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A warning has been issued following reports of rogue traders operating in the area.
Suffolk Trading Standards has issued the warning to businesses – calling on them to be wary of approaches from rogue traders who are offering tool sharpening services in the county.
In a post from Suffolk Trading Standards, they Tweeted: "Businesses be on your guard!
"Rogue traders, offering tool sharpening services, have been reported in Suffolk.
"They provide an estimate, take the tools, then days later return with the tools and demand £1000's.
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Stars Naga Anvesh, Kruthika in the lead roles and directed by G Ram Prasad.
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Vinavayya Ramayya is about a village boy named Chanti (Naga Anvesh) who is deeply in love with the daughter of his village head Chowdary (Prakash Raj). He has always wanted Janaki (Krithika of Drishyam fame) who has considered him as a good friend. He is heartbroken that she is getting married to someone else and doesn't have any interest in him. However, the tale Chanti weaves to his friends, misdirects them to believe both are equally in love. Spurred by over-enthusiasm to help their friend his friends played by Ali, Shakala Shankar and Brahmanandam, kidnap the bride. Only then do they realise their folly by which time the hero is already in attempts to woo the terribly distressed bride. However, as they spend some convenient time in an affluent farm house in Kerala at Ali's grandfather's bungalow, Janaki finally has a chance to see his love and accept it. Whether her family accepts it remains the question.
The movie has quite a few excellent character artists. In fact, it was surprising to see Prakash Raj in such a low-profile role that hardly has him in his element. He almost looks out of place in such a ridiculous plot. So is Naresh who plays Chanti's father. Naga Anvesh, thanks to his experience as a child artist doesn't have much of a problem emoting. He is a good dancer too. But opposite him is Krithika who hasn't still come out of her shocked expression in Drishyam. There is hardly any chemistry between the lead pair. More importantly, the movie is entirely based on conveniently pretty surroundings, as stupid as it may seem. Brahmi's lackluster performance is a needless headache in a movie that was already suffering from Saptagiri and Shakalaka Shankar, neither of whom have been handed any funny lines or sub-plots. As a result the movie falls flat in its face. While the cinematography is pretty and Anup Rubens' music is decent, the plot-line suffers from the director's lack of vision or coherence in ideas. Take for example, the stay in Ali's family home. A young couple walking into their house without any luggage on them and they are still ready to believe the couple is in honeymoon. That is just a small sample of the unimaginable short-cuts that the director takes, even as he himself tries to deliberately pinpoint some cliches in normal Telugu movies.
Vinavayya Ramayya is a sordid affair that is neither fresh nor charming like an Uyyala Jampala for example. It doesn't really tickle your ribs at any point, even as Anvesh tries too hard to attain too little. You can definitely sit this one out!
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#10 – I wrote the first draft of this novella in January 2017, which was the month before I submitted THE CONTINUUM to World Weaver Press.
#9 – There's a character in this novella who shares a surname with one of my critique partners. This wasn't intentional, but after I realized it, I decided to stick with it.
#8 – Cass, the protagonist in this book, was born on April 14, 2115 – exactly 203 years after the Titanic disaster and 3 years after the Continuum disaster.
#7 – Cass owns a "Save the Pigeons" t-shirt, which I imagine includes a picture of one of Mo Willem's drawings.
#6 – Cass's parents named her after her maternal grandmother; but I named her after a Trojan princess from Greek mythology. (Check out John Scalzi's blog on May 10 for more on that!). During the early draft stages, I'd originally called her Poppy.
#4 – In this story, Cass uses her mother's surname, Argent, which is the French word for "silver" – a reference to Juliet Silver, another character of mine whom I've written about in a series of steampunk stories.
#3 – The working title for this story as I was drafting it was THE COMPOSSIBILITY THEORY, but as I was working on it, the story took such a different turn that the title didn't fit anymore.
#2 – One incident that did not make its way into this story is the June 12, 1914 Bagdad Train Wreck, in which the eastbound Santa Fe California Limited train struck a freight train on a siding outside of Los Angeles, killing 4 passengers and injuring 20. It wasn't until after I'd completed my story that I discovered this little bit of history and realized that Cass could have been on that train that day.
This is not the final book in the series! I've been busy working on book four, entitled THE CAUSALITY LOOP, which takes place a year after the events of book three. I'm looking forward to sharing more about it with you all soon!
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Lower School Principal
ACS Doha are looking for an experienced Lower School Principal.
The Lower School Principal is responsible for the leadership and day-to-day management of a brand new, purpose-built campus for the Lower School Division. The successful candidate needs to contribute to the growth of the school, while ensuring the delivery of a rigorous curriculum, maintaining an outstanding learning environment and community focused atmosphere.
- Leads the Lower School Division by promoting ACS's Vision and Values, Philosophy and Ethos through the day - to-day interactions with the ACS community.
- Demonstrate reflective leadership practice that values feedback.
- Collaboratively implement and evaluate policies and procedures to secure the highest standards of teaching and learning.
- Positively contributes to the development and annual review of the School Strategic Plan ensuring learning is at the centre of planning and resource management.
- Establishes a culture for continuous improvement in the School/Division.
- Evaluates and updates practices as appropriate ensuring up to date information and communication.
- Encourages and supports the development of initiatives that link with the School Strategic Plan.
- Encourage and support the active engagement of parents and carers in their child's educational progress Teaching and Learning
- Ensures that all students receive a rigorous education through a programme designed to promote a safe and healthy school environment, and using a variety of data to monitor every child's learning.
- Collaboratively establishes creative, responsive and effective approaches to learning and teaching.
- Establishes strategies which secure high standards of behaviour and attendance.
- Monitors, evaluates and reviews classroom practices and promotes improvement strategies to ensure that underperformance is challenged at all levels.
- Use student assessment results and discussions with faculty to inform curriculum development in the Division, liaising with the Early Childhood Principal, PYP Coordinator, ACS Education Strategy Services in the UK to ensure consistency across the Schools.
- Communicates student progress effectively to parents to ensure their on-going involvement with their child's education.
