissues and organs. The powerful appeal of such methods and models is their promise to find optimal solutions through the collective action of simple agents that individually may not even understand the nature of the problem. But, as Pigou showed, it doesn't always work.
Again there are two ways home, but now each of the routes consists of two segments. Driving a segment labeled 1 takes one hour, regardless of traffic conditions. Travel time on the segments labeled x is proportional to the fraction of traffic traversing the segment; in other words, you can drive an x segment in no time at all if there's no one on the road, but when everyone chooses the segment, it takes a full hour. On this network selfish routing can be expected to produce an equilibrium where traffic splits evenly between the two paths, and everyone gets home in an hour and a half.
The new link seems to offer a potential savings in travel time. Since x is never greater than 1 and may be less, a selfish router will always prefer the x segments to the 1 segments. The obvious route of choice follows the first x segment, then the cross connector, and finally the second x segment. But when everyone makes that choice, all drivers wind up spending two hours on the road instead of 90 minutes. Roughgarden states the moral: "With selfish routing, network improvements can degrade network performance."
The problems and paradoxes of selfish routing have been known for decades; Roughgarden's contribution is to work out careful, quantitative estimates of just how much we may have to pay for the privilege of choosing our routes without regard<|fim_middle|>em to address issues related to selfish routing, and it would be useful to know what Roughgarden's mathematics might have to say about their effectiveness.
Brian Hayes is senior writer for American Scientist. He is the author of Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (W. W. Norton, 2005). | for the commonweal. His analysis is framed in terms of worst-case outcomes; he defines the price of anarchy as "the worst possible ratio between the average travel time of a selfish solution and the smallest achievable average travel time." For example, in the version of Braess's paradox described here, the worst-case price of anarchy is 4/3. Variations on the problem can get much worse: If the mathematical function that relates traffic density to travel time can take any form at all, there is no bound on the price of anarchy. We might never get home.
Roughgarden's book began as a doctoral dissertation and is a fairly challenging work for the casual reader. But the puzzles being solved are worth the effort, and Roughgarden attacks them with a lively mix of game theory, economics and analysis of algorithms. There are also informative notes on the history of the field. But one longs for a bit more detail on what these theoretical results imply where the rubber meets the road. A number of traffic-control devices—carpool lanes, time-of-day tolls, on-ramp metering—se | 229 |
Bitcoin: The Blockchain for Truly Smart Contracts
Conner Brown
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By Conner Brown
Smart contracts sound enticing. The allure of cutting out attorneys, endless paperwork, and exorbitant legal fees is what drew me into learning about cryptocurrency in the first place. Unfortunately, my dreams were shortly crushed. It was clear that reality didn't live up to the advertising hype and "smart contracting platforms" had fundamental problems with the nature of contracts.
Many have encountered these problems and decided smart contracts are something that can never work, I disagree. In fact, Bitcoin has made the proper design choices to make smart contracts possible where others have failed.
In this essay, I will cover the basics of contracts, explain the problems with naive "smart contracting platforms", and finally show how Bitcoin is keeping the dream of smart contracts alive.
Part One: Contract Basics
First, let's cover the basics of a contract. A contract is an enforceable agreement between consenting parties. Here is an example:
Alice agrees with Bob to purchase $1000 dollars of coffee beans from him per month for the next 3 years. Alice will pay Bob on the first of each month.
The contract is the agreement between the two parties (Alice and Bob) for the transaction (coffee beans for dollars) and can be digital, written, or even verbal.
The key difference between a contract and a mere promise is that a contract can be enforced by a third party. This third party is often an agent of the law, such as a judge, but can also include private arbitrators, mutual friends, mob bosses, etc. In the event of a_ breach_ (i.e. Alice misses a payment), the injured party can take the contract and evidence to their enforcement authority who will use their abilities to make the injured party whole under the terms of the contract.
Contracts are a necessary part of a functioning economy as they allow individuals to rely on actions of others. Therefore, an entrepreneur can operate a business knowing that the components needed for their product will arrive on schedule. This forms the basis of predictable trading, planning, and specialization. In this sense, contracts are socially scalable as they "overcome shortcomings in human minds . . . that limit who or how many can successfully participate." ¹ As more people can rely on the efforts of others without trusting them personally, the entire network of possible economic interaction grows exponentially.
The key feature that makes contracts socially scalable is that a contract can be entered and executed without supervision. A merchant may engage in thousands of trades and contracts with others and never need to see a judge to resolve the conflict.
On the contrary, imagine a world where every contract you entered into (i.e. every time you sat down at a restaurant or purchased something from amazon) there had to be a third party overseeing the entire transaction to ensure that everything went according to plan. That would be ridiculous. Transaction costs would be so high that no one would ever use contracts in the first place. The beauty of contracts is not that a third party is present at all times, but that there can be a third party if needed. That fallback option is sufficient to generate trust between strangers.
With contracts, we improve the division of labor and add reliability to our world, the cornerstones of economic progress, by replacing the element of trust with enforceable guarantees.
Part Two: The Naive "Blockchain" Approach
Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around contracts. With the blockchain boom of the past decade, the meaning of the term "smart contract" has evolved in reference to the many distributed networks that have sprung up. For the purposes of this article, I will define a smart contract as the enforcement, verification, and performance of an agreement between two parties over a distributed protocol.
If only it were this simple.
The stock image above represents the naive vision for smart contracts. The theory is that one can simply take real world contracts, "put them on the blockchain", and somehow end up with an agreement that is more trustworthy. In this view, (1) there is a contract coded into the network, (2) data from the real world event is then processed by the network, and (3) lastly the network performs an action based on that information.
However, there are major problems with this approach.
1. The Oracle Problem
If your smart contract system is based on information from the physical world, (i.e. title to land, the price of a good, or the delivery of an item) then it must rely on a service known as an oracle that can feed that information to the smart contract system. This is a problem because there is no objective way to know if the physical world corresponds to the internal databases. As a result, services require trusted third parties to supply the information for their contracts — defeating the purpose of using a decentralized network in the first place.
Additionally, problems arise when something happens with a piece of property, but the blockchain is not properly updated. For example, imagine you are storing land titles on a blockchain. What happens if the land is meant to be passed on to family members but the private keys to the land are lost or destroyed? In that scenario, there are two options. Either the ledger is immutable and title is permanently issued to the wrong person, or the ledger can be changed by a third party (i.e. government agent or customer support) to reflect what occurred.
The first scenario means over time the ledger will become increasingly incorrect, and the second demonstrates why a blockchain is unnecessary to begin with . Problems like these are fundamental to their respective networks and demonstrate why smart contracts are not suited for physical world property rights.
2. The Inflexibility Problem
Contracts are never perfect manifestations of the drafters will. Often confusions and misunderstandings occur between parties when drafting. However, when drafting in a smart contract language, there is no room for error. Each word must be drafted from fully-defined computer terms which can be processed by the smart contract platform.
