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Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was closely attuned to the taste and artistic sensibility of his age, but he is remembered now primarily by the Irish, who still sing his songs and claim him as their own. He was a born lyricist and a natural musician, a practiced satirist and one of the first recognized champions of freedom of Ireland. With George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott, he embodied British Romanticism not only for the British and the Irish but also for Americans and Europeans. So popular was he in his day that publishers advanced him extraordinary sums on the promise of works from his ever-active pen. He wrote too much and catered too deliberately to his audience to reach the heights of Parnassus attained by the major Romantic poets, but his efforts on behalf of his friends place him, with Samuel Rogers, among the great humanists of the Romantic period. Scholars today are indebted to him more for his biography of Byron (1830) than for either his Irish Melodies (1808-1834) or Lalla Rookh (1817), though these poems enjoyed an almost incredible popularity in the first half of the nineteenth century. William Hazlitt, who had a knack for penetrating mere literary fashion, described Moore's verse in The Spirit of the Age (1825) as "a shower of beauty; a dance of imagery; a stream of music; ... this continuous and incessant flow of voluptuous thoughts and shining allusions," but he qualified his praise by noting that Moore "is willing to be tawdry, or artificial, or common-place.... [His poetry] seduces the taste and enervates the imagination" with "a play of fancy, a glitter of words, a shallowness of thought, and a want of truth and solidity...." Moore possessed talent, not genius, and recognizing the difference, he worked hard to compensate for his deficiencies by the sheer bulk and unquestioned variety of his work.
Born in Dublin, Moore was the oldest child and the only son of Catholic parents, who, like other Irish Catholics, could not vote, hold office, serve on juries, bear arms, or attend the best schools. His father, John Moore, was a prosperous grocer, and his mother, Anastasia Codd Moore, was an intelligent woman who cultivated in her son both artistic taste and the ambition that gave him the means and the courage to fight against what he called "the slave's yoke" of his Catholicism. His parents sent Moore first to a private classical English school run by T. S. Malone, and then to the well-known English grammar school headed by Samuel Whyte, once the teacher of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and a man respected for the poetic, musical, and theatrical talents he encouraged in his students. In 1793 the young Thomas Moore contributed the first of his verses to a Dublin periodical, the Anthologia Hibernica. This early success at publication determined the course of his future. In June 1794, following the removal of the Roman Catholic disabilities the previous year, Moore became one of the first Catholics admitted to Trinity College, Dublin, but his religion made him ineligible for the scholarship he should have earned by virtue of his score on his examination. Fortunately, his father could afford the tuition, and Moore, who began his studies in January 1795, showed his appreciation by winning a university reputation for wit, literature, song, and patriotic fervor.
Goaded by his friends Robert Emmet and Edward Hudson, members of a group of revolutionaries known as the United Irishmen, Moore wrote an impassioned plea for his fellow students to oppose the imminent Act of Union with England. This "Letter to the Students of Trinity College," published in December 1797 in The Press, the voice of the United Irishmen, was signed "A SOPHister," but Moore's parents and his tutor knew the author to be Moore and begged him not to endanger his future by such outspokenness. Moore took their warnings seriously and ever after moderated his political writings by satire blunted with humor. The warnings were well founded: after an armed rebellion in 1798, Hudson was imprisoned and exiled, and Emmet wounded. Moore was called to testify in a Trinity investigation about his association with the rebels, but he answered only questions about himself, and was allowed to remain in school. Emmet was hanged five years later, and the last words of the speech he gave after his sentencing, on 19 September 1803, have passed into Irish legend and literature: "When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written." Moore memorializes his friend's wish for honorable obscurity in one of his most memorable Irish Melodies, "O, Breathe Not His Name," and Joyce later incorporated and undercut Emmet's words as reported by Moore by including them in the sirens' song in Ulysses (1922). Moore's song is characteristically sentimental, but it testifies to the strength of his friendship, his hope for Ireland, and to his talent for versifying:
O, breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonor'd his relics are laid:
Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed,
As the night dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.
But the night dew that falls, though in silence it weeps,
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he sleeps;
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
In 1799, after earning his B.A. at Trinity, Moore left Ireland to study law at the Middle Temple in London. He slighted his legal studies to finish his translation of the amatory and convivial poems of Anacreon, begun at Trinity. Within a few months Moore had arranged for publication through introductions provided by Joseph Atkinson, secretary in Ireland to the Ordnance Board, who had met Moore and heard him sing in Dublin. Atkinson introduced Moore to Francis Rawson-Hastings, Second Earl of Moira, who often invited him to his country seat at Donington Park, Leicestershire. Lord Moira became a sort of sponsor to Moore, enjoying his company and sharing his delight when he received permission to dedicate the Odes of Anacreon (1800) to the Prince of Wales, whom Moore met in August of 1800. "Anacreon Moore," as he came to be called, advanced himself socially more by his singing for the aristocracy and literary elite than by his poetic translation. His lyrical translations, complete with pedantic footnotes to "odd and out-of-the-way sort of reading," sometimes become paraphrases for the sake of the music, for Moore's scholarship and musical propensities early and late competed for his attention. The seventy-eight odes celebrate wine, women, and song, light-hearted themes lilting almost thoughtlessly along, sometimes mixing metaphors but rarely varying meter.
Living up to the title Anacreon Moore strained the budget of the promising young poet, but rather than accept an Irish laureateship, created for him by Atkinson and Moira, Moore published his juvenile poems as Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq. (1801), assuming a pseudonym appropriate to his short stature. The proceeds barely met his debt, but the collection of love poems further enhanced his reputation as a ladies' man. Although these light lyrics seem remarkably chaste to modern readers, the kisses and embraces they celebrate suggested much to nineteenth-century readers. As in Moore's later poetry the visual sense is starved in these lyrics, but they provide well for the emotional dimension. Moore later regretted publishing these poems; at the time he was as grateful for the publisher's remuneration as for the advance of his poetic reputation.
Moore never managed his money well. When financial exigency forced him to seek a government post, Lord Moira managed to get Moore an appointment as registrar of the admiralty prize court in Bermuda, a position Moore accepted reluctantly because it required leaving London. On 25 September 1803 Moore sailed for Norfolk, Virginia, on the British warship Phaeton, the same ship that carried Anthony Merry, the new ambassador to Washington. Moore stayed in Virginia for two months and in Bermuda for three. Finding his duties negligible and life in Bermuda dull, he appointed a deputy and left the island for a nine-month tour of the eastern United States and Canada.
Although he was graciously received by Ambassador Merry and his wife, as well as American patriots, including President Thomas Jefferson, he was revolted by the crudity of the average provincial American, disappointed in the optimism of the prospering farmers and merchants, and sympathetic only to the well-heeled aristocrats who had come to America to make a fortune rather than to live a dream of democracy. In fact, he gathered his information about the United States from what he came to call "twisted and tainted channels" of "Federalist or Anti-Democratic" partisans, but the beauties of the country delighted Moore. He returned to England to record his observations in Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems (1806), a compendium of his prejudices against America and Americans and his real and imagined escapades with American women. American reviewers were brutal, and Francis Jeffrey of the influential Edinburgh Review (July 1806) denounced the volume, calling Moore "the most licentious of modern versifiers," a poet whose aim is "to impose corruption upon his readers, by concealing it under the mask of refinement." Moore retaliated by challenging Jeffrey to a duel, but police intervened. They claimed to have discovered that there was no bullet in Jeffrey's pistol, and by some accounts there was none in Moore's either. He became friends with Jeffrey and lived to refuse the editorship of the Edinburgh Review in 1823. But the scandal did not end with the aborted duel. Byron took up the cause against Jeffrey, and Moore rightly protested, leaving it to Samuel Rogers, who introduced Moore to Byron in November 1811 to resolve the misunderstanding. Byron had recorded the foiled duel in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809):
Can none remember that eventful day,
That ever glorious, almost fatal fray,
When LITTLE'S leadless pistol met his eye,
And Bow-street Myrmidons stood laughing by?
Years later, in 1822, Byron exclaimed "TOMMY loves a Lord." Indeed, throughout his career "Tommy" cultivated noble friends. After Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems, he began writing a series of verse epistles, in the manner of Alexander Pope, upon the ills of England. He attempted first a broad-sweeping diatribe, scorning politicians and bigots everywhere, in Corruption and Intolerance, Two Poems (1808), before turning to what he called "the stately, Juvenalian style of satire" in the more controlled and formal argument of The Sceptic: A Philosophical Satire (1809), which ends with an apostrophe to Ignorance. While writing these critiques on the postures and pomposity of royalty and church hierarchy, he began to compose lyrics to be sung to the tunes of old Irish folk songs. Irish Melodies (1808-1834) eventually ran to ten volumes and made his reputation. The popularity of his songs, rather than his satirical poetic letters, brought Moore into Irish hearts and English drawing rooms, especially those of prominent Whigs. Dubbed "Melody Moore" by the English and Irish alike, Thomas Moore charmed and sang his way to the fame that he wore lightly and well."
The idea for Irish Melodies came from William and James Power, Dublin music publishers, who wished to create an important Irish work that would contribute to national feeling more positively than politicians' speeches. James left Dublin for London in 1807, but for many years the two partners published jointly the successive parts of the Irish Melodies. This arrangement greatly facilitated marketing and gave Moore a London base for his part in the increasingly successful venture. After the success of the 1808 and 1810 parts, Moore was paid five hundred pounds a year for seven years, an agreement apparently renewed twice. This annuity, coupled with the Bermuda appointment, gave him a reliable, though never a sufficient, income. All too frequently, Moore borrowed from James Power to meet family expenses, mortgaging his future but not endangering his friendship with the Powers, except for a short-lived quarrel over payment for musical harmonies in 1832-1833. The arrangement between the Power brothers eventually broke down, however, and, from 1821 on, the title pages carried the name of James Power alone. Although publication of the Irish Melodies was often delayed by Moore's other writing commitments, he never shook the epithet "Melody Moore," for he sang his own songs at Holland House and at Samuel Rogers's dinners, as well as for Byron in Italy, Scott at Abbotsford, Wordsworth in London, and Lafayette in Paris."
From the beginning of the undertaking Moore set out to do for Ireland what Robert Burns had done for Scotland. He approached his work seriously, paying careful attention to his texts and the harmonies, provided by John Andrew Stevenson for the first seven parts and by Henry R. Bishop for the rest of the series, and closely overseeing details of printing and publishing. Moore's commitment derived from his patriotism as well as his artistic integrity, and his various prefaces and advertisements for Irish Melodies attest to his conscientious attempts to represent fairly "the beauties of the National Music of Ireland," Moore records his impressions of the varying tones of sorrow and joy in Irish music, "that unaccountable mixture of gloom and levity," through a variety of patriotic, amatory, and philosophical themes. Thérèse Tessier catalogues the 124 pieces as follows: 30 on Ireland and her destiny, 40 on love, 15 on wine and friendship, 20 on general considerations on life, 10 on people and events of the times, and 6 on nature, with an overlapping 6 shaded with autobiographical elements. His versifying techniques include repetition and parallelism appropriate to the music, and a spare diction dominated by monosyllabic words to allow for effective singing. Alliteration and assonance abound in lines remarkable for perfect rhyme (too frequently "me" and "thee") and strict, though varying, meter. As poetry, many of the Irish Melodies seem simplistic in both sound and sense, but as songs intended to be sung and heard, many are as worth remembering now as they were in Moore's lifetime and the fifty years following his death."
Translations into German, Italian, Hungarian, Czech, and French, including those by Mme. Louise Swanton Belloc and Gérard de Nerval, outnumbered the many parodies in England, and settings by Hector Berlioz guaranteed a large European audience for the songs. Byron said he knew them all "by rote and by heart"; they were, he said, his "matins" and "vespers," and he paraphrased them freely and used "As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow" as an epigraph to The Giaour (1813). He set them above epics and Moore above all other poets for his "peculiarity of talent, or rather talents,--poetry, music, voice, all his own."Scott admired them too, noting that neither he nor Byron could attain Moore's power of adapting words to music. The major poetic and critical talents of the age generously acknowledged Moore's lyric gift, and those who heard him sing recorded high praise in letters and published panegyrics. Shelley, who never heard Moore sing, paid him tribute in Adonais (1821) as the emissary from Ireland: "from her wilds Ierne sent / The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, / And Love taught Grief to fall like music from his tongue." What his contemporaries admired was not so much the substance of Irish Melodies, however, but rather their music, their concision, their melodic rhythm. Although few have survived the pressures of time and changing tastes, most readers today will be able to add melody to these words:
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.
It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
And thy cheeks unprofan'd by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear;
No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turn'd when he rose.
"Melody" Moore came to know intimately something of the love about which he wrote so sensitively. In March 1811 he married an Irish actress, Elizabeth Dyke, whom he met in Ireland but married at St. Martin's, an Anglican church in London. With "Bessy" he set up house first in London, then in the country near Lord Moira at Mayfield Cottage in Derbyshire, and finally in Sloperton Cottage in Wiltshire near the country seat of another close friend, Henry Petty-Fitz-maurice, Third Marquess of Lansdowne. Tom and Bessy Moore fostered a loving and devoted family, three daughters and two sons, none of whom, unfortunately, survived the parents. The girls died young, and both sons died when they had only just arrived at manhood. One of them, Tom, after costing his father a small fortune and his mother a great many tears, died in disgrace in 1846 in Algeria, where he had been posted as an officer in the French foreign legion."
To support his growing family Moore entered the field of political squib writing, taking the Prince Regent, once his friend and patron, as his prime target for Horatian mockery in the pages of the Morning Chronicle, collecting his efforts, with some additions, in Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag (1813), published under the pseudonym Thomas Brown the Younger. In this satire, which is less formal and more effective than The Sceptic, Moore found his most natural expression, ranging from comic farce to incisive wit. His sarcastic comments on the Prince Regent's foibles and obesity delighted the Whigs, supporters of the Irish cause. Even the Tories admired some of his imaginative barbs, including the light touch with which Moore ridiculed the threat of "unread Petitions" to crush the sovereign. Much of Moore's satiric verse is dated by its particulars, but among his contemporaries it cast him in a role of political importance and endowed him with more powerful friends than foes. A stream of political poems followed in rapid succession, from The Fudge Family in Paris (1818) to The Fudges in England (1835), with Fables for the Holy Alliance (1823) and Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters (1828) between. Moore's light satirical poems are the verbal equivalents of the political cartoons of the day, full of wit and imagination, less dated than their subjects, though somewhat tedious in rollicking anapests."
Moore was not satisfied with a reputation as a versifier and satirist, however, and in 1814 he contracted with the firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown to write a metrical romance on an Eastern subject, Lalla Rookh. Longman promised him three thousand pounds upon delivery, an enormous sum in that day, and Moore set to work at once familiarizing himself with Near Eastern literature, geography, and history. He delayed publication of Lalla Rookh until 1817, after Byron's Giaour and Bride of Abydos, both published in 1813, had had their day and after the depression following the peace of 1815 had waned. Properly timed and beautifully printed, Lalla Rookh was an immediate success, rivaling in popularity anything by Scott or Byron. Lalla Rookh comprises a frame story in prose, enclosing four verse tales of varying length. The frame tells of the bridal journey of Lalla Rookh (in Persian, "The tulip-cheeked one"), daughter of the Mogul emperor Awrangzib, who is on her way from Delhi to marry the son of the abdicated ruler of Kashmir, presumably in 1669-1670. On the journey a poet, Feramorz, who later unmasks himself to reveal that he is the intended bridegroom, recites his verse at each major stop. His poetry wins Lalla Rookh's love and the enmity of her guardian, Fadladeen, a bigot and caviler, whose name suggested that of Fedallah, the Parsee harpooner in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). The four verse stories are "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan," "Paradise and the Peri," "The Fire-Worshippers," and "The Light of the Haram." Despite its fall from literary favor, Lalla Rookh is notable, as G. M. Wickens suggests, for its combination of the macabre and the melodramatic, the allusively sensual and the saccharine, in measures appropriate to the Romantic sensibility. The Veiled Prophet extracts a vow from the heroine in a charnel house and immolates himself in a burning witches' brew while singing a hymn of joyous hate against mankind. Ill-fated lovers, sugary and suggestive, earn heaven or each other amid the tempests of revolt against all manner of political and religious tyrannies. Just below the surface of the rich and heavily footnoted Orientalism (387 footnotes, drawn from more than one hundred sources), Moore retells the stories of Irish oppression, of the need for freedom in the Vale of Cashmere or Dublin."
In 1818, at the summit of Moore's fame and fortune, disaster struck when it was discovered that his deputy in Bermuda had embezzled six thousand pounds. Moore, liable for the full amount, sought recourse from the deputy uncle, Sir John Sheddon, but was refused. Facing debtor's prison Moore left for France in September 1819, traveling with Lord John Russell, later the first editor of Moore's journals and letters. In Venice in October, Moore saw Byron for the last time, taking from the meeting the manuscript for Byron's memoirs and promising to publish them after Byron's death. Moore then settled in Paris, where he was joined by Bessy and the children. He remained in exile until 1822, when he learned that a partial repayment of his debt had been made by a relative of the deputy's and by Lord Lansdowne, whom Moore repaid almost immediately by a draft on Longman, his publisher."
Back at Sloperton, Moore completed The Loves of the Angels (1823), his last long poem, interconnected confessional narratives about three angels who fall in love with mortal women and become caught in mortality themselves. Although the tension between the spiritual and the explicitly sensual is resolved in accord with the morality of Moore's time, the theme of angels desiring physical union shocked orthodox Christians and caused enough stir to guarantee sales. Moore accommodated his critics in the fifth edition of the book (1823) by turning his Christian angels into Moslem angels, adding bookish footnotes to explain and support the Levantine substance. The poem is redeemed by the separation of the real and the ideal, and, like Shelley and Keats, Moore is successful in making earthly life spiritually acceptable. Music becomes the link between love and religion, and Moore's musical expression reiterates the Romantic theme in tones alternating between melancholy and delight."
Moore visited western Ireland in 1823 with Lord Lansdowne and was indignant over the misery and filth of peasants, whose church exacted tithes and whose landlords kept them in poverty. He registered his sympathy in his first long prose piece, Memoirs of Captain Rock (1824), the fictitious story of a mythical Irish folk hero who attacks the landlords on behalf of desperate peasants. Although the machinery is humorous, Moore successfully conveyed his views on English misgovernment in Ireland."
Much of 1824, the year of Byron's death on 19 April, was devoted to a dispute over Byron's memoirs. John Cam Hobhouse alleged that Byron had regretted giving Moore his memoirs, and Lady Byron, Byron's estranged wife, and Augusta Leigh, Byron's beloved half-sister, added fuel to the controversy out of fear that Byron's papers might contain indiscreet or scandalous material. Moore had given Byron's papers to the publisher John Murray for a loan of two thousand pounds, and, by the time Longman offered him more money for the manuscript, it was irretrievable. Lady Byron and Augusta Leigh each demanded it, and Moore finally agreed to burn the memoirs, unread, in Murray's fireplace. That act left him in debt to Murray, a debt paid by the biography of Byron, Moore's finest work in prose."
Before beginning the biography of Byron, Moore had to finish the Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825), which he had been working on since 1819 but which had been delayed by Moore's years of exile in France. Moore admired Sheridan, who had died in 1816, as a playwright but knew him only slightly, for Sheridan was twenty-eight years older and close to the Prince Regent, whom Moore had many reasons to despise. When Sheridan died, not long after the Regent gave him a mere pittance for pension, Moore had responded in "Lines on the Death of Sheridan," excoriating the ungrateful friends of a man in dire need. In his biography Moore applauds the playwright and sympathizes with the aging man, but he does not hide his distaste for Sheridan's rather extravagant public career as orator, parliamentarian, and man-about-town. Moore's devotion to his own wife and family and his loyalty to his own friends contributed more than a touch of censure to his carefully documented life of Sheridan."
His attitude toward the biography of Byron, his intimate friend, was complicated by the dispute over the memoirs but not by Byron's morality. Moore suppressed much information about Byron's private life, but not enough to satisfy Lady Byron or Augusta Leigh, both of whom were offended by Moore's candor. But Mary Shelley--who supplied Moore with her memories of Byron and who successfully interceded on his behalf with the Countess Teresa Guiccioli, Hobhouse, and other contemporaries--regarded Moore's portrayal of Byron's personality as fair and his style as eloquent. Howard Mumford Jones calls the work "one of the four or five great literary biographies in the English language" and "the one book by which Moore lives today." For the most part Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life (1830) lets Byron speak for himself, but the biographical notes and even the slight comments on Byron's work belie Moore's deferential apologies in his preface and his diffidence about his own critical abilities."
Moore's third biography, The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1831), whom Moore had never met, was an exercise of zeal for the Irish cause. Fitzgerald was a leader in the revolt of the United Irishmen in 1798, a nationalist, an aristocrat, and a martyr for Ireland. Fitzgerald's life and politics inspired Moore to occasional eloquence on such issues as persecution and injustice, but he left it to the reader to digest most of the facts and many of the incidents of Fitzgerald's life."
Between the biographies, Moore continued his versifying of Irish melodies, adding National Airs and Sacred Songs to his growing list. He struggled for some years on a new poem, Alciphron, but he rewrote it as prose fiction, The Epicurean (1827), a philosophical romance of third-century Egypt that becomes something of an apologia for Moore's own heterodox Christianity, reconciling doubts and dogmatism. Alciphron was published in 1839."
After passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829, Moore published a long prose tract, Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion (1833), convincing himself of the superiority of the Roman Catholic faith in doctrine and practice. Although finally justifying the faith of his childhood, Moore had "lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist." He was a divided but a delightful man."
Moore's last work, the disappointing but massive History of Ireland (1835-1846), was written in exhaustion and in sorrow through a series of personal tragedies, beginning with his mother's death in 1832. As his losses accrued, his powers began to fail, reducing him ultimately to senility, which came suddenly in December 1849 while he was talking with Lord John Russell and Lord Lansdowne. Moore died on 25 February 1852. His widow lived on at Sloperton Cottage, supported by his pension and the proceeds from publication of his journals and correspondence, until her death on 4 September 1865."
Moore's journals reveal his commendable objectivity on his own strengths and weaknesses, an honesty that won him friends and endeared him to all who met him. Personable and affectionate, high-minded and independent, Thomas Moore deserves our respect and our attention.
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You certainly have a talent for writing directions Sarah! I'd love a PDF copy to replace my recipe card... LOL. So glad it worked for you ;-DReplyDelete
I would love a print version. I'm new in my area and will be looking for an appropriate donation area.ReplyDelete
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Thanks it is about time I made a charity quilt!ReplyDelete
I would love to receive a pdf of your Noodles quilt. Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
I would love the PDF pattern if I'm not too late. Thanks!ReplyDelete
This quilt is wonderful and looks quick and easy! I would love to receive a pdf of the quilt. Thank you very muchReplyDelete
We're making quilts for prem babies tomorrow night at my quilt group and this looks a nice and quick little pattern. Please send me a PDF. Many thanks for your generosity.ReplyDeleteReplies
I am sorry for my delayed reply but it turns out you are a no-reply blogger, so I would not have been able to send it to you in any case. If you can email me directly at salliesue57 (at) gmail (dot) com, I will be glad to send it to you!Delete
We are making quilts for kids at DC General Homeless shelter. I think your pattern would be great to do for our project. Could you please send me a PDF.ReplyDeleteReplies
Alstuff, I would be happy to send you a PDF, but you are a no-reply blogger so I am unable to do so. Fortunately, all the directions are in the post above, so you can print it out and reproduce it as needed. Good luck!Delete
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Love this quilt pattern. If it's not too late, i would love the pdf. firstname.lastname@example.com Thank you!ReplyDelete
What a lovely pattern. Thank you for your generous offer. My e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
I would LOVE a PDF pattern. I'm helping my Mom use her fabric stash for Quilts of Valor and quilts for kids.ReplyDelete
We also sew with a community sewing group - Helping Hands, Loving Hearts - would you mind if I share your pattern with them? The group makes quilts for local foster kids. Thank you!
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About the Owner, Matt
Matt loves San Diego!! His hobbies are first and foremost, RVing!! He loves everything about it. "I've owned over 20 RV's over the years and I have to say, I'm addicted! I have an adventurous wife and 4 crazy fun little kids that love to explore and find new places to camp and enjoy. My favorite places in San Diego to take the RV are Mission Bay, Oceanside Harbor, and Ocotillo Wells OHV."


