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Adventures in Edinburgh Part TwoSunday, June 05, 2011
Hello, Lovely lovely! I'm listening to Ingrid Michaelson's Parachute while working on this blog post in my little room in London. Oh, London...it's a beautiful place to be, but it's also jammed packed with a million other people, some of which have no sense of personal space. I guess I'm just not used to an uber big city like London. My sister keeps telling me that Paris is going to be even more crowded. We leave for Paris on Friday and then we're go on to Cannes next Wednesday. I'm already getting a little nervous about the language barrier. I hope I don't butcher the French language and insult someone! My boyfriend went to Paris & Cannes a few weeks ago, and he told me that most of the southern French people don't speak any English. I guess I will have to rely on my French guide book, my mad charade skills, and my sister for all the pronunciations of difficult French phrases.
Anyways, here is another batch of pictures from my whimsical adventures in Edinburgh!
My favorite place in Edinburgh is the Royal Botanical Garden!! It's a magical place filled with a vast array of flowers, wall hedges, waterfalls, trees, and ponds.
Technically, these pictures are from a day shopping trip to Glasgow. We took the train up to Glasgow and met up with one of my sister's friends. It was a lovely little adventure. I even found the Tardis!! Doctor Who is one of my absolute favorite shows, if I haven't told you that before. We found two of these blue boxes while exploring Glasgow. I guess the Doctor was keeping an eye on us!
I must preface these pictures with the fact that I'm absolutely terrified of fish. More specifically, I'm afraid of a fish touching me. I know that sounds silly, but that is just how it is. Anyways, my sister saw a pedicure salon that was offering fish pedicures, and she begged me to get one with her. Fish pedicures are banned in our state, so neither of us had ever tried one before. She finally talked me into it, and we both had our feet nibbled on by a bunch of tiny fish. It was a very strange at first, but the little fish were actually really cute. My feet were really smooth afterwards, and it was the quirky experience I was longing for in Scotland.
Sending lots of positive energy your way!!
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Loved to look at your pictures!! Looks like you are having a wonderful time in Europe!ReplyDelete
great pics...i travelled to scotland about 10 years ago (in September), and before going there, i had imagined it to be cold and bleak, but it was just like your photo's - beautiful.ReplyDelete
OMG I tried a fish pedicure in Cambodia! I couldn't keep my feet in cause it tickled so much. Check out the pics on my blog. And more pics from my trips in March-April entries.ReplyDelete
Very nice pictures! By the way, while you are in Paris you must must must go to the restaurant that is in the Musee D'Orsay. Also as long as you try to speak French, the people there will be very nice to you and go right into English if need be.ReplyDelete


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For a company such as Sony you would think to transfer funds that you have put into you account from one thing to another that it would be as easy as pushing a few keys on the board. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2 x now I have issues with funds that I paid for via cards being used the way I would hope they would be, (putting cash in my wallet).
I will say this be very careful with your money and Sony they will claim they can't do anything, once they have your money good luck getting it back.
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Hi, your right thats what happened. I move from the US to Canada so I had to create a new account. It was all very frustrating and like I said its hard to believe they couldn't work that out.
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Belmont: Point of Entry, Little Mike facing off in Joe Hirsch
ELMONT, N.Y. – Point of Entry and Little Mike won arguably the two biggest turf stakes of the summer. On Saturday, they will face off at Belmont Park and will try to win one of the bigger turf races of the fall, the Grade 1, $600,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational.
On Aug. 18, Point of Entry won the Sword Dancer at Saratoga, and a little later that afternoon, Little Mike won the Arlington Million. Those races were the second Grade 1 victories this year for both. Point of Entry won the Man o' War before the Sword Dancer over the same Widener turf course he will compete on Saturday, while Little Mike won the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on the Kentucky Derby undercard two starts before the Arlington Million. On paper, these two lay over Joe Hirsch field. And on the track, these two might have the 12-furlong Hirsch all to themselves from the outset. It's entirely possible Little Mike and Point of Entry will be running one-two right out of the gate.
Barring a disastrous start, Little Mike will go to the lead, because he always does and because there is not one other true front-runner in this six-horse field. And that means Little Mike might work out a trip much like the one he had at Arlington. Under Ramon Dominguez, who rides him back on Saturday, Little Mike lulled the Arlington Million field to sleep with fractions of 49.95 seconds, 1:15.03, and 1:39.54. After opening up a lead of nearly five lengths in midstretch, Little Mike – a 5-year-old gelding by Spanish Steps trained by Dale Romans – had plenty left to prevail by 1 1/2 lengths.
Point of Entry, meanwhile, showed in his last two starts that he is more than just a deep closer reliant on honest fractions to set up his late run. Point of Entry prompted an extraordinarily slow pace in the Man o' War, and he was prominently placed early again in the Sword Dancer before blowing that race apart in the final furlong en route to a four-length score. In light of this newfound versatility, look for jockey John Velazquez to have this Shug McGaughey-trained 4-year-old colt by Dynaformer in fairly close early contact with Little Mike.
Little Mike does hold a pace advantage in the Hirsch, and given a showery forecast, the footing could be to his liking, too. There was cut in the ground in both his Arlington Million and Woodford Reserve victories. In fairness, though, Point of Entry is a far better horse now than he was when he ran third a year ago in his only attempt on turf listed other than firm.
But the potential separating factor between these two, and the reason why this corner believes Point of Entry will win, is the distance. Point of Entry is 3 for 3 in his career at 12 furlongs. For the record, he's also 2 for 2 going 11 furlongs. Little Mike, on the other hand, was going as far as 10 furlongs for the first time in his life in the Arlington Million.
"You're always concerned about something you haven't done before," Romans said. "But he got the mile and a quarter easy enough and, hopefully, he can go ahead and get the mile and a half. It will be the right kind of pace."
