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We cannot expect big American cities to reach their potential when the very professions that purport to defend and perpetuate urbanism recoil at the presence of towers. Left rudderless by the experts, we are forced to inhabit the bleak consequences of a poorly regulated marketplace, analogous to a population that must operate on its own cancers due to the confused surgeons who keep cutting away at the healthy tissue. — Places Journal
Americans are famously conflicted about urban development: somehow we've demonized both sprawl and density. But today there is a new conversation about the future of cities, driven by diversifying social desires, evolving technologies, and pressing environmental constraints. On Places, in an... View full entry
A historian might spend decades undertaking research in archives and writing up discoveries in scholarly journals, but if the work does not have a presence online — and, specifically, a presence that is not behind a paywall — it is all but invisible outside academia. As Ridge states, "If it's not Googleable, it doesn't exist." — Places Journal
Over the decades women architects have received scant attention from historians and prize juries. On Places, Despina Stratigakos writes, "The painful cancellation of Denise Scott Brown in the awarding of the Pritzker Prize solely to her husband and collaborator, Robert Venturi, is an important... View full entry
Increasingly it's been cities that have taken the lead on critical issues, from gun control to immigration reform to economic stimulus to climate change. Given the migration of people into cities worldwide, this trend is sure to continue. We might even be in a de facto transition to a society dominated by economically and politically powerful cities — a contemporary version of the great city-states that arose in the 13th century and ruled Europe until the consolidation of modern nation-states. — Places
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The Modernism worth pursuing — worth protecting — is the one where Gregor Samsa wakes up transformed into a large insect, and ends up with an apple embedded in his carapace, which is exactly what the Folk Art Museum is to the Museum of Modern Art, right now, right where it is. — Places Journal
On Places, David Heymann presents an incisive critique of MoMA's decision to raze the Folk Art Museum building, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. From a quiet beginning — "Here is why I think the American Folk Art Museum is a great Modernist building" — Heymann works his way to... View full entry
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As plans unfold for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, MIT's Lawrence Vale and Annemarie Gray consider the case of Vila Autódromo, a former fishing colony on the Olympic site whose residents have organized to resist displacement. They compare ongoing events in Rio to the... View full entry
Reading this was for me an epiphany. I could see, almost in a flash, the unity of building and landscape developing throughout Mies's building art, ultimately morphing into the podium that binds the Seagram tower to the urban landscape — plaza, platform, an oasis amid the chaos of New York. This led me to reevaluate the importance of surrounding context, in Mies's architecture throughout his career and to understand in a new light some of his statements, drawings, and photomontages. — Places Journal
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Yet another treatise on Steve Jobs? As an "architect" — really? And with Apple seemingly waning, aren't we behind the curve on this? Suffice it to say that my interest is not solely in Jobs himself, but rather in the challenge he poses to the methods and purpose of an architectural historian.... But since architectural stories are surprising rare here on the edge of the continent, I need a shtick; no matter my connoisseur-ish personal tastes and leftist political dispositions. — Places Journal
What is revealed when we contemplate the late Steve Jobs not only as a technologist extraordinaire but also as a sort of architect? And if we then compare Jobs with another complicated virtuoso, Rem Koolhaas? On Places, architectural historian Simon Sadler argues "Jobs and Koolhaas both seem to... View full entry
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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, though little known today, was not only a leading architecture critic of her day but also one of the pioneers of the field in the late 19th century. On Places, Alexandra Lange analyzes her writings and her influence. As she writes, "Mariana Van Rensselaer worked... View full entry
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In its most far-reaching aspects, container urbanism proposes to take the fundamental organic/architectural condition of containment further by exploring how a boundary might be better coordinated, even merged with the flow of material/ideas. Can containment equate more closely with transmission and, in so doing, position architecture and urbanism more in line with societal mobility and change? — Places Journal
The repurposed shipping container has become a fixture of urban architecture — part of a movement, as Mitchell Schwarzer argues, toward an "urban design as flexible, responsive and electric as the currents that feed it." On Places, Schwarzer examines the rise of container urbanism from the... View full entry
We seem to have lost the political capacity to grapple with the big picture, the long range, the global scale. To a degree we've even lost the vocabulary. In design circles it's as if the perceived failures of mid 20th-century planning — exemplified by top-down urban renewal and personified by the power-brokering Robert Moses — have induced a kind of conceptual paralysis, an inability to formulate the public sector, or public works, in terms not beholden to a discredited history. — Places Journal
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The Lord is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that mere earthly mortals
will never again strike terror.
The UK is alive with election fever. Admittedly it is an interesting year for British politics. Conservatives are winning by a landslide. The Liberal Democrats have all but disappeared. Labour clearly backed the wrong man because, despite an aggressive campaign, they hardly made any gains. Something of a revolution is going on in Scotland. And of course, UKIP are gathering a staggering amount of momentum. So forgive me for applying the Psalm to politics this morning, but I just couldn't help myself.
The truth is, this passage helps me tremendously during elections. How? It provides me realistic expectations.
Democracy is not the answer
So many of the people I talk to are disillusioned with politics. To many, it seems that we have to choose the least rubbish rather than the best. Well, what did we expect. It is all too easy for us to elevate politicians as false messiahs, saviours of the world. The problem is that there is only one Messiah, and one Saviour…Jesus Christ. He is God's appointed King and until the world acknowledges and bows the knee before Him we will never have a perfect world.
Democracy is not the answer. We were never meant to live in a democracy. We were meant to live under a monarchy, with God as our King. Politicians, political parties and political systems will come and go but God is King forever. One day that kingdom will be tangibly realised in God's new creation.
Ok so I need to throw in a few caveats at this point. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a democracy. In fact, democracy is definitely the best political option for us at the moment (in my opinion). However, we need to have realistic expectations about what democracy can and cannot do. Democracy limits the power of leaders and therefore limits the potential for abuse of power but it cannot fix he world.
People are the problem
This psalm describes human nature with terrifying honesty.
2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,
who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts about the cravings of his heart;
he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
5 His ways are always prosperous;
your laws are rejected by him;
he sneers at all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, "Nothing will ever shake me."
He swears, "No one will ever do me harm."
7 His mouth is full of lies and threats;
trouble and evil are under his tongue.
8 He lies in wait near the villages;
from ambush he murders the innocent.
His eyes watch in secret for his victims;
9 like a lion in cover he lies in wait.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless;
he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
10 His victims are crushed, they collapse;
they fall under his strength.
11 He says to himself, "God will never notice;
he covers his face and never sees."
The reason why politicians, politics and political systems will all fail, disappoint and disillusion is because they cannot change people. People are the problem. This is as true for the general public as it is for the politicians.
Does this mean that we should give up on politics? Absolutely not. It is important that we vote, speak out and pray for politicians because they do play a role in keeping order, limiting the effects of evil, and striving for progress in society. Some systems, leaders and parties will harness and restrain sinfulness more effectively than others. There is a massive difference between valuing politics and making an idol out of politics. The former recognises that we need more than political reform to change the world. We need moral reform.
We need a leader who always does what is right, who is perfect in truth, love and justice. We also need a leader who can change the hearts of his followers and make them increasingly truthful, loving and just. There is only one such leader…the Lord Jesus Christ.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever;
the nations will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;
you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,
18 defending the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that mere earthly mortals
will never again strike terror.

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What took so long? Colletti, Mattingly talk manager's new deal
LOS ANGELES — Regardless of what the Dodgers say or how they say it, their delay in announcing the return of Don Mattingly as manager Wednesday morning still didn't feel right.
It shouldn't have taken this long. It shouldn't have been so awkward. What should have been a celebratory news conference for a man who guided the Dodgers to the National League Championship Series last fall was instead reduced to a conference call.
Blame the weather. The Dodgers wanted Mattingly to fly into town earlier this week for the announcement, but flight delays across the country forced them to cancel. And the freezing weather left Mattingly's Indiana home with several broken pipes, so maybe it was a good thing he stayed home.
He knew where we were at, we knew where he was at, he wanted to be back here and we wanted him to be back here. As long as he knew that and we knew that, we didn't see a rush to do it.
Ned Colletti, Dodgers GM
Either way, it's done. Mattingly has three years to manage the team, and he has the credibility within the clubhouse that he needs going forward. Nothing mattered more to him than that.
What about the contract? Colletti said the deal was essentially done three weeks ago except for some fine-tuning. The fact it took so long was only because the team was tending to other business, he said. They knew they wanted him back.
"We had other things to do as well," Colletti said. "He knew where we were at, we knew where he was at, he wanted to be back here and we wanted him to be back here. As long as he knew that and we knew that, we didn't see a rush to do it.
"What was the rush for the announcement?"
It wasn't necessarily a rush, but it should have been a formality. Instead of Mattingly facing the media and saying he didn't want to feel he was still auditioning for the job, the Dodgers should have made that the day they said he was coming back.
Expanded entries, new concessions, bullpen overlook among Dodger Stadium enhancements for '14: http://t.co/TSiY5svjVJ pic.twitter.com/KTO9nITlRv
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 8, 2014
So even though he wasn't in limbo — at least that's what Colletti insisted Wednesday — it still seemed as if he was.
