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Hearing Things
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Our blog routinely promotes reviews and discussions of new books, including the don't-miss post just below by Ed Blum on two new religious biographies.
To supplement this, I thought it would be nice occasionally to feature older books, either older classics or books published in the last decade but no longer hot off the press; or to highlight reviews published in places where historians and religious studies folk probably would miss them; or just to publish reviews that we enjoyed writing. Contributions are welcome.
So, to kick this off I'm reprinting below a review of mine of Leigh Schmidt's Hearing Things. I'm reproducing this here for several reasons. First, I've been facing terrible pain in my family recently, a terminal cancer that will soon take a loved one, and at such times the inexplicably cruel nature of such deaths, and the apparent silence of the gods, strike one hard, and the questions we contemplate in the Humanities become less academic and more internally pressing (and no more answerable). With this in mind, I read this book, and my review, more personally than I did when I wrote this several years ago. (I should add that my absence from the blog lately, and in the coming days as well, is due to the personal energies taken up by this situation; my thanks to my co-editors for filling in in the interim).
Secondly, as will be obvious from the review I admired the book, and this blog seems to be a good place to plug books we admire, whether current or older works.
Finally, this review appeared in a theological journal (Spiritus) that historians would typically not read (I had not heard of it myself until asked to do this review). Moreover, I just enjoyed writing this as much or more than just about anything I've ever done. So, without further adieu, I give you . . .
Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment. By Leigh Eric Schmidt. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 318. $37.50; ISBN 0–674–00303–9.
"You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot to tell me... tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me."
(from Joan Osborne, "St. Teresa," 1995).
For much of Christian history, the ear was the way to God. "Hearing things" meant hearing God's voice, directly, unmediatedly. One could not see God, but one could hear the voice of the divine.
Now, of course, "hearing things" is a colloquialism that suggests mental instability, and perhaps the need for a quick dose of some psychotropics. The street people I stepped over every morning on my way to the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, during graduate school, heard things, and talked back in response, but everyone else ducked their heads and walked along quickly, at once embarrassed and disheartened at the collapse of state mental health services and the consequent intrusion of psychoses into the public square.
Along the way, as well, God has stopped speaking––or at least it seems that way to many, both Christians and non–Christians. The street corner St. Teresa, the dealing street-corner angel of Joan Osborne's Grammy–winning song, cries out to the sky, vainly importuning God for leaving her in her situation, without so much as a sentence of explanation or comfort. The "talkative" God of the Bible has fallen silent, frustrating those who await the still, small voice. "Is there something," we want to ask God, "you forgot to tell me?"
But of course Christians and others still hear the voice of God. He has not fallen silent for everyone, even if the presence of God might be represented in Hollywood by the avuncular George Burns or the hipster Alanis Morissette. Meanwhile, postmodern theorists have "unmasked" the ethnocentrism implicit in the valorization of the eye over the ear, the visual over the auditory, that came as part of the whole package of false promises of the Enlightenment. Reliance on the ear was characteristic of the primitive and the African, Enlightenment thinkers asserted, hence the western emphasis on the visual as the surer road to knowledge. The eye could not be fooled as the ear could––by ventriloquists, spiritualists, and all manner of illusionists who delighted in deception, and whose relentless assault on the unreliable ear is chronicled in fascinating detail in Schmidt's brilliant book.
Leigh Schmidt gives an extended and wonderfully entertaining intellectual history of how "hearing things" underwent such a transformation. Along the way, we learn a great deal about fascinating but relatively unknown characters from the Enlightenment era and the nineteenth century, who developed the field of acoustical studies, delighted audiences with Mickey-Mouse voice effects produced by inhaling hydrogen gas, and played around with sound trumpets and other means of transmitting sound. In western thought, hearing the voice of God moved from being a divinely spiritual moment to being inevitably trapped in the world of illusion (at best) or the asylum, the home for those who heard things. Schmidt traces the evolution of our contemporary understanding of hallucination (defined in the 1880s as "perception without an object") and illusion (a false perception). "It is this breakage of the sign, the loss of any presence in these experiences," he argues, "that marks the real undoing of God's listeners . . . disembodied voices . . . had no actuality except in the memories, imaginations, desires, and agonies of those who heard them." In sum, Schmidt's work explains the process of the "normalization of God's silence" (198).
"What would you ask if you had just one question," Joan Osborne sings in another tune about God, suggesting again that God's silence is so normal that asking God a question is a fantasy along the lines of "what would you do if you won the lottery?" or "who would you meet if you could meet anyone?"
The twist in Schmidt's analysis, however, lies in his recognition, in the epilogue, that the "desire for a 'holy listening' has hardly subsided in American culture." Rather, as he concludes, "the noisier and more frenetic the contemporary world is perceived as being, the stronger that spiritual longing becomes." So today we have the increasing popularity of music therapies, or the "heightened attention to contemplative silences, evident in New Age appropriations of Zen Buddhism and Eastern Orthodoxy," as well as the recurrent fascination with angels and "their whispers of consolation." Apparently, then, God's silence has never been as normalized as the Enlightenment skeptics, scientists, and stage–performing illusionists would have had it.
Schmidt discusses "sound Christians" of the modern era, discussing in depth their perceptions of God's voice. Methodist preacher Lorenzo Dow, the black Methodist female exhorter Jarena Lee, and the noisy evangelicals of the camp meeting era of the early Republic all receive extended discussion. But as Schmidt points out, "extraordinary calls and sudden leadings continued to flourish in popular Protestant piety, and evangelical ways of hearing hardly lost their resonance; if anything, they radiated even more widely in modernity's wake" (76). Schmidt concludes the chapter on "sound Christians" with the story of Oral Roberts's healing and call to preach. The audible call Roberts heard was hardly surprising to him, "given the enveloping devotional culture of these sound Christians," but at the same time "that very intimacy with divine speech proved a two–edged sword, imperiling his standing in the wider society and ultimately turning him from evangelist to laughingstock" (77).
In the following two chapters, "oracles of reason" and "how to become a ventriloquist," Schmidt follows the stories of those who pulled the curtain from the Wizard of Oz, exposing the tricks and manipulations and deceptions behind God's apparent speech, whether that speech come from ancient oracles, from nineteenth–century spiritualists, or from other disembodied voices. Contemporary figures who devote full–time to exposing fraudulent mysticism––debunkers of spoon–benders, UFO sightings, angelic presences, and the like––carry on the tradition of the acoustical experimenters of the eighteenth and nineteenth century that Schmidt discusses in detail. The newly emerging science of acoustics demystified what previously had been divine sound, and (evidently) left behind "sound Christians" in a cultural backwater of irrelevant religious mystics and eccentrics. Even with the triumph of the acoustical scientists, however, the sound of the divine yet remained real for many who continued to hear "Voices from the Spirit–Land," the title of chapter five.