Treasure Beach ships over from Ireland yet again for trainer Aidan O'Brien and is not completely without a chance. Treasure Beach, who won the Grade 1 Secretariat last year, finished fifth behind Point of Entry as the 4-5 favorite in the Man o' War, and sixth behind Little Mike in the Arlington Million. Treasure Beach was severely compromised by slow paces both times, but he can be much more competitive if he can somehow find a way around that problem Saturday.
Completing the field are Finnegans Wake, second in this year's Secretariat most recently, but who faces a much tougher set of older horses for the first time; Kindergarden Kid, a close third in the Kentucky Turf Cup last time in his first start off the Mike Maker claim; and Hailstone, a distant sixth in the Sword Dancer at 60-1.
The Joe Hirsch is a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series Win and You're In, with the winner receiving a fees-paid berth in the BC Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 3 and a $10,0000 travel allowance. Little Mike is already assured a place in the BC Turf, as the Arlington Million was a Win and You're In.
Easiest pass on the card. Unless you see one of them as underperforming, wagering on Point of Entry (4-5 or 55.6%) or Little Mike (2-1 or 33.3%) is pretty much a suckers bet. If the odds add up to 125%, and 100% is paid out, you need to be able to correctly toss out a 3-1 favorite (25%) just to bet into an even playing field. Basic math, but amazing how many knowledgeable horse handicappers skip that part, and in the long run wonder what went wrong.
Keep in mind when plunking your money on Little Mike, he is already IN. POE is not. Romans will not want Little Mike's best race right before Santa Anita and he needs to run that to beat POE. Sure Little Mike will be running on the lead but dont think Dominguez is going to beat him up when POE is closing on him. Look for Finnegan's Wake to be closing right behind the latter. Its 1.5 miles. That is a lot to ask of a horse that only knows racing to be get ahead of everyone and they'll stay there. Little Mike's odds are WAY too short to play under these circumstances.
Little Mike will be ultra tough on the lead, POE has been beating up the same group of mediocrities and will be bet heavily. Treasure Beach looks dangerous and could finally grow up in this race.
Point of Entry is too much horse right now and will only get better which is a scary thought but very well received. Let's hope he stay healthy long enough to show his full potential and so far he has only displayed about 60% of his ability.
Little Mike ALLLLLLL the way !!!!
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Sometimes it is difficult to choose from the four options given, but there is usually one that fits better than the rest, or at least one that you could see yourself as more so than the others. If you're still unsure, try asking someone who knows you well, such as a parent or sibling. They can give clarity on areas of your personality that you may not notice.


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Mark Capriolo, MD is a board certified internal medicine specialist with over ten years of experience. He joined Ministry Medical Group after practicing with Woodland Clinic in Manitowoc, Wisconsin where he was widely recognized for his achievements in diabetes management and quality care. Dr. Capriolo treats a wide range of adult illnesses and chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and congestive heart failure.
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I know most people here don't check the other forums that often, but I just posted about a new online football game that some of you might be interested in... check out the link here:
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Was glad to see some of you guys checking the game out last time I posted about this... figured I'd bump this up and see if anyone else was interested. We're currently in the offseason between seasons three and four (seasons last 40 days) and I just got my very own team, the Surabaya Heroes. They released a boatload of teams all at once, so recruiting is pretty tough right now, as even the terrible players are flooded with offers. I'd love it if some of you guys would give the game, and my team, a shot. Remember, the game is completely free to play... you can make 2/3 players with the initial points they give you and you never have to spend a dime if you don't want to... plus you can put as little or as much time into it as you want. I've got a decent amount of experience with the game and would be glad to give you advice on building your players.
So if anyone's interested in joining the Heroes or just jumping into the game at all, send me a PM, or just follow the link (http://goallineblitz.com/game/signup.pl?ref=8427098) and send me a PM in game (same screen name, Gabrosin). Hope to hear from you soon!


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High School Graduates Report
The Missouri High School Graduates Performance Report is prepared by the Department of Higher Education as a strategic resource for linking high school performance to college success. For colleges and universities, the report provides data to identify high school graduates who meet the institution's admission requirements. For high schools, the report can be used as a guidance and counseling tool to assess how well their graduates are prepared for the college of their choice
The report tracks Missouri public high school graduates entering the state's public two- and four-year postsecondary institutions as first-time freshmen in the fall semester following high school graduation.
In accordance with Section 173.750, RsMO, the Missouri High School Graduates Performance Report provides information to individual high schools, and is disaggregated by race and gender. No data identifying individual students is included. The governing statute is available in its entirety at http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/stathtml/17300007501.HTML. The report includes:
- Grade point average after the initial year in college
- Percent of students returning to college after the first and second semester
- Percent of students taking remedial courses in the basic academic subjects of English, mathematics, or reading
- Other data as determined by rule and regulation of the Coordinating Board for Higher Education
Currently, data comprising the report is drawn solely from student data provided annually by in-state public colleges and universities; no data is currently included in the report from either the state's private institutions, or by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), although additional collaborative analyses are currently underway.
DHE staff have integrated all past annual reports into a longitudinal data file that will enable high schools to track and compare their graduate cohorts' college performance across the state's public higher education system. There are three tables in the integrated data file:
- Table 1 provides information on gender and ethnicity as well as ACT scores and college-level remediation. (updated 05-10-2016)
- Table 2 reports first-year college performance in terms of GPAs and retention rates. (updated 05-10-2016)
- Table 3 tracks degree completion within a six-year period. (updated 05-10-2016)
All these tables are listed by city and high school buildings. For the purpose of protecting individual privacy, no statistics are reported in cases involving fewer than 5 students.
Interactive Visualization - Remediation
This section of the Missouri High School Graduates Performance Report focuses on the percentage of students who graduate from Missouri public high schools and enroll in one or more remedial course(s) at one of Missouri's public colleges and universities. Data are consistent with information on remediation reported in Table 1, above.
