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Earlier today I wrote about a terrible drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. It is truly saddening to see these things happening because although I glory in His promises coming true it also means suffering and death for many. And death for the unsaved means an eternity away from God, in hell. In that essay I quoted a news article that said, "The striking images of the landscape seem to represent a deceptively simple assessment of the drought: the dirty work of Mother Nature."
It is the LORD who sends the rain in preparation for the crops. (Psalms 147:8). It is the LORD who sends it to the obedient. (Leviticus 26:4). He appoints seasons in His own authority. (Acts 1:7). "Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." (Acts 14:17) He sends the crops, the seasons and the weather for our benefit, to His glory. He can, and will reverse the process when we fail to thank Him and refuse to acknowledge His authority. That is the spiritual fact.
On a practical level, famine is both biological and social. It occurs to a person individually while it is happening to all others around the sufferer. And unlike pestilence, where sick people are quarantined, privately sequestered, or are too insentient to socially connect, famine leaves the individual able to share in it with others.
"When starvation becomes a mass experience, the phenomenon is no longer purely biological." (Dirks).
Famine is sneaky because the population has no clue that this crop failure will lead to a continual shortage, or that this lack of monsoon rains will lead to a permanent drying-out. It is only after successive storms or failures or absence of expected weather that it become apparent that food will not be coming. By then malnourishment or early stages of starvation may have already set in.
The biological consequences of famine begin with scarcity, move to malnourishment, elevate to starvation and finish with famine. Starvation happens when the energy demands of the biological unit exceed supply. Technically, starvation begins 4-6 hours after the last meal, when the body has broken down all that will be or is able to be used, and no new food is forthcoming. However since a person living in a healthy culture will then consume more within a reasonable time period after the last meal, the negative effects are not really felt. After a day or so, though, dehydration, hypoglycemia, and ketosis begin. After 24 hours, there are impacts to the tissues as loss outpaces fat. As starvation continues, exhaustion sets in and there is decreased tolerance for work. People move more slowly and adopt an energy saving posture. "In mobilizing its reserves, the body progressively selects fat over muscle as fuel, allowing life to be sustained for one to three months in acute starvation." (Dirks). Things go rapidly downhill from there, with all sorts of nasty things happen to the individual's biology. And that's just starvation, not famine. But you can see, it happens quickly. Though drought and famine take a long time to set up, when it hits, the body, mind, and soul shrivel pretty quickly.
In the earlier essay about the African famine, I wrote that in the first few sentences mother nature was blamed, and in addition, war also precipitates famine. In this UK Independent article, they said, "The problem is that droughts which once came every decade now come every couple of years. A recent study suggests that dry conditions in East Africa are set to continue because of climate change. The cold weather phase known as La Niña, the counterpart to the warming El Niño, is likely to dominate now. That will make the region's rain fall over the sea, bringing drought. Yet if climate change is unreservedly the fault of the rich world, Africans must take the blame for the other major contributory factor – armed conflict. Somalia is riven with civil strife, from warlords to Kalashnikov-toting cattle-raiders."
War does have a devastating connection with famine. In Revelation 6, first there is war, then there is scarcity, then there is death. Those are Seal Judgments two, three, and four. In history, famine has almost always followed war. As the Red Cross says in discussing humanitarian aid, "the fact must be faced that food aid alone will never eliminate famines nor the suffering they cause. It still falls short of meeting the victims' needs and appears essentially inadequate to solve their problems." That's because there are complex reasons for it that also include war, conflict, and strife.
The Red Cross again, "It might at first sight seem difficult to prevent certain conflict situations from resulting in disastrous famines. However, a closer scrutiny of war/famine situations shows that in most cases famine is linked to disrupted access to sources of food that are usually available, rather than to their absence." This would seem to be borne out because the Tribulation's wars spark famines but access to good food and to transport of that food is available and continues throughout the 7 years. It is only at the end, Revelation 18, when it all comes down.
Famine is destructive to those societies where malnourishment is always present, and soon after initial starvation sets in, financial ruin and disease take over. For some societies, they may at first adapt to conditions that in many cases don't affect them. There is such a thing as "class famine." We see in Revelation 6:6 that millions starve, unable to afford more than a loaf of bread even though they worked all day, while in Rev 18:13 we see that all the while, a hefty trade in food luxuries had been ongoing. ("and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep…") There are the very rich and the very poor, and you can bet the very rich will not be affected by famine. The Tribulation's predicted scarcities will be characterized by class famine.
When famine conditions deepen, the 'Law of Diversification and Polarization' comes into play. As Dirks quoted Sorokin, "simply put, this means that catastrophe brings out the best and the worst in people. It exaggerates what is already there." Sociological studies show that at first, people share when disaster strikes. As the disaster continues, and/or as supplies run short, sharing ceases. Starvation's biological effects are that people become exhausted and irritable. Volatile situations erupt. Populations tend to migrate, looking for better conditions. The 1901 Indian Famine Commission called it "unusual wandering." When adding to that the prophecy that love grows cold (Matthew 24:12), people are unthankful, (2 Timothy 3:2-4) and their thoughts are only evil continuously, (Matthew 24:37, Genesis 6:5) then you can see that violence will soon become the norm just at the time when people are physiologically least able to handle it.
So let me sum up the ivory tower talk: famine will occur, followed by the worst brought out in people who are marauding hither and yon, looking for anything they can steal so they can stay alive. Violence breaks out and a true Darwinian human 'survivial of the fittest' is played out in front of atheists everywhere, with the starving exhausted falling where they lay in irritable convulsions, dying bye degrees while no neighbor cares.
Oh, but Jesus cares. His famines may be one of His sore judgments, yes, but it is to alert rebellious people that He is still in control and He is still holy. His control includes an eternal and infinite love for all His children. He wants you to turn from your carnal thoughts and lifting up of Mother Nature and replace those with perfect thoughts and spiritual infinity in His love. As long as you have not rejected him and slammed the door shut, you can enter the door to heaven by repenting of sins. He is the door and he stands ready to allow all who would believe to enter. (John 10:9)
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7) What is beyond that door? Certainly not war or famine or exhaustion or violence. See what is there:
"Then he said to me: "This water flows toward the eastern region, goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes. It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt. Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for medicine." (Ez 47:8-12, millennium kingdom)
"All the way around shall be eighteen thousand cubits; and the name of the city from that day shall be: THE LORD IS THERE."" (Ez 48:35)
Waters flow and heal, fruit grows and restores. The LORD is there. Any person can partake of this scene. Any person can walk on the grass and sit under trees beside restorative waters. The Gospel is exclusive: Jesus is the only way. The Gospel is inclusive: any person can accept Jesus as their savior and forgiver of sins. I hope you make the choice to enter in to His rest, escaping all the Tribulation things and choosing to partake of the Eternal things. All it takes is a prayer to Jesus that you know and understand you're a sinner, unworthy to enter His realm, and ask Him to forgive those sins. Since He is sinless and died as the sacrifice for your sins, your debt is paid. But you have to ask. Do it soon, my beloved friend. Soon.


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Not many of us will weep the passing of the failed Anglesey County Council.
Failed on a political front that is, with the so-called Councillors of the island having failed abysmally to provide effective government.
Soon we shall find out the fate that awaits the Council, hopefully the Local Government Minister Carl Sargeant shall end our pain quickly.
This blog fully supports his actions as the people of Anglesey have had enough.
We the people of Anglesey, have for the last twenty years endured grown men who claimed to be Councillors behaving like children - pathetic, incredible and unbelievable!
P.S The Conservatives and their friends the Liberal Democrats claimed today in the National Assembly for Wales debate on the Local Government Order 2011 that they did not understand what 'effective' local government meant - my suggestion why haven't they visited Anglesey and soon they would have found out what a failing and ineffective local government was really like.

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Dearest Democrats in Congress and around the country. Now is the time to take it to the mat. I have sat by while you did squat to oppose this Administration's blunderings. I whined a little when you rolled over regarding the filibuster. But I'm not taking it any more. I will give you money for this fight, but I want you to actually fight. Lose if you have to, but for God's sake, make it a contest, would you?
Love, Danny.


