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Lately my eyes have been drawn to table top settings.....
Perhaps the upcoming holiday season, who knows.
I thought I would continue yesterdays yellow trend, as this is a new holiday color for me! These pretty salad plates and bowls can be found here.
Do you set the holiday table the same each year? Do you mix it up? How about color? Do tell!!!
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Several major Ofsted reports are due to be published about the so-called "Trojan Horse" schools in Birmingham which are alleged to be at the centre of a plot to "Islamise" schools (Six schools criticised in Trojan Horse inquiry, 2 June).
The reports will be a landmark in British educational history and the history of Britain as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, for better or for worse.
First-hand accounts of the Ofsted inspections that have emerged are disturbing. They suggest that inspectors were poorly prepared and had an agenda that calls into question Ofsted's claim to be objective and professional in its appraisal of standards in schools serving predominantly Muslim pupils.
Numerous sensationalised leaks have reinforced the perception of a pre-set agenda. It is beyond belief that schools which were judged less than a year ago to be "outstanding" are now widely reported as "inadequate", despite having the same curriculum, the same students, the same leadership team and the same governing body. In at least one instance, these conflicting judgments were made by the same lead inspector. This has damaged not only the reputation of the schools but the integrity of the inspections process.
This is uncharted territory, with Ofsted seemingly being guided by an ideology at odds with the traditional British values which schools are meant to espouse, particularly fairness, justice and respect for others. We, the undersigned, believe that such an approach compromises not only Ofsted's impartiality but also the British education system itself.
We call upon the government to reject such tarnished inspection reports and seek a more transparent process of inspections which truly places the education and wellbeing of the children of Birmingham foremost.
Tim Brighouse, Robin Richardson Former director of the Runnymede Trust, Salma Yaqoob, Tom Wylie Former HMI, Ibrahim Hewitt Education consultant, S Sayyid University of Leeds, Arzu Merali Islamic Human Rights Commission, Sameena Choudry Equitable Education, Baljeet Singh Gill Ruskin College, Massoud Shadjareh Islamic Human Rights Commission, Farooq Murad Muslim Council of Britain, Arshad Ali Institute of Education, University of London, Maurice Irfan Coles, Abdoolkarim Vakil King's College London, Gill Cressey Muslim Youthwork Foundation, Steph Green Ruskin College, Mustafa Draper, Abbas Shah, Tasawar Bashir, MG Khan Ruskin College
• Surely Ofsted is losing all credibility (Leak reveals inspectors' U-turn on 'Trojan Horse' school, 31 May). Increasingly it appears to be used as Michael Gove's enforcement. This is not the first time Ofsted judgments have been rejigged, as many schools forced into academy status against the will of communities and parents can attest. In this process Ofsted's framework for the inspection of schools is revealed as flawed. Judgments of good and inadequate schools are unreliably based on test and examination results. Until Park View it was unacceptable to judge a school as inadequate, or for that matter to judge the quality of teaching as poor, if the examination and test results were good.
Further, the inspection of Park View must again throw some doubt on the competence of inspectors. In 2012 it was revealed that some inspectors had no experience of working with children and were not qualified teachers. Ofsted's methods are not the objective process that has been assumed and are clearly subject to manipulation.
Dr Robin Richmond
Bromyard, Herefordshire
• This article was amended on 4 June 2014. In the earlier version, because of an error during the editing process, the final paragraph of the letter from Tim Brighouse et al had been omitted; part of the omitted paragraph was quoted in the associated news story.


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Video – Cloud-Based Site Selection and Channel Management
An introduction to Kiwi.
Kiwi™ is a cloud-based site selection and channel management tool. Through the tool, you can import point of sale, customer, and business data to see a visual distribution of that information over a map. By doing this you'll more effectively understand market trends, know more about competitor impact, and make better expansion and marketing planning decisions. Kiwi™ is accessible through a Web browser and requires no special hardware. It comes loaded with satellite and street maps for geographies in China, India, and Southeast Asia. It includes market demographics, points of interest, and thematic maps for key business insight. It's used primarily in sales, marketing, and expansion planning scenarios.


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The Mystery of History Volume III
"The Renaissance, Reformation, and Growth of Nations"
The Mystery of History Volume III offers a deep and meaningful study of world history from the viewpoint of a Christian author. Spanning the Renaissance, the Reformation, world exploration, and some early American history, this exciting volume explores the backdrop to and significance of time-honored contributions found in art, music, literature, science, and philosophy of this rich era from 1455 to 1707. Students will be introduced to famous characters and world changers such as Ivan the Great, Henry VIII, Jeanne D'Albret, Francis Bacon, Pocahontas, Galileo, K'ang-hsi, and many more. Though the reading level of this text is suitable for the average 7th-8th grader, this volume can serve as a Renaissance/Reformation study for any age with modification (and some screening for Younger Students.) It is recommended that students first read Volumes I and II of The Mystery of History, but it is not a prerequisite for enjoying this award-winning book. Important note! Unlike Volumes I and II, The Mystery of History Volume III has been separated by the publisher into two parts for easier manageability. Part I, the Student Reader, comes as a 441-page colorful hardback containing 84 world history lessons. Part II, the Companion Guide: Curriculum and Student Activities, comes as a 519-page black and white paperback, CD, or download as a separate purchase that is described below. If you enjoyed the curriculum options in Volumes I and II, you don't want to miss the Companion Guide! Also written by Linda Lacour Hobar, this guide helps students retain what they're learning and contains all the good stuff that families love about The Mystery of History.
The Mystery of History Volume III Student Reader Table of Contents
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BBC Worldwide HQ
- Developer / Owner: Stanhope
- Consultant: HOK
Formerly occupied by journalists and the studios of BBC News, Stage 6 at Television Centre (TVC) in
White City, London has been transformed by HOK into the new headquarters for BBC Worldwide (BBCW), the main commercial arm of the BBC. Created to accommodate over 1,200 employees, this responsive work space has been designed with modern working practices in mind, offering a series of innovative and flexible primary and secondary work spaces to provide a more informal work experience.
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Developer: Stanhope
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Color is a mystery.
Judith Seligson = Josef Albers liberated! "Seligson uses the line to make shapes living beings – just by adding the purest notion of color seen since – yes, Josef Albers.
I think of color as being the structural material I use to build the forms I am interested in. The fact that in another sense I use plywood, fiberglass and lacquer as structural materials is of less importance.
2017 | Judith Seligson | Contact


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Here are detailed file-by-file descriptions of the contents of specific fonds and/or links to scanned documents.
