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Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > P > Synod of Pistoia Synod of Pistoia Held 18 to 28 September, 1786, by Scipio de' Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia and Prato. It marks the most daring effort ever made to secure for Jansenism and allied errors a foothold in Italy. Peter Leopold, created Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1763, emulated the example of his brother, Emperor Joseph II, in assuming to control religious affairs in the domain. Imbued with Regalism and Jansenism he extended a misguided zeal for reform to minutest details of discipline and worship. In two instructions of 2 August, 1785, and 26 January, 1786, he sent to each of the bishops of Tuscany a series of fifty-seven "points of view of His Royal Highness" on doctrinal, disciplinary, and liturgical matters, directing that diocesan synods be held every two years to enforce reform in the Church and "to restore to the bishops their native rights abusively usurped by the Roman Court". Of the eighteen Tuscan bishops but three convoked the synod; and of these his only partisan was Scipio de' Ricci in whom he found a kindred spirit. Born in 1714 of an eminent family, de' Ricci gave early promise of worth and eminence. Made Bishop of Pistoia and Prato, the most populous of the Tuscan dioceses, 19 June, 1780, he planned and energetically pursued, with the encouragement of Pius VI, the work of much-needed reform, but influenced by the times, his zeal came to be marked by reckless audacity. He condemned devotion to the Sacred Heart, discouraged the use of relics and images, undervalued indulgences, improvised liturgy, and founded a press for Jansenistic propaganda. On 31 July, 1786, de' Ricci, in convoking the synod, invoked the authority of Pius VI who had previously recommended a synod as the normal means of diocesan reform. With characteristic energy and prevision he prepared for the council by inviting from without his diocese, theologians and canonists notorious for Gallican and Jansenistic tendencies, and issued to his clergy pronouncements which reflected the dominant errors of the times. On 18 September, 1786, the synod was opened in the church of St. Leopold in Pistoia and continued through seven sessions until 28 September. De' Ricci presided, and at his right sat the royal commissioner, Giuseppe Paribeni, professor at the University of Pisa, and a regalist. The promoter was Pietro Tamburini, professor at the University of Pavia, conspicuous for his learning and for Jansenistic sympathies. At the opening session 234 members were present; but at the fifth session 246 attended, of whom 180 were pastors, 13 canons, 12 chaplains, 28 simple priests of the secular clergy, and 13 regulars. Of these many, including even the promoter, were extra-diocesans irregularly intruded by de' Ricci because of their sympathy with his designs. Several Pistorian priests were not invited while the clergy of Prato, where feeling against the bishop was particularly strong, was all but ignored. The points proposed by the grand duke and the innovations of the bishop were discussed with warmth and no little acerbity. The Regalists pressed their audacity to heretical extremes, and evoked protests from the papal adherents. Though these objections led to some modifications, the propositions of Leopold were substantially accepted, the four Gallican Articles of the Assembly of the French Clergy of 1682 were adopted, and the reform programme of de' Ricci carried out virtually in its entirety. The theological opinions were strongly Jansenistic. Among the vagaries proposed were: the right of civil authority to create matrimonial impediments; the reduction of all religious orders to one body with a common habit and no perpetual vows; a vernacular liturgy with but one altar in a church etc. Two hundred and thirty-three members signed the acts in the final session of 28 September, when the synod adjourned intending to reconvene in the following April and September. In February, 1787, the first edition (thirty-five hundred copies) of the Acts and Decrees appeared, bearing the royal imprimatur. De' Ricci, wishing the Holy See to believe that the work was approved by his clergy, summoned his priests to pastoral retreat in April with a view to obtaining their signatures to an acceptance of the synod. Only twenty- seven attended, and of these twenty refused to sign. Leopold meantime summoned all the Tuscan bishops to meet at Florence, 22 April, 1787, to pave the way for acceptance of the Pistorian decrees at a provincial council; but the assembled bishops vigorously opposed his project and after nineteen stormy sessions he dismissed the assembly and abandoned hope of the council. De' Ricci became discredited, and, after Leopold's accession to the imperial throne in 1790, was compelled to resign his see. Pius VI commissioned four bishops, assisted by theologians of the secular clergy, to examine the Pistorian enactments, and deputed a congregation of cardinals and bishops to pass judgment on them. They condemned the synod and stigmatized eighty-five of its propositions as erroneous and dangerous. Pius VI on 28 August, 1794, dealt the death-blow to the influence of the synod and of Jansenism in Italy in his Bull "Auctorem Fidei". Atti e Decreti del Concilio Diocesano di Pistoja (2nd ed., Florence, 1788); tr. SCHWARZEL, Acta Congregationis Archiepiscoporum et Episcoporum Etruriae, Florentiae anno 1787 celebratus (7 vols., Bamberg, 1790-94); DENZINGER-BANNWART, Enchiridion (Freiburg, 1908), 397-422; BALLERINI, Opus Morale, I (Prato, 1898), li-lxxxii; GERODULO, Lettera critologica sopra il sinodo di Pistoia (Barletta, 1789); La voce della greggia di Pistoja e Prato al suo pastore Mgr Vescovo Scipione de' Ricci (Sondrio, 1789); Lettera ad un Prelato Romano dove con gran vivezza e con profunda dottrina vengono confutati gli errori de' quali abbonda il Sinodo di Mgr de' Ricci, Vescovo di Pistoja (Halle, 1789); Seconda lettera ad un Prelato Romano sull' idea falsa, scismatica, erronea, contradittoria, ridicola della chiesa formata del Sinado di Pistoja (Halle, 1790); Considerazioni sul nuovo Sinodo di Pistoja e Prato fatte da un paroco della stessa diocesi (Pistoia, 1790); PICOT, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du 18e siecle (Paris, 1855), V, 251 sq.; VI, 407 sq.; GENDRY, Pie VI, sa vie—son pontificat, II (Paris, 1907), 451-83, documented from Vatican archives; SCADUTO, Stato e Chiesa sotto Leopold I (Florence, 1885); DE POTTER, Vie et Mémoires de Scipion de' Ricci (Paris, 1827), 1 sq.; PARSONS, Studies in Church History, IV (New York, 1897), 592-600; Scipio de' Ricci in Dublin Review (March, 1852), XXXII, 48- 69. APA citation. Peterson, J.B. (1911). Synod of Pistoia. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12116c.htm MLA citation. Peterson, John Bertram. "Synod of Pistoia." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12116c.htm>. Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by WGKofron. With thanks to St. Mary's Church, Akron, Ohio.

Roots of Origin: The Gorilla Campaign Project Join us for our second weekly Open Studios with the 2019 ECoCA Artists in Residence. This week, artist Stephanie Lush-Mastriano will host "Roots of Origin." All are welcome and this event is free & open to the public. "Roots of Origin" is about recognizing, respecting, and celebrating our history and ancestry. We are all connected by our DNA. How do we come together around this theme as older and younger generations? The idea is to utilize the arts as a bridge to embrace and explore different cultures and forms of spirituality, promoting equanimity and healing and opening up lines of communication. The goal of "The Gorilla Campaign Project" is to get younger and older artists/ audiences to connect through the history of 80s and 90s hip-hop and punk rock music and art culture, recognizing and appreciating its influence on modern pop culture today, while embracing the Gorilla as a marketing mascot. In the Art world, the Gorilla calls to mind The Guerilla Girls, political activism and feminism, fighting out against injustices and standing up for equality. Guerrilla Art also is a reference to environmental art and street art, paying homage to artists like Shepard Fairey and Banksy. Guerrilla Art is more about the meaning of the art than it is about the art itself. More information at: https://www.facebook.com/events/354565192109122/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1563296767313783 First ECoCA A.I.R. Open Studios This summer, ECoCA is open to the public every Thursday evening from 5-8pm for open studios for our Artists-in-Residence as well as resident-driven programming. To start us off, Artist-in-Residence Dyme Ellis is hosting an artist's studio warming to discuss their latest project, RECLAIMING PLACE. RECLAIMING PLACE is an art project that focuses on the visual and emotional impact of seeing people of color, namely those of the LGBTQIA+ community, in spaces they are typically not welcome, uninvited, and therefore, unseen due to lack of comforting accommodations and and micro aggressive racism, homophobia, or transphobia, thus creating an uncomfortable and unwelcoming environment. Through photography, Dyme intends to disrupt this norm through the civil disobedience of existence, breath, and art. This project centers the experiences of Black women and self-identified femmes including queer men and nonbinary people. This includes, but is not limited to, a collection of photos and original poems of and by volunteer models and writers. If you are interested in modeling or volunteering some poetry, please contact Dyme at (203) 809-5841 or [email protected] special event, closing reception Annual Meeting & Brunch. Closing Reception for Sea & Soil // Water Access Ely Center of Contemporary Art (map) Join ECOCA's Annual Meeting & Brunch 12 – 2 pm A live performance featuring Briana Williams and Clifford Schloss Tea House of Many Stories by Ian Leung, Yale-China Association Fellow Seaweed printing on fabric with Briah Luckey (back by popular demand) Colleen Hugo, viola Tortilla, Frittata, Salad, and more 1 – 2 pm Closing Reception for Sea & Soil // Water Access Find out what we're programming in 2019–2020. Free and welcome to all—bring a friend! Make Music Day The Ely Center of Contemporary art joins Make Music Day, along with 20 New Haven locations, 18 cities in Connecticut, and featuring over 65 artists. The Ely Center will celebrate with a unique 5 hour program from 11am to 4pm on Friday, June 21, 2019. Make Music Day is a one-day event where free, live musical performances, opportunities to make music, and other musical events take place around the world on the longest day of the year. The Ely Center of Contemporary Art invites everyone from professional musicians to people who have never picked up an instrument to join in the global music celebration by attending our program. The day begins at 11am. Our first performer, Nick Di Maria, will go on at 11:30, followed by Bethany Wilder and Friends at 12:00, Elegant Primates at 12:30, Kevin Sherwin at 1:00, Wandering Waves at 1:30, Pious Mantis at 2:00, Quinn Harley / Alexis Perkins at 2:30, Clifford Schloss at 3:00, and closing with Thabisa at 3:30. This event is BYOI: Bring your own instrument! Arts & Ideas' Event : Feast of the Future The Arts & Ideas' event, Feast of Future, has been cancelled. See Nadine's website for Global Local Events Seaweed Printing on Fabric Workshop Join artist Briah Luckey where together we will create a one-of-a-kind printed tapestry using a variety of seaweeds. Briah will guide participants in communally making an art fabric using printmaking and silk painting techniques. Briah Luckey's work is currently on view at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art as part of the Sea & Soil exhibit. She was featured in the 2001 issue of Connecticut Magazine as one of 30 influential people under 40 because of her vision to use art to create community connection. She has exhibited her own art locally in Connecticut, in New York City, and in Washington, DC, with a feature in the Connecticut section of The New York Times. https://www.briahluckey.com/ artist talk, special event Arts & Ideas Festival Tour Join the Ideas & Arts Festival on a tour of Sea & Soil // Water Access! Buy tickets here: https://www.artidea.org/tickets/25603 Cyanotypes & Seaweed Workshop with Aly Maderson Quinlog Sunday, June 9 from 1-3pm $5 suggested donation RAIN DATE: June 16th The history of using cyanotypes for scientific study is a often overlooked piece of art history. The first book ever printed with photography was the 19th century botanist Anna Atkin's study of British Algaes. In this workshop, folks will get to make cyanotypes with seaweed, and as a group we will create a unique collaborative mural made with our bodies, hand knitted nets, seaweed, and lace. The Tea House of Many Stories From April 25 to June 9, The Tea House of Many Stories will inform Ian Leung and allow him to share his observations and findings from all the guests he has served at the Tea House in an attempt to understand what constitutes an art experience, and to share the inspiring human stories that have left a mark in one's life. ^for the sessions held on May 19 and Jun 6, we'd like to invite stories or recollection of the memories of/about/with water Community Cut N' Swap & Seed Share June 6, 5-8 pm Spring is here, and it's gardening season! Looking for a place to swap some cuttings or seeds with fellow members of the New Haven community? Come to our Community Cut N' Swap & Seed Share! We want to generate an environment in which community members can come forward and exchange plant cuttings or saved seeds with one another, in the ecological spirit of Sea & Soil // Water Access. If you are interested in participating, or are looking to drop off or donate cuttings/seeds, please contact Maxim Schmidt at [email protected]! Image: detail from Farm Worker Series by Marion Belanger 3D Ocean Farming: Growing Kelp in Long Island Sound and Beyond June 5th, 7-8 pm Guest speakers from GreenWave 3D ocean farming is a polyculture vertical farming system that grows a mix of seaweeds and shellfish that require zero inputs - no fertilizers, freshwater, antibiotics, or pesticides - making it the most sustainable form of food production on the planet while sequestering both carbon and nitrogen, and rebuilding reef ecosystems. Since our farms sit below the surface and leverage the entire water column, they produce high yields with a small footprint. Our crops are used as food, fertilizer, animal feed and more. GreenWave is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 to replicate our 3D Ocean Farming model. We're dedicated to climate resilience and equity, and work in two areas: farm replication and market innovation. Jill Pegnataro | Farm Manager and Hatchery Technician Jill attended The Sound School in New Haven, CT and focused on ecology of Long Island Sound and ocean engineering. She graduated from Salve Regina University in Newport, RI with a B.S. degree in Biology. After graduation she worked with endangered sea turtles in Texas and Costa Rica. Her skills gained from marine research and conservation is now being used to manage and oversee the daily operations of the farm. Michelle Stephens | Programs Assistant & Hatchery Manager Michelle is a graduate of the University of New Haven with a B.S. in Marine Biology. While attending the university, she focused her studies on aquaculture by researching both oyster rearing and giant clam spawning. After graduating, she worked as fish technician and researcher for an inland finfish nursery/grow-out facility. Her past experiences with aquaculture and passion for sustainability are now being used to manage the kelp hatchery. Artist Walk & Talks As the Sea & Soil // Water Access exhibitions are in full swing, stop into the Ely Center of Contemporary Art for the opportunity to talk with exhibiting artists about their displayed work! Laura Barr Cynthia Beth Rubin Marion Belanger Joseph Smolinski Scott Schuldt The Art of Meditation In this class, meditations will be guided and brief advice shared on how to maintain a positive, peaceful mind, within the busyness of daily life. Organized by the Odiyana Kadampa Buddhist Center. Tickets are only $10. To purchase, click here. *for the sessions held on May 12, we'd like to invite stories and recipes around seaweed Two concurrent exhibitions, Water Access, guest curated by Fritz Horstman and Sea and Soil, curated by Debbie Hesse, take water as subject to explore our relationship to the environment. Opening Reception May 5, 2 – 4 pm Exhibition runs May 5 – June 23, 2019 performance, special event being in your body, A Performance by Annie Sailer Dance Company being in your body, a performance by Annie Sailer Dance Company. A movement improvisation generated by physical presence, socio-spatial relationships, and our deeper selves; informed by the Ely Center of Contemporary Art space, and art work in the Our Bodies Ourselves exhibition. Free and open to the public! Kitchen Wellness Wednesdays: Self-Care Plan Explore radical self care through the kitchen as the heart and refuge in the home! Kitchen Wellness Wednesdays are all about participatory self care, spirituality, and nurturing through experiential relationships with food. closing reception, special event Closing Reception: Our Bodies Ourselves This year, the Ely Center of Contemporary Art takes inspiration from Our Bodies Ourselves, the pivotal book first published in 1970. All culture producers and all genders — artists, writers, thinkers, makers — will participate in this exhibition with work that addresses issues of consent, gender, equity, health, spirituality and identity. More info and to submit your work: www.elycenter.org/call-our-bodies-ourselves/ Annie Sailer Dance Company will be performing during this event, 6-7 pm. More info here. lecture, special event What Do I Need to Know? Join Dr. Nash and Dr. Nayak, founders of Feminology, as they explore the hidden costs of "hormonal" contraceptives on the biochemical, nutritional and mental/emotional levels. They will also discuss the many natural ways of balancing hormones and why a healthy menstrual cycle is essential to a woman's overall health. Artist Walk & Talk Meet some of the participating artists and exhibition organizers for an informal walk through of the 9 galleries of multimedia artwork in Our Bodies Ourselves. We will discuss the artwork on display and the ideas behind the exhibition. Pictured: Joan Fitzsimmons and her installation Kitchen Wellness Wednesdays: Mothering & Motherhood film screening, special event Period. End of Sentence. Please join us for a special viewing of Period. End of Sentence. and presentation by executive producer Sophie Ascheim, a Yale University First Year and co-founder of The Pad Project, a nonprofit that raises money for machines that help make pads. The machines are then donated to women in impoverished areas since many women in global, rural communities stop going to school when they first get their period. From the award-winning director Rayka Zehtabchi and a hardworking group of students, parents, and teachers from a small high school in Los Angeles, California comes Period. End of Sentence. a film that follows girls and women in Hapur, India and their experience with the installation of a pad machine in their village. Being In Your Body: Movement Workshop For further information, please go to: anniesailer.com, annniesailerdancecompany.com, and Annie Sailer on Instagram. [email protected] To see recent improvisational work performed by ANNIE SAILER DANCE COMPANY, go to Youtube anniesailer 1, and view videos titled: "documenting sadness", "forever and a day", "bluebells cockleshells", and " fairytale improvisation". Joan Fitzsimmons with her installation A Celebration of Resilience & Resistance We invite all artists, activists, and culture producers to come together in celebration of self expression and individuality. This night will highlight resilience and resistance among today's local artists. special event, workshop Mad Millie Adventures in Oral Traditions an evening of interactive stories, words, and poems On Wednesday, March 27 at 6:30 pm, join Dana Savo & Lynne Grobsky at ECOCA to learn about techniques in Oral Tradition. In conjunction with Our Bodies Ourselves RSVP by email: [email protected] Kitchen Wellness Wednesdays Aging & Beauty Play with food, eat, drink healing tea, make potions, engage with hand yoga, reiki, affirmations, meditations, tapping, acupressure, aromatherapy, kitchen table talk, fellowship and other self care strategies to nourish our bodies, ourselves. Joan Fitzsimmons installation Meet some of the participating artists and exhibition organizers for an informal walk through the 9 galleries of multimedia artwork in Our Bodies Ourselves. We will discuss the artwork on display and the ideas behind the exhibition.

Q: What will gitkraken do when I click the label "mark all resolved"? What will git do when I click the label "mark all resolved" on GitKraken which can resolve merging conflicts? A: GitKraken will add every previously detected conflicting file to the index, and you'll then have to commit to finish the merge. This is what you do when you have finished resolving conflicts. (Do not do that if you're unsure all your conflicts are resolved, or else you'll have conflict markers scattered inside your files.) A: Mark all resolved is not a git thing, it is a service provided by GitKraken. It will git add the files that have merge conflict, assuming that you have maid the needed modifications by yourself. You should not do that unless you really have resolved conflicts. The git equivalent of mark all resolved would be: git add $(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U) A: It will replace the current changes with origin or pulled branch.

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How to recover debt abroad? Debt recovery is not a simple matter. All the more when the debtor is hiding abroad. Is there a chance to receive money in this situation? Or maybe you have to accept their total loss? Debts are not surprising – many of us have them, for example in the form of loans. However, the matter becomes more complicated if we do not pay them regularly. The problem is also the situation when we borrowed money, rendered services or provided property, but we did not receive payment for it. Then there is nothing else but to demand the debtor's money. When the debtor lives permanently in the country, then the procedures related to the recovery of money are not so complicated. However, the stairs begin when the debtor goes abroad and we have difficulty contacting him to get back the money. What to do when the debtor went abroad, but left the property in Poland? When the debtor has property that has been left in Poland, then we can refer the case to a Polish bailiff. Of course, before we should report the case to the court and obtain the enforceable title, ie a court document stating that there is an obligation to pay the amount and including an order to pay that amount. The enforcement title must also have an enforcement clause. We provide such a document to a selected bailiff who can also look for the debtor's property in Poland. When he finds it, he can carry out the execution of this property, for example, it can be a property like an apartment or a house, movables, for example, an apartment, a car. Bailiffs' enforcement may also be carried out with funds on the debtor's account, but most often after his departure abroad, the accounts are empty and no payments are made. But what should we do in a situation where the debtor has made sure that no part of his property is left in Poland? In the event that we can not execute the property of a debtor who has been left in Poland, we should try to obtain the so-called European Order for Payment or the European Enforcement Order. These documents allow the creditor to enforce the judgment also in other countries belonging to the EU community, without the need to initiate another court proceeding. How can we get such a document? Applications for a European Enforcement Order or European Order for Payment shall be submitted to the court that issued the decision. Consideration of our application should take place up to 30 days and then, when everything goes well, such an order is issued. After issuing the order, the court is tasked with delivering it to the defendant. We must also go to a court bailiff in another country to initiate enforcement proceedings there. The rules applicable here are already different depending on which country the debtor is currently in. More information related to the proceedings in selected Member States can be found on the websit, which was established as part of the EU cooperation of Member States in a project created with the participation of Polish bailiffs.

Ernst Michael Lang (* 16. Oktober 1913 in Luzern; † 21. Oktober 2014 in Basel; heimatberechtigt in Luzern) war ein Schweizer Tierarzt, Zoodirektor und Hochschullehrer. Leben Ernst Michael Lang, Sohn des Kaufmanns Josef Lang und der Anna geborene Zumbühl, studierte Veterinärmedizin an der Universität Bern und der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover. 1939 promovierte er in Bern zum Dr. med. vet. Lang leitete in der Folge eine Tierarztpraxis in Andermatt und war auch als Platzpferdearzt der Schweizer Armee eingesetzt. Von 1942 bis 1953 betrieb er in Binningen eine private Tierarztpraxis und arbeitete als Tierarzt am Zoo Basel. 1953 wurde Lang vom Verwaltungsrat als Nachfolger von Heini Hediger zum Direktor des Basler Zoos gewählt, eine Funktion, die er bis zu seiner Verabschiedung in den Ruhestand 1978 innehatte. Darüber hinaus habilitierte er 1963 an der Universität Basel; von 1972 bis 1978 war er ausserordentlicher Professor für Tiergartenbiologie. Lang war im Anschluss von 1982 bis 1986 im Stiftungsrat des WWF Schweiz vertreten. Er übernahm Beratertätigkeiten beim Aufbau sowie der Restrukturierung von Zoos, so jener in Singapur und Los Angeles, und war Ehrenmitglied der Welt-Zoo-Organisation. Während seiner Zeit als Zoodirektor war es Langs Bestreben, Tiere artgerecht, beispielsweise in Gruppen, zu halten. Erstmalige Zuchterfolge verzeichnete er unter anderem beim Panzernashorn, Gorilla, Flamingo und Brillenbär. In der Schweizer Armee diente Lang im Rang eines Majors, er heiratete 1938 Trude geborene Beermann († 1996). Später heiratete er Imma Gálvez. Er starb im Alter von 101 Jahren in Basel. Publikationen (Auswahl) Was ist die weisse Linie und in welcher Beziehung steht sie zum praktischen Hufbeschlag?, Alsatia, Saint-Louis 1939 (veterinärmedizinische Dissertation, Universität Bern, 1939). mit Emil Schulthess: Wildtiere im Kongo, Silva, Zürich 1957. Zur Haltung des Strandwolfes Hyaena brunnea, Geest & Portig, Leipzig 1958. Goma, das Gorillakind – Ein Bericht über den ersten in Europa geborenen Gorilla, Albert Müller Verlag, Rüschlikon/Zürich 1961. Geburtshilfe bei einem indischen Elefanten, Verlag für Recht und Gesellschaft, Therwil 1963. mit Rudolf Schenkel, Elsbeth Siegrist: Gorilla, Mutter und Kind, Basilius Presse, Basel, Hamburg, Wien 1965. Das Zwergflusspferd: Choeropsis liberiensis, Ziemsen, Wittenberg 1975. hrsg. mit Heinz-Georg Klös: Zootierkrankheiten: Krankheiten von Wildtieren im Zoo, Wildpark, Zirkus und in Privathand sowie ihre Therapie, Parey, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-489-72716-9. Mit Tieren unterwegs: aus dem Reisetagebuch eines Zoodirektors, Buchverlag Basler Zeitung, Basel 1994. Literatur Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. 13. Ausgabe, De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6, Band 2, S. 2220. Heinz-Georg Klös: Ernst Lang zur Vollendung des 60. Lebensjahres. In: Der Zoologische Garten. NF 45, 1975, S. 1–3. Dieter Poley: Ernst Michael Lang 80 Jahre. In: Der Zoologische Garten, NF 63, 1993, S. 273–275. Christian Marti: Ernst Lang – ein Wegbegleiter der Ala und der Vogelwarte. In: Der Ornithologische Beobachter Band 111, Heft 4, Dezember 2014, S. 261–264 (PDF-Datei). Dominik Heitz: Der Ziehvater von Gorilladame Goma ist tot. In: Basler Zeitung vom 31. Oktober 2014, S. 15. Weblinks Prof. Ernst Lang zum 90. In: Das Webjournal von Jürg-Peter Lienhard, Journalist BR/Photoreporter Dominique Spirgi: Der Ziehvater von Goma ist tot. In: TagesWoche vom 30. Oktober 2014. Einzelnachweise Zoodirektor Tierarzt Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert) Hochschullehrer (Universität Basel) Schweizer Geboren 1913 Gestorben 2014 Hundertjähriger Mann

Five Things That Happened in Hockey East, October 7th Edition October 7, 2014 October 7, 2014 / Gabriella Fundaro 1. The league's weekly award winners were named: Boston College junior defenseman Lexi Bender was named the Warrior Player of the Week, after notching a hat trick against Syracuse. Boston University forward Rebecca Leslie was named Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week, as she scored both of the team's goals against #1-ranked Minnesota and assisted on the game-winner against St. Cloud State. Madison Litchfield's 29 saves helped Vermont to a 3-1 upset win on the road against North Dakota, earning her Defensive Player of the Week honors. A full list of weekly award winners can be found here. 2. This really nice feature story on Amanda Pelkey: The Burlington Free Press published this piece on Pelkey, a senior forward and captain for Vermont and a local product, who will by nearly all accounts finish her career as the best player that's ever donned a Catamounts jersey. 3. BU's Sarah Lefort notched 100 career points: Lefort hit the 100-point mark on Friday night in the team's win against St. Cloud State, finishing the game with a goal and two assists. It took the junior forward just 76 games to hit 100 points for her career, and she's the fifth Terriers player to hit that mark in the past four seasons. She joins some pretty good company there, with Marie-Philip Poulin, Louise Warren, Jenelle Kohanchuk, and Jenn Wakefield being the other four. 4. Boston College defenseman Emily Pfalzer had a six-point game: Pfalzer scored a goal and five assists in the Eagles' 10-2 season-opening win over Syracuse, which is, you know, pretty good. 5. Providence Head Coach Bob Deraney named to U.S. Four Nations staff: Deraney, who was an assistant coach with this summer's U.S. Under-22 Team that swept Canada in a three-game series, was named an assistant coach for the U.S. Women's National Team that will compete at the Four Nations Cup, Nov. 4-8. Deraney was also a member of the staff of the U.S. Under-18 Women's National Team at the inaugural U18 World Championships in 2008, helping the squad win a gold medal. Gabriella Fundaro, Hockey East ← CHA Women's Hockey Weekly Recap: October 7, 2014 Five Things That Happened in the CHA, October 7th Edition →

Japanese director Naomi Kawase's latest film, starring a post-'Paterson' Masatoshi Nagase, is her fifth entry in Cannes' official competition. At the center of Radiance is Misako (Ayame Misaki), a writer struggling to perfect the art of penning audio descriptions for the visually impaired. Test audiences describe her first effort as too verbose, and her second attempt as too pared down. The film's director, Naomi Kawase, has been trapped in a similar conundrum in recent years, alternating between movies characterized by empty enigmas (Still the Water) and contrived melodrama (An). Making her fifth appearance in competition (and seventh overall) at Cannes, Kawase shows she's sadly still nowhere near recovering that stylistic balance that propelled her to greatness in the first decade of her career: Suzaku (1997) and The Mourning Forest (2007), both prize-winners on the Croisette, remain two of the most artistically audacious and emotionally engaging films to have emerged out of contemporary Japanese cinema. While Radiance's lead character is Misako, the film doesn't begin with her. Instead, the first sequence features a middle-aged man slowly shuffling into his seat at a movie theater, settling down and then putting a small headset to his ear. Nakamori (Nagase, who is also in An) is a gruff photographer who is slowly losing his sight, and his first encounter with Misako takes the shape of a verbal sparring match in a focus group screening; he admonishes her work as being "subjective," while she questions him for his bluntness. No prize for guessing that the pair will soon reconcile and grow closer. Not that their thinly sketched personalities could explain convincingly why those affections will bloom. Their red-herring backstories — she misses her deceased father and her dementia-stricken mother; he bristles at the thought of his soon-to-be-remarried ex-wife — are soppy cliches and add hardly anything to the viewer's understanding of their motivations. Misako seems reluctant or simply unable to understand the spirit of cinema, as she questions a veteran actor-filmmaker (Tatsuya Fuji of In the Realm of the Senses) for making "abstract" statements about art and mortality. Nakamori, meanwhile, is (or was) part of a coterie of photographers who boast of having worked on fashion magazine covers, and offers a grandiose view of photography that would probably make Henri Cartier-Bresson turn in his grave. Just like in Kawase's previous outings, Radiance offers an entrancing mix of lushly filmed lights and sensitively sculpted sounds. While certainly remarkable, these elements offer hardly anything new to the Japanese auteur's palette. What she adds here are actually unnecessary visualizations of the pair's inner struggles: the frequent close-ups of Misako's eyes to illustrate her desire to see, for example, or Nakamori slipping over a pool of vomit and then having his camera stolen by someone he knows. That Radiance takes to appropriating the best bits of her past work — specifically the reflections on mortality and rural-set finale from The Mourning Forest — perhaps speaks volumes about Kawase's creative impasse. Perhaps Misako is Kawase's younger onscreen proxy after all; when she talks about her impossible wish of running toward the sunset and capturing the light for keeps, perhaps she's articulating the director's own anguish at her inability to be at her best and most inspired.

You Can't Talk to Me That Way!: Stopping Toxic Language in the Workplace stands up to verbally abusive bosses, co-workers, and others and says, "Enough!" It shows readers exactly what to say and do to end the humiliation and torment. Real injury-deep wounds and lasting pain-occurs as a result of verbal insults, putdowns, and ridicule in the workplace. This book is for anyone who has become discouraged, withdrawn and isolated at work due to verbal attacks-or, just as often, has been provoked into shouting matches and verbal confrontations with his or her attacker. Toxic language in the workplace causes people to withhold their best effort, transfer to a different division, or quit outright. Productivity and team spirit wither under a cloud of language meant to humiliate, hurt, and demean. To all those who spew such language at their co-workers, subordinates, and bosses, this book insists "You Can't Talk to Me That Way!" Publisher: Franklin Lakes, NJ : Career Press, c2005. Characteristics: 221 p. :,ill. ;,21 cm.