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Chris Soules. Buchanan County Sheriff's Office
So the story goes that Chris Soules was driving his Chevy pick-up when he struck a tractor from behind and the driver of the tractor was ejected and killed.
This is terrible for the family of the person killed, it's unbelievable that someone could just drive off. I break this awful story down with Courtney, listen below:


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They've gone,
Alone now,
Beautiless, Ugly reality left,
Progress a distance memory,
A cruel reminder of what has past,
Save me from silence,
Save me from still,
Save me from what might return,
But i know never will.
Never too good at standing tall,
But now a part of me is gone,
The silence remains.
Facebook Closed
This is gonna be one of those pieces. The equivalent to me saying "I've been shopping" or "I had a big poo" Actually the poo statement might be interesting, but both topics aren't really blog worthy.
Maybe this topic is worth a Facebook status update rather than a fully fledged blog piece:
Sudo One: Closed my Facebook LOL 🙂 🙂
As you might know from reading my bits (ooh err) I'm not exactly social, so why I would I be on social media. Well when I joined Facebook was a simple place, full of simple people (My friends!) Some people I went to school with, others I worked with, the usual crowd. I along with all my friends would update statuses with the usual bollocks, it got liked, commented on or ignored. Bit like the blog really, come to think of it I did use the "notes" feature to blog a little. It was a place to waste time with your friends, communicate without saying a word.
Now Facebook has become less about the communication and more about photos, games, recording social events. Encouraging people not so much to enjoy moments in their real lives but document them, using timelines. Photos are endlessly tagged, something you did in 1983 and are ashamed of is scanned in and pinned to your timeline for everyone to see. So the spell of cross dressing I had as a 3 yr old is now known by everyone at work.
I kept it for so long, partly to promote this ere blog, partly because I have some friends overseas that I don't contact anywhere else and partly to play poker for imaginary money. That was it, I got annoyed by the prattle of some people I used to go to school with, I was pleased that some of them made well, but from the rut I am stuck in I didn't really wanna have to be pleased for them every day! (Hey I'm not perfect)
My wall slowly became full of ads, game requests and witterings from people I hadn't seen in 20 years. About as much use as a communication tool as a megaphone in a toilet cubical. You hear at first but get ear ache quickly. Twitter was a breath of fresh air in that toilet block!
Twitter is still a communication tool. Like Facebook was, before it tried to be all things to all men. Don't get me wrong Twitter still has it's fair share of shit, by once you get the hang of it, it's entirely your own fault if you end up with a feed full of shite!
Final straw was when Facebook imposed the timeline upon me, made my photos a focal point. I hate photos of me, hence the cartoon avatar here! And I haven't even written anything about personal data security.. DAMN IT!
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JHM's new site is online! But what you see here is only the beginning. There are a lot of cool things in the works that will be rolling out in the near future.
- A full featured online store
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Please click around and take a look around and let us know what you think of our new online home. Our goal is to create the best online experience for you that we can. Your feedback is invaluable tool in helping us meet that goal!


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Gloucestershire County Council has pledged an extra £1m to fix flood-damaged roads following one of the wettest winters on record.
Teams are tackling Gloucestershire's 3,300 miles of road network daily, treating potholes as a priority and fixing smaller defects when they are able to.
Since April 2012 the council has repaired 34,681 potholes in Gloucestershire. But following the recent bad weather the number of defects that need treating has increased.
Some of the £1m extra funding will be spent between now and April on the most urgent landslip schemes and highways teams are already tackling the most damaged roads.
The council is aiming to inspect every pothole it is informed about within 5 days.
Area Highway Manager Jason Humm said: "Our priority will always be the safety of residents and we are quite rightly committed to tackling the biggest potholes and those on the busiest routes as soon as they are identified or reported to us.
"We will always aim to treat minor road defects as soon as we can, but it is essential we prioritise potholes to prevent damage to people's vehicles."
Cllr Will Windsor-Clive, Cabinet member for communities, said: "The Highways team does a tireless job around the county ensuring the roads in greatest need of being treated are fixed quickly and effectively."


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After a lovely bank holiday weekend, sadly the weather was not kind to us this time round!
The wind was extremely strong, and going over the Dartford bridge was a bit of a challenge - but safe to say we made it in one piece!
Luckily when we arrived at the destination the worst was over and we soon started the job.
Our customer made us a lovely cup of coffee (forgot to ask what brand it was!) and was soon refuelled with energy!
We had previously repaired some of the patio for the customer, and was booked in to give the areas a sealent for protection, But first it was time to clean the areas ready for the sealant.
The cleaning brought up the colours in the block work, and the areas really looked lovely.
The customers were very happy but most importantly we got the 'ok' from their dog Stanley!
We look forward to seeing them all very soon.


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Home > Iowa Academy of Science > Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science > Volume 110 (2003) > Number 1-2
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age structure, corpora lutea, Iowa, Lontra canadensis, reproduction, river otter, survival
Northern river otters (Lontra canadensis) were widespread in North America at the time of European settlement. However, river otters were extirpated from most of Iowa in the early 1900s due to habitat degradation and unregulated harvest. In 1985, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources began an effort to restore the river otter population throughout the state, including a pilot study of survival to determine if establishment was feasible. Annual survival was estimated to be 86% during the pilot study. River otters dispersed an average of about 11 km from the point of release and exhibited habitat use typical for the species. Based on the successful pilot study, 261 river otters were released in the state of Iowa from 1986-2001. More recently we examined the age structure and reproductive effort of 81 river otters (43 females and 38 males) collected in Iowa from 1999-2001 to document the characteristics of the reestablished population. We found that 41% of the otters sampled were juveniles, 38% were yearlings and 21% were adults. Fifty-five percent of all female otters were pregnant, and 80% of adult females were pregnant. We observed a mean of 2.9 corpora lutea/female and calculated that female's ≥ 1 year old could potentially produce an average 5.7 female offspring during an average life span. Based on the widespread distribution, healthy reproductive characteristics, and high survival rates it is feasible that a limited harvest of river otter could be implemented in Iowa.
Publication Date
March-June 2003
Journal Title
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science
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© Copyright 2002 by the Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
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Recommended Citation
Pitt, J. A.; Clark, W. R.; Andrews, R. D.; Schlarbaum, K. P.; Hoffman, D. D.; and Pitt, S. W.
"Restoration and Monitoring of the River Otter Population in Iowa,"
Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS, 110(1-2), 7-12.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/jias/vol110/iss1/4
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Are you ready to take on the Challenge??
Join us again this November for:
Created by Nancy Stohlman in 2012 FlashNano is in its 8th year!
2019 Prompts
Day 1: Write a story that includes a red sweater
Day 2: Write a story in the form of (or including) a test
Day 3: Write a story where something explodes
Day 4: Write a story with an abrupt ending
Day 5: Write a story that takes place 5 years ago
Day 6: Write a story that takes place on a bicycle
Day 7: Write a story that includes an addiction
Day 8: Write a story that includes a famous piece of art
Day 9: Write a story that happens on the telephone
Day 10: Write a story in exactly 10 sentences
Day 11: Write a story that takes place before sunrise
Day 12: Write a story where the narrator has a super power
Day 13: Write an unlucky story. OR write a lucky story.
Day 14: Write a story in the form of a review.
Day 15: Take one of the stories you have written and cut it in half
Day 16: Write a story that includes a dentist
Day 17: Where a story where something is destroyed by the weather
Day 18: Write a story that includes a wrongful accusation
Day 19: Write a story about your grandfather (real or no)
Day 20: Write a story that includes black boots
Day 21: Write a story that takes place at the theater
Day 22: Write a story where people are worried
Day 23: Write a story that includes a physical pain
Day 24: Write a story in the form of a contract
Day 25: Write a story that takes place next to the highway
Day 26: Write a story where something is frozen
Day 27: Write a story about a disappointing adventure
Day 28: Write a food-related story
Day 29: Write a story using just one sentence (as long as you like).
Day 30: Write a story in the form of a final exam
If you're having fun and writing stories, please feel free to throw a thank you in the tip jar!
And thank YOU!
Frequently Asked Questions
How do we join?
Declare it so.
Go buy some new pens and notebooks.
Join the mailing list (if you haven't already) if you would like prompts emailed to you.
Join the FB group event page if you want to share your work or see what others are writing (not required) **
Bookmark my website as it will become a prompt pumping factory starting Fri, Nov 1!
Do we submit them?
There is no official submitting, though I just put up a temporary Facebook event page where some people like to share and keep each other's spirits up—it gets pretty lively over there. But many people participate without ever sharing anything and that's also great.
Do you critique them?
No way. Not only does that go against the spirit of FlashNano, it's also just impossible. I estimate probably close to 1,000 people will attempt it this year. November is about generating lots of material and the challenge requires lots of creative play and risk taking. The editing hat can come in later and I may offer an editing class in December if I'm not too tired!
Do they count as published?
Since the Facebook page is temporary it will disappear after November so you shouldn't have any trouble. Some people will post on their own blogs instead—personally my work isn't usually ready to share (officially) that soon, but some people have found the publishing on their own blogs is a great way to create accountability.
What if I miss a day?
If you miss a day then write two the next day! This challenge is really between you and your god, so no one else is counting.
Where can I find the prompts?
I will post the prompts on my website and social media pages (Twitter and Facebook) and I also have a dedicated email list just for FlashNano, so those folks will get the prompts emailed to them each morning. Many of you are probably already on that list but if not sign up here.
When are prompts posted?
Once I wake up and get moving–I aim for about 9 am MST, give or take an hour. So over in Europe and Australia you'll be getting them in the afternoon/evening.
Do I have to use the prompts?
Absolutely not. Write 30 stores in November by any means necessary!
Do I have to write flash?
Actually, no. I started it as a space for flash writers of course, but over the last 7 years I've seen people do all sorts of things, including poetry, a haiku a day, and even thread the daily flashes into a novella. New material is always a win!
Read some past interviews about FlashNano here:
2017: On the Bath Flash Fiction Award Website
2016: On Flash Frontier website


