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Scrivens was making his second straight start since incumbent James Reimer injured a knee in Monday night's 5-2 win over Philadelphia. The 26-year-old Scrivens has been solid as Reimer's replacement, stopping 96 of the 100 shots he has faced.
Frazer McLaren, Tyler Bozak and John-Michael Liles scored for Toronto, which earned its fifth win in six games overall and improved to 3-4 at the Air Canada Centre.
Ottawa dropped to 2-5 on the road this season despite outshooting Toronto 34-28 in the first of five matchups this season between the provincial rivals. The Senators have dropped six of their last eight games.
Saturday's contest was Ottawa's first since losing Norris Trophy-winning defenseman Erik Karlsson to a season-ending Achilles injury in Wednesday night's 4-2 loss to Pittsburgh. In 14 games this season, Karlsson had a team-high six goals, and his 10 points were second in team scoring after last year establishing career highs in games (81), goals (19), assists (59) and points (78).
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Bozak's goal at 8:32 of the third gave Toronto some much-needed breathing room. Captain Dion Phaneuf's pass deflected in Bozak for his fifth of the season. Liles cemented the victory with an unassisted empty-net goal at 19:22.
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Douglas Jones opens the interchange by sketching the argument for the Christian critique of non-Christian thought. Douglas Jones, an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, is the editor of Antithesis and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Idaho and Lewis-Clark State College.
Keith Parsons offers the first of two atheistic responses to Jones's essay. Keith Parsons, Ph.D., (Queen's University, Ontario, Canada) is the founder of Georgia Skeptics and teaches philosophy at Berry College (Rome, Georgia). He is the author of God and the Burden of Proof (Prometheus), and Science, Confirmation, and the Theistic Hypothesis (Peter Lang).
Michael Martin presents the second atheistic critique of Jones's essay. Michael Martin is Professor of Philosphy, Boston University, Ph.D. (Harvard University), author of The Case Against Christianity (Temple University Press, 1991) and Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Temple University Press, 1990).
To close out the interchange, Jones resonds to the essays of Parsons and Martin.
Moreover, since a properly Biblical critique ought to attack the heart of non-Christian thinking, it may not assume the very standards it demonstrates as futile (a lá Aquinas, Swinburne, etc.) or capitulate to relativism or fideism (a lá Plantinga; Kierkegaard, etc.) or subserviently argue that the Christian worldview is merely "probable" (a lá Clark, Montgomery, Geisler, Moreland, etc.). A properly Biblical critique will not only demonstrate the utter futility of non-Christian thought, it will positively demonstrate that the Christian view of reality is intellectually inescapable. As Cornelius Van Til has argued, "Christianity can be shown to be, not `just as good as' or even `better than' the non-Christian position, but the only position that does not make nonsense of human experience."
I will begin with a brief elaboration of a Christian critique of non-Christian thought and then turn to summarize the positive argument for the Christian view of reality. Though I focus on "secular" non-Christian outlooks in the history of philosophy, the same types of problems arise in "religious" non-Christian outlooks (Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.), but that discussion is the topic of a different essay.
Epistemological autonomy is the view that the human mind is the final criterion of knowledge. According to this view, common to non-Christian thinkers from Thales to Derrida, the Christian God has to be either non-existent or irrelevant to epistemological concerns. Human categories alone are necessary to determine modality, truth, and value. From a Christian perspective, autonomy is a rebellious attempt to deify human categories or some aspect of creation by attempting to usurp the Creator's functions -- i.e. replacing the Creator with the creature (Rom. 1:25). Nevertheless, the result of this attempt to be epistemologically independent of the Christian God is epistemological futility.
The basis for the foregoing conclusion may be sketched as follows:
(I) Non-Christian autonomy may exemplify itself in three primary ways -- epistemological competence, incompetence, or a mixture of competence and incompetence.
(A) Non-Christians thinkers who emphasize the first of these three options are those who maintain that the human mind is competent to interpret, evaluate, and describe reality (e.g., Parmenides, Aristotle, the Rationalists, the Empiricists, etc.).
(B) Non-Christian thinkers who emphasize the second of these three options are those who maintain that the human mind is incompetent to be determinative for reality since humans are finite and reality is characterized by chance eventuation (e.g., the Sophists, various subjectivist traditions, Nietzche, the Existentialists, the later Wittgenstein, Derrida).
(C) Finally, non-Christian thinkers who consciously aim to synthesize the first two options are those who admit that the human mind is partly competent and partly incompetent (e.g., Plato: the realms of Being vs. Becoming; Kant: the realms of the Phenomena vs. the Noumena).
(II) Each of these three non-Christian emphases ultimately destroys knowledge and leaves the non-Christian with radical ignorance about the world, truth, and values.
(A) Those thinkers who maintain that the human mind is competent to serve as its own criterion of truth ultimately encounter their own finitude; their particular rational scheme cannot account for everything since the autonomous theorist does not have God's abilities. Instead of the proposed exhaustive scheme of reality, the non-Christian will either deny or ignore whatever doesn't fit his rational scheme, thus compromising the proposed scheme (e.g., Parmenides' "illusion" of change; Aristotle's unformed matter; the Logical Positivists' "rejection of metaphysics") and radically limit knowledge to trivial and/or unsubstantive claims that will apparently fit within the scheme (e.g., Descartes' "cogito"; the Empiricists' vacuous sense perceptions).
But whatever the particular tack, the presumed autonomous competence finally reduces to epistemological incompetence -- the rational scheme fails leaving subjectivism and skepticism.
(B) Those thinkers who maintain that the human mind is incompetent to serve as its own criterion of truth do not fare any better. Though apparently more humble in their refusal to make the human mind schematize reality, they nonetheless determine to play the autonomous God in their own subjective reality. Nevertheless, they cannot defend their claim to autonomous incompetence without invoking some of the objective standards of their "opponents," the autonomous competents. In other words, autonomous incompetents must turn to objective, rational schemes in order to defend their opposition to objective knowledge (e.g., Protagoras' defense of "better" views in the midst of a radical relativism; the later Wittgenstein's "proper use" of language; Derrida's use of logocentrism to urge us to abandon logocentrism). Similarly, autonomous incompetents evidence the weakness of their subjectivism by their practical inconsistencies (e.g., Marx's opposition to injustice; Derrida's support for Nelson Mandela).