The interactive infographic allows users to explore remedial education trends by year, county, school, and subject. Simply select a county from the list or interactive map to see county percentages and individual schools' percentages by remedial subject. It may take a few seconds for the county to load, or to change the selection by clicking another county in the list or on the map.
You can also select or search for a school by name to see trend data by year and remedial subject. Searching a school will search within selected counties, however, so it's best to search for schools with no counties selected.
To reset the infographic, simply re-select the county, county name, school name, or clear the search bar; one may also select "reset" or "undo" at the bottom of the graphic.
NOTE: Counties are color-coded for total remedial enrollment by year and subject area, but the statewide scale beneath the map will change if the year or subject area is changed. So, a county's color will be relative only to other counties in the same map, not to the same county in a different year or for a different subject.
Annual Summaries
April 2016 Report (Tab P) - page 151
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Young people's aspirations for education, work, family and leisure
McDonald, Paula K., Pini, Barbara, Bailey, Janis, & Price, Robin A. (2011) Young people's aspirations for education, work, family and leisure. Work, Employment and Society, 25(1), pp. 68-84.
Young people are arguably facing more 'complex and contested' transitions to adulthood and an increasing array of 'non-linear' paths. Education and training have been extended, identity is increasingly shaped through leisure and consumerism and youth must navigate their life trajectories in highly individualised ways. The study utilises 819 short essays compiled by students aged 14–16 years from 19 schools in Australia. It examines how young people understand their own unique positions and the possibilities open to them through their aspirations and future orientations to employment and family life. These young people do not anticipate postponing work identities, but rather embrace post-school options such as gaining qualifications, work experience and achieving financial security. Boys expected a distant involvement in family life secondary to participation in paid work. In contrast, around half the girls simultaneously expected a future involving primary care-giving and an autonomous, independent career, suggesting attempts to remake gendered inequalities
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Here's a look at each of the new Mariners:
Miguel Olivo
At age 25 – he turns 26 on July 15 – Olivo has been the White Sox's No. 1 catcher this season, appearing in 45 games. Regarded as one of the top defensive catchers in the American League, Olivo has an arm that rivals that of Ivan Rodriguez. Offensively, he has speed rarely seen in catchers, and has shown steady improvement at the plate.
In 141 at bats with Chicago this season, he has batted .270 with seven home runs, seven doubles, three triples, 26 RBI and five stolen bases.
Last season, his rookie year, he batted .237 in 317 at bats in his first full season in the big leagues, and struggled with his discipline at the plate. He struck out 80 times and walked just 19.
This season, that's changed. He's fanned just 29 times and walked 10, showing that he's been able to cut down on the strikeout.
Defensively, Olivo has thrown out 9 of 29 base stealers this season, having gunned down 19 of 53 last season.
Look for Olivo to quickly become the M's main option at catcher as the club looks to begin building toward the future around their newest backstop. Wilson, who's been one of the M's best hitters this season, is 35 years old and a free agent after the season. He' batting .279 with two homers and 24 RBI this year.
Jeremy Reed
The key to the deal, the 6-foot, 180-pound Reed is a toolsy outfielder that was rated as Chicago's top prospect by Baseball America. He batted .333 in 222 at bats at High-A Winston-Salem last season before being promoted and batting .409 in 242 at bats at Double-A Birmingham. The hot-hitting earned him the 2003 Topps Minor League Player of the Year honors. More recently, he was named as one of Chicago's two minor league representatives in the July 11th Futures Game in Houston.
At Triple-A Charlotte this season, the recently-turned 23-year-old has batted .273 with eight homers, 36 RBI, 14 doubles, one triple and 12 steals.
With speed to burn and aggressiveness that can't be taught, Reed has compiled 74 steals in his two-plus years as a pro. In the mold of a Chris Snelling, only faster and stronger, Reed has good instincts in the outfield and an average arm. He projects as a centerfielder or right fielder, most likely.
Without Reed, this deal wouldn't have went down. The M's knew they needed to acquire some promising young bats for the future, and they got one in this athletic former 2002 second round draft pick. Look for Reed to be assigned to Triple-A Tacoma for a bit more minor league seasoning before getting a look in the bigs once the 25-man roster expands.
Michael Morse
At 6-foot-5, Morse is a shortstop who, like Jose Lopez, could slide over to play third base. He has busted out offensively this season at Double-A Birmingham, batting .287 with 11 homers, nine doubles and three triples. On the down side, he has shown little speed on the basepaths, having yet to record a single stolen base.
The offensive production is a good sign for the 22-year-old 2000 third-round draft choice. In his first four professional seasons, Morse batted just .256, .227, .257 and .245 in the Rookie League and Single-A levels.
As a 21-year-old last season, the infielder struck out 91 times and had just 25 walks in 432 at bats. He's struggling with that ratio again this year – 46 K to 15 BB - and will need to continue to try to cut it down in the M's organization.
Look for Morse to be assigned to Double-A San Antonio, and get a good look at third base, the spot Greg Dobbs vacated early last week when he was promoted to Tacoma. That would allow Hunter Brown to move back to second base and Eriberto Menchaca to stay at shortstop.
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Moose Seen In Annapolis Valley
Posted 27 July 2011 - 08:02 PM
How many other stories are out there???? I have seen tracks that made me wonder.....but nothing confirmed for myself. Let's hear about some sightings, Moose not Bigfoot LOL
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Posted 27 July 2011 - 08:31 PM
I myself have seen moose in the back pockets of Burnside a some years ago, and my dad walked upon a cow a few years back, near the Hants/Hfx border,unfortunately, I came across a remains of a moose a year or so later, in the same general area.
I'm thinking with more abundant deer population ,the moose parasite, ( meningeal worm ) which is carried by deer, and more often than not, fatal to moose, is keeping the mainland population of moose much lower than we would like to see.
