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Back to Victorian Britain
07 April 2017
Year 5 girls were very excited to board the coach for Ironbridge on Wednesday 29 March, as part of their historical studies to consolidate their knowledge of Victorian Britain.
Our first stop was to see the world's first iron bridge and find out more in the Museum of the Gorge. The girls were amazed by the size and engineering of the bridge and they searched to find the hidden silhouette of the designer Abraham Darby on one of the girders. Stepping back in time as we disembarked was a real treat.
To see the shops, mine and homes of the period really brought the village alive. The girls took a little time to adjust to using their shillings, farthings and pence, but thoroughly enjoyed spending their money in the various shops. Soon they were clutching a variety of boiled sweets, cob rolls, decorative plaster ornaments and lavender bags.
The mine experience was dark, damp and several girls were slightly apprehensive, so we were able to realise the hard work involved and the terrible conditions for children born into a mining family. Unsurprisingly no one was very keen to go back in time and take on that role!
Back in school Year 5 dressed as Victorians for the day. They were taught by their very own strict school mistresses and presented clean hands and neat appearances at all times during the day. Writing on a slate then progressed to ink and a pen with a nib. Several copybooks were blotted and the cane was administered on more than one occasion!
A great experience, but we were all rather relieved to go back to the usual routines on Monday.
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February 20, 2015 1:24 pm
When we listen to the news these days, we constantly hear updates on the armed conflict that has been going on in Ukraine since early 2014.
It started with Crimea proclaiming self-government in March 2014, and went on when Russia-backed Ukrainian armed protesters took over some Government buildings in the eastern region of Ukraine, namely Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv.
In order to understand the reasons for the unrests we need to go back in time, more than 20 years ago: Ukraine regained its independence and became an autonomous state in 1991, but the political process was not accompanied by the consolidation of civil society and the values which this society should have.
Differences between western and eastern Ukraine in terms of language, economic potential and religion have always been there, not to mention the differences on the country's foreign policy (the west of the country is considered pro-European while the east is considered pro-Russian).
This explains a lot in the light of today's events: pro-Russian separatists, appealing to the self-determination principle, claim for secession from Ukraine and union with Russia or at least the creation of self-governed states with higher autonomy, among the other things.
This leads us to this week's IATE term, separatism.
Separatism is the desire, a movement of separation of a group from a larger group on a number of grounds: cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental, economic and many more.
The Eastern Ukrainian crisis is the separatist movement that may come immediately to mind when we hear this word, since the death toll is growing day after day. But sadly, if we look up how many separatist movements there are in Europe nowadays, it may come as a shock to see that in a time of crisis, when Europe should be as united as it can to overcome it faster, tensions are growing too, and so is the desire to separate.
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Trent Baretta has been released from WWE. His profile was removed from WWE.com, and he has already been booked to face Sonjay Dutt at Pro Wrestling Syndicate's Super Card Night One on April 4 in Metuchen, N.J. You can get more details about the show at this link.
Baretta commented on the release on his Twitter, writing, "So fired right now. Just wanna say thanks to everyone. WWE, all the good brothers, and fans. Thanks."


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The International Art Program for Children with Disabilities is open to those ages 5 - 8 is a unique opportunity for student-artists with disabilities from around the world to present their artwork side-by-side in an online exhibition. A selection of artwork from the online entries will be chosen for a live exhibition at the United States Department of Education in Washington D.C.
A Rehabilitation hospital in New York is currently accepting work for a juried exhibition in their space. Read below for more information on the exhibit guidelines and submission process.
Artwork Purpose and Theme
This year's Columbus Arts Ball will be focused around the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald house is a place that gives families "hope" by providing a family feel with warm dinners and caring people to come back to, after time spent at the hospital. The RMH is known as the "House with a Heart". This year we have a new challenge of how to present artwork at the event for silent auction. We want to emphasize the 'Heart' and 'Hope' concepts of Ronald McDonald House without the obvious "McDonald's" symbols.
The Ohio State Fair is currently seeking art submissions for its fine arts displays; A Fine Arts Prospectus and a Youth Arts Display.
We hope everyone has had a fantastic and art-filled summer! A few calls for art have been posted recently and we think they provide a great opprtounity to move into the Fall season as we work on developing our own call for art for Accessible Expressions Ohio's 2014 tourring exhibition. See below for details on the application processes and deadlines for two great exhibitions featuring local artists...
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The Nationwide Children's Hospital Child Development Center (CDC) in Westerville,
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Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady, NY is seeking artists with physical disabilities from around the world who believe in encouraging the creative spirit in everyone, to reveal that this spirit is our most valuable human resource, a universal form of communication, and one that does not diminish with disability.
AEO is a professional development opportunity that helps raise awareness about art and dis/ability by presenting art in inclusive settings. In 2016, VSA Ohio celebrates 20 years of hosting the Accessible Expressions Ohio Touring Exhibition. Artists with disabilities, of any age, from across Ohio, are invited to submit their recent, original artwork for entry.


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In their first meeting since Japan created a new, more independent nuclear agency 13 months ago, the top regulator yesterday urged the head of the utility that runs the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to take "drastic steps" to mitigate a spate of mishaps at the complex.
Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Shunichi Tanaka summoned Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) president Naomi Hirose to his office to express concerns about growing problems at the plant, including human errors that have led to a series of leaks of contaminated water used to cool the damaged reactors.
Human error is mostly to blame for the recent mishaps, as workers deal with a string of crises. Tanaka said earlier this month the repeated "silly mistakes" are a sign of declining morale and sense of responsibility. TEPCO acknowledged a systemic problem in a recent report: Workers under tight deadlines tend to cut corners, making mistakes more likely; at times, they do not fully understand their assignment or procedures.
Hirose acknowledged that TEPCO is having trouble finding a stable pool of workers at the plant, but promised to send more staff from other locations to Fukushima Dai-ichi, where three reactors melted down after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
It was the first time Tanaka met with a utility president, in part because of his attempt to counter criticism that the previous nuclear regulator, which was under the wing of the trade and industry ministry, was too close to the sector.
Such criticism contributed to the creation last year of a separate, independent nuclear regulator that Tanaka now heads.
Agency officials said the meeting indicated Tanaka's grave concerns. Tanaka and other commissioners have said they plan to step forward to provide more proactive instructions in the future.
He told Hirose that resolving the problems requires "drastic steps" with a long-term vision, not procedural or manual changes as TEPCO has suggested, Katsuhiko Ikeda, administrative head of the agency, told reporters after the talks which he also attended. The meeting was closed except for few minutes at the beginning.
Masashi Goto, a nuclear reactor engineer and lecturer at Meiji University, was skeptical about how effective the meeting would be.
"What matters is what they really talked about," he said. "To me it seems the regulatory side was just trying to smooth things out and make it look the situation should start improving."
Tanaka also urged the plant to do more to reduce radioactivity at the site to allow workers to work without full-face masks, which add to hard working conditions.