- Maintain respectful communication with all stakeholders, and facilitate positive and innovative problem solving
- Ensure clear, consistent and on-going communication with the wider ACS community.
- Collaborate with admissions to balance enrollment demands with conditions of acceptance.
Building Relationships
- Builds effective and collaborative working relationships with all constituents of the ACS Community
- Seeks opportunities and partnerships with internal and external organisations that will enhance the students experience.
- Supports community initiatives and attends school events.
- Communicates effectively by hosting community events, training workshops and opportunities for input and feedback.
- Develops advocacy and recognition for students and teachers.
- Cooperates and works with relevant agencies to safeguard children and staff.
- Deals with student and parent concerns in a timely, sensitive manner encouraging positive outcomes to situations.
- Continually solicits 360 feedback on own performance and that of the Division to ensure continuous improvement.
- Leads, motivates, supports, challenges and develops employees to ensure continuous improvement and development ensuring quality of education provided and ensuring constructive relationships are formed between employees and students.
- Ensures effective orientation of new employees into the Division while fostering a sense of teamwork and collaboration.
General administration and management
- Develops and manages efficient systems for the daily operational activities (e.g. assessment and reporting, assemblies, parent events etc).
- Collaborates on a master schedule for the Division that allows for a continuum of learning throughout the school.
- Manages information effectively and maintains appropriate records on students, staff, faculty, and curriculum in accordance with best practice and inspection criteria.
- Ensures understanding of inspection and accreditation processes and ensures effective implementation.
- Ensures student progress is accurately recorded and reported regularly to parents.
- Leads and contributes to WASC and IB evaluation processes
- Ensures the effective management of Divisional budgets ensuring achievement of agreed activities and objectives.
- Submits, as appropriate, priorities for expenditure in line with the ACS budgeting timetable.
- Plans, allocates, supports and evaluates work undertaken by individuals and teams, ensuring clear delegation of tasks and responsibilities.
- Ensures the appropriate and effective use of ACS's performance management tools and policies toensure continuous improvement.
- Ensures that facilities are kept safe and clean/adheres to all health and safety policies and procedures.
- Ensures that appropriate risk assessments are undertaken before sanctioning and any potentially hazardous activities
- Bachelor's degree and an advanced Master's degree in leadership.
- A proven track record of curriculum leadership: planning, facilitating, assessing and monitoring an Lower School framework.
- Successful IB World School leadership experience with IB training preferred.
- Several years previous teaching experience required.
- Sound knowledge of, and experience in the PYP, as well as a thorough understanding of modern educational practices.
- Fluency in the English language.
Personal Qualities (ALP)
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Model and promote the IB learner profile and PYP attitudes.
- Able to balance quick response decisions and priorities without deviating from longer term aims.
- Courage and conviction of opinions and decisions.
- Ability to quickly build effective and sustainable working relationships with the wider community while sensitive to other cultures and values.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work within a team; positive attitude; growth mindset; and a sense of humour.
- Open and collaborative leadership style.
- Purposeful and responsive influencing style.
- Exceptional prioritizing, planning and organizing skills.
- Able to seek advice and support when necessary.
Start Date: August 2021
Working Environment: Based at Doha campus, Qatar with occasional travel to other campuses overseas. Working 5 days out of 7, including some evenings, weekends and Public Holidays.
ACS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and as an employee of ACS you are expected to share this commitment. The protection of our students' welfare is the responsibility of all staff within ACS International Schools and individuals are expected to conduct themselves in a way that reflects the principles of our organisation.


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Setting The Example
In putting boundaries around the cyber influence of our family, we as parents must lead the way in what this should look like. This may be a difficult thing for some of us. There has even been a new term created "Nomophobia", no mobile phone phobia. How many of us would turn around if we left our phone on the counter, probably most? Our smart phones have become such a part of us; a study has shown that some people experience phantom vibration when their phone isn't even in their pocket. There have been several videos and stories circulating on social media showing how much we truly miss because of our smart phone obsessions. We must set the boundaries for several reasons. First, for the example to our children of where the boundaries should be. Second, we would never want to miss a moment of our child's life because of distraction. Third, we would never want to communicate that there is something out there that is more important then God and our family.
So what do the boundaries look like? There must be a time set where there are no interruptions, for example car time, dinner time and family time. There can be a place where every one's devices are put up to charge at night, parents included. We have all been somewhere and observed a family out to dinner, all sitting on their devices and not really together. Don't miss out on these precious years we have with our children! Make sure to set the boundaries for your home!
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Diabetes mellitus is a huge health burden due to decreased quality of life and the escalating cost of treatment. In the United States alone, ~8% of the population is diabetic and nearly one-third of adults are now estimated to be at risk to develop the disease. Obesity, insulin resistance and metabolic abnormalities in liver, adipose, and muscle are important factors in disease. Yet, most of the gene loci recently found associated with type 2 diabetes encode proteins that enable insulin production from pancreatic cells. Nutrients and hormones regulate not only insulin secretion but also the capacity of cells to continue to produce insulin. In this proposal we focus on mechanisms of action of nutrients and agents that enhance insulin production in cells. The overarching goals are to elucidate mechanisms that can be manipulated to improve -cell function and overcome the physiological changes in cells that occur during prolonged hyperglycemia, contributing to inadequate insulin release.
In aim 1 we will determine the functions of the taste receptor complex (T1R1/T1R3) in pancreatic cells. This dimeric G protein-coupled receptor (GPR) is involved in amino acid-sensing. This receptor, identified in gustatory neurons, binds to a variety of amino acids, but has not been studied on cells. We find that stable knockdown of T1R3 reduces insulin secretion, and insulin content, and causes events associated with autophagy. We will explore the bases for these phenotypic changes and we will also examine the underlying signaling mechanisms. In the second aim we will examine molecular mechanisms of action of small molecules that enhance beta-cell function. These molecules stimulate insulin production by cells, improve oral glucose tolerance of db/db mice, and restore insulin production by human islets in long term culture. We have identified a number of changes that take place in cells treated with these drugs, including epigenetic alterations, and changes in concentrations of key transcription factors. We will evaluate candidates that may mediate the actions of these drugs identified by drug-affinity chromatography. Finally, we will continue to investigate ERK1/2-dependent signaling events that control insulin gene transcription by focusing on mechanisms of recruitment of the coactivator p300. These studies should provide new understanding of how amino acids regulate insulin production, stability and release and will exploit a new pharmacological tool to identify mechanisms to enhance insulin production and insulin transcription in normal and failing islets.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is now found not only in adults but also in children in the United States. These studies will explore new mechanisms to enhance insulin production in diabetes focusing on a nutrient sensing receptor and a novel small molecule that enhances insulin production from poorly functioning islets.