It's not the way the Dodgers do things. They don't, or at least they didn't, let matters like this get so uncomfortable. They act quickly, do the right thing and move on. But this was different.
Understandably, his frustration took over that day. He had no assurances about his long-term future, and the team didn't even announce that his contract had been vested for 2014 with its advancement to the NLCS. Mattingly had to do that himself.
"I kind of thought, at least, that would have been said that day, but it kind of got left open, and that's what got me going a little bit," he said Wednesday. "If I had it to do over again, I would prefer to do it in-house."
But that didn't happen, and it left him hanging. He said he didn't intend to force the Dodgers' hand with his pronouncement that he didn't want to be anywhere he wasn't wanted, but that's exactly what he did. In a way, he had no choice.
"I didn't go into that press conference with any preconceived notion about doing anything like that," he said. "Looking back at that day, when you get away from it for a while — at the time, you're just out of the playoffs, it's been a long season, a lot of different things have happened, there's frustration — things just come out of you."
In fact, they poured out of him. But after conversations a few days later with team president Stan Kasten and controlling owner Mark Walter, Mattingly said he felt content that things would work out. And he also had Colletti in his corner.
Aerial view of Dodger Stadium upgrades expected to be ready by Opening Day: http://t.co/DiZgD0Tj4v
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) January 8, 2014
"I don't think anybody felt any differently about Don Mattingly from before that to after that to today," Colletti said of the now-infamous media conference. "It was always in our plans to do what we're doing today."
Perhaps, but it should have been sooner.
The Dodgers owed Mattingly that much. He earned it.


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We normally hit Ham Ji Park, Dong Il Jang, Gilmok, Guimok and Sa Rit Gol for our Korean barbecue fix. We decided to venture out to a new place and stumbled upon Yissi HwaRo at the Chapman Plaza. Well, not so much stumbled upon as fought through the clusterf**k of a parking situation and let our sense of smell guide us. It was well worth it.
Apparently, they're more known for their various styles of pork belly (plain, spicy, beer- or wine-marinated, miso-marinated, smoked), but we had recently had our fill of porcine goodness at Ham Ji Park, so we decided to stick with an all-beef menu. If memory serves me, their combo menus range from 69.00 to 99.00 dollars. We ordered Combo #2, $89.00, which comes with the usual (and not-so-usual) accroutements:
Lettuce, cabbage and green onion slaw with a wasabi-soy sauce dressing
Cilantro, red onion and millet salad
Panchan (radish water kimchi and spicy raw crab were the standouts)
Denjang chigae (bean paste and tofu soup)
Choice of soju or beer
Had I not fallen victim to a meat-induced swoon, I would have had the presence to write everything down. Alas, I was fixated on the meat and did not. I do remember rib-eye, boneless short rib and deckle being in the mix. I think there were two or three other cuts as well. Maybe diamond-cut top sirloin too? All high-quality, well-marbled, tender, flavorful and beautifully presented in a wooden gift box, along with a sliced onion, potatoes, mushrooms and a segment of well-fermented napa cabbage kimchi. The non-meat ingredients are placed in a perimeter along the circumference of the grill to soak up all the meaty juices. After seasoning the grilling surface with the onion, more flavor and oil are added to the grill with a yo-yo sized piece of beef fat marbled with meat. Truth be told, we were tempted to keep that piece on there! Then on came the meat.
We feasted, embellishing the meaty morsels with sliced jalapenos or garlic with bean paste. Or making lettuce parcels with the meat and panchan. Were were also provided two different dipping sauces: a piquant spicy soy sauce-based one and a simpler, more subtle one composed of sesame oil and sea salt.
Although all of our servers looked like escapees from a Korean boy band circa 1995, the service was top-notch. They were all incredibly attentive. Ever-present without being intrusive, magically appearing to put more meat on the grill when needed or tend to the actual cooking of the meat as well. Replenishing dishes as they emptied.
After we had stuffed ourselves silly and were in the full throes of the meat sweats, a server brought out a plate of rice, diced beef, seaweed, kimchi and other magical ingredients and made fried rice for us. Although our bellies strained against our waistbands, we had no choice but to partake, alternating between the fried rice and the denjang chigae to create a harmonious blend of flavors.
The four of us sat in a stupor, eyes glazing over, looking at each other, then at the decimated array of food, then back at each other. What a memorable meal. One of the best in a very long time. I cannot wait to go back and confirm that our first time at Yissi HwaRo was not an anomaly. Plus, I want to try their pork belly. And their arrowroot neng-myun. And their various chigaes. Happy chowing, everyone!
Yissi HwaRo
3465 W. 6th Street #130
Los Angeles, CA 90020
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Top 25 Mid-Size Cities
1. St. Petersburg, Fla.
- World-renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly will present his work at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Fla.
In the gold position for the first time, the Sunshine City can now boast about more than its standard 360 days of sun a year. The arts are everywhere in St. Petersburg, from world-renowned institutions, such as the under-construction Salvador Dali Museum (opening Jan. 11, 2011) and the newly expanded Museum of Fine Arts, to the private art galleries that line its downtown streets. Resident Melody Delaney notes, "St. Petersburg has a unique and vibrant arts scene. Whether it be visual or performance art, the city deserves more credit than it's often given." With the community's continuing strides in developing its art scene, St. Pete could enjoy a place at the top for years to come.
An example of the commitment to grow its artistic influence can be seen in the expansion and presentation of a new permanent exhibit at the Morean Arts Center. Beginning July 4, the Morean will present a gallery of works by famed glass artist Dale Chihuly. The "Chihuly Collection," featured at the center's new 10,000-square-foot space, will present works from throughout the glass pioneer's career. Along with this collection, the Morean will also be opening a 4,000-square-foot Glass Studio & Hot Shop that will provide furnaces, kilns, studio space and seating for visitors to watch glass artists at work. Opening in early June, this exciting addition is expected to be a new home to artists across the state.
2. New Orleans, La.
- Shannon Landis Hansen's "Still Standing" is one of the 19 commissions completed by New Orleans artists who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
The Big Easy moseyed its way into the top three for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The runner-up has worked hard to revitalize the city after the disaster, and art has made a considerable impact on the new New Orleans. "Artists were the first to return to our city after Katrina," says Lindsay Glatz, director of marketing and communications for the Arts Council of New Orleans. Upon their return, the art scene grew and expanded, as it continues to do five years later. Reader Sharon Fronabarger of New Hope, Pa., states, "New Orleans is more than a place to go for partying and great food; it is also a center for art and music."
In order to beautify areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, the Arts Council of New Orleans, funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation, created the "Art in Public Places" program. Twenty artists working in different mediums each received $25,000 to create original artwork and help rebuild their artistic careers. Aimed specifically at artists from Louisiana and Mississippi, the program has inspired many works with themes of hope, such as Shannon Landis Hansen's "Still Standing," and pieces honoring nature's powers, like Sally Heller's "Scrap House." The 19 completed commissions have become a fixture in New Orleans.
3. Alexandria, Va.
- Artist and Art League instructor Fred Markham participated in "Paint" Alexandria 2009. Credit: Erica Fortwengler
A newcomer to the top five, the historic city of Alexandria has recently been getting noticed as an arts destination. Located across the Potomac River just six miles from Washington, D.C., the city is making a name for itself with art festivals, events and galleries. "There is art everywhere—outdoors in the parks and streets, museums that are free or low cost, a multitude of galleries and, of course, the wonderful Torpedo Factory," says resident Mary Anne Weber. "Art is woven into the fabric of everyday life."
On June 19, The Art League, a nonprofit visual arts organization and school, presents "Paint" Alexandria 2010. This annual, free event is for artists and art lovers of all mediums, backgrounds and skill levels. The plein air affair allows visitors to explore and interpret Alexandria's oldest and most historic district with guidance from Art League instructors. Over the day, there will be numerous sessions where artists can participate as much or as little as they please, while the general public is encouraged to watch them at work.
4. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chattanooga is a city that simply lives and breathes art. Formerly referred to as the "dirtiest city in America," the Scenic City has made a huge effort to clean up its image, with the help of artists. "Chattanooga has made wonderful strides in supporting and advancing the arts in a mid-size city," says Jenny Shugart of her hometown. "It is a good example of what other cities its size can do to promote the arts." Through ArtsMove, an artist relocation program, artists have been transforming formerly abandoned buildings into new galleries and studios. With three distinct arts districts in the city, there is something for everyone.
The Hunter Museum of American Art and the Tennessee Aquarium have come together to showcase jellyfish alongside amazing glass sculptures they inspired. "Jellies: A Living Art" presents the work of four acclaimed glass artists, plus six species of jellyfish, at the aquarium through May 2011. Guests can admire the works while listening to artists describe their pieces in an audio tour. Linked to the aquarium by a corridor, the Hunter Museum offers more glass art, featuring the work of 28 additional glass artists in their exhibit "Transformations 6" through Oct. 24.