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Pro Wrestlers versus Zombies is an indy film about professional wrestlers fighting zombies. It was filmed in Parkersburg, using several locals and directed by Cody Knotts. The big local première is this week, so if you like wrestling and/or zombies you are going to want to get to these events. The movie is getting a lot of buzz and listed as one of the top zombie films of the year on IMDB.
Things start off on Thursday May 27th at the West Virginia National Guard Armory in Parkersburg. Rowdy Roddy Piper, WWF legend and star of the film, will be there signing autographs for free. Admission is also free. Jeremy Ambler, WV native and zombie on the Walking Dead and the movie, will also be there. The event goes from 6pm till 9pm.
The big Premiere of the movie is on Friday May 28. It takes place at the Parkersburg High School auditorium starting at 5pm. Several of the stars of the film will be there; Roddy Piper, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Matt Hardy, Shane Douglas, and Kurt Angle. Jeremy Ambler will be at this too. You will be able to buy a limited edition DVD release of the film, other zombie merch, and play zombie contests for prizes. Concessions will be sold by Parkersburg HS JROTC.
General Admission tickets for the film is $20. VIP Tickets are $50 and allow you into a pre-party autograph signing and movie poster. Super Fan Tickets are $100 and get you a free copy of the movie, t-shirt, and same stuff as VIP.
You can watch the trailer to help decide if you want to go or not. I saw some clips last summer and the movie does the whole zombie thing as a small group instead of a full apocalypse which I really l like. Plus lots of action.