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More women than ever have joined the ranks of the mega rich this year, as The Sunday Times 2020 Rich List, due to be released tomorrow shows.
The UK is now home to 25 female billionaires, including Bet365 boss, Denise Coates, and media dynasty mogul Elisabeth Murdoch.
TetraPak heiress Kirsten Rausing tops the list, with a reported wealth of £12.1 billion ($14.65 billion).
Her aunt Marit has also become one of the UK's richest women through inheritance, after the death of her husband Hans left her and her family with a net worth of £9.6 billion. She is third on the list and the UK's wealthiest new entrant.
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, who has a controlling stake in the world's second-largest brewer, is worth £10.3 billion. A haul big enough to crown her as the UK's second richest woman.
READ MORE: Why coronavirus is fuelling an economic crisis that will hit women the hardest
One of the UK's newest billionaires is Elisabeth Murdoch, who increased her wealth by more than £1 billion to £1.2 billion. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's six children split the spoils of the sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney, with a windfall of $12 billion in cash and shares between them last year.
Elisabeth Murdoch is placed ninth wealthiest in the list of female entrepreneurs.
Songwriter and former Miss UK Kirsty Bertarelli boasts an £9.2 billion fortune, coming in fourth on the list, while Coates is fifth.
At the end of last year it was reported that Coates' was awarded a pay day of £323 million in 2019. The sum is the highest amount paid to a chief executive of a British company and breaks the previous record of £265 million set by Coates a year earlier.
The wealth benchmarker has historically been a boys' club, but this year's list shows 150 women are among the richest in the country, with 96 of those qualifying as "self-made". The remaining 54 gained their wealth through marriage or inheritance.
Each entrant has wealth of more than £120 million.


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This past weekend we rented a cabin on Rosario Beach. Rain was in the forecast but we had faith that we'd see a little bit of sunshine. We had so much sunshine -- it was beautiful. We literally stayed outside ALL DAY -- either on the playground at the cabins, on the beach with the rocks and drift wood, or in the tide pools looking for sea creatures. I walked, played, searched, and found many fun things at Rosario Beach with the kids. It sprinkled lightly Saturday morning and we … [Read more...]
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Nintendo Tour: Our Fun Family Day at Nintendo of America!
When you get an invite from Nintendo to come to Redmond, WA for a family day, you just don't say no. I mean, we live an hour from Redmond, the city the Nintendo of America can be found, and getting a tour is not something that happens often. Really, it's almost unheard of. Plus, I have a long love affair with Nintendo. I still remember getting that first console back in 5th grade for Christmas... I was nervous about how Nathanael would do all day at Nintendo. But do you know what? Not only … [Read more...]
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We have a new local indoor fun park that you must bring your kids to. In fact, my Isabella just visited this trampoline park two weeks ago for her friend's birthday party. She had so much fun at the Altitude Trampline Park in Marysville. In fact, we are already planning our own visit for her 9th birthday. Have your kids ever visited a trampoline park? We absolutely love them and we're so glad that Altitude is not too far from home. About Altitude Trampline Park Brand new … [Read more...]


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Stand Firm in the Faith: A Super Bible School Activity for Memorizing I Corinthians 15:16
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I am so proud of our military and how day in and day out they are defending our country. These men and women are truly standing firm as they do their job with great passion and focus. Do your kids know that God wants them to have this same kind of passion and focus while being on duty for Him? First Corinthians 15:16 says this: "Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be men of courage and be strong." Doesn't this verse sound like the perfect Scripture for any soldier? Here is a Bible school activity to help your "young soldiers for the Lord" memorize this great verse while having some fun with a ball.
Here's what you do:
Before playing this game, you will want to introduce First Corinthians 15:16 to your class. I present this in a militaristic way. I even wear a soldier's hat and say things like: "You're speaking to a commanding officer! You will address me as Sir!" (Have the kids say, "Yes, Sir!") Then I say, "I can't hear you!" (The kids shout louder, "Yes, Sir!") I think you get the idea. I then have them recite the verse several times in a loud soldierly voice. Once you feel like the kids are beginning to know the verse, then you can introduce the game.
Divide your class into 2 teams. Have them stand in 2 straight lines, about 15 feet apart, facing each other. Bring out a ball and pick one team to start. Each child should stand with their feet wide enough apart for the ball to go through. They should also have their hands down to their sides in a soldier's stance. Give a child the ball. Say the following, "Alright, soldiers! Here are your orders. Each team will get a chance to try and knock the other line of soldiers off balance. Each team should do their very best to stand firm and stay on your guard just like our Bible verse says. If a team successfully rolls the ball through the legs of a soldier on the opposite team, that soldier must say the Bible verse correctly. If he does so, his team gets 100 points. If he does not say the verse correctly, the team that threw the ball will get the 100 points. By the way, you may not use your hands or feet to stop the ball in any way. Your job is to stand firm. Are you ready? (Kids say, "Yes, Sir!)
Have the teams take turns rolling the ball. Have someone keep score and by all means, stand firm during this fun Bible school activity.
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Imagine how the Corporate world would look if you knew the probability of joining, of the candidate you are desperately looking to hire! When you don't have to keep praying till the candidate shows up on the joining date, when you would upfront know how many offers this candidate has not honored so far in his career!
This will reduce and arrest candidates who agree to join and later don't honor the offer. Can the HR community delve upon and build a reputation system for the job seekers eg number of offers honored, etc like a 'credit history' that represents creditworthiness??
A loud thought as a solution – Maybe government machinery along with HR associations could identify and link Aadhaar card or UID numbers with the resumes on major job portals!! The real USP is it will incentivize recruiters to record if the candidate has rejected or accepted the offer made, and if the candidate honored the acceptance and showed up on the joining date.
Would be happy to hear your experiences (good, bad, ugly) and innovative ways to arrest this nightmare to make this dream a reality!