Jeremy Sklaroff explores this problem in a fantastic paper titled Smart Contracts and the Cost of Inflexibility.² Smart contract platforms claim to reduce "inefficiency" by removing traditional language; however, Sklaroff demonstrates this removal unfavorably increases transaction costs. Hard coded contracts must be rigid and purely self-referential. This means that both parties must fully and precisely define all expected and possible future states of the contract without traditional language. The possibilities for even a simple contract of coffee bean delivery are dizzying.
It is also common when drafting contracts to reference conventions, customs, and terminology specific to a certain trade, significantly reducing the time required in drafting contract. These commonly understood substitutes would also not be recognized under a smart contract and would need to be entirely defined.
In sum, human activities require human constructs. Natural language has an interpretive richness and flexibility that cannot simply be replaced by computer logic.
3. The Breach Problem
Contracts are often complex agreements with a variety of terms and requirements. Many times whether or not the terms of an agreement have been breached is up for debate. Bob may believe that he acted in accordance to the terms of the contract, however Alice may interpret things differently. For example, what happens if the coffee beans being delivered are the wrong size or type? Should this constitute a punishable breach or a negligible difference? Hopefully this would be negotiated ahead of time, but these problems are often difficult to anticipate.
To make matters worse, breaches are not always intentional or harmful. With standard contracts, a counterparty can give an explanation of their mistake and the injured party can choose take the case to the courthouse, or simply let it slide. This is because a technical violation is not always a detrimental violation.
To illustrate, let's return to the contract between Alice and Bob. There may be a month where bob delivers the wrong type of coffee bean for Alice. He calls her ahead of time, informs of her of the mix-up, but tells her he'll make up for it by giving her 25% off that order. Alice thinks this is a great idea. She will get a discount on this month's delivery and can use these different coffee beans as a "limited time offer" in her store to boost sales.
Informal modifications like these are important and possible because they operate in the malleable world of human interaction. On the other hand, a trustless smart contract would simply see the wrong goods were delivered and penalize the offending party — a costly result that could have been avoided.
This lack of selective enforcement is another massive burden to smart contracts where the flexibility of standard contracts is a feature, not a bug.
4. The Enforcement Problem
As mentioned above, the difference between a contract and a promise is that the third party to an agreement can enforce the terms of the contract. But what about a smart contract? If there is a smart contract for a delivery of coffee beans and Bob doesn't deliver, who will enforce it? A blockchain is decentralized and has no jurisdiction or ability to affect physical objects, naturally this creates a problem with getting people to be good on their promises.
Defenders of blockchain enforcement generally take one of two positions. First, one might argue that the blockchain can't enforce it, but it could be used as proof in a court of law. In that case however, you're still falling back on the same state institutions to enforce the contract. A standard contract would have the same assurances and more privacy!
The alternative to this is a staking model. To use a smart contract, a user would need to post collateral that can be auctioned off in the event of the breach. This also brings its own problems — it's expensive! Posting collateral for every contract brings its own opportunity costs, especially if dealing with multiple contracts on multiple services.
Neither of these solutions is appealing, and brings us back to the question of why use a blockchain for contracts in the first place?
5. The Scalability Problem
As explained above, a key element of contracts is their ability to scale by providing third party monitoring on an as needed basis. However, smart contracting platforms such as Ethereum, Tron, and EOS, have decided to ignore this basic principle. By allowing users to upload contracts directly to the base layer, any contract that individuals create must be verified and constantly monitored by all other validators of the network.
Their results have been disappointing and predictable. Despite gaining little traction or active users, the major smart contracting platforms are already incredibly difficult to download, verify, and stay synced. This timeless piece by StopAndDecrypt does a fantastic job exploring the implications of this design choice which applies to blockchains with expressive languages on the base layer such as Ethereum, Tron and EOS.⁴
Despite claiming to be innovative compared a simpler protocol like Bitcoin, complex base layer scripting is a step backwards. By requiring all validators to verify the entirety of every smart contract on these platforms, the inevitable result is centralization and falling right back into the realm of trusted third parties they claim to remove. Contracts simply don't work that way.
Part Four: A Judge Like No Other
After seeing these problems, it is tempting to think they cannot be overcome. While most uses of the term "smart contracts" are merely fluff, we shouldn't abandon the concept entirely. In fact, Bitcoin has already solved these problems with the Lightning Network.
The Lightning Network is a system of peer-to-peer payment channels that operate on top of the bitcoin protocol. A brief introduction to Lightning can be found here.
In broad terms, a Lightning Network interaction works as follows. Two parties communicate with each other that they would like to enter into an agreement to open a payment channel. Both parties sign a commitment transaction which memorializes their mutual assent to the agreement and records it on the Bitcoin blockchain. Both parties abide by rules of the Lightning Network protocol, which form the boundaries of their cooperation. After transacting for a period of time, the parties can choose to terminate the contract by signing and publishing a final mutual transaction. In the event that one party tries to break the rules of the network and steal their counterpart's funds, the injured party can publish proof to the bitcoin blockchain and prevent the theft.
These elements line up perfectly with traditional notions of contract, and overcome the problems listed above.
Terms: The rules of the LN protocol itself are akin to the terms of a contract where both parties to the agreement must act accordingly.
Signing: Publishing the commitment transaction is a way of signing and agreeing to the terms of the contract.
Breach: The contract is breached if a party violates the terms of the lightning contract, and injured parties can essentially "have their day in court" by publishing cryptographic evidence to the base chain.
Enforcement: Finally, the bitcoin protocol acts as a virtual judge, logically evaluating the evidence before it and transferring funds to the appropriate party.
The lightning network completely sidesteps the traditional pitfalls of smart contracts by isolating the contract system in a virtual closed loop. A smart contract on lightning lives and dies entirely in the digital realm. The oracle, enforcement, and breach problems only arise with dealing with the gray world of material objects and actions.
There is also a strong flexibility inherent in the network as the agreements are peer-to-peer like traditional contracts. Each set of partners chooses which terms they wish to be bound by. While there are generic lightning contracts, (i.e. the default build of Eclair or LND), these terms can be tweaked to fit the needs of the parties. For example, Bitrefill recently opened the first 1BTC channel by changing the default channel size limit. Contract flexibility will continue to improve as protocol upgrades such as Schnorr Signatures and SIGHASH_NOINPUT are implemented. The eltoo proposal is just one example.
With all this being said, perhaps the most important part of Lightning is its understanding of social scalability. As mentioned earlier, what makes contracts so powerful is that a judge is not necessary for a transaction, but only as a backup in the event of a breach. Other "smart contract platforms" such as Ethereum and Tron completely miss this fundamental insight of contracts. Instead, they opt for a model where the "judge" (i.e. the blockchain) sits over the shoulder and watches every single transaction as it occurs.
The design of the lightning network fully grasps this contracts concept. With lightning, millions of transactions can take place between two individuals without needing the judge at all. This provides two obvious benefits, reducing transaction costs with users of the network, and increasing the privacy of those entering into contracts. At this point, the size and growth of the network is somewhat unknown because many channels are private. However, in the event that something goes wrong, the benevolent bitcoin judge can step in, evaluate, and resolve the dispute.
