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The blonde, 25, who has previously battled with her weight and has slimmed
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June 17, 2006
Festival of the Bratislava Lyra & Marta Kubišová
One of the most dramatic posters in the Winters Collection (a poster that's hip-in-a-late-1960s way) is an oversized piece that was produced in 1967 for the Festival of the Bratislava Lyra. The poster does not carry any documentation as to . . . which company published it, who took the photograph that's been artistically manipulated for the image on it, or whose photograph it even is on the poster. In a way, the lack of information is almost fitting—it adds to the mystique of the poster's black-and-white, slightly fuzzy image.
So, what's on the poster? The face of a woman, her mouth slightly open, as if she's in the middle of a song (a microphone seems to be in front of her). She has dark bangs and eyes, and her eyes are cast a touch to her right side and a touch upward. Her face is repeated on the poster, one face beneath the other; for the next two successive shots, below the first that's at the top, the camera has zoomed in on parts of her face. The topmost portrait is a "conventional" or complete one, showing all of her face. Then underneath is a close-up of her expression, in which you still see all of her face (though no bangs and no microphone). Underneath that is a view of her mouth/lips, and then the final shot is an even smaller picture of what is at the top. One look at that poster, and you know a statement about music, culture, self-expression, and artistry is being made. This woman's pensive, knowing look (though, at the same time, uplifting) tells you she means everything she's singing.
I mention this poster, because when I was searching for more information on the Festival of Bratislava Lyra, I came across some material and lots of photographs of a singer from that era, Marta Kubišová. The pictures of her remind me of the images that make up this poster; in fact, I'd wager a tidy sum that it is Marta Kubišová's photograph on the 1967 poster. Given that Kubišová was also known as a protest singer (her recording of "Prayer for Marta" got her banned from singing in Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s/early 1970s) and that the poster is rather pop-art in style (very reflective of the times in which it was published), it's more than possible that she's the one whose image is creatively repeated & fragmented on the poster. If you're affiliated with UIUC, you can be the judge: take a look at the poster and back again at all the period photos of Kubišová and compare.
(Incidentally, if you've seen the movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being, based on Milan Kundera's book of the same name, and—like me—you bought the soundtrack two decades ago, then you might remember a rendition of the Beatles' "Hey, Jude" in Czech; well, that's Marta Kubišová voice--deep, strong, and full of feeling. If you recall the movie, the song is played during those achingly authentic black-and-white shots and scenes of a chaotic Prague in August 1968.)
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April 6, 2006
New Posters from Winters Collection on Display
The display case outside the entrance to the Slavic Library finally has different posters from the Winters Collection on exhibit. They are posters by two of the Czech Republic's best-known graphic artists, Adolf Born (1930) and Stanislav Hóly (1943-1998).
Interestingly--or maybe not so interestingly, since the world of Czech graphic artists is a small one--both Hóly and Born studied at the Applied Arts Academy in Prague. Although a student of animation and cinematic puppetry, Hóly is perhaps most recognized for his illustrations in children's books. As the creator of Mr. Pip, the main character in a corpus of literature (and also in animation) for children in which stories are told purely through pictures, Hóly arrives at a kind of book or paper version of animation--his drawings are colorful, lively, and full of expression. Here is a snapshot of Mr. Pip in an animated context.
Born, who is still alive and active in art, pursued caricature and newspaper illustration at the Applied Arts Academy. His cartoon drawings in newspapers and magazines were his first claim to fame. But a stricter political climate in the early 1970s in Czechoslovakia forced Born to focus his creativity on other kinds of art, such as animation, graphics, book illustrations, and ex libris (bookplates). Born is famous for creating anthropomorphic portraits (woman as vessel steered by man or woman as house with many floors and rooms), and often the result is a playful surrealness. Here are several examples of Born's art (from an online exposition of the artist's works--mini-images on the right), as well as more information about him.
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February 8, 2006
Czech Black Theater and Czech Puppetry
When I did a little research on Divadlo za branou, I discovered that it was known also for its productions of Czech Black Theater, which is nomenclature for a type of puppet theater: "This form of theater can be used with many styles of puppets, although it is most commonly used with tabletop puppets. The puppeteer dresses from head to toe in black velvet. There are black velvet curtains behind them and on both sides. A sharply focused curtain of light shoots across the playing area. It is generated by carefully shuttered lamps on Stage Right, Stage Left and a bank of instruments above. When the puppet is placed in the light they can be seen clearly as if under normal stage lighting but the puppeteer becomes invisible" (from "Czech Black," part of a website on Other Hand Productions, a company of puppeteers that stages productions and conducts workshops.)
As it turns out, there is rich tradition of puppetry in the Czech lands. One of the posters in the Winters Collection advertises an exhibit on the theater of Josef Skupa, recognized as a pioneer in the theater and design of modern puppetry. The theater where Skupa staged productions of puppetry was the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre, which he founded.
Also worthwhile noting: Czech Theater Magazine has an entire issue (no. 13, 1997) on theatrical puppetry in the Czech lands. This issue is out of print, so it's especially generous of the publication to make it available in its entirety (with wonderful pictures) and free of charge!
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February 1, 2006
A Resource on Czech Theater
Check out divadlo.cz (it has an English-language counterpart, theater.cz), developed and maintained by the Theatre Institute in Prague. Not only does it have current news about the theater scene in the Czech Republic (the infosources link connects users to materials on the cultural politics surrounding Czech theater, on statistics, personalities, reviews, and more), it also has several issues of Czech Theatre Magazine in PDF and thus immediately accessible to visitors at the site. For someone who does not specialize in theater, Czech or otherwise, this resource is proving both helpful and informative.
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January 31, 2006
Divadlo za branou / Theater beyond the Gate
One of the great things about the Winters Collection is its sampling of performing arts posters, three of which advertise productions at the well-known Divadlo za branou (Theater beyond the Gate) in Prague. This theater no longer exists, but it is still remembered as a venue for innovative stagings and top-notch dramaturgy and performances. The theater was started in 1965 by, among others, the director Otomar Krejča and the playwright Josef Topol; in 1972, however, the Ministry of Culture shut it down for vague "technical reasons." (It was revived in 1990 as Divadlo za branou II but had to close for lack of funding in 1995.) At the height of its popularity this theater company had the feel of a workshop, in the Chekhovian tradition, where original, creative ideas could be played out (literally) for experimentation purposes.
The originality and creativity of Divadlo za branou arguably is corroborated by the graphic design of its posters. Here is a poster from 1971 that endorses a double production of Sophocles' tragedies Oedipus and Antigone. [Note: This image is viewable only by UIUC-affiliated patrons who have a NetID and proxy password.] There is something viscerally terrifying about this stark black-and-white illustration of a ravaged head, with what appear to be hollowed-out eyes (recalling Oedipus blinding himself) and a mouth agape, showing mostly black (like the eyes)--as if to suggest a muteness or helplessness. These tragedies by Sophocles are about characters who arrive too late (Antigone has hung herself before Creon can get to her) or come upon realizations too late (Oedipus discovers he murdered his father and that Jocasta is his mother). In a sense, what is a more helpless feeling than comprehending, "What's done is done," and that there is no turning back?
I have been looking for information on "Brom/Kopřiva," the team that designed these posters for Divadlo za branou but, so far, nothing has turned up. If any readers know of possible sources to consult for information on artists with these names, I hope you'll post on the comment board.
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January 18, 2006
New Look to Winters Collection Website
The website where the Winters Collection digitization project is described has a new look. See: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/winters/index.htm.
In revamping the site, I've tried to make the various components of the project a little clearer. Future plans include:
- Expanding on "Collection Resources" by grouping the posters according to subject, style, and/or period and providing relevant secondary resources for further reading and research along these lines.
- Revising the EAD to include links to the digitized images for which there is metadata.
- Featuring a different digital image of a poster as copyright holders grant reproduction permissions.
Comments and/or suggestions regarding the new site are welcome!
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January 4, 2006
A Sampling of Czech Posters
The site "Czech Graphic Design 50 Best Czech Posters," put out by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO), exhibits images of some of the best Czech posters produced between the early 1980s and the late 1990s. More of graphic artist Čestmír Pechr's work can also be found here.