5. Buffalo, N.Y.
Buffalo, an AmericanStyle readers' favorite, proves that the Big Apple isn't the only arts destination in New York State. "Buffalo ranks at the top for contemporary art," admires reader Marilyn Suzan of Jamaica, N.Y. "The Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo Arts Studios, and a wide range of galleries are the vehicles for expression of art in various mediums. Artistic expression is appreciated, respected and encouraged at all levels in Buffalo." With more than 50 public and private galleries, art centers and museums, Buffalo's list of amenities goes on and on.
In the past year, the number of art galleries and venues has continued to grow with the opening of four new art spaces in the city. Many of them are artist-run, like Sugar City and Nobody's Art Center—exhibition spaces that offer art, music, readings and workshops, or created by a crop of young entrepreneurs, such as The Vault, an art space featuring shows and figure-drawing workshops. Other galleries are taking advantage of this movement and expanding. Marcus Wise opened 464 Gallery in 2009 to carry work by local artists, and this May opened an additional exhibition space, Blink, in the building next door.
6. Savannah, Ga.
7. Charleston, S.C.
8. Scottsdale, Ariz.
9. Pittsburgh, Pa.
10. Ann Arbor, Mich.
11. Tampa, Fla.
12. Miami, Fla.
13. Salt Lake City, Utah
14. Cleveland, Ohio
15. Minneapolis, Minn.
16. Providence, R.I.
17. Colorado Springs, Colo.
18. Athens, Ga.
19. Rochester, N.Y.
20. Cincinnati, Ohio
21. Raleigh, N.C.
22. Kansas City, Mo.
23. St. Louis, Mo.
24. Honolulu, Hawaii
25. Tacoma, Wash.


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London Chess Classic - Open
The London Chess Classic FIDE Open is a 9-round Swiss open taking place alongside the London Chess Classic in the Hilton London Olympia and Olympia Conference Centre from 9-16 December. The first prize is £7,500. Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. Official website: www.londonchessclassic.com


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Darin MacDonald
Darin MacDonald is a native of New Zealand, which is located in the South Pacific Ocean approximately 1300 miles south east of Australia. Darin grew up in the quaint art-deco town of Hawkes Bay before moving to New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, to further his musical career.
Darin was fortunate to grow up in a musical family and began playing piano at age 5. He later began singing at the age of 13. Darin performed in various musicals during his school years. As an adult, Darin regularly performed throughout New Zealand and was featured on national television. In 2001, Darin accepted a job in Singapore before moving on to other positions in Osaka, Japan. Darin later worked for three years for Carnival Cruise Lines, entertaining passengers throughout the Caribbean. Darin now resides in Southern New Jersey and performs at various venues on the Jersey Shore and throughout the Northeast.
Darin is currently involved in promoting his self-titled album released in 2009 and is hoping to spend more time recording in a studio. Darin's influences are wide ranging and include Elton John, Billy Joel, Damien Rice, Cold Play and James Taylor. Darin is happily married with three children. Darin uses his musical talents in his presentations to empower youth to overcome adversity.


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I have to admit: this week has turned out great for me! After a way-too-hectic last week, I've thankfully had time to recharge my batteries and get back to the things I love to do (and eat) on a regular basis. Plus: two pretty big accomplishments!
First of all, I've started making morning smoothies again. I've realized that I just don't have time in the morning for a proper breakfast and so getting back to making smoothies, like my Pink Power Breakfast Smoothie, has been amazing.
The other accomplishment is that after months of talking about it, I've finally rejoined the gym and started going on a regular basis. It's been harder than I realized, but going in the mornings and committing to just 20 minutes a day has been achievable. Not easy, of course, but definitely getting better–and I'm so proud of myself for it!
So what else has been going on this week? Well, I've reviewed some slow cookers, read a really great book, explored some Spring recipes and got inspired to cook a very special dinner later tonight. Check out my 5 Things Friday!
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text: 31 Jul Into the Light - The Pleiadians Greetings. We are witnessing your evolution, and it is profound. You may not currently be aware of all that you are achieving as you are in the midst of achieving it, but let us say again, it is profound. The ramifications of your work, your process are reverberating throughout the Universe, and we all are being affected by your Light. This is, our friends, what is happening now. You are assimilating more and more light. This is a physical, mental, emotional, etheric, and spiritual experience.


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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Better Than a Movie
Note to self: If I am trying to hide inside to work while Alex takes care of the kids, coming out on the back porch to take photos will (a) call attention to me and (b) destroy my solitude.
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OMG! That s hysterical! Oh, and "Here's your sign..." ;-)ReplyDelete
Oh, forgot to say...that is SO something I would have done, too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 12, 2008 at 9:13 PM
I love it; especially the umbrella. YMReplyDelete
Yeah but it's so great to capture the moment!ReplyDelete
Awesome. I love it.ReplyDelete
That is awesome!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2008 at 6:38 PM
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Friday, December 30, 2016
Spiritual Fatherhood by Abbott Elysaios of Simonopetra Monastery in Mount Athos
Friday, December 2, 2016
Finding the Way to the Heart by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
This lecture is audio only.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Friday, September 23, 2016
Preconditions for the Orthodox Participation in the Holy Mysteries by Abbott Joseph of Xeropotamou
Mount Athos, Greece Source
The Mysteries or Sacraments of the Church are the very center of the Orthodox life, beginning with Holy Baptism and Chrismation and culminating in Holy Communion. In the Mysteries we meet God Himself and thus we are called to believe and prepare for participation in them, to the salvation of our souls.
In the summer of 2013, Elder Joseph, abbot of Xeropotamou Monastery on Mt. Athos, offered a lecture to a group of American seminarians gathered in the Greek village of Petrokerasa, outside Thessaloniki concerning the "presuppositions" that ought to met in order to participate in the Sacraments of the Church. His words come from his deep experience on Mt. Athos and throughout Greece, addressing contemporary issues in Church practice:
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As all of us should know, and hopefully do know, that just because we are formally Orthodox does not mean we have the right to participate in the Sacraments, or Mysteries, of the Church, but rather, there are preconditions to participation—that is, we are called to prepare ourselves to receive grace and meet the Lord through these Mysteries.
When we say "Mysteries" in the plural, it typically refers to all the other Sacraments except for the Eucharist, which holds a place of distinction of its own, being the very summit of the Christian life. Unfortunately we have many secularized Christians who do not ascend this height, but rather go to church but to light a candle, or to services such as Weddings and Baptisms and funerals, and perhaps even Nativity and Pascha, but this remains the extent of their life in the Church, especially among the cradles. This tends to be more common among the cradle Orthodox. I think that this issue is more prevalent in the Greek Church—this is a common conversation among Greek priests—but the way in which we confront and solve this problem could have wider spiritual implications for Orthodox worldwide, for better or worse.
The issue here is the general problem of secularization, where the Mysteries tend to become more or less social events. Even priests, given the way that the Mysteries are celebrated, are unable to pray, because no one else is praying or paying attention. Even the priest is affected. One issue here is that the Mysteries were formerly celebrated during the Divine Liturgy, but with their separation came a degradation of proper piety and approach. If the Sacraments would return to the Liturgy, which would mean tremendous liturgical changes, then they could once again properly serve as boundaries of the Church.
Of course the Church does have its boundaries which are not confused or blurred: the Orthodox faith and indeed the Mysteries, firstly Holy Baptism. That which confuses the boundaries is that there are those faithful who commune and those who remain outside of communion—the ex-communicants. A lack of faith, lack of catechizing, and general worldliness are the causes of these lukewarm Christians staying away from the Eucharist, coming only for the other Mysteries. They don't know how to pray; they don't have or understand proper piety. These are people outside the Church, of the phenomenon of worldliness.
That the Holy Mysteries might not degrade into secularized empty forms, but that the faithful might be truly prepared that the Mysteries might truly impart the grace of the Holy Spirit, there are certain conditions to be met:
- Celebrants and participants must dispose themselves in a prayerful state of mind;
- They must understand and believe what they pray—they must have faith;
- They must adhere to Christian morals and the Patristic and canonical Tradition of the Church—Christ says If you love Me you will keep My commandments, and Divine worship is an expression of love for Christ;
- Participants must not be ex-communicants (that is, not separated from Christ by grave sin) and must comply with the rules of reverent behavior and apparel in Church
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Angels and Demons by Dr Harry Boosalis
This book is available from St Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary Bookstore
I really enjoyed reading this. It is a serious, well documented, and sober exposition of the angelic world.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Abba Sisoes the Great, On What to do When One Falls into Sin
"A certain brother asked Abba Sisoes:
'Counsel me, Father, for I have fallen to sin. What am I to do?'
The Elder said to him:
'When you fall, get up again.'
With bitterness the sinning brother continued:
'Ah! Father, I got up, yet I fell to the same sin again.'
The Elder, so as not to discourage the brother, answered:
'Then get up again and again.'
The young man asked with a certain despondency:
'How long can I do that, Father?'
The Elder, giving him courage, said to the brother:
'Until the end of your life, whether you be found in the commendable attempt at lifting yourself up from sin or falling again to it. For wherever it is that a man is found at the last moment of his life on earth, whether it be in things good or evil, there he will be judged, going forth either to punishment or to reward."