Peter Turner Bone, [ca. 1884]
|Series 1
|Financial, business and personal papers. -- 1884-1974
|Series 2
|Photographs. -- [ca. 1881-1973]
Series 1
Financial, business and personal papers. - 1884-1974. - 13 cm of textual records. - Includes specifications for railway engineering projects Peter Turner Bone worked on (1884, 1887), prospectuses (1896-1904), cancelled cheques (1893-1896), receipts and bills from Calgary businesses (1891-1900), oil stock certificates (1914-1941), draft and proofs of Peter Turner Bone's book When the Steel Went Through (published 1947), and a reminiscence by Allen Turner Bone (1974).
|Canadian Pacific Railway : specifications and contract forms. - 1884
|Atlantic and Northwest Railway : general specifications. - 1887. - This railway was to run from the Bay of Fundy to the east side of Lake Superior.
|Stone and Co., meat packers, Calgary : prospectus. - 1896. - Directors included: D. W. Marsh, P. A. Prince, W. R. Hull, H. W. G. Mayer, H. H. McCulloch, R. J. Hutchings, Robert and Thomas Stone.
|Western Canada College. - [ca. 1904]. - Application for stock and examinations.
|Calgary Gas and Waterworks Co. Ltd. - 1893- 1900. - Quarterly utility bills of the company, and of the City of Calgary Water Works Department (1900).
|Calgary Irrigation Co. Ltd. - 1893-1896. - Cancelled cheques for the purchase of shares.
|Autographs on cancelled cheques. - 1894-1895. - Autographs of Calgary pioneers George Alexander, James Bannerman, W. L. Bernard, T. B. Braden, Magnus Brown, W. H. Cushing, F. M. Freeze, J. D. Geddes, A. Grant, James Hogg, J. E. Jacques, W. H. Lee, S. A. Ramsay, William Robertson, Amos Rowe, James Short, Thomas Underwood, W. E. Wing, J. A. Young, and J. J. Young.
|Prince Albert tax notices. - 1891- 1900.
|Calgary tax receipts. - 1891-1900.
|Receipts : general. - 1893-1899. - Billheads from Inter-Western Pacific Exhibition Co. Ltd., W. H. Lee, John K. Shirley, Richard & Co., D. McLean, William Bruce, A. Allen & Co., J. B. Kelly, J. H. Millward, Calgary Clothing Co., Muir & Jephson, Queen Insurance Co., Linton Bros., J. M. Lowndes, T. A. Clouston, Hutchings & Riley, Carson & Shore, Massey-Harris Co. Ltd., and CPR Townsite Trustees.
|Receipts : cartage. - 1893-1900. - Billheads from Calgary Cartage Co., Bain and Hamilton, and Alberta Transfer Co. Ltd.
|Receipts : coal dealers. - 1893-1903. - Billheads from Lamont Bros., A. B. Few, Stewart & Few, G. L. Peet, W. R. Hull, and Galt Coal Agency.
|Receipts : construction. - 1892-1899. - Billheads and certificates from Child & Wilson, J. G. McNeil, and T. Underwood.
|Receipts : druggists. - 1893-1898. - Billheads from A. W. Walton & Co., J. C. Templeton, and Wendell Maclean.
|Receipts : hardware. - 1893-1900. - Billheads from Calgary Hardware Co., and A. McBride & Co.
|Receipts : furniture. - 1893-1900. - Billheads from J. E. Jacques & Co., and Neilson Furniture Co. Ltd.
|Receipts : Hudson's Bay Co. - 1893- 1900.
|Receipts : Hull Bros. & Co. - 1893- 1898.
|Receipts : King, Leakey & Co. - 1893- 1894.
|Receipts : liquor dealers. - 1893-1898. - Billheads from Calgary Wine & Spirit Co., and James Bannerman.
|Receipts : lumber companies. - 1893-1900. - Billheads from Calgary Planing Mills, W. H. Cushing, and Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber Co.
|Receipts : medical. - 1893-1900. - Billheads from Calgary General Hospital, Dr. H. Goodsir Mackid, and Dr. R. D. Sanson.
|Receipts : newspapers. - 1892-1899. - Billheads from Calgary Herald, and the Alberta Tribune.
|Receipts : plumbers. - 1892-1900. - Billheads from W. Head, and Moran Bros.
|Receipts : Rosebud School. - 1895-1900. - Receipts from Melrose School District, Grieson, Alberta (later Rosebud).
|Receipts : R. C. Thomas. - 1896- 1900.
|Oil stock certificates. - 1914-1941. - Certificates issued by Albertan Federated Oils Limited, Alberta Pacific Consolidated Oils Ltd., Beaver Oils Ltd., Bragg Creek Oil and Gas Co. Ltd., Cherokee Oil and Refining Co. Ltd., Christy Oil Co. Ltd., Devenish Petroleum Ltd., Dome Oil Co., Eldon Mines Ltd., Graystone Consolidated Petroleum Ltd., Illinois-Alberta Oil Ltd., Lethbridge Petroleum and Refineries Ltd., McLeod Oil Co. Ltd., Mid-West Oil Co. Ltd., Moose Mountain Oil Co. Ltd., Regent Oil Co. Ltd., Richland Oils Ltd., Steveville Oil Co., Stokes-Stephens Oil Co. Ltd., York Oils Ltd.
|When the steel went through. - [ca. 1945]. - Original typescript of Peter Turner Bone's book. Includes chapters 2, 3, 4 and 14 not included in published version.
|When the steel went through. - [ca. 1945]. - Photo proofs for book.
|Calgary 1900-1910 as seen by a child. - 1974. - Reminiscences of Allen Turner Bone, the son of Peter Turner Bone.
|Back to Table of Contents.
Series 2
Photographs. - [ca. 1881-1973]. - 81 photographs. - Consists of images of the 1st Lanark Rifles, Scotland (ca. 1881), construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), the Bow and Elbow rivers in flood (ca. 1910-ca. 1915), the Turner Bone family and home, family vacations, public events and street scenes in Calgary, Alpine Club of Canada activities, construction of Calgary Water Power Company plant at Kananaskis, construction of CPR irrigation canals and Brooks Aqueduct.
Many of the photographs have been scanned. View now.
|Bow and Elbow Rivers in flood. - [ca. 1910-ca. 1915]. - 10 photographs.
|1st Lanark Rifles. - [ca. 1881]. - 2 photographs. - Group portrait of G Company; camp at Blairmore, Scotland.
|Family photos. - [Copied ca. 1961-ca. 1973 (originally created 1883-1915)]. - 69 photographs. - Consists of images of the construction of the CPR, the Turner Bone family and home, family vacations, public events and street scenes in Calgary, Alpine Club of Canada activities, construction of Calgary Water Power Company plant at Kananaskis, construction of CPR irrigation canals and Brooks Aqueduct.


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Company Profile
ETHOS INVESTMENT KENYA LIMITED is a registered firm, incorporated under the Company Act, Chapter 486 of the Laws of Kenya on 10th September 2014. We specialize in Data Analytics and Private Equity Investment in emerging, small and mid-sized companies.
Ethos! Vision: Help build and strengthen businesses which we invest in.
- To identify, analyze and develop practical financial models for businesses.
- Generate fair returns and positively impact the local economy.
Commitment: We endeavor to take time to understand our client's needs, offer effective solutions and form a mutually beneficial partnership.
Research findings and experience confirms majority of businesses in Kenya (and Africa) fail mid-stream due to poor branding, undercapitalization, mismanagement, inability to compete, failure to embrace change etc.
We target the following sectors;
- Energy
- Agribusiness
- Technology and Media
- Financial Institutions and Services
We Offer:
1. Research & Development – we acknowledge the importance of data analysis and business intelligence in providing in-depth actionable insights, improvements and alternative solutions in business.
- Brand/Product Audit: the evaluation of brand's current state and effectiveness.
- Market Segmentation and Positioning: creating a persona definition (archetype) for each type of the brand/product consumer, including all their demographics; age bracket, gender, education, technology adoption, socioeconomic status, environment etc. The persona concept helps the product marketing/sales team focus on the specific problem and connection with a 'type of consumer'.
2. Private Equity Investment – the preferred models of investment / capital injections are;
- Growth and Expansion Capital: a flexible type of financing preferred by entrepreneurs looking for capital to expand, restructure operations, enter new markets etc without a change of control (equity) to their businesses.