In a direct reversal of the first non-Christian option, the presumed autonomous incompetence finally reduces to epistemological competence -- subjectivism needs objective schemes. Non-Christian incompetence fails and starts the circle all over again.
(C) Perhaps the way out of this non-Christian futility is a conscious synthesis of the first two options along the lines of a Plato or Kant. But futility plus futility will not rescue the non-Christian thinker. The same problems raised against the first two options will arise again. For example, Plato's attempt to exhaustively explain reality in terms of a synthesis of Forms (unchanging; immaterial; human competence) with the realm of Becoming (constant change; material; human incompetence) must have, but cannot have, an unchanging Form of change. His whole synthesis collapses.
Similarly, Kant's synthesis of competence and incompetence demands that we can say something rational about the noumenal realm (knowledge of the unknowable) and denies that we can ultimately know the "things-in-themselves" of the phenomenal realm (no-knowledge of the knowable). Autonomous syntheses such as these merely compound the epistemological futilities of non-Christian thought.
Van Til noted that "all the antinomies of antitheistic reasoning are due to a false separation of man from God." Such a separation inevitably leads to the destruction of knowledge. I turn now to briefly examine a particular, contemporary example of non-Christian thought.
Kurtz' text noted above is replete with examples of how the commitment to autonomous competence gives way to autonomous incompetence and the destruction of knowledge. Consider his comments regarding the knower and the standards of knowledge:
The Knower: On the one hand, we as supposedly autonomous beings have knowledge because "experience and reason are drawn upon in ordinary life and in the sophisticated sciences to establish reliable knowledge" (p. 23); "There is a well-established body of knowledge" (p. 37). Moreover, Kurtz advocates an epistemology of "the act" which rescues us from the "traps of earlier theories of experience" (e.g. the ego-centric predicament) in that the "external world is a precondition for internal awareness" (p. 32). Autonomous, competent knowledge is so reliable that Kurtz can unhesitatingly describe religious opponents as mystics living in "a world of fantasy" and "romantic superstition" (p. xi).
Yet on the other hand, this competent, robust account of knowledge encounters its finite limits and admits its incompetence: "many things in the universe remain beyond our present understanding, transcending the present boundaries of knowledge" (p. 316). In fact, human knowledge "is not an absolute picture of reality" (p. 34), nevertheless, the skeptic's more heroic stance is to deny that transcendental "forms of reality are knowable or meaningful" (p. 26).
Obviously Kurtz is embroiled in a vitiating tension. His commitment to the competence of human categories is undermined by their finitude. If autonomous categories are so limited as to leave, now or forever, much of reality "unknowable" then Kurtz cannot speak with any boldness whatsoever about our present knowledge since there might be some factor in this unknown realm which makes our robust claim to knowledge false. Kurtz simply can't justify the claim of epistemological competence. On his own terms, then, we can have no knowledge.
Even if we ignore this tension, how does Kurtz' epistemology of "the act" give us any non-trivial knowledge? Though he claims to get beyond the ego-centric predicament, he doesn't get anywhere important. In generous terms, the most his view provides us with is the bare knowledge that there are external objects. But there are light-years between this trivial claim and a "body of well-established knowledge."
The Standards of Knowledge: Knowledge requires objective standards, and, on the side of epistemological competence, Kurtz speaks of "deductive necessity" (p. 38), "logical consistency" (p. 46), "canons of induction" (p. 55), "the rule of contradiction" (p.28), "simple and beautiful mathematical and causal laws" (p. 292), "the magnificent splendor of nature and the order and regularities we discover in it" (p. 316), and the cosmos appearing "to behave in terms of immutable and universal laws" (p. 288).
Yet with equal vigor, on the side of epistemological incompetence, he must defend the view that "there are no firm and unchanging, absolute binding principles involved in scientific inquiry" (p. 44). "There are failures in nature and there are fluke occurrences.....Chance factors intervene" (p. 291). Moreover, evolution is a "key principle in interpreting the universe" (p. 288) and most notably, "Change is not a human invention, but a cosmic fact, applying to all forms of life" (p. 289).
Such horrendous epistemological conflicts within a non-Christian worldview are common; they are results of epistemological autonomy. First, we can challenge the non-Christian to justify the standards of rationality he appeals to. Kurtz ultimately justifies the standards of inductive and deductive logic as "simply convenient rules of inquiry, vindicated by their consequences" (p. 88). Aside from Kurtz' question-begging appeal to pragmatic "vindication," if the standards of rationality are merely convenient rules, then we need not take anything Kurtz says seriously, including his objections to Christianity.
But even more damaging on this score is the metaphysical conflict between logical laws which are supposedly necessary and unchanging that magically appear in a non-Christian cosmos of "no unchanging principles," where change applies to all of life. Which is it? Whichever path Kurtz follows will lead to the destruction of rationality, science, ethics, etc.
None of the above criticisms and challenges are unique to Paul Kurtz. You will find the same problems in atheists such as Nielsen, Flew, Parsons, Martin, and throughout non-Christian philosophies and religions. Non-Christians need to justify these elementary concerns about their worldview before they attempt to foist their secular myths upon Christians. To reverse a line from Kurtz, "[Christian] skeptics ought to refuse to be lured by the [autonomous] myths of the day."
Hence, instead of hopelessly attempting to determine truth by means of finite products of chance, a Christian view of reality acknowledges the Christian God as the inescapable precondition of all thought. Thus we offer a transcendental argument to establish the truth of Christianity: If the Christian view of reality is not true, then knowledge is impossible. Only the Christian view of reality provides the conditions necessary for logic, induction, scientific progress, ethics, history, and the arts. As Van Til says, "Science, philosophy, and theology find their intelligible contact only on the presupposition of the self-revelation of God in Christ." Hence, a consistent Christian philosophy takes most seriously Christ's claim that "without Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). Though non-Christians will strenuously object to such claims, their objections against Christianity will all the while presuppose the truth of Christianity.


