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On Thursday, Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rob Portman (R-OH),
co-chairs of the Senate CTE Caucus, took to the Senate floor to promote the Educating Tomorrow's Workforce Act. As we
previously reported, the legislation builds on some of the successful
components of the Perkins Act by incorporating a more rigorous definition for
programs of study, as well as an annual needs assessment of program quality
supports the goals of the Educating Tomorrow's Workforce Act, and applauds
Sens. Kaine and Portman for their continued leadership on CTE issues in Congress.
"These senators have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to the CTE community,
and we are fortunate to have them as partners on Capitol Hill," said ACTE
Executive Director LeAnn Wilson.
In his speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Kaine discussed the diversity
of the CTE system and the wide range of opportunities that CTE provides for
students. He also talked about the recent
bipartisan support for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and
urged the same cooperation in reauthorizing the Perkins Act. "It is essential
for the U.S. to invest in creating a world-class system of education across the
spectrum to ensure we have the technically skilled and well-trained workforce
we need," said Sen. Kaine. "We've got to make policy changes to our education
programs and match what we did in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
reauthorization to prepare our students for a 21st century workforce.
I very much hope that the Senate moves forward on the Carl D. Perkins Act this
year and I'm honored to have Senator Portman as the cosponsor of this
Sen. Portman highlighted the importance of
addressing the skills gap and the need to develop a qualified workforce to support
America's economic competitiveness. "In today's competitive job market, far too
many Americans are finding that they lack the skills they need to get a good
paying job," said Sen. Portman. "This legislation is a step in the right
direction toward helping those Americans seeking work to acquire the skills
they need to connect with a job." He also discussed his
recent trip to the Live Oaks campus of Great Oaks Institute of
Technology and Career Development in Milford, OH, where he hosted a
roundtable on CTE with students, employers, educators and community partners.
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Mr Reynolds had been battling Alzheimer's disease.
He was born in Rooskey, County Roscommon in 1932 and was first elected to the Dáil for the constituency of Longford/Westmeath in 1977.
He held a number of ministerial roles including finance, industry and transport.
First Minister Peter Robinson and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness on Thursday afternoon paid tribute to the former Taoiseach and passed their condolences to his family.
DUP leader Mr Robinson said: "While we were from different political traditions and did not share the same political outlook, Albert Reynolds undoubtedly contributed to helping find an exclusively peaceful way forward in Northern Ireland.
I offer my sincere condolences to his family, friends and many colleagues in the Irish RepublicPeter Robinson
I offer my sincere condolences to his family, friends and many colleagues in the Irish Republic
Peter Robinson
"I extend my sympathy to the family of Albert Reynolds on the occasion of his passing."
Mr McGuinness of Sinn Féin said: "I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. I want to offer my sympathies to his wife Kathleen and family.
"Albert was a key player in bringing peace to this country. He recognised that dialogue and negotiation was the key to opening the door to peace, and had the courage and tenacity to see it through. In doing so he was instrumental to building a better future for us all."
Mr Reynolds succeeded Charles Haughey as the leader of the Fianna Fáil Party in 1992 and oversaw two political coalitions as Taoiseach until 1994.
One of the late Taoiseach's main achievements was the progress he made in advancing the Northern Ireland peace process.
On 15 December 1993, Mr Reynolds signed the Joint Downing Street Declaration in London with the British Prime Minister of the time John Major.
In a heartfelt message, the former Prime Minister described him as a friend and a politician deserving of his place in history.
Albert Reynolds was at the heart of the success of the Irish peace process.Former Prime Minister John Major
Albert Reynolds was at the heart of the success of the Irish peace process.
Former Prime Minister John Major
"Without Albert, it may never have started - or might have stalled at an early stage - and Ireland, North and South, might still be enduring the violence that scarred daily lives for so long," Mr Major said.
"Albert cared about achieving peace and took risks to deliver a future for Ireland that many thought was impossible. He deserves an honoured place in the history of his country.
"To me, he became a friend I cherish and will miss."
Mr Reynolds was also instrumental in the securing of the IRA ceasefire in 1994 - a role for which he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
He stood down as Taoiseach and party leader on 16 November 1994 but stayed on as a TD in Dáil Éireann until 2002.
He is survived by his wife Kathleen and seven children.
Very sad to hear that former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds has died. Deep sympathy to Kathleen & family.Albert was a Peacemaker. #Appreciation— Martin McGuinness (@M_McGuinness_SF) August 21, 2014
Very sad to hear that former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds has died. Deep sympathy to Kathleen & family.Albert was a Peacemaker. #Appreciation
— Martin McGuinness (@M_McGuinness_SF) August 21, 2014
Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has expressed his condolences to the family of the former Taoiseach.
"I'm really sorry to hear of the death of Albert Reynolds. Albert acted on the North when it mattered," he said.
"My thoughts are with Kathleen and all the Reynolds family. May he rest in peace."
Ulster Unionist party leader Mike Nesbitt also passed his condolences to Mr Reynold's family.
"To an extent Albert Reynolds and John Major are the forgotten men of the peace process," he said.
"Certainly, in replacing Charles J Haughey as Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds brought a new dynamic to Anglo-Irish relations, and made things possible, including the 1993 Downing Street Declaration.