- Recapitalizations: a financial strategy applied by a company involving substantial change and readjustments in its capital structure; issuing more shares, exchange bonds for stock, swapping debts for equity and vice versa.
- Divestitures/Spin-Offs: a way of managing your company's portfolio by selling or disposing the subsidiary business/assets to us.
- Buyouts / Leveraged Buyouts: we 'buy-out' the equity owners of the target company, by acquiring total ownership or majority shares.
The Investment Exit period is normally 1 - 5 years, but may shorten or extend depending on the nature, condition and scalability of the business.
- Mr. Ooko Charles Mc'Olonde, Founder/ M.D
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Welcome to Maria Starling Design.
We are a unique independent company that designs and produces original encaustic cement tiles, ceramic tiles, zellige tiles, mosaics, rugs, blankets and furniture. Maria Starling's use of colour, pattern and her respect for age-old production techniques are combined to create joyful, decorative and unique pieces to complement your home. Maria's work embraces and celebrates the tiny differences and nuances, these irregularities are a welcome relief from the mass produced 'perfection' of modern production methods giving each piece a unique personality and individuality.
This homeware range is fuelled by a passion for all things handcrafted and well made, with an added sense of fun for a free spirited, vibrant lifestyle.
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I love Hello Fresh! They always pack the right amount and also the recipes are fantastic! Your meals look so delicious!
Hello Fresh! & £20 OFF Your First Box
I was pretty happy to come home last week to find my Hello Fresh Box waiting for me on my door step!
If you've not heard about Hello Fresh yet then you've got to read on…..
If you're all ready to take the plunge and order your first box then scroll to the bottom of the post for £20 OFF!Hello Fresh is a new company that deliver boxes to your door full to the brim of fresh ingredients from British suppliers. The box includes 3 or more (if you've picked the family box) delicious recipes. All the ingredients are carefully selected and already weighed out so you are armed with exactly what you need to prepare the stunning dishes. Inside the box of goodies are 3 recipe cards ready for you to drool over.
The recipes are easy to moderate and have been created by the team of talented chefs at Hello Fresh.
With simple to follow, step by step methods and all the ingredients sat there waiting to go, whats to stop you?!
Opening up my Hello Fresh Box was just like Christmas morning! I'd not peeked at or pre chosen my meals and instead opted to let the 'Hello Freshers' pick my menu for me. This way I was in no danger of sticking to my normal meal choices. I left it up to the experts to decide what I was to eat for the next 3 days!
I was hoping to find some new tantalising flavours and different ingredients I'd not used before.
After having a good rummage through, I was excited to get started!
My recipes were Chicken and Pandan Infused Rice, Italian Polpetti Soup with Fusilli and Fresh Pesto and Summertime Pork Schnitzel with Salad, New Potatoes and Capers.
Perfect! A real mixture of flavours and cuisines.
I grabbed my apron and started cooking!
First up…. Italian Polpetti Soup with Fusilli and Fresh Pesto.Simple to prepare, filling, flavoursome and satisfying! A dish that deceives, as although only a soup, it is packed full of layers of spicy Italian flavours! Bellissimo!
Then onto Chicken and Pandan Infused Rice. By far my favourite dish. Packed full of ginger and Asian inspired flavours, it was the tastiest meal I've cooked in a long while! Finally Summertime Pork Schnitzel with Salad, New Potatoes and Capers. This dish is full of flavours I'd normally shy away from cooking with. Mustard and capers are not normally top of my list of favourites. But I'm now converted! A perfect end to my Hello Fresh menu!
The most exciting part is that I am now armed with the recipe cards for these super suppers! A quick restock of ingredients and I can enjoy these meals time and time again.
If you want to enjoy your own Hello Fresh Box head on over to their website & place your order.
To claim £20 OFF your first box just enter 3XDAF7 at the checkout!
I'd love to know how you get on with it & what meals you are given!
Happy Cooking!
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I love Hello Fresh! I've got one this week and am enjoying it so much, I do miss them when I can't afford to get one!
What a fantastic concept, especially for a working family, delivered nutritious and fresh straight to your door! And you obviously did a great job, the photos are fantastic! Great job.
Those dishes look delicious and what an incredible box! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays
Well now I'm really hungry! Looks good, thanks for sharing with #WotW
All of the photos of fresh ingredients and food! A feast for the eyes =) #wotw


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Cowboys will play Hardy at right defensive end
Despite a domestic violence case last year and a possible suspension by the NFL this year, defensive end Greg Hardy is on the Dallas Cowboys because he is a special football player who specializes in rushing the passer.
The Cowboys are making no secret of that. They are excited about the impact he can make on defense based on his dominating play for the Carolina Panthers from 2010-2013. He played one game last year before being placed on the NFL commissioner's exempt list because of a domestic assault charge.
"We think he is an outstanding player," coach Jason Garrett said. "He was one of those guys that made so many plays on the ball. He makes a lot hits on the ball in the running game. He is around the quarterback, sacking him, affecting him and certainly playing that read option. He was very effective at that as well."
Garrett says Hardy will play right defensive end, but his strength is his versatility and his ability to rush from anywhere on the line. DeMarcus Lawrence will likely move to left end.
"He has great versatility as a player. A lot of different skills. You can use him in a lot of different spots," Garrett said. "We believe in rotating our defensive line, kind of coming at the offense in waves.
"He needs to get acclimated to our system of football and we take that step by step."
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The iDog interactive music dogs have been around for a while and still make nice gifts. What is new is the tiny iDog clip which offers a speaker and some interactive light effects on the go.
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CHAPTER I — THE SOURCES AND HOW TO FIND THEMI. What are Sources?
I N the current discussions on the teaching and study of history, one of the most frequent expressions is "the sources," or "original material." What do these words mean? As history is an account of the past actions of men, every historical statement must go back to the memory of those who saw the events, or to some record made at the time. Tradition is the handing down of memories from one person to another; indeed, one of the most famous of American sources, the Norse Sagas on the discovery of America,—was thus transmitted for three centuries before it was finally put into writing. Such transmissions are likely to get away from the first form as years go on, and may change into legends, such as have already formed around Washington's life. A more trustworthy form of transmitting earlier memories is by autobiography, or by reminiscence written out in later life; but narratives set down long after the events are apt to become twisted by the lapse of the years between the event and the making of the record, and thus their chief value is to reproduce the spirit of the times. In preparing this volume such works have been sparingly used. Graydon's Memoirs


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On twitter, use #Slice2013
Be sure to check out Ruth's post about the March Slice of Life Challenge! I hope to see all of you every single day!
