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Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1046525
Date first listed: 07-Dec-1966
Date of most recent amendment: 09-Dec-1987
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MERTON ROAD
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Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Oxfordshire
District: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish: Ambrosden
National Grid Reference: SP 60300 19409
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11/6 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 07/12/66 (Formerly listed as Church of St. Mary Virgin)
Church. Late C12, C14 and C15; chancel probably for Ashridge colleges; restored 1847 and in 1867 by C.N. Beazley. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; copper roofs. Chancel, south sacristy, nave, south aisle, south porch and west tower. 3-bay C15 chancel with plinth parapet, and stepped buttresses, has 2-light arched side windows, all with similar Perpendicular tracery; and a 3-light traceried east window; to south is a priest's door and a contemporary sacristy with a similar moulded parapet. C14 south aisle has 4 buttresses containing image niches, 2 of which may be earlier work; three 2-light side windows and the east window have C15 tracery, probably inserted into C14 windows; C14 lancet near the porch retains its original tracery but has been mutilated. Large porch has a 2-light traceried C15 window to east but retains a C14 trefoil window to west and a C14 entrance. Porch and aisle have a restored C14 pierced parapet of trefoils, that on the aisle rising from a corbel table of grotesque faces. C14 south doorway has continuous mouldings, and over it is a cinquefoiled image niche surrounded by ballflower ornament. North side of nave, probably mostly rebuilt C15, has 3 tall traceried 2-light windows and C15 stepped buttresses, but retains traces of an earlier archway at the east end and has a C12 doorway with a large roll moulding rising from detached shafts with cushion capitals. Projecting rood stair forms a turret. Massive 3-stage tower has large lancets to west and south (the latter above a Tudor-arched doorway), a small lancet in the middle stage, and has 2-light bell-chamber openings with central shafts and semi-circular outer arches; north-west angle has shallow ashlar buttresses; south-west angle has large C15 buttresses; crenellated parapet. The stonework is of exceptionally-small rubble, and the upper stage has pargetted decoration: on the east, a lion and a restored dragon dated 1587, and on the west a patterned fragment. Interior: chancel has dropped cills to all side windows, some forming sedilia, and has a moulded column piscina; re-used shafts flanking altar have C13 stiff-leaf capitals; panelled roof with moulded purlins and cambered tiebeams is probably original. Plain C15 chancel arch and similar tower arch. 4-bay C14 south arcade has octagonal pier (one renewed) with moulded bases and capitals; large squint to east. Nave roof is C19 but aisle roof may contain some old timbers. Organ blocks an arched doorway to the rood stair. Interior of tower has very wide splays to the lancets on south and west. Fittings include: C15 octagonal pedestal font, panelled with quatrefoils, with a panelled conical counterweighted cover of 1687; C17 bench pews; parish chest dated 1785. Monuments include an early C18 marble wall tablet to William Allen, with Corinthian pilasters and a triangular pediment, several C18 and C19 wall tablets below the tower and a group of C17 and C18 ledgers in the sanctuary. Stained glass in east window c.1900. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, pp. 26-8; Buildings of England: 0xfordshire, p.422).
Listing NGR: SP6030019409
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Legacy System number: 243391
Legacy System: LBS
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1957), 422
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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Lily Collins Is Drowning In Dresses For the Golden Globes
Lily Collins is living our dream right now!
The Golden Globe nominee shared two images from her final fittings for the award show and she's physically drowning in so many gorgeous gowns, that we are literally jealous.
"What a dream. Soaking in every moment and savoring the details…" Lily captioned on Instagram after sharing a wall-to-wall pic of all the dresses.
The night before, Lily was spotted leaving Catch LA after CAA's Golden Globe party with Before I Fall stars Zoey Deutch and Halston Sage.
FYI: Lily is wearing a Georges Chakra Couture dress and Jimmy Choo shoes. Zoey is wearing a kate spade new york leather jacket.
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When you are in a car accident and are injured you have to fill out a claim stating what happened to you.
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A Liberal government in South Australia would establish a new group to identify and deliver key infrastructure projects, Opposition Leader Steven Marshall says.
Mr Marshall says if the Liberals win the 2014 election, the infrastructure group's first task will be to establish a 25-year strategy.
"At every step, with every decision, we must ensure that infrastructure projects address true community need, that they provide a return to the community on community investment, that they are integrated and efficient," Mr Marshall said in a speech to the SA Press Club on Thursday.
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As well as developing projects for the long term, a Liberal government would produce rolling five-year plans to ensure there was always a pipeline of projects ready and waiting.
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we be walking
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I'm afraid I would not fair very well there Daryl...due to my medical issues...walking is something that is increasingly hard for me. I can only do short distances now. I would be in real trouble if I lived there. Hope it has cooled down some for you and that you are feeling better. It has been insanely HOT here...even though we are quite close to Canada!ReplyDelete
Me too! I love to walk thru cities the most. If i can avoid transit I always do. We'd be good together :DReplyDelete
Oh I so agree with you, when we visited we walked miles and miles and enjoyed every single one! xxReplyDelete
I love to walk, but right now I need a cane.... limp limpReplyDelete
I love to walk, but right now I need a cane.... limp limpReplyDelete
Walking's a great exercise. I'm out there daily.ReplyDelete
Agree :-) Minneapolis is a great city to walk in too.ReplyDelete
I agree. I love that there is just sooooo much to see.ReplyDelete


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Julianna Szabo interpreting the novel 'Alice in Wonderland ' with paper art. Juliana combine two things I love, typography and the story of her childhood. A for paper Alice combines the major characters of the story, including Cheshire cat, the white rabbit and Alice falling through the rabbit hole. Every detail in the image constructed of carefully hand-cut, folded and glued paper. It took 10 days to complete all the characters and the little details form letters, including some short stop motion animation.
