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Hear the release of rare Paul Robeson vocal recordings from the Charles L. Blockson Collections of African Americana and the African Diaspora featured on Penn State's Alumni Library at. Actor, concert singer, professional athlete, lawyer, and social activist, Robeson was one of the most important American cultural icons in the twentieth century.
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Commentary: On a show based around the need to "become someone else," have they redeemed the worst character of all? Here's why I'm not just laughing.
You can't really call this a spoiler since they've been building to it all season and behind-the-scenes pictures have been out for months. Still, if you're watching the CW's "Arrow" and haven't seen Episode 10 yet, scroll down at your own risk.
I'd be sadder if I really believed she's 100 percent dead.
The various Oliver-Laurel love triangles were the most boring part of "Arrow" season 1, and the show got better the further it moved away from there. Now Laurel, played by Katie Cassidy, is back as a central character, and as one of the masked crime-fighters.
Huge mistake or about time? I want to give Laurel's Black Canary a chance, because the show is really hitting its stride in season 3, and the creators have worked hard to rehabilitate her character, but it's a tough sell.
They told us at the start of the show's run that Laurel Lance's first name is Dinah -- marking her as the future Black Canary, crime-fighter and long-time love of Green Arrow in the comics. Still, with Oliver not being called Green Arrow and the dodging around whether his sidekick would be called Speedy, it seemed plausible that "Arrow" would shy away from comic continuity and Sara Lance, Laurel's sister, would be the only Canary.
Sara was tough. She'd been through a hell similar to Ollie's and came out with elite assassin training and a complex secret life. As Canary, Sara, more or less, made sense.
"I'm the justice you can't run from," says the assistant district attorney.
With that kind of competition, not to mention various villains, Laurel had to work hard to be the most hateful person in any scene, but she managed it -- from self-righteously betraying everyone she cared about, to stealing her own father's pain medication with the justification, "You don't understand!"
Or at least she was.
In season 3, we've seen a lot of nice developments. Thea and Roy finding some peace and becoming friends. Felicity finally getting the job she deserves (though that will probably turn out to be horrible and wrong somehow). People having conversations that make something close to logical sense.
And Laurel has been developed around her best feature, her love and respect for Sara. The writers showed the steps on the way to her new role -- admiring Sara in action, wanting to avenge her, wearing her jacket, the temptation to try to protect a woman in her AA group, the reality check of getting physically beaten, and finding a trainer. Laurel's still obnoxious and self-centered, but a lot easier to root for when she turns her determination somewhere positive. Even in "Left Behind," Diggle's trying to comfort her about Ollie but she's focused on finding out who's protecting the city. Learning it's no one, she suits up at last.
Still basically just Laurel.
I'm not so sure about the costume. Aside from the borrowed Canary accessories, it looks like generic fetish wear. A darker look makes sense since she's in mourning, but what's with all the buckles? Is it supposed to suggest a body bag?
The fighting style didn't say "boxing" to me, but at least she's not an instant ninja. And she knew she needed to incapacitate the guys with her sister's sonic scream gizmos before whacking them with the pole.
So what do you think, can you buy her as a superhero? I'm no longer hoping she'll fall off a cliff, but I still have trouble imagining her running around on rooftops taking down people with powers. Even with Wildcat's help, Laurel's just a petite office worker with some self-defense training. That doesn't make her a peer of the Arrow, or the Canary, or Roy. That doesn't even make her a peer of Diggle! And he's content with a ski mask.
But the city does have a vigilante vacuum right now, and Laurel's nothing if not confident. When the others come back -- in whatever combination -- maybe they can find a role for her. I'm still hoping Sara will magically return and we'll see two Canary wigs in the fray. Imagine the villains' faces. Now that would be fun.
Discuss: The big 'Arrow' question: Can you swallow this Canary?
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We find Jesus celebrating the feast in John 10: (Vv. 22-23, NIV) It’s not a coincidence that Jesus was in the temple area on the Feast of Lights for H It is also significant that the Lord referred to His body as a temple (2:19-22).
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Hi The pool is great f he likes swimming and the beach is literally outside. The sea front has lots going on. I think all hotels are populate by mature guests as they have the time to travel. I seem to remeber that there is free wifi through out.
Go to the end of the hotel drive, turn left and the seafront and Paignton green is a one-minute walk away.
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When I was still in high school, the PBS did a documentary on the Trans-Siberian trains. I became a little obsessed with the documentary, and then with the trains themselves, and then with the idea of going there and riding them myself. I had also written a short project about Lake Baikal in Siberia, another fascinating component to this “quit and drop everything, go to Siberia” motif I had going on.
Wow. You reached your maximum height at the age of 4.
Thanks for this post! You are truly an inspiration: two years?! Congratulations! And your photos are cute as heck, not to mention gorgeous.
I like this post Jodi. I was actually thinking this morning about the idea of a quarter-life crisis- people getting burned out and quitting their job to travel. I've never exactly had that, like you travel has been the goal for a long time.
It's hard to explain the why…what motivates us. However as I'm sure you've realized – some people are travelers and some aren't. Some people love to hear about travels and hang on every word, and some would rather discuss politics.
The main thing is that you realize it and then take the steps to make it happen. You have an amazing journey – one that will build and enhance your future and give you a lifetime of memories!
I admire your courage. Thanks for sharing!
I loved reading about what brought you to where you are! I think that is one of the most important stories and it really tells us who YOU are! I loved it!!
This is a great post.We all know that some people have the ned to travel but I enjoy when people break it down like this – I'd much rather discuss that than politics!
For me, it is no so much about leaving, moving, seeing but rather to experience moments like the one you started your post with. Being there and being able to soak it up, feeling grateful for life in general and having nothing else standing in the way.
The question for me is: what happens next? Do we even need a next? How can we turn this urge into a sustainable lifestyle? Can we indulge in this happiness without terribly missing the ones we love all the time?
Jodi, there are many more pists ahead of you if you want to stay on this topic ;) Thanks for the reflexion.
The more appropriate question is "why not?" Why not travel the world for two years? Good for you for doing what was right for you, instead of taking the more conventional path.
Kudos to you for having the courage and wisdom to put your conviction into practice! I have for very long, since childhood – felt an affinity and connection to travelling – but not taken the plunge, only dreamed about it. Your story inspires. I am based in Mumbai, India. Hope you have a wonderful time here.
well-written post, Jodi! this is such an inspiration.
i, too, aim to stop work for a living and just live for the sake of living itself. you rock!
Thank you so much for writing this post. You managed to put in words some of the essence of 'why travel'. The emotions you described in the first paragraphs rang true for me.
While I haven't yet started travelling for an extended period of time, your post is a source of inspiration.
great post! you really are an inspiration to all of us.
I'm lucky that my job as a photographer means that I travel most of the time.
I think life is too short to spend your life living the 9-5 treadmill.
You added fuel to the lifelong desire of mine to travel the world. I have been wanting to do so for last 15 years. Thanks for posting this. I will go down the beaten path too one day…hopefully soon.
Thanks for all the responses – the post is more personal than my usual fare, but I am thrilled to hear that it has been inspiring!
@Stephanie: I realized your attitude toward travel was in line with mine when I read your post about leaving. As I commented there, it isn't running if you don't have anything to run from. I don't blame assuming I needed to run away, so long as they are open to reading and understanding that it's not always the case. For some of us, the longing to discover the world firsthand is all we need to get up and go.
@Chloe Many more pistes, for sure! I owe you for convincing me to join Twitter and for inspiring me to share more about myself. An important corollary to this post, and one that I will likely write in the near future, is the vast number of wonderful people you meet on a RTW. People who change your life, for better or for worse, and who become woven into the fabric of your existence as a result. My 're-entry' this summer will be a challenge, and sustaining this type of joy perhaps impossible. But I will try! Either way: Corner Bistro this sumer. It's on.
@Stuti I've pushed back my India, Nepal and Sri Lanka portions of the trip until the fall, but will ping you before I head to Mumbai for some places to eat.
Hi Jodi, Very well expressed.
I love reading accounts like these. There is something indescribable about what drives us to travel. Thankfully, articulating it isn't required. Nice post.
(Apologies for the repost but I don't have a Blogger profile).
You are very!
Man, it is so good to hear from someone who is ridiculously happy with their choice to travel long-term. I feel compelled to pull out my pom poms and cheer! No really, that sounded sarcastic, but it’s not! Your happiness is totally infectious so thanks for putting it out there. It’s also cool that you realise how lucky you are (seeing the benefits of the bird poo now huh!?) and expressed it so that it didn’t sound naf.
I can completely identify with wanting to “soak it all up like a sponge”, in fact, the more time I spend on blogs and twitter the more I realise that there is a whole subset of people who fall into this category. I really look forward to meeting more of these people on the road. I hope more of the not-already-travel-obsessed people read posts like this and are inspired to get out there and at least give it a go.
I can imagine everyone’s shock at you giving up the ‘dream job’ in the ‘dream city’ so you can go rough it with smelly backpackers in another time zone. I say I can imagine, but I don’t really understand, although I try very hard.
At this stage I’m more on the receiving end of various “but why? you have so much POTENTIAL!” comments, usually accompanied by baffled and/or disappointed looks. I think this is pretty common for the mid-20s travel addicts (maybe like Stephanie). So I guess you’re lucky in a way, you can say that you “made it” and got to make your travel dream a reality as well.
Thanks for the post Jodi – enjoy your months in Thailand – if you see a mass of red shirts please run the other way. oh, and one last thing… if you wouldn’t mind making a list of your top ten meals in every country and their locations so I can go there too, that would be just dandy ;)Thanks.
I didn't mean for that to be such an essay! sorry!
What a great post!I am also obsessed with the Trans-Siberian Railway, so I look forward to reading your archives about it. I am very admirable of you of following your dreams and quitting your job to see the world.
@A Year: Glad to know I am not the only one!
@Anna: Thanks for your comments, and no worries about their length – I'm just happy you've enjoyed reading. Hope to meet up one of these days!
@Emily: thank you kindly – those trains were eye-opening, and I posted only a small amout of what I took from them. From the scenery, to the people, to the Russian soldiers who shared my cabin in Siberia, it was a sensory adventure and a terrific one at that!
it seems not to be a matter of why, but of why not. great to meet you on your stop in NY…keep traveling. and although I probably don't need to remind you …..
Awesome post! Really enjoyed reading all the why's and how's.
My dear, you're such a rare breed of focus that I'm sort of speechless. You took opportunities (law) and turned them into your main goals, a feat that not many can do. I feel like a proud mother, how lame is that? What an insanely inspirational post!
I, too, had longings since age eighteen to conquer worlds yonder, but lacked that focus, am so glad to know someone like you exists. And thank goodness, I'm back on track. Posts like this cement it for me.
Hi Jodi! can identify with this post so much. I have been working for 2 years since my first Europe trip and small trips now and then just don't satisfy me and I need to do long-term travel and give up my job. Reading your post is such an affirmation so thanks for writing imartin @nomadicchick: thanks for the comments. I think explaining the logistics is important so that people can see how I ended up here. Glad you agree!
@be a travel bee: glad you enjoyed the post, and hope you continue reading!
@hotelbedding: sure you can, and I am sure you wouldn't regret it either. Of course taking that first step is contingent upon what kind of lifestyle you are currently leading (it's more difficult with a family in tow!) but always possible nonetheless.
@matt: glad my post reaffirmed your choice to see the world on your terms. cheers!
d now I run into you at a house party. Crazy!
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! I love this post Jodi, and I'm so happy you are doing what makes you happy!
I hope you keep traveling forever so you can keep us updated!
I'm so envious of your trip, particularly its length. I know a lot of lawyers (including my brother) and none have the interests & spirit of adventure that you do! The lure of a comfortable life is very strong indeed :).
I have been saving up for a while myself with the plan of taking off next year (my longest trip thus far was 2 months–it's never ever enough) but was a bit stunned to get laid off last week. Although I still don't think I'm ready for various reasons to do the long trip now–partly because I booked a winter ticket to Mali waaay in advance and am not sure how I would connect to that point– I've come to the decision that I don't want to find something permanent quite yet. I will take a 6-7 week trip instead, not eat into my savings too much, and continue saving for next year. Was thinking of returning to Myanmar but am now thinking Indonesia instead.
Like I said, it's never long enough…but something is always better than nothing!
P.S. Blogs like this always make me feel guilty that I'm so bad with writing my own travel stories. Nearly two years behind is bad, no?
P.P.S. Your mention of Corner Bistro made me smile. It's funny what particular comforts we miss while traveling. For me, it's usually pizza.
Sam & Nancy: thanks for your thoughtful comments.
Nancy, if you have any questions about planning or where to head to in Indonesia, please drop me an email (address on the sidebar) and I'd be happy to provide whatever help I can.
I came across your page while looking up info on Burma/Myanmar.
In 1999, I encouraged my partner to quit his job and sell his house and we took off traveling. I had been saving for many years and was about to buy my own house, when I came to the realisation that by buying a house I would never ‘see the world’ something I had promised myself since I was 8yrs old.
I have no regrets for doing this and like you had many people question why I/we was/were doing this. I rarely gave an indepth answer, back then I had just had a promotion and my career was looking rosy, but just felt as though something was missing.
We had a fantastic adventure, got lost and found too many times too remember, met amazing people, saw wonderful places, ate indescribable food, and have many many fond memories.
In 2001, we returned to Australia (way too short a time away).
Nine years later I have the mortgage, the career, and I have the memories.
My partner and I still travel but now its only for a month to two months at a time.
Good Luck, I hope you enjoy your adventure.
So much of your post reads like something I would write! I too am an escaped lawyer, and am in the middle of living one of my lifelong dreams – the ultimate long term holiday – living in another country. Every day there is some new challenge, some new twist of the French culture that I had no idea about, and one more day to be overwhelmed with the emotion of living the life I dreamed. I cant remember how many times I’ve walk! I used to cry when I’d spent weeks working like a dog with only 3 hours sleep per night. Not that I don’t love the challenge of law (I can get the same buzz from a great deal concluded), but everyone needs balance in their life, and everyone needs to follow their dreams to the fullest extent possible. Not everyone has the luxury that we do. Not everyone is able to drop everything and jump on the next plane to Cambodia. But we can all find a way to follow our dream in our daily lives – looking at information on the net, reading books, looking at photos etc. And for people like us who are lucky enough to be able to fully pursue our objectives, then I believe we are obligated to take the risk, to take the leap of faith, and contribute to the overall ‘happiness quotient’ of the world. Keep the dream alive! Sending you lots of positive vibes and support for your continued ‘irresponsible’ adventure!
You’d bring a bottle of Jim Beam to an AA meeting, wouldn’t you.
Seriously, thanks. It can be done. I guess it just takes the guts to do it.
Reading this has helped resurrect my dreams of traveling the world. It’s time now. Thank you for the inspiration!
Subir: I’ve met a few readers while on the road and it is always enjoyable to learn about their lives – as they obviously know far more about mine! Thanks for following and for your kind words.
Emma & Kristie: thank you for reading and for sharing your stories here. It’s great to hear from those who have taken the plunge as well. Kristie, love the header on your blog!