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NEW CANAAN — Emotions run the full gamut every season at the Joe Sikorski FCIAC Wrestling Tournament.
From Staples' Jacob Rizy raising his arms to the air after dramatically turning and pinning his opponent for a heavyweight title; to Trumbull's Joseph Palmieri finally defeating a rival on a championship stage; and even to Danbury's Ryan Jack stoically going about his business and claiming a third straight conference title — the FCIAC finals had it all.
While there are always surprises, one consistent has been the Danbury Hatters' dynasty. Danbury scored 257 points to win its 32nd FCIAC championship in 33 seasons this weekend at New Canaan High School. The Hatters also have a nine-year winning streak after finishing as the runners-up to Warde in the 2009-10 season.
With a 55.5-point lead over the Trumbull Eagles heading into the finals, the Hatters already had the team trophy wrapped up, and maintained their advantage through the title bouts to win by 57. Trumbull finished second with an even 200 points, followed by Warde (177), Staples (131) and Brien McMahon (124) in the top five.
"Overall, the whole weekend, we wrestled great," Danbury head coach Ricky Shook said. "Tonight we had our ups and down. I think this is the first time we had everybody place top six, so it was a great team effort. We're coming along. I didn't know how we would do as the year went along but we got better and better and hopefully, with the postseason, we'll be ready to go."
This year's FCIAC tournament featured a smorgasboard of teams represented in the weight class finals. Danbury led that group with eight finalists, followed by Trumbull with five, Warde with four, and host New Canaan with three. In all, nine of the FCIAC's 15 teams had a wrestler finish as either a champ or a runner-up.
Chalk was the word for the finals, as 13 of the 15 bouts featured match-ups of the No. 1 and 2 seeds. All the top seeds reached the finals, and just two No. 3 seeds worked into the mix.
Danbury picked up three weight class titles, with freshman Kai Odell edging Trumbull's Michael Longo 2-0 in overtime at 106 pounds; Jack winning his third straight FCIAC crown with an 8-4 decision against Ridgefield's Ben Smart at 126; and senior Kyle Fields finally winning an elusive conference crown by pinning Westhill's Chase Parrott in 5:03 at 132 pounds.
For Fields, the win in the FCIAC final was a long time coming. He had been the conference runner-up the past two seasons.
"He's never won," Shook said. "He's a State Open champ, and we've been harassing him all week about FCIACs. He's won states, placed at Eastern States and placed in New Englands, but he had never won at FCIACs until today. His brother (former Hatter Jeremy) has been working with him a lot and Kyle is a very talented wrestler."
Fields managed to overcome a tough opponent to get the third-period pin.
"Freshman year I didn't wrestle in it, and then sophomore and junior year I lost (in the final), so this year, I was coming in to really try and win it," Fields said. "I knew (Parrott) was lengthy, and with lengthy kids it's hard to shoot on because they're all funky and stuff, so I just focused on the upper body and my top position. I'm pretty good on top and that's how I won."
For Trumbull, Travis Longo won an 18-3 technical fall against Greenwich's Carlos DeWinter at 113 pounds; Jack Ryan edged Danbury's Tyler Johnson 6-5 at 120 pounds; and Palmieri defeated Greenwich's Andrew Nanai 7-6 at 182 pounds.
For Eagles' head coach Charlie Anderson, who recently won his 300th match, the tournament showed the value of perseverance.
"When you lose a match, you've got to to keep going hard," Anderson said. "I was happy with the intensity we showed today."
Palmieri's win was particularly satisfying, as he had never beaten Nanai and even lost to the Cardinal in last year's FCIAC finals.
In this year's rematch, Palmieri trailed 5-3 in the third period before scoring two on a reverse and two on a takedown to gain a 7-5 lead. Nanai escaped and nearly controlled Palmieri late, but the Trumbull wrestler held on for the one-point win.
"It feels really good," Palmieri said. "I lost to that kid in FCIACs last year and this is my first win in the (five) times we've wrestled. Before I let him dictate the match today, I really knew I had to go after it in the first period."
Warde also had three champs, with Joe Gjinaj (195 pounds), Hunter Rasmussen (170) and Noah Zuckerman (152) all winning in the finals.
One of the more dramatic wins of the finals game from Staples' Rizy, who avenged a regular-season lost to Danbury's Jordan Agosto and won via pinfall at 4:12 in the heavyweight bout.
"When I wrestled him during the season, I had the cradle locked up and then the guy on the clock forgot to start it and it didn't count, so I lost 5-1," Rizy said. "So when I got the opportunity today, I hit it, pinned him and I'm extremely happy."
Staples' George Harrington, the heavyweight champ last year, claimed the 220-pound title this year, beating McMahon's Jeff Cocchia, 12-9.
Rizy gave Harrington credit for helping him win his first tournament title.
"I have to thank my coaches and my teammate George Harrington," Rizy said. "If I hadn't been wrestling him for three years, I don't know where I'd be. There's no one tougher than him."
Host New Canaan had a pair of repeat champions, as Tyler Sung (145) pinned Danbury's Ben LeBlanc in 3:47, and Justin Mastroianni (138) defeated Trumbull's Matt Ryan 5-1.
Ridgefield's Lazar Agoev (160) also claimed a title, scoring a 10-6 decision against New Canaan's Christian Sibbett.
2019 Joe Sikorski FCIAC Wrestling Tournament
Team scores: 1 - Danbury 257; 2 - Trumbull 200; 3 - Warde 177; 4 - Staples 131; 5 - Brien McMahon 113; 6 - New Canaan 113; 7 - Ridgefield 88; 8 - Ludlowe 87; 9 - Westhill 86.5; 10 - Greenwich 84; 11 - Norwalk 63; 12 - Stamford 33; 13 - Wilton 17
99 pounds (exhibition): Liam Byrne (Danbury) pinned Alex Blaha (Ridgefield) 1:32; 106 pounds: Kai Odell (Danbury) dec. Michael Longo (Trumbull) 2-0 in OT; 113 pounds: Travis Longo (Trumbull) tech fall Carlos DeWinter (Greenwich) 18-3; 120 pounds: Jack Ryan (Trumbull) dec. Tyler Johnson (Danbury) 6-5; 126 pounds: Ryan Jack (Danbury) dec. Ben Smart (Ridgefield) 8-4; 132 pounds: Kyle Fields (Danbury) pinned Chase Parrot (Westhill) 5:03; 138 pounds: Justin Mastroianni (New Canaan) dec. Matt Ryan (Trumbull) 5-1; 145 pounds: Tyler Sung (New Canaan) pinned Ben LeBlanc (Danbury) 3:47; 152 pounds: Noah Zuckerman (Warde) dec. Tommy Mazur (Westhill) 6-1; 160 pounds: Lazar Agoev (Ridgefield) dec. Christian Sibbett (New Canaan) 10-6; 170 pounds: Hunter Rasmussen (Warde) major dec. Jonathan Davilla (McMahon) 10-0; 182 pounds: Joseph Palmieri (Trumbull) dec. Andrew Nanai (Greenwich) 7-6; 195 pounds: Joe Gjinaj (Warde) dec. Montez Osbey (Danbury) 8-3; 220 pounds:George Harrington (Staples) dec. Jeff Cocchia (McMahon) 12-9; 285 pounds: Jacob Rizy (Staples) pinned Jordan Agosto (Danbury) 4:12


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Think back to the 1980s and movies such as "Wall Street" and "Trading Places."
Those movies made life on Wall Street seem incredible edgy, exciting and, of times with the latter flick, extraordinarily funny.
They also accomplished something else: they convinced the consumer that buying and selling stocks should be left to the pros.
But as the age of the internet broke through to the general public, the stock market transformed from insider trading to easy-to-use web sites that allowed consumers to buy and sell stocks like a seasoned Michael Douglas or Dan Akroyd -- minus the slick-backed hair and demeanor and forced elitist accent, respectively.
Suddenly, the stock of online stock trading web sites were up, in terms of appealing to a larger demographic that probably had little to no experience or interest in making investments. But, in the process, did it also create a consumer base with a false sense of confidence?
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Days of Ethnographic Cinema 2018
The 7th
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25-29 September, 2018
Dear friends,
we invite documentary film submissions to be screened during the 7th "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" Festival in Moscow from September 25 to September 29, 2018.
The organizers invite filmmakers and students working in the fields of ethnography and anthropology and in other related disciplines to participate in the meeting.
We are looking forward the films on following topics:
- Anthropology of Аrt
- Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
- Anthropology and Aging
- Processes of Migration
- Anthropology of Religion
The length and year of production of the films are not important.
Filmmakers are kindly asked to submit:
- - DVD-copy of the film with the English subtitles;
- - transcript of the soundtrack in Russian and/or English (Word format);
- - Registration form filled out in Russian and/or English.
No fee is required. The organizers apologize for not being able to return the submitted materials.
Submission deadline for registration forms and films is June 1, 2018
To post films, please use the following address:
20, Myasnitskaya str., 101000, Moscow, Russia, Higher School of Economics, School of Cultural Studies, c/o Days of Ethnographic Cinema
Dear colleagues,
We have pleasure to announce a public lecture of professor of anthropology Stefan Helmreich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) entitled as "An Anthropology of Waves" to be held September 30 in the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Place and time: 2/8 Khitrovsky Pereulok, Building 5, Moscow (Faculty of Communication, Media, and Design), Room 405. September 30, at 6.00 p.m.
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The event is jointly organised by Department of Research Arts and National Research University Higher School of Economics and is a part of the program of VI International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology "Days of Ethnographic Cinema"
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Date and time: September 29, 2016; 6.00 pm.
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For the sixth time the International Cinema Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" will open its doors in Moscow. The festival is being held by National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian State University for the Humanities, All-Russian State University of Cinematography named after S.A.Gerasimov in partnership with Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) as well as the Museum of Moscow.
Urban Anthropology will be the main theme of the Festival as it is topical for the globalizing world.
The festival will be featuring screenings of anthropological films as well as theoretical discussions.
- September 29th National Research University Higher School of Economics in partnership with the Department of Research Arts (Gallery "Triumph") will organize a round table discussion "Sound landscapes in anthropology of science and art"
- October 2nd colloquium "City and migrants" will take place, featuring leading specialists of National Research University Higher School of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- September 27th- October 1st the Auditorium of the museum of Moscow will hold screenings of ethnographic films, created by professional anthropologists and research directors


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The rest of the picture will appear in my next book, which I am planning in paperback, and PDF formats. It is part of the Circles series, so the Tuatara is actually part of a larger circle-shaped geometric/knots style of picture.