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Having good communication does not only imply speaking incessantly or having one thing to speak about. I do not want to provide you with any false hope, however my current girlfriend and I went through a tense time in our relationship where we eventually broke up. However, after about 2 weeks (during which we still talked to each other briefly by texts) we determined that the break up was stupid, that we have been simply stressed about other things (i.e. job, money, faculty, and many others.) so we received again together.
Her 1,001 Inquiries to Ask Earlier than You Get Married affords a reality test for couples on the marriage path, helping them understand how a lot they've but to find about their companion's nature, thought processes, life-style, and marital expectations.
I went off to grad school and he moved to follow a job, and we kind of simply let the relationship end without actually speaking about it. I do know we each felt a little bit like our lives had been changing dramatically and we simply gently let it go. However we stayed in shut contact.
Being in a relationship like that is new for me. For ten years prior to this relationship I had been yelled at, I yelled, I screamed, I used to be screamed at – there were even physical altercations and me getting the residing crap beat out of me. I am no stranger to fights in a relationship.
Is not it such a pity to wait until the top of a relationship to get the true measure of a person as the way in which during which an individual ends a relationship speaks volumes about them, all it's essential to know, but as I already stated, I mustn't have been too stunned, normally we all know there is something fallacious earlier than this occurs however we do nothing about it, head within the sand syndrome.


