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Come, visit us - we are the Welsh Congregation of New York City, and we invite all, the Welsh and all those who are interested in our country and our culture. Once a month we gather at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for worship, song and socializing.
Our services are held in both languages, so don't worry if you are not a Welsh speaker.
Worship is led by Dr. Philip Rutherford Newell, who delivers his inspiring sermons in English. Welsh speakers give readings and lead in song. We are lucky enough to have Mary Nelson, one of New York's most gifted organists as our Director of Music, providing joyful music.
We organize annual events including a Christmas Service of Carols, the St. David's Day Service followed by a celebratory Roast Lamb and Leeks Dinner and a Cymanfa Ganu – our traditional Festival of Song with The Rehoboth Welsh Choir. After services, we all enjoy Te Bach (A traditional Welsh afternoon tea party), which is also an opportunity to socialize and learn about what is going on in the community. Please come join us, a sincere warm welcome awaits you.
Dewch i ymuno a ni, Eglwys y Cymry Efrog Newydd, ac estynwn gwahoddiad cynnes a chatrefol i'r Cymry a phawb sydd a diddordeb yn ein gwlad ac yn ein ddiwylliant. Unwaith pob mis cynhelir cyfarfod yn Eglwys RUTGERS, ar orllewin Manhattan i addoli, i ganu ac i gysylltu.
Mae ein hoedfaon yn dwyiethog peidiwch ag ofni os nad yw eich Cymraeg yn berfaith.
Arweinir y gwasanaeth gan ein bugail doniol Dr Philip Newell sy'n pregethu yn Seisnig. Darllenir o'r ysgrythur gan siaradwyr Cymraeg. Rydym yn dra ddiolchgar i gael Mary Nelson, un o gerddorwyr mwya telentog y ddinas fel Arweinydd y Gan.
Heblaw oedfaon misol, rydym yn cynnal oedfaon arbennig ar gyfer y Nadolig, Dydd Gwyl Dewi gyda cinio arbennig o oen wedi rostio a cennin; hefyd Cymanfa Ganu blynydddol gyda Cor Cymraeg Rehoboth.
Mae Te Bach ar ol pob oedfa - Dewch a fe gewch croeso cynnes a ddiffuant a cyfle i adnabod ein cymdeithas.
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Services are held at 3:00 PM on the 2nd Sunday of the month(except during the summer break)
Worship is hosted at the Rutgers Church236 West 73rd Street(just west of Broadway),New York City.
The church is a short walk from theSeventh Avenue 72nd Street subway station( , , , ).
The Welsh Congregation is joining with Rutgers Presbyterian Church in an exciting project: a children's choir launched as an after school program in September of 2014.
If you have children, grandchildren or friends with children, please tell all about it.
The plan is that the choir will include Welsh music in their repertoire (choir director Mary Nelson has already chosen a Welsh favorite, "The Prayer of Eli Jenkins.")
The choir will sing a couple of times during the year during services at Rutgers Church and also, for our Welsh Congregation. Hopefully, as the choir grows, the Children's Choir will perform at festivals and (who knows?) maybe, even make it over to Wales!
Here is the link to full the information on the Rutgers Church website: Anouncing the New York West Side Children and Youth Choirs.

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Haven't gotten a flu shot? It's not too late
: February 15, 2013 : Updated: February 15, 2013 5:39pm
Photo By Mario Tama / Getty ImagesA sign advertises flu shots at a Manhattan pharmacy last month in New York City. The state of New York has declared a public health emergency in a flu epidemic of more than 19,000 confirmed cases in the state.
The 2012-13 flu season is one for the record books: 47 states report more than the usual number of cases; Boston and New York state have declared flu emergencies, and that's caused shortages of vaccines and antivirals in some areas.
If you didn't heed our advice last fall to get an early-bird vaccine because you were busy, you didn't think you needed one or you fell for one of the flu "fictions" circulating faster than the H3N2 virus in a crowded subway car, now's the time to step up and get that shot! It's about 62 percent effective at preventing the flu, and if you do get the virus, symptoms are a lot milder. (Tip: Exercise your arm immediately after you get the shot. It increases the likelihood that the shot will be effective.)
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The flu vaccine can cut your risk for a heart attack or stroke by a whopping 50 percent — most likely because plaque in your arteries isn't subjected to the revved-up inflammation that happens when your immune system is battling the flu. (Inflammation can make the plaque rupture, causing a heart attack or stroke.) Could this benefit cut your risk for diabetes and cancer? Maybe. There's also news that flu increases risk for pneumonia super-infections. That's dangerous if you have asthma or other breathing problems, are age 65 or older, or already have a weakened immune system.
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Roy! Roy! Over here!
Stevie! Over here mate!
These are the sort of things we're likely to hear when Hodgson and Gerrard sit down in front of the world's press today to preview England's final group (and World Cup ) game against Costa Rica on Tuesday.
There are rumours Gerrard will announce his retirement from the Three Lions having hinted heavily he will be calling it a day after the defeat to Uruguay on Thursday.
We'll be bringing you literally every word out of their mouths today and all the reaction.
Looooooads of chat about Roy's future today and we have all sort of people with their views.
Here they are:
* Arsenal's Jack Wilshere is the new leader England need says Stan Collymore.
* Roy is still the right man to take England forward says Terry Butcher
*Martin Lipton says it's time to look elsewhere at the back, or we'll be building statues made of sand in France in 2016
* England's World Cup campaign has been just mental, writes Andy Dunn
* Roy SHOULD be sacked although the other options aren't great, says Dave Kidd
Roy's taken his eye's off the ball!
Terungkap.. ternyata inggris mabok gegara hodgson ..........ahsudahlah pic.twitter.com/xQBDF1rPPZ— Plesbol (@PLESETANBOLA) June 22, 2014
Remember Sven?
He's chimed in with his two pence worth on Roy's fuure.
"I know for sure, if that had been me, I would have been sacked at once," the smooth Swede told The Telegraph. "If he were foreign, he would be sacked. I'm quite sure about that."
"It's not that the rest of the world is far, far ahead of England. It's not like that.
"If they don't want me back, keep Hodgson. He's good. I would come back at once, of course. But that will not happen."
We're underway here in Santos and Stevie G says he won't be hanging up his Three Lions boots and he needs more time.
"Won't make a decision on international future yet."
"I'm hurting very badly, I'm broken."
Roy: "Very please that Greg Dyke and the board have backed me, we are mid way through a term and there is lot of work to be done.
"Were on a good path, there area lot of possibilities for this team and players to improve and become better.
"I'm very pleased I am going to be the man leading them."
Is there anything Roy would have done differently?
"Well, apart from the obvious and flippant comment about winning both games, no I'm not to sure there is.
"The preparation gone very well, the players have been first class, the attitude and desire is something which I can't fault.
"But unfortunately we lost two games and we are very, very disappointed about that, for ourselves because we so much wanted d do better, also for the fans who've come out here.
"We did try our very best and left nothing on the field."
Stevie G is next asked about his future as an England player:
"There is no truth that I am going to make an announcement [about retirement] in a week. I asked the manager for some time over the summer and to consider my future but I certainly won't be rushing into any decision.
"I'm still hurting very bad from what has gone on. So I need to get away and clear my head before I make that decision.'
"I won't be rushing into any decision, it's not right to be making decision now or in a week's time."
Gerrard: "It's very difficult to be an England player at the moment. Everyone is down.
"My message to the England fans is thanks for the support over the last two years.
"The players take full responsibility for not winning the two games."
Mirror Football's John Cross isn't impressed.
Hodgson says he's on a "good path." Really? I thought they were on the path home after the first round. Doesn't sound good to me. #england— John Cross (@johncrossmirror) June 22, 2014
Gerrard: " All that we can do as players is stick together.
"The important thing now is to think about the supporters. They want a win in the last game and we want to deliver them that."
Roy seems very confident about the future...
"We've got some world-class players in the making, and we have had some in the past too."
Roy promises changes for the game with Costa Rica on Tuesday, he wants those who haven't featured yet to get minutes.
He says: "I want all the players that have been here with us get some minutes on the pitch."