My $0.02
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Posted 27 July 2011 - 09:27 PM
Last year around the middle of deer season I got a trail cam picture of a bull moose, then the sunday after rifle season ended I went up to bring the trail cam home and I saw a big cow moose about 20 yards behind my apple pile, now this year I got a pic of a calf...
you can see the legs of what I assume is momma moose just to the left of the calf, I only got the one picture, they didnt stop to eat any minerals, just followed the path right buy the cam.
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Posted 27 July 2011 - 10:42 PM
Later that same summer I kayaked that portion of the river looking for old and new moose tracks but never seen any... But I know one of the guys who seen this moose personally and he knows his animals.
I heard there is a pond on the Cloud lake road where people have seen moose on numerous occasions? Don't know what pond, but is suppose to have grassy edges...
I hope they grow in numbers, love calling and watching moose.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 06:46 AM
blackfeather about 20 plus years ago stood not to far from a young bull standing in the yard of a friend in Marshaltown,as well some years ago had one wondering around the deep brook area.have seen plenty of tracks in the white sands area back of bear River in years past as well.
South Mountain or Valley floor, over the years there have been moose sign and sighting in the South Mountain range, Dalhouse West etc. But never heard tell of any Valley Floor area.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 06:57 AM
Mainland Moose Report Card
Actual sightings and even tracks are valuable information to the DNR.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 08:06 AM
Wild turkeys would be cool, but if I had my druthers, I'd rather see the day when mainland moose made enough of a comeback that there could be some sort of hunt -- primitive, non-motorized, whatever. They're already here, with pockets of breeding populations, so I would think with dedicated effort the herd could be grown.
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When the buffalo are gone we will hunt mice, for we are hunters and we want our freedom. - Chief Sitting Bull
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:03 PM
blackfeather about 20 plus years ago stood not to far from a young bull standing in the yard of a friend in Marshaltown,as well some years ago had one wondering around the deep brook area.have seen plenty of tracks in the white sands area back of bear River in years past as well.
HW, Yes the South Mountain range from Yarmonth to Windsor, there has been a few mainland moose roaming around, One with collar on showed up in the Liverpool area last year. I could tell a few moose sighting in the last 20 years but it would take to much time.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:10 PM
Very good to see! And very nice trailcam pic!
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:55 PM
Yeah, it was a nice surprise to see that on the cam.. it was in zone 103
What a pleasure it would be be to find that moose calf pic on your trail cam. Which zone was that in?
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Have you seen Russell Crowe in Christchurch?
Email the Herald Newsdesk
When Johnny met Warnie yesterday, the Basin Reserve became the perfect intersection of Hollywood, the sports hall of fame and the Beehive.
Prime Minister John Key and cricket's Sultan of Spin, Australian Shane Warne, were just two of the big names who turned out for the Fill the Basin event to raise funds for the Christchurch earthquake appeal.
Sir Ian McKellen, James Nesbitt, Russell Crowe, Mark Hadlow and Martin Freeman represented the thesps.
Crowe, cousin of former New Zealand cricket captains Martin and Jeff Crowe, recalled touring Christchurch in 1986 with the Rocky Horror Show.
"I've been told the theatre's roof has collapsed, but there's no point in looking back, we've got to look forward ...
"The principal message is that New Zealanders, from all walks of life and wherever they are in the world, are 100 per cent behind the people of Canterbury and the city of Christchurch."
Richie McCaw, sans moon-boot, did a spot of umpiring, as did Conrad Smith. Graham Henry and Wayne Smith were in attendance. Tana Umaga did more than that. He had Craig McMillan caught behind off his bowling, then took a screaming catch to dismiss Dion Nash for a duck.
As for the cricketers, it was a who's who of the country's greatest.
Sir Richard Hadlee, Stephen Fleming, the brains behind this event, Crowe, Bruce Edgar, Andrew Jones, Nathan Astle, Mark Greatbatch, Geoff Allott, Rod Latham and Ewen Chatfield were all there. Some had impressive paunches, some looked like they could play for New Zealand again tomorrow.
The can't-miss event was Key squaring off against Warne. Giving it a pistols-at-dawn edge was that the PM has confessed to having a soft spot for Warne's latest squeeze, Liz Hurley.
Key, who had a secret net session at Parnell Cricket Club on Saturday, said the 22 yards he walked to take guard was like walking to the "gallows".
At stake was not life or death, but $100,000 if he could hit a boundary. A juicy full toss was slapped to the ropes - cheque, mate.
Warne said he had a love-hate relationship with New Zealanders. "I love them, they hate me. When Stephen [Fleming] rang me and I saw the pictures on TV, it was the least I could do to come over and help out."
The game ended when Umaga hit Warne for six. Somebody won, but no one cared who. The figure that truly mattered was this: more than half a million dollars was raised.


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Special Issue of Sagetrieb Dedicated to Literary Scholar Burton Hatlen
A new issue of Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics After Modernism has just come out and is worth a look. The National Poetry Foundation began publishing Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition in 1982; its subtitle was changed in 2002. For 2014's issue 20, Sagetrieb is a double (aka A Festschrift for Burton Hatlen), edited by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, with "Essays on and in Honor of [scholar and U. Maine professor] Burton Hatlen" (authored by Marjorie Perloff, Kaplan Harris, Barrett Watten and others); a section on George Oppen; and one-off essays by the likes of Richard Owens ("Dissociations: The McCaffery-Prynne Debate") and Joshua Corey ("Robert Duncan's Visionary Ecology").
The previous issue, WOMEN POETS OF THE 1950s, also looks incredibly good. Learn more about Sagetrieb here. Ordering information here. Strange things will come up: Hatlen and Stephen King had a professionally and personally close relationship, with Hatlen helping King develop his writing style. Hatlen died in 2008.
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Ladies, how many of you visit your nail salon every couple of weeks for a gel polish mani? Yup, that's what I thought, tons of you.