Lastly, its important to note that the Lightning Network is only the first of many of such examples. POWSWAP by Jeremy Rubin offers a similar type of smart contract for hashrate derivatives, and Lot 49 by Richard Myers for mesh network messaging. These innovative smart contracts are not being built on other chains because of their "expressiveness" or "turing-completeness", quite the opposite. They chose bitcoin for its simplicity.
The blockchain space often touts complex base layer scripting as what is best for smart contracts — but they fail to recognize simplicity is crucial for smart contracts by forming the basis of predictable execution. In this light, bitcoin's simplicity and security shines through.
Going forward, I expect the smart contracts with the most usage and value to be built in a similar way — leveraging bitcoin as their virtual judge of choice.
Lightning is the first truly smart contract. By tackling the problems plaguing other networks, Lighting has prevailed as a shining example of what is possible on Bitcoin and paints a bright future for smart contract innovation on the network.
I would like to thank Bitcoin Lawyer, Jeremy Sklaroff, and Nick Szabo for their ideas, and the Cato Institute for hosting me to do this research.
Szabo, Nick. Money, Blockchains, and Social Scalability, 9 Feb. 2017, unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/money-blockchains-and-social-scalability.html.
Sklaroff , Jeremy. "Smart Contracts and the Cost of Inflexibility ." University of Pennsylvania Law Review , vol. 166, 2018, pp. 263–303.
For more recent evidence of SAD's concerns coming to fruition, I recommend this thread by Eric Wall documenting the herculean efforts to sync a full node on Ethereum.
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Around 80 kilometres south of the city of Valencia and lying on the provincial boder, Puerto de la Llacuna takes us abruptly from the coastal flats of la Safor to the mountainous roads and climbs of inland Alicante so familiar to cyclists from all over the world.
Popular among local cyclists and set to feature as the first of the six scheduled climbs of Stage 7, the first real test of the 2021 Vuelta a España, this 10 km 1st Cat. climb has an overall average gradient of 6%, with kilometres at 10% and maximum ramps of up to 17%.
CLIMBS IN VALENCIA
Located around 45 km to the south of the city of Valencia on the southern edge of the Albufera Natural Park, la Bola de Cullera provides incredible views over the surrounding rice fields, the Gulf of Valencia and the Cap de Sant Antoni and el Montgó.
Set to feature as the finish of Stage 6 of the 2021 Vuelta a España, this 3 km climb starts from the centre of Cullera, rearing up past the town's Al-Ándalus castle to "la bola", the meteorological radar station located at the summit. The average gradient of 7.5% and the final altitude of 230 metres a.s.l. are somewhat misleading, as the first 2 kilometres average around 9%, while the final stretch has eye-watering ramps of 24% make it a climb requiring strength, rather than stamina.
Lined with cork trees and replete with endless curves, Port d'Eslida is a very popular climb with Valencian cyclists that offers spectacular views over the surrounding countryside.
Located in the south of the province of Castellón and some 60 km to the north of the city of Valencia, the<|fim_middle|> entire year.
Nestled in the mountains above the village of Tàrbena, La Panavista is a self-contained Spanish villa which serves as an excellent option for relaxing and enjoying this spectacular corner of the Valencia Region.
The River Júcar, or Xúquer in Valencian, runs for approximately 500 km from its source at Ojuelos de Valdeminguete, on the eastern flank of the Montes Universales, Cuenca, close the sources of the rivers Tajo, Cuervo, Turia and Cabriel (the latter serving as its most important tributary) to the Mediterranean Sea.
Located in the northernmost extreme of the province of Alicante and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, Vall de Ebo (Vall d'Ebo in Valencian) is one of the Region's most popular climbs among amateur and professional cyclists alike.
Indeed, due to its proximity to coastal resorts such as Denia, Calpe and Altea, so popular in the off-season among the world's leading pro cycling teams, it's not uncommon to come across many of the international peloton's most famous faces both climbing and descending its slopes, team cars dutifully bringing up the rear. And it's not hard to understand the climb's attraction for cyclists of all levels: with its 7.5 km length, multitude of hairpins and gradients between 5% and 13%, on a ranking of 1 to 10 it can comfortably be classified as a doozy.
CLIMBS IN ALICANTE
Amid the numerous topics and issues dealt with on a regular basis in the specialist cycling media - bicycle paths, carbon components, electronic shifting, urban transport, disc brakes, health and fitness benefits, women's racing, bike-sharing, gravel riding, smart trainers, folding bikes, etc., etc., etc. -, there's a curiously ambigious place reserved for the "e-bike", seemingly situated at an equidistant point between unbridled praise, general indifference and outright rejection. | 6 km climb of Port d'Eslida is a relatively easy climb that acts as a gateway to the beautiful Serra d'Espadà Natural Park, with its medieval heritage, sandstone mountains and dense cork forests.
CLIMBS IN CASTELLÓN
The River Turia Natural Park trail follows the course of the River Turia from the centre of Valencia some 35 kilometres upstream to the village of Vilamarxant in the comarca of Camp de Túria.
The route takes us from the spectacular architecture of the Santiago Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences in the heart of Valencia to the depths of the wild countryside that borders the region's main river.
ROUTES IN VALENCIA
Spain has over 2,800 kilometres of disused railways that have been converted into traffic-free "greenways" for use by cyclists, walkers, horse-riders, etc.
The ever-expanding nationwide network currently includes 11 former rail routes within the Valencian Community.
La Carrasqueta is 12 kilometre climb lying just inland from the city of Alicante
The spectacular climb takes us up to a natural balcony at @1020 m.a.s.l. overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and the city of Alicante, some 40 kilometres away.
Another climb to have featured many times in la Vuelta a España over the years, Puerto de l'Oronet is perhaps the most popular climb among cyclists living in and around the city of Valencia.
Easily reachable from the city of Valencia, the 8-km climb of l'Oronet serves as a gateway to Sierra Calderona, Sierra de Espadán and beyond.
Casas de Benalí is a 16 kilometre climb in the south-west of the province of Valencia
The virtually traffic-free climb takes us through olive groves and pine forests us to an altitude of @750 m.a.s.l.
A gentle, quiet climb to nowhere particular through the Sierra de Enguera, the climb to Casas de Benalí offers a virtually car-free asphalted climb and an off-road descent to the village of Navarrés.
Passing over the Serra Grossa range and linking the comarcas of Vall d'Albaida and la Costera, el Puerto del Portitxol is a relatively easy, regular climb that is popular with local cyclists and which can be slotted into numerous hilly routes in the lesser-known southwest corner of the province of Valencia/northwest corner of the province of Alicante.
For the 2019 edition of La Vuelta a España, the organizers of the Spanish national tour have pulled a real rabbit out of the hat in the form of the previously-unused climb of el Alto de Javalambre - or el Picón del Buitre, as it is more commonly known -, atop of which sits the spectacular Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory.