Roy Hodgson says he'll try to ensure that all of the squad get a game vs Costa Rica. Tip of the day: lump on Costa Rica. #england #worldcup— John Cross (@johncrossmirror) June 22, 2014
Stevie G on those Roy comments about the future: "I do agree with the manager when he says that the talent is in the group.
"I think there are world-class players in this group and there are potential world-class players too."
Roy: "I would say we deserved a better fate than we achieved in those two games.
"I now will not doing anything other than trying to recover from bitterness of the situation and when August comes around focus on one thing and one thing alone and and that is making sure we qualify for Euro 2016."
Crossy is not Roy's biggest fan at the moment!
See this video from Saturday where he gave it to Hodgson with both barrells.
Roy Hodgson says he'll try to ensure that all of the squad get a game vs Costa Rica. Tip of the day: lump on Costa Rica. #england #worldcup— John Cross (@johncrossmirror) June 22, 2014
Roy meanwhile: "This job means a lot to me. It is a fantastic job. I work with an incredible bunch of players. But we've got it all to do.
"I am very pleased to have The FA's backing. I would like to think that my work will be judged over a long time."
So Stevie G is sticking around a little longer.
It might be for a week, it might be for a lot of weeks.
Either way, he's still and England player.
Some perspective from Disco...
Could be worse, England fans. Capello could still be in charge #WorldCup #ENG— David McDonnell (@DiscoMirror) June 22, 2014
Remember that Harry Redknapp story from earlier today?
He said players at his various clubs had asked him to help get them out of international duty.
Gerrard was asked about this today, and this was his response:
"They must be players who Harry Redknapp knows, I've never come across players like that, certainly the group that I'm surrounded by."


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Jason Segel Has Written Young Adult Novel Trilogy — Will You Read It?
Jason Segel is a — wait for it! — young adult novelist?
The 33-year-old How I Met Your Mother star has written a young adult novel trilogy based on one of his scripts, according to VH1.
Jason has already written the three books, and they will probably be released next year.
The series hasn't yet landed at a publishing house, but apparently there is a "bidding war" currently going on between a number of publishers for the books.
So what are the books about?
"It's about kids facing their biggest fears — that's about all I can tell you," Jason coyly reveals.
Wait — isn't every young adult book about kids facing their fears? Thanks so much for the details, Jason.
Jason reveals that the books are based on a script that he iniitally wrote when he was just 21 years old and sold for "super cheap" because he "didn't know any better."
Eight years later, Jason bought back the rights to the script and decided to turn them into these books.
Given that Jason has co-written the scripts for The Muppets and Forgetting Sarah Marshall, it's clear that he is a talented scribe.
We can't wait to get our hands on these books!
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"A valuable addition to Marker scholarship."Film International
Chris Markerby Nora M. Alter, James Naremore
Editorial Reviews
Product Details
- 9780252073168
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- Publication date:
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- Series:
- Contemporary Film Directors Series
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Chris Marker
By Nora M. Alter
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSCopyright © 2006 Nora M. Alter
All right reserved.
Chapter One"The Cat Who Walks by Himself"
Introduction: The Solitary Cat
But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. -Rudyard Kipling, "The Cat Who Walks by Himself"
"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life." -Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
We do not have cats, cats have us. Cats are our Gods, the most expansive and approachable of Gods, that goes without saying. -Chris Marker
The first of these epigraphs, repeated at rhythmic intervals throughout Rudyard Kipling's story, "The Cat Who Walks by Himself," refers to the elusive, mysterious, independent, and only half-domesticated nature of the common breed of cats. The tale evokes a prehistoric era when all creatures were wild, and "the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat." Through a slow but steady series of compromises, animals such as the dog and the horse trade their independence for a guarantee of safety and food. Theonly animal clever enough to strike a pact with humans in order to preserve its wildness, solitariness, and independence is the cat. In turn, the cat prompts the envy and dislike of both the dog, who will forever be destined to chase it, and the man, who will periodically kick it but rarely outwit it. The second epigraph, taken from a passage in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, comes at the conclusion of Alice's perplexing encounter with the Cheshire Cat. During the course of their conversation, the Cat declares that everyone is mad, including Alice, and supports his claim with the logic that, if she were not mad, she "wouldn't have come here." The rest of the exchange is punctuated by the Cat's appearances and disappearances until, as in the preceding quote, all that remains is his evasive grin. In both stories cats are emblematic of mysterious, elusive, transitory, and stubbornly independent figures. They navigate through the world of humans largely on their own terms.
"The Cat Who Walks by Himself" is an autobiographical description the French independent filmmaker Chris Marker uses as an e-mail subject header, and A Grin without a Cat is the title with which he released Le fond de l'air est rouge (1977), now reedited and updated, in 1993. Figures of animals, including owls, wolves, horses, elephants, and mammoths, are not uncommon within Marker's oeuvre, but the cat's status is special. Hence, it seems appropriate to employ what is perhaps Marker's first citation of the figure of the cat in his texts (specifically, from a review of a 1952 cat show in Paris) as the third epigraph. True, Marker uses the occasion to discuss the status not only of cats but of a whole spectrum of domestic and wild animals put on display and thereby transformed into "statues." He ends with the hope that in the future animals will be cared for the way that medicine and music are presently treated. Marker keeps returning to cats. Felines, whether live, imaged, or in the form of sculptures, appear in almost all of his films. Marker's CD-ROM self-portrait, Immemory (1997), figures the filmmaker's alter ego in the form of a red cartoon cat named Guillaume. Even his greeting cards feature Guillaume, who is also often summoned in salutational closings. Thus it comes as no surprise to hear that when asked for a photograph of himself, Marker sends one of a cat instead.
That Marker would choose the cat as his personal mascot is not surprising given his own cultivation of a reclusive, elusive, and mysterious identity. Marker does not allow himself to be photographed and rarely grants interviews. Deprived of direct information, authors of reviews, essays, and Web sites naturally resort to apocryphal anecdotes about Marker's life. They range from various myths about his origins-birth in Mongolia, aristocratic ancestry, son of a very wealthy colonialist in South America-to speculations about his "professional past": a paratrooper, a member of the French Resistance, an interpreter for the U.S. army. So much for stories. A search for facts yields somewhat more reliable, albeit still ambiguous, information: Marker was given the name Christian Francois Bouche-Villeneuve at his birth in late July 1921, probably in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. He seems to have adopted his nom de plume in the late 1940s, with credits to a "C. M." first appearing in print in the early 1950s. Whether his pseudonym is meant to connote the act of inscription, or that of leaving a trace-a mark-remains unclear. In addition, the alias does not immediately indicate a specific ethnicity or class, as did Marker's birth name. Then there is the matter of the peculiar punctuation of the name: until the early 1990s, film credits almost always recorded it as Chris. Marker; more recently the period after Chris has been dropped, and Chris Marker has become standard.
Marker is not entirely innocent in the proliferation of these myths. He has contributed to this phenomenon, even if only indirectly, by doing little to dispel the cult of personality that has developed around him, never addressing (let alone correcting) the rumors and claims about his past. One of these was made by his friend Alain Resnais, who recalls that Marker favored a 1951 English translation of his prizewinning (Prix Orion, 1950) novel Le Coeur net (The Forthright Spirit, 1949), precisely because it had so little resemblance to the original (Resnais, "Rendezvous," 207). Resnais' recollection is significant because it reveals that Marker has maintained a vehemently antiproprietary stance regarding his intellectual output from the very beginning of his career-a disposition that was no doubt due to his commitment to avant-garde cultural production. Marker's standpoint belies his lifelong involvement in leftist movements and his many collective endeavors. Part of this intellectual history can be traced to the existentialism of Jean Paul Sartre (with whom, some say, Marker studied), who proposed that man is ultimately responsible not only for himself but for all other men. This positioning should not be confused with an antiauteurism, however, for, during the 1950s in France, when Marker was establishing his career as a filmmaker, auteur theory was one the dominant modes of understanding filmic production. Auteur theory included not only the notion that each director had a recognizable style but also implied a sincere belief in film as an art form that was fundamentally related intellectually to the other arts, especially literature. Thus, Marker's auteurism derives more from his literariness or, as we shall see, essayistic tendencies than from any cultivation on his part of a director-as-genius myth. In that spirit, the author/artist should be decentered when contemplating the films that bear Marker's name, and the interpretative and analytical stress should be placed on the deep sociopolitical structures that determine textual production. The more irrelevant the author to the process of understanding, the better the reader or viewer will be able to produce interpretations that derive from the very texts or films in question.