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The Scholl Center staff is currently at work on an exhibition in partnership with, and with major funding from, the Terra Foundation for American Art. The exhibition, opening at the Newberry in autumn 2013, will explore the ways in which lives on the home front were altered by the Civil War. It will juxtapose an outstanding group of paintings from the Terra Foundation for American Art collections with a wealth of material drawn from the Newberry, including popular prints, illustrated newspapers, photographs, maps, magazines, sheet music, fashion plates, letters, diaries, advertisements, and other ephemera.
Among the Newberry's abundance of material on the American Civil War is a deep collection of sheet music, such as that on the top left, published in 1862 by the famed Chicago-based firm Root and Cady. This imaginative cover illustration displays a gang of determined women successfully fighting back a group of Confederate soldiers—the "seceshs"—armed with nothing but common household items, including a scalding tea-kettle. The lyrics speak of women tired of waiting at the hearth and passively longing for peace, who decide to take the matter into their own hands:
What shall we do when all the men
For battle have enlisted
And yet the rebels hold their ground
And law is yet resisted?
Instead of doing as I should
The theme politely dropping
I ventured yet one question more
Oh didn't it set them hopping!
What shall we do? What shall we do?
Why lay them on the shelves, and we'll go down ourselves
And teach the Rebels something new, and teach the Rebels something new!
Although a gang of broom-wielding ladies may have been a rather fanciful image, such sentiment appears to have in fact inspired women to battle. Sarah Emma Edmonds (bottom left) of the 2nd Michigan Infantry, whose memoir is available in the Newberry's collections, was one of a handful of women who enlisted and fought for the Union. However, this is just one example of the many ways in which the realities of the Civil War were manifested in the lives of northerners, which can be researched at the Newberry and which will be featured in our upcoming exhibit.
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I think artist Steve Crisp tore this picture right out of my 11-year-old heart. It has literally everything a fantasy geek could want: shiny dolphins, a castle hewn from magical rock, and a bikini-clad, sword-wielding lady on top of a pegasus. I challenge you to find anything more awesome.
When I saw this picture at the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton, England last week, I couldn't believe my eyes. It is so perfect. But almost everything Steve Crisp makes has the same allure. You will want to soak yourself in the foamy, airbrushed, seapunk worlds on his website.


text: Our favorite no-load mutual funds had a banner 2012, with all but six of our picks delivering double-digit returns. By Nellie S. Huang, Senior Associate Editor January 1, 2013 It doesn't get much better. The Kiplinger 25, the list of our favorite no-load mutual funds, shot the lights out in 2012. All of our picks ended the year in positive territory, and 19 of them turned in double-digit returns.SEE ALSO: Our Investing Outlook for 2013 Our international stock funds posted the biggest improvement from their 2011 results. On average, the four funds posted a 20.8% return in 2012. By comparison, the MSCI EAFE index, a proxy for developed foreign markets, returned 17.9%, and the MSCI Emerging Markets index gained 18.7%. Our 12 pure U.S. stock funds weren't far behind: They gained an average of 17.1%, compared with 16.0% for Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and 16.4% for rthe small-company Russell 2000 index. Sponsored Content Our six bond fund picks also shined. Despite the presence of two conservative funds (a short-term taxable bond fund and an intermediate-term municipal bond fund), the group earned an average of 10.4%, trouncing the 4.3% return of the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond index. Advertisement Dodge & Cox Stock (symbol DODGX) bounced back from a relatively long period of mediocrity by turning in the best score of any fund on our list. It returned 22.0%, drubbing the S&P 500 by 6.0 points. After lagging the market in four out of five calendar years, we thought long and hard about ejecting Stock from the Kip 25 in early 2012. But we chose to stick with the large-company value fund and its nine managers, who have a penchant for out-of-favor firms with promising prospects. In past periods the managers have occasionally underperformed, only to strongly overtake the broader market in subsequent years. Our hunch and our patience paid off. The very bet that dragged the fund down 43.3% in 2008 -- financial stocks -- paid off in 2012. Two funds that focused on small and midsize companies performed well, too. Homestead Small Company Stock (symbol HSCSX) climbed 19.6%. The three managers behind this little-known fund -- Mark Ashton, Peter Morris and Stuart Teach -- lean toward out-of-favor firms that have a market value of less $2 billion and a catalyst that could lead to improved financial performance. Their bet on industrial stocks -- such as Huntington Ingalls (up 39% in 2012), which builds and maintains ships for the U.S. Navy and the Coast Guard, and Carlisle Companies (up 35%), a North Carolina manufacturing and transportation products firm -- paid off well in 2012. Fidelity Low-Priced Stock (symbol FLPSX), a massive fund that mostly adds new stocks that sell for $35 or less, climbed 18.5%. Longtime captain Joel Tillinghast now shares slices of the fund's $35 billion in assets with six new co-managers. A strategy that worked well in 2011 -- investing in companies that steadily hike their dividends -- cooled off last year. Vanguard Dividend Growth (symbol VDIGX) ranked among the top 1% of all large-company funds in 2011 with a 9.4% return (7.3 points ahead of the S&P 500). In absolute terms, it did better in 2012, with a 10.4% return. But that trailed the S&P 500 by 5.6 points. Part of the fund's problem was the ultra-low interest rate environment. With yields so paltry, investors have been pouring money into higher-yielding stocks and bonds. That meant lower-yielding companies that are positioned to pay higher dividends in the future -- the very companies that manager Donald Kilbride invests in -- got short shrift. The performance average for our U.S. stock fund picks includes a fund that is no longer in the Kip 25. We removed BBH Core Select (symbol BBTEX) from the list because it closed to new investors in November. The fund returned 18.7% in 2012. We replaced BBH with Mairs & Power Growth (symbol MPGFX). Although we can't claim Mairs & Power's record as our own, it's worth giving the fund a shout-out for returning 21.9% last year. The fund focuses on growing, well-managed companies based mostly in the Midwest. Advertisement On the international side, a surprising rebound in European markets bolstered our favorite overseas stock funds, all