Therese: Glad the post was inspiring to you. Good luck planning!
What a wonderful post and an incredible journey. Many have asked me why I gave up a career in journalism to become a lawyer………my answer has always been that I did it on a whim! Which is why I also blog about my travels at Wanderlust Women.
We are asked many things by many people in life. Why is it that we are always asked to explain ourselves and why can’t we each just accept that we are doing for ourselves what makes us feel whole and happy?
Thanks for being so open about your decision. This post really resonated with me, as I too worked at a big law firm in Chicago and then a smaller firm in Sacramento. I am on month four of leaving my job to travel, whitewater kayak and spend quality time with people I care about. Reading about the happiness you continue to experience really is quite affirming.
Really nice history. What a journey!! One day you should come to Mauritius Island. I am sure you will like it.
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"It's tough for your senior class when they have been to three Frozen Fours and the opportunity is before you, but I think the better team won the game tonight," Coghlin said. "I think Stevens Point ."
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Rhamnoluma deplanchei (Baill.) Aubrév.
Rhamnoluma deplanchei (Baill.) Aubrév. is a synonym of Pichonia novocaledonica (Engl.) T.D.Penn.
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.e in Saratoga Springs or the dock near treehouses 7020 and 7021 in the Treehouse Villa section of the resort. The Treehouse Villas have their own two bus stops located at the east and west of the treehouse area of the resortSaratoga Springs27-1100.
Room 7034: The view from each treehouse is made up of mostly trees, landscaping, and other treehouses.
Treehouses 7024–7034 and 7058–7060 are closest to one of the villas’ two dedicated bus stops and the walkway to Saratoga Springs; 7026–7033 also have water views. Treehouses 7001–7011 and 7045– 7054 are closest to the other bus stop; 7020–7023 are closest to the boat docks. Finally, Treehouses 7035–7037, 7055, 7056, and 7060 surround the pool.
Rated 4.0 out of 5.0 based on 22 reader ratings. </s> Welcome to the Emotions, Equity and Education lab homepage!
Dr. O'Neal earn2000 with NIMH predoctoral fellowship support studying emotions among minority youth facing community violence. She then completed an NIMH postdoctorate in Mental Health Statistics at NYU focused on multilevel, longitudinal analyses of change and psychomet
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In addition to the pictures above and below, you can see more here and here, and read a little more here.
Valentine Weekend Video - Part 2 of 2
I said I wouldn't call but I'm a little drunk and I need you now
I’m puttin’ it on up there with my two other country favorites, “If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me” (by The Bellamy Brothers) and “If You Ever Leave Me I’m Going With You.”
FYI - If you haven't seen the film, I would strongly recommend the extended Director's Cut, over the original version.
Random Shots From All Over
Not long after her initial success, however, Rae’s husband – a jazz musician and a recovering addict - died of a methadone overdose, and Rae’s follow up to her eponymous debut went on hold. Now two years later, Rae’s second album – titled “The Sea” has just come out.
Not surprisingly, it’s a deeper, less bouncy sound, and it takes some repeated listening to get fully into it, but the experience is worth the minor effort and the record is more moving than mournful. The title track, “The Sea”, particularly stands out for me. According to what I’ve read it was written before Rae’s husband’s death and is as much a song about recovery as loss.
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Emily Cook, freestyle skiier. Sweater by Rodarte.
In a recent study by Richard Russell of Harvard University, the two faces above were perceived as male and female. However, both faces are actually versions of the same androgynous face. One face was created by increasing the contrast of the face, while the other face was created by decreasing the contrast. The face with more contrast is perceived as female, while the face with less contrast is perceived as male.
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As of yet there doesn’t seem to be an American version, but according to Asiajin: The Next Generation Internet Trends in Japan and Asia, there is now Binan Tokei – beautiful boys clock, Gal Tokei, Pit Babe version, a Korean version, and a planned French version.
Lady and Gentleman photographers of all stripes: start your engines!
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William Eggleston and Charlotte Rampling for Marc Jacobs. Photo Juergen Teller
It's always fun to hear what one photographer thinks about another, and rare when the affection is as palpable as that between Juergen Teller and William Eggleston. From the current British VOGUE, Teller writes amusingly and articulately about their friendship:
The following day, we were sitting on a bench under the Eiffel Tower. We had the same model of camera, with the same lens, slung around our necks. I glanced behind me and saw an orange recycling bag with a red Coca-Cola can in the bottom. “Look,” I said, “that’s an Eggleston picture.” “Sure is,” said William, and we both turned to take the picture. He took one snap, I took five shots – all the time thinking, “I’m going to have an Eggleston picture!” Of course, mine didn’t work, but William’s ended up on the wall of his show at the Fondation Cartier.
He has a different way of seeing, of looking – it’s completely unforced. And he never gives a damn whether a picture comes out or not. I’ve never met a freer man; the sense of freedom he has in his every thought, decision and movement is extraordinary. His images give me hope; they capture the comedy and tragedy of life. He could never do what I do, I could never do what he does, but we respect each other’s work. As he once said to me, “Juergen, we have some things in common: smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house.”
Juergen Teller and his son Ed.
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You have to hand it to mega-dealer Larry Gagosian - he sure knows how to do things in grand style. Whether it's mounting museum-scale Picasso shows or raising photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's prices to close to half million dollars each, nothing is done in half measures. Now Gogo (as he is known) has turned his attention to the concept of a gallery gift shop. And so street-front on Madison and 78th Street, in what has to be some off the priciest real estate around, he has opened an art book/print and tchotke shop featuring mostly product by Warhol, Koons, and Damien Hirst but also including books, magazines, and limited edition prints by people like Murakami and Ruscha.
Then a Damien Hirst wall-papered stairway takes you downstairs to a more gallery like room.
The downstairs gallery (below):
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One of the highlights of last summer's Woodstock anniversary for me was seeing Barbara Koppel's documentary, "Woodstock: Now and Then", full of old newsreels, concert footage, and now and thens of many of the performers and concert goers. One of the interviewees who particularly stood out was Santana drummer Michael Shrieve, who I remember from my teen years as being about the coolest guy around and whose cool I thought stood up pretty well 40 years on!
One of many great stories from the film was how Carlos Santana was so zonked out on mescalin he thought his guitar was a snake and most of his performance was trying to hold on to the writhing snake and keep it under some kind of control. Watch the Koppel documentary clip (above) first, then if you're still interested, you can see the whole 9 minute+ performance (below).
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This body of work began as an exploration of censorship in Saudi Arabia and it's effects on visual communication. While there is a lack of consistency from region to region, overall, images are highly scrutinized and controlled. Some superficial examples of this would be skirts lengthened and sleeves crudely added with black markers in magazines or blurred out faces on billboards.
I've always been interested in how photography functions, and I try to undermine any documentary authority it may possess as a medium. I've always felt that a photograph functions more like a memory, in that it's a singular perspective of a split second in time, entirely subjective and hence impressionable. By etching these drawings back into film and printing them in a traditional darkroom, I'm trying to point out how malleable it is as a medium, even before digital manipulation became so advanced and accessible. With these interventions emerges a highly coded and self-reflexive language. What also interests me is that the information omitted (faces, skin and emulsion) creates an image of its own, as do the censors to our cultural landscape.
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FYI - this picture, taken in January 2009 at Las Olas Beach in Maldonado, Uruguay, shows a rare roll cloud. These clouds form when a downdraft from an advancing storm front causes moist warm air to rise and then cool below its dew point. When this happens uniformly along an extended front, a roll cloud may sometimes form.
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Approach Lights #4. 2006
Yokozawa not only gave up postal work for full time photography, but before long began to teach photography. Just over a year ago he was given a grant by the Japanese government to come to New York to photograph and make a name for himself (and Japanese photography). His New York series continues his interest in distance but adds to it what he sees as the particularly New York phenomenon of parallel living and lives. Below you will see some of his New York work as well as more of his earlier Japanese pictures. (The pictures of mid-town Manhattan were taken from Brooklyn!)
From the series "Parallel Lives". 2009
On White #1. 2002
On the Margin. 1999
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With all the year and decade end reflection going on - most of which I’m finding pretty depressing - I‘m going to make my annual top ten list about the things I’m looking forward to in the year ahead. I’ll start with shows I’m planning.
4. Brits. I’ve enjoyed following the work and renewing my ties with a number of British photographers over the last year – in particular Susan Derges, Christopher Bucklow, Richard Learoyd, and Tim Walker. I’ve also had the chance to meet two of the photography curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum – Martin Barnes and Susanna Brown – who are both bursting with ideas and as opposed to their U.S. counterparts enthusiastically looking at and showing good new work. There’s something particularly energetic and positive in the London air right now - and I’m looking forward to bringing as much of it as possible back to the States.
8. Digital photography. Now that we’re firmly in the digital age, let’s stop grousing about the death of film, continue to improve the quality of digital cameras, and get serious about easy ways to archive our snaps so that we can replace drawers full of old snaps and outdated hard drives with reliable and accessible image retrieval.
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I was a white kid among white kids, but I nevertheless used to lie all the time because I was born atheist in the South, so whenever Jesus came up on the playground, which was like every three minutes, I'd smile and nod like a bobblehead doll. My parents never said word one about this: it was just obviously what was called for. Once during silent reading I thought I was releasing a silent but deadly but it turned out to be audible and the evil meangirl in charge called roll to determine who dealt it and I affected to be so absorbed in the Dick and Jane that I missed the whole scandal. I was only six or seven, but I actually pulled this off. I acted startled when I heard my name and said, "huh, whu!
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. Johnson, Trump and Morrison are the anti politician politicians. They don’t fit the mould of the ruling class who believe they have everything organised to keep them in power and the people out of the loop.
For many years, I was involved in the Labour Life Group in the United Kingdom- for yes, there are pro-life socialists and I count myself one of them. Yes, I have been bitterly disappointed in the British and New Zealand Labour parties recently, although I also applaud those ALP pro-life stalwarts who stood up for the unborn in New South Wales recently. The fact of the matter is, Bill, that the eggs in one basket pro-life strategy doesn’t work outside the United States. You said it yourself, Boris Johnson is not a pro-lifer and nor are many of his caucus colleagues. Remember Ayn Rand? She was a hardcore pro-abortionist and even attacked President Reagan on that issue. And as for Thatcher, hah! Under that woman, it became legal to kill disabled unborn babies up until birth- there’s no time limit for that form of abortion. Radical libertarianism is a major threat to the sanctity of human life- as evidenced in New Zealand by it being a radical libertarian ACT MP, David Seymour, who was responsible for our new, unwanted radical euthanasia legislation.
-And you simply make my very point of course concerning the fate of Alton. The LibDems ARE NOW a party of death. So I am glad to see your concession here!
-And please tell me where I said we should put all our eggs in one basket. You seem to specialise in straw men and red herrings. Try to stick with reason and the facts here, and not just emotive accusations thanks.
-Because I am a biblical Christian, I not only see the abortion issue as very important, but I see many other issues as also quite important, and that is why I rejoice that Corbyn and Labour where so utterly trounced – rejected even by many diehard Labour voters. Those other worrying matters of Corbyn and Labour include their ugly anti-Semitism, their hatred of Israel and support of terrorism, their appalling policies in the areas of national security, their inability to respect the wishes of the people to implement Brexit, and their eagerness to economically destroy the UK with their hyper-left socialism. Most folks in the UK do not want to see their beloved nation turned into another Venezuela.
Not from the U.K. but if the government is going to make voting compulsory why not also who you vote for???
God sometimes allows the unlikeliest people to lead His people successfully.
St Paul was no friend of early Christians yet in the end he helped to spread Christianity and was martyred for it.
Having received some very clear instructions on what to pray over months for our election, I was stunned at what happened. One scripture very much at the front of my prayers was this: “”” Ps 129:5-6
During her comments the day following the election results, the BBC’s chief political editor said:
“Throughout the night Labour’s roots appeared to shrivel. The foundations of Labour victories past were crumbling before our eyes.” Laura Kuenssberg. BBC News.
From the UK with a degree in politics, but only able to guess why elections are held on weekdays. I suspect Saturday is out because, in past years when the day of rest was respected, it would have meant counting and results happening on Sunday. The main argument against compulsory voting is that it removes the freedom not to vote. You may think that is a weak argument and that a ‘non-voter’ could always spoil their ballot paper anyway. But I think it is also true that we want people who want to vote to decide elections; and not those grudgingly forced to the polling station. </s> –31 March), 2001–2004.–35 cm DBH with basal area of 22–28 m2 · ha−
April 2007 </s> What is happening in and around Auckland in February?
Silo Cinema is continuing a very successful and busy season with a super selection for February. Lineup for the next month looks like this:
30 January – Point Break
Speaking of movies…Auckland City council has put together music and film in the park series which are always very popular and free of charge. To download a full schedule, with what’s on and where, here is a good place to start.Let’s get out there and enjoy the outdoors.
Aotea Square in CBD is set up and ready for some action from Friday, 30 of January to Sunday, February 1. Is it a family friendly zone with lots of activities over three days. For the full line up have a look here.
The first weekend of February
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be and the article the also are unlikely to be challenged, but we have Citations:be and Citations:the. Citations of entries with "clearly widespread use" are basically not required, but they also are susceptible to be informative and useful. --Daniel. 16:37, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- Well of course, for be and the citations can be useful because they show exactly how to use these terms, which may not be obvious for non-native speakers of English (think Russian, which has neither articles nor does it generally use the verb to be). On the other hand, how to use the letter a should really be obvious to everyone. -- Prince Kassad 16:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- Citations are often needed to attest to specific PoSes, uses, forms, or senses of headwords that are in widespread use in other uses or senses. Whatever is specifically challenged needs to be cited. DCDuring TALK 16:51, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'd like to see earliest citation of J/j - middle ages from Spain I think. SemperBlotto 16:56, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'd like to see examples of various Latin letters used to romanize Japanese, Chinese, Russian, etc. by multiple systems and authors eventually. Wiktionary still is not a very good place to look for this. --Daniel. 19:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- Kassad's "" is not accurate: People start to learn how to read all the time. Certainly lists of examples of usage of each letter would be useful for many people. --Daniel. 07:39, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Unblock User:Wonderfool or leave unblocked the next account he creates and let him edit on a single known account which is not subject to indef blocking any more than any other account is.
- Continue to play the game of cat and mouse which has been ongoing for the past 4 years or so, blocking him whenever someone spots his edits.
- Actually pursue his removal from the project. We can block the entire ISP he edits from, he is the only editor who uses it. We can also send an abuse report to the ISP but in this case they probably wouldn't care that much, unless Wikipedia also blocked the ISP.