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Cleared for publication: Islamic Jihad terror cell planning attack on Israeli Navy arrested
Ten Palestinian Islamic Jihad Muslim terrorists were arrested last month formi gathering intelligence for a planned attack on a Navy ship, it was cleared for publication on Wednesday.
On March 12, an Israeli Navy vessel stopped a Gazan fishing boat and arrested those on board during routine operations off the Gaza coast after the boat was seen sailing outside the permitted fishing zone.
One of the suspects, Muslim terrorist Amin Saadi Muhammad Jamaa, a 24-year-old fisherman from Rafah, is a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group.
Jamaa was offered $5,000 to carry out the terror attack, which was meant to be an act of revenge after the IDF destroyed an Islamic Jihad cross-border terror tunnel, eliminating several of its terrorists.
On instructions from his Islamic Jihad terror group commanders, Jamaa took part in the planning of a terror attack against an Israeli Navy vessel, that would've been carried out by six Islamic Jihad terrorists in three boats.
During Jamaa's interrogation, the Shin Bet learned the plan was to use one boat for deception. While the Navy vessel would have turned its focus on the deception boat, another boat would have attacked the Navy ship, launching a Kornet guided missile at it, killing and wounding the soldiers on board.
A third boat would have then drawn near the Navy ship in an effort to abduct one or several of the soldiers on board, so they could be used as bargaining chips in a future prisoner exchange deal.
The Shin Bet investigation also found that as part of his preparations for the attack, Jamaa conducted several observations of Navy ships, gathering information about their locations, the number of soldiers on board and the weapons on the vessels.
Jamaa was indicted Wednesday at the Beer Sheva District Court.
A statement from the Shin Bet and IDF said, "This is another link in a chain of terror attacks planned and initiated by Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip in recent months, including a cross-border attack tunnel that was neutralized on October 30, 2017, the firing of mortar shells at Israel on November 30, 2017 and December 28, 2017, and more."