St Sisoes the Great in The Evergetinos volume 1, p.6, Edited by Archbishop Chrysostomos and Hieromonk Patapios, Center for Traditionalists Orthodox Studies, 2008
"A certain brother asked Abba Sisoes:
'Counsel me, Father, for I have fallen to sin. What am I to do?'
The Elder said to him:
'When you fall, get up again.'
With bitterness the sinning brother continued:
'Ah! Father, I got up, yet I fell to the same sin again.'
The Elder, so as not to discourage the brother, answered:
'Then get up again and again.'
The young man asked with a certain despondency:
'How long can I do that, Father?'
The Elder, giving him courage, said to the brother:
'Until the end of your life, whether you be found in the commendable attempt at lifting yourself up from sin or falling again to it. For wherever it is that a man is found at the last moment of his life on earth, whether it be in things good or evil, there he will be judged, going forth either to punishment or to reward."
St Sisoes the Great in The Evergetinos volume 1, p.6, Edited by Archbishop Chrysostomos and Hieromonk Patapios, Center for Traditionalists Orthodox Studies, 2008
Sunday, May 15, 2016
Levan Vasadze on the Preservation of Christian Values in the Orthodox Country of Georgia (Caucasus)
"Levan Vasadze was bestowed with the title of Raindi (Knight) in 2013 by HRH Prince Nugzar of the Royal House of Georgia. Levan has been a business executive for many years"Source
"The theme of World Congress of Families X is "Civilization at a Crossroads: The Natural Family as The Bulwark of Humane Values." The theme is inspired from the great English journalist G.K. Chesterton. Chesterton explains the connection between family and freedom, "The ideal for which [family and marriage] stands in the state is liberty. It stands for liberty for the very simple reason... [that] it is the only...institution that is at once necessary and voluntary. It is the only check on the state that is bound to renew itself as eternally as the state, and more naturally than the state.... This is the only way in which truth can ever find refuge from public persecution, and the good man survive the bad government."
Levan Vasadze, Chairman of the Georgian Committee for WCF X commented, "We Georgians are honored and humbled by this great opportunity and privilege to host World Congress of Families X. As one of the oldest Christian nations on earth, we think this will be a refreshing opportunity for me and my fellow Georgians to meet Westerners (unlike those sent to Tbilisi by George Soros) who affirm human rights for all persons from conception to natural death but also defend the Truth, Beauty, and Goodness found in the Natural Family as the fundamental and only sustainable unit of society."Source
Mr Levan Vasadze is an Orthodox Christian and a family man. He is a firm advocate for the family and for traditional Orthodox Christian values. It is evident by this interview that he is a well read and traveled businessman. But above all he is aware, as an Orthodox Christian, of the importance of the family unit in society as it has been understood and lived for centuries in the history of the world, a man with his wife and children upholding what is good, honorable and praise-worthy.
The traditional family unit is under attack. Abortion, hedonism, and the elimination of all distinctions of gender are at the core of the activists agenda, with all of these things being pursued in the name of freedom.
Western civilization is quickly descending into chaos and anarchy. There is no moral compass. The devastation caused by abortion, drugs, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity, hedonism, and divorce, is beyond measure.
The Psalmist King David once wrote, "If the foundations be destroyed, what will the righteous do?" Psalm 11:3. We must return to the foundations. We must heed the Word of the Lord by His Prophet Jeremiah, when he bids us, "Thus says the Lord,'Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths,Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls." Jeremiah 6:16 NASB
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
Vodolazkin's historical novel is set in 15th century Russia. "It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the arts of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone." from the front inside-flap
This novel, like Tikhon's Everyday Saints, vividly portraits life in Holy Russia. Arseny is a fictional character, but the events of his life, his very person, were the spiritual everyday reality in medieval Rus. I just began to read Laurus and I am hooked.
This work is getting great reviews. It is already a best seller in Russia, having won some prestigious awards. Ken Kalfus, writing for The New Yorker, comments;
"A new novel by the Russian medievalist Eugene Vodolazkin, "Laurus," recreates this fervent landscape and suggests why the era, its holy men, and the forests and fields of Muscovy retain such a grip on the Russian imagination. Vodolazkin's hero-mystic Arseny is a protagonist extrapolated from the little that is known about the lives and deeds of the famous holy men. Born in 1440, he's raised by his herbalist grandfather Christofer near the grounds of the Kirillov Monastery, about three hundred miles north of Moscow. He becomes a renowned medicine man, faith healer, and prophet who "pelted demons with stones and conversed with angels." He makes a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He takes on new names, depending on how he will next serve God. The people venerate his humble spirituality. In "Laurus," Vodolazkin aims directly at the heart of the Russian religious experience and perhaps even at that maddeningly elusive concept that is cherished to the point of cliché: the Russian soul."
Vodolazkin's historical novel is set in 15th century Russia. "It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the arts of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone." from the front inside-flap
This novel, like Tikhon's Everyday Saints, vividly portraits life in Holy Russia. Arseny is a fictional character, but the events of his life, his very person, were the spiritual everyday reality in medieval Rus. I just began to read Laurus and I am hooked.
This work is getting great reviews. It is already a best seller in Russia, having won some prestigious awards. Ken Kalfus, writing for The New Yorker, comments;
Friday, May 6, 2016
Striving for Knowledge of God by Archimandrite Sophrony of Essex
Striving for Knowledge of God: Correspondence with David Balfour"The letters Archimandrite Sophrony wrote to David Balfour are a treasury of wisdom, distilled from Fr. Sophrony's reading of the Fathers of the Church, from his conversations with St. Silouan, and from his own experience. Most of the letters in this collection were written to someone new to the Orthodox Church and to Orthodox monasticism. Also included are later letters with further theological and spiritual insights. Thus these letters provide a rich source of teaching about Christian faith and life.
Archimandrite Sophrony was born in Russia on 22nd September, 1896. He trained as an artist at the Moscow School of Fine Art. After the October Revolution he settled in France, where he continued to work as an artist. For a brief period he read Theology at the St Sergius' Institute but in the Autumn of 1925 left to become a monk at the Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos in Northern Greece. In 1930 he was ordained Deacon by Saint Nikolai Velimirovich. About this time he met Staretz Silouan, who became his spiritual guide. After the Staretz' death in 1938, Fr. Sophrony spent seven years living as a hermit in the 'desert' of Athos. He became a priest in 1941 and soon after was elected spiritual confessor for several of the monastic communities on the Athonite peninsula. On returning to France in 1947 he edited and published the writings Silouan had entrusted to him, adding an introduction. Because of serious illness he was unable to return to the Holy Mountain.
In the Spring of 1959, helped by friends, he moved to England with small group of men and women. For many years he received people from all walks of life for spiritual direction. He died on 11th July 1993 at Tolleshunt Knights in the community which he had founded and inspired till the end of his days."
This book is available from St Tikhon's Bookstore.
This book is available from St Tikhon's Bookstore.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
I will not be posting on this blog until after Pascha. I wish you all a fruitful struggle during the rest of lent, and a glorious Holy Week and Pascha.
Christ is Risen!
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Letter to a Roman Catholic
My prayer/reading room in Yakima, WA
Chapel Hill (U.S.), March 1982
Dear Bill,
Even though you never asked it directly, I feel from your words that you do not yet understand why I left the Roman Church to become Orthodox.
You were even a member of one of the least latinized Byzantine parishes, you seem to say, why, then?…
I guess I owe you an explanation, since, a long time ago, when we were both members of the Latin church, we shared the same feelings. These same feelings brought both of us to a Byzantine rite parish, and then myself to Orthodoxy. You could not have forgotten the criticisms that we moved to the Romans: the continual insertion of newtraditions in place of the old ones, Scholasticism, the legalistic approach to spiritual life, the dogma of papal infallibility. At the same time we both reckoned the legitimacy and correctness of the Orthodox Church. A Uniate parish seemed the optimal solution. I remember what I was saying in that period:
I think like an Orthodox, I believe like an Orthodox, therefore I am Orthodox.
Entering officially into the Orthodox Church seemed to me just a useless formality. I even thought that remaining in communion with the Roman Church might be a positive fact, in view of the goal of a possible reunification of the Churches.
Well, Bill, I was wrong. l believed I knew the Orthodox Faith, but it was just a smattering, and quite shallow for that. Otherwise I would not have failed to know the intrinsic contradiction between feeling Orthodox and not being reckoned as such by the very same Church whose faith I stated I was sharing. Only a non-Orthodox may conceive an absurdity like being Orthodox outside of Orthodoxy. Individual salvation does not only concern the single person, as many Westerners believe, but it must be seen in the wider frame of the whole Church Communion.
Each Orthodox Christian is like a leaf: how could he receive the life-giving sap if he is not connected to the vine? (John 15:5)
Orthodoxy is a way of life, not a rite. The beauty of the rite derives from the inner reality of the Orthodox Faith, and not from a search for forms. The Divine Liturgy is not a more picturesque way of saying Mass: it comes forth from, and strengthens, a theological reality that becomes void and inconsistent if excised from Orthodoxy.