Marker has consistently refused to be fixed in any one role. Rather than static, his identity has been labile, changing, and dynamic. This mobility may explain why he has granted relatively few interviews and has avoided making theoretical statements regarding his work. Marker has been a writer (screenwriter, novelist, storyteller, critic, and poet), a photographer (producing books of photos Coreennes [Korean Women], Le depays [The Un-country]), as well as a filmmaker (directing many shorts, fictional and nonfictional features, television programs), a visual artist exhibiting in museums, an editor, a publisher, an organizer, a producer, and an assistant to numerous cultural projects throughout the world in the past half-century. Little binds all of this work together. Only a certain heterodoxy of thought; an aleatory approach characterized by chance, playfulness, wit, and humor; and a commitment to rescuing from the "dustbin" of history various figures and events, thread through the entire oeuvre. No wonder, then, that Marker's pronounced influence on a number of interrelated fields-film, art, letters, and politics-is due not to particular writings or films but to a practice that is multiple and slides as easily from medium to medium as it does from text to context. The diversity of his reception is indicative of this multiplicity. For instance, it would be difficult to agree on what else figures such as filmmaker Terry Gilliam (who based his feature film 12 Monkeys on La jetee), author Henri Michaux (who provocatively proclaimed that the "Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place!"), and artist Jonas Mekas (who averred that "Chris Marker is pure spirit!") would share in common. Marker's influence and assistance on films and other projects over the years have been large, though a prevailing sense of humbleness has led him to downplay his role. That humbleness, as I am calling it here, has also led to an underestimation of the artist's significance-a misjudgment that the present book aims to redress.
The diverse nature of Marker's work parallels his peripatetic journeying around the globe. From Peking to Paris, Tokyo, Siberia, Santiago, Jerusalem, Bissau, Berlin, Havana, Hanoi, Helsinki-all of these locations appear in his oeuvre. Indeed, his film Si j'avais quatre dromadaires (If I Had Four Camels, 1966), made entirely of stills, claims to include photographs taken in twenty-six countries during the years 1955 through 1965. Marker traveled to all of the continents (with the exception of Antarctica) and several islands in between, such as Iceland, Bijagos, Cape Verde, and Hokkaido. As this very cursory list already reveals, locating Marker in fixed geographical terms and categorically assigning to him a national profile is a difficult, if not impossible, task. His work is marked precisely by a transnationalism that eschews facile classifications. Although the literary and philosophical allusions and references in his films are primarily to French intellectuals (such as Michaux, Giraudoux, and Sartre), it would be too reductive to define Marker and his work as typically French. Indeed, Marker publicly refuses to dispel rumors that he was born in Ulaanbaatar, or on the Ile-aux-Moines, or that his mother was Russian. As his oeuvre reveals, his operative principle is to ignore ultimately constraining and divisive national and cultural identities and boundaries. He prefers to seek commonalities through unusual and unpredictable geographical and historical juxtapositions, however exotic they may be. His aversion to any conformity and to any mode of patriotism may be related to a social philosophy that aligns with those who are oppressed and abused by authoritarian regimes, regardless of nationality. As the commentary in A Grin without a Cat categorically asserts, "the cat is never on the side of power."
Chris Marker is the prototype of the 19th Century man. He managed to achieve a synthesis of all appetites and obligations without ever sacrificing any of them to the others. In fact a theory is making the rounds, and not without some grounds, that Marker could be an extra-terrestrial. He looks like a human, but perhaps he comes from the future or from another planet.... There are some very bizarre clues. He is never sick or ill, he is not sensitive to cold, and he doesn't seem to need any sleep. -Resnais, "Chris Marker," 52-53
Lore has it that Marker was a student of Sartre's in the 1930s when the former studied at the Lycee Pasteur, located in the upper-middle-class Neuilly-sur-Seine suburb of Paris. His role as editor of Le Trait d'union, a student newspaper, provides an early indication of his cultural ambitions. Nothing substantial is known of Marker's activities during World War II. Immediately after the war, however, he became very active on the cultural scene in Paris. Actor Gerard Lorin remembers that, after the liberation, Marker was part of a forward-looking avant-garde group that included filmmaker Resnais, theorist Alexandre Astruc, critic Andre Bazin, and actor Roger Blin. The group would meet regularly at 5 rue des Beaux-Arts in the fifth arrondissement to discuss cultural initiatives. They formed the basis of Travail et Culture (Work and Culture), a left-wing cultural organization composed of writers, filmmakers, theater directors, playwrights, and other cultural activists. The puppeteer Remo Forlani recalls that members of the group would frequent the Cafe Flore, then a popular meeting spot for intellectuals such as Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In the evening, Marker, Resnais, filmmakers Roger Vadim, Francois Truffaut, and others would go to the Filmclub organized by Bazin and initially held at the Maison de la Chimie in the rue Saint-Dominique. Travail et Culture had divisions of theater, music, literature, and film. It subsidized and provided logistical support for projects by artists, writers, and filmmakers on the left; it also distributed discount tickets for a variety of performances. Marker, rumored to be quite wealthy, had an office at Travail et Culture. Resnais remembers seeking him out there and soliciting him to finance the production of his films. A slightly different version of events has it that Marker was at the time a young actor in the theater division of Travail et Culture and first met Resnais during debate centered on whether the latter's film Van Gogh was viable in 16 mm or had to be reshot in 35 mm. According to this account, Marker also became acquainted with Bazin during these discussions and was so taken by the latter's views that he decided to quit theater and assist Bazin in the film division instead (Andrew 90). The leading role that Bazin played on the cinephilac group cannot be underestimated. It should be noted, however, that Bazin was neither a Communist nor a Marxist but rather a Socialist-Christian.
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Release DateSeptember 12, 2014 (Limited)
MPAA RatingR
Duration190 min.
StudioThe Weinstein Company
Official Siteclick here
REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers Be the 1st!
Cast and Crew
DirectorNed Benson
ProducerKirk D'Amico, Cassandra Kulukundis, Kris Thykier
ScreenwriterNed Benson
- Jessica Chastain as Eleanor Rigby
- James McAvoy as Conor Ludlow
- Ciaran Hinds as Spencer Ludlow
- Bill Hader
- Viola Davis as Professor Lillian Friedman
- William Hurt as Julian Rigby
- Isabelle Huppert
- Jess Weixler
- Nina Arianda
- Marta Milans
- Kelly Southerland
With his unique vision, writer/director Ned Benson ambitiously captures a complete picture of a relationship in the beautifully relatable portrait of love, empathy and truth that is "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby".
Once happily married, Conor (McAvoy) and Eleanor (Chastain) suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Screened for the first time at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Benson's latest version of their story combines his previous two films - titled HIM and HER - uniting their perspectives and taking a further look into the subjectivity of relationships.


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In this book Kraft writes clearly and makes his points well. As to the content it wasn't until the last section of the book that I began disagree with him on leadership (more on that later).
The opening lines of the introduction set up the book wonderfully - This book is about finishing your leadership race. It is a marathon, not a hundred-meter-dash. What follows is a how-to guide on finishing the leadership race that God has called leaders to run. Drawing from Scriptures and experience Kraft shows us what it means to be a leader.
Kraft's definition of a leader is as follows - A Christian leader is a humble, God-dependent, team-playing servant of God who is called by God to shepherd, develop, equip, and empower a specific group of believers to accomplish an agreed-upon vision from God.
Kraft, drawing from thirty years' experience, gives details on how to fulfill that definition of a leader. He categorizes the responsibilities of a leader into three parts - foundations, formation and fruitfulness.
The section on foundations deals with a leader's personal growth and how he develops as a leader. He begins with this statement - Because leading is a reflection of who you are, you lead from the inside out.
How true this is. Like every aspect of our Christian life we are changed and developed from the inside out. He takes it a step further by saying - As a leader, everything I am and everything I do needs to be anchored in my identity in Christ.