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Dear An Post,
please stop kicking the ever-loving SHIT out of my packages from zooplus. i understand that 14kg of cat food and 28kg of cat litter IS an unreasonable amount of crap to haul around, but you don't realize the havoc that you wreak upon my life when you deliver my goods.
also, please stop arriving at a quarter to effing 8 in the morning. while i appreciate the thoughtfulness of your trying to drop by as early as possible to ensure that we don't waste our day waiting for you, what you don't realize is that i don't normally go to sleep until around 3 am most days. given that i am, thankfully, still under the age of 60, i really need a few more than 4 and a half hours of sleep a night.
i'm beginning to think that perhaps you really like my unkempt crazy-cat-lady hair, swollen eyes and shockingly red bathrobe.
this morning, not only did my packages arrive looking like they'd been dropped out of an airplane, the litter bags contained within one of the boxes had split open. what ended up happening is that instead of simply dragging the boxes into the house and
shutting the door stumbling upstairs to bed, i ended up attempting to dead-lift a box which had one side torn 3/4 of the way off. i then ended up dragging a 5 foot long trail of cat litter across my entryway, turning the floor into 40 grit sandpaper, which i then had to walk on.
i shuffled into the kitchen and got the dustpan thingy and swept up the largest pile, leaving a small amount between the two boxes to deal with later. i swept off the litter stuck to my cold, bare feet and shuffled upstairs to bed. i tried failingly to go back to sleep until about an hour later when i
woke to became aware of some sounds of cat revelry downstairs (cat owners will know what i'm talking about). i again groggily stumbled downstairs in bare feet to find the following Rorschach test left to me by my cats:
it was very sweet of you to try to give my cats an outlet for expressing their innermost artistic desires, but perhaps you might have chosen a less abrasive medium to offer them. perhaps it's time for me to order 15lbs of play-doh.
thanking science for roombas,
the crazy cat lady in #63


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Lollipops: Take Away the "A"
10:00 am: Hendricks Library, Simpsonville
11:30 am: Hughes Main Library, Greenville
Featuring Daniel Kirkpatrick, Percussion
This excursion through the alphabet introduces children to the fun spelling games within every language, as well as exploring the way we can manipulate the combinations of letters to make new words. These fun and educational combinations work their way through the alphabet with silly and inspired illustrations. The reading by SCCT Principal Teaching Artist Traysie Amick will animate this story, with the help of the GSO's inventive percussionist, Daniel Kirkpatrick.
Lollipops concerts introduce children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra through interactive concerts presented by members of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. During each concert, chamber ensembles accompany a storybook reading. And, of course, audience members receive a lollipop at the end of each performance!
Lollipops concerts are appropriate for children ages 2 to 7, although all children and adults are welcome. Programs last approximately 30 minutes. Reservations are not required and admission is free.
Lollipops is sponsored by BMW Manufacturing Co.


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While the Apple iPhone rumor mill has taken a break since a late-March Reuters article indicated that Apple may use a 4.6-inch screen in the next iPhone, a new report from iLounge editor-in-chief Jeremy Horwitz alludes to a thinner, longer version of the next iPhone that uses a 4.0-inch screen. While attempting to keep the phone the same width as the current iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S, the new iPhone design increases the height of the smartphone and alters the aspect ratio to a widescreen format with the 4.0-inch screen. Horwitz indicates that rear casing of the new iPhone will be metal rather than glass and completely flat rather than use a curved body style.
Keeping the front body design identical to the glass on the iPhone 4 and 4S, the new iPhone is approximately 20 percent thinner than the previous version. Specifically, the iPhone 4S is 9.3mm thick and the new iPhone would be 7.4mm thick.
According to Horwitz, this will be accomplished by using Gorilla Glass 2 on the new phone. The new version of Gorilla Glass can be manufactured thinner than the Gorilla Glass found on the iPhone 4S, but at the same strength as the current iPhone. Gorilla Glass is widely used by many smartphone manufacturers including LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and HTC.
Beyond forcing iPhone 4 and 4S owners to purchase new cases for the altered height of the new smartphone, iOS developers would have to create two different resolutions of applications to cover all users. However, older applications could easily run on the new iPhone at the old resolution with .25-inch black bars above and below the on-screen graphics, somewhat similar to watching 4:3 television content on a widescreen HDTV. App developers could also use the extra space on the screen for a variety of touch controls that don't interfere with the main area. For instance, game developers could create visual buttons and place them in the black space to the left and right of the phone when holding it horizontally. However, this would be the first time Apple has altered the aspect ratio on the iPhone since 2007.
According to 9to5Mac, iLounge's reputation for predicting future iterations of Apple products have been fairly accurate and stem from "multiple sources inside the case-making industry due to its CES iLounge affiliations." Beyond the alteration in screen size and thickness, Horwitz claims that the dock on the bottom of the phone will change from the familiar 30-pin dock connector to a smaller size. This new dock connector potentially has as little as 16 pins and would be rolled out on all new iOS devices including the next iPad and the next iPod Touch. However, this will require the consumer electronics industry to manufacture brand new iPhone-compatible devices that utilize the new dock unless a dock adapter is released.
The launch window of the new iPhone still remains a mystery and many consumers are waiting for more information to be released at Apple's WWDC 2012 conference taking place in approximately six weeks in San Francisco. Last year at WWDC 2011, Apple went into great detail about the improvements that iOS 5 would bring to the iPhone and iPad platforms. However, Steve Jobs used the keynote at WWDC 201o to announced the launch of the iPhone 4, so it's possible that Apple could repeat this process at WWDC 2012.


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A current Art 365 Artist, Alexandra Knox credits some of her artistic success to Momentum.
"I have found that my confidence in my work and myself has been boosted, as well as my communication skills with curators and gallery directors," Knox said of Momentum.
|Knox performing at Momentum OKC 2012
Momentum does not just hold value for those young artists who do get in, however, as Knox is eager to point out: "Momentum offers the Oklahoma community a chance to educate the public on contemporary art. The opening nights for Momentum also give press to bands and local music, which just enhances the local and homegrown creative scenes of Oklahoma. Everyone wins."
As a member of the committee Knox also gets to use her experience to benefit the next generation of Momentum artists "I feel as though since I am a veteran of Momentum, I can contribute some valuable information that can help create the best Momentum yet," she said.
|Knox in her studio
"Some encouraging words for young artists wanting to apply to Momentum: JUST DO IT! I have observed many students and young artists that are afraid of rejection and failure. But ya can't win if you don't play, and you have to be able to take rejection as an artist.And even if you don't get accepted this time, go to the opening-- OVAC can put on a great party!"
For more information on Momentum OKC 2014 and how to submit as an artist, visit www.MomentumOklahoma.org
Submissions for Momentum OKC are due by January 27, 2014 at 5 pm. Oklahoma artists aged 30 and younger are eligible. Momentum OKC opens March 7-8, 8-midnight, at the Farmer's Public Market, OKC.