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|William Wordsworth
7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumberland, England
23 April 1850 (aged 80)
Ambleside, England
|British subject
|Literary movement
|Romantic poets, Lake Poets
|Notable work(s)
|Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude
|Notable award(s)
|Poet Laureate
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
Wordsworth was born April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth, a town on the edge of the Cumberland highlands. His father was agent to Lord Lowther, and came of an old north country stock. Both father and mother died in his boyhood; his mother earkuest, his father when he was 14. He went to school in the neighborhood, at Hawkshead, and his school days were days of much liberty, both in playing and reading. In October 1787 he went to Cambridge. But he made no mark at the university, and in January 1791 he took his degree and left. Like many of his generation he was filled with enthusiasm for the French Revolution, and he resided for more than a year in France. The Reign of Terror drove him home; he came to London; he was in Dorsetshire (1796), then at Alfoxden in the Somersetshire Quantocks, where he saw much of S.T. Coleridge. In 1793 he published a volume of poems, and in 1798 appeared, at Bristol, the 1st volume of the Lyrical Ballads, intended to be a joint work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, but to which Coleridge only contributed The Ancient Mariner, and 2 or 3 other pieces. The 2 friends went to Germany at the end of 1798, and Wordsworth, with his sister, spent the winter at Goslar. When be returned to England, he settled, with his sister, near Grasmere, meaning to give himself to poetical composition as the business of his life, and in 1800 published the 2nd volume of the Lyrical Ballads. In 1802 he married Mary Hutchinson, and finally fixed his home in the lakes, though it was not till several years afterwards (1813) that he took up his abode in the place henceforth connected with his name, Rydal Mount. During all the early part of the century he was very busy. Besides shorter pieces, he was at work from 1799 to 1805 on a poem, The Prelude, describing the history and growth of his own mind, and intended to be an introduction to the greater philosophical poem which he was already meditating, The Recluse — in part, and only in part, realised in The Excursion, published in 1814. Composition took many shapes in the various collections published by Wordsworthbut especially his poetical efforts took the shape of the sonnet. Large collections of sonnets marked the working of his thoughts and feelings on certain groups of subjects, or were the memorials of scenes which had interested him. He once, and early in his career, attempted the drama (The Borderers, 1805-6) but with little success. From the start he took a keen interest in all political and social questions, and he was an impassioned and forcible prose writer. His life was a long one, of steady work and much happiness. He died April 23, 1850, at Rydal Mount.[1]
Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
- Main article: Early life of William Wordsworth
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann (Cookson), William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland[2] — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District. His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was Master, Earl of Abergavenny was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher, the youngest, who entered the Church and rose to be Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[3]
Their father was a legal representative of James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and, through his connections, lived in a large mansion in the small town. Wordsworth, as with his siblings, had little involvement with their father, and they would be distant with him until his death in 1783.[4] Wordsworth's father, although rarely present, did teach him poetry, including that of Milton, Shakespeare and Spenser, in addition to allowing his son to rely on his own father's library.
Along with spending time reading in Cockermouth, Wordsworth would also stay at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland. At Penrith, Wordsworth was exposed to the moors. Wordsworth could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and his hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide.[5]
After the death of their mother, in 1778, John Wordsworth sent William to Hawkshead Grammar School in Lancashire and Dorothy to live with relatives in Yorkshire; she and William would not meet again for another 9 years. Although Hawkshead was Wordsworth's first serious experience with education, he had been taught to read by his mother and had attended a tiny school of low quality in Cockermouth. After the Cockermouth school, he was sent to a school in Penrith for the children of upper-class families and taught by Ann Birkett, a woman who insisted on instilling in her students traditions that included pursuing both scholarly and local activities, especially the festivals around Easter, May Day, and Shrove Tuesday. Wordsworth was taught both the Bible and the Spectator, but little else. It was at the school that Wordsworth was to meet the Hutchinsons, including Mary, who would be his future wife.[6]
Wordsworth made his debut as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. That same year he began attending St John's College, Cambridge, and earmed a B.A. in 1791.[7] He returned to Hawkshead for his first 2 summer holidays, and often spent later holidays on walking tours, visiting places famous for the beauty of their landscape. In 1790, he took a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Relationship with Annette VallonEdit
In November 1791, Wordsworth visited Revolutionary France and became enthralled with the Republican movement. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their child, Caroline. Because of lack of money and Britain's tensions with France, he returned alone to England the next year.[8] The circumstances of his return and his subsequent behaviour raise doubts as to his declared wish to marry Annette, but he supported her and his daughter as best he could in later life. The Reign of Terror] estranged him from the Republican movement, and war between France and Britain prevented him from seeing Annette and Caroline again for several years. There are strong suggestions that Wordsworth may have been depressed and emotionally unsettled in the mid-1790s.(Citation needed)
With the Peace of Amiens again allowing travel to France, in 1802 Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, visited Annette and Caroline in Calais. The purpose of the visit was to pave the way for his forthcoming marriage to Mary Hutchinson, and a mutually agreeable settlement was reached regarding Wordsworth's obligations.[8] Afterwards he wrote the poem "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," recalling his seaside walk with his daughter, whom he had not seen for ten years. At the conception of this poem, he had never seen his daughter before. The occurring lines reveal his deep love for both child and mother.
Early publicationsEdit
1793 saw Wordsworth's earliest published poetry with the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.
He received a legacy of £900 from Raisley Calvert in 1795 so that he could pursue writing poetry. That year, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Somerset. The poets quickly developed a close friendship. In 1797, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxton House, Somerset, just a few miles away from Coleridge's home in Nether Stowey.
Together, Wordsworth and Coleridge (with insights from Dorothy) produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), an important work in the English Romantic movement. The volume gave neither Wordsworth's nor Coleridge's name as author. One of Wordsworth's most famous poems, "Tintern Abbey", was published in the work, along with Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
The second edition, published in 1800, had only Wordsworth listed as the author, and included a preface to the poems, which was augmented significantly in the 1802 edition. A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.
The BorderersEdit
In 1795-1797, he wrote his only play, The Borderers (play), a verse tragedy during the reign of King Henry III of England, when Englishmen of the north country were in conflict with Scottish rovers. Wordsworth attempted to get the play staged in November 1797, but it was rejected by Thomas Harris, theatre manager of Covent Garden, who proclaimed it "impossible that the play should succeed in the representation". The rebuff was not received lightly by Wordsworth, and the play was not published until 1842, after substantial revision.[9]
Germany and the Lake DistrictEdit
Wordsworth, Dorothy and Coleridge traveled to Germany in the autumn of 1798. While Coleridge was intellectually stimulated by the trip, its main effect on Wordsworth was to produce homesickness.[8] During the harsh winter of 1798-1799, Wordsworth lived with Dorothy in Goslar, and, despite extreme stress and loneliness, he began work on an autobiographical piece later titled The Prelude. He wrote a number of famous poems, including "The Lucy poems". He and his sister moved back to England, now to Dove Cottage in Grasmere in the Lake District, and this time with fellow poet Robert Southey nearby. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey came to be known as the "Lake Poets".[10] Through this period, many of his poems revolve around themes of death, endurance, separation and grief.
Marriage and childrenEdit
In 1802, after Wordsworth's return from his trip to France with Dorothy to visit Annette and Caroline, Lowther's heir, William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, paid the £4,000 debt owed to Wordsworth's father incurred through Lowther's failure to pay his aide.[11] Later that year, Wordsworth married a childhood friend, Mary Hutchinson.[8] Dorothy continued to live with the couple and grew close to Mary. The following year, Mary gave birth to the first of five children, three of whom predeceased William and Mary:
- John Wordsworth (18 June 1803-1875). Married four times:
- Isabella Curwen (d. 1848) had six children: Jane, Henry, William, John, Charles and Edward.
- Helen Ross (d. 1854). No issue.
- Mary Ann Dolan (d. after 1858) had one daughter Dora (b.1858).
- Mary Gamble. No issue.
- Dora Wordsworth (16 August 1804 - 9 July 1847). Married Edward Quillinan in 1843.
- Thomas Wordsworth (15 June 1806 - 1 December 1812).
- Catherine Wordsworth (6 September 1808 - 4 June 1812).
- William "Willy" Wordsworth (12 May 1810-1883). Married Fanny Graham and had four children: Mary Louisa, William, Reginald, Gordon.
Autobiographical workEdit
Wordsworth had for years been making plans to write a long philosophical poem in three parts, which he intended to call The Recluse. He had in 1798-99 started an autobiographical poem, which he never named but called the "poem to Coleridge", which would serve as an appendix to The Recluse. In 1804, he began expanding this autobiographical work, having decided to make it a prologue rather than an appendix to the larger work he planned. By 1805, he had completed it, but refused to publish such a personal work until he had completed the whole of The Recluse. The death of his brother, John, in 1805 affected him strongly. The source of Wordsworth's philosophical allegiances as articulated in The Prelude and in such shorter works as "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" has been the source of much critical debate. While it had long been supposed that Wordsworth relied chiefly on Coleridge for philosophical guidance, more recent scholarship has suggested that Wordsworth's ideas may have been formed years before he and Coleridge became friends in the mid 1790s. While in Revolutionary Paris in 1792, the 22-year-old Wordsworth made the acquaintance of the mysterious traveller John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822),[12] who was nearing the end of a thirty-years' peregrination from Madras, India, through Persia and Arabia, across Africa and all of Europe, and up through the fledgling United States. By the time of their association, Stewart had published an ambitious work of original materialist philosophy entitled The Apocalypse of Nature (London, 1791), to which many of Wordsworth's philosophical sentiments are likely indebted.
In 1807, his Poems in Two Volumes were published, including "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". Up to this point Wordsworth was known publicly only for Lyrical Ballads, and he hoped this collection would cement his reputation. Its reception was lukewarm, however. For a time (starting in 1810), Wordsworth and Coleridge were estranged over the latter's opium addiction.[8] Two of his children, Thomas and Catherine, died in 1812. The following year, he received an appointment as Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, and the £400 per year income from the post made him financially secure. His family, including Dorothy, moved to Rydal Mount, Ambleside (between Grasmere and Rydal Water) in 1813, where he spent the rest of his life.[8]
Following the death of his friend the painter William Green in 1823, Wordsworth mended relations with Coleridge.[13] The two were fully reconciled by 1828, when they toured the Rhineland together.[8] Dorothy suffered from a severe illness in 1829 that rendered her an invalid for the remainder of her life. In 1835, Wordsworth gave Annette and Caroline the money they needed for support.
When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, his production of poetry came to a standstill.
William Wordsworth died by re-aggravating a case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850, and was buried at St. Oswald's church in Grasmere.
- Main article: Wordsworth's poetry
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is considered a central work of Romantic literary theory. In it, Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry, one based on the "real language of men" and which avoids the poetic diction of much 18th-century poetry. Here, Wordsworth gives his famous definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
In 1814 he published The Excursion as the 2nd part of the 3-part The Recluse. He had not completed the 1st and 3rd parts, and never would. He did, however, write a poetic Prospectus to "The Recluse" in which he lays out the structure and intent of the poem. The Prospectus contains some of Wordsworth's most famous lines on the relation between the human mind and nature:
- My voice proclaims
- How exquisitely the individual Mind
- (And the progressive powers perhaps no less
- Of the whole species) to the external World
- Is fitted:--and how exquisitely, too,
- Theme this but little heard of among Men,
- The external World is fitted to the Mind.
Some modern criticsTemplate:Who recognize a decline in his works beginning around the mid-1810s. But this decline was perhaps more a change in his lifestyle and beliefs, since most of the issues that characterize his early poetry (loss, death, endurance, separation and abandonment) were resolved in his writings. But, by 1820, he enjoyed the success accompanying a reversal in the contemporary critical opinion of his earlier works.
His widow Mary published his lengthy autobiographical "poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. Though this failed to arouse great interest in 1850, it has since come to be recognized as his masterpiece.
Wordsworth received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree in 1838 from Durham University, and the same honor from Oxford University the next year.[8] In 1842 the government awarded him a Civil List pension amounting to £300 a year.
With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him "you shall have nothing required of you." (He became the only laureate to write no official poetry.)
A life-sized marble statue of Wordsworth by Frederick Thrupp is in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. Erected in St. George's chapel in 1854, it was moved to its present location (beside Shakespeare's memorial)in 1932.[14]
27 of his poems ("Lucy" i-v, "Upon Westminster Bridge," "Evening on Calais Beach," "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802," "England, 1802" i-v, "The Solitary Reaper," "Perfect Woman," "Daffodils," "Ode to Duty," "The Rainbow," "The Sonnet" i & ii, "The World," "Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," "Desideria," "Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon," "Mutability," "The Trosachs," and "Speak!") were included in the Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900.[15]
Wordsworth TrustEdit
- Main article: Wordsworth Trust
The Wordsworth Trust is a living memorial set up to celebrate the works of Wordsworth and his contemporaries. The Trust maintains Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth lived in the Lake District, and also runs a Wordsworth Museum and Art Gallery in Grasmere. It sponsors both a Poet in Residence and an Artist in Residence, and gives poetry readings and art exhibitions open to the public during the summer.
- An Evening Walk: An epistle, in verse, addressed to a young lady, from the Lakes of the North of England. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793.
- Descriptive Sketches, in verse: Taken during a pedestrian tour in the Italian, Grison, Swiss, and Savoyard Alps. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1793.
- Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems (by Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Printed for T.N. Longman by Biggs & Cottle, Bristol, 1798; London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798
- Poems, in two Volumes. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807. Volume I,Volume II
- The Excursion: being a portion of 'The Recluse', a poem. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814; New York: C. & S. Francis, 1849.
- Poems By William Wordsworth, Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author (2 volumes), London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1815. Volume I, Volume II.
- The White Doe of Rylstone; or, The Fate of the Nortons: A poem. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1815.
- Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816. With Other Short Pieces, Chiefly referring to Recent Public Events. London: Printed by Thomas Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816.
- Peter Bell, A tale in verse. London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819.
- The Waggoner, a poem: To which are added, sonnets. London: Printed by Strahan & Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1819.
- Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth. (4 volumes), London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
- The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and Other Poems. To which is annexed, A Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1820.
- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (4 volumes), Boston: Published by Cummings & Hilliard, printed by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1824.
- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (5 volumes), London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1827;
- revised edition (4 volumes), London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.
- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth [pirated edition]. Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1828.
- Yarrow Revisited, And other poems. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835; Boston: J. Monroe, 1835; New York: R. Bartlett & S. Raynor, 1835.
- The Sonnets of William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, 1838.
- Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, A Tragedy. London: Edward Moxon, 1842).
- Kendal and Windermere Railway. Two Letters Reprinted from The Morning Post. Revised, with Additions(Kendal: Printed by Branthwaite & Son, 1845; London: Whittaker & Co. and Edward Moxon / Kendal: R. Branthwaite & Son, 1845.
- The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate. London: Edward Moxon, 1845
- The Prelude; or, Growth of a poet's mind: An autobiographical poem. London: Moxon, 1850; New York: D. Appleton / Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1850.
- The Recluse ["Home at Grasmere"]. London & New York: Macmillan, 1888.
- The Complete Poetical Works (introduction by John Morley). London: Macmillan, 1888.[16]
- Early Poems (selected by J.R. Tutin). London: Routledge, 1889.[17]
- A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth (illustrated by Alfred Parsons). New York: Harper, 1891.[18]
- The Prelude 1799, 1805, 1850 (edited by Jonathan Wordsworth, M.H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill). New York: Norton, 1979.
- William Wordsworth: The Poems (edited by John O. Hayden) (2 volumes), Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1981; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981).
- The Poetical Works of Wordsworth (edited by Paul D. Sheats). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982 [revision of the 1904 Cambridge Wordsworth].
- Concerning The Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal to Each Other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis; and Specifically as Affected by the Convention of Cintra. London:Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1809.
- Introduction to Joseph Wilkinson, Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire. London: R. Ackermann for Wilkinson, 1810.
- A Letter to A Friend of Robert Burns. London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816.
- Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmoreland. Kendal, UK: Airey & Bellingham, 1818.
- A Description of the Scenery of the Lakes in The North of England: Third edition (first published separately). London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822
- revised & enlarged, 1823
- revised & enlarged again as A Guide through the District of the Lakes in The North of England. Kendal, UK: Hudson & Nicholson / London: Longman / Edward Moxon / Whitaker & Co., 1835.
- A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (introduction by William Merchant). London: Hart-Davis, 1951.
- Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822.
- Ecclesiastical Sketches. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822.
- Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq. Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons (edited by Joseph Hine). London: Edward Moxon, 1831.
- Poems for the Young (illustrated by John MacWhirter & John Pettie; with a vignette by J.E. Millais). London: Strahan, 1872.[19]
Collected editionsEdit
- Poetical Works. (6 volumes), London: Moxon, 1836, 1837. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI
- enlarged (7 volumes), 1842
- enlarged again (8 volumes), 1851.
- Complete Poetical Works (edited by Henry Reed). Philadelphia: J. Kay, Jun., and Brother / Boston: J. Munroe, 1837.
- Poetical Works (6 volumes), London: Edward Moxon, 1849, 1850.
- Poetical Works. (3 volumes), Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1854.[20] Volume I, Volume II, Volume III.
- The Prose Works of William Wordsworth (edited by Reverend Alexander B. Grosart). London: Moxon, 1876; facsimile, New York: AMS Press, 1967.
- Poems of Wordsworth (chosen and edited by Matthew Arnold). London & New York: Macmillan, 1879.
- Selections from Wordsworth (edited by A.J. George). Boston: D.C. Heath, 1889.
- Poetical Works (edited by Edward Dowden). (7 volumes), London: George Bell, 1892. Volume I, Volume II, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII.
- Poetical Works (edited by William Knight). (8 volumes), London: Macmillan, 1896.[21] Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI, Volume VII, Volume VIII.
- Complete Poetical Works (edited by "A.J.G"). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin / Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press (Students' Cambridge Edition), 1904.[22]
- Wordsworth's Literary Criticism (edited by Nowell C. Smith). London: H. Frowde, 1905.
- Poetical Works (edited by Ernest de Selincourt and Helen Darbishire). (5 volumes), Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1940-1949; volumes 2 and 3 revised, 1952, 1954.
- The Political Tracts of Wordsworth, Coleridge & Shelley (edited by R.J. White). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
- Selected Poems and Prefaces (edited by Jack Stillinger). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
- Literary Criticism (edited by Paul M. Zall). Lincoln, UK: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.
- Prose Works (edited by W.J.B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser). (3 volumes), Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1974.
- The Cornell Wordsworth (general editor, Stephen M. Parrish). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975- .
- William Wordsworth (edited by Stephen Gill). London: Oxford University Press, (Oxford Author Series), 1984.
- The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (edited by Ernest de Selincourt). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
- The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 1787-1805. (1 volume), 1935
- The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The middle years. (2 volumes), 1937
- The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The later years. 1939
- (revised & enlarged by Chester L. Shaver, Mary Moorman, & Alan G. Hill) as The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (5 volumes), Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1967-1988.
- The Love Letters of William and Mary Wordsworth (edited by Beth Darlington). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1981.
- The Letters of William Wordsworth: A new selection (edited by Alan G. Hill). New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.[23]
Poems by William WordsworthEdit
See alsoEdit
- [[:Category:Early Romantics}Early Romantics]]
- List of British poets
|Preceded by
Robert Southey
|Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
| Succeeded by
Alfred Tennyson
- Hunter Davies, William Wordsworth-A Biography, Frances Lincoln Ltd,London,2009 ISBN 978-0-7112-3045-3
- Emma Mason, The Cambridge Introduction to William Wordsworth (Cambridge University Press, 2010) [2]
- M.R. Tewari, One Interior Life—A Study of the Nature of Wordsworth's Poetic Experience, (New Delhi: S. Chand & Company Ltd, 1983)
- Report to Wordsworth Written by Boey Kim Cheng, as a direct reference to his poems Composed Upon Westminster Bridge and The World is too Much with us
- ↑ from Richard William Church,, "[http://www.bartleby.com/337/865.html Critical Introduction: William Wordsworth (1770–1850) ]," The English Poets: Selections with critical introductions (edited by Thomas Humphry Ward). New York & London: Macmillan, 1880-1918. Web, Feb. 19, 2016.
- ↑ "Wordsworth House", Images of England (English Heritage), http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=71716, retrieved 21 December 2009
- ↑ Appendix A (Past Governors) of Allport, D. H. & Friskney, N. J. "A Short History of Wilson's School", Wilson's School Charitable Trust, 1986.
- ↑ Moorman 1968 pp. 5-7.
- ↑ Moorman 1968:9-13.
- ↑ Moorman 1968:15-18.
- ↑ Wordsworth, William in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 [1] Everett, Glenn, "William Wordsworth: Biography" Web page at The Victorian Web Web site, accessed 7 January 2007
- ↑ Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life, Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 132-3.
- ↑ See: Recollections of the Lake Poets.
- ↑ Moorman 1968 p. 8
- ↑ Kelly Grovier, "Dream Walker: A Wordsworth Mystery Solved", Times Literary Supplement, 16 February 2007
- ↑ Gentlemans Magazine|Sylvanus Urban- 1823 Template:Clarify
- ↑ William Wordworth, People, History, Westminster Abbey. Web, July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Alphabetical list of authors: Shelley, Percy Bysshe to Yeats, William Butler. Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1919). Bartleby.com, Web, May 19, 2012.
- ↑ William Wordsworth, Complete Poetical Works (London: Macmillan, 1888). Bartleby.com, 1999, Web, Sep. 15, 2013.
- ↑ Early Poems / by William Wordsworth. Hathi Trust. Web, Dec. 15, 2013.
- ↑ A Selection from the Sonnets of William Wordsworth (1891), Internet Archive. Web, Dec. 15, 2013.
- ↑ Poems for the Young (1872), Internet Archive. Web, Dec. 15, 2013.
- ↑ The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1854), Internet Archive. Web, Dec. 15, 2013.
- ↑ Wordsworth's Poetical Works, Project Gutenberg. Web, Jan. 6, 2012.
- ↑ The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (1904), Internet Archive. Web, Dec. 15, 2013.
- ↑ William Wordsworth 1770-1850. Poetry Foundation. Web, Jan 6. 2012.
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- Poems
- "The Passing of the Elder Bards" in A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
- "To Toussaint Louverture"
- "Lines Written in Early Spring": Poem of the Week at The Guardian
- William Wordsworth 1770-1850 at the Poetry Foundation
- 9 poems by Wordsworth: "Evening on Calais Beach," "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," "Written in March," "Travelling," "Skating," "September 1819" (2 poems), Lines Written in Early Spring," "Minstrels"
- William Wordsworth in the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900: "Lucy" i-v, "Upon Westminster Bridge," "Evening on Calais Beach," "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802," "England, 1802" i-v, "The Solitary Reaper," "Perfect Woman," "Daffodils," "Ode to Duty," "The Rainbow," "The Sonnet" i & ii, "The World," "Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," "Desideria," "Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon," "Mutability," "The Trosachs," and "Speak!".
- William Wordsworth in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse: from "The Excursion", from "The Power of Sound", from "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", from "The Prelude".
- William Wordsworth at Sonnet Central.
- William Wordsworth profile and 16 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Wordsworth in The English Poets: An anthology: "The Reverie of Poor Susan," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Lines Composed Near Tintern Abbey," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "A Poet's Epitaph," "Lucy Gray; or, Solitude," "Lucy," "The Two April Mornings," "The Fountain: A conversation," "There Was a Boy," "Green Linnet," "Yew Trees," "To a Highland Girl," "The Solitary Reaper," "Yarrow Unvisited," "To the Cuckoo," "At the Grave of Burns," "Thoughts Suggested the Day Following," "She Was a Phantom," "I Wandered Lonely," "Ode to Duty," "The Nightingale," "The Mountain Echo," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," "Laodamia," "To ———, on Her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn," "Evening Voluntary"
- Extracts from The Prelude: Influence of Natural Objects in Calling Forth and Strengthening the Imagination in Boyhood and Early Youth, Apparition on the Lake, Morning after the Ball, Defile of Gondo, Ascent of Snowden
- Extracts from The Excursion: Twin Peaks of the Valley, Mist Opening in the Hills, Among the Mountains, The Moon Among Trees, The Sea Shell
- Sonnets: The Gains of Restraint,On the Beach at Calais, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge," "Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland," "Milton," The World's Ravages, The Throne of Death, The Shock of Bereavement, "After-Thought," "Mutability," "To Lady Fitzgerald," "On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples," Past Years of Home
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) info & 25 poems at English Poetry, 1579-1830
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) (63 poems) at Representative Poetry Online
- Selected Poems by W. Wordsworth at PoetSeers.
- Selected Works at Poetry Index
- Poetry Archive: 166 poems of William Wordsworth at Sanjeev.net
- Poems by William Wordsworth at Black Cat Poetry
- William Wordsworth at PoemHunter (388 poems)
- William Wordsworth at Poetry Nook (1,187 poems)
- Books
- The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth at Bartleby.com (HTML).
- Works by William Wordsworth at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
- Works by William Wordsworth at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- William Wordsworth at the Online Books Page
- Works by or about William Wordsworth in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- About
- William Wordsworth in the Encyclopædia Britannica
- William Wordsworth at NNDB
- Biography and Works at the Literature Network
- A Wordsworth FAQ by Thomas C. Gannon
- William Wordsworth at the Victorian Web.
- Biography and Works
- Romanticon: Wordsworth's Corpus Reflects the Growth of a Conservative's Mind; City Journal, Summer 2009
- Wordsworth's hidden arguments: an article in the TLS by Dan Jacobson, 31 October 2007
- Worsworth's links with Claines, Worcester
- Wordsworth, William in the Dictionary of National Biography
- Critical Introduction by Richard William Church
- William Wordsworth in the Cambridge History of English and American Literature
- Wordsworth's Grave
- Wordsworth and the Lake District
- Romantic Circles: Editions & articles on Wordsworth and other authors of the Romantic period
- Extensive Information on Wordsworth's Poem, Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
- Britain Unlimited's page on William Wordsworth
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Lincolnshire Murders: Mum poisoned her two young children after being rejected by ex-husband
From the archives: A mother of five who killed her two youngest children by poisoning them after her ex-husband rejected her was sentenced to hard labour after being found guilty on manslaughter by a jury.
Sarah Clarke, 29, of Lincoln, had been found guilty of the manslaughter of her two young children after eight minutes on July 24, 1885 at Lincoln Assizes.
The court heard that Clarke had fed her two children laudanum – a form of morphine, at around 4am on Saturday, June 27, 1885, before taking the rest herself.
It is believed that Clarke planned on killing her two children before killing herself after being rejected by her former husband Joseph Clarke.
Clarke had five children in total, three with Mr Clarke and two with a George Taylor – who she had left her husband for.
It was Mr Taylor's children who she killed in the early hours of June 27.
The court heard that Clarke had fallen in love with Mr Clarke at a young age and reluctantly married after falling pregnant with their first child.
However, after the birth of her first child, Clarke left her husband and moved to Bradford with her newborn.
After eight months, Mr Clarke received a letter begging for forgiveness and Clarke returned with their child.
The pair then went on to have another child before Clarke left again.
However, this trip did not last long and after two months, she returned and had a third child with Mr Clarke.
With three extra mouths to feed, Clarke persuaded her husband to get a lodger to help with finances.
George Taylor then moved in with the family.
Following this, Clarke abandoned her family and ran away with Taylor.
After 18 months, Clarke returned to Lincoln with a child she had had with Taylor and Mr Clarke took them in.
Clarke then ran away again, meeting Taylor in Gravesend where she fell pregnant with their second child.
After six months, Clarke attempted to return to Mr Clarke, who rejected her after falling for a neighbour's daughter Emma Truelove.
This was a shock to Clarke who had travelled to Lincoln on June 24, 1885 to be back with her husband.
This is said to have caused her much heartache.
Following her rejection, she pawned her clothes, bought three bottles of laudanum and gave it to her children before locking the three of them in a hotel room.
The hotel owner became worried and called police who broke down the door, concerned for the safety of Clarke and her children.
On being found, Clarke said: "I wish you'd let me die.
"It's all through him. I've taken laudanum and given the children some."
After being found guilty of the manslaughter of her children, Clarke was sentenced to eight months of hard labour.
The events of this story were researched and documented by Douglas Wynn in Murder & Crime Lincoln.