These posters are linked from the Japanese version of JIDPO's site, where they have a page devoted to international graphic design. One link in particular, "Graphic Design Brno 1997 Collection," takes users to even more images of Czech posters. Brno is where the Biennale of Graphic Design is held; I will post on the Biennale here at a later date.
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An Introductory Resource to Czech & Slovak Posters
When we began working on this project in the fall of 2004 (viewing the collection, getting a sense of what would be involved in terms of repair/restoration, agreeing on a metadata scheme, meeting with the digital services staff, etc.), I trolled the Web for any information I could find on Czech posters. One of the first resources I came upon was an article, "Contemporary Czech and Slovak Poster Design," written by art historian and former reference librarian, Anna Dvořák. The article is based on a lecture she gave at the National Humanities Center in September 1998, in accompaniment to an exhibition on Czech and Slovak posters at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The article features images of some of the posters that were shown (largely from the collection of an American, Dana Bartelt, who has taught, and written on, graphic design and who currently lives and works in Prague as the resident coordinator of the NCState College of Design Prague Institute)--all of them excellent examples of 20th-century poster art. One of the images is of a theater poster, designed by Cestmír Pechr, whose work is also featured in the Winters Collection. Read Dvořák's piece at http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/ideasv61/dvorak.htm.
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January 1, 2006
Posters and the "Art" of Advertising Movies
What happens when a film producer has to advertise a movie that has no well-known actors in it? The first 2006 issue of the New York Times has an article that suggests that fine art increasingly is the remedy. It describes how producers of films in which there is no "name" actor or actress must rely on more creative ways of advertising their movies, since a photo of their lead performer on a movie poster won't sell their product if an unknown is starring in it. Thus, producers are drawing on the work of artists, such as the photographer Mark Kessell (some of whose work may be an acquired taste but is nonetheless intriguing), to help convey the gist of what their movies are about. This use of artists in the design of movie posters harks back to an era of poster art in Communist Poland, when--as remarked by Charles Evans, Jr., a producer of The Aviator--"poster art wasn't so much about commerce as about expression." From "Not Just Another Half-Dozen Pretty, Floating Faces," by Christian Moerk, in the 1 January 2006 NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/movies/01moer.html
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December 21, 2005
Brief Biography of Josef Čapek
Thanks to Helen Sullivan, Head of the Slavic Reference Service at UIUC, for referring me to Grove Art Online--a great resource for artist bios and term definitions, among other things. Here is GAO's entry for Josef Čapek:
Čapek, Josef
(b Hronov, 23 March 1887; d Bergen-Belsen, April 1945).
Czech painter, printmaker and writer. He studied weaving (1901–3) in Vrchlabí and then from 1904 to 1910 decorative painting at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, where he was influenced by the highly decorative art of the Secession. During this period he wrote stories with his brother, the novelist Karel Čapek (1890–1938). In 1910 they went to Paris for nearly a year, where Josef Čapek studied painting at the Académie Colarossi and became a friend of Apollinaire. In 1911 he and his brother co-founded the Cubist-orientated Group of Plastic Artists. Čapek attempted to modify Cubism by introducing elements of Expressionism and Symbolism. His efforts dumbfounded some members of the group, and in 1912 he and various of his friends parted company with it. From 1915 he began to achieve a synthesis of Cubism, Neo-classicism and a personal symbolism (e.g. the Man in the Hat, 1915; Hradec Králové, Reg. Gal.), and in 1917 he participated in the first and subsequent exhibitions of the group Tvrdošíjní (The Stubborn Ones) and began to produce a number of prints for the magazine Červen, including the poster design for Arnošt Dvořák's Mrtvá at the Červná Sedma theatre in Prague (colour lithograph, 1920; Prague, Mus. App. A.). [NB: This poster design is mentioned in the 12/12/05 weblog posting.] In the 1920s his paintings and prints became more densely woven, more expressive and more concerned with issues of civilian and suburban life. He also undertook theatre design, journalism and book illustration as well as publishing his own theoretical essays. In the late 1920s he became greatly influenced by folk art, painting simplified images of houses and countryside in bold strokes of bright colour. In 1933 he became a member of the editorial board of the magazine Život; by then his expressionistic painting had become somewhat oppressive, as in Cloud (1933; Ostrava, A.G.). In 1938 he painted the first pictures of his cycle Fire, whose large, gesturing figures played out a warning against war (e.g. Fire (1), 1938; Prague, N.G.). His last cycle of paintings, Longing, dating from 1939, is symbolic of a despair with contemporary events. On 1 September 1939 he was arrested by the Germans and taken to Dachau, and later to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he died.
Vojtěch Lahoda: "Josef Čapek" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 21 December 2005, http://www.groveart.com/
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Examples of Josef Čapek's ArtThe Main Library at UIUC has acquired a license for ArtStor, a database of art collections that have been reproduced in digital format. (If you are a UIUC student or a member of the UIUC faculty or staff, then you can access--and register for a log-in to--ArtStor through the Online Research Resources page. Just type "ArtStor" in the white box, and you'll be taken to a link through which to enter, and register for, the database.)
So far, the only Czech artist whose works I could find in ArtStor is Josef Čapek, which is probably no surprise! There are two examples of his Cubist-inspired style in the ArtStor database:
NOTE: You will need a UIUC Net ID and password to view these images.
- Organ Grinder (1913), oil painting (viewable by UIUC patrons only)
- Negro King (1920), oil painting (viewable by UIUC patrons only)
More information about Czech Cubism may be found in this brief 2001 article, based on an exhibition in Salzburg, Austria, that same year: Kimball, R. "Czech cubism, 1912-1916" at the Rupertinum, Salzburg. The New Criterion v. 20 no. 2 (October 2001) p. 43-4. Here is the abstract for the article: "A review of 'Czech Cubism, 1912-1916,' an exhibition at the Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria, from July 21 to October 7, 2001. Intelligently and professionally put together, this quiet show had the good sense and daring to focus on the artwork, leaving the 120 paintings and sculptures to speak for themselves. Of the nine artists represented in the show, only Josef Capek and Emil Filla are known in America, and their work is also the show's most distinctive and aesthetically rewarding."
Continue reading "Examples of Josef Čapek's Art"
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December 12, 2005
Josef Čapek and the Poster "Boje a zápasy": Tragic Irony or Subversive Subtext?
The Czech artist Josef Čapek, whose work is reproduced on two posters in the Winters Collection, is remembered best for his paintings, book illustrations, theatrical set designs, and writings (particularly of novels, plays, and journalistic pieces). He also collaborated on short fiction and critical writings with his brother Karel, who is probably the better known of the pair.
The two posters featuring Čapek's work are "Boje a zápasy" (Fights and Encounters, poster #7, Folder 1), which advertises a 1973 exhibit in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the "February Victory" (the Communist Party's rise to power in Czechoslovakia in 1948), and "Scéna 'Červéna sedma.' Arnošt Dvorak: Mrtvá" (Folder 5, poster #81), a 1978 copy of the 1920 poster that Čapek designed for a production of playwright Arnošt Dvorak's Mrtvá (Dead) at the Cervná Sedma theater in Prague. The latter poster, originally a color lithograph, is reminiscent of Cubism, the style of painting for which Čapek became known early in his career.
Continue reading "Josef Čapek and the Poster "Boje a zápasy": Tragic Irony or Subversive Subtext?"
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November 28, 2005
Winters Project Staff
A variety of librarians are participating in the digitization of the Winters poster collection.
Patricia Hswe, CLIR Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Slavic & East European Library at UIUC, is carrying out the day-to-day responsibilities of the project. These include the construction of metadata for the posters; resolving copyright issues; expanding on the website for the Winters Collection; and designing, and posting on, the project blog. In addition, she is responsible for mounting posters from the collection for display at the entrance to the Slavic Library.
Miranda Remnek, Head, Slavic & East European Library, initiated the project and serves as supervisor. She has given presentations at international conferences on the Winters Collection, particularly with respect to metadata issues, and will contribute occasional postings to this weblog.
Marie Kallista, Library Technical Specialist in the Slavic & East European Library and a native of the Czech Republic, assists with translation matters as needed, in terms of both Czech language and Czech culture.