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People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.— Chuck Feeney
Chuck Feeney is almost certainly the greatest philanthropist the world has ever seen.
Over the last 30 years the retail magnate had a single-minded mission: to give away his entire fortune, at one time worth almost R100 billion.
It seems he has succeeded; his current net worth less than $1.5 million (R21 million).
Feeney quietly funnelled billions into education, science, healthcare and civil rights in South Africa, the US, Australia, Vietnam, Bermuda and Ireland.
Few living people have given away their fortune so completely.
Feeney obsessively hid his massive donations.
Many charities had no clue where the piles of cash were coming from; those that did were sworn to secrecy.
He was, of course, eventually outed by Forbes, but he tries to keep his good work as hidden as possible.
To maximise the impact of his donations, Feeney leveraged every dollar he gave away, using the promise of substantial donation to force governments and other donors to match.
For more detail; watch "Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story" (or scroll down for quotes by Feeney).
I watched a little girl cover her face up and leave her hands in front of her mouth. I saw that girl after surgery, and she was smiling... that's a great source of satisfaction.— Chuck Feeney
I want the last cheque I write to bounce.— Chuck Feeney
I don't dislike money, but there's only so much money you can use.— Chuck Feeney
It's the intelligent thing to be frugal.— Chuck Feeney
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LAHORE - All pre- and post-revolution measures and mechanisms for their enforcement are ready and would be unveiled at appropriate time, says Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri.
In an interview at his well-guarded Model Town residence on Thursday, he said he is holding consultations with up to 5,000 people from various walks of life everyday to ensure the success of his initiative. The exercise will continue for another 25 days. Thereafter people will be given a call to come out and uproot what he calls the exploitative system which protects the interests of the elite only.
The model of revolution Dr Tahirul Qadri has tailored for Pakistan will be a blend of the American, French, Chinese, Russian and Iranian revolutions in addition to the ingredients developed by the Pakistan Awami Tehrik chief in the light of the system introduced by the Prophet (PBUH) for the state of Madina, the spirit of the preamble of the 1973 Constitution and the post-partition speeches of Qauid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
If he succeeds in his mission, immediately after the revolution a process of ruthless accountability will be started. Simultaneously, reforms will be introduced in various sectors and then elections will be held under the reformed system. The new system could be parliamentary or presidential or a mixture of the two, as to be decided by the people.
Here is how he responded when some more questions were put to him about his philosophy of change and what factors make him believe that he would be able to bring bout a revolution in a country where he doesn't enjoy a widespread support and where almost all major mainstream political forces are wary of his radical ideas.
Q: You are telling people that a revolution will take place during the next few weeks. But the on-ground situation doesn't support your claim. Most of political parties are opposing you; there is no public mobilization; there is no unrest among the masses; you don't pin any hopes on the army. In such a situation what's the basis of your claim that the revolution is a matter of weeks, not months?
A: Only pro-status quo parties are opposing us; they are irrelevant for us; we don't need their support. Our struggle is against the elite and different mafias who have captured power and occupying country's resources. We have attached our hopes with Allah, awam (masses) and activists. We will certainly accomplish our mission.
Q: What is it from which you inferred that it's only you that the people want to lead the struggle for a change?
A: You will get the answer to your question when I give the people a call. Our struggle is against the system. Except for us, nobody else is talking of a revolution. Others talk of protecting the existing system of loot and plunder; they are opposed to an egalitarian system.
Q: How will the presence of a million KP IDPs affect your revolution schedule? Unless this problem is properly dealt with, will not you be drawing people's criticism by talking of the revolution?
A: No. There will be no justification for anyone to criticise us. We are extending all possible cooperation to the IDPs. We have already sent 14 truckloads of relief goods and more are being arranged. Settlement of the IDPs will take time. That process will go on uninterrupted.
Q: Which parties you regard as your allies and which your opponents? To what extent will you rely on support from your allies to actualise your vision?
A: All parties that support status quo or are the product thereof; all parties involved in financial, moral, political and administrative corruption will oppose our agenda. But the anti-status quo and pro-masses parties are with us. Some are already working with us; more will announce their support for us in the days ahead. I don't want to name these parties or make an announcement about the revolution date beforetime.
Q: On what terms and conditions you can join hands with Imran Khan to make a joint struggle for the change?
A: Who will cooperate with whom, is yet to be settled. For cooperation commonality of the agenda is a must. We are for a revolution, not midterm polls. Our martyrs did not lay down their lives for midterm polls. Many elections have been held in the country in the past but have failed to solve people's problems. Every time almost same people reach the assemblies.
Q: Will the revolution take place in one go or in phases?
A: It will take some days to complete. But the post-revolution changes will be in phases. There will be ruthless accountability of the corrupt seen never in the past. Thereafter, constitutional, political, electoral, judicial, administrative reforms will be introduced. All institutions will be depoliticised.
In just one month after the revolution people with low incomes will get food items at 50 per cent of the routine rates. The accountability process will be completed within months. Fifty million acres of state lands will be distributed to the landless. In one year the people will feel a real change in the country.
Replying to a question, Dr Qadri said the existing assemblies have no role to play in the implementation of his agenda. Asked what if despite all his efforts, individual or collective, he failed to bring about a change, the PAT chief said, "Insha Allah our efforts will bear fruit. I have full trust in Allah".


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Summary -- The setting: A group of people are standing around outside the prison door, which is pretty ugly. It is Puritan Boston, about June, 1642. It seems that every new town needs both a prison and a cemetery. There are weeds, but also a rose bush. Perhaps the rose is left over from the wilderness, or perhaps it stems from Anne Hutchinson (a woman rebel a few years earlier). Anyway, the author suggests the reader take it to help brighten this sad story.
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"My Fair Lady" had "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." "Singin' in the Rain" had "Moses supposes his toeses are roses." To cinema's pantheon of tricky diction, we can now add, "I have a sieve full of sifted thistles and a sieve full of unsifted thistles, because I am a thistle sifter." Audiences for "The King's Speech" can hear Colin Firth as Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), practice this tongue twister as part of the speech therapy conducted by Lionel Logue, played by Geoffrey Rush.
Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" (and its predecessor, "Pygmalion") trains the flower girl Eliza Doolittle to lose her Cockney diphthongs. Similarly, the voice coach in "Singin' in the Rain" tries to steer the silent-film star Lina Lamont away from a grating New York accent inappropriate for the talkies. But "Bertie," as Firth's character is known to his family, has much graver concerns: he is crippled by a stammer that makes public speaking a devilish chore. Logue prescribes a regimen of vocal calisthenics, tongue twisters among them, to improve the mechanics of Bertie's speech. After the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, in 1936 opens the throne to Bertie, the therapy has geopolitical consequences, permitting the new king to address the nation in live radio broadcasts on the brink of World War II.
When David Seidler began working on the screenplay for "The King's Speech," the tongue twisters were one of the few publicly known details about the real-life Logue's techniques in working with Bertie. The historian Denis Judd, in his 1982 biography of George VI, reported that Logue's vocal exercises included the sentences "Let's go gathering healthy heather with the gay brigade of grand dragoons" and "She sifted seven thick-stalked thistles through a strong thick sieve." As it happens, variants of the "thistle sifter" tongue twister date back to 1831, when American journals reported that this "unutterably curious sentence is frequently used in schools for the correction of stammering."
Why should an "unutterable" sentence be thought of as a boon for those who have such trouble uttering in the first place? In the 19th century, tongue twisters were developed by experts in elocution as a means of mastering proper enunciation. Logue trained as an elocutionist in his native Australia, and from that work he began taking on students for lessons in "speech correction." Along with the tongue twisters, Logue was known to draw on other time-honored elocutionary exercises, like having a stutterer shout vowel sounds out of an open window for long periods.
"These mechanical techniques," Seidler explained to me in a recent interview, "are incredibly useful once you've overcome your stutter internally. They don't, as far as I'm concerned, cure the stutter." Seidler knows whereof he speaks, because he himself grew up with a stutter. He drew on these experiences to build a rich, believable portrait of Bertie's speech impediment and Logue's unconventional approach to helping him overcome it.
"If the stammer had been inauthentic, we would have had no film," Firth told me on a recent visit to New York to publicize the film. In preparing to play Bertie, Firth carefully studied the available audio and video recordings of his public addresses. Newsreel footage from one speech, delivered at the Empire Exhibition in Glasgow in 1938, made a particular impression. "You see him manage for a while, and then you see him disappear into this terrible silence," Firth said. "I saw a kind of heroism in the fact that he just goes on. He goes on because he has to."Continue reading the main story
Firth, Rush and the film's director, Tom Hooper, were also able to draw on newly rediscovered diaries and other personal records from Logue himself. This treasure trove of material was only recently brought to light by Mark Logue, his grandson, who has written a companion book for the film with Peter Conradi, also under the title "The King's Speech." The medical appointment card that Logue wrote for the Duke of York after his first consultation in 1926 notes, among other things, a "very flabby" waistline and poor control of his diaphragm. (Logue sought to toughen up Bertie's diaphragm by having his wife, Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, sit on his stomach during breathing exercises on the floor.)
The Logue archive also contains intriguingly annotated drafts of the King's speeches, beginning with his momentous "eve of war" radio address in September 1939, which serves as the film's climax. Logue drew lines between words to indicate when to insert pauses, and he swapped out words that he thought would be problematic. Since Bertie stumbled on initial "k" and "g" sounds, Logue amended the Christmas 1944 address so that the word calamities was replaced with disasters and goal with end.
Few, if any, of Logue's linguistic techniques, from the tongue twisters to the word substitutions, would be used by modern speech pathologists, according to Caroline Bowen, an Australian speech therapist who maintains a Web site with information on Logue. But for Logue, the focus on vocal mechanics was most likely just a means to an end, enforcing a bond of trust with his royal patient. Seidler's screenplay imagines how Logue might have worn down Bertie's inhibitions about speaking by encouraging him to sing his words or to indulge in colorful cursing (so colorful, in fact, that Firth's ad-libbed obscenities have earned the film an R rating in the United States).
Reflecting on Bertie's struggle to overcome his stutter, Firth says, "It's actually friendship and intimacy that galvanizes him, not diaphragm work." Logue may not have "cured" the stammer, but by instilling a sense of confidence and chipping away at Bertie's anxieties, he made it possible for the king to untwist his tongue and find his voice at a moment when his country most needed to hear him speak.Continue reading the main story