Paper art of Alice in wonderland by Julianna Szabo


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The idea for Stickam (pronounced Stick-cam) is simple: Without having to pay a dime or install any sketchy software, you can fire it up and start a face-to-face-to-face chat. All you need is a decent broadband connection and, of course, a webcam. (If you don't have one built in, you can order one online for about $30.) More audacious souls "go live" — Stickam lingo for enabling your webcam. A small window will appear in your browser with a video of you — What else? — staring at a video of you in your browser.
At this point, an important distinction should be made. When you stream live video, you are not broadcasting yourself to the whole world or even anyone with a computer. Your audience is limited to the people who have entered your chat room. But before you and a friend reenact that scene from "Borat," keep one thing in mind: With the right software, anyone can record video from Stickam at any time — and people do.
Intriguing as it is at first, the novelty of access to a mother lode of video chats does begin to wear off fairly quickly, especially if you don't feel like listening to bored teenagers — "I'm bored," being an oft-heard Stickam complaint — speculating about such things as why "they're taking the word 'the' out of superhero movie names" — "Hulk," "Fantastic Four," "X-Men."
Luckily, Stickam offers more than just chat. A number of entertainers have established outposts here, including a growing group of radio DJs seeking new exposure. "The video element lets listeners feel like they're a part of the whole process," said Hawaii reggae DJ Shaggy Jenkins, answering a question via Stickam in midshow. "It kind of breaks the mystique behind DJs and their real appearances." Shaggy is the proof of concept here — on Stickam you can see he's not the dreadlocked island Rasta listeners might picture but a ball-capped white dude from North Carolina.
Stickam has also attracted a number of YouTube and MySpace personalities, many of whom say the ability to interact with fans is the real draw. "I just get on [Stickam] and do whatever crazy stuff the fans want," said Colt Whitmore, 17, whose YouTube videos have scored several hundred thousand views. Whitmore believes Stickam is going to be "extremely huge" and that MySpace (where he has amassed nearly 42,000 "friends") "isn't going to be as big as it was. There are too many fake profiles up there. Everyone just uses it as a big billboard now."
One music group is trying to take video chat to yet another level. Story Told, a ragtag crew of twentysomething indie rockers who also produce a reality series for YouTube — has installed a 24-hour webcam in its Sunnyvale, Calif., living room, allowing for a constant conversation between band members and fans. Their camera and computers were part of a sponsorship deal with Stickam, one of several the company has pursued with various young artists and musicians. Lead singer Loren Groves makes no apology. "It's all product awareness," he said by cellphone, stepping away from his day job at a Silicon Valley dotcom. "It has nothing to do with that song you wrote last Tuesday. You have to market yourself, period."
Groves claims that thanks to his band's online presence, their album has been downloaded more than 10,000 times. Their next effort, he said, will arrive on a CD packed with Stickam promotional material and software. He also expects Story Told to install more cameras in their house, sacrificing even more of their privacy to marketing gods.
Watching the group on Stickam is a mostly boring but occasionally amusing experience. On a recent night, band members and friends appeared on camera in various states of intoxication, wrestled, listened to loud rap music and joked with the half-dozen fans who were online. "I was born to live in front of the camera!" declared keyboardist Jason "Jallah" Swenson (who, perhaps not coincidentally, will soon be asked to leave the band, according to Groves). Another young man, looking at a Stickam viewing statistic, gloated, "Dude, we're getting hella traffic," then went on to note that the next morning he would "show up wasted to traffic school."
Among the group's live fans are a coterie of young women — video groupies, basically — who beam themselves into the band's virtual room for hours on end, often dressed in suggestive outfits, to relentlessly flirt with Story Told's members. Several cited concrete plans to visit the band, including a college student from New Jersey who had even arranged which bed she'd be sleeping in (the bass player's).
Though interactive, round-the-clock webcam is certainly no "Sopranos," the medium is too young to be written off. What if the Shins had a 24/7 webcam? Or G-Unit? Old-school, edited reality TV may have to consider that this real-time, uncut, unfiltered programming has an inherent advantage with reality.
There are potential problems, however. Stickam hits a trifecta that has made some parents nervous: It's new, it's free and it allows users to remain anonymous. So there has been some worrying in the press about whether the site is "a magnet for sexual predators." Some Web experts say there's a danger. Others say the kids are all right.
Indeed, worry about sex offenders may be causing people to overlook a more pernicious threat to users: themselves. Contacted by e-mail, a woman whose profile was No. 2 on Stickam's most-viewed list and whose image the site had used for a month on a homepage promo ad, said she had to stop using Stickam after she became "obsessed" with the attention she was receiving.
"I forgot about everything in my life," she said, identifying herself only as Laura. "My family, school, work. I wouldn't go to sleep, I'd be up at the [crack] of dawn just to be on Stickam."
In a video recorded by one Stickam user and posted elsewhere, Laura is seen undressing at fans' urging, while a toddler ambles about in the background — a disturbing reminder that a major part of webcasting is, after all, staring at your own reflection and perhaps even becoming mesmerized by it. "After a while," Laura said, "you don't even notice the people in the room talking to you."


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Ubud, Bali
Ubud Village is a traditional village supervising 13 Banjar (group of community) and 6 custom countryside. It is located in Ubud sub district, Gianyar Regency and about 20 km from Denpasar Town.
The quiet, touristy town of Ubud is considered by many to be the epicenter for arts and culture in Bali. Ubud (pronounced "Ew-bood") has developed a reputation as a place with a positive vibe, possibly explaining why so many artists and naturalists have settled in the lush, green areas around town.