What if I told you that you could get that same chip free, mirror shine, fabulousness of gel polish at home, for less than $10 a mani? Amazing, right? People, I've found the answer!
I la-la-la-love Sally Hansen and have been using their products for YEARS. Well, I can't tell you how excited I was when this gel polish kit arrived for me to try.
Everything you need is all in the one box:
• Base Coat
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• Remover
• LED Light
• Application Accessories: cuticle stick, buffer and alcohol cleaning pads
· 10 Nail Cleanser Pads
· Acetone Remover
· Cuticle Stick
· File & Buffer
· And an instruction sheet
I decided to do a mani date with a Vancouver gal pal, Karen S. She has much nicer digits than moi, so she is the hand model in our pics – thanks Karen!
1. First you've got to prep your nails: files nails, push back cuticles, wipe nails with nail cleanser pad
2. Apply a thin layer of base coat – cure for 30 seconds
3. Apply a thin layer of the gel nail colour – cure for 30 seconds (then repeat with 2nd coat)
4) Apply a thin layer of top coat – cure for 30 seconds & wipe each nail with a fresh nail cleanser pad. Done!
· Gently buff the nail with the grey side of the nail file (inlcuded). This ensures that the polish properly adheres.
· Put a towel down to protect your table from possibly getting polish on it – we're kinda mucky pups, so this tip is really for us!
· Wondering how you remove your gel polish? Check out the video below created by Sally Hansen.
I am really liking my gel polish mani and can't wait to try the other 15 shades available.
The Sally Hansen Salon GelPolish Starter Kit is available at your major drug stores for $79.95 and additional Sally Hansen Salon Gel Nail colours are $14.95 each.
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We welcome you all to join ICSM, the longest-running conference series in the field of conducting and semiconducting organic materials. ICSM2014 will be organized as a joint Scandinavian effort in Turku, in the middle of the Finnish summer, between June 30th and July 5th, 2014.
Since the start in the mid-1970's (the most recent editions of ICSM took place in Snowbird, USA, 1996; Montpellier, France, 1998; Bad Gastein, Austria, 2000; Shanghai, China, 2002; Wollongong, Australia, 2004; Dublin, Ireland, 2006; Porto de Galinhas, Brazil, 2008; Kyoto, Japan, 2010; and Atlanta, USA 2012) with the advent of highly electrically conducting molecular crystals and conjugated polymers ICSM has now become the premiere venue for discussion of the latest developments in the areas of organic electronics and photonics, from synthesis to characterization, computational modeling, device fabrication, and real-world applications.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Turku in 2014!
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Long story short after moving and leaving the tank day (nearly two months ago) I found the other one STILL ALIVE and doing well! this has got to be the toughest pet i have ever kept!
thankfully tomorrow is my last day at my job, and i can spend the following day cleaning out that tank, i saw mold growing in it! its probably from all the dead crickets....
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MLK Lecture with Monica Miller, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow for Religious Studies
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$5,800,000 156 Tallai Road, Tallai, QldOne of the Gold Coast's biggest homes on 8888 square metres. It has six bedrooms, a glass lift, parking for 30 cars and a karaoke stage. Sold before auction by Ray White Prestige Gold Coast.
$3,400,000 4/4 Walton Crescent, Abbotsford, NSWNew waterfront apartment with three bedrooms, large terrace and pool. It has high ceilings and surfaces of travertine, polished wood and marble. Sold through CB Richard Ellis Projects.
$3,050,00014 Kirkoswald Avenue, Mosman, NSWRenovated with the help of architect Andrew Tzannes, this house has four bedrooms, a pool and a home cinema. It is a short walk from Chinamans Beach. Sold at auction by McGrath Agents.
$2,990,0002402/168 Kent Street, Sydney, NSWApartment on the 24th floor of Observatory Tower with interiors by Garth Barnett. It has two bedrooms, parking for two cars and 24 hour concierge. Sold through VanGuarde Sydney.
$2,225,000 21 Johnson Street, Hawthorn, VictoriaThree-bedroom Victorian home with a Mediterranean-style terrace. Sold at auction by Jellis Craig Hawthorn.
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17 Oct Real Deal Plant-Strong Chili with Beans
Meet Benjamin. He has an incredible story and we are very glad to have him as a featured blogger on Engine 2! Check out his blog and follow his story.
Today he is sharing a great fall chili recipe!
Real Deal Plant-Strong Chili with Beans
As a meat eater one of my favorite things to eat in the world was Texas chili con carne. You know the meat and chiles without any healthy beans to get in the way! I developed a pretty kick-ass version over the years. It combined some Mexican cooking methods that I learned from J. Wade Williams (a la Rick Bayless) and testing a few recipes from the web. The flavor breakthrough is all about using dried chiles and toasting them for maximum flavor. No chili powder from a jar!
So when I set out to convert that original recipe into a more life-sustaining dish sans the carne I knew I had to get it right. Flavor is of the utmost importance. But how do you get a meatless dish to taste like beef? I tried a few times and failed. I was attempting to replace the texture of chuck steak with chunk seitan. It was only mildly succesful. The real issue was not so much the mouthfeel of the seitan as much as it was the lacking in beefy flavor of the chili itself.
U my mami?
This month I finally had a breakthrough. Cook's Illustrated wrote a piece on vegetarian chili and the tested and discussed the dilemma I have just described to you guys. How to increase that umami flavor in the chili to make it taste more savory or beefy.
I had already been on the hunt for more umami earlier this year developing the recipe. I had experimented with tomato paste and soy sauce. A friend of mine Ian had suggested I check out black garlic. That was a step in the right direction for sure.Armed with my new knowledge of umami I was ready to tackle the recipe once again.
beans in chili?