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Chapter 97
Five days later Christopher sees five red cars in a row, which meant it was going to be a Super Good Day. At the shop at the end of his road after school Christopher bumps into Mrs Alexander. Christopher avoids talking to her so as not to get into any trouble but after exchanging a few words he considers that nothing 'super' had happened yet and that talking to Mrs Alexander may well be the special thing that was going to happen that day.
Thinking through the list of things his father forbade him to do, Christopher reasons that talking to Mrs Alexander does not break any of the rules. He asks her 'Do you know Mr Shears?'
Mrs Alexander asks Christopher why he is so interested in Mr Shears - she wonders if it is because of Wellington. She says it is best not to talk about Mr Shears and that it will upset Christopher's father and that Christopher knows why his father doesn't like Mr Shears. Christopher doesn't understand and asks Mrs Alexander why his father doesn't like Mr Shears. Worried that she has already said too much and that Christopher will ask his father what she meant, Mrs Alexander tells Christopher the truth and makes him promise he won't tell his father she told him. Before she died, Christopher's mother was having an affair with Mr Shears.
Chapter 101
In this chapter, Christopher presents a mathematical problem. He tells of how in a magazine in America there was a column called Ask Marilyn, written by a woman with the highest IQ in the world. In 1990 a question was sent to Marilyn: on a game show program there are three doors. Behind one door there is a car, behind the other two there are goats. You pick one door and another opens, revealing a goat. You are asked whether you want to change your mind about the two unopened doors. Marilyn argues that you should always change your mind and pick the final door as there is a two in three chance that the car will be behind that.
Lots of people wrote in to complain that she was wrong and she explained why she was not. Intuition would say that there is a 50% chance that the car will be behind the original door chosen but logic states that there is a one third chance that it will be behind the original.
This is why Christopher thinks logic is more reliable than intuition for working out problems in life.
Chapter 103
Christopher returns home from his trip to the shop where he bumped into Mrs Alexander. The maintenance mann is drinking beer and watching TV with his father.
Christopher tells us that Siobhan said that it was important to include description in a book so that people can imagine the picture in their heads. Christopher goes out into the garden with the intention of 'doing a description' but is only interested in the sky, which he describes in detail.
Chapter 107
The Hound of the Baskervilles is Christopher's favorite book and he recaps the story. Christopher like Sherlock Holmes because he notices the kind of things that Christopher notices. Christopher quotes Dr Watson's observation of Sherlock Holmes from the book: ...his mind...was busy in endeavoring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently disconnected episodes could be fitted. Christopher says that is what he is trying to do by writing the book.
The first part of the jigsaw puzzle is revealed, although we still believe that Christopher's mother is dead.
Christopher believes that the day will be a good one because he sees five red cars in a row. His own sense of order is like a religion – if it is a super day then maybe the signs are indicating to him that Mrs Alexander is a useful person to speak to.
It is interesting that Christopher has his own almost religious symbols: to him, five red cars definitely means it is going to be a super day - knowing that he decides he will risk speaking to Mrs Alexander. In a way his decision here is based on what he sees as a logical decision that something super will happen and that that may well be the conversation with Mrs Alexander.
When Mrs Alexander tells Christopher not to talk about Mr Shears because he knows it will upset his father we realize that Christopher's mystery goes a lot deeper than he knows: there are clearly secrets that have been kept from him and as a result the reader must think that it is possible that there are people who know who killed Wellington. At this stage however, Mrs Alexander holds true to the fact that Christopher's mother is dead - how much do we believe this? Was Mrs Alexander telling what she believed to be the truth? Who is to be believed and who is acting?
The mathematical problem Christopher relates shows his relationship with the world as one based on logic and not feeling. This of course it exactly how the book is written - a logical step by step account trying to ascertain who killed Wellington. The story he relates about the magazine columnist is quite true - the problem was mentioned in the "Ask Marilyn" column of Parade in 1990, and due to the incredible reader response an unprecedented four columns were given to publishing a mathematical explanation. The puzzle is most commonly known as the Monty Hall Problem, after the host of the game show "Let's Make A Deal" in which, yes, Monty Hall gave players a choice between doors containing cars and goats.
Christopher is interested in describing the sky because it takes him further away from earth. Again we have a kind of commentary through Siobhan, who gives instructions on how to write a novel, which Christopher sporadically follow. Siobhan's advice reads as ridiculous in this context, because Christopher's novel is most compelling when he follows his own way of viewing the world, rather than adhering to convention. The sky description doesn't so much make us paint a picture as tell us about Christopher and the way he sees things.


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The undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree program focuses on the education and research that deals with the waters of the earth, their occurrence, circulation, distribution, and chemical properties, as well as their interaction within the global environment. These waters include surface waters in lakes, rivers and streams, and subsurface water which occurs at varying depths beneath the land surface. Study also includes the interaction of surface and subsurface water with the atmosphere, the land-atmosphere (critical zone) connection.
Although its foundation is theoretical--based on the fundamental laws of physics, chemistry, and mathematics--the program is a highly developed Applied Science that investigates and characterizes the environmental state of our water resources. The undergraduate program trains students to use the tools and develop the actions necessary to protect, rehabilitate, and sustain these resources.
The Accelerated Master's Program enables qualified students to complete a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Hydrology and a Master of Science degree program in Hydrology in a compressed timeline, typically a five-year professionally-oriented program.
BS Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources (EHY) Major Course Grid
BS-MS Accelerated Master's Program (AMP) Handbook and 5-Year Course Grid
Upon completion of this program, students will have the Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs) with skills and abilities to:
- Effectively communicate hydrologic concepts and research
- Collect hydrologic data (e.g. surface water, groundwater, water quality)
- Analyze hydrologic data (e.g. surface water, groundwater, water quality)
- Complete a basic hydrologic or water resources research project that involves integrated problem solving
Table 1 (link below) identifies all of the HWRS Courses Assessed in which skill-building takes place to achieve the ELOs which are ultimately measured in HWRS 498/498H and/or HWRS 413A/513A and reported as the final grade (or averaged grade) of one or both of these classes.
Table 1: How Individual Courses Contribute to Expected Learning Outcomes - BS EHY Program
Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs) for the Undergraduate Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Program
HAS 100% Engagement - College of Science & Environmental Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
The measures of all four Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs) is assessed in HWRS 498 Senior Capstone (or HWRS 498H Honors Senior Capstone) and/or HWRS 413A Field Methods in Hydrology and Water Resources, both of which are culminating experiences for the students. The courses students have completed up to that point, i.e. those listed in the ELO Table (above), contribute to skill-building and the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to succeed in these culminating experiences; therefore, the ELOs can be measured by the final grade for either course. Consequently, the final grade for the course represents an effective measure of EHY students' accomplishments by Exceeding our expectations for the ELOs (A=4.0), Meeting the ELOs (B=3.0-3.9), Approaching the ELOs (C=2.0-2.9), Falling below the ELOs (D=1.0-1.9), or Failing to meet the ELOs (E=0.0-0.9).
While the measure of ELOs is reported as the grades students receive in HWRS 498/H and/or HWRS 413A/513A, they receive specific feedback on individual assignments that pertain to the ELOs.
Outcome 1: Effectively communicate hydrologic concepts and research
- Grade on final written report in HWRS 498/498H and/or HWRS 413A
- Score on El Día del Agua y la Atmósfera poster or oral presentation
Outcome 2: Collect hydrologic data (e.g. surface water, groundwater, water quality)
- Grades on data collection assignments in HWRS 413A
Outcome 3: Analyze hydrologic data (e.g. surface water, groundwater, water quality)
- Grades on analysis assignments in HWRS 413A or El Día judges' assessment of analysis in presentation
Outcome 4: Complete a basic hydrologic or water resources research project that involves integrated problem solving
- Grade on final written report for HWRS 413A or final written report in HWRS 498/498H
Measures for the Undergraduate Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources Program
HAS 100% Engagement - College of Science & Environmental Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
Figure 1 below shows the results of the HAS Department's Assessment of ELOs for graduates of the BS degree program in Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources. In Academic Year (AY) 2014-15 (6 students) and AY2015-16 (10 students), 100% of graduating students Exceeded the ELOs, i.e. all earned A's in HWRS 498/498H and/or HWRS 413A/513A. In AY2016-17, 86% of graduating students (6 students) Exceeded the ELOs (i.e. all earned A's), while 14% of graduating students (1 student) Met the ELOs with an average grade of B=3.625.
Figure 1: Percent of BS EHY Students Meeting or Exceeding the Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs)
Program Quality Indicators
The career outlook for students majoring in hydrology and water resources is excellent, spurred largely by increasing demands placed on the environment and water resources by population growth. Post-graduate employment opportunities exist within the Private Sector (industry, consulting), with Government-Tribal Agencies, and with NPOs NGOs.