"It is a time for Unionists to pass their condolences to the Reynolds family, and stand back to allow the Republic to mourn the passing of a Prime Minister."
He demonstrated integrity, determination and great courage in his pursuit of peace at a time when it was so necessary.Former SDLP leader John Hume
He demonstrated integrity, determination and great courage in his pursuit of peace at a time when it was so necessary.
Former SDLP leader John Hume
Current SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said that the former Irish leader will be remembered "as a man dedicated to peace in the face of those continuing to use violence".
While Northern Ireland Secretary of State Theresa Villiers said: "I heard with great sadness of the death of Albert Reynolds.
"He will be long remembered for his courageous and imaginative contributions to the peace process.
"His work, in close partnership with John Major and the British Government, was critical to its success. We all owe him deep gratitude for the role he played."
PM:sad to hear of death of Albert Reynolds. Partnership with Sir John Major led to '93 Downing St declaration: landmark in NI peace process— UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) August 21, 2014
PM:sad to hear of death of Albert Reynolds. Partnership with Sir John Major led to '93 Downing St declaration: landmark in NI peace process
— UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov) August 21, 2014
Current Taoiseach Enda Kenny paid a glowing tribute to the former leader's time in office.
"Albert Reynolds brought an energy and drive to the development of business and economic growth during his tenure in office as Minister for Industry and as Minister for Finance," he said.
"As Taoiseach, he played an important part in bringing together differing strands of political opinion in Northern Ireland and as a consequence made an important contribution to the development of the peace process which eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement."
Also paying tribute was Irish President Michael D Higgins, who said: "I have learned with great sadness of the death of former Taoiseach and a member of the Council of State, Albert Reynolds. I wish to express my deepest sympathy to Kathleen and the entire Reynolds family.
"Albert Reynolds will be remembered as a most dynamic Cabinet Minister and a Taoiseach with courage, who made a very important contribution to the dialogue which led to the Northern Ireland peace process."
Taoiseach Albert Reynolds with Gerry Adams and John Hume pictured during a historic meeting in Dublin in 1994.
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A former Lansing pediatric dentist has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a child patient more than a decade ago.
An Ingham County jury returned guilty verdicts Friday against 65-year-old Wendell Racette on five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and 10 counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Racette faces up to life in prison when he's sentenced on Sept. 19.
Prosecutors say Racette sexually assaulted the boy numerous times between 1996 and 2000 at his former office in Lansing.
The boy was between the ages of 5 and 10 when the assaults occurred. He came forward in 2010.
The Lansing State Journal reports (http://on.lsj.com/Rb9Hnl) it's the second time Racette stood trial on the charges. The first trial ended with a hung jury in December.


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Well, well, well. Wild Walla Walla Wine Woman's website waxes over a sparkler in "Walla Walla Wine Word for Dummies: Weekly Wine Word Wednesdays."
That's right. One recent Wednesday, the word du jour was "frizzante," Italian for "fizzy, foamy and frothy = frizzy = Frizzante!"
The words of the day come courtesy of Catie McIntyre Walker, self-described toilet bowl scrubber and CEO of WWW Wine Woman.
Frizzantes are sparkling Italian wines with small bubbles, she said. "They offer a refreshing crisp tingle while helping to subdue the sweetness of a wine, especially with Moscato d'Asti. Frizzante wines are also considered to be slightly less effervescent than Champagne. So, if you find Champagne to be too "fizzy" for your tastes, frizzante wines may be your answer."
For more from Catie, see wildwallawallawinewoman.blogspot.com.
Washington State Assessment Mathematics Data Review selected Homelink teacher Kate Venneri to participate on the Grades 3-5 Committee.
She and other educators around Washington state will review data from scoring pilot items and evaluating them for future use in the Washington Comprehensive Assessment Program.
The work requires team members to understand what the new Washington State K-12 Mathematics Standards look like in a mathematics classroom.
Spearheading a fundraiser for juvenile arthritis, Allison Wanichek and friends raised awareness and $5,000 for research.
On July 26 she and a crew of students from Prospect Point and Green Park Elementary and Pioneer and Garrison Middle schools operated a lemonade stand and bake sale benefit for three hours at Walla Walla Builders Supply.
They were joined in the effort by Madison Putnam, a student in the Spokane School District.
Madison and Allison became friends while attending an arthritis family camp last year, according to the Walla Walla Public Schools Week in Review.
Allison was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in her knees and ankles in 2011 at Seattle Children's Hospital.
Allison and friends last year brought in $3,000 for the foundation.
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Use of Roflumilast to Prevent Exacerbations in Fibrotic Sarcoidosis Patients (REFS)
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Pulmonary sarcoidosis patients with fibrosis often develop recurrent episodes of bronchitis. These can lead to worsening of disease for both the short and long term.
Roflumilast has been shown to reduce the number of acute bronchitis episodes in patients with COPD.
Drugs similar to Roflumilast have been shown to help sarcoidosis. The current study is to determine if Roflumilast will reduce number of episodes of bronchitis and help fibrotic sarcoidosis.