After going into this in detail he devotes a chapter in the section on foundations to a leaders pacing. Too often leaders try to do everything and get overextended. Health problems will/can occur. Close relationships get strained. To guard against this he argues that leaders need to take regular time off to reenergize.
He moves onto the formation of a leader. He spends a good amount of time on being called which is paramount in being a good leader. We tend to put people in positions of leadership when they in no way have been called. That is a recipe for disaster.
He finishes with fruitfulness. This section is where I began to disagree with Kraft. Throughout the book Kraft mixes Scripture and personal experience fairly well. In this section he directs us to very little Scripture to make his points and instead relies heavily on experience. He places much of the success and failures a leader experiences on the leader himself. Yet we see in Scripture that leaders can and do fail because of no fault of their own (Noah and Jeremiah are prime examples of leaders doing God's work yet saw literally no fruit of their labors).
With that said I would recommend this book to any leader. He will challenge you evaluate your understanding of a leader and the role a leader plays in God's church.
You can purchase it at Amazon or Christianbook.


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Since the current format of the FIFA Club World Cup was introduced, no team has lost a game after scoring the first goal. The most recent side to follow the trend were Urawa Red Diamonds, who ran out 3-1 winners against Sepahan after striker Yuichiro Nagai grabbed the opener in their quarter-final match.
Speaking about his goal against the Iranians, which was also the first by a Japanese player at a FIFA Club World Cup, Nagai said modestly: "Takahito Soma set me up with a fantastic ball and all I had to do was to tap it in. So I'm very grateful to him for the assist. It was a great honour to take part in the event in the first place, but then on top of that to become the first Japanese player to score in the competition, well I'm obviously very happy."
The 28-year-old, who was named player of the tournament for the 2007 AFC Champions League, was also involved in the move on 80 minutes that ended with Sephan's Aghily putting through his own goal for Urawa's third of the evening.
Nagai, who uses his height and pace to good effect in the final third, failed to find the target for the Reds in any of the four J.League matches that followed their Champions League victory. The sequence generated just a solitary point and left the way open for Kashima Antlers to steal the domestic title from under their noses in the very last match.
With Nagai and his team-mates hugely disappointed, Urawa coach Holger Osieck felt it necessary to give his players a couple of days break before preparing in earnest for Japan 2007. "During those days off, I tried not to think about football. Instead I just focused on renewing myself, so I could come back refreshed for the Club World Cup."
In the build-up to Urawa's opening game against Sepahan, many observers expressed doubts about the team's poor form and their ability to function without Brazilian playmaker Robson Ponte.
However, such was the quality of their performance in the quarter-final that the media almost universally hailed it as their best game of the season. Nagai, whose own performance last Monday was roundly praised, explained that "losing the J.League title made us really determined to do well in this event, and that was a big factor in our opening game. I know we had a couple of scares in that match, but our defenders did very well and kept them at bay.
"The midfielders also performed well and were always looking to get forward, and you saw (Yuki) Abe and Keita (Suzuki) closing down opponents very quickly and winning back a lot of balls. Thanks to them, we were able to attack well."
Huge test
On Thursday 13th, Urawa will realise their pre-tournament goal of taking on AC Milan for a place in the final. Nagai accepted that with the likes of Pirlo, Gattuso, Inzaghi and Kaka in their ranks, the Rossoneri have a world class team and no shortage of stars, but was still adamant about the local team's chances.
"We're proud to be competing as Asian champions in a huge event like this with all the other continental champions, and we'll be doing all we can to prove ourselves against the rest of the world," continued Nagai. "It goes without saying I'd love to score against Milan. With us playing at home, we don't have to worry about all the travelling and trying to get used to a new environment. I'm also sure we'll have huge support just like we did against Sepahan and the usual excellent atmosphere."
Nagai finishes by expressing a keen desire to follow in the footsteps of players like Naohiro Takahara, Junichi Inamoto, Shinji Ono and Koji Nakata, others members Japan's golden generation who have impressed on the world stage. "I want to do all I can for my team, and if that opens a door for me to play in Europe, that would be great, as it's long been my ambition to play there," he smiled.


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The Egg is only minutes from the Albany International Airport, AMTRAK, and the New York State Thruway with direct access from I-787 in either direction.
The principal automobile entrance into the Empire State Plaza is from I-787. Ramps lead directly into underground parking areas. A secondary parking entrance leads from Madison Avenue and South Swan Street.
Parking is available under The Egg and easily accessible via I-787. The V-Lot is generally designated for Egg parking but signs may indicate additional or alternate levels available. Visitors entering the V-Lot are required to show a photo identification and their vehicle is subject to a search. Typically, there is a $5 per car parking charge, however, in some cases parking is charged on an hourly rate. Once in the V-Lot, take the elevator to the Concourse Level and follow the signs to The Egg and The Egg Box Office. Call The Egg Box Office for further details or questions at 518-473-1845.
Complete visitor parking information for the Plaza area is available from the Office of General Services the agency that operates these lots. You can also download a PDF map of parking areas.
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REVIEW: 'Recess' for kids and their parents
This grown-up reviewer has played "Walkie Talkies," the song off Recess Monkey's newest CD, "Deep Sea Diver," many, many, many times at the request of a young fan. Many. It's memorized now, along with "Shrimp." Recess Monkey, a trio of teachers turned kindie rockers, entertains kids with simply great songs. The best part for parents is they like them, too. The Seattle-based band will perform Saturday at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro.
"Walkie Talkies" is a funky song, perhaps the best on a CD that really is for the whole family. A cool family at that, because of all the funk and rock and layers of sound in songs both funny and catchy.
"Deep Sea Diver" is Recess Monkey's ninth studio album. Among the sea-themed musical offerings is the put-it-on-a-loop "Fish Sticks," which showcases the work of drummer Korum Bischoff. The rest of Recess Monkey is Drew Holloway, lead vocals and guitar, and Jack Forman, bass. Bischoff and Forman sing, too. On "Deep Sea Diver," other musicians contribute Wurlitzer piano, mandolin, trombone, trumpet, violins, violas, cellos and even flugelhorn accompaniment.
The songs have easy to learn lyrics, with plenty of lines worth shouting out, or along with. When kids like something, they often want to experience it over and over and over. It's enough to drive parents bonkers. "Deep Sea Driver" won't drive you bonkers. You might even play it when the kids aren't around.
"Choral Reef" as a song title on a CD about the sea is a must, and the lyrics actually say, "So sing right along, with this choral song. So sing it, coral." And the "coral" makes the kinds of sound coral might, if it could. It's silly and kids love it.
Parents who watch cartoons with their kids know when a show's writers are working to entertain and amuse the grown-ups, too. This is that in band form.
WHO: Recess Monkey
WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday
WHERE: The ArtsCenter
300-G E. Main St., Carrboro
TICKETS: $9/adults; $7/youth, free for children 2 and under.
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Fraternities Plan Spring Rush Week
February 4, 2014
Southwestern Oklahoma State University's social fraternities on the Weatherford campus are set for the spring semester's Rush Week that continues through Monday, February 10.
The SWOSU chapters of Phi Delta Theta and Tau Kappa Epsilon will host events for any interested male students.
The two fraternities hosted an information session on February 3. Members discussed activities, events and philanthropy. Later in the week, the fraternities will split to host their own events. On Tuesday and Thursday, Phi Delta Theta will hold gatherings for newcomers. Tau Kappa Epsilon has events on Wednesday and Friday.
For more information on Rush Week, check out the fraternities on Twitter, @PhiDeltOKGamma and @TKE_EH, or contact the Dean of Students office at 580.774.3767.
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Definitely off topic, but........
First, it's announced that Farrah Fawcett has died. Now, Michael Jackson!!
Ok, is it too horrible of me to have been having this crazy image of seeing Farrah on a lighted disco floor with a mirror ball overhead dancing to Michael's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
Not at all. It is horrible however that you have now shared the image and the rest of us now have it too.
MWK's Token Estrogen-American
So much talent lost.
MWK's Token Estrogen-American
It's a very sad day to be a white woman.