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Even if you feel that you don't have any, you can still save money!
The Design to Saving Money
Even if you feel that you don't have any, you can still save money!
By Ayesha Baig, FMFB
Salim Khan and his family moved to Karachi in mid 2002, when he found a decent job with a software company. After years of scrimping and saving to pay off his earlier debts and repositioning themselves in the new cosmopolitan city, they had earned a tidy station in their social society. Yet, ten years later, the 42-year old IT manager, is still sitting on the sidelines, renting while real estate prices march ever upwards in the city, and worrying over how he would send his three adolescent children to good universities. The decision ten years ago might seem like a prudent move in an uncertain economy; but Salim says that financial insecurity still keeps him awake at nights.
Pakistan's economy has considerably lost its growth momentum during the last five years – the economic growth rate has averaged just around 2.6% as against 5.3% in the preceding eight years. The multiple reasons like the global financial crises, intensification of war on terror, security hazards, political instability, acute power shortages and the devastating floods for three consecutive years, have not only decelerated the economic growth, but has had spill-over effects; the ever increasing food prices and inflation has adversely affected the everyday life of simple people living in this country. Undoubtedly, the financial insecurity that Salim Khan faces……or you and I fear?
John Poole
Why Do We Save?
People save for a variety of reasons. I, for one, save for more security – to know that if I fall sick, I will not have to rely on others to foot my hospital bills. I would not need to run up a debt to buy food or pay my utility bills, and life would not change much for me. More so, I save for my retirement – to be able to live comfortably like I do today, 20 years from now when I will not be able to work or earn any money. A part of this feeling comes from my ego or my long standing principle to be financially independent and not accepting help from others. Notwithstanding this may sound like denying altruism, yet in the current times with everyone, even your close relatives and friends, having various financial burdens, is this wrong to think?
There are others who save for their children's future – not just for their higher education, but to give them the best at every stage in life. They plan to save on regular basis from the time the child is born, so that the child is even able to start with a good play school. People save to buy a house for themselves or for their retirement; so technically they are asking their current self to take care of their future. They are giving themselves the ability to depend on themselves for a while longer – so that in their old age, they have the financial security. And then there are others who save for emergencies – the unforeseen events like natural calamities and financial shocks, and life-cycle events like untimely death of a close one, which can change their life overnight. The important thing here to realize is the circumstances we live in today…. and plan for a better tomorrow.
How To Save?
You may feel that you do not earn enough to meet your basic needs, and hence you cannot save. But even if it may seem like that you have nothing to save, you can still save money.
It is important that you set saving goals, both short term and long term goals and an attainable time-frame to achieve these goals. Accordingly, you can then calculate how much you need to save per day, per week or per month to achieve these goals. You do not need to save a big amount – it can be any amount, but on a regular basis. It is important to control how much you spend in order to be able to save on regular basis. Keep a record of all your expenses, and do not spend more than what you earn. Think about how you can trim your expenses. Can you cut down on car fuel, restrict eating out and forwarding unlimited sms jokes, or even taking one less cup of tea on daily basis? I have seen poor women in Lahore who started saving as small as Pkr 100 per week once they started keeping a record of their daily expenses. They realized that they were spending Pkr 20 more during their daily grocery shopping, which they could do without and they also stopped giving extra pocket money to their children to spend at school canteen. Hence, reassess your financial goals and make your budget. Savings should be your priority, so do not just save whatever is left over at the end of the month. Treat your regular saving as a bill and pay it as soon as you get paid. A fixed amount of deposit each month requires little thought; over several years, you would have a sizeable sum in savings. However, good things often take time and longer than you expect. So do not get discouraged and do not give up if the desired amount of saving does not happen as you planned. The important thing is to stick to the plan.
Where To Save
Savings should be put in a place which ensures security, liquidity and appropriate return to the saver. You should consider the following before placing your savings at any place/institution:
1. Legal Status: The institution's legal status and whether it is licensed and regulated by the State Bank of Pakistan is important to ensure the security of the savings. The SBP ensures depositors' interests with the institution;
2. Shareholder/Owners of the Institution: The financial strength, market reputation and the success of other businesses of the shareholders confirms the security of the savings with the institution;
3. Credit Rating: Credit ratings are assigned by external agencies to financial institutions based on their level of their services and transparency of operations. It is therefore an indicator of the institution's credibility and capacity.
4. Management: Assess who would be managing your saving and whether they have the right expertise, knowledge and experience to do so. A regulated bank has professionals who are experts in managing the savings so that they remain secure and liquid;
5. Easy Access/Liquidity: Another factor to consider is whether the funds placed with the institution can be withdrawn at times of need. If they cannot be accessed, the objective of saving is lost;
6. Earnings/Return on savings: One must consider the return on the investment being made. The deposited amount should earn a return for the depositor based on the competitive market rates. It is important to bear in mind that informal financial institution like pawn house, village organization, cooperative society, individual investor, etc offer higher than market based returns to attract people to place savings with them. However, such institutions are not regulated by the State Bank and their operations are not supervised by any independent governing body. Hence, the efficiency, transparency and sustainability of their operation is at risk. May be today, they might be able to offer you a better rate, but they may not be there tomorrow to even give you back your principal saving. Therefore, strike a balance between return and risks before deciding where to place your savings.


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This blog post should be dedicated to my mentor jaragunde at Igalia, as he had been the one pointing me out to go back again and again to that wrong PR, I made, and correct it. The first time I did, it sounded a bit confusing, and here you go!
You are working on an
XYZ Pull Request having a series of commits namely
11233 and the latest one being
5514134. Your mentor tells you there is a mistake in 11233, and you want to go back to that commit, and correct the same.
Alright, so lets assume you are in the branch
myfaultybranch with the
git log showing up
5514134 at the top.
git stash– lets make sure there are no debris left!
git rebase -i 11233^– make sure you put the
^at the end, otherwise the following steps would fail miserably.
- on the screen that come up, you will have the other commits too listed, looking like
pick 11233 [#222] Your faulty commit message here pick 234234 [#222] This commit has no problem
Edit the first line, from
editso that it looks like:
edit 11233 [#222] Your faulty commit message here pick 234234 [#222] This commit has no problem
- Save, and you are in a state where you are one step before committing 11233. Yay! Now make all your changes you want, correct all the mistakes at your ease!
- Once set,
git addand
git commit --amendand modify the commit message too, if you want
- All set, and you can now execute
git rebase --continueand you will be back in your commit
5514134. Yay!
- Push your changes to your
originvia a
git push -f myfaultybranch
- In case you screw up in between, please do
git reset --hard 5514134and you will be reverted back 🙂
Hope it helps! Lets rewrite history! Found something wrong ? Please do comment!


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It's time to sharpen your programming skills, cudgel your brains and cogitate your dreams. devworx, in partnership with IBM, is excited to announce the IBM Developer SuperStar Contest 2012. This contest offers you the opportunity to measure your capabilities and compare yourself to other programming brains from around the nation!
All you have to do is to develop your own idea into a working reality, and you get an opportunity to be acknowledged by IBM – a company that constantly re-defines the benchmark for innovation.
Whether you're developing a new system that includes mechanical, electrical, and software components, or you're focused on the design and delivery of a software system to automate a business process, you'll have a chance to take center stage and demonstrate how your idea can make a difference, and help make the world a smarter place.
We're happy to be associated with IBM for this activity. So, if you're seeking a challenge and are a highly-talented programmer, it's time for you to turn your imaginations into reality. We're sure many of you will come up with some delightfully unique ideas for this enduring concourse.
We've included a step-by-step guide on how you can submit your idea.
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RT News - June 11, 2016 (17:00 MSK)
Published time: 11 Jun, 2016 16:54
ISIL conducts deadly twin bombings in a Damascus suburb, as the extremists lose territories and suffer desertion by foreign fighters. Refugees, desperate to reach Britain, are risking their lives by crossing the English Channel in small boats, raising fears of tragedies similar to the Mediterranean where thousands have drowned. Within hours of Euro 2016 opening - Russian and English football fans turn on each other, ahead of their teams' game. There are major security concerns with fans clashing two nights in a row.