When the spirit of the Orthodox Faith is present, even the most miserable service, done in a shack, with two paper icons placed on a couple of chairs to serve as the iconostasis, and a bunch of faithful out of tune as the choir, is incomparably higher than the services in my former Uniate parish, in the midst of magnificent 12th century Byzantine mosaics, and a well-instructed choir (when there was one).The almost paranoid observance of the ritual forms is the useless attempt to make up for the lack of a true Orthodox ethos. I was deluding myself when I believed I was able to be an Orthodox in the Roman communion.
It was a delusion because it is impossible.
The continual interference of Rome in the ecclesiatical life reminds you in due course who is in command. To pretend to ignore this is self-delusion. I tried to avoid the problem, feigning to be deaf and dumb, and repeating to myself that I belonged to the ideal "undivided Church". My position was quite sinful. First of all, because the undivided Church still exists: it is the Church that never broke with Her past, and that is always identical to Herself: in other words, the Orthodox Church.
Then, because that feeling of being a member of the Undivided Church, which I considered so Christian and irenical, was instead a grave sin of pride. I was practically putting myself above Patriarchs and Popes. I believed I was one of the few who really understood the Truth, beyond old and sterile polemics.
I felt I had the right to ask the Eucharist both from the Romans and the Orthodox, and I felt unfairly treated when the latter denied it to me. I have a great debt of gratitude towards a priest who, in that time, refused to give me Communion. Instead of softly speaking of canonical impediments, as if the matter were a merely bureaucratic problem, he said me bare-facedly:
If it is true that you consider yourself an Orthodox, why is it that you keep belonging to heresy?
I was deeply shocked by those words, and for a long time I did not return to that Church. But he was right. I had understoodwhat Saints, Fathers, Bishops and Priests had not understood for centuries.
According to me, the schism between East and West was a tragic misunderstandingbased merely on political problems and the ponderings of the theologians. And in doing so I indirectly accused many holy people of calculation, superficiality and bigotry. And I was mistaking all of this for Christian charity…
No, Bill, it is impossible to be both Roman Catholic and Orthodox at the same time.
The rite is not all that important. After all, the Latins were Western Rite Orthodox for many centuries. I agree with you that, after the separation, the Romans and the Orthodox have still much in common, but this is not enough to consider both of them part of the same Church. Beyond the well-known doctrinal differences, there is the approach to the Supernatural, the same life of the Church that makes impossible to live the two religious realities at the same time.
We state in the Creed:
"and (I believe) in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church".
Until a unity of faith comes, they will be two churches.
The theory (also affirmed by John Paul II) that the Romans and the Orthodox are still the same one Church (despite the schism, and in a mysterious way) sounds well, but it doesn't hold. It is based only on beautiful words. The differences of faith, on the other hand, do exist, and they are not a mere word-play.
Yes, I know that theological dialogue has been started, and it is even possible (everything is possible to the Lord) that eventually the unity will be reached. But beware! Many good Romans believe that the differences might be resolved by means of a clever statement that, owing to its genericness may sound acceptable by both parties. Having reached an agreement on this statement, both would interpret it according to their understanding, in fact keeping their opinions. Worse still, some propose a unity in diversity, without a formal commitment of faith from any part, but under the universal co-ordination of the Pope of Rome.
Well, all of this is impossible. The Fathers taught us that the the agreement on common faith must be univocal and unequivocal.
Orthodoxy follows the spirit of the Law, rather than the letter. And since it is impossible for the Orthodox Church to introduce new doctrines, it falls on the Romans to abandon a millennium of innovations, and unreservedly return to the faith of the Catholic and Apostolic Church.
This is the only possible platform for an agreement.
History has shown the fallacy of otherwise based unions. And now let me ask you a trivial question: Bill, is the Pope infallible (on his own and not by virtue of Church consensus, as specified in the 1870 dogma) or not? He may not be fallible and infallible at the same time, as it would happen if the two churches were still part of the same Church. One of the two must be wrong.
But Vatican II allowed a great freedom of opinions…
you may answer. Yet this is a sophism. The true Church may not fall in error. If you believe that your Church has erred, or that She is actually erring, you deny that She is the true Church.
I embrace you with unchanged friendship and love in Christ.
(PS. For the record, Father Gregorio Cognetti told me that the recipient of this letter, soon afterwards, converted himself to Orthodoxy — he is now a tonsured reader of the O.C.A. in Florida — and that this letter was a major factor in his conversion)
Monday, January 25, 2016
An Awesome Sight, the Orthodox Patriarchs Celebrate the Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy in Switzerland.
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Recommended Reading
- A Commentary On The Divine Liturgy by St. Nicholas Cabasilas, ISBN: 0-913836-37-0
- A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos Trans. by Effie Mavromichali, ISBN: 960-7070-31-3
- A Spiritual Psalter or Reflections On God excerpted by St. Theophan the Recluse from the works of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Trans. by Antonina Janda, ISBN 0-912927-40-2
- Against False Union ( with a prologue by Photios Kontoglou) by Alexander Kalomiros, Trans. by George Gabriel, ISBN: 0-913026-49-2
- Akathist To Jesus Conqueror of Death, by St Nikolai Velimirovich, Trans. by Interklima, Copyright 2009, English Edition, by St Paisius Monastery, Safford, AZ
- An Athonite Gerontikon by Archimandrite Ioannikios, Holy Monastery of St Gregory Palamas Kouphalia, Greece 1991
- Byzantine Theology by John Meyendorff, ISBN: 0-8232-0967-9
- Christ Our Way and Our Life by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou, ISBN 1-878997-74-2
- Christ The Eternal Tao by Hieromonk Damascene, ISBN 0-938635-85-9
- Commentary on The Gospel of St Luke by St Cyril of Alexandria Trans. by R.Payne Smith, Studion Publishers, Inc. ISBN:0-943670-01-2
- Concerning Frequent Communion by Nikodemos the Hagiorite, Trans. by George Dokos, ISBN: 960-86778-5-8
- Confronting Controlling Thoughts by Antony M. Coniaris, ISBN: ISBN: 1-880971-88-7
- Conversations with Children by Sister Magdalen, ISBN: 1-874679-21-5
- Counsels from the Holy Mountain by Elder Ephraim of Philotheou, ISBN: 0-9667000-2-3
- Daily Readings with St. Isaac of Syria, Trans. by Sebastian Brock, ISBM: 0-87243-173-8
- Dance, O Isaiah by Constantine Platis, unknown printing 2000
- Diary Of A Pilgrimage from the Ancient Christian Writers series, by Egeria, Trans. by George E. Gingras, ISBN: 0-8091-0029-0
- Drinking from the Hidden Fountain by Thomas Spidlik, ISBN: 0-87907-348-9
- Elder Ephraim of Katounakia Trans by Tessy Vassiliaou-Christodoulou, ISBN: 960-7407-33-4
- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Counsels, Spiritual Awakening vol 2, Trans by Fr. Peter Chamberas, Holy Monastery 'Evangelist John The Theologian' Souroti, Greece 2007
- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Spiritual Counsels, With Pain And Love for Contemporay Man vol1, Trans by Cornelia A. Tsakiridou & Maria Spanou, Holy Monastery 'Evangelist John The Theologian' Souroti, Greece 2006
- Epistles by Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, Holy Monastery of the Evangelist John the Theologian, Souroti, Greece 2002
- Father Arseny Trans. by Vera Bouteneff, ISBN 0-88141-180-9
- Flame in the Snow, A Life of St Seraphim of Sarov by Julia de Beausobre, ISBN: 0-87243-223-8
- From St. Isaac The Syrian to Dostoyevsky by Archimandrite Vasileios, Trans. by Dr.Elizabeth Theokritoff, ISBN: 1-896800-34-3
- Grace For Grace: The Psalter And The Holy FathersCompiled and Edited by Johanna Manley, ISBN: 0-9622536-1-8
- Hesychia and Theology by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Trans. by Sister Pelagia Selfe, ISBN: 978-960-7070-60-9
- His Life is Mine by Archimandrite Sophrony, ISBN: 0-913836-33-8
- I Love Therefore I Am by Fr. Nicholas V. Sakharov, ISBN: 0-88141-236-8
- In The Light of Christ, St Symeon The New Theologian by Archbishop Basil Krivocheine Trans. by Anthony P. Gythiel, ISBN 0-913836-91-5
- Isaac of Ninaveh ( Isaac The Syrian) The Second Part, chapters IV-XLV, Trans. by Sebastian Brock, ISBN: 90-6831-709-1
- Missionary Lettersof Saint Nikolai Velimirovich vol 1, Trans. by Hierodeacon Serafim, New Gracanica Monastery, Grayslake, IL
- Monastic Wisdom, The Letters of Elder Joseph The Hesychast, ISBN: 0-9667000-0-7