Janice Pilch, Acting Head, Slavic Acquisitions, offers guidance on copyright issues.
Nuala Bennet Koetter and Amy Maroso-Hatcher, both of the Digital Services & Development (DSD) Unit, advise on the application of ContentDM, the digital collection management software that is being used to display the digitized images of the posters, and on issues concerning the actual scanning of the posters.
In addition, we receive occasional guidance from academic faculty members. Frank Gladney, Associate Professor, and David Cooper, Assistant Professor, both of the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at UIUC, serve as consultants on content and on translation.
Finally, Marc Gartler, a 2005 graduate of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, worked on the project from Fall 2004 to Summer 2005. He is responsible for constructing the EAD for the collection (with help from Chris Prom, Assistant University Archivist) and for devising the fields for the metadata schema (based on VRA Core, version 3.0).
Posted by at 7:52 PM
November 23, 2005
About "Postings on Posters"
This weblog was created to document the digitization and cataloging of the Zdenka and Stanley B. Winters Collection of Czech and Slovak Posters, 1920-1991. The Winters donated the collection to UIUC in 1991, with the hope that in the future it would be accessible online, for research and educational purposes, to faculty and students both here and beyond UIUC. Digitization of the collection began in earnest in early Summer 2005, and now that the digital surrogates are being amassed in an image database, cataloging has commenced. In the continued scanning of the posters and the construction of metadata about them, issues inevitably will arise. "Postings on Posters" will keep track of these matters (and provide some context for the next person who works on, or maintains, this project).
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Louisiana Horse Rescue Association
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Contact Phone:
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LHRA provides rescue, rehab, retraining and retirement for horses of racing breeds. In addition, we are committed to educating the public and first responders to equine rescue and neglect cases on horse care and condition and on Louisiana statutes around equine neglect and abuse.
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Adoption forms are available via our website at on the ADOPTION INFORMATION page.
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1. What has changed and what does stay in the way you produce music throughout these years?
The only thing that has changed in my production of music is my constant evolving improvement of techniques and the ability to replicate what I imagine inside my head. I have learnt a lot from Kaidi, Akwasi and Matt Lord. I even got tips from Mr Larry Mizell.
2. How would you explain your attitude to genre crossing?
There is no real thing called genre of music. All that truly matters is good music or bad music.. I love a wide range of stuff and i only become selective when my mood demands it. I think "music genre tags" is helpful in one sense to find a sound but also damages music causing barriers and closed minds.
3. Which are the differences between the sound of 4Hero and the sound of Dego?
4Hero had evolved from a hard dance music sound to a kind of orchestrated ensemble. My music is less dramatic. I am fixated on the groove and pulse. The funk the flow and spirit of Africa via Jamaica to London with Afro American influence. The shit that makes your face contort when you hear it!! You hear it but your body demands you move to it!! I guess i am really talking about the target I have for my music rather than its sound.
4. Do you recognise any younger English or international producer who has picked up your teachings or who share your same vision of electronic music?
Dego interview by Eudosia Luxemburg Crispy.
Saturday 13 December 2014 | 23:00 – 05:00 Crispy W/ Dego, Volcov, Dax, Gang Of Ducks at Factory Club / Padova
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We offer worship services at 9am and 11am from mid-September through May. Both services take place in our Sanctuary at 76 Bell Street and both services have the excellent music and the thought-provoking sermons that Federated Church is known for. We offer Communion on the first Sunday of each month, and on those Sundays, children join parents in the Sanctuary for the beginning of the service, and then will leave for Sunday School, and come back to share the Communion meal after the sermon.
At the 9am service we offer "family-style" worship. Children will be staying with their families in the Sanctuary through the offering, at which time they will leave to attend Sunday School through the end of the service. We make them feel heartily welcomed by exploring ways of worshiping that will speak to "all God's children": from the littlest among us to our most tenured members. Music, prayer, scripture, faith witnesses and hymns—all of these wonderful components of worship will be present as we come together as a multi-generational church family to praise God! The Ensemble is the home choir for this service.
During the 11am service, children will be in Sunday School the whole time, except for on Communion Sundays as noted above. This service will place greater emphasis on organ prelude and postlude, familiar hymns, and anthems by our Chancel Choir, all geared to feed the soul in a deeply spiritual way.
The Bell Choir and The Children's Choir will be featured monthly in both services, and an occasional surprise will keep things fresh.
During the summer months, from Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day weekend, we offer a single Family Worship service at 10am in our Bell Street Sanctuary. (On Memorial Day Weekend that 10am service is held at our Family Life Center.)
Click here to see what is happening on upcoming Sundays.
For Infants & Toddlers
We love infants and toddlers at Federated! We are committed to providing a clean, safe, and age appropriate environment for your little ones while you attend church service. Our paid child care providers have undergone full background checks and drug screening. They are consistently here for easy transitions when parting with your child. Our goal for our nursery is to model God's love for your child by providing quality care. We also have a Parents Room adjacent to the Sanctuary on Bell Street where parents can worship with their little ones while viewing the service on closed circuit television.


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Sufi Biography: Abu Yazid Al-bestami (bayazid Bistami)
The grandfather of Abu Yazid-e Bestami was a Zoroastrian; his father was one of the leading citizens
of Bestam. Abu Yazid's extraordinary career began from the time he was in his mother's womb.
"Every time I put a doubtful morsel in my mouth," his mother would say, "you stirred in my womb and
would not keep still until I had put it out of my mouth."
This statement is confirmed by words spoken by Abu Yazid himself.
"What is best for a man on this path?" he was asked. "Congenital felicity," he replied.
"And if that is missing?" "A strong body."
"And if that is lacking?"
"An attentive ear."
"And without that?"
"A knowing heart."
"And without that?"
"A seeing eye."
"And without that?"Sufi Biography: Abu Yazid al-Bestami (Bayazid Bistami)
"Sudden death.
and the story of this mighty sufi is like this .
In due course his mother sent him to school. He learned the Koran, and one day his master was explaining
the meaning of the verse in the Sura of Loqman, Be thankful to Me, and to thy parents. These words
moved the heart of Abu Yazid.
"Sir," he said, laying down his tablet, "please give me permission to go home and say something to my
mother." The master gave him leave, and Abu Yazid went home.
"Why, Taifur," cried his mother, "why have you come home? Did they give you a present, or is it some
special occasion?" "No," Abu Yazid replied. "I reached the verse where God commands me to serve Him and you. I cannot be
manager in two houses at once. This verse stung me to the quick. Either you ask for me from God, so that I
may be yours entirely, or apprentice me to God, so that I may dwell wholly with Him."
"My son, I resign you to God, and exempt you from your duty to me," said his mother. "Go and be God's."
"The task I supposed to be the hindmost of all tasks proved to be the foremost," Abu Yazid later recalled.
"That was to please my mother. In pleasing my mother, I attained all that I sought in my many acts of selfdiscipline
and service. It fell out as follows. One night my mother asked me for water. I went to fetch
her some, but there was none in the jug. I fetched the pitcher, but none was in it either. So I went down
to the river and filled the pitcher with water. When I returned to the house, my mother had fallen
"The night was cold. I kept the jug in my hand. When my mother awoke from sleep she drank some
water and blessed me. Then she noticed that the jug was frozen to my hand. 'Why did you not lay the jug
aside?' she exclaimed. 'I was afraid that you might wake when I was not present,' I answered. 'Keep the
door half-open,' my mother then said. "I watched till near daybreak to make sure if the
door was properly half-open or not, and that I should not have disregarded her command. At the hour of
dawn, that which I had sought so many times entered by the door."
After his mother resigned him to God, Abu Yazid left Bestam and for thirty years wandered from land to
land, disciplining himself with continuous vigil and hunger. He attended one hundred and thirteen spiritual
preceptors and derived benefit from them all.
Amongst them was one called Sadiq. He was sitting at his feet when the master suddenly said, "Abu Yazid,
fetch me that book from the window." "The window? Which window?" asked Abu Yazid.
"Why," said the master, "you have been coming here all this time, and you have not seen the window?"