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The following lectures are scheduled this week at area colleges. All events are free and open to the public:
- 5:30 p.m. today. "The Body of the Slave and the Body of the Slaveholder," Andrew Levy, English professor, Butler University. Room 1001, Wiekamp Hall, Indiana University South Bend
- 4 p.m. Tuesday. "Is Capital Punishment Justified?" debate. Room 223-225, Student Activities Center, IUSB
- 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. "Political Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequality," Larry Bartels, founding director of Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University. Room 155, DeBartolo Classroom Building, Notre Dame
- 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. "Stem Cells, Embryos and Ethics: Is There a Way Forward?" William B. Hurlbut, M.D., consulting professor in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University and a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. Auditorium, McKenna Hall, Notre Dame
- 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. "My Body, My Self," Arnold Weinstein, comparative literature professor, Brown University. Room 1001, Wiekamp Hall, Indiana University South Bend
- 7 p.m. Thursday. Discussion following a screening of the film "The Corporation." Room 1001, Wiekamp Hall, IUSB
- 10:40 a.m. Friday. "Future Government and Public Policy," William McGurn, chief speech writer for the White House. Auditorium, Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame
- 11 a.m. Friday. "Social Justice Through Public Service: How to Do It," Madeline Janis-Aparicio, executive director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Room 119, O'Shaughnessy Hall, Notre Dame
- 2 p.m. Friday. "Getting Results: Strategies that Work to Overcome Urban Poverty," Madeline Janis-Aparicio, executive director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Room 129, DeBartolo Classroom Building, Notre Dame Listings of lectures appear each Monday in The Tribune. Entries may be mailed to the Metro Desk, South Bend Tribune, 225 W. Colfax Ave., South Bend, IN 46626; faxed to (574) 235-6104; or sent via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. Thursday.


text: New Earth Farm & Compost Company, located in Virginia Beach, provides natural and organic products for the farm and garden. We supply fresh vegetables, fruit and pasture raised eggs directly to our Tidewater customers as well as to local stores and restaurants. We are a completely sustainable farm, priding ourselves on never using chemical fertilizers or pesticides. You can eat well knowing our produce was grown using only natural techniques that are kind to our earth.


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Personality types[edit]
Since all villager come in one personality type, the section that deals with "personality" should be more like an automated paragraph. What I mean by that is, we don't need to type an original paragraph every time we describe a villager personality because ultimately, villagers are part of a template. Since each personality type is also associated with a gender, we don't have to worry about the pronouns. Anyway, this might help bolster the stub pages, although the furniture stuff might take more work to do. ™ 14:42, March 7, 2015 (EST)
The navigation templates for the villagers should encompass all villagers, divided by species, not just list a fraction of all villagers by its species. It's to ease navigation, but I don't see any qualms with this. Does anyone else agree? ™ 14:14, May 25, 2015 (EDT)


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A dramatic ending put Duke on its way to a familar nook of the NCAA bracket and sent Coach K into even more exclusive company.
Nolan Smith scored 24 points and top-seeded Duke held off a late rally to beat Michigan 73-71 on Sunday and give Mike Krzyzewski his 900th career victory.
Kyle Singler added 13 points for the Blue Devils (32-4), who shot 51 percent, never trailed in the second half and advanced to the round of 16 for the 12th time in 14 years.
Darius Morris scored 16 points to lead the eighth-seeded Wolverines (21-14), who trailed by 15 with 10:51 to play but clawed within one point twice in the final 90 seconds. They had one last chance after Smith missed a free throw with 8.7 seconds left.
Morris' runner in the lane with 2 seconds left bounced off the back iron and Smith grabbed the rebound at the buzzer, sealing Duke's trip to Anaheim, Calif., for the West regional semifinals Thursday night.
Kyrie Irving and Ryan Kelly scored 11 points apiece for the Blue Devils, who won their eighth straight game in the NCAA tournament.
Krzyzewski improved to 900-283 in his 36th season, and can catch his mentor and college coach for first on the career list next weekend. He would match Knight with a victory in the regional final, and would pass him with one win in Houston that also would put the reigning national champions back in the title game.
Still, Michigan nearly made Krzyzewski wait until next year — or at least work overtime — to try for No. 900.
Coach John Beilein frustrated Duke by mixing his defenses, and Tim Hardaway Jr. reeled off seven consecutive points down the stretch — capped by a 3-pointer that made it 70-69 with 1:27 remaining. Duke milked the clock before Irving's banked-in jumper with 32 seconds left, but Morris followed that with a layup that cut it to 72-71 with 10 seconds left.
Duke fouled Smith with 8.7 seconds left, and he made his first attempt but missed the second. Zack Novak got the rebound and got it to Morris, who headed straight for the lane and put up Michigan's last shot. After the horn sounded, Morris laid face-down on the floor and repeatedly slapped the court with his palm in frustration.
Hardaway scored 15 points, Evan Smotrycz had 13, Novak scored 12 and Jordan Morgan finished with 10 for the Wolverines, who don't have a senior on the roster but were denied their first trip to the round of 16 since 1994.
This was the first postseason meeting between the two big-name schools since the 1992 national championship game, won by Christian Laettner and the Blue Devils over the Wolverines and the Fab Five.
That became especially relevant in the wake of a recent ESPN documentary in which Jalen Rose said Duke "only recruited black players that were 'Uncle Toms'" and former Blue Devil star Grant Hill criticized him for those comments. Krzyzewski spent much of this week downplaying that storyline while repeatedly declining comment on that era, saying it had no bearing on the present-day team.
The Blue Devils slogged through a largely uninspired afternoon and allowed the scrappy Wolverines to hang around.
And with 16:59 to play, Krzyzewski had seen enough.
After Smith missed a layup and the rebound went out of bounds, Coach K called a timeout and could be seen zipping from side to side in the Duke huddle. At some point during the break, Krzyzewski took off his suit coat — a clear sign that he meant business — and coached the rest of the game without it.
That sparked the 19-6 run that gave Duke its largest lead. Smith, the Atlantic Coast Conference's player of the year, scored 10 straight points to start the burst. Singler made it 58-43 with a three point play with roughly 11 minutes to go to put the Blue Devils in control — or so it seemed.


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It was a fantastic year for us at 8I Education in 2016!
Here are our highlights:
- In January, we set up 8IH China (Shanghai) Co Ltd, partnering with Mr Tian Dehua, to promote Millionaire Investor Program (Chinese) in China. In March, we have successfully set the foundation for our future growth in China by conducting our first Chinese program from 18th to 20th March 2016.
- In the same month of January, we also completed Value Investing Summit 2016 where we saw a record breaking of 1,610 participants. We were honoured by Tan Teng Boo, Dr Niwes Hemvachiravarakorn, Sean Seah, and other speakers with us.
- In April, we launched our new program titled Capital Precession Program (CPP). CPP aims to provide thought leadership training to private business owners and entrepreneurs, so as to empower them to build resilient business models, develop effective management skills, achieve financial performance and sustainable growth.
- We continued to grow our geographical footprint with the successful acquisition of Financial Joy Institute Pte Ltd in June 2016. The company provides financial and investment education through its main program, Value Investing College boot camp in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar, India and Vietnam.
- In July, we were at Invest Fair to spread the concept of Value Investing. It was a hit!
- In August, we celebrated our 8th Anniversary with our MIP family
- In September, we launched our new program titled Get Your Dollar Sense (GYDS). GYDS aims to provide undergraduates and youth with step-by-step plan to unleash their million-dollar business idea and start their journey towards financial freedom.
- In November, we welcomed our oldest MIP graduate who was 80 years old, and we delivered a "WOW" surprise to our 5,000th MIP graduate who walked away with a cash prize of RM5,000!
- Altogether, we were busy throughout the calendar year with our REITs program, Capital Precession Program, Mencius Advanced Property Investment Course, Get Your Dollar Sense, Train-the-Trainer and our flagship Millionaire Investor Program.
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text: All bedrooms and suites have en suite bathrooms in Tadelakt plaster and mosaics, with a shower and separate toilets. The bathrooms also have bathrobes, hairdryers and shower gel or soaps. They are decorated with full respect for Moroccan traditions. The rooms are appointed with double or king-size beds. All rooms have air conditioning and they are also equipped with a GSM (in case guests get lost in the medina's labyrinth of alleyways). Other amenities include Internet access, a washing machine, an ironing set and individually regulated heating.