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Enemy of My Enemy
Options now include providing Sunni military leaders (primarily ex-Baathist members of the former Iraqi officer corps, who make up the backbone of the insurgency) with the same types of assistance — funding, arms and logistical support — that Iran has been giving to Shiite armed groups for years.... Remaining on the sidelines would be unacceptable to Saudi Arabia.There has been much discussion of the recent Saudi pronouncement on the future of Sunni Iraq, most of it missing the mark. Kevin Drum views it through his usual anti-Bush lenses:
MARCHING ORDERS FROM THE HOUSE OF SAUD....Nawaf Obaid is "an adviser to the Saudi government," but his opinions "are his own and do not reflect official Saudi policy." Roger that. With that boilerplate warning out of the way, Obaid takes to the pages of the Washington Post to warn us in no uncertain terms that if we try to withdraw from Iraq, the Saudi monarchy will make us very, very sorry.
... I wouldn't be surprised if this was the lecture the House of Saud delivered to Dick Cheney after they summoned him to Riyadh last week. Not that Cheney was an unwilling listener or anything. Just one more excuse to stay the course, after all.
Somewhere, the War Nerd is dancing. The Saudis may not have much military expertise, but unless America actively prevents them, they can afford to ensure that Iraq's Sunnis are much better armed than their opponents.
Since Saddam's fall, our strategic enemy in the Middle East has been Iran. Our first tactic, intervening against the Sunni insurgency in an attempt to prevent its interfering with the establishment of civil order in Iraq, was not overtly anti-Iranian. But it failed, or perhaps overshot its goal. We are being forced toward a new tactical struggle against Iran's proxies.
The best outcome for Iran is a Shiite client state in Iraq, with an ongoing American involvement, providing the Iranian government with cover for its own nuclear program (by blowing up whenever it is convenient, to distract attention from possible action against Iran). In passing, it is worth noting that this is why inviting Iran to participate in an Iraqi "peace process" is the worst possible plan: it invites Iranian involvement and gives them this cover as a gift -- and then calls the result a success.
What legitimate objectives can America realistically pursue against Iran? (Not many, as noted here.) Violent overthrow of the ruling regime is presently off the table, and the undisputed lesson of Vietnam is the futility of fighting a war which you cannot bring home to the enemy.
Increased sanctions. The goal of sanctions is often misunderstood. Iran's theocratic rulers nonetheless depend on some degree of support from the mercantile class; by allocating lucrative import licenses, they can reward their supporters and punish their enemies. (Also, a supply of foreign luxuries makes life more pleasant for both merchants and mullahs.) Sanctions aim to disrupt this system, diverting the Iranian government's attention and resources toward the preservation of its own power.
Arming internal enemies. Many Iranians, such as the so-called "students" and the large Azeri minority, are dissatisfied with their government. Increasing their access to weaponry, even if we have no precise control over its destination, will weaken the Iranian regime (though the benefits to America are second-order).
The Saudi threat is partly aimed at us, since the American military's heavy hand has tipped the balance of Iraqi power decisively against the former Sunni rulers; but it is also aimed at Iran. In particular, a diversion of Saudi terror funding from anti-Western irhabists to anti-Persian Arab nationalists would be a real blow to Iran. Since Iran is known to be training, funding and supplying terrorists itself, this would be an unmitigated positive. Let those who are supplying the fuel stand next to the fire for awhile.


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Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept 2
TRUDEAU TAKES LIGHTER TOUCH ON CHINESE VISIT: After holding high level talks with Chinese leaders this week and raising touchy issues like human rights, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped coach a basketball game Friday. Trudeau visited a Shanghai high school and became a guest coach for a basketball game. He also dropped into a busy local restaurant that specializes in Montreal-style smoked meat and is run by a Montrealer.
CANADIAN MERCHANTS TO GET ONLINE WINDOW INTO CHINA: Canadian merchants are expected to get a spot on the e-commerce giant Alibaba. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be present this weekend for the launch of a Canadian pavilion on Alibaba's Tmall platform. It will allow Canadian sellers to tap into China's rapidly expanding middle class that now comprises some 300 million people. Alibaba is the world's largest e-commerce platform.
FALLING SALES HAVEN'T AFFECTED VANCOUVER HOME PRICES: Experts say Vancouver's real estate market is returning to more historically normal levels after the British Columbia government implemented a 15 per cent tax for foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales fell 26 per cent last month compared with the same time last year. However, prices continue to climb even as sales drop _ the composite benchmark price for all residential properties was about $933,000, a 31 per cent jump compared to a year ago.
EXPORTS ON THE RISE: Canadian exports increased in July as Statistics Canada reported the trade deficit narrowed to $2.5 billion. CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld said the improvement was a step in the right direction, but noted it was only one month in a quarter that is expected to be strong. Canadian exports increased 3.4 per cent to $42.7 billion in July, as volumes gained 3.7 per cent but prices fell 0.3 per cent.
EDMONTON MAYOR WANTS PEOPLE TO FIGHT RACISM: Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson says people should "make it awkward" for people who make racist comments. His call comes after a racist comment was directed at actor and former high-jump champion Jesse Lipscombe while he was filming a public service announcement this week. Iveson met with Lipscombe on Friday and says racism has no place in any community.
CRTC MUST SIGN OFF ON BLOCKING QUEBEC WEBSITES: The CRTC says it needs to give approval before Quebec can block access to certain websites. The Quebec government recently passed a law that forces Internet companies to access to online gambling websites not authorized by the provincial government. Canada's wireless telecom lobby says the legislation is unconstitutional and violates federal law. The CRTC agrees, saying federal law states it is the only body that can order Internet sites be blocked and, even then, only under exceptional circumstances.
TEACHERS DISCIPLINED OVER JAR OF DEATH CHALLENGE: Three high school teachers who failed to intervene when students organized a "Jar of Death" punishment at a camp have been disciplined by the agency that regulates educators' conduct in British Columbia. Campers were pressured to lick a teacher's foot, chew gum that had been chewed by another teacher and drink a glass of water into which four people had spat The B.C. commissioner for teacher regulation says the three teachers admitted that their actions constitute professional misconduct and they all received suspensions.
REPUBLICANS URGE VOTERS TO BACK GOP CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES: Some Republicans are urging voters to back GOP congressional candidates because they'd help limit Hillary Clinton's agenda should she be elected president this November. Republicans don't want to be blamed for giving up too early on Donald Trump — but with Trump lagging in most polls and election day two months off, many view the argument as a low-risk strategy. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain unveiled a video this week promising to "act as a check, not a rubber stamp," if Clinton wins the White House.
HURRICANE BARELY NUDGES SOUTH CAROLINA: A South Carolina official says tropical storm Hermine has brought scattered reports of flooded roads, trees down and power outages but no major damage. An emergency management spokesman says it's more like a bad summer storm than a hurricane. The storm hit Florida as a hurricane, but winds fell to tropical storm strength as it moved across the Southeast.