of which experienced double-digit losses in 2011. Belgium's stock market, for instance, climbed a whopping 36.1%, Denmark returned 29.6%, and Germany gained 27.2%, according to MSCI. Even troubled Italy managed a 9% rise. Some of our funds got a lift, too, from strong rallies in Hong Kong (24.4%) and Singapore (26.4%). We added Matthews Asia Dividend (symbol MAPIX) to the Kip 25 in early 2012. It was a good move; the fund returned 21.6% last year. Manager Jesper Madsen's portfolio of 61 dividend-paying companies in the Asia-Pacific region (in both emerging and developed markets) topped the MSCI All Country Asia Pacific index by 8.0 points in 2012. Meanwhile, our two diversified foreign stock funds, Harbor International (symbol HIINX) and Dodge & Cox International Stock (symbol DODFX), earned 20.4% and 21.0%, respectively. As for our fixed-income picks, we scored a bull's-eye when we added Fidelity New Markets Income (symbol FNMIX), an emerging-markets bond fund, to the Kip 25 in 2012. New Markets Income climbed 20.0%, finishing 2.2 points ahead of the typical emerging-markets bond fund. Although Loomis Sayles Bond (symbol LSBRX) was our second-best-performing bond fund in 2012, with a 14.8% return, we're watching it closely. In October, Loomis announced that longtime co-manager Kathleen Gaffney was leaving to join load-fund shop Eaton Vance, where she will serve as team leader of a similar bond fund. 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But beating its bogey is something that the Price fund hasn't been able to crow about since 2009. Over the past five years, the fund has trailed the index by an average of 2.7 points per year. We'll be on the lookout for a better no-load, actively managed emerging-markets fund with a low initial minimum investment and tolerable annual expenses. As for the other Kip 25 funds, Akre Focus (symbol AKREX) and Wells Fargo Advantage Discovery (symbol STDIX) -- both midsize-company growth funds -- returned 16.0% and 15.8%, respectively, ahead of the 14.1% return for the typical fund in their category. Two small-company funds, Baron Small Cap (symbol BSCFX) and T. Rowe Price Small-Cap Value (symbol PRSVX), turned in gains of 18.0% and 17.8%, outpacing the Russell 2000. And Fidelity Contrafund (symbol FCNTX), manned by the estimable Will Danoff, returned 16.3%, slightly more than the S&P 500. 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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
BOY MEETS GIRL Mild-mannered, sheepish, shy Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) meets his polar opposite in wild, weirdo, eccentric Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) and romance ensues, again...Continue Reading
In The Bedroom
In Hollywood films about revenge a grieving family or friend or lover typically realizes that the only way to bring closure to the loss of a loved one is to turn vigilante and mete out the justice they were denied and we are usually meant to cheer them on as populist heroes. But in the 2001 film In the Bedroom, the "grieving family avenging a loved one" plot may be a familiar one but its execution is decidedly not because the cheap and manipulative tactics that get us as an audience fired up for spilled blood are nowhere to be found. This story of a middle aged couple dealing with the tragic death of their son and falling apart as their anger consumes them is the rare film where the idea of grief is not just a pretext for something "bigger." The visceral, teeth-gnashing sense of loss that death brings—especially the grief that follows unexpected violent death—is allowed to unfold and hang in the air like the slow heavy unstoppable force of nature that it is and it's unforgettable. This is the rare film about grief and death and vengeance that has no room for histrionics. It has no false notes. The director, Todd Field, is shockingly assured for what was his first feature length film and the incredible cast including Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Nick Stahl, and Marisa Tomei hit rare notes of emotional honesty in their work.
Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek play Matt and Ruth Fowler, a well off middle aged couple getting on in their years in their small coastal Maine town. Matt is a town doctor and Ruth is the high school choir director. Their son Frank (played by Nick Stahl) is home for the summer before he starts college in the fall. He is seeing Natalie, a woman twice his age (played by the gorgeous and intriguing Marisa Tomei) with two small children, and this situation is cause for his mother's concern and his father's shy sense of pride in his son becoming a man.Continue Reading


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D.J. brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 48 Designs von 6 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
The Sewing Cottage
The Sewing Cottage is a drop-in Do-It Yourself sewing lounge, a workspace for all your sewing projects, If you don't have the equipment, or you don't want the mess, on your dining table, or floors, or maybe you just want to be away from the kids and create! At The Sewing Cottage we offer sewing lessons, seminars, one on one coaching, or just drop in to sew. From beginner to couturier, we always have someone standing-by to help you. We don't want you to have to stop your project so we always have a stock of sewing notions for sale to help you complete your garments, home decor, gifts, or alterations.
The Sewing Cottage is housed in a newly restored 1900's Dry Goods store, which for many years was a neighbourhood staple known as the Little Cottage Confectionary.
The Sewing Rooms philosophy is anchored in the "green" movement. "Reduce, reuse, and recycle", along with the "slow fashion" movement, where quality handrcrafted goods (either re-purposed or created) are valued over mass produced, mass market goods. The individuals, who use The Sewing Cottage, are from young Fashionistas to mature Style-Mavens. Perhaps people who no longer learn sewing skills in school or at home, but still want to express their creativity. Some visitors may be preparing to enter fashion school, or trying to complete assignments for a fashion academy. Many of the sewers will be making gifts, home decor, and even costumes. (for themselves or their kids)
The repeat customer is likely to be someone who enjoys working with their hands and textiles but has come back for the camaraderie.
An old fashioned "Sewing Bee" is what draws many people.
The Logo, for website as well as Business Cards, should reflect the nostalgic past of The Cottage but not be "old fashioned".
A funky '50's retro vibe might bridge the past with the present, but is not mandatory.
Some retro COLOURS: that would be desirable are minty greens (seafoam) soft aqua, and even soft to vibrant yellows. Mossy greens and even olive might be o.k. as accents. The interior has bead board walls painted a soft green (B. M. cc 580 / Glazed Green). Try to avoid pinks and corals, as well as primary blues as these are my least favourite colours.