My OLW this year is Possibilities, defined online by Merriam-Webster:
I love your one little word! And what a beautiful and meaningful quote as well.ReplyDelete
It'll be an interesting journey this year. Thanks!Delete
Love that little poem! And your OLW, which is positively ripe. Excited for you, Linda!ReplyDelete
The poem is marvelous, I agree, Irene. I was so excited when I found it. Thanks!Delete
Excellent introduction to your OLW!Your pictures made me smile, so I can imagine when you look at them the love you feel for each and every one and what it represents in your life. A new house in this new year brings out the possibilities.ReplyDelete
Yes, the new house will be a welcome to new things this year for sure, Elsie. Thanks.Delete
Interesting how those four meaning to your OWL all weave together into a rich tapestry of meaning - many layers to every possibility. The photographs are also such a lovely tapestry of your life, Linda, thank you for sharing these. I especially love the one of your husband and grandchild, so much love in that embrace!ReplyDelete
Thank you Tara. Weaving the past into the future is rather like I see it. You are intuitive to notice.Delete
Fascinating how you combined the pics, poem and possibilities. This word seems to empower you.ReplyDelete
I certainly hope so, Terje. I need much power (te he). I'm often amazed at how different each of us thinks. I think in lots of radiated lines moving out, all connected, but I often am thinking of more than one thing, perhaps 3 or 4--hence, the combination of pics, poem & possibilities-interesting to me, but the way it works in my brain too. Thanks for noticing!Delete
I like and appreciate the diversity in the ways people think and plan. I used to have a director who was linear and organized in planning and doing things. My thoughts and plans tend to be scattered all over, sometimes creating a chaos. I take a pause and the pieces form a clear picture. Then it starts all over again with new thoughts and plans. We both were successful in our work, but it wasn't always easy to work together. Once we accepted our differences it became easier.
I came back here to say that I looked up "The Heart of Innovation" and spent some inspiring time looking around there (quotes and other categories.) I like that reading slices leads to new resources and pushes my thinking.
Thank you.
Great to hear "all" your story, about the former director, & your search. I am now in the midst of reading about St. Francis of Assisi-fascinating!Delete
Possibilities in life are always there. You just have to find them. That really speaks to me today. You're going to laugh because I haven't sliced yet and before I visited Two Writing Teachers I told myself I would visit the 5th slice on the list and pick the 5th word in the post and that would be the topic for today's slice (bizarre negotiations with self after school and before going to exercise). Yours is the fifth post and your fifth word (of the actual post-y part) is, "is"... wouldn't you know my #olw is be. Possibility found. Love your picture collage--and seeing you in the snow!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to come visit to see what you've written, Lee Ann. I saw one prompt that said to point to a word in the dictionary & use that word as a title, plus use the words in the definition to craft a poem. I'm still thinking about it. Thanks for all!Delete
Your joy and enthusiasm are contagious!ReplyDelete
Thanks Violet-always good to be 'up'!Delete
Embracing possibilities while keeping hold of routines and traditions. Your collage is beautiful. I look forward to following where this thread may lead...the possibility of it all.ReplyDelete
Thanks Margaret, it's kind of exciting to think that I don't really know where it will lead.Delete
Wonderful word! It is so full of possibilities. By the way, I love the quote by St. Francis of Assisi. I already made it into a small poster. Will post it in my classroom! Thank you!
Looking forward to reading about all your new and old possibilities this year.
Thanks Jaana. The quote is brand new to me & I was so excited to find the site. How great to share it with your students.Delete
St. Francis of Assisi--that exploration is sure to bring you to even more inspiring possibilities! Your word is both playful and deep. I am enjoying glimpsing this journey of yours this year!ReplyDelete
Thanks Christy, such fun to share with everyone, isn't it?Delete
I admire the way you're embracing all of the possibilities that lay ahead of you this year, Linda. Great pics too!ReplyDelete
Thanks Stacey. The OLW is such a good idea to embrace!Delete
Thanks for reminding me to see life through the lens of possibility. You are an inspiration! And like several others, I love the St. Francis of Assisi quote.ReplyDelete
Thanks Carol. There are many ways to allow possibility into our lives. And you've posted about some of those ideas I know. Best to you!Delete
Thanks for sharing the sweet pics Linda-
Your OLW has so many things left to unfold...you are such a great mentor to me as a newby slicer-unfolding your writing soul and sharing it with this community! The possibilities are endless!
Thank you Amy! It's going to be a fun year, isn't it, especially in March!Delete
I wish you well as you explore all the possibilities in the coming year! You sound ready for your next adventure!ReplyDelete
It's going to be interesting for sure, Donna. Also looking forward to hearing more about your own adventure with Gull Haven!Delete
I like your word. What opportunities that word brings to my mind. May this year bring you joyous discoveries.ReplyDelete
Thank you Ruth-same to you of course!Delete
You might need two words - "extraordinary possibilities," or "magical possibilities." I am so moved by your beautiful work! The intersection of family, art, nature, poetry - wow! I love your vision about researching the quotes and I look forward to learning about the people behind these inspirational quotes.ReplyDelete
Hi Maureen, & thank you. It seems this is a year full of connections, too. Love it!Delete
I love that quote by St Francis of Assissi because it seems counterintuitive. You have to stop and think what it means for yourself. How it would "work", so to speak, in your life. The possibilities are always there, waiting for us. We just have to be open to "seeing" them. I'll look forward to reading future posts about the people behind the quotes.ReplyDelete
I have never seen this particular quote before, so am so happy to find it. You've given me more ideas to think about, Elisa. Thank you!Delete
I was behind a car today whose license plate read "BEYOND," and it made me think of one-little-words. Perhaps that is the driver's word. I have never picked one for myself, but it does seem like it would help guide you, as something to return to. A place to plant your flag, as it were.ReplyDelete
Well, guess that person would really have had to plan ahead for it to be her or his OLW. But I never thought that one could announce a favorite word to the word on one's license plate. Hm-m! Thanks for telling me Tabatha!Delete
Thank you for the inspiration. I love the concept of one little word...I call my a yearly intention. The St. Francis of Assisi quote is awesome! I'm tucking it away. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens for you this year. Cheers.ReplyDelete
I love your theme: Possibilities - such a beautiful word, pregnant with ripening ideas, bursting with so much promising goodness, luscious. I've always perceived life with the promise of infinite possibilities before me, and in time, I make things happen, if the universe means for it to happen. Somehow, I never really thought of anything as 'impossible' - maybe not possible now, but it can be, soon, in the future - when the moment is perfect for it. :) I love this post.ReplyDelete


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"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere."~2 Cor. 2:14
This verse has been our family life verse since 2000 when God began exchanging our plans with His own. He began faithfully to show how He would work and lead us, and while it didn't make sense on a professional level, we wanted to walk with Him.
We thought we would travel one path of medicine, but He called us to something much longer in training, much more demanding in time, but in the end right where ministry can happen, where the fragrance of Jesus Christ can be spread. His grace and enduring faithfulness can be seen and shared with people in their darkest times.
We thought we would be blessed with 2 children, a boy and a girl, and I was thrilled for my story is one of being told I would be infertile. And yet God had a way of changing hearts and steering minds to show us His plan that looks so different to most of the world. My prayer is that my children are a fragrance of life. Being a mother is really, really hard work. But He leads! Praise Him that He leads. When I remember this and allow Him to take the lead, we always walk triumphantly, may not be easy, may not be comfortable, but we are always triumphant for we walk in His grace, His strength, His joy.
I thought I would begin this blog with this desire: that all I would say, all I would write or share would source itself in Jesus alone, to speak His words as they apply to me that they would be the aroma of Christ to you. To know Him is all I desire and to serve Him in every facet of my life is my aim.


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Those of you who made it through my rambling posts on theoretical aspects of oil infusions and various types thereof are probably wondering how much more can I draw the topic out. Though most of you probably don't spend valuable mind time wondering about a blogger's posting habits. Good on you.