Although tourism in Ubud is growing faster than the town can keep up, there is still a certain tranquility and happiness to be found in the clean air. The town has become a popular and peaceful retreat from the parties and crowded madness of Kuta just two hours away.
Ubud is Bali's cultural heart. This area is located in the cool mountains, this traditional country town is the home of the Balinese Royal family and a flourishing arts centre. Most of Bali's museums and galleries are centered in Ubud, but culture and history rich Bali is peppered with museums and galleries. These museums and galleries offer paintings, woodcarvings, textiles and all kinds of souvenirs for viewing and also purchase. Puri Lukisan Museum in centre of Ubud, Neka Museum in Campuhan, Seniwati Gallery and Agung Rai Museum in Pengosekan is a must, to see the difference between creative art and more commercial products.
Ubud Traditional Art Market
Ubud Traditional Art Market where the existence is not far different from other markets available in the tourism area. This market as a society economics center of Ubud and it is apposite to the existence of Ubud Empire that is called Puri Saren. The market is unfolding from west to easterly divided become two group with different purpose.
There are two markets available at the same area those are one block at the Westside is for a traditional artistic market and another block located in the east as an everyday traditional fundamental market requirement.
Local shops are filled with unique and beautiful crafts, art work, carvings, jewelery, and gifts to take back home. The art crafting are sold in this art market consisted of various crafting, from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is relatively cheap. You can do the transaction directly to the merchant which generally can be bargained. All the crafting sold in this place you can bring home as souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes, matting, painting and a lot of more.
Spa and Meditation Center
With scores of holistic medicine practitioners now living around Ubud, it is no surprise that so many spas and meditation centers have opened up. In town you can easily find all types of Eastern and Western massage centers, reiki healers, herbal medicine shops, and even acupuncture practitioners.
The Bodyworks Healing Centre was the first of such places and has been providing natural healing to the local people long before Ubud was on the tourist map.
Ubud Monkey Forest
Ubud Monkey Forest is a small rain forest dwelt by some group of monkeys and other tropical animals. It is strategically located in the hearth of Ubud Village, precisely located in the region of Padang Tegal Village, Ubud Sub district and Gianyar Regency. Inhabited by wild monkeys who will steal the camera, bananas, handbags, toupees, etc. These mischievous monkeys provide lots of entertainment. Monkey Forests in Balinese language called Wanara Wana are spread out in the island and Ubud Monkey Forest itself own very important function of the continuity the monkey habitat in Bali. Meanwhile the local community own important role to keep this forest naturally in order to all wild animals able to live smoothly.
Ubud Monkey Forest is dwelt by 200 monkeys, pertained to long tail inclusive macaques or macaca fascicularis group which owns the wide disseminating area. Among the amount monkeys living in this forest, there are 23 adult male, 79 adult female and 98 still baby. All the monkeys in this forest consisted of three groups, dwell certain area and use the certain place and certain time. However, it also happened that entire group can use the forest and whenever two groups are existing at same place and time, they will fight each other. These monkeys are believed as Gods Guard of Dalem Agung Temple, The Hindu Temple exist in the middle of forest. There are three Holy Temples in this monkey forest and those are existing surround the forest and it is estimated built in the middle of 14 century, in the early governance of Gelgel dynasty. Dalem Agung Temple is located in northwest from the forest represent the existence of most important temples. Beside of two others, that are Permandian Temple, in Westside from this forest and Prajapati Temple which is located in south-east side where the place of Dewa Siwa (Siwa God), one of the Khayangan Temple in Padang Tegal Village.
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MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., the power provider owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., is targeting renewable energy for acquisitions, Chief Financial Officer Patrick Goodman said.
"We believe renewables is the better investment right now" because utilities are too expensive, MidAmerican's Goodman said in an interview Tuesday at an Edison Electric Institute conference in Phoenix. "As a cash buyer, we will be looking at utilities if pricing comes in a bit."
MidAmerican has sought opportunities to reinvest its cash and highlighted that it has more funds available to service debt and build its business because it doesn't pay a dividend. The power provider also has access to capital from Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire, which holds a 90 percent stake.
MidAmerican has been buying wind and solar projects, including the $2.4 billion 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm in California. The company formed a new unit in January to support its investments in renewable energy. The acquisitions have boosted the proportion of MidAmerican's energy generated from wind, hydroelectric, solar, nuclear and geothermal to 31 percent at the end of September from 19 percent at the end of 2006, according to a regulatory filing last week.
Chief Executive Officer Greg Abel, 50, last month struck a deal with TransAlta Corp. to fund half the cost of natural-gas fuel power plants built or bought in Canada, where the companies said almost $200 billion in new investment is needed during the next 20 years. The deal will expand MidAmerican's North American operations beyond U.S. utility and natural gas pipeline units.
Buffett, the world's fourth-richest person, has said that regulated businesses like the utilities have earnings power even under adverse economic conditions and can provide fair returns on capital as long as they invest in infrastructure. MidAmerican sells electricity to 6.3 million customers and operates in states including Iowa, Oregon and Utah.
Owning utilities is "not a way to get rich," Buffett, 82, said at a meeting of U.S. state regulators in 2006. "It's a way to stay rich."
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This last weekend Stuart Ball and I ran a very positive training session at Sussex Biological Records Centre. Our 'Introduction to Hoverflies' course was fully subscribed, with twelve formal participants plus an additional group member listening in on talks. Apart from the general enthusiasm of the group, what struck me was the way in which it was starting to organise itself. Already, they plan to have several field events, and there was also considerable interest in visits to target species of importance that have not been recorded in recent years. All-told, I would regard this as a highly positive outcome and one that shows how LERCs can act as the focus for training and wider survey initiatives.