I really like the colour red and it makes a great accent colour.
FONTS: lettering and banners that might have been used in advertising during the '40's and '50's could be great. It might also be fun if some of the lettering looked like stitching, or even words stitched on fabric coming out of a sewing machine.
IMAGES: could include (but not limited) Vintage Sewing Machines, Spools of Thread, Steam Irons, Buttons, Pin Cushions (I don't know why, but the old ones are always shaped like a tomato) Dress Forms, Scissors, Needles, Thimbles, and many more.
Perhaps a tag line is necessary: "textile arts revived", "artfully handcrafting", "sewers retreat" "stitched to perfection", I'm not fixed on this, so I'm open.
Attached files are for inspiration, and fun (A bit contradictory perhaps, don't let them constrain you)
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Perfect Biology/Chemistry Textbook
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Good textbook suggestions for 8th-9th grade kids starting to take Biology and Chemistry classes: Biology DeMistified and Chemistry DeMistified are perfect for upper middle school/early high school students looking for something that teaches the subject well and comes with chapter-ending 10-question quizzes, Part tests, and a final exam at the end. Complete with back-of-the-book answers so homeschooling parents require no research or online searching to grade their children's work. You can find these books on Amazon or eBay for a fair price, and I recommend them for students who have already completed a Life Science class and a Physical Science class for best results.
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Now, given that the UNC community is not new to binge drinking fatalities, why aren't we doing more to prevent them?
According to results of the Core Drug and Alcohol Survey administered by the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, 37% of UNC students reported binge drinking (the consumption of 5 or more drinks in one sitting) in 1995. In 2011, that percentage increased to 43.5%, with 64.3% of underage students (younger than 21) also reporting alcohol consumption. Since the typical undergraduate student will not turn 21 until junior year, common sense tells us that the majority of UNC undergraduates are underage minors. As stated by the CDC, 90% of alcohol consumed by minors is in the form of binge drinks.
Therefore we, the University in collaboration with Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities, must band together to eliminate underage drinking before more preventable deaths end in further tragedy. After all, both Kearney and Shannon were under 21.
Why do we need an environmental approach? Well, what we currently have in place is clearly not working. Most strategies on campus target the individual for behavior change. We have been sitting around hoping that the pamphlets oozing with facts on high-risk drinking and the postings for alcohol-free events magically convince students not to binge drink. As a UNC freshman or sophomore though, when it comes time to determine whether or not to partake in underage drinking, the decision-making process is predictable; underage students will drink if they think other underage students are drinking.
Instead of waiting around for underage students to choose not to binge drink, let's be proactive. First, we must remove minors' access to alcohol in the community. Second, we must alter the social norms on campus so that we create an environment that is more conducive to individual behavior change.
With regards to removing access to alcohol for minors, local law enforcements should increase the number of regular compliance checks at off-premise establishments that sell and serve alcohol. Students cannot purchase alcohol on campus, so they must be purchasing it off campus. Earlier this year, the Alcohol Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough police officers cited several off-premise establishments for selling alcohol to minors with underage IDs. Of the nine establishments checked in Carrboro, three were found noncompliant (33%) and willingly sold alcohol to minors. TJ's Campus Beverage and Carrboro's Harris Teeter were repeat offenders. There is no excuse for why our community is not at 0% noncompliance for enforcing the law. Increasing the frequency of compliance checks has shown to dramatically decrease noncompliance. Exponentially increasing fines for repeat offenders may further deter noncompliance and provide revenue to cover the costs of the additional compliance checks and the social media campaign to change norms.
In terms of addressing social norms, students will make choices they feel their peers will approve of, even if these decisions are based on skewed perceptions. More recent health assessment results show that students think that other UNC students drink much more than they actually do. For example, 49.7% of respondents thought that the typical UNC student had 5 or more drinks the last time they partied or socialized. In fact, only 28.0% of those who took the health assessment had 5 or more drinks. Students are choosing to drink because they think others are drinking more, not because they actually are. We must launch a social media campaign to publicize that the overwhelming majority of students (72.0% in this case) choose not to binge drink on a given occasion. Only then will we start to alter the campus environment to the point where UNC freshmen and sophomores may feel so inclined to alter drinking habits (even if they do it simply to adhere to the norm).
So, what's next? Will we change the environment, or will we allow history to repeat itself?
Liz Chen is a first year Master's student in the Health Behavior Department at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Binge Drinking Not Shrinking: UNC's Need for a New Environmental Approach
In August 2008, University of North Carolina star tennis player Chris Kearney, 20, was charged with drunken driving in a wreck that hospitalized two fellow students; his blood alcohol level was 0.18 – more than twice the legal limit. One year later, former fraternity president Courtland Benjamin Smith, 21, was shot to death by a police officer during a weekend traffic stop after telling a 911 dispatcher he was drunk and in possession of a gun. Then last month, freshman David Palmer Shannon, 18, died after a late night fall from concrete machinery where alcohol is suspected to be a major contributing factor.


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Dear Reader: Do you think you are related to the individuals listed in this post? Please drop me a note! I love hearing from cousins and others researching my family!
About a year ago, I began a series of posts about a few of my ancestors who used to be buried at Arlington Abbey Mausoleum in Northern Virginia. The good news is that after learning that my ancestors' remains were missing, I eventually was able to track down their whereabouts.
I was contacted by another family historian recently who came upon my posts and now she too has been able to figure out where her relatives are buried. I'm re-posting this series here in the hopes that others who may have had family buried there might find the information helpful.
Tombstone Tuesday: Corley (aka Arlington Abbey: Part 4)
I'm actually still struggling to get more documentation from Parklawn Memorial Park — they will not send me the interment documentation because of what they say are privacy concerns (even though I'm a direct descendant of all three buried there and the most recent of them died in 1930). I'm still trying — my most recent call to the cemetery resulted in a promise to send me a hand-written letter stating who was buried there, but that hasn't materialized yet. I may visit the cemetery again and visit their offices in person to see if I can get further with them.