Drug: Roflumilast
Drug: Placebo
Phase 4
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Use of Roflumilast to Prevent Exacerbations in Fibrotic Sarcoidosis Patients (REFS)
- Reduction in number of episodes of acute exacerbation [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Collect number of episodes of exacerbtion in one year
- Change in FVC [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Changes in FVC over time of the study
- Changes in quality of life [ Time Frame: One year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Measure QOL using Sarcoidosis health question, fatigue assessment score, SGRQ, SF-36 Leicester cough questionnaire
- Safety [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]recard adverse events
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|Study Start Date:
|April 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2015
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|April 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Roflumilast
Drug: Roflumilast
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
Placebo one a day
Other Name: Placebo
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This will be a multicenter, double blind, placebo controlled study. Patients would be randomized 1:1 to receive either roflumilast 500 mcg per day or placebo added to their current treatment regimen for twelve months.
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|18 Years to 70 Years
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with sarcoidosis as defined by the American Thoracic Society criteria
- Patients with an FEV1/FVC ratio of less than 80%
- Patients with fibrosis on chest x-ray and/or high resolution CT scan.
- Patients have had at least two exacerbations of their sarcoidosis in the prior year. An exacerbation is defined as an acute event requiring increase of prednisone with or without use of antibiotics.
- Patients must be on a stable dose of corticosteroids and other agents for their sarcoidosis at least 4 weeks prior to first visit.
- For patients on prednisone alone, the dose has to be the equivalent of 5 mg prednisone a day. For those on other immunosuppressants, they can be on any dose of prednisone.
- Patients must be between ages of 18 and 70 years of age.
- Willing to take prednisone at increased dosage for exacerbations of their sarcoidosis.
- Patients must be able to provide written informed consent to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with known hypersensitivity to theophylline or pentoxifylline will not be eligible. Patients with dose dependent nausea from these drugs may still participate in the trial.
- Patients will not be able to take theophylline or pentoxifylline during the time of the study. They will be allowed to take drugs for sarcoidosis including prednisone, methotrexate, azathioprine, leflunomide, hydroxychloroquine, thalidomide, infliximab, adalimumab, and rituximab.
- Patients with serum creatinine of greater than 3 mg/dL
- Patients with moderate or severe liver disease as defined Child Pugh class 3 or 4.
- Patients with unstable cardiac disease
- Patients with non cutaneous malignancy treated in the past two years.
- Patients unable to complete the questionnaires and six minute walks detailed in the study.Women of child bearing potential unable to use adequate birth control as determined by the investigator.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01830959
|Contact: Robert P Baughman, MD
|Contact: Rebecca Ingledue
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|University of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45267
|Contact: Robert P Baughman, MD 513-584-5225 email@example.com
|Contact: Rebecca Ingledue 513-584-6252
|Principal Investigator: Robert P Baughman, MD
|Study Chair:
|Robert P Baughman, MD
|University of Cincinnati
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|Responsible Party:
|Robert P Baughman, Professor of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01830959 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|REFS-1, WIRB Pr #: 20130426
|Study First Received:
|April 10, 2013
|Last Updated:
|April 1, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by University of Cincinnati:
Sarcoidosis, fibrosis, bronchiectasis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphatic Diseases
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
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SYRIA – AT 11:04 A.M. ET: The casualty figures from Syria are escalating faster than the media can count.
COMMENT: Please note the deep anguish of "human rights" organizations, and the UN itself. Both spend most of their time wringing their hands over Israeli "settlements" in areas of the West Bank that knowledgeable observers say will probably go to Israel in a peace agreement anyway.
But with predictions of 100,000 deaths before much longer, something, as they say, has got to give. The Middle East is aflame, Obama is leading from behind, and our influence has become almost irrelevant. Our incoming secretary of state predicted that the butcher of Damascus, President Assad, would become a great reformer.
And these are the headaches we know about. Oh, do you remember the Iranian nuclear-bomb program? I think it's on the president's iPad somewhere.
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Recently, I was captivated by the movie "Zero Dark Thirty" about the CIA and Seal Team that killed Osama bin Laden. I was fascinated with the personality types that would choose such government and military jobs that would place one's life in that level of danger. I also wondered what the experience would be like to transition from such adrenaline-filled jobs to ordinary life at home. Life is full of much smaller scale transitions from stimulating to more routine phases: dating to marriage, high-school/college to young professional, pre and post parenthood, vacation traveling/returning home, work/weekends.
My mind then wandered to thinking about the transition from active alcoholism to sobriety—two separate existences. Many people in early sobriety report that sober life feels "grey" and even boring at times. Alcohol has such a powerful effect on the pleasure center of the brain, that it can take to time for enjoyable activities to have the same effect as they once had. I personally felt that alcohol had been the stimulating reward for conforming to life as a student or young professional. I continue to wrestle with romantic thoughts about the "good ole' days" and how life felt so spontaneous and exciting when I was drinking (along with impulsive and dangerous).


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Apparently Floyd Mayweather Has A Woman Bathe Him Every Day
I'm not really sure what's weirder here: Floyd Mayweather being bathed by a woman, that this apparently happens every day, or that there's some voyeuristic freak getting his jollies by videotaping the entire situation. Such is the bizarre alternate reality in which the Money Man lives.