I had debated adding beans to the chili because real Texas chili has no beans. Or at least I should say chili con carne has no beans. I decided to leave out the seitan add pinto beans and bulgar for the meaty texture (another suggestion from Cook's). I know the purist will mock me for the beans but I don't really care. I love beans! They really are my favorite protein source. Every meal with beans leaves me feeling fuller and more satiated for a longer period of time because they take much longer to digest that other veggies. The bulgar adds a great meaty texture to the chili.
The last thing I will say to preface this recipe is that when it comes to chili I am all about the slow cooker. This process is pretty involved. Although it did get simplified a bit by the time you get everything in the pot you are ready to clean up and call it a night. That's why I love the slow cooker. Once you get the whole pot boiling you just transfer it to the slow cooker and walk away. You come home later or wake up in the morning to the most amazing smell! Its really the only way to do this in my opinion.
Alright. Enough jibber jabber. On with the recipe.
Real Deal Plant-Strong Chili with Beans
5 dried ancho chiles
3 dried guajillo chiles
2 large white onions diced about 2# whole or 4 cups diced
4 garlic cloves minced
1 (28oz) can of diced tomatoes (of fresh if in season) drained and liquid reserved
7 cups of water
2 1/2 cups of dried pinto beans, washed
1/2 oz of dried shiitake mushrooms coarsely chopped
1/2 cup of toasted walnuts
3 tablespoons of tomato paste
4 tablespoons of tamari/soy sauce
2/3 cup of coarse bulgar (medium coarse is ok too)
4 cloves of black garlic
3 teaspoons of white vinegar
salt and pepper to taste
chopped green onions and cilantro for garnish (optional)
1. preheat oven to 300 degrees. Arrange dried chiles on baking sheet and toast in the oven for 10 minutes until fragrant and puffed. Transfer to a plate to cool about 5 minutes. Stem and seed the chiles. If you like your chili hotter leave some seeds or pith. Grind toasted chilies, oregano, and shiitake mushrooms in a spice grinder/mortar and pestal to a fine powder. I have an immersion blender with a small food processor like attachment. That's what I used and it worked great.
2. Process walnuts in a food processor until finely ground. About 30 seconds. Set aside.
3. Process drained tomatoes, jalapeno, garlic, and tamari until very finely chopped.
4. Heat dutch oven over high heat until very hot. Add onions and cook with lid on stirring occasionally until onions start to brown and are translucent. About 5-8 minutes. Add cumin and chili powder and cook stirring frequently 1 minute. Add beans, tomato puree, walnuts, bulgar, and water. Bring to a full rolling boil.
5. Transfer carefully to slow cooker and cook on high heat for 4 hours or low heat for 8. Stirring once or twice to ensure beans are submerged in liquid. Add vinegar and taste. Season with salt and pepper and serve with cilantro and green onions as garnish if desired. Depending on your chili heat you may or may not need some hot sauce as well.
*if you are watching your sodium you can reduce or eliminate the soy sauce/tamari.
Hope you enjoy it. Remember that these stews always taste better a day or two after making them.
Enjoy in health!
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Fifteen and a half
Short Story by: mykaitch
Status: Finished
Genre: Romance
Fifteen and a Half.
You remember it don't you ? Fifteen and a half years old, you worry about every zit you see in the mirror, you're too young to smoke, to drive a car or to vote (or screw). So far you never made it to first base but all your buddies seem to be screwing around like jack-rabbits. Your grades are slipping because the prettiest girl in the whole damn school sits at a desk just three across from yours. The thing is, and oh yes - she really is beautiful, no the thing is that you never made the football team, you tried real hard but as they say, you just couldn't cut it. She's been in your class for four weeks now and you have been longing to talk to her but every time that you think you just might, you sort of clam up, turn away and as you walk away in shame with your head down, you hate yourself for not saying a word to her. As far as you know she has never dated, but oh god is she beautiful, so what chance has a guy who can't even make the 'B' team with a girl like that ? So every day is torture as you cut her sly glances hoping that she won't look up and catch you out because you love the way her forehead furrows when she concentrates hard on her work.
Today is different though because you just know that you're going to do it. You hang on a bit when the class empties because she is usually the last to leave. You figure that if you ask her then, none of your buddies will see you get knocked back and looking stupid, so you mess with your own books until you see that vision three desks over, stand up. That's when you jump to your feet but you are in such a rush now that you catch the desk as you stand - the desk rocks and your books scatter all over the floor and while you scrabble around to pick them all up, she's gone. That night is another agony as you lie in your bed and try not to think of her and when at last you do drop off to sleep you end up dreaming about her in any case and you have to tip a glass of Coke over the sheet in the morning to hide the stain that you made in the night from your mom, who knows exactly why you did that with the Coke in any case.
Every day you see her in school and when you wait for the bus you see her mom pick her up in her car and you ache to say hello to her, but you can't. Then something magical happens. Your teacher is casting for the next school play and he puts you in as one of the characters......and her as another. This means lots of after school rehearsals, and for weeks now you will be alone with that girl, well almost apart from the other twelve people who are also in the play too. After two weeks of messing up your lines because all you can do is to look at her, you finally reach the point where you both say "hi", when you meet up in the school theatre. A few more weeks go by and you know that pretty soon it will all be over, you will present the play and that will be that. Finally, at long last you somehow find the courage to do it. You know that if you wait until almost everybody has gone that when she turns you down and you feel that awful humiliation of rejection, that nobody will be around to see you turn scarlet and slink off.
The last rehearsal is over, everyone has gone but it ended fifteen minutes early and so she has to wait around for her mom to collect her and that's when you do it. For as long as you have been learning your script you have been practising what you will say in front of the bathroom mirror. You have set you voice to sound sort of macho and romantic ( you think), and you know every syllable off by heart so you turn to her to speak, but the other problem is that your voice is only just breaking so instead of sounding like Bruce Willis you sound like Minnie Mouse on helium, and instead of your killer line you blurt it all out on one joined up word, "would-you-like-to-come-to-the-movies-with-me-on-Saturday-only-its-fine-if-you-dont't-want-to-but-I-kinda-thought....", and then you turn bright red and turn away because you know she will say no, only she doesn't, she says, "Great! I'd love to go. Call by at seven - you know where I live ?"