I still remember Michael singing "Ben" like it was yesterday. A bright light out.
ya hard to believe they say it comes in threes last week was Ed McMahon wow still stunned iam sure they are all in our prayers


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GoGrid Out of Beta with Performance and Feature Enhancements
San Francisco, CA August 19, 2009–Today GoGrid, the Cloud Hosting service from ServePath Dedicated Hosting, officially announced that its core cloud computing infrastructure hosting product is out of beta. GoGrid version 2.0 was released on August 6th, 2009, which included the important MyGSI feature that gives users the ability to create personal server images for rapid server cloning or parking.
With over a year and a half of innovation, development and engineering refinements, coupled with thousands of live customers running both Windows and Linux server infrastructure, GoGrid is clearly a leader within the cloud infrastructure hosting marketplace. Recently positioned in the "visionary" quadrant by a leading analyst firm, GoGrid enables IT professionals to have an alternative to costly dedicated, colocated or private datacenters by hosting that infrastructure in the GoGrid cloud.
Some notable points of GoGrid 2.0 and GoGrid in general:
- Ability to create, save, store and deploy custom server images (MyGSIs) - NEW
- 99.99% uptime achieved since the beginning of Q2 2009 - NEW
- Dramatic reduction in server deployment times - NEW
- Award-winning management web portal – NEW UI enhancements
- Programmatic control using REST-like API under Creative Commons Share Alike license - UPDATED
- Windows Server 2008 & 2003 - UPDATED
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5.1 - UPDATED
- CentOS Linux 4.4, 4.5 & 5.1 – UPDATED
- PHP 5, mySQL 5, PostgreSQL 8.1.1, Apache 2.2 – UPDATED
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, Workgroup & Standard - UPDATED
- Persistent storage on all GoGrid Cloud Storage
- Cloud Storage with 10 GB free
- Free f5 load balancing
- Cloud Connect feature to privately link the GoGrid cloud to dedicated or colocated environments within ServePath for hybrid infrastructure
- Free, static, contiguous blocks of public IP addresses
- Public and private networking within GoGrid Cloud
- Free 24/7/365 support
"Coming out of beta is an important achievement for GoGrid," said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid and ServePath. "This notable event further affirms our commitment to providing our customers with an enterprise-ready product, complete with the product and support infrastructure that our customers demand."
GoGrid Version 2.0, complete with the new MyGSI functionality, is currently available to all GoGrid customers, and also includes a number of feature enhancements as well as improved server deployment speeds. Details of these and other new features in this important release can be found at the GoGrid "What's New" page, the GoGrid blog, the GoGrid Wiki and GoGrid User Forums. For details or to sign up for GoGrid Cloud Hosting, please contact a Sales Representative at: www.GoGrid.com.
- Welcome to GoGrid!
- I'm a Cloud Infrastructure and Big Data Solutions expert.
- What questions do you have today?


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Today, we are announcing that we're ready to offer training for InnoDB and XtraDB in Santa Clara and San Francisco. The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team – and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in our consulting practice. The Details: 14th Sept – Santa […]
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Summertime Percona MySQL training update
Now that June has arrived it is time to plan what you will do over the summer months. In addition to your summer vacation plans, give thought to MySQL training for you and your team. Summer is the time to brush up on those critical skills needed to ensure all systems are ready for the holiday […]
MySQL Workshops: Chicago & London this April
Percona will be in Chicago and London the week of April 8th delivering two 2-day MySQL workshops. For our MPB readers, we are offering a 15% discount. Just use MPB15A when purchasing your tickets to one or both MySQL workshops. Scaling and Optimization for MySQL on Monday & Tuesday, April 8 & 9 This MySQL workshop […]
MySQL Training in Frankfurt, Germany
We will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL workshops in Frankfurt, Germany the week of February 13th. Early registration is open; enroll today and secure your seat. Detail and enrollment can be found here.
InnoDB/XtraDB Training in New York City!
Our Santa Clara/San Francisco training went great – 100% of survey respondents said they would recommend the same course to a friend. I'm pleased to announce that such an opportunity exists – our next training location will be New York City on October 30, 2009. We've booked a training venue in the financial district of […]
Off to California!
Today's the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week.
Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great – it was an opportunity to do a road test and iron out any kinks in the delivery.
What did I learn in the process?
XtraDB: The Top 10 enhancements
Note: This post is part 2 of 4 on building our training workshop. Last week I talked about why you don't want to shard. This week I'm following up with the top 10 enhancements that XtraDB has over the built-in InnoDB included in MySQL 5.0 and 5.1. Building this list was not really a scientific […]
Sphinx at MySQL Meetup at San Francisco
I will be presenting at upcoming MySQL Meetup at San Francisco this Thursday, August 13. I will talk about Sphinx covering the new cool features this search engine has as well as showing the demo on how simple it is to use Sphinx to implement high performance full text search for your MySQL driven application. […]
Why you don't want to shard.
Note: This blog post is part 1 of 4 on building our training workshop.
The Percona training workshop will not cover sharding. If you follow our blog, you'll notice we don't talk much about the subject; in some cases it makes sense, but in many we've seen that it causes architectures to be prematurely complicated.
So let me state it: You don't want to shard.
Optimize everything else first, and then if performance still isn't good enough, it's time to take a very bitter medicine. The reason you need to shard basically comes down to one of these two reasons
Moving to MySQL 5.6? We can help
If you are looking for a class that is designed to jump-start your knowledge on MySQL 5.6 features, a class that provides hands-on labs, and a class that shows various migration methods – look no further. We have been hard at work building a new class to ensure you have the knowledge and skills needed to verify […]


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Apple Store app for iPhone now notifies you when you're ready for upgrade pricing on a new iPhone
The Apple Store app for iPhone has been updated with a handy little feature that will notify you when you're eligible for upgrade pricing on a new iPhone. You can even buy your new iPhone directly with the app after receiving the notification since all you need is your Apple ID credentials to do so.
Also, the Apple Store will now help you keep track of your shipments and send you notifications about important updates, and when it has delivered.
Anyone waiting for upgrade eligibility before buying the iPhone 5? Are you excited about being notified when that day comes?
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Apple Store app for iPhone now notifies you when you're ready for upgrade pricing on a new iPhone
Mines this coming June 16th!!!!!!!! .......unless I happen to win iMore's iPhone Giveaway contest!!!!!
Looking forward to that day in 2014 when I'm eligible for the iPhone 6 (or whatever the 2014 model will be called.) If I'm forced to wait the full duration, it will be mid-September 2014. Crossing my fingers that AT&T will allow us to upgrade a month or two earlier with no extra fee.
Tip: during the new iPhone pre-ordering period, always pre-order through the Apple Store app. Vastly faster than hitting Apple's iPhone page in a browser.
"Not available for your account type." No idea what that means.
Waiting for iphone 6 though. Regarding purchasing from my phone. That's cool but interestingly when i bought my 4s is i tried to reserve one online at an Apple store, unsuccessfully, for a week then simply walked into a Sprint store and they had plenty in stock. I'll probably just walk into a store when the time comes.


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AVTEC's Related Studies Program courses are offered through correspondence or online to benefit apprentices who are unable to attend classroom sessions. All of AVTEC's Related Studies Program courses meet the requirements of, and have been approved for, apprenticeship training by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Apprenticeship Training, Employment and Training Administration (ATETA)..
AVTEC's Related Studies Program provides instruction to persons enrolled in apprenticeship programs. The mission of the Related Studies Program is to deliver needed training by correspondence or online to students throughout the State of Alaska who could not otherwise receive the apprenticeship or upgrade training necessary to become more skilled as a worker, technician, or manager.
For highly skilled occupations, apprenticeship combines on-the-job training with related classroom instruction. It is a structured system of training designed to prepare individuals for employment in skills trades and crafts. Training in the practical, hands-on aspects of the occupation are conducted at the job site under the supervision of a skilled journey worker, while the theoretical aspects of the occupation are presented through correspondence or online courses.
Apprentices in Alaska are required to have a minimum of 144 hours of related studies in their trades each year in addition to their actual work experience. Apprentices who successfully complete the required hours of training in an apprenticeship program become certified as skilled craft workers.