- Mount Athos Renewal in Paradise by Graham Speake, ISBN: 0-300-093535
- Nil SorskyTrans. and Edited by George A. Maloney, ISBN: 0-8091-9810-7
- Not of This World,Compiled and Edited by James S. Cutsinger, ISBN: 0-941532-41-0
- On Prayer by Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov Trans.by Rosemar Edmonds, ISBN 0-88141-194-9
- On The Apostolic Preaching by St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Trans. by John Behr, ISBN: 0-88141-174-4
- On The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ by St Maximus The Confessor, Trans. by Paul M. Blowers & Robert Louis Wilken, ISBN: 0-88141-249-x
- On The Human Condition by St Basil The GreatTrans. by Nonna Verna Harrison, ISBN: 0-88141-294-5
- On The Incarnation by St. Athanasius, ISBN: 0-913836-40-0
- On The Mother of God by Jacob of Serug, ISBN: 0-88141-184-1
- Once Delivered to The Saints by Fr. Michael Azkoul, ISBN: 0-913026-84-0
- Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ by Father Justin Popovich Trans. by Asterios Gerosterios, ISBN: 1-884729-02-9
- Orthodox Psychotherapy by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Trans. by Esther Williams, ISBN: 960-7070-27-5
- Orthodox Spiritual Life According to Saint Silouan The Athonite by Harry Boosalis, ISBN: 1-878997-60-2
- Orthodox Spirituality and The Philokalia by Placide Deseille Trans. by Anthon P. Gythiel, ISBN 978-0-9717483-7-8
- Orthodox Spirituality by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, ISBN 960-7070-20-8
- Passions and Virtues According to Saint Gregory Palamas by Anestis Keselopulos, ISBN: 1-878997-75-0
- Patristic Theology by John S. Romanides, ISBN 978-960-86778-8-3
- Prayers by the Lake by St Nikolai Velimirovich, The Serbian Orthodox Metropolinate of New Gracanica, Grayslake, IL 1999
- Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy by John McGuckin, ISBN: 0-88141-259-7
- Santa Biblia Antigua Version de Casiodoro De Reina Revisada por Cipriano de Valera(1602) Revision de 1960, Holman Publishers 2008
- St John of Damascus, The Fathers of the Church series, Trans. by Frederic H. Chase, Jr., ISBN: 0-8132-0968-4
- St Seraphim of Sarov, A Spiritual Biography by Archimandrite Lazarus Moore, ISBN: 1-880364-13-1
- St Silouan The Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony, ISBN 0-88141-195-7
- St. Symeon The New Theologian, On The Mystical Life, The Ethical Discourses, Trans. by Alexander Golitzin 3 vols. ISBN: 0-88141-142-6 and - 143-4, and 144-2
- Standing In God's Holy Fire by John A. McGuckin, ISBN: 1-57075-382-2
- Symeon The New Theologian, The Discourses, Classics of Western Spirituality, ISBN: 0-8091-2230-8
- Symeon The New Theologian, The Practical and Theological Discourses and The Three Theological Chapters, Trans. by Dr. Paul McGuckin, Cistercian Publications Inc. 1982
- The Acquisition of The Holy Spirit by I.M. Kontzevitch, ISBN: 0-938635-73-5
- The Adam Complex by Dee Pennock, ISBN: 1-880971-89-5
- The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac The Syrian, Trans. by Holy Transfiguration Monastery, ISBN: 0-913026-55-7
- The Authentic Seal by Archimandrite Aimilianos, ISBN: 960-85603-3-0
- The Book of Mystical Chapters, Trans. and introduced by John A. McGuckin, ISBN: 1-59030-007-6
- The Boundless Garden by Alexandros Papadiamantis Edited by Lambros Kamperidis and Denise Harvey, ISBN 978-960-7120-23-6
- The Church Fathers ( Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody Massachusetts, 37 vol. set
- The Enlargement of The Heart by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou, ISBN 0-9774983-2-8
- The Faith of Chosen People by St Nikolai Velimirovich, The Free Serbian Diocese of America and Canada, Grayslake, IL 1988
- The Faith of The Saints , A Catechism by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, ISBN:1-932965-06-8
- The Fifty Spiritual Homilies, Pseudo-Macarius, ISBN: 0-8091-0455-5
- The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios by Dionysios Farasiotis, ISBN: 978-1-887904-16-2
- The Heart by Archimandrite Spyridon Logothetis, ISBN 960-86639-4-6
- The Hidden Man of The Heart by Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou, ISBN 978-0-9800207-1-7
- The Holy Bible NKJV, Thomas Nelson, 1992
- The Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas by Christopher Veniamin, 2 vols. ISBN: 1-878997-67-X; ISBN: 1-878997-68-X
- The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus Edited by Holy Transfifuration Monastery 1979, ISBN 0-943405-03-3
- The Life of St. Anthony by St. Athanasius the Great, Eastern Orthodox Books, Willits, CA
- The Lives of The Holy Prophets by Holy Apostles Convent, ISBN: 0944359-12-4
- The Living Witness of the Holy Mountain by Hieromonk Alexander Golitzin, ISBN: 1-878997-48-3
- The Luminus Eye by Sebastian Brock, ISBN: 0-87907-524-4
- The Mind of the Orthodox Church by Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, Trans. by Esther Williams, ISBN: 960-7070-39-9
- The One Thing Needful by Archbishop Andrei of Novo- Diveevo, ISBN: 91-2927-29-1
- The Orthodox Ethos, Studies in Orthodoxy Edited by A.J. Philippou, Hollywell Press Oxford 1964
- The Orthodox New Testament 2 vols., Published by The Holy Apostles Convent 1999, ISBN: 0-944359-17-5 & 0-944359-14-0
- The Philokalia, The Complete Text compiled by St Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, Trans. by G.E.H. Palmer, Phillip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware Vol 4 ISBN: 0-571-11727-9
- The Philokalia, The Complete Text compiled by St Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, Trans. by G.E.H. Palmer, Phillip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware Vol2 ISBN: 0-571-15466-2
- The Philokalia, The Complete Text compiled by St Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, Trans. by G.E.H. Palmer, Phillip Sherrard and Kallistos WareVol 3 ISBN: 0-571-17525-2
- The Philokalia, The Complete Textcompiled by St Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, Trans. by G.E.H. Palmer, Phillip Sherrard and Kallistos Ware, Vol 1 ISBN: 0-571-13013-5
- The Philokalia: Master Reference Guide Compiled by Basileios S. Stapakis, Trans by G.E.H. Palmer, Phillip Sherrard, Kallistos Ware, ISBN: 1-880971-87-9
- The Prologue of Ohrid, Trans. by Fr. Timothy Tepsic, vol 1 ISBN: 978-0-9719505-0-4; vol 2 ISBN: 978-0-9719505-1-1
- The Psalter Trans. by Holy Transfiguration Monastery, ISBN: 0-943405-00-9
- The Spiritual World of St Isaac the Syrian by Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Michigan 2000
- The Way of A Pilgrim trans.by R.M. French, ISBN 345-24254-8-150
- We Shall See Him As He Is by Archimandrite Sophrony Sakharov, ISBN 0-9512786-4-9
- Wisdom. Let Us Attend: Job, The Fathers, and The Old Testament by Johanna Manley, ISBN: 0-9622536-4-2
- Words of Life by Archimandrite Sophrony, Trans. by Sister Magdalen, ISBN1-874679-11-8
- Writings from The Philokalia On Prayer of The Heart, Trans. by E. Kadloubovsky and G.E.H. Palmer, ISBN: 0-571-16393-9


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2008 Ends on a Positive Note
Winter Bookings Increase
Summer Bookings
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Actual United Kingdom Arrivals to the United States: Annual 2008 and Fourth Quarter 2008
Implications for Differences
An updated United Kingdom Travel Trade Barometer 1 (survey collection in March/April 2009) will soon be released. This Barometer will report first quarter 2009 bookings along with projected bookings through the third quarter 2009.
The U.S. Department of Commerce released actual 2008 visitation to the United States on March 24, 2009. January and February 2009 visitation data will be released throughout April.
Travel Market Insights (www.travelmi.com) conducts the United Kingdom Travel Trade Barometer in conjunction with the U.S. the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Travel and Tourism Industries (OTTI). OTTI developed the Barometer program which is conducted with support from the U.S. Commercial Service – United Kingdom and the U.K. Visit USA Association.
The Travel Trade Barometer survey is conducted on a quarterly basis in Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico and is available through subscription. Additional information on bookings, motivators, and deterrents for travel to the United States are included in reports sent to subscribers. Specific (proprietary) destination data is also available through a subscription.
For more information on the Travel Barometer Program, please visit http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/research/programs/barometer/index.html
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1 The United Kingdom Travel Trade Barometer is a qualitative survey designed to collect input from active United Kingdom Tour operators. The Barometer program is a partnership with the U.S. Travel Association and Travel Market Insights.


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Short Announcement: Retro View of Mankind's Habitat / Pastvu.comOnce in past there was a project called Panoramio were you uploaded your photos of landscapes or places around the world and it was explorable via a map. This was a great tool to digitally visit your next destination and wander around this beautiful planet. The project/service itself is not longer available. But there is pastvu.com which offers another approach: upload historic images and place them on a map.