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Opus 6, Ariette a Voce Sola Opus 7, Diporti di Euterpe
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Here are a few tips for finding what you desire on this site:
-- If you know the title or first line of a piece, look at the Index to find what opus number it is from.
-- The Opus pages have lists of each individual work, with names of poets and modern editions. General information about the work, the dedication, original copies in libraries, RISM numbers, and facsimiles.
-- The Text page for each opus has the original texts written out along with translations for many...that's a work in progress for me.
-- Text pages also list the recordings of each work.
-- Recordings are listed on the Discography page with notes of each work included, timings, performers, and links to purchase.
-- Bibliographic material is in two forms: alphabetical and classified. Check them both out.
-- A basic history is included.
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NSMutable are referred to as string objects (or, when no confusion will result, merely as strings). The term C string refers to the standard
char * type.
Because of the nature of class clusters, string objects aren't actual instances of the
NSString or
NSMutable classes but of one of their private subclasses. Although a string object's class is private, its interface is public, as declared by these abstract superclasses,
NSString and
NSMutable. The string classes adopt the
NSCopying and
NSMutable protocols, making it convenient to convert a string of one type to the other.
Understanding Characters
A string object presents itself as a sequence of UTF–16 code units. You can determine how many UTF-16 code units a string object contains with the
length method and can retrieve a specific UTF-16 code unit with the
character method. These two "primitive" methods provide basic access to a string object.
Most use of strings, however, is at a higher level, with the strings being treated as single entities: You compare strings against one another, search them for substrings, combine them into new strings, and so on. If you need to access string objects character by character, you must understand the Unicode character encoding, specifically issues related to composed character sequences. For details see The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0 (The Unicode Consortium, Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-321-18578-1) and the Unicode Consortium web site: http://www.unicode.org/. See also Characters and Grapheme Clusters in String Programming Guide.
Localized string comparisons are based on the Unicode Collation Algorithm, as tailored for different languages by CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository). Both are projects of the Unicode Consortium. Unicode is a registered trademark of Unicode, Inc.
Interpreting UTF-16-Encoded Data
When creating an
NSString object from a UTF-16-encoded string (or a byte stream interpreted as UTF-16), if the byte order is not otherwise specified,
NSString assumes that the UTF-16 characters are big-endian, unless there is a BOM (byte-order mark), in which case the BOM dictates the byte order. When creating an
NSString object from an array of
unichar values, the returned string is always native-endian, since the array always contains UTF–16 code units in native byte order.
Subclassing Notes
It is possible to subclass
NSString (and
NSMutable), but doing so requires providing storage facilities for the string (which is not inherited by subclasses) and implementing two primitive methods. The abstract
NSString and
NSMutable classes are the public interface of a class cluster consisting mostly of private, concrete classes that create and return a string object appropriate for a given situation. Making your own concrete subclass of this cluster imposes certain requirements (discussed in Methods to Override).
Make sure your reasons for subclassing
NSString are valid. Instances of your subclass should represent a string and not something else. Thus the only attributes the subclass should have are the length of the character buffer it's managing and access to individual characters in the buffer. Valid reasons for making a subclass of
NSString include providing a different backing store (perhaps for better performance) or implementing some aspect of object behavior differently, such as memory management. If your purpose is to add non-essential attributes or metadata to your subclass of
NSString, a better alternative would be object composition (see Alternatives to Subclassing). Cocoa already provides an example of this with the
NSAttributed class.
Methods to Override
Any subclass of
NSString must override the primitive instance methods
length and
character. These methods must operate on the backing store that you provide for the characters of the string. For this backing store you can use a static array, a dynamically allocated buffer, a standard
NSString object, or some other data type or mechanism. You may also choose to override, partially or fully, any other
NSString method for which you want to provide an alternative implementation. For example, for better performance it is recommended that you override
get and give it a faster implementation.
You might want to implement an initializer for your subclass that is suited to the backing store that the subclass is managing. The
NSString class does not have a designated initializer, so your initializer need only invoke the
init method of
super. The
NSString class adopts the
NSMutable, and
NSCoding protocols; if you want instances of your own custom subclass created from copying or coding, override the methods in these protocols.
Alternatives to Subclassing
Often a better and easier alternative to making a subclass of
NSString—or of any other abstract, public class of a class cluster, for that matter—is object composition. This is especially the case when your intent is to add to the subclass metadata or some other attribute that is not essential to a string object. In object composition, you would have an
NSString object as one instance variable of your custom class (typically a subclass of
NSObject) and one or more instance variables that store the metadata that you want for the custom object. Then just design your subclass interface to include accessor methods for the embedded string object and the metadata.
If the behavior you want to add supplements that of the existing class, you could write a category on
NSString. Keep in mind, however, that this category will be in effect for all instances of
NSString that you use, and this might have unintended consequences.


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Lace Crochet Dress: Ax Paris
Warrior Necklace: Topshop
Bracelets: H&M, Bershka
Litas: Jeffrey Campbell
Finally my holidays started - now 6 weeks off school are waiting for me! That means I'm going to post way more looks, stay tuned! :-) I'm definitely going to enjoy them, because next year will be very exhausting - my last year of school when I have my final exams! But I don't want to think about it now.
I really love my new white dress from Ax Paris , it's so chic and perfect for summer nights. The lace and crochet details make it look a bit vintage and I kinda feel like Lana Del Rey in it, because she wore a lot of dresses similar to this one on stage and I always loved them on her haha. That's why I chose the title "Summer's in the air and baby heaven's in your eyes." from her song "National Anthem". I decided to wear the dress with golden bracelets and my warrior statement necklace from Topshop to add a boho touch to the look.


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The National Trust Library
The National Trust Library (NTL) was donated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1986. The collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of preservation materials in the United States and contains tens of thousands of volumes covering a wide range of preservation topics. In addition to the books within the collection, this library contains vertical files, postcards, reports, dissertations, periodicals, and manuscript collections.
For more info, visit The National Trust Library website.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation
The HISP program is a Forum member of the trust and regularly participates in the annual conference. We have had a booth at the conference for 5+ years now, and provide student with travel funds to attend this national gathering of preservationists. HISP students have also interned in various NT departments and sites.