Personally I am inclined to option 1, I would prefer not having to mess around with the other two, and it makes sense to me to have someone as dedicated to this project (in his own special way) as Wonderfool editing openly and under the same individual scrutiny that we all are. Perhaps Wonderfool would also like to comment, particularly if option 1 gets any support. Thoughts? - TheDaveRoss 20:38, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- My current strategy is to let him carry on editing for several days / weeks until something goes click in his head and he starts misbehaving. I then block him, and block him again if he comes back too quickly. It's no big deal. SemperBlotto 20:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I guess this is my point, there is a huge downside to that method of dealing with him. Whenever anyone new begins to edit someone suspects them of being the next incarnation of Wonderfool. I get lots of requests for checking IPs, people fling accusations about, it isn't a good thing. We are sitting on the fence and it isn't as harmless as it seems. - TheDaveRoss 21:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- The thing of #1 is that he frequently has multiple simultaneously editing sockpuppets, so it's a unilateral decision: we can say that we're "let[ting] him edit on a single known account", but that decision is not determinative of reality. This is not necessarily a fatal problem with #1 — after all, he'll presumably continue to use multiple sockpuppets no matter what we do — but it's worth keeping in mind. #1 will not stop us from accusing people of being Wonderfool; at most, it will be a community acknowledgment that being Wonderfool is not a capital offense, and hence that accusations of such are not, um, capital accusations. —RuakhTALK 21:08, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- That has not been the case recently, most of the time it is a single account at a time. To be sure, in the past he has had several sleeper accounts going once, or multiple active accounts at once, but unless he is playing quite a deep game he has been using one at a time for the past few months. I agree though, that there is an assumption that if he is given the right to edit back officially then we are also assuming that the sock puppetry will stop. I guess that were we to go with option #1 there would be a caveat included that were more socks to emerge we would change to option #3. - TheDaveRoss 21:21, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I like playing cat and mouse with Wonderfool, it makes my time on WIktionary more fun. Oh, and Dave Ross is Wonderfool. --Vahag 21:24, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not profiler but this person is a French speaker, and on fr.wikt we've got exactly the same kind of guy called User:X (mainly present is the English, Esperanto and Greek paragraphs), also known as User:ABC on el.wikt. He used to contribute with accuracy BUT by copying some pages from one Wiktionary to another without any author right, without reading any syntax consensus, and being rude or ignoring on his talk page. However, we've chosen to let him unblocked (after seven blocs) because he continued to edit from some other IPs every day, and a bot can easily correct his syntax while he collaborates only partially. We can't confound him with the other daily contributors because he's incurably asocial. In conclusion I propose to stop to speak to him ASAP because we've already lost many hours for no result, and I would bet that his addiction would be able to make him try several ISPs. JackPotte 23:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
- @JackPotte: If it helps: Wonderfool is Foumidable. —RuakhTALK 00:50, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- User:DStirke and User:Romanb are his latest incarnations. Does anyone want to talk to him? SemperBlotto 19:58, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- I see the advantage of unblocking him, but only if he stuck to one account. I get the impression he likes his multiple accounts so it would achieve nothing. He's got loads on the French Wiktionary where AFAIK he's never been blocked for a long period. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:36, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- So this guy's still around! He started off well, and even became admin. Then without warning he went off the deep end, but soon after that went back to normal. This all suggests someone who occasionally goes off his meds. Has anyone been in contact with the real person to check this out? Some version of #1 seems appropriate when he needs time to regulate his meds. E
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The company is offering every school a free single-user license for its Scan and Read software, so a student who needs it can have the opportunity to use it.
Timmer, a software developer and former nuclear engineer, developed the Scan and Read system in his basement after losing most of his vision to macular degeneration in 1996. He needed something to assist him in reading, but found the products on the market too expensive and complicated.
“You can pull up any existing text file or scan in any text–like a book or newspaper–and it’ll read it to you,” Springer said.
Dianne Yarnell, technology coordinatowhich operates 53 adult literacy centers in the state, was delighted to get the Scan and Read software for free.
Unlike Scan and Read, the Kurzweil 1000 can read text in 170 languages and switch between different languages instantly.
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Mourners will gather at Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall on Saturday morning to remember Jim Carr, the Manitoba MP and former Liberal cabinet minister whose death .
Carr, 71, who had represented the constituents of Winnipeg South Centre since 2015,r — one day after he was re-elected in October 2019. He also battled kidney failure.
Following the announcement of his death, a flood of tributes to Carr and condolences to his loved ones poured iPrime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted.
Trudeau is slated to speak at Carr’s memorial service, which will begin at 11 a.m. CT.
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help find a program that fits best with their major, interests, and goals for studying abroad.
Through the International Opportunities Resource Center, students and faculty can obtain professional study abroad advising services. The Resource Center has 12:00 and from 1:00 to 5pm. The Resource Center parents interested in finding out aboutle.
Attending a study abroad information session is the first step in the study abroad application process. The session addresses the kinds of study abroad programs MSU offers, how to apply, finances of studying abroad, scholarships, and an introduction to the International Programs Resource Room. All sessions are held in the Resouce Room, 4th Floor of Culbertson Hall and are about 30 minutes long.
If you are interested in reserving a spot at one of our info sessions, you can view the schedule here: Stepsforstudyingabroad
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It's officially the Holiday season, and officially cold out, which means it is socially acceptable to start drinking earlier (if it gets DARK before five, we can DRINK before five!
What better time to imbibe super caloric Hot Buttered Rum than a boring party you don't really care about?This drink is delicious, and approximately a trillion calories, so you won't want to drink too much of it...but that's ok, cause you're not gonna stay at this party long anyway, are you?
You can buy the really sweet stuff in the dairy section at your grocery store, but it's always better to make it yourself. Alton Brown says to beat 4 egg yolks until they lighten in color, then gradually add 1/3 cup of sugar until it's completely dissolved. After that, add a pint of whole (yes, whole) milk, 1 cup of heavy cream, 3 ounces of bourbon, and a teaspoon of nutmeg together. Then, beat the egg whites into peaks and gradually add 1 tablespoon of sugar. Whisk this then into the other mixture, chill, and serve. Raw eggs, yum!
2 ounces of Vodka, 1/2 ounce of Orange Juice, and 1/2 ounce of Manischewitz if you're keeping kosher this holiday. If not, we suggest you stick to Egg Nog before trying this out....
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Blog , Education 2012 Texas SBOE elections Michael Soto Share
It’s that time once again—no, it’s not my birthday, and it’s not yet Halloween. It’s time again to ask you to stand with me in my bid for reelection to the State Board of Education in 2012.
Small but important steps toward academic rigor in SBOE rules.
Demand academic rigor and rely on evidence-based scholarship as we revise math, fine arts, and health education standards.
The SBOE appears to be—slowly but surely—headed in the right direction, but we can’t take this progress for granted. As public school parents, my wife, Celina Peña, and I want nothing more than for our sons and their peers to have the same opportunities that have blessed our lives.
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Get Out of the Rut and Challenge Yourself
I have been wearing contacts for about 12 years, since I was a senior in high school. My eyes are very
sensitive, and I always hated having eyedrops or anything put in, so it was a challenge for me to learn how to put contacts in and force a foreign object into my eye. I had to use both hands and have a mirror to do it so I could stare straight ahead and get the contact off my finger and onto my eye.
- Think of how limited our health care options would be in brilliant and daring doctors hadn’t pushed the limits of what was considered to be possible at the time. A lot of the surgeries and procedures which are now commonplace are only possible because people challenged themselves and risks were taken.
- A pitcher with a great fastball might tear through the high school ranks, but unless he challenges himself to try different things and learn additional pitches, he’ll never have more than a mediocre career.
- Maybe you’ve never received the promotion at work that you want because you haven’t challenged yourself enough. Maybe you haven’t spent free time learning or maybe you haven’t gone out of your way to network and develop the relationships that are needed to get the promotion.
- Do you find yourself ignorant or uninformed about a specific topic that seems to come up over and over again? Challenge yourself to expand your knowledge in that area. Talk to a mechanic d of your car, or read a book that explains inflation, or get some CDs to listen to in the car that teach conversational Spanish.
- If you are a Christian, are you tired of the fact that you claim to live your life based on a book that you only study at church and barely understand? Commit yourself to studying the Bible every day. Talk to a minister or read a book for tips on how to study deeper and more effectively. Sign up to teach a Bible class at church—that will force you to spend time in study!
- Are you frustrated with your relationship with your teenage children? Challenge yourself to understand them better—listen to the music they listen to, ask about their interests, sacrifice your free time to spend time doing what they like to do with them.
We could probably come up with dozens of examples, but the principle remains the same: if you want to improve your life—professionally, spiritually, athletically, relationally, socially, informationally—you’ve got to challenge yourself. You can’t stay in the rut,improve.
Oh, and by the way, today I put my contacts in without a mirror (You know, practice what you preach and all that).
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y come together in four incredible days of tabletop gaming November 12-15 at the Overland Park Convention Center in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area!
We need to fund the entire operation in advance, and we've got some incredible backer rewards to make that happen. As a backer you get:
- early access to event sign-ups
- substantially lower prices than those who pay at the door
- access to all non-exclusive convention events
Check out the rewards and you'll find one that works for you or your organization! If there's a specific reward you don't see, but think a lot of folks would enjoy, let us know and we'll consider adding it!
Children 12 and under are free with paid parent or guardian. Note: All children 12 and under must be supervised but are not required to have a pass.
For multiples, simplly add the additional pledge amounts for each additional item to your final pledge amount. So if you want two Member Full Event Passes, normally $35, pledge $70 and select the Member Full Event Pass reward. We'll ask you about these add-ons when we fund. =) See Add-Ons, below.
All Pickups Available At Will-Call
Need multiples of a reward? Just pledge extra and select the reward you want. In addition to extra badges and exhibitor tables, we've got some great add-ons planned, including commemorative dice, t-shirts, bags, and more! Got a request? Let us know and we'll see what we can do!
With the Overland Park Convention Center, the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City has secured an outstanding event facility, tons of parking, incredible amenities, an amazing attached hotel, and lots of room for growth going forward. But as with many great venues, payment is due upfront. Most of the money has already been paid out of the Guild's coffers, but some remains. We need to wrap up the minimum amount of funding with our Kickstarter, and then replenish our funds through stretch goals, perks, and other special rewards. If we make back our investment, we'll continue hosting the event with the same high production values next year!
Midwest GameFest isa number of long-standing Midwest gaming organizations under one roof: t(KantCon). There will beThe Midwest GameFest is organized and funded by the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City.
Thlocated in Overland Park, Kansas on College Boulevard between Woodson Street and Lamar Avenue. The facility address is 6000 College Boulevard Overland Park, KS, 66211 (map). Visit our Lodging and Travel page for complete details.
Overland Park has some of the region's best food options, many of which are only a short drive away. But for folks who want to stay inside the convention facility and maximize their game playing we are pleased to offer onsite food options right in the convention pre-function area! Pizza, hot dogs, nachos, wraps, sandwiches, yogurt, soda, and more will all be available from 8am to 7pm. Coffee will be available in the pre-function area until noon. In addition to this, the convention center's own cafe, The Cyber Cafe, will also be open during most of the event offering similar options.
Both the main game hall and our pre-function area at the Overland Park Convention Center will feature complimentary high-speed wi-fSpecial guests, VIGs, and volunteers can take a load off their feet at the Guest Lounge. Each morning these special folk can enjoy donuts with coffee and relax in a comfortable lounge chair while they get ready to start the day. Between events they can retreat here to take advantage of the water cooler, and enjoy a great place to bring lunch or dinner!
We host a range of gaming-related dealers and exhibitors from around the Midwest. You'll find both popular and hard-to-find games, gaming aids, art prints, hand-crafted goods, and gaming-themed clothing and accessories. Visit our Exhibitors page for complete details.
We offer great discounts for individuals and groups who can help out during the convention, and we have flexible volunteer hours to meet your schedule. You can even earn free admission just for helping out. Come out and be one of the crew! Visit our Volunteers page for complete details.
Whether its a V.I.G. (Very Important Gamer) package, rhoal. Visit our Sponsors page for complete details.
Backers who select reward levels featuring convention passes receive access to all non-exclusive convention events, and make themBackers who are not currently members of the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City also receive a 90-day Class II (non-voting) Guild membership.
Unfortunately, we can't offer refunds. However, Kickstarter will not charge your credit card until the final moment when the project ends. So there is lots of time to make a final decision. Special circumstances may arise, and can be handled by contacting the event coordinator at [email protected].
Physical reward fulfillment costs (t-shirts, bags, etc) have been built into our reward levels, and our organizmerchandise vendors both locally and nationally. So we know how to get these items made and delivered, and how much that costs. All items are held at will-call, and not shipped, unless special arrangements are made in advance.
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Goethe describes his happy and sheltered childhood in his autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811-33). In 1765 he went to Leipzig to study law. There he spent his timea long convalescence at Frankfurt. His earliest lyric poems, set to music, were published in 1769. In 1770-71 he completed his law studies at Strasbourg, where the acquaintance of Herder filled him with enthusiasm for Shakespeare, for Germany's medieval past, and for the German folk song.
A trip to Italy (1786-88) fired his enthusiasm for the classical ideal, as Goethe tells us in his travel account Die italienische Reise (1816) and in Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert [Winckelmann and his century] (1805). Also written under the classical impact were the historical drama Egmont (1788), well known for Beethoven's incidental music; Römische Elegien (1788); the psychological drama Torquato Tasso (1789); the domestic epic Hermann und Dorothea (1797); and the final, poetic version (1787) of the drama Iphigenie auf Tauris.
His most enduring work, indeed, one of the peaks of world literature, is the dramatic poem Faust. The first part was published in 1808, the second shortly after Goethe's death. Goethe recast the traditional Faust legend and made it one of the greatest poetic and philosophic creations the world possesses. His main departure from the original is no doubt the salvation of Faust, the erring seeker, in the mystic last scene of the second part.
Goethe's aim was to make his life a concrete example of the full range of human potential, and he succeeded as few others did. The friendship of Friedrich von Schiller and his death (1805) made a deep impression on Goethe. He is buried, alongside Schiller, in the ducal crypt at Weimar. The opinions of Goethe are recorded not only in his own writings but also in conversations recorded by his secretary J. P. Eckermann and in extensive correspondence with the composer Zelter and with Schiller, Byron, Carlyle, Manzoni, and others. It would be difficult to overestimate Goethe's influence on the subsequent history of German literature.
The bulk of Goethe's work is immense; the most recent complete edition is the so-called Weimar edition (133 vol. in 140, 1887-1919Thomas Carlyle. Biographies and literary studies are numerous; for bibliographies see Eugene Oswald, Goethe in England and America (2d ed. 1909), and A. J. Dickson, Goethe in England, 1909-1949 (1951). The following biographies may be mentioned: G. H. Lewes (1855), James Sime (1888), Friedrich Gundolf (1916, in German), and J. G. Robertson (1927); Ludwig Lewisohn, ed., Goethe: The Story of a Man (1949). See also Conversations of Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann, John Oxenford, tr., Havelock Ellis (1998).
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Afraid of the Big Bad Bacon? You're not, right? Of course you aren't! Otherwise you wouldn't be hanging out on our wonderful site. And whoever receives this greeting card to probably won't be either... But you may want to test them. So give them this card and ask, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bacon?" Measures 5 x 7 folded and includes an envelope.
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Here's to the good ole days! ! ! ! ! </s> Ah, many, many, are the dead. . .