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|Kalwat, Michael A; Wichaidit, Chonlarat; Nava Garcia, Alejandra Y et al. (2016) Insulin promoter-driven Gaussia luciferase-based insulin secretion biosensor assay for discovery of ?-cell glucose-sensing pathways. ACS Sens 1:1208-1212
|Kalwat, Michael A; Huang, Zhimin; Wichaidit, Chonlarat et al. (2016) Isoxazole Alters Metabolites and Gene Expression, Decreasing Proliferation and Promoting a Neuroendocrine Phenotype in ?-Cells. ACS Chem Biol 11:1128-36
|Wauson, Eric M; Guerra, Marcy L; Dyachok, Julia et al. (2015) Differential Regulation of ERK1/2 and mTORC1 Through T1R1/T1R3 in MIN6 Cells. Mol Endocrinol 29:1114-22
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|Osborne, Jihan K; Guerra, Marcy L; Gonzales, Joshua X et al. (2014) NeuroD1 mediates nicotine-induced migration and invasion via regulation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in a subset of neural and neuroendocrine carcinomas. Mol Biol Cell 25:1782-92
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Welcome to business etiquette essentials by business etiquette expert Lydia Ramsey.
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Presented primarily in video format you will learn everything you need to know to get the job or promotion or to grow your business and the bottom line. You will build better and longer-lasting relationships. In addition, you will feel more confident than you ever have no matter what the business setting.
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Your instructor, Lydia Ramsey, specializes in business etiquette, professional conduct, and customer service and will help you and your employees develop the skills to attract and retain clients through the simple practice of modern manners and the basic principles of courtesy, kindness, and respect. Her business etiquette course will give you the tools to take your business to the next level.


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Golden Sands / Pantai Puteri Dewi
A legendary lovelorn princess is said to have drowned at this beach, which has been named in her memory. To locals, the beach is popularly known as Golden Sands. A private beach under an international chain of hotels, Pantai Puteri Dewi offers no land access except for its guests. The beach is located on the northwest of the island. Evenings are particularly wonderful as t...More Info
Kota Belanda / Dutch Fort
Kota Belanda or Dutch Fort was originally build by the Dutch in 1670 as warehouse to store tine ore mined from Perak. This fort is located in a bay in Pulau Pangkor, known as Kampung Teluk Gedung, which was at that point time a fishing village. The reason the Dutch built this fort is closely linked with their arrival to the Malay Archipelago in early 17th century. The Du...More Info
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Pangkor Island situated just off the west coast of Perak in Peninsular Malaysia is one of the most enchanting islands you'll ever come across. Pangkor has for centuries enthralled visitors with her charming beauty. In days of old, she was the refuge of seamen who sailed through the Straits of Malacca. Pangkor's many idyllic bays made it the perfect stopover. Pirates, advent...More Info
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The Paralympic symbols are the icons, flags, and symbols used by the International Paralympic Committee to promote the Paralympic Games.
The Paralympic motto is "Spirit in Motion". The motto was introduced in 2004 at the Paralympic Games in Athens.[1] The previous motto was "Mind, Body, Spirit", introduced in 1994.[1]
Paralympic symbol
The symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", coloured red, blue, and green, encircling a single point, on a white field. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent. The Paralympic symbol was created by the Scholz & Friends agency and approved in April 2003.[1][2]
The colours of the agitos with the white background stand for the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world. The three agitos encircle a centre point, to emphasize "the role that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has of bringing athletes from all corners of the world together and enabling them to compete". The shape also symbolises the Paralympic vision "To Enable Paralympic Athletes to Achieve Sporting Excellence and to Inspire and Excite the World".[1][2]
This Paralympic symbol was first use of limited time before the 2004 Paralympic Summer Games in Athens, the new symbol was not used by participating delegations during the Games. At the 2004 Closing Ceremony however, the flag that was handed over to Beijing had the new symbol.[3] The symbol was first used in a Paralympic emblem at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino.[4]
On 20 October 2019, the IPC unveiled a new version of the Agitos, as part of the celebrations of its 30 years of existence, it has noticeably thicker lines for the stirrings and brighter colors.The change was part of the presentation of the entity's new visual identity. This was unveiled a day before the unveiling of the official logo for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The first designated Paralympic logo was created for the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul and based on a traditional Korean decorative component called a pa {Hangul: 파; Hanja: 巴}, two of which make up the taegeuk symbol at the center of the flag of South Korea. The first Paralympic flag used five pa arranged similarly to the Olympic Rings, but not interlocking, and in identical colors to the Olympic rings: blue, black, red, yellow, and green.[1][2]
On October 6, 1990, the International Coordinating Committee of World Sports Organizations for the Disabled (ICC) was informed that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requested the five-pa symbol be altered — the IOC's marketing department considered it too similar to the Olympic rings.[1][2][5][6][7] A new symbol created for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) in 1991 included six overlapping pa in a circle. In November 1991, the IPC members voted against the new symbol, retaining the five-pa symbol. However, the IOC made clear that it would refuse further collaboration with the IPC if the five-pa symbol remained in place.[5]
In March 1992,[5] the Paralympic symbol was changed to a version utilizing only three pa. This was not fully adopted until after the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer, Norway, since the Lillehammer Paralympic Organizing Committee had by then already started a marketing program based on the five-pa version. The three-pa version remained in place from the close of the Lillehammer Games through the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece.[1][2]
Paralympic emblems
Each Paralympic Games has its own Paralympic emblem. The city that hosts the Paralympic Games creates a symbol to represent the event. See Category:Summer Paralympic Games and Category:Winter Paralympic Games for various Paralympic emblems.[8] This design incorporates the Paralympic symbol, the name of the event, and one or more distinctive elements to identify the event.