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I have forgotten how I first met John. It was in 1975, I think, when I was living in Birmingham ŌĆō in the attic flat in Moseley, which Hunt Emerson inherited when I left for London. I had already put out about 10 issues of FT (then called The News). A hippie visitor, name long forgotten, had travelled with people who knew John and he told me this when talk turned to leys and I began praising View Over Atlantis. He gave me JohnŌĆÖs address in Bath and, after a short correspondence in which John said nice things about The News, he amazed me by suggesting we should do a book together. Or perhaps I (also?) met John though Paul Screeton when the latter encouraged me to start The News? No matter! Knowing John filled your life with such moments, in which unknown forces seem to be moving time and space to square unseen circles.
John and I worked well together on our joint books, each fleshing out our allotted chapters and passing the manuscript to the other for changes and enlargements. Eventually, he invited me down to Bath to finalise some chapters of Phenomena. He immediately impressed with his old-school gentle┬Łmanly manner. I remember one afternoon at 11 Miles Buildings ŌĆō as Henrietta Moraes wrote in her memoir of those times: ŌĆ£[John] always seemed to live at a number 11 somewhere or otherŌĆØ ŌĆō full of people coming and going and there he was, on his sofa, typewriter on lap, bashing out a chapter revision, a calm centre amid the encroaching chaos. I admired his ability to concentrate. It was all in his head; no hesitat┬Łions, no pauses to check references, no rewritesŌĆ" channell┬Łing it through his pecking fingers.
The advertising for Phenomena carried the memorable strapline: ŌĆ£As phenomenologists, we accept everything; we believe nothing absolutely; we do not explain.ŌĆØ How strange that must have seemed to fellow forteans and JohnŌĆÖs faithful followers alike at that time, yet it faithfully encapsul┬Łates both FortŌĆÖs philosophy and JohnŌĆÖs; for both went right over the heads of contemporary authorities and theorists and directly argued from the ineluct┬Łable evidence itself.
I also believe John was attracted to FortŌĆÖs anti-authoritarian and non-hectoring tone. For Fort, authorities, like all experts, could always be countered by equal and opposite authoritiesŌĆ" and their definitions and categories are never quite as absolute as they like to think they are; they are (to paraphrase Fort) always relative to something else which, of course, is relative to something else and so on. It is only at their extremes that phenomena are sublimated by or subsumed into something whole and indivisible. Again, both Fort and Michell shared an almost ├"sthetic sense of the interrelat┬Łionships of all things, only JohnŌĆÖs exploration involved a geomantic matrix called ŌĆśthe canonŌĆÖ, in which relationships were constrained by universal constants and proport┬Łions. Where John was fascinated by the key problem of ŌĆśsquaring the circleŌĆÖ, Fort noted how much of scientific reasoning depended upon circular reasoning. A favourite example was the rule that strata were dated by the foss┬Łils in them, as fossils, likewise, were dated by the strata in which they were found.
It seemed to me as though John, like Fort, came out of nowhere, aglow with his vision, illuminating the land and people around him. Similarly, both began with an expression of their core philosophy: Fort in three chapters and John in three books. JohnŌĆÖs subsequent writings and art continued to explore the way the Sacred interacts with the Profane ŌĆō what Fort called ŌĆ£the universal in the localŌĆØ ŌĆō following examples from different walks of life. With his vision of Atlantis, how could he do otherwise?
I asked John recently whether, back in the late Sixties, he had his own moment of blinding revelation. No, he replied, it came gradually as Flying Saucer Vision led to View Over Atlantis, which brought him to City of Revelation. He mentioned a growing need to question instit┬Łutionalised authority, such as the strident certainty about Darwinism. Where he lost faith in the didactic science inspired by Darwin, he found it in the pragmatic observ┬Łations of Watkins, Gerald Hawkins (who ŌĆśdecodedŌĆÖ Stonehenge in 1965) and Alexander Thom (whose 1967 survey of hundreds of megalithic sites established the ŌĆśmegalithic yardŌĆÖ as a standard prehistoric measurement). He also acknow┬Łledged the influence of the occultist Israel Regardie, especially in the gematrial and numerological relat┬Łionship between man and temple. Significantly, Regardie was passionate that such knowledge should be public, not secret, ŌĆ£so that it may not be lost to mankind. For it is the heritage of every man and woman ŌĆō their spiritual birthright.ŌĆØ
For John, PlatoŌĆÖs Atlantis became a symbol for the internal revelation of a cosmic blueprint. However it happened, John was switched on during intense periods of scholarly meditation. ŌĆ£I tend to work in cycles of obsessive study and total relaxation,ŌĆØ he said in an interview in 1972. ŌĆ£I wrote City of Revelation in almost two years of near total solitude and intense study in Bath. It was a time of very high involvement that produced the work I set much the highest store by.ŌĆØ Most of JohnŌĆÖs subsequent work radiated from here, diverse in form and subject yet always true to his vision and underpinned by the canon.