My waking and my sleep with the untold?
I could have told much by the way
Than these green garden buds
What have I to regret
Who, being old,
I have known much in my time
No smaller than the world
What was I but the story told
From Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine (Golgonooza Press, 2000), copyright © Kathleen Raine 2000 used by permission of the publisher </s> Below is the poem entitled Superficial Smiles which was written by poet
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A trapped house can be worse than a prison
Cell doors open daily, a sealed house door never
They also torture, but you found your own prism
Selected friends are such a treasure
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Small talk discussions over a croissant
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What would you do now for a taste of reality?
Do you miss and crave my sensuality?
Our historical heroes are now sadly footnoted
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My husband and I are currently feeling the desire to leave the church. The garments are the first thing to go for me. I hate them. And I don't like being part of a church that dicates every aspect of my life right down to my underwear. They may tell you about the garments in passing but they sure don't tell you what they look like and how you have to wear them. </s> Go to Gary Skerski's Officer Down page
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BULLSEYE !!.Sarah. Maybe if she were running Romney's campaign he would be a little more agressive and quit being John McCain 2.0 We need Mr."T" not Mr. Rogers, if we are ever going to win and Mitt sure as hell is no Mr. "T"
Palin done enough inciting when she was McCain VP pick. Look how that ended.
Yes, this is just what we need now- more personal attacks to deepen and further cement the divisions within the country, Yup, that'll help make things better...
I realize my small gesture of a vote may not make any difference, but I for one will vote for the candidates who try to raise the bar for political discourse in this country and not for the ones who just want to wallow even more deeply in the mud.
She is an insult to this country, the Quitter just complains all day about how much things suck, despite the fact that she is raking in so much cash. Can she really not see how much of a hypocrite she is? Being governor of a state with hardly any people hardly makes you qualified to judge the president of the nation. Go away Sarah Palin, you will be remembered as a Jesse Jackson, or a Joe McCarthy...Just crazy, dumb, and pointless.
Please Mitt, takes this POS's advice. We all know what the outcome will be.
I think Romney should take Palin's advice.
This country cannot
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Project Information I carved this pole out of redwood driftwood. It has about a 4 lb rock sitting on top. This is made to "lift the spirit and soothe the soul".It has a nice peaceful presence that I can't really capture on camera. Gallery 282446.jpg 113.8 KB Views: 0 282447.jpg 115.3k
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Coin Share’s CSO, Meltem Demirors, spoke to CNBC and explained what she thinks of Bitcoin’s sudden surge in price and how institutional/retail investors are reacting to this.
“There are three main themes going on, one, there is a lot of global macro unrest, there is a lot of volatility in the market; times have changed, the end of 2018 was rough in the capital market, now we are seeing a lot of volatility in tech stocks and so maybe Bitcoin is starting to look, not so crazy to investors.”
“We’ve seen a lot of tech IPOs that haven’t performed the way investors expected. So again, the idea of a new asset class, the idea of Bitcoin connecting with legacy finance is really appealing for class investors looking for innovation and high growth.”
Further, Demirors spoke about Bitcoin’s price and whether it will climb higher in the near future. She said that the price of Bitcoin corresponded to the inflows into Bitcoin and that the price would reflect positively as more people buy and hold it.
According to Demirors, Square, which is the primary way retail investors can access Bitcoin, reported an increase in Bitcoin purchasing volume. This signified that people bought Bitcoin through the crypto winter, indicating investor interest
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Long and Short Reviews welcomes Lauren Layne who is visiting with us today to celebrate yesterday’s release of Yours in Scandaa digital copy of the book.
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Now's Your Chance; Take a Swing
It is almost trendy these days to take a jab at the church. Floods of books have come out from gentle restoratives to outright polemics. Some regularly take her to task on public blogs while others just give her a good pop when no one is looking. Regardless, it is undeniable that there is a generation of disgruntled, dissilusioned followers who feel like the church could be doing a lot better job fulfilling its divine roles. If you are dissatisfied with the church in any way, I want to give you a voice.
I am working on an article for RELEVANT called "The Battered Bride." It is going to address all the charges that our generation is bringing against the church. For those of you who think the church has broken down, this is your chance to play the mechanic and diagnose the problem (minus all the fabricated stuff you'd trick old people into thinking is wrong if you really were a mechanic). If you feel like the church has let you down or somehow hasn't met your expectations, now is your chance to vent. Leave me a detailed explanation of your feelings, longings, opinions.
Is the church greedy?
Is the church too political?
Does the church really care about the needy and the helpless?
Do you ever feel like other people of other faiths unknowingly and more accurately display a Christlike lifestyle?
Can the church be redeemed? What must be done?
Posted by Jonathan Merritt at 10:08 PM
Labels: Battered bride, blog, church, Relevant
You bring up some good points Jonathan. I would first like to say that if it seems like a bunch of people are taking ‘swings’ at the church this isn’t a new phenomena. Ever since the inception of the church people have been trying to undermine its position, authority, and place in this world. However, I would say that there is definitely a generation of disgruntled ‘church-goers.’ I think the last time that the church as a whole has come under so much scrutiny.
We live in a time of greedy and fake television evangelists, perverted and promiscuous priests, and a divided church. There is no such thing as “one bride of Christ.” Christ seems to be married to many brides. Just inside of the United States there are more than 1500 different faith groupa severely divided faith.
With that said, there is no one ‘true’ church telling us what is right or wrong. If we don't like what one church says, we can just move on to the next one until we find one that ‘works’ for us. How is this what Christ charged the disciples with? Furthermore, if you take a look at Acts (the book that outlines for us how the church is supposed to look like) we see that today’s modern mega-churches fail to even come close to what it was supposed to be. The first church was actually more of a socialist entity – with everyone giving everything they had to the church and the church redistributing the wealth as needed. Ananias and Sapphira were actually killed for lying about how much they gave to the church. Where is the personal touch? Churches are too big today. They entertain us with electric guitars and a ‘rock’ band reminiscent of a 70’s concert. Big screen displays tell us what words to sing and what to think. This is not like the little home churches that only sought to proclaim the word of Christ to a dying world and use their resources to help the poor, the sick, and the widowed.
The church isn’t what Christ intended, it is a big business. Just a few weeks ago I went into one of these mega churches. They were selling coffee, What Would Jesus Do bracelets, books, tapes, CDs, and an assortment of magnets, pens, and other little Christian knick knacks. How is this any different than when Jesus destroyed the merchants tables outside of the synagogue (His Father’s House)? Then we give our 10% tithe to the church, who instead of helping the poor, the sick, and the widowed, pays off the light bill, the water bill, the stereo equipment, the mortgage on the huge sanctuary, the property taxes, and the pastoral staff. Maybe a portion of money goes to those who need money, but not enough. There are people who literally do not have food on their tables or houses in which to live, yet the church doesn't have enough money to help them – we are too busy on our own capital campaigns and buying expensive displays in order to attract a more affluent crowd in order to raise the bottom line.
There is a Hindu temple being constructed down the road from my house, in fact, it is the second biggest Hindu temple in the world. While it is extremely extravagant, the members of its church are. Their steadfast devotion to their gods is impressive. Due to parking issues, many of its members walk 4 or 5 miles on non-sidewalked paths in the oppressive Georgia heat. They take care of their community – if one of them is sick or injured, people from their congregation will go and take care of that member until they are better again. They look out for one another and seem to know everyone, even though they have a very large congregation. I would be hard pressed to know of anyone’s issues in my church – let alone where people live or work. The bottom line is that the church exists to give us a social outlet where we can meet ‘like minded’ people, make us feel better about ourselves, give some money (make us feel like we have completed our Christian duties), and walk away feeling warm and fuzzy. It does not solely exist to glorify Jesus Christ or to help those in need and proclaim his name to all of the world. There may be a few exceptions to this, but in my opinion, this is the norm in American society.
I think there might be a solution to this crisis in the American church, but it will not be easy to complete. In fact, I believe that it will continue to worsen until the return of Christ.
email me John. [email protected]... check your comment from "The Well Seminoles Post"...I tried to post on there- hope it worked.
holla back, like to meet ya if you split time in raleigh.
As Stephen Colbert says, "OK, I'll bite."
To start, I have some disagreement with the angle from which you're approaching this issue. People have and always will be let down by churches that don't meet their expectations, because everyone is looking for the perfect church, and it has never existed. Even the New Testament churches, whose congregants sat for hours in the Mediterranean heat to worship had to be consistently admonished by the apostle Paul in his letters. Every member of every church knows how to run it better than the pastor and his (or her) staff.
One thing fueling the fire is a common misconception. "The church" isn't a church at all, in the modern sense of the word. The church is God's people. It is not confined to a building, a political ideology or a denominational label.
The church isn't just Christlike, it is the body and the bride of Christ. There will always be hypocrisy and antipathy in the church, but hypocrites are not a microcosm of the Church. Christians who are constantly trying to draw near to God will almost always be Christlike. The Bible even tells us that we can know them by their fruit. But just because you go to a certain building for the first time and no one talks to you, or you see a guy at the football game holding a "God hates Fags" sign, or an abortion clinic is blown up, don't blame that on the church itself.
Is the church too political? Maybe some churches are. But many people don't realize that it's OK for the church to be political--just not partisan. Sometimes, churches need to be a catalyst to change the world around them. The church has played an important and appropriate role in politics throughout the last century, including advocating civil rights in the 1960's.
People are always blaming the church for being hypocritical and unwelcoming, but many times this is just out of the convenience of being able to justify sleeping in every Sunday so you can cut the grass and watch the NFL, and never bother to find a place of ministry, give a tithe, or grow in your relationship to God, if there even is one.
That's the problem with this post. You will find everyone all too willing to blame the church for everything when in reality, it's often the "Christians" who are complaining that are part of the problem. It's like the signs that you see on the backs of commercial trucks that say "How's My Driving?" No one ever calls with a good compliment--only when there's a complaint.
I could go on forever, but I'll stop now because I have studying to do and I'm sure no one is still reading this...
These are some very good comments, but there is almost too much to respond to. I find some serious problems with much of what you say, but I appreciate your candor on a serious issue.
Some great thoughts. I do disagree with you on at least two points. First, you said "The church isn't a church at all, at least not in the modern sense of the word." What I think you are saying is that the church is primarily the universal, invisible church. This is actually a common misconception. The word for church in the NT, ekklesia, is found 114 times. At least 90 of those times it refers to an actual "local assembly of believers." The church, though not a building with a steeple, is a local assembly. The church is both a visible, particular body and an invisible, universal body.
This is a serious movement that we must address.
Regarding the rest of your comments: spot on!
Jonathan is a faith and culture writer and a"
"An Evangelical's Plea: Love the Sinner," USA Today (April 2009)
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To digress, I have a personal issue with the branding of sunny summer days as "time to be happy" and "time to have fun". And with the correlated bashing of any summer day which is not bright and warm as a bad weather day. I take it personally when people describe storms as lousy weather because I enjoy going out for walks in the middle of the night. I feel a strong urge to go out and let the raindrops in a storm assault my skin relentlessly. I feel alive when the rain soaks my clothes and causes my torso to respond with shivers and skin with goosebumps. I savour the smell of the damp dust in the air; the smell of rain. "How dare you call it a bad day when the very nature of it makes me feel so good"?
"Oh. That's weird. I can't relate to that. How on earth can someone be happy in the dark?
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The face of economics and the rate of change is drastically different among countries. There is a disparity in global economies and businesses need to be aware of those differences so they can determine the profitability and direction of their business models and operations. In some areas, the market may be dominated by a small number of competitors. Organizations seeking to break into those market. Deo the response of consumers, competitors, and the dynamics of the economy.
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Embedded in every aspect of social, innovation, and economic trends are politics and government. They help to increase the value of social capital, business, entrepreneurship, and promote immigration, all of which dictates the amount of government and political involvement in today’s world. While technology continues to define the face of business, government and political forces will always seek to control it to even the playing field.
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The Rosy Maple Moth just drew my breath away, just its huge tuff of back hair. Looks so cute, fluffy...
Hope everyone else who reads this can sign on and be part of the scene, too!
Thanks for this post..I cant wait to go to New River!
Look forward to meeting you. See you there!
Dawn, you're going to New River?How awesome!I can't wait to finally meet you!Yet another great aspect of birding festivals - friendship!
Howdee Heather.Cant wait to meet you too!
I'm all signed up and beyond excited to finally get to experience what I've heard so much about. This post was just what I needed to see on this cold wintry day!C'mon Spring!
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Meeting your significant other’s family is nerve-wracking. More so if you are meeting them over the holidays. Of course, you want them to like you but you have to do it the right way. Here are 6 tips on how you can survive and ace the whole experience.
As the saying goes, you’ll never have a second chance to create a good first impression. So this is it and you can do this!
As much as you want their family to like you, “fake it till you make it” doesn’t apply in this situation. Stay true to yourself while keeping your “filter” on. You don’t need to pretend to be someone you are not or make up stories to impress them. Because trust me, parents know.
It’s nice to dress your best because it shows that you cared enough to put an effort in dressing nicely. But you have to make sure that you are dressed appropriately. Ladies, it’s not the time to show off your cleavage and thighs. Keep it classy, simple, demure and elegant. And oh, easy on the make-up. Gentlemen, be well-groomed, trimmed and polished. Above all, make sure that you are comfortable with what you are wearing.
Never show up empty-handed. Ask your partner about their family’s interests or go for the traditional tokens – flowers, a bottle of wine, dessert or a scented candle. The family will surely appreciate the gesture.
4. Don’t be a wall flower.
Make an effort to engage with the family, without being nosey of course. Try to make conversations and show genuine interest to learn about each member of the family. Loosen up, have fun and enjoy quality time with your loved one’s family.
Before dinner, offer to lend a hand in the kitchen and after, help clear out the table or clean the dishes. This will show that you were raised to be helpful and responsible.
Lastly, NEVER forget to thank them for welcoming you to their home.
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James E.Gordon
60,825 square meters
Ivanhoe Cambridge had two Ontario shopping malls in need of redevelopment: 25-year-old Mapleview Centre in Burlington and 37-year-old Conestoga Mall in Waterloo. At both sites, the redevelopment was driven by a desire to make the mall more upscale and fashion-centric. Ivanhoe Cambridge also wanted Mapleview to be more visible to people travelling on the Queen Elizabeth Highway, which ran alongside the mall.
Both projects included redesign of the existing facilities plus expansions of about 100,000 square feet in each mall, including new food courts with about 700 to 800 seats. The Conestoga project, which was a multi-phased expansion, also included design for a new Hudson’s Bay prototype store. With each mall’s project budget set at $40 million, the pellow team was challenged to deliver design with high strategic impact within rather tight financial constraints.
With both projects, a significant portion of the budget was allocated into expanding the mall, but the older parts still needed to be refinished to achieve a cohesive, refreshed feel throughout. At Mapleview, pellow used and positioned new material strategically while retaining much of the existing structure. The team used wave-patterned gypsum panels to cover sections of the mall’s shed-type, corrugated metal ceiling. The entire mall was repainted, from grey to off-white, all interior columns were clad with wood paneling to add warmth and texture. Because there was no room in the budget for new tiles in the old section of the mall, pellow picked 12” x 24” tiles for the expansion with colours that were compatible with the existing 12” x 12” tiles. pellow’s design also brought the food court from the ground floor to the second level, along a huge window overlooking the highway. Two new restaurants at ground level have big outdoor patios andmall.