However, I really do believe it's important to know what you're getting yourself into before you actually do it. Especially in the case of things that are very easy to make, as oil infusions are. It's way too easy to just mash a few things together in a way that kinda feels right, and then feel awesome about it... until results come in. And on many herbalism, cooking or nature-related blogs you will read that "It's really very easy! Just do this one thing and then this second thing!" This fits with our 21st century expectation of getting things immediately and in three easy steps max, but it's a really bad idea when transplanted to the ancient disciplines that follow nature's laws and don't bow down to smartphones.
Like gardening, or herbalism or cooking.
That being said, making oil infusions really is, technically, a process in three easy steps. The overall technique can be summed up thusly:
- Choose your container and sterilise it.
- Choose your herbal matter and mince it.
- Choose your oil and add it.
And if you know what is it you want to make and which herbs are you working with, that's all. If you don't... well, that's when you try to chop blackseed with a knife or pour boiling water over a jar with fresh basil leaves already inside. I've seen these things happen. It's not pretty.
Below you will find some recipes for the basic, many-purposed oil infusions that are handy in any witchy kitchen. But before that,
A Few Last-Minute Tips
- Infusions with fresh herbs have a shorter shelf life than those made with dried material. Check both for mold from time to time anyway.
- You can use distilled vinegar to sterilise fresh herbs before infusing to reduce molding risk. Remember to dry the vinegar with a paper towel or napkin.
- Herbs with strong aromas and tastes will dominate your infusion. If you want the more subtle aromas to be perceptible, avoid pairing them with domineering partners. However, if you're making oils for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, this should take the back seat to actual properties.
- Never expose edible oils to direct sunlight. If you feel you absolutely must expose your infusion to the sun (for spiritual reasons, for example), use a solid container such as a tin or a stone jar. Spiritual satisfaction is all very well, but you only have one liver.
Basic Recipes
I like to ascribe these to the four classical elements, but this is mostly for spiritual reasons and follows my own perception of the herbs involved.
Earth Oil - evocative of the element of earth, this oil will have a strong, heavy aroma and significant anti-bacterial properties.
- Garlic cloves
- Rosemary sprigs
- Olive oil
Fire Oil - evocative of the element of fire, this oil will be hot and spicy, and have strong antiseptic properties.
- Cayenne powder
- Blackseed seeds
- Tricolor Peppercorns
- Olive oil
Water Oil - evocative of the element of water, this oil will have a soothing aroma and strong calming properties.
- Lemonbalm leaves
- Lavender sprigs
- Peppermint leaves
- Coconut or rice oil
Air Oil - evocative of the element of air, this oil will have a fresh aroma and significant anti-bacterial properties
- Sage leaves
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a great stickler for accuracy in the repetition of all familiar word-forms. The zeal of a child in correcting others' language, and the comical errors he will now and again fall into in exercising his pedagogic function, are well known to parents. Sometimes he shows himself the most absurd of pedants. "Shall I read to you out of this book, baby?" asked a mother of her boy, about two years and a half old. "No," replied the infant, "not out of dot book, but somepy inside of it." The same little stickler for verbal accuracy, when his nurse asked him, "Are you going to build your bricks, baby?" replied solemnly, "We don't build bricks, we make them and then build with them." In the notes on the boy C—— we find an example of how jealously the child-mind insists on the ipsissima verba in the recounting of his familiar stories.
I have in this essay confined myself to some of the more common and elementary features of the child's linguistic experience. Others present themselves when the reading stage is reached, and the new, strange, stupid-looking word-symbol on the printed page has to do duty for the living sound, which for the child, as we have seen, seems to belong to the object and to share in its life. But this subject, tempting as it is, must be left. And the same must be said of these special difficulties and problems which arise for the child-mind when two or more languages are spoken. This is a branch of child-linguistics which, so far as I know, has never been explored.
WHETHER there is any such entity as absolute truth we leave for the metaphysician to determine. Out of a vast number of factors which may affect truth in general, we here select a few which are to-day deflecting and limiting human truth. There are factors inherent in the self at its present stage of development, or, more broadly speaking, certain psychical laws which man's present nature will not allow him to change or to evade. So long as the present intense struggle for existence continues, so long must the existence of the self be a constant menace to the full truth, and a partial truth is often worse than a lie.
Our own actions do not raise in us the same feelings as similar actions on the part of others. Egoistic emotion is more or less present with all. Egoistic emotion invariably warps the truth. We do a thing, and it seems all right; another does the same thing, and it seems all wrong. A man of high moral ideal found fault with his neighbor for working on Sunday about a suburban


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in 1500; but before this date he had entered the service of Henry VII. In June 1499, being then described as prothonotary, he went on an embassy to Louis XII of France, and he, on his return, occupied the position of king's secretary (cf. Gairdner, Letters and Papers of Richard III and Henry VII, Rolls Ser. i. 405, &c.; Cal. State Papers, Venetian, i. 795, 799). Ruthall had a long series of ecclesiastical preferments. In 1495 he had the rectory of Bocking, Essex, in 1502 he became a prebendary of Wells, and in 1503 archdeacon of Gloucester and chancellor of Cambridge University. In 1505 he was made prebendary of Lincoln, and was appointed dean there (not, as Wood says, at Salisbury). Henry VII, who had already made him a privy councillor, appointed him bishop of Durham in 1509, but died before he was consecrated. Henry VIII confirmed his appointment, and continued him in the office of secretary. He went to France with the king in 1513 with a hundred men, but was sent back to England when James IV threatened war. He took a great part in the preparations for defence, and wrote to Wolsey after Flodden. He was present at the marriage of Louis XII and the Princess Mary in 1514, and in 1516 was made keeper of the privy seal. In 1518 he was present when Wolsey was made legate, and was one of the commissioners when the Princess Mary was betrothed to the Dauphin. He was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, and was again at Calais with Wolsey in 1521. When Buckingham was examined by the king, Ruthall was present as secretary. A story is told that being asked to make up an account of the kingdom, he did so, but accidentally gave in to the king another account treating of his own property, which was very large, and that he became ill with chagrin. He was a hardworking official who did a great deal of the interviewing necessary in diplomatic negotiations. Brewer represents him as Wolsey's drudge, and Giustinian speaks of his 'singing treble to the cardinal's bass.' He died on 4 Feb. 1522-3 at Durham Place, London, and was buried in St. John's Chapel, Westminster Abbey.
Ruthall was interested in architecture. He repaired the bridge at Newcastle, and built a great chamber at Bishop Auckland. He also increased the endowment of the grammar school at Cirencester which had been established by John Chedworth, bishop of Lincoln, in 1460. It afterwards fell into difficulties when the chantry commissioners of Edward VI's day attacked its endowments, which were not fully restored till 1573.
[Cooper's Athenae Cantabr. i. 27; Wood's Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 722; Wriothesley's Chron. (Camd. Soc.) i. 12; Chron. of Calais (Camd. Soc.) pp. 12, 19, 30; Letters and Papers of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. Gairdner (Rolls Ser.), i. 132, 405, 412, 414, ii. 338; Friedmann's Anne Boleyn, ii. 322; Leland's Itinerary, ii. 50, 51; Brewer's Henry VIII, i. 27 n.; Giustinian's Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII (ed. Rawdon Brown), i. 73 n., ii. 25 n.; Chesham's Cirencester, p. 213; Cal. State Papers, Venetian, 1509-19 passim, 1520-6 passim; in the index to Vol. i. of the Spanish Series he is confused with Fox, cf. p. 158; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, vols. i. and ii.]