We know that we are by no means the first to say it, but it nevertheless remains true: while it may not be the hardest, nor the steepest, climb in Alicante, the north side of Coll de Rates is most surely the best-known and most-popular climb in the province, attracting cyclists from all over the world throughout the | 672 |
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"Contexts and Sources" provides readers with a rich selection of documents related to the historical background, language, composition, sale, reception, and newly discovered first half of the manuscript of Mark Twain's greatest work. Included are letters on the writing of the novel, excerpts from the author's autobiography, samples of bad poetry that inspired his satire (including an effort by young Sam Clemens himself), a section on the censorship of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by schools and libraries over a hundred-year period, and commentary by David Carkeet on dialects of the book and by Earl F. Briden on its "racist" illustrations. In addition, this section reprints the full texts of both "Sociable Jimmy," upon which is based the controversial theory that Huck speaks in a "black voice," and "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It," the first significant attempt by Mark Twain to capture the speech of an African American in print. "Criticism" of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is divided into "Early Responses" (including the first negative review) and "Modern Views" by Victor A. Doyno, T. S. Eliot, Jane Smiley, David L. Smith, Shelley Fisher Fishkin (the "black voice" thesis), James R. Kincaid (a rebuttal of Fishkin), and David R. Sewell. Also included is Toni Morrison's moving personal "Introduction" to the troubling experience of reading and re-reading Mark Twain's masterpiece. "A Chronology and Selected Bibliography" are also included.
A seminal work of American literature that still commands deep praise and elicits controversy, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought to be lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a fuller understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.
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The Doorway
By Phyllis Tickle
Written for the T<|fim_middle|> doorway of the church itself is the passageway that enables or enhances that storytelling—like the birth canal between the secular and ecclesial world.
One way this particular production differs from the genre as a signatory piece, is the imposition of the set in that space. This is imaginative and ingenious—especially the stairways!"
Can you talk about the birth of the characters?
"I'm in love with Maddy. She's the lynchpin that makes the whole thing go. She is every artist that ever touched that space, or any other space. She is also fully realized from my affection for Sr. Danielle. While I wrote, it was like my forehead was a screen and I was seeing her the whole time. When you've got a company with a really strong actress, you write to that strength.
Then of course—to do this type of "holy" work, you have to have the counterbalance of the fantastical, otherwise it bogs down in the religious and you miss the magic. I believe that religion can't take itself too seriously—it has to acknowledge the magical. And Brad is the coup de grace—the owl construct he operates is a hoot! The character was written to his strengths. "Theodore" means "gift of God", and he is the conduit that every artist and space knows in this process.
At the beginning, Sr. Danielle asked for two things. The first was some way to include archetypes, and this led to the depersonalization of characters from the frescos, for example the King and the Whore. She was looking for that "primordial impetus" in telling the stories, and using the archetypes plays perfectly to that.
Secondly, she wanted to involve the Elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air—and this has really evolved through the process. What the Elements give us is all we've got to work with. They began to tell me what they wanted to do and be. Plus it's a great play on the name of the company.
It's been wonderful—I love drama and the Community of Jesus. It's been a pleasure to come and go, and work with the space and the company. You know drama is good if it plays in people's heads for days afterwards, especially the things they didn't get. So this will be the test!"
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Set in the dramatic space of the Church of the Transfiguration, The Doorway tells the story of an artist's experience as she comes to the completion of her work in the church. Nearly finished with her tasks, Madeleine is stumped by the final inscription for a chalice that remains to be carved. Her muse, an owl named Theodore, advises her to call upon the building itself, and the stories recorded in the art there, to help her find the final missing piece that will bring the work to an end. Bridging the real and the fantastic, The Doorway echoes the completion of the Church of the Transfiguration at its Tenth Dedication Anniversary this summer.
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Tell us about the process of creating The Doorway. What was it like to write for this specific playing space?
"When Mother Betty and the Community of Jesus first approached me about this, we were thinking in terms of a piece that would travel—a touring piece. So in terms of liturgical drama, a signatory piece written for one space was not originally our intention, but that is what this became, and hopefully it will be played here every year. It celebrates the structure, enhancing the teaching aspect of the space, but beyond that, it welds or melds the spirit of the people who worship there. This can't just be done with words; it must be aesthetic and experiential. It's very close to what happens when a space has been prayed in through the centuries—when you walk in you just get a sense of it.
I went into the church alone three times. Finally, I lay down on the floor on the western side of the ambo, and just shut up for thirty or forty minutes. It had been so long since Jeremiah [Elements performed Ms. Tickle's Figs and Fury for the Dedication of the church in 2000] I wandered around to see sight lines and things. At first I wanted to use the windows as boxes with shutters for the players to come and go, but this evolved too.
That space is a womb composed of stuff and story. It has its own story, and it wants to tell its own story, not traveling around. That is a defining characteristic or circumstance of a major religious site, and this space demands that recognition. And the | 487 |
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I found this second Australian film on my list to be eerie, sad and brilliantly acted. Great script and editing too, because more than anything I admired the narrative, the very structure of the story within the documentary format, as well as the timing,<|fim_middle|> Neighbours and Home And Away). Take the Hollyoaks gene out of films about youth and you get more insightful and affecting films.
There is something compellingly primal and enigmatic about the desert too, that infiltrates the hidden spaces within a family home, particularly when caught on a camera. I also enjoyed a Peter Weir and Nigel Kneale vibe in this film's treatment of the supernormal and unworldly. | duration and examination of the revelations. There's a really good split between the family-in-crisis, through retrospective interviews, and artful home recorded set-pieces.
One of the film's strengths is the poignant commentary on the estrangement and complexity of adolescence in young women (same in Picnic At Hanging Rock), whereas Snowtown does the same for traumatised young men (as opposed to Australia's The Loved Ones which I found a tad feckless). But what struck me about all three of these Australian films was how good they were at depicting youth vividly, and in an emotionally engaging way, without over-egging the pudding or becoming juvenile or trivial (the flip side of | 141 |
Alright men, so you've finally decided the time is right to pop<|fim_middle|> to resize down.
3) Make sure the engagement ring is resizable. | the question. You've picked out the engagement ring, you have the perfect proposal planned out, but one thing is standing in your way: You don't know her ring size.
Well don't fret because our friends at 77 Diamonds are here with a list of tips to help you secretly find your future fiancé's engagement ring size to complete the perfect surprise proposal.
Get in touch with a friend or family member of your significant other. They may have bought her a ring as a gift before, or the topic of ring size could have popped up in conversation.
If they don't know then you can always recruit them as an accomplice.
Have someone take her "window shopping" for a ring and get her to see what her ring size is for "fun".
If you can get your hands on a ring that your girlfriend wears you can take it to a jewelers and get it measured.
However, in order to get an accurate measurement you'll need to be sure that the ring actually fits her properly and it is worn on the correct finger (left ring finger), as all fingers are different sizes.
If she does not wear a ring on that finger you can settle for an estimated measurement for another finger, but beware the ring will most likely need to be re-sized.
Let's say you are unable to take her ring to a jeweler without her noticing it's missing. There are several ways you can estimate the size without taking the ring out of the home.
For one, you can try the ring on yourself and mark on your finger where it falls. Then you can go to a jeweler and have them find the size that falls in the same place.
Also, you can make an impression of her ring in a bar of soap or clay and take it in for measurement.
One last way is to trace the inside of her ring with a pencil and have a jeweler match the size.
While your girlfriend blissfully slumbers, unaware of what you have planned you can wrap a piece of paper or string around her ring finger and mark the size that way.