"No," replied Abu Yazid. "What have I to do with the; window? When I am before you, I close my eyes
to everything else. I have not come to stare about." "Since that is so," said the teacher, "go back to
Bestam. Your work is completed." It was hinted to Abu Yazid that in a certain place a
great teacher was to be found. He came from afar to see him. As he approached, he saw the reputed teacher
spit in the direction of Mecca. He at once retraced his steps.
"If he had achieved anything at all in the way," he remarked, "he would never have been guilty of transgressing
the Law."'
In this connection it is stated that his house was forty paces from the mosque, and he never spat on the road
out of respect for the mosque. It took Abu Yazid a full twelve years to reach the
Kaaba. This was because at every oratory he passed he would throw down his prayer rug and perform two
rak'as. "This is not the portico of an earthly king," he
would say, "that one may run thither all at once." So at last he came to the Kaaba, but that year he did
not got to Medina. "It would not be seemly to make that an appendage
of this visitation," he explained. "I will put on pilgrim robes for Medina separately."
Next year he returned once more, donning the pilgrim garb separately at the beginning of the desert. In
one town he passed through on the way a great throng became his followers, and as he left a crowd went in his
"Who are those men?" he demanded, looking back. "They wish to keep you company," came the answer.
"Lord God!" Abu Yazid cried, "I beg of Thee, veil not Thy creatures from Thee through me!"
Then, desiring to expel the love of him from their hearts and to remove the obstacle of himself from their
path, having performed the dawn prayer he looked at them and said, "Verily I am God; there is no god but I;
therefore serve Me." "The man has become mad!" they cried. And they
left him and departed. Abu Yazid went on his way. He found on the road a
skull on which was written, Deaf, dumb, blind—they do not understand.
Picking up the skull with a cry, he kissed it. "This seems to be the head," he murmured, "of a
Sufi annihilated in God—he has no ear to hear the eternal voice, no eye to behold the eternal beauty, no
tongue to praise God's greatness, no reason to understand so much as a mote of the true knowledge of God.This verse is about him."
Once Abu Yazid was going along the road with a camel on which he had slung his provisions and saddle.
"Poor little camel, what a heavy load it is carrying," someone cried. "It is really cruel."
Abu Yazid, having heard him say these words over and over, at last replied.
"Young man, it is not the little camel that lifts the load."
The man looked to see if the load was actually on the camel's back. He observed that it was a full span above
its back, and that the camel did not feel any weight at all. "Glory be to God, a wondrous deed!" the man
"If I conceal from you the true facts about myself, you thrust out the tongue of reproach," said Abu
Yazid. "If I disclose them to you, you cannot bear the facts. What is one to do with you?"
After Abu Yazid had visited Medina, the order came to him to return to care for his mother. He accordingly
set out for Bestam, accompanied by a throng. The news ran through the city, and the people of Bestam came
out to welcome him a good way from the town. Abu Yazid was likely to be so preoccupied with their attentions
that he would be detained from God. As they approached him, he drew a loaf out of his sleeve. Now
it was Ramazan; yet he stood and ate the loaf. As soon as the people of Bestam saw this, they turned away
from him. "Did you not see?" Abu Yazid addressed his companions
"I obeyed an ordinance of the sacred Law, and all the people rejected me."
He waited patiently until nightfall. At midnight he entered Bestam and, coming to his mother's house, he
stood a while listening. He heard sounds of his mother performing he ablutions and praying.
"Lord God, care well for our exile. Incline the hearts of the shaikhs towards him, and vouchsafe him to do
all things well.' Abu Yazid wept when he heard these words. Then he
knocked on the door. "Who is there?" cried his mother.
"Your exile," he replied. Weeping, his mother opened the door. Her sight was
dimmed. "Taifur," she addressed her son, "do you know what
has dimmed my sight? It is because I have wept so much being parted from you, and my back is bent double
from the load of grief I have endured." The Ascension of Abu Yazid
Abu Yazid related as follows. I gazed upon God with the eye of certainty after that
He had advanced me to the degree of independence from all creatures and illumined me with His light,
revealing to me the wonders of His secrets and manifesting to me the grandeur of His He-ness.
Then from God I gazed upon myself, and considered well the secrets and attributes of my self. My light was
darkness beside the light of God; my grandeur shrank to very meanness beside God's grandeur; my glory
beside God's glory became but vainglory. There all was purity, here all was foulness.
When I looked again, I saw my being by God's light. I realized that my glory was of His grandeur and glory.
Whatsoever I did, I was able to do through His omnipotence. Whatever the eye of my physical body
perceived, it perceived through Him. I gazed with the eye of justice and reality; all my worship proceeded
from God, not from me, and I had supposed that it was I who worshipped Him.
I said, "Lord God, what is this?" He said, "All that I am, and none other than I."
Then He stitched up my eye, not to be the means of seeing and so that I might not see, and He instructed
the gaze of my eye in the root of the matter, the He-ness of Himself. He annihilated me from my own being, and
made me to be everlasting through His own everlastingness, and He glorified me. He disclosed to me His
own Selfhood, unjostled by my own existence. So God, the one Truth, increased in me reality. Through God I
gazed on God, and I beheld God in reality. There I dwelt a while, and found repose. I stopped
up the ear of striving; I withdrew the tongue of yearning into the throat of disappointment. I abandoned
acquired knowledge, and removed the interference of the soul that bids to evil. I remained still for a space,
without any instrument, and with the hand of God's grace I swept superfluities from the pathway of root
principles. God had compassion on me. He granted me eternal knowledge, and put into my throat a tongue of His
goodness. He created for me an eye out of His light, and I saw all creatures through God. With the tongue
of His goodness I communed with God, and from the knowledge of God I acquired knowledge, and by His
light I gazed on Him. He said, "O thou all without all with all, without
instrument with instrument!" I said, "Lord God, let me not be deluded by this. Let
me not become self-satisfied with my own being, not to yearn for Thee. Better it is that Thou shouldst be mine
without me, than that I should be my own without Thee. Better it is that I should speak to Thee through
Thee, than that I should speak to myself without Thee."
He said, "Now give ear to the Law, and transgress not My commands and forbiddings, that thy strivings
may earn Our thanks." I said, "Insomuch as I profess the faith and my heart
firmly believes, if Thou givest thanks, it is better that Thou shouldst thank Thyself rather than Thy slave;
and if Thou blamest, Thou art pure of all fault." He said, "From whom didst thou learn?"
I said, "He who asks this question knows better than he who is asked; for He is both the Desired and the
Desirer, the Answered and the Answerer." When He had perceived the purity of my inmost
soul, then my soul heard a shout of God's satisfaction; He sealed me with His good pleasure. He illumined me,
and delivered me out of the darkness of the carnal soul and the foulnesses of the fleshly nature. I knew that
through Him I lived; and of His bounty I spread the carpet of gladness in my heart.
He said, "Ask whatsoever thou wilt." I said, "I wish for Thee, for Thou art more excellent
than bounty, greater than generosity, and through Thee I have found content in Thee. Since Thou art mine, I
have rolled up the scroll of bounty and generosity. Keep me not from Thee, and proffer not before me that
which is inferior to Thee." For a while He did not answer me. Then, laying the crown of munificence on my head, He spoke.
"Truth thou speakest, and reality thou seekest, in that thou hast seen the truth and heard the truth."
I said, "If I have seen, through Thee I have seen, and if I have heard, through Thee I have heard. First Thou
heardest, then I heard." And I uttered many praises to Him.
Consequently He gave me wings of majesty, so that I flew in the arenas of His glory and beheld the wonders of His handiwork.
Perceiving my weakness and recognizing my need, He strengthened me with His own strength and
arrayed me with His own adornment. He laid the crown of munificence on my head, and
opened unto me the door of the palace of Unity. When He perceived that my attributes were annihilated in His
attributes, He bestowed on me a name of His own presence and addressed me with His own Selfhood.
Singleness became manifest; duality vanished. He said, "Our pleasure is that which is thy pleasure,
and thy pleasure is that which is Our pleasure. Thy speech admits no defilement, and none takes thee to
task on account of thy I-ness." Then He made me to taste the stab of jealousy, and
revived me anew. I came forth pure from the furnace of testing. Then He spoke.