This took me back to reflecting on the recent debate about Natural England withdrawal of funding for LERCs. The main reasons given by NE seem to focus upon mechanisms of data assembly. LERCs, it seems, are not seen as an efficient mechanism for data collection; and, in the absence of completely open access to data, NE have chosen to focus their attention on national data assembly mechanisms and upon grants to improve open access to LERC data. I fear that they are missing a critical issue that I have previously touched upon: the need for local leadership as a focus for recording activities, and in providing venues and the administration needed to deliver training programmes.
In previous analyses I have broadly accepted the merits of the open access debate, but with some important reservations; not least the need to respect the will of individual recorders who may not want data made accessible to all. However, if all we choose to do is to focus upon the data, we are missing several important tricks.
Where are the leaders?
There are schools of thought that biological recording is threatened by loss of taxonomic skills. I have countered this argument with some alternative thoughts, but one must not overlook the need to maintain mechanisms for skills transfer. County recording initiatives are one such way of developing skills. Younger recorders would join up with the established specialists and learning the trade. Only, today, that may not happen. For example, I heard recently that the YNU was suffering a serious loss of botanical recorders, and had several vacancies for critical organisational roles. If the leadership is absent, recording will also suffer.
We know that leadership in biological recording is essential. If there is an active leadership, organising field trips, providing advice and giving feedback, interest in the subject is maintained, and new participants are attracted. If the impetus is lost, people wander off and do their own thing and new recruits are not attracted. We saw this with the Hoverfly Recording Scheme when it lacked a leader in the late 1980s, and also in the period 1997 to 2004 when we were far less active. Conversely, the UK Hoverflies Facebook page has shown how great activity can be stimulated by the efforts of a leadership team and active feedback to participants.
If the bodies that use data simply say that they want the data but are not interested in the process of data assembly, they must also accept that the data may not be there when they want it. Past initiatives rather contradict that contention, so I don't believe that NE is completely oblivious to the need to develop skills, and to motivate and enthuse recorders. It has helped to fund training courses in the past, but perhaps it has failed to grasp what goes into the training process? Who does it, where does it take place and how is it administered?
Training does not materialise out of thin air; and nor does leadership!
What is involved in organising courses?
As an illustration of the work involved in running courses, I thought the following checklist of jobs might highligh the level of investment needed to deliver a two-day training course. In this case for hoverflies, but I expect a similar package could be constructed for other courses:
1. Identify a need - somebody thinks it would be a good idea. They need to get it off the ground, so what do they do? If a private individual, they may contact the training provider (in this case the HRS) and suggest a need.
Without a someone to take on the local organisation, any desire will be killed stone dead as the HRS cannot take on local organisation. So, a local body must be persuaded that it would be a good idea to take on the project. This was what happened when we went to Orkney last summer - I contacted the LERC after suggestions from local recorders. Alternatively, a local body will identify a need and contact us directly - as was the case for the course we ran at Brecon LERC at the start of February and this last weekend at Woods Mill (Sussex LERC). As also happens regularly for the WLT for Beds, Cambs and Northants.
2. Find a venue capable of accommodating 12 students plus the vast volume of equipment that we carry to run the course. You need a pretty big room that is suitable for such purposes. It must have a good power supply and be well-heated as people can get cold sitting at microscopes for hours. There also needs to be insurance to cover the event - an absolute requirement in some cases and on occasions we have been required to have our own insurance - that costs money (provided by Dipterists Forum).
3. An organiser is needed to advertise the course and to take bookings. On one occasion this went wrong and we found that we had booked our end of the job, only to find that nobody at the other end had done a thing and had assumed that we would do everything! The course did not run!
4. Finance is needed. Running a two-day course is expensive. Although we don't charge for our time, we do want to be reimbursed for our costs - fuel, accommodation, subsistence, course materials etc. This can run to several hundreds of pounds (£1000 in the case of Orkney). In fairness, we always subsidise courses because we only charge for fuel but a round trip of 500 miles or more can be a big dent in one's car's life expectancy. Dipterists Forum subsidised the Orkney course to the tune of £500 but in the end, Stuart and I also made a contribution as well as not charging mileage. Somebody has to make a charge, and to make sure that payment is received from participants. These days we won't commit to run a course unless a charge is made. This rule has been introduced because we have found that where no charge is made, one often arrives to find that the prospective group is half the anticipated size. Frankly it is not worth our time if we arrive to find we have four or five students (we think that about 8 is the minimum needed to justify a round trip of 4-600 miles and a total of 50-60 man hours of our time).
5. Organising equipment, course materials, accommodation etc. That is done by the HRS - we book our accommodation, repair the training material etc. It is not a small job - collecting sufficient replacements for each winter's courses involves several hundreds of specimens. Presentations have to be updated and new course materials prepared. It is no different to a University course and requires the same level of effort to deliver an effective course.
6. Travel to-and from the venue, arriving in time to set up the microscopes and other materials, and of course pack them all away and return home. Last weekend the outward and return journeys were relatively short, but each took between 3 and 4 hours, so a total of about 15 man hours in travel alone.
7. Unlocking/locking the venue, managing the event, dealing with H&S issues etc are also an essential part of the process. Who will do this? Can they be relied upon?? Can a volunteer be found? Somebody also has to brief that volunteer!
8. Dealing with post-course administration, payment of invoices etc. In our case an invoice is issued on behalf of Dipterists Forum, who then reimburse our costs and recoup them from the client. This all takes time - a combination of mine plus the treasurer for DF, and somebody at the host venue too.