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The Basics
Event: ORU/SFA Spring Break Invite
Location: Trophy Club Country Club / Trophy Club, Texas
Full Results: ORU/SFA Spring Break Invite – Round 2 Results
TROPHY CLUB, Texas – Oral Roberts senior Kennedy Ishee grabbed the individual lead while the ORU women's golf team improved four shots and held steady in second place after the second round of the ORU/SFA Spring Break Invite, Tuesday at Trophy Club CC. Northern Iowa continues to lead the team race at 623 (314-309).
News and Notes
- Ishee had 13 pars and two birdies in the second round, tying for second in the field in both categories, while leading the field in par four scoring at -1, 3.90.
- As a team, ORU had five birdies and 51 pars in the second round, and had the second best average on the par four holes at 4.40.
- Ishee is attempting to be ORU's first individual champion since Alejandra Acosta won the 2014 Bob Hurley ORU Shootout.
ORU Individual Results
1 – Kennedy Ishee – 76-75—151
T13 – Rebecca Hnidka – 80-79—159
23 – Beatriz Garcia – 82-81—163
T27 – Natalie Mattison – 83-83—166
38 – Annie Lacombe – 88-82—170
44 – Linda Huang – 91-91—182
Team Results
1 – Northern Iowa – 314-309—623
T3 – UT Arlington – 323-316—639
T3 – Bowling Green – 324-315—639
5 – Stephen F. Austin – 328-315—643
7 – Creighton – 333-317—650
Up Next
The third and final round will begin Wednesday morning. Live results can be found at BirdieFire.com.
For the latest information on ORU athletics, follow @ORUAthletics on Twitter or Instagram or go to www.ORUAthletics.com. Fans can also receive updates on the Golden Eagles by downloading the ORU Athletics Front Row App at ORUAthletics.com/frontrow or the ORU Golden Eagles Live App in iTunes or the Google Play Store.
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Following our Santa Sleigh Test launch at the end of 2013 and the fantastic response to the subsequent video, we knew that interest in High Altitude Balloon experiments was still as great as ever. We made two presentations at the beginning of this year – one to Worcester Radio Amateurs Association and the other to students at Highgate School in London. Both were fantastic audiences and we were thrilled to be asked. Hopefully we have inspired some people to become interested in the electronics and science behind the hobby!
However this is where a lot of other things took over most of the HAB activities. In between holidays to Australia and Florence, I have progressed to two new jobs and have spent some time working on UKHASnet nodes and a Raspberry Pi IP CCTV Camera. Not forgetting weekends at Glastonbury Festival, the UKHAS Conference and EMF Camp!
This year has seen some fantastic launches from the other members of the HAB community. One that requires a special mention is the B-64 flight from Leo Bodnar which was launched on the 12th July this year and is STILL FLYING now! It has circumnavigated the globe many times and has even had a detour to the North Pole. It is a fantastic achievement and with a flight time record that keeps on getting longer, I think this is going to be a hard one to beat.
So what next? Well, in between the above, we have managed to build, design and test STRATODEAN Four. It's taken many weeks of work to get to where we are, however, the mission is still under wraps as we hope it will be a 'first' of some kind, but that's all we can say at the moment - Exciting! I guess its stealthy development has also been a factor in the lack of updates! However, all will be revealed as soon as we launch in the coming weeks. Assuming the weather is good, fingers crossed for January!


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Patreon, a company that lets artists collect monthly dues from their fans in exchange for access to content, is reversing course on newly announced changes to its payment structure after significant backlash.
Tough decision: As CEO Jack Conte tried to explain last week, the company wanted to tackle some issues with its current model, including the month-to-month variations in fees incurred by artists and creators. Unfortunately, as users quickly pointed out, the new fee structure, which included a flat per-transaction fee, would have disproportinately impacted small pledges of $1 and $2.


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September 26, 2013
Adventures in Gardening
Posted by: Fabrizio Chiariello
We decided to let the backyard garden bed go wild this past summer, just to see what would grow, and here's what we got!
Lots and lots of tall beautiful floral weeds! And a couple of nice pumpkins. And some tomato plants, but no tomatoes… (that's why we love our Farmers' Markets!).
One ear of mini-corn, some nice Mums, lots of Raspberry bushes, and of course plenty of Poison Ivy!!!
We'll be sharing our Pumpkin Roll Cake recipe soon!


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EUGene is a program designed primarily for political scientists. It has 2 purposes. First, EUGene generates data for variables used to test Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and colleagues version of an expected utility theory of war and dispute initiation (Bueno de Mesquita, 1981, 1985; Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman, 1992). Second, EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, non-directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis. Until now, these data have been unavailable, and these data management tasks have frequently been cumbersome and difficult. A paper exploring EUGene's capabilities and rationale is available here.
EUGene is an acronym for Expected Utility Generation and data management program. EUGene is freeware, but is copyrighted. A full download (see the download page) contains the program, expected utility data, documentation, and source code.
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- input data sets include Polity III data and the Correlates of War capabilities, alliance, contiguity, and system membership data sets
- computes derivative variables including tau-b scores, expected utility information, state-to-state distances, and democratization
- converts input data sets with country-year or dyad-year unit of analysis into a directed dyad-year format
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Bueno de Mesquita and Lalmans so-called expected utility theory of war has become one of the most important theories of international conflict. Following the most recent explication, a more appropriate label might be the War and Reason game-theoretic theory of war," since War and Reason (Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman 1992) explicitly models game-theoretic interactions between states, and since the "international interaction" game in War and Reason represents only one of many possible games of international conflict that could be constructed.
Whatever the label, the testing of expected utility theory has lagged behind its theoretical development. Even though it is one of the most widely-cited theories of international relations, in its most sophisticated formulation the theory has been tested only on 707 dyad years, all drawn from Europe between 1815 and 1970. Testing has been limited because the necessary data for wider analysis namely risk attitude scores and utility values for all states and years have not been available.
EUGene generates expected utility data for all dyads and years. EUGene combines the 1992 methodology of War and Reason with an easy to use program to calculate expected utility values. The program both generates expected utility data and predicts the International Interaction game equilibrium in any given dyad-year. In addition, the program provides users with options for modifying expected utility calculations. EUGene is the first program to implement Bueno de Mesquita and Lalman's (1992) methodology to generate data for the full population of cases in which we are interested as international relations scholars.
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EUGene makes a number of cumbersome tasks associated with building data sets for the quantitative analysis of international relations easier, especially data sets created with the directed dyad-year as the unit of analysis. An example of a directed dyad-year is the US vs. the USSR in 1946. Scholars have increasingly used data sets based on the dyad-year (both directed and non-directed) to conduct quantitative analyses both because dyadic interaction is believed to be at the heart of strategic international behavior, and because it is possible to combine explanations from multiple levels of analysis in one quantitative study when dyadic data is used. Nevertheless, creating dyadic data sets is an onerous task for most researchers. On the independent variable side, creating dyadic data sets involves merging data and renaming variables from multiple monadic data sets. On the dependent variable side, the most common data sets with international conflict events (the Correlates of War Militarized Interstate Dispute data set and Interstate War data set) are not organized in dyadic form and must be converted into dyadic interactions; such conversions are not always straightforward.
EUGene reads, merges, and outputs data from several of the most important other data sets in international relations. In addition to simply merging the data files, EUGene outputs that data in a uniform format that can be imported into any statistical analysis package with ease. Some of the input data sets have the country-year as the unit of analysis (e.g., the Correlates of War national capability data, Gurr Polity data). Other data sets have the dyad as the unit of analysis, such as data about the physical distance between states, or the Correlates of War contiguity data set. Still other data comes in a hybrid form, such as the Correlates of War alliance data set, which has the country-year as its unit of analysis in the data set structure, but which really contains data which is dyadic and annual in its underlying form. Finally, some of the input data sets use multiple data set structures, such as the Correlates of War militarized interstate dispute data set, which comes as three files, one containing country-dispute level records, and two containing dispute-level records. EUGene carries out necessary conversions between the formats, file structures, and differing units of analysis of these data sets.
EUGene also allows users to specify subsets of countries, years, and a variety of variables for output. Data sets are saved in a text format that can be easily read into other programs for statistical analysis. EUGene creates the command files for execution in SPSS, Stata, and LIMDEP to read in the data sets it creates.
The tasks that EUGene carries out can be (and have been) executed in other software programs. However, it is cumbersome and time consuming to repeatedly program large numbers of merge and case selection commands in other programs. For some (namely those not familiar with SPSS or Stata syntax), the process of data merging becomes a manual process of cut and paste. We believe that the set of options provided with EUGene significantly simplifies the task of building data sets containing information from multiple inputs, allowing analysts to spend less time merging data and more time performing analysis.
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Optimize Local Search Engine Optimization
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Well, if you have a web page, you can initiate a few little things to make it more search- friendly locally. You can have your address on every page of your site. In addition to this, even if you have a toll free contact number, you can place the number of every page of the site. This is not all. Creating a page on site titles will ensure friendly local searches. Having a link on Yahoo Maps or Google Maps on your "direction/location" page can help you go a long way. If you think that your businesses have been serving other surrounding towns, then try to list as many as those you can on your site.
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The Chosen Champion Trailer from Brett Garamella on Vimeo.
Two weeks ago I flew to Chicago with my friend Patrick McGowan to shoot a documentary on Estaifan Shilaita, former Iraqi boxing champion who traveled to America in pursuit of a better life and religious freedom. Though his story is unique, Shilaita shares many of the same feelings of Iraqi refugees from around the world. We are hoping to finish this documentary by August so stay tuned.