RUTHERFORD, ANDREW, Earl of Teviot (d. 1664), was the only son of William Rutherford of Quarrelholes, Roxburghshire, a cadet of the Rutherfords of Hunthill, by Isabella, daughter of Sir James Stuart of Traquair. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, and at an early period he entered the French service, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. He returned to Scotland at the Restoration, and, being specially recommended by the French king to Charles II, was by patent dated Whitehall, 10 Jan. 1661, created Lord Rutherford 'to his heirs and assignees whatsoever, and that under the provisions, restrictions, and conditions which the said Lord Rutherford should think fit.' Soon afterwards he was appointed governor of Dunkirk, which had been captured from the Spanish in 1658, and was held in joint possession by the French and English. On the transference of the town in 1662 to Louis XII of France for 400,000l., Rutherford returned to England, and in recognition of his able services as governor he was on 2 Feb. 1663 created Earl of Teviot, with limitation to heirs male of his body. In April he was appointed colonel of the second or Tangier regiment of foot, and the same year was named governor of Tangier, where he was killed in a sally against the Moors on 4 May 1664. By his will he made provision for the erection of eight chambers in the college of Edinburgh, and gave directions that a Latin inscription which he had composed should be placed upon the building. By his death without lawful male issue the earldom of Teviot became extinct; but on 23 Dec. 1663 he had executed at Portsmouth a general settlement of his estates and dignities to Sir Thomas Rutherford of Hunthill, who on 16 Dec. 1665 was served heir in his title of Lord Rutherford and also in his lands.
[Monteath's Theatre of Mortality; Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), ii. 458–9; Jeffrey's Hist. of Roxburghshire, ii. 286–8.]


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Maintaining a fiscally responsible town budget, combating property crimes, improving downtown parking conditions and encouraging community partnerships were among the main themes of Danville Mayor Karen Stepper's State of the Town address Thursday.
"I'm up here because you're out there helping in so many ways in our community," Stepper told the audience during her 46-minute speech at Crow Canyon Country Club. "We are so honored to be here as the council and to serve you because you are the people that give us such a rich life in this area, a richness of friendships and giving."
More than 150 business professionals, town representatives, regional government officials and other community members attended the luncheon event, organized by the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce.
A 40-year Danville resident, Stepper is in her fourth term on the Town Council and serving as town mayor for the third time in 2016.
"We are one of the best-budgeted cities ... Everyone looks to Danville," Stepper said toward the beginning of her State of the Town address.
"We don't have debt," she added. "We don't spend money that we don't have yet, and ... We don't have pension debt that other communities have."
The town budget includes $23.6 million in general fund revenue, the mayor told the audience.
The main revenue sources are local taxes, with about 65% coming from property taxes and about 20% from sales taxes, she said, adding that those two sources continue to trend upward.
Danville is also "the most cost-effective" local government in the Tri-Valley, completing a wide range of projects and offering quality services while spending approximately $652 per citizen per year, compared to San Ramon at $933 and to Pleasanton on the high end at $2,284, Stepper said.
"We can do this because of you, because you volunteer in so many ways," she told the audience.
On the police services side, Stepper said the town is experiencing an uptick in property crimes following a downward trend between 2010 and 2013.
"It's not a Danville (issue); it's the entire county, the East Bay, is seeing a rise in property crime, and it comes with the economy," the mayor added.
Danville police have prioritized property crime prevention through efforts such as focusing more investigative time on burglary cases, increased patrols, public education on theft prevention, outreach via social media and implementing license-plate recognition camera technology, she said.
Downtown parking availability is another high priority for the town this year, according to Stepper, noting that a recent traffic assessment study found downtown public parking averages 58% filled overall but reaches 90% average during lunch hours.
Town officials plan to work on a program to encourage business employees not to park downtown, convert some existing no-parking zones to open parking and support new parking projects, Stepper said.
The council is looking at adding a new public lot with 81 spaces on town-owned property on Rose Street, expanding the public park-and-ride lot by 115 spaces and working with the school district to add 200 new spaces of on-campus parking at San Ramon Valley High School, located just outside downtown, the mayor added.
Stepper also talked about joining Tri-Valley mayors on an annual trip to Washington, D.C., last month to attend the U.S. Mayors' Conference and to lobby federal officials on issues and projects important to the region.
Transportation was among the trip's key talking points, including making Highway 84 more efficient, expanding BART to Livermore, connecting BART to ACE (Altamont Corridor Express) Train and creating Iron Horse Regional Trail crossings, Stepper said.
She spoke about the "synergy" created by productive partnerships with regional organizations and officials, including Contra Costa County Supervisor Candace Andersen and State Assemblywoman Catharine Baker -- both in attendance Thursday.
Stepper highlighted the cooperation between the town and the chamber, saying, "Our downtown is where we spend a great deal of our budget revenue and time so that we can attract people to Danville, to all of our businesses."
The town also continues to support local groups organizing regular community events, which help Danville maintain it's "small-town atmosphere," Stepper said, listing events such as ceremonies for local military veterans and first responders, the Fourth of July parade, Hot Summer Nights, Lighting of the Old Oak Tree and Saturday farmers market.
"We appreciate the fact that you're the ones who put these events on, that you're our community partners," she added.
Town recreation programs continue to grow, and officials are working to support that expansion while also engaging residents about what new programs and services they'd like to see added, Stepper said.
She also spotlighted the town's road improvement projects downtown on Hartz and Railroad avenues, and raved about the completion of the private Danville Hotel Town Center retail and residential project, which also included renovation of the historic Danville Hotel and McCauley House.
The town is also working to add four new bocce courts at Sycamore Valley Park and put in a new play area at Osage Station Park in addition to the replacement of synthetic turf at Diablo Vista Park, she noted.
In response to the statewide drought, the town has cut back on its water use by 48% between 2012 and now, according to Stepper. "That's a huge drop in water usage," she said.
Stepper also talked about regional transportation efforts such as the express lanes projects on Interstate 680 and I-580 as well as the TRAFFIX school congestion relief program.
The need to divert more solid waste away from landfills, the town's continued support of arts programs and key private historic preservation projects at the Danville Hotel, McCauley House and Austin Root House were among the topics to round out Stepper's address.
She closed by referencing a proclamation she presented after being sworn in as mayor in December, her "challenge to the town of Danville citizens."
"As mayor of your town, I challenge you to be a volunteer during 2016," the proclamation states, in part. "We will continue to be your partner as you are inspired to find new ways to make Danville special, and we will gratefully recognize your successes on Dec. 6, 2016 at our Community Service Awards night."
"Tell me about your passion for Danville and what you're doing this year," she said at the end of her speech Thursday, urging attendees to meet her call and continue volunteering in Danville.


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The Alley Fellowship is a two-month rotating exhibition and lecture fellowship open to emerging, young, progressive artists in Los Angeles. The Fellowship will be awarded to the six artists who best embody the spirit of transdisciplinary creative exploration which RCH and A+D aim to promote. The selected fellows will receive both logistic, curatorial and financial support to implement a design installation within the Alley Gallery at A+D. Each participant will then present their installation, their thoughts, process and creative viewpoints with a lecture at Rios Clementi Hale. The Fellows will be selected by a seven-member jury consisting of artists, designers, and architects from the A+D family and Rios Clementi Hale Studios.
The Alley Fellowship was established as a partnership between Rios Clementi Hale Studios and A+D Architecture and Design Museum. This partnership rose organically out of each organization's desire to provide a platform from which to support emerging cross-disciplinary artists. The Alley Gallery, recently constructed within the museum, provides a fresh space for emerging artists to contribute their voice to the narrative.