Conestoga’s redesign, while similar to Mapleview in terms of project and business objectives, included the added challenge of a Y-shaped layout at one end of the mall. This made it necessary for shoppers to go and up down the same corridor instead of being able to walk continuously in one direction – an inconvenience that affected traffic to retailers in these corridors. To address this issue, pellow closed the ends of the Y to create a loop, creating a racetrack design that gives shoppers easy access to all stores. A food court was placed in the previously open end of the Y, with windows facing the movie theatre complex just a few feet outside. This created a direct relationship between the mall, food court and the theatre.
To refresh the old parts of the mall while staying within budget, pellow stripped the original trim details but kept the existing drywall ceiling. New, modern finishes were added, including wood details to warm up the space and new floors throughout. In both projects, pellow enclosed the loading docks with transparent overhead doors to give them a storefront-like aesthetic that blended in with the rest of the mall.
The exteriors for Mapleview and Conestoga were also transformed to convey a stronger presence from the street. Both malls were essentially turned inside out, with large windows and signage facing the street as well as ground-level restaurants with outdoor patios accessible from outside the mall as well as from inside.
As designed by pellow, the redevelopment of Mapleview Centre and Conestoga Mall resulted in an upscale look with a fashion-focused theme for both shopping centres. Previously faceless exteriors now have vibrant storefronts that relate to surrounding streets and are easily noticed from the road or highway. Since their redevelopment, which was finished in late 2009, customer traffic has increased dramatically in both malls. Both designs have also earned acclaim from the retail and design industries. In 2010, Conestoga won the Canadian Goldwhile Mapleview won the Silver. Conestoga also received an Award of Merit the same year .
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BASTIANICH 2016 "VESPA" BIANCOItem #: i_303557B+ POINTS - " This blend of mostly Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, with a touch of Picolit, was bottled in July 2017. Once again, Bastianich offers us some wonderful candied fruit notes along with some tart lemon soda in the 2016 Vespa Bianco. The wine shines with bright intensity and possesses remarkable balance. There is a nice creaminess to the texture, and it has inner firmness and tightness that bodes well for the way the wine will evolve over the next few years. This is a beautiful blend."
Joe Bastianich may be from New York, but he is building quite a reputation locally with his La Mozza restaurants in LA and Newport Beach. Depending on who you ask, Joseph (Joe)m you ask, Joseph Bastianich is known as a winery owner in Fruili, author on one of the best books on Italian wines (Vino Italiano), one of the celebrity judges on Top Chef, or simply "Lidia’s son." Joe is one of the most accomplished and diversely talented wine personalities in America. His Vespa Bianco has a seductive richness reminiscent of Meursault’s “honey on toast” with layers of brightness, minerality, and floral touches weaving throughout.
This plot was ideal due to the high limestone content which allows the true nature of Sauvignon Blanc to arrive in the bottle. The high acidity levels of Sauvignon allow for brief cold skin maceration without losing any of the acidic vigor. After resting in 90% used oak barrels for a period of up to 10 months it is then bottled and in the best vintages a cellar barrel selection is made to produce the green label (selezione)."
Proprietor found himself in charge of 5 hectares of land with 3 under vine, basically by default. Over the past 29.
DAMIJAN 2016 KAPLJA BIANCOItem #: i_303580Bottle Size: 750mlORGANICALLY FARMED
EDI KEBER 2018 COLLIO BIANCOItem #: i_303313Bottle Size: 750MLIn the hills of Zegla, right near the border between Italy and Slovenia, Edi Keber makes one distinctive bottling: The Collio. The idea is to make a wine that reflects where it’s from, utilizing the local varieties: Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, and Malvasia Istriana. Fermented and refined in cement tanks, the result is certainly more than noteworthy: “...weird, wild and wonderful...” is in our notes upon tasting. The nose is sweet and intriguing with forward stone fruits, peach and apricot, mixed florals, wildflowers and honeysuckle with added notes of muscat spice, clotted cream and shortbread. The palate is rounded and fat with similar fruit flavors found in the nose (oh those stone fruits!), light spice, peach zest, notes of pear juice, a touch of citrus and lemongrass, cream, butterscotch and apricot pit. The layers are interesting and complementary, changing with each sip. The initial mouth-weight is tamed somewhat by a good, subtle streak of acidity that comes in at the mid-palate and near the finish. Something beautiful is taking place in the hills of Zegla-- and they’ve bottled it for your (and our!) enjoyment and enlightenment.
I CLIVI 2018 RIBOLLA GIALLAItem #: i_300024Bottle Size: 750mlORGANICALLY FARMED & PRACTICING BIODYNAMIC
Ferdinando Zanusso set up "i Clivi" in the early 1990s. He wanted to preserve the character of the land using the traditional varieties, because he felt that the wines had drifted from their inherent character.
Soil of Marl and sandstone, 30 year old vines, gentle whole bunch pressing, indigenous yeasts, no malolatic fermentation, 6 months maturation in stainless steel, no oak, no fining.
JAMES SUCKLING 91 POINTS - "A delicious pinot grigio with cooked apples and honey and hints lemon rind, following through to a medium body. Dried-apple and pineapple character at the finish."
JERMANN 2018 VINTAGE TUNINAItem #: i_305867Bottle Size: 750mlS, and Picolit.
JAMES SUCKLING 95 POINTS - "The complexity and depth to this wine is really beautiful with sliced, spiced pears and lemons with wonderful length and focus. Spicy. Showing beautiful balance and depth. "
MOSCHIONI 2009 PIGNOLOItem #: i_301913Bottle Size: 750mlWINE ADVOCATE - .
RONCHI DI CIALLA 2015 SCHIOPPETTINOItem #: i_301627Bottle Size: 750mlItaly is a treasure trove of rare grapes varieties and there is so much to discover and appreciate there. Ronca di Cialla is devoted to several local varieties, making wines with a traditional spirit. This wine is easy to love and for all of you fans of old-world Pinot Noir, this wine should be right up your alley. This is a chiseled, fine bone structure wine, with aromas of red and blackcurrants, underbrush and green peppercorns along with some balsam notes from the integrated oak ageing. The mouthful is vibrant with fresh acidity, 'minerality,' and delicate fine grained tannins.
Aged in French barrique for 14-18 months, followed by bottle ageing for up to 36 months before release.
SCARPETTA 2019 PINOT GRIGIOItem #: i_302054Bottle Size: 750mlScarpetta is a winery owned and operated by Bobby Stuckey, M.S..
SCHIOPETTO 2018 FRIULANO; COLLIOItem #: i_301698Bottle Size: 750mlJames Suckling: 95JAMES SUCKLING 95 POINTS - "Aromas of sesame leaves, lemon zest, coriander, white pepper and paprika. Full-bodied, dense and, at the same time agile. Hints of olive oil and green olives. Citrus fruit, too. Drink now."
JAMES SUCKLING 90 POINTS - "A round, fruity white with herbal, lemon-grass and some green-apple character. Medium to full body. A little diffused in the palate, but attractive. Drink now."
Sweet, large, spicy with varietal characteristics; with hints of citrus, almond, walnut, exotic fruit and hints of white peach, sage and white pepper. Wine with a great structure, with good acidity and harmonious fruit and spice; the typical almond aftertaste and exotic fruit is very persistent.
This is a classic Friulian Pinot Grigio made by allowing the juice and skins to macerate for 3 days, giving it a copper-blush hue. Then, 20% of the wine is aged in 1500 Liter barrels and 80% in stainless steel for a total of 8 months. Refreshing and mineral, it has subtle orange and stone fruit notes, with a moderately rich mouthfeel and finish due to that extended skin contact. A flexible food partner!
VENICA 2019 PINOT GRIGIO "JESERA"Item #: i_373036Bottle Size: 750MLWINE ENTHUSIAST 92 POINTS - "This copper-colored wine has a perfumed nose evoking spring wildflowers and white stone fruit with whiffs of wild herb. The savory palate features juicy peach, white cherry and ginger notes alongside tangy acidity."
Aged for 7-8 months: Half of it in 5-year old 11 hectoliter oak barrels, and half in 2.5 hectoliter barrels between 5 and 15-years old.
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Below we list the answers to the most asked questions. If you still feel like your question has not really been answered you-19!Can I still apply to 42 Wolfsburg?
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Together with 42 schools from around the world, we developed the best experience for you to interact, ask questions, and be part of the learning community completely online. We are determined to bring the 42 learning model online, including solutions to allow for social interactions and arrangements for an excellent online peer-to-peer learning experience for everyone. And importantly we will make sure that everyone has equal access to succeed!
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To little surprise, Richardson won’t return to Thursday’s game. It’s unclear how serious his injury is beyond that.
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Ace Collins returns with a taut thriller set the heart of Jim Crow country. Coop Lindsey’s family has lived in the ironically named town of Justice, Mississippi for over 100 years. His father was a much loved pastor, and Coop was equally as popular until he decided to defend young Calvin Ross. Ross is accused of murdering a teenage white girl, but it’s possible his only crime is being black. There isn’t much evidence to connect him to the murder, but the District Attorney insists the state has its man. This is the way things are in Justice, Coop is reminded. Why must he go changing them? Fifty years later, the repercussions of Coop’s decision are still being felt. His grandson is asked to defend a young man in a similar case, only now the colors are reversed. The defendant is white, the victim black. Can justice prevail in Justice?
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New Mexico OKs restart of America’s only underground nuke waste dump after 2014 radiation leak
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – New Mexico regulators have approved restarting normal operations at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository, a major step for U.S. officials aiming to reopen the facility nearly three years after a radiation leak shut it down indefinitely.
Two letters obtained Thursday by The Associated Press outline the state Environment Department’s findings from a recent inspection of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Regulators found two minor permit violations but said those were addressed immediately.
The site run by the U.S. Energy Department has been closed since a radiation release in February 2014 contaminated much of the underground disposal area. The leak stemmed from a chemical reaction inside a container of waste.
The shutdown halted the shipment of tons of Cold War-era waste from sites across the country, compromising the government’s multibillion-dollar cleanup campaign and resulting in an overhaul of policies and procedures across the nuclear complex.
The price tag for mitigating the contamination at the site in southeastern New Mexico is expected to exceed a half-billion dollars, which does not include costs stemming from a multimillion-dollar settlement with the state for numerous permit violations.
All provisions of the settlement will remain in effect until they are fulfilled, Kathryn Roberts, director of the state’s Resource Protection Division, wrote in one of the letters sent last week to Energy Department officials.
The state also noted that federal officials and the contractor that manages the repository must begin monitoring for volatile compounds when they begin moving waste into underground disposal rooms.
While state approval is key to restarting work at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, federal officials still need to address numerous issues identified as part of a separate readiness review done by Energy Department experts from elsewhere around the country.
Federal officials have pushed to resume some work by the end of the year, but it’s not clear whether they will meet that deadline.
Morita's promises and nuclear waste
No.3 fuel retrieval postponed
Statement issued on evacuee "harassment and insensitivity"
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That does not mean that I have not carried on in my garden and in the kitchen finding the best ways to use my produce.
Could not find a definitive recipe, but storage over time seemed an issue with some of them. So I made up my own recipe with info from here and there.
- 500 gr ripe elder berries
- ground ginger and cinnamon to taste
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State Street Station closed to all streetcar activity in 1937, save one operation of little-known use. Fortunately, it was occasionally photographed by a handful of railfans.
After 1931, the interurban freight terminal behind State Street Station was converted to a truck-only operation known as Bradley's Motor Truck Terminal. Most of the rail connections were removed, but the two tracks which were located on the open area north of the terminal were left in place. One ran alongside the terminal but the other ran on the north side of the open area, next to the concrete block building owned by Wright and Alexander Co., Contractors.
Our present photograph shows Rochester Transit Corp. 620 sitting on the north-most of the two sidings located in Dean Street between Plymouth and Otsego. The lack of a train number in the holder just left of the word "Front" on the red-and-white front entrance sign confirms that the car's NOT IN SERVICE sign is correct. The pole is up so that the car is ready for making a run at a moment's notice. Since this is a winter view, the car's electric heaters may well be running, too. This car is here because Dean Street's sidings were the one place in the downtown area, after 1937, where a car could be stored ready to run. Invariably, streetcar lines experience delays. Having a fill-in car ready keeps these delays to a minimum. By 1937, East Main Station was the only active car house in Rochester, but it was far away from several streetcar lines. Storing one emergency car on the Dean Street siding made it ready for quick use on any of Rochester's remaining streetcar lines.
In this photo the photographer is looking west northwest along the north edge of Dean Street and is standing about halfway between Plymouth and Otsego. Plymouth crosses Dean in the background; the tall brick building and the shorter, light-colored building just in its front, once comprised Rochester City School No. 5. The nearer, lower building was a school annex which, by the time of this photo, housedThe main school building is closed, as a new building (still in use today) was built a few blocks to the north in 1927.
From the generally run-down condition of the siding, one suspects this photo might have been made during the winter of 1940-1941, the last for Rochester's surface streetcars. Soon, the Dean Street sidings will be removed along with the rest of the Rochester streetcar network. Car 620, though, became part of a never-used reserve fleet of ten 600-series cars for the Rochester Subway, eluding the scrappers until 1950.
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You and I need to watch out to know how the television space is growing on the Android platform, which is basically a mobile and digital media space. The merger is very interesting. The new features include something called Google Play Instant, where a user will be able to try out an app without installing it. Quickly, they can see how the app works. There is also options like using 'PINs' for transactions, and easy 'Typing' on TV. Have you ever tried typing on TV?
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Night has fallen in Libya and the early reports are that Gadaffi has fled to Algeria, but some reporters on the scene are not so sure. His forces reportedly have laid down their arms. Now the battle begins. Anyone want to guess what the new constitution will look like?
We should still be asking the question: Who are the rebels?
Why do we have to force democracy down the throats of people at the point of a gun or coerce them into accepting a lifestyle that is so contrary to their ideology with billions of dollars and threats of taking it away if they don't comply?
Maggie, Then why did Obama send OUR AMERICAN Military under the cover of NATO in an unconstitutional move to Libya if it were not to force his style of government down their throats and for leverage in the future?
While I am at it and on a roll on Libya why aren't we charging them for Whellus AB that we had to leave, with all the equipment and all the belongings of the dependents when the ruckus broke out there in 68/69?
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If youotivate you?Then stop, rush to your room, pick up that mirror and vola!that is the person who can get the ball rolling for you. It’s you!
Lockdown has definitely taken a toll on mental health and its normal to feel low or less motivated. But if you give up on yourself, then how much can somebody else try to pick you up?
Lost a job, had a breakup, low on energy, dont like the job you are in feeling blah….. everyday, horrible boss, feeling directionless your reason could be anything. But if you make a reason or a problem bigger than yourself then you’re giving it a lot of importance and power to dominate you, and you can’t let that happen. Will you?