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Anxiety is a big issue in British society, and although sometimes it has its place – like when studying for an exam, visiting the doctor or going for a promotion – it becomes a problem when it starts to feel too overwhelming.
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Here is a great video explaining the fundamentals of forearm passing. John Speraw is the current head coach for the USA Men's National team. The 18-1 team has already heard me teach these very concepts at our practices. However, having a video and watching it from multiple angles is always helpful. There are a number…Read more
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Bert van Marwijk says he's disappointed the Socceroos didn't take all three points against Denmark, believing they did enough to claim victory in their Group C clash at the FIFA World Cup™ on Thursday.
Despite falling behind early to a Christian Eriksen stunner, Australia regrouped and equalised before the break before dominating the second-half chances.
WRAP: Socceroos still alive after thrilling draw with Denmark
WATCH: Bert van Marwijk's Denmark post-match press conference
READ: What's next for the Socceroos?
But a winner didn't materialise on a frustrating night for the Socceroos in Samara.
"I also sat here against France and I was disappointed and also proud because against France we also deserved more," van Marwijk said at the official post-match press conference.
"The conclusion is we have one point and we deserve four points from these two games.
"Beside the first 15 minutes we played very well and had chances to win and we deserved to win so I'm disappointed."
Van Marwijk added: "The first 15 minutes maybe we were a little restless but after that we started to play football and have confidence on the ball and then you saw all the time Aaron [Mooy] was free or Mile [Jedinak] or Tommy [Rogic].
"From that moment on we controlled big parts of the game.
"The first half there was not many chances but the second half we played very well and created chances and its unbelievable pity that we didn't score."
Before the Denmark clash, van Marwijk urged his side to be more creative and find a way to make more opportunities in front of goal.
While they certainly did that against the 12th-ranked Danes, the only thing missing for Australia was the execution of the final pass or shot on goal.
"When you see the game it's the last part of the puzzle makes the difference," van Marwijk said.
"I must be satisfied from almost all the things I have asked them. From the first day the team improved every day and they surprised me today again.
"A performance like we did against France, that's a big country and one of the best in the world. And when you play against Denmark, I don't know how to explain it, but it's more difficult and still we have a very good performance. So this team has improved very much.
He added: "When you are at this level to create against Denmark so many chances you must be satisfied about the way of playing and about the creation of chances. The only thing you have to do is to put the ball in the goal."
The Dutchman revealed Andrew Nabbout – who was forced off with an injury in the second half – suffered a bad shoulder problem which likely means his tournament is over.
But van Marwijk was full of praise for teenage substitute Daniel Arzani, who terrorised the Danish defence in a 25-minute cameo.
"Everybody knows he's a big talent. He doesn't play so long in the Australian competition so I think it's an exception that I nominated him but I trust his qualities," van Marwijk said of the 19-year-old from Melbourne City.
"He has to learn a lot but he's very talented and he's also an intelligent player.
"It's good for him to play 25 minutes and I'll see what I'll do in the next game."
The result means the Socceroos not only need to win their final match against Peru next Wednesday – live on SBS and Optus Sport – but also hope the result of the France-Denmark clash goes their way.
"For me, it's only important that we have to beat Peru. If we want a chance we have to beat them," van Marwijk said of Australia's hopes of reaching the last 16.
"I have no influence over the rest so I don't think about those things. We must concentrate on Peru."