Where have we run courses?
The vast majority of places that we have used as venues have been LERCs or Museums. We have also run courses at education centres linked to nature reserves, such as on the Somerset Levels, Yarner Wood and at Studland; but these are a minority. As specialist natural history curators retire or are made redundant, the numbers of museums capable of, or interested in hosting courses has declined.
LERCs are therefore really important and without them we must anticipate a significant decline in our capacity to deliver training. Maybe we will run out of steam before the LERCs all disappear, but where will be the focus for local initiatives thereafter? Relying on a few highly motivated people such as Stuart and me is all very well, but however motivated one is, it is not possible to make a difference without the necessary local facilities and leadership.


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Once a physicist: George R Lucas Jr
George R Lucas Jr is a professor of ethics and public policy at the Naval Postgraduate College in Monterey, California
Why did you decide to study physics?
I grew up during the Cold War when people who had a bent for science or mathematics were encouraged to go in that direction. Also, I came from a family of engineers, so culturally speaking it was the natural thing to do. The undergraduate programme in physics at the College of William and Mary, where I got my bachelor's degree in 1971, was good and I also got to do a lot of hands-on research at a NASA facility called the Space Radiation Effects Laboratory.
Why did you decide to switch to philosophy?
I went to graduate school at Northwestern University intending to study physics but then two things happened. One was a sort of gloom that settled over the country as the Vietnam War was winding down. The other was that the demand for physicists and engineers just dropped off a cliff. I think that a lot of people have forgotten that in the 1970s, if you had a science degree you were probably lucky if you could earn money selling pencils as a beggar on the street – there were just no jobs at all. So, I figured, if I was going to be unemployed then I might as well chase the big money into philosophy.
How did you get into military ethics?
Initially, I studied the work of the philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, so that was a nice transitional way to take my physics learning into philosophy. But Whitehead doesn't have much to say about ethics – he's more an aesthetician, writing about beauty and harmony and things like that. In his philosophy "good" is more of an artistic notion than a moral one. My interest in ethical questions came from Vietnam and its aftermath, which made a lot of people think, "Was I opposed to that war, or to all war?" At the time, most people just assumed that war itself was a terrible evil that we should always avoid, whether it was nuclear war with the Soviets or guerrilla war with insurgents. However, I came to feel like there were times when a nation would need to use force in its own defence and for the defence of others. Also, an influential book called Just and Unjust Wars came out in 1977. The author, Michael Walzer, had the same set of questions – he had been opposed to Vietnam but supported the Israeli Six-Day War – and he thought, how can this be? How can I be in favour of one war and then opposed to another? He really didn't have any answers, so he thought it through and eventually published this book. And I think probably every military officer on the planet has a copy of it on their bookshelf.
What ethical questions do you address with your students?
The big questions in military ethics are policy questions such as, "do we go to war?", and some of my students – who include officers from all four branches of the US military and members of foreign militaries – think they are somebody else's job. But that's not exactly true. I tell them, sure, the president or Congress or the UN Security Council is going to make the big policy decisions but it is you who'll carry them out, so you need to know something about them. Also, they are going to get sceptical personnel asking, "What the hell are we doing here?", and they need to be able to answer. But then – more pressingly – they need to be able to say, well, for whatever reason, we're here, and we have to do our job correctly. We talk about that as a species of professional ethics. Just as doctors talk about their moral obligations, so should soldiers.
What are you working on now?
My speciality areas right now are cybersecurity and the ethics of cyberwarfare. The institution where I'm teaching does a lot of research on new weapons systems, and many people are concerned about the ethics of cyberweapons such as Stuxnet [the computer worm that was used to attack a uranium-enrichment facility in Iran in 2010]. A lot of cyberweapons target the civilian population and a lot of cyberstrategists seems to implicitly accept that that's how cyber war is waged, even though that's both a violation of international law and morally questionable. I mean, why go after the ordinary vulnerable people? Aren't you supposed to be fighting against the enemy's military? But Stuxnet was different. It didn't touch any civilians, didn't ruin any civilian property, was aimed entirely at a military-weapons facility that was itself judged illegal and it did no harm even to those at the facility. After information about Stuxnet leaked out, I kind of joked that it was like somebody read an article on cyberwar ethics and then designed it to fit those constraints. A lot of people laughed and then didn't say anything.
Do you have any advice for today's students?
I think people should study physics because they love it and not because they think there are jobs or money to be made. But I think I gave up a little too soon. I was frustrated not just by the economy and by moral questions about war but also because I thought physics had reached a blind alley. Back then, particle physics was in a state of chaos, with 137 elementary particles known to exist and no rhyme or reason to them. A few years later, Stephen Hawking was able to link quantum mechanics and astrophysics, and people like Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman invented a new theoretical structure for elementary particles – but by that time I had already left. So, I guess the lesson is not to get discouraged too easily. There's always a new exciting discovery around the corner.


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I was requested from a close friend needing an URN built for his father-in-law, and so I told him I'd be honored too make one for him, I asked him some typical questions the size for the container he gave me the measurements, he gave me free rain on wood of choice so I chose Sipo, my next question was did he want a cross on the box and he said that would be a great touch, so I proceeded with the build and it came out beautiful once I sent the pictures to him he then sent pictures over to his mother-in-law in which she reminded him that he was native American indian he had forgot that his father-in-law was native American (Indian) thus the cross was a great concern.