It is the responsibility of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to approve Paralympic emblems for the Paralympic Games. The Paralympic emblems are used in promotional materials, by sponsors of the Paralympics, and on the uniforms of every Paralympic competitor. All emblems are the property of the IPC.
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- Heidelberg 1972 –
- Toronto 1976 –
- Örnsköldsvik 1976 –
- Arnhem 1980 –
- Geilo 1980 –
- Stoke Mandeville & New York 1984 –
- Innsbruck 1984 –
- Seoul 1988 –
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- Barcelona 1992 –The logo symbolizes an individual (man or woman) in a dynamic attitude in a wheelchair, "a human figure in a sports attitude". It was based upon a symbolic depiction of a human figure using a wheelchair.This design is an adapted version of the Olympic logo, with a simple modification: the athlete's legs are replaced by a circle symbolizing a wheelchair and the adapted sport. Red and yellow are the colors of Spain and meaning the sun and the life and blue is used to reference to the Mediterranean Sea and the "Mediterranean-ness" of Barcelona.The use of Times Demi Bold (New Roman) typography references antiquity and Romanness, Latin-ness and seriousness.[9]
- Tignes 1992 – designed by Jean-Michel Folon
- Lillehammer 1994 – Depicting the midnight sun and the people of Norway.[10]
- Atlanta 1996 – Entitled 'Starfire' the logo for the Atlanta Paralympics was meant to represent the fulfilment of an athlete's dream. It may be interpreted as the star being the athlete and the fire being the passion that burns in the heart to fulfil their dreams. The fifth point of the star, revealed by the 'dynamic flow of the rings' represents the fulfilment of the athletes' quest.[9]
- Nagano 1998 – The logo design selected for the Nagano 1998 Winter Paralympics was designed by Sadahiko Kojima following the announcement of a national competition. It represents a simplified form of the Chinese character 'naga' for Nagano. It also symbolises a rabbit jumping and playing in snow or on ice with the swift movements that are characteristic of rabbits. This figure was combined with the Games details and the former IPC logo of three tae-gu
- Sydney 2000 – The Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games logo embodies the vitality of Sydney, the spirit of Australia and the ability and achievement of the Paralympic athlete. The logo depicts a dynamic human form — represented by three graphic shapes — leaping triumphantly forward and "breaking through" towards the Paralympic Games in 2000. It also portrays the Paralympic torch and echoes the sails of Sydney's greatest landmark, the Sydney Opera House. The logo cast by the three Paralympic colors represented by Australia's unique shades of these colors: the rich blue of Sydney Harbour, the warm red of the earth, and the lush green of the forest .[11]
- Salt Lake 2002 – The logo for the Salt Lake Paralympics can be split into three distinct parts making up the whole. The sphere at the top represents both the global unity of the Paralympic Movement and also the head of the Paralympic athlete, which the overall logo appears to depict. The two broad fluid lines represent the athlete in motion with the three tae-guks, the former IPC logo, beneath the athlete.[11]
- Athens 2004 – The logo aims to embody the strength and determination of the Paralympic athlete. It features the profile of an athlete – male or female – looking forward, symbolising optimism for the future. At the same time, this human face attempts to reflect the individual's willpower and determination to succeed in all pursuits. The face's lines are smooth, its colour a warm and bright orange (Hephaestus color)– harbinger of the great celebration to come.[12]
- Torino 2006 – Three graphic elements represent human figures creating an upward soaring movement. Designed by the Benincasa-Husmann studio[11]
- Beijing 2008 – Dubbed 'Sky, Earth and Human Beings' and unveiled during a grand ceremony at the China Millennium Monument on July 13, 2004 in Beijing, the logo for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games is in the form of an athlete in motion. It is intended to embody the tremendous efforts that persons with a disability have to make in sport as well as in everyday life. It is typically Chinese in its form and style and the three colours used represent the sun (red), the sky (blue) and the earth (green). They are also intended to reflect the integration of heart, body and spirit, which are at the core of Chinese culture as well as the Paralympic Games.[13]
- Vancouver 2010 – "Man becomes Mountain": Captures the image of Vancouver and Whistler's coastal forests, mountains, and sky[14]
- London 2012 – This logo was designed by Wolff Olins, was published on 4 June 2007. It is a representation of the number 2012, with the Paralympic Agitos embedded within the zero.[15] The standard colours are green, magenta, orange and blue.In order to differentiate the two logos,tactile marks were made within the number 2012.[16][17] The emblem was released on the same day as the emblem for the Olympic Games.
- Sochi 2014 – "sochi2014.ru" is the only Paralympic emblem to include a web address. The mirror of "Sochi" and "2014" 'reflects' that Sochi is a meeting point between sea and mountains. The same essential logo shape is to be used for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The emblem was released on December 12, 2009, ca 11 days after the emblem for the Olympic Games.
- Rio 2016 – A stylized heart in 3D, symbolizing inclusion, passion, tolerance and the warmth of Brazilians.[18]
- PyeongChang 2018 - The Korean letter that symbolises snow, ice and the Paralympic athletes.The two letters together are said to portray a grand festival for the athletes, the audience and everyone around the globe.The letters sitting side-by-side also signify equality, with South Korea's five cardinal colours being used to represent the uniqueness of each individual.
- Tokyo 2020 – The Paralympic emblem features a hand fan in a circle form, filled with an indigo-colored checkerboard pattern. The design is meant to "express a refined elegance and sophistication that exemplifies Japan". The designs replaced a previous emblem which had been scrapped due to allegations that it plagiarized the logo of the Théâtre de Liège in Belgium.