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Brian Michael Southall (born February 16, 1982 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American guitarist, drummer, keyboardist, vocalist, producer, and band manager. He is known for playing in bands fordirelifesake, Boys Night Out, The Receiving End of Sirens, Isles & Glaciers, and The Company We Keep. He is also the tour manager for Motion City Soundtrack. He is currently the tour manager for All Time Low & Børns.
In 2013, All Time Low's long time tour manager Matt Flyzik stepped down. The band went on through 2014 on a few short tours and then finished the year recording their sixth studio album, Future Hearts. In 2014, Matt Jara-Ratajsczak (guitar tech for Pierce The Veil) went on to become All Time Low's tour manager for only the Love Like Tour tour in Spring 2014. In 2015, following the announcement of tours and other events in support of the new album Future Hearts, Southall became their tour manager.
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So, in my previous rambling blog entry I discussed numbers 1 to 4 in my top 20 most read authors. Today, I am going to discuss the author at number 20, Jacques Vallee — a name that will mean little outside of the rarefied world of ufology and forteana.
Vallee was a writer and researcher with an interest in UFOs. His background was science: he was a computer scientist and astronomer, and the techniques of these disciplines informed his first books, Challenge to Science – The UFO Enigma and UFOs in Space – Anatomy of a Phenomenon. That the books were "scientific" and the author a "scientist" was one of the reasons I first read Vallee; they gave the slightly wacky subject I was interested in a legitimacy not conveyed by The Warminster Mystery or Flying Saucers are Hostile.
Warminster, the town in which I grew up, had been a UFO hot-spot during the 1960s and 1970s. As burgeoning hippie intellectuals, UFO phenomena interested me and my friends. We soon began to visit the hills around the town, particularly Cradle Hill, in our quest to discover the reality of flying saucers and their alien occupants. By the age of 16, we were regular visitors to the hill, and by the glorious summer of 1976, at the ages of 17-19, we were veterans, full of esoteric knowledge and crackpot theories.
By 1976, however — atop hills heavy with heat and lingering sunsets and misty lemon sunrises — we were already becoming sceptical. We had seen too many of our fellow skywatchers become overexcited by the mundane and trivial. Our ideas about UFOs were moving towards the notions explored in Vallee's Passport to Magonia; a book that had shifted the landscape of ufological research, certainly in Europe, after its publication in 1969.
Our skepticism eventually led to me and my friend John writing In Alien Heat – The Warminster Mystery Revisited. For some time, early drafts of this book were available for reading at my web site. Through this, I was contacted by Kevin Goodman. Kevin had also been visiting Warminster in the 1970s, and he and his friends, unlike me and my friends, had experienced weird things — a form of contact with aliens.
Kevin was also writing a book about his experiences at Warminster; I agreed to help him with this book, which eventually became UFO Warminster – Cradle of Contact. Although I am sceptical about what had over the years become known as the Warminster mystery, nonetheless, what Kevin and his friends experienced was interesting — odd and mysterious — a teenage rite of passage from one world to the next.*
Vallee continued to write books, and I read at least six of them. However, the thing that had first intrigued me about Vallee — the orthodox scientist as ufologist — was first subsumed by folkloric explanations of the UFO phenomenon, and then by a form of explanation in which manifestations of UFO phenomena simply replaced phenomena associated with religion, which Vallee leavened with some mild paranoia and conspiratorial thinking. Vallee was no longer my cup of tea…
* While editing Kevin's book, I came across a description of a walk Kevin and his friends had made to Cradle Hill in the company of a local lad. I remembered then that the local lad had been me, and I had actually already met Kevin 30-odd years ago…
You can find out more about the Warminster mystery at the UFO Warminster Web site.