AVTEC works closely with ATETA and representatives of Alaska industry as well as with apprentices and their employers. RSP Coordinator at AVTEC oversees the admissions of the apprenticeship students – processes applications and payments, and issues verification letters. RSP Coordinator also provides study materials for the apprentice and determines the amount of study hours, grades work assignments and tests, supplies employers with progress reports on their apprentices, issues Certificates of Completion, and verifies the apprentice's study hours and completion points with ATETA.
The ATETA office provides technical assistant to Alaska industry in the development of apprenticeship training standards and related technical instruction curricula, registration of apprenticeship programs and apprentices, program evaluation and quality assurance, issuance of Certificates of Completion of Apprenticeship, and development of Selection Procedures consistent with Title 29, CFR, Part 30.
Enrollment is open throughout the year. To enroll in a course, an apprentice/employer must submit an application (available upon request), and pay the cost of tuition, book(s)/tests, and the application fee up-front. Students will have one calendar year to complete their coursework material. At a 10-month point, students will be sent a letter reminding them of the approaching completion date.
If a student cannot get the required assignments completed by the scheduled completion date, he/she may request one 6-month extension. The request for the extension, however, must be made before the scheduled completion date. The cost for the extension is $150. Students who fail to complete the required assignments or request the extension will be terminated from the program.
A student who has been terminated from the program may re-enroll at any time and receive another calendar year to complete the program. The student will have to pay the full tuition for the appropriate year and the application fee. Book(s)/tests fee can be waived if the student/employer still has the coursework materials.
Graduates of apprenticeship programs earn higher wages, have more stable work records, and are promoted sooner and more often than other workers. The following Related Studies Program courses are offered for apprentices to reach journeyman level:
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Charlie Crist can stay in the Republican primary and lose, run as an independent and lose, or just go away. That's what the polls seem to suggest, no doubt to the dismay of those who fancy the Republican party as Democrat-lite. This report observes that "the gilded political career of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is dangerously close to expiration." What once seemed like a face-saving move — an independent bid — now sounds like a potential debacle:
Of the three alternatives, an independent bid might prove to be the most advantageous path to the Senate. But his top supporters and donors in Washington made clear Tuesday that they would yank their support if he left the Republican Party. … "If he runs as an independent, I think the best day he has is the day he announces," a longtime Crist adviser conceded. "The normal rules of gravity apply. How do you raise money?" This source, who has talked to Crist about his decision, said, "I told him that every Republican official is going to support [Republican Senate challenger Marco] Rubio. And by telegraphing this, you're making them jump."
This is all a bit, well, pathetic. Crist was a respected governor, ran a horrid campaign, revealed himself to be badly out of touch with his party's base, imagined he had some personal appeal that extended beyond party identification, and now faces humiliation. Florida is an expensive state in which to run a campaign, and the absence of an available fund-raising apparatus is a serious impediment to Crist's running as an independent. He might still try to mount such a run — he's got little to lose at this point, and he may have passed the point where a graceful exit is possible. Like his entire campaign, it won't be pretty should he decide to test how much appeal he has without the "R" next to his name.


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Built By Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World: A Book Review
Brian Liloia in Green Options
Imagine houses with six feet-thick seaweed roofs, deep-nestled and hand-carved cave homes, and pigeon-harboring huts made of mud. Sounds a little unreal, huh? Well, this and more is all vividly documented in Built By Hand: Vernacular Buildings Around the World, a most inspiring bit of green building eye candy I recently had the fortune of stumbling upon. Built by Hand is a hardcover collection of photographs of traditional buildings of all styles across the globe. If you weren't already appalled by the house design atrocity known as the McMansion, Built By Hand will make you pine ever harder for more intimate, natural, sensible, and green home designs that can be found all over the world, still being built by indigenous peoples and sometimes mimicked by enterprising, modern day natural home builders.
Tiny Science, Big Implications
Julia Levitt in WorldChanging
Is there value in knowledge for the sake of knowledge? My gut says "of course," but when the question comes down to dollars and cents – and it does, in the case of funding for arts, science, and other often intangible cultural resources -- it's helpful to have a more practical argument on hand. I thought about this issue a lot last weekend, when I traveled to North America's epicenter of livable density to attend a sold-out screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival. The film was The Atom Smashers, a documentary about Illinois-based Fermilab and the international race to discover the Higgs boson. The film was produced by Chicago-based nonprofit 137 Films (COI: several members of the 137 team are good friends of mine).
Branding the boroughs
kosmograd in Kosmograd
Last week I popped along to the exhibition ' London's Towns' at the Building Centre in London. Subtitled "Shaping the Polycentric City", ( download catalogue here) the exhibition looked at developments proposed across the London boroughs, as each looks to assert an identity within the larger metropolis. It seems that every borough needs a masterplan these days. The focus of many boroughs' displays was to highlight their efforts to develop as a standalone 'hub': a retail, cultural and commercial centre that could resist the gravitational pull of Central London. Some, such as Greenwich, Croydon and Stratford see their future as a city within a city.
The Game
Geoff Manaugh in BLDGBLOG
A post earlier this week here on BLDGBLOG raised the question of whether or not an urban candidate might be inherently better suited for the job of U.S. president than a rural one – but what exactly do we mean when we say "urban"? When we read that the world is rapidly urbanizing, for instance, and that more than 50% of the earth's human population now lives in cities, what do we mean by "cities" and how can we tell when a dense assortment of buildings becomes a truly "urban" experience? What if we are surrounded by more buildings than ever before – but there isn't a single real city in sight?
Minor Landscapes and the Geography of American Political Campaigns
Geoff Manaugh in WorldChanging
If you'll excuse a quick bit of landscape-inspired political speculation, I was reminded this morning of something I read last year on Boing Boing and which has stuck with me ever since – and that's that there are more World of Warcraft players in the United States today than there are farmers. Farmers, however, as Boing Boing and the original blog post it links to are both quick to point out, are often portrayed in media polls as a voice of cultural and political authenticity in the United States. They are real Americans, the idea goes, a kind of quiet majority in the background that presidential candidates and media pundits would be foolish to overlook.
The Human Cause - part one
Tim McKeough [a freelance writer on all things architecture, arts, culture & design] reports in the September 2008 issue of Metropolis on the CCV Chapel, by Brooklyn, NY based Stan Allen Architect. Project lead Carlos Arnaiz was a volunteer for the Chosen Children Village [CCV] Foundation while growing up in the Philippines. The foundation, which works with children with disabilities, is a non profit and reached out to Arnaiz once they found out one of their own was an architect.
China's First Zero-Emissions Building
Evelyn Lee in Inhabitat
Situated in Ningbo, China, the University of Nottingham's new Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) is a welcome addition to the landscape as well as the air above Zhejiang province. Inspired by Chinese lanterns and traditional wooden screens, Mario Cucinella Architects packed CSET with a variety of sustainable attributes to make it the the first zero-emissions building in China.
Corbusier's vertical hold on history
An exhibition celebrating Le Corbusier's visionary genius should help clear his name as the man 'responsible' for our Sixties council blocks
Stephen Bayley
The Observer, Sunday October 5 2008
The gloomy crypt is all that was finished of Edwin Lutyens' Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Now, with dissonant irony, it houses a major exhibition of Le Corbusier. Why irony? Generally, because Lutyens was historicist and Corb was anti-sentiment, at least of the historic sort. Specifically, because Frederick Gibberd's 1967 cathedral now above Lutyens is a monument to what most people think they do not like about Corb: abrasive showboating in concrete.
Solyndra's Totally Tubular Solar Cells Perfect for Commercial Applications
Preston D K in Green Building Blog - Jetson Green
Solyndra just released new details of their proprietary solar technology printed with a copper, indium, gallium, and selenium (CIGS) mixture on glass tubes. Solyndra also announced over $1.2 billion in orders and a successful installation using the cylindrical solar tubes on the roof of their corporate headquarters. With the glass tube design and easy installation, the company expects to provide commercial customers with higher electricity output per rooftop and significantly reduced installation costs.
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This pendant keeps growing on me the more I wear it and that's a lot! I put it on a longer, heavier chain and it looks great. The faceting really makes it shine.
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Ordered earrings and ring as well and absolutely loved the set. However, although all stones were intact, two fell out of the earrings so I sent everything back as afraid settings on necklace would be faulty as well and wanted the complete set. Prong on ring broke so afraid prong(s) on necklace would too. However, if the set returns in better settings, I'll order for sure. I have many sets from SC and usually I am very pleased.