The box is made out of sipo with an 1/8" inlay x 3/8" wide maple cross on the top and a screwed on bottom so my question and help needing, is there any possible way or any ideas of how I can rectify this problem. Pictures below, My thought was to remove the screwed on bottom, put the finished box back up on the band saw and shave off that top of the lid 1/8" re sand, round edges and refinish but I really don't want to mess up such a nice box, my other option is to hand it to them the way it is if they reject it I put it on the shelf in hopes to sale it and build another but since it's a gift to him not charging I didn't want to do that either thus my dilemma.
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Jerry Seib: Three States That Define the 2014 Midterms
The elections were a wave for the GOP. WSJ's Jerry Seib points out three states that depict just how powerful it was. Photo: AP
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... election is over and obviously was a big one for Republicans not only did they win control of the Senate they won more seats in the house that one more Governor seats they won more seats in state legislatures ... they really are for now the majority party around the country to overall sweep was bigger than expected but what were the biggest surprises of the night with surprises that showed you just hadn't I was Republicans will I look at three has a scan of the countryside ... one was in Maryland where the Republican running for governor Larry Hogan ... Kelly won unexpectedly but one by nine points and nobody really saw that coming this was expected to be an easy win for Democrats that shows what can the night he really was for Republicans on Tuesday night ... I seconds they were similar thing happened ... Democrats held on the News Virginia Senate race ... where incumbent Senator Mark Warner who was thought to be an easy bet for real action ... beer leading Republican in Gillespie one it appears now buying only about twelve thousand votes out of two million cast ... that still may be the subject of a recount ... nobody thought was going to be that tight the dome was once Republicans to Lianne expectantly ... and the third state where I think there was a surprising result was in Kansas with it talked about alot ... both Republicans who are thought to be in peril there Sam ... Brownback to Governor ... Pat Roberts this Republican senator of the one to tell you they when they won fairly easily Senator Roberts won by almost ten points ... Sam Brownback the governor one reelection by almost four points ... so these were easier ways for Republicans ... not the nail biter is that they are expected to take those three states together Maryland Virginia Kansas ... I think you get a sense that a strong breeze was blowing at the backs of Republicans Tuesday ... and that really shows ... how did the year it's been for them ...


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I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Barnyard Card with Beth
This is Beth from Beth's Beauties and my sweet little nephew turned 5 and boy oh boy, he is country all the way! I made this special barnyard card for him :)
All of the cutting files were from SVG Attic's Down On The Farm set. I welded two barn sections together to create the card base and the card is 5".
See that sweet cow and little chicken? I think they turned out so cute! I embossed the red barn layer with an embossing folder to simulate barn siding.
Last, but not least I hand cut the pennants and stamped a letter on each one to display his name across the banner. The Trendy Twine was the perfect finishing touch for it!
I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day!
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As pre-match mascot routines go, this has to be up there with the best of them.
The Portland Sea Dogs baseball team's practice session was interrupted in the most novel way when one of the players got eaten.
The 'player', who appeared to be something of a stooge as part of the act, was swallowed whole – making him a very reluctant Jonah (not that Jonah ever wanted to be eaten by the whale).
Soon afterwards, the fish burped up various items of the player's clothing before he was vomited back out.
Gone are the days when all a sport mascot had to do was give a few thumbs ups and compete in an annual charity race.
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Lee Beevers, released by Mansfield Town last week, has rejoined his former club Lincoln City, who also today gave Stag striker Matt Rhead a two-year contract.
Beevers made 175 appearances for the Imps in all competitions between 2005 and 2009.
The former Welsh U21 international initially joined the Imps loan from Boston United in February 2005 before the move was made permanent with the former Ipswich Town youngster joining for an undisclosed fee.
A successful 2006/07 campaign saw Beevers named as the supporters' Player of the Season, and he spent a further two years with the Imps before joining Colchester United.
Injuries restricted his playing time there and he subsequently joined Mansfield after a year with Walsall before helping Stags win the Conference and re-establish themselves back in the Football League.


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Telstra International has been selected by Aspire Media Group, the online recruitment solution provider, which includes the worlds first internet recruitment service, JobServe and web development company HotLizard, to manage its hosting infrastructure at its state-of-the-art London Hosting Centre.
Telstra International will support Aspires many recruitment and job board websites, provide managed services, supported by strict service levels and 24/7 technical support, through its virtualised hosting environment at its London Hosting Centre Docklands.
Aspire Media Group companies advertise jobs from around the world including Australia, Canada, the United States and the UK. The company, formed in 1993, includes JobServe, which was one of the worlds first providers of jobs by email. Today JobServe alone advertises over 2.5m jobs per year online.
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The alarm clock goes off {or you are awakened by a crying child, a toy being tossed your way, or a dog licking you awake!} and so the day begins. Get up, put the coffee pot on, pour the kids cereal and as soon as they hear those cheerios hit the bowl out the kids come from their bedrooms. The day then kind of takes off on its own as everyone gets ready for the day. Before we know it evening has come and we are exhausted. Falling into bed, setting the alarm, drifting to sleep only to wake up and do it all again tomorrow.
If we are not careful, we will miss the most important aspect of our day. Time alone with God.
Through my time of being a mom God has shown me that in order for me to be a godly Mama to my littles, I first need to be a godly Christian woman. One way I learn about being a godly woman is by spending time in prayer with God, relying on His strength to carry me through each day, asking for wisdom, but second, I need to spend time alone with God every.single.day. and so do you.
There are many things that pull on a Mama's attention, energy, thoughts, desires and if I have not first filled myself up with time with God, there is no way I am going to have what I need to make it through that day! I will end the day in a ball of frustration, lacking in patience, and feeling like a failure at this whole *mom thing*.