Under JohnŌĆÖs influence, his publisher (Michael Balfour of Garnstone Press) began to republish other canonical works on old stone crosses and old roads; besides the essential works by Eitel (Feng Shui), Watkins (The Old Straight Track), and Stirling (The Canon), these included a memoir of Watkins by his elderly son Allen, and the BordsŌĆÖ pioneering 1972 study Mysterious Britain. Under his own imprint, West Country Editions, John reissued a study of Bladud, the Druid ruler of Bath ŌĆ£who tried to flyŌĆØ. As well as his more polit┬Łical campaigning, JohnŌĆÖs intellect branched out into the gladiatorial arena of Shakespeare scholarship, poetic phon┬Łemes, HitlerŌĆÖs after-dinner rants and the lives of numerous English eccentrics. Somehow, he still found time to conduct his own survey of the old stones at LandŌĆÖs End, no doubt putting his earlier life as an estate agent to gainful use.
There was no particular moment to which we can point and cry, ŌĆ£It began here!ŌĆØ The roots might be tangled, but then the ground was very fertile. In 1955, an ex-RAF pilot, Tony Wedd, attended a lecture by Desmond Leslie on the experiences of George Adamski, the early confidant of Venusian visitors. Wedd, already a fan of Alfred Watkins, was probably the first to associate leys with Aim├® MichelŌĆÖs plotted tracks of UFOs (in his 1958 study Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, Michel called them ŌĆśorthoteniesŌĆÖ). Wedd went on to found the Star Fellowship to pursue ŌĆśpsychic ley huntingŌĆÖ and contact with the Space Brothers and his acolytes ŌĆō particularly Jimmy Goddard, Philip Hesselton and Ken Rogers ŌĆō all actively proselytised the new hybrid vision. We know that John attended talks by both Wedd and Jimmy Goddard in the mid-Sixties, as did a young Paul Devereux. Goddard, Hesselton and Ken Rogers revived WatkinsŌĆÖs Ley Hunter as a news┬Łletter before, in 1969, passing the torch to Paul Screeton, who handed it to Devereux in 1976. Both Rogers and Screeton were keen early supp┬Łorters of The News (the young FT).
On the literary side, the roots were just as complex. In the 1960s, historian and polemicist John Nicholson was publishing broadsides from several radical bookshops in Cambridge under the ├"gis of ŌĆśThe Land of CokaygneŌĆÖ. He and Cecilia Boggis first met John Michell in the summer of 1970. It was their shared enjoyment and connoisseurship of 18th-century pamphleteering that led to their cooperation in jointly publishing MichellŌĆÖs series of Radical Traditionalist Papers, typeset and printed by Cecilia behind the shop. The paperback of Feng Shui (ŌĆ£then unheard of, now an industry!ŌĆØ) foll┬Łowed, leading to The Fanatic (with poet-actor Heathcote Williams and Bill Levy of the infamous Suck) and Heretic Visions, many laid out by graphic designer Richard Adams. Together, they railed against the metre (as Nicholson calls it: ŌĆ£a basic unit of measure hostile to ManŌĆØ) and the execution of Black Power leader Michael X (in 1975), and defended poetic license against a charge of blasphemy.
John Nicholson first met Tony Roberts at SohoŌĆÖs SF and fantasy bookshop Dark They Were And Golden Eyed, owned by Derek ŌĆśBramŌĆÖ StokesŌĆÖ, whom I first met through Steve Moore. That shop was to be FTŌĆÖs official address between 1978 and 1981; before that we had shared a PO Box with Paul DevereuxŌĆÖs Ley Hunter. It was also where Paul Sieveking first came aboard FT. For many of those years, Cecilia typeset FT until the advent of desktop publishing. Richard Adams was instrumental in FTŌĆÖs success in those days; his design advice was invaluable and he guided our cover design from 1979 to 1993. In fact, Richard and I actually studied at Birmingham Art School at the same time in the late Sixties, but we didnŌĆÖt knowingly meet until much later in London, through our mutual friendship with John Michell when we were working on Phenomena.
It was a remarkable era, the decade straddling the Sixties and Seventies. It was, in Gary LachmanŌĆÖs words, ŌĆ£a time that with each year moves deeper and deeper into mythŌĆØ. Mostly, though, it was a time of synthesis and it took place against a m├"lstrom of new things in art and music, drama and drugs. In that upheaval ŌĆō social, psycho┬Łlogical and eschato┬Łlogical ŌĆō John Michell was a calm centre, wise as well as knowledgeable, always thoughtful (which is frequently taken for absent-mindedness) and with piercing eyes that had seen ŌĆśotherŌĆÖ, more splendid things.
Those of us who were there are grateful to have been contemporary with a genuine prophet.
John F Michell, writer, Platonist and fortean, born London 9 Feb 1933, educ. Eton & Trinity College, Cambridge; died Stoke Abbott, West Dorset 24 April 2009, aged 76.


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A post about former Nugget Chris "Birdman" Andersen become a recluse after he was victimized in a bizarre double-Catfish scheme inspired sympathy, regret and anger from readers. Here's a comment that includes elements of all three.