- Beijing 2022 - It is an inspiration of a skater and skier with a ribbon motif and the Chinese character "飞" (fēi, means fly), with the Paralympic colors and the Chinese flag colors.
- Paris 2024 - The emblem for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was unveiled on 21 October 2019 at the Grand Rex. For the first time, a Paralympic Games will share the exact same emblem as their corresponding Olympics, with no difference or variation to reflect the two events sharing a single "ambition", explaining that "in terms of legacy we believe that in this country we need to strengthen the place of sport in the daily life of the people, and whatever the age, whatever the disability or not, you have a place and a role to play in the success of Paris 2024.
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The Paralympic flag has a white background, with the Paralympic symbol in the centre.
The current Paralympic flag was first flown in 2019.
Flame and torch relay
Until the 2010 Winter Paralympics, the host country chose the site and the method through which the Paralympic Torch was lit.[19] Since the 2012 Summer Paralympics, the concept of the Paralympic Torch Relay has changed and the Official Paralympic Flame is always created in the Games host city by uniting different regional flames. For London 2012 four regional flames from the national capitals of London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff were brought together in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, on 29 August 2012 to create the London 2012 Paralympic Flame. In the future not only flames from regions of the host country will be united, but also other international flames.[20] As such Stoke Mandeville will feature in all future Paralympic Torch Relays with the lighting of the Heritage Flame which will then travel to the host city to join all other flames.[21] During the final 1–2 days the torch follows a linear relay route and, on the day of the Opening Ceremony, the flame reaches the main stadium and is used to light a cauldron situated in a prominent part of the venue to signify the beginning of the Games. Then it is left to burn throughout the Games till the Closing Ceremony, when it is extinguished to signify the end of the Games.
For the first time, on 1 March 2014, Stoke Mandeville ran the first ever Heritage Flame lighting ceremony in advance of the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympics. An Armillary Sphere has been created which will be used at all future Heritage Flame events to create the spark by human endeavor of a wheelchair user. London 2012 paralympian Hannah Cockroft was the first person to create the spark where Caz Walton lit the Sochi Torch and Cauldron, Andy Barlow transferred the flame to Sochi and finally Denise Knibbs lit the Paralympic lantern.[22]
The Paralympic medals awarded to winners are another symbol associated with the Paralympic Games. The medals are made of gold-plated silver (commonly described as gold medals), silver, or bronze, and awarded to the top 3 finishers in a particular event.
For each Paralympic Games, the medals are designed differently, reflecting the host of the games.
The Paralympic Anthem, also known as the Paralympic Hymn, is played when the Paralympic Flag is raised. It is a musical piece, "Hymne de l'Avenir" (en. "Anthem of the Future") composed by Thierry Darnis. The anthem was approved by the IPC in March 1996.[23]
Australian country singer Graeme Connors wrote the lyrics for the anthem in 2001.[24]
Paralympic Oath
The Paralympic Oath is a solemn promise made by one athlete—as a representative of each of the participating Paralympic competitors; and by one judge—as a representative of each officiating Paralympic referee or other official, at the opening ceremonies of each Paralympic Games.
The athlete, from the team of the organizing country, holds a corner of the Paralympic Flag while reciting the oath:
Athletes' Oath
- In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Paralympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams. [25]
The judge, also from the host nation, holds a corner of the flag but takes a slightly different oath:
Judges' Oath (Officials' Oath)
- In the name of all the judges and officials, I promise that we shall officiate in these Paralympic Games with complete impartiality, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them in the true spirit of sportsmanship. [26]
The coach, from the host nation, holds a corner of the flag but takes a slightly different oath:
Coaches' Oath
- In the name of all coaches and other members of the athletes entourage, I promise that we shall commit ourselves to ensuring that the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play is fully adhered to and upheld in accordance with the fundamental principles of the Paralympic movement.
The first Paralympic Oath was taken at the first Paralympic Games, in Rome in 1960. The Paralympic Oath is identical to the Olympic Oath, with the exception of the word 'Olympic' being substituted by 'Paralympic'. The Oath was originally written by Pierre de Coubertin. The first oath (an Athlete's Oath) was taken at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920. The original text by Coubertin, has since been modified several times. The first Judge's/Official's Oath was taken at the Olympic Games in Sapporo in 1972.[27] The first Coach's Oath was taken at the Paralympic Games in London in 2012.
Athletes and judges that have taken the Paralympic Oath are listed below.[25][27]
Paralympic Order
The Paralympic Order is the highest award of the Paralympic Movement. The recipients get a medal with the IPC logo on it. The Paralympic Order is awarded to individuals for particularly distinguished contribution to the Paralympic Movement.[33][34]
Each Paralympic Games have a mascot, usually an animal native to the area or occasionally human figures representing the cultural heritage. Nowadays, most of the merchandise aimed at young people focuses on the mascots, rather than the Paralympic flag or organization logos.