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The Sunday Salon used to be a meme but was getting so huge it became unmanageable, so it is now a Facebook group that has become an informal week in review
gathering place for bloggers.
It is also a place to share our thoughts about things of a bookish nature.
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by
Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer
~ It's a chance to share news~
A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
I had a fantastic week!! I was completely unplugged on Wednesday for our Family Fun Day! We had so much FUN!! Even with sunblock we all have sunburns that are turning into nice tans. Except for grandson Kaden who only came out of the lake long enough to eat a fast lunch. The big kids hiked trails, climbed rocks and took Natalie and Kaden out in a canoe. I took along a book to read thinking I would just sit in the sun and read, I only read 2 chapters, the rest of the time was spent enjoying my family's antics. We are already planning a return trip next year.
We also spent last Sunday with the whole Caswell Clan getting family pictures taken. I can wait to see how they all turned out.
I was able to do a bit of reading too and it was a full week on the blog too!!
Weekly Rewind – August 11 – 16, 2014
Monday –It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
Tuesday –Sex, Lies, and Snickerdoodles Great Escapes Book Tour – Review & Giveaway
Wednesday –Cozy Wednesday with Terrie Farley Moran – Author of Well Read, Then Dead (Giveaway too!)
Thursday –Bewitching Boots by Joyce and Jim Lavene Great Escapes Book Tour – Review/Giveaway
Friday –Twenty Quick Questions with Ellery Adams – Giveaway too!
Saturday –Twenty Quick Questions with Ellery Adams
Summer is flying by way too fast!!
Enjoy it while you can!!
5 Responses to "Sunday Salon/Sunday Post – Unplugged – Weekly Rewind – Mail Call"
Love the picture. Happy that a good time was had by all. Summer is wonderful, but I seem to get more reading done in the winter when we just light a fire in the fireplace and read during snowstorms are over and clean-up begins.
Sounds like a wonderful week! Glad you had fun….and I like the look of your new books, especially One of Us.
Great photo! Sounds like everyone had a wonderful time!
What fun and great pictures!
Looks like you had a great time! Enjoy your reads this week.
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Selena Gomez: Summer Vacation With Justin Bieber? — VIDEO
Selena and Justin will both have jam-packed schedules this summer while she films her new movie, 'The Getaway,' and he sets out on his 'Boyfriend' world tour. But they may sneak away for a sexy rendezvous!
Selena Gomez is about to be super busy filming her new movie in Bulgaria. But she and boyfriend Justin Bieber, 18, are so good about making time for each other — and they may embark on a romantic vacation this summer!
"I'm going to Bulgaria to shoot my movie so I'll be there for a bit," Selena, 19, says in an interview with PopSugar. "As far as after that there might be another movie or I'll be back in the studio. Maybe a vacation, hopefully. That would be nice."
Selena will head to Bulgaria on April 30 to start filming The Getaway opposite Ethan Hawke. Justin arrived in London on April 23, which is only a four-hour plane ride away. They just can't stand to be away from each other!
We hope Jelena fits in some time to relax together this summer, too. They're both so busy juggling their careers, and we think they deserve some one-on-one time to just be happy and in love!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Should Justin and Selena take a romantic vacation this summer?
— Kaydi Poirier
More Justin & Selena
- Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez: Will They Reunite In Europe?
- Justin Bieber Debuts New Blonde Hair In London
- Justin Bieber Kisses Selena Gomez Look Alike In 'Boyfriend' Video


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Conex Boxes, Inc. $1000 Scholarship Program
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Founded in 1937, Point University provides an affordable, quality education within the context of a Christian world-view.
Institutional control: Private, independent
School type: Christian, liberal arts
Academic calendar: Semesters
Religious affiliation: Non-denominational
School size: Over 2,000 students
Student-faculty ratio: 15:1
Costs and Aid 2018–2019
Undergraduate in-state tuition (academic year): $19,500
Undergraduate out-of-state tuition (academic year): $19,500
Room and board (academic year): $7,900
Average additional fees: $1,100
Scholarships: Yes
Grants: Yes
Loans: Yes
Work-study: Yes
Co-ops/internships: Yes
Essay required: No
Interview required: No
Application deadline: August 1
Application fee: Free
Top 5 Majors
Exercise Science
Business Administration
Criminal Justice
Distinctive Programs
Accounting and Information Systems
Biblical Studies
Counseling and Human Services
Early Childhood Education
Sociology with Social Work
• 450 athletes compete on 19 NAIA collegiate sports teams
• Mascot: Skyhawk
• Band: Marching Skyhawks
• Members of the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC)
Who we are
Students are prepared to attain their professional goals, equipped for spiritual growth and marketplace influence, and inspired to serve. With access to a full range of extracurricular activities, vibrant intercollegiate athletics, and community service opportunities, our students enjoy a robust traditional college experience. Those seeking a close-knit, diverse Christian environment in which faith is fully integrated into the entire educational experience will find a home at Point University.
Challenging academics
Our broad, challenging curriculum is designed to prepare students to lead in their chosen professions. We offer over 50 associate and bachelor's degree programs in 26 majors, some with pre-professional tracks that prepare students for graduate study in Veterinary Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Medicine, and Dentistry. Curricula-inclusive professional certifications in some fields give graduates a unique competitive advantage. Degree programs are available in seat, online, or in a "blended" format (online with live video conference), so students study in the environment that best meets their needs.
Recently launched master's programs in Business and Ministry are aimed at preparing recent graduates or those who have significant professional experience for additional education and impact in their chosen fields. Additional graduate-level programs are planned for in the University's strategic plan.
At Point, we endeavor to challenge and engage each student to develop relationships with their peers, growing their faith and influence.
Engaging opportunities
With 19 athletic teams, an award-winning marching band, numerous campus ministries, intramural sports teams, and a growing number of student organizations, there are a multitude of opportunities for students to be involved on campus. Our student life and residence life teams work hard to ensure each student has the opportunities to develop lifelong friendships and connections during their time at Point. Centered on tradition, our community chapels, annual impact days, celebration weeks, and homecoming activities give students opportunities for fellowship and a chance to lead and engage with their peers.
Cultural relevance
We integrate faith into the entire education process so students can strengthen their relationships with Christ while preparing for a career. Everything our students do is intentional in equipping them to take their faith into the marketplace in new and culturally relevant ways.
Global impact
Our students and graduates are going into all the world to lead, love, and serve in a way that makes Jesus, the Gospel, and the cross visible to a world in need. More than 5,000 alumni are serving and sharing Christ in the marketplace and the nonprofit world as entrepreneurs and professors, college presidents and ministry leaders, national recording artists and pastors, CEOs and counselors, and in the medical field—all fulfilling significant roles that extend the mission that brought them to this University.
Accreditation and program approval
• SACSCOC—Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
• CAEP—NCATE accreditation from the Continuous Improvement Commission of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation
• Georgia PSC—Georgia Professional Standards Commission
• CCCU—Council of Christian Colleges and Universities
• NAIA—National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
• AAC—Appalachian Athletic Conference