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I ordered this pendant in the lemon quartz. Though the stone was darker then I expected it would be, more along the lines of a smokey quartz, it was still pretty and had a lot of colour saturation. It seems to be of solid construction. The chain it comes with was way too short and had to be replaced with an 18" chain that I already owned. The pendant has a rich look and it's neutral colour allows you to wear it with almost anything. I wish it had been a bit lighter in colour and had come with a thicker, longer chain but I wasn't buying the chain. I was buying the pendant and that, I love.


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Hello everyone! New player here. I'm looking forward to gaining knowledge and insight from some of you more experienced folks.
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How long have you been playing? Just starting, but I have been a guitar player for 16-17 years. I've played in several bands and owned a couple drum kits over the years, but this will be the first time I have made a legitimate attempt at playing.
Origin of user name? I was a Firefighter in the USAF.
Top 5 drummers? Tough question, but I'd say Dave Grohl and Stevie Wonder are two that really make me pick up some sticks. I am a fan of simple (a term I use respectfully) beats like from The Black Keys.
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How did I get into drumming? Somebody left a drum kit at my house when I was 15 or 16. It inspired me to seek out a band to play with. Found one fairly quickly but they were lackig a guitar player so I shifted focus. I have spent some time behind kits though and am not completely clueless. I would rate my self somewhere between beginner and intermediate, but completely lacking in natural talent and coordination.
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Posted by Euginius on 07/23/2006
I love the atmosphere, location and the exterior and interior of the place. The service was actually really great- Food came all at the right time! I would definitely love to go back again. Just one small complain is the choice and volume of the music, it's not really a restaurant you can sit and chat.
Posted by anonymous on 06/29/2006
Great beer list. The service was friendly and prompt. Atmosphere was a good combo of comfort and style.
Posted by Justin on 06/19/2006
Really cool vibe, hip place, great food, service is not good. The serving staff cannot answer any questions about the menu. I ordered another coke, and they forgot it several times, and finally brought it out about an hour later. With my bill.
Posted by Hell''s Kitchen Resident on 04/30/2006
Our dinner companions--who arrived a half hour before us--described the service as "non-existent." We were running late and ordered over the phone (through our friends) and when we arrived seven minutes later, the order had just been put in, saving us no time at all. The on-line reviews are clear about the slow service. It makes me wonder whether or not the management cares. As good as the food was, I don't think we'll be returning.
Posted by Anonymous on 04/17/2006
I don't know why I didn't pay attention to the previous reviewers who said the service was slow but now I believe it. I went for Easter brunch and it took 15 minutes just to get a waitress' attention. I finally went to the bar to get a glass of water and was told half the staff was off because of Easter. The food was pretty good when we finally got it (although the smoked salmon in the omelet was very salty). I would never go back though; there are too many other brunch places around to waste my time at HK again.
Posted by Anonymous on 04/07/2006
Good value for what is essentially comfort food (with a little twist in some cases) and a few unexpected dishes like mussels which is surprisingly very good. But the near-absent service and the loud, tacky techno music has often marred my experience at HK.
Posted by Business Diner on 04/04/2006
It's too bad this cool place has poor bad service as it is a great place to grab lunch during the work week. It seemed our waitress apparently had not waitressed before. It took over 20 minutes for our drinks (sodas and Ice teas) to come. I saw her approach us with 2 out of the 4 drinks and then turn around to retrieve the 2 she forgot. It was painful to sit there and watch. The host and the bartender watched TV at the bar as there were many neglected patrons.


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United States Patent 3,350,340 CHEMICALLY MODIFIED POLYMERS OF 1,2-
ALKYLENIMINES AND A PROCESS FOR THEIR PRODUCTION Uwe Soenksen, Ernst Bauer, and Walter Sanne, Ludwigsliafen (Rhine), and Johannes Arnold, Einhausen, Hesse, Germany, assignors to Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen (Rhine), Germany No Drawing. Filed Aug. 16, 1965, Ser. No. 480,192 Claims priority, application Germany, Aug. 21, 1964, B 78,206 9 Claims. (Cl. 260--29.6)
This invention relates to new water-soluble chemically modified polymers of 1,2-alkylenimines, and to a process for their production.
It is known that ethylenirnine may be polymerized by means of acids or other substances which are capable of forming cations with ethylenimine (see for example US. patent specification No. 2,182,306 and Houben-Weyl, Methoden der Organischen Chemie, 4th edition,,1958, volume 11/2, pages 259, et seq).
Moreover it is known from US. patent specification No. 2,626,931 that N-substituted ethylenimine derivatives, for example methyl B-ethyleniminopropionate which may be obtained from ethylenimine and methyl acrylate, can be polymerized. Some of the polymers are soluble and some of them are insoluble in water, depending on the initial materials.
It is also known from German patent specification No. 711,408 that polymer substances are obtained by reaction of monomeric or polymeric 1,2-alkylenimines wtih aliphatic or cyclic carboxylic acids or their anhydrides or esters. The said products are insoluble in water, however, and are accordingly unsuitable for many applications.
Water-soluble polymers of 1,2-alkylenimines, particularly of ethylenimine, and also chemically modified polymers of this type, have great technical importance, particularly in the paper industry. When added to fibrous stock, these agents eifect, among other things, an increased freeness, an increased wet strength of the paper and an acceleration of the draining of the fibrous stock during sheet formation.
The last-mentioned of these eifects has often been accompanied, when using the prior art agents, by the phenomenon that the transparency of the paper has become irregular, the irregularity being the more pronounced the greater the rate of draining.
The present invention therefore has for its object to prepare paper assistants having improved properties, particularly as regards increase in freeness and accelerating draining;
We have now found that water-soluble polymerization products of (a) 1,2-alkylenimines which have. no substitu'ents on the nitrogen atom and (b) a,,B-unsaturated carboxylic acids or their acid chlorides, esters or anhydrides are obtained which are outstandingly suitable for paper manufacture when 1 mole of the 1,2-alkylenimine in solution in water or an organic solvent containing water is reacted with 0.001 to 0.5 mole, preferably 0.01 to 0.3
mole, of an e o-unsaturated carboxylic acid or an acid chloride, ester or anhydride of such an acid, until the viscosity of a 1% by weight aqueous solution of the reaction product at 20 C. is at least 1.2 centipoises, preferably at least 1.5 centipoises.
We have furthermore found that particularly good results are achieved when the bulk, for example about 90%, of the a e-unsaturated acid or said acid derivative is placed in water or a mixture of water and an organic solvent and then the 1,2-alkylenimine, dissolved in water, is allowed to flow in slowly at temperatures of from 70 to 100 C. or when the reactants are allowed to flow simultaneously Patented Oct. 31, 1967 into the water or solvent mixture which has been previously heated, and when the polymer thus obtained is thereafter allowed to react with the remainder of the 11,5- unsaturated acid or acid derivative.
1,2-alkylenimines which bear no substituents on the nitrogen atom are suitable for the process, particularly ethylenimine and also its derivatives which bear methyl or ethyl groups as substituents on the carbon atoms and which have a total of not more than six carbon atoms. Examples of these are 1,2-propylenimine, 2,3-butylenimine and 1,2-butylenimine. Mixtures of these compounds may also be used.
, The compounds for reaction with the 1,2-alkylenimines are quite generally monobasic or dibasic aliphatic, cycloaliphatic and araliphatic 04,5-1111821111113Ifid carboxylic acids,
- their acid chlorides, esters and anhydrides (provided the acids are capable of forming the latter), and mixtures of the acids and/ or their derivatives. These compounds may bear substituents, for example halogen atoms, carbamoyl groups, acetyl groups and cyano groups.
The anhydrides and esters are the most important and,
of these, maleic anhydride and the lower esters (i.e., with one to six carbon atoms in the alcohol radical) of acrylic, methacrylic and maleic acid, such as the methyl and ethyl esters.
, The following may be given as examples of other suitable compounds: acrylic acid, crotonic acid, ethyl cinnamate, heptene-l-carboxylic acid, hexahydrocinnamic acid, dimethyl butylidene malonate, dimethyl cyclohexylidene malonate, ethyl cyclophenylidene acetoacetate and ethyl benzalcyanoacetate. Mixtures of these compounds may also be used. Since all these compounds are able to form protons by reaction with water, the coemployment of additional polymerization initiators is in general unnecessary.