If you bring this in to a jeweler they can help you to find a measurement. Just make sure she's not a light sleeper.
When in Doubt: Size up!
A ring is easier to re-size if it is too big, and most jewelers offer free resizing.
Just note that thin bands or those which are intricately covered in gems might not be able to be re-sized.
Make sure you check with your jeweler if the ring is re-sizable.
Also, if you're guessing her ring size it's important to know that rings which have a thick band will need to be larger than her normal rings.
You may be able to get her to divulge her ring size by telling her you want to buy a ring for your sister or mother.
Tell her you want to get an estimated size for someone else and either ask her to try on a ring or ask her outright what her size is.
Beware though; this method could be a dead giveaway if not done right.
Using these tips you should be able to get a fairly accurate measurement of her engagement ring size and be well on the way to spending the rest of your life with the woman of your dreams.
1) You need to find the size of her left ring finger. Rings worn on any other finger aren't likely to give an accurate measurement.
2) When in doubt size up because it's easier | 697 |
It can't be November yet!
How can it be November already? Wasn't it just yesterday when humidity was 1000% and temperature in the shade was 5<|fim_middle|> for myself: a subscription to The Magnolia Society Sweater Club. The first shipment has arrived and it is an absolutely gorgeous shade of red called Tart. The yarn base is merino, silk and alpaca. It's soft and cool to the touch and will probably become my Central Park Hoodie. I have just been emailing with Preeti and we might do a KAL on this sometime after the holidays. Right, Preeti?
From yet another club, this is the first mailing I received. This is colourway Honey Bunny in the Skein Queen's sock yarn base Exquisite. The colour is inspired by the film Pulp Fiction, something I have never had the chance to watch. I'm thinking about knitting this up as a shawl, Damson by Ysolda Teague perhaps.
Okay, that's enough of a sneak peek for now. I have plenty of blog updates itching to get out of my draft folder, you'd be begging for me to stop! | 0 degrees? Not that I'm complaining about the nicer weather we are having lately but it can't be November yet, damn it! I am not ready to turn another year older.
Speaking of presents, I think it's safe here to show you a little something that will be going to a certain someone soon. Porcelain stitchmarkers in the shape of two ginger cats. Any ideas who the lucky recipient could be?
As far as I know she doesn't read my blog, but if she does (thank you!) then I'm busted. The stitchmarkers were bought from the Skein Queen's shop.
Since we're on the subject of presents, here is one of my birthday presents | 138 |
Centre for Research on Ageing
Southampton Ageing Resource Network (SARN)
University Strategic Research Group
Research at the<|fim_middle|> predictive factors of informal support, including gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity and family composition. The research has a strong inter-ethnic and international comparative dimension. | Centre for Research on Ageing combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, is inter-disciplinary and international in scope, and has a strong policy focus. Our main areas of expertise include the following:
Ageing in developing and transitional societies
The majority of the world's elderly population live in developing countries, and ageing is currently proceeding most rapidly in the Global South. Research in this area examines the particular challenges raised by accelerated ageing in settings where formal welfare provision and service infrastructure are rudimentary, poverty widespread, and governance weak or in a state of flux. It investigates the interaction of informal and formal welfare provision, the role of the family, kin and civil society institutions, material insecurity, vulnerability, social policy, and the role of older people as carers, for examples in situations of widespread HIV-AIDS or migration. Current regions of specialisation include Southeast Asia, Sub-saharan Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Diversity in later life and ethnic minority ageing
The experience of ageing, and its implications for an individual's resources over their life course, differs according to a person's demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Our research in this area focuses on the health, living arrangements, housing, financial resources and social support of black and minority ethnic elders in Britain, and the construction and analysis of a large-scale survey database, the GHS Ethnicity Multi-year Database. It also includes the study of the experience of ageing in world cities such as London, Paris, New York and Tokyo, investigating different dimensions of inequalities, including ethnicity, poverty and social deprivation.
Gender and pension reform
Pension provision and pension reform has particular gender implications, as a result of men's and women's diverse life courses. In this area, we explore the gender implications of pension reform in the developed world, and we empirically investigate the pension penalty of providing informal care (child and elder) over the life-course and the implications for policy reform.
Income, pensions and inequality
Research in this area investigates how income (dis)advantage accumulates over older peoples' lifetimes and often intensifies in later life, and the role that the welfare state has played in reducing or perpetuating such inequalities. The research uses a comparative framework focussing on the UK, Germany, Sweden and the US. It examines pensions amongst groups with interrupted work histories, such as the unemployed and those with child or elder care responsibilities, and saving amongst youth in the UK.
The provision of health and social care is a key indicator of how well policy-makers and societies respond to the challenges posed by population ageing. Our research in this area examines health, disability and access to health care services and social services; equity in health and social care, taking into account both demand and supply factors in the investigation of inequalities in the utilisation of health and social care services; equity in access to welfare services and how policy may serve to mitigate or perpetuate inequalities. In addition, our research explores the mental health of older people, for example in relation to dementia, and service evaluations. Finally, we focus on the design, funding and provision of culturally sensitive and culturally specific services in both health and social care.
Paid work and informal caring
This research area looks at the complex relationship between health, caring and employment. It examines the characteristics and challenges faced by those 'caught in the middle', who juggle paid work and caring responsibilities, whilst still supporting their own children. Our research is aimed at understanding changes over time and across generations in the social and economic roles across which individuals take up. The research also investigates the relationship between multiple role responsibilities and quality of life indicators such as health, material resources and engagement in social activities. Some of the work in this area overlaps with research on ageing in developing and transitional societies.
Retirement prospects of future generations of elders
Research in this area investigates the retirement prospects of future cohorts; examines the social and economic circumstances of the ageing baby boomer generations in Britain; and the development and use of dynamic population simulation models in order to project the financial, health and social needs of the British population to 2050 and to evaluate different policy scenarios.
Social networks and informal support
Informal support remains central to understanding older people's well-being in developed and developing countries, and has particular significance during times of economic crisis. Research in this area examines the complex division of labour in old-age support provision between individuals and their families, wider kin, friends and neighbours, and community and civil society institutions. It investigates the evolution of social networks over the lifecourse, older people's contributions to networks, vulnerabilities inherent in childlessness, and the impact of migration and transnationalism on local support networks. It also examines the | 939 |
Q&A time after a presentation is always interesting, but this recent statement… Wow! I spoke at a Mother's retreat and this mom's comment caught me by surprise in some ways, but also resonated in others.
I've led support groups for years and find parents connect on a variety of levels. Though their journeys and diagnoses of special needs may be very different, parents have a variety of common experiences: grief and guilt<|fim_middle|>.
What binds special needs families together is the commonality of our loss and grief–connections more powerful than whatever our different special needs stories may be. Thanks for adding this to DifferentDream.com's Tuesday special needs link up. | , anxiety about the future, coping with school plans, and more. As parents bond and connect, they can see past the differences in diagnoses to their shared challenges in parenting. Time and again I've heard parents marvel at how connected they feel despite the fact that the diagnosis within their families are so varied.