Last year around this time, as members of the Miami Heat were embroiled in what turned out to be a second consecutive NBA-championship run, we reported that an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation targeting Chris "Birdman" Andersen was still open a full year after authorities had raided hi ... More >>
Yesterday's post about Chris "Birdman" Andersen being cleared of wrongdoing related to an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation, and revelations that he'd been doubled-Catfished in an online scheme, brought out fans confident he'd been innocent all along. Here's one example.
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Former Denver Nugget Chris Andersen, aka the Birdman, has been a major part of the Miami Heat's success in the NBA playoffs to date thanks in part to a 15-15 consecutive basket streak that remained alive last night despite the Heat's loss to the Pacers -- because he didn't attempt a shot. Such achie ... More >>
Update: The Denver Nuggets have reportedly cut Chris "Birdman" Andersen and signed free agent Anthony Randolph, most recently of the Minnesota Timberwolves, to fill his slot on the roster. Andersen was once among the most popular Nuggets. However, that was before he was embroiled in what was initia ... More >>
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Last night, the Nuggets beat the Spurs in San Antonio for their third straight win -- great news given their pre-All-Star-break swoon. But in the game's most memorable moment, Nugget Chris Andersen definitely wasn't the victor. In the first quarter, veteran Spur Tim Duncan smacks in the face with th ... More >>
Ty Lawson.If you're not a hardcore NBA fan in Denver you might not have noticed that the league hasn't played any games yet. There was this whole thing about millionaires and billionaires arguing about how to chop up a few billion dollars. A quick synopsis: it was boring and tedious and then ... More >>
The NBA lockout was like a pregnancy. There was a lot of irrational screaming and finger-pointing, and of course, labor pains. And the entire time, all anyone wanted to see was the baby. In this case, the baby is a season, which was born very early Saturday morning and appears to be alive and health ... More >>
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Ty Lawson.At this point, it's all but certain that the Denver Nuggets will meet the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the NBA playoffs -- which made last night's game between the squads doubly interesting. And while the Nugs lost 101-94, there were a number of positive signs from a ... More >>
Video below.One of the many Carmelo Anthony trade scenarios would have brought Utah's Andrei Kirilenko to Denver. Obviously, that deal never happened -- and good thing given Kirilenko's missed buzzer beater from two inches away last night, which handed the Nugs a 103-101 win. In our post yes ... More >>
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Large photos below.At last, Chris "Birdman" Andersen is fully healed and back on the floor, and he made a huge difference in the Nuggets' 106-89 spanking of Golden State last night. To celebrate his return, we've collected a batch o' photos from the Birdman's Facebook page, including some ch ... More >>
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Drew Litton would have drawn Birdman's hair taller if it had been a bigger glass.A short-cut to Denver's corner of the blogosphere. As a bonus to AJ Vicens' analysis of last night's Nuggets win over Oklahoma City, the folks at 5280 include a video showing how you can rock a "faux-hawk" like ... More >>
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It seemed like a good idea at the time. As Mrs Bubbles Champagne-Charlie sank her teeth into a rum baba at an Edinburgh restaurant, she made the most dreadful face.
'This,' she said, in between grimacing, looking like Delia Smith with constipation, 'is not what a rum baba should taste like.'
So as we toured around the Scottish capital in an open-topped bus with the Putters, the Champagne-Charlies and Mrs Bancroft, the Enchanted Village Rum Baba Contest was duly launched.
And here we are now, at Mrs Bancroft's, with a raft of rum babas to test. I haven't entered the competition because my competitiveness is such that I won't enter anything I don't stand a chance of winning. So I've done pears in cider instead.
At our blind tasting, the fragrant Mrs Putter's rum babas stand head and shoulders above the rest, as far as looks go. We have a nibble on Pelly Sheepwash's entry and then try the ones made by Bubbles.
He is crowned the Rum Baba King and then we all settle down to watch Homeland and I resist letting slip the ending, having succumbed to reading the plot synopsis on the internet. Only six more episodes to go. And a rum baba with each one.
That's about it.
Love Maddie x
Monday, 2 April 2012
Mrs Bancroft and the forty rum babas
Posted by Maddie Grigg at 8:01 pm
Labels: Delia Smith, Edinburgh, Homeland, pears in cider, rum babas
4 comments:
Rum Babas... haven't had one of those in years.ReplyDelete
By the way, Maddie, I thought I would let you know that I can now buy cornish pasties at my local supermarket here in MInnesota, USA. They aren't Ginsters, but at least you know that if Mr Grigg ever travels to the mid-western states at any time, he can find all the comforts of home right here.
I'm glad you're still writing.
Oh Dave! You're alive! So good to hear from you again. Hope you're still writing somewhere, somehow.ReplyDelete
Homeland and Rum Babas at the same time sounds perfect to me Maddie.ReplyDelete
It was only yesterday I was indulging in a Rum Baba in a cafe - it was quite miserly when compared to those wonderful examples you've featured.ReplyDelete
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|23 Jan 2012
Computer randomly shuts down and then back in .
My computer randomly shuts down and in 3 seconds it starts again .
It sometimes shuts down on windows starting screen .
Please help .
Last week i had a lan with my friend in his place and my computer didnt shutdown and if i went at home first thing was shut down if i turned it on !! O.o
And my Graphic card Ati radeon hd 5700 is 56C at home and by my friend it was 36-39C if doing nothing . But i think its not overheating bec my computer shut down even if i it has been on for like 10 seconds or so .