Water is particularly suitable as the reaction medium, and also mixtures of water with water-soluble organic liquids, such as methanol, ethanol, acetone, dioxane or dimethylformamide. The reaction may be carried out at temperatures of from 20 to 200 C., but the range of from 70 to C. is usually preferred. If the temperature is higher than the boiling point of the solvent, the reaction is advantageously carried out at superatmos-pheric pressure.
When the product has reached the desired viscosity (which can be determined without difliculty by control experiments) the reaction mixture is allowed to cool to am- 'bient temperature. No appreciable reaction normally takes place thereafter.
It has been observed that the properties of the product for paper technology are better the higher its viscosity is. It is necessary however to avoid entering a range of viscosity in which the viscosity rises suddenly as the reaction progresses, because in this range the products readily overstep the gel point and are liable to become insoluble in water.
The process according to this invention, which may be carried out continuously or batchwise, yields highly viscous colorless to yellowish solutions which may be used immediately, particularly as assistants in the manufacture of paper. These agents in particular give an increased rate of drain of the fibrous stock without impairing the uniformity of quality of the paper, and also an increase in freeness which is an improvement over the effect of conventional agents. This action has been observed in the case of all available types of fiber based on cellulose, for example bleached and particularly unbleached sulfite cellulose. The amounts required are from about 0.03 to about 0.15% by weight with reference to the fiber content of the paper pulp. In other respects, the products obtainable according to this invention may be used in the paper industry in the same way as conventional paper assistants of this type, for example polyethylenimine.
The invention will be further illustrated by the following examples in which parts and percentages are by weight. The viscosities are determined at C. with a Hoeppler viscometer in centipoises.
Example 1 4128 parts of a 50% aqueous solution of ethylenimine and 48 parts of methyl acrylate are allowed to flow slowly and simultaneously into 240 parts of dimethylformamide at 80 C. during the course of two to three hours. The temperature gradually rises to 100 C. The reaction mixture is kept for another three hours at 100 C. and is then cooled to room temperature. The 48.1% homogeneous solution of the product has a viscosity of about 4000 centipoises.
By adding another 2 parts of methyl acrylate at 30 to 40 C. to 250 parts of the solution thus obtained and heating the mixture at 80 to 90 C. for another fortyfive minutes, the viscosity of the solution is increased to 34,000 centipoises (1% solution: 1.5 centipoises). The product is outstandingly suitable as a paper assistant for increasing the rate of drain.
Example 2 4.5 parts of methyl acrylate is added at room temperature to 250 parts of the solution obtained according to the first paragraph of Example 1, the whole heated quickly to 80 to 90 C., the reaction mixture is kept at this temperature for one hour and then a total of 800 parts of water is introduced at such a rate that the highly viscous solution remains capable of being stirred well.
A 1% solution of this product has a viscosity of 2.3 centipoises.
The following table indicates to what extent the freeness of an unbleached sulfite cellulose is increased (i.e., the extent to which the degree of fineness measured according to Schopper-Riegler is decreased) by adding the product of the process according to the invention and commercially available polyethylenimine (in each case with reference to the solid material).
Moreover it is noteworthy that the fiocculating action of the product of the process according to this invention on the sulfite cellulose fibers in the process water and waste water of the paper machine is almost one and a half times as great as that of commercial polyethylenimine.
Example 3 313 parts of the solution obtained according to the first paragraph of Example 1 is heated with 687 parts of water and 60 parts of methyl acrylate to 80 C. and then kept for about an hour at 80 to 90 C. 'During this period the viscosity of the solution begins to rise very much, so that 2120 parts of water is added during the course of about three hours. The solution is then cooled.
A 1% solution of the product has a viscosity of 3.4 centipoises. It is eminently suitable as an assistant in the manufacture of paper.
Example 4 A solution prepared at 40 C. from 30 parts of dimethylformamide, 20 parts of methyl acrylate and 200 parts of a 25% aqueous solution of ethylenimine is heated to to 90 C., polymerization of the reactants beginning very rapidly. About twenty minutes later, another 832 parts of the ethylenimine solution is added during the course of one and a half hours. The temperature is then kept at to C. for another two hours and the whole is then cooled.
A 1% solution of the product has a viscosity of 1.2 centipoises. It is well suited for increasing freeness in paper manufacture.
Example 5 1032 parts of 50% aqueous ethylenimine is added gradually to a mixture of 60 parts of dimethylformamide and 5 parts of maleic anhydride during the course of one and a half hours and the temperature is raised to 90 C. The reaction mixture is kept for another three hours at 90 to C. and is then cooled to room temperature.
A 1% solution of the product has a viscosity of 1.2 centipoises; it is suitable as a paper assistant.
We claim:
1. A process for the production of water-soluble polymerization products from (a) a 1,2-alkylenimine which is free from substituents on the nitrogen atom and (b) a component selected from the group consisting of a,[3-unsaturated carboxylic acids, acid chlorides, esters and anhydrides, wherein 1 mole of component (a) in a solvent which consists at least partly of Water is reacted with 0.001 to 0.5 mole of component (b) until the viscosity of a 1% by weight aqueous solution of the product at 20 C. is at least 1.2 centipoises.
2. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein 1 mole of component (a) is reacted with 0.01 to 0.3 mole of component (b).
3. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein the reaction is continued until the viscosity of a 1% by weight solution of the product at 20 C. is at least 1.5 centipoises.
4. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein component (b) is placed in a solvent consisting at least partly of water and component (a) dissolved in water is allowed to flow in at a temperature of from 70 to 100 C.
5. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein components (a) and (b) are allowed to flow simultaneously into a preheated solvent consisting at least partly of water.
6. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein the polymerization is carried out with component (a) and the bulk of component (b) and then the product is allowed to react with the remainder of component (b).
7. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein component (a) is ethylenimine.
8. A process as claimed in claim 1 wherein component (b) is selected from the group consisting of lower esters of acrylic, methacrylic and maleic acid and maleic anhydride.
9. Water-soluble polymerization products of (a) a 1,2-alkylen-imine which is free from substituents on the nitrogen atom and (b) a component selected from the group consisting of 06,]3'11I1S3tl11'flt8d. carboxylic acids, acid chlorides, esters and anhydrides, prepared as claimed in claim 1.
References Cited SAMUEL H. BLECH, Primary Examiner.
MURRAY TILLMAN, Examiner.
W. I. BRIGGS, SR., Assistant Examiner.
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We are currently changing the Bohemia Interactive forum software. This means http://forums.bistudio.com will be 'Read Only' until Friday. Apologies for the inconvenience.
I missed out on the pictures and everything else, does anyone have them? Or is there a way to see them?
Check the first 2 pages of the thread, there's a screenshot
Thanks to -Martin- on a previous page.
Are those really photos? I thought they were supreme graphics and new vegetation engine......here's hoping...
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Just because the website is up and running now doesn't mean anything, in fact it's what I expected to happen, BIS left it on long enough for most people to see it but then put the ArmA 2 site back up to make it seem like it really got hacked and so other people can still access the real site. It would seem a little fishy if they left the "hacked" site for 42 hours when it takes a few minutes to fix it, wouldn't it?
But we will see what happens after 42 hours. Maybe this was really a genuine hack.
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-Martin- , that link does not work.
This is the link that does: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1...it?hl=en&pli=1
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BI have posted a 'news' story about it at:
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Whenever I load the page I seem to be getting an extremely blurry picture of a pinkish/red trianglural looking object, a green circle, and a another blue shape with some sort of gray and black background. It's extremely blurry and I think it would just be crude shapes even if it weren't..is this what I'm supposed to be seeing?
Move to ArmA 2? Perhaps with a different title so people don't freak out ^^
Status: lurker.
When was the last time anyone checked that we abide by the signatures rules?
I find this quote from the AAN News rather interesting:
...has not been announced yet...The PBHB is known for politically motivated attacks and it is speculated the attack is in relation with a new project by Bohemia Interactive that has not been announced yet.
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