See also
- ^ a b c d e f g "New Logo and Motto for IPC". International Paralympic Committee. 2003. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e International Paralympic Committee – The IPC logo, motto and flag, CRWFlags.com
- ^ New Logo and Motto for IPC Archived 6 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ Firsts at the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ a b c Vom Rehabilitationssport zu den Paralympics Archived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine (German), Sportmuseum Leipzig
- ^ Google translate, Google translate
- ^ Athlete first: a history of the paralympic movement, by Steve Bailey, Google Books
- ^ Paralympic Emblems Archived 4 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
- ^ a b [1], Paralympic Anorak
- ^ Lillehammer 1994, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ a b c An introduction to emblems and mascots of Paralympic Games (photos attached) Archived 7 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
- ^ Emblems of Paralympic Summer Games – Athens 2004 Archived 26 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
- ^ Beijing Paralympics Emblem unveiled (photo attached) Archived 6 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, July 13, 2004
- ^ Vancouver 2010 paralympic games Emblem Graphic standards, The Official Website of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
- ^ "London 2012 logo to be unveiled". BBC Sport. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
- ^ Get involved: Handover – London 2012
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^ Paralympic Emblem Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, December 25, 2015
- ^ Games symbols and mascots, Get Set – London 2012 Education Programme
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ Stoke Mandeville, Stoke Mandeville to feature in all Paralympic Games Torch Relays
- ^ "First ever Heritage Flame lit at Stoke Mandeville in a historic moment for Paralympic Movement". Paralympic.org. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ IPC Handbook – Bylaws Governance and Organizational Structure Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (.pdf file), International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ "The Paralympian 4/2001 - Editorial". 6 January 2002. Archived from the original on 6 January 2002. Retrieved 20 March 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^ a b Paralympic Winter Games History, The Official Web Site of the U.S. Olympic Committee
- ^ Summary of the Opening Ceremony Archived 12 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, September 6, 2008
- ^ a b Paralympic Oath Archived 19 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine (.pdf file), International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ a b China opens Beijing Paralympic Games in celebration of life and humanity, English People's Daily Online, September 7, 2008
- ^ Paralympic Games kick off in Vancouver Archived 22 March 2010 at Archive.today, National Post, March 12, 2010
- ^ Abby curl official to read Paralympic oath Archived 12 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, AbbyNews.com, March 8, 2010
- ^ a b c Michael Hirst BBC 2012 (30 August 2012). "Paralympic Games 'return home' to UK". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
- ^ "Sochi 2014 Paralympic Opening Ceremony lights up Russia". paralympic.org. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ The Paralympian – Issue 1/2010 Archived 19 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Paralympian page 14, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
- ^ Paralympic Order, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
External links
- Official site of the Paralympic Movement – Images and information on every game since 1960.
- The Paralympic Flag
- This page is based on the Wikipedia article Paralympic symbols; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA.


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Hideki Ikegami
(percussion, marimba, performance)
He has began his career as a Jazz drummer at 8 years old, and played with various bands. He was shocked by classical music, and began to learn classical percussion and marimba.
Since1997, He studied at "Conservator Superieur de Paris" (CNR) , "Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris" (CNSM) and in the same year, he won the best prize(without 1st prize winner) in the 46th Munchen international competition (ARD). The award-winning concert was broadcasted all over the world. After that, he studied at "Karlsruhe musikhochschule(Germany)".
He also accepted the second prize in the 16th Japan Winds and percussion international competition, Aoyama music prize 2004, the prize of Japan Culture Affairs artfesticval musicsection rookies of the year 2005, etc.
From 1997, He was invited to the many music festivals such as " Berlin chamber music festival", "Munchen Jazz and More Festival","The Kammer Musik Festival at Korn Philharmony" ,etc.
After he had many performances in Europe, he stopped to perform e in public and decided to learn more about classical technique and music. He studied with an opera singer, pianist, violinist and gradually, acquired the technique based on bel canto singing method.
|Solo recital
|Maki Ishii
| collaboration with dance as a role of pierrot
|Siena wind Orchestra Japan Tour as a solist
|Percussion Recital performance (Tokyo Cultural Center small hall)
Orchestra Unsemble Kanazawa Family Concert as a solist
|Suntory Summer Music Festival Xenakis "Oresteia"as a solist(Suntory Hall)
He has performed in various music festivals such as Sendai clas sical music festival, Suntory Summer festival, Mount Fuji Kawaguchiko music festival,Karuizawa music festival, La folle Journee au Japon, Spring Festival in Tokyo, Suntory Summer Festival, etc.
While he lived in Yamanashi、he planned and executed various concerts and workshops.
He opened his house to the public and held concerts (House concert of the lake saiko). As these events got a favorable notice, bus tours became very populer. In addition, these activities were broadcasted by a documentary Program-24-jikanTV.
He has remarkable repartories from famoue tunes of the ancient and modern times, jazz, contemporary music and original pieces and combine them with dance,improvisations,workshop(body for doing music)etc.
He pursues new possibilities of percussion instrument.
He is attracted by Gypsy(Roma)music. Lately he has arranged many musical pieces which is inspired Gypsy and played them. He has introduced original works and they have been admired by various field.
He came across the flamenco 7 years ago and plans to act as a dancer in future.


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I've owned, for close to 15 years, a really nice tripod, for which I spent quite a lot of loot. I haven't used it much. It's a pain in the ass, for three reasons:
First, I've found it to be a pain, nothing less than fiddly, to screw the camera to the tripod every time I want to do a setup that requires the 'pod.
Second, when I do screw the camera to the top of the tripod, I can never get the thumb screw that mates the camera to the 'pod so tight that the camera doesn't move around on top of the mounting pad. I get that screw plenty tight, mind you, but not tight enough to preclude at least a little pan rotation.
Third, when I went through J-school, matriculation included a large and serious photographic component. One of the things we were taught to do was hand-hold a camera down to about an eighth of a second. I can still do that and get marginally satisfactory results, and that's made me just a teensy bit stubborn about this. But I've had to face the fact that while hand-held results may be good enough for news photos, they're nowhere nearly good enough for the really fine photography to which I aspire. Even a little camera movement is way too much camera movement.
But I'm determined to raise my photographic game, and that includes capturing shots that require show shutter speeds, shots where it's important to have a long depth of field. Also, shots using a long lens, which are very difficult to hand-hold without movement. That means getting friendly with my tripod, right?
So here's what I've done: I just went over to Samy's Camera in Pasadena (it was jammed, as usual) and bought myself a quick-release adapter. This consists of a pair of precision-matched metal plates that lock onto each other. One of them screws to the tripod mounting pad, and the other screws onto the bottom of my camera.
Using hand tools, I've firmly affixed both plates where they're supposed to be. No movement at all.
Now, I just clip the camera, with its mounting plate, into the tripod mounting plate. It fits beautifully and I hear a satisfying metallic snap when the plates seat. Zap, the camera is locked onto the tripod and it's absolutely not going anywhere. To remove it, you throw the release lever and it's unlocked.
I should have done this long ago. Now all that's left is to learn how a tripod and its metal tubes is going to confuse the folks at airport security. That should be interesting.