For more info, visit The National Trust for Historic Preservation website.
Preservation Maryland
The HISP program is a member of Preservation Maryland's Colleagues Program and has been very involved with their ongoing work. HISP Director Don Linebaugh has served on the Board of Directors and has chaired the annual Endangered Sites Program. HISP students regularly intern with Preservation Maryland and a recent HISP grad is a staff member for the organization.
For more info, visit the Preservation Maryland website.
National Council for Preservation Education
The Maryland HISP graduate program is a full member of the National Council for Preservation Education, the principal organization for academic preservation. The Council provides internship and job databases for students and alumni, and advocates for preservation education across the country.
For more info, visit the National Council for Preservation Education website.
The HISP program is an institutional member and supporter of US/ICOMOS. The organization fosters heritage conservation and historic preservation at the national and international levels through education and training, international exchanges of people and information, technical assistance, documentation, advocacy and other activities consistent with the goals of ICOMOS and through collaboration with other organizations. Member of the HISP faculty serve on various scientific committees of ICOMOS and students participate in the annual conference and through international internship opportunities.
For more info, visit the US/ICOMOS website.
Bostwick is a historic eighteenth-century site located in Bladensburg, Maryland, that consists of an elegant Georgian-style main house, multiple outbuildings, and landscaped grounds. Christopher Lowndes, a locally prominent, English-born merchant constructed Bostwick in 1746, and the house reflects the wealth and aesthetic tastes of Maryland's colonial elite. Strategically located on the Eastern Branch or Anacostia River, the town of Bladensburg was one of several small, but important, commercial centers in early Prince George's County. From the import and sale of dry goods, to ship-building and rope making, Lowndes' various business ventures speak to the diversity of regional economic activity in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic. Christopher Lowndes also owned and traded slaves, and Bostwick represents an important part of the early African American experience in Maryland.
Over its 250 plus year history, Bostwick has witnessed many of the events that have marked the region – from the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814 to the arrival of the first railroad lines in the 1830's. Some of Maryland's most prominent early families have lived at the house, further contributing to its rich history. Today, this important structure is owned by the Town of Bladensburg; the Maryland Historical Trust holds a protective easement on the property. In 2008, the Town of Bladensburg and the Historic Preservation Program of the University of Maryland College Park signed a Memorandum of Agreement allowing the preservation program to use Bostwick as a learning resource for the study of architectural history, preservation planning, and building conservation; in the process, the program is applying the knowledge and creativity of its faculty and students in developing a preservation plan for this historic property.
The University of Maryland Study Center at Kiplin Hall, located in northern England, is a valuable resource available to students in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. In recent years, preservation students have taken summer courses here (one group studied classic English pubs) and architecture undergraduates have used it as home base for a semester abroad in Europe.
George Calvert, the Lord Baltimore, built Kiplin Hall in the 1620s and later played an influential role in establishing the State of Maryland. One of Calvert's direct descendants, George Benedict Calvert, helped launch the University of Maryland when he sold several hundred acres of his land to the State of Maryland in 1858 for the purpose of establishing the Maryland Agriculture College. The Maryland Agriculture College went on to become the University of Maryland.
In the late 1980s, David Fogle, a University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation faculty member, envisioned a renewed relationship between not only the University of Maryland and Kiplin Hall, but also the State of Maryland and Kiplin Hall. By working together with both the state and the university, Fogle was able to secure the money needed to establish the University of Maryland Study Centre at Kiplin Hall in 1986.
The study center was built out of what was originally a stable house and blacksmith's shop. Since its creation in 1986, the University of Maryland Study Center at Kiplin Hall has provided affordable opportunities to hundreds of students to experience the United Kingdom and Europe firsthand.
For current opportunities, refer to the Education Abroad page.
About Kiplin Hall
Kiplin Hall is a Jacobean country house located near the market town of Richmond in northern Yorkshire, England. It was built in the 1620s by George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore. Calvert had an illustrious career that included serving as the Secretary of State during the reign of King James I and founding the colony of Maryland. After his death in 1632, his son Cecil, the second Lord Baltimore, became the first proprietor of Maryland. During most of the remainder of the 17th century, the Lords Baltimore lived either in the south of England or Maryland. In 1722, Charles Calvert, the 5th Lord Baltimore, sold Kiplin Hall to his mother's second husband, Christopher Crowe.
Under the direction of the Crowe family, Kiplin Hall flourished for the next 100 years. A grand central staircase was added to the home, along with decorative features such as ceiling cornices, dado rails, and fine fireplaces. Crowe also continuously added to the estate lands so that total acreage increased to approximately 4,500 acres by the end of the family's tenure. Furthermore, during the 1720s Christopher Crowe added a large service wing and kitchens to north of the home. Crowe also engaged in many projects related to the landscape of the estate, including the creation of a fish pond or serpentine lake, a walled garden , and the planting of may trees on the property. While British Counsel to Italy, Crowe amassed a large collection of paintings and other works of art that remain in Kiplin.
In 1776, Crowe's younger brother George inherited Kiplin; in 1782 the estate passed to George's son Robert. In 1817, Robert Crowe's daughter Sarah married John Delaval Carpenter, the 4th Earl of Tyrconnel. In 1818, Sarah inherited Kiplin Hall on the death of her father. In 1818, the Carpenters engaged architect P. F. Robinson to design a Gothic-style drawing room addition to the south end of the Hall; this room now houses the library. In addition, they had the ogee domes on the towers redesigned and built a little gothic folly across the lake. In 1868, a distant cousin, Walter Talbot, inherited Kiplin Hall with the proviso that he change his name to Carpenter. Talbot-Carpenter was a naval officer, eventually earning the rank of Admiral in the Royal Navy. Kiplin Hall proposed until his death in 1904. The Carpenters made numerous improvements including the remodeling of the entrance Hall, added a new stable wing, improved the servant's wing, and between 1878 and 1880, constructed a new gate lodge. The Admiral and his family enjoyed Kiplin as a typical country house with weekend parties and boating and hunting excursions.