PastVu.comPastvu.com was a crowdfunding campaign back in 2013 on the Russian crowdfunding platform planeta. After collecting approx. 5000€ (323.000 RUB) and at least one more campaign (464.000 RUB). The idea itself started already in 2009 according to the "News" section of the site. The page itself shows the uploaded pictures as clustered thumbnails on a map. You can choose between different basemaps and switch between paintings and photos. You can even download the original files. At the very moment more than 500.000 images were uploaded and approx. 77.000 users are registered. Here are some impressions from the page:
It is a pity to find such a great way of mapping the world after such a long time due to translation and cultural things. Stumbling over such a great webpage makes me curious: what other platforms/solutions are out there and hidden to me cause of translation issues. I mean there are so many webpages hosted on Asian servers which might offer even better or more enjoyable maps and geo-related context… Can you share your favourite off-the-track web pages for "geo/mapping-stuff"?


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A step-by-step guide to creating a flash drive version of Windows
Creating a bootable flash drive version of Windows Vista or Windows 7 isn't as complicated as you may think. This step-by-step guide shows you the way.
My laptop's DVD-ROM drive recently gave up. Discs wouldn't read or even spin up from it, and its laser kept making a wheen-wheen noise whenever the computer booted. I attached an internal DVD-ROM drive by way of a USB-to-SATA bridge. That worked for a while – but then it too quit.
This was aggravating because, after several software installs and changes to the system, I needed to mop down the computer and reinstall Windows 7. Without an optical drive, this would be a chore, so instead I created a bootable flash drive version of the Windows 7 installation media.
The process isn't as tough as it may seem. To get started, you need the following items:
- A flash drive of at least 4 GB.
- A running installation of Windows 7 to which you have administrator access.
- A copy of the Windows 7 installation media.
- If your copy of Windows 7's install media is in the form of an .ISO file, you'll need a copy of the free, open source 7-ZIP archive utility.
That's it --now just follow these steps to create the flash drive:
- Go to an available Windows 7 system.
- Mount the flash drive, and make sure Windows recognizes it as a device. If this is the first time you've used the drive in that particular installation of Windows, it may take a moment to be recognized.
- Open an elevated command prompt, and type diskpart to launch the DISKPART utility. This is the command-line, disk-partitioning tool created to replace fdisk from previous versions of Windows (and DOS before it).
- In diskpart, type list disk to obtain a numbered list of all the currently mounted disks in the system. The flash drive you plugged in will not have any special identifiers other than its size, so pay close attention. (It typically registers as the last drive in the list, but that's not a universal rule.)
- Type select disk # -- with # as the number of the flash drive. For example, if your flash drive showed up as Disk 4, you'd type select Disk 4.
- Type clean to remove any existing partition information from the disk. This is important because there may be partition information left over that might prevent the drive from working properly as a boot drive.
- Type create partition primary to create a new, primary partition on the disk.
- Type active to mark the current partition as bootable. This is extremely important. If the partition isn't marked as bootable, no computer will recognize the drive as a bootable medium in the first place.
- Type exit to leave diskpart.
- Unmount the drive (right-click in Explorer and select "Eject"), unplug the drive, and then plug it back in. This step is optional, but it seems to help clear the system of any lingering incorrect information about the drive.
- Right-click on the drive icon in Explorer and select Format. Use the following options: NTFS for the file system and 4096 bytes as the allocation unit size. Check the "Quick Format" option. If you're not too sure about the quality of the drive, you can uncheck "Quick Format," but the format process will take much longer. A volume label is not required, but it can be useful. (I just use "Win7.")
- Click Start to format the drive.
- When the format operation is finished, insert your Windows 7 installation media. If you're using an .ISO, use 7-ZIP to open the .ISO as if it were an archive, and copy the contents of the .ISO to a folder.
- Copy the entire contents of the installation disk -- exactly as-is -- to the flash drive. This may take several minutes; refresh your coffee in the meantime.
- When the copy operation is finished, unmount the drive.
The resulting flash drive should boot on any system. If it doesn't work, the drive you're using may not support booting, or it has been configured to mount as a different kind of storage device than one recognized as a boot device.
Once booted, the installation process should proceed normally. Just make sure not to use the flash drive itself as a target for the install.(From what I've seen, Windows should prevent you from doing this anyway.) One convenient byproduct of having your Windows install media on a flash drive is that you can add other programs to the drive -- like the Malicious Software Removal Tool -- which you can run from the Windows PE (rescue environment). Plus, unlike a custom DVD-R, you can add or remove software from the drive without having to reburn it.
It may also be possible to use this technique on a boot or install processes to stall.
Also note that the exact method by which you enable USB booting varies widely between systems. With some of them, the boot device can be selected by pressing F12 at startup; with others, it needs to be set manually in BIOS beforehand.
Serdar Yegulalp has been writing about personal computing and IT for over 15 years for a variety of publications, including (among others) Windows Magazine, InformationWeek and the TechTarget family of sites.


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Topic Page: Steamship
watercraft propelled by a steam engine or a steam turbine.
Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans is generally credited with the first experimentally successful application of steam power to navigation; in 1783 his Pyroscaphe ran against the current of the Saone River for 15 min, although the boiler could not generate enough steam for extended operations. In 1787 a steamboat built by James Rumsey of Maryland was demonstrated on the Potomac River; propelled by a stream of water forced out of the stern by steam pressure, the vessel attained a speed of 4 mi (6.4 km) per hr. Rumsey received a grant to navigate the waters of New York, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1790, John Fitch, who had previously built several successful steamboats, one of which operated in 1787, built a vessel capable of 8 mi (12.9 km) per hr which plied the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Burlington, N.J. Other early American steamboat inventors were Samuel Morey, Nathan Read, and John Stevens. In 1807, Robert Fulton launched the Clermont, 150 ft (46 m) long and powered by a Boulton and Watt steam engine. It ran from New York City to Albany (150 mi/241 km) in 32 hr and made the return trip in 30 hr. On the other side of the Atlantic, the Scotsman Henry Bell launched the Comet in 1812.
The first ocean crossing by a steam-propelled vessel was in 1819, when the Savannah voyaged from Savannah, Ga., to Liverpool in 29 days, 11 hr. It was a full-rigged sailing ship fitted with engines and side paddlewheels; during the crossing the engines were in use for about 85 hr. The first crossing under steam power alone was made in 1838, when two British steamship companies sent rival ships to New York within a few days of each other; the Great Western made the trip in 15 days, arriving a few hours after the Sirius, which had left England 4 days before her. The first seagoing vessel to be fitted with a screw propeller was the Archimedes (1840); the Great Britain (1845) was the first large iron steamship driven by a screw propeller to cross the Atlantic. By the late 1850s the screw propeller was conceded to be superior to paddlewheels, and the steamship began to supplant the sailing ship. In 1881 the Servia, a merchant steamer capable of crossing the Atlantic in 7 days, was the first vessel to be constructed of steel. Seven years later the Philadelphia, the first twin-screw steamship, was built at Glasgow.
Great liners propelled by engines of 28,000 or more horsepower began plying the Atlantic on regular schedules in the late 1800s. During the 1880s Sir Charles A. Parsons and C. G. P. de Laval developed the steam turbine, and the Turbinia, the first vessel to be driven by a turbine, was first seen in 1897. Within 10 years several turbine-driven liners were in the Atlantic service. Although multiple cylinders were added to reciprocating engines to take full advantage of the steam's expansion, within a decade the steam turbine virtually eliminated the older reciprocating steam engine on major vessels; the great transatlantic liners, such as the Queen Mary (launched 1934), the Queen Elizabeth (1938), and the United States (1951), were all turbine-powered. In 1955 the first nuclear-powered ship, in which the heat generated by nuclear fission is used to create the necessary steam, was launched. Nuclear-powered commercial vessels like the Savannah (launched in 1958 but since laid up) proved to be uneconomical because of the high cost of nuclear-power systems and environmental concerns; however, most large naval vessels are powered by nuclear steam plants.
Despite such innovations as turbo-electric drive, which converts steam energy into rotational power for turning the propeller shafts, commercial steamships have today given way to diesel-powered ships, which constitute 95% of new ship construction. Diesel engines provide a fuel efficiency of more than 50%, with a reliability at least equal to steam turbines. The Queen Elizabeth 2 (1969) was originally steam-powered, but it later was refitted with turbocharged diesel engines, which supply electric power to the propeller motors. The ocean liner has been replaced by the airplane as a means of transportation; its successor at sea is the cruise ship, which travels more slowly and functions as a vacation resort afloat rather than as scheduled transportation.


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While many truck drivers do everything they can to operate their tractor-trailers safely, truck accidents can still happen. Anytime you have a vehicle of that size and weight, there is a potential risk for an accident. Add some adverse weather conditions, like wind or ice to the equation, and you can see how a big rig accident can easily occur.
Unfortunately, when tractor-trailer accidents involve passenger vehicles, the results can be catastrophic. If you've suffered personal injuries after a truck accident, you should speak to a New Lexington, Ohio truck accident lawyer. Not only can a truck accident attorney help you determine if you have a case, they can help you negotiate a settlement or file a lawsuit to get the compensation you deserve.
Truck Accident Injuries
It's unfortunate, but the average car or SUV simply isn't built to withstand a collision with a forty-ton 18-wheeler. Commercial trucks can leave the occupants of passenger vehicles with serious and life-threatening injuries. In the worst accidents, some victims may even lose their lives.