This article reminds me of a quote I read few months back, that says when you feel tired, learn to take rest and not quit. Yes, nobody else would walk our path for us. It calls for a lot of self responsibility. Thanks for the kind reminder, again. Cheers!
Love the article!This is so true in everyone’s life. You are the best person to motivate yourself. We all are procrastinators on certain days or in certain phase of life…
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With summermore pests trying to infiltrate your home or office. With more heat and humidity comes more rodents, ants, fleas, and ticks. What will these pests try to do? They’ll try to go inside and ruin your home or office! Luckily, you have Ringdahl Pest Control in Boynton Beachwho are here to help you with your pest control management needs! Featuring environmentally-friendly solutions and the best staff, you know you’re in good hands when you hire Ringdahl Pest Control.
Did you know Ringdahl Pest Control received more rodent service calls last year than ever before since our founding? With the rise of rodents in Palm Beach County, homeowners and office owners need to be aware of what to look for to see if they have a rodent problem. The majority of the rats found in South Florida are Roof Rats. Thd like line. These rats enter your home through various openings, and as their population grows, they will nest in underground burrows. Once you know you have a rodent problem, you should get in contact with Ringdahl Pest Control immediately to exterminate the pests on your premises. Rodents bring damage, disease, and more pests when they enter your property. Fortunately, Ringdahl Pest Control has the tools, the team, and the know-how to not only remove the rodents from your home or office but keep them from coming back again and again.
Moving onto Fire ants. Although small, this pest enjoys stinging and inflicting pain onto people. Although not ordinarily lethal, you never should run the risk of getting stung by a Fire ant. This reason is why Ringdahl Pest Control offers pest exterminator services for both Carpenter ants and Fire ants. When you see the warning signs, give Ringdahl Pest Control a call to solve your pest problem immediately before they start breeding.
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If you’ve ever done a rune reading, you’ve likely come across the term “Aett”. Last week, an iFate reader wrote in, asking us to explain why the aett in a rune-reading matters, and how to interpret it.
First, the simple definition:
Aett, is an old Norse spelling of the modern English word “Eight”, and it’s pronounced phonetically — rhyming with “wet”. The 24 Old Futhark runes can be divided into three groups of 8 runes each. Each group of 8 is called an “aett”.
The first Aett consists of the runes:
The second Aett consists of the runes:
Using Aetts in Rune Readings
Do you have to pay attention to which aett a rune belongs to when performing a rune reading?
Have you ever tried a rune reading? Try one free online now, and see how easy it is to do yourself.
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I have got with them only recently, invested $250, then they offered a credit of $4.5k which I closed today and agreed a withdrawal of $5.5k tomorrow, I had trades running, where all of the sudden most trades changed their opening price from recently opened to price when it was a 2 weeks ago, some trades months ago and instant large loss. I have closed those trades manually, but they re-opened 4 that are active at current market price and moved price again in to huge drawdawn blocked account.
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Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House
High bluffs stretch along the Merrimack River, offering beautiful views to visitors.
Goldsmith Woodlands features avenues of black pines, marshes of cattails, pitcher plants and beautiful views of Foster’s Pond.
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Italian furniture company Campeggi present contemporary, cozy and convertible sofa called Sosia, daybed and even a private enclosed space that can be used as a dressing room. Created by Milan-based designer Emanuele Magini this sofa lets you configure its two seats and flexible fabric flap,!?
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“paths”
Associating IP prefixes with QoS classes is particularly appealing when the lower layers support virtual circuits or networks. In this case, we can identify a mapping between a \textit{L2 network} and an \textit{L3 traffic class}. The great flexibility of IPv6 can be exploited to define networks with equivalent QoS characteristics. “sustainable bit rate”
Online shopping sites, such as Amazon and Intacart, show on their website the
products for sale in a square grid; see Figure~\ref{figure:products-grid}. The
number of rows and columns of the grid depend on the screen size of user's
device. The products shown and their ordering depends on various contextual
features, e.g., user's search query, department name, and past user's behavior
on the website. Some of the displayed products are sponsored and they are
referred to as \emph{ads}. For legal, regulatory and business reasons, the ads
are distinguished from non-sponsored products by a ``sponsored'' label. For the
same reasons, the ads are retrieved and ordered by a system that is separate
from the system for retrieving and ordering the non-sponsored products.
\includegraphics[height=0.9\textheight]{products-grid}
\caption{\label{figure:products-grid} Top $12$ products shown at Instacart
website for search query ``fruits''. The products are organized in a square grid
with $3$ columns and $4$ rows. The number of the columns in the grid depends on
the width of the screen of the user's device. The sponsored products have a grey
``sponsored`` label attached to them.}
The selection and the layout of the ads on web page is determined by an auction.
The auction receives as an input the bids from advertisers. The bid expresses
per click\footnote{Other
payment schemes, such as pay per impression and pay per conversion can be easily
accommodated as well. For ease of exposition, in this paper, we focus solely on
the pay-per click payment scheme.} on their ad. The auction also receives the
predictions of the probabilities that the user clicks on the ads
(\emph{predicted click-through rates}). Based on these inputs, the auction
selects the ads to be shown, determines their layout on the web page, and
computes the prices the advertisers pay per click. If the user clicks on the on
ad, the advertiser is charged the per-click price that was computed by the
auction. This idea goes back to the sponsored search
auctions~\citep{Varian-2007, Varian-2009, Aggarwal-Goel-Motwani-2006,
Edelman-Ostrovsky-Schwarz-2007, Aggarwal-2005,
Aggarwal-Feldman-Muthukrishnan-2006}.
Compared to the sponsored search auctions, grid design offers unique
opportunities. While traditionally each ad occupies one square of the grid, in
this paper, we generalize the design and we consider layouts, in which some of
the sponsored products can occupy two horizontally-adjacent squares of the grid.
Such sponsored products are called \emph{double-wide}. The standard ads
occupying one square are called \emph{single-slot}. The reason for the
double-wide ads is that they can offer more attractive imagery and graphics,
attracting more users to click on them.
In order to accommodate the more general layout, the inputs to the auction
algorithms need to be augmented. The inputs include the the dimensions of the
grid, the list of already occupied squares (occupied by non-sponsored products
or some other piece of content), widths of the ads, and position multipliers.
The position multipliers are similar to the ones used in the truthful variants
of the search ad auctions~\citep{Aggarwal-Goel-Motwani-2006} that arise from the
application of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism~\citep[Chapter
9.3.3]{Nisan-Roughgarden-Tardos-Vazirani-2007}. However, instead of a single
sequence of position multipliers, we use two sequences, one sequence for
single-slot ads and one sequence for double-wide ads.
We design efficient algorithms for computing the optimal layout of the ads and
their per-click prices. The algorithm for computing optimal layout is based on
dynamic programming. Our algorithm for computing prices is a generalization of
the generalized second price auction (GSP)~\cite[Chapter
28]{Nisan-Roughgarden-Tardos-Vazirani-2007}. We call these GSP-like
prices. As an alternative, one can compute the VCG prices
by a straightforward application of the VCG mechanism. We also design two
extensions of the basic algorithms. The first extension is for the setting where
the auction automatically chooses between a single-slot ad and a double-wide ad
for the same product. The second extension is for a setting where multiple ads
from the same advertiser can be shown on the same web page.
Our work is related to other combinatorial ad auctions. Perhaps the closest is
the work of \cite{Cavallo-Krishnamurthy-Sviridenko-Wilkens-2017}. They
considered the problem of selecting different truncations of text ads for search
advertising on Yahoo!
In Section~\ref{section:click-through-rate-model}, we introduce the
click-through rate model that we will use throughout the paper. The model is a
generalization of the separable model introduced by
\cite{Aggarwal-Goel-Motwani-2006}. We also discuss two alternative models. The
alternative models happen to be special cases of our main model.
In Section~\ref{section:layout-algorithm}, we explain the algorithm for
computing the optimal layout. In this section, we also explain the inputs to
the algorithm. The algorithm is based on dynamic programming. Both the time and
the space complexities are $O(N_1 N_2)$ where $N_1$ is the number of single-slot
ads and $N_2$ is the number of double-wide ads.
In Section~\ref{section:pricingGSP-like prices. The algorithm builds on the algorithm for computing
the optimal layout. We briefly mention how to compute VCG prices as well.
In Section~\ref{section:extensions}, we explain two extensions of the basic
the auction
for the same
from the same
advertiser can be shown on the same web page.
\section{Click-through rate model}
\label{section:click-through-rate-model}
In this section, we describe the model for the probability that a user clicks on
an ad. This probability is referred to as the \emph{click-through rate}. In
principle, the click-through rate could depend on presence of the other ads and
their positions. However, we assume that the click-through rate of an ad depends
only on the ad itself and the position on the page where the ad is shown. In
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I can be a cultist when it comes to good books that blow my mind. I persuade friends and strangers alike to read them, then wait for them to return with gleaming eyes, ready to join me in the mission of spreading literature. I read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, and a week later, I was spreading the gospel of Sanderson.
Anderson’s argument: Everything you do matters. Not just to you or your family or your hometown, but to “all of us forever.” Although I believe in the interconnectedness of humanity, I met Anderson’s claim with a smile I usually reserve for clumsy children, thinking, how sweet. Cue the inspirational music while I recline on this cloud and sprinkle sentiment on my pie. But Anderson grounds his claim in science and history. Though his claim is hyperbolic, exaggeration has its place in effective communication. Hyperbole aside, in a world where many feel dwarfed by the problems we face in our lives, in our nation, and in our world, Anderson’s take-home messageknow. (Yes, more important than knowing how to chew food, speak English, and turn the channel to The Walking Dead.)
During the battle of Gettysburg, a professor of rhetoric named Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain led four score exhausted soldiers to victory against three southern regiments. The professor had been charged with holding a strategic position so important that if he lost it the Union would lose Gettysburg completely. Chamberlain had started the morning with three hundred soldiers but by the time he made his last stand, he commanded just eighty men. They were out of bullets. No cavalry would come to save Chamberlain—his commanders were dead—and the rebels had received reinforcements from a fresh regiment. Faced with defeat, Chamberlain decided to do an amazing thing, ordering a last-ditch bayonet charge to save the left flank of the hill at all costs. He said later, after his extraordinary act, “I” Chamberlain’s deep inability to do nothing won the battle within a five-minute span and, historians say, won the Civil War.
Anderson is a masterful storyteller, but absolute statements like the one preceding are where he comes closest to deflating my excitement for his message. Even granting that a southern victory in the Civil War would have split us into multiple countries, any number of events might have led us to unite to face Hitler. I don’t object to Anderson’s hyperbole because, whether or not we’d be living in land conquered by the Nazis, the point that Chamberlain’s action made our current nation possible stands.
Initially, I did object to Chamberlain as a good example of Anderson’s central claim that everything everybody does matters to all of us forever. How many of us will find ourselves leading an army, fighting for the continuance of our nation? But as I continued to read, the point became clear that it wasn’t that the teacher had led an army, it was that he decided to do the difficult thing in a predicament where many good and reasonable people would have chosen the easy thing.
The remaining stories interconnect causatively with the world-changing achievements of individuals whose lives can be traced to the legacies of individuals who came before them. He writes about a botanist who hybridized a corn plant that saved two billion lives (and counting). Anderson then connects the botanist’s success through two degrees of separation to George Washington Carver. But again, because Anderson is talking about historical figures who embody the kind of exceptionalism that earned them a place in our history books, he may as well be offering Conan the Barbarian as our inspiration to triumph over adversity.
I’m spreading the gospel of Anderson because when our human spirits fray against life, Anderson’s message reminds us of the point:
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Great stuff again Sidney, its always good to see how other folk go about things.
These posts are very interesting. Thanks Sidney.
It still comes down to patience and your ability as one of the best figure painters out there Sidney...stunning.
Yet super tutorial and those mini's are looking very nice!
Thanks for teh tut mate. Im going to be painting some of these soon so it will help me alot.
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GPT-4 is an advanced large language model (LLM) released by OpenAI in 2023. It was published on Tuesday 14 March.
Read the OpenAI article on the release here.
The use of GPT-4 is similar to ChatGPT
GPT-4 will be able to follow instructions more closely
GPT-4 can process images
Where can GPT-4 be used?
According to OpenAI, GPT-4 will first be made available through ChatGPT Plus. The monthly fee is around 25 dollars.
OpenAI has previously introduced two main models to the public: GPT-3 and ChatGPT.
GPT-3 is a text generator
GPT-4 is, at least according to the first experiments, a new evolution of ChatGPT, but not a complete revolution. Of course, the fact that AI can produce text for different purposes better than most humans is revolutionary enough.
What did I expect from GPT-4?
The jumps in past models have been so shocking that expectations for the GPT-4 were a little too high.
My guess was that GPT-4 would be something between GPT-3 and ChatGPT: a dialogue-based AI tool capable of producing content in text, image and voice. Multimodal output was not yet introduced in GPT-4.
These are the ones I was waiting for:
Faster response generation
Taking a broader context into account
Multimodality: sound, image and moving image
Multimodality is included in the new model, but in such a way that it can also be fed in as an image. From a generative AI perspective, this may not be as shocking as being able to get a response with, say, animation, but it still opens up a whole new range of applications.
GPT-4 continues ChatGPT’s world conquest. It writes code, articles, translates and writes poetry.
At least in my experience, generative AI is at its best in tasks where you have some background, but not full mastery.
Here are some examples where I have used it myself:
Writing functions in Google Sheets
Ideating on the just little bit outside your expertise
As originally reported by the German Heise magazine, German Microsoft CTO Andreas Braun said at the event that GPT-4 will be released on on the week starting 13th of March. And that’s the way it went down.
It was also speculated that the announcement would take place at Microsoft’s “Reinventing Productivity with AI” event on 16th March. This did not happen, but the announcement was made on Tuesday 14 March.
Where can you find out more about the potential of artificial intelligence?
If you want to experience the possibilities of AI, I recommend my Aum Golly series of AI poetry books: the first part written by GPT-3 and the second by ChatGPT.
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Study the life of David in the historical books and see a man filled with godly confidence. He was a sinner like us, but in many ways he's a great model. What was his secret?
He knows the pain is a consequence of his sin. This must have added to his trauma. Furthermore, this isn't an enemy at the gates. This is his family. David's passivity as a father comes home to roost. Many join the rebellion. His chief counselor stabs him in the back. How should he respond?
He isn't self-centered. He thinks of those he shepherds selflessly. He momentarily relinquishes his throne. What amazing humility!
Don't hold back in prayer. Don't you hate it when a family member or friend won't tell you what's bothering them when you know something is weighing on them?
David is brutally honest with God about his enemies, pain, doubts and fears. Are you?If not, why?
What's your main struggle?Are you being brutally honest with the Lord in prayer?
In the Psalm, David says God answered. How did he know?He says he slept. He knew many enemies were near. How could he sleep?
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Gastroenterology billing can be complicated due to the number of modifiers that are applied to medical bills in this specialty. Being the branch of medicine that deals all disorderespecially the digestive system itself, there are a wide range of diseases and disorders, and a multitude of different procedures to document.