Following the death of Admiral Walter Talbot in 1904, Kiplin Hall endured a period of marked decline. The Carpenter's daughter Sarah rented Kiplin Hall out and sold most of the acreage of the estate. During World War II Kiplin Hall was utilized by the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force. By the 1950s Kiplin Hall was in dire need of structural repair and in 1953 it narrowly avoided being demolished. At one point there was even talk of shipping the home brick by brick across the Atlantic Ocean to the State of Maryland where it would be reconstructed. Fortunately, Kiplin was not deconstructed or demolished, due in large measure to the work of the last owner, Bridget Talbot, who was Sarah Carpenter's cousin.
Although many preservation efforts failed to materialize, Bridget Talbot was successful in establishing a charitable trust fund for Kiplin Hall in 1968. Upon her death in 1971, Talbot left the house and contents to the Kiplin Hall Trust in her will. The Trustees took control of a property and belongings that were in very poor condition, and restoration and conservation was badly needed. In 1975, the Maryland Historical Society, Historic Buildings Council and individual donors paid for the restoration of the roof which was in derelict condition. In addition, part of the service wing addition was removed and the north tower restored.
During the 1990s a lease agreement was made to quarry sand and gravel on acreage of the estate. This ongoing agreement provided a capital fund to support the building in perpetuity. The quarrying activities created a lake in front of the Hall that was planted in order that it blend into the historic landscape setting. With financial aid from English Heritage and Kiplin Hall Trust, Kiplin Hall was completely restored during the late 1990s and early 2000s. A grand reopening was held in 2001 to mark the reopening of Kiplin Hall to the general public and to regular use.
The three story main house at Kiplin is constructed in the Jacobean style. The most distinct architectural features of Kiplin Hall are the four ogee domed towers placed in the center of each façade of the original house. The towers were castellated and the north and south towers held staircases. The four hexagonally shaped, lead covered, domes contrast sharply with the traditional red brickwork. The diamond-shaped diapering with blue/black saltglazed header bricks adds to the decorative interest of the structure. Over forty windows provide natural lighting and offer views of the surrounding landscape. Kiplin Hall sits among acres of beautiful countryside; directly behind the Hall a picturesque lake, encircled by wildflowers and frequented by geese, provides the perfect backdrop to this magnificent home.
The inside of Kiplin Hall is as impressive as the outside. As one enters the first floor of the home, the hall is located on the right. This room, with its dark oak paneled walls and elaborate plasterwork ceiling, features a large collection of family portraits. Opposite the hall is the drawing room, containing a superb collection of paintings and fine furniture. One of the highlights is the beautiful custom made Chinese Chippendale style cabinet that houses Christopher Crowe's collection of pietra dura scenes of Italy. The Georgian fireplace now boosts a series of 19th century William Morris tiles.
Possibly the most impressive room in the entire home is the library, located in the early 19th century south addition. Everything in the Jacobean style library, from the dark oak paneling to the ceramic tiles by William de Morgan, was added by Walter Carpenter in the late 1880s. Originally designed in the gothic style, by the 1890s the room was reworked into a celebration of the Arts and Crafts movement. Probably one of the Admiral's favorite pieces in the room was a library chair that was taken from the H.M.S. Victory, and once owned by British naval hero Lord Nelson.
The dining room features various paintings and portraits as well as several pieces of high style furniture. For example, a semi-circular hunt table, used by gentlemen to sit and drink while warming their feet, is located next the fireplace.
A grand, cantilevered staircase leads from the center hall to the second and third floors; this feature was added by the Crowe family during the first half of the eighteenth century. Several portraits hang along the wall of the stairwell including a copy of a large portrait of the First Lord Baltimore that was donated to Kiplin Hall in 2001 by Mrs. Peyton Fowler, a direct descendent. Much like the first floor, the second is full of fascinating spaces and objects.
One of the more intriguing rooms at Kiplin Hall is Admiral Walter Carpenter's study. Originally a dressing room, the room has been converted to show various aspects of the Admiral's time in the Royal Navy. The most important picture in this room is a unique hot air balloon perspective watercolor of Kiplin Hall that dates to 1780. The green bedroom contains a late 18th to early 19th -century French four post bed that was brought to Kiplin Hall by Bridget Talbot in the 1930s. A unique exercise horse, a device utilized by men who were no longer fit to ride horses, is one of the featured pieces of furniture in the green bedroom. A 17th-century Italian cabinet with ivory paneling is also housed in the green bedroom.
Kiplin Hall was directly impacted by the presence of the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force during World War II. Virtually every room inside the house was impacted in some way, and the surrounding acreage was often used to store ammunition and bombs. During the restoration of Kiplin Hall the decision was made to leave the kitchen on the second level as found so that it might serve as a time capsule of the way World War II shaped Kiplin Hall. Adjacent to the kitchen is the yellow bathroom, a wonderful mixture of Georgian, Victorian, and 1950s details.
The third floor of Kiplin Hall is dominated by the 70 ft. 'long gallery.' This space is currently used to display the antiques, art, and furniture of some of Kiplin Hall's previous owners, but interestingly it was originally used as an exercise space during times of inclement weather. Numerous portraits are displayed on the walls, including a classic portrait of James I. Another fascinating object is the large leather, inscribed on the rim "Oliver Cromwell, 1653, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland." The rooms off of the long gallery were all used to house servants, but now function as exhibit and education spaces to tell the history of Kiplin Hall and its many occupants.
Nearby Attractions
The University of Maryland Study Center at Kiplin Hall is located in northern Yorkshire, in the heart of England. Only a few hours away from both Scotland and Wales, Northern Yorkshire is a gateway to many renowned cities and attractions. There are countless estates, factories, homes, markets, monuments, museums, parks, stadiums and theaters within easy reach of the facility.
Day trips to larger cities as such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Whitby and York are all easy. Moreover, the best parts of the beautiful English countryside can be seen in the Lake District National Park, the North York Moors National Park, the Northumberland National Park, the Peak District National Park and the Yorkshire Dales National Park.