Yet I have also heard comments like the one the mom shared at the retreat. My son is on the autism spectrum and when he was entering high school another parent of a child with autism told me that I didn't know what it was like for her because my son was older then and didn't have the same expression of autism as hers. True, on some levels. Though my son was not born "older," one can never know the exact experience of another person. There is a saying, "If you've met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism." It is a spectrum with a variety of expressions as unique and individual as fingerprints. But it doesn't mean that the differences in the expression of that spectrum renders parents incapable of hearing each other's stories and helping each other in the midst of hard times. If we limit ourselves to only connecting with parents on exactly the same path as our own, it is going to be a very small circle of understanding and support.
It is possible to care and connect even if our life circumstances are different. We do that all of the time. Recently we've experienced torrential rain in my hometown. I've received phone calls, text messages, and social media connections from across the country from friends checking in to see if my family is okay. I suppose I could respond by saying, "If you've not had multiple inches of rain in a short period of time day after day you can be no help to me." The truth is that you don't have to experience a flood of epic proportion in your home town to be able to understand that it is frightening, creating rising anxiety to match the rising waters.
Genuine empathy and compassion are not necessarily born of having lived the exact circumstance, rather they are born of caring and friendship. One of the healthiest things parents can do for themselves is to connect with others in mutually supportive relationships. In the book of Ecclesiastes, the author writes poignantly of the importance of relationships.
Sure, we can stand against adversity and challenges on our own, but it is so much easier to share the journey. Community and support are a gift, even when they come from unexpected places.
Excellent post Lorna! And so very TRUE!! Thanks again for your wisdom and insight!
What a great reminder it is to connect with others. I recently lost a dear pet and reached out for help on social media. So many people offered advice and support that was so helpful at a very difficult time. It made me feel not so alone on a difficult journey.
I'm glad you have support in your grief. Prayers of comfort for you and blessings of happy pet memories | 596 |
You don't find many geeks in most romance and chick lit books. In fact, lately there have been a slew of billionaire romances on the market. Maybe it's the "50 Shades" effect. But realistically, how many of us have even met a millionaire or billionaire, much less dated one?
For my first novel, I wanted to write a novel with people you might actually be in danger of meeting one day. As someone who worked in cubicle hell, I know interesting people do work in offices. I met a lot of geeks and techie types at the various places I worked over the years. So Chez Stinky has the type of people you might meet at your average office job and go out to happy hour with. The main characters are kind of nerdy people (a technical writer and an engineer) who end up getting together through an odd series of events.
The other reason to set the book in the past is not just because of the characters and their interests. It's because reading about mobile applications<|fim_middle|>'ve read some books recently that include texting and cell phones, and I find it annoying. I don't like reading about texting almost as much as I don't like people texting at the dinner table.
My third Alpine Grove romantic comedy, The Art of Wag includes Rob Thompson, a nerdy guy who makes his living setting up networks and satellite systems. As he points out, you should never underestimate the geeks of the world. I tend to agree.
Although my books periodically contain a few references to technology, they appeal most to pet lovers. Because although the nerds find love, they also discover that the bond they have for the animals in the story is important too. | is screamingly dull. I | 6 |
Le zoo de Cologne (Kölner Zoo) est un parc zoologique à<|fim_middle|>Liens externes
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Les zoos dans le monde
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5e arrondissement de Cologne | Cologne en Allemagne.
Histoire
Le zoo de Cologne est fondé en 1860 par les habitants de Cologne. Il est financièrement indépendant jusqu'aux années 1920, lorsque la ville de Cologne en achète la majorité des parts. Depuis lors, le zoo est financé par la ville. Pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, le zoo est presque complètement détruit et a doit être fermé. Deux ans après la guerre, en 1947, il est rouvert au public. Il est alors non seulement reconstruit, mais sa superficie est doublée pour atteindre la taille de 20 hectares. Cette phase de reconstruction et d'agrandissement s'est achevée dans les années 1970.
En 1963 a été créée la première école zoologique sur le continent européen. Le zoo de Cologne a également joué un rôle primordial dans la mise en place des programmes européens d'élevage et gère actuellement un nombre important de ces programmes et contribue financièrement et humainement à plusieurs programmes de conservation in situ d'espèces menacées d'extinction.
Il est situé Riehler Straße 173, 50735 Köln.
Le parc
Le zoo est divisé en trois parties : le parc, l'aquarium et vivarium.
Les animaux
On y trouve éléphants, fauves, la maison des singes, grizzlys, hamadryas, chevaux de Przewalski, pandas roux, volière (dans laquelle on peut entrer), antilope saïga...
Les directeurs du zoo
1859–1869 Heinrich Bodinus
1870–1886 . Nicolas Funck
1886–1888 Prof. . Ludwig Heck
1888–1928 Ludwig Wunderlich
1929–1938 . Friedrich Hauchecorne
1938–1951 . Werner Zahn
1952–1975 . Wilhelm Windecker
1975–1981 Prof. . Ernst Josef Kullmann
1981–2006 Prof. . Gunther Nogge
2007 Theo Pagel et Christopher Landsberg
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The median home value in Watkinsville, GA is $383,500. This is higher than the county median home value of $230,3<|fim_middle|>, foyer, living room and family room with wood burning fireplace. It has a spacious open kitchen complete with an island and granite counter tops, lots of cabinets and an upgraded appliance package with a stainless steel vent hood, gas cooktop and separate wall ovens. The second level features large bedrooms, walk in closets and a bonus room that has a separate entrance. Luxurious master bath with dual vanities. There are tile floors throughout the house except in bedrooms. The house also features an oversized 3 car garage and fenced in yard. | 00. The national median home value is $185,800. The average price of homes sold in Watkinsville, GA is $383,500. Approximately 68.03% of Watkinsville homes are owned, compared to 24.25% rented, while 7.72% are vacant. Watkinsville real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale. Commercial properties are also available. If you see a property you're interested in, contact a Watkinsville real estate agent to arrange a tour today!
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10 Acre Farmhouse in Oconee County! Custom built in 2003 by original owners with exceptional detail and craftsmanship to boast. Open living area with Master on Main, 3 good-sized additional bedrooms upstairs and a large bonus room over the garage with its own heating/air unit. HUGE attic space off the largest upstairs bedroom with stairs and tons of storage space. NEW features include: interior paint in main living areas, hot water heater, HVAC units including insulation for duct work and stainless kitchen appliances. Wooded privacy with gorgeous seasonal views and fenced pasture area for animals near the front of property. Not to mention, the convenience to Downtown Watkinsville less than 10 minutes away. Come make this 10 acre farmhouse your private oasis!
Spacious home located in desirable Oconee County. The main level features a large foyer, a formal living room, a formal dining room, a half bath, and an open kitchen to family room layout. The family room has upgraded hardwood floors, a fireplace, and coffered ceilings while the kitchen offers stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, an island, a tile backsplash, and a double oven! The large dining room and formal living room both feature brand new carpet! Upstairs you will find the huge master suite with plenty of room for a king sized bed and sitting area along with an oversized closet and master bathroom with dual vanities, garden tub, and tiled shower. Three additional bedrooms are also located upstairs with new carpet throughout!