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Although I’veview (FoV) quantitatively, how to put them in context, and how to visualize them appropriately. When trying to answer questions like “which VR headset has a bigger FoV?” or “by how much is headset A’s FoV bigger than headset B’s?” or “how does headset C’s FoV compare to the field of vision of the naked human eye?”, the basic question is: how does one even measure field of view, in a way that is fair and allows comparison across a wide range of possible sizes. Does one report a single angle, and how does one measure it? Across the “diagonal” of the field of view? What if the field of view is not a rectangle? Does one report a pair of angles, say horizontal⨉vertical? Again, what if the field of view is not a rectangle?’ng RGB Stripe and PenTile RGBG displays, it occurred to me that I could use those images to create a rough and simple simulator to visually evaluate the differences between VR headsets that have different resolutions and sub-pixel layouts.
If a viewer then positions one of their eyes at a distance of Y from the center of the monitor and closes the other one, the resolution of the image on the monitor will be R. In other words, if R is the known resolution of some VR headset, the image on the monitor will look the same resolution as that VR headset.
If one then displays a test pattern that lets one identify a particular pixel on the screen, one can measure the viewer-relative angular position of that pixel in the camera image, which is all the information needed to generate the projection matrices and lens distortion correction formulas that are essential to high-quality VR rendering.
Welcome New VR Users!
How does VR actually work? (presentation at VRLA ’16 Expo, 25 minutes) In other words, how does a collection of screens and lenses and tracking sensors etc. create the illusion of a virtual space that feels real?
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BRANDON - Some animals arriving at the county animal shelter on Falkenburg Road show up with nothing that can comfort them during their stay.
"When we bring in 30, 40 or 50 animals that don't have so much as their own body fat to keep them warm, they need something soft," said Hillsborough County Animal Services Community Coordinator Marti Ryan.
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The food and beverage options over the last few years have always been amazing, offering falafel wraps, BBQ, sno-cones, poffertjes, coffee, doughnuts and lots more. I personally like to make my way over to the Jam and Cake stall for a home made pie to take home for dinner or dessert. I might even grab myself a truffle or cookie whilst there. Yum!
This year's raffle, Raffle Mania, is always popular with attendees as the prizes are always appealing, and this year does not disappoint. With 1st prize consisting of a $2000 Red Balloon voucher (need I go on?
Personally though, if I had to name my favourite thing about Antonio Park Primary School Fete (5th year attendee now), I would have to say that I just love seeing that beautiful community spirit. All the staff are out in force wearing fully themed costumes, not to mention more than a few parents, all helping out, laughing and having a great time. Everyone is happy to come up and say 'G'day' and really make the day special and fun for all. Now that's what a school fete is all about!
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We're happy to share with you some of the
kind words and testimonials shared with us
by our clients. We take great pride in
helping others achieve their physical,
"I'm not sure the English language has
adequate words to describe Tove's skill as a
healer. One day I hope to learn Sanskrit and
I suspect that if I do I will then learn
words that describe Tove's ability. Tove has
helped me more than anyone else in my trauma
recovery process, works on other healing as
I need it, keeps my carpal tunnel syndrome
in check, and is unlocking my tense back &
neck muscles with her talented therapeutic
massage techniques. It is extremely likely
that when I'm 108 years old looking back, it
will still be true that Tove has been by far
the most powerful, gentle, caring, and
influential healing force in my life. My
gratitude that she is in my life is
"I am a very busy hairdresser and my
experience in receiving regular massage
therapy to address the chronic neck,
shoulder, and back tensions that come with
the territory have been an absolute neccessity for me in maintaining the highest
standard of quality to my clientelle. I can
now look forward to many years of grateful
service in the years to come as well.
Upon recommendation, I began practicing Chi
Gung in Zach's group. I have found his
teachings to be thoughtful, personal, and
infused with humor and a light touch. It has
helped me to feel more grounded in my
dealings with people and business. I now
feel an inner energy and calmness that
enables me to face each situation in life
with more grace and ease. Thank you for
sharing your knowlegde and wisdom."
Katy Elfstrand
"I come to Tove to thaw long-frozen
feelings, to recover from childhood trauma,
and to learn how to experience as many
dimensions of myself as fully and
consciously as I can. For over five years I
have seen her every two to four weeks,
sometimes even more often. She is a real
ally and partner in my striving
to become a more whole, sensitive, and
loving human being. I recommend her to
anyone and everyone, whether you're healing
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your psychological and spiritual journey, or
you simply want to treat yourself (or
someone else) to an experience that is
"deep, gentle, and nurturing."
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"I have been a client of Zach's for almost
four years. I have had chronic, serious back
and neck problems for decades. I have had
countless experience with all manner of
specialists, surgeons, physical therapy,
massage therapists, chiropractors etc. When
I first came to Zach I was facing possible
neck surgery and I was in pain with limited
mobility . What Zach has done for me has
been amazing. I am almost completely without
pain and now have near normal mobility. Zach
has extensive knowledge and extreme passion
for how every muscle and tissue and bones
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cares that he is improving the quality of
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Ginnie Andersen
"Due to health reasons I started to recieve
massage therapy almost 20 years ago. Finding
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need to look any further. That was in 1997.
From then until I moved in 2007 I never had
a reason to go to any other therapist. Tove
has a gift that not many other therapists
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human anatamy she is truly a healer who has
found her calling in life. I have yet to
find another therapist who can even come
close to providing the relief that I have
experianced under Tove's care. Whenever I
return to the Twin Cities the first call I
make is to Haracenter."
Karl Dybdahl
"I asked Zach if he could check out my
chronic shoulder pain that I had been
struggling with for a couple years after
doing some dead weight workouts. It was
difficult for me to lift my shoulder after
any time I would use it for strength-engaged
motion. Zach's knowledge of deep tissue and
Brennan Healing Science energy work
gradually helped me remember an injury I had
when I was a 4 year old. My collarbone was
broken. After his gradual deepening work
into the areas of pain, he realized that my
childhood injury had not healed properly.
This seemed to be the reason why this
current injury was not healing well. His
continued work allowed me to feel deep
releases without causing me more pain, which
no one else had been able to achieve
before. After a couple of sessions, I had
considerable relief and more range of
motion. Today I can use my shoulder in
strength demanding motions and not feel any
pain. Zach's background in massage, deep
tissue work, Brennan Healing Science and
psychotherapy has given him a unique way to
help people. His integration of these
modalities is a holistic approach that I
would highly recommend to anyone suffering
with chronic or acute pain. I have known
Zach for many years now as a natural health
therapist. I hold him in the highest regard
for his professionalism and personalized
Alain Grouette N.D. - P.H.
Naturopathic Doctor, Psychotherapist,
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner,
Brennan Integration Practitioner and
International Advisor for the Barbara
Brennan School of Healing
English Program Director for the Alternative
Medicine College of Canada
"At HaraCenter, you are free to pursue the
healing process that suits you best--whether
it be a simple massage, or working through
complex emotional issues that are physically
manifesting themselves. In
addition to their strong hands and warm
hearts, Tove and Zach each possess unique
talents and approaches that you will not
find anywhereelse in the Twin Cities."
"I have been honoured to witness Zach in
action in group therapy, on one-on-one
sessions and have been his client for many
supervision session. Zach is a
compassionate and empathic man. He has a
way of making people feel safe and received
in their truth in the moment. His
experience has given him the ability to
guide people through moments of questions
where their didn't seem to be any answers.
He can reflect back the unseen in a way that
will open people to new insights about their
situation. His psycho-spiritual abilities
are a gift to anyone receiving his service."
I have received from Zach Potchinsky have
had a deep and profound impact on me and
have touched me to the core of my being.
Zach's strength, presence and sensitivity
has helped to create a deep connection
between us that has truly supported me in my
own healing process and journey. Zach
shares his wonderful gifts and healing
skills in touching and holding the essence
of another soul with grace, love, Divine
light and deep humility. I experience deep
trust and sacred holding with this
wonderfully generous and open hearted healer
and would recommend him highly to any
individual seeking to deepen connections
Teacher, BBSH
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I haven’t kept many of my computer files connected with the old life as a GP, but I did recently come across a poster I did for the surgery notice-board in October 2005, on the Big Health Scare of the time, Avian Flu.
Well, how did I soothe the public brow? I pointed out how avian flu is common, and produces serious problems for birds just a couple of times a century, but that the current anxiety was because of this strain’s mutating to become transmissible to humans. However, I pointed out, H5N1 was not easily caught, and only sixty people had at that time died from it, worldwide.
In theory, I said, it could mutate again to become easily transmitted, in which case it might cause a human pandemic, the last serious one of which was in 1918. Notice how, in 2005, it was easy to gloss over Asian Flu and Hong Kong Flu, which each killed more than COVID has, but even now are largely forgotten even by those who lived through them.
But I pointed out that this mutation had shown no signs whatsoever of happening, and might never happen, and that the press sensationalism should be treated with caution, and rumour-mongers with even more cicumspection. Next I included the following paragraph on what might happen if such a pandemic did, at some future stage, occur, based on the scientific projections of the time. These projections may even have been by the celebrated Neil Ferguson, who in fact eventually modelled up to 200 million deaths worldwide from the non-existent pandemic – the total of deaths between 2005 and 2015 eventually being a mere 440. Some things never change whilst the same people are allowed to manage the discussion.
* The whole epidemic would last about 3 weeks.
* About 50% people would be off work sick at any one time.
* About 10 people would die (compared to about 2-3 in an average winter flu outbreak).
* Unlike normal flu, the worst cases might occur in young, fit people.
This is obviously not good, but is not the Doomsday Scenario imagined by some people.
In retrospect I could have fished out the Asian and Hong Kong flu statistics, though they were less easily available then, to show we’d been through such a scenario twice within living memory without most people even noticing. But I think I made the point that in 2005, as now, a majority of people would not know personally anyone who died. The aim was to maintain a clear sense of proportion amongst an intelligent and responsible public.
On the news a member of the public said, “You can’t be too careful.” But she was wrong – taking too many of the wrong precautions can cause panic, medicine shortages, or even false confidence. The preparations for a pandemic need to happen at national and international level, and fortunately our government seems to be well up in the field, making contingency plans, stockpiling medications and so on.
I could have no idea that the precautionary principle would, fifteen years later, have destroyed the world’s economy and condemned millions to death from starvation and treatable diseases, and obliterated human rights to boot. Had I written that on my poster, nobody would have taken me seriously – yesterday’s wild conspiracy theory has been our only reality for nearly a year now. I was also rather too sanguine about the responsibwas before the Swine Flu scandal of 2009 that showed the WHO to be corruptly tied to Big Pharma.
How was I to know that our government would have run down its pandemic response supplies, and (together with the WHO) would immediately tear up its carefully-laid pandemic plans in the event and instead be panicked into untested totalitarian lockdown policies borrowed from Communist China? Who would have imagined that the government would subsequently ignore the proliferating science that shows lockdowns to be ineffective in preventing deaths? How could anyone guess that when Tier 3 was introduced in the north just after deaths began to fall under Tier 2, only to rise again before a second total lockdown that proved ineffective, that the government’s solution would not be to realise the whole policy is unproductive, but to impose a newly-minted Tier 4 across the country and, when that too led to an even greater rise in cases, to talk about inventing Tier 5?
Another thing I got wrong in this section of my poster was the hidden role of Big Pharma regarding the antiviral Tamiflu. Roche was the company in this case, but the drug was actually invented by Gilead Sciences, which also produces the equally hyped, far more expensive, and equally useless Remdesivir at £1800 per patient. Roche’s hype induced HMG to spend nearly half a billion pounds on stockpiling the expensive Tamiflu, which later proved to be ineffective anyway, and was never used. If it had been effective, Britain’s greed would have deprived the rest of the world of treatment, as it has for COVID vaccines. But in my poster I simply included Tamiflu as a possible treatment, whilst reminding patients that it was not currently prescribable as a precautionary measure, and was likely to be counterfeit if bought online.
* Masks. This would only be relevant in an actual pandemic, but despite the old TV pictures of Chinese people in masks, there is no good evidence that normal masks can protect from flu. So we may as well breathe easily instead!
I include this here to show that, in 2005, with no pressure on supplies of what is now called “PPE,” the science was as settled as it could be that public use of masks is useless. Nothing has changed now except for a flawed meta-analysis of poor-quality studies suggesting possible minor benefit, one good quality, but boycotted, blind study from Denmark definitively showing that even clean surgical masks do not protect the wearer from COVID – and the imposition of a mandated cult of masks that has further eroded our humanity.
So much for the lessons learned, or not learned, from a previous, but relatively recent, pandemic scare. But the real difference from today is this. In 2005, my GP practice still regarded itself as a partnership of independent, highly experienced professionals contracted to the NHS, but able to weigh the evidence for ourselves and make judgements in advising our patients – judgements that, in the case of Avian Flu, turned out pretty much on the money. Our patients trusted us from their own experience, and so did not join in the panic.
We did not simply await the official guidance from NHS England and pin it up under the authority of a blue NHS logo, but under our own brand – which predates the NHS.
That has all changed. In 2020, not only are we encouraged to invest all our faith in the Blessed NHS, and sacrifice our freedom and treasure to save it, but for a variety of reasons doctors have ceased to be scientifically-trained practitioners, and have instead become functionaries of that state-controlled organisation. Wherever you go in Britain, nearly-deserted practices are operating government policy, not independently interpreted science. And those who step out of line, being nowadays largely salaried employees of NHS trusts or commercial concerns, are likely to become unemployed or even struck off. And so your local GP keeps uncannily silent (though if UK doctors are proportionate to those across the world, some 8,000 have signed the Great Barrington Declaration).
In short, an independently-researched patient-information poster like mine from 2005 could simply not be possible nowadays. My local surgery is instead plastered with official propaganda. Dissent is not tolerated amongst the public, and far less amongst professionals daring to provide “misinformation” to those who, once upon a time, trusted them to make sense of the health-care jungle for them. On the other hand, of you’re Bill Gates, you can be on TV to give the blanket reassurance that vaccines are completely safe, despite the scandals over live polio vaccines causing paralysis in developing countries (leading to their banning in 2016), and narcolepsy from GSK’s Pandemix for swine flu.
Meanwhile, COVID cases have been rising dramatically for 4 weeks since 28th November, likewise hospital admissions (contrary to the known time-course of the disease) from the same day, whereas deaths have been flatlining during that period – and are lower than the peak around 21st November. Time to impose Tier 666 across the country, I think.
As far as I can see, most of the highest infection areas in England are in Tier 4 (Surrey, Kent, Essex, parts of London, etc). Tier 4 didn’t even exist when that system began (neither did Tier 1, but that’s another story!).
And that would tell any sane person that there id.
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Erm, I think we can index it as text. But what's wrong with, you know, html? I was trying to surf an xml doc in an old version of Netscape earlier today. Barf, said the browser.