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MSI X79 Big Bang XPower II review -
Final words and conclusion
Final words and conclusion
The MSI Big bang XPower II is an incredible motherboard in many ways. The only thing lacking really would be Wireless Ethernet and / or Bluetooth. Other then that this dark demonic piece of hardware is chucked full with features, and looking very nice.
The XPower II is an impressive motherboard. It's feature rich, a great overclocker and has downright gorgeous looks. If you are a novice overclocker and go for easy as 1-2-3, flick the OC Genie button and it will get you an instant performance boost, our processor was clocked automatically towards 4 GHz. But that's a little pale compared to what you already get at default baseline performance.
Overclocking itself with the UEFI BIOS is fun as well, it really is an easy to work in environment. MSI implemented two uEFI BIOSes by the way, you can can switch in-between them (say a normal and high performance profile), good stuff.
We do like to recommend to MSI though to explain the BIOS features better. For example while overclocking you like to disable VDROOP at BIOS level. Right now when you look at the VDROOP settings it ON or you can select level 1 to 7. Without an explanation what these levels do stuff like that is a bit of a mystery. A lot of BIOS features could leave you wondering what exactly they do, and that might hinder a better overclock result.
For overclocking itself we reached 4900 MHz in a matter of minutes really. the motherboard did need some somewhat advanced fine-tuning though. Mind you though that we work with vanilla picked engineering sample CPUs, we can never guarantee you'll achieve the same results at home. It works vice versa as well, we've seen end-users with much higher overclocks then we have ever achieved. Yeah yeah, rub it in my face, that's OK!
BTW I'm confident that 5 GHz+ is a valid possibility with this motherboard as well, yet with the Corsair H100 cooler we reached an upper threshold in temperatures. E.g. hitting 80~90 Degrees C will ruin your day :)
So once again, we have little to complain, whatever memory we popped in it worked right out of the box, the XMP profiles are recognized and can be activated making your memory configurations really easy.
The board layout itself is pretty good, there are so many extra ICs on the motherboard that there hardly is any room left for anything else. Each square inch was tucked full and the many power phases will make sure each component has the right and stable amount of juice flowing through it.
The motherboard looks the way it does, a clean and stylish dark design. Please do realize that the motherboard is based on an XL-ATX form factor, that means its slightly bigger then you are used too. Make sure it fits in your chassis, the dimensions are 34.5 x 26.4 cm for those that like to measure that up and check.
The baseline performance of the product is better then your average X79 motherboard, this is due to the trick we explained. MSI has changed the Turbo bin variable for you at default to 3900 MHz on all logical CPU cores when the processors threaded Turbo's kick in. So If all cores are in use they all run at 3900 MHz, hence the higher then normal baseline performance offset.
With a price tag of roughly 300 EUR the Big Bang XPower II isn't a cheap motherboard alright, it however does bring a lot to the table. The sheer design, the build quality, 6x USB 3.0, 10x SATA (6 SATA3), the Intel Gigabit Ethernet jacks, 8 DIMMs, multi-GPU SLI and Crossfire(X) modes, dual BIOS, OC Genie, a 22 Phase PWM Design with a maximum output power of 770 Watts, the seven x16 PCIE slots, Gen 3 compatibility, and sure the niche overclockability didn't disappoint either. It's just a very well thought through motherboard that brings an exceptional basis towards the X79 chipset.
Luckily the "military" theme with the Gatling gun and bullet coolers didn't go over the top, it's all done subtle... and that is the word that defines the X79 Big Bang XPower II the best, subtle. Fact remains that with a much cheaper motherboard you'll achieve the very same overclocks with liquid cooling, it's however the design and sheer features that pushes the XPower II into a higher level. We like the motherboard very much and definitely can recommend it towards any enthusiast, as we assume, nobody will run a Sandy Bridge-E processor at default clock frequencies ;)
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MSI today launches their Big Bang XPower II motherboard, we review and test it. A military themed motherboard for which they took the Intel Sandy Bridge-E chipset called X79, then they started designing a motherboard that will knock you of your feet once you place your first glimpse on it.


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From the mid to the late 20th century various French thinkers have at times toyed with the label of 'the saint', applying it to friends, colleagues, the revered and even the worshipped such as Genet, Sartre, Camus or Foucault. Despite this profaning of the term, however, there are many subtle truths which emerge from its usage among such writers.
This volume is devoted to exploring certain varied notions of 'the saint' in recent French philosophical and literary thought from within a theological context, offering insights and valuable contributions toward how we understand sainthood in cultural, philosophical and religious terms.
Each essay focuses on the convergence of a particular author's work and their various (re)formulations of 'saintliness' in their writings, whether this concept is directly expressed in their writings or not. In general, the aim of the volume is to develop a critical engagement between each authors' philosophical worldview and historical notions of sainthood, such that we are capable of providing new understandings of what a 'saint' could be said to be in our world today.


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By AMANDA VINCENT
The NASCAR Sprint Cup and Xfinity Series travel to the Poconos this weekend for racing at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., with the Xfinity Series running the Pocono Green 250 on Saturday and the Sprint Cup Series closing out the weekend with the Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 on Sunday. For the Xfinity Series, Saturday's race will mark the circuit's first at the track also known as the "Tricky Triangle." Meanwhile, the Camping World Truck Series continues its time off.
The Xfinity Series will kick off the weekend's on-track activity with two practice sessions on Thursday. The Sprint Cup Series will first take the track Friday. Here's the complete schedule of on-track activity (courtesy of NASCAR.com):
All times ET
2-2:55 p.m. — Xfinity Series practice
4-4:55 p.m. — Xfinity Series practice
11 a.m.-12:25 p.m. — Sprint Cup Series practice (FOX Sports 1)
12:30-1:25 p.m. — Xfinity Series practice (FOX Sports 1)
3-3:55 p.m. — Xfinity Series final practice (FOX Sports 1)
4:15 p.m. — Sprint Cup Series qualifying (FOX Sports 1)
9:05 a.m. — Xfinity Series qualifying (FOX Sports 1)
11:30 a.m.-12:25 p.m. — Sprint Cup Series final practice (FOX Sports 1)
1 p.m. — Xfinity Series race (FOX)
1 p.m. — Sprint Cup Series race (FOX Sports 1)
WEATHER (courtesy of Accuweather.com):
The weather forecast Long Pond, Pa., location of Pocono Raceway, looks clean and clear for Xfinity Series practice on Thursday, with no rain in the forecast, partly sunny skies and a temperature hovering around the mid 70s.
Friday is when the weather is expected to get a little sketchy and possibly interfere with on-track scheduling. Thunderstorms, accompanied by precipitation chances of about 50 percent, are expected in the afternoon. Rain may move out of the area, though, in time for Sprint Cup qualifying. Temperatures in the afternoon and early evening on Friday are expected to fall in the ballpark of the upper-60s to low-70s.
The local forecast has weather clearing up for Saturday, with rain chances in the single digits and temperatures starting in the mid-60s and moving into the mid-70s for Xfinity Series racing. The day's forecast also looks good for a morning Xfinity Series qualifying session and a final Sprint Cup Series practice session under partly sunny skies.
Unfortunately, though, a thunderstorm is expected to hit the area just before Sprint Cup Series race time on Sunday. Storms chances remain in the area for a few hours before clearing out Sunday evening. With those storm chances, afternoon precipitation chances are around 58 percent at the scheduled green flag, dropping into the 40s later in the afternoon. While thunderstorms move out of the area in the afternoon, precipitation is expected to stick around.
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As of July 2015, past episodes of "Revenge" are available for streaming on Hulu Plus. Episodes of "Revenge" are also available on Google Play and VUDU for $1.99 each.
Hulu Plus has the fourth season of "Revenge," consisting of 23 episodes, available for streaming with access to a Hulu Plus membership. The site also has the last five episodes of the fourth season available for free. The entire series of "Revenge" is available for purchase on Google Play and VUDU. On both services, episodes are available for $1.99 each, and entire seasons are available for as low as $14.99. Prices for seasons vary depending on whether they are in standard definition or high definition.