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The open Molly plan features a great room with fireplace and an open kitchen with granite countertops and stainless appliances. There are 3 bedrooms on the main level, including the owner's suite, and a 4th bedroom upstairs. Located minutes to downtown Watkinsville and Oconee County schools!
Popular Wesley plan under construction on a large cul-de-sac lot! The home will offer 5 bedrooms and 3 full baths, a formal dining room, great room w/ fireplace, granite and stainless appliances in the kitchen, plus a covered rear porch. Located just minutes to Oconee schools, shopping and downtown Watkinsville.
Immaculate brick house in Oconee County. This well maintained subdivision gives you a community pool, tennis courts and basketball court. This house features four bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, formal living and dining room with butlers pantry. Open gourmet kitchen with large breakfast area and a family room with fireplace. Upstairs you will find a spacious owner's suite with two walk-in closets and three additional bedrooms , one of them could be a big playroom. Extended deck invites grilling and entertaining. Recently painted, new roof, new air condition units (5 year warranty) and new water heater.
This custom 6 bedroom, Craftsman style home is situated on a huge, partially wooded & private lot with mature hardwoods a plenty. Beautiful lush pastures. There are 14 acres of 4 board fencing. This property features a 200x100 fully lit arena, a custom 6 stall barn w/ wash & tack space. There are heated water troughs at every pasture. Property also has a dog bath/spa, 40x60 pole barn, a separate 3 car garage with apartment. Home has an unfinished basement. There is a lovely open kitchen, heated floors, spa, a steam shower with aroma therapy, towel warmer, & a bench seat. Beautiful customized pool house featuring a custom built fire place, by Holder Brothers, salt water pool & hot tub. Features 3 HVAC systems and water filtration. This home has it ALL.
A lovely cul-de-sac setting for this large home on 1+ acre! This 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath home boasts a split bedroom plan, eat-in kitchen, dining room, family room with wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors in main living areas, finished basement and more! The kitchen has granite counters, pantry, stainless appliances and plenty of cabinetry. The master suite features tray ceiling, double vanity, tile walk-in shower with glass door, large jetted tub, separate water closet and large walk-in closet. A large bedroom/bonus room w/ a large closet and full bathroom round out upstairs. Full den, media room, half bath, & 5th bedroom in the basement. Garage was enclosed by current owners. Deck, large fenced & wooded yard. Lots of privacy! Neighborhood pool & tennis!
This centrally located home is ready for its new owners. The home has been painted throughout and the hardwood floors have been sanded and refinished. As you walk into the home you will appreciate the floor space downstairs that include two living spaces, a dining room, half bath and access to the screened in porch and deck. The views of the backyard are very peaceful. Upstairs you will find the master suite and 3 additional bedrooms. The master suite is on the left-hand side of the home with the remaining bedrooms on the right. The home has had new sod put in last year, new mulch added recently. It is minutes away from the schools, shopping and 316. Come take a look today.
This immaculate 5 BD/4.5 BA classic ranch boasts over 3,000 sq ft on the main level & sits on a full partially finished basement. The 2.02 acre cul-de-sac lot w/ great privacy sits in the back of sought-after Summit Grove. The home features a large front yard, rocking chair front porch, oversized 3-car garage & parking pad, plus large rear deck & partially fenced level yard. The interior features an open floor plan w/ hardwood floors t/o. The main level has a large dining room w/ French doors & living room w/ built-ins open to the kitchen, breakfast area, & keeping room w/ fireplace. The master suite features trey ceilings & a spa bath w/ double vanities, separate garden tub & shower, & oversized walk-in closet. The main level features 3 additional bedrooms.
This custom built home is perfectly nestled on a private and tranquil 6.48 acres in Pembrook Estates. Features on main include soaring ceilings, foyer, formal dining room, large great room with a stack stone, wood burning fireplace, flanked by beautiful built in cabinetry, oversized kitchen, and breakfast room. Offering the rare split bedroom plan, this home features 3 bedrooms on the main level, and one extraordinary guest suite on the upper level. Two secondary bedrooms, each with en suite baths are located on the left side of the home, while the master suite is located on the right end. The enormous unfinished basement is stubbed for a full bath, and has one finished room.
This beautiful home is located in Oconee County; the #1 public school system in the state of GA! This house has 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, large den perfect for an office, fenced in-ground salt water pool, screened porch with Brazilian hardwood, new carpet, and oak hardwood floors. spacious kitchen with granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, breakfast area, and formal dining room. This house has 2+ acres and is beautifully landscaped with Bermuda and Zoysia grass! This is a must see!
Highly sought after Oconee County. Perfect tract +/- 20 acres for your very own mini-farm. Light covenants to be supplied by seller. Property is a division of a larger tract. Additional acreage with custom home and a three car garage built in 2013 could potentially be offered for sale. Subject property is home to some of the finest schools in the state. Property backs to Wild Cat Creek and is zoned Ag1.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Built by award winning JW York Homes, this floorplan has the perfect layout with every bedroom having its own bathroom! Located in desirable downtown Watkinsville, this 4 bedroom/4.5 bathroom open concept plan has FULL GUEST SUITE ON MAIN and FINISHED BONUS ROOM UPSTAIRS. Blocks from Jittery Joes coffee, Hobo cafe, Kiki's Bakeshop, Empire South clothing, Barberitos...the list goes on & on for this desirable small town location. Oconee County is one of the highest ranking school districts in the state of GA. Custom created with family and entertaining in mind, this open concept plan host spacious rooms and tons of natural light. Masterfully crafted, the quality features are evident throughout.
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Built by award winning JW York Homes, this MASTER ON MAIN new construction in downtown Watkinsville features 4 beds, 3.5 baths & finished bonus room. Blocks from Jittery Joes coffee, Hobo cafe, Kiki's Bakeshop, Empire South clothing, Barberitos...the list goes on & on for this desirable small town feel. Located in one of the highest ranking school districts in the state of GA coupled with a masterfully crafted, award winning builder, this floorplan was custom created with a beautiful double front door rocking chair front porch to welcome guests!
More pictures coming soon. Sellers have requested no showings while they finalize prep so please inquire call the listing agent to inquire about showings. Beautiful Frank Betz designed (one owner) home sitting on nearly 2 acres in Oconee County. The interior has many special features like custom cabinetry in the kitchen, slate fireplace in the living room, built in bookcases, plantations shutters, two garages and much more. There's plenty of room for your family with a Master-on -the-main, three bedrooms upstairs and another bed and bath in the daylight basement. There's a small community lake that's just beyond the wooded back yard perfect for a lazy afternoon stroll or trying to catch your dinner. Don't miss your chance to own this ideal home!
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Built by award winning JW York Homes, this southern style wrap around front porch home in downtown Watkinsville features 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms & a finished bonus room. Blocks from Jittery Joes coffee, Hobo cafe, Kiki's Bakeshop, Empire South clothing, Barberitos...the list goes on & on for this desirable small town location. Both MASTER & GUEST SUITES are on the main level! Located in one of the highest ranking school districts in the state of GA, this inviting rocking chair front porch is what clients love about this plan. Not in a subdivision & NO HOA.