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In his seminal lecture, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” given at the 1959 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, American physicist Richard Feynman posed the possibility of direct manipulation of single atoms as a form of synthetic chemistry more powerful than the methods in use at the time. His revolutionary ideas were an invitation to enter a new field of physics, describing a set of challenges and possible solutions that would later be realized in the fields of microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, microbiology, and be stretched even further by nanotechnology (a term introduced much later by Norio Taniguchi of the Tokyo Science University in 1974).
Carbon nanotechnology, made famous by the discovery of the buckyball (carbon sphere) in 1985, moved apace through the 1990s with the development of carbon nanotubes and, in the last few years, has experienced an exponential increase in research activities with graphene-based structures. Graphene, extracted from graphite, is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms, arranged in a honeycomb-style lattice pattern. Because of its unique electrical, magnetic, and other properties, graphene has grown central to much of the research into nanotechnology.
Today, there are some ambitious programs under way in the E&P sector exploring nanosensors and even nanorobots, but I would like to focus on carbon nanotechnology research as it relates to commercially available products and its near-term impact across many product lines.
At first glance, it might not seem obvious why nanotechnology is relevant to our industry. But the challenges in frontier areas such as deep water, unconventional hydrocarbons, and high-pressure/high-temperature applications nearly all have complex material and chemistry gaps that must be addressed to provide reliable technology solutions for these environments. In some cases, no solutions exist with the standard tool kit—so we enter the domain of the molecular designer or nanotechnologist.
So what are the basics of nanotechnology research? A nanometer (nm) is one-billionth (10−9) of a meter. A working definition of nano is “the purposeful engineering of matter at scales of less than 100 nanometers to achieve size-dependent properties and functions.” The enormous potential for carbon nanotechnology in the oil field lies largely in the design or modification of materials using the combination of the unique physical properties of the building blocks with the added chemical flexibility of benzyne-type systems (highly reactive organic species). For example, a carbon nanotube has: (1) a mechanical strength 100 times stronger than steel; (2) a mechanical modulus 100,000 times stiffer than steel; (3) an electrical conductivity similar to copper; and (4) a thermal conductivity approximately 2.5 times greater than diamond. Not a bad initial specification list.
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I don't think I ever set the bar low, or decided that they couldn't do anything they wanted. They did surprise me a lot, but that doesn't mean I didn't think they were capable. It was always about what they wanted to strive for, and I was never sure what they would want to do with the resources they had And that turned out to be a very good thing. I'm not going to stress about my daughter going to the prom without a date or a gaggle of friends. She wanted to go to the prom, and she went by herself, and I did everything I could to make her prom night special within the context of her desires. Just between us, I'm proud of her, because I wanted to go alone but I chickened out and went with someone I didn't like so I could conform. Unlike me when I was her age, she is a true individual, and her high school class is full of like-minded kids. Amazing. I doubt they will bat an eye at her showing up by herself.
I finally get to see them as the trees, and not just an assortment of leaves and twigs that I feed and water and nurture as best I can.
And that's a very awe-inspiring thing.
Labels: milestones, the boy, the girl
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TGod promises to be there with us, to push away the devil, accusation, guilt, and fear but we need to repent and rely on him. As long as we are going our own way, as long as we assert our independence, as long as we pretend we don’t need him – he can’t help us. He can’t help us when we are resisting and pushing him away.
One of the primary roles of Satan is to separate God and people.
And that is true. When you are praying it is never done alone. It is done with others, in the power of the Spirit, through Jesus Christ, to God the Father. Prayer is a relationship, because it is based in relationships and changes relationships. So the next time you are praying, remember you aren’t doing it alone. And remember most of all prayer is a relationship, and it’s a relationship worth investing in.
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Celebrity Big Brother 2017: Jemma Lucy reveals her past with Ashley Cole
Jemma Lucy reveals her past with Ashley Cole on Celebrity Big Brother 2017 tonight.
"I have worn a Chelsea shirt before, I usually go when it's freezing, it does get cold there," she says about visiting Stamford Bridge.
Jemma then jokes: "I will just ring my mate John Terry and say 'Can I have tickets?' and not go with you."
Instead, Jemma reveals: "I haven't slept with John Terry…the only Chelsea player I'vElsewhere tonight, Jemma clears the air with Paul Danan.
Yesterday the pair had a blazing row but in this evening's episode they're BFFs again - for now.
Paul says: "I'm so sorry I reacted that way…I miss my boy and I'm'."
Jemma Lucy and Sam Thompson.
In the bedroom, Jemma and Sam comment on Brandi, Sam says; "I think she's a bit of an idiot and when you're that age and you're still an idiot, I don't think I respect Brandi, I think I like her."
Jemma adds; "She's not a nasty person, I like her."
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News of the mass extermination of Jews in Europe first began circulating in 1942. While difficult to believe, and often relegated to the back pages of newspapers, the stories were hard to ignore. One report by The Canadian Press out of London, England, on June 24, 1943, contained the horrifying claim that Jews in occupied Poland were being “steamed to death” by the Nazis. The story by reporter Scott Young was based on information supplied from the Polish underground with details about major Nazi-run “extermination camps in eastern Poland.”
Instead, in an age when the concept of race was paramount, Canadian academics, church leaders, physicians, social reformers, philanthropists, and politicians expressed grave concern about foreigners they viewed as undesirable, impoverished, uncivilized, and immoral — in short, a danger to the health and future of Canadian society. As one Toronto public school teacher succinctly put it in the years before the First World War, Canadians are “tidy, neat, and sincere — foreigners are not.”
A few weeks later, during debate at the UN General Assembly on the final version of the UDHR, Pearson attempted to explain, rather weakly, Canada’s decision to have its reservations about the draft of the charter on the record and reaffirmed the country’s commitment to human rights. When the vote was taken on December 10, 1948, Canada, as had been the government’s plan from the start, supported the UN’s adoption of the UDHR, with the hope, as Pearson stated, “that it will mark a milestone in humanity’s upward march.”
In November 1946, Viola Desmond, a thirty-two-year-old black woman from Halifax who tried to see a movie in nearby New Glasgow, was forcibly arrested and kept in jail overnight after she refused the theatre manager’s request to sit in the section of the balcony reserved for black patrons. More than a decade later, in February 1959, a feature story in the Toronto Star about Metro Toronto’s nine-thousand “Negroes” concluded that, though the “blatant prejudice of pre-war days has disappeared, a more subtle and sometimes just as acute prejudice has taken its place.” Anyone who was not a WASP was a target. When Italian immigrants rode the streetcar in Toronto, it was not uncommon for them to hear remarks such as “dirty wop” or “go back to Italy.”
Many Canadian political leaders either shared similar attitudes or denied there was a problem. In late 1947, Charles Daley, the Ontario minister of labour, told Rabbi Abraham Feinberg “ry.” Likewise, a few months later, his colleague Attorney General Leslie E. Blackwell declared in the Ontario legislature, “I know of no place on earth where people are more tolerant than in Ontario.”
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Ecommerce Q & A › Category: Dropshipping › Is drop shipping profitable in india?
Many people have asked this question as they try to weighn India is the low cost of doing business. This is one aspect that any online seller is well aware of. Since the introduction of the internet, the rivalry has increased significantly. As a result, wholesalerlayers in online trading.
However, the goods offered by this process are less expensive than those sold in the retail market.
Another advantage is that the goods are readily available and the consumers have a variety of options. In the case of retail, product selection is restricted. Dropshipping, on the other hand, allows for the viewing of a wide range of items. He or she should choose the product that best suits his needs.
The third advantage is that the products can be easily shipped from the seller to the consumer.actually owning them. The order is simply transferred from the seller to the drop shipper by the buyer. The latter is in charge of delivering the purchased item to the customer. The seller is not expected to manage the merchandise or have the necessary storage space.
Dropshipping also saves money on inventory. The seller does not need any storage space because the commodity is shipped to the buyer from the drop shipper’s warehouse. There is a cost-saving even with a limited amount of inventory. Many drop shipping businesses have discounts on their goods. This lowers inventory costs and, as a result, product costs. As a result, drop shipping’s profitability has improved.
The fourth advantage is that the vendor does not have to keep the commodity in stock. That is handled by the drop shipper. All the seller has to do now is list the items on the website and wait for orders to come in. There is no charge for packaging. As a result, dropshipping eliminates a retailer’s inventory requirements.
The ease with which a drop shipper can access the requisite wholesalers is the fifth and final advantage. The logistics sector in India is still fragmented, as a number of companies are unable to form a cooperative partnership. Drop delivery services provide retailers with low-cost access to the best wholesalers and distributors.
It is important for a retailer to choose a dependable and trustworthy wholesaler.
He should also avoid wholesalers that are new to the market or are just getting started in the industry. Reputable wholesalers are concerned about your companyno issues during the selling process.
Yes, dropshipping is profitable in India if you follow these measures carefully.
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with his head bent and
his ear intently listening. When he had obtained the light, he walked
quickly forward, followed by Mrs. Culpepper, and did not pause till he
reached the stone door which led out upon the hill-side. He put his
hand upon the lock; but it was fastened, and then, holding the candle
to the little niche at the side, he looked in. The key was in its
place, and he retired satisfied.
It was nine o'clock before Sir John Newark entered the room where
preparations had been made for breakfast. He found his son Richard
talking gaily to Emmeline in the window, while she replied with a
bright and smiling face. Although, considering his designs respecting
Emmeline and his son, it might be supposed that such a sight was
pleasant to him, yet that poisoner of all peace, suspicion, would not
have it so. Emmeline's excessive anxiety during the preceding day,
after tidings had been received of Smeaton's capture, had not escaped
his notice, although she had striven hard to conceal the emotions
which were busy in her bosom, and now she seemed so bright and
cheerful that he said to himself, "She must have some intelligence."
He resolved to watch her carefully; but, happily for Emmeline,
emotions as strong, though very different from, those of the day
before, had still possession of her. They were more joyful, more
hopeful, but perhaps even more thrilling; and, several times during
the meal, she fell into deep fits of thought. Suspicion is always
vacillating, and Sir John began to doubt whether he had been right or
not. His son contributed, too, to remove the fancy which possessed him
by saying, with one of his wild laughs, towards the middle of
breakfast. "I was telling Emmy when you came in, father, that we
should have this Colonel Lord back again here very soon. Great fish
always lie on the same bank."
"I do not know, Dick," replied his father, gravely. "I think it is
very improbable you will ever see him again. If he is wise, he will
betake himself to France immediately. Otherwise he may very well
chance to leave his head on the scaffold some morning."
Richard laughed, exclaiming. "Well then, he had a great deal better
kick it before him across the sea. A precious foot-ball it would
Emmeline gave a slight shudder, and Sir John dropped the conversation
till the meal was ended, when he said, "The Earl's servant is here, as
I dare say you know, Dick; but he has had no news of his master, and
fancies he must be at Keanton."
"Oh, I know Higham is here," answered the lad; "for I had a long talk
with him just before you sent for him. He told me all about the
rescue. What fun it must have been to see those lubberly soldiers all
tied, and lying heads and tails like herrings in a barrel! I wish I
had been there. I should have liked to help poor Smeaton, and leather
the jacket of that long captain. Higham says his master knocked him
down just as he did the Earl of Stair's great bully, and vows that the
punch-bowls jumped up a foot off the table with the shock of his
"Well, Dick," observed his father, "the servant talks of riding over
by the tops of the downs to Keanton to see for his lord. Now, as you
know there is nothing I would so willingly do as assist this noble
gentleman, you and I will ride over with the man to within half a mile
of Keanton. Then, if he finds his master, we can establish some
communication with him, and perhaps assist him."
He paused a moment, and then, turning to Emmeline, he added; "I fear
you cannot go with us, my dear child. Maiden modesty forbids your
running about the country to inquire for a young cavalier. I think,
too, it might be as well for you to remain within during our absence.
There will be parties of soldiers, doubtless, scouring the country in
various directions, and they are neither the most civil or civilized."
"I have no inclination to go out," replied Emmeline, simply. "I am
tired with all the anxiety of yesterday."
Sir John Newark, his son, and Smeaton's servant, were soon on
horseback; and, without any other attendant, they set out, turning
sharp to the left after quitting the gates of the Manor House, and
winding round the edge of the woods till they reached nearly the top
of Ale Head. Thence pursuing their course across the downs, with the
high cliffs beetling over the sea at the distance of about a quarter
of a mile on their left, they continued their course, alternately
rising and descending up the brown hills and down into the green
solitary hollows which extend fifteen or sixteen miles along the
At the distance of about seven miles from Ale Manor, however, they
came to one of these hollows, which assumed more the appearance of a
regular valley, with a bright and beautiful little stream flowing down
it towards the sea. Here they halted; Higham received instructions to
ride on before, while the other two slowly followed, and Sir John
"We will wait at the distance of about half a mile from Keanton. Tell
your Lord that we are there, if he thinks it safe to come and speak
with us. If not, bring us some tidings of him; but enter the village
very cautiously, lest the good people of Keanton should have fallen
into the hands of the Philistines."
Higham nodded his head and rode away. Sir John Newark, who had been
very silent during the first part of the journey, now entered into an
eager conversation with his son, which, as I must refer to it
afterwards, I need not notice more particularly here. Suffice it to
say, that the father spoke, earnestly and apparently impressively, and
that the son, though at first he listened with eagerness and looks of
surprise, and strove afterwards to fix his wandering attention upon
his father's words, soon resumed his usual manner, and laughed and
talked gaily and wildly, flitting round the subject rather than
resting upon it.
After they had reached the spot which had been fixed upon as their
halting-place, Sir John and his young companion remained for about
three quarters of an hour in expectation, Richard getting off and on
his horse, throwing pebbles into the stream, and showing many signs of
impatience. Sir John marked him with a slight smile, and at length
Higham made his appearance again, trotting quietly and unconcernedly
down towards them.
"He is not there, Sir John," said the man, riding up "at least so all
the people say; but they are mighty stingy of their words this
morning. However, one thing is certain. They have heard nothing of the
Exeter people, and I make out pretty surely that my Lord is not very
far off, and that they know it."
"Ah, how do you make that out?" asked Sir John Newark.
"Why, one man began talking about a stranger having come to Blacklands
late last night; but his wife stopped his mouth in a minute; and, when
I asked where Blacklands was and what it was, he gave a rambling sort
of answer. But, I believe, it must be some farm near at hand."
"It is five miles off," replied Sir John, immediately; "a wild and
solitary place, shut out from the whole neighbourhood, and a very
likely spot indeed for a fugitive to take refuge in. We had better
ride over there. You are sure there are no soldiers in the village?"
"Not a man, sir," answered Higham; "and besides, they have got people
on the top of the hill to look out."
"Well then, we will take that way, as it is the shortest," said the
knight--"Come, Richard."
"I think I shall go back," said Richard Newark. "I am tired of this
work. I'll go back and have a gossip with Enemy."
"Do not be rash, Dick," replied his father, holding up his finger,
with a smile. "Remember, slow degrees at first! You do not scare birds
that you want to drive into a net."
The lad laughed, and saying, "Oh, I'
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At long last, the (300-page)) the proposed regs from August 2018 or just-released final regs. Which to choose?
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