"Whose is the Kingdom?" I said, "Thine."
He said, "Whose is the Command?"
I said, "Thine."
He said, "Whose is the Choice?"
I said, "Thine."
Since these words were the very same as He had heard at the beginning of the transaction, He desired to
demonstrate to me that, had not His mercy preceded, creation would never have found repose, and that but
for Love, Omnipotence would have wreaked destruction on all things. He gazed on me with the eye of
Overwhelming through the medium of Allcompelling, and once more no trace of me was visible.
In my intoxication I flung myself into every valley. I melted my body in every crucible in the fire of jealousy.
I galloped the steed of questing in the broad expanse of the wilderness; no better game I saw than utter indigence,
nothing I discovered better than total incapacity. No lamp I saw brighter than silence, no speech I
heard better than speechlessness. I became a dweller in the palace of silence; I clothed myself in the stomacher
of fortitude, till matters reached their crux. He saw my outward and inward parts void of the flaw of fleshly
nature. He opened a fissure of relief in my darkened breast, and gave me a tongue of divestiture and unity.
So now I have a tongue of everlasting grace, a heart of light divine, an eye of godly handiwork. By his succour
I speak, with His power I grasp. Since through Him I live, I shall never die.
Since I have reached this stage, my token is eternal; my ex
unity, my spirit is the spirit of divestiture. Not of myself I speak, that I should be mere narrator, neither through
myself do I speak, that I should be mere remembrancer.
He moves my tongue according as He wills, and in all this I am but an interpreter. In reality the speaker is He,
not I. Now, having magnified me, He spoke again. "The creatures desire to see thee."
I said, "I desire not to see them. If Thou likest to bring me forth before the creatures, I will not oppose
Thee. Array me in Thy Unity, that when Thy creatures see me and gaze upon Thy handiwork, they will have
seen the Artificer, and I shall not be there at all." This desire He granted me; and He laid the crown of
munificence on my head, and caused me to surpass the station of my fleshly nature.
Then He said, "Come before My creatures." I took one step out of the Presence. At the second
step I fell headlong. I heard a cry.
"Bring back My beloved, for he cannot be without
Me, neither knows he any path save to Me."
Abu Yazid also related the following.
When I reached Unity—and that was the first
moment that I gazed upon Unity—for many years I ran
in that valley on the feet of understanding; till I became
a bird whose body was of Oneness, whose wings were
of Everlastingness. I kept flying in the firmament of
Unconditionedness. When I had vanished from the
things created, I spoke.
"I have reached the Creator."
Then I lifted up my head from the valley of Lordship.
I quaffed a cup, the thirst for which I never slaked in all eternity. Then for thirty thousand years I flew in the
expanse of His Unity, and for thirty thousand years more I flew in Divinity, and for thirty thousand years
more I flew in Singularity. When ninety thousand years had come to an end, I saw Abu Yazid, and all that I
saw, all was I.Then I traversed four thousand wildernesses, and reached the end. When I gazed, I saw myself at the
beginning of the degree of the prophets. Then for such a while I went on in that infinity, that I said,
"No one has ever reached higher than this. Loftier than this no station can be."
When I looked well, I saw that my head was at the sole of the foot of a prophet. Then I realized that the
end of the state of the saints is but the beginning of the states of the prophets; to the end of the prophets there
is no term.
Then my spirit transcended the whole Dominion, and Heaven and Hell were displayed to it; but it heeded
naught Whatever came before it, that it could not suffer. To the soul of no prophet it reached, without it
gave greeting. When it reached the soul of God's Chosen One, upon him be peace, there it beheld a hundred
thousand seas of fire without end, and a thousand veils of light. Had I so much as dipped my foot in the
first of those seas, I would have been consumed and given myself over to destruction. Therefore I became so
bewildered with awe and confusion, that naught remained of me. However I desired to be able to see but
the tent-peg of the pavilion of Mohammad, God's Messenger, I had not the boldness. Though I had
attained to God, I had not the boldness to attain to Mohammad.
Then Abu Yazid said, "O God, whatsoever thing I have seen, all has been I. There is no way for me to
Thee, so long as this 'I' remains; there is no transcending my selfhood for me What must I do?"
The command came, "To be delivered out of thy thouness, follow after Our beloved, the Arab
Mohammad. Anoint thine eye with the dust of his foot, and continue following after him.
Abu Yazid and Yahya-e Mo'adh Yahya-e Mo'adh wrote a letter to Abu Yazid saying,
"What do you say of a man who has quaffed a cup of wine, and become intoxicated from eternity to eternity?"
Abu Yazid replied, "That I know not. What I do know is this, that here is a man who in a single night
and a day drains all the oceans of eternity to eternity and then asks for more."
Yahya-e Mo'adh wrote again, "I have a secret to tell you, but our rendezvous is in Paradise. There under the
shadow of Tuba I will tell it you." And he sent along with the letter a loaf saying, "The shaikh must avail
himself of this, for I kneaded it with water from the well of Zemzem."
In his reply Abu Yazid referred to Yahya's secret saying,
"As for the rendezvous you mention, with His
remembrance, I enjoy even now possession of Paradise and the shade of the tree Tuba. So far as the loaf is concerned,
however, that I cannot avail myself of. You stated with what water you kneaded it, but you did not
mention what seed you sowed."
So Yahya-e Mo'adh conceived a great yearning to
visit Abu Yazid. He arrived at the hour of the prayer before sleeping.
"I could not disturb the shaikh then," Yahya recalled. "At the same time I could not contain myself
till morning. So I proceeded to the place in the desert where they told me he was to be found. I saw the
shaikh perform the prayer before sleeping, then till the next day he stood on the tips of his toes. I stood rooted
in amazement, and heard him all night engaged in prayer. When dawn came, he uttered the words, 'I
take refuge with Thee from asking of Thee this station.'"
Yahya then recovering himself greeted Abu Yazid, and enquired of him what had befallen him in the
night. "More than twenty stations were enumerated to me," Abu Yazid told him. "I desire not one of these, for
they are all stations of veiling."
"Master, why did you not ask God for gnosis, seeing that He is the King of kings and has said, 'Ask whatsoever
you will?'" demanded Yahya. "Be silent!" Abu Yazid cried. "I am jealous of myself
to know Him, for I desire none but He to know Him. Where His knowledge is, what business have I to intervene?
That indeed is His will, Yahya, only He, and no other, shall know Him."
"By the majesty of God," Yahya implored, "grant me some portion of the gift you were vouchsafed last
"If you were given the election of Adam, the holiness of Gabriel, the friendship of Abraham, the yearning of
Moses, the purity of Jesus, and the love of Mohammad," Abu Yazid replied, "still you would not
be satisfied. You would seek for more, tran scending all things. Keep your vision fixed on high, and descend
not; for whatever you descend into, by that you will be veiled."
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The Yankees on activated seven-time All-Star Brian McCann from the seven-day concussion disabled list on Sunday, the team announced prior to their series finale in Tampa against the Rays.
McCann suffered the concussion after taking a foul tip off his mask two weeks ago. The 30-year-old catcher was eligible to come off the DL on Saturday, but New York opted to give him an extra day of rest. He is hitting .238 with 13 home runs and 49 RBI in the first year of a five-year, $85 million contract. The Yankees, currently third in the AL East, begin a three-game homestand on Tuesday vs. the Astros.
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Statistical properties of volatility in fractal dimension and probability distribution among six stock markets - USA, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong
This study examines the statistical properties of volatility. Fractal dimension, probability distribution and two-point volatility correlation are used to measure and compare volatility among six different markets for the 12-year period from Jan. 1 1990 to Dec. 31 2001. New York market is found to be the strongest among the six in terms of market efficiency. Moreover, the Tokyo and Singapore markets are found to be very similar in fractal dimension and probability distribution, but different in their resistance to volatility : Tokyo has a higher ability to dissipate volatility. This phenomenon implies that the Tokyo market is more efficient than the Singapore market. The Hong Kong market is similar to the Singapore market in its ability to dissipate volatility. Meanwhile, the Taiwanese and Korean markets are the two most volatile markets among the six. Notably, the Taiwanese market is weaker than the Korean market in dissipating volatility.