Chief among these was Emmanuel Swedenborg, part of a panoply of figures who restored apostolic speech and "made part of a communications network [into] a wonderland of good vibrations" (202). While Enlightenment figures "had been dedicated to the proposition that the technological disembodiment of the voice and the artificial propagation of sound were useful means of exposing the absences in the oracular," others (including Henry David Thoreau) found instead that "mechanical mediation became instead a vehicle of presences, a salvific force alive with vibrational and telegraphic connections" (239). Thoreau famously heard God in the "sonorous revelations" of nature, but he also "discerned a universal harmony, a music of the spheres, through telegraph posts and wires" (241). Walt Whitman sang the body electric, because for many nineteenth-century Americans the electric transmitted the spiritual, as unseen forces moved over the wires.
Schmidt's work will leave the reader with a greatly heightened sense of the interplay of the oracular, the auditory, and the visual in religious understanding. Many of the questions that perplex us now, he makes clear, were fully in evidence already in the eighteenth century. The postmodernists are late to the game of contemplating the fractured and disembodied self. At the same time, and unfairly, some readers may grow frustrated as Schmidt raises, elaborates, and so deftly plays around with fundamental questions, without proposing any solutions other than that "suspicion can be turned on the suspicious," and the unmaskers will inevitably themselves be unmasked.
Thus, the " 'midnight of absence that now haunts much of religious studies and the humanities generally" (251) also haunts this book, and it is a testament to Schmidt's brilliance (and to the intractability of the questions he studies) that the reader will await anxiously, but unsuccessfully, for the author to provide some resolution to street corner St. Teresa's cri de Coeur to God, "is there something you forgot to tell me?"
4 comments:
- Kelly Baker at: May 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM said...
This a wonderful review of one of my favorite books. The auditory still proves fascinating in the realm of religion as well as the American fascination with the supernatural. Thanks for posting it here.
- Edward J Blum at: May 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM said...
now that's a book review!
- christopher at: May 19, 2008 at 11:47 AM said...
Excellent. Thanks, Paul. Reviewing older books is helpful for young grad students who either haven't read them or haven't read reviews that critically engage them.
Paul, I am so sorry for your grief. Your post and your review put me in mind of a favorite poem by Denise Levertov that I came across again yesterday:
Human being - walking
in doubt from childhood on: walking
a ledge of slippery stone in the world's woods
deep-layered with wet leaves - rich or sad: on one
side of the path, ecstasy, on the other
dull grief. Walking
the mind's imperial cities, roofed-over alleys,
thoroughfares, wide boulevards
that hold evening primrose of sky in steady calipers.
Always the mind
walking, working, stopping sometimes to kneel
in awe of beauty, sometimes leaping, filled with the energy
of delight, but never able to pass
the wall, the wall
of brick that crumbles and is replaced,
of twisted iron,
of rock,
the wall that speaks, saying monotonously:
Children and animals
who cannot learn
anything from suffering,
suffer, are tortured, die
in incomprehension.
This human being, each night nevertheless
summoning - with a breath blown at a flame,
or hand's touch
on the lamp-switch - darkness,
silently utters,
impelled as if by a need to cup the palms
and drink from a river,
the words, "Thanks.
Thanks for this day, a day of my life.'
And wonders.
Pulls up the blankets, looking
into nowhere, always in doubt.
And takes strange pleasure
in having repeated once more the childish formula,
a pleasure in what is seemly.
And drifts to sleep, downstream
on murmuring currents of doubt and praise,
the wall shadowy, that tomorrow
will cast its own familiar, chill, clear-cut shadow
into the day's brilliance.
Denise Levertov
Hang in there.


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News Investment
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Over the previous two years, some of the long-term cutbacks seen in newsrooms appeared to ease. Blogging gained momentum. We found the beginning of more genuine investment in the Internet. The cutbacks in network news appeared to stabilize.
In 2006, however, the situation for most of the media we study appeared to worsen. And that occurred at a time a time when the news was hardly slowing down during a global war on terror and a worsening situation for the United States in Iraq.
Matters are eroding most acutely at daily newspapers, and what occurs in that industry still has an echo effect on the press generally. Papers remain the news organizations most likely to cover the fullest range of life in a community, to influence what is on the wires, to provide the news for the Internet and to be an alert for other media.
Between 2000 and 2005, newsroom staffing at dailies had already dropped by 3,000 people, or about 5%.
By the time the final tally is in for 2006, we estimate it could be down another 1,000 —with more now expected in 2007.
When combined with reductions at several papers in the physical size of the page, the overall number of pages and a smaller ratio of news to advertising, the changes suggest that American newspapers have reduced their ambitions. The year 2007 may well be one when a smaller American newspaper, more targeted and analytical — rather than one that purports to cover the whole waterfront — emerges as a trend.
That is significant in part because newspapers, according to our research in the past, were one of the last platforms attempting to provide people with a complete diet of the news —from international to local, from hard news to lifestyle. Newspapers remain the alert system, too, for so many other media.
Less clear is what is lost and what is left uncovered. That becomes a concern that deserves more study.
The retrenching comes, too, as new research reaffirms what scholars of an earlier generation also felt they had establishment—that the best way for news organizations to thrive is to invest. The study, based on research conducted by the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, found that when newspapers increased spending on newsrooms, their profits went up. And cutting could be shown to do the reverse. "If you lower the amount of money spent in the newsroom, then pretty soon the news product becomes so bad that you begin to lose money," said Esther Thorson, a co-author of the study.
As he resisted more reductions at the Los Angeles Times, the soon-to-be ousted publisher Jeffrey Johnson argued the same notion. "Newspapers," he said, "can't cut their way to the future."
The situation at the three major weekly news magazines also appears serious.
After big cuts in 2005 and 2006 — 14% of Time magazine's newsroom by our analysis — Time Inc. in early 2007 announced staffing cuts of nearly 300 more at all its magazines. Time itself will lose 50 people (from business and editorial combined) and close bureaus in Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.
At Newsweek, meanwhile, editorial staff positions in 2006 were down by half from what they were in 1983, and down 11% from 2005.
In network news, our sense, new this year, is that the cutting continues. From 2002 to 2006, a new PEJ analysis estimates that total news division staffing dropped about 10%, with reductions in non-correspondent staff down at greater rates than that.
And that was before NBC Universal announced plans to cut another 300 jobs in the news division, or about 5%. Many of those, it said, would come from consolidating the operations of its cable channel, MSNBC.
In radio, the situation appears to be one of continuing consolidation. The great majority of stations delivering news (70%) now do so through joint newsrooms, and the situation in those newsrooms looks increasingly complicated. The average number of stations that those centralized newsrooms serve is 3.3, according to a survey for the Radio Television News Directors' Association. Over a third of news directors reported overseeing five or more stations.
In cable, meanwhile, the picture is mixed. Fox News appears to be investing more in its newsroom (expenses up 11%), but not at a rate that is keeping pace with surging revenues and profits. CNN is just barely keeping up with inflation (expenses up 5%), and MSNBC is cutting.
It is less clear how much of these expenses are going into reporters and producers — newsgathering — and how much is going elsewhere, including into star salaries.
But not all of the electronic media are shrinking.
In local TV, for the latest year for which there are data, 2005, staffing appears to have risen some, to an average of 36.4 people per newsroom, the second-highest level of full-time staff since the survey began in 1993. Those people may be spread across more programs than before, but it is still a small upward trend. But people have more to do. The number of hours of news is at record high (3.8 hours) and more newsrooms are producing news for multiple stations and the Web.
One media sector that continues to grow in several ways is the ethnic press. Staffing here is on the rise, particularly at Hispanic daily newspapers, where the average staff increased from 90 in 2003 to 108 in 2005, some 20%. The trend in Spanish-language television, however, appears to be going the other way, led by cutbacks by NBC at Telemundo.
Online, the details are sometimes hard to pin down. The evidence, however, points to the idea that investment is continuing to grow, something we began to see in earnest a year ago.
It is less clear how much of that is in what journalists would call original newsgathering and how much is on the technical side. But at least one survey from a leading journalism school found that more online managers valued content-related skills like copyediting than technology skills like producing audio and video. That may reflect something of a change. After getting the technical skills into the operations, it may be that newsrooms are now turning to think about creating more content rather than simply importing it.
Yet all these problems are added to the larger picture of shrinking newsrooms. One other new piece of data was released in 2006. The scholars David H. Weaver, G. Cleveland Wilhoit and three other distinguished academicians released The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium. The book is the largest longitudinal study of journalists, dating back to the early 1970s.
The new study found that between June 1992 and November 2002, the number of full-time people working in news in the U.S. workforce declined by roughly 6,000, or about 5%.1
All evidence suggests that in the four years since, those losses may have significantly accelerated.

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Michael Johnson is the best 200/400-meter sprinter in the history of the sport of track and field. Johnson's progressions through the ranks of track and field were swift and stunning! A dual event world champion, the likes of which were never seen before, Johnson surpassed legends and surged to the top of record books.
He began his career as a corporate motivational speaker in 1997, shortly after making history at the 1996 Olympics when he become the first man to ever win gold at 200 meters and 400 meters. So impressive was his performance under so much pressure that he was soon being sought by some of the largest companies in the world to share his formula for success. He has also appeared as a television commentator and personality, working for BBC sports.
At the 2000 Olympic Games, Johnson again dazzled the world under the stadium lights in Sydney when he became the first sprinter in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 400 meter. To top off his career total of 18 gold medals, Johnson earned the grand number 19 in the 4x400m relay. Johnson chose to end his career after his double Olympic gold medal effort at the 2000 Olympic games, with an impressive total of 19 championship gold medals.
Since his retirement, Johnson has excelled as a keynote speaker, having worked with such companies as Microsoft, UBS, Sony and Proctor & Gamble to name a few. Johnson's appeal is global, taking him to such places as Australia, Europe, South Africa, and China to motivate and inspire employees of some of the world's leading organizations.
Johnson has also founded a successful sport management and consulting company, Ultimate Performance, working with clients ranging from the Chinese Athletic Association to some of the most successful NFL football players. He represents some of the top track and field athletes in the world, including his successor in the 400 meter, 2004 Olympic and 2005 World Champion Jeremy Wariner.
Johnson graduated with a bachelor's in marketing degree from Baylor University, and currently serves as the president of Michael Johnson Performance, a training facility in McKinney, Texas.
Michaels' charity is the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation
Michael is playing for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which is a charity supported by himself and 40 other retired athletes from around the globe. Laureus raises money for projects in different parts of the world, which utilize sport as a tool for social change. Michael is extremely dedicated to Laureus and has even sat as a trustee of the foundation since its inception in 2003. He's also visited projects for Laureus in Morocco, China, India and Kenya.


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text: Ohio Journal of Science: Volume 83, Issue 5 (December, 1983) http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22075 2017-08-17T06:02:54Z Back Matter http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22975 Back Matter 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Table of Contents – Volume 83 http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22974 Table of Contents – Volume 83 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Index to Volume 83 http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22973 Index to Volume 83 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z The Ohio Academy of Science http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22972 The Ohio Academy of Science 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Necrology http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22971 Necrology 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Book Reviews http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22970 Book Reviews 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Brief Note: Procambarus (Scapulicambarus) Clarkii (Girard, 1852): The Red Swamp Crayfish in Ohio http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22969 Brief Note: Procambarus (Scapulicambarus) Clarkii (Girard, 1852): The Red Swamp Crayfish in Ohio Norrocky, M. James Author Institution: R. D. #1, Box 5882, Vickery, OH 43464 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Norrocky, M. James Brief Note: Association of Vorticella Campanula and Anabaena Flos-Aqua During a Blue-Green Algal Bloom in Western Lake Erie http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22968 Brief Note: Association of Vorticella Campanula and Anabaena Flos-Aqua During a Blue-Green Algal Bloom in Western Lake Erie Herdendorf, Charles E.; Monaco, Mark E. Author Institution: Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, The Ohio State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Herdendorf, Charles E. Monaco, Mark E. Brief Note: A Compositae New to Ohio: Hieracium Longipilum http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22967 Brief Note: A Compositae New to Ohio: Hieracium Longipilum Easterly, Nathan William; Fisher, T. Richard Author Institution: Biology Department, The Bowling Green State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Easterly, Nathan William Fisher, T. Richard An Annotated Checklist of the Butterflies of Athens County, Ohio http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22966 An Annotated Checklist of the Butterflies of Athens County, Ohio Shuey, John A. Ninety-two species of butterflies are reported from Athens County, Ohio; 81 of these species for the first time. The following information is recorded for each species: abundance, habitat, collection localities, and extreme dates of capture. Eleven of these species have not been reported previously from any counties adjacent to the study area. These species are Stapbylus hayhuntii, Thymelkus lineola, Hylephtla phyleus, Papilio crespbontes, Colias cesonia, Pboebis sennae, Nathalis iole, Calephelis borealis, Libytheana bachmanii, Asterocampa clyton, and Euptycbia sosybius. A listing of 8 additional species which might be expected to occur in the county is also included. Author Institution: Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Shuey, John A. Handling, Body Weight Gain and Pituitary Growth Hormone Content in Young Rats http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22965 Handling, Body Weight Gain and Pituitary Growth Hormone Content in Young Rats Froelich, Patricia A.; Meserve, Lee A. Experimental rats were handled for the first 21 days of life while controls were not disturbed. At 25 days of age, animals were weighed, killed by decapitation and pituitary glands removed. Pituitary growth hormone content was measured by densitometric comparison of disc gel column electrophoresed pituitary homogenates with similarly treated growth hormone standard. Analysis of the data indicated that handling did not have a significant effect upon either weaning weight or pituitary growth hormone content. Author Institution: Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Froelich, Patricia A. Meserve, Lee A. Avian Frugivory on Honeysuckle (Lonicera) in Soutwestern Ohio in Fall http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22964 Avian Frugivory on Honeysuckle (Lonicera) in Soutwestern Ohio in Fall Ingold, James L.; Craycraft, Mary Jo Mist-netted birds were examined for evidence of frugivory on honeysuckle (Lonicera Maackii and L. xylosteum) by checking their feces for seeds. One-hundred-fifteen individuals of 26 species were examined. Nine of these species showed evidence of frugivory but only 21 of 82 individuals were frugivorous. Berries of L. Maackii were analyzed for food quality by determining carbon:nitrogen ratios and total percent lipid for whole berries. Results of these analyses showed the berries to be low in both protein and lipid and are therefore a poor energy source. Author Institution: Department of Zoology, Miami University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Ingold, James L. Craycraft, Mary Jo A Histological Comparison of the Dorsal and Generalized Holocrine Skin Glands in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys Ordii http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22963 A Histological Comparison of the Dorsal and Generalized Holocrine Skin Glands in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys Ordii Westerhaus, Michael D. Skin tissue from 11 adult kangaroo rats, Dipodomys ordii richardsoni, including both sexes was examined histologically for morphological differences between the specialized dorsal holocrine sebaceous gland region and the generalized small sebaceous glands of the skin. The author examined the structure and distribution of the unmodified sebaceous glands throughout the skin and compared them to the modified dorsal sebaceous gland. Based on a volumetric comparison, the dorsal gland is significantly different from the generally distributed sebaceous glands. A possible explanation is that the relatively consistent distribution of sebaceous glands functions in pelage maintenance and the sebaceous flow from the distinctive dorsal gland could function in individual scent communication. It is evident that the alveolar volume of the dorsal gland differs from that of the generally distributed glands of D. ordii. Author Institution: Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Westerhaus, Michael D. Development of a Sphagnum Bog on the Floor of a Sandstone Quarry in Northeastern Quarry in Northeastern Ohio http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22962 Development of a Sphagnum Bog on the Floor of a Sandstone Quarry in Northeastern Quarry in Northeastern Ohio Andreas, Barbara K.; Host, George E. The vegetation and selected ground water characteristics of Silica Sand Quarry Bog, a pioneer bog forming in an abandoned sandstone quarry, were examined. After 70 years of development the bog mat measures 0.75 km in diameter and contains 35 species of vascular plants and 5 species of Sphagnum. Six species of vascular plants from the bog are on Ohio's rare plant list. The herbaceous layer is the best developed stratum and contains 33% of the total plant species. Importance values indicate Betula populifolia, Vaccinium corymbosum, V. macrocarpon and Sphagnum teres to be the dominant species. Vegetational analysis indicates that the Sphagnum mat is expanding by encroaching on the extant vegetation, with Vaccinium macrocarpon and Typha latifolia serving as substrates. Sphagnum teres and S. recurvum are the major consolidating species. Analysis of the groundwater indicates that the community is best classified as a weakly minerotrophic swamp. Silica Sand Quarry provides an opportunity to study early stages of bog succession and development in a minerotrophic system. Author Institution: Department of Biology, Cuyahoga Community College ; Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Andreas, Barbara K. Host, George E. The Alpha-Omega Scale: The Measurement of Stress Situation Coping Styles http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22961 The Alpha-Omega Scale: The Measurement of Stress Situation Coping Styles Newman, Isadore; Smith, Pamela J.; Griffith, Diann C.; Maloney, Patrick; Dambrot, Faye H.; Sterns, Harvey; Daubney, John Our paper discusses the use and validity studies of the Alpha-Omega Scale of coping styles for life stress situations. The validation of the Alpha-Omega Scale on a sample of student and non-student population illustrated the ability of this scale to differentiate between known groups. The evidence indicated that the Alpha-Omega Scale exhibits diagnostic potential to differentiate between groups related to their coping styles in stress situations. The relationship between the Alpha-Omega Scale and the Templer Death Anxiety Scale were also investigated psychometrically and conceptually. The Alpha-Omega Scale showed better psychometric properties and is conceptually more appealing than the Templer Death Anxiety Scale because it is more sensitive to individual characteristics and is multi-dimensional. Implications of further usefulness and research are also presented. Author Institution: Department of Education Foundations, University of Akron ; Guidance and Counseling, University of Akron ; Department of Psychology, University of Akron ; Child and Adolescent Service Center ; Department of Elementary Education, Georgia Southern College 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Newman, Isadore Smith, Pamela J. Griffith, Diann C. Maloney, Patrick Dambrot, Faye H. Sterns, Harvey Daubney, John A Two-Year Study of the Lake and Wind Currents on Lake Erie Near Ashtabula, Ohio http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22960 A Two-Year Study of the Lake and Wind Currents on Lake Erie Near Ashtabula, Ohio Alther, George R.; Danek, L. J. Lake and wind currents, temperature and transmissivity were monitored as part of a large-scale study involving monitoring of 2 dredged material disposal operations in Lake Erie near Ashtabula, Ohio. The study was carried out from June 1975 to September 1976. During this period at a location 4 km offshore the currents were found to generally flow parallel to the shore with average speeds of 12 cm/sec at 3 m and 5 cm/sec at one meter above lake bottom. The dominant periodic component of the velocity field was the first longitudinal mode of Lake Erie which had a period of approximately 14 hr, During the study currents were generally uniform over the entire study area. Changes in the local winds usually affected the established flow pattern but only after a lag time. Author Institution: International Minerals and Chemical Corp. ; Environmental Science and Engineering 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Alther, George R. Danek, L. J. Ohio Students' Knowledge and Attitudes about the Oceans and Great Lakes http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22959 Ohio Students' Knowledge and Attitudes about the Oceans and Great Lakes Fortner, Rosanne W.; Mayer, Victor J. A program to develop instructional materials for implementing marine and aquatic education in Ohio middle schools was begun by Ohio Sea Grant in 1977. This was followed 3 years later by a grant to disseminate the materials to schools in Ohio. To determine the effectiveness of the dissemination process a baseline study was conducted in the autumn of 1980. The survey obtained information on attitudes and knowledge of the Great Lakes and oceans from fifth and ninth grade students in randomly selected schools within 3 arbitrarily determined zones: the lake region, the central region and the Ohio River region. In addition, students responded to items to determine their perceptions of the sources of their knowledge. Author Institution: School of Natural Resources, The Ohio State University ; Science and Mathematics Education, The Ohio State University 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z Fortner, Rosanne W. Mayer, Victor J. Front Matter http://hdl.handle.net/1811/22958 Front Matter 1983-12-01T00:00:00Z


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Veendam was dammed: Veendam Cruise Review by streakmarin
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Veendam was dammed
Destination: South America
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
It did not start well, as they were jackhammering the poolette, due to leaks over our room on the fantail for 3 days until 7 pm every night.
The air conditioning was very cool, but we were outside on the deck alot during the warm tropical ports, not realizing it was completely uncontrollable. After many attempts to get it corrected to no avail, our lovely room was changed to a forward creaking and groaning room forward, and we had hit a bad patch of seas with only one stabilizer working. They then told us we has to go back to our original room by Valparaiso as the had fixed the problem. Ha, Ha, Ha. We has to change rooms again after it sounded like a jet engine was spewing 60 degree air into our cabin.
The public areas were also very cold. Passengers getting on in Valparaiso were jealous that we all were wearing heavy Alpaca sweaters indoors that everyone purchased in Peru. The rooms More for bridge were so cold the pipes froze and flooded the room so they had to close them for the second half of the trip, forcing off the bridge director and then we had to try and play on tiny tables in the cocktail lounge with polar fleece on!
Port problems were numerous. They were mostly dreary industrial ports, where we had to pay HAL to get off the dock as there was little infrastructure if you were not on the ship's very overpriced excursions. The weather didn't help, as it was raining most days. We had gale for 7 winds around Cape Horn, again with only one stabilizer working. My SO is handicapped. and one day was so bad we had to have room service for all meals. There are quite a few tenders and with the strong winds, rain and even snow it was difficult so we missed a few ports We were able to catch a few local vans for $25-$30 vs $129 ships prices, but I was very disappointed I was not able to see but 1 penguin on the Falklands, as the we mating and in their burrows. A few that took the $220 4wd tour saw more on the other side of the island. Our most interesting experience was in Santa Marta, Columbia. It was a Sunday and misty, an my SO has a scooter so we ventured out on a bus to the port, then found out their pre columbian gold museum was open specially for the cruise ( Of course the port talk never mentioned it) The museum was only 4 blks away and we wanted to walk, which consternated the tourist police, so they provided us with an armed guard, which was very nice as we went all over the town and he knew the cut sidewalks and alleys that didn't have cobblestones to make it easy for us and I got to practice my Spanish, and he his English and he wouldn't even accept a tip at the end.
Now the POOLS. They finally finished re-tiling the poolette, what a waste that whole ares is. While it was being worked on they put up plastic and people were smoking up a storm and it was quite smelling and the piazza oven was out of commission for a wk or more too. The regular pool, had a handicap lift, that didn't work for weeks and then it was cold and the water wasn't heated and then it was and it was warmer than the hot tubs. The just could regulate anything with temps on this ship it seemed.
Then the dinning staff wrecked our scooter 1/2 the way thru and they couldn't even get us a screw driver so I could open it up and see if it could be fixed. Needless to say the whole trip was ruined. After moving 4 times, and not getting the nice room we paid for,we finally said we would not get off the ship until we got an adjustment and it was given the morning of disembarkation.
What was good? The food, and we really liked the Italian restaurant and if you go after 8 pm we never needed a reservation, however the menu never changed the whole 35 days, but the best wine prices there are and they will get them for you in the regular dining room. As the cruise progressed they started running out of fresh fruit, yogurt and breakfast cereals, and didn't let you know so one morning my breakfast order for room service was not filled at all!
Also, ordering a side of sauteed garlic perked up the most bland grilled foods.
All in all a sad ship and a sad cruise Less
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Let's hear now from teachers who are having trouble pursuing their chosen career. An estimated quarter million educators face layoffs in the coming year, as states cut school funding to balance budgets. That number comes from the American Association of School Administrators. And many teachers name job uncertainty as one of the biggest downsides of the profession. NPR's Larry Abramson spent time with two teachers here in Los Angeles who are worried about their next paycheck.
LARRY ABRAMSON: At Graham Elementary School in South Los Angeles, drama teacher Misty Monroe gets to see students during a rare moment in their day. When she's teaching them, they aren't angsting over some high stakes test.
Ms. MISTY MONROE (Teacher): Today let's have you line up like pirates.
ABRAMSON: Misty Monroe is an itinerant drama teacher. Every day she visits a different L.A. school and brings a little art into kids' lives. Despite eight years with the L.A. Unified School District, Monroe has gotten an unwelcome present at the end of this year - a layoff notice.
Ms. MONROE: This will be my second year, second year.
ABRAMSON: Many school districts are required to send out layoff notices in the spring even if they think they will rehire workers. Many teachers are recalled over the summer. That's what happened to Misty Monroe last year. But she says the suspense of having unemployment hanging over your head is unnerving.
Ms. MONROE: The sad part is that morale dips so drastically once the pink slips go out, because the worry begins about family, mortgage and stuff like that.
ABRAMSON: Whether the cause is budget cuts or shrinking enrollment, some teachers face this prospect year after year. Despite all the hubbub about union contracts and how tough it is to fire bad teachers, junior teachers have little protection against the layoff ax.
Just ask Rohya Prudhomme. After four years with the Los Angeles Unified School District, Prudhomme gets the same letter every spring.
Ms. ROHYA PRUDHOMME (English Teacher): For the past three years, I've gotten a pink slip, every single year.
ABRAMSON: At her apartment in downtown Los Angeles, Rohya Prudhomme pulls out this year's personal communication from the school district.
Ms. PRUDHOMME: (Reading) As you may be aware, the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to face a dire financial situation. While the district hopes that solutions may be found to mitigate this crisis, it is with sincere regret that I must send you this letter at this time.
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ABRAMSON: Getting a job at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex was the fulfillment of a dream. Prudhomme teaches English here. It's a big, urban school, full of mostly low-income students, just the population she wants to serve.
Her supervisor here, Nova Mesa, says it's just a bad time.
Ms. NOVA MESA (Miguel Contreras Learning Complex): You can't blame the district. You can't blame, I guess, the schools, necessarily. I just feel like education in the state of California is in dire straits.
ABRAMSON: Many blame state laws and union contracts that say teachers must be laid off according to seniority. But many teachers I spoke with say ending seniority rights just isn't the answer. That would just make them feel more insecure.
In addition to teaching sophomore English, Prudhomme runs what's known as an advisory, a group of students who stay with her throughout high school.
Junior Jacki Vasquez came to a park near downtown to talk about the fate of her favorite teacher. Vasquez says she has struggled in high school, but Prudhomme stayed on her.
Ms. JACKI VASQUEZ (Student): She's always asking me how am I doing, how are my other classes. She always pushes me.
ABRAMSON: You need that.
Ms. VASQUEZ: Yeah. Yeah. I do.
ABRAMSON: Right.
Ms. VASQUEZ: Because I just tend to slack off and not care.
ABRAMSON: Prudhomme took Jackie and some other students on a college tour of Northern California last year, at her own expense. They will be among the first in their families to go to college. Jacki knows that getting into the University of California at Berkeley would be a reach for her, but she is jazzed by the prospect.
Ms. VASQUEZ: Berkeley, wow. Well, Berkeley was a beautiful place. Like a place where it's very liberal, you know, you could be whatever you want. You could do whatever you want. You're not going to be judged.
Rohya Prudhomme could search for jobs in other districts, but all of them are facing budget pressures, and she'd have to give up what little seniority she has. Charter schools are another option she's considering. But for now, she's stuck on her school and on the kids here, and she doesn't want to leave. So until school ends later this month...
Ms. PRUDHOMME: I teach as though I don't have a pink slip. I teach as though I'll be teaching forever.
ABRAMSON: Larry Abramson, NPR News.
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Letters from Vita Sackville-West
To Virginia Woolf and Violet Trefusis
Milan [posted in Trieste]
I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your un-dumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn't even feel it. And yet I believe you'll be sensible of a little gap. But you'd clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it would lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this --But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it.
However I won't bore you with any more.
We have re-started, and the train is shaky again. I shall have to write at the stations - which are fortunately many across the Lombard plain.
Venice. The stations were many, but I didn't bargain for the Orient Express not stopping at them. And here we are at Venice for ten minutes only, -- a wretched time in which to try and write. No time to buy an Italian stamp even, so this will have to go from Trieste.
The waterfalls in Switzerland were frozen into solid iridescent curtains of ice, hanging over the rock; so lovely. And Italy all blanketed in snow.
We're going to start again. I shall have to wait till Trieste tomorrow morning. Please forgive me for writing such a miserable letter.
Near Hanover
My darling
I hoped I should wake up less depressed this morning, but I didn't. I went to bed last night as black as a sweep. The awful dreariness of Westphalia makes it worse: factory towns, mounds of slag, flat country, and some patches of dirty snow. And you are going to the Webbs. Well, well....
Why aren't you with me? Oh, why? I do want you so frightfully.
The only thing which gives me any pleasure is Leigh's get-up. He has bought a short sheepskin coat, in which he evidently thinks he looks like a Hungarian shepherd, but horn-rimmed glasses and a rather loud pair of plus-fours destroy this effect. Dottie on the other hand has appeared in a very long fur-coat, down to the ankles, so thick as to make her quite round; she looks like a Russian grand-duke. We are all rather cross, and have rows about luggage. I want more than ever to travel with you; it seems to me now the height of my desire, and I get into despair wondering how it can ever be realised. Can it, do you think? Oh my lovely Virginia, it is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
I do hope more and more that you won't go to America, I am sure it would be too tiring for you, and anyway I am sure you wouldn't like it. Come to Beirut instead??
So we bundle along over Germany, and very dull it is -- Surely I haven't lost my zest for travel? no, it is not that; it is simply that I want to be with you and not with anybody else -- But you will get bored if I go on saying this, only it comes back and back till it drips off my pen -- Do you realise that I shall have to wait for over a fortnight before I can hear from you? poor me. I hadn't thought of that before leaving, but now it bulks very large and horrible. What may not happen to you in the course of a fortnight? you may get ill, fall in love, Heaven knows what.
I shall work so hard, partly to please you, partly to please myself, partly to make the time go and have something to show for it. I treasure your sudden discourse on literature yesterday morning, - a send-off to me, rather like Polonius to Laertes. It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I love you. I feel my muscles hardening,
'Il poeta e un' artiere
Yes, my very dear Virginia, I was at a crossways just about the time I first met you.
You do like me to write well, don't you? And I do hate writing badly -- and having written so badly in the past. But now, like Queen Victoria, I will be good.
Hell! I wish you were here - The team of ponies prances with temper. Send me anything you write in papers, and send 'On reading'. Please. I hope you will get my letters quick and often. Tell me if I write too often, I love you.
My darling,
It was a real event in my life and my heart to be with you the other day. We do matter to each other, don't we? however much our ways may have diverged. I think we have got something indestructible between us, haven't we? Even right back to the library seat in your papa's room at Grosvenor Street -- and then at Duntreath -- and then to everything that came afterwards. Glissons, mortels ... but what a bond, Lushka darling; a bond of childhood and subsequent passion, such as neither of us will ever share with anyone else.
It has been a very strange relationship, ours; unhappy at times, happy at others; but unique in its way, and infinitely precious to me and (may I say?) to you.
What I like about it is that we always come together again however long the gaps in our meetings may have been. Time seems to make no difference. This is a sort of love letter I suppose. Odd that I should be writing you a love letter after all these years - when we have written so many to each other. Parceque c'etait lui parceque c'etait moit.
Oh, you sent me a book about Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Thank you, darling generous Lushka and you gave me a coal-black briquet. It lights up into the flame of love which always burns in my heart whenever I think of you. You said it would last for three months, but our love has lasted for forty years and more.
Your Mitya
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Believe it or not, the most powerful tool you have to take terrific images is one of your most overlooked daily devices. Taking photos with phones has been an increasing trend for almost a decade now-- it offers convenience, portability, and accessibility. Even if the megapixel quality on cell phones wasn't always as staunch as it is now, it never deterred anyone from snapping a great pic with their flip phone. Now there are fervent races between feuding competitors to see who can ramp up the best camera quality in phones and which company can offer, among other things, the best clarity, stabilization, color accuracy, and low light/daylight capabilities.
In the last couple of years, some phones have easily outperformed basic point and shoot cameras. Of course they aren't on the same level as a DSLR, but they for sure have their advantages. With that in mind, if you have a smartphone and you're interested in photography, you should take advantage of every tool you have and start capturing those special moments! This post is here to help detail the why and the how of smartphone photography.
Here are the main points of my post:
- What are the benefits of smartphone photography?
- Tools to begin taking pictures with your camera
- Photography tips
- Sharing your images
It's now common culture to carry around our smartphones to stay in touch with our family, friends and acquaintances. Not only this, but we are heavily dependent on our phones now for a variety of tasks, from entertainment to news to productivity. Unless you are one of those types who carries around their cameras and has them ready at a moment's notice, smartphones can be invaluable for capturing the spontaneity of our daily lives. They are small, portable, and convenient. Do not underestimate the importance of accessibility.
When you're photographing shots with your phone, there's less expectation to nail a good picture versus when you're experimenting with a nice camera. Less expectation and pressure can drive a desire to take more pictures and venture outside your comfort zone. The repetition of taking pictures on your phone will help you pay attention to composition and other basic photographic elements that make an image attractive.
The great thing about smartphones is that they work as a camera and a device for disseminating information. You can easily take your picture, edit your content, and post it on apps and websites such as Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook for sharing and critiquing purposes. This also allows you to build a community and a following of people who are interested in your content. It can additionally serve as a visual diary-- you can go back and examine your growth over time.
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It's important to make sure your phone is properly protected, so buy a case and maybe a screen protector! This will make your device more secure when you go for riskier shots. For example, I went hiking last week-- I didn't have to worry much about dropping my phone and cracking the screen in case it slipped. You can also buy waterproof cases. This is helpful if you want to do some photographing in the rain or even potentially underwater. Make sure to do your research!
If your phone doesn't already come with a reliable camera application, there are others you can download. I would recommend finding one that has the following features: gridlines, exposure adjustments, flash on/off, timer, HDR, video capability, etc. There are also camera applications that allow you to adjust more minute details (apps such as Manual Camera, A Better Camera, VSCO Cam, etc.). There are also a measure of editing applications, some which are dual sharing applications, e.g. Instagram allows you to take photos, edit them, and then post to your Instagram feed.
There are now assortments of lenses that you can clip over your normal camera lens. These attachments will change the effect you get, from macro to fisheye to wide angle. While not necessary, depending on what brand you purchase lenses from, the overall cost is not too expensive and adds some drama to your photos.
Again, while not necessary, if you wanted to get a little more serious you could buy a cheap, adjustable tripod or stand. You could even get a selfie stick if you're into self portraiture!
Understanding composition is essential to composing an excellent shot. While you don't always have to follow every rule or staple to achieve good composition (there are always exceptions to the rule), it's important to understand concepts like line, direction, rule of thirds, etc.
Controlling depth of field with a manual camera is a little different than using a camera phone, but the overall effect is still attainable if you want something more dramatic or a shallow depth of field. Some phones come with a lens blur function, and I'm sure there are lens attachments that allow you to attain the illusion of a shallow depth of field.
High Dynamic Range is a setting that comes on most phones. HDR mode takes several shots at once with several different exposures and combines them into one image. When you take a photograph in HDR mode, it levels out the lights and darks so they aren't so extreme-- ultimately, it makes the shot appear a bit more natural. Most of the photos on this blog are taken in HDR mode on my iPhone 6.
Take advantage of your phone's weaknesses. If your phone doesn't have the best resolution, take images that look intriguing while grainy. If your phone reduces your shutter speed, sometimes taking pictures of moving objects can result in interesting images. For example, while I didn't take this following image with my phone, I reduced the shutter speed on my GoPro to capture the Washington Monument and allow movement around it to blur. This was the result:
There are so, so many places to distribute your work. Imgur, Instagram (app), Flickr, DeviantArt, Tumblr, and Pinterest are a few that I can list off the top of my head. Some of these platforms aren't simply image sharing--they can double up as social media or information hubs. Tumblr and Pinterest are among these social media platforms, but they are more image focused than websites like Facebook.
Before you sign up for these applications or websites, make sure to read the user agreements associated with each business. Know what rights you do and don't have when you post your content. Some websites allow you to state what kind of license is associated with an image, some do not. Overall, sharing can be an excellent tool to make friends, network, or receive constructive criticism regarding your shots.
I hope this guide was helpful! If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to write a comment!
Krista Alba


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Squirrels Leap is a well designed sectional title complex consisting of 16 units within the greater Heritage Village.
Every unit is delicately caressed with enough sunlight and this contributes to the feeling of wide open spaces in the living areas.
The enclosed patios was cleverly designed to host a large dining table and you have the option to add a gas braai with additional cupboards for the perfect social space. The aluminium frames and stack doors offers additional luxury together with the freedom to entertain right into the small intimate garden.
The lounge is tiled and spacious and flows into a cleverly and modern designed kitchen with a scullery accommodating 3 appliances. The scullery door gives access to the garden and washing line.
You can enter the house from the garage door with an under stair storage room and modern guest toilet directly opposite it.
The first floor offers:
A small landing which is designed to be created into a perfect study nook.
3 Spacious bedrooms, modern melamine cupboards and floors
And 2 full bathrooms lavished with modern finishes.
Few people know that Heritage Hill originally had a completed town plan which reflected the standard layout of the surrounding suburbs and generally leans toward the direction of a Live - Work - Play scenario.
It's vocabulary include phrases such as sense of place, life takes place in the street
It is a village in its own right, which not only comes too life when people go and return from work but it buzzes with an close to extinct neighborly flair.
The Estate is situated close to Midstream Estates, Medi-Clinic, Grey Owl Shopping Mall and although its on route to all major highways, this Estate is tucked away in the heart of the original Brakfontein Farm. It offers a laid back feeling with a tranquility you can hardly describe.
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MORAGA, Calif. -- Though the Saint Mary's men's tennis team is far from done at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northwest Regional, the Gaels have already done enough to earn a little recognition.
For their play over the first three days of the tournament, Jesse Kiuru and Tuomas Manner have both been named Saint Mary's Student-Athlete of the Week.
Manner and Kiuru each had a part in making Saint Mary's history, as they combined with Joakim Norstrom to place three Gaels in the round of 16 for the first time.
With wins in that round, Manner and Kiuru advanced to the quarterfinals. Kiuru lost a tough three-set match with Stanford's Nolan Paige, but Manner used a stirring comeback to beat Santa Clara's Ilya Osintsev in three sets and become the first Gael ever to reach the Regional semifinals. He'll be back in action on Tuesday with a semifinal match against Cal's Ben McLachlan.
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Foot soldiers will not be allowed to do the same things sergeants or marshals do. As your rank within the army increases, you will unblock new features and become a respected member among the Skara community. For example; as a sergeant you will be able to take part in battles among factions and fight for the honor of your kingdom against all the others. As a lieutenant you will be able to acquire new equipment.
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Sometimes I wonder if anyone understands that the New York Yankees are in the baseball business rather than politics or public relations:
Nine more years. Nine long, bold-headlined years. That is how much longer the Yankees are contractually obligated to put up with always-something Alex Rodriguez. With his celebrity distractions, his need to be noticed, his clubhouse-integration issues, his Derek Jeter envy and, yes, his prime-time failures.
Nine years, and now, it appears, without the authentic historic payoff that Hank Steinbrenner and the Yankees were so seduced by, they couldn't wait to sign A-Rod to a deal that would carry him well past his 40th birthday and could cost them $300 million . . .
. . . The Yankees were the most ardent admirers of Rodriguez and are also positioned to be the biggest suckers, given the contract they gave him, along with promises of bonuses for every home-run hero he passes. They convinced themselves that A-Rod was the man for the 21st-century reclamation of baseball's tarnished record book — except they conveniently forget he was taking major league swings as early as 1994.
As much as anyone, he is a product of a decade in which the sport took a pharmaceutical path that, for too many reputations, has become the road to ruin.
This screed — in the New York Times, not the tabloids — only makes passing mention of the fact that people care about the New York Yankees because they are a baseball team, and that to the extent they care about Alex Rodriguez, it is because he is the best player on that team. Yes, many people will complain about the latest steroid news. I suppose even a few may give up on Rodriguez and the Yankees altogether, though if they do they are drama queens of the first order.
But to suggest that the Yankees are somehow suckers and Rodriguez somehow worthless in light of all of this is to misunderstand why anyone pays attention in the first place. It's baseball. It's a game. Alex Rodriguez will continue to play it better than just about any player. The Yankees will continue to win games at a clip surpassing just about any team. And the fans will continue to show up and root for them both — the latter far more than the former, of course — just the way they have for the past 109 years.


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A COUNCIL is spear-heading an initiative to build links between secondary schools and businesses to combat a skills shortage in rural areas.
The authority's leader, Councillor Linda Cowling, said it was working with the four secondary schools in its area and high-tech companies in the area. "There are fantastic opportunities in Ryedale for young people and we want to keep the younger generation here.
There has been an attitude among teachers of keeping young people in education and encouraging them to go to university but we are persuading them that apprenticeships are key to Ryedale's economy. We especially want to see our young people go into engineering."
AlreadyThe council has brought a number of leading businesses in the technology world and school leaders together. "The response has been excellent," she said.
A recent skills summit involving businesses and educationalists had proved a big success and the council was earmarking funds to develop apprenticeship schemes and training. Mentors were being developed as more businesses were taking on students on work experience opportunities.
The council's chief executive, Janet Waggott, said many Ryedale businesses, which were recognised as world leaders,were concerned that they were having to bring skilled workers into the district from elsewhere in the country because of a shortage of trained staff locally.


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WIPO CRNR/DC/6 ORIGINAL: English DATE: August 30, 1996
Notes on Article 6
6.01 According to paragraph (1) , the benefit of protection is granted to nationals of Contracting Parties. According to the provisions of Article 7(4) makers of databases who have their habitual residence in a Contracting Party are assimilated to nationals of that Contracting Party.
6.02 By a reference to the provisions of paragraph (1), paragraph (2) contains a provision laying down the same principle for the benefit of companies, firms and other legal entities having certain points of attachment to a Contracting Party. The expression "companies, firms and other legal entities" is intended to cover all companies, firms, corporations, unions, associations, non-profit institutions and other legal persons.
6.03 Protection is given to the persons identified in paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) if they meet the criteria set forth in those provisions at the time of the making of the database, which is the moment when the database meets the requirements of Article 1(1).
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(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall also apply to companies, firms and other legal entities formed in accordance with the laws of a Contracting Party or having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within a Contracting Party; however, where such a company, firm or other legal entity has only its registered office in the territory of a Contracting Party, its operations must be genuinely linked on an on-going basis with the economy of a Contracting Party.
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Yield: 30 to 40 pieces of fudge
Prep Time: 25 min
Cook Time: 10 min
This is an incredibly creamy, wonderful fudge. The two flavors in one bite is a nice surprise.
1 cup peanut butter chips
1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
2 1/4 cups granulated white sugar
One (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme
1 (5 ounce) can evaporated whole milk
1/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Line an 8" X 8" pan with foil and spray lightly with nonstick spray
2. In 2 separate heat-safe medium bowls, place 1 cup peanut butter chips in one and chocolate chips in the other
3. In a 3 quart sauce pan, combine sugar, marshmallow creme, evaporated milk and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils; boil and continue to stir for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and quickly stir in vanilla.
4. Quickly stir one-half of the hot mixture into peanut butter chips and the other half into the chocolate chips. Stir the peanut butter mixture until fully melted and quickly pour into prepared pan. Stir the chocolate chip mixture until fully melted and carefully spread over top of peanut butter layer.
5. Let sit at room temperature until completely cool (or refrigerate). Cut into small squares.
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