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Please provide this info even though you're not experiencing BSOD's: http://www.sevenforums.com/crashes-d...tructions.html
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Nope, right place. It's just that we need the information that that link asks for. With it we stand a good chance of figuring out the problem. Without it, there's nothing easy to do.
Without it, here's what to do:
1st - Run the Memory, Hard Drive, and Anti-Malware diagnostics at this link: Hardware Diags
2nd - Visit the PC Manufacturer's website and update ALL drivers and programs. Then update any devices and programs that you've added since getting the computer.
3rd - Then visit Windows Update and get all Windows Updates. If you don't have Service Pack 1, get it. Then get any remaining updates. There should be 70 or more updates after installing SP1.
4th - if it's still BSOD'ing, type up a list of installed programs and installed devices and post them with your next post. We'll tell you if any are known BSOD causes.
5th - run the remaining diagnostics at the Hardware Diags page
6th - try the Hardware Stripdown process if there are unresolved hardware issues: Hardware Troubleshooting Via System Stripdown
7th - point a house fan into the case if you suspect overheating.
The problem with the above list is that you don't know what the bad things are and what aren't bad things. That's where our experience comes in. Unfortunately, if you forget to include one bad thing, the BSOD's could continue despite our best efforts.
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i will do thoses tests tomorrow and i need somekind of program to open them ?
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Tests in the first step? You'll need CD's and a program to burn ISO files to disk so that they'll boot (it's not just a copy). Info on that is in the links>
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|24 Jan 2012
Okey i havent done the tests but i am trying my friends Ups . no shut downs atm.
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|24 Jan 2012
Okey i started to play and it shuted down . So i think its overheating? bec if i open the window then my computer gets some cold wind and i can play.
i did gpu stress test and i made it with 94C at the end
my computer specs:
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System Model: H55H-M
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Memory: 4096MB RAM
Power supply: 500W (is it too low ?)
Graphic Card: Ati Radeon HD 5700
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GPU stress test at 94ºC is too hot! Please investigate the cooling of your video card.
Since opening a window helps, then you'll have to look at all the cooling for your system (CPU, video card, memory, chipset/motherboard, hard drive, etc)
500 watt PSU is usually OK - as long as you haven't added too much to the system.
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where i can watch my temps ? for motherboard , hard drive and memory ?
Graphic temp is GPU: 52C (when doing nothing)
Cpu: 0 core : 37C, 1 core: 37C ( when doing nothing)(i use program Speedfan4,45 for that but i cant see other cores.when i am playing its like 65-70 C i saw in google that it can damage my cpu?)
Motherboard: dont know
Memory:dont know
if u look picture of my motherboard then u see where my GraphicCard is and i have a creative soundcard under it and there is like 1 Cm between them so graphic card cant get enough air . i think .
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Preparing for winter. It's a rite of passage here in New England. Finding those snow shovels you've buried somewhere in the shed. Hauling out that bucket of sand that's been sprouting a patch of grass over the last three seasons. And above all, making sure that the snow blower is ready to go before the snow flies. These are all tasks best completed in the fall – while you can still feel your fingers and before icicles form on the tip of your nose. You did complete all that preparation ahead of time this year, didn't you?
Of course, you did. But not I! While I successfully uncovered the shovels and the sand in November, it was only a few days ago – as we sit here in January – that I rolled out the snow blower. And only because we were expecting the third real snowstorm of this early winter – in less than 24 hours. I'm a slow learner.
Now mind you, this snow blower is an old friend of mine. Twenty years ago, he entered our lives on a high note, when my neighbor and I chipped in $1,200 to purchase the old guy together. It was a shiny red Toro, with posi-traction wheels, five forward speeds, two reverse speeds, and an assortment of other manly options. It could slice a 24-inch wide path through the heaviest snow, as easily as a hot knife through butter. We even built a little shed for it, a veritable masterpiece of architecture constructed entirely of pallets that straddled both our properties. It was a beautiful machine. The only thing it lacked was a name. We just called him…"The Snow Blower". That had a nice ring to it.
Several years into our ownership of The Snow Blower, a crisis developed. As popular as it was with us, that snow blower was even more popular with the local mouse population. Without even a discussion about rental fees, a family of the little rodents took up residence under the engine cover. They built a nest packed so tightly with grass clippings and assorted materials from several stuffed animals in the shed that the engine overheated and threw a rod during that first snowstorm. I finished moving the eighteen inches of snow from that storm with my trusty shovel.
The next day, we hauled the machine down to our local Toro dealer, where they put in a brand new engine – for only $400. However, that new engine wasn't nearly as powerful as the old one. We were never again able to blast snow twenty feet across the driveway. More often than not, it just dribbled out the chute. So much for replacement parts… And we had now put $1,600 total into our $1,200 snow blower.
Of course, we only encountered mechanical problems whenever we really needed to use the snow blower. Like the year we sheared off a cotter pin, which prevented the auger from turning. A thirty-cent part that again left me shoveling fifteen inches of snow, during that year's first snowstorm. A few years later, one of the belts gave way – and we spent four hour pulling the thing apart to find and change that belt. This was of course, after an hour spent trying to locate an open hardware store the day of that 20-inch blizzard – which I ended up shoveling by hand too.