A picturesque setting ten minutes from the heart of Athens. This unique property rests on three scenic acres overlooking the tranquil beauty of Barber Creek with a large water oak watching over the home. Peaceful backdrop of a constant flowing creek to enhance your every situation. Historic, 130-year-old 5 bed, 2 bath home with a freshly renovated open floor plan. Interior designer owned home, the main level was completely gutted to studs and rebuilt to include all new wiring and HVAC system. The kitchen boasts custom cabinetry by Webber Coleman with soft close doors and drawers, all the âœbells and whistlesâ, to include a pull-out coffee station. White marble countertops with double stacked ogee edge on island.
Builders personal home. Open ranch floor plan with pine floors throughout. Beautiful sunsets from large screen porch. House lights up in the evening with front and rear professional landscape lighting. Large flat yard in quaint neighborhood (Carolinas Place). Bonus room has been updated to include a full bath with walk in tile shower and separate HVAC unit. Recently updated lighting, cabinetry and paint. Central HEPA filter, duel fuel heating, two water heaters, electric and gas available for dryer, Foil-backed (techsheild) roof sheathing, 1500gal septic tank.
This open, craftsman style home has 3 bedrooms and an office on the main floor, with hardwood floors through out the main floor (excluding the bedrooms and baths). The great room and dining room feature high ceilings and heavy trim. The kitchen has custom built, stained cabinets with granite counter tops, tile backsplash and stainless steel appliances. The spacious master suite has a trey ceiling, his and her closets, and the bath has separate dual vanities with granite tops and a jetted tub and separate walk-in tiled shower. On the other side of the house are 2 more bedrooms with a jack-n-jill bath and a half bath. A large guest bedroom and bath comprise the top floor. The covered patio is the perfect outdoor living space where you can watch TV and relax.
LOOKING FOR A GORGEOUS SETTING TO CALL YOUR OWN - LOOK NO FURTHER! THIS PROPERTY HAS PRIVACY AND BEAUTIFUL ACREAGE! HOME IS LOCATED 150' FROM THE ROAD. 350' ROAD FRONTAGE . SO MANY OPTIONS - ENJOY THIS SPACIOUS MOBILE HOME, BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME OR EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR A BUILDER! PERMANENT FOUNDATION FOR THOSE NEEDING TO FINANCE. MOTIVATED SELLER - BRING YOUR OFFER!
This opulent and stunning two-story home completely renovated is on a large 2.67 acre lot in Oconee County. This house features a circular driveway, double front porches and a screened back porch, formal dining room | 2,866 |
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This has a lower GI than sugar and contains small amounts of amino acids, minerals and B vitamins.
Honey that hasn't been heat-treated contains tiny amounts of enzymes and antioxidants and has antibacterial properties but refined honey contains far fewer. It is, however, marginally higher in calories than sugar per teaspoon (though not by weight) as it's more dense, though as it's sweeter, in theory, you may eat less.
The concentrated sap of sugar maple trees, contains traces of vitamins and minerals and organic acids.Always use 100% pure maple syrup.
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The ultimate guide to sugar and sweeteners: how to limit your intake
The lowdown on everything to do with sugar including recommended intakes, what to look for on labels and what you need to know about the alternatives
Sugar is currently top of the food villain chart. It has spent the last few decades being quietly used as a filler, flavour enhancer and texture provider, particularly in lieu of fat, so turns out we've been eating more of it than we thought. Too much of anything generally is not a good thing, so here's some information that may help you recognise and find hidden sugar. Provided you can actively make a choice about when and where you eat sugar, you can be in control of how much you and your family consume.
Recommended guidelines for sugar
In July 2015, SACN (and the NHS – see box) recommended that adults should get no more than 5% of their calorie intake from free sugar (see decoder p116). Naturally occurring sugars (see decoder) are not included in these measures. This is half the amount previously recommended.
Children aged 4-6: No more than 19g (5 tsp) per day
Children aged 7-10: No more than 24g (6 tsp) per day
Children over 11 and adults: No more than 30g (7 tsp) per day
Nutritional advice is not often global unless it is provided by bodies such as WHO (World Health Organisation). Each country has its own guidelines and these can be impartial or not; large food businesses can hold considerable political sway and are rich enough to lobby government. In the UK, the SACN (Scientific Advisory Committee) advise the government's Public Health England, and there are independent charities and bodies who also give out advice such as the Royal Society for Public Health
(rsph.org.uk).
What to look for on a nutrition label
If sugars are listed as carbohydrates (of which sugars) you can work out how much a product contains:
More than 22.5g of total sugars per 100g = high
5g of total sugars or less per 100g = low
Anything in between = medium
This refers to the total amount of sugar, so you need to take a view on where the sugars have come from; they may be part of the milk, vegetables or fruit, or have been added. For example, a 125g fruit yogurt may contain 15.9g of total sugar, most of it free or added sugar, whereas if you ate 125g plain yogurt with some whole berries on top, the total amount of sugar may remain the same but none of it will be free sugar.
Sugar on labels comes under many names; sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose (anything ending in –ose), hydrolysed starch and invert sugar, corn syrup, agave, molasses and honey are all added sugars. The higher up the list of ingredients they are, the more there is of them.
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These can be complex carbohydrate starches such as cereals, bread and pasta, or simple carbohydrates such as sugar.
Free sugars
According to the WHO, this term applies to any sugar added to processed foods, home cooking or food consumed (sugar on breakfast cereal or in tea for example), plus those found in honey, syrups and natural fruit juices (juicing makes the sugar in fruit 'free').As these are added sugars, the product or dish they are added to often has little nutritional value.
Naturally occurring sugars
These can be found within milk and milk products, and fruit and vegetables whether they're fresh, dried, canned or frozen. Naturally occurring sugars still contain calories, but the foods they exist within usually have benefits such as vitamins, fibre, minerals and protein, and the sugar tends to be digested more slowly and take longer to enter the bloodstream.
Taste sweet but don't have such high amounts of calories. They can occur naturally or be synthetic. Natural substitutes for sugar include stevia, sorbitol and xylitol.Artificial sugar substitutes include aspartame, saccharin and sucralose.
Sweet, short-chain, soluble carbohydrates. Sugars include monosaccharides such as glucose (dextrose), fructose and galactose, and disaccharides such as sucrose (for eating and baking, which breaks down into glucose and fructose in your body), maltose and lactose.
Scientists increasingly believe, on the basis that so many studies are conflicting, that the effect sweeteners have on people is highly individual and may all depend on the types of gut bacteria you have. They help some people lose weight while others may gain. More worryingly, some studies show they may increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
Derived from two amino acids, this looks like white sugar but is 200x sweeter.
A natural, calorie-free sweetener from stevia plants that is 200-300x sweeter than sugar, approved for use in the EU since 2011. Truvia is a commercial brand.
Natural sweetener collected from agave plants.As it has much more fructose (about 70%), it has a lower glycemic index but the same amount of calories. It's 1.5x sweeter than white sugar.
A natural sweetener derived mainly from birch trees, this is lower in calories than sugar by 30% and has a low GI | 1,201 |
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