And in your head you go "WHAT ? She said YES?", so you turn back even more embarrassed now and say as coolly as you can, "oh yeah. See ya", and you're outta there as fast as you can, before she can change her mind.
Saturday is three days away and you don't really sleep at all, you just lie there wide awake and thinking about her. On the great day the clock takes forever as you hide in your room, watching it tick and waiting. She lives eight blocks away but luckily the Mall where the Cinema is, is just two blocks down from her house, so you set of real early and at half past six you have walked past her house to an empty lot on the corner where you try to kill time until you can go back for her at seven, like you promised. You knock on her door and your stomach has already fallen through the sidewalk, but the door opens and there she is. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! You've only ever seen her at school, never at the Mall or anywhere else, but here she is, all dressed up for a date, with you! She looks like a movie star and she smells kinda wonderful, a musky smell from whatever perfume she is wearing and, oh my god, her top has buttons all down the front. You drink her in, is this for real ? Then the most unthinkable thing in your whole life happens and down there, down in your groin, you feel it and you know that its pushing out your Levis like a tent pole so you sort of turn a little bit and that Minnie Mouse voice squeaks, "let's go". She takes your arm and moves real close as you walk, so close that you can feel her rubbing against you with every step. You only walked eight blocks to get here, you could have walked a hundred.
At the cinema you know what seats to go for and so there you are, sitting in the back row (of the movies on a Saturday night, holding hands together....), and as the movie begins you drift away. Very casually, you managed to get your arm around her, across the back of her seat. Its been there for a half hour now and you have a cramp but there is no power on earth that will make you move it. The movie (what movie ?), gets to a scary part and she leans in real close so you let that arm drop so that it is touching her so lightly that you know she won't notice and tell you to move it, and you are in heaven. There is an open bag of candy on your lap which you bought to put there to hide that man problem thing you have ( and that really aches now). She reaches into it for a candy and you know that if she rummages around in there she is going to touch you through the bag, and then you will come in your pants. You drop you arm a bit more so that the very edge of your hand is just about touching the swell of her breast, and she lets you do it. Oh sweet Jesus I believe!
Suddenly she moves and as she does so your hand has no choice but to rest hard on that magnificent breast. She whispers into your ear, "that's nice", so you form your hand into the shape it was when you caught that last baseball the other week and you clamp it firmly over her breast and she sighs. The movie gets a bit smoochy now so she turns her head and without thinking you plant your lips on hers and the tiniest tongue peeks into you mouth, and this time its you who does the groaning because you really have come in your pants. After the movie you walk her home, but you both keep stopping to kiss and let your hands roam a bit.
You date her for the rest of the semester. Its your last year and you both got to the same University, and its there, on your very first night, that you both lose your cherry and you think that the world is a truly wonderful place. Its just bad luck that the first time did the trick because nine months later you have a son. You both drop out of University and take jobs at Wall-Mart to pay the rent on the awful apartment you have on the wrong side of town, but hey, you love her, she loves you, and she still is the most beautiful girl in the school.
You know the worst damn thing about all this ? You're forty something with a respectable beer gut and a house of your own now, and five kids trying to wreck it. The car payments are two months late and the engine is dead in any place. The TV colour flickers on and off and it can't get cable. The roof of your house leaks and the toilet is always blocked. You walk down the yard with the garbage can and you remember what it was like when you were fifteen and a half. In the blink of an eye it all runs through your mind as you put the trash can down. You fart, turn around scratching your crotch and amble back to the house for a cold Bud. You may shave tomorrow, who knows? What really pisses you is that inside the house, right there on that damn couch your mother bought you when you got married, is your very own three hundred pound 'Jabba the hut', stuffing her face with a Kentucky Fried Chicken bargain bucket, and you wonder what the hell you did that so upset the good Lord that he gave you this shitty life to live.
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Advanced SystemCare Free 5 uses its powerful arsenal of optimization tools to keep your PC feeling fresh and clean. It also includes a couple of features that could help boost performance for either gaming or work purposes--your choice. Advanced SystemCare's Quick Care option includes the ability to clean your registry, perform a rudimentary malware scan, fix and remove broken shortcuts, delete junk files, and erase browsing tracks. It works in a flash, requires almost no user input, and to make things even easier, can be configured to run on system startup. The Deep Care option, on the other hand, takes system care to another level. It performs all of the Quick Care items to a much deeper degree, plus it adds several other scans and fixes to its checklist, including disk defragmenting, a Windows vulnerability fix, and a system optimization with several presets. Understandably, this kind of deep digging can sometimes make a user nervous. Fortunately, the program's log records all of its activities, letting you see how each affects your computer. Scan times for the Quick Care and Deep Care options differ significantly, yet, both processes still seem blazingly fast. For instance, we completed a Deep Care scan in approximately 15 minutes, which is an impressively short time for a system-invasive program like this. Brand-new to version 5 is the Active Boost function, which runs in the background and automatically improves PC performance by managing your system resources. We recommend enabling it, as it even keeps a log of all the active processes that it manages to speed up. Also important, Version 5 connects to the cloud in order to keep its database up to date. As for Advanced SystemCare's user interface, we were impressed, to say the least. The main dashboard is superclean, with nifty icons and intuitive navigation. Plus, there's an unimposing smiley face always at the bottom of the screen, indicating your PC's overall health. If you click the Status button next to the smiley, you can also get more detailed info from the system performance monitor. One part of the program we recommend new users approach with extreme caution is the Turbo Boost, which can be set to optimize for either gaming or work purposes. It sounds fun, but you must first configure the tool by telling it which core system services to disable in order to accelerate your computer's performance. Since the Turbo Boost section doesn't spell out how disabling these services might affect your computer, we highly recommend doing your research before exploring. To its credit, though, Advanced SystemCare can create rescue points, so it's not hard to undo changes if you end up making any mistakes. One small problem we found was that some of the program's options open in new windows, while others open in the same window. 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Advanced SystemCare Free is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes an one-click approach to help protect, repair and optimize your computer. Scanning and finding what other utilities miss, it can keep your PC error-free and smooth than ever. Why Advanced SystemCare Free? New PC Performance - Do you remember the feeling of a brand new PC when you first bought it? Why not try Advanced SystemCare Free, a free PC tune-up utility that focuses on the performance of your PC. Computer Crashes without Reason - Have you ever encountered your PC crashes and you even did not know why. After months or years of using your PC, there might be plenty of changes, which added burdens to your PC but never get cleaned. What Advanced SystemCare Free does is to clean the stuffs that are left over and clean craps to make your PC neat and clean. Registry Repairing and Cleaning - As an elementary part to a PC, if it does not working well, then your computer will be in big trouble. 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Walmart Neighborhood Market coming to Clemson, delayed in Anderson
A Walmart Neighborhood Market is coming to Clemson.