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Rios Clementi Hale Studios has earned an international reputation for its collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach, establishing an award-winning tradition across an unprecedented range of design disciplines. The firm's partners— Mark Rios, FAIA, FASLA, Julie Smith-Clementi, IDSA, Frank Clementi, FAIA, AIGA, Bob Hale, FAIA, Mark Motonaga, and Jessamyn Davis — comprise a team involved in every aspect of design, from practice to education. Acknowledging the firm's diverse body of work, the American Institute of Architects California Council gave Rios Clementi Hale Studios its 2007 Firm Award, the organization's highest honor. For its varied landscape work—from civic parks to private gardens — the firm was named a finalist in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. Since 1985, the architects, landscape architects, planners, and urban, interior, exhibit, graphic, and product designers at Rios Clementi Hale Studios have been creating buildings, places, and products that are thoughtful, effective, and beautiful. In 2017, Rios Clementi Hale Studios released its first book entitled Not Neutral: For Every Place, Its Story, a robust visual collection of the firm's multi-disciplinary work, published by AMMO Books.
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Country music is popular throughout the United States. In its roots and origins, it reaches back to the fiddle tunes and melodies in the glens and dales of Scotland, the folk ballads of the English, and the mournful spirituals of African-American slaves.
The history is vast and rich, but a vital part of the story of country music can be seen by simply looking at three phases that developed in Tennessee. Country music moved westward across Tennessee, enriching and enlarging this most American type of music.
Music was prevalent throughout rural America. From Gospel hymns to barn dance tunes, people played fiddles, banjos, and guitars, tapped their feet to the rhythms, sang along, or danced to music. Then along came the phonograph and the technology to record music. A Tennessee farmer named A. P. Carter took his wife Sarah and sister-in-law Maybelle to Bristol, Tennessee, to give this record-making idea a try. The year was 1927, and to some extent, country music began then and there.
The Carter Family, as this trio was known, created, developed, enriched, compiled, and defined country music. They were super-stars in their day, with an impact that has yet to be diminished. A. P. Carter traveled the countryside for years collecting songs folk songs, gospel tunes, and ballads. Sarah was a defining singer with a mournful voice that echoed the pain of her listeners. The most successful of the three, Maybelle Carter, developed a style of guitar picking known as "the Carter scratch."
The original Carter Family fell apart after the breakup of A.P. and Sarah's marriage, but the music continued as Mother Maybelle sang alongside her three daughters. In time, daughter June rescued and married a young singer named Johnny Cash.
Another giant puzzle piece in the Bristol, Tennessee, story is the recordings of the other super-star Jimmie Rogers. The Mississippi Blue Yodeler, fighting off a death sentence by tuberculosis, sang songs of home, trains, love, lust, and life that inspired every country singer for at least three generations. From Ernest Tubb in Texas to Hank Snow from Canada, young boys learned a few guitar chords, practiced yodeling, sought out listeners, and followed the pathway set out by Rogers. His short, troubled life of sorrow was a metaphor of the hardships of life—largely self-imposed—endured by many a country singer, and not very different from many of their fans.
From the records going back to the days of the Carters, Jimmie Rogers, the Delmore Brothers, Vernon Dalhart, and others, to the next phase of country music, the radio became the Internet, iTunes, and Spotify of the age. Barn dances had long been a part of rural life, but now the barn dance became the venue for set weekly entertainment. Across the country, and not just in the South, weekend performances of country, or as it was often termed "hillbilly," music was heard on battery-powered radios at nights in the hills, hollers, and valleys across rural America. Even those who moved to the cities for better jobs found their yearning for home at least partially pacified by radio barn dance programs.
In time, one radio show eclipsed them all. It was a barn dance program on the 650 WSM radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, that was performed at an old church building known as the Ryman Auditorium. The announcer, Judge George D. Hay, began the show one night saying, "From the past hour, we have been listening to music taken from Grand Opera. From now on, we will be listening to the Grand Ole Opry." The name stuck. Beginning on November 28, 1925, the Opry is the longest running radio program in America. It is still the "Mother Church of Country Music"; it is still the longed-for starting point for the careers of singers; it still defines a singer as true country.
Interstate Highway 40 between Memphis and Nashville is aptly termed "Music Highway." That route links two vital cities and legacies of American music. Not only is Nashville a birthplace and definer of music, but Memphis has its own rich and varied story, actually many stories, about music. The history of Memphis is tied to the cotton culture of the old South; hence, it is more tied to slavery and the contours of the mixing of races and cultures in the South. Musically, the culture is revealed on Beale Street, where music still dominates the clubs and street every night of the week.
Memphis not only gave birth to the blues, but it changed the tempo and content of the country music rooted in Nashville. As music continued to expand from front porches, churches, and dance halls to the radio and record industry, the genres were not always clearly defined. The musical styles were as integrated as the society was segregated. The six strings of the guitar may have had as much to do with overcoming racial barriers than civil rights legislation.
Fittingly, the Memphis music scene produced both B.B. King and Elvis Presley. Appealing to a more youthful, less rural culture, the music became faster, edgier, louder, more suggestive, and more driving. These were still country boys strumming guitars or playing pianos, and there were still gospel tunes and folk ballads in the mix, but the music was breaking the molds of Bristol and Nashville. Sun Records, with its recording studio located on Beale Street, became the defining institution and force for a music that mixed country and blues roots, with new artists appealing beyond the farmers and factory workers who listened to the Opry on Saturday nights. Along with Elvis, there were other young guys such as John R. Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
From the eastern corner of Tennessee, on the edge of the Smoky Mountains, across to rolling hills of middle Tennessee, to the southwest corner on the rolling Mississippi River, country music reached across the state, and from there, across the nation and the world.


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String Theory: The History of Dark Energy
Recent findings have indicated that the expansion rate of the universe is actually increasing, meaning that the cosmological constant has a positive value. This repulsive gravity — or dark energy — is actually pushing the universe apart. This is one major feature of the universe that string theory may be able to explain.
Einstein's cosmological constant allowed for a uniform repulsive energy throughout the universe. Since Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, most scientists have believed that the cosmological constant was zero (or possibly slightly negative).
In 1998, two teams of astronomers announced the same results: Studies of distant supernovas (exploding stars) showed that stars looked dimmer than expected. The only way to account for this was if the stars were somehow farther away than expected, but the physicists had already accounted for the expansion of the universe. The explanation eventually found was startling: The rate of expansion of the universe was accelerating.
To explain this, physicists realized that there had to be some sort of repulsive gravity that worked on large scales (see the figure). On small scales, normal gravity rules, but on larger scales the repulsive gravity force of dark energy seemed to take over.
This doesn't contradict the idea that the universe is flat — but it makes the fact that it is flat, while still expanding, a very unusual and unexpected set of circumstances, which required very narrow parameters on the early conditions of our universe.
Repulsive gravity is theorized by inflation theory, but that's a rapid hyper-expansion in the early phases of the universe. Today's expansion due to dark energy may be remnants of the repulsive gravity from inflation, or it may be an entirely distinct phenomenon.
The finding of dark energy (or a positive cosmological constant, which it is roughly similar to) creates major theoretical hurdles, especially considering how weak dark energy is.