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Personalized Card Deck
For people who take card playing as a true hobby, a personalized card deck could be a real joy. There are all sorts of businesses that offer their services of customizing various personal items at very accessible prices. Thus, you should be able to design a personalized card deck without additional extra charges to the regular price the company practices. What exactly are the steps of creating such a gift for a very dear one? You will have to create some art files of your own to pass to the company that will execute the rest of the work: the set up, the design placing, the print films and so on.
Depending on the type of personalized card deck you require, a certain manufacturing procedure will be used. There are special machines used for the process, but you should know that most custom made platforms require a minimum number of decks, which may normally rise over one thousand. Before making up your mind how to customize a special personalized card deck, you can have a look over the catalogs most companies post online. Such items are the property of the designers, that is of the owners who have ordered them, and their presentation on the web pages represents a simple execution sample.
How can one use a personalized card deck? First of all, we should consider the fact that photos are probably among the first items to be used for the matter. You may turn a photo into the right deck for really great and unique gifts. The maximum number of cards is fifty two, including the jokers, and you can have a funny favorite photo on the back of each card. Is someone in your family a great card fan, maybe your father? You'll definitely surprise him with such a unique gift; but the same stays true if you prepare this surprise for a friend or some other family member.
If you choose to work on such a project online and order the personalized card deck to a specialized site, the procedure should be more than simple. After you have selected the photo, the picture or the message you want to appear on the back of the cards, all you need to do is upload it onto the site and follow the complete procedure steps. Most cards are made of plastic, so there are very few chances to actually spoil them in time. The options of using a personalized card deck are unlimited, as some business owners even turn such items into promotional gifts inscribed with the company's logo.


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Ivanovo Rock Monasteries
Not far from the village of Ivanovo, Rusensko / Bulgaria / Rousse Lom River runs through a deep, picturesque gorge. Tens of monastic cells, churches and chapels have been carved in its upright rocks. Monks who have left the secular vanity to dwell in solitude and prayers to God have lived there. In six of the wonderful rock churches, remarkable frescoes have been preserved, for which the Ivanovo scabil complex is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The main church in the complex is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was cut at a height of 38 m. Its donor was Tsar Ivan Alexander. The murals in the church "St. Virgin Mary "are world-famous.
Ivanovo rock monastery was visited by the Bulgarian kings. It is known that Ivan Assen II came here on a pilgrimage and donated gold for the foundation of a monastery named Archangel Michael. Today, the only rock monastery in Bulgaria is St. Demetrius Basarabovski.


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Real living wage
The GBC requires all employers to pay directly employed staff and regular contracted staff the real living wage as set out by the Living Wage Foundation and commit to becoming an accredited living wage employer within a mutually agreed time frame.
What it is
The real living wage is a UK wage rate that is voluntarily paid by UK businesses who believe their staff deserve a fair day's pay for a hard day's work.
In 2016 the government introduced the National Living Wage. This is not a living wage as it isn't calculated based on actual living costs.
The current real living wage (as of November 2019) is £9.30 across the UK and £10.75 in London.
Why it matters
Low paid workers who receive the real living wage find they do not need to worry about affording the basics, and can even potentially save a little. Together with the Living Wage Foundation, we believe it is fair pay for hard work.
The Living Wage Foundation reports that living wage employers have found that being accredited improves the reputation of their businesses and differentiates them from others in the industry.
They have found that it increases motivation and retention rates for employees. It also improves relations between managers and their staff.
To receive Good Business Charter accreditation, businesses will be asked if they are already accredited living wage employers. If they are not currently living wage employers, they will be expected to contact the Living Wage Foundation within three months of signing up to the GBC to confirm their commitment and a timeframe for accreditation. This will include a plan with annual milestones for rolling out across contractors over an agreed timeline (including franchisees' employees where relevant).
Although signatories to the real living wage commitment will be entitled to use the GBC logo and will be accredited by them, the LWF logo will only be allowed to be used once companies complete their accreditation with the LWF. If a company fails to contact the LWF or follow through on its commitments to become an accredited Living Wage employer within an agreed timeframe, it forfeits the right to be a signatory of the Good Business Charter.
The Good Business Charter team will work closely with the Living Wage Foundation to ensure companies fulfil their commitments to contact the Living Wage Foundation and begin the accreditation process.
There are costs associated with Living Wage Foundation accreditation but these are kept low and we hope they will not be a barrier to GBC accreditation. They are as follows (2020):
£60 – sole trader up to 10 employees £120 – up to 50 employees
£240 – 50-250 employees £400 – up to 500 employees
£500 – cap for public sector £3,000 – 500 + employees, private sector
The Living Wage Foundation has offered a 20% discount per year for new members who are accrediting with them as a result of seeking GBC accreditation.
For more information please see https://www.livingwage.org.uk/
In exceptional circumstances the Good Business Charter may accredit an organisation without them being required to officially join the Living Wage Foundation as Living Wage Employers on the strict condition that they do meet the condition to pay all directly employed workers, franchise employees (when relevant) and regularly outsourced contractors the real living wage. Such a situation may arise where the LWF takes a stance on a particular situation that represents a higher threshold than the GBC considers necessary, for example treatment of interns where other benefits are afforded them alongside their wages.
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Written by: Brian Bendis
Art by: Leinil Yu
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Price: $2.99
Earth's Mightiest returns with a first look at New Avengers #34. This is a preview where we pretty much let the art speak for itself. At the end of New Avengers #33, Wolverine was ambushed in the back room of a bar after investigating what he determined to be a shady situation.
The man who ambushed Wolverine? Parker Robbins, who is also known as The Hood to his allies and enemies. Robbins might only appear to be armed with two guns, but his cloak yields him much more power. Does the Hood really stand a chance against Marvel's ferocious Canadian? The art will provide some clues.
Marvel Comics has provided IGN with a number of early pages from the issue. We hope you enjoy the art. We'll be back as soon as we can with more on the Avengers titles.