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Cumberland, RI USA (April 16, 2018) — Akai Professional today announced the release of MPC Software 2.2. This major software and firmware update for MPC 2 introduces a number of user-requested features and functionality enhancements. As a result, this update is highly recommended for all current MPC X, MPC Live and MPC Software 2 owners.
- MIDI Learn (Global): MPC Software can now be controlled by external MIDI surfaces other than the MPC, such as keyboards and pad controllers. This includes 3rd-party products.
- MIDI Learn (Project): Automatable parameters (volume, pan, etc.) can now be controlled by external surfaces such the faders on a MIDI mixer or rotary knobs on keyboard controllers.
- Humanize: Users can now add randomization to the timing or velocity of MIDI events. This is great for grooves that are slightly "out-of-the pocket."
- Generate Random Events: MPC can generate random melodic and drum patterns across the timeline
- Many more workflow and stability enhancements
"MPC 2.2 advances the user experience in amazing new ways," said Dan Gill, Akai Pro Product Manager. "The MIDI Learn and MIDI Control features are now available in both standalone and controller modes, introducing all sorts of new workflow and creative possibilities."
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The Voltigierzirkel Team has been on site at the FEI Vaulting European Championships for Juniors in Kaposvár and gave us an overview and some insights of this thrilling weekend. In this article you will find a summary of the final day (Sunday) and the results.Read More
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Ronald McDonald's creepy debut
Don't miss the strange tray of food on his head and another attached to his waist (!) where, through the magic of television, burgers magically appear!
I'm not sure he's much less creepy today, but Ronald was certainly creepy back then!
As a modern day contrast you might also want to check out this TV ad from Japan featuring a sexy female 'Ronald' (there's a male version, too.)
So here it is, Ronald McDonald's television debut:
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For 18 years at Marmol Radziner, Nicole has played a key role in a variety of residential and institutional projects, including Project Manager on the Altamira and Trousdale residences and the First Flight Child Development Center.
Nicole brings strong skills in design development and construction to each project, as well extensive experience in consultant coordination. She effectively balances design goals with budget and schedule parameters. Nicole also actively promotes sustainable design practices and environmentally friendly buildings by serving as our sustainability associate within the office.
Nicole holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design.