For years, quantum field theory predicted a huge cosmological constant, but most physicists assumed that some property (such as supersymmetry, which does reduce the cosmological constant value) canceled it out to zero. Instead, the value is non-zero, but differs from theoretical predictions by nearly 120 decimal places!
In fact, results from the WMAP show that the vast majority of material in our present universe — about 73 percent — is made up of dark energy (remember from relativity that matter and energy are different forms of the same thing: E = mc2, after all).
The five-year WMAP data, released in 2008 and shown in this figure, also allows you to compare the composition of the present universe with the material present in the universe 13.7 billion years ago. The dark energy was a vanishingly small slice of the pie 13.7 billion years ago, but today it eclipses matter and drives the universe's expansion.
The history of the universe is a fascinating topic for study, and trying to understand the meaning of this dark energy is one of the key aspects of modern cosmology. It's also one of the key challenges to modern variations of string theory.
Today, many string theorists devote attention to these cosmological mysteries of the universe's origins and evolution because they provide a universal playground on which the ideas of string theory can be explored, potentially at energy levels where string behavior may manifest itself.
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Midland energy leaders expand campuses
MIDLAND – Oil companies are investing millions to build modern campus-like office space with many amenities. While many companies have moved north where more property is available, there still is significant interest in downtown.
Downtown Midland office buildings have typically been set up for multiple tenants, whereas large companies prefer their own buildings in campus-like settings, said former Midland mayor Wes Perry.
With all of downtown's Class A office space full and "even the 'C' space is going up, price-wise, the market is very healthy and creates opportunities for us all," said Perry.
Concho Resources acquired the ten-story Hightower Building and a nearby six-story building from Basic Energy Services in 2011 and spent about 18 months renovating the 180,000 sf of space into One Concho Center.
Pioneer Natural Resources, currently located downtown in the Bank of America Building, is constructing a $50 million six-story office building — complete with day care and cafeteria — north of ClayDesta Center on north Big Spring St. The project includes a three-story parking garage adjacent to the office building.
Fasken Oil & Ranch built a 60,000-sf two-story office building to accommodate its 150-plus employees in the southeastern-most section of the C Ranch. The office building was the first step in The Vineyards development, which will include The Office Park at The Vineyards, where two office buildings are under construction.
Chevron, located in ClayDesta Plaza at 15 Smith Rd., will head west in 2015 after the completion of its new $100 million campus near the Scharbauer Sports Complex. The new campus will have two four-story buildings totaling 330,000 sf with the capacity to accommodate 800 employees.
Establishing a vital downtown is a challenge every city faces, said Perry, and Midland is hampered by a shortage of ancillary attractions like retail and grocery stores and residences. That is why construction of Wall St. Lofts is so important: It will help provide that 24-hour component, said Perry.
Read more at the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
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The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office needs your tips to catch a thief who stole an Amazon package from a Lake Oswego porch. Surveillance video is available of the brazen heist.
As seen in the below-linked video, at approximately 1:15 p.m. on March 11, 2016, the "Amazon Package Pirate" walks up to a front door of a house in the 16200 block of SW Lake Forest Blvd. in Lake Oswego.
The suspect picks up the Amazon package, knocks on the door (presumably so he can pretend to be a delivery person if someone answers), and when he sees that no one is answering, he makes off with the package.
However, thanks to excellent porch surveillance video, we have a clear look at the Amazon Package Pirate.
The Amazon Package Pirate is described as a white male, bald, wearing dark pants, a red-and-black checkered fleece jacket, and white sneakers with black laces.
Still photos of the suspect taken from the surveillance video are also attached.
Anyone with information on the identity of the Amazon Package Pirate is urged to contact us -- by phone at 503-723-4949 or by using the online email form athttp://web3.clackamas.us/contact/tip.jsp . Please reference CCSO Case # 16-6670.
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Jotlund serves no useful purpose. It is inhospitable and could not support vikings. The limits on viking sailing distance would not be mitigated by anything related to jotlund. There is no food and no wood on Jotlund for the vikings to use to extend their journeys, because it is ice and rock. It does not enable substantially easier migration for the first wallaseans either; they would still have to walk enormous distances over glaciers or whatever else, even if a tiny portion of their journey would be over land.
In exchange for these non benefits, Jotlund generates problems with the contemp balance. Jotlund should realistically be used for radar stations, land based aviation, and other dumb purposes. It is in a critical location. We could rely on player camaraderie to avoid dumb purposes, but then we are essentially handwaving the canon - and jotlund exists to avoid handwaving.
If we have to handwave, let it be related to non issues like viking sailing distance, and not to serious issues like strat balance. Let's remove Jotlund.
Jotlund should be removed
I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that.
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im writing something p ridiculous
im sure @leis willl hate it
im writing something p ridiculous
im sure @leis willl hate it
Re: Jotlund should be removed
I know it doesn't directly pertain to anything that I am sperging, but I would prefer some kind of island or chain (think Faroes, maybe, too rocky or small to really create a serious military presence that totally alters the balance of power, but large enough to act as a stopover where people herd sheep and fish for salmon or whatever). Let's avoid totally handwaving stuff even if its small things like viking migrations, otherwise we will probably just come back to it later and fix it anyway imo
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Re: Jotlund should be removed
Agree - Jotlund is dumb
Re: island chain where ppl can herd sheep and farm... it's still the same strategic problem because those islands would realistically be used for airstrips etc. Leave the northern Oryontic alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: island chain where ppl can herd sheep and farm... it's still the same strategic problem because those islands would realistically be used for airstrips etc. Leave the northern Oryontic alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: Jotlund should be removed
Jotlund you are a beatdown machine. You are in a position of fiscal superiority and you know it. I hope you are vaporized, arrogant pig.
<leis2> Otoh i am also an antiquarian so im legitimately interested in how purple dye was made in sidon
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Following up on a commitment made at the time it acquired the two companies, Blackboard has announced that Collaborate, its new collaborative learning suite that taps into technology from Elluminate and Wimba, will work with competing learning management systems. This will allow Collaborate to pull user, course, and enrollment data from the various LMSes.
The new integrations are built on open application programming interfaces and are expected to work with Blackboard's Learn, Angel, and WebCT, as well as open source offerings Sakai and Moodle and proprietary products Desire2Learn Learning Environment, Pearson LearningStudio, and others.
Wimba Pronto Universal Integration connects Wimba Classroom, a virtual classroom environment, and Wimba Voice, a live audio tool, with Desire2Learn. According to the company, the integration code meets the IMS Global Learning Consortium's standard for Basic Learning Tools Interoperability.
The company also released a new version of the Elluminate Bridge for Moodle. Elluminate Live is a set of tools that includes note taking features, two-way interactive video, archiving and automatic indexing of e-learning sessions, organizational tools for teachers, whiteboarding, and other collaboration utilities.
"Our goal is to support teaching and learning wherever it happens, regardless of what learning management system is being used," said Maurice Heiblum, president of Blackboard Collaborate. "To that end, we continue to invest in open, standards-based integrations that increase availability and choice for institutions and ensure that our existing customers and prospects are well positioned for the future."
At the time the acquisitions of Wimba and Elluminate were announced, Ray Henderson, Blackboard Learn's president who was initially designated to lead the team to integrate Learn, Wimba, and Elluminate, expressly stated Blackboard's intention to continue supporting the two companies' support of products from open source and commercial LMS vendors. "I'm confident in our ability to maintain positive experiences for clients and learners in all contexts, regardless of which learning management system is used," he said in July 2010.
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