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Celibacy of homosexuals can be compared to the celibacy of "women who knew they would never be able to marry because the lives of too many of their countrys men had been claimed by the Second World War," says Aaron Taylor in today's column .
The divine call is discerned in and through the circumstances of ones life, which often leave a person with little choice in the matter. But in both cases the vocation itself has the same dignity, provided only that it is embraced with the same generosity on the part of the person whom God calls.
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l Place the head of the C-clamp against the caliper, and the screw end of the C-clamp against the outer shoe BELOW THE SPRING CLIP.
CAUTION:Do not position C-clamp on the spring clip. Also, do not compress piston further than is required to disengage torque buttons from caliper. Damage to the spring clip will result. Replace shoe if spring clip is bent or damaged.
CAUTION:Do not attempt to "bottom" the piston in the bore at this time. Use an old, worn out brake shoe or block of wood and the C-clamp to bottom the piston once caliper is removed from rotor, and the shoes are removed from the caliper. l Tighten the clamp until the torque buttons just clear the caliper (about 3mm [1/8 inch]). Remove the C-clamp.
CAUTION:Do not use a screwdriver or similar tool to pry piston away from the rotor.
4. Clean excess dirt from area around pin tabs. 5. Using Caliper Pin Remover D89T-2196-A or equivalent and a light hammer, drive the caliper pin from the caliper as follows:
l Position the notched end of the tool against the caliper pin (retention tab half), at a 45 degree angle from the pin retention tabs.
l Tap the tool with the hammer to compress the retention tabs. l As the retention tabs are compressed, move the tool to gain a straight approach to the pin, and continue tapping to drive the pin through the caliper/spindle groove.
6. Remove the caliper from the rotor. If the caliper is to be removed for service, disconnect the brake hose from the caliper. If not, secure the caliper with wire. DO NOT let the caliper hang with its weight on the brake hose. 7. Compress the anti-rattle clip and remove the inner shoe from the caliper.
8. To remove the outer shoe from the caliper, press each ear of the shoe away from the caliper, slide the torque buttons out of the retention notches and slide the shoe off.
1. The caliper piston must be "bottomed out" when installing new shoe and lining assemblies. Be sure that enough fluid has been removed from master cylinder (see Step 1 of Removal) to prevent fluid overflow. Bottom out the caliper piston with an eight-inch C-clamp using a worn-out inner shoe or a block of wood to push against the piston.
CAUTION:Never attempt to bottom out the piston with the outer shoe installed. 2. Place a new anti-rattle clip on the lower end of the inner shoe. Be sure the tabs on the clip are positioned properly and the clip is fully seated. 3. Position the inner shoe and anti-rattle clip in the shoe abutment of the spindle with the anti-rattle clip tab against the shoe abutment and the loop-type spring away from the rotor. 4. Compress the anti-rattle clip and slide the upper end of the shoe in position.
5. Install the outer shoe, making sure the torque buttons on the shoe are seated solidly in the matching holes in the caliper.
6. Make sure the mounting surfaces are free of dirt and corrosion, and lubricate the caliper grooves with Disc Brake Caliper Grease D7AZ-19590-A (ESA-M1C172-A) or equivalent, then position the caliper on the spindle. 7. From the caliper outboard side, position the pin between the caliper and spindle grooves. The pin must be positioned so the tabs will be installed against the spindle outer face.
CAUTION:Be sure to install the caliper pins so the retention tabs will be in contact with the spindle, not the caliper. When the upper pin is properly positioned, the retention tabs will be at the top, against the spindle. When the lower pin is properly positioned, the retention tabs will be at the bottom, also in contact with the spindle.
8. Tap the pin on the outboard end with a hammer. Continue tapping the pin inward until the retention tabs on the sides of the pin contact the spindle face. Repeat procedure for the lower pin.
CAUTION:During the installation procedure, do not allow the tabs of the caliper pin to be tapped too far into the spindle groove. If this happens, it will be necessary to tap the other end of the caliper pin until the tabs snap into place. The tabs on each end of the caliper pin must be free to catch on the spindle face.
9. If removed, install the brake hose to the caliper. 10. If the brake hose was removed, bleed the brakes as described in «Section 06-00». 11. Install the wheel and tire assembly. Tighten lugnuts to 115-155 N-m (85-115 ft-lb). 12. Lower the vehicle, check the brake fluid level and fill as necessary. Check brakes for proper operation then recheck brake fluid level in master cylinder. Add if necessary.


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Copyright issues are becoming more and more important for bloggers as blogging is a medium where by it is so easy to borrow, steal, copy or duplicate another person's content. I've blogged on numerous occasions about breaches of copyright that I've been on the end of.
So when I saw About.com had published 14 Copyright Tips for Bloggers my ears pricked up a little.
It is pretty basic stuff – but unfortunately 'the basics' are being ignored time and time again. The tips include guidelines for not infringing copyright but also tips on dealing with your own copyright being breeched. I'll leave you with tip 14 from their list….
'Don't be overly scared by copyright. Most people do not experience copyright infringement allegations or problems, unless they are putting lots and lots of movies or MP3s on their website. Basic common sense will mostly be sufficient to avoid problems: Don't copy too much and only copy where it is 'fair' – where you're not competing with the owner's market.'
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The Delft Health Experience group (HEX) is a multi disciplinary research group established within the intelligent systems department of the TU Delft. The HEX group is currently involved in a number of initiatives on the national level in the Netherlands with local municipalities and health providers.
The group also works with different industry partners on the EU level on health care related projects. One of the main topics we are engaged in right now is assisting seniors in sustaining their independent lifestyle as they age. By using technology to assist them in overcoming their daily challenges, the aim is to improve their life quality and at the same time ease the burden of care from the formal caregivers.
Besides being a multidisciplinary group, HEX cooperates with partners with different expertise and backgrounds. The solutions we envision are only possible if we work together with healthcare providers, policy makers and other parties. Our approach is therefore to work closely with all the parties involved in each of our scientific projects.


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Currently, North Greenville houses 1500 students on campus. Our housing staff consists of professional and student staff. Our student staff consists of Resident Coordinators and Resident Assistants who are committed to serving the needs of our resident students. Our Housing Coordinators not only assign student housing but also they serve as mentors, counselors, and friends. Our staff works closely with our maintenance staff to help maintain and address maintenance requests for our students. Our housing staff is also committed to providing a series of seminars and events that benefit the student personally, spiritually and socially.
Purpose Statement
NGU Residence Life seeks to provide a distinctive way to learn in an environment that is designed to prepare students to serve, lead, and engage while giving the student an opportunity to build life-changing relationships. The resident halls are communities designed to serve one another, lead in relationships that are pleasing to God, and engage in fellowship with one another.
Student Experience Outcomes
Students involved in Residence Life will . . .
- Experience an overall satisfaction with their residential facilities.
- Develop conflict resolution and social skills which will allow them to live cooperatively with others.
- Encounter students from many different cultures and backgrounds and will be able to value their differences in a Christ-centered environment.
- Experience the service and leadership of Resident Assistants and Resident Coordinators.
Lorry has served North Greenville University since 1998. She is responsible for the overseeing of over 700 ladies within North Greenville's Housing Department. Ms Green has several assistant coordinators under her direction, which help her provide a Christian environment in a residential setting. She provides supervision and training for more than 34 female resident assistants. Ms Green is involved in every aspect of the student's life in her care.
Lorry Green attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and received her Master's degree in Christian Education. She attended Baptist College of Charleston and received her Bachelor's degree in Science. Ms Green also attended North Greenville College were she received her Associate's degree in General Studies. After graduating from Seminary, she worked for the Georgia Baptist Children's Home and Family Ministries. In 1998, Ms Green moved back to South Carolina and started working for North Greenville University. Lorry is married to Daniel Green. They have one daughter, Mary Ann Green.
Dillon Key Residence Life Coordinator for Men
Dillon Key is the Men's Residence Life Coordinator at North Greenville University. Dillon is originally from Spartanburg, SC where he grew up. He has a Bachelors degree in History from North Greenville University in Tigerville, SC. After graduation, Dillon worked at North Greenville University as the Coordinator for Intramural Sports from 2010 until 2014. In 2014 he started his current position in the department of Housing and Residence Life. Dillon currently lives in Tigerville, SC with his wife Kim and his son Josiah. He is very excited about his position with the University and is looking forward to continuing to serve this campus for many years to come.
The Resident Assistant Association (RAA) exists to serve resident students at North Greenville University. Resident Assistants (RAs) and Resident Coordinators (RCs) live and serve in the residence halls with their peers. They are available to any resident student who may need help adjusting to the university lifestyle, finding where to go on campus, or even those who may just need someone to talk to.
Useful Documents
Emergency Response Information
Preparing for Resident Hall Living
Loft Beds, Micro-fridges, and Laundry Information
Frequently Asked Questions by Residents
Frequently Asked Questions by Commuters
2017-2018 Student Life Housing Contract
2017-2018 Student Life Residency Exemption
Men's Residence Hall Tours
Mens Lodge Units
Georgia/Marshall Residence
Women's Residence Halls
To Submit a Maintenance request please contact your RA and they will submit a ticket for you.
After hours emergencies can be submitted through Campus Security (864) 977 - 7777.


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The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano will host a free Family Volunteer Day at the Fairfield warehouse, 2339 Courage Drive, Suite F, from 1 to 3 p.m. on June 7.
Families with children as young as 5 are welcome to attend
The event is an opportunity for families with young children to learn about the food bank and volunteering. To participate, children must be ages 5 and older and must be accompanied by an adult; provide one chaperone per child for children ages 5 – 10 and at least one chaperone for every 2 to 3 children ages 11 and up.
A tour of the facility, an advocacy craft activity and bagging fresh fruits and vegetables for the Community Produce Program are planned.
Advance registration is required and can be completed online at www.foodbankccs.org/familyvolunteerdayfairfield or by calling Lauren Strouse at 421-9777. The food bank is unable to take walk-ins.
The Food Bank serves approximately 149,000 people per month.
In 2013, 18 million pounds of food was distributed, half of which was fresh produce; enough for 14 million meals.
The Fairfield warehouse has volunteer opportunities bagging fresh produce six days a week. If you would like more information about volunteering or are hungry and need help with food, call 421-9777, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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One of the few standouts for the Paradise High varsity track and field team during its two losses to Chico on Wednesday was an athlete who didn't even run his marquee event, due to a time crunch that day.
Justin McGlone moved up to third in the Northern Section — and first in the Eastern Athletic League in 3,200 meters — following his 9 minute, 58-second performance at the West Valley Invitational. However, the senior didn't run the two-mile against the Panthers because he left early, Bobcats coach Seth Roberts said.
It was a smart move by the veteran, because Roberts said the team has begun to wind down the quantity of meets it runs in order to have fresh legs for the championship phase of the season, which begins with the Eastern Athletic League championships May 16 at Pleasant Valley's Asgard Yard. After that, the Bobcats travel to Oroville's Harrison Stadium for the NSCIF D-I meet on May 23, followed by the NSCIF championships May 30 in West Valley.
"At this time of the season, we're looking to league finals, which is a week after next," Roberts said Wednesday, after the Paradise boys' 95-23 loss and the girls' 92-27 defeat to Chico at Asgard Yard. "McGlone had a really outstanding race (last week), he broke 10 (minutes) for the first time in his life, so he could very well have a shot at a league title."
McGlone and the Bobcats host Oroville in their final dual meet at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Roberts said that the podium at the NSCIF meet isn't out of the realm of possibility for McGlone, as he's third right now and only seven seconds behind the second-fastest two-miler, sophomore Ben Harper of Trinity (9:51).
"I think (McGlone) can run low 50s, I really do," Roberts said.
The girls 1,600 relay team, though it struggled time-wise against Chico, completing the race in 4:30, also remains a viable section contender with the fourth-fastest personal record heading into Saturday's Norm MacKenzie Invite, which Paradise will not be attending this year, Roberts said.
The quartet of Sarah White, Camille Foster, Jordan Huff and Keeley Wolfe has run a PR 4:18.43, which is less than six seconds away from Enterprise (4:12.69) for the third spot.
"Some of our girls are very talented, but they're young, they're juniors," Roberts said. "I think there's going to be another year."
Wilson, Chico sweep Paradise
Celeste Wilson called Wednesday's track and field dual meet against visiting Paradise a "practice meet."
At the same time, the Chico sophomore middle distance runner said meets against smaller schools like Paradise are crucial to getting a team in race mode for championship-level meets, such as Saturday's Norm MacKenzie Invitational at Oroville's Harrison Stadium, as well as the upcoming Eastern Athletic League championships at Pleasant Valley's Asgard Yard.
"Running a race (or) meet like this preps us physically more than mentally," said Wilson, a double winner for Chico in the 800 and 1,600 meters. "You definitely can't go into a race like Oroville's without running, without practicing, without doing anything."
Wilson, like many of Chico's track stars, has big goals both for Saturday and the championship phase of the season. She's within reach of all her aspirations, with victories in the 1,600 in 5:53 and 800 in 2:39.1 — the latter being the one in which she hopes to really shine.
"My goal for the 800 is to break 2:20 — because my PR is 2:28 — which is really difficult because everybody is reaching their peak time, everybody is getting faster," Wilson said. "The last 800 that I ran I marked five seconds off, but my PR before was an 800 split in a distance medley. I do think (2:20) is possible, but I'm not 100 percent sure, because eight seconds is a lot ... That's about 50 yards."
Lindsey Lundberg joined Wilson with multiple wins against Paradise. The senior hurdler and sprinter won the 100 hurdles (16.4), 300 hurdles (47.2) and 400 dash (1:02.5).
Pinocchio helped Paradise capture wins in the 200 and the 1,600 relay. The junior won the 200 by out-sprinting three of her teammates in 27.5, then came back to help Sarah White, Jordan Huff and Camille Foster claim victory in the final event of the day, the 1,600 relay, in 4:30.
"I thought the kids that were out here did a good job," Roberts said. "We have talent, (but) Chico has numbers and talent, and when you're doing track, the numbers game is always going to win."
For video updates, connect with Paradise Post Sports Editor Jeff Larson at http://www.tout.com/u/jtlarson and www.twitter.com/jtlarson.


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01-14-1887 Volume OB - Page 33 State of Nevada Reno, January 14, 1887 In conformity with the call of Mr. Chairman, the Board of Regents of Nevada met at Reno this day, January 14, 1887. Present: Regents J. H. Rand, H. G. Shaw and L. W. Getchell. Regent J. H. Rand, President of the Board, opened the Chair and Regent Shaw acted as Secretary Pro Tem. Regent Shaw, who at the last meeting, was appointed a committee of one with authority to purchase such supplies as may be neces- sary to equip the building, reported having done so, furnishing the items. The question of preparing a report of the operations of the Board for the two fiscal years ending December 31st, 1886 coming up, Regent Shaw was authorized to draft said report and submit the same to the Board Monday. On motion of Regent Getchell, the Board adjourned to meet at Carson City, Monday January 17th, 1887. J. H. Rand President H. G. Shaw Secretary Pro Tem


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DADE CITY — It rained Wednesday when Stephanie Perez visited her infant daughter's grave, which was appropriate. She always thinks of Isabella when it rains. It's like the little girl is smiling down on her.
Perez had just found out that a week before, someone dug up her baby's grave without her permission. Wednesday, rain drops fell on the grass beginning to poke out of the dirt.
"I wanted nothing but for my daughter to rest in peace," said Perez, 21. "But she's been tortured."
Isabella Marie Perez died in her crib July 12 at 31/2 months old. The Pasco Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation, as they usually do when a child dies. So far, they said, they have found nothing suspicious. The family said Isabella died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Stephanie Perez is not wealthy. Her husband, Hector, 27, helps with cleanup of demolished buildings around the country. She is a stay-at-home mom to their son and daughter. But she is rich in family. She and her sister, Melissa, married brothers. Their children are more like siblings than cousins. Perez' family promised to help her financially and emotionally through her daughter's death.
In their search for an affordable burial, they met Michael Hodges, owner of Hodges Funeral Home in Dade City. He offered to host the baby's funeral at cost, saving the family thousands.
"He said a mother should never have to pay for having her child buried," said Melissa Perez, 30. "He sounded like an angel sent from God."
Big funeral discount
Isabella's $572 funeral was held July 16 at the funeral home and the Dade City Cemetery. The family couldn't afford a headstone. A small metal sign marks the baby's resting spot under an oak tree three stories high.
The day of the funeral, Hodges left the cemetery shortly before the baby was buried, Perez said. Some of his employees stayed behind. The family braced themselves emotionally to watch Isabella's casket lowered into the ground. But they said they didn't get the chance.
"They rushed us away. They wouldn't lower it with us standing there," said Melissa Perez.
"That is absolutely not true," said Michael Hodges. "We always allow families to stay over the casket, most do not, more than 90 percent choose not to."
When Isabella was placed in the ground that Wednesday in July, her casket was encased in a plywood shipping container. The container was fine by state code, but it violated the Dade City Cemetery's rules, which require concrete or fiberglass vaults, a measure aimed at protecting the city's groundwater.
Cemetery caretaker Mariarose Kussler watched the burial and alerted city officials and the family that there was a problem with the container. She did not wish to talk to a reporter.
Hodges said he was not aware of the rule. He always used vaults for adult burials, but at the Dade City cemeteries he owns — Chapel Hill Gardens and Floral Memory Gardens — he's used the smaller plywood shipping containers for infants' caskets.
"The shipping container is also used as a vault and is acceptable at most cemeteries, including my own," Hodges said Wednesday. "And I think I'm one of the strictest (owners) around."
On Aug. 8, City Manager Billy Poe sent a letter to Hodges that said the normal $200 fine for not using a vault would be waived if Hodges fixed the problem "in a timely manner."
Four days later, Perez said she went to visit her daughter's grave. The ground was disturbed. Instead of the soft grass that had previously covered the grave, there was dirt. She saw the outline of a shovel in the ground and tire marks nearby.
The next day, Hodges wrote a note to Poe:
"Please be advised that on Tuesday, August 12, the remains of infant Isabella Perez were transferred to and reinterred in the Dade City Cemetery utilizing a fiberglass combination casket/vault."
Mother didn't know
This was news to Perez. She did not know the city and Hodges were in contact about her baby's grave. She found out from a reporter that her child's casket had been dug up and reburied.
"I wanted to be there to make sure everything was right," she said, weeping.
Hodges said he thought notifying the family would only open old wounds.
"I saw no reason to cause them undue stress, undue hurt and harm," he said.
The scenario was presented to Timothy Wheeton at the state's Division of Funeral, Cemetery & Consumer Services. He said Hodges may have broken the law, which states that before anyone disinters a grave, they must obtain written permission from the next of kin.
Hodges doesn't believe he broke any laws. He finds the whole incident "unsettling." He said he often performs infant funerals at cost, trying to do the right thing for the grieving parents.
"They're always young families. They don't have money," he said. "Here, I did everything. I paid for everything. And they want to hang me out to dry and crucify me when what I did is acceptable in most cemeteries."
The proper vault cost him an additional $300, he said.
"He was trying to do a good thing by the family," Poe said. "Unfortunately, it didn't meet our rules."
The city will not investigate past burials conducted at the cemetery to see if any rules were broken.
Poe added that the city may change the cemetery's bylaws and do away with requiring vaults.
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And then I realised that their voice chat functionality is fantastic. First you choose who you can communicate with. So you can have everyone muted by default without the ability for them to hear you. You can set it so you can only hear friends and they can only hear you. Then you got an option so you can hear everyone and they can all hear you. The second element is it works within proximity. So when you get roughly half a mile of someone. It satisfies everryone. Don't like voice chat? Set everyone muted by default. Wanna chat with only friends? Set it to friends only. Wanna make friends? Set it to public. I'll be getting the white ps4 and without voice chat I won't be able to meet and greet players, forming a raiding team. Shame.
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Actually, you're almost correct. Yes it is excellent, but it doesn't have proximity. You can talk to someone at the bottom edge while you're at the top edge. Unless there is some proximity chat option idk about.
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A decade later, job creation is even more important if we want to return to a prosperous economy. It is incomprehensible to me that some leaders in Washington are suggesting we take these job-creation tax credits away from oil and gas companies.
As president and CEO of Paragon Medical, a Pierceton-based manufacturer of implantable components, I am particularly sensitive to taxation of the petroleum industry. Polymers, made from petroleum, are essential to our quality products.
When oil companies are taxed more, the price for our raw materials goes up, and our prices to our customers must then rise. This is true for all medical device companies that manufacture prosthetic joints.
The energy industry is one of the bright spots in our economy and carries the promise of putting more Americans to work in good jobs. I think we should do everything we can to encourage this and all industries.
We don't need Congress to play favorites when it comes to job creation — let's keep the floodgates open to any and all industries that can help lower unemployment and raise our economy.
It's simple — stop tax increases that would limit job growth.
Tobias Buck, CEO, president, chairman of the board, Paragon Medical, Inc.


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Development of Prey 2 has not been canceled but the game will not be released in 2012 as planned. The delay is due to the fact that game development has not progressed satisfactorily this past year, and the game does not currently meet our quality standards. Prey 2 has shown great promise and we regret disappointing our fans. We have made a substantial investment in game development to deliver the experience fans want. We are determined only to release the AAA game that fans rightfully expect, and are unwilling to compromise our quality standards to meet a release schedule.
So there you go. The game's just going to take more time to get right. That's good that they are going to delay the game rather than try to put something out subpar. You definitely don't want to disappoint after all the good feelings it generated from last year's E3 showing
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Looks like Windows users are not the only people that get to benefit from the ability to access things quickly and easily via a desktop search. According to ZDNET, SuSE Linux is now offering Beagle for desktop searching needs.
SuSE Linux Professional 9.3, due out on Wednesday, will include a desktop search tool and iPod support
Novell has added a desktop search tool to the next version of its Linux desktop software, which is due for release on Wednesday.
SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 will include Beagle, an open source desktop search tool that makes it easier for users to find various types of files, including documents, emails, IM conversations and code. Novell claims to be the first Linux provider to have packaged Beagle into its desktop application.


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Root Canals
I recently had a root canal on tooth #11, the eye tooth. I had an infection in between the root canal work and the crown, took the antibiotic and was fine. Now, I have a swollen gum that is tender to the touch, do you think it is infected again or is this just normal? Thank you.
Most tooth infections take some time to clear up, and that is why endodontists do not usually perform the return check-up on a root canal-treated tooth for about 6 months. A very common course is to give things time to heal unless new symptoms develop. Since it sounds like things were fine and now this new symptom (swollen gum) has developed, I would advise an evaluation by your dentist or endodontist. I can not diagnose the status of the tooth without performing my own exam. An exam can detect problems occurring that need to be addressed or rule out any problems, leading to piece of mind.
Melissa McCartney Drum, DDS, MS
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College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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hi, was it do the same before the stop leak
no it wasn't
it is a 1991 Infinity G20
I would turn the compressor on, it would turn on but wouldn't stay on because the freon was low and it had a leak somewhere because I was constanly buyin freon
so this evening I bought a can of AC stp leak then charged the system. I put 3 cans of the high milage freon in the system that came with the kit.
ok, if the freon is low the compressor is going to cycle and this will cause the engine to stumble do to engine load unexpected by the computer and not compensating idle., you need to recharge the a/c system to prevent this from happining .
Ok maybe I'm not explainin this right. Before I went an bought everything, the compressor would not come on AT ALL (No Freon). So when I bought the stop leak and as I was putting it in, the compressor jumped on. So, I then continued to put in the 1 of the 3 cans of freon in the system(compressor is still running). After dumping all 3 cans in the system, the car was cool for about 45 mins. Then while sittin at a traffic light, the compressor started to malfunction. Several times the compressor attemped to come on but just clicked and then died out..While goin down the interstate, while trying to come on, the constant clicking of the compressor tryin to jump on was causin the car to skip as if the sprk plugs are bad. Now that I'm home, it just makes a small clicking noise and wont even come back on


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