On January 18 of 2012, Church historian Elder Marlin K. Jensen attended a Q;A set up by Phil Barlow at Utah State University. He was asked the following question. "We are aware. Let me say this, I often get this question: "Do the Brethren really know?" They do. And I'm not speaking for me. I'm speaking for the fifteen men that are above me in the hierarchy in the church. The fifteen men really do know, and they really care. And they realize that maybe since Kirtland, we never have had a period of, I'll call it apostasy, like we're having right now; largely over these issues. We do have another initiative that we have called, "Answers to Gospel Questions". We are trying to figure out exactly what channels to deliver it in and exactly what format to put it in. But we want to have a place where people can go. We have hired someone that's in charge of search engine optimization. We realize that people get their information basically from Google. They don't come to LDS.org. If they get there, it's through Google. So, we are trying to create an offering that will address these issues and be available for the public at large and to the church leaders, because many of them don't have answers either. Those comments by Jensen reveal what everyone already knows. The internet has created a very serious problem for the Mormon Church which is causing lots of members to leave the church or become inactive. Google provides a showcase for all of the incredibly embarrassing and disruptive information about difficult historical issues and doctrinal issues. It provides an amazingly simple and effective ability for common people to access sensitive information about LDS church history and doctrine. It also promotes countless anti-Mormon articles and websites related to these sensitive issues. Interestingly, the church has hired a search engine optimization specialist to try to steer more people away from the anti-Mormon sites and direct them to LDS.org. Having done some contract work for a very large SEO company and being somewhat familiar with the industry, I can tell you that there is an entire discipline within the SEO vertical that focuses on reputation management on the internet. You can be sure that if the church can spend over a BILLION dollars on a shopping mall, it has allocated a significant budget for doing reputation damage control on the internet. My personal opinion is that even the millions of dollars that the church has been and will be spending on SEO and reputation damage control, they will not be very successful. There are too many latter day "William Laws" that are passionate about exposing what they feel is a terrible scam and they are flooding the internet with their spin. They can do SEO just like anyone else can. Jensen acknowledged at the Utah State Q and A that many of the "church leaders" don't have the answers either. Of course he was probably referring to bishops and stake presidents and people in virtually all leadership capacities below the 15 general authorities that sit in the highest apostolic leadership positions in the church. The unfortunate truth however is that even the 15 people that lead the church don't have the answers to such questions. Late last year, the church's publishing arm, Deseret Book, put out No Weapon Shall Prosper: New Light on Sensitive Issues to address some of the hot-button issues of Mormon history and doctrine, offering members ways to answer critics. If the statements by Jensen are accurate, the Church is currently putting together some quasi-official responses to the most disturbing issues that are continually being raised on the internet. If they do so, this will be a landmark event. The church has never really responded to most of these issues in any kind of church sponsored platform. Of course these answers are not likely to come directly from any of the 15 apostolic leaders. First of all, they don't have any credible answers. Most of them are quite ignorant and naive when it comes to the deeper issues of doctrine and history. Most of them just grew up within the church and were indoctrinated like the rest of us. Because they each exemplified strong leadership ability within the church, unquestioning loyalty to the church, and also became successful in law or medicine, education or business, etc. they were deemed worthy to call to the higher leadership positions. The last GA to be be fairly well adept in the scriptures was McConkie. Now there is not strong scholar of the scriptures among the 15. As a rule, the brethren try to stay away from debate, contention and controversy regarding sensitive doctrinal and historical issues. None of them are really qualified to get into a biblical debate with a seasoned biblical scholar. My guess is that the church is calling upon the best and brightest minds within LDS apologetics to try to craft credible responses to these very difficult questions. Those LDS scholars at FARMS and FAIR make for the best respondents to criticism because they can run interference for the brethren. The problem with FARMS as I see it, is that their allegiance is to the brethren instead of Christ. They are committed to defending the modern corporate church as an institution instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If FARMS was dedicated to defending biblical Christianity and the truth behind the LDS restoration movement, they would applaud the church whenever they are conforming to the gospel and speak honestly and frankly about the problems whenever the brethren and the church in general it is acting contrary to the gospel and the laws of God as they are laid out in the scriptures. "Mormonthink.com is a site produced by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are interested in the historical accuracy of our church and how it is being taught to its members and portrayed in the media. That statement is really quite disingenuous. The people behind that site do not represent both sides of the issue fairly. Their only agenda is to destroy people's faith in God and Mormonism. It is beyond their capacity to comprehend that the original restoration was true and then the church eventually fell into apostasy. I know this about MormonThink from personal experience because last year I sent them an email telling them briefly about the three watches doctrine and the atonement statute and explaining to them that there is a profound biblical explanation for all of the bizarre things that happened during the public ministry of the prophet Joseph Smith. All I was asking for was a short blurb and a link to the information that documents these doctrines on my two blogs. Needless to say, they did not respond. They are not looking for truth nor do they want to provide a balanced and fair listing of sites that provide various view points. They simply have a vendetta against the church and they are content to destroy faith in God, Mormonism and the LDS restoration movement in their attempt. Recently I got an email from the owners of the MormonThink website providing the following link. They asked me to send it to everyone I know and help it to go viral. The link is to a video describing 10 of the major reasons that people leave the church. While I have no desire to promote it and help it go viral, I am not afraid to mention it in this post and address the issued contained in it. I am not afraid of the points of contention that they are high-lighting because the scriptures provide the truth about what really happened and they provide a credible response to every challenging question that the anti-Mormons can come up with. 2. 22 year delay in telling the First Vision story- conflicting versions of it. 3. Translation process of the Book of Mormon by gazing at a stone in a hat without the plates physically present. 4. No archeological or other scientific support for the Book of Mormon including DNA, literal quotes from the King James version of the Bible, etc. Frankly, the above concerns are among the easier ones to address in my humble opinion. I would point out that there are numerous other doctrinal issues that should be noted as well in my view. Many of the more disturbing inconsistencies about the history of the church really have to do with the changing of the original doctrines that were taught during the first seven years in Kirtland but then altered during the Nauvoo years or during Brigham Youngs administration after the Saints fled to Utah. The false claim that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is the same church that was restored in 1830 which in fact the scriptures and the history of the church clearly document that it did not even exist when the "Church of Christ" was restored in 1829-1830. The false claim that the restoration of the church represented the rolling forth of the kingdom that Daniel saw, destroying the kingdoms of the world. The false claim that the church has the fulness of the gospel when in fact it does not have the power and fruits clearly associated with the fulness of the gospel. The false claims that the church, kingdom and priesthoods would never be taken from the earth again to be restored at a future time. The false claim that the dispensation of the fullness of times was ushered in when the scriptures and history of the church clearly state that it wasn't. Another research project that I did included 20 major doctrines that were changed by the modern church. The point is that there are many disturbing doctrinal issues about the modern corporate church, but that does not mean that the original restoration of the true church was not authentic, it only means that the church went into apostasy as is clearly prophesied in both the Bible and Book of Mormon. That is the sad thing about all of the anti-Mormon propaganda flooding the internet, even though much of the disturbing information is true, it is being presented out of context, without the biblical explanation for why these things happened. It is being used to destroy faith in Jesus Christ and his gospel instead of acknowledging that after the truth was restored to the earth, corrupt men took control of the church organization and have created an abomination that the world is now laughing at. Every single one of the above issues in both of the lists and countless other apparent discrepancies can all be answered from the scriptures and the un-sanitized history of the restoration movement. I just finished listening to the last episode on mormonstories 324-326: Grant Palmer Returns to Discuss Sexual Allegations Against Joseph Smith, William and Jane Law, and His Resignation. Were it not for the scapegoat doctrine (SGD)that I've learned about recently, my reaction to this podcast would be a usual one – "I'm not knowledgeable enough to come to any conclusion on this matter, I'm gonna shelve it for now", never to come back to it again. With the SGD I pretty much can handle the charges against Joseph Smith of seducing young girls, ordering to kill Boggs, ordering to destroy printing press, ordering to kill William Law and even threatening his own wife with death. As I was listening to the podcast, I sensed desperation in John Delin's voice "What was Joseph doing?" – to that effect. Coupled with John's own admission that there's been too much negative content on his podcast recently and his invitation to his show for any apologists who could show a different angle of what's been talked about, I think it's prime time for you to step in and restore the true understanding. Would you be comfortable if I went ahead and solicited John Delhin to get in touch with you on this email to invite you to his show (over Skype, naturally)? I do listen to Mormon Stories from time to time. In fact, I recently listened to the Snuffer interview and also the McLay interview. John Dehlin is a magnificent interviewer and he has done a tremendous job with the Mormon Stories theme. Your suggestion is an intriguing one. If I was approached by John or one of his connections I suppose I would need to take the idea seriously however my guess is that they are looking for higher profile people than me. Also the scapegoat doctrine is extremely doctrinally intensive and would probably be geared for believers who still find the scriptures to be credible and pertinent in their religious lives… it seems to me that John and much of his audience have long since let go of the scriptures and the LDS restoration movement as a guiding light in their lives. John seems to be focusing on how to deal with the cultural dilemma he faces that has been caused by the false traditions of his fathers. Nevertheless, it would be a wonderful opportunity to see if the topic could be presented in such a way as to reignite faith in some of the disaffected people in the listening audience and show them how to reconcile the many "apparent discrepancies" of the LDS restoration that they have been conflicted with. I thank you for the suggestion. It is worth pondering. I hope the Lord is blessing you and yours and that all is going well for you. I am not convinced that MormonStories is the appropriate audience and format to rebuff all of the anti-Mormon propaganda by presenting the true context of these events as provided by the Bible and the doctrine of three watches and the atonement statute. Nevertheless, Jim has got me thinking about the opportunity that might come up in the future to present these ideas. Many of you who understand and believe in the truths provided by the standard works may also have the opportunity to testify of the truth some day. What an amazing challenge it would be to present these truths to skeptics and people who have lost or are in the process of losing their faith in God and in the LDS restoration. I believe there are lots of members and ex-members of the church that are suffering from and industrial strength case of cognitive dissonance. It would be nice to be able to present additional information to them. How in the world would I condense the information that I have now provided in my two blogs into a short one or two hour presentation? How could I take the information provided in about two hundred posts and articles into an understandable summary? I am currently in the process of undertaking such an ominous challenge and hope to be providing this summary or at least one installment of it on this blog before April 6th. Several of you have expressed over the years a similar statement to Jim's, expressing the fact that the three watches doctrine and the Atonement Statute have helped you maintain your faith in God and his scriptures and the LDS restoration despite the barrage of negative information that permeates the internet. I am open to any suggestions that any of you may have on how to present these ideas. If you recall the particular scripture or event in the history of the church that was instrumental in your "ah ha!" moment when the scales of darkness began to fall off and it all began to make sense to you, please email me and share it. This entry was posted on Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at 6:08 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. The biggest thing I got from reading your blogs was that apostasy is not bad, or that it shouldn't have happened. I got that it was all foretold, and the Lord is not surprised. But he also speaks to us where we are at, giving us what we can handle. It was exciting reading the posts because nothing was sugarcoated. And each of the actors in the church drama were men. For example the manic depressive nature of Sidney Rigdon. They were men who took on enormous callings. Reading your blogs gave me an appreciation for Church History that I have never had. I don't know the exact moment when I had an aha experience. I was just excited to read, and I anticipated and still do each new post. Your comment "But he also speaks to us where we are at" reminds me of something I noticed the other day. In section one of the D&C the Lord says "these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness". Arguably, the Lord is defining the scriptural term of "weakness" as used in this context, as referring to a state of iniquity and unbelief. In other words, God was speaking to Joseph and Sidney and others during their state of iniquity and unbelief. I had always thought the prophets categorically had to be holy men without any significant sin. I assumed that you needed to be a clean and holy vessel in order for the spirit to work with you and for God to speak to you. I am now of the opinion that, that is not the case and that God is not limited at all as to who he can speak to. Paul was hardly in a holy state when he got his wake up call. It is comforting to me to know that some of the greatest men in the kingdom were struggling with iniquity and unbelief while getting commandments from the Lord. It gives me renewed hope for my own situation. I really don't think you understand what I am saying. It is true that some of the general authorities are eloquent and they sometimes intermingle Mormon scripture in with the themes they talk about. Those talks probably sound very deep and profound to those who have no real foundation in the deep Biblical teachings of the LDS restoration movement. But in my opinion, after spending 25 years studying church history and doing thousands of keyword searches between the four standard works, I am convinced that the modern corporate church no longer represents the original doctrines that were taught in the early revelatory years of the restoration movement. There are varying levels of doctrinal understanding within Biblical Christianity. Joseph Smith originally restored a Biblical church and taught Biblical Christianity. That is no longer the case in the church in my opinion. The purpose of this post and this blog in general is to reach out to the members of the church who are beginning to seek the truth about the religion they belong to and are going through a crisis of faith after learning about some of the disturbing information having to do with the history of the church and the current teaching of the church. The purpose is to let them know that there are Biblical reasons why Joseph Smith did some of the bazaar things that he did. And to provide the information they need to realize that just because Mormonism has become corrupted, doesn't mean that the original restoration of the church was not authentic. It was! This post and blog is not meant for people like you who are blissfully unaware of any problems and are happy with the current church and the direction it is going. There is nothing that will be of interest to you here. you need to move along and forget that you came upon this site. "Fools mock, but they shall mourn . . ." (Ether 12:26). We have been promised time and time again that "no unhallowed hand" will keep the work from progressing and moving forward. Will hearts fail? Yes, Will some fall away? Yes. Look at 4th Nephi. Nibley said in his book "Since Cumorah" that no one can ever prove the gospel is true to another person. They can only gain a testimony for themselves. (Not sure what page it is in the last chapter). I think we should have great hope and know that no matter what the Lord will intervene on behalf of the honest seekers of truth. When the Marvelous Work finally goes forth in power, in the third watch God's work will not be frustrated. The current corporate church which has rejected the law of consecration and the fulness of the gospel and is more concerned with building billion dollar shopping malls and having people labor for money than for people to labor for Zion is a text book example of the "work of men". I tend to believe the Lord is more merciful to people who deny the idea of Him, then the individuals and organizations, who proclaim a false light of Christ, and even setup themselves up to be a light. With that said, the church is way more harmful than a lot of antis, sadly even more the nitwits that spout off from hearsay; after all a lot of the antagonistic groups, are products of the church anyways. Both groups on the futile tug of war are deceivers and both take things out of context, clearly. But I have realized that both of their efforts are fruitless, regardless of both groups' intentions. They are both fruitless, because true faith is found within, not found outside through various means. The power to create or destroy that kind of faith is found within the individual and no one else. I know this may sound harsh, but most people of any kind of denomination, do not really have their needed foundational faith in the Lord. For instance the lds has taught us to put faith in the fruits of God (BoM, servants, growth, buildings, etc.) And by doing so, when we notice that the fruits have fallen from the tree, and we realize we have tasted bitter fruit, we end up bitter. We notice the decay, from the transfiguring of the scriptures, servants without fruits, growth from works of men and not from God, buildings featuring ungodly ceremonies. And some of us eventually end up lost not knowing which way to go, and some of us, find real faith in God, and cling on to the voice of the Lord, calling unto us from within. Unless we put the most basic faith, in the creator who gave us life; we are not really going to partake in His fulness. Now what is this most basic faith? Is it what we learned through various means? No, in fact we must lay aside, all that we know, and all what we think we know. We must become like little children, in the respect that aside from all the bs that us adults entangle in, is that we accept the fact that we are nothing without the Light of a Creator inside us. To put simply, we must have faith in our very own existence, not in us, not our ideas, actions, etc. But have faith in the very Word by which we stand in the bosom of time. It does not matter if the Bible and Book of Mormon is the Word of God, in finding this foundational faith, but what matters is that we are the Word of God. The Lord spoke and there we were in the bosom of eternity, and the Lord spoke and here we are. We must have faith in our very existence first and foremost, before anything else. And then let the chips fall where they may. And eventually we discover that the Bible and the Book of Mormon, does in fact contain the Word of God. And this is why I think the third watch doctrine is powerful, because it shifts the balance of power back to Christ; or rather we recognize the unlimited power of Christ. And with that I am thankful that the Watcher has taken the time to defend the actions of Christ through truth. And I am also thankful for the church taking the time to defend the inactions of men, through money. And also thankful for the defenders of unbelief who create contrast and divide the house of whom shall not be named, the being that truly has limits of power, that sadly the saints seem to have more faith in, then the infinite power of the Lord. As to the naysayers that will defend the current church tooth and nail, this is coming from someone who apostatized from the church, because of the Lord and not of internet searches. Before my mission, I broke down, casted aside everything I had been taught. I plead with the Lord to lead and guide me to do what He desired of me, to make His will known me, to know the gospel in its entirety. To my surprise, the still small voice answered while making my bones shake, "Come to my temple." Then my childhood upbringing came rushing back, and I thought it meant the lds temple. The voice then kept giving me information and instructions and directed my scripture study. The voice told me that Joseph would return and lead the church again, and showed me scriptures supporting that claim. And in the meantime of waiting to receive the priesthood, and enter the temple, I discovered the Watcher's third watch blog; and it confirmed many things that I had recently been taught. With the undeniable return of Joseph, I became enlightened and perplexed, not yet knowing why he would return. Long story short, the leaders became baffled at my abnormal actions, my desire to enter the temple before I put in my papers. Then one night, as I was contemplating on the Lord and the temple, I found myself in what I thought was an lds temple. I found myself, sitting in a big puffy chair. I then realized that I was weightless in a beyond white room, with no paintings, only a window that just showed nothing but the sky, and a glass table without legs, and with nothing on it. Then I noticed a presence of indescribable power, I turned my head and saw a tall figure walk down a hallway with an end I could not see. He was clothed in a white robe; an incomprehensible body of light surrounded Him. His face was beaming with brightness and perfectness, my mind can not comprehend His face, but I distinctly remember Him smiling at me. His skin was a combination of silver, gold, and brass. I can remember that from His bare feet, and His hand that he used to motion to me. I then asked a person next to me, if he was seeing what I seeing. He shook his head and said no. Then I looked back at this benevolent figure, with His long white hair to His shoulders, and medium white beard. No painting can ever capture what I beheld to be the Lord. He kept motioning to me to come to Him, I then felt myself instantly before His face, His eyes glowing with fire in a firm but loving manner. He then opened a door to a room so bright, like an opposite of pitch black. He put His arm around my shoulders, and slightly nudged me into the room, by which arose me from my vision. That was not the last time I had seen the Lord. I was dreaming the last time which was quite some time after my vision, and the only time we exchanged words, and they were before He came in through my window and wall. He asked me if I desired to see Him. I replied yes, yes Lord I am ready; I was in complete darkness at this time. Then the same figure as above came through my window and wall, and I noticed that my dream was my room exactly like I left it the night before. I then saw the Lord hover over me, His feet not touching the ground this time. And this time, the Lord did not have a body of light covering His robe, which robe was open where I could see His bosom. The Lord shined in my dark room, creating contrast that was unusual, because here was this Being of Light hovering at the side of my bed. Yet my room remained dark as if the lights were still off. I almost became consumed from the Lord's presence, as I noticed coming from his bosom was this unbelievable reddish glow, as if a personage of fire was inside the Lord. He then put out His hand and I grasped it like a handshake, I could feel flesh. He then proceeded to leave my side, my hand not wanting to let go, slid across a mark left by a nail. I could hear my soul without sound weep, don't go, don't go. And there we have it, I saw the Lord not once but twice, both in vision and in dream. Who I am, doesn't really matter, but I am an apostate who never went on a mission, nor made it to the temple. But I did fulfill the command of the voice which causes my bones to shake even to this day, "Come to my temple." So this question remains, if I can experience Christ apart from the true church. What exactly is the purpose of it then? Who exactly is Joseph Smith, what role does he play in our lives? Maybe the true unbelievers will finally believe in the Lord and His Word, when the false lights refuse to give light. When the world stops revolving around a false throne and the Lord bares His holy arm through the one who is at the helm of all this controversy. Maybe they will all finally realize Joseph's role as the prodigal son. In conclusion, I have observed that there are actually two gospels, one for me, and one for the Lord. The Lord has His own gospel or good news? Yes, His is in relation with the baptisms and everlasting covenant written throughout the scriptures. My gospel is the Lord Himself, even Jesus Christ. I hope my most recent comment isn't too overwhelming, I can never say all I need to say in one or two paragraphs. Anyways I understand how hard it would be to compress an uncomfortable subject such as the atonement statute in a short time frame. While I am no expert on the matter of broadcasting, and I really think the Spirit is the only solution; for a mass audience containing all sorts of people, for them to truly understand the kind of boat we are in. My best bet would be instead of factual statements, would be rhetorical questions, and hard to ones at that. And even riddles and poems. When people figure something out on their own, or think they did, I believe they tend to appreciate it more, I know I do. 1. The reason why he is able to return, and in charge of the redemption of Zion? 2. Why he is in charge of gathering Israel? 3. Why the priesthood of Aaron was restored to him? 4. Why he was given the plates? 5. Why he was in charge over the rise of the church in 1800s? Also outlines, I feel that people like to see the forest instead of one tree. As of which I have found out the three watches, is only part of who Joseph is. In fact Joseph has his very own three watches before the meridian of time, which helps explain quite a bit. Speaking of which I have finished several projects of my own that may interest you, and I have been wanting to share them for some time now, but I managed to lose my old email that we have used to communicate with. If you can contact the one I am using now to comment, you can use that one if you are interested. It is as true today as it was then. We need good strong minded people like yourself in the Church, but it can be a delicate line to walk. My only suggestion is to not rely so much on the logical. Faith is rarely logical. That's the beauty of the test. Thank you for visiting and sharing your opinion. the doctrinal views you have just shared are very "mormon" and have been instilled within you from a very young age.. probably from Jr. Sunday School on up. I know you are very sincere and have good intentions. I personally believe you have put a curse upon your own head by accepting the doctrine you just espoused. Your remarks are interesting because I just completed a small section about the arm of flesh. Although it mainly addresses the topic of science and the learning of man, it also pertaining to the false doctrine you have just taught espousing prophet-worship. I think I will share it in this reply area for people to compare your doctrine with what the holy and infallible word of God has to say on the topic.. Contextual declaration #12 provides the extremely limited parameters that God has established for discerning truth and becoming saved. Please notice how the following passage only allows personal belief in God's word to access the Holy Spirit and get an individual through the gate of spiritual rebirth into the kingdom. Notice that the testimony of others plays an important role, but it can only serve to direct others to the word of God. Ultimately, the purpose of testimony is to point people to the word of God or to condemn those who don't have faith in the word of God. Even the testimony of righteous men cannot save another person, it will either direct them to God's word that will be accepted on faith, or it will ultimately condemn those that don't exercise faith in God's word. This startling declaration limits the parameters of salvation to belief on the word of God, and not on the word of man. The eternal law in this contextual declaration would be followed up and amplified in section one where it would be declared that eventually the ordained servants of God (weak things of the earth) would return to the earth to break down the evil structure of the great and abominable church which indoctrinates the world to accept the counsel of other human beings. The ominous warning is to not trust in human counsel and human learning and wisdom. Nephi is actually quoting and paraphrasing an Old Testament prophecy of Jeremiah who foretold that latter day Israel would be cursed by the Lord in the latter days because they put their trust in man instead of God. In the last days Israel would have their temporal substance and treasures taken as a spoil and be forced to serve their enemies in a land they were previously unaware of. Because of putting their trust in man, Israel would be led into a desert place… even a "salt land" which, at the time, was not currently being "inhabited" by others. "Follow the brethren, God will never allow them to lead you astray". "O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. Jeremiahs prophecy was essentially reiterating the prophecy of Moses in Deuteronomy 28-32 where the latter day cursing of Israel was foretold yet the promise that the elect would eventually repent and be gathered from the four corners of the earth after the apostasy of latter day Israel. "And again, if thy foot offend thee, cut it off; for he that is thy standard, by whom thou walkest, if he become a transgressor, he shall be cut off. It is better for thee, to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell; into the fire that never shall be quenched. Therefore, let every man stand or fall, by himself, and not for another; or not trusting another." JST Mark 9:40-48. The doctrine of not putting trust in the arm of flesh is quite broad. It refers to blindly putting trust in human priesthood leaders instead of the word of God. It also refers to putting trust in the theories of man and the teachings of modern day science and the associated counsel of man. Anytime one justifies or discredits faith in God's word based on science and the learning of man, they are categorically cursed. This means that the only way to determine if the Book of Mormon is a literal historical document that was inspired by God is to read and believe it. PERIOD. If you accept or reject the validity of the Book of Mormon based on archeological evidence or DNA evidence or carbon dating or any other evidence based on the learning and wisdom of man, you are cursed.. even if the particular secular evidence you are using should appear to support the truth. Biblical Christianity is a faith based religion that empowers the believer with personal revelation…. it is not a science based religion. The act of blindly following the brethren, even if they are correct, without personal revelation confirming what they are saying, will damn a person and put a curse upon their head. This means that if a person proclaiming to be a prophet decides to take funds from investments off of tithing money and use them to build a billion dollar mall with them instead of feeding the poor, it is not a matter of blindly believing that the "prophet" received a revelation to do so, it is also a matter of receiving you own personal revelation that such an act is acceptable and approved of God. Whenever a leader of the church teaches something that sounds kind of funky, or any new doctrine for that matter, check to see if it conforms or conflicts with the word of God. If it conflicts, discard it. If it conforms, be sure you understand the context of what is being said, for instance, was the person saying it is a sin to lose confidence in the inspired statements of inspired leaders or was he saying it was a sin to lose confidence in all statements of all LDS leaders, including the uninspired statements and false doctrines that they teach. You have been taught the false doctrine that the teachings of living LDS prophets take precedence over the teachings of dead New Testament and Book of Mormon Prophets. " It makes no difference what is written or what anyone has said, if what has been said is in conflict with what the Lord has revealed, we can set it aside. My words, and the teachings of any other member of the Church, high or low, if they do not square with the revelations, we need not accept them. Let us have this matter clear. (Joseph Fielding Smith Doctrines of Salvation, 3:203). The Lord places a tremendous measure of trust and confidence in His servants by associating His word, whether spoken by Him or His servants, as truth. We don't worship prophets. We do, however, respect their chosen status as one of the Lord's "servants" and therefore place our confidence in their counsel. Not everything they say is scripture, and sometimes what they say is according to opinion. As Joseph Smith said, "a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such". We have the opportunity and responsibility to discern between truth and error by the power of the Holy Ghost. Those critical of the teachings and leaders of the Church are looking through a logical eye rather than our divinely appointed Constant Companion to discern truth. I am not a prophet, but can certainly predict the outcome. I encourage you to continue searching for truth, but remember that the path to truth isn't through criticism. You won't get any closer by saying "Now there is not strong scholar of the scriptures among the 15… None of them are really qualified to get into a biblical debate with a seasoned biblical scholar." In is an incorrect opinion based on criticism. This statement is NOT supported by the word of God. It sounds like something you dug out of a priesthood or SS manual… In fact, it contradicts the word of God. You are misrepresenting the meaning of section 1:38. It is totally glorifying God and his infallible word. It is not glorifying mortals who are sustained as prophets nor is it glorifying mortals who sometimes have the spirit of prophecy fall upon them as being infallibly inspired all of the time. Those passages that you quoted are simply saying that any time God speaks to us directly or through his servants, His true words will not fail and should be obeyed. HOWEVER, his statement only applies to the inspired words that come through his prophets NOT the uninspired words that come through his prophets. You have been taught a sanitized and inaccurate definition of what a prophet is. We are NOT commanded to categorically have confidence in the counsel of people in leadership positions based solely on their priesthood position. First of all, being a "prophet" is a spiritual gift. God can place the gift of prophecy upon anyone at any time. Even wicked people can be endowed with prophetic knowledge, not just the president of the church. Some callings, such as that of the President of the church, or the President of the High Priesthood (which are not necessarily synonymous) require the spiritual gift of prophecy to do a good job in their leadership position, however, the fact that the church sustains someone in presiding over them does not determine whether they have the gift of prophecy or not, nor does it prevent them from giving uninspired and erroneous counsel. The presidents of the current, corporate latter day Saint church have not given valid, "thus sayeth the Lord" prophecies, in the sense that Isaiah and Jeremiah and Joseph Smith did, during your life time. Even if you persist in believing that the current president of the church is filled with the spirit of prophecy even though he never prophesies, your statement above would still be incorrect because, as Joseph smith said, those with the gift of prophecy don't always speak prophetically and can error. Therefore, as JFS said in the passage I previously provided to you, regardless of a person's priesthood position and regardless of the respect that one would want to give any brother in Christ, we should NEVER categorically have confidence in the advice a person gives just because of their position. Their counsel must be weighed in the balance against the sustained word of God in the four standard works and against the Holy Ghost. You will notice that the Lord did not qualify that statement to say that a human being with priesthood position is an exception to the rule. Every human being is capable of giving erroneous human counsel and God forbids ANYONE including leaders of the church from giving uninspired counsel to other people. The only way you can possibly avoid following bad human counsel coming from the president of the church or any other priesthood leader is by doing what the scriptures have instructed us to do. If you will do a keyword search using the term "deceived", you will find the two inspired passages the tell you how you can avoid being deceived… they have to do with treasuring up the word of God and taking the Holy Ghost as your guide… NOTHING is said about blindly following the counsel of a person because of their holy calling. That statement is categorically false and unsupported by scripture. It presumes that leaders of the church can never error and therefore any criticism is sin. The truth is that the Lord has warned us that in the last days there would be "false prophets" that we are to beware of. How can you ever protect yourself from a false prophet entering into the church if you belief in the Catholic doctrine if infallibility? You have been raised to think that the "law of common consent" is in existence for the sole purpose of verifying your worthiness and loyalty by always sustaining everything that your priesthood leaders say. If you will go back into the scriptures and the early history, you will find out that it was originally given as a checks and balances, which gives members of the church the right and obligation to challenge any doctrine or decisions being made by priesthood leaders that are deemed to be uninspired. Are you forgetting that the Lord expressly gave a protocol in church administration for excommunicating the president of the church? That protocol is there for a reason. If the false doctrine you are teaching was true, it would be impossible to ever excommunicate a fallen prophet and the inspired protocol would prove God to be illogical and in error. I appreciate your passion, but you are exemplifying zeal without knowledge. You are the result of indoctrination from an apostate church. My concern is this, if you can't interpret what I said, as simple as it was, correctly, how can you claim a correct interpretation of 150+ yr old history? Now I can see with a little more clarity why you are positioned as you are. With an incorrect interpretation, it makes much more sense. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is far from apostate. "I will give you a key that will never rust. If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray". Where did the majority go? You can answer for yourself. There is an if clause in there… repentance. But that takes humility. I truly, sincerely hope you can find it. Until then, I'll be, "onewhoiswaiting". So, you don't want to acknowledge that you misrepresented the meaning of the passages the you quoted from section one, you can' defend the false doctrine of infallibility that you are teaching, and you don't have a response for the sound doctrine and associated passages of scripture that I presented you with in my last response… including the fact that the protocol that God gave for excommunicating the President of the Church becomes totally void and invalid if in fact it is categorically wrong and sinful to criticize someone in a leadership position for doing or saying something very wrong and contrary to the word of God. You simply want to characterize me as not being able to interpret what you said. I will leave it up to each and every visitor to decide for themselves whether I accurately understood what you were saying and whether I provided an adequate response. Now, lets review your latest attempt at LDS apologetics, wherein you justify your unquestioning loyalty to the current leadership based on a supposed statement from Joseph Smith instead of on the word of God. "I have heard the Prophet speak in public on many occasions. In one meeting I heard him say, 'I will give you a key that will never rust. If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray'" (Young Woman's Journal, December 1906, 542–43). That statement of coursed completely contradicts what the Lord has said about the issue and it contradicts that fact that the Lord had forbidden the quorum of the 12 from presiding in a stake of Zion… they were a traveling missionary quorum only having stewardship in the mission field where no stakes of Zion had been established. Are you really going to base your belief on the succession crisis on something like that instead of what God has revealed in the scriptures? Now then, Circus, or Mark-E-Mark.. or whoever you are, you apparently want to destroy my credibility as a researcher of church doctrine and history and discourage people from reading and praying about the findings that I would like to share for people to read, study and pray about. I am really enjoying this little exchange because you are bringing up issues that need to be addressed, however, I am going to invite you to publicly acknowledge whether or not you are on the payroll of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. I think readers of this blog have a right to know if you are an independent influencer acting solely on your own, or if you are a paid influencer who is attempting to do damage control and retain tithe payers for the LDS Church who are troubled about disconcerting things they are finding out about church doctrine and history. Oops, the above was from me. Wrong screen name. I will make an attempt to clarify. If you refute it with your typical (thus far) "you are wrong and cursed and preaching false doctrine" tone instead of actually trying to listen and understand where I am coming from then this will be it. Before I get to that, first, "Circus, or Mark-E-Mark.. or whoever you are". Those aren't my real names… I don't think most people use their real names on here. I figured you would know that but just wanted to clarify. (I changed it to a more appropriate one). I am just a normal guy. My goal is not to influence anyone. I do act independently and if my statements are of influence, then so be it. That is for your readers to decide. I am not paid influencer "attempting to do damage control and retain tithe payers for the LDS Church". Truth stands on it's own. My goal isn't to destroy your credibility. Even if we disagree, who cares! It's a discussion. This isn't a, YOU as a person are bad, or ME as a person are bad. This is a disagreement between two guys who have strong opinions. Wait, what? When did I teach infallibility when I said, "We don't worship prophets… Not everything they say is scripture, and sometimes what they say is according to opinion. As Joseph Smith said, "a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such"'. Early high ranking members apostatized, why would I think or teach that they are infallible? I never said we should glorify mortals. My focus was on the Lord in trusting his servants to convey HIS WORD. The Lord trusts them, so do I. They aren't infallible, that's why the Lord has given us the Holy Ghost to discern between truth and error. For a (follow the brethren) man such as yourself, you sure don't listen to your guides in this world, a world where the wicked one lays a snare everywhere to trip you up because you are so special. Do you even realize, you started your gospel by quoting a deceased prophet, in your mind, who had views that are in severe disagreement with today's prophets? Oh, that's right if it supports the Church brethren; who cares right, just as long as you don't hold the same views, so you don't get the ex. Just like one of your screen names implies, the Church is a big circus, and I admit that the line is a very delicate walk. A delicate one so much, that it can't hold that giant elephant of failure that the brethren want the spectators of this wonderful show to ignore, and clap fanatically like the circus is working as intended. Cover your eyes gentlemen and ladies, if you stay you will be with your family forever, but you must give us all you time, talent and money, can't forget that money. For one who claims that logic is fallacy, you sure are wanting to make sure, logic of, the brethren will never fail us, is sound. True faith requires knowledge (logic) in order to be of worth. And also again you are not following the brethren's counsel of not getting an education. This faith you spoke of is a sure way to fail this so called test. Wouldn't you lose confidence, if the brethren just started to take what is yours? Such as your wife (if you even have one), your ability to create children, and even your own life for letting the secret nature of a glorious covenant out of the bag, oops I mean sacred. Oh that's right you don't believe in logic, so blind faith will still lead you to your reward in heaven. Get in line folks, heaven ain't cheap. For one who is misinformed to begin with, you probably shouldn't judge who is informed or not. Wow, only one time you quoted the Lord, and yet you still refuse to acknowledge that the Lord can return His true servants back to the earth. We have true prophets of the Lord now, so no need to return Joseph to help clean up this mess that we refuse to acknowledge. Now that is a new one, for a divine being who knows everything, and I mean everything, still He has to put trust in someone, who the Lord already knows what they are going to do. Now that right there, doesn't sound logical, oh that is right you don't believe in logic, I keep forgetting that. The Lord has counseled everyone to not put their trust and confidence in the flesh, so why would the Lord do it, sounds kind of hypocritical don't you think? Are you sure you are really in a position to speak on behalf of the entire church? The only one, who truly has earned the right to be called a prophet, got nailed to a cross. Yet here the Lds saints, stand at attention, as these so called prophets enter the room. And adhere to every bit of counsel that comes out of their mouths, yet couldn't really be bothered by the counsel given by the Lord, that they are barely even aware of, because they just read the scriptures that these same men, tell them to, in place of hungering and thirsting for the righteousness that was rejected by people who drooled over the church leaders in their day. Yeah, lets quote Joseph and also something he said that still does not align with the word of the Lord. And someone that the brethren are truly ashamed of, why else would they deny his abhorrent acts of bedding down other men's wives and daughters, for the glory of the celestial kingdom. Truth be known, Joseph Smith is the church's poster boy, without him, this current scam wouldn't have the last leg its standing on. And because the like-mindedness of people such as yourself worshiping, or having reverence for, what ever you want to call it. So you can go to sleep at night. And with that pat yourself on the back some more in respecting their so called chosen status; which is really a contest of who can outlive everyone else, to receive this curtain of Oz. It seems like you didn't get the memo, of the Lord withdrawing His Spirit, until the actual marvelous work and wonder happens, because what the brethren proclaim as the marvelous work and wonder is a snorefest. And the actual exciting stuff, they happened to shift under the files of temple attendance, and tithing settlements. So you mean we can't be critical thinkers, with regards to our eternal salvation. Are we suppose to follow the current brethren off a cliff, to where the Lord obviously won't be. And the future brethren are to say oops they were wrong, but we are right now. Wait a second; the current ones do that already…. I am lost are you trying to make logical statements, by telling people who are critical of the freeloaders, to not think logically. Hate to break it to ya champ, but the Holy Ghost is the provider of pure logic. Since you are unable to discern truth, I am sorry you did not receive the divinely appointed Constant Companion, seems like it got sold out by the current brethren. Well maybe instead of holding up men, maybe you should start to actually testify of Christ, you might become a prophet, but that is after you receive the Constant Companion, who is actually the one to give power in order to testify of Christ. But it seems, the leaders of now don't like to share, and it's apparent for their need to protect the slc temple and headquarters from the heathens, by building up Holy and Anointed shopping centers, abnormally expensive ones at that. If the big 15 are such strong scholars or actually as their titles suggest, they really wouldn't be in the position they are in now, in trying to convince people, who have the guts to turn away from the crooked and petty thieves that the big 15 truly are, by endorsing sub organizations to take the blame, if the same subs somehow end up wrong. They wouldn't be spending money, so I can see the delusions that you still hold to, on almost every advertisement that happens to present itself at me when I browse the web looking for insights in how corrupt those big 15 truly are. You will be in a rude awakening, when you realize that Joseph Smith doesn't really agree in everything you present, which you think are pearls of wisdom, but in reality it is just senseless drivel in order to excuse your inability to return to Christ. It baffles me how the blind, can tell themselves that they are not blind, and attempt to belittle the ones who can see the Light. And of how they mock the ones who actually see Light, regardless of intensity of that Light, and believe that the ones that can see the Light at the end of this dark and dreary tunnel are in their interpretations blind. Keep on quoting the man that is a stumbling block, for the true apostasy that the church phases through. You may find yourself snared and taken back, to a place you think you are not heading to. Honestly, if what the watcher has brought to attention, offends you so bad, why do you persist in proclaiming your delusions? And it seems you have resorted to these childish games, in making of mockery of what the watcher stands for. You can throw out all the words to mask your pride as humility. And your pride, keeps you saying the same things over and over to yourself, pride sure hurts people, but it hurts the person being prideful far more in the long run. I am sorry that I have used sarcasm and scorn to prove a point, but sometimes kids do not listen to the beginning warnings, and sometimes parents have to bring themselves down, so they can see eye to eye, and eventually raise them up, so they can raise up their own children. That is what Christ did, and gave impossible teachings, to wake up His children in teaching them, that He is full of mercy, peace, love, longsuffering, grace, truth, and that even He has to pull out the belt and use justice, harsh judgment, and wrath, because His children refuse to listen. And eventually He will bring us to His eye level, maybe for a minute or an hour, and maybe for eternity. I hope and pray that a lost soul such as yourself, is for eternity, but if you refuse to acknowledge it is only by Christ that you are saved, then I am afraid it will be a much shorter time frame. As far as who I am, it doesn't matter, even if I said, you probably wouldn't believe anyways. Also don't assume I am in relation with the watcher, in fact we disagree on many, many things. I would have stayed silent, but you had to go and make your stubborn incredulous remarks, in proving you are not a son nor servant of Christ. Hopefully you will turn to the gospel of Christ, and receive His grace. 1. Joseph was teaching the apostate folk in Nauvoo any and every thing their itching ears wanted to hear…to lead to their own condemnation. 2. Joseph's revelations were drying up, and maybe he really was a boastful fella who loved the attention and wanted to live up to the expectations so he started to come up with all sorts of stuff just to keep his celebrity going. Kinda like a famous singer or movie star who keeps bringing out albums/movies after it is painfully obvious their prime was over a long time ago. You know what happens: as awful as it may be, loyal fans will still spend their hard earned money and continue to idolise and support them, with all their heart. 3. The other possibility is that Brigham and his masonic buddies like Heber C Kimball and co., joined the church AFTER already being masons, and were assigned to do so to bring the church to its destruction. They set out guiding and plotting Joseph's assassination while he was alive, and then set about to do a character assassination AFTER his death by altering all his words and discourses. I just do not trust Brigham and Heber…from what i have been reading, it seems that when they were on their mission in England, some brethren testified that they were shocked to find out brigham and Heber had taken a trip up to Scotland to receive the Scottish Rites of Masonry, calculated to bring the Churst of Christ to its knees. From the day I joined the Church I just felt a lack of spirit in anything Brigham said and wrote. And that was from church-approved material. When i finally started to research the pure crap that just spewed forth from him, I seriously started to wonder if he was placed in his role DELIBERATELY. Anyway, is it possible that the King Follett is not available in its purity? The Lord had promised that he would deliver the saints over to Satan if they hardened their hearts. For years I thought the delivering over to Satan began with Brigham Young However, it appears to me that it actually began with Joseph per the terms mentioned in 2 Nephi 27:5. I think the Lord covered the eyes of the seers because of the heardened hearts of the saints. I think the infiltration of Masonry, the false masonic temple endowment, the false teachings about God and several other things are an indication that the Lord was having his servants deliever the rebellious saints over the Satan. Few people realize that Joseph was approached by the High Council in Nauvoo telling him they were ready to try living consecration again and Joseph told them that was no longer an options at that time. I guess there are different ways to interpret that. I did address this topic somewhere in a post but I don't remember which one. I do think there was a horrendous amount of pressure on Joseph to prove that he was still relevant and revelatory. He had not recieved a revelation for quite some time and people were calling him a fallen prophet. Regarding your comment about Brigham and Heber. At the time of the Martyrdom, Mother Smith recieved three revelations in a row. In one of them it was revealed to her that Joseph would return and lead the saints at a future time. During that time she made an ominous statement saying that two of the twelve had black hearts. Her inferance was obviously regarding Brigham and Heber. Interestingly, I think they were the only two that had not been called to be High Priests. I'll try to did that quote up and post it. Your comment about Brigham going to Scotland is an interesting one. I would love to see information about that. …and I wonder if the documentation we have that Joseph taught that the Holy Ghost is in probation and waiting to receive a body, is actually true?? From my understanding, i just cannot accept anything but that the Holy Ghost is the mind and will of God that fills the immensity of time and space. Could be that is what the ancient Vedas refer to as the Akashic Records- the mystic 'place' where all intelligence and ideas can be tapped into. I think we need to also chalk the Holy Ghost as a man doctrine up to the delivering of an apostate people over to Satan. It contradicts everything taught in the scriptures about the Holy Ghost. Any way we could get a hold of the reference of Brigham and Heber going to Scotland? I believe that Isaiah is being a bit harsh here. I don't think that categorically they're all dumb, greedy, ignorant or blind. What stood out to me was the greedy part. After reading about the shopping mall I started to see things in the scriptures that point toward the incorrectness of their ways. I don't know if you've seen this or not, but I have to agree with the guy at 2:01 that once they let the cat out of the bag there's no going back to teaching things the same old way. They're going to have to revamp their teaching curriculum to match what the correlation department will be churning out between now and next April. Interesting. Thanks for the heads up. at 1:07 they refer to a new video released "this afternoon" which appears to be an interview with Elder Steven Snow the new church historian. I don't see a link to it and have not been able to google it. If anyone knows where the video is please provide a link. Yeah, I couldn't find it either. The only other video I could find was Fox News' take on it. If you run a Google search for the term "new video explain how church is using study resources" you'll find a link to an LDS.org page that has three new videos the church has released to help study the gospel. It was released four days ago, but has mysteriously disappeared. Ok, you set me on a journey. The LDS.org topics page will be updated from time to time. I believe I have found something that may be the answer, or may provide you with a direction towards the answer. Are you a mind reader or what! For over a year I have attempted to find a service that helps people to create those kind of fast moving narratives that are supported with hand drawings but have been unable to do so. Yes I agree, that is a great way to communicate and change paradigms. What is exciting is that when I began to watch the youtube you sent me, an advertisement came on first (which I usually click out of at the five second mark) that tells about another turnkey service that enables one to create these kinds of presentations! I am only 40 seconds into the "Changing Education Paradigms" video which I will resume now. I also look forward to viewing the other video. I honestly hope you can get it done- putting your 'revised' history of the church/restoration, biblical profile of joseph, return of sidney and joseph…not to mention the Lamanite lamentations, Gentile gratifications, the Masonic infiltrations, Brigham's 'bominations, Word of God transfigurations, Tithing transformations, Book of Mormon condemnation, and the corrupted Correlations…amongst the host of others, of course!

Since industrialization, urban centers across the country have been building up. Early multi-story masonry buildings gave way to glass and steel skyscrapers to create the skylines that have become iconic for many cities. In the 1920s and 1930s, technology and design collided to create the International Style of building that became the prevalent blueprint for modern construction for many decades. But what is to be done about the millions of square feet that have been left vacant and obsolete when businesses abandon these towers for new facilities or more convenient locations? Many of the cities that are focusing on increased density are those that have historic downtown cores or neighborhoods. To some people, abandoned mills and other abandoned buildings can be a bit spooky. But to some real estate developers they can mean opportunity, particularly in states with tax incentive programs. A developer taking on a project involving a group of buildings that served together historically is likely to visit an arcane corner of NPS world called the functionally-related complex policy. Military bases, hospital complexes, industrial complexes, and many other groups of buildings all come under the umbrella of what NPS regulations define as a single resource AND if a single developer or related developers takes on a phased project involving two or more buildings in the group, then the project will be required to file a single Part 1, 2 and 3 application, and will not receive a Part 3 approval until all phases are complete. Historic preservation and multi-family housing have a long history together, especially in the capital stack of affordable housing projects throughout the country.

← Should a Christian Get a Tattoo? To tithe is to give a tenth, which means that a "tithe" is a "tenth." The average Christian in America has heard plenty of sermons on tithing, so much so that he doesn't think he needs to ever hear another one. However, that average Christian has probably never heard just exactly what the Bible does teach on the subject. Okay, so God was to receive one-tenth of every kind of harvest and herd in Israel. Deuteronomy 12:5-7 tells us that each Israelite was to bring this tithe to the Tabernacle. Later on, the Jewish Temple was built to replace the Tabernacle, and the tithe was then to be brought there. Malachi 3:10 mentions "the storehouse," which was a room in the Temple that was used for storing the tithes of crops and animals. But what was this tithe used for? According to Numbers 18:21-24 it was used as provisions for the Levites, the priests who ministered in the Tabernacle/Temple. This explains why this tithe is known as "the Levite's tithe." In a very real way, it was God's Old Testament way of taking care of the minister. For the record, the Levites themselves had to pay a tithe on the offerings that were brought to them. They paid this tithe by offering up a tenth of the offerings as a heave offering and then giving that offering to Israel's High Priest. This is all explained in Numbers 18:25-32. Of course, when the Old Testament talks about tithing, the focus is oftentimes placed on things other than money, things such as herds, grain, fruits, and possessions. Job was the richest man in the East, but Job chapter 1 describes his wealth in terms of 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large household. This brings up a major problem with trying to tithe today: To completely pay a true tithe, a tenth of more than just your money would be involved. You might also have noticed that the passage mentions the possibility of a tither redeeming (buying back) some of his tithes. What's that all about? Well, let's say that a Jew wanted to keep for himself something that he should otherwise use as part of his tithe. That tither could "buy back" that something from God. He did this by bringing the full value of the thing and then adding one-fifth of that value. In other words, the tither had to bring 100% of the thing's value and then add an extra 20%. Before leaving this passage, let me pull one last point from it. Please don't miss the fact that the last verse says these commandments are ones which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai. You see, this commandment to tithe is found in the book of Leviticus, and it was a part of God's law for the people of Israel. Don't try to make it God's command to anybody else. All of the Bible was written for us, but not all of the Bible was written to us. We Gentiles are not Jews, and we do not live under Jewish law. Here again, though, we see some of the complexities involved with true tithing. The Jew was to pull this tithe from his flocks as well as his yearly harvests of grain, new wine, and oil. He was to load it all up and, with his family, make the journey to the Tabernacle/Temple. If, however, he lived too far away to allow for the safe transport of the tithe, he could sell the tithe for money, make his journey to the Tabernacle/Temple, and there buy whatever his heart desired to ensure that his family's time of feasting from this tithe was a joyous, celebratory time. At the end of every third year, the Jew was to bring a special tithe to a designated place in his home city or town. Once there, this tithe went to feed the local Levites. The Levites operated in rotating shifts at the Tabernacle/Temple, and they had homes when they weren't on duty. Just as they were supported by the Levitical tithe when they were on duty at the Tabernacle/Temple, they were supported by this third-year tithe when they were at home, not on duty. Also, this third-year tithe went to support the needy strangers, fatherless, and widows of the city or town. Therefore, this tithe is known as "the poor tithe." It was different from the other two tithes in that it was only paid once every three years and wasn't to be taken to the Tabernacle/Temple. It was, instead, to be taken to the designated place in the city or town. Well, by now, I trust that you are beginning to see that tithing under the Old Testament law was complex. First, the tithes involved a tenth of not just money but also livestock, oil, wine, fruit, and grain. Second, the tithing got to be much more than 10% because God required at least two tithes each year and a third tithe every third year. So, you see, we grossly oversimplify a very complex system when we say, "If you make $600 a week, you should put $60 in church." Furthermore, God pronounced a curse upon the nation of Israel if the Jews weren't faithful regarding their tithes. This curse manifested itself by way of failed crops and empty harvests (Malachi 3:8-12). Does anybody want America to be held to that same bar of judgment today? I certainly don't. Here again we find that Paul makes no mention of tithing. What he says is, "Every man should give as he purposes in his heart." Let it be known, though, that Paul's intent was to get Christians to be more generous in their giving, not less. We know this because he adds in the solemn reminder: "He who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will reap bountifully." That doesn't sound like a man who is trying to get Christians to give less, does it? Now, to be fair to those who teach that tithing is mandatory for the Christian, let me mention that there are a couple of Old Testament, pre-law examples of tithing. First, in Genesis chapter 14, the Bible gives us the story of how Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils of a certain battle to Melchizedek, God's priest in those pre-law days. And since that story has nothing to do with the Old Testament law, some take it as evidence that God has always wanted His people to pay a tithe and still does. Really, though, a careful study of Abraham's life will show that God never commanded him to tithe, and he never practiced any kind of regular, systematic tithing. Second, in Genesis chapter 28, the Bible gives us the story of how Jacob vowed that he would give a tenth of his possessions back to God if God would keep him safe and give him food and clothing as he made his way from Canaan to Padan Aram and back. Again, though, Jacob never practiced any kind of regular, systematic tithing. For that matter, there isn't even a followup passage that says that he kept his vow and paid his promised tithe when he came back to Canaan. I figure that he did, but there is no Bible passage to confirm it. What am I saying? I'm saying that God never commanded anybody to regularly and systematically tithe until He built that command into the body of law that He gave to the people of Israel. I'm saying that the Jews were the only people who were ever commanded to tithe. Someone says, "Aha, right there it is. Jesus said the paying of tithes ought to be done. " Yes, He did say that, but He said it to Jews who, like Himself, were living under the Old Testament law. Everything would change following His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension. Listen Christian, Jesus doesn't want you to live under any kind of forced legalism involving tithing. What He wants you to do is make Him Lord of every penny and possession you have. He wants you to seek His will in where to work, what to buy, what to finance, and (yes) how much to give as an offering. You don't even have to have a fixed, set amount that you always give as an offering. Some weeks you might be able to give more than other weeks. Some months will be tougher than other months. The key is to get in tune with the Lord on this matter of giving and let Him guide you concerning every offering. As we all know, there are ebbs and flows to life, and if you are hopelessly tied to the idea of always giving a tenth, you will sometimes give more than God wants you to give and sometimes less than He wants you to give. I do believe that a tenth can be a good general reference point for how much you should give, but it shouldn't be an end-all-be-all kind of deal. Don't allow yourself to become a robot in your giving, always stoically paying your weekly or monthly tithe like you'd pay your union dues or property taxes. God wants you to become much more spiritually minded with your giving as you join Him on the great adventure that He calls the financial part of your life. You say, "But Russell, if I based my giving on what you are describing, I would have to think about what to give and pray about it." YES, THAT'S THE IDEA! Now you're getting it! Never forget that Christianity is about liberty, not legalism. We've got far too many man-made rules in our churches today, and I'm sad to report that the rule of tithing is one of them. This entry was posted in Giving, Money, The Old Testament Law, Tithing and tagged giving as God has prospered you, Should a Christian tithe? New Testament giving, the festival tithe, the Levite's tithe, the poor tithe, three tithes under the Old Testament law, what Paul taught about giving. Bookmark the permalink.

Apparently, the world will end in just a few days. The debate between scientists and believers in God has surged once again to national headlines. Young Parents Face Murder Charges After Infant Doesn't Respond To "Faith Healing"

Because of evidence of causal association between antibiotic use and bacterial resistance, the implementation of national policies has emerged as a interesting tool for controlling and reversing bacterial resistance. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of public policies on antibiotic use in Europe using a differences-in-differences approach. Comparable data on systemic antibiotics administered in 21 European countries are available for a 11-year period between 1997 and 2007. Data on national campaigns are drawn from the public health literature. We estimate an econometric model of antibiotic consumption with country fixed effects and control for the main socioeconomic and epidemiological factors. Lagged values and the instrumental variables approach are applied to address endogeneity aspects of the prevalence of infections and the adoption of national campaigns. We find evidence that public campaigns significantly reduce the use of antimicrobials in the community by 1.3– 5.6 defined daily doses per 1,000 inhabitants yearly. This represents an impact of roughly 6.5–28.3 % on the mean level of antibiotic use in Europe between 1997 and 2007. The effect is robust across different measurement methods. Further research is needed to investigate the effectiveness of policy interventions targeting different social groups such as general practitioners or patients.

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National | MUSEUM MUSINGS Famed sculptor's mannequins wear evolution of Western haute fashion by Taiga Uranaka The Sugino Costume Museum is ensconced among campus buildings in a quiet residential area in Tokyo's Meguro district frequented by college boys in the days before World War II who were curious to glimpse female dressmaking students in stylish Western clothes. Today, while Western clothing is no longer a rarity, people continue to visit. Only now it is to take a peek at history through the evolution of Western fashion. Opened in May 1957 as the country's first museum dedicated to Western dresses and accessories, it was built upon the vast collection of the late Yoshiko Sugino, founder of the dressmaking school Sugino Gakuen, and her husband, Shigeichi. "Our museum is small compared to other museums with similar collections, but it houses a lot of items hard to find at other places," curator Koichi Tsukada said. One of the most famous items on display is an art nouveau evening dress made around 1880 by Charles Frederic Worth. The designer, who earned his reputation in 19th-century Paris, is credited with establishing the foundations of haute couture. The designer of the dress was a mystery for decades, until last year when the designer tag, caught in the waist joint of the mannequin it was being displayed on, came off when museum staff rearranged the figure for a photo shoot. Another rare piece on display is a pleated silk dress made by Italian Mariano Fortuny in 1910. Its design is remarkable given that making a lasting pleat pattern on silk fabric was extremely difficult at the time, according to Tsukada. In addition to classic Western clothes, the museum also exhibits traditional Japanese palace costumes, like "juni-hitoe," and ethnic clothes, including those of the indigenous Ainu. Even the museum's mannequins deserve more attention than their sisters in shop windows enjoy. Created by revered sculptor Ryokichi Mukai, many have individual facial expressions designed to fit their dresses. "Not a few visitors come to see these mannequins," Tsukada said. The museum urges would-be visitors to check out its Web site, on which pictures display the museum's items from a variety of angles under optimal lighting conditions, accompanied by detailed explanations and historical charts. Currently, the site is available in Japanese only, but a French-language version is to be created soon. "You can learn a lot about culture through the window of fashion because it reflects a country's culture very strongly," Tsukada said.

Love the glorious colors associated with fall. You've captured the crisp feel of fall in your header and background! I so enjoy the wonderful quotes you post!! Such food for thought!! Beautiful quote! Yes, we need to slow down and watch the colors of Fall happen. Right before our eyes!

Articles Posted in Workers' Compensation Maine Workers' Compensation Reform Could Expand Injured Employee Benefits Workers injured on-the-job in Maine are almost all entitled to no-fault workers' compensation benefits in accordance with Title 39-A of Maine Revised Statutes. With very few exceptions, those hurt in the course and scope of employment can receive compensation for lost wages, medical expenses and vocational training. Survivors of employees who die of these injuries can collect death benefits. As Portland workers' compensation attorneys can explain, this was all part of the "grand bargain" struck between labor unions and employers in the early 20th century, in exchange for strictly curtailing, in most cases, a worker's right to sue an employer for such injuries. However, employee advocates say benefits are insufficient and too difficult to obtain, thanks to years of legislative efforts (the biggest push being in 1992) favoring insurance companies and big industry. This, they say, combined with a twenty-six percent cost of living increase in Maine, makes the current situation untenable for injured workers. State legislative committees have scheduled hearings, where workers and their families are slated to testify, arguing that reform is necessary because the state's current workers' compensation framework is unfair and causes undue hardship. State lawmakers are considering more than two dozen bills that would amount to sweeping reform of Maine's workers' compensation system. The objective, say supporters, is to balance the scales. The system was overhauled roughly 25 years ago by those who insisted the state's approach – the most expensive in the nation – put the entire system on the verge of collapse. Posted in: Workers' Compensation Tagged: Portland Maine workers' compensation lawyer Employer Whose Roof Worker Died in Portland Had History of Job Safety Violations After a 30-year-old roof worker fell to his death on a job site in Portland, local media began digging into his employer's past with work safety violations. The Portland Press Herald reported that the roofing and window installation firm had been slapped with repeated fines for failing to protect workers from job site perils that put them at risk for serious injury and death. Portland workers' compensation attorneys know that while this won't necessarily give rise to an additional compensation for the man's surviving family (who will likely already be entitled to Maine workers' compensation death benefits), it may expose the company to additional fines. In the last seven years, the company has been ordered to pay nearly $45,000 for not meeting fall protection safety criteria as outlined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which is now launching another investigation into the worker's fall-related death. The incident occurred at a three-family home on Congress Street, where the worker reportedly fell from the third story. Safety records indicate federal safety regulators fined the company twice during inspections in 2012 – once for not providing adequate fall arrest systems for workers on a low-sloped roof and again for lack of guardrail systems or safety nets for workers on steep roofs. Then in 2015, federal inspectors said the company had not met the minimum fall safety standards for workers toiling 6 feet or more above the ground, requiring that if workers don't have a personal fall arrest system, the site needs to be equipped with guardrails, netting or safety harnesses. Then last year, the company was found to be in violation of another worker safety standard requiring ladders extending beyond three feet to be secured safely to the ground. That violation, which is still pending, resulted in an OSHA-recommended fine of nearly $25,000. In a 13-month period ending March 2018, eight people have died on Maine job sites. One of those in October 2017 involved a worker who fell from a roof when it collapsed. The worker fell to the ground, suffering a neck injury. Tagged: Maine workers' compensation death benefits Maine Injury Lawsuit Against Farm After Drug Overdose at Work A worker who suffered a drug overdose on the job is suing his former employer, alleging his co-workers committed gross negligence by failing to call 911 and instead placing him in a cold shower. Bangor Daily News reports the 30-year-old man is now confined to a wheelchair and unable to care for himself. The case is unique in the fact that in most Maine work injury cases seeking coverage of medical bills and lost wages from an employer, workers' compensation is the exclusive remedy, as explained in the general provisions of 39-A M.R.S.A. §104. The law says an employer is exempt from civil action for either negligence or intentional conduct resulting in an employee's injury or death, and also that a fellow employee is exempt from a Maine injury lawsuit arising out of the course of employment. As a no-fault system, the employee is not required to prove negligence and the employer loses the right to assert most common-law defenses that would ordinarily address an injury lawsuit. The worker does need to show he or she was acting in the course and scope of employment. Although employees can (and should, if available) assert third-party liability claims against non-employer defendants whose negligence caused or contributed to their injuries, it's very rare for an employee to succeed in a negligence lawsuit against an employer for injuries sustained in the course and scope of employment. This doesn't apply to independent contractor workers, only those who meet the definition of "employee." Continue reading Posted in: Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation Tagged: Bangor work injury attorney, injury at work, Maine work injury lawyer, work injury lawyer and worker injury Court: Maine Employers Can 'Just Say No' to Injured Workers' Medical Pot The Maine supreme court has that ruled employers aren't required to cover medical marijuana through the state workers' compensation system. The 5-2 decision disappointed many worker advocates who had been following the case closely. Justices ruled that in a conflict between federal law considering marijuana a dangerous and addictive substance and Maine's state medical marijuana law, the federal law takes precedence. This means that people injured on-the-job in Maine are going to need to either accept an alternative medication for their treatment or else pay for their medical marijuana out-of-pocket. Injured workers should be mindful, though, because the federal precedent also allows employers to take employment action against workers who use marijuana, even with a prescription. While this is troubling in itself, employees accepting workers' compensation may need to be especially cautious, given that as a whole, they are more likely to be targeted for retaliation from employers for reporting work injuries, seeking treatment for on-the-job accidents or reporting job site safety violations. Continue reading Tagged: bangor workers' compensation attorney, Maine injured worker marijuana, medical marijuana, work injury and workers compensation and medical marijuana Maine Fall Accidents a Common Cause of Employee Injuries in Maine A Maine roofer has been ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in fines and implement a safety program, including the use of proper safety equipment and fall protection. Business Insurance reports the announcement by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration comes this month after safety violations were cited at 11 worksites between 2000 and 2011. The company has failed to pay fines or institute proper safety measures, despite having been ordered to do so by a First Circuit judge in 2011, according to OSHA. Maine workers' compensation lawyers continue to see an increasing number of fall accidents in the workplace. While falls are the leading cause of work injuries (after transportation accidents), they are particularly common in the construction industry. Summer months will bring an increasing number of roofers to the skyline to make repairs and replace old or damaged roofs, so it's an apt time for a reminder of the risks these workers face and the safety mandates in place to protect them. Maine Fisherman Sues for Workplace Injury Involving Finger Amputations A man is suing two salmon farm companies – including his employer – in federal court in Bangor following a Maine workplace injury at a salmon farm that resulted in the amputation of two of his fingers on his dominant hand. WGME.com reports the worker is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for losing his middle and ringer fingers on his right hand, claiming the two companies were negligent in failing to properly train employees and in failing to provide them with necessary safety equipment. His attorney alleges the 22-year-old's life will never again be the same, and he may never again be able to return to working on the water, something he loved. In addition, he's alleged to be permanently disfigured. This case is a bit different from most Maine work injury claims in that typically, workers are not able to sue their employers for compensation for such injuries. They can sue third parties for negligence, but the Maine Workers' Compensation Act is considered the exclusive remedy available to employees who suffer work-related injuries, illnesses, or diseases against employers with workers' compensation coverage. As long as the employer meets its obligation to provide workers' compensation benefits, it's immune from civil liability for injuries to employees. This immunity further extends to all of the company's employees, supervisors, officers, etc. (meaning you can't sue your co-worker or your boss). Tagged: Bangor injury lawyer, Bangor work accident and Bangor work injury attorney Maine Supreme Judicial Court: Firefighter Entitled to Permanent Impairment in Workers' Compensation Case The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled the doctrine of res judicata prohibits the re-litigation of a workers' compensation claimant's permanent impairment level, as previously established for a Maine work injury. The doctrine of res judicata means literally "a matter judged." In general, the idea is that an issue cannot be re-litigated once it's already been judged on its merits. This encompasses limits on both the claims and any issues that may be raised in subsequent proceedings. The question was whether this doctrine would not allow a defendant in a workers' compensation case to re-litigate the issue of permanent impairment level for a worker whose impairment level had already been established by a previous court. The court agreed the doctrine applied. According to court records, the proceeding that kicked this off was a 2014 decision by the Maine Workers' Compensation Board that granted the city's petition to consider the ongoing extent of the plaintiff's permanent impairment. At the time the board accepted this petition, the plaintiff was 65 years old and had a long history of working with the local fire department, which he joined in 1975. Tagged: workers' compensation lawyer Updated: August 9, 2017 12:52 am Report: Maine Workers Most Commonly Suffer Back Injuries Back injuries are the most common type of injury suffered on the job, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. What's more, the Maine Department of Labor reports the problem is getting worse here in The Pine Tree State. Federal analysis indicates that in 2014, there were approximately 200,000 cases in which workers missed at least one day of work because of a back injury. That's out of 1.15 million total instances of missed time for occupational injuries. Meanwhile, the Maine DOL reports injuries to the lumbar spine (the lower back) represented 14.3 percent of all work-related injuries. Compare this to 2009, when lower back injuries comprised 10.7 percent of all work injuries. Tagged: Bangor injury lawyer, Bangor work injury attorney, Maine injury lawyer, Maine worker injury and work injury lawyer Updated: November 18, 2016 12:57 pm Hill-Spotswood v. Mayhew et al. – Injured Worker Seeks State Liability for Attack by Patient An 18-weeks pregnant woman who worked in a Maine psychiatric center was violently attacked with a pen by a mentally ill patient with a history of violence. Worker suffered severe pain and disfigurement, was forced to undergo surgery to remove part of the pen from her right hand and now suffers chronic post-traumatic stress disorder. Typically, injuries like these are covered under the state's workers' compensation laws. Workers' compensation is a form of no-fault benefits provided to injured workers (or families of those killed) when that injury or death occurred in the course and scope of employment. Workers' compensation benefits come with a provision of exclusive remedy, meaning injured workers don't have the right to sue their employer, but their medical expenses and a portion of lost wages are available. Compensation for pain and suffering, emotional distress and punitive damages are not paid by workers' compensation. So what this plaintiff wants to do is make the state – not the private psychiatric center – liable for the injuries she suffered at work. Continue reading Tagged: Bangor injury lawyer blog, Bangor work injury and Bangor workers' compensation Report: High Workplace Injuries in Maine Make It Among Nation's Most Dangerous Most of us who live in Maine love Maine. But according to a recent study by financial website Money-rates.com, Maine is among the worst states in the country to earn a living. While other states in the bottom 10 ranked poorly because of low wages, high cost of living, high taxes and other economic disadvantages, Maine's ranking was primarily because of workplace injuries. The site, which ranked Maine the third-worst state, just ahead Hawaii and Oregon, indicated it is tied for the highest frequency of workplace illness, injury and death. Specifically, Maine public officials reported 5.3 workplace injuries, illnesses or deaths per 100 workers. Continue reading Tagged: Bangor work injury, Maine workers' compensation and Maine workers' compensation lawyer Updated: August 6, 2015 9:49 am

Basketball is Back: Kansas Rolls Washburn in Exhibition LAWRENCE, Kan. — Thirty minutes in, the big play that Kansas fans await each gameday came through via a Kelly Oubre, Jr. breakaway dunk delivered by a grinning Wayne Selden, Jr. Kansas downed Washburn, 85-53, in the unofficial start to the 2014-15 men's basketball season Monday night inside Allen Fieldhouse. Squaring off in exhibition play for the first time since 2012 and the 40th time overall, No. 5 Kansas and Washburn were heartily welcomed by the Allen Fieldhouse crowd, eager to watch the latest edition of the Jayhawks in action. High-octane recruit Cliff Alexander played to his hype, leading the Jayhawks with a game-high-tying 14 points on 6-for-8 accuracy and coming in just one rebound short of a double-double. His three blocks, all in the first half, led his team's solid defensive effort as the Jayhawks chalked up nine rejections and held the Ichabods under 30 percent shooting. Kelly Oubre delighted the crowd in KU's exhibition win Monday night. KU's other freshman All-American, Oubre was also solid in his debut with nine points, including his thunder dunk inside the 12-minute mark. By night's end, all 15 Jayhawks checked in and 12 scored en route to a 30-for-53 field-goal performance (56.6 percent). Nine of those came from behind the arc, only one shy of KU's best three-point total a year ago (10 vs. Iowa State, 1/29/14). Sophomore guard Frank Mason started the game at point, flanked on either side by Selden and freshman Devonte' Graham, the only newcomer to crack the starting lineup. All-Big 12 returnee Perry Ellis reclaimed his starting spot, while junior forward Jamari Traylor would have registered his second career start had the game counted. Mason looked the part at floor general, dishing out a game-high seven assists to just one turnover while turning in 13 points with only one missed shot on the night. Sophomore forward Landen Lucas posted a perfect 4-for-4 show to tally nine points and six rebounds. He, Traylor, Alexander and junior forward Hunter Mickelson all swatted multiple shots in the win. On the opposing bench, senior guard Korey Fisher tied Alexander for the game's lead with 14 points. He hit two of Washburn's three three-pointers on Monday as the Ichabods were held to 3-for-20 from long range. Senior guard Kyle Wiggins connected on a long jumper to put his team ahead 2-1, but the early lead would be the Ichabods' last. Selden answered with a three on the other end to fuel an 8-0 run, capped by Graham's first fastbreak layup as a Jayhawk. Not 15 seconds after he checked in, Alexander turned KU's run to 12-straight points with back-to-back buckets. Halfway through the opening 20 minutes, Ellis already had a three-pointer to his credit and four of KU's five freshmen had checked into the game. Like Alexander, Oubre also wasted no time collecting his first basket as he drained a three from the corner in hurry. The rookies shared their night of firsts with Mickelson, who at long last heard his named called after sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules. He scored a put-back layup, a turnaround hook shot and blocked a shot to power KU's lead past the 20-point plateau. Moments later, a three from Mason pushed it over 25 points. Three minutes remained in the first half when a runner through the lane by Fisher finally put the Ichabods in double-digits. By halftime, KU's defense had taken its toll, pestering Washburn with seven blocks and five steals. While Kansas shot 52 percent in first frame, the Jayhawks forced the Ichabods to miss 25 of their 30 first-half shots to take a commanding 42-13 lead to the lockerroom. Scoring was slower to start the second half as nearly five minutes ticked away before free throws from Ellis and Mason saw KU eclipse 50 points. The 'Svi for Three' call from the PA announcer rang out for the first of, what the Jayhawk fan base hopes many, times this season after freshman guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk connected from three-point territory, and the Jayhawks found themselves ahead by 30 points, 59-29. Firmly in command, Kansas utilized various lineups for the rest of the night – all of which are likely to appear in the regular season. Graham spent some time in the point guard spot and fired off five late points, before Evan Manning, Tyler Self and Josh Pollard replaced the backcourt for the final minutes of the 85-53 win. Kansas will conclude exhibition play when it plays host to Emporia State on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Tip time is set for 7 p.m. (Central) and the game can be seen on Jayhawk IMG Television, ESPN Full Court and ESPN3 outside the state of Kansas. KU will then open the regular season on Friday, Nov. 14 against UC Santa Barbara at 7 p.m. That contest is also on the Jayhawk IMG Television, ESPN Full Court and ESPN3 outside the state of Kansas. KU STARTERS: So. Frank Mason, III, So. Wayne Selden, Jr., Fr. Devonte' Graham, Jr. Jamari Traylor, Jr. Perry Ellis SERIES INFO: Kansas leads 37-3 (6-0 in exhibition play) KANSAS' WIN… Made Kansas 64-9 in exhibition games. Extended KU's home exhibition winning streak to 41 games, dating back to the 1994 season. Upped Kansas' all-time record against Washburn to 37-3 in favor of the Jayhawks, including 6-0 in exhibition games. Improved head coach Bill Self to a 32-2 record in exhibition games at Kansas, including 23-0 in home exhibition contests. Made KU 55-4 in exhibition games inside Allen Fieldhouse. For the fourth time in the last five exhibition contests, Kansas scored at least 85 points. The 32 point margin of victory marked the third 30+ point winning margin in the last five contests. KU led by 29 points at the break (42-13). When leading at the half last season, Kansas was a sparkling 22-3. The 13 points at the break would've qualified as the lowest scored against KU in a half last season. Six different Jayhawks drained threes in the first half and Kansas finished the game with nine made treys. During the 2013-14 season, Kansas delivered a season-best 10 triples vs. Iowa State (1/29/14). Kansas held Washburn to 16.7 percent (5-of-30) shooting from the field in the first half, thanks in part to seven blocked shots. Washburn made just two field goals over the final 11:45 of the first half. Kansas finished the game with nine blocked shots. All 11 Jayhawks who saw action in the first half scored first-half points, led by freshman F Cliff Alexander who scored 10 points off the bench. Junior G Evan Manning joined the scoring with a free throw in the second half to give Kansas points from 12 different players. Kansas used a 9-0 run to erase Washburn's only lead of the game (2-1), a stretch early in the first half that saw the Jayhawks hit four consecutive field goals by four different players. The streak of four made buckets followed an 0-for-3 start. Sophomore G Brannen Greene and freshman F Cliff Alexander were the first players off the bench for Kansas, checking in at the 15:17 media timeout. It took Alexander less than 10 seconds to score his first bucket, a lay-up at 15:09. Frank Mason scored the first points for Kansas and the game, hitting the front end of a double-bonus opportunity at 19:04. Wayne Selden accounted for KU's first field goal, a three-pointer at 17:31. Freshman F Cliff Alexander won the race to double digits, scoring his 10th point on an offensive put back with 5:37 left in the first half. Alexander drained five of his first six shot attempts. Washburn reached double digits 2:33 later with a little more than three minutes left in the half. The Chicago native finished with a game-high-tying 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting. Alexander swatted three Washburn shot attempts in the first half, to tie the fourth-best effort in exhibition play over the last 10 seasons. Alexander pulled down a game-high nine rebounds. Sophomore G Frank Mason III became the game's second scorer in double figures with a fast break lay-up with 8:49 left in the game. Mason chipped in 11 points on 3-of-4 shooting, including two three pointers. Mason III also led all players with seven assists and tied Landon Lucas as KU's second-leading rebounder with six boards. Junior F Perry Ellis drained his first career exhibition three-pointer in the first half and has scored in all nine exhibition games he's played in while at KU. Ellis was kept out of double figures for the first time in an exhibition game played in a country whose native language is English. Ellis had reached double figures in five straight exhibitions dating back to AMW France in Paris (8/11/12), but was held to nine Monday night. POSTGAME QUOTES KANSAS Q. Do you think you could be a real good defensive team? BILL SELF: Looking at the first half, we were pretty active. You know, I don't know if we can defend the block because they didn't throw it inside very often, and you've got to be able to finish your possessions and be a good rebounding team, which that remains to be seen. But I think there are some things that are good about our guys that could eventually be a very good defensive team. Q. There seem to be a lot of guys getting steals and creating havoc on defense? BILL SELF: Yeah, not as many as we should, but I didn't think we did anything the second half to do that, but the first half we created some havoc. They're hard to pressure because they run five-man motion and they always have a pressure release. One of their big guys is always a pressure release. That's a hard team to try to steal against. But I did think we did a good job in the first half of creating some havoc. Q. Washburn head coach Bob Chipman thought he saw more effort, a little tougher pressure. Do you see that they can show you a little more even if it's not completely what you want them to do, that they have a lot of want-to? BILL SELF: Yeah, the first half especially. (The) Second half was such a fragmented game. I think we were in the double bonus with 16 (minutes) left and they were in the double bonus with probably 10 left. I know with 12 minutes left and when they had the under-12 timeout, both teams had already committed 18 fouls the second half, so it was fragmented the second half. I thought that we played pretty tough the first half. But our big guys didn't rebound. Perry (Ellis) gets one rebound in 20 minutes, and Frank (Mason III) was our leading defensive rebounder the first half. Those aren't good things. Those are things we've got to get better at. Q. At one time you had five guys over 6'5″ on the floor. How did that change the total offense? BILL SELF: Well, it wasn't very good when we did it. We played Wayne (Selden, Jr.) at the point on a couple of different times, and of course when we play him at the point we're going to be 6'5″ will be the smallest guy we have. But Wayne is not really used to doing that a lot, and up until this past week we didn't really anticipate a lot of situations where we'd do it a ton. I probably anticipated more situations where we'd play him at the 4 than we would at the 1, but now I see a lot of situations we'll have to play him at the 1, at least for spot duty, so we need to get better at that. Q. What factors played into your decision on who to play tonight? BILL SELF: There were no factors. I was going to start all returning guys and then Brannen (Greene) was going to start. He didn't do anything bad, so this is not a big deal, but I wanted him to play a little bit better defense yesterday, and we really probably didn't get that done, so I started Devonte' (Graham). I don't know how it will go moving forward. Brannen has had a good last week, really good, and I think Svi (Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk) obviously is going to be a really good player when he figures it out. Kelly (Oubre, Jr.) has got to figure some things out, but he's got a lot of talent. But right now I would probably feel most comfortable with Devonte' and Frank and Wayne and maybe even Brannen from a standpoint of knowing what we're trying to do. Those newcomers got to pick some stuff up and kind of understand what we're trying to do. But they did fine tonight. Q. What did you think of Cliff Alexander's line for his first game? BILL SELF: Cliff had a good line. But the whole thing is we've got a huge size advantage. We shoot 15 out of 33 shots the first half, I think, for threes, so that was not very smart at all. We just clipped off shots. We've got to learn to play through our bigs more. Q. Is Brannen Greene okay? BILL SELF: He got a concussion. I don't want to say he's okay or not okay, because I think we'll definitely take the very cautious approach of when he can come back, and I don't know when that will be yet. I certainly don't anticipate him being back in the next couple of days, but I don't know what that means moving forward. Q. Washburn head coach Bob Chipman talked about you talking to their team yesterday. What was the message? And when somebody does that, how much does that help prepare a D-II team? BILL SELF: Well, I think that obviously their schedule is hard, and — I didn't know, did (Kyle) Wiggins get hurt? He tweaked his ankle? He didn't play him, I don't think, after he tweaked it the second half. They play the best exhibition schedule in the country, you know. Their RPI strength of schedule would definitely be No. 1 of all Division II teams in the country. All I did was just talk about playing together and liking each other and the little things it takes to win. If you really want to win, there are some sacrifices that have to be made. But I think the message was certainly one that Chip has already told them many times. Q. With guys like Svi and Kelly, are there things they're still figuring out? BILL SELF: Like how to play? How to play, how to make easy plays. One thing about it, guys, a lot of times, want to have the ball in their hands, and we would rather them not to have the ball in their hands. Guys hang on to it too long. They're looking to make a scoring play pass rather than just get the ball moving; (the) ball is sticking a little bit. Kelly could be a great defender and a great rebounder and Svi could be a great ball mover and obviously a really, really, really good shooter. I just don't think we played to our strengths near as much as we should. Q. It was a tough night from the free-throw line. Was that just first-game nerves? BILL SELF: Yeah, I'm going to attribute it to lack of practice and first-game nerves for sure. We were awful from the line. We could have scored quite a few points if we'd have made our free throws. That's on me. We've got to spend more time and work on it and drill it. You know, when you've got so much to get in, a lot of times that's one of the things that you probably sacrifice a little bit. But guys have got to get in the gym on their own and work on some things, because we may not have a great free-throw shooting team, but certainly, we have the potential to have some really, really, really good free-throw shooters. Obviously, we're not going to be a team that shoots 50 percent that often. Q. I know this was smaller competition, but with Cliff's rebounding ability, is that something that is already there? BILL SELF: Yeah, but he goes after the ball pretty good and he's becoming a better outlet passer and doing some good things that way. I'm getting the confidence in him to have him in there because he tries so hard. But if I was going to say who our two best rebounders are for certain, our two best rebounders are Landen and Cliff, and that doesn't bode well for Mari (Jamari Traylor) and Perry. They've got to get where they're as good of rebounders as those guys. When the ball is on the glass as a defensive rebounder, I think I probably have as much confidence in those two guys going after it as any of them. Now, on the other end, Jamari is by far our best offensive rebounder, but I really want those two guys to attack the ball a lot better. I thought we played kind of soft tonight in that area. Q. Were you pleased with the effort of the freshmen tonight? BILL SELF: Effort? Yeah, I was pleased with everybody's effort. (We) Didn't play great, but I was certainly pleased with everybody's effort. They (Washburn) scored 13 points the first half and that's pretty good. They're a hard team to pressure because of their motion. I thought that we looked pretty good defensively at times the first half, too. Second half I didn't (think so), but first half I did. Q. Were you surprised Cliff only had one foul? You said you were concerned about him staying out of foul trouble. BILL SELF: One thing (was that), Chip didn't throw it inside very much tonight, so yeah, I am surprised at that. I was shocked in the first half; did they get to the bonus in the first half? I don't know that they got to the bonus the first half, and so that was a pleasant surprise to me that they didn't do that. Q. You were really aggressive tonight, got going early. Did it feel good? CLIFF ALEXANDER: Yeah. I felt good going into the game. Coach told me to come out and play my hardest, and that's what I did. Q. Frank, can you tell the difference in the way this team plays defense compared to last year? FRANK MASON III: Right now I'd say it's kind of too early, but I can say this year's defensive team, we try a little harder than last year. That's what I think. Q. Frank, what did you think about Cliff tonight? FRANK MASON III: Cliff was great the first half. He got in, got offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds and he even scored inside. He was a big plus tonight. Q. Cliff, did you have any nerves at all? CLIFF ALEXANDER: Yeah, I had the butterflies going into the game. I loosened up when the game started. Q. How bad were the nerves out there? CLIFF ALEXANDER: They weren't that bad. I dealt with it pretty good and just tried to keep my mind off it. Q. Coach joked about you fouling a lot in practice. How did you stay away from that? CLIFF ALEXANDER: Just by walling up, playing great defense in the post and moving my feet. Q. Devonte', any nerves for you? DEVONTE' GRAHAM: Any nerves? Of course, I was a little nervous before the game, but going out, warming up, it all went away quick. Q. Coach talked about how there's a lot of room to grow. Do you feel like you're kind of scratching the surface? CLIFF ALEXANDER: It hasn't even started yet. I think by the end of the season, I could potentially reach my peak. Q. What do you think that peak could be? CLIFF ALEXANDER: Better post moves, getting stronger and a consistent jump shot. Q. Frank, do you think it's a little more want-to in the defense that we're seeing with this group? FRANK MASON III: Yeah, I would say so because that's something coach emphasizes every day at practice because we're young. Obviously, the game is faster at the college level. He just emphasized that a lot with the young guys and with the returning players. That's something we try to take pride in and do a better job of. Q. Did you sense from last year that the defense needed to take a step up team-wise? FRANK MASON III: I would say so because I didn't think we were great last year on the defensive end. We had Joel (Embiid) inside that protected the rim and kind of made us look a little better on the defensive end, but we don't have that size this year, so guys have to keep their man in front of them and play great team defense. Q. Devonte', where do you feel like you guys are right now as a freshman class? DEVONTE' GRAHAM: I don't think we're where we are capable of being, but we're young, so we've got to grow and go through the freshmen pains and just keep our heads up. Coach (Self) is going to get on us. He expects us to make mistakes and just keep playing and go to the next play. Q. Coach talked about playing multiple ball handlers. When you're out there with Frank, is it just whoever gets the ball can push or how have you guys developed together as a combination? DEVONTE' GRAHAM: We try to play fast, so it's get the rebound and whoever they outlet it to we're pushing and trying to get transition buckets. Q. Frank, how do you think the team ran the fast break tonight? FRANK MASON III: I think we're pretty solid. We could have been better. We pitched the ball ahead a little bit, but we could have done a better job. Q. The block where they called the foul on you, do you think you were pretty aggressive on that play? CLIFF ALEXANDER: Yeah, I think it was a clean block. POSTGAME QUOTES WASHBURN Q: Opening Statement BOB CHIPMAN: I told Coach Self, I said, I hope we gave you just enough to break a sweat there. I mean, they were so dominant. Wow, were they good. The offense, they moved the ball so well and the spacing is unbelievable. Of course the big kids, you saw it in there, looked unstoppable. We looked helpless there at times. We tried to guard them man, wanted to stay with the man as much as we could, but I don't know if zone would have mattered. They shot it well, they moved it ball. They've got a great group, and they're so big and strong, and they play so well together. Coach does such a great job. We just appreciate the opportunity. The second half, we got into the mix a little bit. I thought we played a little bit better, but boy, early when we did get a shot up and missed it, I don't know, they had seven or eight blocks and that really, really got us going. I think we had five field goals, one assist the first half, and we're not that bad. I mean, their defense was incredible, working really hard there. Coach Self deserves a lot of credit. They just took us out of everything we wanted to do. I mean, they were amazing. Looks like another fun year for Kansas basketball to me. Wow. They looked good to me. Q. What did you see from Korey Fisher? BOB CHIPMAN: My Korey? Korey is not afraid. I mean, Korey can score. He did it against Oklahoma last year when we played them. He's an offensive machine. He's not afraid to shoot it. You know, we're pretty new at the guard spot and some of our first-game guards there, Turon (Parker), Algie (Kelly), looked like they had first game jitters and, of course, KU's defense had a lot to do with it, but Korey had to be our leading scorer. I haven't looked at the stats yet. Kind of afraid to look at the stats. Q. When you see all that depth, what's that like to see that kind of depth that they have? BOB CHIPMAN: Oh, it's incredible. It looked machine-like already, the way they moved the ball and their spacing. Coach has done an incredible job with them, as it seems like he always does. But the thing I liked about them is all the new guys and the returners, I mean, they're so unselfish. Just happy to move the ball and get somebody a better shot. They seem to have the strength, the unselfishness, and the thing that I saw this year from them that maybe I didn't see a couple years ago is defensively. I mean, they were just playing so hard. I think the depth is what you talked about, that allows you to play at that special level on defense and just keep throwing guys in there and keep guys fresh. Very impressive. I want to thank Coach Self. He came out last night when we were shooting around and talked to our team, did a great job talking to our guys. It didn't look like it today, but I guarantee you it's going to be worth five victories for us, Coach Self coming out and talking to our group. He spent about 15 minutes. What an incredible guy. Just appreciate the Jayhawks, wish we could have given them a little bit better run the first half, but that's basketball. They did that to us. Q. How much of this game do you take into Norman, Oklahoma? BOB CHIPMAN: A couple guards, sprained ankle, an Achilles, and we're just trying to play at a high level with them. The injury thing is the only thing that really scares you. We'll take bits and pieces from that. I mean, they really abused us that first half, but I think we'll concentrate more in the second half when we're in the fight. You always want to take bits and pieces and build on that, hey, what did we do well that second half, this is what we've got to do. We'll just kind of watch the second half, get ready for Norman. I think it's going to be more of the same. I think Oklahoma, I don't know if they're this deep, but Oklahoma is going to be really good this year and, of course, K-State on Sunday. Great opportunity for us to really give guys an opportunity out there and try and come together as a group. Q. Korey, what's the game plan when you come into a situation like this? KOREY FISHER: I just say play harder. I mean, KU is a great team. Bill Self has a great team. He always does. And for guys that are small in stature I guess you could say, we just have to play tougher. First half kind of got out of hand, but I thought we played really hard second half, and we've just got to build from that. Q. Jeremy, can you talk about what it's like to go up against Alexander inside? JEREMY LICKTEIG: Mean, those are big guys. I tried to give him a pump fake once and he semi-shot out to the stands. It's always good to play against those guys. They've obviously got a lot of skill along with a lot of talent. But it's good preparation for us because we're used to playing against each other, beating on each other and we're going right into the belly of the beast playing one of the best teams in the nation. It hurts a little bit now and we definitely know what our weaknesses are, but this will give us a little bit of insight into the best preparation we can get. Q. You guys play a Big 12 schedule almost; what's that experience like? What's that do for you? KOREY FISHER: Well, it lets us really see where we are as far as us going into our season, just to see where we are. JEREMY LICKTEIG: I'll just add on Korey; I mean, we're going to have three tough games, obviously KU, Oklahoma and K-State, two top 25 teams. K-State arguably could be up there, yeah, and then after that it's more of a way to gauge ourselves. If we get deep in a hole like that we can't go away from each other. We've got to stick as a team. I think that's the biggest thing you can say is stay together as a team. Q. Obviously you have history here. How much does that play into it when you're out there or how much does it play into it right now? KOREY FISHER: Well, you want to go out and do good, of course win the game. Those guys are big. It was tough, but we just wanted to get out and just wanted to get out and at least play hard. JEREMY LICKTEIG: When you're in the moment, you can't let it get to you. I played against Terry in high school. You play against good talent in AAU, so when you're in the moment of the game you can't get caught up, but now looking back it's a good experience, but it's really important to just take it as a normal basketball game and get those struggles out of the way. Q. What do you think you'll remember the most about this whole experience? KOREY FISHER: I'd definitely say it's just the atmosphere. As a native Kansan, you always watch KU on TV, but you don't really grasp what it's like until you get on the court and notice like — it might not be the biggest stadium, but as far as I can tell it's probably one of the loudest. FastScripts by ASAP Sports

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African Americans feel a sense of solidarity with continental Africans, but it was during World War II that this solidarity was extended to all people of color. Black newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier, The Crisis and the Chicago Defender played a key role in informing African Americans about the struggles of colonized countries in Africa and Asia. These accounts, by writers such as Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson and William Scott, linked the anti-colonial struggles in Ethiopia, Nigeria and India with the anti-racist struggles of blacks in America. Thus, these writers demonstrated the universalism of their goals and gained greater leverage in their own struggle for civil rights. [Read More: Addressing South Asian Anti-Blackness: The Attacks on Africans in India] One of the greatest proponents of solidarity between people of color was W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), an African American civil rights activist, writer, historian and professor. He was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and also served as the editor of the NAACP's main journal, The Crisis. Upon India's independence in 1947, he is quoted by authors Bill Mullen and Cathryn Watson in their 2005 book, "WEB Du Bois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line" to have said: "The fifteenth of August deserves to be remembered as the greatest historical date of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is saying a great deal, when we remember that in the nineteenth century, Napoleon was overthrown, democracy established in England, Negro slaves emancipated in the United States, the German Empire founded, the partition of Africa determined upon, the Russian Revolution carried through, and two world wars fought. Nevertheless, it is true that the fifteenth of August marks an event of even greater significance than any of these; for on that date four hundred million colored folk of Asia were loosed …" Du Bois also befriended Indian nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai during the latter's five-year stay in the U.S. during World War I. They became close, collaborating on issues related to Indian Independence as well as American civil rights. Du Bois gave Lajpat Rai an introductory letter which enabled him to meet with Booker T. Washington and tour Tuskegee University in Alabama. Even upon his return to India, Lala Lajpat Rai remained Du Bois' main contact and source for matters related to India. Du Bois wrote frequently about him in The Crisis, viewing Rai as his main source for Indian events and news. Many years later, even after Rai's death, Du Bois said of him, "Lajpat Rai understood and wrote about the Negro problem in America." The very first African Americans to meet Gandhi were the Thurman – Howard and his wife Sue Bailey. They were key members of an African American delegation to India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar in 1935-36 called the "Pilgrimage of Friendship." The delegation was organized by the Student Christian Movement of India. Accompanying them on that trip were Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Carroll. It was upon meeting Thurman that Gandhi famously remarked, "It may be through African-Americans that the unadulterated message of nonviolence will be delivered to the world." [Howard Thurman and his wife Sue Bailey Thurman in India in 1936. Courtesy: Public Domain] Thurman's meeting with Gandhi in 1936 was pivotal. He learned about the principles of Ahimsa and continued to use and reflect on them throughout his life. He, in turn, influenced many African Americans in their struggle for civil rights. Benjamin Mays, a mentor to King also spent time with Gandhi. He went on to become the President of Morehouse College, the all male, black college in Atlanta which King attended. James Lawson, an activist who, lectured and taught the methods and techniques of nonviolent struggle to civil rights activists spent three years in India, studying Gandhian methods. Other African-American luminaries who came to India include Mordecai Johnson who became the President of Howard University and Bayard Rustin, the famous leader of social movements in civil rights, gay rights and pacifism. In his book, "Raising Up a Prophet: The African American Encounter with Gandhi," author Sudershan Kapur remarked, "Long before the rise of Martin Luther King Jr., a growing number of African Americans not only grasped the relevance of the doctrine of non-violence to their own situation in this country, but also sought to experiment with its uses. Thus, the soil which had been prepared and nurtured for a generation and more by some of the key African-Americans was ready not only to receive the seed of non-violence but also to bear fruit as never before". In the excerpt below, taken from his essay. "What we may learn from India," Thurman describes his meeting with Gandhi: We arrived at the nearest railway station to Bardoli at three o'clock in the morning and were met by Mr. Gandhi's secretary. He took us to a bungalow tent in a large mango grove to rest until daylight. While the other members of our party slept, the secretary and I talked about many things until it was time for breakfast. After breakfast, we left for our rendezvous in a model T Ford. In a matter of two or three hours we came to a large clearing, somewhat like an open field, in which there was pitched a tent before which was a flag pole flying the banner of the Indian National Congress. As the car approached, Mr. Gandhi himself came through the door of the tent to give us a personal greeting. We were escorted into the tent and seated ourselves on the floor and our conversation began. (….) More than three-fourths of the time was taken by Mr. Gandhi asking many, many questions about Negro life in America, about human slavery and about the mental and spiritual state of the American Negro. He wanted to know about illiteracy in the various sections of the country, about how the laws operated in terms of civil rights, about education, the extent to which schools were separate and of what calibre they were. He was concerned about employment and living conditions, about the various forms of violence to which we were subjected. He was quite curious to what extent the American Negro had any communication with the native peoples of the great continent of Africa, how sympathetic we were to them in their struggle and to what extent did their students come to America to study and how they were treated. [Duke Ellington at Cafe Naaz, Malabar Hill, Mumbai, India Courtesy: US Embassy, New Delhi] Also relatively unknown is the huge influence of jazz on Bollywood, India's film industry. The cultural influences on Bollywood are not confined to Indian ones; they include elements of international popular culture as well. One such influence has been jazz which, of course, has its origins in African American communities. Starting in the 1930s, Bollywood dance numbers were replete with jazz influences brought to India by African American musicians like Leon Abbey, Teddy Weatherford and William "Crickett" Smith. [Read More: The Travel Ban Isn't New: America's History of Restrictive Immigrant Legislation – Part I] These influences were further integrated into Hindi cinema by Goan Indian musicians such as Frank Fernand, Anthony Gonsalves, Chic Chocolate and Sebastian D'Souza. In 1963, Duke Ellington, traveled to several countries, including India, as a cultural ambassador for the State Department. He toured many Indian cities and his popular album the "Far East Suite" was inspired by his travels there. There remain many cultural exchanges between Indians and African Americans. Among the many African Americans who sojourn to India regularly are Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr's children, Alice Coltrane (musician wife of saxophonist John Coltrane and founder of a Vedantic Center in California), Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee and Tina Turner. Through this continued outreach, African Americans continue to pursue their dream of a global community of color. Shefali Chandan is an educator and editor of Jano, the online history magazine for Asian-Indian families. She has worked for two decades in children's media at organizations like Scholastic, Time Inc. and PBS Kids. Shefali has always been a history buff and now brings her extensive experience in education to craft high-quality content taken from stories in history for South Asians in America and elsewhere. Shefali lives in Reston, Virginia with her husband and daughter. She may be reached at [email protected]. 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Places in London You Never Knew Existed 15 Nov 2019 — The Full Tour London is home to famous parks, cathedrals and monuments. But once you've seen the bucket list toppers, check out the city's secret spots that many locals don't even know. Here are six hidden gems you probably didn't know existed… Unusual Places In London: Postman's Park, City of London Hidden in the City of London is Postman's Park, a patch of green surrounded by a sea of skyscrapers and London's oldest relics. The old lunchtime hangout of workers from the nearby former General Post Office, Postman's Park has now been adopted by the bankers, lawyers and tourists looking for London's quirky, off-the-map- hidden gems. No ordinary playground, Postman's Park is home an open-air gallery of memorials, dedicated to the capital's unsung heroes. Called The Watts Memorial, it was built by Victorian painter and philanthropist, GF Watts, who wanted to commemorate the ordinary men and women who had lost their lives in carrying out good deeds. Examples of memorials include that of Thomas Griffin, a labourer, who was fatally scolded at an explosion in a sugar refinery after he returned to the building in search for his mate. Another is dedicated to a Mary Rogers, who worked as a stewardess on a London passenger ferry, and who lost her life on the sinking ship after she voluntarily gave up her life belt for someone else. St Paul's is the closest underground station to Postman's Park, which is tucked behind the Museum of London. Unusual Places In London: The Embassy of the Republic of Texas, Westminster Did you know that the Republic of Texas has its very own embassy in London? It was located above the Berry Brothers & Rudd wine merchants in Westminster. Back before Texas joined the union, the Lone Star State behaved as it's very own sovereign country. It deployed a diplomatic mission for the then-President-of-Texas and Secretary of State to visit England and forge relations with the powers-that-be to secure its borders with the US and Mexico. When Texas joined the union in 1845, the embassy was shut down. However, if you visit Pickering Place today – the alley next to the merchants – you'll spot a plaque that reads ​"Texas Legation in this building was the legation for the ministers from the Republic of Texas to the Court of St. James 1842 — 1845." Green Park is the closest underground station, and you'll find the plaque behind St James's Palace. Unusual Places In London: The Crossbones Graveyard, Southwark You'll find Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, Amy Winehouse at Edgewarebury and notoriety at The Cross Bones Graveyard. Dubbed the ​'single women's cemetery', it was, quite literally, the post-medieval dumping ground of London's 14th Century prostitutes, shunned from traditional Christian church burials. Visitors can walk around the grisly graveyard, visit the unofficial memorial garden and look at the names along the red fence belonging to those who were laid to rest here. Borough is the closest station as the graveyard is located at the crossing between Union St and Redcross Way. Unusual Places In London: London's Roman Amphitheatre, City of London The City of London – home to the Gherkin, the Walkie-Talkie, The Shard…and London's Roman Amphitheatre. The crypt under Guildhall is home to London's one-and-only Roman Amphitheatre, where history buffs can step into the oldest part of London, just meters above the city's newest skyscrapers. Once a venue for animal fights, public killings and of course, gladiator combat games, it's now a playground for budding archaeologists who can – for free – join trained professionals in their handling of goods over 2,000 years old. The Roman Amphitheatre is located between Moorgate, St Paul's and Bank stations, next to the Bank of England Museum. Unusual Places In London: The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the- East, City of London The 900-year-old St. Dunstan-in-the-East is one of London's most charming spots. Bearing a war-wound from the Blitz, all that remains of St. Dunstan-in-the-East is the skeleton of a former church. While it might not sound exciting that the steeple once designed by Sir Christopher Wren – architect to the Palace of Westminster and St. Paul's Cathedral – has now been destroyed, the ruins now beautifully frame a quaint secret garden within the old interiors, right in the heart of the capital's financial sector. Monument is the nearest underground station as the church is located right next to St-Mary-At-Hill off Lower Thames St. Unusual Places In London: Gods Own Junkyard, Walthamstow An unassuming warehouse at first, this is a genuine cave of wonders if you're looking for a one-of-a-kind souvenir from The Old Smoke! Located in the suburbs of Walthamstow, magpies will find ​'God's Own Junkyard' a neon maze they'll want to get lost in. From signs to props and even figurines, this shop-cum-art-gallery-cum-kaleidoscope is perfect to explore on a rainy afternoon or a slow Sunday – just perhaps not if you're recovering from a hangover! Wood Street is the closest overground station to the Ravenswood Industrial Estate where you'll find this gallery. Photo courtesy: Duncan Holmes If you're interested in even more attractions off the beaten track, check out our other travel guides! 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T.B Joshua was a magician, a sorcerer who who pretended to be "Jesus Christ – Rev Chris Okotie (Video) by Kester E. August 10, 2021, 1:44 pm Preacher Chris Okotie accused the late founder of Synagogue Church of All Nation, SCOAN, Temitope Joshua, commonly known as TB Joshua, of being a shaman posing as a servant of God. It may be remembered that TB Joshua died on June 6 and was buried in the church grounds on July 7 at the request of his wife and other members of his family. His burial, which drew widespread media coverage, was avoided by Nigeria's top church general overseers, which was controversial on social media at the time. Shortly after her death, it may also be remembered that Reverend Chris Okotie described him as the "Wizard of Endor", who bore the title "Emmanuel". In a new development, Okotie released a video alleging that the late Prophet was a false prophet, wizard, and magician posing as "Jesus Christ." », The savior of mankind. READ ALSO: BBNaija S6: Pere Has Big Body, He Is My kind Of Guy – Queen He said in the video, "What is the truth about TB Joshua? Who was he? Was he a product of Christianity? Or a practitioner of shamanism? Was he a servant of the Lord Jesus? Or some itinerant religious quack?" Okotie asked. "Was he a true prophet, who was misunderstood? Or a hypocrite masquerading under the habiliment of the Faith? "When God begins a work in scripture, particularly from the old testament, he begins with patterns, what we call types, shadows". "You say why because the patterns determine the flow of power and authenticity of that enterprise. He is a magician, a sorcerer, and calls himself a prophet." Quoting the Bible verse John 8:32, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free", Okotie added, "Joshua took that name because he believes he is another Jesus. He believes that God sent him to our world to bring reconciliation between God and mankind, exactly the same way the Lord Jesus was sent, and that is why he took that name Joshua," he said. He further alleged that T.B Joshua was helping the needy and doing philanthropic work just so he could be like Jesus. Watch the full video below: Previous article BBNaija S6: Pere Has Big Body, He Is My kind Of Guy – Queen Next article Young Nigerian Lady Celebrates With Wine And Music After Seeing Her Period (Video) TB Joshua Burial: Photos Of TB Joshua Lying-in-state Police give details on how Prophet TB Joshua died in his apartment I want you to help me pray for my YouTube – TB Joshua beseeches TB Joshua's TV suspended on YouTube in CELEBRITY, ENTERTAINMENT in GIST, VIRAL BBNaija S6: Pere Has Big Body, He Is My kind Of Guy – Queen Young Nigerian Lady Celebrates With Wine And Music After Seeing Her Period (Video)

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United Methodist Church upholds position against homosexuality, same-sex marriage by Michael Gryboski | 27 February, 2019 (United Methodist News Service/Kathleen Barry)View of the stage during the United Methodist Church's special session General Conference inside the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. The United Methodist Church will maintain its official position that homosexuality is contrary to Christian teaching, in a decision following days of contentious debate over the issue. For the past several years, the UMC has been embroiled in an emotional debate over whether to change its stance, as outlined in its Book of Discipline, labeling homosexuality "incompatible with Christian teaching." Delegates at the UMC special session of General Conference, representing all of the global denomination, voted Tuesday to reject a measure called the "One Church Plan," which would have allowed regional bodies of the denomination to determine their position on homosexuality. Instead, delegates approved the "Traditional Plan" in a vote of 438-384. The Plan maintains the denomination's stance against homosexuality, gay marriage, and the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals while promising to better enforce those rules. Mark Tooley, president of the theologically conservative Institute on Religion & Democracy in Washington, D.C., celebrated the vote result against the "One Church Plan" on Twitter. "African, Filipino, Euro delegates crucial. They saved growing global church from plight of imploding USA Mainline Protestants. Thank you!" tweeted Tooley. At the 2016 General Conference, delegates passed a recommendation creating a "Commission on a Way Forward," which was meant to analyze the denomination's position on LGBT issues. Made up of a theologically diverse group of UMC leaders, the commission sought to create suggested proposals aimed at ending the divisive debate and possibly avoid a schism. In April 2017, the UMC Council of Bishops announced that there was going to be a special session of General Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, on Feb. 23–26. "The purpose of this special session of the General Conference shall be limited to receiving and acting upon a report from the Council of Bishops based on the recommendations of the Commission on a Way Forward," explained the Bishops in an official letter. The two major plans that the commission recommended that were among those considered by the UMC delegates were the "One Church Plan" and the "Traditional Plan." The One Church Plan would allow regional bodies and congregations to determine their own stance on homosexuality. This plan was supported by a majority of the Council of Bishops. The Traditional Plan would maintain the UMC's position against homosexuality, while offering stricter enforcement and possibly a "gracious exit" for pro-LGBT congregations. During the special session, while the delegates voted Monday to advance the Traditional Plan to a plenary vote, the One Church Plan and a pro-LGBT "Simple Plan" were both voted down. The One Church Plan was still submitted in a minority report. On Tuesday, delegates voted to reject substituting the minority report in a vote of 374 in favor to 449 against, effectively killing the One Church Plan. Read more from "United Methodist Church upholds position against homosexuality, same-sex marriage" on The Christian Post.

Sophomore Kealen Washington-Ives contributed four points in the win against Wagner on Nov. 26. Home/Sports/Rider stays above .500 with road split Rider stays above .500 with road split By Brandon Scalea The men's basketball team maintained its winning record, after splitting its stretch of four road games from Nov. 16-26. Rider (3-2) defeated Hartford to start the season 2-0 for the first time since 2009-10, before dropping two straight to South Florida and Fordham. The Broncs then snapped their losing streak with a come-from-behind win at Wagner. Sophomore guard Kealen Washington-Ives said the team is happy with the record, but knows it could easily be better. "I feel like we're playing all right right now," he said. "We could realistically be 5-0, but we didn't play the way we are capable of playing each night. We have yet to play our best basketball." On Nov. 16, Rider traveled to Hartford, a team it beat in double overtime last year in Alumni Gym. This time around, the Broncs didn't need late heroics to knock off the Hawks, as they cruised to an 84-68 win. Senior forward Kahlil Thomas posted his first double-double of the season with a dominant performance, scoring 20 points and grabbing 13 rebounds. Senior forward Xavier Lundy added 19 points, shooting 8 of 13 from the field. Freshman guard Dimencio Vaughn had a breakout night, sinking 6 out of 9 shots off the bench for 15 points. He also added a game-high four steals. The game was tight in the first half, before the Broncs pulled away late. In the opening minutes, both teams exchanged buckets. There were 10 lead changes before Rider went on a 9-1 run to make it 28-20. Hartford then recorded the next seven points to close the gap to 28-27. However, the Broncs led 41-35 at halftime. Rider never relinquished the six-point lead, as that would be the closest Hartford would get for the rest of the game. Three nights later, the Broncs headed down to Tampa for a test against American-Conference powerhouse, South Florida (USF). Despite a three-point lead at halftime and leading as much as eight in the second half, the Broncs fell just short to the Bulls, 70-65. A total of 10 turnovers and a meager two assists in the second half hurt Rider. Senior forward Xavier Lundy had another big night for the Broncs, shooting 50 percent from the field for 16 points. He just missed a double-double, posting nine rebounds. The home team was able to build a lead as much as five, but the Broncs closed the first half on a 12-4 run to take a 37-34 lead. Early in the second, USF came back to take a pair of one-point leads, threatening to pull away. But Rider turned the small deficit into its largest lead of the game, 53-45, with just over 11 minutes left. After the Rider lead became 60-55, the Bulls went on an 8-0 run to take the lead, and they never looked back, outscoring the Broncs 15-5 the rest of the way. Ives said the Broncs should have won the game. "We didn't execute down the stretch," he said. "We didn't get the stops that we needed to seal the win. It was a learning experience for us, though." Against Fordham on Nov. 23, a rough first half put Rider in a hole. The team shot only 40 percent in the first frame, to Fordham's 45 percent. After the game was tied 3-3 early on, the Rams went on a 21-4 run to take a commanding 24-7 lead midway through the first. The Broncs were never quite able to recover. In the second, Rider gave Fordham a run, closing the gap to just four at one point. But every time the Broncs threatened, the Rams hit a big bucket to pull away again. In the loss, Thomas recorded his second double-double of the season with 21 points and 14 rebounds. On Nov. 26, Rider got back on track with a comeback win over Wagner.The same Seahawks team also defeated the Broncs on a buzzer-beating put-back-dunk last season at Alumni Gym — a play that was featured on SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays. In the contest, a trio of freshmen led the way for the Broncs and was key in the second-half surge that resulted in the win. Vaughn, guard Stevie Jordan and forward Tyere Marshall all had double-digit points. Vaughn had a game-high 13 points. Rider trailed by as much as nine several times throughout the game. With 5:39 left in the second half, Jordan hit a jumper to give the Broncs their first lead, 57-56. The shot came in the midst of a 14-2 Rider run. The Broncs held onto that lead, and led by as much as five. After five games on the road, Rider will finally play its home opener at 7 p.m. on Dec. 1, when Fairfield (5-1) comes to town. Washington-Ives said the team is excited to play at Alumni Gym, but knows it will be a challenge. "We will have a huge crowd there and we are looking for our first conference win," he said. "But we know they're a good team. If we play disciplined, while also being the aggressor early, we should win." Community and the holiday spirit join together Author shares success of novel with reading classes

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (DNB12) ←Swayne, Joseph Griffiths Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement Swinburne, Algernon Charles by Edmund Gosse Syme, David→ 1562247Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement Swinburne, Algernon CharlesEdmund Gosse1912 ​SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES (1837–1909), poet, born in Chester Street, Grosvenor Place, London, on 5 April 1837, was eldest child of Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne (1797-1877), by his wife Lady Jane Henrietta (1809-1896), daughter of George Ashburnham, third earl of Ashburnham. His father was second son of Sir John Edward Swinburne (1762–1860), sixth baronet of Capheaton, in Northumberland. This baronet, who exercised a strong influence over his grandson, the poet, had been born and brought up in France, and cultivated the memory of Mirabeau. In habits, dress, and modes of thought he was like a French nobleman ,of the ancien regime. From his father, a cut and dried unimaginative old 'salt,' the poet inherited little but a certain identity of colour and expression; his features and something of his mental character were his mothers. Lady Jane was a woman of exquisite accomplishment, and widely read in foreign literature. From his earliest years Algernon was trained, by his grandfather and by his mother, in the French and Italian languages. He was brought up, with the exception of long visits to Northumberland, in the Isle of Wight, his grandparents residing at The Orchard, Niton, Ventnor, and his parents at East Dene, Bonchurch. He had been born all but dead and was not expected to live an hour; but though he was always nervous and slight, his childhood, spent mainly in the open air, was active and healthy. His parents were high-church and he was brought up as 'a quasi-catholic' He recollected in after years the enthusiasm with which he welcomed the process of confirmation, and his 'ecstasies of adoration when receiving the Sacrament.' He early developed a love for climbing, riding, and swimming, and never cared, through life, for any other sports. His father, the admiral, taught him to plunge in the sea when he was still almost an infant, and he was always a fearless and, in relation to his physique, a powerful swimmer. 'He could swim and walk for ever' (Lord Redesdale). He was prepared for Eton by Collingwood Forster Fenwick, rector of Brook, near Newport, Isle of Wight, who expressed his surprise at finding the child so deeply ​read in certain directions; Algernon having, from a very early age, been 'privileged to have a book at meals ' (Mrs. Disney Leith). He came to Eton at Easter 1849, arriving, 'a queer little elf, who carried about with him a Bowdlerised Shakespeare, adorned with a blue silk book-marker, with a Tunbridge-ware button at the end of it' (Lord Redesdale). This volume had been given to him by his mother when he was six years of age. Up to the time of his going to Eton he had never been allowed to read a novel, but he immediately plunged into the study of Dickens, as well as of Shakespeare (released from Bowdler), of the old dramatists, of every species of lyrical poetry. The embargo being now raised, he soon began to read everything. It is difficult to say what, by the time he left Eton, 'Swinburne did not know, and, what is more, appreciate, of English literature' (Sir George Young). He devoured even that dull gradus the 'Poetæ Græci,' a book which he long afterwards said 'had played a large part in fostering the love of poetry in his mind' (A. G. C. Liddell). In 1850 his mother gave him Dyce's Marlowe, and he soon knew Ford and Webster. He began, before he was fourteen, to collect rare editions of the dramatists. Any day he could be found in a bay-window of the college library, the sunlight in his hair, and his legs always crossed tailor-wise, with a folio as big as himself spread open upon his knees. The librarian, 'Grub' Brown, used to point him out, thus, to strangers as one of the curiosities of Eton. He boarded at Joynes's, who was his tutor; Hawtrey was headmaster. It has been falsely said that Swinburne was bullied at Eton. On the contrary, there was 'something a little formidable about him' (Sir George Young), considerable tact (Lord Redesdale), and a great, even audacious, courage, which kept other boys at a distance. He did not dislike Eton, but he cultivated few friendships; he did not desire school-honours, he never attempted any game or athletics, and he was looked upon as odd and inaccountable, and so left alone to his omnivorous reading. He was a kind of fairy, a privileged creature. Lord Redesdale recalls his taking 'long walks in Windsor Forest, always with a single friend, Swinburne dancing as he went, and reciting from his inexhaustible memory the works which he had been studying in his favourite sunlighted window.' Sir Greorge Young has described him vividly: 'his hands and feet all going' while he talked; 'his little white face, and great aureole of hair, and green eyes,' the hair standing out in a bush of 'three different colours and textures, orange-red, dark red, and bright pure gold.' Charles Dickens, at Bonchurch in 1849, was struck with 'the golden-haired lad of the Swinburnes' whom his own boys used to play with, and when he went to congratulate the poet on 'Atalanta' in 1865, he reminded him of this earlier meeting. In 1851 Algernon 'passed' in swimming, and at this time, in the holidays, caused some anxiety by his recklessness in riding and climbing; he swarmed up the Culver Cliff, hitherto held to be impregnable: a feat of which he was proud to the end of his life. Immediately on his arrival at Eton he had attacked the poetry of Wordsworth. In September 1849 he was taken by his parents to visit that poet in the Lakes; Wordsworth, who was very gracious, said in parting that he did not think that Algernon 'would forget' him, whereupon the little boy burst into tears (Miss Sewell's Autobiography). Earlier in the same year Lady Jane had taken her son to visit Rogers in London; and on this old man also the child made a strong impression. Rogers laid his hand on Algernon's head in parting, and said 'I think that you will be a poet, too!' He was, in fact, now writing verses, some of which his mother sent to 'Fraser's Magazine,' where they appeared, with his initials, in 1849 and again in 1851; but of this 'false start' he was afterwards not pleased to be reminded. It is interesting that at the age of fourteen many of his lifelong partialities and prejudices were formed; in the course of 1851 we find him immersed in Landor, Shelley and Keats, in the 'Orlando Furioso,' and in the tragedies of Corneille, and valuing them as he did throughout his life; while, on the other hand, already hating Euripides, insensible to Horace, and injurious to Racine. In the catholicity of his poetic taste there was one odd exception: he had promised his mother, whom he adored, not to read Byron, and in fact did not open that poet till he went to Oxford. In 1852, reading much French with Tarver, 'Notre Dame de Paris ' introduced him to Victor Hugo. He now won the second Prince Consort's prize for French and Italian, and in 1853 the first prizes for French and Italian. His Greek elegiacs were greatly admired. He was, however, making no real progress at school, and was chafing against the discipline; in the summer of 1853 he had trouble with Joynes, of a rebellious kind, and did not return to Eton, 'although nothing had ​ been said during the half about his leaving' (Sir G. Young). When he left he was within a few places of the headmaster's division. In 1854 there was some talk of his being trained for the army, which he greatly desired; but this was abandoned on account of the slightness and shortness of his figure. All his life he continued to regret the military profession. He was prepared for Oxford, in a desultory way, by John Wilkinson, perpetual curate of Cambo in Northumberland, who said that he 'was too clever and would never study.' He now spent a few weeks in Germany with his uncle. General the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham. On 24 Jan. 1856 Swinburne matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, and he kept terms regularly through the years 1856. 1857, and 1858. After the first year his high-church proclivities fell from him and he became a nihilist in religion and a republican. He had portraits of Mazzini in his rooms, and declaimed verses to them (Lord Sheffield); in the spring of 1857 he wrote an 'Ode to Mazzini,' not yet published, which is his earliest work of any maturity. In this year, while at Capheatop, he formed the friendship of Lady Trevelyan and Miss Capel Lofft, and was for the next four years a member of their cultivated circle at Wallington. Here Ruskin met him, and formed a very high opinion of his imaginative capacities. In the autumn Edwin Hatch [q.v.] introduced him to B. G. Rossetti, who was painting in the Union, and in December the earliest of Swinburne's contributions to 'Undergraduate Papers' appeared. To this time belong his friendships with John Nichol, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Spencer Stanhope. Early in 1858 he was writing his tragedy of 'Rosamond,' a poem on 'Tristram,' and planning a drama on 'The Albigenses.' In March 1858 Swinburne dined at Farringford with Tennyson, who thought him 'a very modest and intelligent young fellow' and read 'Maud' to him, urging upon him a special devotion to Virgil. In April the last of the 'Undergraduate Papers' appeared. In the Easter term Swinburne took a second in moderations, and won the Taylorian' scholarship for French and Italian. He now accompanied his parents to France for a long visit. The attempt of Orsini, in January 1858, to murder Napoleon III had found an enthusiastic admirer in Algernon, who decorated his rooms at Oxford with Orsini's portrait, and proved an embarrassing fellow-traveller in Paris to his parents. He kept the Lent and Easter terms of 1859 at Balliol, and when the Austrian war broke out in May, he spoke at the Union, 'reading excitedly but ineffectively a long tirade against Napoleon and in favour of Orsini and Mazzini' (Lord Sheffield). He began to be looked upon as 'dangerous,' and Jowett, who was much interested in him, expressed an extreme dread that the college might send him down and so 'make Balliol as ridiculous as University had made itself about Shelley.' At this time Swinburne had become what he continued to be for the rest of his life, a high tory republican. He cultivated few friends except those who immediately interested him poetically and politically. But he was a member of the club called the Old Mortality, in which he was associated with Nichol, Dicey, Luke (who was drowned in 1861), T. H. Green, Caird, and Pater, besides Mr. Bryce and Mr. Bywater. Jowett thought it well that Swinburne should leave Oxford for a while at the end of Easter term, 1859, and sent him to read modern history with William Stubbs [q. v. Suppl. II] at Navestock. Here Swinburne recited to his host and hostess a tragedy he had just completed (probably 'The Queen Mother'). In consequence of some strictures made by Stubbs, Swinburne destroyed the only draft of the play, but was able to write it all out again from memory. He was back at the university from 14 Oct. to 21 Nov., when he was principally occupied in writing a three-act comedy in verse in the manner of Fletcher, now lost; it was called 'Laugh and Lie Down.' He had lodgings in Broad Street, where the landlady made complaints of his late hours and general irregularities. Jowett was convinced that he was doing no good at Oxford, and he left without taking a degree. His father was greatly displeased with him, but Algernon withdrew to Capheaton, until, in the spring of 1860, he came to London, and took rooms near Russell Place to be close to the Burne-Joneses. He had now a very small allowance from his father, and gave up the idea of preparing for any profession. Capheaton was still his summer home, but when Sir John Swinburne died (26 Sept. 1860) Algernon went to the William Bell Scotts' in Newcastle for some time. His first book, 'The Queen Mother and Rosamond,' was published before Christmas; it fell dead from the press. When Algernon returned to London early in 1861 his friendship with D. G. Rossetti became intimate; for the next ten ​years they 'lived on terms of affectionate intimacy; shaped and coloured, on his side, by cordial kindness and exuberant generosity, on mine by gratitude as loyal and admiration as fervent as ever strove and ever failed to express all the sweet and sudden passion of youth towards greatness in its elder' (from an unpublished statement, written by Swinburne in 1882). This was by far the most notable experience in Swinburne's career. Rossetti developed, restrained, and guided, with marvellous skill, the genius of 'my little Northumbrian friend,' as he used to call him. Under his persuasion Swinburne was now writing some of his finest early lyrics, and was starting a cycle of prose tales, to be called 'The Triameron'; this was to consist of some twenty stories. Of these ' Dead Love ' alone was printed in his lifetime; but several others exist unpublished, the most interesting being 'The Marriage of Mona Lisa,' 'A Portrait,' and 'Queen Fredegonde.' In the summer of 1861 he was introduced to Monckton Milnes, who actively interested himself in Swinbume's career. Early in 1862 Henry Adams, the American writer, then acting as Monckton Milnes's secretary, met Swinburne at Fryston on an occasion which he has described in his privately printed diary. The company also included Stirling of Keir (afterwards Sir W. Stirling-Maxwell) and Laurence Oliphant, and all Milnes's guests made Swinburne's acquaintance for the first time. He reminded Adams of 'a tropical bird,' 'a crimson macaw among owls'; and it was on this occasion that Stirling, in a phrase often misquoted, likened him to 'the Devil entered into the Duke of Argyll.' All the party, though prepared by Milnes's report, were astounded at the flow, the volume and the character of the young man's conversation; 'Voltaire's seemed to approach nearest to the pattern'; 'in a long experience, before or after, no one ever approached it.' The men present were brilliant and accomplished, but they 'could not believe in Swinburne's incredible memory and knowledge of literature, classic, mediæval and modern, nor know what to make of his rhetorical recitation of his own unpublished lyrics, "Faustine," "The Four Boards of the Coffin Lid" [a poem published as "After Death "], "The Ballad of Burdens," which he declaimed as though they were books of the " Hiad." 'These parties at Fryston were probably the beginning of the social 'legend' of Swinburne, which preceded and encouraged the reception of his works a few years later. It was at Milnes's house that he met and formed an instant friendship with Richard Burton. The relationship which ensued was not altogether fortunate. Burton was a giant and an athlete, one of the few men who could fire an old-fashioned elephant-gun from his shoulder, and drink a bottle of brandy without feeling any effect from it. Swinburne, on the contrary, was a weakling. He tried to compete with the 'hero' in Dr. Johnson's sense, and he failed. He was being painted by Rossetti in February 1862 when the wife of the latter died so tragically; Swinburne gave evidence at the inquest (12 Feb.). In the spring of that year he joined his family in the Pyrenees, and saw the Lac de Gaube, in which he insisted on swimming, to the horror of the natives. He was now intimate with George Meredith, who printed, shortly before his death, an account of the overwhelming effect of FitzGerald's 'Rubaiyat' upon Swinburne, and the consequent composition of 'Laus Veneris,' probably in the spring of 1862. In this year Swinburne began to write, in prose as well as in verse, for the 'Spectator,' which printed ' Faustine' and six other important poems, and (6 Sept.) a very long essay on Baudelaire's 'Fleurs du Mal,' written ' in a Turkish bath in Paris.' A review of one of Victor Hugo's books, forwarded to the French poet, opened his personal relations with that chief of Swinburne's literary heroes. He now finished 'Chastelard,' on which he had long been engaged, and in October his prose story, 'Dead Love,' was printed in 'Once a Week' (this appeared in book form in 1864). Swinburne joined Meredith and the Rossettis (24 Oct. 1862) in the occupation of Tudor House, 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Rossetti believed that it would be good for Swinburne to be living in the household of friends who would look after him without seeming to control him, since life in London lodgings was proving rather disastrous. Swinburne's extremely nervous organisation laid him open to great dangers, and he was peculiarly unfitted for dissipation. Moreover, about this time he began to be afficted with what is considered to have been a form of epilepsy, which made it highly undesirable that he should be alone. In Paris, during a visit in March 1863, he had made the acquaintance of Whistler, whom he now introduced to Rossetti. Swinburne became intimate with Whistler's family, and after a fit in the summer of 1863 in the American painter's studio, ​ he was nursed through the subsequent illness by the mother of Whistler. On his convalescence he was persuaded, in October, to go down to his father's house at East Dene, near Bonchurch, where he remained for five months and entirely recovered his health and spirits. He brought with him the opening of 'Atalanta in Calydon,' which he completed at East Dene. For a story called ' The Children of the Chapel,' which was being written by his cousin, Mrs. Disney Leith, he wrote at the same time a morality, 'The Pilgrimage of Pleasure,' which appeared, without his name, in March 1864. From the Isle of Wight, at the close of February 1864, Swinburne went abroad for what was to remain the longest foreign tour in his life. He passed through Paris, where he saw Fantin-Latour, and proceeded to Hyeres, where Milnes had a villa, and so to Italy. From Rossetti he had received an introduction to Sejmaour Kirkup [q. v.], then the centre of a literary circle in Florence, and Milnes added letters to Landor and to Mrs. Gaskell. Swinburne found Landor in his house in Via della Chiesa, close to the church of the Carmine, on 31 March, and he visited the art-galleries of Florence in the company of Mrs. Gaskell. In a garden at Fiesole he wrote 'Itylus' and 'Dolores.' Before returning he made a tour through other parts of Italy. Two autumn months of this year (1864) were spent in Cornwall, at Tintagel (in company with Jowett), at Kynance Cove, and at St. Michael's Mount. On his return to London he went into lodgings at 22a Dorset Street, where he remained for several years. 'Atalanta in Calydon,' in a cream-coloured binding with mystical ornaments by D. G. Rossetti, was published by Edward Moxon [q. v.] in April 1865. At this time Smnburne, although now entering his twenty-ninth year, was entirely unknown outside a small and dazzled circle of friends, but the success of 'Atalanta' was instant and overwhelming. Ruskin welcomed it as 'the grandest thing ever done by a youth — though he is a Demoniac youth' (E. T. Cook's Life of Ruskin). In consequence of its popularity, the earlier tragedy of 'Chastelard' was now brought forward and published in December of the same year. This also was warmly received by the critics, but there were murmurs heard as to its supposed sensuality. This was the beginning of the outcry against Swinburne's literary morals, and even 'Atalanta' was now searched for evidences of atheism and indelicacy. He met, on the other hand, with many assurances of eager support, and in particular, in November 1865, he received a letter from a young Welsh squire, George E. J. Powell of Nant-Eos (1842-82), who soon became, and for several years remained, the most intimate of Swinburne's friends. The collection of lyrical poems, written during the last eight years, which was now almost ready, was felt by Swinburne's circle to be still more dangerous than anything which he had yet published ; early in 1866 (probably in January) the long ode called 'Laus Veneris' was printed in pamphlet form, as the author afterwards stated, 'more as an experiment to ascertain the public taste — and forbearance ! — than anything else. Moxon, I well remember, was terribly nervous in those days, and it was only the wishes of mutual good friends, coupled with his own liking for the ballads, that finally induced him to publish the book at all.' The text of this herald edition of 'Laus Veneris' differs in many points from that included in the volume of 'Poems and Ballads' which eventually appeared at the end of April 1866. The critics in the press denounced many of the pieces with a heat which did little credit to their judgment. Moxon shrank before the storm, and in July withdrew the volume from circulation. Another publisher was found in John Camden Hotten [q. v.], to whom Swinburne now transferred all his other books. There had been no such literary scandal since the days of 'Don Juan,' but an attempt at prosecution fell through, and Ruskin, who had been requested to expostulate with the young poet, indignantly replied 'He is infinitely above me in all knowledge and power, and I should no more think of advising or criticising him than of venturing to do it to Turner if he were alive again.' Swinburne now found himself the most talked-of man in England, but all this violent notoriety was unfortunate for him, morally and physically. He had a success of curiosity at the annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund (2 May 1866), where, Lord Houghton being in the chair, Swinburne delivered the only public speech of his life ; it was a short critical essay on 'The Imaginative Literature of England' committed to memory. In the autumn he spent some time with Powell at Aberystwyth. His name was constantly before the public in the latter part of 1866, when his portraits filled the London shop-windows and the newspapers outdid one another in legendary tales of his eccentricity. He ​ had published in the summer a selection from Byron, rith an introduction of extreme eulogy, and in October he answered his critics in 'Notes on Poems and Reviews' ; William Michael Rossetti also published a volume in defence. The winter was spent at Holmwood, near Henley-on-Thames, which his father bought in 1865, and where his family was now settled ; here in November he finished a large book on Blake, which had occupied him for some time, and in February 1867 completed 'A Song of Italy,' which was published in September. His friends now included Simeon Solomon [q. v. Suppl. II], whose genius he extolled in the 'Dark Blue' magazine (July 1871) and elsewhere. In April 1867, on a false report of the death of Charles Baudelaire (who survived until September of that year), Swinburne wrote 'Ave atque Vale.' This was a period of wild extravagance and of the least agreeable episodes of his life ; his excesses told upon his health, which had already suffered, and there were several recurrences of his malady. In June, while staying with Lord Houghton at Fryston, he had a fit which left him seriously ill. In August, to recuperate, he spent some time with Lord Lytton at Knebworth, where he made the acquaintance of John Forster. In November he published the pamphlet of political verse called 'An Appeal to England.' The Reform League invited him to stand for parliament ; Swinburne appealed to Mazzini, to whom he had been introduced, in March 1867, by Karl Blind [q.v. Suppl. II]. Mazzini strongly discouraged the idea, advising him to confine himself to the cause of Italian freedom, and he declined. Swinburne now became intimate with Adah Isaacs Menken [q. v.], who had left her fourth and last husband, James Barclay. It has often been repeated that the poems of this actress, published as 'Infelicia' early in 1868, were partly written by Swinburne, but this is not the case ; and the verses, printed in 1883, as addressed by him to Adah Menken, were not composed by him.' She went to Paris in the summer of 1868 and died there on 10 Aug. ; the shock to Swinburne of the news caused an illness which lasted several days, for he was sincerely attached to her. He was very busily engaged on political poetry during this year. In February 1868 he wrote 'The Hymn of Man,' and in April ' Tiresias ' ; in June he pubhshed, in pamphlet form, 'Siena.' Two prose works belong to this year: 'William Blake' and 'Notes on the Royal Academy,' but most of his energy was concentrated on the transcendental celebration of the Republic in verse. At the height of the scandal about 'Poems and Ballads' there had been a meeting between Jowett and Mazzini at the house of George I Howard (afterwards ninth earl of Carlisle) : [q. v. Suppl. II], to discuss 'what can be done with and for Algernon.' Mazzini had instructed Karl Bhnd to bring the poet to visit him, and had said 'There must be no more of this love-frenzy ; you must dedicate your glorious powers to the service of the Republic' Swinburne's reply had been to sit at Mazzini's feet and to pour forth from memory the whole of 'A Song of Italy.' For the next three years he carried out Mazzini's mission, in the composition of 'Songs before Sunrise.' His health was still unsatisfactory ; he had a fit in the reading-room of the British Museum (10 July), and was ill for a month after it. He was taken down to Holmwood, and when sufficiently recovered started (September) for Étretat, where he and Powell hired a small villa which they named the Chaumière de Dolmancé. Here Offenbach visited them. The sea-bathing was beneficial, but on his return to London Swinburne's illnesses, fostered by his own obstinate imprudence, visibly increased in severity; in April 1869 he complained of 'ill-health hardly intermittent through weeks and months.' From the end of July to September he spent some weeks at Vichy with Richard Burton, Leighton, and Mrs. Sartoris. He went to Holmwood for the winter and composed 'Diræ' in December. In the summer of 1870 he and Powell settled again at Étretat ; during this visit Swinburne, who was bathing alone, was carried out to sea on the tide and nearly drowned, but was picked up by a smack, which carried him in to Yport. At this time, too, the youthful Guy de Maupassant paid the friends a visit, of which he has given an entertaining account. When the Germans invaded France, Swinburne and Powell returned to England. In September Swinburne published the 'Ode on the Proclamation of the French Republic' He now reappeared, more or less, in London artistic society, and was much seen at the houses of Westland Marston and Madox Brown. 'Songs before Sun-rise,' with its prolonged glorification of the republican ideal, appeared early in 1871. In July and August of this year Swinburne stayed with Jowett in the little hotel at the foot of Loch Tummel. Here he made the acquaintance of Browning, who was ​writing 'Hohenstiel-Schwangau.' Browning was staying near by, and often joined the party. Swinburne, much recovered in health, was in delightful spirits; like Jowett, he was ardently on the side of France. In September he went off for a prolonged walking-tour through the highlands of Scotland, and returned in splendid condition. The life of London, however, was always bad for him, and in October he was seriously ill again; in November he visited George Meredith at Kingston. He was now mixed up in much violent polemic with Robert Buchanan and others; early in 1872 he published the most effective of all his satirical writings, the pungent 'Under the Microscope' [see under Buchanan, Robert Williams, Suppl. II]. He had written the first act of 'Bothwell,' which F. Locker-Lampson set up in type for him; this play, however, was not finished for several years. His intercourse with D. G. Rossetti had now ceased; his acquaintance with Mr. Theodore Watts (afterwards Watts-Dunton) began. In July and August of this year he was again staying at Tummel Bridge with Jowett, and once more he was the life and soul of the party, enlivening the evenings with paradoxes and hyperboles and recitations of Mrs. Gamp. Jowett here persuaded Swinburne to join him in revising the 'Children's Bible' of J. D. Rogers, which was published the following summer. In May 1873 the violence of Swinburne's attacks on Napoleon III (who was now dead) led to a remarkable controversy in the 'Examiner' and the 'Spectator.' Swinburne had given up his rooms in Dorset Street, and lodged for a short time at 12 North Crescent, Alfred Place, whence he moved, in September 1873, to rooms at 3 Great James Street, where he continued to reside until he left London for good. Meanwhile he spent some autumn weeks with Jowett at Grantown, Elginshire. During this year he was busily engaged in writing 'Bothwell,' to which he put the finishing touches in February 1874, and published some months later. The greater part of January 1874 he spent with Jowett at the Land's End. Between March and September he was in the country, first at Holmwood, afterwards at Niton in the Isle of Wight. In April 1874 he was put, without his consent, and to his great indignation, on the Byron Memorial Committee. He was at this time chiefly devoting himself to the Elizabethan dramatists; an edition, with critical introduction, of Cyril Tourneur had been projected at the end of 1872, but had been abandoned; but the volume on 'George Chapman' was issued, in two forms, in December 1874. This winter was spent at Holmwood, whence in February 1875 Swinburne issued his introduction to the reprint of Wells's 'Joseph and his Brethren.' From early in June until late in October he was out of London — at Holmwood; visiting Jowett at West Malvern, where he sketched the first outline of 'Erechtheus'; and in apartments, Middle Cliff, Wangford, near Southwold, in Suffolk. His monograph on 'Auguste Vacquerie,' in French, was published in Paris in November 1875; the English version appeared in the 'Miscellanies' of 1886. Two volumes of reprinted matter belong to this year, 1876: in prose 'Essays and Studies,' in verse 'Songs of Two Nations'; and a pseudonymous pamphlet, attacking Buchanan, entitled 'The Devil's Due.' Most of 1876 was spent at Holmwood, with brief and often untoward visits to London. In July he was poisoned by lilies with which a too enthusiastic hostess had filled his bedroom, and he did not completely recover until November. In the winter of this year appeared 'Erechtheus' and 'A Note on the Muscovite Crusade,' and in December was written 'The Ballad of Bulgarie,' first printed as a pamphlet in 1893. Admiral Swinburne, his father, died on 4 March 1877. The poet sent his 'Charlotte Bronte' to press in June, and then left town for the rest of the year, which he spent at Holmwood and again at Wangford, where he occupied himself in translating the poems of François Villon. He also issued, in a weekly periodical, his unique novel entitled 'A Year's Letters,' which he did not republish until 1905, when it appeared as 'Love's Cross-currents.' In April 1878 Victor Hugo talked of addressing a poem of invitation to Swinburne, and a committee invited the latter to Paris in May to be present as the representative of English poetry at the centenary of the death of Voltaire; but the condition of his health, which was deplorable during this year and the next, forbade his acceptance. In 1878 his chief publication was 'Poems and Ballads (Second Series).' Swinburne's state became so alarming that in September 1879 Mr. Theodore Watts, with the consent of Lady Jane Swinburne, removed him from 3 Great James Street to his own house, The Pines, Putney, where the remaining thirty years of his life were spent, in great retirement but with health slowly and completely restored. Under the guardianship of his ​devoted companion, he pursued with extreme regularity a monotonous course of life, which was rarely diversified by even a visit to London, although it lay so near. Swinburne had, since about 1875, been afflicted with increasing deafness, which now (from 1879 onwards) made general society impossible for him. In 1880 he published three important volumes of poetry, 'Studies in Song,' 'Heptalogia' (an anonymous collection of seven parodies), and 'Songs of the Springtides'; and a volume of prose criticism, 'A Study of Shakespeare.' In April 1881 he finished the long ode entitled ' Athens,' and began 'Tristram of Lyonesse'; 'Mary Stuart' was published in this year. In February 1882 he made the acquaintance of J. R. Lowell, who had bitterly attacked his early poems. Lowell was now 'very pleasant' and the old feud was healed. In April, as he was writing the last canto of 'Tristram,' he was surprised by the news of D. G. Rossetti's death, and he wrote his (still unpublished) 'Record of Friendship.' In August Mr. Watts took him for some weeks to Guernsey and Sark. In September, as he 'wanted something big to do,' Swinburne started a 'Life and Death of Caesar Borgia,' of which the only fragment that remains was published in 1908 as 'The Duke of Gandia.' The friends proceeded to Paris for the dinner to Victor Hugo (22 Nov.) and the resuscitation of 'Le Roi s'amuse' at the Theatre Fran9ais. Swinburne was introduced for the first time to Hugo and to Leconte de Lisle, but he could not hear a fine of the play, and on his return to Putney he refused to go to Cambridge to listen to the 'Ajax,' his infirmity now excluding him finally from public appearances. To 1883 belongs ' A Century of Roundels,' which made Tennyson say 'Swinburne is a reed through which all things blow into music' In June of that year Swinburne visited Jowett at Emerald Bank, Newlands, Keswick. His history now dwindles to a mere enumeration of his publications. 'A Midsummer Holiday' appeared iu 1884, 'Marino Fahero' in 1885, 'A Study of Victor Hugo' and 'Miscellanies ' in 1886, 'Locrine' and a group of pamphlets of verse ('A Word for the Navy,' 'The Question,' 'The Jubilee,' and 'Gathered Songs') in 1887. In June 1888 his public rupture with an old friend. Whistler, attracted notice; it was the latest ebullition of his fierce temper, which was now becoming wonderfully placid. His daily walk over Putney Heath, in the course of which he would waylay perambulators for the purpose of baby-worship, made him a figure familiar to the suburban public. Swinburne's summer holidays, usually spent at the sea-side with his inseparable friend, were the sources of much lyrical verse. In 1888 he wrote two of the most remarkable of his later poems: 'The Armada' and 'Pan and Thalassius.' In 1889 he published 'A Study of Ben Jonson' and 'Poems and Ballads (Third Series).' His marvellous fecumdity was now at length beginning to slacken; for some years he made but shght appearances. Hia latest publications were: 'The Sisters' (1892); 'Studies in Prose and Poetry' (1894); 'Astrophel' (1894); 'The Tale of Balen' (1896); 'Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards' (1899); 'A Channel Passage' (1904); and 'Love's Cross-Currents' — a reprint of the novel 'A Year's Letters' of 1877 — in 1905. In that year he wrote a little book about 'Shakespeare,' which was published posthumously in 1909. In November 1896 Lady Jane Swinburne died, in her eighty-eighth year, and was mourned by her son in the beautiful double elegy called 'The High Oaks: Barking Hall.' Swinburne's last years were spent in great placidity, always under the care of his faithful companion. In November 1903 he caught a chill, which developed into double pneumonia, of which he very nearly died. Although, under great care, he wholly recovered, his lungs remained delicate. In April 1909, just before the poet's seventy-second birthday, the entire household of Air. Watts-Dunton was prostrated by influenza. In the case of Swinburne, who suffered most severely, it developed into pneumonia, and in spite of the resistance of his constitution the poet died on the morning of 10 April 1909. He was buried on 15 April at Bonchurch, among the graves of his family. He left only one near relation behind him, his youngest sister, Miss Isabel Swinburne. The physical characteristics of Algernon Swinburne were so remarkable as to make him almost unique. His large head was out of all proportion with his narrow and sloping shoulders; his slight body, and small, slim extremities, were agitated by a restlessness that was often, but not correctly, taken for an indication of disease. Alternately he danced as if on wires or sat in an absolute immobility. The quick vibrating motion of his hands began in very early youth, and was a sign of excitement; it was accompanied, even when he was a child, by 'a radiant expression of his face, very striking indeed' (Miss Isabel Swinburne). His puny frame required ​little sleep, seemed impervious to fatigue, was heedless of the ordinary incentives of physical life; he inherited a marvellous constitution, which he impaired in early years, but which served his old age well. His character was no less strange than his physique. He was profoundly original, and yet he took the colour of his surroundings like a chameleon. He was violent, arrogant, even vindictive, and yet no one could be more affectionate, more courteous, more loyal. He was fierce in the defence of his prejudices, and yet dowered with an exquisite modesty. He loved everything that was pure and of good report, and yet the extravagance of his language was often beyond the reach of apology. His passionate love for very little children was entirely genuine and instinctive, and yet the forms of it seemed modelled on the expressions of Victor Hugo. It is a very remarkable circumstance, which must be omitted in no outline of his intellectual life, that his opinions, on politics, on literature, on art, on life itself, were formed in boyhood, and that though he expanded he scarcely advanced in any single direction after he was twenty. If growth had continued as it began, he must have been the prodigy of the world, but his development was arrested, and he elaborated during fifty years the ideas, the convictions, the enthusiasms which he possessed when he left college. Even his art was at its height when he was five and twenty, and it was the volume and not the vigour that increased. As a magician of verbal melody he impressed his early contemporaries to the neglect of his merit as a thinker, but posterity will regard him as a philosopher who gave melodious utterance to ideas of high originality and value. This side of his genius, exemplified by such poems as 'Hertha' and 'Tiresias,' was that which showed most evidence of development, yet his masterpieces in this kind also were mainly written before he was thirty-five. No complete collection of Swinburne's works has appeared, but his poems were published in six volumes in 1904, and his tragedies in five in 1905-6. The authentic portraits of Swinburne are not very numerous. D. G. Rossetti made a pencil drawing in 1860, and in 1862 a water-colour painting, an excellent portrait, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the bust in oils, by G. F. Watts, May 1867, is now in the National Portrait Gallery; as a likeness this is very unsatisfactory. A water-colour drawing (circa 1863) by Simeon Solomon has disappeared. Miss E. M. Sewell made a small drawing in 1868, lately in the possession of Mrs, F. G. Waugh; a water-colour, by W. B. Scott (circa 1860), is now in the possession of Mr. T. W. Jackson; a large pastel, taken in old age (Jan. 1900), by R. Ponsonby Staples, is in the possession of Mr. Edmund Gosse. A full-length portrait in water-colour was painted by A. Pellegrini ('Ape') for reproduction in 'Vanity Fair' in the summer of 1874; this drawing, which belonged to Lord Redesdale, was given by him to Mr. Gosse. Although avowedly a caricature, this is in many ways the best surviving record of Swinburne's general aspect and attitude. [Personal recollections, extending in the case of the present writer over more than forty years; information about childhood kindly supplied by Miss Isabel Swinburne; the memories of 'contemporaries at school and college, particularly those kindly contributed by Sir George Young, by the poet's cousin Lord Redesdale, and by Lord Sheffield; the bibliographical investigations of Mr. Thomas J. Wise, principally embodied in A Contribution to the Bibliography of Swinburne (published in Robertson Nicoll & Wise's Lit. Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century, 1896, ii. 291-364, and more fully in his privately printed Bibliography of Swinburne, 1897); and the examination of a very large unpublished correspondence are the chief sources of information. To these must be added the valuable notes on The Boyhood of Algernon Swinburne, published in the Contemporary Review for April 1910 by another cousin, JMrs. Disney Leith. The Life of Jowett has some notes, unfortunately very slight, of the Master of Balhol's lifelong salutary influence over the poet, who had been and never ceased to be his pupil, and something is guardedly reported in the Life of Lord Houghton. Mr. Lionel Tollemache contributed to the Spectator and to the Guardian in 1909 some pleasant recollections. The Life of Edmund Clarence Stedman, by his granddaughter (New York, 1911), contains some very important autobiographical letters, and there are mentions in the Autobiography of William Bell Scott, and the privately printed Diary of Henry Adams (quoted above). The name of Swinburne, with an occasional anecdote, occurs in many recent biographies, such as The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell, the Recollections of Mr. A. G. C. Liddell, the lives of D. G. Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Richard Burton, Whistler, John Churton Collins, and Ruskin. R. H. Shepherd's Bibliography of Swinburne (1887) possesses little value. Swinburne left behind him a considerable number of short MSS., principally in verse. The prose tales have been recorded above, and ​certain of the verse; his posthumous poems, none of which have yet been published, also include a series of fine Northumbrian ballads.] E. G. Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Swinburne,_Algernon_Charles_(DNB12)&oldid=4644721" DNB biographies Pages with noyear

Brexit Manoeuvres: Brexit 2020 - The Year Ahead European Union, Global, United Kingdom January 9 2020 The UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met in London on 8 January, their first meeting since assuming their respective roles. The mood was reportedly positive, stressing common values and close co-operation. But initial red lines were already apparent: the UK wants a broad agreement on both goods and services, freedom to diverge from EU regulations and no extension of the transition period; the EU wants the closest possible partnership but will not compromise the integrity of the single market and the customs union. The President made clear that "the more divergence there is, the more distant the partnership has to be" and "without an extension of the transition period beyond 2020, you cannot expect to agree on every single aspect of our new partnership. We will have to prioritise."2 In this brief, we look ahead at the prospects for UK/EU negotiations this year: the timetable, the negotiating positions and the main issues. The likely timetable for 2020 looks broadly as follows.JanuaryThe European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill3 will be adopted by the UK Parliament: The Bill ratifies the Withdrawal Agreement agreed between the UK and the EU and implements it (together with parallel Agreements with the EEA EFTA countries and Switzerland) in UK domestic law; the Bill works in conjunction with the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 20184, which provides for citizens' rights and the settlement of the UK's financial commitments to the EU. The Bill will amend that Act to provide, in particular, for an 'implementation' (i.e. transition) period until 31 December 2020; during that transition period, EU law will continue to apply to the UK. New EU laws adopted during the transition period will apply automatically within the UK, or be implemented domestically as needed, even though the UK has had no say in their adoption. The European Parliament must also ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, and at 11:00 p.m. London time on 31 January, midnight in Brussels, the UK will leave the EU and begin the 11-month transition period.FebruaryWhile initial scoping talks begin, the EU27 Member States need to agree on a mandate for the European Commission to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK.Having left the EU, the UK will be free to open trade negotiations with non-EU countries, although needing to await the end of the transition period before these can be concluded. The UK has stated that its priorities will be the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The previously preliminary talks with the U.S. look likely to be rapidly set on a formal footing and to proceed apace. At the same time, the UK government is continuing to work on new agreements to replace existing EU trade agreements after the end of the transition period, notably with Canada, Japan and Turkey.March/AprilUK-EU negotiations will commence, based on a to-be-agreed full negotiating schedule. A key issue to be decided is whether to combine most, or even all, of the agreements (covering not only trade but also security, political co-operation, etc.) into a single Association Agreement, or to run a series of smaller negotiations in parallel for a number of separate agreements.JuneThe negotiating schedule will provide for progress to be assessed mid-June, in particular to enable the UK to decide whether to request an extension to the transition period (the Withdrawal Agreement requires that any request be made before 30 June). Many commentators consider that the current timetable will be too short including, as quoted above, the President of the European Commission. (By way of comparison, recent EU trade agreements, from the adoption of negotiating directives to conclusion, have taken from 6 to 20 years: Japan 2012-2018; Singapore 2007-2018; Canada 2009-2017; Vietnam 2007-2019; Mexico 1999-2018; MERCOSUR 1999-2019).But the UK government has explicitly ruled out extending the December deadline, even writing this into the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Requesting more time would be politically contentious in the UK, not least since it would require the UK to contribute to the next (2021-2027) EU budget. Whether the UK government's position will hold later in the year remains to be seen: on the one hand, good progress might open the way to somehow allowing more time to ratify and implement an agreement, once concluded; on the other hand, mutual concern at a looming No Trade Deal cliff edge might focus minds on the advantages of more time. But whereas previously the UK parliament fettered the government's approach in such matters, and was able to compel the government to seek an extension to the Article 50 exit period, the government's new parliamentary majority gives it a de facto free hand. It is for now projecting the firm determination not to allow extra time, no doubt as part of its wider stance in the difficult negotiations ahead.NovemberThe likely deadline for completing the negotiations, allowing sufficient time for the negotiators' text to be polished and translated if it is to be applied, if necessarily provisionally, before the transition period expires at the end of December. While ratification of the deal in the UK is likely to be straightforward, the process in the EU will depend on the nature of the deal: If the deal covers only areas under the EU's exclusive competence, the EU Council and European Parliament could ratify it within a few weeks. Such issues include goods and services market access; public procurement; direct foreign investment protections; and competition rules; but If the deal also includes areas outside the EU's exclusive competence (a 'mixed' agreement covering areas such as non-direct foreign investment; the regime governing dispute settlement between investors and states; and some aspects of the movement of persons) it would require unanimous assent in the European Council and ratification by all EU27 member states (including votes by national, and sometimes regional, parliaments). Member states can also decide to impose the process for a mixed agreement regardless of its content. 11:00 p.m. London time, 31 DecemberUnless extended, the transition period will expire. EU law will cease to apply in the UK but most will be translated immediately into UK law through the operation of the EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Either the terms of the new free trade agreement will be applied (provisionally, if necessary) or, if that is for any reason not ready, UK-EU trade will revert to basic World Trade Organisation terms – another form of 'No Deal' Brexit. Depending on the circumstance, further UK-EU negotiations could continue in order to complete an agreement or, if one has already been reached, to address issues that have not been fully covered. UK negotiations with non-EU countries are likely to intensify since clarity on the future UK-EU relationship will be a key factor in those negotiations. We have referred earlier to 'provisional application'. If the UK-EU free trade agreement covers only areas under the EU's exclusive competence, it could be rapidly ratified by both sides and be applied in full ('enter into force') immediately following the end of the transition period.But if it is a 'mixed' agreement, it is unlikely that ratification by each EU Member State would be completed by that time. In this case, the EU Council could agree (by qualified majority) that the parts of the agreement that are within the EU's competence, or (by unanimity) that the full agreement, should be applied on a provisional basis. If any EU Member State subsequently declined to ratify it, (as occurred in 2016 when the Walloon Parliament in Belgium objected to the EU-Canada trade agreement, CETA) negotiations would be re-opened to try to resolve the outstanding issue(s), prolonging uncertainty about the final outcome. It is worth noting that the so-called 'Backstop' arrangement — which was a contentious part of Theresa May's earlier proposed deal — no longer has any currency. This was an arrangement which would have locked into place at the end of the transition period, if there had been no agreement on other arrangements to ensure the maintenance of an open border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It involved the UK remaining – de facto – part of the EU customs union. Instead the new agreement foresees a long-term regime which seeks to square the circle – to ensure that there are no checks or controls conducted at or near the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, despite the UK (including Northern Ireland) having exited the customs union with the EU. The practicalities involved have been much debated. The arrangement is subject to periodic democratic consent in Northern Ireland. For the UK side, the Conservative Party Election Manifesto5 set out a number of priorities including: A new relationship with the EU based on free trade and friendly cooperation, not on the EU's treaties or EU law. We will keep the UK out of the single market, out of any form of customs union, and end the role of the European Court of Justice; We will legislate to ensure high standards of workers' rights, environmental protection and consumer rights; We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years, starting with the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. These will be negotiated in parallel with our EU deal; Just as we led the way in opening up trade in manufactured goods in the last two centuries, we should open up trade in services; We will create up to ten freeports around the UK, benefiting some of our most deprived communities; and We will drive a hard bargain with all of our trading partners – and, as with all negotiations, we will be prepared to walk away if that is in the national interest… In all of our trade negotiations, we will not compromise on our high environmental protection, animal welfare and food standards. Given what is already known of the principles informing the EU position, the negotiations are likely to hinge on a number of key trade-offs: Greater UK access to the EU market at the price of closer alignment to EU regulations on a 'level playing field' (e.g. labour, environmental, state aid and competition rules). The UK government is committed both to maintain high standards of regulation in these fields but also to ensure freedom to diverge from EU rules, leaving it unclear where the balance will be found on this point, which is crucial for the EU; Greater access for some sectors at the price of less access for others (e.g. very broadly, goods v. services, agricultural v. industrial goods). Some EU countries may have specific 'sticking points' (e.g. ensuring their fishermen's access to UK fishing waters), for which they may be prepared to hold the whole agreement hostage; Greater UK access to the EU market at the price of less ambitious agreements with non-EU countries, notably the U.S., due to significant divergences in product regulations and food standards; and Greater UK access to the EU market at the price of extending the transition period: the less time available for negotiations, the narrower the agreement is likely to be. The main indicator for the shape of the future UK-EU relationship is the Political Declaration agreed between them in October 2019. This will set the direction of the negotiations but it is not legally binding and either side could choose to depart from parts or all of the text. Nonetheless, on the basis of this, the main aims for the future trade relationship are as follows (note that the negotiations will also cover security co-operation, energy, aviation and transport, science, etc. which are not addressed in this brief).GoodsThe UK will be outside the EU customs union and single market, so trade will not be frictionless. Nevertheless, the Political Declaration envisages an "ambitious" trading relationship with no tariffs or quotas, "modern accompanying rules of origin," deep regulatory and customs co-operation, and the possibility of UK co-operation with EU agencies such as in medicines, chemicals and aviation. "While preserving regulatory autonomy, the Parties will put in place provisions to promote regulatory approaches that are transparent, efficient, promote avoidance of unnecessary barriers to trade in goods and are compatible to the extent possible" – how this objective is translated into practice will be a key element of the negotiations. Ideally this would include some mutual recognition of conformity assessments (such as is already provided in the EU-Canada and Japan agreements for certain sectors), but this will depend on agreement around the alignment of rules and how the UK's regulations will develop.ServicesThe aim is for liberalisation "well beyond WTO" standards and building on recent EU free trade agreements, with voluntary regulatory cooperation and "appropriate arrangements" for mutual recognition of professional qualifications. Individual services chapters would be negotiated but within a commitment to preserve the regulatory autonomy of both sides. Ambitious demands for services could push the negotiations into territory rarely covered by free trade agreements and would be likely to require more time than the currently contemplated transition period.Financial servicesThe future relationship will be based on equivalence decisions (albeit these do not cover all forms of financial services), which it is hoped to have in place by the end of June 2020. While the Political Declaration does not close off the possibility of further enhancement, nor does it offer it and this could require UK commitments to align with EU rules that it is not prepared, on principle, to make. While many businesses have by now prepared alternative authorisation and passporting structures that would side-step the equivalence challenge, this issue may loom larger as the time approaches.Intellectual propertyThe aim is to go beyond WTO standards and World Intellectual Property Organisation conventions, including protections for geographical indications.Movement of PeopleFreedom of movement would end but both sides aim to provide visa-free travel for short-term visits and basic provisions to allow the movement of people to provide services via streamlined visa processes.Level playing fieldBoth parties aim to uphold standards applicable at the end of the transition period in the areas of state aid, competition, social and environmental standards, climate change and tax, with the establishment of mechanisms to ensure effective domestic implementation, enforcement and dispute settlement. But in place of the "dynamic alignment" suggested previously, the UK government now looks closer to agreeing only to "non-regression."Data ProtectionThe EU is not prepared to offer more than a standard 'adequacy' agreement, provided the UK continues to align with and to enforce rules similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. The aim is to ensure this is in place before end of the transition period, to avoid disruption. As we warned in our previous brief in October on the prospect of a series of Brexit cliff-edges, such risks remain, though they have evolved into two main scenarios: No UK-EU agreement in place when the transition period expires. This would amount to a form of 'No Deal' Brexit, with UK-EU trade reverting to basic WTO rules; or A UK-EU agreement is in place but with a narrow scope, placing significant areas of the UK-EU relationship on a less secure and more restrictive basis than currently applies. Given the hardening of the UK position, there is no longer any realistic prospect of a third option: a comprehensive agreement ensuring 'near frictionless' trade in goods and services.Businesses that do not already have contingency plans in place should consider whether they can afford to wait until the key points of the proposed UK-EU trade deal become clearer or in the hope that the transition period will be extended. For many, operational changes will be necessary whether or not an agreement is struck, given the likely limited character of any agreement. To view all formatting for this article (eg, tables, footnotes), please access the original here. 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THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS Spoilers — Will Victoria Kill J.T.?! By Chris Eades April 9, 2018 The drama between J.T. and Victoria reaches a shocking climax in these spoilers from THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS! When he pushes his ex-wife too far, will she fight back and end things… permanently?! Since returning to Genoa City, J.T. has made a big show about getting Victoria back, but as time has passed, she has come to recognize his abusive nature and insisted on counseling before they officially remarry. But the more she learns about her ex, the more Victoria realizes reuniting would be a terrible mistake. "You and I," she informs J.T., ripping off her engagement ring for dramatic effect, "are done." But J.T. refuses to give up on her. "Our story cannot end here," he begs, tears in his eyes. But while Victoria's eyes have been opened to the way he's been treating her, thanks to Mac revealing that he abused her in a similar fashion, she still has no idea that J.T.'s soul is so dark that he has tried to kill her father, Victor! J.T. begs Victoria for another chance. (Photo Credit: CBS) However, when Victoria tries to walk away from J.T., he stops her — physically — by slamming the door so she can't get out of the bedroom. And as the situation escalates, Victoria finds herself crawling backwards away from J.T. on the floor, desperate to escape his clutches. But he grabs her by the shoulders to force her to turn around and face him! As Phyllis and Sharon enter the bedroom, the two women recoil in horror at what they see. And then join Victoria and Nikki out in the garden where they all stand solemnly as Victoria shovels another load of dirt onto whatever it is they're burying. Has Victoria killed J.T. in self-defense and they're helping her to cover up the crime? Do not miss this tease for the thrilling week to come and for more Y&R previews, keep reading the CBS edition of Soaps In Depth magazine! More from CBS Soaps In Depth Camryn Grimes and Joshua Morrow Open up for a Candid Q&A (EXCLUSIVE) Y&R Alum Justin Hartley Mourns the Death of His Beloved Memphis That's Shanica Knowles Playing Simone on Y&R

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Q: I messed up the ~/.bashrc file and now terminal doesn't open ubuntu 16.04 I just installed Android Studio on my ubuntu 16.04 machine and as I didn't want to go to its own home directory and now every single time I try to open the terminal, it tries to start android studio (yes, I'm that noob in ubuntu). The problem with this is: it can't. Every single time I try to open the terminal, I get this error: No JDK found. Please validate either STUDIO_JDK, JDK_HOME or JAVA_HOME environment variable points to valid JDK installation. I have this in /etc/environment: JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64" And when I went to android studio's folder and started studio.sh (before messing up the .bashrc of course) with sudo, it worked. Anyway, I'm thinking that this happens because .bashrc file is executed without sudo privileges every single time I try to get up a terminal. What can I do to fix my .bashrc file (at least delete the last 4 lines in it)? Thanks in advance. A: * *Click in Ubuntu icon (the first bottom in side menu). *Write gedit *Open Text Editor clicking in its icon. *Click in Open. *In the list, write: ~/.bashrc *Enter *Clean your failing .bashrc file. *Save and you can open terminal again.

Q: Continuous and additive implies linear The following problem is from Golan's linear algebra book. I have posted a solution in the comments. Problem: Let $f(x):\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function satisfying $f(x+y)=f(x)+f(y)$ for all $x,y\in \mathbb{R}$. Show $f$ is a linear transformation. A: Perhaps a clearer answer is ... Let $f$a addictive continuous function such that $f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$. (a) Note that $f$ is linear in $\mathbb{Q}$: (i) if $q\in \mathbb{Z}$, $f(q)=f(\sum_{i=1}^{q} (1^i))$, for the additivity of $f$, $$ f(q)=\sum_{i=1}^{q} f(1^i)=q f(1)=q k $$ for some $k\in\mathbb{R}$. So $f$ is linar in $\mathbb{Z}$ (ii) if $q\in \mathbb{Q}\backslash\mathbb{Z}$, $q=\frac{a}{b}$ where $b\neq0$ and $a,b\in \mathbb{Z}$. Note that $f(1)=f\left(\sum_{i=1}^b 1^i/b\right)$, for the additivity of $f$, $$ f(1)=\sum_{i=1}^nf( 1^i/n)=nf(1/n)\Rightarrow \frac{1}{b}f(1)=f(1/b)\Rightarrow f(1/b)=k/b $$ for some $k\in\mathbb{R}$. So $f$ is linear in $\mathbb{Q}$ (b) Let $x\in \mathbb{R}\backslash\mathbb{Q}$ and $\varepsilon>0$ By the continuity of $f$, there is $\delta>0$ such that $|x-y|<\delta \Rightarrow |f(x)-f(y)|<\varepsilon$. For the density of $\mathbb{Q}$ in $\mathbb{R}$, there is $j$ in $(x,y)$, such that $|x-j|<\varepsilon$. $$ |f(x)-xf(1)|\leq |f(x) - f(j)| +|f(j) -xf(1)| \leq \varepsilon+|jf(1) -xf(1)| <\varepsilon(1+f(1)) $$ as $\varepsilon$ is an arbitrary positive, we have $f(x)=kx$ for any real numbers, that is it $f$ is linear. A: The only property of linear transformations that we still need to verify is that $f(xt)=tf(x)$ for all $x,y\in \mathbb{R}.$ It is enough to establish this result just for rational numbers. If $j$ is irrational and $x\in \mathbb{R}$,, we can find a rational $r$ with $|jx-rx|<\delta$ for any positive real $\delta$. By continuity, for every $\epsilon>0$, we can choose $\delta$ so that $|f(rx)-f(jx)|<\epsilon$. This condition also gives $\require{enclose} \enclose{horizontalstrike}{|r-j|<\delta/|j|}$, and choosing $\delta$ to be even smaller if necessary gives $|f(x)-f(r)|<\epsilon$, too. Putting this all together gives $\require{enclose} \enclose{horizontalstrike}{|jf(x)-f(jx)|<|j|f(x)-f(r)| + |f(jx)-f(rx)|<(|j|+1)\epsilon}$ **The above line is wrong, especially you can't find an $r \in \Bbb Q$ s.t $|rx-jx|<\delta$ as well as $|x-r|<\delta$ in stead of this you can find an $r \in \Bbb Q$ s.t $|rx-jx|<\delta$ as well as $|j-r|<\delta$ The line should be $|jf(x)-f(jx)|<|jf(x)-f(rx)+f(rx)-f(jx)| \leq |f(jx)-f(rx)|+|jf(x)-rf(x)|\leq 2\epsilon$ and we can make this arbitrarily small, giving the desired result. To verify the property for rationals, we first verify it for integers. If $n\in \mathbb{N}$, then $nf(x)=f(x)+f(x)+...+f(x)=f(nx)$ by hypothesis. Also, $f(x)=f(x/n)+f(x/n)+\cdots f(x/n)=nf(x/n)$ so $\frac{1}{n}f(x)=f(\frac{x}{n})$. Combining the above shows we have scalar multiplication for all positive rationals. Noting that $f(0)=f(0)+f(0)$ gives $f(0)=0$, and $f(0)=f(-x)+f(x)\Rightarrow -f(-x)=f(x)$. Using this allows us to extend scalar multiplication to negative rationals and completes the proof. A: Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$. We wish to show that $f(x\lambda) = f(x)\lambda$ for any $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$. We will split the proof into cases. Case 1: Integers We will proceed by induction. The base case is quick: $f(x1) = f(x)1$ since both equal $f(x)$. Now, assume that $f(xn) = f(x)n$ for some $n \in \mathbb{Z}$. We will show the result holds for both $n+1$ and $n-1$, abbreviated as $n \pm 1$: \begin{align} f\big( x(n \pm 1) \big) &= f(xn \pm x1)\\ &= f(xn) \pm f(x1)\\ &= f(x)n \pm f(x)1 \text{ (by induction hypothesis)}\\ &= f(x)(n \pm 1). \end{align} Case 2: Rationals Let $\frac{n}{d}$ be a rational number, where $n, d \in \mathbb{Z}$ and $d \neq 0$. Set $$w = f\left(x \cdot \frac{n}{d}\right).$$ Multiplying both sides by $d$ yields $$wd = f\left(x \cdot \frac{n}{d}\right) d.$$ Since $d$ is an integer, we may apply case 1 twice: \begin{align} wd &= f\left(x \cdot \frac{n}{d} \cdot d\right)\\ &= f(xn)\\ &= f(x)n. \end{align} Dividing both sides by $d$ and expanding the definition of $w$ yields $$ f\left(x \cdot \frac{n}{d}\right) = f(x) \cdot \frac{n}{d},$$ which is the desired result. Case 3: Reals Until now, we have not used the continuity of $f$. That is about to change. Let $\lambda$ be any real number. By the density of $\mathbb{Q}$ in $\mathbb{R}$, there is a sequence of rationals $(\lambda_k : k \in \mathbb{N})$ converging to $\lambda$. By case 2, for each $k \in \mathbb{N}$ we have: \begin{align} f(x \lambda_k) &= f(x) \lambda_k.\\ \end{align} Passing to the limit yields $$\lim_{k}{f(x \lambda_k)} = \lim_{k}{f(x)\lambda_k}.$$ The continuity of $f$ (and of multiplication) allows us to interchange the limit: \begin{align} f\left(\lim_k{x \lambda_k}\right) &= \lim_{k}{f(x)} \lim_{k}{\lambda_k};\\ f(x \lambda) &= f(x) \lambda. \end{align} This completes the proof.

In 2012 Namco took pity on Tales fans in North America and released localized versions of both Tales of the Abyss (which was a re-release, but I don't care) for the 3DS and Tales of Graces F for the Playstation 3. It's an interesting contrast in games because while both of them feature fantastic battle systems, Abyss has a good coming of age story and Graces features a bunch of characters who are stuck in childhood and never grow at all during the course of the game. Meanwhile in Graces the main character and his friends almost get the world destroyed because friendship is forever, even when you haven't spoken to each other in 10 years and the friend in question has been possessed by an ancient evil and is killing people willy-nilly. The cutscenes are unbearable and the characters ridiculously shallow. Bland stories don't bother me, you can just ignore them. Outright bad ones, however, really take away from my overall enjoyment of a game when I am constantly given story updates accompanied by horrific voice acting. It really is a shame because as I mentioned in my full write-up, Graces has the best battle system in the series to date. I'd say that if you smooshed the battle system from Graces together with the story from Abyss you'd get an ultra-fantastic game but Abyss doesn't really need any help to reach that level. It's the best entry in the Tales series by a significant margin and getting to replay it right before getting my hands on Graces reinforced this for me. I leave with with this trailer for Tales of Graces F with the hilariously misleading "Everyone Changed" tagline. Enjoy the voice acting.

In the face of COVID-19, resilient housing markets necessarily include the informal sector A man fixes the roof of his home in Baseco, Tondo city, metro Manila, Philippines August 15, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco In the following post, Jessan Catre lays out an important case for housing, and especially housing for lower income populations, as needing to be a central organizing node for recovery efforts. While not explicit in the blog, he also highlights the importance of how relief efforts are organized to make sure they are catalytic and maintain/enhance the diversity of market systems. Often the knee-jerk reaction of recovery efforts are to give things to vulnerable populations, and often do this via large contracts to big firms. Such effort, while unintended, can do substantial damage to systems as they push out SME and informal firms, shifting power to larger firms, as well as redirecting these firms to focus on donor customers. The emergence of providing cash directly into the hands of the vulnerable population has been a welcome mechanism to inject resources that can be more effective at catalyzing greater positive knock effects. As Jessan recommends, recovery should not just be about getting back to where the system was, but taking the opportunity to lay the ground work coming out of a shock like Covid-19 that allows for a quickening pace of positive systemic change. An earlier version of this piece originally appeared in Thomson Reuters Foundation News ​The COVID-19 pandemic has completely upended the life that Arfel Aljohon, a carpenter, worked so hard to build for his family in the heart of the Philippines. In late March, all of Cebu island was put under "enhanced community quarantine," an almost total lockdown, including the temporary closure of non-essential shops and businesses. These restrictions, while necessary to minimize spread of the deadly virus, meant the pipeline of work he had lined up came to an abrupt halt, and with it the $8 to $10 he expected to earn daily. One of his daughters was a teacher at a private school, and she also contributed to the family purse. When the school closed, her salary stopped too. Overnight, Aljohon and his family went from feeling comfortable to wondering how they were going to survive, let alone support their four aging parents and other relatives near their home in Bogo City, Cebu Province. To make matters worse, Aljohon was about to complete repairs on their house but now can't afford to, so the family feels particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Aljohon's ordeal is tragically common, not only across the Philippines but also in the other middle-income countries where Habitat for Humanity works to improve the resilience and inclusiveness of housing markets and help people gain access to a decent place to call home. So as governments and development organizations around the world consider how to prevent an economic and social catastrophe, it's extremely important that they understand how local building and local housing markets really work. Many of the 1.6 billion people who lack adequate housing make do by building and repairing their homes incrementally as family finances allow. Houses built in this way comprise from 20 to 70 percent of housing stock, depending on the country, in the Global South. The informal housing markets that caters to these builders are massive as well. But shocks to the housing sector produce far-reaching ripple effects, starting with informal businesses like Aljohon's. They are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19. We are already seeing low-income families worldwide postponing construction projects and using the money for even more basic needs, such as food and medicine. As a result, masons and carpenters stop working. Demand for materials decreases, hitting local building material retailers. Upstream, this affects construction materials manufacturers, with paralyzed supply chains disrupting the flow of raw materials. The disruption spans the entire construction supply chain. With manufacturing halted in many countries, critical building materials are unavailable to households. So even if and when families are ready to improve their homes, they are unable to do so. Similarly, the financial sector also is in lockdown. Banks are deemed essential businesses but the microfinance institutions that most low-income homebuilders turn to for external funding are not. Without regular repayments, their survival is in jeopardy. Fortunately, there is an upside to this complicated web of interdependence. A well-functioning housing market can serve as the foundation to the economic recovery needed to create prosperous and resilient societies. Under normal circumstances, the construction sector, of which housing is an important segment, is one of the largest in the global economy, representing $10 trillion in spending annually and employing millions of people such as Aljohon. Many governments, from the Philippines and Peru, realize this. They are already using investments in the construction sector, of which housing is a part of, as a driver for economic recovery from COVID-19. But the devil is in the details. Incorporating housing into relief packages will mean little if those plans overlook the needs of low-income homebuilders and households. Three actions, in particular, will keep them at the center and truly strengthen the resilience and inclusiveness of housing markets: First, as governments begin to invest in the housing sector in order to spur economic recovery, they must design bailouts with the informal sector in mind. In addition to working with large or mid-size developers focusing on new construction, they must ensure that funds flow to small-scale developers and businesses or microfinance institutions that can channel capital to people seeking to upgrade or expand existing homes. Second, it is crucial that aid does not displace local market actors—including construction material companies, hardware stores, training providers, media entities and financial institutions—who will be irreplaceable in providing those services and products into the future. Financial relief should be channeled through these local housing market actors and when possible, through cash-based programming to make their homes safer during the pandemic. Finally, as governments take steps to designate construction and housing as essential services, we must focus on the safety of the people who will be building back our communities and our economies. Construction laborers need access to personal protective equipment and training in how to use it. They also must be familiar with appropriate physical distancing guidelines and good hygiene habits to keep themselves, their clients and their own families safe. Taking action now will help ensure the survival and resilience of informal housing markets that are so crucial to economic recovery. More importantly, they can help reverse the fortunes of families such as Aljohon's who can once again feel secure in their own homes. That will allow them to begin building back their neighborhoods and, along with it, the hope that everyone in their community can house themselves safely, securely and sustainably. Jessan Catre is the Philippines Country Manager at Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Berg-Hughes Center receives funding to develop research and analysis for unconventional drilling. The Office of the Provost has granted $200,000 a year from the Heep Endowment for a two-year grant to the Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems. The funds will be used to initiate a complex integrated project to address fundamental geoscience, engineering and other research in unconventional oil and gas resources. Funds will initially be used for faculty and student support in the colleges of Geosciences and Engineering to process and analyze modern geophysical, drill-well core and log data being collected in Brazos Country and surrounding areas, including the Texas A&M campus, according to Berg-Hughes Director Carlos Dengo '78 and '82. Dengo is also executive professor of geology and geophysics and the Dudley J. Hughes Endowed Chair in Geophysics. "Discussions are already under way with Seitel and Apache Corporation," Dengo says. Seitel is the company collecting seismic data in Brazos County and on the Texas A&M campus, and Apache is one of the largest developers of the Eagle Ford shale formation with wells already drilled near College Station. In addition to the geology and geophysics, oceanography and the Crisman Institute in petroleum engineering, Dengo foresees future collaboration with other Texas A&M entities, including the International Ocean Discovery Program, the Energy Institute, Mays Business School and the Bush School. "Feedback from industry points to the need for more fully integrated and creative solutions to focus on fundamental questions facing the life cycle of exploration, development and production of unconventional resources," says Dengo, who was previously an executive for ExxonMobil, and most recently its vice president for upstream research. Dengo points out that unconventional oil and gas shale resources are transforming the global energy outlook with the largest impact being in the United States, and specifically in Texas. The Eagle Ford play is the single most significant economic development to date in Texas having already generated a $60-billion impact on the local south Texas economy, with more than 116,000 jobs created and an investment that ranks it as the largest oil and gas development in the world. Note: The Heep Foundation, founded by Minnie Belle and Herman F. Heep '20, has provided more than $20 million to benefit Texas A&M. Geology and geophysics students visited a drill site operated by Apache Corp. The site, just a few miles from Bryan-College Station, represents one of many opportunities that funds from the Heep Foundation will address in educating students in unconventional oil and gas recovery.

PHOTOCHROMIC OZAZINE COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR THEIR MANUFACTURE A process for producing a photochromic compound of formula (I) said process comprising the step of: heating an isocyanate derivative of the formula: with a symmetric quinone of the formula: wherein in each formula X is nitrogen or carbon; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, benzyl, formyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, phenyl, naphthyl, phenyl (C1-C4) alkyl, naphthyl (C1-C4) alkyl, phenyloxy, naphthyloxy, cyclo (C3-C6) alkyl, (C1-C18) alkoxy, halo (C1-C6) alkoxy, (C1-C4) alkoxycarbonyl, pyrrolidino, piperidino, morpholino; and n = 1 or 2 and wherein the heating is carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of a triphenyl arsen oxide. PHOTOCHROMIC OXAZINE COMPOUNDS AND METHODS FOR THEIR The present invention relates to oxazine compounds. In particular, the invention provides oxazine compounds and methods for their manufacture, which compounds are useful as photochromic compounds. Various classes of photochromic compounds have been synthesized and suggested for use in applications in which reversible color changes or darkening is induced by sunlight. For example, spirooxazine and chromene compounds are known for excellent fatigue resistance. Additionally, photochromic 2,2-disubstituted [2H-l,4]-naphthoxazine compounds, such as those are disclosed in United States Patent No. 5,801,243, are known. These compounds have better fatigue resistance than chromene compounds, but are disadvantageous in that methods for their preparation are extremely limited. Thus, a need exists for additional photochromic oxazine compounds that overcome the disadvantages of the known compounds. Description of the Invention and its Preferred Embodiments The present invention provides oxazine compounds having an aromatic substituent at the 2 position of the oxazine moiety, as well as methods for synthesizing these compounds. In one embodiment, the invention provides a compound comprising, consisting essentially of, and consisting of Formula 1. wherein X is nitrogen or carbon; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are identical or different and each independently may be hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, benzyl, formyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, aryl, aryl (C1-C4)alkyl, aryloxy, cyclo (C3 - C6)alkyl, (C1 - C18)alkoxy, halo (C1-C6)alkoxy, (C1 - C4)alkoxycarbonyl or a heterocyclic nitrogen- containing substituent having 5 or 6 atoms in the ring, such as, without limitation, pyrrolidino, piperidino and morpholino; and n = 1 or 2. When n = 1, there is one substituent on the phenyl moiety or pyridine moiety and R1 or R2 may be located at the ortho, meta, or para position of the phenyl ring. In a preferred embodiment, X is carbon or nitrogen; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxy, fluoro, chloro, bromo, benzyl, formyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, aryl, aryl (C1 - C4)alkyl, aryloxy, cyclo (C3 - C4)alkyl, (C1 - C4)alkoxy, (C1 - C4)alkoxycarbonyl, or a heterocyclic nitrogen-containing substituent having 5 or 6 atoms in the ring, such as without limitation pyrrolidino, piperidine, and morpholino; and n - 1 or 2. More preferably, X is carbon or nitrogen, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are each hydrogen, fluoro, chloro, methyl, methoxy, ethoxy, methoxycarbonyl, ethoxycarbonyl, piperidino, morpholino, or pyrrolidino, and n = 1 or 2. In a more preferred embodiment the invention provides a compound that is 2,2-diphenyl-phenanthro (9,10)2H-[1 ,4]-oxazine, 2-(4-methoxyphenyI)-2-phenyl- phenanthro (9, ]0)2H-[l,4]-oxazine, 2-(4-fluorophenyl)-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)- phenanthro (9,10)-2H-[1,4]-oxazine, or 2,2-Bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-phenanthro (9,10)2H-[l,4]-oxa2ine. The compound of Formula I may be prepared by the following Reactions A through E. For all reactions, R1, R2 and "n" are the same as defined hereinabove. Benzophenones represented by Formula IV below are commercially available cr may be prepared by Friedel-Crafts reaction using a benzoyl chloride of Formula II and a benzene of Formula III. The Friedel-Crafts reaction is described in George A, Olah, "Friedel-Crafts and Related Reaction" (Vol. 3, 1964). In Reaction A, the compounds represented by Formulae II and in are dissolved in dichloromethane and reached in the presence of a Lewis acid including wihtout limitation, aluminum chloride, to form the corresponding subsituted benzophenone. dissssolved in dichJoxomethane and reacted in the presence of a Lewis acid including, without limitation, aluminum chloride, to form the corresponding substituted The disubstifuted acrylic acid represented by Formula VI may be prepared by alternative reactions as shown in Reaction B and C. In reaction B, the benzophenone is reacted with acetonitrile in the presence of an excess amount of sodium hydroxide to form the 2,2-disubstituted acrylonitrile of Formula V, which process is described in J. Org. Chem., 44 (25), 4640-4649 (1979). After hydrolyzation with sodium hydroxide in ethylene glycol, followed by acidification, the disubstituted acrylic acid may be obtained. Alternatively in Reaction C, a Hornor-Emmons reaction as described in Tetrahedron, 52 (31), 10455-10472 (1996), may be conducted starting from a benzophenone. The resulted 3,3-disubstituted acrylic acid ethyl ester of Formula VII may be hydrolyzed to form the disubstituted acrylic acid represented of Formula VI. R1, R2 and "n" are the same as defined herein before. In Reaction D, the 3,3-di-substituted acrylic acid is treated with thionyl chloride, followed by reaction with sodium azide to form the 3,3-disubstituted but-2- enoyl azide of Formula VIII. Under heating in nonpolar solvent including, without limitation, benzene or toluene, the 3,3-disubstituted but-2-enoyl azide rearranges to form the isocyanate of Formula DC. The critical step in the synthesis of the photochromic oxazines of Formula I is shown in Reaction E, in which an isocyanate derivative of Formula IX is reacted with a symmetric quinone including, without limitation, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrene-9,10-dione and substituted or unsubstituted 1,10- phenanthroline-5,6-dione of Formula X, in the presence of a catalytic amount of triphenyl arsen oxide in a suitable organic solvent under mild conditions for a time, generally about 2 to about 10 hours, sufficient to complete the reaction. Organic solvents that may be used include, without limitation, benzene, dioxane, tetrahydofbran ("THF"), toluene, and the like and combinations thereof. Reaction temperatures will vary and typically range from about 40°C to about 120°C. In a preferred embodiment, a solvent such as benzene or toluene is used and the reaction is carried out at about 50 to about 110°C for about 1 to about 15 hours. More preferably, the solvent is toluene or benzene and the reaction is carried out at about 60 to about 80°C for about 2 to about 4 hours. Alternatively, the photochromic oxazine compounds of the invention may be prepared as shown in Reactions F and G. In the reactions R1, R2 and "n" are the same as defined hereinabove. In Reaction F, the benzophenone of Formula IV is converted to a 1,1-disubstituted epoxide of Formula XI by treatment with trimethyl sulfoxinium iodide and potassium tert-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide ("DMSO"). This reaction is described in J. Org. Chem., 62 (19), 6547-6561 (1997). Treatment of the substituted epoxide with sodium azide in N, N-dimethylformamide ("DMF") in the presence of lithium chloride forms the substituted 2-azido-1,1-disubstituted ethylene of Formula XII. Following the procedure described in ). Org. Chem., 33 (6), 2411-2416 (1968), dehydration of the 2-azido-1,1-disubstituted ethylene by treatment with thionyl chloride in pyridine results in the 2-azido- 1,1-disubstituted ethylene of Formula XIII. A subsequent Staudinger reaction by treatment of the 2-azido- 1,1- disubstituted ethylene with triphenylphosphine forms the ylide represented by Formula XIV. Heating the ylide with a symmetric quinone of Formula X in any suitable solvent for a time sufficient to complete the reaction affords the desired oxazine of Formula I. The organic solvent used may be, without limitation, benzene, dioxane, tetrahydofuran, toluene, and the like and combinations thereof. Reaction temperature will vary and typically ranges from about 60°C to about 120°C and reaction time from about 2 to about 24 hours. In a preferred embodiment, the solvent used is benzene or toluene and the reaction is carried out at about 70 to about 100°C for about 5 to about 5 hours. The oxazines of the invention may be used in any applications in which organic photochromic substances are typically employed including, without limitation, ophthalmic lenses, windows, automotive transparencies, polymer films, and the like. The oxazines of the invention may be utilized in an organic solvent or in organic polymer host. The organic solvent may be any suitable solvent including, without limitation, benzene, toluene, methyl ethylketone, acetone, ethanol, niethanol, tetrahydrofuran, dioxane, ethyl acetate, etbylene glycol, xylene, cylcohexane, N-methyl pyrroiidinone, and the like and combinations thereof. The host polymer maybe a transparent polymer such as polymethacrylate, polystyrene, polycarbonate and cellulose acetate. The amount of oxazine used is such that the organic host material to which the photochromic compound, or mixture of compounds, is applied or in which they are incorporated exhibits the desired resultant color, e.g.,, a substantially neutral color when activated with unfiltered sunlight. The amount of photochrome used in the solution or polymer matrix depends on the degree of darkening desired and usually is about 0.001 to about 20 % by weight of the host polymer. The invention will be clarified further by a consideration of the following, non-limiting examples. Into a 100 ml three-necked flask was charged solid KOH (3.30 g, 0.05 mole) and 25 ml acetonitrile under argon which was then heated to reflux. Benzophenone (9. 1g, 0.05 mole) in 20 ml acetonitrile was added in a stream with stirring. After 8 hours of reflux, the hot reaction solution was poured onto 100 g crushed ice and extracted with dichloromethane (3x15 ml). The combined organic extract was washed with water, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and filtered. Solvent was removed, the residue was purified by flash chromatography on silica gel (ether- hexane 1:5 as eluent), 7.9 g colorless oil was obtained (yield: 77%). 1HNMR showed the product to have a structure consistent with 3,3-diphenyl-acrylonitrile. 1HNMR (CDCl3): 5 5.75 (s, 1H), 7.27-7.50 (m, 1OH). The 3,3-diphenyl-acrylonitrile (5.76g, 2.81 mrnol) produced in Step 1 and sodium hydroxide (11.2g, 280 mmol) were refluxed in a mixture of 180 ml ethylene glycol and 1 ml water for 3 days. The reaction mixture was cooled down and diluted with 100 ml water, acidified with 5 M hydrochloric acid until the pH was filtered with suction and washed with water completely. The solid paste was dissolved in ethyl acetate, and washed with dilute hydrochloric acid. The organic layer was separated and the aqueous layer was extracted twice with ethyl acetate. The combined ethyl acetate solution was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and ; filtered. The solvent was removed in vacuo until the total volume was about 40 ml. The solution was filtered through a short silica gel column and washed with ethyl acetate. After removal of the solvent in vacuo, the residue was titrated with a small volume of hexane-ethyl acetate (4 :1), recrystallized from ethyl acetate/bexane. Colorless crystal (5.34g) was obtained (yield: 84.8%). lHNMR showed thatthe product to have a structure consistent with 3,3-diphenyl-acrylic acid. 1HNMR (CDCl3): 5 6.38 (s, 1H), 7.24-7 35 (m, 1H), 7.40-7.46 (m, 3H). A suspension of acrylic acid (225 mg, 1 mmol) in dry benzene (4 ml) was refluxed with excess thionyl chloride (0.20 ml) for two hours. Removal of the solvent and excess thionyl chloride under reduced pressure gave the required 3,3- diphenyl-acrylic acid chloride. The acyl chloride in dry THF (2.5 ml) was cooled to 0°C and treated with a solution of sodium azide (130 mg, 2 mmol) in water (2 ml). 7 he mixture was stirred at 0° C for 2 hours before water (10 ml) was added. The mixture was extracted with ether (2x10 ml), and dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate. Removal of the solvent under reduce pressure afforded a yellow oil (200 rag) which was heated to 80° C overnight together with 9,10-phenanthrene quinonc (146 mg, 0.7 mmol) and triphenyl arsen oxide (16 mg) in dry toluene (12 ml). After chromatography (silica gel, dichloromethane-hexane 2 : 1 as eluent) and recrystallization from dichloromethane-hexane, 203 mg of the desired photochromic oxazine was obtained as white (slightly pale yellow) crystal (yield: 52.7%). Trimethylsulfoxonium iodide (1.12 g, 5 mmol) and potassium tert-butoxide (0.59 g, 5 mmol) were stirred in DMSO (10 ml) at room temperature for 10 minutes. Benzophenone (0.77g, 4.2 mmol) was added and the mixture stirred at 40°C for 24 hours after which it was cooled, crushed ice and water were added and extracted with ether (3x15 ml). The combined etherate solution was washed with water, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and filtered. Solvent was removed and a pale yellow oil resulted that contained mostly 1,1-diphenyloxirane, which was used directly in Step 2 without purification. 1HNMR (CDCfe): 6 3.29 (s, 2H), 7.30-7.40 (m, 10H). The oil obtained in Step 1 along with sodium azide (0.36 g, 5.5 mmol) and lithium chloride (0.32 g, 7.5 mmol) in DMF (20 ml) were stirred at 80°C under nitrogen for 24 hours, cooled, water (20 ml) was added, and the mixture was extracted with ether (3 * 20 ml). The combined etherate solution was washed with water, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and filtered. After removal of the solvent in vacuo, the residue was purified by chromatography on silica gel (dichloromethane-hexane 1 :2 as eluent). A colorless oil (0.64 g) was obtained. Infrared spectra showed a strong absorption at 2100 cm-1. 1HNMR (CDCl3): 5 2.91 (s, 2H), 4.02 (s, 2H), 7.27-7.45 (m, 10 H). 13CNMR (CDCl3): 'HNMR (CDCl3). 5 60.4, 78.2, 126.3,127.8,128.5, 143.8. The 2-azido-l,l-diphenylmethanol obtained in Step 2 (60 mg, 0.61 mmol), thionyl chloride (0.2 ml) and pyridine (2 ml) were refluxed for 2 hours. After being cooled, water (10 ml) was added carefully into the reaction mixture under ice-water cooling, and extracted with ether (3 x 5 ml). The combined etnerate solution was washed with 4 M hydrochloric acid, water and brine, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and filtered. After removal of the solvent, a yellow oil (120 mg) was obtained. Infrared spectra showed strong absorption at 2097 cm-1. 1HNMR showed that the resulted product was pretty pure 2-azido-l, 1-diphenyl ethylene. 1HNMR(CDCl3): 8 6.69 (s, 1H), 7.38-7.42 (m, 10H). To the 2-azido-l,l-diphenyI ethylene prepared in Step 3 in dry toluene (5 ml) was added triphenylphosphine (157 mg, 0.6 mmol) at room temperature under nitrogen. After 0.5 hour stirring, 9,10-phenanthrene-9,10-dione (104 mg, 0.5 mmol) was added. The mixture was heated at 80oC overnight. Photochromic product was obtained by chromatography on silica gel (dichloromethane-hexane 1 :1 as eluent) and re-crystallized from dichloromethane/hexane, as pale yellow crystal (45 mg). 'HNMR (CDCl3): d 7.24-7.29 (m, 6H), 7.46-7.70 (m, 8H), 8.12 (s, 1H), 8.43-8.52 (m, 1H), 8.53-8.62 (m, 3H). 13CNMR (CDCl3): d 79.5,122.5, 122.7, 122.8, 123.0, 125.1, 126.9, 126.9, 127.1, 127.3, 127.6, 128.4, 128.6, 129.8, 131.3, 128.0, 141.4, 155.7. Step1. To a stirred suspension of sodium hydride (95%, 0.507 g, 20 mmol) in THF (15 ml) was added 2-3 ml a solution of triethylphosphono acetate (4.48 g, 20 mmol) in THF (20 ml). A tiny drop of ethanol was added to initialize the reaction, then the rest of the triethylphosphono acetate solution was added dropwise under ice-water cooling over 40 minutes. After 15 minutes of stirring, the reaction mixture was transferred into a dropping runnel and added dropwise to a boiling solution of 4- methoxybenzophenone (4.38 g, 20 mmol) in THF (20 ml). After 24 hours reflux, most of the solvent was removed. To the cooled residue was added a saturated solution of aqueous sodium chloride (20 ml) and extracted with dichloromethane. Removal of dichloromethane gave a pale yellow oil (5.42 g) containing mostly (E) and (Z)-3-p-methoxyphenyl-3-phenyl-acryIic acid ethyl ester as characterized by . 'HNMR and which was used directly in Step 2 without further purification. The oil obtained in Step 1 was hydrolyzed in a solution of KOH (5.07 g, methanol (30 ml)} under reflux for 1 hour. The cooled reaction mixture was poured into ice-water, acidified with dilute hydrochloric acid until the pH was extracted with ethyl acetate (3 x 20 ml). The combined organic solution was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, the solvent was removed, the residue was re- crystalliized from ethyl acetate/hexane and a white solid was obtained. The mother liquid was subjected to chromatography and re-crystallization. A total of 3.826 g desired product was obtained as white solid and 0.677 g unreacted ketone was recovered (yield: 75.3%). 1HNMR showed that the recovered product to be a mixture of (E)- and (Z)-3-p-methoxyphenyl-3-phenyl-acrylic acid. The procedure of Step 3 of Example 1 was repeated except that 3-p- methoxyphenyJ-3-phenyl-acrylic acid (254.5 mg, 1 mmol) was used instead of 3,3- diphenyl-acrylic acid to react with 9,10-phenanthrene quinone (44 mg, 0.21 mmol) and triphenyl arsen oxide (5 mg). Work-up gave 23.5 mg desired photochromic oxazine as yellow crystal (yield : 5.66%). 1HNMR (CDC13). d 3.74 (s, 3H), 6.84 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.29-7.42 (m, 5H), 7.50- 7.60 (m, 3H), 7.61-7.66 (m, 3H), 8.07 (s, 1H), 8.42-8.62 (m, 4H). 13CNMR (CDCl3): 5 55.2, 79.4, 114.0, 122.5, 122.7, 122.8, 122.8, 122.9, 125.1, 125.2, 126.8, 126.9, 127.0, 127,5, 128.3, 128.6, 129.8, 131.2, 133.3, 138.0, 141.6, 155.9. 159.7. A mixture of anisole (11.9 g, 0.11 mole) and p-fluorobenzoyl chloride (97%, 16.34 g, 0.1 mole) in dichloromethane (50 ml) was added aluminum chloride (14.67 g, 0 11 mole) in small portions with stirring under ice-water cooling. After addition, the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour, poured into a mixture of crushed ice (400 g) and hydrochloric acid (20 ml), and stirred until the orange color discharged. The mixture was extracted with dichloromethane, dried over sodium sulfate, passed through a short silica gel column and washed with dichloromethane. Solvent was removed, the residue was re-crystallized from dichloromethane-hexane, 21.96 g colorless crystal was obtained (yield: 95.4%). 1HNMR showed the product to have a structure consistent with p-fluorophenyl-p- methoxyphenyl ketone. 1HNMR (CDCI3): d 3.89 (s, 3H), 6.97 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.13 (dd, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.76-7.84 (m,4H). The procedure of Step 1 of Example 1 was repeated except that p- fluorophenyl-p-methoxyphenyl ketone (4.60 g, 20 mmol) was used instead of benzophenone and the reaction time was 48 hours. The resulting oil contained mostly (E) and (Z)3-p-fluorophenyl-3-p-methoxyphenyl acrylic acid ethyl ester which was used in Step 3 without further purification. The oil obtained in Step 2 was hydrolyzed in a mixture of KOH (5.2 g) and methanol (30 ml) for 80 minutes, cooled, and solvent was removed in vacuo. Water (30 ml) was added, the mixture filtered with suction, and washed with water. The filtrate was extracted with ether (15 ml) and the aqueous layer was separated and acidified with 4 M hydrochloric acid until the pH was by filtration and re-crystallized from dichloromethanotiexane, 4.8 g white crystal was obtained (yield: 88.1 %). 1HNMR showed the recovered product to have , structure consistent with a mixture of (E) and (Z) 3-p-fluorophenyl-p- methoxyphenyl-acrylic acid. fluoropbenyl-p-methoxyphenyl-acrylic acid (272.5 mg, 1 mmol) was used instead of 3,3-diphenyJ-acryJic acid to react with 9,10-phenanthrene quinone (60 mg, 28.8 mmol) and triphenyl arsen oxide (5 mg). Work-up gave 75 mg desired photochromic oxazine as yellow crystal (yield : 17.3%). 1HNMR (CDCl3): d 3.74 (s, 3H), 6.85 (m, 2H), 7.04 (m, 2H), 7.38 (m, 2H), 7.46. 7.60 (m, 3H), 7.62-7.70 (m, 3H), 8.02 (s, 1H), 8.43-8.47 (m, 1H), 8.54-8.63 (m, 3H). 13CNMR (CDC13): d 55.2, 79.0, 114.0, 115.3, 115.6, 115.6, 122.6, 122.7, 122.8, 125.0, 125.0, 125.1, 126.8, 127,3, 127.6, 128.4,128.8, 128.9, To a stirred suspension of sodium hydride (0.48g, 20 mmol) in dry THF (20 ml) was added dropwise a solution of triethyl phosphonoaetate (4.48g, 20 mmol) in dry THF (25 ml) under nitrogen with ice-water bath cooling. After 40 minutes, the solution was transferred to a dropping runnel, added dropwise to a refluxing solution of bis (p-methoxyphenyl) ketone in dry THF (20 ml) over 20 minutes. The reaction mixture was refluxed for 48 hours and was then hydrolyzed with a saturated sodium chloride solution (40 ml). The aqueous phase was extracted with ether (3 x 70 ml). The combined organic extracts were dried, filtered and concentrated to afford a residue which was purified by chromatography eluting with methylenechloride/hexane (1 : 2). Colorless oil (4.23 g) was obtained (yield: 67.8%). 1HNMR showed that the recovered product to have structure consistent with 3,3- bis(p-methoxyphenyl)-acrylic acid ethyl ester 1HNMR (CDCl3): d 1.16 (t, 3H, J= 7.1 Hz), 3.81 (s, 3H), 3.84 (s, 3H), 4.07 (q, 2H, J = 7.1 Hz), 6.22 (s, 1H), 6.84 (d, 2H, J = 9.1 Hz), 6.90 (d, 2H, J = 9.1 Hz), 7.15 (d, 2H, J = 9.1 Hz), 7.24 (d, 2R J = 9.1 Hz). The 3,3-bis(p-methoxyphenyI)-acrylic acid ethyl ester (4.23 g, 13.5 mmol) obtained in Step 1 was hydrolyzed in 22 ml methanol in the presence of potassium hydroxide (3.7 g, 66 mmol) for 1 hour under reflux. The cooled reaction mixture was poured into ice-water (50 ml), acidified with dilute hydrochloric acid until the pH was from ethylacetate/hexane. White solid (3.6 g) was obtained (yield: 93.78%). 1HNMR showed the recovered product to have a structure consistent with 3,3-bis(p- methoxyphenyl)-acryiic acid. 1HNMR (CDC13): d 3.82 (s, 3H), 3.85 (s, 3H), 6.22 (s, 1H), 6.85 (d, 2H, J = 9.0Hz), 6.91 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.17 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.24 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz) The procedure of Step 3 of Example 1 was repeated except that 3,3-bis(p- methoxyphenyl)-acrylic acid (284.3 mg, 1 mmol) was used instead of 3,3-diphenyl- acrylic acid to react with 9,10-phenanthrene quinone (43 mg, 0.2 mmol) and triphenyl arsen oxide (5 mg). Work-up gave 8 mg desired photochromic oxazine as yellow crystal (yield: 1.8%). 1HNMR (CDC13): d 3.75 (s, 6H), 6.85 (d, 2H, J = 8.7 Hz), 7.41 (d, 2H, J = 9.1 Hz), 7.52-7.60 (m, 1H), 7.62-7.68 (m, 3H), 8.03 (s, 1H), 8.43-8.47 (m, 1H), 8.54-8.63 (m, 3H). 13CNMR (CDCl3): d 55.2, 79.3, 113.0, 122.5, 122.7, 122.8, 122.9, 125.1, 126.8, 127.3, 127,5, 128.5, 129.8, 131.2, 133.5, 156.1. 159.7. The oxazine compounds produced in Examples 1, 3, 4, and 5 were dissolved in organic solvent, then exposed to UV irradiation at 365 nm for 15 seconds. The solutions each developed an intense coloration and then lost the color once the UV radiation was discontinued. The maximum absorption in the visible regions are given in the Table below. The typical absorption has two bands. A strong absorption around 450-490 nm depends on the structure of photochrome and solvent, together with a weaker absorption at longer wavelength which is approximately 100 nm longer. 1. A process for producing a photochromic compound of formula (I) said process comprising the step of: heating an Isocyanate derivative of the formula: with a symmetric quinone of the formula: wherein in each formula X is nitrogen or carbon; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, benzyl, formyl, triftuoromethyl, nitro, cyano, pbenyl, naphthyl, phenyl (C1-C4) alkyl, naphthyl (C1-C4) alkyl phenykoxy, naphthyloxy, cycto (C3-C6) alkyl, (C1-C18) alkoxy, halo (C1-C6) alkoxy,(C1-C4) alkoxycarbonyl, pyrrolidino, piperidino morpholino and n = 1 or 2 and wherein the heating is carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of a triphenyl arsen oxide. 2. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the quinone is substituted or unsubstltuted 9,10-phenanthrene-9,10-dione, or substituted or unsubstituted 9,10-1,10 -phenanthroline -5,6-dione. 3. The process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the heating is carried out at a temperature of 40°C to 120°C for 2 to 24 hours. 4. A process for producing a photochromic compound phenyl, naphthyl, phenyl (C1-C4) alkyl , naphthyl (C1-C4) alkyl, phenyloxy, naphthytoxy comprising heating an aza-ylide compound of the formula XIV: with a symmetrical quinone of the compound: independently hydrogen, hdyroxy, halogen, benzyl, fbrmyl, trifluoromethyl, nitrocyano, phenyl, naphthyl, phenyl (C1-C4) alkyl, naphthyl (C1-C4) alkyl, phenyloxy, naphthyloxy, cyclo (C3-C6) alkyl, (C1-C18) alkoxy, halo (C1-C6) alkoxy,, (C1-C4)alkoxycarbonyl pyrrolidino, piperidino or morphotino and n = 1 or 2. 5. The process as clanned In claim 4, wherein the quinone is substituted or unsubstituted 9,10-phenanrhrene-9/10-dilone or substituted or unsubsitrtuted 9,10-1,10-phenanthroline-5,6-dione. A process for producing a photochromic compound of formula (I) independently hydrogen, hydroxy, halogen, benzyl, formyl, trifluoromethyl, nitro, cyano, phenyl, naphthyl, phenyl (C1-C4) alkyl, naphthyl (C1-C4) alkyl, phenyloxy, naphthyloxy, cyclo (C3-C6) alkyl, (C1-C18) alkoxy, halo (C1-C6) alkoxy, (C1-C4) alkoxycarbonyl, pyrrolidino, piperidino, morpholino; and n = 1 or 2 and wherein the heating is carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of a triphenyl arsen oxide. 607-kolnp-2004-granted-abstract.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-assignment.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-claims.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-correspondence.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-description (complete).pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-examination report.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-form 1.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-form 18.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-gpa.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-reply to examination report.pdf 607-kolnp-2004-granted-specification.pdf 607/KOLNP/2004 ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (CMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE) 147 RUE DE PARIS, F-94220 CHARENTON LE PONT FRANCE 1 ZHAO WEILI HIRZENBACHSTRASSE 77/8, CH 8051 ZURICH 2 CARREIRA ERICK M. 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Knowledge engineering (KE) was defined in 1983 by Edward Feigenbaum, and Pamela McCorduck as follows:At present, it refers to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems. It has a great deal in common with software engineering, and is used in many computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, including databases, data mining, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. Knowledge engineering is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works. Various activities of KE specific for the development of a knowledge-based system: *Assessment of the problem *Development of a knowledge-based system shell/structure *Acquisition and structuring of the related information, knowledge and specific preferences (IPK model) *Implementation of the structured knowledge into knowledge bases *Testing and validation of the inserted knowledge *Integration and maintenance of the system *Revision and evaluation of the system. Being still more art than engineering, KE is not as neat as the above list in practice. The phases overlap, the process might be iterative, and many challenges could appear.

""" .. warning:: The HL7 versions can have different implementation of base datatypes; for example the ST base datatype of HL7 v2.6 is different from the v2.5 one. This module contains reference classes for all base datatypes but you should not import them directly from here. If you need an implementation for a particular version use the :func:`get_base_datatypes` function from a specific version's module For example if you're using version 2.4 and you need an `FT` base datatype do the following: >>> from hl7apy.v2_4 import FT >>> f = FT('some useful information') """ from __future__ import absolute_import import re import numbers from datetime import datetime from decimal import Decimal from functools import cmp_to_key from hl7apy import get_default_encoding_chars, get_default_validation_level from hl7apy.exceptions import MaxLengthReached, InvalidHighlightRange, InvalidDateFormat, \ InvalidDateOffset, InvalidMicrosecondsPrecision from hl7apy.validation import Validator class BaseDataType(object): """ Generic datatype base class. It handles the value of the data type and its maximum length. It is meant to be extended and it should not be used directly :param value: the value of the data type :type max_length: ``int`` :param max_length: The maximum length of the value. Default to None :type validation_level: ``int`` :param validation_level: It must be a value from class :class:`VALIDATION_LEVEL <hl7apy.consts.VALIDATION_LEVEL>` If it is :attr:`STRICT <VALIDATION_LEVEL.STRICT>` it checks that :attr:`value` doesn't exceed the attr:`max_length` :raise: :exc:`MaxLengthReached <hl7apy.exceptions.MaxLengthReached>` When the :attr:`value`'s length is greater than the :attr:`max_length`. Only if :attr:`validation_level` is :attr:`STRICT <VALIDATION_LEVEL.STRICT>` """ def __init__(self, value, max_length=None, validation_level=None): if validation_level is None: validation_level = get_default_validation_level() self.validation_level = validation_level self.max_length = max_length if Validator.is_strict(self.validation_level): if self.max_length is not None and len('{0}'.format(value)) > self.max_length: raise MaxLengthReached(value, self.max_length) self.value = value def to_er7(self, encoding_chars=None): """ Encode to ER7 format """ return '{0}'.format(self.value if self.value is not None else '') @property def classname(self): """ The name of the class """ return self.__class__.__name__ class TextualDataType(BaseDataType): """ Base class for textual data types. It is meant to be extended and it should not be used directly :type value: ``str`` :param value: the value of the data type :type max_length: ``int`` :param max_length: the max length of the value (default to 32) :type highlights: ``tuple``, ``list`` :param highlights: a list of ranges indicating the part of the value to be highlighted. e.g. ((0,5), (6,7)) The highlights cannot overlap, if they do an HL7Exception will be thrown when to_er7 method is called :type validation_level: ``int`` :param validation_level: It has the same meaning as in :class:`BaseDatatype <hl7apy.base_datatype.BaseDatatype>` :raise: :exc:`MaxLengthReached <hl7apy.exceptions.MaxLengthReached>` When the :attr:`value`'s length is greater than :attr:`max_length` """ def __init__(self, value, max_length=32, highlights=None, validation_level=None): self.highlights = highlights super(TextualDataType, self).__init__(value, max_length, validation_level) def to_er7(self, encoding_chars=None): if encoding_chars is None: encoding_chars = get_default_encoding_chars() return self._escape_value(self.value, encoding_chars) def _get_translations(self, encoding_chars): escape_char = encoding_chars['ESCAPE'] return ((encoding_chars['FIELD'], '{esc}F{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)), (encoding_chars['COMPONENT'], '{esc}S{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)), (encoding_chars['SUBCOMPONENT'], '{esc}T{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)), (encoding_chars['REPETITION'], '{esc}R{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)),) def _get_escape_char_regex(self, escape_char): return r'(?<!%s[HNFSTRE])%s(?![HNFSTRE]%s)' % tuple(3*[re.escape(escape_char)]) def _escape_value(self, value, encoding_chars=None): escape_char = encoding_chars['ESCAPE'] translations = self._get_translations(encoding_chars) # Inserts the highlights escape sequences if self.highlights is not None: def _sort_highlights(x, y): if x[0] < y[0]: if y[0] < x[1]: # overlapping ranges raise InvalidHighlightRange(x, y) else: return -1 elif x[0] > y[0]: if x[0] < y[1]: # overlapping ranges raise InvalidHighlightRange(x, y) else: return 1 else: raise InvalidHighlightRange(x, y) self.highlights = sorted(self.highlights, key=cmp_to_key(_sort_highlights)) words = list(value) offset = 0 for hl in self.highlights: if hl[0] > hl[1]: raise InvalidHighlightRange(hl[0], hl[1]) words.insert(hl[0] + offset, '{esc}H{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)) words.insert(hl[1] + offset + 1, '{esc}N{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char)) offset += 2 value = ''.join(words) # Escapes encoding_chars for char, esc_seq in translations: value = value.replace(char, esc_seq) # Escapes the escape_char. If it is found in other escape sequences it is not escaped. # For example if the escape char is / and we find /H/ the escape chars are not re-escaped, # otherwise it would become /E/H/E/ which is not the result wanted. # Thus the regex search for escape chars not followed and not preceeded by one of the litteral # composing an escape sequence. We use lambda because otherwise the backslash sequence in the string # is processed (look for re.sub in python doc) and we don't want this value = re.sub(self._get_escape_char_regex(escape_char), lambda x: '{esc}E{esc}'.format(esc=escape_char), value) return value class NumericDataType(BaseDataType): """ Base class for numeric data types. It is meant to be extended and it should not be used directly :param value: the value of the data type. Default is ``None`` :type max_length: int :param max_length: The maximum number of digit in the value. Default is 16 :type validation_level: ``int`` :param validation_level: It has the same meaning as in :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.BaseDataType` :raise: :exc:`hl7apy.exceptions.MaxLengthReached` When the `value`'s length is greater than `max_length` """ def __init__(self, value=None, max_length=16, validation_level=None): super(NumericDataType, self).__init__(value, max_length, validation_level) class DateTimeDataType(BaseDataType): """ Base class for datetime data types. It is meant to be extended and it should not be used directly. Children classes should at least override the :attr:`allowed_formats` tuple :type value datetime: datetime.datetime :param value: a `datetime` date object. Default is ``None`` :type out_format: str :param out_format: the format that will be used converting the object to string. It must be an item of the :attr:`allowed_formats` tuple :raise: :exc:``InvalidDateFormat <hl7apy.exceptions.InvalidDateFormat>` if the ``format`` is not in the :attr:`allowed_formats` member """ allowed_formats = () def __init__(self, value=None, out_format=''): if out_format not in self.allowed_formats: raise InvalidDateFormat(out_format) self.value = value self.format = out_format def to_er7(self, encoding_chars=None): return datetime.strftime(self.value, self.format) class WD(TextualDataType): """ Datatype class for withdraw fields. They are fields that has been withdrawn from specification and should not be used. It is implemented as a :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDatatype` with :attr:`max_length` 0. :attr:`max_length` is 0 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(WD, self).__init__(value, 199, highlights, validation_level) class DT(DateTimeDataType): """ Class for DT base datatype. It extends DatetimeDatatype and it represents a time value with year, month and day. Parameters are the same of the superclass. The :attr:`allowed_formats` tuple is ``('%Y', '%Y%m', '%Y%m%d')`` """ allowed_formats = ('%Y', '%Y%m', '%Y%m%d') def __init__(self, value=None, out_format='%Y%m%d'): super(DT, self).__init__(value, out_format) class TM(DateTimeDataType): """ Class for TM base datatype. It extends DateTimeDatatype and it represents a time value with hours, minutes, seconds and microseconds. Parameters are the same of the superclass plus ``offset``. Since HL7 supports only four digits for microseconds, and Python datetime uses 6 digits, the wanted precision must be specified. The :attr:`allowed_formats` tuple is ``('%H', '%H%M', '%H%M%S', '%H%M%S.%f')``. It needs also the ``offset`` parameter which represents the UTC offset :type offset: ``str`` :param offset: the UTC offset. By default it is ''. It must be in the form ``'+/-HHMM'`` :type microsec_precision: ``int`` :param microsec_precision: Number of digit of the microseconds part of the value. It must be between 1 and 4 """ allowed_formats = ('%H', '%H%M', '%H%M%S', '%H%M%S.%f') def __init__(self, value=None, out_format='%H%M%S.%f', offset='', microsec_precision=4): super(TM, self).__init__(value, out_format) if not (1 <= microsec_precision <= 4): raise InvalidMicrosecondsPrecision() self.microsec_precision = microsec_precision if offset and len(offset) != 5: raise InvalidDateOffset(offset) try: d = datetime.strptime(offset[1:], '%H%M') if offset[0] == '+' and d.hour > 14 or offset[0] == '-' and d.hour > 12: raise ValueError except ValueError: if offset: raise InvalidDateOffset(offset) if offset and offset[0] not in ('+', '-'): raise InvalidDateOffset(offset) self.offset = offset def to_er7(self, encoding_chars=None): date_value = super(TM, self).to_er7() if self.format.find('%f') != -1: index = 6 - self.microsec_precision date_value = date_value[:-index] return '{0}{1}'.format(date_value, self.offset) class DTM(TM): """ Class for DTM base datatype. It extends TM and it represents classes DT and DTM combined. Thus it represents year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds and microseconds. Parameters are the same of the superclass. The :attr:`allowed_formats` tuple is ``('%Y', '%Y%m', '%Y%m%d', '%Y%m%d%H', '%Y%m%d%H%M', '%Y%m%d%H%M%S', '%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%f')`` """ allowed_formats = ('%Y', '%Y%m', '%Y%m%d', '%Y%m%d%H', '%Y%m%d%H%M', '%Y%m%d%H%M%S', '%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%f') def __init__(self, value=None, out_format='%Y%m%d%H%M%S.%f', offset='', microsec_precision=4): super(DTM, self).__init__(value, out_format, offset, microsec_precision) class ST(TextualDataType): """ Class for ST datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDatatype` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 199 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(ST, self).__init__(value, 199, highlights, validation_level) class FT(TextualDataType): """ Class for FT datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDataType` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 65536 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(FT, self).__init__(value, 65536, highlights, validation_level) class ID(TextualDataType): """ Class for ID datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDataType` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` None """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): # max_length is None bacause it depends from the HL7 table super(ID, self).__init__(value, None, highlights, validation_level) # TODO: check for tables of allowed values: are we strict or not? class IS(TextualDataType): """ Class for IS datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDataType` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 20 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(IS, self).__init__(value, 20, highlights, validation_level) # TODO: check for tables of allowed values (also defined on site): are we strict or not? class TX(TextualDataType): """ Class for TX datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDataType` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 65536 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(TX, self).__init__(value, 65536, highlights, validation_level) class GTS(TextualDataType): """ Class for GTS datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.TextualDataType` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 199 """ def __init__(self, value, highlights=None, validation_level=None): super(GTS, self).__init__(value, 199, highlights, validation_level) class NM(NumericDataType): """ Class for NM datatype. It extends :class:`hl7apy.base_datatypes.NumericDatatype` and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 16. The type of ``value`` must be :class:`decimal.Decimal` or :class:`Real <numbers.Real>` :raise: :exc:`ValueError` raised when the value is not of one of the correct type """ def __init__(self, value=None, validation_level=None): if value is not None and isinstance(value, numbers.Real): value = Decimal(value) elif value is not None and not isinstance(value, Decimal): raise ValueError('Invalid value for a NM data') super(NM, self).__init__(value, 16, validation_level) class SI(NumericDataType): """ Class for NM datatype. It extends NumericDatatype and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 4. The type of ``value`` must be `int` or :class:`numbers.Integral` :raise: :exc:`ValueError` raised when the value is not of one of the correct type """ def __init__(self, value=None, validation_level=None): if value is not None and not isinstance(value, numbers.Integral): raise ValueError('Invalid value for a SI data') super(SI, self).__init__(value, 4, validation_level) class TN(TextualDataType): """ Class for TN datatype. It extends TextualDatatype and the parameters are the same of the superclass :attr:`max_length` is 199. The type of ``value`` must be `str` and should match the format [NN] [(999)]999-9999[X99999][B99999][C any text] :raise: :exc:`ValueError` raised when the value does not match the expected format """ def __init__(self, value, validation_level=None): regexp = r'(\d\d\s)?(\(\d+\))?(\d+-?\d+)(X\d+)?(B\d+)?(C.+)?' if not re.match(regexp, value): raise ValueError('Invalid value for TN data') super(TN, self).__init__(value, 199, None, validation_level)

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When a company turns a profit, what happens to the money that they receive? The business usually has two simple choices: they can keep the cash within the company, or they can give the money back to the people who invest in the company. These payment given to investors from the company's earnings are known as dividends. How you choose to spend any dividends you receive now plays a vital role in defining your investment strategy as a winning one. There is no easy answer. You should be making your dividend decisions based on your current situation, and as part of your long-term retirement planning. In other words, when it comes to dividends, you do you. But before you take your first dividend check and blow it on bottle service, make sure you are aware of your options. Many people reinvest their dividends back into their investment, allowing them to accumulate more and more shares as time goes on, thereby increasing their overall stock position. If you choose to go this path, you will likely see the term DRIP, which stands for Dividend Reinvestment Plan. Using a DRIP run by a brokerage firm or the by company itself, you can purchase additional shares with your dividends. DRIP shares come from the company's reserve, so when you decide to sell them, you are required to sell them back to the company at market value. The goal of many people who invest in high dividend-paying stocks is to live off of the profits in retirement. This strategy entails a portfolio big enough to generate high dividends on a regular basis. To do this, you leave the principle untouched so it can earn you more. The concern is that when retirement comes, your portfolio earns 3%, but you withdraw 6% for living expenses. Because there is no way to know what the market will look like then, living off of your dividends does carry some risk. Profits can come from any investment, but there are differences worth knowing when deciding on an investment strategy. Established firms are more likely to pay dividends on a regular basis, as compared to newer companies that may use earnings to reinvest back into the company. Tech companies frequently use this strategy and rarely pay dividends. One option that shareholders can execute is to invest in individual companies known for paying dividends on a regular basis. Dividend stocks, which are merely stocks that have a long history of paying out dividends, are perfect for someone seeking income in addition to returns. Broadcom Inc (AVGO): 5.81% one-year returns. 2.66% dividend yield. Suntrust Banks Inc (STI): 32.91% one-year returns. 2.27% dividend yield. Vail Resorts Inc (MTN): 22.69% one-year returns. 2.27% dividend yield. As solid as those numbers may look, you need to remember that anytime you are investing in a single company, you're putting all your eggs in one basket. Investing in high-yield dividend stocks may be attractive, but any investor knows that you need diversity to protect yourself over the long-term. In 1993, investors and traders were looking for ways to invest in multiple high-performing stocks at once with a lower risk factor. Thus, the exchange-traded fund (ETF) was born, and within a decade its popularity among investors has skyrocketed. Currently, ETFs hold net assets amounting to $1.34 trillion; that compares to $14.72 trillion in total assets held by investment companies, like mutual funds. Most (but not all) ETFs are designed to mimic index funds, as they share a common goal: generate a benchmark return at minimal cost to investors. One advantage of an ETF is that unlike an index fund, it often trades commission-free, which is attractive to investors. As you can see, just deciding that you want to start receiving dividends on stocks is not enough. To ensure you are making smart moves designed to move you towards your long-term financial goals, staying aware of the various dividend options and vehicles is crucial. Whether you are planning for retirement or just seeking some short-term earnings from a high-yield stock or fund, how you choose to handle dividends is an important decision. With Stockpile, you have the freedom to invest in stocks, ETFs, or a combination of both—whatever fits your investment strategy. And not only can you reinvest your dividends, but Stockpile will only charge 99¢ in trading commission. For more information on how to start investing for as little as $5 with free sign-up and no monthly fees or minimums, visit www.stockpile.com now and start buying fractional shares of 1,000+ stocks and ETFs today.

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Separation of particles in a hydrocyclone studied by force analsyis. the influences of collisions between particles and solid volume fraction on the continuous phase are neglected. Yet F D still dominants the direction of particle movement. 2017 6 12 · By using a new type of laser surveying instrument named the particle dynamics analyzer, the radial and axialponents and the size and concentration of solid particles at selected positions within a transparent hydrocyclone were measured directly, and profiles of the solid particle flow field were obtained. 2018 11 12 · The Hydrocyclone reviews data on the theoretical, design, and performance aspects of the liquid cyclone, hydraulic cyclone, or hydrocyclone. The book aims to be a source of reference to those who are in industries employing the use and application of the hydrocyclone. 2018 7 2 · V. O. Yablonskii and G. V. Ryabchuk, Analysis of the influence of the regime parameters of a cylindroconical hydrocyclone on the pressure flotation of the solid phase particles in a suspension with a non Newtonian disperse medium, Khim. 2017 7 6 · hydrocyclone is a device that uses fluid pressure to produce rotary motion . When the slurry enters the hydrocyclone at a certain speed,and encounter the wall of the hydrocyclone,the slurry is forced to rotary movement. Centrifugal sedimentation principle is the basic working principle of the hydrocyclone, i.e. the suspended particles are subjected to centrifugal acceleration separated from the liquid. The description of the solid phase in the liquid in the settling velocity Stowe Marxs law will remain in effect. 2018 5 28 · leading role in the movement of the 0.20μm particles. And it could be known other forces became larger than these on the 0.20 μm particles though the drag force still played a leading role. Experimental investigations on the motion trajectory of solid particles inside the hydrocyclone have been successfully carried out by using a high speed motion analyzer to track the particle movement.

Complete Search LAMBORGHINI CLUB DENMARK HOME HISTORY FERRUCCI LAMBORGHINI THE CARS THE COMPANY FERRUCCIO LAMBORGHINI Ferruccio Lamborghini was born 28 April 1916 in a small village in northern Italy called Renazzo. From childhood he had always had a big interest in motors. When he was old enough his parents arranged for him to go to an industrial college in Bologna. After a couple of years he graduated with a degree in industrial engineering and started to work at a repair workshop. In his twenties the second world war started and he served his country by working at an Italian air force base at Rhodes repairing vehicles. At the end of World War 2, he was more or less forced to continue work on allied vehicles until 1946. When he finally got home he began to repair broken tractors in Italy using parts from military vehicles. This was how he started his tractor factory which soon made him a very successfull buisnessman. He was the first to construct a "cheap" tractor that almost everybody could afford. But there was another problem, which was the price on fuel, so he constructed the engine so it could run on diesel. Now his tractor for the people was ready. Over the years he produced many different tractors, and he was the first to produce a 4WD tractor in Italy. As Ferruccio was very interested in design, the design of the tractors was also much improved to the regular tractors at the time, and he was the first to produce a tractor in the coulour yellow. Over the years he started to built heating, hydralics and aircondition units, and become a very succesful buisnessman. Ferruccio had always had a big interest in automobiles. But in the biginning when he did not have a lot of money. So in 1947 he bought a Fiat, and upgraded the engine so he could participate in "Mille Miglia", after his alterations the Fiat could go 260 km/h. On this car you can also see the first logo of Lamborghini. It had the letters "FLC" in it, "Ferruccio Lamborghini Cento", (Cento was the city where he had his tractor factory). He also built a go-kart for his kids, not the normal type with pedals, but one with a motorcykle-engine. His interest for cars, especially fast ones resultat in the purchase of several Ferrari's during these years. . But back in those days the Ferrari's roadcars (like many other supercars from that time), were not build very well. Many Ferrari owners were unsatisfied with their cars but they did not dare to complain because they then might not be allowed to buy one again. The reason for the poor service was that Enzo Ferrari spent most of his energy on his racingprogram and that the roadgoing cars were primarily built to raise money for the development of his racingcars. In the early sixties Ferruccio Lamborghini owned a Ferrari 250 GT and there was a lot of problems with the clutch. Though he had had it repaired at the Ferrari factory several times, they were never able to fix the problem. And this was where the legend of Lamborghini began. One time when Ferruccio Lamborghini had just gotten his Ferrari back from the factory where they should repair the clutch but since they still hadn't solved the problem Ferrucio decided to fix it himself. He fixed the problem by installing a clutch from one of his tractors, and was very pleased with the new clutch which work perfectly. He then went to pay Enzo Ferrari a visit and show him how he could fix the clutch problem on his Ferrari's. Even though he came and in a friendly tone, to explain how it could be done Enzo was not happy at all. The got into a little discussion and at the end Enzo told Ferrucio that he was just a simple peasent with no knowledge at all about fullblood exotic sportscars and should go back and drive his tractors. Ferruccio Lamborghini told Enzo that he would not buy any more Ferraris but from now on built his own cars. So he found the best men he could and began his adventure of building the perfect GT car. Not only would he make them better and faster but he also wanted to listen to his customers and help them with any trouble they might have with their cars. He started by building up hia new factory and the company "Lamborghini Automobili" only 15 km. from the Ferrari factory. He started on his new car in a corner of his tractor factory, before his car factory was ready, spending almost all his time developing his super GT car. He worked very close with his emploies because he wanted to be a part of every aspect in the development and was often the last man to turn off the lights. Late in October 1963 he first car was ready - it was the Lamborghini 350 GTV. The first prototype was just a chassis but not a real car, which you could also see on the finish of the car, where they had used aluminum folie instead of chrome. The second prototype was introduced in xxxx. But they did not have time to get it ready for the motorshow, so the second prototype was displayed without an engine and instead with 200 kg. of bricks to keep the front down. The engine was displayed next to the car. It was the first roadcar with indepent suspension on all 4 wheels, and the race-engine produced approx. 357 bhp. The first productioncar did not arrive until March 1964 and was then changed into the 350 GT, and even though the engine was detuned to 270 bhp, it still showed the whole world that Ferruccio could built a high-tech GT, superior to anything else on the road. After starting his Automotive adventure he also bought a speedboat, and since he was not wery satisfied with the american engine in the boat he decided to installe his own 4 liters V12 in the boat to increase speed. This worked very well and this was how he entered the powerboat industry, and for many years delivered engines and transmissions to the "Off Shore Race" (the Formula 1 of the sea). With his first powerboat engine from 1967 he set 2 records in december 1968. Fastest average speed for 1 hour: 109,00 km/h. Fastest average speed for 24 hour: 96.99 km/h. The engines were later much improved to approx. 1000 bhp a piece and there was now 2 engines per boat, and Lamborghini won 6 World Championships. The house where Ferruccio was born. Ferruccios first Lamborghini tractor. The first tractor with 4WD. First yellow tractor produced. The Fiat he raced in, in "Mille Miglia". The gokart Ferruccio built for his son. The boat of Ferruccio. The first power-boat engine. © 2019 - Michael R. 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Where to Apply with a Good UCAT Score – Part Three [2020 entry] Published on 9th October 2019 by LeighanneM Please note that this blog is just a guideline and we recommend conducting your own research and contacting the universities themselves before making any significant application decisions. Scored between 650-680 on your UCAT and unsure where to apply? In the third part of our Where to Apply with a 650 – 680 UCAT Score blogs, we look at a range of other medical schools that favour this type of UCAT score. Other good UCAT score university options: UCAT makes of 40% of selection for interview at Birmingham, and GCSEs the remaining 60%. 7 GCSEs are scored. These must include English Language, English Literature, Maths, Biology and Chemistry, plus 2 other subjects, with up to 6 points awarded. For the UCAT, the overall scores of applicants are separated into deciles and awarded up to 4 points. Be aware these are not the same as the overall deciles published on the UCAT website. Instead, these are the deciles of those applying to Birmingham. They comment these are likely to be different to last year's deciles, but only marginally (your score is unlikely to move more than one decile). Last year's deciles can be found here. Your UCAT and GCSEs collectively give you up to 10 points. Applicants are then ranked on this and a threshold is set, with those above the threshold receiving an interview. Up to 20% of interviews are for 'contextual applicants'. These are applicants from particular schools – around 90% of state schools are included. The threshold for contextual applicants is lower. For 2019 entry, the threshold for interview was 8.1, and 5.5 for contextual applicants. For 2018 entry, this was 8.09, and 6.67 for contextual applicants. For 2017 entry, this was 8.12 and 7.08 for contextual applicants. You can calculate an estimate of how many points you will receive on Birmingham's website. The Personal Statement is not usually used to select for an interview. The SJT is used at the interview stage. For international students, the application process is different, with students instead ranked off UCAT score. For 2019 entry, the total threshold score for interview was 2550. Students meeting this threshold then have their non-academic qualities assessed from their personal statement before being invited to interview. Dundee School of Medicine At Dundee, applicants are ranked on a combination of academics and overall UCAT score. Academics contributes 60% and has traditionally been scored using both GCSEs and achieved/predicted A-Levels. Your UCAT is then sorted into one of 10 different groups and given points based on this, contributing the other 40% of the ranking. This means that a low UCAT score can potentially be made up for with some good academics and vice versa. Strangely, Dundee has removed many details from their website regarding how applications are processed. Therefore, the information below represents what Dundee have said about applications in previous years: In the words of Dundee themselves: "There is no specific cut-off applied but obviously a high score is advantageous." So how high are we talking? Well, Dundee state that for the 2016 applicant cohort the average UCAT score of applicants invited for interview was 2740. For 2018 entry, the average UCAT score for all applicants, regardless of interview, was 2590. Once you are invited to interview, offers are made based purely on interview ranking and information on the UCAS form. The SJT is not used, but in the past Dundee have commented "Band 4 may affect the decision on whether or not to make an offer". Dundee comments "the high level of competition means the minimum qualifications will rarely secure an interview without an exceptional UCAT score." At Aberdeen, applicants are sorted into deciles depending on their overall UCAT scores. They are then allocated points, which contribute 20% towards the application process. 30% then comes from academic attainment or predictions. GCSEs are not scored. For academics, Aberdeen will award points for predicted or achieved grades, for example, A levels. An A* at A level will be awarded 27 points, and an A awarded 25 points. Those who have already achieved their A levels will be awarded an additional 5 points. As for the UCAT, Aberdeen comment: "UCAT is scored based on all applicants to Aberdeen. Applicants total scores are ranked, split into deciles. These deciles are then sub-divided into two. The maximum number of points available is 60. The minimum is 3." These two elements are used to select for interview (which will contribute the remaining 50%). For 2019 entry, the score to be selected for interview was 110 points. The SJT is not scored, may be used when making offers to applicants with similar scores. Although the personal statement is reviewed, it doesn't contribute to the scoring, but will be assessed during the interview. Amazing academics can compensate for a low UCAT, and vice versa. In fact, for 2018 entry the lowest UCAT score for an applicant given an interview was 2380. Be aware that for Scottish universities, there are separate places for Scottish students and for students from the rest of the UK. If applying the rest of the UK, there is more competition. For such students, the lowest UCAT score invited to interview for 2018 entry was 2440. Remember the interview makes up 50% of the overall application. This makes Aberdeen quite unique by using UCAT alongside interview. Most medical schools will forget about your score once you get to the interview stage, but not. If you secure an interview with a low UCAT score, you will have to do especially well at the interview to make up for this. The table below represents the highest and lowest UCAT scores for students invited to interview: The University of Sheffield Medical School During the first stage at Sheffield, applicants are screened to ensure they meet the medical school's minimum academic requirements. Applicants also need to achieve an overall UCAT score of 2420 or greater. All applicants meeting these requirements will advance to the second stage where they are ranked on their UCAT score. Those with the highest UCAT will be invited to interview. For 2019 entry the cut off score for interview was 657.5, for 2018 entry 672.5, and for 2017 entry 667. with Sheffield commenting the cut off points "fell around the 70th-73rd centile". So, to stand a good chance of an interview, a UCAT in the top 30% is likely needed, possibly higher. Sheffield also comment that there is no 'academic compensation'. This means exceeding their minimum academic requirements will not make up for a low UCAT score. 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Home » North American Dismantling Celebrates 30 Years of Safe Demolition North American Dismantling Celebrates 30 Years of Safe Demolition North American Dismantling works on an industrial demolition. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, North American Dismantling Corp., in Lapeer, Michigan, travels across the country to remove structures, accepting the challenging projects that require expertise. "The company is on a tremendous upswing," says Tim Seagraves, Marketing Director North American Dismantling. "We are going to grow, and it's unlimited where we can go." The company has built a reputation as an efficient, safe and economical demolition firm, using the newest equipment to bring down the most difficult selective and total demolition jobs. It currently has two powerhouse projects, one in Brillaint, Ohio, and another in Denver, Colorado. It also is demolishing an old plastics plant in Washington, West Virginia. "If the job is big enough, we will travel there," says Marty Radelt, Purchasing Director of North American Dismantling. "Leads come in from various types of advertising methods, one of them is our own website," Seagraves said. "In order to get pre-qualified, you have to have an excellent safety record. That's our lifeline, and we take it very seriously. In addition to rigorous employee training, another big contributor to our excellent safety record is the type of specialty equipment that we use. The more the machine can do, the less the men are in harm's way." Radelt reports that it may be hard to obtain a first job with a new customer, but once North American Dismantling successfully completes that project, the owner will bring the company back for other demo jobs. "Once we do these difficult jobs, we are on their bid lists," Radelt says. "We are our best marketing people." On every job, North American Dismantling brings expertise in engineering, environmental assessment, remediation and specialty construction. Crews analyze, define and evaluate a project, before developing and then implementing the most cost- and time-efficient methods for completing the job. The company is fully insured and is capable of bonding any size demolition project. The company completes the work with its own employees, a core group of about 75 people, which have worked with North American Dismantling for 15 or more years. It will bring in additional union personnel as necessary. "It's challenging work, and you don't do the same thing every day," Radelt says. "We attribute the longevity to the leadership team. It's a good working environment. There is not a lot of turnover of key people." The company will subcontract and supervise environmental assessment and abatement. Asbestos abatement may take six months to complete, before North American can start tearing down the buildings. "Every job is unique," Seagraves reports. "It may look cookie cutter on the outside, but each job is different. You have to be able to adapt to every situation and that's one of the assets we have." Building on a History of Success Rick Marcicki, President of North American Dismantling, began the company in 1984, starting off by demolishing houses. He then moved on to commercial and industrial projects, while continuing to tear down houses, about 400 last year in Flint, Michigan. Currently, the company has focused much attention on power industry and automobile projects. "We do a lot of automotive strip outs for the big three," Radelt says. The company also has completed projects for Toyota and Honda in Indiana and Tennessee. At a plant with a full assembly line, North American can go in and gut the building to prepare for a new assembly line or surgically remove portions of the plant's equipment without disrupting operations. "It takes a skilled workforce to maneuver that dance," Radelt says. "It takes a lot of preplanning." Typically, the change outs occur during the summer to prepare for producing the new auto models. There might be complete strip-outs of conveyors, paint systems and welding areas. "It's aggressive, weekends, burn the midnight oil, three shifts if necessary to get the work done," Seagraves adds. "We excel at this type of work."North American Dismantling also has a strong track record of demolishing stadiums both for universities and pro clubs, including the Crisler Arena retrofit at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. And it is focused now on power plant projects. As governmental regulations raise emission standards, many utilities must upgrade. "We've only seen the tip of the iceberg, and there are only so many demolition contractors who can do the work," Seagraves says. "We want to have a lot of diversification." Demoing with the Right Equipment Some of North American Dismantling's projects require heavy machinery with a high reach, while others, working inside a plant doing a strip out need smaller equipment. "We have a wide range of diverse equipment in our fleet," Seagraves says. The company has purchased much of that specialized equipment from Alta Equipment Co. in Wixom, Michigan, including in 2014 eight Volvo excavators EC140, EC160, two EC235, EC300, two EC380 and EC700 units. "Alta is growing and doing what they need to do to not only earn but keep the business," Radelt says. "Volvo has done a lot to cater to the demolition world, protecting key components of the excavators and equipment." The company recently purchased a Volvo 700, with a Ultra High Reach Stick, and used it on a project in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. The structure under the brick had rotted, so North American crews shored it up. The structure was next to another building, not slated for demolition. "They had to cut it and work down," Radelt says. "That's where the 700 came in and did an outstanding job." Working on ever-larger projects in tight quarters, North American Dismantling purchased a CAT 5110. The company selected this ultra high-reach due to the ability to obtain parts and its ability to handle sheers. The ultra high-reach reduces man hours needed, cutting time and safety hazards, while increasing productivity. "We own one of the largest high reaches in North America, a CAT 5110, which will reach up to 182 feet, with a decent shear," Radelt says. "As it steps down, the sheer gets bigger. That's the true advantage of the high reach. At 130 feet, we can put a 20,000-pound sheer on it and go to work." With an upgraded fleet and an experienced team, North American Dismantling is poised to take down whatever needs demolishing. From selective demos to retrofit-conversion projects, the company provides quality workmanship and cost-effective solutions. 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Hoseasons to recruit more staff Published: 7:19 AM April 10, 2009 Updated: 9:37 PM October 10, 2020 A Lowestoft-based holiday company is expanding its call centre in the town as it prepares to benefit from a boom in people taking their holidays in the UK. Hoseasons is set to recruit about 15 new staff in the coming weeks to meet increased demand from customers and travel agents. The company has reported record business through its call centre, with more than 3,000 calls being taken on the busiest days, and record levels of bookings being taken through its website. Chief executive Richard Carrick said: '2009 looks like being a very good year for us. The combination of uncertain economic times and a weak currency means that many Britons are rediscovering the exceptional value and high quality of holidaying in the UK. 'We have worked hard over the past few years to ensure that we have the right portfolio of products to meet the demands of today's holidaymakers, which means we are well placed to take advantage of the increase in families choosing to take their holidays in the UK in 2009.' Hoseasons currently employs 250 staff at its Raglan Road headquarters. 10 Timeline: When should you receive the coronavirus vaccine?

NAMI Santa Clara County in collaboration with Good Samaritan Hospital brings a reputable community expert to speak about one of the critical areas which directly impact the quality of life for those affected by a mental illness. This monthly General Meeting is open to anyone interested in learning more about mental illness. The General Meeting is held in the auditorium at Good Samaritan Hospital on the second Tuesday of each month (except July, August & December). We meet at 7:00 PM, with everyone sharing information and welcoming newcomers. At 7:30 PM there is a half-hour information session on NAMI Santa Clara County activities. Our featured program presentation begins at 8:00 PM. May: Presentation: Healing from Within: Can Meditation Make Us Healthier?

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NY's Card. Egan responds to Rep. Pelosi Posted on 26 August 2008 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf His Eminence Edward Card. Egan of New York has issued a press release in response to Speak Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) remarks on Meet The Press last Sunday. Let's look with my emphases and comments. Statement on Remarks by Speaker Pelosi FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2008 STATEMENT OF HIS EMINENCE, EDWARD CARDINAL EGAN CONCERNING REMARKS MADE BY THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Like many other citizens of this nation, I was shocked to learn that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America would make the kind of statements that were made to Mr. Tom Brokaw of NBC-TV on Sunday, August 24, 2008. What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age. [Indeed, "utterly incredible"… in the sense that no one who said what she says can credibly claim to have either studied what the Church says or can claim to be an ardent Catholic. We simply cannot believe her.] We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers. No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor [whew] could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb. In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being "chooses" to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name. [Exactly.] Edward Cardinal Egan Archbishop of New York WDTPRS Kudos to Card. Egan! 26 Aug: St. Melchisedech Washington's Archbp. Wuerl responds to Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) LCB says: My heart has been lifted the last several. Something has gotten into the water of our bishops! Paul Haley says: The Catholic Bishops are rightly offended by Pelosi's preposterous claims and they are lining up in favor of traditional church teaching. Deo gratias! I suspect Blessed Mother had some inspiration in this matter since we are in her holy 30 days. Finally, catholic bishops are speaking as with one voice to demolish the arguments of the pro-choice crowd. Fr. Steve says: Deo Gratias! LCB, I think the couragious wittness of our Holy Father is rubbing off. I have also noticed something different in the air since his election. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says: As I write, Rush is reading Egan's statement. Millions more will have heard it now. Agnes B. Bullock says: WOW!!!!! Shades of Cardinal O'Connor!!!! I have to be honest, re-reading this statement has caused me to tear up a bit. I never thought I'd see the day when an American Cardinal stood up like this to any politician (much less a prominent democrat). And on abortion no less. After reading Archbishop Wuerl's statement last night, I too felt that the Pope's visit in April has indeed strengthened the bishops. Deo gratias! Jerry Boyd says: Speaker Pelosi has, I think, done the Church in the United States a rather large favor. So outlandish were her comments that even some Bishops who historically have been reluctant to take strong public stands in support of Church teaching have been forced to do so. Frankly I wish Pelosi and others (Kennedy, Biden, Kulangowski, etc) would continue to misrepresent Church teaching forcing the Bishops to more and more frequently and forcibly correct the public record. If they did so often enough perhaps it would become a habit and perhaps they would develop the intestinal fortitude to publicly emphasize Church teaching on a regular basis. Perhaps even a public discussion of "SIN" (oh my gosh I didn't use that word did I?) and its consequences might prove to be within their capability. This election, in particular, provides perhaps the best opportunity I have seen in my 60 + years for the Catholic Church in the United States to make a difference. Rather than restrict their public statements to only social justice issues (important but not THE most important) they have a great opportunity collectively and individually to strongly emphasize life issues. Pray that they will do so. Rose in NE says: Wow! Keep praying for our bishops! It's refreshing to see them courageously stand up for the truth. I think – and maybe I am wrong – that the Bishops have tried the "let's be patient with them" approach for awhile and they may be starting to see that the enemies of the Church aren't just coming around to the truths of the Faith. They are obstinate (many of them) and I think that may, in the long run, cause the Bishops to speak and act more boldly. God bless Card. Egan! I have to say Archbishop Wuerl's letter wasn't all that strong but it was good he put out a statement. He was our Bishop formerly and his emphasis has always been on catechesis as the way to lead Catholics to be more faithful, not by punishments or strong words of rebuke. Sadly I think we live in a day and age when most people will simply blow off easy words that lack the rebuke – and ultimately I think stronger actions will need to be taken too. May Our Lord draw the hearts of those in the Church who are speaking falsehoods back to the fullness of truth. Pax Christi tecum. Paul Murnane says: Thank you, Cardinal Egan! It looks like some momentum is building; let's pray that Archbishop Niederauer finds the time to respond. Do you think the alleged "newspaper of record" aka the New York Slimes will run the Cardinal's statement or surpress it and just hope it goes away? Perhaps they will write a thundering editorial in support of an intrinsic evil! Tom Brian Walden says: "utterly incredible" – ineffable even! Thank you Cardinal Egan, and thank you Archbishop Chaput for setting off this highly contagious bout of spinefulness. May the virus spread to all the bishops of the world. AmericanPapist says: Niederauer's diocese has opted to merely republish the USCCB statement: http://www.americanpapist.com/2008/08/breaking-pelosis-home-archdiocese.html On another blog I wrote the following: I see the influence of Blessed Mother in this action by the bishops to strongly enforce traditional catholic teaching in this matter. She, who must be most horrified at the slaughter of babies in the womb, must have interceded with Her Divine Son to inspire the bishops to speak unequivocally and with one voice. Has the tide turned and will they continue to show the courage they are showing at this moment in time? May it please God that it will be so. And thank God that Archbishop Chaput led the charge and his brother bishops have joined the cause. I include it here because it is apropos to the discussion and I add: God bless our bishops for rallying to the cause and may it be the beginning of a landslide in favor of Tradition. Dan Soderlund says: Outstanding! I praise God that some of the hierchy of the Church are finally standing up to be counted! Jn 5:29 "Those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned." Let us all pray in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament that the leaders of the Church and the leaders of our country will be converted. Sam Schmitt says: I like how the Cardinal did not "lay down the law" as if it was simply a matter of Church (or "Vatican") teaching – like going to Mass on Sundays. (This way it can't be twisted by the secular media.) He made it very clear that this is a matter of basic humanity and natural law, that anyone who refuses see the facts in front of his or her face – the living human being in the womb – is not fit to govern. mpm says: Sam Schmitt, Me too. His statement frames the issue very well. Kradcliffe says: I once had the "St. Augustine said this and Thomas Aquinas said that…" argument thrown at me, and I didn't have a ready response to it. I think it's a common one by pro-abortionists. So, I'm glad to hear such clear refutation of it from various bishops. Fr. Angel says: Sam Schmitt: I completely agree with you. Cardinal Egan's statement is quick, to the point, and brings to the fore what millions of couples already know but need to be reminded of. The tiny human being in the womb can be seen now with clarity. It is irrelevant and patently useless to speak of what the theologians have to say about that child's right to life. We can see for ourselves the obvious–there is a human being who is observed as manifestly human and must be protected with every human right by the leaders of a civilized society. Our common sense and humanity have all the guess work taken out of the equation by the technology of the times. Invoking the arguments between doctors of the Church regarding ensoulment is quite laughable now as we see a little hand wave to us and cut through the nonsense. Besides the great joy of seeing the bishops defending the teaching of the Church regarding the unborn children, it is most gratifying to see Rush Limbaugh employing the immense power of his radio show to make this defense known and understood to his audience, most of whom would not have the time to wade through all the words of argumentation. Henry Edwards says: Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being "chooses" to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name. Is this not the finest single sentence on this subject yet penned by anyone — priest or bishop, lay or pope? TerryC says: Pelosi has finally done it. In every great ideological war there is a point, not always recognized at the time, when the side which is wrong so overplays their hand that the hollowness of their arguments and falsehoods of their statements cause a tipping of the great pendulum against them. This may be that time for the supporters of infanticide. Pelosi may have done it. I was elated to see Cardinal Egan not appeal to the teachings of the Church fathers or to the history of Catholic theology but to modern science. Its about time we started to undercut the enemies of life on their own terms. Science proves that it is a human person. I think Cardinal Egan is my new hero. That last sentence was beautiful. The good old days. Sigh…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y75OwTuQpqI Thank God for Pope Benedict. This is all a direct result of his leadership. May he live another hundred years. J.R. Benedict says: Many years to Cardinal Egan! Phil (NL) says: Ecce sacerdos magnus! TNCath says: Ka-BOOM! Now THAT was a cardinal archbishop speaking! Cardinal Egan has effectively summed up Church teaching (without even directly referring to it), modern science, and basic civilization in one brief statement. At this point, it may very well be the definitive response to this "utterly incredible" discussion, for there is no legitimate, intelligent rebuttal to what he said. rj57 says: God bless Cardinal Egan.

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Paballo Lephaka Paballo Lephaka 7 January 2020, 9:47 AM | Reuters | @SABCNewsOnline Tags: Rape, Sexual Assault, Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo movement Film producer Harvey Weinstein departs Criminal Court on the first day of a sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 6 2020. Lawyers in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial will begin selecting jurors on Tuesday, a challenging process in the wake of the #MeToo movement and fresh sex crime charges brought against the former film producer. Hours after Weinstein's New York trial started on Monday, Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey charged Weinstein with the sexual assault of two unidentified women in 2013. Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting two women in New York. He faces life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge, predatory sexual assault. The once powerful film producer is known for reshaping movie-making with low-budget, critically acclaimed films such as "The English Patient" and "Shakespeare in Love." The Los Angeles charges come as potential jurors in New York were scheduled to arrive at court on Tuesday and fill out questionnaires to determine if they can be impartial. A second phase of selection, in which a final jury of 12 will be picked, is expected to begin a week later, though Judge James Burke has called that date "optimistic." Given the high-profile nature of the case, the court cast a wide net, sending out jury summonses to 2 000 New Yorkers. Based on past experience, a court spokesperson said about 500 were likely to show up for jury duty. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration, said the number of jurors summoned for Weinstein is roughly five times the number for a typical trial. Jill Huntley Taylor, a jury expert at the trial consulting firm Dispute Dynamics, said the new charges announced Monday in Los Angeles will increase the challenge of picking a fair jury. "It's one more opportunity for jurors to be exposed to the allegations against him," she said. More than 80 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct dating back decades. Weinstein has denied the allegations, saying any sexual encounters he had were consensual. The allegations propelled the #MeToo movement, which led to men in politics and business being expelled from positions of power following accusations of sexual misconduct. Allegations against Weinstein first were reported in the New York Times and The New Yorker magazine in October 2017. The New York prosecutors have charged Weinstein with assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006. Prosecutors say Weinstein raped the second woman, who has not been publicly identified, in 2013. Experts said lawyers for Weinstein and the prosecution will need to be wary of jurors who may try and mask their bias so they can serve on a headline-grabbing trial. Some jurors may seek to use the trial as a means of advancing a personal cause, a concern in a case that has become a flashpoint for ending sexual harassment. "They may think, 'I want to be the one to make sure he goes to jail. I want to be the one to do justice,'" said Roy Futterman, a New York jury consultant. Weinstein in October lost a bid to move the trial to suburban Long Island or to Albany, New York state's capital. He said intense media scrutiny made it impossible for jurors to give him a fair trial in Manhattan. The defence asked at Monday's hearing that the jury be sequestered, a request the judge denied. Rape Sexual Assault Harvey Weinstein #MeToo movement This entry was posted on 07 Jan 2020,09:47AM at 9:47 AM and is filed under Lifestyle, Homepage Latest Stories Slider. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Previous Oberholzer congratulates 2019 matriculants Next Matric IEB top achievers attribute achievements to hard work

HomeDutch Author Says His Aunt May Have Betrayed Anne Frank Dutch Author Says His Aunt May Have Betrayed Anne Frank JTAApril 7, 2015Image by wikipedia Image by wikipedia A Dutch author published a book alleging that his aunt may have told Nazi authorities where to find Anne Frank and her family. The allegation appeared in a biography that was published Tuesday about the Dutch resistance activist Elisabeth "Bep" Voskuijl. The book, coauthored by Voskuijl's son and the Flemish journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, explores the possibility that one of Elisabeth Voskuijl's sisters, Nelly, was a Nazi collaborationist who may have revealed the whereabouts of the hideout where her sister was helping the Franks hide. Elisabeth Voskuijl was a typist who worked for Otto Frank, Anne's father, and helped the resistance fighter Miep Gies care for the Franks during their two years in hiding. The information about Nelly Voskuijl came from testimonies by another sister, Diny, and Bertus Hulsman, who was Elisabeth Voskuijl's fiance during the war. According to the new book, Nelly Voskuijl served as a Nazi collaborator for four years, until she was 23. "The painful but evident conclusion is that we can add her to the long list of suspects" in the betrayal of the Franks to the Gestapo, the authors wrote in the Dutch-language book titled "Bep Voskuijl, Silence No More." The identity of the person who gave up the Franks has remained a mystery that prompted much speculation after the 1947 publication of Anne Frank's wartime diary, which she wrote among other works during her two years in hiding in Amsterdam. An international best-seller, the diary made her one of the world's best-known Holocaust victims. Elisabeth Voskuijl died in 1983 at the age of 63 from kidney disease. Though she generally declined to give interviews about her time in the resistance, she remained in contact with Otto Frank – the only member of the family to have survived the Holocaust – after the war. Nelly Voskuijl died in 2001.

Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray Steve Ray's Writings Other's Writings Books for Lovers Books that Influenced Me Life and Passion of Christ Peter and the Primacy Study St. John's Gospel Internet Sites Movies, Videos & DVDs Audio & Video Clips Michuta vs. White Debate 15% off Software Invite Steve to Speak / Press Kit Steve's Schedule of Events Ask Steve to Speak Request Form Recommendations & Endorsements About The Ray Family Contact Steve Why I'm Catholic Conversion Stories Discovered the place where Jacob fell asleep and saw the ladder sending to heaven by Steve Ray on January 6, 2014 Bethel Israel It was off the beaten track and in a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian area. This is the traditional place where Jacob fell asleep with his head on a stone and had a dream of a ladder going to heaven with angels ascending and descending. St. Chromatius wrote, "The Ladder is the Cross of Christ: Through the resurrection of Christ the way was opened. Therefore with good reason the patriarch Jacob relates that he had seen in that place a ladder whose end reached heaven and that the Lord leaned on it. Very awesome to stand on the very place this happened! "The ladder fixed to the ground and reaching heaven is the cross of Christ, through which the access to heaven is granted to us, because it actually leads us to heaven. On this ladder different steps of virtue are set, through which we rise toward heaven: faith, justice, chastity, holiness, patience, piety and all the other virtues are the steps of this ladder. If we faithfully climb them, we will undoubtedly reach heaven. And therefore we know well that the ladder is the symbol of the cross of Christ. As, in fact, the steps are set between two uprights, so the cross of Christ is placed between the two Testaments and keeps in itself the steps of the heavenly precepts, through which we climb to heaven." Sermon 1.6. Jesus is the one mediator of the New Covenant – to provide access for sinful men to reach a holy God. He and His Cross are the ladder between heaven and earth. As Scripture says, "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. (1 Tim 2:5). (By the way, this verse has nothing to do with the Communion of Saints or asking for the intercession of the saints!) For 1st Time Women Can Now Drive In Saudi Arabia :-) These new cars especially designed for Muslim women to drive in Saudi Arabia. For those oblivious to the facts: in Saudi Arabia it is illegal for women to go out in public without a man and their face covered with a Burka, and they are forbidden to drive. Art, Music & Science (73) Artifacts & Biblical History (173) Biblical Exposition (260) Canon Law (129) Catholic Answers Live (132) Catholic Controversies (54) Catholic Issues (295) Computers-Software (49) Conversions (240) Death & Dying (6) Eastern Churches (3) Evangelization (23) Family and Kids (239) Footprints of God DVD's (180) Fun Stuff (398) Health/Running (156) Heresy, Cults (10) Holidays/Feast Days (203) Homosexuality (12) Israel and Middle East (215) Jesus/Godhead (71) Jews & Judaism (36) Liturgy & Priesthood (145) Mary (111) Moral/Sexual Issues (255) Movies, TV & Media (100) Nature & Birds (21) News, In the (111) Papacy & Catholic Hierarchy (168) Patristics/Church History (30) Persecution, Suffering (30) Pilgrimage (447) Pilgrimages (1,469) Politics/United States (580) Pope Benedict (73) Pope Francis (126) Prayer & Spiritual Life (164) ProLife & Family Issues (396) Protestant/Other Christians (135) Radio & TV Shows, Steve's (245) Radio & TV, others (16) Religions, Non-Christian (46) Reviews, Critiques, Surveys (127) Riddles and Fun (166) Sacraments & Sacramentals (126) Saints and Fathers (180) Social Issues & Action (168) Sports & Celebrities (7) Steve's Talks & Real Audio (110) Steve's Writings (87) Teaching & Suggestions (93) Video Clips (112) Website, mine (62) Website, others (42) JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019 Copyright © 2000–2019 Stephen K. Ray. All Rights Reserved.

Hailing from South London, Burial doesn't play live or DJ, at least under this guise, and has managed to remain, in an age of information overload, totally anonymous. It is the music, and the music only, that matters. Burial first emerged in 2005 with the South London Burroughs EP, and has, following the release of his debut album in 2006, published a further two EPs. His second album, Untrue, takes his sound to an entirely new level. While Burial laid out utterly glacial, largely instrumental, compositions, Untrue reveals sumptuous soundscapes, wrapped around deconstructed vocal samples. Below the beats, the sonic backdrops have become richer, warmer, denser, and add an element of tension to Burial's sound. Right from the onset of the achingly beautiful Archangel, which, following an untitled atmospheric vignette, opens the album, the tone is set. A voice twisted, distorted and looped cascades over a devastating groove and shifts the focus from the beat to the intrinsically human aspect of the music. Although segments of phrases can be heard, they are assembled in no particular order, emphasizing the emotional aspect of the music through sound rather than words. All the way through Untrue, Burial assembles haunting abstract tales of suburban life, places them against sombre landscapes and renders them with implacable beats, creating an incredibly coherent and consistent collection which has very little in common with anything else around. Each track takes on a particular dimension, with its own miniature world deployed for all to contemplate; yet, beats resonate from one piece to the next, sound waves echo in multiple instances throughout, bass lines ripple well after they have crumbled and disappeared. Untrue is moody, tensed, emotional and threatening in a way that its predecessor only hinted at. Near Dark, Homeless or Raver pursue the thread began with Archangel as Burial throws debris of vocal samples, processed and cut in such a way that one is left to join the dots in any way they see fit, while the music and rhythmic patterns develop and act upon the emotional core of the respective pieces. Ghost Hardware, Etched Headplate or Untrue are more introvert pieces, with the rhythmic drive pulled back and given a less upfront slant, but the impressionist canvas upon which Burial works remains as vibrant and poignant. When Burial drops the beats entirely, his compositions become dense and vaporous textural ambient essays which only consolidate the atmospheric spread of this record. Of these, In McDonalds, with its warm elegant waves that come crashing over rudimentary female vocals, is the most heart-wrenching here. Endorphin and Dog Shelter swerve between the vast scope of underlying sound waves, the haunting calls that fly past and the recurring static crackles that are heard bubbling just below their respective surface. Very much like Autechre or Photek in the early stage of his career, Burial devises a sound that is not only uniquely his, but which revolves outside of common musical forms. With Untrue, he overcomes the difficult second album syndrome with elegance. As he revisits the minimal tones of his debut and adds dense layers of textures and emotion, he opens up his sound and reinforces it to the point where his debut album now almost pales into insignificance. Blimey, you really do like this one a lot, don't you? A nice and enthusiastic piece from a slightly different perspective than others I've read. You've not mentioned anything about the echoes and ghosts of a decade's worth of UK urban/suburban dance music, which I think are soooo integral to the sound, but it's nice to read a different point of view. "Untrue is moody, tensed, emotional and threatening in a way that its predecessor only hinted at." In reference to this comment though, I would suggest a close re-listen to the first album again and also perhaps, the track "Exit Woundz" from the b-side of the "Ghost Hardware" 12″. I think the Photek comparison is always pertinent and he's a very obvious influence. Both are seemingly particularly obsessed with texture and rhythm and both come from "inside" their scenes (jungle/d&b and (post-)UKG) and are somewhat reverent to them while doing something strikingly new. On the Hyperdub site there's a little interview with Burial where he says he's listened to nothing much aside of A Guy Called Gerald's "Black Secret Technology" for about a year. Interesting, as when Gerald was working in jungle he was another insider/outsider pushing the envelope like Photek – but crucially had a much bigger interest in melody and vocals. His often cheap, pulled-from-a-dustbin drum sounds bear more than a passing resemble to Burial's too. Or the other way around. I am really bowled over much more by Untrue than I was by Burial, I think partly because it is much closer to the kind of sound I love. It's virtually taken over my iPod at the moment. I just can't get enough of it. I just really love how he combines beats, ambient textures and vocals, it just works incredibly. I haven't made any reference to the 'ghosts of music past', partly because everybody else does, but that's not a good enough reason. London is probably very much part of his sound, but somehow it is not something I feel strongly in the music. I am probably the only one in this case, and I don't think it's got anything to do with the fact that I am not originally from London. I understand what you mean though, and it is something that he emphasises quite strongly in the interview he gave to the Wire, especially as he kinda missed the whole rave thing as he was too young, but his older brother was going to them and buying all these records that channelled the kind of energy of raves, and he grew up with that as a point of reference. He's kinda nostalgic about something he's never really lived, that's what his music is based on. You're right about the tension and moods being present on earlier tracks, and that is what kept his first album so tight, but I think they are crystallised in a very particular way on the new album or recent EP tracks, including the Ghost Hardware EP in its whole. Shutta is an awesome example of this. I was listening to Modus Operandi the other day. It still sounds blinding now, and I would think that both Burial and Untrue will sound as fresh in ten or fifteen years time.

Minakami-machi is visited by many students from overseas as part of their International Educational Tours. They enjoy skiing, and experience the joy of woodworking and glass sculpture in Takumi-no-Sato. They spend the nights in the hospitable farming community of Minakami-machi. Time flies when you're having fun, and when they finally have to say goodbye, some students turn on the waterworks.

With so much going on every day in your life, it can be very easy for you to suddenly feel like you do not have enough energy to get through the day. Most people today lead very hectic lives and it seems to go nonstop morning until night with all that needs to be done. Between your work responsibilities, things that need to be done at home, and any extracurricular activities that exist for you and your family it can be hard to find just a few minutes in each day to take a breath let alone have enough energy to get through all. That is why more and more people are seeking out ways to get the energy they need to feel good throughout the day. One of the best approaches you can take for yourself is to explore the use of natural energy supplements and pills to help provide you with just the boost that you need. Natural energy pills and boosters are much different than many of the typical products that you see advertised in magazines and on television today. 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Longtime CBS programming and diversity executive, Jeanne Mau, has been promoted to senior vice president of entertainment diversity and inclusion, the company announced today. In her new role, Mau will supervise the CBS Directing Initiative and Writers Mentoring Program. She'll also collaborate with producers and showrunners to advocate for inclusivity in all aspects of their storytelling, and will represent the company at film and television festivals to search for new talent. Mau will report to Tiffany Smith-Anoa'i, executive vice president of entertainment diversity, inclusion and communications for CBS Entertainment. Mau joined CBS in 2000 and has received numerous promotions. Prior to joining the network, she served as an assistant in the motion picture marketing department at Paramount Pictures.

The Free Library > Business and Industry > Agricultural industry > African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development > June 1, 2010 The Free Library > Health > Food/cooking/nutrition > African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development > June 1, 2010 The Free Library > Health > Health, general > African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development > June 1, 2010 The Free Library > Date > 2010 > June > 1 > African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development Control of Tribolium confusum J. Du Val by diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) on stored groundnut (arachis hypogaea) and Aspergillus flavus link spore dispersal. <a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Control+of+Tribolium+confusum+J.+Du+Val+by+diatomaceous+earth...-a0234063534</a> MLA style: "Control of Tribolium confusum J. Du Val by diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) on stored groundnut (arachis hypogaea) and Aspergillus flavus link spore dispersal.." The Free Library. 2010 Rural Outreach Program 22 Jan. 2020 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Control+of+Tribolium+confusum+J.+Du+Val+by+diatomaceous+earth...-a0234063534 Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. Control of Tribolium confusum J. Du Val by diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) on stored groundnut (arachis hypogaea) and Aspergillus flavus link spore dispersal.." Retrieved Jan 22 2020 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Control+of+Tribolium+confusum+J.+Du+Val+by+diatomaceous+earth...-a0234063534 APA style: Control of Tribolium confusum J. Du Val by diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) on stored groundnut (arachis hypogaea) and Aspergillus flavus link spore dispersal.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Jan 22 2020 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Control+of+Tribolium+confusum+J.+Du+Val+by+diatomaceous+earth...-a0234063534 Storage of agricultural produce is part of the post-harvest system through which food material passes on its way from field to consumer. It is generally accepted that 5-15% of the total weight of all cereals, oilseeds, and pulses is lost after harvest [1]. There is a continuous need to protect the stored products against deterioration, especially loss of quality and weight during storage. Quantitative and qualitative losses of stored grains may result from the feeding and waste production by insects, mites, rodents and birds or from the growth of microorganisms all of which are influenced by environmental conditions. Insects, mites and fungi may cause hydrolysis and oxidation and decrease the level of certain nutrients in stored products or even form toxic substances such as mycotoxins. Mould contamination in stored groundnuts has been found to be closely associated with insect infestations [2, 3, 4, 5]. Controlling insects during storage may also contribute towards reducing spread of fungal spores within the storage system. The mean % incidence of Aspergillus flavus in insect damaged samples of wheat was much higher (87%) than in insect-free samples (25%) [6]. In damaged wheat kernels, A. flavus growth was observed inside the holes caused by the insects [6]. This report is in agreement with the findings on the migration of the mite Tyrophagus putrescentiae Schrank and its ability to disperse the toxigenic fungus A. flavus from artificially contaminated lots of maize grains [5]. Fungal growth was more marked in compartments containing grains inoculated with both mites and fungi than in compartments containing grains inoculated with fungi only [5]. This is indicative of the fact that mites constantly move within the storage site, and hence improving the dispersal of fungi and other microorganisms that are carried around on their body surfaces or delivered on their faeces. When investigating the impact of grain pests on seed deterioration and aflatoxins production, fungal growth was observed on legs, antennae, at the joints and even over the whole body surface of insects [4]. In the same study, a decrease in insects, Tribolium castaneum Herbst and Sitophilus oryzae L., in A. flavus infected maize was reported [4]. The decline was attributed to the ability of A. flavus to modify a favourable insect growth environment into an unfavourable one. Various storage fungi, including Aspergilli, have been found to be valuable dietary supplements to insects found in storage [7, 8]. The insect mortalities may be due to aflatoxins in the contaminated grains [4]. On the contrary insects on mouldy grain may be able to metabolize toxic fungal metabolites [9]. For example, the fungus feeding Carpohilus hemipterus L. is unaffected by 25 ppm of aflatoxin B1 in the diet and is ten times more efficient in metabolizing the Fusarium-produced 4-monoacetxyscirpenol than non-fungus-feeding caterpillars. Insect damaged seeds tend to have higher levels of aflatoxins than undamaged seeds. The level of aflatoxin B1 on insect-damaged wheat samples varied from 113 to 1248 mg/kg while the two insect-free samples contained 85 and 113 [micro]g/kg [6]. The use of pesticides is one of the ways of controlling storage insect pests. However, the choice of pesticides for storage pest control is very limited because of the strict requirements imposed for the safe use of synthetic insecticides on or near food. The continuous use of chemical pesticides for control of stored-grain pests has resulted in serious problems such as insecticide resistance [10]. Chemicals used for the control of stored product pests, or as protectants, need also to be compared with the suitability and effectiveness of alternative methods of control. Non-chemical methods are attractive since they neither leave chemical residues in the commodity nor do they cause resistance in insects. In recent years, awareness of the consequences of environmental pollution, the increasing cost of storage insecticides and the growing problem of insect resistance, has led pest management specialists to reappraise inert dusts. Inert dusts include silica aerogels, kaolin, sand and diatomaceous earths (diatomite). Diatomaceous earths (DE) are the fossilized remains of diatoms, composed mainly of amorphous hydrated silica, but also other minerals including aluminium, iron oxide, magnesium, sodium and lime. Source of these dusts are either of marine or freshwater origin; the former are said to be more effective [11, 12, 13]. Diatomaceous earths of marine origin are effective against storage insects at about 0.1% (w/w), but commercially available products are often enhanced by other compounds, e.g. ammonium fluorosilicate. Products of fresh-water origin require at least twice the dosage to produce similar levels of insect control [11]. Unlike conventional contact insecticides, DEs like other inert dusts function through their physical properties and are, therefore, generally slower acting [11]. Insect mortality is induced primarily as a result of desiccation. Water loss is a consequence of the destruction of the wax cuticle [12, 13]. Although DEs, having small dense particles of silicon dioxide, were said to abrade the cuticle, they also function by adsorbing the wax [14]. The action of DEs is not dependent on metabolic pathways and therefore, it has been postulated that insects will not be selected genetically by the action of these dusts, leading to physiological resistance. Nevertheless, it may be possible for insects to develop a behavioural response to the dust and avoid contact [11]. Another advantage of DEs over conventional insecticides is their low mammalian toxicity. In the USA, diatomaceous earths are 'Generally Recognised as Safe' by the US Food and Drug Administration and are registered for use as food additives [14]. Studies on the effectiveness of diatomaceous earths have been reported. Insecto, a diatomaceous earth formulation containing 86.7% armophous silica (silicon dioxide), 3% crystalline silica; and 10% food grade additives was shown to effect total mortality of 1st instars of T. castaneum when applied to maize, Zea mays L. at 0.5 and 1 g/kg rates. At the same rates of Insecto, mortality of Oryzaephilus surinamensis L. and Plodia interpunctella Hubner 1st instars was 96-97 and 86-97% respectively [15]. Complete suppression in emergence of T. castaneum and P. interpunctella adults at 1 g/kg Insecto application rate and 98% emergence of O. surinamensis have been reported [15]. The efficacy of Protect-It (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) formulation of diatomaceous earth (DE) to control internal infestations of rice weevil and maize weevil has been reported [13]. The mortality of S. oryzae and Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky emerging from kernels in wheat treated with DE was always greater than controls, and ranged from 56 to 90% at 22[degrees]C and was > 90% at 27 and 32[degrees]C [13]. Diatomaceous earth product Fossil ShieldR was shown to be lethal to adult Tenebrio molitor L. and Tribolium confusum J. du Val [16]. Fossil ShieldR was lethal to 1st instar larvae of P. interpunctella, but not lethal to older larval stages, while two-week old larvae of T. confusum were more sensitive to diatomaceous earth than P. interpunctella at the same age [13]. Contact with diatomaceous earth caused adult Sitophilus granarius L. to lose weight and reduced their water content, suggesting disruption of 'the water barrier' [16]. Increased mortality of T. castaneum and T. confusum with increased temperature and exposure interval to diatomaceous earth (Protect-It) has been reported [12]. On- farm trials in Buhera and Binga districts in Zimbabwe demonstrated that maize can effectively be protected from insect damage by admixture with either Protect-It or Dryacide at 1 g/kg of grain [17]. The application diatomaceous earth (Protect-It) to commodities already infested with internal feeders, such as S. oryzae and S. zeamais, could help eliminate or suppress the infestation [13]. Work on the use of diatomaceous earth to control stored product insect pests and hence suppress fungal spore dispersal is non-existent in Botswana. This fact forms the basis of the research reported here. Groundnut samples Fifty kilograms of shelled, sound, and mature kernels of groundnuts, variety Nyanda were purchased from Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board and used in this study. Rearing of Insects One hundred (100) of Tribolium confusum adult insects selected previously as the most predominant species in groundnuts were introduced into 6 aquarium boxes (30 x 20 x 20 cm) containing 800g of standard medium (maize/sorghum/glycerine, 8:8:1, w/w/w) [18], for oviposition. The rearing boxes were covered with muslin cloth for aeration. The cultures of T. confusum boxes were kept at room temperature range 17.5-26.5[degrees]C and 45-72% relative humidity. The ambient readings were taken using a thermohygrograph (Isuzu, Seisakusho Co. Ltd, Japan) in the Insectary of the Department Biological Sciences of the University of Botswana. After four weeks, the introduced adults T. confusum were removed using an aspirator to allow for the development of only the newly hatched larvae. Newly emerged adults (one month old) were used in subsequent experiments. Experimental set-up Plastic lunch boxes (220 x 110 x 65 mm) with two compartments and a single cover for both compartments were used in the study. The covers were perforated using a hardened Entopin (38 x 0.55 mm, Newey Goodman, England) to allow for aeration. The lunch boxes, plus the covers, were sterilized using 1% sodium hypochlorite solution and then wiped with paper towel that had been dipped in 70% alcohol. The two compartments of the lunch boxes were labeled as A and B. Experimental insects were introduced initially in compartment A and none in compartment B, to check migration from A to B. For the loss assessment studies, two separate lots of groundnuts (400 g each) were placed in each of the two compartments of the lunch boxes (compartment A and B). The lunch boxes were then kept in the Insectary of the Biological Science Department of the University of Botswana at temperature range 25-33[degrees]C and 51-72% R.H. for 2 weeks to allow for moisture equilibration. To determine the moisture content, the kernels were ground using a mortar and pestle and 2 g of the ground samples were dried at 105[degrees]C overnight to a constant weight. The loss in weight was calculated as percent moisture. Water activity was determined using the Novasina Thermoconstanter (LABOTECH, Switzerland). The moisture content after equilibration ranged between 6.5 and 7% while the measured water activity ranged between 0.43 and 0.48. After equilibration, 50 newly emerged adults (one month old) of T. confusum were introduced in compartment A, four replications were made. Controls were also set up comprising four lunch boxes with 400 g of groundnuts per compartment and no insects were introduced. The lunch boxes were left undisturbed for two months in the Insectary. After 2 months (60 days), the contents of both compartments were separately sieved. The loss in weight of groundnuts for each compartment was calculated as the difference between the initial and the final weights of the groundnuts (taking into consideration the weight of the insects and the weight of the powdery residue). Control of insects by diatomaceous earths In the current study Protect-It[TM] (Hedley Technologies Inc, USA), and inert dust formulation containing 90% diatomaceous earth (DE) and 10% silica gel was tested for effectiveness to control T. confusum. The experimental procedures up to the introduction of T. confusum into compartment A were repeated. Sets of four replicates were treated as follows: The groundnuts in compartment A of the lunch box were thoroughly mixed with diatomaceous earth (DE) at the following concentrations: (i) 0.05% (w/w), (ii) 0.1% (w/w), (iii) 0.2% (w/w) and (iv) 0.25% (w/w); which are equivalent to 0.2g/400g, 0.4g/400g, 0.8g/400g and 1.0g/400g of groundnuts. Controls containing no DE were set up. Fifty newly emerged T. confusum adults (one month old) were introduced in compartment A of all lunch boxes including the controls and kept for two months in the Insectary. After two months (60 days), the number of live insects, larvae and dead insects were recorded. The amount residue formed due to insect feeding was also recorded. The data were then subjected to ANOVA and Student-Newman-Keuls (SNK) method for pairwise comparison using Sigma Stat Version 2.03 (SPSS Inc. 1992-1997), with the different concentrations of DE as main effects and insect and larvae survival as the response variables. Aspergillus flavus-Tribolium confusum interaction during storage Groundnuts were sterilized by moistening with distilled water and autoclaving for 15 minutes at 121[degrees]C. This was followed by oven drying for 24 hours to eliminate moisture which affects the effectiveness of diatomaceous earth [11]. The experimental set-up was similar to the one described under control of insects by diatomaceous earths except that in addition to insect introduction and DE application to the compartment A, the groundnuts in compartment A were also inoculated with A. flavus spore suspension. Fungal culture Toxigenic strain BCA22-53141 of A. flavus was isolated from Core collection 522. The fungus was cultured on PDA at 25[degrees]C until sporulation occurred. Conidial suspension of about 1.1 x [10.sup.5] conidia/ml; number of conidia counted using a haemocytometer in 0.01 Tween 80 aqueous solution. Eight milliliter was poured into a flask containing 500 g autoclaved white rice and maintained at 25[degrees]C for 15 days to mass produce the conidia. The mass culture on rice was air dried for 7 days and then ground to a powder using a grinder. Twenty-five grams of fungal formulation, milled rice and A. flavus, were applied to the groundnuts and shaken to evenly cover the groundnuts kernels. The inoculated groundnut kernels were distributed into compartment A of the lunch boxes and separately mixed with the different dosages of DE as specified earlier. Groundnut kernels in compartment B were not mixed with either DE or fungal formulation. Treatments were replicated four times. The controls comprised 1): groundnuts inoculated with fungal formulation plus diatomaceous earth and 2): groundnuts inoculated with fungal formulation plus insects all in compartment A. No diatomaceous earth, fungal formulation or insects were added to compartment B. Insect infestation Tribolium confusum adults (one month old) were sterilized by immersion in 0.6% sodium hypochlorite solution for 3 minutes and rinsed with sterile water three times to remove external fungal contaminants [19]. The insects were placed on filter paper and allowed to dry and only insects that recovered were used in subsequent experiments. Fifty active adults were placed into compartment A of each lunch box. The boxes were left undisturbed for two months (60 days) after which damage caused by T. confusum and fungal conidia dispersal were evaluated. At the end of the experiment, groundnut kernels from compartment B of each lunch box were examined for fungal contaminations and insect infestation. Determination of beetles and fungal levels At the end of the experiment, the groundnut kernels from the compartments of each lunch box were examined for insect contaminations. The contents of each compartment for all the treatments were sieved and the number of live insects, dead insects and live larvae were recorded. Groundnuts (10g) from each compartment of lunch box were ground and diluted in 90 ml of sterile distilled water. Serial dilutions up to [10.sup.-4] (in duplicates) were made and 1 ml of each dilution then plated on a Petri dish containing Aspergillus flavus and parasiticus agar (AFPA). The plates were incubated at 25[degrees]C and examined after 4 days and plates that contained 15-30 colonies were counted and the results expressed as CFU per gram of sample [5]. The data were analyzed using the ANOVA procedure of the Sigma Stat version 2.03 (SPSS Inc. 1992-1997) with concentrations of diatomaceous earth as main effects and insect survival and fungal levels in the two compartments as response variables. Loss assessment and insect distribution Losses caused by T. confusum (adults and larvae) were also assessed. The distribution of the insect in the storage compartments at temperature range of 22-29[degrees]C and relative humidity (R.H.) range of 45-65% are given in Table 1. In the treatment where T. confusum adults were introduced in compartment A, the mean weight of powdery residue formed in compartment A (0.60 [+ or -] 0.12g) was greater than its counterpart B (0.36 [+ or -] 0.02g). The mean numbers of T. confusum adults and larvae in compartment A were also greater than those recorded for the initially sterile compartment B (Table 1). The observed loss in weight in the control treatment (groundnuts only) was only attributable to loss of moisture by the groundnut kernels. Control of T. confusum by diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) Groundnuts were treated with different concentrations of diatomaceous earth (DE) before inoculating them with T. confusum. The average number of live T. confusum adults surviving decreased with increased concentration of DE (Table 2). For example, in samples treated with 2.5 g/kg DE only 5 surviving insects were recovered from compartment A compared to 38 insects in the control samples. The number of T. confusum adults reaching the initially sterile compartment B decreased with increased DE concentrations; from approximately 14 T. confusum adults in control samples to approximately 2 T. confusum adults at 2.0g/kg DE concentration. No T. confusum adults were recorded in compartment B of the 2.5g/kg DE concentration. The number of dead T. confusum adults also increased with an increased DE concentration. No dead T. confusum adults were recovered from compartment B of the control samples or compartment B of both 2.0g/kg and 2.5g/kg concentrations of DE. However, the number of dead T. confusum adults in compartment A of both DE concentrations 2.0g/kg and 2.5g/kg were approximately 37 and 45, respectively. At 2.5g/kg concentration, no larvae were recovered from both compartment A and B as compared to the compartments A and B of the untreated control, from which approximately 42 and 36 T. confusum larvae in compartment A and B, respectively were recovered. In general, the number of larvae declined with increased DE concentration. Analysis of variance revealed significant difference in the numbers of both live and dead insects due to different application rates of DE (F = 1.08, P < 0.001 for live insects and F = 4.48, P < 0.001 for dead insects). Effect of DE on the dispersal of A. flavus spores by Tribolium confusum The efficacy of diatomaceous earth (DE) in controlling T. confusum in stored groundnuts and its effect on Aspergillus flavus spore dispersal was investigated. In general, groundnut samples from compartment A (initially inoculated with T. confusum, A. flavus with no DE applied) and compartment B (to which T. confusum subsequently dispersed) presented greater mean numbers of live T. confusum adults and A. flavus spores compared to compartment A and B of samples into which DE was applied. For example, at 0.0g/kg DE, the mean number of T. confusum adults recovered from compartment B was approximately 42 compared to approximately 0 number of adults recovered from compartment B of samples containing 2.5g/kg DE concentration and the corresponding mean A. flavus spore concentration 1.08x103 for 0.0g/kg (control) concentration and 45 for 2.5g/kg DE concentration (Table 4.11). At every DE concentration level, the mean number of A. flavus spores in compartment A was significantly greater than of its counterpart B (0.0% (w/w): t = 11.82, df = 6, P =< 0.001; 0.05% (w/w): t = 10.26, df = 6, P =< 0.001; 0.1% (w/w): t = 27.42, df = 6, P =< 0.001; 0.2% (w/w): t = 12.22, df = 6, P =< 0.001; 0.25% (w/w): t = 5.92, df = 6, P =< 0.001). Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA on ranks analysis of mean numbers of A. flavus spores in compartment B of the different DE concentrations revealed a significant difference between the treatment means (H = 13.99, df = 4 and P = 0.007). Table 3 shows the mean number of A. flavus spores recovered from groundnuts which had been treated with different concentrations of DE. Assessment of losses caused by T. confusum on stored groundnuts In the present study on loss assessment in groundnuts, the number of T. confusum adults and larvae increased during the storage period in groundnut samples containing T. confusum, illustrating the rapid proliferation potential of this species on groundnuts. No T. confusum adults or larvae were detected in the control samples containing groundnuts only, confirming the absence of naturally occurring beetles or eggs of beetles in the groundnut kernels selected for investigation, as well as the absence of accidental contamination with beetles from external sources during the study period. The numbers of adult T. confusum and larvae in the initially sterile compartment B were always lower than those recorded for the compartment where they were introduced (compartment A) (Table 1). Similar observations were made for the mite Acarus siro L, which, once settled in an appropriate substrate, start to seek new potentially nutritional sites whenever the original population has attained critical level [5]. This is a slow process [5]. In the present study, the lower population densities of T. confusum in compartment B as compared to compartment A show that, the nourishing content of the initial substrate in compartment A had not been fully used up for the period of study (2 months). If the experiments had been conducted for longer storage period, the numbers of T. confusum in compartment A would probably decrease in comparison with those in B. Increased weight loss and damage caused to groundnuts were related to the adult and larvae populations in the current study (Table 1). The residue due to insect feeding obtained from the two compartments corresponds to the different insect populations found in the two compartments. A greater insect population in compartment A resulted in an increased loss in weight of groundnuts compared to compartment B where T. confusum population was smaller. The observed correlation between insect numbers and increased weight loss in the groundnut samples agrees with other observations [20]. When P. interpunctella was reared on groundnuts, the weight loss of infested groundnuts was directly correlated with the total number of emerged adults [21]. Losses caused by insect pests of stored products have been assessed [22, 23]. In recent years, awareness of the consequences of environmental pollution, the increasing cost of storage insecticides and the growing problem of insect resistance conventional insecticides have lead to pest management specialists reappraising inert dusts. Unlike conventional contact insecticides, inert dusts function through their physical properties and are, therefore, generally slower acting [11]. Insect mortality is induced primarily as a result of desiccation. Water loss is a consequence of adsorption of waxy particles from the cuticle surface. In the current study, Protect-It[TM] (Hedley Technologies Inc., USA), an inert dust formulation containing 90% diatomaceous earth (DE) and 10% silica gel was tested for effectiveness to control T. confusum. The results of the study showed that adult mortality of T. confusum increased with increased application rates of DE (Table 2). For example, in samples treated with 2.5 g/kg DE only 5 surviving insects were recovered from compartment A compared to 38 insects in the control samples. The number of T. confusum adults reaching the initially sterile compartment B decreased with increased DE concentrations; from 14 T. confusum adults in control samples to approximately 2 T. confusum adults at 2.0g/kg DE concentration. No T. confusum adults were recorded in compartment B at 2.5g/kg DE concentration. Generally, the number of live insects, live larvae and dead insects in compartment B of the lunch boxes containing groundnuts were lower than those recorded for the compartment where DE was applied to groundnuts infested initially with T. confusum (compartment A) (Table 2). DEs have low mammalian toxicity and are 'Generally Recognized as Safe' by US Food and Drug Administration and are registered for use as food additives. The current dosage levels utilized are within the safe limits. Various studies on the efficacy of inert dusts have been reported [12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 24, 25]. Attapulgite-based clay dust was shown to control Corcyra cephalonica, T. castaneum and Caryedon serratus when applied to groundnuts at 0.5% (w/w) [24]. Activated kaolin clays (aluminium silicate) have been shown to be effective against a range of stored product beetle pests [25]. A relatively new diatomaceous earth of marine origin, Insecto, has been extensively assessed in the USA [14]. Dosages up to 0.15% (w/w) gave complete mortality of T. castaneum adults [14]. The effectiveness of Insecto applied to shelled maize against various stored-product insect larvae has been investigated. For example, all 1st instars of T. castaneum were killed at 0.5 and 1 g/kg rates of Insecto and at these rates; mortality of O. surinamensis and P. interpunctella 1st instars was 96-97 and 86-97%, respectively [15]. Diatomaceous earths are extremely effective and persistent grain protectants against the major insect storage pests attacking sorghum, maize and cowpeas [17]. Damage levels remained low in all grains treated with 0.5% (w/w) and 0.2% (w/w) of Protect-It[TM] in contrast to the untreated controls [17]. When evaluating the effects of temperature and relative humidity on the toxicity of diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) on T. castaneum and T. confusum, it was reported that mortality of both T. confusum and T. castaneum after they were held one week, was greater than initial mortality for nearly all exposure intervals, indicating delayed toxic effects from exposure to diatomaceous earth [12]. It has been shown that adults of S. oryzae and S. zeamais emerging from infested kernels of wheat are susceptible to Protect-It[TM] [13]. Groundnut samples from compartment A (initially inoculated with T. confusum and A. flavus) and compartment B (initially not inoculated with T. confusum and A. flavus but to which T. confusum subsequently dispersed) contained greater numbers of adult beetles and A. flavus spores compared to compartments A and B of samples into which DE was applied. The fact that A. flavus spores were recovered from initially sterile compartment B, coupled with isolation of A. flavus from T. confusum adults found in the same compartment confirms that insect pests carry fungal spores which may be transferred to other kernels [6]. On the contrary, the presence of DE led to insect mortality and hence fewer fungal spore recoveries from initially sterile compartment B of all treatments except control (Table 3). This is indicative of the potential of DE for use as an insecticide [12]. The present study has shown that T. confusum causes damage and losses to stored groundnuts and also disperses fungal spores. Diatomaceous earth (Protect-It[TM]) was found to be effective against T. confusum. Thus applying environmentally benign diatomaceous earth to stored food commodities may help control infesting insects and also suppress fungal spore dispersal by insect pests. We thank Prof. D. M. 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[24] Mittal S and JA Wightman An inert dust protects stored groundnuts from insect pests. ICRISAT Newletter, 1989; pp.21-22. [25] Permual D and G Le Patourel Laboratory evaluation of acid activated kaolin to protect stored paddy against infestation by stored product insects. Journal of Stored Products Research 1990; 26:149-153. Mohale S (1), Allotey J * (1) and BA Siame (1) * Corresponding author email: [email protected] (1) University of Botswana, Department of Biological Sciences, Pr. Bag UB00704 Gaborone, Botswana. Table 1: Distribution of T. confusum in lunch boxes and weight loss caused Condition Control * Compartment A Compartment B Initial wt .(Wi) (g) 400.35 [+ or -] 0.12 400.21 [+ or -] 0.09 Final wt. (Wf) (g) 400.17 [+ or -] 0.15 400.06 [+ or -] 0.12 Wt. Loss due to 0.18 [+ or -] 0.04 0.15 [+ or -] 0.05 moisture loss % Moisture loss 0.04 0.04 Apparent wt. Loss -- -- (insect feeding) True wt. Loss -- -- (Wf-Wi)X ([paragraph]) No. live T. -- -- confusum (adults) confusum (larvae) Condition Groundnuts + T. confusum (#) Wt. Loss due to a a % Moisture loss a a Apparent wt. Loss 0.63 [+ or -] 0.06 0.37 [+ or -] 0.08 True wt. Loss 0.60 [+ or -] 0.12 0.36 [+ or -] 0.02 No. live T. 38 (25-54)b 14 (0-23) No. live T. 42 (23-72) 36 (0-77) * No insects (T. confusum) in control (#) 50 T. confusum adults initially introduced; N = number of replicates. (a) Weight loss due to loss of moisture in (groundnut + T. confusum) treatment was not determined because the loss in weight was also combined with loss due to insect feeding; a moisture correction factor had to be used to calculate the true weight loss due to insect feeding ([paragraph]) X = 0.96 (moisture correction factor) (b) Numbers in parentheses denote ranges Table 2: Mean number T. confusum after treatment with DE (#) Mean no. live T. confusum adults [+ or -] S.E.* Dosage A B (g/kg) 0.0 38a 14 (25-54) ([paragraph]) (0-23) 0.5 27ab 6 (16-32) (2-8) 1.0 19bc 6 (13-28) (0-13) 2.0 12cd 2 (6-17) (0-7) 2.5 5d 0.00 Mean no. dead T. Mean no. live T. confusum adults [+ or -] confusum larvae [+ or -] S.E S.E. Dosage A B A B 0.0 1a 0 42 36 (0-4) (23-72) (0-77) 0.5 17b 0 5 0 (11-24) (0-2) (2-8) (0-2) (18-27) (0-2) (0-5) 2.0 37c 0 3 0 (28-44) (0-6) 2.5 45d 0 0 0 (#) 50 T. confusum adults were initially introduced into compartment A; N = number of replicates. ([paragraph]) Figures in parentheses indicate ranges * Means within a column for each variable followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P<0.05) Student-Newman-Keuls method for multiple comparison used A = Compartment A; B = Compartment B Table 3: Mean number of T. confusum (#) adults and A. flavus spores recovered from compartment A and B Dosage Mean no. live T. confusum adults (g/kg) [+ or -] S.E. A B 0.0 27 42 0.5 32 6 2.5 5 0 Dosage A. flavus ([paragraph]) (CFU/g) [+ or -] S.E. A B 0.0 1.42 x [10.sup.4] 1.08 x [10.sup.3] [+ or -] 1100 [+ or -] 110 [+ or -] 1180 [+ or -] 20.00 [+ or -] 479 [+ or -] 28.90 2.0 9.25 x [10.sup.3] 75.00 (#) 50T. confusum adults were initially introduced into compartment A; no insects introduced in compartment B ([paragraph]) Aspergillus flavus spores initially introduced into compartment A COPYRIGHT 2010 Rural Outreach Program S., Mohale; Allotey, J.; Siame, B.A. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development Geographic Code: 6BOTS Micro-element contents in Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) at different growth stages. Comparison of biochemical changes during alcoholic fermentation of cocoa juice conducted by spontaneous and induced processes for the production of... Flour beetles Mimosaceae

Book Club/Library Resources I love to tell stories about issues particular to women over 40. After four decades on the planet, many of us have had rewarding long-term relationships as well as bad ones. We know the work it takes to live with other humans, as well as to be on our own. Many of us have also raised children while juggling many other hats—the partner hat, the keeper of the household hat, the career hat, the caretaker of aging parents hat. We are well acquainted with grief and grit, so we've learned not to sweat the small stuff. Many of us are also more confident about who we are than we were when younger. Best of all, we are finally comfortable with our own power. Life can be hard. If you are like me, you are hungry for heroines in our age group who defy the odds. I'm here to tell entertaining sexy stories that inspire hope for our own real-life happiness. Willing. Romantic women's fiction with a delicious, sexy edge. Willing is the story of Liz Silver, a divorced mom who has just sent her snarky and adored daughter off to college. Liz loves her work photographing brides and grooms and the optimism inherent in the commitment couples make in plighting their troth, even if she has given up on finding lasting love for herself. Yet when the joy she finds in photography suddenly drains away, Liz is forced to embark on a journey of discovery. Her creative energy is at the core of her being as well as the foundation of her livelihood. She needs to find what killed her spark and how rekindle it—fast. At forty-five, Liz sees herself as past the midpoint point in life where the choices she makes may not be as easy to reverse as they once were. She also feels she's lost her heart too many times to want to risk it again. Liz has decided to be satisfied with the thrill of desire and the pleasures of sex with many partners. She terms her philosophy "rapid-cycling monogamy." Romantic love plays no part in her intimate relationships with men or in her life—except for those weddings she photographs. Liz tells herself she is happy, but maybe she isn't as happy as she wants to believe. What Liz doesn't know is that her journey to creative renewal is closely entwined with her relationship—or lack thereof—with romantic love. And ironically, the men she has so casually taken to bed will be the source of her most profound and intimate lessons in how to heal a heart that she feels is so fractured she has to hold it together with psychological duct tape. Then Liz meets an attractive, far-too-compelling man who has experienced his own share of heartbreak. Although Liz fights her feelings, love casts its spell over them both, forcing each to decide whether one last all-or-nothing gamble on intimacy is worth the risk. READ AN EXCERPT The house and grounds at Hofwyl (above), a historic property that is part of the Georgia parks system, became the inspiration for my hero's property. Willing is not based on fact, although it was inspired by men I have known (no, I did not know all of them in the biblical sense). What the story and I share is a Jewish-Yankee heroine (I try to think of myself as the heroine of my own life), a sense of the absurd, an exuberantly snarky daughter, smalltown Vermont, coastal Georgia—where I've been hiding from New England winters for the past ten-plus years—and a big shaggy standard poodle who could pretty much outthink me even on days when I'd had enough sleep and eaten a virtuous and healthy breakfast. Willing began as a sexy story for a friend—with benefits. He liked it. A lot. Emboldened by his praise, I showed that snippet to a couple of girlfriends. They encouraged me to keep going. So, I took the November NaNoWriMo challenge, and although it would take seven more years to finish Willing, writing on and off between paying design gigs, I kept at it in hope that my expertise in arranging text on a page to catch a viewer's eye would also instill a story with the drama needed to keep readers turning pages. See what you think . . . READ AN EXCERPT | BUY THE BOOK @LeslieNoyesAuthor LeslieNoyesAuthor @lmnvtauthor If you've had your heart broken as badly as I have—the kind of broken that forever after leaves an abrasion to ooze fresh blood if you're stupid enough to even glance at it—well then, you understand why I'm content to leave love out of the relationship equation. After my last disastrous love affair five years ago, I slammed the door with the valentine pinned on it and nailed it closed for good. I haven't regretted it, not even once. I'm content. Or rather, I was content until C. made his entrance. —Willing | READ AN EXCERPT Receive reviews of fiction I adore, observations from Vermont, Coastal Georgia, and the dark yet also silly recesses of my mind. ©Leslie Morris Noyes 2020

The Summer 2015 Open Pilot Commences… Today! As of today, we are officially opening PWP to an open pilot on the campus of Georgia Tech. Any faculty or staff member interested in starting a WordPress website can use PWP to request, administer, and edit their websites. Request a PWP Website Now! An open pilot allows us to conduct testing and evaluation of PWP elements in a public and unrestricted (open) environment. Our goal during this open pilot is to continue to evaluate current needs, usages, and discover new features and plugins that may be needed by end-users across campus. Please note that because this is an open pilot, some changes and adjustments to elements will be made during this period. Your content will be unchanged, but some features and theme settings may be adjusted to better match campus trends and requests. This open pilot service will expand in Fall 2015 to be a public service. Once PWP is established as a public service, changes will be rolled out in batch updates over a longer time period. This allows the public service to still continue as a static service while new features are tested in a separate development environment. We anticipate these changes rolling out in the area of once or twice an academic semester, which will have larger toolsets of changes, additions, and new features. Have questions about the open pilot? Contact us. Next Next post: 100 Websites Hosted on PWP!

I was seriously considering the Elecraft KX2 when I noticed that this rig is now on sale for $975 after mail in rebate. This has to be the best value going in Ham Radio. In fact, the IC-7610 that I sold pays for this rig plus the Collins 75A-4, which is pretty amazing, actually. I have a friend who has both the IC-7610 and the IC-7300, and he said for casual everyday use – the 7300 is more than enough radio. He also agrees with me that the IC-7610 is more like the K3 as far as capabilities go and that the 7300 is just too good of a deal over the KX2 or KX3 (because I only ever use the rig at home and don't activate SOTA peaks or other operating from a battery or portable). I would say that the 7610 and the K3 are "DXCC Stations" and the 7300 is a good general purpose ham radio – certainly good enough for DXCC, but where someone who gets to 300 would want the 7610 at that point – especially if they were to try for DXCC on the low bands – just because of the extra antenna port, second receiver and RX antenna input. These are exactly the features I no longer need – and will never need again. I nixed the solar power charged station, but I do have the most excellent Norcal40A for times when I might bring a small battery operated rig on vacation – like the next time we rent a house in Bend or somewhere else. I will still go to my neighbors house to work Bouvet and Glorioso – because I simply can't afford to miss them as I missed FT5GA – 10 years (ago almost to the day). I never heard them once – and band conditions are as bad as they were back then. How come you sold your 7610? Only very recently you were declaiming how this was your favourite rig? It is still my favorite rig – but I have completed my DXCC goals and no longer need any of the extra features over the 7300. Six months ago I did not have the heart to admit that my DXCC goals were done and over with for good. So, it took me 6 months to finally admit that and then I asked myself "OK – what's the next chapter?" and hence where I am today. Just so I don't feel crazy (ham radio operators, crazy?), the fellow who sold me the Collins receiver said he just went through the exact same thing. I owned the K3 for 10 years, and before that had progressively stepped up through several top of the line DX rigs – the Orion being my favorite that I held onto for several years. But the K3 wins the longest I ever had any rig – it was that good. I think the 7610 is on par with the K3 – maybe even a little bit better – the receiver just seemed to have less noise – but that was to my ear – not based on a lab report of any kind. It seemed like the 7610 could still hear a signal "alongside" the noise – vs. the K3 where a signal would "bob up and down" in the noise. It could have just the way my hearing works – or is it because of the receiver architecture – I don't know. There is a big difference in how ICOM and Elecraft radio AGC systems work. That could explain what you hear. Some of that can be mitigated in the settings for the radios, but only some.

Trump's New Intelligence Director Faces a Legal… Trump's New Intelligence Director Faces a Legal Countdown Clock on His Tenure By ReadingEagle | PUBLISHED: February 20, 2020 at 12:35 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2021 at 2:08 a.m. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump's new acting director of intelligence may hold the job for only about three weeks – unless the White House quickly finds a permanent nominee to offer to the Senate for confirmation. The president tapped Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, on Wednesday to also serve as the acting director of national intelligence, overseeing the nation's 17 spy agencies. Grenell agreed to hold the post for only a limited period of time, according to people familiar with his plan. Federal law gives the president a great deal of flexibility to appoint whomever he chooses to the position on a temporary basis while his official nominee for the job awaits confirmation from the Senate. Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Grenell can serve in his post only until March 11 unless the president formally nominates someone else for the job. That move would allow Grenell to serve for months longer as the nomination works its way through the Senate. Two administration officials said that officials were aware that they must nominate someone else soon, and that the process to find a formal nominee was underway. "The President will announce the Nominee (not me) sometime soon," Grenell wrote on Twitter on Thursday morning. It was the latest instance of complicated maneuvering by the White House to place people the president favors in specific positions. Grenell, a Trump loyalist, has little experience in intelligence or in running a large bureaucracy, and would be likely to face resistance in the Senate if he were nominated permanently for the post. Notably, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, R-N.C., has not issued a statement praising Grenell. It was not clear whom Trump would nominate, and indeed he might choose someone with little chance at drawing Senate approval to keep Grenell in the position as long as he can. Even if the Senate rejected a new nominee, it would effectively reset the clock on Grenell's tenure, said Eric Columbus, a former Obama administration Justice Department official. "The Federal Vacancies Reform Act is coming into play constantly in this administration and allows the president a great deal of leeway in appointing acting officials," Columbus said. Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, agreed, saying an "acting" appointee could follow someone else who was "acting" so long as there was a new nominee who had been sent to the Senate. Without that, he said, "it doesn't extend the clock" on how long the temporary appointee can serve. Grenell replaces Joseph Maguire, who was also an acting director of intelligence and may have had to give up the position by March 11, according to federal law. The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel reviewed the vacancies act and how it applied to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last year, when the president appointed Maguire. "The clocks are very generous," Columbus said. "They were intended for good-faith uses, and it may very well be they are acting in good faith and they intend to nominate someone who can be confirmed and they aren't going to nominate Judge Judy." But Columbus argued that Maguire did not need to be replaced to reset the clock on an acting director. "There was no legal impediment to keeping Maguire and just making a permanent nomination," he said. "That he is getting rid of Maguire now suggests he is maybe dissatisfied with what Maguire did in regards to the Ukraine whistleblower." Even before his new appointment Wednesday, Grenell had been working with the White House on issues related to intelligence, including pressuring Germany and other allies not to use the Chinese telecom company Huawei to build the next-generation mobile network known as 5G over security concerns. He is not giving up his ambassadorship to Germany or a broader diplomatic portfolio that involves developing a rail path between Kosovo and Serbia. Grenell has spoken to people about the need to have the Office of the Director of National Intelligence function as an entity that is not in competition with the various intelligence branches, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Before Grenell's appointment became public Wednesday, the decision was kept under wraps within the White House, with only a few people aware of it ahead of time. ReadingEagle Pennsylvania lawmakers stalemated on congressional map, top senator says Pennsylvania Rep. Jerry Knowles announces he will not run for reelection in 2022

← April 1, 2015 – "Hocus Pocus" by Focus! April 10, 2015 – Celebrate two years of C3 with more multitrack customs! → April 3, 2015 – They Might Be Giants 3-pack, "Twilight Zone", Mastodon, and LittleKuriboh! Note: Videos may contain authoring issues that have been fixed, and are for preview purposes only. Video recording courtesy of Lowlander. This video doesn't contain "Doctor Worm", because pksage is a procrastinator, but it does contain our two April Fools' songs. C3 releases for April 3, 2015: New! They Might Be Giants C01 3-pack They Might Be Giants – "Ana Ng" (pksage) They Might Be Giants – "Birdhouse in Your Soul" (MiltoniusPrime, pksage, and clumsy_plumsy) They Might Be Giants – "Doctor Worm" (pksage and MiltoniusPrime) New! LittleKuriboh C01 3-pack (Arcanon) LittleKuriboh – "Paraboss (ft. ShadyVox and TheAzureCrow)" M LittleKuriboh – "Pharaoh's Throne" M LittleKuriboh – "The King of Rhymes (ft. ShadyVox)" K New! Singles Golden Earring – "Twilight Zone" (MFX) Mastodon – "The Last Baron" 2x (BearzUnlimited) A red X denotes Pro Guitar/Pro Bass charts, a blue M denotes full multitracks, a blue K denotes a "karaoke" multitrack (separated vocals), and a rusty 2x denotes that a 2x Bass Pedal version is also available. FtV denotes a song previously released by a C3 author outside of C3. They might be rain, they might be heat, but they're definitely coming to your Rock Band library this week! They Might Be Giants finally accordions their way into C3, along with the huge single "Twilight Zone", a lengthy prog epic from Mastodon's Crack the Skye, and a 3-pack from the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged, LittleKuriboh. When does the bullet hit the bone? That's nobody's business but the Turks. Authors' comments for this week's releases: TMBG C01 – They Might Be Giants is one of those bands that was suspiciously absent from official DLC. You'd think they'd have gotten at least one song, right? This pack starts to remedy that with three of the band's biggest hits, including charting singles "Ana Ng" and "Birdhouse in Your Soul". "Doctor Worm" finishes out the pack with some very Rock-Band-y lyrics. If you've only heard of TMBG through "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" or "Boss of Me" (from Malcolm in the Middle), do yourself a favor and check out all three of these! "Paraboss" – Arcanon says, "A parody of the second half of Tenacious D's 'Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown).' This is the climactic song sung by all 3 main characters (and two others) in the Abridged version of the movie 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Bonds Beyond Time.'" "Pharaoh's Throne" – Arcanon says, "A parody of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone.' This is the third Lady Gaga parody done by LittleKuriboh featuring characters from his Abridged series. It was created as a result of Card Games for Charity 5, held to raise money for voice actor Dan Green (Yugi Muto/Yami) after his wife's tragic passing." "The King of Rhymes" – Arcanon says, "Also known as 'YUGI VS JADEN – BATTLE!,' this epic four-part rap battle pulls from Xzibit's 'X,' Prime Cut's rap from The Brak Show, Eminem's 'Business,' and Flight of the Conchords' 'Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros' to show what would happen if these two main characters threw down with rhymes instead of cards. Grab a friend for this one, you're gonna want to play the harmonies." "Twilight Zone" – MFX says, "I created a new mix for this, featuring banded pseudo-stems for bass and drums, coming in at just under 6 minutes. It's derived from the 8 minute album version, but cuts down the solo section in the same location as the shorter radio edit. Best part is that it adds a definitive ending that those mixes lacked (having fade-outs, both) while keeping the repeated choruses of the long version for extra vocal singalong fun." "The Last Baron" – Bearz says, "This prog metal epic has fun, varied drums with lots of crazy fills. The guitar and bass parts both have their share of technical riffs as well. The vocals are interesting don't just sit around while the other instruments solo, either." For an alternate version of this song with all "ghost notes" authored, check out our Other Customs forum. Fixes uploaded in the last week to previous C3 releases: Jonathan Wolff – "Seinfeld": Now correctly in stereo instead of mono. See you next Friday! New! LittleKuriboh C01 3-pack By pksage • Posted in Packs, Singles 5 comments on "April 3, 2015 – They Might Be Giants 3-pack, "Twilight Zone", Mastodon, and LittleKuriboh!" I like The Twilight song and the Last Baron, cool songs to try for sure , thank you C3, happy Ester to everybody and see you guys next Friday 🙂 RockyRambos™ (@RockyRambos) Thanks a lot for Bird House In Your Soul, a classic for all the band! 😉 It looks like you guys are showing some extra love to the nerds on this pack – They Might Be Giants AND LIttleKuriboh. Also, Crack the Skye is an awesome album and I hope to see more tracks from it, on top of "The Last Baron" and "Oblivion". Excellent work as always. Jay Fitzgerald Thank you for The Last Baron. Bissrok April 4, 2015 @ 12:40 pm I saw TMBG on here, ran out to buy a flash drive, and set my Xbox up the moment I got home. You're good people.

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The Crusader men's program will begin its fourth season of NCAA Division I competition in 2017-2018, and each subsequent year brings with it new successes and challenges. We will put our first senior class on the court in the fall, and we continue to recruit the brightest young men to come to Tigerville to further our goal of competing for a Conference Carolinas championship, and the automatic bid to the NCAA Division I tournament that accompanies it. The university has continued its gracious support of the team, but our objective of showing the country the love of Jesus Christ through our presence on the volleyball court in many places around the nation has been limited to mostly regional competition due to the lack of funding comparable to our competitors. You may not realize it, but for NGU to win a national title, we would have to defeat notable schools like Ohio State, UCLA, Hawaii, Penn State, Pepperdine, Southern California or Loyola University. There are not enough universities sponsoring men's volleyball as an NCAA Division II national championship sport, so NGU falls into the NCAA Division I/II category. One of our goals is to compete nationally like Lewis University in Chicago has done in recent years. Lewis is a NCAA Division II institution like NGU, but they have been able to attract national caliber players to their ranks for a number of years now, and have reached the I/II national championship match. North Greenville University would like to pursue a similar path. I have decided to forego the 'Go Fund Me' approach in that I would prefer 100% of the proceeds that we raise goes directly to support the players and our objectives. That puts a lot of the responsibility on the coaches and the players to generate the funds required to compete and equip the team in a quality manner. Since we are one of the newest programs at NGU, our budget is not anywhere near what is necessary to gain the national exposure I would like to acquire for the university. Many folks thought I was kidding when I said we were playing Pepperdine, Ohio State, Princeton, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Sacred Heart (CT), and competing in the George Mason fall tournament. Our objective is to continue to grow the program and compete at the highest level of NCAA Men's Volleyball. I am including a tier structure that is a 'wish list' of where I would ideally like the program to go if the funding was available. This will enable us to purchase additional practice apparel (shirts, shorts, sweats and hoodies), equipment (block it, new volleyballs, new volleyball machine, practice nets, white board, video analysis software), and other supplies we cannot routinely afford due to budget limitations. If we achieve the Tier 2 goal, we will be able to ­­fund longer trips to play intersectional opponents in the Midwest and the East. This is an educational, as well as a competitive objective, in that the players get to travel and see different universities, gain incredible exposure for North Greenville across the country, and play against some of the nation's finest men's programs. In the last two years, we traveled to Florida, Connecticut, and New Jersey for great matches, and we would like to travel to Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania in addition to a trip back to the Northeast. These would be longer bus trips, but would be extensive in that each trip normally costs $3000-$4000. This a lofty goal for a small institution like North Greenville University, but God expects you to do big things with the gifts you have been given. If we are able to raise this amount of money (or more), we can begin to plan a trip to the West Coast, Puerto Rico, or possibly undertake an overseas mission trip with the team. This season, we have trips planned to Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee, and Charleston, West Virginia in addition to our CC schedule and matches against regional opponents. Many of you who receive this fund-raising appeal have been extremely generous to our program in the past. I am beyond grateful for the opportunity to use that revenue to coach your sons, grandsons, cousins, or friends, and help them gain a first-class education at a Christ-centered, biblically sound university. However, I am firm in my belief that by competing nationally, more people will see NGU in a different light and come to understand, and consider, exactly why we are spiking volleyballs in the first place. Please consider a generous gift to the NGU men's volleyball program, and if you would like to specify an area for your gift within the program, please let me know. All contributions are tax-deductible, and all funds will be used only for the Men's Volleyball Team. Again, thank you for your kind contribution in support of our program. I am working hard to "Grow the Men's Game," and it is not possible without you.

The management of new pastures, especially during the first 12 months, is vital when it comes to ensuring long-term performance and persistence. There is a lot of information and advice available on the topic which can be both confusing and conflicting. However, the goal remains clear and consistent - to encourage the rapid establishment of a weed-free sward with good tiller numbers and root mass. After selecting the right ryegrass cultivar and endophyte, such as Base, Excess or Platform perennial ryegrasses with AR37 endophyte, managing new pasture establishment is the most important step towards ensuring a productive and persistent pasture. Following the sowing of any new pasture, it is important to undertake regular monitoring to ensure the correct establishment. Weed and pest issues detected early can often be controlled, avoiding costly replanting. Early herbicide applications are highly recommended as superior control can be achieved when weeds are small and susceptible. One aspect of new pasture management that is often overlooked is weed control, and this is especially true of annual weeds. Tiller development in ryegrass is controlled by light reaching the base of the plant. If your new grass is full of weeds, your ryegrass plants may not tiller as densely as they should. Newly-sown pastures benefit from early and light applications of nitrogen (25 kilograms per hectare), from three to four weeks after emergence and post-grazing. It's important to remain vigilant about nitrate levels before grazing, particularly in new pastures, during moist overcast days following dry spells. If nitrate poisoning is a concern, testing plant samples prior to grazing is recommended. Regular, subsequent applications of fertiliser based on herbage and soil test results, as well as the amount of feed harvested from the pasture, will improve the persistence and performance of new pasture. Early grazing management is also important for enhancing pasture establishment and tillering. Newly-established pasture is ready to graze when it passes the 'pull-test'. This involves grasping the seedling and giving it a firm pull to simulate grazing. If the leaves break, rather than the roots pulling out, the pasture is ready to graze. Pasture renewal, particularly with modern cultivars and endophytes, presents an opportunity for improved farm productivity. Tools including the DairyNZ Forage Value Index (FVI) demonstrate the value modern ryegrass genetics can contribute to New Zealand farming systems. Persistence of ryegrass has been maintained in the breeding process. However, the cultivar and endophyte options need to be used appropriately to ensure they cope with modern grazing demands and challenges presented by the seasons. With seed in the ground, allocating time this autumn to monitoring new pastures is time well-spent. Attention to detail is key and doing the basics well will deliver results. For more tips and advice on new pasture management, please talk with your local Farm Source TSR.

Take It or Leave It, which was written and directed by Liina Trikina-Vanhatalo, is about the ruggedly handsome Erik (portrayed by Reimo Sagor), a 30-year-old construction worker who is drifting through life. One lazy Saturday morning, he receives some earth-shattering news from his ex-girlfriend, Moonika (portrayed by Liis Lass) whom he hasn't seen or heard from in the past six months: that she is about to go into labor. Moonika tells Erik that the newborn daughter she just had is his. She tells him that she is not ready for motherhood and so he either has to take the baby or she will put the child up for adoption. Although startled by the news, Erik decides to take care of the child since "she looks like me" and brings the baby girl home to his equally surprised parents. He also gives up his job in Finland. He believes that Moonika is suffering from postnatal depression, which the doctors say may be just temporary. As he takes on the responsibility, Erik experiences the challenges of being a single parent. He becomes estranged with his parents, moves into a cheap ramshackle apartment and tries to find work in Estonia as a handyman for a single mom who takes care of both their kids while he paints and wallpapers her chic new place. In it all Erik makes mistakes, some of them serious. There is a turning point, however, when Erik catches himself shouting into the face of his crying child. He checks himself. And just as he has gotten used to single parenting, Moonika turns up again in his life. Now Erik is faced with the dilemma that Moonika might take the baby away from him. The movie also features Epp Eespaev as Evi (Erik's mother), Egon Nuter as Mati (Erik's father) and Viire Valdma as Imbi (Moonika's mother). Take It or Leave It is based on a true story, and it captures the precarious balancing act of caring for a newborn. It is the first fiction debut from documentary filmmaker Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo (In the Footsteps of Middendorff). Asked why she decided to make a film about fatherhood, Trishkina-Vanhatalo explained, "I started thinking about it five years ago. At the time, the issue of having children was very present in my life (…). This opened up a field of reflection on what it means to be a parent, beyond the notions of being a mother or father. When does someone become a parent? Is it when the child is born? When are we deemed ready? When does it become a goal to be a parent?

Holy S*#t: The Most Sweartastic Movies Ever Made If you like movies jam-packed with f-words and expletives, you'll want to check out the most foul-mouthed films in movie history. It's sweartastic. It's no secret that we love movies here at Just A Guy Thing. We like horror movies, generic guy films and guy flicks we haven't seen before. However, we've never actually chosen a movie based solely on the level of profanity it contains. For a start, how would we know which movies were the most effin' foul-mouthed? Well, those wonderful folks over at Kids In Mind have done just that, and a whole lot more too. The site seeks to advise adults about a movies suitability for children, and it's pretty damn comprehensive. What we love about Kids In Mind is that they pass no judgment on the nudity, profanity and violence that each reviewer bears witness to. Each category achieves a mark of out 10 and it covers everything from Dunstan Checks In ("Sexual innuendo; a towel-clad woman moans pleasurably while being massaged.") to the one movie that scored a perfect 10 in each category, 70's slasher, Halloween. The level of detail is fantastic. Take Team America: World Police – "62 F-words and its derivatives, 12 sexual references, 9 scatological terms, 59 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, 14 derogatory terms for homosexuals (some are in an ongoing play on words referring to the Film Actors Guild as F.A.G.), 1 derogatory term for African-Americans, 6 religious profanities, 15 religious exclamations (1 in French with no translation)." Somebody had to take the time to count and compile these facts. That's comprehensive. Only two movies had a level of swear words so high that the reviewers literally couldn't count them all – comedy Fear Of A Black Hat ("F-words galore and other profanities, from the opening credits to the end, nonstop") and the bare-breasted Madonna flick Dangerous Game ("Counting the F-words will force the viewer to miss the film. There is also a full range of scatological and anatomical terms"). Here are a selection of the most foul-mouthed films in movie history (minus the two that couldn't be counted). This New York serial-killer flick from Spike Lee is a furious foul-mouthed frenzy of expletives with a tally of "about 400 f-words" and a few homosexual and racial insults. Ignoring the fact that the geek from The Girl Next Door got cast as a drugs dealer, Alpha Dog contains "310 f-words and it's derivatives". Pretty fu*king impressive, considering the movie was a total let down. Running Scared Guns, corrupt cops and a bag full of 267 f-words sounds like a recipe for success. That is, until you cast Paul Walker as the lead actor. There were also 4 derogatory terms for homosexuals – all of which were directed at Paul Walker by the cast and crew on the set. Pulp Fiction very nearly reached a perfect 10 across all categories, narrowly missing out in the sex stakes. (Although that gay rape scene would have pushed it to a 10 if we were reviewing it!) The swear count weighs in at about 250 f-words but they don't specify whether it includes Samuel L Jackson's wallet… State Property 2 Never seen it? Us neither. But it does boast an impressive 248 of our four-lettered friends and you can't really argue with mobsters, can you? After brazenly missing this movie off our 100 Movies Every Guy Must See list, we're happy to finally include the Coen brothers cult classic. About 240 f-words in this flick, most of them booming from the vocal chords of John Goodman's character, Walter. ("Shut the fu*k up, Donny!") Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back Although 228 f-words is pretty good going, if Silent Bob had pulled his effin' weight, this lewd parody from the mind of Kevin Smith would have managed a whole lot more profanity. Shame, really. Chalk up 226 f-words and its derivatives for the legendary Martin Scorcese. He also makes sure that 'acoustically-impaired' viewers don't miss out by including six obscene hand gestures. What a gentleman. Do you have a sweartastic movie favorite that isn't listed here? Drop your recommendation in the comments, you fu*king *&#$. 10 Guy Movies You've Probably Never Seen Smokin' Hot Megan Fox Pics from the New Elle Magazine 100 Great Movies Every Guy Should See

Maricle is a little girl we met in 2014, when she was hospitalized urgently to Katutura Hospital (a public hospital in Windhoek) for meningitis. After a long stay in the hospital she was dismissed and the problem seemed to have been solved, but, unfortunately, in August 2015 we were informed that Maricle was admitted to the Hospital again. Mammadù Italia Onlus wishes to thank all the supporters who generously participated in the fundraising to give Maricle a better life.

(The asterisk is to acknowledge I only listened to a small fraction of the hundreds of albums I normally heard all those 35 years I was pop music critic at the Los Angeles Times—though I tried to listen at year's end to the most acclaimed albums of 2011. On the strong possibility I missed some of the year's most commanding works, think of the 10 albums below as simply my favorite new releases for the year—recommendations from me to you. You can hear tunes from all these albums thanks to a podcast of my Feb. 12 radio show that ran on KCSN-FM in Los Angeles. Go to http://rocknrolltimes.kcsn.org and click on the Feb. 12 show. The show, "Rock 'n' Roll Times With Robert Hilburn" airs from 4 to 5 p.m. every Sunday on KCSN 88.5 in Los Angeles—or stream it at that time at www.kcsn.org). The Black Keys' "El Camino" (Nonesuch)--Rock 'n' roll that's accessible and fun. The Roots' "Undun" (Def Jam)—The year's hip-hop highlight. The Pistol Annies' "Hell on Wheels" (Sony Nashville)—Rowdy honky-tonk collection from a trio that is Miranda Lambert's side project.

Cowboys Mid-Season Review Thu 11 Jun 2015, 11:00 AM Such is the nature of Cowboys games this year, broadcasts are now being introduced with a health warning. North Queenslanders know what we're talking about. Win, lose or draw, fans have been tried and tested in an 80-minute cardiac arrest each and every week. But ultimately they have been treated to an unprecedented 10-game winning streak with their team now sitting equal top of the Telstra Premiership ladder by the season's mid-point for the first time in club history. The journey to 10 straight wins hasn't exactly been cathartic for a fanbase used to their team failing to meet expectations. From predicted premiers in the pre-season to being thrown on the NRL's scrap heap in just three weeks, North Queensland needed some divine intervention and it came exactly three and a half rounds into the competition. Since then the club has ridden a less-than-convincing streak in which they have trailed in the second half in five of their 10 wins. The run home: The hardest part of the season is over. On paper the next seven weeks should be relatively smooth sailing as six of their games feature teams currently outside of the top eight. Their sternest test comes in Round 17 as an Origin-depleted Cowboys side travels to WIN Stadium for a Saturday night showdown with the Dragons. Six of their remaining 11 games are away against Canberra, St George, Manly, Cronulla, New Zealand and Melbourne. Two matches stand out as possible finals precursors when the Rabbitohs visit Townsville in Round 23 and the Storm host in Round 25. Game to remember: Whatever coach Paul Green said in the sheds that night against the Melbourne Storm in Round 4, it must surely go down as one of the great half-time addresses the sport has ever seen. Down 16-4 at half-time, The Cowboys became the second team in 74 games to win from at least 12 points down at half-time against Melbourne sides in the Craig Bellamy era. Johnathan Thurston – who else – sealed the deal with a golden point field goal. Video - 1hcWI5dDq0N2j_aF24LQok8GO_5EdSWE The one that got away: The Cowboys let slip a chance at kick-starting their season in Round 2 with a loss to the Knights. Travelling comfortably at 14-0 after half an hour, the Cowboys went into autopilot and gave Newcastle the impetus for a comeback, which they ran with to record a 16-14 win in front of a stunned 1300SMILES Stadium. In hindsight, what hurt at the time has likely made the side more equipped for a run at the top gong come September. Video - ZicW95czrzKPyc-qW-UoIweIiA90F2CE MVP: Johnathan Thurston. The champion halfback is doing no harm in his quest to become one of rugby league's all-time greats, blitzing the competition's playmakers this season with six more try assists and five more line-break assists than Matt Moylan, who ranks second in both categories. Thurston is pulling the strings and his team is following, with the star playmaking having a genuine supporting cast around him this year, led by new fullback Lachlan Coote and new halves partner Michael Morgan. Honourable mention goes to the one-man wrecking crew Jason Taumalolo. The 22-year-old second-rower utterly embarrasses opponents on a weekly basis and averages a shade under five tackle busts per game this year. While Thurston is contracted to the club until 2017, Cowboys fans have cause for great optimism over the next decade with Taumalolo running around. Stats that matter: There are ominous signs for the rest of the competition when the Cowboys lead the league in all run metres, possession rate and tackle busts. They have run over 2300 more metres than the second-best in the competition (Brisbane), hold an average possession rate of 52.1 per cent and average almost 33 tackle breaks per game. Fantasy stud: Johnathan Thurston has been the Cowboy kingpin in NRL Fantasy, averaging 58.3. Ethan Lowe has been very handy with average of 51.6, as has Matt Scott with 49.9. Lachlan Coote has been the great cash cow, increasing $225,000 with an average of 46.6 points and is currently in over 38,500 teams. Injury Report: The Cowboys' biggest injury this season was the loss of emerging centre Tautau Moga to a third season-ending knee injury. He was one of the side's best performers on the flanks until going down in Rep Round, with his defensive positional play vastly improved. He was also building a rib-tickling reputation, but the Cowboys have since had to make do with the Matthew Wright-Justin O'Neill combination. All things considered, the Cowboys are one of the league's healthiest clubs. What they are saying: The main buzzword around camp Cowboy has been 'confidence'. What was a crisis of confidence in the early rounds has now bordered on complacency as the Cowboys push their luck further and further. "Everyone still remembers that point we were staring down the barrel of three losses, it could have been six losses; we had some tough teams after those three losses. I hated footy at that point but now I'm loving it. Obviously there are a few things still to fix up in defence," prop James Tamou told NRL.com. "We need to be a bit more consistent for longer periods," coach Paul Green said after the great escape in Parramatta. "You can't expect to challenge in big games if you are only playing for half a game, or thirty minutes. I know we can do it, we've done it in big games this year." Predicted finish: Star power and ill-discipline underscore the Cowboys' campaign to date and after 20 years of much the same, their inconsistency comes as a surprise to few. But when locked in North Queensland are capable of blowing any team in the world right off the park. With a relatively light run home, a club-first top two finish should be the expectation. Road demons have been exorcised and as equal premiership favourites, there is no reason why – 10 years after their grand final failure – 2015 cannot be their year.

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Sort By: Post Date | Title | Publish Date Fred Kaplan | Jun 28, 2007 | First Published: Jun 29, 2007 | 1 comments The Jazz Journalists Association, a group of mainly New York-based jazz critics and writers, handed out its 2007 awards Thursday afternoon. Here are the winners, followed in parentheses by the musician that I voted for in each category: Who'd a thunk it?! Fred Kaplan | Jun 29, 2007 | 0 comments It just goes to show, you never know what lurks in some men's souls. White House press spokesman Tony Snow playing a not-at-all-terrible blues flute. For the video (via YouTube and Matt Yglesias' blog), click here. Wondrous Lee Lee Konitz, who turns 80 in October, ambled on stage last night at New York's Zankel Hall, blew a note, asked his audience to hum it, then, as we all hummed it continuously like a dirge, he blew over it on his alto sax, an improvised solo, darting and weaving, choppy then breezy, sifting changes, shifting rhythms, and all so very cool. It lasted five minutes, it probably could have gone much longer. Then two old pals, bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Paul Motian, joined him, and they played standards. Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano came out to trade fours and eights. They all left, and on came a string quartet, which played ballads and Debussy, Konitz cruising over the sweet strings in his signature airy tone, with its syncopated cadences and wry, insouciant swing. Keith Jarrett's Awesome Night at Carnegie If Keith Jarrett weren't such a magnificent pianist, it would be intolerable to watch him in concert. His screechy humming and moaning, his lizard leering and preening—in three decades of seeing him play, I've never managed, despite some effort, to find the charm in his theatrics. And yet, he usually has me from his first chord—so warm, rich, and intriguingly edgy—especially the past few years, as he's tightened his rhapsodic tendencies while enriching his lyrical core. The JVC Jazz Festival is in New York City (a bit of an absurdity: New York City is a jazz festival, all the time). A crazy schedule prevents me from seeing much this year (less and less of this festival is actually jazz, in any case), but I'm definitely catching the Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette trio, Thursday night at Carnegie Hall, and Lee Konitz playing with a few bands, in honor of his 80th birthday (!), Monday night at Carnegie's Zankel Hall. Anat Cohen Anat Cohen's Poetica, on her own Anzic Records label, is a fresh breeze of an album, and I mean that in a good way. Still in her 20s, Cohen plays clarinet with a polished edge and verve second only to Don Byron's. Born in Tel Aviv, schooled at Berklee, honed in New York clubs, playing not just modern jazz but Brazilian Choro and Dixieland, she lets all her influences show but none of them dominate. Her tone bears something of klezmer's lilt but none of its schmaltz. Her arrangements have the joyful-melancholic sway of Israeli or Latin folk music but none of its sentimentality. On the album, she also plays two knottily catchy original tunes, a Jacques Brel song, and a tinglingly lovely cover of Coltrane's "Lonnie's Lament," the last backed by a string quartet. The sound, mixed by Joe Ferla and mastered by Sony's Mark Wilder, is excellent. Treasures Galore! Jazz Messenger, June 15, 2007 I launch this blog with two bits of news that should make all jazz fans quiver. A brief prelude: Three years ago, an archivist at the Library of Congress discovered, during a routine inventory, the long-lost tapes of a 1957 concert at Carnegie Hall by Thelonious Monk's quartet featuring John Coltrane. The tapes were pristine. The music was glorious, Monk playing his most archly elegant piano, Coltrane his most relaxed yet searching tenor sax. Blue Note released the concert tapes on CD, to jaw-dropping acclaim. Rogue Audio Atlas power amplifier Tube Power Amp ReviewsBudget Component Reviews Fred Kaplan | Mar 18, 2007 | First Published: Mar 19, 2007 | 0 comments When I unpacked the Rogue Audio Atlas, I didn't know how much it cost. After examining its chassis of high-grade steel, its silver-anodized aluminum faceplate, its sleek and slightly rounded edges, and, above all, its two chunk-o'brick transformers—for such a little thing (a foot-and-a-half square by half-a-foot high), it's heavy—I guessed around five grand. Then I called Rogue Audio and learned that it retails for $1395. The Best Jazz Recordings of 2013 Fred Kaplan | Dec 20, 2013 | First Published: Dec 31, 1969 | 0 comments As usual around this time of year, I have a column in Slate (where I usually write about foreign and military policy), listing my picks for the 10 best jazz albums of the year and, in this case, the two best jazz reissues. Here's the list, and regular readers might recall that I've reviewed almost all of them in this blog-space (or in Stereophile magazine) over the past twelve months. Ella & Louis Again, Quality Records Pressing, 45rpm Fred Kaplan | Aug 10, 2012 | First Published: Dec 31, 1969 | 1 comments Last December, I posted a swooning review of Acoustic Sounds' two-disc, 45rpm, 200-gram Quality Records Pressings of Ella & Louis, the 1956 Verve album of duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (backed by Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, and Buddy Rich), which may be the most delightful vocal album ever—and, in this pressing, perhaps the most amazing-sounding. Now Chad Kassem, the reissue house's proprietor, has come out with the 1957 sequel, Ella & Louis Again (same cast, but with Louis Bellson replacing Rich on drums, for the better). It's swoon time all over. . .

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It was when she was two years old that Tessa began dancing, and she has continued to dance ever since. In 2010, she became a member of Team 10, which was founded by Jake Paul, and later performed as the first solo headliner for Fullscreen Live's Girls Night In Tour. Tessa Brooks was born on April 5, 1999, in Fresno, California, United States, to parents who were both teachers. Tessa has two sisters, one of whom is named Tessa. Beginning when she was barely two years old, the future social media sensation began dancing and has continued to do so ever since. As of September 2020, Tessa Brooks has more than 12.7 million Instagram followers, 3.44 million YouTube subscribers, 201,000 Facebook followers, 5.5 million TikTok followers, and 1 million Twitter followers, among other platforms. Tessa originally gained attention when she began posting videos of herself dancing online to songs by popular singers such as Nicki Minaj and Rita Ora. Since then, she has been increasingly popular. Tessa started her YouTube channel in 2011 and began posting videos of herself dancing to the platform. She has since amassed more than 306 million lifetime views on her YouTube channel, despite the fact that the majority of her video now focuses on beauty, make-up, and vlogs. Her first big break, however, came when she appeared on the Disney television show "The Next Big Thing," which she won. Tessa's internet career took off as a result of her appearance on the show. Tessa became a member of a dancing company named Team 10, which allowed her to collaborate with others while also exposing her to broader audiences. Jake Paul, Logan Paul's brother, was the inspiration behind the formation of Team 10. Her work as a dancer included appearances in music videos for singers such as Diamond White and T-Pain. Tessa began her modeling career at a young age, and she has been in advertising for major brands such as Contours Designs, Marc Jacobs, Smashbox Cosmetics, Coca Cola, and others. Tessa made the decision to depart the dancing group Team 10 in 2017. In a video released in 2018, she stated that she felt as if she was traveling in a separate way from the rest of the group. "This is a truly bad situation, but it is what it is. It's important to know when to let go… According to Tessa's YouTube video, "we've grown apart and are moving in different areas, and that's completely fine." In my opinion, it is no longer an appropriate situation for me. We simply do not agree on a lot of issues. Things simply aren't the same as they used to be." Tessa stated that she had further reasons for leaving, but she did not share them with the public owing to the nature of their nature. When she became the first solo headliner for Fullscreen Live's Girls Night In Tour in 2018, Tessa was on the verge of landing her next big break. The tour included stops in 20 different locations around the country. Tessa stated in an interview that it was a great feeling to be able to complete the tour on her own. Since she was a child, she's dreamed of going on tour to perform in front of a live audience. I never imagined that I'd be able to do it all by myself. So, this is the coolest feeling I've ever experienced. One of the most rewarding aspects is meeting the fans and performing for them, as well as sharing that experience with them — to embrace them and talk to them. "It's for the Brooksters because they're the best. Tessa starred as Madison Walker on the web series "Boss Cheer" in the same year she was born, which was 2018. She went on to appear in the television shows "yA" and "Happy Hazel. Tessa Brooks Phone Number Tessa Brooks Career Tessa has stated in interviews that her long-term objective is to teach dancing to children who otherwise would not be able to do so. Dancing is an extremely beautiful art form because it allows you to convey a story or express yourself in a manner that words cannot… "Teaching dance to kids who, due to circumstances beyond their control, cannot afford to take a dance class is something I really want to make a reality," Tessa told InLove Magazine. Tessa began dating Chance Sutton in the summer of 2017. Following months of hints that they were dating, the couple pretended to get married in Las Vegas, thereby making it official that they were together. The pair, on the other hand, ended up breaking up a few months later. The couple began as best friends, and Tessa explained in a video that they ultimately decided they were better off as friends. "Chance and I started out as best friends, and that is part of the reason why we worked so well as a couple, just because we feel extremely comfortable around each other," she said. The break-up came under even more scrutiny after a hacker leaked conversations between fellow YouTube star FaZe Banks and Chance in which FaZe accused Chance of cheating on Tessa; photos and videos showed Chance getting cozy and comfortable with other girls during the time he was seeing Tessa, and a hacker leaked conversations between FaZe and Chance in which FaZe accused Chance of cheating on Tessa. Tessa Brooks is an American actress, multi-faceted dancer, and well-known model who has made a name for herself in the entertainment industry. She is best known for her self-titled YouTube channel, on which she publishes a variety of entertaining dancing videos that have garnered her a large following. In the year 2018, she made an appearance in the popular online series dubbed Boss Cheer, in which she played a female lead. She was also a member of Team 10, a popular social organization that was quite popular at the time. Tessa Brooks will be 22 years old in April 2021, having been born on April 5, 1999. An affluent middle-class family from the Californian city of Fresno, she was born and reared in the United States. She is known to be of American nationality and to adhere to the Christian religion, according to public records. She completed her secondary education at a community high school in Fresno, California, in the United States. She later went on to study at the University of California in Berkeley, California, in the United States of America. Beginning in her early infancy, she was more engaged in dance than she was in academic pursuits. Her participation in numerous tournaments shows that she has put in the effort. Tessa Brooks is a lovely, hot, and gorgeous actress who works in the entertainment world. She is well-known for her affable and endearing personality traits. She has a charming smile, endearing features, and a thin physique. Her body dimensions are roughly 28-24-28 inches, indicating that she has a thin build. Her height is 5 feet and 7 inches, and her weight is approximately 57 kilograms (Kg). She has stunning black color long and silky hair, as well as lovely dark brown blistering and fascinating eyes that are both blistering and mesmerizing. Tessa Brooks began her professional dancing career by starring in dance videos on YouTube with the group 'Team 10'. In the year 2017, she uploaded a YouTube video named 'YouTube Rewind: The Shape of 2017', which garnered over a million views. She has also posted videos that are similar to this one in the past. This year, she was also featured on the documentary soundtrack for the television series named 'Everything Wrong With…' This year, she also appeared in a short video named 'Jake Paul: It's Everyday Bro Feat. Team 10', which was directed by Jake Paul. In the same year, she appeared as a dancer in the short film 'Lexee Smith & Hello Kylie Feat. Tessa Brooks: The Party Follows Me', which was directed by Lexee Smith and Hello Kylie. Tessa Brooks' net worth is estimated to be approximately $4.3 million as of 2021. Her primary source of income comes from her YouTube channel, as well as from numerous dancing and filming ventures. Tessa Brooks is a well-known dancer, and the odds are that you are familiar with her work. Tessa is one of the most talented dancers on the internet right now, if not the best. On her self-titled YouTube account, which presently has 3.54 million subscribers, she shares some of her smooth techniques, as well as other videos of herself. Her YouTube channel, on the other hand, is now primarily dedicated to vlogs and cosmetics lessons. TikTok is where she posts the majority of her dancing videos now, and she has 2.3 million followers on the platform. Tessa uses Instagram to share images of herself and her friends. She has an enormous following on the social media platform, with 8.6 million followers. This feature will examine Tessa's ascent to stardom as a dancer, as well as her controversies and personal relationships. Her birthday is April 5th, 1999, and she was born in the city of Fresno, California, where she grew up with her two sisters. Brooks began dancing when she was two years old, according to her mother. She began by posting videos of herself dancing to songs by musicians such as Nicki Minaj and Rita Ora, which quickly accumulated a large following. Her first taste of the fame and fortune that dancing would bring her came when she appeared on the Disney television show The Next Big Thing. Brooks' online career took off as a result of her appearance on the show, and she eventually became a member of the dancing group Team 10. It increased her prominence, and she went on to star in advertisements for companies such as Contours Designs, Marc Jacobs, Smashbox Cosmetics, and Coca Cola, among others. She has also appeared in music videos for artists such as Diamond White and T-Pain, amongst others. As part of its 20-city Girls Night In Tour, Fullscreen Live announced that she would be the first solo headliner of the tour, which began in 2018. She spoke with HollywoodLife about the tour, and she said the following: This is astounding, especially when you consider that I am the first person to accomplish this feat on my own. Because of my love for dance, I've wanted to go on tour since I was a child. I never imagined that I'd be able to do it all by myself. So, this is the coolest feeling I've ever experienced. One of the most rewarding aspects is meeting the fans and performing for them, as well as sharing that experience with them — to embrace them and talk to them. "It's for the Brooksters because they're the best." Also Checkout: Hayes Grier Phone Number, Email ID, Address, Fanmail, Tiktok and More In spite of her attempts at vlogging and acting, Tessa claims that she can't live without her dance moves. She claims that she would go nuts if she were to go for an extended period of time without dance. Brooks stated in an interview with Inlove Magazine that her objective is to teach dancing to children who cannot afford to take dance lessons. She expressed herself as follows: Dancing is an extremely beautiful art form because it allows you to convey a story or express yourself in a manner that words cannot… Teaching dancing to children who, due to circumstances beyond their control, are unable to attend a dance class is something I really want to see become a reality," she says. Facts About Tessa Brooks: Birthday/Birth Date: 5 April 1999 Birth Place: Fresno, California, United States Official TikTok: @tessabrooks Occupation: Musical artist Salary of Tessa Brooks: $ 82.5 per month Total TikTok Fans/Followers: 5.7M Fans Twitter Followers: 1M Followers Total Instagram Followers: 14.2m followers Total YouTube Followers: 3.41M subscribers Some Important Facts About Tessa Brooks: 1. Tessa Brooks was born on 5 April 1999. 2. Her age is 22 years. 3. Her birth sign is Aries. 4. Her height is 1.7 m. 5. Her net worth is $4.3 Million. 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5 chic shops at the Jersey Shore Liz Dennerlein @lizdennerlein With an abundance of shops along the Shore, there is something for everyone. There are high-end boutiques designed for the effortlessly elegant woman and thrift stores for the vintage junkie. Here are the chicest shops along the Shore — full of jewelry, antiques, clothing and more. Monmouth County: Simon Vintage Sean Reidy and Steven Cruse recently moved their Washington, D.C., vintage furniture business to the Jersey Shore. Their shop carries pieces from the early-20th century all the way to mid-century. Inside, you'll find dressers, dining room tables, end tables, kitchenware and glassware. Simon Vintage also sells wallpaper designs from the '70s, which they ordered from London. The wallpaper is commonly used as backing for bookcases to add some much need pizzazz. "I like mixing (vintage pieces) in with contemporary pieces," Reidy said. "The contrast between the old and the new sets each other off." Dressers range from $250 to $500, end tables cost around $80. Visit simonvintage.com or call 732-807-3106 for more information. Simon Vintage is at 57 Morris Ave. in Neptune City. The Red Bank shop is owned by Alexander Meder, where retail runs in his DNA. Meder is originally from Munich, Germany, where his parents both owned a 50,000-square-foot retail space. The name THEO is a nod to his father's middle name. The boutique, which features European and American designers, is all about mixing style with everyday life. MORE: Vintage shopping at the Shore "It's not as dressy. It's much more casual," Meder said. "It's about having fun and having great clothes so that it stands out without being overbearing." Visit theoclothier.com, call 732-383-8085 or follow on Instagram @theo_clothier. THEO is at 3 East Front St., Red Bank. Owner Bianca Freda is not about disposable fashion. At Interwoven, she's all about carrying carefully curated clothing, jewelry, shoes, fragrances, funny greeting cards, backpacks, water bottles and athletic gear. Most of her styles come from lesser known designers rather than the big brand names. Instead, her store carries fashion brands that appeal to her. "I carry Nina Z. handmade Swedish clogs. When I researched her and talked to her, I was drawn to her more so than other brands," Freda said. "She's so down to earth and such a lovely human being. I wanted to work with her." Her products mainly range from $50 to $130, but they can go upwards to $1,000. For more information, visit interwovenap.com, call 732-775-1713 or follow on Instagram @interwovenap. Interwoven is at 511 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park. Ocean County: Kim Spalletta has an eye for fashion. She's developed a keen sense for what will sell and what won't since opening up Deja Vu, a designer consignment shop in Toms River, four and a half years ago. The shop carries designer brands that are affordable. "It's exactly what we needed," Spalletta said. "Everybody likes a bargain and everybody likes designer items. It's like shopping in your girlfriend's closet." BLAST FROM THE PAST: Where to get a vintage swimsuit at the Shore The shop features more than 1,600 consignors. She carries shoes, clothes, purses, prom dresses and jewelry. Popular brands include Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Michael Kohrs, Zara, Lucky and Anthropologie. Visit dejavu5050.com, call 732-270-5050 or follow on Instagram @dejavuboutique5050. Deja Vu is at 1490 Route 37 E., Toms River. Lola's Boutique When shopping at Lola's Boutique in Point Pleasant Beach, you don't have to worry about wearing an item someone else already owns. Owner Marla Morris only buys products in limited qualities. She understands women want something that sets them apart. The 13-year-old boutique is centered around clothing Morris wants to wear. "I was a mom, but I wasn't in my 20s anymore," Morris said. "I wanted to be hip and trendy, but I didn't want my pants super low and my top super high with my whole midriff showing." That's how she started finding the right clothing and accessories to fill her shop. Lola's Boutique carries lines, including Level 99 jeans, Miss Me jeans, Hobo leather handbags; and one-of-a-kind handmade designs by local artisans. For more information, visit ilovelolas.com, call 732-899-7884 or follow on Instagram @peacelovelolas. Lola's is at 519 Bay Ave. in Point Pleasant Beach.

The Royal Government has started to embark on reform in all sectors since the end of the 80s especially a comprehensive macroeconomic policy and structural reform program and integration of Cambodia's economy into the region and the world. The Royal Government of Cambodia has continuously achieved remarkable outcomes especially in the area of liberalization and stabilization of its economy. During the early 1990s, average annual growth has been about 6 to 7 percent with a significant drop in inflation rate to below 5 percent per annum. Moreover, numerous measures has set out and implemented to strengthen economic and public financial management while establishing good governance systems, including: (i) macroeconomic policy framework management, (ii) improving the budget system and public procurement, (iii) modernization of the tax system, (iv) improving the public accounting system, (v) developing the audit system and inspection, (vi) privatizing public enterprises, and as well as (vii) strengthening state property management. The Government sees the public financial management and improvement program as a central plank underlying the general administrative reform program. Achievement of the 2015 vision is underpinned by the Government's commitment to establishing the framework for a professional civil service, in which officials will be able to maintain PFM standards without depending on continuous external advice. Public financial management reform and the transformation of the civil service will have to become increasingly linked and mutually supportive in the progress towards the vision of installing much higher standards of management of and accountability, transparency, and responsibility for mobilizing all government resources and effectiveness and efficiency in their application to the Government's National Poverty Reduction Strategy and priority programs.

Polar bear kills woman, boy in remote Alaska village FILE - In this June 15, 2014, file photo released by the U.S. Geological Survey, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers who said they received the report of the attack on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2023, in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula. (Brian Battaile/U.S. Geological Survey WALES, Alaska (AP) — A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers. Alaska State Troopers said they received the report of the attack at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, KTUU reported. "Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents," troopers wrote. "The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male." The bear was shot and killed by a local resident as it attacked the pair, troopers said. The names of the two people killed were not released. Troopers said they were working to notify family members. Troopers and the state Department of Fish and Game are planning to travel to Wales once weather allows for it, the dispatch said. Wales is a small, predominantly Inupiaq town of about 150 people, just over 100 miles (161 kilometers) northwest of Nome. Fatal polar bear attacks have been rare in Alaska's recent history. In 1990, a polar bear killed a man farther north of Wales in the village of Point Lay. Biologists later said the animal showed signs of starvation, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Alaska scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey in 2019 found changes in sea ice habitat had coincided with evidence that polar bears' use of land was increasing and that the chances of a polar bear encounter had increased. Lucy Kafanov, Elizabeth Wolfe and Jeremy Harlan Man accused of severely beating, kidnapping Oregon woman knew his victim, police say A man accused of kidnapping and torturing a woman in southwest Oregon knew his victim before the attack, police tell CNN, as the week-long search for the suspect continues.

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An Intimate Moment with the Thunderous Garth Brooks Home / Culture / An Intimate Moment with the Thunderous Garth Brooks By Rachel Brandt In Culture, Interviews An Intimate Moment with the Thunderous Garth Brooks2019-03-112019-03-11https://www.alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/logo_header.pngAlivehttps://www.alivemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GarthBrooksStLouis.jpg200px200px In the late 1960s, there was a home in Yukon, Oklahoma, occupied by an ex-Marine, a former country singer and their blended family of six children. Troyal Brooks, Jr. and his wife Colleen McElroy Brooks—both united by their second marriage—held weekly talent nights wherein each child was required to perform a skill. Their youngest, Troyal Garth Brooks, was the happy peacekeeper in the competitive group. And as the years passed, he would form the close relationship with his mother that many youngest boys do. He was the baby, after all. When I stand across from Troyal—he now goes by Garth—in 2019, he's 57 years old and has since lost his mother to cancer. When I bring her up, he blinks back tears and takes a moment to clear his throat. "I just hope she's proud of me," he says quietly. It's almost a whisper. The sincerity in his voice and the tears in his eyes are something he's become known for. I pick up my cellphone and hold it closer to him. I'm recording this conversation inside The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis, participating in a press conference, because country music icon Garth Brooks has just sold more tickets to his forthcoming stadium kickoff performance here than have ever been sold since the venue's opening. The man needs little introduction, but if for some reason you've avoided television, radio and most media since the early 1990s, here's a quick recap. Garth Brooks is the best-selling solo artist ever in the United States, eclipsing legends like Elvis Presley or modern superstars like Beyoncé, and second only to The Beatles in overall album sales. He's received every award the music industry can bestow, and his tour sales dwarf records recently held by bands like The Rolling Stones. In fact, his recently wrapped tour sold more than 6.3 million tickets, making it the biggest North American tour in history. Before our conversation, I sat—along with around 30 other journalists—in a small room lined with cameras for a short press conference ahead of the first show of his five-stop stadium tour, which kicked off in St. Louis. He entered the room quietly, stepping in front of the group in a ball cap, wearing a shy smile. I noticed first the ironed pleat in his new jeans, clumping onto the tops of a pair of un-scuffed work boots—a dead giveaway of a country boy trying to look nice. I grew up in a small town surrounded by guitar-strumming, truck-driving boys not so different than Garth Brooks, so his calmly confident Carhartt-draped shoulders surprisingly put me at ease. Perhaps the leather jacket, cowboy boots and jeans I donned stood out, too, because as he turned to call on me when I raised my hand he said, "You look like trouble." Later, in the short time I had with him one on one, I would introduce myself as "Trouble," and we both had a laugh. It was at once surreal and relaxed, mind-blowing and comfortable, and that—I imagine—is exactly as he likes it. The writers in the room, not surprisingly, peppered him with questions about why he had chosen St. Louis to kick off the tour. "The last time I was in St. Louis on my last world tour, you guys were having a pretty tough time," he noted. He was referring to December of 2014, only months after Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year old African-American man, was fatally shot by 28-year old Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. "During the time I was here, I felt nothing but love." He went on to gush about the warm welcome his fans in St. Louis always show him, saying if they could do that then, he knew he'd receive a warm welcome now. It's worth noting as well that, throughout the interview process, he thanked the media and his fans no fewer than 10 times. That admiration and gratitude for the people who continue to lovingly write his checks comes up again during our one-on-one conversation when I ask him what he'd prefer his legacy be for his children and for his fans. "Well, that's totally different for my fans and for my daughters," he says. "For my daughters, I want them to say, 'We were his every breath.' I hope you get them all three in a different room, and I hope all three swear that they're my favorite. That's my job." He's getting choked up again. "My legacy for my fans? I hope they say, 'This guy gave a shit. He cared. He tried to do this for us and make each show different.' But honestly, what they say is what they're gonna say, ya know?" He's deeply emotional to a fault. The next evening, around 8 p.m., I'm sitting in a stadium with close to 70,000 people. When the lights dim and Garth Brooks emerges on stage, he's dressed no differently than when he played nearly 30 years prior in Nashville's honky-tonks. A black button-up is tucked into jeans fastened with a sparkling silver and black leather belt. His black cowboy boots carry him around the stage as he runs to greet his fans with an acoustic guitar dangling from his shoulders. He joins his band to play a hit-filled 30-song setlist, with special appearances by his famous wife, Trisha Yearwood, and sentimental moments with his college roommate and early bandmate, Ty England. After high-energy songs, he pulls his hat off and wipes sweat from his face, revealing a seasoned performer who needs a breather. But before we're out of his grasp, he throws his hands to his sides, lays his head back and yells, "ST. LOUIS! Are you ready? Because I think this is going to be the best night of my life!" and he's off and running again. True to his sentimental nature, he plays solo for a good portion of the evening, taking requests for old songs and spending good chunks of time reading signs in the audience. He accepts an American flag afghan from a woman and takes the time to learn her name as he holds it up for the crowd (pictured above). He gets on his hands and knees to take a selfie with a group of front-row fans, and he stops the show to sign the poster of an 8-year-old birthday girl. Close to 10 p.m., you can sense that he's closing in on the show's finish. He's drenched in sweat and pausing before each song to catch his breath. Behind the stage, there's a group of cellphones in the crowd lighting up a poster. He's as close to the edge of the stage as he can get, trying to read it. "Damn, I can't see it. Can someone read that for me? I can't read it. What does it say?" A crew member jumps on stage and leans near Brooks' ear to tell him. The sign reads that the woman holding it is a 28-year-old recently diagnosed with stage-4 cancer. He's visibly choked up. "Honey, all I can say is you have all of our strength right now," then he continues screaming, "And you KICK ITS ASS!" He leans over his guitar and starts the quick strumming of his 1993 hit "Standing Outside the Fire." Quickly each of his band members joins him again on stage, and they barrel through the closing number with the same energy that ignited the show. For a musician where "legend" is not a descriptive word out of range, when you meet him in person you see jointly a self-assured superstar who humbly loves his fans and intensely accepts their admiration. You see a young country boy who grew up in honky-tonks and loved his mama. You see a dad who fiercely loves his wife and children, and a world-famous rock star in confident command. Featured image courtesy of 8 Ten, Inc. Artist, Concert, Garth Brooks, missouri, Music, Musician, Performance, St. Louis, Story New Exhibition 'Fashioning the Black Body' Opens At Projects+GalleryCulture, Event What to Do in St. Louis This WeekendCity Guide, Culture