Spending time alone with God sounds like a no-brainer, something one would expect a Christian to say, right? Yet, how many of us actually make it a priority to spend time with God daily? I'm telling you what, that enemy of ours knows the power that comes when a Mama spends time with God every single day of her life. It will take discipline, it will take sacrifice of some time that is usually spent elsewhere, it will take time to make it a habit, but all of this is worth it!
Mama's, let me level with you for a moment. We, in and of ourselves do not have what it will take to be the best Mom we can be to our children. We do not posses that kind of strength, patience, perseverance, wisdom, love to be and do all that we need to in our families. Swallow hard. Was that hard to read? It's hard to recognize and stare our weaknesses straight on, isn't it? It takes a bit of pride swallowing to even admit we have weaknesses!
Let me share some GOOD news with you though! All the strength we will ever need will be found in Christ! In our weakness His strength shines brightly! {2 Corinthians 12:9, And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.}
Mama, I encourage you, get alone with God every day! Soak up the truths that God has for you that day and let His strength fill you! Spending time with God can look different each day!
Sometimes during my time with God I will put my ear buds in and will turn on a sermon in the morning. SermonAudio.com has some great messages from wonderful speakers/pastors. I encourage you to look up Speakers such as Dave Teis, Kurt Skelly, Dr. David Gibbs Jr., Dave Young, Shane Lewis, Jim Schettler, Morris Gleiser, Steve Pettit,
John Goetsch… there are so many great preachers out there who preach the Word of God with passion and conviction!
Some days I will read an online devotional from a website such as Proverbs31.org , or a devotional app like shereadstruth or even a devotional from the Bible app are also helpful. There are all kinds of devotional books out there too!
I really cannot emphasize enough how important getting into God's Word every day is! You will find yourself refreshed, encouraged and more ready to take on your God-given role of Mom! When we let God's Word really get a hold of us, we will begin to see ourselves change and it will in turn change how we mother our children.
Join me next time as we continue this mini series on encouragement for moms!
Many Blessings,
ps: If this post has been an encouragement to you please feel free to share it with others!


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Paul Octopus Will Predict Spain vs Netherland FIFA World Cup 2010 FINALS Paul is reported to have correctly chosen the winner in five of Germany's six UEFA Euro 2008 matches, predicting that Germany would win every match except a loss to Croatia, but incorrectly predicting that Germany would defeat Spain in the final in 2008.
Paul the Octopus or Paul Oktopus is a two-year-old common octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches,especially in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
This total rate of 11 out of 12 games correct constitutes a significant deviation from what flipping a coin would suggest, using a Binomial test. A fair coin would guess at least 11 out of 12 games correctly only 1 time in 315.
Paul the Octopus has become an internet phenomenon for his uncanny ability to pick winners. He has accurately picked the winner of every game Germany has played in the FIFA World Cup.
Paul makes his choice by picking between two containers of food, each bearing the flag of the two teams playing.
It is also unknown if Paul will bet on the third place play-off between Germany and Uruguay.


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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
la zoo
the best thing that can be said about the la zoo (which you might remember from the opening credits of "three's company", o seventies telly lovin' children) is that it has the potential, one day, to become a really fine zoo.
an 'a' for effort, kids!
is this the komodo dragon that ate mr. sharon stone's toe?
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Which reminds me of parallel universe
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Hanami is a big part of spring tradition in Japan, but so is Yozakura. Yozakura is Hanami at night. People come after dark to sit under the lit up Cherry Blossoms and drink and eat with friends and family. Basically, celebrating the arrival of spring. Spring this year has arrived very early! I'm a little afraid of what this means for summer. If you don't know what I am talking about then try visiting Nagoya in the summer and you will understand the moment you step outside of the airport. Actually, the air around the open door of the airplane should tell you a lot.
Until then I have these wonderful memories of Cherry Blossoms. This photo and the next one were taken with my cellphone, so it's not very sharp. I still wanted to share it with you though.
These were all taken in Tsuruma Park in Nagoya if you would like to visit next spring for your own Hanami!


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We have MOVED!
We are excited to announce that we have moved sites! Our new, amazing site is now located at http://www.gatewayaward.com
Check us out and tell us what you think! Happy reading!
We are excited to announce that we have moved sites! Our new, amazing site is now located at http://www.gatewayaward.com
Check us out and tell us what you think! Happy reading!
Awesome website! I am sure this took a lot of work to put together, but what a great resource for school librarians. Thank you for sharing this with all school librarians in the state.
Love the website! Thanks to the committee for all the hard work!
Great website! Thanks for putting this together.
For a literature activity, I am having to research the Gateway Readers Award. I have gone to many sites looking for the history of the award and all I get is the basic motto, how winners are chosen, and the list of nominees/winners. I am needing to know things like When was the Award started, by who, and anything else that would be helpful in knowing its history.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
It started in the Southwest District. I can't remember what year but I think that the first winner was Someone Like You. I can't remember the ladies name (Sally ?) who was the chairman, I think she was at Willow Springs (I do know that she passed about 2-3 years ago. At that time I don't think it had a name, that came later. Also I think SW District voted for a couple of years before it was taken to the state & incorporated with the others. Sorry I can't remember any more.
Sally Hatton created the Gateway Award. A new high school librarian (at Willow Springs High School, I think), Sally attended her first MASL Spring Conference and was disappointed that there was no readers' choice award for high school students. (At that time, the Show-Me Award was for grades 1-3 and the Mark Twain for grades 4-8.) Sally piloted the program in her region during the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years. MASL took over the award starting with the 2003-2004 school year.