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Dorothy Baca, professor and costume designer in the UNM Department of Theatre and Dance, recently presented a revealing account of the evolution of undergarments as part of the UNM Alumni Association's Lobo Living Room series. Armed only with a slide show, knowledge and wit, Baca took the audience on a one hour sortie into the history of undergarments covering - or uncovering - everything from loincloth to G-string.
Brief mention was made of the loincloth, the most enduring undergarment in history. From prehistoric times, when man fashioned them from animal hide to protect their special parts from getting accosted while hunting ginormous, toothy things with long nails, through ancient Egypt, Greco-Roman times, to modern day Sumo wrestlers who still don them for competition, the loincloth endures.
Conversely, the chastity belt, a metal panty on lockdown available in the demented garments aisle, was short-lived, as were hip buckets or panniers. These cagey looking devices spread a woman's hips to a width nearly matching her height. Baca said it caused problems fitting through doorways and precipitated changes in architecture.
Some outfits worn in the 16th through 18th centuries were quite heavy, according to Baca. She showed a picture of Elizabeth I in the famous "Ditchley Portrait" and said that the outfit the queen wore weighed 150 lbs. "It was like carrying a couch around with you," she said.
"The corset was one of the most important articles of clothing for several centuries," Baca said, "evolving as fashion trends changed." Women, as well as some men, used it to change the appearance of their bodies. Displaying actual x-rays of women from the 19th century, Baca said that the tightly strung corsets caused deformation of the ribs and spine. "Women were getting sick, but they looked fabulous."
The corset has experienced periodic revivals throughout its history. Pop icon, Madonna, may have had something to do with the popularity of corsets today. Who can forget the conical bra and corset she wore during her 1990 world tour, "Blond Ambition." And current Steampunk culture feature corsets that utilize late-Victorian fashion to shape couture in new ways.
Baca ended the fun, well-rounded lecture with photos of striking men in briefs. "Finally," she said, "in the nineties, men became as objectified as women."
Baca has professional television and film credits that include Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Major Dad, Charles in Charge, Murder, She Wrote, Batman and Robin, The Longest Yard, and What Women Want. Baca was the costume supervisor on Suspect Zero and Border Town, both filmed in New Mexico.
The Lobo Living Room is a venue that features notable UNM alumni discussing, demonstrating or performing in their areas of expertise, or UNM alumni-related events.


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Holiday rental marketplace HouseTrip has raised a new $40million of investment funding and released figures to show it's sitting on 130,000 listed properties in 15,000 destinations around the world.
The new funds, a Series C round raised from new investor Accel Partners, joined by existing investors Balderton Capital and Index Ventures, will be used for international expansion and brings the company's total funding to nearly $60m.
Airbnb, the company to pioneer online community-based marketplaces for short-term rental accommodation, claims about 200,000 properties on its books. Other players in Europe – Wimdu and 9flats, both based in Germany – claim about 50,000 and 100,000 respectively (9flats received about half of those from its acquisition of Toronto-based iStopOver in August).
According to HouseTrip founder Arnaud Bertrand, speaking to GigaOm, the London-headquartered company places more of an emphasis on professional apartment rentals (rather than guest rooms in hosts' primary residences).
HouseTrip also has a particular focus on Europe – a worthy target, as many Europeans tend to travel within Europe and it's also the largest part of the global holiday rental market, though this is a factor less in its favour when those same users want to travel to other parts of the world.
Bertrand and his wife Junjun Chen co-founded HouseTrip in January 2010 after a "painful" experience booking a rental apartment in Edinburgh.
Airbnb rival Wimdu confirms cuts to international offices, refocus on Berlin
Startup Stay – will you be crashing on the next Mark Zuckerberg's couch?
The 10 apps that will change the way we travel… forever