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The news media's customary production of feature stories at Easter time this year followed an atypical path down the road to hell. That may not have been such a bad thing, given the Paschal Mystery. Here's my tale from the Triduum:
On Holy Thursday I agreed to a Fox News producer's request that I be interviewed on one of their next morning's programs about Italian press reports that Pope Francis had in a one-on-one conversation asserted that no hell exists. A few hours later the producer emailed to say the segment had been scrapped. Assuming that more urgent (or perhaps titillating) news was breaking, I shrugged this off, only to learn that the veracity of the story was highly in question. Anyway … my Good Friday would be quieter for it!
On Good Friday morning, nonetheless, I received an email from a BBC journalist working on an article about the Vatican's denial that Pope Francis had said there is no hell.
The journalist's asked if I could please explain "why the concept of hell is so important for the Catholic Church."
An excellent question! Her inquiry struck me as cutting straight to the core of the Christian religion, for which the widely recognized primary symbol is the cross and, in the media's coverage of "Easter Weekend," even some more explicit image of Jesus crucified on Good Friday. What did this ancient Jew so horrifically die for?
How to respond to the question of hell in a relatively succinct manner (as desired in journalism) to a reporter (and her religiously pluralistic readership), whose even basic knowledge of Christianity I could not presume?
Here follows my quick effort, sent as an email reply to the journalist:
The importance of hell to Roman Catholicism (and nearly all Christian churches and denominations) lies in the fact that Christianity is a messianic religion of salvation.
The fundamental conviction is that God's good creation, the world but especially humanity, are in mortal danger of a magnitude such that only God's intervention can save people. Prophetic strands of biblical and turn-of-the-Common-Era Judaism, when Israel was under yet another brutal imperial occupation (Rome), gave rise to varying expectant beliefs that God would wipe aside the current world order and usher in a new, messianic age in which the people could live in peace and joy.
Christianity, of course, arose out of the conviction (faith) that Jesus was this Messiah (Christ, in Greek) and that through his death and resurrection God had made him the "first born of the new creation." But from the start, one needn't look long or far to recognize that the world continued in suffering and sin. The persistence of evil actions by social bodies and individuals forced (and still forces) the question of what this new religion believed people are saved from (versus, for example, the Exodus story of the Hebrew slaves being clearly saved from deadly slavery in Egypt).
The Christian focus shifted from the messianic deliverance of an entire people to that of each individual, starting with Jesus as the first to be raised from death "to the right hand of God." That sets up a particular notion of heaven but, also, its obverse: hell.
Earliest Christianity (and Eastern Orthodoxy, to this day) focused on death as the enemy to humans' lives; thus, deliverance (salvation) from death remains the message. But sin is the tool or minion, if you will, of death insofar as people's sinful or evil acts (individually or systemically) often cause literal deaths to people, as well as figurative deaths, in that people are left depleted and weary of life. Divine salvation is deliverance from sin and death.
But where is the evidence that God's messianic justice now reigns? Well, certainly not in any consistent way in this current world. Christianity comes to shift the question of justice to the individual soul and one's fate in the life after death.
Belief in hell, then, is important to Christianity because the religion's fundamental claim about God's having acted definitely on God's biblical messianic promise of "new heavens and a new earth" (Isaiah 65:17) requires it. Christianity is a religion proclaiming definitive salvation from death and sin on a Planet Earth where both manifestly persist. The positive message is that in the resurrected Christ, God has inaugurated eternal life after death.
But the message necessarily carries a negative side, as well, insofar as the problem of divine justice is not thereby solved in this world. Hell is the theological answer to the problem of not only divine deliverance but also justice. Church doctrine (teaching) builds that answer on a certain appropriation of Jesus' numerous parables figuratively describing resolute (unrepentant) evil-doers ending up thrown to eternal flames or into an endless brutal night.
I would generously give myself a "B -" for that effort, which I needed to write rather quickly and with the need to keep it brief (yet the need also to presume no theological knowledge on the part of the audience). A couple days later the reporter did reply, saying she'd found my answer informative and helpful. As best I can tell, she did not end up publishing a story on the topic.
Perhaps Pray Tell participant-readers might wish to weigh in on how you answer the question of whether there is a hell and, if so, whether anybody is in it. I realize that Pope Benedict spoke to this problem. I note my colleague Martin Connell's excellent writing on the topic of the Harrowing of Hell (in Worship, year ago, and elsewhere) as a neglected, important topic in the history and development of Christian liturgy. More recently, a senior liturgical theologian commented, during a sacramental-liturgical theology session at the annual CTSA convention, that a reason for declining participation in Sunday Mass is simple: Hell emptied out!
In any event, I wish all much joy in Eastertide, whether this be the Easter Octave (for Protestants and Catholics) or Holy Week (for the Orthodox): "Christ's has trampled down death by death!"
Featured image: Thomas de Saluces, Le Chevalier errant, Paris ca. 1403-1404. BnF, Français 12559, p. 192


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Lori Marra
Senior Lecturer
Lori Marra
Senior Lecturer
BS, Nazareth College; MA, University of Rochester
Professor Marra has a B.S. in Management from Nazareth College where she also double-minored in Philosophy and Studio Art. She also holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Rochester. She focused on Stoic Ethics and her thesis is titled: The Mad Are All Unwise: The Practicality of Stoic Ethics. She teaches Communication, Public Speaking, and Technical Communication (with a focus on business communication for technical professionals). Lori received a grant to develop a new course in content management for technical communicators. It will launch in the Spring of 2017.
Before joining RIT as a lecturer in 2013, Professor Marra worked thirty years as a professional and technical communicator and training developer. In 2007 the Society for Technical Communication named her as an Associate Fellow. She currently serves as a consultant in communications and leadership development for people in technical careers, particularly engineering professionals.
At RIT, Professor Marra served two semesters on the Ethics Across The Curriculum committee. She is advisor to The RIT Players. She actively participates in The Department of Communication Communicating Connections Conference. She is a judge in the School of Communication Public Speaking Competition. She also participates in Imagine RIT and many other events where she can interact with students.
Professor Marra has a second career as a playwright. For more on her writing career, review her web site: lorimarra.com or follow her on Twitter @blueinkplayrite.