Adding Gateway to the Readers' Choice Awards brought about another important change. In 2004 or 2005 (sorry, I don't remember which), MASL created a Readers' Award Task Force to consider the best way the RA program could serve all students. The Task Force recommended making the Mark Twain Award for upper elementary students and adding a fourth RA program for middle school students. This new award was eventually named the Truman Award. The Task Force also recommended that the grade ranges for each RA program be suggestions or guidelines rather than hard and fast rules as they had been in the past. MASL approved the recommendation, and now students can vote for the award of their choice. (For instance, and 8th grader who reads three Gateway titles can participate in Gateway voting.)
I hope this information helps.
Margaret Sullivan
This site will be so helpful in getting students interested in reading the nominees. Thank you for putting this together for all of us!


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Twitter, today, marked the 96th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, where British-Indian troops, comprising mostly of Gurkhas, opened fire at a peaceful gathering of Punjabis on April 13, 1919.
It was General Reginald Dyer who gave the orders to shoot at the unarmed men, women and children, who were staging a protest against the arrest their leaders, and demanding freedom from the British.
Dyer had all the exits blocked so many of those trapped were forced to jump into a well, located inside the Bagh, to escape the volley of bullets. The troops fired until their ammunition was exhausted.
Official British sources put the number of dead at 379 but actual death toll is believed to be much higher. Dyer was removed from his command by the British government.
The Tribune reported that those killed in the massacre were given the status of freedom fighters in 2008. Today, their descendants will reportedly hold a protest to demand benefits such as such as reservation in jobs, free travel and priority in gas or petrol pump dealership.
The tragedy, one of the most horrific instances of brutality to suppress India's independence movement, and deeply saddening for Indians to this day, remains a sore point between India and Britain. Relatives of the dead believe that Britain has not been adequately censured for the killing of innocent protestors, and its government have never fully apologised.
In 1997, Queen Elizabeth paid 30 seconds of silent homage at Jallianwala Bagh. In 2013, David Cameron was the first serving British prime minister to visit the site of the massacre, but he too stopped short of delivering an apology.
"In my view," he said, "we are dealing with something here that happened a good 40 years before I was even born, and which Winston Churchill described as 'monstrous' at the time and the British government rightly condemned at the time. So I don't think the right thing is to reach back into history and to seek out things you can apologise for."
Here is how Twitter remembered Jallianwala Bagh:
जलियांवाला बाग में शहीद हुए देशभक्तों को शत् शत् नमन। pic.twitter.com/Fl0uXZxwuC
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 13, 2015
Let us remember today the supreme sacrifice of martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh in 1919 & pay our respectful tribute to them.
— Arun Jaitley (@arunjaitley) April 13, 2015
A great salute to all martyrs of #JallianwalaBagh massacre. A day to remember the price, our ancestors paid for freedom.
— Deepak Pal (@Deepakpal) April 13, 2015
Salutations to #JallianwalaBagh martyrs. pic.twitter.com/0ni3hmcFiX
— Keshava (@Kumar_Ke5hav) April 13, 2015
It has been 96 years since the #JallianwalaBagh#On13041919. So much bloodloss. Do another 359 people need to die for real independance?😢
— Mrinal Gupta (@mrinalgupta98) April 13, 2015
Today, 96 years ago General Dyer did something which makes me so mad that even today I want to thrash him. #JallianwalaBagh Massacre
— shubham pacharne (@imShubhamP) April 13, 2015
A debt we can never fully repay. Grateful for their bravery and sacrifice. #JallianwalaBagh massacre
— Panglossian (@tweetingmantis) April 13, 2015
Lets pay tribute to all those martyred in 1919 in #JallianwalaBagh massacre on 96th anniversary for their sacrifice for the nation. #Jaihind
— shankar patel (@shankar143pin) April 13, 2015
Jallianwala Bagh will never be forgotten.. And neither will Shaheed Udham Singh for his sacrifice subsequently #JallianwalaBagh
— Abhimanyu Arora (@Darth_Foodius) April 13, 2015
What made this even more shameful was the public felicitation of General Dyer in London
— Harpreet (@CestMoiz) April 13, 2015
#JallianwalaBagh is the tragedy for which the brutal murderers of the gory event can never be forgiven.
— Amit Khambete (@AmitK_790) April 13, 2015
Sinking in my chair thinking about the #JallianwalaBagh tragedy.
— Aakash Singh (@AK40Singh) April 13, 2015
Whenever I hear abt #JallianwalaBagh, I remember my school's drill instructor. He was so influenced by Bhagat Singh's experience there 🍂💐
— ɐɯ1ʎɐ (@am1ya19)
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379 was d official count at #JallianwalaBagh nd in reality??? >2000 😔 may their soul RIP pic.twitter.com/hLbtjedOiH
— Gaurav Athalekar (@gauru8) April 13, 2015
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
My sincere homage to them.
— Sneha Makwana (@sneha_makwana01) April 13, 2015
Respect to Martyrs of #JallianwalaBagh. pic.twitter.com/8qiZdsOrIE
— MINI. (@monicanitin) April 13, 2015
#JallianwalaBagh: 96 years ago, long before ISIS and social media outrage was known. pic.twitter.com/2KfbyWPJ1W
— Ashok Lalla (@ashoklalla) April 13, 2015
For me #JallianwalaBagh is one of the holiest places in India... for no where else has the land been tilled by the blood of so many Saheeds!
— Jorebungley (@Jorebungley) April 13, 2015
On this day in 1919 at least 379 unarmed Indians were shot by the 'highly civilized' British at #JallianwalaBaghpic.twitter.com/yiCE4XmBst
— Indian Satires (@IndianSatires) April 13, 2015
Words are not enough to describe how disturbing and brutal the day of 13 April 1919 was in the #JallianwalaBagh .
Tribute to all the martyrs
— Indian Satires (@IndianSatires) April 13, 2015
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