And then, my neighbor move away. Our deal was that whoever remained would pay the other guy $300, for his partial ownership in the snow blower. Just a few more bucks of mine sucked into that cursed machine. But now I owned it all by myself. There wasn't really any consolation in that…
For the next ten years, since the snow blower was more a pain than not, I pretty much shoveled the driveway by hand – all two hundred feet of it and all uphill. I rationalized that it was good exercise. Usually, if my neighbor across the road saw me struggling during a particularly brutal storm, he'd run his snow plow down the driveway, saving me about two hours of work in just under two minutes. That's what good neighbors do. But I always hated to impose on him, because he was already busy enough plowing out six family properties each and every storm.
And that's why, this weekend, when we were expecting up to a foot of snow, I thought the morning before the storm would be as good a time as any to get the snow blower ready once again. I dragged it out of the shed (a new Rubbermaid shed these days; the 'pallet palace' had long ago given its life to the carpenter ants) and set it up in front of the garage, so it would be ready to just zip down the driveway next morning.
But alas, as I stood out there in the five-degree temperature, alternating between the electric starter and a few hundred manual pulls of the engine, it became apparent that the old boy wasn't going to turn over for me that day. And maybe never again. The engine coughed a few times and sparked up once, but it just didn't catch. I fooled with the choke, the key, the spark plug, the fuel regulator – every gauge and lever on the thing. All to no avail. It was almost as if the old boy was saying "Look, I'm old. Just leave me here to die." So I covered it with a tarp that night, leaving it outside, where I'd probably pulled its starter cord for the last time.
Sure enough, our three-day storm whipped in that night. And I got out there with the shovel, making a first pass at shoveling the driveway by hand. When darkness fell, I went out to shovel again, as the snow continued to fall. And again the next day. Now shoveling is great exercise, but truthfully, I'm getting just a bit too old for this crap.
Sometime next spring would probably be an appropriate time for me to fit the ol' snow blower up for a coffin and bury it deep. And then invest in a plow or a new snow blower to get me through the next decade or so. Because the only plowing I'd like to do after that is to plow my feet in the sand on some sun-drenched Caribbean beach – and enjoy winter without snow for a change. Until a hurricane blows through…
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Ryan Theriot, who had clutch hits in the National League Championship Series, says he wanted to finish his career with the Cubs. | Mark Humphrey~AP
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SAN FRANCISCO — As the Giants took the field for batting practice Wednesday before Game 1 of the World Series at AT&T Park, former Cub Ryan Theriot and some teammates marveled at a media throng so big they had to sidestep cameras, lighting equipment and moving bodies just to get to the batting cage.
One of the Giants' coaches looked around and said to Theriot: ''Could you imagine if this game was playing at Wrigley Field right now?''
Of course, he could imagine it. That's all he did for two years as the starting shortstop for division winners in Chicago in 2007 and 2008 before team president Crane Kenney froze the payroll budget and sent the Cubs into a competitive decline that stands at four years and counting. But the only thing Theriot's counting these days is World Series rings.
What might have been with the Cubs and an unwanted trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2010 after Starlin Castro took his job at short aren't any easier to remember two years later.
''I wanted to finish my career there,'' Theriot said. ''I wanted to win a championship in Chicago, and I was very upset about leaving. …But it's funny how things work out.''
As the World Series shifts to Detroit for Game 3 on Saturday, the onetime fan favorite at Wrigley Field is only two victories away from individually matching in 13 months the Cubs' entire haul of World Series titles in 110 years of trying.
''It's a really special thing,'' said Theriot, the Game 7 starting second baseman for Tony La Russa's Cardinals when they beat the Rangers last year.
''My years in Chicago were awesome and taught me so much about the game. I'm fortunate that I've been able to go to a couple of teams that are in this position. It could have easily worked out different ways.''
This year alone has taken several sharp turns for Theriot, who beat out close friend and Louisiana neighbor Mike Fontenot for a roster spot in spring training ("that was tough; it stinks") and then spent much of the season as the Giants' starting second baseman.
Until the Giants traded for the Rockies' Marco Scutaro in July to fill in for injured Pablo Sandoval at third. Two weeks later, Sandoval was back, and Theriot was on the bench as the hot-hitting Scutaro took over at second.
Theriot started only twice after Aug. 15.
''This is the guy that's got the most hits in the National League since the All-Star break and just played great defense,'' said Theriot, who came off the bench twice in late innings against the Cardinals in NL Championship Series wins to deliver run-scoring hits. ''You can't say enough about what he's done on the field. So that was an easy pill for me to swallow. That one was OK.''
If anything, Theriot might have gained a championship perspective over these unlikely pair of rides into deep October, embracing what guys like Scutaro and newcomer Hunter Pence have done for a tight-knit San Francisco clubhouse — and embracing his role within that.
''Obviously, I'd like to be in there every day,'' he said, ''but there's give and take. And because of that give, shoot, I'm sitting here in a World Series again, two years in a row.''


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