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If you are an independent truck driver and take very good care of your truck then you know how important is to get a good hand wash and to go to a truck wash which does not use hydrochloric acid. Indeed, I can understand how you feel if you have had your aluminum dulled or turned white due to the use of this chemical or other harsh chemicals.
Well regarding being up set, no one was more upset when one particular truck wash chain etched all my aluminum and turned it white with Hydrofluoric. My gosh, it took me months to get it back half way decent and I cancelled my entry at both North Dakota and South Dakota truck shows, too bad that would have been good PR for our team (www.midwesttruckwash.com) to come away with a prize.
You see, I had Magnesium Chloride all over my truck due to Michigan's use there on the road for Ice, jerks. Can you believe they put it on the road in little clumps and let the trucks spread it around, then the DOT all year gives tickets out for corrosion violations?
Go figure, what a complete sham and perpetual money generator for that state against trucks. But I had to get it off and so I went to this certain truck wash chemicals rather than waiting to get to Southern, IL where I could have gotten a real truck wash? I guess I learned the hard way why the truck drivers have a slanderous name for this particular truck wash chain; Ouch?
Of course what would they know about truck washes? Oh well, you live and learn and I hope you can learn from my experience and not have to go to the same thing I did with you or show truck or specially polished independent operator truck.
When deciding to put in a truck wash facility or start a mobile fleet washing business there are so many criteria to consider. Most importantly would be ROI (return on investment), efficiency, and considering the needs of the customer. What type of equipment to use is also an important decision for instance; the type of environmental reclaim device for mobile operators or for a fixed site whether it makes sense to go fully robotic or semi-robotic. Okay so, there is a lot to talk about here, let's get started shall we?
When it comes to the customer's needs, let's consider what those fleet operators with trucks want. You see, everyone still wants mobile, due to driver-hour's rules, shortage of truck drivers, and keeping the equipment moving to maximize efficient cost operations – also the Utility Fleets, GSA, even military needs onsite work. You can see how government regulation does play a big part in client demand and is part of the equation here on what type of operation one should consider.
Should a truck wash (fixed site) work with a mobile operator or several to serve the needs of their clientele? I was recently, asked this very wise question, here is what I'd say to that; Sure, I cannot imagine anyone running a truck wash who didn't have a mobile team, still most don't – it's like sleeping with the enemy syndrome, not much "co-opetition' theory there in the industry. It also makes sense for mobile operators to dump their wash water affluent into a robust truck wash environmental reclaim system. A place to discharge waste water collected on-site is very valuable.
Now, let's talk a little bit about production and efficiency, as that really is the key to any truck wash on-site or fixed facility. You see, it's all production and you have to think of it like that, assembly line. Mobile is where the assembly line stays put and the apparatus moves. Fixed site is the standard Henry Ford model. It's just opposite that's all – it's like a white background or a black one, reverse negative film.
One should not just assume that they can build a fully robotic truck wash which will clean the vehicles perfectly every time, eliminating labor, and maximizing production costs. Robotic systems use more soap and cleaning chemicals. Now then, with that said of the current technology available, I'd say the time is coming for a fully-robotic perfect system. So, just because it's not happening now, doesn't mean in the near future that game-changer will not occur.
What I am saying is that the writing is on the walls. Having a human to recognize things, then perhaps assist with augmented reality, xBox gaming theory, that ought to be incredible. You know you mix a little AI, robotics, and humans together it's amazing who good they can do.
So, expect more robotics in the sector, and better quality from automated systems, but it will be difficult to get the job done perfect every time without a human in the loop, simply because at a truck wash, every truck coming in is slightly different, meaning, you still need intelligence and not just a "dumb machine" you'll need AI or a human coupled with robotics to get that perfect wash every time. Please consider all this and think on it.
Due to the problems in the truck wash industry of finding competent and hard-working labor more and more truck watches are going to semi robotic board even fully robotic equipment to clean the trucks. Unfortunately many of the truck drivers do not like the job that is produced by these robotic truck wash equipment machines.
Regarding the guys that make these kinds of equipment and the different manufacturers, well I am not going to bash anyone publicly; the industry is simply too small. I do give them a plug once in awhile, because it is my hope that one day the robotic truck wash equipment will be able to clean trucks better than human labor, because there is a severe crisis with truck wash labor these days.
Some of the robotic truck washing equipment looks fantastic, powder coated finish, high-tech look, but just because their equipment looks nice this not mean it will clean well. Now then, most of the robotic truck wash systems will wash a flat bus okay, not the Bobtails of 18-wheelers however, well at least not very well. Maybe some of this high-tech equipment will someday find itself on the moon cleaning mining equipment?
Let them put their stuff on the moon, just get it off of my planet? Just kidding. It seems that robotic truck wash equipment has a few more miles to go until he can clean 100% of the truck to the satisfaction of independent truck drivers without using hydrofluoric acid and other harsh chemicals that might damage the decals or turn the aluminum polished components of the truck white. And that is my truck wash tip for the day.
Septic vacuum trucks used to suction out septic tanks are highly specialized industrial vehicles, designed to withstand the rigors of this unsavory job. Daily maintenance and inspections are a priority to ensure things are running correctly; being carefully cleaned after emptying is part of that maintenance. Constantly in contact with infectious and corrosive waste material, these industrial units need adequate protection from harmful elements as do their operators.
A septic pumping job is far from over when the vacuum truck leaves an area after having emptied the septic reservoir. Obviously, the unit's tank needs to be emptied at a designated dumping facility. Once that has been completed, it is important to clean the vehicle, inside and out, and prepare it for the next day's use.
Important Handling Steps
Following is a chronological listing of the steps that occur after suctioning raw sewage into a septic truck.
Cleaning Procedures
Cleaning the inside of a septic truck varies depending on the type of tank, although most generally have two manhole openings for interior access for this very purpose.
Only after a thorough cleansing is the vacuum truck considered to be ready for use. There should be little or no trace of any material remaining that was in the truck when the job was completed, making it safe for any subsequent jobs.
Keeping the interior of a septic truck's tank clean is not easy; however, for the safety provided it is well worth the extra effort. It will also reduce the risks involved when someone has to climb in and dig out the sludge – something that every operator should appreciate. Hopefully this article has provided some valuable insight into the importance of clean a septic truck tank when the job is done!
Using the right mix of soaps, waxes and detergents paves the way to effective car washes. Any unauthorized or unauthentic chemicals on your car may damage its look forever. It's always advisable to use brands and companies that have a proven track record and have a booming car wash business.
Chemicals used in a car wash business include waxes and sealants, polishes, glazes, shampoos, tire and vinyl dressings, body compounds, foamers and soaps. Each manufacturer comes up with new and innovative combinations of chemicals for higher efficiency in car wash bays.
It is important to choose compounds that best suit most types of vehicles. There are heavy-duty, medium-duty and ultra-light compounds. Starting with a light compound and then gradually going over to heavy-duty compounds is recommended for people washing their own cars themselves.
car wash drying agent
ChemQuest is a major manufacturer of car wash chemicals; they have a complete line-up of products for every car wash need. Their soap-based chemicals include presoaks for friction car washes, tire cleaning chemicals for touch-free car washes and foam conditioners for both. The products for after-wash, such as polishes, waxes and drying agents for touch-free and friction car washes, are also made and marketed by ChemQuest.
Warsaw Chemicals also have an array of car wash chemicals including floor and windshield cleaners. Blue Moon, the car wash liquid from Warsaw chemicals, for example, is a concentrated high-foaming detergent that can be used for both hand and automatic car wash systems.
Anti-rust chemicals are an important part of car washing. Midwest Cleaning Solutions has a wide range of non-acidic, phosphate-free and non-caustic products that ensure a rust-free long life for a car. TWB Tire, Wheel, and Body cleaner from this company is a cost-effective product, the use of which will get a car clean without the help of any other chemicals.
Car washing and auto detailing professionals seeking commercial grade pressure washing and power washing equipment must evaluate the various technologies on the market while critically examining features and components. Only then can they begin to select the best pressure washing machines for their particular applications. Many in the car washing and auto detailing industry often make a mistake by selecting low-priced, under-featured power washing equipment that will absolutely not last. Pressure washing equipment pricing is a consideration, but not at the risk of negatively impacting quality and performance.
Unfortunately, many feel pressure washing and power washing machines are similar, but that could not be further from the truth. Retail stores like Lowes and Home Depot offer a variety of pressure washing equipment, but the reality is the system components, motors, pumps and other parts are just not designed to for heavy-duty usage over time, especially when one considers car washing and auto detailing. Logic rules when the one compares the pricing of one of these light-duty power washing machines to commercial and industrial pressure washing systems selling for hundreds and even thousands of dollars more.
Commercial pressure washing machines are excellent for the car washing and auto detailing industry and sold in a variety of configurations and technologies. A car washing or auto detailing business can purchase a cold, hot, or even steam power washing machine powered by electric, propane, gasoline, and even diesel technology. The pressure washing machines' psi and flow rate will also impact car washing and overall auto detailing performance and cleaning results. The best pressure washing and power washing equipment can last for more than twenty years.
Professional car washing and auto detailing work should involve hot water power washing equipment as the goal is to wash cars and vehicles more quickly and effectively. Cold pressure washing systems simply lack the higher temperatures that are so necessary to help clean the car surfaces more deeply and dissolve substances more quickly. Only higher temperature power washing machines are capably of delivering that kind of performance.
Certainly, auto detailing and car washing success is dependent upon the customer's satisfaction with the cleaning job. Pressure washing and power washing cleaning chemicals are a critical aspect of any car washing and auto detailing business, but the type and safety of the chemicals is important as well. The EPA closely monitors the car washing and auto detailing industry to help ensure runoff is captured without pouring down storm drains. Car washing and auto detailing professionals must employ whatever systems are necessary to ensure regulations are met, or else the EPA will impose stiff fines.
Green cleaning chemicals and solutions have become the buzzwords in the car washing and auto detailing industry. Be very careful to carefully review and evaluate the green cleaning chemicals presented to you to help ensure they perform as well as the vendors claim for your car washing and auto detailing business. The car washing and auto detailing industry is laden with traditional cleaning chemicals as well as the more popular green cleaning chemicals, but many do not work well. Your task is to weed out the good from the bad before making a decision. Nano technology is the latest offering in green cleaning chemicals and will make a dramatic impact in the car washing and auto detailing industry.
Your car washing and auto detailing business may require the use of electricity rather than fossil fuels to power as well as heat a power washing machine. Many in the car washing business wish to use pressure washing equipment with a lower flow rate, especially if drainage is a consideration within their facility. Fortunately, all electric, hot, low flow, high pressure washing equipment is available on the market to meet your needs. Often these high-performance power washing machines require a minimum of 220 volts of power, so you may need an electrician to make the necessary changes within your facility.
Make an informed decision before purchasing pressure washing and power washing machines for your car washing and auto detailing business. Your customers' satisfaction and the success of your operation depend upon it.
Midwest Cleaning Solutions
404 Noid Rd
Canton, SD 57013


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* Do bring business cards.
* Do think about a story you've been working on so that if a publisher asks you, you can be succinct and enticing.
* Do be prepared to introduce yourself to people.
* Do listen to the stories of others, while realising that experiences can differ markedly
* Don't bring copies of manuscript to give publishers
* Don't go into great detail about your manuscript, unless specifically asked
* Don't apologise for being unpublished.
* Do bring business cards
* Don't bag publishers even if your experience has been negative
1. Choose food carefully. Balancing a drink and a potentially messy morsel can end in disaster! Those greasy marks are never a good look.
For pre-published, do the same, you'll just need to be a little braver. I think that often we return from conferences or seminars maybe feeling we should have asked that burning question (but didn't because we were too shy to put up our hand), gone up to that famous author or illustrator and introduced ourselves (instead of being tentative or terrified) or walked up to that table, the one with only a single spare place and asked if we could join the group.
TINA MARIE CLARK, author, CYA Conference manager
My only thing to a newbie at a SCBWI conference: Don't go in there thinking you know everything, let your mind be open to all the wonderful talent around you, to the tips from the speakers and listen to what people have to say. Network.
Introduce yourself, don't be afraid to talk to the person sitting next to you. You might never know who they are. Authors, publishers, agents - don't have a tattoo on their foreheads advertising who they are!


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Welcome to AutoML Natural Language Entity Extraction, which enables you to create custom machine learning models to identify a custom set of entities within English-language text.
Custom machine learning models are useful when the pre-defined entities that are available from the Natural Language API are too generic or not applicable to your specific use case or knowledge domain.
In this section
- Quickstart - Use the AutoML Natural Language Entity Extraction UI to train and validate a custom model for classifying content.
- Before you begin - Information on setting up a Google Cloud Platform project that you can use with AutoML Natural Language Entity Extraction.
- Preparing your training data - Information on preparing and formatting training data for AutoML Natural Language Entity Extraction.
- Creating datasets, training models, and evaluating results - How to complete the main steps in creating your custom model.
- REST Reference
- RPC Reference
Discussion Group/Feedback
You can view discussions and post questions and feedback to the Natural Language discussion group.


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Fáilte chuig leinstergaa.ie - suíomh oifigiúil Comhairle Laighean CLG
Leinster G.A.A. Transfer Schedule 2019
Re: Transfer Schedule 2019
1. 2019 Schedule (Date the transfer is received by Leinster Council GAA for processing)
2. 10 Day Approval (10 Days has lapsed since the transfer request received by the Club the player wishes to transfer from – now player must wait 3 days to ensure there is no appeal against his transfer)
3. Live Transfer (Transfer is Sanctioned but player must wait a further 3 days before playing for his new club – to be registered by his new club)
Leinster G.A.A. Transfer Schedule 2018


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Setting Isle residents up for the weekend is a new breakfast club which was launched this month.
Visitors to Wroot Village Hall can now tuck into a full English on Saturday February 11 and 25, where between 10am and noon you can sample the works.
The fortnightly event is to help raise funds for St Pancras Church and everyone is welcome to attend.