Some of the most common injuries that can occur in a commercial truck accident include:
- Neck and back injuries
- Whiplash
- Ligament and disc injuries
- Broken bones
- Burn injuries
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Partial/complete paralysis
- Spinal cord injury
- Organ Damage
- Lacerations
- Severe bruising
As truck accident lawyers, we also help victims who are suffering with emotional injuries, like depression, anxiety about driving, or PTSD.
Causes of New Lexington, OH Truck Accidents
Like car accidents, many 18-wheeler accidents are caused by driver negligence. This can be because they:
- Fell asleep at the wheel
- Were driving distracted (texting, eating, etc.)
- Ignored traffic signs/signals
- Were speeding
- Drove drunk
- Ignored adverse weather conditions
- Violated laws or safety procedures
- Engaged in aggressive driving
- Failed to yield right of way
- Tailgated the vehicle in front of them
Who is Accountable After a Truck Accident?
Even though it may seem that the truck driver is the only person at fault for a New Lexington tractor-trailer accident, the truth is other parties likely played a role as well.
Often times, the truck driver's employer acts negligently. They could do this by:
- Forcing the driver to work too many hours
- Imposing deadlines that make the driver rush
- Hiring drivers who don't have enough training or experience
- Neglecting to perform routine truck maintenance
- Failing to perform a background check on a driver
- Overloading trucks beyond capacity
The company who manufactured the truck or its parts could also be held accountable for a truck accident if they neglected to recall defective products or notify consumers of the potential for a faulty part
Compensation After a Truck Accident
Truck accident victims often incur hundreds or thousands of dollars in bills after being in a New Lexington, OH commercial truck accident. Fortunately, if you didn't cause the accident, you may be able to seek compensation from that at fault party for:
- Pain and suffering
- Medical expenses and equipment
- Property damage
- Loss of companionship
- Physical injuries
- Disfigurement
- Lost income
- Loss of future earning ability
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Inconvenience
- Emotional trauma
- Wrongful death
National Commercial Vehicle Accident Statistics
Commercial vehicle accidents happen every day in our country. For 2015 alone, the U.S. Department of Transportation reports that:
- There were 3,598 fatal accidents that involved 4,050 trucks and resulted in 4,067 fatalities
- 84 percent of the fatalities were occupants of a passenger vehicle or pedestrians
- There were 83,000 injury accidents that involved 87,000 trucks and caused 116,000 injuries
- There were 328,000 property damage only accidents that involved 342,000 trucks
Why Should I Hire a Truck Accident Lawyer?
As the victim of a truck accident, you owe it to yourself to see this process through and try to get the compensation you deserve. While you could do this alone, you'll be up against a trucking company and their team of insurance adjustors and lawyers. It would be much easier to make use of the experience and knowledge a New Lexington truck accident attorney has when it comes to pushing these entities to compensate you fairly.
Additionally, the truck accident attorneys at Colombo Law have the resources to strengthen your case by collecting:
- Camera footage
- On-scene and expert witnesses
- Police reports
- Phone call recordings/logs
- Medical records
- Driving logs
- Maintenance records
- Weigh-in information
- Vehicle and driver history
- Proof of violations of trucking laws
- Criminal records
- Vehicle/part defect and recall information
New Lexington, Ohio Truck Accident Lawyers
If the negligence of a truck driver, their employer, a manufacturer, or another third party caused you to be involved in a commercial truck accident, your first call should be to a New Lexington, OH truck accident lawyer. We've helped victims throughout New Lexington, include areas like:
- Rehobeth
- Somerset
- Junction City
- Moxhala
- Crooksvillie
- Milligan
- Roseville
- Fultonham
- White Cottage
- Zanesville
- Interstate 70
- Interstate 270
- Ohio Route 161
- Ohio Route 16
- Ohio Route 37
- S. Route 40
- S. Route 33
- S. Route 22
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To successfully resolve your claim, we need to be able to prove that negligence caused your truck accident. To do this, we need to gather evidence like skid marks and debris before they are washed away, lost, or destroyed. Getting in touch with us quickly will allow us to do this so we can find out if you have a case.
Our consultations are always free and don't carry any obligation to work with us. We work on a contingency fee basis, so you don't pay us unless we successfully resolve your case. Call the New Lexington, Ohio truck accident lawyers at Colombo Law at 614-362-7000 to learn more about how we can get started and help you get back on the road.


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A weekly look at the world of little magazines.
The Paris Review Prints the Memoir of a Criminal Tween
When pondering exile, we tend to think of Siberia as a destination, but back in the nineteen-thirties, thousands of Siberians did the reverse commute, courtesy of Josef Stalin, who uprooted entire native communities and planted them hundreds of miles east. Many ended up in Transnistria, a sliver of land within the splintered territory of Moldova, and over the years this "other Siberia" has provided a home for a flourishing community of transgenerational outlaws. In the spring issue of the Paris Review, an ex-Transistrian named Nicolai Lillin recounts his life as a twelve-year-old bandit. Law-abiding squares will always harbor a fascination for the criminal life, but it's refreshing to read an account that breaks with the Godfather paradigm. Instead of spotlighting blood and treasure, Lillin's childhood reminiscences put the accent on family and religious devotion, depicting a moral universe as fraught and compelling as any other.
October Blurs the Line between Art and Decoration
Properly distinguishing between art and design may be a fool's errand—just hang out for a while in the furniture room at MoMA—but it's reassuring to consider that such riddles were as nettlesome to Marcel Duchamp and El Lissitzky as they are to latter-day laypersons. In the latest issue of October, the art historian Richard Meyer shows how artists in the early twentieth century revolted against the "bourgeois interior" by pursuring experimental designs for exhibition spaces. It's unclear, though, whether Duchamp and Lissitzky had much success in liberating their art from the depravity of "mere decoration." Turning pictures upside down and piling objects into a messy chaos might provide momentary relief from the slow poison of good taste, but sooner or later the avant-garde becomes mainline, and domestic interiors themselves start to resemble installation art. Dialectics do the darndest things.
Bidoun Exposes the Algeria-Iowa Connection
A century and a half before anyone had heard the name Osama bin Laden, settlers in the American Midwest thought Islamist revolutionaries were swell enough to name a city after one. Just across the border from Wisconsin, along the Turkey river, the fifteen-hundred residents of Elkader, Iowa, owe their town's name to the Algerian rebel Abd al-Qadir, who fought off French colonizers in the mid-nineteenth century. These days, as Adam John Waterman writes in the spring issue of Bidoun, Elkader's political class has tried to capitalize on the Algeria tie-in, leading delegations to North Africa to consecrate sister-city agreements and to negotiate tractor sales for Elkader's Caterpillar plant. In Elkader's schools, students are taught that the historical al-Qadir paved the way for Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Elie Wiesel, and Barack Obama. Most Iowans have probably never heard of the man or the town, but in Algeria the reverse is true—the death of Elkader's mayor was prominently covered in the Algerian press.


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Park Rules & Guidelines
To prepare for your private event at TayKimTan's Fun Town Play and Party Park in Niagara Falls, please review our Park Rules carefully.
At TayKimTan's Fun Town, we want everyone to have fun and be safe!
The staff at TayKimTan's Fun Town is not responsible for your children.
We can not be held responsible for any injuries that may occur within our indoor playground. When entering, you play at your own risk. All rules must be followed for your own safety.
This rule applies to everyone. We do not allow anyone to wear shoes any where after our reception area. There is plenty of bench seating for you to remove and store your shoes. Everyone must have socks or slippers to enter the play area. If you forgot socks we sell them for $2 a pair at our concession stand. TayKimTan's Fun Town is not responsible for any lost or stolen personal items.
We are a Nut Aware Facility. All food must be consumed in eating areas, and under no circumstances is food or gum permitted on the play structure or carpeted areas.
All tables are to be used for all food consumption. No eating in the carpeted areas or on the play structure. Please put garbage in its proper place; garbage cans and recycle bins are clearly located throughout the play park.
TayKimTan's Fun Town is not responsible for watching children.
Please report any suspicious or unacceptable behavior. We respect everyone and expect all our guests to respect each other and our equipment. It will be up to TayKimTan's Fun Town staff to ask anyone not respecting our equipment or our guests to stop such behavior. Failure to do so will result in asking anyone being disrespectful to vacate our property without refund.
Feet first down all slides. No climbing up slides, and please keep the bottom of the slide clear at all times. When riding bikes everyone must go in the same direction, no bumping into each other or the surrounding fencing, bikes must be kept in designated area. Please report any suspected damage of the equipment immediately to a staff member.
Some areas have limited space. Share the equipment, toys and books, and make sure everyone gets a turn. TayKimTan's Fun Town is not responsible for any injuries that may occur.
TayKimTan's Fun Town disinfects all equipment daily. We are proud of our facility and we would like it to stay in a like-new state. We take pride in assuring our equipment remains clean and safe. We understand little ones can have accidents, so please inform a staff member immediately so they can promptly clean and disinfect the area.
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