Plans for the same kind of grocery store in Anderson have been delayed while county officials, developers and the South Carolina Department of Transportation discuss details of traffic patterns near a planned market site on S.C. 81.
In Clemson, grading has already begun at a site on S.C. 93. The grocery store, which will include a deli, bakery, pharmacy and gas pumps, is set to open in early 2015, according to a spokeswoman for Walmart.
The store will be part of Clemson Town Center, and will be across from Aspen Heights, an off-campus student housing neighborhood near the university.
Rob Green, a market manager for Walmart, said the Clemson store will be 41,000 square feet. The grocery store is about one-quarter the size of a typical Walmart Supercenter. Amanda Henneberg, a spokeswoman for Walmart, said markets typically employ 95 people.
Sharon Richardson, Clemson's planning director, said Friday that the developer's construction plans are still being reviewed by the city.
The developer of the Clemson market, Cypress Equities, is the same one that wants to build a grocery store with gas pumps and a pharmacy on S.C. 81 in Anderson.
The Texas-based developer has not disclosed the name of the Anderson store, but the market's specifications are identical to the one planned for Clemson.
Green said he has "much less information" about the Anderson store.
"I know that one would come further down the road," Green said Friday.
Walmart, the world's largest retailer, has about 350 Neighborhood Markets. The markets offer meat, produce and dairy products, along with other items.
The first Walmart Neighborhood Market in South Carolina opened in Greer in February 2013. Greenville also has at least one of the markets.
Jeff Coker, the managing director of Cypress Equities, said in July that the grocery store in Anderson would be about a $12 million project. The company is seeking zoning approvals for the store from the Anderson County Council. The council delayed a zoning vote on the project this week because county officials have questions about what kind of traffic flow the state Department of Transportation will allow at the Anderson store, which would be on seven acres along S.C. 81 near Reed Road.
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Even Matt Cowdrey admitted that he had been caught off guard by his own reaction. The Australian swimming star had just become Australia's greatest Paralympian when he won the 11th gold of his career in the 50 metre freestyle [S9] on Thursday morning [AEST].
Cowdrey went into the final at the London Paralympics equal with runner Tim Sullivan with 10 gold medals and with 19 medals overall. When the race finished, Cowdrey touching in an impressive 25.13 seconds, he stood along as Australia's most decorated Paralympian.
Cowdrey ripped off his goggles and swimming cap from his head and thumped the water with his right hand. It was obvious that this win meant to him, although he later explained some of that had come from simply his excitement at putting together what he felt was pretty close to the perfect race.
The usually unflappable 23-year-old from Adelaide, who was born with a congenital amputation to his lower left arm, struggled for words when asked how much the win meant to him.
"It's hard to describe how that one actually feels," Cowdrey said. "The first one is obviously the most special but aside from that, this one's definitely there. To be able to swim that as well as I did that was the most important thing."
"I started to lose it a little bit out there. Generally I'm pretty composed and I think I nearly let it get to me a little bit but it's something I don't think it will set in properly until we're all done and dusted and I can sit down and relax and start to let it all sink in."
"But 11 gold medals is a lot and ... to be the best at anything is pretty exciting but to be Australia's best Paralympian is humbling and it's a huge honour."
"Generally I'm reasonably composed and I like to pride myself on that but I did let it go a little bit tonight. It's a special one. I enjoy the 50, it's obviously one that I'm really geared towards. It was one of my best starts ever off the blocks tonight and in terms of putting the race together I was really, really stoked with how I swam that."
As Cowley neared Sullivan's mark in London, his career become about if and when he would claim the title. The 23 year old from Adelaide said the media focus had taken its toll.
"As much as we tried to ignore it every time I'd get out of the water it's always been numbers and we're getting closer and getting closer so as much as we tried to ignore that it still gets to you to some extent," said Cowdrey, who has now won three gold and two silver in London.
To be the best at anything is pretty exciting but to be Australia's best Paralympian is humbling and it's a huge honour.
"So it's good to be able to be able to put that one out of the way and let that relief go a little bit but at the same time we've still got two more swims to go and then the relay on the last night so we've got a lot to work to do."
"The next challenge is that 100 freestyle and 200 individual medley are ones that I've won in Beijing and in Athens so the chance to three-peat is something that's only been done once by a swimmer so that's an exciting prospect."
He has now won three gold and two silvers, with three more events to come.


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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church may become independent from Moscow in the future. However, it will not happen now as it would lead to further divisions between believers, says Andrey Zolotov of Russia Profile magazine.
Russia Today reports on a historic visit by the Russian Patriarch to the Ukraine in an effort to unify the Orthodox church: