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The Blickling Pyramid
In the woods at Blickling there is a strange sight for any visitor to the grounds and hall. It is that of a pyramid!
Built upon a base of 45 feet square it is modelled on the tomb of Caius Cestius whose original tomb can be found near the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Italy.
Faced with grey stone, the tomb at Blickling cost the vast sum of £2,270 4s 6d.
Built by Lady Caroline Suffield in 1796-7 it contains the remains of her father, the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire John Hobart and his two wives.
All other ancestors and relations were buried in the family vault under the north aisle of the church of St. Andrew.
John Hobart became the Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1756. He was the ambassador to Russia in St. Petersburg between 1762 and 1765 and also Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
He passed away in 1793, under mysterious circumstances.
Horace Walpole said of his death that "Lord Buckinghamshire suffered from gout in his foot, and that he dipped it in cold water and so killed himself"
Horace was the 4th son of Robert Walpole Prime Minister 1721-1742, and was known for his letter writing which chronicled the major public events, social and artistic life, entertainment and gossip of his age,
In the Print Room at Blickling Hall there can be seen an 18th century print of the tomb of Caius Cestius.
Caius was a senior magistrate and was infatuated with Egyptian culture in the 1st century.
It was one of Hobart's ancestors who bought the estate in 1616, and with his architect Robert Lyminge, pulled down the medieval moated manor house which stood on the site and created Blickling Hall.
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A Stated Meeting of the Society was held at No. 25 Beacon Street, Boston, on Thursday, 23 January, 1902, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the President, George Lyman Kittredge, LL.D., in the chair.
The Records of the last Stated Meeting were read and approved.
The Corresponding Secretary reported that letters had been received from Mr. Justice Knowlton of Springfield and Mr. James Atkins Noyes of Cambridge accepting Resident Membership, and from Benjamin Franklin Stevens, L.H.D., of London, England, accepting Corresponding Membership.
Mr. William C. Lane exhibited two large water-color views by D. Bell, one of Cambridge Common from Christ Church, the other of the College Buildings, Christ Church, and the First Church when it stood between the Dane Law School and Wadsworth House. These pictures, which have recently been given to Harvard University, must have been drawn between 1805 and 1810.291
Mr. Lane also exhibited the original Journal of Captain Henry Hamilton, covering the period from 6 August, 1778, to 16 June, 1779, kept during an expedition from Detroit to Vincennes, and read extracts from it. Mr. Lane illustrated the progress of Hamilton's march by a valuable map of the Northwestern part of the United States drawn and engraved about 1787 by John Fitch, the inventor. The Journal has recently been given to the Library of Harvard University by a collateral descendant of Captain Hamilton, residing in Ireland.292
Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis expressed the opinion that the Journal was of great value and hoped that it would be printed.293
Mr. Albert Matthews said that he had listened with interest to Mr. Lane's remarks about the charges of cruelty against Hamilton brought by the Americans, and observed:
Similar charges against the British occur again and again in American documents of the day, and, usually accompanied by opprobrious epithets, have been repeated by American writers and historians. The evidence offered, however, is far from conclusive.294 On the other hand, acts of barbarity unquestionably committed by the Americans are unknown to many of our historians, or if known have generally been passed over without comment. Yet it is unfortunately only too true that cruel practices were indulged in by the Americans.
For several generations before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the Legislatures of different Colonies had offered bounties for Indian scalps. Indeed, so common were these bounties that they popularly acquired the gruesome but eminently appropriate designation of "scalp-money." Whether the British authorities did or did not offer money rewards for American scalps, it is certain that the Americans themselves did give bounties for Indian scalps during the Revolution. On 27 September, 1776, a Committee recommended to the South Carolina Assembly the following rewards:
For every Indian man killed, upon certificate thereupon given by the Commanding Officer, and the scalp produced as evidence thereof in Charlestown by the forces in the pay of the State, seventy-five pounds currency; For every Indian man prisoner one hundred pounds like money.295
I do not know whether these recommendations were acted upon in South Carolina, but it is certain that similar recommendations were made and carried out in Pennsylvania. President Joseph Reed was earnestly in favor of giving bounties for scalps, but feared that the plan might be deemed improper. In April, 1779, he sounded Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Lochry on the subject, who thus replied May first:
You desire, sir, in your letter, if the Inhabitants on the Frontiers would desire a reward on Indian scalps. — I have consulted with a number on this head, who all seem of opinion that a reward for scalps would be of excellent use at this time, and would give spirit and alacrity to our young men, and make it their Interest to be constantly on the scout.296
In the succeeding July Reed wrote Colonel Daniel Brodhead as follows:
We have sounded Congress & the General about giving a Reward for Scalps, but there is so evident a reluctance on the Subject, & an Apprehension that it may be improved by our Enemies to a national Reproach, that at present we cannot venture to make any authoritative Offers; but as we have great Confidence in your Judgment & Discretion, must leave it to you to act therein as they shall direct.297
These objections proved ineffectual and on 8 April, 1780, the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania took action:
The Board took into consideration the state of the frontiers, and particularly the propriety of offering a reward for Prisoners & Scalps. Whereupon, it was agreed to authorize the Lieutenant of Northumberland to offer fifteen hundred dollars for every white or Indian prisoner, if the former is acting with the latter, and for every Indian Scalp, one thousand dollars.298
On the eleventh of April a letter was written Colonel Peter Kachlein, Lieutenant of Northumberland County, authorizing him "to offer fifteen hundred dollars for every Indian or Tory Prisoner, and one thousand dollars for every Indian scalp;"299 and on the twenty-second of April it was —
Ordered, That a reward of three thousand dollars for every Indian Prisoner or Tory acting in arms with them, and a reward of two thousand five hundred dollars for every Indian scalp, to be paid on an Order of the President or Vice President in Council, to be paid on certificate signed by the Lieutenant or any two Sub-Lieutenants of the county, in conjunction with any two freeholders, of the service performed, such reward to be in lieu of all other rewards or emoluments to be claimed from the State.300
These bounties were slow in bringing about the desired result, and in July Reed wrote Colonel Samuel Hunter:
We are sorry to hear the Attempts which have been made to get Scalps & Prisoners have been so unsuccessful, & hope Perseverance will, in Time, produce better Effects — We cannot help thinking it the only effectual Mode to carry on an Indian War, and that a mere defensive System is not only attended with an enormous Expence, but to very little adequate Purpose.301
The ill success complained of by Reed did not long continue, and on September twenty-first Colonel Hunter was able to say:
Our Volunteers has had some success in the Scalping way on the 28th ult. Lieu. Jacob Creamer, William Campbell and two the name of Grove, took two Scalps about one hundred and fifty miles from here on ye west branch of Susquahana as you will see by ye Certificate.302
In addition to money rewards for scalps, barbarities perpetrated by the Americans — as, for instance, the making of "boot-legs" by the skinning of Indians — show a wanton cruelty unpleasant to contemplate. It is not to the credit of certain American historians that, while rhetorically dwelling on the unproved charges against the British, they have passed over in silence instances of acts of cruelty committed by American officers and soldiers, the authenticity of which rests on only too firm a basis — namely, the letters, diaries, and journals of the officers and soldiers themselves.303
Mr. Henry W. Cunningham exhibited some reproductions by the Pelham Club of Peter Pelham's portraits of Thomas Hollis, the Reverend Charles Brockwell, and the Reverend Timothy Cutler.
A Table of Silver Rates from 1706 to 1750 was submitted by Mr. Andrew McFarland Davis, who said:
This Table was found among the papers of the late Benjamin Marston Watson of Plymouth. The copy submitted is in every respect like the original and bears no heading to indicate its origin. Although the paper, the ink, and the chirography of the original indicate that it was clearly contemporaneous with the latest dates upon the document, it nevertheless bears within itself evidence that it was a copy. It will be observed that from the winter of 1743 up to the fall of 1747, Silver, according to the rates given in the Table, steadily rose in price, with the exception that the quotation in the summer of 1746 shows the extraordinary advance of One Pound and Two Shillings an ounce, while the quotation in the fall of the same year shows a decline of Eighteen Shillings an ounce, thereby restoring the price to a position on the silver curve which we might plot from these figures, which would seem to be normal. Comparison with other tables confirms the evidence furnished by the Table itself, and enables us to say that without doubt whoever made out this Table put the rate per ounce for the summer of 1746 just One Pound too high. This is a mistake which could not readily occur in an original tabulation, but is a natural error for a copyist.
Although we are left entirely to conjecture as to the purpose for which the original Table was compiled, still it may be regarded as a valuable contribution to the general subject upon which it bears, and is worthy of publication in our Transactions.
THE PRICES OF SILVER FROM 1706 TO 1750; INCLUSIVELY.
£ s d
0. 8.6
1738.S.
Mr. Davis also requested that another Table, to which his attention had been called by Mr. Henry H. Edes, might be inserted in our Transactions. Although it has been published, he said, in a work which insures its preservation and brings it within the reach of students who may chance to see it, still the place of publication is not one where economists would naturally look for quotations, and its insertion in our Transactions would be of great advantage to that class of students.
The following is the Table. It is constructed from the Rates of Silver collated by the Reverend Henry W. Foote from the Ledger Records of King's Chapel, Boston.304
Appropriate Price of Silver per Ounce, New England Money
Exchange with London
Shillings and Pence
Per Cent
28.6 to 29
On behalf of the widow of Mr. Robert Noxon Toppan, Mr. Davis communicated the following sketch of Edward Rawson written by Mr. Toppan, among whose papers it was found.
EDWARD RAWSON.305
Whoever has occasion to examine the original documents called the Massachusetts Archives, preserved in the State House at Boston, must be surprised at the vast amount of clerical labor performed by Edward Rawson, who was Secretary of the Colony from 1650 to 1686. As his name appears in the list of the original proprietors of the town of New bury, a slight sketch of his life, gathered from the sources at my command, will not be uninteresting.
Edward Rawson was born in Gillingham, Dorsetshire, England, 16 April, 1615, of a highly respectable family, belonging to what has been called the upper middle class of society, — a class to which belonged very many of the early colonists of New England. His mother was a sister of the Reverend John Wilson, the first minister of the First Church in Boston, and sister of Dr. Edmund Wilson, who made a most liberal gift to the infant colony of £1000 which was expended in purchasing artillery and ammunition. The wife of the Reverend John Wilson was the daughter of Lady Mansfield.306
Before leaving England Rawson married Miss Rachel Perne, whose grandmother was a sister of the Right-Reverend Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and whose grandfather Hooker was the uncle of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, the well-known clergyman, who after remaining a short time in Cambridge founded the town of Hartford in Connecticut. From his family connections Mr. Rawson could hardly help belonging to the reforming part of the Church of England, for even Archbishop Grindal leaned strongly to the Puritan element of the Established Church. Macaulay says of him, that the "archbishop hesitated long before accepting a mitre from his dislike of what he regarded as the mummery of consecration." For this ancestor Mr. Rawson named, presumably, the youngest of his twelve children, — Grindal. What induced Rawson to establish himself in Newbury instead of Boston, where his uncle was the prominent minister, is not known, but Mr. Ellery B. Crane, the compiler of the Rawson Memorial, thinks it very probable that some of the planters here knew Rawson personally in England. This is very likely, for he was immediately raised to a public trust, which would hardly have been the case had he been a total stranger.
The first mention of Rawson in the Newbury records, according to Mr. William Little, is on 24 February, 1637, Old Style. I quote from Mr. Little's letter: "The first mention of land granted to Mr. Rawson that I find is of date 24 February, 1637, Old Style, and I think this is the first mention of him in the records of the town. I think the next month he was chosen with Mr. John Woodbridge to prepare some by-laws for the town." During March, 1638, Rawson was made a freeman of the Colony, but the Colony Records do not state the day of the month. On the second of May we find him, when only twenty-three years of age, a Deputy to the General Court. From that time forward until 1650, with the exception of 1641 and 1643, he represented Newbury continuously, evidently to the satisfaction of his constituents. On the eighth of June, 1638, he was fined for being absent from his post, the records containing the following entry:
These 4 gentlemen after named, Mr John Humfrey, Mr John Winthrope, Iunior, Mr Atherton Hoffe, & Mr Edwd Rawson, were fined 5 shs a peece for their absence when the Court was called.307
On the fifteenth of June, as one of the Selectmen of Newbury, with Edward Woodman, John Woodbridge, William Moody, James Browne, John Knight and Abraham Toppan, he signed an order appointing four officers who were to see that sentinels properly armed were posted at the doors of the meeting house during service for protection. On the sixth of September he was appointed by the Court one of the commissioners to try small causes at Newbury. Under the same date he was chosen with Mr. Bradstreet and Mr. Winthrop, Junior, "to assist in setting out the places of the towne [Winnacunnet] & apportioning the severall quantity of land to each man."308 At Rawson's request or suggestion the place was called Hampton. He was, under the same date, placed upon a committee to examine accounts of the Treasurer of the Colony and see that warrants for taxes were sent out.
I shall not attempt to give a detailed account of the various offices of trust and the many committees and commissions on which he served during his long and busy life, but will select out of the notes I have taken from the printed records and the unpublished archives those that will most interest us. On 19 November, 1638, —
It is ordered that Edward Rawson shall supply the place of Mr. Woodbridge and be the publick notary and register for the towne of Newbury and whilst he so remains, to be allowed by the towne after the rate of five pounds per annum for his paynes.309
On June sixth, 1639, he was put by the Deputies on the committee to levy a tax of £1000 on the Colony, and subsequently he was repeatedly placed upon financial committees. In the same year Rawson made an attempt to manufacture gunpowder, which was an article of extreme importance to the planters. This was the first attempt made in the Colony. The Court granted him five hundred acres at Pecoit (Pequot) "so as hee go on with the business of powder, if the salt peter come."310 The effort was unsuccessful, but he was recompensed by the Court for his trouble and expenses, as we shall later see.
In 1640 Rawson was made one of the assessors to estimate the value of the horses, mares, oxen, cows and hogs in Newbury, the Colony tax levy being that year £1200.
In 1641 he was again appointed one of the commissioners to try small causes in Newbury.
On 23 February, 1642, at a general town meeting he with others was selected to stint the commons "according to their best judgments and discretion." He was also placed on the committee to make arrangements for moving the inhabitants of Newbury from the lower green, which led to much trouble and contention. The trouble was not settled until 1646, when it was decided to set up the meeting-house upon "a knowle of upland by Abrahams Toppan's barne within a sixe or sixteen rodd of this side of the gate posts, that are sett up in the highway by the said Abraham Toppan's barne."311 To this order Rawson objected, but it was carried by a majority vote. On May twentieth he was made one of the committee to put the country "in a posture of warre." On June fourteenth came the order of the General Court to all the towns to manufacture saltpetre.312
In 1644 we read that in consideration of Rawson's —
keeping the towne book it is ordered by us according to our power from the towne and courte granted to us, that he shall be freed and exempted from all towne rates for one whole yeare from the twenty-ninth of September last to the twenty-ninth of September next 1644.313
The Colony Records for the same year, November thirteenth, contain this entry: "M Edward Rauson hath hired to farme ye rent due for wine drawen in ye countrey, for 107ɫ 10s for a yeare."314 This venture did not turn out well for him.
On June eighteenth, 1645, he was appointed to the important position of Clerk of the Deputies, — a position he continued to fill, with the exception of one year, until he was promoted to the higher position of Secretary of the Colony. In 1648 there was apparently no clerk chosen and the records for that year are in the handwriting of William Torrey, who subsequently became Clerk.
The entry for 18 June, 1645, is as follows:
Edward Rawson is chosen & appointed clarke to the Howse of Deputs for one whole yeere, to enter all votes past in both howses, & those also yt passe only by them, into their booke of records.315
On October eighteenth of the same year it was voted to pay him "twenty markes, for the service he hath donne in keeping & transcribing the records of the Howse of Deputs for the time past."316 A mark was worth thirteen shillings and four pence.
As already stated, Rawson did not succeed in collecting as much revenue from wine as He had expected, so that in 1646 the Deputies voted that he should receive "one fourth part of what is due to ye countrey on that order in satisfaction to his charge and expense of time."
On May sixth, 1646, he was one of the committee to lay out the bounds of Exeter. Under the same date he with Richard Dummer and Mr. Carleton were appointed a committee to "search & examine things at Salsberry, & make returne of their thoughts thereabouts, (concerning ye petition of some of ym to be a distinct church)."317 Later in the year, 4 November, the Court granted him a commission "to see people joyne in marriage in Newberry, during the pleasure of ye Courte."318 It will be remembered that our ancestors did not allow a marriage service to be performed by a clergyman, considering matrimony a civil act only.319
As Rawson did not succeed in manufacturing gunpowder, therefore, on 26 October, 1648, the —
Corte, haveing taken into their serious considrtion [his] great forwardnes & readines . . . to advance so hopefull a designe as the makeing of salt peter wthin this iuridiction, who for that end & purpose hath disbursed certein monyes, to his great losse & damage,
granted him five hundred acres at Pequot and five pounds in money. The next year he relinquished the land, receiving instead thirty pounds, of which the five previously granted were a part.320
In 1649 "Mr. Edward Rawson, Mr. John Spencer and Mr. Woodman was chosen by the towne to joyne with those men of Ipswich and Rowley, that was appointed to bee a committee about Plum island." Newbury petitioned the General Court for the whole of the island, but the Court decided to grant two-fifths to Newbury, two-fifths to Ipswich and one-fifth to Rowley.321
We have now reached a point in Mr. Rawson's career when, upon his elevation to the Secretaryship on 22 May, 1650, he began to be an important actor in the political affairs of the Colony. It was a dramatic period of the Colonial history of Massachusetts. The intrusion of the Quakers, the rise of the Baptists and the demands of the English government made his position an arduous one. In 1651 we find him as Secretary ordered, May twenty-third, to send a letter to Roger Williams, who had levied a tax upon certain individuals who claimed to be within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. The letter declared to Williams that —
if himselfe, or the sergeant, or officer of Providence shall proceed to molest any of the aforesajd English vnder our jurisdic̣on . . . this Courte intends to seeke sattisfaction for the same . . . in such manner as God shall putt oppertunitjes into their hands.322
This same year, on October fourteenth, he was made Recorder of Suffolk County, retaining that position until 1670. Five books of recorded deeds and mortgages attest the activity of his pen. Previously, in the month of September, he had been chosen by the Commissioners of the United Colonies to be steward "for the receiving and disposing of such goods and commodities as shall be sent hither by the Corporation in England for the Propogating the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England."323
In 1652, May twenty-sixth, he was placed on the committee to fix upon a suitable place for a mint in Boston.324 The coining of money, which began this year, was considered, upon the restoration of Charles the Second in 1660, as a usurpation of sovereign rights, but at the time there was no protest that I can find made by the Parliamentary Government. On October nineteenth he was appointed one of the Guardians of Adam Winthrop, five years of age, the grandson of Governor John Winthrop.325
The next year there was some trouble with the Dutch Government at Manhattan, which led to considerable correspondence. We therefore read the following order, 2 June, 1653:
The secretary and his man having for this months tjme and more binn very much implojed to write for our com̄issioners, both theire acts and transcribing the letters and artickles to the Dutch, &c, the Court doth judge it meete, and orders, that the secretary be sattisfied out of the next country rate, eight pence ⅌ page, as the lawe provides in another case.326
On June seventh, 1653, he was made a commissioner with others to receive the submission of the inhabitants of Wells, Saco and Cape Porpoise to the Government of Massachusetts. On account of this journey to the eastward he received the next year a grant of land.327
During this year there was also trouble between the Colonies forming the Confederacy of 1643, in regard to some of the Articles of the Union. Massachusetts was not satisfied with the views taken, so Mr. Rawson was authorized to write:
To the com̄issioners of the Vnited Colonjes. Gentlemen: Wee see not reason to pro tract tjme in fruitelesse and needles returnes; wee shall acquiesce in or last paper, and com̄itt the successe to God. By ye Court, 9 September, 1653. Edw: Rawson, Secṛ.328
In 1656 there was what has been called the first "intrusion" of the Quakers which led to severe laws against them. Rawson has been called a "Persecutor" of the Quakers. A writer in 1849 says that Rawson "was hurried along by the torrent of popular fanaticism; and his name too frequently occurs upon the records of that gloomy period as the Persecutor."329 I have not been able to find any evidence that he was more of a persecutor than any of the magistrates. The laws against the Quakers, copied mainly from English Statutes, were passed by a small majority, and Rawson, as Secretary, had to publish them. The very year in which the Quakers first made their appearance, Rawson undoubtedly made an attempt to save the life of Ann Hibbins, who had been condemned and was executed as a witch.330 In the codicil to her will she speaks of Rawson as being "among her loving friends and intrusts to his care her chests and desk."
There is an entry the same year, under date of 14 October, which will interest us as showing the value of Indian corn at that time:
The secretary, as agent for the colonjes two yeares past, was pajd by the Treasurer forty two pounds odd money, in Indian corn, at three shillings ⅌ busħ, which, for ye most p̃t, he could make but two shillings. Itt is ordered, that the Treasurer pay to him tenn pounds for such his losse.331
Rawson having become a resident of Boston was chosen, 19 October, 1658, by the freemen one of the commissioners of the town and also in subsequent years. The Court passed the following vote 18 October, 1659:
The Court, considering that the secretary hath served the countrje for many yeeres in that place, whose tjme hath altogether binn taken vp wth the weighty occasions of the countrje, which haue beene & are incumbent on him, (the neglect whereof would be an ineuitable & great prejudice to the publique) and himselfe oft times forced to hire a clarke to helpe him, which hath cost him some yeares twenty pounds ⅌ annū, and every yeere spending of his oune estate a considerable some beyond what his estate will beare, nor is it for the honnor of the country that such an officer, so necessary, who hath also binn found faithfull & able in the discharge of the trust com̄itted to him, should want due encouragement, doe therefore order, that the present secretary shall have from the eleventh of May last, the som̄e of sixty pounds ⅌ annū for his sallery, to continew yearly vntill this Court shal order & provide some other meete recompence.332
Several times the Court made him gifts of money for the faithful discharge of his duties.
I have omitted to state in chronological order the different grants of land made to Rawson, thinking it better to group them together. Mr. Coffin says that Newbury granted him five hundred and eighty-one acres. Miss Emily A. Getchell kindly sent me the following extract from the Newbury records:
In consideration of Mr. Edward Rawson his resigning up into the Town's hands his house lott and forty acres on merrimack next Abraham Toppan's they granted him forty acres next Mr. Woodman's and a house lott in high street to enjoy to him and his heyres forever.
In 1648, July tenth, the Court granted to the Reverend Mr. Wilson and Edward Rawson fifteen hundred acres in the Pequot Country, next to Mr. John Winthrop's fifteen hundred acres, and in case Winthrop did not perform a certain condition, the whole three thousand acres were to go to Wilson and Rawson. October twenty-seventh of the same year, five hundred more acres were granted. In 1654, October nineteenth, two hundred acres above Dover bound were given him on account of his journey to the eastward. In 1657, May sixth, one hundred and ten acres were granted beyond Exeter River, and two hundred acres additional for his services at the eastward. In 1658, May twenty-sixth, four hundred acres were laid out to Rawson on "Panquatuke" river in the Pequot country. In 1660, October sixteenth, two hundred and fifty acres were granted for drawing up the book of laws, in any place not disposed of. In 1662, May seventh, two hundred and fifty acres were laid out four miles beyond Medfield. In 1683, October tenth, five hundred acres were granted in any free place. In 1685, April twenty-first, Rawson bought of the Indian proprietor for £14 New England money, two thousand acres between Dedham, Sherborn, and Medfield, to which he added on June fourth a small tract in Dedham, also bought from the Indians. In 1686, May thirteenth, five hundred acres were laid out to Rawson between Worcester and Lancaster. After Rawson's removal from Newbury to Boston he bought, 30 January, 1654, the estate of the old notary public and clerk, William Aspinwall, containing about two and one-half acres and extending on both sides of what was then called Rawson's Lane, now Bromfield Street.333 Some of the plans of these grants are still preserved among the Massachusetts Archives.
We now approach a crisis in the history of the Colony in which Rawson bore a conspicuous part and for which he was well trained. He was probably better versed than any one else in the Colonial laws and in the provisions of the Royal Charter. As early as 1645 he had been placed on a committee "to draw certeine bills for positive lawes, as aḡt lying, Sabaoth breaking, swearing, drunkeness etc. & to present them to this house." This was after the Body of Liberties had been written out and discussed, but before the first collection of laws was published in 1649. After that date (1645) be was placed constantly on the committee on laws, to see that they were properly arranged for printing and tabulating, and as Secretary be published them. Mr. Whitmore, in his Colonial Laws of Massachusetts, gives all the dates of Rawson's services, which it is not necessary to enumerate here.
The American Antiquarian Society has in its possession one of the law books of the period. It belonged to Rawson, and bears on the title-page the words written by his own hand "Edward Rawson his book." The title is as follows: "The Book of the General Laws and Liberties concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts, collected out of the Records of the General Court, for the several years wherein they were made and established and now revised by the same Court and disposed into an Alphabitical order, and published by the same authority in the General Court holden at Boston in May 1649. Cambridge 1660." The preface was probably written by Rawson. It contains the supplementary laws of 1661, 1662, 1663, 1664, 1665, 1666 and 1668.
After the restoration of Charles the Second in 1660 and the reestablishment of the principles of monarchy and the supremacy of the Anglican Church, in which the laity have no voice, it was not difficult to foresee that those principles, and the principles underlying the Government of the Massachusetts Bay of popular self administration and democracy in the Church, must sooner or later come into conflict. In 1664 Royal Commissioners were sent out from England to conquer Manhattan from the Dutch, and also to make an effort to reduce the New England Colonies from their semi-independence to a state of dependence upon the mother country. Massachusetts was willing to do her share in the reduction of Manhattan, but her troops were not required. The Colonies of New Haven, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Plymouth yielded to the demands of the Commissioners, but Massachusetts had determined to maintain what she considered as her legal rights under the Charter.
The limits of my paper will not allow me to give in detail the voluminous correspondence between Secretary Rawson and the four Royal Commissioners. It fills many pages of the printed records. Rawson maintained, by the order of the Court, that their Charter gave them absolute power of government, according to which they could restrict the right of suffrage, which they had done, to church members, and also that there was no appeal to England from their courts of law. I will quote from only two of Rawson's letters, written May ninth and eleventh, 1665, respectively:
Vpon pervsall of the papers yow haue deliuered vs, as also of a copie of a warrant to John Porter, sajd to be signed by three of yourselues, wee apprehend our patent, & his majestjes authority therein com̄itted vnto vs, to be greatly infringed. Your answer, for help to a right vnderstanding thereof, will be very acceptable to vs, & greatly facilitate our returne to what yow have already presented vnto vs. . . . wee conceive our charter vnder the great seale of England giveth full power vnto the authority here established according thereto, to gouerne all the people of this place, whither inhabitants or straingers; & for all legall acts & administration of gouerm̃nt it giues vs a sufficjent royall warrant & discharge.334
The Royal Commissioners determined to hold a court of judicature in Boston, notwithstanding the hostile feeling displayed, but they were prevented by beat of drum and sound of trumpet. This action reminds one of what happened nearly thirty years before. The English government brought an action of quo warranto against the Charter and demanded that the Charter should be sent back to England. Massachusetts answered by ordering that the fortifications should be put in order for defence. The Royal Commissioners were baffled and went back to England.
Eleven years later the English government, being somewhat freed from domestic troubles, decided to make another attempt. Edward Randolph, who subsequently was the successor of Rawson as Secretary by Royal appointment, came to Boston in 1676 to see how matters stood. His report stirred up the enemies of the Colony in England, and the Royal government determined that the laws of trade and navigation, which had been repeatedly violated in New England, should be executed there.
In order to curb the power of the Puritan clergy, whose doctrines were almost republican, and whose friends in England had fought against monarchy, Randolph begged that an Episcopal Church should be established in Boston, whose members would believe (as the doctrines of the Anglican Church then were) in passive obedience and in non-resistance to the Royal authority, and he also strove to have the right of suffrage transferred from church membership to a money qualification, which would also strengthen the royal authority. The struggle was a long and bitter one. Rawson's pen was active in defending the rights of the Colony, as understood by the Colonists, in helping to compose addresses of supplication to the King and in writing letters of instructions, by order of the General Court, to their counsel in London who was to defend their Charter in Court.
In reading the original documents one cannot but feel the popular pulse beating in those days of anxiety and tribulation. To show the state of feeling I quote from only two of Rawson's letters, written September twelfth and October fifteenth, 1684, respectively:
By a private letter to Joseph Dudley Esq we are informed of new meusures taken at Court in our case, at wch wee are amased, & haue called a Gennerall Court seriously to consider & weigh what is further to be donne by vs who are mett, and haue matters vnder debate; of what will be concluded, yow will receive by the first good oppertunitye. . . . Wee hope wee haue not forfeited the priviledge of Englishmen, that wee should be condemned vnheerd, much less without being sum̄oned to appeare, which yow know was impossible in the time prefixed.335
The Massachusetts Charter fell, as the corporations in England fell, before the Royal prerogative in what Cotton Mather called "the general shipwreck of charters." The Court of Chancery declared the Charter forfeited and vacated. A copy of the decree of the Court was placed in Secretary Rawson's hands on 2 July, 1685. The old government under which the colonists had elected their own officers and had greatly prospered was overthrown, and the future looked ominous under the rule of a despotic prince.
Joseph Dudley was appointed President of the Colony by the King until the arrival of a Royal Governor. The last official act of Secretary Rawson is dated 20 May, 1686:
Wee haue pervsed what yow left with us as a true coppy of his majtjes commission, shewed to us the 17th instant, impowring yow for the gouerning of his majtjes subjects inhabitting this colony, and other places therein mentioned.
Yow then applyed yourselues to vs, not as a Goũrnor & Company, but (as yow were pleased to terme us) some of the principall gentlemen and eheife of the inhabitants of the seuerall tounes of the Massachusetts, amongst other discourse saying it concerned us to consider what there might be thought hard & vneasy.
1. Vpon pervsall whereof wee finde, as we conceiue, first, that there is no certejne determinate rule for your administration of justice, & that which is seemes to be too arbitrary.
2ly. That the subjects are abridged of their liberty as Englishmen, both in the matter of legislation and in the laying of taxes, and indeed, the whole unquæstioned priviledge of the subject transferred vpon yourselues, there being not the least mention of all assembly in the com̄ission.
And therefore wee thinke it highly concernes yow to cousider whither such a com̄ission be safe, either for yow or us; but if yow are so satisfied therein as that you hold yourselues oblejdged thereby, and do take vpon you the government of this people, although wee cannot give our assent thereto, yet hope shall demeane ourselves as true & loyall subjects to his majty, and humbly make our addresses vnto God, &, in due time, to our gracious prince, for our releife.336
A committee was appointed to receive from Secretary Rawson certain papers in his possession and place them in security: then the Court adjourned.337
After this we catch an occasional glimpse of Rawson in the Diary of Samuel Sewall. One short and pathetic entry, under date of 31 August, 1686, will show the feeling of despondency prevailing: "Mr. Nowell, Moodey and Rawson visit me and comfort me."338 Sewall was strongly opposed to the new government and had resigned his commission as Captain.
After Rawson lost his public employments he seems to have been straightened financially. Randolph had written to the Bishop of London that Rawson had retained £200 belonging to the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians, but as the accusation was not followed by legal proceedings, probably Rawson was only temporarily embarrassed. On 15 February, 1688, he petitioned Sir Edmund Andros, the Royal Governor, that he might be compensated for his work in indexing and arranging the public papers, detailing his arduous services. The petition is divided into seven clauses. On March second he sent in another petition. We read the following entry in the Archives:
At a Councill held at ye Councill Chambers in Boston on Thursday ye 6th day of March 1688. Present his Excellency the Governor etc. The petition of Edward Rawson being this day read praying to be considered for his trouble & time spent & imployed . . . in making an account of ye publique Records of ye late Massachusetts Collony, ordered that ye sum̄e of ten pounds be payd him by ye Treasurer out of his Majties Treasury as a Gratuity for ye said service.
Under date of 21 November, 1690, Sewall says that several gentlemen having met at his house, "Mr. Edward Rawson in regard of his Age, and dwelling out of Town" delivered the papers relating to the South Church, including Mrs. Judith Winthrop's deed of the Meeting House land, etc., into the hands of a committee for safe keeping.339
After the Revolution of 1689, when Andros was sent back to England after being imprisoned in Boston for several months, Rawson in conjunction with Sewall published in 1691 a pamphlet signed "E. R.: S. S." entitled, "The Revolution in New En gland justified, and the People there Vindicated from the Aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer, in his Pretended Answer to the Declaration, published by the Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country adjacent, on the day when they secured their late Oppressors, who acted by an Illegal and Arbitrary Commission from the late King James."340 Palmer had an official position under the Andros government.
In 1692 Rawson suffered the loss of his daughter Rebecca, whose tragic fate is graphically told by Whittier in his Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal. She had been deceived in her marriage with Thomas Rumsey, who claimed to be a son of "Lady Haile," according to an affidavit still preserved in the State House, and who deserted her immediately upon their arrival in England. While on her voyage home to rejoin her father, after living some years in England, the vessel in which she was a passenger was wrecked by an earthquake in Jamaica and all on board perished. Her father survived her but a short time, passing away in his seventy-ninth year on August twenty-seventh, 1693, probably at the house of his son William, who then lived in Dorchester.
The portrait of Rawson in the possession of the New England Historic Genealogical Society shows a man evidently of middle size, his face rather broad, nose aquiline, hazel eyes, long dark brown hair parted in the middle, moustache and imperial, wearing a broad white collar over a heavy black cloak, and long embroidered gloves. The portrait was painted when he was fifty-five years of age. Such he appeared when, on horseback, before the assembled members of the government, the troop of horse and eight companies of foot soldiers, he proclaimed the accession of James the Second, with the same ceremony with which he had proclaimed that Charles the Second was King, after his restoration.341
The Reverend Morton Dexter of Boston and the Reverend James Hardy Ropes of Cambridge were elected Resident Members. |
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Leave your comfort zone, Manila bishop tells priests
Bishop Broderick Pabillo, administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila, delivers his homily during Mass at the Manila Cathedral to open the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on Feb. 6. The celebration also marked the 442nd anniversary of the elevation of Manila as a diocese. PHOTO BY FATIMA LLANZA/RCAM-AOC
Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila told priests to leave their comfort zone and reach out to the margins of society or else risk becoming just under "maintenance mode".
As the archdiocese opened its celebration of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines, he told parishes to continue on their "missionary mode" especially to the "peripheries".
"Being in a state of mission is not optional," Pabillo said in his homily during Mass at the Manila Cathedral on Saturday.
"It is the necessary condition if we want to be renewed as a living church, and not just be a museum that is visited once in a while but could not change lives," he said.
The celebration also marked the 442nd anniversary of the elevation of Manila as a diocese, the first in the Philippines, having under its jurisdiction the entire country.
In 1595, Manila was raised to an archdiocese with Nueva Segovia in Ilocandia, Nueva Caceres in Bicol and Cebu in the Visayas as its suffragan dioceses.
But even with deep historical roots, Pabillo warned of "the danger of becoming monument".
"We may have these, but let us not, as church, be just antiques, museums and artifacts whose main concern is preservation and conservation," he said.
Reflecting on the Jubilee year's theme, "Missio ad Gentes,' he asked the parishes to continue this "expanding mission of Manila to which we are all heirs to".
While acknowledging that leaving the "cozy and familiar situation" is difficult, Pabillo said that the Covid-19 pandemic "has pushed us out of our comfort zones, whether we liked it or not".
The health crisis, he said, also pushed the archdiocese to poorer communities to distribute aid and at the same time formed a sense of solidarity among parishes.
"Now that we have the initial push to get out of our comfort zones and to reach out to the peripheries, let us continue on this missionary mode," Pabillo added.
"Yes, let us be bold in striking out new grounds. There will be expenses. We will make mistakes. There will be criticisms but move on," he said.
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The Sims fan site called Platinum Simmers has done what seemed like the impossible. That's right, they managed to get their hands on a preview of the latest expansion pack! LIKE OH MY GOD. Check it all out below and click on the link for more! We can't wait, and neither can you!
The Sims 4 Get Together was announced at the beginning of Gamescom. This new expansion pack all revolves around friends. Whether it is making new friends, or hanging out with your current friends. There are new skills, new interactions, a new world, new items and much more. During my stay at Gamescom, I got the opportunity to see a presentation about the new expansion pack, as well as ask your questions afterwards.
The expansion pack is still in development and they are at a pre-alpa stage, so some things may change before release. All the question that could be answered are in the article. I have split this article into 2 categories. World and Gameplay.
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Мори́с Дюрюфле́ (, 11 января 1902, Лувье — 16 июня 1986, Париж) — французский композитор и органист.
Жизнь и творчество
Морис Дюрюфле учился в Парижской консерватории у Ноэля Галлона, его брата Жана Галлона, Поля Дюка, Луи Вьерна и Шарля Турнемира. Вместе с Турнемиром являлся одним из последних выдающихся представителей основанной Сезаром Франком и Шарлем-Мари Видором французской органной школы. С 1930 года Дюрюфле — органист парижской церкви Сент-Этьен-дю-Мон.
Неоднократный участник концертных гастролей по странам Европы и Северной Америки. С 1944 года он профессор Парижской консерватории по предмету музыкальной гармонии. Был женат на органистке Мари-Мадлен Шевалье (Дюрюфле), с которой также выступал на концертах. В мае 1975 года супруги Дюрюфле попали в крупную автомобильную аварию, после чего Морис был вынужден прекратить свою деятельность органиста. Последняя его композиторская работа, небольшая пьеса для хора Notre-Père, относится к 1977 году.
Морис Дюрюфле является в первую очередь автором духовной вокальной и органной музыки. Несмотря на то что он писал музыку практически всю свою взрослую жизнь, опубликована лишь часть его творческого наследия. Хотя в произведениях композитора ощутимо влияние позднего романтизма, импрессионизма и григорианского хорала, его творчество отличается высоким мастерством и оригинальностью. Среди его органных сочинений выделяются сюита Suite op. 5 (1932) и прелюдия Prélude et Fuge sur le nom d'Alain op. 7 (1947). Обе считаются шедеврами французской органной музыки.
Музыкальные сочинения
Органное соло
Scherzo op. 2 (1926)
Prélude, Adagio et Choral varié sur le Veni Creator op. 4 (1930)
Suite op. 5 (1932):
Prélude
Sicilienne
Toccata
Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain op. 7 (1942)
Prélude sur l'Introït de l'Epiphanie op. 13 (1961)
Fugue sur le carillon des heures de la Cathédrale de Soissons op. 12 (1962)
Méditation op. posth. (1964)
Lecture à vue (неопубликовано)
Fugue (неопубликовано)
Lux aeterna (неопубликовано)
Камерная музыка
Prélude, Récitatif et Variations op. 3 для флейты, альта и фортепиано (1928)
Фортепиано соло
Triptyque op. 1: Fantaisie sur des thèmes grégoriens (1927/1943, неопубликовано)
Trois Danses op. 6 (1932):
Divertissement
Danse lente
Tambourin
Фортепиано для четырёх рук
Trois Danses op. 6 (1932, в транскрипции композитора):
Divertissement
Danse lente
Tambourin
Для двух фортепиано
Trois Danses op. 6 (1932, в транскрипции композитора):
Divertissement
Danse lente
Tambourin
Музыка для оркестра
Trois Danses op. 6 (1932):
Divertissement
Danse lente
Tambourin
Andante et Scherzo op. 8 (1940)
Музыка для хора
Requiem op. 9 для солиста, хора, оркестра и органа (1947)
версия с большим оркестром (1947)
версия с органом (1948)
версия с малым оркестром (1961)
Quatre Motets sur des Thèmes Grégoriens op. 10 для хора a capella (1960):
Ubi caritas et amor
Tota pulchra es
Tu es Petrus
Tantum ergo
Messe Cum Jubilo op. 11 для баритона, мужского хора и оркестра (1966):
версия с органом (1967)
версия с большим оркестром (1970)
версия с малым оркестром (1972)
Notre Père op. 14 для четырёхголосого смешанного хора (1977)
Прочие композиции
Hommage à Jean Gallon (1953)
Sicilienne aus der Suite op. 5 для малого оркестра (флейта, гобой, кларнет, фагот, валторна и струнный квартет, неопубликовано)
Примечания
Литература
Ronald Ebrecht, ed. Maurice Duruflé (1902—1986): The Last Impressionist. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8108-4351-X.
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Perhaps the ecumenical dizziness spun from the first Parliament of Religions (Chicago, 1893) and the horrific modern wars like the First World War (and their wearying effect on society) were on the mind of Pius XI when he wrote this encyclical (1928).
Times were hard enough all over and people were tired. Who wanted to fight about religion of all things? As a result, the cause of fostering unity among men of all religions - among those calling themselves Christians - was catching on fast and generating indifference, even among Catholics, to the objective truths of the True Faith. This ecumenism was being motivated by a false idea of "one flock" under the guise of a falsely - understood charity.
Pius XI here denounces the dreamers, calls inconceivable a "federation of Christians in which each member retains his own opinions ... in matters of faith," and, proclaims that the only ecumenism is to convert the world to Catholicism. |
Lillian Gish: He gave us the grammar of film-making.
Brownlow and Gill Do It Again!
This IS a good documentary, about an elementary figure in the history of cinema. Any student of the motion picture, or of American culture, would do well to view it.
However, the main reason I'm posting is to comment on an observation by one of the reviewers here regarding the reputation of Abraham Lincoln in the American South. In THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915) and in his later ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1930), Griffith echoed the prevailing view among white Southerners in 1865 (the year the Civil War ended) that Lincoln would exact no vengeance on the former Confederacy and would administer a gentle peace. Lincoln's assassination was viewed by many Southerners, certainly in hindsight, as a tragedy for the South, because Lincoln's successor lacked the political clout and popular support to hold vindictive "Radical Republicans" in check. Had Lincoln lived, many Southerners believed, the years of Reconstruction would have been a lot more productive (for whites, at least). Lincoln was certainly no "hero" to most white Southerners during the Civil War itself -- his election in November 1860 was the event that sparked secession and the Civil War -- but after 1865, white Southerners adopted the "martyred" Lincoln as the Hero Who Would Have Saved the White South, and that's the way Griffith portrayed him in his films. |
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My SIL, who lives very close to me, has a swimming pool and I have found that the water is very soothing and eases the pain in my lower back, hips, knees, shoulders, and neck. It is also good exercise to walk around in the water. I have been spending a couple of hours the past few days with this great water therapy I found!
As long as you don't spend too much time out in the sun, the sunlight is actually good for us and I found it does make me feel better.
So get up, and go take a dip! You will feel better in the morning – as long as you don't over do it!! |
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Timeless stories for the mature young reader
A new book, Great Indian Children's Stories, hopes to make contemporary classics such as 'The Blue Umbrella' and 'Kabuliwallah' more accessible to today's young readers
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A still from film, 'The Blue Umbrella', inspired by Ruskin Bond's story
By Avantika Bhuyan
Some stories are timeless, touching a chord with every generation. Every time different members of a family read The Kabuliwallah by Rabindranath Tagore or Feluda by Satyajit Ray, it feels like they are dipping into a pool of shared memories. Their interpretations might be different, the questions the story gives rise to might vary, but there is a sense of warmth in the sharing of stories. This new book, Great Indian Children's Stories, published by Aleph and edited by Stephen Alter, seeks to evoke those feelings. It features nine short stories by the best of modern writers, such as The Kabuliwallah, Idgah by Munshi Premchand, The Why-Why Girl by Mahasweta Devi, The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond, The Boutique by Shashi Tharoor and The Owl Delivered the Good News All Night Long… by Gautam Lal Chakma.
Some of these are translations, hoping to make these contemporary classics more accessible to today's young readers. It is also an effort to introduce this generation to writers such as Tagore and Mahasweta Devi, whose writings might be more familiar for their parents. I had hoped to see a Mahadevi Verma story in this compendium as well —her stories like Sona are a delight to read— but then as Alter writes this book scratches the surface of the vibrant storytelling tradition in India.
There is something beautiful about watching your child read the same story you read when you were 10 or so, and listening to very different reactions from what one had as a kid. For instance, I read The Kabuliwallah in Hindi and purely from Rahmat's perspective—the kind Kabuliwallah, who saw his daughter in little Mini, and would bring her dry fruits and a bagful of stories. I remember feeling rather incensed and hurt on his behalf at just how easily Mini forgot him as she grew up. My daughter, on the other hand, empathises with Mini completely—at her need to move on in life. These readings make for some rather insightful conversations.
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The book, edited by Stephen Alter, has been published by Aleph Book Company
Then there is Alter's retelling of Vikram and the Betaal. I still remember the TV series that used to air on Doordarshan, and how Betaal would scare the living daylights out of me. I approached the story with an element of fear in my mind, while my daughter and her friends chortled away at Betaal's many many questions.
Though the title states these are children's stories, these are in fact timeless, and would appeal to readers across age groups. Alter has made a conscious effort to choose stories that don't come with moral lessons or sanitised messages. Each of these carries complex themes, from loss and disappointment, to the drifting away of grandparents and grandkids, psychological barriers when it comes to class, and more.
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Some of them, like The Boutique, are open-ended. The idea is to leave a lot of scope for the young reader's imagination to interpret the stories as they please. "If the subjects or themes worry parents or teachers, in one way or another, it is probably because the writer has succeeded in touching a nerve that takes them back to their own childhood. That germ of a story that you recognize as your own cannot be sanitized or disinfected. No vaccine or antibiotic exists that can protect or sterilize our imaginations," writes Alter in the introduction. |
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Assessment of the National Playwright Residency Program
In 2009, Theatre Development Fund released Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, a six-year study into how plays were written and produced in the United States at that time. The results were both comprehensive and disturbing. As the study's lead author, Todd London, put it at the time:
On one hand, we have a playwriting profession that is larger, better trained and more vital than at any time in our history. On the other hand, we have a profound rift between our most accomplished playwrights and the theatres who would produce them, an increasingly corporate theatre culture, dire economics for not-for-profits, dwindling audiences for non-musical work and perhaps most troubling of all, a system of compensation that makes it nearly impossible for playwrights to earn anything resembling a living.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation responded immediately, supporting broad-based discussions of how the field might address issues identified in the study, including playwrights' ability to earn a living making plays, relationships between playwrights and producing theatres, and the relevance of theatres to their communities.
Informed by these conversations, in 2012 the Mellon Foundation launched the National Playwright Residency Program (NPRP) as an effort to catalyze a field-wide shift by embedding playwrights in theatres. The program pays the salary for a playwright to be in residence in a producing theatre for a three-year term, with the option to renew for a second three-year term. To date, Mellon has funded twenty-three distinct theatres and playwrights (including nine playwright-theatre partnerships that have received two terms of funding).
[T]he program has helped expand diversity in the plays produced on American stages, and offered fresh ways to think about the playwright-theatre relationship and the role of playwrights in a theatre's relationship with its community.
The program seeks to:
Boost playwrights' artistic endeavors and improve their financial conditions by giving them space, time and resources to create, and helping them develop better and more balanced relationships with producing theatres;
Transform theatres' practice and thinking by having a playwright embedded within them for extended periods of time;
Shift norms in the field regarding how theatres engage and value playwrights, and inspire more theatres to support playwrights on an ongoing basis, not just by project;
Work toward an ideal of having playwrights become salaried employees of all theatres.
The Mellon Foundation asked HowlRound to assist in implementing the program by amplifying and enhancing the impacts of NPRP on the participants and the theatre field as a whole. Toward this end, HowlRound has organized regular convenings for participants; facilitated artistic development residencies for playwrights at Emerson College; managed and disbursed $30,000 in developmental "micro-funds" for each playwright during their three-year residency; provided ongoing counsel and support to participants; and encouraged participants to document their experiences and share them with the field through the work of "commons producers" and other means, including postings about the residencies on HowlRound's online platform.
Attendees at a convening of the National Playwright Residency Program hosted by HowlRound at Emerson College, 2014. Photo by Meg Taintor.
In 2016, Mellon initiated the program's second three-year term. This included renewing grants to nine of the original cohort and adding nine additional theatre-playwright partnerships. Based on their assessment of experiences during the first round of the program, Mellon and HowlRound made adjustments to the program:
Making the application an open call and allowing playwrights to initiate the partnership with a theatre. This change reinforced the goal of re-balancing the relationship between playwright and theatre, and encouraged a broader array of potential participants to come forward.
Favoring playwrights who had strong connections to the theatre's local community and interest in working with community members. This shift acknowledged the observation from the program's first three years that the playwright-theatre relationship tended to be stronger if the artist lived in the community or had strong local roots.
Offering participating theatres additional funding to defray operating costs associated with the program. This change responded to participating theatres' request for assistance in covering operating costs incurred in hosting the residencies.
Eliminating the commons producer role and having each playwright and theatre develop a documentation plan as part of their residency design. The commons producer concept was an experimental approach to project documentation, designed to both track developments at each residency and share lessons with the larger field by distributing the produced material via HowlRound's website. Twelve commons producers were hired by HowlRound in NPRP's first year. Each producer received an orientation and training from HowlRound and was paid a $2,000 annual fee to track activities of a given residency. A number of interesting products were generated by the commons producers, including articles, videos, blogs, and other activities. But overall the experiment fell short of its goals for authentically capturing the added value of an embedded artist, and the challenges associated with NPRP residencies. The theatres found it difficult to understand the producers' role and some (especially larger theatres) had difficulty integrating this work into their operations. Some of the producers were outstanding, but others were inconsistent in their performance. Letting each playwright and theatre develop a plan for documenting their residency and sharing the results gave the participants more control over this element of the program.
In the second phase, the program maintained an emphasis on diversity among playwrights (in age, ethnicity, career stage, gender) and among theatres (in size, location, and artistic focus) to reinforce its goal of impacting the whole ecosystem of theatre.
In 2016, after the launch of the second round of funding, HowlRound commissioned Helicon Collaborative to help assess the program's impact to date. Helicon's review focused on the participants in the first phase of the program, and involved interviews with those theatres' artistic directors and playwrights; conversations with staff at the Mellon Foundation and HowlRound; attendance at the summer 2016 convening of playwrights and theatres; and a review of related documents and materials.
This report summarizes key findings of Helicon's research. Appendices provide a description of the components of the NPRP initiative, a summary of the kinds of activities that playwrights undertook during the course of the first three years of their residencies, and a list of people interviewed for this study.
Overview of Findings
Overall, the NPRP program represents a bold investment in changing the relationship between playwrights and theatres, and has positively impacted participating theatres and playwrights in a range of ways. All the participants appreciate the opportunity the program has offered, and all have gotten something of value from participating. In addition to enabling theatres and playwrights chances to engage with one another in new ways, the program has helped expand diversity in the plays produced on American stages, and offered fresh ways to think about the playwright-theatre relationship and the role of playwrights in a theatre's relationship with its community. For many of the playwrights, it has been a truly transformative experience.
The extent to which the program has shifted norms or conditions in the theatre field or the dynamic between playwrights and theatres overall is not yet clear. Despite their largely positive experiences, most participating theatres report that they are not planning to continue full-time playwrights' residencies after the Mellon funding ends. As the findings show, the barriers are both logistical and economic. It is legitimately challenging to integrate a full-time working playwright into the staff, operations and organizational culture of most theatres. Even when theatres acknowledge the great value of having a working playwright integrated into their day-to-day operations, they feel that paying a playwright full-time is a luxury they cannot afford. This is not necessarily a failure of the NPRP program but rather a result of the larger socio-economic context in which the theatre field and playwrights exist today.
The outcomes of the NPRP initiative to date do suggest that we are still some distance from a nonprofit theatre field that is artistically vital, relevant to communities and economically sustainable for playwrights, other theatre artists and theatre organizations themselves. How to create such a field requires more concerted discussion and collaborative action.
'I had real time to think about my artistic life, my artistic goals. The residency has been life-changing.'
Five Primary Findings
Five primary findings emerged from Helicon's research:
1. NPRP is a bold and well-executed response to field-wide challenges
The playwrights and theatre directors Helicon interviewed see NPRP as a bold intervention to address systemic problems in the theatre field. Further, they believe that the openness and collaborative spirit with which the Mellon Foundation and HowlRound have approached designing and implementing the program represents a model for good field/funder relationships. Participants praise both Mellon and HowlRound staff members for their "desire to know more, do it better, improve the lives of artists and push the field forward," and for their responsiveness and willingness to adjust program components in response to participants' feedback.
Participants also praise the program's flexible design, which maximizes the chances for positive impact on each participant (playwrights and theatres) and influence the field in a holistic way. To increase the opportunity for positive impact on playwrights and theatres, for example, each duo shaped its own plan of work, tailored to the circumstances of the partners. To recognize that the theatre field is an ecology and improving relations between playwrights and theatres is a field-wide concern and responsibility, a broad range of theatres were included in the program—from large regional theatres to small, experimental ensembles. To emphasize the breadth of outstanding talent available in a field where the predominant model is producing plays written by white men in theatres led by white men, NPRP's first cohort included ten playwrights of color (71 percent of the cohort), five women playwrights (36 percent of the cohort), four female artistic directors (29 percent) and one artistic director of color (7 percent). In the second cohort of NPRP participants, 7 of 10 playwrights are people of color (70 percent) and 2 of 10 artistic directors are (20 percent); 6 of the 10 playwrights (60 percent) of playwrights and 2 of 10 directors (20 percent) are women. Thus, in the two cohorts combined, 72 percent of playwrights are people and 16 percent of artistic directors are; and 50 percent of playwrights and 33 percent of the directors are women.
The diversity of the cohort represents an important step toward rectifying legacies of gender and racial bias in the field. In addition, the expectation that both theatres and playwrights would document their residency work and post reflections on the HowlRound website made it possible to extend the learning of the participants to others in the field.
2. For the playwrights: Positive artistic, financial and professional impacts
2.1 Three years with a full-time salary and the time and space to write profoundly affected the creative life of the playwrights, and their financial health.
All the NPRP playwrights have completed new plays and seen them produced during the course of their residencies, most of them at their home theatres. (Neither Oregon Shakespeare Festival nor Playwrights Horizon produced their playwrights' work during the first three-year term.) Some took on ambitious new projects; others reworked and remounted previous works. All enjoyed new opportunities to collaborate with other artists; and many explored new forms of writing such as novels, screenplays or translations of other artists' work. Thirteen of the original fourteen playwrights took advantage of the HowlRound's offer to provide artistic development residencies at Emerson College—using these opportunities to workshop plays, give readings, pursue research and/or conduct writing retreats. This propelled the playwrights' creative development, and was also viewed as a boost to Emerson College and the Boston area theatre ecosystem.
It should be noted that while having a secure salary was welcome to all the playwrights, the rate of pay became an issue for some. Each playwright received a salary commensurate with the rates of pay for senior staff at the host theatre—largely because the program designers did not want resident playwrights to be paid more than host theatres' artistic directors, which would have been the case in some theatres had all the playwrights been paid the same amount. Thus salaries varied within the NPRP playwrights' cohort as a whole. This became a heated topic during the early program retreats because a number of the playwrights thought they should all receive the same amount, regardless of size or geographic location of their host theatre.
Receiving a full-time salary and employment benefits during the residency was a novel experience for most of the playwrights, and health benefits were particularly valuable for many. In addition, the sustained salary enabled several playwrights to invest in their financial and personal health in ways that will benefit them for the long term. Some bought houses; others expanded their savings; some invested for retirement.
A selection of comments from playwrights reveals the profound impacts of this unique experience on their life and work:
"Freedom from that constant worry of finding gigs and covering insurance allowed me to write six plays."
"The financial support has given me a sense of the long game. I can think about projects in much more complete ways because I am not fractured in my attention, scurrying for income."
"This has been the most valuable experience of my career. I have become a better and more confident writer."
"I've had four productions in four years – unprecedented in my experience. In addition, I've been able to form closer connections to actors I love, the theatre community in my city and community members."
"This has allowed me to see things I wouldn't have otherwise, outside of where I live. It's upped my intelligence, and shifted the ideas I am engaged with."
"I had real time to think about my artistic life, my artistic goals. The residency has been life-changing."
All the playwrights expressed deep gratitude for the opportunities provided by NPRP, but some also expressed their awareness that even a program as generous and sustained as NPRP will not change the fundamental economics of their lives, or the economics of the theatre field more generally. Many shared fears about what they will do after the program ends. Some have been hesitant to give up teaching positions or other part-time work during their NPRP residency, for example, or to turn aside opportunities to write for tv shows or pursue commissions, because they do not want to lose professional connections that may be essential later. In some cases, this created tension between the playwright and their theatre if the theatre felt it was not getting enough of the resident playwrights' time or artistic attention.
2.2 Residencies enhanced the playwrights' professional standing and expanded their professional networks.
In addition to getting time and financial support to write, participating in the NPRP program helped playwrights build their reputations and connections that have led to additional professional benefits. Being selected for an NPRP residency is an important professional validation in itself. Getting to know other playwrights and theatre directors in the program expanded playwrights' opportunities and their sense of possibility. Being centrally placed within a producing theatre has given many an unparalleled opportunity to meet and work with a range of people—including both theatre staff and visiting artists. With this has come new professional confidence. Many playwrights used their developmental micro-funds to travel to see their fellow NPRP playwrights' productions in other locations, or to expand their artistic horizons in other ways. Meeting regularly with the other playwrights created a new professional community for the playwrights, where they could share some of their artistic struggles. The forums for exchange between playwrights and artistic directors created many new cross-pollinations.
Selected comments from playwrights reveal the importance of this validation and networking:
"I went from being unknown to having meaningful national recognition."
"This theatre is a watering hole, with so many different artists coming through. Engaging with these other artists has been a source of inspiration."
"NPRP has given me national visibility. It's not a coincidence that all the plays I wrote for my resident theatre have been produced or are about to be produced by other theatres."
"I would never have had a chance to meet so many theatre directors had I not been in the program. [And now I'm] situated to get a meeting with the literary manager or staff manager of any theatre in the country."
"I feel I advanced my own standing, but also the visibility of a lot of other playwrights and artists previously unknown to the theatre. I was listened to and had an impact on my theatre's artistic choices."
2.3 The playwrights expanded their artistic and non-artistic toolkits by taking on new roles.
In addition to writing, many playwrights used the residency period to experiment with other artistic modalities. Several directed plays (a few for the first time); others explored productions of their work outside conventional theatre venues, in places such as prisons and community settings. For some, working with community members helped stimulate their artistic thinking.
A few comments describe these impacts:
"I took a play from creative idea to full production for the first time. I worked on every element. I had never done this before and, while terrifying, it was tremendously stimulating—a huge growth opportunity."
"This taught me about writing about a community and to a community … how to write about a community in ways that are meaningful to its members without literally putting the community on stage."
"It was wonderful and creatively stimulating to work with young people – high school and younger. Learning how to communicate across generational lines has been very interesting and unexpected, and helpful to my writing."
Many playwrights contributed to the administrative operations of their theatres—supporting theatres' communications, social media and marketing efforts, for example, or writing funding proposals or participating in fundraising events. Most have attended at least some staff meetings and a few have become part of their theatres' leadership teams. In one case, the resident playwright facilitated a process for the theatre staff to articulate its organizational values. Some playwrights have interacted extensively with board members–enlarging board members' understanding of the playwriting process, artist-theatre dynamics and issues related to race and cultural diversity. The opportunity to work with community members—including youth groups, neighborhood associations, schools and churches—has been particularly meaningful for some of the playwrights.
Most playwrights reported that the residency has expanded their skillsets and mindsets, and enlarged their understanding of the dynamics of both theatre production and working in the community:
"Seeing the inside of theatre operations was illuminating. I now understand theatres' constraints and how little time there is for anything."
"I now see the real need to educate board members. Many have so little interaction with artists, or with people outside their social class."
"I can see that I have made a difference in decision-making and the staff seeks my opinion about issues that go beyond artistic choices. This is really gratifying."
However, in some cases, the playwright's role was problematic for other staff members of their theatres. The purpose of the residency and resident playwright's role was not always clearly explained to other staff, and caused confusion or resentment in some places. Especially in those theatres where many other staff members are artists or playwrights themselves, the resident playwright's flexible hours and opportunity to focus exclusively on writing created discord and challenges for the directors.
"The staff never understood my variable schedule or the fact that I didn't chip in to help with every production. But that was not my job. It became a problem on occasion."
"Everyone was nice; but I felt little camaraderie. No one was really in charge of helping me do what I needed to do. No one wanted the extra work of helping me do things."
"In one staff meeting, it became clear that the staff loved me, but they loved me for my fundraising and my community building, not for my art. I had to really resist just becoming another administrator, and they had to resist putting me in that position too."
"I found that the value the playwright brings is not always clear, and not always prioritized or monetized. Some of the things I did for the theatre that I thought were most important were not valued by the rest of the staff."
"I had a hard time holding the playwright accountable because they bristled at the idea of being a staff member and following HR rules that the rest of the staff abides by. The playwright acted like a 'salaried freelancer,' which created problems for us."
2.4 Many of the playwrights of color became de facto educators of theatre staff, board and audiences regarding issues of race and class.
Close to two-thirds of the original NPRP playwright cohort are African American, Asian or Latinx. In the interviews, many reflected on the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which racial issues affected their residency experience. This ranged from board members expressing surprise to an African American playwright that s/he could write about people in upper economic brackets to playwrights of color feeling uncomfortable working in theatres that were very removed from their community or socio-political consciousness.
Addressing racial and class bias within the host theatres was not a specific expectation of the residency, but many playwrights felt they had no choice but to work on this issue with their institutions. Most of those who found themselves in this position accepted it willingly as an opportunity to exert influence on this critical concern. In a few cases the theatre's artistic director and the playwright worked together very consciously and deliberately on addressing bias issues in the theatre, once the playwright was in residence.
Given rising concerns about diversity, inclusion and equity in the cultural sector generally, these pressures on the playwrights of color might have been anticipated, and it may be a flaw in the program design that there were no formal structures for preparing or supporting both playwrights and theatres for this work. But the experiences of the playwrights raise questions about the burden that an individual artist can or should bear for driving institutional change, simply because they are representative of a particular group, and suggest that a playwright's efforts can be only marginally effective if they are not accompanied by a larger institutional commitment to change. For example, one playwright noted that their theatre's professed desire to diversify staff and board was abandoned when it became clear that the theatre would have to change recruitment practices and reach beyond its usual hiring networks. Race and class bias remains deeply entrenched in the theatre field, and while playwrights can play a role in addressing these concerns, it requires extensive and sustained institutional commitment to effect real change.
Comments from playwrights reflect the importance of this work:
"Regular theatre is so intransigent, still overwhelmingly led by white men. It's like a big abacus of people in power, and they just get moved around. Until there is systemic change in theatre, it's hard to imagine they will embrace plays that bring everyone in. In my own self-interest, I have to work on this."
"People talk about racial diversity a lot, but the thing that is most challenging for theatres is talking about class."
"I have been so conscious of race in every moment of every thing [in the residency]. It isn't adversarial, people are engaged in trying to understand race and class. But that has meant we have to talk about it all the time, and I have had to find ways to frame questions that don't put people's backs up."
"I helped the institution question itself and its practices regarding race and class. Doing this work became critical to my ability to be successful."
3. For the theatres—Positive impacts on creative risk-taking, diversity of work on stage, and connections with community
3.1 Resident playwrights propelled theatres' commitment to new work and new play development, including work by diverse artists.
With the theatre directors' encouragement, most NPRP playwrights have been involved in at least some aspect of play selection or season development at the theatre in which they are in residence. This has had two primary impacts: 1) having the playwright's voice in the room during these discussions has changed the theatre staff's sensibilities about plays under review (and in some cases, the plan for a whole season), and 2) it has pushed staff to be more open to the work of women and artists of color. Working to produce a play by their resident playwright also emboldened some theatres to take new artistic risks, and experiment with untried approaches to production. At some theatres, the playwright in residence helped staff make the case for new and more diverse work to the board in compelling ways.
The comments of theatre directors reveal the value of these contributions:
"Our playwright introduced us to the next generation of writers, including many artists of color we did not know."
"Because our playwright was writing about something that is happening right now in our city, in our country, it encouraged us to think differently, to work differently."
"It changed our senior team meetings to have the playwright participate. We all became more aware of how our decisions would impact artists."
"As an outsider, our playwright could raise issues that staff members didn't see, or didn't want to talk about."
"Our playwright helped sell the idea of new work to our Board, and the need to include artists on the Board."
"I had never gone into rehearsal with an uncompleted script before but I had confidence in our playwright and I was willing to trust that we would emerge with a terrific conclusion."
In several cases, especially those where the playwright had strong previous connections with the community, the playwrights' work in this area helped theatres rethink and renegotiate their relationship to different communities, most notably younger people and people in African American and Latinx communities.
3.2 Resident playwrights enriched the theatres' connections with local communities and enlarged their understanding of the theatre's role in their locality.
Many of the resident playwrights have connected energetically with audiences and community groups, making new friends and connections for their theatres. Some playwrights were asked explicitly to help the theatre build bridges with communities the theatre wanted to get to know. Most playwrights embraced this opportunity, using it to advance their personal artistic goals by learning about local residents and using the stories of the community as inspiration for their writing. In several cases, especially those where the playwright had strong previous connections with the community, the playwrights' work in this area helped theatres rethink and renegotiate their relationship to different communities, most notably younger people and people in African American and Latinx communities.
It remains to be seen whether playwright-led or playwright-infused community engagement strategies will be sustained by the NPRP theatres after the end of the program. Both financial and organizational challenges may make this difficult. However, theatre directors' comments reveal the meaningful impacts of this direct playwright-community engagement during the NPRP residencies:
"In the theatre field, there is growing awareness of the need to connect to communities, serve communities, work with communities. This program showed us ways it can be done that aren't about marketing, but about artists and the artistic process itself. Our playwright connected us to a community we didn't know but wanted to, and did it the most authentic way possible. Our playwright's work stretched her, stretched us and engaged audiences in exceptionally powerful ways."
"The residency gave us an authentic relationship with the African American community for the first time. Having this artist being here brings all the other people they've worked with into the theatre and makes more people feel this theatre is their place."
"Our resident playwright has become the face of the theatre in our community. Even our mayor knows him and speaks about his work in public speeches."
"An important effect of the residency is that our Board is now asking how the theatre can look more like the city."
"As a result of the work that our playwright did in the community, we have a greater awareness of the community needs that this theatre can fulfill. Our agenda has become bigger than the theatrical. We are now committed to making this a better community, and are attracting widening support to do that."
'In one staff meeting, it became clear that the staff loved me, but they loved me for my fundraising and my community building, not for my art. I had to really resist just becoming another administrator, and they had to resist putting me in that position too.'
4. Characteristics of residencies that succeed or struggle
Being involved in a full-time residency for three years has been an unprecedented experience for all the playwrights and theatres involved in the NPRP. None of the participants had done this before and most appreciate the experimental nature of the initiative. As in any experiment, results for both playwright and theatre have varied. Moreover, partnerships between a playwright and a theatre were bound to differ depending on personalities, goals, and artistic styles. All those we interviewed emphasized that there can never be a one-size-fits-all approach to success. However, the partnerships that have produced the most meaningful outcomes for both playwright and theatre share some characteristics and those that were more problematic also share certain features.
4.1 The residencies that had the greatest positive results for both playwright and theatre demonstrated most or all of these qualities:
The values, goals and expectations of the theatre and the playwright were closely aligned;
The director and playwright had worked together previously;
The playwright was at a stage in their career where s/he could commit fully to the residency and take full advantage of this kind relationship with a theatre;
The theatre had a genuine commitment to produce the playwright's work;
The theatre had both the will and sufficient internal capacity to make use of the playwright as an artist, not just as an adjunct administrator;
Both theatre and playwright were committed to honest communication and feedback, and to adjusting the relationship for mutual success; and
The playwright lived in the community and had a strong interest in engaging with the community as a part of the residency.
4.2 Difficulties arose most frequently when:
The expectations of the playwright were not clearly delineated, there was a difference of opinion about the playwright's role, and/or theatre staff members were uncertain about the playwright's role, schedule and responsibilities;
The playwright was expected to be an adjunct administrator, and the theatre did not value or know how to integrate them as an artist;
Being embedded within an organization did not suit the work style or career goals of the playwright;
Plays created by the playwright were not of interest to the theatre to produce;
Obligations associated with the playwright's previous commissions or new artistic opportunities outside of the resident theatre conflicted with host theatre's schedule or expectations,
When additional opportunities for the playwright became available in the host theatre – such as directing assignments – that had attendant obligations or costs beyond the scope of the NPRP residency (such as paying an agent); and/or
The theatre had other pressing priorities or other major initiatives underway that made it difficult for the artistic director, managing director and other staff to give the playwright adequate attention and support.
Integrating any new person into a theatre staff naturally has its challenges, but some theatres struggled with this more than others. This may be primarily due to the fact that while many playwrights work in administrative roles in theatres, playwrights are not typically integrated—in their artistic capacity—within the operating structures of producing theatres. This is one of the issues that the NPRP program set out to address. That some theatres struggled with this is an indication of how challenging it is to change organizational culture, not a failure of the program per se. As one person put it:
Few theatres know how to deploy artists—as artists—within the organization. How would they? It's so infrequent in the theatre field. This is one of the things we need to overcome, but both the workload and the financial pressures facing theatres make it hard for them to let artists explore roles that are not directly related to production. And it's hard to change without more opportunities to practice.
5. For the theatre field—Despite valued impacts on NPRP participants, little change in underlying conditions
There is continuing, and in some places intensifying, conversation in the theatre field about the issues raised in Outrageous Fortune—most notably the impediments that American playwrights face in trying to make a living in the theatre, the lack of involvement of working playwrights in the day-to-day workings of theatres, the lack of diversity of voices on stage and behind the scenes, and the declining relevance of many theatres to their communities (as indicated by attendance and contributed income). People we interviewed for this study credited the NPRP program with contributing meaningfully to this conversation, which has also been advanced by Theatre Communications Group, the Latinx Theatre Commons, HowlRound and others.
However, the forces that are sustaining the status quo are large, systemic, and resistant to change. At the time of writing, NPRP has not yet shifted these underlying conditions, and most interviewees believe that, on its own, the program cannot possibly do so. The economic model of the nonprofit theatre is a major structural challenge. Nonprofit theatres are heavily dependent on discounted labor by artists and administrators, and increasingly reliant on ticket sales and earned income. The need to attract substantial ticket revenue pushes many theatres away from risk-taking and investments in artists and communities that do not generate financial returns. Meanwhile, the proliferation of mediated storytelling platforms (television, film, YouTube, podcasts, radio and other vehicles) makes those forms more universally available and less expensive than live theatre. In addition, playwrights (and other theatre artist) see increasing opportunities for meaningful income from these new platforms, and this is drawing talent away from live theatre. The significant expansion of television series and made-for-television movies, in particular, has increased the demand for good writing, and growing numbers of playwrights are being lured by these opportunities for both financial and artistic reasons.
The NPRP initiative reinforces the point that achieving meaningful change in the theatre field will require contending with underlying systemic economic factors in the nonprofit sector as well as supporting individual playwrights and theatres. An ongoing challenge to this kind of systemic change is the limited philanthropic interest in long term, field-wide interventions on the systemic level. The Mellon Foundation is one of very few foundations that is focused on addressing structural issues in specific artistic fields.
The NPRP experiment suggests that, at a minimum, at least three significant underlying issues need further analysis and sustained strategic responses to produce meaningful change in the field:
5.1 Larger economic pressures and incentives shape the business and operational choices of theatres and playwrights, and make it hard to shift behavior.
Theatre professionals have broad awareness of the precariousness of playwrights' livelihoods, and some additional playwrights' residency programs have emerged in recent years to try to address this problem (for example, the Tow Fellowship and the Public Theatre's program). However, the current business models and organizational structures of theatres of all sizes make prioritizing residencies for playwrights "nearly impossible," especially without sustained funding. Only two of the NPRP theatres suggested that they would attempt to sustain their residency program when the Mellon Foundation's NPRP support ends, and these theatres indicated they would need meaningful additional financial incentives in order to do so.
Moreover, not every playwright wants a full-time job in a single theatre. For playwrights, it can be risky or undesirable to commit fully to one theatre for a sustained period of time, for financial and artistic reasons. Even if many more theatres could and were willing to provide ongoing support for playwrights in residence, these positions would likely be few and highly competitive, and would still not serve to shift the economic conditions for the vast majority of playwrights.
Moving forward, it is worth considering what kind of systemic intervention could help a larger cross-section of playwrights address their financial challenges and achieve more sustainable livelihoods. One approach may be to look at conditions for theatres and theatre artists in a specific locality, and develop new mechanisms that help multiple theatres and artists at the same time. An idea being developed by a consortium of theatres in the Twin Cities to offer a season's employment to a cadre of actors is one such collective action by leaders in a particular place. This may offer a relevant model.
For playwrights, it can be risky or undesirable to commit fully to one theatre for a sustained period of time, for financial and artistic reasons.
5.2 Despite increasing awareness about the importance of diverse voices in all aspects of theatres' work, progress towards cultural equity in theatre is slow.
Awareness and concern around the lack of cultural diversity in the theatre field—among writers and performers, administrative staff, board members and audiences alike—is growing, as it is in every part of the nonprofit cultural sector, commercial entertainment, and other parts of society. Increasingly, theatres understand that they must better reflect the country's diverse cultural and demographic landscape by supporting the work of women, artists of color, trans-gender artists and other under-represented voices, or they will become increasingly irrelevant to communities of the future.
For many theatres in the NPRP program, working in sustained ways with playwrights of color has been a profoundly important and rewarding experience in this regard. Several reported that their resident playwright has propelled a shift in the internal culture of the theatre and deepened the organizations' commitment to values of diversity and inclusion in all aspects of its work—including staffing, artistic choices, programming, community relations and board membership. This influence of the playwright was most significant when the theatre had other internal champions for diversity and endeavored to make real changes to its artistic and/or organizational practice. While the playwright was not the sole catalyst for change, these theatres recognized and appreciated the distinctive role that artists can play in shifting sensibilities and behaviors.
Investing in a critical mass of playwrights from currently under-represented groups is an important strategy to advance equity in the theatre field, and one that has been under-utilized to date. As with the issue of economics of the theatre field, this may be an area where collective action by theatres and funders in particular localities may be an important part of achieving long-term systemic shifts. The work of Enrich Chicago, a consortium of cultural groups and funders working together to address diversity and equity issues in Chicago's cultural sector, may offer lessons from which theatres in other locations could benefit.
5.3 Theatres recognize the need to be more relevant and connected to the communities where they live, but continue to struggle with this imperative.
The audience demographics for the vast majority of American theatres are significantly out of alignment with the demographics of the communities in which they are situated. Increasingly, theatres recognize that they have a responsibility to address this issue, and that it is critical for their long-term health and survival to do so. Having more diverse playwrights telling stories on stage helps a broader range of people see reflections of themselves and their lived experiences in theatre. However, in cases where communities don't have a habit of going to the theatre or may perceive the theatre as not "for them," simply changing the work on stage may not be enough.
In some of the NPRP residencies, the participating playwright worked actively to build bridges between the theatre and local communities, especially communities of color, young people and local artists. These playwrights spent time in the community, engaged community residents in the creative process, and built trust for and interest in the theatre more generally. While some of the playwrights had worked with communities as a part of their artistic process previously, this was new to some and in a few cases, the experience fundamentally influenced the playwright's artistic work. In addition, some NPRP playwrights helped their theatre's staff members better understand how to engage community members so that this activity could continue after the playwright's residency ends. This includes participating in neighborhood events or visiting with community members in local venues that have little to do with the arts, learning about the community's history and its concerns before suggesting any kind of theatre-based partnership, and figuring out what will make community residents feel comfortable and ensuring that such hospitality is extended authentically and consistently in all the theatre's activities.
While not all artists are interested in or good at this kind of community engagement, those who are can powerfully strengthen theatres' relationships with their communities. Currently, few theatres engage playwrights in this way, properly resource them for this work, or continue it beyond the duration of a specific production. Doing so could have multiple and multiplying benefits—for the playwrights' creative process, for the communities in which they work, and for the theatres' role as civic leaders and public servants. However, if theatres want to truly change their relationship with their communities, they must commit to this effort—not as audience development for a specific show but as a fundamental part of all their work now, and well into the future.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's investment in the National Playwright Residency Program has demonstrated that salaried theatre-based employment for diverse playwrights over multiple years, supplemented with effective developmental support and communications efforts, can have profound results for participating playwrights, theatres and communities. There are many lessons for how to achieve these results in the experiences of the program participants. At the same time, the program also has revealed the challenges associated with embedding working playwrights in theatres. And it has illuminated the scale of the commitment—both in terms of will and resources—that will be required to shift practices across the theatre field more widely. The NPRP initiative catalyzed many theatres and playwrights to think and behave differently in the short term, but truly changing playwrights' compensation, the relationship between playwrights and theatres, the diversity of voices on theatre stages and in theatre offices, and the relevance to theatres to their communities requires these institutions to be internally motivated to behave differently, with or without philanthropic incentives.
The NPRP proves that change is possible. It also reinforces the need to renew efforts to understand and grapple with the systemic barriers to more widespread change in the theatre sector. What might true sustainability for playwrights and theatres look like? What are the ideal role(s) for playwrights within nonprofit theatres today? What will it take for theatres to become more equitable in their practices and more relevant to their communities, and what is the opportunity for playwrights in this work? The Mellon Foundation, HowlRound, and the cohort of NPRP playwrights and theatres can continue to offer leadership and lessons to the field as it grapples with these and other questions essential to theatre's future.
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The time I took to read the full report was time well spent. The self-described boldness of the program is matched by the unflinching
The time I took to read the full report was time well spent. The self-described boldness of the program is matched by the unflinching evaluation. I am also inspired by the candor and honesty of all the artists involved, reminding me, once again, that artists are the bravest people I know. They take more risks in a day than most of us take in a lifetime. They deserve a paid place in theaters AND in society. Institutional change—even among aligned friends— is hard. Thank you to all involved for braving the systemic challenges. |
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See how bumble bees can pollinate your garden using buzz pollination and how a strain of fungus is affecting their population.
Carpenter bees — familiar to most gardeners — are harmless bees. Read how these bees, as their name suggests, forage your garden for wood.
Solitary bees, such as the digger and squash bee, nest in the soil, making them great pollinators in your garden. Learn which flowers they prefer and how they can help your garden grow.
The Mason bee of the Osmia species is a great pollinator and can work blossoms at a lower temperature than honeybees. Learn how to attract mason bees, a wonderful beneficial insect.
Keep bees and be pleasantly surprised at your bigger and better fruit harvests!
Discover the basics of what you need to begin backyard beekeeping, from buying honeybees and constructing the hive to preventing bee swarming and harvesting honey.
All about beekeeping as a business and building your own beehives.
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Enjoy the sweet rewards of beekeeping. Here's what you need to know to keep bees — using natural methods — and harvest fresh, delicious honey from your own back yard.
Virginia Owens shares how she and her family created a beekeeping business in New Mexico from the ground up. Originally published as "Homestead Honey" in the November/December 1971 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
Beekeeping can be a fun and productive hobby. You'll have your own fresh honey, and keeping bees is easier than you might think.
What follows are my top 6 tips on how to start beekeeping; a most wonderful hobby that I urge everyone to take up.
There's never, ever been a better time to get involved with honey bees and beekeeping.
Courses in beekeeping can lead to a hobby or vocation that generates income; this article includes tips for the amateur apiarist on getting started, equipment and bee hives.
Three U.S. regional beekeeping associations offer much to beekeepers at any skill level and experience. Beeyard adventures, workshops, lectures, honey shows, and the chance to meet hundreds of likeminded individuals await you here.
You can reap some sweet rewards with this ancient and challenging form of tracking, including baiting the bee, establishing the beeline, extracting honey from the hive and domesticating honeybees.
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If this is your first year to keep bees, wear as much protective clothing that makes you feel comfortable but as you become more experienced try wearing less so that you can fully enjoy beekeeping. Just how much protective clothing should you wear?
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How to install a package of bees.
Check out the installation process of an urban beehive.
Cool bees are more productive than bees that have to work at keeping cool. Here's several ways to help your bees keep cool this summer.
From pests and diseases to large predators, here are several solutions to common winter beekeeping problems.
It's time to start thinking of winter for your bees. They must have enough food to get through the long months when no food is coming in. It's your job to see that they do.
This post is about winterizing a colony of bees naturaly, using ideas and tips that we at BeeLanding have learned from nature.
An amateur apiarist can revitalize queenless colonies, or successfully divide strong ones, if the beekeeper understands the making of queen bees. Originally published as "THE MAKING OF A QUEEN" in the May/June 1981 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS.
Many amateur apiarists are discovering that honey production is only part of the challenge and reward of beekeeping.
Catching a swarm of bees is awesome. Now learn how to take care of them.
You don't have to depend on nature to feed your bees. Take matters into your own hands and plant enough good food for your bees.
Thinking about bees? Check out this DIY top bar hive!
You can build an inexpensive top-bar hive and start keeping bees next spring! This natural method of raising bees is better for the bees and easier for the beekeeper.
It's funny how we can sometimes lose sight of the simpler ways of doing things. Top-bar beekeeping is an easier and more affordable method of raising bees, which can give you fresh honey and higher yields from your garden.
When getting a top bar hive ready for winter, you need to know how much honey there is. |
A truly unspoilt divers paradise with turtles, mantas and sharks all year round!
Indonesian Borneo, especially Derawan is perhaps one of the best diving destinations in the world, complete with crystal clear warm waters, white sandy beaches and an astonishingly diverse array of underwater life. From critters to pelagic and the largest range of hard corals, there is something here to please even the fussiest of divers!
Derawan Islands is the diving area we concentrate on in this region. The diversity of hard corals is incredible, whether its wall, reef, drift or cave diving you are after, we guarantee you that you will find it here. Turtle lovers are in for a treat here!
Borneo in Indonesia is made up of five provinces; West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan, in Indonesia it is known as Kalimantan. This region is only populated by 12 million people and remains the least visited part of Indonesia. Kalimantan is known for being one of the world's most bio-diverse destinations, the flora and fauna of the Borneo rainforest is truly remarkable and below the waters of the Java Sea, Makassar Strait and Celebes Sea spectacular fish and coral life can be found.
The Derawan Islands are located in the East Kalimantan province of Indonesian Borneo in the Celebes Sea. Made up of over 31 islands, the main seven are Derawan, Kakaban, Sangalaki, Maratua, Samama, Nabucco and Panjang. The tropical climate of the islands is due to its positioning on the equator, cool breezes take away the effect of humidity and provide a nice temperate climate.
Derawan is the main island of the region, visitors use this as their starting point for travels around the neighbouring islands, for this reason the island has become much more developed. Whilst running water and basic electricity can be found, the natural simplicity of the island remains.
Fascinating critters can be found around Derawan such as nudibranch, sea horses, ribbon eels, squat lobsters and the infamous flamboyant cuttlefish. The two top dive sites here are the Sea Garden, a shallow reef and the Blue Trigger Wall which is named after all the red-toothed trigger fish which have made this site their home.
Kakaban is an extremely unique island, steep limestone cliffs are camouflaged by lush tropical jungle and run right up to the waters edge. The centre of the island is home to one of two of the world's only non-stinging jellyfish lakes. The combination of salt and sweet water in the lake makes it thrive with sea cucumbers, anenomes, nudibranches, bright coloured clams, gobies and numerous crustaceans.
Large pelagics such as whitetip sharks, leopard sharks, and schools of barracudas, snappers and jacks can be found at the "Barracuda Point" dive site. The currents here are extremely strong and there has been a permanent line fixed especially for divers!
For the more experienced diver, the exhilarating dive site "Blue Light Cave" gets its name from the blue light which reflects from the sea that can be seen upon exiting the cave.
In the region of Sangalaki there are upwards of ten impressive dive sites. Towards the north and east of the island mantas can be found at various sites such as Manta Avenue, Manta Run, and Manta Parade. The Lighthouse reef is home to the likes of clownfish, frog fish, nudibranchs and ribbon eels. Sangalaki is the "Manta Hotspot" of Indonesia, the local dive guides will use their skills and knowledge to seek the Manta's for you, the best time to spot them is whilst they are feeding. When there is a full moon there may be up to 20 mantas at a time that come to feed on the plentiful plankton. A government run turtle nursery is available to visit for a small fee; here you can watch baby turtles making their way towards the sea on an unknown adventure. Whilst this island provides an incredible base for numerous dive sites, it is uninhabited so activities here are limited to diving, snorkelling and exploring the beautiful beaches.
The Island of Maratua is small and arched around a lagoon. Currents are strong here so it is advised that divers are qualified to an advanced level or above before getting under the water.
Maratua is the location of world famous dive sites including "The Channel", barracuda tornados, reef sharks and eagle rays are all regularly seen here and for the turtle lovers the dive site "Payung-Payung" is also located on this island. Leopard sharks have also been spotted in this area on numerous dives.
If you are a nudibranch fanatic, Samama Island is the perfect place to dive, mackro photographers will also be in awe. Mangroves swamp virtually the entire island and to get onto land, you have to cross a large lagoon. The best time to make a trip to this island is in the evening due to the tides.
Nearby Pulau Panjang offers incredible muck diving. Sea Dragons and Satomi Pigmys have both been spotted here on recent dives.
On almost every island you will find something to do. Evenings and non-diving time on Maratua can be spent strolling across the beautiful island, interacting with local children, visiting the jetty to see the fisherman and maybe even having a go yourself! A thirty minute walk across the island and you will be overlooking the Maratua Laguna, its beauty is guaranteed to leave you speechless.
As the sun sets over Derawan Island life really begins! This is the perfect place for spotting large green turtles make their trip from the sea to the shore to lay their eggs. There is nothing more relaxing than enjoying the sunset and admiring this marvellous moment. If you are lucky, you may even spot the baby turtles hatching and making their first journey to the waters! Alternatively you can stroll through the small villages and interact with locals and other divers staying on the island.
Most resorts in the Derawan Islands provide accommodation on full board basis only due to its remote location so daily spending is relatively low depending on what activities you chose to do. Dive equipment rental will cost you on average £22.00 per day and a days diving will cost you on average £80.00. If you are visiting local villages great food can be purchased for reasonable prices alongside other souvenirs, however these are relatively undiscovered islands and souvenirs are likely to be handmade arts and crafts produced by local residents.
The Derawan Islands can be reached from the UK from a London airport to Singapore, from here you will fly on to Balikpapan and then catch an internal flight to Berau.
On domestic flights you are only allowed 20KG hold luggage and 1 piece of hand luggage.
From Berau a car transfer to Tanjung Batu will take you to an awaiting speedboat ready to whisk you to your final stop, the Derawan Islands!
The dry season in Indonesian Borneo falls between June and October and offers significantly clearer visibility. You can expect the air temperature to be on average 30-31 degrees and year round water temperature of 28 degrees. |
FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM EDT /1 AM CDT/ TO 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ TUESDAY.
The National Weather Service in Northern Indiana has issued a Freeze Warning, which is in effect from 1 AM EDT /12 AM CDT/ to 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ Tuesday.
*TEMPERATURE, Upper 20s to around 30. |
Did you see my post about the Vintage Circus Hospital Gala we attended last weekend? SO fun. So, so, so fun! I loved getting all dressed up! The entertainment, food and drinks were amazing! Check out my post - lots of fun pictures!
We went and picked/cut down our Christmas Tree last weekend! I haven't gotten a full post up yet, but plan to. We go to the same place every year. One of my favorite 'It's-beginning-to-feel-like-Christmas' traditions!
Last night I went with Marie and another friend of ours to one of those painting classes that are all the rage right now. I've done a couple before and it really is amazing that someone as completely unartistic as myself can actually create something recognizable! We had such a great time! And look at the snowman I made!
Well, that's it for this week! Thanks so much for stopping by!!
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Jason and I decided to attend a Charity Gala/Ball this year to support a local hospital. We convinced Marie and her husband to go and we had a few other friends go as well. I had no idea how much fun it would be!
The theme was Vintage Circus and one of my BFF's, Katy, was in charge of all the décor and entertainment. She did amazing! There were acrobats, a contortionist, magician, fire-breather, a guy on stilts, fortune tellers, great food, great drinks and lots and lots of fun!
Katy, Marie and I went and got our hair done in the afternoon and then headed to the hotel to get ready. I loved getting all done up! It was nice to trade in my yoga pants for a night ;) Jason was looking quite dapper too!
Once it was time to par-tay, I broke out my selfie stick. Yes, I am the owner of a selfie stick. It was a gift. No, really, it was!
Myself, Katy, and Marie - ready to partyyyy!!
He was amazing!! I even got to participate in one of his tricks. He had me hold a deck of cards and then turned it into a glass block while it was in my hand! I crack up every time I see this photo Marie snapped of me....giving him some serious side-eye. Seriously, how'd he do that!?
I even walked the tightrope with Jason!
Hey everyone! It's Friday and it's December!
We travel to my sister's house for Thanksgiving every year. We had such a GREAT trip this year! I PR'd my 5k time, the kids played so well with their cousins, the weather was gorgeous all weekend and the kids did such a great job in the car! Woo-hoo!
Check out my Thanksgiving Recap here!
Speaking of traveling, I blogged about our must-haves for traveling with kids. Lots of food, activities and more food are our secret weapons.
You can check out that post here!
Can you believe it's December already!? Me either! Why not join my girl Marie and I and come (linky) party with us this month? Come join The Monthly Meet Up and post about any and all goals you have for the month!
Come link up with us here!
You might have seen from Redmond's birthday post that we got quite the snowfall on his big day. The snow has since melted and the temps have shot back up (not complaining, btw). But, there is something about fresh snow. I was looking through the photos on my phone and came across this one that I took on his birthday. So beautiful!
Eekey Locky Luke is back!
Hope you guys are having a great week!!
It's a new month, and you know what that means - it's time for the Monthly Meet Up, y'all!!
My girl Marie , over at Family and the Lake House, and I get together every month to host a fun link-up party. We want to know - what are your goals for the month of December? Big, small, it doesn't matter. Your goals could be any and everything. Maybe you want to cut out fast food, keep a clean kitchen, exercise more, not go shopping, organize your pantry, etc. The possibilities are endless!
You can be as ambitious as you like - maybe you only have one goal for the month, maybe you have 10. Just join us and have fun!
Not only do we want this to be a great opportunity for you to gain some awesome, creative ideas from other bloggers, but we also want this to be a great networking tool as well. So please, grab a cup of coffee, tea, water, vodka (we won't judge) or whatever you fancy and party with us. It will be fun!!
Link back to us - copy and paste our linky button on your post - we want your friends to join in the fun too!
Follow us! We'd love to connect with you, and you to connect with each other!
We challenge you - visit, comment and follow at least four other partiers. Are you up for the challenge?
By posting, you give us permission to feature an image or post on our blog(s). We'll always give you credit and post links back, don't you worry!
Easy enough, right!? So, grab our button, link up, and par-tay!!!
I've done pretty well with this. Not quite as well as I would have liked over Thanksgiving, but much better than years past! The dress zips, is comfy and I am soooo excited for the Gala this weekend!!!
Ashlyn's closet has been a huge hit - it's the new favorite place to play!
Finally!! So, we've finally got progress. Woo-hoo!! I can't wait for the kids to have their playroom back!!
4. Name Change - I did it!
I had been debating on changing my name for quite some time, but was so nervous to do it. I took the plunge and am so glad I did! I think my new name is a good fit for my blog. What do y'all think?
One of the silver linings to our downstairs flooding is that this gives us the perfect opportunity to do some much needed purging of toys. We have so.much.stuff. Time to clear some out! The kids will each pick out toys for Santa to take (read more about that tradition here) and momma will be picking out quite a few to donate/sell too.
I've never done a blogger home tour before and I'm thinking that it might be fun. I'm itching to begin decorating and am looking forward to sharing some of my favorite holiday décor with you!
And that's all folks! Keeping it short and sweet this month. Hope you'll join us and share any goals you may have for this month!!
We left Tuesday morning and only had to stop once until we got to our hotel for the night. We like to break up long drives at hotels with a pool. The kids can get a lot of energy out and then they aren't in the car all day. We got all checked in and the kids were bouncing up and down asking if we could go find the pool. The look on Redmond's face when the woman at the front desk said "Our pool is closed"....it was heartbreaking. Tears welling, bottom lip quivering. Poor guy! It was a huge disappointment to say the least, but Jason saved the day by suggesting we go find a park.
The next morning we loaded back up and headed to Maryland. Jason needed to make a pit stop at his office there to work for a couple hours. While he was working, I took the kids to a park that I used to take Redmond to almost daily when we lived in MD part time. It was fun to go back there and explore.
After lunch, we got back in the car and finished the trip to my sister's house. The kids slept the entire way. Phew! That was easy!
The kids were so excited to see their cousins!
On Thanksgiving, my sister, brother-in-law, mom, step-dad, my nieces, nephew and I went and did the local Turkey Trot 5k in my sister's town. It's been a tradition since 2009 and I'm happy to report I beat my time from last year by about 35 seconds! Woo-hoo!!! It was the first year that my nieces ran the whole thing and they did great! We celebrated with complimentary Krispy Kremes while we waited for everyone else at the finish line (we were the only ones that ran it - everyone else walked).
After the race, we headed back to my sister's house. My sister and I got busy inside getting all the good food ready while the guys hung out around the infrared fryer outside. We had the most gorgeous weather all weekend!
Redmond is obsessed with inflatables and he quickly convinced my brother-in-law to set up their Christmas inflatables. Our favorite is this nutcracker. Beer belly, tattoo, trucker hat - hilarious!
The rest of the day was spent drinking, eating and laughing. It was a great, low-key Thanksgiving!
Friday morning I went out shopping with my sister and mom. I found a few good things, but I was out more just to hang with my sister and mom. Later that day we had "early Christmas" as the kids have named it. Since we live so far away, we always do the kids Christmas gifts over Thanksgiving. Always a hit!
That night, we headed outside for a bonfire and s'mores. Great end to our trip!
When we woke up the next morning, it was Saturday already! We got the car all packed up and hung out for the morning and through lunch. Shortly after lunch we loaded up and hit the road. Originally, we were going to stop and stay in a hotel and finish the drive home Sunday, but we decided that we would just drive straight home. We got home a little after 11 pm and it was so good to sleep in our own beds! We had a great time and can't wait for next year! |
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Harmony Lane (1935)
Info for Harmony Lane (1935) The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradati...
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
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The classic fairy tale gets the Abbott & Costello comedy makeover. Telling the story of young lad Ja...
The Little Princess (1939)
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Starring Shirley Temple about a small girl who's father is joining the army. He leaves her at Miss M...
Fresh From Paris (1955)
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Musical about Businessman Dan Bradley who is looking for finance for his show, he gets one chance to...
Mr. Imperium (1951)
Info for Mr. Imperium (1951) Romance about a singer/dancer/actress who meets a playboy crown prince. ...
Rhythm In The Clouds (1937)
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An aspiring songwriter Judy Walker (played by Patricia Ellis) is broke and behind with her rent. She...
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A Boston dance teacher gets shanghaied by buccaneers and taken to the Carribean where he meets a lov...
Dixiana (1930)
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Let's Sing Again (1936)
Info for Let's Sing Again (1936) An 8 year old orphan boy who sings soprano gets his dream, to sing opera in New York....
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) [tv]
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After a flood hits a nearby town, Hamlin gets invsded by rats. A mysterious piper who plays music th...
Hi-De-Ho (1947)
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Musical starring Cab Calloway as himself in a all black cast movie involving nightclubs, jealous gir...
Info for Trocadero (1944)
Calendar Girl (1947)
Info for Calendar Girl (1947) Musical about a songwriter and an artist who both fall for the same beautiful girl. ...
A Song for Miss Julie (1945)
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Musical film about two writers looking to write an operetta that may be a Broadway hit. ...
Frolics On Ice (1939)
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Musical comedy set on and around the ice rink and involving young skater Irene Barton who gets taken...
No, No, Nanette (1940)
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Nanette tries to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt....
Happy Go Lovely (1951)
Info for Happy Go Lovely (1951) A British musical comedy starring David Niven about a chorus girl who gets top billing in a penniles...
Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)
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Singer, writer and bandleader Louis Jordan plays an the son of wealthy old time musical star Schyler...
Zis Boom Bah (1941)
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A comedy about a vaudeville performer who buys a local diner, turns it into a night-club, and gets t...
King Kelly of the USA (1934)
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At War With The Army (1950)
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PORT of Sale Heritage Cruises' captain Alan Lewis welcomed his 20,000th passenger aboard the iconic Rubeena on Wednesday, marking the occasion with a gift basket and dinner voucher for north-west Victorian visitor Sally Gibson. Ms Gibson, who was visiting family in Sale for the day, enjoyed the surprise attention and the cruise, which she described as "wonderful". "The water was beautiful, the scenery was lovely, and the commentary on the history of the area really interesting," she added. Mr Lewis, who was the city engineer for the City of Sale 1968 to 1985, has been at the helm of the 36-foot Pittwater-style ferry for the past six years, and has hosted small and large groups of passengers at least twice daily, seven days a week, since then. "The only day I don't do is Christmas day, but on all the others I'm here," he said. "Numbers vary, but on Sunday, all up I took 27 passengers." The Rubeena, built in 1911 in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, was transported to Lakes Entrance via coaster in 1912. These days she travels about five kilometres south of Sale, taking in the meeting of the Thompson, Latrobe and Macalister rivers, as well as the Swing Bridge, the oldest intact operational bridge of its kind in Australia. The open launch boat was originally powered by steam, then diesel, but now has an electric motor with a top speed of 10 knots, about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour - perfect for taking in the sights and sounds of the Port of Sale and surrounds. It was originally registered to carry 42 passengers back in the early part of last century, but Mr Lewis said that equates to "about 30" today.
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20,000th passenger
Liz Bell
Captain of Sales iconic Rubeena, Alan Lewis, and Wellington Shire mayor Alan Hall, welcome the boats 20,000th passenger, Sally Gibson.
PORT of Sale Heritage Cruises' captain Alan Lewis welcomed his 20,000th passenger aboard the iconic Rubeena on Wednesday, marking the occasion with a gift basket and dinner voucher for north-west Victorian visitor Sally Gibson.
Ms Gibson, who was visiting family in Sale for the day, enjoyed the surprise attention and the cruise, which she described as "wonderful".
"The water was beautiful, the scenery was lovely, and the commentary on the history of the area really interesting," she added.
Mr Lewis, who was the city engineer for the City of Sale 1968 to 1985, has been at the helm of the 36-foot Pittwater-style ferry for the past six years, and has hosted small and large groups of passengers at least twice daily, seven days a week, since then.
"The only day I don't do is Christmas day, but on all the others I'm here," he said.
"Numbers vary, but on Sunday, all up I took 27 passengers."
The Rubeena, built in 1911 in the Sydney suburb of Balmain, was transported to Lakes Entrance via coaster in 1912.
These days she travels about five kilometres south of Sale, taking in the meeting of the Thompson, Latrobe and Macalister rivers, as well as the Swing Bridge, the oldest intact operational bridge of its kind in Australia.
The open launch boat was originally powered by steam, then diesel, but now has an electric motor with a top speed of 10 knots, about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour - perfect for taking in the sights and sounds of the Port of Sale and surrounds.
It was originally registered to carry 42 passengers back in the early part of last century, but Mr Lewis said that equates to "about 30" today.
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A photo we have been sent through, with a snippet of information confirming this lineup is a group of Standard Triumph Foremen. Can you help identify anyone or the location?
Sadly, there is no date either on the photo or any clue to the reason for the group photograph.
The whole image, then we have split into two; left and right sections so you can see the faces better.
Here 6th from the left, with the pipe looks like Peter Lilly.
UPDATE: The only person I recognise is on the far right: Gordon Parham Physical Training Instructor. Ex Apprentices School. Banner Lane then Canley. |
In Review: Season Two Soundtrack
By Teresa Martin
There is rarely anything more pleasantly surprising than a "sequel" soundtrack that outdoes the first. The Season Two soundtrack for Once Upon a Time achieves this and more. Not only are there superb new renderings of old favorites and new tunes, but also tracks from Season One that didn't make the cut. Hence this release is a double treat as both a sequel and an extended addition.
The first track is "Sleeping Beauty," which mirrors the first moments of the pilot. It begins with music that signifies the sweeping scenery, urgency, and the coming of an epic scene: Prince Phillip awakening Aurora with a kiss. The theme utilizes what is now Isham's Once signature use of stepwise melodies climbing higher and higher, while occasionally gently descending.
The "classic, swashbuckling mode of Hook," as described by the composer in my interview with him, is used in "The Duelists" and "To Neverland!" The latter begins with wind instruments that portray the melancholy of Hook's loss as well as the call of the sea. Then it takes off in a forward motion such that one can almost imagine Errol Flynn is about to appear. This is gloriously exciting making one wish to jump on the Jolly Roger and go on an adventure with the pirate.
"True Love" begins with the romantic, sad, yet soothing Belle Theme and then features a haunting cello solo. Just when one's emotions are at the breaking point, more instruments join in with the repeating sol, la, te, do pattern so prevalent in Season One, with the strings accompanying the progression, ascending step-wise, building into a surprising transition to the "falling" fa, mi, re, do of the Snowing Theme. Then it crescendos and tears start to prick the eyelids, a common side-effect of this exquisite motif. "The Burning Room" also gives prominence to the Snowing Theme. This rendition is bittersweet, but then rises to an ominous, unusually loud delivery as Charming and Snow realize they cannot touch and become separated again.
"Tallahassee" has a "city" feel to it, an easy, light jazz mood, full of yearning for the lost love and dreams that this place signifies for Emma and Neal. The eminent peril which we all know is approaching occurs in the second part of the track as the music speeds up and harsher percussion is used, finally ending in the nostalgia of a quiet end.
"Cora's Waltz" says almost more about her character than her theme. It is in a ¾ meter with harsh downbeats which fade into a melodic tune played by the winds, and then a beautiful violin solo. This waltz is, like Cora's Theme, in a minor key. The entirety of the track illustrates how Cora's story is all a dance; dangerous, yet with beauty within; frenzied, almost out of control, like the character. Its companion piece "How Magic is Made," which is a complete version of Cora's Theme, accompanies the infamous spinning wheel scene with Cora and Rumplestiltskin and highlights both the darkness and dysfunction of both Cora and their relationship. The melody is almost a mocking of the Snowing and Belle themes as it moves up and falls, but dissonantly, never resolving into a consoling major. Rather the music ends with repeating half steps often heard in soundtracks to foreshadow approaching danger. The tune is utilized in Cora's later Storybrooke scenes as an ominous sign of the presence of evil, which she personifies as the woman who tore out her own heart.
"We Are Both," which is played during one of my favorite moments in Season Two, shows the value of hearing the music alone, thereby making the Once soundtracks must-haves. Charming's "We are Both Speech" is as pivotal a moment to the Once story-arc as when the clock begins to move in the pilot. The progression that made me think of "good will win" in the Season One track "The Clock Moves," is used here again at the conclusion of this equally triumphant moment. Certainly this is not an accident and serves again as a testament to the genius of Isham as a dramatic composer. The music is not just accompanying the action, it is the action. The oration, fondly dubbed as Charming's version of the Saint Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V, affirms who the inhabitants of Storybrooke are: a "band of brothers." And yes, good will win.
One of the simplest, yet sweetest surprises which ends the soundtrack is the inclusion of "The Main Theme." The four notes ring out on chimes which open Once every week. A short, but delightful addition that is as iconic as the other tunes which the audience now associates with the show.
Tracks from the "extended version" include "Regina in Love," "Meet the Jefferson," and "Hedge Maze." "Regina In Love" serves as a poignant reminder of her life when she was happy. "Meet the Jefferson" is marvelously jumbled and jangled just like the character while "The Hedge Maze" allows the listener to relive the bizarre world of Wonderland.
Mark Isham writes in his introduction to the CD that "it was a fun challenge to weave last season's established musical concepts into this season's expanded world. The best part was seeing how the music really became a character in the show . . ." How he accomplishes this is found within his exciting soundtrack and provides the listener with the thrill of following the magic he weaves. |
I know that most men think differently from myself; but those whose lives are by profession devoted to the study of these or kindred subjects content me as little as any. Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency. Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all tim, he never once glances at the subject. I know of those whose serene and wise speculations on this theme would soon reveal the limits of his mind's range and hospitality. Yet, compared with the cheap professions of most reformers, and the still cheaper wisdom an eloquence of politicians in general, his are almost the only sensible and valuable words, and we thank Heaven for him. Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence. The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. He well deserves to be called, as he has been called, the Defender of the Constitution. There are really no blows to be given him but defensive ones. He is not a leader, but a follower. His leaders are the men of '87. "I have never made an effort," he says, "and never propose to make an effort; I have never countenanced an effort, and never mean to countenance an effort, to disturb the arrangement as originally made, by which various States came into the Union." Still thinking of the sanction which the Constitution gives to slavery, he says, "Because it was part of the original compact–let it stand." Notwithstanding his special acuteness and ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect–what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in American today with regard to slavery–but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer to the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man–from which what new and singular of social duties might be inferred? "The manner," says he, "in which the governments of the States where slavery exists are to regulate it is for their own consideration, under the responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and to God. Associations formed elsewhere, springing from a feeling of humanity, or any other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me and they never will.
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Q: Homework problem on identifying a sequence I had this problem in my discrete math/modular arithmatic course where I had to find the first 10 terms of a series F(r), starting from F(3).
The given information is:
F(3)=1
F(4)=13
F(10) % (10^9+7) is 719666144
F(r) is defined and exists for all values of r>=3
Is it possible to solve such problems? How do we approach these? Is there anyway we can actually find the general term?
EDIT: One of my friends claimed he solved the complete problem fron this much data. I just wanted to check If there is someone that bright actually present or that he was just bragging.
The additional information is:
We define an onto function from $[n] \times [n]$ to $[n-2] \cup \{0\}$ as follows, where $[n] = \{1,2,3,\ldots ,n\}$,
$$f : [n] \times [n] \rightarrow [n-2] \cup \{0\}.$$
1) $f(x,x) = 0$.
2) $f(x,y) = f(y,x) > 0$, for $y ≠ x$.
3) $f(x,y) \leq \max\{f(x,z),f(z,y)\}$ for all $x,y,z$ belonging to $[n]$.
F(r) is the number of ways in which f(x,y) can be defined for n=r.
A: Many here will tell you (correctly) that there are infinitely many choices. Usually, if you are given finitely many terms, you are expected to find the "simplest" rule that results in those terms. Nothing such stands out for these, which is why the other one was closed.
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Janet Reno: ex-US Attorney General, candidate for governor of Florida, and ... party animal? Yes, apparently. The next fund-raiser for the woman who hopes to unseat Jeb Bush (R) is set for Friday night, July 19, in a trendy Miami disco and will feature noted singer Ziggy Marley and actors Damon and Marlon Wayans. Said a campaign spokeswoman: "Janet is not your typical politician." |
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February 7- President Obama Signs 2014 Farm Bill Into Law.
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January 29- Farm Bill Conference Report Passes House.
May 14- Senate Ag Comm Passes Farm Bill.
June 10- Senate Passes Farm Bill.
May 15- House Ag Comm Passes Farm Bill.
June 20- Farm Bill Falls Short on House Floor.
July 11- House Passes "Farm Only" Farm Bill, Without Nutrition Title.
September 19- House Passes GOP Farm Bill Nutrition Measure.
April 26- Senate Ag Comm Passes Farm Bill.
July 12- House Ag Comm Passes Farm Bill.
December 31- Farm Bill Extended for One Year.
"The Farm Bill and Beyond," by Dan Morgan.
USDA- Economic Research Service, "2008 Farm Bill Side-by-Side."
USDA- Economic Research Service, "The 2002 Farm Act- Provisions and Economic Implications."
Previous Farm Bills
USDA- Economic Research Service, "1996 FAIR Act Frames Farm Policy For 7 Years." (April 1996).
USDA- Economic Research Service, "Provisions of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990." (June 1991).
USDA- Economic Research Service, "Provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985." (April 1986).
USDA- Economic Research Service, "History of Agricultural Price-Support and Adjustment Programs, 1933-84". (December 1984).
See Also, "United States Farm Bills," at the National Agricultural Law Center Online.
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Climate Issues; Doha; U.S. Ag Economy; SNAP (Food Stamps); Biofuels; and Food Security
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Climate Change /Doha / Trade /Ethanol /Food Aid
Juliet Eilperin reported in yesterday's Washington Post that, "By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved — including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an agreement — suggest a political deal remains a heavy lift for the 192 countries set to convene in Copenhagen in little more than a week.
"Although the proposals from the world's two biggest greenhouse-gas emitters have boosted the prospects for a deal, they demonstrate something else as well: No one wants to shoulder the blame for failure at Copenhagen, even if it means the final outcome falls short of what many had envisioned a year or two ago. The U.S. pledge to cut its emissions by 2020 and China's offer to lower its carbon dioxide output relative to the size of its economy by the same date are more modest than what their negotiating partners had demanded."
Posted by Keith Good • November, 30, 2009 • 5:11 am
Climate Issues; Food Security; and Biofuels
Categories: Audio /Australia /China /Climate Change /Ethanol
Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear reported in yesterday's Washington Post that, "The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama will attend U.N.-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month and commit the United States to specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
"The administration's decision to identify a series of goals, including cutting emissions over the next decade 'in the range of' 17 percent below 2005 levels, is a calculated risk, given that Congress has never set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases."
ERS 2009 Farm Sector Income Forecast; Climate Issues; and SNAP (Food Stamp) Issues
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ERS 2009 Farm Sector Income Forecast
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service (ERS) updated its 2009 farm sector income forecast yesterday.
ERS stated that, "Net farm income is forecast to be $57 billion in 2009, down $30 billion (34.5 percent) from 2008. The 2009 forecast is $6.5 billion below the average of $63.6 billion in net farm income earned in the previous 10 years. Still, the $57 billion forecast for 2009 remains the eighth largest amount of income earned in U.S. farming. The top five earnings years have been tightly grouped between 2003 and 2008, attesting to the profitability of farming this decade" [see related graph-net farm income 1998-2009f].
Climate Issues; Sen Ag Committee Hearing; Biofuels; and Trade
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Climate Change /Doha / Trade /Ethanol
Lisa Lerer reported yesterday at Politico.com that, "It's been a bad few weeks for the Obama administration when it comes to climate change, as the White House has found itself trapped between a stalled Senate and constant hammering from world leaders on a lack of leadership on global warming.
"On Monday, the administration hit back.
"'It would be a mistake to conclude that the international community's failure to reach a final treaty in Copenhagen is due to a lack of domestic legislation in the United States,' said a senior White House official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity."
Ag-Rural Economy; "Green" Jobs- Climate Issues; and Chairman Lincoln
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Climate Change /Rural America
Ag-Rural Economy
Shaila Dewan reported in today's New York Times that, "In August, [John Hart, a farmer in the hills just east of the Mississippi Delta, and other Southern farmers] thought they had a bumper crop — the best they had seen in years. It was the kind of crop that could put you ahead, for once. Pay off that combine.
"But just as the harvest began in September, it began to rain, and it kept raining through October, normally one of the driest months here. The soybeans shriveled and blackened with mold. The rice keeled over into the mud. The cotton hardened into tight little spitballs. The sweet potatoes rotted underground. When the combines could get into the fields, they scarred them with deep ruts that will make next year's planting more expensive.
"Last year, with commodity prices running at record highs, farming across the nation seemed to be bucking the recession. This year, with the rest of the country in a slow recovery from a man-made disaster, nature forced a crash of its own in the South.
"'I was counting my money until September,' Mr. Hart said. 'I don't know whether I'm going to be able to farm another year or not.'"
Climate Issues; Trade; Ag Economy; Crop Insurance; Rural Broadband Hearing; and the Corn Genome
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Audio /Climate Change /Doha / Trade
Elisabeth Rosenthal reported in today's New York Times that, "With less than three weeks remaining before negotiators gather in Copenhagen to hammer out a global response to climate change, a rapid-fire succession of countries are unveiling national plans that serve as opening bids for reining in heat-trapping emissions.
"'The list of what is on the table is rather long,' said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the sponsor of the meeting, which runs from Dec. 7 to 18 in Copenhagen.
"But, speaking at the United Nations headquarters on Thursday, he seized on the latest pledges to take aim at the United States, which has not yet played its hand.
"'We now have offers of targets from all industrialized countries except the United States,' Mr. de Boer said. He emphasized that he was looking to the United States for 'a numerical midterm target and commitment to financial support.'"
Climate Legislation; Food Safety; Food Security; Trade; Biofuels; Animal Agriculture; and CFTC Issues
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Ben Geman reported yesterday at The Hill Online that, "White House climate czar Carol Browner downplayed the idea that the absence of a domestic emissions law would hinder U.S. leverage in Copenhagen and said the U.S. could tout major accomplishments heading into next month's international climate talks.
" In wide-ranging remarks at a climate conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, she also said President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao made substantial progress in their Beijing discussions this week."
Climate Issues; Sen. Ag. Committee Hearing: Nutrition Programs; and CFTC Issues
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Reuters writers Chris Buckley and Alister Doyle reported yesterday that, "U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday next month's climate talks in Copenhagen should cut a deal with 'immediate operational effect,' even if its original aim of a legally binding pact is not achievable.
"About 40 environment ministers meeting in Copenhagen made progress toward a scaled-down U.N. deal next month, while African leaders accepted for the first time that the December meeting would not agree a full treaty.
"Obama was speaking after talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in which he said the world's top two greenhouse gas emitters had agreed to take 'significant' action to mitigate their output of carbon dioxide."
Climate Legislation; Food Security: UN and U.S.; and the U.S. Ag Economy
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Lisa Lerer reported yesterday at Politico.com that, "Shortly after Democrats took office last January, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed the Senate would pass climate change legislation before the start of the international climate talks in Copenhagen.
"But less than a month before the eyes of the world turn to Denmark, it's clear that there's no chance a bill will get through the Senate by then — a domestic policy failure that leaves the U.S. with a weakened hand as it seeks to negotiate a global warming treaty with the rest of the world."
Climate Issues; UN Food Summit; and the U.S. Agricultural Economy
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The AP reported on Friday that, "President Barack Obama is calling on all nations to accept responsibility for fighting climate change.
"But he says he's not expecting that it will be easy to reach an agreement at a climate change summit next month in Copenhagen.
"Speaking in Tokyo, Obama said nations that are the biggest emitters must set clear targets for reducing those emissions. And he said developing countries will need to take substantial actions of their own."
Climate Issues; Sec. Vilsack and Production Agriculture; Food Security; Biofuels; CRP; and Trade
Categories: Climate Change /Conservation /Ethanol
Climate Issues: Domestic Concerns; International Expectations
Reuters writer Ayesha Rascoe reported yesterday that, "In the latest obstacle to proposed U.S. climate legislation, key lawmakers Thursday urged Senate Democrats to change distribution plans for carbon permits to offer more protection for coal-dependent utilities.
"The lawmakers said the allocation scheme in the current Senate bill does not apportion permits in an equitable manner and will result in higher electricity rates for consumers in regions that rely mostly on coal for power generation."
Climate Issues and Agriculture; Food Security; and Food Safety
Categories: Climate Change /Food Aid /Food Safety
Climate Issues and Agriculture
Dan Morgan, a former Washington Post reporter and editor, who is now an independent writer specializing in agriculture and energy, published an article yesterday titled, "Mining Carbon Down on the Farm."
Datelined from Wheatland, Wyoming, the article stated that, "This region of the country was built from selling coal, gold, lead and other minerals buried in the ground. Now some farmers and ranchers are betting there is treasure in yet another element below the surface: carbon.
"At this point, it is still a long-shot gamble."
Climate Legislation; Crop Production; USAID Nomination; and Financial Reform
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Audio /Climate Change
Jim Snyder reported yesterday at The Hill Online that, "Democratic supporters of climate legislation on Tuesday battled critics who argue cutting carbon emissions will hurt the economy and cost jobs.
"The setting was a Senate Finance Committee hearing on climate change and job creation that served as another reminder of how the debate over carbon has as much to do with the economy as with the environment, especially as unemployment levels rise."
Climate Legislation; Biofuels; Chairman Lincoln; Food Security; Farm Bill; and Doha
Categories: Climate Change /Doha / Trade /Ethanol /Farm Bill /Food Aid
Darren Samuelsohn of ClimateWire reported yesterday at The New York Times Online that, "The Senate climate debate shifts into a higher gear this week as advocates look beyond the partisan gridlock that engulfed the Environment and Public Works Committee and onto the broader quest of finding 60 votes for floor passage.
"Tomorrow, the Finance and Energy and Natural Resources committees dive into the issue with a pair of simultaneous hearings on climate policy. [Note: As of this morning, an update posted at the Energy and Natural Resources homepage indicates that today's hearing has been postponed].
"On Finance, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will study the job implications of global warming legislation with testimony from a major labor union, economists, and the nuclear power and electric utility industry. Baucus has said he may hold a markup this year on the trade provisions of a climate bill and address how to distribute greenhouse gas emission allowances among regulated industries."
Climate Legislation; Harvest; Animal Agriculture; Nutrition Programs; and Biofuels
Categories: Agricultural Economy /Climate Change /Ethanol /Food Aid
Lisa Lerer reported on Friday at Poltico.com that, "While Sen. Barbara Boxer was celebrating her committee's passage of a sweeping climate change bill Thursday, other Democrats and Republicans were already looking for a Plan B.
"Rank-and-file members from both parties dismissed the Boxer bill, coal-state senators were unhappy and many said Boxer's move to approve the bill without any Republicans even in the committee room had poisoned the process.
"'It dooms that particular legislation. The question is what comes next,' said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. 'We will see what Plan B is.'"
Posted by Keith Good • November, 9, 2009 • 5:03 am
Climate Legislation; Corn Use; and Food Security
Categories: Climate Change
Juliet Eilperin reported in today's Washington Post that, "Disregarding a Republican boycott, Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed legislation Thursday that would impose a mandatory curb on greenhouse gas emissions.
"The move to report out the bill sponsored by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and the panel's chairman, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), highlighted the divisiveness of the current proposal, as well as Democrats' eagerness to demonstrate they are making at least some progress before international climate talks next month in Copenhagen.
"Even as the panel approved the measure on a vote of 11 to 1 — with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) opposing it because he said it included climate targets that are too steep and would not do enough to protect farmers — attention shifted to Kerry's efforts to collaborate with Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a different bipartisan measure that would seek to expand the number of nuclear reactors and oil drilling off U.S. coasts. Many senators see these talks — rather than the bill approved in committee — as the main vehicle for any legislation that would reach the floor."
The article added that, "Baucus, who had sought to bring the measure's 2020 reduction target down to 17 percent and wanted additional provisions concerning the agriculture industry, said he will continue to work to craft a more politically viable piece of legislation." (Note: To listen to comments made by Sen. Baucus at yesterday's Senate Committee meeting regarding his "no" vote on the bill, just click here (MP3-3:04)).
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Today Reed Smith officially announced that it is laying off 115 people across their US offices in the support areas of IT, finance, marketing, practice administration, knowledge management, human resources, and office services. Managers are looking at the London office and thinking about eliminating up to 7 support staff positions there and up to 11 associate positions in the business and finance departments. The layoffs come after the firm acquired 14 lawyers from Thelen last month.
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After letting go of 96 lawyers this summer, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has lost its fourth partner. New York partner Frank Serbaroli has joined Greenberg Traurig's business practice and will lead the firm's healthcare practice. Serbaroli's departure also comes after the ousting of managing partner and former chairman Bob Link. |
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The Government of Alberta, the City of Calgary and the City of Edmonton have signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing their commitment to develop a big city charter to help meet the challenges of growth.
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"This charter will position our two largest cities for the future," said Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta. "Our government needs to continue to build on our strong relationships that give municipalities the flexibility they need to meet local needs, not only four or five years from now, but 20 years from now."
"We're turning the page on a new chapter in provincial-municipal relationships in Alberta," said Doug Griffiths, Minister of Municipal Affairs. "I'm excited about working with Calgary and Edmonton to find new and better ways to deliver streamlined services together to make our communities even better places to live. This process will also feed into our review of the Municipal Government Act as we strengthen our relationship with municipalities across Alberta."
The memorandum of understanding sets the stage for the development of a legislative framework which will help each city better meet their infrastructure needs and the increasing demand for urban services. The partners will also explore the operating and legislative responsibilities of each party to ensure they align with the challenges and needs of each government.
"This is an exciting moment for Alberta's big cities, Edmonton and Calgary. Premier Redford and Minister Griffiths are opening the door for discussions about the unique challenges we face," said Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel. "Signing this memorandum of understanding is the first step in the process and I look forward to working closely with the Province, Minister Griffiths, and Mayor Nenshi to meet our objectives over the coming months."
"Today's agreement is a significant step to recognize the unique needs of Calgary and Edmonton," said Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. "A city charter will give Calgary the tools we need to effectively provide the services that our citizens rely on every day. I look forward to working with the provincial government to make this promise a reality."
The first stage of the project will determine the parameters of the charter with respect to issues, interests, options and solutions. This work will be completed by September. Between October 2012 and February 2013 the charter and any necessary legislation will be developed, then presented for consideration by the Legislature in the spring of 2013. Any legislation will be designed for inclusion within the Municipal Government Act once the review of that Act is complete.
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After a slow start, a new push to distribute COVID vaccines to Bridgeport's neighborhoods
by Dave Altimari February 18, 2021 @ 5:00 am Updated September 4, 2022 @ 10:37 pm
Charmaine D. Rohde, far left, of New Haven, receives the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine at the University of Bridgeport. "I feel so lucky that we can do this," Rohde said. She's the first one who could get the vaccine out of her five siblings living in other states. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org
People wait after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination at the University of Bridgeport. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org
Donville Barrow slowly shuffled into the University of Bridgeport's Wheeler Recreation Center Tuesday afternoon, aided by the cane in his right hand, to get his COVID-19 vaccine shot.
Employees from Bridgeport Hospital checked him in and escorted him to one of the 20 vaccination stations set up on the basketball court. Within minutes, he was sitting in an observation area, his first dose completed.
The 83-year-old city native had been reluctant to get vaccinated until "some buddies got it, so I decided I'd take a shot at it too," Barrow said as he placed a light blue sticker that said "I'm vaccinated. Crush COVID-19" on his sweatshirt.
"I didn't even feel it. Testing was much worse than this, when they were sticking that Q-tip up my nose," Barrow said.
Barrow, who is Black, lives on Wells Street, a short drive from the college campus, and the proximity of the clinic was one of the reasons he decided to get vaccinated.
Barrow and other city residents are the very people officials are struggling to reach with vaccines — for while the state remains among the best in the country in terms of overall vaccinations, it hasn't been as successful getting shots to the people who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID — those who are Black and Hispanic.
In fact, concerns about vaccine equity are so strong that the state Department of Public Health plainly spelled out in a recent memo to its vaccinators that "A disproportionate share of COVID-19 vaccine has gone to wealthier and whiter residents."
[State memo: COVID vaccine providers should emphasize vulnerable populations]
At the epicenter of the racial disparity issue is Bridgeport, the state's largest city and the place where state officials are now concentrating their efforts.
Bridgeport: A case in point
Bridgeport, where non-Hispanic whites make up about 20% of the population, has ranked near the bottom in terms of percentage of the population that has received a shot, according to data released by the state Department of Public Health.
Since those number were released two weeks ago, the state has assigned two DPH employees, including a former local health director, to work with city officials. Interim DPH Commissioner Deidre Gifford has held multiple meetings, including one over the weekend, with both city officials and vaccinators to determine what can be done to increase the number of vaccination clinics in the city.
City officials have balked at the state's numbers, arguing that the percentage of people vaccinated will naturally be lower because of the city's larger population. But when measured by the number of doses administered, Bridgeport compares favorably with other cities such as Hartford, New Haven and Norwalk.
At a City Council meeting last week, Bridgeport Director of Emergency Services Scott Appleby said the state wasn't giving the city enough vaccine doses.
"Give me 3,500 doses, and we'll get it done in five weeks," he said, adding that part of the problem is that the vaccines were going to hospitals, which were vaccinating non-Bridgeport residents.
The blame-the-state mantra has angered some state officials, who believe the city fell behind because its health director quit in mid-January and because the city was slow to roll out a vaccine plan with only one large clinic, at Central High School, two days a week. The city held its first mobile vaccine clinic Tuesday, vaccinating about 38 residents at the Grant Street apartments.
[Some CT cities among the places with lowest vaccination rates of 75+ residents]
By contrast, New Haven has held numerous mobile clinics at senior centers and apartment complexes across that city.
The obstacles in Bridgeport don't stop there. One of two federally qualified health centers, Optimus Health Care, which was instrumental in conducting mobile COVID-19 testing clinics last spring, has been hamstrung by staff shortages and has been running vaccine clinics for only two weeks at one senior center.
In addition, several religious leaders whose churches hosted testing sites in the spring said they are surprised no one has reached out about doing the same with vaccines.
Meanwhile, the state has given large hospital systems most of its vaccine allotment for mass vaccination clinics — a good way to vaccinate lots of people quickly, but not necessarily the way to reach the minority populations in inner cities who have less access to computers and transportation.
We recognize the mass vaccination sites will work for some people, but they aren't going to solve the issues that we have in our cities. We need to go find and hold people's hands and help them get vaccinated. "— Dr. James P. Cardon, chief clinical integration officer at Hartford HealthCare
In an interview Tuesday Appleby said "the state is not running the city's health department" — in fact, an interim director, Terron Jones, was named over the weekend. He added, "We know our community and its needs better than anyone."
Appleby acknowledged that Health Director Lisa Morrissey's resignation on Jan. 15 was a setback.
"We finalized our vaccine plan on Jan. 16," Appleby said. "The problem we had was getting everybody to sit back down at the table and talk about getting vaccine to Bridgeport residents. Every entity at that time was working on their own individual plans, and that doesn't necessarily cover only Bridgeport residents."
Appleby said that in many instances, clinics run by St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, which is owned by Hartford HealthCare, and Bridgeport Hospital, owned by Yale New Haven Health, were drawing people from outside of the city because they serve the surrounding communities as well.
"We understand that the state wants to give vaccine to a provider with a larger patient base and that can do large numbers of shots, and I'm not saying that 75-year-olds from from Shelton or Milford shouldn't get shots — but some of those doses should be earmarked for Bridgeport residents," Appleby said.
"A lot of 'I'm gonnas'"
Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, who wrote a letter to Gifford a few weeks ago asking the state to step in and help the city figure out how to develop and implement a comprehensive vaccine plan.
Moore said the whole vaccine rollout reminds her of when Bridgeport lagged behind in testing while other cities already had functioning mass testing sites. While she is encouraged the city has hired someone with a public health degree to oversee the health department, Moore wants to see more than just talk.
"Everyone says they are gonna do something. 'I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do a mass clinic,'" Moore said. "There's a lot of 'I'm gonnas,' and nothing is getting done to vaccinate the people that need it."
But help is on the way.
In the past week, state and city officials, community leaders and vaccination partners have been meeting to discuss how to get shots into the arms of Bridgeport residents.
Besides Yale New Haven Health's mass vaccination clinic at the University of Bridgeport, Hartford Hospital is planning to open one on March 8 at Sacred Heart University. Hartford Hospital also is taking over the clinic at Central High School as of Monday, Feb. 22.
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But Dr. James P. Cardon, chief clinical integration officer at Hartford HealthCare, said it will take more than mass clinics to solve the problem.
"We recognize the mass vaccination sites will work for some people, but they aren't going to solve the issues that we have in our cities," Cardon said. "Mass vaccinations are not going to address a lot of these communities — that's where we need to spend our time and attention. We need to go find and hold people's hands and help them get vaccinated."
Little silos
With the hospitals taking over the larger vaccination clinics, the city can focus on holding more mobile pop-up clinics targeting certain areas, Appleby said.
The city held its first mobile clinic Tuesday at the Grant Street apartments, where about 38 people were signed up for shots. By contrast, New Haven officials have already conducted about half a dozen mobile clinics at senior centers and apartment complexes across that city.
Bridgeport officials have scheduled mobile clinics at Washington Heights and the Barnum House that already have at least 50 residents signed up for vaccinations.
"All of our plans are linked now. We're not doing this in our own little silos anymore," Appleby said. "Everyone is now focused on getting shots to everyone."
A building of the University of Bridgeport is seen from the parking lot of the COVID-19 vaccination site installed at the school's gym. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org
Cardon said Hartford HealthCare plans to work with city officials to run mobile clinics as well. He said hospital officials have reached out to the Bridgeport Diocese about using some of its churches.
"We have to work with trusted leadership, which are faith-based communities, or the social services that are already there who touch these people everyday," Cardon said. "We are asking what do we need to do to help reach people. We aren't going to tell you what to do, but mold ourselves into what would work for you."
Cardon said reaching the most vulnerable populations in the big cities is the biggest challenge vaccinators face.
"It is going to be completely unacceptable to get to the other side of this and realize that we missed it," Cardon said. "There's no reason we can't do it. We know where our problems are, we know what the challenges are to do it. We've got to educate, reassure and create a sense of real trust and then make sure we are providing real access to the vaccine."
Staff constraints
In the spring, Optimus Health Care played a key role in expanding COVID testing, bringing its mobile van to several church parking lots, but it has been underused so far in the vaccine roll-out.
As one of two federally qualified health centers in the city, Optimus will soon be getting vaccine doses directly through a federal government program, although how much it will receive is unknown at this point.
The center just started doing clinics at the Hall Neighborhood Senior Center a couple of weeks ago because they have had a hard time hiring staff, according to its director, Dr. Catherine Rivera.
"We have a big need because we have a high population of clients that are underserved," Rivera said.
At the senior center, the staff helps the residents fill out the paperwork and sign up for the clinics. Rivera said she runs two vaccination teams at each clinic, which total 16 to 20 people.
"We all want to do more, but right now we are limited by staff constraints," Rivera said.
Appleby said he learned of Optimus' staffing issues in a call earlier this week with Rivera and DPH officials.
"We can get them personnel, if you let us know," Appleby said. "We have a medical reserve corps as well as a Sacred Heart medical reserve corps that we can activate if we need to."
Appleby said Optimus is a key partner in reaching people the city needs to vaccinate, since many of them are their clients. He said there are plans to have Optimus open a mass vaccination site at Harding High School.
No pleasure in all these funerals
Mount Aery Baptist Church on Frank Street, in the center of "The Hollow" neighborhood, was one of the first churches in the state last spring to host a COVID-19 testing site in its parking lot, but Pastor Anthony L. Bennett said no one has approached church officials about doing something similar with vaccinations.
"It seems as though the numbers of people getting tested went up when they used the churches, and if it was true then, it would probably be true with the vaccine now," Bennett said.
Pastor Anthony Bennett at Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport. Bennett said he hopes that the vaccination site will open at the church. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org
Mount Aery has between 1,500-2,000 members, and Bennett said the discussions about the vaccine are mixed.
"There are some people who are clearly hesitant to get vaccinated, and then there are members who are eager to get it because it is one step closer to bringing some normality to their lives," Bennett said.
But Bennett said right now there isn't much access in The Hollow, as he doesn't know of one clinic that has been held there. Bennett has started telling people to go the Walgreens on nearby North Avenue, which just started vaccinations last week.
Bennett said mass vaccination sites at the other end of the city won't help people near his church and more outreach needs to be done in the community, whether it is through Optimus or other mobile clinics.
"A lot of us take for granted our mobility, but there are many people who don't have transportation, and it is a challenge to think they will go to the University of Bridgeport or to Central High School to get a shot," Bennett said.
Church members who passed away are memorialized on the wall of Mount Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport. Black people make up the majority of the congregation. Yehyun Kim / ctmirror.org
Mount Aery just suffered a COVID-19 death that was close to home. A long-time church deacon, Primus Jackson III, recently died of COVID. He was 68. There have been others.
"There is no pleasure in doing all of these funerals," Bennett said.
The pastor did have some good news. He recently spoke to a long-time parishioner who got vaccinated when a team from the city came to her house to give her the shot.
But she lives in New Haven.
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A sad prophecy for the wonderful city of Venice: the fact that it will be sinking into the sea seems to be inevitable. Venice is a city built on more than 100 islands. The water, however, is everywhere and when it rises, you will see lakes instead of the squares and the small street will be impracticable. What will the future of Venice be?
The 8 by 8 board depicts Venice. At the start of the game, all -land and bridge- tiles are placed randomly on a plastic frame. Each player gets 3 tokens that he should place anywhere on the board. All tiles have a value (higher numbers obviously are better). Each player also is dealt 5-9 cards and receives 9 money.
The game ends when all dealt cards have been played. On their turn, players must play their lowest numbered card. The cards go 3-8.
When playing a card, the tile that has the same number is flipped over to its water side, eventually with a players token that stood on the tile. Luckily all players also have two gondola cards that enable them to rescue the token and may be placed on another tile. The tokens give treasures by travelling to a specific coloured tile, paying one money, and taking the corresponding coloured treasure.
When all cards have been played, there still is a part of the map that is not submerged as at the beginning some cards remained off the play. From this, the value of the treasures is calculated with the most points for treasures of coloured tiles that are the rarest. |
Ulrika has practised yoga since she was a teenager and now lives in Stockholm, Sweden. She has run the Satyananda Yoga Centre in Stockholm for the past 20 years, where she gives daily classes in yoga for all levels and personal needs. She has run retreats in France and India.
Ulrika is used to having beginners and more advanced practitioners in the same class. People of all ages, ranging from 17 to 77. It works. Each person will receive modifications/challenges for their personal needs. Anyone can do yoga and benefit from it.
We will practise yoga twice a day, taking one evening and one morning off. There will be plenty of time to relax, read, go for a swim, explore nature or visit some local taverna down by the beach. |
Dr. Bruce Crispin and Dr. Kristi Crispin, practicing at Esthetic Professionals Dental Center, are a father-daughter dental team that pride themselves on treating each patient as an individual with a focus on their specific needs, care and comfort. This individualized approach to patient care provides optimal results and happy patients. Both are Accredited Members of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and Dr. Bruce is a Board Certified Prosthodontist. Their credentials ensure the best possible outcome in treating cosmetic problems, implants and full-mouth reconstructive dentistry. Together they have more than 50 years of experience in the dental field.
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HVAC technicians need a comprehensive mobile solution to boost jobsite efficiency, automate updates between back office and field, and track and record data.
A mobile service application adds much-needed tools to the HVAC tech arsenal to make service more efficient and successful.
Is your refrigerator running? Well then you better go catch it! A long running joke, but for HVAC professionals the joke takes on a literal meaning as technicians spend hours catching all types of refrigeration, cooling, ventilation, and heating problems.
Considering a system failure could bring extreme consequences to any facility, anything that can make the job of the HVAC tech more effective is good news everyone. But with much to keep track of, HVAC technicians could use a little help keeping it all together.
The answer? Mobile technology has become the key component in HVAC service success. It's imperative that techs today have a comprehensive mobile solution to boost jobsite efficiency, automate updates between back office and field, and track and record data.
A good mobile field service app allows your techs to easily record their time, parts and tasks against an equipment asset and work order, then sync that data into your billing system upon work order close-out, accelerating your service to cash cycle. Customers can even sign-off directly through the mobile app, which means less dispute and faster turnaround on payments.
Mobile apps for HVAC service technicians are automatically connected to centralized service scheduling software, so schedulers can make rapid work order scheduling decisions and assignments based on actual technician location, availability and skill set.
Mobile service apps allow you to take advantage of service technicians' privileged position at the customer site in order to gather competitive, business development, and other intelligence that can propel your service business forward. With stakeholder portals continuously updating with incoming data, you'll never be at a loss for valuable information to improve service efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The more you know about the specifics of the work your technicians need to do, the more profit you can realize with each work order. With software that tracks and segments parts of a work orders, technicians can see exactly what they'll be working on and what parts they'll need, and company managers gain deeper granularity so they can analyze the success of each task and determine ways to improve.
Tracking refrigerant with a mobile service app, for example, eliminates manual data logging and helps techs keep detailed accounts for each system by accessing and recording information in one central location.
The benefits for HVAC techs using a mobile service application extend beyond just these five points. Those in service must realize that the field is set to become even more mobile-centric as technology continues to advance. It's up to HVAC contractors to become more flexible to accommodate these changes, and it's by opening operations up to a flexible mobile service application that they'll be able to get ahead.
There's more heating going on in HVAC as pressure builds on organizations to find capable mobile solutions. Learn more important tips and to-dos in our free, educational whitepaper: "A Buyer's Guide to Mobile Field Service Software," and help your HVAC contractors effectively carry out your service operations.
Josh Kasombo is a content marketing specialist for MSI. |
Q: Recursive async function not defined in react componentDidMount I am trying to define an Async recursive function inside my app's main componentDidMount component. The function is supposed to keep polling the network for changes in an API (done through the this.refreshNetwork() method.
The promise is meant to work as a delay.
componentDidMount() {
(async function networkCheck(a){
await this.refreshNetwork();
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve,a));
await networkCheck(500);
}.bind(this)());
}
The error I am receiving is:
Unhandled promise rejection ReferenceError: "networkCheck is not defined"
I don't understand how the function could possible not be defined inside itself
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I've posted about an amazing traditional stone house in Mykonos at Grecian Paradise today. Typical Cycladic architecture and a summer breeze that's not to be missed! See more photos here.
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qué preciosidad y qué ganas de vacaciones.
What a very lovely house. It must be so relaxing to stay in this house.
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#104: Navigating the Open Source Galaxy
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore the ways in which open source projects interconnect with one another, how open source communities can both increase and improve their contributions, and the issues facing open source projects hoping to operate at scale. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Cisco CTO Ken Owens along with GitHub Community Programs researcher Nadia Eghbal to hear their thoughts on these topics and more. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/navigating-open-source-galaxy/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVtJyDEDT0
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore the ways in which open source projects interconnect with one another, how open source communities can both increase and improve their contributions, and the issues facing open source projects hoping to operate at scale.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Cisco CTO Ken Owens along with GitHub Community Programs researcher Nadia Eghbal to hear their thoughts on these topics and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/navigating-open-source-galaxy/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVtJyDEDT0 |
It's always good to see a teacher blogging about tech they've found innovative uses for to help their teaching. We came across this gem on Facebook. This post is a shortened version of the original which appeared on Lana's blog.
I'm not a huge tech freak. I write things down, couldn't bear to part with my teacher's binder and use chalk and a blackboard to the max. However, I've become obsessed with a tech thingie on my phone. In fact, I think I might be completely in love with Evernote.
At the risk of sounding like a painfully un-inventive copywriter straight from silicon valley, let me tell you, this thing HAS made my world a better place, meaning it has made me a better teacher. I used to try bookmarking interesting videos, articles and tips that I'd find online only to find myself completely ignorant of them the next time I sat down to look up something useful. Now I can have everything in one place, with tags to help me find notes quickly, organize my lessons, ideas and much more.
At first I used it for my creative writing. I downloaded Skitch for Evernote which allowed me to take photos, edit them, annotate them with arrows, smileys and text, and then export them to my notebook with a click. Notes can be virtually anything. Weblinks, typed notes and lists, photos, files. I was also able to record audio and save it as a note. Finally I could have all my crazy little ideas in one place, ideas that would normally vanish after the third metro stop.
Later on, Story ideas became its own notebook, with different notes, audio files and pics to get inspired. The Writing notebook became a stack, meaning I could now compile different notebooks with the same topic in one place.
From using Skitch to keep my short story ideas in one place, I went on to make little household notes.
I would then export the snippet to Evernote, into my Chores notebook, and add other things I needed to buy that day. I also added a tag in case I ever wanted to find the photo again so as not to have to go through the whole list of chores.
I began to see Evernote's potential for my teaching and, from then on, Evernote became my new PA. When it comes to staying organized, Evernote is indispensable. I have two main notebook stacks related to teaching: Online lessons stack and Academy stack.
Each stack has its own notebooks. For example, within the Online lessons stack I have a separate notebook for each student that I teach via Skype. I save lesson plans, ideas, videos, tips and songs I've used with them, as well as student info (such as payment information, interests, weak language areas, etc.). In the Academy stack I keep different notebooks for each class that I teach. You get the drill.
One of my favorite Evernote features is how quick everything is. For example, I might be reading a magazine and stumble upon an interesting article. Instead of copying it and then scanning it (i.e, wasting paper) I use Scannable which allows me to scan a document with my phone and easily export it to Evernote, directly to my Online lessons stack – Student A notebook. This feature is great to keep your invoices (freelancer speaking here!), documents, exams, worksheets and other scans organized.
Left: Scannable. Right: how it appears in Evernote.
I might use Skitch to snap a photo when I get an idea for an activity. I make sure to annotate it because I'm very forgetful and therefore the original idea could be completely lost on me in a matter of days.
I then export it to Evernote straight to my Online classes notebook. I can also share any annotated photos with my class' Facebook group or on Twitter, share a whole notebook/note with my colleagues, or send it via email.
Other ELT uses for Evernote?
Scan Post-its, business cards, crossword puzzles, the ingredients on the back of a cereal box … You know very well that anything might become lesson material.
Use Evernote Webclipper to save interesting teaching websites and blogs and tag them according to your classes, students' levels and topics.
Take full or cropped screenshots with Evernote and save them to your notebooks or share with your students online.
Walk around your city and take photos, then show them to your students using Evernote atlas and ask them to narrate your movements. (First, you went to get some coffee in Poble Sec …) You can literally make great speaking activities on the go with nothing but your phone at hand.
Scan your entire lesson plans or write them up as notes in your separate notebooks.
Snap photos right there in the classroom and then annotate them together with your students. You can later share them on Facebook or Twitter.
Make checklists and set reminders to make sure you've planned everything for today.
Remind yourself of the homework assignments you've given to each group/student and exams you need to prepare.
Keep videos, photos and worksheets for your online students in one place, so you can access them easily during your lesson.
Keep all your material tagged based on levels, so you can easily browse suitable activities.
Make a warmers/fillers notebook with levels/topics/age tags to save yourself during a lesson that isn't going so well.
Share your notebooks with fellow teachers working in your school (after you've convinced them to download Evernote).
If you're teaching adults and they might consider getting Evernote, share notebooks with them as well. You can assign homework, share worksheets, videos, songs, etc.
Record your student's pronunciation and save it directly to his/her notebook so you can analyze different sounds to work on.
Take notes and photos when you attend teaching seminars to make sure you don't forget all the useful tips, games, activities and resources they mention. You can scan whole documents and use them later in your lessons.
How are you using Evernote in your teaching? Post your comments below.
Lana Haze is a certified English teacher living in Barcelona.
If you have a post in you about how you're using a non-teaching app to teach, like Slack or Trello for example, drop us a line at blog editor @ eltjam dot com.
For other useful apps to consider using in the classroom, check out Mike Boyle's idea for Siri.
I love the ideas here! Evernote has been a big part of my workflow as a materials writer for a while now. I save articles that might make a good lesson or unit (tagged by topic, grammar, level, market, etc.) and I love being able to find them days (or years!) later in an instant. It's also a life saver when you get a great idea on the train or walking down the street. You can start writing wherever you are and then pick it up when you get back to your computer. A huge portion of my last couple of textbooks was actually written on Evernote for iOS on the treadmill at the gym!
Actually, Lana's original post on her blog also talked about Evernote and its uses for her writing!
What an interesting article! Many thanks for sharing!
I keep all my notes from conferences and development workshops in my Evernote, as well as my thoughts, ideas, and general reflective jottings – it is my CPD portfolio. |
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No, these aren't the textbook developments—but they're the ones that melt your heart.
We've all read a thousand books (and plumbed the dark corners of the Internet, even though we know we shouldn't) to learn about appropriate milestones for our babies and toddlers. From our kids' births, many of us nerve-wrackingly endeavored to make sure they were rolling, crawling, walking, and talking on time.
But what all the textbooks miss are those precious other milestones. Not the developmental ones that the pediatrician asks about at well baby visits (that's my family in the pic at our most recent appointment)—but the sweet, sentimental stuff that unfolds before our watery eyes with each passing day.
My twins are 19 months now, and they have plenty of these toddler milestones yet to hit. But here are 10 of the slobbery, totally unscientific milestones that have melted my heart, for better or for worse, so far.
The doctor has been asking how many words each toddler has from the time of their 15-month visit, and my husband and I have tried to keep count as their vocabulary grows. But one amazing thing that caught me by surprise was my babies' first actual sentence—the first time they actually strung two words together. My kids' first sentence? (Wait for it.) "Happy day." Yes, both of my toddlers learned how to say this adorable, optimistic phrase at the same time, probably because they heard people say "happy birthday" to their daddy so many times that particular week. Happy day, indeed!
Given that my kids are twins, I always knew (or at least hoped and expected) that their relationship would be a unique and special one. They're not yet at the point when they hold hands or give each other hugs, but when I first started to hear them in the morning cracking themselves up—in their special twin language—while playing side-by-side in their cribs? Divine.
When the babes were teeny tiny, and we were busily measuring milk down to the milliliter, I looked forward to a more casual time when they could eat more like ordinary people—say, even at a restaurant. Well, in recent months, when we've gone out to eat, we've begun to order meals of the kids' own—for instance, a pancake breakfast with fruit, from the kids' menu, instead of something infant-friendly plucked from the diaper bag. Fortunately (for my wallet), they're still small enough to share one meal between the two of them, but ordering for them does add a bit of fun to the experience.
When my twins were small, we always assumed my son would be the boisterous one...but it turned out we were confusing colic for personality traits. These days, my kids' real personalities have begun to emerge, and watching the little demonstrations has been charming. Nothing fazes my daughter, who is game for any adventure, with anybody, at any time—like me. My son is relatively more circumspect and homebody-ish—like my husband. What a thrill to see them become tiny humans who know what they like!
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OK, this one is more tragic than sweet, but of course it's poignant nevertheless: Now my kids are old enough, and mobile enough, that they can get into some trouble while exploring the world. Trying to reach something unreachable from the mantle, my son conked right down onto the fireplace tile face first and busted his lip, drawing blood. Sad as it was for me to see, it was also gratifying as his mom to be able to kiss it and make it better.
I wouldn't call this one sweet either—but it's certainly a milestone. My daughter loved the part in her first music class when the teacher passed out the egg shakers. But she did not love the part where she had to give them back at the end of the song. In fact, she screamed like a banshee, and then put her head down on the floor in the middle of class, immovable. Turns out the terrible twos paid us an early visit. Was that first tantrum—and the ones that have followed—fun? Absolutely not. But it's also a reminder that she's not a little baby anymore...and that part is poignant and powerful.
OK, I'm reaching here: My toddlers have yet to give us proper kisses. (Though I do look forward to those precious smooches!) But they have figured out something close enough. When they were away for a weekend at their grandparents' house, they came back with a new trick. My mom said, "Look how they learned to blow kisses!" And sure enough: My kids moved their hands to their mouths—or somewhere approximately in that area on their faces—and then waved their tiny digits in the air like a little salute. Sweetest thing ever!
Alesandra Dubin is a twin mom. She's also a Los Angeles-based writer and the founder of home and travel blog Homebody in Motion. Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Google+, and Twitter. |
Today is the First Day of Christmas. As an amateur history scholar, I am frustrated when the general public talks about the Twelve Days of Christmas without knowing anything about it. You see, once upon a time, the actual day of December 25 (not getting into changing calendars and other beliefs that were oppressed by the use of their holidays for Christian ones) was observed as a religious day. A day of prayer and midnight Mass. A day of thinking of ways to help those less privileged.
The day of gift giving is January 7th, the day observed as the arrival of the Magi in the humble stable in Bethlehem. But some eager swain apparently gave his true love a gift or more on each day between Christmas and Twelfth Night.
And for some reason, this guy liked to give birds as presents. Well, that's not the best of ideas in most cases. But you can give to parrot conservation efforts in the name of the person you love. Here are my 12 picks for your donations.
1. Top of the list is World Parrot Trust. https://www.parrots.org/ They are pushing for laws to move African Grey Parrots (Both Congo and Timneh) to the CITES Appendix 1, making the trade in these magnificent animals illegal. Yes, the horror of those photos of fifty or more greys stuffed in a crate is not of smugglers, but legal pet traders. On top of this goal, another part of their mission is to improve companion bird care.
2. The Ara Project, dedicated to saving Costa Rica's two native macaws. I've seen wonderful videos of the staff releasing macaws into the wild. http://thearaproject.org/ Tourists can book tours and watch the release in person. Scarlet macaw populations number only 4,000 and Great Green macaws only 1,000.
3. Kakapo Recovery New Zealand. http://kakaporecovery.org.nz/ One of many cases where a bird had adapted perfectly to its environment, then people showed up with predators that decimated the population. Add to that the ruin of habitat and you have a grim outlook. There are fewer than 160 Kakapo on our planet.
4. World Wildlife Fund. http://www.worldwildlife.org/ This group looks at the big picture: Climate change, habitat, and animals that work with each other. Clean water and finding ways to help people survive that also helps the wildlife around them. Without their work, humans may need to look for a new place to live.
5. Conservation International is highly rated on Charity Navigator for having a CEO who doesn't take more than living expenses for a salary. http://www.conservation.org/where/pages/amazonia.aspx This is another big picture group and the focus on the Amazon is going to help parrots and birds of many sorts.
6. Seacology. http://www.seacology.org/ Islands are home to numerous birds and parrots, as well as creatures and plants found nowhere else in the world, yet can have fragile ecosystems. In the past 400 years, of all the birds that have gone extinct, 88% have been from islands.
8. EchoBonaire. http://www.echobonaire.org/ I live with an Amazon parrot, so this cousin of my double yellow is dear to my heart. The Yellow-shouldered Amazon parrot is down to about 900 in numbers. Imagine the sky before the Europeans arrived, before habitat destruction, before poaching of chicks from the nests, when millions of these beauties would flock together at feeding and watering sites. There is something you can do if you don't have funds to either go on a parrot tour or to donate. Be sure that the pet companion bird you buy is not wild caught. Ask to see the parents.
10. Island Conservation. https://www.islandconservation.org/green-parrot-saved-from-extinction-again/ Yes, islands are important and worth saving. But for a parrot to be saved once from extinction then ignored until it nearly disappeared again? Come on, humans! We can do better than that. Found only on Australia's Norfolk Island, this beauty needs constant attention. We have drastically changed their world, now we need to safeguard the remaining population and increase the numbers.
11. Rainforest Alliance. http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/ Along with many other forest inhabitants, African Grey parrots are under the watchful eyes of this organization. Right now, donations will be doubled in their Holiday Match program. Forests are a lot like islands and every bit as important to the life of this planet.
12. Finally, I want to appreciate the local volunteers near me who work hard to save habitat and animals. No parrots, except the feral ones now and then, but worth donating to. The Del Dios Habitat Protection League http://www.ddhpl.org/ is working to restore natural riparian habitat around Lake Hodges, very close to where I live. They make sure people know that importing firewood can also import dangerous insects that will kill off the trees. They look for invasive plants to eradicate and have removed all the imported eucalyptus trees around the lake. They get some funds from selling firewood, but now that the eucalyptus is gone, that's slowing down. They certainly could use a few donations right now.
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Young Aussie Chris Herd made just his second top flight start as Aston Villa drew 0-0 with Wolverhampton on Saturday.
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In the Carling Cup on Tuesday, young Aussie Chris Herd started and played 88 minutes at full-back, having a few chances on goal too, as Aston Villa defeated Hereford United 2-0. |
e-Books are transforming the way the nation reads.
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e-Books are transforming the way the nation reads. But how should libraries respond to the challenges and opportunities that this new technology presents?
That's the question being asked by an independent panel, appointed by Ed Vaizey, to look at the issue of 'e-lending'. The panel – headed by William Sieghart, and with representatives from all parties affected by e-lending – is issuing a call for evidence to inform their discussions.
1. The benefits of e-lending.
2. The current level and nature of demand for e-lending in English libraries, along with a projection of future demand. For example, will e-lending be in addition to traditional borrowing of print books, or is it likely to transform the way in which library users access services? What is the demand for downloading e-books remotely, that is, away from library premises? To what extent do owners of e-readers value public e-lending above what is freely or commercially available elsewhere?
3. Current supply models, barriers to the supply of e-books to libraries, and likely future trends.
4. Systems for remunerating authors / publishers for e-lending.
5. The impact of e-lending on publishers and their business models.
6. Any unforeseen consequences of e-lending. For example, the impact on those who cannot keep up with technology, the likely long-term impact on the model of highly localised physical library premises, skills requirements for librarians, etc.
The independent panel now includes new member Jane Streeter, founder of The Bookcase chain of shops and publishing arm Bookcase Editions Ltd. Jane is a trustee of the East Midlands Book Award, has just completed a two year term as President of the Booksellers Association, and is about to become Chair of Writing East Midlands.
To submit evidence to the panel, email [email protected] before 5pm on Tuesday 6 November 2012. |
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Mepolizumab (Nucala) is licensed as an add-on treatment for severe refractory eosinophilic asthma in adults.
The NICE guidance states that mepolizumab, as an add-on to optimised standard therapy, is recommended as an option for treating severe refractory eosinophilic asthma in adults, only if: the blood eosinophil count is ≥300 cells/microlitre in the previous 12 months; and the person has agreed to and followed the optimised standard treatment plan.
The guidance also specifies that to be eligible for treatment with mepolizumab patients should have had four or more asthma exacerbations requiring systemic corticosteroids in the previous 12 months; or have had continuous oral corticosteroids of at least the equivalent of prednisolone 5mg per day over the previous six months.
NICE recommends that treatment with mepolizumab is stopped after 12 months if there has been an inadequate response.
If the asthma has responded adequately at 12 months treatment may be continued with an annual assessment of response thereafter. An adequate response is defined as: ≥50% fewer asthma exacerbations requiring systemic corticosteroids in patients with four or more exacerbations in the previous 12 months; or a clinically significant reduction in continuous oral corticosteroid use while maintaining or improving asthma control.
Mepolizumab must be provided by the company with the discount agreed in the patient access scheme. Patients whose treatment with mepolizumab had started before the guidance was issued may continue without change according to whatever funding arrangements were already in place. |
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» Employers of Foreign National Workers Need to Know This About Employer Site Visits
Employers of Foreign National Workers Need to Know This About Employer Site Visits
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/ By Fiona McEntee
Tags: Employment & Labor Dynamics,
An introduction to Employer Site Visits
It is nearly impossible to imagine the modern U.S. workplace without foreign nationals. Companies across the nation, in a wide variety of industries, rely on their specialized knowledge and invaluable professional experience to remain competitive in the global market. According to the 2016 US Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), 26.2 million foreign nationals are currently employed in this country and comprise 17% of the civilian workforce in the United States. Of those 26.2 million foreign national employees, 32% work in positions related to business, management, science, and the arts. Despite the value of their expertise and experience, U.S. immigration policy changes have dramatically increased the level of scrutiny on foreign national employees and their US employers.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) manages the anti-fraud and abuse program for these company-sponsored foreign national employees. Specifically, the Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) unit within the USCIS is charged with conducting employer site visits for those employees and their corresponding employers. Last year, the USCIS announced that it planned to conduct more employer site visits depending on the availability of additional resources, personnel, and infrastructure. Additionally, on January 25 2017, President Trump signed an executive order designed to increase targeted site visits to combat alleged fraud and abuse involving visas for H-1B professional workers and L-1A/B international company transferees.
This executive order combined with the desire of the USCIS to increase oversight has resulted in significantly more employer site visits. Thus, given this heightened level of scrutiny across the board, it remains prudent for employers with sponsored foreign national employees to remember that both the company and the employees remain subject to random worksite inspections from the USCIS for the duration of a foreign national's employment. Additionally, there are some steps employers can take in advance of such site visits to ensure that they are as prepared as possible. We have outlined answers to some Frequently Asked Questions to assist employers as they prepare for an FDNS site visit.
What is the Purpose of Employer Site Visits?
FDNS site visits can be used to verify information about an employer-sponsored visa application such as specifics on the sponsoring employer and the sponsored employee; the validity of the information on the foreign national's visa application; and, the employer's and the foreign national's compliance with the terms of the approved employment.
How are Employers Selected for Employer Site Visits?
USCIS has stated that it will be conducting random compliance visits in addition to for-cause visits based on previously detected fraud.
Per the aforementioned executive order, the USCIS has implemented plans to increase targeted site visits to focus on cases where:
The employer's business information cannot be verified through commercially available data.
Employers are considered H-1B dependent, meaning they have a high ratio of H-1B workers compared to US workers.
Employers petition for workers to work offsite at a third-party or client locations.
Notwithstanding the three scenarios outlined above, it is important to note that any employer can be selected for a random site visit per USCIS policy.
How are Site Visits Conducted?
Site visits may be conducted by phone, email, or in-person, and often happen without any prior notification. Typically, a FDNS officer shows up unannounced at an employer's place of business. Site visits can last one hour or longer depending on the nature of the visit. Companies employing numerous foreign national employees should anticipate longer site visits or additional site visits, sometimes as many as one site visit per sponsored foreign national.
Can an Immigration Attorney be Present During the Site Visit?
In theory, your immigration attorney can be present during the site visit, however, the lack of notification of the visit typically prevents this from happening. If possible, employers should contact their attorney to be present in person throughout the site visit and, if this is not possible, employers should inform the FDNS officer that their immigration attorney can be present by phone throughout the visit.
[Editor's Note: You may enjoy our webinar, Immigration 101]
What Should Employers Expect from a Site Visit?
If selected for a site visit, employers and employees can anticipate the following from the FDNS officer:
The officer will want to speak with the human resource manager/company representative. This is usually the signatory on any visa/immigration forms. If this person has since left the employer, a substitute representative should be available to speak to the officer.
The officer will look to speak to the foreign national and their direct supervisor or manager.
The officer will tour and may want to photograph the company premises.
The officer will request payroll stubs for the foreign worker, W-2 forms, and organizational charts related to the U.S. office and any foreign office, as relevant.
The officer may also request payroll stubs for any employees supervised by the foreign national employee.
The officer may look to review the Public Access File for any worker in H-1B status.
What Questions Will be Asked During a Site Visit?
An FDNS officer will likely ask the employer/company representative questions concerning the following topics:
Company business and annual revenue.
Number of employees on location, and company-wide.
Number of foreign nationals sponsored by the company (based on non-immigrant visas & employment-based green card applications).
Both the company representative and any foreign national employees should also be prepared to answer questions regarding the foreign national's position, including job title, responsibilities, salary, work schedule, and comparable positions. Foreign national workers may also be asked questions regarding their employment history, residence, and family members in the US
What Do Employers Need to Know About Site Visits & Foreign Workers at "Third Party" Locations?
Employers with foreign nationals who work at a third-party location or a company vendor should notify management at the relevant worksite of the possibility of an FDNS site visit when a foreign national begins work. The third-party may also want to designate and train a company representative to interact with the officer.
Any site visit to a third-party location will likely focus on ensuring there is a bona fide employer/employee relationship between the sponsoring employer and the foreign national worker despite the third-party placement. All parties should be prepared to show statements of work, itineraries, and be able to discuss the type and level of supervision and control exerted by the sponsoring employer.
How Can Employers Plan for FDNS Employer Site Visits?
To ensure that the FDNS site visit minimizes daily business disruptions, companies that employ foreign nationals should follow the steps below to prepare for FDNS employer site visits:
Speak with your/an immigration attorney to obtain their emergency contact information.
Ask your immigration attorney to conduct a company-wide training to prepare for a site visit.
Create specific company procedures for site visits.
Designate and train a company representative to speak and accompany the FDNS officer for the duration of any site visit.
Designate an alternate company representative should the main company representative be absent on the day of a site visit.
Ensure the Public Access File for every H-1B worker is prepared correctly and available, should the officer request to see it.
Inform all staff of the possibility of a site visit to minimize any confusion or panic.
Inform foreign nationals and their managers about what to expect from a site visit.
Company representatives should take detailed notes on the site visit including:
FDNS officer's name, USCIS credentials, and contact information.
List of individuals the FDNS officer speaks to including name and title.
Questions asked by the FDNS officer and answers given.
List of documents requested and provided to the officer.
While the timing of an FDNS site visit might catch employers and employees off guard, it may help to take these proactive measures before said visits. Setting policies and procedures in advance can help site visits go more smoothly and will put both employers and employees at ease.
1. Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. Jie Zong-Jeanne Zong-Jeanne Batalova-Jeffrey Hallock. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states
2. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Combatting Fraud and Abuse in the H-1B Visa Program, (July 23, 2018), available at https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers/h-1b-specialty-occupations-and-fashion-models/combating-fraud-and-abuse-h-1b-visa-program
3. Office of the Press Sec., Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States, (Jan. 5, 2017), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/presidential-executive-order-enhancing-public-safety-interior-united.
4. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS and the Justice Department Formalize Partnership To Protect U.S. Workers from Discrimination and Combat Fraud, (May 5, 2018), available at https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-and-justice-department-formalize-partnership-protect-us-workers-discrimination-and-combat-fraud.
5. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Administrative Site Visit and Verification Program, (Oct 30, 2014), available at https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/directorates-and-program-offices/fraud-detection-and-national-security/administrative-site-visit-and-verification-program
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Solar eclipse 2017: Where to watch in the Austin area
Viewing events and parties in and around Austin
By Cindy Widner@CurbedAustin Updated Aug 20, 2017, 5:01pm CDT
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Note: This map was originally published Aug. 17 and has been updated since then.
Austinites who are serious about seeing the August 21 solar eclipse have probably already made plans to hightail it to St. Louis, Nashville, or another place in the path of totality, where (barring cloud cover) the sight of the moon covering the sun will be entirely, if briefly, visible.
If you're not one of them, you still have a good chance of catching a partial eclipse (around 65%, depending on where you are exactly—you can use this handy tool created by Vox to find out when, the exact percentage, and the closest place to see the total eclipse by entering your ZIP code).
While there should be plenty of places to watch the partial eclipse—wherever you can see the sun from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. CDT (it peaks at 1:10 p.m.)—this map focuses on places holding eclipse-specific programming.
Regardless of whether you watch on your own or with a group, make sure you're watching the eclipse safely, either with ISO-certified eclipse glasses or another safe viewing method. At no point during a partial eclipse is it safe to look directly at the sun without the glasses or other proper viewing tools.
Have an event we missed? Let us know in the comments below.
Taylor Public Library
Oh, dang. It might be worth the trip 35 miles north to the Taylor for the view—and the free moon pies. The party takes place 12:30-1:30 p.m. There will be free viewing glasses while they last.
801 Vance St, Taylor, TX 76574
Sharon Prete Main Street Plaza
The Round Rock Public Library, in partnership with the Space Science Institute and the Williamson County Astronomy Club, will host a free party for all ages from noon to 2:00 p.m. Glasses will be provided. There will planned science and art activities, fountain-splashing, and Flavorlicious Shave Ice available.
221 E Main St, Round Rock, TX 78664
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Wells Branch Community Library
The North Austin viewing party will have free solar glasses, refreshments, and information about the eclipse.
15001 Wells Port Dr, Austin, TX 78728
Pflugerville Library
The library will host a party for all ages from 11:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.. Craft activities are scheduled, free eclipse viewing glasses are available, and there will be a post-eclipse screening of Wall-E at 2 p.m.
1008 Pfluger St W, Pflugerville, TX 78660
A post shared by Pflugerville Library (@pflugervillelibrary) on Aug 16, 2017 at 9:42am PDT
Balcones District Park
This sounds like a pretty minimalist gathering, as there's no mention of refreshments, and glasses will not be provided. But it is a nice park in Central Austin.
12017 Amherst Dr, Austin, TX 78759
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Howson Branch, Austin Public Library
This Northwest Austin party will be a little unique in that attendees can learn how to make a pinhole projector for looking at the eclipse safely if you don't have proper eclipse glasses. The viewing party will be from noon to 2 p.m.
2500 Exposition Blvd, Austin, TX 78703
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Thinkery
The always awesome Thinkery is adding hands-on activities to its Solar Eclipse Viewing Party. The first 200 general admission visitors will receive a pair of viewing glasses, while supplies last. General Admission is $10 for ages 1 and up. Pre-sale tickets are not available and must be purchased onsite.
1830 Simond Ave, Austin, TX 78723
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Robert Lee Moore Hall
The UT Astronomy Department building is likely to be on of the best spots for catching the eclipse with expert guidance. There will be a Heliostat will be in RLM 13.132. As there is limited space in the room, eclipse glasses will be handed out as people leave the room they can continue to view the progress of the eclipse outside. Quantities of eclipse glasses are limited. Additional viewing with solar filters on small telescopes will be available on the footbridge over Dean Keeton between RLM and the Engineering Teaching Center to its east.
Robert Lee Moore Hall, 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712
The center will have an Eclipse Viewing and Digital Planetarium Eclipse Show, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with a video of how an eclipse works in the center's new digital planetarium and a viewing of the live eclipse. Limited number of eclipse glasses will be available.
2389 Stratford Dr, Austin, TX 78746
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Azul Rooftop Pool Bar + Lounge
Azul will have a viewing party from its outdoor rooftop perch high atop the Downtown Westin. Having lunch in the downstairs Stella San Jac restaurant on Monday gets you access to Azul during the eclipse. Looks like you need to BYO glasses/pinhole projectors, and you definitely need to make reservations.
310 E 5th St, Austin, TX 78701
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Austin.WTF ("WTF" is an abbreviation for "We Are the Future" in this case, not the other things it can mean), a "local and travel website," is informally hosting a viewing party at the Springs. Regular pool admission charges will be in effect, and you'll need to bring your own eclipse glasses. While we're pretty sure the Springs will be packed, it's still bound to be a pretty boss place to see the big event.
2131 William Barton Dr, Austin, TX 78746, United States
Barton Springs Pool
The viewing party is a at the Historic Golf Shelter, 100 Park Road 1A, Bastrop State Park, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Attendees will also have the chance to learn about what eclipses are, how they happen, and how animal behaviors change as the sky gets darker in the middle of the day. Cost is $5 per person 12 years old and up. Glasses will be provided.
100 Park Road 1A, Bastrop, TX 78602
Bastrop State Park employees take glasses for a test run
Buda Public Library
Buda's Eclipse Party will take place from noon to 2:00 p.m. on the library lawn, where there will also be activities, art and stories. The library will provide solar glasses for safe viewing.
303 Main St, Buda, TX 78610
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The long-lasting "many-body" quantum problem ……
It would indeed be remarkable if Nature fortified herself against further advances in knowledge behind the analytical difficulties of the many-body problem. Max Born, 1960
Quantum mechanics describe exotic properties of atomic or nanoscale systems, without classical counterparts. Thus, there is a great (theoretical and experimental) interest in understanding such properties in order to create new materials, electron devices, etc. However, from a computational point of view, the exact solution of quantum systems (i.e. solving the many-body Schrödinger equation) is only accessible for very few particles. This computational barrier is at the heart of almost all unsolved problems in Quantum mechanics and it explains why many atomic or nanoscale systems remain still unexplored.
Some of the most beautiful and elegant physical theories developed during last century tackle this "many-body" problem. In fact, most of these theories are developed for equilibrium states with weak correlations, which are certainly much easier to study than non-equilibrium states or strongly correlated systems. For example, Quantum Monte Carlo methods or the Density Functional Theory has been used worldwide to study (minimum energy) equilibrium systems. The former formalism was developed by Dr. J.Pople and the last was proposed by Dr. W. Kohn who, both, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry" and "for his development of the Density Functional Theory", respectively. Much m ore work is still needed to correctly treat the "many-body" problem in strongly correlated system or in open systems far from equilibrium conditions (such as electron devices).
…. my original contribution to the long-lasting "many-body" problem
From a theoretical point of view, my main research activity is devoted to face this "many-body" problem using many-particle quantum (Bohm) trajectories. In particular, I demonstrate these quantum trajectories provide a privileged framework to take into account Coulomb and exchange correlations in time-dependent open (far from equilibrium) systems.
X. Oriols, "Quantum-trajectory approach to time-dependent transport in mesoscopic systems with electron-electron interactions" Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.98, 066803 (2007).
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Q: How can I create apps developed using Jquery mob/ Sencha touch that runs in iPhones & simulators I am basically an Iphone developer and I would like to study Jquery mobile or Sencha Touch for building some apps.I have downloaded Jquery mob and sencha touch sdks but How can I create apps with that which runs in iPhones & simulators.How can I integrate Jquery mob or Sencha to my Xcode?Can you please tell me the basic deployment steps for installing either sencha touch or Jquery mobile in my Xcode?
A: Use PhoneGap
http://phonegap.com/
I have used JQuery Mobile myself, and I used it with PhoneGap, there are tutorials online on the website to show you how to set it up.
Edit: Link to the set up page
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.2.0/guide_getting-started_ios_index.md.html#Getting%20Started%20with%20iOS
Edit2:
http://jquerymobile.com/resources/
PhoneGap – tool to wrap jQuery Mobile code for native app deployment
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The study by Newport Partners, LLC, "Whole-House Analysis of Energy Efficiency Upgrades for Existing Homes,"evaluates dozens of energy efficiency measures (EEMs) for their energy, economic, and environmental performance at 10 locations across five climates zones. The study provides a credible performance analysis to help prioritize competing EEMs, with added focus on the performance of propane systems.
Building energy simulation models require dozens of inputs to be able to characterize the interrelationships of building systems, so the study used a "typical" reference home based on historic housing data that defines standard characteristics of existing homes. The study then evaluated dozens of household upgrades, or EEMs, and categorized them as elective (building envelope upgrades or renewable energy systems, for instance) or non-elective (systems that would require immediate repair or replacement, such as mechanical systems or lighting).
Each measure was evaluated in terms of its payback — how much time it takes to recoup the net first costs of a system, based on annual energy cost savings — and by the annual CO2 emissions savings. The study also identified the savings-to-investment ratios (SIR), a metric used by weatherization programs to evaluate the economic value of an energy efficiency measure. The higher the SIR, the more attractive the measure is from an economic standpoint.
The study's final report provides extensive detail on the findings by climate zone for each EEM evaluated. But the study identified 10 systems that are worthy of consideration throughout most of the country.
Air sealing consistently had the best payback across all five regions, at one to four years. This measure assumes that a 30 percent reduction in air infiltration could be realized through typical air-sealing efforts.
Attic insulation had the second-best payback across all regions, ranging from three to five years.
Aerosolized duct sealing paybacks ranged from four to seven years in all climates except the Northeast, where boilers were the most typical means of winter heating, reducing the impact of ductwork on space conditioning.
Replacement windows were found to offer paybacks of 10 years or less in all climates except the Northeast, where survey data has shown existing windows to have considerably better thermal properties than in other climates.
Propane fireplace inserts were economically attractive in the two colder climates, with a payback of six to seven years.
Lighting. Replacing existing incandescent lighting with high-efficacy fluorescents was a consistently strong performer with paybacks of one year or less in all climates and annual emissions savings of 0.2–1.2 tons of CO2.
Clothes dryer. Selecting a propane clothes dryer over an electric clothes dryer showed the most attractive payback in the three colder climates, with paybacks between four and six years.
Space heating. The economic and efficiency performance of space heating EEMs were highly dependent on climate, but a consistent performer across all climates was a high-efficiency propane furnace in lieu of a standard propane furnace. The high-efficiency furnace offers a one-year payback in mixed-humid, cold/very cold, and Northeast regions. The associated annual emissions savings are 1.9–3.4 metric tons of CO2 — higher emissions savings than any lighting or appliance EEM analyzed across all climate zones.
Dual-fuel systems, composed of a high-efficiency air source heat pump working in tandem with a high-efficiency propane furnace, also performed well. When replacing a furnace in all climates, they had simple paybacks of four to six years and showed high emissions savings, with over three metric tons of CO2 emissions savings in all climates when chosen over a standard forced-air furnace.
Water heating. In the Northeast, specifying a propane tankless unit over an electric tank has a payback of five years and annual emissions savings of 0.6 metric tons of CO2, while also offering longer life expectancy and delivering hot water at nearly triple the hourly rate. |
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Lunch: Korean or Japanese Noodles, Creamy Pasta, Biscuits with Jam, Honey, Vegemite or Peanut Butter.
Depending on what is freshly available – any of the following.
* Roast Wild Pig with bush nut crust.
* Wild Pig Spare Ribs with a Honey and Ginger Glaze.
* Wild Pig cooked in Bamboo (the traditional way) with a bush Mushroom sauce.
* River Eel steamed in Medicinal leaves with Ginger and onion.
* Trout MuMu'd (cooked in the ground) with a light coconut dipping sauce.
* Tree Kangaroo steaks marinated in a Japanese style sauce and char grilled.
* Cassawary marinated in Korean Bulgogi sauce and then steamed in bamboo tubes.
* Chicken or Duck curried PNG style.
Of course we also cater for the less adventurous.
* Bush Cabbage dry fried with wild herbs.
* Potato, Taro and Yam cooked in coconut milk.
* Choko vine in curry nut sauce.
* Fern tips with Ginger simmered in curried coconut milk.
All dinners are served with rice or pasta.
Deserts are a treat and we don't always have them. Sometimes it's too wet or we arrived in camp a bit late, sometimes the fruits we need are just not available.
Disclaimer: We pride ourselves on the quality and variety of the meals we provide. Of course there are many limitations, such as no refrigeration and only being able to carry what essential ingredients we can on our backs and the availability of fresh game, fish, fruit and vegetables. These factors all play a big part in what we prepare for your dinner each day.
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You Know, for Kids
Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff
New Books: Drawing from Memory
In my spotty posting of late amid vacations and hurricanes, I've been focusing on children's nonfiction, slowly chipping away at my initial statement that it's hard to find good books in the genre. Allen Say's Drawing from Memory, though, is a particular standout, and particularly unusual: an autobiographical memoir in the form of a picture book.
Say is a revered veteran children's book author, responsible for dozens of charming and always very beautiful picture books whose art bears the influence of his Japanese origins; several have become family favorites in recent years. In Drawing from Memory, he turns his immense talent upon his own life—and specifically on his road to his lifelong career as a cartoonist, artist, and author.
It's a tale with some familiar tropes—aspiring artist is told by his father that art is not a suitable profession, then pursues it anyway thanks to a mentor/substitute-father figure. But the specifics are powerful. (For instance: Say's parents and grandparents sent him to Tokyo to live by himself at age 13 so that he could attend a prestigious school there, with predictable and not-so-predictable effects on his relationship with them, and particularly with his mother.)
And the author's means of conveying his story is breathtaking: He expertly blends words, real family and historical photographs, and his own illustrations of memories of places, people, and situations (along with wistful and occasionally heartbreaking confessions of lapses in that memory, as when he cannot recall the name of a favorite schoolteacher). The resulting combination of media is more or less unique, and makes the already personal tale Say is telling almost impossibly so. You feel at times as if you're right there alongside the author as he journeys through his life.
This is not, clearly, your typical picture-book fare, especially as Say's childhood coincided with World War II, and as such, the intended audience is certainly a little older than one expects a book of this size and shape to be. But his treatment, while it doesn't shy away from the facts of his life and the history going on during it, is never overly grim, and our six-year-old (who's starting to show some interest in cartooning himself) was fascinated by the true story. Kids older than that, particularly if they have any interest in drawing and/or storytelling themselves, will be rapt, I think. As will most adults with such interests—or who have childhoods of their own to remember.
[UPDATE: Though Amazon seems to say you can purchase this book now, I've been told by the publisher that it's not officially out till October, so if you're having problems picking it up immediately, my apologies! (You should at least be able to preorder till then, though, I should think.) I'll update further with any new information.]
[Cover image courtesy of Scholastic]
Labels: Allen Say, children's books, kids' books, new books, nonfiction, picture books, storytelling, tween books
New Books: Charting the World
It figures that as soon as I write about how difficult it can be to find standout children's nonfiction, a slew of books come along to prove me wrong. The latest discovery is Richard Panchyk's Charting the World, and where Winter's Tail played its real-life subject matter into a children's-book format, this is more an adult-style book made interesting for and accessible to children. (As a result, we're also talking slightly older children here—the book itself says ages nine and up, but its sweet spot really feels like tweens and even teens to me.)
Simply put, this is a book about maps, and Panchyk covers all the bases, starting with the history of geography itself and then moving on to that of mapmaking, from, as the subtitle says, "cave painting to GPS." It's true history, too, not dumbed down in an attempt to appeal to its younger audience in the slightest, which I know kids who are truly interested in the subject will appreciate.
But what keeps Charting the World from being nothing more than a good middle-school textbook—and mind you, it would be an excellent base for teaching classes on geography, cartography, or even certain aspects of history, I think—is the 21 activities Panchyk has interspersed through the tour. Kids are given the chance to put the skills they're reading about into direct action—using a contour map to build a 3D island model, say, or surveying their own backyard, or making a nautical map of a playground puddle.
This hands-on approach to learning is, of course, a time-tested tool of kids' science books, but it's novel and refreshing to see it applied to a nonfiction children's book that's as much about history as science. And it works like a charm in making a book that could, despite its many vivid images and illustrations of maps past and present, have seemed dry at first glance more appealing and inviting to kids.
[Images courtesy of Independent Publishers Group]
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Labels: activity books, children's books, kids' books, maps, new books, nonfiction, Richard Panchyk, science books
New Music: The Golden State
In covering kids' music, I've found quality of all kinds and genres, but I have to admit that I gravitate toward the stuff that, even while catering to childhood interests in its subject matter, sounds like music my wife and I might have listened to before our boys were born. (I never turn down a good opportunity for denial, basically.)
The Hipwaders are a band with such a sound. As the title of their fifth CD, The Golden State, implies, this is a California group, and their music nods to a wide, eclectic range of home-state icons, from the Beach Boys to Camper Van Beethoven. Lead singer/guitarist Tito Uquillas adds his own thumbprint to the mix with his college-radio-style vocals, sort of a mix of Michael Stipe, Fred Strickland, and Cracker's David Lowery. The tunes are catchy, daring in their use of unusual harmonies and vocal lines, and altogether enjoyable to kids and parents alike.
That alone makes the Hipwaders a good choice to listen to, but this group also draws parents—who are usually, let's face it, happy when kid bands are good enough to be mere toe-tapping background music—into the lyrics more than usual. That's not because they don't cover kid subject matter; The Golden State features pet dogs, bullies, toy trains, and the like. It's more that the Hipwaders...approach everything a little differently. "Hey, Josie," for instance, is a song about a new baby on the way, but its anthemic chorus—simply "Hey, Josie, baby come on"—funnels the anticipation into power pop from some lost summer beach hit of the '80s or '90s.
They follow this offbeat way of tackling typical topics throughout the album—"Stand Up to the Bully" savvily uses a ska sound (think the English Beat by way of Vampire Weekend) to give its message proper grounding rather than the expected parental naivete; the laid-back, Cars-esque "Slow Children at Play" addresses why kids gather to play on pavement rather than in their backyards. Every song nails the perfect tone in its writing, speaking to kids the way they want to be spoken to: as an audience worthy of respect and direct discourse.
The Golden State is that rare kids' album that the whole family will listen to all the way through—and even be a little disappointed when its 16 tracks are done.
[Image courtesy of the Hipwaders]
Labels: children's music, kids' music, kids' pop, kids' rock, new music, the Hipwaders
New Books: Winter's Tail
I've become, in my time-pressed adult life, a big nonfiction reader, for many reasons. But I've always found children's nonfiction—at least beyond the work of giants of the genre like David Macaulay—to be difficult territory.
It's not that there's a lack of good nonfiction kids' books out there, especially in the science-and-nature genre, which offers tons of books about all sorts of animals and bugs and plants. It's more that there's not a lot that separates any one of these titles from the rest—most are driven by gorgeous, vivid photography and feature fairly basic writing. I always find myself at a loss to find reasons to recommend any particular one.
The dolphin saga Winter's Tail, from documentary-film and nature-book veterans Juliana, Isabella, and Craig Hatkoff, however, is an exception. While it also has its share of nature photography, this book is driven by its storytelling—so much so, in fact, that its tale is the basis for a major (fictionalized) family film that's coming out this fall. The saga of a dolphin that loses its tail in a crab trap and eventually learns to survive and thrive with a prosthetic one designed by a company that makes artificial human limbs, it grabbed the imagination of our six-year-old from the start and didn't let go.
Of course, we've also added the movie to our agenda later in the year (we'll see how the true story mixes with Hollywood screenwriters and Harry Connick), but for now, I'm just grateful to have discovered a kids' nonfiction book I can say truly is several notches above the rest.
[Photo: Whitney Webster]
Labels: children's books, Craig Hatkoff, dolphins, Harry Connick, Isabella Hatkoff, Juliana Hatkoff, kids' books, nature, new books, nonfiction, science books
New Books: Spin
The technology of paper crafting in publishing seems to have undergone a revolution in recent years, with the results perhaps most evident in the realm of pop-up books. No longer the simple, somewhat cheesy little books of our generation's childhood, these are now dazzling works of paper engineering, led by the amazing work of Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda.
But until now, the intricate folds and designs themselves were the wonder in these books. Ido Vaginsky's Spin takes the genre in another new direction, one of artistic double entendres. Pull the tab, and the cow head does a series of (surprisingly speedy) twirls before settling upside-down—at which point you realize that viewed this way, it's an owl. And so on with a series of cleverly designed illustrations that change form depending on how they're viewed.
The combination of paper mechanics—again, like old-fashioned tabs and pop-ups on steroids—and visual magic is dazzling and, in fact, somewhat thrilling. All of which makes Spin a whole lot of fun.
Labels: children's books, Ido Vaginsky, kids' books, Matthew Reinhart, new books, paper art, picture books, pop-up books, Robert Sabuda
New Books: The Great Bear
I'm starting to be grateful that my kids and I speak the same language Australians do, and can thus easily enjoy the uniquely imaginative creative works natives of that country are creating for children. The Upside Down Show, Martine Murray's Henrietta series, the illustrations of Sophie Blackall and Freya Blackwood—the list goes on and on.
Australian writer Libby Gleeson's Half a World Away (which was illustrated by Blackwood), a lovely, dreamy treatment of the childhood-friend-moves-away trope, is another product of Down Under that's become a family favorite. So we were eager to read her latest, The Great Bear, which features dark, evocative illustrations by Armin Greder, as you can see from the cover.
And that's appropriate, for this is a far darker book than Half a World Away. Set in an ambiguous time and place that feels like Europe before the Industrial Revolution, it's about a circus bear whose existence is not pleasant. The bear is dragged from town to town, then made to dance in front of jeering, often abusive crowds. Until one day, that is, when he decides he's had enough—and lets out a huge roar that frightens the audience away before simply floating up into the sky to join the stars, in a series of wordless pages reminiscent of the art-only sections of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. (Though in fact, The Great Bear's use of this technique came first—it first appeared in Australia back in 1999.)
The book's end notes explain that this story is based on a dream Gleeson had (dreams played a significant role in Half a World Away as well), and Greder's illustrations reflect that, going from slightly nightmarish to open reverie as the plot unfolds. The dark setting is a bit eyebrow-raising for a children's picture book, and I can imagine some of the younger set finding it all frightening, but our three-year-old was riveted (in a good way). And the surreal denouement is quite beautiful to watch unfold, for child and parent alike.
Like Gleeson's earlier book, The Great Bear uses words and images to express a combination of consciousness and subconsciousness, in a unique way. I think many kids—and many adults—will be irresistibly drawn to it, as we've been.
[Cover image courtesy of Candlewick Press]
Labels: Armin Greder, Australia, children's books, Freya Blackwood, kids' books, Libby Gleeson, Martine Murray, new books, picture books, Sophie Blackall
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Q: HTML select not working after AJAX call This is straight HTML/javascript. The page works fine when executed on its own, but through an AJAX call it does not work on IE11.
After clicking the 'show' button on the main page, it opens a list with options, read from an XML file; it accepts a double click to select an item and shows the selected number in an alert box.
(it also writes this value to a java properties file). On Chrome and FF it works as expected, but not in IE11.
On IE it refuses to select any item.
AJAX's return-page opens a div with absolute positioning, and dragging possibilities. After I drag the box with the list to another place, it suddenly does work in IE as well (but only after dragging more than just a few pixels).
I can only assume it's a type of bug in IE11, but is there a work around? Why would dragging the box make it work?
Here's the significant code:
in main.jsp:
<span id='showcurevent' onclick='showevent(<%=EVENTID%>, 0)'>Show </span>
<div id='Qevents' class='drag' ></div>
<script>
function showevent(nr, curevent) {
var eventdiv=document.getElementById('Qevents');
var url="AJAX1.jsp?xml=<%=XMLfile%>&index="+nr+"&curevent="+curevent;
sendAjaxRequest(url, callback1);
}
function callback1(pushtext) {
var eventdiv=document.getElementById('Qevents');
eventdiv.innerHTML=pushtext;
eventdiv.style.visibility='visible';
}
in AJAX1.jsp file:
<table><tr>
<td><select id='sel' size=10 ondblclick='SetSelectedEvent(this.value)'>
<option value='1'>1 text1</option>
<option value='2'>2 text2</option>
etc, several more ...
</select></td></tr>
</table>
in main.jsp file:
function SetSelectedEvent(nr) {
var url="AJAX2.jsp?props=<%=propsFile%>&event="+nr;
sendAjaxRequest(url, callback2);
}
function callback2(pushtext) {
var number = pushtext.substring(pushtext.indexOf("Value selected=")+15,pushtext.indexOf("</body"));
alert('value Selected: '+number);
}
in AJAX2.jsp:
<%
String eventnr=request.getParameter("event");
%> Event selected=<%=eventnr%>
</body>
AJAX1 and AJAX2 is in fact the same file, but different parts of the code, selected by the value of request.parameter() values.
The AJAX code itself is in a separate .js file:
function sendAjaxRequest(url, callback) {
var xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
if (xmlHttp==null) { // browser does not support AJAX
return;
}
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
if (xmlHttp.readyState==4 && xmlHttp.status == 200) {
callback( xmlHttp.responseText);
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}
A: Ok, I found the problem, it was the drag routine hijacking the functionality.
When I disabled drag, it worked.
I now changed the drag function to check if the cursor is over an input or select tag and disallow dragging at that point.
Thanks to all who looked into this.
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Personal Training – Are You Paying an Arm and a Leg?
Can you imagine if the food industry had zero accountability? It's certainly not perfect now, but can you imagine the mess if there was no regulation about what food companies put both in and on packaging. They could say one thing on the packaging, and then put something completely different inside the package. It's a very good thing we have at least some regulation on food and packaging but as far as personal training…we have zero.
Way back in 1992 when I got my first certification, it was simply that everyone knew a personal trainer. Now, everyone IS a personal trainer. Or at least that's what their business cards say. Believe it or not, personal training is one big crap shoot and just like going to the casino to try and "hit the jackpot", you're more than likely going to lose in the long run. The only difference is…hiring a personal trainer could very well cost you a lot more than money; it could end up costing you an arm and a leg.
Are personal trainers really that bad? Yes, they are. And the worst part is…those training fees you're paying now are small potatoes compared to what's coming down the road. So, what is it that makes most trainers so bad? I'll start with my top 5 most costly mistakes trainers make but be on the look-out, because more is sure to come.
1. Using Soreness to Gauge Workouts – This one kills me. It seems there's an unspoken game amongst trainers on who can make their clients have the most soreness. I'll keep this simple. Any soreness that last more than 72 hours is too much. In addition, any soreness which causes a person to modify the way they walk, have discomfort from standing up, and requires medication to relieve pain is a huge red flag. Walk away while you still can.
2. Working Through Pain – This is another big one. Any trainer who presses you to "work through the pain" needs to find another job and you need to call me. Pain should never be a part of any workout for any reason whatsoever. Pain is a guarantee something is wrong and if your trainer is having you work through it, they are the biggest pain of all.
3. Not Monitoring Heart Rates – The absolute biggest indicator of how hard you are working is your heart rate. Regardless if it's weight training, cardiovascular training, or anything in between; your trainer should be taking, recording, and monitoring your heart rates before, during, and after your sessions. The heart can be damaged if it stays above a certain rate for too long and the scary part is, you may have no clue it's too high. If your trainer isn't monitoring your heart rates, what else are they ignoring?
4. Pretending to Rehabilitate – Wow! This one is far more common than you think. Just because a trainer may have a certification in exercise therapy or corrective exercise doesn't mean a thing. I personally am a certified exercise therapist and it too doesn't mean a thing unless you have extensive experience and you always apply correct methods of therapy. This may be the most dangerous of all and if your trainer has attempted to diagnose an injury or pain, told you they can heal an injury by rehabbing you, or didn't advise you to see your doctor before continuing exercise…cut your losses and don't go back; ever!
5. Teaching Harmful Exercise Habits – This could very easily be number one. If your trainer is not having you warm up and stretch before every single session and also stretch afterward, they are leading you down the wrong road. Secondly, if your trainer doesn't teach you slow and controlled movements without jerking, popping, or cheating… your body will soon pay the price. And lastly, if your trainer doesn't seem to have your workouts planned out and can't explain rhyme and reason, get a refund.
For the record, I've spent 25 years watching trainers take years off of their client's lives by the way they train them. The "Go Hard or Go Home" mantra is alive and well, but in most cases; it's the trainer who needs to go home. If your trainer thinks extreme soreness is great, barks at you to work through pain, ignores heart rates, plays doctor, and doesn't teach you safe and functional exercise, those hourly sessions for which you're paying could most likely be a down payment for your new arms and legs. |
Lt Digby- Jones, Victoria Cross, Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:21 am Post subject: Lt Digby- Jones, Victoria Cross, Edinburgh
Lt Digby- Jones VC Memorial
Location: St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh
OS Ref: NT 241 735
It looks like there a few other memorials to Lt Digby Jones:
23rd Field Company R.E. Cairn on the spot where he fell, as a memorial to him and to those Sappers who fell near him on Waggon Hill.
In Alnmouth Parish Church, by his old Scottish schoolfellows
Royal Engineers Memorial, West Library, RMA, Sandhurst
Here are some details from the web
From http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ggsafric.htm
Name Robert James Thomas,
DIGBY-JONES
Rank Lieutenant
Force Corps of Royal Engineers
VC won Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, 2nd Boer War,
London Gaz 8 August 1902
Born Edinburgh, Scotland,
Died 6 January 1900,
Wagon Hill, Ladysmith
Grave Ladysmith Cemetery
of VC Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham
Remarks Buried with Herman Albrecht VC
And from http://www.remuseum.org.uk/vc/rem_vc_digbyjones.htm
Born: Edinburgh - 27 September 1876
Died: Waggon Hill, Ladysmith, South Africa - 6 January 1900
Burial details: Ladysmith Cemetery, South Africa
Corps service: He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire and passed 6th into the Royal Engineers Division at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Corps in August 1896. While on his Chatham course he was active in rugby football and golf. He joined 23 Field Company before they departed for South Africa in 1899.
VC awarded: Won VC at Wagon Hill, (Ladysmith) South Africa on 6 January 1900. (Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902)
VC unit: 23 Field Company.
VC presented: VC sent to his parents by post on order of King Edward VII on 30 August 1902.
VC citation: (to be read in conjunction with Trooper Albrecht, VC): Would have been recommended for the Victoria Cross had they survived, on account of their having, during the attack on Wagon Hill (Ladysmith) on 6 January 1900, displayed conspicuous bravery and gallant conduct in leading the force which reoccupied the top of the hill at a critical moment just as the three foremost attacking Boers reached it, the leader [Commandant CJ de Villiers*] being shot by Lieutenant Digby-Jones and the two others by Albrecht.
(London Gazette:8 August 1902)
* The citation is incorrect in this detail. De Villiers was actually shot by Trooper Albrecht, the Boer, De Jagers then shot Albrecht and Digby Jones shot de Jagers.
Notes on:
Trooper Herman Albrecht, VC of Imperial Light Horse (Natal)
He was an orphan raised at Burghersdorp-Atwal by a Mr Shorten. Before joining the Light Horse he was employed as a horse breaker.
Born: 1876 at Burghersdorp-Aliwal, North Cape, South Africa.
Died: 6 January 1900 at Ladysmith, Natal.
Burial details: A communal grave, with other dead of the Imperial light Horse, on Wagon Hill, Ladysmith, Natal.
Citation: On 6 January 1900 on Wagon Hill, (Ladysmith) South Africa, Lieutenant R.J.T Digby-Jones, Royal Engineers and Trooper Albrecht led the force which re-occupied the top of the hill at a critical moment, just as the three foremost attacking Boers reached it. The leader was shot by the lieutenant and the two others by Trooper Albrecht.
(London Gazette: 8 August 1902.)
VC location: Royal Engineers Museum
Background: Digby Jones was posthumously awarded his VC for his part in the defence of Wagon Hill during the siege of Ladysmith. At the start of the Anglo Boer War the Boers immediately cut off Mafeking, to prevent the same fate befalling Ladysmith the Natal Field Force under Lt Gen Sir George White VC set off to secure the town, but soon found itself driven into it and under siege. A defensive line was thrown up around the town. Wagon Hill was one of the points on that line. The engineers were largely responsible for strengthening the defences and preparing gun positions. On 5 January 1900 Digby Jones had been detailed to supervise the installation of two 12-pounder guns and a 4.7 inch howitzer (known as Lady Anne) on Wagon Hill. He had a working party of 50 men, members of the Royal Navy, 23 Field Company, RE and native Africans, and an escort of 70 Gordon Highlands. As they moved the guns under the cover of darkness they came under rifle fire it was the prelude to a Boer attack on Wagon Hill and the circumstances under which Digby Jones won his VC.
And from here: http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/vc_victoria_cross/robert_james_digby_jones.htm
Lieutenant James Thomas Digby Jones was killed in action during the great assault on Ladysmith, on January 6, 1900, after successfully defending Waggon Hill West with a few men for twelve hours under desperate conditions, displaying conspicuous bravery and Gallant conduct throughout.
Sir George White, in his despatch (London Gazette, February 8, 1901), stated he " would have had great pleasure in recommending Lieutenant Digby Jones and Trooper Albrecht for the distinction of the Victoria Cross had they survived."
In the London Gazette of August 8, 1902, it was announced that the King was graciously pleased to direct that the Victoria Cross earned by Lieutenant Digby Jones, Trooper Albrecht, and four others should be sent to their representatives.
Lieutenant Digby Jones accompanied the 23rd Field Company R.E. (under the command of Major S. R. Rice, R.E.) to Natal in June, 1899, proceeding straight to Ladysmith, where he was employed in the construction of a Hospital in the camp (afterwards abandoned when the siege commenced) and afterwards on the defences of the town.
He was mentioned in Sir George White's despatch (December 11, 1899) for having successfully destroyed the 4.7 Boer gun on Surprise Hill, during the sortie from Ladysmith on December 10, 1899, under the command of Colonel Metcalfe, with some 500 men of the Rifle Brigade. Newspaper correspondents afterwards mentioned that the first fuse inserted was defective, and that " Lieutenant Digby Jones went back at the risk of death or mutilation and inserted another," which successfully destroyed the gun, which had been causing much annoyance to the garrison.
He was again mentioned in despatches (Sir George White, February 8, 1901) in connexion with the " Assault on Ladysmith, January 6, 1900."
On the evening of the 5th January, Lieutenant Digby Jones had been sent to Waggon Hill West in command of a working-party, consisting of thirty Sappers, some bluejackets, Gordon Highlanders and Imperial Light Horse, to make an emplacement for a 4.7 gun. At about 2.45 a.m. on the 6th, they were surprised by the Boers, and, after ordering the men to stand to arms, Digby Jones, at once, himself extinguished the lanterns which were giving a line for the enemy's fire. There they made a most gallant stand till about 5.30 a.m., when reinforcements arrived.
Later on, when all the officers of the Gordons and Imperial Light Horse had either been killed or wounded, he took command, and, rallying the hard pressed men again and again, kept the crest of the hill.
Space does not allow of mention of all that is recorded, but a brief summary of an incident mentioned by Major Rice (C.R.E., Ladysmith) may be given.
The sudden appearance of a party of Boers on that part of the hill had caused its worn-out defenders to retire in disorder, when Digby Jones got his first intimation of the presence of the enemy, under De Villiers, on the crest, in the shape of a shot over the parapet at a distance of only a few feet, which killed 2nd Corporal Hunts, R.E. In a moment Digby Jones picked up a rifle, and, dashing round the end of the emplacement, shot De Villiers, Lance-Corporal Hockaday at the same time shooting De Jaegers. Digby Jones was then heard to say, " What's up ? The Infantry have gone." A man replied, " There is an order to retire, sir." Digby Jones said, " I have no order to retire," and at once ordered bayonets to be fixed, and, calling his men to follow him, led them (with 2nd Lieutenant Denniss, R.E.) to the charge, reoccupying the firing line in front of the emplacement. Later on, while leading his men forward, he was struck in the throat by a bullet and was instantly killed.
A study of the position shows of what vital importance the tenure of Waggon Hill West was to the safety of Ladysmith ; so much so that the South African Review (February 24, 1900), in a paragraph on Lieutenant Digby Jones, says, " So far as can be humanly judged it was this officer who saved Ladysmith and the British arms from the mortification of a defeat and its incalculable consequences." And the Army and Navy Gazette (July 5, 1902), from which portions of the preceding account are borrowed, says, " General Jan Hamilton, who had witnessed his intrepid and resourceful conduct through the day, had decided to recommend him for the Victoria Cross, which was fully approved by Sir George White, and, subsequently, brought forward in his despatch." This fine young soldier was only twenty-three years of age.
His brother officer, 2nd Lieutenant G. B. Denniss, hearing Digby Jones was down, went out on the ridge, which was swept by the enemy's fire, to search for him, and was, unfortunately, shot while performing this deed of mercy.
Quoting from a correspondent, the Army and Navy Gazette (January 27, 1900), says, " Lieutenant Digby Jones' name will stand out in the history of the siege of Ladysmith as one who set a brilliant example to all about him, and brought no little credit on the corps of Royal Engineers. He did his duty nobly to the end ! "
Lieutenant Digby Jones was the second son of Charles Digby Jones, of Chester Street, Edinburgh. He was Born September 27, 1876, educated first at Alnmouth, Northumberland, and afterwards at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire (going there in May, 1890, and leaving in December, 1893), where he won the Sedgwick Mathematical prize in 1893, and was in the 1st XV. for football, and the 2nd XI. at cricket.
He passed into Woolwich in 1894, thirty-fourth in order of merit, when bifurcating for Royal Engineers was fifth, and passed out sixth in the Royal Engineer Division, obtaining his commission on August 5, 1896. After completing his course of instruction at the S.M.E., Chatham, he was posted to the 23rd Field Company R.E.
He was a good all-round athlete, being especially prominent in his golf and skating. At the former he won the Boys' Scratch Medal at North Berwick two years in succession, and while at Chatham was secretary of the R.E. Golf Club, forming one of the team in the annual inter-regimental matches with the Royal Artillery in the years '98, and '99, doing the best round for the Sappers in the latter year. He was also secretary of the R.E. Rugby Football Club while at Chatham, and was one of its foremost players.
He is buried in Ladysmith Cemetery, and a cairn was erected by the 23rd Field Company R.E. on the spot where he fell, as a memorial to him and to those Sappers who fell near him on Waggon Hill. In addition to a brass tablet put up. in St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, by his parents and brothers, his old Scottish schoolfellows erected one in the Parish Church at Alnmouth.
In the History of the Royal Military Academy (written by Captain Guggisberg, R.E.) it states :—" In the Spring term, 1901, the octagon of the west library was turned into a kind of Sapper Valhalla. The walls were covered with handsome oak panels, on which were inscribed, in gold letters, the names of dead and gone engineers who had distinguished themselves in the service of their country, ranging from Waldivus, Ingeniator (1086) to a brave young subaltern, Digby Jones, V.C. (Ladysmith, 1900)." There are only 120 names on these panels.
By a strange coincidence his younger brother, Lieutenant Owen G. Digby Jones, was commissioned to the Royal Engineers on the very day his brother was killed (January 6, 1900).
This photo may be a little clearer but still not really possible to read at this resolution. If anyone would like the high-res original sent by email, just send me a PM.
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As part of the mobile, artistic architecture of Transient Spaces, Schäfflers Grid will be shown as a permanent installation over the next three years.
Returning to social-cultural and location-specific customs, the painting poses questions about the construct-like quality of that which is public, as well as our reinterpretations and reexaminations of this subject. It consists of two parts. The upper part depicts a scene that is loosely based on the so-called Schäffler Dances. The Schäffler Dances were introduced around 1500 in order to reanimate public life in the streets of Munich after the plague. The lower tableau shows superimposed patterns, which are made of padding material and – in contrast to public dance – have their origins in the private sphere. The use of repetition as a stylistic device allows a performance of everyday patterns to emerge.
Through their tight formation dancing, they seem to form a public space. However, they also evoke criteria for exclusion. Within the two depicted motives, the installation painting examines the relationships that exist between the the social unit and the public.
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Business Class: CBS News' Bob Orr is free of the press—or is he?
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CBS News' Bob Orr is free of the press–or his he?
By Randall Kenneth Jones
Originally published in the Naples Daily News
Visit the Society of Professional Journalists website at spj.org and you will find a lengthy Code of Ethics – a detailed description of conduct devised to guide an industry of passionate yet flawed researchers, writers, photographers, videographers and broadcasters in policing their professional behavior.
Of specific note: "Seek Truth and Report It: Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information."
We all seem to have an opinion about journalism and journalists, on fact versus fiction. Still, it's tough to find fault with any man or woman whose life's work has been an ethical focus on our collective education—emphasis on "ethical."
Though a young Bob Orr dreamed of being the play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates, he began his prolific television news career in 1973 at WTRF-TV in his hometown, Wheeling, West Virginia, before working in Columbus, Ohio, and Philadelphia.
Orr joined CBS News in July 1993, where he remained until his retirement in February 2015 and his relocation from Fairfax County, Virginia, to Naples, Florida. His most challenging adjustment today is "turning the spigot off. That's hard to do when I'm used to drinking from a fire hose."
During his tenure at CBS, Orr primarily focused on two beats. From 1994 to 2006, he was the Transportation Correspondent, covering safety and security issues.
After 9/11, though he retained the Transportation Correspondent title, Orr began focusing on security and counterterrorism. When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established, he formally added DHS to his coverage responsibilities.
In November 2006, Orr took over the Justice beat as the CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent. In this capacity, he was the lead correspondent covering domestic and international terrorism as well as U.S. law enforcement issues.
Specifically, Orr was a primary contributor to special event broadcasts of major stories including the 2011 death of Osama bin Laden and the 2013 bombings of the Boston Marathon, the latter winning him one of his four national Emmy Awards.
"For over two decades, I had a front-row seat to just about every international event," observes Orr. However, to Bob Orr, such extraordinary access begat great responsibility.
Orr's journalistic focus essentially branded him as a "Master of Disaster." After all, how many of us have jobs that force us to face the darkest sides of the human condition on a near-daily basis?
"All of the awful events I witnessed and/or reported on over the years caused me considerable stress and angst. Reporters are human beings and subject to the same kind of emotional reactions as anyone else. One simply can't spend 24 hours a day covering disasters, accidents and terror attacks without paying a personal price."
Nevertheless, Orr adds: "My family paid a higher price than I did. The counter-terrorism beat, in particular, is a 24/7 obligation. Meaning: the correspondent is never really off."
All of this raises the question: what kind of person does it take to be in the business of "handling the truth"?
To begin, a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt: "I am the worst person to be with at a cocktail party—I can depress people in 10 minutes," jokes Orr.
Yet, moments later he admits: "I had to put up a firewall to not get too emotionally attached." A firewall he also confesses could easily go up in flames.
The shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, was the single worst story I ever had to handle. I still cannot fathom the senseless cold-blooded killings of 20 defenseless first-grade children," he recalls. The heart-breaking story is also one Orr found "impossible to cover in a dispassionate way."
That said, is it unusual to want to protect one's emotions? Don't many (read: most) consumers of the news do the same thing? Don't we frequently put up firewalls around our over-sensitized, headline-battered hearts?
Perhaps it is human nature to become somewhat detached from the "bad news" that seems to inundate our daily lives, but it's downright unconscionable to ignore the contributions and the sacrifices made by journalists like Bob Orr—those who essentially live each workday surrounded by our collective grief.
In short, if you think it's hard watching the news, try reporting it. At a minimum, please take a moment in remembrance of the dozens of journalists who, in their heroic effort "to seek truth and report it," lose their lives each year.
Orr places journalistic endeavors into two distinct categories: "investigative" and "human interest." Regardless of where a journalist fits on the precarious sliding scale between the two, each shares the obligation—the responsibility—to maintain the aforementioned code of ethics.
He also seems to possess a special combination of confidence in his skill set and an appreciation for the sheer importance of the work that has all but eliminated any sign of ego.
True, I have personally been blessed with an exceptional media outlet to share my journalistic voice. However, that voice is one that unapologetically comes from a rose-colored-glasses view of the world.
My voice has placed an emphasis on "class" in hopes to—in some small way—balance out the overwhelming amount of negativity found in almost every other form of media. My journalistic firewall attempts to shield readers from anything other than optimism and kindness.
I will always believe there is something positive to be learned from everyone we meet—even if that lesson must ultimately be classified as what to NOT do.
During interviews, I have even joked: "If I happen to unearth a smoking gun, I'll help you hide it." All for the sake of being Mr. Nice Guy. Bob Orr was not only tasked with unearthing the smoking guns, but—whether he will admit it or not—he also played a critical role in disarming the gunmen.
"The most important thing for me was not 'what' I covered, but 'how' I covered it," Orr humbly states. "I gave the job my best shot and I am satisfied with that. The whole point of journalism is to inform, so if I helped somebody get a little smarter about some issue, that's the only lasting dividend."
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that "Congress shall make no law….abridging (limiting) the freedom of speech, or of the press…."
So yes, we seem to be able to say—and post on social media—pretty much anything that makes us feel good about ourselves, even at the expense of others. Orr agrees: "We live in the most connected time man has ever known; however, I would argue that we are also the most misinformed."
Understandably, Orr adamantly believes: "We must have a free press, because it's the only institutional check on authority we have." He also understands that "news breaks first on social media—social media drives the bus. Everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a cameraman."
If that's true, shouldn't journalistic ethics be a national discussion—one taught to and applied to the population at large? What if those who didn't practice responsible journalism were, simply put, held responsible?
Yes, wishful thinking, but still worth the wish.
Is Bob Orr a supporter of the free press? Yes. However, is retired Bob Orr free of the press? No. None of us is, nor should we be.
"I will read and watch a variety of outlets in an attempt to get a proper contextual understanding of the important issues," he says. "I won't be too interested in partisan spin or programs that openly advocate a single editorial opinion, but the rest of it, bring it on."
Markete r, publicist, business humorist, professional-courtesy advocate, branded-content writer, creative-development consultant, and entertaining motivational speaker Randall Kenneth Jones is the creator of RediscoverCourtesy.org and the president of MindZoo, a marketing communications firm in Naples, Florida.
Photos: TOP — Bob Orr (photo courtesy of CBC News); Photo 2 — Bob Orr (photo by Craig Blankenhorn/CBS); Photo 3 — Bob Orr at the The 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 9/30/2014 (photo by Marc Bryan-Brown); Photo 4 — Bob and Susie Orr (photo courtesy of CBS News); Photo 5 — Randall Kenneth Jones and Bob Orr (photo by Kevin Randall Jones); BOTTOM — Randall Kenneth Jones.
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I wasn't ready to give up the mason jar chalkboard that hangs in our kitchen .so I changed up the flowers..
Gone are the daffodils replaced by daisies ! I erased the board down to where the Ball is on the jar ..and then started adding daisies.
I love the aqua blue , yellow and white .. seems so springy !
I added a couple bees and the month May .. also a blue and white stripe ribbon around the jar ..
I baked these cookies on Saturday and they are so good ( and easy) ! You should try them !
Beat sugar and butter until fluffy .. add extracts, and egg.. stir in flour and baking soda..Line a baking sheet with parchment paper..
I finished May A Year In Chalk ..Just need to mount it so its ready to go May 1st ..
My progress on Trick or Treat Prairie Schooler ..and I got my youngest sons stocking out yesterday .I will stitch it on Sundays for our #santasundayxs hashtag on Instagram.. Hoping to finish it before Christmas :) Shown below is 2 days progress. going to be alot of stitches in there !! As you can see I cannot stitch without my helper.. I sit down in my chair and she has to be right next to me ..She is saying there is no way this is getting done before Christmas ! lol! Have a great week !
I have been working on this Threadworks Primitives design ( Beggars 4th) and finished it today ..
I had done this Halloween Threadworks Primitives design 2 years ago and used this burlap clipboard frame to finish it off.. ( from Hobby Lobby) so I just mounted the design on sticky needlework board and clipped it on . I left extra room at the top for the clip.
I am excited to have a start on things for the red, white and blue time of year! It is stitched on 28 count tea/coffee dyed Monaco with DMC threads..
Hope you all had wonderful fun weekends!
I added some blue transferware cups and saucers ( Goodwill 50 cents each :) and alot of daisies!
More painted mason jars ( These little ones are from the Goodwill and are a really cute small size!
A little moss bird sits in a transferware creamer..
It sits on our kitchen counter ..so you can see all around it ..
We have some daffodils blooming ! I am happy to report that all hydrangeas in my yard all have signs of growth ! :) I was worried about a few of them !
I was playing with my daughters Ollo clip that you use on your cell phone love the fish eye lens on the tulip wreath ..
My Love For Tiered Trays !
Can I tell you how much I love tiered trays for decorating !!
I saw a post on Instagram about this tiered tray from Sam's Club ..It is oval shaped instead of last years Sam's club round tray.. I hadn't seen it at our Sam's ..so I went online and got it.. Their shipping is so reasonable at $2.95!
You can see a whole year of the decorating of the round tray here..A year of the galvanized tiered tray ..
I filled it with that red Goodwill transferware, chalk painted mason jars , vintage chickens , aqua dishes and lots of daisies for spring !
It sits in the family room on the chalk painted buffet.. This was the first piece we used chalk paint on and loved it!
The little cow creamer is vintage and from the thrift store in our little town..
That little rooster on the bottom tier is a pie bird that my husband brought home from one of his travels.. isn't it cute ? The Lizzie Kate 4 seasons spring on the aqua clipboard ( Michael's)and a With Thy Needle and Thread design in a thrifted frame.
I finished stitching April's A Year In Chalk from Hands On Design..
I finished it the same way as the last 3 months and used sheet metal on the back of the stitching to attach to the magnet on the gingham check fabric.. The frame is from Michael's..
This is displayed in the foyer on a green chest.. I added some faux daisies and a painted mason jar to the galvanized bucket of tulips and the vintage scale..
and March A Year In Chalk..
Hope you all had a great Easter weekend with family and friends!
Today I erased my favorite chalkboard so far ..the bunny .. I was sad to see it go ..but Easter is over!
and replaced her with a mason jar full of daffodils..
I got this frame at a garage sale ( very cheap) and had a board cut for it at Home Depot that i painted with chalkboard paint..It hangs on the wall into the kitchen from the family room and gets changed up for the seasons..
I saw these daffodils this morning in the foyer and that's what gave me the idea for this months chalkboard ..
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Pork with perfect crackling – for Feast Wisely's 2nd birthday!
Last week I celebrated Feast Wisely's second birthday. Over the last two years I've enjoyed sharing over 150 posts covering recipes and restaurants. And of course I've enjoyed all of the eating this has entailed. I've also learnt a lot along the way. Reflecting back the most valuable piece of advice I received early on was to be consistent – both in terms of frequency of posting and the theme of posts. For me consistency comes from planning ahead and then making the time to stick to the plan. Despite ambitious goals of posting twice weekly I've now settled into a more manageable pattern of one post per week. This leaves me with plenty of free time to read other foodie blogs and to focus on the quality of my writing.
Over the last two years one Feast Wisely post stands out a mile in terms of visitors – my recipe for slow cooked pork shoulder with perfect crunchy crackling. Week in week out it's the most popular page on Feast Wisely and every Sunday the number of views spikes – in line with the traditional Sunday Roast.
At the moment I have my mum here in Australia, visiting from the UK, so my writing (and cooking) time is more constrained than usual. So today I decided to share photos of my latest pork shoulder roast – from Christmas Day 2015. It was my most successful yet – and of course the leftovers lasted for days.
I buy organic pork shoulder from my local butcher and always choose one with the bone in. The pork you see here weighed around 2.5kg and would provide a generous serving for 6-8 people. It's best to salt the pork skin 24 hours before cooking and then store it in the fridge.
I cooked the pork for 30 mins on 250C (to get the skin crackling) and then turned down the heat to 130C for another 6 hours or so. It remained uncovered the whole time. When preparing such a big piece of meat it's always best to remove it from the fridge 1-2 hours before cooking.
As you can see the skin had crackled perfectly and the meat underneath could be easily shredded with a fork. Pork heaven.
If you have any other tips I'd love to hear them…..
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Happy (late) second bday to your blog! Please keep the recipes coming!!
Thanks Laura – and yes I'm hoping for many more delicious years ahead…..
Thanks Linda – appreciate it!
Happy blogiversary! The pork looks amazing!!!
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The first year of the new decade may have been a hit and miss affair as far as the big blockbusters were concerned (for every good one there was also an 'Alice in Wonderland' or 'Twilight: How Many More of These do we have to Endure', not to mention the worst crime ever committed in the history of cinema, as well as all of humanity, otherwise known as 'The Last Airbender'). But what I found within the best films of the year was a commonality in that they were all films of intimate events. Rather than a good helping of grandiose ambition we were treated to intimate character studies. They were small stories about genuine people and with one notable exception I found them all to be movies driven primarily by their characters, kept constantly in momentum as it also sought to deconstruct them.
As ever though I have some honourable mentions. Though I may be murdered in my sleep as a result, 'Toy Story 3' did not make my top ten (let down purely for having a narrative that felt a little too repetitive of its predecessors) but I will gladly give it a shout out for its mature themes and emotionally powerful ending that put a brilliant end to Pixar's trilogy, goodbye childhood. But Dreamworks actually had good competition on the animated front with 'How to Train Your Dragon' which as well as having possibly the best use of 3D I've ever seen (suck it, 'Avatar') also contained a resonant narrative with compelling characters.
We also saw plenty of excellent biopics emerge as serious awards contenders. It pains me to say that I could not find room for David O Russell's 'The Fighter' despite the fact that it features Christian Bale giving one of the best supporting performances I've ever seen. Then there was 'The King's Speech' which allowed Colin Firth to once again demonstrate his superb talent for portraying characters conflicted by their own status and personality which would earn him the Academy Award for Best Actor (though he should have won in 2009 for 'A Single Man').
I would be remised if I didn't mention 'Tucker and Dale vs Evil', a hilarious comedy that paid homage to classic slasher films while also parodying them to brilliant effect. I also have to give a mention to 'Another Year' by Mike Leigh and 'Somewhere' by Sofia Coppola. I also have to recommend some of the great ensemble casts of the year like 'The Kids Are Alright', a drama that will make you laugh, and 'Blue Valentine', a drama that will make you feel the soul crushing, emptiness of life and force you to confront the notion that every ounce of hope you have is futile. Enjoy.
There were also some brilliant surprises. While it's no shock that Joel and Ethan Coen would deliver another superbly made, darkly humours and oddly poignant movie, the fact that it was in the form of the western remake 'True Grit'. But it was a glorious triumph that stands as another terrific entry into the Coen's filmography as well as the western genre in general. The cast that included Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Brolin were fantastic as well as the one and only Jeff Bridges who in my opinion actually gave a better performance here than the one that won him an Oscar in 2009(what the hell, Academy?) What was also surprising was the fact that someone found a way to make a comedy about aspiring ISIS soldiers but 'Four Lions' did just that in a comedy that was well as being hilarious also showed more social insight than most serious dramas this year.
Finally, I have two documentaries that are both so bizarre and unique that they could only come from reality. The first is 'Exit Through the Gift Shop', focussing on one man's obsession with Street Art and directed by Banksy himself. Then there is 'Catfish', a movie one can't really describe without spoiling it so just trust me when I say that you should watch it if you have not already. But now for the top ten.
10: The Ghost Writer
Roman Polanski's taught political thriller is not only a masterfully crafted piece of filmmaking but also so bitingly relevant that it might as well be labelled a biopic. It displays an inherent knowledge of how to effectively raise tension through dialogue due in part to its incredibly sharp screenplay but also the stylish direction of Polanski who does such an effective job of creating an immersive atmosphere that the rain swept landscape in which the movie takes place is likely to be enough to send chills up your spine. Though on the surface the performances of Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan would appear to be subdued, they actually end up complementing the films ominous tone and ensure that the audience are constantly guessing over how much truth is being withheld at any one moment, or if anything is even true at all. It's a low key thriller that harkens back to the classics of the genre whilst boldly moving forward.
9: Incendies
In a film that is both harrowing for its subject matter but also awe inspiring in how effectively it conveys those qualities, Denis Villeneuve's film is masterfully constructed. It is has the feel of something made by an artist with meticulous control over his craft but also a refined understanding of the human elements that make the story so compelling. Villeneuve knows when to demonstrate his own directing prowess but he also knows when to take a more restrained approach and simply focus on the amazing performances from his actors. Touches like that which allow us to sink into the characters skin and really consider their position are what make 'Incendies' so empathetic, to a point where when the movie does show us the more harrowing aspects of its story it feels all the more impactful. It's a hard hitting movie that highlights the senselessness of hatred as well as its enduring consequences.
8: Winter's Bone
If you want to know how a film can be crushingly bleak but also poigniantly hopeful simultaneiously, then watch 'Winter's Bone'. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and it is not hard to see why. Director Deborah Granik observes her character with an almost documentarian kind of impartialness, that views them not on a moral level but simply a realistic one. She forces you to see the events play out in a realistic manner but also makes it engaging for the movie's entire runtime. However the talking point of the film, without a doubt, is Jenifer Lawrence's truly staggering breakout performance. It's a performance that balances vulnerability with courage so perfectly that the main character never fails to be empathetic, while also playing into the larger developing arc that underpins the movie and making us feel every emotional beat of it.
7: Senna
A documentary that is so intimate and insightful that you might mistake it for a written narrative. The movie follows the life of Formula 1 racing driver Ayrton Senna, regarded by many to be the finest in the history of the sport. It makes the bold choice to not rely on any through commentary and lays its interviews on top of the footage as sound only so there is nothing other than archive footage to tell the story on a visual level. Not only does director Asif Kapadia do a terrific job of capturing Senna's life through said footage, but the way he structures the documentary gives the audience a real insight into his inner workings. We can sense Senna's unrestrained passion for the sport, his drive to be the best that he can be and his development over time as he goes from being the rookie of the sport to one of its most dominant participants. 'Senna' humanises a larger than life figure but also honours him as a legend.
6: Inception
I know any Christopher Nolan fans will be fuming at how I've placed this relatively low on my list. But remember how I said one film in this top ten has a plot that feels bigger than its characters, yeah this was it. But there's nothing wrong with that when your narrative and structure is as brilliantly executed as 'Inception'. The mere fact that people are still discussing the film's plot, its layers and that very last shot stands as a testament to Nolan's mastery in terms of crafting an involving story. The film features some of the best directing I've seen this year as Nolan pulls out all his skill to bring his twisted dreamscape to life. Alongside that is a terrific ensemble cast made up of JG Levitt, Ken Wantanabe, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine, lead by the always magnificent Leonardo DiCaprio whose performance adds a much appreciated layer of empathy to the grandiose ideas the film raises. Nolan has high ambitions and within 'Inception' he makes them fully realised.
5: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
I can understand claims that 'Scott Pilgrim vs the World' is more style than substance, but my immediate response to those claims would be "Who cares when it's Edgar Wright doing the styling?" I would also argue however, that even amid Wright's hyper-stylised, energetic action comedy lies a very humane story that balances its character work with its outlandish premise perfectly. The main characters never feel like caricatures as the script gives them empathetic elements for the audience to latch onto. Michael Cera is wonderfully sympathetic in the title role, and his other half played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead slowly gains more depth as the movie goes on to a point where you won't even notice it happening. Even the characters that are just walking jokes are played with such comedic perfection by the likes of Chris Evans, Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman that it becomes infectiously hilarious.
4: I Am Love
I won't hesitate for a second to call Tilda Swinton's performance in this film the best of 2010. Putting aside the fact that she learned two new languages specifically for this movie, her role is conflicted, intricate and endlessly powerful in how emotionally raw it is. Swinton's performance seems to mirror the tone of the movie as a whole, being broadly powerful when it needs to be but also intimately staged throughout. Even the visual language of the film is on the same level, showing its characters in a wide, sweeping environment to show us the wider world which they fit into but also focussing intently on the details and inflexions of their personas. The movie's production design has a timeless quality to it that only helps make the broad themes and raw emotions even more universally appealing. It's difficult to even describe it without the visual mastery of the movie to back it up, so all I can say is watch it and experience it for yourself.
3: 127 Hours
Danny Boyle never makes the same movie twice. Every film with his name attached feels fresh, inventive and original and a quick glance at his filmography will confirm this as it includes '28 Weeks Later', 'Trainspotting' and 'Sunshine'. Further adding to the variety is this true story of survival that for all the attention given to its final few moments (if you're that worried about the end just close your eyes and you'll be fine) is rich and powerful for its entire runtime. Backed by an amazing lead performance by James Franco, Boyle takes us through an inner journey of appreciating life and looking back upon one's own accomplishments in the face of death. We feel every excruciating minute Aaron Ralston is trapped in that canyon due to how well the film establishes him as a person with so much ambition and so much left to do in the world. '127 Hours' life affirming, inspirational and brilliantly crafted.
2: Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky seems like an expressive person, and I admit I don't have much to base that on other than the nature of his movies but I feel like that is a good foundation to make such an assumption. 'Black Swan' is a tale of obsession so beautifully and hauntingly rendered on the big screen that one can describe as either a psychological thriller or a full on horror movie. As the mian character's drive for artistic perfection leads her to lose her grip on reality Aronofsky utilises his unique skills as a filmmaker to lead us through this dark and surreal nightmare. 'Black Swan' manages to strike the perfect balance between expressionism and narrative, in that the surreal elements of the movie never distract from our investment in the story itself, meaning that the movie is always tense and involving. This is almost certainly due to Natalie Portman's excellent lead performance (along with Swinton and Lawrence 2010 was clearly a great year for strong female performances) that is both empathetic and repulsive in how her obsession gradually consumes her. Add in the fact that the film is gorgeously shot, composed and designed then you have a modern expressionist masterwork.
1: The Social Network
You will struggle to find a film this year, this decade, which is more tightly constructed, meticulously crafted and utterly involving than 'The Social Network'. By combining the talents of director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the movie becomes more than just a biopic about the founding of Facebook. It becomes a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, a biting commentary on an entire generation and a story of betrayal and empathy that is so twisted and intense that you will be on the edge of your seat for its entire runtime. I hesitate to call a film perfect, but there is not a single element of 'The Social Network' I can point to that feels underdeveloped or out of synch with the rest of the movie. The structure, pacing and editing are all so brilliant that I feel actively jealous. The score by Trent Reznor is define on its own but when used in the film becomes transcendent. Every performance in the film is phenomenal, Jesse Eisenberg's sociopathic protagonist, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Justin Timberlake, they are all brilliant. Sorkin's masterfully sharp dialogue is only equalled by David Fincher's direction, elevating one another to new heights of brilliance. Who knew that the internet age could be this thrilling?
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At this month's Ohana (flower) class at Wagashi Issho, find out how to make habutae mochi – a marshmallow-soft confection that melts away in your mouth like summer vanishing.
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What Makes a Sales Plan an Effective Tool for Growth?
When you start building your company and selling your product, it's all new and exciting – explaining what you see as the customer solution, negotiating futures and features, even asking for the order. If you are successful, you will soon look to expand your capacity to sell. Looking to hire the first dedicated sales person is a scary proposition. There are many questions that come up: some are important and immediately addressable like who are your customers, where are they located and how will you pay your sales team. Some will work themselves out over time like where should the resources be located; Near the customers or will they travel?
Figuring out and negotiating the compensation component is something that needs to addressed upfront. Understand that your sales compensation plan will change as your company changes. Your first attempt will not be perfect, however, if you think about it critically and build in some basic elements it can be an effective tool to grow your business.
You should have an idea of what you expect out of the resource – number of sales a month, total value of sales, or access to a new industry segment. Whatever you want them to do has to have a price – a value to the company. This value becomes part of the equation.
Also, establish what you are willing to pay for your expectations. An example of this would be a simple statement like "if my salesperson closes $1M of new business in the first year, it is worth $200K to the company". This high level sizing will help you work through the value delivered by the salesperson relative to the cost to the company for their efforts.
There is ton of information out there on the potential elements of a sales compensation plan (like this post from Jerry Hegarty titled "100 of the top 'Must Know' Sales Compensation terms" ). You need to work to build a plan that serves your purposes.
The end game is that the company wants new customers and the salesperson want to be compensated for closing them, so base the plan on the value to the company and keep it simple. Optimally, it should be easy enough to be calculated on the back of a napkin after a long day.
Since this person is tasked with selling, expect them to propose what they want. You want someone who isn't afraid to ask for the order, so expect it to be a negotiation. Consider their requests and how they would fit into the structure you think is fair. Remember this plan needs to be an incentive for them to sell, be considerate of their wants and try to incorporate their input; it will empower them if they feel they have a voice. Once it's agreed upon document it and have both parties sign the agreement.
This is important legally since it relates to compensation, but make sure to establish a timeframe for the agreement (say one year) and incorporate a mechanism to change the metrics (say quarterly updates) with agreement by both parties.
Asking a sales team to do "too much" is always a risk. Lars Dalgaard talks about focus in "Sales Compensation: Beware, You Get What You Ask for". If the product is new and the market untested, make it easier for them to close their deals– don't restrict their ability to sell based on price or contract length. I don't advocate giving the product away for free and forever, but use the customers' objections and requests as feedback on what to sell, to whom and for how much.
This customer input feeds back into plan revisions – if you were wrong at the beginning (value is different or metrics have changed) then you need to adjust the plan quickly so the individual and the company can be successful in selling. Lastly, since you want the individual to be successful, structure the payment of commissions monthly so they can see the impact of their efforts.
Remember, at the end of the day you want them to sell what you have for the benefit of the company. Paying them to do so if the purpose of the plan. Payment of commissions is their reward for a job well done so celebrate with them and you will both be successful. |
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Roddy "Highpants" Piper finally gets round to the inciting moment of They Live and discovers the world is somewhat different than it appears.
The "I'm all out of bubblegum" meme comes from this movie. And the never-ending fight scene is a much-parodied and ripped off piece of comedy torture. But for me, the highlight is this, the sunglasses scene.
Drifter/Hero Nada (played by Roddy "Highpants" Piper) wanders around for the first 30 minutes of this movie not doing much of anything. He finally stumbles across a box of sunglasses, which he's not quite sure what to do with; but thankfully (before everybody in the cinema leaves from boredom) he decides to put a pair on.
Not only is this scene an ingeniously effective bit of low-budget movie making, it's also a wonderful wake-up call.
Sure, the climactic part where he discovers that alien overlords have been living around him this whole time is 110% sci-fi. But in the context of advertising, this movie is presenting a real-life demonstration of what one might call meta-language. There's nothing really sci-fi about it at all.
The meanings and agendas at the foundation of advertising are hidden in plain sight; you don't need a pair of magic glasses to see them.
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MASTER ADITYA RUHIL (JUNIOR CATEGORY), MASTER PULKIT GOYAL (MIDDLE CATEGORY) & MISS RIYA GARG (SENIOR CATEGORY) have been adjudged as the STAR STUDENTS OF THE YEAR 2018. The students have showcased praiseworthy academic brilliance and have brought laurels to the school by making it big in multifarious competitions and activities. The students were honoured by Ms. Manju Malik, Principal of the school and all the in-charges in the special assembly. Aditya Ruhil, Pulkit Goyal & Riya Garg have been presented with the Official Green Blazers and the ties, the symbols of high esteem and achievement to their credit. They were also venerated with the trophies, DAV patkas and the certificates of appreciation.
School also felicitated the parents of these Gems of DAV – Mr. and Mrs. Ruhil, parents of Master Aditya Ruhil, Mr. and Mrs. Goyal, parents of Master Pulkit Goyal and Mr. and Mrs. Garg, parents of Miss Riya Garg, who have always been their pillars of support. |
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La Donació de Constantí (Donatio Constantini en llatí) és un decret imperial apòcrif, atribuït a Constantí I, segons el qual, al mateix temps que es reconeixia el Papa Silvestre I com a sobirà, se li feia donació de la ciutat de Roma, així com de les províncies d'Itàlia i tota la resta de l'Imperi Romà d'Occident, creant-se així l'anomenat Patrimoni de Sant Pere. L'autenticitat del document es posava ja en dubte durant l'edat mitjana, però l'humanista Lorenzo Valla va poder demostrar fefaentment el 1440 que es tractava d'un frau de la cúria romana, ja que mitjançant l'anàlisi lingüística del text no podia haver estat escrit al voltant de l'any 300.
El llarg procés d'acostament entre el pontificat i el Regne Franc, que comença en el pontificat del Papa Gregori el Gran (590-604), aconsegueix un dels seus punts culminants en la unció reial amb la qual el Papa Esteve II va constituir al majordom palatí Pipí el Breu com a rei dels francs i patricius romanorum, donant per extingida la dinastia merovíngia (752). D'aquesta manera el Papa s'arrogava la facultat de traspassar la dignitat reial d'una dinastia a una altra i alhora, com a contrapartida, concedia al rei dels francs la capacitat d'intervenir en els assumptes italians. De fet Pipí va travessar els Alps en dues ocasions per reconquistar vastes regions de la península italiana de mans dels llombards i les va donar a l'Església, en el que es coneix com la Donació de Pipí; d'aquesta manera es van constituir en ple els Estats de l'Església, i el Papa va quedar convertit en un monarca temporal.
Quan es va fer necessari justificar semblant innovació jurídica (de facto els pontífexs exercien ja una no ben determinada jurisdicció governativa des de les invasions bàrbares), es va recórrer al vell mètode medieval d'"inventar" un document que retrotragués en el temps la situació que es donava en el present. Aquest fou el naixement del document que ha passat a la història com la Donatio Constantini (-IX).
Efectes de la donació
La "Donació de Constantí" indicava que el papa Silvestre I havia rebut de l'emperador romà Constantí I el dret de governar la ciutat de Roma i els seus voltants de la mateixa manera que un monarca temporal, sostenint a més drets del papat per intervenir en els assumptes polítics d'Itàlia i de l'Imperi Romà d'Occident, així com d'una successió de territoris addicionals (Grècia, la Judea, Tràcia, Àsia Menor, Àfrica), formant així una autoritat religiosa dotada de poders governamentals.
La Donació de Constantí va ser esmentada per primera vegada en una comunicació del papa Adrià I a Carlemany, a inicis del , però va ser utilitzada en un document oficial recentment a mitjan quan textos de la "Donació" són citats pel papa Lleó IX com a arguments per requerir Miquel Cerulari, patriarca ortodox de Constantinoble, que havia de reconèixer-se la subjecció de l'Imperi Romà d'Orient a la seu papal de Roma perquè a aquesta li corresponia la prefectura universal del cristianisme.
En aquest requeriment de Lleó IX s'informava Miquel Cerulari que els drets del Papat no sorgeixen de simples rumors o costums, sinó de la "Donació de Constantí", document emès per Constantí I el Gran. En les querelles entre el papat i el Sacre Imperi Romanogermànic, la "Donació" va servir posteriorment com a argument per justificar el "dret" del Papa a governar territoris a Itàlia i conduir-se com un monarca efectiu d'aquests territoris, que van ser coneguts com a Estats Pontificis.
Descobriment del frau
Ja l'emperador Otó III del Sacre Imperi havia dubtat cap a l'any 1000 de l'autenticitat de la «Donació de Constantí», però en general els intel·lectuals de l'edat mitjana europea no en qüestionaven veracitat. L'interès per l'estudi del llatí i del grec a inicis del va causar que diversos escrits i documents de l'antiguitat greco-romana fossin analitzats novament gràcies als nous coneixements adquirits pels estudiosos humanistes de l'època.
Va ser precisament en 1440 que l'humanista italià Lorenzo Valla, a De falso credita et ementita Constantini donatione declamatio, va demostrar que la "Donació" era un engany, perquè l'anàlisi lingüística del text incorporava girs idiomàtics i paraules que no existien en el llatí dels darrers anys de l'Imperi Romà. Fins i tot el text mostrava la paraula "feu" que era un concepte desconegut a Europa a inicis del , per la qual cosa la data de redacció de la "Donació" havia de ser forçosament posterior. Pocs anys abans, el cardenal i humanista Nicolau de Cusa també havia plantejat que el document constituïa una falsificació. Pocs anys després, el 1449, el bisbe Reginald Pecock ja escriví una obra demostrant que la donació era falsa.
Al mateix temps l'anàlisi de Valla va ser reforçada pel teòleg i escolàstic anglès Reginald Pecocke, qui va reafirmar després d'una anàlisi idiomàtica que la "Donació" havia de ser sens dubte un frau, en ser impossible que el document hagués estat escrit l'any 300. Oficialment el Papat mai ha declarat la falsedat de la "Donació" però gradualment va deixar de ser invocat com a base legal per l'existència dels Estats Pontificis des de mitjan . Inclusivament, ni tan sols va ser citat en la Butlla Inter Caetera de 1493 quan el papat es va atribuir facultats per dividir el Nou Món entre Espanya i Portugal.
Possible origen
S'ha suggerit, des de llavors, que la "Donació de Constantí" va ser un text redactat per un clergue de la basílica de Sant Joan del Laterà possiblement cap a l'any 754, quan el papa Esteve II havia de negociar amb Pipí el Breu, rei dels francs, perquè dit monarca assegurés al papat un territori propi a Itàlia on exercir autoritat governamental. En aquesta situació, el papa Esteve II va convalidar que Pipí usurpés el tron de França i enderroqués la legítima dinastia merovíngia, a canvi que Pipí atorgués al papat els territoris italians que el Regne de Llombardia havia arrabassat a l'Imperi Romà d'Orient.
Per assolir aquest fi s'hauria utilitzat l'apòcrifa "Donació de Constantí", per la qual el Papat va elaborar un document suposadament emès en els últims anys de l'Imperi Romà, per usar-lo com a argument legal amb el qual sostenir els "drets" papals a governar vastes regions d'Itàlia.
La seva difusió es deu al fet que el text de la Donatio va ser inclòs en les Decretals pseudoisidorianes, document que va servir de base al dret canònic medieval. No obstant això, Gracià no l'inclou en el seu famós Codi, sinó que el van incloure en versions posteriors apòcrifes.
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Camporeale, Salvatore I. "Lorenzo Valla's Oratio on the Pseudo-Donation of Constantine: Dissent and Innovation in Early Renaissance Humanism''''Journal of the History of Ideas (1996) 57#1 pp: 9-26
Delph, Ronald K. "Valla Grammaticus, Agostino Steuco, and the Donation of Constantine." Journal of the History of Ideas (1996) 57#1 pp: 55-77
Fried, Johannes, ed. Donation of Constantine and Constitutum Constantini: The Misinterpretation of a Fiction and Its Original Meaning (Walter de Gruyter, 2007)
Levine, Joseph M. "Reginald Pecock and Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine." Studies in the Renaissance (1973): 118-143
McCabe, Joseph (1939). A History Of The Popes. Watts & Co.
Valla, Lorenzo. On the donation of Constantine (Harvard University Press, 2007), translation by G. W. Bowersock of 1440 version
Zinkeisen, F. "The Donation of Constantine as applied by the Roman Church''." English Historical Review (1894) 9#36 pp: 625-632
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Text llatí a The Latin Library
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/vallatc.html
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Written by Dr. Jonathan Peterson, Published on December 19th, 2018
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Amateur and Professional Athletics are rife with mythology. Everyone is trying to figure out a way to get the one-up on their opponent. Often, this takes the form of superstition.
In the NHL, for example, it's common not to shave one's beard throughout the entire Stanley Cup Playoffs, because it's bad luck.
Often-times, coaches make decisions based on bad science and gut instinct. Only thirty years ago, coaches were feeding their players salt tablets to try to boost their athletic output, unknowingly putting their players at risk for dehydration.
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There's no area of human life more ripe for mythology and lousy science than sexuality. For thousands of years, there has been a belief that sex can prevent a person from performing at their physical peak.
The idea goes back at least as far as Plato, who believed that sex depleted the ability of Ancient Olympians to play at their highest levels.
Ironically, the modern Olympic Village is one of the most sexually active places on the planet, as the worlds best and fittest athletes all party together for the duration of the Olympics.
Why Do People Think Sex Affects Athletic Performance?
The current hypothesis behind the draining power of sex comes from the belief that sexual satisfaction leads to Testosterone Depletion and relaxation.
Many sports, such as football, boxing, and wrestling, depend on physical and psychological aggression as a key to strong performance.
On the other hand, there are a lot of folks that believe that pre-performance sex can boost an athlete's ability.
This is particularly true for athletes that are highly dependent on focus and maintaining a cool head, like golfers, pitchers, and quarterbacks.
These hypotheses have been backed not by scientific rigor, but athletic superstition.
In the quest to produce the best athletes in the world, millions of dollars have been pumped into scientific research involving maximized performance and endurance over the last generation.
Let's talk about what researchers have discovered regarding the link between sexual activity and athletic performance.
Research Overturns Many Myths About Sex and Competitive Ability
Recently, researchers associated with Frontiers in Physiology sought to provide answers to this question that philosophical, scientific, and competitive minds have tried to answer for millennia.
Researchers pored over hundreds of scientific articles attempting to assess the correlation between athletic performance and sex. The meta-analysis was successful in upending some long-held beliefs, but in the end, there was little research that successfully unveiled any correlation whatsoever regarding sports and sex.
Though they looked over hundreds of research essays, only nine were considered reliable enough for further investigation.
After looking at the available data, the head researcher Laura Stefani admitted that they discovered no significant correlation between sexual activity and competitive performance under most circumstances.
On the other hand, research did suggest in one case that marathon runners could benefit from pre-performance coitus.
The overall analysis provides evidence that sexual satisfaction has at least some correlation to positive results in competition, as long as the act wasn't performed within two hours of showtime.
Though the research is pointing significantly in a particular direction, it is clear that the pool of available, good data is small, and more research can and will provide greater nuance to the results.
For one, there is a clear gender-preference in the available research material for male athletes, perhaps because male athletes make more money, and men's sports are more popular in culture and media. There are also no studies which compare the effects of sex on male versus female performance.
Cultural Mores More Important Than Physiological Effects
Furthermore, there's no differentiation between the potential psychological effects of sex versus the physical effects.
One thing that they were able to discern is that, dependent upon the cultural attitudes regarding sex, the results can alter how much of an issue that sex before competitive performance can be.
That sends the message that sex can have a more significant impact on ability from a psychosocial and cultural perspective than from an actual physiological perspective. Of course, all of these hypotheses need to be considered in a targeted, direct study to provide more definitive results.
Based On Current Science? How Should You Feel About Having Sex Before Entering Competition?
Though the answers to these questions will be addressed with greater nuance in the not-so-distant future, there is no reason to abstain from sex, at least until the morning before you have to compete.
If you're really concerned with your performance, the evidence is strong that sexual activity has a negligible adverse effect on performance, and in many cases, may improve your abilities in a minor way, though you may want to hold off the day of the competition until it's time to celebrate.
If there is an issue associated with sex and athletics, it is related to how you go about finding the action.
Part of the reason that this myth persists is that men and women tend to engage in other vices as a means to find their satisfaction, including alcohol, drugs, and smoking.
Otherwise, as long as you don't physically injure yourself with your wild night of sex, you should wake up invigorated and ready to win!
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In His Service
Southern Louisiana Holds First Teen Prayer Conference
SLIDELL, LA. – On Feb. 15, nine churches from the Southern Louisiana area were represented as young and old settled into the sanctuary with retired pastor John Taylor (pictured left) as the morning speaker for the area's first teen prayer conference. Young people came from Slidell, Bogalusa, Mandeville, New Iberia, Lafayette, Marrero, New Orleans, Hammond, Baton Rouge and Zachary churches. The conference's theme "In His Service," enumerated the ways that young and old can be of service in the Lord's work, and showed how prayer pulls everyone together.
The afternoon continued as the young people attended three break-out sessions that discussed how to use the power of prayer to best serve the Lord. Werner Gill, Gentry Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor and assistant prayer ministries director for the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference, focused on how to put your brain in gear with prayer before serving; Bryan Seymour, pastor of the Lafayette Seventh-day Adventist Church, taught how to fill your heart with God's love and trust before serving Him; and Lanette Bieber, prayer ministries director for the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference, showed how prayer adds protection and strength to our hands before trying to serve Him. Each young person received a hat, t-shirt, work gloves and a small tennis shoe on a keychain. Taylor used the tennis shoe to symbolize the work the youth would each do for the Lord.
The conference's theme "In His Service," enumerated the ways that young and old can be of service in the Lord's work, and showed how prayer pulls everyone together.
Other guests from the conference office were on hand to meet with and welcome the young people, church members and sponsors to the first Southern Louisiana Teen Prayer Conference, including President Rick Dye and his wife, Yvonne; Youth Director David Craig (pictured right); and Educational Superintendent Stephen Burton.
The day closed at 6 p.m. with a delicious haystack supper in the fellowship hall. It was a wonderful Sabbath with a lot of enthusiastic young people who were inspired to do their best in working for the Lord and serving others. The prayer ministries team is ready and willing to do a weekend revival on prayer in your church. Lanette Bieber can be reached through
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What Does a Fire Safety Specialist Do?
They will understand active and passive equipment and use them effectively. They will keep up to date with legal requirements on health and safety, be engaged in public health and possibly legal cases of neglect or arson, depending on their area of knowledge. They can work almost anywhere, in environmental science, in the workplace and much more - always with the role of fire protection and safety.
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Fire Safety Specialists work everywhere that there may be a fire risk. They work in government, private and charitable sectors. They work in our buildings and with our landscapes. Where Fire Protection Engineers design systems, technology and processes, Fire Safety Specialists are the end users of these products and services. They implement and administer these systems for the protection of the environment.
All of our workplaces, be they urban or rural, need technology and systems in place to ensure that those environments are safe from fire and smoke damage. Protection laws cover wildlife, ecosystems, people and their livelihoods, the structures and buildings, the communities and anything else that may be under threat from fire and smoke. Fire destroys material, causing environmental damage - the same with smoke. That is why there are environmental planning laws and those designed to protect the public.
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No specific details exist for this role, but they are likely to reflect Fire Inspector salaries. Therefore, we are basing salary and demand on these statistics. Average median salary as at 2015 was $54,790 or $26.39 per hour. Fire Inspectors salary was an average of $56,730. It is reasonable to suggest that Fire Safety Specialists is in the $56k range. The range is $34,260 to $92,120 from the bottom 10% to the top 10%. For forest fire inspector jobs, the range was $24,500 to $78,430.
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Over the coming 10 years between 2014 and 2024, job demand for Fire Safety Specialists is expected to grow in the region of 6%. This is the national average, sum total of all job types and all levels. Demand in industrial and commercial premises may be steady 6%, but there is a growing demand in rural environments. As we see the growth of wildfires in the western states, especially California, there is increased demand to combat this growing problem area. Fire mitigation, prevention and firefighting will all expect more resources. BLS records increased demand of around 13%. This is double the national average across all job types. Fire inspectors, fire investigators and fire fighters can expect a 6% increase.
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There is a university path for those who do not wish to enter. Students should take a degree in Fire Sciences (where applicable) although another option could be chemistry. Your specialist understanding of chemicals that cause or retard flames will be beneficial in this role. For those who wish to work in the great outdoors, some understanding of ecology will be desirable. Ecology based degrees should be complemented with study modules in chemistry, or in environmental policy or health & safety law to put you in good standing.
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National Fire Protection Association: This organization provides the CFPS (Certified Fire Protection Specialist) scheme to recognize those with superior competency in risk detection and protection measures.
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Pte 300182 Joseph Baker
From: Skelmersdale, Lancs
Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 18th Btn
K.I.A Thursday 6th December 1917
Commemorated at: Bedford House Cem Encl 4
Panel Ref: Sp Mem.41
Joseph was born in the December quarter of 1891 in Skelmersdale the son of Henry Baker and his wife Grace (nee Carr).
His father, from Staffordshire, and his mother, born in Southport, married in Skelmersdale in 1889 and had six children. Joseph was named after his paternal grandfather, a collier. He had an older brother William Thomas (who died in infancy), and younger siblings Eliza (who died at age 1), James, born in 1896, Abraham, 1906, and Henry, born in 1909.
The 1901 Census sees the family living at 25 Liverpool Road, Skelmersdale. His father is a gasworks labourer, Joseph is 9 and James 4. Living with them is his widowed maternal grandfather, James Carr, 61.
By the time of the1911 Census the family had moved to 31 Traverse Street, Parr, St Helens. By now Joseph, aged 19, is employed as a Drawer in a Coal Mine. He has 3 younger brothers, James, Abraham and Henry. His father is 42, a surface labourer at a coal mine, his mother is 43, James, 14, is a glass hand at a sheet glass works, Abraham is 5, and Henry is 18 months old. They have a boarder, 61-year old John Peareson, a coal mine locomotive cleaner.
His father died in 1913 aged 45.
Joseph enlisted in St Helens joining the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry as Private 250170. The amount of the War Gratuity suggests that he enlisted soon after war was declared, in about November 1914. The medal roll shows that he shipped overseas with the 1/1st Lancashire Hussars. On completing mobilisation in August 1914 the battalion moved to Kent with the West Lancashire Division. In April 1915, still in Kent, it transferred to the 2nd West Lancashire Division. In October 1915 the regiment was split up. Other squadrons shipped to France in late 1915; "C" Squadron went on 14 November 1915 to join 35th Division at Salisbury Plain. They landed in France at Le Havre on 1st February 1916, which would explain why no 1914-1915 Star has been found for Joseph. They rejoined the 1/1st Bn on 10 May 1916 as VIII Corps Cavalry Regiment.
In July 1917 the regiment was dismounted and sent for infantry training. Sixteen officers and 290 Other Ranks were absorbed into the 18th (Service) Battalion of the King's (Liverpool Regiment) on 24 September 1917, when Joseph was given the regimental number 300182. At this time the Pals battalions were in the Ypres Salient.
The Third Battle of Ypres (also known as Passchendaele) had begun on 31st July and continued until November.
The 18th Bn War Diary records -
On 4th December the battalion moved up to front line trenches at Gheluvelt, No.3 Coy on right, No.4 Coy in centre, and No.2 Coy on left. Heavy enemy shelling, all calibres and Minenwerfers. Several direct hits on R. Coy posts. Retaliation asked for but little response from our guns. Casualties 6 killed, 6 wounded.
December 5 - Enemy opened heavy machine gun fire, and fired salvos of 77s on working parties. Heavy shelling, all calibres, consequent on movement being observed. Enemy M.G.s active along Bassevillebeek Valley. Casualties 2 wounded.
December 6 - Heavy bursts of fire on Bassevillebeek Valley for about 10 minutes. Enemy very vigilant and invariably shelled movement around Bn H.Q. after dawn.
During the night 6/7th violent bursts of fire 7.7 + 10.5 cm + 18cm were directed against Bn H.Q. vicinity, Dumbarton Wood and tracks.
Casualties 3 wounded, 1 killed (Pte. 300182 J. Baker)
As the diary entry confirmed, Joseph was killed in action on 06th December 1917, aged 25.
He is commemorated at Bedford House Cemetery, No.4 Enclosure on a Special Memorial headstone which states that he is believed to be buried in the Cemetery. Each of the Special Memorial headstones bears the epitaph, written by Rudyard Kipling:
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"
No.4 Enclosure is the largest in the cemetery; almost two-thirds of the graves are unidentified.
His mother Grace received his Army effects, including a War Gratuity of £15-10s. The pension card, giving her address as 54 Grant Street, St. Helens, shows that she was awarded a pension of 8/6d a week from June 1918.
Joseph is commemorated on the St Helens Civic Memorial.
In 1939 his mother Grace, an old age pensioner, is still living at 54 Grant Street. She lived through the Second World War, and died in late 1945 aged 77.
We currently have no further information on Joseph Baker, If you have or know someone who may be able to add to the history of this soldier, please contact us.
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If you are selling online,here is the down side of our business....you will never be able to compete with Amazon. (Or Kmart, or Target, or any other big outlet) Here is why, They buy directly from the manufacturer in such huge quantities that they are getting the product for a price that you and I (as small business owners) will never realize. That is an unfortunate fact of business.
The other problem is that they often use products like this as what they call a 'loss leader.' They are willing to take a huge loss on the product in the hopes that the customer will buy other things. If you are like me, you cannot afford to do that. So what do we do?
The answer is very simple....if you can't compete with Amazon, don't! You are not the size of Amazon, so don't compete with them. (I know sounds too simple, but stay with me) So, if I can't be the cheapest price, or compete with Amazon, how can I make any money? ( I know, I asked the same thing when I started) The answer is, if you have a great product, you sell it for a reasonable price, and you have a great sales letter....people will buy from you. (I don't have a degree in marketing, so I can't explain why) But they will.
Here's the thing, if every small business in the world tried to compete with Wal-Mart, or Amazon, there would be no small business around. But, there are and they continue to thrive. What you want to do is to not compete with Amazon, but others on Ebay, or wherever you are advertising your site, that are selling the same product. Try and see what they are selling it for and stay in that range. And most of all, don't worry about being the lowest priced!
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One mistake, between you and me, that I see people making every day on eBay or on a website is that they are not even bothering to write a sales letter. They list the product specs and throw up a picture and expect it to sell. The mistake they are making is that eBay is not a store that has products on a shelf for everyone to pick out.
With the competition on eBay, and the internet as a whole, it should not be looked at like a store for people to pick and choose, but rather a mail order system on steroids. Think of all of the junk mail that you receive in your mailbox; Most of it (if they are trying to sell you something anyway) is going to be in the form of a sales letter. (The main page of The Drop Ship Connection is an example of a sales letter.) You really have to make people want to buy your product from you with a great sales letter, then price is not an problem.
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THE TEENAGERS' CYTOGENETIC HOMEOSTASIS PECULIARITIES AND SPECIAL FEATURES UNDER THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT PRESENT – DAY CONDITIONS
Boldin V.E., Khrenkova V.V., Abakumova L.V., Soboleva E.V.
It is quite known, that the genetic homeostasis disorders symptoms, such as the micronuclei and the other nuclear anomalies, having revealed by the micro-nuclear test, are the non-specific human organism reaction upon the various and the diverse (e.g. toxic, ecological and stress) influences. The cytogenetic homeostasis evaluation has been carried out at the 118 lyceum pupils at the age of the 13-15 years, having learned at the «Classical» №1 lyceum MOU in the Rostov-on-Don town.
The buccal epithelium cells research by means of the micro-nuclear test (e.g. Zhuleva and et. al., 1996) has been discovered some quantity nuclei with the nuclear disorders presence at all the examined and the tested ones: by the micro-nuclei, by the invaginations, by the «tails», by the double nuclei, by the constrictions. Thus, the lyceum pupils´ cytogenetic homeostasis research results have already been presented in the Table 1.
The nuclear disorders relative quantity has been varied from 1 % up to 27 %, having made up in average 6,907 ± 0,404. The invaginations and the constrictions quantity from them has been varied in the ranges from 0 up to 8 %, having made up in average 1,746 ± 0,152 and 0,983 ± 0,123 correspondingly, the double nuclei quantity - from 0 up to 6 % (e.g. 1,364 ± 0,127), the micronuclei - from 0 up to 9 % (e.g. 0,881 ± 0,133) and the «tailing» nuclei - from 0 up to 13 % (e.g. 1,932 ± 0,180).
Table 1. The Nuclear Disorders Relative Quantity in the Lyceum Pupils´ Buccal Epithelium Cells (%)
M ± m
The nuclear disorders
6,907± 0,404
The constrictions
0,983 ± 0,123
The invaginations
The double nuclei
The micro-nuclei
The «tailing» nuclei
The «tailing» nuclei (e.g. 28 %) have been prevailed at the examined and the tested lyceum pupils´, the invaginations (e.g. 25 %), the double nuclei have been made up 20 %, the constrictions -14 %, the micro-nuclei - 13 %.
Thus, it is quite evidently, that the nuclear disorders maximum quantity have been made up the invaginations and the «tailing» nuclei.
So, the correlation analysis has been carried out by us for the purpose of the possible connections revealing among the lyceum pupils´ psycho-physiological characteristics and the cytogenetic homeostasis level by means of the Spearman correlation rank coefficient. The final and the obtained results have been presented in the Tables 2 and 3.
As it can be seen from the Tables, the correlation analysis has already been revealed the reliable moderate positive connection presence between the school anxiety level and the buccal epithelial cells relative number with the micronuclei. So, the connections between the FMA profile characteristics and the cytogenetic homeostasis indices have not already been discovered.
Table 2. The School Anxiety Level and the Lyceum Pupils´ Cytogenetic Homeostasis Indices Correlation
R (Spearman)
t(N - 2)
The constrictions & the school anxiety
-0,258633
-2,12514
The invaginations & the school anxiety
The double nuclei & the school anxiety
The micro-nuclei & the school anxiety
The «tailing» nuclei & the school anxiety
The nuclear disorders & the school anxiety
Table 3. The FMA Profile and the Cytogenetic Homeostasis Indices Correlation
The constrictions & FMA
The invaginations & FMA
The double nuclei & FMA
The micro-nuclei & FMA
The «tailing» nuclei & FMA
The nuclear disorders & FMA
As the formation, that is the micro-nuclei in the cells are being associated with the chromosomal or even the genomic disorders (e.g. Schmid W.,1975; Novitczky V.V. and et al., 1995), then the similar connection revealing between the cytogenetic indices and the school anxiety level is being indicated upon the development and the measures application necessary, having directed at the lyceum pupils´ way of the life and the activity optimization, in particular - having differed from the others by the school anxiety high level, cytogenetic homeostasis of which is, apparently, the most vulnerable one.
The work was submitted to International Scientific Conference «The Experimental and Clinical Medicine Contemporary Challenges», Thailand, 20-28 February, 2010, came to the editorial office on 25.12.2009.
Boldin V.E., Khrenkova V.V., Abakumova L.V., Soboleva E.V. THE TEENAGERS' CYTOGENETIC HOMEOSTASIS PECULIARITIES AND SPECIAL FEATURES UNDER THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT PRESENT – DAY CONDITIONS. International Journal Of Applied And Fundamental Research. – 2011. – № 2 – |
Media companies and journalists to face contempt trial over Pell case
By David Estcourt
Media companies and individual journalists are likely to face a Supreme Court trial for contempt of court over their reporting of the conviction of Cardinal George Pell for sexual abuse.
Thirty journalists, editors and news organisations have been accused by Victorian prosecutors of breaching a suppression order imposed by the County Court, which in December 2018 prevented media from reporting the guilty verdicts a jury had reached against the cardinal.
Cardinal Pell leaves the County Court in Melbourne after he was found guilty in December 2018 of sexually assaulting two boys. Credit:Chris Hopkins
The reporting did not name Cardinal Pell or the offences involved.
Cardinal Pell was released from prison in April after his conviction for sexually abusing two choirboys in the 1990s was overturned following a successful appeal to the High Court.
In the Victorian Supreme Court in Melbourne on Wednesday, Lisa De Ferrari, SC, acting for the Office of Public Prosecutions, and barrister Matt Collins, QC, appearing for the media, repeatedly clashed over whether media organisations should be compelled to provide evidence discussing the publication of the articles – such as emails and internal messages – which might incriminate the reporters and editors involved.
Dr Collins told Supreme Court judge John Dixon that even though self-incrimination protections do not apply to media organisations because they are business entities, divulging internal emails and other communications could jeopardise the right of the 17 accused reporters and editors to not self-incriminate.
"What [the prosecutors] are trying to do is get around deficiencies in the investigation … in order to seek evidence against the individual respondents," he said.
Ms Ferrari rejected that categorisation, saying the documents the media organisations had filed failed to address the substance of the allegations made against them and their employees in the prosecution summary.
She said the articles themselves, some of which mentioned the existence of a non-publication order by the court, were adequate evidence to demonstrate that the defendants knowingly breached the County Court orders.
Prosecutors allege that in December 2018 media organisations including The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald breached a suppression order by publishing articles and broadcasts that reported a high-profile person had been found guilty of serious charges. Cardinal Pell was not named in any of the stories.
There are 30 accused in total – 19 individuals and 11 corporations – from six different media organisations.
The suppression order was in place because at the time Cardinal Pell was expected to face a second trial, and County Court chief judge Peter Kidd did not want reports of the first guilty verdict to influence a second jury.
The suppression order was lifted and the media was able to report the guilty verdicts in February last year, when prosecutors abandoned the second trial.
Dr Collins suggested media companies might argue that the result of the trial had already been published widely on social and international media in the roughly 36 hours between the time of the verdict and the reports that allegedly breached the suppression order.
He said it meant that in the months before the second trial the information would have been "swirling" through digital channels regardless of the actions of his clients.
The media organisations are also seeking internal emails and communications of Director of Public Prosecutions Kerri Judd, QC, that may detail the reasons why the second prosecution of Cardinal Pell was discontinued, a request which the OPP has rejected.
In March last year, Ms Judd filed more than 200 charges against 36 journalists and news organisations but most of those charges have since been withdrawn and six defendants have been removed from the proceedings.
The trial is due to commence on November 9.
Justice Dixon adjourned the matter for a directions hearing to a date not yet set down.
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David Estcourt is a court and general news reporter at The Age. |
Nearly 1,200 University of Houston-Clear Lake students are receiving diplomas in two commencement ceremonies on Dec. 11 in NRG Arena at 1 NRG Park, Houston.
At noon, more than 520 students will graduate from the College of Education and College of Science and Engineering. At 5 p.m., nearly 650 students will graduate from the College of Business and the College of Human Sciences and Humanities.
Students participating in the ceremonies include about 1,000 fall graduates and about 200 summer graduates. Of these, 626 are undergrads, 546 will receive their master's degrees and 11 will be conferred doctorates.
Commencement speakers are UHCL alumni Evelyn C. Miralles and Kenneth R. Koncaba. Miralles, principal engineer/innovator and business-technology strategist for NASA contractor CACI International, will speak at the noon ceremony. Koncaba, CEO of Houston-based Texan Bank, will speak in the 5 p.m. ceremony.
Miralles was recently chosen as "one of the most inspirational women in the world" for 2016 by the BBC, which each year profiles 100 influential women in its programming. For more than 24 years, Miralles has dedicated her career to the advancement of human spaceflight and virtual-reality technology, training astronauts in Johnson Space Center's Virtual Reality Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Named one of CNET en Español's 20 most influential Latinos in technology for 2015, she lends her experience and knowledge to the field of virtual reality on a national level.
Before joining Texan Bank in 2011, Koncaba served as chairman, CEO and president of Family Bancorp Inc., and its subsidiary bank, now known as Vantage Bank of Texas. His career in banking has included serving as director, president and chief operating officer at both FC Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary bank, First Community Bank, N.A., in Houston and chairman and CEO of San Antonio National Bank. From 2012-2015, Koncaba served as co-founder and manager of Friendswood Energy Genco LLC. Also, he has served as founding director and CEO of Friendswood Capital Corp. since 2010 as well as director of ICON Wellness Center since 2012.
Guests do not need tickets to attend the commencement ceremony, and students may invite as many guests as they like. Seating for guests will be first-come, first-served.
A total of 1,455 UHCL students completed degree programs in summer and fall sessions, with 1,183 participating in the ceremonies.
Graduating students are also invited to Soaring Hawks Celebration, a social event 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9. The event will feature a photo booth, refreshments and the chance to celebrate with university alumni, faculty and leaders, including UHCL President William A. Staples. Soaring Hawks Celebration is free, but tickets are required and may be picked up from the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Capt. Wendell M. Wilson Office of Veteran Services and Office of Student Life. Soaring Hawk Celebration will be on the UH-Clear Lake campus at Bayou Building, Atrium II, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston. For more information on Soaring Hawks Celebration, contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 281-283-2021 or [email protected].
To find out more about commencement, visit www.uhcl.edu/commencement.
University of Houston-Clear Lake offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and three doctoral programs, from its four schools, which include the School of Business, School of Education, School of Human Sciences and Humanities, and School of Science and Computer Engineering. In 2011, the university gained approval from the state to add freshman- and sophomore-level courses to its roster and welcomed its first freshman class in fall 2014. For more information about the university, visit http://www.uhcl.edu. |
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Q: How to stop/invalidate NStimer I am using
[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1f
target:self
selector:@selector(update)
userInfo:nil
repeats:YES];
I want to stop calling this timer one.
viewDidDisappear
How can i do that? invalidate?
A: Try this
viewController .h
NSTimer *timer;
viewcontroller.m
timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1
target:self
selector:@selector(pollTime)
userInfo:nil
repeats:YES];
- (void) viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
[timer invalidate];
}
A: Declare NSTimer *myTimer in .h file.
Assign instance as tom said like this
myTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1f
target:self
selector:@selector(update)
userInfo:nil
repeats:YES];
Stop and Invalidate using this
- (void) viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[myTimer invalidate];
myTimer = nil;
}
A: Yes, you would use the - (void)invalidate instance method of NSTimer.
Of course, to do that, you would have to save the NSTimer instance returned from [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats:] into an ivar or property of your view controller, so you can access it in viewDidDisappear.
A: invalidate Method of NSTimer is use for stop timer
- (void) viewDidDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidDisappear:animated];
[self.timer invalidate];
self.timer = nil;
}
If you are not ARC then don't forget [self.timer release];
A: For stopping or invalidating NSTimer first you have to create instance for NSTimer in Globally.
Timer=[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:0.1f
target:self
selector:@selector(update)
userInfo:nil
repeats:YES];
after that try like this,
if (Timer != nil) {
[Timer invalidate];
Timer = nil;
}
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I can't believe this is the fourth post I'm writing about this—"this" being President Obama's $400,000 speaking fee for delivering a keynote at a healthcare conference—but here we are.
[Content Note: Video may autoplay at link] Senator Bernie Sanders further criticized President Obama, calling his decision "distateful."
Sen. Bernie Sanders believes former President Barack Obama's plan to receive $400,000 for speaking at a September Wall Street health conference is "distasteful," The Vermont Independent reported Friday.
Speaking with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, Sanders labeled the transaction "not a good idea" and said he was "sorry President Obama made that choice."
"I just think it does not look good," Sanders said. "I just think it is distasteful — not a good idea that he did that."
..."Look, Barack Obama is a friend of mine, and I think he and his family represented us for eight years with dignity and intelligence," Sanders said. "But I think at a time when we have so much income and wealth inequality ... I think it just does not look good."
"It's not a good idea, and I'm sorry President Obama made that choice," he added.
Again, this is an "optics" argument: It "doesn't look good." And, again, Sanders is positioning himself in the role of arbiter. He's "sorry President Obama made that choice," as though it's his place to apologize for, or express regret about, the decision someone else made for themselves, no less a Black man.
I did a short thread about this on Twitter over the weekend, which resulted in the expected embarrassing invocations of Hillary Clinton, despite the fact she is completely irrelevant to the conversation (except insofar as people only seemed to get agitated about speaking fees set and earned by white men when a woman and a Black man started earning them).
There were also the tired accusations that I'm "defending Wall Street," coupled with the usual insistence that Wall Street is unique in its oppressive business practices.
In short, there wasn't a coherent argument for why President Obama should not take this speaking fee, aside from the "optics" of taking it from an industry which engages in oppressive business practices.
1. Wall Street is routinely spoken about as though it's a monolith, but that is not accurate. Despite the lax legislation that empowers disgraceful business practices, not all firms leverage that legislation to enact the maximum allowable abuses, which is not incidental.
Further, "Wall Street" has become a shorthand for a financial industry model that destroys working class people's lives, which disappears the many working class people who are employed by "Wall Street," most of whom are women and people of color. Receptionists, low-level admin staff, cleaning crews, service staff, maintenance crews. All those big buildings have enormous numbers of support staff. Additionally, demo and construction crews employed for the interior construction jobs when interior spaces are trashed for remodels.
There are also many middle-class people who fill "Wall Street" jobs, who themselves in large numbers object strongly to the business practices of the industry by which they're employed.
Reflexive hostility to "Wall Street," and anyone who accepts a paycheck from "Wall Street," relies on generalizations that demonize workers for whom the people making those broadsides assert they are advocating.
There are ways to resist the oppressive business practices of the financial industry that do not rely on such erasure and demonization.
2. The financial industry is hardly the only industry with detestable business practices that must be challenged in ways more meaningful than a single person not accepting payment for his or her work.
"Wall Street" comes in for outsized criticism because its businesses practices affect everyone, including white men, which is attached to this idea that economic equality (again, not the same as economic justice) is the magic potion to solve all problems, which is itself used to justify a lack of intersectional analysis in economic policy.
There are a vast number of entrenched industries which have—and have been built and sustained on—institutional bigotry against marginalized people. People like President Obama, for instance. Ahem.
And, if optics matter, it "doesn't look good" when all the other industries that engage in exploitative and exclusionary businesses practices are ignored in order to focus on the one industry that also harms white men outside that industry in a way most other industries don't.
But, aside from optics, it isn't good to hold a marginalized person, even a former president, to a standard of rejecting payment from an industry that causes harm when virtually every industry in our capitalist system has caused (and continues to cause) harm to people like him.
3. Even if all the above didn't matter, there is this: Individual solutions to system problems don't work. That is a phrase I've used a lot around here over the years—because it's a central precept of meaningful resistance to institutional oppression(s).
A single person, not even one with as much privilege and influence as President Obama, can individually solve a systemic problem. The avarice and abuse endemic to the financial industry is a problem that needs to be solved. It will not be solved by any single person declining a speaking fee from a single entity within that industry.
Especially not a person from a community with a historic and persistent wealth gap, which was created by design.
Even if one is insistent on (unreasonably) arguing that President Obama has to be first in a series of rejections (that won't fundamentally alter the financial industry's business practices, which are largely defined by Congressional legislation), that argument ignores the message that President Obama stands to convey by not declining this speaking fee: That Black people are worthy and deserving of the same opportunities as white people are.
We must be honest here: The call on President Obama to reject a large speaking fee, based on standards set by white men over decades, is to ask him to set aside a meaningful message about Black equality in favor of a symbolic message to an industry that gets disproportionate focus because it harms white men, too.
And I know (believe me, I know) that many people will push back on that, and argue some variation on "taking money from Wall Street isn't the kind of equality anyone should want," but you can't simultaneously argue that "Wall Street" is of such enormous significance that it must be uniquely resisted and that visible exclusion on "Wall Street" doesn't matter.
If it's that important, then the message of equal opportunities in that space matters. Which is not incompatible with the argument that the rules governing the business practices in that space also need to change.
Individual solutions to system problems don't work. It's on all of us to advocate for change, not down to one man.
But putting the onus exclusively on one man is a pretty nifty way of absolving oneself of having to do anything meaningful. Pointing the finger at him is a lot easier than getting involved in the slow, deliberate, and often frustrating business of finding real solutions to injustice. |
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Elizabeth, Late Mother Superior, C.H.R.
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Chalcionellus krikkeni är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Kanaar 1983. Chalcionellus krikkeni ingår i släktet Chalcionellus och familjen stumpbaggar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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